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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.