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(£ljc Cnuuforfc Cmuiti) VOL. I. THE NATIONAL CAPITAL WORK OF THE FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. FROCEEDINUS OF THE HOUSE AND SENATE BRIEFED—DELIBERATIONS OVER MAT¬ TERS OF MOMENTOUS INTEREST TO OUR COMMON COUNTRY.—NOTES. lu the house, on Friday, Mr. granting Hill, of Illinois, called up the bib pension of $1,200 a year to Delia T. S. Parnell, daughter of Admiral Charles Stewart, with an amendment reducing the pension to $50 a month. The amendment was agreed amended, to, yeas 85, passed. nays 26, and the bill, as into committee was of The house then went the whole (Air. Payson, of Illinois, in the chair) on the tariff bib. Air. Fitch, of New York, opened the debate, beginning his argument with inconsistency a charge against Mr. his AIcKinley of between speeches now and those of two years ago. The bill, he said, was a make-shift to meet the political situation. General Wheeler closed the debate for the day. In the senate, on Friday, the annual pension appropriation bib was taken up, the question being on the amendment offered Friday by Air. Sherman, increas¬ ing the number of pension agents (salary It $4,000) from eighteen to t wenty. The was bib agreed to; ayes—25, nayes 19. was then passed and the military academy bill was taken up and passed, as was also the army appropriation reported bib....Among from the the amendments com¬ mittee on appropriations and agreed to by the senate was a paragraph appropria¬ tion $100,000 for buildings at the mili¬ tary posts for libraries, gymnasiums, Discus¬ amusement rooms and canteens. sion of this amendment became a discus- siou of canteen system as against the post tradership system, and of temperance in the army, and occupied the remainder of the day’s session. The senate then, at 5 p. m., adjourned till Saturday, leaving Mr. Hale's amendment to the amendment to the army bill, and Mr. Cockrell’s amendment to the amendment pending. After the reading of the journal committee the house on Saturday went into of the whole, Mr. Grosvenor in the chair, for the futher consideration of the tariff hill. Mr. Lanham, of Texas, especially antagonized the feature of the bill which places a duty on silver-lead ore, declar¬ ing that it would have the effect of de¬ stroying the sineljting industry of Texas and neighboring states, and it would in¬ vite retaliation. Air. Barnes, of Georgia, addressed the committee in opposition to the protective system bill. He urged that before the war no one contended for protection except as an incident to revenue; that the present high tariff sys- tern was a mere measure, but had been continued during a period of twenty- five years of peace to the enrichment of a few, and the impoverishment of the great body of the people, and that under its operations wealth was being couccn- in the hands of the priviledged el ass. This country ami especially the tanners of the country, were crying out for relief and more markets. The only hope of the country was in a reduction of taxation on the necessaries of life, the imposition of an income tax for pensions and an increase of currency to au extent necessary for business interests. Mr. Andrews, of Massachusetts, opposed the bill. Air. ( mnmings, of New York, characterized the present session of congress as a rag- ing sea of ravenous legislation. The bill struck at New York as though she were of a viper her or an unclean reptile. On behalf against millions of people he protested the passage of this bill. Air. Buckner, disappointment of Wisconsin, expressed hi? at the bill. Instead of it relieving distress and both.' correcting blunders, greatly increased The commit- lee then arose. The speaker announced the following committee appointments: •hi rules, Air. Blount, of Georgia: on ap¬ propriations, rania; Air. Aliichler, of Pennsyl- ( on of Ohio; banking and railways currency, and canals, Air. Mr. ooper, on marine Featherstone, of Arkansas; on merch- ant and fisheries. Air. Springer, of tnots. The house then, at 5:45 o’clock, poit a recess until 8 o’clock. Air. Per- Mus, of Kansas, presided over the even- ri-. session of the house. The tariff dc- r h J Mes 'e T\ Louisiana; Chi - P - man ’ Duiker aChW f^ t S . ’ ^ ros }. cnor ’ °* ka- >hio- IIendpi*n bS I;?' >,f, T l0WU; t?T 8 °r ’ [lissouri - ’ Brosius L ofPennsvhnnia \r ll Me Kae of 4rk'in * uA We adjourn^ 11°o’do£ » The house fcfSSlr , r t — Em Cnrl f° a t? hoh ? Implied f buiWinain‘ or to onli m be y S ° CaUt J and T fid f Mr VoVkr, w‘nH nv a ° -"r r m idmCUt i UltlUy -r ^ ikin-r out the b ° 01 'VI' 6 ' pie h latter amendment pam^e. r r JlT f-naaa "».vs 13: a S ,ri« s „„ ing tU „ in ord „- 10 makt , KNOXVILLE, CRAAVFORD CO.. GA., THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1890. Tjiiorum, and with some doubts, he voted aye. The bill was then passed. The Senate bill authorizing the secretary Augustine. of war to purchase a lot in St. Fla., (the Hunt lot) for military purposes was passed; also Senate United bill granting lands right-of-way Augustine, across Fla. The States Senate then in St. took up the individual pension hills on the calendar and passed all of them—185 —in a hour and a half. The Senate bill for a public building than $140,000) at Tampa, Fla., passed. (not to cost more was After an executive session the Senate ad¬ journed. house, Monday morning, in the on Mr. McKinley moved that the general debate on the tariff bill be limited to one minutc. The motion was agreed to (after two roll calls) and the house went into committee of the whole (Mr. Payson, of Illinois, in the chair), on the tariff bill, No one desiring to occupy the one min- ute, the clerk proceeded to read the bill by paragraphs for amendment. Mr. An- derson, of Kansas, offered an amendment providing that the president important may sus¬ pend the rate of duty on any article when, in his judgment, the pro¬ duction, manufacture or sale of such article is monopolized, or attempted to be monopolized or controlled by any trust or combination. A wordy war was indulged in by Mr. Alii Grosvenor and Mc¬ on the one side and Messrs. Is Millan on the other This cross firing was brought about by Jilr. Grosvenor’e declaration that two years ago the leader of the greatest and most extortional trust in the country came to the capitol, the marched into the dark chamber of ways and means committee, and figura¬ tively took the majority of that commit¬ tee by the head and shook free sugar out of it. Air. Mills regretted that anything of a personal character should have been thrown into the debate. He had not indended it. He had intended, and he intended now, to discuss this question as a question affecting the public policy of the country. He did not intend to assail any gentleman. He did not believe any gen¬ tleman of the majority of the ways and meas committee had been attention improperly of the ap¬ proached. Finally the house came back to Air. Anderson’s amendment, and it was adopted—89 to 76. In the Senate, on Alonday, Air. reported Hoar, from the judiciary committee, anti- back the house amendment to the tru.st bill with an amendment. Alessrs. Vest and Coke stated, as members of committee, that they did not concur in the report, and Air. recommended. Hoar explained The the effect of the action matter went over till Tuesday. The Sen- ate proceeded to the consideration of the bill authorizing the issue . of treasury notes 0 ?^t C P°j 1 ^ S slver bullion. Air. Jones, °/ Nevada, who reported the bill from the committee on finance addressed the Senate in a lengthy speechm advocacy of * le measure. After executive session the Semite adjourned. uesday, after transact- bouse, on I ln . g some routine business, went into com- mittee of the whole, Air. Payson, of lib¬ D0 / 9 > * n *be ' hair. After considering thirteen of the 156 pages of the bill, the committee rose, and the house, at^ 5:45, ‘"Ijourued until AV ednesday at 11 o clock, In the senate on Tuesday Air. Davis, from the committee on pensions, reported back the house substitute for the senate dependent pension bill, with a written re l )ort and moved that the house substi- > non-coneurred in and confer- lute be a cnee asked. Agreed to. Alessrs. Davis, lawyer and Blodgett were appointed The con T eie cs on part of the senate. 9enate at \ P- m., resumed consideration the s ib r er bill, and Mr. Jones, of Nevada, concluded the speech begun by him Alonday. He concluded his speech 3:15, having occupied in all live and a quarter hours. Mr. Jones, of Arkansas, noxt addressed the senate in criticism of the pending bill. The bill then went °. ver I' 1 } to-morrow. The executive ses- s ' on adjourned. notes. A series of hearings upon plans for tht improvement of the Mississippi river was beguu by the Senate committee Alonday. The senate pensions committee, or Tuesdav,submittedareportrecommcnd- do to the ing that the senate not agree amendments made by the house to the senate dependent pension bib. The sub-committee of the House elec- tions committee, which visited Arkansas to investigate the Clayton-Breckenridge contest, has returned to Washington. The c « mmi tt P e P^ormed something un precedented - in the number of examina - "to "mi assistance in their power to facilitate the investigation. They discovered nothing bevond the fact that a bad state of feel- ing between two political parties existed in that State. No shadow of evidence connecting Breckenridge with the murder Jh, ot ‘WT"- ,t ° thaV ““'"f- e brought to his attention that citv councils and boards of trade in certain cities have appropriated money to aid their census supervisors in the enumeration of the population. He, therefore, instructs the supervisors compensation, positively not to receive any such nor countenance, for one instant, the payment of any sum of money whatever, by municipalities, cor¬ porations, associations, or persons, to the enumerators. He says that any supervisor of the census who is not content with the remuneration allowed by law (which is double the amount paid in 1880) should at once resign. The eleventh census must and shall be above suspicion. To toler¬ ate any action on the part of municipali¬ ties, associations, organizations or indi- viduals, no matter how powerful they may be, which has for its purpose the debauching, or which would even throw the slightest taint upon the truthfulness of the returns, would in his opinion be nothing short of a crime against the peo- pie of the United States, THE PROGRAM WHICH WILL BE CARRIED OUT AT THE UN¬ VEILING OF GEN. LEE’S STATUE. The following arc the details of the ceremonies incident to the unveiling of the equestrian statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee, on May 29th: Gen. Fitzliugh Lee will be John chief R. marshal Cooke, of chief parade, of staff. with Gen. Among the assistant marshals will be Generals J. B. Kershaw, of South Caro¬ lina; P. AI. B. Young, of Georgia; Basil W. Duke, of Kentucky; Scales, A. H. Colquitt, of Georgia; A. AI. of North Caro¬ lina; Robert Ransom, Jr., of North Caro lina; Cadmus AI. Wilcox, of Alabama; Robert T. Hoke, of North Carolina; L. L. Lomax, of Virginia; W. B. Talirferro, of Virginia; R. Lindsay Walker, of Virginia; Alat W. Ransom, of North Carolina; d’hoinas L. Rosser, of Virginia; W. R. Cox, of North Carolino: Col. Hiliary P. Jones, of Virginia; McGuire, Drs, of J. S. D. Cullen, and Hunter Va.; Generals W. B. Bate, of Tennessee; E. Ilunton, of Virginia; James li. Lane, of Alabama; William II. Payne, o' Virginia; William R. Terry, of Virginia; R. L. T. Beale, of Virginia; WilliamMc- Comb, of Tennessee; G. AI. Sorrell, of Georgia; Thos. L. Alumford, of Virginia; Thomas M. Logan, of South Carolina; Colonel AV. H. Palmer, of Virginia; Carolina; Gen- oral A. AI. Lewis, of South General Harry Heth, of Virginia; the Dr. S. A. Goodwin, of Alabama. At un- veiling ceremonies Governor McKinney w ill call the meeting to order, Dr. Alinigerode will lead in prayer.. General Jubal A. Early will be announced as chairman, and the orator of the day will be Colonel Wicher Anderson, of Rich¬ mond. The parade will be formed with police at the head of column. Then will follow the Stonewall band, marshals and assistants, distinguished guests iu car¬ riages, veteran organizations, volunteer troops, civic societies and fire depart¬ ment. General Joseph E. Johnston lias consented to unveil the statue. S1NGLUFF ONCE MORE. THE NORRISTOWN, FA., WATER COMPANY ONE OF HI8 VICTIMS. A dispatch of Saturday from Norris¬ town, Pa., says: The Norristown AVater company, of which AV. F. Singluff was secretary and treasurer, is the latest corporation to discover that it has suffer¬ ed through Singluff’s operations. It,was deve oped that the company had lost about $25,000 through Siingluff. The manner in which he is said to have ap¬ propriated the funds of the water com¬ pany is stamped as a defalcution, pure and simple, and there are threats of his arre3t. A BIG BLAZE. THE LENOIR, TENN., MANUFACTURING COM PANY BURNED OUT. All of the Lenoir Manufacturing Com¬ pany’s warehouses and the depots de¬ at Lenoir’s, Tenn., were completely stroyed by fire Tuesday. The warehouses and depots contained a vast amount of grain, flour and cotton, none of which was saved. Four carloads cf flour stand¬ ing on the track were also burned, The company also earriqd a large stock of goods which was also lost. The loss can¬ not be fully estimated, but it is supposed it will not be less than $75,000; fully in¬ sured. CAUGHT AT LAST. arrest of a bank messenger who stole $41,000 two years ago. - A Philadelphia dispatch says: Edmund Sturgiss Crawford, charged with having on May 4. 1888, w hile messenger of the American Exchange National bank, of New York, stole $41,000, which was given him to be conveyed to the Adams Express company's office in that city, was arrested Saturday on arrival at this port on the steamship Signe, from Ruatan Is¬ land. Honduras. FARMERS’ ALLIANCE NOTES, NEWS OF THE ORDER AND ITS MEMBERS. WHAT IS BEING DONE IN THE VARIOUS SECTIONS FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF THIS GREAT ORGANIZATION.—LEGISLA¬ TION, NOTES, ETC. True Albancemen make pledges to be reformed and not to be broken. i i *• * said that There are lots of rt- hings never come to pass, and one of them was that the Farmers’Alliance would die in six months after organization .—Buchanan Mossenqer *** the Alii- ; With stores and warehouses 1 ance will soon be on both sides of the question. Perhaps it will change the feeling to some eStent against the mcr- chant and factor to know how it is them- selves. j * ?k Knights The federation between the ot , Labor and the Farmers* Alliance is the grandest union ever formed, and com- mands three million votes. It is the heel of the people on the head of the viper.— Industrial West. * sk The farmer and retail merchant's inter ests are identically the same, therefore no retail man can afford to fight the Alliance movement, neither can the Alliance af- ford to fight the retail men. When they get to understand each other thoroughly, things will be different, and they can work together for the best interests of each other. 4c 4 k We would warn our friends against neithei se lecting for office men who have said nor done anything for your cause. and Men who are not afraid to speak out who use their means for the good of the farmers are the men you should select for official honors. They will not desert you or your meetings as soon as elected.— Arkansas ( Searcy) Economist. ♦ Col. AV. J. Northen, of Georgia, has excellent ideas on the subject of good organi¬ zation among farmers. "The re¬ sults, ” says the Colonel, 4 ‘already reached, give sufficient evidence that there were many evih to be corrected and new poli¬ cies to be inaugurated on the farm. Although the Alliance has been in active operation but little more than one year in this state, great revolutions have been wrought in the agricultural been interests, while general busiuess has put upon a more secure basis. The Alliance has urged to rigid economy in expenditure; business prudent management in all ar¬ rangements ; a close fellowship in general interest; an intelligent study of all econ¬ omic questious and a faithful adherence to any and every policy that seeks the public good—Alabama Alliance Journal. * + (Atlan- The Southern Alliance Farmer ta, Ga.) says: AVe regret to learn that there are a few sub-Alliance* in Georgia which Aave never taken women into their ranks. Noloige is complete without them. The Alliance is the great family of agriculturalists which is organized moral, social for the improvement of their and financial conditions. How can there be a social improvement without women? The very idea is absurd. There are many things connected with the Alliance which would be dead failures without woman’s assistance, and we hope none of the brethren will fall into the error of ex¬ cluding from their lodges their wives and daughters. AVoman is as necessary in our Alliance as in our everyday life. The order is for the good of the family and the wives and daughters should have the privilege of participating in the grand work. * * plainly The Alliance of Georgia very of the expresses its desire for a change lystem of convict labor in this state. A convict system should not only be one of punishment, but of correction, and, when possible, of reform. AVe cannot more clearly express the demands of the order on this than it is done by the executive committee and president of the order. Hear the forcible language which they ose. Candidates should lie pledged: To such changes in the penitentiary and system as will ameliorate the condition treat¬ ment of the convicts, and as soon as pos- sible the system be so changed as worked that all able-bodied male convicts shall lie on the public highways, and that special provisions be made for work-houses foi women and children. Don’t forget this .rnportant part of your Alliance yard- stick. The present system of convict labor is a disgrace to Georgia’s high civ- ilizaiion .—Southern Alliance Farmer. EXTRACTS FROM ALLLANCE DECISIONS HANDED DOWN BY THE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE UP TO FEB., 1S90. I. If a person be otherwise eligible to membership in the Alliance, the owner¬ ship of bank stock can not, and should not disqualify him. He has, perchance, given us a lesson in savings. NO. 18. IT. A bank cashier is ineligible. III. Persons owning or operating ware¬ houses for their own behoof are ineligi¬ ble. In the eye of the constitution they are merchants. IV. Agents for cotton see<l oil mills not controlled by the Alliance are ineligi¬ ble. Their interests do not harmonize with the objects of the order. Any person who keeps a store—i. e., is engaged in buying and selling goods foi pecuniary gain—is a merchant and is in- eligible. who . farmer and also ^ person is a a ifiwyer—is he ineligible? If he be a prac- ticing attorney he is ineligible, dues The constitution requires that all be paid quarterly in advance A mem. her who does not pay in advance is in arrears and not entitled to receive tha new word. Citizenship in Georgia is a pre-re¬ quisite to membership in the Alliance. Residence does not constitute citizenship. An unnaturalized person is therefore in- eligible, buyer salesman is inelig- I. A cotton or ible. Presidents of sub-alliances arc not ex- officio ^ members of # the county alliance, ^ demit cannot be denied to a brother w ho is clear of the books, and agaiust whom no charge has is pending. nght to impeach A sub-alliance the its . president and expel him for cause. A member who engages in the ■♦.•■rchase and commission 93leof goods on another, his own renders account, him¬ or on lor self obnoxious to the constitution and cannot remain in the order. A member may carry a stock of sup¬ plies for the especial benefit and conve¬ nience of his hands on his farm, but if he sell to other persons other than his hands he becomes a merchant and in¬ eligible. Under a strict construction of the na¬ tional constitution, nn alliance man can¬ not occupy the position of clerk in a mercantile house. Section one, article seven of the Na¬ tional constitution clearly seta forth the prerequisites to membership in the Alli¬ ance. An Alliance may designate and sell one or for more the of its members to buy of the order. order, under the supervision sell An Alliance store cannot to persons outside the order. In originating a lodge the organizer installs the officers, but at the first elec¬ tion, and thereafter, the retiring presi¬ dent installs the newly chosen officers. If the then president be the re-elected officer, the retiring vice-president will in¬ duct the former; thereupon the president in- will install the other officials, The stallments are annual. Ii is competent for an Alliance to adopt rules and regulations not iu con¬ flict with the state and national constitu¬ tion. and to enforce the same by ade¬ quate penalties. An Alliance may adopt a resolution in favor of the exclusive use of cotton bagging, or forbidding and partic- fix ularly the use of jute bagging, from and enforce a penalty for departure expulsion, said rule; either suspension is temporarily or de¬ A suspended member is barred the privileges of the order, but still amenable to the law; for suspension having been constitutionally removed, he is restored to full membesship. It is competent for a lodge to summon of the a member suspended dues for on trial account charge non-payment of on a of conduct unbecoming an Allianceman. Neither a railroad train hand, conduc¬ tor, brakernan or trackhand is eligible to membership in the Alliance, nor is a real estate agent eligible. is of the books when A member clear he has paid all dues required by the con¬ stitution, and all'assessments levied not forbidden by that instrument. If a secretary of a lodge be granted he a demit upon his statement that was clear of the books, and join another lodge, and the fact mentioned be sub-Alliance developed it becomes the duty of the which the brother joined to deal with him on the charge of conduct unbecom¬ ing an Allianceman. It a demitted brother apply to, and is rejected by, another lodge, an applica¬ tion Tor membersnip on Ms part cannot Da filed by himself or entertained by any lodge until six months from the date of election shall have claps ud. Under the State constitution of force previous to the consolidation of the Alli¬ ance, the Wheel, etc., a minister of the gospel was eligible without regard national to place of residence. Under the constitution "country ministers ef the gospel” only are eligible. Respectfully submitted, AIartin Y. Calvin, Chairman Judicial Committee. BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE. Passenger—Say, Captain, I’d like an egg for breakfast. Caplain—AA'hen the ship lays to I’ll try Passenger—Oh, and get you one. if she thanks. But doesn't? C aptain -Then you’ll have to wait till f get the lay of the land.—[Rochester Poet-Exprefie.