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, the MORNING NEWS. I
} ESTABLISHKDI&SO. INCORPORATED 1888 V
] J. H. ESTILL, President. )
TWO DEATHS AND 34 CASES.
Brunswick’s Scourge Keeping Up Its
Average.
One of the Dead a White Man and the
Other a Negro—A Total of 482 Cases
to Date and Twenty-five Deaths—The
Cool Wave Favorable to a Decline in
Cases, but an Increase in the Death
List.
Brunswick, Ga., Oct. 15.—New cases
of fever were officially reported to-day as
follows, there being 11 whites and 23
negroes:
Whites—Daniel Gale, Annie Dempster,
Mrs. William McCullough, Ben Winton,
John B. Gunning, Mamie Clark. Fannie
Olsen, Charles Anderson, John Fox, Nel
lie Stern and Richard Walker.
Colored —Nicy Bowden, Maude Chris
topher, Will Margault, Thomas Thomas
and wife, Lizzie Collins, Rob Williams,
Eliza Whitehead, Carrie Johnson, So
phie Mallette, Burr Mallette, Rich Pink
ley, Alex. Knox. J. T. Monks, Charles
Laurence, Maria Caroenter, Emma Tay
lor, Mollie Brown, Nancy Carson, and
Alice Carson.
Dead—J. M. Hendricks, white, and
Manuel Thomas, colored.
Discharged—William Herring, Irwin
Cumming, Jane Taylor, Mattie Gordon,
Lucretia Jones. Sam Stump, J. H. Ott,
Joseph Linder, Florence Ott, John Green,
Julia Armstrong. William Lucre, Josie
Armstrong, W. H. Cumming, Rena Arm
strong. Mary J. Gale, Jessie Barns,
Conrad Winkler, George Reddick, Charles
Anderson, Willie Mills and Dillic Reddick.
Recapitulation—Cases under treatment,
855; discharged, 188; deaths, 24; total,
462, mortality percentage, 11.1)6.
J. M. Hendricks, who died this after
noon, was an ex-policeman.
Three others, P. Levin and one of the
Perrin boys and his father are hourly
expected to die.
M. J. Egan was stricken this afternoon.
The cold wave is favorable to a decline
in cases, but unfavorable to patients un
der treatment. Local weather prophets
state that the thermometer reached
within 3° of frost this morning. At sun
rise this morning it registered sfi°, while
to-night at 7 o’clock it registered 02°.
Surgeon Faget predicts a great decrease
in cases after six days more have passed,
but fears the death-roll may pile up heav
ily on account of the number of cases now
under treatment and insufficiency of
proper food and clothing to prepare them
for the cold.
ONE NEW CASE AT JESUP.
Jesup, Ga.,Oct. 15.—Onenewcase, Mrs.
W Sarvis, and one discharged, the South
well child, is the fever record here to-day.
l)r. George W. Drawdy is out of dan
ger, but unfortunately his mind is still
very much clouded ana it is impossible to
say what the termination will be.
Dr. J. J. Knott of Atlanta arrived here
this morning. By the courtesy of Sur
geon Lincoln, he visited in company’ with
him all the white patients now under
treatment for yellow fever. He is visit
ing Jesup and Brunswick for the purpose
of obtaining further facts and symptoms of
the fever, and also with the intention,
if allowed, of testing his turpentine and
ozone treatment. He is well-known from
his pamphlet written on that subject and
which will prove interesting reading,
whether his theories he true or false, to
all those taking any interest in the sub
ject. Unfortunately there were no
patients fitted for his test, all being now
more or less Improving so he will proceed
to Brunswick to-morrow, hoping to find
better material there.
'the weather so is much cooler that some
en husiasts t are predicting a frost to
night. Although there have been a large
number of parties applying
for aid, yet the city through
the efforts of its energetic mayor.
James Steele, has provided work and
rations for all applying, without < ailing
upon the outside world for assistance, and
it is probable that no such appeals will
be necessary’. Everything is running as
smoothly as possible under the circum
stances, and a very large majority of the
citizens are enthusiastic in sounding the
praises of the m ayor.
Dr. Lincoln believes that the spread of
the disease is checked, and looks for very
few, if any, more new cases.
RARE ISON MAKES A DENIAL.
T i" following is furnished the Morning
Lew- for publication:
I iii it kc in the Morning News thismorn-
} n - that your correspondent reported me r.s
“ CUI - arrested and placed under cond for vio
“lmg the quuiaiitine restrictions which is
not mi, i win jjive you a [ U ii statement of the
M;cr j went to the coal chute where the
i act Tennessee, Virgin a and Georgia pas
fi "train stops to mail some important
tail ">'u! mail. Because I did not have a par
ton trom the mayor, the mayor wanted
' we me arrested. which I
to Because three or four other went
:"V' "and chute at the same time without per
, olid the mayor would not have them ar
" ■ 1 a-i not put under ond. ur. Lincoln
* > our cit, made a proposition that if I would
. v 0 ’ 1 he coal chute any more he would
i- truss the charge, ioo much partiality is
sawahiv,. in regard to ■ u irantiue restne
, "me can get permits to go where
, and others can't get them. Mv
" re,|uires that 1 should have a permit
-' 1 <*:! my important mail to the auditors.
‘ "-a write Surgeon Murray for a permit,
iru, J. D. liAKBISON.
uuet Av nt E. TANARUS., V. and G. and S.. FandW.
SIX STORES GO UP IN SMOKE.
SrownsviUe, Tenn., the Scene of nn
Early Morning Blaze.
Memphis, Tenn., Oct. 15. —A special to
II 1 unmiercial from Brownsville, Tenn.,
s. s About 2 o’clock this morning fire
"is discovered in Rives’ grocery, at the
t u Invest corner of Court square. Before
utnes , ould be checked, six two
"tick stores aud a large frame liv
s'j had been destroyed. The
■j ’ "ere occupied by Rives’ inaraet,
ue n. Klico, Jerre Collins. oo
1; : "Tger, and J. R. and Mrs. Myers.
t , ” will reach way up into the thou
t, V "da is thought thu the insur
er' •’ "TV small. The origin of the fire
“ unknown.”
REFUSES to race pixley.
be Matched Only Against
Nancy Hanks or Stamboul.
\VU., Oct. 15 Morris J.
“ '“hteh Alix against Nancy Hanks,
, ” 1 ■ i or other horses owned or eon
tlte parties ehollcnging him.
t‘t them the following telegram,
s ! ‘ b'-ney. Lexington Leathers
( A their opportunity to deteal
‘ley and lost Will not truss
” 'hi dead game. Will trot AilX
• tisij ,*. stain Lull or uny other
t. " hauls own or control win b AIL
wttrady Ucfuatad
Mottms J.
A BABY CAUSES A SCANDAL.
Left on a Door Step the Sensational
Story of Its Parentage Comes Out.
Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 15.—A ten-days-old
baby wrapped in fine garments and half
smothered with roses left on the door
steps of the private boarding house kept
by Misses Fannie and Carrie Leo Cox on
Washington street at midnight last night
is the innocent cause of a sensation here
to-day. When the cries of the little one
brought guests of the house to the door,
it was taken in. A note pinned to the
clothing begged that it be humanely
cared for and assurance was given that
the waif was of gentle birth. After the
first exoitemeut caused by the advent of
the baby and its racket subsided, it was
turned over to the police.
THE WOMAN WHO LEFT IT SEEN.
A boarder who happened to be coming
in late recognized Dr. C. A. Stiles, a
prominent physician, a half block away
from the house. He was accompanied by
a little lady dressed in black and snugly
wrapped in a veil. When the boarder
fouud the house in an uproar over the
discovery of the baoy a few moments be
fore he arrived, Dr. Stiles and the little
jvoman in black were at once connected
with the case. To-day investigations
made by relatives of the ladies who man
age the boarding house, brought out an
interesting story.
THE DOCTOR EXPLAINS HIS OBJECT.
Dr. Stiles admitted that he and the
lady in black had left the baby at the
Cox house. He has a son who desires to
adopt a child and having attended the
mother of this one, he arranged to throw
it in the way of his son as the mother did
not want it. His son and his wife, who
is a sister to the Misses Cox who keep
the boarding house, were expected to be
at the house and receive the little
one as a godsend, but the
doctor blundered and his blunder has
made a pretty mess. He failed to con
sider that he would compiomise the repu
tation of anybody in the house by leaving
the infant there, and this afternoon he
was confronted with the alternative of
clearing up the parentage of the little
one or of answering to those who con
sidered themselves compromised.
THE MOTHEh’S NAME GIVEN.
Dr. Stiles finally gave the name of the
mother as Miss Grace French, 49 Luckie
street, a highly respectable quarter. Miss
French is not yet 15 years of age. Her
mother, with whom she lives, tells her
story. Mrs. French, whose mother and
two brothers with other relatives live
here and move in good society, came to
Atlanta last April from Chicago, where
her husband is in the hardware ousiness.
She says her daughter at the age of
14 ran away to Milwaukee
last February and married a
lb-year old boy named Fisher. When the
marriage was discovered a divorce was
procured on account of their youth, and
the daughter was brought here to get her
away from the scene of her folly. She
has been known here as Miss Grace
French, and has made many friends, who
never suspected her past. She went in
good circles and was a church worker.
Dr. Stiles offered to give the child a
home with his own son, having satisfied
himself that the story of its parentage
was true and but for his blundering way
in carrying out a surprise party for his
son and daughter-in-law all would have
gone well. To make matters worso the
youthful mother of the little waif had
captured the heart of a young business
man since coming here, who is yet in
ignorance of her story, and the wedding
was to have taken place in the near future.
For this reason the child was
to have been given into other
hands and its existence kept a secret al
ways. Mrs. French has proof of her
daughter s marriage in Milwaukee and of
her divorce. The child is now in the
Home for the Friendless. As the Atlanta
wedding will hardly occur now, it will be
taken back to its little mother’s arms.
FROST IN THE COTTON BELT.
The Crops Damaged Throughout the
Mississippi Valley.
Memhis, Tenn., Oct. 15.—A killing
frost in this section last night did injury
to crops and vegetation. The cotton crop
will be cut short 20 per cent., and in low
lands the top crop will be a failure.
The frost seems to have been general
throughout the Mississippi valley.
A special to the Commercial
from Vicksburg, says: “Cotton
and other tender vegetation in
the low lands was nipped by frost this
morniug in this portion of Mississippi,
and heavy frosts are reported in North
ern Louisanu. where a much lower tem
perature is recorded. With drought and
other causes, the damage will be great.”
A s|ieciul from Canton savs: “The
cold wave that struck this section ou the
12ih resulted in a killing frost Consid
erable damage will result to late cotton,
as a grea' deal is still uninatured.”
A dispatch from Greenville, Miss.,
savs: “ The first frost of the season fell
here this morning, killing all tender veg
etation aud doing considerable damage to
cotton.”
THIN SHEETS OF ICE.
New Orleans, Oct. 15.—Dispatches re
ceived from Grenada. Greenwood and Can
ton, Mississippi report a heavy frost last
night with thin sheets of ice in exposed
places. Considerable damage will result
to late cotton, much of it being unma
tured. In several counties surrounding
Grenada, the cotton crop, it is stated,
will be about 25 per cent, below the
average. A little frost was also reported
as far south as Plaquemine, La.
IN THE GALE ON THE ATLANTIC.
Steamer Captains Arriving at Niw
York Tell of Their Experience.
New York, Oet. 15.—The steamers
Atlas, Egyplmu Prince and Cyrill, which
arrived to-day from Jamaica, Gibraltar
and Para, respectively, report having
been caught by the gale of Friday last,
but suffered no damage.
The Cyrill left Para on Oct. 1. The tel
egraph wires had been cut and all com
munication stopped. There was no ex
citement in Para or the district surround
-lUI ho ship El Rio of the Morgan line,
which left New <irleans on Tuesday, ex
perienced the full lorce of tile s.orm and
had to remain hove to for thirty-six
hours. She passed a Norwegian bark on
Friday eveniug, which was hove to. aud
which had oil bags out to calm the seas,
wUfi h were running mountains high.
Nineteen fishing sina ks, the crews of
which number '<i men, have been at. sea
Tbun*<iuy iu*b. it i® toinou tlwt
a number of them have foundered during
the gale.
A Big Crowd For Sunday.
Chicago, Oct K. The total atwnd- i
an. eat the lair today waa .W.djO Ol
w Inch i1,700 paid.
SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY, OCTOBER Hi, IS'.KJ.
DOWNFALL OF DOM PEDRO.
Gen. Fonseca’s Story ol His Love lor
but Desertiou ol the Emperor.
The General’s Course Decided for Him
by the Inevitable Drift of Events.
The Rich Planters Alienated From
the Emperor by the Decree Abolish
ing Slavery-As the Sons of Many of
the Planters Were Officers in the
Army It Was Easy to Turn It
Against the Emperor When the
Time Came—Popular Hatred of the
Jesuits Also Helped Inflame the
Feeling Against the Empire—The
History of the Republic.
New York, Oct. 15.—8 y a New Yorker,
long resident in Brazil, who lately re
turned from Rio do Janeiro, the following
statement was made yesterday: “Some
of the most striking facts, having a di
rect and vital relation to the condition of
affairs in Brazil, have been omitted from
every newspaper account thus far pub
lished of the causes leading to the revolt
against the republic.
“In order that they may be understood,
a brief reference to some of the incidents
connected with the deposition of Emperor
Dom Pedro is necessary.
A TALK WITH DE FONSECA.
“In January, 1892, 1 had an interview
with Manuel Deodore de Fonseca at the
little village of ljuca, in the mountains,
about eight miles back of Rio, and a fav
orite resort of the wealth v residents of
the capital during the yellow fever sea
son. He talked to mo freely of the stir
ring scenes in which he acted a conspicu
ous part, and declared it was the saddest
day of his life when he was forced to
choose between his affection for his im
perial master and his fidelity to the
army.
HONORED BY THE EMPEROR.
“Emperor Dom Pedro had raised him
to the rank of general lor his skillful con
duct and superb dariug during the Para
guayan war. Gratitude for that distinc
tion and respect for the character of the
emperor drew him in one direction, while
a hearty sympathy with the republican
view of his associates urged him in the
opposite one. Thus force of circumstances
and the inevitable drift of events decided
the future for him. The empire fell, and
Gen. Fonseca assumed the direction of
affairs.
CAUSES OF THE REVOLUTION.
“There were two main causes operating
to bring about the revolution. The rich
planters had become alienated from the
throne by Emperor Dom Pedro's decree
abolishing slavery, and as the sons of
many of these men were officers in
the army, that body only awaited
a good pretext to turn against him.
Such a pretext was furnished when he
issued his fatal order directing the troops
to retire into the interior. A council tyas
immediately assembled at which it was
resolved to disobey the order, and from
that act of disobedienco it was an easy
and a natural step to the deposition of
the emperor. ,
XHE PRINCESS SCRUBS A FI.OOB.
“The other cause was the popular
hatred of the Jesuits. Donna Isabel,
Dom Pedro's daughter, had excited con
tempt and indignation by submitting to a
penalty imposed upon her by an Italian
priest, to whom she had confessed some
venal sin. He required her to scrub the
floor of the church, known as the Cam
panhia. The probability of her succes
sion, if the empire lasted, stimulated the
spirit of rebellion and was a potent factor
in precipitating the final catastrophe.
The republic, so called, which succeeded
was a republic in name only. It was es
tablished by men, who not only lacked
any tyuo conception of what constitutes a
republican government, but who were
deficient in the wisdom, patriotism and
integrity necessary to establish one.
EVERYONE FOR HIMSELF.
“It brought in o popular parlance the
maxim ‘Everybody for himself.! That
maxim has been the guiding principle of
the leaders ni Brazilian affairs ever since
the departure of Emperor Dom Pedro.
The republic is in reality a dictatorship
since the most important laws and or
dinances have no higher sanction than
the decree of the president.
“Oneof the first actsof Gen. Fonseca as
head of the provisional government had
tho e z ect of arousing animosity which in
conjunction with other causes, at last
culminated in the Melio rebellion. He
douoled the normal strength of the army
and increased the pay of its officers.
MELLO AND THE MALCONTENTS.
“The bond of sympathy between
Admiral Melio and the malcontents had
its origin in the following circumstance:
Emperor Dom Pedro had alienated the
navy by the appointment of Admiral
Lardace, a radical, as his minister of
marine. When Custoiio Melio visited
Chile, the year before in command
of the wooden vessel Almirante
Darrasse, he invited Don Augus
tine, the grand-son of the Emperor,
to accompany him as his guest. They I
were entertained in great style by the I
Chileans, and Admiral Melio returned j
those civilities by giving several balls
and dinners aboard his ship. The ex
penses thus incurred for the sake of his |
distinguished guest amounted to *2,500.
His expenditure, the minister of marine
refused to sanction, and Admiral Melio
was obliged to foot the bill out of his own
pocket. The minister, by this action, in
censed the whole navy.
AN EDITOR BECOMES A LION.
“Quintino Boscayuva, editor of the
Opais, the leading paper of Rio de Janeiro,
bitterly attached Admiral Lardace, de
claring that the nation was disgraced by
bis refusal to honor a bill incurred under
such circumstances.
“His criticisms had a great effecton the
public mind, and Admiral Melio was re
imbursed by means of a popular subscrip
tion. Senhor Boscayuva thus became the
hero of the ritual party in kio. and when
l eixoto deposed Gen. Fonseca, who had
honored Senhor Boscayuva in making him i
minister of joreign affairs, he thoreoy
arrayed that party against his adminis
tration.
“In estimating the strength of the
present government and the chances of
holding out, the fact is also to bo consid
ered that in the three provinces of Rio
Grande doSuli Gear a and Uio tho damage
done reflect s scant credit on either guns
or gunners."
A DECREE AGAINST THE REBELS.
Washington, Oct 15.—At a lato hour
last night .■secretary Gresham received a
decree Issued by President Peixoto of
Brazil. It recites that the national
hug is the symbol of the lawful
p.-rsonality of the union a ail tho
country’s national sovereign, and that
vessel are only |>erniittc<i to carry
the Hag under Jawful condition*,
that a part of Hie Vessels of the nadonai
navy have ruptured others lu commerce,
have armed them as vessels of commerce
and have since Sopt. 6 committed acta of
hostility against the constitutional gov
ernment, the inoffensive populace and
public and private property, still continu
ing to use the national Hag, committing
theso criminal acts under it; that it be.
longs to the executive to maintain the
personality of the republic before the
law of nations and to guard
the national flag. The ” de
cree is therefore made to deprivo
from other privileges and the protection
ot the national Hag all vessels of war un
der i ommaiid of 1 tear Admiral Custodie
Jose DeMello, which have been in revolt
in the bay of Rio de Janeiro against the
constitution and lawful authority of the
republic; the merchant vessels, a'rmed by
the rebels, and all other vessels in their
service; the fortifications, which are tak
ing part in the revolt, and such vessels
and su. h fortifications as may from this
time join the rebels.
FEARS FOR A STEAMER.
Her Smoke Stack and Masts Down
When She Was Last Seen.
Toledo, 0.. Oct. 15. —Grave fears are
entertained in this city for the safety of
the freight steamer Dean Richmond of
the Clover Leaf line, which left here Fri
day morning for Buffalo, and which has
not yet arrived at her destination. The
last heard of the boat was a report that
reached the Clover Leaf steamship
agent here to the effect that
the Richmond had been snoken off Erie,
Pa., with her smokestack and masts
down, and in ill condition to weuther the
gale of the last thirty-six hours. Tho
Richmond’s cargo was 1,200 tons of mis
cellaneous freight. Her crew numbered
seventeen hands. The Richmond is owned
by a Detroit company.
STORIES BROUGHT TO BUFFALO.
Buffalo, N. Y.. Oct. 15.—The saddest
feature of the lake storm which raged
yesterday and last night is the roported
loss of tho Doan Richmond on the shore
near Dunkirk. The first heard of this
disaster was at 9 o’clock this morniug,
when the captain of the Helena reported
having cited tho Dean Richmond off Long
Point, where she seemed to be laboring
under difficulties. Later, Capt. Jack
Tierney, of the steamer W. H. Stevens, re
ported that he had sighted tho Richmond
in the middle of tho lake about four miles
this side of Erie. One of her stacks was
missing, and while he was looking the
other stack and spar went by the board.
She was laboring heavily iu the trough,
and he thought her steerage gear had be
come disabled. Since then nothing has
been seen or heard of the vessel. It is
thought that she must have goue down,
with all on board Her cargo was mer
chandise from Toledo to Buffalo. She be
longed to the Toledo, St. Louis and Kan
sas City line.
THE CREW.
Her crew consisted of about eighteen
souls, of which the following is the best
obtainable list : George Stoddard, master,
Toledo; Walter Goodyear, first mate, To
ledo; George , second mate, Toledo;
John Hogan, first engineer. Port Huron ;
William Brown, fireman, Toledo; Francis
Patton, lookout, Buffalo; Miss Ainsworth,
stewardess, Port Huron, J. W. Wheeler,
wheelman. Toledo.
A dispatch from Dunkirk says that
throe unknown bodies, apparently those
of sailors, have been wasliod ashore a
few miles from that port. The local
agent of the steamship line has tele
graphed to every point on the lake shore
between Buffalo and Erie, to keep a sharp
lookout for wreckage, or bodies, but so
far has received no answers.
ONE OF THE CORPSES IDENTIFIED.
Dunkirk, N. Y.. Oct. 15. —There is no
further reasonable doubt that the steamer
Richmond has gone down with all hands
on board. One of the bodies washed
ashore this morning and has been identi
fied upon descriptions furnished by sail
ors of Buffalo, as that of John Hogan,
first engineer, of Port Huron. Mich. The
signboard of a boat, bearing her name,
was later found ami some barrels of Hour
which formed part of her cargo, have
also drifted to land. She must have gone
down off Light House Point.
CLOSURE FOR BOTH HOUSES.
Representative Hall Preparing a Con
stitutional Amendment on the Sub
ject.
Washington. Oct. 15.—Representative
Hall of Minnesota has been preparing a
constitutional amendment, which he will
introduce, providing a form of closure for
bo.h House and Senate. It is his idea
that the people would bo glad to amend
the constitution so that a vote might
be reached in either House alter
a reasonable time. A part of
his amendment will be that no
measure shall pass either House unless a
majority of each shall vote in favor of it.
Mr. Hall would require a roll call on
every measure that passes, no matter
how trivial, the same as is required in
the legislatures of irany states. This
amendment, he dues not think will pass
at this session, but he hopes that it mav
be the groundwork of some substantial
reforms in legislation.
WRECKED ON THE BEACH.
A Lake Schooner Goes to Pieces and
Six Lives Lost.
Onekama, Mich., Oct. 15.—The big
schooner Minnehaha was beached at
Stark, 10 miles north of here, at noon yes
terday, to save her from foundering in
deep water. The seas soon overwhelmed
the wreck and drove the crew into the
rigging. Before the arrival of the life
saving crews from Manistee aud Frank
fort, the schooner went to pieces. But
one, Capt. William Packer, was saved.
The dead are; John Rafferty, mate;
James Ratferty. a sailor: Mary Keefe, the
cook, and three sailor , whose names are
unknown. The wreck was first sighted
by a man on the bluff at Stark, who
jumped on his liorso and rode at a furious
rate through tho storm to this place in
order ,o uotify the life-saving crew at
Manistee.
DUFFERIN S SON MARRIED.
His Bride Mias Flora Davis of New
York.
Paris, Oct. 16.—The civil marriage of
Lord Terence Blackwood, son of Marquis
of Dufferin, the British ambassador, and
Miss Flora Davis of New York, was cele
brated yesterday at the Malrie iu the
Rue d’ Adjour near the British embassy.
As the ambassador's family are iu mourn
ing for his cousin, Sir T. A. Blackwood,
who died on Oet. 2, only relatives were
invited.
A Populist for Congrsas.
Petersburg,” Vu , Oet 15. —The popu
list) held a convention at W’averly to nay
and nouiiiiaiod George W. Jaekson of
Sussex county in place of Maj. Maun
Page, who has w undrawn from the fight.
IT WAS A ONE-SIDED FIGHT.
The Repeal Men Had No Show of
Tiring Out the Silver Men.
The Necessity That the Anti-Silver
Men Should Maintain a Quorum of
Their Own All the Time While Only
a Few Silver Men Had to Be Present
Settled the Fight—The Fight Made to
Show Loyalty to the Administra
tion.
Washington, Oct. 15.—The session
which was begun in the Senate Wednes
day night could not have had any other
end than it did. It was called a test of
physical endurance, hut strictly speaking
it was not that. It was simply a ques
tion of whether a given number of men,
all of whom were obliged to be in tho
Senate chamber all the time, could out
last another given number, of whom only
a small portion was obliged to be there all
the time. There had to be a quorum.
The point of no quorum was made every
few minutes, or whenever one of tho
anti-repealers choose to do so, or thought
a quorum was not present. The repealers
had to make that quorum. They could
not depend on their opponents to make it
for them, and thus “give aid and
comfort to the enemy.” Therefore, all the
repealers—or all who were not physical
ly unable to be present—had to be there.
If one of them retired to the cloakroom to
sit in a chair and doze a fow minutes, he
did so with tho knowledge that ho was
liable to be called at any time. If one of
them had the temerity to go off into his
committee room to got a quiet half hour's
snooze, he knew that tho duration of his
nap might be so short that he would not
realize that he had boen asleep at all.
A ONE-SIDED FIGHT.
On the other hand, there was no neces
sity for all tho anti-repealers to be on
hand. A few of them sufficed to perform
their tasK. One was noedod to make a
speech, and another was nee .ed to call
the attention of the presiding officer to‘
the fact that there was no quorum; and
there was no real necessity for any others
to be there. A number of them were
there, for reasons of their own, but they
were not needed to carry out the pur
poses of their side.
COULD BF. BUT ONE END.
Of course, there could be but one end
ing to such a proceedure. Those who had
to stay all the time had to give out, ex
hausted, in advance of those who could
from time to time have relief. It is not
supposed that the repealers entered on
this contest with any hope of succeeding.
There have been similar contests in the
Senate before this, and they have invari
ably resulted in the defeat of those who
instituted them. It could not be other
wise, from the very nature of the case.
A present majority cannot wear out an
absent minority. The wearing must of
course be heaviest on those who have to
endure it, and not on thoso who exempt
themselves from it by their absence.
SELF-INFLICTED TORTURE.
This continuous session contest was
necessary—or was considered so—to con
vince the I’resideut aud other friends of
unconditional repeal that the repealers in
the Senate were willing to do everything
in their power to accomplish their end.
It was, to a much greater extent than
most people suppose, a case of devotion to
the chief executive. There are some who
are disposed to criticise the President for
requiring such devotion on tho part of his
followers in the Senate—a devotion which
entailed no small amount of suffering on
them, and in which none of them had any
hope of succeeding.
The Evening Star of this city says on
this point: “It was like the self-inflicted
torture of a religious fanatic to appease
the imagined anger of his God, and during
the closing hours of the ordeal the evi
dence of the suffering endured became
painful to the audience assembled to wit
ness the sacrifice. Men with long
years of service, capable of en
during the test of any intellec
tual battle, but past that age where brute
force and physical power are weapons at
their command, became piiiable objects
of physical suffering before the second
night's session was over. Their forms
bent, their legs trembling and their steps
unsteady, heavy lines drawn across their
features, as pale almost as death, with
dark rings around their eyes, which were
almost closed with sleep, and at any time
threatened with utter collapse.”
A GREAT FIGHT. *
It was a great fight which the repealers
made. Upheld by a strong sense of duty,
men long past tho meridian of life, re
mained in the arena and struggled ou
against the almost overpowering need for
sleep and the demands made by physical
weakness. There was no less a sacrifice
to pure duty made by some of the silver
men. Messrs. Walthall, George, Harris,
Morgan ami others on that side who re
mained at their post, and helped to make
a quorum which their opponents could
not at any time hate made without them,
' deserve the highest credit for their adher
ence to what they conceived to be their
duty, although it was against the policy
of the side they were ad .ocating.
Senaior Gordon, who is not by any
means in the best of health, sat out the
long vigils of the night, with the same en
durance which lie displayed when he fol
lowed the starry cross with Lee in Vir
ginia. Senator Colquitt came promptly
up at the beginning of the continuous ses
sion, but of course in his enfeebled condi
tion. staying in the Senate chamber in his
chair all night was an impossibility ; and
so he went home at a good lieil-time hour.
But he had the spirit and interest in the
fight to have kept him there, if his physi
cal condition had not compelled him to go
to bed at his usual hour.
INTEREST OF THE GEORGIANS.
The repri sentatives from Georgia wero
all over at the Senate ou tho first night,
and were much intens.ed. On the sec
ond night only three or four were there,
and only two - Ju ige Maddox and Carter,
Tate, who are almost inseparable—wore
"ni at the death.” They thought they
saw the beginning of the end. and they
“sat up with the hoys” until It came.
Private John Allen, the irrepressible
wag, spent nearly the whole of Wednes
day night with the senators. The very
presence of Allenjsuggests fun, and the
senators had it out of him. Along in
tho early morning, Just before the stars
began to pale. Senator Joe Blackburn
said to him: “John, you have been both
ering us here long enough You have
siiioaed our cigars and drunk our punch,
until you've got to go. Boys, let's nut
him out.” "Not much,” responded John.
“I've been in congress ten years, and
this is the first lime I've ever soon sens
tors earning their money, and i'm going
ostay here and sue it through ” Aud
lay he did.
AN EXAMPLE OF COURTESY.
A splendid example of courtesy was
shown at one time. Senator Voorhees,
utterly worn out with tho cares that were
on him. and the ceaseless vigil he had
kept, retired to his committoo room
Thursday aft irnoou to gel a little sloep.
Senator Dubois, the watchman of tho sil
ver men, noted his absence, fouud out he
was asleep, and for two hours refrained
from making the point of n* quorum, on
' purpose to avoid disturbing the rest of
the repeal chumplon. After two hours
Voorhees waked and cumo back to tho
chamber, and Dubois went on with his
quorum calling. But ho received the cor
dial i hanks of the repeal loader for his
consideration in letting him sleep two
hours undisturbed by a demand for roll
call.
CLEVELAND AGAINST COMPROMISING.
If there ever was any hope on tho part
of any senator that word would be re
ceived from the white house indicating
that President Cleveland would agree to
the presentation of a compromise it has
been by this time dissipated. “Keep up
the fight for repeal” seems to be the
watchword of the President and tho
cabinet. There has not been so far a
particle of encouragement to tho com
promise idea from the executive or his
cabinet. The President, it is understood,
will not consider any form of comprom
ise until it is presented, against his pro
test, after it has actually passed both
houses of congress. His position, as ex
plained at the last cabinet meeting, is
that unconditional repeal is the platform
of the Democratic party, the wish of the
people, tho mandate of more than two
thirds of tho House of Representatives,
and the wish of a majority of the Senate.
The President has never said that he
would not candidly consider any measure
presented to him by the two houses of
congress, but he wants nothing to do with
preparing such a measure, and he does
not believe that the House of Representa
tives, fresh from the peoplo, is in favor
of another silver purchase law.
FAULKNER FORGOT TO EAT.
To show how earnest tho senators were
in their work during the “test of endur
ance” proceedings, it may be mentioned
that on Friday Senator Faulkner forgot
to eat. With his usual vigor and energy,
lie threw himself into the silver fight,
body and soul, and so occupied was he in
watching lest a point should be gained by
his adversaries, and in endeavoring to
bring victory to his side, that he fasted
from Friday’s breakfast until Saturday
morning.
"I absolutely forgot to eat,” said he,
“and it never occurred to aie that 1 had
gone dinnerless and supperless to bed un
til I was at the breakfast table next
morning. It was a foolish tiling to do
and I suppose tnat was the reason I felt
so bad the next day; but when I go into
a fight, I go in to stay, and I am generally
one of the last to leave it.”
This incident illustrates the earnestness
with which the fight was prosecuted.
Other senators may' not have forgotten to
eat, as Senator Faulkner did, but the
contest absorbed all their mental facul
ties as well as all their physical powers,
and they became, to a very great extent,
regardless of everything else for a time.
CAN A COMPROMISE BE PASSED?
It is becoming an interesting question
whether enough votes can be brought to
gether to pass a compromise measure
through tho Senate, even if a compromise
is agreed upon by the moderate silver
men and the repealers. The idea has
been to unite the entire democratic vote
upou a compromise plan, but even this
would carry the measure by only
three majority, if the populist senators—
Stewart, Allen, Kyle and Peffer
—should vote against the compromise.
The votes of Senators Martin and Irßy,
who have strong populist leanings, would
Vie enough to upset the compromise scheme
by a majority of one.
The compromise seems more likely to
be sought by a union of all the silver men
with tho more moderate repealers. The
question in this case would be: How many
votes could he drawn from the repeal side*
The democratic senators who might be
denominatedmoderate repealers—Hun ton
of Virginia. Ransom of North Carolina
and Faulkner of West Virginia—if they
were to vote for a compromise, would
still leave the compromisers in a minority
of five. On the republican side they
would then have to look to Senators Carey
of Wyoming, Manderson of Nebraska and
Chandler of New Hampshire. This would
give them exactly the requisite number
of votes to pass a compromise bill by a
majority of one. The defection of Sena
tor Stewart and Senator Allen would
again upset the plan.
THE SUBSTITUTE BILL.
The substitute for the Wilson repeal
Bill, which Senator Cockrell and other
democratic senators are trying to get in
such shape as will command the approval
of the .pemocratic party in the Senate,
has not yet been completed; but it has
gone far enough to Justify the statement
that It will, in all likelihood, take the
shape of an extension of the present law
until the first of July, 1895, and the con
firmation of the authority of the Secre
tary of the Treasury to issue
bonds under the act of 1875. The
latter law is, however, to be so modified
as to provide th it these bonds shall
draw only 8 per cent, interest, whereas
issuatyre is now authorized at 4, and
5 per cent, interest. It is even thought
that the proposed amendment nay event
ually be so framed that the designated
limit of interest on bonds may be even
less than 3 per cent. There are probably
five or six of the ultra repeal men who
will neWr give their assent to this sort of
a proposition, and the extreme silver men
on the democratic side will accept it with
reluctance.
EVERYTHING UNCERTAIN.
It must be said, however, in all candor,
that there is just now no certainty about
this or any other proposition in the shape
of a compromise being accepted. The
frame of mind in which the Senate finds
itself, renders all calculations uncertain,
and all predictions very risky. A com
promise may be fixed up and adopted in
the next day or two, or tho struggle may
yet be indefinitely prolonged. The utmost
that your correspondent can do just in this
present juncture is to give what appears
to be the most probable outcome of the
very much tangled state of affairs that
now prevails in what has been called the
“most dignified, deliberative body In the
world.” All calculations and uredictions
may be upset iu any twenty-four hours.
The only thing absolutely certain about
the senatorial situation, is that every
thing is extremely uncertain. The air
is full of rumors, and almost every man
you meet has a belief about the outcome
of the situation which he is very
sure is a correct oue; but as a matter of
fact, there is not just now any comprom
ise, arrangement, agreement or plan that
cau tie counted on with any degree of cer
laiuty aud i do not know if 1 would be
far wrong if I used the word “probabili
ty” Instead of “certainty.’ 1 Your cor
rcs|siud< nt do* s not claim presclcuoe, and
without that no one tan foretell what
will be the result of the present muddle.
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Little Doubt But the Senate Fight
Will End in a tom promise.
The Members to Be Canvassed so
Thoroughly In Advance That Its
Passage Will Bo Assured When it is
Introduced—The New Bill Not to Bo
a Sectional Measure But the Silver
Men Will Be Given More Than They
Expected.
Washington, 'Oct. 15. The VVilson-
Voorhecs repeal bill, or substitute for it,
will again this week command the exclu
sive attention of tho Senate, hut the indi
cations now are that this will be tho
last week for the present given to the sub
ject in the senate. If tho compromise
men do not encounter unexpected obsta
cles their substitute will be prepared for
introduction by the middle of the week.
It is a part of the programme not to intro
duce the bill until assurance of sufficient
support to secure its passage is
received. Consequently when tho
bill Is onco presented in tho
Senate, it will be generally understood
that the end is in sight. There will ba
some brief speeches in explanation If not
iu defense of the measure, and somo
longer speeches in opposition to it.
Being a compromise measure, it will rep
resent no one man’s views, and it will ba
satisfactory to every one. It will be a
composite picture of the opinions of Sena
tors Cockrell, Jones of Arkansas, Faulk
ner, Gorman, Gray. Hill, and many other
democratic senators, with a snap shot at
the theories of some of the republican
senators as well. Asa consequence no
one of them will see himself iu it.
NOT A SECTIONAL MEASURE.
No more will it be familiar or to tho
liking of any one section of the country.
But it will probably go through, if intro
duced, and become a law. The senators
from the silver-producing states will be
the most vigorous in their expression of
disapproval. Yet it is barely possible
that some of them will vote for it. They
will do so if necessary to get the bill
through, and in doing so will
not he inconsistent. They will
take the bill ns a choice
of evils, if it should prove to be at ail fa
vorable to silver. Asa matter of fact, as
the bill is now outlined, it is really more
favorable to the white metal than the
silver men have hoped for at any time
since Senator Voorhees announced his ad
herence to the repeal bill. The compro
mise workers are not yet hopeless of se
curing the assent of almost all of the re
peal leaders in the democratic side and of
making the substitute a party measure,
Just as under the advice of Senator Gor
man, they attempted at the beginning of
the session to make the original bill.
APT TO GET SOME REPUBLICAN VOTES.
If they do not get the support of tha
entire democratic party in the Senate,
they will bo able to get a sufficient num
ber of votes from among the repeal re
publicans to guarantee the success of tho
bill. There are known to be several re
publicans on the repeal side whose un
friendliness to silver is of so mild a type
that they will be more than willing to see
it retain a fair degree of recognition in
this country. If therefore the bill should
come In, with limitation in point of
time and amount of the sli
ver purchases, with a provision lov
bonds for the preservation of the parity
of gold and silver aud without any refer
ence to the removal of the state bank tax,
as is now promised, it will secure the
support from the repealers on that side
of the chamber, if necessary, for its pas
sage. The democratic senators who are
holding out most stiffly against a com
promise. are the personal champions of
the President, like Senators Voorhees,
Palmer, Mills, Smith and Vilas.
TO BE ACCEPTED BY THE HOUSE.
The belief is general that the House will
accept any substitute that the Senate will
offer and that the President will sign the
bill, when it shall reach him. There are a
great many members of the House, who
voted for repeal, who desire an opportu
nity to show that they are not so antago
nistic to silver as their former vote would
indicate. They also want the question
settled. There is also a general belief
that when the bill is once signed there
will be a movement in congress, looking to
a recess until the beginning of the
regular session on the first Monday in
December. The outiook is therefore,
that in the Senate this week Senators
Jones, Teller, Peffer and Martin will
conclude the speeches already begun by
them, that Senators Voorhees, Allen,
Morgan aud Stewart, may also have some
concluding words to utter, that the
compromise biil will be brought in, and
that it will probably he finally accepted,
though there will be some more oratory
before it is put through. A recess is not
probable before week after next.
SAVANNAH’S NEW POSTOFFICH.
The Flans Now in the Hands of the
Computer of the Treasury Depart
ment.
Washington, Oct. 15.—Thft plans for the
public building at Savannah have all
been prepared by the treasury depart
ment and are in the hands of the computer.
It is bis business to make computations of
| the cost of the building, according to the
; plans submitted to him. When he makes
his computations according to the plans
and specifications, he will submit them to
the treasury department, or rather to tho
supervising arehite ;t of that department
the result of his calculations. It
will then be determined whether or not
the huildiog as planned will come within
the appropriation that has been made for
it. If it will cost less than the appropria
tion, the plans are again taken in hand,
and are elaborated somewhat, so as to
bring it up to the amount which the act
of congress intended should be expended
ou it. If .he plans show that the build
ing will cost more than was appropriated,
then also the plans are taxed in hand, and
they are cut down so us to couie within
tile appropriation. The computer is now
at work. After his work is completed,
and the exact cost is uscer-ained
aud made to conform to the ap
propriation, competitive bids for the eon
struction of the building wiii oe invited,
and the contract for doing the work will
he let out. This the department hopes U)
be able to do at an early day.
Tlte amount appropriated U MOO.OOd.
In this matter. Col. Lester, tho able rep
resentative of the First district, willdotl
he has done in the past, ail iu bis power
to further the, enterprise, lie is never
fouud lacking in zeal, diligence, or ability,
j when any interest of the people in suy
I art of his district is luvolvod.