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VOL. I.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
WORK OF THE FIFTY-FIRST
CONGRESS.
j-ROCEEDINOS OF I HE HOUSE AND SENATE
rniEFED—DELIBERATIONS OVER MAT-
T KSOK MOMENTOUS INTEREST TO OOB
COM MON COUNTRY.—NOTES.
In the house ou Saturday, after tfc«
reading and approval of Friday’* journal,
Mr Bland, of Missouri moved to recon-
sdev the vote by which theynas and nays
were ordered upon Mr. McKinley’s appeal mo¬
tion to table his (Mr. Bland’s)
[jrora the decision of the chair declining
Co entertain his speaker’s motion table. to take He the announs- silver
I,;]] from the desired withdraw his appeal
L,; tjmf he to
Lot Mr. McKinley insisted on a vote, so
Mr. Bland's motion to reconsider was put
tin d defeated —SR) to 120. The roll wa
lalh'd on McKinley s motion to table Mr.
■Bland’s KtO, appeal, and it prevailed—yeas free-coinage
nays 45. All of the
Ijwen, except Mr. Dellaveu, appeal. who Finally, did not
■vote, voted to table the
lifter a number of members question, had been Mr.
■hoard on both sides of the
■McKinley moved to table Mr. Bland’s ap-
laoai Idie from the speaker’s coinage decision committee, seeding
silver bill to the
rllo yeas and nays were taken, resulting,
Iveas 144, na\s 117. So the appeal was
[laid licans on voted the table. with the The democrats following against repub¬
Mr. .McKinley’s motion. Messrs. B irtine,
Found], DeHaven, Herman, Kelly, Mor-
Iro'v, Townsend ayd Funston. republicans These in
democrats voted with the
[favor of the motion: Messrs. Buckalew,
Ihinphy, Fitch, Gcissenhaincr, Maisli,
McAdoo, Mutehler, O’Neil of Massachu¬
setts, Quinn, Wvly and Stahl neck er. Mr.
McKinley, upon the announcement, said:
‘•.So the appeal is tabled and the bill
stands referred to the coinage committee.”
Mr. Brewer presented the report of the
appropriations committee on the senate
uiuendments to the fortifications appro-
priation bill. At his instance the house
non-cOBcnrml in the senate amendment*
ind ordered a c nference. r Fhe house
then at 3:30 o’clock adjourned. resolu-
In the senate, on Saturday, the
t on offered Friday by Senator Edmunds,
for a committee of seven to take into con-
sideration the state of the administrative
.service of the senate and to report what
measures should be adopted and with respect of
io the greatest efficiency economy Tho
iM'rvice, was taken up and agreed to. of
house bill supplementary to the act
1 March 22, 1882, in reference to bigamy, divis-
was taken up and passed without
ion. It provides that all the funds « r
property lately belonging to the Mor-
kon church shall be devoted to the use
Und benefit of the public schools of that
-tute. The senate bill to establish an ed-
lucatioual fund, and apply the proceeds of
I public lands ahd receipts from certain
I auil-gant railroad companies to the more
I complete endowment aud support of col-
lieges for the advancement of science aud
industrial education, was then taken up,
sud its discussion occupied the greater
[part of the day's session. 31 r.Pugh offered
an amendment to meet the condition of
affairs of Alabama and other states
■to provide that schools in which colored
students are taguht (whether called col¬
leges or not) in agricultural and mechani¬
cal arts may have portions of the money
paid to them. A long discussion ensued
"n Mr. Pugh's amendment. The bill aud
amendment went over without action.
Hie vice-president announced as the com¬
mittee on senate administrative service;.
M'ss rs. Allison, Plumb, Cullom, Dolph,
I<»ilowing uashburu, Cockrell and Carlisle. The and
placed senate bills were reported
on the calendar: Authorizing the
Mobile, Jackson and Kansas City Rail-
Mad company to cross certain rivers in
Mississippi; bridge authorizing the construction
' 1 a across the Alabama rirer,uear
Mina. Ala. by the Selma and Catawba
»alley Railroad company. After the
xecutive session the senate adjourned,
hi the house, ou Monday, the speaker
■ luiunccd the appe iotment of Messrs.
I reiver, Rutter worth and S a vers as cou-
I **Tu - ,>i, i\ 1( . fortification bill. The house
''ent into committee of the whole on
b.e District of Columbia business, taking
the Atkinson bill, amendatory of the
•‘himore and Potomac railroad in the
District of Columbia. , For nearly four
■Wtirs the bill was debated. At 5 o'clock
'he cnmmiit: e lose without acting upon
’he bill. I he house then adjourned,
The senate, on Monday, resumed the
♦'ousidcrati ion of the agricultural college
®ul bill. Some formal amendments were
Hindi to the bill, and it was then passed,
appropriates auuuallv out of any money
t e treasury, not otherwise appropri-
'‘'V J ar to '' ; i n 8 l dd from to each the state sale and of public terri¬
>;
. tory- for the
ami more complete endowment
fit 1 uintcnance of colleges for the bene-
arts ‘ agricultural and mechanical
now establtshcd. or which
I I ma y be rr established iu
ur< "rilance with i act of congress,
'proved •1 uly 2, 1862, the sum of
for the year ending June
CRAWFORD CO., GA„ FRIDAY. JUNK 27. 1890.
*10, 1800. and an annual increase of the
amount of such appropriation thereafter
for ten years by an additional sum of $1,-
000 over the preceding year, and the an¬
nual amount to be paid therefor to each
state and territory shall be $25,009, pro¬
vided that no money shall be paid out
under this act to any state or territory for
the support aud maintenance of a college
where distinction of race or color is made
in the admission of students, but the es¬
tablishment and maintenance of such col¬
leges separately for white and colored
students shall be held to be incompliance
with the provisions of this act; and also,
provided that in any state in which there
has been one agricultural college estab¬
lished under the act of 1882, and in which
sIso there is. or may be, an educational
institution of like character for colored
students, aided by the state from its own
revenue (however uamed or styled), there
shall be a just and equitable division of
the fund to be received under this act.
The conference report on the dependent
pension bill was taken up and became the
subject of a long discussion. When the
vote was taken, the conference report was
agreed to—yeas 34. nays 18. A confer¬
ence was ordered on the fortification bill,
and Messrs. Dawes. Plumb and Gorman
were appointed conferees on part of the
senate. Mr. Evurts gave notice that com¬
memorative services of liis late colleague,
S. 8. Cox, heretofore announced for
Thursday, would take place at 3 o'clock
on Tuesday of next week. After a short
executive session the senate, at 5 p. m.,
adjourned. expectations, the silver
Contrary to
question came up again in the house
Tuesday. Speaker Reed was forced to
this by the western silver men calling on
him Monday night, and telling him point
blank that they would vote against the
national election law bill, or any other
bill that lie should place in the way of
silver. Consequently he had the com
mittee on rules called together, and a
, . wa< brought . »> hat fhc silver
'» l b( \ '!l\ aU( d( * I,!ltwl Kntl! *
0 <ol ‘ i "cdiu-M. ay. Aliena vote is to he
tak<n As K ’ on :,s « 5 f * !,s announced
'
> a l£ ‘o house^Mr. Bland offered an amend-
mcni. that Um senate amendments be con-
cum d in. Then the debate commenced,
a,) d lasted all day. luesdiy, the confer-
Iu the senate on
cnee report on the naval appropriation Gon-
bill was presented and agreed appropriation to.
sideiation of the proceeded postofhec with, ihe
hill was then ag¬
{frugale npproj r.ation' ol the bill is $72,-
444,11)3, being $7,047,361 more than the
estimated revenues. All of the amend-
meats added by the senate committee and
heretofore published, were agreed to
without much opposition and the bill was
passed. The diplomatic and consular apl
proprintiou bill was then taken up. All
of the committee amendments raising the
grade aud increasing the salaries of a
number of missions ot the lower grades,
and consulships were agreed to. The
amendment relating to the work of the
international American conference was
reached, and was the subject of a long
discussion. All amendments having
been agreed o the bill was passed.
Several bills cl minor importance and passed. were
taken from the calendar
The conference report on the presented, [tensions
appropriation bill having been recede
Mr. Gorman moved that the senate
from the only amendment not arranged
in the conference—that for the appoint¬
ment of two additional [tension possibility agents— of
saying that there was no
the house agreeing to it. The motion
was agreed to and the senate receded:
and the [tension appropriation The sen|»te bill now- ad¬
goes to the president.
journed. is dead issue. It
Free coinage a Wednesday. Twen¬ was
killed in the house republi¬
ty-one democrats voted with the
cans. The vote stood 135 to 152. As
soon as the silver bill was disposed of, the
majority of the committee on rules
brought iu a resolution to take up the
election law bill at once, and consider it
until next Wednesday at 2 o’clock, when
a vote shall be taken. Air. Me Mi II in and
Mr. Blount both male strong speeches
against railroading the bill through,
without having proper time for debate
and amendment, but they were voted
down by nine majority, and the bill was
taken up. A heated discussion as to the
allowance of amendments and time for
debate followed, After arranging during to
meet at 11 o'clock for the six days
which debate i-s to coirtmue. the house,
at 5.30. adjourned. address the senate
Mr. Call rose to resolutions
Wednesday on the subject of
heretofore "offered by him (-nd reported
back adversely from the committee on
foreign relations); one authorizing the
president to open negotiations with the
[Spanish government lor the purpose of
inducing that government to consent to
q u , establishment of a free and indepeud- and
ent republic iu the Island of Cuba;
(he otner in relation to German owner-
ship of a large proportion of the bonded
debt of Cuba. During the debate a
lively spat was indulged in by Messrs.
Call and IngafN.
NOTES.
A committee from Tammany hail, on
Tuesday invited Judge Crisp, ot Georgia,
(o make an address at the t on th of July
celebration at Tammany. The invitation
was accepted.
By a readjustment of the salaries of
sec nd-elass post offices, made by the de¬
partment Wednesday, the salary of the
Athens postmaster, Malt Davis, is in¬
creased from $2,000 to $2,300. The
Brunswick postmaster is increased from
£2,200 to $2,300, aud the Columbus post¬
master from $2,500 to $2,600.
The president, on Saturday, appointed
he toUowing coumiissiouers-at large to
the world’s fair at Chicago: the Gorten
Wallen, of New York, in place of
Edwin 1L Ammindowu. declined; Wil¬
liam M. Lindsay, of Kentucky, in the
place of Samuel M. Inman, of Georgia,
Jeelined, with Patrick Walsh, of Geor¬
gia, as alternate.
Senator Call, of Florida, ou Saturday,
proposed the following amendments to
the sundry civil appropriation bill: for
:wenty-five port lights along the inland
passage from Savannah, Ga., to Feruan-
:lina, Fht., $4,000; range lights for Fer-
nandina harbor $1,750; the light-house
of Mount Cornelia, mouth of St. Johns
River, $175,000.
The president has given out that he
will veto the river aud harbor bill unless
Ihe appropropriation is cut down, asdic
senate has amended it. The appropria¬
tion runs up to twenty-five millions. The
president says lie will not sign a bill ol'
more than twenty millions, and it is prob¬
able the .conference committee of the
two houses will scale it down to this
figure.
HOW THEY STAND.
CONDITION OF THE APPROPRIATION BILLS
AND THEIR PHOJIABLE COMPLETION.
A Washington dispatch of Sunday
says: All except one of the fourteen reg-
ulai appropriation bills have been acted
on in one oi both houses of congress,
But two ol the thirteen, however, the
proved by the president are now law?.
The condition of the remaining eleven is
as follows: The naval, District of
Columbia, and pension appropriation bilia
have passed both houses. and are now
in conference. The legislative executive
and judicial, and fortifications bill have
passed conference, both although hoirses and arc ready for
conference commit¬
tees have not been appointed. The post-
office, consular and diplomatic and river
aud harbor bills have passed tlie house,
and have been reported to tbe senate
with amendments by the senate eom-
mittces having them in charge, and are
awaiting action by the body. The ag-
r,cultural, sundry, civil and Indian bills
have passed the house, and are being con-
ndered by the senate appropriations com-
uuttec. i.e geueial deficiency appro-
pi nit ion i) is the only one that has cot
been considered bv either body, it not
having been reported from the house ap-
hu3reVbms < thTb^mr Ai ‘ n ° St ^ en
i lied bills, the laigei portion , being
house bills, have been sent to the presi-
»“* hlS! ■»“ «H> PJH-ning; of couyieas for
‘ ctlon '
DISGRUNTLED SOCIALSTS.
THEY ARE MAD BECAUSE HONEST WORK¬
MEN DISAGREE WITH THEM.
A New York dispatch says: A split oc-
curred in the Central Labor union Sun-
day. formed The socialist delegates withdrew,
and a new central body, which
will be known as the Central Labor fed¬
eration. Anticipating this action on the
part of the socialist delegates, the conser¬
vatives at the instance of the building
trades section, passed a resolution deny¬
ing them the right of representation in
the original organization. The war ol
words thus aroused was loud and vigorous,
and for a time it looked as though the
opposing factions would come to "blows.
The progressives were called ignorant
foreigners, usurpers and nation-wreckers,
while they in turn characterized the con-
servatives as boodlers, scabs and profes-
sional politicians, and dubbed the hall as
“boodlers’ hall.”
THE CANNON EXPLODED.
HORRIBLE AFFAIR AT COLUMBIA. S. O.,—
THREE MEN FRIGHTFULLY INJURED.
A dispatch from Columbia. S. C.. says
The premature discharge of a cannon at
the fair grounds Tuesday campaign morning, on the
occasion of the state meeting,
horribly mutilated three cannoneers, John
Stark, W. H. Carson and Ed. Rarre. Tht
latter lost both arms, aud had one eye
blown from the socket and the othei
badly damr.^Cd, besides receiving wounds
in the breast. His recovery is doubtful,
Carson's left hand was shot to pieces anti
he xvas knocked senseless. Stark xvi l
lose bis right arm. His face and eyesight
are damaged.
TELEGRAPH AND CABLE i *
WHAT 18 GOING ON IN THE
BUSY WORLD.
A SUMMARY OF OUTSIDE AFFAIRS CON¬
DENSED FROM NEWSY DISPATCHER
FROM UNCLE SAM’S DOMAIN AND WHAT
THE CABLE BRINGS.
Kansas City claims to have 200,000
population.
The population of Cincinnati is esti¬
mated at 280,000.
Census Supervisor Sedgewick estimates
the population of Bropkivn, N. Y., at
807,000.
Employes on ''ailroads entering in East
St. Louis struck oh Wednesday for bighei
wages.
The National Editorial association as¬
sembled in sixth annual session in Boston
on Tuesday.
Evcrv railroad in Cleveland, Ohio, is
tied up, aud passenger aud mail trains
are the only ones running.
Building laborers of Boston, X Si 7
vide and Cambridge, Mass., have 7- Si rr
for an increase of wages.
The Minnesota j inhibit ion convention
on Wednesday nominated J. B. Pinkham,
of Minneapolis, for governor.
The reported uprising in Mexico turns
out to be nothing but the attempt of ban¬
dits to organize and commit robb ry.
One thousand delegates attended the
sessions of the International Sunday-school Wednesday.
convention in Pittsburg. Pa.,
The international prisons congress, Peters¬
which has been in session at St.
burg Bus ia, has finished its business aud
adjourned.
The entire business portion of Ccrillos,
N. M. , fifty miles north of Albuqurquc,
was destroyed by fire on Monday night,
Loss $100,000,
New York members of the world’s fair
commission announce Cliauncey M. De-
pew as their candidate for president of
the commission
f vernm !' ut f. nave exchanged satisfactory
^ ornra,,nic »Don9 regaidmg die Aug «»-
Ge, ' man ^cement.
Au , ‘-' : l ,1 ? slon of of fil>c damp occurred
. in the colliery at Seabmcken, Rhenish
Prussia, Tuesday, killing three men and
‘ n j ,,rin R several others.
Fire.Mondoy evening,destroyed the At¬
lantic Color works, owned by Pferger A
Loddenberg, Bedford avenue, Brooklyn,
N. Y. Lo)?s $70,000.
Track laying on the cast loop of the
Louisville, New Orlefms and Texas rail-
road, forty miles long, between Clarks-
dale and Miuter City, is progressing rap-
idly.
A Saratoga, N. Y., dispatch of Tucs-
da „ Mvg; The court, of appeals has af-
finned'the original judgment iu the
Kemmler case. Keminler must be cxe-
cuted by electricity.
J)ith f B fon S(ty that a
has bocn made among the
manufacturers of ammonia, and in conse-
qUt nueucc f C ® P irices jlce " have IUVL advanced at antea from 0,1 5i n
-n's o 8 corns per p«,od ,
A dispatch from Calumet, Mich, says:
IS early a thousand miners walked out on
a a strike strike at at Tamadack tamadack mine mine Tuesdav luesaay.
Fhey demanded a ten per ceut increase
in wages and eight hours.
Tbe ways and means committee of the
Louisiana legislature has decided to re¬
port favorably on the proposed constitu-
tioual amendment to remove the capital
from Baton Rouge to New Orleans.
A Berlin dispatch of Sunday says:
Ilerr Wolff, Major Wiasmann’s commer-
cial advertiser, condoms the Anglo-Ger- English
man agreement. He sajs the
get everything, and will control Africa,
A dispatch of Sunday, from Madrid,
Spain, says: The cholera epidemic few makes fresh
no progress. There are very
cases either at Peublo de Rugat, Fenol-
lato or Mont’~hclvo. The officials de-
clare that seventy-five per cent of those
attacked recover.
A disjiatchfrom Berliu. Germany, says:
In the reichstag on Wednesday Chancellor
von Caprivi, speaking on the army bill,
snul he contemplated an extension of the
privilege of relic-f from service at the ex¬
piration of two years as a permanent
measure.
A special of Tuesday, from Omaha,
Neb., states that suit lias ueen begun by
the Union Pacific railway company purchasing against
c * 11 ^- general
(l -cnt of the road, for t ® recovery o
$60,000, of which lie :s »aie to axe e-
frauued the company,
A ?t. Paul, Minn., delegation waited
upon Superintendent of the Census Por-
ter, Tuesday and complained against the
manner in which the census was conduct-
ed in [Minneapolis, asserting that the
population had been fraudulently swol-
They asked recount. *
leu. a
Ju res|)onae to an order of the execu-
tive committee of the Central Labor
union, of Westchester county, N. Y.,
1,000 operatives in the silk mills >f John
Copcutt and Latroon mills struck Monday
morning. They are resisting eductions
of five and twenty-live per ceut. m their
wages.
Just before the dose of the cotton ex¬
change at New. York, on Wednesday,
word was received that the prominent Co. had
concern of H. E. Huston A
failed. They have been large operators sharp
oil the bull side, and the stoa lv.
decline in prices latterly had forced out
their.margins,
A St. Petersburg dispatch of *v\ ednes-
day, savs: Russian Helgoland uespapets are angry
of the cession of to Germany.
They fear that the possession Russian of the
island bv Germany will hamper
naval operations', Many*of the papers
assert t hat a secret¬ dbl'ensfue alii mice has
in c n formed by England aud Germany.
a a
Two hundred young girls employes in
Lorillard’s tobacco faetoiy, if Jersey
City, N. J., went on strike Mon-
day morning for an increase *f wages.
The strikers are employed ;n the strip¬
ping - There are ■ three
r. r <>din th
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and the strike may extend to a SL
merits.
Superintendent of Census Gilbert, of
Chicago, in an interview, says that tie
returns air ndy in show that the popula¬
tion of Chie»°o exceeds one million.
Tbe ( . itv „dded,had certainly doubled
its population in the decade, a ad ii w hs
a question between Chicago i d Phila¬
delphia f<r second place on the list of
American cities.
Fire broke out Monday in a building
n Kings county penitentiary, Brooklyn,
N. Y.. in which 400 convicts were at
work. There was no excitement, and no
attempt to escape. The convicts were all
marched quietly out of the building to
tlieir cells and locked up as soon as the
alarm was given, and attention at once
turned to saving the building The two
“l>per stories were burned off
Expoits of specie trom the port of New
York p>” w**<*k '
amounted to $1,646,585, . of winch fl,-
^ w ,. nt fo Kurope: $254,400 of the
gripped to Eilrop* going to France,
the rest to Germany, and $10,000 in gold
went to South America. The silver went
to London. Imports of spec ice . r ilu
week amounted to $239,(.22, of which
$14,043 was in gold and $224,070 silver,
A Chicago dispatch says: No freight di¬
was mo veil Tuesday on the Chicago railroad.
vision of the Illinois Central
The cause of the stoppage was a strike of
freight conductors, sixty in number. The
«trik< t* were dissatisfied with a number of
the moves recently made »y th" new
management of the road. The strike ex¬
tended to the sw itchmen, yardmen and
brakeincn, and the business of the road
is para y/ed. both freight and passenger,
with no good prospects in sight,
A charter has been filled u l opeka,
Ivinsas. by the Manliuttau, Newton and
Gulf railroad company, ' The capital
stock i - $4,5t)0,0t)u The purpose ot the
corporation is to construct amt operate a
standard gauged railroad from Manhattan,
in a -Hmlhwtstern direction some Z Zll uoint
™
lhen< . e in a SOIItllcrlv (llr( . c tkm through ”
. Indian r tentory and the state 4 of lexas
f 0 some jxiint mi the J g U lf of Mexico. Tbe
Ie a rth of th road ia um ’ miU s .
Gollect’ons of internal revenue for the
first eleven months of the fiscal year end¬
ing .fune 30, 1890, *were $130,622,000,
being $10,504,034 greater than eollee-
tioi s for the corresponding period of the
last fiscal year. Receipts were as follows:
Spirits, $75,516,200, an increase of $7,-
042.004: tobacc, $31,044,800, an increase
0 f $1,798,588; fermented liquors, $23.- olco-
]6Uv218, an increase of $1,792,000;
margarine, $758,447. an increase of
$07,207; miscellaneous, $141,75'*, an 5»-
crease of $64,506. Receipts for May,
1890. were $877,771 greater :kuui for
May, 1889.
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A BIG STEAL.
SYSTEMATIC ROBBERY OF M.E SAM !]
MAIL COUCHES
A dispatch of Tuesday from Chicago
savs: For over nine months nstant coin-
plaints have reached the chief Dostottict
inspector here about the !< j? 4 f checks,
postal orders, money, etc., ■vhile in trail-
sit between Council Bluffs and Haven
port, Iowa. The total face vatu p 4 >1 man
matter iost is over half a million, Th<
inspectors detailed on the discovt-rerf
that mail [touches were st )iOt it \\ vim
dotte Junction, where the mai' matter on
the Rock Isiaud road is transferred to tin
Burlington road for carlv m minir deliv-
ery iu Chicago. One pouch with all ill
contents was found at the l»o tom of s
well. Another, containing $250,090 »*
checks and drafts, was discovered ini
house. Six railroad emplo. ,-es at Wynn
dotte Junction have been ;>i:e ,*d umlei
surveilance. l our of them, however
managed to slip away.