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VOL. I.
THE RATIONAL CAPITAL,
WORK OF THE FIFTY-FIRST
CONGRESS.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE AND SENATE
BRIEFED—DELIBERATIONS OVER MAT¬
TERS OF MOMENTOUS INTEREST TO OUR
COMMON COUNTRY.—NOTES.
the senate.
an
Mr. Morrill argued against the proposi-
to issue legal tender treasury notes
exchange for silver) as an unconstitu-
measure. The conference report
nu the military academy appropriation Total
was presented and agreed made to. by the
of appropriation by the senate, $404,-
was $429,996; The
py the conferees, $435,296. appropria¬
conference report on the army*
tion biii was again taken up, and the
question in regard to the provision conference as to
was discussed, the that
being to the effect
10 intoxicating drinks be supplied the
canteens or in traders’ stores in
tTA ZrlT:twLZ& the
in and Mr Harris addressed senate
lish relief to the farmers bv establishing
i ware-house system for deposit of certain
Tops and the issuing of treasury notes for
fight per cent, of their market value, and
by lending money to the farmers on their
eal estate at the rate of two per cent, a
■ear interest. Even if such measures
^—-ere constitutional (as he was convinced
were not) he believed they would
benefit the farmer, but would prove a
injury and loss to him. At the
ent over ’ and after a brief executive
7‘ - 0I ‘ ,hc L S( ' na f e adjourned. proceeded the
n ruesday , the house to
Moderation ol the Alabama contested
ec ion case of McDuffiie vs. lurpiu. Mr.
omstock, of Minnesota, opened the dis-
iission with an argument in favor of the
[aims of the contestant. Mr. Crisp, of
vorgia, presented the claims of the con-
resented Among the memorials referred in and the other senite! papers
and on
® uesday, were resolutions from the Louis-
na lemcliti.rf. «vt«n/U n for^thfreUefaf- .» rm
ress and the Jr president lIie
K-i i , .
commhte?nn ^^ D t^e t h C d Srf?L P hS
I th a t th c
Inventing u gs reported the adulteration and placed of food and the
was on
■Nations set forth in' the bill. The
< 't bill was again taken up and Mr.
n rw <11 addressed the senate. He de-
i imi himself in full accord with the
bill; and he would coin it at its
"*■ e and the fortification bill taken
n amendment to increase the ap-
CUS81 ° n ' n w bich the condition of
(. r i *1*)- S ° a I >orts was discussed by
f :)■>* awes and h a le, and their ap-
CRAWFORD CO., GA„ FRIDAY. JUNE 0. 1890.
was taken and the amendment was agreed
to—24 to 22.
In the house, on Wednesday, Mr. Os¬
borne, of Pennsylvania, presented appropriation the con¬
ference report on the army
bill. The report was agreed to. Mr.
Morrill reported the disagreement of the
conference committee on the senate de¬
pendent pension bill. The house insisted
on its amendment, providing a service
pension, and a further conference was or¬
dered. The house then proceeded to the
further consideration of the Alabama con¬
tested election case of MeDufiiie against the
Turpin. The first vote was taken on
minority resolution declaring Turpin
elected, and it was reported—yeas 114,
nays 130. The majority resolution seat¬
ing MeDufiiie was agreed to—yeas 130;
nays 113j and Mr. MeDufiiie appeared at
the bar of the house and took the oath of
office. Mr. McKinley presented a enrolling eoneur-
rent resolution directing the administra¬
clerk to enroll in the customs
tive bill what is known as senate amend¬
ment 91, in regard to the abandonment of
goods to underwriters and salvors. The
resolution was agreed to—yeas adjourned. 127, nays
5. The house then, at 4 :05,
The resolution for an inquiry into the
management of the fish commissioner’s
office was taken up by the senate
on Wednesday, and agreed to. The
presiding officer, Ingalls, announc¬
ed as select committee on the bill
for the establishment of the university of
the United States: Messrs. Edmunds,
Sherman, Ingalls, Blair, Dolph, Harris,
Butler, Gibson and Barbour. The forti¬
fication bill was taken up, the pending
question being on striking out two items
for the Watervleit, N. Y., arsenal $248.-
743, for the creation of a south wing, and
$780,000 for machinery for twelve-inch
guns, and inserting, in lieu of them, the
following for bori ng and turning traveling Laths,
rifling machine, and eiglity-ton
crane fully equipped for Watervleit the manufacture Arsenal,
of twelve-inch guns, at
N. Y., $235,000. A long debate followed.
Finally the amendment to strike out the
two items described and in«e-i- tb" sub¬
stitute was agreed to—57 to IS. Amend
ments were adopted providing infantry for the
purchase and test of a now gur.
and two new cannons. All other amend¬
ments w ere agreed to and all were passed.
The senate then adjourned.
*«*»> *><«•/ i", Washington and nil
government departments, district offices,
Xd and many b “ houses were
Republican representatives went into
caucus immediately upon the adjourn-
ment of the house Wednesday afternoon,
to consider the silver question. No defi
nite action was agreed upon.
A delegation of about one hundred
importers from New York city appeared
on Wednesday before the senate commit-
tee on finance, to protest against the
passage of the McKinley tariff bill.
the talk of Washington Sunday. The
Southern members have been particularly
interested in it, and it is believed by
thern to 1)C the (le ath of the sub-treasurV
sc heme. Indeed, ; they believe after all
the AUiance ha e m id this letter they
will abandon the sub-treasury bill and be-
„j n to | ook f or somethin^ 1 better fZl
sSiSiSir - ; > >er.
T ... i . .
r e r !r„ ZJ W th°.
t 8 fl s ° n t f ! he - <ate II1JI1 5' e
committee . will ... take at least three months
to prepare a tariff bill, to report to the
senate as a submitue for the house bill
,here wil1 be uo business for the houses
<««™,sa C , o.,t S Weof that trhich the,
It is understood at Washington that a
movement is on foot among southern
The majority report in the case of Mil-
ler vs. Eiliott. from the seventh South
Carolina district, w T as submitted to the
house committee on elections Tuesday
stitutional. The basis for this declaration,
the exercise of the right of suffrage which
ire in conflict with the state constitution,
immense _ size _ in _
Sheep grow to an
Mutbern California. One was recently
TELEGRAPH AND CABLE. 1
WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE
BUSY WORLD.
A SUMMARY OF OUTSIDE AFFAIRS CON¬
DENSED FROM NEWSY DISPATCHES
FROM UNCLE SAM’S DOMAIN AND WHAT
THE CABLE BRINGS.
A severe shock of earthquake occurred
in Lima, Peru, at 2 o’clock Monday
morning.
The assignment of Bowden A Jenkins,
stock brokers of Wall street, New York,
was filed Tuesday.
A dispatch from Loudon says: Cholera
has crossed the Caucasus, and appeared Russia,
in the southern provinces of
making its way westward.
A dispatch of Saturday from London,
says: Henry M. Stanley will go to
America in the autumn. He proposes to
lecture in most of the principal cities of
the United States.
A dispatch ot Tuesday from Council
Bluffs, Ioxva, says: Loveland, a brisk lit
tie town in the Missouri valley, has been
destroyed by a waterspout. Several per¬
sons were drowned.
A Providence, R. I., dispatch of Mon¬
day, says: The first day of the enforce¬
ment of the Sunday law resulted in the
closing of all the baker shops, groceries, stands.
meat markets, and news and cigar
Henry Hoffman, a discharged employe
of the LaCledt flour mill, St. Louis, has
been arrested, and has confessed that, out
of revenge, he set fire to the mill, by
which it was destroyed, The loss is.
about $75,000.
The Chicago bill appropriating $250,-
000, one-half of which is available during
the present fiscal 3 T ear, wall be reported
immediately by the senate committee on
military affairs, and promises to become
a law at an early day.
The cracker pool recently formed at
Minneapolis, having proved unsatisfac¬
tory, a cracker trust, with a capital of
$10,000,000, has been formed. It is to
include and conduct the entire cracker
business of the country.
Governor Fifer, of Illinois, lias an¬
nounced that he will call a special session
of the legislature on the 17th of June, to
act upon the suggestion of empowering in
the city of Chicago to issue $7,000,000
bonds in aid of the world’s fair.
Councilman Maloney, from the joint
standing committee of ways and means
of the Baltimore council, Wednesday
night, reported an ordinance authorizing
the sale of the city’s 32,500 shares ol
Baltimore and Ohio common stock.
A dispatch to the Baltimore Sun from
Richmond, Va., states that at a meeting
of the Lee Monument committee on Mon¬
day it was announced that $6,309 had
been contributed by persons in New Jer¬
sey w ho who do not give their names.
The London Times declares that the
order to dispatch the American cruisers
to Behring sea smacks too much ef the
methods of the first Napoleon in dealing
with weak statesmen, and that if the or-
,, 18 cxecutcd , , Bntlsh D , men of , raust
follow '
Detectives have gone to Havana tc
bring back young Robert Wallace, who
vana^ young man’s accomplice, arrest! is also in Ha-
under and both will be
brought b back together, °
The ^me Market club, of Boston,
Mass., had for its special guests Saturday
Speaker Reed, Congressman Dingley and
^rnTy^o'waCm
“ ^“ational and state affairs.
The big worsted mill of Ackroyd and
The french police were made cognizant
°f the conspiracy by the authorities there
and placed on track of the conspirators.
An Augusta, Maine, dispatch says
Saturday. Burns imported from othei
At the Allegheny county, Saturday Pa., republi-
can primary elections evening,
ond and twenty third districts respec
tively. The tight in the twenty-third in'many
district was the-hottest known
down until about September. This is tht
largest establishment on the Peninsula,
employing in good fruit seasons 25C
hands, and turning out 500,000 cans ol
peaches.
The largest and most valuable raft evei
brought down the Delaware river from the
head waters arrived at Belvidere.N. .T.,ou
Sunday from Dingman’s ferry. It is the
property of A. Yetter, and will be run
through to Philadelphia. It is made up
of 500,000 feet of switch timber and
5,000 ties, and is valued at about $5,000.
The Estafette says that the nihilists re¬
cently arrrestcd at Paris for point plotting
against the czar were on the of
despatching a quantity of explosives seized. tc
St. Petersburg when they stated, were
The arrests, it is further were
made on information received from Rus¬
sian police.
A Joliet. Ill., dispatch says: Bernard
Dealey, a life convict, who received word
a few days ago that his sentence had
been commuted and that he would be
free next October, dropped dead Wed¬
nesday while telling his good produced fortune.
His excessive joy undoubtedly
heart disease.
A Lincoln, Neb., dispatch Bradshaw, says:
Meagre reports received from
a hamlet of some four or five hundred in¬
habitants, about fifty miles west of Lin¬
coln, state that the town was swept away Fix
late Wedesdav night by a cyclone.
persons are reported killed and twenty-
five or more injured.
A dispatch of Saturday, from Pitts¬
burg, Pa., says: Charles Silverman, of
Leechburg, the first man in the state to
test ihc original package question, United ap¬
pealed to Judge Aeheson, of the
States court, for bis discharge, but that
judge remanded him to be tried in Arm¬
strong circuit court under Pennsylvania
law. opened Mo¬
The negro conference at
hawk Lake, N. Y., Wednesday. A
number of distinguished men from all
parts of the country were present, The
conference is called to consider the ques¬
tion of Christianizing and educating the
colored people. Among the speaker* Albion
were ex-1 resident Hayes and
Tourgee.
Representative O'Neil, of Indiana, in¬
troduced in the legislature of that state,
on Monday, a bill to pay each man who
was mustered into the service during the
late war, and to each man who was
drafted and furnished to the government
an acceptable substitute, a sum equal tc
the bounty being paid by the government
at the time for volunteers.
The laboring classes of the City ol
Mexico are up in arms because the gov¬
ernment has decided that hereafter all
working men on both public and instead private of
works must wear pantaloons The authori¬
the usual cotton garment.
ties determined, howevef, to enforce the
order.
About fifty silk ribbon weavers cm-
ployed by Pelgram A Myer, luge manu-
facturers at Paterson, N. J. struck Tues-
day against a reduction in wages from tif-
teen to twenty per cent. The weavers of
the Yelvito Silk company and over one
bond red employed by Johnson, Cowdin
Co. are also out. resisting a similar re¬
duction.
The free coinage convention of the
state of Nevada, met at Carson a few
days ago and adopted resolutions re¬
questing senators and representatives in
congress from the state of Nevada to fa¬
vor the measure for the opening of mints
of the United States for free and unlim¬
ited coinage of standard silver dollars,
and to support no other bill.
The court of claims at Washington, D.
C., has dismissed the claim of A. B. Mul¬
let for $150,000 compensation as architect
of the building now occupied by the
state, war and navy departments. His
claim was for architect’s commis¬
sion on the total cost of the building, al¬
though it was not completed till 1888,
thirteen years after he ceased to have any¬
thing to do with it.
A business men's meeting for the pur¬
pose of protesting against the passage of
McKinley tariff bill was held in Phila¬
delphia Tuesday afternoon. Alexander
K. McClure presided and the list of vice-
presidents included the names of many
prominent business men of Philadelphia.
The building was crowded, the tobacco,
tin plate and woolen industries being
largely represented.
The statement has been made that the
claims of the German colonists in East
Africa, regarding the boundaries of their
possessions, have caused irritation in
government circles in England. Officials
at London pronounce this statement false,
and they say, furthermore, that there is
no doubt whatever that the German gov¬
ernment will refuse to recognize the
claims iq question.
“What is the matter, Alice? Toe
look worried.” anything,
“lam. Its too mean for
a hese roses Lavc just come with & card
‘ Wear these for Jack,’ and I don't know
whether they are from the Jack I hate of
Urn one I like. It's too horr id!”—[Ba¬
tar.
NO. 16.
THE FLEECY FTAPLE.
REPORT OF THE NEW ORLEANS EXCHANGE
REGARDING THE CROP.
The New Orleans cotton exchange is¬
sued a statement Tuesday, embracing
thirty-nine weeks of the season, from
September 1st to May 30th inclusive, this
and last year, showing that 7,078.915
bales of 1889-1890 have come
into sight at the ports, overland
points of^ciossing and leading southern
interior centers, including the takings
by southern mills. Up to this time last
season the amount brought into sight was of
6,805,112 bales, or say 98.08 per cent
the entire crop. The statement shows
there were brought into sight after May
30, last season 33,178 bales. It indicates
that of the supply this season 2,117,592 and
bales have been taken by American
Canadian mills, including 429,587 south
of the Potomac, and 4,725,047 have been
exported to foreign ports. It also shows that
northern mill takings and Canada 0V91-
land is 32,960 bales ahead of the cor¬
responding thirty-nine weeks of last year,
and that excess in foreign exports for the
season is 220,537. Between the 1st and
13th of May, inclusive, this season’s stocks
at American ports and twentv-ninc lead¬
ing southern interior markets have de¬
creased 17,910 bales, against a decrease
during the same period last year of 122,-
834, and are now 141,278 bales less than
they were at this time last year.
A HORRIBLE STORY.
PARENTS CHARGED WITH HAVING STARVED
THEIR CHILDREN TO DEATH.
A dispatch from Columbia. S. C., says:
A shocking story has been brought out
at an inquest on Saturday over the body
of a little child in Union county. It was
the last child of a family of live and it
died under suspicious circumstances,
which led to an inquest being held. Its
parents were poor country people and
small farmers.« The evidence at the in¬
quest showed that the five children had
been practically murdered by thnir pa¬
rents. AVhen a child was sick it would'
be left in the house by itself, the parents
going into the field and attention leaving the in¬
fant w'ithout food or of any
kind. In this manner the five children
have been killed. The testified physicians that who
attended the died inquest starvation and the
last child had from
lack' of attention. The parents were ar¬
rested and jailed.
A PHOSPHATE SYNDICATE
ORGANIZED IN BARTOW, FLORIDA, WITH
OVER A MILLION CAPITAL.
A dispatch of Monday from Bartow,
Fla., reports: One of the largest phos¬
phate syndicates in Florida was formed
very quietly in Bartow. It is called the
American Mining and Improvement Com-
pany with a capital stock of $1,200,000.
They own 4,720 acres of the noted phos-
phate bed on the Alafia river. This com-
pany is now preparing to mine and have
a contract to deliver 10,000 tons of phos¬
phate in a certain length of time, begin¬
ning July 1st.
A CASHIER’S THREAT
TO EXPOSE PROMINENT CITIZENS AS IMPLI¬
CATED IN HIS SHORTAGE.
A Binghampton, N. Y., dispatch lead¬ of 1
Tuesday, says: lu the judgment of
ing citizens there is a shoitage in ac¬
counts of C. A. Thompson, cashier oU
the suspended Oswego National bank,
variously estimated from $20,000 to $75,-
000. Bank Examiner Geteman, of Al¬
bany, refuses to make any statement and
Thompson is equally noncommittal, ex¬
cept to declare that if pushed to the wall
he will expose two of Oswego's most sub¬
stantial citizens, who are implicated in^
the shortage.
A BIG SCHEME.
EFFORTS OF NORTH DAKOTA TO GET TUB
LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY.
A Bismark. Dakota, special of Wednes¬
day says: Efforts to secure a chartei
for the Louisiana Lottery in North Dakota
are beiug renewed with great energy.
The state is swarming with agents of the
lottery, and it is said that $500,000 will
be expended with the view to securing
the election of a governor and legislature
favorable to the scheme.
ALL CREMATED.
AN ATTEMPT TO LIGHT A FIRE WITH KERO¬
SENE RESULTS DISASTROUSLY.
A Durango, Col., special of Monday
says: Mrs. Robert Morrow, on Sunday,
attempted to light occurred, a fire with kerosene. fire
An explosion which set tc
the clothes of the woman, her four-year
old son and baby. They were all thret-
cremated in the nouse. which was burned
before assistance could be rendered.