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A CAR'S FEARFUL BLUNGE
IT DABHID DOWN A MOUNTAIN AT
TBB RATS OF 80 MILBB AN HOUR.
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A t the Bottom It Was Flung on Ite
Side-Four People Killed Outright
B nd Several Fatally Injured - Two
Women and a Man Escaped by Jump
ing.
Reading, Pa., Aug. 23.-A runaway car
on the Mount Pennsylvania Gravity rail
road. which aaoends the mountain near
here,' dashed down a five-mile deolivity at
11 o’clock this morning at frightful speed.
When the car reached the station, at the
foot ot the hill, it jumped the track and
rolled down a fifty-foot embankment, where
p landed upside down witb tne passengers
imprisoned inside, except several who had
jumped off.
• ctpup TMPT.IVE
A STEEP INCLINE.
The road has a rise of 800 feet in a dis
tance of Are miles. The cars are hauled
„n bv an engine and allowed to return by
oravitv There are different stories as to
fne cause of the accident, but it appears
that when the point was reached where the
gravity commences the engine was de
tached, when the oar ran away while
the passengers were still on board.
The distance to the point of
sta ting, live miles, it is estimated, was cov
ered bv the runaway car in throe minutes,
the car attaining a fearful speed, estimated
at about eighty miles an hour. It remained
on the track to the foot of the plane, going
around all curves, while the passengers
shrieked in their fright, and several jumped
off.
THE KILLED.
The following were killed:
Chabi.es Rkttew, a conductor, of Read
insr, aged 35. _ _ ..
Edgar M. Levan, a lawyer of Reading,
BK mLs°Rose Heffer, aged 32, of Reading
Miss Harriet Hincklb, aged 82, of
Philadelphia.
THE INJURED.
The injured are:
Mrs. William H. Schemel, badly cut
and suffering with concussion of tbe brain.
Her death is momentarily expected.
William Schemel, both legs badly frac
tured. He will probably die.
Mrs. Schitler, terribly mangled. She
is still unconscious.
Miss Kate Homon, seriously hurt about
tbe head, and not expected to live.
Misses Bessie and Katie Kelly, nieces
of Miss Homon, both badly injured.
Cornelius Hanlon of Allentown, suf
fering with concussion of the brain.
Mrs. Cornelius Hanlon of Allentown,
badly cut and bruised.
Miss Wallik Bye cf Wilmington, very
badly injured and still unconscious.
Miss May Guthrie of Wilmington, head
cut, but not dangerously hurt.
Mrs. Arnold Lewis of Allentown, left
wrist broken.
Miss Weiler of Allentown, daughter of
a prominent merchant of that place, badly
hurt about the head and chest.
Mrs. Smith of Allentown, skull fractured
and will die. She is now at St. Joseph’s
Hospital.
Mrs. Cooper of Allentown, cut in the
temple and about the eye. Her baby was
also severely Injured.
Mrs. Schitler and Mrs. Cooper, with her
baby iu hoc arms, jumped from the car dur
ing its descent, and were found by Harry
Brown of Philadelphia, who had leaped from
the car soon after its start on its wild run,
hut escaped without injury.
A STONE TRAIN RUNS WILD.
Three Men Killed and Three Seriously
Injured by Jumping.
Denver, Col., Aug. 22.— Three men were
killed and three seriously injured by the
running wild of a stone train in the vicinity
of Lyons this morning. The train was on
a down grade, and without apparent reason
the engineer found that he had lost control
of the engine, whereupon the whole train
sttti ted on a wild run. \\ hen the engineer
1 und that he could not control the eugino
he jumped and was killed.
The fireman then climbed over the tender
and attempted to uncouple the engine, but
was unsuccessful and sustained injuries in
jumping from the train. J
jumped, one being in
stantly killed and the other injured seriously.
HL'N of the train.
Tho train continued on its wild run until
a dump was reached, when all the cars
Font over and piled iu a mass of ruin. The
names of those killed wero;
L. Norton, engineer.
, • Terouhon, a car repairer.
•. Gukkkn, a car repairer,
iiiose injured are:
James Consione, the conductor.
"■ otrayer, a brakemun
James Miller, the lireman
CHOLEKA’a AWFUL BWBEP.
Over 60 Per Cent, of the Cnees !n
Japan Prove Fatal.
F f AN SCo, Au K . 32.—Japanese
timueh tt ‘ ° bolera iS making hea,lwa y
JUgh the country despite the efforts of
arr ° St il - Tho total
-Jiber of cases has been about three
--sand, 60 per cent of whioh have died.
~ SPREADING IN SPAIN.
Readilv'ak®*the M'T Chol, ' rQ * 8 opreading
Vais ,c a Mediterranean north of
tew eusJs Th u h ‘ >re are to twelve
several viii a Jg ?„ d ‘* easo has appeared in
M T * h6 u P rovlnco Of Toledo,
“‘Madrid, 0 ® have botin discovered
Bcr u ? EEPINO toward b ®Rlin.
cholera.'.’ 22.—Several cases nt
lin raMe re P°rte<l iu tho vicinity of
A CHAaIi Ihj CALIFORNIA.
f ' UBh P OWn * Grade and Into
j Another Train.
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City t >; . ; wreok occurred at Cascade
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.IS THB aOtJSB.
Considering the River and Harbor in
Committee.
Washington, Aug. 22.—1n the House
this morning the conference report on the
bill making an appropriation for additional
clerical foroe to carry on the dependent
pension law was agreed to.
The report of the committee recommend
ing non-ooncurrence in the Senate amend
ment* to the river and harbor bill, and
agreeing to the conference asked for, was
presented.
Mr. Kerr of lowa raised the point of
order that amendments must first be con
sidered In com nit tee of tne whole, so the
House began consideration in committee.
The Senate amendments were read
seriatim. Several motions to concur and
to amend were voted down, and non-con
currence In the Senate amendments was
agreed to without serious opposition until
the amendment was reached for the pur
chase of the Portage Lake and River Im
provement Company canal aud the Lake
Superior Ship Canal Railway and Iron
Company canal.
HOLMAN WANTS A DIRECT VOTE.
Then Mr. Holman insisted that non-con
currence in this amendment should not be
of a mere formal character, but should be
emphasized by a direct vote of the commit
tee. In this view he was seconded by Mr.
Kerr of lowa, while the amendment was
advocated by Mr. Cutcbeon of Michigan,
who protested against any vote taken to
day, and contended for free water and
deep water. The amendment was non
concurred in.
The Senate amendment striking out the
clause appropriating $350,000 for the im
provement of harlem river and requiring
high bridge, to be constructed across that
river was another item that provoked a
long debate, and it went along with the
others—not concurred in.
After non-concurring in about half of
the Senate amendments the committee
rose.
ABUSE OF THE FRANKING PRIVILEGE.
Mr. Mason of Illinois, rising to a question
of privilege, said that some duys ago a reso
lution had been adopted aliegiug that a
certain gentleman had been fraudulently
using the mails to create a sentiment in
favor of the Conger lard bill, aud calling on
the postoffice department for information
on the subject. The resolution had been
sent to the department with a request that
the papers in regard to the matter be
transmitted promptly. This had not been
done. He had called at the department
three or four times, and had been informed
that probably the papers would not bo sene
up until Saturday. Then they would be of
no use, as the previous question on the bill
was ordered at 4 o’clock to-morrow after
noon.
IMPROPER INFLUENCE.
Ho charged that improper influence had
been brought to bear on a department of
the government to retain certain papers in
its possession. Inlluonoe, social or political,
had been brought to bear to withhold from
the members of the House In
formation in regard to pending leg
islation. The chief clerk of the post
office department had denied him
access to the papers for the purpose of mak
ing copies of them for us > In the debate. He
wanted the facts brought before the House,
and he moved that a committee of three
members be appointed to wait upon the
Postmaster General and ask that the papers
be furnished in time to ba used in the debate.
Before any action was taken the hour of
5 o’clock arrived aud the House took a re
oess until 8 o’clock.
At the evening session the House passed
the bill granting a pension of SSO a month
th Caroline 11. White, widow of G. B.
White, late chief of the bureau of yards
and docks.
Tnirty-two other private pension bills
wore passed and tho House at 10:30 ad
journed.
DOYLE BUSY WITH BUCK.
It is Still Uncertain Who the Boss
Will Recommend.
Washington, Aug. 22.— C01. Buck has
returned from Boston, having been detained
by the wreck at Quincy. Ho was in the
car behind the one which turned over, but
wus not injured. Ho was greatly shocked,
however, by the horrible sights be saw
as he tried to help the wounded
out of the wreck, and has not recovered yet.
He went to the postoffice department to
day and spent some time with the Georgia
fourth class offices, but did not have time
to talk much with Gen. Clarkson, with
whom, however, he arranged for an inter
view. Joe Doyle had a talk with
Col. Buck about the Savannah postotllco.
Col. Buck says he has made no recom
mendation yet and will make none until it
gets near February, the time when the
term runs out. He is expected to recom
mend Mr. Doyle. He will try to secure the
confirmation of CoL Denning, but he has
Gen. Clarkson to buck against. Gen. Clark
son ordered to-day anew investigation of
the charges against CoL Denning by an in
spector not likely to be affected by CoL
Denning's friends.
BLAINE TO BPBAK IN MAINB.
He Will Support Millikan But Won’t
Do Anything for Read.
Washington, Aug. 22.—Secretary Blaine
will make two speeches in Maine this cam
paign, one at Augusta Aug. 29
and one at Watervilie in Sep
tember. Both places are in Representa
tive Milliken’s district. Speaker Reed,
whose friends are all hastening to save his
district, needs Secretary Blaine’s help there,
but he will not get it. Under the circum
stances Speaker Reed would prefer that
Secretary Blaine should not make any
speoches rather than to give him the oold
shoulder in public.
SAFETY FOR RAILROADERS.
The House Committee to Report a
Bill on the Subject.
Washington, Aug. 22. —The House
committee on railways and oanals
has agreed to report favorably tbe
bill for the protect' of raiiroad
property and of railroad employos
engaged in handling it. The bill provides
for safety couplers on freight oars and pow er
brakes on locomotives, but gives railway
companies sufficient time to prepare for the
change. After Jan. 1, 1893, it shall be un
lawful for railroad companies to run a train
that oaunot be controlled by the engineer.
An Anti-Lottery Bill.
Wahhinoton, Aug. 22.— Representative
Hauebrough of North Dakota has intro
duced in the House a joint resolution pro
posing an amendment to the constitution
providing that neither the United Btatee nor
any state shall giassany law authorizing the
establishment or maintenance of any lot
tery or distribution of prizes by chance.
Government Bond Purchases.
VV asHiNUToH, Aug. IL—Toe bond offer
ings to-Jay aggregated ll t HS3,ltfO, of
which 64.500 were 4e at 125 and tbe re
mainder 4>|s. Under t‘-a terms of the
treasury uiroular of the Slat all were ac
•wpted.
SAVANNAH, GA., SATURDAY, AUGUST 32, 1800.
QUAY BOSS OF BOSSES.
HIsJ VICTORY OVBR TRB ADMINIS
TRATION COMPLETE.
The Senate Programme on the Force
Bill and Other Legislation Being
Fixed Up Just to Suit Bla Pleasure.
An Extra Session Among the Possi
bilities.
Washington, Aug. 22.— The Senate re
publicans spent the day ohiseling an inscrip
tion on the tombstone of the force bill.
Senator Quay, master of the situation and
leader of the lenders, with more power in
his hand than he has ever had before, placed
the vanquished Mr. Hoar, with character
istic irouy, at the head of the committee to
wiiom Ids work with the arrangement of
the programme for the rest of the session
was intrusted by the conference last night.
Senator Quay never cares who does the
work so be gets the fruits of it, and he was
perfectly willing that Senator Hoar should
have the chairmanship of this committee,
while he assumed the undisputed leader
ship at the conference last night,
with the understanding that no more reso
lutions should be brought forward in tho
Senate, but that, acting as gentlemen and
not as senators, the republicans should be
governed by a simple memorandum em
bodying the propositions favorably regarded
by the conference: First of all, the post
ponement of tho force bill; second, an
agreement to ask the President for an extra
sea-ion after the November elections to con
sider the force bill, the regular session to bo
also devoted to the bill until March 4, if
neoessary, even if an extra session of the
Fifty-second congress had to be
called to pass the appropriation
bills; or, third, an agreement to take the
force bill up on the first Monday in Decem
ber, applv closure and vote on Dec. 20;
fourth, close the general debate on the
tariff bill Aug. 30 and the five minutes’
debate on Sept. 4 or 5, this to be arranged
amicably with the democrats, the force bill
being dead and buried.
AFRAID TO TRUST EACH OTHER.
But after sleeping over it, either because
they are mostly lawyers or because they are
unused to acting as gentlemen and not as
senators, or because enforced harmony has
not created universal confidence, they came
to the conclusion that it would be wiser to
put the terms of capitulation on the journal
of the Senate, provided the democrats would
let them. Of course they would not put
the extra session into a resolution
to be presented to the Sen
ate. That would not do to be
published except in the newspapers, but all
the rest of the agreement of last night was
drafted into a resolution, barring the closure
clause, and then Chairman Hoar, under
Senator Quay’s direction, took around a
paper for the republicans to sign, pledging
themselves to support the resolution, which
they were told would not be introduced in
the Senate until enough republicans had
signed to insure a majority in the Senate,
wuioh is forty-three at the most and thirty
nine at the least. The democrats still
sat by quiet spectators until the repub
licans should finally make up their quarrels
and their minds for the purpose of negotia
tion. Of course the republicans, however
united, can do nothing the democrats will
not let be done without the closure resolu
tion, and Senators Ingalls and Edmuuds and
asturdy few are still holding out against
Reedism in the Senate.
MANY REFUSING TO SIGN.
Senator Hoar did not meet with complete
success in his hunt for signatures on the re
publican side of the Senate. Unless he suc
ceeds better to-morrow the pledge may be
dropped and tho republicans will have to
fall bacn on the agreement between gentle
men, if they do not try to pass
a resolution without a pledge. It
is probable, however, that they will
not bring forward any force bill
resolutions whatever, but will go on under
their agreement to pass the tariff bill aud
go home. The force bill men are announc
ing that the force bill will be passed at the
next session by closure, if necessary, with a
possible appeal to the President for an extra
session.
DEMOCRATS IN CONFERENCE.
The democrats met at Senator Gorman’s
to-night and talked the situation over fully,
agreeing to wait until the republicans
formally formulated their proposition, and
to accept nothing that interferes
with the full consideration of the
tariff bill or fixes a day in the
next session to vote on the force bill.
The democrats in their conference pro
ceeded on the theory which Senator Quay
communicated to Senator Gorman this
afternoon, that no further move would be
made in regard to the force bill in open
Senate, but that Senator Aldrich would ask
unanimous consent that general debate on
the tariff bill be closed Aug. 30, and that
the five minute debate, closing with three
hours on a side, close with a vote on Sept 8,
and agreed that if this programme was
carried out they would interpose no objec
tion to the tariff part of it.
THE CANVASS FOR SIGNATURES.
By the Associated Pi ts*.
Washington, Aug. 22.—Senators Hoar,
Allison, Evarts, Plumb, Spooner, Hale and
Allen, the committee appointed at the
republican senatorial conference last night
to arrange an order of business to take the
place of the Quay resolution, has reached a
conclusion upon” an order of business, but
some details remain to be
settled. The tariff bill, after
a date to be fixed, is to be considered u nder
the five-minute rule till a vote is taken.
The date of this has not been decided and
will be subject to arrangement with the
democrats. It is expected that the vote will
be reached about Sept. 5.
THE SUBSEQUENT PROGRAMME.
After the tariff bill is out of the way the
other measures named in Senator Quay’s
resolution are to bo taken up and disposed
of, Ti e election bill, as stated last night,
will come up the first thing after the
reassembling of congress, but the time
at whioh a vote shall be taken is reserved
for future consideration. The arrangement
for the disposition of this bill, It is said, does
not depend upon the consent of the minor
ity, but is wholly a republican scheme, and
includes a change of the rules by which the
previous questioii may be ordered.
HOW IT WILL BE PUT THROUGH.
The plan by which the republicans expect
to secure the passage of the election bill at
the next session is to secure the written
pledge of a majority of the senators to l.e in
attendance early in December and to vote in
favor of a change of the i ules so as to
permit the majority to fix the time for
taking a vote on any measure under con
sideration. This pledge was generally
signed by the republicans present to-day.
and it is said that the pledge will be signed
by all the members of the majority. It is
not asserted, however, that th > senators
will be a unit in favor of the election bill.
Dixie and the Offices.
Wabhinovgn. Aug. 22. Civil Hervtee
Commissioner ItooeovsU says : “W* -
in >king the most strenuous efforts to UU th#
southern quota, but as tie rs is not enough
force detailed to oouduot tile exami aUoos
I aw sorry to asy sre not making that
progress we would Uk* to.
BAUM’S LOANS.
The Whitewashing Committee Cuts
Off Cooper’s Pi ana
Washington, Aug. 22.—Representative
Cooper was on hand to oonduct the lnvestl
gation of Pension Commissioner Baum to
day,and directed his efforts to tracing what
became of the money Commissioner Raum
had borrowed on Mr. Lemon's indorsement.
His object, be stated, was to show that
Commissioner Raum was Insolvent when
he borrowed, and that Mr. Lemon was
aware of it. This, he argued, would
indicate corruption of purpose on the
part of both borrower and lender. Mr.
Cooper sought to ascertain what business
venture Commissioner Raum was engaged
in, but, after developing the fact that he
held stock in two mining companies, tho
committee cut off this liue of inquiry, al
though Mr. Coo Der protested that he wished
to ini(>each the witnesses’ judgment a, to
the value of mining aud other stock enter
prises. The committee declined to take
testimony on the question of Commissioner
Raum’s solvency or business sagacity.
A STOCK BOOK PRODUCED.
Commissioner Raum produced a stook
book and furnished a list of the stock
holders, which was verified by the
committee. He testified that it con
tained the name of no employe in the
pension offloe except his own and that
no stock was ever offered to any employe.
Mr. Cooper declared that the proceeding
was ex parte, and that it was beneath the
dignity of a member of congress or repu
table attorney to participate in such an
investigation. He has not been permitted
to look at the stock book. The committee
offered to allow him to Inspect the verified
list, but be refused to do so unices he could
obtain access to the books themselves, so the
committee adjourned to meet Sept. 1. ,
Nominated for Congress.
Washington, Aug. 22.—A special to the
Fost from liappahanock, Va., says: “Tho
democrats of the First Virginia district to
day nominated W. A. Jones for oougress."
A TEXAS NOMINEE.
Palestine, Tex., Aug. 22.—1n the Sec
ond district congressional convention to
night, John B. Long of Rusk, Cherokee
county, received 38 votes and Mr. Gam
mage 17, nominating Mr. Long and defeat
ing Representative Marlin, the present in
cumbent.
MISSISSIPPI'S LAWS.
The Power of the State to Change
Its Constitution.
Jackson, Miss., Aug. 22.—The judiciary
committee of the constitutional convention
submitted its report to-day. It is signed
by Wiley P. Harris, chairman, but was
written by ex-Cbief Justice Slmrall. The
report is made upon the following resolution:
Resolved, That the judiciarv committee be
requested to make a special report at as early a
day as possible upon the effect of the act of
congress in readmitting Mississippi into the
union, limiting the right of the state of Missis
sippi So impose certain restrictions upon the
ngbtof franchise, and otherwise prohibiting
the state from changing the constitution of tiie
state of Mississippi adopted in 186f, so far as
said act shall affect the work of this conven
tion.
FINDING OF THE COMMITTEE.
After arguing the question at length,
and quoting and analyzing all the pro
visions of the United States constitution
bearing upon the matter of suffrage, the
committee reaches the conclusion that
whatever may have been the effect
of the action of the southern
states, denominated either secession
or rebellion, and of the reconstruction acts
viewed as judicial or political questions,and
without enumerating the diverse opinions on
these important questions, wa are of the
opinion that the readmission of this state of
the union fully and forever settled the
status of tho states thus readmitted, aud
that congress thereby lost control
or jurisdiciion over this matter, and the
states thus readmitted into the union be
came at once ipso facto under the constitu
tion reinvested with all the sovereign pow
ers Awsessod by any and all the other states.
No action was taken on the report.
After disposing of routine business tbs
convention adjourned till Monday.
A BHAM BATTLE'S CASUALTIES.
One Man Killed Outright and Two
Others Injured.
Binghamton, N. Y., Aug. 23.—A dis
patch from Waverly to the Republican re
ports a shocking accident at Athens, Pa.
During the sham battle at the soldiers’ en
campment a cannon was prematurely dis
charged, instantly killing Will Bosson, aged
40 years, and fatally injuring James N.
Castamore, aged 20 years and tear
ing off tho thumb of Gabriel L. Muller.
All reside in Waverly. Castamore was
horribly mangled. Bossom aud Castamore
are members of Waverly camp Sons of
Veterans, and Muller is commander of W.
C. Hull post of the Grand Army of the Re
public of Waverly. The accident caused
great consternation in the encampments
HANGED FOB ARBQN.
The Revenge of Four Negroes Costs
Them Their Lives.
Danville, Va., Aug. 22.—1n October
last, a warehouse at Rocky Mount, Franklin
county, was fired by incendiaries and
burned to the ground, together with several
buildings. There was strong reason to
believe that the building was fired by
negroes, because the owners refused
to let Gen. Mat) one speak there,
and afterward allowed a democratic
speaker to occupy it. Four negroes—George
Early, Byrd Woods, William Brown aud
Nannie Woods—were arrested on suspicion,
tried and convicted and sentenced to be
hanged. George Early and Byrd Woods
were executed at Rocky Mount to-day, and
the others will be executed Sept. 19.
DEATH ON A MAN-OF-WAR,
A Premature Discharge Blows Two
Men Into Eternity.
Han Francisco, Aug. 22.—The steamer
Oceanic arrived this afternoon from Hong
Kong and Yokohama.
On July 31 the United States ship Omaha
returuod to Yokohama from target practice
outside tho hay and reoorted that Carl
Emanuelson and J. K. Kirk of Baltimore,
spougers, had been killed by a premature
discharge from a Dahlgren gun. Kirk
was blown from the vessel aud n:s remains
could not i e found. Emanuelsoii was terri
bly mangled.
A Lynching Near Baton Rouge.
New Orleans, Aug. 22.— A special to
the Picayune train Baton Rouge reports
Mie lynching of Willis Alexander (colored),
aged 17, in that parish last night Alexan
der was accused of having attempted to
rape an 11-j ear-old white girl. His body
was found to-day hanging from a tree by
the roadside.
A Bteauaer Run Down and sunk.
Hr. Mamairk. Aug. 22.—The French
steamer Amanque to day ran down <u,.|
sunk the K goeh stunner iUo Brook off
line port. Three person* were drowned.
SENATORS HUSH TO ARMS
THB DUTIES ON RIFLES AND SHOT
GUNS UNDER FIRB.
Blair Tries to be Facetious at the Ex
pense of the South—The Inconelst- |
ency of the Framers of the Bill
Exposed—The Rate ou Nalls.
Washington. Aug. 22.— Almost imme
diately upon assembling this morning the
Senate took up the tariff bill. The para
graphs relating to files, rasps, iron or steel
plates, wares or articles enameled or glazed
were adopted ns reported, the democratic
amendments looking to lower duties being
uuiformly rejected.
When the "sporting rifle" paragraph was
reached Mr. McPherson wanted to know
why a very low duty was proposed, while
on “shotguns,” in the next paragraph, an
extremely high duty was imposed.
Mr. Hawley said the senator ought to
know that Americans made the best rifles in
the world, made tho best uso of them and
wanted no additional protection.
“Do wo not also make the best shotguns
in the world?" querried Mr. Vance.
“Wethink we do," Mr. Aldrich replied.
“Then,” said Mr. Vance in bis usual droll
style, “we make the best rifles in the world
and therefore, we only want 25 per cent,
profit. We make the best shotguus in the
world, and therefore, wo want 115 per cent,
protection."
Mr. Blair—l he senator should not make
such a statement about shotguus, an arti le
of southern manufacture. [Laughter].
Mr. McPherson said he would offer no
amendment to lower the duty on sporting
rities, and the paragraph as to shotguns was
passed over iuformally, Mr. Aldrich stating
that the finance committee had the matter
under consideration.
THE DUTY ON CUT NAILS.
Mr. McPherson moved to amend para
graph 167 (relating to cut nails) by redueiug
the rate from 1 cent per pound to 35 per
cent ad valorem. In the course of the dis
cussion it was argued by Mr. McPherson
that the cut uaii industry needed no pro
tection, as American nails were exported
and sold in all the countries of the world,
while the effect of protection was claimed
to be (by Mr. Aldrich) a reduction of the
cost from $6 97 per keg of 100 pounds in
1886 to $2 in 1890, and Mr. Vnnoe wanted to
know why “foreign paupers” should be
supplied with cheap American cut nails.
Mr. Carlisle denied necessary connection
between high duty and low prices, and as
serted that they were simply the result of
that movement of humanity which had been
going on since the dawn of creation.
PROTECTIONISTS lIKSTRUCTIONISTS.
Mr. Morgan gave the definition of “de
-Btruotiomsts” to the protectionists on the
other side, because they were destroyers of
the people for the benefit of a few bounty
fed industries. He read au extract from
the New York Tribune, describing
the system of taxation in Germany and
stating that “sleep was the only thing which
the imperial government had omittod to
tax.” That was, he said, a perfectly true
picture of the system of this Dill.
The dlsoussion was interrupted to enable
Mr. Platt to present and have referred to
the committee on appropriations a commu
nication from the interior department with
a report from a speolal agent as to destitu
tion in Oklahoma.
STEEL NAILS HAVE TIIE CALL.
The discussion as to cut nails having been
resumed, Mr. Morgan expressed his belief
that more steel nail factories would be
established in this country, as the use of
steel nails was superseding the use of cut
nails.
A vote was taken and the amendment as
to cut nails was rejected by 18 yeas to 27
nays, even Mr. Plumb voting no.
Sir. Vance moved to amend paragraph
168, relative to horseshoe nails, hob nails
and other wrought iron or steel nails not
specially provided for, by reducing the
rate from 4 cents per pound to 38 per cent,
ad valorem. After half an hour's discus
sion the amendment was rejeoted by a vote
of 20 yeas tc 29 nays.
Mr. McPherson moved to amend
paragraph 189 (relating to wire nails) of
wrought iron by substituting for classified
duties acoording to the length and weight
an ad valorem rate of 40 per cent. The
amendment was rejeoted without the yeas
and nays.
NO CHANCE OF A REDUCTION.
Mr. Vance moved to amend paragraph
170 (relating to spikes, washers and horse
shoes of wrought iron or steel), by reducing
the rate from \% cents per pound to 25 per
cent, ad valorem. The motion was rejected.
Amendments to reduce the duties in para
graphs 171, 172 and 173 (i elating to cut
tacks and needles) were offered and rejected
with little discussion and without the yea
and nay votes.
An amendment, offered by Mr. Vest, to
reduce the duty on saws was rejected, but
Mr. Paddock voted for it with the demo
crats.
FLEECING THEIR OWN COUNTRYMEN.
Paragraph 178, relating to wood screws,
having been reached, Mr. Carlisle said that
that was another article which American
manufacturers were selling abroad very
much lower than they were selling at home.
He produoed price lists in support of
his statement, and also a letter from
the American Screw Company of Provi
dence, R. 1., that was another illustration
of the policy adopted by the other side
in allowing drawbacks on exported arti
cles.
Mr. Aldrich—Does the senator object to
that policy )
Mr. Carlisle—l do unless it is extended
further. I hold that it is not good policy
or justice to give to an Americau manu
facturer substantially free raw material on
their exported products and to refuse it to
products oonsunied at home. That is where
1 object to your policy.
OTHER SIMILAR INSTANCES.
He went on to soy that the offering of
American goods abroad at lower prices than
they were offered at homo was not confined
to goods where a drawback was allowed on
the raw material. He prese ted a bill of
sale for a gross of knives to a foreign pur
chaser, in which the stipulation was printed
in red ink thut the goods shall not be sold in
the United States.
Messrs. Aldrich and Platt stepped over to
Mr. Carlisle’s desk and examined the bill < t
sale which he had produced, and then Mr.
Platt said the case was not made out until
It was shown that the same goods were Bold
at a higher price at home.
Mr. Carlisle said that if Mr. Platt would
deny tne fact he (Carlisle) would undertake
to furnish proof of it.
Mr. Carlisle produoed other evidence of
a similar character.
THE QUESTION OF LABOR.
The ciuestion of labor came into the de
bate. Tlie disc union took a general turn
and was par icipaied in cue side by
Messrs. Aldrich, Stewart, Krye.
Hiscock, Mitchell. Platt, Higgins, Hawley,
and Mlockbridge, and on the other side by
Messrs. I lari isle, liray and Vsst. Thu latter
< itod Messrs, mains, Krwliughuyeeu and
Kverbs as ttax-retsris* of Mtate in proof of
an awwtl m that labor ui Ainertoa was. in
viw of Its superiority, cheaper than in
other oonutrae, and whan Mr. Aid rich had
lepiisd Mr. Vsat declared that the senator
from Rhode Island was “rallied. 1 had lost
his usual ooolnoss ana was (foundering in
the debate.
A TRICE LIST TO POOL CONSUMERS.
Mr. Stock bridge made an explanation as
to the statement made by Mr. Vest on sev
eral occasions in regard to American agri
cultural implements being sold in C’entrul
and South America ut lev prices tban in
the United States. Theexplauation was that
the prices in an American advertising sheet
from which Mr. Vest had read were
prices that were intended to be seen by the
consumer, and from which a discount of 50
per cent, was allowed to the wnolesalo
dealer, whereas the price* in the Spanish
journal were the actual wholesale prices.
URAY THOUGHT IT REMARKABLE.
Mr. Gray commented upon the explana
tion as showing the remarkable fact that
the manufacturers of agricultural imple
ments oould afford to sell to a wholesale
dealer at 50 per cent below the price
which consumers had to pay and still make
a profit. [Remarks of "Oh, no I" from the
republican so ators.] So that plow, he said,
for which the consumer paid $lB, sold to
the wnolesalo dealer at $9, and it was pre
sumed that at that price the manufacturers
made a profit.
This discussion had all proceeded without
any amendments pending. Several wore
then offered on tho democratic side, and all
were defeated.
Having reached the paragraph as to lead
ore Mr. Vest suggested that ho desired to
discuss that question, aud that it was time
to stop for the day.
The Senate, after disposing of nine pages
of the bill, pioceeded to executive business
aud adjourned.
CONSULS AND THE TARIFF.
An Explanation ae to the Recent Con
ference at Paris.
Berlin, Aug. 22. —Tho Frankfort Ga
zette publishes an official statement from
the committee of United States consul
generals which recently held a meeting in
Paris, in which a denial is given to the re
port tiiat the Paris conference declared in
favor of modification or mild application of
the provisions of the McKinley bill. Tho
consular convention, the committee says,
had no authority aud no desire t > seek to
modify the law. and its only purpose was to
secure uniform interpretation of the meas
ure in order to guarantee lawful protection
for legitimate European trade with Amer
ica.
RUSSIA’S VISITORS.
Chancellor Von Cnprivl Makes tho
Day a Busy One.
Bt. Petersburg, Aug. 22.—The Gomen
toff maneuvers ended to-day. Tho entire
army, drawn up in order of battle, awaited
invaders and drove them back.
Chancellor von Caprivl to-day inspected
the Fortress if St. Peter, visited Gen. von
Schwartz, the German ambassador, ami
afterward called upon M. do Giers, with
whom ho had a conference. Later ho called
upon the English ambassador. This even
ing a banquet in his honor was given. The
lendiug diplomatic representatives were
present.
CHANGES AT BUENOS AYRBs.
Members of the Cabinet Resign in the
Interest of harmony.
Buenos Ayres, Aug. 23.—Benor Vicente
Fidel Lopez, minister of finance, and Leu,
Lavalle, minister of war, have resigned.
Tho cabinet obanges are due to a desire to
effects reconciliation and remove the diffi
culties of the financial situation. All the
officers implicated in the revolution will be
reinstated. It is rumored that all the troops
in tho city will be marched out and camped.
Gold is at 162.
Honor Oragana has been appointed gov
ernor of Cordoba.
CROPS IN ONTARIO.
The Yield of Wheat 67,000,000 Bush
els in Excess of Last Year.
Toronto, Ont., Aug. 22.—Tho Ontario
department of agriculture has issued u bul
letin whioh estimates that the yield of
wheat exceeds that of lost yenr by 157,000,000
bushels; that of peas by 2,500,000 bushels
and that of hay and clover by nearly
600,000 tons. The fruit crop generally is
a failure.
Bismarck Not Going to England.
Berlin, Aug. 22. —Prince Bismarck will
not visit England.
The Pott states that Emperor William
has written a letter of 3(5 pages to Emperor
Francis Joseph explaining the cause of the
dismissal of Prince Bismarck.
A Hurricane In fityrta.
VrENNA, Aug. 22. —The duchy of Styria
was destroyed by a hurricane yesterday.
At Gratis, the oapital of the duchy, the
building in which tLe national exhibition
was being held, was completely wrecked.
Brins Hay Crop Ruined.
London, Aug. 22.—The Irish hay crop is
ruined, and the condition of the cereals and
the turf is bad. One death is reported
from eating diseased potatoes.
Ezeta Accepts Mediation.
La Libert ad, Aug. 22. —President Ezeta
received, with due consideration, the media
tion of the diplomatic corps, and is willing
to abide by the terms of peaoe.
Frost In Manitoba.
Montreal, Aug. 22.—A dispatch says
frost has prevailed over the whole province
of Manitoba, and 75 per cent, of the crops
have been injured.
A Hungarian Town Burned.
Vienna, Aug. 22.—The town of Bzsny
near Oedenburg, Hungary, was destroyed
by fire to-day. Nine fives were lost.
TALLAHABBHE TOPICS.
Articles of Incorporation Filed by New
Enterprises.
Tallahassee, Fla., Aug. 22.—The De-
Laud Water Works Company has filed arti
cles of Incorporation with the secretary of
state. The oompany has a capital stock of
$25,000 and purposes putting iu a system of
water works for the purpose of supplying
the city of DcLund and surrounding coun
try with pure water. The incorporate! s
ore George W. Fisher, Bilas B. Wright aud
Isaac A. Stewart.
7 ha Florida supreme court has adjourned
until Oct, 15.
A NOVELTY WORKS.
The Enterprise novelty works and plan
ing mills, anew industry for Tallahassee,
stal led to work filling orders this weok.
G,urge K Whitu, the manager, I* now tu
! oorrrs|ioudeiiOa with a skilled workman,
1 and will warn begin the manufacture of
tubs, palls, barrel., etc
Gov, Fleming ha* mode the following ap
putatfueutsi Kind Frenkel, to be commie
Sinner f deed* for Florida la New Yoik:
A. L Venn, lust me of the paaoe, Madisofi
aouuty ; K. If. Hen Hi, notary public, Du
ral vuwly,
I DAILY,*!!) A YEVR. I
■< 5 CENTS A COPY. V
/ WEEKLY, Jl.Kj A YEAR \
WALL SIR KITS SQUEEZE
HEAVY SPECULATION HAS TIED
UP MILLIONS.
Government Bond Purchases Will
Help Out Realization on Stocks and
Commodities Necessary to Maka
Things Easy—Legitimate Business
Good Throughout the Country-
Failures Not Increased.
New York, Aug. 22. —The weekly re*
view of trade of R. G. Dun & Cos., issued to
day, says: “Tba signs of monetary dis
turbance which were noticed in the pre
vious review were not misleading. Money
loaned Thursday at one-half per cent per
day premium, or 180 per oeut. yearly, and
most of the loans were at a quarter pre
mium. Money for commercial loans was
scarce and rates nominal. Though tha
Bank of England lowered its rate from
5 to 4 per oent, and European markets w
easier, there was no relief for the immedi. j
demand here. At Philadelphia money wa :
tight, at Chicago in strong demand, at St.j
Louis unusually scarce at 7 to 8 per ceutt, ahi
New Orleans tightening, at Dor.ver and St.|
Paul In demand, aud at Milwaukee morai
active at 7 per cent., firm at Kausos City'
and rather tight at Detroit at 7 per cent*’
The treasury lias announced that it will re
deem $20,000,000 of 4>>j per cent, bonds and!
accelerate payments for silver bought, bufr
some persons doubt whether these measured!
will prove adequate.
THE only sure relief.
“The obvious and only sufficient relief is
liquidation of the money speculations in
stocks, in wheat, corn, oats, cotton, leather,
bides, coffee, wool and especially iu til vet*
bullion, which have locked up enormous
sums. In silver alone about $10,090,000 ha#
been locked up to wait for higher prices, its
grain several times us much, and iu other
products many millions, while the condi
tion of the market for securities was indi
cated by a fall averaging about $2 per
share iu a single day on active stocks when
money became tight. In addition enor
mous imports, intended to anticipate tin*
pending tariff 1411, have virtually L cked up
for an indefinite time many millions paid
for good aud in duties on them.
LKGKTIMATK BUSINESS LARGE.
“The volume of legitimate business
throughout the country conti uues large,
exceeding that of last year by 10 tier cent,
outside of New York, aud the desire to
mat kt products quickly as prices risq
causes a greater demand for currency front
the country than usual.
“Durlug the past week the irearury has
paid out only $61,000 more than it ha#
taken In, but the new order will put several
millions into circulation very quickly, and
provide an adequate supply for the time If!
speculations are checked.
“Thu Iren industry still shows a strong
demand for fl islied products, with soma
stiffening iu pricei, but tho supply of pig
iron is so large that prices arc shaded in tha
urgency to sell.
WOOL DULL AND LOWER.
“The market for wo and is dull and prior*
lowor, the supply of foreign goods offered
being very iargo.
“Reports from other cities, with very few*
exceptions, indicate that a larger trade than
ever before is iu progress, with satisfactory
collections and a bright outlook.
“Crop reports arc less discouraging,
though the yield must fall below early an
ticipations as to grain.
"Philadelphia notes large business iq
leather and boots and shoes, with less com
plaint of collections.
“in general the condition of business ia
encouraging, unless the monetary pressure
or labor controversies interfere. The threal)
of a great strike on the Vanderbilt road*
has helped to depross stocks aud to disturb
shipments.
“The business failures number for tha
United States 172 and for Canda 20, a total
of 192, against 197 lust week."
BAB ASSOCIATION OFFICERS.
CoL Mercer of This City One of tha
Vice Presidents.
Saratoga, Aug. 23.—At the American
Bar Association meeting to-day officer*
were elected as follows:
President—Simon E. Baldwin of NevV
Haven.
Secretary—Edward Otis Hinckley o|
Baltimore.
Treasurer—Francis Rawle of Phila
delphia.
Executive Committee —1 he president*
secretary and treasurer, and Henry Hitch*
cook, George A. Mercer of Georgia, VVIII4
mm P. Wells of Michigan and Alfred Hem*
ingway of Massachusetts.
A vice president for each state and local
counsel for the states were also elect od.
OAROLINA’B RICE CROP.
An Early Harvest and Unprecedented
Yield Promised.
Charleston, S. C., Aug. 32.—Nows ha*
been received hero from Georgetown of tbe
almost unprecedented good oondition of th*
rice crop in the upper Ft dee section. One
planter, R. E. Frazer, commenced harvest**
irig on Friday last a 70-acre field. Tha
writer of the letter, an experienced planter,
says he has no recollection of any rice eved
being out iu that section so early as tins.
He thinks that harvesting will generally
commence on or before Aug. 25. The new*
from the rice fields lower down tha
coast is equally cheering. Everything
point* to an unprecedented rice crop la
Bouth Carolina.
ALLIANCEMBN OF TEXAS.
A Number of Recommendations by
the State Convention.
New Orleans, Aug. 22.—A special ta
the Picayune from Dallas, Tex., says!
“Bevei al resolutions were adopted by the
state alliance convention to-day, viz., on*
to indorse the sub-treasury bill, oue in
dorsing tho state papers, favoring tbe Hogg
faction during the recent campaign, one
directing the penitentiaries of the state
to employ convicts inside their wall*
at cotton bagging manufacture and on*
instructing tho sub-alliances to purge them
selves of all ineligible members.
A Teller Ruined by Speculation.
Nashville, Aug. 32.— Frank M. Allen,
teller of the Capital City Bank, is short in
hie acoounti to tbe amouut of $49,000 o*
$45,009. Allen l as be- n sj*culatlng in Rock
IsUuil stock with tile hank’s fnmls, and tha
(all of the stock at New York Thursday
caused him make a confession of hi*
shortage to W. A. Benson, vice | resident of
the bank. ___
Wllkrebarro* Cyclone Victims.
Wn.kiuiiAKKX. Pa.. Aug. 23.-Jacob
Hanged and Frank < Menu, who were iu*
jured dating the recent heavy wind* Lera,
and. ii to-day, making twelve death* so far.
Mrs. Barrett and James Long are la a oru*
c*i ootwUUou.