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U\ i-At w V 1 -i O Cnmiti) ijcrnlt!. 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.