Georgia Historic Newspapers

    . THE MORNING NEWS. I
1 EsAslishxd 1850. Incorporated 1868. >
■j J. H. ESTILL, President. 1
CATE COOLLY KICKED OUT
THE VOTE OP HIS CONSTITUENTS
COMPLETELY IGNORED.
Speaker Reed Had to Crack His Whip
Very Persistently to Carry His
Point—Two or Three of the Repub
licans too High-Minded to Lend
Themselves to the Outrage.
Washington, March s.— Speaker Reed
had to crack hi* whip very frequently to
day to seat Mr. Featherstone. Mr. Cate,
the sitting member, had over 1,000 major
ity in a vote of over 30,0C0, and was
clearly entitled to the seat. So plain was
this that in making up the lists of those con
testees who were to be ousted the republican
managers did not at first include Mr. Cate’s
name. But finding the republicans disposed
to do as they were told the leaders finally
determined to put Mr. Cate out and put Mr.
Featherstone in. They would have had less
difficulty, perhaps, in declaring the election
void and the seat vacaut, but this would
have bruug bt Mr. Cate back here in sixty
days. So they insisted that, Mr. Cate being
ousted, Mr. Featherstone should be seated.
A FEW REBEL.
At this several high-minded republicans
rebelled. Mr. Hill of Illinois wanted to get
up and make a speech, setting forth the
reasons of his rebellion. This the repub
licans would not permit, but with the
help of the democrats he got leave to print
them in the Record. Mr. Stewart of Ver
mont could not be persuaded to vote with
the republicans. Mr. Cutcheon of Michigan
was only broueht into line by being re
minded that Mr. Reed had made him
chairman of the committee on
military affairs, and that as
such it was his duty to
stand by the chairman of the election com
mittee. All day long Mossrs. Reed, Mc-
Kinley, and Cannon labored with these and
other rebels, but the best they could get from
most of them was a promise not to vote
with the democrats. The only thing Mr.
Reed didn’t have to do was to count a
quorum. The democrats voted In the hope
the republicans they were counting on
would help them defeat Mr. Featherstone.
Carlisle aud the other loaders severely
censure a dozen democrats who were ab
sent and unpaired to-day, when the vote on
the election case was taken.
MAY COME tJP IN THE SENATE.
While the Senate was still in executive
session yesterday afternoon, and just after
the nomination of Mr. Caldwell of Arkan
sas to be United States circuit judge bad
been confirmed, Mr. Breckinridge of Ar
kansas, speaking in the House on the Ar
kansas contested election case, said, refer
ring to Mr. Caldwell: “A gentleman who
has just been confirmed to a circuit judge
ship of the United States." As this appears
in his published speech in the Congressional
Record this morning the Senate may take
some notice of it.
DETAILS OF THE DEBATE.
Right and Justice Clearly on the Side of
the Democrats.
Washington, Maroh s.— lmmediately
after the reading of the journal in the
House this morning, consideration of the
Arkansas election case of Featherstone vs
Cate was resumed, and the contestee was
accorded the floor to speak in his own be
half. It was the duty of the members, he
said, not to elect a representative from
the First district of Arkansas, but,
laying aside party prejudice, laying
aside every sentiment of possible party ex
igency, past, present, or to come, to deter
mine whom the people of that district had
chosen to represent them. It was not seek
ing personal vindication nor dreading per
sonal denunciation that he was standing
here as a representative of 42,000 free men,
and asking justice for them.
HOUR MAKES A HIT.
Mr. Houk of Tennessee, who has charge
of the case for the majority of the commit
tee on elections, made a forcible presenta
tion of the ciaims of the contestant, and
although he addressed himself especially tc
the evidence in the case, which is usually a
dry procedure, he infused much interest
aud amusement into his remarks. He
charged that the “Arkansas bull
dozing community” had entered into a
conspiracy to prevent the return of Mr.
Feathorstone to congress, and dwelt upon
the frauds which, he asserted, hail been
perpetrated in Crittenden county. There,
lie asserted, democratic election officers had
been appointed in violation of the law—an
assertion which was responded to by
Mr. Outhwaite of Ohio with a denial that
there was evidence in the case to prove it.
Mr. Houk letorted that the gentleman
would deny the ten commandments, and he
reiterated his charge of fraud and intimida
tion. At the conclusion of his speech, Mr.
Houk demanded the previous question.
THE HOUSE EXCITED.
Mr. Hill of Illinois (republican), who was
supposed to be opposed to the claims of Mr.
Featherstone, [rose and asked unanimous
consent to address the House. He was
greeted with loud calls for the “regular
order” from the republican side, aud by
shouts of “Let him speak” from the demo
cratic side. There was a good deal of ex
citement exhinited during the roll-call, as
the vote was very close. Many members
kept tally, but the only republicans who
voted against the motion were Messrs. Hill
of Illinois, Kerr of lowa, and Dehaven of
California. The vote resulted. Yeas 145,
nays 141 —so the previous question was
ordered.
Mr. Outhwaite then offered as a substi
tute for the first resolution reported by the
majority (declaring Cate not entitled to the
seat) a resolution declaring Mr. Feather
stone entitled to it. The substitute was re
jected by a vote of 138 yeas to 144 nays,
Mr. Hill of Illinois voting with the dem
ocrats.
SPRINGER ASKS AN INVESTIGATION.
Mr. Springer of Illinois moved to recom
mit the case to the committee on elections
with instructions to that committee to
appoint a subcommittee of five members
to j roceed to Arkansas to investigate the
election in the First district of that state.
Mr. Grosvenor of Ohio said that yester
day he had given notice that he would offer
an amendment to Mr. Springer’s motion so
as to extend the investigation Into the
second district. Since that time he had
learned that the committee on elections had
determined to investigate the subject
matter of his amendment. Consequently
it would be an injustice to the committee
for him to offer his amendment, and he re
frained from doing so.
Mr. Springer’s motion was defeated by a
vote of 138 yeas to 146 nays.
The vote declaring Mr. Cate not elected
was: Yeas 147, nays 138, and Mr. Feather
stone was seated by a vote of 145 yeas to
?°5 nays, and the oath of office was admin
istered to him by the speaker.
The House then at 5:15 o'clock adjourned.
Ready to Buy More Bonds.
Washington, March s.—The Secretary
w the Treasury announced to-day that ho
“ ready to resume tiie purchase of 4 per
9°nfc. bonds to suoh an amount as may be
Justified by the available balance in the
t; ousury. Ail offjrs at 123 fist or lees will
be accepted.
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EXECUTIVE BESBION NEWS.
The Talk of Pumping: the Correspond
ents Still Goes On.
Washington, March &—At 4:15 o’clock
thia afternoon the Senate went Into execu
tive session to further consider the subject
of executive sessions. The entire time of
the Senate until adjournment, at about 6
o’clock, was occupied with discussion upon
the legal points involved in the resolutions
presented by Mr. Dolph’s special commit
tee, having in view the punishment of news
paper correspondents for contempt. The
discussion was eugaged in by Messrs. E varts,
Edmunds, George, Teller, Vest, and others,
and it is said that no two of them agreed
exactly as to the power of the Senate to
punish for contempt.
PREVIOUS CASKS CITED.
Mr. Dolph read from the record of the
proceedings in the case of Kamsdell and
White, who were imprisoned by the Senate
in 1873 and released after a time, it is said,
in deference to public opiuion, tojprove that
a correspondent who procured copies of
executive documents aud published them
was amenable to the writ of the Senate.
The case of Hallet Kilbourne, which has
been mentioned frequently in connection
with the present proceeding, was also
quoted to sustaiu, infereutially, the|poBition
of the advocates of the resolution.
CAUSE OF THE FAILURE.
In this case it was said the prosecution
failed for the reason that thu House of
Representatives had endeavored to compel
him to produce books of his private busi
ness. Soon after the discussion began
several senators left the chamber. Others
soon followed, and when the Senate ad
journed there were not more.than twenty
members present.
NAVAL COURT-MARTIALS.
Commander Coghlan to be Investi
gated for His Recent Utterances.
Washington, March s.—The Secretary
of the Navy to-day ordered a conrt-martial
to convene at the Mare Island uavy yard on
March 13 for the trial of '.Commander
Joseph B. Coghlan on two charges, one of
conduct prejudicial to good order and naval
discipline and the other for violation of the
naval regulations. The specifications allude
to a letter written by Commander Ccghlan
to the editor of the Vallejo Chronicle criti
cizing the administration of naval affairs
in general and that of the navy yard at
Mare Island in particular.
DETAIL OF THE COURT.
The detail of the court is a. follows: Com
modores Benham and Irwin; Captains
Remy, Watson and Philip; Commanders
Kempff and Nicoll Ludlow; and Lieut.
Commanders Perry aud Stockton, with
Lieut. William E. Sewell as judge advo
cate.
The navy department will take no action
in regard to the charges preferred by Com
mander McCalla against Ensign Kline aud
Chief Engineer Eutwisle of the Enterprise
until after it has received the report of tho
court of inquiry in the case of Commander
McCalla. The facts developed by that in
vestigation will determine the future action
of the department, and what, if any officers
of the Enterprise will be tried by court
martial. \
CIVIL SERVICE REFORM.
The Majority of the House Committee
to Exonerate the Commissioners.
Washington, March s.—The House civil
service reform committee has almost fin
ished its investigation of the charges against
the civil service commission. There will
probably be two reports from the commit
tee on the investigation. One, which will
be signed regardless of party by all but two
or three members, will exonerate the com
mission, as such, entirely, and will exoner
ate its individual members from all charges
of unlawful conduct, but will criticize
Commissioner Lyman for indiscreet con
duct in connection with the promotion of
his brother-in-law, Mr. Campbell, and the
appointment of his daughter.
AN AMENDMENT PROPOSED.
The report will also suggest an amend
ment of the civil service act which will ex
tend the scope and increase the powers of
the commission, for example to the extent
of authorizing it in its investigations to
compel the attentance and testimony of
witnesses, and the production of books
and papers. The minority report
will condemn the commission, which it will
describe as an aurmaly; will recommend
that it be reduced to one commissioner and
a return to the spoils system.
This report would just suit Speaker Reed,
who does not like oivil service reform, but
the House will not daredo adopt it.
RIVERS AND HARBORS,
Tho Senate Commerce Committee In
Favor of Large Appropriations.
Washington, March 5.—A majority of
the Senate commerce committee, including
Chairman Frye, strongly favor Senator
Gorman’s bill to appropriate money enough
to complete the harbor improvements at
Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Balti
more, Charleston, and Savannah, or at
least as much as can be profitably
expended in two years. Gen. Cosey,
chief of engineers, whom Senator
Gorman was instructed by the
committee; to consult.hs earnestly in favor
of it. He says such an arrangement would
save the government just one-third on the
work to be done. It is not improbable that
the commerce committee will substi
tute the Gorman bill for the reg
ular river and harbor bill when
the matter comes to the Senate; meanwhile
the House committee on rivers and harbors
is preparing a big bill on the regular lines.
This committee has agreed upon an aver
age of 40 per cent of the estimates as a rule
for its appropriations for the new projects
contemplated. This rule would bring the
total appropriation up to over *20,000,000.
It is by no means certain that the House
committee will be able to defeat the at
tempt to substitute the Gorman bill.
DUDLEY STILL ON THE RACK.
The Report of the Inspector Not Made
Public Yet.
Washington, March s.—Congressman
Crisp called on First Assistant Postmaster
General Clarkson to-day to ask whether the
report of the special Inspector sent to in
vestigate Dudley at Americus had been re
ceived. Mr. Clarkson said no, and that he
did not expect it for a fortnight. He prom
ised to let Mr. Crisp know when it arrived.
Meanwhile the appointment of Dudley is
held up. Davis will probably be confirmed
very soon as postmaster at Athens.
Taulbee Almost Sure to Die.
Washington, March s.—Ex-Congress
man Tauihee’s condition is much worse to
night and more serious tbau it has been any
time since be was shot. At midnight his
condition was such that fears were enter
tained that he might not live throughout
the night. There is hardly any hope of bis
recovery.
Bond Acceptances.
Washington, March s.—The bond offer
ings to-day reached W,W at lall
of which were accepted.
SAVANNAH, GA., THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1890.
BARBOUR BACKS BLAIR.
VIRGINIA WILLING TO TAKE THE
APPROPRIATION.
Mr. Faulkner Taken to Task for*As
suming to Speak for the Southern
States—Mr. Plumb Opposes the Bill
on the Ground That it Was Not
Wanted by the People.
Washington, March s.—At 2 o’clock
his afternoon the Senate took up the Blair
education bill, and Mr. Barbour addressed
the Senate in advocacy of it. He spoke of
the great interest which the people of Vir
ginia took in that measure, aud said that it
had been favored in the platforms of both
political parties in that state. It was of the
deepest and profoundest inteiest to toe peo
ple of Virginia, who had done as
much for the sake of education in the last
fifteen years as the people of any other
st ite. They had expended about $19,000,-
000 for that purpose, and had given|ss.ooo,-
000 to educate tho colored illiterates which
the general government had put upon them
not only as citizens, but as sovereigns.
SURPRISED AT THE LACK OF INTEREST.
He was surprised at the lack of interest
in the subject shown by the Senate, and
was astonished at the southern senators
opposing the bill. Why, he asked was that
so? Had they any well grounded appre
hension that the school system of their
states was to be inferred with 1 They could
not have it, because the consent of tne
states id to be obtained before the bill
would apply to them. How were the rights
of Virginia, or Alabama, or Mississippi to be
violated the beneiaction? Did the benefac
tions of George Peabody interfere with the
school systems in states where they were in
operation? He had no constitutional doubt
on the subject, as he did not belong to the
hair-splitting class of constitutional
lawyers.
GOVERNMENT INTEREST NEEDED.
If the general government took no inter
est in the education of the colored people
there was no reason why the people of Vir
ginia should tax themselves for the educa
tion, in their midst, of a class of people who
did not act with them politically, and who
would be more apt to vote with a man
from Wisconsin than with a man from
Virginia. As to the talk about the great
wealth of the south, that, he said, was a de
lusion aud an exaggeration. The bulk of
the people of Virginia were poorer today
than they had been nineteen years ago. He
denied that the senator from West Virginia
(Mr. Faulkner) had any right to speak (as
he had spoken) for the southern states.
SIDED WITH THE NORTH.
The bulk of the state lay west of the Alle
ghany mountains, and the interest of that
state had not been with the south thirty years
ago, when it cast its fortunes (wisely, no
doubt, and to its own interest, with the fed
eral government. The statements made as
to the wealth of the south were not true, so
far, certainly, as the slates of Vireinia and
North Carolina were concerned. The great
flow of wealth rolling over the pacto
lian sands had not reached them. He had
never known the agricultural interests of
Virginia to be more depressed than
to-day. He believed that there was
a better day before that state; but that the
better day had not yet arrived. The land
holder in Virginia was regarded as the
poorest man in it Ho might jie the owner
of 1,000 acres of laud, and yet not have
money enough to pay for his breakfast.
WOULDN’T BE FORCED ON THEM.
Coming back to the discussion of the bill
itself, he reminded the senator from West
Virginia that no one would force the school
fund on that state. But if the people of
West Virginia were willing to take it, he
asked, why, in God’s name should, he (Mr.
Faulkner) oppose their doing so? Did the
southern senators believe that the people of
their states would decline the fund? Did
the senator from West Virginia believe that
his people would not take it? Why did he
stand up in the Senate and say
that they should not have it, and that peo
ple of other states should not have it? He
knew that it would not do for his colleague
(Mr. Daniel) and himself, to go home and
tell the people of Virginia that they must
not take this money from the federal gov
ernment, but must continue to tax them
selves for the support of the schools. If
they were to mak e speeches on the lines of
the speoches of the senator from West
Virginia; they would beheld to accounta
bility which he, for one, would not care to
encounter.
PLUMB OPPOSES THE BILL.
Mr. Plumb addressed the Senate in oppo
sition to the bill. The bill, ho declared,
was the conception of the senator from New
'Hampshire. He (Mr. Blair) was the bill,
measure and idea. Whatever vitality it
had or had had, was due to the remarkable
devotion which he had exhibited toward
it. No state had asked for it. No
southern state, and no northern state had
ever said that it needed federal aid for its
schools. But, after the tender had been
made, there had been a few feeble re
sponses from southern states, just os might
have been expected. The state of Alabama
was to receive $0,000,000 under it, and
naturally Alabama would like to have that
$6,000,000. The time had passed, and
the good sense and level-ueadedness
of the people had assorted itself, until to
day a majority of the southern Btates
(states which would he the recipients of 75
per cent, of the fund) had practically re
pudiated it and had said that they did not
want it.
HOW THE SENATORS STAND.
The senators from Missouri, Arkansas,
Texas, Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia,
and Maryland, aud he could have until the
end of the session included Delaware,
had indicated their determination to
vote agaiust it. Other southern states,
notably South Carolina and Arkansas,
were divided on the question, and now the
Senate was asked to put the United States
in the attitude of thrusting on those people
money which they did not wish. He vent
ured the assertion that if the bill went
over for two years longer, every southern
state would say that it did not want it.
Commenting upon Mr. Biair’s remarks as
to making up to the southern states for the
burden of additional pension measures, Mr.
Plumb said that if the bill became a law
the southern people would be warranted in
believing that the money was a gift of the
aroused conscience of the north on acoount
of the great wrong done to the south in
and after the late war.
AN EXPIATION.
It would be regarded in the form of an
expiation, just as conscience money was
seut to the treasury from those
who had defrauded it. The section which
gave money on that ground did itself
unnecessary injury and humiliation, and
the section that received it could not be
expected to spend it in fulfillment of the
trust, and would not do it. He argued that
some of the southern states spent as much
money for school purposes as somo of the
northern states did; and that if it was
found in any states that ooraraon school
education was not boin< sufficiently pro
vided for it was because too much money
was being spent on high schools, where
differential calculus and “ologiet,” were
being taught instead of the “three R’s" and
the common rudiments.
At the close of Mr. Plumb's speech the
.■senate went into executive session and at
UM o'clock adjourned.
ENGLAND'S IRISH DEBATE.
The Failure to Show up the League
Books Under Consideration.
London. Maroh s.— The debate on the
amendment to Mr. Smith’s motion relative
to the adoption by the House of Commons
of the Parnell commission report, moved by
Mr. Gladstone on Monday, was resumed in
the House to-day. John Mac Neall, home
rule member from South Donegal, said that
if the commission was iutended to merely
elucidate the report, the government, by
friendly agreement with the opposition,
would have selected judges agree
able to both sides. He believed
ttiat the appointment of tbe commission
was merely an attempt by the government
to stir up hatred against the Parnellites.
Ho charged the government with allowing
Pigott to escape, as it had allowed Lord
Arthur Somorest to escape, for political
purposes.
Sir Charles Lewis, conservative, admitted
that the report proved very little that was
not known before, but taid it proved what
was before disputed. Men had undergone
long terms of transportation for less than
had been proved against some of tbe defend
ants before the Parnell commission. It was
strange, he declared, that Mr. Dillon had
gone to Australia without testifying before
the commission.
DILLON GAVE THEM A CHANCE.
Thomas Sexton, home ruler, said that
Mr. Dillon had submitted himself to the
commission prior to his departure for Aus
tralia, and inquired whether tho judges
wished to question him.
Mr. Lewis admitted that Mr. Sexton was
right in his statement concerning Mr. Dil
lon, but he commented strongly on the ab
sence of the league’s books. Mr. Lewis
accused Mr. Campbell, Mr. Parnell's pri
vate secretary, of removing the books of
the league.
A lively passage hero ensued. Mr. Camp
bell declared that he last saw the books in
Liverpool, and, so far a3 he knew, the same
books had been produced bofore the com
mission. Mr. Lewis contended that every
charge that had been disproved would have
been proved,if the books had beon producod.
SEXTftN OFFERS TO EXPLAIN.
Mr. Sexton said he wished to explain on
behalf of Mr. Parnell why they refused to
place at the disposal of their opponents a
statement of the finances of the party.
Mr. Lewis asked if this was a legitimate
explanation which had been overlooked iu
the report. The Parnellites had blankly
refused to accede to the application fur thi>
production of books before the c mmiasion.
If they had been produced they would have
shown before all other evidence whether the
respondents were honest men or criminals.
James Bryce, liberal, adjourned the
debate. He argued that the limited views
of the commissioners reduced tho value of
their conclusion to a very low point. This
omission furnished a complete reason why
their decisions oouid not be accepted as an
adequate treatment of the subject.
Mr. Parnell’s expenses in his Scotch ac
tion against the Times are returned at £536.
GERMAN LEGISLATION.
Labor Bills Ordered. Prepared—The
Anti-Socialist Bill.
Berlin, March s. —Baron von Berlepsch,
the Prussian minister of commerce, has
beon instructed to draft for submission to
the Landtag bills looking to a settlement of
the labor questions, based on the opinions of
the experts, given before the state council.
Pendiug tho passage of the bills, provisional
measures will be introduced for the pro
tection of the working men. Among these
measures will be one providing for the
formation of workingmen’s committees.
The Cologne Gazette says that at the
coming session of the Reichstag the govern
ment will demand fresh military credits,
an<l|wili again introduce the anti-socialist
bill which was rejected by the last Reich
stag. Many papers, including the Klien
Journal, attribute the governinent's|defeat
iu tho recent elections for the Reichstag to
popular discontent over its colonial policy,
especially in regard to Samoa.
YOUNG LINCOLN DEAD.
He Passed Away Quietly with His
Parents at His Bedside.
London, March s.—United States Min
ister Lincoln’s son died at 11:07 o’clock this
morning. During the morning the lad was
in a oomatose condition. He was unable to
retain nourishment, aud the doctors stated
definitely that his death was merely a ques
tion of a few hours. He suffered no pain.
Mr. Lincoln and his family were at the bed
side of the dying boy from early in the
nierniug until he died. He passed away
quietly.
CAPITAL FOB THE REPUBLICANS.
Opposition to the McKinley Tariff
Bill by Foreign Countries.
Paris, March s.—Lo Comte, member of
the Chamber of Deputies, had an interview
to-day with M. Spuilor, minister of foreign
affairs, in which he represented the disad
vantage the French dry goods trade would
suffer from the adoption by the American
congress of the McKinley bill. M.
SpulJer stated that France, England, anil
Switzerland had agreed to communicate
with the Washington authorities in regard
to the matter.
Brazil’s Constitution.
Paris, March 5. —A dispatch from Rio
Janeiro to the Temps says that the Brazilian
government has resolved to promulgate a
constitution without waiting for the con
stituent assembly to meet. At the coming
elections for members of the ordinary
chamber voters will be required to vote
“yes” or “no” to signify their approval or
disapproval of the constitution.
Very Cold in Austria.
Vienna, March 6.—The weather is bit
terly cold throughout Austria-Hungary,
the thermometer ranging between 12° and
15" oentrigrade below zero. At Llagen
furt it is 20° below zero.
Liverpool’s Dock Strike.
London, March s.—The Liverpool dock
strike has ended, the masters conceding the
demands of the workmen.
GRANT’S MONUMENT.
Dr. W. Seward Webb Gives $6,000
and Runs it Up to $150,000.
New York, March s.—The second
largest contribution ever received by the
Grant Monument Association was made
to-day by Dr. W, Seward Webb, president
of the Wagner Palace Car Company.
Dr. Webb subscribes $5,000 to the
Mail and Express fund, and be directs
that the weekly Mail and Express be sent
to 2,500 Young Men’s Christian Association
rooms throughout the country. Including
the fund iii the hands of the monument
association and the money so far rained by
the Mail and Express and Dr. Webb’s sub
soripuon, the fund now amounts to $150,000.
Killed by Electricity.
Birmingham, Ada., March s.—William
Miller, who had charge of the electric light
department of tbs Pioneer Company’s fur
nace at Tnornas, three miles from Birming
ham, was killed this afternoon while a
- to one of the lights in the cast
PARTY LINES FORGOTTEN.
TENNESSEE'S LAWMAKERS GREET
THE REBUBLIOANa
The Members of the Club Convention
March In a Body to the Capitol—The
Legislators Greet Them With a
Cheer—Speeches of Welcome atjd
Good Feeling All Around.
Nashville, Tenn., March s.—lt was
after 10 o’clock when President Thurston
rapped the national convention of the re
publican league to order. Not more than
half of the delegates were then in their
plaoes, and the remainder kept straggling
in. A cold wind set in after miduight,
making the situation decidedly disagree
able. The atmosphere of the convention
hall was very chilly, aud peudiug the open
ing of tbe sessiou the delegates enjoyed
themselves aud kept warm by singing
national airs, a brass baud accompanying
them.
The proceedings were opened with prayer
by Rov. Mr. Derrick of New York, after
which telegrams and letters were road from
President Harrison and T. C. Piatt of Now
York, aud others.
Harrison’s letter.
President Harrison’s letter is as follows:
Wajsuikuton, D. a, Feb. 11, 1890.
To Hon. John M. Thurston, President of the
Retmblican league of the United States:
Dear Snt It gives me pleasure to acknowl
edge the receipt ot your letter of the 27th, ex
tending on behalf of tiie executive cmmnitioe
of the Republican League of the United mates
an imitation toaileud tne third annual conven
tion of tho league, to be held at Nashville, Tenu.
While 1 cannot accept the invitation, ueUlicrcan
I refrain from expressing my interest in
the success of your proponed meeting, aud in
the permuueuce and usetul activity of the clubs
wtilch will be represented. Such organizations
are wholesome and desirable, not only l rum a
parly, but from a public standpoint. They in
terest young men in public ntlairs, and com
pact anil organize tbe interest thus excited into
controlling political forces. Tne party to which
you belong lias never suffered by an intelligent
discussion of its history or its principles, and I
am sure your organization will continue to fur
nish courageous and well-appointed champions
whenever tne lists of debate are opened.
BENJAMIN HaIUUSON.
Invitations tendered to tho governor of
Tennessee and the members of the state
legislature on the floor were accented with
thanks, aud an invitation was extended to
the league to attend tue reception at the
state house at noon.
ENTHUSIASM AT THE STATE HOUSE.
This was accepted unanimously and an
adjournment was taken till 2 o’clock for
this purpose. The members thereupon
formed iu line, and, beaded by the Evans
ville brass band, marched to the capital,
where they were heartily received bv the
chief executive and joint legislature. Upon
the arrival at the capital tne band played
“Dixie,” and as the league marched upun
tne house tbe scene was most remarkable.
Inspired by tho strains of the old tune, the
members of the legislature arose, aud, with
shouts and waving of handkerchiefs and
flags, welcomed the visitors. It wus some
time before order was secured, bpoaker
Clapp then arose aud in his address of wel
come said he was glad to welcome tbe Re
publican League to the borne of Jackson,
Folk aud Johnson. “You are now in Mid
dle Tennessee,” said bo, “but we want to
have you go to the mountains of Bast Ten
nessee and west to the Mississippi, In order
that your miuils may bo iu condition to
appreciate tho state pride and en
thusiasm to be found at tbe hearth
stone of every Tennessean. It is
true the state has not advanced to
that full measure of growth and prosperity
its future is destined to reach. Within its
limits are to be found an inexhaustible sup
ply of minerals of every character, cereals,
vegetables and tobacco. T hese blessings,
with patriotic management aud the new
spirit of energy now springing up, will tie
the stepping-stone to Tennessee's future
greatness ami prosperity.
“In the name of the legislature, gentle
men of the Republican league, I welcome
you, and I promise not to count you pi esent
to make a quorum.”
GOV. TAYLOR WELCOMES THEM.
Gov. Taylor was then introduced and said
he did not know what to say to add to the
speaker’s address. “In the name of the
whole state,” said he, “and especially the
city of Nashville, I welcome you. I love to
see republicans come to Nashville, because
it is the center of education in the south.
Tbe wonderful resources of Tennessee can
not be told. You must see to appreciate
them. Iron ore is hanging in our moun
tains’ sides, and it is not necessary
to go down into the mines to get it. Our
soil is the most fertile iu tbe country. What
we want to do is to develop our resources.
We desire you to look around, see, and fall
into our idea and reduce the tariff in order
that they can be developed."
Piesident Thurston, in responding, said:
“This cordial and kindly reception con
vinces us ttiat the hospitality of Tennessee
outrivals that of all the rest of the world."
“We ooino as representatives of one of
the two great political parties. Our rela
tions will be as warm as the powers will
permit.
“We will go home with a better idea of
the possibilities of Tennossee than we ever
had before, and the result will be worth
millions to the state, which is indeed
blessed. We recognize that there must be
two political parties, and that when they
are so nearly equal in strength pubiio in
terests are best subserved. Thank God
that tbe Republican party is in the suprem
acy, aud that the Democratic party is strong
enough to hold it down. [Anplause.]
“God bless old Tennessee, fur her soil is
enriched by the blood of thousands of brave
on both sides who fought for and settled
principles inherited from our ancestors.
“ l bank God, there still remains a large
part of the grand army that fought agaiust
us.”
ANOTHER OUTBURST OF ENTHUSIASM.
The applause following Mr. Thurston’s
speech continued for several minutes, and
at its conclusion the band attain played
"Dixie," following it with “Yankee
Doodle." Intense enthusiusm again
became manifest, and for some time
tbe capital building rang with
shouts from democrats and republicans
alike, while many of both parties stood on
their chairs and desks, and waved American
flags.
Short addresses were then made by State
Senator Sparks, Edwin Stewart of Phila
delphia, and Hon. Joel Fort of Tennessee,
after which the delegates from Pennsyl
vania sang “America," and the reception
ended.
A PLATFORM ADOPTED.
When the convention reconvened it was
3 o’clock. The first committee to submit ite
report was the committee on resolutions.
A platform was presented aud adopted
after a heated discussion over an amend
ment that was finally tabled. It open*
with a long paragraph of general congrat
ulation and then goes on to say:
We d'tnand the maintenance of tbe Ameri
can system of protection to American industry
and labor, a policy that baa been Identified
with every period of our national prosperity.
But we pledge our support to thorough aol
equitable revision of tho tariff. o os to adopt
the protection It affords to changed business
conditions, and we arraign the Democratic
iiorty for the inauner in which, for years. It
Lae prevented the accomplishment of this pur-
V W o denounce the practice of the Dvntowatio j
p*rtr in It* systematic. persistent and ontra-
KOOU* effort* to deprive the republicans of the
south of their right of franchise. We reassert
the expressed determination of the Republican
party (o maintain thi* right to it* fulieat ex
tent and to give all citixona the amplest protec
tion to which they are entitled by the constitu
tion.
statics Rrorrra.
Any theory of state rights which shall be held
to prevent the government from protecting all
it* citizens in the enjoy n lent of all their civil,
religious and political rights and privileges is
condemned by this convention. The govern
ment of the U nited States, having unquestioned
rieht to demand of every one of her citizens
his best services In her defense in time of peril,
whether from within or w ithout, is hound there
fore by every principle of honor.oonsistency and
good faith to protect its citizens in full and free
enjoyment of each and every right conferred
upon them by ttie constitution. And this con
vention protest* against the seating in the
American congress ot sny applicant, no mutter
of which party, who presents himself for ad
mission unless his election U untainted either by
fraud, violence or assas dilation. We indorse
site present action of congress in carrying out
this policy.
THK CONCLUDING DECLARATIONS.
Then follow declarations in favor of the
interstate commerce act; against trusts; In
favor of litieral peusioiis; against bringing
niien, or foreign, or pauper, or convict
labor in com|ietuion with American labor;
in favor of ballot reform, and, in co .elusion,
an expression of approbation of Speaker
Heed’s action in standing boldly for the
principle of the majority rule against demo
cratic power in and out of o ingress.
The amendment that created the only
breeze during tho two dnys' session was
offered l>v Isaac Kovel of Washington, and
is as follows:
We demand that our representatives in con
gress redeem every pledge made to the people
at Chicago In IWH, by repealing the internal
revenue laws, by revising the tariff, by iwssing
the Blair educational bill, and ctunidetelj re
storing silver to the currency of tho country,
ami by liberal pensioning of every federal sol
dier.
FUNCTIONS OF THK LEAGUE.
After disposing of the platform the com
mittee on the league submitted a declara
tion emphasizing divorcement of the work
of the organization from all effort to in
fluence the action of any convention or to
indicate a preference for individual oindl
dates; that it was not in the provinoe of the
league to dictate the policios or prin
ciples of the party; calling the
attention of the state leagues to the neces
sity of organizing in every promising
congressional district; the ueco-sity of im
mediate organization in the south, and call
ing the attention of tho national congres
sional committeo and national state execu
tive committee to tho necossfty for the Im
mediate preparation and distribution of
campaign literature.
Cincinnati was chosen as the location of
the next convention.
TIIK NEW OFFICERS.
Tho election of oflloors resulted as fol
lows:
President—John M. Thurston of Ne
braska.
Hecretary—A. P, Humphreys of New
York.
Treasurer—Phineas Lounsbury of Con
necticut.
Vice-presidents and mem tiers of the ex
ecutive committeo—Alabama. B, F. Jen
nings and U. W. Austin; Louisiana, H. C.
Warmoth and E. C. L. Her wig; South
Carolina, It. M. Menninger and J. H, Me
Lane; Tennessee, W. T. Ownby and T. H.
Reeves; Virginia, D. A. Windsor and A.
W, Harris.
After passing resolutions thanking the
press and citizens of Nashville for their
kin I treatment the convention adjourned
sine die at 7 o’clock to-night.
About one-third of the delegate* left for
thoir homes on the night trains, and the
others will remain over, visiting Chatta
n oga, Memphis and other southern cities.
They will return here on Friday night and
start at once for the north.
HIGH WATER AT NABHVILLB.
Many People Driven from Their Homes
in the Lower Part of the City.
Nashville, Tenn., March 6.—Heavy
rains and floods for the past two weeks
throughout the south, especially In Ken
tucky, Tennessee and Alabama, have
caused high water in nil the streams and
rivers and considerable damage by over
flows and backwater. The lower portion of
this city is submerged, forcing
many people to vacate their
homes, located in the inundated por
tions of the city. The railroads,
although at one time threatened, have
passed the danger liue. Through traffic has
not beon much impeded. Dut the swollen
streams and ihe impassable condition of the
country roads have virtually provonted tho
movomunt of tho local traffic which, of
necessity has affected the business of the
railroads for the past ten days, l'tie loss of
the Tennessee river bridge at Johnsonville,
by the Naßhvillu and Chattanooga road, has
afforded the only serious impediment to
through travel, through Memphis trains
being now run over the Louisville and
Nashville via Guthrie, maklug about tho
same time.
OOTTON SUED OIL TBUBT.
Judge Wallace Refuses to Bnjoln Its
Dissolution.
New York, March 6.—Judge Wallace
of tba United States circuit court handed
down a decision to-day in the case of Will
iam Wallace and Samuel Thomas, J. Mac-
Caulley, James N. Benedict and Edmund
Urquhart, as resident trustees of the
American Cotton Seed Oil Trust,
denying the motion for a decree
restraining and enjoining the trust from
dissolving until the termination of twenty
one years, for which time the concern was
organized. His honor says that if a decree
is made which is Intended to bind the trust,
it is manifestly unjust to do this when the
trustee are not parties to the suit and hare
no opportunity to be beard. But as the de
cree cannot bind them, the oourt cannot
afford the relief asked.
HAYII IN A FERMENT.
A Belief That Hlppolyte's Regime Will
be Bhort Lived.
New Orleans, March s.—The British
steamship Jamaican, from Liverpool Jan.
30, via Port-au-Prince, Feb. 21 and King
ston Keb. 26, arrived here this morning.
Hue reports affairs iu a very unsettled state
at Port-au-Prince, and that recently an at
tempt wa< made to buru the town. The
general impression is that President Hip
poivte’s government will be of short dura
tion.
The Jamaican brought as passenger
Jam-s For ban, tbe British Consul general at
Han Domingo and Hay ti. He is acc mpanied
by his family and secrs'ary. The consul
general embarked on the Jamaican at King
ston Keb. 26, where he had been previously
conveyed from Port-au-Prince by an
English man-of-war, tbe relations between
the Britisn and liny thru governments hav
ing become strained.
Allison's Election.
Dee Moines, la., March S.—Tbs houses
of the legislature in joint session to-day
ratifl and their action of yesterday In ballot
ing for United Wholes senator, and Senator
Allison was declared sleeted to be his own
successor for tbs term of six yearn from
March 4, UTJL
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FLOGGING OFTHEIYOMEN
ANOTHER STORY OF THE OUTRAGE
IN SIBERIA.
Madame Bigdda’a Intention to Slap
the Commandant's Face Not Re
vealed to Her Companions If it Was
Premeditated—Madame Kovalskaya
Too 111 to Rise from Her Cot.
Chicago, March A— The following com*
muni cation has been received by the Asso
ciated Press:
„ . MtxsxAPous, Minn., March 4, 1880.
To the Associat'd I'rets: i have jtiat received
from a Russian acquaintance In Paris the fol
lowing letter with regard to the reported flog,
giug to death of Madame Sigida at the mines of
Kars, in eastern Siberia I nave every reason
to believe that my correspondent is trust
worthy and that he has received direotly from
the province of Trans-Baikal tho Information
that he sends mo. but further than this I
know nothing. The storv of the flog
ging of Madame Sigida and the suicide
of her companion has noun officially denied by
the Journal De St Pntmrsbour<je % the organ of
the Russian foreign office, and by the St. Peter*,
burg \avas Vrcmy/i, but these denials, unfor
tunately, do not carry as much weight as they
would If the Russian government had not de
nied the story of the slaughter of political ex
iles in Yakutsk, last March, a ator f that I am
now prepared to prove before the committee
of the International Prison Association.
Grattan Kjcnnah.
THE INCLOSED LETTER.
Paris. Feb. 3, 1890.
Mr Dear Ms. Kevxax— l hasten to send you
details that we received here yesterday from
Siberia of the tragedy at Kara, with regard td
which I wrote you briefly a few days ago. We
learn from a trus worthy source that upon sug
gestion or initiative of Baron Korff, governor
general of the Amoor province, that It was de
cided some months ago to put all the polit
ical Offenders at the mines of Kara
upon the footing of common criminal convicts.
In pursuance of this decision orders were re
ceived from St. Petersburg to turn political
convict women over to Commandant Tomilln,
director of the common criminal prison, and to
have them shut up in the cells occupied by fe
male convicts of tho common criminal
class. The Kura tragedy was the re
sult of this order, which was made
known to political prisoners on Dot. 34 last,
More than half or the male political convioM
proposed, at once, to commit suicide; but as
all would not agree to this It was finally de
cided io await definite action on the part of tho
prison authorities. The men rave notice, how
°i V,)r i that they would kill thorn-elves at
the first attempt to carry tho order Into effect.
About the same time the severities began in
the women's political prison. Mme. Kavalskya,
by order of Uovemor Genera! Korff, hail beets
transferred from Kara to tho Verkhnl IMinska
prison, and this had prepared the way for
the events tliat followed as soon at
her female companions learned the harrowing
details of her removal to Verkbnl Udiuskh the
circumstances of which were as follows: Baron
Korff |iald a visit of Inspection to the women's
political prison at list Kara, and entered the cell
where Mme. Kavalskaya was lying sick In lied.
It Is a strictly enforced rule tu all Russian
prisons that when officers, and especially an
officer of high rank, enters a cell, every pris
oner shall rise to Ilia or her feet and stand Is
theattliude of attention. Madame Kavulakara,
who was In an advanced stage of prison con
sumption, neiiimr rose from her bed nog
nnMosd In any way the governor general's en
trance. Baron Korff, Ignorant perhaps of tka
unfortunate woman's physical o.>mlltlon, askwl
her roughly whether she did not know who had
entered the cell, and why she did not.
get up. Mme. Kavalskaya replied, wearily r
“It makes no difference to me
now whether you are the governor general or
only a turnkey, lam unable to get up. Baron
Korff, irritated apparently by what seemed to
him Impertinence, ordered that Mme. Kavals
kaya be taken to the Vernkhni Udinska prison,
and there be put Into solitary con fl nement. This
order was executed by OoL Masulkoff. com
manding officer of the Dot Kars prison, with
great brutality. Mme. Kavalskaya declared
herself unable to walk, sail she was thereupon
taken out of her bed by two soldiers, carried
down to ihe bank of the Hpltka river in a sheet,
and nut Into a small boat fur transportation
to Verkhni Udinska. Her companions held
Commandant Mssuikoff responsible, and ap
pealed to the higher authorities fur the latter's
removal. When Cue appeal was disregarded!
they proceeded to enforce It by means of a
hunger strike (voluntary seif starvation),
and a hunger strike of unheard ot
duration. They fasted the first time sixteen
days. When at last commandant Masulkoff
tendered his resignation, the higher authorities
refused to accept it, and the hunger strike wan
renewed for eight days more, at the expiration
of which time two men were notified that the
obnoxious commandant. Col. Masulkoff,
would be removed to another post. The prom
ised removal, however, did not take plage, and
again the hunger strike was renewed. Thil
time it continued twenty-two days, but most of
the women were kept alive In spite of
their refusal to eat by the administration of
food artificially. At the end of this terrible
hunger strike, only Madame Sigida and Mad
aute Balova were able te stand on their feet.
Madame sigida asked for an interview with the
commi q inn'-. In the course of it she struck him
in the face. Whether the blow was pro
voked by something that he said or
whether she intended to sacrifleo
herself with the hope of bettering the condition
of her oompardons Is not known The hunger
strikers were not aware of her intention to
strike the commandant If she had such an in
tention when the left them. Mine. Hi -Ida
was removed to the common criminal
prison at list Kara, as were also Mines.
Malusknava and BmyrnlUaka,aud Mme Koval
skaya. The result of the blow given by Mme.
Higida to Commandant liuouikoff was a tele
gram from Governor General Korff, directing
that she be flogged. The prison surgeon made
the customary examination of her person and
reported that she was not in condition to en
dure the punishment. Huron Korff was notified
of the surgeon's decision and of his refusal to
be present at the flogging. He thereupon tele
graphed: “Carry the orders into execution with
out tho presence of the doctor.” Mme. Sigida
was tbeu flogged under the supervision of the
assistant director of the common criminal
prison, an officer named Vcrbofskl. Another
letter gives the name of the assistant director
as BobrofskL She died two days later
from heart failure, and almost im
mediately afterward times. Bmyrmtz
kaya, Kaluzknaya, and Kavalskaya
poisoned themselves. The other women were
so Isolated that they did not know what had
happened, but news of the terrible tragedy
reached the men’s prison, and according to In
formation furnished by the procureur thirty
of the mole political convicts took
poison. Only two of them, however,
Kaluzbnsor and Bobokof, died. Tbs others
were saved by medical treatment. Herker,
who was living outside the prison in the “free
command,” shot himself In the head, but as
his pistol was a very small and cheap one, the
wound was Dot fatal. In tho words of the
Kara political convicts, “Tills Is the be
ginning of the end.” Th governor
of the province of the Traus-Baikal,
the procureur, the district surgeon, and two
Endaruie officers from Irkostk have gone to
ira, but for more than a week, my corre
spondent says, no news has been received from
there. Very truly yours, A. B. D,
FRIGHTENED A MAIL AGENT.
A Volley of Blank Cartridges Fired to
bcare a Black Appointee.
New Orleans, March 5. A Kosciusko
(Miss.) special says i “At Sturgis, on the
Canton, Aberdeen and Nashville railway,
as tho B:3d o'clock train pulled up at Mon
don to-uigh t, a volley of tweuty-flve or
thirty shots was tired from ambush, aimed,
it was thought, at the train, but it is now
supposed that ouly blank cartridges wars
used. It is reported that the negro mail
agent recently put on this line became
much frightened, and aid not make his run
to-day."
Rhode Island’s Democratic Ticket.
Providence, ,R. L, March 3,—At the
democratic state convention at Music hall
this morning “Honest" John W. Davis iff
Pawtucket was nominated for governor,
and Cap*. John Wstsrs of Newport for
lieutenant govtruor, with the rest of tbs
ticket of im.