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DAILY ENQUIRER-SDN: COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING DECEMBER II, 1890.
NO. 307.
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 $8
to $i, to be sold at $2.
GREAT REDUCTIONS
In French Pattern Suits, Ladies’ a id Children’s Wraps, Jer
sey Waists are the most comfortable for home wear of any
thing else. We w li close our stock of these goods at half
price.
MISSES’ DRESSES.
A few Flann 1 Suits, reach -made for 15 and 16 year old
Misses, worth $10, now $3.50.
IDOXjTLiS, LOVELT DOLULS.
We are veil supplied with a choice stock of kid bodied and
jointed Bolls at iow prices.
OTTOIMZ^IfcT ZPIRIIfcTTS.
This new fabric was manufactured to imita’e Printed
French Flannels, and are wel! worth 10 cents. We are offer
ing ihi-m at 5 cents, along with Dress Prints in the 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.
THE SCHOOLS ARE SAFE.
THE APPROPRIATIONS VOTED FOR
THE SEVERAL INSTITUTIONS
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Can Supp’y You with Beautiful and Elegant
Christmas Presents
For father, mother,
sister, brother, aunt
uncle, ^rand mama
grand-papa, and aU
your rela ives and
friends.
Read Thtdr List
of Specialties.
The prices are ripht.
The ladies say they
have the
of snbs aniial and suif-
a le presents to be
se--n.
Don’t fall to see
them
A TEST CASE.
CIVIL
SKBVICK SENSATION” IN SOUTH
CAROLINA.
Columbia, S. C., December 12.—A war
rant has been sworn out by N.
G. Ganzales, a newspaper correspondent,
against Attorney-General Y. G. Pope
for a violation of section 2552 of the Gen
eral Statutes, which provides that whoever
shall assault or intimidate any citizen be-
TFLE REAPPORTIONMENT BILL,
dunnkll’s scheme will have a favor-
ABLK IiEPOKT.
Washington, December 12.—The ro»
apportionment bill, based on a representa
tion of 356 members of the House of Rep
resentatives, as originally proposed by
Frank, of Missouri, has had favorable ac
tion ou it by the House committee on the
census, and it will be retorted to the
House today or tomorrow by Chairman
Dunneil. The agreement to the report of
c . Q se of his political opinions, or in the ! the bill was unanimous, although Holman
and Tillman reserved the right to vote for
exercise of the political rights and privi
leges guaranteed to every citizen of the
United States by the constitution and laws
thereof, or by the constitution or laws of
this State, or for such reason shall dis
charge such citizen from employment or
occupancy, or eject such citizen from a
rented house, or land, or other property,
such person shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof,
be fined not less than $50 nor more than
$1000, or be imprisoned not less than three
months nor more than one year, or both
at the discretion of the court. The Altor-
nev-General had discharged Thomas B.
Butler, clerk in the engrossing department,
who had acted with the Haskell buffers
and was a candidate on that ticket for the
Legislature from Union county. In dis
charging Butler, the Attorney-General
expressed personal regret at the necessity
for so doing, and testified to Butler s effi
ciency. Butler then wrote to Pope and
desired to be informed of the cause of his
discharge. Pope answered: “I removed
you from office from a sense of duty to the
people of this State. I believe it due t 0
them that no office shall be bestowed upon
one who has so recently jeopardized, by his
political conduct, the best interests of our
whole people. While I am Attorney-
General, no independent need apply for
office, and no such a one will be knowingly
retained in office by me.”
HANGED IN QUEBEC.
the executioner of birchali. has
ANOTHER VICTIM.
Sherbrooke, Que., December 12.—
William Wallace Blanchard was hanged
here this morning for the murder of
Charles A. Calking on the 18th of Novem
ber, 1889. The drop fell at 9:0<H o’clock,
and at 9:30 o’clock the jail surgeon stepped
forward and pronounced him dead. The
execution was performed by Radclffe, who
also hanged Birchali, and the whole pro
ceedings were without unpleasant incident.
a different number than 356. The only
vote taken was on a motion made by Holman
to fix the number at 332, and it found
no second. Tillman is in favor of a House
composed of 500 or 600 members and a
Senate composed of six members from
each State, and will probably make a
speech in support of his views when the
reapportionment bill comes up. He made
a strong speech in the committee when
the matter was under discussion and mem
bers say his remarks will certainly be in
teresting. The bill will be brought up in
the House at an early day. If the claims
of New York city and Brooklyn, with re
spect to the census, should be favorably
acted upon, the House will be increased by
the necessary additional representation.
THE CHIEFS COMING IN.
A LIVELY SKIRMISH AND SEVERAL IN
DIANS HURT.
Chicago, December 12.—The following
dispatch has been received at the army
headquarters from Gen. Brooke, in com
mand at the Pine Ridge agency, S. D.:
“From reports received, I am of the opin
ion that Two Strike and all the other
chiefs are coming in from White river.
Short Bull and Kicking Bear, with a small
following, broke away and went back in
the Bad Lands. I think it is likely they
will go north. I have notified all troops
north and west. There was quite a fight
and some Indians were hurt. I shall try
to get them in here, but they may get be
yond reach.
GRATEFUL TO BALFOUR.
Dubi in, December 12.—The Wes port
board of poor law guardians have, by a
unanimous vote, adopted a resolution de
claring in the highest terms their appre
ciation of the measures taken by Balfour
to avert the effects of the famine in the
western part of Ireland, and warmly eulo
gizing Balfour for his action.
BUT NOT WITHOUT STUBBORN OPPOSITION.
A LIVELY DAY IN THE HOUSE.
THE BETTERMENTS RESO
LUTION DEFEATED.
Atlanta, December 12.—[Special.]
The Twitty fee bill was taken up, the spe
cial committee to which it had been de
cided to recommit it, done away with, and
the bill made the special order for tomor
row.
The special order which had been dis
placed till the Twitty bill could be gotten
out of the way was then debated.
This was the Zachry resolution to sub
mit the claims of the Western aud Atlan
tic lessees to arbitration,
A majority report had been submitted
on this question, which has already been
published.
A minority report was also submitted, as
follows:
Mr. President: We, the undersigned
members of the finance committee, which
has had under consideration “A resolution
to create a commission to consider the
claims between the lessees of the Western
and Atlantic railroad and the State of
Georgia,” beg leave to submit to the Sen
ate as our reasons for dissenting to the
majority report of the committee which
was favorable to the passage of said reso
lution the following, to-wit:
1st: Because we are opposed to the
sovereign State of Georgia entering into
any arbitration. It is our desire for the
State to meet in candor aud fairness all
who make claims upon her, and settle with
them according to the strictest rules of
business integrity, and not through the
unsatisfactory methods of arbitration.
2d: Because if it be wise to appoint a
commission, as provided for in the reso
lution reported by the finance committee,
its decision should not be binding aud con
clusive as to the rights of the parties. The
experience of all Governments has demon
strated the wisdom of having some appel
late tribunal for the final adjudication of
causes.
3d: Because the people of Georgia
elected this General Assembly with the ex
pectation that it would settle this question
intelligently, and with equal fairness and
justice to the State and the leasees, and in
our judgment before it can so settle
the question, the General Assembly
must knaw what the issues are
and be placed in full possession of all the
facts bearing upon those issues. That this
may be done, we believe that a joint com
mittee should be appointed and instructed
to ascertain wbat issues, if any, exist be
all winter and all summer, and as long as at once for an appropriation to pay the I i ODV A TF
there was a dollar in the treasury, without \ claims. A member of both lease com- ; “ T
reaching a conclusion. The truth was, ! panies had told him he would be contented
if they got half the amount of the lessees
claim.
Johnson, of the Twenty-first, and El
lington opposed the resolution.
Cabaniss defended it.
Smith, of the Twenty-eighth, offered an
amendment that the commission report to
the business coaid not be settled in that
way. Many Senators were afraid of the
people at home. It was worse to be
“cussed” by the people for spending
their money in a useless effort
than to appoint a commission capable of
doing something and take the chances or
SOUTH CAROLINA AND MASSACHU
SETTS SENATORS HAVE
A CLASH.
held.
criticism. He wanted the resolution pass- ; the adjourned session, if one
ed. He thought like the gentleman from i Adopted.
the Thirty-sixth that Senator Brown loved ■ Zachry believed if the Legislature at-
Georgia, but not before “ Joe Brown.” j tempted !o sue the claims it would take
Mr. O’Neal regarded gommissions in j forty or fifty days, at an expense of $50,-
bad odor since the election commission j 000. He insisted that the defeat of the
BUTLER SCORES HOAR—HARRISON UN
EASY ABOUT THE FORCE BILL.
POSTAL NEWS—SOME GEOB-
GIA PERSONALS.
fraud which seated President Hayes.
Adjourned till 3 o'clock.
IN THE HOUSE.
Atlanta, Ga., December 12.—[Special.]
Immediately ou convening this morning
the House went into committee of the
whole. Lines nineteen, twenty and twen
ty-one, the clause of the appropriation act
which fixes $11,666 for the establishment
of the Industrial school at Milledgeville
under the act of November 8, 1889.
Humphries, of Brooks, opposed this
until he found that the embodiment of
that figure wag a mere formality, as the
the amount was already demanded by
law. Then he withdrew his opposition to
this.
Atkinson offered a resolution that the
name be changed to Georgia Normal and
Industrial College, as the title contein
plated in the original measure of the estab
lishment. This was adopted
For 1891 the act asks for $6000, and for
1892 the amount of $18,000 in Une3 22 and
23, and these Humphries, of Brooks,
moved to strike out, holding that Georgia
was doing enough already for schools
where, while they are styled “free,” the
charges incident on attendance precluded
attendance there by farmers and workini
men’s daughters. The present custom of
the State make these institutions unfair
and prohibitive towards the girls and boys
of the State.
A resolution was offered by Mr. Eth
ridge that the hall of the House be cleared
during debate on the appropriation act,
but was held out of order in a committee of
the whole.
Boifeuillet advocated the establishment
of the school. He brought strong argu
ments forward in favor of it, and produced
statistics establishing woman’s place iu
the industrial world.
Sears, of Webster, stated that his posi
tion had been misquoted by the papers.
He had opposed the technological figure
as too high. But as the boys had that
school, give the girls the industrial school
and then let us go to work and abolish the
branch colleges.
Thornton, of Wayne, felt that the Geor-
Washington, December 12.—[Special.]
The Plumb resolution, providing for longer
sessions of the Senate, was passed today in
a compromise shape. The Democrats gave
resolution meant endless lawsuits, and the I notice that they would insist on the pres-
SENSATION. U* MUocnt thu the Sector
CblSn tiS« J tl ,? ,0 "i b ' f°»South Carolina had thrau.aed to
woffid sXrRem.hliciaT , , elr VOtlDg d,schar s e men from his employment for
SoS hi, ° a I° ting the Re P«Wi=an ticket, then he had
\ est moved an amendment instructing done the Senator an iniustiee but he
the committee to inquire further, whether thought that it did ” * ’
United Siates were 1ci f t ‘ zens °f the Butler said that' he had denounced as
work on Inv nublie il “ ***** r ‘ ght lo false the statement that he had threatened
son of thdr color »>y rea- to discharge the colored men on his plan-
from Oregon ex^mled h i ■ Se ? a or ‘■‘•“•J* the Y voted Republican tickets.
Juenee oTtbe wronts of ha. g ‘. C ^ H * h ? d D ° retraction to make. If the Sen-
Jtaof the South he(yL at ° r fr ° m Ma8sach «setts had said that he
with equal handed 8?ve the information to the Senator from
mend to him the : i , COm I ° regon > (^Wnot of his own knowledge,
.“« fepuSu, “VSEST* Leg! tb, rem
abrogation of the new lease, as the Gover
nor would not be able to de iver the road
according to contract. Finally the resolu
tion was lost for want of a constitutional
majority. It will be reconsidered.
FROM ALABAMA’S CAPITAL.
ro ascertain wuat issues, .i au,, was as smart as any, but the time
tween the State and the lessees and collect g g rjDe nor opportune for the State
Highest of *11 in Leavening Power*—U. S. Gov’t Report, Aug. 17, *889.
Baking
Powder
ABSOLUTELY PURE
the facts thereon, and report to this Gen
eral Assembly. Respectfully submitted,
J. M. Terrell, Mas.on O’Neal, John L.
Culver, John McRae, C. H. Ellington, C.
B. Vincent.
Mr. Cabaniss thought the resolution
proposed the best method of settling the
difference between the lessees and the
State.
These were of a three-fold character—
1st. Those practically undisputed—to-
wit: taxes and excess of rolling stock.
2d. Those denied by the Legislature,
commonly called betterments.
3d. Those the substance of which is
admitted but of which the mode of adjust
ment is undetermined.
Under this latter head comes the rolling
stock received by the lessees at the com
mencement of the lease.
The Speaker urged the necessity of a
speedy settlement of these questions in
order that all obstacles in the way of turn
ing over the road to the new lease com
pany might be removed.
There bad been proposed three methods
for the adjustment of these differences.
1st. By the Courts—This method was
objectionable on account of expense, time
and uncertainty of the result.
2nd. By the Legislature—This had been
tried by the last Assembly. The trial was
barren of result and would again, if anoth
er were attempted, be productive of noth-
ing.
The third plan proposed was that point
ed out by the Zachry resolution, which
was the submission of the claims to a
hoard to be named by the Governor and
confirmed by the Senate.
The latter method was practicable
economical, and would effect a settlement.
It was necessary to bring the present
lessees to an agreement to settle before the
new lease is to begin, to-wit, on the 27th
instant. The Zachry mode would accom
plish that.
Mr. Terrell urged the points embodied
in the minority report with vehemence.
He also alluded to that in the majority re
port setting forth that the present lessees
had shown an honest disposition to abide
their contract. He favored waiting till
the termination of the lease to see if they
were faithful tenants. If they were
they would turn over all that
belonged to the State. He believed they
would do so, as he had faith in Senator
Brown’s integrity. Meantime, he urged
the appointment of the joint committee to
investigate the claims aud report to the
Assembly.
Mr. Bennett thought the Legislature had
no time to dispose of the question itself.
It was necessary to construe the lease con
tract. Construction of contracts had
always been left to courts aud not juries,
or large bodies of men. He believed the
Zachry resolution embodied the business
like way of settling the claims. A small
body would be able to settle the questions
involved more nearly right than a large
one.
The last Legislature could have settled
them, but they put the settlement off on
this Legislature.
A settlement, and a quick one, was now
necessary for some one, and he thought
the resolution proposed the quickest and
best way to arrive at it.
Mr. Beck felt that he would be ashamed
to meet his constituents if he failed to op
pose a proposition so monstrous and ab
surd.
Economy was urged as the advantage to
be gained by appointment of the commis
sion. It might be a cheap method of
disposing of the business, but if this ques
tion should be referred to a commission of
five, why not every question to such a
commission ? Why not have five men to
legislate for the people ? It would be a
cheap and expeditious method of law
making. He did not believe the Legisla
ture intended to shirk its duty. The
construction of the contract was not the
only thing to be passed upon; there were
also important questions of fact. The
threat that unless the claims of the old
lease company were quickly settled,
the new one would throw the road
back on the State’s hands should be dis
missed f 1 om the minds of the Senate.
If the new lease company did not like it,
other corporations would be glad to get it.
While the speaker did not advocate State
control and management of railways, the
question was being agitated, and the cor
porations were the last parties to wish the
practicability of the scheme tested.
If the Assembly could find five men so
good and wise as to be able to settle the
questions at issue between the old lease
company and the State off hand, why
could not ten men be found capable
of running the road and administering
its affairs economically. The Speaker
preferred to see the courts of Tennessee
take hold of the claims at issue to seeing
the Legislature shirk its duty and ac-
was not ripe nor opportune
to undertake conducting industrial schools,
A vote was taken and the appropriation
was granted to the normal school.
Everett, of Stewart, moved that the ap
propriations for the branch colleges—$11,-
000, Dahlonega $3000, Milledgeville $2000,
Thomasville $2000, Hamilton $2000—all
be considered at once and at the same
time. The vote so decided.
Hill, of Meriwether, opposed the appro
priation as unconstitutional, and that
branch colleges jtave their attendants ad
vantages over students of the public
schools.
Hardeman, of Wilkes, favored support
ing the branch colleges.
“Bob” Lewis, of Hancock, made his
best effort of the session, and was ap
plauded. He pointed out that if the present
amount contemplated by the appropria
tions act for the public school system had
been used for illustration by the gentleman
from Meriwether, it would be found that
the scholars of the branch colleges did not
receive one cent more than those attending
the public schools.
Lumsden, of White, favored the branch
colleges. How are we to have teachers,
asked he, if we abandon these schools?
The graduates become teachers, while from
others most of the graduates become pro
fessional men.
He showed that Dahlonega alone gives
on an average of fifty teachers to the State
University.
Wooten, of Dougherty, favored the pas
sage of the clauses urging the benefits to
ambitious young men and women and the
obligations incurred by the State when
these trusts were incurred.
Hill, of Meriwether, made another talk
against the branch colleges.
Seay, of Floyd, was opposed to branch
colleges. He stated be had favored the
University, the Technological and the In
dustrial, but he thought the brauch col
leges unjust to the grammar school system.
Lewis of Hancock, offeied a resolution
that the matriculation fees of these col
leges should not be more than $5.
Whitfield, who was in the chair, called
Reed of Putnam, to occupy it, and in a
short, but earnest speech, showed that the
$13,000 would be one third of a mill. The
appropriations amounted to $61,666. The
total valuation of the State’s property is
$415,000,000. The total appropriation
asked for called for a levy of one-sixth of
one mill. One thousand dollars only pro
duces 10* cents from a taxpayer who owus
$1000 worth of property.
Huff of Bibb, said ten minutes
was a very short time for one to
speak on a question which concerned
Georgia for all eternity, He hoped the
branch colleges would be left to the young
men of the State.
Seay’s resolution that the branch college
appropriation be stricken out was put to a
vote and carried. The vote which sounds
the death knell of the branch colleges was
89 against 50.
Paragraph 30, establishing a negro
school as a branch of the university, was
then adopted.
Section 5 and its paragraphs were then
taken up, and one after the other adopted
to line 8, which Atkinson moved that if
the number of fertilizer inspectors is in
creased they be paid out of the $9000 ap
propriated for that purpose.
When the Experimental Station was
reached some humorous features entered
into the discussion. Humphries did not
know whether or not it was a benefit to
the farmers. If they wanted it let them
have it. The money would go for some
thing else. Some other monopoly would
absorb the money.
Lewis said it was desirable, as it made a
nice, soft place for some broken-down
farmer or politician.
Hartridge, of Chatham, hoped every
lawyer in the House and the editors would
vote for the station, as distinguished Geor
gians were there devoting their lives to the
farmers.
Maj. Ryals, as one of the directors said,
he might be a broken-down politician or
lawyer, but as one of the directors he must
ask that the other members shall not be
impugned in discussion.
Thornton, of Wayne, a farmer, said the
station is no good.
Smith, of Greene, said this was another
of those branch colleges, and should re
ceive treatment like the others.
Huff, of Bibb, pointed out that the sta
tion was supported by an appropriation of
the general Government, and the money
would be available for nothing else.
The committee arose and reported pro
gress, asking to be allowed to sit in con
sideration of the same act in the after
noon.
The House then adjourned.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
SUPREME COURT DECISIONS AND OTHER
MATTERS.
Montgomery, Aia., December 12.—
[Special.]—The Legislature appointed a
joint committee of the two houses to in
vestigate the normal schools of the State,
with the right to sit during recess. Mr.
Davis, of Fayette, who introduced the
resolution in the House to raise the joint
committee, and who is a member of the
committee, is in the city today, after hav
ing, on yesterday, visited the Tuskegee
Normal school, where he delivered an ad
dress to the teachers and scholars. During
the recess members of this committee will
visit all the normal schools of the State,
and their report will be looked for with
much interest on the reassembling after
the holidays.
CERTIFICATE OF ORG AN IZATION.
Certificate of organization of the Bir
mingham and Jones Talley railroad was
today filed in the office of the Secretary of
State. The following are the board of di
rectors elected: C. B. Powell, S. Norwood,
M. A. Mason, J. H. G. Marlin, J. W.
Poor, C. M. Shelly, C. M. Boulden.
SUPREME COURT.
The following Supreme Court decisions
were rendered today:
Stone, C. J.—D. P. Marcy et al. vs. F.
A. Howard; from Baldwin Circuit Court.
Affirmed.
Clopton, J.—F. H. Stickney, vs. J. W.
Stickuey et ai.; from Greene Chancery
Court. Reversed and remanded.
McClellan, J.—S. W. Waxelbaum & Son
vs. S. A. Bell, claimant; from Dale Circuit
Court. Affirmed.
Coleman, J.—Draper, Matthis & Co. vs.
S. Nixon; from Cleburne Circuit Court.
Affirmed.
NOTES.
Gov. Jones is quite busy examining and
approving the flood of bills sent to the
executive office just before adjournment
of the Legislature for recess.
The Governor finds a number of bills
which he regards as unconstitutional, and
it is rumored, though pot authoritatively,
that the penitentiary bill is one of
them. This is a very important measure,
anti there seems to be a clerical error,
which, it is rumored, may prove a fatal
defect.
The Governor will probably give out the
appointment of a probate judge for Ma
rengo Saturday. He delays the matter to
give all applicants a full hearing.
Owing to other pressing official duties,
the Governor will not consider the appli
cations of] appointments to the railroad
commission, or for blind examiners and
State physician to convicts, till after the j
Legislature convenes in January. I gia de) , gai ion were in New York last
Among the bills approved today by the j Dight jTvited, with manv others, to the
opening of the World s new printing honse.
ence of a quorum at all the night sessions,
which had the desired effect, and the night
session clause of the proposition was
stricken out. Beginning next Mouday,
the Senate will meet at 10 o’clock a. m.,
and adjourn when it feels disposed each
day.
The Western Senators are growing more
impatient each day for financial legisla
tion. That they will not permit next week
to be consumed in debate on the Force bill
is a foregone conclusion. It is under
stood that Harrison has a double interest
in the matter of wanting the elections bill
to pass and not wishing to be forced to
veto a free coinage bill. He has had some
earnest talks with the Republican leaders,
endeavoring to impress on them the con
dition in which he would be left in case
they lay down the Force bill to take up
finance.
A SENATE SENSATION.
Quite a sensation occurred on the floor
of the Senate today during the debate on
a resolution by Dolph to have the commit
tee on privileges and elections to inquire
whether any State had restricted the right
of suffrage, and recommending that in such
event the representation of such State
bo curtailed. A colloquy occurred. Some
passages from Governor Tillman’s recent
inaugural address were quoted by Dolph,
when Mr. Butler interposed. Words mul
tiplied rapidly when Dolph stated that the
South Carolina Senator had been known
to discharge laboiers from his plantation
because of their politics. Butler pro
nounced this statement deliberately false.
Dolph retorted by saying he had a Sena
tor’s word for the statement. Butler said
he did uo: care who was lesponsible for it,
that it was maliciously false. This
brought Mr. Hoar to his feet,
with aD acknowledgeim nt that he was
the author of the story, and that he had
read certain testimony to prove the truth
of it within a few hours, ’to this Senator
Butler vouchsafed no reply. Later in the
day Mr. Hoar brought up the matter
again, and read from the testimony given
by Senator Butler some years a^o before
an investigation committee to substantiate
bis statement. Butler declared that he
did not recall such testimony, whereupon
the matter was permitted to drop.
Representative Cariton thinks the f n-
QUIREk-Sun has done him grave injustice
ip its recent editorial comment on his re
lief bill.
Sena'or Colquitt was iu his seat today,
but was too feeble to deliver his speech on
the Force bill. He will speak on Monday,
POSTAL NEWS.
The following fourth class postmasters
were appointed today: W. W. Hall, La-
carase, Ga.; Thomas I. White, Carona,
Ala.; W. J. Smith, Eiowahton, Conn.; H.
Mills, York Station, Ala.
A new postofflee bas been established at
Whitesville, Marshall county, Ala., and
the name of Clarke postoffice in Alabama
has been changed to Leland.
Messrs. Blount and Crisp, of the Geor-
islature of Oregon which deprived
negro citizens of that State of the right to
labor on works of public improvement.
Test read a clause from a receut statute
of the Oregon Legislature, authorizing the
building of a bridge, and provided that
Done but white labor should be employed
at the work. It might be said, Test re
marked, that the provision was intended
to exclude Chinese labor, but the lan
guage of the statute was “white labor,”
and it excluded the Mongolian, Indian
and negro. Not one of the 25,000 negro
soldiers who fought in the Union army
could draw a doliar for his labor on the
bridge authorized by the Legislature As
sembly of Oregon. Whatever might be
said of the Democratic States of the
Union, not one of them had denied to the
negro the right to earn his bread and that
of his family by his own honest labor.
Not one Democratic State had ever per
petrated such an outrage.
Dolph replied to Test and the discussion
drifted into the question of the treatment
of Chinamen on the Pacific coast. Fur
ther allusion to Tillman's inaugeral mes
sage brought out the declaration from But
ler that he was perfectly willing to stand
by that message, and that it was conclu
sive proof to his mind that there were no
people on this contin nt who were half so
anxious to settle race difficulties as were
the people of the South.
Dolph said that he was informed by a
nn hie sirip nf ihn nLumk*.. . u~.
Governor were the bills amending the
charter of Birmingham and of Cullman.
THE STATE OF TRADE.
DUN’S WEEKLY REVIEW OF TDK CON
DITION OF BUSINESS.
New York, December 12.—R. G. Dun
& Co.’s weekly review says: The business
outlook is more hopeful, but the past dis
turbances and the continuing uncertainty
are felt in the reduced volume of business
throughout the country which, though
slightly larger than a year ago, no longer
All the candidates for Speaker were there.
W. C. Watters and wife, of Columbus,
are registered here today.
IN TOE SENATE.
Washington, December 12.—McPher
son is receiving numerous remonsianees
from the State of New Jersey against the
passage of the elections bill.
The House bills for public buildings at
Reidsviile, X. C., and Charleston, S. C.,
were reported back favorably without
amendment and placed on ihe calendar.
, - : Plumb’s resolution for daily meetings at
shows the material increase until recently 0 > cbl( ,j. and j or - &
taken up.
maintained. The South reports fair
business in spite of the con
tinuing decline in cotton. Spirits
move freely at Savannah, oranges at
Jacksonville, and sugar, molasses aud rice
at New Orleans, all at good prices. The
upply of money is ample for necessities at
New Orleans, but at other puints money is
tight.
41 the West—Colder weather has helped
trade at Cincinnati, Detroit and some
other points, and business is only fair at
Denver, good for the season at Kansas
City, strong at St. Louis, fair at. St. Paui,
more active at Cincinnati, at Chicago
much larger than last year. 4t Pittsburg
the worst is thought to he over, apd
money and collections are easier, though
iron h s declined and there is less demand
for manufactured products. Philadelphia
evening sessions, was
Hoar moved to amend the resolution by
striking out the clause for evening ses
sions and making it take effect after to
morrow, so as to have the resolution pro
vide only for an earlier daily mening.
The amendment was agreed to, and the
resolution was then agreed to without de
bate.
A resolution offered yesterday bv Dolph,
instructing the committee on privileges
and elections to inquire and report
whether the right to vote at any election
for Presidential electors, members of Con
gress, or State Legislatures or officers, is
denied to any male citizens of any State,
or is abridged except for participation in
the rebellion, or other crime, was taken
up, and Dolph stated the reasons which
T“', : r 7—;. had induced him to offer it. As the census
notes little improvement, though jewelry of the Unit-d States had just been taken
is active at narrow margins of profit and : aud th , nunlbt . rof inbahita i ls ascertained,
less complaint than was expected is heard j it becamti tije du!y of Congress to reappor-
in the clothing trade but wool is ex- ; tion r( . prese ntation to the several States,
remely dull. Ihe shoe trade notes a sharp : Some v of the Senator9 ou hig side
failing off, especially m the Southern de- I of the chanlber) an(J Bome 0 , thr lead _
maud which is attributed to a atlure m I, newspapers of the conritrv, had
distribution after the large sa.es made i ^ ^ an inquiry oughl '’ to be
when prices were rising. Boston observes ma % wbether or Qot t 4 he hl 8 of
an improved demand for leather at lower ; seutation based on population ought not
prices, and retan dry goods are active for ! to be decieft * ed by T ^ a of lhe d “ nlal or
seasonable produc s, bu wool sales are ] abridg ement of suffrage to citizens of the
small and the wnolesale trades generally 1 Uuiu ? d States over Twenty-one years of
quiet. The iron produetten increased in age _ What he desired lh / coln ^uee on
November reac ai g 83,840 tousup to | privileges and elections to give special at-
December 1 a gain of over 14,000 tons | ^101110 was, whether some States had
compared with last year. The quotations | not providcd jn their constitution and
are lower $18 for Northern and $17.2o for; , aw / sucb voting qualifications as were
Southern No. 1, wah ratls lifeless and a : no , p( . rmiUed iu section “I” of the four-
dectdedly less demand for bar iron aud j amendment to the constitution
R a ^? 9, . sto '-l ts . ot unsold lrou ; without an a l»ridgr*m e nt of representatiou.
the furnaces are increasing. Woolen j He claimed that the constitution recently
manufactuies are doing better taan six | adopted in Mississippi did impose such
iDAnt ho oirA f lAtrnn m a n nfo/itu« f _ * 1 •_
ihe Senator himself had threatened col
ored men in his employment that he would
discharge them if they should vote the Re
publican ticket.
Butler—“ Whoever made that statement
is guilty of a deliberate and wilful false
hood.”
Hoar—“I suppose that I read within
twenty-four hours the testimony of the
Senator from South Carolina before a com
mittee of this body and of the other House
in which he stated that he had told the
col red people on his plantation that he
should dismiss them from his employment
if they voted the Hepubiiean ticket. I
made the statement myselt to the Senator
from Oregon.” [Laughter on the Demo
cratic side.]
Butler—“ Then the rema:k that I made
applies, of course, to ihe Senator from
Massachusetts.”
Hoar—“ j a m not to be deterred from
saying what, i have to say.”
Butler—“I do uot propose to deter the
Senator.”
Hoar (concluding his sentence)—“either
by the manner or behavior of tne Senator
from South Carolina. I have read that in
a public document within twenty-four
hours, I suppose. If there is any mistake
about it, 1 have made the mistake.” This
incident went on further. The rest of the
morning hour was consumed iu a eoiloquy
between Gibson and Dolph, and at 2
o’clock the resolution went over without
action until tomorrow.
Two House pubiie building bills, for
Savannah, Ga., and Davenport, la., were
reported back favorably and placed on the
calendar.
The elections bill was then taken up,
anii Blodgett addressed the Senate in op
position to it. His first great objec
tion to it was that it would
unsettle society and that it threatened the
peace, prosperity anti development of a
considerable portion of the country. It
had grown into a political maxim that no
law which could not be fully executeu
should be made, and it followed that olc
which could not be put into operation
without disturbing the essential results of
good government in the community to
which it was to be applied ought never to
be enacted excepL under pressure of abso
lute necessity. The unnatural strain put
by such laws on orderly society was too
great to be unnecessarily applied, aud the
resulting shock to a free government was
too daugerous to be lightly encountered.
His second obj> ction to the bill was that
it was an indirect antagonism to the Dem
ocratic spirit of a popular government.
Mitchell of Mississippi, also argued
against the bill. In the course of his re
marks, he referred to the stereotyped peti
tions in favor of the elections bill that had
come up from Mississippi, and said that
the largest number of nam. s to such peti
tion came from the county of Bolivar, and
yet, he said, there were more negroes hold
ing office in the couoty of Boiivar than n
any other county in the South, or than in
any State in the North. Out of forty-four
office-holders in that county, forty-one
were negroes. It was a wealthy couniy
where the wile people were intelligent and
enterprising, and yet every constable in
the county was a negro. Out of fifteen
justices of the peace, thirteen were ne
groes. Five members of the board of
supervisors, the coroner,assessor, treasurer,
Circuit Court Clerk, and one of the two
Representatives in the Slate Legislature
wero negroes. The same condition of
things existed in other counties. He men
tioned these facts in coi.trust to the treat
ment of colored men in Northern States in
the matter of bolding office.
At the close of Wallthal’s speech, Hoar
arose and called attention to the remarks
made today by Butler, stating that anyone
who said he had threatened to dismiss the
colored people from his employment if
they should vote the Republican ticket,
was guilty of a deliberate and willful
falsehood. He sent to the Clerk's desk
and had read the official reporter’s maim-
would not, of course, apply to him. The
testimony quoted was, he said, a garbled
statement. He had never seen the report
of the testimony which he had given and
did not now recollect having appeared be
fore the committee in question. But he
repeated now that he bad never, at any
time, or on any occasion attempted to in
fluence a single negro on his plantation in
the exercise of his franchise.
Hoar, while justifying his own position,
expressed the greatest respect which he
entertained for the Senator from South
( arolina, and as Butler gave assurance
that he reciprocated that sentiment, the
subject was permitted to drop, to the satis
faction of the Senators concerned and of
the Senators on both sides of the chamber.
Jones, of Arkansas, took the floor on
the elections bill, and the Senate ad
journed.
IN THE HOUSE.
Washington, December 12.—After the
reading of the journal the House went into
committee of the whole (Alien, of Michi
gan, in the chair) on the private calendar.
Almost the entire afternoon was con
sumed in a discussion of the merits of the
bill for the relief of John L. Rhea and
Joseph R. Anderson, of East Tennessee.
Notwithstanding a vigorous figlit in its
favor by Stone, of Kentucky, and Houk,
of Tennessee, members of the committee
on war claims, adverse action wa< recom
mended. The committee having arisen
this recommendation was agreed to.
Bills were passed for the relief of Allard
Crozier and Samuel Fels, the legal repre
sentatives of Peter Lile, Matilda Cook, J.
A. Gregory, and the estates of F. M. Mur
ray and Warren Hall. The House then
adjourned.
ANGRY STATESMEN.
HOT BLOOD BETWEEN TWO MEMBERS OF
THE HOUSE.
ATLANTA,Oa,, December 12.—[Special.]
—Dr. Baldwin, of Randolph, and Hum
phries, of Brooks, had a hot passage in the
House today. On a question of personal
privilege, Humphries staled that a remark
of Baldwin’s had reached him of his being
a lawyer of intemperate habits, leadi .g
fanners astray.
Dr. Baldwin stated he bad remarked on
the fumes of alcohol on the breath of the
gentleman from Brooks.
“1 take a drink when I want one,” and
several “Do you mean ine's” were ex
changed, and the Speaker called the Se.r-
geant-at-Arms to clear the aisles. The
seats of the two gentlemen were almost
adjoitiing, but friends separated them.
Both apologized to the Speaker and the
House, anil the matter was explained away
as the exaggeration of idle r. marks. Both
are plucky and mutual friends have
qui.-ted down the affair tonight.
THE GREAT STRIKE OVER.
, , . _ | auwutru iu iuiooiogiuui um oulii uuu iuiu iui. vmviut * v j/w* wv * «
months ago. Co on manufactures are - q ua iifi ia ti on s and that, therefore, the ; script of what took place, and said: “A
katlQfuprnrV mil Hil IIP mrrvr-lr-a ora 1 ,
less satisfactory, aud some works are j representation of that State should be : rule of my life, long since formed, dues not
suspending production, punt cloths having j abridged . He had some of the sections of ; permit me to reply to the Senator from
fallen to 8c. for 0-4 s. the constitution of Mississippi read at the ! South Carolina in such language as he
. e * a ‘„ r ^ s tor ttle we ‘ k number 341, ' c ] eidi ’ s de sk, showing that the payment of thought proper to utter. Whether 1
*° r l ** C C01res P 0ri ' ,lu 8 week ta X es, with a uniform poll tax j should be guilty of a deliber-
of $2 and an ability to read and ! ate and willful falsehood about a
explain the State constitution, ; matter contained in a public document will
are requisite for the exercise of the elec- 1 be settl id iu the estimation of those who
tion franchise. He does not deny the | know me. I will read for the information
power of the State to make such provis- ; of the Senate from the document to which
ions and to require such qualifications, but ; I refer. Hoar proceeded to read from the
he asserted that if they were made, aud if ; minority report made to the House of Rep-
by them the citizens of the United States ; resentatives in 1870, signed by Lawrence
had their right of suffrage denied or of Ohio, Banks of Massachusetts, and
last year.
MONEY FOR THE MILITARY.
LIBERAL PROVISION MADE—THE APPRO
PRIATION BILL PASSED.
Atlanta, Ga., December lz.—[Special.]
—The feature of the afternoon session was
the raising of the appropriation for the ,
military of the State from $7000 to $20,0X1. i abridged, the representation of such State Laphatn of New York, in which Butler is
When Hoitzclaw offered the resolution j ought to be diminished in like proportion. 1 represented to have tes'ified as follows:
many smiled at the proposition a3 absurd, The State of Mississippi, he said, was not j » Did you say to these colored men that
but when member after member urged it, j -he only State that imposed restrictions they could not remain on your land unless
a strong tide set in, and on a vote it was j on lhe right of suffrage. The State of ; they voted the Democratic ticket?’’
granted—yeas 59, nays 52. j Wyoming disfranchised persons going into j 1 do not know that I said tbat. I said
The appro jriations act was completed at ! that State who are uuable to read the ‘ this. I went down and gave them tickets
night, and adopted by the House, but fili- ' constitution of the Lnited States. Tbe and said to them that they had the right to
bustering set in, and defeated its trans- j States of Massachusetts and Connecticut,he vote the Republican ticket if they pleased;
mission to the Senate. At one time the ' understood, imposed like conditions. If that they were free men, as free as I was,
doors were locked as the supper hour was ! it were t rue < he sai <i, that the abridgement ; hut that if they exercised that right and
thinning the attendance, until the absence | t*f the right to vote was not permitted by imposed taxes upon me that wonld destroy
of seventy-nine members prevented a quo- the constitution of the United States with- 1 my property and p ospecis, I should throw
out a reduction of representation in Con- j myself back on the same rights that I bad
gress, then it was the duty of the Senate 1 under the laws of the country and would
to ascertain what States required qualifica- | see that they left my plantation.
THE MINERS WILL SURRENDER—A GEOR
GIA MURDERER CAPTURED.
Birmingham. December 12.—[Special ]
The great miners’ strike is practically over.
The miners at the Henryellen, and several
-mailer mines, return to work tomorrow.
The DeBardelaben Coal and Iron Company
bas consented to recognize the miners’
union, and a meeting will be held at Blue
Creek tomorrow, at which it is understood
the labor leaders will advise all the nvoers
to return to work at the old wages. Many
other miners will follow snit.
Sheriff Darnell, of Haralson connty,
Ga., passed through today with J. A.
Brooks, charged with murder. He was
captured in Arkansas.
BRICK DEALERS FAIL.
New York December 12.—Tlie firm of
Peck, Martin & Co., dealers in brick, with
>ards at. the foot of West Thirtieth street,
made an assignment today to George S.
Hamlin, with preferences to the executors
of William J. Peck, for $13,000. The lia
bilities of the firm are about $300,000 and
the assets about $400,000. The failue was
caused by the firm being unable to realize
on debts due them for material furnished.
There are also individual assets amounting
to $100,000 above individual liabilities.
Three hundred thousand dollars of the
liabilities are secured by collateral of va
rious kinds, all g od, but which cannot
immediately be realized on. The rerent
labor troubles that the firm has had. if was
9tated, had nothing to do with the failure.
The firm has been In business about eight
years, and was formerly known as J. 3.
Peck & Son.
the north highlands bill.
Atlanta, December 12.—[Special ]—
The Senate railroad committee metto-lay
and decided to recomnn-nd that the North
Highland’s charter be granted, with the
proviso that neither road be allowed to
parallel the other for more than one block
on the same street.
CHAT ABOUT COTTON.
FRANCE STRENGTHENING HER DEFENSES.
Paris, Decmnber 12 —It is - the inten- j
tion of the Government to construct an !
tions other than those peimitted by the | ”“Did" They ail vote the Democratic
constitution. He sent to the Clerk’s desk | ticket ?
and had read the recent inaugural message
entrenched camp at Toni. Department of ...augurai^message j “No, sir. Six or seven of them voted
the Meurthe, in the railway from Paris to ■ ° f , < R > v f- rnor .} lllman . of South Carolina, J the Demo< ra i: ticket. Some of them did
'The debate on the Zachry resolution was
resumed after dinner and it continued till 8tron S German artillery force.
i Strasburg, the defences of the camp to be : ^ h , h d ’ 3 a “ .? fficla , 1 det r larauon I not vote at all, and 1 do not know how the
„ ’ such that it will be capable of n si-tiu^ a that tbe great mass of the colored men of j others voted, but I iuteud to inform my-
fn strone German art.illerv force * the S V u “ h . were not fit to exercise the elec- ! self.”
knowledge itself incompetent to grapple j night.
with the question. | O’Neal objected to the people’s repre-!
Mr. Williams, judging by the experience ! sentatives delegating the final settlement !
MINISTER VIDAL RESIGNS.
,. „ „ . . „ Montevideo, December 12.—Senor
of the last assembly, thought the present | of the claims to those who were strangers Vidal, minister of foreign affairs, has re-
Legislature could wrangle over the matter 1 to the people. Senators had as well vote signed.
tive franchise, and that the white people
of the South were in control of the State
governments, and proposed to maintain
that control at ail hazards. These
two propositions taken together
showed clearly, he said, that the
“With a view of turning them off if
they voted the Republican ticket ?”
“Not for voting the Republican ticket,
if they had an honest ticket, but for voting
for these thieves and robbers.”
“II that language,” Hoar said, “did not
the receipts expected to run
ahead OF Last season’s.
For the week ending last night. Co
lumbus received 3395 bales of cotton,
against 2969 bales for corresponding week
of last year, showing an increase of 436
bales for tbe week. To date Columbus
has received 56,981 bales, against 56,275
bales to same date last year, an increase
of 700 bales in the local receipts to da:e.
The indications now are tbat Columbus
will receive considerably more cotton this
season than she did last. The total re
ceipts last season reached 83,035 bales, and
the disposition on Lhe part of tbe fartm-ra
then was not so strong as it is now. Re
ports received at the warehouses here fron*
various counties contiguous to Columbus
indicate that many farmers have a large
p3rt of their crop still on their farms,
hoping for an advance in the market.
Should the market become betier, tbe cot
ton will beriu to pour in iroin ail sections
very rapidly.
In spite of the stringency in the money
market, the better grades of cotton
brought to Columbns find ready sale at
tolerably fair prices. The local ware
houses are in good shape for making lib
eral advances on such grades of cotton as
cannot be sold. Many farmers who have
been selling their cotton in small neigh
boring towns now find it impossible to get
money on tbe poor grades of cotton in
those markets, and have already begun
shipping to Columbus pretty freely. These
shipments are expected to increase as the
holidays approach, and the rec-ipts from
now until the first of February are ex
pected to be unusually large.
The residence of J. H. Woodward, pres
ident of the Woodward Iron CompaDv. on
South Higblanos, Birmingham, was ei -
t< red by a sneak thief ou Wednesday eve
1 ing and robbed of several thousand dol
lars worth of diamonds b -longing to his
wife. The jewels were in a locked box in
Mrs. Woodward’s trnnk. The matter is
in the hands of a detective.