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VOL. J.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
WORK OF THE FIFTY-FIRST
CONGRESS-
THE HOUSE AND SENATE
DELIBERATIONS OVER MAT-
OF MOMENTOUS INTEREST TO OUR
TERS COUNTRY.—NOTES.
COMMON
in the house, Monday
morning, the chaplain made a feeling al-
Lon to the sudden of Pennsylvania. death of Represen¬ Mr.
tative Watson, submitted the conference report
Cannon sundry civil appropriation bill,
on the agreed by unanimous
which was to con¬
sent The senate amendments (which
have not been acted upon) to the river
and harbor bill were non-concurred in
and a conference ordered. Saturday,
September 13th, was set apart for
the deli eery of eulogies to the late Sena¬
tor Beck. Then Mr. O’Neil!, of Petfh-
eylvania, rose and announced the death
of his colleague, Mr. Watson, the third
member from Pennsylvania w-ho had died
in Washington this session. The house
adopted the customary resolutions of re¬
gret, and for the appointment of a com¬
mittee to superintend the funera’, and
then adjourned. bill taken in the Sen-
The tariff was up
I ate on Monday. Mr. Aldrich rfeerred to
I | the unusual length of the discussion that
has taken place on the tariff bill, and said
that that fact and the knowledge shared
I by all that the business of the country
I I was in a 6tate of anxious suspense await-
ing results, necessitated a speedy solution
I | of the question. The senate deliberations
led hiru to ask the senators on the other
side to consider the the question of fixing
a date of closing the debate and of
having a final vote on the passage of
of the bill. Monday, September 8th
and thereafter was made the time for
consideration of the bill and amendments
. without debate—three hours to be allowed
to each side for general debate, and then
a final vote to be taken on the passage of
the bill. The tariff bill was laid aside.
. The house bill for the erection of a tower
of thc first order for a light on Smith
island, Va., was taken from the cal-
I enfiar and passed. Th« tariff bill was
| again taken up, the pending question be-
ing on paragraph 193, page 45, imposing
a duty of one and a half cents per pound
on lead ore and lead dross.
1 Mr. Coke moved to amend by inserting
a proviso that ores containing silver and
lead, in which lead is of less value than
I silver, shall be admitted free of duty.
He spoke in advocacy of his amendment
and was followed and supported by
Messrs. Carlisle and Reagan. The bill
then went over. Messrs. Cameron, Cul-
lom and Faulkner were appointed a com-
mittee on part of the senate to attend the
funeral of Representative Watson, and
the senate adjourned.
Before the reading of the journal, in
I the house, on Tuesday, Mr. McClammy,
j of der North of Caroliua, made the A point call of of the or¬
no quorum present.
house was ordered, but 126 members re¬
sponded to their names. Mr. Brosius, of
der, Pennsylvania, demanded the regular or¬
and contended that the unfin¬
ished business was the Conger lard bill,
J the inconclusive vote upon Saturday the passage of which was
owing to the ab¬
sence of a quorum. Mr. Baker, of New
l ork, who was interested in the senate
ill on the speaker’s table, argued tuat
business on the speaker’s table must first
’■ disposed of. Mr. Blount contended
at m the special order there was a dis-
inct time given to each bill mentioned
!, an d Gie time designed for the
^ aru bill had expired. The day was con-
-onif d in contentions for personal privi-
e ?ts and sharp coloquies, and without
TOL the house, at 5:45, adjourned.
n he senate, on Tuesday, the substi-
Wwv the fcankruptcy bill by Mr. Hoar,
t ie judiciary committee, was placed
IJ calendar. The memorandum of-
i°” da y ky Mr. Aldrich, fixing a
CD n of and voting
the tariff bill was presented,
P resi uing ,
• officer stating that
]f tered <i0nse 5 t w 6s asked for hav-
T en as an order of the senate.
n memoraDdum agreed to by
imm, was unan-
s T Sent .The conference report
q. ; on
and read> appropriation bill was
the m f e r , ence a long debate Tlie
tariff > ! ! , . report was agreed to.
amend Was t k en taken up. Many
iinsurr? 4 “Led Were P iDg resen discu,,si0 ted, but were the
p»<e. °-
<w' *’ * ^°rth it 'Y' Carolina, d ““ d »y. made Mr. Me the
*»
1105161 dun moved 'no quorum pm at.
um .11 mm," wit:
under call be mama:
ponenh o! the lard b111, led by
consume ordered {hf tune. yea The and my.
to—yeus 146,
ing of the nays 21.
cisely hour, journal
one and then Mr.
Maine, moved its approval,
motion demanded the
which was ordered-—thp 010.4.
KNOXVILLE, CRAWFORD CO., GA.. FRIDAY, AUGUST 29 , 1890 .
again set out on "his task of consdming
time, taking as his text the Cannon reso¬
lution of Wednesday. He yielded to Mr.
McAdoo of New Jersey, who helped de¬
nunciation aud ridicule upon Mr. Can-
edge non s and statesmanship his love * and h : storical knowl¬
for the farmer. Then
ensued the stormiest scene of the session.
Mr. Cannon rose to reply. [Here Mr.
Cannon used language untit for publica¬
tion]. There was instantly great confu¬
sion and disorder in the hall. Mr. Mc¬
Adoo shouted out that he wanted the
words to go upon record as a specimen of
Mr. Cannon’s vulgarity. Mr. Caruth, of
Kentucky, suggested the proprietv ol
clearing the galleries of ladies:
while Mr. ^ Enioe was clamoring
for recognition on the question of order.
O ,
Messrs. P L3 i
a lively fisticuff on the floor. Mr. Can-
non apologized for the remarks he had
made, but Mr. McAdoo rose to a question
Sak ! l hC / en i lema [ r T
Ulinois (Mr. Cannon) had made what L he
caUed an explanation but what
he (McAdoo) and those around
him considered as very unsatisfactory.
A motion to dispense with further pro-
ceedings was lost. Yeas, 57, nays, 115.
Mr. Brosius, of Pennsylvania, offered a
resolution for the arrest of absentees,
directing the sergent-at-armsto telegraph
for absent members, and revoking all
leaves of absence, except those granted
on account of illness. The resolution
was agreed to, and the house adjourned.
The tariff bill was resumed in the sen¬
ate, on "Wednesday. In the course of a
set speech tariff upon the general subject of
the bill, Mr. Davis advocated plac¬
ing farmers’ binding twine on the free
list. Mr. McPherson’s substitute for the
wool schedule, and some amendments of¬
fered by Mr. Plumb to some of its mr >-
graphs, went over without action, leav¬
ing the whole schedule open. The sugar
schedule was also passed over informaly,
and the tobacco schedule taken up, but
no changes were made in the house rate.
When schedule G (agricultural products
and provisions) was reached no amend¬
ments from the democrotic side were
successful. The amendment of the finance
committee to reduce the duty on barley
from 30 to 25 cents per bushel was with¬
draw' and the house rate stands. The
duty on barley inalt from 45 to 40 cents
per bushel was disagreed to. This
brought the senate to the paragragh the
about rice. Without entering proceeded on
discussion of it, the senate to
executive business and at 6 o’clock ad¬
journed.
NOTES.
The house committee on war claims,
Tuesday, reported favorably the bill au¬
thorizing the secretary of the treasury to
pay William aud Mary college, of Vir¬
ginia, $64,000, to reimburse it for the de¬
struction of its buildings and property
during the war.
The house committee on railways and
canals has agreed to report favorably
on the bill for the protection of railroad
property and ot railroad employes The
engaged in handling it.
bill provides for safety couplers
on freight cars and power brakes on lo¬
comotives, but gives railway companies
sufficient time to prepare for the change.
After January 1, 1893, it shall be unlaw T -
ful for railroad companies to run a train
that cannot be controlled by an engineer.
TEXAS ALLIANCE MEN
HOLD A CONVENTION AND ADOPT SOME
VERY IMPORTANT RESOLUTIONS.
Tbe Texas State alliance convention
held in Dalas adjourned Saturday even¬
ing, all its duties having been finished.
Resolutions were passed asking congress¬
men to make laws preserving the public
domain for American colonization only;
that laws, both state and national, be
passed to regulate transportation of unlimited for the
benefit of the people and
coinage of gold and silver to be sup¬
plemented by a suffice volume of
treasury fiotes. to supply the country
without the intervention of national
banks; also asking the the land state law legislature
to especially amend so as to
open up the western parts of the state
for actual setting,
THEY WILL RESIGN.
DIRECTORS OF THE AMERICAN COTTON
SEED COMPANY WILL GO OUT.
A New York dispatch says: E. D. Ad¬
ams, of the firm of Winslow, Lanier &
Co., on Wednesday, stated that he holds
the resignations of a majority of the di¬
rectors of the American Cotton Seed Co.,
successor of the cotton seed trust, and
that their places will soon be filled by
men of wiaely known business ability,
who will represent the real holders of the
* He also states that the trust,
property. has floating debt of $2,-
or company, a
500,000, and that a circular will soon be
issued, announcing the issue of $5,000,-
000 of 8 per cent debenture bonds, which
will be offered to stockholders »t p*r.
TELEGRAPH AND CABLE.
WHAT 16 GOING ON IN THE
BUSY WORLD.
A SUMMARY OF OUTSIDE AFFAIRS COX-
DENSED FROM NEWSY DISPATCHES
FROM UNCLE 8AM’S DOMAIN AND WHAT
THE CABLE BRINGS.
The Oklahoma legislature met Tues-
dav.
Cholera is spreading rapidly along the
Mediterranean.
The striking miners la Belgium now
number 18,000.
Several cases of cholera are reported in
the vicinity of Berlin.
The sub-treasuries, on Tuesday, pur-
chased $2,4G4,600 four aute half pea
cent bonds
The socialists of Berlin, Germany, helc
a midnight mecting £ Tuesday night .
which attended y J 7 00 0 members ol
tbe part
*
Representative T Lewis . „ F. Watson, ,
o
Pennsylvania, died very suddenly Mon-
morning in Washington. Heart
disease was the cause,
The hay crop in Ireland is reported and as
ruined, and the condition of cereals
turf is bad. One death is reported from
eating diseased potatoes.
The French steamer, Amerique, on Fri-
day, ran down and sank the English steam-
er,Red Broak, off the port of St. Nasaire.
Three persons were drowned.
Butler & Johnson, dealers in paper, 44
Beckman 6treet, New YY>rk, made an as-
signment Saturday to George P. Butler,
with a preference of $140,000.
Conservative railroad men estimate the
prospective loss to the Old Colony Rail-
road Company, bv the Quincy accident,
aside from the damage to rolling stock
at $500 000
, , T a „
ten a letter in which he says that Mr.
Stanley is very far from being restored to
perfect health '
A . dispatch ,. . of Tuesday m , says: Kennedy ,, A
& Co., cotton brokers in Ltverpoel, have
suspended. Other failure* in the cotton
trade are expected m consequence of the
collapse in prices.
The bakers at Newry, Germany, feared went
out on a strike Monday. It is
there may be trouble, and the town is
swarming with police. A boycott has
been declared against “blacklegs.
Owing to a misplaced switch, two
freight trains on the Burlington and Mis-
souri River road collided at Mullen, Xe-
braska, Tuesday morning, killing three
persons and seriously injuring six others.
Twenty thousand miners held a meeting
at Chesterfield, England, Monday, ana
voted in favor of a workiug day of eight
hours. The National Blast Furnacemen e
Association has also approved the eight-
hour system.
Dispatches from Madrid, say: Cholera
continues in Valencia and Alicante. In
Toledo, Wednesday, eight new cases and
four deaths were reported. The directoi
of the military academy there has sue-
cumbed.
A dispatch of Monday, from Rome,
Italy, says: The military manoeuvres powder at
Montechiari with smokeless were
a great success. Batteries of artillery
fired half an hour without their presence
being discovered.
Advices from Madrid, Spain, Toledo,
Cholera is spreading in the city of reported
Thirteen cases and five deaths
Monday. The Madrid health depart-
ment has sent officers to Toledo to take
sanitary measures.
The Chicago express on the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad, ran into an open switch
near Point of Rocks, Md., Tuesday even-
iug The engine and David postal ZLler car were
wrecked and Engineer injured. was
killed The fireman was
A dispatch of Monday, to the London
Xeus from Odessa, says that in spite ol
the protest, an anri-Jewish edict will be
promulgated in October, with a severity supple-
’ m ■ repressing intended satisfy
on i to
foreign opinion.
A X Buerfbs cinrdav Ayres dispatch says: There
owing’to'reports in Provincial Cedul market
2LL| that the Mort-
fc compell ed » i,
fd“t^o^ gold’premmm chI^“.Tn i, 157. th« S“:
The
L ]*™M
ttonu WJk pari
protest ag.tn.tBi.hop O Dwyer ..ttaell
O^Brien ten other Panielhte mcm^rs
parliament m.de speeehe.
A Viena, Austria, dispatch of Wednea-
day saya: A terrific storm has visited
Trieste, causing a great losa of life and
property. Many wrecks are reported on
tbe Adriatic sea. and the crew* of several
vessels have perished. killed by At lightning. Wittingau
three persons were
Admiral Brown, of the flagship
Charleston, which arrived Monday at
Seattle, Wash., from Honolulu, expressed
the belief, in an interview, that the nexl
steamer from the Hawaiian Islands would
bring news of a revolution and probably
of the dyelarati on of a new republic.
The cloakmakers’ strike in Philadel¬
phia, after declared continuing nearly eighteen
weeks, was off Monday night,
and the strikers resumed work Tuesday.
In all, about 450 men were involved.
Less than one hundred are now in the
city, some having goue to Chicago and a
majority to New York.
A Washington dispatch of Monday
says: As a result of the investigation bv
local steamboat inspectors of the Sea
Wing disaster on Lake Pepin, the license
as master and pilot of Captalu'WCTlierih,
who commanded the steamer, has been
revoked, and he has been reported to
the United States attorney for prosecu¬
tion.
Workmen engaged upon the two ends
of St. Clair river tunnel, between Port
Huron, Mich., and Sarnia, Ont., shook
hands with each other Monday morning
under St. Clair river and made the great
subterranean highway re-echo with their
cries. The tunnel connected is practically with com¬ it is
pleted, aud everyone
jubilant,
Thc Q ueen » s hotel at Sunbridge,
C fin ada. together with its contents, was
burned Monday morning. The guests,
of whom there was a large number, had
great difficulty in escaping. Two men,
Thomas Powers and Herbert Layton, the
latter it is said, belonging to Ottawa,
were burned to death, and t»o Others
were Badly burned.
A banquet was given to Dr. Peters at
Kaisershof, Germany, Monday evening.
Minister Hoffmann having, toasted the
emperor. Dr. Schwemfurth proposed whom he
health of the guest of the evening,
he referred to as an intrepid man. w ho
had secure d Germany s hold m east Afri-
ca, and who had so unconsciously re-
The boiler of a locomotive on a freight
U" al n on tlie ^ew Xork, Pennsylvania ano
Ohio , railroad exploded train Wednesday running, morn- six
ing while the was
east of Mangfleld 0 . Engineer
Albert Qrahara ’. of Gallon. and Fireman
T ft h Murphv of Urbana, were instant-
* ' mangled. Fire
, k ed 6 d horriblv
was communicated teoil cars in the train
and fifteen were burned,
jq re wns discovered in McVicker’s
theater on Madison street,Chicago, Tues-
da „ morning, and was soon beyond con-
trol. The rear waI1 fe]1 and aU the fire-
men 0 f 7 W ere buried in the ruins,
^.11 were more or less hurt and Fireman
j) u g y Lad his skull fractured, and
wiU probably ‘ die . The total loss to the
theat er !juilding and occupants is esti-
mated at over $200,000.
Exports of specie from the port of
jj- ew y ork for week ended Angust 24,
amounted to $262,468, of which $26,018
wa9 gold and $236,450 silver, Of the
total exports $15,214 in gold and $57,-
475 in silver went to Europe and $18,-
804 in gold and $178,975 in silver w ent
f G South America. Imports of specie for
the week amounted to $578,352, of which
$163,823 was in gold and $254,529 silver.
A cablegram of Monday from Brussels,
Belgium, says: The public sympathizes
with the strikers and condemns the atti-
tilde of the employers. The Courier de
Bruxelles says that at a meeting of strik-
ers . delegates from the Cadry coal dis-
trict, it was decided to issue a manifesto
calling upon the men to prepare for a gen-
eral strike after the suffrage congress in
September next.
A Guthrie, Indian Territory, special of
Wednesday says: Both houses of the ter-
ritorial legislature in that city effected a
temporary organization Gardonhery, as follows: democrat, Coun- of
cil, G. W.
Payne county, president; C. P. McCabe,
colored, clerk of the house; J. C. Host,
republican,of Payne county, chairman; H.
G. Beard, of Oklahoma City, clerk. It is
almost settled that the democrats and the
people’s party will co-operate and then
bave a fighting show in the house,
It was rumored on the Btreets of Boston
on Wednesday afternoon that Potter Lovell
& Co., bankers, 43 Federal street, were
financially embarrassed. There are two
concerns carrying on business of a similar
character at the same place—Potter, Lov-
«jl*Co. and the PottM--Lor.il company.
1884, with a c«h capital of «400,OflO with
the purpose of dtaconnhag commercial
^ crca .“ d
S- en , iaemien oi
«*. STt. JSi
“
g tates district court. The aldermen are
cbar „eu with neglecting to strike from
tbe Biddeford voting lilts the names of
par tics not legally entitled to vote, and
fnr CO n«piracv in arranging a place on the
]iet for names of persons not legal
yo ten
NO. 28 .
NEWS OF THE SOOTH
BRIEF NOTE8 OF AN INTER¬
ESTING NATURE.
PITHY ITEMS FROM ALL POINTS IN TIM
SOUTHERN STATES THAT WILL ENTEll-
TAIN THE READER—ACCIDENTS, FIRES,
FLOODS, ETC.
Colored people at Lula, Miss., are
talking of emigrating to Oklahoma.
The Capital City bank, of Nashville,
Tenn., is out just $41,030.70 through Frank the M.
stock speculations of its teller,
Alien.
The census office has completed the of¬
ficial count of the population of Savannah,
Ga. It is 48,212, or 41 per cent increase
over 1889.
Spartanburg, S. C., is to have a grand
gala week the latter part of September, which
during the sale of city 24th, 25th property, and 26th of
takes place on ihe
September.
A man named Pendleton was kille d
near Mineral Bluff, N. C., Monday. He
was shot with four balls, penetrating the
head, because he had reported grand jury some of
blockaders before the last
Fannin county.
News comes from Goldsboro, N. C., of
the arrest there, on Wednesday, of Alexia
Thompson, a negro woman, charged with
poisoning Samuel Cohen's family of elev¬
en persons by'deadly poison in the coffee.
She is in jail.
Labor Agent R, A. Williams was in
Raleigh, N. C., Tuesday, and gave notice
that he desires to secure 25,000 negroes
from North Corolinato work in Louisiana,
Mississippi and Arkansas. lie will begin
their movement out of the state iu Octo¬
ber.
An almost unprecedented good condi¬
tion of the rice crop is reported in the
upper Pedee section of South Carolina.
The news from tbe rice fields lower down
the coast is equally cheering. Everything
points to an unprecedented rice crop iu
the State.
A letter from Hazard, Ky., where court
is in session under the protection of
troops, dated August 25th, French says twenty-
three men engaged in the Ever-
sole feud, have been indicted for murder
and as accessories, and many of them
have been arrested.
Lookout Inn, on Lookout Mountain,
changed bands Monday, R. L. Watkins
and W. O. Peeples selling their interest
to M. M. Henderson. The latter, with
Hugh Whiteside and Watkins, owns the
controlling interest in the inn. The entire
property is valued at $180,000.
An El Passo, Texas, special says that
between thirty-five ^nd forty houses were
washed away Monday evening in Juarez,
and sixty families rendered homeless by a
cloudburst. A street traversed by one of
the bursts was almost obliterated. Dwel¬
lings on both sides were submerged and
destroyed.
B. Wellman, a wealthy and prominent
Hebrew citizen of Birmingham, w r as run
over and killed by a train on the Kansas
City, Memphis and Birmingham railroad
Tuesday afternoon. He attempted to get
on the caboose of a passing freight train,
fell under the wheels and was crushed to
death.
The census report of street railroads
shows that tlie mileage in Atlanta, Ga.,
has been increased from 15.48 miles in
1880 to 28.93 in 1890. Birmingham has
76 miles, Charleston 19, Dallas, Texas,
20; Galveston 82, Memphis 52, Nashville
45, New- Orleans 104, Richmond 14, 8a-
vannah 12. Atlanta and Savannah are the
only Georgia cities noted.
R. P. Jones, a prominent builder and
railroad contractor of Knoxville, Tenn.,
made an assignment on Saturday. His
liabilities are placed at $100,000 and as¬
sets at $80,000. These figures may his be
reduced or increased somewhat, as
affairs are in much confusion. Mr. Jones
has a large amount of valuable real estate
and his creditors will lose but little if
anything. Knoxville, Tenn., dispatch,
A says:
John P. Smith, eleven-year-old son of F.
M. Smith, and a boy named Hutchins,
died Tuesday from a dose of morphine,
and who three had taken other another children dose, of Mr. Smith’s, made
were
sick istered by thc same cold drug ip mistake which for was quinine. admin¬
for a
The mistake was made by a druggist in
filling the prescription.
The Knoxville and Southern railroad,
from Knoxville, Tenn., to Atlanta, Ga.,
220 miles, has been completed. passed A com¬ the
mittee of citizens have over
road and Inspected it. Three years ago
Knoxville voted $275,000 to the com¬
pany, to be issued for stock to that
amount. A committee, who have passed in
over the road, will report unaimously
favor of issuing the bonds.
In some wheat-planting experiments, half
when the seed was covered but an
inch it came up in about eleven days,
while tha* covered three inches was ova*
twenty days in coming up.