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VOLUME XX.
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
What is Eeing Done in Congressional
Halls for the Country’s Welfare.
PROCEEDINGS FROM DAT TO DAY BRIEFLY’
TOLD —BILLS AND MEASURES UNDER
CONSIDERATION—OTHER NOTES.
THE HOUSE.
Wednesday —After some routine busi
i;ess, tbs house on Wednesday went
into committee of the whole on the sun
dry civil appropriation bill. The Aral
subject considered was the appropriation
for the government exhibit at the world’e
Columbian exposition. Mr. llcuk, of
Ohi >, offered an amendment appropria
ting $ 100,000 to pay the expense of col
lecting, preparing and publishing facts
and statistics pertaining to the industrial
advance of United States citizens of
African descent from January 1,
1853, to January 1, 1893, to constitute a
part of the government’s exhibit. In
speaking to this amendment, Mr. John
son, of Indiana, made reference to the
force bill and stating that President Har
rison had stood for ihe measure and was
still in favor of it. The allusion to the
“force bill” brought a number of demo
crats to their feef, and Mr. Johnson was
deluged with questions. Mr. Johnson
replied that the president was in favor of
any system of constitutional legislation
that would guarantee to the lowliest
man of the south the right to cast his
vote without fear, favor or intimidation.
Ho was surprised, in view of the appoint
ment of the president, that the imputa
tion should be cast against him, tint in
the distribution of patrouage he had not
recognized the colored man. He then
cited a list of colored men appointed by
President Harrison to important offices.
Then there was a scene of great confus
ion in the hall. Dozens of members were
on their feet, raising their voices and
crowding into the aisles. In the midst
of the confusion, Mr. Johnson’s time ex
pired. lie resumed the floor, however,
and proceeded in vehement language to
denounce the treatment of the negro by
the democratic party of the southern states
and as he was as vehemently contradict
ed by a number of members from the
south the house became a perfect bed
lam, tho chair being utterly unable to
secure the semblance of order or to con
iine Mr. Johnson’s remarks to the ques
tion before tho house. Several members
Anally succeeded in making themselves
heard, after much effort, and replied to
Mr. Johnson in terms as bitter as h s
own, but with greater dignity. Among
these were Messrs. Hooker, of Missis
sippi; Johnstone, of South Carolina;
O’Neill, of Missouri; Stockdale, of Mis
sissippi, and Mr. Cheatham, of North
Carolina, the only colored man in the
house, regretted that this debate had
taken a political turn. It had not been
intended that any partisan feeling should
be injected. lie appealed to the commit
tee to set aside political and race feeling
and give this appropriation. He wanted
to see the democratic and republican par
ty come together ami help the negro and
do something for him. (Applause.) This
ended the incident. Mr. B rgen’s last
amendment was withdiawn and the house
came back to the pending bill. Mr.
Dockery, on behalf of the subcom
mittee of the committee on appropria
tions, offered an amendment reducing
the salary of the director general of the
world’s Columbian commission to SB,OOO,
and of the secretary to $3,000. This
amendment was vigoiously opposed but
it was adopted. Mr. Johnstone, of South
Carolina, offered an amendment provid
ing that no part of the amount approprii
led for the world’s Columbian commission
shall be available unless the doors of the
exposition shall be closed on Sunday,
rending further action the committee
rose, leaving Mr. Johnson's amendment
as amended and Mr. Stone’s substitute as
amended still undisposed of and the
house adjourned.
Thursday. —C heatham of North Caro
lina, the colored member who poured oil
on the troubled waters Wednesday, was
recognized in the house Thursday morn
ing to ask consent for the consideration
of the Dill appropriating SIOO,OOO foi
the compilation of statistics showing the
progress of the colored race from January
1, 1862, to Jauuary 1, 1892. Mr. Kilgore,
of Texas, objected, and the house went
into a committee of the whole, Mr. Les
ter in the chair, ou the sundry civil ap
propriation bill. The pen ling ques
tion was on the subject of th
Sunday closing of the World’s fair
Mr. Dockery, of Missouri, offered ass
substitute the following: “Provided,
that the government exhibit at th
World’s Columbian exposition shall not
be open to the public on Sunday.”
Adopted. The questiou then recurred on
the original amendment as amended by
the substitute, and it was adopted.
Friday. —lu the house, Friday, on
motion of Mr. Cockran, of New York,
the joint resolution was passed to correct
a clerical irror in the McKinley tariff act.
It corrects the error whereby a duty ol
from 15 to 50 cents per pound is impoed
ou sweetened chocolate, an l fixes the
duty at 2 cents per pound. On motion
of Mr. Meredith, of Virginia, a resolu
tion was adopted calling on the civil
service commission for information as to
whether there are on the eligible list of
typewriters and stenographers, women,
who have passed the examination and
have not received appointmeuts and
whether any department refuses to accept
women as stenographers and typewriters,
The house then went into committee of
the whole, (Mr. Lester, of Georgia,in the
chair,) for further consideration of the
sundry civil appropriation bill. The
pending amendment was that offered by
Mr. Richardson, of Teun., limiting the
number of copies of public documents
which may be printed by the heads ol
bureaus without express authorization by
congress. Rejected by a vote of 91 to 93.
Mr. Richardson then offered the same
amendment with modification which ex
pressly excepts the department of agri
culture from limitation. Agreed to with
out opposition.
Saturday. —The house finished the
general debate on the postoffice bill.
Several good speeches were delivered.
The bill will next be discussed by sec
tions. The house adjourned till Tuesday
on account of Monday being decoration
day.
IPitlt?
the senate.
) ednesday. —After the morning rou-
Giie business, Wednesday, the senate
took up the resolution offered by Mr
Morgan, on the 31st of March, direction
the committee on finance to make an ex
amination and report in relation to cur
rency and coinage, and as to the effect of
the act of July. 1890, on the price of
silver bullion. Mr. Morgan called for
the leas and nays on the adaption of the
resolution. Mr. Morrill moved the refer
ence of the resolution to the finance com
mittee. 'J he motion was deb ased—yeas
17; Days, 28. Mr. Vilas called for a
division of the Quratinr—the resolution
containing several distinct propositions—
and Mr. Morgan modified tho resolution
by adding anew paragraph instruct
ing the finance committee to report a sup
plementary act providing for the coinage
of gold and silver bullion on equal terms
is to each metal, and authorizing depos
itots of gold or silver bullion to receive
coin certificates for it at its mint value.
Mr. Stewart reinforced Mr. Morgan with
a s'raightout free silver coinage speech.
At 2 o’clock, as the regular order, the
bill to punish violation of treaty rights
of aliens was taken up, despite Mr. Mor
gan’s protest, and he gave notice that he
would movo to take up his resolution
again at the conclusion of the speech of
Mr. Gray, who had the floor to debate
the alien bill. Mr. Morgan replied to
Mr. Gray’s argument, and had not com
pleted his argument when the senate ad
journed.
Thursday. —At the opening of its
session Thursday morning Senator Stew
art caught the senate napping, and made
a motion to take up the pending free
coinage bill. Before the senators actu
ally realized what the motion w T as the
clerk was calling the roll. Then there
was a stampede from the chamber by the
senators who feared the issue. Senator
Hill was one of those who declined to
commit himself by a vote. Mr. Stewart’s
resolution passed by a vote of twenty
eight to twenty. This vote probably rep
resents the sentiment of the senate
on the question. The debate
then commenced on the bill,
and went on until adjournment.
The principal speech of the day was de
livered by Senator Morgan, of Alabama,
who declared that if both parties nomi
nated candidates for president who were
opposed to free coinage, the great mass of
the people of the country who were infavor
of the free coinage of silver, would have
but little preference for one over the
other. The inference drawn from his
remarks was that thousands of people,
who want financial relief, would be
forced to join the third party. Pending
the debate the senate adjourned.
Friday. —When the routine morning
business of the senate was disposed of
Friday morning, tho calendar was taken
up under rule eight, but Mr. Morgan
voluntarily abandoned his right and con
sented to have his resolutions laid aside
without action. That having been done,
the business on the calendar was pro
ceeded with in regular order under rule
eight. Among the bills passed w T ere the
following: To reclassify and prescribe
the salaries of railway postal clerks.
The rates fixed are: First class, not ex
ceeding $800; secoud class, not exceed
ing $1,000; third clans, not exceeding
$1,200; fourth class, not exceeding
$1,300; fifth class, not exceeding $1,500;
sixth class, not exceeding $1,600, and
seventh class, not exceeding SI,BOO.
The semate adjourned until Tuesday with
the understanding that the silver bill
would then come up.
NOTES.
The president, on Thursday, issued a
proclamation promulgating a reciprocity
treaty with Austra-Hungary. Its terms
are similar to those in f >rce with Ger
many, Italy and Switzerland.
The silver senatois feel quite jubilant
over their victory, which was brought
about by the adoption of Mr. Stewart’s
motion to take up the pending free coin
age bill in the senate Thursday, and they
declare a free coinage bill will be passed
by the senate. Iu that event, the bill
will be sent to the house, and that body
will take it up for consideration. If the
senate passes it, the house will have to
do likewise, and the bill will then go to
the president and place him in the em
barrassing position of either having to
sign or veto it.
The Agricultural Appropriation Bill.
The agricultural appropriation bill was
completed Friday by the house commit
tee on agriculture, and will be reported
to the house early next week. It appro
priates $507,500 more than the bill of
last year. One million dollars is appro
priated to carry out the provisions of the
meat inspection law, which is half a mill
ion in excess of the appropriation for the
current year for the purpose. One hun
dred and thirty thousand dollars is al
lowed for the distribution of seeds,
against $30,000 during the present fiscal
year. For investigation on the subject of
forestry and the continuation of experi
ments in rain production, $20,000. is ap
propriated. this is aa increase of $5,000.
Secretary Rusk secures $5,000, being
$2,500 more than the current appropria
tion to enable him to continue his work
of ascertaining the feasibility of creating
foreign demand for additional agricul
tural products of the United States.
The Hostoffice BUI.
The house finished general debate on
the postoffice bill Saturday. There will be
two contests during the discussion of
this bill by sections. One for free deliv
ery of mails in the country,and the other
to pay all railroads the same for carrying
mails'. The majority of the members of
the house favor the rulal drlivery of
mails, and the tight for such will be
earnest. The on y question is that of ex
pense. While, perhaps, this house will
fear to do the whole thing at once, the
experiments will be extended, and. the
chances are we will have free delivery
everywhere very soon. There is a clause
in the bill to pay land grant roads but
50 per cent of the amount paid other
roads for carrying mails. As it costs the
land grant roads just as much as it does
others to carry mails, this reduction of
their compensation is considered unfair,
and a strong fight will be made to amer.u
the bill as reported from the committee,
and place all the railroads on the same
footiug. It is also possible that an effort
will be made to pay the Richmond and
Danville the same compensation for its
fa>-t service to the south as that paid the
Atlantic coast line. It is considered by
all the southern members as only right
JACKSON. GA„ FRIDAY. JUNE 3. 1892.
and proper that the two systems should
i'C paid on the same basis, especially as
the Hichm nd and Danville mail service
is quicker and superior in every way to
ttie other.
SILVER CONVENTION
Held in Washing Thursday— Speeches
by Prominent Men.
In response to a call, issued April 23,
1892, by the national shiver committee
for a national convention of “all who
earnestly favor the immediate restoration
of free bimeta lie coinage in the United
Stateq” about 100 delegates assembled
at Washington Thursday, and were called
to order by General A. J. Warner, chair
man of the natioi al commiitee. Judge
lsa ic C. Morris, of Indiana, was elected
temporary chairman of the convention.
Lee Crandall, of Wr.shiugton, Henry
Jones, of Georgia, and E. P. Stark, of
Ohio, were elected secretaries. After
recess, General Wamer was made
permanent chairman. The temporary
secretaries were made permanent and the
following vice presidents were chosen:
Messrs. Bolter, of Iowa; Shin, of Kan
sas; Streeter, of Illinois; A. B. Ewing, of
Missouri; Nixon, of Nevada; ex Repre
sentative G. G. Symes, of Colorado, and
William H. Oliver, of North Carolina.
The time of the convention was de
voted to hearing free silver speeches from
Representatives Bryan, of Nebraska, and
Bartine, of Nevada; Senator Stewart, of
Nevada; and Mortimer Whitehead, of
of New Jersey, lecturer of the
National Grange. Senator Stewart’s
speech was largely devoted to condemn
ing proposed international monetary
conference. “My advice to you
is,” said the senator, “to put
no confidence in this talk of an interna
tional conference until you know what it
is aud what is proposed to be done. It
is even pretended that this international
conference is for the purpose of establish
ing the free coinage of silver; but such
is not its purpose. One object is delay,
and another is to devise some scheme
whereby silver can be utterly demon
etized. Judging from the speeches ol
representatives of the gold ring in the
senate, and by the writings of their or
gans and magazines, it is evident that
they intend to establish such a ratio be
tween gold and silver as will wholly de
stroy silver.”
Another session was held at night. A
driving rainstorm prevailed and the at
tendance was light. Among those pres
ent were S nator Colquitt and Represen
tatives Bartine, Pierce, Livingston and
Simpson. Remarks were made by Terry
C. Greene, of Iowa; Edward S. Brown,
of Colornda; Senator Colquitt, of Geor
gia; Representative Pierce, of Tennessee;
Representative Livington.Of Georgia, anc
Representative Simpson, of Kansas.
Committees on resolutions and finance
and on organization of a bimetalio league
were appointed. Among the members of
the latter committee are Senators San
ders, of Montana, Representative Sweet,
of Idaho, and Representative Tillman, of
South Carolina.
FRIDAY’S SESSION.
The free silver convention rc-assem
bled Friday and was in session the
greater part of the day and evening,
which was given to speeches. At the
evening session the following preamble
and resolutions were adopted:
Whereas, With a single gold standard,
relief from evils of continued falling
prices is impossible; and,
Whereas, The restoration of the bi
metallic standard with the coinage of
both metals on equal terms, lies at the
foundation of all oconomic reform; there
fore,
Resolved, That the free and unlimited
coinage of silver on equal terms with
that of gold, and on the ratio now estab
lished by law, is a paramount issue be
fore the American people to-day, ancl
shall not be suppressed.
Resolved, That we in answer to the
demand for honest money, declare that
the debtor shall have discharged his full
duty to his creditor by paying to him in
such money as was the full legal tender
at the time the debt was contracted.
Resolved, That we will not support
for legislative or executive office any can
didate who is not thoroughly committed
by platform and declaration to the full
restoration of the monetary system vol
untarily disturbed by the legislation de
monetizing silver in 1873.
Resolved. That while we hail with joy
the co-operation of other nations in the
the restoration of silver to its proper
monetary pos'tion, yet we demand that
the United States right the wrong it has
perpetrated upon the producing and in
dustrial classes without regard to the
action of other nations.
It was also resolved that a bimetallic
league be formed, the object of which
shall be to unitedly resist the purpose to
fasten forever on this country a single
gold standard and io labor for the resto
ration of free bimetallic coinage to the
people of the United States. The league
is to hold its first annual meeting at
Washington, D. O, on the 22d day of
February, 1893. and there are to be tuch
other meetings as the executive oommii
tee may cal . The executive committee
is authorized to organize subordinate bi
metallic leagues in every voting precint
in the United States. The conven
tion elected the following officers
for the league for the ensuing year
A. J. Warner, of Ohio, president; secre
tary, Lee Crandall, of Washington, D.
C ; treasurer, Colonel J. J l . Klmgie, of
Washington. The above with the follow
ing will constitute the executive comn|t
;ee: Francis G. Newlands, of Nevada;
James B. Grant, of Colorado; Richard
Lscy, New York; S. M. Ramsey, Mis
souri; J. H. Reagan, Texas; Representa
tive iVatson. Georgia; Henry Carey
Baird, Pennsylvania, and Senator Daniel,
Virginia. The following were elected
vice presidents of leagues for their re
spective states: Senator Morgan, Ala
bama; A. J. Wedderbum, Virginia;
Representative Ti lman. South Carolina;
Senator Colquitt, Georgia; L. L. Polk,
North Carolina.
Will Benefit Orange Growers.
A Washington dispatch says: Sena’Oi
Pasco, of Florida, submitted in the sen
ate Tuesday, a proposed amendment t
the agricultural appropriation bill appro
priating $5,600 for conducting ao invest
igation of diseases of the orange am
other citrus fruit trees, and their cause,
and for experimenting as to their cure.
THROUGH GEORGIA.
Interesting Holes Gathered From Here
and There (her the State.
Representative Blount has induced the
secretary of war to detail an officer as
military instructor at Gordon Institute,
Barnesville.
* * *
President Walter B. Hill, of Macon,
hns just issued the programme for the
annual convention of the Georgia Bar
Association which convenes Wednesday,
June Ist.
* * *
W. A. Winburn has been appointed
passenger agent of the Central railroad of
Georgia to succeed Sam H. Hardwick.
The appointment will take effect June
Ist. Mr. Winburn is at present chief
in the traffic department.
* * ¥
The stockholders of the Atlanta Con
solidated Street Railway Company have
every confidence in the present manage
ment of that company’s affiirs, tind they
expressed that confidence in the re-elect
ion a few days ago, of the company’s
officers.
¥ ¥ ¥
Another important step in the progress
of education has been taken. The State
Normal college was organized at Athens
a few days ago, and a president and fac
ulty were elected, and the courses of
study decided upon. Arrangements have
been made for a good summer’s work,
and the school will open on the 11th of
July.
* * *
The case of the Columbus Southern
road brought to test the constitutionality
of the Glenn railroad tax bill, in which
the supreme court of Georgia de
cided against the railroad and in
favor of the people of the State, has gone
to the supreme court of the United
States. There is involved in the result to
the people of the state over three hundred
thousand dollars a year, which the peo
ple will save if the act be sustained by
that court.
* * *
According to the Sparta Ishmaelite an
anarchist agitator is at work among the
farm hands in Hancock county. The
fellow is a stranger. His work is confined
to the negroes principally. He goes about
the farms and addresses the hands, urg
ing them to refuse to work for less than
a dollar a day, telling them that when
the third party got in power it would
secure them such wages; that his party
intended to divide up the land and give
them half of it.
* * *
A mass meeting to consider the prop
osition to build a free bridge across he
Chattahoochee river was held atß< swell,
Cobb county, Tuesday. The mee ug
was one of the largest ever held in the
town, between eight hundred and a thou
sand people being present. It was de
cided to appoint a joint committee from
Fulton, Milton and Cobb counties to con
fer with the ordinaries and county com
missioners and ask for appropriations to
build the proposed bridge.
* * *
A petition has been filed for the privi
lege of establishing anew electric plant
in Atlanta. The incorporators ask to be
mado a body corporate under the name
of the Pennock Electric Motive and
Light Company, with the usual privileges
incident to such corporations The prin
cipal office of the company is to be
located in Atlanta, and branch offices are
to be established in other localities. The
capital is named at $500,000 cash to be
gin with, and $1,000,000 as the limit to
which the amount may be raised.
* * *
President Waddell, of the State Agri
cultural society, is enthusiastic over the
prospects for the fair to be held in Ma
con this fall. He has been busy for the
last two months in organizing agricult
ural clubs as adjuncts to the State Agri
cultural society. In speaking of his work
Col. Waddell says: “The counties of
Whitfield, Bartow, Elbert, Hancock,
Sumter and Talbot are absolutely certain
te have a magnificent county display at
the fair. Never before have we had as
good a showing on the first of July as we
have at this time even at this early date.”
The work of making the state fair a
grand success is being pushed and the
result will be such a fair as the society
has never had before.
* * *
Judge Claiborne Snead and the other
officers of the Third Georgia regiment
have issued this call for the annual con
vention: “Pursuant to a resolution adopt
ed at our last meeting at Covington, the
next reunion of the regiment will take
place in Athens, Ga., on the 19th and
20th of July, proximo. Through the
courtesy of Colonel M. Slaughter, assist
ant commissioner of the Southern Pass
enger Association, arrangements have
been consummated for reduced rate*
upon the certificate plan for transporta
tion over all the railroads of this state.
That is to say, 3 cents per mile going
and 1 cent returning, upon exhibition of
proper certificate, or iu other words, 4
cents per mile for the round trip.”
* * *
The Encampment Opens.
Tuesday, the 24th day of May, year of
our Lord 1892, marks an epoch in the
history of the military companies of
Georgia. On that day the permanent
encampment grounds at Griffin, which
bear the name of Georgia’s governor
were formally taken possession of by the
state. The First and Third regiments,
under the watchful eye of Coionel George
A. Mercer, the commanding officer, took
formal possession for a week and will be
followed by other companies of the state
in the order mapped out in the pro
gramme. It was a great day for Griffin,
a day for the many visitors woo
were there, a greater day for the boys in
camp. The little city had on her gala
att re, and right royally did she welcome
the governor, his staff, and the soldiers
wh > are to be within her gates.
* * *
bp Savannah Appropriation.
The apparent alarm of the Savannah
people, and of all Georgia, over the re
ductions the senate made in the Savannah
harbor appropriation of the river and
hirbor bill,says the Atlanta Constitution,
is without cause. S ivanoah’s appropria
tion is all right. The senate’s action will
not deprive the harbor of one cent of
money. In the bill, as it passed the
house, there wis a provision p’acing Sa
vannah harbor u ui r (he c rntract system.
That is. the bill autlmrizad the secretarv
of war to give out a contract for making
in Savannah harbor a twenty-six foot
channel at a cost of $3,000,000. There
was an appr ipriation of more than $400,-
000 to be made immediately available.
This latter appropriation was reduced
about 25 per cent. All the other har
bors were reduced in like proportion.
The reduction, however, will not affect
the work at Savannah at all. The con
tract for deepening the harbor will be
given out and the work commenced at
once. The money appropriated in the
bill will be the first paid to the contrac
tor. The work will go on and appropria
tions will be made by each congress, to
be paid by the secretary of war to the
contractor in accordance with the agree
ment to be made between the two. Thus,
the cut of the senate only makes the first
payment smaller, but will not affect the
completion of the work, nor will it de
lay it.
* * *
Railroads vs. Lumbermen.
It is entirely probable that a sweeping
change will be made in the estimated
weights by which the vast volume of
lumber freights is gauged. This is a
matter of great importance to both rail
roads and lumberm a n, an 1 the decision
of the railroad commission in the case
now pending will be looked for with
m re than ordinary interest. There was
a hot discussion on this subject before
the rulroad commi.-sion a few days ago,
and the facts brought out on both sides
made it very plain that some change from
the present system is desirable. The
matter came up on a petition from Mr.
J. M. Cul \ assistant traffic manager
of the R chm -ad and Danville rail
road, a king ,u.-it the estimated weights
on shingle t be raised from 350 to 540
p>mds p r thousand. He showed that
tli ac ual weight of greeu shingles is
r om live to six hundred pounds, and his
fig ires were substantiated by weights
s i iinitted by Mr. Goodman, the traffic
manager of the Savaunah, Americus and
Montgomery railroad. The lumber men
did not deny this, but, when their time
came, they proposed to follow Mr. Culp’s
lead, and g > him one better, by showiug
that the estimated weight of 4,000 pounds
for dry lumber was from 1,500 to 2,509
pounds higher than actual weight, on
kiln-dried weather boarding, cealing,
etc. The result of this scramble will be
watched with interest.
* * *
The First Moner Paid.
A few days ago the East Tennessee.
Virginia and Georgia railroad sent a po
lite invitation to the tax crllectors of the
counties through which their road runs
saying that if they would be in Atlau’a
Wednesday they would be paid the county
tax for 1891, under the Glenn bill. A
number of the tax collectors were on
time, and they soon found that Mr. W. S.
Dickson, of Knoxville, was ready to re
ceive tho tax collectors. It required some
time to get through with paying off
because there was $60,000 to be paid,
The railroads a ill hold the Glenn bil’l
unconstitutional, and to test it further
have carried the case to the United States
supreme court. Therefore, each tax col
lector was required to sign the following
receipt: h
Atlanta, Ga., May 25, 1892.
Tha East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
railroad company lias this -Jay paid to me the
sum ot dollars, the amount of taxes levied
iaoi ‘* ,ssessed against its property for tbe year
?,Y?L b> o<"7! county, together with the
interest thereon.
Th s money is paid by said company under
protest end with notice that to pav the same
over to any other person, or to the state or
county t or which lam acting, as said county
notifies me that it intends to sue for the recov
ery or the same, it claiming that the actun
aer which it pays said money is unconstitu
tional and void. .
Tax Collector.
. All of the tax collectors who were paid
signed the receipt, and said they would
pay the money into their respective coun
ty treasuries, and take the chances on
the law being declared unconstitutional.
Colonel Glenn was present and he was
the proudest man in the assembly to see
the first money paid out under his bill,
lie was solid with the tax collectors, too.
Every one of them.present insisted that
he is the man to be made attorney gen-
BROTHERHOOD OF ENGINEERS
Adjourn After a Two Weeks’ Session in
Atlanta—Chief Arthur Re-Elected.
After a two weeks’ conference in Atlan
ta the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engin
eers of the United States adjourned Tues
day. Much important work looking to
the interest of the order was transacted.
The attending delegates together with
the members of the Ladies’ Auxiliary
were royally entertained by the local com
mittees and citizens of Atlanta, and all
expressed themselves as much pleased at
the many courtesies extended them.
At the last day’s session officers were
elected and installed. Grand Chief Arthur,
who ha 9 been at the head of the brother
hood for eighteen years, was re-elected
for a term of four years. A. D. Young
son was re-elected assistant grand chief
engineer for two years. The next con
vention will be held in May, 1894.
Biennial conventions will be held here
after, instead of annual meetings. In
vitations have been extended to the broth
erhood to hold its next international con
vention in Indianapolis, Minneapolis,
Columbus, 0., Grand Rapids, Mich.,
Schenectady, N. Y., and other cities.
Schenectady and Grand Rapids seem to
be the favorite cities. The invitations
received are accompanied by letters from
the mayors of the respective cities and
governors of the several states.
LOUISIANA DEMOCRATS
Are in a Muddle and Will Send Two
Delegations to Chicago. \
A dispatch of Wednesday from Bat'in
Rouge, La., says: A final effort to har
monize the differences between the Mc-
Enery and Foster factions by a sub-com
mission of the rival state central com
mittees has just concluded, and has
failed. The McEnery committee haa
issued a call for primaries on June 8 to
elect delegates to the state convention at
Baton Rouge June 14 to select delegates
to the national demoo#tic convention,
and to nominate presMential electors.
The Fostet committed call was issued
Monday. This causes a contesting dele
gation in the democratic convention.
A CYCLONE’S WORK.
Wellington, Karea; a Heap of Ruins
and a Scene of Death and Disaster.
THE DEAD AND DYING UNDER MASSES OF
BRICK AND MORTAR —INCIDENTS
OF THE CALAMITY.
A disastrous cyclone struck the town
of Wellington, Ivan., Friday night which
plowed its devastating track through the
business part of the town, killing and in
juring hundreds of people and destroying
an immense amount of property. A h< a/y
storm of wind preceded the cyclone
about half an hour. A few minutes after
9 o’clock the cyclone struck the city,
coming from the oa hwesf. There were
no promt n tory fig s. Everybody was
indoors and the cloud passed with its
destructive rush and awful roar. Wash
ington avenue, principal badness street,
is lined on both sides for blocks with
ruin. To add to the horror, fire broke
cut among the debris of Colonel Robin
sou’s block. A solid block of brick
buildings containing half a dozen
stores and the postoffice and print
ing r flices lies a tumbled heap of bricks
and mortar. No reports have been re
ceived from other points. Wellington is
the county seat of Sumner county, and
has a population of over ten thousand
inhabitants. It is in the center of a
thickly settled agricultural district. It
is the most prominent towu in southern
Kansas.
FURTHER DETAILS.
A special dispatch of Saturday from
Kansas City gives further details of the
cyclone horror and says: The cyclone of
last Saturday night was terribly destruct
ive in its tlfects. Fifteen persons are
known to have been killed, and an in
vestigation of the wrecked buildings has
only been barely commenced. The cy
clone did not do much damage until it
reached the center of the town. On
Jefferson avenue it destroyed the Luther
an church, but only unroofed residences.
Its most furious work was done within
the compass of four squares bounded by
Jefferson avenue, Avenue C and Seventh
and Ninth streets. Every building
in those four fquares was demol
ished and wrecked. Fortunately, resi
dences in that locality are not numerous,
otherwise the loss of life would have
been much greater than now appears to
be. The Phillips house, a hotel, was de
molished, and seven dead bodies have
been taken from the ruins. The work
of rescue there is just only begun. The
house wbs well filled with guests, and
the loss of life in the house is thought
to be great. The offices of the four local
newspapers—The Monitor, The Press,
The Voice and The Mail—were destroyed.
The Wellington foundry was demolished,
and Mrs. William Ashtr aud her sister,
Katie Straham, who happened to be
passing there at the time, were buried
in its ruins and killed. Their bodies
have been recovered. The destruction
in the northeastern part of the city has
also been great.
LIST OF CASUALTIES.
The following is a complete list of the
killed as far as known: Frank D.
Campbell, James Hastie, Leonard
Adamson, Ida Jones, Mrs. Asher and
sister, Kittie Strahan. Professor Mayer
and Horton Upson are missing and are
probably killed, Lieutei ant W. French
and Cadet Samms, of the Salvation
Army; Mrs. Murphy and a child named
Mattie Hodges are badly injured. Cas
Stoner, Gus Colby, Dick Weaver, Carrie
Mitchell and Ed Forsythe each received
injuries more or less serious. The streets
are impassable and nothing but run ex
ists everywhere. At least twelv., bodies
h ve already been taken out of the mins,
and something less than seventy-five are
injured. Men are working everywhere
trying to rescue the imprisoned ones.
No one now can realize the extent of
the catastrophe and daylight will alone
reveal the saddest scene of the ruin and
desolation ever witnessed in southern
Kansas. The Cole and Robbinson block
ruins took fire and strenuous efforts are
being made to. rescue the people known
to be buried there. It is now believed
that the list of the dead will number be
tween twenty and thirty, and the injured
about seventy.
The most appaling scene was that at
the Phillips house, where a ball was in
progress when the cyclone burst. The
dancers were given little opportunity to
escape from the toppling structure. As
the building began swaying in the ter
rific gale, the people in the crowded ball
room made a frantic rush for the doors.
The stairways and halls were immediately
filled by crazed men and women, who
tore at each other in their mad rush for
the open air. With the crash of the walls
about and over them, there arose a great
wail of despair from the imprisoned and
doomed multitude.
As the timbers crashed down upon the
struggling merry makers, their hoarse
cries were throttled by the weight of the
mass of timbers above them. Then came
the silence of death and insensibility,
only to be followed, a moment later, by
the shrill blasts of the tempest, us it
rushed on to other destructive work, and
the agonized shrieks of the injured oi
dying who were pinned down in a mass
of debris. Those who escaped from the
building began immediately the work ol
rescue. Some of those who fled from
the building left wives and sweethearts,
husbands or brothers behind. These
they sought in the pile of bricks and
timbers. As fast as the bodies were
taken out they were surrounded by
crowd of anxious people, who vainly
tried to identify their mangled remains.
A meeting of the Salvation Army wa?
in progress in a hall near the Robinsoc
block. The falling walls of this build
ing crushed the hall and it is known that
two were killed. It is probable when the
wreck is cleared away it will be founc
many more perished. It was past tim
for the army to adjourn, but the atom
’kept the meeting in. One of the mem
bers was engaged in prayer when thi
cyclone struck the Robinson block. Be
fore Any of the soldiers could rise fronr
their knees the walls of the buildinf
gtve way with a crash. How any o
taem escaped alive is a marvel.
Seven persons at the residence o-
Smith were badly injured an
th • wh< le number may at any time b
added to the list of the de id.
NUMBER 22.
BUSINESS REVIEW
For Past Week as Reported by R. G.
Bun & Cos.
R. G. Duu & Co.’s review of trade for
week ending May 27tli says: Business
failures occuring during the week num
ber for the U ited States 185, Canada 13:
total 198 ag; inst 192 week before. Bet
ter weather has wrought a quick improve
ment in business at many points. The
floods still make some trouble land threat
en more. Couutry roads which nobody
can travel prevent distribution and col
lections, and fear 9 about the crop in
many quarters still check purchasers.
But the area over which these influences
were felt was relatively narrow and is
narrowing while more cherring weather
throughout a greater part of the country
has given a decided stimulus to the trade
and greatly changed crop prospects.
Other conditions are generally favorable.
Labor is, on the whole, well employed
with rather less interruptions from strikes
than is usual at this season.
The money markets are everywhere
well supplied and easy, and at several
points an increasing demand is noticed.
At Baltimore southern trade holds out
beyond expectations. At Philadelphia
general improvement is seen. There is
little new in the great industries though,
other than standard brands of iron are
much depressed. Farm implement
makers have resumed. Their demands,
with better weather, are greater, and the
demand for structural iron is large.
Heavy sales of steel cotton ties have been
made at 2 con's delivered, the lowest
price ever known. Cotton mills are
doing more business than in any othtr
year, and print cloths are firmer, for
stocks are low. The shipments of boots
and shoes continue to exceed last
year’s and are but 8 per cent below the
highest ever known for the year thus far.
Speculation in cotton h;s been active
wi;h a sixteenth advance and sales of
569,000 bales, floods and bad weather
tending to lessen production.
Nothing disturbs the money market
and the action in congress on silver is
not expected to amount to anything.
The treasury has paid out $500,000 more
money than it has taken in dtiling the
week. Merchandise expor sare large and
for the week have exceeded last year $4,-
300,000 or per cent, while the in
ereare in imports over last year is s rail.
AT GRANT’S TOMB.
A Member of Lee’s Staff Delivers a
Touching Oration.
A New York dispatch says: The fund
for the Grant monument has been com
pleted. That was tbe announcement
made, amid the cheers of the multitude,
at the Memorial Day exorcises Monday
afternoon in front of the tomb of General
Grant. The crowd was a very large one.
The program of exercises was very im
pressive and appropiiatc. The principal
oration was delivered by Colonel Charles
Marshall, who was chief of staff to Gen
eral Lee, the confederate commander.
Among other things, he said : “It is not
easy to express the thoughts that tho
scene before me inspired in my mind—in
the mind of every man who understands
the full meaning of this occasion. Men who
were arrayed against each other in dead
ly strife are now met together to do
honor to the memory of one who led one
part of this audience to complete and
absolute victory over the other, yet in
hearts of the victors there is no feeliug
of triumph, aud in the hearts of the van
quished there is no bitterness; no humil
iation.”
After referring to the bitterness of tho
conflict and the fact that the combatants
so quickly dispersed at the end of tho
war, he said:
“No such peace as our peace ever fol
lowed immediately upon such a war as
our war. The exhaus'ed south was com
pletely at the mercy of the victorious
north and yet the sound of the last gun
had scarcely died away when, not only
peace, but peace and good will, were re
established, and victors and vanquished
both took up the work of repairing tho
damages of war and advancing the cim
mon welfare of the whole country, as if
the old relations—social, commercial and
political between the people of the two
sections had never been disturbed.”
BIG DAY IN ROCHESTER.
Harrison and Flow er- Make Speeches—
-250,000 People Present.
Monday will ever be a memorable day
in the history of I{ >chester, N. Y. Never
before has the city been so crowded and
never before has it entertained such dis
tinguished company. Public and private
busine.-s was suspended and everybody
took a holiday. It is estimated that fully
2)1,000 people took an active part in
the various demonstrations. Of this
number fully 100,000 came from the sur
rounding country. The president was en
thusiastically received everywhere and
was compelled to bow his acknowledge
ments to almost continuous chee T ing.
'1 he weather was bright and fair. The
feature of the day was the dedication of
the handsome monument in Washington
square ii honor of the soldiers and sail
ors of Monroe county who died in de
fense of iheir country. Speeches we a
made by President Harrison and Gover
nor Flower.
COLORED CHURCHES UNITE.
The Zion and African Methodist Episco*
pal Churches Combined into One.
A Philadelphia dispatch says: Aft ur
being twenty-three days in session t ie
African Methodist Episcopal church con
ference adjourned Tuesday to meet at
WilmingtOD, N. C., in 1890. During
the last day’s session Bishop Turner st ited
he had received a telegram from Bishop
Harris, of the African Methodist Zion
church, agreeing to consolidate the two
great bodies and call them the African
and Zion Methodist Episcopal church< s.
A motion was made that the name be
adopted as it was a step toward orgaDio
union. On the call of the roll the v<,te
was overwhelmingly in favor of consoli
dation and the adoption of the name.
Bishop Turner was then ordered to ac*
quaint the Zion church conference of thin
action. It was agreed that the board of
bishops acquaint the separate churches of
their action and ask approval of it. It
was slso agreed to adopt the book of
discipline new used as a whole.