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be CoUmtlm vol. yxxn. DAILY ENQUIRER-SUN: COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING DECEMBER 9, 1890. NO. 303. AT HALF PRICE. All our French Pattern Hals and Bonnet are now on sale at half price. Also a choice stock of Beaver Hats wo:th $3 to $4, to be sold at $2. GREAT REDUCTIONS In French Pattern Suits, Ladies' and Children's Wraps. Jer sey Waists are the most comfortable for borne wear of any thing else. We wil’close our stock of these goods at hall price. MISSES’ DRESSES. A few Flannel Suits, read;-made for 15 and 16 year old Misses, worth $10, no.v $3.5'>. DOLLS, LOYELY IDOLDLS. We are well supplied with a choice slock of kid bodied and jointed pells at low prices. OTTOLY^Hsr ZPYLLdSTTS. This new fabric was manufactured to imitate Printed French Flannels, and are well worth lit cents. We are offer ing them at 5 cents, along with Dress Prints in tlie best brands of Calicoes. Our Art Department. A long felt want is supplied by this department, proven by the large business done since we opened it. Printed Plushes and China Silks in profusion, and all the neces sary small ornaments so desirable for finishing of Fancy Work. Special attention is called to our Silk Scarfs, fringed and good size, for 50c. J. A K1RVEN & CO. WE EXPECT This month s trade to surpass any previous month in th> history ol our business. How can it be otherwise v. hen wo are selling -FOR- $12 to $15 That should bring three to live dollars more. Net a HAT in the house (except Dunlap and Stetson) that you cannot buy for less than we ever sold. On UNDERWEAR and heavy weight CLOTHING you will be satisfied with our prices. Money Must Come—Goods Must Go! REFUND THE TOBACCO TAX, AN IMPORTANT COLUMBUS BILL. AND PROVIDE FOR PROTECTING THE HAWAIIAN TREATY. Washington, December 8.—The ways and means committee today voted to re port a bill authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to refund so much of the tax collected on tobacco which shall be in the hands of dealers and manufacturers January 1, as was abolished by the recent tariff act. Turner, of Georgia, moved a substitute providing for a rebate but avoiding refer ence to the tariff act, which was supported by the Democratic members of the com mittee. The amendment was rejected, and McKinley will report the bill without amendment. The committee also voted to reporta resolution declaring that nothing in the tariff act should be construed to im pair the provisions of the Hawaiian treaty. The Democrats opposed] the resolution. MILES ABOUT TO MOVE. Chicago, December S.—Gen. Miles this morning received a letter from Buffalo Gap, S. D., under date of December tl. which says: Yesterday afternoon a party of lit'tcen Sionx, at the entrance to the Bad Lauds, endeavored to cut off and capture three cowboys. The ranchmen in the vicinity of the Bad Lands are sending their women and children into this town. There are no ripes or ammunition, and none have been received here, although application lias been made for them in order that the settlers may arm themselves. General Miles will leave for the scene of the Indian troubles tomorrow. A RUMOR DENIED. Washington, December S.—The rumor that a special meeting of the cabinet was held today to consider the financial situa tion is untrue, and had no other founda tion than the fact that Secretary \\ indom took lunch with the President by no means of unusual occurrence. The regular meet ing of the cabinet will be held tomorrow, however, and it is extremely probable that the financial question will receive consid eration, as it is one in which the Presi dent is taking a deep interest just at present. DANVILLE'S FIRST SNOW. Danville, Va., Decembers.—The first snow of the season fell here this morning, and the storm extended through Henry and Patrick counties. The strangest part of it is, there was a lively thunder storm last night before the snow began to fall. The weather is stil! cold and threatening. THE ELECTRIC railway BILL GETS A FAVORABLE REPORT. Atlanta, December 8.—[Special.]— Whitfield’s bill, to break up the pooling of insurance rates, was before the finance committee today and insurance men from all over the State appeared and opposed it. conspicuous being Livingston Mims and Clarence Knowles. Denny and Dean, ol Rome, were there favoring the bill, which will be disposed of by the committee Wednesday. The bill by Atkinson, before the general judiciary committee, which proposes to extend the powers of the State Railroad Commission to telegraph, express and sleeping car charges, was stubbornly op posed. Action has been delayed until Friday. The bill by Gilbert incorporating the North Highlands Electric Street Railway was opposed before the Railroad Commit tee this afternoon, at the three hour's ses sion, by Messrs. Garrard, Flournoy and Hatcher, of Columbus, and Meldrim, of Savannah, representing the horse car line which is parallel for several blocks by tin- new line. McNeil and \\ iuibish favored the electric line railroad. The committee reported in favor of the electric road. CHICAGO MARKET. REPUBLICANS REBUKED- GORMAN S PICTURE OF THE CONDI TION OF THE COUNTRY. A PROPHECY AND AN APPEAL—GRAY - 3 GREAT ENDURANCE—HOUSE PRO CEEDINGS—THE SOUTH CARO LINA SENATORIAL CONTEST. TERDAY — IMPORTANT BILL PASSED AND NEW MEAS URES INTRODUCED. REVIEW OF SPECULATION IN THE GRAIN AND PROVISION MARKETS. Chicago. Decembers.—Wheat bordered upon tlie lowest prices that have been seen since the financial outlook first began to cause serious alarm; May selling down to fftij to 9<‘>7, and closed 97|, }to gc lower than Saturday. Corn was well held and made a slight advance, and oats was in accord with the other feeling. Provisions started strong and closed steady at a slight im provement on Saturday’s final quotations. TREASURY DISBURSEMENTS. Washington, December 8.—The total amount of money disbursed by today's treasury operations was $0,800,730, dis tributed as follows: By the purchase of 4 per cent bonds, $5,550,000; by the pur chase of 4 j per cents, $50,000, and the purchase of silver bullion. $707.000. A FURIOUS STORM. Harrisburg, Va., December 8.—A ter rible storm set in iiere last night. Meet, snow and hail all fell. It has now turned into a snow storm, and rages furiously. The weather is intensely cold. Highest of all in Leavening Power.—U. S. Gov’t Report, Aug. 17, x88g. Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE Washington. December 8.—[Special.] Senator Hoar's face wore a deeper crimson color today thau usual, and he appeared more nervous if anything than on any previous day. The cause of Mr. Hoar's unrest is the length of .Senator Gray's speech against the Force bill, and the won derful endurance of Mr. Gray himself as a floor manager. He commenced his speech last Friday, and showed up today as fresh and sin ling as if time was no object. an alliance leader. Representative John A. Pickier, of South Dakota, the Republican Alliance member who introduced the sub-treasury bill in the House last se-sior., is back from the Ocala convention. He’ thinks that unless one of the existing parties moves up and lakes position alongside of the Alliance, a new industrial parly is inevitable. Pickier was re-elected to the next Congress, and will doubtless be regarded as the Alliance chief in the next House. Hampton's chances. Much anxiety is felt and expressed here about the prospective action of the South Carolina Legislature in choos ing a Senator to succeed Hamp ton. The first vote will be taken tomorrow. General Hampton's closest friends concede his defeat unless a splint in the Alliance vote occurs, lion. John L. Irby, the preseut .Speaker of the South Carolina House, is the favorite Alliance candidate. He is a member for Laurens county, and was chairman of the Stat Alliance executive committee during the Tillman campaign. He is reported to be a man of vast political resources and a hold stump speaker. His age is given at tony- five. i'ne committee on ways and means agreed today to report a bill to heal the tobacco rebate omission in the McKinley bill. Mr. Turner, of Georgia satisfied himself that the amendment coiuained nothing to validate the original bill before he gave it his sanction. Representative Willcox, of Connecticut in an interview today, thought that, the Speakership would go North, notwith standing the excellent qualities of Messrs. Mills and Crisp, whom iie regards as the leading Southern candidates. Mr. R. T. Ponder, of Jefferson county, accompanied by Mr. Brinson, a neighbor, passed through here today eti route home from New York, where Ponder has been treated by the Pasteur system. He was bitten severely by a mad dog some weeks ago. He announces a complete cure. James ii. Randall, the newspaper corre spondent, is here. IN THE SENATE. Washington, December 8.—Gorman presented a large number of petitions, principally from the State of New York, protesting against the passage of the elec tions bill. He said they had been got up under tbe lead of the New York Star. Jones, of Arkansas, offered a resolution (which went over till tomorrow) calling on the Attorney. General for information as to the supervisors of elections appointed If or the First and Second Congressional Dis tricts of Arkansas for the Congressional election of November 4th last, and the sums of money paid out or called for iu connection wiih the election or with the proceedings that have taken place since the election. The Indian question again came up in the discussion upon a joint resolution heretofore introduced by Morgan, appro priating $5003 for an investigation of the Sioux outbreak. It was participated in by Pierce, Voorhe.es and Paddock, the latter indulging iu some criticism upon the “mil itary chieftains’’ who stop at every cross roads and send for the newspaper men to interview them. Iu this way a great many foolish tilings were said, and there had b *en a great deal of absurd exaggerat ion in connection with the whole business. Hawley favored Morgan's joint resolu tion, and said that one cause of the distur bance was the opposition of some of the Sioux to the settlement made by tbe Sioux committee two years ago. The Govern ment, he said, had tried to do its duty gen erally by those people. Morgan’s joint resolution was referred to the committee on Indian affairs. The resolution heretofore offered by- Morgan, calling on the Secretary of the Treasnry for a statement of the money- paid to John I. Davenport, as chief .super visor of elections, in each year since 1871, and a statement of the claims of Daven port that have been rejected at the Treas ury, was taken up and agreed to. Hoar, at 1:15 o’clock, moved to proceed to the consideration of the elections bill, but, on the suggestion that Gray was tem porarily absent, he withdrew the motion, and then asked unanimous consent to have the time fixed at Friday next, at 4 o'clock p. m , for taking a final vote on the bill. Morgan said that before such consent could be given, he wanted to know what bill was before the Senate. There was no bill, he said, before the Senate according to the statements made in the last few days. At leas’, nobody knew what it was. Gorman suggested that the Senator from Massachusetts ought himself to see the ab solute injustice of such a proposition at this stage of the proceedings. Gorman was going on to state his views on the proposition when he was cut short by Hoar saying that as objection was made, there was nothing to discuss. Gray, meanwhile, came into the cham ber, and the bill having beeu taken up, he yielded to Gorman, who argued against the proposition to fix a time for taking the. vote. lie recalled a statement of Mr. Hoar at the last session, that if the elections bill were not then taken up and disposed oi there would not be time to do so in the short session. It ha-1 been, Gorman said, a firm conviction on his side of the cham ber that, after what had occurred at the late elections, the Senator from Massachu setts would not press the bill at an early stage of the session, so that the Senators on his side had not prepared themselves to discuss it intelligently. They had come to the session, not elated with the late Democratic victory at the polls, hut looking with seriousness and earnestness to the condition of the country. He recognized that that condi tion was more serious than it had ever been before during his short life. He thought he vouched the sentiment of every mem ber of the Democratic party iu both houses, when he said that they were per fectly prepared to lay aside partisan views and to assist in doing something to stay the greatest calamity that had ever befallen the American people. Gorman continued: “\Ye stand today, Mr. President, on a vol cano. We have heard a discussion as to starving Indians, hut we take no note, it appears, of the fact that the farm ers of the land are meeting and resolving that there is danger and trouble, if not starvation among them. The labor of the country appeals to the ad ministration and to Congress to stay this awful wreck. The faces of the bankers and merchants are blanched with fear. No man can tell whether tomorrow or next day every bank in the great centers of commerce will not be closed by suspension of payments. And now, in the midst of such a state of affairs, we, who came here flushed with victory, had hopes that the majority party in the Senate would give us an opportunity to join with it in prevent ing the wreck which is now impending, but the Senator from Massasschusetts, since ; the second day of the session, has con-: 4 POOPl DAY'n PTTQlYFsI^l : tinued to keep this bill before this : UUV/ly 1/diA O D L» OIlA £100* body, day by day and hour by hour, refus- j ' ] “ ] \ , ing even the usual time of adjournment THE GEORGIA LEGISLATU RE GET- | from Friday until Monday. Read the great l TING DOMN TO HARD T\ ORK. 1 papers of the city of New York today, j j They tell you that fhe Secretary of the THE record of the two houses yes- | Treasury, taking the only action that he is j j authorized to take within the law, has i I come again to the relief of commerce by 1 ' buying $5,000,000 of bonds, and that that j j is a mere drop in the bucket. The Secre- j in the senate. ! tary of the Treasury has paid out of the Atlanta. December 8. [Special.] j Treasury $100,000,130 for bonds, and that j The bill authorizing the Mobile and Girard j $100,000,000 has disappeared. The banks j railroad to construct, maintain and use a : ' iav c less money now than they had before ! s jj e track on Ninth street. Columbus, Ga., i the payment of that $100,000,000. I would j passed. | say to the Senator from Massachusetts, lay j Xew bills were offered: ; aside this bill, which the country has pro- j f)v yy r C'abaniss—To incorporate the nounced against. Let it go,and let us take up j Atlanta Exchange Bank, matters which all classes of our fellow citi- By Mr. Lamb—To incorporate the zens are looking to us to consider. If you j Brunswick and Northern Railroad Com- do not—if you persist in the course which j pany. lias been marked out by the Senator from j By’ Mr. Terrell (by request)—To ern- Massachusetts, the responsibility must rest power the Mayor and Council of Carroll- wnh the party in power. If the Senator tjn t0 levy an additional 25 per cent ad from Massachusetts forces a consideration valorem tax to protect the town against of this partisan measure, while bankruptcy fj re . and ruin are going on, he has the power By Mr. Todd—To further provide for to do it. but when he goes back to Boston Cue lieu of contractors, mechanics, ma ke will find that the merchants, and bank- terial men and laborers, and for the more ers, and men of affairs there, as well as the effectual enforcement of the same, farmers and laborers, will tell him that, This bill, the author explains, is in- wkile he is attempting hostile legislation tended to guard the rights of material fur- agaiust one section of country, if it had 1 nlshers. laborers, etc., from the rascality not. been for tiie products of that I 0 f wildcat contractors who descend upon a section, if it had not been for | c ,t y where they are unknown, and after storage business interferes with the cattle TUff LHOUPlfC’ nr AI 4 VTAO raising industry of the State. 1IIL f AKjlHihb DLMAiNDo* The railroad clause has been broadened, . . ,,.77777 7 and the sewing machine clause extended ^^It OCALA CON \ EN HON SETS L P so as to make an effort to reach these two 1 A PLATFORM. institutions. The changes in these clauses j are minor ones, suggested by the Comp- their views on the tariff, silver. troller-Geneial to the finance committee. Section 1. Dealing with the ad valorum the moving from the cotton crop, there would not be a bank in Massachu setts able to pay its depositors. The only thing that has saved them has been the fact that they have been able to draw on the cotton crop and on the oil. You may hasten the wreck, you may speed the time when this distress shall become universal. So be it, Mr. President, if you will have it so. Again we tender to you our earnest endeavors to stay this panic and save our common country. Hoar replied to Gorman. Iu his speech was a recommendation to Democratic Sen ators to apply Gorman's suggestions to themselves, cease their obstruction tactics undertaking work and advancing the same far enough to get considerable sums of money from owners iu their hands, ab scond, leaving creditors and hands with empty pockets. Mr. Todd's bill requires that accounts shall be rendered the person for whom the work is being done from time to time. These accounts shall be open to inspection by the hands, and they, or any of them, shall have the privilege of calling on such owner to withhold from the boss contrac tor what is due them. Material placed up an nretnises where building is going forward by any material man or contractor, if unpaid for, shall, until worked into the building in course of the fur- feature was not considered, and the bill was laid on the table to be taken up after the appropriation act has been acted on. The appropriation bill had been set for consideration Wednesday, but the general tax act being finished it was on motion of NATIONAL BANKS. ALIEN LAND OWNERS AND RAIL ROADS—THE SUB- TREASURY. Ocala, Fla., December tional Farmers’ Alliance ass 8.—The ■mbled Na this morning at S:30o’clock. After routine Humphries of Brooks taken up and the w ork and a few speeches, giving newspa- anu allow tiie elections bill to pass. , Unix then resumed his argument against j erection, remain the property of the bill, criticising it in its details. He nisher, and may be removed, spoke of the machinery provided in it as In case a contractor shall abandon his similar to that under which Napoleon HI. j contract, leaving unused material upon arranged his plebiscite iu 1852, and erected i such premises, ihe furnisher may take an empire on the ruins of the Ireiich | possession of and remove the same. Contractors purchasing on credit mate- and er the republic. He thought that the hill, if it were not to be recommitted to the com mittee on privileges and elections, should be, at least, sent to a committee on style, which would make plain what the bill meant. Let us, he said, adhere to the rules of English speech if we are not to adhere to the rules of English liberty and freedom. Let us have lucid periods of the Senator from Massachusetts and not t.he confused phra seology of the chief supervisor of New York, and then we can discuss the bill with more intelligence than we can dis cuss it now. Iu course of a colloquy be tween Gray and Edmunds, Gray imagined the case of the Senator of Vermont—the Senator going to the polls in his own town to vote and having a dirty deputy marshal, inspired by rum and politics, lay his hand upon his shoulder and saying that he ar rested him for offering to vote when not properly registered, or when not residing in tiie. precinct, and taking him before the United States Commissioner. Was that, Gray asked, consistent with the freedom of elections? The deputy marshals, he added, were, under the bill, to be put at the polls to prevent fraud. They would be there to make the elections one-sided, to arrest Democrats for real or supposed elec tion frauds, and to allow Republicans to go free, or in the case of the Democrats be ing in power, to arrest Republicans and allow the Democrats to go free. The bill. Mr. Gray said, should be trampled under foot; should never find a place in the stat ute books of the United States; should be taken out and branded by the common hangman as being an insult to the free people of a free country. It was, to say the least of it, a stretch of power conferred upon Congress. In conclusion, lie said: “I b**g you to let us stand in the ancient ways and not to disturb the aucient landmarks. There are principles so imbedded in our constitution and scheme of Government that they cannot be touched and removed without jostling and shaking the whole fabric of our liberties. 1 beg you to con sider that we should conserve this funda mental principle, that great doctrine of local self government, and let them remain for all times as immutable as the snow- covered peaks of the Western mountains, which have stood so long as the sentinels of the centuries. Berry obtained the floor at 5:45 o’clock, and the Senate adjourned. IN THE HOUSE. Washington, December 8.—E. B. Tay lor, from the committee on judiciary, re ported back the Enlue resolution for the arrest of George Minst, one of the door keepers, for attempting violently to pre vent. Enloe’s exit from the House during a call of the house in August last. The committee reports that the case calls for no action on the part of the House, and the resolution was laid upon the table without objection. The floor was awarded to the District of Columbia committee bill, known as the “Atkinson bill,” granting certain privileges to the Baldwin and Potomac railroad with in ihe city of Washington, and which was for a long time a stumbling block in way of business last session, was taken up, ordered engrossed, read the third time and a motion to recommit was de feated, yeas 75, nays 189. The same de termined opposition to it which was shown last session was manifest today, but it was unavailing. Several bills relating to the municipal government were passed. On motion of Mdliken tomorrow was set apart for the con-: 1*-rad on of public build ing measures which have been favorably repotted by the committee of the whole. McKinley reported from the ways and means committee, and the House passed the bill providing for a rebate on tobacco in sioek equal to the reduction made in the international revenue tax by the. last tariff bill. McKinley merely stated that the bill was similar to the provision of the tariff bill, section 80. which hail been omitted in the enrolling of that measure, and the declaration was made by Mills, of Texas, that it was all right. No opposition was made to its passage. The House then adjourned. SUN’S COTTON REVIEW. New York, December 8.—Futures opened without decided change, closing at four to six points decline from Satur day’s closing prices, and steady. The opening was with a show of steadiness, but adverse report from the stock exchange, weakness in the closng of the Liverpool market, the increased receipts at ports, and the decline in spot cotton all conspired against the plucky bull party on our cotton ex change and forced values off a few points, early deliveries yielding most, and still the wonder grew, not that prices declined, but that they stood up as well as they did. The receipts at the principal interior towns were comparatively small, but it was asserted in explanation of this that Southern buyers have no money, and can raise none, with which to pay for cot ton, and “cotton is a cash article,” don't you know. Spot cotton was 1-10 lower, with rather more disposition to sell. rial to be used in one building and afte wards devoting it to the construction of another without obtaining the written Consent of the furnisher, shall he held guilty of misdemeanor. In the event a contractor abandons his contract aud the owner for whom lie has been working fails to make provision for the payment of claims held by material men, sub-contractors, mechanics and la borers for work done aud material furn ished to date of such abandonment, the above mentioned creditors shall have the right to enforce such claims, and failure on their part to complete their contracts under such circumstances shall be no bar to collection. on third reading. House bills to incorporate the Fulton Loan and Banking Company. Passed. To incorporate the Exchange Bank of Albany. Passed. Senate bill to incorporate the Alabama Eastern Railroad Company. Passed. House bill to supplement the contingent fund by the additional appropriation of $29,000. Passed. A joint resolution was offered by Mr. Culver, that whereas, through the instru mentality of publishers’ puuls a monopoly has been created, and the prices of school books advanced several hundred per cent., tli reby burdening all purchasers and plac ing it beyond the power of the poor to sup ply their children; and, wiiereas, the con stitution of Georgia authorizes the enact ment of such legislation as may tend to break up monopoly aud revive competi tion; and, whereas, it is the policy of one or more States to publish or furnish school hooks for its people at a price covering barely the expense of publication. Therefore, be it resolved, that the State School Commissioner, if possible, inaug urate a system or plan fur furnishing school books at greatly reduced rates, and that the same officer inquire into the feasi bility of the publication of ail school books by the State through contracts with the authors or otherwise and report to Ihe adjourned session if one is held, otherwise to the next General Assembly. Mr. Nunnally endorsed the resolution and related the experience of his county with book agents. The resolution was unanimously adopted. Mr. Baxter’s hill amending the charter of the Progress I,nun and Improvement Company was read the first time. IN THE HOUSE. The general tax act was made thespcei.il order of business for this morning. Before it was taken up, however, Calvin of Rich mond offered a resolution that the business before the House made it apparent that a prolongation of the present session is im perative, and he moved that the House so decide, and his resolution was referred to the committee on adjournment. He offered another resolution providing that a committee of five from the Senate and ten from the House be appointed to attend the University commencement, the custom being usual with past Legisla tures. The general lax act was then taken up and read the third time. Where no objec tion was raised to clauses they stood con firmed. Tiie first section, that which pro vides for the ad valorum tax, was post poned until the general appropriation should he passed. The tax bill shows only a few changes over the act of 1888. The ninth paragraph of section !), which provides that insurance agents shall pay $10 for each county where they solicit business, was amended so as to make it read “firms of agents,” and that '.he com panies be required to pay the tax, as the agents had nothing in many cases where executions were instituted by State Treas ury. Wiien paragraph sixleen of the same section was reached South Georgia made a demand for greater restrictions to sur round the sale of deadly weapons. Mr. Coppell, of Laurens, had the tax 0:1 dealers increased to $50 from $25. Mr. Humphries, of Brooks, favored mak ing the tax $500, and would urge ii if such a figure would not tend to drive the busi ness out of the 8iafe. Mr. Gilbert, of Muscogee, offered an amendment, which provides that dealers selling dirks and Bowie knives shall be taxed $100. This was accepted. j 'y h( Mr. Berner, of Monroe, offered another ! amendment which provj hr. Lhat dealers in long range magazine rifles, with raised sights and cartridges for the same, he taxed $100. -Section seventeen is after the “future” business. Those engaged in selling pro ducts, stocks or other wares of monetary value for future delivery, are required to pay ten thou-and dollars tax in the county where they do business. This is tanta mount to exclusion. The Supreme Court, only the other day, is very restrictive in interpreting the words future delivery, as will be recalled in the case of W. F. Al exander, defendant, from the Augusta cir cuit. He being agent for a New York House. The cold storage business, the importa tion of dressed meats from the West, re ceives a setback. The twenty-second paragraph of section 2 provides for the House in committee of the whole listened to its third reading. The committee asked leave to report progress and sit again. Unfinished business was then taken up. At 12 o’clock the Senate filed iu aud a joint session was convened for the purpose of electing a Solicitor of the Southern cir cuit vice Hon. Dan Roundtree, resigued. Hon. John R. Slater, of Lowndes county, was put iu nomination by Mr. Humphries, of Brooks, and there being no opposition, he was unanimously elected. A few bills were passed before adjourn ing the morning session. By Cults of Sumter—Incorporating the Bank of Sumter. By Tatum, of Dade, to amend the road laws of the State so far as they relate to Dade county. A resolution was offered by Gilbert, of Muscogee, to authorize the advisory board to select a permanent site for a State mili tary camp. Mr. Hancock, of Jackson, introduced a bill for its first reading incorporating the town of Pendergost. Major Ryals, of Chatham, today offered a resolution providing that tiie presiding officers of the two brandies of the House appoint a committee—two from the Sen ate and three from the House—to confer with the Governor aud report back to the adjourned Legislature as to what part Georgia should take in the coming Worlds Fair. The two commissioners already ap pointed are to act with this committee. The House then adjourned. THE NIGHT SESSION. The House this evening held the first of the night sessions recently determined upon. The committee on the Lunatic Asy lum reported. The. cramped condition of that institution was commented on and the necessity for its enlargement in the near future. The appropriation suggested for its maintenance is $180,000. A number of local bills weft* acted on. The attendance was so slender that a dis continuance of the evening sessions is deemed probable. IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. London, December 8.—The anti-Par- neilite members of the House of Commons made an early appearance in the House today. Forty-one of them entered the chamber in a body and took the principal places on the first four benches below the gangway with a view to prevent the Par- nellites from occupying their usual seats. Col. Nolan and John Deasy entered later and contrived to secure seats. Parnell’s seat had been reserved, lie having at an early hour fixed a ticket to it. Heaiy arrived later than his colleagues. When he entered, he took Par nell's seat, but McCarthy warned him to vacate it. The party appeared to be in excellent spirits. They cheered loudly when Diasy, an anti-Parnellite whip, advanced to the speaker’s chair and moved issue of a new writ for election in North Kilkenny to fill the vacancy in the House of Commons, caused by the death of Edward Mamin. The writ was issued. McCarthy, amid the cheering of his sup porters, gave notice that upon tbe reas sembling of the House he would call at tention to the circumstances in connection with tiie recent arrest and prosecution of Dillion and O’Brien, and would move a resolution in relation to the case. Smith, Government leader, announced that when the House went into committee on the laud purchase bill he would move an adjournment of Ihe House until Janu ary 2. Balfour moved a second reading of the land department (Ireland) bill. Ilealy moved to adjourn the debate on the ground that the Government was treating the House with contempt in not explaining the provisions of the bill subsequently. Ilealy withdrew his motion to adjourn, and substituted an amendment, calling for the rejection of ihe laud depart nient bill. This was defeated and the bill passed second reading by a vote of 191 to 129. Parnell entered the House just before the division. He took a seat next to McCarthy and voted, as did all the Irish members of both sec tions present, against the bill. W. II. Smith announced that, when the House reassembled January 2. tin* private procedure and tithes bills would be first taken up. Balfour’s Irish relief bill, which asks an appropriation of U5000 to enable him to supply seed potatoes to distressed farmers, passed its thirl reading in the House. BOND AND SILVER PURCHASES. Washington, December 8. — The amount of silver offered for sale to the Treasury Department today was 1.120,- 00) ounces, and the amount purchased 085,- 000 ounces, at prices ranging from $1,028 to $1,035. Tne amount of four per cent bonds ac cepted today under circular of December 0, was $4,591,000, for which a disburse ment of about $5,550,000 in money will be made. The Secretary of the Treasury said this afternoon that, in view of all the condi tions, iie would accept additional offers of fours at a reasonable price of a sufficient amount to make purchases of $8,000,000, for which he said the expenditures will be nearly $10,000,000. The Secretary said further that it was manifestly imposible, under existing conditions, for him to use the fractional currency now in the treas ury in purchases of bonds for the reason that it would at once he returned to him in exchange for greenbacks and leave biin wi'h a deficiency instead of surplus. There is now above $19,000,000 of fractional currency in th<* treasury, of which ail but $2,000/00 is in silver baif dollars, and it is legal tender to the amount of $10 only. It is not regarded as a part of the available cash balance The secretary said he would like very much to get it in circulation, but that he certainly should not do so at the expense of his limited available surplus. The offer ing today inclu led nearly $1,000,000 of 4 per cents, at prices slightly in excess of the highest price paid to lay, viz.: $1,234. The amount of 4y per cent, bonds redeemed to day under circular of October 9, w. ' $11,450, making Lhe total to date $0,535,- 1 of the Al- >f the order the report This re- rained the per correspondents a drubbing, because they have secured information of the pro ceedings beyond that given out by the press committee, the convention listened to the report of the committee on legisla tion with reference to the sub-Treasurv bill, and this matter was under discussion for over two hours. The exact nature of the report, aud the discussion thereon, have not yet beeu learned, but a warm controversy was going on ail tiie morning, if one may judge by loud voices [applause] and frequent raps of presi dent Folk’s gavel, the sounds of which came tbiough the open windows of the convention hall. The report is siid to have recommended numerous chan T es in the bill as originally drawn, presumably with the purpose of securing Democratic support for this measure. Captain C. A. Power, of Indiana, has been circulating a petition to the National Alliance, asking that it rescind its action of .Saturday night naming Washington, I). C., and the third Tuesday in November as the time and place for holding the next annua! meeting, and making Indianapolis the place. Many signatures have been secured already among the delegates and it is predicted a change will be made. About half of the delegu.es, with their ladies, have gone on an exclusion today to the Homassa phosphate fields on the -nilf coast. it is now predicted that the Alliance may remain iu session two or three days longer. Early in the forenoon sessio liaiice, the financial policy came up lor discussion under of the committee 011 iegi-laiio; port as to financial policy co following demands: First—We demaud the abolition of tl National banks; we demand that the Gov- 1 eminent shall establish sub-treasuries or depositories in the several States, which shall loan money direct to the people at a low rate of interest, not to exceed 2 per cent interest per annum, on non-perish able farm products, and also upon real estate, with a proper limitation upon the quantity of land and tin-amount of money. We also demand that tile amount of the circulating medium he speedily increased to not less than $50 per capita. Second—We demand that Congress pass such a law as shall effectually prevent the dealing ill futures on agricultural and me chanical productions, providing astringent system of procedure in trials, such as shall secure, prompt conviction and the imposi tion of such penalties as shall secure the most perfect compliance with the law. Third—We condemn the silver hill re cently passed by Congress and demand in lieu thereof the free and unlimited coinage of silver. Fourth—We demand the passage of a law prohibiting the alien ownership of land, and that Congress take some prompt action to devise some plan to obtain the land now owned by aliens aud foreign syn dicates, and that all lands now held by railroads and other corporations, in excess of such as is actually used and needed by them, be reclaimed by the government and held for actual settlers only. Fifth—Believing in the doctrine of equal rights to all and special privileges to none, we demand that our national legislation be so framed in the future as not to build up one industry at the expense of another. We further demand the removal of the ex isting heavy tariff tax from the neces-aries of life, that the poor of our land must have. We further demand a just and equitable system of graduated tax ation. We believe that mon ey, on the contrary, should he kept as much as possible in the hands of the people and hence we demand that all National and State revenues shall be, limited to the necessary expenses of the Government, economically and honestly administered. Sixth—We demand the most rigid, honest and just State and National gov ernmental control and supervision of the means of public communication and trans portation, aud if tlbs control and super vision do not remove the abuses now ex isting, we demand the government owner ship of such means of communication and transportation. A spirited debate followed the introduc tion of this report, at tne beginning of whicn President Polk reminded the mem bers of the restriction of live minutes placed upon all speech-making by a resolu tion previously adopted. by: Clayton. Adams, Clanton, Brown, Davis of Lamar, Sayre, Webb and Long. Mr. Webb introduced a bill to establish school for instruction of the deaf and mutes of the colored race. Bill proposes to locate school in Talladega. Mr. Long introduced a joint resolution and memorial to Congress asking for in creased appropriations for the opening of the Warrior river in Walker county, below the bridge of the Georgia Pacific railroad. Bill to establish new charter for Dothan. Passed. Mr. Xotfington offered a resolution to begin call of counties aud allow each mem ber to call up bill and put it on its passage. The resolution was amended by Mr. Lewis to apply to the sessions of today, Tuesday and Wednesday. As amended the resolution was adopted. Mr. Adams called up the bill to fix sala ries of secretary of $tate, auditor, attorney- general. treasurer and railroad commis sioner at $2,100 per annum, payable monthly. Mr. Pettus offered an amendment, strik ing out railroad commissioners. Motion of Mr. Brown, bill making special order for 22d of January immedi ately after reading of journal was adopted. Bill to establish Cleveland school dis trict, county of Blount. Passed. Bill to incorporate Union $prings Male aud Female Institute. Passed. Bill to amend act relating to trials of misdemeanors in Walker county. Passed. Bill to regulate disposition of tin-s ac cruing to State under provision of statutes relating to cruelty to children and aiiin.als. Passed. Bill to amend the charter of the town of Piedmont. Passed. Bill to amend act to protect people of the State in the purchase of fertilizers. Passed. Bill to prevent to stock running at large iu beats 2. 8 and 19. Coosa comity. Passed. BiJ) 10 regulate payment of officers’ claims against fine and forfeiture fund. Walker county. Passed. Bill to repeal aet to establish court of revenues for Chilton county. Passed. Bill to provide for holding Circuit Courts in Conecuh, Covington. Pike aud Butler. Passed. Bill to ratify the reorganization of the People's Savings Bank ol Monile. Passed. Bill authorizing the city of Birming ham to issue bonds — $450.000— for the pur pose of making public improvements. THE ALABAMA LEGISLATURE. RECORD IF THE TWO [Spe- 10 punish acts ot lion in this .siate. - To amend 1899 druggist in each PHILADELPHIA HATTERS FAIL. Philadelphia, December S.—The hat manufacturing firm of Price, .Sherman & Co., consisting of William B. Price, Carlos Sherman and Charles L. Sherman, of No. 711 Snyder avenue, tltia city, made an as signment today. Carlos Sherman lives at C'astleton, Vermont. The assignment pre cipitated the failure of Frederick S. .Sher man, retail dealer in hats and furs at 1017 Chestnut street. A judgment note, with an execution, was this afternoon entered in the Common Pleas Court by Roberts, Cushman A- Co., of New York, against C. B. Sherman, Charles L. Sherman and Price, Sherman & Co. for $78,812. CRUSHED by the cars. Atlanta, Ga., December 8.—[Spec>ah] _ _ _ , —Charles Floyd, a negro train hand at the j collecting a tax of $500 in eacli county ; Georgia Pacific yard, was crushed between I where such business is conducted. This | cars while making a coupling today. His 1 tOUEEDING- HOUSES—A BUSY SE-sION. Montgomery, Ala., December 8.- al ]—1)11 the call of distric ts iu tli ate today, bills introduced by: Mr. Downey—To provide method of ap- porrioument public school funds by .Super- intcinl -nt of Education. Mr. H t. ris of Lee—To authorize Police Commission of Opelika to order an election for Commissioners. Mr. Godfrey—To require court of County Commissioners Sumter county to appropri ate money to pay claims against fine and forfeiture fund. Mr. Lacey—To establish State school for education of deaf mutes of colored race. Mr. Skeggs, by request— I’o amend act to incorporate town New Decatur. Mr. Bloch—To create industrial institute for education of white girls in arts, sciences and industries of the age. Mr. Parker—To amend section of code, relating to arson. Mr. Harris, of Hale- inti midating at any eie< Mr. Smith, of Mobile of code. Exempts one drug store from jury duty. Bills passed: B>H to require all applicants to practice medicine stand examination. To provide for correction of certificates of commissioners appointed to lake depu- j sition of witnesses in certain eases. To amend an act to provide for tiroes of holding (Jireuit Court iu the Sixth judicial circuit of the State as to Lamar county. To regulate garnishments against sala ries and wages of persons employed. For the relief of the Columbus Insu rance Banking Company of the Stale of Mississippi. To amend section 23GO of the code—re lates to evidence in proceedings to relieve minors from disability of non-age. To require corporations in making deed* or conveyances to real estate to recite in such deeds or conveyances a copy of the written authority of corporation under which same are made, and when so done such deeds of conveyances shall be in hands of the purchaser or any one holding under him prima facie evidence of au thority on part of tiie corporation for mak ing same. To provide for indexing records of deeds to and mortgages of real property in Coosa county. Mr. Lane—Joint resolution asking Gov ernor if the Secretary of the IiVerior lias yet certified to him the population of the Slate of Alabama, as shown by the last census by counties, and in the event that the Secretary of the Interior lias done so, the Governor is requested to eoiiimunicate such information to the House. Passed. Bill to incorporate Tennessee River and Ashville Railroad passed. Bill to establish Dean school district, Dale county, passed. Bill to subject to taxation, pole roads and ditches and canals used tor the trans portation of logs and lumber. Passed. By leave bills were introduced by Messrs. A mason, of Tallapoosa, and Mnimons. House adjourned to 8 p. in. LEGISLATIVE I. AVON IDs. There is some fun ahead in the House, as was indicated this morning by the mo tion to have, the bill to create the county of Houston, under adverse report from the committees and county boundaries placed on the calendar. This motion prevailed without a dissenting voice, ami it is under stood that the people of Bessemer have se cured this action after a great deal of solic itation, making to many of the members of tbe House a strong showing of the ad vantages which would result to the devel opment of that section of the State by the passage of the bill. Tbe matter will he, it is stated, vigorously pushed after the re cess, and a lively fight is the prospect. ANTI-FA UN KLLITE M K ETI NG . London, December 8. — In response to the call issued by .Justin McCarthy, leader of tiie anti-Parnellite section of the Irish party, all the members of the party who are opposed to Parnell assembled today to farther consider the line of policy to be adopted. Copies of the call had ix-cii ad dressed to Parnell and his supporters, but it is hardly necessary to stale llial none of them were present. A council, compris ing eight members, Abraham, Dillon, Ilealy, O’Brien, Arthur O’Connor, Thom, s Power O’Connor, Sexton and Sheeby, was appointed to assist McCarthy in deciding the future action of the party. The meet ing was presided over by McCarthy. After the appointment of the council an adjourn ment was taken until 2 o’clock tomorrow. A HALF MILLION FAILURE. New York, December 8.—Robert S. Roberts, Edward Roberts and Nathan B. Roberts, comprising the firm of Roberts, Chusuian A Co., dealers in and importer- of hatters’ materials at No. 17 Green street, made an assignment today. The firm is one of forty yeaiT good standing. They say that the tariff had nothing to do with their failure, although their business is largely importing, but that other firms iiave dragged them down. The failure is for about $500,000, and the members oi the firm confidently assert they will pay in full, because they are men of means out side of their business. THE PENSIONS DEFICIENCY. Washington, December s.—'i he Sec retary of the Treasury today transmitted ty the House an estimate aggregating $84,oh0,000, submitted by the .Secretary of the Interior, to supply a deficiency for the payment of army and navy pensions for the current fiscal year. AFTER CITY OFFICES. THE training shii* SAFE. Bussels, December 8.—There is no truth in the report that the Belgian training ship, Villi D'Anvers has fouaderei at sea. The Government has received information | is largely resultant from the opposing atti- j foot is supposed "to have caught on the t hat tbe vessel is safe, tude of fanners, who hold that the cold guard rail. He was terribly mangled ALDERMEN TO MEET IN CAUCUS NEXT MONDAY AFTERNOON. The old council will hold its last meet ing next Monday night, when the old board will be adjourned sine die and the new board he enlivened. Members of the new council will hold a ^ caucus next Monday afternoon for Hie pur- j pose of nominating candidates for tiie various city offices elective by council. 'ihe indications are that the caucus will lie a lively and interesting one. Under the terms of the new city charter, council will elect a clerk, marshall and sexton, offi :es here..note filled by el.- tion by the people, in addition to the oth< r offices usually chosen by council. City Clerk Moore, Treasurer Ma f hew». j Sexton Odom, Marshal Beard. Sanitary j inspector Williams and Clerk of Market 1 Coleman, it is thought, will all he re- j elected without opposition. The name of j Lieutenant Zeno Pickett has been prom inently mentioned in connection with the marshalship race, but the impression pre vailed yesterday that he wouid not be a candidate for that office. The indications are that there will he a pretty sharp contest over the office of City Physician. Dr. Charles L. Williams is a candidate for re-election, and it i> un*le: stood that Dr. S. J. Wylie, Dr. J. \y. Cam eron, Dr. T. S. Mitchell and Dr. T. L. Arrington will also be in the race. There is also likely to he a lively contest in the caucus cv« r the office of Superin tendent of Public Works. Th** contest is likely to be between the present inrum bent, Mr. C. G, Barney, and Mr. B. II. Hudson, tyfio was City Engineer before the creation oi the new office by Council. -Thu caucus will also elect two lieuten ants of pokes. The places are now held By Lieutenant Zeno Pickett and Lieuicu- ™ - ., » , . f ant Charles Ryekelev. To provide for election of County Super- *ri,„ „„„ ici„, -, .. . ... - f 1 iiy candidates and tiieir triends were busy interviewing members of Council j yesterday, and the work will go on iu TH'k house. ; earnest for some days to come. New de- After the approval of the journal the j velopments in some of the races are ex- OGbuUes were cabled, aud bills introduced i pected daily. intendent of Wilcox count Senate adjourned to 4 tz m,