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DAILY ENQUIRER-SUN: COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING DECEMBER 9, 1890.
NO. 303.
AT HALF PRICE.
All our French Pattern Hals and Bonnet are now on sale
at half price. Also a choice stock of Beaver Hats wo:th $3
to $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 borne wear of any
thing else. We wil’close our stock of these goods at hall
price.
MISSES’ DRESSES.
A few Flannel Suits, read;-made for 15 and 16 year old
Misses, worth $10, no.v $3.5'>.
DOLLS, LOYELY IDOLDLS.
We are well supplied with a choice slock of kid bodied and
jointed pells at low prices.
OTTOLY^Hsr ZPYLLdSTTS.
This new fabric was manufactured to imitate Printed
French Flannels, and are well worth lit cents. We are offer
ing them at 5 cents, along with Dress Prints in tlie best
brands of Calicoes.
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 K1RVEN & CO.
WE EXPECT
This month s trade to surpass
any previous month in th>
history ol our business.
How can it be otherwise
v. hen wo are selling
-FOR-
$12 to $15
That should bring three to
live dollars more.
Net a HAT in the house (except Dunlap and Stetson) that
you cannot buy for less than we ever sold.
On UNDERWEAR and heavy weight CLOTHING you will
be satisfied with our prices.
Money Must Come—Goods Must Go!
REFUND THE TOBACCO TAX, AN IMPORTANT COLUMBUS BILL.
AND
PROVIDE FOR PROTECTING THE
HAWAIIAN TREATY.
Washington, December 8.—The ways
and means committee today voted to re
port a bill authorizing the Secretary of
the Treasury to refund so much of the
tax collected on tobacco which shall be
in the hands of dealers and manufacturers
January 1, as was abolished by the recent
tariff act.
Turner, of Georgia, moved a substitute
providing for a rebate but avoiding refer
ence to the tariff act, which was supported
by the Democratic members of the com
mittee. The amendment was rejected,
and McKinley will report the bill without
amendment. The committee also voted to
reporta resolution declaring that nothing
in the tariff act should be construed to im
pair the provisions of the Hawaiian treaty.
The Democrats opposed] the resolution.
MILES ABOUT TO MOVE.
Chicago, December S.—Gen. Miles this
morning received a letter from Buffalo Gap,
S. D., under date of December tl. which
says: Yesterday afternoon a party of lit'tcen
Sionx, at the entrance to the Bad Lauds,
endeavored to cut off and capture three
cowboys. The ranchmen in the vicinity
of the Bad Lands are sending their women
and children into this town. There are
no ripes or ammunition, and none have
been received here, although application
lias been made for them in order that the
settlers may arm themselves. General
Miles will leave for the scene of the Indian
troubles tomorrow.
A RUMOR DENIED.
Washington, December S.—The rumor
that a special meeting of the cabinet was
held today to consider the financial situa
tion is untrue, and had no other founda
tion than the fact that Secretary \\ indom
took lunch with the President by no means
of unusual occurrence. The regular meet
ing of the cabinet will be held tomorrow,
however, and it is extremely probable that
the financial question will receive consid
eration, as it is one in which the Presi
dent is taking a deep interest just at
present.
DANVILLE'S FIRST SNOW.
Danville, Va., Decembers.—The first
snow of the season fell here this morning,
and the storm extended through Henry
and Patrick counties. The strangest part
of it is, there was a lively thunder storm
last night before the snow began to fall.
The weather is stil! cold and threatening.
THE ELECTRIC railway BILL GETS A
FAVORABLE REPORT.
Atlanta, December 8.—[Special.]—
Whitfield’s bill, to break up the pooling
of insurance rates, was before the finance
committee today and insurance men from
all over the State appeared and opposed
it. conspicuous being Livingston Mims and
Clarence Knowles. Denny and Dean, ol
Rome, were there favoring the bill, which
will be disposed of by the committee
Wednesday.
The bill by Atkinson, before the general
judiciary committee, which proposes to
extend the powers of the State Railroad
Commission to telegraph, express and
sleeping car charges, was stubbornly op
posed. Action has been delayed until
Friday.
The bill by Gilbert incorporating the
North Highlands Electric Street Railway
was opposed before the Railroad Commit
tee this afternoon, at the three hour's ses
sion, by Messrs. Garrard, Flournoy and
Hatcher, of Columbus, and Meldrim, of
Savannah, representing the horse car line
which is parallel for several blocks by tin-
new line. McNeil and \\ iuibish favored
the electric line railroad. The committee
reported in favor of the electric road.
CHICAGO MARKET.
REPUBLICANS REBUKED-
GORMAN S PICTURE OF THE CONDI
TION OF THE COUNTRY.
A PROPHECY AND AN APPEAL—GRAY - 3
GREAT ENDURANCE—HOUSE PRO
CEEDINGS—THE SOUTH CARO
LINA SENATORIAL CONTEST.
TERDAY — IMPORTANT BILL
PASSED AND NEW MEAS
URES INTRODUCED.
REVIEW OF SPECULATION IN THE GRAIN
AND PROVISION MARKETS.
Chicago. Decembers.—Wheat bordered
upon tlie lowest prices that have been seen
since the financial outlook first began to
cause serious alarm; May selling down to
fftij to 9<‘>7, and closed 97|, }to gc lower than
Saturday. Corn was well held and made
a slight advance, and oats was in accord
with the other feeling. Provisions started
strong and closed steady at a slight im
provement on Saturday’s final quotations.
TREASURY DISBURSEMENTS.
Washington, December 8.—The total
amount of money disbursed by today's
treasury operations was $0,800,730, dis
tributed as follows: By the purchase of 4
per cent bonds, $5,550,000; by the pur
chase of 4 j per cents, $50,000, and the
purchase of silver bullion. $707.000.
A FURIOUS STORM.
Harrisburg, Va., December 8.—A ter
rible storm set in iiere last night. Meet,
snow and hail all fell. It has now turned
into a snow storm, and rages furiously.
The weather is intensely cold.
Highest of all in Leavening Power.—U. S. Gov’t Report, Aug. 17, x88g.
Baking
Powder
ABSOLUTELY PURE
Washington. December 8.—[Special.]
Senator Hoar's face wore a deeper crimson
color today thau usual, and he appeared
more nervous if anything than on any
previous day. The cause of Mr. Hoar's
unrest is the length of .Senator Gray's
speech against the Force bill, and the won
derful endurance of Mr. Gray himself as a
floor manager. He commenced his speech
last Friday, and showed up today as fresh
and sin ling as if time was no object.
an alliance leader.
Representative John A. Pickier, of South
Dakota, the Republican Alliance member
who introduced the sub-treasury bill in the
House last se-sior., is back from the Ocala
convention. He’ thinks that unless one of
the existing parties moves up and lakes
position alongside of the Alliance, a new
industrial parly is inevitable. Pickier was
re-elected to the next Congress, and will
doubtless be regarded as the Alliance
chief in the next House.
Hampton's chances.
Much anxiety is felt and expressed here
about the prospective action of the
South Carolina Legislature in choos
ing a Senator to succeed Hamp
ton. The first vote will be taken
tomorrow. General Hampton's closest
friends concede his defeat unless a splint
in the Alliance vote occurs, lion. John
L. Irby, the preseut .Speaker of the South
Carolina House, is the favorite Alliance
candidate. He is a member for Laurens
county, and was chairman of the Stat
Alliance executive committee during the
Tillman campaign. He is reported to be a
man of vast political resources and a hold
stump speaker. His age is given at tony-
five.
i'ne committee on ways and means
agreed today to report a bill to heal the
tobacco rebate omission in the McKinley
bill. Mr. Turner, of Georgia satisfied
himself that the amendment coiuained
nothing to validate the original bill before
he gave it his sanction.
Representative Willcox, of Connecticut
in an interview today, thought that, the
Speakership would go North, notwith
standing the excellent qualities of Messrs.
Mills and Crisp, whom iie regards as the
leading Southern candidates.
Mr. R. T. Ponder, of Jefferson county,
accompanied by Mr. Brinson, a neighbor,
passed through here today eti route home
from New York, where Ponder has been
treated by the Pasteur system. He was
bitten severely by a mad dog some weeks
ago. He announces a complete cure.
James ii. Randall, the newspaper corre
spondent, is here.
IN THE SENATE.
Washington, December 8.—Gorman
presented a large number of petitions,
principally from the State of New York,
protesting against the passage of the elec
tions bill. He said they had been got up
under tbe lead of the New York Star.
Jones, of Arkansas, offered a resolution
(which went over till tomorrow) calling on
the Attorney. General for information as to
the supervisors of elections appointed If or
the First and Second Congressional Dis
tricts of Arkansas for the Congressional
election of November 4th last, and the
sums of money paid out or called for iu
connection wiih the election or with the
proceedings that have taken place since
the election.
The Indian question again came up in
the discussion upon a joint resolution
heretofore introduced by Morgan, appro
priating $5003 for an investigation of the
Sioux outbreak. It was participated in by
Pierce, Voorhe.es and Paddock, the latter
indulging iu some criticism upon the “mil
itary chieftains’’ who stop at every cross
roads and send for the newspaper men to
interview them. Iu this way a great many
foolish tilings were said, and there had
b *en a great deal of absurd exaggerat ion in
connection with the whole business.
Hawley favored Morgan's joint resolu
tion, and said that one cause of the distur
bance was the opposition of some of the
Sioux to the settlement made by tbe Sioux
committee two years ago. The Govern
ment, he said, had tried to do its duty gen
erally by those people. Morgan’s joint
resolution was referred to the committee
on Indian affairs.
The resolution heretofore offered by-
Morgan, calling on the Secretary of the
Treasnry for a statement of the money-
paid to John I. Davenport, as chief .super
visor of elections, in each year since 1871,
and a statement of the claims of Daven
port that have been rejected at the Treas
ury, was taken up and agreed to.
Hoar, at 1:15 o’clock, moved to proceed
to the consideration of the elections bill,
but, on the suggestion that Gray was tem
porarily absent, he withdrew the motion,
and then asked unanimous consent to have
the time fixed at Friday next, at 4 o'clock
p. m , for taking a final vote on the bill.
Morgan said that before such consent
could be given, he wanted to know what
bill was before the Senate. There was no
bill, he said, before the Senate according
to the statements made in the last few
days. At leas’, nobody knew what it was.
Gorman suggested that the Senator from
Massachusetts ought himself to see the ab
solute injustice of such a proposition at
this stage of the proceedings. Gorman
was going on to state his views on the
proposition when he was cut short by Hoar
saying that as objection was made, there
was nothing to discuss.
Gray, meanwhile, came into the cham
ber, and the bill having beeu taken up, he
yielded to Gorman, who argued against
the proposition to fix a time for taking the.
vote. lie recalled a statement of Mr. Hoar
at the last session, that if the elections bill
were not then taken up and disposed oi
there would not be time to do so in the
short session. It ha-1 been, Gorman said,
a firm conviction on his side of the cham
ber that, after what had occurred at the
late elections, the Senator from Massachu
setts would not press the bill at an early
stage of the session, so that the Senators
on his side had not prepared
themselves to discuss it intelligently.
They had come to the session, not
elated with the late Democratic victory
at the polls, hut looking with seriousness
and earnestness to the condition of the
country. He recognized that that condi
tion was more serious than it had ever been
before during his short life. He thought
he vouched the sentiment of every mem
ber of the Democratic party iu both
houses, when he said that they were per
fectly prepared to lay aside partisan views
and to assist in doing something to stay
the greatest calamity that had ever befallen
the American people. Gorman continued:
“\Ye stand today, Mr. President, on a vol
cano. We have heard a discussion as to
starving Indians, hut we take no note, it
appears, of the fact that the farm
ers of the land are meeting and
resolving that there is danger
and trouble, if not starvation among them.
The labor of the country appeals to the ad
ministration and to Congress to stay this
awful wreck. The faces of the bankers
and merchants are blanched with fear.
No man can tell whether tomorrow or next
day every bank in the great centers of
commerce will not be closed by suspension
of payments. And now, in the midst of
such a state of affairs, we, who came here
flushed with victory, had hopes that the
majority party in the Senate would give us
an opportunity to join with it in prevent
ing the wreck which is now impending,
but the Senator from Massasschusetts, since
; the second day of the session, has con-: 4 POOPl DAY'n PTTQlYFsI^l
: tinued to keep this bill before this : UUV/ly 1/diA O D L» OIlA £100*
body, day by day and hour by hour, refus- j ' ] “ ] \
, ing even the usual time of adjournment THE GEORGIA LEGISLATU RE GET-
| from Friday until Monday. Read the great l TING DOMN TO HARD T\ ORK.
1 papers of the city of New York today, j
j They tell you that fhe Secretary of the THE record of the two houses yes-
| Treasury, taking the only action that he is j
j authorized to take within the law, has i
I come again to the relief of commerce by 1
' buying $5,000,000 of bonds, and that that j
j is a mere drop in the bucket. The Secre- j in the senate.
! tary of the Treasury has paid out of the Atlanta. December 8. [Special.]
j Treasury $100,000,130 for bonds, and that j The bill authorizing the Mobile and Girard
j $100,000,000 has disappeared. The banks j railroad to construct, maintain and use a
: ' iav c less money now than they had before ! s jj e track on Ninth street. Columbus, Ga.,
i the payment of that $100,000,000. I would j passed.
| say to the Senator from Massachusetts, lay j Xew bills were offered:
; aside this bill, which the country has pro- j f)v yy r C'abaniss—To incorporate the
nounced against. Let it go,and let us take up j Atlanta Exchange Bank,
matters which all classes of our fellow citi- By Mr. Lamb—To incorporate the
zens are looking to us to consider. If you j Brunswick and Northern Railroad Com-
do not—if you persist in the course which j pany.
lias been marked out by the Senator from j By’ Mr. Terrell (by request)—To ern-
Massachusetts, the responsibility must rest power the Mayor and Council of Carroll-
wnh the party in power. If the Senator tjn t0 levy an additional 25 per cent ad
from Massachusetts forces a consideration valorem tax to protect the town against
of this partisan measure, while bankruptcy fj re .
and ruin are going on, he has the power By Mr. Todd—To further provide for
to do it. but when he goes back to Boston Cue lieu of contractors, mechanics, ma
ke will find that the merchants, and bank- terial men and laborers, and for the more
ers, and men of affairs there, as well as the effectual enforcement of the same,
farmers and laborers, will tell him that, This bill, the author explains, is in-
wkile he is attempting hostile legislation tended to guard the rights of material fur-
agaiust one section of country, if it had 1 nlshers. laborers, etc., from the rascality
not. been for tiie products of that I 0 f wildcat contractors who descend upon a
section, if it had not been for | c ,t y where they are unknown, and after
storage business interferes with the cattle TUff LHOUPlfC’ nr AI 4 VTAO
raising industry of the State. 1IIL f AKjlHihb DLMAiNDo*
The railroad clause has been broadened, . . ,,.77777 7
and the sewing machine clause extended ^^It OCALA CON \ EN HON SETS L P
so as to make an effort to reach these two 1 A PLATFORM.
institutions. The changes in these clauses j
are minor ones, suggested by the Comp- their views on the tariff, silver.
troller-Geneial to the finance committee.
Section 1. Dealing with the ad valorum
the moving from the cotton crop,
there would not be a bank in Massachu
setts able to pay its depositors. The only
thing that has saved them has been the
fact that they have been able to draw on
the cotton crop and on the oil. You may
hasten the wreck, you may speed the time
when this distress shall become universal.
So be it, Mr. President, if you will have it
so. Again we tender to you our earnest
endeavors to stay this panic and save our
common country.
Hoar replied to Gorman. Iu his speech
was a recommendation to Democratic Sen
ators to apply Gorman's suggestions to
themselves, cease their obstruction tactics
undertaking work and advancing the same
far enough to get considerable sums of
money from owners iu their hands, ab
scond, leaving creditors and hands with
empty pockets.
Mr. Todd's bill requires that accounts
shall be rendered the person for whom the
work is being done from time to time.
These accounts shall be open to inspection
by the hands, and they, or any of them,
shall have the privilege of calling on such
owner to withhold from the boss contrac
tor what is due them.
Material placed up an nretnises where
building is going forward by any material
man or contractor, if unpaid for, shall,
until worked into the building in course of
the fur-
feature was not considered, and the bill
was laid on the table to be taken up after
the appropriation act has been acted on.
The appropriation bill had been set for
consideration Wednesday, but the general
tax act being finished it was on motion of
NATIONAL BANKS. ALIEN LAND
OWNERS AND RAIL
ROADS—THE SUB-
TREASURY.
Ocala, Fla., December
tional Farmers’ Alliance ass
8.—The
■mbled
Na
this morning at S:30o’clock. After routine
Humphries of Brooks taken up and the w ork and a few speeches, giving newspa-
anu allow tiie elections bill to pass.
, Unix then resumed his argument against j erection, remain the property of
the bill, criticising it in its details. He nisher, and may be removed,
spoke of the machinery provided in it as In case a contractor shall abandon his
similar to that under which Napoleon HI. j contract, leaving unused material upon
arranged his plebiscite iu 1852, and erected i such premises, ihe furnisher may take
an empire on the ruins of the Ireiich | possession of and remove the same.
Contractors purchasing on credit mate-
and er
the
republic. He thought that the hill, if it
were not to be recommitted to the com
mittee on privileges and elections, should
be, at least, sent to a committee on style,
which would make plain what the bill
meant. Let us, he said, adhere to the
rules of English speech if we are not to
adhere to the rules of English
liberty and freedom. Let us have
lucid periods of the Senator from
Massachusetts and not t.he confused phra
seology of the chief supervisor of New
York, and then we can discuss the bill
with more intelligence than we can dis
cuss it now. Iu course of a colloquy be
tween Gray and Edmunds, Gray imagined
the case of the Senator of Vermont—the
Senator going to the polls in his own town
to vote and having a dirty deputy marshal,
inspired by rum and politics, lay his hand
upon his shoulder and saying that he ar
rested him for offering to vote when not
properly registered, or when not residing
in tiie. precinct, and taking him before the
United States Commissioner. Was that,
Gray asked, consistent with the freedom of
elections? The deputy marshals, he added,
were, under the bill, to be put at the
polls to prevent fraud. They would
be there to make the elections one-sided, to
arrest Democrats for real or supposed elec
tion frauds, and to allow Republicans to go
free, or in the case of the Democrats be
ing in power, to arrest Republicans and
allow the Democrats to go free. The bill.
Mr. Gray said, should be trampled under
foot; should never find a place in the stat
ute books of the United States; should be
taken out and branded by the common
hangman as being an insult to the free
people of a free country. It was, to say
the least of it, a stretch of power conferred
upon Congress. In conclusion, lie said:
“I b**g you to let us stand in
the ancient ways and not to
disturb the aucient landmarks.
There are principles so imbedded in our
constitution and scheme of Government
that they cannot be touched and removed
without jostling and shaking the whole
fabric of our liberties. 1 beg you to con
sider that we should conserve this funda
mental principle, that great doctrine of
local self government, and let them remain
for all times as immutable as the snow-
covered peaks of the Western mountains,
which have stood so long as the sentinels
of the centuries.
Berry obtained the floor at 5:45 o’clock,
and the Senate adjourned.
IN THE HOUSE.
Washington, December 8.—E. B. Tay
lor, from the committee on judiciary, re
ported back the Enlue resolution for the
arrest of George Minst, one of the door
keepers, for attempting violently to pre
vent. Enloe’s exit from the House during
a call of the house in August last. The
committee reports that the case calls for
no action on the part of the House, and
the resolution was laid upon the table
without objection.
The floor was awarded to the District of
Columbia committee bill, known as the
“Atkinson bill,” granting certain privileges
to the Baldwin and Potomac railroad with
in ihe city of Washington, and which
was for a long time a stumbling
block in way of business last session, was
taken up, ordered engrossed, read the third
time and a motion to recommit was de
feated, yeas 75, nays 189. The same de
termined opposition to it which was shown
last session was manifest today, but it was
unavailing. Several bills relating to the
municipal government were passed.
On motion of Mdliken tomorrow was set
apart for the con-: 1*-rad on of public build
ing measures which have been favorably
repotted by the committee of the whole.
McKinley reported from the ways and
means committee, and the House passed
the bill providing for a rebate on tobacco
in sioek equal to the reduction made in the
international revenue tax by the. last tariff
bill. McKinley merely stated that the bill
was similar to the provision of the tariff
bill, section 80. which hail been omitted in
the enrolling of that measure, and the
declaration was made by Mills, of Texas,
that it was all right. No opposition was
made to its passage. The House then
adjourned.
SUN’S COTTON REVIEW.
New York, December 8.—Futures
opened without decided change, closing at
four to six points decline from Satur
day’s closing prices, and steady. The
opening was with a show of steadiness,
but adverse report from the stock exchange,
weakness in the closng of the Liverpool
market, the increased receipts at ports,
and the decline in spot cotton
all conspired against the plucky
bull party on our cotton ex
change and forced values off a
few points, early deliveries yielding most,
and still the wonder grew, not that prices
declined, but that they stood up as well as
they did. The receipts at the principal
interior towns were comparatively small,
but it was asserted in explanation of this
that Southern buyers have no money, and
can raise none, with which to pay for cot
ton, and “cotton is a cash article,” don't
you know.
Spot cotton was 1-10 lower, with rather
more disposition to sell.
rial to be used in one building and afte
wards devoting it to the construction of
another without obtaining the written
Consent of the furnisher, shall he held
guilty of misdemeanor.
In the event a contractor abandons his
contract aud the owner for whom lie has
been working fails to make provision for
the payment of claims held by material
men, sub-contractors, mechanics and la
borers for work done aud material furn
ished to date of such abandonment, the
above mentioned creditors shall have the
right to enforce such claims, and failure
on their part to complete their contracts
under such circumstances shall be no bar
to collection.
on third reading.
House bills to incorporate the Fulton
Loan and Banking Company. Passed.
To incorporate the Exchange Bank of
Albany. Passed.
Senate bill to incorporate the Alabama
Eastern Railroad Company. Passed.
House bill to supplement the contingent
fund by the additional appropriation of
$29,000. Passed.
A joint resolution was offered by Mr.
Culver, that whereas, through the instru
mentality of publishers’ puuls a monopoly
has been created, and the prices of school
books advanced several hundred per cent.,
tli reby burdening all purchasers and plac
ing it beyond the power of the poor to sup
ply their children; and, wiiereas, the con
stitution of Georgia authorizes the enact
ment of such legislation as may tend to
break up monopoly aud revive competi
tion; and, whereas, it is the policy of one
or more States to publish or furnish school
hooks for its people at a price covering
barely the expense of publication.
Therefore, be it resolved, that the State
School Commissioner, if possible, inaug
urate a system or plan fur furnishing
school books at greatly reduced rates, and
that the same officer inquire into the feasi
bility of the publication of ail school
books by the State through contracts with
the authors or otherwise and report to Ihe
adjourned session if one is held, otherwise
to the next General Assembly.
Mr. Nunnally endorsed the resolution
and related the experience of his county
with book agents.
The resolution was unanimously
adopted.
Mr. Baxter’s hill amending the charter
of the Progress I,nun and Improvement
Company was read the first time.
IN THE HOUSE.
The general tax act was made thespcei.il
order of business for this morning. Before
it was taken up, however, Calvin of Rich
mond offered a resolution that the business
before the House made it apparent that a
prolongation of the present session is im
perative, and he moved that the House so
decide, and his resolution was referred to
the committee on adjournment.
He offered another resolution providing
that a committee of five from the Senate
and ten from the House be appointed to
attend the University commencement, the
custom being usual with past Legisla
tures.
The general lax act was then taken up
and read the third time. Where no objec
tion was raised to clauses they stood con
firmed. Tiie first section, that which pro
vides for the ad valorum tax, was post
poned until the general appropriation
should he passed. The tax bill shows only
a few changes over the act of 1888.
The ninth paragraph of section !), which
provides that insurance agents shall pay
$10 for each county where they solicit
business, was amended so as to make it
read “firms of agents,” and that '.he com
panies be required to pay the tax, as the
agents had nothing in many cases where
executions were instituted by State Treas
ury.
Wiien paragraph sixleen of the same
section was reached South Georgia made a
demand for greater restrictions to sur
round the sale of deadly weapons.
Mr. Coppell, of Laurens, had the tax 0:1
dealers increased to $50 from $25.
Mr. Humphries, of Brooks, favored mak
ing the tax $500, and would urge ii if such
a figure would not tend to drive the busi
ness out of the 8iafe.
Mr. Gilbert, of Muscogee, offered an
amendment, which provides that dealers
selling dirks and Bowie knives shall be
taxed $100. This was accepted. j 'y h(
Mr. Berner, of Monroe, offered another !
amendment which provj hr. Lhat dealers in
long range magazine rifles, with raised
sights and cartridges for the same, he
taxed $100.
-Section seventeen is after the “future”
business. Those engaged in selling pro
ducts, stocks or other wares of monetary
value for future delivery, are required to
pay ten thou-and dollars tax in the county
where they do business. This is tanta
mount to exclusion. The Supreme Court,
only the other day, is very restrictive in
interpreting the words future delivery,
as will be recalled in the case of W. F. Al
exander, defendant, from the Augusta cir
cuit. He being agent for a New York
House.
The cold storage business, the importa
tion of dressed meats from the West, re
ceives a setback. The twenty-second
paragraph of section 2 provides for the
House in committee of the whole listened
to its third reading. The committee asked
leave to report progress and sit again.
Unfinished business was then taken up.
At 12 o’clock the Senate filed iu aud a
joint session was convened for the purpose
of electing a Solicitor of the Southern cir
cuit vice Hon. Dan Roundtree, resigued.
Hon. John R. Slater, of Lowndes county,
was put iu nomination by Mr. Humphries,
of Brooks, and there being no opposition,
he was unanimously elected.
A few bills were passed before adjourn
ing the morning session.
By Cults of Sumter—Incorporating the
Bank of Sumter.
By Tatum, of Dade, to amend the road
laws of the State so far as they relate to
Dade county.
A resolution was offered by Gilbert, of
Muscogee, to authorize the advisory board
to select a permanent site for a State mili
tary camp.
Mr. Hancock, of Jackson, introduced a
bill for its first reading incorporating the
town of Pendergost.
Major Ryals, of Chatham, today offered
a resolution providing that tiie presiding
officers of the two brandies of the House
appoint a committee—two from the Sen
ate and three from the House—to confer
with the Governor aud report back to the
adjourned Legislature as to what part
Georgia should take in the coming Worlds
Fair. The two commissioners already ap
pointed are to act with this committee.
The House then adjourned.
THE NIGHT SESSION.
The House this evening held the first of
the night sessions recently determined
upon. The committee on the Lunatic Asy
lum reported. The. cramped condition of
that institution was commented on and
the necessity for its enlargement in the
near future. The appropriation suggested
for its maintenance is $180,000.
A number of local bills weft* acted on.
The attendance was so slender that a dis
continuance of the evening sessions is
deemed probable.
IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
London, December 8.—The anti-Par-
neilite members of the House of Commons
made an early appearance in the House
today. Forty-one of them entered the
chamber in a body and took the principal
places on the first four benches below the
gangway with a view to prevent the Par-
nellites from occupying their usual seats.
Col. Nolan and John Deasy entered later
and contrived to secure seats. Parnell’s
seat had been reserved, lie having at an
early hour fixed a ticket to it. Heaiy
arrived later than his colleagues.
When he entered, he took Par
nell's seat, but McCarthy warned
him to vacate it. The party appeared to
be in excellent spirits. They cheered
loudly when Diasy, an anti-Parnellite
whip, advanced to the speaker’s chair and
moved issue of a new writ for election in
North Kilkenny to fill the vacancy in the
House of Commons, caused by the death
of Edward Mamin. The writ was issued.
McCarthy, amid the cheering of his sup
porters, gave notice that upon tbe reas
sembling of the House he would call at
tention to the circumstances in connection
with tiie recent arrest and prosecution of
Dillion and O’Brien, and would move a
resolution in relation to the case.
Smith, Government leader, announced
that when the House went into committee
on the laud purchase bill he would move
an adjournment of Ihe House until Janu
ary 2. Balfour moved a second reading of
the land department (Ireland) bill. Ilealy
moved to adjourn the debate on the ground
that the Government was treating the
House with contempt in not explaining
the provisions of the bill subsequently.
Ilealy withdrew his motion to adjourn,
and substituted an amendment, calling for
the rejection of ihe laud depart
nient bill. This was defeated and
the bill passed second reading
by a vote of 191 to 129. Parnell entered
the House just before the division. He
took a seat next to McCarthy and voted,
as did all the Irish members of both sec
tions present, against the bill.
W. II. Smith announced that, when the
House reassembled January 2. tin* private
procedure and tithes bills would be first
taken up.
Balfour’s Irish relief bill, which asks an
appropriation of U5000 to enable him to
supply seed potatoes to distressed farmers,
passed its thirl reading in the House.
BOND AND SILVER PURCHASES.
Washington, December 8. — The
amount of silver offered for sale to
the Treasury Department today was 1.120,-
00) ounces, and the amount purchased 085,-
000 ounces, at prices ranging from $1,028
to $1,035.
Tne amount of four per cent bonds ac
cepted today under circular of December
0, was $4,591,000, for which a disburse
ment of about $5,550,000 in money will be
made.
The Secretary of the Treasury said this
afternoon that, in view of all the condi
tions, iie would accept additional offers of
fours at a reasonable price of a sufficient
amount to make purchases of $8,000,000,
for which he said the expenditures will be
nearly $10,000,000. The Secretary said
further that it was manifestly imposible,
under existing conditions, for him to use
the fractional currency now in the treas
ury in purchases of bonds for the reason
that it would at once he returned to him
in exchange for greenbacks and leave
biin wi'h a deficiency instead
of surplus. There is now above
$19,000,000 of fractional currency in th<*
treasury, of which ail but $2,000/00 is in
silver baif dollars, and it is legal tender to
the amount of $10 only. It is not regarded
as a part of the available cash balance
The secretary said he would like very
much to get it in circulation, but that he
certainly should not do so at the expense
of his limited available surplus. The offer
ing today inclu led nearly $1,000,000 of 4
per cents, at prices slightly in excess of the
highest price paid to lay, viz.: $1,234. The
amount of 4y per cent, bonds redeemed to
day under circular of October 9, w. '
$11,450, making Lhe total to date $0,535,-
1 of the Al-
>f the order
the report
This re-
rained the
per correspondents a drubbing, because
they have secured information of the pro
ceedings beyond that given out by the
press committee, the convention listened
to the report of the committee on legisla
tion with reference to the sub-Treasurv
bill, and this matter was under discussion
for over two hours. The exact nature of
the report, aud the discussion thereon,
have not yet beeu learned, but a warm
controversy was going on ail tiie morning,
if one may judge by loud voices
[applause] and frequent raps of presi
dent Folk’s gavel, the sounds of which
came tbiough the open windows of the
convention hall. The report is siid to
have recommended numerous chan T es in
the bill as originally drawn, presumably
with the purpose of securing Democratic
support for this measure.
Captain C. A. Power, of Indiana, has
been circulating a petition to the National
Alliance, asking that it rescind its action
of .Saturday night naming Washington, I).
C., and the third Tuesday in November as
the time and place for holding the next
annua! meeting, and making Indianapolis
the place. Many signatures have been
secured already among the delegates and it
is predicted a change will be made.
About half of the delegu.es, with their
ladies, have gone on an exclusion today to
the Homassa phosphate fields on the -nilf
coast.
it is now predicted that the Alliance
may remain iu session two or three days
longer.
Early in the forenoon sessio
liaiice, the financial policy
came up lor discussion under
of the committee 011 iegi-laiio;
port as to financial policy co
following demands:
First—We demaud the abolition of tl
National banks; we demand that the Gov- 1
eminent shall establish sub-treasuries or
depositories in the several States, which
shall loan money direct to the people at a
low rate of interest, not to exceed 2 per
cent interest per annum, on non-perish
able farm products, and also upon real
estate, with a proper limitation upon the
quantity of land and tin-amount of money.
We also demand that tile amount of the
circulating medium he speedily increased
to not less than $50 per capita.
Second—We demand that Congress pass
such a law as shall effectually prevent the
dealing ill futures on agricultural and me
chanical productions, providing astringent
system of procedure in trials, such as shall
secure, prompt conviction and the imposi
tion of such penalties as shall secure the
most perfect compliance with the law.
Third—We condemn the silver hill re
cently passed by Congress and demand in
lieu thereof the free and unlimited coinage
of silver.
Fourth—We demand the passage of a
law prohibiting the alien ownership of
land, and that Congress take some prompt
action to devise some plan to obtain the
land now owned by aliens aud foreign syn
dicates, and that all lands now held by
railroads and other corporations, in excess
of such as is actually used and needed by
them, be reclaimed by the government
and held for actual settlers only.
Fifth—Believing in the doctrine of equal
rights to all and special privileges to none,
we demand that our national legislation
be so framed in the future as not to build
up one industry at the expense of another.
We further demand the removal of the ex
isting heavy tariff tax from the neces-aries
of life, that the poor of our land must
have. We further demand a just and
equitable system of graduated tax
ation. We believe that mon
ey, on the contrary, should he
kept as much as possible in the hands of
the people and hence we demand that all
National and State revenues shall be,
limited to the necessary expenses of the
Government, economically and honestly
administered.
Sixth—We demand the most rigid,
honest and just State and National gov
ernmental control and supervision of the
means of public communication and trans
portation, aud if tlbs control and super
vision do not remove the abuses now ex
isting, we demand the government owner
ship of such means of communication and
transportation.
A spirited debate followed the introduc
tion of this report, at tne beginning of
whicn President Polk reminded the mem
bers of the restriction of live minutes
placed upon all speech-making by a resolu
tion previously adopted.
by: Clayton. Adams, Clanton, Brown,
Davis of Lamar, Sayre, Webb and Long.
Mr. Webb introduced a bill to establish
school for instruction of the deaf and
mutes of the colored race. Bill proposes
to locate school in Talladega.
Mr. Long introduced a joint resolution
and memorial to Congress asking for in
creased appropriations for the opening of
the Warrior river in Walker county, below
the bridge of the Georgia Pacific railroad.
Bill to establish new charter for Dothan.
Passed.
Mr. Xotfington offered a resolution to
begin call of counties aud allow each mem
ber to call up bill and put it on its passage.
The resolution was amended by Mr.
Lewis to apply to the sessions of today,
Tuesday and Wednesday. As amended the
resolution was adopted.
Mr. Adams called up the bill to fix sala
ries of secretary of $tate, auditor, attorney-
general. treasurer and railroad commis
sioner at $2,100 per annum, payable
monthly.
Mr. Pettus offered an amendment, strik
ing out railroad commissioners.
Motion of Mr. Brown, bill making
special order for 22d of January immedi
ately after reading of journal was adopted.
Bill to establish Cleveland school dis
trict, county of Blount. Passed.
Bill to incorporate Union $prings Male
aud Female Institute. Passed.
Bill to amend act relating to trials of
misdemeanors in Walker county. Passed.
Bill to regulate disposition of tin-s ac
cruing to State under provision of statutes
relating to cruelty to children and aiiin.als.
Passed.
Bill to amend the charter of the town of
Piedmont. Passed.
Bill to amend act to protect people of
the State in the purchase of fertilizers.
Passed.
Bill to prevent to stock running at large
iu beats 2. 8 and 19. Coosa comity. Passed.
BiJ) 10 regulate payment of officers’
claims against fine and forfeiture fund.
Walker county. Passed.
Bill to repeal aet to establish court of
revenues for Chilton county. Passed.
Bill to provide for holding Circuit Courts
in Conecuh, Covington. Pike aud Butler.
Passed.
Bill to ratify the reorganization of the
People's Savings Bank ol Monile. Passed.
Bill authorizing the city of Birming
ham to issue bonds — $450.000— for the pur
pose of making public improvements.
THE ALABAMA LEGISLATURE.
RECORD
IF
THE TWO
[Spe-
10 punish acts ot
lion in this .siate.
- To amend 1899
druggist in each
PHILADELPHIA HATTERS FAIL.
Philadelphia, December S.—The hat
manufacturing firm of Price, .Sherman &
Co., consisting of William B. Price, Carlos
Sherman and Charles L. Sherman, of No.
711 Snyder avenue, tltia city, made an as
signment today. Carlos Sherman lives at
C'astleton, Vermont. The assignment pre
cipitated the failure of Frederick S. .Sher
man, retail dealer in hats and furs at 1017
Chestnut street. A judgment note, with
an execution, was this afternoon entered
in the Common Pleas Court by Roberts,
Cushman A- Co., of New York, against C.
B. Sherman, Charles L. Sherman and
Price, Sherman & Co. for $78,812.
CRUSHED by the cars.
Atlanta, Ga., December 8.—[Spec>ah]
_ _ _ , —Charles Floyd, a negro train hand at the
j collecting a tax of $500 in eacli county ; Georgia Pacific yard, was crushed between
I where such business is conducted. This | cars while making a coupling today. His 1
tOUEEDING-
HOUSES—A BUSY SE-sION.
Montgomery, Ala., December 8.-
al ]—1)11 the call of distric ts iu tli
ate today, bills introduced by:
Mr. Downey—To provide method of ap-
porrioument public school funds by .Super-
intcinl -nt of Education.
Mr. H t. ris of Lee—To authorize Police
Commission of Opelika to order an election
for Commissioners.
Mr. Godfrey—To require court of County
Commissioners Sumter county to appropri
ate money to pay claims against fine and
forfeiture fund.
Mr. Lacey—To establish State school for
education of deaf mutes of colored race.
Mr. Skeggs, by request— I’o amend act to
incorporate town New Decatur.
Mr. Bloch—To create industrial institute
for education of white girls in arts, sciences
and industries of the age.
Mr. Parker—To amend section of code,
relating to arson.
Mr. Harris, of Hale-
inti midating at any eie<
Mr. Smith, of Mobile
of code. Exempts one
drug store from jury duty.
Bills passed:
B>H to require all applicants to practice
medicine stand examination.
To provide for correction of certificates
of commissioners appointed to lake depu-
j sition of witnesses in certain eases.
To amend an act to provide for tiroes of
holding (Jireuit Court iu the Sixth judicial
circuit of the State as to Lamar county.
To regulate garnishments against sala
ries and wages of persons employed.
For the relief of the Columbus Insu
rance Banking Company of the Stale of
Mississippi.
To amend section 23GO of the code—re
lates to evidence in proceedings to relieve
minors from disability of non-age.
To require corporations in making deed*
or conveyances to real estate to recite in
such deeds or conveyances a copy of the
written authority of corporation under
which same are made, and when so done
such deeds of conveyances shall be in
hands of the purchaser or any one holding
under him prima facie evidence of au
thority on part of tiie corporation for mak
ing same.
To provide for indexing records of deeds
to and mortgages of real property in Coosa
county.
Mr. Lane—Joint resolution asking Gov
ernor if the Secretary of the IiVerior lias
yet certified to him the population of the
Slate of Alabama, as shown by the last
census by counties, and in the event that
the Secretary of the Interior lias done so,
the Governor is requested to eoiiimunicate
such information to the House. Passed.
Bill to incorporate Tennessee River and
Ashville Railroad passed.
Bill to establish Dean school district,
Dale county, passed.
Bill to subject to taxation, pole roads
and ditches and canals used tor the trans
portation of logs and lumber. Passed.
By leave bills were introduced by Messrs.
A mason, of Tallapoosa, and Mnimons.
House adjourned to 8 p. in.
LEGISLATIVE I. AVON IDs.
There is some fun ahead in the House,
as was indicated this morning by the mo
tion to have, the bill to create the county
of Houston, under adverse report from the
committees and county boundaries placed
on the calendar. This motion prevailed
without a dissenting voice, ami it is under
stood that the people of Bessemer have se
cured this action after a great deal of solic
itation, making to many of the members
of tbe House a strong showing of the ad
vantages which would result to the devel
opment of that section of the State by the
passage of the bill. Tbe matter will he, it
is stated, vigorously pushed after the re
cess, and a lively fight is the prospect.
ANTI-FA UN KLLITE M K ETI NG .
London, December 8. — In response to
the call issued by .Justin McCarthy, leader
of tiie anti-Parnellite section of the Irish
party, all the members of the party who
are opposed to Parnell assembled today to
farther consider the line of policy to be
adopted. Copies of the call had ix-cii ad
dressed to Parnell and his supporters, but
it is hardly necessary to stale llial none of
them were present. A council, compris
ing eight members, Abraham, Dillon,
Ilealy, O’Brien, Arthur O’Connor, Thom, s
Power O’Connor, Sexton and Sheeby, was
appointed to assist McCarthy in deciding
the future action of the party. The meet
ing was presided over by McCarthy. After
the appointment of the council an adjourn
ment was taken until 2 o’clock tomorrow.
A HALF MILLION FAILURE.
New York, December 8.—Robert S.
Roberts, Edward Roberts and Nathan
B. Roberts, comprising the firm of Roberts,
Chusuian A Co., dealers in and importer-
of hatters’ materials at No. 17 Green
street, made an assignment today. The
firm is one of forty yeaiT good standing.
They say that the tariff had nothing to do
with their failure, although their business
is largely importing, but that other firms
iiave dragged them down. The failure is
for about $500,000, and the members oi
the firm confidently assert they will pay in
full, because they are men of means out
side of their business.
THE PENSIONS DEFICIENCY.
Washington, December s.—'i he Sec
retary of the Treasury today transmitted
ty the House an estimate aggregating
$84,oh0,000, submitted by the .Secretary of
the Interior, to supply a deficiency for
the payment of army and navy pensions
for the current fiscal year.
AFTER CITY OFFICES.
THE training shii* SAFE.
Bussels, December 8.—There is no
truth in the report that the Belgian training
ship, Villi D'Anvers has fouaderei at sea.
The Government has received information | is largely resultant from the opposing atti- j foot is supposed "to have caught on the
t hat tbe vessel is safe, tude of fanners, who hold that the cold guard rail. He was terribly mangled
ALDERMEN TO MEET IN CAUCUS NEXT
MONDAY AFTERNOON.
The old council will hold its last meet
ing next Monday night, when the old
board will be adjourned sine die and the
new board he enlivened.
Members of the new council will hold a
^ caucus next Monday afternoon for Hie pur-
j pose of nominating candidates for tiie
various city offices elective by council.
'ihe indications are that the caucus will
lie a lively and interesting one.
Under the terms of the new city charter,
council will elect a clerk, marshall and
sexton, offi :es here..note filled by el.- tion
by the people, in addition to the oth< r
offices usually chosen by council.
City Clerk Moore, Treasurer Ma f hew».
j Sexton Odom, Marshal Beard. Sanitary
j inspector Williams and Clerk of Market
1 Coleman, it is thought, will all he re-
j elected without opposition. The name of
j Lieutenant Zeno Pickett has been prom
inently mentioned in connection with the
marshalship race, but the impression pre
vailed yesterday that he wouid not be a
candidate for that office.
The indications are that there will he a
pretty sharp contest over the office of City
Physician. Dr. Charles L. Williams is a
candidate for re-election, and it i> un*le:
stood that Dr. S. J. Wylie, Dr. J. \y. Cam
eron, Dr. T. S. Mitchell and Dr. T. L.
Arrington will also be in the race.
There is also likely to he a lively contest
in the caucus cv« r the office of Superin
tendent of Public Works. Th** contest is
likely to be between the present inrum
bent, Mr. C. G, Barney, and Mr. B. II.
Hudson, tyfio was City Engineer before
the creation oi the new office by Council.
-Thu caucus will also elect two lieuten
ants of pokes. The places are now held
By Lieutenant Zeno Pickett and Lieuicu-
™ - ., » , . f ant Charles Ryekelev.
To provide for election of County Super- *ri,„ „„„ ici„, -, .. . ...
- f 1 iiy candidates and tiieir triends were
busy interviewing members of Council
j yesterday, and the work will go on iu
TH'k house. ; earnest for some days to come. New de-
After the approval of the journal the j velopments in some of the races are ex-
OGbuUes were cabled, aud bills introduced i pected daily.
intendent of Wilcox count
Senate adjourned to 4 tz m,
