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| J. H. ESTILL, PreaideEt. \
STEWART OUT OF LINE.
HE BOLTS HIS PARTY ON THE
FORCE BILL.
He Points Out That the Employment
of Force Means the Extermination of
Either the Whites or the Blacks-The
Opposition to the Force Bill of 1875
Recalled.
Washington, Dec. 19. —The election bill
was taken up in the Senate this afternoon,
and Mr. Bate concluded bis speech against
it. He declared that its effect would be the
organizing of mobs by, ths government
itself, and the leading of- them by govern
ment officers. As th* alieu and sedition
lung had pulled down the older Adams,
this force bill, ho predicted, would pull
down the younger Harrison.
Mr. Gibaou opposed the bill as unseasona
ble, as belonging to another epoch, and as
not in keeping with the temper of the times.
It comes like an arctic iceberg into a tem
perate sea, but He believed that the senti
ment of kindliness and brotherhood which
pervaded the Senate and country at largo
would cause it to dissolve and disappear. It
was the most intensely partisan measure
that was ever before the Senate and ought
to be entitled, “A bill to vest the supervis
ion and control of elections in the Republi
can party and to vest i;i that party perma
nent organization of thy House of Repre
sentatives.”
At the close of Mr. Ginson’s speech the
Vioe President announced the question to
be on Mr. Gray’s amendment to strike out
the house-to-house provision, and asked
■whether the Senate was ready for the ques
tion.
Mr. Gray withdrew' the amendment, leav
ing the question to be on Mr. Butler’s
amendment declaring election supervisors,
deputy marshals, etc., executive, not judi
cial officers.
APPOINTMENT OP CANVASSERS.
Mr. Faulkner offered an amendment, of
which he had given notice the other day,
being a substitute for section 14, as to the
appointment of three election canvassers for
the state upon application therefor. He
had the floor to speak upon it, but yielded
to Mr. Stewart, who made an argument
against the bill on the ground that an
attempt to execute it in the south would be
disastrous to lioth races. He believed that
the safeguards thrown around the elective
franchise in the great cities of the north
had been on the whole beneiicial; but a
different problem was presented in the
south. He was a friend of the colored
man and deeply sympathized with him,
but he could not ask him to put his life in
jeopardy in order to fight a political battle
for his (Mr. Stewart’s) advantage. He was
equally friendly to the white man, and de
sired to refrain from any act whioh might
seem to justify him (the white man) in
making war upon the defenseless race which
congress had enfranchised.
won’t be driven.
Whatever was done in the matter of pro
tecting suffrage at the south, unless it was
done through the voluntary action of the
pe pie of that section, would havejto result
in oueor two things;if the negro were pro
tected by force, the same force would in
evitably be driven to the necessity of de
strovmi his enemy. That involved the
enslavement and final extermination of the
white-'. There was nothing more certain
than that. The employment of force would
result ultimately in the extermination
either of the blacks or of the whites.
RECONSTRUCTION LEGISLATION.
H* reviewed the re construotion legisla
tion, in which he had himself been a promi
nent uctor in the Senate, pointed out the
stringent provisions by which the protec
tion of the negro voter was supposed to
have been all-sufficient, and quoted argu
ments made by leading republicans in both
houses against a suspension of habeas
corpus, and against allowing the military
power of the United States to be exercised
in the south during the presidency of Gun.
Grant. And he asked how, if Gen. Grant
had been unable to protect the colored men
in their right of suffrage, any other Presi
dent could do better? If military power
was to be U9ed in the execution of the pend
ing bill, then the bill should be defeated;
|* n d. if it was to be a dead letter, why pass
PUBLIC OPINION AGAINS IT.
Public opinion at the south was entirely
against it. Instead of protecting the col
ored man it would bring upon him persecu
tion and misery, if not death. No assuiup
tieu of party necessity could justify
sucj an act. It was the plain duty
of the Senate, he held, to trust to natural
causes, in the hope that they would remedy
the evil. The bill ought not to pass be
cause it would never be enforced; because
it would consolidate the southern whites;
because it would bring further misery upon
tUe southern blacks, and because it would
increase sectional animosities and kindle
anew the discords of the past.
THE FORCE BILL, OF 1875.
Mr. Stewart Rave a brief account of the
supervisor’s election law. and of the act for
suspension of the writ of habeas corpus,
ae recalled the speeches in opposition to
the force bill of 1875 made by Senators
weorge P. Hoar and J. K. Kawley, then
representatives in the House. Among
Kin s B.. tben Vo ’ in ß again-1 the force
mil M r . Stewart recalled Messrs. Foster,
'arfleld, William Walter Phelps, Kasson
ud Kellogg. >lr. Hawley, he said, was
ery strenuous in his opposition, declaring
in^u tilere cou * ( ’ be no genuine protection
p , 6 ®°uth under legislative enactment,
to Mr. Hoar’s speech of the last
wsion, m which he stated that no
■unitary force would be used in
„“ e execution of the bill under
nsuieration, Mr. Stewart said that if this
. f*’ w . of the case be correct, the pending
, sa 9 u “l be defeated. If the law was to
a dead letter upon the statute books,
hy enact iti What good would it effect?
couldn’t be enforced.
” ? ou *and no more be enforced by thecourts
u juries than the laws already upon the
atute books oould be, which, If they could
enforced, would be ample for the sup-
Kession of all the frauds complained of.
l, ? ( ‘”eet of the bill, in his obinion, would
to cause even snll bitterer race hatred.
, su Sested that the poti Honors required
wr, 11 11 wou W become marked men, as
D aiso the supervisors, and from the re
alioi l be investigating committees, and
.‘. knowledge obtained during the past
twenty y earF- it W(Ui „Lat
di lr fH ’ e would be. Unless congress was
posed to proceed to the remedy under
r constitution (that of denying represon
,, ,n on account of exclusion from, or
th,. 8C , ’° ’be exercise of the franchise),
‘ only remedy that existed was in the
r 9° r “ Bnt of the laws already on the
books, and m the assurance that no
it*!T Ur * fruul ’be outside would U exer-
Kiumry or the *outil
lr.! 1 , . ll " > u -*iue..t, the soiel eouth was
11 41,1<f il by jeaeon <>f ita leaders’ use of
y ‘ r ? ’bat it wm intended on the pert of
i n , . Who controlled the gouaret govern
•a to interfere with their li oal affattf.
.ucb a err wee effect
'Us. *" bo without lotiudouoa,
Tis . , ,iIW not any longer Oe kept sdid
inn ,^i ivuiU horfy t*-ere would divide
■ K tad already boguj W die-
jpje iUnrning ffrto#.
integrate. That disintegration must neces
sarily bring about protection to the negro
vote. The organization now irreeistible in
some states in suppressing that vote would
be among the earliest to bid for its power
when they found it necessary for their own
existence. The colored man needed
education. The white man down south
needed the same. If an oligarchy existed
in any of those states, it was the duty of
the United states government to suppress
it. Under the constitution, the gecorai
government was required to maintan re
publican forms of government i<i each of
the states of the union. If such a state of
things did not exist, then force could not
be justified.
PUBLIC SENTIMENT RULES.
This country was governed by public
sentiment. Public sentiment would not
tolerate such a state of affairs. The gen
eral opinion of the land was in favor of
giving all iegal opportunities to the colored
man. In the north that opinion was grow
ing keener and more active. Such public
opinion w ould be more potent es time w ent
on. If the Senate passed the bill,
it should be executed. If the Sen
ate did not intend to enforce it,
ho asked the Senate in the name of
humanity not to pass it. If it were passed,
the white man would be still further con
solidated , and the trained power aud or
ganization of the late confederate states
would be brought to insure the destruction
of the colored race in the south. The
colored man was yearly improving. He
could not be removed from this
country. No one compared him, in
mental capacity as a race, with the
white man in whose midst he lived. But it
was the glory of the white race that injust
ice could not long exist in its midst. Thie
was an age of justice and.the death of priv
ilege. There was no room for slaves and no
room for caste. The white people of the
south must be taught to see that it was the
only way iu which the colored voter could
finally be protected. •
GIVEN CLOSE ATTENTION.
The fact that this was the first open oppo
sition to the bill ou the part of the republi
can senators caused the closest attention to
be paid to Mr. Stewart’s speech on both
sides. Republican and democratic senators
were in about equal number (about thirty
on each side) and all turned toward Mr.
Stewart, and appeared to be most interested
listeners.
At the close of the speech Mr. Hoar rose
and said he would not uow reply to it; but
he wished to have put upon the record the
provisions of the force bill to which refer
ence had been made, and which had pissed
the House iu 1875. He had its pro
visions read for the purpose of
justifying the opposition made to it by him
self and other republicans, and to show that
there was no inconsistency in their opposi
tion to that measure and in their support
of the pending measure.
WOULD HAVE TO USE BAYONETS.
Mr. Stewart repeated that he opposed the
pending bill because it proposed to do a
thing which could not be done without
force. The Senate could not attempt to de
ceive the country. The country should be
informed of what was necessary to enferce
the bill, and it should be called upon to sus
tain it. Ua-Atik-Jiot wish to enter upon
such a campain aa was entered upon
fifteen years ago, and again to meet
with defeat as on that occasion, when the
bill had to be dropped. If the time had
come when the republican party was willing
to pass the bill and to put the necessary
force behind it, and if that was the will of
the republican party, he would go with it,
but he did not believe that the time had ar
rived. and believing that the bill would be a
failure he regretted separating from his
party.
A GOOD PARTY MAN.
He believed that he had been a good
party man: but as he thought that the
pending measure was going to lead to bad
results, and that it could not succeed, he
deemed it his duty to express his opinion
honestly and frankly, as he had done to
day. [Much applause fn the galleries.]
GRAY’S AMENDMENTS.
During the day Mr. Gray introduced a
number of amendments to the bill, the effect
of which are in brief: To strike out the pro
vision fjr a permanent annual appropria
tion for the compensation of supervisors,
and to deprive thess officers of power to in
terfere with the returns and to separate
them entirely from the election machinery
after election day.
The discussion was then taken up oo Mr.
Faulkner’s amendment and was partici
pated in by many senators. No vote was
aken.
Mr. Dawes, by request, introduced a bill
to prohibit the opening on Sunday of any
exhibition or exposition where approoria
tions of the United States are expended.
The Senate then adjourned.
SESSION OF THE HOUSE.
The Conference Report on the Balti
more and Potomac Bill Agreed To.
Washington, Dec. 19.—1n the House to
day the conference report on the bill con
ferring powers on the Baltimore and Poto
mac Railroad Company in tbe District of
Columbia, known aa the Atkinson bill, was
presented aud agreed to, but not without a
good deal of opposition. The
conference report on the bill
amending the act for division
of a portion of the Sleur Indians in Dakota
into smaller reservations was presented.
The only change made is an authorization
for the expenditure of an appropriation of
SIOO,OOO made for the purchase of beef and
other rations.
Mr. Enloe, in the interest ot private bills,
raised the question of consideration. The
House determined, by a vote of 111 yeas to
73 nays, to consider the conference report.
After some debate it was agreed to and the
House adjourned.
OLOTUBE SKIRMISHING.
Aldrich Induces Ingalls to Attend a
Committee Meeting.
Washington, Dec. 19.— Senator Aldrich
has induced Senator Ingalls to attend a
meeting of the committee on rules to
morrow, to make a quorum. Senator Ingalls
told Senator Aldrich that lie was opposed
to the cloturo rule and would vote against
the rule on tho fl tor, but he agreed to attend
tbe committee meetings, that it fluid be
reported. Senator Aldrich tried to have a
committee meeting to-day, bu: only him
self, Senator Sherman and Senator Harris
of Tenneisee attended. Seimt ir Aldrich
itiovoii that the absentees, Honators Ingalls
and Blackburn, be paired, but Hina tor
Harris objecting Senator Aldrich bad to
use hM diplomacy on Senator Ingalls.
SLIM SHOW FOft SUBSIDISE?.
Tbe Democrat* Will Leave the Bouse
V. it Lout a Quorum.
WjtKHIkQTON, Dec. 19. —Representative
Blount mud to-night that be should insist on
a quorum for tee vote ou tbeeubeidy oill to
morrow, and that tbe opponents of tbe bill
would go out of the House. He did not
thlr k that tbe vubtidy men could muster e
qu -rum ot their own, end *w ne expected ’<>
gee the Mil fatally postponed. In addition
to the ordluary auU-suhesiy lighting the
spprvUeulions of tf>* rep'ibipaes that tte
surplus would uot euuwst *he psesioz
drain* (ells ugaiust tie* mrimtdf IrtU.
SAVANNAH, GA., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1890.
CLOTURE’S CHANCES SLIM
THE REPUBLICANS EVEN SPLIT ON
THE FINANCIAL BILL.
It Will Not Have the Support of Any
Member of the Committee When It
Comes Before the Senate—Only One
Way in Which It Can be Passed.
Washington, Dec. 19.—The situation in
the Senate is practically just about what it
was yesterday, Mr. Sherman, who is anx
ious to have the new financial bill bear his
name, succeeded, after several ineffectual
attempts, in getting a quorum of the finance
committee and in securing an order to re
port the bill. It will not come before
the Senate, however, with the sup
port of any member of the
finance committee. Mr. Aldrich, true to
his word of yesterday, refused to even at
tend a meeting of the finance committee to
day. He is opposed to all the features of
the bill except these for the relief of the
national tanks Messrs. Morrill and Gher
man want lt amended so as to provide for
the issue of two per cent, bonds. Air. His
cock announced in committee that be was
opposed t> Mr. Gherman’s fiat money pro
vision.
Air. Jones of Novada, like the other silver
senators, prepared a free coinage substitute,
and all the democratic members of the com
mittee are iu opposition to the bill on one
point or another.
ONLY ONE WAY TO PASS IT.
Consequently the reporting of the bill
indicates nothing favorable to it. If it is
to be passed the republicans must get to
gether and ratify the agreement which Air.
Aldrich says they made in the caucus of
Wednesday night. This would bo more
difficult to bring about, now that tbe mem
bers of the finance committee have spoken
out frankly their objections to the bill, than
it would have been if tbe bill had been loft
in the finance committee. The bill really
bas no frieud to support it just as it is,
and when the senators begin to talk
amendments free coinage rises right
up in the path. Unless tho necessities of
the situation compel the republicans to
hold another caucus and that caucus de
vises some moans t r binding all the republi
can seuators to stand by the caucus action,
whatever it is, there will be no financial
legislation, unless it be a free coinage
measure passed by a coalition of the silver
republicans and the democrats.
WOULD BE SMOTHERED BY REED.
Such a bill, if passed by the Senate, would
be smothered by Speaker Reed, so that
failure to agree on some compromise prop
osition like that reported by the finance
committee means practically no new finan
cial law; nor is there any observable change
with regard to either the force bill or the
cloture rule, except that some of the north
western senators, who think that the Senate
should talk less and legislate more, are tie
ginning to get weary of the force bill de
bate, and even when they do not favor the
force bill, begin to talk of the advantages
of the previous question. But as they want
ho make it a permanent feature of the Sen
ate rules, and others, who favor a cloture
rule, insist that it shall be temporary iu its
application, an agreement which will carry
cloture through seems as far off es
ever, especially as the senator who shall
play the part of Reed iu driving forcibly
the new rule through the Gonate has not
appeared.
INGALLS GOING HOME.
Senator Ingalls, who is the one man to
conduct such a revolution in the same style
as Speaker Reed, leaves for Kansas Sunday
morning to find out who is to be his suc
cessor. Until the previous question is in
troduced in some form in the Gennto the
passage of the force bill is out of the ques
tion, so that Mr. Hoar’s assurances that the
blit is in a better position than ever, and
that its jiassage is assured, must tie
taken for what they are worth. Unless the
republicans can reconcile their differences
tliere is nothing before them but discussion
and defeat. Tbe finance bill being before
the Senate, it is now possible for any senator
of either side to move to lay aside the force
hill aud take it up instead, ibis would
percipitate the fight over the real issue now
before the Senate, which is the silver ques
tion, aud on that the silver republicans, with
the democrats, have a majority.
SENATE ROUTINE.
banford Speakß on His Elll to Supply
More Money.
Washington, Dec. 19.—Mr. Stanford ad
dressed the Senate this morning in explana
tion and advocacy of the bill introduced by
him on Dec. sto provide tho government
with means sufficient to supply the national
want of a sound circulating medium. At
the conclusion of his remarks the bill, on
hia motion, was referred to the committee
on finance.
The bill was passed, with an amendment
ncreanng the amount.
Air. Gray offered a preamble and resolu
tion looking to the establishment of reci
procity between the United States, the Do
minion of Canada and Mexico, and asked
that it lie upon the table, stating that at a
convenient time he would move to take it
up.
Mr. Ingalls introduced a bill, which was
referred to the flnanoe committee, to allow
exchange of interest-bearing debts for
legal tender notes. The Senate then took
up and passed, with amendments, the
printing deficiency hill.
TARIFF BILL AMENDMENTS.
The Republicans Afraid to Open the
Way for Offering Them.
Washington, Dee. 19. —Senator Gher
man and Representative McKinley want to
carry out the recommendation in the I’resi
dent’s message of amendment to the McKin
ley act maintaining the status of the
Hawaiian reciprocity treaty, but they
feared that if the proposed amendment was
brought forth that the democrats would
propose other and very inconvenient tariff
amendments. They have been sounding
the democratic leaden in both houses on the
subject, and find their fears well grounded.
After a final tilk with Senator
Carlisle this afternson, iu which they were
told again that the democrats would not re
frain from pr iooirng suitable amendments,
they announced that the Hawai.au amend
ment would he withheld. This is a very
good illustration of the uuper sensitive ias
of the republican ma-ageri iu regard to
amendments to tbe McKinley act. I hey
feel that if once it were amende! t ie pre
en* of amending would go on until it wore
unrecognizable.
ilia NKOK BHOK iK BY HEMP.
Hia Victim's Wife Granted a Respite
by tbo Oovarnor.
Montgomery. Ala., Dec. 19. --Htephney
Ford, a negro, was banged at Heals station,
Russell oouety, Ala., to-dey, forooiupheity
in tlio murder of Goiumbus Pttteitoo. His
neck was broken. The victim’s wife ws,
ounces-ned with the condemned man In the j
uilssUAl of bar lisstnisl, and was to have j
Lsu b#ng*d with hiu* i *- ley, but the gov
ernor reprieved her until Jsa Iff-
BHEaMAN‘B FINANCIAL BILL
The Senate Committee Agrees to
Report It.
Washington, Dec. 19 —Ths financial
committee of the Seaate agreed to report
the financial bill introduced yesterday by
Senator Sherman. The only amendments
made in committee are said to be in the
phraseology.
’The chairmen of the finance committee.
Senator Morrill, was opposed to some of
the propositions contained in the bill, and
with Senator Sherman reserved the rigut tt>
vote for the restoration of the two per
cent, bond clause when the bill U considered
in the Senate.
OTHER NOTICES GIVEN.
Senator Hiscock reserved the right to
vote against that part of the proposition
relative to supplying the deficiency in the
circulation of national banks which pro
poses to authorize the issue of original
treasury notes therefor if silver bullion
eanaot lie purchased.
Senator Aldrich reserved the right to ad
vocate the retention of the bond clauso and
also, like Senator Hiarhsk, to oppose u
proposition to issue treasury notes to make
good the deficiency in the national b.tnk
circulation. As for the democratic mem
here of the committee, they reserved the
right to oppose the whole bill, inas
much as they had had no proper
opportunity to examine it, but consented
to the report of the measure, so that no
yea and nay vote was necessary. The ab
sentees at the meeting were Senators Al
drich and Jones of Nevada. It is the pur
pose of the committee to report the bill at
the earliest moment practicable, and Sena
tor Sherman has been charged with that
duty.
MONEY FOB WARSHIPS.
The House Committee Completes the
Naval Bill.
Washington, Deo. 19.—The naval ap
propriation bill was completed to-day by
the House committee on lflival affairs aud
will be reported to the House to-morrow or
Monday. Only one new ship is provided
for. This is to be a triple screw, protected
cruiser, like what is known to naval offlcurs
as cruiser No. 12. It is to be of 7,250 tons
displacement without armament, and the
limit of cost is fixed at $2,750,000. The bill
carries u total appropriation of about
$00,500,000, twine about $8,000,000 less than
the estimates and considerably more than
the bill of last year.
WHERE THE INCREASE SALLS.
This increase fails almost entirely under
the head of “increase in the naval establish
ment,” and is to meet payments on vessels
whose construction was authorized in one
or other of the several previous congresses.
Under the bead of Increase in
the nayy $4,000,000 is appro
priated toward the armament and equip
ment of vessels heretofore authorized to
be built, being $1,500,000 more than the ap
propriation for the same purpose for tbs
ourrent fiscal year, and $11,007,000
priated toward tbs construction and com
pletion of pew vessels heretofore and herein'
authorized by congress, with their engines
and machsnery, including premiums, being
$0,182,000 more than the current year ap
propriation. •
DUDLEY’S BANQUET.
Harrison’s Ingratitude the Theme of
the Speeches.
Washington, Dec. 19.—C01. W. W. Dud
ley’s banquet last night, in honor of ex-
Attoruey General Miche.ier of Indiana,
gavo vent to all the discontent of the former
friends of Harrison who were present, and
this in the very presenoe of a number of
President Harrison’s subordinates, including
the superintendent of the census, toe com
missioner of internal revenue, and the
Assistant Secretary of t he Interior, an Assist
ant At tcrnoy General, and others equally
prominent. CoL Clarkson and other friends
of Col. Dudley, who are no longer friends
of President Harrison, in the after dinner
sneaking dwelt upon the ingratitude of
Presideut Harrisou, primarily to Col.
Dudley, but inferentially to themselves. In
a bitter strain. Col. Clarkson’s apostrophe
to Col. Dudley was the most eloquent of all.
He praised him as “one of the greatest
political organizers in the country,” whose
services had been “in valuable to his party,”
aud then praised "bis sileuce and bravery
under ingratitude, insults and injuries.”
The whole tone of the after dinner talk,
so far as it bos gotten out, was hostile to
President Harrison, and the presence of so
many of President Harrison’s officeholders
is the only thing which discredit* the report
that the* gathering resolved itself into a
caucus bent on defeating President Harri
son's nomination.
Karrieon and the Fair.
Washington, Dee. 19.—President Har
rison has gotten the Chicago World’s Fair
representatives into a state of great anxiety
by refusing to issue the proclamation and
invitation to foreign nations until they sat
isfy him that toe $5,000,000 of popular sub
scriotiou will be paid ia full. So far he has
declined to accept affidavits as proof.
DEATH IN THE DRIFTB.
School Children Perish la the Snow
in West Virginia.
Point Pleasant, W. Va., Dec. 19.—A
tow-boat has gotten through to this point
from Coal City, six miles up the Big Kana
wha river. Its officers tell tales of a great
snowfall all along the upper river and into
the Elk and Coal river valleys. The West
Virginia branch of the Ohio Central rail
road has abandoned all trains and the Ches
apeake and Ohio road is in nearly as bad
condition. Every telephone wire in the
valley is down, and not a telegraph wire is
working.
At St. Albans the roofs of three houses
were crushed in and four people were badly
hurt.
At Buffalo a child perished in the snow
while on the way from school.
Five children are reported lost and ponsi
bly dead by this time, on Thirteen Mile
creek.
More than 100 families, mostly miners,
ore snowed jn near Roncevorte end thtir
situation is dangerous.
POISONS!) BY A NEGREBB.
A Family of Seven Given Bough on
Pats.
W HKKI.ISO, W. Va., Dec. 19.—A special
from Clarksburg, W. Va., says; “The
family of Charles A. Bond, consisting of
himsrlf, his wife aud five children, are all
ext acted o die before morning from the
effects of r ugh on rats. administered by a
young colored girl employed as a domestic
in the family. The girl has been arrested
and has cwi fatted, saying she mixed the
poison with r ,ffe this morning, but refuses
to assign a reason tor the crime.”
American Health Association.
CiiAai.iriON, ti. C„ Dec. 19. -The Amer.-
oaa Health n. *hien hat been in
isseioa here during the last three days, ad
j uroed this m ruiug. The next meeting
meeting wilt he Mi at KaesuCity, tin..
nest December, on a date to lie fixed by the
• locality eammiMwe,
PARNELL’SINJURED EYES
A CLAIM THAT MJD INSTEAD OF
LIME WAS THROWN.
Tue McCarthyite* Say the Parnellttes
Sprung the Story to Arouse Sym
pathy-Hia Physicians Alleged to
Claim That It Was Lime—A Denial by
Archbishop Walsi.
Dublin, Dro. 19. — The Freeman'* Jour
nal to-day says: “Mr. Parnell will csirry
Kilkenny in the coning parliamentary
election if the priests hold aloof in the con
test. Their conduct has jeopardized the
election. We kuow that home rule without
Mr. Parnell ia impossible. No British
statesman would submit to Ireland's in
ferior strength. Mr. Parnell can restore
tbe financial situation between Ireland and
America.”
Canon Cody assorts that it was mud that
was thrown in Mr. Parnell’s face and eyes
aud not lime, as is said by hia supporters.
An addrrs? signed by twenty-three
women of Kilkenny has been published. It
declares that Mr. I‘smell, after years of
systematic deceit, has at last been un
masked, and that his very presence pol
lutes tte soil.
REDMOND SAYS IT WAS LIMB.
Mr. Parnell and his colleagues drove to
Johnstown to-day. Mr. Parnell still wears
bandages over his eyes. Mr. Redmond,
alluding to the denials that lime was thrown
Into Mr. Parnell's eyes, declared that two
doctors staked their reputation on the fact
that it was lime they found In his eyes.
Tte Grsnard board of poor law guardians
has adopted a resolution advising Mr.
Parnell to retire temporarily.
The At'donecommission ban voted against
Mr. Parnell.
A FIGHT NARROWLY AVERTED.
During the meeting a fight between the
opposing forces was at ono time imminent,
but tho police intervened and kept the two
factions apart while tbo speeches were
being delivered. Mr. Parnell, in thanking
his supporters for the enthusiastic reception
they lisd given him, pointed la self vlndicu*
tion to tho action of Canon Lee of Bray,"
“who,” said Mr. Parnell, “at the meetiug
of the chapter of the Catholic diocese of
Dublin testified thnt he believed ms to be
an honorable man. He knnwa me thor
oughly, and I thank him. This testimony
in the"hour of my trial will be all powerful
in silencing false clamor against me." Mr.
ParneL's s eeeh t -day was much longer
than the one he delivered yesterday. Dur
ing ills remarks he referred to Mr. Hea
neasy as a mongrel upstart. Messrs. Bk in
ner, Scully and other; also made speeches.
CANON LEE’S DENIAL.
Canon Lee, dean of tho Dublin chapter,
writes denying that the chapter met in
Dublin, an asserted by Mr. Parnell, and
adds: “In order that there may be no mis
take about my personal opinion I will any
th at I am convinced that Ireland should act
in accordance With the hierarchy manifesto.
Mr. Parnell's character os revealed lu tbe
divorce court speak* for itself, and since ttie
verdict be lias given further abundant proof
of his unfitness for the leadership of the
Irish party.” Canon Lee proceeds at much
length to state his opinion that in view of
the excited state of the publio feeling, mis
led ns it has been by the Frewmau'x Journal
and other papers, it is inexpedient for tho
clergy to mix themselves up with violent
meetings.
IN ACCORD WITH THE ARCHBISHOP.
“This opinion,” he says, “which I am
happy to know is identical with that of
Archbishop Walsh, I gave when the aroh
bishop asked me at a recant meeting of the
Dublin clergy, hut I am no less clearly of
the opinien. aud 1 express myself to that
effect, that the clergy, as responsible ad
visors of the people,have a most serious duty
to discharge -namely, on every suitable
occasion to imprest uoou the people and
especially upon tbe leaders of public affairs,
that, on abundant grounds, despite his many
previous service*, we find ourselves with
regrot forced to the conclusion that we
must regard Mr. l’arnell as a fallen leader
of the people’s confidence, 1 earnestly hope
that tbe progress of events will not compel
us to adopt an attitude of more aetivo in
tervention.”
The Freeman’s Journal refused to print
the foregoing letter.
READY FOR CHILTKRN HUNDREDS.
Mr. Molloy, member of parliament tor
the Birr division, King’s county, lias gone to
South Africa. But before his departure he
left his application for the Chiltern Hun
dred* with Mi’. McCarthy for use
if necessary. The InsuiipreitsUtlo pub
lishes a four-columu list of names
of MeOarthyitos, th 9 names of the
members of the McCarthyite committee
filling the first column. The list includes
the names of prominent Dublin clergymen
and leading men of the professional and
business classes throughout Ireland.
A CORRESPONDENT SAYS IT WAS LIME.
London, Dec. 20, 3 a. m.—The Kilkenny
correspondent of the Teleijraph declares
that he tasted a portion of the contents of
tbe bags which were thrown at Mr. Darnell
and hiu friends, and found that the sub
stanoe v.as gritty and acrid and had doubt
less been collected from tbe small lime kilns
situated about Castle Comer.
In consequence of My. Parnell’s speeches,
the queen’s proctor is reviewing all the
documents submitted In evidence in the
O’Ghea divoroo case.
Tho Chronicle asks (decretory Balfour
while he is in Dublin to inquire into Father
Conway’s statement regarding tho starving
condition of the people in Carrarco, county
Galway. It appeals to the English publfc
in tbe meantime to show prompt compas
sion for the famished and shivering children
of that district.
DAVITT DENIES THAT LIME WAS THROWN.
London, Dec. 19.—A dispatch from
Michael Davitt states that the injuries sus
tained by Mr. Parnell at Castle Comer were
inflicted by women and girls, who pelted
him with flour aud mud. The story that
lirne was thrown in his face and eyes, the
dispatch says, is Mr. Parnell's latest disgust
ing dodge to evoke sympathy and divert
the people’s mind from ths reed issue.
ARCHBISHOP WALSH AROUSED.
Most Rev. William J. Waish, Archblshep
of Dublin, ha* telegraphed to tbe London
papers that tho account of the meeting of
the chapter of Dublin published yesterday
by tbe United Ireland is a shameful fabri
cation. The dean of the chapter has also
written u letter contra-luffing the statement
made in the pubhuation regarding the ac
tion of the "chapter. The article which
drew forth those denials declared that the
chapter had adopted a resolution urging
the eccieei istical authorities to aim: am from
taking any action on the Paraeli matter,
os there was wide divergence of opinion
among the Catholic laity lu regard to the
question.
SEXTON EXPRESSES SYMPATHY.
Kilkenny, Dec. 19.—Mr. McCarthy ad
dressed a meeting In this city to-dar. Ha
declared that Mr. V.oonet J would cer
tainly be elected, and that the ottly ques
tion waa os to the extent of hie majority.
Mr. Hex ten also made so address. lie said
that ae deeply regretted the violence duos
to Mr. Parnell, and that whatever take pm
,-qt feeling toward Mr. Parnell might hr,
bu grstitbds for bte past services to Ire
land was uat'ba' geaUic.
CONFIDENCE OF NEW YORKERS.
New York, Dec. 19. — Two hundred
Irish Americana attended tbe meeting in
Cooper Union to-night called by tiiemunici
pal council of the Irish National Leaguo to
indorse Mr. Parnell as the leader > f the
Irish party. These resolutions were unani
mously adopted aud ordered to be cabled to
Mr. Parnell:
Retoli rd. That we ere unaware of any cause
for want of confidence in Mr. Parnell which did
not exist and was not known to the natioual
meeting In hall. Dublin, at which reso
lutions of confidence in him were iinnoimoutly
adopted, oral a meeting of tbe parliamentary
party at Loudon, at which he wan unanimously
re-elected.
Re tolled. That in our opinion an Independent
parliamentary party an conceived, created and
■od I,y i lixrles ,ste.\art Paruell, ti the only con
stitutional ni, aus by which home rule can be
obtained; ami,
/feso/eed, That bavtuz Implicit confidence in
the ability, matesmsnshlo and devotion of
Charles Stewart Parnell, we pledge to him our
support to the end.
FRANCB AND THE FIdHBBIBa.
Tho Subject Brought Up fn tho Cham
bur of Deputies.
Paris, Doc. 19. —While the members of
the Genato were discussing the foreign esti
mates to-day, Admiral Vernon asked if any
treaty with Great Britain regarding the
Newfoundland fisheries had been concluded,
and insisted that the draff of any such
treaty should lie submitted to the Chamber
of Deputies for approval. He added that
ho thought tiie sett lement that Great Britain
proposed was acceptable.
M. Ribot, minister of foreign affairs, de
clined to enter into the details nf the pro
posals submitted. He said: “We will not
agree to the principle of utooev indemnity.
We do not wish that thore shall he any in
terference with our internal legislation. We
are awaiting fresh proposals.”
CAURIBD DOWN BY A WHARF.
Five Men Lose Their Liven in a Big
Pile of Coal.
Halifax, N. 8., Dee. 19.—At Conard’s
south wharf, formerly known as Mooney's
wharf, at 10 o’clock to-.light eight men were
in a large shed w rking on top of u heap of
coal, trimming it as a cargo of coal was
unloaded front a steams •, when a large
section of tbe wharf beneath the
ooal caved in. Bo far ae
known three of the mon suoceeded in get
ting out, they being nearest to the door.
The others could scarcely make au effort to
save themselves, as tho coal covered
them in and smothered them. About
twenty-five square test of tho wharf col
lapsed. and it is thought that about 100 tons
of coal went under tno water.
BNGLIGH DUTY ON WIN*B.
Bradford’s Chamber of Commerce
Urges Retaliation.
London, Dec. 16.—The Bradford Cham
ber of Commerce has adopted a resolution
favoring the imposition by the government
of dlscrimluating duties on French wines.
This action is recommended for the purpose
of retaliating against France for tbo duties
on Kngltih products established l>y the new
Anglo-Saxon French company, '/“be adop -
tion of such a resolution by tbo Bradford
Chamber of Commerce is considered of
special slgnificaucs, ns it Is tbe first deliver
ance by that body in forty year* looking
in any degree toward a protective policy.
CONVICTED OF MOONLIGHTING.
The Leader of the County Clare Band
Goes Up for Lire.
Dublin, Dec. 19.—At Sligo to-day the
trial of a number of persons who were
charged with committing “moonlight” of
fenses in County Clare ended In a verdict of
guilty. Lalor, tbe leader of the band, was
sentenced to penal servitude for life. Tbe
othor pruouers were seuteuced to various
terms of imprisonment, lauglng from one
year to ti'cnty years, lu sentencing tbe
prisoners tbe judge said he regretted that
tbe persmu who instigated the ban-l to com
mit tbe crimes of which they bad beenoju
vlctttl had not t een held for trial.
A BaNtiAITON AT A HANGING.
Excitement Resultn In the Death of
the Sheriff.
Sherbrook, Ont., Dec. 19.—Komi La
moatague was hanged here at 9:26 o’clock
Mi is morning for tho murder of his brother
in-law, Napoleon Michel. About 8:46
o’clock this morning S-iaritf Webb, who
had charge of the execution, died suddenly
from heart disease. It is balieved that tho
excitement attending the arrangements was
tho cause of the fatal attack.
BLOWH ON A BOURSE.
Police Obliged to Ltspers* Excited
French Brokers.
Paris, Dec. 19.— The polioe were to-day
compelled to disuerse tho brokers ou tbe
Petit Bourse. Homo of tho brokers desired
to have tbe bourse closed until Jau. 2, but
others wore opposed to this. From quar
reling over tbe matter the disputants finally
came to blows, with tbo result that the
police were obliged to interfere.
BMIN PASHA RECALLED.
He is Accused of Disobedience of
Orel era.
Berlin, Dec. 19.—Advices received from
Baron Winmann state that ho lias reoalled
Emin Pasha from the interior of Afrioa,
owing to the latter’s disregard of orders. He
says that Emin has impeded tbe operations
being carried on under the direction of
Stokes and has refused to act in accordance
with the plans of the imperial government.
The CExr Rules Out an Appeal.
Cologne, Dec. 19.—The St. Petersburg
correspondent of the Gazette say* that the
czir has intimated to tuo Ixindon commit
ter that he will decline to receive an aepeai
eu behalf of the Jews in Kutnia which waa
recently adopted at a meeting of islluentiol
person* fn Guildhall.
TUMBLED FROM A CAB.
A Erakeman and n Conductor Meet
Horrible Death#.
Cruser’s, N. V., Dec* 16 Conductor
Fred Harris ami Brakeman Harry Evans of
a freight tralu on tbe Hudson River railroad
met with horrible death* this morning.
Evans lost hi* life while trymg to save the
oonductor, who had slipped on the icy roof
of ace: and a rolHug off. lie grabbed
the conductor and both rolled to tbe ground
in each other’s embrace.
Wrecked by a Landslide.
Baltimore, Mu., Deo. 19.—* special
from R auotte, Va, to the *lt MUt of (he
wreck of an engine and five tiara ou (he
tthMiandeab Volley railroad uer Buctaaen,
and the kilhug of C. H. Atwood, tie fire
man, and Ed sard Ueustea, a biaknua .
I Its train ran into a tends! Ida and was
thrown from the track with the above re
•nit
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IMMIGRATION TO DIXIE.
LAST DAY OF THE CONVENTION AT
ASHEVILLE.
Sunday Opening of the World’* Fair
Left to the Fair Commiselon Report
of the Commit toe on Legislation-The
Lrgisiaturea of tho States to be
Called On for Financial Aid.
Asheville, N. C„ Deo. 19.—The last day
of the Interstate Immigration Society’s
convention wan a busy one, receiving re
ports from the various committees.
Gen. R. B. Vauce and W. C. Wilson,
both of North Carolina, offered a resolu
tion declaring lt to he the tense of the con
vention Hint proper observance of tho rtab
balh requires ths closing of tbe Columbian
world’s fair exposition on the Sabbath.
After a boated debate the resolution was re
ferred to tbe commission of the Columbia a
exposition.
The resolution to reoouttnond to the gov
ernors of each state to uppoint a committee
of five from their states to meet in connec
tion with another committee, and to b®i
known as the promotion committed of ths
world’s fair, was apopted.
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON LEGISLA**
TION.
The report of tbw committee on legislation
was os follows:
We reooxnlz* the necessity of unity of action
by the southern stares nre represented, and
that It con best be accomplished by a concerted
system of legislation; therefore, you are ro-
Utiested to provide by law for the appointment
aud maintenance nf a cmninissloner of immi
gration whose duty It shall be to (oral a boent
of soutlivrii immigration to co-opsraoV
with the southern imniigrat ion bureau lu pro
moting the great cuum of southern Iminlf.-a
tion and the upbuilding of nur common south-,
laud; that the executive committee present txj s
the legislatures a suitable bill to oarry this run
oimnondation into effect and urge the passage
ot snub m-asuru; that tbe general man
ager, aided by the executive commit
tee, be requested to draft a constitu
tion amt by laws for the p-rinauest govern,
meat of tins body ami report at the next coa
vuntion; that tint general manager and cum
inltteo Issue a periodical os the general official
organ of the bureau, to be under thdr control,
hut that the character and expediency of thwi
same aud the frequency of Its puhhnitiaa bee
discretionary with said manager and comPilte
tee.
The report was adopted.
THE FINANCE OOMMITTBE’H REPORT.
The report of the finance committee w*g
read and adopted. It recommends that the
executive committee appoiat a delegation
to request tbe governors of the states to coll
on tbe legislatures of tho states for
financial aid, and that an appro
priation ot $‘25,060 from each
state he netted for tbe purpose of making a
full exhibition nt the < 'oluiubian exposittee;
that bureaus of mining, manufsetartng,
agriculture and immigration be asked ie
lend llnuioial aid; that where there are no
uuoh bureaus tbe executive cooemsttee skull
call u convention to organize a stats
immigration bureau, and that this
bureau shall raise fundi and
make such appropriation as they
deem best; that iha general manager ut
ths Association bo made a paid official by
the railroads of tbe south, and that bis sal
ary as general manager nt tbe luMoclatl jn.
shali be $5,000 a year; that tbe bureau, if
it deems bust, shall puolisb tbe resources of
the states, with illiutratiuiu. with spaoe far
each according to the contributions.
SECRETARY PATRICK EXONERATED.
The committee appointed fur that purs
pose reported that they had investigated
tbe charges made b.Y the
Record against Secretary John T. I‘atrick,
and had found them unfounded. Til* re
port was adapted unanimously.
Tbe committee on laanufajtuve* recom
mend that all persona contemplating tbw
beginning of manufacturing interests be in
vited to correspond with tbe officials of thd
bureau. Tbe report was adopted.
’i be committee on importing and export*
lug reported that the exports of tbe coun
try had nxcenderl the imports lot several
years, aud that tbe shipment of southern,
products was greatly inoroasing. Tbe com-*
mi (tee's report speaks of tbe products thaO
were imparted which should bo produced of
manufactured in the south. Tbe committee
commended tbe act of congress In appro-
g tinting money for tbe purpose of openm®
outb Atlantic and Gulf pm be The report
was adopted.
EXHIBITS ON TRAINS.
Tbe committee on exhibits by a (rain ot
cars submitted the followlagresolution:
Retolved, That w believe that the sdv.rtlet
iog ot our resources by a train of car* fillerd
wuh exhibits of our agricultural, mineral aws
manufactured products, to be sent through sll
the north, -ast und wsat, would result lu induc
ing largo immigration to tbe south and wrore
one of the most useful means of adveialHiugi
that could bo adopted, anil that we commeeS
the plnn to tho special attention of the execu
tive committee. •
ONLY DESIRABLE IMMIGRANTS WANTED.
Tbo foreign and domestic immigration
committee reported favorably a resolution
to tbe effect that tbe consuls of the Unite*
Status be empowered to inquire into the
moral and physical condition of immi
grants, with an amendment providing for
au official examination by tbe government
of all immigrants at tho port or entry, and
another amendment to send a copy of the
resolution to all United States senators and
congressmen. The report was adopted.
The committee reported favorably on the
resolution to Invite a better class of im
migrant* from New England, and the re
port was adopted.
RAILROAD RATES.
A motion was made to have appointed
delegates from each state to 00-operate with
the conunilte i o;i railroad rates. The motion
was adopted with au ameudrnent that tbe
delegate* be appointed by the executive
committee aud general manager.
The time and place of tba next meeting
vrae referred to tbe executive committee.
The committee on organization an*
works reported that that they hid ex
amined in detail the methods ia the depart
ment of organization of tue ussociotiou and
the development bureau, avd found that
the means adup.ed bus accomplished satis
factorily the work undertake*. The report
commended tbe adoption of those metods
and urged active co-operations of ail thv
states m the south.
A CENTRAL HEADQUARTERS.
"i be committee also indorsed a resolution
locking ke the location of a central head-*
quarters at Washington, D. C., and the
securing of a place in that city for the pur
pose of exhibiting tbe resources of tho south,
and recommend .and tbe appointment of a
committee of cno from each state to devise
ways and means to accomplish this as early
os possible. Tbe report was adopted.
The committee on official state organisa
tion reported that as but four or flvo states
represented had aa official state organiza
tion, they reoummended that the delegate*
formulate and publish a call for a cun*
ventlnn to be be!* iu the states for the par
pen* of organizing a bureau of iaimigrxtiou
lu each state. Tue report was adopted.
Tue permanent ci.urutau was luede a
member of the executive oennntUw. an*
empowered by and with the consent of the
governors te fill vacancies.
Much iiapcrteut unfinished busianss was
referred to the executive committee for
action, and tbe ooovetltua adjourned nee
die.
