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M. C. GREENE, PUBLISHER.
HIE 54TH CONGRESS.
ROUTINE OF HOUSE AND SENATE
BRIEFLY CHRONICLED.
Summary of Rills and Resolutions
Presented and Acted Upon.
The House.
Tho house, Wednesday, in commit¬
tee of the whole, completed the con¬
sideration of the sundry civil appro¬
priation bill, with the exception of
the provision for the bureau of en¬
graving and printing, whioh Mr.
Bingham, republican, of Pennsylva¬
nia, desires to amend. Before the
bill shall be reported to the house,
there will be an hour’s debate.
The discussion of the bill was inter¬
rupted several times by political in¬
terjections.
Mr. Grosvenor, republican, of Ohio,
charged the Wilson tariff law with be¬
ing responsible for the condition of
the treasury, which forbade many nec¬
essary appropriations from being made.
Mr. Patterson, democrat, of Tennes¬
see, replied, putting the onus of the
present condition upon the republican
party, and the gentleman’s particular
champion, William McKinley. In this
matter, Mr. Patterson said, in answer
to a question, that he appeared as the
representative of the administration of
Grover Cleveland.
Mr. Bowers, republican, of Califor¬
nia, referring to the attack upon silver
men Tuesday, read a series of bur¬
lesque resolutions, declaring the silver
republicans dangerous cranks, who
should be expelled. He asserted, with
much heat, that silver miners and mine
owners had as mnch right to be repre¬
sented on the floor of the house for
the benefit of their interests as had
manufacturers and bankers.
Tho house at 5:15 o’clock adjourned
until Thursday.
For three arid a half hours Thursday
the house indulged in a repetition of
the religious discussion which raged
when the District of Columbia appro¬
priation bill was under discussion,
and, as a result the policy of the
house, ns expressed at that time by a
decided refusal to appropriate money
for the charitablo and benevolent in¬
stitutions of the district, was in effeot
reversed.* The inciting cause of tbe
debate was the amendment to the
sundry civil bill which was adopt¬
ed in committeo of the whole
Vfcd nesday on motion of Mr.
Kentucky, giving How¬
ard university, at Washington, £32,-
000, tho appropriation having been
omitted from the bill by the com¬
mittee reporting it. The amendment
was advocated by Messrs. Bartlett, of
New York ; Sayers, of Texas; Cannon,
of Illinois, and Evans of Kentucky,
and was opposed by Mr. Hanier, of
Nebraska; Mr. McRae, of Arkansas;
Mr. Johnson, of California; Mr. An¬
drews, of Nebraska, and Mr. Living¬
ston, of Georgia. There was a digres¬
sion from the main question when Mr.
Hepburn, of Iowa, responding to the
remarks of Mr. Sayers, charged the
democrats of the south with not only
fniling to provide equal educational
advantages to tho negroes with tho
whites, but with robbing them of their
civil rights.
His statements were vigorously com¬
batted by Mr. Sayers and others.
When the matter got into the house
a yea and nay vote was taken on the
amendment and it was agreed to—yeas
129; nays 105.
This debate practically closed the
consideration of tbe sundry civil ap¬
propriation bill, and no further amend¬
ment of note was made. It was passed
as reported from the committee of the
whole.
Mr. Hitt, of Illinois, reported from
the committee on foreign affairs, the
resolution asking the president to
transmit to congress all correspond¬
ence in the state department since
December 1, 1895, relating to offers of
meditation or intervention by the
United States in the affairs of Vene¬
zuela, and it was agreed to.
The house, at 5.25 adjourned until
Friday.
The galleries of the house were well
filled Friday in anticipation of a re¬
newal of the Cuban debate in connec¬
tion with the presentation of the con¬
ference report on the Cuban resolu¬
tions, but tho attendance on the floor
was smaller than usual. Some pre¬
liminary routine business was trans¬
acted. Mr. Murphy (rep., Ill.) secured
unanimous consent for the oonsilera-
tion of a bill to authorize the con¬
struction of a third bridge across the
Mississippi river at St, Louis.
Mr. Hepburn, chairman of the com¬
mittee on commerce, opposed the bill
on the ground that a third bridge
within a distance of two miles would
greatly impede navigation at St. Louis.
Mr. Murphy and Mr. Joy urged the
passage of the bill because of tho ex¬
cessive tolls charged by the present
bridge company. , Mr. Hepburn main¬
tained that congress had power to pre¬
vent tbe extortion complained of. The
bill was passed. moved the
At 2:20 p. m. Mr. Hitt
adoption of the conference report on
the Cuban resolutions and spoke in ad¬
vocacy thereof.
In the house, at Saturday's session,
Mr. Hitt, of Illinois, called up the
conference report on the Cuban reso¬
lutions, and Mr. Adams, republican, of
Pennsylvania, one of the members of
committee, took the floor. He
his opening remarks to a con¬
sideration of the statement made Fri¬
day that sentiment had changed with
respect to recognizing the belligt rency
of the Cubans since the passage of the
original resolutions In the house.
He denied this. Sentiment on. bis
subject, he said, had not eba-ged
either in congress or among theAroer-
ioan people, and tho only members of
the senate who opposed recognition
now were those who objected when tho
pending resolutions wero beforo that
body. He deprecated the attempt to
create a race prejudice against Cubans,
aud asserted that all the loaders, ex¬
cepting Maoeo, wero whites and not
negroes and mulattos, as has been re¬
ported.
Mr. Gillette, republican, of Massa¬
chusetts, opposed tho resolutions. He
admitted that the overwhelming sen¬
timent of tho house as manifested by
the vote of several weeks ago, proba¬
bly represented public opinion. But
this matter should not be decided by
public opinion, for tho reason that
public opinion was not the law and
right of the case, but should be consid¬
ered only as an expression of sympathy
with the Cubans.
When Mr. Gillette had concluded,
an effort was made by Mr. Hitt to se¬
cure an agreement to close debate, aud
take a vote at 4 o’clock, but a number
desired to speak, aud it was finally ar¬
ranged to debate the report the rest
of the day, including a night session,
and take vote on Monday immmediate-
ly after the reading of the journal.
The debate was interrupted near the
close of the session by Mr. Bartlett,
democrat, of New Yark, uuder a
privileged question, who made an ex¬
planation of his o nnection with the
uow famous circular which formed the
subject of an acrimonious colloquy be¬
tween Messrs. Gibson, republican, of
Tennessee, and Sulzer, democrat, of
New York, in the course of the
debate ou tho Bayard resolutions
several weeks ago. From this it
appeared that the Jfcpy of tho cir¬
cular which Mr. Sulzer exhibited
had been given to Mr. Bartlett from
(lie printer in whose office it had been
printed. He brought into the house,
he said, and it had been passed from
hand to hand until it reached tho gen¬
tleman from New York, Sulzer. Mr.
Bartlett disclaimed any ; connection
with the use of the circular made by
Mr. Sulzer, which was without his
knowledge or consent. Bartlett’s
Mr. Gibson accepted Mr.
disclaimer and withdrew any implica¬
tion upon that gentleman’s connection
with the incident which reflected upon
him in any way.
The houso at 5 p. to. took a recess
until 8 p. m..
There were but six members present
when the house met at night to con¬
sider further the conference report on
the Cuban resolutions. Mr. McCall,
of Massachusetts, presided, The
public galleries were well filled. Mr.
Dockery, democrat, of Missouri, was
the first speaker. He was in hearty
accord with the resolutions. lie felt
that he voiced tbe unanimous senti¬
ment of his people when he wished the
Cubans Godspeed in their efforts to
secure freedom.
Mr. Daniels, republican, of New
York, objected strongly to the second
resolution, although believing that the
first resolution was proper enough. He
thought tho two should be divided, and
if not, he believed that the house
should reject them.
Mr. Baker, populist, of Kansas, as¬
serted that the Anglo-Saxon race would
not Stand what the Cubans stood. He
recited wrongs they have suffered at
the hands of Spain and said he would
be glad to vote for o resolution recog¬
nizing their independence.
Mr. Mahon, republican, from Penn-
slyvania, evoked a burst of loud ap¬
plause from the galleries in his denun¬
ciation of the cruelties practiced by
the Spaniards against the Cubans.
Mr. Otey, democrat, of Virginia,
told a number of humorous stories
which created a great deal of laughter
in the galleries and on the floor. He
sympathized with the rebels—he was
one himself, he said. The United
States being free wishes to see every
other country free.
“Wo have a right to express our
opinion about this matter and Spain
cannot object. We express our opin¬
ion about everything,” said he. “Wo
did it recently about Mr. Bayard, but
ho did not resign. We shall do it
about Cuba and Spain will not get
mad, nor will Cuba, either.”
THE SENATE.
Senator Call offered a radical Cuban
joint resolution in the senate Wed¬
nesday directing the sending of an ad¬
equate naval force to Cuba to put an
end to barbarities and to protect
American citizens in their treaty
rights. The president is instructed
to notify Spain that the United States
will forcibly intervene unless murder
and outrage cease. The resolution
went over.
Mr. Butler (Pop,, N. C.) introduced
a bill requiring the acceptance of cur¬
rent legal tender funds in payment of
notes, bonds, or private obligations.
The senator explained that the pur¬
pose of the measure was to put a stop
to gold notes, gold mortgages, etc.,
which were being wrung from the peo¬
ple owing to their dire financial dis¬
tress. Both of the old parties, said
the senator, had favored this plan in
their platforms and this proposed to
make party promises good by a law.
The bill was referred to the finance
committee.
The senate resumed the considera¬
tion of the Delaware election case, and
Mr. George continued his speech be¬
gun Tuesday against the right of Mr.
Dupont to the vacant seat.
Without finishing his argument, Mr.
George, after speaking for three hours
and a half, yielded the floor, with the
remark that he had something more to
say on “this very interesting subject.”
Mr. Ptffer renewed tbe notice that
he would, .at the conclusion of Mr,
George’s speech, ask the senate to take
up the resolution for an inquiry into
tbe facts and circumstances of recent
bond issues. The postoffice appropri¬
ation bill was taken up and briefly
discussed, after which the senate ad¬
journed until Thursday,
GRAY, JONES ( 0„ GA„ THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1891).
In the senate, ' Thursday, Mr.
George, of Mississippi, concluded his
speech against tho report of the com¬
mittee on privileges and eleotions,
doclariDg that Mr. Dupont was duly
and legally eleoted as a sonator from
the state of Delaware. Mr. George’s
argument oocupied in all ton hours’
time. It closed with an assertion
that if Mr. Dupont obtained tho
seat he would bo elected to it, not by
the legislature of Delaware, but by
the senate of the Uuited States. No
action was taken on tho report and it
is very uncertain whou the voto will bo
reached. The remainder of tho day’s
session was taken up in tho dismission
of an amendment to the postoflice ap¬
propriation bill, relating to tho con¬
solidation of suburban poatoflices and
changing them into stations. No re¬
sult was reached aud tho sonate, at
5:40 p. m., adjourned until Monday.
TRADE TOPICS.
Dun & Co.’s Review of Business fat
the Past Week.
Dun A Co. in their reviow of trade
for the past week say :
Tho regular quarterly statement of
failures shows 4,031, with liabilities of
£57,425,135 against 3,802 last year,
with liabilities of £47,813,683. The
improvement expected with spring be¬
gan, though in some bronchos of busi¬
ness scarcely visible. As consumers
mako spring purchases they must less¬
en stocks and compel buying. The
stocks taken in advance of
consumers’ demands last sum-
mer have been distributed far more
slowly than was expected, but months
of waitinh have helped to considerably
lessen the load which it is hoped
spring buying will clear away. The
backward -season has been a hindrance
aud the number of hands unemployed
in important industries and the low
prices of farm products. Apprehen¬
sions of foreign or financial difficul¬
ties have hindered but are now scarce¬
ly felt.
Gold exports are rumored, but at
this season are so far natural that they
have no such power to cause alarm as
they had in winter.
The gigantic steel commission is ex¬
pected to have a great influence in
sustaining markets and stimulating
confidence, and though such opera¬
tions often miss the success they seek,
they rarely fail to kindle speculative
buying for a time. The sudden ad¬
vance of £2 per ton in billets a woek
ago has raised Bessemer pig £1 at
Pittsburg and the demand for struc¬
tural forms increases ia expecta¬
tion that prices will rise, Nail
associations have given notice of an¬
other advance of A 5 cents at the end of
tbe niouth. Bar* Jave been greatly de¬
moralized, but some makers now hope
to re-establish the combination as steel
bars will become dearer. But No.-1
foundry is slightly lower at Philadel¬
phia and the general demand for fin¬
ished products does not yet improve.
Tho steel concerns propose to restrict
production by allotment, those pro¬
ducing more than their share paying
£2 per ton to those who produce less.
Less encouragement appears in the
boot and shoe trade, as buyers hesitate,
though leather is firmly held. The
woolen manufacturer does not gain in
orders and a large part of the machinery
is stopped. Prices of wool have fallen
74 per cent, the average of 104 quota¬
tions being 13.62 cents.
Cotton mills still pile up goods in
advance of orders, as reductions in
prices have failed as yet to stimulate
buying. Speculation in products has
been tame. Cotton continues to como
forward so largely that former predic¬
tions of 6,500,000 bales are remem¬
bered with derision and the outlook
for the next crop continues good.
BOLD, BAD ROBBERS
Hold Up a Train, Crack a Safe and
Capture Boodle.
The eastbound cannon ball tain, No.
6, on tho St. Louis and 'Frisco rail¬
road, was held up three miles east of
Lebanon, Mo., at 1:05 o’clock Wed¬
nesday morning by three masked men
and the safe blown open and robbed.
The robbers boarded tho train ot
Lebanon at 12:60 a. ro., and aftor
reaching the scene of the robbory hold
np the engineer and fireman, stopped
the train, and with tho engineer in
front of them, marched to the express
car. The messenger refused to open
up and the door was blown open with
dynamite, tho safe cracked and its con¬
tents removed.
Tbe brakeman furnished a fair de¬
scription of the men to the officers in
purmit arid the railway officials aro
confident they will be speedily appre¬
hended.
While the amount of money secured
by the robbers is known to have been
considerable, tho local express officials
will not place an estimate on it.
The Wells Fargo officers think the
amount of money secured by the rob¬
bers was only £1,277.
ON A HOT TRAIL.
Posse Close Upon Taylor Delk and
His Gang.
A special from Senoia, Ga., states
that Taylor Delk and his gang eluded
Sunday <
the sheriff’s posse up to dark
evening, although the posse had been
in close pursuit since the early morn¬
ing. Delk left the immediate neigh¬
borhood at 3 o’clock in the morning
and went in the direction of Palmetto.
At one time during the day the posse-
was within one mile of Delk, his son
Tom and Tom Langford.
In the early morning the posse raid¬
ed a house about, three miles from
town where they suspected Delk was
spending the night, but the posse was
just a little too late. Delk left a little
before 3 o’clock, it is thought, and at
4 o’clock was seen to pass through
Bharpsburg, a little place on the rail¬
road between Senoia and Newnan.
lli E JOINT DEBATE.
MESSRS. CRISP AND SMITH DIS¬
CUSS OUR FINANCES.
A Large and Enthusiastic Audience
Encored Them,
Tho great debate between Judge
Crisp and Secretary Smith was opened
nt Augusta Tuesday night. The dis¬
cussion took place in tho opora house,
and it was just 8:25 o’clock when the
curtain went up, exhibiting to tho
groat audience, including many ladies,
200 of the most prominent oitizons of
Augusta and surrounding counties.
Mr. J. J. Doughty, chairman of tho
couuty executive committee,announced
at 8 -.30 o’olock that he took pleasure
in announcing the terms of the debate.
Judge Crisp would kavo ono hour aud
ton minntes, Mr. Smith one hour and
thirty minutes, and Judge Crisp twen¬
ty minutes in eonolusion. Then he
simply anuotiDOod Judge Crisp to the
audience. The agreement in advance
had beon that thore should bo no in-
troduotory speeches.
When Judge Crisp arose ho was lib¬
erally applauded. He opened by stat-
ing that both he and Mr. Smith were
democrats, and whatever happened,
both of them would support the demo¬
cratic norainoo. “We differ,” said he,
“on the financial question; wo differ
as to money. ”
Judge Crisp then began a brief his¬
tory of money, telling how money had
been established, and what were its
uses. Ho told tho history of the es¬
tablishment of the ratio ot 16 to 1 as
between silver and gold. He explained
how it was that Frauoe had established
the ialio of 15J to 1. It was because
we then hud a ratio of 15 to 1. When
France established a higher ratio, the
gold went thore, because it brought
more in silver. Then we changed our
ratio to 16 to 1, anu the gold began to
flow baok. He said that tbe gold men
confounded the standard with curren¬
cy, aud predicted that Mr. Smith
would fall into the same error.
Judge Crisp went into a history of
the demonetization of silvor .by the
groat nations of ,the world. Ho ex¬
plained the alleged rise and fall of de¬
mand of things but mouoy, cud hold
that you could compare money to noth¬
ing could on earth. oompared The demand the'demand fo’^monoy
not be to
for anything else on earth. To 1873,
gold and silver were linkod t .gather.
To that time there had never been any
groa t d ivergence. 1
.
like ical reason why si!v* j| V de¬
monetized in £$73, said be, was to di¬
minish the ,’v of money and in¬
crease the vi. 4 jj that in existence.
To 1873, he said, "yon could pay a bal¬
ance in England in silver bullion, but
tho day after silver was surreptitiously
demonetized in this country, suoh was
not tho case.
Judge Crisp explained that ho spoke
knowingly when ho said “surrepti-,
tiously demonetised,” even tho presi¬
dent who Bigned the bill not knowing
its full purport. No man, said he, in
concluding his explanation of how sil¬
ver was demonetized, could go before
tho country advocating a singlo gold
standard, and expect the support of a
majority of the people.
At the close of Judge Crisp’s speech
ho was enthusiastically applauded.
Secretary Smith’s Speech.
Chairman Doughty immediately in¬
troduced Secretary Smith, and his
friends in the audience determined
that he should have no less enthusias¬
tic greeting than Mr. Crisp. He had
to pause until tho appl&uso ended and
then began as follows:
“You have just listened to a glowing
description of our country’s resources.
My distinguished friend only needed
to complete the picture by saying that
since 1873 tho development in all
lines bus been.twice as great as during
any other like period of its history.
We are here tonight consulting to¬
gether as democrats upon party policy.
When the national convention shall
authoritatively declaro that party
policy, then all differences will bo at
an end among us, and'wo" Will line up
shoulder to shoulder.as democrats and
stand solidly on tho party platform.
(Applause.)
“In opposing free coinage of silver,
I am not fighting silver and do uot
seek to reduce its use or legal tondor
value. I favor all tho gold, silver and
paper that can be kept equally good.”
In answer to the charge that they were ■
seeking to stop the use of silver or to
contract the currency he gavo the
amount oi gold ana silver in circula¬
tion in 1860, in 1875 and in 1895, show¬
ing that the total today is eight timeH
that of 1873, aud that tho per capita
circulation had increased from £18.04
in 1873 to between £23 and £22 in
1895. “We are not trying to contract
the currency and onr 1 silver friends
mislead you, if they make you believe'
wo do not mean to accomplish the uso
of both gold and silver as tlie money
of final payment lor all obligations of
this ‘“Mr. country. Crisp (Applause.)
' talks about my confus¬
ing circulation and standard value,
and his own argument shows that he
entirely misconceives the matter. Cur¬
rency is something which circulates
and furnishes standard the means of exchange,
nit a is a nieasure of values,
and to be a standard it must' perform
the fqnqtioq bad of measuring. Mr. Crisp
says we a' doublo standard prior
to I8'73, iffit what is the use Of a stand¬
ard you do' hot measure by?
“Whenever you coin two metals and
put iato One greater, value than tbe
other you become monometallista on
tho cheaper metal. I am not here to
fight bimetallism, but silver mono¬
metallism— (Applause) — to fight tho
contraction the Hilver men are advo¬
cating.” He said that when this coun¬
try fixed the ratio in 1792, Jefferson
did so after fludiug out the commercial
ratio. “Iboliovoin that kiud of bi¬
metallism. Tho stamp of tho govern¬
ment does not impart tho valuo to the
coin, but simply bears witness that tho
ooin contains a certain amount of val¬
uable metal. Taper money doos not
acquire value from tho stamp of tho
government, but from the govern¬
ment’s promise to redeem it in some¬
thing of value.” (Applause.)
“Jefferson found gold worth fifteen
times as much as silver aud fixed the
ratio nt 15 to 1. Our lattor day states¬
men find gold worth thirty times as
..<■*“1* as silvor, but waut to fix tho
ratio only 16 to 1. Why not 15 to 1,
or 14 to 1, or 10 to 1?”
Ho thon reviewed the history of
financial legislation, showing liow the
ratio had been ohaugod.{iud how ouo
metal had left the oountry at ouo pe¬
riod, and tho othor at a later period.
He declared that wo had silvor rnouo-
motalism up to 1804 aud gold mono¬
metallism afterwards, lie said wo had
been unablo to bring tho two metals
together when they varied only 5 per
oont in value and now ho proposed to
do so when they differed 50 per cent.
“I am opposed to tho trial simply bo-
causo I know they cannot do it.”
“Mr. Crisp snys this idea that we
wero on a gold monometallic basis be¬
fore 1853 is of modern statesmanship,
I will read him from the report of tho
chairman of the ways nnd means com¬
mitteo of tho house of representatives
in 1853, as follows:
(« « Wo knvo had but tho single stand¬
ard for the last throe or four years
and that is gold and wo propose to re¬
main thero.’
“The gontloman has seen fit to
criticise tho courso of the secretary of
tho treasury in his efforts to keep sil¬
ver at a parity with gold. In Franco
they paid not only in whichever metal
the creditor demanded, but would re¬
deem silver with gold; hut in spite of
all this from 1820 to 1850, France had
silver monometallism, nnd from 1850
gold monometallism.”
Ho declared that the ratio of 16 to
1, which is not in accord with the
commercial ratio, is nndemooratio and
violates the teaching of Jefferson,
Jackson and of Cleveland.
The secretary then arguod that
should a change bo mado to a silver
standard, the laboring man would be
the one to suffer; that while the com¬
modities which he must buy would
double in price it would be along time
before bis wages would double. I
would rather put my arm in tbe flames
aud burn it to tbo shoulder than in-
jure ono of them in his effort to make
an honest living.
“Mr. Crisp has asked me to say
what remedy I propose for the existing
evil. 1 find tuat I oannot complete
my argument in the time remaining to
mo, and I will give tho remedy whioh
I propose on Thursday night in Atlan¬
ta. I put him on notioe in general
terms that it will bo along tbe lino of
tho president’s mossage and of Mr.
Carlisle’s suggestion in 1894. I agree
with Mr. Carlisle that the doublo stan¬
dard is a physical and metaphysical
impossibility. Wo aro on a gold stand¬
ard, but this is a bimetallic country.
Juilgo Crisp’s Rejoinder.
“I have listened to my Brotbor
Smith," began Judge Crisp when the
cheering greeting him had subsided,
“with wonder and astonishment.
When he beean I wondered as he pro¬
gressed I looked at him aud asked my¬
self if he really belioved what ho was
saying and I finally reached tho con¬
clusion that ho had honestly deceived
himself.”
“Such propositions as he makes,such
arguments coming from the month of
a man calling himself a democrat,
some of these statements, I am
proud to say, were quite warm¬
ly applauded, and if I wero to
follow his example whon ho said that
he could only account for the applause
that greeted my argument on tho sup¬
position that the populists had done
the cheering—if I should use tho same
sort of a simile I would say that the
statements that fell from his lips could
have been cheered only by republi¬
cans.”
. Tbo debate closed with everybody in
a good humor. Governor Atkinson
and the two debaters hold a sort of in¬
formal reception ou tho stage after it
was all over, their friends crowding
upon the stage to grasp their hands.
Then the boys who had shouted for
Crisp, and those who had shouted for
Bmith, went homo, each certain in his
heart that liis man was the winner in
tho joint debate—as is always the way
in joint debates.
MARCH DEFICIT $1,300,000.
Expenditures for Nine Months Exceed
Receipts by $t 8,810,708.
The forthcoming monthly treasury
statement will show receipts during
the month of March of £26,041,149 as
follows:
Customs, £13,344,215, internal rev¬
enue, £11,530,204, miscellaneous, £1,-
060,608. For the nine months of the
fiscal year tho receipts are substantial¬
ly as follows:
Customs £136,900,299, internal rev¬
enue £110,404,143, miscellaneous £10,-
239,396, making a total of £250,369,
840.
Tbe deficit for the past monlb
will be about £1,200,000, and for the
nine months £28,819,708. During the
last few months neither tho custom re¬
ceipts nor those from internal revenae
sources have come up to expectation
and little improvement is anticipated
in the near ffttnre.
On November 30 last, when the
latest departmental estimates were in
prepared for congress, the increase
the receipts from customs during the
five months of tho fiscal year over
those of the same period in 1894 was
about £12,000,000, and a further in¬
crease wae confidently expected. Since
that time, however, tho increase
amounts to about only £500,000.
VOL II. NO. 15.
BRUNSWICK’S BIO LOSS.
Half a Million Dollars Gono Up In
Smoke.
Brunswick, Ga., suffered a disas¬
trous conflagration Thursday. Tho
fire started at half past 11 o’clock n.
m., and besides the £500,000 aud more
of property destroyed ouo human life
was sacrificed, ono man was mashed
and badly crippled, while four men
were prostrated aud are suffering in¬
tensely from.injuries, some most likely
fatal, others not so severe.
Tho property destroyed includes tho
wharf property, ootton sheds, freight
warehouses, tracks, lighters, tools and
part of the freight in the warehouses,
all belonging to tho Plant systom and
comprising thoir local terminal freight.
Tho company lost, too, from throe to
six freight cars and between 10,000
and 2U,uOO crossties.
The property of N. O. Emanuel and
James E. Broadhead, on tho Plant
system dock, wout too; twenty-live
thousand barrels of rosin, one thou¬
sand barrels spirits of turpontine; all
tho wharves, engines, wholesale gro¬
cery building, grocery stock and ware¬
house buildings of the Downing com¬
pany ; Sogue’s fish houso nnd various
small fish and oyster houses on tho
water edgo of Bay stroet.
On the far side of Bay street the tiro
swept Briosenick’s three-story brick
building, including the machinery aud
supply stock of Breiseuick ; office fur¬
niture of Broker Maxey nnd Lumber
Dealer Padrosn; retail dry goods store
of Cohen’s; wholesale grocery and liq¬
uor stock of J. J. Lott ; wholesale and
retail liquor stock of II. V. Douglas.
The wholesale warehouses of tho
Hoyt Hardware Company ; throe-story
Ooe&n Hotel, extending up. Monk
street; tho retail store of the Hoyt
Hardware Company; two beer depots
full of goods noross Monk street; the
Haas Liquor Company, wholesale
and retail, aud tho ice depot.
On Bay, from Monk up, tho lire
swept Herzog’s brick building, retail
dry goods store, Hirsoh’s wholesale
and rotail liquor store, several smaller
stocks nnd two empty storerooms, all
in a block of brick buildings from one
to three stories high.
It is impossible, so far to gnin any¬
thing liko an nccuruto estimate of the
losses, but estimates aro given, nnd it
is generally conceded that they are
placed low. £75,000; Broad-
Tho Plant system,
head, £5,000 ; Emanuel, £0,000; Down¬
ing, $225,000; Briesouick and occu¬
pants, £60,000; Lott, £15,000;
Donglnss, £10,000; Newnan, £20,000;
Hoyt, £15,000; Ooenu hotel, £10,000;
Haas, $4,000; Herzog nnd
and stocks and blocks, £15,000.
r l)hese losses are merely
from hurriod interviews and may
greater.
SHERIFF SHOT DOWN.
Notorious Taylor Delk Fires the Fatal
Uullet.
Taylor Dolk, ouo of that
gang of outlaws that mado tho Dolk
name notorious about Atlanta and
throughout the state of Georgia a
year ago, sent a bullet through tho
body of Shoriff Gwynn, of Piko
couuty Thursday night. Tho bullet
caused the sheriff’s death.
Delk had bocn indicted by tlio Piko
county jury for robbory nnd assault
with intent to murder and tho sheriff
armed with a warrant went aftor him.
Delk was in his homo near Concord,
surrounded by friends and associates
equally as desperate as he. Ho, it ap¬
pears, anticipated the coming of the
officers, and closing his doors, made
them fast. When the sheriff, accom¬
panied by a posse, readied tho Delk
homo everything appeared quiet.
Hheriff GwymUwent upon th.s porch
to knock at tho door, But as ho ap¬
proached tho door he whs fired upon
from a window. A ball passed through
his left breast, entering near tho nip¬
ple, and he dropped upon the porch.
In all about fifty shots were fired from
tbe house. Delk then made good his
escape.
At latest accounts bloodhounds and
posses were chasing tho murderer
through tho thickets, forosts and
swamps of Pike, but with little proba¬
bility of catching him.
STRIKE GROWS SERIOUS.
Operatives at Columbus, Gu , Still
Hold Out.
A special from Columbus, Ga., says:
Every hour widens the breach between
ttie striking operatives at tho Eagle and
Phenix mills and tho managers. There
are no new developments further than
tho continued firmness of both sides
and the increasing seriousness of tho
situation.
Tho mill operatives have formed a
union and they are determined, they
cluim, not to return under the scale of
wages proposed by the mill men and
the latter say again aud even more
emphatically that they will not change
thoir original intentions.
Conferences are boing held between
the business men and mill managers,
looking to an adjustment of the dif¬
ferences but it is safe to say that a
settlement is no nearer reached than
on Saturday last whou the strike was
first called.
The condition of tho operatives will
soon be serious. They have, with
hardly an exception, spent the money
as they made it and aro comparatively
without means of support. They
know nothing but tho business tboy
have been following, and thero aro no
other opportunities hero. With it all
the leaders are firm and declaro they
will never return under the existing
conditions.
Thb life of a true Christian is as
free from secret prejudices to all men
ts it is from profanity or drunkenness.
Utah’i juries now coniist of
men instead of twelve.
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
Jones County CoVOMlITIOnt.
Judge Superior Court—J. 0. Hart.
Solioitor General—H. G. Lewis.
Senator—Hon. W. H. Harrison.
Representative—Hon. J. F. Ander-
■on.
Ordinary—R. T. Ross.
Clerk Superior Court—W. W. Bar¬
ron.
Skeriff-R. N. Ethridge. M. Stewart.
County Treasurer—F.
Tux Receiver— J. A. Chiles.
Couuty Surveyor—R. H. Bonner.
Coroner—R. B. Court—J. Trapp. O. Barron.
Judge County
Jury Commissioners —W. A- Card,
J. M. Middlebrooks, J. F. Barron,
John Gresham, E. P. Morton.
County Board of Education —D.
Anchors, Joe \V. Barron, J. It. Van
Huron, 8. A. Hodge, J. W. Anderson,
County School Commissioner —A,
H. S. McKay. P. O., Plontituda.
County Commissioners — W. F.
White, J. T. Speights, E. T. Morton,
H. T. Moore, John T. Glover.
lift Georjia & Atlantic 8.8.
TIME TABLE.
In UfToet I) ore mb or S3.
Bead Down. Bead Up.
F. M.
11 00 7 18 A G». B. B. I.v. Augusta 8 30
9 00 Alt'* Lv Macon Ar Ga 2 45
A. M. P. M. p. M.IP.M.
6 20 1 1 05 Lv---.MIlledgevlllo .Eatonton Jiino...Ar -Ar 8 8 20 15 12 1 05 50
r, 25 10 Lv..
boo 182 l,v.. •• Merit w oilier.... Ar 7 60:12 25
7 05 l 50 Lv .. Dennis .. A l 7 30 12 05
7 35 2 15 Ar ■ Eaton ton I A 7 08 11 36
. 35
7 40 310 r,v .Eatonton . Ar 7 05 11
H 10 2 85 t V - Willards • A a 0 M U 10
8 38 2 65 y . Alkenton A ] B 20 10 60
.
s 50 3 07 l,y Maolton.-- Av 0 05 10 35
2 Ot 8 12 Lv.....Shady Dale.....Ar B 00 10 30
9 18 .1 22 Lv........Kelly........Ar 5 43:10 15
0 40 3 48 Lv.. .BroUKhtonvIlle.. .Ar 5 31 10 00
« 60 3 42 Lv. ..Newborn......Ar 5 16 9 50
10 00 3 49 Lv, Gttimel Juno-. -Ar 5 05 9 33
to 10 8 68 Lv. ....Hayes Ar 4 55 9 20
10 22 4 02 Lv. . Starrsvll’e.....Av I 45 9 08
10 47 4 is Lv-. Coving' ton Juno . . Ar 4 27 8 48
10 gQ, 4 ft>i Ar.....Oovl melon.....I.v 4 25 8 47
12 IS O oA Ga. ft.ft. Ar __ Atlanta Lv ' 3 05 1 S:
6 30 M. At N. ArMwwn Lv 9 00 a.m.
M.&N. Ar Athens Lv 2 25 a.M.
JOSEPH W. PRESTON, General Manager.
HH9!-
RIVER AND HARBOR BILL.
Nearly Ten Million Dollars Set Aside
for Improvements.
The river and harbor bill was made
public nt Washington Friday morn¬
ing, Following are tho appropria¬
tions for soma of the southern states:
Georgia—Altamalia rivor, £10,000;
Chattahoochee, £25,000; Flint, £8,000;
Ocm u Igoo, £10,000; Oconee, £10,000;
Savannah, botwoen Savannah and Au¬
gusta, £15,000; above Augusta, £3,000;
Coosa, between ltome and tho East
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia rail¬
road bridge in Alabama, £50,000; be¬
tween Wotumpka, Ala., and the East
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia rail¬
road bridge, £50,000; inside wator
route, betwoon Savannah, Ga., and
Fernandina, Fla., £14,000.
Florida—Apalachicola river, £5,000;
Onloosahatehee, £1,000; Choctawhat-
cliee, £5,000 ; Escambia and Conecuh,
£4,500; Manatee, £4,000; Suwauee,
£3,000; Volnsia bar, £1,000; Oclawalia
river, £3,000; Sarasota bay, £2,500;
Indian River at Negro cut, near Indian
river inlet, £7,500.
Alabama—Alabama river, £40,000;
Black Warrior, Tuscaloosa to Daniels
creek, £40,000; Warrior and Tombig-
beo from mouth of Tombigbee river to
Tuscaloosa, £115,000; Tombigbee,
from Fulton to Oolumbu», £8,000; from
Demopolis to Columbus, Miss., £50,-
000; from Walkor’s bridge to Fulton,
£ 1 , 000 .
South Carolina—Great Podeo river,
£12,000; Santee rivor, £48,000; Wac-
camaw rivor, £6,000; Wappoo cut,
£2,500; Wutoreo river, £5,000; Cou-
garea river, £2,000; Little Pedee
river, £3,000; Beaufort river, £1,000.
Tennessee—Cumberland river, Ken¬
tucky and Tennessee, £20,000; Cum¬
berland river, below Nashville, £80,-
000; above Nashville, £600,000;
French Broad and Little Pigeon rivers,
£5,000; Tennessee river, below Chat¬
tanooga, £50,000; above Chattanooga,
£15,000; Obion river, from its mouth
to tho town of Obion, $6,000; Forked
Deer river, £1,000.
Mississippi river, from head of passes
to tho mouth of tho Ohio river includ¬
ing salaries, clerical, office, traveling
miscellaneous expenses of tho Missis¬
sippi river expenses, £625,000. For
work ia accordance with the plans and
specifications of tho Mississippi river
commission: At the harbor at New
Orleans, £110,000; at tho harbor of
Natchez and Vidal ia, Miss., and Louis¬
iana, £64,000; for rectifies ition of Red
and Atcliafalaya rivers £40,000; at tbe
harbor of Memphis, Tenn., £70,000.
Tho following improvements wore
also placed under the contract system,
to cost, amounts named: Mouth of
Yazoo river and Vicksburg harbor,
Miss., £800,000; Cumberland river,
Tenn., locks Nos. 5, 6 and 7, above
Nashville, £517,250.
Mississippi rivor, mouth of Ohio
river to St. Paul, Minn., additional
contracts, £5,025,000.
Mississippi river, nt head of passes
to Ohio river, additional contracts,
£8,275,090.
The total appropriation carried in
tho bill is $9,767 630.
The estimates of the chief of engi¬
neers were, in round numbers, $12,-
000,000. The last congress appropri¬
ated £11,478,180 for rivers and har¬
bors, or about £1,700,000 more than
carried in tho present bill. In addi¬
tion to the cash appropriation which
will be available at the close of this
fiscal year, contracts aro authorized in
the bill for an amount in addition ag-
gregating £51,000,000.
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