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The Abbeville Chronicle
VOL. II.
UNDER THE PRETEXT OF SANI
TARY PRECAUTIONS.
IT IS EVIDENTLY RETALIATION.
Representatives at Washington Express
Themselves Regarding the Matter.
May Result In Commercial War.
* A cable dispatch from Berlin says:
The Prussian minister of finance, Dr.
Miguel,' has issued a decree which
goes into effect immediately, prohibit
ing the importation of every kind of
American fresh fruit. The decree has
been sent to all the German ports and
frontier stations, excepting Bavaria,
Saxony and Wurtemburg. The United
States embassy was not previously
warned and the United States embas
sador, Mr. Andrew D. White, sent a
formal letter to the foreign office in
quiring upon what authority this in
imical step was taken.
The United States consul at Ham
burg, Dr. Hugh Pitcairn, telegraphs
that 16,000 barrels of American apples
have been forbidden thebe unloaded
and that two trains ot rican fruit
have also been forbi, m cross the
frontier at Emmerich, which, aside
from Hamburg, is the principal place
of entry.
Is It Retaliation?
A Washington special says: Senator
Perkins, of California, when shown the
above dispatch, said that the preven
tion of importation on sanitary
grounds was a mere pretext and that
it was simply to keep out fruits which
competed with German production
and the order was no doubt issued as
a retaliation against tbe United States
because of differential tariff on sugar
from bounty paying countries. Sena
tor Perkins said he had no doubt that
the United States could meet this new
order by retaliation and if Germany
did not want to be a market for our
fruits and meats, measures could be
taken which would also limit the mar
kets in the United States to German
products. Louisiana,
Senator McEnery, of was
much interested. “If this country,”
said he, “would only prohibit the im
portation of Germany’s cutlery and
woolens there would soon be an end
of auy discrimination against American
thinking,that products,’ and according to my way of ”
is what should be done.
Mr. Hitt, chairman of the committee
on foreign affairs, expressed surprise
at the step taken. Without discuss
ing the motives of the movement, Air.
Hitt said it was evident Germany
based her course on sanitary grounds,
which would exclude the idea that the
move was of a political and prospect
ive character. Air. Hitt expressed
hope that this was not a step in Ger
many’s retaliatory policy, which had
been referred to in recent utterances
by distinguished German officials.
Other members of the house foreign
committee expressed the views that
this was a part of Germany’s retali
atory attitude toward the United
States.
Representative Walden Smith, of
Alichigan, member of the committee,
said:
“The attempted exclusion of Amer
ican fruit from the German markets at
Emmerich is not the first act of hos
tility displayed by Germany. Under
ihe Cleveland administration, when
our markets were open to German ex
ports, they dealt very unfairly with
this country, excluding our beef from
the markets of Germany on the false
pretext that it was unwholesome.
Senator Mills, a member of the for
eign relations committee, expre sed
the opinion that Germany’s action was
the logical sequence of our high tariff
system. Georgia, also
Senator Bacon, of
thought the prohibition one of tbe re
sults of our tariff system. “They
have the power,” he said, “and I see
nothing we can do to prevent their ex
ercising it.”
Senator Elkins said: “We may just
as well have it but with Germany now
as any other time. There is no deny
ing that we are in a commercial war
and we should fight it out on the lines
they have laid down. I should go
back at them on their own terms. I
should prohibit the importation of
their sugar.”
MASSACHUSETTS STORM SWEPT.
A Score of People Drowned and Property
Loss Will Reach OOO,OOO.
Belated dispatches from Boston
state that a score of persons were
drowned and $2,000,000 loss inflicted
by the storm that swept over eastern
Massachusetts and Rhode Island Mon
day night and Tuesday morning.
Four unidentified bodies lie in the
coroner’s office in Gloucester. Five
more are in Lynn, brought over from
Little Nahant, where the schooner
Charles H. Briggs xvas wrecked.
Twelve unidentified corpses are re
ported at Baker’s island in Salem
harbor.
That there are others in the waters
of the hay seems almost certain.
ABBEVILLE, GA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10. 1898.
A TILT WITH TILLMAN.
South Carolina Senator Makes Hawaiian
I>ebato Lively.
A Washington special says: De
cidedly the most interesting part of
the senate executive session Wednes
day was when the Hawaiian discussed, annexa- and
tion treaty was being
.Senator 'lillmau took part in the de
bate.
Tho South Carolina senator referred
to the recent Hawaiian revolution and
to what ho termed the effort of tho re
publican party to establish a govern
ment in the interest of the white peo
ple in the islands when they number
ed only one out of thirty of tho inhab
itants, and in this connection referred
to the reorganization of party lines in
the south after the war. “We were
then,” he said, “in South Carolina at
tempting to establish a white man’s
government. The republican party
interfered with us then, or attempted
to do so, professing to hold opinions
about the sacred rights of the majority
to rule. I should like to know," he
continued, “whether the republican
party has changed its opinion on this
subject of the right of the white man
to rule; for, if it has and will extend
it to the southern states, I will vote
for the treaty.”
“The distinguished senator from
South Carolina evidently knows all
about the efforts to re-establish the
white man’s party in tho south after
ihe war and could doubtless give us
much interesting information ou that
point,” said Senator Chandler.
“I do know something,” responded
Mr. Tillman, “and I know that there
was some cheating and some use of
the shotgun in those times, as there
probably was in Hawaii.”
“The senator from South Carolina
would, I hardly think,” interrupted
Senator Hoar, “say in open session
what he has here said.”
“I am willing to say it anywhere,”
said Mr. Tillman. “I want the same
policy all along the line. Throw open
the doors and I will say what I have
said before the entire world.”
LOANED THE BANK’S MONEY
To Wildcat Schemers and then Resigned
From Ills Post.
Wiliam J. Quinlan, Jr., cashier of
the Chemical National hank at New
Y T ork, has resigned his position. He
acknowledged in a letter to the direc
tors that he had loaned $333,000 of
the bank’s money without consulting
the president and knowing the direc
tors would not approve of the action.
He denies that he profited by tbe loan.
The loans made by Air. Quinlan
were on western securities of various
kinds and were negotiated by Francis
Grable, a promoter of land, mining
and irrigation schemes. The first
known of the affair by President Wil
liams was when Quinlan called upon
him at his home on (Sunday and made a
full statement of the transaction. It
is conceded that Quinlan, as cashier,
had the power to make the loan, hut
it is believed that in a transaction in
volving so large an amount of money
he should have consulted the presi
dent.
Air. Williams, president of the bank,
said Wednesday:
“We think that absolutely the worst
is known and we are strongly in the
hopes that Air. Quinlan’s expectations
are true and that a large part of the
money will be recovered. We would
rather face the matter and let the pub
lic know- the whole truth.”
BURIED STOLEN MONEY.
Saunders Admits Theft, But- Denies Re
turning; Express Package.
An Atlanta dispatch of Wednesday
says: Although Lucius L. Saunders is
in jail and has confessed that ho stole
the $4,000 from the Southern Express
Company, yet the return of the $3,700
to the company still appears to be a
profound mystery. Pleading guilty
to the charge against him, the prisoner
at the same time stoutly maintains
that he never sent the package to the
express company and that he does not
know who sent it.
He tells a story which is as remark
able and as interesting as the man’s
filching of the money and his subse
quent arrest and confession. Owning
that he took the four packages of
$1,000 each from the express car, he
then states that he hid the money after
he took it, and that when he went back
to look for it it was gone. Somebody
had taken the money from the hiding
place and that person must have been
the one who sent the $3,700 to the
company.
TURLEY GETS COMMISSION.
Tennegftgee Legislature Formally Ratifies
Action of Caucus.
The Tennessee senate aud house met
Wednesday in joint convention to elect
a United States seuater. Hon. Thomas
B. Turley, democrat, was elected, re
ceiving ninety-one votes. The republi
cans voted for Hon. J. W. Baker, of
Nashville.
A committee was appointed by Tur- the
joint convention to inform Mr.
ley of his election, and in a short
time the newly elected senator ap
peared in the hall of the house of
representatives and, in a short speech,
thanked the members for their action.
He was then presented with his com
mission.
SENATOR MAKES PUBLIC ANSWER
TO KENTUCKY LEGISLATORS.
THEY REQUESTED HIS RESIGNATION
His Rc)>ly On the Floor of the Senute
to Their Demands Was a
. Warm One,
A Washington special says: Senator
Lindsay, in tho Senate Friday, an
swered the request for his resignation
by the Kentucky legislature. He said
in part:
“With the relations existing be
tween a senator and his constituency,
this body has generally no concern.
But there are exceptional cases in
which a senator may be justified in
calling mention to transactions, semi
official iu their character, which, if
left unexplained, might create the
impression that he stands officially
charged with conduct which would
render him unworthy of a seat on this
floor and an unfit associate for his fel
low senators.
“I hold in my hands a paper pur
porting to be an official copy of a res
olution recently adopted by the two
houses of the Kentucky general as
sembly, and which, it is due to myself
and the senate, shall be fully under
stood."
He then had the resolutions read at
the clerk’s desk and continued:
“While this professes to request
my resignation, it is couched in lan
guage which regards the ordinary
amenities of life, and is in effect, a de
mand that I shall surrender my place
in order to create a vacancy, and thus
make room here for some one holding
political views in harmony witli the
authors and promoters of the resolu
tion.
“I desire to protest against this
usurpation of power, and inasmuch as
the resolution has been made a matter
of record on the journals of the two
houses of the state legislature, to
which I have no access, I propose to
give it a place on the records of the
senate, and in that connection, to make
such comments as I deem necessary
and proper under the circumstances.
“It is to be observed that in the ar
rangeinent which precedes the resolu
tion there is no charge that I ever dis
obeyed the expressed will of the peo
ple of Kentucky. There is no charge
that any act of mine as senator is sub
ject to animadversion or complaint; no
intimation that I have ever given a
vote which did not reflect tlie views of
a majority of my constituents, or that
I have at any time failed to look after
their interests, or have been wanting
in any duty owing to them or to the
country, or that I am opposing legis
lation which a majority of the people
of Kentucky regard as essential to the
public welfare.
“The substance of the complaint is
that I am opposed to the free and uu
limited coinage of silver at the ratio of
16 to 1, and that I opposed the elec
tion of the nominees of the lute Chi
cago convention, and by so doing be
trayed the trust reposed in me by my
constituency. I shall not discuss the
presidential campaign of 1896. It is
not necessary to do so to meet the
charges that I betrayed the trust of
my constituents by opposing the elec
tion of the Chicago nominees. Aly
constituency is made up of the people
.:f Kentucky, and that people voted
against those nominees, and 12 out of
13 of the electoral votes of Kentucky
were registered against them.
“I am a senator from Kentucky, but
I am also a senator for the United
States. In questions local to Ken
tucky I am always ready to serve her
interests to the best of my ability,
consistent with the obligations of hon
esty and fair dealing, and regardful of
the limitations of the constitution.
When great public interests, affecting
alike every portion of the union, are
to be acted upon, they are to be con
sidered from the standpoint of the
broadest patriotism,and this I propose
to do, no matter who may condemn my
action or who may approve it."
In closing his speech the senator
said:
“This much I have thought it proper
to say, and xvith these remarks I dis
miss the so-called legislative request
for my resignation.”
MAY QUARANTINE OUR HORSES,
Members of Prussian l>iet Agitating; the
Question.
A Berlin special says: Baron Von
Hammerstein-Loxten, the minister of
agriculture, at Thursday’s session of
the Prussian diet, declared that Amer
ican horses developed influenza after
importation. He added:
“If the importations increase we
shall certainly be forced to adopt a
suitable quarantine in order to protect
ourselves.”
When the above cable was shown to
Chairman Hitt, of the house foreign
affairs committee, he said the move
was clearly a part of the general move
ment toward exclusion shown by the
recent action against American fruit.
GOV. ATKINSON MAKES REPLY.
To An Artlclo In New York World Ite
ganling Our Convict Law.
Governor Atkinson, of Georgia, has
written a vigorous denunciation of a
story printed in a recent issue of tho
New York World reflecting on the new
penitentiary system of the state.
The statement in part was as
follows:
“The World, New York:
“My attention has been called to a
sensational slander published in tho
Now York World of January 27, last,
in form of a dispatch from Atlanta,
dated January 26, 181*8.
“This dispatch contains so many
misrepresentations and is such a tissue
of falsehoods that it is impossible to
refute all of them in a short space,and
I shall therefore confine myself to
such of them as appear most promi
nent.
“It states that ‘more than two entire
regiments of state convicts will he
auctioned of to the highest bidder’
. . . ‘and thus will be witnessed
the renewal of a system which has
already been condemned.’ .
‘In the coming auction of human
chattels to persons who are not offi
cers of the state. ’
This whole fabrication is apparently
based upon the fact that the prison
commission of Georgia, by authority
of an act of the general assembly, ap
proved December 21, 1807, have ad
vertised for bids for the labor of able
bodied male convicts, to go into effect
upon the expiration of the present
lease at a definite per capita per an
num, the state through its penitenti
ary officials, agents and guards em
ployed and paid liy the state, con
trolling the convicts and with them
performing the work so contracted
for; the contractor having absolutely
no control over the convicts and pay
ing for such labor so furnished. This
advertisement is in strict conformity
with the law, and .no other construc
tion can be justly placed upon it.
“This being tlie statute and the
advertisement, it follows, first, that
the statement ‘more than two entire
regiments of state convicts will he
auctioned off to the highest bidder, ’ is
untvne.
“Second. That the statement ‘thus
will lie witnessed the renewal of a sys
tem which has already been condemn
ed’ is untrue.
“Third. That the characterizing this
step as ‘tlie coming auction of human
chattels to persons who are not officers
of the state’ is untrue.
“This dispatch further states that
‘the worst feature of the new law. . .
is that these men, thus hired out to
traders in human labor may ho sublet
to others, though tlie state assumes to
keep an eye upon them.’ The premises
upon which this conclusion is based,
having been showm to he false, the
conclusion is likewise untrue, and has
no foundation except in that provision
of the law which, by and with the
consent of the commission, allows the
contractor for this labor to engage tlie
same in contracts for others than him
self, the state still controlling the
convicts through its own officers, agents
and guards.
“A large part of the last session of
the general assembly of Georgia was
devoted to this question, and measures
looking to a re-enactment of the lease
system repeatedly defeated. The law
finally adopted embodies every ele
ment of reform necessary, and in di
rect line with the suggestions made by
me and others who had devoted much
time to the study of the question.
“It is easy to slander a state or a
public institution, and hard to correct
the impressions made by the slander
ous publication, but where the truth
can be so easily obtained as in tbe
present case, when a copy of the law
could have been had for the asking, it
is remarkable that a newspaper like
The World should have been so easily
imposed upon, and thus become a
party to the injustice done the good
name of a state.
“W. Y. Atkinson,
‘Governor of Georgia.”
REINDEER FOR AMERICA.
A Ship I.oail of Them On (lie Way From
Norway to New York.
A cablegram received at the war de
partment Friday from Dr. Jackson, at
Altena, Norway, announced that the
steamship Afanitooair,chartered by the
United States government, had just
sailed from that port for New York
with 530 reindeer and 87 Lapp men
and women to care for the animals
and drive them on the government
relief expedition when they arr ive in
Alaska.
SAGASTA’S DEFIANT REPLY.
Ignores Suggestion for Fixing Date for
Ending; Cuban War.
The Madrid correspondent of the
London Standard says Senor Sagastu’s
response to the official note presented
by General Woodford, United States
minister, complains of filibustering
expeditions and declares that Spain
cannot entertain the suggestion tor
fixing a date for her completion of the
pacification Pessimist of impressions Cuba. cur
are now
rent regarding the relations between
the United States and Spain and have
depressed the Madrid and Barcelona
bourses. Public feeling among all
classes is strong against America.
CONSIDERATION OF AI’PROPHIA*
TIDY BILL GAVE W IDE RANGE.
'PROSPERITY OR NON-PROSPERITY.’
Slniprion, of Kansas, Makes a Humorous
Dig a* niiiEluy—Proceed lines of
tile Senate.
A Washington special says: Tho
house spent the day Thursday ostensi
bly considering the fortifications ap
propriation bill. In reality the major
portion of the time was consumed in
the discussion of political topics, the
existence or non-existence of prosper
ity in this country being the main
question of dispute.
Tho feature of the day was the dis
covery by Mr. Simpson, the Kansas
populist, and the exploitation of the
alleged fact that Mr. Dingley, chair
man of the ways and means commit
tee, wore a London made pot hat.
Mr. Dingley explained that the hat
was made in New York. The London
trademark was simply placed there to
please the anglomauiacs who always
preferred tilings because they were
English.
All attempts to increase the appro
priations in tlie fortifications appro
priation Dill or to amend it in any re
spect were voted down.
The debate drifted directly into pol
ities and Mr. Burke, democrat of Tex
as, and Mr. Grosvenor, republican, of
Ohio, joined issue on the subject of
“McKinley prosperity. ”
Mr. Simpson, populist, of Kansas,
followed and again took up the contro
versy he had a few days ago with Mr.
Pitney, republican, of Now Jersey,
over the trusts, which he said were or
ganized in New Jersey to prey ou Kan
sas and other states, in a humorous
vein he said the people of New Jersey
-were not to blame; that legislation in
that state was knocked down to the
highest bidders, as they were the de
scendants of tho Hessians.
Mr. Dingley said that Mr. Simpson
was given to talking through his hat,
and ended liy denying that he (Ding
ing) had imported wool before the
passage of the Dingley bill. Tho
whole episode caused a great deal of
amusement in the house.
Without completing the bill, at 5:05
o’clock p. m., the house adjourned.
In his invocation at the opening of
the senate the chaplain made a
fervent appeal for tlie restoration to
health of the senior senator from Mis
sissippi, Mr. Walthall.
A bill repealing an act granting
American register to the steamers
Claribel and others, was reported and
passed. Mr. Frye, of Maine, said that
the act had been passed under a mis
apprehension, ns the vessels were
owned by Englishmen.
Germany’s order prohibiting the
importation of American fruits into
that empire called out a resolution
from Mr. Davis, Minnesota, chairman
of tile committee on foreign relations,
calling upon the president, if not in
compatible with the public interest, to
transmit to the senate the correspond
ence and other information hearing
upon the matter in his possession or
in that of the state department. The
resolution was agreed to.
In accordance with Louisiana, notice previously
given Mr. Caffery, called
up formally the resolution reported
from the committee on privileges and
elections, declaring that Hon. Henry
W. Corbett is not entitled to a seat in
the senate from the stute of Oregon.
The senate committee on interstate
commerce decided to report tlie anti
scalping bill with a recommendation
that it pass.
Republicans Caucus.
The republican members of both
houses of congress held a caucus
Thursday congressional night., at which the republi
can committee was prac
t ; jjlly organized for tho campaign,
A limit seventy senators ami represen
tatives attended.
The delegations of all but eighteen
states announced the selection of their
representatives on the committee. The
Southern members of the committee as
far as chosen are as follows:
North Carolina, Iteprese amative
Pearson; Tennessee, Representative
Henry R. Gibson; Texas, Virginia, Representa
tive lb B. Hawley; Repre
sentative J. R. Walker; West Virginia,
Rcnresentative Warren Miller.
EXPENSE OF CUBAN WAR
Officially Estimated From Inception to
Kml of 1807 at, *‘440,000,000.
A Madrid dispatch says: The cost of
the Cuban war from February, 1895,
to the end of 1897 is officially esti
mated at $240,000,000, besides tlie
arrears due from the Cuban treasury,
amounting to $40,000,000.
The Imparcial complains that the
commercial negotiations between Spain
Cuba and the United States are being
entrusted to Senor de Lome, the Span
ish minister at Washington, and urges
the government to appoint experts to
examine the terms of the treaty ou
Spain’s behalf.
NO, 4.
SIX FIREMEN MET DEATH.
Blaring; Building In Boston, Man*.. Falls
In Upon Them.
Six firemen, including a district
chief, a captain and u lieutenant, were
killed at a (ire at Boston, Mass., Sat
urday morning which burned out the
interior of a five-story building ou
ESTlffi'U \V.
bedding, etc. The dead are:
District Chief John F. Egan.
Captain James Victory.
Lieutenant George .T. Gotwald.
Hoseman Patrick H. Diskeu,
Fireman John J. Mullieen.
Hoseman W. J. Walsh.
Four other firemen were buried in
the ruins, but they escaped with more
or lesN serious injuries. They were:
Captain Joseph M. Garrity, Hoseman
Thomas E. Conway, Hoseman T. J.
Lieutenant Doherty und Hoseman Edward Shea.
John J. McCarthy, of Pro
tective I, was slightly bruised by fall
ing bricks.
The contents of the building, valued
at $ 30 , 000 , are a total loss. The dam
age to the building itself will bring
the total up to at least $75,000. This
is partly covered by iuuranco.
The Evangelical Baptist Benevolent
and Missionary Society and the Tre
mont Temple Association own the
structure.
The alarm was sounded at 3:58
o’clock a. m. The building was filled
with the most inflammable materials.
It was joined on the east by a tliree
story tenement; on the west was sep
arated by a narrow alley from a simi
lar structure, while in the rear of the
tenement houses on South Margin
street is a narrow light well.
So quickly did the flames spread to
the fourth and fifth stories that within
a few minutes the three upper stories,
rear and the third-story front were a
seething furnace of flames and there
was no prospect that the firemen
would he able to save anything above
file second story. A tight was made
at the start by the stairways, lint soon
the firemen were driven bade by hot
air explosions and a suffocating smoke
and were obliged to fight from the
other side. Two aerial ladders were
raised on the front as were also several
long extension ladders, while streams
were carried through the South Mar
gin street tenements from the back
windows, of which floods were poured
into the fiery furnace.
The fire was nearly under control
at the time of the accident.
The men on engine No. 7 were on
the fourth floor and engines 36 and 31)
were on the second floor when the
rear section of the roof collapsed, car
rying down portions of all the floors
through the basement and burying the
firemen beneath a mass of debris.
Hasty canvuss of the members of the
department showed that ten men were
missing.
TENNESSEE’S EXTRA SESSION
Brought to a Close After Butting la
Twenty Rny«.
The twenty days’ extra session of the
Tennessee general assembly euded
Saturday. Only two general hills be
came laws.
One of them simply reaffirms tlie
authority given the railroad commis
sioners at the regular session to assess
railroad, telephone and telegraph
property for taxation. Tlie other
amends the revenue law so as to re
lieve general merchants from paying
cigar stand tax, and puts a privilege
tax on circuses.
All the other bills passed were local
and effect Nashville, Memphis, Bolivar
and Alartin.
A bill placing a privilege tax of
$500 on trading stamp agencies, and
$250 oil merchants using tho stamps,
was vetoed by the governor because
tlie subject was not in his call.
CUBAN PORTS OPEN.
SupplicH Can Now lie Landed at Any
Point. Free of Duty.
A telegram lias been received at the
state department from Consul General
Lee at Havana stating that the govern
ment there consents to the admission
of supplies for the destitute arid suffer
ing Cubans into any Cuban port free
of duty. This privilege was formerly
limited to goods entered at Havana,
John K. Elwell, who lias had much
experience as a shipping clerk and is
familiar with the Spanish language,
has been appointed by the central
cuban relief committee to accompany
the president of the Red Cross Society
to Cuba to assist in receiving and dis
tributing supplies for the sufferers.
“CONFEDERACY OE LABOR”
Proposed For Southern UniouB Independ
ent of Those In the North.
A movement to organize “The South
er n Confederacy of Labor” has been
started in Atlanta, Ga., and is now so
far under way that a convention will
probably be held in that city at an
early date to formally launch the new
organization. convention
The plan is to call a of
the white labor organizations of the
south for the purpose of formulating
such plans as will bring about harmo
ny and concert of action among them,
independent of big labor unions and
federations of the north.