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j President. \
death is a cyclone.
tebbiblb havoc at south
LAWRENCE, MASS.
Estimates of the Loss of Life Vary
from Six to Twenty-Scores of People
Injured —A Hundred Houses in Ruins
_F’re in the Wind’s Fearful Wake.
Lawrence, Mass., July -6, 9 p. m.—A
cyclone, the first of any considerate im
portance within the memory of l*er Eng
land and one equaling in destructive
power those subsequently reported from
western communities, visited the suburb of
South Lawrence this morning about 9:10
o’clock, and in fifteen minutes had killed
nine and seriously injured fifty people; cut
o swath through a thickly populated
section 306 feet wide and a mile long,
rendered 500 people homeless, destroyed or
greatly damaged sevonty-fiva to iqo build
ings, mostly dwelling houses; leVeled a
beautiful square of over 500 trees kyd en
tailed a property loss now estimate at
*IOO,OOO, all of whicn was uninsured against
damage by wind and storms.
UXEQUALED IN THIRTY TEARS.
The calamity is the greatest which has
visited Lawrence since the fall and burning
of the Pemberton mills thirty years ago.
South Lawrence is a section of the city
lying south of the Merrimac river. At this
point the main lino of the Poston and
Maine railway takes a sharp turn
to the east, and, following the Merri
mac, crosses the river at Bradford.
A railroad bridge connects the suburbs with
the city proper and with the railroad lines
north. The point is a busy railroad junc
tion, and in the vicinity were many wooden
houses, occupied mainly by well-to-do me
chanics, and among these the air fiend spent
his greatest fury. The northern boundary
of the belt of destruction was but three
streets south of the lofty mills, with their
busy throngs of thousands of workers,
showing how narrow was the escapo from
more appalling loss of life and property.
TOLD OYER THE TELEPHONE.
New York, July 38, 7 p. m. — The fol
lowing comos direct from Lawrence, Mass.,
by telephone: “A terrible cyclone struck
Lawrence shortly after 9 o’clock this morn
ing. causing great damage and loss of life.
A heavy rain was falling, and suddenly a
black cloud descended upon South Lawrence,
tearing trees up by the roots, overturning
houses and causing frightful havoc. Over
100 houses on Springfield, Salem and Port
land streets were wrecked, six people were
killed outright and fifty injured. The cy
clone took a northeasterly course.
A TERRIBLE SIGHT.
“After ’he storm the sight was a terrible
one. Looking up Springfield street could
be seen the wrecks of many houses, and
from them came cries lor help. The houses
were all of wood and the wreck was all
the worse, therefore. As soon as the terrified
citizens recovered from their shock an
alarm was rung, and part of the fire
apparatus and the police ambulances re
sponded. Hundreds began the work of
rescue and are still at It.
THE DEAD.
“From the ruins of their bouses were
taken the following dead;
“Mrs. O’Connell, of No. 19 Springfield
street, crushed.
“Mamie O’Connell, neck broken.
“Mary Lyons, aged 43, of Portland
street, crushed.
“Mrs. Collins, of Portland street,
crushed.
“A child, 4 years old, of Mrs. Collins,
also crushed.
“A child of Julia Beatty is still buried
in the ruins.
“Of t o injured some, especially those of
the family of Martin McLaughlin, are seri
ously if not fatally hurt.
t’oo Out) „ dama^o property is over
WHERE IT STRUCK.
Malden, M\ss., July 36, 11 a. m.— The
first train from Lawrence after the re
ported and saster arrived here at noon. The
conductor stated that the tornado struck
bouth Lawrence about 500 rods from the
bouth Lawrence depot of the Bostou and
Maine railway, and its path of destruction
extends to the overhead bridge on the
host ill and Maine tracts, between South
Lawrence and North Andover. In
bouth Lawrence seventy-five houses were
shattered. The roof of the new Catholic
church was carried away, and the switch
box of the host n and Maine railroad was
blown 500 feet, carrying with it a railroad
employe, whose name is not known, and
killing him instantly. On toe east side of
the tracts toward North Andover a grove
of large trees, ten to fifteen acres in extent,
were blown flat by the wind, and fifteen
houses are reported wrecked in North Ando-
AN ESTIMATE OF TH® KILLED.
infnrl* 0 ? 8 of !lfefrom the present source of
tw,nT° n 18 H la( ' ed from fifteen to
Sam and the number injured, it is
WoCf reaCh 100 “ r hSO. The railroad
tion'tw t aS " ot dama ged, and ommuni
aremL , ISU u! broken ; whiie the wires
e more or less blown down. Battery “C”
cani„ l ' r r? e Lj h , ich bad JU3t returned from
traiiT’en h? 1-0 at uoon on a special
wfi f,w i e , to Lawrence, whore the men
assist fifth 8 * at °? C 0 t 0 Kuard the ruins,
for the m 10 i r> '“3 ovaJ of dl ’bna, and search
or the dead and injured.
ingotf c a i ted Press ro P°rters from noighbor
where *t he'evei 10 there. Bprin field street,
of the h„J yClon ! Bt ruck, contained many
The wrL ,„? est ros idonces of the town,
clean cm 1h r,e (, tor “a do °u this street was
houses of n
Union ,’ be J W6eu Blanchard and South
All th n were left standing,
of the street ,^ tbers > 0D both sides
down or e , Uber ,T W6d completely
people -vi.i y dem °hßhed, and twenty
The winri 6,6 C'jured on this street alone.
blown iA a7d°trn St ‘ atrlok ’ s cburch wer
and rn,,f , rees ’ chimneys, signs, fences
Path of the sm turn aWfl y outside of the
e 7>-thmg was Mat dlreCt route
t h 'r r uiu e ro aml°G tiUQnUmber ° f plaC6s in
was at wortl t , h ‘* ont,re lire department
ork extinguisbing the flames.
boston’s advices.
d=st?ul'ttok M w 88 ” JIT 2G ’ 12:50 p - —The
Lawrenc' v“ ? onfi,lod wholly to South
destroyed' B i?i“ ety woodel ‘ dwellings were
Persons Infura)™ n*™ t*® 4 and thirty-five
thousand ,mii' ° ne hundred and ten
destroyed and am wor , tb of property was
Passengers and J do people rendered homeless.
l! ao e railroad 11 , tb ° and
O’clock l “ I dua . m Boston at 1:40
i V ew of the wrecked
a passe g tT y and through. Mr. Q ilrnby
diwastathon- mtU* describes the scene o l
Wl 'd gone down he T? m fl‘ a f C u asod aid tb *
"as a building bin 1 flrßt u tbl,lg not iced
tlj "h trees e-Btm“ I to ~4 bo Kround . a,ld
*as on tue |. ft ■ l . a,,d . u P root °J. This
Sag toward (L ba 1 "‘I i? ot tba c >m
a. l objects of all sort Umber ' farra Wft gons
iu great confusmn Wul u mattered about
“We “" RaiKlK fi BY a CORPSE.
H’’ ly mgui.d C er r h° i*** a man ’ B dnftd
I ?"r-N.Cew't tl i? brld K “t the South
about P® 4- Everybody was running
a cuanoe to not having
daumgs. The , 4 l*“ of the
“ patu ot the cyclone swept at
right angles across the track, cutting a clean
swath, leveling houses and cutting off or
uprooting trees. The whole thing took
place between the time we left Haverhill and
the time we reached South Lawrence. The
train stopped but a few minutes, and it was
impossible to find out anything definite.”
CAME FROM THE WEST.
A special from Lawrence says: “The
cyclone struck the city from the west. It
cut a swath over a mile in length and 500
feet in width. The hospital is filled with
injured, while the homes spared from the
wreck are sheltering homeless ones. The
devastated section is included by South
Broadway and Temple street and Market
and Salem streets. At 9:55 o’clock,
when tho awful visitation came,
the wind was east and rain was
falling heavily. Suddenly the heavens be
came aglow with a bright white light. In
a moment the wind veered, heavy black
clouds shot from behind the western hills
high into the sky, and then the thick mass
parted. Down shot black streaks from the
murky mass, and in a moment the crash
came,
WORK OF THHI HOUSE.
The Sundry Civil BUI Again Under
Consideration.
Washington, July 26.—The House to
day went into committee of the whole,
with Mr. Burrows of Michigan in the chair,
on the Senate amendments to the sundry
civil bill.
The general debate on the bill was con
tinued by Messrs. Wilson of Washington,
Hermann, Coggswell, Morrow, Kerr of
lowa, Payson and Cannon. The general
debate then closed.
After the speaker had appointed Mossrs.
Reed of lowa, Thompson of .Ohio, and
Oates as conferees on the origiual package
bill, the committee having risen for tha
purpose, the Senate amendments were read
seriatim. A number of Senate amend
ments wore formally concurred In without
discussion, until that appropriating
$70,000 for a lightship and fog
whistle on Frying Pan Shoals, N.
C., was reached, when Mr. Breckinridge
moved concurrence, slating that the treas
ury department said the ship was indispen
sable for the safety of life.
Mr. Cannon—lt is marked “indispensa
ble,” but its construction has not been
authorized by law.
A MATTER OF BUSINESS.
Mr. Breckinridge stated that this was so,
but, as a practical matter of business a
lightship could not be provided for except
on an appropriation bill.
Mr. Dibble spoke in favr of concurrence.
The House on division, however, refused
to concur, and the same fate met a similar
motion by Mr. Elliott of Bouth Carolina in
behalf of a light vessel at Martin’s
Industry, South Carolina,
Messrs. Burton of Ohio and Farqubar of
New York, undiscouraged by the fate of the
two previous motions, endeavored to secure
concurrence in the Senate amendment to
establish a light station on Eleven Foot
Snoal, Michigan, and declared that there
was no section so poorly lighted as the great
lakes.
Mr. Cannon controverted the statement
and carried his point to throw this amend
ment into conference.
Non-concurrence was recommended in
several other Senate amendments, includ
ing one appropriating $150,000 to Beach
End at the Chicago breakwater station,
and the committee rose with the bill still
pending.
Tne House then adjourned.
COMPLIMENTS FOR COLQUITT.
Fellow Senators Highly Praise His
Tariff Speech.
Washington, July 26.—When Senator
Colquitt began to speak most of the sena
tors were in the cloak room. When they
heard he was speaking they began to come
back, and when be reached his peoration all
the leading senators were listening. After
he finished the leaders pressed forward to
offer congratulations.
Senator Vance, who borrowed Senator
Colquitt’s spectacles yesterday to read his
speech, said: “We both looked through the
same spectacles, but you saw stronger than
I did.”
Senator George of Mississippi said: “It
was eloquent, but I do I’t care so much for
eloqu■ ce. I value it because it was full of
meat.”
Senator Gorman said: “That was one of
the best speeches I ever heard,” and so it
went until Senator Colquitt was covered
with compliments.
Raum to Be Investigated.
Washington, July 26.—1n the House
this morning Mr. McKinley, from the com
mittee on rules, reported a resolution direct
ing the speaker to appoint a committee of
five members to investigate the charges
brought against Pension Commissioner
Raum by Represents; ive Cooper of Indiana.
The resolution was adopted.
Tillman’s Brother Bolts.
Washington, July 26.—Congressman
Tillman has written a letter against the
farmer’s alliance. This is remarkable, be
cause Mr. Tillman’s brother is the head of
the alliance movement in South Car Tina,
and has had the alliance indorse his brother’s
candidacy for re-election.
A Recount Ordered.
Washington, July 26.—The Secretary
of the Interior has ordered a recount of the
inhabitants of the cities of St. Paul and
Minneapolis.
Bond Purchases.
Washington, July 26 —Bond offerings
to-day were $947,750, all of which were ac
cepted at 121 for 4s, and 103}£<gl03>Si for
4Xs-
BUMMER NORMAL, SCHOOL.
A Two Weeks’ Session to Begin at
Asheville To-morrow.
Asheville, N. C., July 26.—The inter
state summer normal school will begin a
two weeks’ session Monday. The city is
full of teachers and a most prosperous
session is assured. The following educators
of national reputation will constitute the
faculty: Alexander E. Frye of Hyde
Park, Mass.; Dr. Thomas M. Ballet of
Springfield, Mass.; Mary A. Spear of
Quincy, Mass.; W. W. Spear of Oakland,
111.; J. I. Hall of Boston, and Prof. E. C.
Brannon of Athens, Ga. Nearly all the
southern states will have teachers in at
tendance.
Editors on a Junket.
Norfolk, Va., July 26.—The members
of the Tennessee Press Association arrived
hero this afternoon and were entertained
by the Business Men’s Association, and
afterward taken on an excursion around
the narbor and to Old Point Comfort. They
will spend to-morrow at Virginia beach.
A roller’s Son-In-Law Dead.
Relair, Mb., July 26.—State Senator B.
J. Silver, Jr., died at hia home here to-day
from peritonitis. Ho was a son-in-law of
ex-Btate Treasurer Archer, who is now in
the penitentiary at Baltimore serving a
sentence for embezzlement of state funds.
Mr. Silver was 31 years of age.
SAVANNAH, GA., SUNDAY, JULY 27, 1890—TWELVE PAGES.
UNCLE SAJI’S HIGH TARIFF
SENATOR MITCHELL OFFERS A
RECIPROCITY RESOLUTION.
It Stipulates, However, That Hides
and Wool Shall Not be Admitted
Into This Country from South
America Free—Senator Morgan Con
tinues His Speech In the Senate.
Washington, July 26.—1n the Senate
this morning Mr. Mitchell offered a con
current resolution, which was referred to
tho committee on finance, stating that the
United States would hail with approbation
any reciprocal arrangement by treaty or
otherwise between the government of
the United States and the govern
ments of all or any of the South
American or Central American states,
whireby there shall be admitted to the
ports of such nations, free from all na
tional, provincial, municipal and other
tariffs or taxes products of the United
States, including flour, corn meal and other
breadstuffs, preserved meats, fruits, hides,
vegetables, cotton seed oil, rice, and other
provisions, all articles of food, lumber, fur
niture and all other articles of wood,
agricultural implements and machinery,
structural steel and iron, steel
rails, locomotives, railway cars and sup
plies, street cars, refined petroleum, and
such other products of tho United Htates as
may be agreed up n, but declaring that it is
not the sense of the United States that in
any suen treaty or reciprocal arrangement
articles of foreign wool or hides m any
form, should be admitted free into the ports
of this country, and it declares that in any
treaty or reciprocal arrangement that mav
be entered into looking to the opening of
such foreign ports to the products
named it is not the sense of the United
States that articles of wool or hides pro
duced in auy of those countries shall be
admitted free of duty into the ports of the
United States, and it requests the President
of the United States to omit in any such
treaty or reciprocal arrangement with any
such nation, from the list of products of
such country to be admitted into the poits
of the United States, articles of wool iu any
of its forms, and also hides.
Mr. Allison moved to include hides among
the prohibited articles. Mr. Mitchell said
that hides were included in his resolution.
the tariff bill.
The Senate then resumed consideration of
tho tariff hill, and was addressed by Mr.
Morgan. He said the pending bill bore
more heavily on the laboring class, or any
other class, than on the capitalist class. He
had yesterday referred to the fact that on
the free list of the bill tiiere was not one
article that entered into the consumption of
the ordinary laboring man, either in the
wav of food, raiment, or shelter. He had
asked the senator from lowa (Mr. Allison)
if that were not a fact, and had
received no answer. He would ask the
same question again and again, and he
knew that when that senator came to make
one of those frank statements which he al
ways made he would be compelled to say
that there was nothing provided on the free
list for the laboring classes.
a burden on the negroes.
Mr. Morgan went on to speak of the col
ored people, who, not being capitalists, man
ufacturers, or skilled workmen, could not
possibly derive any advantage from
protection, and who yet had to
bear the burdens which it
imposed upon the people. He yielded to
interruptions by Mr. Hawley, who said that
in Alabama and other states the colored
men were being employed as skilled work
men in factories and foundries, and by Mr.
Hoar, who mentioned tha case of a colore i
man who was selected recently by his fellow
students at Harvard University to deliver
the valedictory. His response to Mr. Hoar
was that the case he mentioned was an ex
ceptional one, somewhat akin to “Blind
Tom,” and his response to Mr. Hawley
was that what he (Mr. Morgan) had
been trying to find out was whether any
negro operatives were employed iu northern
factories.
NO INSURANCE FOR NEGROES.
He also yielded to Mr. Vest, who pre
sented an advertisement from the Spring
field (Mass.) Fire and Marine Insurance
Company, showing prohibition to its agents
against insuring houses occupied by negroes,
or negro churches, or school houses. In
reply to a remark by Mr. Hoar that that
prohibition only applied to the southern
s ates, Mr. Vest asserted that it applied to
the whole country.
Mr. Morgan went on to criticise the bill
in detail and show how hard it would bear
on the negroes of the south. He found, for
instance, that, in the case of agate buttons,
the negro had, under the existing law, to
pay $1 25 for $1 worth of buttons, and that
under the pending bill he would have to
pay (from $2 to $3 50 for $1 worth.
Mr. Aldrich said that the bill did not pro
pose any changejof the duty of agate but
tons.
Mr. Morgan corrected his statement, but
referred to four other grades of buttons, of
which $1 worth would, under the po iding
bill, cost respectively $2 10, $1 75, $3 43 and
$l4B. The negroes, he said, could use
thorns, pieces of stick, or four-pen y nails
to keep their trousers on them, but they
preferred to have buttons, and there was no
sense or justice in taxing them to such an
extent.
Mr. Morgan continued his argument at
some length, using as an illustration the
effect of the proposed tariff bill upon numer
ous articles of prime necessity to southern
negroes.
CAN’T MAKE BUTTONS.
The negro, be said, could not learn in 200
years to make a button. He also referred
to agricultural seeds, which, under the
present law, cost $129 for $1 worth, and
would, under tie pending bill, cost $1 40,
and to andirons, which now cost $t 37 for
$1 worth, and would, under the pending
bill, cost $1 43. The negroes, he said, do not
raise hogs and don’t let anybody in their
neighborhood raise any. But they were
consumers of hogs. Nothing in the world
so delectated negro as bacon and greens.
Mr. Allison —Does the senator betieve
that the per cent, now levied on bacon
is added to the price of the bacou which the
southern people consume, and is, therefore,
pocketed by the farmer?
Mr. Morgan—lf the duty is not added to
the price what is it put there for ? Does tho
great finance committee of the United
States Senate want simply to humbug the
farmer by putting a tax on an articlo
which d'.es not add to the price!
Mr. Allison —We do not want to humbug
anybody, but I wnnt the senator’s opinion
as to whether 11per cent, duty or 29 per
cent duty is oddod to the price of bacon.
If he answers my question I will endeavor
to answer his.
Mr. Morgan—l have something else to do
besides swapping questions with senators.
If bacon were not raised in the country,
and if it had to be imported, it is very clear
that the consumer would have to pay tho
duty.
THE DETTY ON PRESERVED MEATS.
The next article to which Mr. Morgan
referred was preserved moats, aud in
speaking of the duty on them he expressed
a fear that the senators were so far from
the people and miw so little of them that
they imagined that the people had not good
sense, but when these questions got to the
country, be said, even to the negro commu
nities of the south, they would be very well
understood. He went on to refer to the
existing taxes, and to the promised taxes on
bagging, ootton ties, boots and shoos, and
ready made clothing. As to the 1 ,tter he
said that under the existing law a dollar’s
worth cost $1 54, ai.d would cost
under the pending bill $1 84, and
he asked why should the existing
tax be increased. Ready made olothing
was, he said, one of the very largest ele
ments of trade among the negroes. It was
one of the rarest things to see a grown ne
gro in the south with anything on his back
made by another negro. It was ail bought
in stores,and an enormous part of the negro’s
oarnings was diverted from liis pocket by
the tax on readymade cl thing. He could
not understand its necessity.
WHAT he mpant by a dollar’s worth.
Mr. Aldrich wanted to know what was
meant by a dollar’s worth. A dollar’s
worth in India, China, or Germany or Eng
land?
Mr. Morgan said that he took tho com
mittee’s own statement. Whon the com
mittee reported a rate it must have some
basis, and he assumed that basis to be cor
rect. For instance, under the present law
a dollar’s worth of blanket, cost fl Oil, and
would, under the pending bill, cost $3 10.
Mr. Allison —Last year we imported $16,-
000 worth of blankets. Unde the existing
law 09 cents is added to the cost, and under
tue pending hill *1 10.
Mr. Morgan—l do not say that it is added
to the actual oost.
Mr. Allison—l am afraid that somebody
will draw an inference from the senator’s
remarks that he does mean to say that a
blanket which oost *1 there cost 169 cents
under the existing law. Ido not think it is
true. I am afraid that the senator does
not mean to say it, yet I am also afraid
that somebody may think lie does say it.
Mr. Morgan—l can’t take oare ot the
judgment of the people.
a heavy tax on the race.
He went on to say that from a calcula
tion he had made the negroes of Alabama
paid in tariffs $6 SO per capita every year,
while not one in a hundred of them paid
any state tax. If he were the author of
such a law as the pending bill he would
feel ashamed to look a negro in the face.
He went on to quote from an article in a
New York paper toshow how much cheaper
the products of American factories are sold
in Cuba than they are in the United States.
He mentioned the price of
hoes (protected by a rate of 45 per cent.) as
sll in the United States and $8 40 in Cuba:
potato diggers SB, as against $6 50;
shovels, per dozen, $9 20 as against
$7 86; one class of kettles $1 45
as against 80c., and another class of kettles
$lB2 as against sllO. So that, he said,
the people of the United States were paying
taxes in order to enable American manu
facturers to sell their products cheaper
abroad than at home.
in conclusion, Mr. Morgan said that he
here closed the debate, so far as the negroes
wore concerned. He had tried to separate
them from the whites for the purpose of
showing that tne party which professed to
be their best friend, and has always made
such a profession, had no use for them in
the world, except to do its voting.
COLQUITT DENOUNCES THE BILL.
Mr. Colquitt addressed the Senate. He
compared in some points the House bill and
the bill as reported by the finance commit
tee of the Seuate, and said that
that comparison showed what a log
rolling and dickering affair the
modern tariff bill was; and it admonished
the Seuate that it was the province of wise
government to let the people and their oc
cupations alone. Instead of being a
measure “to pay the debt and to p ovidefor
the common dofense and general welfare of
the United States” the tariff bill had be
come, in these later days, nothing
more in effect than a blundering
scheme which, under ihe guise of a revenue
bill, transferred their hard-earned su -
stance from the pockets of the consumer
and of tue worker into tne coffers of the
favored classes, selected by the law-makers
as the special object of their consideration
and rega and. The pending bill was the out
come of the war, of all the discordant ele
ments and of the different occupations iu
society urged on by cupidity, cuunfi g and
reciprocal plunder. He was as much
opposed to the House bill as he was to the
Senate bill and would say; “A plague on
both your houses.”
NO BENEFIT TO THE FARMERS.
Mr. Colquitt went on to discuss the pro
visions of both bills in reference to agricul
tui al products, in order to show the futility
of the proposed duties on farm pr duce So
far as a ,y benefit to the farmers was con
cerned. Mr. Colquitt spoke of the decay of
the farming industry in New England and
some portions of .Pennsylvania, and said
that while the farmer bore his bur
dens all attempts to handicap ran
by weights which he could not
carry ought to he denounced. The
natural risss of the farmer’s calling were
always grave enough, and no man had a
right to say that he must assume burdens
and pay tribute to help out the profits of
other business ventures. The American
farmers were conscious of their wrongs.
From all parts of the land they were
coming together, they were joining hands
in organization and co operation, and they
demanded that their rights De heeded and
that justice be done.
CALLING A HALT.
They insisted on their right to the profils
of their industry, and they declared that
they would no longer hear the most of the
burdeus of society and the government.
Endowed with good, practical sense, vigor
ous in character, moral in habits, lovers of
home and its traditions, the farmers of
America would never allow themselves to
be degraded to the condition of the tillers
in India and Egypt. From his
heart ho wished them success and bade them
godspeed. By destroying monopolies, by
judiciously distributing tho public burdens,
by stopping profligacy in expenditure, by
economy in administration and by reducing
taxation, by constitutional and legitimate
increase of tho currency, the condition of
the agricultural class would be greatly im
proved. He protested against the doctrine
that it was the duty of the government to
aid private enterprises.
LEGISLATION HAS LIMITS.
He knew of no political necromancy
that invested legislation with creative
power. There was no omnipatenee in legis
lation. It could not, by the touch of an
enchanter’s wand transmute dust into
gold, cioflie poverty with riches or diffuse
wealth and happiness over tho land.
Mr. Spooner gavo notice of an amend
ment which ho would offer to tho tariff bill
providing that on and after Oct 1, 1894, tin
plates thinner than No. 16 gauge
shall be admitted free unless the quantity
of tin plates of such guage produceu in the
United States during the previous fiscal
year shall equal the amount of such tin
plate* imported during such year.
Mr. Vest obtained the floor, but, not de
siring to speak to-day, the tariff bill went
over till M uday.
On motion of Mr. Wilson of lowa the
House amendment* to the original package
bill were non-concurred in, and a confer
ence was ordered. Messrs. Wilson of
lowa, Edmunds aud George were ap
pointed conferees on the nart of the Senate.
The Senate teen proceeded to considera
tion of the pension bills on its calendar.
Among those passed were bills granting
pensions of S2,(AX) yearly each to the' widows
of (Jena Crook, McClellan and Fremont.
The Senate then adjourned.
A FORCE RILL STEAL.
RADICALS PLANNING ANOTHUR
BIG OUTRAGE.
South Carolina, Louisiana and Mlatlr
siDDi to be Colonized by Negroes in
Time for the Next Congressional and
Presidential Elections— * he Daven-
Dort-Hoar Substitute Under Inspec
tion.
Washington, June 2a— The Xntionat
Democrat says: “While tho action to be
taken by the republicans in the Senate on
the force bill yet is uncertain there is no
uncertainty in regard to the determination
of tho originators of the scheme to compel
its adoption. Wo have recently come into
possession of the particulars of a secret con
ference of the radical republicans, who,
under the leadership of Reed and Dudley,
were instrumental in pushing the bill
through the House of Represeutaiives. At
this conference it was plainly stated that
there was no hope of carrying enough con
gressional districts in northern states to
secure oontrol of the next House of Repre
sentatives.
CAN’T CARRY INDIANA.
“Dudley’s language to his associates at this
meeting was, ’Taere is not salt enough in
tho sea to make Indian republican this
year.’ It was urged by Dudley and Reed
that the salvation ot the Republican party
depended upon gaining control of the
southern states, aud it was determined to
concentrate on three states. South Caro
lina, Mississippi and Louisiana. These
states were selected on account of the size
of the colored population. It was decided
that if there were not enough negroes in
any of the congressional districts in these
three states to make a clean majority of the
votes, efforts to colonize more colored votes
there should at once tie made. W ith the
help of the force bill it is believed by these
desperate leaders that not only the con
gressional representatives but the electoral
votes can be obtained by the republicans
aud their success in 1892 be assured.
HARRISON HELPING THEM ALONG.
“President Harrison is an active supporter
of the new movement and is doing all that
he can through i atronage to help it along.
Both he and Reed are looking with the
greatest comfort on the fanners’ alliance
movement aud are encouraging the alliance
leaders as much as they can, and this is a
good deal. It has been determined that
wherever the alliance movem nt is found
to benefit the republican party alliancoinen
shall have the local offices. In dozens of
counties in Houth Carolina every post
master recently oppointed by Hurrison is a
member of this secret organization, which
is actively opposed to the democratic party.
THE SUBSTITUTE GIVEN OUT.
“Republican senators will spend Sunday
readiug the Davenport-Hoar substitute for
the Davenport-Lodge force bill, confidential
copies of which were furnished them by
Senator Hoar to-day for suggestions. Pend
ing the replies of their colleagues, Seuatois
Hoar and Spooner will continue their mis
siona y work with the reluctant repub
licans. Their great argument now is that
their amending work has made the Daven
port-Lodge bill much less objectionable.
They still say that it will be passed.”
COLUMBUS DENOUNCES THE BILL.
Columbus, Ga., July 26.—A large and
enthusiastic meeting of citizens was bold
to-day iu response to a call of the Enquirer-
Sun, to consider what action should be
taken rega ding the force bill. A number
of patriotic speeches wore made and the
following resolutions were adopted:
fteaolved. That the people of the city of
Columbus, in mass meeting assembled, do make
this their solemn protest against the enactment
known as the force bill, now before the Senate
of the United States, and appeal to the wisdom,
statesmanship and recognized conservatism of
that august body to protect the coun
try against tue disastrous results which
the passage of this bill will produce,
not only throughout the entire south but
throughout the United States by reason of its
antagonism to the underlying principles of free
republican goverement and the s institution
therefor of those features most dominant and
repugnant to human liberty in the despotic
countries of Europe.
Resolved, That in the passage of this law we
have every reason to apprehend tho restoration
of that system of political corruption which
characterized the humiliating and disastrous
era known as the “Reconstruction Period,”
when the worst elements of the north, in the
guise of political a vei.turers prostituted our
legisl ition, en-iend-red strife between tho races
and wrecked the finances of the states.
Res deed. That the suggestion of a commer
cial boycott is repugnant to our views as un
wise, unjust and remediless to meet the situa
tion, but that we do all sincerely believe tue
passage of the force bill will seriously jeopar
dize and endanger the commercial interests of
the soutiij that it threatens its financial in
tegrity, will cause stagnation of the nowrapidly
advancing prosperit i. and involve ourselves
and our northern friends in common
ruin. We ilo, therefore, cordially invito
the co-operation of all patriotic men north and
south, and especially those representing the
commer iai interests of the whole country, to
unite with us in opposing and defeating this
dangerous, iniquitiousand partisan measure.
Lionel C. Levy,
Jamss J. Slaps,
U ti. ItICHAKUBON,
William H. Brannon,
J. A. Kirves,
J. L. Willis.
J. F. Flournoy,
Committee.
KANSAS CITY DOWN ON THE FORCE BILL.
Kansas City, Mo., July 26. — At a mass
meeting of democrats last evening the fol
lowing resolutions were adopted:
Resolved, By the democrats of Kansas city, a
cosmopolitan city emoraeiujr in its ranks both
ex-union and ex-eoufederais soldiers, a city
having business relations with all sections of
the country -north and east, south and west—
that in the interest of peace and good will, busi
ness prosperity, both present and past, ad in
the future, we condemn and deorecate the
passage of what is known as the federal
election bill, now pending in congress.
As a city entirely cosmopolitan, neither allied
to the no, th nor south, we believe it will be for
the best interests of the whole country that no
laws be enacted which will s; r such strife and
engender sectional feeling, and we denounce
the attempt to pass this bill as a delib -rate
blow at the liberties of the people, and tneir in
alienable right to elect their own representa
tives.
NOT INDORSED AT TALLAHASSEE.
Tallahassee, Fla, July 2ti. — The
Morning News’ correspondent has talked
with several prominent merchants and busi
ness men here relative to the Atlanta Con
stitution's ridiculous proposition to boycott
northern commerce in the event the force
bid becomes a iaw, and none of them are in
s"npathy with it. They say that while
they ardently oppose such iniquitous legisla
tion, and believe it right to meet such
desperate measures in kind, they will take
no part in auy step that would sever the
present fraternal and close business relations
with the north. They think rather that the
proper step to pursue would be to appeal to
the business men of the north os friends.
A leaning democratic statesman, who is
too modest to allow bis name used in print,
said to the Mriining News man: “lam
surprised that Gov. Gordon should have in
dorsed the boycott proposition, and I yet be
lieve be did so on t :e spur of the moment,
without pausing to consider how mistaken
such an action would lie.”
HE WAS A LITTLE TOO HASTY.
Augusta, Ua., July 9ft. —A day or two
ago, when the Atlanta Constitution was
sending out its inquiries to the exchanges of
the various cities for opinions on the boy
cott, the telegram to the Augusta exchange
was delivered to Vice President P. G.
Burum. In the absence of President
Doughty, without calling the exchange
together, Mr. Burum answered os vice pres
ident indorsing the scheme. A meeting of
the exchange has been called for noon to
morrow, at which Mr. ISurum’s response
will be withdrawn by the exchange, and
resolutions will be passed condemning the
proposed boycott..
A REVOLT IN BUENOS AYRES.
Fighting in the Streets and Many
Reported Killed.
Buenos Ayres, July art.— A revolution
broke out here this morning. The troops
in the garrison rebelled ar.d firing was soon
going on. All the shops wore closed and
lighting wa? soon in progress.
The minister of iinance was held
prisoner by the revolutionists.
At 1:50 o’clock desperate fighting was going
on and many had been killed on both sides.
The insurgents were advancing toward the
Plaza de la Victoria, where the president’s
palace and town hall are located. The
president, however, hud escaped to Rosario.
At 3:10 o’clock a revolutionary govern
ment was announced, with Senor Arem as
presideut and Senor Romero ns minister of
nuance. The authorities still bold out, but
the revolutionary movement Was extending
hourly.
BEGINNING OF THE RISING.
Buenos Ayres, July 26, 11 p. m.—At 4
o’clock this morning the revolution was
commenced liy the union civica assisted by
two battalions of the garrison.
President Celman has declared the whole
republic in a state of soige.
The national guard has been called to
arms.
Later reports aro that fivo more battal
ions of marines and part of the artillery
have declared in favor of revolution.
The postal and telegraph offices aro sur
rounded by soldiers.
The revolutionists are reported to have
completely triumphed.
THE GOVERNOR WOUNDED.
The governor of Buenos Ayres is severely
woundej.
President Celman has just embarked from
Catalinas Mole, taking refuge on board of
u foreign ship.
The governor of C'ordova, brother of the
president, has also escaped.
The revolutionary party has issued a
manifesto signed by Abjendero M. Alem.
Adel Vuille, M. D. Maria. M. Goyena, Juan
Jose Romero, and Lucio V. Lopez.
The revolutionists have liberated Gen.
Manuel J. Campos, w bo was awaiting trial
as a conspirator, and who has now placed
himself at the head of the revolutionary
Party-
Fan Salvador’s Victories.
City of Mexico, July 26.— 1 t is stated
here that the Guatemalan auth rities have
cut the lines, so that no news can be sent
from that quarter. It is reporter that there
is considera le dissatisfaction i.i the Guate
malan ranks. The Balvadociana are advanc
ing, and a decisive battle is expected. Gen.
Barrundas is on Guatemalan soil, and is
raising an army of insurgents.
Where the Egypt Was Left.
London, July 2rt. —When the National
Lino steamer Egypt was abandoned her
correct position was in latitude 46“ 24'
north and longitude 33” 4' west. The vessel
may still be afloat, and in that event she
would he a dangerous obstruction to vessels
in the transatlantic trade.
France’s Surtax on hugar.
Paris, July 28. —The Chamtier of Depu
ties, by a vote of 284 to 227, to-day adopted
the bill for the renewal of the surtax on
sugar. I'he hill exto <ls to August, 1893,
the surtax of seven francs on row sugar.
BLAINE STIRRED THEM UP.
His Reciprocity Letter Puts Hts Party
in a Quandary.
Washington, July 26. Secretary
Bluiue’s letters are always read, aud hi 9
rordy to Senator Frye was no exception. It
supersedes the Behring sea correspondence
as the topic of the cloak room conversation.
Senator Frye said he would make no re
sponse and that he had nothing to say about
it.
Chairman McKinley said ho had nothing
to say about it, and so it was with all the
others whoso comments ou it would be most
interesting to the public.
But there was plenty of interesting pri
vate conversation. The ways and means
republicans were inclined to be indignant
at Seorotary Blaine’s way of telling about
the conference of Feb. 10.
BLAINB’S FOKMEB ATTITtjDK.
They insist that at that confei ence Secre
te y Blaine talked free wool as well as free
sugar, and ttmt ho talked about South
America, and especially the Argentine Re
public, and not ab >ut Spain, Cu a or Porto
Rico. Trey consulted the President aud
Speaker Reed, satisfied themselves that the
recipr oity Secretary Blaine advocated was
impi a ticable, and so dropped the subject
without ever bringing it into the full com
mittee. They hold the same opinion still
about Secretary Blaine’s scheme even as
amended. They think it would ruin their
taritf bill to put it on, and they will resist it
If it is put on in the Senate, which they do
not anticipate.
Representative McKenna of California,
who made a minority report against free
sugar, is an exception. He favors Secre
tary Blaine’s scheme for the reason that his
Colleagues oppose it. Outside of the com
mittee Secretary Blaine’s scheme is ap
proved by his friends and condemned by
his eneraiei, but it has very few votes in
the House.
HOW THE SENATE STANDS.
In the Senate, where opinion on the
general subject is crystallizing, the repub
licans are all theoretically in favor of some
reciprocity, but they are far apart as to
how it shall lie had. If it is practical to
have it at all, as a majority doubt, they
want free sugar. They do not want
free wool, and they make all the turns they
can. Nevertheless the demand which
Secretary Blaine has so skillfully worked up
for reciprocity i. felt, and Senator Aldrich
and others of the finance committee are
trying to devise a practicable plan. They
have talked with President Harrison, who
favors giv.ng the President power to reim
pose duties on sugar, hides, etc., if re
ciprocity is refused by any country, and
also power to impose discriminating duties
against exports from countries discrimi
nating against our exports.
ADVOCATING IT IN A MESSAGE.
This is the policy he advocates in the
messago ho is preparing to send to congress.
Senator Piero" got a bit of it in his resolu
tion and Senator Mitchell got a bit of it,
somewhat twisted, in his, but as yet the
finance committee has agreed to nothing.
Behind it all is their feeling that Secretary
Blaine is only trying to embarrass the Mc-
Kinley bill und to advertise himself, aud
the ui,certainty as to what Secretary Blaine
would be willing to do, an uncertainty
which Secretary Blaine’s reply to Senator
Frye has not removed. One senator says
ex-Miuister Foster should be sent at once
to Spain to see what he can get, and report
by cable. President Harrison may adopt
this suggestion. I
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EUROPE’S FEAR OF WAR.
188 KAISBR AND PRINOB BIS*
MARCK TO MAKB UP.
The Emperor iverse to Any Publi*
Action Against the Ex-Chancellor on
Account of His Utterances—A Montti
Will Decide the Outcome of tha
Russian Question.
(Copyrighted, 1890, by the Xew York Aucciatt'l
iVr'M. )
Berlin, July 26.—Emperor William will
arrive Monday at WTlhelmehaven, where
he will hold a ministerial c uncll. The offi
cials do not expect that he will come to
Berlin, as bis programme is so crowded that
he will hardly have time to visit the capital-
It is whispered that busy as the emperof
may be he has seut a communication to
Prince Bismarck intimating a design to
make a short visit to Freidrichsrahe-
The emperor is averse to all public action
against the prince on account of bis publia
utterances ou state affairs, and desires a
conciliatory meeting with his former chan
cellor. Besides the annoyance arising from
Prince Bismarck’s published interviews tba
emperor must have been stung by the
prince’s poignant personal sarcasms, made
with the apparent intention that they
should be repeated in court circles,
BOTHERS THE KAISER.
The question of how to silence him prob
ably occupies the kaiser's mind fully a a
much as do the critical developments in the
east. Meantime all idea of adopting legal
means to suppress the ex-cbancelor’s utter
ances nave been abandoned. Prince Bis
marck has paved ihe way for an amicable
meeting by a letter sent to Chan--
oelor von Caprivi in response to
an inquiry connected with the business of
the cliancellerie, in w hich he expressed a
desire to see the emperor us soon as ha
returned from Noi way. The emperor will
return from England on Aug. 8, and will
pass Pottsdam bet re starting for Russia-
Archduke Karl, King Ludwig’s heir, will
meet Emperor William and the czar on
Aug. 17. On Aug. 25 the emperor and
archduke will bid good-bye to the czar.
A MONTH WILL DECIDE.
Within a month, therefore, ft will b
known whether German-Austrian relation*
with Russia will be more friendly or
strained to the point of rupture. Tha
Orashdanian of Bt. Petersburg, edited by
Prince Mestshezerky, which is credited
with an occasional i; spiration by
the czar, says Russian policy ta
on the eve of a change which will
harmonize Russia’s policy in the Balkans;
that the negotiations are coining to a
climax, and too interviews aill re-establish
cAuses in the Berlin tieaty which are now
violated. The basis of the expected
arrangement appears to boa cle ir ac
ceptance as to w o will lie the candidate to
the Bulgarian throne. Bulgaria, however,
may by precipitating revolution, nullify
the emperor's diplomacy before tiio ruler,
confer in view of the failure of the nego
tiations, leading to a Huai rupture with
Russia.
THE VISIT TO SWEDEN.
The emperor, during his recent visits to
Copenhagen and Christiana, received a
proposal for a .Scandinavian coalition, in
cluding the reai sorption of Finland by
Sweden, the Czar’s ukase tending towaid
the complete Russianizing of Finland,
which is ripening to revolution. The em
pe or offered King O oar, as the price- of
Sweden’s entry int j the dreibund, the pros
pective restoration of F.nland.
Prince Bismarck, giving the Novoa
Vremya correspondent a second interview,
deplored the rueuucmg aspect of affairs, and
said ho felt that it was now more than ever
his chief duty to try to assure the peace of
Europe. Why. he asked, should Germany
continue to regard Russia as an inevitable
enemy?
NO REASON FOR WAR.
At the present moment, he said, abso
lutely no reason existed for a German wa*
with Russia. An attack on Russia by Ger
many was inconceivable on any good
grounds. Germany’s energies ought to be
concentrated in dealing with the dangers
of socialism. The loi ger the state gave way
to the anarchists the bloodier would be the
issue. The whole te- or of his interview
suggests that Prince Bismarck is reconciled
to the kaiser and will become a formidable
Xnent in any line of foreign policy in
ing a quarrel with Russia.
SPLIT OF THE SOCIALISTS
The socialist committee have en
trusted to Herren Bebei.LiebesUknist,Singer
and Aurar the preparation of a plan of re
organization of the party to be
presented to the congress which
meets in Berlin iu October. The
language of the Vo Ikes Tribune , which
Is indorsed by Extremist Hcbippel, forebodes
increasing friction between the sections of
the party.
Herr Liobeshkaist’s Volkesblatt declares
that the Berlin congress will prove the soli
darity of the party, and show the world a
united German democracy, prepared to
combat with new arms on a vaster battle
field. As to individuals who manifest a
lack of discipline, the Volkesblatt settles
them by chasing them out of the party.
Herr Scbippel hasn’t the bulk of the social
ists behind him, but what he wants in
bers he makes up in the fervor of his idea*
and his uuwearied propaganda.
THE MEDICAL CONGRESS.
Twenty-five hundred medical men
promised to be present at the congress in
August. The congress will be divided into
eighteen soctions. Prof. Virchow will pre
side over the department of pathologv.
Prof. Dubois Reinond over the departments
of phsiology, Prof. Herturiug over the de
partment of anatomy, Prof. Liebrich over
the department of pharmacology and Prof.
Lieden over the department of materia
medica. A number of American papers
will be read.
Herr Rittenbaus, the correspondent who
interviewed Prince Bismarck on behalf of
the Frankfort Journal , is about to institute
proceedings against the Berlin Post for
Charging him with falsifying Prince Bis
marck’s statements. Herr ltittenhaus in
tends to call Prince Bismarck to testify at
the trial.
The operation performed by Prof. Fuchs
of Vienna on thv eyes of the Shah’s first
wife has proved unsuccessful, and she
is now t tally blind. Berlin oculists do not
blame Prof. Fuchs, as he warned the patient
that it was too late for him to guarantee
that the operation would he a success.
BULGARIA’S BISHOP.
Russia Censures the Appointments
by the Porte.
Constantinopb, July 20.— M. Melidoflf,
the Russian ambassador to Turkey, has pre
sented another note from Russia to the
porte opposing the recent appoiutmeat of
Bulgarian bishops by the porte
on the ground that rights in the case were
granted to the Bulgarian government
aud not to the exarchato. This, tbe note says,
was in compliance with Bulgai la’s note de
manding recognition of the g ivernment by
Turkey. The note declares that the Bul
garian government is unlawful aud that
i lie porte ought aot to accede to its demand
lor recognition.
