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•c T.KI IsBED l£6o INCORPORATED 1888.
eetabUs ■ KSTILLi President.
HOI TIMES OYER HAWAII
He Republicans of the House Attack
the Administration.
Johnson, of Indiana, Accuses the
President of Trying to Fool the
People— Morse Makes an Objection
able Application of the Cuckoo
Chestnut and Outhwaite Compels a
Retraction— Patterson Shows Up the
Republican Hypocrisy.
Washington, Feb. .s.—Pursuant to the
agreement arrived at just before the ad
journment Saturday, the House met this
morning at 11 o'clock, and in the absence
of the chaplain, prayer was offered by
Mr 'Everett, dent., of Massachusetts.
The House took up the consideration of
the Hawaiian resolution, and Mr. John
son. rep., of Indiana, was recognized. He
arraigned the administration for its acts
in Hawaii, and declared that if its efforts
to restore the savage queen had been suc
cessful there would have been witnessed
for the first time a successful impeach
ment of an American executive. Mr.
Johnson charged that the executive had
attempted to restore the queen by menace
and force, to conceal his purpose from the
American people in order to prevent their
interposition, and that he had sent Mr.
Blount to secure ex-parte evidence to give
a color of justification to this policy.
Secretary Gresham's letter to the Presi
dent, the executive message at the con
vening of the present session of congress,
the instructions to Minister Willis, and
the character of the latter's demands for
the surrender of the provisional govern
ment, were cited to show that force was
designed The recent protest that
menace was never contemplated by Pres
ident Cleveland, came only after his plans
had begun to fail, and the public indigna
tion had risen. ,
moktE talks or the cuckoos.
Mr. Johnson yielded two minutes to Mr.
Morse: rep., of Massachusetts, who said:
“Mr. Speaker, there is one remark I did
not have time to make, which I desire to
add to my speech of Saturday evening.
For the last twenty-five years, since
the days of reconstruction began after
the close of the war, the shibboleth in the
south, the political war cry that has
downed all opposition, that has downed
the republicans and the populists and ail
other parties, and that has made the
south invariably i ome up of late years
with a solid democratic delegation in
congress, lias been the cry of a "white
mans government.’ On the other side
in this controversy is a dissolute
colored female. She has none of the
glamour which attaches to royalty by
birth. Her father was a colored barber.
On the other side are not only white men
and women, but nearly or quite all the
virtuous and intelligent white people of
theisianfls. And yet, strange to tell, at
the command of their master, the great
Grover Cleveland, his supporters, the
cuckoos in the House and in the Senate,
staunch southern democrats, the loudest
shouters for a white man's government,
disregard all their ancestral traditions
ai out white supremacy and the white
man's government.”
outhwaite objects.
Mr. Outhwaite, dem.. of Ohio, took ex
ception to these words, and demanded
that they be taken down and that the
gentlemen be called to order.
Mr Morse asked what there was in his
speech that was objectionable.
Mr. Outhwaite—l object to the insolent
arm insulting language addressed to this
swe of the House.
After a little debate the words were
taken down and read at the desk, when
Sir Morse arose to explain his remarks,
t"j. the speaker called him to order.
Ine speaker, after weighing the words,
save his opinion that the language was
parliamentary that no member had
a right to speak of any member of the
house as being controlled by their
t a-ter. the President.
1 n motion of Mr. Burrow's, rep., of
- . higan, Mr. Morse was allowed to ex-
JJr !’■ -” r - Outhwaite alone voting an em
pnatic -no.”
" V 'v'f® 1 ' thereupon withdrew the ob
.ouosabie words relative to the control
!>.,' “ democrats by their master, the
mnnv a P, d all was Peace and har
demV.Pi" llouS(1 again. But the inci-
V nsuried all of Mr. Morse's
furrhPV' /' "'eheson refused to yield
ei ’ and proceeded with his speech.
Hawaiian sugar.
the'VP alterson ’ dem., took as his text,
the S ‘l uesti on in Hawaii. In 1876
a : . 0 „ n W U , Ctlon , V su k ar in Hawaii
froi , 10 only 56,000.000 pounds, and
Ch'npss " i° the importation of
ajnnn,' i Japanese and Portuguese
?h?t r 2;! f ltss than 8 ' 000 " But. nnder
Evnthv',V with this govern
ed, J "hich Hawaiian sugar Was ex
totnorn.fi <ni the duty imposed on other
s;V- *“*•• tl) e production of the
pound, i A ‘ Cts i um P e d up to 218.000,000
Japan. sP to , ns V thousands of Chinese,
bad ‘ l. an( i bouth Sea islanders
Tfcc result' V m V rtud . t 0 Hawaii.
Wooonm th ’ B t r, eaty was to
ibf-rxvV l' 1 *! 0 annually out of
Tat nutti V V the American people with
iirv. p,. s jngle_dollar into the treas-
Wt'on iL fit -eKinley law sugar was
Attf-ri v , r e hat and a bounty given to
vaataim ... planters, and the ad
joyei i )‘‘' h the Hawaiian Islands en
being thus of reciprocity
planters h, s r ?' Vcd ’ the Hawaiian sugar
whi h Th lred ■secure the bounty
'h're V in‘' me I lcan Planters received,
rotates, f ' motive, and here are the ad
it. irnpressively 81 on ’” Said Mr ' Patter "
U " 1 ‘ "hite max’s government.
eipitar. W'V V 1 to arraign the pre
<*n , 1 ‘"h had marked the republi-
Hc ar ,...°, f , th” Hawaiian question.
Hawaii v ,lara -lel between the cases of
th- United VV J . oa ' > th e latter islands
Greg-. Hrit.,l a , ' n conjunction with
a burh:, r ‘ '‘' n and Germany, maintained
theMaliatoa. He denied
Publ. i ; ’ n " st> of ten made by the Ke
taturg I rtJ - that Hawaii should
irir 'fiiigY '/‘Part of the United States,
vans ~ 1 ! e rc were buta few Aineri
lar w , .islands. The Hepublican
PaijTi ~ .. la,fu P the southern cam
t’ run. • ■ i or . a ‘ white man’s
tar f lur Hawaii, yet in South
Vi • - .'l** vears ago, j„ th „
■ ■ • . r. of Marion and of Moul
f”."} upset the white mans
•atii. ,V , turned the state over
. 1 H 4 ‘las* much lower than
:'■■>> n\ , ~ Jhe responsibility fur
■ ! * ”'<■ Kegubln an party, and
7,' , ' ,Uj red to perpetuate that
! ! i ~ ' “actmeat of a force tili.
i., 1 “f country ahouPi not
vernti policy Of estetiliou,
but a republican policy of non-inter
ference with foreign governments.
WHEELER DEFENDS THE PRESIDENT:
Mr. Wheeler, dem., of Alabama, upheld
the administration's non-annexation
policy, it has been proposed to pay the
queen for surrendering her claim to the
government, but he emphatically depre
cated the proposition to pay an" annuity
of 830,000 to a woman who bore such a
reputation as was given her b.v all the
United States representatives in Hawaii.
Mr. Oates defended Commissioner
Blount from the charges with which he
has been assailed. Mr. Oates knew no
man whose word he would rather accept
than Mr. Blount's. He had served 20
years in congress with honor and distinc
tion, and he would not be likely to tarnish
his unblemished record by making a
false report: and he [Oates] believed
what Mr. Blount had said. He believed
that the American minister was mainly
instrumental in the overthrow of the
queen. He admitted that no actual force
was used, but claimed that coercion was
U3ed, which was quite as effective.
He illustrated this by an immusing story
of an election in the south where a big
burly negro saw that the election was
going against his master and determined
to turn the tide of defeat. He knew it
would be illegal to use force, but he
planted himself before every man who
came to vote, and glared down upon him
until he slunk away and the election was
won.
BOUTELLE DEFENDS STEVENS.
Mr. Boutelle, in defending the action of
Minister Stevens said that his greatest
crime was that he had always at heart
the interest of the American government
and the American people. No one could
ever bring that charge against the Presi
dent. [republican Applause]. Another one
might search the record in vain to show
where the sycophants and parasites
of a President had ever gene to
such an extent in upholding a President
as the Democratic party now presented.
Mr. Boutelle arraigned the one-sidedness
of the resolution reported by the commit
tee on foreign affairs. It had no strictures
for any one except those two men—Minis
ter Stevens and Admiral Wiltss—who
stood in Hawaii in defense of the tradi
tional American policy of closer con
nection with the Hawaiian group, and
nothing was to be said of President
Cleveland, Minister Willis, or Mr. Blount,
who had dragged the fair fame of the
country in the dust. [Hepublican ap
plause.] He appealed to the House to
wipe out the infamy which had been per
petrated in the name of a high-minded
government, which, up to eight months
ago. had no cause to blush for its record.
Only the President and an apostate Secre
tary of State had brought this degrada
tion on the nation.
HAULING DOWN THE FLAG.
But even that was not enough. Not
only must we send a spy to uproot Amer
ican institutions and American influence
in an island which is the key to the Pacific
ocean, but we must also degrade our
American navy by putting it in the hands
of a Georgia politician in order to get
someone who would give the order to
“haul down the American flag.” That or
der was unconstitutional; when thatorder
was written the constitution was violated
and the man who wrote it made himself
liable to impeachment at the bar of the
House of Representatives. The Secretary
of the Navy, writing to tho admiral of
the American fleet, Admiral Skerrett, a
man who had before carried the Amer
ican flag ashore ati Honolulu, amid the
plaudits of the American people, told him
that he must confer freely with Mr.
Blount, a private citizen of Georgia. And
Mr. Blount, taking advantage of the first
opportunity which had ever pre
sented itself to him, gave the order to that
gallant admiral to "haul down that flag.”
“Oh, you are making a splendid record
for yourselves,” he cried, sarcastically,
as he turned toward the demoeratierside
of the House. Mr. Boutelle closed his
speech b.v an eloquent and impassioned
recital of the lines of David Graham Adze
on the hauling down of the flag at
Hawaii, dedicated to the memory of Capt.
Wiltse, of the warship Boston. The close
of his speech was vociferously applauded,
and when he took his seat the republican
members crowded up to congratulate him.
BLACK ANSWERS BOUTELLE.
Mr. Black, dem., of Illinois, took the
opposite end of the argument, and deliv
ered a speech scintillating with wit. He
read the letter of ex-Secretary of State
Foster, disavowing the action of Minister
Stevens in substituting the American flag
for the Hawaiian as an emblem of
authority. This was greeted b.v loud
applause on the democratic side. He said
the native race was fast disappearing,
ami had but a very small fraction of the
land remaining in their possession, and
Mr, Black appealed to the country to
“bury the little fragment of a race in its
remaining land, and then let the plow of
civilization go over their remains.” Loud
applause from the democrats marked the
close of his speech.
Mr. Van Voorhis, rep , of New York,
appealed for annexation of the islands.
It was all very well to say that we would
regard any approach by a foreign govern
ment as an act unfriendly to our own; but
if the Hawaiians, alter being refused an
nexation by us, should apply to Great
Britain, what could we do about itl
At the conclusion of Mr. Van Voorhis’
speech, Mr. McCreary moved that at 5:30
o'clock the House take a recess till 8 p.
in., the evening session to be for debate
only on the Hawaiian question. This was
agreed to.
BLOUNT DEFENDED.
Mr. Griffin, dem , of Michigan, was the
next speaker on the Hawaiian question.
He said that he cordially and enthusias
asticall.v indorsed the administration. He
would not change the dotting of an “i” or
the crossing of a “t” in what had been
said or done b.v the administration in re
gard to Hawaiian affairs. Tho President
had done the right thing at the right time
and in the right place. He [Griffin] was
ready to “rally around the flag "—to put it
up when it was improperly hauled down,
and to haul it down when it was improp
i v nut up. But he did not want to see it
float at Honolulu as a signal that the great
republic of the United States hd over
thrown a peaceable and constitutional gov- i
eminent and substituted in its stead a
wretched and miserable oligarchy. [Demo
cratic applause.] When Mr. Blount had
it hauled down he performed as credita
ble an action as a great so.dier did who
under other conditions planted it on the
parapet of the enemy.
At 5 80 o'clock the gavel fell and the
House took a recess till 8 p. nr
Jen members were present when the
House met in the night session to con
tinue the deoate. and there w-as uot much
of an audience in the galleries. Mr.
Brookshire, dem . of Indiana, was in the
chair. The speakers were Messrs. Hall,
den of Minnesota ; Post, rep of Illinois:
Stallings, dem.,of Alabama: Lacey, rep .
of low a. who gave part of his time to Mi.
Morie. of .Massachusetts, and btockdale,
'’V'hairtnau 1 McCreary, of the foreicu
affairs committee, was on the floor and
got into several snap colloquies with
Messrs. 1-acey and Dost.
SAVANNAH, GA„ TUESDAY. FEBRUARY (i, 1894.
SCANDAL ENDS IN SHOTS.
A Banker Kills a Man Suspected of
Intimacy With His Wife.
An Elevator at Chattanooga the
Scene of the Tragedy—The Banker
Claims That He Thought His Victim
was About to Draw a Weapon—The
Accused Denied the Alleged Inti
macy.
Chattanooga, Tenn., Feb. s.—George N.
Henson, president of the Citizen’s Bank
and Trust Company, and one of the most
prominent men in Chattanooga's financial
and commercial circles, this afternoon
shot and killed J. B. Wert, a well-known
insurance man, the father of a large
family and with connections throughout
this section of the country. The city to
night is agog with excitement in conse
quence of the sensational tragedy.
The shooting occurred shortly after 2
o’clock. The killing was done in one of
the passenger elevators of the Richardson
block, the largest office building in the
city. Some three months ago Mr. Henson
sued his wife for divorce, naming Mr.
Wert as co-respondent. On occount of
the prominence of all the parties con
cerned, the suit awakened the liveliest
interest, and engendered the most bitter
feelings.
WERT DENIED THE CHARGE.
Mr. Henson stoutly maintained that
Mr. Wert had been unduly intimate with
Mrs. Henson, and Mr. Wert as stoutly de
nied it. Following the filing of the bill
for divorce. Mr. Wert printed a card in
the newspapers denouncing Mr. Henson
as a liar and calumniator. Mr. Henson
replied, reiterating the charges. Through
mutual friends of the husband and wife
the divorce proceedings were withdrawn,
the husband agreeing to maintain his
wife and children and paying the costs in
the divorce suit.
WEIIT CLAIMED EXONERATION.
Mr. Wert's friends claimed this exone
rated him. but Mr. Henson continued to
contend that he was guilty of the undue
intimacy. Some few weeks ago the Cen
tenary Methodist church, of which Mr.
Wert wus a prominent member, placed
him on trial before a jury of seven of the
church members. Five of the jury voted
for his conviction on the charge of
adultery and two voted for his acquittal.
He was accordingly expelled from the
church.
THE FATAL MEETING.
To-day the tragical chapter of the un
fortunate affair was enacted. Both men
have been avoiding one another, fearful
of the consequences of a meeting. This
afternoon Mr. Henson had business with
the bank’s attorneys on the fourth floor
of the Richardson block, and, after finish
ing his business, started down to
make his exit from the build
ing. As he reached the second
floor below, Mr. Wert, in company with a
young attorney, entered the elevator.
Thus the men met face to face for the
first time since the church trial. Between
the first floor and the ground the shooting
occurred. Mr. Henson says he intended
leaving the elevator as soon as he recog
nized the new passenger, but his exit
was interfered with by the men entering.
HENSON’S EXCUSE.
He further claims that in the descent he
thought ho detected Mr. Wert reaching
for a weapon. However that may be, be
fore the elevator reached the ground,
Mr. Henson began to shoot, firing two
bullets while the elevator was in motion.
The last shot was fired just as the eleva
tor boy reached the ground floor with the
car. One of the shots entered Mr.
Wert’s right breast, passed through the
fifth rib, ranging to the left and
passed through the edge of
the right lung and through
the base of the heart. The second shot
struck Lavin Thomas, the young attorney,
inflicting a flesh wound on the arm. Mr.
Wert died fifteen minutes after he was
shot.
WILD EXCITEMENT.
The wildest excitement prevailed, and
in less than ten minutes thousands sur
rounded the building. The banker, after
he had done the shooting, fled in wild ex
citement back up the stairs to the attor
ney's office, where later he waived pre
liminary hearing. He is in the office of
the jail to-night, and will proba
bly be given a preliminary hear
ing to-morrow. Mr. Wort's clothes
gave evidence of the fearful mistake
under which Mr. Henson was laboring.
The only character of a weapon on the
dead man was an insignificant penknife,
and it was unopened. The victim leaves
a wife and six children, was about 50
years old, and has lived in Chattanooga
for twenty years.
SPIES IN A SCRAP.
Two of Tillman’s Gentlemanly Agents
Fight on a Charleston Wharf.
Charleston, S. C., Feb. s.—The whisky
war broke out here in anew place to
day, when two of the spies had a scrap,
greatly to the edification of hundreds of
spectators. The scene of the battle was
on the Clyde steamship wharf, where the
spies had gone to look for contraband
liquor. The combatants were Thomas
Whipple, of Edgefield, and John Strobel,
Barnwell. They quarreled about some
thing, and Whipple gave the lie direct to
Strobel and then knocked him down in one
round. Strobel failed to show up for a
second round. Both the combatants are,
in the words of Gov. Tillman, “gentle
men.'’ Both were heavily armed and
neither drew his pistol.
FIGHT OF THE FARMERS.
One of the Participante Telia the
Story of the Fatal Battle.
Asheville. N. C.. Feb. 5.—A special to
the Citizen from Hot Springs, N. C., gives
a few additional particulars of the fight
on the state line between North Carolina
and Tennessee. One of the men engaged
in the affair, Philip Rice, was brought
into Marshall, the county seat of Madison
county, yesterday. He says the men en
gaged in the fight were all from Madison
county. North Carolina, and were work
ing on a road under Alex Hensley. They
became involved in a quarrel, which re
sulted in Alfred Rice, brother of Philip
Rice, being shot dead. Clarence Ray and
William Morton are not expected to live.
Philip Rice is shot through the leg. Dan
Morton and Haigh Morton, participants
in the affair, have been jailed.
Still Balloting at Jackson.
Jackson, Miss., Feb. s.—The ballot in
the senatorial caucus to-night resulted:
Sixty-first ballot McLuurin 52; Tay
lor. 84 ; Campbell. 27; 1-owry, 21.
hlxtv-third ballot Mclgiurin, 55; Tay
lor, 88; Campbell, 28; Lowry, 20.
DE GAMA TO GIVE BATTLE.
The Insurgents Expected to Make an
Attack Yesterday.
(Copyright 1894, fly the Associated Press.)
Rio de Janeiro. Feb. 5, 4 a. m.—Unless
present indications turnout incorrect,'the
fate of President Piexoto and Admiral
de Gama and his followers will be de
cided to-day. During Saturday night and
yesterday, tho insurge.nts steamed their
ships into position preparatory to making
an attack on the government positions at
Nietheroy especially. It is under
stood that this is to be a final
and desperate effort upon the part of in
surgents, and that on its success every
thing depends so far as tho revolutian is
concerned. It is expected that, early
this morning, the insurgent commander
will have succeeded in landing a force on
the shore, which, covered by the fire of
the rebel vessels, will advance upon the
government positions, and a final battle is
then expected to be fought.
The foreign warships are closely watch
ing operations and there has been no
further interference of any sort up to the
time this dispatch is filled. Tho general
opinion ashore seems to be that the in
surgents will bo defeated and that the
collapse of the rebellion, in this part of
the country at least, will immediately
follow.
DE GAMA DEFIES THE FOREIGN FLEET.
London. Feb. 5.—A dispatch from Rio
Janeiro late this evening says: “Admiral
de Gama has given fort.y-oight hours’
notice that he will blockade Rio, and has
disposed his fleet accordingly. This step
is intended to assort belligerent rights
for tho insurgents. The action of tho
foreign commanders is awaited with
anxiety.”
DYNAMITE FOR POLICE.
London’s Unemployed Harrangued by
an Anarchist.
London, Feb. 6. —Another mbeting of
the unemployed was held at Tower Hill,
to-day, at which the socialist leader Wil
liams announced that a demonstration
would be made in Trafalgar Square Sat
urday. He declared that if the police in
terfered in the procession of the unemploy
ed, that they would send them to Heaven
by chemical parcels post. This
statement was greeted with
cheers by the assembled mob.
Continuing. Williams declared that a
piece of explosive the size of a penny,
which could be cagriod in tho pocket,
would remove two lines of police. Again
the crowd broke out into appreciative
cheers as Williams enunciated his dan
gerous hint, many of the crowd shouting:
“It should be done.” Williams further
said that if the foreign anarchists rein
force the unemployed there would be
warm work for the police. The speaker
was repeatedly cheered.
CAPRIVI PLAYS HOST.
The Emperor and the Cabinet His
Guests at a Dinner.
Berlin. Feb. s.—Count Von Caprivi's
parliamentary dinner which preludes the
final struggle over the Russian commer
cial treaty, was held this evening at the
chancellor’s palace, on Wilhelmstrasse.
Emperor William was present and talked
almost constantly with other guests.
Among the men of cabinet rank in the
company were: Dr. Miquel, minister of
finance; Count Von Bieberstein, minister
of foreign affairs; Count Von Boetticher,
secretary of the interior; Count Von Pos
adowsky, secretary of the imperial treas
ury, and Count Von Devetzow, president
of the Reichstag. Many conspicuous dep
uties also were present.
RALLYING THE LIBERALS.
Important Divisions Expected in the
House Next Monday.
London, Feb. s.—An urgent circular
notice has been sent out by Edwara Mar
joribanks, liberal whip, to the liberal
members of parliament. Its substance is
that the liberals must not fail to attend
the opening sitting of the House of Com
mons on next Monday, as the government
expects there will be important divisions
on questions concerning the differences
between the peers and the commons.
VAILLANT EXECUTED.
He Shouts Long Live Anarchy as He
Goes to His Death.
Paris, Feb. s.—Auguste Vaillant, the
anarchist who threw the bomb in the
Chamber of Deputies on Dec. 9, was guil
lotined at 7:10 o’clock this morning at the
prison de la Roquotta. Vaillant's last
words as lie was led to the guillotine
were: “Death to the Bourgeiose; long
live anarchy.” About 1,200 people were
present. There was no disturbance.
SPARKS NOT TO BE OUSTED.
The Bondholders Fail to Prove Their
Allegations Against Him.
Macon, Ga., Feb. s.—The hearing on
the petition for the removal of W. B.
Sparks as receiver of the Georgia South
ern and Florida railroad came up in the
superior court here to-day, and after a
short time in court the petition was with
drawn. It had been made by bondhold
ers of tho Georgia Southern and
Florida railroad, but they found it im
possible to sustain, at this time, the al
legations made in their petition. Mr.
Sparks, while he has been receiver,
has made a goodi record for
the road. Hon. Hoke Smith, Secretary
of the Interior, was one of the counsel
representing the bondholders.
LUMBER DEALERS FAIL.
They Deed Their Private Property to
Help Pay Their Debts.
Richmond, Va., Feb. 5.—A Petersburg
special to the Dispatch says: “Messrs.
Cooper & Spotswood. one of the oldest
and largest lumber firms in this
city, to-day made an assignment.
Alex. Hamilton is made trustee.
The liabilities are about *25.000
and the assets are estimated at about the
same amount. Both members of the firm
deeded their personal property to assist
in the payment of their creditors.”
TILLMAN’S TRADE MARK.
The Circuit Court of Appeals Reverses
Judge Bradley’s Ruling.
Washington, Feb. 5,- Tho circuit court
of appeals to day handed down an opin
ion reversing the decision of Justice
Bradley iu the district supreme court in
the case of Gov. Tillman against the
commissioners of patents to compel tho
latter to register the Palmetto whisky
trade mark. In the circuit court of ap
peals the right of the commissioner to re
fuse registration was upheld.
A FLOOD OF TARIFF TALK.
Hale Wants the Senate Committee to
Grant Hearings.
Berry Moves to Refer George's Anti-
Option Bill to the Judiciary Com
mittee But It Still Lies on the Table.
Chandler Makes a Bloody Shirt
Speech on the Bill to Repeal the Elec
tion Laws.
Washington. Feb. 5. —A feeling refer
ence to the death of George W. Childs
was made in the chaplain’s opening
prayer in the Senate this morning.
Mr. Hale offered resolutions reciting
that tho tariff bill has come to the Senate;
that the representatives of many great
industrial interests, and many laboring
men believe that no opportunity has been
heretofore given to be heard upon Us pro
visions; and that they now desire to pre
sent their objections to it before any
action is taken by the Senate, and
instructing the committee on finance
to give opportunity to all parties who be
lieve their interests affected, to be heard
before the committee reports its action to
the Senate. He said that he did not de
sire immediate action on tho resolution,
and did not know that there was any
necessity for it, because he would not as
sume that tho committee on finance could
decline to give such hearings. He asked
that the resolution should lie on the table,
and said that ho would call it up soon for
the purpose of making some remarks
upon it. It was so ordered.
THE ANTI-OPTION BILL.
Mr. Berry moved to refer to the judi
ciary committee the anti-option bill in
troduced some time ago by Mr. George,
dein., of Mississippi, and now on the
table. He made the motion to get nn op
portunity to state his position in regard
to the subject, in order to correct some
misapprehension. He would vote for the
bill.
Mr. Washburn moved to amend the
motion so as to refer the bill to the com
mittee on agriculture, but said that in
the absence of Mr. George, he would not
press the amendment, but let the bill re
main on tho table for tho present. He,
like Mr. Berry, should vote for it. if it
was the best bill that could be reported,
because his belief was stronger to day
than ever as to the necessity of a measure
Of that kind.
Mr. Berry’s motion was unacted on and
the bill still remains on tho table.
THE FEDERAL ELECTION LAWS.
The House bill to repeal the federal
election laws was then, at Ip. m. taken
up and Mr. Chandler addressed the Sen
ate in opposition to it. He began by say
ing that the Senate turned from the ques
tion of money to the superior question of
man and his liberty. He wished to speak
briefly in behalf of the colored people of
the country, who were sadly in
need of national consideration
and national protection. In the
course of his remarks Mr. Chandler
engaged in a colloquy with Mr. Palmer,
dem., of Illinois, who said that he fa
vored the repeal of the federal election
laws because they had proved to be ut
terly useless for the accomplishment of
the purpose for which they had been de
signed. The senator from Illinois, said Mr.
Chandler, “in his new political associa
tions, abandons the fifteenth amendment
of the constitution and leaves the colored
people in the southern states without the
ballot without which to protect them
selves.”
“I would no more abandon the fifteenth
amendment,” Mr. Palmer declared em
phatically, “than I would abandon the
declaration of independence. I regard
them as being essential parts of each
other.”
GOING BACK TO SLAVERY.
Mr. Chandler declared that if emanci
pation was right it was equally right to
put on the statute book of the country
the national election laws, which it was
now attempted to repeal. Would not the
next attack, he asked, be an attack on
the fifteenth amendment? and little by
little, in the process of retrogression, the
black man would be virtually reduced
again to a state of slavery. That, at
least, he said, was a fair inference. The
work which would begin to-morrow in
the passage of this bill, would, if it were
not stopped before it reached its legiti
mate result, bo destructive of the free
dom and interests of the black
men throughout the entire south.
Asa fair summing up
of the sytem of lynehings and other out
rages upon negroes in the south, Mr.
Chandler sent to the clerk’s desk and
had read some extracts from a recent
lecture delivered in Washington by
Frederick Douglas, whom he spoke of as
“the inspired apostle of the negro race.”
Mr. Chandler expressed the regret with
which he had seen defections on the re
publican side of the chamber, referring
specifically to the case of Mr. Stewart of
Nevada, vho. he said, although tho au
thor of the fifteenth amendment and the
leader in the movement to pass the statute
of May 18, 1870, the most valuable por
tions of which were to bo repealed by the
pending bill, now gave to that bill his sup
port.
rART OF THE REPUBLICAN SCHEME.
He submitted, in conclusion, that the
national election laws were part of the
great scheme of the Republican party
and of the American people for the pro
tection of a race of 7,000,000 of human be
ings, constituting one-tenth of the popu
lation. He loooked with apprehension
on the course which the democratic sen
ators proposed to pursue; lie looked with
apprehension on the era which they were
now inaugurating.
The majority report proclaimed twice
that it was the purpose of the majority to
wipe out the legislation which grew out
of tho war between the states. The re
construction measures of congress were
to be wiped out, and the wiping out pro
cess began with striking down the
national election laws. If it was tho in
tention of the democratic senators to go
on witli that process and to undo the re
sults of the la3t twenty-five years, they
had undertaken a task in which he be
lieved they would not be sustained by the
people of the country.
PALMER SUPPORTS THE BILL.
Mr. Palmer, dem., of Illinois, supported
the bill because he believed that the fed
eral election laws were useless, mislead
ing aud a menace to every community
where they were put into force. It was
contended on the other side of the cham
ber, he said, that the colored people
in tiie south had not. their pro|xr repre
sentation in governmental affairs “We
have been recently engaged,” said ho, “in
a discussion of the Hawaiian question.
The total population of these islands is
uhout fIO.iWG. The white American popu
lation is less than 2,000, ami vet these‘2,ooo
whiles own more than 74 per
ceut. of tho entire property of
the Islands, tho natives owning but
four-fifths of one per cent, of it.
And the whites have overthrown the gov
ernment and havo proelaimed. or are
about to proelaim, a constitution with
property qualifications. And I have heard
one of the leaders of the Republican party
iu this chamber declare, a few days ago,
that those men there who have over
thrown the native government were to be
compared with the Washingtons, Kus
sells, Sidneys, and other devotees of free
dom. This is the view of the party that
now claims to be the champion and pre
server of the rights of tho colored race. ”
MR. FRYE’S POSITION.
Mr. Frye, rap , ef Maine, said that if
the states could be depended upon to do
what is Just and lair, they ought to be
allowed to administer the election laws,
but that if the states could not be de
pended upon the federal election laws
should be retained. Mr. Fr.ve did not be
lieve any such dependence could be
placed upon the states. Mr. Frye re
ferred to the provisions ln the constitu
tion of Mississippi, that voters must bo
able to read the constitution of the state,
or to interpret its meaning. Ho was told
by Mr. G”ay, dem., of Delaware, that
that was no worse than the provision in
the constitution of Massachusetts
“The state of Massachusetts has no
such law,” said Mr. Frye.
“It has a more stringent law,” Mr.
Gray insisted.
“The constitution of Mississippi,” Mr.
Palmer, put in, for the special benefit of
Mr. Frye, “has very much resemblance
to the constitution or Hawaii.” [Laugh
ter. |
The discussion on the relative restric
tions of the Mississippi aud Massachu
setts constitutions was carried on for
some time with considerable warmth.
Finally the day's debate closed with tho
declaration by Mr. Palmer that the elec
tion law was a miserable abortion.
The bill went over till to-morrow, and
the Senate at 4:15 o'clock, after a short
executive session, adjourned.
PEOKHAM’S NAME HANGS FIRE.
The Judiciary Committee Postpones
Action Until To-day.
Washington, Feb. B.—The Senate ju
diciary committee went into session this
morning at 10:80 o’clock, with all the
members present, and whon noon came
there were no indications that the com
mittee was ready to adjourn. This indi
cated an effort to dispose of the Peckham
nomination to-day, but at 12:15 o’clock
tho committee rose, having postponed
action until a special meeting to-morrow
morning at 10:81) o'clock. During the ses
sion there was a great deal of dlsoussiou
on the case, and more letters, both
for and against Peckham, were read.
No attempt was made, however, to test
the sense of the committee, and finding it
impossible to agree on a vote to-day, tho
postponement was inevitable. It is under
stood that one southern member of tho
committee who was opposed to Horn
blower is wavering iu his opposition to
Peckham, and that he was the cause of
the posti>oneniunt. It is not at the
same time said to be certain that all the
republican members who supported Horn
blower will support Peckham. Senator
Hill expressed himself as satisfied with
tho situation, and he believed that Peck
ham would bb defeated.
WAR ON THE LOTTERY.
The Postmaster General's Eye On the
Fort Tampa Scheme.
Washington, Feb. s.—Up to to this time
Postmaster General Bissell has received
no official information of the proposed or
actual resurrection of the Louisiana lot
tery and the establishment of its head
quarters at Port Tampa Cilv, Fla. Somo
two weeks ago, however, a report Xo that
effect reached the department and the
Postmaster General at once referred the
niattei r to the inspection division, with
instructions to have the matter immedi
ately investigated. These instructions
were sent to the proper officer in the field,
who, it is said, has had wide experi
ence with the lottery company, and
it is expected that his report will soon he
forthcoming. Postmaster General Bis
sell is thoroughly alivo to the necessity
for prompt and vigorous action in the
premises, and in case the fact is estab
lished that the lottery company has again
opened up for business, ho will exercise
every power under his control to stamp it
out. He has asked the state department
to take up the matter with the govern
ments of all of the Mexican and South
American states, and, if possible, secure
action by which the scheme of making
drawings in one country In order to evade
the laws of another may be prevented.
SHORTAGE IN THE SILVER.
Anderson’s Peculations Foot Up to
SBO4 -Efforts to Settle.
Washington, Feb. 5.— I The count of the
silver in the vault in the treasurer's of
fice was completed this morning. A
shortage of 1804 was found, all of which
was stolen by Anderson, the young mes
senger. His friends, who are highly con
nected politically and socially, are mak
ing every effort to have the affair set
tled. and have agecd to reimburse Treas
urer Morgan if the puosecution is
dropped.
MUST BE PAID FOR IN GOLD.
Instructions in Reference to the Sale
of the Bonde.
Washington, Feb. 5. —This afternoon
Acting Secretary Curtis sent a letter to
each assistant treasurer in the United
States, in which, after giving instructions
upon matters of local detail concerning
the issue of the new bonds to subscribers,
Mr. Curtis writes: “It should be under
stood that deposits are to be made, ac
cording to the terms of the circulars o f
Jan. 17 and 24, 1894, In United States gold
coin or gold certificates.”
Deportation of the Cubans.
Washington, Feb. s.—The warrants
prepared In the treasury for the deporta
tion of the Cuban cigarmakers from Key
West, Fla., were forwarded by mail to
day. Trouble is feared when the war
rants are served.
Nominated for Postmasters.
Washington, Feb. s.—The President to
day sent to the Senate the following notni
tions for postmasters: Mary M. Force, at
Selma, Ala.; D. Shepard Shine, at Or
lando, Fla.
Uncle Sam’s Fighting Force.
Washidgton, Feb. s.—Secretary La
ment sent to the House to-day a report
showing that about 8,228,997 men are
available for military duty in the United
States.
A Resignation Called For.
Washington, Feb. 6.—Secretary Car
lisle has called for the resignation,among
others, of K. W. Matteson, surveyor of
customs at Chattanooga. Tenn.
I DAILY, *lO A YEAR, I
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I WEEKLY, *1 25 A YEAR. |
HILL LIVEN SEVEN YEARS.
Echols Exonerated of the Charge of
Writing the Confession.
Hill’s Lawyers Assert That He Has
Deoeived Them All the Way Through,
And They Refuse to Have Anythin*
More to Do With His Case—He Se
cures a Lawyer From Marietta and
Applies for a New Trial.
Atlanta, Oa., Fob. 5.-Harry Hill wa*
sentenced to seven years in the peniten
tiary by Judge Richard H. Clark to-day.
Every stage of the noted case has had its
particular sensation. The passing of the
sentence was no exception, bringing out
one of the most dramatic and unexpected
scenes of the whole trial. Hill’s lawyers
openly announced that he had grossly de
ceived them throughout, and hence
forward they will have nothing to do
with his case. This was sensation num
ber one.
Following on the same line, Ben Hill,
who put the court and public on notice
that he and Col. Rucker had washed their
hands of Hill, publicly withdrew their
charge that John W. Echols had writtea
the letter containing Hill’s alleged confesj
sion, which had been made the main issue
of the defense on the trial.
MADE ECHOLS WEEP.
Echols cried like a school boy as tho
weight of this grave accusation was
voluntarily lilted from him by the man
who made it, and when Hill stood up for
seutence, tho voice of Judge Clark him
self was shaken with emotion, and tears
fell from his eyes. The scene would havo
been dramatically affecting if the con
temptible character of the prisoner could
have been lost sight of, but as it was, it
was more on the order of an opera bouffe.
Every new light that is thrown on the
case, adds to Hill’s infamy in dragging
through tho mire the name of the woman
who all but sacrificed her fortune to help
him live a life of ease and luxury.
JUDGE CLARK’S EMOTION.
Judge Clark felt for the family of tho
prisoner, with whom he has been an inti
mate friend all his life, and lie was moved,
not by the Justice done Hill, but for tha
disgrace he has brought upon a hitherto
stainless name.
All the lawyers in the case were in
tho court room when Hill was brought In
for sentence except Col. Rucker, one of
his counsel. When called upon by tho
court, Hill arose and asked that the sen
tence be deferred until he could ask for a
now trial. B. H. Hill was present, and
the fact that he did not make this mo
tion, created surprise. Hill concluded his
little speech to the court with the declar
ation that he was not guilty.
Mr. Benjamin Hill then explained that
he was no longer attorney for the pris
oner, but made a plea for morcy in ills be
half.
EXONERATION OF ECHOLS.
At the conclusion of the sentence the
attorney again addressed the court and
created a further sensation by apolo
gizing to Attorney Echols for the charge
that he had written tho alleged confes
sion of the prisoner and forged his
signature to it. It came out from tiis
statement that Harry Hill has not only
proven himself an iugrate to Mrs. f'orter,
but that he also persistently refused to
tell the truth oven to his lawyers. Mr.
Hill said that he had learned from an
outside source that Col. Echols did not
write the alleged confession (which
meant that Harry Hill had written it),
and therefore he wanted to absolve Coh
Echols.
HILL DECEIVED TnEM.
He said that the prisoner had persis
tently denied any knowledge of tho letter
of confession. It is understood that the
reason Hill’s attorneys gave him the
shake is that helled about the confession.
Late this afternoon Hill secured the ser
vices of H B. Mass, of Marietta, and
filed a motion for anew trial. Judge
Clark lias set Feb. 16 on which to hear
this motion. Until Feb. 16 the sentence
is suspended. Hill says that he will em
ploy Charles Blackburn, of Chicago, one
of the foremost criminal lawyers of tho
country, to defend him if the new trial is
granted. Hill thinks that, properly han
dled, he can be cleared on the evidence.
LYNCHERS ON HIS HEELS.
A Negro Breaks Into a House to As
sault a Woman.
Jacksonville, Fla., Feb. s.—Sunday
night at Pittsburg junction, a small sta
tion on tho Jacksonvilloand St. Augustins
railroad, about fifteen miles from Jack
sonville, John Johnson, a negro who had
been employed in that vicinity, broke into
the house of George Bartlett while Mr.
Bartlett was absent from home,
and attempted to commit rape on
Mrs. Bartlett, who, save a child
only 4 years of age, was alone in the
house. The fiend seized Mrs. Bartlett
and began to cliokejher, but Mrs. Bartlett
fought the brute, and at the saino time
began to call to her brother, who was in
an adjoining house, for help. The negro,
fearing lest the brother had heard tho
cries of the woman, fled. A posse is in
pursuit, and if the negro is caught an
obituary notice will be in order.
KILLED UNDER HIS TRAIN.
The Conductor of a Freight Train
Mangled on the Rails.
Pensacola. Fla., Feb. s.—Conductor B.
A. White of the Louisville aud Nashville
railroad was killed to-night at Pine Bar
ren, a station twenty-seven miles from
this city. He was in charge of
freight train No. 8, which left
here at 11:15. Conductor White
was standing on the rear of tha
train and gave a signal to the engineer to
take up the slack, when the sudden start
ing of the engine Jolted him off and he fell
beneath the wheels, the train passing
over him.
Mr. White was a son of Robert C.
White, tho port physician at this place.
A New Warehouse for Norfolk.
Washington, Fob. s.—Tha Secretary of
the Treasury sent to the House to-day a
communication from the Secretary of the
Navy submitting an estimate for an ap
propriation of *72,866 for the construction
of a fire-proof warehouse at the Norfolk
navy yard. The building is to replace the
one destroyed by fire in December last.
Confirmed by the Senate.
Washington. Feb. 6.—The Senate has
confirmed the following nominations- J.
A. l'aylor. United States attorney for the
western district of Tennessee: Johu K.
King, collector of customs at Mobile,
Ala.