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WHAT GAG RULE IS.
THE RESOLUTION THAT SHUTS OFF
DEBATE.
watch the Senate Has Been Endeavor
ing to Pan—It la "Closure,” Not
"Cloture”—It Meant to Cloae in, to
Shut Down.
Washington, D. C-,Jan. 28.—Do
you know what the gag rule It?
Do you know what ‘“cloture” is?
Ab a matter of Information to the
public and aa the case promisee to
be historical, the rule is herewith
incor|K)raled. It reade aa follows:
A RESOLUTION.
Resolved, That for the remainder
of this session the rules of the sen
ate he amended by adding thereto
the following:
When any bill, resolution or
other question shall have been
under consideration for a reasona
ble time it shall be In order for any
senator to demaud that debate
thereon be closed. On such de
mand no debate shall be in order,
and pending such demand no other
motion except one motion to ad
journ shall made. If such demand
be seconded by a majority of the
senators present, the question shall
• forthwith be taken thereon without
debate. If the seuute shall decide
to close debate on any bill, resolu
tion. or other question, the meas
ure shall take precedence of all
other business whntever, and the
question shall be put upon tbo
amendment, if any then pending,
nud upon the measure in its suc
cessive stages according to the rules
of the senate, but, without further
debate, except that every .senutor
who may desire shall be permitted
to speak upou the measure, includ
ing ait amendments, not more than
once, and not exceeding thirty
minutes.
After the senate shall have de
cided to close debate as herein pro
vided, no motion shall be In order
but a motion to adjourn or to take
a recess, when such motions shall
be seconded by a majority of the
senate. When either of said mo
tions shall have 1 e< n lost or shall
hu c failed of a ecoud, it shall not
be In order to leuew tl e same un
ti one senator shall, have spoken
upou the (lending measure or one
vote upon the same shall have in
tervened, . .
Pending proceedings under the
foregoing rule no proceeding in re
spect of a quorum shall be in order
until it £ball have appeared on a di
vision or on the taking of the yeas
and nays that a quorum is not
present and voting.
Pending proceedings under the
foregoing rule, all questions of or
der, whether upon appeal or other
wise, shall be decided without de
bate, and n<> obstructive or dilatory
motion or proceedings of any kind
shall be in order.
For the foregoing stated purpose
the following rules, namely, VII,
VIII, IX, X, XII, XIX, XXII,
XXVI, XXVIII, XXXV, and XL
are modified.
To persons who may have a copy
of the senate rules this amendatory
scheme will be easily intelligible,
and even to the casual reader its
severe and unusual features must
be apparent.
With thlB rule incorporated In
the senate code debate may be shut
Hat any time, and any proposi
tion, at the pleasure of a single
senator sustained by a partisan
majority.
Since the organization of the gov
ernment debate )u the upper house
of congress has-been without re
striction or limit. For a century
the right of free speech has been
insisted on by this branch of con
gress, and except In one single in
stance no attempt has been made
toabridge it. It has remained for
Harrison to suggest and insist on
this monstrous Innovation, and for
Hsor and Edmunds to attempt to
ettfy out his pleasure.
* LOBtJHE,” NOT “CLOTURE."
Senator Gray, in the course of
his eloquent speech on Friday of
last week, declared tlint the term
“cloture,” liberally applied to Mr.
Aldrich’s proposition, was a French
term and to that extent a misno
mer. The English term "closure,’’
he thought, was more expressive,
and that meant to close iu, to shut
down or to gug, just as one might
choose to speak or write it.
LOAFINGS FROM LA CROSSE.
Things of Interest Concerning the Peo
ple of Thst Section.
La Crosse, Jau. 22.—Last Satur
day night we were about to have a
serious negro row, but it hae cooled
off with a little wool pulling and
one removal.
Mr. I. X. Mott, the ’principal of
our school, began last week With
thirty-live students; this week he
has over forty, and as soon as the
grip and the weather becomes more
moderate he will have over sixty.
There is some hopes that the ac
complished Mrs. T. G.' Hudson will
take charge of the music depart
ment. Those from abroad who
wish to attend a thorough aud quiet
school cau secure board cheap in
private families.
The idea that is made more pre
valent by the papers that there is
much cotton in the liuuds of the
farmers is not so true in this section.
A few of them usually hold some
until spring, which is the case now,
but uot more so tbau usual.
There has beeu hut few oats
sown, partly owing to the high
price of seed, and partly owing to
the unsettled condition of labor.
There is plenty of labor in this
section, but the trouble is gettiug
it down to business.
The school at Andrews’ Chapel
will begin soon with Miss Persons
in charge.
Farmers have had a most excel
lent winter for saving pork, not a
pound has been reported ae spoiled.
Wj have taken iu Die result of
the much needed sliver hill, and
watched the “gag rule,” ala Keed,
as practiced by Judge Speer in the
Hall case. As Macon lias gone to
gathering thousand* on “Hird Cage
Street” every Saturday, according
to tho Telegraph, to witness the
barbarious sport of a cat and dog
fight, we would be inclined to be
lieve that that city is the place for
the residence of the honored gen
tleman who wields the gavel of the
judicial bench there.
MILITARY MATTERS.
THE ADVISORY BOARD MEETS IN
AT LANTA
Six New Companies Admitted—Where
the Appropriation Will Go—Commit
tees on Hand Looking for the En
campment—Arms For the Cadets.
AMUSEMENTS.
INGALLS DEFEATED.
AlViancomarv Poller Elected on the Fi
Ballot With Forty Majority.
One of the brilliant events in
Paris last year was the presenta
tion of “L’Herltago de Helene,”
written by Mrs. Lucy Hooper, as
sisted by Richard Davey, originally
in English, and then translated in
to French. It will be presented at
the opera house to-morrow eve
ning, by that charming emotional
actress, Maude Granger, wtio is
now the foremost emotional artiste,
of the American stage. Thu play
lias been rechristened “Inherited,”
and has been described us weirdly
powerful and dramatic like a story
by Edgar Allen Poe, and worthy of
Sarah Hern hard tor Mme. Pierson.
So said M. Francleque Sarcy, the
distinguished critic of the Paris
Temps, after the initial production
of the play at the Theater de L'A|>'
plication, Paris.
Maude Granger says that it Is all
nonseuso for actresses to send
abroad for their costumes, aud that
aa elegant and elaborately trimmed
dresses can be obtained in New
York as in Paris, and that the av
erage price for a really elegant
stage costume should not exceed
$30d. The fair Granger is famous
for being the beBt dressed actress
we have, but dekpito her remarks
concerning Paris-made costumes,
she is known to be very partial to
Worth’s exquisite robes.
Special to Recorder.
Atlanta, Jan. 22.—The State
advisory board met here to-day.
Present Adjutant-General Kell,
Col. Geo. A. Mercer, Lt. Col. C.
M. Wylie, Capt. John \V. Clarke,
Capt. Price Gilbert, Capt. George
Forbes, and Capt. RoffSIme.
Following new companies were
admitted by die board: Grady
Cadets, Macon Light Infautry,
Nevnan Guards, Quitman Greys,
Gordon Troop, of Hamilton, aud
Way Light Troop, of Wayne coun
ty. The first four are infantry, last
two cavalry.
Two years’ appropriation for
arms and equipments, '(H) and ’91,
is now due the State from the Uni
ted States. Most of this will be ap
plied to arming new companies,
and some of the old ones, particu
larly cavalry. Chatham Artillery
will get two new breech-loading
33-10 inch ritles. Then all State
troops will bo furnished knapsacks.
Two or three other special appro
priations to be considered to-mor
row. The balance will be left iu
the hands of the Adjutant-General
for ammunition and emergencies
Delegations were on band from
Rome, Cbicamnuga, Tallulah Falls
and Atlanta, to secure the encamp
ment. Xotice was given that Ma
con, LaGrange and Brunswick
would bid. The board stated that
calls for bids would be formulated
to-morrow. The board will, as a
body, or by committee, visit all
places submitting bids for site and
meet again in about thirty days.
The location will then be decided.
Chancellor Boggs was present
with a request that tbs board furn
ish cadet corps at the state univer
sity with 100 stands of arms. The
board decided that they had no au
thority for this, but passed a reso
lution requesting the legislature to
a,.pi. laie t2,0JI) for this purpose.
The board will be in session to
morrow.
BETTER POSTAL SERVICE.
Potmaster-General Wanamaker
has named a small town in North
YE OF LITTLE FAITH.
Nature is giving herself a rest.
After wearying of cold winds, bit-
Georgia named Ilepzibad as one of frosts, and gloomy days, she
AMONG THE EDITORS.
Mr. J. A. Hall, once city editor
of Tiie Recorder, is now editor of
the Calhoun Times. He Is an
earnest, untiring worker, aud will
make u mark wherever he may go.
The Constitution says Editor
Gantt is going into the hotel busi
ness. If he makes Ills meals as
long as his editorials, his boarders
will be fat, happy and numerous.
Robert Downing, the brilliant
young American tragedian will ap
pear at the opera house on next
Monday evening when lie will be
seen, for the first time in this city,
in John Haulm’s sublime piny
"Damon aud l’ythlas,” of which
the Philadelphia, Pa., Record says:
Notwithstanding the inclement
weather there was a large audience
at the Grand Opera House, last
evening, to witness Mr. Robert
Downing in liauiuj’s popular
drama, “Damon and Pythias.”
Mr. Dowulug is seeu to excellent
advantage in this play. He is one
of the most vigorous aud painstak
ing of actors, and his support was
very creditable. Iu Miss Eugenia
Blair he has a lady who is an ex
cellent actress, mid iu lull sympa
thy with him. Tiie scenery aud
costumes were fine. To-night "The
Gladiator” will be given.
tv c. Coup'
sat r
Topeka. Kas., .Ian. 27.—lugnlis
is defeated.
Balloting commenced to-ilay at
noon.
It resulted us follows oil first bal
lot iu the Senate:
Ingalls 33.
Peller 2.
Tiie vote Iu the house was as fol
lows:
Ingalls 23.
Peller 96.
Blair 5.
"eller'e majority over Ingalls, 40.
Ttrrqulred 83 votes in Joint bal
lot t« elect, and Peller obtained 98.
be here
.,r..
aud ut
xr Me.,! , v
Editor Turner, of the Albany
News, after much research among
the denizens of Albany, hasdiscov-
ere who was the author of the
phrase, "Richard is himself again.”
As a result, Albany is happy.
A suitable reward will be paid by
Tub Recorder for the finding and
return of Editor W. L. Glessner,
who, when last heard from, had
been captured by a band of wild
Ohioans.
the towns in which an experiment
of inaugurating a small free carrier
service will be made. But one car
rier will he allowed. Tills is fol
lowing up England’s penny post
age Idea. Should the service prove
a good tiling, and not too costly, it
will be gradually given to all towns,
and also country districts.
Tills, The Recorder believes, is
the right way for u government to
serve the people. No experiment
is too costly, conducted within
reasonable bouuu*, in order to
find out what is beet and what
pleases the people most. Mr. Wau-
amaker has some good ideas ali.iut
the postal servlet, aud it lie « ••■ilii
run his department as lie luiks,
there would be less complaint in
the South aa to incompetent clerks
aud irresponsible partisan postmast
ers
Prof. Rodney Welch, iu the Feb
ruary Forum, iu dlscussiug the
postal service, says that
“Xhe rural districts have not
shared with towns the recent great
improvements in the postal service.
In the country the postul facilities
are harJIy any better than they
were a century ago. There are no
money-order post-olllces, except in
large commercial and manufactur
ing towns, aud no free collection or
distribution of mail matter. If a
farmer wishes to mail a letter he
must go to the post-olTIce, perhaps
ten miles away to do It. No good
reason can be assigned why money
orders should uot be issued and
cashed at every post-office in the
country. As to free collection and
free delivery of postal matter, the
people in the rural districts are as
much entitled to it as town people
are, although the service could not
from the nature of things be per
formed so often iu a sparsely-set
tled region as in a thickly-populat
ed one. The general intelligence
of any class largely depends on the
facilities for learning what is going
on in the world. Favoring one
clas\ gives it a special advantage,
which in time will produce marked
results. Deprivin'; "mint'e feople
of the postal facililicsUi.il are en
joyed by those who live in large
towns, tends to lower their intel
lectual standing and to keep it be
low that of those who live in cities.
In nearly ail European countries
the postal facilities are us good in
the rural districts as in the large
towns. In several of them country
people have the advantage of the
parcel post and postal savings
banks. They are not slighted be
cause they cultivate 'arms and
vineyards, or raise cattle, sheep,
and fowls.
has peeped out from behind weeks
of lethargy, and yesterday smiled
her sweetest, Tiie air was as warm
and tresli as a maidens cheek; the
sun Was as mellow and inviting as
a cool nook os a hot dky; the trees
waved their leafless branches iu
gladness and joy, and the earth
smelled as sweet as a raorniug dew.
It was a day of contentment and
peace, and one not to be found in
any clime but that of our favored
section. On such a day one does
not wonder atth" blessing of living
and only feels grute'ul for such a
precious gift.
ye of little faith—ye who
AN INTENSIVE FARM.
H. It., in Atlanta Journal, speak
ing of a visit to Geo. Truitt’s farm,
near LaGrange, says:
I took occasion to ask a lew ques
tions about how tho prolific cotton
seed are raised.
You noticed *a large harrow as
you came along? Well, that is
called a cut-a-way harrow. I am
breaking up with that now. I have
taken up all the stumps aud rocks
out of my place, and I cau nee the
most- improved and latest farm im
plements. Well, this harrow tears
up the ground tho-oughly, and in
rows four feet apart, using a John
son wing and following it with a
bull tongue.
On eighty acres on which I make
live mi » „iie encrusted cities'of the I the prolific seed I put as a fertilizer
fri.-Jkn North; who ex’sl In air ex- 2,300 bushels of cotton seed. This
eluded homes whne not simmering
in the hot sun of your summer
months— why" cau you not believe
iu the glorious life to be lived uu
der the sunny skies of the sunnier
South! Come down, see, feel
breath, and he convinced that life
Is not worth living elsewhere.
Such days as yesterday will almost
make the blind see, cure the sick
and make the lame walk.
BRAVE LOVE-
poet'i
[Tho fines below are said to lie
Idea of r pleasing poem.]
He’d nothing but bis violin;
I'd nothing but my song—
But we were wed when skies were blue
And summer days were long;
And when we rested by the hedge
The robins came and told
How they had dared to woo and win
When early spring was cold.
We sometimes supped on dewberries.
Or slept nmong the buy
out oft tho farmers' wives at eve
Came out to hear us play
The rare old tunes—the dear old tunes 1—
Wo could not starve for long
While my mnn had the violin
And I my sweet lovo song.
The world has aye gone well with us.
Old Man,si nee we were one!—
Our homeless wandeflng down the lanes—
It long ago was done.
But thou who wait for gold or gear—
For houses and for klne.
Till youth’s sweet spring grows brown and
sero
And love and beauty tine,
Will never know the Joys of hearts
That met without a fear
When you had but yonr violin
And I a song, my dear.
The business manager of the
Rome Tribue is atvay, the editor is
sick, tiie reporter has the grippe,
the news man is unable to work,
and yet the paper comes out every
day. This shows how strong the
force of habit la.
In the year of grace 1891 the Au
gusta Chronicle lias taken on a
new lease of life. The Chronicle
has been drinking at the fabled
fount of Ponce de Leon.
posted over tile city are very at
tractive. und the exhibition prom
ises to be a most attractive one.
Coup is well known as a circus
man. aud anything ho puts on the
road Is bound to lie good. At night
the cars are especially beautiful,
tiie electrical npperati costiug ovet
$33,000.
Tiie / ugusta Chronicle suys the
Rome Tribune editor shows a level
head iu cutting hit paper down to
six pages to save a loss. It would
be still more level if he would cut
the paper down to four pages.
J. C. Harris must be happy.
Tiie West End mule will have to
go, to he replaced by the electric
mule. But’tls not yet done.
They Talk Rente,
Yesterday's Constitution.
“There is just one other town iu
Georgia,” remarked Captain C. T.
Furlow yesterday, “that has us
much vlniand energy to the square
luah as Atlanta has.”
“What’s that town?” lie was
asked.
“Americas.”
“That's true," said Comptroller-
General Wright. . "It reminds me
if Atlanta, ton. It's tiie thriftiest,
busiest town in tiie Slate, and when
• lie next census is taken it'll stand
in r to,. tliNi, .1 tides now . It
wouldn’t surprise me at all to see
Anierlcus tiie fourth largest town
in Georgia in 1900." '
SHE'S A HUMMER.
"You’re certainly building a big
town here," remarked a visitor in
Americus yesterday.
Well, it does look that way, aud
even the few old croakers we have
in our midst are beginning to pull
oil’their overcoats and get down to
business. They are evep inclined
to waste a little more shoe leather
in walking around und noticing the
improvements, and us no one pays
any attention to their dire predic
tions they are gradually dropping
them,
But did you ever bob such a build
ing boom? Never. Not even At
lanta can claim to be ahead of us
in that respect. Yet, notwith
standing all the building that has
and is being done, newcomers cau-
not find residences or stores vacant
and real estate men find it Impossi
ble to supply the demand.
Not a day passes but that The
Recorder lias one nr more in
quiries about Ameri.-u-. and the
demand for informal b,.,, and pa
pers relating toiler pr.iut . and ad
vancement, and her n.. aral re
sources, arc always in ..emaud.
Happily, The Record' i: is always
able to supply such i.i urination,
aud the result isgeuer.,.iy a new
citizeu.
Americus is destined to be tho
chief city of the southern portion
of Georgia, and we give Macon fuir
warning right now that in the uqxt
decade.Americas « ill surpass her
ill point of business and popula
tion.
Tlmt's what!
The January Arena contains a
symposium on Helen Gardener’s
new novel, "Is this your Son, My
Lord?" by tiie following well-
known thinkers: Moncure D. Con
way, Prof. Joseph Rhodes Buch
anan, Elizabeth Cady (Stanton, Ma
tilda Joslyn Gage (President of the
National Woman’s Liberal Union),
Donn Piatt and Robert C. Adams
(President of the Canadian Secular
Union). Helen Gardener’s novel
has already passed into its second
edition of five thousand copies.
The last editiou contains a strong
preface, by the author, in which
she reviews some of her critics.
For Sale.
We have two hacks or camp top
surreys, and one no top hack, and
three or four double ami single
hacks, and buggy harness. Will
sell cheap for cash. Also have a
fine lot of good stable manure we
arc selling at one dollar per load,
big two-horse wagon loads, at sla-
hie. Call quick, or you will lose
something.
N. G. A J. K. Prince.
l-28-eod-2w
The paper, by the eminent Eng
lish scientist, Dr, Alfred Russell
Wallace, iu The Arena for January
is creating much comment. In it
Dr. Wallace examines the problem,
“Are luce uojecuve Apparitions?”
und reviews tunny important cases
cited in the reports of the English
society for Psychical researches.
The paper, as would naturally be
supposed, is scholarly aud strictly
scientific, Dr. Wallace appearing
as thoroughly at home in tiie
psychic realm as in tiie great field
of evolution, where he had so long
stood side by side with .Charles
Darwin.
Twenty-nine o[ Alabama’s State
Senators und sixty-eight members
of thejower house have expressed
their preference for Grover Cleve
land. .
New Bar Fixtures,
Owing to tho fact that Mr. J. W.
Mize is selling the best whiskies in
the market, aud C. F. Crisp Bou
quet cigars, he has decided to put
iu new bar fixtures, and that's what
be was doing lust night. He has
purchased the finest and best re-
frigerator that could be had, two
tine plate glass mirrors, besides the
large one he has already, and num
erous other fixtures too tedious to
lueutioD. He says that he iutends
to keep up with tiie procession or
kill his baiuui. Call round to-day
and see how nice he looks behind
his new bar.
' Returned From New York.
Mr. John M. Cranston returned
from New York ytsltrday, looking
iug as bright ami smiling as ever.
Tiie Kquituble Insurance Company
wants him to leave fur Australia,
and nttuLii to their business there,
und Mr. Cranston states that he
may take the position. Anyhow,
lie will leave iu the course of a
mouth to work nnother section.
His many friends here will greatly
regret to see him leave, as there is
not a more popular fellow around
here than “llappy Jack.”
Ocr New Dentist.
Dr. J. W. Daniel moved to Amer
icus a few weeks since from New
Orleans, aud will practice dentist
ry here with our Charlie Chapman
The doctor is highly educated, aud
most pleasant gentleman, lie and
Ills charming wife, who formerly
lived in Fort Valley, are glu lly
welcomed In our midst.
goes in the furrow immediately be
hind the “bull tougue.” I like to
let it stand this way, and let the
rain wash in and mix the soil with
the cotton aeod. Then I put in the
same furrow the acid phosphate
using twenty-five tons on the
eighty acres. I then list on this,
forming the bed. I plant with
Dixie planter, using a bushel of
seed to the acre. I plow ail the
time, never letting any grass grow
or get the start of me. I select the
seed from the largest and most
thrifty plants, and in consequence
my seed ie getting better and bet
ter every year. The department of
Agriculture at Washington last
year gave me $300 for 100 bushels of
these selected seed, to be used on
their experimental farm.
I see you have a large pasture of
Bermuda next to your barn. What
do you think of Berinuda.
Bermuda is the grandest thing
for stock I know of., I never fed
my stock from May to November
except at dinner and If I don’t put
up the bar* then they will leave
their troughs and go to the Bermuda
grass.
When I began intensive farming,
my father was told that I intended
using 2,000 bushels of seed and 20
tons of phosphate on 80 acres, and
he said the boy will ruin himself.
Go and tell him to sell the 2,000
bushels of cottou seed aud the phos
phate and uot farm any this year.
One of the neighbors told me 1
was ruining my land when he saw
me sendiug a plow along knee deep
turning up the clay aud said to me,
"George, your land will not get
over that In twenty-five years; stop
turning up that clay—you are ruin
ing your laud.” I told him I was
going to put a plow right ,'behlnd
the one that was then going so
deep and go that much deeper; that
we were all ruined any way If we
did not do sometbingdifl'erent from
what our fathers had done.
Why, it don’t hurt the ground a
bit; you can make a soil any depth
you waut by plowing deep and us
ing plenty of fertilizers.
Mr. Truitt, on your cultivated
land of 130 acres, how much cotton
did you sell U»t v.'ar, and what
amount clear money do you esti
mate that you made on your farm?
One hundred and fifty hales of
cottou, lie -aid. The way l esti
mate tiie (arm's earning is easy.
I have on hand $4,2i)n mme this
Christmas in an [ Iren : 1st, not In
cluding my premiums, which
amount to $1,200.
Aud this on Georgia hills ! What
would Georgia be like tills in every
county. H. It.
A Oroat Attraction.
Everybody knows W. C. Coup,
the great showman, aud know that
anything he puts on the road is
good. lie will arrive here Sunday
with five cars of the wonders of
the world, and keep them open
Monday and Tuesday. The exhi
bition takes place in the cars, where
will be fouuil ull things strange.
At any time Monday or Tuesday
you cau go through the cars.
The demand for the Jauua.y
Areua has been so great that a sec
ond editiou was called for iu less
than ten days after the appearance
ol tills number. Arnoug tiie lead-
lug contributors are Alfred Russell
Wallace, D. C. L., LI, D., Rabbi
Solomon Schindler, Felix Oswald,
l’li. D., Hamlin Garland, Moncure
I). Conway, Eiizaliettt Cady Stan
ton, and 1’rof. Joseph Rhodes Buch
anan, aud Wilbur Ltrremore.
Take Notice.
After this date 1 will sell drinks
ut 10c aud 15e only. Tom Gl'ICE.
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