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MAY 24, 1895.
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CONVENTION TALK.
Bllvcrltesof Missouri May Issue a Call
for a Meeting.
It it? likely that a call for a national
silver league oonvention will bo infilled
to meet in St. Louie in March, 1896.
This meeting is being agitated by the
local eilver men ami they claim they
are backed up by the eilver men of the
west and particularly so by the white
metal people of California, who claim
to be diHappointed at the methods
adopted by General A. J. War
ner, of Ohio, on hie recont visit to
California.
Damage Suits Against Chicago.
Fifteen expected damage Buits wore
begun nt Chicago Thursday against
the city by railroad companies and in
dividuals who lost property during the
American Hail way Union striko. The
Pun liaudlo Railroad Company bucb
for $750,000 for burned cars and otlior
property. Jones and Laughlin, the
Pittsburg iron firm, bring suit for
$4,500.
Eight Years for Searcy.
Charlos J. .Searcy was arraigned nt
Stafford Courthouse, Va., Wednesday
for his participation in tho A quia creek
train robbery and plead guilty. The
jury returned a verdict of guilty and
fixed his term of confinement in the
penitentiary at eight years. Searcy
was at once sentenced a (id will be
tukou to tho penitentiary without de
lay.
New Railroad for Colorado.
A special dispatch from Boise, Ida
ho, says the much talked of railroad
from Hutto to lieno via Denver will
soon bo built beyond a doubt. A
representative of Philadelphia and
New York capitalists is making the
final arrangements. Leading business
men of Denver have decided to put up
the $100,000 bonus a :ed.
Will Withdraw in 'even Month?.
A St. Petersburg dispatch says that
advices received in that city from a
Japanese source are to the effect that
Japan intends to withdraw her garri
sons from Corea in about seven months.
Southern Presbyterian Assembly.
Tho general assembly of the south
ern Presbyterian church met nt Dal
las, Texas, with over 100 delegates
present from all parts of the south.
Fatal Roller Explosion.
At West Bingham, Totter county,
Pennsylvania, five meu were killed
and three fatally injured by the blow
ing up of an eighty-horee power boiler.
Working Double Tim*.
The Pennsylvania bolt and nut works
at Lebanon, Fa., has commenced work
on double turn, giving employment to
several hundred additional bonds.
If a man is big and fat, and keeps his
month shut, he can bluff nearly anyone.
OPEN HOSTILITY
Advocated oy Senator Tillman Should
(Jolt Go Further.
Au all-night secret session of tho
Tillman-1 rby executive committee was
held at Columbia, S. C., Wednesday
night, having been called to moot the
emergency caused by Judge Goff’s de
cision against tho constitutionality of
tho registration laws, in tho face of
tho coming election of delegates to
tho constitutional convention.
There was a strong effort to induce
Governor Evans to call an extra ses
sion of tho legislature to pass a new
registration law, but ho refused, stat
ing that if another were passed the
courts would declare that unconstitu
tional also.
Senator Tillman, who was present,
declared, notwithstanding his bitter
attack upon Judge Goff, that the con
dition in which his decision had left
politics was tho very best for bis par
ty, and advocated a white primary
to nominate delegates to tho conven
tion, saying that if tho conservative
democrats, his white opponents, would
not come into it, but make their fight
in tho general election, “there would
bo a bloody campaign and h—l would
break loose in Georgia.”
He said that if Judge Goff went any
further in this matter he, for one,
would advocate opeu rebellion. This
of course, was not intended for publi
cation and was not given out by tho
committee, but the reporter overheard
it. Tho ond of it was that a gouoral
white primary was expected to be
held July 30th to nominato delegates
to the constitutional convention. The
•lection will be held late in August.
Hio conservatives regard this as a plan
:o whip them in and the revolting Till-
uanitea who are making an effort to
ocure honest elections. They say
hero is no race issue in the state, but
the Tillman p*arty is trying to raise
>uo in order to mnko it appear that a
•ontimmnee of election frauds is noc-
essary to secure white supremacy.
AN EXTRA SESSION CALLED.
Governor Turney Summons tho Legis
lature to Meet May 27th.
Governor Turney Thursday after-
iooii issued a call for an extraordinary
essiou of the general assembly to be-
'iu May 27th. Under the constitu
ion, this session can last only twenty
lays and only the subjects embraced
m tho call may be considered. The
•all embraces six subjects. The
tlrst is tho penitentiary question
and the general assembly iH author
ized to enact legislation to provide
for a main prison and stockades for
state convicts so that the lease system
may be terminated January 1st and to
provide temporary accommodations if
ueccssary. Tiny may also provido
for leasing surplus convicts for a pori-
od not later than the last day of tho
uext gonoral assembly. Tho second
subject is tho appropriation bill; third,
Iho revenue bill; fourth, the regula
tion and examination of state banks;
fifth, establishing a levee district to
protect overflowed lands in Dyer,
Lake, Lauderdale and Obion oounties;
sixth, to amend tho registration laws
so as to make registration loss fre
quent.
Governor Turney Bays many other
important subjects havo boon pressed
upon him, including the question of
calling a constitutional oonvention
and making an appropriation for tho
centennial, but as these matters had
been neglected at tho regular session,
he omits them from the call. He says
besides that it is his opinion that it iH
not within tho legitimate power of the
legislature to appropriate public mon
eys for a centennial.
A Minnesota Bank Closes.
Tho Citizens’ bank, of Redwood
Falls, Minn., has suspended business
with iiBsots of $125,000 and liabilities
of $100,000. The directors issued a
notice that a 30 per cent assessment of
stock, made a few months ago, had
been paid by all but one director, and
that tho stockholders outside of tho
directors had refused to pay tho as
sessment. Tho amount paid in was
insufficient to run tho bank.
Turpentine Operators Orgun'zo.
The Turpentine Operators’ Protec
tive Association was organized at
Savannah, Ga., Wednesday. The as
sociation is a stock company which
proposes to carry on the factorage of
its members. Dissatisfaction with tho
handling of the product is tho ground
for the organization. Tho association
is composed of naval stores producers
in Georgia and Florida.
Reducing the Capital Stock.
Tho plan for reducing tho capital
stock of the Southern Cotton Oil Com
pany to $2,000,000 has been favorably
received by the shareholders and be
tween 80 and 90 per cent of the stock
has already given consent. This will
place the company in a strong financial
position. A dividend is expected in
June.
Pratt City’s Losses.
The recent fire at Fratt City, Ala.,
did more damage than was at first
thought. It rendered forty-four fam
ilies homeless. Tho mayor of tho city,
recognizing tho condition of tho citi
zens who were victims of the fire,
called a meeting for tho purpose of
rendering some aid, and tho attend
ance was very largo.
After the Northern Pacific.
News has been received at Tucomo,
Washington, by letters from New
York that Havemeyer and Wearies, tho
sugar trust men, are working with
Rockefeller to secure control of the
Northern Pacific, soon to be reorgan
ized by the second and third bond
holders.
Some men are like one-legged milk-
stools no good unless sat upon.
CAPITAL GOSSIP.
ITEMS OK NEWS PICKED UP AT
THE NATIONAL CAPI TAL.
Sayings ami Doings of Iho Official
Heads of tho Government.
Secretary Carlisle loft Washington
"Sunday afternoon at '2 :!10 o'clock over
tho Chosapenko and Ohio railroad for
Covington, Ky. Mr. Vandsomlon, hia
private) aocretarv, and several friends
accompanied him.
Tho president lma decided to com
ply with Admiral Meade’s request to
lie plnood on tho retired list. An order
retiring a naval officer does not relievo
him of responsibility for any nets while
on duty, or aince his detachment,
should the superior officer order an in
vestigation into any matter happening
previously.
Miss Winnie Davis, of New York,
lion. ,T. Taylor Ellison and Judge
George Tj. Christian, of Richmond,
Vn.,left Washington Sunday night in a
special oar for tho Houston,Tex., reun
ion of confederate veterans. Members
if Leo camp of Confederate Veterans
joined the parly nt Danville,Va., Mon
day moring.
They Must <io Hack.
Following tho precedent established
in (lie ease of Levi F. Morton’s under
eonchnmn, Howard, in Now York, tho
United Slates court at Now Orleans
has docided that tho secretary of the
treasury is tho judge of tho law and
the facts as to whether immigrants
are in ihia country in compliance
with tho law, and hia decision
in tho matter is flunk Tho case in
whieh this principle was reassorted
arose in Key Weal, Fin., in January,
1894, a Cuban cigar firm imported
from Havana forty-six cigar makers.
Tho immigrant bureau at Washington,
after an exhaustive examination, ex
tending over several months and sov-
eral oral hearings before Hoerotary
Carlisle and Superintendent Stump,
decided that tho cigar makers in ques
tion came into this country in viola
tion of tho alien contract labor
law. Tho men wore ordered deported.
Writa of habeas corpus were sued
out before Judge Bowman, who re
leased all tho men. Ail appeal from
this action was taken by the treasury
department and now Judge Bowman
in overruled and tho treasury officials
sustained in their right. Commis
sioner General Stump Tuesday after
noon diroeted Immigrant Inspector
Bethel, at Key West, Fla., by tolo-
graph, to at once make preparations
for Iho arrest and doportntj^i of tho
cigar makers in question™
Our Domestic Cottons In China.
The department of state lins received
an interesting report from United
States Consul General Thomas It. Jor-
nigau, of North Carolina, stationed at
Hliniighni, China, on our trade relations
with tliu empire.
Noting a falling off in tho importa
tion of domestic cottons from tlie
United .States, ns well as Great Britain,
Mr. Jernigau ndvaneca the opinion
Unit tho luauufueturo of cotton cloth
by China and Japan ia responsible for
tho duoronno. In 18(51) the first spill
ing mill was erected in Japan, with
.1,450 spindles; in 1H83 there were six
teen mills, with 451,700 sprimlleH, and
in 1803 there wore forty-six mills,with
some (500,000 spindles. Tho statistics
regarding the industry in Chinn havo
not been published, hut a conservative
estimate is Unit tho end of this year
will witness360,000 spindles and 3,000
looms, besides numerous cotton gins,
ready to operate in fifteen cotton mills.
In Japan tho mill owner pays from
8 to 20 cents per day in silver for mill
hands, whilo in tho United States la
bor, lie says, gets pay in gold. Since
1891 one dollar in gold has been equal
to two dollars of Japaneso silver,
which makes clear, according to hia
reasoning, that the mill owner in the
United States ia paying twice as much
for labor as tho Japaneso.
Mr. Jernigau sftys that he does not
wish to intimate that tho price of la
bor in tho United States should ho
regulated by tho prico of labor in the
oriental countries, but unless some
standard of international value for tho
payment of labor is agreed upon, tho
prodiictH of tho oriental laborers will
become a dangerous rival to thoao of
tho occidental laborers.
Foil national bimetallism.
A Meeting to lie Hold at Memphis on
tho 13Ui of Juno.
The following call for a national
conference of tho friends of silver 1ms
been promulgated by the Central Bi
metallic League of Tennessee:
“To tho friends of silver throughout
the United States: Tho single gold
standard advocates havo called a con
vention to moet hero on tho 23d of
this month in an attempt to lead tho
south to support their policy. Tho
Central Bimetallic Leuguc, of Mem
phis, realizing the high importance of
mooting their arguments, exposing
their fullacics and counteracting their
baueful influences, do hereby request
the silver and gold money of tho con
stitution to organize ill every state
and comity and to send delegates to a
bimetallic convention to he held at
Memphis on the 12th and 13th days of
Juno next. The ablest champions of
bimetallism will beprceentaud address
the convention.
Will Stay Out Awhile Longer.
Delegates composing the Massillon,
Ohio, district miners' convention de
cided to maintain tho suspension until
00 cents granted throughout the state
and not make a district settlement on
that basis. A muss meeting will be
held to ratify or reject this decision.
“BIMETALLIC UNION.”
Decided Upon by the Silver Conven
tion at Salt Lake City.
In llio silver conference at SaltLako
City, Utah, an animated debate over
tho name of tho permanent organiza
tion was engaged in. Many delegates
favored “Honest Money Union," Btill
other “Silver Union,” hut Governor
l’rinoo objected to confining iho move
ment to one of tho metals, stating that
the west was as favorable to gold as to
silver and hia motion to call tho organ
ization “The Bimetallic Union" was
Unanimously adopted. Tho following
resolutions were adopted:
“Resolved 1, That an organization
be created to bo called the liimotallio
Union.
“2. Its obfect shall bo to inonlcate
tho principles of bimetallism and tho
restoration of the froo Coinngo of sil
ver at the ratio of 1(5 to 1 by iho cir
culation of documents, the holding of
meetings and other appropriate means.
“51. The union shall have an execu
tive commit toe consisting of ono mem
ber from each of tlie eleven states and
territories invited to this conference,
which shall havo charge of its work.
Three members sliall constitute n quo
rum of thin committee.
“ I. Otln r states and territories can
bo connected with tho union by a vote
of the majority of all tho members of
the executive committee, and shell,
therefore, ho entitled to representation
in tho executive committee.
“5. In every state and territory
connected with the union there shall
bo a state or territorial committee
oonaiatiug of live or more members
with power to till vacancies and add to
their members. These Committees
shall ho appointed in the flrst place at
I hia conference.
“0. It shall ho the duty of tho state
or territorial committee to raiso tho
necessary funds for carrying on tho
object of tho union and ill every
proper way to aid in thoMurthoranee
of those ohjeots.
“7. The members of HjO executive
committee for each stij^Pqr territory
shall lie elected aiinualw .liy t.hu state
or territorial eommittoA'cspootivoly."
The chairman appointed tho follow
ing delegates lo a tie nil the Bimetallic
League oonvention tube held nt Mem
phis beginning JtiuoAlth next,
Ex-Governor Bradford l’rinoo, of
New Mexico; Hon. J0! K. Hnrgonntj of
Butte, Mont,; Gpve'tnor Alva Williams,
of Deliver; llo$ O'. M. Donaldson, of
Oregon; lion. Henry W. Laugouur, of
Woodland, Oak'
THE BOYCOTT LIFTED.
Suilge Speer Issues an Order Which
Frees the Seaboard Alr-Llne.
Tho greatest sensation of the season
in railroad ciiiAcs was tho prooipitn-
tion of u stupendous hswstlTt in the
federal court at Maovn, over which
Judge Emory Speer presides, which
came about Saturday morning.
Mr. Alex. King, of Iho law Arm of
King A- Spalding, of Atlanta, appeared
before Judge Speer ami presented a
bill in behalf of the Seaboard Air-
Lino, asking that tho roads which are
bound by tho agreement of tho South
ern liailway and Steamship associa
tion bo onjoinoil from boycotting tho
Seaboard Air-Lino Recording to the
order of Commissioner Stahlmnn.
It is a stab at the vUnls of tile rail
way organization which lias placed
the Seaboard under the sway of a boy
cotting order. It is entirely diffi rout
from tho suit that the Seaboard folks
brought against tho Western and At-
Inutie and the Nashville, Ohuttnnooga
and SI. Louis to enjoin those lines
from tho boycott. That was simply a
suit for the alleged violation of tho in
dividual oontraot that was in force be
tween tho Seaboard Air-Lino and these
roads for traffic arrangements and
tho uso of the Western and At
lantic terminals nt Atlanta. That
ease was brought in the stato oourts
and was heard by Judgo Lump
kin, who ruled that the Western uud
Atlantic and tho Nashville, Chattanoo
ga and St. Louis had a right to boy
cott on businosH created and originat
ing beyond Chattanooga. Tho plain
tiff fllod a hill of exception to this rul
ing, which is now pending before the
supremo court of Georgia, and it will
lie heard on tho 28th instant. In tho
meantime Judge Lumpkin isstiod a su
persedeas order binding the defendants
from boycotting the Seaboard until tho
supromo court decided the case.
Now comes tho smt against all tho
roads of tho Honth ;rn Railway and
Steamship Association, and Judgo
Speer has issued an rder temporarily
enjoining all of tho linos from boycot
ting. This sets tho Seaboard Air-Line
free. Such, ut least, is tho temporary
effect of Judge Speer's order, and the
railroads of the sont.i will havo to lift
their Jiovcott until the 30th instant,
the day set for tho great trial to tako
place.
MURDERED BY MEXICANS.
Two Thousand Natl- -t Attack a Com
pany of American Soldiers.
Information has been received nt El
l’aso, Tex., of a bloody local revolt
out ill a settlement between tile towns
Guadalupe Calvo and Varvagama, in
tho state of Chilian, Mexico, a few
days ago. The trouble began when
the natives living in tho district at
tacked a surveying party under C. I'.
Morrison, an American, uud killed
twenty of tho party. Tho affair was
reported to the commander of Ameri
can troops ut parrnl, who immediate
ly started a detachment of 100 men to
the scene. Last Wednesday the troops
were assaulted by tho natives and
retreated, leuving half of their number
dead and wounded on the buttle
ground.
Increasing Their Sea Forces.
Russia, Franco mid Germany, it is
nnDounood, arc about to iucreaso thoir
| naval forces in the China sea.
TRADE NOTES.
Brndstroot Beports Business Stilt on
the Increase.
Brads tract's trade report for tho
pant week says:
“General trndo conditions through
out tho country continue in the main
quite favorable. Activity iu npeeuhi-
tivo and investment circles 1ms exceed
ed that in merchandise lines, lint gains
made in tho latter have in nearly all
instances been retained.
"Woolen goods mnuufnolurorB, even
with orders for sovornl months to come,
are not anticipating wants, as prices
for wool nt the interior lire above n
parity with quotations nt tho seaboard,
and lower prices aro looked for.
Heaviest transactions continue ill Aus
tralians. Tho weather has retarded
shearing. Rhode Island woolen mull-
ufnotnrers say the demand is largely
for iho cheaper grades. Among the
more favorable features of tho situa
tion aro hank clearings, the aggregate
for tho week being $1,101,000,000, ot
3 por oonit more than last week, wlu-n
the total was the heaviest since the
second week of June, 1893. Com
pared with the third week of May last
yonr, tho week's gain in more limit 30
per cent. The fulling off as compared
with the like week in 1898, tho pnnio
period, is only 5 per cent, and com
pared with the like week iu 1893, is
only 5.7 per cent.
"Tho entire region from Boston to
Kansas City, Omaha, and South Fnllp,
H. I)., and tuntil to the gulf, reports
damage to early vegetables and fruit
from the Into severe cold wonthor. It
has nlso cheeked sales of seasonable
fabrics.
“Among southern cities an improve
ment in trade is roportod from Mem
phis, iu groceries nt Chattanooga, at
Savannah, and at, Galveston, where
business is said to he fairly sntisfno-
ry and tho outlook favorable. At New
Orleans tho volume of business is
smaller."
MORE COLD MEATH Ell.
Fruit and Vegetables That Wore Left
Killed by a Later Freeze.
Tho freeze of Thursday night prob
ably ruined what fruit was loft, in the
Gouesoo valley, N. Y. Tee nearly half
an inch thick formed on still water in
exposed places. Thu mercury wont
below tho freezing point boforo mid
night.
ConoitAPo.—Two inches of snow is
reported botwoon Trinidad, Ook, and
Raton, N. M. This is tho lirst hiiow
or rain in Unit territory for nearly six
months, and it is hailed with the groat-
est delight by the stock growers and
others.
Ohio—Advices rocoivud from various
points in Northern Ohio show that,
there w-mmuiutiicr heavy and destruc
tive frosttproughout that section. In
ninny instances vegetation which es
caped Sunday night's freozo lias boon
almost completely destroyed. lee
formod a quarter of ail inch thick. A
mnnbor of points report great damage
to wheat, corn and potatoes in addition
to the destruction of fruit,
Indiana.—A white frost covered tho
central portion of Indiana Thursday
Morning. Meagre reports received
up to noon indicates that iho
damage is very great, especially on
cnrly fruits, vogulatiles and grapes.
In Homo localities the grass wsh frozen
stiff and largo leaves were frozen so
hard that tlioy snapped off. Irish and
sweet potntoos suffered most and in
many places will have to ho replanted,
ft is iiIho believed that cnrly wheat
was damaged. Tho night was perfect
ly clear and the frost romninod on the
ground until an hour after sun up.
THE SAM ROAD SOLD.
Blit In by the Bondholders’ Committee
for $1,800,000.
Tho Huvnnnnh, Americas and Mont
gomery railroad was sold at Americas,
Ga., Friday, anil was bought by the
bondholders' commit too. Tho npHot
prico wuh $1,800,000, and that amount
was hid by the representatives of the
committee,who wero J.W. Midilondorf
and R. B. Sperry, of Baltimore, and
J. H. Williams, of Richmond, Va.
At the same time tliu Albany, Flori-
dajihd Northern was sold for $200,000,
tliu purchasers being F. S. Hamilton,
L. H. Bent and Henry (1. Talinndge.
This lino is a part of the same system.
Tho sale was conducted by Messrs.
T. Edward Hamhleton, H. II. Hawkins
and Dupont Guorry, tho commission
ers. It was made under nil order of
court.
Of the amount paid $000,000 will he
deposited with the court to await the
result of litigation botwoon bondhold
ers and certain unsecured creditors
who clnim that they linvo liens upon
tho property for material supplied.
Tho chief of theso is the Ponnsylvonia
Steel Company, which lias a judgment
for $300,000 for rails furnished lln-
road.
Tho bondholders, it is snid, will at
once roorguuize the road and expend
nearly two million dollars in extend
ing tho lino and iu making improve
ments.
AGAINST LOT I'ICR I ES.
Florida’s New Law is Very Stringent
in Its Provisions.
The Florida senate has passed a bill
to prevent tho operation of lottery
compniiies iu the state. Tho bill 1ms
nlrcuily passed the house and now goes
to Governor Mitchell for his signature.
Tho measure is very stringent in its
provisions, and it is said that, under
it, oven ruffies at church fairs will be a
crime. The law is intended to drive
out tho Honduras Lottery Company
(successor to tho old Louisiana lot
tery), which had established a sort of
olouring house at Fort Tampa. The
lottery drawings, it is alleged, have
been taking place in Honduras, hut iih
a matter of fact nearly all the business
has been conducted ut l’ort Tampa.
DEI!A I ING FINANCE.
Tho Author of “Coin" Pitted Against
l'rosessor l.auglilln.
Tlie much talkod-of discussion on
the silver question between Professor
J. L. Laughlin, of tlie University of
Cliiengo, and W. II. Harvey, author of
“Coin's Financial School,” took plnoo
hint Friday night, at the Illinois club,
ill Chicago. Tho assembly room was
crowded and many more were turned
away. Tho audience was composed of
mi-ralinnts, bankers and professional
men. The wording of tlie q lest ion
debated was:
“liesolvoil, That tho United Slates
should at otlco enter upon the free
coinage of silver at the ratio of 1(5 to
1 independently of tho action of any
other nation.”
Tho speakers were limited to one
hour for their main address. Mr. Har
vey opened iu the iitlli'niative. lie was
allowed thirty minutes to close. Hnr-
V",\'s ai'eumuut wan substantially as
follows:
“Tho flrst reason why I am iu favor
of independent notion by this country
is that we should not bo subjected to
the influences of tliu governments of
Europe. 'Wo admit bimetallism would
be good if wo could get international
bimetallism.’ Iu other wodrs, they
agree that there is something radically
wrong, but claim that we are tied
to tho llnanofl policy of Europe.
They say, ‘We must havo Iho same
money t hat they have iu order to carry
on business with them.’ My reply is,
tho biggest business wo over did carry
on with the rest of tho world was
when they had gold and silver iih
money and wo had neither. Wo do
not settle our balances with Europo iu
eoin except on its commercial vnlno
and weight. 'There ia no such thing
as an iiitoruational money. Silver is
not a commodity to ho monitored in
gold. It is an objeot to bo gored and
kiekod by bulls and bears. It is
shut out of tho United States mints.
It is token money. Wo would restoro
it to that unlimited demand it enjoyed
prior to 1878. That would cause tlio
value of silver lo riso compared with
gold. This is what wo want.
“Tho bank of tho Rothschilds in
England ia now behind tho Unitod
States treasury. They are our flnau-
oinl agents anil managers. Wo are
paying them tho princely salary of
$8,000,000 for (inch six months of thoir
valuable services. Wo are now ill Iho
hands of tho pawnbrokers of Europe.
Them is only ono way to rcplonislt our
reserve stock of gold. That is to bor
row it from those who havo it. Thai
means England. That is what wo are
doing. This is what having n gold
standard menus. It is a money that in
easily concerned. How are we to pay
our debts to England? Restore sil
ver, the price of all our prod note
will advniico and the balance of trade
with England will double iu our fa
vor.”
“Wo would again mnko the stnndnrd
silver dollar the unit of vnlno ns it wns
before 1873. No man would lake loss
for it when ho could havo it coined at
pleasure into a dollar. Silver is tho
people’s money. Gold was, and is tho
money of tho rich.
“Wo would ropoal tho law of 1878
and tho Sherman law of 1890 author
izing contracts to ho taken paynblo iu
gold only. A true knowledge of bi
metallism and the simplicity of that
system decided our ancestors. Tlie
alternate use of silver with gold, which
iH triio bimetallism, would give an elas
ticity to our primary money which is
now absent. Wo would give tho debtor
tho option of paying in oither motel.
Now tho creditor demands tho dearer
metal. Lot us have nothing more to
do with Mr. Cleveland, Mr. Sherman
and such men who have assisted to tio
tho hands of this great nation and do-
liver its financial policy to tho gold
gamblers of tho world.
I’rofcssor Lull gill In’s Argnniont.
I’rofessor Lutighlin began his argu
ment by declaring that Mr. Harvey
had not touched on the question under
discussion. Ho denied Mr. Harvey’s
statistics and his statements as to tho
purity of gold and silver in 1873. “Tho
falling of prices since 1878,” ho snid,
“is not due to a lack of money. Thoro
is no reason why there should bo more
monoy. It is a fact Hint wngoa havo
risen iu gold sinco 1873, and tho pur
chasing power of tho wage earner has
doubled. Fuss a law for silver and
gold would bo hoarded quicker than
a flash. Froo coinage would bo le
galized fraud. It would give the
sanction of tho government to cheat
ing and approve tho plan of Moxi-
enniziug our liunnccs. Froo coinngo
would cut off tho workman’s slinro by
a rise of prices, until by strikes he had
forced his wages up proportionately
and would add to social unrest and
disorder. Wo cannot believe that a
special interest, led by millionaires,
will go on unchecked iu thoir plan of
sacrificing tho taxpayers in order to
heap uppurohasors of silver, especially
when this is douo on tho most falla
cious of economic grounds. Tho pro
posal for froo coinage is gruonbaekism,
galvanized into life. Under the cry
lor more money are tlie pinna of syn
dicates and miiio owners and specula
tors, who have hoodwinked tho pooplo
iu certain parts of tho country.”
EARTHQUAKES IN ITALY.
Hoiihch Collapse and Many Persons
Are Crushed to Death.
Tho population of Florence, Italy,
was thrown into a Htuto of panic Sat
urday night by a series of earthquakes
that did much damage in tho city and
in other places. I’eoplo who wero in
thoir houses when tho first shook oninu
ran terror-stricken into tho streets.
The shocks wero so violent that houses
swayed like ships ill a sea and ill n
number of cases roofs fell in, killing n
number of people and injuring many
others who had not sought snfety in
(light.
A SILVER RALLY.
A NON-PARTISAN CONFERENCE
HELD AT SALT LAKE CITY.
Wostorn Governors, Ex-Governors ami
Congressmen Wero on Huiitl.
Tho business streets of Salt Luke
City, Utah, were a ma>s of bunting
uud national colors Wednesday, 'the
streets wore crowded with strangers
from all parts of the west, who were
in nttondnneo on the silver convention
culled by Governor Rickards, of Mon
tana, to discuss means to promote tho
interests of the silver ninse.
Governor Rickard*, of Montana,
called the convention to older shortly
after noon. Governor West, of Utah,
and Mayor Buskin delivered addresses
of welcome, after which a temporary
organization was effected and a recess
was taken until late iu tho afternoon.
Among the distinguished peoplo
present were: Governor Rickards,
Governor McConnell of Idaho, ex-
Govornor Adams of Colorado, Con
gressman Hlinfruth of Idaho, ex-Gov-
ernor Thompson of Oregon, Hon.
Thomas G. Merrill, Futrick llonry
Winston, Senator Garter of Montana,
George Stephen DeWolf, Alb.rt
Kh-imehmidt, Wlinitou Darker of
Philadelphia, ex-Gongrissmari Berlin
and many mayors of western town",
with lending state officers end hankers
from tho main cities of tlie west.
Letters of regret, in which tho signers
all luko advanced ground iu fuvor of
tho silvor movement, have been re
ceived from W. II. Harvoy, tho editor
of Coin; ox-Cougressnmii Bryan, Wil
liam F. St. John of New York, and
Judge McConnell of Chicago,
Fully 2,000 people wero present
when Governor Rickards, of Montana,
again called tho convention to order.
Governor Rickards made an impas
sioned address of half ail hour’s
length, detailing tho motive of the
oonvention, whieh lie said was without
party prejudice and irrosislahlo lio-
catiHo it was not partisan.
"Tho oommon peoplo of tho wholo
country,” ho suid, “lire discontented
with our flunno'al condition, anil are
turning on masse to Iho free coinngo
of silvor ns the groat remedy.”
Permanent organization wns offoot-
od with Ex-Governor Thompson, of
Oregon, ns president; Ex-Governor
Adams, of Colorado, ami General Cla
ncy, of California, vice presidents;
Henry W. Luugonour, California, bjo-
rotnry.
It was filially dooidod to allow each
state io east throo voles regardloss of
tho numbor of its ilulegatoH. Tho main
addresses of tho dny were the speech
of Rickards iu opening, and nn ex
haustive paper on tho silver question
nud the ovils of inononiotiilism, rend
by Wharton Baker, tho Philadelphia
editor, at tho ovoning session, boforo
an niulionco of 7,000 peoplo. Governor
liiekards suid in pnrt:
“Wo do not moet as republicans, as
democrats or ns populists, but us
American citizens zealous for tho
right as god gives us to soe tho right
and earnest in tho advocnoy of sound
financial principles. Thu masses of
tho people in tho east ns well as in tho
west havo grown distrustful of tho
fiimuoinl ability of a class of reason-
ers whoso policy has invited tlie moHt
far-reaching disasters that ovor over
took the business interests of our
country or paralyzed the energies of
our pooplo. Every prophecy made by
tho gold mou has boon discredited by
the progross of ovents and tho prodic
tion made by iho silver men lias boon
verified in tlio colossal misfortunes
that have visited our lands. Tho
logic of tho situation domauds a re
versal of tho public judgment and it
will come. Tho argument of tho
single gold standard advocates has
matured from a gilded theory into n
condition that ought to appeal with
irresistible foroo to the candid ob
server of events. Existing conditions
reflecting tho misfortunes of tho busi
ness world upon every phaso of our in
dustrial and social life havo stimulated
a demand on tho part of tho nuiHBOH
fur u bettor luiowledgo of financial
propositions that self-interests may
bo repeated at tlio polls. In no way
enn Iho interests of silvor bo better
served, iu tho roooptive condition of
the public mind than through a sys
tematic course of education that will
roach tho individual intolligonco in tho
sacred circle of tho homo. Tho emi
nent gentlemen who represent tho sev
eral states iu this coufurouco have beon
delegated with tho responsibility of
devising ways and means for tho car
rying out of this object, nud that your
labors will prove an aggrossivo step iu
a most successful eumpaigu of tho
cause, I doubt not. Already tho
European wing of tho American re
public is beating tho air in au effort to
retain its lofty perch. Tho gold men
of both continents read iu tho signs of
tho times tho possibility of an curly
defeat and are bonding thoir onorgies
to the annihilation of tho object of
thoir fears.”
Butchers ns Hoyeotters.
Tho boycott oil tho Armour Fuelling
Company, declared a month ago by
tho Retail Butchers’ Association, of
Kansas City, has been extended by tliu
national association to include Chica
go, Bt. LouiH and Deliver, with tho in
tention of spreading it all ovor tho
United States unless the differences iu
Kansas City should bo adjusted.
Transferring Cattle.
It is roportod that 200,000 bend of
cattle, waiting in Texas and New Mex
ico, will bo trausforrod to Wyoming
anil Montana foodiug grounds. Trains
on tho Union Facifio and Denver and
Gulf roads will soon commence tho
work.