Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-09-02

LEGISLATION under which the war depart
ment could expend $S,000,00 from funds al
ready appropriated for the purchase Of camp
sites and the completion Of the construction
now under way at the camps, has been REQ
commended to congress by Secretary Baker
The secretary said this legislation was made
necessary because the last army approprta-
ton bill prohibited the department from ac-
quiring additional real estate. OF $4,000
OOO Secretary Baker recommended that au-
thorty be given for the expenditure OF ST.
329,774 for the purchase Of real estate ans
the construction of Camp Benn1ng, Ca, upon
which work was recently stopped owing too
disapproval of the project of congress. He
asks aIso'for $4,000 for Camp Jesup, near
Fort Mcpherson, Ga.
ALI but eight Georgia counties have sent
to H. j. Fullbright, state tax commissioner,
their tax digests for the year 1919. and. these
show an increase of $SO,422,459 over the
correspondng values for 1918. 1t Is esti-
mated by Comptroller Wright and Commits"
sioner Fulbright that the total tax values for
the year. including values of public service
corporations, will show an increase of $685.
900, 900 over 1919.
The Shah of Persia has announced that he
will visit the United States within the nexs
few months.
Steam rail transportation in Southern and
Central California is being halted by the
strike of yard and switchmen and other rail
employees Officials state that the strike 10
the worst in the history of the state.
One of the bitterest and most personal de- :
bates in the history of the U. S. senate took
place Wednesday during the discussion of
the peace treaty, the issue becoming so fierce
between Senator Fall, of New Mexico, and
McCumber, of North Dakota, that fight
was narrowly averted.
Rumaniap military authorities have discov-'
erred in the archives of the Hungarian for
eign ministry a telegram from Otto Bauer,
| former Austrian state secretary, intrusted
with the management of the state bureau of
foreign affairs to Bella Kun, former head
| of the Hungarian communist government,
asking him to destroy all documents relative
! to the delivery of arms by Austria to Hungary,
according to a Budapest dispatch.
James, H. Maurer, labor agitator, and A.
Epstein, who, with Maurer, was a member
of the Pennsylvania old age pension commits
| sion, were taken off the steamship Laplandd
by federal agents just three minutes before
| the boat sailed from New York for Southamp-
| ton. So unexpected was the action of the
federal authorities that Maurer and Epstein
were unable to get their baggage off. No
reason was given for their detention.
| The railway service of central Europe de-
ponds largely on the results attained by the
interallied coal commission, now on its way
to upper Siresia to try to adjust the miners
strike, which went into effect August 81.
Unless the coal production in that district
increases, the central European railways will
practically cease operation within ten days,
as the coal supply will not last much longer.
+ The mine owners and commercial classes
in the great Silesian coal basin are. chiefly
| German, while the miners are largely Polish.
The miners resent the presence of large num-
bers of German soldiers, alleged to be neces-
sary for the suppression of Spartacide move
ments
The municipal authorities of Berlin are
considering the question Of enforced bileting
of civilians in order to meet the increasing
shortage of dwellings and apartments owing
to the failure of citizens living in spacious
| quarters to voluntarily surrender their SUI
perfuous rooms. Only 200 responses have
been received in two weeks, whereas 1900
homeless families need accommodations.
| Deputy Lefevre has introduced in the French
chamber of deputies bill providing for the
issue of 60000,o0OOo0 francs in bonds ($12ooo,-
oo0,ooo), to be repaid with bonuses at the end
of twenty years. This is the largest bond issue
ever proposed in any nation