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ORK OF THE FIFTY-FIRST
CONGRESS.
of the house and senate
OVER MAT-
kk8 of MOMENTOUS INTEREST TO OUR
CO UNTRY. —NOTES.
n the house, on Thursday, Mr. Mc-
ilev. from the committee on rules, re¬
a resolution for the immediate
of bills reported from the
committee in the following or-
: Senate bill relating to trusts, house
relating to copyrights, house bill re-
to bankruptcy, and such other
as the committee may call up. The
was adopted, and the house
to consider the senate bill to
trade and commerce against nn-
restraints and monopolies. Bland A long of-
debate followed. Mr.
J d an amendment making unlawful
contract or agreement to prevent of com-
in the sale or purchase any
transported Bland’s from amendment one state to
thev. Mr. was
on a viva voce vote and the bill
passed in the same manner with a
dissenting vote... .Mr. Adams, of
next called up the international
bill and explained its provis-
Is.
a consequence it would be
to adopt some purely
in ul amendments to perfect the intent
the bill. Undents terms the American
would get cheaper literature, of
best class, thau at present. It would
enlarge the privileges of American
Without acting upon the bill,
house, at 5:15 adjourned. David-
the house, ou Friday, Mr.
tariff hill. Referred. On motion of
0. Neill, of Pennsylvania, a resolu-
was adopted setting apart Saturday,
14th, for the delivery of eulogies
the late Samuel J. Randall, of Penn-
The house .then resumed con-
of the copyright bill. Mr.
of Illinois, said that the osten-
purpose of tlu; bill was to extend
ri 8^ lts °f American authors to foreign
But the measure meant vastly
than this. The inevitable result
would be to create a gigantic pub-
monopoly, which would raise the
of every book and periodical printed
country and would impose a tax
every reader of a book, from the boy
his primer to the college professor Bland
his scientific work. Mr.
the bill as a scheme for a
The bill was further opposed of
Messrs. Mills, Culberson, Peters,
Anderson, of Kansas, Stockdale,
and Lind, and was advocated by
McAdoo, who said the copyright tablet law
written by Moses in the stone
words "Thou Shalt Not Steal!”
o amendments offered by Mr. Payson
adopted, but on the vote the on bill, engross¬ it
ut an< ^ third reading of was
98; nays, 126. Amotion
was made but was defeated.
the bills reported in the Senate
Friday from the committees and placed
the calendar are the following: Senate
for public buildings at Columbus,
$100,000. House bill for the classi-
of worsted cloths as woolens. Mr.
from the committee on inter-
commerce, made a report with tes-
n y on the subject of American rom-
by Canadian railroads. Ordered
Inted.
commerce. The concurrent
olution - heretofore offered by Mr.
requesting the president to enter of
negotiations with the governments
Britain and Mexico with a view to
treaty stipulations for the pre-
of the entry of Chinese laborers
the United States, was taken up and
r, ‘ l ‘d to. A message from the house,
the house amendment to the senate
pension bill was laid before
sena te, and the bill and amendment
referred to the pension committee.
|e •en customs up, and administrative long debate bill followed, was then
a
the committee amendments were
eed to and the bill was passed—-veas
naySl8 ‘ On ' motion of Jones, of
a( ^ a ’ ^e bill authorizing the issue of
ur y notes on the deposit of silver
" as taken up and made “nnfin-
business” from Wednesday” next
disposed the of. After the executive
the house, senate adjourned.
Illinois, on Saturday, Mr. IIop-
called up his motion to
11101 i°n to reconsider the vote
the copyright bill to engrossment
utlar d reading. It was ruled out of
rb? thC s P e “ er - “ The house then
KNOXVILLE, CRAWFORD CO., GA., THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1890.
went into committee of the whole, Mr.
Peters, of Kansas, in the chairs on the
diplomatic and consular appropriation
bill. Three speeches were made—all po¬
litical. No action was taken and the
house adjourned. Saturday
In the senate on Mr. Frye,
from the committee on commerce, said
he was instructed by the committee to re¬
port two important bills. The first bill
was to place the American merchant ma¬
rine engaged in the foreign trade on an
equility with that of other nations. This,
he proceeded to say, is the bill known as
the shipping league tonnage bill. It pro¬
vides for the payment of thirty cents a ton
for every thousand miles sailed, and in¬
cludes all vessels—iron, steel, wood, sail
and steam—from 500 tons upwards. United The
bill would save to the people of the
States many millions for every million
that it would cost. It has been supported of
by resolutions of innumerable boards
trade and chambers of commerce; by the
National Grange, and, he was informed,
by the Farmers’ National Alliance. The
second was a bill to provide for ocean
mail service between the United States
and foreign States, and to promote com¬
merce. It is an original bill and provides make
that the postmaster-general the of United may States
contracts for carrying
mails in United States ships, owned by
American citizens, between the United
States ports and all foreign ports, The
two bills wore read the first and sec¬
ond times and placed on the calendar ...
The senate bill for the relief of Nathaniel
McKay and of the executors of Donald
McKay, (referring to the court of claims
their claim for further compensation for
the construction of the iron-clad moni¬
tors Squaudo and Nanset, and the side-
wheel steamer Ashuelot, was passed— The
yeas 88, nays 10 (all democrats.) several
calender was then resumed and
bills passed, among them the senate bill
for the completion of the public building
at .Pensacola, Fla.. ($32,000); house bill
for the allowance of certain "Fourth ol
July” claims; senate bill giving to the
Jacksonville, St. Augustine and Halifax
Railroad company the right of way across
the military reservation at St. Augustine,
Fla., was reported from the committee
and placed on the calendar,... At 4:33 p.
m., Mr. Harris interrupted the proceed¬ sud¬
ings with the announcement of the
den death of Senator Beck, and the sen¬
ate at once adjourned. The senate flag
was placed at half mast, and Mr. Imralls
dispatched the assistant sergeant-at-arms funeral.
to make arrangements for the
In the house, on Monday, a message
having been received from the senate an¬
nouncing the death of Senator Beck and
inviting the house to be present at the
funeral services, Mr. Beckinridge offered
a resolution accepting the invitation and
requesting the speaker to appoint a com¬
mittee of nine representatives committee to appointed take ac¬
tion, with a similar
by the senate to take charge of the
funeral arrangements. The resolutions
were adopted unanimously. The house
then, as a mark of respect to the deceased,
at 2:30 adjourned till Tuesday.
The Kentucky delegation met iu the
senate chamber at 11:30
Monday , . to take , action . respect- .
, morning
mg the death ol Senator Beck. Repre-
seutative Carlisle presided and the
following resoion was adopted: Re¬
solved, That in the death of Hon.
James B. Beck, we have lost a valued
friend and a w ise aud safe counselor in the
discharge of our public duties. That
Kentucky has lost her greatest statesman
and best advocate of the principles ol
government that would promote her pros¬
perity. That the United States has lost
one of the most earnest, forcible and suc¬
cessful advocates of the preservation and
transmission of ail the liberties of the peo¬
ple that has ever held a seat in the senate.
* * * There was an unusually large
attendance of senators present in the
chamber, and of spectators in the galle¬
ries Monday morning when the opening
prayer was offered by the chaplain. Mr.
Beck’s desk and chair were covered with
black crape, and a feeling of solemnity
seemed to pervade, the chamber. The
chaplain made a feeling allusion to the
‘‘shadow of death" under which the sen¬
ate met. As soon as the journal of Sat¬
urday was read, Mr. Blackburn of Ken¬
tucky, sent to the clerk’s desk resolutions
of sorrow and regret at the taking away
of Hon. James Beck, late a senator from
the State of Kentucky. The resolutions
were declared adopted unanimously, and
the senate adjourned till 12 o’clock
Tuesday.
NOTES.
Representative Biggs, of California, on
Thursday, introduced in the house a
bill to repeal the civil service act.
A large number of applications the southern for
pensions are coming up from
states from soldiers who served in the
Mexican and Creek Indian wars.
The secretary of the interior estimates
that it will require $83,806,752 annually
to give a service pension to every survi-
vor of the late war not now on the rolls.
The house and senate committees on
immigration and naturalization on J hurs-
day listened to Timothy D. Lee. special
agent of the treasury department, upon
the subject of violations of contracts la¬
bor. During his speech he told of how
Italians are supplanting the negroes in
the South Carolina phosphate beds, work¬
ing for one-fourth of what the colored
laborers received.
Several of the Georgia members have
been served with a list of questions sim¬
ilar to the one recently issued by an Ala¬
bama Alliance and forwarded Col. Oates.
It is presumed that answers will be made
soon. The Alliance organizations legisla¬ are
surprisingly alert and watchful of
tive proceedings at Washington. A large
number of protests against the passage of
the Conger bill came Thursday.
A delegation of Knights of Labor were
given a hearing before the committee on
labor on Thursday. The Wade bill was
indorsed with slight amendments. The
bill provides that, eight hours shall con¬
stitute a day’s work fer all laborers of
every class employed by the government,
except in ease of extraordinary emergen¬
cies in time of war, to preserve or pre¬
vent destruction of human life, and then
they are to be paid on the basis of eight
hours per day.
THE EIGHT-HOUR STRIKES
BEING CONDUCTED ORDERLY—THOUSANDS
OF MEN OUT.
The signal was given Saturday morn¬
ing and the iron moulders in most of the
large manufacturing establishments in
Chicago went out on strike at 7 o’clock,
or rather refused to go to work at the old
rates. They asked for the eight-hour
day and uniform wages. This was re¬
fused. Among the manufacturing con¬
cerns which are closed are the following:
Barnum & Richardson, foundry, 150 men;
Ajax Forge company, 150 men; Wells
& Fencli’s Car company’s works, 1,000
men; Chicago Car Wheel foundry; F. E.
Robert’s foundry, 100 men; Decamen &
Duks, furniture factory, 400 men; Chi¬
cago Cottage Organ company, 700 men.
From three to four thousand sasli, door
and blind men walked out of the various
factories iu the southwest lumber district.
Everything remained quiet, notwith¬
standing the large number of men idle,
and the police say they are not anticipat¬
ing any trouble.
Of the 1,262 journeymen carpenters in
Louisville, Ky., between 900 and 1,000
struck on Saturday for eight hours and
twenty-five cents an hour as minimum ot
wages. One contractor only has signed
the arbitration committee’s agreement,
and the Builders’ and Traders’ excliangf
has so far ignored the movement.
REYBURN’S PET PROJECT.
A PENNSYLVANIA CONGRESSMAN BUYS AN
ISLAND—A GREAT RESORT.
A dispatch of Sunday from Raleigh, N.
C., says: Congressman Rcyburn, of
Pennsylvania, will purchase Bald Head,
or Smith's Island, at the mouth of the
Cape Fear river. The island contains
five thousand acres, and has thirteen miles
of superb sea beach. The price boulevard paid for
it is $22,500. A thirteen mile
wiU bc laid out> encircling the island,
wb jj e broad avenues will traverse it. A
hundred thousand dollar hotel and cot¬
tages will bc built, with boat-houses and
bath-houses, with military parade ground
like that at Atlantic City, New Jersey.
It is a pet project of Reyburn’s. He in¬
tends to make the place both a summer
and winter resort. It will be a formida¬
ble rival of any on the coast.
A BAD CASHIER
WHOSE SPECULATIONS RUINED A NORRIS¬
TOWN, FA., BANK.
There is considerable excitement at
Norristown, Pa., over the announcement
made late Saturday night that W. F.
Slingluff, cashier of the Montgomery Na¬
tional bank, also secretary and treasurer
of Montgomery Insurance, Trust and
Safe Deposit company, had placed his
resignation at the disposal of the direc¬
tors of those two institutions; Singluff also as¬
signed his property to them.
is said to have made unauthor¬
ized investments of funds entrusted to
his care. The amount needed to strike
a balance of his books is variously esti¬
mated from $25,000 to $100,000. Sling¬
luff and wife transferred all their proper¬
ty to the company, estimated at $750,000.
A TEXAS WIND STORM.
SEVERAL PEOPLE KILLED AND PROPERTY
DESTROYED.
A dispatch from Wills Point, Tex.,
says: A hurricane struck here at 12:30
Saturday, and every house! in town is
more or less damaged. several Two injured. persons
were killed outright and and public school
The Methodist church
building were demolished, while other
churches were blown off their founda¬
tions. A number of stores and residences
were blown down, and nearly all busi¬
ness houses were unroofed, and all goods
badly damaged, The hurricane also
visited Mesquite, Thornton, Terrel and
other poiuts in its track, doing great
damage.
TELEGRAPH AND CABLE.
WHAT 18 GOING ON IN THE
BU8Y WORLD.
A SUMMARY OF OUTSIDE AFFAIRS CON¬
DENSED FROM NEWSY DISPATCHES
FROM UNCLE SAM’S DOMAIN AND WHAT
THE CABLE BRINGS.
Governor Hill, of New York, has
signed the ballot reform law.
Lyman J. Gage was on Thursday night
elected president of the world’s fair com¬
mission in Chicago.
A dispatch from Nevada, Cal., says:
Three sharp shocks of earthquake w’ere
felt here at 9:48 Saturday morning,
The liabilities of T. Feekhcimer&Co.,
who suspended in New York a few days
ago, are stated at $8(50,000; assets $300,-
000 .
Ex-State Treasurer Archer, of Mary¬
land, was on Monday indicted by the
grand jury at Annapolis for embezzle¬
ment.
Reports received at Springfield that about from
many parts of Illinois say
threo-fourths of the land seeded to wheat
last fall is being plowed up for planting
spring wheat, oats and corn.
The torpedo boat Cushing arrived at
Washington navy yard Monday afternoon in
at C :30 o’clock, having made the run
28J hours, a performance that beats all
previous records for that trip.
The annual report of the Southern Pa¬
cific railroad shows tiiat its gross earnings
for last year were $46,343,207; operating de¬
expenses, $30,804,365. There was a
ficit of $9(5,472 this year against a surplus
of $1,379,483 last year.
An English jury lias given George Au¬
gustus Sala $25 damages as compensation painted
for a statement that he once a
figure which had six toes on one foot, and
that he was utterly lacking in the critic. quali¬
ties that should distinguish an art
The secretary of State of Illinois has
issued a license to the John Brown Liber¬
ty Museum, at. Chicago, to purchase and
remove to Chicago the building known
as John Brown’s fort at Harper’s Ferry.
The capital stock of the company is $180,-
000 .
Dispatches of Thursday from Buenos
Ayres say: Several persons have been
kitted and many wounded in a revolution
which has broken out in Paraguay.
Meagre details only have been received,
as telegraphic communication is inter¬
rupted.
The special train bearing the remains of
the late senator, members of his family
aud committees of congress, left Wash¬
ington, Tuesday at 8 o'clock p. m. for
Lexington, Ky., over the Chesapeake
an d Ohio railway.
On an affidavit sworn to by Morris L.
Kline, beer bottler at Philadelphia a war¬ is
rant was on Sunday issued against Lew
E. Pfeiffer, president of the Bank of
America, ou the charge of embezzlement,
to-w it: receiving deposits know ing that
his bank was involvent.
T A dispatch from Philadelphia, Doylestown, says: J.
Monroe Shellenberger, the
Pa., lawyer, who ran away several weeks
ago after swindling clients and farmers
iu Bucks county out of nearly surrendered $150,000,
returned Monday night and
to the sheriff.
The entire business portion of the vil¬
lage of Gilboa, N. Y., was destroyed by in
fire, Sunday—twenty-two buildings
all. Not a store was left in town. Most
of the stocks were de-troyed. Loss esti¬
mated at from $150,000 to $175,000.
Only a light insurance, estimated at about
$50,000.
Latest advices from Chicago say that
the strikers have for the most part given
in to the terms of the bosses, which are
ten hours per day, and that business is
proceeding as usual. About three quar¬
ters of the strikers are now at work, and
it is understood that the remainder will
go back soon.
Robert Nic-kett, chashier of J. M. Ber-
key & Co., real estate and investment
company, of Denver, Col., was arrested
there Monday charged with being a de-
fauIter. It is thought that the amount of
defalcation will reach between $5,000 and
$9,000. Gambling is supposed to be the
cause.
A special of Monday, from Berlin,
AVis., says: The private bank of Charles
A. Mather & Co. closed its doors this
morning, the firm having made an as ign-
ment to Joseph Yates. James M. Haw¬
ley. the junior member of the house, has
disappeared. The assets are placed at
$119,900, and liabilities at $100,000.
Mi. Gladstone has writthn a letter,
which will appear in the enlarged Lloyd's
News (London) on Sunday next,in which
he exhorts the working classes to consider
closely their present position. labor He says will :
"There may come a time when
prove too strong for capital and may use
its strength unjustly, but capital will
cnrelv surely hold hold its its own. own «
The carpenters of New’ York city, as a
body, did not strike Monday, as was con-
YOL. I. NO. 12.
templated, to enforce their demand for
eight hours as a day’s work. Two hun¬
dred bosses havc^granted the demand and
only thirty-five have refused. In the
latter places the men have struck. It is
expected that all difficulties will bo set¬
tled within a week.
Harness makers to the number of 2,200
struck at St. Louis on Monday. They
demand an iucrease of twenty-five per
cent, in wages, which the shop owners
refuse to grant. The harness makers
also have grievances as to their treatment
by the bosses, cte., and declare they will
abandon the trade or seek other employ¬
ment, rather than return to w ork again
under the old arrangement.
A heavy shrinkage iu the imports of
dry goods at New York for last week is
reported. The entries footed up $1,885.
723, and the amount thrown on the mar¬
ket $1,929,703, against $3,097,927 and
$3,140,195 respectively for she entries corre¬
sponding period merchandise last week. The aggregated
of general during
$8,090,355, against $10,123,441
the previous week.
The Emin relief commission at London
gave a reception in honor of Henry Prince M.
Stanley Sunday evening. The of
Wales presided. Among the guests were
the Princess of Wales, Princess Victoria,
the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh,
Prince Christian, Prince Albert Victor,
Prince George, the Duke of Fife, the
Lord Mayor of London, and a large num¬
ber of other distinguished persons.
SENATOR BECK DEAD.
FELL SUDDENLY AND EXPIRED WITHIN A
FEW MOMENTS.
A Washington dropped dead special the says: Baltimore Senator and
Beck depot, at
Potomac at Sixth and B streets, a
few minutes before 4 o’clock Saturday
ifternoon. He had just returned from
New Y T ork and was leaving the train in
company with his daughter, Mrs. Good-
loe, wife of Paymaster Goodloe, of the
marine corps. He had reached the gate
separating (he depot proper from the
train shed, when he fell and expired immedi¬ in
about five minutes. He was
ately carried to the superintendent’s office
aad a telephone message sent to the Na¬
tional hotel for a physician. Before
ine arrived the senator was dead.
Before arriving iu the city, on the lim¬
ited, the senator was cheerful and appa¬
rently in the best of health. He con¬
versed pleasantly with his daughter, and
expressed his gladness at being back
again in Washington. When the news
of the senator’s death reached the senate,
that body immediately adjourned. The
remains were carried to Congressman An
Beckiuridge’s home on Capitol demonstrated hill.
examination Beck’s by physicians death caused by
that Senator was
paralysis of the heart. The Kentucky
congressianal delegation assumed charge
of the remains, ami will finally arrange
all details, respect, of course, being paid
to the wishes of Mrs. Goodloe.
THE INVITATIONS
BEING SENT OCT TO THE UNVEILING OF
THE LEE STATUE.
A Richmond, Va., dispatch of Wednes¬
day, says :No political lines will be drawn,
as has been indicated would be the case,
in the issuance of invitations to the un¬
veiling of General Lee’s statue. The
engraved invitations are now officers being sent will
out, and all ex-confederate
be invited, regardless of their politics.
The same invitation that is sent to Gen¬
erals Beauregard, Gordon, Jubal Early
and Joe Johnston will go to General*
Mahone and Longstreet. As far as names
had been gotten they had been recorded,
and the invitations are mailed in the
order in which they are reached on the
list of the southern military. The con¬
federate camps, the governors of the
southern states and all of General Lee’*
relatives will be asked to come.
MEETING OF PRINTERS.
THE international typographical un-
ION TO MKEX IS Atlanta, ga., in June,
___
Atlanta’s printers, pressmen and stereo¬
typers are preparing for International the thirty-eighth
a n Dua i session of the Typo-
graphical Uunion which meets on the 9th
of June. Nearly two hundred delegates
’ session of the union
will be present. The
will cover a week or ten days, possibly the
two -weeks, and will be attended by
most prominent anu influential members of
the craft. Delegates will conw from every
town and city of importance in the union
—from Maine to California, from the
Canadas, the British provinces, and from
the Sandwich Islands. Hon. George W.
Childs, of the Philadelphia Lalger , who
is a great friend of the craft, will be pre¬
sent.
Walt Whitman, the poet, has been made
almost helpless by paralysis. His physical have
condition is so weak that his physicians with
insisted that he shall not talk any one
for more than a few words at a time. He
j s poor, but not neglected, as his friends in
Philadelphia constantly supply his wants.