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QUAY’S BLACK COHORTS.
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE RESULT OF
TWO CONTESTS.
Colored Men Lanaraton and Miller
Seated in Order to Satisfy the Col
ored Voters In the North—Southern
White Republicans Alarmed at the
Pull of the Negroes.
Washington, May 23. —The republican
managers really care nothing about the
negroes of the south, but ever since they
have learned that the negroes of the north
hold the balance of power in all the doubt
ful states, they have been very solicitous
about them. This accounts for the action
of the House elections committee to-day in
deciding in favor of Langston of Virginia
and Miller of South Carolina, colored con
testants, and also in deciding against Chal
mers of Mississippi, a white contestant.
THE ORIGINAL, INTENTION.
It was the intention of the majority of
the committee on elections at the beginning
of the session, as stated by several members
of it, to refuse to seat either of the three
colored contestants, Langston, Miller and
Hill of Mississippi, in spite of the
fact even that Langston had made
a regular bargain with the repub
lican national committee before he
went out to take part in the Ohio campaign
last year that in consideration of the
speeches he was to make in Ohio he should
have the support of the committee in his
contest. He was to be thrown out to please
Mahone, the majority having less difficulty
in doing this because Venable, a democrat,
was plainly elected by Mahone’s detection.
WHY THE POLICY HAS BEEN CHANGED.
But now it seems probable that all three
colored men will be seated, unless, indeed,
they are kept out by the white republicans
from tLe south representing negro districts,
who foresee, as Mahone foresaw, that to
seat the colored contestants is to inspire the
nomination of colored men for congress in
all the black districts. The chango in the
minds of the majority of the committee
has unquestionably been brought
about directly by threats and
warnings conveyed verbally and
by letters from colored leaders in the
northern states as to the effect upon the
colored vote in the north of discriminations
against colored contestants from the south.
IT SETTLED CHALMERS.
The same influences operated to prevent
a favorable report on Chalmers, who has a
better case than Jim Hill [colored], ,the
other contestant from Mississippi, who will
probably be seated. Ben Wade’s speech
denouncing Chalmers as the “Butcher
of Fort Pillow” has been circulated
among the colored people all over the north,
especially in the state of Ohio, from which
much of the pressure upon the committee
bas come. The votes in the committee on
those cases were interesting. That on the
Chalmers case was unanimous, except that
Mr. Houk of Tennessee reserved the right to
change his mind. That on Langston was a
strict party vote, except that Mr. Berger of
Camden, N. J., refused to vote, and that
Mr. Houk voted for Langston “with
doubt.”
CRISP IN THE FRAY.
Before the vote was taken on the resolu
tion to seat Langston, Mr. Crisp, as the
spokesmen of the democrats, offered a
resolution declaring that Mr. Venable, the
democratic coutestee, was elected and en
titled to the seat. All the democrats voted
for this. Messrs. Bergen and Houk refused
to vi ite and it was defeated by the other re
publican votes. The majority on this com
mittee has always been large enough to
overcome the defection of one or two
members. The democrats were ready to
proceed at once with the case of Jim Hill
against Catchings, but the republicans
asked time, and so it was postponed for a
week. The probability is that the repub
licans postponed action in order to consult
with Senator Quay on his return next week,
for Senator Quay Is almost as anxious to
seat Hill as be was to keep Langston out on
account of his friend Mahone.
SALE OF A CONSULSHIP.
It will be remembered that as chairman of
the republican national committee, in a des
perate attempt to get some evidence which
could be used to unseat Catchings and seat
Hill, Senator Quay bought from William
Sorsby, who had been on the loading demo
cratic newspaper in that district, some pri
vate letters belonging to the editor of that
paper which were capable of being twisted
so as to be embarrassing to Catchings. Sen
ator Quay paid for those letters with the
assistance of Secretary Blaine and President
Harrison with the office of consul at Guay
aquil Senator Quay had a great deal of
difficulty in getting Sorsby confirmed, but
he succeeded after a two days’ fight.
ANOTHER CASE OF BRIBERY.
He had less difficulty in paying for the
manufactured evidence of another fellow in
that district to the effect that he changed
150 ballots from Hill to Catchings in one of
the voting places, for he had only to
speak to Secretary Windom to get him a
good place in the treasury department. It
is obvious, however, that unless Senator
Quay can get the republicans to unseat
Catchings and seat Hill it will seem to the
party workers as though he had wasted
these two offices without justification.
BULLOCK TO GO.
Action is likely to be taken in the Flor
ida case next week, and it is likely to be
adverse to Bullock, the sitting member.
Having secured all the votes they need tr
the party majority, the republicans ere now
carrying on this election contest movement
simply for the purpose of inducing the
north to believe that there is need of a fed
eral election law for use, of course, solely in
the south.
PINKERTON’S FANCIED PERIL.
The Revenue Cutter to be Kept at
Cedar Key to Protect Him.
Washington, May 23.—Secretary of the
Treasury Windom bas received a telegram
from Collector Pinkerton at Cedar Key,
Ila., saying that the town is still controlled
hy the Cottrell influence, the situation being
critical, and that there wijl be no safety for
United States officials there until he is
arrested, especially if the revenue cutter
McLane should leave there. Orders were
issued from the treasury department to-day
for the McLane to remain at Cedar Key
until the officials there consider that her
services are no longer required.
Oleomargarine and the Laws.
Washington, May 23. In the House
this morning Mr. Flower of New York in
troduced a bill.subjecting oleomargarine to
the provisions of the laws of the several
states. It was referred.
Postmasters Confirmed.
Washington, May 23.— The Senate has
confirmed the nominations of the following
postmasters: George Hudson, at Key West,
cla., and Francis D. Pratt, at Canton,
Miss.
Mobile's Shipping Commissioner.
Washington, May 23.—The Secretary
Sf the Treasury has appointed Henry C.
thrower shipping commissioner of Mobile.
ISljf Utofning ffctojS.
KEMMLBR WILL BE SHOCKED.
The United Btates Supreme Court De
cides that Electricity is All Right.
W ashington. May 23.—The supreme
court of the United States to-day denied
the application for a writ of error in the
case of Kemmler, under sentence of death
by electricity. The opinion is by Chief
Justice Fuller.
The opinion first recites the proceedings
in the lower court) leading up to the bring
ing of the case to this court. The court
says that It is urged in Kemmlar’s behalf
that the Fourteenth amendment is a prohi
bition on the state of the imposition of cruel
and unusual punishment, this being in
cluded in the term, “Due process of law.”
The origin of the phrase, “Cruel and
unusual punishment,” the court said, was
in an English act of 1688, and meant that
barbarous methods of punishment should
not be inflicted. It meant that a man should
not be sentenced to death by torture, but
did not mean that the death penalty itself
was cruel. The court of appeals, the opinion
says, held that the punishment inflicted on
Kemmler was unusual, but there was no
evidence to show that it was cruel.
THE LEGISLATURE NOT IN IGNORANCE.
The legislature of New York had the
facts bearing upon this question, aud the
court must presume that the legislature had
devised a punishment which it thought less
cruel than the former mode. That decision,
the court says, was not against any special
privilege set up by the prisoner, and was so
plainly right that the court would
not be justified in overruling it. The
fourteenth amendment did not materially
change the whole theory of the government.
Citizens still remain—citizens both of the
state and of the United States. The only
change is that the amendment furnishes an
additional guarantee against the encroach
ment by the state upon the fundamental
rights of citizens. The privileges and im
munities of citizens of the United States are,
indeed, protected by them. These are priv
ileges arising out of the essential nature aud
character of the national government.
DUE PROCESS OF LAW.
The court quotes the opinion in the
Hurtado case on the meaning of the phrase,
“Due process of law.” The change in
the form of death was within the legitimate
sphere of the legislative power of the state.
The legislature of the state of New York
determined that it did not iufliet cruel and
unusual punishment, and its courts have
sustained that determination. This court
cannot see that the prisoner has been de
prived of due process of law. In order to
reverse the judgment this oourt should bo
compelled to bold that the court of appeals
had committed an error so gross as to de
prive the prisoner of his constitutional
rights. The court has no hesitation in say
ing that it cannot do this.
SENATORS AND THE TARIFF.
Carlisle's Chance to Fight the Bill the
Second Time.
Washington, May 23.—McKinley’s tariff
Dill, engrossed in the highest style of the
art, was carefully carried in the arms of
Clerk McPherson into the Senate chamber
at 2 o’clock this afternoon. It was formally
referred to the finance committee, but act
ually hurried away to the government
printing office, with a special order to print
10,000 copies of it. The mem bears of the
committee on finance will have copies of it,
and of the somewhat misleading tables of
comparative rates prepared by the ways
and means committee, on the first of next
weak.
IN SECRET SESSION.
The republicans of the committee will
then go into secret session on it, giving
hearings to any considerable interest which
has political influence enough to get before
the committee, aud proceeding to mature
anew, Independent bill, to be submitted to
the Senate as a substitute for McKinley’s
pride. When the substitute is ready the
democratic members of the committee will
have a chance to look at it and to write a
minority report upon it, as they will un
doubtedly w.sh to, although, excepting the
sugar and woolen schedules, the new Senate
bill will differ from the old Senate bill, as
from the McKinley bill, by making reduc
tions.
CARLISLE’S PRIVILEGE.
Mr. Carlisle will thus have the unpar
alleled privilege of writing as well as he has
of voting on behalf of the minority in the
finance committee of both houses at the
same session, for he will of course prepare
the minority report in the Senate as he did
in the House. Ho will also lead the Senate
conferees and will lead the minority fight
on the most important battle ground,
namely, the field of the conference commit
tee, for the conference committee in 1890 as
in 1883, will really frame the tariff
act, putting into it, probably against
the protest of Mr. Carlisle and his demo
cratic associates, as did its predecessor
against the protests of Mr. Carlisle, Bayard
and the other minority conferees, important
provisions never submitted to either the
House or the Senate. The probability is
that the Fourth of July will come before the
conference committee meets, in spite of
Speaker Reed’s prodiction that congress
would be at home to celebrate independence
day.
CARLISLE AS SENATOR.
His Credentials Didn't Arrive Yester
day as Expected.
Washington, May 23.—Speaker Carlisle
having been born on Friday, married on
Friday, first nominated to congress on Fri
day and nominated to the Senate on Friday,
has no superstitious instincts against be
ginning things on Friday. Hence he would
very willingly have taken the oath of office
and begun his service as senator to-day if
his credentials had arrived in time, but
they will not be here before to-morrow
morning, and so he will wait until Monday.
TO SUCCEED BECK.
It will be gratifying to tho whole country
to know that Senator Vest, having waived
his traditional right to the vacancy on the
finance committee created by the death of
Senator Beck, in order that Mr. Carlisle
might be appointed to it, the democratic
senators have unanimously agreed to recom
mend Mr. Carlisle’s appointment to Vice
President Morton, who will thereupon make
it. Asa matter of course Senator Vest
and the other democrats are oandid enough
and courageous enough to admit that this
nlace, involving the leadership of the demo
crats on the tariff, belongs by right of
eminent fitness to Mr. Carlisle, and they
have set aside all senatorial traditions of
precedence in order to give it to him.
Neither Mr. Vest or Mr. Blackburn is
likely to succeed Mr. Beck on the commit
tee on appropriations.
WHAT MOONSHINERS DODGE.
Collections of Internal Revenue for
the Past Year.
Washington, May 23.—The collections
of internal revenue for the first ten months
of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1890, were
$114,545,276, or $9,724,354 more than the col
lections for the corresponding period of the
previous fiscal year. The principal items
of increase are: Spirit*. $6,500,000; tobacco
and fermented liquors, $1,500,000.
CLARKSON ON THE SOUTH
AS WAS TO BE EXPECTED, HE
PAINTS US VERY BLACK.
His Speech Opened by an Overdrawn
Picture of the Assault on Abbeville's
Negro Postmaster—The Old Chest
nut Concerning the Suppression of
the Republican Vote.
Boston, Mass., May 23.— Prominent
gentlemen from all parts of the state were
present at Young’s this afternoon to meet
J. S. Clarkson, First Assistant Postmaster
General, who was the guest of the Norfolk
Club. Prior to the banquet an informal
reception was given the visitors.
Lieut. Gov. Haile gave Mr. Clarkson a
hearty welcome on behalf of the state.
Mr. Clarkson spoke on the southern ques
tion, civil service reform and the tariff. A
curious figure, he said, sits at the door of
one of the departments in Washington.
Ho is a black man and stamped with God’s
evidences of manhood and courage, but he
is piteous with marks of man’s brutality.
He was for twenty years a teacher in South
Carolina, and lived an honest Ufa He is
now maimed and disfigured. One leg is
broken and he lies at right angles. One
arm is broken and is now paralyzed.
Whenever I hear of the chivalry of the
southern men, when I hear of the glory of
our superior Caucasian race, I think of this
poor man, with his injuries.
WAS ABBEVILLE’S POSTMASTER.
About a year ago he was appointed post
master at Abbeville. That night sixteen
members of our superior Caucasian race,
booted and armed, went to his home,
dragged him from bed, stripped him, beat
him with whips made of barbed wire, and
jumped on hitn one after another, breaklug
one of his arms and oue of his legs. They
wore no masks. The poor mun knew
them all. His offense wa3 that he
was a republican, and that he
had been appointed uuder a republican ad
ministraiton to a postoffleo whioh they were
determined he should never hold. It was
an unequal contest, sixteen of the superior
Saxon race, armed, to one poor member of
tho African race unarmed. After this work
a declination of the office was forged in his
name aud sent to Washington aud another
man was appointed. As soon as he was
able he camo to W ashington on his crutches
to tell the story of his wrongs. All that
could be done was to place hitn as a door
keeper.
AN ERRONEOUS ASSERTION.
This is but one of many instances in tho
south where republicans are not allowed to
hold office. Every sort of terrorism Is in
voked to prevent it. First, there is peace
ful terrorism to prevent any one from goiug
on their bonds. Next there is terrorism of
notaries and county clerks or officers with
seals to present them from certifying to the
sufficiency of the bonds. If these means fail,
then open and overt methods are invoked
to prevent a republican from holding office
in a democratic community. There are
hundreds of communities in the south
wherein no republican of any kind is per
mitted to hold office. There are thousands
of communities where a republican, If he
happen to be black, dare not take an office
if appointed to it Democrats may cast a
vote in peace anywhere in this land. In
thousands of places a republican, solely
because he is a republican, may
not vote at all, or else
not have his vote counted. A republican
may be arrested and tried in any commu
nity in any state. In hundreds of commu
nities in the south a democrat cannot even
be arrested, much less tried and convicted,
for any political crime. Not only is tne re
publican bill of wrongs to plead now, but
democratic defiance of the law and authority
goes still farther.
COURTS MADE OUTLAWS.
The courts of the United States are also
made outlaws in certain states, and denied
their authority and abridged of their
power, and their judges left to sit helpless
in their seats, unable to enforce the law or
their own processes, or even to protect
witnesses called before them. If the
first duties of the government are to
insure human liberty and protect buman
life; then these are the largest questions
before the American people. So I come to
this traditional fountain of American intel
ligence and courage to ask why an Ameri
can who is a republican has fewer rights
than an American who is a democrat?
TIME TO SETTLE THE PROBLEM.
It is time to set up standards for fair play
all over this republic. The nation has
waited patiently ever since the war for the
south to settle this problem. It has now
been twenty-five years and the problem is
still unsolved. One mistake was that the
United States did not settle this question
immediately at the close of the war,
for the war changed all conditions of
citizenship. Before that time citizen
shipjjwas a matter of state, and only
incidentally of the nation. The verdict of
that conflict changed the condition,
amended the constitution and made supreme
allegiance of the voter due to the United
States. The nation is now face to face with
the duty whether in its sovereign power it
shall allow Georgia, South Carolina or any
state to prevent an American citizen from
exercising his constitutional right to vote.
A FEDERAL ELECTION LAW.
Let the states rule thoir own affairs. The
north can concede that to the south. But
in all elections affecting the United States—
of congressmen of the United States, sena
tors or President —it is the duty of the
United States, and clearly within its power,
to set such safeguards about the voter that
he shall be allowod to cast his vote in peace
and have it faithfully counted. With the
Republican party having full power—con
gress and the executive departments—it
will be as false to posterity as to itself if it
does not exercise its power under the con
stitution to make American citizenship
equal and complete in all parts of the re
public. There is a larger question in this
that) that of politics. There is the question
of humanity and duty to God.
GRADY’S SPEECH.
When Mr. Grady came to Boston and
with a speech as sweet as the music that fell
from David’s harp asked the north to shut
its eyes and sear its conscience, and let the
south do as it pleased, he asked a groat deal
more than the north could grant. Even if
the Republican party could forget its con
science before God and no longer
seek to protect its members
in the southern states, and no longer
seek to make the republic honest, still ther e
would remain the Christian conscience of
the nation to prevent the petition being
granted.
So the answer must be made on conscience
by all Americans who believe in the hu
inarmy of man and the fatherhood of God,
that if the Bouth cannot settle what is oalled
the southern question and give all
citizens a right to vote, the United Statoß.
must and still settle it
IGNORANCE OF THE NEGRO.
The erv of the south that the negro is
ignorant and therefore cannot vote can no
longer be heard. The case is closed on that
part of the argument The nation has
given the black man the vote, and
the nation should see that he
is allowed to cast it, and by the
Blair bill or kindred measure the nation
is goiug to help the south get rid of both
SAVANNAH, GA., SATURDAY, MAY 24, 1890.
black and white ignorance. The cry of ig
norance, too, is false in large part, for the
census of 1880 shows that while there were
3,000,000 blacks who could not read and
write there were also 1,700,000 white#
who could not read and write,
so that the inferior black race,
as it is called, does not suffor so very
much, counting tbe centuries its people
were in slavery, when compared with
our superior white race, which has always
had open schools and a chance for educa
tion. The south has never boen able to
impose an educational test, for
it could not do it without
disfranchising hundreds of thousands of its
white voters. So it has resorted to other
means.
POLITICS OF THE PRESS.
Mr. Clarkson closed his speech with some
interesting newspaper statistics and an
appeal for greater activity on tho part of
the republican press. He said that there
are in this country 255 republican
dailies with a circulation over
1,000 copies each, and 320 democratic dailies
of that class. The republican dailies have
an aggregate circulation of over 1,500,000
and tne democratic dailies 2,500,000. The
republicans have 889 weeklies with
a circulation of over 1,000 each and
a combined circulation of 2,500,000, and
the democrats 1,346 weeklies, with a circu
lation of 4,250,000. The magazines that
support the Democratic party have a circu
lation of nearly 590,000, while those that
support the Republican party even by in
direction have less than 100,000. Several
other speakers were also heard.
SESSION OF THE SENATE.
A Bill as to Phosphate Lands—lnva
sion of Cedar Key.
Washington, May 23.— 1n the Senate
this morning a bill was reported by Mr.
Pasco and placed on the calendar for tbe
protection of actual settlers in Florida on
lands on which deposits of phosphates have
been discovered since the entries were made.
Mr. Butler introduced a bill, which was
referred to the library committee, appro
priating $50,000 for an equestrian statue of
Gen. Francis Marion, to bo erected at Co
lumbia, S. C.
Mr. Faulkner gave notioo of an amend
ment to the bill relating to Honors imported
into prohibitory states, providing that such
liquors shall be considered as incorporated
as part of the common mass of property
within the state aud subject to regulation,
control aud taxation in the exercise of state
police powers.
Mr. Call offered a resolution calling on
the President for information as to the
landing of an armed force from the revenue
cutter McCune at Cedar Key, Fla., the
forcible entry of bouses, the pursuit of
citizens in the surrounding country, and
asked for its adoption.
Mr. Edmunds—Let it go over. Idono t
know that it states the truth.
The resolution went over.
NAVAL APPROPRIATIONS.
Consideration of the naval appropriations
bill was then resumed. The appropriation
committee’s amendment* striking out items
of $50,000 each for the repair of the docks
and buildings at the Boston ami Ports
mouth, N. 11., navy yards, wore disagreed
to, aud these appropriations romain iu the
bill. Several other amendments reported
by the committee on appropriations to
strike put other items for tho same
navy yards wore likewise disagreed
to. They were, however, the text
of discussion over the general policy as to
the condemning or closing of most of the
navy yards of the country. This discussion
was participated in by'Messrs. Gorman,
Call, Blair and Hiscook.
Pending discussion, the silver bill was at
2 o’clock taken up as the unfinished busi
ness, and laid aside informally.
The tariff bill was received from the
House and referred to the committee on
financa Ten thousand copies were ordered
printed for the use of the Senate.
LOANS ON FARM LANDS.
Mr. Stanford addressed the Senate in
advocacy of the bill introduced by him
some days ago, providing for loans by the
government on agricultural lands. At the
conclusion of Mr. Stanford’s speech upon
his motion the bill was referred to the
finance committee.
Mr. Pugh gave notice of his intention to
speak on the silver bill when it again
comes up.
The naval appropriation bill was again
taken up, tho question being on the amend
ment to strike out the item of $50,000 for
the improvement of the plant at Ports
mouth (N. H.) navy yard. The disoussiou
was renewed, going over the questions of
the public utility of the navy yards, of the
political scandals to which their manage
ment has given rise, of coast
defense]|and of the policy of building
up a strong navy. It was carried on by
Messrs. Blair, lliscock, Hawley and Dolpb.
The latter made an elaborate speech to
prove that the expenditure of money id
such ships as the new cruisers was a useless
waste, that tbe possession of a strong navy
was only an incentive to war; and that the
correct policy was a system of floating bat
teries and coast fortifications. He summed
up a two hours’ speech by saying
that, whilst he was in favor of a navy of
reasonable dimensions,he was net in favor of
constructing the ships recommended in the
pending bills, and that while perfect defense
of the coasts required a navy as well as
land fortifications, the land fortifications
ought to be first provided, as they were the
most necessary.
After an executive session, the Senate
adjourned.
• TRACKS TO SOUTH AMERICA.
A Bill Introduced to Authorize a Gov
ernment Survey.
Washington, May 23.—Representative
McCreary of Kentucky to-day introduced
a bill to provide for a survey to bo made to
encourage the construction of an intercon
tinental railway to connect North and Bouth
America The bill is in response to the rec
ommendation of Secretary Blaine and Presi
dent Harrison in their recent communica
tion to congress. An appropriation of
$65,000 is called for by the bill.
Cherokee Strip Cattle.
Washington, May 23. President Har
rison having received information that cat
tlemen are invading tbe Cherokee strip in
violation of his recent proclamation, has in
structed Brig. Gen. Merritt, comaudlug at
St. Louis, to rigidly enforce the provisions
of the proclamation against afl persons
found violating it
Government Loans on Land.
Washington, May 23.—Representative
Ewart of North Carolina to-day introduced
a bill similar to tbe one introduced in the
Senate by Senator Stanford, empowering
tbe government to make loans on real estate
secured by mortgage.
The North Atlantic Squadron.
Washington, May 23. -The North At
lantic squadron will sail from Key West
for Portland. Me., May 25, but will stop at
Port Royal several days.
The Supreme Court Adjourn a
Washington, May 23. —The supreme
oourt to-day adjourned for the term. The
next term begins on the second Monday of
October.
RULES OF THE CHURCHES
A NUMBER OF SUBJECTS ACTED
ON BY THE PRESBYTERIANS.
The Report of the Standing Commit
tee on Education Adopted—A De
cision to Stick to the Present Hym
nal—A Gratifying Showing Made by
the Sabbath Schools.
Asheville, N. C., May 23.—1n the Pres
byterian general assembly the report of the
standing committee on publication was con
sidered seratim. It was adopted after strik
ing out the clause recommending that the
report of the committee be printed at the
same office as the regular proceedings.
Concerning an overture from the Tran
sylvania presbytery, asking the assembly to
add to topics 9 and 11 of the narrative of the
sessions the words “among church mem
bars," tbe committee recommended that the
request be granted.
sticking to the old hymnal.
An overture was road from the Atlanta
presbytery asking tbe assembly to consider
the subject of psalmody with a view to sup
plying the ohurch wit i new hymn books
better adapted to tbe use of the churches
than the present one. The committee
recommended that the overture be declined,
since the executive committee, with the
sanction of tho assembly, has put
its Imprint upon the psalms, hymns
and spiritual songs which soem to
be equal to the present requirement*. It
was recommended that no books, tract* or
other literature should bo published by tbe
committee which have not been examined
by at least two of the examiners, approved
by a majority of tbe coinmittea
EDUCATIONAL WORK.
The report of the standing committee on
education was also considered seriatim. A
portion was adopted at once. That part
recommending that $25,000 be raisgd to aid
in the education of young ministers called
out several speechoi, but was finally
adopted. The report of the committee was
then adopted as a whole.
The report of the committee on Sabbath
schools, showing their gratifying condition,
was read and adopted.
A report on systematic beneficence sfeas
read and answers to a number of overtures,
being nart of this report, asking for the re
peal of the present schedule of collections,
and recommending that the collections
taken up during the months named be for
the causes specified. Two sections were
adopted. Tho third section, which was con
sidered too broad for the assembly to in
dorse, was dropped.
A PROLONGED DEBATE.
When the time came for adopting the
report as a whole, Dr. Davies earnestly op
posed it on the ground that it was revolu
tionary and that it was opposed to the
directory of worship, and Dr. Shearer sec
onded him on the ground that the adoption
of the report would put Presbyterians
on a level with the Methodist and other
churches. The report favored the issuing
of liconses to preach to men not regularly
educated for the work. This was the con
tested ground and the assembly prolonged
its session half an hour to discuss it. At
tbe end of that time a vote was taken on its
adoption and it was lost.
BILLS AND OVERTURES.
The committee on bills and overture* sub
mitted reports. The first ovorture was one
from the Greenbriar presbytery, asking
that the constitution be amended so that
the elders and doacons bo required to take
an examination on church doctrines and
rules before they could be ordained. The
committee recommended that this overture
be docketed aud spread on tbo mlnntes, to
come up before tbe next assembly. After
some discussion tho recommendation was
accepted.
An overture from tbe synod of Arkansas
asking what was to bo considered official
proceedings of a church court, and if an
error was aftorward found, how it was to
be corrected, was answered that when the
minutes of a meeting were npprovod they
became the official proceedings, and cor
rection could be made at a subsequent
meeting. The report was adopted.
THE COMMITTEE ON NARRATIVE.
The report of tho committee on narrative
was read by Dr. Jacobs. It stated that
sixty-eight presbyteries bad submitted re
ports, and they were based only on partial
reports from the churches. Not more than
20 per oent. of the churches had made any
report whatever. This failure to re
port was to bo regretted. Tho
state of things from the presbyteries
beard from were, however, highly
satisfactory. Many small churches were
making no advancement, but tbe general
report was good. It was estimated that not
more than four-fifths of the population
were professed ohristiaua. One hundred
years ago the ratio was one to twenty-five.
Sunday newspapers were denounced. Con
tributions in the different churohes were
spoken of as satisfactory. Tbe report was
adopted and the committee discharged.
THE REFORMED CHURCH.
Dr. Campbell, from the committee on
foreign correspondence, read a letter pre
pared to be sent to the Reformed Church of
America acknowledging the receipt of a
letter from the delegate appointed by tbe
Reformed eburoh to hear greetings to this
assembly. The assembly would send no
delegate this year, but assured the Reformed
church of their unabated interest and joy at
the tokens of divine favor in the prosperity
with which they have been blessed.
Tho auditing committee examined the
accounts of Rev. Dr. Wilson, treasurer of
the assembly, and found them neatly and
properly kept. The accounts show a bal
ance of $228.
WANT THE PRINTERS IN CHURCH.
The report of the committee on Sabbath
was brought up and adopted. The last
clause reftrs to Sunday newspapers as en
couraging evil. They flood tne lad with
p.-ruic.ou.-i literature. Church numbers
were asked not to countenance them in any
way.
Rev. Dr. White of Texas introduced a
resolution asking for tbe appointment of a
chair for Bible study in the theological sem
inary, and Dr. Hemphill introduced oue
asking that the salary for 1890 for John W.
Dabney, recently deceased missionary to
Brazil, be appropriated for bis family.
They were adopted.
The report of the committee on syste
matic beneficence, consideration of which
was not finished last night, was again
brought up. A motion to add that the col
lection in February he applied to ohurch
erection was carried. The report was
adopted as whole.
HELP FOR BISHOP WILMBR.
The Alabama Episcopalians Elect an
Assistant Bishop.
Montgomery, Ala., May 33.—1n the
diocesan council of the Protestant Episcopal
church of Alabama to-day Rev. John 8.
Lindsay of Boston, Mas*., was elected as
sistant bishop, the consent of Bishop Wilmer
to tne selection of an assistant having been
first obtained.
The remainder of the day was spent in
hearing the report* of committees and other
routine business.
Rev. Dr. Lindsay, the new assistant
bishop, is ans tile of Virginia and isbe
tween 40 and 50 years of age. He has filled
a number of charges in that state, and was
until a year ago at Georgetown, D. C.,
whence he was called to a very important
charge in Boston.
The council adjourned to-night to meet
next year at Anniston.
INSURANCE ON CHUROHES.
The Methodist Conference Discussing
A Mutual Plan.
St. Louis, May 23.— Bishop Haygood, the
newly consecrated bishop, presided over the
general conference of tho Methodist Epis
copal church, south, this morning.
After the religious exercises and tbe adop
tion of a memorial on the death of Rov.
Nathan Scarrott of Kansas City, the regu
lar order was suspended to allow considera
tion of the committee report recommending
that the board of church extension establish
u system of mutual insurance for churches.
This led to a long debate.
Some strong statements explanatory of
tho difficulties in carrying out the project,
made by David Morton, secretary of the
board of ohurch extension, turned tho tide
against the proposition, aud the report was
rejected.
BOOKS FOR THE COLLEGES.
A resolution to give colleges and institu
tions that are under the patronage of the
church the new publications of the publish
ing house was adopted.
A recommendation by the committee on
education, that a corresponding secretary,
to draw a salary and do certain work, be
given that committee, was laid on the
table.
A similar proposition on behalf of tho
committee on Sunday schools met the same
late.
Tho oommlttee on publishing Interests re
ported favorably a proposition to establish
a paper on the Pacifio coast. It was adopted
after debate. All the California delegates fa
fored the scheme. An editor is to bo elected
by the general conference, and SIO,OOO ap
propriated to carry the paper along daring
the next quadrennial. The session then ad
journed.
INSULTED BY TURKS.
The Wife of a Russian Official and Her
Daughter tho Victims.
Constantinople, May 2K —lt has been
ascertained that the ladie9 belonging to the
Russian embassy who were assaulted while
walking at Buyukdero were Dot tho daugh
ter of the chief dragoman of the embassy
and her governess, but hit wife and daugh
ter. Neither of the offenders were Tursish
soldiers, as at first stated, but were a Turk
ish officer and five students. Tho ladles
wore walking in tho garden when tuoy were
soizod by the officer and students, who
forcibly kissed them. A party cf sailors be
longing to a Russian dispatch boat happened
to be in the garden. They heard the ladies
cry for help, and ran to their ro-oue.
THE OFFENDERS CAPTURED.
They captured four of the assailants, bat
tbe fifth succeeded in making his escape
for the time being. The sailors conveyed
their prisoners to the Russian embassy and
delivered them to M. do Nelidolf, the Rus
sian ambassador. The day after tbe assault
was committed the mail who made his
escape was arrested aud locked up at the
embassy, whore ho and his compan
ions are still detained. The Turkish
authorities asked that tbe prisoners
be turned ovor to them for trial and punish
ment, but M. do Neliiloff refuses to transfer
them to tbe Ottoman officials, basing hts
refusal on the ground that Turkish justice
is illusory. Tho affair has created much
comment, and it is feared that it will result
in complications between the Russian and
the Turkish government.
STARVATION IN SOUDAN.
The British Government Bending Re
lief to the PeoDle.
London, May 23. —In the House of Com
mons to-day Henry W. Howortb, conserv
ative, asked whether anything had been
dono to relieve the sufferers from the ap
palling famine in Soudan. According to
reliable advices tbo population was starv
ing and cannabalism was prevalent. The
people were eating anything—dogs, cats,
rats aud snakes being used for food. Around
Tokar and Kassala hundreds of persons
were dying daily from starvation, aud in
othor parts tbe state of affairs was evea
worse, nearly the whole popaiatiou having
perished.
Sir James Ferguson replied that relief
had bee i given in every district that could
be reached by tho government, but In
places in tho interior, which were beyond
tbe control of the government, famine was
rife and many deaths bad occurred.
Around Suakin 2,000 persons were being
fed daily. Tbe failure of the crops for
successive years, added to other causes, had
led to the present intense distress.
BEHRING SEA SEALERIES.
A Query in the House of Commons
TUat Woe Dodged.
London, May 23.— 1n the House of Com
mons to-day Stavely Hill, conservative,
asked whether orders had been given to
English war ships to protect English vessels
legally trading in Behring sea.
Sir James Ferguesson, under secretary,
declined to make a definite statement in
view of communications now proceeding
between the American aud English govern
ments. _____
A STORM IN PENNSYLVANIA.
Several People Killed by Lightning
and Many Towns Blooded.
Pittsburg, Pa, May 23.— The heaviest
rain and electrical storm known in years
passed over a large section of Western
Pennsylvania this evening, doing great
damage to property and resulting in the
loss of several lives. No serious damage
was done in Pittsburg, but a groat deal is
reported at McKeesport, Ureeusburg, Wash
ington, Oil City, Wheeling, Erie, and other
places. Several deaths by lightning oc
curred and one engineer of a freight
train was killed on the Nickel
Plate road . by his train run
ning into a chasm where a bridge bad
been washed away. About all the towns in
this section of the country subject to over
flow under no circumstances suffered to-day,
and all the railways have been busy clearing
away landslides. The Baltimore and Ohio
road is probably the worst sufferer in this
way.
A PBISST SHOT DOWN.
Tbe Man Who Fired the Bullet Sup
posed to be Crazy.
Chicago, May 23.—Rev. Dr. S. M. Bar
rett of 81. Stephen’s Roman Catholic church
was shot on hts doorstep to-night and
fatally wounded. He had been accosted by
a young man who professed to be in a dying
oondition from trouble of the heart. The
supposed dying man suddenly drew a
revolver and fired at the priest. Father
Barrett’s slayer was speedily landed in a
ceil. He gives every evidence of insanity.
Papers showed the prisoner’s name to be
Cady.
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UNDER DIXIE'S OLD FLAG.
CONFEDERATE COLORS ALREADY
FLUTTERING AT RICHMOND.
A Newspaper Office Decorated from
Top to Bottom with the Emblem
That Confederates Love So Well—
The Governor Proclaims the Day of
the Unveiling a Holiday.
Richmond, Va., May 23.—The State
leads off to-day in confederate and -coratio a
in honor of Gen. Lee. Its buildiDg is cov
ered from top to bottom with confederate
colors, and battleflags.wave from every
window. None but confederate colors are
display**!. The only legend that appears on
the fagade of the building is this:
“R. K. Lee, America’s greatest man."
These confederate decorations will be fol
lowed up to-morrow by the State's twenty
page paper, styled the confederate edition,
filled with hitherto unpublished war arti
cles, reminiscences and confederate battle
songs.
a historic flag.
The students of William and Mary col
lege, who will take part in tbe unveiling
ceremonies, will bear a beautiful standard
whioh wns the flag of Virginia when she
was a British colony. It greatly resembles
tbe last adopted confederate flag. The
union is modeled after the British union
jack, and the field is white except that the
ends ore throe red, white and bine bars.
On one side is “Williamsburg, 1774,” and.
on the other “Raleigh C*ve.” Noti es of
the acceptance of invitations by military
and veterans to be present at the unveiling
are pouring in upon tlio committees from
all over tho country.
BUSINESS TO BE SUSPENDED.
Gov. MoKinney to-day issued the follow
ing proclamation:
VVhehsas, Thursday, May S9, is the day set
apart for the unveiling of the nquestriau statue!
of den. Robert E. Lee, and it is desirable!
and proper that every citizen of Virginia should
have an opportunity on that occasion to do
honor to the memory of that Incomparable
citizen and soldier, now, therefore, I, P. W.
McKinney, governor of the commonwealth, do
hereby order the heads of tho departments of
the commonwealth to close their respective
offices for public business; and I do request tbe
citizens of the commonwealth to refrain from
secular employment that day, to be made for
ever memorable in the history of the world Uy
the expression of the people's devotion to
patriotism, justice and truth. It Is to be re
gretted that I am without power to authorise'
banks of discount and deposit in the state to
suspend business at tbe same time.
REDUCED RATER AUTHORIZED.
Washington, May 23.—Tho House com
mittee on commerce has directed a favor
able report to be made on tho bill amend
ing the interstate commerce law, so as to
permit railroad companies to give reduced
rates to the veterans attending the national
encampments, with an amendment extend
ing tho same privileges to veteran confed
erate soldiers.
RIVERS AND HABBORE
The House Continues Its Considera
tion of tbe BUI.
Washington, May 23.—The House this
morning went Into committee of the whole,
with Mr. Burrows in tho chair, on the river
and harbor bill.
Mr. Elliott of South Carolina moved to
lnoreaso the appropriation for improving
Winyaw bay, 8. C., from SIOO,OOO to
$150,000. The motion was lost.
Mr. Hitt of Illinois moved an amend
ment to give the city of Galena, IU., the
right to take up tho work of harbor Im
provement there, dropped by tho govern
ment, and complete it, providing that the
oity shall then receive $109,000. The amend
ment was adopted.
THE HENNEPIN CANAL.
When the paragraphs appropriating $500,-
000 for the construction of the lUinois and
Mississippi (Hmmopin) canal was reached,
Mr. Turner of Georgia made tbe point of
order that the connnitteo on rivers and
harbors had no jurisdiction over canals. He
said that on April 9 a communication from
tbe Seoretary of War, transmitting a report!
on the survey of the oaual, was referred
to the committeeeon rivers and harbors, and?
there might be a question as to whether
that reference gave tbe committee jurisdic
tion. He (Mr. Turner) did not believe that
it did. But even if tbo committee had|
acquired jurisdiction in that way, it couldr
not properly include a canal scheme in the
river and harbor bill, as had been decided
in preceding congresses.
Ponding a decision the committee rose.
The speaker appointed Mr. McMillin of
Tennessee as conferee cn the customs admin*
istrative biU in the placo of Mr. Carlisle,
excused.
The House at 5 o’clock took a recess until
8 o’clock, the evening session to bo for ths
consideration of private pension bills.
Tbo House In evening session passed forty]
two private pension bills.
HOUSE ELECTION CONTESTa
Tbe Republicans to Seat Two Morel
Men of Their Own Stripe.
Washington, May 23.— The House com
mittee on elections to-day voted upon thd
three of the pending contested election
cases, and the result will probably be an
increase of the republican majority in the
House by two members. The cases de
cided this morning were those of Langston
vs. Venable, from the Fourth Virginia dis
trict: Miller vs. Elliott, from the Seventh
Soutn Carolina district, and Chalmers vs,
Morgan, from the Second Mississippi di*
trict. Iu tbe first two cases tbe committee
reported in favor of seating tbe republican
contestants, Langston and Miller, but in
the Mississippi case tbe report is in favor of
the sitting member, Mr. Morgan.
THE BRECKINRIDGE CASE.
Before tbe full committee met Represen
tative Lscey’s subcommittee on the Clay ton-
Breckinridge case had a short session, which
was devoted entirely to discussion of the
further order of proceedings. Ex-Attor
ney General Garland, as counsel for Mr.
Breckinridge, expressed a desire to submit
further testimony upon a branch of ths
case which had not yet been presented to
bis satisfaction.
Chairman Lacey remarked that the sub
committee was disposed to admit all perti
nent testimony, but preferred that this ba
taken by deposition iu Arkansas or verbally
in Washington, as the subcommittee did nob
desire to again visit Arkansas. Mr. Gar
land will submit a formal application to
continue the argument on Monday.
BROKER PELL CONVICTED.
A Possibility that He Won t Wreck
Any More Banks Soon.
New York, May 23.—Broker George
Hamilton Pell, who has been on trial in ths
court of sessions, charged with grand lar
ceny in the first degree in connection with
the Lenox Hill, Equitable and Sixth Avenue
bank wrecking iucidents, was found guilty
by the jury to-night and remanded till Fri
day for sentence.
“That tired feeling” is entirely overcome
by Hood’s Sar-aparilla, which gives a feel
ing of buoyancy aud strength to the whole
system.— Adv.
