Newspaper Page Text
«AWSV ITEMS PICKED UP
THE NATIONAL CAPITOL.
■■
-
Ballings and Doings of the Official
Heads of the Government.
Under the call of Chairman Bayers,
{fee subcommittees of the house com
ittee on appropriations in charge of
- wM pension and fortifications bills,
3K* at the capital Thursday.
r The proposed new treaty between
Ikpaa and the United States was
jpguml by Secretary Gresham ahd
minister Korino, Friday morning, and
M1I be sent to the United States senate
§Nr ratification on its reassembling on
Bwoember 3d.
’ It is understood in Washington that
jnveril southern railroad companies,
mntong others the Southern railway
sgpatem, the Georgia railroad and the
Month Carolina railway, have been
making inquiries as to the require¬
ments necesssry to enable snch com
paaiee to transport goods in bond te
the Atlanta exposition.
The navy department has an official
cablegram announcing that the Chi¬
nese battleship, Chen Yuen, the most
formidable vessel in the Chinese navy,
was damaged by s torpedo on leaving
Wei-Hai-Wei, on the 18th instant,
and was beached, and is now useless.
Commodore Lin, in command of the
0hen Yuen, committed suicide after
Me disaster.
Tbe oonrt of appeals of the District
if Columbia has granted a motion of
counsel for Chapman and Maartney,
indicted as recalcitrant sugar trust
Fitnesses, for sn appeal from the
Jeoent decision of Judge Cole, bolding
that they are liable to punishment for
• refusal to answer questions put by
the senate committee. The date for
hearing the arguments oh the appeal
has not yet bedn fixed.
Pension Commissioner Lochren has
explained bis estimates to the house
appropriations sub-committee having
-eharge of. the pension appropriation
hill, and it was virtually decided to
frame* tbe bill socording to the esti
saates hetotofore made public by the
pension commissioner, except that tbe
Item of surgeons’fees will be reduced
from $1,000,000 to $800,000. Mr.
Lochren has modified his previous
estimate on this item. The pension
bill for the next fiscal year, as it will
ha framed, wiU carry $141,381,670.
Tbe postofflee department is satisfied
Ski last with the character and appear¬
ance of the 2-cent stamps which are be¬
ing and turned oat by the burean of print¬
ing engraving. Friday the stamp that
agaat of the department reported
the new stamps are satisfactory. They
or* properly old-time gammed and the Mr. eolor Kerr is
•f tbs deep red.
Oraig, the third assistant postmaster
general, who has charge of matters per¬
taining to postage, said that greatly
hastens ad orders for stamps from all
parts of the oonntry showed that Bnsi
reviving rapidly.
As far as the treasnry department is
'iknaed no gold was withdrawn from
Naw York snb-treasnry Wednes
The Less gold reserve stands gold at $67,
,000. than $900 in has bo
Car beea paid this month at New York
foe anatom duties, which duties for
days havs amounted to $4,
,$600 in excess of the oorre
poadiag period last year. A mistake
ras made by Treasurer Jordan Tuee
kay in transmitting by telegraph New York tbe
Mid withdrawn from the
nbtreaaary. An item of $400,000 was
Hpwlai. The gold withdrawn was
kl,200,000, not $1,600,000, as stated.
Mmelal Notwithstanding Mr. Cleveland’s ft
massage and bis effort to side
Mek silver, it has already become ap
wrent that the silver men of both the
intend to make a
Kt effort to put through a free coin
Mil at this session of oongreas and
to the white house for
• approval or veto. Mr.
has written push to Washington that
is to the silver bill with
m. bran Judge Holman, of In*
interviewed on the
y» free silver will
moo in the campaign of
* dsaaoorstio party,” said
. otherwise than da*
the unlimited coinage of the
at the present ratio,
only can we win.”
ry department circular
ij 13th, inviting pro-
16,000 United States 6
on a 8 per cent, basis,
offioe opened Saturday
retary’s IS o'clock, st tire treasury
it at noon, to the
>f Secretary Carlisle, Asdat
tory Curtis aad Chief Hunt
end currency di¬
« clerks, represen
name of the heavy bidders,
The
r ranged from $50 to $10,
datod £Ld*»rfiJ» February
• paid for to
i)meats, or in at
’.to soon as he
.M
adtfe. ft* 1 .1
X
• d «cmm of #l*.«s*,«7d. Prior
July 1892, the gold reserve wee
little effected by withdrawals of coin,
there never having been
considerable demand for the re¬
demption of notes. Even where
gold .exports were heavy the
metal was - famished by bankers
from their vaults or was obtained from
the treasnry. as gold certificates, of
coarse, without impairment to the re¬
serve fund. During the last two years,
however, the treasury hna been called
upon to furnish ne irly the whole of the
requirements for exportation, and
■ b ,rpcnnriv been considerable
withdrawals for other uses. The two
important events of the public year affecting
the condition of the debt were
the issue of 860,000,000 of Q. per cent
bonds to replenish the Rold reserve
and the stoppage of the purchase of
silver bullion by the issue of treasury
notes.
A NOVEL UNDERTAKING.
A Great Company Furnishes its Em¬
ployes Free Medical Attendance.
William L. Doudas, President of the
W. L. Douglas Shoe Co., has always
bad n groat personal interest in the ar ny of
menan l women who inhabit the gnat fac¬
tory at Montello, Ma«s, H<*isairreat be
liever lit the idea that manufacturers should
hare this personal interest in the condition
of their employes, and feels that i* the ilea
Is carried out to the extent t’>at it possible, aklng
that it Will resu t ultimately in the br
down o' the barriers which have been built
up b“t ween employers an I those wnom they
err.p'ov. Dougins Is satisfied that scheme
Sir. and a he has
helms originated isa good on",
now put it to pr tetie ti t<‘St. A few days ago
he handed lo every p-TSun in his employ—
and they form a small army—a card, which
entitled the bearer “to|uH and fr -e me lieal
attendance while employed by the W. and L.
Douglas Shoe Company. A competent
sktl ul physician will be »t the private office
o the company at 12 tn„ daily, except Sun¬
day* and holiday*. If said employe should
• >e detained at home by sickness, the phy¬
sician will give full and free medical attend¬
ance there.” the
Blank spaces are left in the eard for
name and res’dence of the employe, and it
is si ne l by Mr. Douglas, as President ot tbe
W. L. Douglas Shoe Company. The condi¬
tions printed on the curd are as follows:
“The physician will not make visits outside
the city limit*. This ticket is not transfer¬
able, and does not apply to the family of tbe
employe, and must be relurned as soon ns
the term of employment ceases. This privi¬
lege is a free gut of the company and Is no
part of the contract for wages, and may be
male void by the company, at its own
Option, without notice.”
A doctor him been engaged to attend sitk
employes, and everything that medical skill
can accomplish will be done for them dur¬
ing Illness. Illustration of the plan.
This Is doubtless a practical appreciated by the hun¬
It will be
dreds who receive the cards. Mr. Douglas
bell ves there are hundreds of workingmen
and woMtingwomen who lin t a doctor's bill
a great burden alter a period of enforced
idleness,land feel that that if their this is employer litted from is inter¬ them
they must them in ether than
ested in some way just sim¬
ply to get all the work he can for as lit¬
tle money a* he oan. Mr. Dougin* says also
that there are men and women who keep
at work when it would be better for
their health If they laid off a day or
two and received medloal attendance, Then
again they will now feel free to consult the
doctor tor slight tronbles, whioh heretofore
they would not do because of the oost.
Spanking of the W. L. Douglas 8hoe Co., It
may be said further that In tbelr factory’ the
principle of arbitration Is recognized. Mr.
Douglas is a firm believer establishment in tbe principle of
and has been since the tne
State Board of Arbitration. The Arm obliges
every employe to sign an agreement to sub¬
mit any Uwakreement that may arise, and
Which cannot be settled by the interested
parties, to tbe State Board of Arbitration,
the dcoision 01 that Board to be Anal.
NOT IN FAVOR.
The Agricultural Department is Op¬
posed to Roddey’s Plan.
The officials of the agricultural de¬
partment at Washington do not look
with favor upon the Roddey plan,
adopted at Atlanta, Ga., for the pur
pone of restricting the outpi ut of ootton
and thereby increasing th e valne of
that staple to producers. In the sec¬
retary's report last year a strong plea
was made for a redaction in tbe acre¬
age and it is understood that tbe sec¬
retary will renew that appeal in bis
forthcoming building report.
The up of an enormous
reserva of cotton, snch as wonld result
from the setting aside of one bale in
every five gathered, would, the officials
say, be a most powerful agency for the
“bears,” who are constantly seeking
to pull down the price of ootton, and
the remit would be the same as that
growing oat of the constantly over
estimated invisible supply of wheat
Those who have studied the question
assert that the knowledge of the fact
that this reserve supply of ootton was
in existence would tend to keep the
prioe down. The whole plan is, they
believe, baaed upon a false premise.
The only remedy the eottoo grower
has is, they say, to be fonnd in the
diminution of the acreage of ootton,
and the. cultivation of other crops to
alternate with ootton. By be this reduced means
only oan the ootton crop
ana the valne increased._
THE BROWNS ACQUTTIED.
aad His Two Sons Were
Trial for Murder.
Tbe trial of Simon Brown and hie
two eons for the murder of Constable
Gribbeo, wee finished at BleekviUe,
a a, Saturday and resulted in aa ae
quitted for all of tike The
jury out for fifty minutes and only
to jury was at all dit¬
to a verdict of guilty
Th.^
Ol
the
in
to
to the
of
_
BRIEF TELEGRAMS.
A CONDENSATION OF OUR MOST
IMPORTANT DISPATCHES.
Short and Crisp Morsels of General
Interest to Our Readers. **
The Italian parliament haft been con¬
voked for December 3rd, by royal de¬
cree. j
General Nelson A. Miles, on Wed
nesdsy, took command of the depart¬
ment of tbe east.
A private dispatch received at Lon¬
don from India says that the condition
cf Lord Randolph Churchill is very
unsatisfactory.
The foot and mouth disease has
broken out among cattle at Falmouth
and SiUingbourne, England, and the
boards of agriculture have been notifi¬
ed of its existence.
Relief funds for the earthquake suf¬
ferers have been opened throughout
Italy and the military commanders in
the afflicted districts have been order¬
ed to give every assistance to the suf¬
ferers by providing them with tents,
bread, etc.
At Barcelona, Spain, Salvator Franch,
the chief conspirator in the bomb
throwing plot which resulted in tbe
death of thirty persons and the wound¬
ing of eighty others in the Lyceum
theatre.# little more than a year ago,
was executed Wednesday morning.
Fart of a freight train on tbe Santa
Fe road went through a trestle be¬
tween Blum and Kopperi, Tex.,Thurs¬
day. The engine passed over the
bridge safely. It is not known wheth¬
er any of the train creyr were injured.
Several cars were destroyed by fire.
Advices of Thursday from Yokohama
state that the Chinese Pie Yang squad¬
ron is reported to have shelled the
Japanese troops marching on Port Ar¬
thur. A desperate battle between the
Chinese and Japanese fleets is said to
have followed. The result of the en¬
gagement is not known.
Upon complaint of tbe “Committee
of Seventy,” Governor Flower has no¬
tified John R. Fellows to show cause
why he should not be removed from
the offioe of district attorney of New
York county for neglect of duty. The
complaint is made by Preble Tucker,
Fulton McMahon, Charles Taber, R.
W. G. Welling and Clarence Goodby,
of New York.
Governor Fishback, of Arkansas, in
answer to an invitation to join the sil¬
ver party, to be organized at St. Lou¬
is, wrote a letter to the chairman of
the Bi-metallio League, in which he
said: “I will not follow any set of im
practicables into a new party. The
democratic party is the only one
through which we can ever secure free
and unlimited coinage of silver.”
A New York special says: Professor
Charles A. Briggs has issued his latest
book, “The Messiah of the Gospel.”
It has been ready for publication
sinoe 1887, but he delayed giving it to
the public, owing to the heresy trials
through which he has passed in the
past few years. The book will attract
greater attention than any he has
written, and for a time will set all
orthodox Christians almost wild.
Captain Philip B. Cooper, the new
superintendent of the United States
Naval Academy, at Annapolis, Md.,
issued an order, which was read to the
battalion of cadets, condemning hazing
and announcing that in the future ex¬
ecutive clemency will not be exercised
in behalf of those dismissed for this
offense. Acting on the assumption
that each student will tell the truth,
the signing of conduct reports certify¬
ing to having told the tinth will be
diaoontinned in the fnture.
An Omaha special says: The repub¬
lican fight for the United States sen
atorsbip has become very fierce and
bitteT. Senator Manderson has no
following for re-election. The lead¬
ing candidate is John M. Thurston, of
Omaha, general solicitor of the Union
Paoifio. The other candidates are
Governor Ciounse, ex-Senator Pad
dock, Church Howes, Tom Majors,
inti defeated for governor; .G. M.
Lambertson, of Linoolti, ex-assistant
secretary of the treasury, and John L.
Webster, of O mah a.
Mayor Gilroy, of New York, has ap¬
pointed Congressman Amos J. Cum¬
mings subway commissioner to snooeed
Theodors Moss, whose term has ex¬
pired; Jsoob Moss sabway commis¬
sioner to snooeed himself and
8. Kearney to snooeed Walter Storm,
term expired. The term of the com¬
missioners is three years and the sal¬
aries are $5,000 a year. The mayor
ako appointed Joseph B. Smith, M. Dennet to
snooeed Solomon whose
term is nine years and the salary $8,000
a year.
The seven miners eharged with
spiney to barn, end burning the tip¬
ple at tbe Paine mines, Ridgeway,Pa.,
tost Jane during the strike, were found
ty to tbe eharge c* ‘
nnder a building, i all
- Frank
Was
Of 72
_
---------
<*»
-i x -
1
•.
A BOOKK BKP EE GOBS WRONG.
He Steals *854,000 From the Shoe
end Leather Bank.
John M. Crane, the president of the
National Shoe and Leather bank, at
New York, gave out the following
statement at the bank Saturday after¬
noon:
“To the Public—A bookkeeper of
this bank has disappeared, and the re¬
sult of a thorough investigation, made
at our request by tbe national bank
examiner, has proven him a defaulter
to the amount of $364,000, to meet
which the directors have called on the
stockholders for an assessment suffi¬
cient to amply cover any deficiency.
We append a statement by the clear¬
ing bouse committee.
“John M. Cbanb, President.”
The clearing house committee, which
visited the bank, makes the following
statement:
“The recent examination of the af¬
fairs of the National Shoe and Leather
bank by the national bank examiner
developed a defalcation by of $354,000,
and upon investigation the clearing
house committee this loss is confirmed.
The committee is unanimous in the
opinion that notwithstanding this loss,
the bank is in a Bound condition and
able to pay its depositors.
“George F. Baker,
“W. W. Sherman,
“E. H. Pkbkins, Jb.,
“C. G. Williams,
“Committee.”
The following officers were present
and have pledged, the bank their as¬
sistance if required: George F. Ba¬
ker, F. D. Tappen, C. G. Williams, H.
W. Cannon, J. Edward Simmons, E.
H. Perkins, Jr., and W. A. Nash.
Piesident Crane, of the defrauded
bank, in speaking of the affair, said:
“The defaulting book-keeper is Sam¬
uel C. Seley, of 422 Halsey Btreet,
Brooklyn. He has been in the employ
of the bank for the last fourteen years
and was one of our trusted employes.
On last Friday afternoon Seley applied
for a leave of absence over Saturday,
promising to return Monday morning.
A substitute was put to work on his
books on Saturday and as Seley failed
to appear on Monday morning the
same substitute resumed work on tbe
books. These were discovered to be
in such a condition that an examina¬
tion of them was immediately made by
the officers of the bank.
“This was finished and the amount
of the defalcation known by Tuesday
night. On Wednesday we sent for the
national bank examiner, E. 8. Kim¬
ball, who finished his labors and veri
ified our statement this morning.
Seley was guaranteed by the United
States Guarantee Company for $7,600
and the officers of that company con¬
sidered him one of their best risks.
Seley was a man of very quiet habits.
He has a wife and two children. The
whereabouts of Seley are unknown.
His wife is prostrated by the shock of
his crime and subsequent flight. She
is very ill, we have been told.”
The fact has developed that Seley
had an accomplice in the person of a
depositor whose identity the bank of¬
ficers will not reveal at present. He,
as well as Seley, is a fugitive. This
confederate on the outside had been a
depositor in the bank for thirty years.
FEMALE SUFFRAGE ENDORSED.
The W. C. T. U. Comes Out for
Woman’s Rights.
The Woman’s Christian Temperance
union convention was brought to a
close at Cleveland, O., with a meeting
in music hall nnder the auspices of the
Federated Unions of the city. The
convention has been the most success¬
ful in the history of the nnion. Next
year’s convention will probably be
held in Baltimore. Among the reso¬
lutions adopted were the following:
“Resolved that we look with alarm
at the increasing desecration of the
Sabbath and the demands of the liquor
traffic for the open Sunday saloon and
call upon the executives of the law and
others to authority, as well as upon
moral and religions people, to unite in
the enforcement of such laws as do not
exist and to prevent farther encroach¬
ment on this day of rest.
“We resolve in favor of combined
and persistent efforts for scouring the
enfranchisement of women.
“Resolved, That the National Wo¬
man’s Christian Temperance Union
endorses with pride the heroic action
of the Kentucky women in their deter
mined overthrow of imparity in high
political places, and in their demands
for the annihilation of sex in moral
standards.
“We*T deprecate the social smose
meats of eard-playing, theater-going
and promiscuous dancing.
“We disapprove of such exercises or
saoh games of football aa require the
preaenoe of a physician, aa being inju¬
rious to physical well-being and brut¬
alising in their anotal tendencies. '
“We protest against the euetom of
inter-collegiate work of ooUege life.
“While friendly to all institntions
having drunkard, for their object the restoration
of the we do not recognize
to them a cure for tbe saloon evil.
“We do not encourage local unions
to adopt this work M any eolation of
probiem to^long as the
unitedly employer and
decide
what la best for the enterprises which
esc succeed only by their, united ef
forta,
theae
to
the
:
* , T ._ . wr /fmk i of
Jeto :
THE LATEST BY
GIVING THE NEWS UP TO
HOUR OF GOING TO PRESS.
Brief Mention of Daily
Throughout the World.
At Nashville, Saturday,
Malone appointed Thomas S.
to be clerk and master. This is
position held by the late George
Whitworth, and is estimated to
worth $18,1)00 a year.
A Chicago dispatch says :■
James J. Corbett has issued, on
of Steve O’Donnell, a challenge
fight any heavy weight in the
Jim Hall, Denver Ed Smith and
Maher being especially referred to.
Associate Justice W. A. Johnson,
the supreme court of Arkansas,
was re-elected November 6th, for
term of six years, announces that
has returned his passes and will
no more from railroad corporations.
Advices from Palermo, Sicily,
that severe earthquake shocks
large districts of that country Sunday.
The small villages of Sciatra.Campieri,
Milan, Acqnacalida and San
were destroyed. The homeless inhab¬
itants have t ncamped in the fields.
Thirty-one houses and every
but one at Marion, N. C., were de¬
stroyed by fire Sunday morning.
timated loss $125,000; insurance small.
The flames started in a building
to the jail. Twenty-eight
were removed in safety, The town
no fire apparatus. Marion is forty
east of Asheville.
It is accepted at Jackson, Miss.,
a fact that the seven defeated popqjist
candidates for congress will contest
tbe seats of the seven democrats. They
will rely chiefly upon the allegation
that the franchise clause of the new
constitution disfranchises more than
half the citizens of the state.
A St. Petersburg dispatch says: On
his wedding day the new czar will
issue manifestos remitting arrests of
taxes and some sentences, and record¬
ing other act* of clemency. When he
received the ministers Saturday he
welcomed M. de Giers, of the foreign
office, with special courtesy and cor¬
diality, saying that he hoped they
would work together for a long time.
Some 600 peasants and their wives,
with flags and clubs, attended the town
hall in Alatri, near Ferentino, Italy,
Saturday, shouting that they would
pay no taxes. The police, to frighten
them, fired in the air. They were
beaten and Btoned by the mob and
driven into the hall where they re¬
mained inactive while the peasants
threw stones through the windows.
Eventually troops dispersed the mob.
Tbe tax aggregate for the state of
Tennessee has been completed and
shows a valuation for all property of
$319,822,197, a decrease from lastyear
rf $18,909,529, with a consequent loss
in revenues of $57,298. Only twelve
of the ninety-six counties in the state
shows an increase. Shelby county
show the heaviest loss, being $4,685,
954; Davidson next vvith $3,282,480;
Hamilton third with $2,287,230. The
loss in Knox is only $793,497.
Hunter & Stevens have proposed to
the penitentiary farm commission of
Mississippi to settle the difference be¬
tween them and the commission in the
matter of tbe sale by accepting $5.50
in lien of $6 heretofore agreed on. The
commission accepted the proposition
and made a supplemental report to the
governor recommending the Hunter &
Stevens land. This ends the lawsuit.
The commission adjourned to await
the governor’s action.
FORT ARTHUR CAPTURED.
The Japanese Take Possession After a
Hot Conflict.
The Central News correspondent at
Shanghai says that the fall of Port
Arthuf has created great excitement
in the native quarter of Shanghai.
The news of the eaptnre of Port Ar¬
thur by tbe Japanese was brought
from Chee-Foo Saturday by a British
steamer.
The Star publishes a dispatch say¬
ing that the Japanese torpedo boats
engaged the attention of the forts while
tiie troops closed around the forts st
the rear. Then the torpedo boats
made a sadden concerted dash and sue
ceeded in getting inside the harbor.
Tbe Japanese artillery in the rear kept
np a oontinuous fire upon these Chin
ene forts and the infantry made a suo
cession of attacks upon the outer de
fenses which they captured. After the
firat onslaught by the Japanese, the
resistance of the Chinese is said to hare
been feeble. Finally the Chinese
troops became panic stricken and fled,
CAR STABLES BURN
And Forty-Nine Horses Perish In the
Flames.
Fire broke out-Friday morning in
the Allegheny Traction Company’s
barns, at Pittsburgh, Pa. There were
fifty hones in the barns, forty-nine of
•hush were burned. Seven old horse
cars and seven new etatrie motors
were also burned. In the r-ar of the
barn, on Emanuel street, four single
aad two double hon-es were destroyed.
The lorn of the street ear company
is at $75,000. Tbe tosaiv
ance is not known.
THE STORY A FAKE.
The story aei out from Knoxville,
of the ------
VJ
- ABOUT COTTON.
A Si -
COMMISSIOMER LANE'S ADDRESS
TO SOUTHERN FARMERS.
Believes in Reducing the Crop ana
Thorough Organization.
Commissioner Lane, of Alabama, has
issued his address to the cotton
ers of the south, which was authorized
by the late meeting of the catton grow¬
ers, held in Montgomery. He says:
“This convention was called by my.
self for the purpose of considering and
devising means through which south¬
ern cotton growers might protect
themselves from the many unfair de¬
vices used to depress the value of our
chief staple. The most prominent one
being ficticious reports fabricated in
the main cotton markets sent out by
cotton exchanges and emanating from
the minds of men who make a precari¬
ous living as the bears on the cotton
market.”
He then quotes largely from printed
estimates sent out by interested par¬
ties as to the size of the present crop,
and shows by figures that it will not
amount to anything like that what j 8
claimed. He shows by the following
statement the benefits to be derived
from the producers coming together
and acting in harmony. Consequent,
upon the enormous crop produced in
the season 1891-92 a cotton conven¬
tion was held in Memphis under
the auspices of the Mississippi
Valley Cotton Growers’ Associa¬
tion. The recent convention at Mont¬
gomery was eminently satisfactory to
all engaged in it. The express purpose
of this meeting was to take action to¬
wards the reduction of the cotton acre¬
age. How well it succeeded in its ef¬
fort, history of cotton will bear us out.
A decrease in acreage followed the en¬
suing season of ’92 and ’93 of 3,456,-
439, an acreage that is larger than is
planted in any one state with the ex¬
ception of Texas.
THIS MAKKKT ADVANCED.
Pursuant to the Memphis cotton
convention cotton advanced seventeen
points in three days. Pursuant to the
Montgomery meeting cotton values ad*
vanced twenty-seven points. Whether
these two occurrences were coincidental
or whether they were caused directly or
indirectly by these farmers in conven¬
tion assembled, it is for the country to
judge, but to my mind it is a practical
demonstration of the fact that the vi¬
brations of the cotton market are as
lensitive and responsive to the touch
of a convention of practical farmers
as they are to manipulations of metro¬
politan fakirs.
* ‘The dominating questions confront¬
ing the farmers, first, is to refute the
iniquitous reports being sent out by
unscrupulous persons, and bearing
down present prices, and, secondly, to
co-operate in an endeavor to again de¬
crease the acreage by planting the
same in and producing, more ‘home
consnmpi.ion’ crops.
“Over production encourages and
fosters manipulation, and it should be
the effort of every intelligent and pat¬
riotic citizen of the south to enlist all
the instrumentalities available to re¬
sist this current that is insidiously day
by day drifting ns into the vortex of
poverty and destitution.
AS TO THE VISIBLE SUPPLY.
There is less visible supply on hand
than for years. Mills have less on
hand, people have less clothes on ac¬
count of the enforced economy of hard
times.
The total visible supply of cotton in
the world is 222,265 bales less than in
1893, and 605,414 less than 1892.
The currency and tariff questions
are virtually settled and all the indi¬
cations at present point to a speedy
retnrn of general prosperity, and cot¬
ton prices mast naturally rule higher.
“We are of the opinion that after all
this matter can only be accomplished
by independent invidnal action, stim¬
ulated by intelligent argument, and I
shall undertake to* prove that to a great
extent it is the over-production of
cotton in- excess of its consumption
that is cansing the falling off in values
an til it has reached that point which
makes it less than can possibly be pro¬
duced by southern planters.”
He concluded his address by saying:
“The convention at Montgomery ad¬
journed to meet at Jackson, Miss., on
Be< ? ond Wednesday in January
J to 895 f° ’ wh J? f to a “ * P^m^ent d where we will organization endeavor
the °* th « Southern Cot
tijnGrowers Protective Association,
v * noM ff°™rnors oftbe states
. requested dfcle
W,J to appoint four
8*tea from each congressional district
aad *^ ree from the state at large. The
commissioners of agriculture were
elected vice presidents for their re¬
spective states. I urge upon all farm¬
ers and others interested in this move¬
ment to attend the meeting at Jackson,
ss it is a question of the gravest im¬
portance to the common country.”
CHINA MAY COMB DOWN.
A Report That She to
For Peace.
In accordance with tbe suggestion of
Japan the state department at Wash¬
ington has notified Minister Dub,
at Tokio, and Minister Denby, at Pek¬
ing, to transmit such direct offer as
China may wish to A<
tbe oable direction, were sent onIf •
few days agq, suffici time a not
will consent to
and definite, as
ington ia sot
its
Die
of