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VOlT>'XXII. DAILY ENQUIRER-SOT: COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORNING DECEMBER 7, 1890. NO. 302. at half price. \11 our French Pattern Hals and Bonnets are now on sale at half price. Also a choice stock ot' Beaver Hats worth $3 :o $4. to be sold at $2. GREAT REDUCTIONS In French Pattern Suits, Ladies' and Children’s Wraps. Jer sey Waists are the most comfortable for home wear of any thing else. We will close our stock of these goods at half MISSES’ DRESSES. A few Flannel Suits, ready-made for 15 and 16 year old Misses, worth $10, now $3.50. IDOLXjS, lovely DOLLS. We are well supplied with a choice stock of kid bodied and jointed polls at low prices. OTTOaVTA-ZsT IPIECHsTTS. This new fabric was manufactured to imitate Printed French Flannels, and are well worth 10 cents. We are offer ing them at 5 cents, along with Dress Prints in the best brands of Ca icoes. Our Art Department. A long felt want is supplied by this department, proven by the large business done since we opened it. Printed Plushes and China Silks in profusion, and all the neces sary small ornaments so desirable for finishing of Fancy Work. Special attention is called to our Silk Scarfs, fringed and good size, for 50c. J. A K1RYEN & CO. WE EXPECT This month’s trade lo surpass any previous month in the history ot onr business. How can it be otherwise v hen we are selling Suits and FOR $12 to $15 7 hat should bring three to five dollars more. Net a HAT in the house (<-xcept Dunlap and Stetson) that you cannot buy for less than we ever sold. On UNDERWEAR and heavy weight CLOTHING you will ue satisfied with our prices. Money Must Come—Goods Must Go! < uti, CAUGHT IN A HURRICANE. THE UAL) LUCK OF THE STEAMER MARY LAND. Baltimore, December 0.—The steamer Maryland, of the Atlantic Transportation Line, put in the Delaware breakwater to day in distress. The Maryland was caught in a hurricane on December 1. Captain Luckhurst, the second cook and the boat swain, we e killed, and Firsi|Mate Lloyd had a leg broken and was otherwise in jured. Others of the crew were also hurt. The Maryland had her chart room, with Ihe instruments, carried away. The wheel house smashed and the boats all swept away. A number of cattle were also lost. The Maryland took out a full general cargo and some 400 head of cattle. CONVICTED OF EMBEZZLEMENT. Rai.eigh, N. C., December (3.—Josiah Stancill, white, ex-postmaster at Selma, who was arrested one year ago for embez zling the contents of registered letters at the Selma post office, was tonight convict ed in the United States Court for the East ern district of North Carolina. The sen tence will be pronounced next week. TU8CUMr.IA’s POSTMASTER. Washington, December <i.—The Sen ate lias continued the nomination of «T. C. Goodloe, Jr., to be postmaster at Tuscurn- bia. Ala. CHICAGO MARKET. REVIEW OF SPECULATION IN THE GRAIN AND PROVISION MARKETS. Chicago, December 6.—The financial situation was not more reassuring than be fore, and it was an overshadowing influ ence upon all speculative markets. Wheat closed 3-6 lower; corn lost J; oats f, and provisions were also sharply lower. HE MADE AN ASSIGNMENT. New York, December li.—Edward Am- midown. senior member of the commission firm of Ammidown «fc Smith, 58 and 00 Worth street, today made an individual assignment to his partner, Albert D. Smith, owing to his liabilities in the fail ure of the Rittenhour Manufacturiag Co. of Paterson, N. J. He claims that the assignment will not affect the firm. No preferences are given. MEMRSKSIIIP OF THE NEXT HOUSE. Washington, December 0.—Clerk Mc Pherson of the House of Representatives has just had printed an unofficial list of the members-elect of the next House, showing 88 Republicans, 234 Democrats, 48 Farmers' Alliance. One district, the Twenty-eighth New York, is set down as uncertain; and one, the Second Rhode Island, is marked vacant. Highest of all in Leavening Power.—U. S. Gov’t Report, Aug. 17, 1889. ABSOLUTELY PURE A POSITIVE FACT! Never has there been so large a stock of Christmas Tricks for men, women, boys, children, babies and all as we have this season. Call early and make jour selection. P. J. THE FORCE BILL DEBATE. A STRONG CARD FOR THE WEST ERN SILVER MEN. REMOVAL OF grant’s REMAINS—GEN. STONEMAN RETIRED—STEWART PUSH ING MEXICAN PENSIONS—EX PLORER STANLEY’ E LECT URE. Washington, December 6.—[Special.] After a season of debate today over a dis trict bill, during the course of which it was demonstrated that the people of the District of Columbia had been disfran chised so as to get rid of the negro vote, the Force bill was again taken up for con sideration, and Mr. Gray of Delaware resumed his speech where it was broken by yesterday’s adjournment. THE SILVER MEN. The silver men in the Senate, Republi cans from the far West, have been trying to reach some agreement in the last twenty-four hours which will secure the passage of a coinage act through both houses. If the House was Democratic, a trade could be effected by which the Force bill would be killed and a free coinage bill passed, hut, unfortunately, Rjed is running the machine over there and he is opposed to the free coinage idea. The silver men—Teller, Plumb, Wolcott, and others are alive to the fact that the success of their measure depends upon their making terms before the Force bill is disposed of, and so they are insist ing, as the price of their votes for the Force bill that their free coinage M-heme shall have a fair show in both houses. This situation, owing to the known hos tility of Reed and Haxrison to free coin age, is liable to lead to very gratifying results. The proceedings of the Alliance meeting at Ocala, as telegraphed to the press, are exciting genera! attention. The belief is fast strengthening that Rice, Polk »fc Co. mean to introduce a Presidential ticket into the campaign of ’92. STANLEY’S LECTURE. Explorer Stanley lectured here last evening to an immense audience, Harri son anil many notables occupied boxes. Today Stanley visited the House press gallery and was introduced to the corres pondents. After the hand-shaking, he made a brief speech. Clerk McPherson of the House com pleted a roll of the new House today and sent it to the puplic printer for insertion in the new directory. Counting all South ern Alliancemen as Democrats, the clerk gives the Democrats 234 seats, the Wes tern Alliancemen 8, and the Republicans 88. Three seats are in some doubt, one belonging to California, one to New York and one to Rhode Island. Two of these will likely fall to the Republicans, giving them 90 seats, and one to the Democrats increasing their vote to 235. Mr. Blount seems to be in the race for the Speakership to stay and he will have a good, strong puli, notwithstanding the pressure of Mr. Crisp, his colleague in the race The chances are that Mills, Crisp, Blount and Bynum will prove to be the favorites for the place. Judge Stewart, failing to get some gen eral bill through, has addressed himself to the business of securing Mexican pensions. Today he got a bill passed in the House to pension Benjamin P. Roane, a Mexican veteran of Fairbourn, Ga. This pension amounts to $12 per month. The executioners axe in the Postoffice Department is still at work. Over forty Democrats, in various States, felt the steel today. The postmasters at Delta and Greencut, Ga., were changed among others. IN THE HOUSE. Washington, December 6.—The House amendment to the Senate joint resolution for the issue of arms to the States of North and South Dakota, Wyoming and Ne braska was concurred in. It extends it to the State of Montana. Paddock presented the protest of the Farmers' Alliance, now in convention at Ocala, Fia., against the passage of the Conger lard bill. Morgan offered a resolution calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for informa tion as to the sums of money paid by the United States on vouchers or requisitions made by, or in favor of, John I. Daven port, as an election supervisor since Au gust 1, 1871, either for his own compensa tion or for that of others employed under his directions and supervision in the en forcement of the election laws. Hoar—“Let the resolution lie over.” Morgan—“I desire the information for the purpose of the debate now pending on the election bill. I want to know how much money the Government of the United States has heretofore expended through the agency of this one man, who has been the chief supporter of this bill, both in the House and in the Senate com mittee. I regard this more as a bill to put Davenport into a life office in New York city than for any other purpose, and, therefore, I want to know whaf he has been doing heretofore." Hoar—"This bill does not have any ef- # Santa Claus Has Arrived! m IS HOLDING A GRAND FESTIVAL Al Buyers are crowding our lore. Don't de ay pur chasing your CHRISTMAS PRESENT. Our stock is the largest in the city. Don’t for get that we are the Hybe of the South. Our list ar.d make a selec tion early. Dolls, Doll Carriages, Doll Furniture. Tea Sets. Pianos, Doll Trunks. Blocks, AND GAMES OF ALL KINDS. Fire Engines, Hook, Ladder, Railroad Trains, Drums, Hobby Horses, Velocipedes, TRICYCLES, Wagons, Wheelbarrows, In fact, everything in Toy line. Fruits of all kinds, SEE OUR STOCK OF FIREWOEKS AND PRICES. Nuts and Raisins. WILL CO. feet on the gentleman named except to have a more stringent dealing in the mat ter of fees. The going over of the resolu tion till Monday will cause no serious diffi culty.” The resolution went over. The election bill was taken up, and Gray resumed the floor. Hoar asked unanimous consent to have a reprint of the bill, the sections in the original bill and in the Senate substitute to be in parallel columns. The motion gave rise to a long discussion, in the course of which numerous and somewhat variant explanations were given by the Republi can members of the committee on privi leges and elections as to the action of the majority on what is known as the domi ciliary provision of the bill. While there had been a general consensus of opinion yesterday that the committee had agreed to eliminate that provision, and that its appearance in the hill was the result of a mistake on the part of the clerk or printer, there was today an entire change of opin ion, and a long time was spent in trying to explain the matter and make it clear. In course of the discussion, Teller, a member of the other committee, stated that when the bill was reported, he had reserved the right to vote against it if he saw tit, and to vote for any amendment to it which commended itself to his judg ment. Some portions of the bill he en dorsed, and some portions of it he did not endorse. He trusted that some of its ob jectionable features would come out of it before the bill came to a vote. If not, he should exercise the right, (as he always had exercised it) to vote according to his judgment and conscience. Vance, a Democratic member of the committee on privileges and elections, said that his recollection was that no part of the House bill had been struck out by the committee, and he recalled what he had said to the committee, that he wanted the bill to appear before the American people in the beauty of its original deformity, so that if anything was struck out of the bill, it was struck out by the majority in a private session. “I was not there, and cannot testify as to what was done, for 1 stand not in the councils of the ungodly.” [Laughter.] Daniel referred to the statements of members of the committee as a tower of Babel, about which there was nothing but confusion. The bill, he said, should be referred back to the committee, so that it should be properly compounded, and the committee itself should ask to have the bill recommitted, so as to have an oppor tunity to revise the work imperfectly done. It was 3:30 o’clock when Gray was able to proceed with his argument, no agree ment having been arrived at as to the re printing of the bill. He read from a re port in the New York Herald, of October, 1872, of a hearing before Chief Supervisor Davenport, as an illustration, he said, of what the domiciliary clause meant when interrupted by those who would be appointed to administer it by the chief supervisor of the State. He spoke of the “unanimous protest’’ made yester day against the domiciliary clause,only one Senator (Edmunds) thinking it worthy of being considered in a law entitled an act to prevent force and fraud at elections for Representatives in the House of Represen tatives. Mr. Evarts—“As this is a practical measure, will the Senators from Delaware give to the Senate some notion of what method he would provide for verifying the registration? What method has the Senate to suggest?” Gray—“That question is rot very hard to answer. My method would be to trust the people of the State, as they have been trusted for 100 years of our history. My method would be to instill and encourage confidence in the capacity of the people to manage and control their own affairs, in cluding the management and control of their own elections. My method would be not only to refuse to pass the measure now before the Senate, but to accept from our statute book the whole chapter concerning the elective franchise.” Hoar—“And have no law ?” Gray—“And have no law at all to inter fere with the freemen of the States in the performance of the great function of send ing Representatives to Congress. What has come over our history? What trans formation has taken place in this country of late years? Why is the intimation made that the blood has turned back in our veins, and that we do not possess civic virtues, and courage, and manhood and honesty to perform this great function of a free people?” After some further remarks in this vein, Hoar suggested an adjournment, a3 Gray desired to go home to Delaware this even ing, and after a short executive session the Senate, at 4:30 o'clock p. m., adjourned. IN THE HOUSE. An effort was made in the morning hour to pass the Senate joint resolution direct ing the President to request the widow of Gen. U. S. Grant to permit the removal of the remains of her husband to Arlington cemetery. The morning hour expired, however, before action was reached. The Senate bill was passed, (with im portant amendment) appropriating $100,- OOO for the purchase of additional rations for the Sioux Indians. The Senate bill passed for the retirement of General George Stoueman, with the rank of colonel. A resolution was adopted for the print ing of 20,000 copies of the President’s an nual message. The House then adjourned. REVOLT AGAINST PARNELL. London December 0.—At a meeting of the Irish members of the House of Com mons today, Barry, Sexton, and Healy, made a determined attempt to bring about a final settlement of the question of Parnell’s retirement. They insisted that there be an immediate division of the members on the main question before the meeting, namely, the retirement of Parnell from the leadership of the party, finally, Sexton gave Parnell his ultimatum to the effect that if the decision on this question was delayed by Chairman Parnell. Alter 6 o’clock this afternoon a majority of the representatives of the party would hold a meeting of their own and depose him from the office. A scene of great excitement followed this announcement. At 2:05 o’clock a recess was taken for half an hour. After the recess Abraham moved that Parnell vacate the chairmanship of the party. Parnell refused to allow the motion to be put, whereupon McCarthy, followed by forty-four other members, left the room. At 3:15 o’clock the members reassem bled. A strongly worded letter from Archbishop Walsh was read, demanding Parnell’s removal. The reading of this letter produced a marked effect. John O’Connor moved the adoption of a resolution declaring that Gladstone’s let ter was not satisfactory, and that Iceland required assurances regarding the constab ulary and land questions. The motion was seconded by Kenny. Then followed Abraham’s|motion, which Parnell’s refusal to put led to the with drawal of the dissentists. An exciting in cident arose from Parnell’s refusal to put Abraham’s motion. As a written resolu tions to the same effect was being handed in by Justice McCarthy, Parnell leaned across the table, struck McCarthy’s hand and seized the resolution and tore it to pieces. Justin Huntley Mc Carthy, son of Justin McCarthy, arose from his seat and denounced Parnell as insulter of his father and an enemy to his country. He declared that he had hitherto acted with Parnell, but henceforth would repudiate him. The de fection of the younger McCarthy has raised the total number of anti-Parnellite mem bers to forty-five. The opponents of Par nell, who withdrew, met immediately in another room, elected Justin McCarthy chairman, and unanimously adopted the following resolution: We, members of the Irish Parliamentary party, solemnly renew our adhesion to the principle, in devotion to which we have never wavered, that the Irish party is and always must remain independent of all other parties. Further, we declare that we will never entertain any proposal for the settlement of the home rule question except such as satisfies the aspirations of the Irish party and the Irish people. The resolution was proposed by Timothy Healy and seconded by Sexton. The re sult was immediately communicated to Gladstone. Upon learning what had been done, Gladstone exclaimed: “Thank God, Home Rule is saved.” SUN’S COTTON REVIEW. New York, December 0.—Futures opened at six points decline, closing barely steady at six to seven points decline from yesterday’s closing prices. The sharp de cline in Liverpool and an adverse bank statement, the numerous failures and the extremely bad report from the Stock Ex change, were the cause of today's decline. That prices did not give way more than they (lid, was due probably to the fact that these influences were largely discounted yesterday, but some were inclined to argue that the small decline in the face of such influences reflected inherent strength in the general position of cotton. There was certainly, under the circumstances, pretty fair buying for Saturday. Still, there was a good deal of uneasiness regard ing the possible pffeet of an enforced liqui dation which may be at hand in the South ern markets. The results of a similar pro cess in January and February, 1880, are not forgotten. Spot cotton was dull and weak here. TO PARALLEL THE NORFOLK AND WEST ERN. Danville, Va., December 0.—A meet ing of tliejdirectors of the Danville and East Tennessee Railway Company was held here today and arrangements were per fected to build at once a new line of road from Danville to Bristol. Tenn., a distance of 200 miles. The road is to be an exten sion of the Atlantic and Danville road,now operating between Danville and Norfolk, and when the entire line is built it will be practically a parallel line with the Norfolk and Western railway. IT WAS A WHITEWASH. THE COMMITTEE REPORT EXON ERATING POLK, LIVINGSTON AND MACUNE. THE ALLIANCE WON’T HAVE IT—MACUNE CAUGHT OUT AND CONFESSES HIS GUILT—THE DAMN ING FACTS. Ocala, Fla., December 0.—The Na tional Alliance adjourned just before noon today, with the resolution on furnishing a roster of sub-Alliance secretaries still un der discussion. When the meeting was called together at 3 o'clock p. m. nobody expected a continuance of this debate, or any final disposition of the matters under consideration during the forenoon. A storm cloud, meanwhile, had been gathering and everyboly was waiting to hear it burst. It related to the Macune-Polk-Livingston investigation. It burst with suddenness and an uproar. President Hall, of the Missouri Alliance, got to the lioor and he was loaded to the neck with indignation, which subsequent ly found vent in a written protest, which he held in his hand, against the report of committee on investigation, submitted and adopted yesterday. He proceeded to read from manuscript his reasons for not sign ing that report, but he had hardly read the opening sentences when Macune’s friends, through delegate Wynn, of Ken tucky,objected to Hall’s stating his reasons, on the ground that his previously formu lated objections were in the nature of a minority report which he had now for feited his right to make by reason of the convention’s final action on the majority (or regular) report of the committee. A cross-fire of objections and demands en sued, during which there was a good deal of sharp shooting and the excitement arose to the highest pitch. While the de bate was at its heighest, Dr. Macune got the floor and said that if Hall’s report was read he should certainly claim the right to offer testimony in rebuttal on the floor of the convention. As he sat down a dozen members clamored for recognition, and, without getting it, demanded in loud voices an investigation of the most search ing character, Macune’s friends in the meanwhile using every art of the politician and parliamentarian to choke off the whole business and to proceed with the order of the afternoon. Those of the anti-Macune- ites who managed to make themselves heard, said if there was a “cat in the bag” they wanted it let out. They demand ed again and again that Hall’s report be read. Wood, of Tennessee, and Frank Bur kett, of Mississippi, fairly howled for the report, the latter, who is a typical Missis sippi and wears a Prince Albert coat of Confederate grey and a big light colored slouch hat, vociferating wildly and never permitting the opposition to silence his demand. So the vote had to be taken and the reading of the report was ordered by a big majority amid cheers and shouts. As Hall arose from his seat again, the troubled waters subsided, and in the most dignified manner, and amid a foreboding silence, he proceeded to say that he had refused to sign the report of the investigating committee for the following reasons: First, because it censured Presi dent Polk for writing the Norwood letter, a censure which was unjust to Polk for various reasons. Second, because it ex onerated Macune, although Macune had actually and openly admitted before the committee that he had gone to Georgia and formed a combination among Alliance legislators and others in the interest of Pat Calhoun for United States Senator; because Macune had also admitted that Calhaun had “loaned him” (Macune) $2,000, and because Ma cune bad further admitted that he remained sixteen days in Georgia lobbying for Calhoun’s election. Third, because Ma cune had admitted before the committee that he had for the past year traveled on transportation furnished him by the West Point Terminal Company. WILL RAISE TOBACCO. Belvidere, N. J., December 0.—A number of the leading Hunterdon county farmers have decided to attempt the culti vation of tobacco next year. They be lieve that a thriving industry for New Jer sey farmers will be inaugurated by the at tempt. It has been demonstated that the soil of Hunterdon county is well adapted to the growing of tobacco. HI KIMBALL MAKES A DEAL. St. Louis, December 3.—A special from Chattanooga, Tenn., says: H. I. Kimball, formerly of Atlanta, but now engaged in developing East Tennessee interests, cables that he has sold to English capital ists for €1,000,000, sterling money, nearly 5,000.000 acres, a three-fourths interest in the property of the Kimball Town Com pany, located in the famous Sequatchie valley, about fifty miles from here. This is perhaps the biggest real estate deal ever negotiated in Southern lands. The prop erty is rich in minerals and timbers.
