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I £1he Cnupftn^ a Cinuitij 3 ijcniU*. 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.