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VOL XXX. NO. 31:
COLUMBUS GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 9. ISs.h.
AT HIS SAME OLD TRICKS
C. H. SIMMONS IS A RRRHTKO IN NEW
YORK FOR STEALING MONEY.
MATTERS IN MONTGOMERY.
Thf Man Who «hi ’*i»rrlonr«I lor III*)
Aiigu»l* Hank Knblier}', on H«-|>re-
Ion* of HI* Friend*- A
Queer Election < ajier.
Atlanta, Oct. 8.—In the distribution of
offices which the people of Georgia in
dulged in laBt Wednesday, Dade county
and the Forty-fourth Senatorial district
came to the front with a rather queer and h(g arre8t WM aworn “ ut in a j<uticd coart
rare election episode. T. J. Lumpkin was b c# C . Brown, a Court street retail
The Wheel* of .Instice Grinding on Ever?
Corner—Gov. "eay at Home.
Montgomery, Oct. 8.—This is fall court
week iu Montgomery. The City Court,
County Court and Chancery Court met this
morning and began to grind out justice,
to say nothing of the Poliee Court and
numerous justice’s courts.
In the City Coart a grand jury was
organized, and will proceed to look after
the criminals. The docket will be taken
up regularly next week.
CHARGED WITH RIFLING A SAFE.
W. B. Dense, a young man of respecta
ble appearance, who recently came here
from Macon, Ga., was arrested this morn
ing on a serious charge. The warrant for
THE MILLS BILL RIVAL.
SENATOR ALLISON PRESENT" THE
SUBSTITUTE TO THE SENATE.
He Make* a Long SpMfh in Favor of It.
and Proini*** .More -Senator Vance
Defend* the Mill* BUI—The
People'* Interest*.
a tandidate for Senator but was defeated, ^^ry merchant. Brown alleges that
His friends however, voted for him in th., he went ^ hJfl 9tore yef(U;rda /. accom-
saine election for Itenrcwnt at it e. and pani<;(1 by that * he Brown
was
* were countea n £“ drinking and went to sleep, aud when be close. Mr. Allison said it was impossible
the candidates jor mat awoke Dense was gone aud his Brown’s to say when tbe Senators would re
same election for Representative,
when the votes were counted he had
majority over the ca^d .dates fort ha. awoke Den« waa gone and his" ■ Brown’s:
office. Politics is tnily a fine artt in« the Mfe had beeQ r « Dbed of ^ Brown
HLate ‘j L'Jinpk D PI . y charges Dense with the theft. Dense gave
at home is evidently of ^ ^ Senate and and will have a hearing to-morrow.
Washington, Oct. S.—The Senate, at
12:40 tbi* morning, proceeded to the con
sideration of the tariff bill. Tbe reading
in full was dispensed wit a, and tbe Senate
substitutes was ordered to be first consid
ered.
Mr. Harris asked Mr. Allison, who is in
charge of tbe bill, to fix the time at which
the general debate on the bill should
his people want him
House at the same~ti;ne.
PENSIONS FOR DISABLED SOLDIERS.
The act of 1887 for the relief of married
and disabled soldiers does not fix the date
for the second payment and inquiries are
constantly being made of the Executive
Department by beneficiaries when they
can get their money. In answer to these,
and to fix a date definitely, with the rea
sons therefor, the Governor has issued the
following executive order, which gives all
the information necessary:
Executive Department, Atlanta,
Ga., Oct. 6.—Inquiries having been re
ceived at this office in reference to the sec
ond payment to disabled soldiers under
tbe act of Oct. 24,1887, and no date for
said payment being fixed by said act, fur
ther than that they shall be nude within
twelve months from the 21th of Oct., 1888,
and the prospect being that the clerical
force of tlii* department will be fully oc-
cuped by tbe heavy work incident to the
meeting of the Legislature, and the large
number of commissions for county officers
which must be prepared and sent out in
January,and it being possible that the Leg
islature may increase tne amount of boun
ties under said act, or the number of bene
ficiaries under it. It is therefore
Ordered, That blanks for applications
for bounty under said act be prepared and
forwarded io the Ordinaries of the several
counties by the 20th day of January, and
that payments be promptly made us soon
as such applications are returned, exam
ined and aoproved,
By t in- Governor. J. B. Gordon,
Jam. T. Nihbkt, Governor.
.Sec. Ex. Dep’t.
’TWA8 HIS NATURE SO TO DO.
The public will remember the celebrated
Augusta bank robDery, about which so
much was said aud written a few years
ago. < Lie of t he thieves, C. II. Simmons, a
young in.in hailing from Now York State,
was caught, convicted and sent to the pen
itentiary. His New York friends and rela
tive made great and persistent efforts to
obtain his pardon and release. New York
Congressmen joined in the petition, aud
Augusta people were not behind in the ap
peal for executive clemency. It has not
been a great while since the Governor,
yielding to these petitions and endorse
ments, the representations made, the youth
and alleged previous good character of the
convict, ana the length of time already
served by him, had him discharged from
the penitentiary. New York has been
well reoaid for the interest in the matter,
as .Simmons is behind the bars in Albany,
New York, now charged with the robbery
of (30,000 in bonds from a buggy in front
of a bank iu that city.
Col. Towers, principal keeper, received
a letter to-day from the prosecuting attor
ney of Albany county asking for a tran
script of the Georgia penitentiaty record
of Simmons. The probability is that Sim
mons will serve a term in the penitentiary
at Albany.
THE AMENDMENT HOPELESSLY DEAD.
The election returns received by the
Secretary of State at this date are not com
plete, but they are sufficient to settle the
defeat of the constitutional amendment.
All the counties have been heard from
save about a dozen, and from what is
known of them, the total vote in the State
will show a majority against the amend
ment not far from 10,000. When it is con
sidered that there was no effort made any
where iu behalf of the amendment, and
the country vote was left to its own sweet
will, tbe majority against it is small, the
surprise being that it was not a great deal
larger.
NO TROUBLE ABOUT HIS SALARY.
Capt. Bob Irvin, of the comptroller-
general’s office was distributing his salary
around among provision merchants Satur
day and during its process gave one dealer
a $20 gold piece instead of a silver half
dollar. Capt. “Gum” as he is called by
familiar friends spent two sleepless nights
and a restless Sunday trying to locate the
loss, and was scouring the streets at an
early hour this morniug. The honest
dealer returned the gold piece, aud the
business of the State iu the comptroller’s
office is now proceeding as
smoothly as usual. When State officials
recklessly throw (20 gold pieces about for
silver dollars, it raises the suspicion of a
ofdoubt the complaint about small salaries.
A PROFESSIONAL GOOSE THIEF.
In the Recorder's Court this morning
Albert Jackson, colored, a famous goose
thief, was convicted of larceuy and fined
$25 aud costs. He has made a specialty of
stealing and Belling geese. Felder Liv
ingston was also convicted of larceny and
fined $10. Quite a number of smaller case3
were disposed of.
THE FUNERAL RITES.
The funeral of the late A. F. Williamson
took place at bis old home, Lowndesboro,
yesterday. He was Coroner of Montgomery
county and for many years an honored
resident of this city.
OOVERNOR SEAY AT HOME AGAIN.
Governor Seay has returned irom his
Summer stay at Blount Springs.
Major Sol. Palmer, Stale Superintendent
of Education, has returned from Gunters-
ville, having been quarantined out of
Montgomery twenty days.
A BUSY DAY IN THE CITY.
The cotton market is a little flat to-dav,
but the streets are crowded and this is
Montgomery’s busiest day of the season so
far. The weather is fine, and the fanners
are {licking and marketing their cotton
very rapidly. The bulk of the crop will
bo out aud sold by the last of this month.
BLAINE IN MICHIGAN.
say
sign their right of speaking
on the bill. It was a very
important subject, taking in every interest
and every industry of the country. It
seemed to him that he ought not to take
any responsibility respecting it. He com
curred with the Senator from Tennessee in
the desire that the bili should be proceed
ed with as rapidly as possible.
Mr. Harris remarked that there was not
a Senator but who hod a well defined and
fixed opinion as to the principle that
! corn and meat if it could not be disposed of
in foreign markets.
HOW IT WOULD BE THEN.
If the American producers were con
fined to the home market, they would
j have to do what the American manufac
turers did when they found themselves in
the presence of an overstocked market,
shut down their works and turn the
blessed American laborer into the streets
to beg bread for himself and children.
The Democratic party, he said, had for
the last tea years made honest efforts to
reduce the taxes to the requirements of
the Government, and had been, at every
step, thwarted oy the Republican oarty.
REPUBLICAN INCONSISTENCY.
Tbe Finance Committee acknowledged '
the imperious necessity of a reduction, but
blamed first the President of the United
States for the existence of the surplus, and
said that he could hare expended it in pay
ing a premium of 30 per cent to their
friends, the bond holders.
It is very true that he could, said Mr.
Vanca, or he could have squandered it as
countless millions have been squandered
under the administration of his predeces
sors, but he did not choose to do it.
THEY DEFEAT ALL STEPS TO REFORM.
They say, in the second place, that the
responsibility rest on the party that con
trols the House ol Representatives, and
that this is the first bill which the House
has sent to the Senate for reducing the
revenue in severol years. Nobody will be
deceived by that, for it is as well known
IN HIS ROBE OF ERMINE.
AN ENTHUSIASTIC MEETING
MELVILLE \Y. FULLER CLOTHED WITH
THE MAJESTY OF OFFICE.
He s****ar* that He Wilt, a* Chief Justice
of the United State*. Adminl«ter Jus
tice Faithfully and Impartially.
According to the Law.
Of the Exp««iti»n Hoard—Veteran'* Com
mittee Meeting—Exhibits and Note*.
The Exposition Board of Directors held
their regular weekly meeting last night,
and no meeting ever showed more enthu
siasm for a good object than was shown by
some of Columbus’s best business men iu
the coming Exposition. The reports of
the President and Secretary showed
splendid work all along the line. Every de
partment is rapidly filling up. and pa'rties
who intend gettiug advantageous spaces
had better come forward before it is too
late, as onlv a limited amount of space cau
now be had.
Letters have been received from the Ala
bama State Agricultural Society and from
Washington, Oct. S. — Chief Justice
Fuller took hts oath of office, aud assumed
the active duties of his position to-day.
An hour before the time tor the opening
of the court, tbe narrow space allotted to the Department of Agriculture and Immi
the general public in the court chamber, gration. which promise every possible aid
was crowded by men and women, who io the Exposition from “our sister State."
wanted to witness the ceremony of the the vetebass’ meeting.
installation of a chief jastice. and at that „ , _ . , _ , ,
time the sore trials of the attaches of the ^ esterday at « o clock, at the Exposition
marshal’s office began. It was an orderly, office, there was an interesting and en-
well-mannered throng of Congressmen, thusiastic meeting of the special commit-
attorneys and ladies, which sought to pack
itself into a space far too small to contain
it, and naught but the crowding marred
the usual solemn decorum of the proceed
ings. The attempt to reserve the oar lor
those entitled to admission was only
partially successful.
THE DISTINGUISHED VISITORS.
Among the people of note who touod
places in the room were Judge Allen G.
Thurman, who was conducted to a seat
tee from the Confederate Veterans' Asso
ciation. Tbe object of the meeting was to
confer with the Exposition Committee no
Veterans’ Day.
EDWIN MARTIN AT REST
THE BRAVE EDITOR OF THE TIMES-
UNION IS LAID IN HIS GRAVE.
All Jack* >nvllle Turn* Out t, Pay n Lx*
TrilMlt* to Him I More Favorable
Ite.Hirt—Decatur, \l» , Lo*e*
Her Fourth Doctor.
Jacksonville. Oct. S.—The weather
was clear and cool to-day, except at mid
day, when the mercury rose above 80.
The funeral of Eiwin llamu, late editor
of the Times-Union, took place this
morning and was largely atten led. A
beautiful ttoral croas.sent by the employes
of the Times-Union, lay upon the casket.
Right Rev. Edwin G. Weed, Bishop of the
Episcopal Diocese of Florida, read the
service of the church. All the attachees
of the Times-Union eitablishment, some
sixty in nuraoer, representing the edito-
i&l, business and mechanical depart
ments, attended iu a body, wearing
Rev. Robert' H. Harris, D. D., a survivor °. f *£•
of the rweuty-niuth and Fifty-seventh
would control his vote to every pnase and to the people as it is to the Senators who within the space reserved for the mar-
He Speak* of Prohibition and Attacks Mr.
Dickinson a* an Ignorant Upstart.
Grand Rapids, Mich., Oct. 8.—Blaine
and Ins party, when they arrived here this
afternoon, were gfeeted by an immense
and enthusiastic crowd. Escorted by a
long procession of uniformed companies,
Blaine and party were conveyed in car
riages to the hotel where they dined. At
3 o’clock the doors of Hartman’s Hall were
feature of the bill. He thought it more
important to the country that the Senate
act upon the bill, rather than to have an
extended debate upon its general princi
ples. If the Senator from Iowa would
agree, he Mr. Harris: would in acknowl
edgement, consent to have a fixed time at
which the general debate should close.
Mr. Allison thought it ratner premature
to make any suggestion as to that matter
to-day.
Mr. Harris—“Does the Senator think
that ten days, or two weeks would be
sufficient for a general deoate.”
Mr. Allison—“I hope so.”
Mr. Harris—“Then I will ask the unan
imous consent to close the general de
bate on this bill in ten days.”
Mr. Allison—“I would not like to con
sent to that at the very beginning. It
might be found that we wanted eleven
or twelve days.”
MR. ALLISON EXPLAINS THE BILL.
Mr. Allison then proceeded with his
statement as to the bill.
He said that the Senate bill differed from
the House bill, in fact it proposed to deal
with all schedules of the tariff, while the
House bill did not. The House bill did not
deal with the tobacco schedule, silk sched
ule, or wine and liquor schedule, and has
dealt but slightly with the sugar schedule.
Tbe Senate bill had been made upon the
principle of protecting American labor
and American industry. That was its aim
and purpose. The Senate Committee on
thrown open and the crowd poured in in a
great flood, which occupied every inch of ! Finance had sought to care for every in
space. The larger part of it was j dustry in the country. The reductions of
made up of workingmen in
the factories, who listened to Blaine with
close attention aud frequently cheered his
good points. His topic was protection and
the home market, and he took for his text
a passage which he quoted from a recent,
speech of Postmaster-General Dickinson,
in these words: “New England selfishly
hangs on the body politic, absorbing
make the assertion that almost the entire
body of the Republican members in the
House have resisted at every step every
bill that the Democrats have tried
to pass within that period, and were able,
with the help of a handful of Democrats,
to defeat every such bill, and they know
that those Democrats who aided the Re
publicans to defeat the tariff reduction,
were applauded to the skies, and made
patriots and moral protectionists, by
brevet, on the field of battle. They know
that for ten years past, no Republican in
the House of Representatives certainly,
no considerable number of Republicans,
had so much as proposed a bill to reduce
the taxes.
ONE FOR THE PEOPLE, THE OTHER NOT.
The House bill is framed not to relieve
the Treasury, but to relieve the people,
while the Senate bill is framed so as to re
lieve the Treasury and to increase the bur
dens of the people, and after all that can
be said, that is the difference between the
two bills.
Mr. Hiscock then obtained the floor, aud
the bill went over till to morrow. After a
short executive session, the Senate, at 4:50,
adjourned.
Hou*e of Representatives.
Among the bills introduced in the House
aud referred was cue by Mr. Dougherty,
of Florida, appropriating $200,000 to sup
press infection in the inter-state commerce
of the United States, and a bill to establish
a new land district in Mississippi.
Mr. McRae, who, as representing the
shells, aud who became the conspicuous
centre of attraction during the half hour
proceeding the entry of the Chief Justices;
Mrs. Fuller, the wife of the Chief Justice,
with her six daughters and one son, for
whom seats were reserved; Mrs. Justice
Harlau, Mrs. Senator Cockrell, Attorney-
General Garland. Japanese Minister Mut-
on, wife and secretary; Senators Davis, i once, and will be furnishe
Butler, HamptOD,_ Farweli, _ George, federates in this section wh
Mitchell, Dolpn and Spooner; Congress- them out.
meu Breckenridge, Wheeler ind Herbert, to call at
Georgia Regiment, presided. In the ab
sence of the regular secretary, Mr. A. A.
Dozier, Captain G. E. Thomas, jr., acted
a* secretary. Mees :s. T. J. Bates, E. E.
Yonge, T. ll. Mahoue. W. R. Bedell, J. M.
Fletcher and G. A. Clark, were present.
The other members of the committee were
unavoidably abseut. but they sent their re
grets and expre ted sympathy with the
movement.
A circular letter, to be sent to “old Con
federates,” was submitted by the Presi
dent of the Exposition Company and
approved by the Committee. Several
hundred of these letters will be struck at
d to any Con-
10 desire to send
of Alabama, and Solicitor-General Jenks
PRELIMINARY OATH OF ALLEGIANCE.
The Chief Justice arrived at the capital
at 11:30, and proceeded to the private ojfice
of the court, where he took the oath of
allegiance in the presence of the associate
justices, tbe oath being administered by
the senior member of the court, Associate
Justice .Miller. At 12 o’clock the gavel of
the crier fell, and at the announcement of
the honorable Associate Justices of the
Supreme Court of the United States, the
seated portion of the assemblage arose and
remained standing in respectful silence
The Associate Justices, in their white robes
of silk, preceded by the marshal, entered
in the procession as usual.
HE ENTERS THE CHAMBERS.
The Chief JusMce, also wearing his robe
of office, was escorted to his place at the
All veterans will be expected
Exposition headquarters and
get a lot of these circulars to mail to their
I comrades.
The Secretary was instructed to write
to the Atlanta Confederate Veteran’s As
sociation and secure a copy of their by
laws and constitution; and, on motion of
Mr. W. R. Bedell, a committee, composed
of Messrs. W. R. Bedell, T. J. Bate*, and
T. H. M a hone, was appointed to provide
badges to be worn by all veterans at t ho
re union. Mr. G. A. Clark moved that the
badge consist of three bars of ribbon—red,
white and red. President Harris sug
gested that at part of the programme on
Veterans’ Day, the veterans review the
volunteer troops, and on the second day
the volunteer troops review the veterans.
1 A special programme for November 16
and 17, which days are veterans’ days,
will be arranged later. A banquet will be
given, many prominent ex-ConfederaP i
Masonic bodies, Knights of Honor, Jack
sonville Press Club, and a large concourse
of citizens and friends followed the re
mains to the place of interment in the city
cemetery.
The Times-Union office was closed for
two hours during the funeral services. The
pall bearers were W. R. Carter, editor of
the Metropolis, Colonel HitefleJd Walker,
B. F. Dillon, the Florida superintendent
of the Western Uunion Telegraph Com
pany, C. H. Borg and F. W. Hawthorn.
The funeral arrangements were in charge
of the secret societies and T. R. Stockton,
business manager of the Times-Union.
NO FURTHER CONTRIBUTIONS.
The Masonic fraternity in Florida has
issued the following circular:
“Jacksonville, Fla., October s.
“To all the Masonic Fraternity to whom
this shall come: * grateful greeting—
Owing to the generous charity of our
brethren throughout this broad land our
present and future necessities arising from
the prevalence of the yellow feverare fully
supplied,not alone to relieve oar immediate
vicinity, but also the brethren of in footed
towns in Florida; therefore, with grateful
hearts and thanksgiving, the Masonic Re
lief Committees ot Jacksonville, requ.-st
contributions be for-
that no
warded.
[Signed
further
Sioi MU tad pubho u3reora*i«Si,‘IK. .SSBd« ; ff«.
calculated at *71.000,000, tdose by tbe 3,d- I flour, yielded to Mr.Wueeler, of Ala- Jh; to=«r.bleS„„ = Court of the Dm,
Clerk’s desk. The Associate Justices j will be present and a great time is expeet-
bowed to the assemblage and took their 1 J rt " 1 —“
seats. They were only six in number, Jus
tices Gray and Matthews being absent.
The Crier called: “Oh, yes! oh, yes! oh,
ate bill would amount to about $73,000,000,
MILLS’ BILL ENCOURAGES IMPORTS.
The latter computation had been made
up on the idea that where the rates of duty
were increased there would be a corre
sponding, or at least, a partial reduction
iiaiigu v/11 tuu uv/uj 1 viv^ txuovji o" . - - 7 j . *
wealth and giving nothing in return, and ol importations, and that thus the revenue the revenue la s,
~ vr . 1 i i j i .-».•**. a rpuiamn nr a a p
we buy of New England at the extortion
ate prices kept up by the tariff, while at
the same time we sell her nothing.”
Mr. Blaine said when he read this speech,
he looked up the States which he gave aud
which show that New England annually
takes from the States west aud south of
her four hundred million dollars worth of
food products, coal, iron, copper, lumber,
cottou, wool and manufactured goods,
while the entire value of the products we
sent to Old England last year, of all imag
inable articles, was $325,000,000. [Cheers.]
“Now, gentlemen,” hesaid, “if you want
to know what the value of the home mar
ket at your door is, by an exchange of in
dustries, see what 4,000 000 ot people en
gaged in the arts, can take from you at
your door and among your fellow citizens,
as compared with 40,000,000 beyond the
seas. [Cheers.] Is anything more needed
to prove the wonderful advantage of a
home market ?”
I am speaking only of New England.
There is New York aud New Jersey, and
that great State of Pennsylvania and vast
East oi which I do not speak, for I am
answering for the section that has been as
sailed by the Postmaster General.
Mr. Blaine went on to say that he had a
piece of advice to give Mr. Dickinson, and
Qe imparted it in two anecdotes—one of
an upstart in General Scott’s army, and
another of James Fox, implying ignorance
of his country. I commend Mr. Don M.
Dickiusou to a serious aud prayerful study
would be reduced; but the manifest pur
pose and intent of the House bill was to
increase the importation of the articles
placed on the free list, and of the articles
where the rates of duty were reduced, and
of course it was a question whether or not
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that increase of importation would not administration, seized upon this demand
bama, who addressed the House on the ' te< * States are adimonished U.dm.near
tariff question. and th ?, ir attention, for the court is
I now sitting-”
MR. WHEELER OF ALABAMA j „ HERE AND READY.”
The first business laid before the Con- , - . - r
gress, he said, was the message of the I After a moment of silence, JusticeMiller
President recommending the revision of Gentlemen of the Bar. I have the
The necessity for such pleasure to inform you that since the last
a revision was clearly shown by the uu- j r f t^ 1S C< h rt ^ n< hil 9 vt^ J w ri p^n n f’
answerable logic of that remarkable state j a Chief Justice, Honorable M. W..Fuller,
paper, and the Democrats of the House at ^a 8 Deen appointed and confirmed by the
once addressed chemselves to tne task. Senate, and has received his commission^
The Republicans, after a
search for faults or defects
ed. The committee are in earnest.
They adjourned subject to the call of the
chairman aud this call will be made as
soon as letters of invitation are heard
from.
EXHIBITS FROM FAR AND NEAR.
The Southern Immigration Convention
which meets in Montgomery, November
20, will arrange to come in a body to our
great show.
Entries were made yesterday in nearly
every department and from points as far
away as Terre Haute, Indiana. A Terre
Haute lady enters twenty different articles
in the department of fine arts and fancy
work.
A splendid entry, and one of the best so
more than counterbalace the reduction of
the rates and increase tne revenue rather
than diminish it.
SENATE BILL WILL REDUCE SURPLUS.
There was no question, however, but
that the Senate bili would reduce the reve
nue between sixty-one and 3eventy-three
million dollars, and in hri judgment, the
reduction would be substantially midway
between those two points. The reduction
would be not merely from the import
duties, but also from the internal revenue.
THE TAX ON TOBACCO.
Referring to the question of tobacco, Mr.
Allison said that he had not been very
vigorous and urgent in removing the tax
on that article, but he supposed that
there was practically a
sal sentiment in favor of
off that tax. It had been reduced at vari
ous tftues from 38 cents a pound to S cents
a pound, which was said to be an onerous
imposition on many of the agricultural
States. He had yielded, and the Commit
tee on Finance had yielded, to that sup
posed sentiment. The only difference be
tween the House bill and the Senate oill,
in regard to tobacco, was that the Senate
fora revision of the laws aud a reduction of
the surplus as a key note of their cam
paign, and the misrepresentations of Dem
ocratic purposes were relied upon as
effective party ammunition.
DOWN LIKE AN AVALANCHE.
Denunciations come with the force of
an avalanche, from Republicans in all
stations, and from all sections. The un
crowned king, Mr. Blaine, dispatched his
famous message from the imperial courts,
where, for a year, he had been seeking
state-craft inspiration, and the cry was
echoed by the leaders of all grades, down
to the newest fledged aspirant for political
preference.
Tinkering with the tariff, as they chose
to describe our efforts, was especially de-
univer- l nounced, and they demanded that the cus-
taking toms laws should be left untouched. Ev-
! ery intelligent man in the United States
knew that this position was taken by Re
publicans because they felt the necessity
of aggressive antagonism. These purely
political strategems were not concurred in
j by the real statesmen and sagacious busi
ness men of the Republican party,
j The charge so often made by the Re
publicans that the Democrats could not
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of thri short saying (iguorancei of Charles bill made a redaction of *l.o0 » thousand un it e upon the tariff measure wasexploded
MUNICIPAL POLITICS.
A mass meeting of citizens was held to
night. which was largely attended, to rat
ify the municipal ticket put out Jay the
committee of sixty, acting for the conser
vative movement. A number of citizens
addressed the meeting in favor of the
ticket, claiming it a temporary settlement
of the Prohibition question, which all
agree is seriously hurting Atlanta. The
Antis were not satisfied with the ticket,
because the Antis on it were selected by
the Prohibitionists.
John B. Goodwin, the most influential
Anti in Atlanta, made a speech agaiust it
James Fox. [Laughter and cheers.]
THE COOLIES ake coming.
Two Ship-Loads Arrive at Sau Fraacisco.
Floods in China—The Yacht Coronet.
San Francisco, Oct. 8.—The steamer
Belgic arrived yesterday, twenty-nine
dajs from Hong Koug, having been de
layed by head wiuds aud high seas. She
brings 176 U hinese. Yesterday being Sun
day there was no effort made to land
them. The Duke of Westminster also
arrived from Hong Kong via Van Couvers,
B. C., with 251 Chinese aboard.
All ot these Chinese, with the exception
1 of fifteen, whose destination is Panama,
have Custom House return certificates.
The number brought by the Belgic is much
smaller than would have been brought
on that vessel had there not been consid
erable talk in China before it left about the
probability of Chinese passengers not be
ing able to land when they reached here.
The officers on the steamer say that some
such law as the exclusion act has been
expected iu China, and this anticipation
exercises deterrent influence in Houg
on manufactured cigars, and also took off and rebuked by the almost unanimous
j the tax of $1 on retail dealer* iu tobacco. Democratic vote upon that excellent bill,
i The Senate bill increased the duty ou im- passed by the Home in July last.
ported cigars from $2 50 a thousand, wfrf duty R-»rvn to pritiptsf
and 25 per cent ad valorem to a specific were dlt\ bol. d to criticise.
duty of $3.50 a thousand. The effect of this The most astute and far-seeing Repub-
chauge would be, ho thought, to increase iicau politicians insisted that their policy
the duty on imported cigars, but as they
were a luxury, he did not think that the
j increase would be very much felt. A change
had also been made iu the Senate bill as to
duty on cigar wrappers,,which was fixed
at 75 cents a pound.
A STEP TOWARDS FREE TRADE.
In comparing the two bills, Mr. Allison
: said that the Senate bill was a clear and
distinct measure to the protection of
. American industries, while tne House bill
was a step, and long step, in the direction
of what was commouly known as free
: trade.
HE WILL SPEAK AGAIN.
In conclusion, he said it was his purpose,
and the purpose of the Senators on his
side of the cnamoer, to proceed as fast as
possible with the discussion of the bill.
At some future time he might have occa
was to criticise all Democratic measures,
and though taunted to produce something
better, they, by non-action, admitted their
inability to do 90. When our bill reached
the Senate, the party leaders who en
gineer the political campaigns of the Re
publicans determined that their party
should not be placed upon tbe defensive
by putting in print their partisan substi
tute for the House bill.
holding the bibie in one hand read from
manuscript the oath of office.
“30 HELP ME GOD.”
“I, Melville Weston Fuller, do solemnly
swear (or affirm! :that I will administer
justice without respect to persons and do
equal right to the poor and the rich, and
that I will faithfully and impartially dis
charge and perform all the duties incum
bent on me as the Chief Justice of the
United States, according to the best of my
abilities and understanding, agreeably to
tbe constitution and tbe laws of the
United States, so help me God.”
His voice was clear and his enunciation
firm and distinct, at the beginning, but be
fore the end was reached a marked tremor
was manifest.
ON THE HIGH THRONE OF JUSTICE.
The Chief Justice was now escorted be
hind the bar and to his official seat in the
center. Again the court and assemblage
arose, this time without other summons
than that of the hand of the clerk.
Justice Miller took the hand of the Chief
Justice and with a smile ot welcome ad
dressed him in a low voice: “I welcome
you, sir, on behalf of this court as one of
its members, aud as its Chief Justice.”
HE OPENS THE COURT.
The Chief Justice bowed, took his seat,
and when the assemblage was again seated, j
he =aid: “I will say to the members of the
bar that, as is the well known usage, the i
court will transact no business to-day, but !
applications for admission to the bar will i
be entered.”
Attorney-General Garland, several Sen- j
ators and other members of the bar, now i
presented the names of applicants for ad-
Macon, visited the grounds yesterday with
Secretary Gordon and chose a larjje space
in machinery hall, where they will make
a complete exhibit, including stationery
and portable engines, saw mills, grist mills
and cotton gins.
EXPOSITION NOTES.
An addition will have to be made to the
art gallery to accommodate the large
number of works of art already promised.
Two carloads of iron and wire benches,
cages, etc., for the poultry and bench de
partment, have been received at Exposi
tion Park.
Two gentleman, one from Atlanta and
one from Macon, Doth stated in the Expo
sition office yesterday that the Columbus
Exposition grounds were the best in the
State.
The engine which will run the machine
ry at the Chattahoochee Valley Exposition
is the same engine which was used for a
like purpose at the St. Louis Exposition.
Invitations were sent out to all tbe mili
tary and civic societies in this city and
Browneville and Girard, requesting them
to join in the grand parade which will be
held on the opening day of the Exposi
tion. This will be tbe most imposing
pageant ever seen in this city.
THE KNIGHTS TAKK ACTION.
N. R. Carter,
Grand Master.
A. W. Knights,
Acting Grand Seo’y.
CONTRIBUTIONS REPORTED.
The contributions reported to-day
amount to nearly $2100. This embraces
the donations of the past three days.
F. McQuid was to-day elected 1’resident
of the Citizens’ Auxiliary Bauitary Asso
ciation, vice J. J. Daniels, deceased. J. M.
Schumacher succeeds the former iu the
Vice-Presidency. • f,
THE OFFICIAL BULLETIN.
The official bulletin gives new cases 50,
deaths 4, total cases to date ^corrected)
3208, total deaths 205. The deaths are
Robert A. Hayes. Mrs. F. L. Elliott, Mrs.
C. Hare and Mack Barnes (colored).
Frank Marvin died to-night after the of
ficial bulletin was filed. He was the last
of a large household to contract the fever,
all the former cases having recovered. Ho
leaves a wife and infant child.
Two Cases In Heealur,
Decatur, Oct. S.—Two new cases to-
Williama and Lizzie
me to say a few
while they will
he read and remembered. All cases come
from exposure in an infected district, or to
! the sick. No exposure, no yellow fever.
If you keep away from the fire you won’t
i get burned. Absolute Isolation is absolute
! safety. No need of stampedes, no need of
1 panics. Instead of running away let every
man isolate himself aud his family iu his
! own house and cut off all Intercourse with
the world outside and be will roinain safe
even in the midst of an epidemic.
[Signed.] Jerome Cochran,
State Health Officer.
*A Fourth l>«M*tor to Die.
Decatur, Oct. 8.—No sadder scene has
ever been witnessed than the death ot Dr.
R. V. Williams, which occurred at l p. rn.
to-day. A number of his friends were
present at his death; all were greatly af
fected. This makes a total of four of our
physicians that have had to yield to the
terrible disease.
CONGIt-.SSlONAL CHIT CHIT.
They Sustain the Chicago Striker*—Hu**e*
to l»e Kuu—Fight the Company.
Chicago, Oct. 8.—District Assembly, No.
24, Knights of Labor, met last evening to
take action on the Northside strikers.
The conductors and the drivers of North-
side are in the district controlled by No.
The most important business transact-
A MOST AWKWARD PREDICAMENT.
Their position was most embarrassing,
and to go before the people in Novem
ber, admitting their inability to devise
auy means of relief to the taxpayers, was
equivalent to signing their own political
death warrant, and to submit to the coun
try a bill consistent with their platform
would drive from them every voter who pay their respects in a body to the Presi-
’ ! thought that the material interest of the dent of the Lmted States.”
mission, whom they vouched tor as qual- ; was ^ authorize the employment of
ified under the rules of the court, omn ibusses for use this morning, to be
and tbe Chief Justice directed each ; managed by the striking drivers and con-
batch in its turn to proceed to the clerk]s ductors, aud to make regular trips on
dask, and take the oath. About a score of : Northside at five cents per fare. These
attorneys were thus admitted, and when busses will be run as early as possible in
the brief ceremonial was over the Chief ; morning, and with relays of horses
Justice announced that all motions noted
for this morning would .-tand over until
tomorrow.
THE CLOSE OF THE CEREMONY.
He then said “In accordance with the
immemorial usage, tbe court will cow ad
journ, in order to enable its members to
and proposed that both sides select their j Koug on the exodus of the Chiuese
own representatives on the ticket as was
proposed two years ago by the Prohibi
tionists. and accepted by the Antis. The
ticket, nowever, was ratified, the Antis,
as a rule, not voting. Tom Glenn, # who
leads the conservative ticket as the candi
date for Mayor, made a speech accepting
tbe nomination.
The leading Antis since the meeting say
they will not vote the ticket, but may vote
for some of the candidates. Tne outlook
is promising for an exciting mayoralty
race between Tom Glenn and Walter
Brown. _
SUPREME COURT OF GEORGIA.
Decision* Hemleml October Sth. 1SSS — Kc-
ported by Henry C. Peeples.
No. 13. Argument concluded.
No. 14. Campbell vs. Metropolitan Street
Railroad Company. Case, from City Court
of Atlanta. Argued. George T. Fry and
Frank A. Arnold, for plaintiff. Haygood
vt Douglass and E- W. Martin, for defend
ant.
No. 15. Lies & Co. vs. Daniel. Refusal
of injunction, from Fulton. Argued.
John L. Tve. tor plaintiffs. A. H. Cox, by
Harrison «& Peeples, for defendant.
Afijourned to 9o’c1ock Wednesday morn
ing.
DECISION RENDERED MONDAY, OCT. S.
Roberts, surviving partner vs. Rigdou.
Complaint, from City Court of Atlanta.
Actions. Hiring. Damages. Verdict.
New trial. Before Judge Van Epps.
Bleckley, C. J. — 1. Though suit be
brought before the term of hiring expired,
yet the recovery may embrace all the
damages down to the expiration of the
term, the trial being had after the whole
of such damages became susceptible of
definite proof—that is, after the term ex
pired.
r *2. That the verdict was too small is no
injury to the defendant, and no cause for a
new trial at his instance.
3. The finding of the jury to the effect
that defendant bad no right to discharge
the plaintiff at pleasure, under the con
tract for 1887, was warranted by the evi
dence.
Judgment affirmed. Milledge A Blalock,
for plaintiff in error; Alexander Turn
bull, contra.
From advices by the Belgic the follow
ing is gleaned: A disastrous flood in the
province of Monkden, about 350 miles
northeast of Pekin, caused the death of
hundreds of natives, the utter annihilation
of very many homes and destruction to
the crops, and there is a prospect of a gen
eral famine for the coming winter.
Cholera is stili raging at Hong Koug.
The daily average of new patients ranges
from forty to dfty, most of whom die.
A storm on September 30tu at Nakajo-
ree, Japan, caused the following damage:
Number of houses demolisned or half de
stroyed, 3,000; vessels totally lost, 85; ves
sels* wrecked, 500; number of persons
wounded, injured and receiving puolic as
sistance 52,000.
The American yacht Coronet reached
Yokahoma September 17ch, on ner voyage
around the world, lrom this point. Her
owner proposes to return to New York via
Singapore, Bombay, Suez Canal. Mediter
ranean Sea and Liverpool.
sion to make som^further observations in
respect to it. His oaly desire to-day had
been to state the general provisions of the
bill as plainly as possible, so that they
might be understood by those who had
not studied it.
TENATOR VANCE SPEAKS.
Mr. Vance, a minorfty member of the
committee, next addressed the Senate. He
drew an imaginary sketch of the partner
ship entered into at the close of the war
between the government of the United
States and the tnanufac.urers of the L'nited
States, the terms of partnership being that
the government was to enact laws and sub
ject foreign products to taxation for its
own benefit, while the home products
were to be taxed for the benefit of the
home manufacturers. He desired this as
an unholy aud iuiquitious system of taxa
tion of the many for the benefit of tne
few.
THEY DON’T WANT A REDUCTION.
The House bill, he said, mide a total
reduction of $7S,O30,(»}. but bow bad tne
favored classes responded to that fair
proposition? Every Republican member
of tne House of Representatives aad voted
s gainst it. and it had been rejected by an
equally unanimous vote of the R oablican
Senators on' tbe Finance Committee, and
how. be asked, did the Senate substitute
divide the reduction of duties as between
the Government and the people ou one
side, and the favored classes on the other?
THEY WANT PROTECTION.
It took off the tax on tobacco, twenty-
five millions, aad tbe tax on alcahoi. used
in the arts, seven million and reduce tne
duty on sugar, nearly all of which taxes
amounting in ail to sixty-five million,
were pure revenue. In other words the
Senate bill took $s from the Government
for every $10 that it took rrorn the manu
facturers.
Mr. Vance proceeded to discuss in con
siderable detail, the provisions of both
bills on the various schedules, arguing
taa: the H >use bill had in view the inter
est of the people, and of tbe Govern
ment. and that tne Senate bill was special
ly in the interest of tne manufacturers and
the favored classes.
NOT A MARKET FOR THE FARMER.
As to the claim that the manufacturers
fernish home market for the farmer, he
instanced as a reduction of that claim, that
nowhere in the United State was the decav
va“Burke, and riceTe^T a*'judgment'“n't change*/and says.that he will make no of agriculture mjrenoticeahle and Umeni-
affirtnance was rendered. Reoort will an- reports unless x change, occurs. able than in New England, waere manu-
country were more important than party
success; and after hesitating for three
months, as to which horn of tne dilemma
they would accept, these party magnets
have decided that any action was better
than none, and the long looked for Senate
tarifi bill has been laid before the public.
PROTECT THE MONOPOLIST.
Mr. Wheeler shows that Harrison was
nominated upon a platform which the
Republican Senate interprets to mean that
none of the privileges of wealthy monopo
list of the nortneast are to be surrendered,
but that all changes in the revenue laws
are to be effected almost entirely at the
expense of the hard working farmers of
the West and South. The difference
between the purposes and objects of the
during the day and a change of men, will
run until late at night. The men say they
are determined that the traveling public
shall not be inconvenienced if it is in their
power to prevent it.
A resolution was unanimously adopted
recommending the leaders of the strikers
to keep all their men away from the barns,
power rooms and offices of the company,
and in no manner whatever attempt to in
terfere with the lawful efforts of the street
car company’s officials to run their cars, if
This closed the proceedings of tll ®y were able to do so.
i Another resolution was adopted fully
sustaining the strikers and promising them
The voice of the crier echoed through
the vaulted halls, “this honorable court Is
now adjourned until to-morrow at 12
o’clock,
the day,
SHOOTING AFFRAY IN ANNISTON.
Editor Edmund* and two Clerk* Shot on
Account of Prohibition Agitation.
Anniston, Oct. 8.—W. H. Edmunds,
proprietor aud editor of the Anniston Hot
Blast, has been showing up the viola
tions of the prohibition law in the city,
and on this account has caused the
discharge of the chief of police, and all of
the of the other police throwing up their
and quitting. Edmunds was
clubs and quitting, namunas was re-
Dsmocratic party and Republican party, is cently assaulted by one of tne ex-police-
very clearly indicated by the character- men and badly beaten. The day after this
A Murder on the Mineral Road.
Birmingham, October S. — At Mount
Pinson, fifteen miles north of this city, ou
the Mineral railroad, this afternoon, John
McConder, a colored laborer, was brutally
murdered by Isaiah Burse, assisted by
three other negroes, whose names could
not be learned. Burse formerly lived with
a negro woman named Lula Davis, but she
left him to live with McConder, wno re
cently married her. While McConder and
his wife were sitting in the waiting room
of the Mount Pension depot tnis after
noon. Barse and three other nesrroes
entered. Without a word, they took Mc
Conder fifty yards from tbe depot, where
Barse shot him three times, silling him
instantly. The four negroes then fled, and
have not been captured. After the kilting,
McGonder’s wife went to his body, took
all the money in his pockets, and tiien she
too fled to the woods.
istics of the bill designed to reform our
revenue laws, wnieh the two parties have
submitted to the country.
BILLS LIKE THEIR ORIGINATORS.
It is difficult to conceive of two measures
more clearly indicative of the character
istics of the opposing parties. The Re
publicans represent and endeavor to serve
the aristocratic elements of our people,
and the Senate bill is framed specially in
thei' interests, while the House bill is
framed iu the interests of the Government
and of the people. After comparing the
proviso ns of the House and Senate
bills upon like subjects, Mr.
Wheeler said: Where the Senate
does not openly increase the tax
on articles used by the farmers, iu some in
fracas there appeared in the Montgomery
Dispatch a special from Anniston giving a
malicious statement of the case. Ed
munds replied, catling the author of the
card “a liar and a dog.”
This occurred on last Monday, and
nothing more was thought of the affair
until tnis evening, waen Edmunds was
sitting in his office. He was approached
by S. J. Lawrence, a Jastice of the Peace,
aud Will Lacv. and asked to step into the
adjoining nail. He did so. Hot words en
sued, pistols were drawn and shots ex
changed, in which Edmunds was injured
in the left arm, John Chappell, the mail
ing clerk, was shot twice in the head, and
A. Tripney. another employe was wounded
in the shoulder, the last two seriously.
Lawrence and Lacy took to the woods,
the support ol the various assemblies of
the district until victory was assured.
The Car Company Show* Fight,
Chicago, Oct. 8.— As was promised
Saturday, the cars were started this morn
ing over the Northside lines. At 7:30
o’clock, six open cars, drawn by horses
and manned by about a dozen policemen
eacli, left the city limits’ car barns,
destined for business. The cars, which
were run in a bunch, preceded by a patrol
wagon load of policemen, were not mo
lested, but two or three hundred strikers
and onlookers gathered around the barns.
The down trip was made successfully,
without any misbap to speak of,
although the cars were somewhat namp-
ered by the crowds ot vehicles which
took up the tracks. At 8:50 o’clock
Washington street, tne soutn terminus of
the horse car line, was reached, and the
cars started on their return trip. Cars
were also started from several other
Northside stations, but none of them
were patronized by the public to any
great extent, the care have been running
continuously for three hours.
Report* to W»<kl*gton.
Washington, Oct. S.—Surgeon Hutton
at Camp Perry. Fla., telegraphs that he
has received (500 from the Louisville
Courier Journal for distribution among
the destitute people. He says also that he
has arranged free transportation fbr the
New Orleans nurses.
Dr. Wirt Johnson reports from Jackson.
stances, it accomplishes that result by b ut were captured. To prevent a lyncnin.
indirect means, in tact, the entire bill is ■ -■ »—> «*
aimed at the farmers, and if it becomes the
law would reduce his profits and increase
his already onerous burdens.
THE WORKING MEN’S PASTY.
The entire measure, taking it ail in all,
furnishes additional proof that the prin
ciples which govern the Republican party
are not the kind upon which our fore
fathers sought to establish a free repub
lican government, and it admonishes us
that the prosperity and happiness of tbe
great mass of people can only be secured
by rigidly adhering to the principles of
Democracy.
At the conclusion of Mr. Wheeler’s
speech, the house, at 2:30, adjourned.
carnival they were earned to Jacksonville,
jailed aad pat under a heavy guard. The
citiz=ns are now trying to quiet the excite
ment. *
Payin? Them in Their Own Corn
Harrisonburg, Va., Oct. 8.—In April
last exeontious were issued upon judge
ments against about eighty persons in this
county, who offered Virginia coupons in
payment of State taxes. These coupons
were perchased of James P. Cooper, agent
for foreign bondhoides of London, who
was to be responsible for all damages.
Cooper tendered the coapons in June last
in payment of these executions and costs.
Striker* Sending the Scab* Horne.
Chicago, Oct, 8.—Later in the day the
street care earned a considerable number,
for as public confidence increased the
seats were better filled. There was no
rioting or confli ts of auy kiud. The new
men were called “scabs” and hooted at
by the crowds which lined the streets, but
beyond that there was no trouble. Many
of the new men were captured by the
strikers, who succeeded in inducing them
to quit and go home, the strikers paying
their fare if tney lived at distant points.
In the case of th# Atlanta National Bank Mississippi, that the situation is un-
affirtoance was rendered. Report will ap
pear hereafter.
General Rethune Struck With Patriotism.
Talbotton, OcL 8.—Gen. Marion Be
thune, of this place, will to morrow an-
nounce himself as a candidate for Congress j transportation to the South without enter*
from the Fourth Congressional district. ing Jacksonville.
A report received this morning, shows
that a track has been constructed aronnd
Jacksonville, making connection between
the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West
road with the Savannah Florid* and
Western Railroad, thus allowing through
Too Good Frirod* Io Fight.
London, Oct. 8 William Henry Smith,
in a speech at Gloucester to-nieht said
that' the Canadians were willin? to bide
their time because they know that after
the Presidential elect! in in the L uited
j ^ r _ _ __ r _ T States, they would obtain a just and fair
TheSrreriff refused the" tender ."“and" the arrangement of the tisn^ries trouble. Tne
Stale has again instituted suit against tae people of England and America, and Can-
same parties in our Circuit Court here, i *da were too good irieud* to quarrel oyer
Tbe same tender will again be made by a question of this kind. *Ir. Smith denied
London. Oct. S.—A biography or the Cooper should the judgments oe rendered truth °* . tae r ?P? r 1 f Tfji} u
late Emperor Frederick of Germany, will against these parties. Government inteadod to hand Beehcan-
be published in London shortly. It will ; land over to tne Government ofCapeCol-
detai^solely his domestic life. It is believed Republican Out io Louisiana. j on>.
that his widow is the authoress of the; New Orleans, Oct. 8.—The Third Con-
Tril>ur«* by Frederick’s Oaeen to Hi- Memory
factories most abounded.
The eff*ct of protection was to convert that his widow is the authoress
an independent yeomanry into dependent work. Her name is appended to the pre- gressional District Republican Committee*
factory operatives. face. The profits derived from the sale of I composed of tnirty-six negroes, met this
The annual cottou product of the South ! the book will be devoted to the hospital : afternoon and nominated R. C. Jolly,
was 7,000,030 boles, of which 5,001,000 were ! for treatment of diseases of the throat, i editor of the Morgan City Rsview, for
surplus. What was to bs done with that | The Pall Mall Gazette says the work is j Congress, to oppose E. J. Gay in that dia-
sorplus, and with the surplus of wheat, being revised by Lord daiisbary. trict.
A Bruch Show iu Richmond.
Richond, Va., Oct. 8.—At the exposi
tion, commencing to-morrow and contin
uing through the week, there will be a
bench show of dogs from the best kennels
in America.
Democrats Cou*f<i<-riuK the "Substitute'’
Clmiik'** itl tli« Hill.
Washington, Oct. 8.— Several of the
Democratic members of the Committee on
Ways and Means and Representatiqe
Hatch, of Missouri, who has just returned
from the West, had 'an informal confer-
: once this afternoon respecting the phase
in the tariff question, resulting trom the
report of the substitue bill to the Senate,
and the beginning of its consideration by
ttiat body. It was decided tnat an expert
should be employed to make an exhaust
ive analysis or the substitute for the pur
pose of bringing to light such flaws and
defects as might be found, for use in the
; debate in Congress and speeches during
I the campaign.
Incidentally the question of adjourn
ment was discussed, and the conclusion
was reached that it would n it be polite un
der the present conditions for tbs Demo
crats in the House to send any resolution
of adjournment to the Senate.
Mr. Wheeler, of Alabama, to-day re
ported favorably to the House, from the
Committee on Expenditures in tne Treosu-
; ry Department, the bill appropriating
$.500,000 to establish camps for the yellow
fever refugees. The bill authorizes the
President to establish camps of refuge and,
in designated localities, to furnish supplies
to the camps, and to destroy the camp
equippage after the disappearance of the
epidemic. The committee in its report
says that the object lope accomplished by
the proposed bill is of most urgent and
gravest importance to the whole people of
the United States.
By visitation of Divine Providence, the
yellow fever scourge made its app larance
in a comparatively small community in
Florida, whence it spread to other locali
ties with the resuit of creating at numer
ous other places such dire apprehension as
to induce the establishment ot rigid quar
antine regulations, so ruthlessly enforced
as to expose many of our citizens to the
charge of inhumanity. While tne gener
ous must depiore, few can be found so
unreasonable as to censure these desper
ate measures of protection again*: the
plague. As a consequence of these severe
measures, the citizens of any locality
where yellow fever make* it appearance
must be exposed to great sufferings be
sides those resulting from the disease,
many of them being dep'ivel of an oppor
tunity to purchase necessary provisions,
even when able to pay f >r them.
The committee is the opinion that the
bill cannot fail to mitigate these ills by
the establishment of camps, in which per
sons fleeing from the scourge may be col-
i lected and properly cared for, the spread
of the disease arrested by their isolation,
and proper medical cert ficates issued to
persons leaving the camp.
The conferees on the general deficiency
bili have reached an agreement on the
only remaining point of difference—that
relating to the W jman’s Industrial Hime
in Utah. Thev make an appropriation for
tne completion of the buildings for the
home, according tottie present plaas. and
provide $4000, also, for furnisning the
building and maintaining it during the
next fiscal year.
The work of the institution is to be un
der the management of the Utah Com
mission, as a board of control. Provision
is made for the regular report of opera
tions, aud for the auditing of the expenses
of the home. The title of the buildiugs is
to be transferred to the Government.
By an error made by the committee in
preparing for the publication, the addi
tions to the free list in tne substitute
tariff bill reported by the Senate Cpinmit-
lee on Finance, it was made to appear that
opium for smoking had been free of duty.
As a matter of fact the substitute bill ex
pressly prohibits the importation of such
opium.
The committee also desires to have cor
rected an impression which prevails, to
the effect that it had added eggs to the
free list. Eggs are made free of duty by
the existing law, and the substitute bill
does not change that provision, although
the matter is now under consideration,
and undoubtedly an amendment will bo
reported from tne committee imposing a
tariff on eggs.