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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!
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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.