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T11E 54TII CONGRESS.
ROUT1NR OF HOUSE AND SENATE
BRIEFLY CHRONICLED.
Summary of Bills and Resolutions
Presented and Acted Upon.
lution went to tlio committee on for
eign relations. After a ten minutes
| executive session the senate adjourned
' at 1 :35 p. m.
There wns a very good attendance
I when the senate met at noon Thursday. I
j The first bill introduced was one by
! Mr. Mills, democrat, Texas, for the
' coiuago of silver in the treasury. A
bill introduced by Mr. Chandler, re-
| publican, Now Hampshire, for the free
[coinage of silver at the ratio of 15 1 -
ho 1, the bill to become operative when
GEORGIA SO LON 9 MEET IN R EG -
ULAR SESSION.
rocoedlngs of the Senate and House
Prosetitod In Brief.
nssuauceof bonds wero presented,
resolution efft roil by Mr. Call,
Nos. 87 and as Washington and South)
Vrstibuled Limited, Through Pullman f-
between New York and New Orleans, via
lugtoii. Atlanta and Mo
Wash*
be*
_uk and Memphis, via Wathlngti
Atlanta und Birmingham. Dining Cars.
Nor 85and CG United States Fast Mall, Pullman
Bleeping Cara bet
eii Atlanta, New Orle
New’York
Nos. 31 and 82, Kxposlllon FI
Through I’ull-
rknrnl Atlanta via
Washington. On Tuesdays anti ThurMlays con
nection Will bo mado horn Hlehmond with No.
:;j, and on these dates.Pullman Bleeping Car will
bo operated between Richmond and AtlHtitn. On
WcdnefdnvR and Saturday# connection from At
lanta to lUchmond with through sleeping car
will be to leave Atlanta by train No. 32.
Nor. Hand l2,PuUfflan Sleeping Car beUvecn
Richmond, DanviUe and Giecnsboro,
W. A. TURK, 1
Gcn’l Pats. Ag t,
Washington, D. C.
V H. GREEN,
Gcn’l Supt,
Washington, D. C.
. H. HARDWICK.
Ass’t Gcn’l Tass. Ag’t,
Atlanta, Ga.
J. M. CULP,
Traffic M’g’r,
Washington, D, ^
TRADE TOPICS.
Bradatreel’s Review of Busiuoaa for
the Past Week.
Drndstreet’H report or. business con
ditions for the past week says:
General trade continues the features
of preceding weeks—smaller volume,
Quiet in most liues, business being
conducted conservatively, activity
only among dealers in woolens, cloth
ing, shoos and hardware, and new or
ders generally of a filling-in character.
The season has evidently been a lato
one, prolonged mild weather having
delayed orders until the Christmas de
mand and tbo belated autumn request
came together. Notwithstanding al
most uniform reports of quiet, and un
changed conditions it should bo noted
that Jacksonville, Augusta and Dir
mingham, at the south; Milwaukee,
Kansas City and Bt. Louis, at tin
west, prove exceptions to the rule bj
reporting gains in demaud for whole
sale stuple goods compared with the
preceding week.
The falling off of 25 per cent, in
bank cleurirgs last week is more than
offset by a total of $1,247,000,000
clearings this week, 43 per cent, more
than last week, 7 p< r cent, inoro than
in the first week of December, 1804,
and 11 per cent, more than in 1803.
The course of prices also shows a
more favorable tendency, sugar, In
dian corn and wheat showing advances,
prices of wheat, flour, pork, rice and
tobacco being firm and unchanged,
while lower prices are furnished by
oats, lard, coffee cotton, print cloths,
petroleum, leather, hides and lumber,
coaJ, southern pig iron, Bessemer pig
iron, livo hogs and live cattle. The
foreign exchange market has been
dull, but firm at $4.89 for demand
bills, but $3,100,003 gold has been
exported, $500,000 of tho amount
going to South America.
Total business failures in the United
States ns reported to Bradstreet’s this
week number 315 ngaiiiBt 2S8 last
week, 322 in the first week of Decern
bsr, 1894.
ANOllIKIt FOOL DONE.
Fasted Forty-Seven Days and llie Sub
ject of a Funeral.
' William J. Murray, of Toledo, O
died Wednesday evening after fasting
for forty-seven days. The old gentle
man—he was four’seore years—took i
into his head seven weeks ago not to
eat anv more. His relatives did not
take his decision seriously, but when
four days nnd a week passed they be
came alarmed. Mr. Murray stoutly
persisted in his determination and all
efforts to give him food were in vain.
He became greatly emaciated toward
the last, but did not suffer any pai
und his end was quite peaceful.
TitrE bravery is shown by perform
ing without witnesses what one might
be capable of doing before the world.
Tttn hovsh, I England, Germany and Franco pus
Tho new printing law was tho oec.t- similar laws, was listened to with great
sion of a recession by tho houso of its attention bv tbo members or the sea-
aetiou on Friday with regard to tho »‘e- I'olitiuns from Florida for tho
presidout'8 message. Mr. Payne, re- recognition of Cuba and from tho leg-
publican, of Now York, stated that islature of _ Montana ngauist further , .unended so
when tho mesiugo wuh read ho had
moved that there bo printed 5,000
copies for Iho uso of the house. Ho
had Binco learned that tho new print
ing law provided for the printing of
10,000 copies for the house. Ilis mo
tion, therefore, was unnecessary, and
ho moved that tho vote by which it was
adopted be reconsidered, Agreed to.
.Speaker lteed announced tho appoint
ment of the following oommitteo on
mileage: Messrs. A. H. Wright, of
Massachusetts, chairman; J. B. Par
ham, of California; Orlaudo Burrell,
of Illinois, ond George C. Pendleton,
democrat, of Texas. Various execu
tive documents nnd reports from offi
cers were laid before the houso by
Speaker Hoed and appropriately re
ferred.
Mr. Walker, republican, of Massa
chusetts, asked permission to liavo
read the following lesolution :
“ltesolved, That tho people of tho
United States, through their repre
sentatives ill congress assembled, here
by express lheir deepest abhorrence
and condemnation of the outrages
thus committed on their American fel
low citizens, ns well ns on tho other
Christian subjects of Turkey.
"Hesolyed further, That this house,
composed of the immediate represent
atives of the people, pledge its hearty
support to tho executive branch of the
government in every measure justified
by international law* and a common
humanity to vindicate the rights of
our follow citizens and of their fami
lies in Turkey, and to hinder and pro
vent as far as practicable the continu
ance of the outrages and massacres ill
that land."
Mr. Turner, of Georgia, expressed
the opinion that such a resolution
should not be presented to tho house
in its present condition, nud ho there
fore objected.
On motion of Mr. Cannon, republi
can, of Illinois, the house at 12 :
journed until Monday.
Tho first business proposition
brought-up in the houso Monday was
a bill by Mr. Hopkins, of Illinois, to
amend tbo statute fixing tho customs
district of Chicago so that tlio district
would embrace all of (lie states of I Ili
nois and Indiana. Mr. Hopkins ex
plained that the bill was in tlio inter
est of the smelters of Aurora, who de
sired to bo able to pay - the duties on
Canadian ores at the port of Chicago.
At present, bo said, Aurora was not in
the district. Tho bill was passed by
unanimous Consent. Tho oath of
office was administered to Mr. l’rico
(democrat, Louisiana), who bad
not been present at tlio previous
meetings of ^ie house. A resolution
was passed for tho appointment of
three new assistants to tbo superin
tendent of tlio document room ; also n
osolutiou for tho appointment of
Isaac Hill, of Ohio, as a deputy ser
geant ot-arms and the three other
employes agreed upon by tlio demo-
ratio caucus. Thu memorial adopted
by the national wool growers’ associa
tion Saturday, calling for higher du-
ies, was presented by Mr. Danforlb,
but Mr. Crisp objected to its recop-
ion. Mr. CriBp also objected to n
resolution presented by Mr. Cannon,
calling on Secretary Hoke Smith
for bis authority for an order suspend-
ng all operations of tho laud office
by which settlers on Pacific railroad
grout lands in Utah and Nebraska
could perfect their titles. Mr. Me
Croary objected to tlio consideration
of a resolution presented by Mr. Wood
man, of Illinois, calling for all corres
pondence in tho Waller ease, including
that- with Consul Wetter. Objection
was offered also to a resolution by Mr.
Jenkins calling upon the commissioner
of pensions for a statement of all per
sons who had ceased to draw pensions
or whose pensions had been diminish
ed since Murch 4, 1893. At 1 -.30
o’clock the house adjourned until Tnos
lay.
printing $20,000 for tho purpose of
providing for any now applicants.
This was amended by striking out tho
seotion making tho appropriation. Tho
house reconsidered and passed tho bill.
Tbo effect will bo that tho widows of
Confederate soldiers who have recently
died will receive tho same pension that
their husbands received when alive.
Tlio house also reconsidered its action
on the bill by Mr. Deunnrd, of Wil
cox, “To make legal the s ilo of wild
lands in this state. ” Also tho lull of
Sir. Dempsey, of Butts, “To prevent
the increase of the bonded debt of this
stato or raising tbo interest thereon,
In tbo houso Thursday, Mr. Brnnan
called u)i his bill which plaooH tho
management and election of jailers in
tho bauds of tho county commission
ers of roads and revenues. It was
amended ho as not to affect counties i by repealing the net making tlio fund
A which have local legislation on this | to Uio stato university Permanent,_
f subject, ami then passed. It npplion 1 “ — — ‘
Florida, was adopted calling upon tho to counties wheroiu (hero are located
secretary of state to send to cities of 04,000 inhabitants. Tho bill
lie senate tho correspondence by Mr, Gray, of Catoosa, to ninko an
lating to tho cn«o of Geuornl appropriation of $25,000, to $10,000
nud $15,000 tho year follow
Sanguilly, an American citizen, boh-
t cue oil to lifo imprisonment for alleged
complicity in tho Cuban revolution
and directing him to procure a copy
f the record in tho ease if it is not on
file at Iho department. Mr. Gallin-
gcr, of New Hampshire, introduced a
resolution dochiring it to bo tho sense
f the Fonato llmt it was unwiso and
inexpedient to retire tho greenbacks,
Air. (hill then addressed the senate in
advocacy of his resolution for the re
cognition of the belligerency of Cuban
insurgents nnd for strict neutrality by
tho United Stales in tho war. Mr.
Call drew a graphic picturo of tho
ruin, misgovornmout and barbarous
cruelty against which tho Cubans wero
contending, and thoir long strugglo
for freedom. I To considered it an out
rage that tho United States should not
hold out an oncouraging hand to tluiRO
who were struggling for independence.
But instead of speeding tho Cubans
on their cause, he insisted that this
government was actually retarding tho
revolution—was; in fact, furnishing aid
to the Spanish tyrant. “This govern
ment," hi <1 ho emphatically*^‘is re
sponsible for many of tho outrages
that have been committed. I do
not menu to say that tho president and
his cabinet nro responsible, but tho
action of this government, negatively,
by not recognizing the insurgents as
belligerents in our ports and territory
is aiding today the powor o£ Spain on
tho island of Cuba." In conclusion ho
described Cuba as tho Queen of the
Antilles, tho future centre of a con
federated republic that would iucludo
all Iho islnuds of the West Indies and
called upon tho committee on foregn
oonsiilej- hi* rwolqHou ip
:io spirit of our fore fathers and
report it favorably at an early day.
Then at 1 :20 o’clock tbo senate went
into (xcciitivo session and at 1:35
o’clock adjourned nutil Muudny. The
senate in executive session confirmed
Matt W. Hansom, as minister to Mex
ico.
Tho chief inlorrst ill tho senate prfl-
eodiugs Monday centered in a speech
f Senator Morgan, of Alabama, chair
man of Iho committee on foreign af
fairs, delivered in the afternoon on
the Behring sea awards. Mr. Culloni.
f Illinois, gave notice that ho would
uddreas the senate Tuesday on tho
Monroe doctrine. Among the hills in
troduced was one by Mr. Voorhees,
(dem., Ind.), granting a pension of
$2110 per mouth to the widow of the
late secretary of state, Gnnoral W. Q.
Gresham. Mr. Baker (rep., Kan.),
offered a resolution, which was
agreed to, calling upon tlio
president, if not incompatible
with the public interest, to transmit to
Iho senate all documents and corres
pondence at the state department
relating to tho case of ex-Consul John
I,. Waller, now under arrest in France.
After the adoption of a resolution di
recting the district committee to
report, whether tlio laws of tho Dis
trict of Columbia permit what Senator
Hale called tho“intolerablu and barbar
ous” right of a parent to “provide for
tho custody of minor children by tlio
terms of hiH will,” Senator Morgan
delivered a carefully prepared speech
in reply to strictures rnado on him by
Sir Julian I’auncefote, tlio British
ambassador.
Tlio senate in executive session at
3 :55 p. p. confirmed tho nomination
of ltufus W. Beckham, of New York,
to be associate justice of the supremo
court of tho United States. The
judiciary committee also agreed to re
port favorably the nomination of
Judges Springer, Kilgore and Stnnrt.
SOAP FACTORY Hl'RNED
THR HENATH.
The first move in the Delaware con
tested senatorship was mado in the
senate at Wednesday’s session when
Mitchell, of Oregon, presented a let
ter nnd accompanying records to the
senate from II. A. Dupont, claiming
the right to be admitted us a senab
trom Delaware. Delaware’s demo
erotic senator, Mr. Gray, moved
that the privileges of tholluor ho given
his republican quasi-colleague pending
determination of his case, and Mr.
Dupont w as brought in and introduced
to senators. Mr. Chandler presented
a moss of petitions alleging election
frauds in Alabama, and claiming the
election as governor of ltenben F. Kolb.
Several petitions for the recogni
tion of the Cuban insurgents were
offered and Mr. Clark (rep. Wash.) in
introducing a bill for fortification of
Atlantic, Paeifie.nnd lake ports, said
the senate was being asked to extend
recognition to Cuban belligerents and
to firmly reassert the Monroe doc
trine “We are talking of theso mat
ters as though we had a chip on our
shoulders,” he added, “and we go
along in blissful ignorance or inaction
as to the unfortified condition of our
forts.” Mr. Hoar offered a resolution
that congress would support the pres
ident in any action for the protection
of Americans in Turkey. The reeo
And Two Firemen Severely Scalded
With Escaping I.ye.
Fire destroyed part of the extensive
soap manufactory of James 8. Kirk A
Co., Chicago. The total Iosh is esti
mated by -Mr. Kirk at $65,000. The
principal los- iB on the machinery nnd
is covered by insurance.
Captain J. Falvey, of the fire boat
Yosemite, and Huns B. Hansen, pipe-
muu of the Yosemite, were severely
burned by concentrated lye, which
overflowed from immense vats by the
Hood of water. Hansen slipped on
the floor and was burned to the bone
of his ankle and on his hands, cheek
and ear. Captain Falvey did not fall,
lmt the lye burned through his shoes
to the bonus of his unkle.
FIELDS WAS DESPERATE,
lie 31 ur
I Ills Wife nnd Stabbed
His Baby.
Near Lurayville, Fla., Joseph Fields
came homo and found a man with Mrs.
Fields. He drew a knife and the man
ran. Fields then murdered his wife
and stabbed his little girl and fled.
Neighbors, suspecting something was
wrong, entered the house. Mrs.Fields'
body, covered with wounds, was found
on the fl air, and her baby was dib
bling ill lh" blood. '1 bo Httle girl
was not Heinously hurt, and told about
' j the tragedy.
next year
ing, t> tho state memorial board to
mark by monuments or other suitable
memorials tho positions occupied by
Iho Georgia troops that par
ticipated ill tho battle of Ohieka-
iniuign, in tho Oliicltatinuigu National
Millitary Burk, wuh brought up as a
special order and passed by a vote of 90
to 12. l’rolongcd applause followed
tho announcement of tlio result by the
speaker. Mr. Boynt&i, of Calhoun,
introduced a most important racas-
uro to amend the {onstitution so
as io prolong the sessions of the gen
eral assembly indefinitely and to pay
the members salaries of $300 each per
Bossiou. It provides h submission of
the question to a voto of the jieoplo for
filial judgment, Tho bill was ordered
engrossed. A largo number of looal
bills wero passed uuiJfethO houso ad
journed until Friday.W
At Friday morning's session Mr.
Boynton, chairman of tho iinanoo com
mittee of the house, jfioved a recon
sideration of tho voni by which tho
Confederate soldiers' measure was
passed Thursday nfteruqon. A sharp
discussion wits precipitated, and oil
a voto the body refused ,td’ reconsider
by a voto of 88 to 33# Thi^special or
der then wnH brought up. It was a
bill by Mr. Boifcuillst to provido for
tho appropriation of -$30,000 to . be
used by tho State university to build
and furnish additional buildings for
tho Normal and industrial school for
girls nt MillectgcviUo. Tho amend-
ment of the committee upggested by
tho author, cutting the amount down
tit $25,000 was attached. The com
mittee finalbiujrbso j||id reported tho
moasrile fraawSB n8m err-, tn the house
with recommendation that they pass.
A voto was foroed, resulting in thoir
passage by a voto of 90ayes to 52 nays.
At Friday afternoon’s session of tlio
house, Mr. Fogarty, of lliebmoud,
introduced a resolution whioh author
izes tho code oommission of Iho stato
to purchase at a cost of $500 from M.
Salem Dutoher, from Hiehmond, liis
digest of the constitution's organic
nets creating and changing tho comi
ties, nnd the rules of the superior and
supreme courts, of Georgia, and incor
porate the immo in tho stato code.
Several new bills wero read and
referred. The following hills wore
passed : To nmond the liquor law of
Habersham subject to a vole of tho
peoplo of that county; To allow
hanks to increase or decrease thoir
capital stock on a voto of a majority
of tho stockholders; To amend the
act incorporating Forsyth ; To amend
the code relating to tho sale of
property taken under execution from
the city court of Savannah; To amend
an act amending tho constitution, so
as to allow pensions to maimed, blind,
indigent and disabled confederate sol*
diers; To appropriate $120,000 for
pensions for 1895 and tho sumo amount
for 1896, and to define tho proof, col
lection, payment, etc.
At Friday night’s session of tlio
house, a big batch of bills wero passed.
They were mostly of a local nature.
The bill of Mr. Pittman, of Troup,
which is a very important piece of leg
islation intended to correct tho lynch
ing evil, passed the houso Balurday
and was sent to tbo senate. There
were but ten votes against tho bill in
the house. The bill in part is us fel
lows: Section 1. It shall not be law
ful for any person by violence, threat
of violence or by any other means to
hinder, obstruct or interfere with tho
sheriff, constable or their deputies,
charged with tlio duty aiul engaged in
tlio business of enrrying out und ex
ecuting the sentence or order of court,
after indictment ond trial of criminals,
while they are in tho custody of sneli
officers. Section’d I’rovides that when
ever any persons shall hinder, obstruct
or interfere with tho sheriff or
other officers aforesaid, it shall bo
the duty of tho officer charged
with the custody and protection of tlio
prisoner to inako out a list of tho per
sons so offending, and present them to
tlio grand jury of the county Imving
jurisdiction, * * * Any officer who
shall fail to comply with the duties
hereby imposed shall bo suspended
nnd his office declared vacant by the
governor. * * * And it shall be the
duty of grand juries in all counties to
investigate the facts and make present
ment of tho matters and things herein
referred to, * * * and the clerk of
court shall immediately transmit a
copy of such presentments to tho gov
ernor. It shall be tho duty of judges
of superior courts to givo tho law of
tho act in special charge,
“Seotion 3 provides penalties by
line, chaingang or penitentiary, in
discretion of court.
The bill got a unanimous report by
the general judiciary committee of the
house and Hie bill in n small houso got
97 votes. Tho bill was immediately
transmitted to the senate. A large
number of other bills were passed.
Mr. Johnson, of Hall, moved to re
consider the nerion of the house in re
gard to the bill to authorize, and pro
vide for the payment of pensions to
and they wero placed on tho oaleudar.
Saturday night when tho night hob-
sion of the legislature was adjourned
Iho first hour of Sunday had arrived.
They remained in session until late
anil passed many bills. Whou tho
clock in the legislative hall showed
11 ;27 o’clock tho point was mado by
Olio of tlio members that by a decision
of iho supremo court of Georgia it
w as Sunday. After this time, however,
one other resolution was passed, and
when ilui houso adjourned it was Sun
day. Mr. Brnuau’ti fee system bill
was tho special order. It was not
reached anil will consequently net be
reached at this session. Among tho
bills passed at the night session were:
Bill to amend an not to amend tho
school laws of thm stato by prescribing
tho qualifications of tho members of
county boards of education; To ro-
quiro all infantry nud cavalry compa
nion of tlio Georgia volunteers nnd tho
Georgia volunteers, colored, in this
state to bo attached to one of tlio pres
out existing regiments; To appropriate
money to tlio state lunntio asylum ; To
establish tho city court of Laurens
county.
There wns quito n tilt, in tho house
Monday when tho bills introduced by
Senator Brand enmo up for notion.
One repeals tlio act creating tho coun
ty oourt of Gwinnett. Tho other es
tablishes a city court for Gwinnett
county. Johnson, of Hall, nnd Mo-
Curry, of Hart, spoko in favor of
theso bills, while Messrs. Beeplos and
F.Bpy, of Gwinnett, spoke ngainst
them. They said that the grand jury
had rofustul to recommend it nnd that
the peoplo of their county wero op
posed to it. The vote stood, ayes 101,
poos 35. Tho lionse reconsidered the
bill to provont, tho incrcnso in tho
bonded,debt of tho state or the rais
ing of the interest thereon. After
considerable debate tho bill passod by
a vote of 89 to 26. Mr. Dompsoy’s
substitute, repealing tho funding act
of 1881, making tho iucomo of the
University of Goorgia permanent, iH
a very important moasuro. As tho law
was, tlio trustees of tho university
could present to tho governor any
valid, matured bond of tlio Htntc, which
might only bo a 3j per cent, bond,
nnd iho governor would have to issue
a bond lo tho trustees bearing 7 per
cent interest and good for fifty years,
which could bo renewed. Tho trustees
have already obtained $275,000 of these
7 per cent bonds. Mr. Dompsoy’s
substitute seeks to prevent tho increosi
of this bonded debt. It does not in
validate Iho bonds already iisued, but
it prevents their renewal at Iho end of
fifty yoars. Mr. Dempsey mado a good
fight for this bill, and alter reconsid
eration it was passod. Tho following
other liillH wero passod: Hesolution
authorizing tho governor and treas
urer to iHsno warrants on tho treasury
to pay indigent ex-confederalo soldiers;
To provido who may redeem real estate
sold at tax sale; To amend tlio act tn
authorize the issuance of circulating
notos to hanks and banking associa
tions; To roguluto the sale of milk
butter and cheese ill this state. This
bill was recommended by tho Stato
Dairymen’s Association
At tlio night session several bills
ire passod and then it developed that
there was not a quorum present. The
cat of tlio evening, up to a late hour,
was spout in trying to got a quorum.
I ho following bills wero passed : T<
amend tlio general tax act for 1895
and 1896; To prevent tho procurement
of consignments of orchard, farm and
duiry products, etc., by irresponsible
parties; To regulate prnctico in the
conrts of this state ; To make the name
of tlio colored branch of tho univorsi
ty, tho “State Industrial Collcgo for
Colored persons.'
Tho session of tlio senate was occu
pied some time Thursday morning m a
futile effort to reconsider the bill lost
Wednesday to prevent hunting nud
fishing oil tho uninclosed luiuls of an
other. A number of bills, mostly of
u local nature were passed. The bill
to reduce tho fees of oil inspectors was
passed. It outs off the 5 per cent, al
lowed them in addition to their salary
of $1,500. A bill to abolish tho Jack-
son county court was the subject of a
breezy debate. Tho hill wns lost.
The senate passed Senator Long’s
bill to change the constitution, of the
state so as to create tho office of liou-
tcuunt governor. He iH to preside ovor
tho senate, and have a salary of $500,
ond in the event of the death or disa
bility of the governor, to exercise the
powers of the governor.
Tho hill to create tho office of insur
ance commissioner and placing tlio
duty in the comptroller general,
brought on a spicy debate in the sen
ate Friday. The bill was defeated,
whioh leaves tho comptroller as insur
ance commissioner, and us compciiH
At Friday night’s session of tho sen
ate the bill authorizing tho governor
to relinquish all claims on tho Blue
Ridge nnd Atlantic railway under the
condition that they pay nil county and
stato taxes audrcsunio il daily sohodnle
between Tallulah and Cornelia, was
parsed. Other bills passed as fellows;
To amend an act regulating sales of
fertilizers in tbiN Rtuto and to lix n
method for determining tho value of
the same; To incorporate tlio town of
Douglas, in Coffee county ; To author
ize tho town oouuoil of Bowman to is
sue bonds; To provide for tho snloand
lease of the Northwestern railway; To
crcato and organize a board of tax as
sessors and receivers for the city of
Savannah; To provido compensation
for members of iho board of roads and
revenues lor Coweta oqunty.
Brosidoni Venable's bill to levy an
additional tax on Iho liquor dealers of
Georgia for tlio purpose of establish
ing and maintaining an inebriate asy
lum was pnsHed in tho senate at Satur
day’s session. Tho bill levies an addi
tional lax of $26 oil each saloon koeper
every year. Tho bill introduced by
Mr. Broyles in the house clmnging Iho
charter of Atlanta was pusHOd. Other
bills passod wore: To establish allow
charter for tho town of Calhoun in
Gordon county ; To create a hoard of
water oommifuioners for tho city of
Savannah ; To amend tho charter of
tho town of Camilla.
The people of Goorgia will bo given
another opportunity to givo the su
preme court the relief which is ro bad
ly needed. Speaker Fleming's bill
submitting the amendment of tho con
stitution to the people, passed tlio sen
ate Monday. It, increases tho number
of supremo court judges from tlireo to
six. Tliero is to bo ouo ohiof justice
und live associate justices, nnd they
lire to be elected by the poople.
Tho first cleotion of judges by tho peo
ple will bo held on tin- third Wednes
day in Dooembor, 1896. Other bills
passed were as follows: To make an
extra levy of $25 cm tho liquor dealers
to ostablisli aniuobriato asylum in this
Htate; To change the time for holding
tho rcgnlnr quarterly term of tho city
court of Elbert county bo thut tho
sumo shall commence on ilio Hccond
Monday in February, May, August
nnd November ; To authorize tho town
unoil of Bowman to issno bonds;
To incorporate iho town of Alto in
the counties of Banks and Haber
sham; To relievo Mr. J. S. MoGohoe,
of McDuffie county, ns surety on au
nppearanoo bond; A resolution author
izing the governor to accept, in tho
iMfmnnle of Georgia, from
General JiumnD. MoBriilo, for pre
servation in the archives of tho exocti
five department, ono copy of liis his
torical publication entitled “Import
ant I’criods in tlio History of tho
United States,” and “The Seal of tho
United Slates and Seals of tho F.xccu
five, Judicial nnd legislative Depart
ment of the Government.”
The Semite met nt 6:30 o'clock Mon
day evening, nnd nftor passing a num
ber of bills, adjourned to tho banquet
by Brosidcnt Venable at tho Granite.
Tho houso bill of Mr. Broyles to
amend section 1675 (a) of tho code,
prohibiting foreign corporations from
owning more than 5,600 acres of land
in Georgia, was passed. Other bills
passed were -. To amend an act enti
tled an net to iuo orporato the Savan
nah Bank and Trust company; To
amend section 4928 of tho code of 1882
relating to sales of property execution
issuing out of tlio city oourt of Snvun-
uaii; To incorporate tho town of Bras
well, in tho county of Spalding;
To incorporate the town of Bat
tle Hill ;. To limit tho jurisdic
tion of tho city court of DeKulb
county to cases exceeding $10; To au
thorize ami empower the mayor and
council of tho town of Decatur to pro
vide for the registration and lieonso of
every trade, business, calling, avoca
tion and profession prosecuted nnd
carried on within tho incorporate
limits of said town ; To repeal an net
for tho protection of Uxli in tho wuters
of Berrien county; An act to bo en
titled an act to fix tho timo nnd
manner of electing the mayor and
council of Hie town of Decatur and to
fix tho terms of office of said officers;
To repeal an act creating a board of
county commissioners for DeKalb
unty ; To amend an act to create a
HOT KES0UJTI0NS
AGAINST EXPOSITION SPEECHES
OF TILLMAN AND EVANS.
Tho Exhibitors’ Association Does the
Roasting.
Senator Bon R. Tillman nnd Gov
ernor John Gary Evans, of South Car
olina, woro denounced in no unoertnin
language by iho members of tho At
lanta Exposition Exhibitors’ Associa
tion nt a meeting Thursday morning.
Hosolutions condemning their speeches
an South Carolina day at tho exposi
tion as inflammatory utterances, were
adopted, and the two South Car
olinians wero roferred to as ranting
demagogues, cutthroats and moon
shiners. Tho remarks of tho two gon-
tlcmon from South Carolina created
quito a sensation nt tho exposition.
Tho mooting was held in tho trans
portation building nnd wns called to
order by President Jackson. All of
tbo members were present. After tbo
transaction of some roulino business
tho speeches of Senator Tillman and
Governor Evans wero incidentally re
ferred to and tho roferenco aroused
one of iho members, who said that tho
association ought to tako notico of tho
speeches, lhat they woro lioucath tho
dignity of tho body. In bis opinion
iho speeches wero hut tho utterances
of n sot of cutthroats and moonshiners
who ought to know better nnd who
could not bo tnkon iih tho sentiment of
tho south or tho fooling of tho south
ern peoplo. Ho moved that a commit
tee of five bo appointed to draft reso
lutions concerning tho speeches. This
was done and tho committoo retired.
In a short while they presontod tho
following resolutions, whioh woro
unanimously adopted:
■Whereas, Tho public expressions of
roprosontntivo men who have visited
the Atlanta exposition liavo boon of a
conciliatory character, marked by evi
dence of Iho broadost patriotism uml
tho most siueero fraternity, and
Whereas, This characteristic has been
true regarding tho expressions of dis
tinguished visitors, whether those vis
itors enmo from tho north, the east,
the west, or the south, and
Whereas, Tliofriouds and promoters
of tho Atlanta fair, by reason of the
many fraternal expressions of thoir
enterprise had provoked from patriots
of all pacts'' of tho Union, had begun to
regard .the more friendly relations be-
tweenTho different sections of our
common couutry as one of tho host
and most gratifying results likely to
grow out of their stupendous enter
prise, therefore bo it
Resolved, By tho Exhibitors’ Asso
ciation of said Atlanta exposition, a
body composed largely of Aiuoriean
citizens and representing all parts of
the union and alt shades of political
opinion, that we deeply deplore the
one marked nnd flagrant oxeoption to
tlio heretofore prevailing expressions
of fraternity, brotherly love, patriotism
and loyalty, that wuh made manifest
at t liis exposition on Sou th Carolina day
nnd in which tho ex-governor of that
state, Bon Tillman, and the present
governor, John Gary Evans, were tho
offenders.
Resolved, That we know, from our
contact and intercourse for tho past
few months with southern peoplo, that
in their disloyal and inflammatory ut
terances those two rnnting demagogues
nro a liliel on tho hotter oluss of
southerners nnd do not givo voice to
the prevailing southorn sontimout.
ltesolved, That wo sympathize with
tho southern states of onr Union in tho
affliction which compels thorn to on-
dnro such blots on their inner worth
and such clogs to thoir merited prog
ress; nnd wo especially sympathize
with the ignoranoo that must yet pre
vail in South Carolina to mnko it pos
sible for such scum to riso to the sur
face.
Resolved, That for the fame and
good name of tho Atlanta exposition,
at which theso men wero unfortunate
ly pormitted to speak, wo denounce
thoir speeches as boiug devoid of rea
son, sense and patriotism, nnd wo re
pudiate tlio speakers. In this wo feol
confident wo nro but voicing tho sense
j , —_ - of our country and tho earnest foelings
board of commissioners of roads and I 0 f tho bettor people of all tho southern
revenues tor Catoosa county.
AN ADDRESS
Sent Out Ily South Carolina Repub
licans.
The republican stato executive com-
mittco of South-Carolina 1ms issued an
address in which it says :
“It 1ms been well said that no
question can bo regurdod as definitely
settled until it has been settled alight,
that is, on (ho basis of right ond jus
tice. If this saying bo truo, cer
tainly tho suffrage question cannot bo
regarded as definitely settled by tlio
recent enactment of our so-called con
stitutional convention, for no fair
mined man can pretend that this enact
ment is based either on right or jus
tice. On the contrary, it iH tho very
OKsence of injustice and wrong,
being nothing less than an at
tempt to perpetuate cheating and fraud
in elections by enacting it into tho
fundamental law of tlio state, as was
fully admitted in tho diseussion by its
author und chief advocate, B. It. Till
man. This, indeed, was tho openly
avowed purpose for calling tho con
vention and that pnrposo it can hardly
Vio denied Iihh been fuithfully carried
out, and that, too, in clear and pal-
tion tho fees of the office as is now the
law A bill to prevent manufacturers . • ... .. ,
of fertilizers to put up for sale more P ttbla v.olation of the constitution and
than one brand of fertilizer from tho j la'™"' Uul ? ul1
same formula, was passed. Other bills "In announcing our purpose as re-
passed were Iho bill to establish a new 1 publicans to resist the enforcement of
charter for the city of Covington ; To »!*>« nefarious enactment in. every
prevent corporations from imposing P«U>«r and legitimate way, a brief re-
any greater tax on insurance brokers troepeot of our very anomalous polit
than on agents of insurance companies
doing business in Georgia.
ieal situation hero in South (Juro-
j lina may not bo amiss,”
states.
liesolved, That we sympathize also
with tho management of this exposi
tion that under tho olonk of tempo
rary authority two such fanatics
should liavo boon ublo to intrude thoir
utterances upon tho otherwise lioalthy
und satisfactory proceedings that have
characterized this enterprise. But
while dismissing the utteranaeB of
there men as unworthy of further
notice from our association or the
country, we do not forget that in tho
general economy of uutnro man
kind must linvo liis troubles nnd
communitioH their afflictions. It
is not many yenrs sinco California wns
greatly annoyed by n brace of bandits
known ns Evans and Sontag, nnd the
exhibition witnessed here on tho 28th
of November is hut ail evidence that
South Carolina in its turn is endur
ing, through its own indiscretions, a
season of torment from its Tillman
and FiVans.
Committee for Association : J. A.
Filcher, California, chairman; J. Wil
liam Berts, Maryland ; W. F. Anthony,
Virginia; Bennett, Tennessee; C. H.
Robbins, Boston.
Approved. George Johnson, Presi
dent Exhibitors’ Association.
JournalistSnla Dealt.
A cable dispatch from London says:
George Augustus Sula, tho well-known
journalist and author, died Sunday
morning at Brighton, whore lie had
been ill for a long timo. His death
was caused by u combination of disor
ders. As u journalist Bala was at the
very top of the list.