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WAR DOGS TO BE HELD DOWN.
CLEVELAND AND OLNEY WON’T GO
WILD WITH CONGRESS.
The Secretary of State Explains
That the Passage of the Cameron
Resolution Will Be Looked Tpon
by the President as an Advisory
and Not a Mandatory Act—Tower
to Recognize Cuba as Independent
Rests Solely With the Executive.
Washington, Dec. 19. —Secretary Olney,
being asked his opinion as to the nature
»jnd effect of the proposed resolution rec
ognizing the Independence of the republic
df Cuba, said to a Southern Associated
Press reporter: "I have no objection to
stating my own view of the resolution re
specting the Independence of the so-called
republic of Cuba, which, it is reported,
is to be laid before the Senate Monday.
Indeed, as there are likely to be serious
misapprehensions regarding such resolu
tion, both In this country and abroad,
and as such apprehensions may have in
jurious results of a grave character, it is
perhaps my duty to point out that the
resolution, if passed by the Senate, can
probably be regarded only as an expres
sion of opinion by the eminent gentlemen
who vote for it In the Senate, and if
passed by the House of Representatives,
<!ai: only be regarded as another expres
sion of opinion by the eminent gentlemen
who vote for it in the House. The power
to recognize the so-called republic of
Cuba as an independent state rests exclus
ively with the executive. A resolution on
the subject by the Senate or by the
] louse, by both bodies or by one, whether
concurrent or joint, is inoperative as
legislation and Is important only as ad
vice of great weight voluntarily tender
ed to the executive regarding the man
ner in which he shall exercise his con
stitutional functions. The operation and
effect of the proposed resolution, there
fore, even it passed by both houses of con
gress by two-thirds vote, are perfectly
plain. It may raise expectations in some
quarters which can never be realized. It
tnay inflame popular passions, both in this
country and elsewhere, may thus put in
peril the lives and property of American
citizens who are resident and traveling
abroad, and will certainly obstruct and
perhaps defeat the best efforts of this gov
ernment to afford such citizens due pro
tection. But. except in these ways, and
unless the advice embodied In the resolu
tion shall lead the executive to revise
the conclusions already reached and of
ficially declared, the resolution will be
without effect, and will leave unaltered
the attitude of this government toward
the two contending parties in Cuba.”
FRYE CRITICISES OLNEY.
The Correctue«« of the Secretary’s
Position Questioned.
Washington, Dec< 19.—Discussing the
statement of Secretary Olney, Senator
Frye, a member of the Senate committee
On foreign relations, said: “I have no
doubt a majority of the members of the
committee believe that if the resolution
is passed by a two-thirds vote over the
presidential veto, it becomes a law, and
the executive would be compelled to exe
cute it as any other law on the statute
books. I think it is also the opinion of
a majority of the committee that the Sec
retary of State is wrong in his opinion
that the recognition of the republic as an
independent state rests exclusively with
executive. Ah one member of the '
N
feet would be if we were to pass the reso
lution over a veto, I am strongly im
pressed that it is the duty of the United
States in some way to put a stop to the
horrible slaughter and barbarous bru
tality In an island almost in sight of our
shores, that I am disposed to give the
insurgents the benefit of all the doubts ”
Said Senator Chandler: ”It is the most
unprecedented statement I have ever
heard from a cabinet officer, and no criti
cism of such conduct can be too severe.
It is evidently inspired and comes direct
from the President. In effect, he says
that if we pass the resolution he will
veto it, and if we pass it over his veto
he will defy us. It is worse than the
conduct of Andrew Johnson. The only
trouble is that if we were to pass it over
the veto and Mr. Cleveland should refuse
to execute the law, there would be no
time to impeach him. Thank God how
ever, we will not have him in the execu
tive mansion after March 4.”
Senator Teller declined to discuss the
matter, but Intimated that it would in all
probability be the subject of debate on
the floor of the Senate, which he thought
was the proper place to discuss such mat
ters.
Senator Gear of lowa Was Inclined to the
opinion that the statement would make
votes for the resolution and Increase the
|phiban sentiment in congress. Congress
was, he said, very jealous of the encroach
ments of the executive upon Its preroga
tives. **
L U RED MACEO*INTO A TRAP.
• ulinn» in Havana Charge Zertticha
With Ruse Treachery.
Havana, Dec. 19.—Cubans praise the
American press for printing the truth
nbout Maceo’s death before it was known
In Havana. As soon as the papers arrived
Wednesday a rush was made and the
stores were crowded by those anxious to
learn the news. They were at once con
vinced that the sad truth had been sup
pressed and rage marked their faces at
Much a dastardly crime.
•Many stubbornly refused to believe of
Maceo’s death until convinced by the posi
tive evidence given in the detailed ac
counts of the American pfess, which dis
pel all doubts on the subject.
Still many Cubans reject with repug
mince the charge of Marquis de Ahu
mada’s participation in the crime. They
cannot believe he invited Maceo to a per
sonal conference under a flag of truce.
Marquis de Ahumada's reputation as a
gentleman and soldier is above suspicion.
On the other hand, it is known that
Maceo repeatedly stated that he would
enter Into no parleys or negotiations with
his enemies. Knowing their deceitful
character, Maceo said they would offer
any proposals to get rid of their bitterest
•uernles. He knew the Spanish hatred
against him was great and never trusted
their word, despite their boasted chivalsy
and honor, Maceo remembered Napoleon
Arango’s case in the last war, who was
killed under a flag of truce, whilst speak
ing to a Spanish officer.
Thus, the Cubans, although now admit
ting Maceo was killed, believe he was
treacherously led Into a trap prepared in
advance and that Dr. Zertucha was a will
ing instrument. Many obscure points are
now cleared. Cubans remembered that
when Capt. Gen. Weyler started the sec
ond time for I’inar del Rio. Marquis de
Ahumada accompanied him, but the facts
was never known. Thia Is also the reason
uo credit Is given here to Maj. Ctrujeda's
action, as in Spain, since he was only the
instrument to carry out the plan.
No doubts now exist among Cubans that
Muceo was treacherously killed in am
bush. The very official reports carefully
read explain the fact. Maj. Clrujeda. in a
telegram addressed to Capt. Gen. Weyler
on the 14th instant, says: ”1 can not re
frain from the wish to extend to your ex
ce.lency my respectful compliments and
suite that your excellency situated me at
this place for the result obtained in which
I did nothing except obey your excellency
and Gen. Ahumada.”
The Cubans are highly indignant at the
cowardly manner in which Maceo was
killed, but although mourning the loss of
the beloved chief, they are more deter
mined than ever to continue the struggle.
It is believed now the war will assume a
more sanguinary character, and that the
Cubans will retaMate on the Spaniards by
shooting prisoners. As the Spaniards are
doing the same, the war will be waged
without quarter.
There is suppressed excitement In Ha
vana since last night’s news of the action
of the Senate committee. Nothing has
been printed. Only rumors are floating
about.
It is rumored that the Three Friends
has landed. Some say she landed
in Pinar del Rio, and others, near Trini
dad. It is said Col. Roloff has arrived
with an expedition. •
The English sailor Lee’dtt. captured on
the Competitor, and imprisoned in the Ca
banas, bitterly complains of the action of
the British consul in not attending to the
case or giving the protection to which all
English subjects are entitled. It appears
the consul left the case In the hands of the
Americans, on the ground that Leavitt
was aboard an American vessel when cap
tured and the defense, therefore, falls on
that nation.
Cubans are much displeased over the ar
rival of a well known correspondent of a
prominent New York paper, who has been
once relieved. It is feared he will continue
sending false reports favoring the Span
ish cause. The reason of his partiality is
known.
FLORIDA’S SENATORSHIP.
The State Will Lack Full Represen
tation For a Short Period.
Washington, Dec. 19.—The senatorial
election in Florida is attracting consider
able attention at this time.
Senator Call’s term expires on the 4th of
March, and the legislature does not meet
until April, although the election occurred
last October. ,
Florida will have only one senator after
March 4, until the legislature elects in
April. The present Senate has decided
that the a state cannot ap
point to fill a vacancy unless caused by
death or resignation. This question was
settled in the cases of Washington, Wyo
ming and Montana in 1893. The governor
of Washington appointed Senator Allen
as his own successor; the governor of
Wyoming appointed A. P. Beckwith, and
the governor of Montana appointed Hon.
Lee Mantle. Mr. Mantle is now a sena
tor, but was elected two years ago. The
Senate refused to seat these gentlemen on
the ground that the governor had no pow
er to appoint except to fill a vacancy
caused by either death or resignation.
The term of ex-Senator Charles W.
Jones of Florida expired March 4, 1887.
Under the present constitution of Flor
ida, which was adopted in 1885, the meet
ing of the legislature was changed from
January to April. This caused a vacancy
in the senatorship, and Gov. Perry ap
pointed Gen. J. J. Finley to succeed Sena
tor Jones, but he did not take his seat,
owing to there being no meeting of the
Senate. When the legislature met in
April Hon. Samuel Pasco was elected to
succeed Senator Jones, and not Gen. Fin
ley, and bis term commenced on Marih
4, 1887, and he drew the pay of a senator
from that date, Gen. Finley not being
recognized as a senator, but received pay
by p special resolut.cn of the Senat r foi
the ad interim
Gov. Flem ng leiu.-ed to recognize the
election of Senator Call in 1891. and ap.
pointed ex-Congressman Davidson as sen
ator. The Seriate, ► a unaßunous vote,
>■ < frtrtsc </•*>-. :
the goverrur 'iv.-w ivnfoved y sjveml
senators for his action.
What Gqv.-elect Bloxham wiTr-do after
the fourth of March In regard to filling the
vacancy at the expiration of Senator Call’s
term is a question. Some of the leading
Floridans seem to think that he will make
no appointment, while some of the anti-
Call people think that he will appoint. Mr.
George P. Rainey. Senator Call’s friends
claim that he has a safe majority, and
they do not seem to be the least disturbed
over the situation. The senator is in fine
health and spirits and looks as young and
fresh as when he toerk his seat eighteen
years ago,and is as vigorous and active in
debate in the Senate as he was on the
stump In Florida in 1876 and reconstruction
days. There are several candidates, all
of them being recent converts to sliver,
having been sound money men prior to the
Chicago convention, except Senator Call,
who has always been a free silver man at
16 to 1, and has voted that way in the
Senate during his eighteen years of ser
vice here.
A CLEAR HEADED FINANCIER.
William L. Royall Makes a Strong
-Argument Before a Committee.
Washington, Dec. 19.—1 f the favorable
comments of the members may be accept
ed as a criterion, the argument made by
William L. Royall of Richmond, Va., to
day for a state banking law, before the
House committee on banking and cur
rency, was a brilliant success. Chairman
Walker of the committee characterized
their visitor as one of the most practical
and clear-headed men that has appeared I
before them. He explained that Mr. Roy
all’s objection to the national bank sys
tem Is principally theoretical and that ho
wanted a banking system which would
give the people of the south that freedom I
of banking which could be found jnder I
the state system. Mr. Walker added that I
while the committee would not Indorse the
state system, Mr. Royall would find m the >
bill which the committee will mature all !
the freedom of banking that the southern
people require.
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She Will Visit Relatives of Her Hus- '
band in Boston.
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uokalanl is expected to leave this evening I
for the east. She will go direct to Bos- I
ton, so it is given out, and not to Canton, i
or Washington. In Boston she will visit i
relatives of her late husband. Where she ■
will go from Boston Is unknown, but it is •
stated it will probably be to Washington,
and later likely to England.
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TROUBLE BREWING IN TURKEY.
ULTIMATUM OF THE POWERS
READY FOR THE SULTAN.
The Movement of the Allied Fleets
and the Military Activity at Odessa
and Sebastapol Very Significant.
Senate Committee’* Action Nearly
Causes a Panic on the London
Stock Exchange.
Copyright, 1896, by the Sun Printing and
Publishing Association.
London, Dec. 19.—1 t is understood that
Mr. Nelidoff, Russian ambassador to Tur
key, had an audience with the sultan to
day, and that the ultimatum of the great
powers Is either in his majesty’s hands
now or will be by Monday, but up to the
moment of cabling nothing beyond this is
known with certainty. i
Owing to telegraphic delays, the sultan
will be given a fair time to consider the
ultimatum and take counsel, and coer
cive action by the powers may be further
delayed, but that such action Is imminent
is proved again to-day, if proof were need
ed, by the significant movements of the
allied fleets and the military activity at
Odessa and Sebastapol, which all the
stringent precautions of the Russian au
thorities have been unable to entirely con
ceal, and by admissions in official quar
ters where the truth is known.
The Daily News to-day confirms from
more than one source the accuracy of the
version of the situation cabled last week.
Had not M. Nelidoff been unavoidably de
tained in St. Petersburg a crisis would have
been reached by to-day.
If it had not been for the fact that the
action of the American Senate’s foreign
committee an ent Cuba was made known
..U’sQMiaJtljpftay,*which is alwavx.a.n .ofgfcv
lor iiusthess mein th?' London’block S*- '
change would have had a first-class panic
to-day. As it was things were pretty
lively during the few hours the exchange
was open, and after official hours there
were excited dealings in the street, de
spite the gloomy weather and severe frost,
which kept the older operators indoors. A
funny feature of the matter is that every
body was taken completely by surprise.
One would have been excused for suppos
ing that there were no cables between the
United States and England and that co
pious reports of what was going on in
Washington had not been ca
bled during the whole ’ week.
The average stock exchange op-
erator apparently had not the slight
est knowledge of all this, with the re
sult that he spent a good deal of this af
ternoon in cursing American politicians
for upsetting his little plans. After busi
ness hours in the stock exchange people
took courage to discuss the situation, and
there seemed something like unanimity of
opinion that everybody had made fools of
themselves by allowing a bogey to scare
them half out of their wits. It Is pretty
certain, therefore, that when action is
really taken In Washington, London oper- j
ators will again be taken by surprise, and
that there will be a panic from which men
able to keep their heads cool will be cer
tain to profit. The opinions of London
evening papers do not count for much,
but it is not without interest to note
that their comments to-day are by no
means particularly friendly to the United
States, and in this respect they echo the
views of four Londoners out of five. Their
dominating idea is that the United States
will force virtuous, peace loving and hu
mane Spain into declaring war. and that
I the Americans will suffer severely before
they will be able to organize their forces
and take the offensive, a prospect which
is by no means displeasing here if one may
judge from the opinions expressed to the
! Sun reporter at the Spanish embassy here
I this afternoon.
Responsible Spaniards do not expect any i
] serious trouble with the United States. '
I They pin their faith upon Mr. Grover
Cleveland. They are confident that he will
shield them from unpleasantness over Cu
ba as long as he Is at the white house, and
they promise to have the rebels wiped out
of existence long before McK4nley is inau
gurated. This belief is so strongly held at
i the London embassy that the Senate com-
I mittee’s action caused them no excitement.
| and as If to emphasize their indifference j
I all the officials of the embassy came on j
j duty late to-day and went away early. As j
I their normal hours of business are from ■
3 to 4 in the afternoon, the exhaust
! ing character of to-day’s worn may be j
j estimated without mental fatigue. The
j secretary of the embassy found time from
his labors to praise an article in to-day’s
St. James Gazette, and as the view of the
writer is that Spain will sit quiet and do
nothing to provoke the United States, it
may be fairly inferred that this Is the
prevailing opinion in official Spanish quar
ters. The embassy had, however, re
ceived no news of aj»y kind, either from
Madrid or Washington, and did not ap
pear to expect any.
The latest service rendered to his coun- I
try by that eccentric politician. Henrv
Labouchere, editor of Truth, has been the
exposure of a scoundrel known for yearfc
past as the ’’King of Begging Letter
Writers.” This fellow. Rev. George
Brooks, was formerly a Methodist par
son. who, becoming discontented with his
small stipend And limited sphere of en
joyment. took to the more lucrative pro
fession of begging. Mr. Labouchere got
upon his track early in his career, and
week after week, for years denounced
him as an impostor in the columns of
Truth, with a pungency and a persistency
which were an abiding joy to the readers
of that smart paper. He spoiled
many a deal of Brooks’,
but. for all that, there are
too many fools in England to permit a
Iman of Brooks’ peculiar talents to starve.
It was his custom to study the weak
nesses of public men and ascertain the
political and religious views of private
citizens of wealth, and to write his beg-
ging letters accordingly. By these means
lie succeeded in extracting large sums of
from cabinet ministers, dukes,
archbishops, directors of the Bank of
. England, generals, admirals and at least
I one American millionaire, William Wal
dorf Astor. But undoubtedly his greatest
achievement was the obtaining of a grant
of £2OO from the royal bounty. This fund
is voted every year by parliament to en
able the queen to help necessitous literay
men and women, and Brooks qualified for
inclusion in that category by writing a
trumpery pamphlet of some kind. People
who are conversant with Brooks’ career
could scarcely credit the official announce
ment, and it has never yet been satisfac
torily explained how this professional
beggar managed to “bunco” the Right
Hon. Arthur Balfour, first lord of the
treasury, into recommending him to the
queen as a proper recipient of
the royal bounty, but he did it,
and success emboldened him to further
and even more ambitious efforts,
i It also put Henry Labouchere upon his
mettle, and Truth’s denunciations there
after became so vigorous and telling that
Brooks’ income began to diminish, and
finally he resolved upon the daring and
desperate expedient of prosecuting Truth
for libel. No more impudent action was
ever brought in any court of law, but
such is the' operation of the English law
of libel in protecting scoundrels like
Brooks, that the action was by no means
as hopeless as it looked at first sight. The
case occupied the high court of justice
for three days this week, and resulted, on
Thursday, in Mr. Labouchere’s trium
phant acquittal. It was shown in
i the evidence that in a period of five years,
Brooks, by the simple method of begging
letters, gathered in a no less sum than
?40,000, and that while posing as a broken
down, deserving man of letters plunged in
the deepest distress, he was keeping up
country houses, with servants and horses
and carriages. The jury practically stopped
the case and thus unfortunately prevented
the calling of Mr. Arthur Balfour as a wit
ness to show the means by which Brooks
duped him and the queen, and the world
therefore will probably never be given the
opportunity that story, but in
#.-r Frjvfe k- Lor*\jyood,
who represented Mr. Labouchere, The case
was full of fun from beginning to end, and
the entire country roared and roared over
It every day.
Mr. Labouchere is now engaged tn hunt
ing Brooks for the costs of the action, but
he is not likely to get anything. Brooks
is sufficiently astute to have conveyed his
money to his wife or to have put It in
some other way out of reach. The costs,
in all probability, will have to be addAd to
the big total which Mr. Labouchere told
the judge he had spent since he had been
the owner of Truth In exposing the swin
dlers of various descriptions. That total
already exceeds $200,000 and It is likely to
Increase regularly as in the past. The
amount seems large, but against this ex
penditure has to be set the gain of most
interesting matter for Mr. Labouchere’s
paper. It was estimated a few year’s ago
that quite 10,000 stern torles who detest
Mr. Labouchere’s radical politics, buy his
paper solely for the sake of a couple of
pages or so of entertaining exposures of
swindling money lenders or scoundrels of
the Brooks type, without which a number
of Truth is never complete. Even now
virtue Is not without its reward, for it
will be strange indeed if the enormous
publicity given to the paper and Its editor
does not result in a vastly increased cir
culation.
The latest report of the matrimonial in
tentions of young King Alexander of Ser
via credits him with aspiring to the hand
of a daughter of one of the Austrian arch
dukes. He has, however, so the story
runs, met with unexpected difficulty from
the lady’s parents. This imperial couple,
although able to trace their pedigree
through untold years, graciously waived
their objections to the young king’s suit,
objections being based on the ground of
the upstart character of his family, but
pointed out that the Austrian royal and
imperial house could not possibly receive
in its bosom a young man whose parents
lived apart, thus giving rise to a scandal.
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BRAZIL HOLDS ALOOF IN CUBA.
Itnly to Prohibit Venturesome
Spirits From Going to the War.
Madrid, Dec. 19.—The foreign office Is
advised that the Brazilian government
has formally declared that Brazil will not
recognize the Cuban insurgents as bellig
erents.
Advices to the government from Rome
are to the effect that the Italian govern
ment has taken measures to prohibit
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NAME TO THE HOUSE.
A Copy of the Macon Telegraph Con
taining an Editorial Demanding
a Full Investigation of the Charges
Against Every Judge Involved by
the Scandal Laid on the Desks of
the Members—Mr. West of
Lowndes Demands Action—-The ,
House Refuses to Turn the X-Rays i
on Any One Except Reese and
Sweat.
Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 19.—The judiciary in
vestigation was the feature of the ses
sion of the House again to-day. It seems
to haunt the legislative halls like Ban
quo’s ghost, and will not down. When
the members of the House arrived at their
seats this morning they found upon their
desks copies of the Macon Telegraph,
containing a column editorial calling in
vigorous terms for a wider investigation
than the House had provided for in its
resolutions. The Telegraph declared that
Senator Carter’s charges had also involv
ed Judge Gober of the Blue Ridge circuit
and ex-Solicitor General Griggs of the
Pataula circuit, and that the charges
against them were of a more serious char
acter than those against the others. In
view of this it was urged that the investi
gation should go beyond Judges Reese
and Sweat. One paragraph In the edito
rial reads: "The documents in the matter
have been produced and they involve
Judge Gober, now upon the bench, and
recently a candidate for justice of the
supreme court, and former solicitor gen
eral, now congressman, Griggs. The case
is just this: Mr. H. O. Beall, clerk of the
superior court of Randolph county, in
June, 1892, wrote a letter to Gov. Northen,
asking pardon for one Mixon, a white
man, convicted of stealing an old razor
and for a negro, convicted of carrying
concealed weapons. He went on to show
that the judge had, after deliv
ering sentence orally, and a Y® r
the trial was over and tne
men remanded to jail, changed the sen
tence to longer terms.”
In view of this Mr. West of Lowndes
took the floor and made a motion to re
consider yesterday's.action in vot.ng down
the Boyd resolution, which provided for
an enlargement of the powers of the com
mittee, so that it could go into any charges
that might be preferred against any mem
ber of the judiciary. Mr. West brought
the question up by a motion to recon
sider the action. Mr. West urged that
the committee should have the power to
investigate charges against any other
judges than the two named. He said that
Senator Carter had said he would name
other judges, and if he did name them,
then if the present committee is not em
powered to consider all charges the leg
islature will have to meet again and ap
point a committee to investigate charges
against any other judges whom Senator
Carter might name. He favored a full
investigation, and thought that no such
open charges as had been made by Sena
tor Carter in saying he would name other
judges should gc without investigation.
Mr. West said, in reference to the article
in the Macon Telegraph denouncing
Judge Gober and Solicitor Griggs for
their maladministration that “such
charges made by a leading paper of’ the
stAle, a copy of which was placed on
the desk of every member in the House,
were of too serious a nature to go with
out consideration. . When a paper takes
up two : iu oibers TOf our
makes such charges against them and
then puts a copy of the paper before the
eyes of every member here, it does seem j
that you could see that other j
judges had been charged with misconduct
that demands an investigation,” said Mr. i
West.
Mr. Slaton of Fulton opposed Mr. West’s
motion. He thought that if the power of
the committee were enlarged that every
convict or man in the state who had »a
grievance against a judge would bring
clap-trap charges against him and the
committee would be overrun with charges.
Several other members talked on the
question and when Mr. West's motion was
put the vote was 81 to 43 against it, so no
charges will be investigated except those
against Judges Sweat and Reese.
This afternoon Senator Yancey Carter
arose in his place to a question of per
sonal privilege, and proceeded to formally
“name” Judge George F. Gober of the
Blue Ridge circuit as one of the culprit
judges whom he had in mind when he
made his sensational strictures on the ju
diciary, which brought about the action
of the House in providing for an investi
gation. Senator Carter offered a resolu
tion setting forth the fact that in his
former answer to the resolutions of the
Senate demanding of him the names of j
the men whom he had referred to in his
speech when he declared that there were
men on the bench in Georgia who were
worse than the criminals they send to the
penitentiary, he had neglected to specify
lire name of a third judge. He now, there
fore, desired to formally bring Judge Go
ber before the Senate as the judge refer
red to in his charges based upon the Mixon
case, where the said judge had been guilty I
of doubling a man's sentence on the re
quest of the solicitor gener
al, Mr. Griggs, attei - the ad
journment of court, this being the case
referred to by Gov. Northen in his mes
sage making reflections upon the judic
iary, which Senator Carter quoted in his
first reply. Gov. Northen had pardoned
Mixon when the facts in the case were
brought to his notice through the ef
forts of Clerk of the Superior Court Beail
and other citizens of Ranuolph county,
who felt outraged at this act. Another of
the charges against Judge Gober is that
he doubled another sentence at the same
time placed upon a negro at the request
of the solicitor. All the correspondence
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Rough Weather
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from our GREAT REDUCED PRICE SALE of MEN’S, BOYS’ and
CHILDREN’S CLOTHING and OVERCOATS. We have the largest,
freshest and cleanest stock in Georgia, and everybody knows, by <
long experience, that on QUALITY no one can MATCH OUR PRICES. |
It isn’t necessary to come to the city. You can do. as well BY MAIL. I
jATfr/e(JI/V7)7V. SAVANNAH, GA, ■
showing the details of this case Is on file j
in the executive office. The Senate tabled
Senator Carter’s resolution.
The House completed Its action upon the
Senate amendments to the appropriations
bill at the afternoon session and then
sent it back to the Senate to have that
body pass upon its action. The House
refused to recede from its first action in
the appropriation for the state lunatic
asylum, and would not agree to the SIO,OOO
per year increase put in the bill by the
Senate. The appropriation of $4,000 for
a state exhibit at the Nashville exposi
tion was also non-concurred in by the
I House, and the Senate amendment giving
I the Girls’ Normal and Industrial School
1 $5,000 to furnish the new dormitory was
also rejected. No fight was made on the
amendment of the Senate, cutting down
the military appropriation to $25,000. ;
The Senate spent the day’s sessions in
passing the tax act and putting through
a number of House bills of a I
local nature. The main fight over ;
the tax was the increase of
SSO in the liquor tax recommended by the
Senate committee. The house had already |
. raised the liquor tax SSO and the addition I
of another SSO was thought by many of j
1 the senators to be going too fast. After
some discussion the recommendation of the
committee was voted down, and the bill
went to the House with this item the same
as it passed that body.
The most important amendment put
upon the bill was increasing the tax on
commercial companies from SSO to SIOO.
The House to-day refused to reconsider
the action of last night in killing the bill I
making it penal for an agent of a liquor I
dealer to take orders in a dry county.
There were a number of speeches on this
motion to reconsider in which the argu
ment was advanced that many liquor
houses do a thriving business in the dry
counties through agents selling by sam
ple.
through agents selling by sample.
A resolution by Mr. Branch of Columbia,
thanking Speaker Jenkins and Speaker
Pro Tem Dodson for their impartial rulings
during the session was passed. A resolu
tion was also adopted appointing a joint
committee, of the House and Senate to
visit the next annual military encampment
and the members from the House were
named as follows: Messrs. Taylor, Bla
lock, Boswell, Craig, Branch, Boynton,
Black, Rudicii and Brown.
Mr. Craig of Bibb county to-day intro
duced a resolution directing the enforce
ment of the section of the code which re
quires road marks at the intersection of
public roads in this state. ,
Mr. Craig’s bill prohibiting the employ
ment of child labor in factories and else
where in Georgia will oome up on its pass
age in the House as the special order on
the first Tuesday of the next session.
The House this afternoon agreed to the
Senate amendment to the Felder bill pro
viding for the acceptance of bonds of
county officers signed by guarantee com
panies. Under the amendment the com
panies are not released from liability af
ter the books of any officer have been ex
amined and found to be apparently all
right if later a default is discovered.
• SENSATION IN ATHENS.
Some of the University Students to
Be Requested to Remain at Home.
Athens, Ga., Dec. 19.—There is a sensa
tion brewing here, if rumors count for any
thing. It is stated that more than a
half-dozen students of the University of
Georgia will be quietly informed by Chan
cellor Boggs that they cannot return to
the university after Christmas. They
will be asked to stay at home on account
of bad behavior here, and some of them
on account of failure to keep up in their
studies. The faculty year by year is in
creasing In its demands for good behavior
and good scholarship among the students j
and those who Co not up’ to th-.'*
standard have to go.
I The Red and Black is out in its Christ
mas edition of six pages. It is one of the
best college papers ever issued here. One
; page is edited by a number of Lucy Cobb
young ladies, Misses Willie Kate Reid,
Jessie Reid, Mary Walker, Lucia Abbott,
Willie Burke and Eloise Davenport.
Dr. J. H. T. McPherson, professor of
history in the University of Georgia, is
in New York attending the annual ses
sion of the National Historical Society.
Prof. A. H. Patterson has gone to Nash
ville, Tenn., to represent the University of
Georgia at the meeting of the Southern
Intercollegiate Athletic Association.
While the new trainer has not yet been
selected for next year’s ’varsity eleven,
he will in all probability be a Princeton
man.
The University Banquet Club gave an
elegant banquet to-night at the Commer
cial Club, and a number of interesting re
sponses were made to the various toasts.
John Goodrum accidentally shot him
self in the foot yesterday evening while
fooling with a rifle. The wound was an
ugly one, but no serious results will hap
pen.
The home school and the city schools
> closed yesterday for the Christmas holi
days.
SCIENCE MAKES MEN IDLE.
New Process of Steel Manufacture
Throws 100 Ont of Work.
Pittsburg, Dec. 19.—T0-day 100 men, em
| ployed in the converting mill of the Car
negie Steel Company at Duquesne, were
dismissed because of the introduction by
the company of the direct process of man
ufacture of steel. The new process makes
steel from the molten iron as it flow’s
from the blast furnaces, thereby saving
the cost of casting the furnaces and of
remelting in the converting mill.
For Coughs and Throat Disorders use
Brown’s Bronchial Troche®. “Have never
changed my mind respecting them, ex
cept I think better of that which I began
by thinking well of.”—Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher. Sold only in boxes.
THE GREAT HUXLEY.
What Huxley, the Great English
Scientist, Considered the Best
Start in Life.
I The great English scientist, Huxley, said
the best start in life is a sound stomach.
Weak stomachs fail to digest food properly
because they lack the proper quantity of
digestive acids (lactic and hydrochloric)
and peptogenic products; the most sensi
ble remedy in all cases of indigestion, is
i to take after each meal one or two of Stu
art s Dyspepsia Tablets because they sup
ply in a pleasant, harmless form all the ele
ments that weak stomachs lack.
The regular use of Stuart’s Dyspepsia
I Tablets will cure every form of stomach
i trouble except cancer of the stomach.
' They increase flesh, insure pure blood
strong nerves, a bright eye and clear com
plexion, because all these result only from
■ wholesome food well digested.
I Nearly All druggists sell Stuart’s Dyspep-
. sia Tablets at 50 cents full sized package.
Send for free book on Stomach Trou
bles to Stuart Co., Marshall, Mich.
Kehoe's Iron Works
Foundry. Machine, Boiler
*
and Blacksmith Works.
Sole agents for sale of "Ames” Boilers
and Engines, “Knowles” Steam Pumps,
“Excelsior” and "Penberthy” Injectors,
“Reliance” Safety Water Column.
Machinery repairs a specialty. Supplies
of every description carried in stock.
w WM. KEHOE & CO.,
Broughton, Reynolds and Randolph sts.
CENTRAL AM ERIC A WAR CLOUD
NICARAGUA AND COLOMBIA ON THE
VERGE OF HOSTILITIES.
The Former Government Already
Conscripting Men for the Conflict.
Colombia Confident One of Her
Warshii>s Could Blow Rama and
Blueflelds Off the Face of the Map.
The Ownership of Two Islands the
Bone of Contention.
Mobile, Ala.. Dec. 19.—The Norwegian
steamer Jarl, which arrived here this af
ternoon from Bluefields, Nicaragua, brings
news of active preparations which are be
ing made in Nicaragua looking to a war
with Colombia.
There have been no open hostilities as
ytt, but the Nicaraguan government has
a patrol boat going up and down the Rama
river conscripting everybody who can be
used as a soldier.
The laborers on the plantations are be
ing taken, and the men thus conscripted
and being taken to Rama and the Bluff,
where they are put in the garrisons.
It is said that the cause of the prepara
tions for war is a dispute between Colum
bia and Nicaragua as to the ownership of
Great-and Little Corn Islands, which are A
I situated about 40 miles from Bluefields,
and dfio miles .Rema.
1 . >■ fort at BJuelieids Bluff •
garrisoned in expectation of th
war of the Colombian navy, but it
ported that there is no armament on tnoW
fort except a few old fashioned mortars.
Officers of the Jarl state that Nicaragua
is not in a position to cope with Colom
bia in open warfare, as one of the Colom
bian men-of-war would have no trouble in
blowing Rama and Bluefields oft the map.
POISONED BY ZERTUCHA.
Cubans Now Put Out a New Yarn
About Maceo’s Death.
Key West, Fla., Dec. 19.—Private advices
received in this city to-night state that it
has been discovered that Maceo, young
Gomez and twenty-flve others, among them .
five Americans, were poinsoned through
the treachery of Dr. Zertucha, planned by
Ahumada and Clrujeda. The bodies
recovered by Baldomero Acosta and suf||
jected to an examination. It is also
ported that Perico Delgado entered 1' gß'.'et
jucal on the 10th Inst., with 4,000 men.
—Unreasonable—Tourist—ln the east;
there are laws against carrying concealed
weapons.
Westerner—Do they expect a man to go
around all the time with a gun in his hand?
—Puck.
Rheumatism is caused by lactic fluid in
the blood. Hood’s Sarsaparilla neutralizes B
the acid and cures rheumatism.—ad.
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pharmacist in drug store or to travel. Ad
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S. C. ,
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