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LEXINGTON, GA.
LANSING MAKES APOLOGY,
But Says Hts Information Caino From
Reliable Sources.
Rev. I. J. Lansing, whose references
to the president in his address before
the New England conference at Salem,
Mass provoked extended criticism,
gives out the following statement:
“My allusion made in a temperance
address at Salem ou Thursday, April
4th, to the drinking habits of the
president of the United States was
based partly on common report and
partly on the testimony of eye-wit¬
nesses. From various independent
sources, which I believe to be wholly
reliable, I had been iuformed that the
president had been seen on different
occasions and in the presence of many
persons in an intoxicated condition.
“From the substantial and detailed
character of these statements I sup¬
posed there was no doubt as to the
facts alleged. I therefore made this
allusion as a matter of common report,
basing my confidence on the testimony
of persona], and as I supposed, credi¬
ble witnesses. obvi¬
“The names of these witnesses
ously I cannot with propriety reveal,
since, sharing their knowledge ill
common with many others, they might
justly shrink from being singled out
and called to verify that of which not
only they, but others equally with
themselves, had ocular proof.
“I must, therefore, say that if my
statement reproducing such testimony
is not in harmony with facts, I regret
having made it.. I could have neither
desire nor motive for saying anything
unkiud or uncharitable of the presi¬
dent or of any party whatsoever. The
ram- being one of conflict of testimony
between witnesses of equal credibility,
I cannot deoide, and since I have no
personal knowledge apart from the tes¬
timony, I withdraw the statement and
tender apologies and sincere regrets to
the president of the United States and
to the public. I. J. Lansing.”
“Boston, April 8, 1895.”
AFTER THE RAILROAD.
Creditors of the Tennessee Central
Want the Road Sold.
A hill has been filed in the chancery
court of Cumberland county Tenn.,
against the Tennessee Central Rail¬
road company by a number of its
creditors. The people have been very
hopeful of the completion of the
Tenuessoe Central, and have been
willing to furnish the road supplies,
labor, crossties, horses and teams and
anything else in their power,
The company began operations with¬
out any visible capital but used con¬
vict labor, and the creditors thought
that they at least would be paid,
whether tho lessees of the penitentiary
were ever paid or not. Colonel Jere
Baxter has been making promises for
over a year that creditors would be
paid in a short while. The com¬
pany owes probably $100,000, and a
number of creditors have joined and
filed their bill asking for a foreclosure
and sale of the whole thing. An in¬
junction has been granted restraining
the railroad cumputiy from disposing
of any bonds or other securities till
the general creditors were secured.
The company has executed a deed of
trust to the Union Bank and Trust
Conipauy ot Nashville to secure their
bonds, and since it was recorded the
company has refused to talk about a
settlement with thoir creditors, who
arc not provided for iu the deed.
BUSINESS OUTLOOK BRIGHTER.
Advance In Crude Materials Attest a
Steady, Improved Situation.
The Industrial World, ot Chicago,
prints the following;
“That the general business situation
ia steadily improving is clearly evi¬
denced by the advances in orude ma¬
terial and staple commodities—iron
ore, cotton, coke, pig iron, etc. This,
to say the least, is gratifying, as the
higher values have stimulated demand
all along the line, which iu turn is aid¬
ing in improving the industrial situa¬
tion. The only cloud in eight just
now is the strike ngitation among the
coal miners. In Iowa a large number
are already out, and trouble is expect¬
ed in Pennsylvania and Ohio, which
may extend to Indiana and Illinois. A
general strike extending over the states
named would be welcomed by opera¬
tors, as it would lead to a readjust¬
ment of mining wages all around, and
would afford a breathing spell to en¬
able the trade to get rid of the present
unwieldly surplus stock.
GOVERNOR MARVEL DIES.
The Chief Executive of Delaware
Basses Away.
Governor Marvel, of Delaware, died
at Wilmington Mondav By'his night after a
lingering illness. death Will¬
iam P. Watson, speaker of the senate,
who is a democrat, becomes acting
governor. Watson By the elevation of Mr.
to the gubernatorial chair the
senate of the state becomes a tie—four
republicans and four democrats. Mr.
W atsois will not serve out Governor
Marvel's unexpired term, bnt will act
as the chief executive of the state un¬
til the next general election in No¬
vember, 1896. What effect the death
of Governor Marvel will Lave upon
the senatorial contest being wage<\ iu
Addicks the 'legislature is difficult between Higgins and
te forecast. If the
legislature fails to elect, the acting
governor of the state can nominate a
senator, but whether the United States
senate will admit one so accredited to
their ranks is problematical.
STATE NEWS NOTES.
CULLED FROM MANY SOURCES
BRIEFLY PARAGRAPHED.
Happenings of General Interest to
Georgia Readers.
The sale of the Altamaha Cypress
Mills to the Hilton & Dodge dumber
j Company last week will result in 100
men or more being employed at once,
The court’s confirmation is all that is
needed to start the wheels to turning,
The annual meeting of the Royal
Acrauum of Georgia will be held in
Rome on May 1st, and the Romans are
already arranging to give their distin¬
guished visitors from all parts of
Georgia a rousing and royal weloome.
* * *
About four hundred aores of water¬
melons have been planted in the im¬
mediate vicinity of Arlington and with
n moderately fair yield; this means
that about 130 carloads of melons will
be shipped from this point the coming
season.
The oldest man in White county is
Henry Turner. If he lives until July
he will be 98 years old. He is very
feeble, but persists in trying to do
some farm work. He is a veteran mi¬
ner and has dug thousands of penny¬
weights of gold out of the ground in
that county.
* * *
Ordinary Calhoun, at Atlanta, states
that there has been a fare and one
third obtained as the round trip rate
to the convention of Georgia ordi¬
naries, which will be held May 8th, on
Tybee island, near Savannah. The
attendance will be very large.
A curious old custom exists in White
county, and has been put into effect
already this year. It is the chastise¬
ment of tardy road workers by their
fellow laborers. Three or Mur men
were “tanned’' on a certain road on
Wednesday, and the overseer himself
got a few stripes for being late at
work.
Judge Falligant at Savannah has re¬
fused to grant an injunction to the
Savannah, Florida and Western rail¬
road against thp city of Savannah,
which has instituted proceedings for
the opening of a large number of
streets across the tracks of this road
in the southern part of the city. The
case will go at once to the supreme
oourt.
Thomson will soon have two new
canning factories. Dr. Reese and
Mr. Oscar Lee ore building one near
Dr. Reese’s residence, and Messrs.
James Irving and Otis Hill are build¬
ing one on Hall street. The fruit and
vegetable crops bid fair to be full and
abundant this year, and these new en¬
terprises will greatly enhance their
market value.
The outlook for tho fruit orop is just
now the most interesting matter for
consideration in Georgia. When tho
severe cold weather, accompanied with
a snow snow storm, came late this year
before tho sap had begun to rise it
was at once predicted that the fruit
crop would be larger than it had been
for years. For the past two or three
seasons, mild springs beguiled the
fruit trees iuto forwarduess and when
a late cold spell came it caught the
young buds and blossoms in too ten¬
der a condition to withstand the blight.
The blizzard of February this year re¬
tarded the trees iu their “spring open¬
ing” and tho blooms came late enough
to escape the effects of the cold nights
of March and April. Altogether, there
is promise of a full and abundant crop
for 1895.
Seventy and Fifteen.
Mr. George Mann, a highly respect¬
ed and well-to-do citizen of Union
ville, who is 70 years old, was a few
days ago happily united in mari^age
to a charming and vivacious young
girl of 15, named Miss Jackson. Quite
a contrast in their ages, but they are
living Maun, happily together ou the farm of
Mr. on the Little, Towaliga
river. They seem to be perfectly con¬
genial in their relations. Another
thing which makes the marriage of
this couple more interesting is the fact
that his son, Oscar Mann, several
months ago married a sister of the
bride. So you c»n see that Mr. Mann’s
son is his brother-in-law and his
daughter-in-law is his sister-in-law,
and his wife is the mother-in-law of
her older sister.
Convict Management Crltlelsed.
The grand jury of Dade has this to
say of the convict camps in the
county: “We believe that the con¬
victs at Cole City have not been fei}
and clad as the law contemplates for
some time past This belief being
based on a complaint of a large per
cent of the convicts. Some need
better shoes. We believe that the medi¬
cal treatment is reasonably fair, except
at No. 2, where we found some com¬
plaint Further, in regard to food, we
recommend that the convicts have
enough succulent food to insure their
health. We further recommend that
all Sunday washing be done swsy with,
and that each convict have a clean
change of clothing once a week. We
recommend that all corporal punish¬
ment be administered by the strap as
the law directs and by a person of
proper age aud judgment. We fur
ther recommend that all abuse of con¬
victs by unnecessary cursing and
tongue lashing be discontinued. We
call attention to the fact that thtre
are tome guards who are not yet twen¬
ty-one years old.”
* * *
Hale of the Northeastern.
TJie approaching sale of the North¬
eastern road is causing a considerable
amount of discussion among Athen¬
ian!. The sale is only a few days Off,
and naturally they desire to know
what ii going to becoms of the rail¬
road which they were largely instru¬
mental in building. The recent sale
of the Georgia Southern and Florida
road is taken by some to be an indica¬
tion of the purchase of the North¬
eastern by the Seaboard with a view to
combining the Georgia Southern and
Florida, the Macon and Northern and
the Northeastern, and extending to
Knoxville. At the same time, while
these rumors are going around, the
report is also out that should the state
find itself without a bidder on the
road to the amount of $300,000, a
party of Athenians will form a com¬
pany and lease the road, as they re¬
gard it as a paying piece of property.
Will Work Independently.
The news has reached Savannah that
the interests in charge of the Central’s
reorganization plan will go ahead with
the work in hand, notwithstanding the
action of the bondholders of the Sav
unnah and Western railroad. This
may mean no little trouble with the
Central railroad property. Justice
Jackson deoreed two years ago that
i?7,755,000 the Central’s consolidatecf endorsement on the
mortgage r on
the Savannah and Western was valid.
Should the property be sold separate¬
ly from the Central the latter might
be held .responsible in case the Savan¬
nah and Western did not bring the
amount of the bonded indebtedness
upon it.
The committee in charge of the re¬
organization plan has made the state¬
ment that it went as far as possible
with the Savannah and Western bonds,
giving what they believed to be a fair
pro rata of the new securities. On
this offer the committee says it will
stand pat, that is 50 per cent in 4 per
cent bonds, 25 per cent in first and 25
per cent in second preferred income
bonds. The new Savannah and West¬
ern committee believe they are enti¬
tled to 4 per cents stra gh . If they
do not get it they will nave a separ¬
ate receiver and a separate sale of
their road. The affair has assumed a
deoidedly interesting shape, and the
outcome will be watched with no little
interest by railroad men.
A Big Colony Expected.
Ex-Governor Northen and Mr. P.
H. Fitzgerald, manager of thh Soldiers’
Colony Club, of Indianapolis, returned
recently from a trip to middle Geor¬
gia, where they went in the interest of
the colossal colonization movement
they have recently entered. There
has been a great deal said lately about
the wort of ex-Governor Northen and
the railroads in encouraging southern
immigration. This last achemo shows
to what a great extent tho work can be
carried. For several month ex-Gov
ernor Northen has been \n correspond¬
ence with Mr. Fitzgerald, who was the
organizer of tho famous Soldiers’ Col
ouy Club in the northwest, and he
finally succeeded in interesting Mr.
Fitzgerald in the lands of Georgia so
considerably as to bring him down
here on a trip of inspection and inves¬
tigation.
Mr. Fitzgerald and
Northen have just returned from a
trip to that delightful land known as
middle Georgia, one of the most fertile
and productive Boils in the south.
They visited the counties of Mont¬
gomery, Dooly, Wilcox, Berrien, Ir¬
win and Dodge. The purpose of the
trip was to show to Mr. Fitzgerald,
the great colonizer, what a tempting
world of agricultural lauds is open to
the honest investor from the north in
that fair section of the state. Mr.
Fitzgerald was asked for an expression
of opinion of the country he had just
visited. He was all enthusiasm at the
outlook and declared that he was de¬
termined to make a most favorable re¬
port of his visit when he returns to
the northwest and goes face to face
with the men who will come to this
section of the south to find homes.
“It is the very spot we have been
1 mking for,” said Mr. Fitzgerald, “and
I am sure that there will bo thousands
of old northern soldiers who will take
the offer that will be made them
through the Soldiers’ Colony Club,
and come to Georgia. of land
"There is an abundance
down in that section of Georgia for all
our purposes. We want to get about
100,000 acres to start with and will
have an option on 50,000 or 100,000 in
addition to this.
“I am iqplose touch today with at
least 14,000 heads of families who will
be willing to como to Georgia when
they are made acquainted w ith the ad¬
vantages of this favored section as a
place lor homes. These tuuiilies will
average five members each, making at
least 70.000 souls that will probably
come here.”
A FATAL WRECK.
Train Falls Through a Trestle, Killing
Four People.
Four persons were killed outright
and a fifth fatally injured in a wreck
on the Bellaire, Zanesville and Cin¬
cinnati narrow guage railroad at a
trestle about five miles east of Sum
merfield, Ohio.
which train was is situated ^approaching on a curve, the totle lhe
coach ran ou the ties half way aeross
and then the engine also left the rails,
r , Jiw »».. of a. t™.u.
-SSEX .br.ngi...r, Mrs. E.
ville, were all instantly killed. Jesse
Johns, the fireman, was fatally in
jured,
TAI ACT IS DEFECTIVE.
Declared UmstMonal in Its
Most Important Features.
NO TAX CAN BE COLLECTED ON
BONOS OR RENTS.
CIIE ENTIRE ACT ESCAPES ONLY
BY A TIE VOTE.
Justices White and Field Dissent In
Regard to Essential Features.
Chief Justice Fuller announced the
decision of the United. States supreme
court in the income tax cases Monday,
He began by stating the exceptions to
the law as made by counsel for the ap¬
pellant as follows:
1. That the act imposes a direct tax
in respect of the real estate, rents, is¬
sues and profits of personal property
and not being apportioned is in viola¬
tion of section two of article one of
the constitution.
2. That the law, if not imposing a
direct tax, is nevertheless unconstitu¬
tional in that its provisions are not
uniform throughout the United States
and do not operate with the same force
and effect upon the subject of the tax
wherever found, and in that it provides
in favor of individuals and co-partner¬
ships, while denying all exemptions to
corporations having similar incomes
derived from like .property and values
and provides for other exemptions and
inequalities in violation of section
eight of article one of the constitu¬
tion.
3. That the act provides no exemp¬
tion of the tax upon incomes derived
from the stocks and bonds of states of
the United States and counties and
municipalities therein, which stocks
and bonds are not proper subjects for
the taxing power of c•egress. The in¬
come from these securities in the
United States amounts to over $65,
000,000 per annum, on which the to¬
tal annual income tax would be $1,-
300,000.
CONSTITWTSONAL POINTS INVOLVED.
He then took up the constitutional
points involved, dwelling upon the
fact that the constitution required the
appointment of direct taxes and uni¬
formity in excises and imposts. He
also (Twelt upon the question of repre¬
sentation and taxation, which was, he
said, a foremost one when the consti¬
tution was adopted.
He then took up the question of the
tax on rents, and in so doing discussed
at considerable length the question of
direst taxes as considered at the time
of the framing of the constitution.
The framers of the constitution
were, he said, well versed in the gov¬
ernment of the colonies and of Euro¬
pean countries, and were well versed
in the literature of the period, includ¬
ing works on political economy and
were well calculated to pass intelli¬
gently on this kind.
He quoted various sought supreme show court that
decisions and to
while the income tax question had
been before the court, the question
had only been considered as applying
to the point at issue in the particular
cases.
THE TAX DURING THE WAR.
Coming down to the present tariff
a«t, he said that the law was passed in
a time of profound peace and it was to
be taken as evidence that congress had
sought in this matter to form a prece¬
dent and establish a departure from
established lines, and it, therefore,
became important to inquire into the
circumstances with some attention to
detail. For the purpose of compari¬
son, he went back to the enactment of
an income tax during the civil war. He
quoted from the decision in the
Springer case, giving a history of the
case and devoting much attention to
ii, as he said that it was upon this case
that the defense had appaiently relied
more generally than any precedent.
It is, he said, conceded in all the cases
from Hylton to Springer that taxes on
laud are direct taxes, while in some
of them it is determined that taxes on
rents, derived from land, are
indirect taxes. Was there, he asked,
any distinction between a tax on
the land or the income derived
from the land! What, in other words,
was the land but profit on it? The
name of the tax is unimportant, and
the court had been unable to see any
distinction. He closed by saying that
the court had reached the conclusion
that the tax on rents was invalid.
The chief justice then took up the
question of the taxation of municipal
and state bonds. The decision was
also adverse to this part of the law as
repugnant to the constitution.
On the other points, the court was
divided and, therefore, no opinion
could be given.
Summing Up the Points.
The conclusions of the court were
stated as follows:
1. That by the constitution federal
taxation is divided into two great
classes— direct taxes and duties, im
| ’ ^‘"xhat^he ____a imposition of direct
j tax s 18
ortionment f among the wvera! j states, ( t fl
j |b. rul. of oniformit, tbr.bghct tb.
i
j ? n ' ® ISiTS
j^^tituUou nrrtirrihH in
by the tsUblbhment
of the rule of apportionment such among
the several states, so that appor¬
tionment should be according to .num¬
bers in eaoh state.
4. That the states surrendered thoir
power to levy imposts and to regulate
oommeree to to the general govern¬
ment and gave it the concurrent
power to levy direct taxes in reliance
on the protection afforded by the rules
prescribed, pnd that the compromises
of the constitution cannot be d’sturb
ed by legislative action. result
5. That these conclusions
from the text of the constitution and
are supported by the historical evi¬
dence furnished by the circumstances
surrounding the framing and adoption
of that instrument, and the views of
those who framed and adopted it.
6. That the understanding and ex¬
pectation at the time of the adoption
of the constitution wub that direct
taxes would not be levied by the gen¬
eral government except under the
pressure of extraordinary exigency,
and such has been the practice down
to August 15, 1894. If the power to
do so is to be exercised as an ordinary
afad usual means of supply, that fact
furnishes an additional reason for cir¬
cumspection in disposing of the pres¬
ent case.
7. That taxes on real estate belong
to the class of direct taxes, and that
the taxes on the rent or income of real
estate, which is the incident of its
ownership, belong to the sume class!
8. That by no previous decision of
this court has this question been ad¬
judicated to the contrary of the con¬
clusions now announced. That so
much of the act of August 15, 1894,
as attempts to impose a tax upon the
rent or income of real estate without
apportionment is invalid.
MURDERER RUNS AMUCK.
Two Men Killed Outright and Three
Wounded.
Brit Glenn, commonly known as
“Kid Charley,” a negro gambler and
desparado, ran amuck at Jacksonville,
Fla., early Sunday morning, and as a
result two men are dead and three
wounded, one of them probably fatal¬
ly. The wounded are: Edward Minor,
policeman—shot through the heart;
Napoleom Stucks, a negro porter em¬
ployed in Rieker’s saloon—shot in the
throat and his neck broken. The
wounded are: James Minor, lieuten¬
ant of police— shot in the right ankle;
Jim Clemons, a negro—shot iu right
thigh and may die; a negro bootblack,
name unknown—slightly wounded.
Stucks was the first man killed by
GJenn, and it was while resisting ar¬
rest that he killed Policeman Ed.
Minor amd wounded the others whose
names are given above.
RHODE ISLAND REPUBLICAN.
The Democrats Snowed Under—Llp
pitt for Governor.
The democrats of Rhode Island were
simply snowed under at Wednesday’s
election. The returns indicate a gen¬
eral falling off in the democratic vote
of about 40 per oent. The vote was
exceedingly light, but Lippitt, repub¬
lican, for governor, is elected by a
largely increased majority. The en¬
tire republican state ticket is elected.
The democrats will retain at least their
present representation of five in the
legislature. In two or three towns
there was some interest owing to con¬
tests on local issues, but apathy was
shown in most instances. East provi¬
dence and Pawtucket voted license af¬
ter a hard fight, and Coventry, for the
first time in its history, voted to be
bibulous.
STRENGTHENING THE UNION.
D. bs Says He Has Added 2,200 Mem¬
bers in a Week.
President Debs, of the American
Railway Union, reports that as a re¬
sult of his thirty-six days of speech
making on the Pacifio coast the Amer¬
ican Railway Union has been thor¬
oughly reorganized aloDg the line of
the Great Northern system to the
coast and in California, In seven
days on the westward trip he took in
2,200 members. President Debs says
the reduction in wages of the men on
the Southern Pacific, which recently
went into effect, lp>s resulted in gen¬
eral dissatisfaction on tho part of the
men with the old brotherhoods, which
were unable to prevent the reduction.
DECIDED TO STRIKE.
Weavers Ask for Restoration of Old
Wages and are Refused.
The weavers at the Atlantic mills in
Olneyville, R. I., held a meeting Sun¬
day afternoon and voted to strike for
a restoration of the scale of wages paid
prior to the last cut down of 22 per
cent, which was made a year ago.
They asked a week ago to have the old
wages restored and the request re¬
fused. Dress goods of cotton, wool
and mixtures are made at these mills,
which give employment to 2,400 oper¬
atives.
A DEFAULTING CASHIER.
A Chicago National Bank Official Short
$50,000 in His Accounts.
It has been discovered that F. W.
Griffin, assistant cashier of the North¬
western National bank of Chicago, is
a defaulter to the extent of $50,000.
He has been arrested and has con¬
fessed. The Northwestern National is
a bank of ample means with capital
and resources amounting to a million
and half dollars, and one of the most
conservative institutions in Chicago.
Griffin’s shortage will in no wise affect
tbs standing of the bank and creates
no excitement.
Whisky Wins In Minnesota.
The most notable feature of the
Minnesota municipal elections wae the
success of the license ticket in nearly
every place where the liquor question
was at issue.
OSCAR IN JAIL.
HB SUES THE MARQUIS AND IS
HIMSELF INDICTED
And Will be Tried ou Charges of
Nameless Crimes.
The suit of Oscar Wilde against the
Marquis of Queensberry came to a
sudden and unexpected termination at
London Friday, shortly after the third
day’s proceedings were b3gun in the
Old Bailey before Justice Collins.
Sir Edwin Clarke, leading counsel
for the plaintiff, asked permission ou
behalf of his client to withdraw the
suit, and submit to a verdict of not
guilty in regard to the words “Posing
as a-writteif by the Marquis of
Queensberry on the Card left by the
marquis at the Albemarle Club for
Wilde, on February 18, and which
card formed tfie outward basis of the
suit.
The jury, under instruction from
Justice Collins, returned a verdit of
“not guilty,” coupled with the state¬
ment that the justification set up as a
defense by the Marquis of Queensberry
was true in substance and in fact, and
that the statement complamed of waS
published for the public g<rod:
BECEIVED^yiTH APPLAUSE.
The verdictf'was received with ap¬
plause, which was not checked by the
presiding justice and the Marquis of
Queensberry was discharged from cus¬
tody and left the court triumphant,
smiling and surrounded by his friends.
Shortly afterwards, it was announc¬
ed that a warrant for the arrest of Os¬
car Wilde was to be applied for, all the
papers in the case having been sub¬
mitted to the public prosecutor.
WILDE PUBLISHES A CABb.
Oscar Wilde has written a letter to
the newspapers in which he says: “It
was impossible to prove my case with¬
out putting Lord Alfred Douglass in
the witness box against his father.
Lord Alfred was extremely anxious to
go into the box, but I should not al¬
low it. Bather than put him in such
a position I determined to retire the
case and bear upon my own .shoulders
whatever shame and ignominy might
result from not prosecuting the Mar¬
quis of Queensberry.” later at
Oscar Wilde was arrested
the Cadogan hotel.
QUEENSBERBY’S MESSAGE TO WILDE.
In an interview the marquis of
Queensberry said to a representative
of the United Press:
“I have sent this message to Wilde,:
“ ‘If the country allows you to
leave, all the better for the country,
but if you, take my son with you, I
will follow you wherever you go and
shoo.t you. > M
Froilman Strikes Wilde’s Name.
Mr. Frohman, of the Lyceum thea¬
ter, at New York, where Oscar Wilde’s
play, “An Ideal Husband,” is now
running, has decided, on account of
the termination of the suit against
Wilde, to have the playwright's name
erased from all the bills and programs
of the theater. All their printing con¬
tracts have been canceled in order to
admit of these changes being made in
the advertisements also. No change
will be made m tjie play itself, howev¬
er, as the management of the Lyceum
hold that it is a clearly wholesome pro¬
duction.
AN EXTRA SESSION
Of the Missouri Legislature Called to
Meet April 23.
Governor Stone issued a call Tues¬
day for a special session of the state
legislature to meet on April 28d for
the following purposes: legislation
First, to enact such as
may be necessary and expedient to
properly define the relations between
the different classes of employes of
railroads of the state, and also the
proper relations between all such em
ployes tnemselves and also between
such employes and the said railroads
for injuries done or received by one
such employe as the result of culpable
negligence of another such employe
while engaged in the service of such
corporations. provide such legislative
Second, to and
enactments as may be necessary
expedient to prevent the maintenance
of an organized lobby at the capital of
the state, either to obstruct or to pro¬
mote any legislative or executive act
and also to regulate the manner of pre¬
senting any question affecting legisla¬
tion by persons interested therein be¬
fore the general assembly or any com¬
mittee thereof.
Third, to enact such laws as may be
necessary and expedient to prevent
fraud against the elective franchise
and to eeoure honeRt elections in all
cities having 100,000 inhabitants.
Fourth, to consider any other sub¬
ject that may be submitted daring
said ex'tra session.
Fifth, to make an appropriation for
the expenses of this extra session of
the general assembly.
McBUlDK DANGEROUSLY ILL.
He Is Poisoned With Nicotine from
Smoking a Pipe.
It is reported at Columbus, O., that
John McBride, the president of the
American Federation of Labor, is se¬
riously ill at Indianapolis. He re¬
turned from Hot Springs recently,
having received no benefit there. He
is suffering from the effects of nicotine
poisoning by smoking a pipe shortly
before his election rn the Federation
of Labor. He is unable to attend to
his duties.
A man boosted into prominence in
his own conceit can never see any good
in the efforts of others, snd generally
brings disgr^t upon himself.