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Savannah morning News.
, ESTABLISHED 1850. (
)j, H. ESTIJ-L. Editor ami Proprietor.]
ERIN’S AGKD CIIAMPION.
\ STATEMENT OF HIS PERSONAL
' POSITION IN THE FIGHT.
Home Kule Never Admitted to lie In
compatible with Unity or the Empire-
Two Important Question# Kegsrdliig
Home Kule Whioli Hav* Already Keen
Settled— Can*dtt' Caie Explained.
London. May 10.—Premier Glad
stone’s voice at the outset of bis speech
to-day,iu advocacy of his motion for a sec
, nd reading of the home rule bill was in
distinct, hoarse and feeble, but it cleareil
as he proceeded. lie said he desired, at
the opening, to make a statement of his
personal position, which he had entirely
refrained from making when he intro
duced the hill. He had never at any time
desired home rule U Ireland
as incompatible with imperial
unity. [Cries, oh! oh!] That was ex
actly so. [Cheers.] Contradiction bad
come Irom some members who visited
Midlothian, making speeches stuffed full
of totally untrue and worthless
assertions. I Oh! oh! and cheers.]
In I*7l he had expressed the
i-ieat satisfaction with which he had
heard the statements of the supporters of
home r ule. as those statements contern
plated nothing leading to a severance of
the empire. [Parntllite cheers.]
TWO IMPORTANT QUESTIONS.
Two questions always presented them
selves to his mind regarding home rule.
Firstly, it must be shown that it was de
sired by the great, mass of the population
of Ireland. That condition bad uever
been absolutely and unequivocally present
until the passing of the representation of
toe people act. [Cbeers.J
Secondly, was home rule compatible
with unity of the empire? Thar ques
tion h id been answered by Air. Parnell,
who had declared that what be sought
under the name of home rule war simply
the autonomy of Ireland.
i’l -speaker had been chanted with ex
per.meniing in politics without grave
r iii„e. Here they had the gravest of
SMU-.-s. for they were dialing with a peo
n'e and country whose radical sympa
thies were a..dost the law, especially the
;r;ininl law, which had never obtained
;i,e in tidenoe or obedience of the Irish
, pie.
COEUCION AND REFORM.
Alternative coercive and reform roeas
i: os had been tried. They bad equally
laiieii to conciliate. The medicine of
t'n.'Tcion especially had been medicine
continually applied iu increasing doses,
and with diminishing results. [Par
nellite cheers.] Here the speaker re
viewed the history of the past in an en
deavor to prove tiiat the only thorough
measure which would he satisfactory to
Ireland was now favorable. As regards
Ibo autonomy of Ireland being a menace
lo the unity of the empire, he reminded
tne House that the same argument was
employed against Canadian Independ
ence when it. was deteimined to concede
home rule toCanada. Canada was in the
precise temper attributed lor Ireland to
day.
CANADA NOT FRIENDLY.
Canada did not get home rule because
she was loyal and friendly. She was now
loyal and friendly because she had got
home rule, j Irish clieeis. I He f Glad
stone ) sat in Parliament during the whole
Canadian controversy, taking as a young
man an active part in the discussion.
IVbat was the nature of ihe Canadian do
bate? The case of Canada was not
parallel to the case of Ireland (opposition
cheers!—not in every particular. Ho the
bill offered to Ireland is different in Im
portant details from tbe act which dis
posed of tbe case ot Canada. Butaltbough
not parallel, their positions are analagous.
What was i be issue in tbe case ot Canada?
Government from Downing street.
WHAT IT MKANB.
These few words embrace the whole
controversy, government from Downing
street meanlug, of course, government
troni Westminster. [Hear, bear.] What
was the cry of those who resisted auton
omy in Canada? It was a cry which has
slept a long lime, acquiring vigor irom
sleeping. R was tho cry that the unity
ot tbe empire would be endangered. Iu
his opinion of the relations of Canada and
Kngland, then, there was very great
danger to the unity of tiie em
pire, but it was the romedv for
tbe mischief —not the mischief itself
—which was regarded as dangerous.
[lrish cheers.] In tiiis respect tbe cases
of Ireland anil Cauada are precisely par
allel. There is danger to theunity of the
empire In our present relations with
Irelaud.
CRYING DOWN THK REMEDY.
But the opponents of tbe Dill have ap
plied theory of danger to the remedy in.
steadot totheexiatingmischief. [Cheers.]
In those days the people ot Canada were
habitually denounced in this House as
rebels. [Prolonged government and Par
neliite cheers.] Some of those so-called
rebels were Protestants of English and
Scotch birth, but a majority were Catho
lics of French extraction. Was the cry
against them raised because they were of
f rench extraction and Catholics! 1 No,
sir. The English iu Upper Canada did
exactly the same thine. Both
rebelled. He (Gladstone) remembered
G’Cunuell in tlio course of the debate on
ban ad a, in relerrtng to tbe bYench Cana
dian leader, I'apineau. saying: “This
ease is just theeaseof Ireland with this
difference: The Canadian agitator has
the ‘o’ at the end of his name instead ot at
the beginning.” [Laughter.!
CANADA'S VICTORY.
The Canadian rebels were suppressed,
but at tbe moment of military victory
political difficulty liegan, and the victors
were vanquished. If we were the mill-
Urv victors, the Canadians wero victo
rious in the fl.-m ot reason. Cheers.;
Here Mr. Gladstone referred to the aig
•dfi "a 11 1 expression that had come acroas
ibe Atlantic approving the vital princi
ples oftbe bill. [Cheers and derisive cries.!
He asked the gentlemen who appeared
in think that these manifestations
of opinion of Araejlca were
worthless [bear! hear!] If they would
have considered them worthless It the
manifestations nad condemned the bill,
l( beers, 1 Coming to the leading objec
tions l> the lull, be said he noticed that
jne lirst was objection to the exclusion of
Irish members from the Imperial Parlia
ment a* a breach of the cardinal princi
ple that there should not be taxation with
out representation.
POWER or ENFORCEMENT.
Ibe opponents of the bill said England
''buhl never snforce taxation in Ireland
Without representation, and that nothing
but tbe consent of Ireland would Induce
ibem to contemplate such action for a
moment. Many numbers were not even
'.aUstted wlib the consent of Ireland.
Besides this general constitu
tional objection there existed regret
that there would cease to be a symbolic
representation of the unity of the empire
through the absence of Irish members.
ow history has shown us that in foreign.
or what he preferred to call over the sea,
affairs the Irish people do not stand in
the same relation as the people of Eng
land aud Scotland. [“Hear!” "Hear!”
and cries of “No!”|
NOT TO BK WONDERED AT.
Is It a wonder that in a country with
woes so great, and whose hopes nave so
olten been doomed to disappointment, the
mind of the people should be confined to
the position of their own country? An
essential principle to the Irish people has
become control of their own affairs.
Still the bill provides that Irelaud
shall not be excluded from imperial
affairs. Clause 29 provides tor a recall
of the representatives iu both houses of
the Irish Parliament helore Parliament
can proceed to the alteration of a state
upon which the countries do not agree.
Another clause provides that on certain
conditions the Irish Assemby may vote
sums of money for purposes excluded
from its ordinary cognizance.
CONFIDENCE IN IKKI.AND*
He trusted that should Great Britain
become involved in a great war, when
irelaud would be exposed to the common
danger, the Irish assembly would re
spond to a message irom the crown by vot
ing money to prosecute the war. [Oppo
sition laughter.] Though abiding in the
principle that the Irish members
should not sit iu the imperial
Parliament, the government was
willing to meet the difficulty by providing
that when it was proposed lo alter the
taxation of Ireland relating to customs
and excise duties, Irish members would
be enabled to appear in Parliament and '
share in tbe debate. [Cries of “Hear!”
"Hear!”] The government was also will
ing to appoint a joint commission from
the English ana Irish Parliaments which
would meet from time to time to consider
some questions of imperial or common
interest.
NOT THE SUCCESSION.
No great question such as the succes
sion to the crown ought to fall under the
discussion of this secondary authority,
but many questions, such as treaties of
commerce, might require direct commu
nication between both Parliaments. He
would therefore propose, on bebalt of toe
government, some plan of this kind. He
proceeded to explain that the government
remained undecided as to the conditions
under which tbe Irish members, or an
Irish commission, should appear in the
Imperial Parliament. The government
did not consider this to be a vital point.
In his opinion if the Irish members came
back in any number it would be neces
sary to devise a system of election.
NO JEALOUSY.
He would certainly have no jealousy of
Irish members if they should reappear in
their force. He would rather have them
amply tbanscantily ana jealously treated.
in conclusion he declared that the mam
objector the bill was toabolisb, root and
branch, the discontent prevailing in Ire
land and to restore social order by the
removals, not merely of tbe symptoms but
of the causes of that discontent.
It the opponents of the bill bad an al
ternative policy, what was it? he asked.
If Lord Randolph Churchill should uu
dertakethe task of settling Ireland, what
did he mean to do. Was bis plan that
proposed by the loyalists in Belfast last
November? The English government
might be daring but not so daring as to
undertake to recon struct.the Irish govern
ment without touching the legislative
d'fficulty. •
HARTINGTON’S CHANCE.
if Lord Hartington had a plan, let him
declare it. He appealed to Lord Harting
ton lo state iiis solution of tbe Irish prob
lem. They had reached a crisis in the
history of the nation. The path o! bold
ness was theonly path of safety. [Cheers.]
All men ought to know their own mind,
and ought to tell it. The fate of Ireland
could not be cast into the lottery of p<>li
i tics. [Paruellite cheers.] He had been
told that he was steering Ireland to cer
tain min. I*et the opponents show a way
! to escape. Let Lord Hartington, in mov
! ing rejection of the bill, trace a visible or
palpable road through the darkness.
[Cheers.]
ENGLAND’S CHANCE.
The members of tbe House have before
them a great opportunity to close tbe
strife of seven hundred years, aye and of
knitting bv bonds firmer and higher in
character than heretofore the hearts and
affections of the Irish people, and of ce
menting tbe noble fabric of the British
nation. (Loud and prolonged cheers.]
Mr. Gladstone was followed by Lord
Hartington, who on rising was greeted
with cheers. He asked if Parnell had
ever stopped short of asking for complete
independence and restoration of Ireland
to her place among the nations ot the
world. He (Hartington) feared that the
Premier had settled the matter without
mature consideration. With reference
to submitting an alternative measure, be
faiied to remember a single instance in
which Mr. Gladstone had taken the
course he now asked the dissentients
to take, who were unprepared
to suggest in wbat direction the
measure before the House could be
remedied. He beiisved that the ooncluJ
sum made to-night would not meet the
demands of Mr. Chamberlain, in con
clusion lie moved that the bill be read
six months hence.
The debate was adjourned until Thurs
day.
THE NEW YORK MEETING.
The St. James Gazette denounces tbe
action of the meeting st the Academy of
Mimic, in New York, last Friday even
ing in adopting resolutions commending
Mr. Gladstone’s home rule policy. The
Gazette save the originators of the meet
ing were “rebels and outlaws and its sup
pot ters aliens.”
“There exists,” says the paper, “a good
deal of genuine Atuericau sympathy for
the work of breaking up the British em
pire. Will this sympathy ('ease when
PAi uell receives his present demands and
asks for more after home rule is conceded ?
Englishmen are not likely to favor rebel
lion because it is backed up by foreign
dictation,”
ULSTERITES TO BE DISARMED.
Dublin, May to.—lt has been learned
that constables in Ulster are engaged In
collecting the names and addresses of alj
persons in the district who, during tbe
past three years, have purchased arms
and ammunition. The work is being car
rled on under tbe direction of the
government at Londou, and the
Information desired is being fur
nished by shippers who have
generally retained tbe directions under
whb'b their consignments have been or
dered. It is believed that the government
intends to disarm the loyalists In Ireland,
and that John Morley’s motion to con
tinue the coercion aet of 1881 was made
with a view to its application in the In
terest of public order against threatening
the minority.
Arrears ot Pensions Llmltat lons.
W ASHtNGTON, May 10.—In the Senate
to-day a resolution offered by Mr. Logan
win agreed to, directing tbe Committee
on Pensions to report bank to the Senate
Senate bill No. So, providing for the re
peal of the limitation on arrears of pen
sions. (This is the Ingalls hill.)
BACON ANSWERS GORDON.
HE REFUSES TO APPEAL TO THE
STATE COMMITTEE.
The General Challenged to Meet Him In
I’ubllc Discussion—One SHIe of the
Public Square at Gainesville, Fla.,
Wiped Out by Fire—Other Home News
on the Wire.
Augusta, Ga., May 10.— The following
is a copy of a letter mailed to Gen.
Gordon:
Macon, Ga., May 10,1856.
Gen. John B. Gordon, Atlanta :
Dear Sib—l respectfully ask that you will
agree with me upon a public discussion before
the Democratic party of the Stale of the Issues
involved in the pending contest for the guber
natorial nomination. In order to arrange for
the same I request you to select a friend to
meet the lion. Patrick Walsh, of Augusta,
with the view of having them confer and
agree upon the dales and places for the pro
posed public discussions. You will recognize
the fairness of this proposition, as it will give
us joiutly the opportunity of meeting the
people lace to face, and of giving them the
fullest information on all the Issues involved
in the campaign. Very respectfully vmirs,
A. O. BACON.
BACON’S REPLY.
Macon, Ga., May 10.—Maj. Bacon has
made the following reply to Gen. Gor
don’s letter to him:
Macon. Ga., May 10, 1886.
Gen, John B, Gordon, DeKalb County.
Dear Sir—l And published in the Tele
graph. the Chronicle, the News and the Con
stitution aud other daily papers of the Sta'c
of Sunday a lett- r which purports to have
been addressed by you to myself. I have re
ceived no such letter, but presume its publi
cation was authorized by you. Desiring to
conform to what apyears to lie your choseu
medium of communication I reply to the
same through the public, press.
You and I were lioth in Savannah duringthe
past week, ami daily met each other per Du
ally. In now noting yourdesire that we agree
upon a plan by which, in the pending contest,
"the will of the Democratic people of Geor
gia” cun ho beat ascertained 1 might with
propriety express some surprise that you
failed to avail yourself of the opportunity
thus presented to then confer with me rela
tive to the proposition which you now make.
It would not have been premature for you to
have done so as, If you w, re correctly re
ported. you were then actively canvassing for
support among those whom you there met. In
response to your proposition 1 make the fol
lowing reply: As I understand it, the cus
tom of the party in this State has been for
the Executive Committee to tix the date and
place for the assembling of the convention
and the basis of representation. The counties
have always been left to decide for themselves
ihe manner in whicli they should choose their
delegates. Some of them have adopted the
plan of primary elections, and others have
made their selections of delegates through
the mean* of mass meetings. 1 believe the
people of the several counties are fully
capable of determining for them
selves which plan is best adapted
to their convenience and the proper a-eer
tainingof the popular preferences. When
ever they choose to resort to a primary elec
tion their action will meet with my fuD ap
proval. Whenever, on the contrary, they de
cide to meet together in open mass meeting,
1 shall acquiesce in their actions. I believe
thattbe Democratic voters of the the Execu
tive Committee.or perhaps betterseverai than
counties can determine lietter than you or
myself the mode best suited to the situation
of their several communities. The only office
of the Executive Committee is to supply the
need of a head to the organization.
With that accomplished I favor
the largest liberty of action to the pooplc and
the smallest constraint or dictation by either
committees or candidates. I am opposed to
centralized power of all kinds, whether it is
found in the private organization of individu
als for their own personal political ends, or in
tbe committees necessary to party machinery.
A* those who are known to lie your political
friends have in the past very largely profited
by the use of the modes of procedure winch
have heretofore been pursued, it is to be pre
sumed that you will not condemn the same as
having in those instances failed to ascertain
honestly aud fully "the will of the Demo
cratic people of Georgia.” 1 have never
feared a full expreasio i of the popular will.
I have no fear of it now. I shall be satisfied
that such popular will shall tin t its exp-e
-slon in the manner in which the people of
each county shall determine for themselves.
You will pardon me for saying that the time
has come when party policy In thisßtate
should be shaped w ithont reference
to the wishes of candidates. Conventions and
electionsare held presumably in the interest
of the people rather than in the interest of
candidates, and the wishes of the former
should never he made suisiervient to the m
terost6 of the latter. Tho Executive Com
mittee might resent as impertinent any at
tempt on our part to dictate its line of action,
and the people would certainly repudiate any
effort of the committee tocon'rol or restrict
their mode of procedure in the appointment
of delegates. So far as I am personally con
cerned. I will be content to abide the result
of either primary elections or tbe action
of mass meeting ih tbe several counties ac
cording to the best judgment and preference
of the people thereof.
Very respectfully vottrs.
A. O. Bacon.
GORDON GOES TO AMKKICUB.
Atlanta, Ga.. May it).—Gen. Gordon
left to-day for Americas, and wiil open
the campaign there to-morrow with a
public speech. He was to have spoken
to-day at Rome, but canceled the date.
A BAREFACED FALSEHOOD.
Miss Voorhees Never Parstied by Young
Mr. Dodge of New York.
Washington, May 10.— Senator Voor
hees having his attention called by a re
porter to tbe press dispatch from Atlanta,
Ga., in regard to tbe alleged attentions of
Mr. Dodge, of New York, to nis daughter,
said; “it would be hard to oonceivc more
misstatements in the same space. I have
tmt one daughter, and her name is not
Hose. She was never in Chattanooga,
nor in Florida, and never received
any attentions from Mr. Dodge.
Miss Hose Voorbees •is my
brother’s daughter. I know Mr. Dodge
very well and esteem him very highly.
He is a gentleman of refinement, high
social standing and a business man of
large means and extensive operations.
He is a son of the lato Hon. William K.
[lodge, of New York, and I never knew a
gentleman more utterly incapable of the
conduct attributed to him than be is.
There Is not a word of truth in the entire
dispatch.”
An Old Claim.
Washington, May, 10.—The old Mor
ilecal claim came up again In the Henate
Poet Office Committee last week. Morde
csl was the owner of tbe steamer Isabel,
a vessel built for the carrying of United
States mails from Charleston, S. C., via
Savannah and Key West to Havana. This
vessel curried tbe mails for II years, until
in 1859 Congress adjourned without mak
ing provision for the mail service. The
Havana servlcs was then discontinued,
but alter three mouths bad passed the
New York Chamber Of Commerce and tbe
commeroial bodies of ail tbe principal
Atlantic seaports appealed to Mordeoal
to resume the carrying of tbe mails and
trust to Congress for recompense. Mor
deoal did so. and for ‘-*4 years past be has
trusted to Congress in vain. Thirteen
Congresses have investigated the Morde.
cai claim. The Senate Poet Office Com
mittee decided to report ft back to the
Henate without recommendation. Tne
amount of the claim is $:i7.IK)l.!t.T.
The Supremo Court adiourned until
October.
SAVANNAH. TUESDAY, MAY It. 1880.
START OF THE CROPS.
Cotton Planting Delayed br Cold Katun
and Overflowing K!vers.
Washington, May 10.—The May crop
report of the Department of Agriculture
indicates an improvement in wheat dur
ing April of two points, with the general
average of condition at 95. There is no
marked change anywhere, hut a slight
advance is noted in tbe Ohio Valley, Mis
souri. Texas, Tennessee, the Carolines,
Virginia and Maryland. The May average
last year was 70. Tbe season has been
favorable and the crop more advanced
than usual. The averages in the princi
pal States are: New York, Off; Pennsyl
vania. 95; Ohio, 97; Michigan, 91; Indi
ana, 98; Illinois, 92; Missouri, 101; Kan
sas. 07.
The condition of rye averages 96 and
barley 97.
cotton planting delayed.
Cotton planting has been delayed by
cold rains on the Atlantic coast and by
overflows on the Gulf coast. Tho propor
tion to be planted in May averages 20 per
cent. In average years the proportion
does not exceed 11 or 15 per cent. The
stand is necessarily defective on wet
areas but replanting is rapidly tilling tho
gaps. The proportions already planted
are as follows: North Carolina 76, South
Carolina 82. Georgia 86. Florida 94, Ala
bama 80, Mississippi 76. Louisiana 77,
Texas 84, Arkansas 75, Tennessee 77.
PLOWING retarded.
Washington, May 10.—While the
season has been more advanced than usual
north ot the 37th, parallel, tho heavy
snows of early April in the West, anil
the excess of rain prior to April 15, have
retarded spring plowing. Itis somewnat
more advanced than usual In the States
between Maine and North Carolina and in
Wisconsin and Minnesota. Elsewhere,
in the South, Central. West, Missouri
valley, and on the Pacific coast it Is be
low an average. In the corn growing
States the preparation for seeding is later
than in the regions where small grains
predominate. It ie estimated that 72 per
cent, is done in average years; 75 per
cent, is the proportion.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
Fruitless Efforts to Pas* a BUI to Forbid
Pool Belllng.
Washington, May 10. After the in
troduction of a number of bills to-day the
House proceeded to consideration ol bille
reported from the Committee on the Dis
trict of Columbia.
Washington, May 10.—The bill pro
viding for a free bridge ncross the Poto
mac river at Georgetown was passed.
An attempt was made to pass the bill to
prohibit book-making ami jwiol selling
in the District of Columbia, Mr. Hemp
hill, of South Carolina, remarking that
the time was auspicious for tbe passage
of tbe hill, as many of those members who
were opposed to the measure were ab
sent; but Mr. Compton, ot Maryland, vig
orously opposed action on the bill in the
absence of the "good fellows,” who had
gone to the races, and it was postponed
until the next District day in June.
The bill to punish tne advertisement ot
lottery tickets in the District of Columbia
was next called up, ami after som* time
spent in an effort to secure a quorum it
was passed. Several bills of purely local
character were passed and the House
adjourned.
UTAH’S I’OLYU AY CASF.S.
A Decision Rendered by the United
States Supreme Court.
Washington, May 10.—The Übited
States Supreme Court to-day rendered a
decision in three Utah polygamy cnees of
Lorenzo Snow vs. the United States.
Snow was convicted under tbe Edmunds
act for unlawful cohabitation and sent to
prison, where be now’ is. He appealed
from the decision of the Supreme Court of
the Territory of Utah which sustained the
judgment of the lower court in w hlcb he
was convicted. Ibe Supreme Court of
the United States holds that, it lias no ju
risdiction in the cases, and therefore dis
misses them. Justice Blatcliford deliv
ered the opinion of the court.
He said that in the Cannon case the ques
tion of jurisdiction was not considered,
and as the case was decided at the pres
ent term, It bad been decided to recall tbe
mandate and dismiss the case for want of
jurisdiction in order that the reported de
cision may not appear to be a precedent
for the exercise oi jurisdiction by the
court in a case of the kind.
FLOWERS ON HEROES GRAVES.
Memorial Day Generally and Appro
priately Observed In Two Cities.
Danville, Va., May 10—Memorial
day was observed here to-day and Con
federate graves were decorated. Near
the Confederate monument in the Na
tional cemetery all the speakers spoke in
complimentary terms o| the bow In blue
who slept under the stars and stripes;
that they “did their duty and fought for
principle” was tbo sentiment expressed.
After the spoeches tbe soldiers nmt citi
zens marched through the National c<-m
--etory and decorated the graves of Union
soldiers with bouquets.
WILMINGTON’S OBSERVANCE.
Wilmington, X. C„ May 10—Memori
al day passed off quietly. An address
was delivered by T. W. Strange, of this
city. The dav was beautiful and a large
crowd w.is present. The graves were
handsomely decorated.
HOPEFULNESS.
A Belief that. Danger of Violence on
Labor's I’art is Dyer.
Cincinnati, May 10.— The situation
here is decidedly more hopeful to-day.
Under the shadow of a strong force at the
fairground, and assured by the Mayor’s
proclamation that all who desired to go
to work should have protection, much oi
the fear that has hitherto led many doubt
ful workingmen to go with tbolr
fellows is gone. Street repairing bus
boon resumed. A large number oi
workers in the furniture factories
are again at work. Where new men have
been hired they are not molested, and on
every hand are indications that tbe strike
is growing less and less formidable. Tbo
furniture mauulacturers hare settled the
question of an advance in wages. They
will not advance. The carriage manu
facturers have made more or less conces
sions to their men. and work is being
resumed to-day under tbe new arrange
ments. Nobody now anttclpatea any
collision or violence, and the hops la that
In a few days all trouble will be amicably
settled.
\ l!a< k to Kuda Bay.
London, May 10. — Tbe combined fleet
of the powers which wsa ordered to block
ade the Greek porta has been compelled
to return to Suds bay owing to the sever
ity of the weather.
rOWDERLY’S CIRCULAR.
KNIGHTS ORDERED TO GUARD
THEIR FAIR NAME.
Act* Which lttiiiff the Order Into Dis
repute Must he Denounced —Mure
Letter* Received Daily than He Can
A newer—Committee* Notified Wot to
Call a* They Will Not he Received.
Chicago, May 10.— The Dally Nows
published this morning the following ee
cret circular which it says has been ro
eeived by the Knights ot Labor of (Chi
cago, and will tie read in the various as
semblies (luring the coming week:
Nom.K Okdkk of tub i
Knights ok Likokok amkkioa. >
Philaoki.phia, May 8, 1886.)
To the Order Everywhere Greeting:
The response to the secret circular Issued
March 18 has bean to generous and the Ib
dorHcmeutof Ihe Hcntimonts contained in it
has been so unanimous that I het encouraged
aud aireugthenod in the work. Nearly 4.000
ftSAembiles have pledged themselves to act on
the Advice contained in the circular of March
18. 1 feel that it only requires coming to the
front of the real men of our order to act us
right belorc the world. Wo have been losing
ground so far as nubile opinion ih concerned
for Home time. One of tbe causes i* that we
have allowed things to ho done under the
name of the Knights of Labor for which the
organization was in no way responsible. *1
ask of our members to keep a jealous eye on
the doing* of laboring men who never
tabor, and when they charge anything
to our order In your locality so . tho seal of
yonr condemnation upon it at once by deny
ing it. If a paper criticises tin* Knights of
baoor or its otlicers, and n't boycott it. and If
you have any such boycotts on, remove them.
A journal not long educe made some uncom
plimentary allusi us to the General Muster
Workman of tho Knight* of Labor, aud at the
next meeting of the nearest assent blv a motion
was cast to boycott the paper; not that alone,
hut every person who advertised in the col
umns of the paper. 1 wrote the assembly
asking that they remove the boycott and it
was done. You must bear in tuind that the
General Master VVorkmau is on I v a man and
is not altove criticism. We demand
for ourselves “ihe right of free speec h.” We
can’t consistently deny it to others. We must
tolerate fair, open criticism. If a replv is
necessary, make it in a gentlemanly and dig
nified manner. If we are criticised or abmod
bv a blackguard, treat It as you would the
blackguard himself—in silence. That our
aims and objects are good is no reason why
our members should be r garded as beings of
superior build or material. W e are no more
the salt of the earth than millions of unknown
toilers who do the work of the world. In our
dealings with laborers and capitalists we must
deal justly and fairly by them. If we would
have it equally done to us we in turn must do
equally to others. This is the aim of the Knights
of Lalior aud must not be lost sight of
in the future. Let me direct your attention
to a few lut e abuses. 1 find that wherever a
strike occurs appeals for aid are scattered
broad a*t among the assemblies. Do not pay
one cent for such purposes in tho future uti
le* the appeal comes from your own District
Assembly or the General Assembly. If boy
cott notices are sent you burn them. I have
in my possession 400 boycott notices which
were sent to assemblies with a request that
they he acted upon. Let me mention
some of them: A member is editing a paper,
lie fears a rival and proceeds to got into an
altercation with him, hoveotts him and then
asks the order to curry it out. A certain
paper is influential In one or the other
of the political parties. The members of the
opposing party conceive the idea of getting
nd of tho paper and they invoke the aid of
the Knights of Labor, first Inking the precau
tion to have the paper in Question say some
thing uncomplimentary of the Knights of La
bor. In fact our order ha* been used as a tail
for a hundred different kites, and in the fu
ture it must soar aloft free from all of them.
1 hate the word boycott. 1 was boycotted ten
years ago and could not get work at my trade
for months. It is bad practice. It has been
handed to us by capitalist s. 1 have no use for
it only when everything else fads. Appeals
for aid, circulars, petitions and advertise
ments of every kind are scat
tered everywhere through the order. I copv
a letter which comes to ug* on the subject:
“A large part of our lime bus been spent in
reading boycott notices and appeals ior aid,
keeping us until 12 o’clock. We were led to
believe the Knights of Labor to bean educa
tional Institution, but this kind of education
is not productive of good. We have no tune
tor instruction. What do you adviee us to
do?” J advise them to either burn or table
these matters, and now ask the secretary of
each assembly to do the same. If your Jour
nal wi re not boycotted by our members it
could be made, a medium of communication
by the general officers and the order, hut the
Journal is not r*ad in one quarter
of tho assemblies. Some assemblies
sen l out documents in envelopes
addressed to “the t-'ecretary of the Assembly
No. —ln many places secretaries have
been discharged because of tin- practice. No
member has a right to addieas another in
that way, and if it is ever practiced again the
offender will be punished In the future the
(tenoral Lxecutive Hoard must not ie inter
fered with in the performance of its duty.
If you have confidence in them -ustain them
and obov them. If not, ask for their resigna
tions. Wlnle the board was endeavoring to
settle the Southwestern trouble, assemblies in
some plaoes, with the le*t of intentions no
doilbt, were passing and publishiug resolu
tions condemning .lav Gould. These
Hungs did no good. On the contra
ry, they were injurious in fibs settle
ment of the troubles. it becomes
the duty of tho Executive Hoard to meet
everybody aud go everywhere. While they
am doing this they must not be bumpered by
the actions of those who do not know what
their is. Keep quiet. Let your officers
do tljFirbsit, and if you can’t find the way do
not retard their progress.
Wlmt wr wsnt from our members Is not
gum or wmdv resolutions about our rights.
We know we have rights without pa-sing res
olution-. Men who think, -ludy and act are
required. The General Assembly will meet
In special scf-iod on May XU in the city of
t levulau'l. From the receipt of this letter
you must not address any I'onimiiiiK ations
to roe, nor need you expert an answer
If you do. 1 have tn usnnds of letlnrs piled
up around me now and they ran never he
read, mueh less answered by one man. Dur
ing and since my illness the mail delivered at
niv bouse ha< exceeded too Idlers a day.
They romc from everybody and everywhere.
I must nlav the part of a wheel horse instead
of the leader of a great movement, and our
members are responsible for it. I ask through
the Journal that no one send letters to me. I
atu told by some to get lieu. If I hadllfiy
assistant* It would do no good, for It takes my
whole tirno to read over halt of tlio letter ,
unit In the middle of my work 1 am watted
on liy some com ml I tee who generally
misrepresent me after they leave
me, lor every memPerof the com mi tie- will
tell a different story. From now limll (he
General Assembly inerts 1 will receive no
committees and Answer no letters. Jt must
formulAle a plan for Urn future ami will not
ini interfered with. Let me re pest: fwd! re
eelie do committee*, receive no letters, nor
will f go anywhere at the request of members
of Hs-onihli*n. l ets is imperative. I must
lieve a ebaiiee tndo-oineltung of benetll for
the order, and I can't do It if I am to ell for
js hours a day reading letter* which hive
been answered and ro snswered In thn Jour
nal au<l Constitution. What 1 will say to the
General A-•nobly will is-said In tbe entire
order, and you must give me lime to pre
pare it.
We have had some trouble from drinking
menilier* and from men wlm talk about buy
lug gun* and dynamite. Ii men who posseoi
money enoug., to buy guns and dynamite
would invest It In the purchase of some well
selected work on labor, tliey would put the
money to good une. T hey will never iced guns
or dynamite in this country. Ills my opin
ion that a man who does not stud r the poli
ties of the natlou nod the wants of thn people
would make but little use of a rule. A man
who cannot vote intelligently, and
who will not watoli the man
ho vote- for aflnr he i* elected
r.aanot lie depended on to use either guu or
dynamite. If tbe heod and brain of a uiau
cannot work out the problem now confront
ing us. hi* band alone will never solve It. If
I bill my enemy, I silence him, it Is true, hut
Ido not convince him. I wnnld make a con
vert rather than a corpse of my essay. The
men who own capita) are not our enemies.
If that theory held good the workman of to
day would be the enemy of his fellow toiler
on the morrow, for after all i is how to acquire
capital and how to tiee it properly that we are
endeavoring to learn. No man of capital i*
necessarily the enemy of laliorers. On the
contrary, they must be brought closer
together. 1 am well an am that some ex
tremists will say l am advo< aling a weak
plan iind will say that bloodshed and destruc
tion of property alone will solve the problem.
If a man speaks such sentiments In an i
blv, read lor Inin Discharge which the Master
Workman repeats to the newly initiated who
Join our“arihyo( peace.” If In* repeats bis non
sense put him out. “In the hands of men en
tirely great, the pen is mightier than the
sword.” To that I add: In the hands of men
entirely mouth the gun is as harmless a*
ids sword. To our drinking members I
extend the hand of kindness. 1 hate the uses
to which ruin has been put, but it is mv duty
to roach down ami lift up a man who lias
fallen a victim to the use of liquor ir there
is such a man within sound of the secre
tary's voice when this is read I ask him
to stand erect on the floor of his assembly,
raise his hand to heaven, and repeat
these words: “I am a Knight of
Labor. 1 !• lieve that every man should
be free from tbe curse of slavery, whether the
slavery appear* in the shape of monopoly,
usury or unemiterance. The firmest link iu
the chain of oppression is the one 1 forge when
I drown maidmod and reason iu drink. No
man can ro’ me of tho brain my God has
given me unless I am a party to the theft. If
I drink to drown grief I bring grief to wife,
children and sorrowing friends. I add not
one iota of the of ham an hap
piness when I invite oblivion over
the rim of the glass. If one moment’s
forgetfulness or inattention to duty while
drunk brings defeat to the least of labor’s
plans, a lifetime of attention to duty can
repair the loss. 1 promise never again to nut
myself in such a position.” If every member
of the Knights of Labor would only pass
resolution to tioycott strong drink so far a* he
is concerned for five years, and would pledge
Ids word to study the labor question from Its
different standpoints, we would then
have an invincible host arraigned
on the sbie of Justice. We have, through
some unfortunate misunderstanding, incurred
the enmity of several trade* union*. While
I can find no excuse for the unmanly attack
made on us by seine of the*n people at the
time when we stood face to face with a most
perplexing question, neither can I see any
good reason why there should be any
cause for a quarrel. We must have
no clashing between tho moo of
labor’s arm ie*. lr I am the cause of
trouble I am ready at a moment’s notice to
make way for any one of my rivals whom the
(.unoral Assembly may select. When I joined
the Knights of Labor I left tho trades union.
I Uoieve that the objects of our order crone
first. I believe in combining nil the scattered
battalions of lalß>r’u mighty host in one grand
whole. Laisir-saving inventions, ••.earn. and
electricity have forever broken the power
of ono trade or division *r tabor
to stand aud legislate for itself alone, and
with the craft that selfishly legislates for it
self a'one, I have no sympathy. Well may w e
nay of the men who are fighting us: “Forgive
theui, Father, for they know not what they
do.” Hroak tlie power of tbe Knight* of La
bor and you baud labor, bound hand and
foot, to it* enemies. Y’cars ago 1 extended an
invitation to men of all trade* to become part
and parcel of the Knigiitsof Labor. To-day I
stand ready to make every honorable conces
sion, and to do everything in honor
to bring about better feeling be
tween the trades unions and the
Knigiitsof Labor. At tho special session of
the General Assembly the entire trouble can
aud must I>e sei tied. If mistakes have been
made they must be rectified, if wrongs have
been iuflicted they must be righted; but there
in one thing that will not be done while I
stand at the head of this organization—it will
not be used to further the Hcbcme* of indi
vidual*, clique* or parties, and it will lm su
bordinate to no other organization op earth.
TANARUS, V. Powpkri.Y, ii, If W.
CHICAGO'S FREIGHT HANDLERS
Chicago nml North western Men Apply
for Krinitatument Too L*t
Chicago, May 10.—All tbe railways in
the city resumed-operations this morning,
and are accepting and carrying alt the
freight offered without limit. The situa
tion. however, as affecting the freight
handlers Is still unsettled, and hss de
veloped unexpected phases. Tbe Balti
more land Ohio roud set its men to work
this morning, conceding them an eight
hour working day with nine hours pay.
The freight handlers of this road have not
been acting in concert with tbe other
city freight handlers, and gained their
victory by independent negotiations with
the company. Itis not known what ef
fect this concession will have upon the
other roads. A committee of tbe striking
freight handlersnt theChicagoandNorth
western road called upon the officials of
that road this morning, and expressed a
desire to return to work on Ihe old basis.
Tbe company replied that the men had
been glvi n full notice to return to work,
Lut had (ailed to do so. Asa consequence
the company bad its business seriously
Interfered with, anil had been at trouble
snd expense in procuring new men.
These fill the working quota ol the com
pany, and It bail no places to offer the
men who had gone out on the strike.
The Height handlers flocked back to
their former places of work this morning
to go to work, and a very large percent
age found their places tilled permanently.
At the Illinois Central yard 150 reported
for duty to-day, but only lifty were em
ployed. Only one or two roads took back
the old employes in a body.
CHICAGO'S LUMBER DISTRICT.
Crowds of Men Assemble to Wstrh the
Nature or the Week’s Opening.
Chicago, May 10.—Excitement over
the labor troubles ibis morning wus prin
cipally confined to the lumber district.
In that section great crowds assembled
at an early hour to see whether any of
the old hands in the yards and planing
mills would return to work. Along Blue
island avenue and Twenty-sooond street
the sidewalks were lined with men. and a
heavy patrol of policemen was on hand to
quell any disturbance. The only mill to
Mart up was that of I*. Woeliler A Cos.
Here HO men went to work
at eight hours with nine hours pay.
Thomas If. Lyon putsomeof hlateamsters
to work, but as they are employed tty tbe
month tbe circumstance did not attract
■Mt lUMUMi Later in the morning
all the sasb, door anil blind factories in
the district started up. About IJKH) men
went to work. They will got nine hours
pay for eight hours work. Tbe planing
mill men said they would start up, but
could not. ns they are dependent on the
lumber yards for material.
Ilea uin pilous at Chicago.
Chicago, May ID.—Tbe day was
marked by a resumption of work in all
the principal sasb, door and blind facto
ries in the oily on the basis of eight hours’
work and nine hours’ pay. One small
box makiug establishment resumed on
tbo same baals.
Work was resumed in all the north and
sou tli side lumber yards to-day on tbe old
basis of ten hours’ work and ten hours’
pay. The great lumber yards, planing
mills, and box factories in the West divi
sion ol the city, however, remained closed.
These combined interests employ 8,01)0
men and boys.
A Dividend Caused.
New York, May 10.—The directors of
the Third Avenue railroad, at their regu
lar monthly meeting to-day, ordered the
quarterly dividend pas-ed and stated
that they would cheerfully pass many
more liefore yielding to (Dotation ss to
their busiaess.
J PRICK*!# * TKAR.)
} SUKNIB ACOFY. t
SUPERVISING RAILROADS
THE INTER-STATE COMMERCE
BILL AGAIN DEBATED.
Mr Stanford Eipl.lm the Contract of
the I’aclflc Railroad* with tbe Paclff,
Steamship Company for Tonus*,—Mr,
Walthall Froml.e* to Support tho
Menaur* with Hla Vote.
W ashington, May 10.—The inter-State
commerce Dill vrus placed before tbe Sen
ate to-day. Mr. Ingalls proposed an
amendment, which was agreed to, giving
to the commission the right to report to
the United States Circuit Court and get
its speedy judgment on complaints when*
ever companies decline to obey tne order
of the commission.
Mr. Walthall addressed the Senate on
the bill. He said that although In some ol
its features it did not meet his approval
yet ho would vote for it as tho first step
in legislation on this subject. Even if it
were proven that railroad companies
were not now oppressing the people he
would still support any reasonable Con
gressional measure looking to their su
pervision and control.
POSSIBILITY OF OPPRESSION.
He would do so because of the undent*
hie lact that such oppression in the abv
senee of legal restraint was po.Hihie aud
that no adequate protection oould be af
forded by Slate law.
An amendment offered bv Mr. Conger
was agreed to modifying the first section ,
ol the bill which relates to the class of
companies to which the bill is made ap
plicable. In case of common carriers whose
routes are partly by railroad and partly
by water, when both are used for contin
uous passage or shipment from one State
to another, Mr. Conger’s amendment lim
its tbe bill to such ol those companies a,
are "under common contrul, manage
ment yr arrangement.”
EFFECT OF THE BILL.
Considerable debate arose between
Messrs. Beck. Aldrich, Wilson of lowa,
Brown. Sewell, Stanford, Vau VVyck, Mc-
Millan aud Gorman us to tbe effect of the
bill iu its present amended condition, and
as it might be further modified by various
proposed amendments, some of which
have not yet been formally offered. Mr.
Gorman, in tbe course of bis rsmnrks,
said that Mr. Itigulls’ suggestion as to
the interest of the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad was an entire mistake. The bill
would not prove to be in the interest of
that road, nor would the Camden amend
ment.
Mr. Stanford, in the course of remarks
made in replv to Mr. Beck, and to some
question of Mr. Van Wyck, said tho
hardest competition which the l’acifio
railroads had to meet was the Cape Horn
route. Speaking of tbe bill as a whole,
Mr. Stanford said with emphasis that it
passed it uieaut complete commercial
disaster.
TONNAGE CHARTERED.
In reply to a question by Mr. Vai
Wyck as to whether the Tacilic roads bad
not at tbe time stated controlled the
f'acific Mail steamship line by paying it
$1,000,000 a year in order to stop competi
tion, Mr. Stanford said tbe railroads hail
chartered so many tons in those ships, and
paid them some amount for them—not so
much as bad been stated—and filled
them with such freignt as they did not
want to carry on the roads, but that was
don, not to stop competition in a proper
sense but to preclude ruinous competi
tion. He would ns* say that there was
any blackmail in it. Ho far as the rail
roads were concerned it was business.
Mr, Sewell said II the bill became a law
with the Camden Ktneudment in it. it
would destroy a railroad srstem that wo
bad been fifty years in building. At 5:50
o’clock, without further action on the
bill, tbe Henate adjourned.
SEIZURE OF THE SMACK.
Mr. Dawes Offers Resolution* Asking
an Inquiry.
Washington. May 10.—In the Senate
to-day Mr. Dawes offered the following
resolutions, both of which were agreed to
without debate:
/Ut'ilntd, That the President be requested
to communiculo witli the senate, if in bis
opinion not iiu oinpaiibie with public interest,
any information iu possession of the govern
ment concerning the alleged seizure of the-
I nited States Ashing ves el David .1. Adams>
while engaged in lawful commerce in one of
the hurts of tile Dominion o! Canada, amt
what measures, if any, had been taken to
protect Hailing vessels of the Untied Spates
while engaged In lawful commerce io ports of
the Dominion of Canada.
Hmolrrd, That the Committee on Foreign
Relation* he Instructed to inquire whether
the United Htatea Ashing vessel David J.
Adams lias been seized while engaged in law
ful commerce m a oort of the Dominion of
Canada, and what measures, if any, ure nec
essary to protect the persons and property of
American citizen- while engaged in lawful
commerce in port* of the Dominion of Cana
da, and to report by bill or otherwise.
KKYE PROPONES RETALIATION. *
Mr. Frye introduced a bill to limit tba
commercial privileges of vessels of for
eign countries in ports ol the United;
State* to such purposes as are accorded to
American vessels in ports of such for
eign countries. (This bill provides that
when any foreign country shall exclude
any American vessels from any commer
cial privileges in the ports of such foreign
country the President shall issue bis
proclamation limiting the commercial
privileges of vessels of the same charac
ter of such foreign country In ports of tbe
United States to such privileges as arc
accorded to such American vessels.) A
copy of this bill was also Introduced in
the House to-day by Mr. Dlngley, of
Maine.
Tbe Senate and House committees will
be stirred up by tbe New England men
to net upon them pron ptly. Mr. Frye is
a member ol both the C-niinlttee on Com
mcrue, to which his bill was referred, and
ol tbo Committee on Foreign Relations,
which wa* introduced by one of the reso
lutions introduced by Mr. Dawes
to investigate the seizure. Mr.
Klee la a member of the
[louse Committee on Foreign At.
falrs.to which hie resolution was referrod.
Mr. Dingley is a member of the Commit
tee on Shipping, to whiclx his bill waa
referred. AH the facia in tTie cae will tie
brought out speedily, and energetic
action by tbe administration and Congress
way be expected.
A Monster Petition.
Washington, May it).— Represent*
tive Morrow Ua* received a monster peti-
Mon from the Knight* of Labor of Cali
fornia. It I* over 2,000 feet long and con
taius the names of over bo.UOU persons.
Every Mate, county and inuninipul
offler. and ever/ Knight of Labor
of California has signed tbe petition.
Every mule adult in many of the codnttee
of the State lias put his name to it. It
prays ior action on tbe part of Congress,
either by appropriate legislation or by a
change in the present treaty with China
us may be necessary to forever problolt
the further immigration of Chinese to the
Unbed ■'tales.