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ADVOCATE DEMOCRAT.
CRAWFORDVJLLE, GEORGIA.
GEN. GORDON TALKS
Regarding G. A. It. Commander’s Edict
Against the New York Parade.
A Washington special says: The de¬
cision published by General Walker,
commander of the G. A. B., in refer¬
ence to the proposed joint parade iu
New York on July 4th, was called to
the attention of Benator Gordon, o?
Georgia, who has been commander in¬
chief of the United Confederate Vet¬
erans ever since their organization,
and he was asked if he proposed tc
take any action looking to a change of
the date of the next annual meeting of
the Confederate Veterans at Richmond
Jnne 80th and July 1st and lid. Gen.
Gordon replied:
“This date was finally decided upon
to permit the Confederates who came
from further south to go to New York
immediately after the adjourtmeut
and take part iu the joint parade,
but 1 see no reason ‘for changing
the date of onr reunion which wan
called to meet at Richmond hv the
last snunal meeting at Houston, Tex.,
and although the date could legally
be changed by me, yet 1 shall not do
so unless I find it to bo the wish of a
majority of the United Confederate
veteran camps and best suited to the
convenience of the people of Richmond
who have been most generous in mak¬
ing provision for our entertainment.
“It will bo readily seen that no
change can bo contemplated if it in
any measure incommodes onr host,
the people of Richmond. Of course
it would now be entirely incompati¬
ble with our self-respect a« ex-Con
federates to take any part iu the pro¬
posed joint parade, i do not wish,
however, to discuss the action of
General Walker, It has been my
effort siuce the war to culti
vato the most cordial relations
)«iween the soldiers of the two armies
and between the peopled I the sections.
J am glad to know that liuve the cor¬
dial sympathy ami approval of my old
eomradcN in this effort; and 1 wish
also to add iu this connection that 1
have had cordial manifestations of a
like sentiment ou the part of the great
body’of the union soldiers.”
T1IK DURANT TASK LAGS.
Blanche Lament's Slayer Will Not He
llangeil For Several Months.
On April flth next, a year will have
passed since the murder of Blanctu
Lament, and yet Theodore Durant,
who was convicted of her murder Ins
November, is still in tho county jail
at Baufrancisco, awaiting the final ac
tion of the supremo court iu the oas -t.
Immediately after Durant’s convio
tion an appeal was taken, bnt the c**>
has not yet beeu presented to the sn
pronto court, owing tp manuals Mu.
additional time made by both subs
The lost postponement took place s
week ago, when the prosecution was
granted twenty dnys in which to file s
bill of exceptions. At tho eud of this
time It is believed that the ease will
be presented to tho supreme oontt,
hut a decision is not expected for sov
oral mouths.
Durant was to have been hanged on
February 21, but the slow manner in
which justice is meted out to murder
era iu California, makes it plain In
will not meet his death before tIn
close of this year. Meanwhile tin
prisoner is spending his time at the
county jail much the same as the res!
of the inmates. He h»s written a his
tory of his life and lately is said to
hsve begun the study of law.
KI’I.INGER W AS DESPERATE.
Bather than Surrender Ha Commit*
Suicide.
A dispatch from Bellefonte, Pa.,
say*; After holding the sheriff of
Center county and 2,000 armed citi¬
zens at bay for twenty four hours, the
desperado, William Etlinger, was ouly
driven from his house Friday when the
burning ember* of the structure were
{ailing about hi* Viead, and then des¬
perate to the last and preferring death
by hi" own hands to surrender, he
blew out b'* brain* upon the thresh¬
old of hi* dwelling.
All effort* to dislodge the man had
been iu vatu until Sheriff Condo
found a man to risk hi* life in setting
fir* to the structure. Then it was that
Filing* r allowed hi* two little children
to have the burning building, but hi*
wtfe only escaped death by breaking
away from her huebaud’* grasp, a* he
had intended to kill her a* well a*
hinisplf.
A# it vu, Etlinger fired four
after the Woman os aha fled from the
budding and then stepped outside and
killed himself.
HORRIBLE MINK DISASTER.
Bodies of Seventy Victim. Brought to
Light.
An explosion followed l>r fire oc
eurred tu Cleophs'* mine at hsttowitx.
Prussian SiieMS, Wednesday. The
rescuing parties hsve succeeded in
saving eighty of the ntombed miners
and have brought to the surface see
euty-one corpus.
The vieiuity of the mouth of the pit
is thronged with the mothers, wives,
children and sweethearts of the vie
tun* of the disaster anti the seenea
about the entrance to the shaft are of
the most pathetic character.
Among the dead were four volnn
ttttteer* who h»,i been going to the
reacue and who were overcome by the
heat caused by the fire iu the mine.
It is believed that about fifty miner*
are still unaccounted lor.
On* may smile, and stuffe, and yet
he a villain.
THE 54TII CONGRESS.
ROUTINE OK HOUSE AND SENATE
BRIEFLY CHRONICLED.
Nummary of Bill* and Resolution!
Presented and Acted Upon.
the norms.
At the opening of the session of the
boose Thursday, at the request of Mr.
Hitt, chairman of the foreign affairs
committee, the senate's request for a
conference on the Cuban resolutions
was agreed to. The conference of the
two bouses on the Cuban resolutions
after a conference of forty minntes
agreed upon the house substitute.
Tho bouse resolutions are as follows:
“Resolved, by the house of repre¬
sentatives, the senate concurring,
That in the opinion of congress a state
of public war exists in Cuba, the par¬
ties to which are entitled to belligerent
rights, and tho United Btates should
observe a strict neutrality between the
belligerents. deplores
Resolved, That congress
the destruction of life and property
caused by the war now being waged in
that island, and believing that the
only permanent solution of tho con
test, equally in the intorest of Hpaiu,
the people of Cuba, and other nations
would be in the establishment of a
government by the voice of the people
of Culm, it is tho sense of congress that
the government of the United Btates
should use its good offices and friendly
influence to that end.
“Resolved, That the United Btates
has not intervened in the struggles be¬
tween any European governments and
their colonies on this continent, but
from the very close relations between
tho people of tho United Btates and
those of Culm, iu consequence of its
proximity and the extent of tho com
uiorce hetween the two peoples, the
present war is entailing such losses
upon tho people of tho United Btates
that congress is of tho opinion that
tho government of the United Btates
should he prepared to protect the le¬
gitimate interests of our citizens by
intervention it necessary.
the senate.
Friday was a field day for the Geor¬
gia congressmen in tho house. The
senators had nothing to do, because
the senate had adjourned over until
Monday. The house continued with
tho salary hill for federal officers and
finally passed it with but few nmerid
mouts. Judge Bartlett was the first
Georgian to enter the arena. He
persuaded the committee to accept
two amendments—one that no deputy
clerk should be. appointed a United
Btates commissioner and another that
no United Btates officer should be ap¬
pointed a receiver by a district judge.
The n Judge Bsrtle idiu$ tt tliiit offered ajjprd
no person
related to a judge should be appointed
receiver or should act as a master in
chancery. This amendment was ob¬
jected to by the committee and Judge
Bartlett made an argument iu favor of
it. iu doing so ho was given an op¬
portunity to pay his respects to some
of tho acta of a district judge in Geor¬
gia- the fact thnt
He called attention to
in one district in Georgia the standing
master of the United Btates court,who
was not a resident of the district, was
the father of the judge. He also stated
that tho same judge in Georgia had ap¬
pointed receivers ad nansenm.
His amendment was ruled out on a
point of order. Ho then announced
that ho would introduce a separate
bill making such provisions and he
was assured by several of tbe leading
republicans that they would advo¬
cate it.
Mr. Tate also took quite a conspic¬
uous part in the discussion. The bill
passed by almost a unanimous vote.
Then the house took up the postoffice
appropriation bill and spent the after¬
noon on it. This bill carries the fast
southern mail appropriation.
Chandler announced that senators
were in the habit of doing business ss
a body of gentlemen, observing such
amenities as would prevail in a Wolcott, gentle¬
man's own parlor, and Mr.
of Colorado, added his protest against
personalities, aud Mr. Alleu closed the
incident by ststing that be would
postpone his speech, adding sarcasti¬
cally that he would do this if Mr. lisle
gave his consent to such » course.
The senate then went to the calendar
and passed the following bills and res
elutions: To pay Chos. Phuteau,
survivor of Chauteau Harrison Valle,
$17-1,000 for a battery furnished dur¬
ing the war; directiug the judiciary
committee to investigate the subjected
“contempt of court" and report wbat
amendment of legislation was neces
sary. The last resolution was drawn
by Mr. Hill and is a substitute for res¬
olution* for an inquiry into the im¬
prisonment of E. V. Delis.
At 3 o'clock Mr. Sherman presented
the conference report on the Cuban
resolution to the senate,
An objection to Mr. Hale prevented
the consideration of the conference
report at the present time and it went
over nntd Monday at 2 o'clock, and
upon the request of Mr. Sherman it
was made the special order of the busi
ness on Monday,
In the discussion which followed
Air. Chandler declared the resolution
was not strong enough. He was m
favor of the recognition snd mainten
sii oe of Cuban independence by the
United States.
Mr. Hartman, republican, Montana,
made an attack on President C ieve
larni for his speech before the Presby¬
terian mission board iu New York,
which he declared was a slander on
western states, and was grossly im
propar.
Mr. Powers, republican, Vermont,
and Mr. Miles, democrat, Maryland,
attempted to call Mr. Hartman to or¬
der, but Mr. Hepburn, in the chair,
declined to interfere.
In concluding his attack Mr. Hart¬
man declared that the greatest need
for the missionary existed in the white
house.
Mr. Hartman declared that Mr,
Cleveland had insulted the western
states in his reference to them and
that his purpose was to create a senti
ment against the admission of territo¬
ries, with financial views opposed u
his. All attempts to suppress 5. t.
Hartman failed. He carried his poi it
and completed his speech. motion of 33 i
A bill was passed on make
Grosvenor, republican, Ohio, natioiid to
the national military parks regular
fields for manoeuvres of the
army and militia of the states unilwr
regulations to he prescribed by secre¬
tary of war. ,
The prospect that the Cuban ques¬
tion would reach its final legislative
stage packed the senate galleries Mon¬
day. of the Cu¬
Before the main branch
ban question (the adoption of the con¬
ference report) came up Mr. Hoar, re¬
publican, Massachusetts, offered two
resolutions bearing on the subject.
One, which we-t over under the raids,
postponed fnrther consideration of tjie
Cuban resolutions until April 6th, and
directed the committee on foreign re¬
lations in the meantime to secure and
report all available facts. Mr. Hoar
did not press this to consideration and
it went over. Mr.
The other resolution from
Hoar, which was agreed to, calls on
the president for available information
as to the status of affairs in Cuba, par¬
ticularly so far as they concern the in¬
terests of the United States.
At 1:15 o’clock Mr. Sherman moved
tho adoption of the conference report
pting the house Cuban resolutions.
By this time the galleries were packed.
In the diplomatic galleries sat Mr. Ho
and Mr. Hung, of the Chinese lega
tian, Baron von Kettlar, of the Ggr
man emhassy, Minister Mondonca, of
Brazil, and other members of the
diplomatic corps. republican, Maine, spoke
Mr. Hale, resolution,
energetically against the
He did not" think the inflammatory
statements made by senators in jnsti
fying the resolutions were backed by
facts. In 1870 this condition of af
fairs existed and an effort was made to
involve the United States in the con
troversy. At that time tho house com
mi ttee on foreign affairs presided over
by General Banks, reported a resoln
tion similar to this one. Bnt, fortn
nately for the cause of peace and pro
gress, there was then, said Mr. Hale, a
man in the president’s chair whose
love of liberty and patriotism was car
tainly equal to that of any of the mem
bers of the committee on foreign rela
tions, a man who knew the real metpi
ing of General war—General Grantjient Grant. tflflJjr Jjpe
message today it pjis
gross was as pertiuent as
at that time, anil it was an unanswsrla
ble plea against the present restllu
'*o n »
Mr. Gray interrupted to ask what
rosult bad come from General Grant s
mchsage. brought
It had, continued Mr. Hale,
the congressional resolutions to noth¬
ing. That message was so distinct, so
unanswerable, that in the presence of
that great, calm man, all excitement
disappeared and the resolutions came
to naught. Mr.
During tho debate on Cuba,
Sherman interrupted Mr. Hale to say
that before a single battle had been
fought in the civil war, Spain, France
and England had recognized the bel¬
ligerency of the Confederacy in the
very language of the resolutions now
before the senate.
At 3:15 p. m., Mr. Mitchell pre¬
sented his resolution seating Mr. Da
pout as senator from Delaware and it
was held to be a question of higher
privilege than the conference report
on the Cuban resolutions,so that Cuba
went over.
The Cuban question continues to be
a drawing card in the senate, attracting
large crowds at Tuesday’s session. Mr.
Lodge (Rep., Mass.) rose to a question
of personal privilege. He said he had
read on Sunday an interview attrib¬
uted to Senor Dupuy de Lome,of Spain.
There w»s nothing singular in this fact
as the Spanffh minister communicated
largely through the newspapers. Bnt
in this case the minister called in ques¬
tion the accuracy of a statement made
liy him (Lodge), The senator read the sent min¬ to
the clerk’s desk and had
ister's reference to Mr. Lodge’s utter¬
ance calling iu question the translation
of a statement attributed to General
Weyler in which the latter declared
he would “exterminate” the insurg¬
ents. Mr. Lodge commented on the
exactness of the translation and said
that a literal rendering of General
W evler's language would be that he
would “clean out" the large insurgent
bands and “exterminate” the small
ones.
Mr. Lodge said that he did not won¬
der at tbe extreme sensitiveness of the
Spanish people, bnt he did not think
this offered any excuse for the Spanish
minister in adopting the coarse he
had. He (De Lome) had been referred
to as a historian, bnt iu truth he was
the ex parte representative of Spain
and what he had disclosed from time
to time subtracted from the
snm of information on the Cuban sub¬
ject. It was pretty well established
that the debates iu the senate and
hon-e were purely domestic matters,
and it was not proper for a represen¬
tative of a foreign country to com mu
meats except through the etate depart
m*nt.
Mr, Tell-r. republican, Colorado,
-aid ih- rn’e was unvarying against a
e. mmut.-ication except through the
-ta;e j ariment. There should be
no comment by a foreign minister.
He should not be heard at all, except
•nd with those who labor with them
of complete' relief ^has^noT tbwa'fw
been able to reach them.
While he will not turn away from
them nor allow discouragement' to de
stroy activity in their behalf, let ns
not forget the missionaries in our
land who need our aid, to whom we
owe a duty and who can be reached.
It seems to me that the Christian
people of our land do not estimate at
its real value the work which the
Board of Home Missions has in charge,
and if they can be made to realize its
extreme importance, the means to
carry on and extend this work will be
forthcoming; and I hope that such an
unnsual interest may be aroused in be¬
half of the cause, of which this meet¬
ing is a part, as will sugg< st to many
heretofore indifferent that among
the most comforting of their posses
sions will be a share in the triumphs
and achievements of homo missions
JUDGE HALL RESIGNS.
He Had a Snug Place In the Interior
Department.
A Washington special of Tuesday
says: Judge John I. Hal), the assis¬
tant attorney general in charge of the
interior department, has resigned. He
has just accepted the general attorney
ship of the Georgia Southern and
Florida railroad, an adjunct of the
Southern. Judge Hall accepted the
position several days ago to assume
charge on Apirl 15th, when his resig¬
nation from the interior department
will take effect.
It is said that Secretary Smith will
appoint a successor to Judge Hall at
once. The duties of the office require
an able lawyer to fulfill. It is no
child’s play. It takes work and lots
of it. Judge John I. Hall has been
anxious to get out for a year or more.
The duties were too arduous, confin¬
ing him twelve hours or more a day.
As the office only bolds for a year
longer it may he difficult to get a
Georgia lawyer of the first cull’ng to
accept it, hut theie may he rnauy who
would like it for the honor.
WEISSINGER DEAD.
__
played an Important Part in the
Kentucky Senatorial Contest,
A special from Frankfort, Ky., says:
8enator R oze l Weissinger (sound
mQ democrat) is dead, He had
^eu Jjj {or gevera i days with a bad
00 id which changed into pneumonia,
He wag made mucb WO rse by the ex
citement o( Saturday when he was told
t j iat Blackburn had been elected,
Monda morning his friends were
caUed in fttld big p bysicaus. Dr. Ely
and Dr Hum6) gaid tbey thought he
would not 8arvive the day, as the
oball g e for the worse was very marked,
Senator Weissinger has played a
more importan t part in the senatorial
contest than any other member of the
ra , assembly. To him is doe the
of a pair with Senator
g > tbe repubUcaa member from
Louisville,which prevented the repub
jjeans from having a majority on joint
ballot on the death of Mr. Wilson a
few weekg ag0 . But for this Dr. Hun
ter would now be United States sena
tor
DR. JAMESON ON TRIAL.
Arraigned for the Second Time Before
the Court.
A London cable dispatch states that
Dr. Jameson and the officers who ac¬
companied him in the Transvaal raid
were again arraigned in the Bow street
police court Tuesday morning and
the charges against them were re¬
newed. Major Coventry and Captain
Gosling were added to the list of the
accused. The courtroom was crowded
with members of the aristocracy, among
them were the duke of Abercorn,
the earl and countess of Coventry
and Lady Aunaly. A large number of
members of the house of commons
were also present. Sir Richard Web
ster, attorney geueral, and Mr. It. B.
Finlay, solicitor general, conducted
the prosecution, and Sir Edward
Clarke, E. H. Car.-:on, M. P., and Sir
Frank Lockwood appeared for the de¬
fense. Magistrate Sir John Bridge
presided.
DEATH IN A LANDSLIDE.
Dwelling House Demolished and Oc¬
cupants Burled.
A huge landslide swept down a rav¬
ine on Portland, Oregon, heights Sun¬
day morning, completely wrecking the
dwelling house of Daniel McDonald,
killing his daughter, Belle, aged
eighteen, his cousin, Daniel Campbell,
who was a guest in the house, and se¬
riously injuring McDonald and his
wife and a younger daughter, Mary.
Judge Maddox’s resolution provid¬
ing that Chickamauga park shall be
used for the purpose of national en¬
campments of United States soldiers
and the atate militia has been adopted
by the house. This will make the
park tha center of all military maneu¬
vers and will lead to many encamp¬
ment* every year.
TALMAGK’S SONS FAIL.
\Vell Known Rio« Merchants Assign
With Heavy Liabilities.
Daniel Talmage’s Sons, rice mer
chants of New York, with branches at
Charleston and New Orleans, have as¬
signed to Joseph Giilet, giving prefer
ences to sixty-nine creditors for $14,-
547.
Of those sixty-seven are to farmers
in Louisiana, Georgia and Mississippi
for rough rice delivered to the firm in
amounts ranging from 8200 to $1,5 >0.
The firm did the principal bnsmes- business
iq rice in New York, and the
has been established forty-six years.
The liabilities are not definitely known,
but ore currently reported to be over
$ 30 , 000 .
PRESBYTERIAN HOME MISSIONS.
President Cleveland Addresses a Meet
in S York.
One of the most important meetings
held in recent years in favor of the
home mission movement of 1 he Pres¬
byterian church was that which took
piece in Carnegie music hall, at New
York, and over which President Cleve¬
land presided. Every available spot
io the hall was crowded, and an over¬
flow meeting was held in the lower
hall. The platform was crowded with
prominent ministers and laymen of the
Presbyterian church.
When President Cleveland appeared
at 8 o’clock, accompanied by Rev. Dr.
John Hall, of the Fifth Avenue Pres¬
byterian church, he was received with
tumultuous applause, the whole audi¬
ence rising and waving handkerchiefs.
When the applause had subsided Dr.
Hall introduced President Cleveland
as chairman of the meeting, whereupon
the applause was renewed again and
aga n. President Cleveland addressed
the meeting as follows:
I desire to express my appreciation
of the privilege of participating in this
conference and of the opportunity
thus afforded me of testifying to the
value and usefulness of the work un¬
dertaken by the Board of Home Mis¬
sions of the Pregbyterian Church.
My interest iu this subject and my
familiarity with home missionary ef¬
forts are not newly acquainted. They
early came to me in the surroundings
of a Christian Presbyterian home and
were stimulated by a father’s faithful
labors in the cause.
My early impressions are not, how¬
ever, the only basis of the testimony I
give tonight in favor of home missions.
As your fellow-citizen, interested, I
hope, in all things that deepen the re¬
ligious sentiment of our people and
enlarge Christian influence, I fully
realize the transcendent importance of
this agency in its operation upon the
hearts of men for the salvation of their
souls. The long roster of those who
have been led into the way of right
ousness through the instrumentality of
our home missions are rich trophies of
successful endeavor.
But it is not only as your fellow
citizen, but as the chief executive of
your government, that I desire to
speak, for I am entirely certain that 1
serve well our entire people, whose
servant I am, when I here testify to
the benefit onr country has received
through home missionary effort, and
when I join you in an attempt to ex¬
tend and strengthen that effort.
No one charged with the duties and
responsibilities which necessarily
weigh upon your chief executive can
fail to predate the importance of re¬
ligious teachings and Christian en¬
deavor in the newly settled portions of
onr vast domain. It is there where
hot and stubborn warfare between the
forces of good and evil is constantly
invited. Jn these days the vanguard
of occupation in a new settlement is
nevpr wi'bout its vicipus and criminal
element.
Gambling houses and dram shops
are frequently amoDg the first estab¬
lishments in a new community. It
must also be confessed that removal
from old homes and associations to
new and more primitive homes has a
tendency among honest and respecta¬
ble settlers to smother scruples and
breed evil indifference to Christianiz¬
ing and elevating agencies. These
conditions, if unchecked and uncor¬
rected, fix upon the new community,
by tbeir growth and expansion, a-elmr
aeter and disposition which, while
dangerous to peace and order in the
early stages of settlement, develop in¬
to badly regulated municipalities, cor¬
rupt and unsafe territories, and unde¬
sirable states. These are serious con¬
siderations in a country where the
people, good or bad, are its rulers,
because tho conditions to which I have
referred would certainly menace,
within a circle constantly enlarging,
the safety and welfare of the entire
body politic, if we could not hope that
churches and religions teaching wonld
from the first be on the ground to op¬
pose the evil influences that are apt to
pervade tho beginning of organized
communities.
These churches and this religious
teaching were never more needed than
now on our distant frontiers, where
the process of formmg new states is
going on so rapidly and where new¬
comers, who are to be the citizens of
mw states, are so rapidly gathering
together. instrumentalities the
For these at
outposts of our population, so vitally
important in view of Christian men,
as well as patriotic citizens, we must
depend to a very great extent on home
missionary exertion. How can we ex¬
cuse ourselves it we permit this exer¬
tion to languish for the lack of proper
support? objects home
If we turn from the of
missionary labor to the situation of
those actually toiling in distant fields,
for God and humanity and a purer,
better citizenship, our sympathy with
tbeir work must be fnrther quickened
and onr sense of duty to them and
their cause actively stimulated.
They are the men and women who
have left home and the associations of
friends under the direction of organ¬
ized boards to teach Christianity in
sparsely settled sections, and to or¬
ganize churches where none exist, en¬
during discomfort, hardships, poverty
and danger for the sake of a cause to
which, in a very comfortable and in¬
expensive way, we profess to be at¬
tached. There are soldiers at the front,
fighting onr battles, and we who stay
at home can not escape the duty of
providing for them, and re-enforcing
them in every way if we are to con
tinne them in onr service
Onr hearts have recently b-:en pro¬
foundly stirred by the dangers that
threaten the devoted m*»n and w. men
who havo gone fr«tn among us to
preach and teach Christianity in for¬
eign lands. Onr sympathy with them
in the regular home for
foreign ministers been sent
statements of less importance than
this.
“But considering the cimcnmstan
ces,” added Mr. Teller, “bad I been
in authority I would not have sent
bim homo for this offense, but I would
have had the secretary of state in a most
kindly way, suggest that the repeti¬
tion of the offense would lead to his
going home.”
Mr. Teller then turned to the con¬
ditions in Spain. He did not think
the outbreak of students should give
offense. The Spanish authorities were , '
doing ail in their power to stop the
trouble. Th -re w is no probability offen¬
that Spain would dissent in an
sive way to the passage of the pending
resolutions. Spain knew we had a
right to recognize the belligerents.
“I would be delighted,” said he, “to
hear that Havana had passed into the
hands of the insurgents. I would be
delighted to hear that the insurgents
had run the Spanish soldiers into the
sea.”
But the senator added that while he
had the sympathy, yet be felt no irri¬
tation over the student ebullitions in
Spain. Mr. Teller vigorously
In conclusion
reasserted that if the Spanish minister
repeated this public utterance, the
senator would favor giving him his
“walking papers. ”
The American people would not tol¬
erate any dictation or criticism from
foreign representatives accredited here.
At 2 p. m. the Cuban discussion
ended and Mr. Turpie took the floor on
the Dupont election ease.
REPORT ON CUBANS.
Gen. Meritt May Be Sent Down for
That Purpose.
Major General Merritt, commanding
the department of the Missouri of i ur
army, has been called to Washington,
it is said, for the purpose of being
sent to Cuba to make a report to the
president upon the condition of affairs
there.
It has usually been the practice of
this government to detail an army
officer to any country of the globe,
when a war is in progress, in order
that he may report to the war depart¬
ment upon the methods of warfare.
Such was the case during the Japan
China war. This government sent
both an army and a naval officer to
make reports upon that. Lieutenant
O’Bri'-n, who is now stationed at Mc¬
Pherson barracks, at Atlanta, was the
officer who was detailed to go with the
Japanese army daring the fighting in
Manchuria and he made an elaborate
report on the tactios pursued in that
war.
General Merritt is a man of recog¬
nized ability and one in whom the
president has the ntmost confidence.
It is, therefore, said that the president
would like to have him go toiCuba to
report upon the situation there, It is
said the pri sident desires the judg¬
ment tff a military expert on the situa¬
tion, and that in his desire he wants
the best opinion possible to get. the
No information can be got at
war department as to the facts in the
case. Indeed, the president is giving
out no information about his position
on the Cuban affair.
GOV. ATKINSON INTERVIEWED
He Talks Interestingly to a Washing¬
ton Post Reporter.
In the Washington Post of Tuesday
there appeared an interview with Gov¬
ernor Atkinson, which will doubtless
be read with interest in Georgia.
“I think,” he says, “Georgia can
safely bo counted among tho states
that will retain their allegiance to the
democratic party, Fusion between
the populists aud republicans is talked
of, but its consummation is doubtful.
The democracy is divided to some ex¬
tent over the silver question, bnt not
to a degree that the existence of the
party is imperiled. In my opinion the
advocates of siver are in the majority
and I think a majority of the delegates
selected to the national convention
will be silver men. The gold cause,
which was making some headway in
the state, got a severe setback about
fhe time of the iast bond issue aud a
reaction favorable to free silver coin¬
age immediately set in. I don’t think
the Georgia delegation will go to Chi¬
cago with any threats or ultimatum,
but they will not be satisfied with any
platform that does not distinctly re¬
cognize the claims of silver as a money
metal.”
MR. CLEVELAND DENIES
A Publication Regarding Hts Posi¬
tion on the Cuban Question.
A Washington special says: The
president said to a representative of
the Associated Press Friday morning:
“I see that it is assumed in cer¬
tain quarters that a deliverance pub¬
lished a few days ago on the Cuban
question may be taken as defin¬
ing the attitude of the administra¬
tion on that subject. I wish yon
wonld say that I never saw the state¬
ment nor heard of it until I read it
in the newspapers, and even then neg¬
lected to read all of it, supposing it to
be nothing more than a newspaper
gness. I do not know how it origina¬
ted, nor by whom inspired, but I do
know that I am in no manner respon¬
sible for it, nor in any way related to
it
“I only desire to say in addition
that I do not know whether the publi¬
cation referred to represents the views
of the administration on the Caban
question or cot,and that I have never
found any difficu’ty in communicating
with tha people in a manner which
leaves no doubt as to the authenticity
of any *tatement purporting to repre¬
sent my views.”
Otb future well-being has nothing tc
do with onr being sincere, unless w«
are also right.
