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PROGRESS.
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TEEMS, $1. Per Annum.
“Hew to the Line, Let the Chips Fall Where They May,”
JOHN E. HO WELL, Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. XIII. NO. 22.
VIENNA, GA. TUESDAY, DECEMBER U* 1894.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
A century hence large wild game
Will be practically exhausted.
A German doctor Bays: Live per*
petually in drafts and you won’t take
cold.
The Chicago School Board 19 dla*
CUssing putting typewriters into the
public schools, and teaching the pu*
pils to use them. •
Trotting horses afe dirt cheap id
New York, avers the Atlanta Consti-
iiitioUi At a recent auction a blooded
trotter sold for $l0.
THE SESSION CLOSES
VIIE GEORGIA LEGISLATORS
FINISH UP THEIR WORK.
that giving
pages and
Business of the Closing Days Briefly
Epitomized.
The Chicago Herald says that if the
methods of the Chicago schools da not
improve the pUpils will never get far
fenoUgh advanced to be able to read
the hewspapets.
session Of the HOUSE;
37th Day—-The greater part of Sat
urday’s session of the house was spent
by the populist members in filibuster
ing and preventing the accomplish
ment of any business. It was all
brongbt about by the action of some
of the democratic members on a Tay
lor county registration bill. Mr.
Gray ; of Ilotiston, had introduced the
j original bill and Mr. Montfort, the
i member from that county, had a stib-
| stitute. One bill pfovided that the
registration should be in the hands of
one of the county officers, while the
. ; . , . other provided for another officer to
bent specialist of that city says that bo rfegistrar-a clear-cut division as
“the Lost chest protector is worn oh bfitWefen a democrat and a populist.
Keep ydur feet dry, is the
iion of the Chicago Herald;
idmoni-
tlie sole of the foot.
It is said that three-fourths of the
money sent to Constantinople for the
jrlief of the earthquake sufferers was
applied by the Turkish Government to
restore the damaged mosques.
It is calculated that about fifteen per
cent, of the wh a crop will be fed to
nnitnals in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana,
Kentucky, Illinois, Kansas and Mis
souri if the present conditions of low
priced wheat ami high priced corn
continue.
A Ch.cago judge has just decided
that the wife is entitled to all the we.l*
ding presents, if it can be found that
they were made on account of her
popularity. Everything goes to her,
no matter whether it is for feminine
use or not.
Our export meat trade with Ger- round of applause.
Early in the day Mr. Mont-
fbrt had made ah effort to secure
the passage ot his bill, but
after considerable discussion, it
was decided that the whole matter
should be sent back to the committee
on special judiciary. At the afternoon
session Mr. Montfort made an effort to
i secure reconsideration, but this was
defeated by a vote of 42 to 47. Mr.
Montfort was mad and bis populist
brethren, taking the ground that he
had been discriminated against on ac
count of bis being a populist, joined
with him. Only one bill got through.
That was Mr. Rockwell’s and provided
for the punishment of persons setting
, tire to ships. Peace and bapfiiuess
ruled the roost at the night session.
On motion of Mr. Rockwell, Mr,
Moutford's bill was made special order
for Monday. Then the bouse went
ahead with the passage of the bills fa
vorably reported. Later in the even
ing, When the house went into com
mittee of the whole on n pension bill,
the speaker called Mr. Branch to the
chair, He presided Very gracefully,
and on retiring Was given a hearty
many is insignilio mt as compared with
that we enjoy With England, We have
Shipped 3069 cattle, Valued at $285,-
792 to Germany, while our exports to
England for the same period brought
Us nearly $17,000,000.
It is estimated by the Chicago Record
that there are not less than 10,000
people in Hew York City who habit
ually stay away from the polls. Some
of them do so in order to avoid jury
duty, as the panels are made up from
the registration lists.
The world is growing smaller and
the kinship of humanity closer. The
death of the Emperor of Russia is sin
cerely mourned • in every civilized
country, and, strangest phenomenon
of all, most in the two greatest Re
publics, the countries whose Govern
ments have least in common with the
Russian.
Tho railroad industry of the United
States has been pretty hard hit during
1894; so hard, indeed, that according
to the San Francisco Chronicle many
companies are unable to replace their
worn-out rails. The total production
of steel rails to October 1, 1894, was
only 150,000 tons, not one-tifteentii as
great an output as in some years.
With its mixture of races and
tongues Switzerland is a sort of mod
ern Babel. At Wallenstadt, a few
days ago, five men were on guard at
the recruiting station. The lieuten
ant spoke German only, the sergeant
spoke Italian only, the corporal spoke
French and Spanish, one of the two
privates spoke French and German and
the other French and Italian.
A new departure in public night
schools has been made in Philadelphia
by devoting one cf the schools to a
course of lectures on the history and
working of our political system. Na
tional, State and municipal govern
ment will be taken up in turn. Three
lectures a week will be given, intended
more particularly for young men, but
free to all who choose to attend.
There is much grumbling in Queens
County, New York, over the regula-
jon prohibiting the use of loaded
wagons with narrow tires on their
new macadamized roads. “This is
all wrong,” maintains the American
Agriculturist. “There is no reason
why farmers and others who use the
roads for heavy loads should not at
once comply with the law. It is in
their interest, largely that the law is
made and it should be cheerfullv
obeyed. We should have a general
law compelling the use of broad tires
all over the State. It would be a won
derful help to the roadmasters and to
the roads.”
A review
the m&ferial develop
ment of tho South in the Hew York
Herald contains so many interesting
facts ihat the Atlanta Constitution
thinks it is worth summarizing. The
census o; ±S70, as compared with that
of lSGd, showed a decline in the as-
e fs . value ox Southern property of
: 2,1 0,000,000. The census of 18S3
snowed a gain in ten years of $3,240,-
030,000, and that of IS90 a gain of
$3,803,000,000 over that of 18S0.
These astounding figures are the re-
gult of a development of agr.cultural,
38in Day—There will be fio reform
atory in Georgia for juvenile offenders)
for the present at least. The bill of
Mr. Harrison, of Quitman, to create
one Was taken up in the house Mon
day. On account of the lateness of
the session it was thought to be im
possible to get tbe bill through before
adjournment. At tbe request of the
author of the bill, it was made the spe
cial order for the first day of tho next
session. One of the most spirited
scenes enacted in the house at this ses
sion then took place. It was over a
bill to abolish tbe city court of Jack-
son county. The bill finally went
through safely. The bill of Mr. Rea
gan, of Henry, to prevent convicts
from working at night or on Sunday
wnB taken up for final consideration.
It was lost a few days ago, but
was reconsidered. The yeas and
nays were called on the bill and
it was lost agaiD, receiving only
75 votes less than a constitutional ma
jority. An important resolution from
Mr. Gray, of Catoosa, was introduced
and adopted. It provides for the ap
pointment of a joint committee from
the house and senate to represent
Georgia at the opening of the Chick-
amnuga National Park on the 19tb,
20tli and 21st of September, 1895.
Under tbe resolutions a committee of
twenty-two from the bouse and eleven
from the senate is to be appointed.
The committee is to pay all expenses
incurred in making the visit and on its
return will report as to the advisability
of erecting a monument in the park to
commemorate the valor of Georgia’s
soldiers in that memorable battle. The
bill of Mr. Johnson from Hall to re
quire building and loan as
sociations no license tax
except from the county and
city in which its home office is lo
cated. was passed. A resolution from
Mi - . Rockwell, of Chatham, to pay A.
E. Bird, of Effingham, and A. D. Bla
lock, of Fayette, their per diem for
tbe entire session, was adopted.
These are the two democrats who were
seated when the session was half over
in tbe place of the populists, Spier and
Cook, unseated. Among the senate
bills taken up and passed were tbe fol
lowing: Bill to create the office of
county treasurer for Twiggs county;
To correct a clerical error in a bill in
reference to Savannah’s elections; To
authorize the president of the senate,
the speaker of the bouse, the secretary
of tbe senate, the clerk of the house
and the chairman and two members
each of the enrolling and auditing
committees to remain at the capitol
five days after the adjournment of the
general assembly and to receive their
per diem for that time, A number of
senate bills were read the second time
and the house adjourned until 3 o’clock.
39th Day.—The Venable insurance
Bill passed the house and now awaits
only the signature of the governor be
fore it becomes a law. There was not
much discussion on the question and
but one amendment—that of Mr.
Broyles, of Fulton. On tho passage
of the bill it received 97 votes. All
of the populists, except Mr. Boyd, of
McDuffie, voted for the bill. There
was a little fight in the early part of
the afternoon session Tuesday over the
bill of Senator Cumming, providing
for the method of condemning prop
erty for public enterprises, such ns
railways. All of tbe morning was
spent by the bouse in tbe con
sideration of the §enate amendments
to the general appropriation bill.
Special interest was, of course, mani
fested in the disposition of the
amendments relating to the military
and to the State university. The uni
versity won, but the military lost.
Tho house concurred in the amend
ment-, giving $3,000 to the university
for some necessary improvements and
$10,000 to the normal department of
the university usually designated as
Rock college. The house agreed to
the amendment adding a provision for
a salary of $2,000 to the special attor
ney of the Western and Atlantic liti
gation ; To the senate increase of the
amount for the maintenance of the
Academy for the Blind from $16,000 to
the senate two extra
an extra doorkeeper;
to that increasing the appropriation to
the academy for the deaf and dumb;
to that giving the academy for the
blind $2,000 for furniture, and to that
giving to the Middle Georgia Military
College at Milledgeville, $1,950. By
a Vote of 84 to 41 the rock college ap
propriation was Concurred in. This
gives $10,000 to tbe normal depart
ment of the State university. Mr.
Boyd Introduced his bill providing for
Uniformity of textbooks and the pur
chase of the books by the state for the
cbildfeU. It provides an appropria
tion of $200,000 fot the purchase of
books; The night session, which was
otherwise dull Was given a half hour
Of teal life by a fight over a bill pro
hibiting the sale of liquor ih Summer
ville;
Cldsing Day in the House.
40th Day.—The senate amendments
to the registration bill were taken tip
ih order by the house Wednesday and
all save ohe Was Concurred in. That
Was the ohe which eliminated the read
ing of the oath by electioh managers
to illiterate voters.- The hotise thought
the tendency of this Wotild be to^ dis
franchise people nof possessing atiy
education; and the senate afterwards
receded frb'm its position. The prin
cipal change made by the senate and
acceded to by the house is that taking
the appointment of registrars from the
grand jury and giving it to the judge
of the superior court. Another very
important change was contained in the
clause which made the boards bi-par
tisan. The populist bills which created
so much discussion a few days ago,and
which were set as special order for tbe
day consumed about three hours of
time, but both were lost. These
were the bills of Mr. Montfort to
abolish tbe county court of Taylor
county, and of Mr. Bell to abolish the
county court of Jackson county. The
only amendment which the house
made to any of the senate amendments
on the tax act Was on that placin
tax of $500 on pneking houses. Th§
hotise amended this by cutting the
tax to $50, it being pointed ont that
the $600 tax Was simply prohibitive.
The insolvent traders’ bill, introduced
by Mr. Cumming, was passed. The
present law allows three creditors,
without reference to amount, to crush
a merchant or factory by receiver and
injunction. The senate bill makes it
necessary that creditors applying for
receiver must show that ofie-third of
the whole indebtedness is represented
in the petition. The bill passed with
out amendment. The house Commit
tee on state of tho republic- re
ported favorably upon the resolutions
of Mr. CummiDg memorializing con
gress to repeal the 10 per cent tnx on
state banks of issue, and the report re
sulted in a fiery little contest. Mr.
Pitman submitted an amendment which
was a resolution calling for the free
coinage of all American silver bullion.
The speaker held this resolution not
germane. Then Mr. Pitman moved
that both the resolutions and _ his
amendment be tabled. The motion
to tnble prevailed by a vote of 70 to
24. Both branches of the general as
sembly adopted a resolution returning
the thanks of the general assembly to
Lieutenant C. B. Saterlee, of tbe
United States army, for his services in
behalf of the military of tho state. Just
one vote stood between the Georgia leg
islature and an extra session—one vote
on the question of accepting and agree
ing to tbe report of tbe conference
committee that had been endeavoring
for five or six hours to secure some
agreement- between the two bouses
upon the disagreements over the gen
eral ajipropriation bill. The military
appropriation was the bone of conten
tion. The senate was determined
that the military should have the
$21,000 which had been * added
by tbe senate, while the house
was equally determined that there
should be no such appropriation. It
was three minutes before midnight be
fore a decision was reached, and then
by the very narrow margin of ona
vote. In calling attention to tbe near
ness of the hour set for final adjourn
ment, Speaker Fleming took occasion
to pay the house a handsome compli
ment for tho work it had done. He
referred to the fact that not on a sin
gle day had a roll call showed less than
110 present, and said he had never
s.een a better working legislative body.
In conclusion he heartily thanked the
members for their courtesy toward
him. And then the gavel fell. It was
sine die for this session.
mining and manufacturing resources $18,000; Of $3,000 to the university
itneqna’.ed in any other section of the lor making necessary repairs to the
Union. There is nothing like it in the ’’uildings. The house disagreed
history of the world,
mildings. The house disagreed to
the provision increasing the com
pensation of the chaplains; To
SESSION OF THE SENATE.
37th Day.—The senate disposed of
the daily calendar in quick order Sat
urday, passed the medical examination
bill, read the exposition resolution for
the first time, the general registration
act for the second time, the general
tax act for the first time, the special
levy act to raise money to pay off
bonds for the first time and then held
an evening session for the purpose of
disposing of all business sent over by
the house during its morning session.
The bill to give landlords the title to
the crops of their tenants, pending the
annual settlement between them, re
ported favorably by Chairman Brough
ton, of the committee on agriculture,
aroused tbe only debate of the morn
ing session. The law as it now stands
gives the landlord the title in ease
where work is done on shares, but
where it is a tenant on standing rent
the title is in the tenant. While tbe
landlord in this case has tbe superior
lien for rent and supplies, yet other
creditors can levy in the meantime,
harass tbe tenant and put the
landlord.to tbe loss of -time, expense
of employing a lawyer and other
costs before he can establish bis supe
rior right to the crop levied upon. All
these things, together with the court
costs, which must always be met from
.some source, destroys the value of a
landlord’s interest in a crop, where he
has either a litigious tenant or the ten
ant is unfortunate enough to be tbe
victim of other creditors. The bill
proposed keeps tbe other creditors out
until the landland is satisfied. On a
call for the yeas and nays the yeas
were 21, one short of a constitutional
ma jority, and the nays were 13. A num
ber of bills of more or less importance
were passed. Tbe reading of the reso
lutions of Mr. Hail, passed by the
bouse, providing for an exhibit of the
resources of Georgia at the Cotton
States and International exposition,
was listened to with interest. It was
referred to the committee on finance.
-^Sth Day,—After riding the jour
nal in the senate, Monday, Senator
Roberts moved to reconsider the ac
tion in refusing to pasi the bill mak
ing oral defamation a misdemeanor.
Senator Harris opposed the motion,
and the motion was lost. The appro
priation bill was taken up and consid
ered by sections. Some immaterial
amendments were offered and con
curred in. The senate finance com
mittee agreed to recommend an ap
propriation of $21,000 for eqnippin;
the military,- and during the morning
when the appropriation bill was con
sidered, the amendment was adopted
after a breezy discussion, and the
bill will go back to the bouse with that
amendment upon it.
39th Day—The bill making an ap
propriation for the state to make an
exhibit at tbe exposition came up
Tuesday morning on its final reading.
Senator Sneed opposed the passage of
the bill. Mr. Harris and Mr. Lewis
explained that there whs no violation
of the trust and that if the fund was
ever called for the state could replace
it, as is provided in the bill. Tbe bill
passed by a vote of yeas 29, nays 12.
All of the populists voted against it
together with five democrats. Presi
dent Venable introduced a resolution
allowing the commissioner of agricul
ture to gather state exhibits for the
exposition, through the officers of.his
department, when they are not other
wise engaged. The resolution Was
unanimously adopted. The follow
ing bills were passed: A bill to
limit the payment of insolvent Cost
in the county of Richmond; A bill
to amend the act providing the man
ner of chartering banks so as to
allow a capital stock of $15,000 in
stead of $25,000; A resolution provid
ing for the appointment of a commit
tee to visit the dedicatory services at
Chickamanga park; A resolution pe
titioning congress to order a general
encampment of the military at Louis
ville, Ky. ; Bill chartering the town
of Newborn, in the county of Newton;
Bill to amend the charter of the Mer
chants’ Bank of Vaklosta; Bill to
amend tbe act incorporating the Bank
of Coweta; A resolution to appoint a
committee to examine into the work
done by tbe various judges and to
draw a bill that will equalize the
Work; Bill to regulate the manner of
entering the names of colored tax pay
ers on tbe tax digest; Bill to cre
ate a state memorial board,
whose duties are to locate the
battlefields in Georgia and other his
toric spots. (They were to serve with
out compensation); Bill to amend the
charter of Atlanta, so as to allow the
establishment^ public markets, com
pel attendance of witnesses before the
police commission, to establishing
crematories, and to give police juris
diction over waterworks property; A
resolution of thanks for the gift of
the Mary Dereue Collection, and al
lowing the Georgia Historical Society
to be custodian of some of the colonial
books; Bill to establish a system of
public schools for EastmaD, and to
issue bonds to build school houses;
Bill to create a sinking fund to pay off
and retire bonds of the state as they
mature; Bill to appoint commission
ers of pilots, by coiporate authorities,
St. Mary’s, Savannah, Darien and
Brunswick.
Closing Scenes in the Senate.
40th Day.—The closing day of the
session was sensational only in the
senate end of the general assembly,
and there because of the fight over
one of the governor’s appointments.
That was the appointment of Mr. John
D. Berry to be judge of the criminal
branch of the city court of Atlanta for
the term of four years, from August
24, 1895. When the senate went into
executive session there was a fight
upon Mr. Berry. It was made by Pres
ident Venable, who took the floor and
spoke against confirmation, alleging,
so it is said, that not only was Mr.
Berry not the choice of the Atlanta
bar, but that be had little practice in
the court, and in^mating, if not al
leging, that there was question for his
capability for the office. The vote on
confirmation was 9 to 32. After this
action had been taken some of the
members of the senate, thinking they
had been too hasty in the matter,
brought about a reconsideration of the
action at tbe afternoon session and
there, after a brief presentation of the
facts, a motion to refer the appoint
ment to a committee, as is usually
done when there is opposition, pre
vailed. The action of the senate in
failing to confirm was, therefore, re
scinded. This carries tbe question of
confirmation over to the next session
of the legislature. Tho legislative
business of tbe day was the passage of
a resolution for the senate to adhere to
its amendments to the appropriation
bill. It was not until within a few
minutes of midnight that they came
to an understanding with the house
committee upon $15,01)0 for the state
military, and one or two other items.
The closing hour was passed in very
complimentary mood. Senator Harris
paid a high compliment to President
Venable, who bad been forced l>y
sickness to go home early in the even
ing. “Without legislative txperi-
enee,” said Senator Harris, “he has
mastered the science of parliamentary
law, and his administration wiil com
pare favorably with any other. I
move a unanimous vote of thanks to
President Venable.” Which was given
standing. Other complimentary reso
lutions were passed. President pro
tern. Brand, who held the gavel dur
ing the night, after a few felicitous
words, adjourned the senate sine die.
THE CONGRESS.
THE NATIONS’ LAW-MAKERS RE
SUME OPERATIONS.
The Proceedings of Both Houses
Briefly Epitomized.
SOUTHWARD THEY COME.
Boston Capitalists to Erect a Cotton
Mill in Alabama.
The Dwight Manufacturing Com
pany, of Boston, Mass., is to begin
almost immediately the building of a
$500,000 cotton mill on the southern
end of Lookout mountain in Alabama.
The exact spot is Alabama City, about
four miles from Gadsden. Ihe mill
will manufacture coarse goods for ex
port and will have about 25,000 spin
dles. In output by pounds, it will be
equal to a northern mill of 50,000
spindles. Mr. Nichols, in speaking
of the move, says it is made because
the company’s Chicopee mills cannot
compete with those of other states,
owing to the restrictive labor laws of
Massachusetts. Here the weekly limit
is fifty-eight hours against sixty and
over elsewhere.
THE SENATE.
After the approval of the journal,
in the senate, Tuesday, the president
pro tern, Mr. Harris, democrat, of
Tennessee, laid before the body a com
munication from tbe acting secretary
of the treasury, transmitting the re
port of the superintendent of the coast
andgeodetic survey; also one from
the secretary of war, transmitting
report showing the number of aliens
and naturalized citizens in tbe army.
Mr. Doiph, republican, of Oregon,
presented a memorial from tbe citizens
of Phoenix, Ariz., asking for relief in
tbe matter of Indian depredation
claims. Mr. Berry, democrat, of Ar
kansas, presented a few remarks re
garding the passage of tbe bill intro
duced by him last week, to establish
the territory of Indianola ont of the
Indian Territory. Mr. Morrill, re
publican, of Vermont, in accordance
with the notice he had given, then ad
dressed the senate.
The senate Wednesday signified nn
mistakably its intention not to be led
into any tariff legislation at this ses
sion. A motion to take up the house
bill of last session making sugar free
of duty, with the finance committee
amendment to it imposing a flat duty
of 40 per cent, on sugar and abolish
iDg the differentials, was defeated, the
vote being—yeas, 23 ; nays, 27. The
attempt to get up Mr. Vest’s cloture
resolution was also defeated—yeas, 24;
nays, 24. The Nicaragua car al bill
was taken up and discussed
for a couple of hours, and Mr.
Morgan, who is in charge of it, signi
fied bis purpose to ask the senate to
fix another time for voting upon it.
Bills were passed giving pensions of
$100 a month to the widows of Gen
eral Banks, Crittenden and McClel
land. Mr. Pugh presented the cre
dentials of Mr. Morgan as senator-
elect from Alabama for the term be
ginning March 4th, next, which were
read. The resolution offered recently
by Mr. Higgins calling on tbe presi
dent for copies of tbe correspondence
relative to peace negotiations between
China and Japan was passed. After
a short executive session the senate, at
5:10 o’clock p. m., adjourned until
Thursday.
Senator Bate, chairman of tho board
of visitors to West Point Military
academy, presented the report of tbe
board to the senate Thursday. The
report takes a strong ground in favor
of the change of the law which will
increase the number of cadets to 409,
or one cadet to each senator and rep
resentative, and twenty for the presi
dent, instead of the present number,
which is about 250. It is admitted
that this increase would probably re
sult in a larger number of graduates
than could find officers’ places in the
army, but it is suggested that as
the additional cost would be very
slight, the country could well
afford to increase the number for
the benefit to be derived in a purely
ducational way. Discussing the wis
dom of the change the board says that
a part of the number graduated every
year could be retired to private life,
remaining, however, subject to the
command of the country. The board
suggests that these West Point cadets
would make excellent military officers.
While the board Las nothing but
praises for the theoretical instruction
in the academy in most respects, it
finds fault with the halting English,
the lack of facility of expression on
the part of many cadets, which is
“painfully apparent.” Mr. Cochran’s
motion to recommit the urgent defi
ciency bill, with instructions to strike
out the appropriation for the income
tax, was defeated—yeas, 49; nays,
168. -
If it were not for the untimely frosts
and the saloons the world would be a
pleasant place to liye in.
THE HOUSE.
At the opening of the session of the
house Tuesday Mr. Breckinridge,
democrat, of Kentucky, from the com
mittee on appropriations, reported
the urgent deficiency bill. Mr. Ding-
ley, republican, of Maine, asked unan
imous consent for the consideration
of a resolution calling upon the secre
tary of the treasury for information,
first, as to whether the articles of the
Behring sea tribunal had resulted last
season in saving the fnr seal herds
from that destruction they were in
tended to prevent; second, informa
tion as to the number and sex
of seals killed by pelagic sealers;
third, the protection of fur seal
herds on the Pribylloff Islands, and,
fourth, the revenue derived by tbe
government from tne seals during the
past year and the expenditure of the
government for their protection dur
ing the same period. In the morning
hour Mr. Mallory again called up the
bill to promote the efficiency of the
revenue cutter service which provoked
Mr. Champ Clark’s remarks on Satur
day. The Missourian again took the
floor in pursuance of his avowed in
tention of talking the bill to death.
Mr. Clark then took off his cuffs and
for forty-five minutes kept the house in
a roar.
As soon as the routine business of
tbe house Wednesday was disposed of
the urgent deficiency bill was taken
np in committee of the whole. Mr.
Bartlett, democrat, of New York, ad
dressed himself to the item appropri
ating $245,095 to execute the Jaw for
the collection of the income tax. He
discussed at some length the legal
features of the question, with a viev
to demonstrating the unconstitution
ality and invalidity of the income tax.
Mr. McMillan, the author of the in-
-ouie tax feature of the tariff bill, re-
pli< d to Mr. oure.t-it, a ,u 0 .m-
latter’s assertion that tbe income tax
was unjust. In thecoursepf his speech
Mr. McMillan became engaged in a
colloquy with Mr. Coekrau, democrat,
of New York, regarding the effect up
on the government revenues of a re
duction of tariff rates, which conclu
ded with the admission by Mr. Mc
Millan that be did not believe that the
Wilson bill, go framed, would have the
effect to raise the revenues necessary
to carry on the government without
the income tax measure. The debate
was closed by Mr. Breckinridge, who
prophesied the retnrij to power of the
democratic party, that it might ful
fill the pledges it had made
to the people, and upon which
they had been charged with
:he responsibility of government.
When the bill was read under the five-
minute rule Mr. Bartlett moved to
strike out tbe item appropriating
$235,095 for the collection of the in
come tax. A vote was taken by tellers
and resulted: Yeas, 54, nays, 127.
When the item of $250,000 for special
pension agents was reached Mr. Hen
dersoD, of Iowa, moved that the
amount be reduced to $125,000. Pend
ing action on this amendment the com
mute, rose and the house adjuuaned
an til Thursday.
Everything was quiet about the sen
ate Thursday, and but little interest
seemed to be taken in the proceedings
either by the senators or by the spec
tators. Mr. Hnnton, of Virginia
moved to take np the bill for the es.
tablisbment of a University of the
United States at Washington, D. C.
Mr. Hale, of Maine, objected to tbe
consideration of the bill at this time,
out suggested that it be referred to the
calendar under a rule of the senate
vhere it could be debated in some
vay.
QUESTION OF SILVER
GERMANY THINKS A CHANGE IN
POLICY IS NECESSARY.
And a Silver Conference is Suggested
in the Reichstag.
TILLMAN A SENATOR
SOUTH CAROLINA’S REPRESENT
ATIVES ELECT HIM.
The “Reform” Hero Gets a Lucrative
Job for Six Years.
A Columbia special says: Benjamin
R. Tillman, who ceaged being gover
nor a week ago, became United States
senator from the state of South Caro
lina, at noon Tuesday, to succeed Gen
eral M. C. Butler, who has held that
position for the past eighteen years.
He went in on a landslide, just as he
has ridden into the office of governor
twice. Indeed, the election was sim
ply pro forma. The galleries were
about half filled when the election
took place. On the announcement of
the result there was some applause.
The conservative members alone
voted for General Butler. The test
vote was: Tillman, 131; Butler, 21;
George W. Murray, 2; W. D. Crum,l.
Tillman is elected for six years, with
a term beginning on March 4th.
TELEGRAPHIC brevities.
In an interview. James Corbett says
positively that he has determined to
train at Hot Springs for his contest
with Fitzsimmons.
The president sent to the senate
Thursday the nomination of Jervis
Spencer, of Maryland,'to lie consul of
the United States at Cnracoa, West
Indies.
A special from Lima, Pern, says that
ministers from Columbia,Ecuador and
Peru haved signed a’prootocol submit
ting the boundary dispute to Spain as
arbitrator.
Byron Myers and George Wheeler
have been arrested at Caldwell, Idaho,
for counterfeiting. Wheeler is thought
to be the head of a gang operating ex
tensively. Myers is a farmer.
In a published letter, C. S. Thomas,
Colorado, member of tbe democratic
national committee, predicts that the
old power will utilize tbe war be
tween China and Japan as a measure
for the destruction of silver in the
orient, and enormously increase the
alue of gold.
The African Methodist Episcopal
conference in session at Charleston.
S. C., Thursday, adopted the resolu
tion protesting against the passage by
tbe legislature of tbe “jim crow” cai
railroad bill and appointed a commit
tee to go to Columbia and lay resolu
tions before the senate.
Jeremiah Olney, of Hartford, school
fund commissioner of the state ot
Connecticutt, charged with misappro
priating the income of the state school
fund and with receiving money re
suiting from the investment of the
fund, in addition to his salary of
$2,000 as commissioner.
In the South Carolina house of rep
resentatives Mr. Thomas, of Richland,
exploded a bombshell by offering a
resolution asking why the state treas
urer had paid out $31,000 for state
printing to the Columbia Register,
Governor Tillman’s orgaD, when only
$20,000 hail been appropriated.
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
The Industrial Condition as Reported
for the Past Week.
Tlie report on the iiidustrial condition of the
Sou'h for the past we A say-: There continues
to be a steady increase in the number of new
cotton mills, and in addition to plants now in
operation. Mo e a'tendon is brine; given to
lie making of die finer grades of cotton goods.
Several additional furnace* are to go into bl st
in he Birmingham distriot. where the demand
for iron is fairly well maintained. The p-cduc-
of lnml er grows larger rach week. Ge or
al hnsiness is not very *c ivo.
Tnirtv-four new i dnstries were established
or incorporated during tl e week, together wi h
seven enlargements of < anufao or cs and eight
mportant new lmildings. Prominent ■ m'Dg
he new indtn riesa e two pr j cted new cot
ton mills at New O-l ans. La-, and a 20.000
spindle cotton mid at C ifroo. S C. the Mm-
eo'a Lum' er 1 o.,capita $100 0i0, of Minneola.
Ga., and the Sbri veport i rti iz r Co., of
Shreveport, La,, capital - 50 ''00. T«-e Pidn-
cah Electric Co., capital $40,000. ha- been
chartered at t'adncah, Kv. the Ho- Spines
St am Laundry Co., cap'al $20 000, 1 Hot
prings, Ark., tir- Bnckley High Spe- d E t-va-
tir Co., at New Orleans, La., and the I. lit.
Vohaceo .vd Cigar 0, of Mobile, Ala., capi
tal 20,(00
A barrel factory with $10,000 crp : r 1 has been
organized at Norfolk. Ya.f a $10 000 contirnc-
tion company at Galveston, Tex., and a lnmber
company with the same capita! at Tho as W.
Va. B irk and tile works are to lie built at
Sugusta, Ga., canning factories at Bockwood.
Tern , and G iveston. Tix., and flouring mills
at Batesvdle, Aik.. Cl v laud, Lexington a"d
McGhee, Teun., Broadway and ltapliiiie. Va.,
and Elk River, W. Va. A foundry and ma
chine shop is r-por'ed at pine Bl-ff Ark.; an
e ectrical plant :*> Georgetown, S. C ; ire fac'o-
ri. s at Russellville, Ark., and Hammond, La.,
and woodworking plants at Tampa. Fla. White-
castle, La-, Com ellv’s Sprints. N. C., and
Dresden, Tenn —Tradesman, Chattanooga.
A Berlin cable dispatch says: In
the reichstag Wednesday Herr von
Kardoff, free conservative, declared
that it was imperative that the pres
ent system of universal suffrage should
be modified if there was any truth in
the radical assertion that the level of
the members of the reichstag had been
lowered. He continued by saying
that the deepest misery prevailed
throughout the country, for which the
only remedy was a silver currency.
Germany, he said, would earn the
gratitude of the world if she would
call a silver conference in Berlin.
He warned Chanceller Hohenlohe
that the government must not attempt
to interfere with the rights of the
reichstag. The prosecution of mem-
otrs upon such charges as were made,
ie declared, was useless. The only
fficacious remedy was popular gov-
rument.
Herr Singer, socialist, who was ap-
ointed chairman of the committee of
he reichstag to which was referred
he question of prosecuting socialist
members who refused last Thursday to
ise to their feet and respond to the
all for cheers for the kaiser, addressed
he chamber. Herr Singer was him
elf the leader of the offenders. He
leclared there was -no doubt in his
mind that the reichstag would reject a
proposal to prosecute the offending
numbers.
BILL ARP’S LETTER.
ACTING “CHAPERONE” FOR A
NUMBER OF FAIR BATHERS.]
Cheaper Railroad Rates Wanted for
Tourists.
BIG LABOR MEETING.
The American Federation Gather at
Denver.
The fourteenth annual convention of
the American Federation of Labor was
called to order at Denver, Col., by
President Gompers promptly at 10
o’clock Monday. There were one bun-
ired delegates and spectators in Odd
Fellows hall at that time and half as
many more came in during the morn
ing session.
President Rhode Kahn, of the Den
ver Trades Assembly, delivered the
address of welcome, to which Mr.
Gompers briefly responded. The lat
ter spoke feelingly of tbe almost des-
p'ero.te condition of labor at the pres
ent time. This was followed by com
plimentary words for Denver and her
energetic people. Referring to the
innovation of holding this convention
so far west as Denver, he suggested
that within a decade the westward
movement of industry might take the
conventions of the federation to the
Golden Gate.
GULF TRANSIT COMPANY.
A New Organization With Headquar
ters in Florida.
Notice has been given that on or
about January 10th, next, application
will be made to Governor M.tchell, of
Florida, for letters patent, granting a
charter to the Galf Transit Company,
with Pensacola as its place of business
and a capital stock of $200,000, The
organization of this company is part
of the plan of the Louisville and Nash
ville Railroad Company to increase the
export and import business of the Peu-
sacola port. M. H. Smith, president of
the Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Company, will be president of the
Gulf Transit Company; H. W. Bruce
will be vice president, and W. H. Rey
nolds will be secretary and treasurer.
These gentlemen are all residents of
Louisville, Ky. The company will be
authorized to buy, sell and export
coal, coke, lnmber, timber, stores,
shingles, iron and other ores and other
domestic products and merchandise.
They will also import sugar and hard
woods.
EPIDEMIC OF DIPHTHERIA.
DEFAULTER SEELEY
Waives Examination Before a United
States Commissioner.
Samuel C. Seeley, the New York
bank defaulter, was taken before
United States Commissioner Wirt for
preliminary examination at Chicago
Thursday. President Crane, of the
National Shoe and Leather bank, was
present and outlined the crime, and
Seeley was held under $20,009 bone 7
He waived txamination and said bw
Citizens of Ashtabula, Ohio, Panic
Stricken.
Diphtheria, in a malignant form, is
epidemic at Ashtabula, O., and num
bers its victims in all sections of the
city. There are now nearly one hun
dred cases reported. Since Saturday
ten deaths have resulted from the dis
ease, four on Tuesday night. The
board of health has ordered the schools
closed, and has recommended no meet
ings or public gatherings be held at
present. How the disease became so
simultaneously scattered is a problem
yet unsolved. The city is panic-
stricken, and many families are leav
ing until the epidemic is under con
trol.
THE ATLANTA EXPOSITION.
Architect Bruce is to Supervise the
Government Building.
A dispatch from Washington, D. C.,
announces that A. C. Bruce, of Atlan
ta, has been appointed supervising ar
chitect of the government building at
the exposition. He is a member of a
prominent firm—Bruce and Morgan—
and is one of those who submitted
plans for tbe exposition buildings.
The Business Men’s League, of
Charleston, S. C., will make an exhibit
at the Cotton Slat s and International
Exposition. Advices have also been
received to tbe effect that the city of
Chicago will have an exhibit. The di
rectors of tbe exposition are invited to
go to Chicago to meet the World’s fair
board for a conference with a view to
extending tbe work for the exposition
into tbe northwest.
I had the honor of chaperoning ten wonion
to the island yesterday and they were all lovely.
I thought that I knew them all and I did un
til they came out or the undressing house
tran-formed and transmogrified into water
nymphs, and then I didn’t know anybody, not
ev( n my own lifelong wife. I stood off at a
respectful distance and ruminated. As they
toyed and strngeled with snecetsive waves and
Bcreamed an-1 shouted w.th hilarious glee, even
the older ones renewed their youth like the
eagles and bid defiance to ro ling y> ars and
rolling billows. Suddenly tbe dream of mv
youth came over me and I w-mdertd away
down beyond the curve of the beach and all
alone in my primeval glory I laved and bathi d
in the green waters of ihe gulf of M xio . It
carried me back to the rude and crude f rolics
of my boyhood when the sprim b .ard and the
mill pond were my delight. Half a c ntury
haa passed since I saw that mill p nd, but it is
there yet. and the water is still falling over the
dam and singiDg the same old song—
“Men may come and men may go,
Bnt I go on forove .”
The sea, the gulf, the lakes and rivers and
brooks are the only living, moving things in
all nature that suffer no change from the iron
hand of time. Such as* they wer at cieat on’s
dawn they are now. Bn I am not as b ave as
I used to be, and so I kept within e s. reach
of a long, projecting root that reached out
some twenty feet in ihe water, and rose and
fell with the waves. I was afraid of the under
tow and gr bbed ihe friendly iooi as "ft as the
hr akers came. Oh, it was gl "rious! But all
pleasures must have an end and in due time
the ten and I were invested in those usual
garments of which we had been di
vested, and after picking up a few shells de
parted these * oasts hornew rd bound. The
lanes sang “Life on the Ocean,” and “Go
'ell Annt Sallie,” and “Who Killed Cook
Bobin,” and other watery choruses, when sud
denly a hat with gay ribbons firing took a no
tion to sail away into the vessel's wake, and we
thoneht it whs gone for good, bnt tho pleasant
Swedish boatman smiled aud sa d: T find
heem again,” and so he had to round to and
stiirboard and larboard and ship alioy and do
0 her nautical things to get it. I' was a happy
afternoon and the five ittle children were tne
happiest of the lot. Mothers come here for
1 ail and sickly children—men come for their
wives and wives for their lrasbands. Every
family has an invalid. I saw a sweet little
girl of three years asleep upon a shawl that wag
spread upon the sandy beach. She came sick
and pale and with a consumptive cough, hnt I
believe will net well. I saw a young lady who
has nearly lost her hearing from long-contin
ued grip, and she is improving every dav and
is a- merry as a lark. I met a man from Cin
cinnati today and ho comes to spend another
winter because his asthma was s i reli ved
while here last winter. The w nter residents
have all returned and brought mor - with tut in.
People are getting more an I more lik« the
birds, wild ducks and geese and mocking birds
and robins and wild pi eons—all miurato to
escape the rigors of a winter climate, and why
Bhould not mankind, especially those who are
afflicted with some disease that six nionihs of
winter aggravates? Wlia' is wanted bv the
public are cheaper rates for winter tourists.
The railroads ought to give otind trip rates
for nearly one faro aud they would
make money by it. The tourist ought
to have as much favor as the excursionists.
The -mall discount the railroads make is no en
couragement to travel. The fare from Atlanta
to Sanford is $13.70 and it is $25 fur a round
trip ticket. It should not be more than $20,
and I am sure the travel would be doubled.
But what is wanted on the gulf coast is more
accommodations for winter visitors. Clear
Water will soon have a nice new hotel aDd it
will be filled, bnt there are many people who
want cottage privileges and would rent them
if they were here. Every mail brings inquiries,
“Can I rent a cottage?” No, not now. Every
one is occupied. Dr. Blount, of Mac n, and
his son and his son’s wife rented one last win
ter and remained all summer, and say they
never spent a pleasanter summer anywhere.
The old doctor has been all over the world and
sojourned in many countries, and declares that
he haB at last found a resting place that sails
him all the year round. But if a man had a
thousand dollars to spare he could buy a ot as
elevated as the bluff and only one block away
aud build him a cottage and have two or three
hundred dollars lefr. These back lots are gen-
er&lR-75x 60 and on the same elevation with
the bluff aod can be had at prices ranging
from $300 to $400. The bluff lots that over
look the bay are getting scarce and command
from $10 to $12 a front foot. Six of them have
been sold since I came hero and four of them
improved with handsome residences.
The little town is looking up. There are two
good schools with competent teachers. More .
boats have been built for pleasure, an I some of
tho wealthier residents own naphtha launches.
The rent of a good oarboat is about $4
a month, but this is generally
shared by at least fonr porsons. A
Chinese laundry has just been opened. Negroes
are scarce and they charge high for their la
bor. The white country people are very
friendly nnd kind. They bring milk and eggs
and chickens aud fish and oysters and peas and
l eans and encumbers and tomatoes and other
vegetables to yonr door every day. Winter
gardens take the place of summer g-rdens in
Georgia, and it will not bo long before the
market will be supplied with s'rawberrie*. So
many persons write to know what they can get
to do here while seeking hoalth and paying
board. Notbinr that I know of unless they
improvise something. A genius might work
np something, but the town is too small to
• encourage artisans or professions. A book
agent would perish. A minstrel show would
hardly p ay expenses. A blind tiger couldn’t
earn the w ter he put3 in his whisky. I he
place is a winter residence and a sanitarium—
that, is all. There are (lire • stores witii very
good stocks, nnd several boarding houses, and
peoplo come and go. Some stay a week aud
some only a da*. Three Georgia drummers
called on me vesterday. an I on of them from
ATantasaw the air plants in tbe trees. »nd in
nocently inquired did we put thnBe pineapple
shrnbs np in the trees for ornam-nt. I h-d to
tell him about the Ohi> lady wh > admired the
pinev woods below Macon and asked me why
the frees were trimmed so high. Bnt every
thin.' here is stran.e, ver* strange, to tho.-e
who have never been in the tropics A Virginia
lady, who is wi h us, snid last nig r ns she
vi. wed he mnODlighr, on tho bay: ‘ Oh. i-
seems just I ke I am in • fair b-n 1.” ben I
o d her about Tom Ochil' t-e, who said 'o the
northern la y at Galv ston, "O , madam, you
h u d bav ■ -ecu our mo"n b t re the «ar.”—
Bill Abp in Atlan-a Con u utiou
ROBBED THE PASSENGERS
On Discovering That There Was No
Money in the Express Car.
Two masked men held np a north
bound Rock Island train Tuesday
night near Red river bridge, on the
frontier of Indian Territory. They
called to the express messenger to
open the door, which was dene, but as
no money is carried at night nothing
was secured. They then turned their
attention to the passengers, going
through the cars and robbing the pas
sengers of money and valuables.
Manufactory Goes Up in Smoke.
The factory of the Composition
Board Manufacturing Company, at
Minneapolis, Minn., a concern which
manufactures composition wood and
m\im\ Colls
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Spring term begins first Monday In February.
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THROUGH MILITARY TRAINING
under a TJ. 8. Army Officer detailed by
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had no one who could give bond for P a P"’ wa T 9 desteoyed by fire Tuesday
him and was taken back to his cell, ' L oss, $60,000; insurance,
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