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4 The Augusta Chronicle. Published Every Day in the Year. ESTABLISHED 1785. THE CHRONICLE will be delivered by carrier or by nmll ut the following ra V* M .>n One Week » « Ono Month „ ?' Three Months " ’! Hix Mom be " One Year ™ ’ Huudiiy Chronicle One Year ‘J” .Weekly Chronicle Ono Year 1 w ADVERTISING RATES. Ordinary advertlsementM, 10. cents per Hue; Bpdal. 12 1-2 cents per Uno; Ainuc ineiils and Auction Suli«, 15 cents per line. Huslneus Notices, 20 edits per line; Double Column Advertlseinenis. and Ad ventlHeineuts requiring special posit lona, will be ebtirgwl 2t> per cent. nd‘t|iloan I. Special copies aent free. Address all cominnnlcal loiih to _ . THE CHRONICLE, AUGUSTA. G \. PATRICK WALSH. President. Mr S. B. Vreoland In the special ndvi-r- ] tlslng agent <.f The Augusta Chronicle- i Other, ir.o Nassau street, New 1 ork. al advertising buslnena In the Middle iinl New Englund Slates will be managed by him. It is now Enrlxisstulor Eustis. Itiny s turu comes next. The Noronic has ut last been given j up—but not by the sou. Editor Hobby, who publishes a paper in Sylvania and another in Milan, is playing his dual role with signal sue- . coss. It is hoposl that Commissioner Blount : is enjoying Irimself us he drinkw pulque with LUiuokalmd in her country bua galo. It’s all u mistake The Jug I avert. Populist has not suspended, but still Ungers iu this vale of political iuappre eiution. Annexation sentiment is growing in Canada and thousands are praying to put some more stars on the .vpany.k'd banner. Perhaps the Sabbath closing con tingent of the World's Fair will keep July 4 and, iu dgfereuce to France, the j fifteenth, also. 1 I A member of the “1492” company is I daft on the subject of stockings mid as ’ she has 19” pairs, it is supposed she I never turns them. The Sacramento Bee is of the opinion that “there is an irrepressible < ouiliH be tween tho telephone system and the Christian religion.” A Philadelphia man has been accused ■ of the double crime of horse stealing - and bigamy. The altar and the halter I seemed to share Ilia favor. The Memphis Commercial puts the ease well when it states that there lire many pensioners on the roll who weie soldiers only by courtesy. ’Hie rate at which American consuls I have recently been mobbed, with an | occasional death thrown in, is calculated i to cool the ardor of aspirants. Kentucky is as full of anomalies as July is of gallinippers. A dog iu that state is said to be so fond of milk tliat he usurps the prerogative of an uu woained calf. The rebel filibustering expedition against the national government mid the Ten Commandments, so devoutly ex pected by Ihe CockeriU Advertiser, has. so far, failed to materialize.. The distinguished disciple of William of Orange evidently thinks he's playing thunder up in those four little Ester counties, but just wait till the other twenty-eight give an Irish yell. The Mormans have completed the tem ple on which work has been progressing - forty years. A great day for the people , whose religion, as Artemus Ward said, ■ “is singular, but whose wives are • plural.” England and America are again at issue. The New York grand jury re fused to indict, the New York Recorder for violation of the lottery law in con nection with the so-called "missing ( word" conitests. An English publication fared differently. Queen Victoria, since the beginning of her reign, has signed but one death warrant, which was for an execution in the Isle of Man, the act passed for relieving Her Majesty of signing death warrants having by an oversight not included that part of Her Majesty’s | dominions. Traditions are being cruelly, rapidly overthrown. A cowboy in Toxas thought he would have some fun with a tender foot and ordered him to dance, but it. worked differently from what he expect ed. The stranger not only refused, but knocked the cowboy down, took his gun away from him and made him dance until he fainted from exhaustion. The school boy is not to be shut out from the benefits of this inventive age. Aluminum slate pencils are being manu factured by an Illinois firm, and are reported to find a good market. They •are about, the length and size of an or dinary slate pencil and similar in gene ral appearance. The marks made by the aluminum are erased by a wet sponge. The pencil is light, and inde structible. An Illinois man recently tried to dig a well and found a river. That is. he bored a well on his farm to a depth of 77 feet, when suddenly the entire bot tom fell out, carrying all but about five feet of the walls with it. At the bottom of the deep hole thus formed could be seen a swift-rushing stream. All efforts to fill np this hole have proved futile, the rushing current carrying away ev erything thrown into it. Central Reorganization—Another Phase of It. A petition hns been filed before Judge Simonton of the United States District Court of South Carolina asking the up* poiiituient of a receiver for the Augusta and Knoxvi.lo Railroad Company. This petition was made by C. 11. I’hiuizy and Alfred Baker, lrn«i”es tinder tlie first mortgage bonds of the Augusta & Knox ville railroad and was done in pursuance to Instructions from certain bondholders, who take this s;. |> because of the fail ure of the Central railroad to pay ac cred interest on the bonds. The Augusta A Knoxville railroad, now called the Port Royal & Western Carolina railroad, is one of the leased lines of the Central. At. first the Cen tral paid four per cent, on the stock of the road ns rental, besides paying the interest on the bonds. Then the Central stopped paying the interest on the stock, and for the past few years has paid only the interest on the bonds. The bonds aggregate only some six thousand dollars, and arc principally held in Savannah and Aug'ist.i. It is stipulated that whoa i till' interest; on these bonds is nine months past due, the bonds mature and j the mortgage can be foreclosed. On thai first day of April the nine mouths ex pired slnoe the July interest of last year was lapsed, and promptly certain bond holders, acting through Messrs. Carlton and Mackall of Savannah and W. K. MMler mid Leonard i’liimzv <4 Augusta, ordered the trustees under the first mort gage to proetssl to foreclosure. In pur suance of tlii . e instructions whb h it is expected all other bondholders will promptly join, the trustees ns stated , als.ve have taken stops to put the roud J in the hands of u receiver. As wo understand the case there was iKrth'ilig else tor the bondliablora to do unless they wished to go into the reor ganization scheme, mid thus subject their property to the orders which may brt brought by the promoters of this scheme and allowed by the United States Court for the Southern District of Georgia, as provided in a decree by j Judge Speer which was granted last Jan uary, but which so far as we tire iu formoil has not hitherto liven published. , We publish said decree in full this morn- I ing. mid its points may be briefly sum- | niarized as follows; October, 1892. a loan was made to the Cenlral by 11. B. Hollins A Co., of $3,- I 559.206.5 l payable with interest and <■ immi.-siii.is July Ist, 1893, mail loan ; Is'ing made for purpose of taking up the Speyer loan. Another loan was made , by Meremitile Trust Coiupauy of New ; York, undgr order grunted Dec. 19, I 1592, for $705,063, payable with interest and commissions at the same time. A I third loan was made pursuant. u> order ; of court of Jan. 10. 1593, confirmed by j suliseqmml order Ju..;. •,>, IS'Jo, lor ; $600,(A10. An ngreemont approved by the court ; cites tliat it is made between the re ceiver. the Mereatilc Trust Company as ■ trustee, and Hollins A Co., as joint age.niis mid attorneys in fact of the syn- 1 dirttte of lenders. This agreement pro- i vides that the trust company shall have 1 the right al any time before July 1. 1594, to purchase any or all claims of . any assenting or uon-asseiiling creditor, j mid such purchase, or the payment of , such loans shall not operate to extin guish the same by the purchaser thereof, ‘ and shall be subrogated to the rights l of such assenting creditors thus paid. , That subject to the loans placed upon | Hie properly by this agreement the se- | eurities in the hands of the trustee shall be chargeable with the lien of, and may be used by the reorganization committee 'as a fund lor the payment of all ex-i I peases incurred by them in promoting j i such plan of reorganization, said charges I I being first approved by the United States ' ! Circuit Court in vacation or term time, i This agreement, also authorizes the j trustee upon the written request offHol- . Uns A Co., from time to time to use | in such manner as shall be requested by said syndicate, all or any portion of the | stocks mid bonds as shall be requested by i said syndicate to acquire ownership of the respective corporations of which they form a part of the capital, when ever in the opinion of the syndicate the protection of any of said stocks or bonds requires them to be so used; it being expressly agreed that any stocks or bonds which may accrue to the stocks mid -bonds so used, by reason of the re i organization of the respective cor porations shall remain to t he trus tees iu place of those so used, subject to all terms mid provisions of j the indenture, as though they had been ' originally conveyed thereunder. Under I I the agreement the trustee accepts the : trust, but shall be responsible only i for wilful default or misconduct, I and shall receive fair compensation I to be paid by the receiver, and which shall be a first lien upon the proceeds of the property therein conveyed. The receiver agrees that out of the ; money loaned him hereunder he will pay $18,500 to the syndicate represented by Hollins & Co., who made loan of $3,889,206.84, said $18,500 having been paid by said syndicate to Speyer & Co., for expenses incurred by them. It is further agreed that if any of the properties of the Central or its allied lines should before July 1, 1893 be de- ! creed to be sold by any court, then all three of the loans referred to, with interest and commissions •shall beconfr due and payable at onee at. the option of the parties. It further provides that “iu all matters hereunder in which the syndicate is interested Messrs. H. B. Hollins & Co., shall be treated and considered as general agents and gttor- THE AUGUSTA WEEKLY CHRONICLE. APRIL 12, 1893. noy. In f M vt (ho syndicate, and au llmrizcd 40 *et for them.’’ 'I hough this agreeineut and onier of Judge Speer's hud never been published it was known to some of the bondlwlders of the A. & K. R. R„ and when the Central allowed (he interest on their bonds to go unpaid the nine months which gave I hum the right to foreclose, they decided to do so, rather than to put their property into this reorganization scheme and subject it to the ehargra iiml r tip, agreement entered into Itetwism the receiver and the agents of the s.vndii'ato. Accordingly they order ed the trustees to apply f w u rccoivcT for the A. Av K. R. R.. and their action bus brought to light this important, agroo ment under the order of the court. A Big Ship. The Cunnrd Campany hnvo n steamer nearing completion on the Clyde which they expect to bent nil the New York lin ers. She is to )m> christened the Cam pania, mid is expected to be ready to take her place in the line before th l mid dle of summer. She is larger than the New York liners, anil her four tiers of decks are thus refernsi to in the Glasgow Citizen: T'la-.v may !,o sai I to form a integ-.d in the hull structure —the upper, main, lower an | <,riop «lis-ks—mul above the 11 pi er come the hiirtieane, on the same level with forecastle forward and the poop aft, the shade or shelter dock, mid high above nil the “lookout.” or nnvi grilmgbridge. in front of the forward funnel. This latter is twenty-three feet above the shade ih-ck, mid no less than fifty-five feet above son level, a he bt which bel)>s to impart, mi air of realism, if not of gruesome significance to the term “flying.” as such bridges are often known I y. The capacity of the Campania will be 2,000 pass-.ngers, including the officers nnd crew. Al) the appointments are to be the finest and her electric lighting plant will furnish 1,350 liglrts. In ad dition the vessel has a powerful search light for facilitating the navigation of the ship into port, the picking up of moor ings and scouting in tamos of w.ir. The Campania, like other large ships built on the Clyde, is under government arra-.ige rnentN, constructed so as to be readily transformed into an nrmed cruiser. Says the same authority quoted above: i Iler fmmels are enormous; their height ' from the furnaces is about 125 f<, *. Above dee!: they show S 4 feet. r diameter is nearly 2u feet, and their eom bim d weight 120 tons The two sets of triple expansion e”- cines imlb-.'ite h>r c-power. Each is in its sepnrate engine-room, divided from tlie other by a centre-line bill!.- ; head by wafer-tight rloors of loninranir.'i- ' tion. Th" voss.-l has 13 boilers. 12 of these being in conm'cfion with the two great engines. Each has eight furnaces, and weighs nearly 100 tons. "The number of separate engines board,” says the Glasgow paper, "alnmst bailies em.npiirat.jmi.” The main saloon is 100 feet long and 64 feet broad. .Afmiy of the stale rooms have good sized sitting- | rooms attached —and they tiro already taken, en suite, at $1,250 each. This shows the interest in the monster ship already manifested by the pqblic. ami th-re is no doubt that her first Itrip will be made with a full quota of Ifas-, setigers. An Honest Difference. Otic of our old subscribers in Lin coln county writes; - I have been tak ing The Chronicle for forty years. We used to be together, but 1 am sorry to say we do not see things alike now." That is true. Perhaps, our friend is right and we are wrong, but we do not think so. Our convictions are honestly entertained. M e simply exercise a right that every citizen enjoys, and that is to expre-s his views on all public questions. But because we differ that is no rea son why we should bo at enmity. Me are all in the same boat and we should continue on friendly terms. '1 he farm ers have no better friend than The Chronicle. Nothing; Less, Nothing More. The people of the. South, who strayed off after false political prophets and strange doctrines into the Third I’artv. should return to the Demo cratic fold. There is no hope for the South or the country except in the suc cess of Democratic principles. The, promises and pledges of the party should he fulfilled. If these are car ried out in good faith, the farmers of the South will have no just cause of complaint. The Democratic party is in honor bound to carry out its financial and tariff reforms. It is committed to the coin of the Constitution—gold and silver-—mid paper currency inter changeable and of equal value with either. It is committed to a repeal of the prohibitory, not revenue, tax of 10 per cent, on the issues of state banks. It is committed to a revenue tariff—to tax lift 1 luxuries and relieve the neces saries of life from taxation. It is com mitted to a repeal of fraudulent pen sions. It is committed against monop olies. trusts .and combinations to ex tort money from the many for the benefit of the few. It is committed to an honest and economical adminis tration of every department of the federal government. It is committed against the fraud and force attempted to be perpetrated by the liepublican party against the rights of the people and the .sovereignty of the Southern States. What more can our Third Party people ask than a fulfilment of these Democratic pledges? The party is fully committed to them, and honor and good faith alike demand that they shall l>e carried out. Nothing less will satisfy Democrats. Nothing more should be demanded. Where to Locate Factories. Under the caption of “Where to Lo cate New Factories.” the Illinois Central railroad sends out u pamphlet, descrip tive of the udvairtag-es to be derived by the location of new industries in the South. The Chronicle notes with pleasure the facts stated nnd arguments advanced therein, all confirmatory of what The Chronicle has been reiterating for years, that the South is the place to nuniufac turc the "king staple," cotton. i This pleasure is considerably enhanced i by the fact tbnt one of Augusta's pros ' iierous cotton mills, "the Enterprise," | ami that, synonym of successful cutton i manufacturing, “the Graniteville," across | the river in our sisters state, are pnr , tieularlv mentioned as evidence of the i profit earning capacity of well-managed i Southern cotton mills. After speaking of the splendid earn- I imrs of the two mills named, the pam i phb't shows the benefits derivable from manufacturing cotton in close contiguity to the cotton fields, and in a climate best suited to its requirements, and sets forth in drtail other advantages that the Southern mill has over its Easier)) com petitor. Il speaks too of the immense striib-s the South has mnile in this particular industry within the past few years ami "the end is not yet.” It were useless to deny the statement that ultimately the t< ‘.il product of the South’s cotton fields, will Is- manufactured in the South. True it is a question of time, lint the “competition” that "is the life of trade" will compel nil who desire to engage in cotton mnniifaetnring to seek the lis-ality where natural conditions exist, tending to redme expenses on the one hand and increase revenue on the other. We need to do more of what the Illi nois Central railroad is doing for us, that is, telling the country and the world that no other section of the Creators green earth offers the same inducements and facilities to the cotton spinner and manufacturer, that this Southern coun try of ottr’s does. Religion In Politics. .\nieri<-.in Brotesiar.t Association seems to have been a prominent factor in the municipal ehs-tions in Michigan and Ohio, and is said to have influenced the results in s.-veral instances. The platform of the organization would be more plainly stated perhaps if it were enlled th<> Anti-Catholic Ass H'iation, ns the members were pledged to scratch the names of all Catholics from their tickets, ami to use their influence be foro the nominations to prevent Catholics being put on the ticket. The <lay for this sort of polities is past. Religious freedom is voui'hsafed to every citizen of this country, and no man's religion is to be made the test of his fitness for office. There is no more reason in excluding x mau from office because ho is a Catholic than them is in electing him because he is a Catholic. The best man should bo elect ed without reference to his church, and It would be foolish to eh i ct a man be cause he is a Protestant, as to reject one simply bix-ause lie is a Catholic. Women at the Polls. Tlie municipal elections in Kansas on Tuesday were notable for the fact that it wits the first time the women of the state have taken any general interest and active part in elections, though they have had the franchise for some time. In Kansas City, Kansas, there were three thousand women registered, and most, of them voted. It is a notable fact in this connection that though there was a woman candidate for mayor, run ning as au independent, she received only fifty votes. This would indicate that though the women wanted to vote, they did not believe in electing one of their number mayor of the city. A cor respondent of the Philadelphia Press makes the following comments on the day: "Two things were conclusively proved at tire election. One was that refined women will vote, the other that the presence of these women nt the polls has a good influence on the character of the election. Even th? rough ward heel ers were subdued and gentlemanly in their presence. Tlie police closed every “joint" and not a drunken man was to be seen. It was noticeable, however, tliat colored women crowded the white women at the polls with insolence. The polls opened at 8 o'clock, but very few women appeared before 10. Some of them wore accompanied by their hus bands or brothers, but tho greater num ber walked to the polls without male es corts. Most of the women voted with self-possession and an apparent know ledge of what they were doing. While the men slid their ballots into the boxes as though afraid some one might, guess for whom they voted, the women voted fearlessly.” The women have had the right to vote in municipal elections in Kansas for several years, but this is the first time they have exercised it io any extent. Be fore the election, the populists claimed that the women would vote with them, that it was interest in their cause which brought out the large registration. Tho result shows however that for the most part, they voted with the republicans or democrats, and as the republicans car ried the day in the greater part of the state, it would seem thaf th" majority of them at least voted Vfith that ticket. Kansas seems likely to remain a repub lican state for the people have evidently gotten enough of the recent populist craze, and it appears the women are dis posed to work for reforms within party lines, ratlier than to run off after new political gods, Mrs. Lease’s example to the contrary notwithstanding. Central Reorganization. The order of Judge Speer granted in Mucon in January last, ratifying an ngreeiui’iit between Receiver Comer, Hollins A- Co. and the Mercantile Trust Company, of New Y'ork, which was published by us in full, and sent out to the Southern Associated Press in synopsis, was given this publicity I because it bad not before been published, 1 and because it was. interesting informa tien to the public generally, and especial ly to those concerned hi the reorganiza tion plan of the Central railroad. Receiver Comer seems to gather the idea tliat it was done in ft spirit inimical Ito the reorganization -eheme and the best interests of the Central railroad. IVe were free from any such animus in the matter, and on the contrary have declared ourselves in favor of the re organization at and from the beginning of the effort to acisAnplish it. M e are still of the same opinion that interested parties have everything to lose and nothing to make by the failure of the voorgnnization plan. We wired both to Savannah and Ma con and ascertained that the order of Judge Speer had never been published, ami we gave it to the public because it was of general interest to the read ing publie iu showing the statuts of the Central’s affairs ami what steps had been talcen before the court in ad justing .with the movers in the reor gi lization scheme the several loans which hud been made to the company. It seems we were m'slsmd in our con struction of the decree in stating that the securities pledged with the Merehau tile Trust Company by individual holders will be liable for the reorganisation charges. Receiver Comer says in an interview which we published yesterday from the Savannah News, that “only the securities owned by the company will be liable for the expenses and charges incurred in the work.” The Chronicle does not wish to do anything to cloud the issue. It believes the reorganization scheme should suc ceed, mid, as Receiver Comer reminds the public iu his interview above re ferred to, “it is clearly stated in the reorganization plan tliat if the reorgani zation goes through and is successful, that owners of old securities will receive new securities as stated in the appended table. If the reorgani zation fails the old securities are to be returned to their owners free of charge.’’ It is to the interest of our people to further the success Ms this Central re organization, and it is a matter of satis faction that the outlook for its success is more hopeful than heretofore. The-Battle Royal. "It would be well for the democratic party mid for the country could the questions of taxation and reduction of pensions, as well ns a reduction of ex penditures all along the line, be settled before entering the bitter struggle over tb.e money question. The money ques tion must, however, be met sometime, When it is forced as the issue it may develop a necessity for the reorganiza tion of political parties. The buttle of the standards is the coming battle the world over, when it is pushed to the front, for final settlement—-the question as to whether silver shall be placed at its old status as the equal, if not the supe ri >r. of gold in our financial system; or total!lv demonetized. It will be a battle royal.” Tim foregoing is a significant para graph in an admirable article by Con gressman R. P- Bland in The North American Review for April, in which he discusses the "currency and the demo cratic party." Mr. Bland is chairman of the committee on coinage, weights mid measures of the house of represent atives, and one of the roost earnest, con sistent and able advocates of silver. He has never wavered in his advocacy of the proper recognition of silver iu finan cial legislation, and when the "battle royal" comes on to be fought it is safe to say he will be a leader iu the great contest. Tn the article under review Mr. Bland reviews past financial legislation, to show the position of the democrfttiie party throughout its history, and deducts from tho record tho conclusions that the party has always favored tho unlimited coinage of both gobi and silver, has always au : tagonized the national banks, and lias ; made, a uniform record in favor of treas -1 ury notes in preference to national bank i currency. “All the conflicts of the past ; between the democratic party and its ' opponents on the currency question have : taken the form of a contest between the ! advocates of hard money (so-called)—the coin of the constitution—gold and silver, and the advocates of national bank credit ! issues. The democratic party was in ■ power for the roost part in this govern ’ ment from the beginning until I 860." Taking up the congressional record, he ' says "the first Mint Act of 1792. in conformity with the constitution, founded j our system upon the principles of the i dual standard of gold and silver, with ' free or unlimited coinage of both. This system the democratic party never dis turbed. but on the contrary kept open mints for the coinage of both metals.” He explains the apparent preference of the democratic party for gold alsmt the time of Benton’s career in the senate by tho fact that the party whs fight ing the issue of national bank notes with gold. The advocates of the national bank issues argued against the bulkiness of silver, and the democrats not at that time having con teinnlntod ’-suing paper legal tenders, rallied -to the support of gold as light ,-uul convenient enough to do away with the objections to silver in large quanti fies. and "in 1534-37, the ratio was j changed so as to overvalue gold and thus attract it here to be used in competition with bank notes. Thh was done by diminiahing the amount of gold in the dollar; no change was Tuhde as to tho silver dollar.” Mr. Bland says it does not seem that the idea of issuing paper on gold and sil ver coin, dollar for dollar, ever occurred to Benton, Jackson and others in their great contests against national banks. "But the democratic party in all iTs his tory never demonetized either gold or silver. Free or unlimited coinage for both was always preserved.” Having established the uniform opposition of the demiMTUtic party to national banks be fore the war, Mr. Bland gives the record of the most ftignifiennt votew upon this subject in congress during the existence of the present system. “The bill pro viding for national bank currency was takeu up in the senate Feb. 12, 1863, and passisl—ayes 23, including 22 republicans and 1. democrat; nays, 21— 12 democrats and 9 republicans. Ju the house the vote was—ayes 78; 75 republicans and 3 democrats; nays, 64; 42 democrats mid 22 republicans. The supplement act of June, 1864 passed the house in April, ayes 80, all republi cans; nays. 66; 65 democrats, 1 repub lican. The bill to recharter the na tional banks passed the house May 19, 1882—ayes, 125; 103 republicans, 22 democrats; nays, 67; 57 demwrats, 2 re publicans. 8 greenbackers. Passed the senate amended June 22 —ayes, 34; 26 republicans, S democrats; nays, 13; 12 democrats. 1 republican. The confer ence report passed the bouse July 10, ISB2—ayes, 110, 99 republicans and 11 democrats; nays, 79; 69 democrats, 2 re publicans, 8 green backers. The study of this article, which we have briefly summarized from the article of Mr. Bland must convince any reason able man that the democratic party is opposed to niitional banks, and cannot be looked to for legislation favorable to the continuance of this system. The record of the* party in favor of treasury notes in preference to national bank notes is equally pronounced. January 17, 1870, on a resolution to substitute treasury notes or greenbacks for national bank notes, the vote was: yeas, 56, 53 democrats and S republicans; nays, 114, 112 republicans and 2 democrats. On motion of Mr. Randall, of Pennsylvania, substantially the same question came up again, July 14, IS7O, yeas 51; 41 demo crats, 10 republicans; nays, 111, 105 republicans and 6 democrats. "Pending the consideration of the bills to rocharter the national banks, the author hereof moved amendments, the effect of which was to substitute treas ury notes for bauk notes, and to prohibit further issuance of bank notes. On this question the yeas were 71; 65 dem ocrats, 2 republicans and 4 indepen dents; mays, 138; 114 republicans, 19 democrats, 5 greenbackers, or indepen dents.” Other votes are given, on down to tho vote in the last congress, in March 17, 1892. on the motion to table the free oonage bill, yeas, 148; 81 demo srats and 67 republicans; nays, 149; 130 democrats. 11 republicans, 8 people's party. “In the days of Benton and Jack son,” says Mr. Bland, “as well “as now there were many influential democrats whose sympathies were with the na tional bank party, and who were ready to discard the money of the people is sued from the mints of the government, ami the notes of the treasury, based on coin, for national bank paper issued by the hand of monopoly. But now, as then, a large majority of the party are materially opposed to the principle of financial control by any such means. They are not disposed to see the money of the constitution subverted and the credit of individuals and corporations substituted. It must be apparent to all close observers of current popular sen timent that tiny currency system which proposes a permanent interest bearing debt will not be tolerated by our people. Referring to the status which silver is to hold iu the financial system of the future. Mr. Bland says: "The time is not to be long deferred! when this battle of the standards is to be fought to a finish. Ou the one side will be the rich and powerful banks of tho old world and of the new; ou the other, the mass of our people, especially west of the Allegheney mountains; loaded down as they are with debts and mortgages, with a vast country yet to be touched by the hand of industry and enterprise, demanding money without limit except as to its supply from na ture.” "Silver is either a safe money metal or it is not. If it is not suitable for free coinage it ought not to be further coined. If it is suitable for for coinage at all, it ought not to be de based by limiting its coinage.” IF yovn BACK ACHES. Or you are all worn out, really good for noth, ing, It is general debit it v. Try B/iOtrjV’.S’ IRON BITTERS. It will cure you, cleanse your liver, and give a good anprtfte. BURNED TO DEATH. Wilkesbarre. Pa., April B.—District Sup erintendent 'William Samuels, of the Le high Valley Coal Company, was burned to death in Dorrance shaft yesterday. Ha entered the shaft to inspect it and in some unknown way set the mine on fl.-) and lost his life. ENDORSERS: The following distinguished persons well and v.ldvly known testify to the valuable properties of Simmons Liver Regulator. Hon. Alexander H. Stephens. John W. Beckwith. Bishop of Georgia. General Jno. B. Gordon, ex-U. S. SeWator. H< u. Jno. Gill Shorter, ex-Gov. Ala. IL v. David Wills, D. D., Pres’t Ogle thorpe College. Bishop Pierue. of M. E. 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