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ITalf qflozon of
dressed tho committee, setting for tlx
in dota| the reasons why tho govern¬
ment siould establish such a university
at thofcapital of the nation.
Tho Garden Seed Row.
Coigressmon are very much annoy¬
ed o'jpr the hundreds of applications
Theff fhej^get djrrnHttAwuts from homo do for not garden understand Beedf-.
that tuo government no longer fur
nisheslseed for distribution. Hereto-
fore distributed $}30,000 worth of seed have been
annually among the con¬
gressman to bo scut to their constitu¬
ents. nt last fall Secretary of Agri-
culture Morton took it upon himself
to abolish the seed division of this de¬
partment, Tho congressmen have
raised a great row about it, and a res¬
olution instructing Mr. Morton to buy
seed has passed the house. It is now
pending in tho senate. But should it
pass now no seed for distribution could
be gotten until next fall. It is useless
for the people to annoy their congress¬
men with requests for seed. They can
get none, because there aro none.
Canadian Sealers’ Claims.
The suggestion for tho settlement
of the claims of Canadian sealers
seized prior to the sitting of tho Paris
tribunal of arbitration through the
appointmeut of u commission have
been approved by the British govern-
meat audits acceptance was formally
laid before Secretary Olney last Sat-
nr day by Julian Pauncefote, tho
British ambassador. The next move
in tho matter will bo submission
of the plan agreed upon between the
two governments for its approval. It
is understood that the president of the
Swiss republic has expressed a willing-
ness to act as umpire of tho commis-
sion or to appoint a representative if
ho be asked to occupy t^nt position by
the two arbitrators, one American and
ouo British, who aro given the right
under tho arrangement to select an
umpire. Tho British government de¬
layed its approval of tho plan until tho
Swiss presi lent could bo heard from.
Daniel on Monroe Doctrine.
Senator Daniel spoke in the senate
Thursday on the Monroe doctrine. Ho
said that least of all the nations of the
earth could Great Britain fitly object
to the assertion of tho Monroo doc¬
trine by tho United States, for in the
language of Edward Everett, it was
announced not merely with the appro¬
val of the British minister of foreign
affairs, but had his earnest and oft-re¬
peated solicitation.
Least of all nations did it become
her to contend that it was not recog-
nized is international law, because it
was not founded on the general con-
sent of nations, for Great Britain her¬
self invoked the United States to its
utterance, not only without tho con-
sent, but against tho strong menaces
of France, Austria and Prussia.
Lenst of all tho nations could Great
Britain fairly controvert that govern-
mental policy which underlies the
Monroe doctrine, for she, foremost and
most conspicuously of all nations, had
interveued in the affairs of the world
at large, not only whenever her peace
and safety were remotely involved, but
also wherever and whenever capita
between 1 and 2 o’clock Saturday morn¬
ing.
Her passenger list is a large one.
Hho also has on board $1,300,000 in
specie, and 200 bags of mail.
Tho vessel struck head-on on a sand¬
bar, about a quarter of mile from the
Iron Pier. Her nose ran about 100
feet in tho sand before her engines
could be stopped.
Sho sailed from Southampton on
January 18 aucl was in charge of Cap¬
tain Jamison.
At tho timo the St. Paul ran ashore
it is said that there was only four feet
of water over the bar. Some of tho
old seamen along tho shore say that
the vessel may not be floated for sev¬
eral days. Sho is imbedded in about
six feet of sand.
NOW DEADLOCKED.
Result of the Third Ballot in Ken¬
tucky’s Senatorial Race.
Tho third ballot in the senatorial
raco at Frankfort, Kv., Friday, re¬
sulted in a deadlock. There was wild
excitement among the Hunter faction
during tho latter part of the joint ses-
sion, when it was discovered that
Populist Poor was not in the joint
tsession.
As it was the ballot resulted as fol-
lows: Hunter/ 67; Blackburn, 58;
McCrary, 4; Buckner, 2; Willson, 1;
Hazelrig, 1; Carlisle, 1.
A sensation was caused by the np-
psarauce of ex-Governor John Young
Brown on tho scene. Several mysto-
r ious caucuses were held at his head-
quarters and his entrance into the race
j s looked for. Then,too, Congressman
Evans has suddenly wired that he
would be on hand,
This is accepted as an indication
that Congressmen Lewis and Colson,
who are now in Washington, had re-
ported that things were ripe for his
appearance at the state capitol and
that Hunter could be forced from tho
fight.
M’LAURIN INSTALLED
As Mississippi’s Governor, with Ap¬
propriate Ceremonies.
Tho ceremonies attending the inau¬
gural of Hon. A. J. McLaurin, as gov¬
ernor of Mississippi, which took place
at Jackson last Tuesday, were the
most imposing ever witnessed in the
history of the state.
It was a big event in the history of
Jackson, in spite of a downpour of
rain and six inches deep of mud.
Twenty odd companies of the Nation-
al guards of tho state were in line with
bauds of music playing and gay ban-
tiers flying. The program was to have
the oath of office administered to
Governor McLaurin on a plat-
form in the open air, but on account
°f tho rain this ceremony was per-
formed in the house of representa-
fives, which was packed to overflow-
D’g- The only recommendation in the
governor’s speech was for a deep
"water harbor on the M’ssis-
sippi gulf coast. The new gov-
eruor held a public reception
at the mansion at night, and the visit-
ing militia were given a grand ball at
Lfisk hali.
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cott’s s t
The pation galleries cf the were speech we^nxmTi fpf the Colorado
senator. Most of the:senators consti-
tuting the committee on foreign rela-
tions were present. After referring to
the message of President Cleveland on
£L i question and the ap-
pointment o f the commission to en-
lighten the country as to the true
divisional line regarding Venezuela
and British Guiana, the senator said:
“The few remarks I shall make will
be chiefly to the effect that the so-
called Monroe doctrine has been mis-
applied in the pending controversy,
that so much of President Monroe s
message as referred to the colonization
of portions of America by European
powers could have no applicability to
any boundary dispute now existing in
South America; that the Monroe doc-
trine was in no wise intended as insist-
ing upon representative forms of gov¬
ernment in this hemisphere or as com¬
mitting this government tq maintain
the doctrine outside its own borders or
except as its own integrity might bo
affected; that this country is embark-
ing upon a new and different policy
from the one laid down by our fathers,
ami that from 1821 until now,congress
has uniformly declined to define the
so-called Monroe doctrine or to accept
it as « rule of action,
“There ha, been much tension for
tho past few weeks. The letter of the
secretary of state to Bayard was, trom
a diplomatic standpoint of view,almost
incendiary. Tho president's message
glowed with the possibilities of war.
“The South American republics
wore entitled to our friendly and af-
fectionato regard. As citizens of a
sister republic we owe them protec-
tion wherever the interests of free
government or tho cause of civiliza¬
tion was attacked by assault upon
their autonomy. Beyond that our
obligation ceases.”
The diplomatic correspondence on
our side w-as, the senator thought, un¬
necessarily irritating and the message
of the president ill-advised. There
would bo no war and it would be
avoided not because our position to¬
ward Great Britain in her dispute with
Venezuela is tenable but because Great
Britain will yield the whole contro-
v( rsy rather than face the horrors of
war over such a question.
Mr. Sherman, republican, Ohio, re¬
ported adversely from the foreign re¬
lations committee the resolution of
Mr. Call, democrat, Florida, directing
ilie secretary of state to send to the
senate the dispatches of United States
consuls in Cuba. The resolution was
about to bo indefinitely postponed,but
at Mr. Call’s request it was placed on
the calendar.
Mr. Mills, democrat, Texas, intro¬
duced a bill in the senate Thursday
to repeal the refundingact of 1870 and
the specie payment resumption act of
1875. Mr. Mills said he would callup
the bill Friday and seek a vote on it.
A resolution offered by Mr. Perkins,
of California, was agreed to, request¬
ing the secretary of the interior to fur¬
nish information as to the extent of
the illicit traffic in liquor in Alaska
nud to suggest remedial legislation.
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ft g rea t f ree nation^^^^^xhe duty of
the United States to express its official
repudiation and protest against the
course G f Turkey,
Mr Frye> republican, Maine, took
th e £i yor f or a B p eec h of such vehe-
juence that the galleries quickly filled
to overflowing and ho was repeatedly
interrupted by long continued ap-
plause. Mr. Call offered a radical
resolution demanding that by either
p eace f u \ negotiation or force of arms
t p e Armenian atrocities bo stopped,
r F j ie rceo i u tion wa . 3 defeated without
division and the resolution reported by
tfie committee on foreign relations
p aese j unanimously,
MONEY OBJECTS TO MONROE.
Says America Should Avoid all Possi¬
bility of War.
A special from Jackson, Miss., says:
In accepting the nomination as United
States senator Colonel Money arraigned
himself in direct opposition to Govern¬
or McLaurin on the Venezuelan con-
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. things, , he said: ., “As ...
a “ embe r o£ tbc »«mmittee of foreign
Uave . b<L™ conservative
ln °" r fore £“ P? 1,0 f> 1 ho ! d ,be
. Oeorgc Washington . his farewell
m
ad<3res "' to bave ? h “ aceB but com-
Jefferson, T ™ m . ’, his . second . annual ,
mes-
s“ge, to avoid all entangling alliances,
f fouml 8 “ , self-governing it to profit people and happiness we have
our
to attend strictly to our own business
»»?. w,th «*« to interfere ^aliens m of any any respect other
coun,r 5'- 1 8t aDd for a P ol “J t llat
plenty . and high .
means peace, prices
for our produets; that will keep open
to us the markets of the world and
promote commerce and good feeling
with other nations. I shall not yield
to the war spirit that seems to have
swept like a wave over tho nation.
Our people have war-like instincts and
are jealous of the natioual honor and
can be too readily induced in their
generosity to interfere in affairs when
their protection is invoked,
“In my judgment tho most unhappy
consequences would follow a war be¬
tween our country and Great Britain,
the two English speaking nations*
We are descended from them and have
their blood, their language, their lit¬
erature, their religion and are con¬
nected by a thousand business and so¬
cial ties. They are our best custom¬
ers, and close relation with them will
not only insure to us and them per¬
petual peace as between ourselves, but
will also be a guarantee of peace to tho
world.
“With the United States and Great
Britain determined upon peace no
other nation is m rful enough to
make war with ai er if they for Bill
it.”
Madagascar Bel <*lgs to the French.
It is announced that by the terms of
a treaty signed January 18, the island
of Madagascar is declared a French
possession.
. esi-
HBHBp^spoech UPMTFions tho com-
announced its
" !o report and did so. Tho
of overproduction and unsystematic
marketing of the cotton crop, and re¬
solves “that we call the attention of
southern cotton growers to the fact
that they are masters of the situation.
The crop of 1895 being less than seven
million bales, renders it entirely fea¬
sible, by a further reasonable reduc¬
tion of acreage during the present
year, to materially advance the value
of cotton aod thus insure a safe and
substantial profit that cannot fail to
bring increased prosperity to the
south, not only as the immediate re¬
sult of such profit, but by enhancing
the value of our lands and turning
hither the tide of immigration, much
needed for the development of the
great natural resources of this favored
section.
“We earnestly urge all producers o
cotton to take advantage of this sud¬
den opportunity and to continue the
wise policy adopted during the past
season of making the south self-sup¬
porting by first producing an abund¬
ant supply of corn, hay, meat and
other like commodities for home con¬
sumption, decreasing the cotton acre¬
age still- further for the matter of
prime importance, thus guarding
against the dangers of overproduction
and leaving the cotton as a surplus
crop.”
Other resolutions were reported,
making the American Cotton Growers’
Association permanent, instructing the
president and executive committee to
move energetically against every dis¬
position to increase acreage, and pro¬
viding for permanent officers from each
cotton growing state.
A committee to formulate an ad¬
dress to agriculturists was also ap
pointed, to prepare and promulgate it,
after which the convention adjourned
sine die.
The Address Promulgated.
The committee appointed to prepare
an address to the cotton planters of
the world, gave out the following late
Tuesday night:
“To the Cotton Growers of America:
The Cotton Growers’ Protective Asso¬
ciation of America, in convention as¬
sembled at Memphis, Tenn., on this
21st day of January, 1896, again come
to you with an urgent appeal for co¬
operative action in planting the crop
for 1896.
“It is a matter of extreme congratu¬
lation that the appeal made to you last
year was so generally responded to
and that the crop of 1895 was made
upon the diminished acreage and
had the effect of greatly increasing the
price and bringing prosperity to the
country. The crop of 1895, though
estimated to be 3,400,000 bales short
of the crop of 1894, was in the markets
of the world worth more by nearly
$30,000,006. In the face of this re¬
sult, to abandon the idea of diminished
acreage, would be to sound the retreat
in the face of victory. It is the con¬
census of opinion among the beet
thinkers that if by any means the cot¬
ton crop of America could be held
within the limit of 7,000,000 bales per
annum for ten years the people of the
southern states would be the richest
iieve in higher prices, outhern cot-
ton mills are all doing well, are work¬
ing to their utmost capacity and find
ready markets for their outputs.
Prices are not high, but remain quite
steady. The reports of new textilo
mills for tho week iuclu.de a $100,000
cotton mill at Beaufort, S. C., a 20,-
000 spindle mill at Selma, Ala., and
others at Statham, Ga., and Greer’s
Depot, S. C.
The change in prices in the iron ore
and coal mining districts went i$to
operation quietly, and business con¬
tinues fair. Some iron is accumulat¬
ing, but a firmer tone of the market is
reported. Coal miners are doing a
large business in all the coal mining
sections of tho southern states.
Among the important new industries
incorporated or established iu the
southern states during tho week are:
Tho Pigeon Mountain Lumber and
Mining Company, of LuFayette, Ala.,
capital $100,000; the Funston Marblo,
Granite and Stone Company, of Little
Rock, Ark., with $80,000 capital; the
Samuel Colcord Company, of Waco,
Texas, also with $80,000 capital, and a
$40,000 foundry and machine shop at
Shreveport, La.
There is also reported a canning
factory at Nashville, Tenn., cement
works at Brownstown, Ark., cotton
delintiug works at Charleston, S. C.,
and electric lighting plants at Tuscutn-
bia, Ala., and Kinston, N. C. New
flour and grist mills are to be built at
Center Point and O’Kean, Ark., and
Hartsville, Tenn. ; mines are being
opened at Eureka Springe, Ark.,
Canton, Ga., and an oil mill and re¬
finery is to be built at Dublin, Texas,
and new waterworks at Tuscumbia,
Ala., Green Cove Springs, Fla., and
Greenville, Miss. The woodworking
plants for the week are at Eufaula,
Mobile and Yellow Pine, Ala., South
Washington, N. C., Chattanooga and
Hartsville, Tenn., and Yelasco, Texas.
Enlargements of industrial plants
for the week include brick works at
Ocean Springe, Mies., an iron furnace
at Max Meadows, Va., foundries and
machine shops at Donaldsonville, La.,
and Knoxville, Tenn., cotton mills at
Raleu-b, N. C., Bamberg, S. C., and a
woolen mill at Kingsport, Tenn., a
woodworking plant at Huntsville, Ala.,
and a cooperage at Montgomery, Ala.
Among new buildings aro business
houses at Atlanta, Ga., West Palm
Beach, Fla., Beaumont and Edna,
Tex., a $6,000 church at Gainesville,
Fla., and a $10,000 one at Orangeburg,
S. C., a $75,000 railway freight station
at Atlanta, Ga., and a $12,000 school
building at Palestine, Tex.—Trades¬
man (Chattanooga, Tenn.)
NO OFFICIAL RECOGNITION.
Red Cross Society May Be Kept Out
of Asia Minor.
Secretary Olney has received from
Mr. Terrell, United States minister at
Constantinople, a cablegram saying
that while the porte refuses permis¬
sion to the Red Cross, or to members
of the Red Cross as such, to distribute
relief in Armenia, and thereby declines
to officially recognize that society, it
will permit any persons whom Mr.
Terrell names and approves, to dis¬
tribute relief in the interior of Turkey,
provided the Turkish authorities are
kept informed of what they are doing.
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and that othe re DOT fo:
pected. It is estimated by conserva¬
tive royalists that there are at least
15,000 insurgents in the field.
Yellow fever, despite cooler weather,
is said to be causing many deaths at
and near Santiago de Cuba, and the
Spanish soldiers are the worst suffer-
era. The rebels are thoroughly
aroused and if Weyler designs a war¬
fare of butchery Gomez and his aides
will respond with a series of the most
brutal carnage and incendiarism. Tho
entire island will bo laid to waste ami
Havana will be blown up by trusted
spies who will risk their lives to got
through the lines.
BLACKBURN BEHIND.
Fails to Hold the Democratic Vote in
the Kentucky Legislature.
A special from Frankfort, Ivy.,says:
Notwithstanding tho compromise to
postpone tho senatorial ele'ctiou till
next month, both branches of the leg¬
islature balloted Tuesday separately,
as follows:
Senate—Hunter, 15; Blaokburn,lS;
scattering, 3. Blackburn,40
House—Hunter, 52; ;
scattering, 8.
Total—Hunter, 67; Blackburn, 58;
scattering, 11. *
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Blackburn did not hold the demo¬
cratic vote. Poor, the populist, toUM
candidate. for Clarence If F. he Bates, had voted tho for popnlhyj KfA
ter, as expected, the latter would siib
have been one short, as 69 votes are
necessary to a choice.
HEADS TO COME OFF.
Report that the Southern will Reduce
Its Force.
The rumor that there is to be a
general shake up in the traffic depart¬
ment of the Southern railway has been
answered by third vice-president Fin¬
ley as follows:
“There will be no changes in tho
traffic department of the Southern
railway company, except such as may
be made necessary by a system of
economy forced cn us largely by tho
short cotton crop. Whatever may bo
done will not be radical in its charac¬
ter. The exact measures are now be¬
ing considered by the traffic manager.'’
FITZGERALD’S NEW ROAD.
Manager of the Colony Buys tho Ab-
beville and Waycross Line.
Mr. Fitzgerald, manager cf the Fitz¬
gerald colony has closed a trade with
the Georgia and Alabama railway,
transferring the Abbeville and Way-
cross railway to that company. lour
hundred men will complete the road to
Fitzgerald within ten days.
Mr. Tift has a large force on his lino
from Tifton, and that road will
reach Fitzgerald within a few days.
This will give the new colony two
railways. There are seven thousand
people there; seven hotels and a bank.
Mr. VanderblR to Wed.
It is reported in New York that W.
K Vanderbilt, whose divorced wifo
has married Oliver H. P. Belmont,
will wed Miss Amy Bend.
It is better to take a second look
than to love at first sight.