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( THE MORNING NEWS. l
< Established 1850. Incorporated 1888. >
| J. H. ESTILL President. \
BOSTON’S BIG BANQUET,
THE MERCHANT’S ASSOCIATION
PLAYS THE HOBT.
Ex-President Cleveland, Andrew Car
negie, Henry Orady and Hon. W. L.
Putnam the Special Quests of the
Evening Ex-President Cleveland
Speaks on Ballot Reform—Other Elo
quent Tongues Loosed.
Boston, Dec. 12.—Henry* W. Grady and
the party of southern gentlemen who came
here to attend the annual banquet of the
Boston Merchants’ Association, were given
an informal breakfast at the Hotel Ven
dome this morning. There were present
Pat Collins, L. Morse, Jerome Jones, E. B.
Haskell, E. Atkinson, R. E. Robbins, Pres
ident J. A. Lane of the association, the
officers and board of directors, which in
cludes the executive committee. The affair
was a pleasant one, and gave Mr. Grady
and Gov. Bullock an opportunity to tell
what they think of the city they are in,
which they did to the satisfaction of the
natives.
THE BANQUET AT NIGHT.
Over 400 of the solid business men of Bos
ton and New England crowded the spacious
apartments of the hotel Ve.)domethis even
ing on the occasion of the a inual banquet
of the Boston Merchants’ Association. So
great was the desire to see and hear the
honored guests of the association that tick
ets were all disposed of at a premium days
ago, and scores of applicants were disap
pointed. Prom sto 6 o’clock a reception
was held in the hotel parlors, at which
manv members of the association were intro
duced to the special guests of the evening,
ex-President Cleveland, Andrew Carnegie,
Henry W. Grady, and Hon. W. L. Putnam
of Maine.
THE MARCH TO THE GROANING BOARD.
At 6 o’clock the march was taken to the
dining hall to music by the Germania or
chestra. The hall was elaborately and ele
gantly decorated with banners anil flowers.
At a round table in the center sat Jonathan
A. Lane, president of the association. At
his right were ex-President Cleveland, H.
W. Grady, W. L. Putnam, P. A. Collins,
John Lowell, William E. Russell and
Leopold Morse, while at his left were seated
Gov. Oliver Ames, Andrew Carnegie, Gen.
Clinton B. Fiske of New Jersey, Homer
Rogers, president of the Boston board of
aldermen; Francis Lvdne Stetson of New
York and Collector Saltonskall, all guests of
the association.
OTHERS WHO WERE GUESTS.
The guests at the other tables inoluded
Edward Atkinson, Congressman Rauuey,
Josiah Quincy, Alden Speare, president of
the Boston Chamber of Commerce, Charles
8. Smith, president of the New York
Chamber or Commerce, and Assistant
United States T reasurer S. N. Aldrich.
The following gentlemen, who are guests
of Henry W. Grady in New England, were
also guests of the association at the ban
quet: Ex-Gov. Rufus B. Bullock, J. W.
Rankin, Clarence Knowles, S. M. Inman,
Dr. R. D. Spalding, CoL Evan P. Howell,
Thomas D. Meador, J. R. Halliday, W. A.
Hemphill and Judge George Hillyer, all of
Georgia; John Inman of New York,
president of the West Point Terminal
railroad; Marian Verdery, Patrick Calhoun,
and C. C. Nichols of the Atlanta Consti
tutions
THE SPEECH OF WELCOME.
It was 8:15 o’clock before President Lane
called the attention of the gathering. After
reading a letter of regret from James Rus
sell Lowell, he pro ceded in a brief speech
to introduce Gov. Oliver Ames, who in a
few words welcomed the guests of the occa
sion. When he referred to the welcome ex
tended to the distinguished guests from New
York the assembly greeted him with loud
applause. Gov. Ames then turned to ex-
President Cleveland and said:
If the wicked democrats speak as well of me
when I retire from office as republicans now do
of you, I shall be abundantly satisfied.
This sentiment was also loudly cheered.
Homer Rogers, president of the board of
alderman, was then introduced and wel
comed the guests in behalf of Mayor Hart,
who is absent from the city.
EX-PRESIDENT CLEVELAND INTRODUCED.
President Lane then, in a very few woros,
introduced ex-President Cleveland as one
who, strong in his personality, would speak
strong words to-night, which would be
heard all over the land and across the sea,
in behalf of pure politics and those reforms
which are now sweeping all parties before
them.
Ex-President Cleveland was greeted with
long continued applause, shouts and cheers,
the entire assemblage rising and waving
handkerchiefs and cheering again. Mr.
Cleveland spoke in a strong, well-modulated
voice, and was easily heard by all. His
address was, in part, as follows:
ADVOCATE BALLOT REFORM.
The following is an extract from Mr.
Cleveland’s address:
Political selfishness cheapens in the minds of
the people their apprehension of the character
and functions of the government: it distorts
every conception of the duty of good citizen
ship and creates an atmosphere in which in
iquitous purposes and de.lgns lose their odious
features. It begins when a perverted judgment
is won to the theory that political action may
he used solely for private gain and advantage,
and when a tender conscience is quieted by tae
ingenious argument that such gain and advant
age are identical with the public welfare. Tnis
stage having been reached and self interest be
ing now fully aroused, agencies are used and
Practices permitted in the accomplishment of
its purposes, which, seen in the pure
light of disinterested batriotism, are viewed
with fear and hatred. The independent thought
and free po itical preference of those whom
fate has made dependent upon daily toil for
hard-earned bread, are strangled and destroyed
ny intimidation and the fear of loss of employ
ment. Vile, unsavory forms rise to the surface
of our agitated political waters, and gleefully
anticipate in the anxiety of selfish interest,
fneir opportunity to fa.ten upon corrupted and
debauched suffrage.
. This train of thought leads us to consider the
imminent danger which threatens us from the
intimidation and corruption of our voters.
TOO LATE TO TEMPORIZE.
It is too late to temporize with these evils or
to speak of them otherwise than in the plainest
terms. We are spared the labor of proving
Jheir existence, for all admit it. That they are
terribly on the increase all must concede.
Manifestly if the motives of all our citizens
Were unse fish and patriotic, and if they sought
■n political action only their share of the ad
vantage accruing from the advance of our
country at all points toward her grand destiny,
there would be no place or occasion for the
Perversion of our suffrage. Thus the in
auguration of the intimidation and
corruption of our voters may be
justly charged to selfish schemes seeking suc
cess through political action. But these evils
“?ve been neglected by honest men disgusted
"ith all political endeavor; they have been tol
'Tated by respectable men who. In weakness of
Patriotic sentiment, have regarded them as only
phases of shrewd political management, and
have tabu actually encouraged by the
" , n ' ° r s which have been bestowed upon those
uo boast of their use of such agencies in aid
oi party supremacy.
ALL TO BLAME.
lany of us, therefore, may take to ourselves
, ",are of the blame, when we find confronting
on- P? r ‘l which threaten the existence of
nsii rre f . inatitutions, the preservation of our
trv °nnU ■ ,onor and the perpetuity of our coun
n' _ r “e condition annexed to the founding of
Pitermnent upun the suffrage of the people,
the suffrage should be tree ana pure.
We consented to abide by the honest preponder
ance ofpolitical opinion, but we did not consent
, aat a free vote, expressing the intelligent and
thoughtful sentiment of the voter, should be
balanced by a vote of intimidation aud fear, or
by an unclean, corrupt vote disgracefully
bought and treacherously sold.
Let us look with a degree of pity and charity
upon those who yield to fear aud intimidation
m the exercise of their rights of suffrage.
Though they ought not thus to yield, we cannot
forget that as against their free ballot, they see
in the scale, their 'continued employment, the
comforts of their homes and the maintenance
of their families. We need not stifle our scorn
and contempt for the wretch who basely sells
v ?'. e ’ an d who for a bribe betrays his trust
or citizenship. And yet the thought will in
trude itself, that he but follows in a low and
Vl h & r isshion, the example of those who pro
ceed upon the theory that political action may
be turned to private gain.
PITY OR HATE IN VAIN.
But whether we pity or whether we hate, our
betrayal la none the less complete; nor will
either pity or hate restore our birthright. But
know that when political selfishness is
destroyed our dangers will disappear; and
though the way to its stronghold may be long
and weary, we will follow it—fightinz as we go.
there will be no surrender, nor will there be
desertions from our ranks. Selfishness and
corruption have not yet achieved a lasting
triumph, and their bold defiance will but hasten
the day of their destruction.
As we struggle on and confidently invite a
direct conflict with these entrenched foes of
our political safety, we have not failed to see
another hope which has manifesto I Itsdf to ail
the honest people of the land. It teaches them
that though they may not immediately destroy
at their source the evils whicli afflicts them, they
may check their malign influence and guard
themselves against their baneful results. It
assures them that if political virtue and recti
tude cannot at once be thoroughly restored to
there public, the activity of baser elements may
be discouraged. It inspires tnetn with vigilaut
watchfulness, and a determination to prevent as
far as possible their treacherous bet ratal by
those who are false to their obligation of citizen
ship,
BALLOT REFORM.
This hope, risen like the star in the east, has
fixed the gaze of our patriotic fellow-country
men; and everywhere—in our busy marts of
trade and on our farms—in our cities and in our
villages—in the dwellings of the rich aud in the
homes of the poor—in our universities and in
bur workshops—in our hanking houses aud in
the ranks of inexorable toil—they greet with
enthusiastic acclaim the advent of ballot reform.
There are no leaders in this cause Those
who seem to lead the movement are but swept
to the front by the surginr force of patriotic
sentiment. It rises far above partisanship and
only the heedless, the sordid and the depraved
refuse to join in the crusade.
This reform is predicated upon the cool de
liberation of political selfishness in its endeavor
to prostitute our suffrage to the purposes of
private gain. It is rightly supposed that cor
ruption of the voter is entered upon with such
business calculation that the corruptor will
only pay a brib i when he has ocular proof that
the suffrage he has bargained for is cast in his
interest. So, too, it is reasonably expected that
if the employe or laborer is at the time of cast
ing his ballot removed from thimmediate con
trol of his employer, the futility of fear and in
timidation will 1,-ad to their abandonment.
OBJECTIONS TO THE CHANOE.
The change demanded by this reform in the
formalties surrounding the exercise of the
privilege of suffrage, has given rise to real or
pretended solicitude for the rights of our voters;
and the fear has been expressed that inabdity
on the part of electors to conform to tne re
auirements of the proposed change, might pro
uce great inconvenience and in some cases
result in disfranchisement. It has even been
suggested th <t the inauguration of the new
plan might encroach upon constitutional guar
anties.
It will not do to accuse of hostility to the re
form all those who present these objections;
but it is not amiss to inspect tbeir ra iks for
enemies in disguise. Though the emergency
which is upon us is full of danger, an i though
we sadly need relief, all rig its should be
scrupulously preserved. But there should be
no shuffling, aud no frivolous objections should
be tolerated. When a dwelling is in flames we
use no set phrase of speech to warn its inmates,
and no polite and courtly touch to effect their
rescue. Experience has often demonstrated
how quickly obstacles which seemed plausible,
if not convincing, when urged against a meas
ure of reform, are dissipated by the test of
trial, and how readily anew order of things
adjusts itself to successful u e.
CIVIL SERVICE REFORM.
I remember the inauguration of another re
form; aud I have seen it grow and extend, until
it has become firmly established in our lays
and praet ce. It is to-day our greatest safe
guard against the complete and disgraceful
degradation of our public service. It had its
enemies, and all of them are not yet silenced.
Those openly and secretly unfriendly, said in
the beginning that the scheme was im
practicable and unnecessary; that it created an
office-holding class; that it established burden
some and delusive tests for entry in the public
service which should be open to all; that it put
in the plac3 of real merit and efficiency
scholastic acquirements; that it limited the
discretion of those charged with the selection
of publie employes, and that it was unoonstitu
tional. But its victory came—wrought by the
force of enlightened public sentiment—and
upon its trial every objection which had been
urged against it was completely discredited.
As it has been with civil service reform, so
will it be with ballot reform, excer-.t that the
coming victory will be more speedily achieved
and will be more complete.
MASSACHUSETTS LED.
And as the grand old state of Massachusetts
was foremost to adopt aud demonstrate the
practicability and usefulness of civil service
reform, so has she been first to adopt a thor
ough scheme of ballot reform, and to prove in
practice its value and tne invalidity of the ob
jections made against it. We thank Massachu
setts to-night for all that she has done for tnese
reforms; and we of New York hope that our
Empire State will soon be keeping step with her
sister states in the enforcement of an effective
and honest measure of ballot reform.
In conclusion, let me say that good men have
no cause for discouragement. Though there
are dangers which threaten our welfare aud
safety, the virtue and patriotism of the Ameri
can people are not lost, and we shall flud them
sufficient for us. If in too great confidence
they slumber, they will not always sleep Let
them but Vie aroused from lethargy and indiffer
ence by the consciousness of peril, and they
will burst the bonds of political selfishness,
revive their political freedom and restore the
purity of their suffrage.
Thus will they discharge the sacred trust
committed to their keeping; thus will they still
proudly present to the worid proof of the value
of free institutions; thus will they demonstrate
the strength aud perpetuity of a government
by the people; thus will they establish Ameri
can patriotism throughout the length and
breadth of our land; and thus will they preserve
for themselves and for posterity their God-given
inheritance of freedom and justice and peace
and happiness.
Mr. Cleveland’s address aroused great
enthusiasm, and his points were greeted
with cries of “Good,” and applause.
MR. GRADY’S SPEECH.
Henry W. Grady was then introduced.
He said:
Far to the south, Mr. President, separated
from this section y a line—once defined in ir
repressible difference, once traced in fratricidal
blood, and now, thank God, but a vanishing
shalow—lies the fairest and richest domain of
this earth. It is the home of a brave and hos
pitable people. There is centered all that can
please or prosper human kind. A perfect cli
mate above a fertile soil yields to the husband
man every product of the temperate zone.
There by night cotton whitens beneath the
stars, and by day wheat locks the sunshine
in its bearded sheaf. In the same field clover
steals the fragance of the wind, and tobacco
catches the quick aroma of the rains. There
are mountains stored with exhaustless
treasures, forests—vast and primeval: and
rivers that, tumbling or loitering, run wanton
to the sea. Of the three essential items of all
industries—cotton, iron and wood—that region
has easy control. 1 1 cotton, fixed monopoly
in iron, proven supremacy—in timber, the re
serve supply of the republic.
AN AMAZING SYSTEM OF INDUSTRIES.
From this assured and permanent advantage,
against which artificial conditions cannot mucu
innirer prevail, has grown an amazing system
of industries, not maintained by human com
trivance of tariff or capital, afar off lrom t.be
fullest aud cheapest source of supply, but.rest
ing in divine assurance, within wuobot field
and mine and forest—not set amid costly farms,
tlOgt wbiaii CWltilttlitivtt AM tlUYfi# tM
SAVANNAH, GA„ FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1889.
in despair, but amid cheap and sunny lands,
rich with agriculture, to which neither season
nor soil has set a limit—this system of
industries is mounting to a splendor that
shall dazzle and illumine the world. That, sir,
is the picture of my home—a land better and
fairer than I have told you, and yet but a fit
setting in its material excellence for the loyal
and gentle quality of its citizenship Against
that, sir, we have New England, recruiting the
republic from its sturdy loins, shaking from its
overcrowded hives new swarms of workers, and
touching this land all over with its energy and
its courage,
SCANTILY POPULATED.
And yet, while in the Eldorado of which I
have told you but 15 per cent, of the lands are
cultivated, its mines scarcely touched, and its
population so scant that, were it set equi-dlstaut
the sound of a human voice could not be heard
from Virginia to Texas—while on the threshold
Of nearly every house in New England stands a
son, seeking with troubled eyes, loma new land
in which to carry his modest patrimony, the
strange fact remains that in 18 0 the south had
fewer northern born citizens than she had in
1870; fewer in 1870 than in 1880. Why is this*
Why is it, sir, though the sectional line bo now
but a mist that a breath may dispel. Fewer
men of the north have orossed it over to the
south than when it was crimson with the best
blood of the republic, or even when a slave
holder stood guard every inch of its way. There
can be but one answer. It is the very problem
we are now to consider. The key that opens
that problem will unlock to the world the fair
est half of this republic, and free the halted
feet of t lousands whose eyes are already kind
ling with its beauty.
WILL HEAL PAST ENMITIES.
Better than this, it will open the hearts of
brothers for thirty years estranged, and clasp
in lasting comradeship a million hands now
withheld in doubt. Nothing, sir, but this prob
lem and the suspicions it breeds hinders a clear
understanding and perfect union. Nothing else
stands between us and such love at bound
Georgia and Massachusetts at Valley Forge and
Yorktown, chastened by the sacrifices of Ma
nassas and Gettysburg, and illumined
with the coming of better work and a
nobler destiny than was ever wrought
with swor i or sought at the cannon’s mouth.
If this does not invito your patient hearing to
night, hear one thing more. My people, your
brothers in the south, brothers in blood, in
destiny, in all that is best in our past and
future, are so beset with|this problem that their
very existence depends on its right solution.
Nor are they wholly to blame for its presenco.
MASSACHUSETTS SLAVES 111 I*B.
Slave ships of the republic sailed from your
ports; slaves worked in our fields. You will not
defend the traffic, nor I the institution, but I do
here declare that in its wise and humane admin
istration in lifting the slave to hights of which
he had not dreamed in his savage home and
giving him a happiness he has not yet found in
freedom, our fathers left their sons a saving
and excellent heritage. In the storm of war
this institution was lost. I thank God as heartily
as you do that human slavery is gone forever
from American soil, but the freeman remains,
and with him a problem without precedent or
parallel. Note its appalling conditions. Two ut
terly dissimilar races on the same soil with equal
political and civil rights, almost equal in num
bers but terribly unequal in intelligence and
responsibility, each pi dged against fusion, one
for a century in servitude to the other and freed
at last by a desolatiug war—an experiment
sought by neither but approached by both with
doubt—the,eare the conditions. Under these,
adverse at every point, we are required to carry
these two races in peace and honor to the end.
FATE OF OTHER ALIEN RACES.
Never, sir, has such a task been given to
mortal stewardship; never before in this re
public has the white race divided on the rights
of an alien race. The redman was cut down as
a weed, because he hindered the way of the
American citizen. The yellow man was shut
out of this republic liecause he is an alien and
inferior. The redman was the owner of the
land, the yellow man highly civilized and
assimilable: but they hindered both sections,
and are gone. But the black man, affecting
but one section, is clothed with every privilege
of government and pinned to the soil, and my
people commanded to make good at any
hazard, and at any cost, his full and
equal heirship of American privileges and pros
perity. It matters not that every other race
lias been routed or excluded without rhyme or
reason. Wherever whites and blacks have
touched in any era or any clime there has been
irreconcilable violence. It matters not that no
two races, however similar, have lived any
where at any time, on the same soil, with equal
rights, in peace.
A HARP TASK.
In spite of these things we ore commanded to
make good this change of American policy
which has not, perhaps, changed American
prejudice, to make certain here what has else
where been impossible between whites and
blacks, and to reverse, under the very worst
conditions, the universal verdict of racial his
tory, and driven, sir, to this superhuman task
with an impatience that brooks no delay, a
rigor that accepts no excuse, and a suspicion
that discourages frankness and sincerity.
We do not shrink from this trial,
It is so interwoven with our
industrial fabric that we cannot disentangle it
if we would—so bound up in our honorable obli
gation to the world that we would not, if we
could. Can we solve it? God who gave it into
our ha ids, he alone can know.
But this the weakest and wisest of us do not
know. We cannot solve it with less than your
tolerant and patient sympathy. The resolute,
clear-headed, broad-minded men of the south—
meu whose genius made glorious every page of
the first seventy years of American history
wear this problem in their hearts and brains, by
day and by night. They realize, as you cannot,
what this problem means, what they owe to
this kindly and dependent race and the measure
of their debt to the world; and though their
feet are hindered in its undergrowth, and they
march cumbered with its burdens, they have
lost neither the patience from which comes
clearness nor the faith from which comes cour
age. Such is the temper of my people.
SOUTHERN COMMON SENSE.
But what of the problem itself, Mr. president?
We need not go one step further, unless you
concede right here that the people I speak for
are as honest, as sensible and as just as your
people, seeking as earnestly as you would in
their place to rightly solve the problem that
touches them at every vital point. If you in
sist that they are ruffians bliudly striving with
bludgeon and shotgun to plunder and oppre s
the race, then I shall sacrifice my self respect
and tax your patience in vain. But admit that
they are men of common sense and oornmon
honesty; wisely modifying an environment
they cannot wholly disregard—guiding and
controlling as best they can the
vicious and irresponsible of either race
compensating error with frankness, and re
trieving in patience what they lose in passion,
and conscious all the time that wrong means
ruin—admit this, aud we may reach au under
standing to-night.
HARRISON'S MESSAOE.
The President of the United States, in his late
message to congress, discussing the plea that
the south should be left to solve this problem,
asks: Are they at work upon it?
What solution do they offer? When
will the black man cast a free ballot?
When will behave the civil rights that are his?
I shail not here protest against the partisanship
that for the first time in our history, in a time
of peace has stamped with the great seal of our
government a stigma on the people of a great
and loyal section; though 1 gratefully remem
b*r that the great dead soidier who held the
helm of state for the eight stormiest years of
reconstruction, never found need for such a
step; and though there is no per
sonal sacrifice I would not make
to remove this cruel and unjust
imputation upon my people from the archives
of my country. But, sir, backed by a record
on every page of which is progress, I venture to
make an earnest and respectful answer to the
questions that are asked. It is claimed that
negro labor is defrauded of its just hire. I pre
sent the tax books of Georgia, which show that
the negro, twenty-five years ago a slave, has in
Georgia $10,000,000 of assessed property, worth
twice that much.
For every Afro-American agitator stirring
the strife in which alone he prospers, I can
show you 1,000 negroes happy in their cabin
homes, tilling their own land by day, and at
night taking from the lips of tbeir
children the helpful message their state
sends them from the school house door.
Although the blacks pay one thirtieth of the
taxes, they get nearly one-half of the school
fund. Go into our fields and see whites and
blacks working side by side; on our buildings
in the same squad; In our shops at the same
forge. Often blacks crowd whites fr in work,
or lower wages by their greater ueed or simpler
habits, and yet they are permitted, because we
want to bar them from no avenue in which tbeir
leet are fitted to tread. They oould not,
there be elected orators of white universities
#• tlmr hats kte here, buUhej i<uuti9£ Uwtu
* hundred useful trades that are closed against
them here, lu the south there are negro law
yers. teachers, editors, dentists, doctors, and
preachers multiplying with the increasing
ability of their race to support them. In the
Til. ages and towns they have their military
companies equipped from the armories of the
state, aud their churches and societies built
and supported largely by their neighbors.
TESTIMONY OF IBM COURTS.
What is the testimony of the courts? In
penal legislation we have steadily reduced
felonies to misdemeanors and have led the world
in mitigating punishment for crime, that we
might save, as far as possible, this dependent
race from its own weakness. In our peuitenli
ary record, (VI per oent. of the prosecutors are
negroes, and in every court the negro criminal
strikes a colored juror, that white men may
judge his case. In the north one negro In every
185 is in jail—in the south only one in 416. In
the north the percentage of negro prisoners is
six times as great as that of the native whites—
in the south only four times as great. If preju
dice wrongs him in southern courts, the record
shows it to be deeper in the northern courts.
Now. Mr. President, can it be seriously main
tained that we are terrorising a people from
w lose willing hands comes every year #1,000,-
000,000 of farm crops? or have robbed a people
who. in twenty-five years, from unrewarded
slavery, have amassed in one state $J0,000,000
of property? or that we intend to oppress a peo
ple we are arming every day? or drive, when we
are educating them to the utmost limit of
our ability? or outlaw them when wo work
side by side with them? or re-enslave them
under legal forms, when, forthmr benefit, we
have imprudently narrowed the limit of felo
nies and mitigated severity of law?
Continuing, the speaker said:
When will the black cast a free liallot? When
Ignorance, anywhere, is not domiuaiml by Intel
lect. Wueu the laborer, anywhere, casts his vote
unhindered by his boss. When the vote of the
poor, anywhere, is not influenced by the power
of the rich. When the strong aud steadfast do
not everywhere control the (suffrage of the
weak and shiftless, then aud not till then will
the ballot of the negro ha free. The
white people of the south are
banded, Mr. President, not in prejudice against
the blacks, not in sectional estrangement, not
in hope of political dominion—but in deep and
abiding necessity. The negro vote can never
control the south, and it would be well if parti
sans at the north would understand this.
If there is any human force that cannot be
withstood it is the power of the banded intelli
gence and responsibility of a free community.
Against it numbers aud corruption canuot pre
vail. It iB on this, sir, that we rely In the south;
not the cowardly menace of mask or shotgun,
but the peaceful majesty of intelligence and
responsibility.
You may pass force bills, but they will not
avail. You may surrender your liberties to a
federal election law, you may submit., in fear of
a necessity that does not exist, that the very
form of this government may be changed, but
never, sir, will a single state of this union, north
or south, be delivered again to the control of an
ignorant and inferior race.
Mr. Grady concluded as follows:
What do we ask of you? First, patience;
second, confidence; third, sympathy; fourth,
give us your sons as hostages. When you
plant your capital in millions, send your sons
that they may know bow true
are our hearts, and may help
to swell the Anglo-Saxon current until it can
carry without danger this black Infusion. Fifth,
loyalty to the republic; for there Is sectional
ism in loyalty as well as estrangement. This
hour little needs a loyalty that is loyal to one
section, and yet holds the other in enduring
suspicion and estrangement. Give us the broad
and perfect loyalty that loves and trusts Geor
gia, alike with Massachusetts—that knows no
south, no nort i, no east, no west, but endears
with equal and patriotic love every foot of
our. soil, every state of our union.
CARNEGIE'S SPEECH.
Andrew Carnegie was next introduced.
Prior to entering upon discus#an of his
topic be paid a high compliment to Mr.
Cleveland as one whom history would de
clare had tried to do his duty and
possessed the respect of the satire
country, regardless of party. He
said Mr. Cleveland had demonstrated
o.ie answer to a question of his own asking
—what to do with ex-Presidents. He had
shown that one good thing to do with them
was to invite them to all the banquets, and
in this connection the question occurred
to him —Why not run them
again. To this there was a storm of ap
plause, with cries of "Good!” “That’s
sol” and renewed cheering. Mr. Carnegie
then proceeded to a brief exposition of the
wonderful progress made by this country
during the past thirty years in commerce,
manufacturing and mining, declaring that
in the last two industries she now leads the
world, while her credit is first among the
nations.
Mr. Carnegie was followed by Hon. W.
L. Putnam, late democratic candidate for
governor of Maine, who spoke briefly upon
"The merchant marine and fisheries,”
LONDON’B GAS STRIKE.
Confined to Stokers and Porters of the
South London Company
London, Dec. 12.—The first batch of
strikers left the South Londou gas works at
2 o’clock this afternoon. A crowd which
had gathered cheered the men as they
marched out, and plenty of non-union men
are available for the companies, and there
is no interruption to work.
This evening the gas companies, with the
exception of the South London Company,
conceded the demands of the coal porters
pending arbitration of dispute between
them by Sir Mark Wilks Covette, governor
of the Bank of England, Sir John
Lubbock and Lord Mayor Isaacs.
The strike will therofore be con
fined to the gas stokers and coal porters
employed by the South London Company.
Tuat company is engaging able-bodied
paupers, of which there are thousands now
In the poor houses of London, to take the
places of the strikers. Pickets sent out by
the strikers to-day stopped many of the.e
meu, and persuaded seventy of them not to
go to work.
The gas companies, in view of the threat
ened stoppage of their supplies of English
coal through the boycott arising from the
strike of their employes, have arranged with
Hamburg dealers for supplies, that will be
transported in ships with German crews
and handled by German porters.
The second shift of men employed In the
gas works struck at 11 o’clock to-night.
The company is engaging “blacklegs” in
the provinces. It offd s a bonus of £2 for
the first week, and £1 a week for each
succeeding week during the strike, in addi
tion to the regular wages. The pickets
working for the strikers got hold
of Dearly 200 men, brought up
from Portsmouth by the company, and
induced them to desist. The committee
organizing the strike has appealed to the
public for funds.
AN AMICABLE ARRANGEMENT.
London, Dec. 13, 3 a. m.—A conference
was held at the Mansion house
this afternoon between Sir Mark Wilks
Collette, Sir John Lubbock and Lord
Mayor Isaacs, acting as arbitrators, and
the representatives of the gas companies
and their employes. The conference re
sulted in an amicable arrangement of the
existiig troubles, end a general strike of
the coal porters is thereby averted. The
coal porters in the employ of the South
Metropolitan Gas Company will not, how
ever, return to work until the agreements
entered into by some of the men to work for
the company for a year, and for
signing which the men were
paid a bonus, are canceled. The sailors’
union, firemen’s union, gas stokers’ union,
and coal porters’ union are acting in concert
against the South Metropolitan company.
The gas stokers issued a manifesto stating
that the employment of soldiers to take
their places would result in a social revo-
SESSION OF THE SENATE.
THE NEGRO QUESTION CUTTING A
FIGURE.
Senator Butler Advocates Federal Aid
to Emigration—Petitions in Favor of
a National Election Law Sent In
from Louisiana—Senator Gibson Pro
poses a Territory for the Negroes.;
Washington, Dec. 12.—1n the Senate
to-day petitions from various parishes of
Louisiana in favor of a national election
law were presented by beuators Ingalls,
Sherman and Evarts.
Among the bills Introduced and referred
were the following:
By Mr. Sherman—To revive the grade of
lieutenant general of the army.
By Mr. Butler —For the emigration of
pet sons of color from the southern stites.
The joint resolution of the Florida legis
lature in favor of a national ship cunal
aon ss the Florida peninsula, and of the
improvement of the St. John’s river, was
presented by Senator Call, read in full aud
referred to the committee on commerce.
A HOME FOR THE NEGROES.
Mr. Gibson offered a resolution, which
was referred to the committee on foreign
relations, instructing that committee to in
quire into the expediency and practicability
of acquiring or setting apart territory for
the occupation of negro or colored citizens
of the United States; aud also to inquire
how far, and in what manner, the govern
ment of the United Stab's can and ought
equitably to aid the freedmen of the United
States, their families and dependants, to
emigrate t hereto and to settle thereon, and
to establish a system of common school
education.
A HOLIDAY RECESS.
Mr. Ingalls offered a concurrent resolu
tion (which went over without action) for
a holiday recess of the two Houses from
Thu.sday, Doc. 19, to Monday. Jan. fi.
Under the resolutions offered by Senators
Aldrich and Platt, the changes in the com
mittee! prepared in caucus aud already pub
lished were agreed to.
After a brief executive session, the senate
adjourned till Monday.
butler’s bill.
Fenntor Butler’s bill to provide for emi
gration of persons of color from the south
ern states of the United Elates, provides
that the head of any family, or for himsoif,
if not married, may make application to the
nearest United State- commissioner, under
oath, setting forth the fact that he desires
to emigrate to u foreign country for
permanent residence and citizenship, and
that he is too poor to pay the cost of trans
portation. The certificate of this statement
shall be forwarded by the commissioner to
the quartermaster general of the army, who
shall thereupon furnish to said applicant
the necessarv transportation by the cheap
est route. For this purpose the bill aupro
priates 15,000,0X1.
Gorman’s world’s fair bill.
Senator Gorman’s bill to hold the world’s
fair in Washington in 1892, is the one pre
pared by the Washington board of promo
tion for this enterprise. It provides for
the issuance of #15,000,000 in the District
of Columbia bonds to meet the expense.
SILOOTT’S STEAL.
The Investigating Committee Makes
Its Report.
Washington, Dec. 12.—1n the House to
day Mr. Adams of Illinois, chairman of the
spooial committee to investigate the office
of the sergeant-at-arms, made wbat he said
was a partial report from tho committee.
The report states tho deficiency at $70,708,
and says there was found also a note from
Mr. Leedom for SI,OOO, on which only
$l5O had been paid. It further states
that the sergeant-at-arms had been discount
ing the salaries and notes of members of
the House, and that, although it was claimed
that this was done from private fundi, there
was evidence that in some instances, at
least, it had been taken from tho govern
ment safe, and the profits retained by tho
sergeant-ut-arms. It says the committee
cannot too severely condemn the negligent
manner in which the sergeant-at-arms con
ducted his office, aud exonorates the paying
toller and bookkeeper from blame.
THE QUESTION OF LIABILITY.
The report concluded with a statement
that the committee did not tool authorized
to go into the question of liability. At the
i conclusion of a long deb te which followed,
a resolution was adopted directing the com
mittee to report as to the effect or result of
any deficiem yin the cash of the sergeant
at-arms office, and especially os to unpaid
salaries to members, accompanying their
report with a bill if necessary; also one
ottered by Mr. Hemphill of Sout i Carolina,
directing Sergeaut-ut-arms Holmes to ar
range with the treasury department for the
payment of the mileage of the memborsaud
delegates.
DRAWING THEIR MILEAGE.
The members of tho House have got some
Christmas money. They got their mileage,
and before the resolution was engrossed ihe
new sergoant-at-arins had the receipt* ali
ready to be signed as soon as he got tho
authority so that the members could get
their mileage. The amounts they may
draw vary according to the distance of
their home* from Washington, but tho
drafts will averago probably $250 or S3OO.
MORE RIGID SCRUTINY.
The developments in tho investigation
are likely to have the effect of causing
more rigid scrutiny to be given at the
treasury to all disbursements for salaries.
It has been tho custom of the audi or of
the district for several months past to col
lect the salaries of the district employes,
turning iu a warrant to the treasury and
receive the money in return. By this
method the employes were enabled to receive
their salaries in cash instead of chocks, as
had heretofore been the practice. The em
ployes nearly all preferred payment in cash.
The treasury has now taken a stand against
this method, and has written District
Auditor Sharp a letter in which tne
department announces that it will no longer
countenance this method of payment.
Damooratic Senator* in Caucus.
Washington, Dec. 12.—The democrats
senators met in caucus after the adjourn
ment this afternoon to arrange the member
ship from their side of the new committees
proposed for this congress. A committee,
headed by Mr. Beck, was authorized to
make selections and report to a caucus to be
held next Monday. The committee will
hold a session Saturday.
Repeal of the Tobacco Tax.
Washington, Dec. 12.—1n the House
to-day Mr. Brower of North Carolina in
troduced a bill for the repeal of the tax on
tobacco in ali its form*. It was referred to
the committee on ways and means.
Bond Purchase*.
Washington, Dec. 12.—The bond offer
ing* to-day aggregated $1,451,050. AU were
accepted at 127 for the 4s, and 104% for the
4X*.
Baum Confirmed.
Washington, Dec, 12.—^The Senate to-dav
confirmed the nomination of Green J3,
itftiuii* to ba Gommimuaecot peuuuna.
ohio'B ballot-box contract.
Mr. Butterworth Asks for a Congree
atonal Inquiry.
Washington, Dse. 12.-In the Hou*e
this morning, immediately upon the read
ing of the journal, Mr. Butterworth of
Ohio, rising to a question of privilege,
offered a preamble and resolution reciting
the facts in the case of the publication of
what is known as the ballot-box contract,
asking for the appointment of a com
mittee of five to make a full
ani thorough investigation, and re
port without delay the evidence and
flndiug l heroin to the House; the commit
tee to ascertain and report by whom the
contract was prepar<>d, and whether the
signatures were forgeries or genuine; if
forged, what person or persons directly or
indirectly aided, abetted, assisted, or know
ingly consented to the preparation and
utterance of said forgery, anil for what
purpose and mtent; whether any of the
members of the House, whose names ap
peared on the alleged contract, had, or
have, either directly or indirectly, any un
lawful, corrupt or improper connection
with, or interest in, the ballot-boxes.
The resolution further provides that the
committee shall have authority to call for
persons and jiapers, administer oaths, etc.
Mr. Butterworth detailed tt>e circumstances
of the publication In the Cincinnati Com
mercial Gazette of the various phases of
this matter.
Mr. Breckinridge of Kentuoky, whose
nnine was also appended to the alleged con
tract, joined with Mr. Butterworth in ask
ing for the committee.
The resolution was adopted without di
vision.
GEORGIA'S OFFICES.
CoL Buck Btill Looking After the
Loaves and Piehee.
Washington, Dec. 12. Col. Buck while
here will talk with Secretary Wlndom about
the collectorship at Savannah. Mr. Johnson
was stirred up by Goodyear aud the other
Brunswiekers to think that spoedy action
might bo taken, Col. Buck does not antici
pate It. He thinks Collector Wheaton will
serve out his term. Col. Buck is indignant
at ttio way Goodyear and other Brunswick
ers have acted and talked about Deveaux.
lie saj s lie explained his recommendation
of Deveaux before the appointment was
made, so that they all understood it. Then
was the time to make their fight and not
alter the appointment was made. Ho laughs
at. their charges against him, and says he is
serene in the o mscioutness that he did
what he believed to he right, politically and
in every other way. As predicted, CoL
Buck has recommended Col. Locke for post
master at Macon, aud Brimlierry at Alliany.
He has also recommended Walter Akerman,
sou of the former attorney general at Cbar
lottevllle, Collins, whom he had previously
recommended, courteously withdrawing in
favor of one of Mrs. /ikermau’s six sons.
All throe will be appointed. The Athens,
Griffin and Baluhriuge cases will not be
taken up for the present.
maker hpain mad.
Call’s Proposition to Buy Cuba Con
sidered an Insult.
Madrid, Deo. 12. —Papers here manifest
a great deal of irritation at Honator Call’s
proposal in regard to Cuba, and roundly
denounce it This is a subject upon which
Spain is very sensitive, and the more sug
gestion of any change in the ownership of
Cuba is apt to be regarded as
au offense to tho national dignity. Tne
proposition was that the Washington gov
ernment should open negotiation* with
Spain to secure her content to the establish
ment of a Cuban republic, upon the pay
ment of an indemnity to Spain, and the
newspapers are indignant that any one
should imagine that Hpain would listen
to such a proposal. Too Kpoca
says: “This is a mad Idea and it
cannot be that any one In Washington
takes it seriously. Even if a republic were
established in Spain, she would not consent
to the separation of Cuba. Spain is re
solved at all hazards to maintain the integ
rity of tho national territory, and political
divisions do not exist there m.”
REPUBLICANS WORSTED.
Their Blender Majority In the House
Again overcome.
Washington, Dec. 12.—The democrat*
worsted the republicans in the House to
day as neatly as they did when they re
turned Chaplain Milburn. It nettled the
republicans almost as much, for it showed
them that even when there was no senti
ment on the side of tho democrat* they
oould, with a very few republican votes,
upset the republican plans. Mr. Dingier
moved that bills and resolutions should
bo received on Monday and asked an imme
diate vote. Mr. Crisp insisted that tho
matter should go first to the committee on
rules. On a viva voce and on a division
Speaker lteed insisted upon announcing
that i he republicans hod a majority, but he
could not dispute the testimony of tho
tellers, whicli gave the democrats four
majority. Tho lesson impressed itself
deeply upon the House.
CCT.HHAN’S RESIGNATION.
He Withdraws It to Keep up the
Quorum Number.
Washington, Dec. 12.—At the request
of the democratic leaders Representative
Cothran of South Carolina has withdrawn
his resignation for the present. If be had
allovied his resignation to take effect, his
successor could not have gotten here before
February. Tnis would have kept the num
ber necessary for a quorum down to 165
during January, when the fight over the
rules is expected. Mr. Cotnran will take
up his work as oounsel for tho Richmond
ad Danville road at once, but will be in
the House whenever he is i.eeded, and so
will keep the quorum number at 166.
MAY NOT BE CONFIRMED.
Geu. Morgan and Dr. Dorobestar on
the Ragged Kdge.
Washington, Dec. 12.— Gen. Morgan
and Dr. Dorchester have not as yet suc
ceeded in getting a favorable report on tbeir
nominations from the oommittee on Indian
affairs. Chairman Dawes does all be can
for them, but the western senators are op
posing them strongly. So is the Roman
Catholic mission bureau, which has furnished
the senators with a printed protest against
tbeir confirmation, on the ground that tney
have shown bigotry by unjust discrimina
tions against Roman Catholics.
WAYS AND MBANK.
The Committee Holds ita First Session
and Organize*.
Washington, Dec. 12.—The first session
of the way* and means committee was held
this morning, when an organization was
effected. Tuesday* and Thursdays were
selected as the regular days of meeting.
The usual order in regard to the distribution
of the President’* message was made, and
the present tariff law was ordered printed
in the shape of a bill to serve as the basis
for the pntparaUea of tkaew tariff maajgre*
< DAILY,|IO A X FAB. ,
< B OiNTS \00?Y. I
I WEEKLY $126 A YEA& |
DIXIE’S DEAD CHIEFTAIN
THE CROWD THAT FILLED NEW
ORLEANS DEPARTING.
The City Offers a Site In Any of !th*
Public Squares aa a Permanent
Burial Place-1 he Plan# of Mrs. Da.
via—The Governors Call on Her—Th*
Press Monument Movement.
New Orleans, Dec. la—The band*
somely decorated apartment where Jeffers
sou Davis lay in state is once more a council
chamber. Ali tho desks are in place, there
is no sign left to show the sacred purpose
for which the room was employed, and the
city legislature held a business meeting In
the place to-night The vast crowd which
filled the city during the obsequia*
Is thinning out The military vizik
tors have all departed, the Gate
City Guards of Atlanta bring
the last to leave. The governor* and
editor* nave also turned their face* home,
ward. The Tennessee party, headed by
Editor J. W. Childress of Nashville, lan
on a special car and had it switched off ag
Beauvoir, Jefferaou Davis’ home by th*
Gulf, w ere they are spending the night
amidst historic associations.
THE BURIAL MOUND.
The mound of the army of northern Vir
giuia, where ex-i’reaident Davis lie*
is still covere I with a mass of floral offer
ings and ha. been the mecca of a multitude
of people all day.
Mrs. Davis lias somewhat recovered from
her nervous prostration and reoeived several
parties of c illers. The visiting governor*
called in a b dy, in charge of Gov. Nioh 'U*l
The plans of Mrs. Davis have been some
what changed by the llln-ai of J. Addivon
Have*, Mr. Davis’ son-in-law. The latte*
nnu his wife will leave in a few day*
for their homo at Colorado Springs, while
Mr*. Davis will go t> Be.uvnir to rest m
short time and put tbmgs to rights, and
then follow the Hayes’ to their western
home.
The vault where ex-President Davis i*
buried Is being guarded day and night by
a detail of police, and the vigils will be
kept up for at least a month.
AN OFFER OF A SITE.
The oily ooudeii to-night unanimously
adopted a resolution authorising the mayoF
to tender the Davis family a site in any of
the publio squares of the city for the per*
manent interment of ex-Preddent Davis.
Representatives of the southern press nos*
in the city held a meeting this morning, and
organized as a southern press monumental
association, with Mr. Childress of Nasuvili*
as president. The officers of the a violation
were instructed to immediately corre|/ond
with Goy. John B. Gordon, commandant!
of the United Confederate Veteran*’ Asso
ciation, tendering to him the services of
tnis association in the furtherance of th*
plan formulated by him to erect a monu
ment to ex-President Davis, to which alt
tne people of the south are asked to con
trioute. All the newspapers in the south
were invited to become members of the as*
socialion, aud to co-operate in the move
ment.
CRESCENT CITY CONFfIDEBATES^
Gov. Gordon and Other Chief Magls*
tratea Address Them.
New Orleans, La.. Deo. 12.—A mas*
meeting of confederate veterans was held
last night and resolutions were adopted
mourning the death of the great chief taiq
and pledging themselves to provide a fund
for the family of the deceased sod to raise
a monument to his memory. Giv. John B.
Gor ion of Georgia presided and addressed}
the meeting as follows; “ To me, and duuhtJ
less to you, tnis is one of tne saddest, ye*
sweetest aud proudest occasions of a life*
time; saddest because we have jusk
borne to hii tomb our great chief lata),
sweetest because we have laid him to res*
after lifo’s fitful fever is over on a tied
softer than wai ever made by bloom! 73
roses on pillow of down. We have buried
him witli the blessings and honor, and ea-<
toom and affectio nof a grateful pe pie.
Let mo add that it was flttiu. that be should
be laid to rest with the flag of the con
federacy which be loved so well folded
about him and buried with him, a ,and tiu*
stirs and stripes of the republic for wboesl
honor aud defense he spilt his blood waving
over him. If he oould speak to us to-nigh*
I am sure his injunction would be tore*
maiu true to the memories of the past, and
no less true to the duties of future and tho
glory of our American republic. The grief
over his death is ours, but nis tame will yet
be claimed for his cuuutry.”
Gov. Gordon then urged that a fund
should be raised to build a monument to hi*
memory and provision made for Mrs. Dari*
and “The Daughter of the Confederacy,’*
because it was a holy duty to our manhood
and the highest privilege left us.
Addresses were also made by Govs. Buck*
ner of Kentucky, Lowry of Mississippi-
Fowle of North Carolina. Eagle of Arkaa*
sas, Fleming of Florida, aud Nichoil* of
Louisians aud others.
DAVIB AND GRANT.
The ex-Confederate President’* Res
fuaal to Criticise.
Boston, Dec. 12L—When Gen. Grant wa*
dying in the Mount McGregor cottage th*
Boston Globe instructed its New Orlean*
correspondent to interview Jefferson Davisy
Mr. Davis was not seen personally, but
few days later penned the following
letter:
Dear Bir—Your request on behalf of a Boston
Journal for me to prepare a criticism on Gen,
Grant’s military career cannot be complied
witb for the following reasons: First, Gen.
Grant Is dying; second, though he invaded our
country with a ruthl -si band it was with an
open band, and, aa far as I know, he abated
much suffering and pillage and has, since tho
war, I believe, shown no malignity to the con.
federacy, either of the military or civil service.
Therefore, instead of seeking to disturb th*
quiet of hU closing hours, I would. If it were la
my power, contribute to the peace of his mind
and the comfort of his body.
Jefferson Davis,
MAY SELL HOME MARBLE.
A Car Full of Guests on Their Way to
the Dade County Mines.
Washington, Dec. 12.—D. Herbert Ini
galls of the Georgia Marble Company it
here with a special car full of guests on
their way to Dade county, Georgia, where
their quarries are. Chairman Whitcomb
of the Ma-sacbusetts s ate house commis
sion, and Mr. Bingham, the architect, and
J. G. Batterson, the contractor tor th*
national lib. ary, are of the party. Largq
orders for marble are expected to be given!
A Strike at the Pratt Mines.
Birmingham, Ala., Dec. 12, Several
days ago the trainmen of the Pratt mice*
railroad went out on a strike on a demand
for higher wages being refused. To-day,
ail the free miners, about 1,200 iu number,
stopped work, demanding that the train,
men's request be granted. They say the*
will not run the risk of operating the minel
with green bands, and propose to support
the old hands in their strike. Things will
remain as they are until General Manager
Bonn return*
