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VOLUME XX.
WRIGHT & reck,
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The Loeked-Out Meu at Homestead to
Grade a Railroad.
A dispatch of Thursday fr- in Home
stead says: This was the lust day of grace
allowed by the Carnegie management for
the striking steel makers and other tm
ployes of the Homestead mills to apply
for re nstatement. Scores of workmen
were putting in applications for work,but
it was not at the Carnegie office. \V ork
was to be had for the asking at the rooms
of the Amalgamated Association advisory
board and at the headquarters of the me
chanics and laborers further down the
street. The Dwytr & Ingel firm of rail
road contractor had made a requisition
at both places for at least three hundred
workmen aud ns many more as wished
to come to help grade anew branch of
the Pennsylvania line near Miliviiie, a
short distance from Homestead. The
boon was readily accepted, chiefly by
uuskilled workmen, and the vicinity of
the Carnegie offices presented a more de*
t.-rtal apfsear u.ee than ever.
The Death Rate Appalling.
A St. Petersburg correspondent of the
London Times says: An official bulletin
announces that 2,042 cast s of cholera and
1,302 deaths from the disease occurred
in Russia on the 21st, 22d and 23d in
stant. These figures include statisti s
for Viatua in European Russia, where
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JACKSON, GA.. FRIDAY. JULY 2!), 1892.
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What is Being Done in Congressional
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PROCEEDINGS FROM DAT TO DAY BRIEFLY
TOLD —BILLS AND MEASURES UNDER
CONSIDERATION—OTHER NOTES.
THE HOUSE.
Thcrsday. —Tb regular order in the
house was the motion of Mr. Warner to
lay on the table the bill called up by Mr.
Hatch, to provide a uniform standard
classification and grading of wheat, corn,
oats, barley and rye. Opponents of the
measure refrained from voting, thus
breaking a quorum—the vote by letters
being announced 7 to 121. The hour
accorded the committee of agriculture
having expired, the bill resumed its
place on the calendar. Mr. Blount
from the committee on foreign affairs
called up the bill to enforce recipro
cal commercial relations between the
United States and Canada. The bill was
passed without division. Also the bill
granting to the Pensacola Terminal com
pany the right of way through the naval
reservation at Pensacola. Mr. Sayers pre
sented the disagreeing conference report
on the general deficiency appropriation
bill. The main amendments now in dis
pute are those relative to the Indian dep
redation claims. French spoliation claims
&ud Pacific railroad claims. The report
was agreed to, and the amendment
on which no agreement was reached
went over for discussion and action until
Friday at 12:30 o’clock. Mr. H nder
son, of “North Carolina, called up the bill
authorizing the postmaster general to
issue postal fractional notes of the de
nominaiion of $1 and less which shall be
furnished to all postmasters in such sums
as the postmaster general shall deem suf
ficient and shall be so'd at their face
value. Postmasters shall be allowed as
compensation for issuing and paying
postal fractional notes at their respective
offices 1-4 of 1 per cent on the gross
amount thereof. On ordering the pre
vious question no quorum voted, the vote,
standiug yeas 151, nays 7, and the house
adjourned.
Friday. —The house, immediately after
meeting Friday morning, proceeded with
the regular order, which was the call of
committees. The time allowed the post
office committee having expired, with
out action on any measure, the commit
tee on public lands called up a few bills
of little general interest and none of
them succeeded in passing, the filibuster
ing being so strong. Mr. Sayers then
called up the senate amendments to the
general deficiency bill, which have not
yet been agreed upon. One hour was
granted to debate on the subject of In
dian depredations claims, one hour for
French spoliation claims, one hour for
the amendment paying the widows or
legal representatives of deceased mem
bers of congress, half hour for Pacific
railroad claims and ten minutes
for the item relative to the
salary of the assistant attorney
general in charge of the Indian depreda
tion claims. The amendments relative to
the claim of the Pacific railroads and for
the payment of the assistant attorney
general were non-concurred in. An
amendment was adopted to the senate
paragraph relating to the payment to
widows of deceased representatives. The
amendment specifi s the persons to whom
the various amounts may be paid, and
provides that the legal representatives
shall be paid the balance of the salary to
which the member would have been en
titled, deducting mileage. The next
amendment relates to the French spolia
tion claim amendment, but before the
houe had disposed of it the hour of 5
o'clock arrived, and a recess was taken
until 8 o’clock, the evening session to be
for the consideration of private pension
bills.
Saturday. - The house resumed con
sideration of the senate amendment to the
general deficiency appropriation bill. The
pending amendment was that relative to
the French spoliation claims. It was
non-concurred in.
Monday,—lq the house, Monday, Mr.
Wheeler, of Michigan, called up a9 spe
cial order the report of the committee
investigating the workings of the pen
sion office. Mr. Little, of New York,
took the floor in advocacy of the mijori
ty resoluiion, which give it as the judg
ment of the house that the president
should remove Raum. He believed that
the present administration of the pension
bureau was unfortunately one of the few
dark pages that had occurred in connec
tion with departmental management. He
believed it to be a political and moral
crime to permit such management to
continue. Mr. Lind, of Minnesota,
in opposing the resolution, turned
his attention chiefly to repre
sentative Cooper, of Indiana, and the
part Mr. Cooper bore in the investiga
tion. Mr. Enloe, one of the authors of
the investigation resolution, spoke in fa
vor of the report. The debate was in
terrupted at th’s time by Mr. Sayers,
who submitted the disagreeing report on
the general deficiency appropriation bill,
and the report was agreed to. Mr. Hol
man then moved that the house recede
from its amendment granting to widows,
or legal representatives of deceased mem
bers, the balance of the salary which
such members would have received.
No action was taken and the house ad
journed.
Tuesday.— The house resumed consid
eration of the general deficiency bill, tho
pending question being on the motion
made by Mr. Hayes, of lowa, to reconsid
er the vote by which the house refused
to table the amendment for payment of
widows, etc. The house ret used—yeas
81, nays 109—to reconsider the vote. Af
ter seme time spent in filibustering, the
bill was sent bark to conference, Mr.
Ho'raan presented the disagreeing report
on the sundrv civil appropriation bill
and immediatelv -demanded the previous
question on the report. It was ordered
and then there was half an hour’s debate
upon the conference report as far as it
recommended an agreement. Then came
up the world’s fair amendments, and Mr.
Holman gave no'ice that on Wednesday
he would demand the previous question
upon the main proposTinn and amend
ments thereto. Mr Bankh°ad was the
first member to offer an amendment, and
this amendment was to reduce from $5,-
000,000 to $5 the apnropriation for the
world’s fair. Mr. Outhwaite opposed
the anpropriatun made by the
bill. He denounced the appropria
tion of $5,000 000 for the fair as the
most piece of legislation ever
attempted in the house. Then came as
an interruption another conference report
on the general deficiency appropriation
bill. was agreed to and the
house resumed consideration of the sun
dry civil Dill. Mr. Wheeler, of Ala
bama, was recognized and continued his
remarks in a discussion of the force bill.
Mr. Otis, of Kansas, made a free silver
and Farmers’ Alliance speech. Messrs.
Taylor and Wike, of Illiuois, and Boat
ner, of Louisiana, in brief remarks fa
vored the appropriation. Mr. O’Neill, of
Pennsylvania, thought the appropriation
should not be a gift, but a loan. The
house then adjourned.
THE SENATE.
Thursday —ln the senate, the dis
agreeing conference leport on the defi
ciency appropriation bill was presented,
agreed to and anew conference asked.
House amendments to the senate bill for
the establishment of additional aids to
navigation at Tempa, Fla., were dis
agreed to and a conference was asked.
Mr. Carey, from the committee on terri
tories, reported back the house bill for
the admission of New Mexico as a state
and said that he would not call it up
until next session. 'The anti-option bill
was taken up and Mr. Washburn, in
charge of it, moved to strike out section
12, which he said he had never regarded
as essential. It required every man
who possessed property which he
sold and who dealt in futures to take out
a license and keep a record. No action
wis taken on the amendment, and Mr.
Daniel proceeded with his argument
against the bill, which he had begun
Wednesday. Mr. White, of Louisiana,
next addressed the senate in opposition
the anti-option bill. Mr. White’s
speech was a passionate aud ener
getic arraignment of the bill as a usurp
ation of state’s rights, as detrimental
to the interests of the producers of the
country. Mr. White did not couclude
his speech, but the bill went over to Fri
day. The house bill to enforce reciprocal
commercial relations with Canada was
laid before the senate and was placed on
the calendar. The bills were passed
granting pensions to survivors of the
ludian war of 1832 to 1842, inclusive.
The senate amendments to this bill were
all withdrawn. The bill to provide for
the improvement of the outer bar of
Brunswick, G<t., passed. The senate then
adjourned after a brief executive session.
Friday. —The resolutions offered
Thursday by Mr. Peffer, in the senate,
instructing the judiciary committee to
inquire into the relations of employes
and employers, was taken up Friday
Morning aud Mr. Peffer addressed the
senate in its support. Mr. Peffer argued
there was but three ways to meet labor
tr< übles. One was for the government
to keep its hands off and let employers
and employes settle the matter between
themselves; the second was for the gov
ernment to establish and regulate the
rate of wages; the third was that the
government take possession of private
manufacturing establishments and con
duct them as public institutions. Mr.
Pt flier’s preference ‘was for the first
named method. At the close of his re
marks, the resolution was referred to the
Cnmmittee on education and labor. The
res <lution heretofore offered by Mr.
Yoorhees, looking to the establishment
of a tribunal of arbitration in labor ques
tions, was then taken up and Mr. Call
addressed the senate in support of it.
He argued that the employment of the
Pinkerton detective force was a violation
of law, and of the constitution, and that
any man should be indicted for raising
tro >ps at his own sweet will and pleasure
without 'he sanction of the courts or of
the authorities of the country. No action
was taken on the resolution which went
back to the table. The anti-option bill
was then taken up at 2:15 o’clock and
Mr. White resumed his argument begun
Thursday in opposition to it. There was,
Mr. White said, a concensus of opinion
on the part of the great commercial bod
ies of the country against the measure.
In proof of this he sent to the clerk’s
desk and had read resolutions of the
Chamber of Commerce of the state
of New York, protesting against it
as injurious to the best interests of the
community. He also sent up and had
read protests of bankers of New York,
Chicago and New Orleans against the
bill. He also sent up and had read a list
of other bodies that had sent memorials
to congress against the bill. That list
comprised New York, New Orleans, Sa
vannah, Houston, Mobile, Greenville and
Memphis cotton exchanges, Milwaukee
chamber of commerce, Chicago board of
trade, New York produce exchange,
New Orleans board of trade, New Orleans
cleaving house association, bankers, mill
ers and merchants of Toledo, Ohio; Bal
timore corn snd flour exchange, Chicago
merchants and manufacturers, and Min
neapolis clearing house association, busi
ness union and chamber of commerce.
Were these great associations, he asked,
mere bodies of degraded and abandoned
gamblers? And yet that was the inevit
able outcome of arguments in support of
the bill. Mr. White spoke for nearly
three hours and when he closed the bill
went over without action till Saturday.
Mr. Davis asked and obtained unanimous
consent to have taken up for immediate
action the house bill to enforce reciprocal
commercial arrangements between the
United States and Canada. It was taken
up, read and passed without any explana
tion and without division. (It is the
Canada canal tolls retaliation bill.) The
house bill to pay the state of South Caro
lina money to which she is entitled under
the agricultural college bill, was reported
acd passed. The senate then adjourned.
Saturday. —ln the senate, Saturday,
Mr. Morgan introduced a bill to
provide for the control of the Union
and Central Pacific railroad com
panies until their debts to the govern
ment be fully paid up or secured. It
was referred to a select committee on Pa
cific railroads. The house bill granting
right of wav to the Pensacola Terminal
company through lands of the naval res
ervation near Pensacola, was granted.
Monday. —ln the senate, Monday, Mr.
Vest introduced a joint resolution author
izing the president to proffer to Great
Britain, Germany and France as an in
ducement to enter into an international
agreement for the free coinage cf silver,
a reduction of 25 per cent in tariff duties
on textiles, hardware, earthenware and
glass. Laid on the table. The anti
optious bid was then taken up. Mr.
George addressed the senate. At
2 o’clock Mr. George yielded
the floor temporarily at the re
quest of Mr. Allison, who presented the
conference report on the sundry civil ap
propriation bill. The report, although
referring to amendments of the bill by
numbers, covered many pages of type
written paper, and its reading occupied
twenty-five minutes. Mr. Allison made
an explanation of the conference report,
stating that, outside of the provisions
about the world’s fair, there was but oue
other matter left open, the provision in
serted by the house, prohibiting the em
ployment of Pinkerton detectives. He
went somewhat into detail upon other
points, on which the senate conferees had
surrendered. The report was agreed to,
and a lur ner coulercuce was asked as to
the points on which there had been no
agreement. The senate voted to
insist on its amendments agreed
to by the house, and asked
for a further conference, and then, at 3
o’clock p. m., the stnato went into execu
tve se sion. After the doors were re
opened and some uuimportant business
had been transacted, Mr. George resumed
the floor, and held it until 5:<;0 o’clock,
his speech being an argument in favor ot
his own substitute for the anti-option
bill. After a short executive se-sion, the
senate, at 5 :55 o’clock, adjourned.
Tuesday —As soon as the journal of
Monday was read and a few depart
ment and communications laid before the
senate by its president pro tern., Mr.
Manderson, a motion was made by Mr.
Quay to go into executive session for the
purpose of coniid ring the nomination of
justice of the supreme court. The mo
tion was agreed to and within the brief
space of five minutes the doors were re
opened, the nomination of Mr. Shiras as
justice of the supreme court of the United
States having been confirmed. The pre
siding officer at 1 o’clock laid before the
senate Mr. Hale’s r. solution as to the re
lative effects of the republican policy of
“protection” and the democratic policy
of “tariff for revenue only,” and Mr.
Aldrich proceeded to address the senate
on that subject, making a strong protec
tion speech. Mr. Vest followed immedi
ately on the opposite side of the question.
The debate was interrupted in order to per
mit the conference report on the general
deficiency bill to be presented. The
reading of the report showed that the
conferees had agreed to modify the sen
ate amendment as to payment for govern
ment transportation on Pacific railroads.
Other senators came into the debate,
which lasted four or five hours. Mr.
Hale’s resolution was then laid on the
table. The anti-option bill was laid be
fore the senate as unfinished business and
it went over till Wednesday. The house
bill granting a pension of $l2 a month to
army nurses was taken up from the cal
endar and passed with amendments and
a conference asked. After a short exec
utive session the senate at 6:10 o’clock
adjourned.
NOTES.
The world’s fair people have done
some good work in the house within the
last few days, and the indications are
that when the $5,000,000 appropriation
is voted on again they will have a ma
jority of the house.
The president on Tuesday, nominated
A. Burton Hepburn, of New York, to be
comptroller of the currency, vice Lacey,
having resigned. Mr. Hepburn is at
present nat.onal bank examiner in New
York city. Previous to receiving that
appointment be was superintendent of
state banks in New York state.
The senate, on Friday, confirmed the
nomination of Ministers White to Russia,
Snowden to Spain and Beale to Greece,
Routnania and Servia, all nominated
Thursday. Cyrus W. Field, son of the re
cently deceased C yrus W. Field, who
was nominated consul to Brunswick,
Germany, was also confirmed.
DUN’S REPORT.
Trade for the Past Week Very En
couraging.
Dun & Co.’a weekly review says:
There is a distinct improvement not only
in transactions in comparison with the
same time last year, but also in pros
pects fur ihe coining season. In the cot
ton market a decline of a sixteenth oc
curred with sales of 500,000 balen in
the week. O .ving to the continued large
receipts and improved crop prospects,
cotton mills are actively employed >nd
orders will keep the woolen milis ciowded
for some time to come, while boot and
sh'e makers are full, rubber works
busy, lerther firm and w>ol freely
bought by manufacturers, sales reach
iug 5,400,000 pounds for the week.
At Philadelphia trade in most lines is
fair but more firm in manufactured iron,
while wool sales are large and the gro
eery trade is excellent for the season. In
dry goods customers are still cautiou,
but more activity is seen.
Manufactured iron is stiffened at Pitts
burg by the closing of many mills, and
trade at Cleveland is pushing beyond its
capacity with som; advance in structural
iron.
The clothing trade at Cincinnati in
creases with orders from the south.
Louisville trade is fair with excellent
prospects, but at other southern points
seasonable dullness appears,
R rin is reported to hive slightly affect
ed cotton about Savannah and consider
able improvement in trade is soen at New
Orleans, though sugar is strong an 1 rice
firm.
PRODUCTION OB’ IRON.
Official reports make the production of
iron for the first half of 1892 4,799,056
gross tons against $3,358,107 for the first
half of 1891. and in :he year ending with
June 9,710,819 gross ton3 against 8,279,-
870 the previous year. Unsold stock
148.021 tons for the half year, but only
10 255 tons for the last quarter. Soulh
irn s i es depress the prices of pig, but
bar, plate and structural iron are very
active and temporarily higher.
Merchandise exports in three weeks of
July are only half of 1 per cent, larger
than last year, while in imports a large
increase appears.
Business failures occurring throughout
the country during last week number for
the United States, 168; for*the corre
sponding week of last year, 231.
NUMBER 29.
THE SOUTH IN BRIEF
The News of Her Progress Porfrayel in
Pithy and Pointed Paragraphs
AND A COMPLETE EPITOME OF HAPPEN
INGS OF GENERAL INTEREST FROM DAY
TO DAY WITHIN HER BORDERS.
The two young men, W. E. Turner
and J. H. Gale, who robbed the City
Savings bauk of Nashville, Tenn., a few
weeks ago of $13,000 while employed as
clerks in that bank and skipped for Mex
ico, were brought b ck to Nashville
Tuesday morning from Sdtillo, Mex.
A Chattanooga dispatch says: The
Southern Dental Association and Tennes
see Deutal Association were called to
order at Lookout Inn Tuesday morning
with 275 delegates in attendance. Many
noted men of national reputation were
present. The addr< ss of President Gor
don White, of Nashville, created a sen
sation. Ho handled dental quacks •w ith
out gloves.
A Memphis telegram of Monday states
that the continued heavy rains, lasting
over two week-', which terminated ten
days ago, followed by drought and ex
cessively hot weather, have seriously
damaged the cotton crop in that section
and unless rain should come within tlio
next week a great deal of the product
will be rendered about worthless.
A RaUigh, N. C., dispatch says: The
political sensation is the publication on
Monday of a long address to the people,
signed by Dr. John J. Mott, for years
chairman of the state executive committee
of the third party. It is a formal propo
sition for a fusion of the republican party
and the third party on the state ticker,
and the congressmen put up by the latter
party.
W. L. Cabbell, of the trans-Missis
sippi division of the United Confederate
Veterans, has announced a meeting for
September 17th, at Raleigh, N. I'., of
the committee appointed at the reuuion
in New Orleans a few months ago to
cousider the matter of a monument to
ex-Presideat Jefferson Davis. The com
mittee will meet with the Tefferson Davis
Monument Association. The committee
cousists of one person from each Confed
erate state.
An engine, tender and seven loaded
b x cars were wrecked Sunday near Drif
ton, Fla., on the Florida Central and
Peninsular railroad, by a mixed train
running into a bad washout. A colored
fireman was killed and other train hands
more or less injured. The train was
bound east Ur Jacksonville. No passen
gers were hurt. Recent rains have
flooded nearly 100 miles of the Florida
Central aud Peninsular track, between
Tallahassee and Baldwin.
Fire broke out at Anthony, Fla., at 4
o’clock Sunday morning in Stripling &
Boyd’s store, which was completely de
stroyed; and also the store of Stewart &
Baskin. Loss about fif een thousand
dollars; insurance, $4,500. Stripling &
Boyd’s safe was found to have been tam
pered with and tbe postoffice safe in an
other building had also been broken
open. A gang of burglars had evidently
been at work unsuccessfully and set fire
to the building.
A dispatch from San Diego, Cal., says:
A month ago S. J. Breedlove and C. H.
Bret dlove, father and son, and Farnum
T. Fish, of Philadelphia, started on a
prospecting tour in the Cocopah moun
tains. Friday the bodies of Fish and S.
J. Breedlove were found in a canyon of
the Cocop ih mountains, ad the bodies
of two muies. The indications are that
the younger Breedlove mounted a third
mule and endeavored to escape, but
perished from thirst in the desert.
A great sensation was created in Den
ver, Col., shortly after midnight Satur
day night by bringing into t'wn J. H.
Cross and J. Daniels, charged as princi
pal and accomplice in the robbery of
David H. Moffat, president of the First
National bank, of Denv. r. On March
29, 1889, a daring robber entered the
F,rst National bank in broad daylight
and. at the point of a revolver forced
Moffat to give up $21,000 with which
the thief made good his escape.
The railway commission of North Caro
lina, on Saturday, completed the table,
showing tbe various railroad lines.
There are seventy of these, and the total
length is about 3,548 miles. The rail
way commission received notice from
General Agent A B. Andrews, of the
Richmond and Danville, that anew
freight and passenger depot would be
built at once at Gastonia, The commis
sioner of that town had made complaint
that the present accommodations were
inadequate, and the commission notified
Colonel Andrews of this fact.
Advices from Wheeling, W. Ya., state
that a severe storm which passed over
that portion of the country Sunday
night was more disastrous in its results
than was at first described. In Marshall
county, a lew miles irom Wheeling, an
entire family of nine persons is reported
to have been swept away from the face of
the earth by the sudden flood following
the cloudburst. The family consisted of
William Doty and wife, three children,
Doty’s father and mother, Mrs. Doty’s
mother and a servant girl. The house
was s tuated in a ravine, not one of the
sleeping occupants being saved.
FROM ST. JOHNS.
Deplorable State of Affairs in the
Ruined City.
A dispatch of Tuesday from Halifax,
N. S., snys: The latest information from
St. Johns, N. F., states that the militia
stiil parade the streets to maintain order
and prevent incendiarism. The condi
tion of the inhabitants of the western
that is the preserved—section of the city
is by them considered more deplorable
than the majority of those who suf
fered. In consequence of this mis
taken impression some of‘ the most
indigent of the western part are act
ually trying to burn their few build
ings that they may participate in the re
lief contribution. Fully 7,000 persons
are encamped in indescribable confusion
on the large fields, their housing being to
the greater number the worst feature
there is at present. There is no want of
clothing or food. The comiDg fall and
winter, however, will, it is feared, realize
the famine that succeeded the least.