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VOLUME XVIII
- BTTTLEK. GEORGIA, TUESDAY; DECEMBER 12, 1893.
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The President’s Message Bead Before
the Two Bouses—Routine Business.
THE SENATE.
The first regular Bession of the fifty*
third congress convened at high noon
Monday, pursnantto the constitutional
provisions. As the massive clock over
the main entrance announced the hour
of 12 o’clock, the blind chaplain was
led up to the vice president’s desk and
after an eloquent prayer, while all the
senators present in the chamber re
mained standing, Vice President Stev
enson. called the senate to order. At
thfj'Buggestion of Senator Sherman the
J?oll was called and fifty-six senators
'ii Responded. The usual resolutions noti
fying the house of the reports of the
meeting of the senate and the resolu
tion for a committee of two senators
? to join a similar committee of the house
to wait upon the president of the United
States and inform him that congress
had assembled and was ready to receive
any communication he desired to make,
were offered and agreed to. After a
resolution had been adopted that the
hour of daily meeting of the senate
shall be 12 o’clock, 75th meridian, on
the motion of Senator Harris a recess
nt 12:10 o’clock was taken for an hour
to enable the committee to wait upon
the president. At the expiration of
the recess, the senate resumed its ses
sion and a message from the house of
representatives informing the senate
that a quorum of the house was present
and of the appointment of a committee
to join a similar committee of the sen
ate previously appointed to wait
upon the president was received. Then
another recess of twenty minutes was
taken, upon motion of Mr. Harris, of
Tennessee. Promptly at 1.30 o’clock
the senate resumed its session and Mr.
McPherson, of the committee to wait
upon the president, appeared at the
bar of the senate and announced that
the president would immediately com
municate with each house in writing.
Clerk Pruden at once stepped forward
and delivered the message and it was
laid before the senate by the vice
president, who directed its reading.
The secretary of the senate, Mr. Cox,
then began the reading of the mes
sage. All present, with few excep
tions, gave close attention to the read
ing.
2d Day.—After some routine morn
ing business in the senate,' Tuesday,
Senator Hoar introduced a resolution
calling on the president for copies of
the instructions to Minister Willis and
Admiral Irwin, touching Hawaii. It
went over at Mr. Sherman’s sugges
tion because of Mr. Morgan’s absence.
Mr. Dolph, in conformity with
notice given Monday, then ad
dressed the senate upon that
part of the president’s messnge .relat
ing to Hawaii, beginning with an ex
pression of surprise at the president’s
persistence in forcibly overthrowing
the provisional government in defiance
of the almost unanimous sentiments of
the press. Mr. Dolph closed at 2
o’clock, when the resolutions of the
house on the death of Representative
O’Neill, of Pennsylvania, were pre
sented and the senate, as a mark of
respect, adjourned until Wednesday.
3d Day.—Senator Voorlieea opened
his pension campaign in the senate
Wednesday morning by introducing
two bills, one declaring a pension a
vested right, regulatiugthe suspension
of pensions and granting appeals to
the supreme court of the district of
Columbia; the other, defining sundry
crimes against the United States in
the administration of the pension lavs.
A spirited discussion of the Hawaiian,
question then occurred. The debate
arose over the resolution offered Tues
day by Mr. Hoar, of Massacbusetts.re-
questing the president to forward to
the senate all the correspondence on
the Hawaiian question. The resolution
was finally adopted without a division.
Mr. Cullom offered a resolution accept
ing from Illinois the statute of General
Shields, and proceeded to address the
senate eulogizing General Shields.
After a short executive session the Sen
ate, at five minutes past 4 o’clock, ad
journed until Thursday.
4th Day.—The Senate at Thursday’s
session decided to adjourn until Mon
day. Notice was given by Mr. Mor
rill that ho would address the senate
next week, Wednesday, on the resolu
tion offered by him referring to tho
committee on finance nil yurts of tut
president’s messnge relating to the
tariff,, internal revenue and income-
tax. Notice was also given by Mr.
Hill that he would move to take up
for consideration the house bill to re
peal the federal election laws. Dis
cussion in regard to the proper refer
ence of tho bill was carried on for
some time between Messrs. Hill, Hoar
and other senators.
Tin; nous*;.
The galleries of the' house, 6i.;.;-pt
those reserved for the president and
the diplomatic corps, were filled to
overflowing with eager and expectant
persons, when Speaker Crisp ascended
tho rostrum Monday noon and rapped
tho regular session of the 53d con
gress to order. Fully 300 members
_ were iu their seats. Conspicuous upon
the floor were the two vecant chairs
of Representative O’Neill, of Pennsyl
vania, the “father of tho house,”
and liis colleague, Mr. Lilley, rep
resentative at large, from the Key
stone State. Their desks were draped
in black and covered with floral trib
utes. Rev. Bagby, in his invocation,re
ferred feelingly to the death of “Fath
er” O’Neill and Mr. Rilley. The speak-
-er-then directed tho clerk to call the
roll in order to officially ascertain the
oresenee of a quorum. Atl :35 o’clock
p. m. Mr. Pruden, the white house
executive clerk appeared with the
president’s message and Speaker Crisp
immediately laid it before the house.
Clerk Kerr read it in a clear, firm
voice. The galleries remained- si
lent and the members leaning forward
in their chairs, listened atten
tively to Mr. Cleveland’s views as they ,
fell from the lips of the clerk of the
house. At the conclusion of the read-*
ing General Bingham, who bad been
selected by the Pennsylvania delega
tion to make the announcement of the
deaths of Representatives O'lfeill and
Lilley, was then reeegnized, A com-
mittee consisting of Messrs. MeDowal
and Mutchler, of Pennsylvania; North-
way, of Ohio} Robinson, of Pennsyl
vania; Curtis, of Kansas; Whiting, of
Michigan, and Tate, of Georgia, was
,- appointed to attend the funeral of the
j late Representative O’Neill, ofPenn-
| sylvahia, and then at 3 o’clock p. ml,
as a further mark of respect to the
deceased - members; the bouse ad
journed. " '
2d Day.—In the house, Tuesday,
the bill confirming the titles to pri
vate cash land entries, in Alabama,
. Mississippi , and Arkansas was taken up
and discussed. ' The bill involves the
restoration of 2,922 acres. At 1:40 p.
j m., on motion of Mr. Oates, of Ala-
1 brums, the house went into committee
of the .whole on the bankruptcy bill.
, 8d Day.—A- letter from -the, attdr-ti
ney general laid before the. house
Wednesday stated that there are no
employes in his department below the
standard of efficiency. Grosvenor, of
Ohio, offered a resolution, giving the
names of 1,900 pensioners who had
been dropped from the rolls and ask
ing for a reason and some other infor
mation from the secretary of the inte
rior. The senate amendment to the
resolution appropriating $50,000 to
carry out the provisions of the Chi
nese exclusion act as extended, was
agreed to. At 10 o’clock the exercises
in connection with the unveiling of
the Shields statue began, and the
house adjourned.
4th Day.—A resolution increasing
the force of capital employed led to
considerable discussion in the house
Thursday morning. After an amend
ment striking out an extra clerk for
the laboring office of the house, the
resolution was adopted. The house
went into committee of the whole to
consider the joint resolution author
izing the appointment of a joint com
mittee to investigate the personnel of
the navy, after which general debate
on the bankruptcy bill was closed.
OUR LATEST DISPATCHES.
Tie Hapiigs of a Day Cironiclei in
Brief and Co io-se Parasraplis
And Containing the Gist of the hews
From AH Farts of the World.
Vice President Adali Stevenson and
wife, a number of senators and repre
sentatives are expected in Augusta,
Ga., withiu a few days.
The Georgia railroad commission re-
orgnized Thursday. Tho members of
the commission again elected Col.L. N.
Trammell to pe president of the board
for the next six years.
The trial of Frank Porterfield, the
cashier of the defunct Commercial Na
tional bank, ended at Nashville Thurs
day in conviction on ten counts of the
indictment under which he was being
tried.
Minister Thurston left Washington
Thursday en route for Honolulu. Be
fore leaving he called on Secretary
Gresham, bnt goes on his own accord
in order to advise and consult those he
represents.
A London cablegram states that the
coroner’s jury in the case of Professor
Tyndall, who died suddenly Monday
last, returned a verdict Thursday that
tho deceased came to his death from
tho effects of an overdose of chloral,
taken by mistake. The verdict adds
that the drug was given to Prof. Tyn
dall, by Mrs. Tyndall, who mistook it
for sulphate of .magnesia.
The verdict in the Italian lynching
case against the city was opened at
New Orleans Thursday morning. The
jury gives the plaintiff five thousand
dollars. The original claim was for
thirty thousand, but the charge of the
judge reduced the amount to be
claimed to ten thousand dollars.
There are six more cases, in most of
which the same points are raised.
A Columbia, S. C., special says: The
administration substitute dispensary
bill, introduced in the senate Wednes
day night, is a corker. It plugs up all
the crevices in the existing law and is
a drastic, iron-bound measure. Under
it no drink containing a trace of alco
hol is allowed to be sold, given away,
held in possession, taken from a depot,
unless it has the stamp of the dispen
sary on it.
In the circuit court at Lexington,
Ky., Thursday morning, Frank P.
Searce, whose daring forgeries to the
amount of $50,000 and his escape from
the Fayette county jail, his capture in
Chattanooga, Tenn., and return to
Lexington, made him famous, con
fessed himself guilty on one charge of
forgery and was sentenced to a term
of ten years in the penitentiary.
A bill asking for the appointment of
a receiver for the firm of William S.
Clark’s Son & Co., proprietors of the
Solar Iron and Steel Works, at Pitts
burg, Pa., has been filed by Elizabeth
D. Clark, administratrix of the late
Edward L. Clark, against Jane Clark.
The litigation involves hundreds of
thousands of dollars and contemplates
the dissolution of the partnership and
the appointment of a receiver to take
charge of tho business and also ask for
an accounting.
A Chicago special of Thursday says:
It is believed that there is ail organ
ized attempt to burn the Roman Cath
olic churches in the city. Wednesday
evening, Eather D. J. Riordan, while
making a turn through St. Elizabeth’s
church, of which he is pastor, discov
ered a blaze among a pile of rubbish
in a confessional. He gave the alarm
and, with the aid of the janitor and
others, soon put out the fire. The re
fuse had been heaped in the centre of
the floor. Two nights before, Eather
Hishen, of the Holy Cross church,
found a pile of rubbish burning on
the floor of his church, just os Rior-r
dan did in his.
A Chicago dispatch of Thursday
says: John Lawrence Sullivan has
demonstrated that he is a member of
the historieprofession by helping out
of financial embarassment, the noted
actress, Mrs. John Drew.- “We are
aR members of the profession and
must help one another, ” said John L.,
when Mrs. Drew informed him that in
her attempts to help her §on, Sidney,
she had seriously embarassed herself. -
The. ex-pugilist and jus checkbook
came to the rescue and Mrs. Drew is
now safely past the flnanoial reefs
whiob, it is said, threatened to wreck
her and fter eemponj^ gg| . _.
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Tie Unit oi Her Progress eel Pros-
Happenings of Interest Portrayed in
Pithy Paragraphs.
President Last, of the Cape Fear
and Yadkin Valley railway, now, ac
knowledges the truth of the rumor
that the road is. to pass into the hands
of-English owners.
The steamer Chattahoochee, belong
ing to the Vicksburg and Greenville
mail line, while lying at the wharf at
Vicksburg, Miss., caught fire Wednes
day- afternoon and was totally de
stroyed.
Tuesday was South Carolina’s day at
the Augusta, GA, exposition. It was
the second best day of the great show;
The members of the Carolina legisla
ture and senate came over in a body
on a special train. Governor Tillman,
however, did not attend.
A Columbia, S. C., special says:
State Commissioner Traxler has issued
his first report of the state dispensary
from July 1st to October 1st. Mr.
Traxler claims that the total profit for
the four months has been $52,483.93.
The net profits divided among the
counties were $12,126.43.
Fire broke out in the steam engin
eering and general stores building at
Norfolk, Va,, navy yard Wednesday
morning. The building was 72x250
feet, and two stories high. It was en
tirely destroyed with its contents. It
is thought the loss will reach two hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars.
The Virginia legislature assembled
at Richmond Wednesday. Governor.
McKinney submitted his message
showing the astounding fact that the
criminal expenses of the state have
increased from seventy-eight thousand
dollars in 1860, and one hundred and
forty-nine thousand dollars in 1-870 to
three hundred and twenty-one thous
and dollars in 1893.
The Anniston, A’a., pipe works were
sold Tuesday by A. H. Shepperd, clerk
of the city court, to John B. Knox for
W. W. Stringfellow and W. S.Gumoe,
Jr., representing the bondholders.
The work will be put in operation by
the new owners at an early date. The
property,which is probably the largest
of the kind in the country, has been in
the hands of receivers for three years.
The Southern Female university, sit
uated at Lakeview, a suburb of Bir-
• mingham, Ala., one of the largest col
leges in the state, was burned to the
ground Wednesday night, together
with all the furniture it contained.
Miss Minnie Deane, of Warrior, one of
the students and a negro domestic,
named Virginia, are, it is feared, fa
tally burned.
The second trial of the celebrated
Howard ease was commenced in the
federal court at Jackson, Tenn., Wed
nesday morning. The defendant made
application for a continuance which
was overruled by the court. The at
tendance is as large and the interest
manifested is as great as if- was iu
the first trial. The defendant has em
ployed additional local counsel and
will contest every inch of ground to
the end.
A well developed rumor was afloat at
Knoxville, Tenn., AVednesday nigbt
that the Louisville and Nashville Rail
way company is about to close nego
tiations for the purchase of the Knox
ville, Cumberland Gap and Louisville
railway, sixty-eight miles in length,
from Cumberland Gap to Knoxville,
and of the Marietta and North Georgia
railway, two hundred and eight miles
in length, from Knoxville to Marietta,
Ga. The total price to be paid for the
two roads will aggregate $2,000,000.
The South Carolina legislature is
about to jump on the Southern Ex
press company aB well as on the rail
roads. A bill is to be introduced not
only to put the company under the
railroad commission, bnt to make its
returns for taxation come under the
state board of equalization, just like
the railroads. Xne returns are now
passed upon by township and county
boards of equalization. Those in favor
of the bill say that the company is
guilty of discrimination.
A Nashville dispatch of Tuesday
says: The second day of the trial of
Frank Porterfield opened with the
government’s statement that it ex
pected to prove that the defendant,
Frank Porterfield, was ce shier of the
Commercial National bank and that as
cashier, he had control of the cash
and that he had a personal account
with the bank. It also proposed to
prove that in January and March he
drew a number of checks which were
paid out of the bank’s funds and went
to pay his individual obligations.
Tuesday’s meeting of the Jackson
ville, Fla., city council caused quite a
sensation, as they have partly passed
an ordinance granting leave for box
ing contests with five-ounce gloves and
fixing the license at $50. The ordi-
uance passed its first and second read
ings and on a mere technicality the
third reading was postponed till the
next meeting. This is a great victory
for the Jacksonville syndicate, and
oaves the way for the Corbett-Mitchell
contest and leaves opponents of the
fight utterly helpless.
The case of the widow of Bagnetto,
one of the men lynched in the raid of
the citizens on parish prison at New
Orleans, near three years ago, was
called Tuesday morning for trial in the
United States circuit court, Judge
Bordman .presiding. Both sides were
-ready, nnd:a jury was empaneled with
out difficulty. The ease is against the
city of New Orleans and for damages.
Bagnetto was one of those aecnsed of
the murder of Chief Hennessy, and
was dragged out of tho prison on Or
leans side and hanged to a tree.
The Grand Royal Aarch chapter of
Alabama met in annnal convention at
the Masonic temple at Montgomery,
Tuesday. The Grand high priest de
livered his annual address. The fol
lowing'officers were elected: John A.
McKinnon, M. E. grand high priest;
J. G. 'Smith* M. E. Deputy grand
high priest; Andrew J: Nnnnally, R.
E. grand king; Josiah Jernigan, R. E;
grand saribe; Wiilliam Hi; ‘-Dingley,
K, IK grand treasurer; H. Clay Arm
strong, R. E. grand secretary; William
C, Cleveland, B. E. grand Chaplain;
William J, Bedes, B. E, grand of
host,
Routine of the House and Senate Brief
ly Reported.
THE HOUSE.
Saturday, Dec. 2.—One of the
most interesting measures introduced
in this session was the lynch law hill
of Mr. Hill, of Merriwether, taken up
for final action at the opening of the
session Saturday and passed. The bill
is decidedly sweeping and is armed to
provide practical means lor diseparag-
ing and preventing mob violence. Mr.
Hill explained the object of the biK,
and in doing so made an able speech
against mob violence. The bill makes
it felony, punishable by not less
than twenty years confinement in
the penitentiary for any one to
engage iu mob violence, and if the vic
tim dies from the result of such vio
lence, then the crime is mnrder. If
anyone refuses to aid the sheriff iu
suppressing a mob, the party so failing
will be guilty of a misdemeanor, and if
the sheriff learns of an unlawful assem
blage it is made his duty to arrest them.
Mr. Allen’s bill to provide for the pay
ment for live stock killed to prevent the
spread of the glanders, created a great
deal of discussion. Several amend
ments were offered. One was that
chickens having colera be also paid for.
Mr. McDonald offered another amend
ment that when rust or caterpillars at
tack a man’s cotton crop, that he be
paid 8 cents for all cotton lost. The
bill was iaid on the table temporarily.
The following bills were passed: - Mr.
Neel’s bill to require the commis
sioners of roads of Floyd county - to
have a digest made of ,tax defaulters
since 1877; A bill to provide for char
tering telegraph and express compa
nies ; A bill to fix the time of holding
superior courts in the Flint circuit;
Bill providing for the registration of
voters in Wilcox county; Bill in refer
ence to the dismissal of cases in the
supreme court, (this bill specifies
that no case shall be dismissed or
thrown out through technical imper
fections in the record); Bill to regu
late the method of pleading in civil
actions; Bill to establish a new char
ter for the town of Abbeville; The
senate bill of Mr. Johnson, of the fif
ty-seventh, establishing a board of
school commissioners for the town of
Statesboro, was read and concurred in;
Bill to limit the jurisdiction of the
city court of Carroll county in civil
eases to amounts over $500; Bill to
amend the charter of the town of Cor
nelia. The house then adjourned un
til Monday.
Monday, Dee. 4.—The intense cold
weather played a regular freeze out
game on the members of the house
Monday morning. It was so cold in
the hall that the speaker was forced to
have hot bricks put to his feet and the
members huddled around the two
grates in the hall or sat muffled up in
their overcoats, until the end of the
session. The bill of Mr. Jones, of
Decatur, to make it a misdemeanor to
bunt on any uninclosed lands that had
been posted was promptly killed.
It was championed by Mr
Hall, of Thomas, who said it
was a hill to protect land owners
from a lot of unprincipled scoun
drels who hunted because they were
too lazy to work. Mr. Hall gave no
tice of a motion to reconsider Tues
day. Mr. Smith, of Gwinnett, want-
-ed to take up the report of the special
committee sent to Augusta to see if
shad could climb the dam across the
Savannah river, there. The house
wanted the regular order of business
to go on and voted down the mo
tion. Following this there was
more fish talk over the bill of
Mr. Bryan, of Floyd, to prohibit em
ploying or depositing gas tar, coal
tar, or other poisonous substances in
rivers or running streams. The vote
was ayes 47, nays 50, and the bill was
lost. Mr. Bryan gave notice of a mo
tion to reconsider. The following
bills were passed: To relieve John
Booth; To amend paragraph 1, sec
tions 282, 283 and 284 of the code so
as to increase the jurisdiction of the
county courts; To authorize the
judges of the city courts to practice
law iu other courts than their own;
To provide for granting corporate
powers to canal companies; To pro
vide compensation for justices
of the peace for making re
turns to tax receivers of persons
liable to tax; To repeal an act for the
protection of game in Schley county;
To abolish the county courts of Butts;
To amend the charter of the town of
Cairo; To amend the act incorporating
the town of Buena Vista; To provide
for registering the legal voters of Ba
ker county; To amend the act fixing
the pay of the treasurer and the per
diem of the sheriff of DeKalb; To
amend the registration law of Ap
pling county; To . amend the
charter of the town of Sharpsburg;
To amend the charter of the Chatham
bank; To prohibit the manufacture of
intoxicating liquors in Troup county;
To amend the charter of Emory col
lege; To repeal an act incorporating
Nashville in Berrien county; To rein-
corporate the town of Rutledge; To
authorize the judge of the county
court-of Morgan connty to turn con-'
victs over to Bhe county authorities;
To authorize the city of Rome to make
temporary loans to supply casual defi
ciencies in revenue; To amend the act
establishing a hoard of edneation for
Sumter; To atnend the charter of
Ciarkesville. A number of new bills
were read and referred and the house
adjourned until 7:30 o’clock at night.
Mr. Smith, of Gwinnett, made 'his
speeoh on the fish question in the
house Monday night. He was chair
man of the cummitto from tn e iiuuso,
sent to inspect the dam across the riv
er at Augusta and to see whether or
not shad could climb over the dam to
the river above it. The house voted
to take up the resolution for action. Mr.
Smith made a lengthy speech on the
rights of shad and of the people to eat
shad, and then Mr. Hurst of Walton
introduced a resolution td receive Mr.
Smith’s report as information and to
discharge the committee with the
thanks of the house. The resolution
was adopted and the fish ' question has
been settle^ for this session, at least,
After reading a number q|--i>iUe
second time, the houseadjournecl until
Tuesday morning.
Tuesday, Deo.: 5-—The bank bills
were the special order in the honse
Tuesday and some lively speeches were
made. The hill for issuing circulating
notes reported by tho committee: was
read and also the substitute offered by
Mr. Calvin," of Richmond. Mr. Calvin
made a strong speech in behalf of his
substitute. Melt Branch-delivered a
redrhot. speech against the measured
Other speeches iu favor of the Veach
bill were made by Boifeiullet, Render,
Hodge and . Neel, while. Mr. Guerard
was opposed to doing anything antR
congress acted. The-bill reported “by
the committee was passed by a- vote of
121 to 15. The bill provides among
other things _that the governor,
the treasurer and. the -comptroller
general of the state ~ shall com
stitnte the commission authorized to
taken up Wednesday night -in- the
committee of the whole house, and
Mr. Martin; of Fulton, began speak
ing int-its favor. Before he concluded,
the house' adjourned: until Thursday
morning, when the hill again came up
in the committee of the whole with
Mr. -Neel, of Bartow, in the chair.
An extended debate over the measure
ensued. Finally'" Mr - Bacon,
of Bibb, asked for a vote, as
he said there was so much to be tran
sacted in the. house that it would be
impossible to finish the business unless
more dispatch was used. On motion
of Mr. -Martin the committee reported
the bill back to the house with a rec
ommendation that' it do pass. As soon
as it had reached the honse again, Mr.
Branch, of-. Columbia, called the
previous' question. The yeas and
nays . were called for and the
hill was lost, the Vrte being 79 yeas
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have notes engraved in denominations “?*67 nays The repoit of the spe-
not greater than $1,000 and not less
than $1, all of which are to be coun
tersigned by the comptroller general.
Then, any bank desiring to issue these
notes must make a written application,
giving the name of the bank, the place
where it is located, the amount of its
capital stock, a transcript of the rec
ords showing the names and places' of
residence ofthe shareholders,and when
this has been done the commission
mnst inquire into the truth of
the statement. The capital stock
of such banks must not be less
than. $25,000, paid in gold or sil
ver or lawful currency of the United
States, and one-half of it must be set
.apart and kept on deposit for the re
demption of bills issued by the banks.
The remaining half of the capital
stock paid in shall be invested in valid
connty, municipal, state or United
States bonds. The bill provides that
these bonds shall be deposited with
the treasurer, and when the banks
have complied with the provisions set
forth, the commissioners shall issue
three times the amount of the notes
as the amount of legal tender, coin or
currency yon deposit in the bank.
These notes shall constitute a first lien
on all assets of the bank, and they
shall be redeemed in United States
coin or currency upon demand. The
special order following the bank bill
was the bill of Mr. Allen, of Upson,
to grant a special pension of $100 a
year to J. A. Roqnemore, of Upson, a
one-legged confederate veteran. The
bill waB passed and -then the honse ad
journed until 7:30 p. m.
Tuesday Night’s Session. —The house
met at half past seven Tuesday night
and considered the tiill of Mr. Mc
Whorter, of Greene, to provide for the
creation of boards of equalization for
the taxes of the state. After some dis
cussion the bill was tabled for the
present. The bill Of Mr. Roddenbury,
of Thomas, to list the Southwestern
Military College for the purpose of
insurance was lost. Mr. Smith, of
Gwinnett,took up the legislative hook
and line in behalf of the shad in the Sa-
vaunahriver. He introduceda resolu
tion that the governor appoint a com
mittee to examine and report to the
next legislature on the obstructions in
the Savannah river at Augusta, which
prevents the shad from climbing over
the dam and seeking the head-waters
of the river. The honse killed the
resolution in short order, hut, nothing
daunted, Mr. jSmith gave notice of a
motion to reconsider.
Wednesday, Dee. 6—As soon as the
journal was read in the senate, Wed
nesday, Mr. Robinson moved to re
consider the vote by which the report
of the committee to examine the Au
gusta dam, was indefinitely postponed.
His motion prevailed. The bill to re
fund the amount of purchase money of
wild lands, which was passed Tuesday
was also reconsidered, The bill of Mr.
Persons to wipe from the statute books
all jury exemptions, except officers of
court, physicians, pilots and railroad
engineers, ministers of the gospel and
school teachers, was reported ad
versely by the committee. Mr. Per
sons moved to disagree to the re
port of the committee and in a strong
and forcible speech set forth the claims
of his bill. Mr. Wooten opposed the
bill. Mr. Fleming spoke in its favor.
Mr. Reese opposed the bill, and de
fended the report of the committee in
reconsidering that the bill not pass.
Other speeches were made on the
measure, when a vote was taken.
The result was 18 for and 19
against, thus the bill was lost.
The following bills were passed:
Bill appropriating $2,000 to the blind
asylum; Bill to regulate the business
of insurance companies; Bill to fur
nish connty school commissioners an
office; Bill to allow children residing
in the vicinity of towns having public
schools to attend the same; Bill to
prescribe thq method of determin
ing the . weight of freight; Bill
to require the county commis
sioners of Floyd county to make a list
of tax delinquents; Bill to establish a
system of public schools for Law-
renceville; Bill to abolish the connty
court of Butts county; Bill to re-es
tablish the county conrt for Appling
county; Bill to transfer the county of
Dooly from the southwestern circuit
to the Ocoflee" circuit, also to change
the time of holding Dooly court; Bill
to revise the time for holding courts
in the Brunswick circuit. The bill to
refund the purchase money for wild
lands, which was reconsidered at the
first part of the session, was after
wards taken np and passed again.
Wednesday afternoon the bill of Mr.
Graham, of Appling, to protect the
cial committee to investigate the treas
ury was sent in by Chairman McBride
and read by the clerk. The senate
resolution asking onr national repre
sentatives to nse their best endeavors
to secure compensation for C. P. Good
year of Brunswick, in his efforts to
deepen the bar at Brunswick, was
agreed to, and then the house adjourn
ed until Thursday afternoon.
IN THE SENITE.
Saturday, Dec. 2.-—The senate was
in session bnt a few moments. The
only business transacted was reading
the bond bill the first time and refer
ring it to the finance committee. No
quorum being present the body ad
journed until Monday..
Monday, Dee. 4.—A resolution was
introduced in the senate Monday
morning reciting the Tact that the
state owns a great deal of land along
the line of the Western and Atlantic
railroad, and that in some instances
land belonging to the state is claimed
by other parties. The resolution pro
vides that the governor and the attor
ney general shall'settle theBe disputed
claims and sell the land if they see
proper. The senate passed the
following bills: A bill - to
establish a registration law for
the county of Liberty; also to require
county commissioners of Liberty coun
ty to publish their minutes; A bill to
amend the charter of the city of Co
lumbus ; A bill to allow George W.
Willis to peddle without license; A hill
to amend section 242, so as to make
the bank of Carrolton a state deposi
tory; A _ bill to make the Quitman
bank a state depository; A bill to pro
hibit the sale of seed cotton in the
county of Stewart; A bill to authorize
the appointment of a physician to each
coroner in the state.
Tuesday, Dec. 5.—There was a lively
debate in the senate Tuesday over the
bill introduced by Senator Jenkins.
The bill makes it unlawful to sell or
solicit the sale of spiritnous, malt or
intoxicating liquors in any county of
this state where the sale of such liquors
is prohibited by law, high license or
otherwise, provided the act shall not
be construed as preventing the
furnishing of such liquors to per
sons in such prohibition connties upon
purchases made of licensed dealers in
such liquors, outside of, and not so
licited or contacted for, in said prohi
bition connties. After considerable
speech-making, pro and con, the yeas
and nays were called, and the bill was
passed. The senate passed the
house bill to relund the money
paid for wild land where the
purchasers got no title from the state
of where the purchasers abandonedthe
lands and have relinquished their
claims. Senator Robinson called up
the report of the committee that went
to Augusta to see if a shad coaid climb
over the dam. The reports were indefin
itely postponed. The bill of Mr. Bla
lock to reduce the number of county
school commissioners in every county
in the state to three, and that they be
paid their actual expenses while in the
discharge of their duty, out of the
school fund was, after brief discussion,
passed by a vote of 29 yeas to 3 nays.
Wednesday Dec. 6.—Bntlittlebnsi-
ness of importance was transacted in
the house Wednesday. After the pas
sage of a resolution authorizing the
governor and the attorney general to
make a thorough examination into the
trespasses on the right of way of the
state road had been read the third
time and passed, the honse took up
the bill of Mr. West, of Lowndes, to
amend the school laws by establishing
and maintaining a uniform course of
text books for the common schools and
to organize a book commission. The
committee on edneation reported th
bill back with a recommendation tint
it do not pass. Mr. West moved to di:
-agree with the report of the committe
which was unfavorable to the bill. Tb
motion was lost by a vote of 69 to 7 •
The report of the committee was agreed
to and the bill was lost. Mr. Smith,of
Gwinett, gave notice of a motion to re
consider. Mr. Howard of 'Baldwin,
introduced a resolution to bold after
noon sessions from 3 o’clock until 5:30,
and night sessions from 7:30 until 10.
Adopted. The bill authorizing the
governor to call an election for dele
gates to a constitutional convention
and to call the convention and appro
priating $25,000 for the purpose of
holding the convention come up.
Speeches were made against the bill
by Harrison, of Quitman, Guerrard,of
Chatham, Branch, of Columbia, Wheel*
er, of Walker, and Sears, of Webster,
and in favor of it by Reagan,of Henry,
Hodges, of Bibb, and Smith, of Gwi-
The house in committee of the
- „ -r — , .* : nett, xne nouse IU cumuli; it: U Ui. me
80111 V n Wa - 8 tak + iUo™i Whole voted the bill down and then
passed This biU wipes out aU local.; ggg J m ^ butb y unani .
game laws and makes it Igsg^i ^ ous consent the vote was allowed to be
hunt or trap game, smgmgand Before it could be taken
feverous birds and wild, turkeys in any g of a(3 j onrnm ent arrived.
county in the state except betweeU tha
first of November and the first
of April. The bill of Mr. Mar
tin, of Fulton, to allow coun
ties or municipalities to estab
lish juvenile reformatories when the
people so decide by a popular vote;was
passed. A number of new bills -were
introduced. The bill of Mr. Hogan, ,
of Lincoln, to-abolish monthly teach-,
ers’ institutes came up for passage at
the evening"session. A shbstituie was-
offered by Mr. Roddenbury, of Thom
as, that teachers attending the annual-
institute should draw no pay while
there. -The substitute was. passed;:
The vote on Mr. Reagan’s bill to
hold a ■ constitutional convention re
sulted in defeating it by a voteof 87to
m
Thursday, Dec. 7.—In the senate,
Thursday, Mr. Persons undertook to
have his bill to do away with jurv ex-.
eruptions, which was lost Wednesday,
reconsidered, but the senator efused.to-
reconsider it and the*:: hill was
lost. - The senate finally, disposed
of the report of the bill of the fish
committee, accepting the report os in
formation and discharged the com
mittee. The following bills ware
passed: To incorporate the Savan
nah Electric Railroad Company; To
fix the time of holding Terrell supe
rior court; To establish a sohool board
for Americas; To amend the" charter
of the city of Dawson; To change the
time of holding Floyd superior court;
To provide for a stenographic report-
THcaswT, Deo. 7.-The bill of-Mt. « in tho state;
Martin, o£ Fulton, to establish a ro- Mr. ...aokett ms.de a motion, irhioluVBS
{ormfitory for juvenile prisoners, was carried, to nolij meht sessions.
Affairs of Government and News i
Notes of Interest Concerning the Peo
ple and Their'General Welfare.
The house sub-committee on bank
ing and currency has agreed to report
favorably tbe' bill allowing national
banks to issue circulation notes to the
full amount of bonds deposited to se
cure circulation.
The-president Wednesday sent to
the senate the following nominations:
Joseph B, Doe, Wisconsin, as assistant
secretary of war. Postmasters: Wil
liam L. Farley, Tuscumbia, Ala,;
Lizzie G. Hunt, Greenville,-Miss.
Both houses of congress have settled
down to the routine grind of a regular
session. The extra session in some
measure robbed this one of exciting
days of early meeting, when new rules
made, etc. Nevertheless, .there is
much for the sober-minded, thinking
people to contemplate with interest.
Since the declination of Yan Alen
to accept the Italian mission gossip is
to the effect that the president will
appoint Oscar Strauss, of New York,
to this mission. Strauss is a rich
merchant in New York, and is a great-
friend of the president. Don Dickin
son is, however, at Washington push
ing Judge Lambert Tree, of Michigan,
for this embassy.
The estimates on the difference in
revenue between the present tariff law
and the proposed new law have been
made up by experts in tbe treasury
department, and they calculate that
there will be a deficiency under the
new law of nearly $60,000,000. This
deficiency must be made np by addi
tional internal taxation of some char
acter.
Governor Carr, of North Carolina,
has received a letter from Judge Gres
ham, secretary of state, regarding
Ling Gun, the missing Chinaman.
The governor has not received any of
ficial information whatever as to this
case from the authorities of Madison
connty, where it iB alleged Gun was
killed. It is the opinion of some of
the officials from the evidence thus far
obtained, that if Gun was killed at all
it was on the Tennessee side of the
line.
The managers ofthe Nicarauga Canal
Company are preparing to make a
strong effort at this session of con
gress to have the government endorse
$100,000,000 of-bonds for the purpose
of building this cunal. They nre said to
have Secretary Gresham with them.
Just wb'ither this be true cannot be
known at present, but whether Mr.
Gresham endorses it or not this will be
a hard congress to get a bill through
endorsing $100,000,000 of bonds for
any purpose.
Sent Back to tke Senate.
H. Clay Armstrong, of Alabama, who
failed of confirmation at the last session,
was again nominated Tuesday as consul
toGrenoble, France. Thepresideutalso
sc-ut.biiek to the senate the nomination
of William B. Hornblower, of New
York, as justice of the supreme court.
The president also sent the following
other nominations to the senate: John
B. Riley, of New, to be consul general
of the United States at Ottowa, Canada.
To be consuls (failed of confirmation
nt the last session): Newton B. Ashby,
of Iowa, at Dublin,Ireland; Marcellns
L. Davis, of Arkansas, at Meridia,
Spain; Benjamin Lentheir, of Massa
chusetts, at Sherbrook, Quebec; Frank
W. Roberts, of Maine, at Barcelona,
Spain.
CoDffrcHsfoual Sentiment on tke Income
- Tax.
The New Yorh Wbrld in ite issue of
Monday had a .partial poll of congress
on the income:, tax. '.'- One hundred and
'seventy-three members were interview
ed. Of these seventy-one favor an in
come tax in s6me form. Sixty-two op
pose it, five are against it, but may re
consider, while thirty-three asked to
be excused from expressing an o.pin-^
ion. The answers serve to show that
-the income tax question has a geo
graphical phase. Those representa
tives who come from the east are op
posed to the income tax by a large
majority. Those coming from the south
favor it by aa even larger majority,
while those from the west are more
evenly divided with the. majority for
ah income tax. Of the seventy-one
answers favoring the income tax not
many were specific as to the minimum
of the income to be taxed. The drift
of opinion, however, seems to be for
$5,000 as the limit. Many insist that
it shall not be so low as to cateh the
income of the most skilled laborers.
The majority of those who favor an in
come tax. favor a graduated income
tax. The majority of the house is un
doubtedly for a personal income tax
rather than a tax on corporations.
Thanksgiving Day is a good institution. It
is one that all civi izert people can observe with
pleasure and. gratitude, whether they be saints
or sinners, Jews or Gentiles. 'Jhat is if they
have got the turkey or its rqu va ent. If we
haven’t got anything good, we ought to be
thankful for.-what wo haven’t go:—thankful
that we are if "- .-rf [ail—thankful “6 -at it,is as..
well with us"as'what it is” as the old-time
preacher always prays. Some folks d- n’t be
lieve in Christmas. Some don’t observe £,st>r;
but all can unite on Thanksgiving, for on that
day the good and the thoughtful nill honor
.their Creator and the others w II honor their—
their—their—appetites, as Pan! sai l to- the
Phillippians in the 3d chapter and 19tli verse.
These last have an idea that they areentit.ed to
a turkey Ik cauBe they have worked for it or de-
seiveiton the Little Jack Horner principle-
Tbey are thankful 10 themselves only.
I was ruminating about Thanksgiving Day.
If is an . oH institution in. England, and was.
A STEAMER OVERDUE.
Anxiety -for the Missing Steamship
City of St. Augustine.
The steamship City of St. Augustine
was due at Jacksonville, Fla.,
Wednesday, but as: yet nothing has
been heard from her. She left New
York- last Saturday at noon with a
cargo of general merchandise. Cap
tain Crawford, of the steamer Chris
topher, says that he saw nothing, of
her on few trip down and fears that she
may have gone down. The' St. Au
gustine makes the run between Now
York and Jacksonville in four days.
An Extension Ashed For.
President John W. Thomas, of the
Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Lonis
railway, has issued the following cir
cular to the employes: “Gentlemen—
While there has been A slight increase
in business, the improvement has not
been sufficient to permit the restora
tion of wages on December 1st, and it
is hoped that all officers, agents and
employes will cheerfully, consent to
the continuance of the present reduced
wages until February 1, 1894.” ; . .
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Prendergasf, on Trial.
The-trial of Premjergast for the mur
der of Carter Harrison began at Chi
cago Wednesday morning. The court
room an'4 approaches were guarded by
a strong, foroeof city police officers,
deputy sheriffs and bailiffs, who al
lowed only persons having business to
pgas,'
William Is Thankful tliat He Is Rot
in Jail-«The Work of a Woman.
observed iu thi* country be ore tl.e rev. Intion-
ary war of 1776. But when independence was
declared, onr rebellions for father-i qnit if jnst
because it was English you 1 now. Just like we
rebels down Hc-n h qnit the 4th of July for a
goe d while after the late war. for we felt lino
the yunkees had stolen it from us, like they did
everything else. It took. ns twelve years
to get fairly back into the Union, and then
we began to honor the old flag and to shoot
puns and fi ec ackers on the 4 h of July.
Hi-tory says that a preacher by -he name of
Ebenezer Pemberton, read the King’s procla
mation for Thai ksgiving, in La pulpit in Bos
ton. jn-t before the war began, ami it made
those Bnnker Hill yaukees so m»d they left iho
church, for they said there wasnorhiug to be
thankful for. There was no more Thanksgiv
ing Day until Gentral Washington was .liosen
p-o-id nt in 1769, On thelasLJhnrs 'ay in No
vember of that year, the first national Thanks
giving was obseived. That, was ju.-t 104 years
ago today. Washington I owl to send ont. his
proclamation by mail to the thirteeii states, and
it had to be started ont abtnt th- first of Octo
ber so as to get down to “Georgia and ttp to
Massachusetts in time. ^Washington wbb a
good nian as well as a great man and ho con-
tinno 1 th - annual r J hanltsgivihg days for'the
eight years 1 f his set vice,’ l.nt why they ceased
to be .proclaimed or ob-< rv> cI i'.ft> r his death I
cannot find ont. But it seems hit h re wete
no n.ore national Thanksgiving days until No
vember, 1864, when Mr. Line- In p oclaimeu
one. which was right and proper, c iteiili ring
what a time he hud had in sttbdu ng ns 1 eh. is-
Mr. Lincoln was a tbaukfni man by nature and
I have no donbt he ate his s ate - f hattnrbey
with a grateful heart. It was tii.ht mean ib
ns to worry the old man so, hut we couidn-’i-
help it.
It is wonderfnl what great thingir a Wo
man can do. One women has..tixed our
national Thanksgiving and pot-c-n all the
states to unite with the nation in o-tab-
hshing one day for all. That woman labor
ed for twenty long years to ace mpli h tho
desire of her heart. She wrote letters to the
president and to the governors and entreated
them in Snch beanti nl, earnest language that
they finally gav heed to Tier rtq car, and o
ever s nee the close of tho late war the day has
been observed. I knew that lady and so did
thousands and thousands of onr penpl—a gen
eration that has almost pa sed swav. for almost
ev ry household took Gt dy’s Lady’s Book be
fore the war and everybody loved and admijed
Mrs Sarah J. H-ile, who was its ediires-, f. r a
quarter of a cenmrr. Slit-loved the pood, the
I cautiful and the trite. She w-ote many char
ming little.bonks for the' chiJdro -. but if she
had never done anything more than t"establish
Thanksgiving Day and to write these sweet little
verses be -ining:
Mary had a little Jamb,
Its fleece was white aa snow,
it would -be enough for the life w ork of one wo
man. There is no more Fai red dnty than to
make the children happy and these lit tie verses
abont Mary and her little lamb have it-spired
the tender hea ts of mTlious of them. That
good woman died in 1879, bnt her good works,
her devotion to ehildr -m and her love for all
that was kind and trueT and; beaurifir: in life
still lives. What cm one woman do—not a
woman of extraordinary, talen's, bnt one of ear
nest will and a lover of mankind? Wh it did
our own Mrs. Williams of Coinm ns, dp wltenj
she set her heart and her pen to the wo-k~ S
establishing onr southern di-corati nday? She
did it, and it stands established as a monument
to southern patriotism.--Whether we -were
right or wrong in the fight made no-difference
with her. She loved the ht roi-m of our" sed* |
diets and wept tears of admiration for their
sacrifices.
“With fairest flowers while summer lasts
We will sweetfcn their sad graves,”
she said, and it was done.
There is mnch for ns-all to be thankfni for. A
civilized people have no efens-t for ingiatitnde.
Shakispeare had" a special" honor of it and
f than lvintr, bab
' of vice.”
basest of all
enmes.’
But if ingratitude to man be so base, what
must it be to tbe Creator, from whom come3
every good and perfect gift ?
If He bad not loved ns this world .would not
have b en made so beautiful. We con d have
lived without any-of its luxuries; we could have
got along with oiily buzzards for, birds and (log-
feunei for flowers and the howling of the winds
for mnsic; we conld have lived on cornb 1 ead nnd
codfish, but the Creator made the earth lovely
for our sake, and is cuntiimully unlocking the
doors of His storehouses and dispe- sin? new
and wonderful treasures for oar comftfrt ai "
our elevation to a higher life. This is.f
of all others to ponder mid raminat '
goodness of Goa and to be
blessings.—Bill Arp, in Ati;
The Indnst
The review of»
South i r the past i
tion of affairs coati
The advance in the prj
recent sales, And the d
producers'to hold their onfputs-for still
prices has had a good effect. More fao
are starting up and nf'W mines are • being-o
ed. The, change in tariff legislation, s j *•
the South is concerned will-be discouiiti
-the country was never in a better conditi
meet the si nation. With a sufficient
money, a smallei indebtedness ihaii ever J
and larger crops,of all varieties—in _ th
spect d fferihg-from former . years—it is
ally bel eved that, an era of continued
prosperity has been entered upon;- _
Thirty-five n : w indiistr es were e tiiblie
incorporated dnnng the week, 'together
ten enlargements of umnufactone < nnd
important new buiid 4 -'^ :
new industries are »1|
Iron company, of -Bs
$200,000, organ zed
others; the Topp clqi
$100,hC
Ky,. capital; 510 .
a stave andbeadiu.
Great Cacapon, \V.
the Bristol Door a
tol, Va., capital, S
others, «nd tho Si
pany, of Georgetown,
J. A. Sutton and associates. . ■ -
A canning factory is reported at
Tenn; a Development^ and Improvement
pany at Wflisesboro. N. C.
nace at Egypt, *?. G, ane
pany at Chattanooga, Tenn. i»tOur a
rc Us are to be built- at Candler and
N. C., and Nestervil ea nd Newtor "
asbestos mine is to be opened at (
N. 0., a mica mine at Iron City, r J
coal mine at Pineville, Ivy. A tcbn
is to be built at Owensboro, Ky. .-i
woodworking plantu of tho week are j
mills at Meridian. Mis^., ?rianci’6s
Wytheville, Va,, a pump factory at_ J
Ala., and stw mills at Keller, Ark..
Pme City, Ga., and PI
man COliattanooga,'
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