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VOL. I.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
ivORK OF CONGRESS. THE FIFTY-FIRST
PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOU6E AND SENATE
BRIEFED— DELIBERATIONS OYER MAT-
! TEES OF MOMENTOUS INTEREST TO OUR
COMMON COUNTRY.—NOTES.
The house, ou Friday, after reading
L journal, went into committee of the
[hole, Ldry Mr. civil Burrows appropriation in the chair, bill. on The the
[ndry (ded'for civil the law expenditure for the current of $25,000,000. year }*ro-
few amendments were adopted, insert-
ig new items and slightly increasing
jhers already in the bill, increasing the
fgregate of the bill‘by $75,000. Mr.
pod night, of Kentucky, moved to strike
it the cause relative to irrigation debate sur-
IV. Upon this amendment a
ose which consumed the remainder of
le day’s session. Without completing
Insidcration of the bill the committee
so and the house at 5 o’clock took re-
till 8 o’clock. the evening session to
for the consideration of private pension
Is.
In the senate, on Friday, Mr. Morrill
'esented a remonstrance from two coun- of
Is in Vermont against the imposition
lityontin. Ittee. Referred to the offered finance Thurs- com-
The resolution
ly by Mr. Edmunds, appointing Edward
j. le. Valentine taken sergeant-at-arms and agreed of to. the sca¬ The
Ir.ate was up then taken and
silver bill was up
Ir. Morgan resumed the floor in favor of
ire coinage. Mr. Aldrich next address-
I the senate. He defended the amend-
rnts reported by the tiuance committee
i the house silver bill, and asserted that
stead of demonetizing silver, the sys-
m proposed by the finance committee
ould more effectually monetize it than
c system now in force under the law of
78. At the conclusion of Mr. Aldrich’s
£ech, a colloquy between Messrs,
and Edmunds (in which Mr. Alli-
n also took part) was carried on at
me length in reference to legislation United as
greenbacks, the payment of
bonds in gold and the effect of an
adon currt ‘ nc y and a contraction
currency. Without concluding his
Mr. Daniel yielded for and, motion to
executive session, after a
executive session, the senate, at 0:20
till Saturday. Wil-
the house, ou Monday, petition Mr. of
of Ohio, presented Ohio, a for the
of Dayton. en-
ment of a law prohibiting the sale,
■, manufacture, or importation confederate of ban-
or flags, representing anarchists. Re-
EG or the red flag of
red. The house then went into com-
of the whole, (Mr. Burrows, of
higan.in the chair),on the sundry civil
bropriation bill. In the course of an
political debate, Mr. McComas,
predicted the passage of a
which would insue a free ballot and
count in the southern states. Mr.
of Indiana, offered and amend-
to en f° r De the eight-hour law in the
ernment printing office. Ruled out
)0 'pt of order. Pending action on
p bill, the committee rose and the
Mse, [ the at 5:20, adjourned.
n senate, on Monday, a message
pi the house asking a further confer-
■ e the °n the anti-trust bill was presented
• request assented to after remark#
Messrs. Edmunds and Vest. The de-
enev appropriation bill for pension#
Blair introduced a joint resolution
the president of the United
to institute an international confer¬
ee. to meet in Washington, in Febru-
• 1891, international with a view to the formation
nn alliance for the sup-
jssion of slavery and the slave trade,
,liz e d people, and to provide for
of schools of common
Wled " e ’ art and industry. Also to
ure dl< ; disarmament of nations and
establishment of international courts,
appropriating of the $100,000 for the ex-
ses conference. Laid on the
Hie house silver bill was taken
ant Mr. Daniel resumed his speech
n n him Friday. Mr. Allison next
-( 4. tbe se pate in a lengthy argu*
.
° r rte co ' na ge.
' ! he '' hole on the suudry civil
bilL After adopting one
lment adding $40,000 to the bill,
^ mit teo rose and reported the bill
* ,bc l)i11 was Passed. The
men went ieto committee of the
e "n the Indian appropriation bill.
1 appropriates $6,000,000. With-
"inpieting the the bill, the committee
house adjourned.
bouse ^ r was taken
fo s attitude [\ e erticized the the adminwtra- silver
1 upon ques-
and a i' sorted ^ the silver-pro-
r ‘K v . u cs could baT foreseen what
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KNOXVILLE, CRAWFORD CO., GA„ FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 1890.
that atitude was to be, the present ad¬
ministration would not be in existence.
In conclusion, Mr. Wolcott said that the
•iiiver bill was' ot far greater importance
than the election bill.the anti-gerrymand-
ering bill or the tariff bill, The senate
then proceeded to vote on the amend¬
ment reported by the tiuance committee.
Among the amendments agreed to was
the following offered by Mr. Plumb in
lieu of the first section of the house bill:
That from anu after the dnte of the pas¬
sage of this act the unit of value in the
United States shall be a dollar,
iud the same may be coined of
loin hundied and twelve an.1 one-
hall grains of standard silver; or of
twenty-live and eight-tenths grains of
standard gold; and said coins shall be
legal tender for all debts public or pri-
rate; that tncreaftcr any owner of silver
or gold bullion may deposit the same at
»uy mint of the United States to be
formed into standard dollars or bars for
his benefit, and without charge; but it
shall be lawful to refuse any deposit of
less value than $100, or anv bullion so
base as to be unsuitable for the opera-
lions of tiie mint. The title of the bill
was amended, so as to read: "An act to
provide for the free coinage of gold and
diver bullion, and for other purposes.” passed—
The bill, as amended, was then
vens 4 , nays 25. The bill for the admis-
Jon of Wyoming as a state was then
mlo-n up. -•<> ., s to make it '‘unfinished
business, ” and the senate, at 0;20. ad-
j^m-ned,
NOTES.
The river and harbor bill, as it passed
the hojse, appropriates $19,078,945.
Lodge-Rowell national election jjr«2 law bill
within the next two weeks. Speaker
Heed and the other house leaders are
turning Iheir allen.ion to ,he aonare.
Iuthe passage of a free coinage bill by
the senate Tuesday, the administration
w as defeated on every turn. There was
qo mincing matters by the southern and
western senators. rney came out squarery
for tiie feee coinage of both gold confer¬ and
silver. Now the bill will go to a
ence committee.
On Monday Surgeon-General Hamil¬
ton, of the Marine Hospital bureau, yellow was
informed that a second case of
fever bail developed on the British vessel
Avon, now detained at Chandeleur quar¬
antine station. He also received a report
from the special agent sent to Merida,
Yucatan, to investigate its sanitary con¬
dition, that twelve cases of yellow fever
have occurred there and that there are
fears of an epidemic.
The republican csucus Monday, con¬ is
sidered the national election law. It
ready to be reported to the house. Hav¬
ing disposed of this subject, the caucus
next turned its attention to McComas’s
smti-gerrymandering bill. This was dis¬
cussed at some length. Before the vote
was taken many members had left the
hall, so that the result, which was the de¬
feat of the bill by a vote of twenty-two
to twenty-six, was unsatisfactory to its
friends.
Since the announcement that the enu¬
meration of Washington City had closed,
a number of complaints have been made
by those who insisted they have not been
counted. Inquiries from a number of
people by a Pont reporter would seem to
indicate that the census had not been ac¬
curately and completely taken. In the
editorial and composing rooms of the
paper there were a number of persons
omitted by the enumerators. Numerous
complaints have also been received by
the local supervisor of census from per¬
sons who complain that the enumerators
failed to get their names.
Senator Vance has written a reply to
the letter of Superintendent Porter, ask¬
ing the senator’s influence in behalf of the
census supervisor of Asheville. N. C.
Senator Vance protests against the people
of Asheville being made responsible foi
the misdoings of a few' or for the anony-
pious circular. He sats he is sure that
tbe wboie reported trouble in Asheville
is exaggerated, ana that no more dim-
culty will be found in taking the censui
there than in any other city. If the enu-
merators, he said, know how to behave
themselves,they will meet with no trouble
The proposition to raise, by populai
subscription, a sum necessoay to erect a
colossal equestrian statue of General
Grant and Lee at Cumberland Gap is
very generally commended bv the public
men at Washington. Quite*a parties, number who ol
the leaders of both political interviewed
fought on both sides, were
on the matter, and the consensus ol
opinion is, that the sentiment prompt!
this movement is a beautiful and pa
and preserving in bronze the famous
scenes at Appomattox, when the two op-
ponents clasped hands at the conclusion
ol hostilities.
NEWS OF THE SOOTH.
BRIEF NOTES OF AN INTER¬
ESTING NATURE.
IMTHY ITEMS FROM ALL rOINTS IX TIIE
SOUTHERN STATES THAT WILL ENTER¬
TAIN THE READER—ACCIDENTS, FIRES,
FLOODS, ETC.
The t™*! ex-Treasurer Hemingway
was begun Miss., in the Circuit Court at Jack
son > ou Tuesday,
A steam pipe of a tug at Norfork. Ya.,
exploded Tuesday, killing Captain Darby
and a fireman,
Three shipments of Virginia wheat
were received in Baltimore Friday. The
best lot sold at $1.10.
Fifty-two republican clubs met in Jack¬
sonville. Fla., Tuesday, for the purpose
of formiug a. state league.
Mobile, Ala., complains that the cen-
8113 enumerators are overlooking a great
number of colored people m their couut.
Mr. Sam Inman, who was appointed World’s by
President Harrison as one of the
P ,ur Commissioners for Georgia, declines
to serve.
The Kentucky court of appeals, on
Tuesday, decided that the defaulting
1 reasurer Tate’s bondsmen must make
up the shortage.
Judge George G. Junkin, of Christians-
burg, \ a., was on Tuesday, elected trus¬
tee of Washington and Lee university,
in the place of Colonel William Alleu,
deceased.
A special from Jacksonville, Ala., re-
aid to l>e the second of its kind in the
wor i c j
i 0 >, n .yndSe.'i, p, *,_ • ____, . ...
English negotiating all
for the purchase of nearly
of the largest tobacco manufactories in
the city.
The shoe firm of Stein Bros., Richmond, composed
of Lee and Albert Stein, of
Va., made an assignment Friday for the
benefit of their creditors. Their total
liabilities are $25,000 and the assets not
named.
A Charleston, S. C., dispatch of Tues¬
day says: The democratic convention of
Hampton county elected a Tillman dele¬
gation to the democratic state nominating
convention which is to meet Septembei
10th.
A meeting of all the trades unions oi
Chattanooga, Tenn., was held Saturday
night. About 4,000 workingmen federa¬ were
present. The object is to effect a
tion of all the unions, which will be done
next Saturday night. ®......
rr.i re state of Mississippi, the circuit . .
in
court at Jackson, has obtained a judg-
ment for $3 *,420 against Jones & Hamil-
ton. et al., late lessees of the penitentiary that
convicts of that state. This is for
amount Claimed ,o bcJuefor 1885.
A Charleston, S. C., dispatch the of Mou-
day, says: The work of taking census
has nearly been completed. While official
figures are not obtainable, a conservative
estimate of the population of reach the city,
however, is that it will nearly 70,-
000 .
Prof. Ed Hutchinson, a balloonist,
while making an ascension in the out¬
skirts of Knoxville, Tenn., on Saturday,
fell from a height of seventy-five feet and
was fatally hurt. He is 26 years old and
hailed from Chattanooga, This was his
fourth ascension.
A Raleigh, N. C., dispatch says: Tuesday, Exo¬
dus agents arrived in the state
atid are distributing posters and papers
among the negroes, setting forth th*.
charms of the fair south. They will uat
every effort to secure a great movment of
the negroes, beginning next November.
The Anniston Evening New learns
rom farmers that in all their experience
n the cultivation of cotton they have
never seen the crop looking so well oi
growing more rapidly than it is this year.
The yield this season will largely exceed
that of last, unless some unforeseen acci¬
dent befalls it.
A census enumerator at Richmond, Va.,
las found a colored woman, named Mar¬
tha Gray, who has had thirty-seven chil¬
dren since 1868. She has given birth tc
t0 8 f\ cn others husband, singly. She is now living
with .. l her bird and.of the thirty-
8even children but one survives.
A Birmingham, Ala., dispatch says
Late Saturday asternoon a demitv sherifl
arrested P. H. Waring and J. Black, or
a charge of representing a bogus life in-
surauce company. It is said they collect- !
ed premiums or. policies in an insurance The
company which does not exi«t. men
were promptly lodged in jail.
will probably amount to $50*00*0. Gov-
ernor Buckner will save the state's credit
by advancing the money, without inter
est. from hla private fortune, to meet al.
urgent obligations, lie has already ad- !
vanetd $10,000.
A Cedartown, Gn., dispatch says: The ami
Cherokee iron furnace has started,
our people are delighted. For has two years been
this immense establishment
silent, and business has been hampered With all
somewhat by its failure to run.
its departments running, the pay roll of
the company will be $15,000 per month.
The furnace makes a run every six hours,
and the best quality of iron in the south
is made.
At Louisville, Saturday, the Kentucky
court of appeals decided that a telegraph
company is liable to damages both to
feelings and financial interests by failure
to use all due diligence to deliver a tele-
irram. The case was Chapman vs. th#
Western Union Telegraph company, in
which the telegraph company failed to
deliver a message to Chapman, notifying
him of the approaching death of his
father.
A dispatch of Tuesday, from Winston,
N. C., says: The proposition to issue
$200,000 worth of bonds for city im¬
provements was overwhelmingly carried.
This provides for the immediate erection
of a market-house, city hall and city
prison, the construction of a sewerage
system and well paved streets and buying
of waterworks. The $100,000 hotel will
go up immediately, as will also the plug
tobacco factories P. H. Ilsnes and It. J.
Reynolds, and will be the largesVin the
world -
A terrific storm swept through the wes-
tern part of , Wilson county, N. U., late
Monday evening. The storm was accom-
pauied by a tornado and hail. The lattei
played havoc with the growing is serious- crops,
particularly tobacco, which so H,"
T° y 7“
ga" ploughing it up and will plant th.
tana in corn. Ifie latter crop, as weu as
cotton, the are also badly-hurt. wide The track u«*v.*v i/j
storm was several miles and its
course was tweuty miles.
There is widespread discontent in
Gharleston, S. C., about the result of the
census enumeration. It Is said that liun-
dreds of families have not been counted.
There are thirty districts in the city, each
of which was calculated to show over
2,000 population, Some of these tail
from 500 to 600 behind, and it is claimed
that this is caused by the negligence of
the enumerators. The last city census,
two years ago, thought gave a population of 08,-
000 . It is that the present eeu-
sus will show a total of not over 55,000.
A MINE HORROR.
FIFTY MEN I’ERISH BY THE EXPLOSION OI
FIRE DAMP.
A . dispatch from „ Dunbar T . - Pa., „
says:
Monday morning at 12 o’clock an explo¬
g j on shook the miners’ dwellings on Hill
Farm, in Fayette county, near this place.
j n a mome ut fearful news had spread that
Hill Farm mines, owned by Philadelphia
parties, had exploded. Fifty-two miners
had gone to work in the worninr*' and
were in the slope when the explosion oc-
curred. Of these fifty-two, eighteen were
in the left heading, and thirty-four in the
right heading. Those in the left heading
got out all right, escaped. the others were cut offi
and not one Fire damp, which
exploded by an accidental spark from a
miner’s lamp was the cau-e of the disas-
ter. Miners from the left drift escaped
blackened and bruised, but safe, audthey
told a fearful story of the scene; just be-
fore the blazing coal ou the right could
be seen a score of terrible faces walled in
by flame. No man could pass and live,
Willing hands and hearts were not want-
ing on the outside, and a corps of one
hundred strong men began the w’ork of
rescue. The universal and unwilling
verdict from old miuers about the shaft
is that the entombed men have either
been killed outright bv the explosion or
later by suffocation. The latter seems to
be more probable, at least in part, as
sounds were heard from the entombed
men as late as 1 o’clock in the afternoon.
These grew weaker and weaker, however,
and half an hour lr.ter even the most hope¬
ful of the rescuers could hear nothing but
his own heart-throbs. The disaster is the
worst ever known in the Connelisville
region, the nearest approach being th#
Leisin mine explosion seven killed. years ago.
when twenty-three were
A HUGE LOCKOUT,
TROUBLE BETWEEN NEW YORK SUIT AND
CLOAK MAKERS AND THEIR WORKMEN.
At noon Friday about 6,000 cutters and
cloak and suit makers were locked out by
the different cloak and suit firm*
throughout New Y’ork city. The greater
portion locked out were union men, while
several hundred are non-union men. The
greater trouble, decided to lock out every
man tbe mat ter is amicably settled.
Fourteen firms are interested in the lock-
out.
NO. 18.
TELEGRAPH AND CABLE.
WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE
BUSY WORLD.
A SUMMARY OF OUTSIDE AFFAIRS CON¬
DENSED FROM NEWSY DfSPATCHK?
FROM UNCLE SAM’S DOMAIN AND WHAT
THE CABLE BRINGS.
An earthquake shock was felt at Cush
ing, Quebec, Monday morning.
It is reported that the Mahdi has re¬
leased all Europeans who were takes
prisoners by his forces.
Every railroad in Cleveland, Ohio, is
tied up. and passenger and mail train*
are the only ones running.
Building laborers of Boston, Somev
ville and Cambridge, Mass., have struck,
for an increase of wages.
Heidlebach, Icklelieimer & Co., of
New York, have ordered $500,000 in gold
for export to Germany.
A dispatch of Monday says: Thirteen
thousand dock laborers, at Swansea r
kng., have struck for higher wages.
H. N. Hickman was nominated foi
railroad commissioner by the Missouri
democratic state convention Friday,
' Spanish Saturday, in th>
The cortes
presence of the king, formally declared
the king’s son Louis Phillume, heir tu
'
the throne.
Hon. Francis W. Hill, of Exeter,
Maine, democratic candidate for gover-
nor, died very unexpectedly at his horn*
Sundav morning,
It is reported that the Mormons are
gradually deserting Utah, <tud that be
fore Ions ,g there will Ik only a few of then
lcft e territoiy.
Dispatches Dispatches of of Saturday Saturday sav say that that choleft cholert
has broken out at Pueblo dc Rugate h.
the province of Valencia, Spain. Four¬
teen deaths have already occurred.
John Dillon, William O’Brien and .Toh«
Redmond have been America, appointed in the delegate*
to make a tour of autuiun.
in the interest of the Irish national****
movement.
Stanley says the director of a Dutch
house recently told him that his firm now
has thirty steamars on the bought Upper Congo
and that their house had $l r 50D-
000 worth of ivory in the last two years
The executive council of the America*/
Bankers’ association held its annual meet¬
ing in New York Saturday, and decided
that the convention of 1890 be held al
Saratoga, N. Y., September 3d, 4th aad
5th.
A special from Reading, Col., says th» r
one of the peaks of Mount Shasta liae
disappeared. The top appears to hurt
been out short off and to have fallen ini/
the crater below, the depth of which ha--
ucver been penetrated by the eye of man.
1 he Damburg-Amencan York steamship dav> Co
lumbia arrived at New a few
a # 0 ’ having made the voyage from
Southampton in 6 days, 15 hours and ->1
ndnutes * this being the fastest trip be
tween these two ports on record,
A dispatch relatives of Monday from London
s#}' 9 only the of the bride ami
groom are invited to be present at th<
w edding of Miss Mary Anderson and Mr.
Antonio Navarro. The cermony, it is
announced, will be of the plainest ami
simplest character,
Judge Cowan, of the court of general
sessions, New York, on Friday dismissed
indictments against John Keenan and ex-
Boodle Alderman Henry L. Sayie*
charged pated with bribery of' in having partiei-
in the steal the Broadway rail¬
way franchise,
According to several Parisian newspa
pers, M. Ribot. minister of foreign affairs,
is about to declare the recognition by
France of the Brazilian provisional gov¬
ernment, and has intimated to Seuos
Stagielra, Brazilian representative, thar
President Carnot is ready to reoeivc him.
A meeting, held at Paris Saturday tc
to express sympathy disturbed with the the arrested ni¬
hilists, was by anarchists,
who entered to have a free fight. Th*
Egalate commented severely upon the ac¬
tion of the anarchists, and in revenge
thirty of them made an attack upon the
office of the newspaper Sunday and de
molished everything in sight.
A complete set of proofs of Henry Jl.
Stanley’s forthcoming work. “In Darkest
Africa," were obtained in a mysterious
manner by some person who offered cop¬
ies to an English paper. The house ot
commons has issued a circular warning
any person against publishing the work,
as the government has charge of its pub¬
lication.
Exports of specie from the port ol .
New York during the week ended Satur¬
day. June 14, amount to $1,390,000. an*? ol
which $1,380,950 was in gold,
$59,050 silver. All the silver and $].
068,700 in gold went to Europe, and
$262,250 in gold went to South America.
Imports of specie for the week amounted
to $107,550, of which $6,269 was in gold,
and $101,281 silver.