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ESTABLISHED 1887.
COLD WEATHER BARGAINS
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things that the good people need these cold days.
GOODS MATCHLESS IN VARIETY-PRICES LOWER THAN OTHERS ASK.
Every department in our store, up-stairs and down stairs, is full of useful, practical and econom
ical bargains appropriate for this cold weather. No house in Rome is better prepared to do your
winter business than ours. No house in Rome will sell you goods as cheap as ours during this
week. It will pay you to visit our store this week.
NEW YEAR BARGAINS!
In black and fancy Dress Goods, Novelty Suits, Silks,
Velvets, Jackets, Capes, Blankets, Lap Robes, Clothing
for men and boys, Hats, Caps, Shoes, Shirts, Drawers,
Flannels, Table Damask, Napkins, Towels, Corsets, Kid
Gloves, Hosiery, ladies’, misses’, children’s and men’s
Knitted Underwear. These and hundreds of other arti
cles are offered at the Lowest of the Low Prices.
PARKS. BRANNON & CO.
DIRECTORS NEGLIGENT
Why the National Bank of Illi
nois Went to the Wall.
MR. ECKELS MAKES A STATEMENT
Comptroller of the • urreocy Say* He
Is Confident the Affair* of the Collapsed
Institution Wore N t Woll Managed.
Officials ICxpiain their Position—Who
Will Be ReeeiTSi f
Washington, Dec. 26.—A committee
of directors of the collapsed National
Bank of Illinois, located in Chicago,
called on Comptroller Eckels during the
day for a personal conference regarding
the bank’s affairs. The bank directors
thought a better understanding of their
own position and that of the comptroller
could be obtained by a personal inter
view than by correspondence. They
also desired to see the originals of cer
*tain letters which passed between the
comptroller and the directors, some
’ -question of authenticity of signature
having arisen.
The committee of directors included
' William D. Kerfoot, George E. Adams.
William R. Page and Charles K. Cor
with. They reached the treasury de
partment shortly before 11 o’clock and
were ushered into the comptroller’s
office, the doors being locked and the
conference held in secret.
The conference was an extended one.
T’he directors stated to Mr. E-.-nels that
they desired to make a statement to
him of their connection with the affairs
of the bank and to explain their rela
tions with its raanacenieut since the
letter received from the comptroller in
1895. The comptroller informed them
that be felt confident that the manage
‘meutof the bank had been very negli
gent.
The directors thereupon explained
that the bank’s directors, since the re
ceipt of Mr. Eckels’ letter, repeatedly
had tried to close negotiations for the
sale of the Calumet Electric railroad
with a view to realizing upon it, but the
business conditions of the country, the
long political campaign, and the trouble
with the Diamond Match company had
caused a failure of these negotiations
thus far. They expressed a desire to do
everything in their power to aid the re
ceiver in realizing the utmost from the
assets of the bank.
Mr. Eckels impressed upon them he
would expect them to make every pos
sible effort to realize from the Culumet
road and at the best figure possible. The
, delegation informed the comptroller
that they had no one to recommend for
receiver and no protest to make against
thf. appointrnent of any on*, and were
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50 Elegant Jackets at 50 Cents on the Dollar.
perfectly wnnng to co-operate with any
one Mr. Eckels might see fit to ap
point a receiver.
The delegation said that the directors
were very hopeful that the affairs of
the bank would be completely settled
within the next 12 months and that
every obligation would be met and that
the assets probably be sufficient to leave
the real estate clear
A BIG COAL MINE BURNING.
The Fire Fiend Hi>« Complete PoaeeMlon
of the Sprhiff Hill Property.
Halifax, N. S., Dec. 26.—Another
great disaster has overtaken the Spring
Hill coal mines. J list five years ago the
mines were wrecked by a great explo
sion aud 130 lives lost. It took the bet
ter part of a year to get the colliery in
working order again. It was splendidly
equipped, gave employment to 1,000
men in the pits and hud an output of
375,000 tons a year.
From the meagre dispatches received
it appears that fire ha-< complete posses
sion of the underground working of two
or three slopes. About 5 o’clock Thurs
day evening the coal mine at Spring
Hill was discovered to be on fire. The
fire originated in the pipe-way of the
first slope, iu the 801-level. It soon ate
its way into the 1,300-fixit level aud de
ve.oped into a raging furnace. When
Government Inspector Gilpin arrived
the fire was issuing fromevery opening
of the mine. Two cupolus were burned
down and the bankhead had to be torn
away.
The miners worked hard to save their
source of livelihood, but all their efforts
in that direction were fruitless. They
tried to prevent the air going into the
mine by stopping up every airway. Mr,
Gilpin had to call the men away from
this work, as it was attended with great
risk to their lives, should an explosion
occur, which might be expected at any
minute. The flames shot KA) feet iu the
air, the reflection being visible at Am
herst. ,
The extent of the lire is not known,
but the most disastrous consequences
are feared.
The loss of the east slope is believed
to be complete; the machinery will be
ruined.
At 4 p. m. Friday the west slope was
reached all right, but the men will have
hard work to save it.
The fire caught from an overheated
steam pipe, connected with the driving
machinery. The men worked up to the
time the fire caught and all got out
safely. The mine has three slopes,
north, east and west.
ELIZABETH_BROWN IS DEAD.
Wife of (he I.ste Kx-Governnr of Georgia
Bre.thed Her Last Iu Atlanta.
Atlanta. Dec. 26.—Mrs. Elizabeth
Brown, wife of the late ex-Governor
ROME, GA., SUNDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1896.
ixiid Kjti iitor L. Brown, uieu
at her home in this city after an illness
of a mouth and a half. She was 70
years old. Mr.-. Brown was Elizabeth
Grisham, and married Governor Brown
in 1847, when he was a schoolteacher
in South Georgia.
Throughout Governor Brown’s re
maikaule career as governor, chief just
ice or this state and as United states
senator, an i railroad president, she was
his constant companion and invaluable
! aide. Mrs. Brown was a woman of re-
I markabie intellectual brcuuth and great
activity. She had just returned fiom a
tour of Europe aud rhe Holy Lunl. last
ing a year and one-half, when seized
with her fatal illness.
Howto it Stroot Cur Men Excited.
Boston. Dec. 26. —Examination of the
list of employes dropped by the West
End Street, railway management as a
result of Thursday’s strike shows that
President Young aud all of the other
eight members of the conference com
mittee, who promised a delay of the
strike, and whose action in so doing
prompted indignation among the men
which resulted in precipitating the
strike, are among the discharged. When
this fact became known, a wave of ex
citement equal to that which precipi
tated the strike, swept over the em
ployes, aud it is feared that further
trouble may result.
f Suit %'■»i 4 of a Wrecked Schooner.
San Diego, Cal., Dea 26. The
steamer Carlos Pacheco, just arrived
from Ensendu, brought Captain Charles
Peterson and William Findlay, who
were on board the schooner Sailor Boy.
She wua.wrecked last month near Elida
island'. The men escaped in a small
boat to the mainland and walked to
Eisario, M miles distant. The country
traversed is almost a desert and they
were almost starved when they reached
Eisario.
Mob Violence la Feared.
Paris, Ky., Dec. 26.—Johnson Howe,
the 15-year-old negro boy who fatally
wounded Policeman Lacey at Cynthiana
'on Christinas eve, when the officer at
tempted to arrest him, has been brought
here for safe keeping. The negro’s gar
ment shows seven bullet holes inflicted
by the wounded policeman, who fired
while he was on the ground.
Street of Gold Found tn Olympln.
Olympia, Wash., Dec. 20. When a
bluff was being blasted away tp> Fourth
■treet it was found to contain a large
amount of gold. Samples of the rock
are being assayed. Gold colors had been
found iu various places near the bluff,
but not until a large quantity of the
rock had been broken away was the rich
quarts; uncovered.
Handkerchiefs, Silk Bows, Scarfs
Tecks, Mufflers, &c.
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It will pay you to examine these goods. They are all
the newest up-to-date styles; nothing prettier for New
Year presents, and no line in Rome is so full and complete
from which to select. Notions, Small Wares, Perfumery,
Toilet Soaps, Zephyr Goods and Fancy Articles.
THE SIIVMGN Wlffl
Is the President or Congress Su
preme?
THE SPIRIT OF OUR GOVERNMENT.
Sccr«*t’*’ , y Olney Has to Full
Hack Upon, but This Is a Government
by Parliament and Not by President.
Light Upon a Grave Subject.
Washington, Dec. 86.—[Special.]—Aft
er the holidays the senate will doubtless
spend some time in debating the grave con
stitutional question raised by Secretary of
State Olney in his declaration that the
president alone has power to recognize an
other government’s independence and that
this is a matter with which oongress has
not!.i ng to do. For a week all the consti
tutional lawyers In Washington, including
many who think they are constitutional
lawyers, but are not, have been investigat
ing this question. .Such an overhauling of
old books and supreme court decisionsand
diplomatic precedents has not been seen In
thia capital for many a day; It is under
stood that a score of senators are preparing
speeches on the subject.
An Important Question.
A great many public mon say this is a
problem which the country should work
out in one way or another. There should
lie a well settled policy as to such matters,
and if there is not the day may come when
it will Life a source of weakness to this re
public. Tiie contention of Mr. OliiSy is
that the power to recognize the independ
ence <>f a foreign state belongs solely to
the executive and that even if congress
passes a law over the presidential veto ex
tending recognition to Cuba the executive
will be justified in ignoring it. On this
score a number of conservative men have
pointed out that if a president may refuse
to obey the dictates of congress upon the
plea that the scope of the law invades his i
constitutional domain it will Le possible i
for a president to maxe himself virtually >
dictator, for the power to discriminate bo- |
tween those laws which he shall execute
and those which he will ignore amounts to
sovereignty. While no one s.ipposes a
president would cure to go against public |
opinion and the will of congress to a’
niurkud extent, still it would lie only u .
matter of prudence to correct this apparent
weakness in the structure of our govern- j
xnent, for no one can tell wlint emergency |
may arise in the future.
This question is so important that 11
sought light upon it from n gentleinun
who lins inode the eonstltutlo.i and the
practice of the govern "lent a specialty, but
whose personal and official relations are
such that .hed'ier care to b*.—.hla’• •.•n.e
published. His remarks to’Aie are t*'ln
teresting that I venture to quote them.
As a Matter of Precedent.
“Secretary Olney is right so far as the
precedents go,” said this gentleman, “but
he is wrong in ills construction of the the
ory of the constitution. What I mean to
say is that, following out the precedents
set by orher governments, notably those
of Europe, our own government has estab
lished the practice of leaving recognition
of belligerency and independence to the
president. The constitution is silent on
this point. It does not expressly delegate
the power either to the executive or to the
national congress. In this way the prac
tice grew up, following the international
custom, of leaving all diplomatic matters
to the executive. So confirmed has this
practice become in this country that rec
ognition of the i ridependence of a new gov
ernment, if made by the president without
the co-operation of congress, would have
been, and has been time and again, recog
nized by tiie courts, by congress itself and
by the nations of the world. It lias, fur
thermore. been so well established that if
congress bail nt any time stepped in and
by overriding the veto of tiie president
had sought to recognize a foreign govern
ment which the president refused to recog
nize there would have been grave doubt
as to tiie legal and binding effei t of such
action. The matter would have had to be
determined by tiie courts with great trou
ble and embarrassment.
“But, after al), the whole question is as
to the location of the sovereign power in
our system of government. Is this a gov
ernment by parliament or a government
by a president! 1 To ask this question is to
answer it. No one doubts tiiat it was the
intention of the framers of the constitution
to place the sovereign power in tiie hands
of oongress. The president is in a large
measure merely the executive force that is
to carry out the will of oongress. It is not
necessary to debate this phase of the mat
ter. It is too well settled to require eluci
dation. But it will do no harm to men
tion that the congress is the only power
which can declare war, which can issue
letters of marque aud reprisal, which can
regulate our foreign commerce and which
can define and punish crimes on tiie high
seas. While the president must receive em
bassadors and ministers and carry on our
foreign intercourse, that is a matter ot
convenience and practice. Congress could
not do this. It must necessarily be left in
the hands of a compact power like the ex
ecutive.
The Supreme Lawn.
“It is noticeable, however, that the pres
ident cannot send it minister or embassa
dor to a foreign government without the
consent of tiie senate. His nominations ;
for such posts must be confirmed by the 1
senate. He may and Sometimes does send ;
personal agents to another government, as
when ho sent Mr. Blount to Hawaii; but i
they do not carry with them the right to 1
represent this government la its sovereign I
capacity. It vU) also be remembered that
the constitution says tl.e laws of congress I
slnill be tijejuprr’ue law of tj;e land, and ;
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n> tons not-maixor vrnecner ttioy are' laws
that have been signed by the president or
that have been passed over his veto. So
long us they become laws under the consti
tutional provision they are supreme.
“This Is my conclusion as to the whole
matter,” the gentleman continued. “The
power to recognize the sovereignty of a
state is a sovereign power, and therefore
must be vested in tiie people through their
parliament. To say anything else would
be to propose an entire change in the
structure and spirit of our government.
In the past, congress has not exerted that
power, but iiae left it to the executive.
Precedents have grown up which give a
color of exclusiveness to the exercise of the
power, and Mr. Olney is certainly in
trenched behind tiie precedents. But tiie
sovereign power lies in congress whenever
it cares to exert it, and no president would
have the right to ignore a supreme law of
the land passed over his veto. In other
words, the president has exercised tiie
right, but congress may and perhaps ought
to exercise it. ” Walter Wellman.
A Railroad to Be Extended.
New York, Dec. 26.—Holders of Mo
bile and Ohio general fours and debent
ures, at a meeting held in this city, ap
proved the proposed extension of the
road from Columbus, Miss., to Mont
gomery, Ala., 168 miles in length, au
thorized the issue of a mortgage for $4,-
000,000, of which $500,000 may be ex
pended for new equipment. Contracts
for the work of construction under the
supervision of the road's engineer had
already been made, subject to the ap
proval of the securityholders.
Verdict Against Insurance Company.
Portland, Or., Dec. 26.—1 n the suit
of E. McNeil, receiver, ijgainst the Liv
erpool, London aud Globa Insurance
company, the jury has returned a verdict
against the insurance company for $7?,-
000, the am->un t sued for. The suit was
brought to recover insurance on property
belonging to the Oregon Railway and
Navigation company, which was de
stroyed by the burning of their large
elevator in this city three years ago.
A i hi Istm a Casualty at Nashville.
Nashville. Dee. 26.—0n1y one Christ
mas casualty is reported here. That
one is the burning to death of Mary Lee.
a negro, whose clothes caught fire from
an exploding firecracker and before she
knew it her clothes were in flames, and
before assistance could reach her shs
was burned beyond recovery.
Will Go to West Point.
Washington, Dec. 2l| Cadet ap
pointments to the Unite’, ates Mili
tary academy have been issued to Z. L.
Cobb (alternate). Athens, Ga.; J. C.
Burchett, Louisa, Ky.; K. T. Riggs (al
ternate), Cynthiana,''* Ky.; Edward H.
Meyers (alternate), Benevolence, Ga.