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CONGRESS AND THE SOUTH
the ABERDEEN AFFAIR GIVEN
ANOTHER AIRING.
Senator George Poiata Out the Erro
neous Construction of the Constitu
tion by the Republicans—Senator
Spooner Improves the Opportunity
to Make a Political Harangue.
Washington, Jan. 2S.—ln the Senate to
day among the memorials presented and re
ferred was one presented by Sir. Chandler
for the establishment of a republican form
of government in the state of Mississippi.
Mr. Morrill, iu introducing a bill author
izing the issue of treasury notes for deposits
of silver bullion, and having it referred to
the committee on fi lance, said that that
committee had addressed a communication
to the Secretary of the Treasury asking
him to formulate a bill in accordance with
his recommendation in relation to sil er.
He said that the bill had been received.
Without committing himself or any mem
ber to it, he asked to have It printed and
referred.
RELIEVING THE TREASURER.
The Senate bill to relieve the treasurer of
the United States from the amount now
charged to him and deposited with the sev
eral spates was taken from the calendar and
passed. It au horizes the proper accounting
officers of the treasury to credit t ie account
of the treasurer of the Uuited State < with
the amount of money standing to his debt
upon the books of the treasury department,
now unavailable by reaso a of the deposit of
three installments of surplus revenue wit 1
the states authorized by sections 13 and 14
of the act of June 23, 1836, chapter 115, the
amounts to be charged to an appropriation
liereny creatod for that purpose, amounting
in all to $28,101,644.
THE DIRECT TAX.
The bill to credit and to pay to the sev
eral s:ates and territories and to the Dis
trict of Columbia all moneys collected u :der
the direct tax act of 1861, was taken from
the calendar. After a short debate, Mr.
Vance offered as an amendment a propo
sition to refu and the cotton tax. This was
rejected by a vote of 15 yeas to 52 n lys.
The bill was then passe! by a vote of 44 to
7. The senators voting in the nega ive
were Messrs. Berry, Blair, Call, Coke,
Plumb, Vance and Vest. The bill makes it
the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury
to credit to each state a id territory of the
Uuited States and the District of Columbia
a sum equal to'all the collections, by set off
or otherwise, made from said states and
territories and the District of Columbia, or
from any of the citizens or inhabitants
thereof, or other persons, under the act of
eongre-s approved Aug. 5, 1861, and the
amendatory acts thereto, and it appro
priates the necessary sum to reimburse each
state and territory and the District of
Columbia.
ABERDEEN’S SENSATION.
The Senate then, at 2 o’clock, resumed
consideration of Mr. Chandler’s resolution
in relation to the maltreatment at Aber
deen, bliss., of Honry J. Franz, and Mr.
George mado au argument against it, de
claring his belief that the adop ion of the
resolution would be a serious iufracti >n of
the constitution, and a very serious en
croachment on the rights of the people of
Mississippi. He to k up the c ause of the
constitution, section 2 of article 4, which
Mr. Wilson of lowa and other republican
senators referred to yesterday as
authorizing the resolution, and argued
that no decision of the supreme court and
no act of congress had ever given such a
construction to it. He quoted a decision of
the supreme court which, he said, settled
the point that the only jurisdiction that
congress had under the second section of
the fourth article of the con-tit ution was to
provide that the state laws, and state action
under state authority, should not he used
for the purpose of depriving any citizen of
his equal rights and privileges in any other
state.
ANOTHER DECISION QUOTED.
He quoted another decision of the su
preme court,to the effect that that provision
in the constitution was not a guarantee
against the commission of an individual
offense, and did not extend to tue enact
ment of laws for the suppression of crimes
within a state. There could be no doubt,
Mr. George said, if the decisions of the su
preme court were to be relied on, that the
Senate, as part of the law-making power,
had no right to pass a law to puuish the
men who had committed the Aberdoeu
outrage. If that were so, then, he asked,
what right and what power had the Senate,
under the construction of the constitution,
to make an inquiry into the transaction for
any purpose?
THE ONLY SOURCE OF INFORMATION.
Mr. George went on to argue that the
Attorney General could not have known
that the offense was a case of as-ault and
battery, except from the statutes of Missis
sippi, and was interrupted by Mr. Hoar
with a suggestion (by way of a joke) that
the Attorney General certainly could not
have got it from the common law
of Mississippi or from the customs
of the country. Mr. George went on
to say that not only did he condemn
the hanging in effigy of any respectable
officer of tho United States under any cir
cumstances or under any provocation; but
that in the case of Secretary Proctor there
was no provocation f r the insult. He had
never heard from any other democrat any
other comment on the conduct of Secretary
Proctor (for which that indignity had been
attempted to be inflicted on him), except
that he performed a painful duty with con
sideration to the feelings, prejudices even,
of tlie people of the south. The pending
proposition he described as an annex or ad
junct of the original offense, and another
violation of the Taw of Mississippi.
THE ONLY OBJECT.
The only end to be obtained was to
blacken the name and reputati* >n of a state
whose sons had honored and served the
country. Among the distinguished sons of
Mississippi, Mr. George referred to Jefferso i
Davis as a man who had never breached his
trust or failod in the discharge of his full
duty, whothor ho served the Uuited States
or the confederacy. He claimed in con
clusion ihat ho had shown that the pending
proposition was witho jt any warrant in the
constitution, which the senators had sworn
to support. There was no need of it. If
the senators were anxious bo uncover the
nakedness of his mother, Mississippi, it had
already been uncovered. Why, then, pass
tne resolution, except to show that where
the interests and rights, ad honor, and
good name of the people of the south were
involved, the constitution was nothing but
a rope of sand. If the Senate was to go on
this crusade against the whit* people of
Mississippi for an alleged violation of the
law and of the constitution, would it not bo
well for the Senate to set an ex inple to
that despairing people of au observance of
the constitution?
SPOONER MAKES A POLITICAL SPEECH.
In the course of a 10-g political speech in
reply to Mr. George, Mr. Spooner said he
did not know what the resolution would
accomplish in the way of legislation or of
e °h*titutio:ial amendment, but it would
subserve one purpose, if nothing else. It
would turn light on that transaction at
Aberdeen. Jt would prove the existence
of a spirit of bitterness and brutality
there. It would show that there was a
commuui y, claiming to be intelligent and
law-abiding, where love of Jefferson Davis’
memory is stronger than respect
for the law, stronger than love of liberty,
stronger than the impulses of humanity—
the law of God written in every human
heart. If the resolution would accomplish
nothing else, it would subserve that oue
good purpose.
Mr. Spooner said he intended to vote for
the resolution, and that he had not the
slightest fear of being punished hereafter
for violating his oath to the constitution.
He expected to be forgiven it
hereafter, if not by the senator
from Mississippi. "[Laughter.] So
far as the resolution appeared on
its face it was not an assumption by the
Senate to deal with crimes, isolated or in
general, in the state of Mississippi. It did
n t involve the contention that the United
Statos g ivernment by any existing law, or
by any law that could be constitutionally
passed, could punish a man, in its courts,
for an a-sault and buttery committed in the
state of Mississippi.
JURISDICTION MIGHT BE GIVEN.
Still he was not ready to admit that there
might not be eircutns ances under which
jurisdicti >n might be afforded by congress
to the courts of the United States to secure
a citizen of the United States in his con
stitutional rights of life, liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness which the states
denied him by force and by fraud. But it
was not necessary now to discuss that ques
tion. As to the course of the Attorney
General in the matter, Mr. Spooner said ho
was glad that the day had come when the
United States had an Attorney General that
would take notice of an outrage on an
American citizen. He denied that there
existed in the north any feeling of ani
mosity toward the peop e of the south.
Long, long ago, iu a general way, for nil
the sorrow and suffering and trouble
brought upon the American people, had
come full, formal and complete fo glveness.
There could be no better evidence of it than
the fact that, long ago, all the southern
states were represented in both
houses of congress, and that, tx>,
mostly by gentlemen who had
fought uuder their flag and against tae
American flag.
A SWEEPING ACCUSATION.
The hanging in effigy of Secretary Proc
tor had not only brought out th; feeling of
bitterness that existed in the south, and
which had no counterpart in any village of
the north, but it had also brought into the
sunlight that recklessness, that cruelty,
that brutality, that indifference to law and
to decency which the country had for
many years JJoccasion to complain of.
Referring to the accidental letting fall of
the rope which held the Proctor effigy in
Aberdeen, Mr. Spooner declared that if
Franz had been an old Indiana s ddier that
effigy would have fallen in the stra it,, not by
accident but with a rush and whirlwind of
indignation. He then pictured Franz,
whom he described as a mere boy,
being led down the street of
Aberdeen like a slave in the olden
days, surrounded by 200 or 300 people, with
a brawny man marching behind him and
laying on his defenseless head and body and
face, for nearly 200 times, a lash which,
with every blow, cut his face and head until
he was so disfigured that he could hardly be
recognized. An appeal, he said, had been
made to the mayor of the city and had been
made in vain.
PICTURING THE LASHING.
Think of it (he exclaimed in passionate
tones.) Alone, far from his home, away from
friends, lashsd and sc mrged in the market
place—in the presence of 300 chivalrous
gentlemen, aud not one to step forward and
arrest the brutal arm. That night, Mr.
Spooner said, Franz had bean marched out
of the city of Aberdeen, been put into a
train, and where he was now, nobody knew.
He expressed his regret that the senator
from Mississippi (Mr. George) had not
been called upon to pronounce a eulogy
on Jefferson Davis. It was to have been
expected that homage would be paid to Jef
ferson Davis throughout the south on the
occasion of his death. It was to have been
expected that ha would be borne to his last
resting place surrounded by his old compan
ions, and to the music of the muffled drums.
DIDN’T LOOK FOR IT IN THE SENATE.
Bui he (Mr. Spooner) had hoped that no
one would deem it necessary to pronounce a
eulogy of Jefferson Davis iu the Senate
chamber of the United States. It would
strike a harsh chord in the breasts of mill
ions of men all through the north. The
people had not regarded him, although the
chief of the confederacy, as falser to the
union and to its flag, and to his oath, than
thousands of his confreres, but the people
had rot believed what the senator (Mr.
George) said to-day about Jefferson Davis,
that whether under the constitution or the
confederacy, he had never betrayed
a trust. The people believed, on
the contrary, that he h .and sat in the Senate
chamber, betraying daily and hourly and
nightly the best trust ever reposed in man.
But it was not for that that they despised
his memory. It was became they had held
him responsible for atrocities unspeakable;
the devilish, horrible cruelties visited on
union prisoners at Libby prison, Belle Isle,
Salisbury and Andersonville. It was be
cause ihoy charged him with the responsi
bility of holding men prisoners of war to
starve them.
A WEAK CONSTITUTION.
Mr. Platt said he understood Mr. George’s
intention to be to say that congress was
powerless to pass any law to protect the
citizens of one state in his rignts in another
state. If that were so it was pretty im
portant that the country should understand
how weak, powerless, insignificant (he had
almost said contemptible) a government
they lived under. That had not
been the idea of the American citizm.
It had not been the idea of the expounders
of the constitution or of the courts. He
held that under the constitution there was
power in congress to protect a citizen in
the enjoyment of the rights guaranteed to
him by the constitution, aud to punish
those who deprived or attempted to deprive
him of those rights, aud if there were not
laws already on the statute book to punish
in any state any infraction of the rights
guaranteed by the constitution, it was high
time that such laws were passed.
HARRISON HUNG IN EFFIGY.
Mr. Gray referred to the fact that quite
recently President Harrison had Dean
hanged in effigy in the state of Indi ma.
He moved t > amend the resolution by add
ing the words: “And also a letter of in
struction to said marshal to which the
report of said marshal was a response,” aud
also to add to it the following: “And that
he be requested to inform th Senate whether
in the alleged assault on Franz any right
secured to him by the constitution or law3
of the United States was invaded or
violated.”!
Mr. Butler offered an' amendment in
structing the At orney General to furnish
all the papers in the office of the district
att rn9y of Indiana, or in file in the United
States c>urt there, relating to charges
against W. W. Dud'ey for corruption or
offering t > bribe Indiana voters in the lost
presidential election.
The debate was further continued by
Messrs. Gray, Chandler, Platt, and Hoar.
The first part of Mr. Gray’s amendment
was agreed to. The second part was not
voted on.
Mr. Call offered an amendment calling
on the Attorney General for a report as to
the hanging in effigy of President Harrison
SAVANNAH, GA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1890.
in Indiana and of President Cleveland in
Kansas.
Without action on any of the pending
amendments the resolution went over till
to-morrow, and after au executive session
the Senate adjourned.
In the House.
In the House to-day on motion of Mr.
Payson of Illinois (acting under instruc
tions from the committee o i public lands) a
bill was pass “and granting the u<e of certain
lauds to the city of St. Augustine, Fla., for
a public park.
E. B. Taylor of Ohio called up the motion
made yesterday to table the motion to re
consider the vote by which the House
passed the bill providing for the erection of
tnree United Slates prisons The motion to
table was agreed to by a vote of 162 yeas to
112 nays.
CIRCULATING NOTES FOR BANKS.
Mr. Dorsey, from the commit ee on bank
ing and currency, reported the bill to pro
vide for the issue of circulating notes to na
tional banking associations. The text of
the bill is as follows:
That upon any deposit already or hereafter
marie of any United States bonds bearing in
terest in toe manner required by law. any na
tional banking association making the same
shall be eatitled to receive from the controller
of the currency circulating notes of different
denominations in blank, registered and counter
signed as provided by law, not exceeding in
whole amount the par value of the bonds de
posited; provided, that at no time shall the
total amount of such notes issued to any such
assoc atiou exceed the amount at such time
actually paid in of its capital stock; and that
ail laws and parts of laws inconsistent with the
provisions of this act be, and the same are
hereby repealed.
Mr. Blau 1 raised the question of consid
eration against the bill, and the House
determined, by a vote of 143 yoas to 110
nays, to consider the bill. Mr. Dors *y ex
plained that the object of the bill was to
permit banks to issue notes to the extent of
100 per cent, of the pa- value of the bonds
deposited, instead of 90 per cent., as now
provided. If the bill become a law. aha ik
depositi -g bonds to the amount of SIOO,OOO
could issue notes to the same amount, less
5 per cent, left as a reserve fund. Discus
sion of the bill occupied the remainder of
the day’s session. It went over without
actiou, and the House adj turned.
MONTANA’S SENATORS.
The Senate Committee Fixes the Date
of the Hearing.
Washington, Jan. 28.—The Senate com
mittee on privileges and elections to-day
took up the Montana senatorial election
contest but did nothing more than set as
the day for bearing Saturday, Feb. 15.
Messrs. Clark and Maginnis, the democratic
senators-elect, were present to hear the
determination of the committee. The
merits of the contest were gone into and
the date fixed was decided upon, after some
discussion, as one which would give ample
time for the contestants to prepare their
statements and argume its.
REDUCED RAILROAD FARES.
Delegatee to th 9 Negro Convention
Can Return Cheap.
Washington, Jan. 28.—Arrangements
have been made with ail the railroad com
panies for the transportation of delegates
to attend the convention of colored people
to assemble here Monday, Feb. 3, at the
following rates: Oue full fare going and
one-third fare returning. The delegates are
requested to obtain certificates from tho
ticket agents on purchasing tickets to
Washington, to be countersigned at the
convention, in order to secure the benefit of
the reduced rates.
Muldon vs. Compton.
Washington, Jan. 28.—According to its
schedule, the House committee on elections
to-day took up the Maryland contested
election case of Mullon vs. Compton, and
heard argunien's by John C. Rose and
Charles Jerome Bonaparte for the contes
tant aud Charles H. Hanley and Barnard
Carter for the sitting member.
Government Deposits.
Washington. Jan. 28.—Secretary Win
dom is considering the question of further
reduction of the amount of public funds
held by national banks, and will probably
issue a call to-morrow for the surrender of
a portion of this fund under the same con
ditions prescribed in the first call.
Birmingham's Public Building.
Washington, Jan. 28.—Tho Secretary
of the Treasury has awarded the contract
for the construction of tho public building
at Birmingham, Ala., to McCarthy & Bald
win of Washington at $76,034, and ho has
appointed E. M. Thomas to superintend tho
work.
Seeking for Franz.
Washington, Jan. 28.—The department
of justice is trying to discover the where
abouts of Franz, tue victim of the recent
alleged outrage at Aberdeen, with a view
to his examination in regard to the affair.
Purchases of Bonds.
Washington, Jan. 28.—The bond offer
ings to-day were $85,000, 4%5, at 104%, all
of which were accepted.
Randall Not so Well.
Washington, Jan. 28.—Representative
Samuel J. Randall was not as well to-night
as he has been.
IOWA’S LEGISLATURE.
The Deadlock Resumed Over the Per
manent Speakership.
Des Moines, la., Jan. 28.—When the
House convened this afternoon, after the
passage of a resolution ordering the clerk
to furnish a copy of the journal to the state
printer, and the announcement of the pairs,
the contest for permanent speaker was
taken up. Mr. Richman of Muscatine was
nominated J. F. Hamilton of Linn on be
half of the democrats, and Luke of Frank
lin nominated Mr. Wilson of Cass for the
republicans. On the first roll call the $-ote
stood Hamilton 41; Wilso i 41. Hamilton
voted for Wilson, and Wilson for Hamil
ton. After the call, many parsons in the
lobby left, satisfied that the dead lock was
on once more. After five ballots the House
adjourned till 10 o'clock this morning.
Robbing the Mails.
Kansas City, Jan. 28.—A special to the
Times from Lebanon, Mo., says: “Mrs.
Mary Boganz and her son, postmaster and
assistant at Bartlow, were arrested to-day
by Postoffice Inspector McClure for robbing
the mails. A quantity of money aud two
decoy letters were found iu their possession.
Tbev confessed that they had assisted Post
master Boganz in robbing the mails before
he died, and since then have continued the
practice. The amount of money aud val
uables stolen is large.”
A Victory for the Brotherhood.
New York, Jan. 28.—Judge O’Brien ha*
decided the suit of the New York
Base ball club vs. J. M. Ward
in favor of the brotherhood. The
judge denies the motion for a prelimi
nary injunction restraining Ward from
playing with any bat the New York olub,
and say* the case must go to trial on its
i merits.
SITE OF THE BIG FAIR.
THE NEW YORK LEGISLATURE
acting favorably.
An Attempt to Increase the Com
mittee Brings Political Considera
tions Into the Question—The House
Committee Debates but Makes but
Little Progress With the Matter.
Albany, N. Y., Jan. 28.—1n the assem
bly to-day the world’s fair bill passed
without debate or argument. Only one
negative vote was cast.
The Senate special committee on the
world’s fair wis in executive session f r
three hours to-night, aud finally decided to
report the world’s fair bill back to t ie Sen
ate to-morrow morning wall no amend
ments • xcept the addition of t e names of
the following twenty-two gentlemen to the
board of exhibitionc immisainuers provided
for in section 4 of the bill: Samuel Stone,
Sidney D llon, Her nan O. Armor,
Noah Davis, William 11. Webb,
Henry Hill, William P. Clyde,
Austin Corbin, William Brookfield, John
F. Plummer, Leslie W. Russell, Albert M.
Palmer, Christopher Baldwi 1, James M.
Varieo, Edward Mitchell, Ric a-d A. Mc-
Curdy, Albert B. B lardnian. Charles Pea
body, Jr., Louis T. Payne, Elias H. Rob
erts, Erastus Corning and Hiram Hitch
cock.
POLITICS CUTTING A FIGURE.
New York, Jan. 28.—The political com
plexion of tho commission named in the
world’s fair bill is now said to be tho reason
for the delay in the pas-age of toe bill by
the state legislature. Senator Fassett came
to the city last night and ha 1 a conference
with Mr. "Depew, ex-Secretary Whitney and
Mr. Root. He said that the bill would
be killed if twenty other incorporators
were not named. The republicans claim
that the democrats have fifty-six men on
the committee, which is a majority. This
Mr. Fassett obj cted to. The democrats
say that there are sixty-three republicans
on the committee and only forty democrats.
According to the Commercial Advertiser ,
Senator Fassett said he did uot propose that
the democrats aud mugwumps should have
control of the fair, and that if it was not
agreed then that twenty extra commission
ers should be appointed by ex-Seuator Platt
or his representatives the bill would he
killed.
IGNORANCE PROFESSED.
It was said at the mayor's office to-day
that Mr. Depew and his associates abso
lutely refused to agree to the appointment
of twenly extra commissioners, and Senator
Fassett was told to go ahead and do as he
saw fit.
At the mayor’* office tho bill was practi
cally given up as a dead measure.
Mayor Grant claimed that, he did
not know anything about the
proposed action of the republicans,
but had been informed that the bill would
likely not pa 33. He said that if such was
the ca-e, he was very sorry. “I put men on
committees,’’ he added, “without any re
regard to politics. I did not tb'T, nor do I
now regard it as a political measure In any
sense.”
WORKING ON THE BILL,
Washington, Jan. 28.—The House com
mittee on foreign affairs had a long session
to-day and completed a draft of the world’s
fair bill, which it will report to-morrow to
the full committee. The first section
adopted to-day is founded on sectlo i 4 of
the Chicago bi’ll, with a slight amendment,
and provides for the raising of the capital
stock by subscription.
Another section added to-day, section
11, is section 5 of the Chicago
bill, and fixes the amount of paid
up subscriptions which must be in hand
before the commission begius work at not
less t hail $5,000,000. As it was evident that
the bill as prepared woul 1 leave Washing
ton out of the race through the requirement
as to subscriptions aud general financial
scheme, Messrs. Wilson and Bowdon give
notice t ,at they would present to the full
committee to-morrow a section or sections
a* a substitute for the financial sections of
the subcommittee’s bill, vhich iwill extend
government aid to the fair, and then by
make Washington eligible for competition
as a sito.
The New Yorkers got their hopes of the
world’s fair back again to-day, when the
news cams of the passage by the lower
houso of tho legislature of the $10,000,060
bill. They knew tiiat if that failed they
failed, and they think that since the bill
seems likely to succeed they will also, but
the advantage of the situation still lies
with Washington.
WORKMEN BLOWN UP.
Four Laborers Perish by an Explosion
on a Railroad.
Sunbury, Pa., Jan. 28.— A gang of
Italians, Poles, and Hungarians employed
in widening the roadbed of the Shamokin,
Sunbury aud Lewis burg railroad from a
single to a double track road, wore at work
to-day in a cut near Paxinos, where blasting
rock was necessary. Shortly before noon
to-day three blasts were set and a gang of
men retired to await tho explosions.
ONLY TWO WENT OFF.
Unknown to them only two of the blasts
exploded, aud the men nad gone hack into
the cut and were at work shoveling away
the dirt and broken rock, when the third
blast exploded and th# men were hurled in
all directions. One of them was picked up
dead, two others have sin -e been dug out of
the rock dead, and still another is supposed
to be buried—dead, of course. Four men
wero so badly crushed that they will prob
ably die.
A TEMPERANCE UNION MUST GO.
The Y. M. C. A. Don’t Want to Mix
Up in Politics.
Milwaukee, Jan. 28.—The Woman’s
Christian Temperance Union here yester
day received formal notice from the direc
tors of the Young Men’s Christian Associa
tion t at the union could no longer occupy
quarters in the Young Mat ’s Christian
Association building. Tue notice says the ,
havin' allied themselves with the
prohibition party, women must be
treated like any political organization,
and are therefore debarred from
occupying quarters in the Young Men’s
Christian Association building. This
change grows out of the actiou takeu at
the Chicago convention recently, which the
local union indorsed. Tho notice was read
to-day at a meeting held iu the hall on
Or and avenue, instead of tbo Young Men’s
Christian Association. It enu-ed a Jsensa
tion. Action upon it was deferred.
Lounsberry’a Defalcation.
New York, Jan. 28.—Postmaster Van
Cott mak--8 public the figures of Cashier
Lounsberry’s defalcation. They aggregate
$47,350. The postmaster stat“* thit the
evidence ia bis possession will clearly show
that there is no foundation for any other
theory than that of deliberate embezzle
ment by the cashier, without collusion or
connivance from any quarter.
Ex-Governor Bross Dead.
Chicago, Jan. 28.—Ex-Gov. Bros* of
Illinois, for the pa-t twenty years the largest
owner, and au editorial writer of the Chi
cago TriOun*, died at a late hour last night.
CO-OPERATIVE STORES FAIL.
A Philadelphia Enterprise Gradually
Getting Into Bud Shape.
Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 28.—The co
operative systom of running stores for the
ostensible purpose of helping the working
classes seems to have proved a failure, iu
Philadelphia, at least. Tho failure of
probably the greatest enterprise of tho kind
ever attempted in this country would indi
cate . s much. It was started fifteen years
ago by mill l ands and other working
people cf Kensington under the title
of the Philadel ihia Industrial Co-operative
Society, limited, at the beginning of the
period wheu workingmen a id women begnn
to us-ert their independence. The society
sturted iu modestly at No. 2537 Frankforil
avenue. The price of shares was fixed at
sl, and no oue could hold loss than five shares,
EXPANSION OF THE SOCIETY.
The society expanded until tho member
ship amounted to 3,606. It was prosperous
from the start, and opened store after store
until eight wero in full paying operation.
Fr< m the start the stores ma le money, and
at one time they did an aggregate business
of $10,006 a week, and the society had
$106,000 in deposits. Then came a revolution
of trade that no one seems able to explain
satisfactorily.
DIVIDENDS CEASE.
From paying a dividend of 9 per cent, in
1883, tbo society has dropped down until
within the past two years not one cent of
dividend lias been declared, aud from oper
ating eight prosperous stores tho list has
dwindled down to a grocery at No. 2537
Fnmkford avenue. Tho show windows in
the store have been broken in aud
the appearance of the front betoko is
ruin ami decay. The store has been run by R.
8. Shephard, president of the society, ami
John .Shew, its secretary. They are selling
out the stock as rapidly as possible. Presi
dent Shephard estimates tho liabilities of the
society at $38,000 and the assets at $28,000,
showing a deficiency of $10,006. lie thinks,
however, tha<. they will bo able to pay 75
cents on tho sl.
A CRONIN CASE ROW.
One of the Witnesses for the Defense
Shot by a Police Captain.
Chicago, Jan. 28.—One of tho witnesses
for the defense in the Cronin case, Robert
Gibbons, was shot to-night by Police Cupt.
Scbuettler, who has been prominent in the
pros cutiou. The shooting was the result
of an altercation tn a saloon opposite the
city hall, where the two men met by ac
cident at the drinking bar. Gibbons is
dangerously wounded. Each of the men
was accompanied by several friends. Those
with Giblmns wore Thomas Lynfth, a
wealthy distiller, Alderman McCormack
and ex-Policeman Redraou McDonald, the
latter of whom testified on the stand to an
albi for suspect Dan Coughlin.
CONFLICTING STORIES.
The accounts of the affair aro conflicting.
According to Cupt. Schuettler’s friends, the
row started in some uno implimencary re
marks by Alderman McCormick to the po
lice captain, ending iu the alderman throw
ing a lighted cigar in Capt. Schuettier’s
face. Tue captain was about to resent this
act, when he reeoivod a terrific thump on
the jaw from Gibbons, who is of herculean
proportions. Gililions was proceeding to
repeat the blow, whon Capt. Selmoltljr sud
denly pulled a revolver aud fired.
Alderman McCormick denies tho cigar
episode, and says ho had gone out of tho
saloon for a moment, when he heard loud
talk, with scuffling, and, returning, saw
Gibbons weltering in blood. Gibbous’
testimony in the Cronin trial was of a
minor character. Capt. Hchuettler was not
in uniform at the time of the shooting.
NORTHERN PACIFIC? TRAINS.
A Denial That They are Closed—On
the Other Roads.
Portland, Ore., Jan. 28.— Special dis
patches from Battle have just been pub
lished in both Ft. Paul and Minneapolis
papers to the effect that the Northern
Pacific line is in bad condition, and that in
consequence travel is grea'ly interrupted
and diverted to the Canadian Pacific line.
All such ren >rts aro without foundation. Tho
Northern Pacific line has boon open during
the wmter aud all trams have been running
practically on time both east aid west.
These statements are vouched for by the
railroad official*. Two through trains ar
rived here to-day from tho east over tho
Union Pacific. Tho road Is reported open,
and trains, both passenger aud freight, are
moving.
The blockade on the Southern Pacific
still remains, and the prospect of opening
the r >ad soon is not very flattering. For
the past thirty hours a tromen lous rain
storm has prevailed. It is feared that fol
low ing the disappearance of the snow there
will be a great many landslides in tho
mountains.
AN EXPLOSION IN A SCHOOL.
A Professor and Several of the Schol
ars Severely Injured.
Bloomington, 111., Jan. 28.—This after
noon a gas pipe retort, In which oxygen for
an experiment was boing made, exploded
in the school at Lexington Prof. Jesse
was terribly burned about the face
aud both eyes are probably ren
dered sightless. Bert Merrill, aged 20,
received a compound fracture of the leg
and had au artery cut, and will probably
die.
Cora Kemp, aged 16, has a compound
fracture "f the leg.
Hattie Barnard was knocked down by a
blow in the chest from a pile of iron, and
severely hurt.
About twenty others were more or less
hurt. Pieces of iron were blown through
brick walls. The greatest excitement pre
vailed for a time.
MONTANA’S LEGISLATURE.
A Decision That Legalizes the Repub
lican Branch.
Helena, Mont., Jan. 28.—The supreme
court to-day decided the Thompson man
damus case by granting a promptory writ
ordering the auditor to allow Thompson’s
bill for mileage and per diem. Thompson
is th 6 republican m inber of tho legislature
from Silver Bow county, one of the five
elected by the throwing out of the Tunnel
precincts. The court goes into the question
of certificates, and sustains the position of
tho republicans that certificates from the
state canvassing board are the only prima
facie evidence of membership in tue legis
lature. This decision makes the republican
body the legal legislature.
An Absconder Returns.
Birmingham, Jan. 28.—G. A. Long
worth, the absemuing agent of the tele
phone company at Florence, arrived there
to-fliy from Ca ada. He came volunta
rily, and says t e charges against! him’are
greatly exagerated.
Birmingham's Strike.
Birmingham, Jan. 28.—At 9 o’clock
bo-night the finishers in the Birmingham
rolling mill stopped work, and the null will
closedown. The men say it is a fight to a
finish.
GERMANrscOAUIIO.VS.
An Attempt to Bave the Government
in the Socialist Bill Fight.
Berlin, Jan. 23.—Owing to the total
failure of the cartel the coalition came to
the rescue of the government in the rec nt
issue made hv the socialist hill. There has
been some wondor as to whether that com
bination must henceforth he looked on as
merely a piece of past political hstory. The
truth is now plainly admitted that the
bond of the cartel combination was some
what platonic when an ts.ue wns made that
was of really vital interest, considered from
the standpoint of the old party lines.
A NEW AGREEMENT.
The cartel lenders have consequently
agreed that as the advantages of coalition
are snh.tantial for general legislation, it is
not desiranle that it should he dropped
during elections; bur, as the parties to it
differ rad cally in their opinions on the
socialist bill, that bill will not bo considered
as included in the purpose for which tie
coalition is maintained, and members will
be at liberty to act on it uccordiug to their
own convictions with ut theruuy violating
any oobjections as cartels.
BISMARCK TO SPEAK.
It is now expected that Prince Bismarck
will make at an early day 1 i the Chamber
of Deputies a declaration on the subject of
socialism and social st law, which shall be
ucoepled as presenting a platform of the
government in lieu of the speech expected
lie would make m the Reichstag on the last
day of the session.
FRANCE’S CUSTOMS TARIFF.
Deputy Rlbot Makes a Plea for a Pro
tective . ar Iff.
Paris, Jan. 28. —1n the Chamber of
Deputies to-day the committee on customs
tariff was elected. It is composed of thirty
nine protectionists, thirteen free traders and
three whose views aie uncertain.
M. llibot, rep., deputy from I’as do Calais,
spoke before tho cust ins tariff committoe
on tlie projected renewal of commercial
treaties. He said the question before them
was whether Franco should, when the com
mercial treaties expired in 18112, resume
complete freedom from tariffs, or should
conclude now treaties in 1891. A maj rlty
of tho deputies bad already pronounced
in favor of a renewal of the treaties at that
time. The points nt which this subject
touched most forcibly the mind of the p-ople
are as regards the inconvenience of frequent
changes in the tariff, and ttie danger of ex
posing the French export trade to rigorous
measures of intended retaliation on the part
of other countries. France s lould know
that she is bound to a commercial policy
of protection. She is not in the same posi
tion as Groat Britain and Belgium,
which have a superabundance of industrial
production. All the conditions of her po
litical, semi and economic order make it
imperative that wide and efficient protection
should he accorded to French manufactures
and agilculturo.
GLADSTONE'S CIRCULAR.
Pooullar Features of the Present
Condition of Pubilo Affairs.
London, Jan. 28. — Mr. Gladstone’s usual
circular to his supporters iu the House
of Commons, just before the opening
of the sossion of parliament, was published
to-day. He says that the condition of pub
lic affairs is not without some peculiar
features, and that the questions to be con
sidered at the opening of the session may
be of pressing iuterest. The wording of the
circular is unusual, and is taken to indicate
discussion of Pigott’s letters and other
matters of vital importance to the liberal
and home rule members.
Tanner Must Give Ball.
Dublin, Jan. 28. — Dr. Tanner, member
of the House of Commons for the middle
division of Cork, has boen required to
furnish two separate sureties in £IOO, or to
servo threo months in prison, for uttering
throats against Smith Barry, head of tho
landlord syndicate. Tanner has appealed.
A Call for a Protest.
Berlin, Jan. 28.—Tho Witu company
lias sent a cable dispatch calling upon tho
German foreign office to demand that the
officers of the British company cease their
invasion of the former’s tradiug territory iu
East Africa.
Hurricanoe in Germany.
Berlin, Jan. 28.—Hurricanes continue
in Northwest and Central Germany. Much
damage has been done to the forests in
these sections. A heavy snow storm pre
vails in tho Erzegblrger mountains.
Retreat of the Rivers. •
Cassel, Jan. 28.— The river Fulda is
falling, and part of the town tuat was sub
merged is now free from water. The waters
continue to spread in the valleys of the
VVorra, Wessor, Lahti, and Baale.
Declines to Act as Arbitrator.
Bt. Petersburg, Jan. 28.—The c/,ar has
declined to act as arbitrator between Hol
land and France in thoir dispute regarding
tbe boundary between French Guiana and
Dutch Guiana.
Russian Cotton Bpinnera Fail.
St. Petersburg, Jan. 28.—The Ser
guefeffs, an Important firm of cotton spin
ners, have just faded for several millions of
roubles.
French Colliers Btrlke.
Paris, Jan. 28. —The colliers at Lens
have gone on a strike, owing to tho dis
missal of three union men from the col
liery.
MOST SECURES A STAY.
He Will be Allowed to dive Ball
Pending; an Appeal.
New York, Jan. 38. Justice Van Brunt,
presiding justice of the supreme court, to
day granted a stay in the case of John
M at, pending an appeal to the court of
appeals from the judgment of conviction
and sentence to c o years’ irnprisonmout
for malting an inflammatory speech at a
meeting held to condemn the Chicago au
thorities for convicting and hanging
the anarchists there. Herr Most will
be liberated on #5.000 bond, the same
amount fixed in the former stay. The pro
ceedings were held in the justice’s piivate
chambers. Members of the press were ex
cluded.
Naked in Church.
Toronto, Jan. 38.—Charles O. Andras, a
wire mat agent, whose parents are said to
be wealthy residents of Rochester, N. Y.,
was found yesterday in All Saints’ church
stark naked and leaning against the attar.
Andras was arrested on a ctiarge of in
sanity. Ue stripped himself of his clothing
in his coil, and would wear nothing.
Charleston's Budget.
Charleston, 8. C., Jan. 38.—At a meet
ing of the city council to-nig.it, the appro
priation bill for 1830 w.is Introduced. The
appropriations fo t up about $535,000,
which is about $6,000 less than last year's
budget.
( DAILY, *lO AY BAR. I
{ 6OK NTS v X>?Y. f
I WEEKLY,*I.26 A YEAH. *
SAVANNAH LOOMING UP.
GORMAN BBCOMMEND3 $500,000
FOR THE HARBOR.
At Least Five Democrats to be Un
seated If the Republicans Can Carry
Out The r Programme —Editor Smith
Surely Offarel the Mlaslon to Rus
sia—l be Service Pension BUI Sure
to be Defeated.
Washington, JaD. 2s.—Senator Gor
man, me übor of the commerce commitlee,
which has charge of the river and harbor
appropriations in the Senate, has introduced
a novel bill, appropriating the t >tal amount
recommended by the engineers in ch irgi of
the work, to be expands 1 in the next flic.il
year on the seven great harbors of the At
tlantio coast. The amou t follows; Bos
ton, $300,000; Now York, $160,000; Pnlla
delphia, $.100,OKI; Baltimore, $595,0J0; Nor
folk, $100,000; Charleston, $700,000; Savan
nah, $500,000.
DEMOCRATS TO BE UNSEATED.
Five demoe ats are to be unseated, it
seems, according to the programme of the
House republicans. They are: Jack-on of
West Virgi ia, whose case oomes up to
morrow; Pendleton of West Virginia,
Compton of Maryland, Clarke of Alabama,
and Parrott of Indiana. The other twelve
whose seat* are being contested are not, it
is stated, to be disturbed; but it may
be that the republicans inav not be able to
r strain thoir partisan feelings when they
get stnrtwl, as Chairman Quay may give
them now instructions. The consideration
of the Jackson case will be attempted to
morrow without rules, but in defereuce to
tho unmistakable desire of the majority of
the reputdicans iu caucus last night, the
rules will lie reported. within tho next
week.
THE DEMOCRATS TO FIGHT IT.
The democrats will fight the considera
tion of tho Jackson case, and
may resort to filibustering to do
so. In that event, Speaker R-ed will
fall back upon the rule he made for Speakor
Keifor, that pending the consideration of
an election case, a question of the highest
privilege, a filibustering motion ca mot bo
entertained. Ho may then have t > try to
count a quorum, the democrats refusing to
vo o, hut iu attempting this, as he probably
will, he.gwill have to run counter
to tho opinions of the ablest
men on the republican side,
including, strang dy enoug i, his close
friend and adviser, llmiry Cabot Lidge,
who, with others in the caucus last night,
f renounced an attempt 1 1 count a quorum
noxpediont, to say the least. The rep ibli
cans will probably stand -olidly by Speaker
Reed, however, as the democrats will by
Mr. Carlisle.-
BUSSIA’B MISSION.
There is now no doubt that the report
that the Russian mission had *bonn offered
to Ch.ries Einorv Smith of Philadelphia
on Saturday was correct. The non-com
mittal replies of Postmaster General Wan
amaker on his return to-day to question*
about the report showed < lainl v that it was
true. There was inuoh speculation to-day
among Pennsylvanians as to whether Mr.
Smith would accept, and a genera! expres
sion of belief that be would. However, be
may not when he learns from this paragraph
that Col. Elliot F. Shepard declined the
Russian mission some tune ago. The col
onel did not decline, however, because ha
did not value tho honor highly, or because
he did not desire it. He both valued and
desired it, but his family objected to re
siding in Ht. Petersburg, and so the colonel
decliued.
DIRECT TAXES.
The direct tax refund bill will probably
pass the House as quickly, if not as quietly,
as it passed the Senate.
BRUCE TO B REWARDED.
Ex-Senator Bruce is apparently about to
get his reward for his faithful service to
the administration by being made recorder
of deeds for the District of Columbia.
CUPID ca piu res a general.
Maj. Gen. Schofield, commanding the
army, is repot ted by tbe society g ssip to
be engaged to be married to a charming
woman,
HOVKY’S PENSION BILL.
Gov. Hovey of Indiana availed himself
of the privileges of tbe floor ia both houses
to-day to lobby for tho :rvice pension bill,
which ho says would co-t only between sllO,-
OiXi.ooo ami $120,000,000 a year, or $10,000.-
000 more than the am >unt which the House
appropriation committoe thinks it will he
noces-ary to appropriate for regular pen
sions tliis year. He was discouraged to find
that his appeals to republican senator, a id
representatives to fulfill their pleiges by
passing his bill, and his threats that they
would make the next House democratic if
they did not, were coldly received. The re
publicans propose to pass the total disa
bility and the dependent penslo i bills, but
tboy will let she service peusiou bill sleep
in committee.
A COTTON FACTOR FAILS.
He Was Supposed to be Sound and
Was Well Rated.
New Orleans, Jan. 38.—John R. Lal
land, a cotton factor, has failed and made
an assignment of his property for the ben
efit of his creditors. A schedule filed in
court shows liabilities of $564,009, and assets
of $544,000.
The nows of the failure created a sensa
tion among businosi men, it having been
generally believed that he was financially
sound, and his rating in financial circle*
was high. He did a large country business,
and though his transactions in tue country
were generally confined to items of a few
thousand dollars, thev were nu norms. It
is believed in commercial circles that had
Lalland appealed to his friends, Us
would have beeu able to tile ove
the crisis in safety. In his petition Mr.
Lolland slates that his failure is due to his
inability to realize upon his assets, consist
ing largely of bills receivable. Ha asked
that a meeting of his creditors ba called,
aid the court ordered that a meeting be
held Monday, March 3.
BAILED WITHOUT Tdg MAILS.
A Northwestern Company Refuses to
Accept Government Prices.
San Francisco, Jan. 3a— The steamship
Santa Rosa sailed yesterday for Portland
without carrying the United States maif
for the north, which had accumulated here
in great volume, owing to the complete
railway blockade. It appears fhat th*
s*earner Columbia, which sailed for Port
land last week, c larged the United State*
government vl per mail bag, but the gov
ernment only off-red fifty cents per bag fra:
mail to go by the Santa Rosa,
which the steamship company refused.
The company cites that the British
government pays this American line s4l
per mail bag for carrying tho mails from
i his port to Victoria, and t at when thi
home government out the rate to 50 cents,
the.' declined. Two weeks mail for th<
north remains here, and the situation from
a commercial standpoint is serious.
