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V< L IV. ••CONSPIRACY” SAYS LANDIS forked In the Admission of Utah To Statehood. SEVERE ROAST FOR ROBERTS. flornwnism Denounced In Sever est Terms on the Floor of the House. \ Washington special says: The house resumed the debate on the Rob erts case at 11 o’clock Wednesday. The galleries were again well filled, ni o»t of the occupants, as on Tuesday, being ladies. Some minor business preceded the resumption of the debate. .Mr, Landis, of Indiana, then deliv erfj a sensational speech. He contended that Mr. Roberts was not entitled to admission be muM he had violated Utah’s com pact with the United States. Mr. Landis resented as unworthy of belief the charge made, he said, by Senator Rawlins that the president had ap pointed notorious polygamists. The senator might as well accuse the house of endorsing polygamy since it bad passed a bill appropriating $40,- OOH fcr the agricultural college at Lo gan, Utah. “The president of that college,” said he, “is a polygamist, living in open and notorious polygamy with three wives. One of his leading professors is a polygamist, living with two wives. The trustee is a polyga mist, living in open and notorious polygamy with seven wives (laughter) and they have been blessed with thirty nine children. (Laughter.) He further asserted that three of the members of the first presidency and ten of the twelve apostles who signed the petition for amnesty were polygamists. “Of these fifteen leaders who solemnly pledged their nonor and faith to the future obedience to the law of the church of Christ and Latter Dav Saits, three have probably kept their pledges, namely, Wilford NVooa rnff, Franklin D. Rodgers and An thony 11. Lunn. After detailing the polygamous rela tions of other Mormon leaders, he continued: “Pages might be written of the vio lation of the compact by which Utah was giv* n a star. Mr. Speaker, that star is a fallen star; it does not shine with the brilliancy and luster of her lister stars. It shines by cunning ind by deceit, by treachery, by fraud. It speaks of crime and of violation of the most solinn covenant ever made between territory and the Union.’ (Applause.) “We have as a representative from Utah a man with three wives, the last one taken, the report says, as near as we can ascertain, before 1890, I be lieve. And he did not deny that that woman became his plural wife after Utah was taken into the American Puion. And I here charge that Utah came in as the result of a deliberate conspiracy to free that people from the federal authority, and thus enable them to live their religion unhindered. “In 1896 Mr. Roberts was a candi date for congress, and the church dis ciplined and defeated him because the time was not then ripe for a polyga mist to come to the American congress. He became a candidate in 1898, and the man who placed him before the convention stated that he ran by per mission of the church. In 1898 we were engaged in a war with a foreign foe. American manhood was away from home and all absorbed in coun try. “Valor was at war and virtue "was at prayer. The north and the south un d*=r une flag! They hoped in this gen eral condition of magnanimity to come back, and it was then this perjured cheat attempted to crawl in. Sir, it came by itself, but it will be hurled •ack boldly and in the open day by outraged indignation of the Amer '•can people, (Applause.) And across Joo threshold will be written in let ters large enough to be read from the National capitol to the Mormon tem- P e - ‘No polygamist shall ever sit as a mciuber of the American congress.’” lAonlauseA bkyan was caustic. Constitute the Hen That Lays tlie Golden Egc. William Jennings Bryan made a i°urney into Connecticut Wednesday, pressing meetings at Stamford and and then hurried back to * eu * or k, that he might keep his en gement to address the public meet rm Jersey City Wednesday night. “11 v^ ew Haven speech he said: I “publican party is afraid to Len t^ USts because they constitute the pad ld y s the golden egg in cam trali meS ’. trusts are bad, intol nPpi Bad things not be tolerated in America.” BRYAN VISITS BELMONT. Nebraskan Is a Guest of New Yorker at a “Private” Dinner. William Jennings Bryan was the guest of honor at a dinner given by O. H. P. Belmont Monday night at his residence in New York. The dinner was private, no reporters being ad mitted, and to a penciled note Mr. Bel mont made response: “There will be nothing at, during or after the dinner for publication. The dinner is a purely social affair and of no public interest.” Mr. Bryan was the only guest of national importance, but big men in Ta.*many hall were present. Bryan took breakfast Tuesday morn ing at the Hoffman house with a num ber of free silver and single tax leaders. Subsequently he received the newspa per reporters. When asked if he made a harmony speech at the Belmont din ner the night before Mr. Bryan an swered: “I don’t know if I used the word harmony or not, but I always speak in such a harmonious strain that no one can object unless he disagrees on the issue. As a matter of fact I talked very little on politics.” Colonel Bryan declined to discuss the letter of Robert B. Roosevelt and others protesting against his entertain ment as the guest of the Democratic club. About noon Dr. Leveson, of Brooklyn, an Imperialist, call with two Filipinos,but Mr. Bryan refused to see them. Mr. B\ au’s callers were nearly a I silverites. The gold Dem ocrats held aloof. Tuesday night Mr. Bryan dined at the Democratic club as the guejt of President Kellar will twelve others. LEYDS IS CONFIDENT. Transvaal Envoy Dealarea Boers Will Ultimately Trsinph. The Brussels correspondent of The New York World obtained the follow ing statement from Dr. Leyds, the Transvaal envoy extraordinary in Europe, before he left for Paris on his diplomatic mission: “In view of the naw and critical phase into which the war is now en tering, I send to the people of America a few words on the suspension of hostilities, a desire for which appears to be gaining strength on both sides of the Atlantic. “I am' as confident as ever of the ultimate triumph of our cause. A temporary success ef the British arms would merely have the effect of infus ing fresh vigor into our men and strengthening their determination to hold out at whatever cost.” DEBATE ON ROBERTS CASE. Chairman Tayler Begins 'Flubt on Utah Man In the House. A Washington dispatch says: Enor mous crowds w r ere present in the house Tuesday to witness the opening of the debate in the Roberts case. Fully three-fourths of the spectators were women. They occupied the re served gallery tier, and their bright gowns illumined the gloom of the cavernous recess about the spacious hall. The diplomatic gallery alone was a yawning chasm. With brief preliminaries the resolu tions to exclude Roberts and the mi nority resolutions to permit him to be sworn in and then expelled, were laid before the house, and without any agree ment as to a vote, Mr. layler, of Ohio, began his speech, in support of the majority resolutions. CAROLINA’S WHISKEY PROFITS. Pal met A State Accumulates a Snug Sum From the Dispensariei. The statement of the South Carolina state dispensary for the year 1899 shows that during the year the amount of prafits going to the counties, towns and cities was $220,492.35. The net profit to the state, which go to the credit of the school fund, are $193,- 589.49, making the total net profits $414,181.84. The total gross profits for the year were $485,520.79; the total receipts for the year were $1,638,939.20, including the $46 073.24 surplus brought over from last year. The tatal disburse ments were $1,495,818.26, leaving a balance of $142,121 in the state treas ury on December 31st. The aggregate purchases made during the year -were $1,158,081.32. REMOVAL OF DISABILITIES Of Certain Confederates I. Recommended By Pension Committee. The house committee on pensions has ordered a favorable report on the bill making service m the Spanish- American war sufficient to remove dis abilities against those who aided or abetted the southern troops during the war of the rebellion, in the mat ter of drawing pensions. At P res ®° fc the inhibition appU<* to chil dren, heirs and others related to those serving or assisting the Confederacy and the removal of this inhibition is more particularly designed to applyto the parents serving in the war with Spain. “Justice to All, Malice Toward /None.” MACON. GA. SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 1900. BRITONS HOLD THEIR GROUND Baller Advances While Burghers Slowly Retreat. BATTLES ARE OCCURING DAILY, No Definite Results Can Be Learn ed at War Office In London. A London cablegram of Sunday says: It is evident from General Buller’s dispatch to the war office and the ad* vices to the Associated Press from Spearman’s camp that a big battle is now being fought* As far as can be gathered from these dispatches the re sult remains undecided. The war office shortly after mid night Saturday night posted the fol lowing dispatch from General Buller, dated Spearman’s camp, January 20, evening: “Gen. Clery, with a part vf Gen. Warren’s force, has been in action from 6a. m. till 7a. m. today. By a judicious use of his artillery he has fought his way up, capturing ridge after ridge, for about three miles. “The troops are now bivouacking on the ground he has gained, but the main position is still in front of them. “The casualties were not heavy. About 100 wounded has been brought in by 6:30 p. m. The number of killed has not yet been ascertained.” BOTH SIDES STUBBORN. Nothing was received in London Monday to indicate that any conclusive result had been reached by the British forces in the region of the Upper Tugela, and the lack of information regarding what men and munitions the Boers have in reserve prevents accurate determination of the measure of real successes attending the two Aft tGixt could He said was *, British seem to be doggedly advancing in the face of an equally stubborn re sistance. At the close of Bunday the Boers had merely evacuated their first line of defense to take up another semi-circular position a short distance in the rear, recalling the old burgher ruse by which the Boers have previ ously managed to entice the British into fatal traps. Dispatches from elsewhere in South Africa Monday morning give trivial details of minor happenings and do not illuminate the situation. Early on Sunday morning General Warren commenced a flanking move ment on the extreme left of the Boers’ position. The infantry advanced at 5 in the morning along the side of Ta hamyana mountain, which ends at Splonkop. The British carefully work ed along the hills until within 1,000 yards of a commanding kopje, on which the Boers were concentrated, concealed behind immense boulders strewn thickly over the hill. The artillery opened the attack and the batteries worked continuously, pouring tons of shrapnel anion* the Boers, w r ho devoted their attention to musketry firing on the British infan try, The Boers stuck to their rooky fastnesses with the greatest tenacity and at the conclusion of the day, the British had only advanced across a few ridges. The Boers apparently have few guns and they did little damage. Captain Honley.of the Dub lin Fusiliers, fell mortally wounded while leadingh is men to seize a fresh point of vantage. General Buller reported nothing of his operations on Monday and official and press intelligence showed the Brit ish as bivouced Sunday night on the ground they had won after two dava’ fighting. The war office turned every body out of the lobbies at midnight Monday night. Military men assume that fighing must have taken place on Monday that it was probably more se vere than on the preceding days. Gen. Buller would not be likely to give the Boers leisure to add to the elabor ate entrenchments, to arrange their artillery and to concentrate their forces, prohis call convention. Will Meet In Chicago In June To Name a National Ticket. A call was issued at Chicago Tues day for the prohibition national con vention to nominate candidates for president and vice-president. Accord ing to the call the convention will meet at the coliseum, Chicago, Uh , at 10 o’clock a. m. on Wednesday, June 27, 1900. Cotton Mill For Convicts. A bill was introduced in the Mis sissippi senate providing for the erec tion of a cotton factory by the peni tentiary board of control, to be operat ed by State convicts. FUNDS ARE WANTED For Improvement of Coosa River From Gadsden to Wetumpka. TWO STATES ARE WORKING FOR IT WIH Be Meana of Opening Traffic Ou the River —Atlanta’s Military Turk Bill. Congressman Burnett, of the Sev enth Alabama district, will ask for an appropriation from this congress of $50,000 for the improvement of Cdosa river from Gadsden to Wetumpka, Ala. The Coosa river is formed by the Eto wah and Oostanaula at Rome, Ga., and is now naivgable from Rome to the locks, thirty miles below Gadsden. The river continues to Wetumpka twenty miles from Gadsden, and forms part of the Alabama. There is great interest in North Georgia and Alabama in this proposi tion. Congressman Maddox is inter ested in it and attended a conven tion during the summer at Gadsden when an “appropiation” was urged. Mr. Burnett has been offered a hear ing by the river and harbor committee in February, and has asked that dele gations from Rome, Gadsden, Wetump kn and Montgomery be present to urge the matter. On this committee are Bankhead, of Alabama; Lester, of Georgia, and Sparkman, of Florida, and Catchings, of Mississippi, and with this southern strength it is be lieved the matter will be favorably re ported. Senator Hawley, chairman of the committee on military affairs, inform ed Senator Clay, of Georgia, Wednes day that the senate committee would not wait for a joint hearing on the Atlanta military park bill and that the committee would consider the bill January 31st. Representative Elliott has intro duced a bill to establish a branch home of the National Home for Dis abled Volunteer Soldiers at Castle Pinckney, in Charleston harbor, South Caroliua, or some other eligible site in or near that city for the use of dis abled officers and enlisted men of the volunteer army and navy of the United States. MAHAN y LETTtIL Famous and Widely Discussed Document of Our Naval Ex pert Is Made Public. A New York dispatch says: Follow ing is the now famous letter of Cap tain A. T. Mahan, the naval expert, which has caused wide discussion in Great Britain. Captain Mahan an nounces that his sympathies are with England, but begs the public to re frain from public meetings at which resolutions of sympathy for one side or the other are offered: “May I suggest to our citizens gen erally, and to the Boer sympathizers especially, the inadvisability of pub lic meetings on this question. There are very many among us, myself cer tainly one, who feel as strongly in fa vor of Great Britain as others do of her opponents. “Let us all be careful not to pro voke one another by immoderate ex pressions of opiniqn, to which public meetings tend. Those of one side provoke retaliation on the other side —they make it necessary—for in the problems of the near future good un derstanding with Great Britain is too important for us to permit the impres sion that we are all against her here, and we may find ourselves in the un seemly state of party divisions for and against foreign states, as in the be ginning of this century between the French and British parties. “I avail myself of this opportunity to say that, in my judgment, not only is the cause of Great Britain just, but to have failed to uphold it would have been to fail in national honor.” CENSUS OF PORTO RICO. Inhabitants of Island Number 957.000. Ponce Credited With 56,000. The official census of Puerto Rico has been finished. San Juan has 32,- 500 inhabitants. Ponce has nearly twice as many residents, the number being 56,000. There are 957,000 inhabitants on the island. COUNT BONI A DAISY. T*llB of His Loises and Expresses Opinion of Editor Bodays. Count Boni de Castellane and the Countess de Castellane, nee Gould, arrived at New York Monday on the French liner La Bretagne from Havre, France. The count was willing to talk about the stories of his losses by stock speculation and gambling. Con cerning De Bodays, editor of The Figaro, who published an elaborate story about the affair, the count said: “De Bodays! He is a , well what is De Bodays? De Bodays is a liar. He is a scoundrel, a , say anything you like .about him. He is a , what is such a person?” PRITCHARD SPEAKS Against Proposed North Carolina Disfranchising Amendment. VIGOROUSLY OPPOSES THE CHANGE Keplie* To Senator Morgan, Who Had Previously Spoken On the Sub ject—A Day of Oratory. Monday was another day of oratory in the senate. Mr. Pritchard, of North Carolina, delivered a long and carefully prepared address upon the race ques tion in the south, his remarks being addressed particularly against the pro posed amendment to the constitution of North Carolina,which if enacted, he said, would disfranchise a large class of voters, both white and black. He was followed by Mr. Turner, of Washington, in a speech on the Phil ippine question in which he arraigned the administration policy. Mr. Hoar chairman of the judiciary committee, reported back the resolu tion of Mr. Rawlins, of Utah, for an inquiry upon polygamy with a recom mendation that the first and last para graphs of the resolutions be adopted. The report was accepted and the reso lution as amended adopted. As pass ed the resolution read: “To what extent polygamy is prac ticed or polygamous marriages enter ed into in the United States or in places over which they have jurisdic tion. “What, if any, steps should be taken or measures enacted for the preven tion of polygamy in the United States and places over which they have juris diction.” Mr. Pritchard, of North Carolina, then called up his resolution. His ad dress was in the nature of a reply to that delivered several days ago by Senator Morgan. When he remarked that the cry of “negro domination" was the answer given to every propo sition made by the Republicans, Mr. Tillman, of South Carolina, interrupt ed to say that little else was to be ex pected when the admistration contin ually thrust negro postmasters on the people of the south. “There you have it,” retorted Mr. fiommaudiueihW t <a»’ would cry, ‘negro’ back at me.” “We say nigger in the south, not negro,” replied Mr. Tillman. “Let us stick to the facts.” “The sanator may use whatever ex pression he likes. I’m satisfied to use mine," said Mr. Pritchard. Mr. Pritchard argued that the ques tion involved the peace and welfare of the nation and the stability of our institutions. The constitution in plain, mandatory and unequivocal lan guage guaranteed to each state a re publican form of government. But according to Mr. Morgan’s contention, said Mr. Pritchard, the constitution could be violated if it became neces sary to violate it in order to maintain Democratic rule in the south. That was nullification, pure and simple. Mr. Pritchard said that Louisiana was one of the states which, by con stitutional enactment, had deprived certain of its citizens of privileges guaranteed them by the federal con stitution, and he said that the Demo cratic party of North Carolina was at tempting to secure the adoption of a proposition to amend the constitution of that state in a similar way. FIGHT AGAINST ROADS. Florida Commlwion Want Railroad Fares Cut to Three Cent*. A big legal fight began Monday in the circuit court at Jacksonville Fla., between the state railroad commission vs. various Florida railroads to com pel them to reduce the fare to three cents. The fight will be warm on both sides, the railroads refusing to adopt rules promulgated by the commissioners. To Unseat Robbins. The house committee on elections No. 1 divided on party lines and by a vote of 6 to 2 decided to recommend the seating of William F. Aldrich, Re publican, who contests the seat now held by Gaston A. Robbins, Demo crat, for the Fourth congressional dis trict of Alabama. BRYAN IN CINCINNATI. Nebraskan Deslares No Farmer or La borer Cau Afford to Be a Republican. Col. W. J. Bryan address sd an audience of 5,000 people at Music hall, Cincinnati, Wednesday night on “Pending Questions” under the aus pices of the Cincinnati Bimetallic Council. He announced as his text that the time had come when no farmer or laborer could afford to be a Bepub lican. He said that party had entirely changed front. He quoted from Lin coln’s letter to a Boston Bepublican meeting in 1859, and also from his first message, in which Lincoln said that he feared monarchial tendencies in the reoubtic. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE GEORGIA COLORED INDUSTRIAL ORPHANS* HOM E. THE MAJORITY AGAINST QUAY Report Declares He Is Not Entitled To Seat In the Senate. M’ENERY REPLIES TO PRITCHARD Louisiana Senator Makes Appeal For White Supremacy In the South. At the opening of the senate Tues day, Mr. Turley, of Tennessee, re ported from the committee on privi leges and elections a resolution on the case of former Senator Quay. The resolution follows: “That the Hon. Matthew S. Quay is not entitled to take his seat in this body as a senator from the state of Pennsylvania.” That resolution was the judgment of the majority of the committee. The minority of the committee filed a re port declaring that Mr. Quay was en titled to a seat in the senate. The majority r report, opposing the seating of Mr. Quay, was signed by Senators Caffery, Pettus, Turley, Har ris and Burrows, the last named the only Republican signing it. The mi nority report bears the signatures of Senators Hoar, Chandler, Pritchard and McComas, all Republicans and advocates of giving the seat to Mr. Quay. Mr. Pettigrew, of South Dakota, of fered a resolution, which on objection went over, calling on the president for General J. C. Bate’s report relating to the treaty with the sultan of Sulu. Resolutions were adopted calling upon the president for correspondence with Great Britain concerning the Clayton- Bulwer treaty; with the Colombian government as to the Panama Canal Company of France. The Allen resolution calling upon the treasury for information ae to all communication with the National City bank of New York concerning the old onotnm Bnpse transfer was adopted, bis Philippine speech Degun iu.vu-.-j and Mr. Ross then spoke on his Phil ippine resolution. The Ross resolution declared the constitutional provisions do not, un aided by act of congress, extend over the Philippines and Porto Rico; that the United States could take sover eignty of those islands unrestrained by the constitution, etc. It was Mr. Ross’s maiden speech. Mr. McEnery, democrat, of Louisi ana, then was recognized to deliver his announced speech on the resolu tion of Mr. Pritchard, Republican of North Carolina, relating io the pro posed amendment to the constitution of North Carolina. He said the race question was one of the most serious which had ever confronted the nation and said: “So far the best intellects of the south have endeavored to find some remedy to make the south prosperous, not withstanding the vast number of ignorant blacks, to make her social position clear and defined in the separation of the races and to place her on a political basis that will insure stability to her institutions; make the ballot box the sacred depository of the liberties of the peo ple instead of the charnel house where under negro domination they were as sassinated; to prevent them by means of the ballot and superior numbers from again getting control of the state and inaugurating the era of terrorism and corruption which prevailed under this government from 1868 to 1877. “The recollection of that period is like a hell-born dream and one is almost unnerved at ths mention. It is the darkest and most shameful period in the history of the human race. The wonder now is that by force it was not sooner terminated by an outraged people. “Annul the legislation of Louisiana, which has for its sole object the ad vancement of both races, the progress of the state, socially, politically and industrially, and inaugurate again ne gro domination in that state the tragic period of 1876 will be re-enacted. “There never has been any disposi tion on the part of the people of Louisi ana to deprive the negro of any of his political or civil rights. There has been and will continue to be deter mination, fixed and unalterable, to deny him social piivileges on equality with the whites, to prohibit him from aspiring to an equality in social life which nature forbids.” Mr. McEnery said that the suffrage article in the Louisiana constitution was approved by all citizens of the state. “From the day that the -negro, was enfranchised,” said Mr. McEnery “and negro domination prevailed in the state, until 1876, when it was overthrown, there was an era of cor ruption, vice and tyranny not equaled in any age. ” NO. 51.