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vol. ran. 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 1 Jll 11U 1 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.