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    i 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.