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    ( THE MORNING NEWS. 1
J Established 1&10. Incorporate!, 1888. >
| J.H. ESTILL President. J
busy day in congress.
SENATOR BUTLER SPEAKS ON
NEGRO EMIGRATION.
&. Problem of the Gravest Importance
to Both Races Should be Met
Promptly and Unflinchingly The
Houae Consumes the Day Over the
World’s Fair—Montana Senators.
Washington, Jan. 16. —1n tha Senate
this morning the concurrent resolution re
ported from tha committee on fl nance, re
questing the Secretary of the Treasury not
to tike any steps toward making anew
lease of the seal fisheries until after Feb. 29,
was passed.
Among the bills reported from the com
mittee and placed on the calendar were the
following:
Appropriating $40,000 for a statue in
Washington of James Madison.
For the removal of Indian prisoners in
the east ((Jeronimo's band) to Fort Sill, In
dian territory.
The Senate then took up the bill intro
duced by Mr. Butler on Dac. 12, to provide
for the emigration of persons of color from
the southern states.
NEGRO EMIGRATION.
Mr. Butler proceeded to address the Sen
ate. He proposed to discuss the subject
(he said) entirely outside of party lines, and
to make a frank, dispassionate statement of
facts and experiences. If others took upon
themselves to give the discussion a partisan
or sectional coloring, tha responsibility
would rest with them. To his mind it was
100 grave a subject to be distorted by
party considerations or confined
within the narrow boundaries and
limits of party lines. It
rose above party or cabal,and deserved to be
held above sections. Cupidity had brought
the Africans here. Cupidity had inveigled
the Chinaman here, and cupidity had
driven him out. The Indian had been here,
and would not be reduced to slaver/, and so
the Indian was hounded and corralled. He
was hounded and corralled now, but he was
still here and a menace. What was to be
done with the Indian! Make citizen of
him? Give him the ball t, with full civil
and political rights? Why not? The Indian
was here before the while man, tha African
or the Mongolian.
ENFRANCHISEMENT OK THE NEGRO.
He spoke of the granting of suffrage to
the colored men as a craze which had come
on the hem of battle; but as having been
neither wi e nor judicious. But the act was
done, and he co Id not see how it was to be
undone. He would not discuss the responsi
bility for it. He would admit, for the sake
of argument, that both sections and both
political parties were responsible. Some
persons who held big i rank m the intel
lectual world held that in the history of the
African race in this country was to be see i
the hand of God lor the accomplishment of
a great purpose in another hemisphere.
Events, Mr. Butler satd, appeared to be
shaping themselves in a manner to jusify
such a conclusion. The race question raised
by the changed attitude of the two races
toward each other was burning evidence
tiiat the issue was not confined to any local
ity, section or party.
WHAT 18 TO BECOME OF THE NEGRO ?
What was to become of the 21)0,000 In
dians in this country, and of the 100,000
Chinamen, was a difficult problem; but the
most profound inquiry applied directly to
the pending bill, and that was, What "was
to be tha fate of the 0,000,000, or 8,000,000
negroes in this country? The;/ were citi
zens; they had the ballot; they had all the
civil and political rights which white men
had, and which were denied to the other
eoloi ed races. Would the colored people in
the United States (he asked) be able to
maintain themselves on an equal footing
with the white man, and so as nut to jeopar
dize ihe well being of American institu
tions. The opinion appeared to be growing
that they could not. An honest effort
should be m;*.de to ascertain why not, and
to determine what was best to bo done.
THE INTEREST OF BOTH RACES.
The interest of both races required that
the problem should be carefully weighed
and fairly dealt with. He confessed that
the problem oppressed him with its gravity
and difficulties. It was too serious to be
trifled with, and' too urgent to
be ignored or neglected. Mr. Butler re
ferred to the absence of colored people from
ail high positions in this country, and saw
in that fact proof of unrelenting, unforgiv
ing, incurable race prejudice. If anybody,
he said, bad predicted before tha war that
the southern states would, within a few
years, be represented in both Houses of con
gress by men who were then slaves,he would
have been laughed at, and derided as a
negrophilist. And if, after many
negroes were in congress, it had
been predicted that in ten years not one
negro would be sitting in either House, the
prediction would have had few believers.
And so, if any one predicted to-day that
within half a century not a full-blooded,
genuine negro woul 1 be found in the United
States he would not be believed; and yet
there were man that expected that very
thing. It, was unsafe, therefore, to enter the
domain of prophecy on the question.
Scenes shifted so rapidly, the un
expected bo often happened, and events
followed each other with such unforeseen
precepitation that he became almost dum
founued by the historic kaleidoscope, and
was impressed with a profound sense of
human inability to shape and control
events.
WHAT THE BILL PROVIDES.
This bill, he said, contemplated a gradual,
orderly, voluntary movement of the col
ored people out of the southern states and
provided government aid to enable them to
do so. If he were calie i upon for authority
whereby congress could properly make
®hch an appropriation of money,
he would paint to appropriations
made to aid the Indians in moving out of
the northern, middle and southern states,
anl to appropriations to exclude Chinamen,
ft appeared to him that it would be a
Proper exercise of the constitutional power
of congresi to appropriate money for the
rational or general welfare. The citizen
ship of then?gro s‘ rengthened his claim over
that of the Indian for such government
assistance.
NEGROES NOT ADVANCING,
fie might be asked why should the negro
move out of the southern states. Hi* an
swet might be that tiie negro would not do
so exoept on his own motion. There was
hothi gin the bill that would coerce or
compel him to move. But his answer, how
*ver, would be that it would be for the negro's
ow n good atid for the good of his white
neighbor* also While negroes remained in
®. l '? e masses and exceeded in numbers their
white neighbors, not only did they not ad
„ B j n the scale of civilization, but actu
“ly retrograded. Such, at least, bad been
8 experience. On the other baud, observa
'? n * u< f experience had convinced him that
n6re the white race was largely in the
ajority the white man was better off and
..f'tJ'cEro was better off, so that no friend
he n*r°w wou ld o p pose the bill, be
ubJ* 5 lt w ulci te hurtful to the negro. It
"as conceded on ail bauds that if the negro
jto attain the full stature of his
OT*,n* c \ be must have a fair chance in an
- “ field. H e was not one of thore who
olhp litfmnit
<4? awJU # i'JJ4 is~v|
believed in the total, hopeless depravity of
the negro race.
GREAT OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE NEGRO.
He believed that there were great oppor
tunities in store for the negro. He be
lieved that if the g iverument would do its
duty by the negro instead of coaching him
and confusing him with civil rights and
empty statu es; if it would render him
substantial assistance iu his struggle f r
regeneration and real freedom, ho w uld
illumine the dark continent of his fathers
with tho light of Christianity and law. He
was not alone iu that opinion,
liniment white men and eminent black
men shared it Mr. Butler quoted
at some length from a book of E. \V.
Blyden, a colored clergyman, who had
lived many years in Africa, to show that
the ultimate regeneration of Afri a reited
with the negoes of tho United States. He
also quoted, in a parallel sense, from litters
of Rea-. Mr. Turner and other colored cler
gymen in this country, and from speches
l>y"Daniel Webster, Edward Everett, Ste
phen A. Douglas and Abraham Lincoln.
THE EFFECT ON THE SOUTH.
As to the effect on the southern states of
an emigration of the colored people, lie said
that if the south could be thus reiiea'ed of
part, at least, of its superabundance of
cheap labor, there would be such an immi
gration of white, intelligent, progressive
citizens that the prosperity of the south
during tha last decade would pale into in
significance a* compared with its future
progress.
In conclusion he said: “I anticipate that
what I have said will be assailed by those
who do not, and cannot understand or
appreciate the motive which influence me
and those who agree with me. I shall
expect to be assailed by those who wish to
make capital for themselves at the expense
of the peace and good will of the country;
but I shall bide my time, and neither
deviate to right nor left from tho line I
have marked out for myself.
MUST MEET THE ISSUE SQUARELY".
“Vituperation, misreprentation, asper
sion, never settled a controversy, and will
not settle this. I would to God there was
no race question in this country. I sincerely
wish we might never feel called on to refer
to such a topic; but I cannot shut my lips
to the conditions continually confronting
and clamoring for adjustment. I do
not want to transmit to those who
come after me undetermined, unadjusted,
race issues. It is very easily for those con
viently remote from these conditions to
indulge themselves in seif-satisfying
theories and ol structions, but to those'sur
rouaded, by day and by night, by such
moral, social, industrial and political em
barrassments, the subject will not down.
CANNOT BE NEGLECTED.
“It is net an uncommon thing to hear
men say, ‘Let the negro alone; be makes a
good peasant class; he is the best laborer
we can get for the cottou fieldi, etc.’ Do
not all such forget that there is no such
thing as a ‘peasant class’ under our form of
government? Do they forget that the negro
is a free American citizen, entitled, by
virtue of his citizenship, if on
no other account, to equality before
the law with tno foremost citizen of the
land—equality of opportunity, equality of
right? No sir, you cannot afford to let him
alone unless you are prepared to admit
what no man has ever dared affirm, that he
is tho equal of the Anglo-Saxon in the race
of American civilization, lt is no disparag
ment to say that he is not, for no other race
has ever stood in the Anglo-Saxon’s path
way to power and undivided dominion and
survived.
CANNOT AFFORD TO BE UNJUST.
“I will say with equal emphasis that we
cannot afford to be unjust to the negro. He
has done nothing to deserve it. He has long
enough been made the football of contend
ing factions. He has been made to suffer
enough between the ‘upper and nether mill
stones’ of opposing forces. Justice to the
negro should go hand iu hand with justice
to the white man and to our civilization.
And surely there ought to be sense enough,
patriotism and good feeling enough, to
settle this phase of the race question with
out more ado or trouble.”
HOAR AND BLAIR ASTONISHED.
Mr. Hoar replied to Mr. Butler, charac
terizing his proposition as the most aston
ishing that had ever been heard in the leg
islative history of the Senate.
Mr, Blair spoke against the bill, which
he declared to be either a mauifest impossi
bility or an absurdity.
The bill then went over without action.
It will be called up again next Tuesday,
probably, when Mr. Ingalls will address the
Senate in opposition to it.
Mr. Pasco gave notice that on Monday
next he would address the Senate on the
subject of federal control of elections.
THE MONTANA SENATORS.
Mr. Teller presented tha credentials of
Wilbur F. Sanders and Thomas C. Power,
as senators-elect from the state of Montana.
They were read and referred to the com
mittee on privileges and elections. Mr.
Pugh desired to have authority given to
the committee to send for persons and
papers, but Mr. Teller suggested that that
was a matter which should be left to the
committee itself.
Mr. Hawley e itered a motion to recon
sider the vote by which the bill was passed
yesterday granting to tha city of St.
Augustine, Fla., a part of the military
reservation near that city. He said that
there were several similar bills before the
committee on military affairs, and the com
mittee was waiting on information from
the war department.
The Senate then went into executive ses
sion, and when the doors were reopened it
adjourned till Monday.
In tho Houso.
In his prayer this morning tha chaplain
said:
Almighty God, we come before thee this day
bearing in the arms of our tenderet sympathy
thy serva t, the Secretary of State, from vrho6o
hand the- staff of his advancing years
has fallen, and his broken heartod wife,
from whom the hope and joy
of her life has been taken. In these dark hours,
when the soul sits dumb in the shadow of great
affliction, when all the turmult of the world
withdraws and seems as an idle babble, and the
honors and pleasures of the world have lost their
value and their charm, to whom must we so
but thee, O, Christ, who hast given us the
words and inspiration of eternal life.
Mr. Enloe of Tennessee introduced a bill
directing thej Secretary of War tp investi
gate c airns for the use of church and school
buildings by United States troops during
the rebellion. Referred.
world’s fair committee.
Mr. McKinley, from the committee on
rules, reported a resolution for the appoint
ment of a committee on the w >rld’s fair,
to consist of thirteen members, which com
mittee shall within three days report a
plan by which the House can determine
the site of the proposed fair, and subse
quently reported a bill providing for the
Mr. Camion of Illinois, as a member of
the committee, reported a substitute for the
resolution as follows:
Whuwas, Oa Dec. 13 and 80, and at other
times the House referred to the committee on
foreign affairs divers bills, petitions and memo
rials touching the world’s fair of 1892, thereby
giving full jurisdiction to that committee of the
whole subject matter, and said committee has
given exhaustive consideration to the same;
hetolved, That the committee on foreign af
fairs be instructed to report a resolution pro
viding a method for electing the locality of the
world's fair of 18*2 by a vote of the House of
Representative*:
1. Whether said fair shall be held east or west
of the Allegheny mountains.
2 Selection of a place for the location of said
fair.
After such vote shall have been taken the
committee at the sarliest possible day, shall
report a bill providing for the world's fair in
1892, to be held at the place selected as above
provided.
Immediately a livelvfl debate Jbegan, in
which friends of the t ur eitieg contesting
for the location of the fair took part.
FAVORED THE SUBSTITUTE.
Mr' Hitt of Illinois, chairman of tha com
mittee on foreign affairs, favored the sub
stitute resolution, and testified to the vigor
ous and faithful work which that committee
had performed in reference to the projected
world’s fair. The site having been selected
by the House, the committee could, within
twenty-four hours, report apian for the
fair which would be satisfactory to all the
me nb3rs of the House.
Mr. Morrow ot California“took ths same
view, declaring that the committee on
foreign affairs had proceeded and ligently and
effectively to the consideration of the
q ties: ion. Recreated a ripple of laughter
by asserting that no matter what site was
selected, the real exhibition would be held
in the city which he had the honor to repre
sent. San Franc sco did not rely on artifi
cial aid. It would be the site of an exhibi
tion without any assistance oa the part of
congress.
WANTS A SPECIAL COMMITTEE.
Mr. Hatch of Missouri favored the
majority resolution. He said that prior to
the appointment of the committee on for
eign affairs, tne gentlemen representing
the competing cities had entered into a
compact that a special committee should
bo created. All St. Louis asked was tiiat
a special c unmittee should be appointed by
the speaker, and that that committee
s ou!d contain an equal number
of friends of tho four cities com
peting for tha fair. The gentlemen might
rest assured that no representative of
Missouri, or no friend of St. Louis, would
ask that that city should have any advan
tage. She needed none. If her friends
could not secure the site without violating
tha compact, St. Louis did not want it. He
asked that the agreement be carried out u
good faith, and that the majority report ba
adopted.
DINXED THE COMPACT.
Mr. Springer of Illinois denied that there
has been any compact between representa
tives of tha competing citie*. Id was true
that they had agreed to request the speaker
to call a meeting of the committee on rules
in order to create a special c mmittee, but
the only intention of that agreement was
that the committee might sit during the
holiday recess.
Mr. Hatch characterized Mr. Springer’s
argument as “special pleading.” The
representatives of the cities did not know
that tha gentlemen they had treated with
were looking around for loopholes through
which to crawl out of an honorable con
tract.
Mr. Springer denied that there had been
any compact. He denied the right of any
gentlemen to meet in a hotel parlor and
make a compact to bind members of the
House.
Mr. Hatch replied that if the representa
tives of Chicago had not intended to keep
the compact, they should never have
invited honorable men to meet with them.
A CHICAGO SCHEME.
Mr. Turner, of New York, strongly op
posed Mr. Cannon’s proposition that the
House shall first vote on tho question of
locating the site east or west of the
Allegheny mountains. It was an unfair
attempt to force members living west of the
Alleghenies (whose first choice might not
bo t,e marvel by the lake) to vote to hold
the world’s fair west of those mountains;
and then friends of Chicago expected those
living east to go to) their help. Who bad
ever before heard of dividing the east
against the west? It was bad enough when
the south divided against the north. Here
was a proposition to form another sectional
line, and it came in the guise of fair play;
and those who were unfortunate enough to
be iu the minority (though it was a strong
minority), who lived east of the Allegne
nies, stood in their place to object to an un
natural alliance against their right*.
[Applause.]
UNFAIR TO NEW YORK AND WHSHINGTON.
Mr. Crisp criticised Mr. Cannon’s propo
sition that the House should vote on locating
the fair east or west of the Alleghenies, as
being unfair to Washington and New York.
The "compact” between the representa
tives of the four cities was again brought
into discussion, and some sharp sparring
occurred between Mesrrs. Hatch an 1 Can
non. Finally Mr. Cannon modified his
resolution by striking out the clause re
quiring a vote to be first taken on locating
the fair east or west of the Allegheny
mountains. A vote was then taken oa sub
stituting Mr. Cannon’s resolution for that
reported by Mr. McKinley, and it was de
feated—yeas 140, nays 142.
Mr. Springer, rising to a question of priv
ilege, said that he had kept a close tally
of the vote, and his tally did not agree with
the official tally. With ut impugning any
one, he asked for a recount.
The recount reversed the former result,
and the substitute was agreed to—yea* 137,
nays 134.
A PARLIAMENTARY WRANGLE.
Then much confusion ensued as to the
next step to be taken in parliamentary
proceeding. Many members contended
that the next vote should ba taken on tue
McKinley resolution, a* amended by the
substitution of the Cannon resolution,butthe
speaker held otherwise and stared that the
next vote was upon substituting the ma
jority resolution (as amended) for the orig
inal resolution referred to the committee on
rules. Ths vote was watcher! with intense
interest, and when it was known, at the end
of tho roll call, that tha resolution had been
defeated by a tie vote, Mr. Springer, who
hal voted in the affirmative, changed his
vote to the negative, in order to be able to
move a reconsideration. The substitute
was rej acted —yeas 133, nays 135.
Mr. Springer moved to reconsider and
Mr. McKinley moved to lay the motion on
the table, pending which the House, at 4:50
o’clock, adjourned.
Notwithstanding the recount of the vote
adopting the Cannon substitute for the
majority resolution of the rules committee,
the result was announced in, accurately,
and instead of yeas 137, nays 13-4, the vote
stood yeas 139, nays 134.
EXPECT A LIVELY TIME.
Houk and Ewart Will Discuss Civil
Service Reform.
Washington, Jan. 16.—There Is to be a
lively time before tha House civil service
reform committee next Monday, when
Houk of Tennessee, and Ewart of North
Carolina, two typical southern republicans,
will be given a chance to air their opposi
tion to civil service reform, and Civil
Service Commissioners Roosevelt and
Thompson will be given a chance to reply.
Roosevelt will tackle Houk, and Thompson
will engage E-'art, and 'viil leave very little
of them when they get through. Their
nominations were confirmed to-day, and
they will bo in fine fighting trim.
Bond Purchases Yesterday.
Washington, Jan. 16.—The bond offer
ings to-day aggregated $816,500, of which
were accepted $801,500 4s at 186.
SAVANNAH, GA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 181)0.
BALLOT-BOX FORGERIES.
THE COMMITTEE OF INVESTIGA
TION BEGINS ITS WORK.
A Number of Witnesses Examined—
Governor Foraker Details Hla Con
nection With the Matter—Willing to
Recommend Wood for Office, tout
Must Have the Paper.
Washington, Jan. 16.—A special House
committee appointed to investigate the Ohio
ballot-box forgery began its work this
morning, with all the member* present
except Mr. Struble, who is suffering from
la grippe. Chairman Mason laid before the
committee a communication signed by
Senators Hherman, St ckbridge, and
McPherson, and Representatives Butter
worth, Breckeuridge of Kentucky, and
Justin R. Whiting, reciting that, as it is
desirable to have a full and impartial in
vestigation, they request that lleprere da
tive Grosvenor be allowed to appear before
the committee to aid in examining wit
nesses and render other assistance.
THE FORGERY ADMITTED.
This request was granted, ami Represent
ative Grosvenor said that while it was ad
mitted that the paper w hich was to form
the basis of the investigation was forged,
all tbe gentlemen concerned desired to a[>~
pear and testify to that fact, a* well a* to
any other facts that they might know,
bearing on tne subject.
Representadve McKinley was tha flrit
witness to appear. Ha testified that he had
not signed the paper in question, and saw a
copy of it for the first time just before con
gress met, when Mr. Butterwonh exhibited
it to him. He saw the fac simile iu the
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette signed by
Mr. Campbell alone. Ho had no interest
direct or indirect in the paper, and never
had any relations with Wood, and did not
recall that he had ever heard of him or the
ballot-box matter until toe saw this publica
tion.
PROOF OF THE FORGERY.
Judsou Harmon, a lawyer of Cincinnati,
who was Gov. Campbell’s counsel, was the
next witness, and said that ho never saw
the forged paper until this morning. Some
time in October last George J. Murray told
him that this paper was a forgery, and had
been gotten up in his office. Tha witness
started to get proof, spending the next day
in getting three affid ivius by Murray, F. L
Millward, and Frank Davis. (Those
affidavits were put in evidence). Next
day, in company with J. N. Jordan,
he called on Murat Halstead of tho Com
vxercial Gazette, and demanded to see the
paper. Mr. Halatead said that the paper
was locked up in the safe deposit, but showed
a photographic oupy. Witness told him
that the paper was a forgery. Mr. Hal
stead asked twenty-four hours fur investiga
tion, and a trues was declared —neither side
to print anything, and Mr. Halstead with
drawing the Co.umbiad editorial about to be
pubiisuod. Next day, witmss saw tne
retraction, and got a note from Mr.
Halstead stating that ho was convinced
that the paper was a forgery. The persons
making tho affidavits were told that they
were wanted only to secure a retraction.
Tne witness did not remember ever to have
seen R. G. Wood, but was told that he
would recognize him if he met him. He
had tried hard to find him, without success.
Millward was a patent draughtsman. Davis
was a young fad employed to help him.
The photographic copy of the paper
exhibited by Mr. Halstead had all of the
signatures attached.
HALSTEAD BELIEVED IT GENUINE.
Mr. Halstead had cross-examined tho wit
ness to discover whether he knew of the
other names. As the other names besides
Gov. Campbell’s had not been publicly
mentioned, witness thou-lit that it wo* the
part of decency and wisdom to say nothing
ab >ut them in the retraction. Mr. Halstead
believed that the paper was genuine, but
acknowledged that something had nan
pened that afternoon to cuuse him to in
vestigate its authenticity. Mr. Halstead
did not say wuere ho got the paperj
Witness had his suspicions but Halstead de
nied their correctness. Wood had told
Murray, when the latter upbraided him for
misusing his office and his young men, that
the whole matter was a mistake; that it
was not intended for publication, but
to force tbe wicked demo rats to give up
tbe Tapp letter. This last was a proposi
tion by Geo. L. Tapp to contract to sell a
gravit to tbe city and divide the profit*.
Gov. Campbell was understood to be about
to spring this letter upon the republicans.
Witness thought Wood’s story wa* fishy.
TAPP WAS CRAZY.
Representative Grosvenor asked if Tapp
had not afterward been found to be insane,
and had not died in an insane asylum, to
which question the witness replied in the
affirmative.
Amor Smith, Jr., surveyor of customs of
Cincinnati, took the stand and was shown
the forged paper, which, he said, he had
first seen at the republican headquarters
Oct. 6, la3t. It had already
boon published, with Gov. Campbell’s
signature. The witness said when it was
shown to him that he believed it was a
forgery, but consented to deliver it to Mr.
Halstead, which he did, witn the statement
that he did not believe it to be genuine,
pointing out a peculiarity of the ink in sup
port of his statement. The witness learned
that Mr, Halstead had seen the paper be
fore.
FORAKER ON THE STAND.
Ex-Gov. Foraker took tho stand and was
shown “Exhibit A” (the forged paper), and
asked to tell all he knew about it. He said
he had no personal knowledge of who exe
cuted the paper. It was first mentioned to
him by L. N. Hadden, assistant city solic
itor, after his nomination. Hadden
spoke of Wood as the party in
terested who could furnish the paper.
The governor then told of Wood
seeking an appointment as suvko inspector
at Cincinnati. -When Wood came to sau
him, witness said he was willing to recom
mend him. As he was willing to do Wood
that favor, he told Wood that he should be
willing to do a favor for him, and told nim
he wanted tiiat patior (“Exhibit A”).
Wood Beamed a little confused, but
admitted that there was such a
paper, and made a clean breast of it, telling
of the ballot-box bill a id the contract, and
of the chain of circumstances, and saying
that the paper was in the cu->tody of Powell
Croaley, counsel for his company. Wood
told of the failure of the bill with the last
contract, but said that anew contract hail
been drawn up, and eff rts were being
made to get Gov. Alger's signature.
THS STEEL GUN CONTRACT.
Wood also told about another and worse
contract—steel gun contract—and said
there had been some dishonest bills in con
nection with the other matter*. Witness
was more interested in the ballot-box busi
ness, and Wood promised to sead the papur.
At this point the committee adjourned,
after granting a request by Representative
Outhwaite that Gov. Campbell’s examina
tion be fixed for Moaday, Jan. 27, as he was
very busy at present.
Walker Blaine’s Funeral.
Washington, Jan. 16.—The .funeral of
Walker Blaine will take place Saturday
morning at 11 o’clock, from the Church of
the Covenant (Presbyterian). The inter
meat will be at Oak Hill cemetery.
DIFFERING ;0 PIN ION 3.
Manufacturers Want Free Mica and
Minora Want a Duty.
Washington, Jau. 16.—The ways and
means committee b>-day gave its last pub
lic hearing of persons interested in tariff
questions. One or two gentlemen inter
ested in duties on lumber and copper were
heard, and about a dozen gave their views
upon the propriety of placing a duty upon
mica or putting it on tho free list. Manu
facturers of stoves were the principal advo
cates of putting it on the free list. Electri
cal instrument manufacturers also wanted
it free. One of these said that American
mica could not bo split into as fine shoots as
foreign mica.
WANTS A DOLLAR A POUND.
George H. Randall of Grafton, N. H., a
mica mins owner, took tho stand and con
tradicted the statements of previous wit
nesses. Ho had been iu the business twenty
seven years, and had never heard, until the
question of duty came up, of a single fault
being found with tho cloarago of American
mica. - Ho exhibited a number of
specimens blasted from his mine,
winch, he said, was fully equal
to the foreign product. Nearly every mica
mine in the United .States had been com
pelled tojdiutdown within the last four years
owing to foreign competition. Unless a
duty was imposed it was “good-by” to the
American mica mines. Ho asked a duty of
$1 a pound.
Goi. J. M. Gore of South Carolina wanted
a duty on mica.
CAN’T MEET INDIA COMPETITION.
Congressman Ewart of North Carolina
rend a statement urging a protective duty
on mica. Tne mica market of tho United
States wa* now controlled by the half
starved miners of India, and he wanted a
duty that would make up tho difference in
labor. He bad introduced a bill fixing a
specific duty of 50 cents per pound, but con
sultation with mica mine owners in North
Carolina led him to believe that that rate
was too low.
HE DON’T LIKE FORAKER.
Gen. Grosvenor Finds Himself in an
Awkward Position.
Washington, Jan. 16.—The selection of
Representative Grosvenor to represent a*
counsel the senators and representatives
whose names were forged to the ballot- box
contract before the investigating committee
strikes everybody as singular. Gen. Gros
vonor is not only a member of the Houso,
and so a judge in this case, but be is the
most pronounced auti-For ikor man nmmg
tho Ohio republican leaders, having pro
voked Gov. Foraker so that he removed
him from an honorary office, and having
revenged himself by helping to defeat For
uker f >r governor.
Gen Grosvenor is not a man of much deli
cacy of foaling ye f , oven ho felt the awk
wurdnoss of iiis situation when ha we it
into the committee room this morning.
Seeing Gov. Foraker sitting, there he wo .t
up and greeted him pleasantly, adding: “I
appear here as counsel simply, governor. I
ho; you do not think I am here to prose
cute you.” “O, I don’t care," said Foraker,
defiantly, “I’d just a* leave be oross
examined br an opponent as by a friend;
yes, and a little rather.”
His personal feeling will edge Gen.
Groaven r’s questions .However, Gov. For
akor showed plainly to-day that he means
to fight, and, if possible to smirch his ac
cusers with other slanders.
THEIR ELECTION BURE.
Nominations Confirmed by the Senate
Yesterday.
Washington, Jan. 10. —The following
nominations have been confirmed by the
Senate:
Civil Service Commissioners—Theodore
Roosevelt, of New York, and Hugh S.
Thompson, of South Carolina.
Collectors of Custom* —J. H. Deveaux,
Brunswick, Ga.; F. R. Gunby, Tampa, Fin.:
T. B. Johnson, Charleston. 8. C.; 11. W.
Dangerfleld, Rappahnnoek, Va.; C. A.
Jarrett, Petersburg, Va.; J. W. Fisher.
Richmond, Va.; E. J. Fennvpaeker, Wil
mington, N. C.; Robert Hancock, Jr.,
Pamilco, N. C.; W. G. Henderson, Pearl
River, Miss.: W. R. Sheppard, Apalachi
cola, Fla.; 11. DB. Clay, Newport Nows,
Va.
Surveyor of Custom*— C. C. Wimbish,
Atlanta, Ga.,
Postmasters—Alabama: C. W. Buckley,
Montgomery; S. Gilbert, at Decatur. South
Carolina: L. U. Owens, MarioD. Tennes
son: A. W. Wills, Nashville; J. T. B. Wil
son, Murfreesboro; W. Shellings, McKenzie;
G. M. Taylor, Covington.
CONSCIENCELESS BWINDLERB.
An Effort to Fleece Dutchmen Not
Likely to Succeed.
Washington, Jan. 16.—The United
States consul at Amsterdam recontly re
ported that an effort was being made to in
duce citizens of that country to emigrate to
Florida by representing that each emigrant
win would dsn Alt £ls would be given ten
acres ot rich Florida laud, together with
Implements for cultivating it, and would
be given board and lodging free for one
year. Tbe matter wa* reported to the
treasury department, suggesting that while
such immigrants would not bo prohibited
from lauding, it would be well for the con
sul to advise the people to move cautiously
iu the matter, and to oorre*pond with the
governor of Florida before taking auy de
cisive action.
DIDN’T INDORSE CHICAGO.
The House Only Stood by the Foreign
Affairs Committee.
Washington, Jan. 16.—1n refusing to
create a special oommittae on the world’s
fair to-day the House did not mean to in
dorse Chicago, as some of the Chicago men
are insisting to-night, but to indorse its own
comnntteo on foreign affairs, after Chair
man Bfitt’s statement that a bill would bo
reported within twenty-four hours from his
committee which would be acceptable to all
tee cities. It was hardly possible to create
a special committee without seeming to re
flect on the foreign - affairs oom nittea. The
expression is decfiouirig that there will be
no exposition in 1892, but only tho corner
stone wilt be laid of a flue memorial build
ing here.
ADDITIONAL APPROPRIATIONS.
Recommended for tbe Public Buildings
at Charleston and Macon.
Washington, Jaa. 16.—Secretary Win
dom to-day sent to the speaker of the
House a letter recommending appropria
tions for the following named public build
ings for the purposes set forth:
For the Charleston, 8. C., custom house,
$21,000 for general repair of the building
and heating apparatus.
For the Macon, Ga., court house, post
offioc, etc., $5,000 to construct a sewer from
the building to the river and for water
proofing the boiler pit in the basement.
AFRO-AMERICANS.
Bill Pledger Elected President ot the
National Convention,
Chicago, Jan. 16. —Tho morning session
of the A fro-Amerio in convention at Mad
ison street theater found 209 delegates pres
ent. There was a great deal of noise, con
siderable confusion and any number of
conflicting motions and points of order, and
yet there was almost perfect unanimity.
'X his was proven by the election of the per
manent convention officers, recommended
by t iie committee on nominations, by a voto
of 111 to 9, many rnombers not voting.
The president chuson was W. A. Pledgor
of Georgia. The netvly-elocted president
made a long speech on tiie negro question
in the south, and said tho time would oome
when the loyal people of the north would
find a way to puuifii and prevent criminal
sectional nullification of the constitu
tion, and the ehris’ian people of
this country would discover a
remedy to suppress that disloyal elemont
with whom murder is a vocation, aud per
jury a pastime.
An Illinois delegate moved the adoption
of a resolution thanking Mayor Creiger of
Chicago, because he bad appointed so many
colored citizens to office.
VV'. A. Hwecney of Indianapolis spoke
against the resolution. He moved in place
of the Illinois man’s resolution the adoption
of a substitute declaring that the conference
would not receive or entoriaiii any motion
to thank any political party or to
thank any man actiug at a representative
of a political party. The substitute was
adoptod without opposition outside of tha
Illinois delegation.
11. C. Astwood of Now York introduced
a sarcastic resoluti >n asking congress to
appropriate $100,000,000 to furnish transpor
tation to the unhappy white citi
zens of Alabama, South Carolina,
ami other southern states, who may desire
to settlo in a more favorable locality, free
from Afro-American majorities, and espe
cially naming Senator Morgan as the
“ Moses" to load the emigrants. Tho rulos
wore suspended, the resolution unanimously
passed, and ordered sent to Washington.
The last session of the day was devoted
to tho reading of communications received
by the secretaries. Fifteen letters from
Afro-Americans and a letter from Judge
Albion VV. Tourgeo were read. Tho Judge
suggested tiiat the Afro-American League
should lie a socret organization, in order
that its members might not be in danger of
murder and outrage in the south.
lb G. Htile of Pennsylvania moved to
refer Judge Tourgeo’s letter to the com
mittee on constitution and by-laws, that
the members of the committee might use
such of its suggestions as they saw tit. This
proposition wa* opposed by several delegates
on the ground that Judge Tourgeo was not
an Afro-American,and that it was time for
negroes to sh ov tiiat they could got along
without auy help from white men.
After an exhaustive digression, however,
the motion to refer the letter to the consti
tution committee was carried. Dissenting
voices were few.
Tiie convention then adjourned until to
morrow.
PORTUGAL’S DISPUTE.
England’s Ultimatum Denounced In
the Chamber of Peers.
Lisbon, Jau. 10.—Prime Minister Pimen
tal was absent from the Chamber of Peers
to-day, owing to a severs attack of influ
enza. In his absence the minister of justice
delivered a declaration on the dlsputo with
England. liis remarks wore similar to
those made yesterday in the
Chamber of Deputies by Honor Pimental,
who declared that the government would
protect its interests a* lar as was possible,
and maintain itsdignity absolutely. Debate
followed, but all agreed iu denouncing tiie
British ultimatum*. tDvoral colonial gov
ernors, including the governor of Mozam
bique, have resigned.
ROYAL MARINES ARRESTED.
Twenty royal marines have been arrested
for making demonstration against England.
It is understood that a British squadron
will visit Tagus shortly. Portuguese mer
chants contemplate boycotting E igland
and refusing to receive English money.
ENG LISII HOUSES WILL PROTEST.
Several of the leading English commer
cial houses of this city and Oporto are pre
paring a protest against the English ulti
matum. They regard tho disoatch of Brit
ish men-of-war to Portuguese waters as
harmful to their interests.
APPROVED BY THE KING AND QUEEN.
It i* stated that the king and queon
cordially Hpplaud.nl the action of the Duke
of Palmillu iu returning the Crimean
modal which he received while serving in
the British army. The duke was an in
timate friend of tho late king.
EDITOR PARK FOUND GUILTY.
Ha Gets a Year’a Imprisonment for
Libeling the Earl of Eußton.
London, Jun. 16. —The trial of Mr. Parke,
editor of the North London Press, on a
charge of criminal libel, preferred against
him by the Earl ot Euston, was concluded
to-day. Justice Hawkins, in summing up
the case, spoke of the groat and manifest
discrepencios in the testimony of witnesses
called by Mr. Parke’s counsel to identify
the Earl of Euston. He said that if the story
told by witness S*til, who testified thif, he
and the Earl of Easton had committed a
criminal action in the house in Cleveland
street, was true, be marveled that Baal had
not been prosecuted, and that a warrant
against the Earl of Euston has not been
applied for.
Mr. Parke was found guilty of libeling
Earl of Euston, and was sentenced to one
year’* imprLon neat.
HERBERT GLADSTONE GETS £I,OOO.
Col. Mattison has been convicted of pub
lishing in th* Allahabad (India) Post a libel
against Herbert Gladstone, sou of VV. E,
Gladstone, and has been ordered to ray
£I,OOO damages.
Famine in the Soudan.
Cairo, Jan. 16. —Authentic news has been
received of a terril le mortality among tho
natives in the Sudan, owing to a famine
resulting from lack of rain during the
autumn. The fighting force* have dispersed.
Os i,an Digna has left Om Durman forTokar.
Slatin Bay writes that reports of the death
of the Kiatlfa are untrue.
The Thalia Aground.
London, Jan. 17, S a. m.— The British
steamer Thalia, from Savannah for Reval,
is aground near the latter port and I*
apparently abandoned. She lies in a bad
position. Her stern is submerged and her
bows are high. Assistance has been sent
her.
Dom Pedro Breaking Down.
Cannes, Jan. 16.—Dom Pedro appears to
be terribly aged and enfeebled both in body
and mind. He inteuds to spend the whole
winter here.
Father Boyle Gets a New Trial.
Raleigh, N. C., Jan. 16.—The supreme
court to-day granted a new trial to Father
Boyle, the Catholic priest convicted of
rape.
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THE STEWART WILL CASE.
ACTION FOR REVOCATION OF PBO
BATB DISMISSED.
Mrs. Smith’s Bult Discontinued, and
the Contest Ended All Round—Judge
Hilton Retains All He Has Received,
dnd Almost All He Claims—How the
Caah Will be Divided.
New York, Jari. 16. —The formal order
of Harrogate Ransom dismissing the action
for revocation of probate of the will of Mrs.
Cornelia M. Htewart, widow of A. f. Stew,
art, wa* signed this afternoon. Justice
O’Brien, of the supreme court, also signed
an order discontinuing tbe suit of Mrs.
Sarah N. Smith against Judge Hilton and
his executor, Mr. Cliuch, for an accounting.
Tho lawyers in the case gave out a state-*
meat this afternoon in which they announce)
that the litigations are ended, and set fortts,
the effect of tho settlement as follows:
1. Judge Hilton retains all that he re-,
ceived during Mrs. Stewart’s lifetime, and
all that ho ha* ever claimed the right to re
tain, except tl.at ho has released the estate?
from its indebtedness of $987,357.
2. All parties interested under tho will'
receive what tho terms of tho will en-*
title them to.
3. The testamentary intention# of Mrs. j
Stewart in respect to the Cathedral ati
Garden City receive their full effect by
conveyance of an additional quantity of
land, also double tho quantity c mveyei to
it by Mr*. Stewart in her life time, and
$500,000 in addition to the s3.M),ooo,which tha
cathedral now holds ugaiusttue estate, and
in addition to property upon which Mrs.
Htewart exp mled upward of $2,000,090
during her life time.
This loaves tho estate left by Mrs. Stew,
art, after payment of logaoies and of en
dowment to persons entitled under the
will, in the following proportions:
Charles J. Clinch takes three-tenths t
Sarah N. Hmith, three tenths; three half
sisters of Mrs. Htewart, one-tenth each; aud
children of Mrs. Charlos E. Butler, one-six
teenth each. The above provisions are all
set fourth in details, surrounded by legal
verbiage, in an agreement made on Jan. 15,
between all the parties in interest.
DRIVEN OUT BY FLOOD.
Three Hundred Persons Compelled to
Abandon Their Homes.
Cairo, 111., Jan. 16.—Three hundred
persons at Carml, 111., havo boon compelled
to leave their homes by a sudden rise in the
Little Wabash river, and it is ‘reared that a
larger number will be forced t > abandon
their dwellings and tako refuge on higher
ground. The river is out of it* hanks, and
the northern part of tho town is flooded to
a depth of twenty feet in some places, and
from seventy-five to one hundred houses
are subm rge I. Tho house* have
all been vacated, people seeking refuge in
spare rooms of their neighbors in the south
ern part of the town.
Vast stretches of low land and meadow
are under w ater, and a number of animals
have been carried away or drowned
in the fields. Fence rail*, boards,
and othor drift borne down stream
by the raging waters indicate than
families have suffered severely. Much hay
on the bottom lauds ha* been ruined.
lt is reported that tho worst is yet to
come, and that the people in the towns
along tha Little Waba*h ure preparing for
the worst. At Carmi it is exjiected that
tno river will rise fifteen foot higher. If thi#
does happen the result will be appalling.
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DYING OUT AT NEW YORK.
Influenza on tha Wane and Mortality
Decreasing—At Other Points.
New York, Jan. 16.—The health officers
were right when they announced their be
lief a week ngo yesterday that tho epidemic
of influenza had reached its bight. On that
day tho mortality in thi* city reached 259.
To-day, after falling off steadily during the
week, tho record -taridu exactly one half.
Of these 23 are duo to pneumonia; bron
chitis, 12; to cosumption, 18; i dluonz i with
out complications, il; influenza complicated
with other diseases, chiefly pneumonia, 13.
THE DEATH-ROLL MOUNTING UP.
CniOAOO. Jan. 16.—Reports received at
the health office yesterday were not of an
encouraging nature. Eleven of the death
certificates were returned having the word
“influenza” on the line after the cause of
death. The number of victims of la grippe
was the same as that reported Tuesday, but
the increase of death* fr >m other diseases
wa* something alarming, it being larger bf
178 than the previous day.
INCREASING IN WESTPHALIA.
London, Jan. 16.—Influenza is increasing#
in Westphalia. Work iu the mines there is;
impeded by the ravages of the epidemic,
and in many cases the running of freight
trains has hail to be suspended. The disjl
ease is decreasing in Central and Western
Australia.
BIX DEAD IN ONE KAMILY.
Fall River, Mass., Jan. 16.—Yesterday*
notice of tbe funeral of two children ot
William Boyle appeared, and to-day four 1
little ones lie dead in the Boyle residence.
Originally the child: en were’ attacked by
influenza, which developed into lung''
trouble.
GETS $13,000.
Tha Richmond and Danville Mulcted
for a Round Hum.
Danville, Va., Jan. 16.—Tho somewhat;
celebrated caso of Picketsiner against thd
Richmond and Danville railroad was de
cided here to-day in favor of the plaintiff,
giving him $13,009 damages for injuries re
ceived while on a train. He was traveling
on a freight train with a load of cattle, and
fell from a box car, receiving serious in
juries. The ca*e bad been pending for six
years, and this was the second trial. In a
former trial the plaintiff got a verdict fop
SIO,OOO. Tiie case wont to the suprema
court and anew trial wa* granted. This
time he gets the old verdict with five years’
interest added.
Tho Papal Encyclical.
Rome, Jau. 10.—The papal encyclical
is published. It is a lengthy document. If
insiatsupon the duty of Catholic* to follow
papal doctrines with absolute faith, and
condemns those who profess Catholicism
while denouncing and criticizing the acts of
the church.
Charleroi Minoru Again Out,
Brussels, Jan. 16.—The trouole in the
Charleroi district has broken out afresh.
The miners became involved in a dispute as
to the method of executing the concessions
granted them by tue mine owners, and
again went out on strike.
Gen. Mabone Not Indicted.
Petersburg, Va., Jan. 16 —ln ;the bus*
tings court to-day the grand jury returned
“not a true bill” in the cast* of Gen. William
Mahone, charged with feloniously shooting
Herbert Harrison on the night of Nor. 5.