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T WE MORNING NEWS, I
' ESTABLISHED tttO. INCORPOHATKDIBBB. V
'l J.H. ESTILL, President. )
BRUNSWICK ENCOURAGED.
So New Cases, No Suspicious Cases
and Help Arriving.
Atmospheric Conditions Against an
Epidemic—A Concise Statement of
the Condition of the City by the Re
lief Committee— Appeals From Odd
Fellows and Colored People—The Re
lief Work.
Brunswick, Ga., Aug. 26.—N0 new or
susi ’ ious cases were reported to-day.
The atmospheric condition is unfavorable
to further development of fever. The
outlook is hopeful and encouraging. Re
lief is coming in, and the suffering is be
ing greatly allleviated by a prompt and
judicious distribution of the relief con
tributions. This is the cheering and en
couraging news your correspondent is
able to send from Brunswick to-uight.
It seems that the prayers of the people
all over the country are being answered,
and Brunswick will be spared the visita
tions of a plague that, once spread, means
many people stricken down. Local phy
sicians. relief committees and Surgeons
Hutton, Carter, and Guiteras arc
watching the sick closely, but
all report encouraging signs. In the
churches to-morrow the prayers and
thanks of the remaining few will ascend
to God for his mercy and goodness in
sparing this little city.
PBOMPT AND HEARTY RESPONSES.
The people are responding ftobly to the
call for aid, but by various published in
terviews with city officials who refugeed
the city tc avoid danger and left a hand
ful of brave, determined men to face any
epidemic that might come, the impression
has been given that the need of relief is
not so urgent. Had these men not fled
the city, but remained and helped to al
- the condition of starving thou
sands, these impressions would, not have
been given to the world. They left in
alarm and from far off places of safety,
give their ideas of the people's need and
create false impressions, while those who
remain battle against those impressions.
Let the men who are boing interviewed
return to Brunswick and they will bo
shown the terrible distress existing here.
The hundreds who are in needy circum
stances will be fed. To counteract the
false impressions made by these interviews
the relief committee has issued the fol
lowing: “To the People of the United
States—The Brunswick, Ga., relief com
mittee desires to place before the counti'y
the actual condition of affairs at this place.
While there have been but three an
nounced eases of yellow fever, and it is
hoped there will be no others, the destitu
tion and suffering entailed is as great as
if it were epidemic.
ALL MEANS OF EARNING A LIVING CUT OFF.
“Our every avenue of sustenance is cut
off, our workshops are closed, our facto
ries deserted, our entire business
prostrated, and under the most
favorable conditions some time
must elapse before a resumption
of business. We reluctantly appeal to
the genei-usity of a charitable people to
sustain us through the ordeal. The situ
ation has I icon thoroughly canvassed, and
the appeal Is not premature. We are
here to stay, come wiiat may.” (Signed)
T. W. Lamb mayor, Jacob E. Dart, C. P.
Goodyear, Rev. J. A. Thompson, Rev, Ed.
F. Cook, Dr. J. A. Butts, L. C. Bodet, E.
A. Nelson.
The Odd Fellows, by permission of the
grand lodge, have issued an appeal to
their brothers to help those of their own
who are here suffering. The Odd Fel
lows of Brunswick lost all they had
in the bank failures here and deso,rve a
quick response. Geo. W. Rush, past
grand, is chairman of the relief committee
of both Rush and Seajwirt louges. W. E.
Porter, secretary, C. M. Tilton, treasurer,
Josiah Warren, Burr Winton,T. E. Waff,
Alfred Christie, committee.
APPEAL OF TUB COLORED PEOPLE.
The colored people, realizing the dis
tress among their ] oore • classes, have
issued the following call and desire all
papers to publish it. “To Gur People:
We appeal to your sympathy and loyalty
to the suffering ones of yo ur race in this
city of Brunswick and in meet
ing assembled have resolved,
whereas, that the report of
having yellow fever in our midst brought
about a panic among those who are citi
zens that were able to support those re
main ng over, and these poorer people are
left here to suffer. Wo appeal lo one and
ail of our devoted people'to respond to
our call at once. This appeal may be
thought inopportune, but as it has been
brought to our knowledge that the larg
est percentage of suffering is among our
people we deem it our duty to work in
accord with the relief committee in hav
lnß the sympathy of our people
aroused to the sense of their duty.
have families without homos, food,
fuel, clothes or physio, and death seems
imminent for the want of necessities.
” e hope the lodges, churches aud auxili
ary societies will respond to our call.
Every act of kindness will bo greatly ap
preciated. Rev. L. Lowry, chairman; C.
A Shaw, secretary, grand chancellor K. of
1 state of Georgia; Rev. John Williams,
treasurer, past master Mason; Rev. S.
Huberts. Rev. G. M. Spratliug, Rev. R.
H Singleton, Rev. J. M. Jackson. W. H.
Matthews, district master Odd Fellows,
A- Clark, committee.
THE RELIEF SUPPLIES.
1 lie relief supplies are being judiciously
issued. This morning five hundred ne
prues crowded the streets around the
rotnmissary expecting to be fed free,
ihey brought baskets and boxes, cans
Bnd flour Backs, and all were dressed in
;. lr best. Laborers on vice and turpen
_m‘, farms, docks and warehouses quit
Wl| i'K and came to town expecting the gov
ernment to help them. They were halted
in the rush by Mayor Lamb, who told
them that any who got, free rations would
h i eto have their wants established by
reputable citizens after being
'■ei-tißed to. Revs. Ed. F. Cook and
*; A Thompson would issue them
certificates for two days rations, which
'-'unmissary Keeper Joseph Smith would
Ji!!"" .All men able to work would be
,! Vl .' n 25 centß per day and rations for
neu- families while engaged in placing
ne unv, i in good sanitary condition.
TnEy NOW UNDERSTAND THE SITUATION.
1 bis talk brought the negroes to their
- ' iises, and those that had work returned
I ’ t ' hey were badly fooled, but Mayor
-unhand his committee will feed none
ut ’be deserving poor. Over 100 families
-•■re fed to-day, and cheer took the place
sorrow in many homes. Tuesday five
, ' Policemen will be put on duty, and
he vicious classes made to work or
town. Chief Police Beach is or
vaiiizuig his force, and will run vagrants
'a;. Mayor Lamb will issue a procla
. , orl Monday ordering vagrants away,
til i^ mless they go the chain gang wants
Hfljjc MmmnQ
GETTING THE CAMP HEADY.
Waycross, Ga., Aug. 26. —Burgeon Ma
gruder returned to the city lust night,
after having spent yesterday at the gov
ernment quarantine station in consulta
tion with Surgeon Hutton, Drs. Hugh
Burford, Carter and Guiteras. He re
turned to the camps this morning. Sev
enty carpenters are at work on the
houses at the camps. The work is being
done with dispatch. Some fifty tents
were obtained from Brunswick and they
are being erected. The camps, when
completed, will accommodate one thou
sand people. Surgeon Magruder says
that he does not think it necessary to es
tablish a quarantine station on the Way
cross Short Line, as there appears to bo
no yellow fever at Port Tampa.
The Morning News is In great demand
here. The people look for the news in
the Morning News.
THE SCARE OVER AT TAMPA.
Business Prospects are Brighter and a
Good Fall Trade Expected.
Tampa, Fla. Aug. 26.—Since the recent
scare over what was supposed to be yel
low fever, but in reality turned out to be
malarial troubles, our citizens are begin
ning to return. The scared look is dying
on the faces of those who were not pre
pared to flee, and things have returned to
their normal condition. The health au
thorities are commended for thoir prompt
action in the matter, and our citizens
ought to feel assured that if an epidemic
should break out they would be warned
in ample time to escape the dread dis
ease.
Health Officer Porter returned yester
day from Mullet Key, where he has been
on an inspection tour to the quarantine
station. The Markomania has been re
leased, and she is now on her way to port.
The diagnosis of the cases at quarantine
station proved them to be only mild forms
of malarial fever, and on that authority
the steamer was allowed to go on her way.
Tho authorities at Port Tampa are vig
ilant and all suspicious vessels are seut
immediately to Tortugas. Yesterday
found a small sloop at the dock which
was immediately sent to the station. It
contained only three or four persons.
TRAVEL RESUMED.
Quarantine restrictions have been
raised against the port and travel has
been resumed. Our citizens are inclined
to be indignant at the many false reports
sent from this place, as it has damaged
the commercial interest of the city to an
untold extent. No doubt many of the re
ports were only in the minds of those who
were panicky and who left the city by
first train, spreading the rumor that eight
cases had developed in the city. The offi
cials here would request that such per
sons stay out in smaller towns for an in
definite period or learn that silence is
golden. The local press of the city aredoing
much to keep down any excitement that
false reports might create, and the man
agers of tho Tribune and tlie Times are to
be commended for the oil that has been
poured on the recent troubled waters by
their pens.
BUSINESS IMPROVING.
The business outlook for the city is
growing brighter daily, and with the
opening of Tampa Bay hotel on Dec. Ist,
our business circles are imbued with new
vigor and activity. The Gulf National
Bank is reported to be getting in shape to
resume business soon under the manage
ment of Dr. Anderson. Many of our citi
zens who were depositors are looking
anxiously forward to the day when it
opens for business again.
FALSE IMPRESSION CORRECTED.
No Tallow Fever at Atlanta, Nor Any
Suspicious Case.
Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 26. —The fact that
some cities have quarantined against At
lanta seems to have created the impres
sion that there is yellow fever here. So
far from that being true, there is not a
single case here, nor has there been.
Atlanta has opened her doors to the
refugees from Brunswick and other
stricken cities, but there has not even
been a suspicious case among the thou
sands who have come.
AN OFFICIAL MANIFESTO.
Dr. Alexander, president of the board.
of health, said to-niglit: “Please deny all
such reports in the strongest possible
terms. There is absolutely no truth in
them. There has not been a suspicious
case. Inspectors meet all trains. Should
a case be discovered, the patient would at
once be taken to quarantine station and
every precaution taken; although we feel
certain that under no circumstances
would the fever spread here.”
THE B. AND W. HEADQUARTERS.
They Will Be Established in Waycross
Monday.
Waycross, Aug. 26.—The inspectors re
port that very few passengers fail to
have health certificates.
The headquarters of the Brunswick
and Western railroad will be established
near the bank Monday.
The colored teachers’ institute has
been in session this week. Expert Nel
son reports an interesting convention.
Superintendent Haines will leave the
government quarantine station for this
city Monday.
The Bickley high school, under tho
management of Prof. Gulleth and Miss
Dilbon, will reopen with 90 pupils next
week.
One hundred pupils are in attendance
at the Manor high school, which is con
ducted by Prof. W. S. Booth.
SURG. MAGRUDER AT WAYCROSS.
He Has Appointed Inspectors at That
Point and Jesup.
Waycross, Ga., Aug. 26.—Surgeon Ma
gruder has just arrived here from the
government quarantine station. He has
appointed Dr. B. F. Williams government
inspector at this place. He will leave
here to-night for Jesup, and will appoint
Dr. Samuels inspector at that place. Dr.
Williams takes charge of the quarantine
here for the government at once. Surgeon
Magruder says that the work at the
camps is progressing rapidly.
FOR BRUNSWICK.
Albany to Send Money and Provisions
on Monday.
Albany, Ga., Aug. 26.—An impartial
canvass of the city was made to-day for
the fever sufferers at Brunswick, with
the result of about S3OO obtained in cash
and provisions, which will be forwarded
Monday, the Southern Express Compony
offering to deliver the same free of
charge.
Death of a Banker.
Raleigh, Aug. 26.—A special from Ox
ford, N. C.. says J. C. Cooper, head of the
banking house of J. C- Cooper 6l Sons,
died here to-day, aged 77 years.
SAVANNAH, GA., SUNDAY, AUGUST 27. 1893.
A GRAPPLE OF THE GIANTS
BurKe Cochran’s Masterly Eloquence
in the House.
Reed’s Speech Far Less Statesman
like—Listened to by Overflowing
Galleries—Which Were Bare, How
ever, to Such an Excellent Talker as
Private Allen of Miseissippi—The
Soft Voiced West Virginian Closed
for His Bill, But the Wires Failed Us
at the Hour of Going to Press.
Washington. D. C., Aug. 26.
The climax of oratory in the House
was reached to-day. The attendance ex
ceeded the capacity of the galleries, and
the corridors were thronged. Mr. Clark
of Alabama opened the debate, and al
though he made a strong, logical speech,
he was listened to with Impatience by the
great mass of people who wanted to hear
from the leaders.
THE GLADIATORS ON HAND.
They were soon gratified, however, for
Mr. Reed of Maine took the floor at 10:30
o’clock and made one of tho most mas
terly speeches which has been heard for
many a day in the halls of congress. Mr.
Dearmond of Missouri, who followed in
a silver speech, and humorous John Al
len of Mississippi, the next speaker, had
little attention bestowed upon them, so
eager were the members and spectators
to hear from Bourke Cockran, the idol of
the New York democracy.
Mr. Cockran did not disappoint them,
for when he concluded Ills speech the
House was overwhelmed iu a wave of
thunderous applause.
Mr. Bland made a good speech to empty
galleries, but they were tilled again to
listen to a short but logical speech from
Mr. Wilson of West Virginia, the father
of tlie pending bill.
GALLERIES EARLY TACKED.
The galleries of the House were full of
spectators before the hour of the meet
ing, 10 o'clock a. m., attracted by the an
nouncement that the last day of the silver
debate was to be signalized by a battle of
the oratorical giants. The chaplain in his
owning prayer asked God’s blessing on
the closing hours of this long debate.
“Thou hast already,” he said, “sent the
blessing; for it has been conducted with
a mild, Christian-like spirit. May noth
ing occur to mar that spirit as the debate
comes to its close. Ami we beseech thee,
whatever may be the result of it, that
that result may prove to be a lasting ben
efit to the largest number of thy people.”
The speaker announced the order of the
day’s proceedings. Under tlie hour rule,
he said, the time in favor of the bill
would close with the member from West
Virginia (Wilson), and the time in oppo
sition to it by the member from Missouri
(Bland).
OPENING FOR THE WILSON BILL.
Tlie first thirty minutes was assigned
by Wilson to Clark, dem., of Alabama.
He believed it the duty of congress to fix
the ratio botween silver and gold at 16
to 1. In his opinion, there was no differ
ence in the ability of the oountry to carry
out silver coinage between a 16 and a 20
ratio. If the country could do it with a
ratio of 20 to 1, it could do it with a ratio
of 16 to 1. Mr. Clark’s time was called
at 10:30 o’clock, and the floor was as
signed to Mr. Reed, of Maine.
The Houso came to most sudden and
complete quiet as Mr. Reed stood up in
the most easterly aisle on the republican
side of the chamber and began to address
the House in slow, strong, measured
tones. He said: - Mr. Speaker, I am not
certain of tho wisdom of any member of
this House, and least of all of my own. I
am quite conscious how difficult it is for
this body to know anything about cur
rency in general, and how especially diffi
cult it is to provide a remedy for a de
rangement of currency at any particular
time.
“Nevertheless, while I have grave doubt
of the wisdom of each individual, includ
ing myself, and no doubt whatever of the
difficulty of the task, it is a comfort to
fall back upon a well-established belief
In the wisdom of all. It may not be
as- absolutely righteous decision
which we shall reach; nevertheless,
it is comforting assurance to believe that
the decision will be sufficient for the
emergency, especially since it is accom
panied by the certainty that no other
wisdom is possible at the present time.
Upon us and the people who are influen
cing our votes rests the decision of this
and other important questions.
AN ErOCH OF NATIONAL DECLINE.
“Crises like the present are not uncom
mon in the history of the world; indeed,
they seem to be essential to human prog
ress and to arise out of the characteris
tics of human nature itself. We seem
now to be at the beginning of one of those
declines the like of which happens after
a long period. Unless all indications fail,
wc are in a situation very much like that
which afflicted England in 1793 and 1825,
and which began to afflict us in the year
1873. If the period of prosperity could
be expressed In a single word, that
word would be ‘confidence,’
and if the period of adver
sity, as we call it, could bo
expressed iu a single word, that word
would be -distrust.'
“In the year 1896 a variety of circum
stances which it is not necessary now to
discuss —for the country cares very little
to-day whether anybody was or was not
to blame for the passage of the Sherman
act —conspired to make the passage of
that act an absolute necessity. Tho
passage of that act pledged the United
States to purchase eyery month, and issue
its value in currency, 4,500.(XX1 ounces of
silver. At the time when that act was
passed every patriot sincerely hoped
that the expectation of the
friends of 3ilver, that that purchase
would result in solving the problem of bi
metallism for this country and placing
silver on a par with gold, would be real
ized. That the friends of silver enter
tained that view, I cannot doubt, because
in was expressed to me in terms of the ut
most confidence. At the time the passage
of the act caused very little fear on the
part even of the wisest, but a series of
events, which are so fresh in the memory
of every man who hears me that
I need not recapitulate them, caused a
drain of gold from the United States to
Europe. That drain of gold sounded the
alarm to the American jieoplo that the
period of prosperity through which they
had passed and which was then in exis
tence. which was shown by the employ
ment of capital and the employment of
labor, had reached a period of suspension—
a period always reached in such forward
movements of the human race, and always
to be anticipated.
Mr. Reed then sketched the progress cf
the period of distrust, culminating in the
enormous withdrawal of money from all
classes of banks until, as he said, we are
Buffering to-day all the calamities of a
restricted circulation in the midst of an
abundont supply of money.
JI'ST WHAT nt WAS EXPECTED TO SAT.
After thus narrating the outward cir
cumstances of the existing situation, Mr.
lieed wenton to say that, in his judgment,
the underlying cause of it is really tho re
turn of the democracy to power, and the
consequent distrust of the business world
upou the tariff question. “I will not un
dertake,” he said, “ tod well ut this present
time, —for I do not want to confuse the is
sue—upon these unfortunate parts of
the democratic programme, which arc
at present in abeyance, like the establish
ment of state banks and other financial
measures which we may possibly have to
struggle with. I can characterize, in u
single phrase, tho cause of the present
condition of affairs. It is the undiscovcr
able uncertainty of the future of both the
currency question and the questions of
protection and revenue tariff.
“it will bo seen from what I have said
that I do not regard the Sherman act as
in itself alone responsible for our present
condition of affairs; that I believe that
the causes of our present disaster under
lie that: that the necessary stoppage of
hundreds and .thousands of mills all over
this country is at the bottom of our dis
aster. Nevertheless, Ido believe that tho
Sherman act and the accumulation of
silver in the treasury were the earliest
indications of the disaster which wo are
approaching, and that they have played a
part not entirely unfortunate in warning
us that we can be saved from still further
misfortune and doubt.
THE ACT WAS BOMBARDED ALL ROUND.
“Whilelam in favorof the repeal of the
purchasing clause of tho Sherman act,
and have always been, since the failure of
that act to realize the hopes of the men
who believed in a silver currency, I do not
think that the repeal of that act will be
an immediate cause of the revival of the
prosperity of this country. lam in favor
of its repeal, however, for two reasons.
First, it seems to me to bo deeply
settled in the public mind, from causes
which eau be easily understood, that tlie
Sherman law Is the cause of the unrea
sonable hoarding of currency throughout
this country. It has been made tlie
foundation of distrust by a variety of
causes. Tho President of tho United
States deemed it be his duty—and 1
make no question with regard to it—in
the most public manner to appeal to the
last congress to repeal the Sherman act,
announcing in every way in which he was
capable of announcing his belief that the
continuance of that act was the forerun
ner of disaster. Coming from such
a source as that, it is now understood that
the people of foreigu countries believod
that the danger from the Sherman
act was as great as it could possibly bo.
Then, in addition to that, the bankers
who desired to call a halt in the condi
tion of affairs which existed last year,
who believed that the time for
settlement had arrived, joined in
that objection. Then, the demo
cratic papers, scenting out the disaster
that was upon us, and being desirous of
charging it to some other party than
thoir own. trained ail their guns upon the
Sherman act.”
In Mr. Heed’s judgment the repeal of
the purchasing clause would have such a
reassuring effect that wc should bo tem
porarily assisted by capital from beyond
the dfcup, ai'-l fiat ■ “Cy assistance - would
result in the loosening of hoarded money,
which is now to be found in stockings
and iu every possible receptacle; and the
result would be ease of money, and
. those who are carrying on a sound
aud safe business would be rescued
from tlie disaster which threatens
them and this country by being relieved
from many unnecessary failures; "Bo my
two reasons for voting for the repeal are:
First, that it will restore confluence to
the people, and. in some measure, help us
out of the first difficulties of our position;
and, second, when the time comes it will
assist us on the upward path to the next
period of prosperity and progress.” Un
conditional repeal he held to be the path
of duty.
MR. KEEI) IN CONCLUSION.
The closing sentence, Mr. Reed de
clared that when the day came,
as it would come, that the Republican
party would lead the land back to the
paths of prosperity and fame, it would
take back with it its glory, undimmed by
adversity, its honor unsullied by defeat.
Loud andilong continued applause burst
out from tlie Republican side of the
chamber and from the galleries, and even
democrats—an unwonted spectacle—con
tributed tlieir share of applause.
Then Mr. Reed took his scat, having
occupied his hour to tho exact moment.
Mr. Dearmon, dem., oMdissouri, was the
next speaker, having half an hour as
signed to him. He was opposed to repeal
and in favor of free coinage; and he in
dulged in some criticisms upon the Secre
tary of the Treasury.
Mr. Williams, dem.. of Illinois, opposed
repeal, and contended that the Sherman
law was not responsible for the present
panic, although that panic was the legit
imate offspring of the republican party.
PRIVATE ALLEN’S MIRTHFUL REMARKS.
Mr. Allen, dem., of Mississippi, unlike
most of the gentlemen who had addressed
tlie House on this important question, and
who had disclaimed being financiers or
partisans, said ho was both. [Laughter.]
He had made the question of currency a
study for more than fort.vj.ears [].a tigh
ter], but lie was not one of those finan
ciers who were responsible for tho pres
ent stringency. He had kept
his' money in circulation. [Laugh
ter.] He had done about 95
per cent, of his business on credit; but
lie did not think that was a good plan, for
his creditors were now clamoring for him
to do something to restore confidence.
[Laughter.] The country was ill, but the
remedy proposed was not the proper one.
It reminded him of the story of the
darky, cwho being left in charge of a
farm, wrote to his employer: “De cow
has been sick. I think she is well of the
disease now, but I think she will die
of the remedy I done give her. [Laugh
ter.]
He (Allen) would like to cure the coun
try of the disease, but he did not want to
vote for a remedy that would bo worse
than the disease. He did not propose to
be driven or bullied into doing that
which, in his humble judgment, would be
a bad thing for the great masses of the
people.
THE SPEBCH OF THE DAY.
At 1 o’clock p. in. Mr. Bourke Cockran
took the floor and addressed the House.
Nobody would deny, he said, after tlie
speech just heard, that the arguments for
free silver coinage were picturesque
rather than convincing.
He agreed with the gentleman from
Maine (Reed) that when the gavel of the
presiding officer descended on his desk on
the 4th of March last the members of
congress returned to their homes in a
country blessed with universal prosper
ity. And yet, in a period when every
thing-that ought to produce prosperity
existed here the sky overhead
had been darkened. If the cause
of the disaster were sought,
nothing could be found in the character
of a providential interposition to prevent
the continuous march of the couutry
toward prosperity. It was now the duty
of congress not to seek partisan advant-
age of this condition of things, hut to ap
ply tlie remedy. He did not agree with
the gentleman from Maine that such re
curring panics wore inseparable from
the progress of the human race.
He did not join in the tone of
levity in which the political platform of
the Democratic party had been threat
ened. Ho believed that a declaration of
political faith was binding on a party,
and lie stood here to-day opposed to the
measure of free coinage; he stood on the
democratic platform with both his feet,
while he who proposed such an act was
trying to pusli him off it.
FREE COINAGE DIDN’T GET TEN VOTES.
He had assented to the deliberations of
the democratic convention [ironical
laughter from the republicans], and had
good opportunity to discover with what
vigor it had put its feet on any one who
undertook to interfere with tlie free
course of its operations. And he remem
bered that when tlie financial part of the
platform was read a delegate from
Colorado projKjsed, as an amendment, tlie
insertion of the word “free” before the
word “coinage,” and had supported it in
a speech. But it did not poll ten votes
when the convention took action on it.
“Talk to me,” Mr. Cockran said,
“about the Democratic party having de
clared for free coinage. I believe that
the claim for free coinage came from
Colorada and Nevada. But why did
Oolorada and Nevada take to the woods
during tlie election of 1893 ; j laughter. ]
Why did they turn their backs
upon these parties and enlist in tho
populists’ranks? I stand by the demo
cratic platform, which declares for the
“use” of silver; and 1 believe in it. As
to bimetallism in the United States and
in France, there never lias been bimetal
lism in the sense argued for.”
THE PLATFORM’S EXACT PROMISE.
Continuing, Mr. Cochran said that he
was in favor of silver; hut in its platform
the Democratic party had refused to put
the word “free” before the word “coin
age.” [Applause.] The promise of the
Democratic party was that it would use
all the silver we had; and now tho Demo
cratic party asked to suspend the further
coinage of silver, in the hope that
in the future the couutry would be
able to add to its silver currency
without disturbing tho standard of value.
The United States was not suffering to
day from a lack of money; it was suffer
ing from a redundancy of money. These
commercial crises were like every other
pestilence which swept periodically over
the country. This crisis should be in
vestigated, tlie origin of it discovered and
the cause of it removed.
In his opinion, the pronounced cause of
the political crisis was the redundancy of
money. Tlie circulating medium had
been so redundant that the wheels of
commerce were clogged by it. In this
country there was a redundancy of
currency; and we shall watch the conse
quence—tho more money the less issue;
the less you have. According to
Mill, it was not the amount
of money in a country that
affected prices; it was the amount of
money in circulation. You might, he ex
claimed, put fifty millions a month, fifty
millions a week, into circulation and it
would be absorbed us'the burning sun of
the desert absorbs a bucket of water.
“My friend asked me some time ago
why it was that tho banks had opposed
tilts legislation. Tlie banks have opposed
it because the #26.000,000, which would be
the amount tlie New York banks would
gain by it. would be but a pittance com
pared with the loss that would be inflict
ed on tlie business of the country by the
shock to its credit that would extend
throughout the uuiverse.
CITY AND COUNTRY ONE IN INTEREST.
“Gentlemen have appealed to the senti
ment of the country members as though
their interests were hostile to tlie inter
ests of tlie cities. I speak u;>on this floor
as a member from a district iu the great
est city on the continent, and I say to this
House that the interests of the city can
never be hostile to the interests of the
country; that tho existence of that great
municipal wealth is based upon the pro
duction of the laborers of this land who
toil iu tlie fields and dig in the ditches.
“Show me legislation which Ijam con
vinced will benefit the.farmer, and, even
if it cuts down the profits of the banker
or the capitalist on their per cent., you
will find me voting for it. I believe in
the statement which Mentoros
made to Telemachus, that it is
not the splendor of a city, but
the prosperity of the fields, that consti
tute the greatness of a nation, not the
significence of its palaces, but the com
forts of its homes.
-•We have heard a great deal here of sec
tions, of nortli and south, of east and
west, and as wo have heard it a doubt
arose in m.v mind as to
whether, after all, the victory of the
union was not a mistake. Arc we
to be forced to the conclusion that this
country is so vast; that its interests are
so diversified and irreconcilable, that
legislation which is essential to the
safetv of turban interests must be hostile
to rural interests; that things which
make for the protection of New York
must necessarily result in the oppression
of Missouri and Nebraska.
“I do not believe ttiat thare ever yet
came a time in this country’s history
when any attempt to make a sectional
footing lias resulted in the profit of any
body. 1 hope ttiat this attempt to revive
the prejudices based upon the occupations
of each of the sections will be abandoned
by gentlemen when they come to recollect
the meaning of what they say, and that
they will realize that the fires of disunion
were stamped out by marching armies in
this country and the embers were
quenched by the blood of tlie martyrs and
the tears of widows. [Loud applause. J
LOVES IT FOR ALL ITS STATES.
“I prize the citizenship of this country,
not because it embraces New York, but
because it embraces Nebraska aud Mis
souri, and every section and each of the
territories which is comprised within this
country.
“New York has no mission except that
she can administer to your welfare. She
trades upon your products; she grows no
grass between her stones, her mechanics
work at their benches, and by transfer
ring tho rude product of the soil and tho
mine, fits the finished articles essential to
the luxury or comfort of the human race.
Her laborers truusnip the freights
and the fruits of your toils
from the cars in which they come
to her borders, to the great argosies of
commerce that bear them across tlie sea
for distribution throughout the globe;
and so she stands upon the verge of this
western continent, with one arm gather
ing the fruits of your toil into her lap for
distribution over the globe, and with the
other gathering the golden trihute of the
world to bo returned back to you as the
reward for what you produce. As you
prosper, she prospers. As this nation
grows, she grows. As this country be
comes great, she becomes great.
MR. COCKRAN’S PERORATION.
“But material greatness alone can never
bo enduring unless it be accompanied by
moral progress and moral grandeur: and
we who ask you, here and now, to make
honesty, equity aud justice the distin-
guishing policy: wo ask you to preserve
the greatness we have achieved; which
will broaden before labor and industry
like tlie broad horizon that even now is
ours: and we will make the march of
this country along tin- pathway of mate
rial development a long march in the
progress of tlie human race towards the
cultivation of those virtues that elevate
humanity, perpetuate republics, make
tlie flag glorious, aud make our institu
tions perpetual. [Prolonged applause
and cries of “vote.”]
HOME RULE DEBATE.
Gladstone Possibly to Make His Last
Effort Wednesday.
London, Aug, 26.—The last stage of tlie
home rule debate in the House of Com
mons will begin on next Wednesday.
This, tho beginning of the end, will bo
marked, probably, by another great
speech from Gladstone, who will make
the motion for tlie third reading.
In this supreme and, perhaps, his final
effort for the Irish cause, tlie aged Prem
ier is likely to touch on a question or two
which the government has ignored so far
iti the exhausting aud exhaustive discus
sion of the bill.
After Gladstone, will come ail the mas
ters of oratorical fireworks whom the op
position can muster. Goshen, chancellor
of the exchequer iu tlie last Salisbury ad
ministration, is expected to make the first,
reply to Gladstone. As lie is not a de
bater of the first order, however, tho
interest of the unionists lias been concen
trated bn the attack which Joseph Cham
berlain will make on the government on
Thursday.
Balfour, leader of the unionists, will
deliver their final protest against the bill
on Friday. John Morley, chief secretary
for Ireland, Herbert Asquith, homo sec
retary. and .Sir Wm. Harcourt, chancell
or of the exchequer, all debaters of the
foremost rank, will probably be tlie gov
ernment’s champions in this final vote
with the opposition. The home rule bill
will be passed during Friday night.
The rule closing the debate at midnight
will be suspended by tho government and
at about 2 o’clock the division will bo
taken.
END OF A LONG STRUGGLE.
This close of the six-mouths’ struggle
will be attended with scenes of
keen excitement. Tlie government, how
ever, with vivid recognition of the fight
that recently disgracod the House, is mak
ing every effort to keep the feeling below
the danger point. All tlie Gladstonian
members have received word from head
quarters that they must refrain from any
demonstration likely to anger tho oppo
sition excessively.
If the Irish members restrain their en
thusiasm sufficiently to conform to this
request, there will be no recurrence of
the brawls on the floor of the House.
FHOQRAMME DETERMINED ON.
It now has been decided definitely that
the home rule bill shall be introduced in
the House of Lords on Monday, Septem
ber 4, and will be taken to the second
reading on the following day. Tho
division will be made and the
bill will bo rejected on September 8.
Some sort of compromise at the autumn
session is now regarded by many as prob
able. Gladstone has made a temporary
peace with the Scotchmen, who were
claiming his attention for their demands
before they went further with him is his
Irish home rule.
At Rome and Rotterdam.
Rome, Aug. 26.—Seven persons died fit
Asiatic cholera here to-day.
NINE CASES AT ROTTERDAM.
Rotterdam, Aug. 26.—Nine cases of
cholera have been found here in tho last
four days.
MURDER AND SUICIDE.
Early Morning Tragedy in a Balti
more Back Alley.
Baltimore, Md., Aug. *56.—A ghastly
double tragedy was enacted in Northeast
Baltimore early this morning. George
W. Reed, a Belgian block paver residing
on Spring alley, cut his wife’s throat
from ear to ear and then drew the bloody
razor across his own throat. The woman
was dead when discovered lying in the
gutter in front of the house. Reed was
still alive, but died at Johns Ilopkius
hospital at 8:30 this morning.
THE WOMAN’S GHASTLY WOUND.
The 11-year-old son of the oouple, John
Reed, said he was lying on a lounge in the
front room of the house and his mother
was sitting in a rocking chair when his
father entered in an intoxicated condi
tion. The boy was sent after some milk
by his father, but, finding the store
closed, returned home. As he reached
the house, he said, his mother came
running out, with her throat cut and
blood dropping over tier clothing, and fell
in the gutter in front of tho house. His
father, he said, was in the front room
with a razor in his hand.
GASHES HER AGAIN AND THEN HIMSELF.
The boy says he ran with the pitcher
and struck his father over the head,
breaking the pitcher. His father then
ran out and gashed his mother's throat
again. Running through the house into
the yard, the man plunged the razor Into
his neck. Reed had been out of work for
three weeks and hau been on a spree
most of that time. A box of rough-on
rats was found in his pocket, which led to
the belief that the man intended to poi
son his entire family. The couple had
been married about fourteen years, and
fivo children are left orphans by the
double tragedy. By some it is stated that
Reed’s crime was the result of jealousy
inflamed by drink, and that he had
threatened several times to kill his wife.
FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT.
A Train Telescopes Another—Sixteen
Killed; Forty Injured.
Long Island, N. Y , Aug. 26.—A fright
ful accident occurred to-night at the Bush
wick junction of the Long Isffcnd railroad.
A Rockaway train ran into the rear end
of Manhattan Beach train about 11:35
o’clock, telescoping several of the cars.
Sixteen dead have been taken from the
wreck and their bodies are now lying
in Havenmayer’s tin shop at Laurel Hill,
which has been converted into a tempo
rary morgue.
It is now estimated that the number of
injured will reach in the neighborhood of
thirty or forty people, many of whom it is
believed will die.
Pretty Slick Refugee.
Wilmington. N. C., Aug. 26.—A refugee
from Brunswick, Ga., managed to evade
the quarantine and got into the city Fri
day. He, however, left soon after, find
ing that the authorities were after him.
He was not sick, and claims that he left
Brunswick three weeks ago.
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FORECAST OF LEGISLATION.
Wilson Bill to Pass The Honse And
Be Pigeon-Holed.
he Voorhees Senate Bill, Which Con
tains a Declaration for Bi-metallism,
is Believed to be Destined for Enact
ment into Law, and Will Receive the
President’s Signature—Probability
That the Senate Will Debate That
Measure About Two Weeks Before
Sending it Over to the House.
Washington. T>. C., Aug. 26.—The prob
able course of repeal legislation in thff
two houses is as follows:
The vote on the Wilson repeal bill will
be taken on Monday In the House, and,
the sifver-purehnso clause of tho Sherman
law will be repealed. The bill will then
go to the Senate, where it will be re
ferred to the finance committee, which
will promptly plgoou-liolo it. The Sonata
will go right along talking silver, as it haa
been doing for several days. It will do
this two weeks, or jierhaps longer, before
tho final vote will be taken. The bill
which will be passed will be Voorhees’
bill, and not the Wilson bill from the
House, which will slumber quietly in the
room of tlie finance committee. Then tho
Voorhees bill will go over to the House.
WHAT THE HOUSE WILL DO.
It will doubtless be acted on with littlo
delay, though there may be another flood
of oratory, because, as there is some dif
ference between the Senate and Houso
measures tho silver men may insist oa
having some time for argument. If there
is a prospect of much contest, however,
closure will speedily be adopted by the
House and the bill will be passed, and
will then bo ready for the President's
signature. The Voorhees bill differs from
the. Wilson bill only in making a declara
tion in favor of bi-metallism. The repeal
men claim that ninety-six democrats will
vote against free coinage at any ratio and
in favor of the unconditional repeal
of the Sherman law. They
say that only twonty out
of 127 republicans in tho House will vote
for free coinage, leaving the remainder to
vote for repeal. This will make 103 votes
out of 354, or a majority of 51. They be
lieve the ratio of 16 to 1 will get tha
largest vote from tlie silver men. Some
will vote for 20 to 1, who will vote for no
lower ratio, but they will bo more than
offset by the populists and others, who
will voto for 16 to 1 or nothing.
GEN. OORDON TO SPEAK.
Senator Gordon, who has been sick, an
nounced to-du.v that ho will address tha
Senate Tuesday on the financial ques
tion.
NORTHEASTERLY GALES.
These and General Rains Predicted
for Southern Coast States.
Washington, Aug. 26. —A weather bu
reau special bulletin says: The hurri
cane indicated by the weather bureau in
the general synopsis of conditions at 8
o’clock a. ni., Friday, Aug. 25, as prob
ably existing about UK) miles southeast of
Florida, has apparently moved west, and
early this morning passed to the north of
but near, Nassau, in the Bahumas, where
high winds prevailed ail night, and at 8
o'clock a. in. winds brisk from the north
west, with the barometer at 29.56. The
course of this storm center hus thus far
lain to the westward of its two predeces
sors. and, as is frequently the ease, it
should therefore strike the Atlantic coast
at a point further south than did the
hurricane of Wednesday last. The heavy
ocean swell preceding the storm was re
ported Friday at Savannah. Northeast
erly gales and general rains are indicated
for Saturday night and Sunday in tho
southern coast states, including the west!
coast of the Florida Peninsula.
600 VETERAN CAMPS
Gen. Moreland Expecta That Numbef
at the Berningham Reunion.
Now Orleans, Aug. 26.—Adjutant-Gen.
Geo. Moreland has furnished a
list containing a summary of camps
of the United Confederate Veterans
by states for the information
of the veterans and public, and states
that applications for papers for organiza
tion have been received already from
over one hundred nftw camps,
which, lie believes, with
the 871 now registered, will, unless tho
stringency of tho times prevents, marshal
i the representatives of 500 camps at the
Birmingham reunion on Oct. 2 and 8. He
says that tho change of date of the re
union to Oet. 2 and 8 will give greater
satisfaction to every portion of the south,
and a large and enthusiastic meeting is
expected.
FIRE AT BARNWELL.
The Greater Part of Brown’s Block.
Swept Away.
Columbia. S. C., Aug. 26.—The town of
Barnwell had a $4,000 fire to-day. The
whole of Brown's row was swept away,
except Brown’s store building and the
building of the Bank of Barnwell. Build
ings belonging to R. A. Ellis, Mrs. W. C.
Woodward, Peter St. Clair and J. J.
Brown were consnmed.
NEW YORK DEMOCRATS.
Saratoga and October 6 for the Stats
Convention.
New York, Aug. 26.—The democratic
state committee has decided upon Sara
toga, October stb, as the place and time
for holding tho state convention.
Fatal Derailment.
Columbus. 0., Aug. 26.—At 6 o’clock
tliis morning u Baltimore and Ohio freight
train was derailed at Blacklick, near
Newark, while running at high speed.
The engine and several cars were piled up
in a hugh mass of wreckage. Fireman S.
C.; Stonebuhner of Newark, was terribly
scalded, and will die. Curley Mitchell, a
friend of Stoneburner, who was on the
engine at tlie time, was crushed to death.
Body of a Murdered Man Found.
Richmond, Va. Aug. 26.—The body of
a white man, whose skull was fractured,
was found to-day near the railroad track
at Temple station, on the Petersburg road
The verdict of the coroner’s jury of Ches
terfield oountry was that the man had
been murdered.
Rust, 801 l Worm and Shedding.
Coushatta, La., Aug. 26.—The cotton
crops are reported failing fast on account
of rust, boll worms and shedding. Cot
ton is opening rapidly, and picking will
be general next week.