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TWO OUTLAWS KILLED.
WORKING ON THE TARIFF.
THEY WERE BULLET RIDDLED BY" A
SHERIFF’S POSSE.
Birmingham, June 7.—[Special.]—Re
ports have reached here of the killing of
Newt Rowe, a noted outlaw who has ope
rated successfully in Winston county for
several years. Ten days ago Sheriff Henry
Mitchell and a posse surrounded Newt
Rowe and Henry Beunfield, two leaders of
a gang of moonshiners, outlaws and horse
thieves, in the eastern part of Winston
county, and a pitched battle took place, in
which Beunfield was killed. Rowe escaped.
Since then Shiriff Mitchell and his men
have followed Rowe. They tracked
him to his den several days
ago. and Thursday night surrounded him.
\Vsterday morning Rowe was surprised to
find himself in the officers' grasp. He re-
lused to sui render and showed fight.
Mitchell and his men fired fifty shots, kill
ing Rowe instantly, his body being riddled
with bullets. Rowe’s gang have long been
a terror to the people of Winston county.
The scene of the killing was thirty miles
from Double Springs and forty miles from
any telegraph office. Rowe was captured
last year, but broke out of jail at Jasper.
The sheriff’s posse is searching for other
members of Rowe’s gang.
A RAILROAD DEAL.
A Xlew EXTENSION OF THE RICHMOND
AND DANVILLE.
Danville, Va., June 7.—It is asserted j
here today that the Richmond and Dan- I
viilc Railroad Company will soon obtain j
control of the Danville and New River j
road from Danville to Patrick Courthouse,
and that the Richmond and Danville will!
use this road as a part of a new line to be
built from Danville to Bristol, Tenn., via j
Wilkesboro, N. C.
LATONIA RACES.
Cincinnati, June 7.—This was the last
day of the spring meeting.
Tlte jockey. Tom Chara. who was ruled
off the track last fall, was reinstated.
First race—One mile; Little Prince won,
Robin second, Silver Lake third. Time
I
Second race—Four and a half furlongs: :
Mary Mage won, Miss Hawkins second, j
Mannore third. Time 571.
Third race—Five furlongs; Roselind
"on. Bower second, Ed Leonard third. I
Time 1:03.
Fourth race—One mile: Josie M won. I
Newcastle second, Catapa third. Time !
1:42J. |
Fifth race—One mile; Heron won, Mcra :
second. Clamor third. Time 1:43.
sixth race—One and three-sixteenths of
a mile; Huntress won, Teuton second,
dockner third. Time 2:02.
THE BILL IS NEARLY READY TO BE
REPORTED.
Washington, June 7.—Work on the
tariff biil was resumed this morning by
the Republican members of the Senate
finance committee. All of the time up to
recess (1:45 o’clock) was given to the agri
cultural schedule. The sub-committee
was delayed in its consideration of the bill
this morning by the necessity of listening
to several Congressmen who had pleas to
make in respect of duties on various arti
cles. Senators Cameron, Platt, Sawyer
and Spooner and Representatives LaFol-
lette, Brosius, and others, spoke in favor
of the duty of $2 per pound on Sumatra
cigar wrappers. Representative Kinsey,
of Missouri, asked for a higher rate of
duty on baryite, or heavy spar.
Rapid progress was made on the bill in
the afternoon session, as at adjournment
the announcement was made that the sub
committee would be ready Monday to take
up the cotton schedule. The tobacco,
agricultural, provisions, fruits and nuts
and spirit schedules are said to be ready
for the consideration of the Democratic
members of the committee. The indica
tions are that the bill will be ready for re
port to the Senate one week from next
Monday. However, should the differences
over sugar, wool and silk prove to be more
radical than some of the members of the
sub-committee now anticipate, the bill may
not be returned to the Senate for two
weeks. But that is the longest period that
any member now fixes for its further con
sideration in the committee.
MORRIS PARK RACES.
New York, June 7.—This was the
eighth day of the races, and there was the
usual Saturday crowd.
First race—Sweepstakes for three-year-
olds, one mile and a furlong; Major Daly
won, Watterson second, Guard third.
Time 1:574.
Second race—Ardenheim welter handi
cap for three-year-olds and upward, five
furlongs; Strike won, Now-or-Never sec
ond, Vardo third. Time 1:15. Mutuals
paid straight $195, place $111.
Third race—Handicap for three-vear-
olds, one mile and a furlong; Lisimonv
won. King Thomas second. Tournament
third. Time 1:57+. Mutuals paid straight
$70.
Fourth race—Breeze stakes for all ages,
seven furlongs: Loantena won. Madstone
second. Belle Dor third. Time, l:27f.
Fifth race—Five furlongs, Evangeline
won, Servitor second. Woodcutter third.
Time 1:02-1.
Sixth race—For 3-year-olds and upward,
one mile and a sixteenth: Little Jim won.
Larchmont second, Vivid third. Time.
1:57.
SILVER DEMONETIZED.
THE CAUCUS SILVER BILL RUSHED
THROUGH THE HOUSE.
NUMBERS OF REPUBLICANS DENOUNCE
THE BILL—PLEDGER’S FAT OFFICE.
HE TALKS POLITICS—COMMIS
SIONER baum’s frauds.
Washington, June 7.—[Special.]—The
Republicans played their stocked hand and
put a silver bill through the House today
with the aid of nine Democratic votes.
Thirteen Republicans voted against it.
The Senate will never be brought to
stomach the hill as they will get it.
MACON’S POSTMASTER.
Col. Dan Locke, of Macon, is here, not
on a political pilgrimage, so he says, but to
get five additional carriers and two clerks
for his postoffice. If he knows any politics
he don’t talk.
pledger’s PAY'.
W. A. Pledger, the colored Athens polit
ical prophet, came here last night, and to
day he was to be qualified into a $2,000
place as special agent in the land office.
He does not know where he will be sent,
but the presumption is he will be assigned
South, where he can mix business and
politics. He says the program of the
Republicans of Georgia will be to run a
candidate in each of the Congressional
districts, but he does not think it will be
good politics to try to elect a Governor
and other State officials. Ed. Angier, he
thinks, will be the Republican jockey in
the Atlanta district, and Darnell will cer
tainly contest every inch of ground in the
Ninth.
TO INVESTIGATE RAUM.
Mr. Cooper, an Indiana Democrat, in
troduced a resolution in the House today
in which lie insists on an investigation of
the charges preferred by the newspapers
against Pension Commissioner Baum. The
general impression is that Raum has been
engaged in some very crooked transactions
by which the Government and the em
ployes of his office have been liberally
mulcted. The President is said to be
greatly worried over these stories, and has
several communications with Secretary
Noble on the subject.
FORT VALLEY IN LUCK.
Mr. J. B. James, a prominent horticul
turist of Fort Valley, Ga., is in Washing
ton today on his return from the annual
meeting of the American Nurserymen’s
Association, held this year in New York.
He reports the organization of a company
of nurserymen with $100,000 capital which
will make immense land investments about
Fort Valley. E. P. S.
IN THE HOUSE.
Washington, June 7.—Before the be
ginning of the debate on the silver bill, at
the request of Payson, of Illinois, Conger,
of Iowa, in charge of the biil, modified his
substitute so as to provide that the trvas-
| ury notes issued in pursuance of the bill
| shall be legal tender in payment of all
I debts, public and private, striking out the
following words: "Except where otherwise
expressly stipulated in the contract.”
Payson said that he realized that the
substitute would, ill substance, pass this
body, and it would be done in obedience
to a public sentiment, which he believed
to be universal in favor of a larger use of
silver—silver as a money metal, and of the
further increase of the currency of the
country. Referring to the financial
plank of the Republican platform,
and speaking of the treasury bill,
lie said that he had not expected
when he listened to the reading of the
plank two years thereafter lie would be
called upon to vote in a Republican House
upon a measure which not only practically
and absolutely demonetized silver as a
money metal, but established golddistand-
ard upon the statute books. It wiped from
the statute books any law the country had
for the coinage of standard silver dollars.
He believed in the doctrine announced by
the Republican national convention, and
he stood for it. He opposed the treasury
bill because it proposed to treat silver
simply and purely as a mercantile com
modity, and to fix, until Congress should
change it, an open declaration on the stat
utes that gold, and gold alone, should be
the standard of value, declared so by the
supreme law of the laud. lie had always
believed that the doctrine of the Republi
can party was that every piece of paper
which should be issued by the great
Government having monetary functions
at all, should be legal tender for all debts,
private as well as public. This was not
provided for in the treasury bill. The
feature of bullion redemption was an ar
gument that was conclusive that this bill,
and the substitute, were treating silver
bullion as a commodity, and nothing else.
On this principle the same thing could be
done with as great propriety with copper,
with tin, and with nickel as was proposed
to be done with silver. If the Govern
ment used silver at all. it should be used
as a money metal, and not as a commodity.
He was opposed to the substitute because
of that, but he expected to give it his sup
port in this contingency. He hoped that
an oppo-tunity would be given to strike
out the bullion redemption features, but
even if it were impossible to get it out of
the biil he would give the biil his support
(reluctantly, he confessed, because he did
not believe in voting for something he op
posed) because he believed in the necessity
of some legislation on the subject. He was
confidently advised that if this bill should
pass in its present form, the matter to
which he had alluded would be corrected
elsewhere. If he did not have that expec
tation and belief—in other words, if the
vote he cast today were a finality—this
substitute would never receive his vote.
This bill was bound to be considered at the
other end of the capitol. It would be
amended there, and the House would have
an opportunity to vote on the amend
ments.
Bynum, of Iowa—“Suppose it is not
amended?”
Payson—“From the assurance I have
from another place, I have no more doubt
of that than that I am standing here.”
Williams, of Illinois—“Suppose they
should be controlled as you are?”
Payson—“But they cannot be. There
is no previous question and no special
order there. [Laughter.]
Williams, of Illinois, inquired whether
the present law, if fairly executed, was not
better than the pending bill.
Payson replied that if the discretion
vested in the Secretary of the Treasury
had been fairly used for the last six
months, let alone for seven or eight years,
no such legislation as this would be under
discussion today. [Applause.] The treas
ury officials were the friends of gold, and
gold alone. No miser ever went clutching
for gold with greater avarice and greed
than every Secretary of the Treasury. As
an instance of the hostility of the present
Secretary to silver, Payson stated that he
had not received a silver certificate for
his pay.
Conger, of Iowa, illustrated the fact
that he had done so by producing several
certificates. Mechanically, the speaker
went down into his pocket and as he drew
out a number of crisp notes he was greeted
with a roar of laughter from the press gal
lery, directly behind and above him, which
was echoed on the floor.
Payson, again reverting to the bill, said
that instead of being a bill for the coinage
of silver it was a measure which practically
prohibited the coinage of the standard
silver dollar. [Applause], Mutchler, of
Pennsylvania, was opposed to both propo
sitions pending before the House.
Hatch, of Missouri, reiterated and en
dorsed everything the gentleman from Illi
nois had said relative to the hostile atti
tude of the Treasury Department toward
silver.
The debate was continued by Tracy,
of New York; Bartine, of Nevada: Can
non, Anderson. Perkins and Funston, of
Kansas.
Funston said that if the gentlemen on
his side of the House, who were apologiz
ing for the bill would vote according to
their convictions, the House would pass a
free coinage biil in one hour. [Applause].
The Republicans had talked over this sil
ver business, and what had they done?
“The mountain labored and brought
forth a mouse.”
Connell, of Nebraska, said that he had
always been a Republican. His loyalty to
tlte party had never been questioned. He
stood ready to serve it in the future as he
had served it in the past. But when he
knew the needs of the people he governed
his action accordingly, even though he
would have to record his vote with the mi
nority. If the Speaker and so-called lead
ers of the party expected the rank and file
to do their bidding without regard to what
was right or fair, they would wake up
some day to find themselves mistaken. He
protested against the rule which prevented
action on the bill for the free coinage of
silver. In the caucuss amendments had
been offered by the gentleman from Ohio
(McKinley), and would have been adopted
but for the protests of the Speaker.
Allen, of Mississippi, defied the gentle
men on the other side, who favored free
coinage, to come up and prove their good
faith. If they did, the Democrats would
give them free coinage. They could not
shield themselves behind a Democratic
President. The Fifty-first Congress must
be held responsible for its own acts.
Dinglev, Brewer of Michigan, Sweeny
of Iowa, Gnsvenor and McKinley, also
spoke. The lu'nr of 3 o’c’-ck having ar-
-*\ed, the pro a ictus question wa consid
ered as ordered. The amendment5 to the
original bill offered by Ta. or of Illinois,
and Q’Ppaneli of Michigan, were ..'.form
ally adopted. The McComas am ndment
to the substitute was aLo adopted.' It
provides that when free coinage is at
tained, the monthly bu lion purchases
shall cease. The substitute as amended
wa3 then agreed to, and the qu -stion re
curred upon agreeing to the bill at amend
ed by the substitute.
Bland moved to recommit the bill with
instructions to the committee to report a
free coinage bill not later than Tuesday
next.
Dingley made a point of order against
the latter portion of the instructions,
which was sustained, and Bland modified
bis motion so as to omit the provision for
a report by a specified date. The motion
to recommit was defeated—yeas 116,
nays 140.
On the motion to recommit, fifteen Re
publicans voted yea with the Democrats,
as follows: Allen of Michigan, Anderson
of Kansas, Bartine of Nevada. Carter of
Montana, Connell of Nebraska, Do Haven
of California, Featherstone of Arkansas,
Funston of Kansas, Hermann of Oregon,
Kelly of Kansas, Morrow of California,
Perkins of Kansas, Townsend of Colorado,
Turner of Kansas, and Vandever of Cali
fornia.
Thirteen Democrats voted with the Re
publicans in opposition to the motion to
recommit, as follows: Dargan, of Soufh
Carolina. Dunphy, of New York; Elliott,of
South Carolina; Fiower, of New York;
Geissenhainer, of New Jersey: Hemphill,
of South Carolina;Maish, of Pennsylvania;
Mutchler, of Pennsylvania; O'Neill, of
Massachusetts; Quinn, of New York;
Tracy, of New York; Venable, of Virginia,
and Wiley, of New York.
The biil was then passed—yeas 135,
nays 119.
On its final passage eight Republicans
voted with the Democrats against the bill,
viz: Anderson, of Kansas; Rockwell, of
Massachusetts; Carter, of Montana; Kelly,
of Kansas; Bartine, of Nevada;
Townsend, of Colorada; Turner, of Kan
sas, and Wilson, of Washington.
But one Democrat (Wilson, of Missouri,)
voted with the Republicans for : lie pas
sage of the bill. The House then, at 5:15
o’clock, adjourned.
IN THE SENATE.
Washington, June 7.—After disposing
of some miscellaneous business the Senate
took up the calendar and passed a large
number of bills, most of which were of no
general interest. Among those of chief
importance were the following:
Senate bill forthe relief of the Catholic
church at Macon, Ga., directing the Secre
tary of War to allow rent for the use and
occupation of the building by United
States troops in 1864.
Senate biil to provide for the compulsory
education of Indian children.
Vest gave notice that he would s»ek an
opportunity some day next week, after a
speech or two on the silver bill, to bring
up for action three bills, now on the calen
dar, in regard to live cattle and beef pro
ducts.
Private pension bills on the calendar
were taken up and 120 were passed.
The Senate the adjourned.
GENERAL LINDSAY' WALKER’S DEATH.
Richmond, June 7.-—The death is an
nounced at Columbia of Gen. R. Lindsay
Walker. He was a graduate of the Vir
ginia Military Institute in the same class
with Mahoue. Since the war he has been
connected with various railroads in the
South.
LIVINGSTON’S LETTER.
IT GIVES A BIG BOOST TO STATE
POLITICS.
northen gained and the dark horses
LOST—AMONG THE CONGRESSIONAL
CANDIDATES — CRISP AND
BLOUNT ARE EASY'.
Atlanta, June 7.—[Special.]—Poli
tics e\ r erywhere—nothing but politics!
That is the situation in Atlanta today.
Livingston did it with his letter. His an
nouncement that he would not be a candi
date for Governor was the biggest sensa
tion Atlanta has had in many a day.
Everybody was surprised—even the wise
acres who think they run the politics of
the State—acknowledge that they were
knocked out this time.
I doubt if anybody outside of Living
ston, Peek and Harry Brown knew what
course affairs would take. For a month
Livingston’s candidacy for Governor has
been looked upon as a fact beyond all
question, and even his most intimate
friends had no intimation to the contrary.
This is shown by Peek's announcement to
a reporter that he would be a candidate
for Congress against Judge Stewart—a
statement lie would never have made had
he believed Col. Livingston had any idea
of looking that way. When Livingston
left here last Monday I am certain he still
thought lie would run for Governor.
His taik all tended that way, and
though the talk of a politician has
always to be taken with grains
of allowance, there seemed to be every in
dication that to oppose Colonel Northen
was his intention. He wasn't decided,
however. He had been urged by Alliance-
men not only in this State, but in other
parts of the South, to make the race for
Congress, it being urged that there was the
place to secure the legislation which the
farmers needed; and this advice had great
weight with him.
He saw, too, that to make the way ciear
for Northen, so far as Alliance support
was concerned, meant to greatly strengthen
his position with the members of the Alli
ance. He would then be where to ask for
any favor at their hands was all that would
be needed to get it.
So he wrote the letter and is out of the
race.
Will Northen have a walk-over?
That is possible, but by no means set
tled. Tom HardemaD, though he lias
never been formally in the race, is not out
of it. Colonel Livingston believes Harde
man will step aside and leave the field
ciear to Northen, but some of Hardeman’s
friends here think otherwise.
Tlte action of Houston county today
wiil probably decide so far as Hardeman is
concerned. If he carries the county, look
out for him. If not, well—he has never
announced himself, you know.
As for Tom Glenn—Tom’s chances as a
dark horse have gone glimmering.
For W. J. Northen will be Governor.
THE CONGRESSIONAL RACE.
Interest in the race for Congress has ab
sorbed the plenty of other political topics
just now, and the politicians have on their
studying-caps.
Now that Stewart lias a strong Opponent,
a man who meets him on his own ground,
it is almost inevitable that other candidates
will come in. Fulton county, in all prob
ability, will put in her own candidates,
with her six votes out of the thirty in the
district. Of course the selection will be
made with a view to securing an outside
county or two for her candidate. Jno. B.
Goodwin is mentioned; Mayor Glenn is
talked of; Col. Win. H. Hulsey, Albert
Cox, ex-Congressman Hammond, Rufe
Dorsey, and others. Ex-Congressman Milt
Candler could carry his own county.DeKalb,
and probably Fulton, but he says he is
out of politics to stay. Another very in
teresting question is this: Is Livingston or
Stewart the second choice of this county?
It looks like Fulton county is going to be
come the pivot in the race, and both Stew
art and Livingston claim it. Both have
strong friends and bard worker? here in
their interest, and the hardest fight of the
campaign is to be fought in Fulton county.
Mr. Hoke Smith, who has been men
tioned as a probable candidate, says he
will not run.
Other candidates must come in, too, for
t’ae Legislature. The Journal this after
noon announces definitely that Mr. Smith
will not make the race. He assigns as a
reason the pressure of business, his obliga
tions to liis clients, and his unwillingness
to oppose the Alliance candidate, Taiia-
ferro. He thinks that it will be to the in
terest of the county to have one Alliance
representative in the next House.
The associations of railroad men who
first formally endorsed Mr. Smith as a
suitable man to represent them, have ap
proached ex-Mayor George Hillyer on the
subject, promising their support. He has
not yet given [them a definite answer, but
will probably do so this afternoon.
LARRY' WILL NOT ENTER.
Larry Gantt furnishes a first-class politi
cal sensation in his editorial withdrawing
from the Eighth District Congressional
race, and his strong position against Tom
Olive. Olive is a good fellow, and is,
doubtless strong in his own county, and
possibly others in his section, but his ef
fort to make a Congressional race with the
Olive bill as his platform, seems rather
ludicrous. When Gantt says “it is an in
sult to the intelligence of the farmers of
this district to try to make the Olive bill
an issue in the Congressional campaign,”
he expresses in rather strong language
what everybody who discusses Tom Olive’s
letter says.
Tlte effort to ride into Congress upon a
platform which has but one plank, and
that plank a matter with which Congress
has absolutely nothing to do, is put down
as the most patent of all the recent efforts
to fool the farmers, and thereby capture
their votes. Olive may possibly carry
Oglethorpe, though he is by no means
strong there, but it is pretty safe to say
that itis chances for Congress are decidedly
slim. He doubtless counts on the Alli
ance vote, but with Gantt fighting him in
that end of the district, and Lawson in an
other—both of them men whose word will
have great weight with the farmers—it is
not likely that he will develop much
strength anywhere else.
The Seventh district also comes in for a
share of the public attention just at pres
ent, and the fight Colonel Corput is mak
ing against Congressman Clements is be
ing freely talked about. The issue there
is Clements—Corput for. Clements against,
the Alliance sub-treasury plan. It is early
to predict, but right now Clements is gen
erally regarded as certain of re-election.
He will not confine himself to the sub-
treasury matter, but wili, so his friends
say, have many things to bring up for Mr.
Corput’s consideration.
“Crisp and Blount are the only mem
bers of the present House who are certain
of re-election.” was the way a prominent
Alliance leader summed up the situation
at Alliance headquarters yesterday. “Even
Turner will have opposition. Colonel
Hawes of his district is anxious to make
the race, and wili swallow the sub-treasury
bill and everything. He is hard at work
now, and can be looked upon to make
things lively for the old man. Jim Guerry
would like to run, but he is also
anxious to hold on to the good thing he
has in his Judgeship. Yes. its going to
be lively down here, and everywhere else
in the State, I might say.”
GERMAN POLITICS.
Bismarck’s movements—party stands
ON THE AVAR CREDITS.
Berlin, June 7.—[Copyright, 1890, by
the New York Associated Press.]—Chan
cellor Von Caprivi did not send a eirpnlar
note to the powers, nor did lie communi
cate with, any foreign representative except
the Austrian Ambassador on the subject
of Prince Bismarck's utterances in the in
terviews with newspaper correspondents.
The alleged remarks of the Prince to the
effect that Germany was not bound by
treaty to assist Austria in the event of war
witli Russia over the struggle for domi
nance in the Balkan peninsula, caused
Count Kalnoky to inquire how far the
Emperor and Chancellor shared this
interpretation of the responsibilities
of the alliance. Von Caprivi, in
his response, avoiding a discussion of
such an interpretation,"declined to attach
any value to the reported interviews with
the retired statesman. Bismarck has
written to both Crispi and Kalnoky, cor
recting the inflating impressions arising
from these reports of the interviews. The
Emperor and his ministers concur in a re
spectful treatment of the ex-Chancellor.
They recognize his full right to a public
expression of his views of state affairs
through any medium lie may choose.
Suggestions have been given to the
official press to allude to Prince Bismarck
only when necessary, and then to speak of
him with unvarying courtesy as a states
man who lias rendered the greatest services
to his country, but who has probably out
lived his capacity to guide the affairs of
the nation*. This exactly represents atti
tude the Emperor desires his ministers to
assume towards Bismarck.
The North German Gazette, which is
now as much Chancellor Von Caprivi’s
organ as ever it was Prince Bismarck's,
seems to minimize the import of the
Prince’s utterances by declaring them to
be those of a mere private gentleman*
having nothing whatever to do with the
present policy cf the Empire, or with
means of influent in' it. This view of the
ex-ChailCellor's ] osit on, however, ignores'
the fact that lie still holds intimate rela
tions and coutin al correspondence with
the leaders of the Federal States,
the leaders of the Conservatives and
National laterals, besides maintaining a
touch with foreign statesmen. The Gov
ernment may soon be glad to accept bis
assistance to pass the army bill.
The Hambuiger Naclirichter intimates
that if the Pr nc 3 enters Parliament he
will throw the weight of his influence on
the side of Ch: nc illor Von Caprivi, with
whose jiolicy at uome and abroad lie con
tinues to be in sympathy. Nothing is defi-
nateiy decided as to his accepting a seat in
tlie Reichstag, but it is understood that lie
will not do so unless occasion demands his
presence to justify his policy as continued
by Chancellor Von Caprivi. The occa
sion is likely soon to arise. The
Commission on the army bill has disclosed
a complete change of temper towards the
Government proposals. Before the Whit
suntide vacation, Richteralolie openly op
posed the credit demand. Now, Wind-
therst, Rennigsen, and even some of the
conservatives on the commission declare
that the country will not support a con
tinuous increase in military charges. The
frank admission of General Verdy Du
Vernois, Minister of War, that he did not
know how much more morey lie would be
required to ask roused remonstrance on
every side. The opinions of constituen
cies were ascertained during the
recess and these have incited
members to demand explicit
proposals with a definite budget. The
centre party, Freisinniges, the Volks
Partei, and the socialists are also combi
ning to refuse to support the bill unless it
is accompanied by a provision for a shorter
period of c Mnpu s ry military service.
Richter demands as the price of his sup
port, the establisment of a tvo year's ser
vice, the abolition of the Im >erial guard,
the abolition of the sc 5 ten by which
civil ports are ac -orded to
snb officers on retiring from
the service, the suppression of cadet
schools, and the abolition of everything
which assists aristocrats to speciai rank in
the army. Finally, he demands the sup
pression of the septennale. The coalition
will not insists upon all these demands,
but will hold out for enough to render the
fate of the lull doubtful, while assuring
stormy times within the Reichstag.
sun’s cotton review.
New York, June 7.—Futures deedined
sharply in the first half-hour under weak
Liverpool accounts and very favorable re
ports from the growing crop. But at 12.01
cents for August there was brisk buying to
cover and prices improved, aided part
ly by the quotation of silver at
$1.06. In the last half-hour there
was a sharp advance. The market ap
peared to be bid up in tlie interest of Liv
erpool, in the hope of averting a semi
panic, which for some days has been im
pending in the spot market there. Cotton
is reported blooming in the Gulf States,
and no doubt August will see the new
crop marketed in large quantities.
After ’change tlie future market was
weaker with sellers at inside prices. The
visible supply is now 110,000 bales more
than one year ago. and probably 100,000
bales more will come out before October 1
than last year, making an excess of 210.000.
Cotton on spot was quiet.
