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THE MORNING NEWS. i
4 Established 1860. Incorporated 1888. >
j J.H. ESTILL, President. i
SLANDERS ON THE SOUTH.
SENATOR EUBTI3 CALLS SENATOR
HOAR TO TIME.
The Latter Obliged to Admit that He
Made a Statement Widely at Vari
ance With the Facta—Senator Sher
man Prates About Denial of the
Right to Vote to the Negro.
Washington, March 13.—1n the Senate
to-day Mr. Eustis referred to two state
ments made by Mr. Hoar yesterday in
reference to the southern states, one of
them being that in the state of Louisiana,
and in some of the other states, there were
laws which made it a penal offense, punish
able by imprisonment in the penitentiary
for a white man to associate on terms of
equality with a black man. He asserted
that there was not the slightest foundation
for such a statement. The other statement
by Mr. Hoar was to the effect that there
was another law in Louisiana which pro
vided for the sale of any colored man found
for a oertain time out of work, and that his
former master should have a preference in
the purchase. He asked Mr. Hoar whether
be could find any such law ou the statute
books of Louisiana.
HOAR CITES HIS AUTHORITY.
Mr. Hoar read from a volume of the laws
of Mississippi passed in 1865 an act pro
viding that freedmen, free negroes and mu
lattoes who were found with no lawful em
ployment, and that all white men assem
bling with freedmen, free negroes and
mulattoes, or usually associating with them
on terms of equality, should be deemed
vagrants, and should be subject to punish
ment by fine and imprisonment. That law,
he said, contained the two provisions to
which he had referred; and he thought that
substantially the same law had been enacted
in Louisiana.
The Blair educational bill came up as the
unfinished business, and Mr. Blair took the
floor, but yielded to Mr. CaiJ, who asked
leave to offer a preamble and resolution in
reference to the nomination of Judge
Swayne and District Attorney Stripling of
Florida. After the reading of a long pre
amble, Mr. Chandler made the point of
order that the resolution referred to execu
tive business, and that point having been
sustained Mr. Call withdrew the resolution
for the time being.
HOAR WAS IN ERROR.
Subsequently Mr. Hoar obtained another
volume of the laws of Mississippi, and read
from it provisions in reference to the col
ored people as a justification of his state
ment.
Mr. Eustis pressed his question as to Mr.
Hoar’s statements yesterday, and Mr. Hoar
admitted that so far a3 his statemont con
cerned Louisiana he was in error.
Mr. Sherman asked Mr. Eustis whether
he did not know that the Fifteenth amend
ment never would have been proposed but
for the tact that the laws of the southern
states were depriving the negro of his rights
of citizenship. Thut, he said, was certainly
a fact.
Mr. Eustis replied that it was his honest
conviction that all the reconstruction meas
ure?, all the extreme legislation and consti
tutional amendments wero adopted by the
Republican party with the single object of
Africanizing the south and maintaining
political supremacy, and ho characterized it
os the “greatest crime ever committed
against civilized communities.’’
A HEATED POLITICAL CONTROVERSY.
Mr. Sherman then took part in the discus
sion, which soon became a heated p litical
controversy. He said that when the civil
war was ended there was a universal feeling
in the north that the best way to solve the
difficulties of the time was to restore to the
people of the south their state governments,
with all the powers attached thereto, with
the limitation and qualification of protect
ing the riguts of all citizens, black and
white. * * * * it had not been con
templated at that time to arm the negro
with suffrage. But the laws passed by
some of the southern states had been so
unjust to the colored people and so unjust
to the white republicans in the south that
the people of the north became convinced
that the object in the south was to overthrow
the results of the war, and to deprive the
freedmeu of ell the rights of citizenship.
When the time had come that it was seen
that there was no way to protect the eman
cipated people except by arming them with
suffrage, congress had, reluctantly, slowly,
but deliberately adopted that remedy as the
only one fitted for the case. There had
been no feelmg of passion or hate about it.
POSSIBLY A MISTAKE.
He (Mr. Sherman) had sometimes thought
that it might possibly have boen better not
to have adopted the fifteenth amendment,
conferring suffrage on the colored man,
because that right had been nullified and
uprootod. The right of suffrage did not
now exist with the colored men wherever it
mig tbe valuable to them. The result of
the fifteenth amendment was practically to
give to the southern states increased repre
sentation in the House of Representatives
and increased power in the electoral college.
If there was any thing wrong in the situ
ation of southern affairs, the people of the
south had brought it on themselves.
After some further remarks Mr. Sher
man suid: “Let me say to the senators on
the other side, in all seriousness, that there
is a feeling in the north that injustice has
grown out of the fifteenth amendment, and
'hat not only have the negroos of the south
been deprived of their votes, but that the
people of the south now enjoy larger politi
cal power than the same number of people
of the north.
NEORO REPRESENTATION.
“You have thirty-odd members of the
House of Representatives based upon negro
representation. Now let the south do as it
ough tto do. Let it obey the constitutional
amendments. Let it give the negro his vote
and permit him to vote as he will. We are
uot there to control him. We are not there
to drive him. And I would not care if the
whole of the negroes voted the democratic
ticket. But this feeling of injustice does
prevail in the north—a feeling
t .at, while you aro depriving tho colored
people of their votes, you are exercising an
undue power in the government, and until
that is remedied, either through the negro
voting or through the negro being excluded
from the basis of representation, there
never will be a feeling of content and
■ quality among tho people of the northern
states. And now you complain of
us. For what? For injustice, wrong,
violence or bloodshed? No; you complain
of us that we hate you. We deny hatred,
but we demand justice, and until the south
ern states give thee colored people their
rights under the constitution there will he
disquiet and disc uiteut and a feeling of in
justice. 1 trust that the time will come
w hen even this feeling will disappear and
"hen every man shall have the right to
vote. And I now say that be
yond and above this educational
bill, or any other pending measure,
an act of congress that will suoure to
every man in the United Slates who is en
titled to v.ite his right to cast his vote and
have it counted. Whenever congress rites
iu the dignity of passing Mich a law, that
will be uniform throughout k the Uu.ua
fbc JHofninjj IfetojS.
States, affecting Massachusetts and Ohio as
well as South Carolina and Mississippi,
every man will feel that that is a
just and fair law, and there will
be no further ground for complaint.
Congress cannot exercise any control
in local affairs in the southern states, and
does not c airn the right to do so; but what
we insist upon is that there shail be a law
to protect the right of suffrage, and that
that law will be executed with such power
that no man dare to expose himself to its
penalties.”
BUTLER REPLIES.
Mr. Butler replied to Mr. Sherman. He
said that if the debate had accomplished
nothing else, it had shown, by the state
ments of the senators from Ohio and Massa
chusetts, that suffrage had been c inferred
upon the negro of the south not because he
was entitled to it, not because he was qual
ified to execute it, but because of cer
tain laws passed by gome of the
southern states immediately after the
war. There was, for instance, the
black code in his own state,
which he was very glad to be able to say he
had voted against in the legislature, because
he thought it unwise and because he
thought there was no justification for such
laws. Ho thought that they were as un
wise as had been the laws of Massachusetts
and Connecticut which sent men to the
stako because of their religious belief or for
witchcraft. The admission of the Senator
from Ohio, he thought, would go a long
way in throwing light on any future discus
sion as to the right of the negro to vote in
the south.
PRESIDENT JOHNSON’S DECREE.
Referring to the administration of Presi-
Johnson, Mr. Butler said that one of the
most unfortunate days that tiad ever come
over the country was the day that brought
about the conflict between the chiof execu
tive and legislative department of the
United States. President Johnson had in
sisted that his policy should lie carried out
in the south. He had said: “This is my
policy. I say, as commander in chief
of the army of the United States that this
shall be the settlement on which you
are to return.’ He (Mr. Butler) had acqui
esced in that, and then he had been met
with the conflict between President John
son and the legislative department < f the
government, which had inaugurated
another policy of its own. Between the
upper and nether millstone, between the
executive policy on one side and the legis
lative policy on the other, the south had
been ground to powder.
NEGROES AND THE OFFICES.
Mr. Butler went on to spoak of the ex
clusion of the colored men in the northern
states from all political offices, and
said that on the contrary there wa3
no discrimination in the laws of South
Carolina, Mississippi, Louisiana or Georgia
against a rnau on account of his race, color
or previous condition of servitude, and that
a number of colored people in these states
were holding offices to-day, and one col
ored man was representing a district of
North Carolina. So that he would say to
the senator from Ohio, who had remarked
with such a patronizing attitude that the
south should do so and so, that if the
northern states would do right to
the colored people, a good deni of
friction would disappear. This very day
aud very hour and for the last week the
newspapers had been teeming with accounts
of white men in the territory of Oklahoma,
and republicans among them, announcing
to the world that if the colored people
dared to assert their right to control that
territory by reason of their superiority of
numbers they would drive them out at the
point cf the bayonet.
OUTRAGES IN THE NORTH.
He had seen within the last month ac
counts of outrages upon colored people in
Ohio and Indiana, and of their being pur
sued to death by white mobs, and yet he
had not heard one syllable of protest. He
believed that the great body of the people
of the north were kindly disposed toward
the people of the south, and that that kind
ness had been very much stimulated by the
fact that millions of money were being
sent into the south for investment; and he
would tell the senator from Ohio that when
ever he attempted to carry out his
threat of another crusade upon the
south through supervisors and United States
ma; shals for the purpose of dominating the
elections there he would have fire in his
rear from men who had carried their money
and their industry into the south. Those
people would be found side by side, shoulder
to shoulder, through evil report and good
report, in preserving in those southern states
the same character of government that ex
isted there to-day. That was because they
understood and knew that it was through
the power and influence of just such gov
ernments that their investments in the south
could be preserved.
OHIO WOULD BE AGAINST HIM.
The senator would find whenever he at
tempted to re-establish in the south those
reconstruction governments which had loft
in their train a black mark of spoliation, of
disgrace, and humiliation, and which
would always be a reproach to the history
of this country, a protest in his
own state end in his own county
that would cause him to hesi
tate before he carried it out to its fullest
extent. He (Mr. Butler) would not ex
change one hour of good order in the south
for aU the political power that negro suf
frage had given to the south.
If he had the power to-morrow,
be would transfer every atom of
that political power to the north and
wish the north godspoed in the solution and
management of it. He appealed to the
senators and he appealed to the people of
the north to believe southern men when
they said they were far more interested in
an orderly, humane, honest settlement of
the question than the people of the north
could possibly be.
This closed the discussion and then the
Senate went into executive session and at
5:15 o’clock adjourned until to-morrow.
STIRRED UP THE SENATE.
A Baseless Report That Senator Quay
Was About to Return.
Washington, March 13.— The dullness at
the capitol was stirred up this evening by
the report that Senator Quay was to return
on Sunday, and that he would thus cut
short his trip to stir up the republican
caucus to turn out Mr. Canaday from the
office of sergeant-at-arms of the Se iate and
put in Senator Quay’s candidate, ex-State
Treasurer Bailey of Pennsylvania. Un
fortunately this report was laid at rest by
the statement that Senator Quay was cruis*
iag off the coast of Florida and would not
reach port until March 18, and by the
further statement that even if Senator Quay
were here ex-Treasurer Bailey would not be
elected sergeant-at-arms of the Senate,
Senator Quay having failed to secure votes
enough before he went away, although he
tried hard. There are a dozen other candi
dates for the place, which la probably
secured to Mr. Canady by that fact. The
friends of all the other candidates aro
agreed that since Pennsylvania has the
Clerkship of the Ho ise and the executive
clerkship of the Senate, she ought uot to
expect anything more.
Purchases of Bonds.
Washington, March 13. —The bond of
ferings to-day aggregated $ I,IBO,‘AXI. All
were accepted at lid for is and 103>i for
DOLPH STILL IN THE DARK
A NEWSPAPER MAN WHO FAILED
TO TURN INFORMER.
The Committee Thought George H.
Harries Was Going to Let the Cat
Out of the Bag—Secretary Halford
and Clerk Pruden Among the Day’s
Witnesses.
Washington, March 13.—This afternoon
Senator Dolph’s investigating committee,
having finished questioning the senators and
employes as to their complicity, if any, in
the previous publication of executive session
proceedings, began an inquiry relating to
the premature publication of treaties.
By request Private Secretary Hal
ford and Executive Clerk Pruden
of the white house, and Messrs.
Cridler, Philip and Taylor of the diplomatic
bureau of the state department appeared
before the committee. The first two were
questioned merely as to the method of
transmitting messages from the white house
to the capltol, and the latter as to their
knowledge of the manner in which copies of
certain treaties reached the press in advance
of t e action thereon by the Senate. They
could tell the committee nothing respecting
these publications.
LOOKED UPON A8 AN INFORMER.
George H. Harries of the Washington
Star was called. Sergeant-at-Arms Can
ady had told the committee, so they under
stood, that if immunity were granted him
ho would give away three members of it.
When Senator Dolph approached Mr. Har
ries to administer the oath, the lat
ter expressed his unwillingness to be
sworn until satisfied that the commit
tee had been regularly and duly
constituted; he had.fhe’ said, read the pro
ceedings of the Senate with great care, and
had observed no motion whatever of the
apppointment of such a committee. The
resolution, passed in secret session authoriz
ing the committee to make the investiga
tion was shown to Mr. Harries, which he
said was perfectly satisfactory, although
it did seem to be betrayal of executive
session matters by the committee and he
was sworn.
DENIED HAVING MADE THE STATEMENT.
He denied having made such a statement
as was imputed to him by Mr. Canaday,
either in the latter’s presence or elsewhere.
When the members of the committee,
headed by the chairman, assured the witness
of perfect immunity it he would tell
whether or not any of them, not intending
the question to refer to any other senator,
hud ever given him information respecting
secret session proceedings, Mr. Harries
declined to answer.
After he had retired Mr. Canaday was
recalled and testified that tho committee
had misunderstood him in the first instance.
D. S. Barry of the New York Sun had told
him, ho said, of Mr. Harries’ , willingness to
testify.
Mr. Barry was then summoned, but he
could not recollect any such conversation,
aud added nothing to the committee’s stock
of knowledge on the subjeot, “How does
executive session matter become public.”
UNCLE SAM’S FAT PLACES.
The Nominations and Confirmations
of the Day.
Washington, March 13.— The senate has
confirmed the following nominations:
Lieut. Col. William Smith as paymaster
general, with tho rank of brigadior-general.
Collectors of Customs—E. C. Duncan, for
the district of Beaufort, N. C.
Collectors of Internal Revenue—Virginia:
P. H. McCanll, Sixth district; J. W. Brady,
Second district.
P. H. Williams, United States marshal
for the southern district of Florida.
E. C. Weeks, as postmaster at Tallahas
see, Fla.
The President to-day nominated Alexan
der Ramsey Nininger to bo United States
marshal for the northern district of Ala
bama, Charles C. Austin’s name having
been withdrawn.
Andrew Davidson of New York, to be
first deputy commissioner of pensions, vice
Hiram Smith, Jr., resigned.
Postmasters—Richard E. Griffith, at
Winchester, Va.; Charles 8. Moss, at
Franklin, Tenn.
The Senate committee on judiciary have
decided to recommend the confirmation of
the Florida judicial nominations, which
have bean pending before them since early
in the Bession.
GREED TO BE PUNISHED.
A Law to Make Steamers Carry Life
Guns to be Repealed.
Washington, March 13. —1n the Senate
to-day Mr. Frye, from the committee on
commerce, reported the bill to repeal the
law of the last congress, requiring steam
ships to carry guns and rockets for casting
lines in case of distress, aud stated the rea
son for the passage of the bill ia order “that
the greed of certain companies might re
ceive notice.” The statement was to
the effect that the Lyle Gnu Company
furnished to the life saving stations
guns at SB7 50, the Hunt Gun Company guns
at $67 25, and the Cunningham Rocket Com
pany rockets at S2O, but that after the en
actment of the law steamships were re
quired to pay S4OO for a Lyle gun, $250 for a
Hunt gun and S9O for rockets. The commit
tee on commerce bad considered the matter,
and now recommended the repeal of the
law.
Mr. Cockroll —The bill should be passed
this morning.
Mr. Frye—l do not care to have it passed
this morning. Let it go ou the calendar.
Mr. Cockrell—Let it be passed now.
Mr. Frye—l shall be very happy to have
it passed now.
Mr. Hoar suggested that it would be
better to let the matter stand for a day or
two, as there might be something to be said
on the other side. The bill was placed on
the calendar.
PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS.
Three Catholic Bishops Protest Against
the New Law in Wisconsin.
Milwaukee, Wis., March 13.— The full
text of the protest of the three Catholic bis
hops of Wisconsin —Heiss, Flascb, and
Katzer —against the Bennett school law was
made public yesterday. The gist of the
long document issued by the bishops is that
the law goes so far as to leave it to the de
cision of the state school board as to whether
any school is to be regarded oh having a
legal existence or not. The bishops say:
"We have indeed nothing against the
demand that reading writing, arith
metic, aud United States history bo
taught in the English language, but we
do object to the power granted by this
provision to tho school boards to decide
whether our schools have a right to exist
before the law.” The biebope explain that
“they cannot but apprehend that the
ultimate intention is to gradually destroy
the parochial system altogether.” They
add: "We have never received one single
ceut of state help fur our schools. We want
u j state interference with them, either.”
SAVANNAH, GA., FRIDAY, MARCH U, 1890.
M’OOMAS BILL.
The Republicans Prevented from Rail
roading It Through.
Washington, March 13.—The repub
licans did not succeed iu railroading the
McComas gerrymander bill through the
committee on election of president yester
day as they had predicted. Tho democrats
did not permit it. They propose to have
the bill fully discussed at least before it is
reported. They are opposed to it, as Will
iam Wilson of West Virginia, who is one
of the minority of the committee, says, be
cause it is a centralizing and un
constitutional project which may briug
about inextricable confusion in the
attempt to carry out a partisan necessity.
They regard it as a scheme to prevent what
they believe to be necessary rodistricting
project? in Ohio and Maryland. “Suppose,”
said Mr. Wilson, “it should pass; sup
pose democratic congressmen should be
elected and returned from the new districts
in Ohio and Maryland; suppose republican
candidates should appear as elected from
the old districts, who would decide such a
controversery? Who could decide it
peaceably f”
GOVERNMENT APPROPRIATIONS.
Chairman Cannon Denies the Accu
racy of Recant Statements.
Washington, March 13.— Chairman Can
non, on behalf of the committee ou appro
priations,said to-day: “Thostatements about
appropriations which have been appear
ing in the newspapers, and which have been
summed up more or less accurately by ex-
Speaker Carlisle, are inaccurate. The ap
propriations for the next fiscal year will not
exceed the appropriations for the present
fiscal year, except for pensions and public
buildings. We propose to cut tho esti
mates so as to keep them down.
As to pensions, the now legislation
will be limited to a $40,000,000 bill for dis
abled soldiers and dependents. As for
public building', the House must take care
to keep the total down aud it wili. All our
appropriations will be shaped up so as to
permit a reduction of $80,010,000, provided,
of course, that the sinking fund law be sus
pended.
PUBLIC BUILDING BILLS.
The Senate Passes a Number Intro
duced by Its Own Members.
Washington, March 13.—The Senate
this morning proceeded with the con
sideration of bills on tho calendar, and
passed bills for public buildings as follows:
Stockton, Cal., $85,000; Mammoth Hot
Springs, in tho Yellowstone National Park,
$10,000; Pawtucket, R. L, $100,000; Woon
socket, R. 1., $100,000; Hudson, N. Y.,
4100,000; Virginia City, Nov., *75.000;
Hastings, Neb., $150,000; The Dalles, Ore.,
$100,000; Salem, Ore., $100,000; Stillwater,
Minn., $100,000; Reno, Nev., $75000. All
the foregoing bills were Senate bills.
WANAMAKER j(N OHURCH.
He Makes a Congratulatory Speech on
the Transfer of the Building.
Washington, March 13. After all. Post
master General Wanamaker did not make
a southern trip. He found that he could
not spare the time, he says, and so let Rus
sell Harrison escort the ladies. Mr. Wana
maker made a congratulatory speech to
night at the annual meeting of the Church
of the Covenant, of which he is a pew
holder, as are also President Harrison, Boo
retary Blaine, and Secretary Window. The
feature of to-night’s meeting was the formal
transfer of the handsome church edifice hy
the building committee to the congrega
tion. Gardiner G. Hubbard, Justice Will
iam Stroug, and Judgo Schoonemaker were
among the speakers.
MRS. HARRISON’S PARTY.
The Start for Charleston Made Prom
Washington Yesterday Morning.
Washington, March 13.— Mrs. Harri
son, Mrs. Wanamaker, Mrs. Russell B.
Harrison, Miss Wanamaker, and Mrs.
Wildon, of Philadelphia, Miss Robinson of
New York, Russell B. Harrison, and Mr.
Hammond of Trenton, N. J., left Wash
ington at 11:30 o’clock this morning, in the
private car of J. H Inman, president of
the Richmond and Danville railri ad, for a
trip south. They will spend Friday in
Charleston, and then go to Bt. Augustine,
Fla.
Money for West Point.
Washington, March 13. —The commit
tee on military affairs to-day reported to
the House the military acadern y appropri
ation bill. It calls for $430,639.
WRECKED ON A TRESTLE.
Twelve Cara Go Through and Are
Then Burned.
Birmingham, Ala., March 13.—A serious
accident happened on the Georgia Pacific
railroad, some twenty miles east of Bir
mingham, about noon to-day. An east
bound freight train was crossing a trestle
fifty feet high, near the Horse Creek mines,
when one of the wheels of a coal oar broke.
The bumping of the derailed cars broke
the trestle, and twelve oirs went with it.
The engine and car next to it passed safely
over. Five of the wrecked cars were
loaded with coal, and the others with mer
chandise. All took fire from a stove in the
caboose, and burned with the trestle.
THE INJURED.
Conductor B. P. Martin had his shoulder
badly sprained.
Flagman C. R. Turner (white) was hurt
in the chest.
Charles Mims (white), a brakeman, had
his leg broken.
Pete Saunders (colored), a brakeman, had
a leg broken.
Wesley Balters (colored), a brakeman,
was hurt in the chest.
A special tram at once went out to the
wreck with Dr. Pago, and brought the
wounded to this city. All will reoover.
Georgia Pacific trains will run over the
tracks of the Kansas City, Memphis and
Birmingham rood to Cardova till the
trestle is rebuilt.
SOL HAAS RB3IONB.
His Chief Clerk Now Traffic Manager
of the Associated Lines.
Richmond, Va., Mafeh 13.—50 l Haas,
who has been traffic manager of the associ
ated railways, consisting of the Richmond
and Danville, Atlantic Coast Line, and
Seaboard and Roanoke, ever since the asso
ciation was formed years ago, has resigns i
from the 0 nut Line and Seaboard and
Roanoke in order to give his entire services
to the Uionmond an 1 Danville lines, includ
ing the Georgia Pacific. K. D. Carpenter,
who has been Mr. Haas’ chief clerk for
years, has been appointed head of the
traffic offlea of the association with the
title of oominiaaionar
Garibaldi Kealgns.
Rome, March 13.—MsnotU Garibaldi hat
resigned bi* seat in the Chamber of Depu
ties
FLOOD AT NEW ORLEANS.
THE WATER RUNS OVER TUB
LEVEES INTO THE CITY.
3treets Flooded from Curb to Curb,
but No Great Damage Yet Reported.
The River Still Rising at Last Ac
counts The State of Affairs at
Otter Points.
New Orleans, March 13, 4:30 p. it— At
1 o’clock this afternoon the river was fhree
inches above the high water mark of 1874,
and was still rising. At Poydras f.treet the
water commenced running over the levee,
and all the low places in the vicinity were
soon flooded.
On the lower side of Canal street, near
the harbor station, the water covers the
levee up to the Louisville and Nashville
depot.
At Bienville street much of the levee Is
under water, and at Conti street the entire
levee is covered with water.
The streets about the sugar exchange
are flooded, and the exchange is reached by
temporary plank walks. Tho water is
flowing down theguttersof Bienville, Conti
and other streets below Canal street.
no need for apprehension.
Although the water is running over the
levees, there need be no apprehension, as
betweon the bulkheads of the wharves
thick planks are driven into tho ground,
behind which is the levee batture. This
affords protection that will not give way,
and no great damage is likely to result
from water running over.
At Cloet street the water is runuing over
the bank in quite a stream, flooding gutters
and adjacent streets.
WHAT THE GAUGE SHOWED.
At 8:30 o’clock the guage was 16 8-10
feet, which is six inches above the high
water mark of former years. A large part
of the city below Canal street is nearly sub
merged. The water at the custom house is
over the sidewalks and coming up rapidly.
On De catur street sido water fills tho street,
and is leginniug to encroach on tbe side
walk. The water is flowing out Canal
street, and the indications are that the en
tire business portion of the city will be
covered with water before morning.
THE LEVEE BREAKS.
New Orleans, March 13, 5:30 p. m.—
The levee at this point has broken, and
that portion of the city upon the river
front is entirely submerged.
The city is lower than the river. The
water is all through the street, and is being
pumped out at the back part of the cty
into Luke Poncbartrain. The fall of the
wntor may exceed the capacity of the
pumps and flood the whole back of the
town, but all possible efforts are being
made to chick the overflow.
ITS RAPID RISE.
New Orleans, March 13, 10 p. m.—The
river here at 8 o’clock a. m. was 16 feet aud
3-10; at 2:45 p. m. it was reported by the
harbor station at 16 feet 9 inches, and at
2:50 p. m. they reported the water 17 feet,
but it remained at that point but a short
while, whe:i it receded to 16 feet 8 inches,
where it seemed to make a stand. This was
6 inches above the record of other years, and
tho water went over the levoes all along the
city front at every depression or low
place, and soon flooded the streets and side
walks of o large section of the city. Up
town, at the head of Jackson, Washington,
end Tara par u streets, waves washed over
the levee and submerged the stree's and
sidewalks. The same thing occurred at
other points down to Poydras street.
Here the water spread out over a
broad space occupied bv the Morgan
road, fllled up the low places, and thon
began to flow down Poydras street and out
into the cross streets on either side,covering
tho sidewalks on Poydras street as far a* St.
Charles street, and filling the gutters back
to the drainage canals in tho rear of the
city. On Gravier streot the water flowed
freely, completely covering the streeb in
places.
ON CANAL STREET.
At the head of Canal street the water was
running over the levee but very little: but
from Custom House street to Conti the
water came over the levees freely ana com
pletely submerged the streets, and in many
E laces the sidewalks and lower floors of
usineßs houses from tbe north sido of
Canal to Hospital street, a distance of four
teen blocks, and from River to Rampart
street, a distance of eight blocks. From
Rampart street the water flows off in the
gutters or street drains to the drainage
canals in the rear of the city.
Below Elysian Fields street the water is
also passing over the levee in many places.
On the north side of Canal street the side
walk in front of the Touro buildings was
overflowed. Hill's jewelry store was in
vaded by water, and other busiuess places
suffered in like manner. The greatest
damage was that sustained by merchants
who had sugar in the old bonded w arehouse
on Old Levee street.
THE RIVER STATIONARY.
At 9:30 o’clock p. m. the gauge reading at
the head of Canal street was 16 8-10 feet,
showing that the river has romained about
stationary since 3 o’clock p. m. This over
flow seems to have taken most people by
surprise, though all who had business on
the levee made preparations for it to the
extent of removing their goods to safe
quarters.
Since yesterday evening the levees across
the river have been in danger, and water is
coming over from the line of the Davis
crevasse above the city to the lowor line, a
distance of some fifteen miles. In many
instances the water flows back for ten
squares. Large forces have been at work
raising the levee with sacks filled with earth.
The Southern and Crescent oil mills wore
being washed under by water and the floors
were torn away and embankments built
underneath.
A break occurred at the Hatch place,
near Harvey’s canal, but it only reached a
width of four feet when it was discovered
and promptly closed. It Is still a danger
ous spot, as the levee is very weak there
at sharp’s place.
The levee at Sharp's place, five miles
above Gretna, where there was a serious
crevasse some years ago, is again creating
anxiety, as it shows signs of weakening, ana
a force will work all night to strengthen it.
The company canal empties into the river
just above the city limits, on tho right
bank, and is the avenue by w hich boats
reach Bayou Barataria and tbe oyst t and
fishing ground* below. The water tias
reached the top of the locks and they will
not be opened any more for tne present, as
the letting in of tho river might load to
damaging results.
AT ALGIERS.
From the Canal street ferry to the Mor
gan depot, tbe principal portion of Algiers,
a distance of three-quarter* of a mile, the
situation at one time was very threatening.
About noon the water commenced washing
over the levee along it* whole length, and
in a short space of time tbe entire frout and
street for ten blocks l ack were flo ded.
Yard master Maguire of the Morgan rood
aud the city force went to work at once,
aud iu four hours threw up an entire new
levee. That stopped tbe flow temporarily,
lUt the water was already knee deep ou
Front stree'.
The Southern Foci Ac and Torm Pacific
tracks are both across tbe river, but travel
is still uninterrupted, owing to the good
work done.
Just below Algiers is tho Orleans levee,
which commands a large section of country.
Tile new levee was constructed only a few
days ago, but the river has been climbing
up, and to-day the warning signal was
again given. The water was six inohts
deep over the levee’s crest. Men and ma
terial were promptly furnished and a gal
lant effort is being made to etay the flood.
TROUBLE CAUSED BY STEAMERS.
The swell caused by the ocean steamers
seriously interfered with the work at the
levees several days ago, washing some of
the new work into the road, and the mayor
has asked the governor to issue a procla
mation to tho steamships to show due re
gard for the safety of the levees.
The city council met to-night and adopted
a resolution appropriating $50,090, or as
much as shall be nooessary, for work on the
levees during the danger period.
The river at other points is as follows:
Baton Rouge—Rose six inches.
Bayou Sara—Rose mue-teuths of a foot.
Natchez —Rose six-tenths.
Greenville, Miss. —Rose two inches, and
below Arkansas City the water is running
over the levees. It continues to rain.
Donaldsouville, La.—Rose seven inches.
Fiaquemine, La.—Rose six inches.
Lake Providenos—Rain last night and all
day; rose an inch and a half.
GREENVILLE PRETTY SAFE.
A special to the Times-Democrat from
Greenville, Miss., says: “Report* up to 6:30
o’clock from all points in this levee district
above and below indicated that all is serene
this side of the river. The levees above
will stand from 3 to 6 feet, and
below from 2 to 5 feet more water
than we now have. Every preparation
that ingenuity of man can provide is being
made for breaks that may occur. Rain has
fallen for fifty-four hours, and the t dal fall
has exceeded five inches. Tbs indications
are that it will rain ail of to-night. The
river hero has risen 1% inches iri the pn-t
twenty-four hours, and is still rising with
the gauge indicating forty-three feet. The
river at the following points in the district
in the past twenty-four hours has been as
follows: Concordia inches, Mound 2
inches, Bolivar 1 inch, Brunswick 8 inches.”
THE FLOODS IN ARKANSAS.
Memphis, March 13.—Only meagre de
tails of the floods in Arkansas have Coen re
ceived. At Bntesviiie the White river rose
thirty-two feet in twenty-four hours, and
all the lower i iart of the town was flooded.
The depot and freight house of the Iron
Mountain road are two feet under water.
The damage toproperty at Black Rock
will bo heavy. The water stands six feet
dosh in the hotels and business places.
Orders to remove all material at the yard
at Newport have been given. No trams
have reached there since Tuesday night.
A special from Little Rock says the news
from tho interior towns is that all.,tho
streams ai e high and that a large number
of bridges have been washed away. No
trains have reached there from Fort Smith
since Monday, aud all of the roads’ traffic is
badly delayed.
The Arkansas river is rising rapidly at
Pine Bluff, and there is danger of tne gov
ernment’s dykes being destroyed. The situ
ation between that point and the Mississippi
river is said to bo alarming.
, AN ALARMING BTATB OF AFFAIRS.
The rivers are in an alarming condition.
The highest flood levol ever recorded has
already been reached at many points south
of here, and will likely bo attained from
Cairo to the Gulf within the next five or
six days. The rainfall of the post tiiree
days sums up a total of from two to three
inchos over tho country lying west of tho
Mississippi river to tho Indian Territory
and south of Ozark range, and from two to
five inches between the Ohio and Cumber
land v alleys. The river at this point is
three-tenths above the great rise of 1882 and
one-tenth below that of 1887, the highest on
record. The Kansas City. Fort Scott and
Memphis, tho Iron Mountain, and Little
Rock and Memphis railroads, whose tracks
lie through the flooded district opposite
here, are confident of escaping inundation,
their road bods having been put in ex
cellent condition during the past
year. An Appeal reporter, who
has just returned from Arkansas City,
Ark., says the real condition of affairs at
that place has been suppressed. The water
from the Sapplngton break has flooded the
town and surrounding country. Hundreds
of hogs and sheep have been drowned, aud
the people are in constant fear of a break in
the levee in front of the city, whore the
water yesterday was four Inches up on the
sand bags on top of the levee.
FALLING AT CAIRO.
Cairo, 111., March 13.—Tho river has
fallen about three inches since last night.
The gauge reads forty-eight feet and six
and one-half tenths. The weather is cloudy
and oold. The Ohio river is reported fall
ing fast at Shawneetowu and Puducah, and
ridng from Evansville. The Mississippi
river is also failing. It is thought that
tho Mississippi river has about reached It*
highest point, but a heavy rain from above
may cause it to rise again or materially
check its decline. The Illinois Central and
Mobile, and Ohio roads are again running
trains regularly, and ths Cleveland, Co
lumbus, Cincinnati and St. Louis will be
running again by morning. The St. Louis,
Arkansas and Texan and Iron Mountain
will not bo running trains for several days.
DISTRESS AT BLACK BOCK.
Little Rock, Ark., March 13.—A
special to the Gazette from Black Rock,
Ark., gives a distressing account of the
fl xxi in that section. A vast amount of
timber has been washed away. The work
men, with their famiiios, are in great want
and considerable distress is felt among tbe
settlers. Every house in Powhattan is
under water except the postofflee. Bridges
have been washed away, horses, cattle and
hogs have beeu drowned, and the damage is
$50,000.
The people at the mouth of Black river
are leaving their homes in flocks seeking
protection from a flood that is almost cer
tain.
GERMANY’S SOCIALISTS.
Thousands of them Accused of Double
Voting.
London. March 14, 8 a. m.— The Chron
icle's Berlin correspondent says: “Thous
ands of socialists ore accused of double
voting—once in their districts of resi
dence, and once in their districts of
employment. It is stated that sev
eral deputies will be unseated. The
Kreuz Zeitung has caused a sensation by
advocating the abandonment of repressive
measures against the socialists, which, it
says, have hitherto proved futile.
BERLIN’S LABOR CONFERENCE.
England’s Four Plenipotentiaries and
Four Delegates.
London, March 13.—England’s four plenl
potentiariu* to the Berlin labor conference
are Sir John Gorst, Sir William Houlds
worth, Mr. Dale, and Mr. Scott, tho British
miulster to Switzerland. Beside* these
there will I* four delegates, namely: Mr.
Burnett, Thomas Hurt, M. P., Mr. Birt
wistle, the cotton workers’ leader, and Mr.
Wbymper, inspector of factories.
Spain will send the Duke of Almodovar
and Economist Fernands* to the Berlin
a hoi' confer once.
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OKUIIOMAGOVERNMENT
THE BILL PASSES AS AMENDED
IN COMMITTBI.
No Person Having Fee Simple Title
to ISO Acres of Land Can Have
Any of Oklahoma's Acres—No In
toxicating Liquors Can be Sold at
Present.
W ashington, March 13.—At the conclu
sion of the morning hour the House went
into committee of the whole for further con
sideration of the Oklahoma bill. Amend
ments were adopted providing for a land
office in No Mao's Land, and that no person
having fee simple title to 160 acres of land
iu auy state or territory shall be entitled to
enter land oovered by this act. The hour of
4 o’clock having arrived, the committee rose
and reported tho bill to the House. The
amendment adopted in oommittee of
the whole, providing that sec
tion 2139, Revisxl Statutes, prohibiting the
introduction of intoxicating liquors into the
Indian Territory, shall b in force in Okla
homa util il after the adjournment of the
first session of the legislative assent >lt, was
agreed to by a vote of 134 yeas to 103 nays.
The bill was then posted by a vote of 160 to
25. It is a substitute for the Senate bill on
the same subject.
PROVISIONS OF THE BILL.
The bill contains provisions whioh, in tub
stanoe, fix the boundaries of the new terri
tory so a* to include the Cherokee outlet,
with a proviso that no lands which Indiani
occupy under treaty or the law shall be in
cluded without their oonsent, except for
judicial purposes. They exteud over the
new territory the constitution and laws of
tbe United States and the code of Nebraska,
without tho interference of local Indian
governments acting under their treaty
right* provide for tbe appointment of tbe
usual territorial officers, aud the election of
a legislative assembly as soon as the gover
nor shall order, and requires voters to be
Lioua fide rosiduuts for at least sixty days
preceding the election.
THE COUNCIL.
The council 1* to consist of thirteen mem
bers, and the House of Representatives of
twenty-six mem tiers, which may be in
creased to thirty-nine, and the first session
is to oontinue not longer th in 120 days.
Seven countlos are established, whioh are
to be defined by the Secretary of the In
terior until otherwise provided by the
assembly. The county seats are to be at
Guthrie, Oklahoma City, Norman, Lisboa
or King Fisher, Beaver, Stillwater,
and one more to be fixed by tbe
Secretary of tbe Interior. Provision is made
for the establishment of supreme and distriot
courts. The Cherokee outlet is declared to
be public land and open to settlement under
the homestead laws, and bona fide settlers
and occupants are given preference right.
The soctions of the bill after No. 24 are
devoted to the establishment of a judicial
system in the Indian Territory, which is to
lie divided into throe distriot*, and court*
are to be held at Muscogee and Vinlta,
Otoka a id Ardmore, and Purcell.
The House then, at 5 o’clock, adjourned.
ENGLAND’S PARLIAMENT.
Estimates for War Ships—The Out
rages In Siberia.
London, Maroh 13.—1n the House of
Commons to-night Lord George Hamilton,
flrst lord of the admiralty, said that the
estimates for the building of war ship* for
tlie oomlng financial year were £6,486,000.
This sum was exclusive of tbe estimates for
armament, which amounted to £1,700,000.
Hamuol Smith, member for Flintshire,
liberal, aske 1 whether the government had
seen the printed report* of cruelties inflicted
upon political prisoners in Siberia and
whether it would ask the British ambas
sador at St. Petersburg to direct the atten
tion of the Russian government to the
matter. W. H. Smith, the government
leader, replied that the government hail no
means of ascertaining if there was any
truth in the reports, nor had it the power
to approach tbe Russian government on the
subjeot.
In oommittee of supply Gen. Sir E. B.
Hambley, conservative, moved to increase
the grant for the voluuteer service so as to
meet tho deficiencies in tbe equioments.
The mo i ion was opposed by Mr. Goschen,
chancellor of the exohequer, but was,never
theless, carried bv a vote of 135 to 102. The
announcement of tho result was received
with oheers by the opposition.
There was much cross-voting in the divis
ion on Gen. Hamley’s motion. Mr. Cham
berlain and the bulk of the unionists and
thirty conservatives supported tbe motion.
A HOME DEFENSE CONTINGENT.
Mr. Stanhope, secretary of state for war.
explains the scheme of Lord Wolseley and
Gen. Sir Redvers Holier for mobilizing the
army for home defense. By this plan
a force of 125,000 men is provided for the
protection of the harbors and coaling sta
tions, I The defenses of which are practically
completed. In addition to this force there
will be a flrst line of defense, consisting of
110,000 regular troops, all amply provided
with cavalry and artillery equipments, and
a second line, consisting of the great volun
teer army, which, the minister stated, is
now better prepared for an emergency than
ever before. The arrangement* for tbe
transportation of troops are good, and tbe
gun supply is satisfactory. Tbe minister
said be hoped, during tbe coming year, to
be able to arm all the regulars here and in
India with magazine rifles. He believed
that the smokeless powder now used by the
army is equal to auy in tbe world. The
appropriations asked for tbe army were
voted.
SIBERIAN OUTRAGES.
Tbe Report for the Russian Govern
ment Still Kept Secret.
London, March 14, 8 a. m. —A dispatch
from St Petersburg to the Times says the
report on the Siberian outrages has been
officially compiled, but it is shown only to
privileged personages. Tne report shows
considerable disagreement with the accounts
published in London and Paris in its de
scription and interpretations of the facts of
tbe case. There is evidence that Russian
officialdom has been instructed to ignore
the published reports as a mere repetition
of nihilist calumnies.
AN OFFICIAL CLOSE-MOUTHED.
A prominent official to whom the corre
spondent applied for information declined
to say anything, except that the accounts
of the outrage were full of exaggerations,
inconsistencies, and contradictions. Tho
correspondent adds: “Tho administrator of
tbe prisons told mo that the American dele
gates would make a great mistake if they
attempted to broach the Siberian scandals
at the internal! ind prison congress. He
said that the programme of the congress
would be strictly adhered to, and no refer
ence to political prisoner* iu Siberia or
elsewhere would be permitted.”
To Run for Biggar's Place.
London, March 13.—Mr. Parnell ha*
recommended Nesey Kuox, an Ulster Prot
estaut, to the home rule electors of tbe
west division of county Caran, Ireland, as
the candidate of that party to fill the va
cancy in iho Home of Cuanuou* caused b f
the death of Mr. F.ggar.