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CONGRESS IN SESSION.
Tie Daily Routine ol BoBi Haases
Briefly Epitomized.
What is Being Done to Allay Finan¬
cial Depression and Bring Relief.
Twentieth Day.— In the senate,
Wednesday, after the routine morning
business the bill for the repeal of the
Sherman act was taken up, and Mr.
Sherman proceeded to address the
senate. He said that if the repeal of
the purchasing clause of the act of Ju¬
ly, 1890, were the only reason for the
extraordinary session it would seem
to him insufficient. It was, how¬
ever, justified by the existing
financial stringency. On one thing,
he said, congress and the
people were agreed, and that was that
both gold and silver should be contin¬
ued intise as money. Monometallism,
pure and simple, had never gained a
foothold in the United States. If the
senators wanted cheap money and an
advance in prices the free coinage of
silver was the way to do it, but they
should not credit bimetallism.
Twenty-Fibst Day. —After some un¬
important proceedings in the senate
Thursday Mr. Cockrell introduced a
concurrent resolution directed the sec
retary of the treasury to issue
certificates, not to exceed 20
per cent of the amount of gold
coin and bullion in the treasury and
to use and expend the same in payment
of interest on the public debt, or any
other demand, liability or obligation
of the United States. It was read and
laid on the table for the present.
The house bill for the repeal of the
purchasing clause of the Sherman act
was then taken up and Mr. Wolcott, of
Colorado, opened the debate with a
prepared speech against the bill, de¬
livered in the presence of almost all
the senators, and of a large audience
in the galleries,
Twenty-Second Day.— After some
twenty minutes spent in the routine
morning business of the senate, none
of which was of public importance, the
house bill to repeal a part of the Sher¬
man act, was taken up and Mr. Vance,
one of the minority members of the
finance committee, addressed the sen¬
ate in opposition to the bill.
Twenty-Third Day.— Notice was
given in the senate Saturday morning
by Mr. Voorhees, chairman of the fi¬
nance committee, that he would on
next Monday move that the hour of
meeting of the senate should be 11 a.
m. instead of 12 in., and from that
on he expected the consideration
of the bill to repeal the Sher¬
man act to proceed from hour to hour.
The repeal bill was, at Mr. Voorhees’
suggestion, laid aside informally for
the day as no senator desired to speak
on it. The house urgency deficiency
bill was then reported and passed with
some small amendments. Mr. Dolph
proceeded to address the senate in fa¬
vor of the bill introduced by him ap¬
propriating $500,000 to enable the
secretary of the treasury to enforce
the Chinese exclusion act.
Twenty-Foubth Day.— After the
ordinary routine morning business in
the senate, Monday, and the passage
of two house joint resolutions for the
observance of the hundredth anniver¬
sary of laying the corner stone of the
capitol, an amendment to the silver
repeal act was offered by Mr. Butler
and referred to the finance committee,
repealing the ten per cent, tax on
state banks. A bill was introduced by
Mr. Gallinger supplemental to the
pension act of June 27, 1890. It pro¬
vides (among other things) that, ex¬
cept in cases of established fraud,
no pension shall be suspend
ed or withheld until after
a notice of ninety days to the
pensioner, and after full and impartial
investigation. Mr. Gallinger addressed
the senate in explanation and advocacy
of the bill, which was then referred to
the committee on pensions. Mr. Al¬
len, at 12 :50, moved to adjourn in re¬
cognition of labor day. Mr. Voorhees
held that the day would be best ob¬
served by going on with business as
rapidly as possible. The motion was
rejected, yeas 8, nays 41. Mr. Cullom
then proceeded to address the senate
in favor of the repeal of the Sherman
act. «
THE HOUSE.
Twentieth Day.— The session of the
house Wednesday was devoid of inter¬
est. Mr. Talbot asked unanimous con¬
sent to introduce a bill repealing the
statutes authorizing the appointment
of marshals and supervisors of elec¬
tion. Mr. Breckenridge, of Kentucky,
from the committee on appropriations,
reported the urgent deficiency appro¬
priation bill, and it was passed. The
items are $25,000 for bank note paper,
$200,000 for the coinage of subsidiary
coins and $75,000 for clerks to repre¬
sentatives. The house then resumed
the consideration of the new code of
rules with the understanding that the
general debate should close at 2 o’clock.
This understanding was disregarded
and the time arranged so as to include
the entire day’s session. The proposed
code of rules was debated, both under
the hour rule and the five minutes
rule. Without disposing of the rules
the house at 5:05 o’clock adjourned.
Twesty-Fibst Day.— After the very
and very unimportant routine
business had been transacted
in the house Thursday, the considera¬
tion of the new code of rules was
taken up. Mr. Hooker attacked the
in the rules which confers
upon the committee on rules jurisdic¬
tion over all proposed action touching
the order of business. He contended
that such a course would mean the
surrender of the powers of the great
committees of the house to a commit¬
tee consisting of five men.
Twenty-Second Day. —After the
reading of the journal in the house
Friday, Mr. Weadock, democrat, of
Michigan, offered a resolution post¬
poning from Saturday until Septem¬
ber 15th the delivery of eulogies upon
the late J. Logan Chipman, of Michi¬
gan. Mr. Reed said that the resolu¬
tion pre-supposed that the house would
be in session at that date. He bad
hoped that “the country would have
been relieved of us before that time.”
The resolution was adopted, The
consideration of the rules was then re¬
sumed. The vote was takeq on the
Boatner cloture amendment, and it
was rejected, 90 to 131. Mr. Morse,
republican, of Massachusetts, offered
an amendment prohibiting the smok¬
ing of tobacco upon the floor of the
house at any time. This was adopted
—55 to 51. Some of the most invet¬
erate smokers in the house were sit¬
ting around Mr. Morse, clouding him
up while he was advocating his amend¬
ment. Several amendments looking
to cloture in some shape or degree, and
to the prevention of filibustering, were
rejected. Mr. Morse’s amendment was
the only one that was successful. The
house at 5 o’clock adjourned until Sat¬
urday.
Twenty-Thibd Day— After the trans¬
action of some routine business, in the
house, Saturday morning, the consid¬
eration of the rules was resumed. The
first amendment presented was one
cutting off the power of a single mem¬
ber to object to a request for unani¬
mous consent. It was defeated by a
bare quorum. Yeas 52, nays 127.
THE PRESIDENT’S RETURN.
The Sojourn at Gray Gables Benefi¬
cial to All.
President Cleveland, accompanied
bp Mrs. Cleveland, their daughter,
Ruth, nurse and maid, arrived in
Washington Friday morning from
Buzzard’s Bay, Mass.
The party were met by Secretary
Thurber with carriages and driven to
the white house in a drenching rain.
Mr. Thurber was afterward asked as
to the general health of the party and
he replied that everybody was feeling
first rate, and that the sojourn at Gray
Gables had been beneficial to all.
Mr. Cleveland, in particular, was in
excellent spirits. His eye was bright
and his complexion clear, and he look¬
ed vigorous and strong.
GOES EIGHT TO WOBK.
Mr. Cleveland’s first day at the
white house after his absence at the
sea shore, was spent in the hardest of
work. After breakfast, the president
went to his office, and from half past
nine until haif past eleven, he and
Private Secretary Thurber disposed ol
a very large amount of accumulated
public business..
A CABINET MEETING.
At half past eleven the babinet meet¬
ing began, and lasted until 6ne o’clock.
All the cabinet officers were present,
except Secretary Smith. The silver
question was discussed with reference
to the chances for repeal by the sen¬
ate, and the president expressed him¬
self as satisfied that his recommenda¬
tions would be carried out. Another
most important question considered
was the condition of the treasury, but
no definite plan of relief was dicussed
with any view to immediate action.
RIOTING IN CHICAGO.
The Mob Promptly Scattered by a
Charge of the Police.
A Chicago special says: The crowd
of unemployed men and idle specta¬
tors which gathered at the lake front
Wednesday morning was much larger
than usual. Shortly after 10 o’clock
indications of a riot began tomanifest
themselves, but no definite move to¬
wards a concerted demonstration was
made. The chief of police was noti¬
fied of the condition of affairs, and
detachments of the police, numbering
altogether 500 men, were ordered to
the lake front. Rioters who were on
the eastern outskirts of the crowd,
picked up stones and coupling pins
and threw the heavy missiles at the
police. The latter charged the crowd,
and, after a brief struggle, the rioters
fled, pursued by the police.
QUIET AT COAL CREEK.
Governor Turney to Remove the Garri
son of State Troops Stationed There.
Governor Turney, of Tennessee, after
an examination into the situation at
Coal Creek, says he has decided to
move within a week the garrison of
state troops that has been for eighteen
months stationed there. In their place
will be stationed a civil guard of
twenty men, and^at Big Mountain half
as many. He thinks there will not be
any more trouble.
HUNDRED ARE BEAD!
Fatalities ol the Stan AM
Bsaatart and Part Royal
of Death and Desolation On All
Sides--400 Dead Bodies Recovered.
A special of Thursday night from
S. C., is to the effect that
three hundred and ninety dead
have been found on the islands
Beaufort and Port Royal. Over
million dollars of property has
wrecked near the same points.
both of these are the direct re¬
of the severe storm which swept
the Atlantic coast on the night
August 27th.
Every one of the fifteen or twenty
lying around Port Royal and
is steeped in sorrow., On
door knob there is a bunch of
crape, and upon every hillside there
are fresh-made graves, some already
filled, while that will others deposited are awaiting the
be in them
as soon as some one can he found
to do the kind Christian act of shovel¬
the dirt upon the coffin.
The beeches, the undergrowth,
trees and shubbery, the marshes and
inlets are turning up new dead
bodies every time an investigation is
made. Already more than tw y o hund¬
red bodies have been found, and many
of that section are confident
ic. their predictions that the death roll
will run as high as five hundred. Some
of the people, and they are among the
best people of that section of the state,
even place the loss at more than one
thousand.
There has not been an hour of any
day since the early hours of Monday
morning that a dead body has not
been found at some point on one of
the many islands. As the waters re¬
cede and the people move deeper into
the wreckage gathered by the storm
the ghastly pictures are uncovered. So
frequent are the discoveries that the
finding of a single body attracts no
attention at all. It takes the discov¬
ery of at least a clump of a half-dozen
or more to induce the people to show
any feelings whatever.
It is around Beaufort and Port Roy¬
al that the death rate was the greatest,
but in neither of the towns were many
lives lost. At Beaufort only three
coffins were brought to supply the
local demand, while Port Royal got
off even lighter. Around the two
towns there is a chain of islands, and
it was upon these that the black angel
of death hovered for hours Sunday
night, leaving in his path sorrow and
desolation greater than has ever visi¬
ted the state before, even in the bloody
days of reconstruction.
The storm was one of the most se¬
vere the people of the coast have ever
known. This section of the Atlantic
coast has been prolific in storms that
scattered death and destruction of
property in their wake, but the weath¬
er wise man, the oldest inhabitant, or
the coast pilot cannot recall anything
approaching it. It was a storm of
wind, rain and hail, and the elements
seemed combined in their greatest fury.
The seas ran high, and salt-water
waves were driven by the heavy winds
as much as twenty miles inland.
House were blown away; trees were
torn from the earth, leaving holes big
enough to hide a freight train, vessels
were dashed against the breakers and
thrown upon the earth as much as five
miles from the water edge.
The storm began, really, Sunday
morning. The day came on with
heavy black clouds hanging over the
ports. An ugly wind started up about
10 o’clock Sunday morning, blowing
from the northeast. It increased as
the day grew on, and about noon a
cold, chilly rain started. Long before
dark the paople living along the coast
knew that a storm was inevitable but
none dreamed of the great extent it
assumed. Late in the evening the
wind took on a great volocity, and as
the night advanced the great volocity
of the wind increased until it attained
a speed of 130 miles an hour at 3
o’clock. And this is about the time
the City of Savannah went ashore.
But it was not until the next morning
that the people knew of the great and
terrible danger through which they
had passed.
A glance at the map will show that
around the place of greatest disaster
there is a' group of some twenty
islands. Some of these are very small,
with only one or two families living
thereon, while others are larger and
accommodate as many inhabitants as
4,500. St. Helena has a population of
4,500; Lady’s island, 1,500; Dawtha’s
island, 75; Coosaw island, 600; Beau¬
fort, town, has a population of 3,600.
Port Royal island, embracing the
towns of Beaufort and Royal, has a
population of about 8,000.
FOTB hundbed abe dead.
As far as reliable information which
has reached the officers goes, the dead
will number 400, and they are located
as follows: At the Pacific works sev
enty-nine bodies have been found and
buried. On Lady’s island twenty-four
bodies were buried on Tuesday and
others have been found since. On Paris
island nineteen bodies had been recov¬
ered and buried up to Tuesday noon.
On Beaufort island twelve bodies
have been buried. At the Coosaw
mines five bodies have been buried.
At Cain’s Neck twenty-two bodies have
been recovered and buried, and re¬
ports are that seventy-nine lives were
loBt there. On the Eustis place, one
of the richest plantations of Lady’s
island, forty-seven new made graves
were filled'Wednesday morning. At
the other end of Lady’s island seven
other dead bodies have been found. At
Dawtha’s island, a place of about
1,200 acres, eighty lives are reported
lost, and nearly half that many bodies
have been recovered. In addition to
the list of those given elsewhere from
St. Helena it is estimated that 150 lives
have been lost. On Warsaw island
reliable information has placed forty
five in the grave. On hunting island,
the island off which the steamship
City of Savannah was wrecked, forty
six are dead.
DOSS TO SHIPPING.
The loss to shipping around the im¬
portant islands is fearful. There are
eight dredges which were employed in
getting out phosphate rock by the
several companies engaged in this in¬
dustry. The largest one, the Kennedy,
cost $350,000. The others were not
so valuable, but all are beached high
and dry, or are bottom up and hope¬
less wrecks, Connected with these
dredges were washboats and lighters.
There were something like three hun¬
dred of these, the average value being
about $2,000, and which are scattered
all over the marshes. Many of these
can be recovered, but there are at least
fifty that are total wrecks.
The damage to the phosphate indus¬
try, to shipping, warehouses, com¬
merce, merchandise, dwellings and
crops around Reaufost and Port Royal
will go to $2,000,000. Add
for Uliarleston, another for
and the damage to railroads
steamship lines and there is a grand
total of something like $5,000,000
and 600 dead bodies as the fruit
Sunday night’s blow in a stretch
100 miles on the Oeorgia and Carolina
coast. It is equal to the devastation
of war, and yet these are the figures
given by conservative men.
THE GOVEBNOB’s PROCLAMATION.
Governor Tillman issued the fol¬
lowing proclamation at 11 o’clock
Thursday night: “Having received
the following telegram from J. H.
Averill, receiver of the Port Royal
and Augusta Railroad company con¬
veying the startling intelligence of an
appalling loss of life and a terrible
state of destitution upon the islands
upon the coast of this state resulting
from the terrible hurricane which
Almighty in His judgment has visited
upon the people of the south Atlantic
states, ‘YhMASSEi5,N. causing universal suffering:
“ C.,August 31.—To Hon. B. B.
Tillnmn, Governor of North Carolina: The loss
of life by the recent cyclone on the islands ad¬
jacent to B'aufort and Port Royal will nutub.r
not less than six hundred people. There are
seven thousand on the islands entirely destitute
of provisions. and their All they had has been washed
away crops are entirely lost. Great
destitution will prevail among them unless they
have speedy relief. I am working night and
day have to open up communication and hope to
trains into Beaufort not later than Mon¬
day next. Please address any reply you
to me at Yemassee, from which point it will be
forwarded by railroad. J. H. Avekill.’ ”
Governor Tillman then goes on to
call on the people of South Carolina
to come to the aid of their suffering
fellow citizens, He calls for con
tributions of money, food, clothing
and other necessaries of life sufficient
to meet the present emergency.
SIGNS OF BETTER TIMES.
Many Big Business Concerns Resume
Operations.
The Oliver Iron and Steel Company
at Pittsburg, Pa., started up with
non-union men Friday. The compa¬
ny has enough orders on hand to run
the whole plant for an indefinite peri¬
od, and there is very little stock on
hand. The plant employs about 4,000
men and has been idle since June 30.
Business men and banks of Kansas
City are unanimous in their opinion
that the low points in the present
financial depression has been reached
in that city, and that the upward
ward movement has begun, Bank
presidents estimate that the banks
have gained $2,000,000 in deposits
since the run in July.
The suspended Bank of New Eng¬
land, at Manchester, N. H., having
assets sufficient to pay depositors and
stockholders in full and have a sur¬
plus, will resume in a few days.
The St. Louis Stamping Company
has resumed business, Mr. W. F.
Neidringhaus, the proprietor, agree¬
ing to sign the Amalgated scale. This
will effect 10,000 persons.
A general mass meeting of the
striking coal miners held at Leaven,
worth, Kas., decided to declare the
strike at an end and return to work at
the old scale.
The Cocheco Manufacturing Compa¬
ny, at Dover, N. H., will start up Sep¬
tember 6, after a three weeks’ shut
down.
The Cholera Spreads.
A cable dispatch from Amsterdam
says: Nine fresh cases of cholera and
five deaths were reported in Leerdam
Wednesday, The Dutch-American
steamship company has notified its
agents that all emigrants, before em¬
barking, must remain five days under
the observation of an American physi¬
cian in the company’s hospital.
ODR LATEST DBPATCHHL
The EappeniDEs of a Day Chroniclet ■
Brief and Concise Parairaphs
And Containing tl e Gist of the Sew*
From All Parts of the World.
Jersey City announces that there m
only one case of cholera there, amt
that it is isolated. The scare is aboafc
over.
Charleston announces to the worM
that she is ready for business again,,
all traces of the great storm being
practically cleared away.
The Second World’s Sunday School
Convention met in Music Hall of th*
Exposition building at St. Louis, Mb.,,
Sunday. Delegates from all over tke
world were present.
Stuart W. Walker, of Martinsburg*
W. Va., law partner of Senator
Faulkner, has announced that he will
contest with W. L. Wilson, chairman
of the ways and means committee,
democratic nomination to congress.
The large plant of the Olive Inna
and Steel Company and the Haine»
worth Steel Company at Pittsburg, Psa„
were plaeed in operation Monday
morning with non-union forces suffir
cient to operate every department.
Captain Concas, commanding fcbe
Spanish Caravels, arrived at Washing¬
ton Monday morning to consult wiffis
navy department officials regarding
the transfer of those vessels which the
Spanish government wished to preseaA
to the United States.
A Denver special of Monday sayar
The attorneys and special friends off
Dr. T. Thatcher Graves, the famoaok
prisoner who killed s himself in tfest
county jail Sunday by taking some s«6t
tle unknown poison, are opposing &fc»
effort to hold an autopsy and inquest.
A Vicksburg, Miss., dispatch off
Monday says: The cold nights amt
dry weather have been serious to oo£
ton in many localities. The crop m
north Mississippi, Louisiana aai.
southern Arkansas will be 25 per ees&
below all former estimates. Aside
from the bad weather, worms have de¬
stroyed the plant on scores of planta¬
tions.
Every department of the Carnegie
steel plant at Homestead was starred
Monday morning, giving employment
to about 2,000 workmen. About 5,CKKI
are yet idle. They will also be pro¬
vided with work within a few day*.
About 700 men were given employ¬
ment in the Braddock wire works whibfe
also resumed operations. No wage re¬
duction was offered as had been antici¬
pated.
Cohen, Collier & Co., of Nashville*
Tenn., wholesale dealers in dry goodb
and notions,made a special assignment
Monday afternoon for the benefit of
their creditors. The liabilities am
about fifty-five thousand dollars. Tfe»
assets are not stated, but are largo
enough to pay all debts, unless a sher¬
iff’s, sale is enforced. The largest
amount is due H. B. Claflin & Co,*
New York, being $25,352 in notes
open accounts.
A special cablegram of Monday fee
the New York Herald from Kingston*
Jamaica, says: No tidings of tlw
missing Atlas line steamer Alvo havo
been received at Fortune Key, one of
the Bahama islands, where she wonfai
put in if she was disabled and had met
with any severe stress of weather. News
has been received from Fonaives, Hay
ti, where she was to call but the steamer
had not put in there or at any other
Haytien port. She has been given up
as lost.
Surgeon Carter, of the marine hos¬
pital service, who has been on duty si
Brunswick, Ga., called on Dr. Wyman
at Washington Monday. He reports
the condition of affairs there as good.
There are no new cases of yellow fever
and the only existing case is that of a
little girl, who is doing well. Surgeus
Carter emphatically denies the sensa¬
tional stories published to the effect
that persons when only suspected of
having the disease were taken into the
house where yellow fever had been.
A dispatch from Beverly, Mass.*
says: Jerome Bonaparte died at bis
summer bome : Bride’s Crossing, Sun¬
day night. Jerome Bonaparte was
nearly sixty-three years old, and was
a graduate of West Point. He served
several years in the United States
army and afterward in the French
army, winning distinction in the Cri¬
mean and Franco-Prussian wars. Col ¬
onel Bonaparte was the third of the
name in the United States, being the
elder son of Jerome Napoleon Bona¬
parte, who was the only son of Prince
Jerome, king of Wurtemberg.
The Debt Statement.
The debt statement issued at Wash¬
ington Friday afternoon shows a net
increase in the public debt less cash is
the treasury during August of $10*-
442,898. The interest bearing debt
increased $150. The non-interest bear
inp debt decreased $160,908, and the
cash in the treasury decreased $10*-
603,656.93. The certificates and treas¬
ury notes, offset by an equal amount
of cash in the treasury outstanding at
the end of the month, were $565,614 -
881, a decrease of $11,747,710.