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1 THE MORNING NEWS,
1 ESTABLISHED IPSO. INCORPORATED 1888.
\ J. H. ESTILL, President.
TILLMAN HAS HIS TURN.
Tie Fiery Boldness of Butler’s Speech
Entirely Lacking.
The Governor Apparently More En
raged at a Remark Made by a Man
in the Crowd Than at Anything But-,
ler Said—The Meeting in Grave Dan
ger at This Point of Boing Turned
Into a Free-for-AU Fight—Senator
Butler Reiterates Some of His
Charges.
Charleston, S. C., June 21.—The cam
paign meeting at Lancaster to-aay was
not unaccompanied by some excitement,
although it was not as lively as had been
expected in view of yesterday's occur
rences at Chester. The gubernatorial
and congressional candidates had the
opening, and were followed by Senator
Butler and Gov. Tillman, rivals for sena
torial honors.
Senator Butler made a fine speech de
fending his cause in the Senate and ex
pressing regret that he had been com
pelled to reply to Tillman’s charges in
the spirit he had employed at Chester.
He insisted that, he would not permit any
one to slander and misrepresent him, and
that he would discuss and dissect Till
man’s public record when and where and
how he pleased. He denied the charge
that had been circulated in Lancaster
county that he was an infidel, and said
on this point:
-I can only say that I was reared by a
Christian mother, and I have been mar
ried to a noble Christian woman for thir
ty-four years, and that the charge that I
am an infidel is as untrue as unwar
ranted.
•‘I recognize the supremacy of a great
and good God, and the saving power of a
great Savior.”
His speech made a good impression.
TILI.MAN’9 REPLY.
When Gov. Tillman arose ho was re
ceived with much cheering, He said in
beginning that office had not been sweet
to him, that the wheels of state had
dragged along a stumpy" road, and that
the records would show he had done more
work than all the governor's since the
war. At Chester he had not opened his
mouth to reply to the indignities heaped
upon him by Gen. Butler, which were
fouler and blacker than had been made
against any man.
Vaney Shervard, who was out in the
crowd, cried out, "You took them?”
Several hundred men at once sprang to
their feet in expectation of a row, and
Gov. Tillman shouted back in reply:
‘•Yes, X tell you, you cowardly bound,
why I took them, and I’ll meet you when
ever you waut to. 1 took them because I,
as governor of the state, could not afford
to create a row at a public gathering,
and have our people murder each other
like dogs."
LOOKED LIKE A ROW.
Shervard answered, but his answer
could not be heard. The men around the
stand were all in commotion and yelling
for Gov. Tillman, and the women in the
audience began to run away. Gov. Till
man, Senator Butler, the chairman, and
others called to the ladies to come back
as the trouble was over, and they did so.
Gov. Tillman waved his hands to the
crowd to sit down, and then cried out:
"A few puppies around here can have
their tails and necks cut off if they want,
one, or both.”
THE CORRUPTION FUND.
Continuing, he said: “Gen. Rtrfler
pretends that I made an imputation on
his character. The insult was that at
Bock Hill I snid that the 800 men had
been hauled there by someone to hurrah
for him, and X asked if they had, been
sent there by a corruption fund. I had
ridiculed them as Coxeyites, as tools of
corporations, and 1 did say that some
oue had paid their way there.
I wanted to know who it was. 1 indicated
that somebody had a corruption fund, and
did not know who had the distribution of
it, and 1 did not charge him or anyone
else with using it. If the general super
intendent of the Richmond and Danville
railroad did not do it, and if not Cleve
land, and if not the whisky ring, and if
not Wall street, someone had raised a
corruption fund to pay these men’s fares,
which were lo buy up your senatorship.
THE MIGHT HAVE BEEN.
“If he felt aggrieved at the insinua
tion as an old neighborof mine in Edgefield,
could not he have come to me and said:
‘Did you mean to say that I am responsi
ble for this?’ That is the way he should
have done, if he had been a gentleman,
hut lie did not do this. He seemed to be
glad for an excuse to play the roll of a
bulldozer. If men over in Edgefield
insult each other, there is generally a
tight or a funeral afterward.
"Gen. Butler bad declured in an inter
view he gave out to the Southern Asso
ciated Press after the Darlington row,
that he wanted the campaign conducted
on a high plane,yet ho charged me with
being a barggart and a bully in that in
terview. Gen. Butler, who was sitting
hear, remarked “and 1 stand by it yet.”
BUTLER’S INNUENDOES.
“Yet when I opened at Bock Hill, I
tried to address myself solely to the
issues," continued Gov. Tillman, “and
his speech was full of innuendoes and per
sonal suggestions. At Yorkville he spoke
of issues and I then exposed his Coxey
business and what is more, I expect to
k ep it to his back at every meeting as a
mustard plaster until T get some kind of
an explanation.”
Turning to Gen. Butler he said:
“Hi nceforth 1 shall call him Coxey But
ler.”
Gen. Butler (laughing) replied: “that’s
all right, 1 don’t care.”
Then Gov. Tillman went on to say: “In
Edgefield men have too much pride to
talk of bullyragging. I thought until
yesterday when the general disgraced
himself by calling ” the governor
bully and a coward and
a braggart and a thief by indirection
that he, too, had too much state pride for
j such. I was mistaken, for he outdoes it,
if such a thing be possible.”'
But it would take columns to report all
that Gov. Tillman said and all that the
crowd said for and aguinst him. Two or
three times there was imminent danger
of a row, hut fortunately the affair passed
ol without actual violence or bloodshed.
Zimmerman Wine at Florenoe.
Florence, June 21.—The international
bicycle match here to-day w3 won b,v
Arthur Zimmerman. Hurry Wheeler was
•ocond.
Civil Marriage In Hungary.
Buda-Pesth, June 21.—The House of
Magnates has passed the civil mar-
F l ®*® bill by a majority of 3.
@gE Pofntn® Jsrto^.
DUTCHER’S DEMOCRATS.
Their Mass Meeting at Augusta
Provesa Fiasco.
Augusta, Ga., June 21.—The mass meet
ing of dissatisfied democrats, called to
night by Salem Dutcher and four others,
was a farce in results, but was noisy and
boisterous. There were possibly 200, in
cluding a score of third partyites, who
were on the Dutcher side and 500
who favored the action already taken
by the organized democracy. The ma
jority elected T. W. Alexander chairman,
and a constable named Ed. Bennett, who
was favorable to Mr. Dutcher, said some
thing about the crowd stealing their meet
ing and rushed upon the stand. Thonext
ten minutes was full of absolute disorder
—yells and counter yells.
Hon. Joseph B. Cumming was recog
nized by the chairman, and spoke for half
an hour in defense of the action already
taken by the party. He was constantly
interrupted and howled down by the
Dutcher contingent. He finally intro
duced resolutions in which the action
already tak> n by the regular mass meet
ings was indorsed.
DUTCHER GIVEN A HEARING.
Mr. Dutcher was then given a quiet
hearing by the crowd. He said it was
impossible for them to take the action
they had contemplated, and they would
hold a subsequent meeting, which would
be called in due time.
The Cumming resolutions were then
adopted, a division of the crowd being
made to opposite sides of the room, show
ing the audience was two to one against
Mr. Dutcher.
Boykin Wright made a speech, in
which he contrasted the treatment of
Maj. Cumming by the Dutcher crowd and
the respectful hearing which had been
accorded to Mr. Dutcher, and asked who
was responsible for the disorder.
After the meeting adjourned, Mr.
Dutcher called on his crowd to remain
and transact the business for which tliqy
were called. The whole crowd remained,
and in a few minutes Mr. Dutcher de
clared the meeting adjourned subject to
future call.
One of the nominees for the legislature,
Mr. Fogarty, and one of the Dutcher
party, named Henry Keesel, came to
Mows after the adjournment, but were
separated before any blood was shed.
RANSOM’S LITTLE FLYER.
He Didn’t Want Hie Father to Know
About His Deal In Sugar.
Washington, June 21.—The Senate
sugar investigating committee held a
brief session this afternoon and examined
George Ransom, son of Senator Ransom
of North Carolina, and Arthur Barnes,
Senator Ransom's messenger. Their evi
dence was entirely corroborative of that
of Senator Ransom. Y oung Ransom told
how he had speculated at the office of
Silsby & Cos.. and said he invested $25 in
cotton and $lO in sugar on his own account
and that afterward he made five different
purchases at S2O each with Barnes.
When asked if his father knew anything
about it, young Ramsom replied in the
negative, and added: "In fact, he was the
last person [would want to know it; I
kept it from him.” Barnes agreed with
young Ransom, and said that he also
tried to keep the smator from knowing
anything about it.
During the afternoon, the members of
the committee took up the case of the re
calcitrant witnesses for the purpose of
having the witnesses certified to the
grand jury as soon as possible.
The grand jury again adjourned today,
without announcing the indictment of the
newspaper men, Messrs. Shriver and Ed
wards. The officials in the district attor
ney’s office, who for two weeks past have
been saying something would develop in a
couple of days, now refuse to talk about
the matter.
FOUND MURDERED.
The Body of a Young Man Discijfltered
Near Senoy.
Rome, Ga., June 21.—Two negro women
out picking blackberries near Seney, in
the edge of the county, yesterday after
noon sought shelter from a shower in an
old deserted house several hundred yards
from the roadway. There, under a pile
of planks they found the body of a young
man of about 20 years. On the side and
back of his head were gashes as if made
b.v a heavy piece of timber. He was
nicely dressed, wearing brown trousers
and a dark coat and soft hat. His pockets
had been rifled, but near him was an
almost worthless silver watch. A hand
satchel contained some linen. He had ap
parently been dead about forty-eight
hours An inquest failed to throw any
light upon his identity or on the death.
He had evidently been murdered and hid
den in this out-of-the-way place. No per
son answering the description had been
seen around Seney.
ALABAMA’S BURNING MINE.
A Numbor of Those Rescued Alive
Expected to Die.
Birmingham, Ala., Juno 21.—Later in
formation from Lewisburg, the scene of
yesterday’s mine disaster, where a hun
dred men were imprisoned in a burning
mine and four taken out dead, shows that
fifty of those rescued wereiasphyixiated
and are now prostrated, many in a crit
ical condition and a number of deaths are
expected. Two men are still missing and
supposed to be dead. The fire is still raging,
notwithstanding a large stream of water
has been poured in the mine for twenty
four hours. Mine Inspector Hillhouse. in
an interview with an Age-Herald re
porter, said he was of the opinion the tiro
originated from a spark from the lamp ot
the mine boss, Whalen, who is dead, who
went into a chamber to inspect a steam
pipe. His theory is that the heat from
the pipe was so intense that it reduced
the coal in the immediate vicinity to a
heat at which it became easily ignited.
He says the fire was not the work of
strikers.
Blown Up With Dynamite.
Birmingham. Ala., June 21.—Unknown
persons placed dynamite under a 'negro
tenement house at Warrior at 3 o’clock
this morning and blew it up. No one was
killed, but six men were seriously injured.
The negroes had recently taken the
places of strikers at the mines.
Troops Called Out in Pennsylvania.
Harrisburg, Ha., Juno 21.—The
Fifth oaud Sixteenth regiments, and
Sheridan troops, have been called out by
Gov. Patterson for service in Jefferson
county.
Smallpox on Staten Island.
New York, June 21—The state board
of health, after examination to-day, pro
nounced the epidemic on Staten Island as
smallpox, and has taken charge of the
matter. *
SAVANNAH, GA., FRI DAY, JUNE 22, 1894.
DEVELOPMENT OF DIXIE.
The New York Meeting Proves a Big
Success.
Three Hundred Gentlemen Interested
in the Commercial Prosperity of
This Section in Attendance--A Com
mittee Appointed on Flan and Scope.
Secretary Hoke Smith Makes a
Speech.
New York, June 21.—About 303 gentle
men who arc interested in the commer
cial prosperity of the south and who wish
to attract the attention of northern capi
talists to the advantages it offers for in
vestment, held a conference at the Fifth
Avenue hotel this morning. The meeting
was the continuation of one of a similar
kind held at Augusta, Ga., three weeks
ago, and with the results of which Sena
tor Walsh, of Georgia, Col. D. B. Dyer
and R. H. Edmonds, of Baltimore, the
prime movers in the enterprise, were not
entirely satisfied.
All the varied business interests of the
south sent representatiues to conference.
Senator Walsh did not appear, being de
tained at Washington by the possibility'
of a vote in the Senate to-day on the in
come tax provision of the tariff bill.
Some of those who were p resent at the
conference to-day were W. F. Beasley
of Oxford, S. C., manufacturer;
T. H. Catlin, Tarboro, North Carolina,
merchant; ex-Congressman Hemphill of
South Carolina, J. J. Spaulding, at
torney of the Cotton States and Inter
national Exposition; William H. Zinn of
Anniston, Ala., manufacturer; Augustus
Wright. W. E. Dibbel and Hasuhal
Davie, manufacturers, of Petersburg,
Ya.; Thomas A. Millen of
Roanoke, J. F. C’halifoux of Birm
ingham, merchant; Brown and Ward,
Nashville, hotel: Judge Charles E. Fen
ner, lawyer, New Orieaus; Harry Allen,
secretary. Young Men’s Business League;
George H. Veanard, New Orleans, Daw
son McCormack, Norfolk, Va.; R. C.
Marshall and Alexander E. Warner,
Portsmouth, Ya.; Charles L. Todd and
Henry W. Wood, Richmond, Va., and
many others.
THE MEETING ORGANIZED.
The meeting organized with the ap
pointment of Capt. Hugh R. Garden, a
southerner, but resident In New York for
twenty-five years, as chairman and the
selection of C. J. Bayne, of the Augusta
Chronicle, as secretary. A committee
consisting of R. H. Edmonds. Stuyvesant
Fish aud George S. Sullivan were named
to wait on Secretary Hoke Smith, who is
stopping at a hotel, and escort him to the
meeting.
In themidstof a discussion over a resolu
tion offered by Fred B. Gordon of Colum
bus, Ga., for the appointment of a com
mittee on plan and scope. Secretary Hoke
Smith entered the room. He was given
an ovation and was escorted to a seat be
side the chairman. It was finally de
cided to appoint a plan and scope commit
tee, consisting of eight members from
New York and seven from the eleven
southern states sending delegates to the
convention. Chairman Gordon appointed
the following gentlemen: Hugh R.
Garden, ex-officio; H. B. Clatin, Stuy
vesant Fisher, Theodore Frelinghuysen,
William L. Strong, Walter Stanton,
Samuel L. Jarviss of New York, D. B.
Dyer of Georgia, W. H. Edmonds of
Maryland, John J. Hemphill ol’ South
Carolina, Dr. D. M. Caldwell of Alabuma,
Hamilton Disston of Florida, Judge
Charles E. Fenner of Louisiana and Bar
ton Meyers of Virginia.
SECRETARY SMITH’S SPEECH.
Secretary Hoke Smith made an ad
dress, which was received with great
enthusiasm and was punctuated with ap
plause. He said:
I have not sufficient knowledge of the pur
pose of this gathering to be ab;e to discuss it
thoroughly. I understand that the general
plan Is to bring together the men from the
south and living in the south Interested di
rectly In the development of the south,
and the men from the east whose
Investments In the south give
them an Interest In the development of
that section of the country. Beyond any
question, if we can accomplish the result of
placing the facts of the resources of the south
east and west, and perhaps with those who
live abroad, great benefit must come to the
whole southern interests.
1 believe with the number of those pos
sessed with the greatest contidence that iho
south will at no late day be one of the richest
portions of this union. With the present
condition of affairs existing in the
south, and the conservatism that is
found in the south equal, if not superior to
the conservatism to ue found in any othsr
part of the union, and with the resources anil
enthusiastic devotion of iho best minds of
the south that material prosperity must re
sult for that section.
OUTSIDE HELP NEEDED.
You have already a force at home, which
will he able so develop the section in which
you live, hut when the true condi
tion of affairs Is fully appre
ciatet hen you must reeelve as an impetus
Irom the outside the help that comes from
the seeking of investment, today there is
no dlstsrbing influence In the south, there is
no race problem, hut the white man and the
colored laborer are living side by side, t hero
is no obstacle to immigration to the south It
should be known mat the man from the east
or west who comes down amongst us will llnd
the hand of friendship reached out to him,
aud may see prosperity ahead of his work.
The secretary adverted to the agricul
tural advantages of the south, the cheap
ness of the land and the handsome re
turns to the producers, which was as is
24 to 18 compared with the northern farm
er's earnings He raised a laugh when
he referred to the senator from Georgia's
remark in the Senate that the south
could not furnish an industrial army to
march on Washington for the reason that
all the men there had all the work they
were able to do.
SPECULATORS NOT WANTED.
In conclusion he said:
We do not want anv speculators In the
south. We do not want to offer anything to
the speculators. What wo want is substan
tial investments backed up by persistent in
dustry.
Secretary Smith was offered a unani
mous vote of thanks for his and
shortly after left the hall.
Letters of regret expressing interest in
the work of the convention were received
aud read from Secretary of the Navy.
H. A. Herbert, Gov. Northen, Senator
Walsh, W. J. Morgan, S. M. Felton, S.
A. Pierce and A. B. Andrews.
Two jilans for the convention to adopt
as a basis for its work was submitted to
the committee on plan and scope. They
were offered by R. Wayne Wilson of Now
York and R. H. Williams.
Resolutions were adopted indorsing the
plan for a permanent exposition in Wash
ington. where the several slates and ter
ritories can exhibit their products, the
exposition to be under the charge of the
Secretaries of Agriculture and the
Interior, and the Postmaster Gen
eral. Also the Baltimore Cen
tennial exposition, and the exposition
to be held at Atlanta. Both take place
next year.
S. D. Gordon was added to the plan and
scope committee.
Among the prominent New Yorkers
present at the conveution were: Gaza way
Hartridge, George Benton, lno Gorman,
Charles A. Deshon, G. W. Chandler, Al
bert A. Laddoux. James Scott, Stuyvesant
Fish, A. W. Morris, representing August
Belmout: Marion J. Verdery. Dunrau
Swan. Percy Thompson, Theodore Fre
linghuysen, George S. Sullivan, J. H.
Workman and John R. Abney, and John
T. Gill of Baltimore.
At 1:8(>o'elock the convention adjourned
till 8:80 o’clock to-night, to meet in the
large dining room of the hotel, the parlor
being too small to accommodate them.
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE.
Chairman Garden called the conven
tion to order this evening shortly after
9 o’clock and submitted the report of the
committee on plan and scope. The com
mittee recommended that a permanent
committeo be appointed composed of
twenty-five members, one from each of the
southern states and ten from the north and
west, to take charge of all work in the
line of southern development. This was
adopted nd then Qte following perma
nent committee was appointed: It. S.
Edmonds of Maryland, J. F. Williams of
Virginia,.!. S. Carr of North Carolina. A.
C. Haskell of South Carolina, D. B.
Dyer of Georgia, D. H. Elliot of
Florida, If. M. Caldwell of Alabama,
H. Allen of South Carolina, C. R. Breck
inridge of Arkansas, W. R. Nelson of
Mississippi, H. R. Courtney of Ken
tucky, J. S. Peters of Tennessee, H.
Disston of Pennsylvania, J. H. Inman of
Now York, John Clartin of New York,
Stuyvesant Fish of New York. C. A.
Deshon of New York, Theo. Freliug
huysen of New York, Russell A.
Alger of Michigan, T. Jefferson
Coolidge of Massachusetts, S. M.
Jarvis of New York, H. R. Garden of
New York, A. Gresham of Texas. A. B.
Fleming of West Virginia. W. G. Yerger
of Mississippi, M. H Sullivan of New
York, Boyd Smith of the District of Co
lumbia and Samuel Spencer.
The convention then adjourned subject
to the call of the chair.
NEBRASKA’S SILVERITEB.
They Demand Free and Unlimited
Coinage of the White Metal.
Omaha, Neb., Juno 21.—The free silver
convention to-day elected tho following
officers:
President—J. E. Ong of Filmore
county.
Secretary—T. J. Morgan of Cass
county.
Treasurer—G. A. Luikhart of Madison
county.
An oxoeutive committeo of nineteen
was also chosen.
The report of the committee on resolu
tions adopted was as follows:
We send greeting to our fellow democrats
of Nebraska and invite their earnest co-oper
ation and aid in electing delegates from every
county in this -dale* to the' rtcmoentiic
state convention of 1884, pledged to vote
for the insertion in the democratic
platform of the following plank: "We favor
the immediate restoration of the free and un
limned coinage of gold and sllverat the pres
ent ratio of 16 to 1. without waiting for the
aid or consent of any other nation on earth."
In the effort to obtain fair expression of
democratic sentiment we urge Upon every
democrat who believes In the principle here
enumerated to participate actively and
vigorously In the selection of dele
gates to the slate convention. We
recommend that in every county of
the state the democrats, who oppose the
proposed plank, be invited to a thorough dia
cusslon of its merits to the end that the dem
ocratic party may act intelligently and har
moniously upon this great question. We
propose too. that this contest shall be
tought out on new lines and intelligent
methods; but confident in the correctness of
our position, we also i ropose that the light,
shall be vigorous, and that ffb effort shall be
si ared to place in the platform of the Demo
cratic party the same emphasis and the
same unalterable utterance concerning the
great question as has 1 eon lastingly im
printed upon our parly platform concerning
the great question of tariff reform.
Then the convention adjourned.
BRYAN MAKES A SPEECH.
Congressman Bryan addressed an audi
ence of 4,500 people in the exposition
building. His speech was a lengthy ex
position of the attitude of the Republican
party and the change in sentiment in tho
Demoeratio party. The populists, he
said, had taught the reformers more than
the democrats had in thirty years. He was
greatly gratified at the change of senti
ment in Nebraska, in the last lew months.
Much credit was due the man who had
originated the idea of a conference. It
was a grand and noble purpose, a chal
lenge for the foes of free silver to come
out and make an honest fight.
CONVENTION OF THE ELKS.
Officers Elected by the Delegates at
Atlantic City.
Atlantic City, N. J., June 21.—The
Elks’ convention to-day elected officers
for the ensuing year, as follows:
Grand Exalted Ruler —Edwin B. Hay
of Washington, who triumphed over W.
E. Myers of Philadelphia by a vote tot
80 to 58.
Grand Esteemed Leading Knight-
William E. Myers of Philadelphia.
Grand Esteemed Loyal Knight— B. M.
Allen of Birmingham, Ala.
Grand Esteemed Lecturer - Sir Knight
John W. White of Chicago.
Grand Secretary—George A. Reynolds
of Saginaw, Mich.
Grand Treasurer—William F. Be liel of
Omaha.
Grand Tyler—D. F. Newttirk of Phila
delphia.
Grand Trustees—W. C. Vanderslip of
Boston, Joseph W. Laube of Richmond,
and Peter J. Campbell of Baltimoro.
Tho old board committee ou laws and
appeals. Martin Forsa of Cleveland, D. C.
Mcilwaine of Troy, and Bonjatnin John
son of Wilkesbarre, were re-elected.
Rev. Henry E. Perry, of Chicago, was
elected grand chaplain.
Past Grand Exalted Ruler English In
stalled the new officers at the close of the
meeting.
There wero present 193 delegates, the
largest number in attendance at any Elks’
con ventioa.
SCHOOL BOOKS FOR DIXIE.
A Publishing Company Organized to
Issue Them.
Richmond, Va.,June 21.—The B. F. John
son Publishing Company was chartered
here to-day. The minimum capital is to be
$50,000 and the maximum $200,000. Tho
object of the company Is to issue his
tories and other educational works that
will be satisfactory to southern schools.
Stock in the company has been taken by
many leading citizens. .
St. Augustine’s New Postmaster.
Washington, June 21.—The President
to-day nominated D. B. Usina to be post
master at hit. Augustine. Fla.
HILL ON THE INCOME TAX.
A Big Crowd Turns Out to Hear the
Senator Speak.
The Threa Populist Senators Among
His Most Attentive Listeners- -Two
Hours and Forty-five Minutes Con
sumed in the Delivery—He Depre
cates Adding to the Differences in
tho Party—Populist Votes Bid Higher
for Than Democratic Votes. a
Washington, June 2!.—ln the morning
half hour to-day tho Senate passed a bill
to define the boundaries of three Judicial
districts in Alabama and regulate the
jurisdiction of United States courts
therein.
At 10:?0 o’clockthe tariff bill was taken
up. the pending question being the income
tax sections, aud Mr. Hill addressed the
Senate in opposition to tho tax.
Mr. Hill read his speech from type
written sheets very slowly and in some
what solemn tones and manner. Close
attention was given to the speech on tho
democratic side of tho chamber, particu
larly by the two New Jersey senators,
Messrs. McPherson and Smith, while tho
republican senators, with very few excep
tions, seemed to take little or no interest
in it. Antoug Mr. Hill's most attentive
listeners on the floor of the Senate wore
the three populist senators, Messrs. Allen,
Kyle and Peffer. The galleries contained
quite a large audience. Mr. Hill declined
to allow interruptions, stating his Inten
tion to take part in the dis
cussions of tho various amend
ments. It took Mr. Hill Just two hours
and forty-five minutes to read his speech,
closing at 1:2() p. in. It was well under
stood.
THE PARTY DIFFERENCES.
Mr. Hill held that there is enough of
honest difference in the party relating to
the details of tho tariff bill without
arousing further eontentiou by such ex
perimental sehome of taxation. Prudence
dictates that this congress should not at
tempt to formulate new democratic doc
trines. He attacked the President’s
nomination and the Seuato’s confirmation
of the negro Taylor and others in opposi
tion, as he claimed, to the home rule
plank of the Chicago platform.
Senator Hill also referred to the re
fusal of the Houso to repeal the federal
tax upon state bank circulation, such re
peal having been expressly favored
in tho national platform, aud
claimed tho income tax was the
injecting of a populist plank. Ho con.
tinued:
PROTESTING AGAINST REPUDIATION.
“For one I protest against the repudi
ation of the promises ox the Democratic
party in order to carry out the promises
of the populist party.”
The income tax was a war tax; It had
never been approved by the votes of the
people, and there was no genuine emer
gency calling for its adoption.
“It Is unfair,” he asserted, “to those
who might desire to support the main
features of the appropriation or tariff
measure to be obliged to accept a ques
tionable provision, foreign to the princi
pal subject matter of the hill itself, or to
record themselves in opposition to the
whole bill.
“If a democratic congress is to be per
mitted to repudiate well-established dem
ocratic principles and to indorse new
ones without the sanction of a national
convention, and to compel thefr support
as a test of party fealty, we may next ex
pect to hear of the adoption in a tariff
appropriation bill tof Henry George’s
single tax theory or a provision abolish
ing all custom houses and resorting to
direct federal taxtation Instead of the
tariff for revenue or providing for the as
sumption of government control and
management' of all telegraphs, railroads,
and banks of the country, or the adop
tion of any other wild and visionary
scheme of socialism, paternalism, or
populism which a majority may see fit to
sanction.”
He said, In conclusion, that the sena
tors intended to vote on the income tax
section, not according to their convic
tions, but according to the decree of a
party caucus. He trusted that such a
humiliating spectacle would not be wit
nessed. It was even boasted by some, he
said, that tho income tax was the best
feature of the tariff bill. If that were so,
then he could only say, In tho emphatic
language of the senator from New Jer
sey Mr. Smith—“ God help the Demo
cratic party.”
BIDDING FOR POPULIST VOTES.
The true statement of the case was
that populistic votes were preferred to
democratic votes. He felt little personal
interest in the result. He was getting
used to defeat in the Senate, and another
defeat was a matter of supremo indiffer
ence to him. But he would be false to
his country, false to his party and false
to himself if ho did not raise his
warning voico and announce to his
follow democrats uud to tho country
at large his conscientious and mature con
viction on this subject in such u great
crisis of tho country’s and tne party’s
history.
Mr Higgins, rep., of Delaware, fol
lowed with a speech against the income
tax section.
THE ALIEN-CHANDLER QUARREL.
Another installment of the Alien-
Chandler quarrel was here injected into
the debate. Each of these gentlemen
grows dally more bitter toward the other,
on the floor of the Senate at least, and
both passed the lie and “you're no gen
tleman" in parliamentary forms.
An argument against the income tax by
Mr. Hoar followed.
At the close of Mr. Hoar's remarks, an
amendment was offered by Mr. Aldrich
to change the limit for the existence of
the income tax from Jan. 1, 1900, to Jan. 1,
1898. The amendment was rejected—
yeas 22, nays 89, as follows:
Yeas—Messrs. Aldrich, Allison, Chandler.
CullotTi. Davis. Colph, Frye, Callinger. Haw
ley. Higgins. Hoar. Lodge, McMillan, Mor
rill. Patton, Perkins. Piatt. Power, Quay,
Sherman, Shoup and Washburn- 22.
Nays—Messrs. Alkn Hate. Berry. Blanch
ard, Brke Caffery, Call. Cockrell. Coke, Du
bois, Faulkner. George, Gibson. Gorman,.
Harris, Hunton. Irby. Jarvis. Jones of Arkan
sas. Kyle. Lindsay. McPherson. Martin,
Mills, Mitchell of Oregon. Morgan Murphy.
Pasco. Peffer, Pugh. Roach Smith. Teller,
Turpie, Veßt, Vilas, Voorhecs, Waish and
White
THE FIVE-YEAR LIMIT ADOPTED.
The first committee amendment was
then agreed to, without a division, fixing
the limit of the tax at Jan. 1, 1900.
The next committee amendment was to
strike out of the House bill the words
“Of every person residing in the United
States, or any citizen of tho United States
residing abroad, derived in each preced
ing year." aud to insert in lieu of them
the word* "Received in the preceding
calendar year by every citizen of the
United States and every person residing
therein.”
After some colloquy the committeo
amendment was amended by making it
rend. “B.v every citizen of tho United
States, whether residiug at home or
abroad, and every person rosiding
therein.”
Mr. Peffer, pop., of Kansas, offered his
amendment for a graduated income tax.
Mr. Harris (hoved to lay it Ujion tho
table, and that motion was agreed to—
yeas 45, nays 5.
The negative votes were given by tho
three populists—Messrs Allen, Kyle and
Peffer and by two republicans Messrs.
Mitchell of Oregon, nud Teller of Colo
rado.
At this point two reports were made
from the select committee investigating
the connection of senator* with the sugar
trust. Tho ma.orlty report certified tho
fact that Messrs. Havemeyer and Searles
had refused to answer proper questions;
and a minority report by Messrs. Gray
and Lindsay certified the same fact as to
Mr. Macartney, the stock broker.
A parliamentary controversy was
started by a suggestion of Mr. Hill that
the reports go over without action till to
morrow; while it was contt tided, on tho
other hand, that the mere presentation of
tho reports concluded tho matter, and
that the Vice President should vetify
tho retmrt to the district attorney.
The Senate at ti p. in., after a short ex
ecutive session, adjourned till to-morrow.
HATCH S BILL STILL ON DECK.
The Last Day of the Debate Full of
Crone Firing.
Washington, June 21. —Speaker Crisp
being still unable to preside over tho
House, Representative Bailoy was again
named to do so.
After tho transaction of some unimpor
tant business, by unanimous consent, Mr.
Hatch moved to go into committee of tho
whole to consider tlte anti-option bill, and
asked unanimous consent to modify tho
agreement made yesterday respecting the
debate, ao as to give him an hour to-mor
row to close. Ho declined to include
within tho request a modification to per
mit amendments being offered, and there
upon objection was made to tho proposed
extension of debate.
The motion to go into committee of the
whole was agreed to, aud Mr. Livingston
took the chair
Much confusion was occasioned over
the efforts of various members to learn
whether or not amendments to the hill
could be offered. Before yielding the
chair Speaker Protem. Bailey hud refused
to rule on that question, but Chairman
Livingston intimated his intention to ad
mit amendments at any time.
Mr. Hatch protested that the commit
tee could not chnnge tho terms of tho or
der agreed to by the House, and Mr. Liv
ingston refrained from making a ruling
until Mr. Grosvonor, rep. of Ohio, who
had the floor for 30 minutes, had con
cluded.
GROSVBNOR TO VOTE FOR THE BILL.
His conclusion was that inasmuch as
tho people believed that because of deal
ings in futures and options tho markets
for food products were ad versely affected,
he was willing to relieve them of that im
pression by the passage of tho bill, and
would therefore vote for it.
The question of the status of amend
ments to the bill coming up again, an ar
rangement was effected after considera
ble negotiation by which amendments
are to be offered and considered under the
5-minute rule for two hours to-morrow,
after which Mr. Hatch will have an hour
to close the debate.
Mr. Covert, dem., of New York, fol
lowed Mr. Grosvonor in an argument
against the bill on the ground of uncon
stitutionality.
The discussion was further continued
by Mr. Stockdale, dem., of Mississippi, in
favor of the bill, and by Mr. Bartlett,
dem., of New York, In opposition thereto.
PENCE TALKS FOR SILVER.
Mr. Pence, pop., of Colorado, was the
next speaker. He plunged into the silver
question at once. His only reference to
the pending bill was a remark that he did
not know whether or not a free coinage
proposition would be in order as an
amendment to the anti-option bill, but If
it were not, and some gentleman offered It
to-morrow, the greatest benefit to the
country could be done by the opponents of
it withholding a point of order against
the amendment.
After further debate by Messrs.
Wheeler, of Alabama, and Neill, dem., of
Arkansas, in support of tho bill, and by
Messrs. Boatner. dem., of Louisiana, and
Quigg, rep., of New York, in opposition
thereto, the committee rose and at 5:45
o’clock adjourned until to-morrow.
SALVADOR’S REFUGEES.
An American Named Jefferies Al
lowed to Go Ashore.
Washington, Juno 21.—Secretary Her
bert has received a cablegram from Com
mander Thomas of the Bennington
announcing that one of the refugees on
his vessel, having complied with tho re
quirements of the navy department, had
landed at La Libertad. The man who
has thus given himself up to the lender
mercies of the victorious revolutionists is
a native of the United States named
Jefferies, who served as an aide, with the
title of general, to Kzela in the recently
terminated conflict in Salvador. It ap
pears that he had received assurances
from the new government that he would
not be molested if he came ashore, and he
requested permission from Commander
Thomas to leave the ship.
ALLOWED TO GO.
On Monday the commander cabled the
request to Secretary Herbert, and after
the matter had been given full considera
tion by the proper officials here, on Tues
day last a cablegram was sent to Com
mander Thomas, authorizing him to re
lease Jefferies "upon his written re
?uest.” Jefferies Is said to be a reckless
ellow with a very large following of
friends in Salvador, and it would not be
surprising to officials here if he became
quite as prominent in the new govern
ment as he was in the old one.
It is thought that the revolutionists
would summarily dispose of Gen. Ezeta
If ho surrendered, but that no harm
would happen lo any of the other refu
gees. The United (States will, however,
run no risks in the matter, and none of
them will lie permitted to leave the Ben
nington except on their written request,
thus releasing this government of all re
sponsibility in their affairs. This has
long beeu the settled policy of the United
States and there will be no deviation
from it.
Want a Colored Commissioner.
Washington. June 21.—1n the Senate
to-day Senator Gordon of Georgia offered
an amendment to the bill in relation to
the Atlanta exposition, which is now be
fore the committee on appropriations.
The amendment is to add to the bill a
provision for the appointment by the
President of a colored man as one of the
commissioners.
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I WEEKLY, TIMES-A WEEK.It A YEAR. I
CEN. EVANS TO WITHDRAW,
His Friends Concede the Nomination
to Athinsoc.
Ths General Realised the Hopeless*
ness of His Fight Several Days Ago.
Hie Campaign Headquarters at At*
lanta Closed—A Formal Letter of
Withdrawal to Appear In a Few
Days—Scrsvon County Carried by
Atkinson.
Atlanta, Ga., Juno 21.—Gen. Clement
A. Evans is now at liis home in this city,
with no more appointments for speeches
in his campaign for the gubernatorial
nomination. Hon. W. Y. Atkinson was
also hero to-day, together with a sprink
ling of well-known politicians from
various parts of the state.
Asa consequence of Gen. Evans' return
to his home and the discontinuance of
his appointments, together with other
eveuts of the day, there has been a well
defined report out that ho has determined
to withdraw from the gubernatorial con
test at once. The statement is had
from one of the general’s closest
campaign managers that he will make no
further light, but to-day decided with his
friends to publish a letter of withdrawal.
This letter, it is understood, will appear
by Sunday, at the latest. It may appear
before that time. Gen. Evans realized
his defeat some days ago, hut the gallant
fighter that he is, ho was loath to leave
tho field until tho very lust ditch was
circled.
ALL or ONE MIND.
Frank P. Rice, chairman of the cam
paign committee, also conceded the nomi
nation to Mr. Atkinson some days ago,
aud there appears to have been a
general deslro on tho part of
Gen. Evans'advisers to prevent further
contention in the party. Gen. Evans
fully acquiesced in this view of bis nd
visers, and it was finally agreed to end
tho campaign whore it Is. The campaign
committee has dosed its offices, and all
that remains to bo done now is
for Gen. Evans to prepare his formal
letter.
Gen. Evans'friends here are of course
greatly disappointed at the iksue of the
campaign, hut they have accepted It with
good grace and will support his success
ful rival with tho enthusiasm of loyal
democrats.
Mr. Atkinson In an interview to-day
said he had no intimation of Gen. Evans’
determination to withdraw from the con
test. He will fill an appoint
ment at Conyers to-inorrow,
but after that has no further
speeches down on his programme. In es
timating the strength of tho third party,
he said he did not think the populists aro
so strong now as they wero two years
ago, despite the big showing they made
at the recent slate convention, which, he
said, was a well worked up bluff. Ho
thinks his majority over Hines will be as
great as that of Gov. Northen over Peeks,
based on the percentage of the vote cast.
ATKINSON CARRIES SCREVEN.
Rocky Ford, Ga., June 21.—Screven
county went in favor of Atkinson to-day,
by 5 to 1.
THE VOTE IN CRAWFORD.
Knoxville, Ga , June 21.—Atkinson 169,
Evans 74. Tho present state house offi
cers were nominated. .
FATAL FIGHT IN A STORE.
A Merchant and a Lawyer Gut Xaoh
Other With Savage Fury.
Macon, Ga., Juno 21. Star Route
Agent Jennings, upon his arrival in the
city this morning, brought news of a
fight between West Dent and O. P.
Wright, both prominent citizens of Craw
ford county, which took place at Roberta
yesterday. Tho true origin of the diffi
culty was not learned by Mr. Jennings,
but Dqnt is supposed to have attempted
to drive Wright out of his store. After
a few words passed. Dent, who is
a powerful man, knocked Wrigb#
down, and while beating him,
Wright out Dent dn tho abdomen, the
gash being from side to side. Dent was
then pulled off Wright, who went to
Ray’s store, across the street. With his
entrails protruding. Dent seized a pitch
fork and followed Wright, and when the
two mot Dent plunged the pitchfork into
Wright’s breast and broke the fork to
pieces over his head, not desisting until
pulled off by his brother. Both men will
die. Dent formerly kept a store in Macon
and is well known here. Wright is a
prominent lawycrof Crawford and is uL*
well known In Macon.
GOLD AT A LOW EBB.
Reserve Now 91,000,000 Less Than
When the Bonds Were Issued.
Washington, June 21.—The treasury
gold reserve to-day at the close of busi
ness stood at $84,127,959, $1,500,000 less
than the low water mark reached in the
gold reserve before it was put up by the
$50,000,000 bond issue. This reduction
has been brought about by the with
drawal within the past two days for ex
port to Europe of $2,850,000. it was
stated in an unofficial way that
New York City banks would sup
ply gold for the continued export
movement, but so far as the
tre sury here is advised, up to the close
of business at 4 p. m., but $400,000 of the
$8,250,000 exported during to-day and yes
terday has been supplied by banks. Even
this $400,000 was paid in gold certificates
in exchange for United States notes. The
fact, however, of the gold reserve being
at the lowest point in its history causes
no uneasiness in the treasury department,
which is well supplied with currency to
meet all maturing obligations for months
to come.
CLARK DECLINES TO QUIT.
Charges to Be Preferred Against the
Capitol Architect.
Washington, June 21,—1n consequence
of bitter differences of ojiinion between
Mr. Walker of Massachusetts, and other
members of the House committoe on ae
eo us tics and ventiliatiou and Edward
Clark, who has been tho architect of the
capitol for nearly thirty years, on the
subject of the defective ventilation of the
House, Mr. Clark s resignation has been
asked by Mr. Shell of South Carolina,
the chairman, and Mr. Durborow of Illi
nois. a member of the committee, and re
fused. The matter will bo brought up in
the House, with a probability of charges
being preferred against Architect Clark
in connection with the administration of
his office.