The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1911-04-27
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NEWS

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Washington, D. G.. Representative
william Schley Howard introduced a
bill to establish subtreasury at At
lanta The measure was referred to
the ways and means committee. 1t
is unlikely that the matter will be
considered at this session Of congress,
as the Democratic program includes
the consideration only of tariff legis.
lation and the investigation Of the ex-
ecutive departments. Savannah and
Birmingham are also contenders for
the institution. Atlanta has small
chance of winning the subtreasury, it
congress determines to locate one in
the Southeastern states. 1t is mis-
take for the commercial bodies Of
Atlanta or the bankers to urge the
agitation of the matter at this time
| The cards are stacked in favor OF
Birmingham, with Savannah the sec.
ond choice.
Savannah Governor Plaisted of
Maine and Mrs. Plaisted reached the
| city to spend some time in Savannah.
The governor has come South for q
rest after the session of the Maine
legislature. He says the outlook for
national success for the Democrats
next year was never brighter. Ex-
Governor Nance Of Nebraska is stop
ping at the same hotel with Governor
Plaisted. The latter says Maine will
be placed in the local option columns
before very long.
washington, D. C.AThe congress
sional reapportionment bill reported
4 to the house provides for a total
membership Of 43S, and gives one
new member to Georgia. 1t will pass
the house overwhelmingly. The only
respect in which the bill differs from
the Crumpacker bill passed at the
last session is in the omission of the
provision for an automatic reappor-
tionment by the department of COM
merce and labor in future. There, is
some opposition in the senate to the
4 increase in membership on the house
side. Senator .LaFollette, chairman
! of the census committee of the sem
i ate, is the leader of this opposition,
and it may become formidable.
TenniIle.-A the primary, Hon. H.
/ M. Franklin, who has represented this,
county in the legislature twice and
also served as mayor several times,
hwas elected mayor of the city of Ten
| mile without opposition, and G. r.
| Brown and Iverson Lord were elected
members of the board of education OF
1.-THE city. The aldermen elected to
serve the next two years are: H. M.
Bashinski, DR.. E. B. McDade, G. H.
Wood, ]. H. Peacock, S. G. Knox and
lC. L. Brantley.
! Savannah For the purpose of
starting movement for the inagura.
ton of a highway from Savannah
through Waycross, Valdosta, Thomas
vile and other points, a convention
at Waycross has been called for the
latter part of May to launch the plan.
The purpose is to tack on to the
Great Southern highway at Savannah
and lead away from here with fine
road through the prosperous counties
of south and southwest Georgia into
Alabama and across the southern por'
ton Of Alabama, Mississippi and Lou
isiana into New Orleans. This road
into south Georgia will give con-
venient route to Jacksonville, with
| ali ferries eliminated but Kings fer
ry, and with as short a route as the
present one. The counties directly
concerned and those that will be ask
ed to send Representatives to the
Waycross convention are Chatham,
Ware, Wayne, Liberty, Bryan, Thorn
as, Brooks, Grady, Decatur, Lowndes,
Pierce, Clinch, Mcintosh, Charlton
and Camden.
Savannah have never known
Illicit distillers to be so active as
they are right now" said Theodore
Basch of the internal revenue de-
partment, who returned from still
hunt" throughout north Georgia.
"The temptation to make corn liquor
is too strong for the fellows in the
upper part of the state to resist it.
A man can take bushel of corn
for which he pays rs cents, run It
through a crude process Of distilla-
ton and get three gallons of corn
liquor worth $12 And they are do
ing it when they can get a chance.
They peddle the stuff in wagons and
sometimes haul it great distance to
find a market. We intercepted
mountaineer at Ellijay, en- route to
Atlanta, with wagon load Of corn
whisky that he had brought from Blu
ford in Gwinnett county, and there
have been 1875 Illicit stills cut up by
revenue officers in this state within
the past month"
Oxford Regarding the published
statements that Emory and Wesleyan
colleges were likely to be merged
shortly, DR.. James L. Dickey denied
most emphatically that such a plan
was on foot. Publication Of story
in an afternoon Atlanta paper brought
to him the first intimation Of the
projected union.
Macon.-At largely-attended
meeting Of the Wesleyan Alumnae as