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PRICE FIYE CENTS
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORXING, MARCH 19, 18S6
FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS
Senator Brt wn Pays His Eeipec i to
the Edmunds litsolutions.
Hr !•;« I levdDd Hsiu’i Tur»> «l
Them Out r«,i Enouah--poox* ’<
Kparlous IpontRaeoaiam- Proceed
Ion, ol Ibe Meuse.
Special to E" qnlrr-r»8no.
Washington, March 18 —Negley.
of Pennsylvania, ashed unanimous
consent to put upon l's passage the
bill to reimburse the national home
for disabled volunteers for losses It a
rut red thr ugh the failure of the
Exchange National bank of Norfolk.
Before The title r.f the bill was read
Beach, of New York, objected.
Negley becan. e Indignant, but was
helpless.
The following committee reports
were presented;
By Harris, of Georgia, from the
committee on ways and meaDs, au-
thc-iiztng the estsblisl; ment of export
tobacco manufactories, and for draw
back on imported articles used in
manufacturing * xport tobacco. Com'
ruiltte t.f the whole.
By Collins, of Massachusetts, from
(be committee ot judiciary, to estab
lish a uniform system of bankruptcy
throughout the United States. House
calendar.
At the expiration of the morning
hour the house again went into a
committee of the whole on the Indian
appropriation bill. The considera
tion of the bill drpgged drearily
alorg, no amendments of any ims
portance being i tiered, and such as
were offered being usually ruled out
on points of order after long and un
interesting discussions. After fin
ishing fortyMwo of the forty-eight
pages of ilie bill the committee rose,
and the house at 5:53 adjourned.
SSNATI.
The chair laid before the senate
the concurrent resolution of the leg
islature ot Virginia protesting against
the proposition to place foreign iron
• ores on the free list. Referred.
The inter-state commerce bill was
made the special order for March 30
and the bankruptcy bill for Marcn
81.
The senate pa sed without debate
the bill providing for a commission
of five persons to investigate the al
coholic liquor tnffle, its relation to
revenue and taxation and its general
coonomic, criminal, moral and scien
tific aspects in connection with pau
perism, crime, social vice, public
health and the general welfare of the
people. The bill provides that the
commissioners shall be appointed by
the president with the cot sent of the
senate, that all of the commissioners
shall not be advocates of prohibition
and that they shall serve without
salary.
The senate also passed without de
bate the bill providing for the study
of the nature of a’eoholic stimulan s
and narcotics and their effects on the
human system. The bill applies to
schools in all the territories and the
District of Columbia, and to military
and naval academies aid Indian
schools.
At 2 o'clock the judiciary commit
tee resolution concerning Garland
came un-
Van Wyck < ffered as an amend
ment to the resolutions the follow
ing :
"And in ail such oases of removal
the matter of confirmation shall be
considered in open session of the sen
ate.”
Sewell, cooupying the chair, re
marked that the amendment will be
printed aud lie over.
Brown then took the floor in op
position to the report of the majority
of the committee. Brown said i
seemed to him that there was but e
slLglf question a - , issue between tbe
president and a majority of the sen
ate, That question was, bad the
president, without the advioe and
consent of the senate, the power .o
remove a federul i ffleer when in h s
opinion tbe public lnteiest required
such removt .? Tuba was prac-.icall i
a legal question. As the constitution
was the -uptime law, If it conferred
the power of removal ou the presi
dent alone, that set'.'e l the question,
no mutter how many ac's of congress
might have been passtd
in violation of the constitution.
If Ihe constitution did not itself
directly confer the power, but con
ferred upon congress the power to
legislate upon the question, then we
must look to the acts of congress in
dele rminii g tbe power of the presi
dent to make removals, whether with
or without the consent of the senate.
Let us examine the constitution.
Brown then read from the consti
tution sections relating to executive
power, to show that the president
possessed the whole of that pewer,
except as to particulars in which the
constitution specifically qualified. It
did qualify the appointing power of
the president as to certain officers by
requiring the advioe and oonsent
of the senate to their appoint
ments, but placed no such
qualification on his power of re
moval. After an examination of the
constitution to establish these points,
Brown took up the question of con
temporaneous construct on and pre
cedents established by the practice
of the government, beginning with
the year 17S9. He quoted the decla
rations of distinguished members ol
the first congress on a question in
volving substantially the same thing,
he said, aa the question involved
here. "In that debate Madison had
declared, it Is said, that it oompares
with the nature of tbiegs that those
Who appointed -bon’d have the power
of removal, but I do not conoeive
mat this sentiment is warranted by
the constitution, Madison bed also
said: If you say an ffleer shall not
be displaced but by and with tbe
advice of the senate, the president is
no longer answerable for the conduct
of an ffleer.’ ”
Brown cits d a number of extracts
from decisions of Chief Justice Mar
shall and from Judge Storey’s work
on the constitution, and the opinions
of attornrys-general to prove that the
responsibility of the president wa
not to the senate, but to the people in
cases of removals from office. "We
have tkeu,” he said, "the emeurreu-.
testimony of our moat distinguish' d
commentators, jedges and presi
dents, anu a number
of tbe most distinguished
republican statesmen, as well as the
nnbioken practice of different presl
dents through all the administra
tions from 1789 to 1867, that tbe pres
ident had the p wer without consul -
lug tbe senate ,o remove federal Ul
cers, whether civil or military. Sr
much for the constitutional construe,
tlon on the question for the firet
three quarters . f a century of the
republic. Unfortunately, at the
end of ttat period two sections
of t! e oountry became engaged in
civil war. At the end of that strug
gle the dominant party in congress
at a lime when passion and prejudice
were at the b'ghest found In the
chair President Andrew Johnson
elected by them as vice-president,
who hBd been a democrat all bis lire
and had been put upon tbe republl
can ticket because of (having been a
consistent union man. The feeling
of antagonism between Presl
dent Johnson at d the republi
can majority of the senate became
intensified, and they determined, in
order to better serve their party pur
poses, to Hedge him in so that he
should not exercise the powers that
for three quarters of a century had
been exercised by the president
Congress then, in 1867, passed the
tenure of < fflee law.
Browu recited at length teotions of
tne law showing that it rrquired tbe
president to give to the
senate, among other things,
evidence and reasons for
suspending officers during the recess
of the senate. He stated that wheu
passion bad in seme measure sub
sided that eeotion was modified in
1869 under the administration of
President Grant so as among other
things to dispense with the statement
of reasons. If the law of 1867, he
said, were the law to-iday and were
in accordance with the oonetltution,
there was no doubt that tbe sen a e
could r quire the president to give to
the senate evidence and reasons
for his removal an officer, of
but H e modification ot the law made
in 1869 did not, requite the president
to state the evidence or reasons, and
so far as removal was concerned, it
put the law b:ek to where it stood
befc re the act of 1S67 wag passed, and
where the constitution had placed the
matter. It empowered the president
in his discretion, without producing
any evidence or giving any reason
or sending to the senate any papers,
to suspend any civil officer appointed
by and with the advice and consent
ot the senate, except judges of the
courts, until the end of the next
session of the senate.
Brown then took up a number of
cases cited in the report of the ma-
Jirity of the committee, and after
analyzing them, asserted that the
points involve! were not similar to
the point herein questioned, and that
the cases therefore afforded no sup*,
port for the argument attempted to
be basedvm them.
He continued : “The senate baa
no Jurisdiction of tbe question of sus
pension or removal of officers.
attempting to exercise any euch ju
risdiction, the Benate usurped
an authority not conferred upon
it by the constitution or laws. It
had no more right to demand of the
president the evidence ou which l e
acted, or the easerrs for hio action,
than it had to demand of tne
supreme court re"sous for its de
cisions, or to demand of tha house of
represent dives its reasons for passing
a particular bill. It had no more
power over the subject 'ban had tti
president fo ask tbe senate for its
reasons for rejecting a n initiation.
The attempt was a naked, uold usur
pation on the part of the senate ”
Brown maintained '.hut the tenure
of office law, which he termed an
absurd law, was in palpable violation
of the constitution. It attempted,
without authr rity, to limit the legiti
mate power which the constitution
conferred on the president in making
removals from office.
In oouclusiOQ Brown said : “The
people of this oountry constitute the
high court of appeals, and It Is tbe
Judgment of that high court not that
the president has used the power of
removal, but that be has failed touBe
It with sufficient energy. If there is
any oharge against him
in the popular mind, it
1b no charge of oommisBion,
but a charge of omission; not that he
has made mistakes in making ap
pointments or removals from office—
doubtless he bus made some—but
that his mistake has been that he
omitted to use the power with suf
ficient force. When the people of
the United States called the president
to the high and responsible position
he now fills and plaoed in his hands
as a great trust the executive power
of this government, they expected in
carrying out his polioy that he would
put in office and retain in offloe
as his assistant persons of ability
and integrity, who ooncur in his
policy, and are ready to render Im
portant and tatthful service in carry
ing it into tx.cu.ion, i»; <.uo affine-
of .he government should be filled
with political spies, plotting how they
can soonest overthrow the admltiis-
traMon, aod sympathiz'rg tmre wbh
those who, from the outside, make
war upon it. than th»y dtf with the
president a; d his Iriends, who ate
attempting to sustain tue poPcy.
wh'ch is 1 coded oadvance 'be oest
interes'sof tbecouniry L’t the presi
dent exercise the power conferred on
bun bv tne constitution and remove
Irom • ffloe those who are not In ae
coni vvltp his admin is ration aud not
ready to do faithful, service in aiding
to carry out .his policy aud fill their
places with honeM. capab-e men who
are friends of the administration, and
the universal acolaim or t: e tltrnoo
racy unn tbe honest masses of the
p p op ecf ’his country will be, ‘Well
dene, good and faithful ervanr,’ Mr
Pre.- deu 1 : the people, the high conr-.
of appeals, to whom alone the presi
dent is responsible lor the manner in
which ho exercises bin discretion in
■the matter of removals from office,
will order a non-suit In the great
ease of Georgs F Edmund? <fc Co, re
publican mauugel* of the senate, vs
Grover Cleveland, president of the
United States.”
At the couc usion of Brown’3 :e-
marks Spooner took tbe floor Id sup
port of ihe majority report.
SDOoner said ne would make no ab»
tempt to disguise the fact or io apolo
gize for it, that the fortunes of the re
publican party were very dear to
nim, He would not attempt to deny
he wished hat that party might here
aDd elsewhere reap every fair party
advantage which might he taken
from the blunders and shortcomings,
If any kuch there were, of this ad
ministration ; “but I trust,” con
tinued Spooner, “that I do not
forget, ami shall not forget that I am
a senator of the United States, as welt
as a republican, and that as a senator
my first dufy is always to the people,
and that I have no right to take ac
tion here to subserve party interests
wnich would be harmful to the inter
ests of the people I deny for mj self,
and I havo authority to
deny for every senator upon
thlB side of the chamber the state
ment so often made on the other
side, ‘hatiwe desire, or are willing to
harrass, hamper or embarrass th?
president in the proper exercise of the
executive functions. Such motive,”
Spooner sam, “would be unwonhy,
and itough\not to be so lightly im
puted. That, principle involved
in the question before the
senate was, to his mlud, far
above tbe question as to who should
or should not hold an cfflee. It in
volved principles essential to the or
derly conduct of this government,
Spooner, after leaning the eenate
resolutions calling for papers in tbe
Durkin case and the attorney-gen
eral's reply to it, characterized
the attorney general’s letter as tin-
most remarkable respnnge p ver
coming from an executive , Ulcer
to a legislative body. The attorney-
general had not denied the ixlstenee
of the papers called for, but contended
that the papers were private paters,
and said substantially that aa the
papers were oalled lor by the seua.e
for a special purpose, namely:
to be considered in relation
to a suspension, tbe senate
was not entitled to them. Turn
Spooner held to ue the substitution
of one man power for tbe goverment
it was intended to be.
Spooner took up the question from
a legal poiDt of view, and quoted tne
constitution and .enure of office act,
to show that the power of removal,
as well as appointment, was
in the president and the senate noting
‘ogetber, and that .as in his
sole discretion and absolute was the
power of suspension during the re
csss of t! e senate. One source of
much confusion in this debate,
Spooner said, was the confounding
ly the democratic senators of su--
pensions with removals. Suspension
dbl not maan removal. It was a vety
different thing To suspend
at., ffleer caused the temporaly ces
sation of his fuuotions To remove
caused a permanent cessation A su--
pended - ffleer wae not a removed
..ffleer, for if the senate re used t>-
confirm his successor, the suspended
man returned io office. Tne supreme
court nail so decided Spooner read
fr..m dtcieions of the courts to
show this. The president
had declined to furnish paper-
called for because forsooth they
w luld enable tne sena’e tos-etbe
reasons for the suspension. Tuey
wouid enable us to see that he ban
exercised the power of suspension
wantonly. No power could be so
dangerous to the republic us the
power thus asserted by the president,
that papers relating to public business
on files of the government
were his private papers to be
removed from the files, burled In tbe
oellara of the white house or carted
off to Buffalo if he choose, merely be
cause he nad used them In exercising
his power of suspension. If the mere
fact that the president acted on the
papers made them his private prop,
erty and shut out the light of in
vestigation from all pubiio offices
in the Country, then it rested
with any chief executive to lock the
door on the house aud tbe senate and
defeat all investigations. Spooner did
not mean to imply that the president
would abuse that power. It was no
part of his argument to Impeach the
good faith of the president, but lie
warned the democratic side of tbe
chamber that we were not dealing
with this question for a day. Tbe
issue was one that would ou.llve ns.
Aa to the tenure of office law, Spoon
er criticised the president’s expres
sion “Innocuous desuetude.” The
term always provoked a smile,
Spoon.:stud, ba: tnc.ro »*o homing
to smile at. This was a government
of law, and he was sorry tl u
chief executive of the
public should have used
such words of any law that
stood on the s stu e t> ka. It was a
dangerous term, when the president
of the United States with an oath
registered in heaven to take care that
the laws should be faithfully exes
outed, should send a message to the
senale saying in>t a statute has fallen
into ha mites disuse, though the
statutB remained ou ihe book-.
If ever there wbb a ntu« when
there was need for reupc-ot for law, it
was now, when many thoughtful
men wete turning blanched faces to
the future. Could the people be ex
pected to yield cheerful obedience 'o
the statutes wheu the first c zsn of
the republic him-elf, charged with
their execution, was heard asserting
that a statute could harmlessly
fall into disuse? But Spooner said
the president did not believe Ins
own statement. I! s acts had beeu
better than his words, lor he sent of
a large number of nominations in
men to take the places of ( fficers sus
pended by him under authority of
the very act to which reference had
been made.
At 3 o’olock, Spoonr still having
tbe fljor. the senate weDt iaio -x-
ecuuve session and in about half an
hour on, the doms being reopened,
adjonri ed
NOMINATIONS TO BE llErORTED
FAVORABLY.
Washington, March 18. — The
senate commitiee on finanoe bus
voted to rep< rt favorably upon the
nomination of a number of internal
revenue collectors whose predecessors
were suspended, and is likely to re
port all nominations before it within
a few tPys A mutual understand
ing beiuemthe committee and the
secretary ot the tr. usury has been
rendered covering all suspensions
from aud nominations toi fflee which
have no fixed tenure The nature of
the arrangement is not made public,
but a considerable number of letters
have recently been ueut by the secre
tary to the committee in response to
an equal number of Inquiries, and
the correspondence is still in pro
gress. This arrangement covers all
nominations before the finance com
mittee.
CONFIRMATIONS.
The eenate to-day confirmed a long
list of nominations to office. The
most imp riant one was of Brigadier
Geuerui Terry to be m-ijor-geueral to
succeed Hauoock. John 8 Finley
was confirmed as postmaster at Hoi-
ly Springs, Miss.
THE WISE BILL.
The bill introduced in tne house by
Wise, ot Virginia, for the establish
ment of export tobaoco factories aud
reported favorably to the house from
the ways and means committee to
day, txlended to these faotor’es tl e
prov sions of the law i xempdng from
taxation articles used in mauufae ur-
ing cosmetics, medicines, cordials,
etc., and allows a draw,
back ou imporud -uyar and
molasses used in .uch factories,
It also provides that exports of man
ufactured tobacco not produced in
txport tobaoco manufactories shall
be entitled to a drawbi-ck of 90 per
centum of the duty paid upon such
imported articles as are actually used
in the manufacture of such exported
tobacco. Harris, in h:s rep^r. m ihe
house recommendig the passage of the
bill, says that at the prueut time
more than 10,000,000 pounds of manu
factured tobacco per annum are ex*
ported from this country It also ap
pears, the report say-, that In this
the manufacture or large quantities
of sugar, lioorice, licorice paste, mm, i
alcohol aud other articles are used, |
up in which < ub crus duties or internal
revenue luxes are levied aud colleettd j
by th'. United Watts These du'b'f '
and 'axes add so materially to me I
cost of umiufhCtursH that American
mauufaciurers find themselves al j
great disadvantage in foreign mar- |
kets in competition with manufac i
turera of other c uutrieB, who are re
lieved from such duties and taxrs.
The OHJimitlee has,therefore, reached I
the conciusrou mat n win ue wise
to relieve Amtricau manufac
tured tobacco xpozted to for- I
sign countries Inin this burden, j
as a means of stimulating and in-
creasing out foreign irode in this inr
portnnt article of- ru&nuf.-.oture. Ex
trcCis are appeuueu from the repori
of the •ecreiary of ihe trea-ury favor
ing the general object oi the bill, ami
saying that tbeie =eeais to be no ob
stacle in ttie way of Its execution.
THE TARIFF BILL.
The ways and means committee
to-day, in considering the Morriion
tariff bill, adopted the f-ub-
stitute changing the phraseology
of the provision in me bill subject-
irg wooden articles placed on me
free list to an import duty, when the
country from which they are Import
ed, levies an export duty. It reads
as follows ;
"Provided that if any export duty
is levied upon the above mentioned
articles, or any >f them, by any coun
try whence imported, all the said
articles imported from said country
shall be auOieet to duty as now pro
vided by law.”
It was stated that the provision was
intended to cause a relaxation of the
export duty now It vied upon Cana
dian logs sent into the United States,
The free list was then adopted, be
ginning with salt in packages and
bark and running through hemp,
manilla, jute butts, Luunsisal grass,
iron ore, sulphur ore, oopper ore,
chromate of iron, crude m'euerale
not specially enumerated, coal
stock, bituminous and shale and
coke. At Indian corn, however,
some discuss,ou arise, and iinaiiy
mat aruore, toge.uor a.m j».h anu
hay, were stricken off the lree list.
The democratic members stated that
ttere was no party division on the
motions to strike - fl th^se urtielec.
The committee wa-' only carrying
out Its pel’ey ol formulating a bill
that would prove acceptable to the
majniity in the house. The remain-
der of the free list was then accepted
as it stands in the bill, aud the com
mittee will begin the consideration of
dutiable artie'es at the ut xt session.
LABOR TROUBLES-
Tbo (Situation llpoi lliv II llrott4f» nn<>
l.hewtierc.
ire laid before the United States cir«
cuit court, all parties Interested to
abide by tbe resuh. In the meantime
the employes in the shops at Goulds*
boro will keep passenger engines la
running order, and will In no way
interfere with tbe runlng of trains.
THE WORKS CLOSED.
Philadelphia, Pa , March IS.—
A i H Itober A Co,, of the Penn
ooyd iron works, m a notice to their
strikingemp'oyee, say that upon car:«
ful consideration they believe it to be
impossible to bid upon work in tho
present aneettlcd condition of i flairs,
and therefore havlt g no orders of any
magnitude, they regret to announoe
the closing of the entire works until
further notice.
On 'HttiuKi.
Special to EnquirersHun.
New York, March 18 —Coal
stocks have beeu tbe feature to-day
of the s ock market. They contribu
ted uearlj 46 per cent of tho day’s
business and were tho only active
stocks that developed a decided
weaknese. The whole market, how
ever, was irregular, and at times
feverish, especially in early dealing.*
C-alsru are down S to 2—thu latter
Delaware ami Hudson, and the for
mer Jersey Central. Reading fa
down | and Lsekuwanne lg A
further reduction of fifty cents per
ton, and the bearish view
taken of Reading affairs
were the principal causes
of the deoliue Grangers, and espe
cially 8 Paul, were conspicuous for
their strength in the face of the de
cline io the coalers. 8t Paul shews
a ret advance of 1} and Northwest
er) J. Erie (comm"), Missouri,
Kansas and Texas, Louisville ami
Nashville, Missou:i Pacific, Nirth*
ern Pacific (preferred), 8 Paul and
Dulu'h, Texas and Pacific, Union
Pacific, and Western Union are all
fractious higher than last evening.
The remainder of the active list show
small declines Balt-i 457,060 shares.
TO BE SOLD.
Tla« Male eftlM* Bait T>nu4j«s«o,Virginia
ant: tfdorffE*. Ordered by tha Court*
Speotel to E^quirer'Ann,
8t Louis, M.rchlS—a special
from Maivr.-al, T x-s.«, rtc lv-d early
this morning, says the reeeivora of
the Texas Pacific have granted a con
ference with the Knights of Labor
and will allow tho court to arbitrate
or the Hall raa’ter.
VIRTUALLY ENDED
New Orleans, March 18,—The
strike on this end of the Texas Pa
eifle railroad virtually ended this
evening, aud trains are now running
out as ueuai. A committee of Kr-igh s
of Lab-'r waited upon R.ceiver oel-
don ‘o-Uay aud had a conference, In
which both sides agreed that the case
of Hall, the company’s employe
at Marshall, Texas, whose discharge
caumd the Btrlkc, should be submit
ted to thi United States court for ar
bitration. Gov Sheldon furnished
two of the committee with puaets to
Mar.hall that they might sen Hall
and find out if he was willing to
sgree to this arrangement. Mean
time the strikers resumed work, It
is believed Hall will submit to the
decision of the court and that the
trouble is to be thu* eudf-U finally.
THE STREET CAR TKIKE
Columbuj, O, Ma.cn Is—Street
cars on none ot the lines came on'
this morning, pending the confer
ence ft r a settlement of wages which
has been in progrcis for two days.
Tbe Consolodated company agreed to
increase wages from 5 to 20 cents,
which wae not ncoepted. The em
ployes ask an increase of from 25 to
00 cents per day and forty minutes
for meals.
TUB ENGINEERS BETWEEN TWO
FIRES
Chicago, March 18 —A special
dispat :h from St L uis, referring to
the stai d taken by ! iie locom-uive
engineers on the Miesourl Pac.flc
system, says: Tbe engineers are
ardent sympathizers with the men
on the stiike, aud only the most posi
tive orders have caused them to take
oat the'.r runs tin *o :hl« "me. It is
aueged teat theie are about forty
strange engineer- hrre ready to go
upon the engines should the men
desert them, and it Is asserted by some
members of the loiv-motive engineer.- ’
brotherhood tlm these men I
have been sent by Arthur
himself to replaoe them should they
daie to tsbt a icuvu will, ill n'rlkers
and re'-jse to do as he has bidden
th - in. A gray haired engineer «ald :
"We are between two flreu We may
aa well look for jobs el. ewhero now,
as 11 we stand with the strikers scab-
runners will take our places, and It
we don’t stand with the strikers they
tb< msc-ives can relieve u»
it-'-na the rond Wo are or iered to
run cur engines, and in doing so
we are b eing the greatest opportu
nity we ever had. We hold the key
to the situation and everybody knows
it, and if we were free to act with the
men on the strike, that action would
cause a settlement In a short time,
but now Arthur, in hir zeal todivoroe
us completely from all other orgaui-
zitions, has eveD forced us toantagen-
ze our firemen, not one out of five of
whom could ti-.ke our | 'ace* to
morrow, .ud do our w’ork it they felt
so inclined." | td> smir; «r ia» mine.
CAN'T INTERVIEW HIM. | Special )•■ E‘ quire -Hnn.
Ka>sas City, Mo, March IS — j New York, March 18—There is a
Granu Mastei Workman Powderly, ; great deal i t di -cussiou among naval
of the knights ot labor, wrived in mien as to what caused the loss of the
this city to-day from the east Del- sv-am- i Oregon. The collision wi’h
eo-af'H fr-m fi— di“tr‘c* a=s p rablies, | .;he schooner is growing into <11-crcd*
including N 101, are also nere and a | u owing to ,in wltLoer testimony in
conference between them to be held its favor. Two other theories aro
to-day is (Xpected to result in some j advanced -one that tl-eOregon struck
decisive' action either towards :i set- ' . fl-iatlrg torpedo, ar."’ the other that
Dement of the str.ke or ordering -.ut | her side was tori open by an explo-
tbe knights < u other roads. Ail et- I «iol of s-jIl- description trim tho in-
forts *-y th" reporters t" interview side The steamship lllcials arc ab»
Powderly have as yet. been unavail- j solu .ely dumb to far as .egatds any-
SpmiaI co Kflualror-Bnii
Knoxville, Tknn , March 18.—
Judge John Bux'er, of the United
States circuit court, to-day ordered
the sale of the East Tennessee, Vir
ginia aud Gaorgla railroad on applt*
cathm of the Central Trust company
of New York Tho sulsjis to ooour
after six Wet ks’ advertising and not
later than the 25 h of M»y The
payment is io be $100,000
cash on tne day of hkIs
and the balance either in c sti or
in mortgage bond-, issued under a
mortgage being enforced at a v 1-th
tion equal to their distributive
-hare, if the eotir' amount were to
be paid In ca-di No bid will bo
taken for lets than $10,000,000 The
totel lmi<-b‘eds(89 is abou $16 000,-
000. The sale will include
alt lines front Knoxville io Brunei
wick, Bristol uml Meridian, with
brand.es aud other property, includ
ing oertain stock in tm Knoxville
and Ordo railroad aod the Memphis
and Charleston railroad. The pur*
chasers will take the road subjeot to
all prior valid Hens, which amount
to about seven million five
hundred thousand dollars. This
takes the road out of tho hands of a
receiver as s 'on as the sale Is con*
firmed Tbe question of confirma
tion will come up at a sj ecial term of
the federal court In Knoxville In
Ju; o, or the regular term i: July.
Judge Baxters decree will be en
tered in Georgia, Alabama aud Mts-
slssippl. It ts generally understood
’bat the present bondholders recently
proposing the reorganization scheme
will be the purchasers.
ing.
I thing calculated to solve tie mystery,
but the more the matUris investi
gated by disinterested men the strong
er becomes the o- nveUon (bat tha
disaster was not cause.! by a c-.-lllaiou.
NEARING A SOLUTION.
St Louis, March 18 — A special
from Net* Orleat.s to *he P-.-i-Dis.
patch says General Sheldon -aid at
1:30 o’clock this afternoon that he i
considered the strike on a fair way i i vorK id rm» Arrtat*4,
to its end. The receivers, ho said, -Special to Kj <itiirer.nan,
will not aroitrate, but if Hall submits ; New York, March IS — Alderman
his case tr. me United Siates court Henry W J Aehue was arrested In
and toe judgt should decide that Hall ! th fc city hail park at noon to-day,
was discharged without sufficient 1 and tuken along to police hoadquar*
cause, then the receivers j tora on a warrant obarglng him with
will reinstate him. If af« ] bribery in connection with tho
ter this the strikers will Dot Broadway surfaoe road franchise,
return to work, then the company t Tnere was great skurrylng about
will proceed with the protection of! among the politicians when the fact
the court to carry on its business, became known ami they came la
If the strikers will submit to the [ streams to the police headquarters,
judge’s "decision,” if it should be ad- i the district attorney’s r dice and the
verse to them, then of eou:..o the 1 city hall. An indictment has been
strike will end, All trains, both pas- foind against him. Later to the day
sergtrand freight, on this division h e wafl released ou $15,000 bail. Ho
of the T‘xas Pacific road are now tokes .t oolly.
running on their regular time, , *—*—*
A PARTIAL AGREEMENT. I The Oj.te* i--r_.r»,
New Orleans, March 18 —At the ! s ‘ ,#ola! u> Knairer-saa
suggestion ol the United Sta’es mar- - t altimork, March 13.—A maetlng
shul a pleasant conference was held i y* 6 °J 8ler paokers of this oily wa»
t-i-nuy between a oommittee from the beld l0 ‘^'7 aa , r ^' 3 i 18 'I
HnlohU nf r.ahrir and «nvemnr , uot 10 b ack oysters after tne first
Knights 01 Labor aut * Governor' of April utiuer a penalty ol ?1C00 The
^tieldon, receiver of the Texas and ! 0 y S t or season has heretofore continued
Pacific railway cimpany, A partial qu tbe first of May in eaoh year, but
agreement was reached, to the me oyster tela )n the Chesapeake bay
effect that the grievances of \ have been so much depleted that tho
C A Hall, fi reman oi the car fear in entertained that they may be
departmental Mareuaii, Texas, shall destroyed.