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]THE MORNING NEWS, l
Established ISSO. Incorporated 1888. V
J. H. ESTILL, President. J
A CRY FOR MORE MONEY.
SENATOR DANIRL SPEAKS FOR THE
SILVER BILL.
The Nation’s Financial System De
clared in Disarray—The Currency
Insufficient for the Needs of the Peo
ple— Mono-Metaliste Represented as
Conducting a Mock Auction.
Washington, May 22.—1n the Senate to
day Messrs. Allison, Dawes and Gorman
were appointed conferees cn the pension
appropriation bill.
Mr. Hale said that as he understood that
Hr. Daniel desired to address the Senate on
the silver bill, he would not, as he had given
notice yesterday, call up the naval appro
priation bill now, but would do so
at the close of Mr. Daniel’s remarks.
The silver bill was then taken
up, and Mr. Daniel addressed
the senate in favor of silver currency. The
fluancial system of the country, he said,
was in disarray. It comprehended taxa
tion, currency and debt. Separately and
collectively they were out of joint. The
currency was insufficient in volume to
maintain prices, aud was irresponsible to
the laws of trade.
CONGESTED IN THE TREASURY.
It was congested in the treasury. A hun
dred millions of it was held to redeem an
other portion of it that was, like itself,
legal tender, while thirty millions of it was
lent out to bankers, without iuterest, tax
ation was excessive—worse than a useless
burden, bringing a surplus into the treasury
and stimulating extravaganoe to get it out.
The public debt had been put in such
relations to the laws that the govern
ment appeared on both sides of the sales
counter in obvious incompatible and con
tradictory relations. On one side of the
counter the government boosted up the
price of bonds far beyond their par value.
On the other side, it paid them before
maturity at exorbitant rates. Whenever
before, he asked, had a seller run up the
price of a thing he had to buy, or bought
when he himself was boosting the price?
A MOCK AUCTION.
In that resoect the mock auction sale was
the model of the so-called financial system
of the country. To call it a “system” was
a misnomer. There was no more system
about it thsn there was in a game of jack
straws. Still, there was science in it—the
science of putting in a paper or silver jack
straw and pulling out a gold one. The
arbitrary tax law of the coun
try prevented the American producer
from buying in cheap m rkets, It did not
prevent him from having to sell in a cheap
market his wheat, corn, cotton, meat, and
other staples. “Be patient while you are
getting poorer,” said the high tax mono
metalist, “and we will be build you a home
market,”
“All right," said the honest producers,
“but if we are to have a home market, let
us make some home money out of the silver
that God has given us, so that the people
can pay their taxes, and that we may have
high prices.”
“Oh, no,” replies the mono-metalist,
“that would put us out of gear with British
gold and German gold and the gold of
Europe.”
FOUNDED ON NON-INTERCOURSE.
And so, Mr. Daniel said, the tax system
was built on non-intercourse and was called
the American system. How was it that an
American system was demanded for taxes
and a British system for currency? If
a citizen ot the United States was
not allowed to trade more freely
and to get higher prices in foreign markets,
why not let him make money freely? That
would stimulate the home market So
long as the mono-metalists could keep from
answering that question, or could so befog
it as to keep the people from
answering it for themselves, the jumble
would be continued and would be played
by the the mono-metalists with gold jack
straws.
WEDDED BY NATURE.
Gold and silver money were wedded by
nature. Thev were beautiful; they were
durable; they were divisible; they
possessed a permanent and übiquitous
value. They were readily measurable,
they wore readily stamped and coined.
They were both limited in quantity, and
were each the product of labor.
Before the jury of all civilized
and enlightened nations throughout the
centuries the case of gold and silver had
been heard, and with one voice the nations
had answered that to gold and silver bar
longed the royal attribute of money.
A KING AND QUEEN.
By universal suffrage they had been
crowned and placed on a throne, and every
where gold and silver were by divine right
and natural selection the king and queen of
money. He criticised the unbroken front
which tho treasury department had always
shown against the use of silver money, and
said that Europe had been indoctrinated
into a belief that the United States was a
gold standard country. But he predicted
that when the people of Europe were
advised by the passage of a law that the
people of the United States insisted on free
coinage of silver they would themselves
come to the double standard.
Notwithstanding the brave start which
silver had taken at the national republican
convention at Chicago, positive hindrances
were interposed by the administration
against free ooinage of both metals at a
fixed ratio.
NOT AFRAID OF A GLUT.
Mr. Daniel ridiculed the Idea of an ava
lanche of silver crushing down upon us in
case of the free coinage of silver. It was
obvious, he said, that silver money abroad
would not come to the United States mint;
and it was also obvious that there was no
such annual production of silver in the
’vorld (*142,000,000, of which ali but *51,000,-
000, was now coined) as to cause any fear
on that score. There was only one other
point of apprehension—apprehension that
there was an accumulated stock of silver
that would rush to America as soon as the
mint was open to free coinage; but that was
answered by the Secretary of the Treasury
himself, who stated in his report:
‘l’here is no known accumulation of silver
bullion anywhere in the world. Germany
long since disposed of her stock. In view of
these facts there would seem to be no suffi
cient reason for limiting the amount of
silver bullion that may be deposited for
treasury notes; and there are strong reasons
against such limitations.” The gap between
silver as a commodity and silver as money
wtuld close as soon as the right of money
was conferred on silver. The logical con
clusion was inevitable that all silver
should be readmitted to free coinage, and
all silver being so admitted to a value
equal with gold, it was most reasonable to
conclude that as soon as there was a restora
tion of silver to its ancient plane of money
dignity, and thus an enlargement of the
world’s volume of money, the prices of
those things that had gone down with its
decline would again have a tendency to rise
with its ascension.
WON’T DRIVE OUT GOLD.
There was no reason to suppose that the
Rold bullion necessary to make a dollar
would enhance in price; but, on the con
trary, the right of free coinage conferred
on silver bullion would take away from
gold bullion its exclusive right to free com
“ge, and it would be par idoxical to assume
that that wonM increase its value. It was
§lje 00tnmg Heh&
monoDoly in use that gave value, and com
munity in use that took it away. He be
lieved that free coinage of silver would
bring gold Into the country, and not drive
it away. Money attracted money; richer
attracted riches; everything assim
ilated with its kind the world
over; and money was the most social,
assimilative of material thiugs. American
silver has drawn gold to us; and how better
could the future be judged than by the past?
In 1878, when the United States had no sil
ver money, there was $200,000,000 of gold in
the country; tut eveu partially restored
silver had proved such a magnet to capital
that the country now had between s3<io,-
000,000 and $400,000,000 of silver, and be
tween $600,000,000 and $700,000,000 of gold.
Good prices and active business attracted
g'dd and silver and men all the world over.
If free coinage of silver were established in
America it would gladden the hearts of
humanity by giving to the laborer a larger
price for his product.
THE EFFECT ON WHEAT.
Mr. Daniel read from the April circular
of Henry Clews, a banker of New York, to
the effect that free coinage of silver would
make tbe rupee of India dearer, and that
the dearer it was the less wheat India was
likely to export, ar.d there would therefore
be a better demand for American wheat.
Tbere had been a fall in the value of the
products of the soil all over the United
States. Bonds, mortgages, notes, debts,
taxes, obligations, aud contracts to
pay, of every kind, remained
at their fixed figure. The underpinning
(the property which was to discharge those
debts) had parted away from them, and
had left the roof of debt, of mortgage, of
obligations, at the same hight from the
ground of solvency. But between the roof
and earth there had been a partition of value,
so that a debtor had to pay more to dis
charge his debt than he contmplated in mak
ing it. The demonetization of silver had been,
perhaps, the greatest contributing cause
of that result. That was a movement dic
tated by kings, ministers, courtiers,
sycophants and monopolist*. It was a
movement of monarchy and autocracy.
The movement to remonetize it was a move
ment springing from the fountain of that
republicanism or democracy that believed
in the great doctrine of the federal consti
tution —that to promote the general welfare,
and not the welfare of a class, was funda
mental to the institution of government.
EUROPEAN DEMONETIZATION.
Mr. Daniel sketched the action of the
monarchies of England and Germany (the
two great creditor nations) in demonetizing
silver; and said that France, tho light of
republicanism in Europe, had resisted the
movement aud had preserved both metals.
No great republic of the earth, he said, had
ever willingly or consciously dismissed
silver from its service as money.
True, the United States had demonetized
it in 1873, but not by conscious
action, and then had occurred,
he said, the most shameful thing that had
ever been recorded in the history of the
nation. That act had been smuggled
through congress. There i3 one thing clear
about it, which neither false declaration
nor the sophistry of argument, nor the
cunning of rhetoric can disguise—and that
is, that tbe sole animus of the demonetiza
tion of silver in Europe and America is the
aggrandizement of the few at the expense
of the many.
Mr. Daniel spoke for three hours, partly
from full notes aud partly extempore. He
was listened to with close attention and in
terest bv a pretty- full attendance of sena
tors. As he took his seat he was applauded
from the galleries.
MONEY FOR THE NAVY.
The bill was finally laid aside without
any action, and the naval appropriation bil l
was taken up. All the formal and minor
amendments reported by the com
mittee having been agreed to
the amendment was taken up
which strikes out. of the bill
an aDpropriation of $500,000 for repairs
to the' dry dock at the Boston navy yard.
Another amendment strikes out a similar
amount for the Portsmouth navy yard.
These two amendments were opposed by
the Massachusetts and New Hampshire
senators, and the bill went over without
action on them. After an executive session
the Senate adjourned.
CARLISLE QUITS THE HOUSE.
He Will Take the Oath and His Seat
as Senator To-day.
■Washington, May 23.— Senator-elect
Carlisle has given up his seat in the House
to his colleague, tte crippled Scone of Ken
tucky, and will, on his return from New
York to-morrow, take the oath and his seat
in the Senate. The Vice President will as
sign him to committee places in accordance
with the determination of the democratic
caucus to be held to-morrow or Saturday.
Friends of Senator Vest of Missouri think
that that senator should have Senator
Beck’s placo on the finance committee, but
Mr. Vest himself will, it is thought, propose
Mr. Carlisle for it. If, 'under a foolish ad
herence to the senatorial traditions of pre
cedence, any other man than Mr. Carlisle
should be given this place, Mr. Carlisle
would still be the democratic leader in the
tariff debate for the simple reason that ha
is the best qualified.
HOUSE ROUTINE.
The Bill Prohibiting Census Perqui
sites Passed.
Washington, May 22.—1n the House to
day Mr. Dunnell of Minnesota, from the
committee on census, reported a bill amenda
tory of the census act, and it was passed. It
prescribes a penalty upon any supervisor or
enumerator who shall receive, or any person
who shall pay, any fee or other considera
tion in addition to the compensation of such
supervisor or enumerator.
A conference was ordered on the army
appropriation bill and military academy
appropriation bilL
On motion of Mr. Henderson of lowa,
from the committee on appropriations, the
bill was passed appropriating $99,030 to
supply the deficiency in the appropriation
for public printing and binding.
ONE-OENT POSTAGE.
It Won’t Come at Once, But Will
During ibis Administration.
Washington, May 22. —The promise of
one-cent postage in tbe last republican
national platform Is Dot to be redeemed by
this congress. Chairman Bingham of the
House committee ou postoffices said to-day:
“The country can’t afford it at present, as
it would cost the department $6,000,000 or
more. It would reduce the revenue one
half without a proportionate increase of
business. While one-cent postage will not
come this session, it will come before tbe
end of the present administration.”
Clarkson’s Successor.
Washington, May 32. —It is thought at
the postoffice department that Second
Assistant Postmaster General Whitfield of
Ohio wifi be promoted to Mr. Clarkson’s
place as first assistant postmaster general
when the latter goes out.
Tbe Republican National Committee.
Washington, May 22.— A call has been
issued for a meeting of the republican na
tional committee in Washington, May 29.
NOW FOR WATERWAYS.
THE HOUSE Takes up THE RIVER
AND HARBOR BILL.
Members of the Committee Bay It
Will be Passed Before To-morrow
Night—They Also Assert That it Will
Pass the Senate and be Signed by
the President.
Washington, May 23.— The House to
day went into committee of the whole, with
Mr. Burrows in the chair, on the river and
harbor bill. The members of the river and
harbor committee say that the bill will pass
the House before Saturday night. They also
assert that it will pass the Senate and be
signed by the President. They say that
they are prepared to make a long fight for
it if necessary. In fact, they say that if a
dead-lock arises between the two houses
they will stay here all summer for it.
In opening the debate to-day Mr.
Henderson of Illinois, chairman of the
committee on rivers and harbors, ex
plained the provisions of the bill, stating
that it appropriated $20,932,000, based upon
estimates aggrogating $39,500,000. He be
lieved that tbere was no money that went
out of the treasury that was so much in the
interest of the people of the country as the
money expended in the improvement of
the rivers and harbors. Every dollar
expended in removing obstructions
in the rivers and impediments in the har
bors was expended in behalf of the people,
and if this government was constituted for
any wise purpose, whatevor, it was con
stituted for the purpose of looking to the
interest of the people.
BEAT INTERSTATE COMMERCE ACTS.
Mr. Blanchard of Louisiana spoke in
favor of the principle of the river and har
bor bills aud contended that they did more
to solve the problem of cheap transporta
tion than ail the interstate commerce bills
that could be passed. He argued that
the time has come when the general govern
ment should take entire charge of the Mis
sissippi river and provide at once for an
adequate system of levees. He en
tered into an elaborate constitu
tional argument to show that the
general government had perfect
jurisdiction over the Mississippi river not
only under the regulation of the commerce
clause, not only under tbe police power
clause, but also under the clause conferring
on congress power to establish postolfices
and postroads.
GOVERNMENT PLANS EXPLAINED.
Mr. Catchings made a comprehensive and
exhaustive explanation of the plans by
which the government was undertaking the
improvement of the Mississippi river. He
urged tdat the improvement of the river
would furnish greater relief to the western
farmers than anything else that congress
could do. He made an earnest appeal for
broad, generous and patriotic treatment of
the bill.
| |Mr. Wheeler of Alabama described the
improvement of the Tennessee river, and
urged that congress appropriate $590,009
for completing the Muscle Shoals im
provement and removing the bar
to navigation at Colbert shoals. Ho said
that the vast development of that country
made an immediate improvement in naviga
tion an absolute necessity to the cities of
iron furnaces, which were springing up as
by magic.
KERR ATTACKS THE BILL.
Mr. Kerr of lowa attacked the bill, which
was defended by Mr. Grosvenor of Ohio.
Mr. Boatner of Louisiana spoke in favor
of an amendment which he said he would
offer if aa opportunity were presented, to
strike out the clause providing that none
of the appropriation for the Mississippi
river shall be expended to repair or build
levees for the purpose of reclaiming lands
or preventing injury to lands or private
property by overflows.
The committee then rose and the House
adjourned.
SENATORS AND THE TARIFF,
Their Finance Committee Will Report
a Substitute.
Washington, May 22.—1 tis the present
intention of the members of the Senate
finance committee to report a substitute for
the McKinley tariff bill when their con
sideiption of that measure shall have been
completed. This course is deemed to be
better than to report the bill as it came
from the House with amendments. For
when it goes into conference there will bo
but one question to settle, instead of a
myriad of differences upon points in detail.
This was the course pursued with the tariff
bill of 1883, and it was found to result in a
saving of time.
WANT TO HEAD OFF HEARINGS.
The finance committee will endeavor to
maintain its determination not to give oral
hearings to any interested parties; but it
was reported to-day that importers of sev
eral cities to the number of 2,000 will come
to Washington next week demanding to be
heard. If any such number, or even a
much smaller one, appears in a body, it is
probable that the committee will open its
doors to the representatives.
Nominated for Postmasters.
Washington, May 22.— The President to
day nominated to be postmasters Little J.
Seurlock, at Water Valley, Miss.; Matthew
K. Mister, at Grenada, Miss., and Thomas
H. Prince, at Gallatin, Tenn.
Government Bond Purchases.
Washington, May 22—The bond offer
ings to-day aggregated $35,600. All were
accepted at 122 for 4s and 103)4f0r 4)4*.
A BLAZE AT ALBANY.
A Freight House of the New York
Central Railroad Burned,
Albany, N. Y., May 23.—One of the
quickest, hottest, and most exciting fires of
recent years occurred hero to-night in tbe
burning of one of the New York Central
freight houses on Montgomery street, near
the river. The owners of the freight will
lose $75,000 or more, while the railroad com
pany will lose $50,000 on the building, cars,
and property for which it is responsible. The
amount of the insurance is unknown.
A Confidential Clerk Absconds.
Kansas City, May 22.—Elze Allen, con
fidential clerk of the Austin In
vestment Company, with headquarters
In this city, has disappeared with
$30,000 of the company’s money. Mr.
AustiD, the head of the company, went
to England on May 12, leaving a largo sum
of money subject to the joint check of
Allan and William Austin, aud the com
pany’s attorney, Allan, is alleged to have
forged Mr. Austin’s name to various checks,
aggregating $20,000, and to have gone to
Canada.
Death of an Educator.
Asheville, N. C., May 22.—C01. Joseph
A. Brfnner, a well-known educator, died
last night. He was the principal owner of
the Asheville Female College and tbe
founder of Branner Female Institute, at
Mossy Creek, Tenn.
• SAVANNAH, GA., FRIDAY, MAY 23, 1890.
AN OVERISSUE OF STOCK.
The President of a Boston Publishing
Company Gees Wrong.
Boston, May 22.—The Herald this morn
ing says that Clarenoo F. Jewett, president
of the C. F. Jewett Publishing Company,
has disappeared, and that crooked transac
tions in the matter of overissue of stock In
the neighborhood of $75,000 have come to
light. Dana Estes, of Estes & I-auriat,
publishers, is treasurer of the company
and owned 375 shares of the com
pany’s stock. It is reported
that more than twice the number of sha es
held by Jewett have been sold by him to
various parties in blocks of ten or twelve
shares, for from S9OO to $l,lOO, and his al
leged victims assert that it bus been his cus
tom to make out these share* as occasion
required, and that he signed his own name
and that of Mr. Estes thereto. The suspi
cions of Messrs. Eit ee & Lauriat were excited
two weeks ago by frequent sales of stock by
Jewitt, and when they made inquiries
Jeweti left town for a few days aud has not
returned.
Messrs. Estes and Lauriat have issued a
card confirming the report of C. F. Jewett’s
forgery, but announcing that the forgeries
injure no jierson except the holders of the
forged paiier. The publishing concern is
not affected.
COLLIDED ON A CRQB3INQ.
Narrow Escape from Fearful Loss of
Life in Missouri.
Kansas City, May 22. —A serious wreck
occurred to-day at Shenflsld, Mo., at the
crossing of the Alton and Missouri Pacific
tracks there. The Missouri Pacific freight
train had the right ot way and was proceed
ing to the crossing when an Alton road
passenger train, bound from Chicago,
dashed into the crossing at a speed
of forty miles an hour. The
Alton road engineer recognized the freight’s
rignt of way;, but bis air brakes would not
work. The freight engine struck the passen
ger train square in tt o middle, demolishing
one of the Pullman Sleepers and ditching
the rest of the cars, which fell down an
embankment fifteen feet high. It is a
miracle that no one was killed. As it was,
only eight passengers were injured.
ORIGINAL PACKAGE SALES.
An lowa Judge Refuses to Accept the
Supreme Court’s Decision.
Nevada, la., May 22.—Judge Hindman
of the district court, in his charge to the
grand jury at the opening of court yester
day, took the ground that notwithstanding
the late decision of the United States su
preme court, no person has a right iu this
state to keep a place for the sale of Intoxi
cating liquors of any kind, either in orig
inal packages or otherwise, and that it was
the sworn duty of jurors to report to
the court by indictment any person charged
with keeping any such place, without regard
as to where such liquors came from. He
maintained that interstate commerce has
nothing to do with the question, and that
the keeping of a place for the sale of liquors
is a nuisance, no matter how they are dealt
out
SHELLENBBKGER'S SENTENCE. ;
Twenty-Two Years in the Penitentiary
the Lawyer’s Fate.
Doylestown, Pa., May 22.— J. Monroe
Shellenberger, the lawyer whose forgeries
and other criminal escapades and flight
recently caused such a widespread sansa
tion, was to-day sentenced by Judge Yerks
to imprisonment for twenty-two years at
hard labor in the Eastern penitentiary.
When judgment was pronounced the pris
oner broke down completely and had to be
half carried from the court room. The
scene was exciting in tne extreme and one
long to be remembered by the crowd which
witnessed it.
WRATH FROM THE SKY.
People In a German Village Killed
While Praying.
Berlin, May 22.—Tho village of fit.
Mahelen, in Norhildesheim, has been visited
by severe hailstorms, which have done a
great deal of damage. To-day the people
gathered in the church to pray for a cessa
tion of the storms. While tue services were
in progress a thunderstorm came up and the
church was struck by lightning. Four per
sons were instantly killed aud twenty wore
injured, four being rendered completely
blind. The people were panic-stricken, and
in a mad rush for tho doors two children
were crushed to death.
England's Publlcanß.
London, May 22. —Mr. Gladstone, in a
letter on the licensing question, says that
the mere introduction in parliament of a
license bill, which provides for compensa
tion for loss of licenses, has already
increased the value of publicans’ property
by probably £50,000,099. The measure, ho
says, is the heaviest blow ever struck at the
cause of temperance.
France’s Cabinet.
Paris, May 22. —A cabinet meeting was
held a - , the palace of the Kiysee to-day prior
to the departure of President Carnot on a
tour of the provinces. M. Ribotz, minister
of foreign affairs, announced that arrange
ments for the conversion of the Egyptian
debt had been completed.
Carnot on a Tour.
Paris, May 22. —President Carnot left
Paris to-day to make a tour of the provinces.
He first arrived at Montelimar, department
of Drome, where he was given an enthusi
astic reception. From Montelimar he will
go to Avignon, Nimes, Besancon, Vesoui
and Belfort.
Labor Blots at Ravenna.
Rome, May 22.—Labor riots occurred in
Ravonna to-day. Three peasants were
killed aud numerous soldiers and peasants
were wouuded. The latter earnonly 7 pence
per day. Anarchists are fomenting trouble
among the workers.
Hyraud’a Extradition,
Paris, May 22.—The government has
asked the Spanish authorities for the ex
tradition of Michael Eyraud, who was ar
rested at Havana for the murder of M.
Gouffe in Paris in July last.
A Conference Postponed.
London, May 22.—At a mooting of the
imperial federation league to-day it was
announced that the imperial conference had
been postponed.
Press Ofitenses In France.
Paris, May 22. -The chamber of deputies
to-day by a vote of 347 to 189 rejected the
press offenses bill as passed by the Senate.
Sixteen Killed in a Blot.
Vienna, May 22.—Tbe deaths resulting
from the labor rioting at PhiUen number
sixteen.
A Democratic Walkover.
Lynchburg, Va., May 22.— The demo
crats had a walkover for municipal officers
here to-day, there being no opposition can
didates.
HELP FOR THE HEATHEN.
PRESBYTERIAN AND METHODIST
MISSION WORK.
The Same Bubj set up la the General
Conference and the General Assem
bly—The Followers of Calvin Restore
a Deposed Minister to All His Rights.
A Stand Against Lotteries.
Asheville, N. C., May 22.—1n the
Southern Presbyterian general assembly to
day tbe report of the committee on foreign
missions was read by Rev. C. R. Hemphill,
chairman, aud was considered by sections.
The first section proposed to trausfer minis
ters’funds from the Clergy’s. Friendly So
ciety to the Presbyterian ministers’ fund of
Philadelphia. It was adopted.
The next section proposed annuities to
the families of deceased missionaries, and
was adopted.
The third resolution was an overture
from tbe Columbia presbytery, recommend
ing the publication of a missionary paper
for children. The committee recommended
that the first number in each month of the
Children's Friend be given up to this pur
pose. Tbe recommendation was adopted.
The fourth section was an overture from
the Columbia presbytery recommending
the training of young women for foreign
missionary work. It was adopted.
OTHER RECOMMENDATIONS ADOPTED.
Other rccommoudatlons udopted were as
follows: That the churches shall pay this
coming year $115,000 at least for foreign
missionary work.
That tho executive committee be author
ized to commission four additional men to
the missionary field in the Congo Free State.
That tho question of duty in enlisting in
foreign mission fields b impressed on
clergymen and theological sludeuts.
That women be appointed to canvass
each congregation for subscriptions to the
Missionary, and that tho club rates tor that
paper be maintained.
That ail Sabbath schools be encouraged
to take purt in the children’s day exercisos
on tho first Sunday in June.
That the assembly cordially commend the
officers and members of the executive com
mittee for their zoal and energy.
Tho report of tho committee was then
adopted as a whole.
Rev. Mr. Stevons spoke on foreign mis
sions, and was followed by Rev. C. R.
Hemphill, Rev. W. J. Allen and Dr. W. T.
Thompson.
Col. J. J. Wade addressod tho assembly
on the circulation of the church papers.
THE PEACE CONGRESS.
The report of the committee on bills and
overtures was read. The first section was
on the |>eace memorial introduced a few
days ago by Dr. Campbell. Tho committee
submitted both majority and minority
reports. Tho majority report favored
the adoption of Dr. Camp
bell’s paper and the filling of
the blanks in the committee of corre
spondence with other Christian churches
with the names of Revs. William A. Carop-
Dell. D. I)., Moses D. Hoge, D. D., and Mar
shall Gilliam. They further recommended
that Rev. A. Campbell, 1). D., aud Rev.
M. D. Hoge, D. D., he appointed delegates
to the assembly in tho interest of peace
contemplated in 1891, but that this assem
bly does not by this appointment of dele
gates commit itself iu advance to any
measures that this peace congress may
adopt.
Tho minority report regarded it ns unwise
for the assembly, the highest court of the
church, to take action iu the case, but ex
pressed the fullest sympathy with tho object
of Dr. Campbell’s paper.
The petition from the anti-lottery league
was next taken up, and a recommendation
was made for the assembly to take action
against lotteries.
AN ERRING BROTHER FORGIVEN.
Dr. Shearer read the report of the judicial
committee on the appeal of Rev. Dr. P. P.
Robinson from the decision of the assembly
of 1887. Rev. Robiuson was a minister of
the presbytery of Mecklenburg,and charges
were preferred against him by his wife.
The synod of North " Carolina
found against him, aud be appealed
to the assembly of 1887. There he was sus
pended and in 1889 he was restored to the
ministry, but without the right of commun
ion. Rev. Robinson appealed on the ground
that tho action of tho precoding assemblies
was inconsistent. The committee in an
elaborate paper, admitted as much, and
recommended that the Rev. Robinson lie
restored to the full right and privileges of
the ministry. The recommendation was
adopted.
TAKINO OF THE CENSUS.
With regard to the overture asking co
operation with the census enumerators, tho
report stated that the entire request was
not recommended, but only that the stated
clerks of tho presbyteries should be asked to
co-operate. The report was adopted.
Dr. Davies of tho committee on theologi
cal seminaries submitted a report. Tho re
port stated that the condition of the
different institutions was gratifying. At
tho school at Union there were seventy
students. Columbia Theological Seminary
had twenty-tivo matriculated during the
past year. The institute for colored min
isters bod twenty-nine students, all doing
good work. Tho report was adopted.
Tho report of the committee on foreign
correspondence was read, and, with its
amendments, adopted as a whole.
A motion was nmde by Dr. Scott that Dr.
W. A. Campbell bear in person a letter to
the Irish jubilee at Belfast next July. It
was so ordered.
THE STAND AS TO TEMPERANCE.
William Cox moved to suspend tho rules
and reconsider the action of the assembly
on the paper on temperance submitted by
tbe committee. The motion was carried.
Mr. Cox moved to reconsider the vote,
and tho motion was adopted.
Mr. Cox then offered a resolution to refer
the matter to a special committee, who
shall present a more succinct st itoment of
the question. Mr. Cox said that the action
of the assembly had been misconstrued,
even by some members of the assembly.
The assembly should go on record, he
thought, as unmistakably favoring temper
ance reform.
Rev. W. A. Alexander offered a substi
tute that the thanks of this assembly be
oxtended to tbe special committee for their
earnest work in this matter, and no further
action be taken on it, and that this assem
bly affirms the deliverance of the previous
assemblies on temperance.
Rev. George Huinmey did not think tbe
assembly should reconsider its formor ac
tion.
Rev. Mr. Alexander’s substitute was
adopted.
SYSTEMATIC BENEFICENCE.
The report of the committee on systematic
beneficence showed the following amounts
to have been expended during the past year
for different purposes: Homo missions,
$63,000; evaugelical work, $48,000; invalid
fund, $13,157; foreign missions, $77,000;
education $32,000; publication, SBO,OOO, aud
for Tuscaloosa Seminary, $5,525. The re
port was adopted.
The report of tbe auditing committee was
presented and adopted.
Rev. Mr. Flournoy submitted a resolution
asking that a committee be appointed to.
prepare papers on such subjects as love of
money, Christian givers, and worldly
amusements, aud that copies be sent to
ministers with a request that sermons be
preached ou these topics.
REV. HEMPHILL KNOCKS IT OUT.
The question was liberally discussed, V 1
when Rev. Dr. Hoinphill rose and rein* t- 1
that as long as he was iu the pulpit ia>
would preach on these subjects from a see .--
of duty, and that he did not consider that
any body had to tell him how
or when to do it, and that
the assembly was constantly lowering
itself in not only the eyes of I’resbyterians,
but of ministers, by such acts as the ono
proposed, the resolution was tabled.
The report of the committee ou societies
was submitted, as was the report of the
committee on a revised directory of wor
ship. Tho latter advised that uo change be
made, and the report was adopted.
The report of the committee on colored
evangelical work recommended the appoint
ment of a field secretary. Tbe report was
adopted.
METHODISM'S MISSIONS.
The Conference Votes to Have Three
Secretaries Hereafter.
St. Louis, May 22L —In the general con
ference of the Methodist church this morn
ing the report of the committee on mis
sions was taken up again, and a long debate
ensued on the paragraph in it recommend
ing tho appointment of three sec
retaries of missions. Thera is
but one now employed. There was a
good deal of opposition to this and an effort
was made to compromiso ou two, but the
recommendation of the report was finally
carried and the missions will have three
seorotaries hereafter.
The conference then received Rev. John
Shafer of Kansas City, who oame on a fra
ternal mission. He gave a review of the his
tory of the African church in this
country, suggested that the missionaries
who would accomplish the greatest good in
Africa were negroes, and asked the aid and
support of tho Methodist ohurch to send
men to the dark continent to work for the
cause of Christ.
SOME DAY THEY MAY BE SORRY.
The proposition to require the treasurer
of tho board of missions to give a bond was
promptly, if not indignantly, opposed and
defeated by a largo majority.
A resolution was offered by Dr. Peterson
officially approving I’ayne and Lane insti
tutes (c ilored school.) and appointing a
commissioner who Bhouid devoto his time to
raising money for their support.
Nows was received of tho death of Rev.
I)r. Nathan Scarrit of Kansas City, and
tho conference joined iu prayer for the
blessing and comfort of God for tho be
reaved family.
The committee on Sunday schools re
ported in favor of organizing young peo
ple’s leagues in the Sunday sohools, to fur
nish greater opportunity for the young peo
ple to work. The report was adopted with
'out debate.
A proposition to establish a weekly paper
to be called Youth was indefinitely post
poned. Tho session then adjourned.
The two new bishops, Havgood of Ala
bama and Fitzgerald of Nashville, were
consecrated this afternoon at the Centenary
church in tho presence of the conference
and a large number of people. Bishop
Keener officiated.
ALABAMA’S EPISCOPALIANS,
An Assistant Bishop May Be Elected
by the Diocese.
Montgomery, May 22. —The third day’s
sossion of the diocesan council of the Epis
copal church was devoted to discussion of
the question of tho election of an assistant
bishop. Bi-hop Wilmer, whilo in feeble
healtb, reported that he hoped to be re
stored. A committee was appointed to
secure his consent to the elec.ion of an
assistant. Bhouid bis consent be givou an
assistant will be elected.
A Tennessee Bank Falla.
ITabhville, May 23. —The Bank of Mid
dle Tonnessee, located at Lebanon, has made
an assignment for the benefit of its creditors.
Its lin dlities aro alxiut $90,000, aud its as
sets about $66,000. This was a state bank.
The American Medical Association.
Nashville, May 22. The American
Medical Association to-day elected Dr. W.
T. Briggs of this city president, and selected
Washington as its next place of meeting.
A t-QUABBLE OVEit A WILL.
Brothers of a Dead Woman Assert
That She Was Crazy.
Atlanta, Ga.* May 22.—A remarkable
contested will case was hoard by Ordinary
Calhoun this morning. Mrs. Caroline Mer
ritt, wife of P. W. Merritt, made a will
leaving to her husband a good portion of
her property, which was considerable.
She made several bequests in favor
of relatives, but ignored her brother,
E. W. Menlock, and he contested the will,
while another brother, J. C. Menlock,
wished to have it admitted to probate. The
latter finally gained his point, but an ap
peal will be taken. E. W. Menlock insists
that his sister was of unsound mind both
when she married and when tho will was
executed, and for that reason both her will
and marriage are illegal and void.
ANOTHER BROTHER TAKER A HAND.
liobert P. Menlock, another brother of
Mrs. Merritt, to whom she bequeathed
SI,OOO, has filed a bill in which he sets forth
that his sister was always considered a
lunatic and was not of sound mind when
she married; that she was especially not of
sound mind on the subject of marriage, and
was always thinking some Methodist
preacher wanted to make her
his wife. The plaintiff avers
that P. W. Merritt sent word
to his sister that he could take care of tho
property, which was then in the hands of
the plaintiff as trustee appointed by his
father. Shortly afterward Merritt took
the plaintiff’s sister out for a ride when she
didn’t even know bis name. A few days
later Merritt and the plaintiff’s sister were
married. The plaintiff asks that the property
be left to bis di-posal as trustee, his sister
not being of sound mind and not legally
married to Merritt.
TOLLKBON’3 OUTING.
Judge Clarke Censures the Over-
Obliging Bailiff.
Atlanta, Ga., May 22.—Judge Marshall
Clarke this morning investigated the sheriff,
the jailer and Bailiff Cooke for allowing the
celebrated Tolleson too much liberty. The
bailiff admitted that he had taken the pris
oner to his attorney’s office and to his (Toll
son’s) residence, but did not think he was
committing any wrong in stretching his
authority so far. The sheriff and jailer
showed that thev had nothing to do with
the matter. Judge Clarke excused the
bailiff, but warned him not to repeat the
offense.
Pledger's New Place.
Atlanta, Ga., May 22.—8i1l Pledger
has received his commission as special agent
in the federal land office, and will go at
once to Washington to report for duty.
He says bis salary will be *2,500,
i DATLYJIOAYEAR. $
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JESUP’S HKD SCANDAL.
LITTLEFIELD TELLS THE STORY OF
THE KILLING.
McCall and Mrs. Littlefield in a Com
promising Situation When the Fir
ing Was Opened—Littlefield’s Sus
picions Had Been Aroused and Ha
Shadowed the Guilty Pair Till They
Were fc elf-Convicted.
Jksup, Ga., May 22.—The coroner’s
jury In tho Littlefield tragedy met this
morning at 9 o’clock, and came to a decision
about 1 o’clock this afternoon. The verdict)
of the jury is as follows:
We, the Jury, find T. P. Littlefield guilty o£*
the murder of his wife, and the killing of J. G.-,(
McCall justifiable homicide.
Littlefield was committed, but waived a
preliminary trial and was takeu to Bruns
wick this afternoon to await trial at tho •!
October term of the superior oourt Little-4
field’s statement before tbe jury was as ’
follows:
"Mr. Surrency and McCall and mvselfa
were all around at Burrency’s store, and’
Mr. McCall left me and Burreucy aud said i
he was going to the postoffice, but would bo t
bock In a minute or two. I suppose
that it was half an hour af tor that 1 came
around in the house and came upstairs, and I
Mr. McCall was lying on a bed in No. 11, I 1
think, asleep, and I did not bother him. I j
went down-stairs, aud knocked around
there until after supper. Awhile after sup
per 1 came upstairs and went into my '
room and went to bed.
his suspicions aroused.
“Whilo 1 was lying there McCall came
to the door and pushed it open and came in
and sat down on tho foot of the bed. and
a*ked mo to get up and come down, and I
noticed that he reached over me and placed
his hand upon Mrs. Littlefield, and that
made mo suspicious of him. I got up then
anu put on uiy clothes and told Mrs. Little
field 1 would go down and heat the coffee
ready for the train. When I came out I
put the night latch on the door, which
locked as I pulled it too. After lighting
tho luinpa i looked the door and started up
stairs again, anil when I got to tho foot of
the stairs McCall was at my door trying
to get in my room. The
door being locked, he went out on the
piazza. As he did I went to the door my
self aud saw McCall outside trying to get
iu the window, but he did not succeed in
getting in at that time, and I saw him get
up and I stopped behind the door so that
ho would not sue mo.
LIKE A MOTH AROUND A CANDLE.
"He came out and went to his room and
stayed a short time and came back again.
He went around to the same window and
succeeded in raising it, whether by himself •
or, with Mrs. Littlefield’s help I do) not
know. When ho went in 1 stepped around
to the window where I could see what was
going on, and when I got to the window
Mrs. Littlefield was up and she and McCall
were whispering together. I could not
hoar what was said. She unlocked
the door then to let him
out, for what Ido not know, but I supposed
to soo where 1 was. II went) down-stairs
and she remained at the door until be came
back.
IN A BED OF SIN.
"Ho went into the room and she locked
the door aud went to the mantlepiece and
turned down tbe light, and they then re
tired. 1 watched until I saw this and
thought I had stood it long enough. I
pushed the curtain to one side with my left
band and with my right hand held the
pistol. I went in trie window, and
as I straightened up I shot McCall
aud he rolled off the bed
on the far side, falling upon the
floor. Then 1 shot Mrs. Littlefield. As I
flied tho second shot McCall got up and
camo from tho bed, turning his left side So
mo. I shot him again. Ho then caught me
and tried to disarm me. During the tussel
I shot twice more. Hn said then: ‘You
have killed me; let me get out of here.’
LET HIM OFF TO DIE.
“I went to the door and unlocked it and
lot him out, aud I have not seen him since.
Ho went to the room whoro he and Mr.
Burrencyjwere Bleeping, and I went down
stairs aud found Mr. Goodbread, tho uight
marshal, rtl told him what 1 had done and.
gave mvself up, handing him my pistol.
He sent for Mr. Austin, the deputy sheriff,
aud turned me over to him,
and now I am In his custody.
McCall had on nothing but bis
night clothes while trying to get in tho
room. I caught McCall at tbe same window
two mouths ago trying to get in. I sus
pected biin, and thought I would watch
him and caught him. I regret that I had
to kill him, but I did, and as 1 thought one
as much to blame as the other I shot them
both. McCail came from Brunswick and
brought some whisky, and we took a drink.
I did not hear Mr. Surrency and McCall
concocting any plan. I suspected Mrs.
Littlefield before, but was not certain
about it.”
The; News correspondent was' misin
formed in regard to the prisoner being
placed in jail last night. The sheriff
guarded him at a private residence.
McCail was county surveyor of Ware
county and Littlefield is proprietor of the
hotel in which the tragedy occurred.
TAKEN' TO BRUNSWICK.
Brunswick, Oa., April 22. Sheriff
Robertson of Wayne county arrived here
at H o’clock to-night with T. P. Littlefield.
The sheriff and his prisoner got into a car
riage and were driven from the East Ten
nessee depot to the county jail The jail
was filled, so the prisoner was placed in a
coll on the second floor of the city prison.
He was callod upon at 11 o’clock by a re
porter. but he positively refused to speak.
The only word be has uttered since he was
locked up was “yes,” in answer to a ques
tion by the prison keeper. He was brought
here for safekeeping.
BIOHMONBIQ PABADS.
Uniformed Troops to be Given Places
on a New Basis.
Richmond, Va., May 22.— Besides the
uniformed troops from many southern
states who have signified their intention of
being present at the unveiling of the eques
trian statue of Gen. Lee, many veteran or
ganizations will be iu line from Maryland,
West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama,
Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas.
While the orders in regard to the parade
and programme of exercise have not yet
been issued, it is understood that the uni
formed troops and veterans will*be given
position in the line in the order in which
the states seceded. This will put South
Carolina first.
THE COMMANDER.
The uniformed troops will be under com
mand of Brig. Gen. Anderson of Virginia.
It has been determined to have vocal and
Instrumental music at the unveiling of the
statue. The hymn “How Firm a Founda
tion” will be sung by the vast assemblage
with a full brass band accompaniment. A
private telegram received here fr. in New
York announces the arrival in that oity
from Europe of Miss Mary Lee, eldest
daughter of the late Gen. R. E. Lea.
