Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, April 22, 1913, Page 1

I yoLUiE IL e G WOULD TOE DRAINAGE o0 POLITES pOLE COUNTY REPRESENTATIVE HAS PLAN TO RECLAIM THE EVERGLADES, e Ar'monious Discussion Precipitated Today by Proposal to Ercct & Monumes$ to Flagler. I—— Ly Legislative Press Bureau.) fuilahassee Fla, April 23.— 18 acrimonous debate, the most sen- ational of the session, took place @pday over a motion of Representa- tve Hendry to indefinitely postpone s bill offered by Representative Ployd to ercct a monument to Henry 3 Flagler. The members took the position that Hendry's motion was 4o insult to the family of the man sko row lies seriously ill. An effort t kill the bill was unsuccessful. The legislative press bureau will genorialize the Legislature to pay tte wailes claim and remove a blot of dishonor from the State. gemate Tavors Popular Election of Federal Judges, (I'y Agsoclated I’rees.) Tallahassee, Fla,, April 22— he Senate passed a resolution ask- fnr the Florida representatives in Conctess o support an amendment for sclecting federal judges by popu- lar vote, Siown's Plan for Taking 'Glades Ont' of Tallahassee, Fla., April 22.—Rep- In. C. Published in the Best Town in t A. COLE'S FATHER A Kissimmee dispatch has the fol- lowing with reierence to the death of E. T. Cole, futher of C. A, Cole, th2 well-known jeweler of this city: “E. T. Cole died Saturday at 9 ¢'clock, after a lingering illness of ecveral weeks, at .the home of his son, E. C. Cole, in this city, Th:2 tody was shipped to his old home at Winterset, lowa, this afternocon on k. C. Cole, at whose home he died, und C. A, Cole, of Lakeland, who is tke proprietor of a jewelry store at Lakeland, one at Kissimmee and onc at Winterset, lowa, that bears his name. E. C. Cole is the manager o the store at Kissimmee. Thery are several daughters surviving, who live in Iowa. (By Associated Press.) Washington, April 22.—The Sen- ate Republicans announced in party cunference today that they proposed te block the nomination of Willlam J. Harris as director of the census. DRASTIG GHILD LABOR BILLS AR BEING GONGIDERED Measure as It Now Stands Would In- volve Discharge of Many Little Newsboys. Tallahassee, Fla., April 22— There is an unusual amount of in- terest at the capital and throughout the State in the various labor and child labor bills that are now pend- ing befcre the Legislature. House bill No. 296, by Speaker Furris, and its companion, intro- neentative Brown of Polk county is | duced by President Drane of the Sen- going to try and work out before the sion is tou far advanced a plan ate, prohibit child labor in the Stat. of Florida. They embrace about tha vhich will place the drainage of the ) sume ideas as did the measures pro- Everglades safely beyond the pale of politics. The impression prevails with a good many members that unless ac- tion is taken during the present ses- tion to eliminate the Everglades atter from political fights of the fiture that the success of the pro- fct will be greatly damaged; they tite the fact that the constant stir- tng up of the question has already ttjured not only the project but the etire State as well—not because there is a lack of merit but because tiere is 5o much misunderstanding oit, Ar. Brown {s in favor of borrow- 2 money in sufficient quantity at (e time from the gegeral govern- Eent, even if that amount be placed dtsuch g figure as forty million dol- lits, more or less, which has been fatel by some opponments of the (rainage as being the amount re- Gired to complete the work. The Tirsentative from Polk has not flly prepared his plan, but he is LW investigating and the idea In te rough which he is considering 18 W frst get all the information pos- S concerning the scheme which Y28 used for the construction of the tizoue Roosevelt dam. The interior &pirtment maintains a fund for the lntherance of frrigation and drain- % operations and Mr. Brown be- lives that the fund may become Nellable for the Everglades drain- :’;;f the required legislation is en- jo. 4 informed that some of the "2lades land companies are ex- :'ia:"‘g large sums, ome of them a . lin dollars, to put their lands tiltivable condition, irrespective ¥hat the State does. It strikes me t there should be a thoroughly ble working system, and it :ul"‘y thould mot be any difficult Uet for the trustees of the Im- eat fund, acting for the State the credit of the State behind ) 'o finance this proposition and T the drainage success. The ef- of this would be that the confi- Bure, 04 be restored and the oy Credit would be protected by = % the ability to save the lands 014 them in peserve and being ™lled to sell them off in small ‘w8 at sacrifice prices simply in ' c; keep the drainage going. ' STown {3 gseking the confer- -ln:: Other membars and it looks W Dllnl‘ ey o et W) evolved tiom thin getting °F than hag get been sug- posed by Farris in 1907 and 1909, It the bill passes in its present shape, the dally newspapers of the S:ate will have to discharge all of their delivery and sales boys under the age of ten years, and no girl will be allowed to indulge in street trades (the sale or delivery of newspapers tnd magazines if she is under six- teen years. This section will prob- ebly be amended because the sale of uewspapers after school hours and before breakfast does not in any wise Interfere with the education of an industrious youth whose ambli- tion leads him to make a little spend- ing money out of school hours. The bright telegraph messengers vnder twelve must go, too, accord- ing to this bill which is said to have tie unanimous endorsement of the American Bar Association whica convened last summer. And after 7 o'clock at night no messenger under the age of eighteen will be allowed on duty. No boy under twelve years cf age will be permitted to work in a store, but those over twelve may work in stores and telegraph offices until 10 o’clock at night provided a balf holiday is given once a week. The age limit for mills, factories and other mechanical institutions is tourteen and for work about danger- ous machinery the limit is sixteen. No male under the age of twenty- one will be permitted to work in a saloon or other place where intoxi- cating liquors are sold or dispensed, and females of all ages are not to be allowed in wine rooms either as guests or ervants, the same applies tw breweries. Another measure causing more than ordinary comment and in which the child labor advocates are imter- ested, provides for a commission of fabor and a labor board. It is House bill No. 2, and allows the comm'r- sloner of labor to examine the books of companies, firms and corporations that may employ labor. And Senator Cone has a bill which prevents corporations coercing em- ployes into joining no unionms. In other words, & company may not dis- charge a man because it is found after the employment that the er- ploye is a member of & union. the 1 o'clock train over the Atlantic Ccast Line, where the interment will be in the family lot at that place. Mr. Cole leaves two sons in Florida. (By Associated Press.) Washington, April 22.—The sun- dry civil appropriation bill, with a provision preventing funds of anti- trust prosecutions being used against labor unions and farmers’ co-opera- tive organisations, overwhelmingly gassed the House. Ed ;le Best Part of the Best State. LAKELAND, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 1913. FISCAL POLICY | FOR REFORN OF THE MATION) OF CURRENCY AIM OF DEMOCRATS IN SUBMIT- TING COMPLETED TARIFF REVISION BILL. Scek Elimination .of .Protection of Profits, Which Is Declared “Pro- _tection of Inefficiency.” (By Assoclated Press.) \Washington, April 22.—Radical rcadjustment of the fiscal policy of tte mation was recommended tpday Ly the Democrats, presenting the completed tariff revision. bill to the House. Chairman Underwood said the revenues from the income tax, which it is proposed to make the means of adjusting funds to expendi- tures, can be raised or lowered without business disturbances, and a budget system can soon be devised. The Democrats’ announced policy is to eliminate the protection ot profits, and to introduce a competitive tarift besis. The protection of profits, they declare, means the protection of in- efficiency. STORY OF SIMS’' ASSAULT. (By Aesociated Press.) Washington, April 22.—Represen- tative Sims today told the Congres- slonal committee {investigating the cige of an assault upon him by C. C. Glover, local banker. Glover sent a letter to the committee. DUTTON AND NRS. FUDGE IN JAIL Pair Who Posed in Lakeland as Mau and Wife Taken to Bartow Last Evening, G. H. Dutton and the woman who has been living with him as his wife in this city for the past two or three weeks plead guilty to charges Lrought against them in Judge Thompson's court yesterday after- noon and both were taken to Bartow last evening and placed In jail. After Fudge, the husband, had struck his wife, as stated in yester- doy’s Telegram,he immediately has- tcned to the house on West Lime street, where Dutton and the woman had beenm living, and secured his child. He then eluded arrest for fighting, and made good his exit frem Lakeland, a telezram havin: leen received here requesting that the child’s clothing be forwarded t> Chesterfield, 8. C. All the parties to the affair seem to have orizinally come from the last-numed place, though the had lived at Orlando some time before the woman and Dutton came to Lakeland. According to Fudge's story this is the second time the woman had left him, he having induced her to return to his home on the previous occasion, on account of the children. Dutton also has a family, though it is claimed he bas been divorced. The loving couple have a good clance to enjoy one another’s scciety under the restraints of the road gang. (By Assoclated Press.) Tampa, Fla, April 22.—R. W. Crinton, a real estate dealer, was caught in the undertow at Sarasota yesterday and was saved by 12-year- cld Frank Abdbott, of Birmingham, whom friends will urge for a Carne- cle medal. PITTSBURG EXCITED BY SCHOOL “STRIXE™ (By Associated Press.) Pittsburg, April 22.—An uniden- tified girl was killed today by the street cars, while marching with companfons i{n a “strike” protest sgainst Superintendent of Schools S. L. Heeter, acquitted of a serious ekarge preferred by a domestic in his family. Bearcely one-fourth of | RESULT OF CONFERENCES BE. TWEEN HOUSE AND SENATE COMMITTEES, Plans Include Establishment of Fif- teen Reserve Banks, Fiscal Agents of Government, I8y Assuciuted Press.) Wasaington, April 22.—The Sen- atle banking currency committee to- day heard from Chairman Owen of the results of the conferences with President Wilson, Secretary of the Treasury. McAdoo. and. Chafrman Glass of House banking committes, concerning currency reform. Th: proposed provisions include, fifteen regional reserve banks, to be fiscal agents of the government, capital stock owned by the banks of each region; a governing board to super- vise the banks, consisting of the sec- retary of the treasury, the secretary of agriculture and the comptroller o: the currency; four directors to be chosen by the banks, and two to be eppointed by the president; and a gold redemption feature for all notes issued. The extent to which reserves are to be used is not yet determined. The retirement of the present bond secured currency over & ten-year pe- tiod is suggested, substituting cur- rency based ‘on commerclal paper. ‘T'he subject of guarantecing deposits is to be kept separate from the bill, ’ BASEBALL T0 BE INESTIGATED NEIT Representative Gallagher Let's 'Em Go After This “Most Audacious and Autocratic Trust.” (By Assoclated Press.) Washington, April 22.—Charac- terizing organized baseball as the “most audacious and autocratic trust iu the country,” Representative Gal- tugher, of lllinois, today introduced \ resolution for an exhaustive In- 2uiry into the operations of the na. ticnal commission which would also Cirect the attorney gemeral to in- vestigate the baseball contract sys- tem, with a view to {nstituting prosecutions* for violation of the Sherman anti-trust law. Gallagher planned to confer with Senator Hoke Smith in examining Ty Cobb’s con- tract. *WILSON APPEALS TO CALIFORNIA LAWMAKERS. (By Associated Press.) Washington, April 22.—President \Vilson, after conferring with the Democratic delegation from Califor- nia today, decided to telegraph Gov- ernor Johgson and the legislative leaders, appealing to them not to enact antl-alien land laws contraven- ing treaty obligations of the United States with Japan. POLITICAL STRIKE IN BRUSSELLS AT END. (By Assoclated Press.) Brussels, April 22.—Premler De- broqueville announced this afternoon in the chamber of deputies that the rovernment accepted the resoluticn of the Liberal leader, providing for a compromise, which means that the political strike for equal suffrage, which for ten days has paralyzed beth trade and commerce, will end {mmediately. | WORLI-MIDE PEAGE (By Assoclated Press.) Washington, April 22.—Secretary Fryan’s preliminary plans for a world-wide peace movement recom- mending a serfes of treaties for the arbitration of disputes and the limi- tction of armaments, will be submit- ted to the Senate committee on for- cign relations tomorrow. He has!Petersburg, LAWS WANTED BY JAX WOMAN'S CLUB. Jacksonville, April 22.—That th rublishing of the details of homi- c.les, sulcides and Kkidnappings should be probibited by the State laws, is the belief of the Woman's ciub of Jacksonville. The request that such a prohibitive law be passed as well as others amending tle juvenil: court, the establishment of an industrial and training department at the Marianna reform gchool, the establishment of a State board of charities, legislation in re- gard to child labor in industrial piants, making it illegal to tack cr paint signs on trees or ou telograph poles and fences near pub- lic highways, and a variety of other constructive legislative = measures were included in a memorial which has been dispatched to the Florida Legislature in Tallahassee by the Woman’'s Club of Jacksonville, Th purpose of the club and just what it stands for at all times {s a feature of the memorial. The names of the nearly three hundred members of the club are afiixed to the message sent 1o the law makers. LAKELAND EVENING TELEGRAM No. 145, SONE PERSONAL ;aussw OF OUR FLORDA SOLONS ALL ARE BUSY AS THE LITTLE BEES, GRINDING OUT BILiS AND BILIS, Floyd and Stokes the Funny Meng— Some of the Hobbies of Promi- nent Legislators. Tallahassee, Fla., April 22.— Much has been said of the eccen- - tricity, the pulchritude, the wisdom, the sensationalism, the progressive- ness, the idiosyncrasies, the tacitur- nity, etc., of the various members of the 1913 session of the Florida Leg- islature, but it must be remembered _jthat a real seriousness pervades. All. MANY GOUNTY DIVIION FIGHTS (members are working like Trojans - a8 If their entire life depended on. being industrious. Committees &re ciogged with bills and the poor clerks are getting the sympathy of the entire State. But a trifle over . two weeks has been consumed of the I-lxty day period and history has been el e DeSoto and Brevard Seek to Split, and Four Counties Would Be Carved to Create Santa Fe. Tallahassee, Fla,, April 22— Monday morning witnessed nn early cesemblage at the State House; the lobbles and committee rocms were fiiled, and there was an obvious pres- | cnce of county divisionists, there be- ing strong delegations here from De- Scto county and several from Dre- vard and the four counties from which it is proposed to create the new county of Santa Fe. The arguments that are being urged in favor of Santa Fe are being given patient hearings by the mem- bers because the situation in regard to this matter of division is some- what different. Representative Kite, who lives in the district of Alachua county which is to form the greater portion of the county of Santa Fe, rrovided the bill passes, is playing 2 lone hand, as his colleagues from other counties are opposing it. He contends, however, that the people living in those portions of Putnam, Ciay, Bradford and Alachua which v.ould be residents of the new county are heartily in favor of the division. ‘Ilhe population of this propose¢ county would be upwards of ten thousand, which is better than eizht- cen counties in the State; the area would be 576 square miles, greater than twelve other counties; the as- ressed valuations would be two mil- lions, better than seven others; it would have twenty railrcad stations; is traversed north and south by the main line of the Seaboard, and east und west by the Coast Line; the Ocala Northern goes through one edge and the Georgia Southern through another; there are four rural routes going out from Melrose, vhereas there are only five from Cainesville. Some of the larger towns, besides Melrose the proposed county seat, which are located in the division territory, are Hawthorn, Waldo and 1sland Grove; there are two banks, one at Hawthorn and an- other at Waldo. 1t is proposed to teke twelve miles oft of Alachua and tvelve miles from Putnam and small pleces from Bradford and Clay. The county division fights are In- teresting at close range and have Leen the cause of more visitors com- fug to the capital than any other. AW. TURN 'EX OUT WITH MR. MORSE. (By Assoclated Press.) Washington, April 22.—Julian Hawthorne and Dr. Willlam J. Mor- ton, in the Atlanta penitentidty for the misuse of mails, will not b eligl- ble to parole until theyserve actually one-third of their sentences in pris- cn, which will be the latter part of July, the department of justice de- cided today. The Shriners’ Assoclation of St formed ia February, the pupils were at their desks today. | chosen the unusual course to discuss| 1913, is planning to erect' a clud The school authorities charge thatthe measure with the members of the | house in the Sunshine City for'next the strike was organized and|committee first, to pave the way in|season. This organization has mear- | was formerly the custom down in Ogs financed to drive Heeter n’t. the Senate for subsequent treaties. '* 300 members. made. Up in Jllinois the other day an jrate member upbraided the, speaker in the House; in Florida the (lpoukcr held a private reception one evening to get right with the press bhoys, thowing what a vast differ- ence there is between the sections. Representative McWilllams, of St. Johus, Is acting as the pendulum of the llouse and Senator Calkins from the gixteenth district attempts to rour oil on the troubled waters of tha dignified end of the House. Hare vy Floyd, of Franklin, the keen fue turist and disciple of press agency, does the llarry Lauder act in the Escambia, furnishes amusement over lower House and John P, Stokes, of in the Senate. R. A. McGeachey, of Milton, rep- resenting the first district in tho Eonate, has caused a terrible lot of trougle becaute mo onc can prog nounce his name. A, 8. Wells, of Leon, has made a reputation by neve €r ‘appearing on the streets unlcss tccompanied by his corn cob pipe. Senator “Bill" Stone, of Missourl, ¥ made a hit by being the mcst quiet and retiring gentleman in the U, 8, Senate but Semator Zim, of St. Aue tustine, is fast gathering in that honor, for the president of the Stats Federation of Labor pedals along 8% smoothly that no one knows that he i on the scene, but his influence is supreme when it comes to labor mate ters, Representative W. S. Middleton, of Putnam, has a hobby on the cite rus fruit legislation, and while his district Is one of the prime shipping peints for oranges, the gentleman from Palatka makes it apparent that ro other county in the State is ene guged in the raising of oranges or grapefruit, his earnestness being o2 the top notch order. John A, Van Val Zah has a hobby on insurance and it it were possible to be aesured of peace, some come pany should be incorporated to keep the doctor from talking insuranca. for his voice is never quiet when ig comes to getting after the iunsure ance companies. Harry Goldstein, from Nassau, {a the House is a sort of John Drew, as bis personal appearance is always faultless and furthermore he hag Leen accorded signal honors in the 1913 session. Someone remarked cne night that Mr. oGldstein nevee epoke in'the Housee unless he did 8o from behind the rail, which shows vhat fine conceptions of publicity the member from Fernandina entere tains. W. H. Walton, of Mapoles county, sometimes appearing in the ‘paper as Mapoles from Walton county, creates ripples of laughter each day. “Bill® I8 there when it comes to getting ia the limelight, his “poor shoe” law Poaving made the editor famous and infamocus when it comes to shoe manufacturers. H. C. Stanford, of Kissimmee, the bald headed representative from Ose ceola, is best kmown by heing presls dent of the State chamber of come rierce, and he has intrcduced some very effective measures in the House, cne of them belng con with levying a millage by county commis- sioners for publicity putposes. It (Contiawed s Page §.) oo W OO TN et M ST .y