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IfiE NATIONAL CAPITAL
I/CRK OF THE FIFTY-FIRST
CONGRESS.
KOCEEDIN 68 the HOUSE AND 8ENATH
hriefed-dkltberations OVER MAT-
S OF COUNTRY.—NOTES. MOMENTOUS INTEREST TO OUH
COMMON
On Friday looming the house resumed
moderation of the senate amendments
lhe sundry civil appropriation bill.
, consumed vain at-
Lf!o “«°”re was lu a
r the of quorum
l.reM-ncc »
Li without disposing of the bill the
Ease at 5:30 the o’clock, evening took session a recess to be until for
1 'clock
uL Ktof although absentees the is daily democrats growing look
lou t and feeling of equanimity, the
it with a responsible for leg-
■publicans, who are
Rjtiou I regard it with impatience. o’clock
The senate met at 10 a. m.
Iriday, |itv-seven and senators the roll were call in showed attendance, that
lie' lad. journal Edmunds of Thursday moved to having amend been and
Irrect Mr. making it
the journal by state
|c names of the thirty-two when senators the roll pros¬
it 1st Thursday morning then proceeded was
I called. The senate
the consideration of the tariff bill by
Ini lived. graphs, and a lengthy discussion without fob
The bill went over a
Ite on any of the pending amendments.
Id [ought apparently with ut discussion being ad-
to a close. The senate then
lurncd.
I [oved. The journal having been read proceeded and ap-
[the the house, on Saturday,
further consul* ration of the senate
Ineneiments Ln to the sundry civil appropria-
Lit bill, the pending am* udment beiug ship
[Frying appropriating Fan shoals, $75,000 North for Carolina. a li^ht The
picndment was non-concurred in. Yeas,
KG, nays, 27. One hundred and forty
[embers There were announced great difficulty as pairs in on dis¬ the
pte. was
king of the slimness remaining of attendance, amendments, but
wing to the
[ter a of resolution absence, was the house, adopted at 2 revoking o’clock,
fares ijoumed.
The senate met at 10 a. m. Saturday,
ktitions were increase presented duty from barley; Ohio,
voring an of on
lom Alabama the federal protesting election against bill, and the
psage of
pm the Wage Workers Political Alii-
pce, Washington. D. C., asking when
11s are introduced by seuators at the
kuest of any association, the fact shall
[pear fcntials in of the Edwad print It. of the White bill. The senator cre-
as
pm the state of Louisiana for the fall
[rm, P succeed beginning Mr. the Eustis), 4th of March, 1891
were pee¬
ked and laid on the table. Senate
[lls [bridge authorizing the the Chnttahooche construction and of
across
lonec livers, Georgia, were reported and
peed on the calendar. The resolution
lered Friday by Air. Blair, instructing
|e [ r committee days rule on for rules the to incorporation report within of
a
|e I' limiting previous and question closing or of debate some in method
[meutary par-
procedure of the senate, was
Pen up. The resolution was referred
I the committee on rules. The tnrifl
[1 peussion was then of taken the chinaware up. After a paragraph, colloqual
r George took the floor and made a
pF J speech on the general subject ol
F 1! A conference was ordered on the
Inary civil appropriation bill, and
psrs. ^pointed Allison, Hale and Gorman were
conferees on the part of the
l!| ite. The senate then, on motion ol
n. Aldrich, at 5:15 o'clock, adjourned
10 o clock Monday morning.
Mississippi, house, on Monday, Air. Alorgan,
‘"lege, rising the to a question desk and of
sent to clerk's
* |f rea( ^ tiie article in a Southern news-
'P er to the (ffeot that, in order to curry
tke Farmers’ Alliance, he had
| his license as a lawyer annulled. He
jounced ^ a,> a the campaign statement lie. as The a falsehood house
a went mto committee of the
.t Air. Fayson
in the chair, or
general deficiency appropriation bill.
' ien, icrson, o' Iowa, in charge of the
ure > ^plained that the bill carried
, appropriation of $5,140,000.
plenty Items of
submitted to the committee on
run,of* ^nations c ' )u ' l aggregated therefore, $18,500,000. that the
( ®ce,
“ ‘ ^ had carefullv scrutinized all
proposed appropriations. Fending
e ntl' tv!” t ^ c , house 0f t ' u adjourned. ' Gill, the committee
iiV, In tv. * .^ Date ^londav,
’ on the tariff
ling M etl P V the ending question
on J * lr r v ’ ests amendment to the
linau. '
ar ^‘J^^raph, reducing the duty
id U i T t0 50 ud
r »lortn) are l * r ceDt '
ire * aDd n on P la > a undecorated
tr> An ^ ?
r cent * >0r cen G instead of 55 and 50
S reC '°- mmended financc
mmittec »f 60 m nd 55 per
Tha D ? e h ° u -bij: The amendment
itho 55 anTsn *** COmmittee C ^’ wa ’ makin " a S reed 8 the t0
ut *sion. The next question
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KNOXVILLE, CRAWFORD CO., GA., FRIDAY, AUGUST S, 1890.
was on the committee amendment to
paragraph 101 as to “all other china,
eic.,” the rate of 58 per cent was agreed
to. 1 he next question was on glass and
glassware. The committee amendment
of 1 cent per pound on bottles holding
not less than a pint, and on demijohns
and carboys, and 14 cents per pound on
bottles holding less than a pint was
agreed to. The next question was on an
amendment of the finance committee to
strike out paragraph 109, 110, 111, 112,
113 and 114 of the house bill, and to sub¬
stitute for them one paragraph, 101, tax¬
ing glass and glassware, cut or orna-
m* nted, 45 per cent nd valorem. This
brought out a long discussion. Finally,
on motion of Mr. Aldrich, the rates were
reduced one-quarter of a eeut all around,
a.reduction of on*-eighth of a cent below
the committee amendment and the sen-
ate having thus d.sposed of .between
eighteen and nineteen pages of the bill,
adjourned Tuesday at 6 o’clock, morning. p. m, till 10
o’clock
In the house, on Tuesday, after the
reading of the journal, Mr. Bingham, of
Pennsylvania, moved to 1 y on the table
the motion (which has been pending for
some time) to reconsider the vote by
which the house passed a bill in to grant
leaves of absence to clerks first aud
second-c ass postofficea. Tabled. Mr.
McKinley, from the committee on rules,
reported (as a substitute for Mr. Cum¬
mings' resolution) a resolution asking the
secretary of the navy for reasons for an
increase of forefe at Kittery navy yard.
After considerable discussion the resolu¬
tion was adopted. Mr. Lacey, of Iowa,
submitted the majority report on the
Cinytou-Brcckenridgc election c«se. The
report, which declares the seat vacant,
was ordered printed and laid over. The
house then went into committee of the
whole on the general deficiency bill.
Without disposing of the bill, the com¬
mittee rose and the house adjourned.
The senate met at 10 o'clock a. m.
Tuesday, and immediately proceeded to
the consideration of the tariff bill, the
pending item being paragraph 107 on
page 19. “Cylinder and crown glass, pol¬
ished. On paragraphs 113, 114, 115, re¬
ferring to spectacles, the finance commit¬
tee recommended an amendment to sub¬
stitute for the mixed rates fixed by the
house, a uniform rate of 60 per cent ad
valorem was agreed to. Paragraph 108,
referring to fluted, rolled or rougn plate
glass, was, ou motion of Mr. Aldrich,
agreed to as it came from the house. Then
come schedule C—” metals and manu¬
facturers of. Mr. Morgan moved to in-
sert after the words “iron ore” the words
“containing more than one-tenth of one
per cent of phosphorus and phosphoric have
acid,'' his purpose being to steel
nd*T»itte free of dntv M>- Go—o->n
argued upon the 6ame lines as Mr. Mor¬
gan, and had not concluded his argument
when the senate adjourned,' having
reached page 24 of the bill.
NOTES.
It took just ten minutes Tuesday morn¬
ing lor the house committee on elections
to adopt the report drawn up by Mr.
Lacey, Breckinridge declaring that Representative the
was not elected from
second district of Arkansas.
The senate committe, on Monday, took
up the anti-lottery bill prepared at the
post office department, and which was
reported favorably to the house last week.
Some doubt was expressed as to the cou-
stitutonal right of congress to interfere
with matter entrusted to the mails,and the
bill was referred to a sub-committee con¬
sisting of Senators Sawyer, Mitchell and
Rcngon for examination and report.
At the close of Mr. George's speech Mr. in
the senate, Saturday afternoon,
Plumb offered the following concurrent
r» solution and asked that it lie over till
Monday: That congress desires the re¬
moval of the remains of the illustrious
soldier and statesman, Ulysses S. Grant,
to, and their interment in, Arlington president na¬
tional cemetery, and that the
be requested to convey to the widow of
this eminent man such desire, tendering
to her on behalf of the nation all the nec¬
essary facilities for such removal and in¬
terment.
WILL GET LEFT.
ONE THOUSAND PENSIONERS NEGLECT TO
RENEW THEIR APPLICATION.
A Raleigh, N. C., dispatch legislature says: Un
dor an act of the last some
eighteen thousand dollars was collected
this year for pensions for ex-confederate
soldiers, who were in the service of this
state, and for the widows of soldiers who
died in the service. For several years
the pensions have been paid paid, but these
were very small, being out of a spe¬
cial appropr ation for that purpose. There
were last year 4,000 pensioners. Keap-
pUcation Wanks were on the first of hist
March sent to all of these, and the law
requires them to be filed not later than
Monday, August 4th. It was learned
Saturday from the suite auditor that 1,000
of the applications had not been received.
This delay will cause trouble, and raise a
howl among the pensioners, but it is due
to their own iM^jig^uca in roost cases.
TELEGRAPH AND CABLE.
WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE
BUSY WORLD.
A SUMMARY OF OUTSIDE AFFAIRS CON¬
DENSED FROM NEWSY DISPATCHES
FROM UNCLE 8AM’6 DOMAIN AND WHAT
THE CABLE BRINGS.
The French senate has passed the sugai
tax bill.
Ernest Hess, of the Chicago board ol
trade, has gone to the wall,
Cholera has appeared in the Spanish
prison of Badajoz, on the Portugese from
tier.
The , sto ne elevator and mill of A.
A Freeman & Co., at LaCrosse, Wis.,
i JUrne( ] s at urdav.
St. Louis county, Missouri, is suffering
from a protracted drought, the worst ex¬
perienced since 1853.
Dense crowds of grasshoppers Tuesday. were
seen flying over llalleck, Minn.,
They came from the north.
The city of Berlin gave a fete at the
towm hall Tuesday night in honor of the
medical congress. There were 4,000
guests.
The governor of Illinois has signed the
world's fair bill. The bill having au
clause attached will go into
eff* et at once.
One million seven hundred and fifty
thousand dollars iu gold bars were taken
from the New York assay office Monday,
for shipment to Europe.
Au official rough couut by the census
bureau nhows the population of Philadel¬
phia to be 1,044,894—an incieasoriluring
the last ten years of 197,724.
The farmers of South Dakota say they
will not have over five bushels of wheat
to the jure; the oat crop will be no bet¬
ter; whi e corn, with favorable weather,
still has a chance.
The returns of the census supervisor
show that the population of Arizona, in¬
cluding Indian-, is 57,000. The three
largest towns are Tucson, 5,185; Phceuix,
3,115; Prescott, 1,843.
The government of Servia notifies Aus¬
tria that unless the prohibition of the im¬
portation of pigs is withdrawn, the Ser¬
vian frontier will be closed altogether
against Austrian imports.
The rapid development of the cotton
trade of Turkestan has resulted in a com¬
plete blockade of depots along the line,
the railway not having depots or facili¬
ties for transporting the cotton.
Car loads of watermelons are now be¬
iug shipped from Missouri to places north
and east, and they are said to be very
fine. Melons are sold at $100 the car
load ou the railroad track in that state.
A Johnstown paper has printed, fourteen claims
months after the disaster, what it
is a correct list of the dead by the flood.
The total number given is 2,187, ol
which over 200 bodies have not yet
been recovered.
Mr. Walsh, editor of the Cashiel, Ire-
laud, Sentinel, has been sentenced to
three months’ imprisonment at hard labor
for publishiDga speech delivered by JohD
Kelly, at a meeting which the authorities
had forbidden to be held.
The tenth Ohio district republican demo¬ con¬
vention and the eleventh district
cratic convention. finebng it impossible ad¬ tc
nominate candidates for congress,
journed sine die. This means new delc-
gates and a new convention.
A dispatch of Monday, from Buenos
Ayres, states that Gen. Roca and Seuoi
Costa, to whom were offered the port¬
folios of the ministry* of the interior and
ministry of education respectively, in President have
declined to accept office
Celman’s cabinet.
A dispatch of Friday from London,
says: Cholera is spreading at Mecca.
On Wednesdav eightv-one deaths won
reported, aDd Thursday eighty-four Red wen the
reported. All ports on the sea.
Levant and in Asia Minor, have been
quarantined against the pilgrims.
The temperature v» cot higher in Chica¬
go < u Saturday than on any other day oi
the year. At *1 o’clock in the afternoon
the signal service thermometer registered
95. and down on the ground high level 99. many A
indicators showed as as
number of cases of prostration by heal
occurred.
A dispatch of Monday from St. Peters¬
burg, Russia, says: Over 100,000 troops
will take part in the military mauceuvers
to be held .before the czar in Volhynia, in
September. Emperor William will arrive
* Peterhof August 24th. He will
at on
remain for three days, and will return by
sea to Germany.
A dispatch from Paris, under date of
Saturdav, s:«vs: The Siede has received a
cipher dispatch from St. Petersburg, discovered say¬
ing a dynamite miuc was
under the* railroad station at Rasik. This
place is on the route to be taken by the
Emperor William of Germany, on his
coming Russian trip.
Exports of sjieeie from the port ol
New York during the week ending Sat¬
urday amounted to $7,153,864, of which
$6,539,564 was iu gold and $613,806 sil-
ver, Atl the silver and $6,537,466 in
gold went to Europe, and $2,098 went
to South America. Imports of specie which for
the week amounted to $45,244, of
$24,449 was in gold and $30,795 silver.
A cablegram from At* ens, Greece,
says: Since martial law was proclaimed the
iu the Turkish town of Alassona,
Christian inhabitants have been brutally
treated. Twenty no ables at Siatistu
were seized and beaten on the pre oxt of
compelling them to reveal the nam* s of
the iiarbo ers of brigands. Two hun¬
dred inhabitants of Anaszolitzi were
seized and tortured for the purpose of
extracting* money.
Airs. Roderigo Yallintere. wife of a re¬
sident of Tecumstli, Ont., died Saturday,
after having fasted for forty-three days.
She took sick in January last, and medi¬
cal men said it was a ease of dyspepsia.
She kept growing worse, and for the last
forty-three days had refused to take a
particle of food. The only thing she
could retain on her stomach was water, oi
of which she would drink a couple
gallons a day.
TVie Union Labor Farmers' Alliance
convention, held at Lansing, Alich.,
Thursday, nominated the following state
ticket: For governor, Eugene II. Bel-
dfl; lieutenant governor, John M. Mc-
Gregor; secretary of state, William E.
Adams; state treasurer, Henry E. Black¬
man; state auditor, William W. Gra¬
ham; attorney general, A. A. EJlis; su¬
perintendent of uublic instruction, C. A.
Zittler; justice of supreme court, O’Brien
Atkinson.
AH the employes of the Carbon Iron
Company at Pittsburg, Pa., s ruck Mon¬
day afternoon because au attempt was
made to start the puddling puddlers department
with negroes. The struck a
month ago for $5 per ton for puddling, de¬
but the firm refused to grant the
mands, and the men quit work. Monday
fartv-< ight negroes were put to Work,
and all the oitier employes, numbering
500, came out, causing a suspension of
work in the entire mill.
Fire, on Alonday. destroyed half the
business portion and forty residences of
What Cheer, Iowa. From Broadway
throe blocks north on both sides of
Barnes street everything was Crescent swept away,
including the opera house, sup¬
ply store, Harlem and Parrott blocks,
buildings occupied by J. H. Leathers and
T. G. Funk, general merchants, and
many other business houses, At least
forty residences were burned. The Pres¬
byterian church was also destroyed. To¬
tal loss estimated at $100,000.
A dispatch from Nashville says: The
Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis
railway, on Tuesday, made another cut
in freight rates Orleans from and all points Texas on its points. lines
to New
Several days ago a reduction of 15 per
cent was announced, and now the rate
is cut below the medial line, so that
frieght is hauled for less than half of
what was charged a week ago. The de-
morilization is due to the rate cutting
inaugurated by the Cromwell line of
steamers from eastern points to New Or¬
leans.
A NEW PLAN
INAUGURATED BY A COFFEE FIRM VO COL¬
ONIZE NEGROES IN MEXICO.
A dispatch from St. Louis says: J.
Milton Turner, an attorney, left for New
York Tuesday to arrange the details of
his plan for colonizing negroes in Mexico.
He says the plan is being promoted by who a
firm of coffee dealers in New York,
have a capital of about $5,000,000. The
purpose of the firm, he said, is to put ne-
gioes to raising coffee and sugar. They
own about 21.000.000 acres of land,
w hich w*i 11 be divided among the colo¬
nists. No rental will be charged for the
land, and the firm will furnish all the
means of support for the negroes till they
can get their grounds un *er cultivation
and become self-sustaining. They are
willing to spend $2,000,000 to $3,000,-
000 in that way.
LEVEE CUTTERS.
WILL BE VIGOROUSLY PROSECUTED—
TWENTY-FOUR TRUE BILLS.
A special from Arkansas City. Ark.,
says: It has been known for several day*
that the grand jury of this county was
investigating the case of the men who cut
Boggy bayou levee, fifteen miles abovt
here, on the 5th of April. Friday sensatior morn¬
ing there was considerable of a
In the court room when that body brought
into court and filed twenty-four true bills.
Warrants were at once issued, and whilt
none have been returned as yet, it is un¬
derstood that those indictments a k
against levee cutters. They will be vig¬
orously prosecuted. The offense is s
felony under the laws of the state, pun¬
ishable by a long term in the penitentia-
n-
NO. 25.
NEWS OF THE SOUTH,
NOTES OF AN INTER¬
ESTING NATURE.
ITEMS FROM ALL POINTS IN T11K
SOUTHERN STATE8 THAT WILL ENTER¬
TAIN THE READER—ACCIDENTS, FIRES,
FLOODS, ETC.
James Clarke & Co., coffee dealers,
Orleans, have turned over their
property to their creditors.
1 he cost of transport at ion to the re¬
cent encampments of the three regiments
of Alabama state troops, at Montgomery, had in
was $2,537. The regiments 472; men iiecond,
;amp as follows: Fiist,
430; Third, 571.
The citizens of Alexandria, Va., have
filed an influential petition in the senate,
asking to be taken back into the District
of Columbia, because of the onerous
taxes imposed upon them by Virginia.
The senate has taken do action on the
petition. received
The first bale of cotton was at
Montgomery, Saturday, from the larm of
Peyton Hall, near that city, who brought
in the first bale last year on the same day.
The bale weighed 561 pounds, for was
classed as strict middling and sold 12
8-4 cents per pound.
At a meeting of the business men of Rich¬
mond, held Friday under the auspices of
the chamber of commerce, decided that
it is expedient to hold a state fair. A
committee was appointed to secure sub¬
scriptions to the unpledged guarantee
fund, which is only $4,000.
A fire in Memphis, Tenn.. early occupied Friday
morning, destroyed the building
by E. Whitmore, printer; Salinger &
Co., clothiers, and Z. M. Estes «fc Co.,
wholesale grocers. Loss $30,000; insur-
a nee $25,000. Whitmore's loss on stock
and presses $40,000; insurance $22,000.
The city council of Anniston, Ala.,
has passed au ordinance legalizing the
sale of whisky, and fixing the license at
$100. Those obtaining license are $1,000. re¬
quired to give bond iu tlxcsum ol
strict regulations were adopted. The
next legislature will be asked to allow
the city to fix the license at $1,000.
At Burnside, Kv.,Tuesday, there and was the a
fight between a police judge hes-
town marshal on one side and Ben (
nut and his sons, John and Hiram, on the
other. There was on old feud between
P. F. Smith, the police judge, and Ben
Cassiday. Ca Biday and Judge Smith
were fatally wounded ; the other two par¬
ticipants seriously.
A Birmingham, Ala., dispatch of Mon¬
day says: Both the officials of the Jxiuis-
ville aud Nashville railroad and the con¬
ductors express the opinion that the ex¬
isting differences will be settled without
a strike. By request a committee from
the conductors will meet General Mana¬
ger Metcalfe in conference, and at this
meeting, it is thought, all Differences will
be adjusted.
A San Antonio, Texas, dispatch says: of
An attack was made on the town
Shafter, Piesino county, Monday morn¬
ing, by seventy-five Mexicans. State
Ranger J. F. Graves was killed, and
Deputy Sheriff I. Lee seriously wounded
while endeavoring to arrest the Alexieans.
It is reported that Shafter was sacked
and burned, No further particulars
have been received.
The track-layers ofi the Macon ami Bir¬
mingham railroad are now within eigh¬
teen miles of LaGrange, Ala. They will
reach that place in 8ix weeks, which will
complete the road from Macon to La
Grange, except a gap at Thoraaston, aud
the road will no doubt be in operation coming by
the middle of September. The
of this road insures for LaGraDge a num¬
ber of new enterprises.
A dispatch from Richmond, says: The
citizens’ committee on the fair, Monday
night, decided that it is inexpedient is to
hold an exhibition next fall, as it too
late to arrange for a successful show.
They passed a resolution asking the Vir¬
ginia Agricultural and Mechanical Society
10 hold a meeting as early as practicable exposi¬
to decide whether or not a grand
tion should be given next year.
The sales of leaf tobacco in the Dan¬
ville, Va.. market for July were 1,472,-
7 0 pounds, only about half the amount
sold in July of last year. The sales for
the first ten months of the fiscal year
were 22,800,000 pounds, nearly 2,000,000
less than during the same period is last be¬
year. Stock is very scarce, it
lieved that the sales for this tobacco year
will not exceed 25,00(1,000 pounds.
Captain Tillman, tho leader of the
fanners’ movement in South Carolina, is
forty-three years of age, blind of one eye.
pays taxes on 1800 acres of land, runs twenty
plows, and has a dairy supplied by forty
thoroughbred Jersey cows.
I* Iowa there will be a total failure of the
jonev crop this year. Leading apiarists of
that section say there is no honey in the
Sowers, and the clover and buckwheat have
thus far yielded nothing.