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Newspaper Page Texti THE MORNING NEWS, 1 J FsTABIISHED 1850. INCORPORATED 1888. > j J. H. ESTILL, President. ) SESSION OF THE SENATE. the COLUMBUS PUBLIC BUILDING BILL REPORTED. Ur. Vast Introduces a Bill to Put Ex press Companies Under the Inter state Commerce Act—The Customs Administrative Bill Taken Up and passed After Considerable Debate. Washington, May 2.—Among the bills reported from committees and placed on the Senate calendar this morning are the fol lowing: The Senate bill for a public building at Columbus, Ga., SIOO,OOO. The House bill for the classification of worsted cloths as woolens. Mr. Cullomcf the committee on interstate commerce made a report with testimony on the subject of American commerce by Canadian railroads. The report was ordered printed. Mr. Vest introduced a bill to amend the interstate commerce act, statiDg that its object was to place express com panies under the provisions of that act, and he asked the attention of the interstate commerce com mittee to the subject. Mr. Cullom stated that the committee had bad that subject under consideration, but, because of the pressure of more im portant legislation as to common carriers, and because it is not probable that legisla tion in both directions cau be seemed, that subject has been postponed. The commit tee, he said, would probably take up the question again, especially as the bill had been introduced. Tne bill was referred to the committee on interstate commerce. KEEPING OUT CHINESE. The concurrent resolution heretofore of fered by Mr. Dolph, requesting the Presi dent to enter into negotiations with the gov ernments of Great Britain and Mexico with a view to severing treaty stipulations for the prevention of the entry of Chinese laborers into the United States, was taken up and agreed to. A message from the House, with the House amendment to the Senate dependent pensions bill, was laid before the Senate, and the bill and amendment were referred to the pensions committee. THE CUSTOMS BILE. The customs administrative bill was taken up, the question being on Mr. Gray’s amendment offered yesterday to strike oat of the section the following words: “Ex cept in cases wherein the application shall be filed in the circuit court within the time and manner provided for in section 16 of this act,” and inserting in lieu of them the following: “And whenever congress has not clearly and distinctly declared the clas sification of any imported article and the rate of duty thereon, but the law is equivo cal and amoiguous in that regard, and the appraising officers or collector are in doubt which of two or more rates the law has required, then the lowest of these rates shall be levied and collected, the appropriate appraising officers or collector shall forth with inform the Secretary of the Treasury, and he shall report all the facts to con gress.” NOT CASES FOR COURTS. In the course of the discussion of this amendment Mr. Sherman declared that if ho had his way he never would allow auy of those revenue cases to go to any oourt. It was an administrative, not a judicial, question, aud if there was auy grievous error committed, the remedy would be furnished by congress. In his opinion, the House bill was a better bill than that reported by the finance com mittee; and he would, therefore, vote against all the amendments reported by that committee. Mr. Gray’s amendment was rejected with out division. As the finance committee had shown its hostility to the amendment suggested yes terday by Mr. Hiscock, Mr. Evarts offered au amendment of his own; namely, to in sert in the fifteenth section a provision that the circuit court shall give priority to, and proceed to try and determine a case according to law, upon the matters before it, and upon such other testimony as the court may think necessary. This amend ment was rejected, the vote being yeas 16, nays 30. Mr. Evarts was the only repub lican who voted for it, while three demo crats—Messrs. Harris, McPherson, and Payne—voted agaiDst it. VEST SUGGESTS A CHANGE. Mr. Vest offered an amendment provid ing that in case of ad valorem duties no duty shall be charged on cases, nor on the cost of transportation from the place of purchase to tbe vessel in which the goods are shipped to the United States. In the course of a tariff speech in advocacy of his amendment, Mr. Vest read from the report of the tariff com mission in 1883 to show that the estimate then placed on cases averaged 10 per cent.; bo that their taxation under the pending bill would increase the tariff to that extent. The bill, therefore, would, uuder the dis guise of being an administrative measure, work an increase of the tariff duty. He had a table prepared for him by two experts to" show that in some classes of glassware the pending bill would increase the present duties from 45 per cent, to 77 per cent., and the McKinley tariff bill (if passed) would in crease them to 265 per cent., while in other cases (cbimueys for student’s lamps) the duties would be increased to 450 per cent. MORRILL’S MISTAKE. Mr. Morrill said that as to the increased duties on glass the senator from Missouri had no right to assume that the Senate would agree to them. Mr. Vest had no faith in that suggestion. He knew that whatever action would be taken by the Senate on the tariff hill would be in accordance with the platform of the republican party on which President Harrison was elected, and that was to increase the duties up to the point necessary to exclude every article that competed with a like article made in the United States. Mr. Vest’s amendment was rejected. The discussion was interrupted in order to receive a message from the House announc- Pig the passage of the Senate anti-trust bill w *th an amendment. Mr. Sherman wished to have the bill oon curred in, but Mr. Vest thought it should If referred to the judiciary committee, and that was done. the discussion closed. s At 4 o’clock the discussion closed, and the ‘enate commenced to vote on the bill and pending amendments. L^y’ B amendment was rejected, the wnf,u Yeas 22, nays 37. (.dr. Payne tive ) oul - v domo crat voting in the nega rff e j^ eX w vote was on the amendment t u .J, *'y Mr. Evaris to add to the descrip eirr.n'it W lat sllai l constitute a record in the ... , mt j oUrt th o words; "Together with turv e 'L ldet . 100 as the court may deem neces -0 ends of justices ” It was (Mr A d i’, the e , oto being: Yeas 27, nays 31. n ’ lair i Evarts, Edmunds and Hi „ r ere the only republicans voting ameMH,‘ a ® All the committee mendments were agreed to : and the yeas < Wa * ,? aß3Bd * the vote being: democrattn'tha’ <Mr ‘- Payne waa the only The Kill the comml ttee.) hul is practically unchanged from Wbt Mttfnim that reported from the finance committee on March 19, the only change of any im portance being the insertion of a provision m the fourth section that the Secretary of the Treasury may make regulations by which books, magazines and other period icals published and imported in parts, num bers and volumes, and entered to be im ported free of duty, shall require but one declaration for the entire series. A conference on the disagreeing votes was asked, and Messrs. Allison, Aldrich and McPherson were appointed conferees. On motion of Mr. Jones of Nevada the bill authorizing the issue of treasury notes and the deposit of silver bullion was taken ud and made the unfinished business from Wednesday next until disposed of. After an executive session the Senate ad journed. WORK AT WASHINGTON. Inside Pointers as to the Outlook for Certain Measures. Washington, May a— lt is expected that the silver bill will be called up in the Senate next Wednesday. The silver men in the Senate profess to be strong enough to be atjje to pass the Jones bill, which pro vides for the purchase of 4,500,000 ounces of silver per month, redeemable in lawful money, and which is practically a free sil ver Bcheme. The House and Senato have not yet come to any agreement on the mat ter, and what the upshot will be is not yet known. HOLIDAYS FOB POSTAL CLERKS. The House postotflce committee to-day agreed to report favorably the Eetchum bill granting fifteen days leave of absence, with nay, to all employes of presidential postoffices whenever necessary. The Post master General is authorized to employ substitutes, who shall be paid out of the postoffice appropriation. PUBLIC BUILDING BILLS. The republican members of congreis are a good deal worried over the course of the President in regard to public building bills. The hill increasing the appropriation for the Newark, N. J., public building has been before him for several days, but, although Mr. Lehlback, the member trom that dis trict, and delegations from Newark have been here to see the President about it, they have not yet been able to induce him to sign the bill. The President has told Mr. Lehlback that public buildings would have to wait on pensions and other matters of more general interest. If the bill is vetoed Mr. Lehlback will make a determined ef fort to pass it over the veto. MONEY FOR THE HARBORS. It is expected that the river and harbor bill will be called up in the House next Monday and an attempt be made to pass it under a suspension of the rules, and if this is done this great bill, carrj ing an appro priation of about $32,000,000, will be passed after half an hour’s debate. To still further restrict the members a paper is now in cir culation, which has been signed by over 100 republicans, pledging themselves not to offer any amendment to the bill. Enough mem bers are expected to sign the paper to make this aotion binding on the entire republican side. STIRRED UP BY THE TARIFF. New Schedules Not Apt to Go Into Effect For a Year. Washington, May 2.—A large number of inquiries have been received by the re publican members of the ways and means committee respecting the date of the proba ble passage of the tariff bill. Thedate fixed in the bill for the beginning of its opera tions is July 1 next, and from the state ments contained in these communications it appears that the business of the country is in a very unsettled con dition in anticipation of the uu looked-for changes in the tariff. It is stated that the sugar trade in particular is depressed and disturbed. To these inquiries reply is being made that the Senate cannot possibly pass the bill finally before July 1, which fact in itself would necessitate a change in the date fixed in the bill; and the probabilities are that the change to be made will provide that the bill shall not take effect before the begin ning of the next calendar year, and possibly not until July 1, 1891. trying to agree. The committee was in session this morn ing trying to reach an understanding re specting the time to bo allowed for the con sideration of the bill in the House. The democrats wanted threo weeks at least, two of them to be devoted to general debate, while the republicans desired to limit the general debate to one week and the de tailed consideration of the bill to another week. No agreement has yet been reached, and it may yet remain for the committee on rules to arrange the programme. HIGH-MINDED CONGRESSMEN. Bayers and Bland Decline to be Paid for the Silcott Defalcation. Washington, May 2.—Congressmen Sayers of Texas and Bland of Missouri have returned to the treasury the drafts made out in their favor for the money thev lost through the defalcation of Silcott, and it is understood that others will follow their example. This action is taken on the ground that the House should not have voted to repay its members for this stolen money. It is understood that these mem bers hold that tho only money they were entitled to was their pro rata share of what remained in the safe, and that they will not take a sum in excess of this amount. A SENATORIAL CAUCUS. Another Attempt to Be Made to Agree on a Sliver Bill. Washington, May 2.—Tho republican senatorial caucus committee will meet again to-morrow and endeavor to unite upou a form of silver bill to be reported to the caucus. The Jones silver bill was next to the administrative customs bill on the order of business; but in view of the fact that so far the republicans of the Senate have been unable to agree upon the provis ions of the bill for the coinage of silver, the bills for the admission of Wyoming and Idaho will be taken up for consideration Monday and disposed of in advance of the consideration of the silver question. A Fast Torpedo Boat. Washington, May 2.— The torpedo boat Cushing made the run from Newport to New York yesterday in six hour and fifty seven minutes, beating the record by seven minutes, in a high sea against head winds. Bariison Reed for Postmaster. Washington, May 3.— The President to day nominated Harrison Reed as postmaster at Tallahassee, Fla., rice William T. Web ster, withdrawn. Bond Acceptances. Washington, May 21—-Bond offerings to day were *122.250. ail of which were accepted at 122 for 4s and for 4K* Drowned While Sailing. Fobt Monroe, Va., May 2.—T. M. Saw ver of Narragausett, superintendent of the Hampton Electric Light Company, was drowned in the roads while sailing last nighw CHICAGO’S LABOR CLASH. THOUSANDS OF MEN ADDED TO THOSE ON STRIKE. All the Molderes of the City Walk Out of Their Shops—Between 3,000 and 4,000 Sash, Door and Blind Men Follow Their Example—Thou sands More Beady. Chicago, May 2.—The signal was given this morning and the iron molders in most of the large manufacturing establishments of Chicago went out on a strike at 7 o’clock, or rather declined to go to work at the old rates. The fires under the furnacee of the Malleable Iron Works were banked this morning, seventy-five molders there having declined to resume work. They asked for an eight-hour day, and a uniform rate of wages. This was refused. Sixteen hundred men are employed at the Malleable Iron Works, and if the molders’ stike long continues, the entire plant will be compelled to shut down. The men simply declined to return ti tbeir place this morning, and pickets were posted about the works to see that no non-union man went to work. at the m’cormick works. At the McCormick harvesting machine works 150 molders declined to go to work. All the molders’ helpers are also out, aDd the strike threatens much to the balance of the employes of the works, which employs 2,500 men. The molders also posted pickets at this place, ar:d an attempt to put non union men to work will be met by deter mined resistance. Tho strike spread to Bowman & Richard son’s establishment and 150 molders refused to go to work. All the molders at Griffin's iron foundry went out. There were eighty men em ployed there. The Miners’ Steel Company granted 200 of their molders an eight-hour day, aud a strike was averted. anarchists join the ranks. The molders employed at the Deering reaper works and a number of anarchists struck this morning. The Fairbauk Canning Company has re fused the demand of 500 employes for an eight-hour day, and a strike will be in augurated Monday. Eighty coopers struck this morning. Ten thousand employes in the sash, door, and blind factories, planing mills, and other such lines of business, struck this morning for eight hours. There are about 1,500 of them m the city. The remaining men struck to-night. The strike of this morning covers the southwest division of the city and the mills on the north pier. The demand is for eight hours work and eight hours pay. PLANING MILL HANDS OUT. Th e move was decided upon last night, and around all the planing mills this morning the workmen were collected in little knots. The men quit without notifying their em ployers. Among all the planing mills there was but one where the men were at work this morning, and that was at A. Nennett’s. At A. H. Behl’s some non union men were at work this morning. Three hundred strikers started for the place to “clean out tho establishment,” as the strikers said. Mr. Behl, becoming fright ened, sent for the police, and a patrol wagon was sent to the scene of the prospective trouble. The planing mill men number all the way from 22,000 to 30,000 men. INAUGURATION OF THE TROUBLE. Chicago, May 2,11 p. m.—The threatened strikes in this city, which may be said to have technically begun yesterday when organized labor took its hoiiday, were not made apparent till this morning, when the men failed to resume work in many shops. The Black road in the vicinity of McCor mick’s Reaper Works had much the same appearance this morning as it had four years ago to-day. None but strikers could be seen, aud they had entire possession. Everybody employed in the Malleable Iron Works, at the corner of Twenty sixth and Rockwell streets, is out. The total number of employes is 1,200. Among them are fifty girls, employed as “ccremakers” in the foundry. No particu lar reason is assigned by the men for quit ting work. A committee, consisting of two men from each department, were appointed last night to wait upon the officials, but they seemed disinclined to go before their employers and make a statement. Presi dent E. Bailey called the strikers about him and upbraided them for going out without notice, and told them that when they found out what they wanted, to let him know their demands. The men seeme l not to know what to say in reply. The chairman of the molders’ committee says they want ten hours as a day’s work, 15 per cent, advance in wages, and 50 per cent, extra for overtime. At the great McCormick reaper factory fifty molders went out, but work was pro gressing as usual. OTHER CONCERNS AFFECTED. Among the manufacturing concerns which are closod are the following: Bar num & Richardson’s foundry, 150 men; the Ajax Forge Company’s foundry, 150 men; the Wells & French Car Company’s works, 1,000 men; the Chicago car wheel foundry; F. E. Robert's foundry, 100 men, Denman & Duka’s furniture factory. 400 men; the Chicago Cottage Organ Company, 700 men. The lumber shovers did not strike to-day, but are expected to do so to-morrow. The entire force of employes of N. K. Fairbanks & Cos., about 550, will go out Monday. The coopers, numbering eighty, struck this morning. This is something of a surprise, as the men employed there are securing better wages than those generally paid by large concerns. They want eight hours’ work and nine hours’ pay. The coopers are earnest in their demand for eight hours, and in all portions of the city the men are quitting work on the refusal of the employers to surrender. In the north western district of the city there is not one cooper at work. QUIT OF THE WOOD WORKERS. From 3,000 to 4,000 sash, door and blind men walked out of the various factories In the south and west lumber districts this morning. Their action was apparently without warning. The men came to their places of employment as usual this morning, and with only a few exceptions proceeded to work when the wbis le blew. An hour or so later they threw down their tools and quietly walked out, givings no explanation and without any sort of scene, A rumor that the planing men would quit to-nv rrow morning could not bo traced to any reliable source. It was aisd said that all the wood workers, in whatever branch of business, were restless, and might join in the strike at any moment. Everything remained quiet, notwith standing the large number of men idle, and the police say they do not anticipate any disturbance. THE ROW WITH THE CARPENTERS. The board of arbitration chosen to settle the differences between the striking car penters and new bosses’ association has been in session all day, and is understood to have made satisfactory progress. It was an nounced late this afternoon that eight hours os a regular day’s work had been agreed on. At the first session SAVANNAH, GA., SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1890. to-day a letter from the old bosses was read. It claimed that association employs a ma jority of the carpeuters of the city, and that no effective settlement can be made without the assent of that body. It says that the members of the association are ready to concede an eight-hour day, and to treat with their men os to wages, but they decline to submit to the arbitration pro position to recognize the union to tbe extent of preventing themselves from hiring or discharging whatever men they may choose to employ or dismiss. CLAYTON’S ABBASBINATION. His Brother Tells the Committee What He Thinks About It. Little Rock, Ark., May 2.—The Clav ton-Brekinridge investigation committee had two sessions to-day. CoL W. H. Clay ton was examined at length. He told about his going to Flummerville on Jan. 30, 1889, the day after he heard of his brother’s death. He said that no one in Plum merville offered him any sympathy or any assistance; that the houses wero closed; that no one was on the streets, aud that everybody avoided him. He thought that tho conspiracy to mnrder his brother was concocted in Morrillcon, and that it was known to at least twenty-five men in the county in which it was to occur. WHO HE SUSPECTED. He believed that this brother was killed by Oliver T. Bently and Bob Pate. He was firmly convinced that the persons who stole the' ballot box killed his brother. He did not charge the Democratic party with being responsible. He believed that the community in Arkansas desired that murderers should be caught and punished. He believed that tho governor had done his duty in his efforts to apprehend the assassin but that he had been led off on the wrong track. PHILADELPHIA’S FIGHT. The Bricklayers Come to the Aid of the Carpenters. Philadelphia, May 2.—There was re joicing among the carpenters at the strike headquarters this morning when it was announced that the bricklayers had come to the aid of the striking carpenters by order ing that no bricklayer should work upon “scab” frames—in other words, that they should not set window or door faces for bosses who refuse to grant an in crease of the wages of the carpen ters to 35 cents an hour. In some cases bricklayers have stopped work on this account, and all of them will obey tbe order. This will be help to the strilrers in winning their tight, and fifty-eight out of the 350 masters have already conceded the demands. The men feel that victory is certain. MINERS TO GO ON STRIKE. A Refusal to Include Laborers in Profit Sharing the Cause. Chicago, May 2.—A strike of tho miners throughout tbe Northern and Middle Illinois coal fields was decided npon after midnight. A joint conference of the work" men and mine owners Split irreconcilably upon the question of including "tho day laborers in the scheme of profit sharing, the owners declaring that there was no margin for the laborers. Au executive s-ssion of four hours by the workmen’s representatives followed the final adjourn ment of the joint conference. A decision to strike was the result. The Indiana minors and operators also failed to reach an understanding, and a strike in that Btate is also not improbable. SAM JONES DRAWS THE DOLLARS. He Raises $10,700 In a Day, $2,200 Being for Hla Own Purse. Charlotte, N. C., May 2.—Sam Jones closed an oight days’ series of meetings here to-night. At the closing meeting SB,OOO was’ raised toward paying the sll 000 debt of the Young Men’s Christian Association’' building here; $2,200 was raised for Sam Jones individually, and about #590 for Mr. Jones’ orphanage in Georgia. Prof. Excell, the choir leader, and Rev. G. R. Stuart leave to-night to start a series of meetings at Danville, Va Mr. Jones leaves for Car tersville, Ga, and will be in Danville next Monday. TWO CHURCHES BURNED. The Fire Started by a Candle Left Burning on an Altar. West Boylston, Mass., May 2.—The Baptist and Catholic churches and the Catholic parsonage were burned to tbe ground this morning. The fire is supposed to have originated from a caudle left burn ing on the altar in St. Luke’s (Catholic.) The loss on the Catholic church is $25,000. It was insured for $15,000. The loss on tho Baptist ohurch is SIO,OOO, and it was insured for $3,000. NEW J£R3EY’3 BANK CRASHES. The Merchants' Bank of Atlantic City Added to Those Closed. Atlantic CnjXvN. J., May 2^—The MS if chants’ bank of, this city suspended pay ment at 2 o’clock this a' toon on acctMiit of a run caused by a . > ; -.hed report that their branches located at Elmer, Pleasaut ville. Egg Harbor City aud Mullica Hill had closed up on account of the suspension of the Bank of America in Philadelphia. The depositors are principally small business men. The capital of tbe bank fully paid is $50,000, and the deposits are estimated at $50,000. Charleston's Editorial Guests. Charleston May 2.—To-dav was spent by the editors of the Southern Press Associ ation and of the South Carolina State Press Association in a visit to Summerville, a town in the pine telt of South Carolina. Tbe editors took a drive through the prin cipal streets of the town and were enter tained at lunch at the bote). Most of the editors returned to their homes to-night, as both associations have adjourned. New Englanders at Knoxville. Knoxville, Tknn., May 2.—A large party of New Englanders, headed by Gen. L. J. Anderson of Portland, and William M. Fennell of Brunswick, Me., stopped over here to-day on their way east. They were most cordially received, taken about tbe city to points of interest, and were given a banquet to-night by citizens. Suspended Payments. Camden, N. J.. May 2.—The Fidelity Surety Trust and Safe Deposit Company suspended payment this morning. Charles L. Work, president of the Gloucester Na tional bank, which suspended yesterday, was also its president. An Agreement In Indiana. Terre Haute, Ind., May 2.—The In diana operators and miners of the bitu minous mines to-night reached au agree ment on the wage schedule. The price is to be 70 cents per ton the year around. Ballot Reiorm in New York. Albany, May 2. —Got. Hill has signed the ballot reform law. LABOR’S WAR IN EUROPE. SERIOUS TROUBLE BREAKS OUT AT TOUROOINO. Strikers from Rouba’x Join Those at Tourcoing, and Troops Called on to Disperse the Mob—An Oil Mill Pil laged by a Mob of Riotous Foreign ers at Marseilles. Paris, May 2. —A dispatch from Tour ooing, an extensive manufacturing town in the department of the North, states that serious trouble has broken out there. The hands employed in twenty-six mills at that place went on a strike this morning, and great crowds of mon gathered about the streets to discuss their grievances. The crowd was augmented by a body of 5,000 strikers from Roubaix, another manufact uring town a short distance from Tourcoing, who marched en masse into the latter place, and soon the hands began to show an ugly feeling, which culminated in serious rioting. Military reinforcements were summoned to aid the authorities in restoring order. The number of strikers at Tourcoing is estimated at 40,000. The streets and fac tories are guarded by troops. NOT UNIMPORTANT. The Journal des Debats says, in oonneo tion with yesterday’s labor demonstrations that it would be a mistake to treat the cel ebrations as affairs of no importance, see ing that they showed that the workingmen obeyed a word of command to mark the day in some form. The total number of persons arrested in Paris during the day and night was 300. Of this num ber only 150 were detained over night. The injuries received by a number of persons during the row in tiie Place do la Concorde consisted of slight bruises. All the papers concur in congrat ulating the government upon the success of its precautious to prevent any disturbance, and Parisians upon their prudence. roubaix’b strike extending. The Roubaix strike is extending to adja cent communes. At Coix the strikers at tacked Holden’s factory, intending to plun der it. They succeeded in shattering the windows, when troops compelled thoui to desist. They then proceeded to the tele graph office, and wrecked the interior. RIOTOUS OUTBREAKS AT MARSEILLES. Marseilles, May 2. —At midnight dis orderly crowds gathered in the courts Belgunce. The police were powerless, but infantry dispersed the mob. Noisy groups elsewhere were dispersed by the cavalry patrols. A riotous mob of foreigners pillaged an oil mill. Thirty of them, all Italians, were arrested. One hundred per sons altogether were arrested during the day. It is estimated that 50,000 work men took part in the labor demon stration yesterday. A large meeting was held at the labor exchange, ana a deputation consisting of forty presi dents of various trades’ unions and 300 workmen was appointed to visit the prefect ure and present a petition in favor of eight hours for a day’s work. The prefect declined to receive the deputies in a body, but offered to receive the members if they would divide themselves into groups. The deputation, however, bad been instructed to bri received as a whole or not at all, and the party therefore reformed in procession and returned to the exchange. After they arrived at the exchange the meeting quietly dispersed. ITALIAN AGITATORS AT WORK. London, May 2.—The Chronicle's Paris correspondent says: “The feature of the day was the discovery of many Italian agi tators among the workmen. The fact that foreign money is being employed to foment disorder is likely to sow bitterness betweou the two nations. The measures of precau tion were most extensive, and the result re flects credit upon Minister Constans. The people In every district were warned that in case of trouble neither the police nor the troops would make the slightest distinction between those who did and who did not take part in the demonstration.” The Paris correspondent of the Times says the day will be known as "La joumee rates .” Special dispatches report an immense number of eight-hour meetings throughout Europe yesterday. Thore were no disorders beyond the minor affairs already mentioned. • BERLIN NOT AGITATED. Lees Than Ten Per C6nt. of the Toll ers Left Work. Berlin, May I.—lt is estimated that not 10 per cent, of the Berlin workingmen were absent from work yesterday. An incident showing the discipline of the men occurred at the PriSdei ichskan brewery last evening. Two thousand masons visited the brewery tn a body and tried to obtain an entrance. The police refused to allow them to enter, whereupon all turned quickly at an order from thoir leaders. At Grunewald several hundred men as sembled in an inn and were drinking and playing cards, when one of their number arose and said: “Two years ago the keeper of this inn refused to permit a socialist meeting to be held held here.” Instautly all arose, paid for their drinks and departed. THE NUMBER ABSENT. The iron founders and machine factories union kept a record of the men who ab sented themselves from work yesterday. Out of 18,818 men employed in sixty fac tories. 2,995 wero absent. Iti Hamburg 16,000 men remained away and went to picnics held |in the environs. There was no disorder during the day. DISMISSALS AT HAMBURG. Hamburg, May 2.—Nine thousand men have been dismissed for being absent from work yesterday. RIOTING IN SPAIN. All Kinds of Business Impeded by the Mob at Barcelona. Madrid, May 2. —Strikers at Barcelona conducted themselves in a riotous manner throughout to-day. They impeded ail kinds of business, stopping market carts and scattering and tramping upon their con tents of provisions. The civil guard was continually engaged in attempting to dis perse the rioters, but failed to quell them. Finally a state of seige was declared. At Valeucia many of the masters have conceded the demands of the workmen, but the strikers prevented the men from re suming work. The railroad goods porters and dock men joined in the strike movement and became riotous, but were suppressed by cavalry. They are now guarding the factories and other establishments. Similar disturbances have occurred at Saragossa and Alicante. RIOTERS QUAIL AT ROME. An Attempt to Start a Riot Foiled by Police and Troops. Rome, May 2.—Two attempts to resist the troops were made here yesterday, and thirty persons were arrested, including several anarchists. The king and queen took their usu#l drive. in an open carriage and received an ovation from the people. In one instance a man used an insulting expression as the couple drove by, when he was seized by bystanders and secured until placed under arrest by officer?. GLADSTONE ON LABOR. He Urges the Toller* to Consider What They are Doing. London, May 2.— Mr. Gladstone has written a letter, which will appear in Lloyd's News on Sunday next, in which he u ges the working classes to consider closely their present position. He says: “There may come a time when labor may prove too strong for capital, and may use its strength unjustly, but capital will surely hold its own.” In conclusion, he expresses a wish to see labor and art ailiod, with a view to alleviating and adorning life. AN ARCHBISHOP AB PEACEMAKER. Ireland’s Strikers Agree to Submit to Arbitration. Dublin, May 2. —At a meeting here yes terday Archbishop Walsh severely re proached the striking railway employes, saying that they were not justified in leaving work without giving notice. He proposed to preside over a ballot, which should decide whether the strikers would consent to return to work or would lease a settlement of their cause to arbitration. His proposal was adopted. CHURCH DISESTABLISHMENT. Gladstone Declares Himself in Favor of the Proposition. London, May 2.—ln the House of Com mons this evening Mr. Cameron moved disestablishment and diser.dowment of the church of Scotland. Mr. Gladstone, replying to a member’s assertion that a majority of the Midlothian electors wore against disestablishment, said he would be glad to answer to his electors for the vote he was about to give. Ttio only ground in defeuse of the oburcb establishment whs that it was performing some especial religious work in the country. He supported the motion. Disestablish ment would not entail a tenth part of the violence entailed by the disrup tion of 1843. There was no sign that a change would be attended by any of the characteristics tliat belong to violent tradi tions. Lord Hartington said he regarded the new position which Mr. Gladstone had taken up with surprise. He was unable to agree with him that Scotland pronounced unmistakably ou this question. In proposing the motion, however, it must not bo supposed that they opposed necessary reform of the Scotch church, or oven dis establishment should reconstruction prove impossible. Mr. Camoron’s motion was rejected by a vote of 256 to 218. BOODLBISM IN CANADA. A Member of Parliament Charged with Taking a Bribe. Ottawa, May 2. J. C. Rykort, member of parliament for Lincoln, has resigned bis seat in parliament. He walked out of the Houso of Commons to-night amidst uproar. Mr.Rykert was charged by the opposition with “boodling.” He is charged with re ceiving 170,000 for using his political influ ence with the government to secure a tim bor limit in the Cypress hills, Northwest ter ritory. Tho government was paid f5,000 for tho limit, which was subsequently sold for SBO,OOO. Tnls was four or five years ago. This session the government were almost forced by the opposition to ap point a committee of investigation. This was done and the charges wero clearly proven. The resignation to-night was looked for and might nave boon compul sory. Boulanger's Alleged Return. Paris, May 2.— The republican newspa per La France says Gen. Boulanger will return to France from the island of Jersey on Sunday, and that ho will demand another trial. Tho paper also says that the general will notify President Carnot of the place in Franco where he intends to land. Goes With Emin Into Africa. Zanzibar, May 2.— Father Sychinzh has joined Emin’s expedition. CAPITAL OF THE STATE. A Boy Prisoner Pardoned—Gov. Gor don to the Negroes. Atlanta, Ga., May 2.—The governor to-day pardoned a 16-year-old white boy named Walter Jackson of Bartow oounty, who was sentenced in 1888 to serve six years. The judge, solicitor and grand jury indorsed the application for the pardon, and a separate petition was presented by the ladies of the county. The name of Mrs. Dr. Felton beaded the list. CONVENTION OF THE NEGROES. The convention of negroes, after bearing an address by Gov. Gordon this morning, adjourned sine die. The governor said there was salvation in the truth und de struction in the falsehoods to which the ne groes sometimes gave heed. He showed bv President Lincoln’s own declaration that his purpose and that of the Republican party was not to free the negroes. baptist home missions. Tho Baptist home mission board has just completed its annual report. The mission aries number 371, the additions to the mis sion churches 8,000, and the money ex pended amounts to 1170,000. It is reported as the best year’s work ever done by the board. SCRIBES AT AUGUSTA. Tho Washington Correspondents the Guests of the City. Augusta, Ga., Mav 2.—The citizens of Augusta are entertaining to-day the Wash ington representatives of about fifty of the leading journals of the country. They arrived in the city this , morning on a special vestibule train on the Richmond aid Danville road, in charge of General Passen ger Agent Taylor. During the morning a carriage drive was taken through the principal business and residence portions of the city, and after ward they were entertained at lunch at the Commercial club. Ex-Senator Davidson delivered an ad dress of welcome, which was responded to bv Moses P. Handy of the Philadelphia Press and Representatives Cummings of New York and Alien of Mississippi, who came from Washington with tne corre spondents. This afternoon a dinner was given at Summerville, a suburb of Augusta, in honor of the party. On a Camp Picnic. Thomasville, May 2.—The following party of young people, chaperoned by Dr. and Mrs. J. G. Hopkins, left yesterday for a camping picnic on lamonia lake: Misses Mabel Hastings, George Mitchell, Blanche Tar water and Rosa Palmer, and Messrs. B. F. Hawkins, J. H. Merrill, T. N. Hop . kins, C. B. iionduraat and M. B. Waite. I DAILY,SIO A YEAR, k 4 50 F. NTS A COPY. V I WEEKLY. 1.25 A YEAR, | RIGHTS OF THE AUTHORS. THE HOU9E TAKES UP THE INTER NATIONAL COPYRIGHT BILL. Mr. Hopkins of Il.lnols Claims that tba Measure Will Foster a Glgantio Mo nopoly—The Obligations of Authors and the People Mutual—Great Bene fit Derived from Cheap Editions ol Foreign Books. Washington, May 2.— ln the House to day Mr. Davidson of Florida presented a protest from citizens of Key West against the tobacco schedule of the tariff bill. It was referred. On motion of Mr. O’Neill of Pennsyl vania a resolution was adopted setting apart Saturday, June 4, for the delivery of eulogies on the late Samuel J. Randall of Pennsylvania. The Home then resumed consideration of the copyright bilL Mr. Hopkins of Illinois said that the ostensible purpose of the bill was to extend the rights of American authors to foreign authors, but the measure meant vastly more than this. The inevitable result of it would be to create a gigantic publishing mo nopoly which would raise the* priue of every book and periodical printed in this country, and would impose a tax on every reader of books, from the boy with his primer to the college professor with his scientiflo work. It would affect tho reader of every periodical, and even the reader of the rural newspaper would suffer. The argument that the foreign author was robbed of some thing that was his just due, when his works wero published here, and that the American author was subject to tho same siiecies of robbery abroad, was based on the idea that the author was indebted to the state and people for nothing, and that his works were not the creation of his surroundings and his associations. mutual obligations. The most casual observer knew that thi* was not true. The state and people had done as much for the author as he had dona for them. The American author was pro tected in the labor of bis brain for a period of forty-three years. Free schools and free libraries had given him a constituency ol over 60,000,000 people, who rejoiced in his success and paid him willingly tho price he put upon his work. The bill could not be passed on the idea of justice to American authors. The rights of the American people should be considered. CHEAP EDITIONS A BENEFIT. The benefit derived from cheap editions of foreign books could not be too highly estimated. Congress should not yield to tbs false sentimont urged by the friends of tho measure; but should look to the needs of the American people, and legislate in their in terest against all the world. He denounced as damnable the third section of the bill, which he declared prohibited the importa tion of foreign books. Foreign author) bad formed a combination with certain labor organizations for the purpose of making a trust and controlling this market. The labor organizations, when they came to understand tiie question, would denounce the measure. SIMONDS DEFENDS THE BILL. Mr. Simonds, of Connecticut, argued in favor of tho bill. The Amorican people were beginning to understand bow great a wrong was being done to authors, and they were determined that a stop should be put to this wrong doing. Mr, Bland characterized the bill as a scheme for monopoly. The bill wus further opposed by Messrs. Mills, Culberson, Feters of held that the bill would strike a blow at patent insides), Anderson of Kansas, Stock dale, Payson and Lind, and was advocated by Messrs. MoAdoo, who said the copyright law was written by Moses in the stone tablets in the words, “Thou shalt not steal;” Moore of New Hampshire, who said he had been a newspaper publisher from boyhood, know all about patent insides, and asserted that the pending bill would not affect them in anyway; Mr. Carlisle, who said he would vote for it on account of the general princi ple involved; Messrs. Lodge, Covert, Far quhar, Buchanan of Now Jersey, and But terworth. THE BILL DEFEATED. Five amendments offered by Mr. Payson were adopted, but on a vote on the engross ment and third reading of the bill it was de feated—yeas 98; nays 126. Before the an nouncement of the result Mr. Breckinridge of Kentucky, who voted in the affirmative, changed bis vote to the negative for th< pose of moving reconsideration. Mr. Hopkins of Illinois moved to lay thi motion to roconsider on the table, and Mr, Adams of Illinois to take a recess. A vote was taken on the recess motion, and it was defeated, but as the hour of 5 o’clock had arrived, the chair declared that under the rule the house was in recess until 8 o’clock. Ihe motion to reconsider and to lav that motion on the table go over to be acted upon to-morrow. The Houso at its evening session passed seventeen private pension bills, and at 10:3(1 o’clock adjourned until to-morrow. HELD AS A MURDERER. Henry Moore Brought Back to Jesup from Alabama. Jesup, Ga., May 2.—Henry Moore was brought hero this morning from Montgom ery, Ala., by Sheriff Parkes. He is charged with being implicated in the murder of a peddler, ab >ut a mile and a half from thu place, in 1889. A valise was stolen from the Savannah, Florida and Western baggage room, pre sumably by Henry Moore, or his partner, Lee Jordan. They gave the contents to t traveling peddler to sell for them. On find* ing the officers closely on their track they met the peddler on the Savannah, Florida and Western railroad and, it is charged, killed him to destroy the evidence against them. MOORE’S FLIGHT AND ARREST. * Jordan was arrested the morning aftei the murder, but Moore fled. Whisky and women led him while in Alabama to divulgi his identity, which resulted in his arrest. He went by the name of Bill Brown in Alabama, and the sheriff says that he was married last Saturday night. Jordan was tried at the Ootober term ol court and sentenced to imprisonment foi life. The ouly eye witness to the murdei was Moore, and his absence prevented any conclusive evidence that Lee actually did did the killing. The evidence points to tin guilt of Moore as the perpetrator of th murder, and the next court may establish this fact. Harry Phinizy’s Funeral. Athens, Ga., May 2.— The funeral of H. H. Phinizy occurred this afternoon from the residence of Mrs. F. Phinizy on Mil ledge avenue. The services were conducted by Rev. C. W. Lane. A largo circle ol friends and relatives followed the remains to their last resting place in Oconee ceme tery. Two Good Men Retained. Jacksonville, Fla., May 2.— At a meeting of the new board of directors oi the Sub-Tropical exposition this afternoon, B. F. Dillon was re-elected president, and Solon A. Adams secretary.