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About The Advocate-Democrat. (Crawfordville, Ga.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (April 2, 1897)
IN CONGRESS. The Week’s Work of the Na* tional Law Makers. CONSIDERABLE TARIFF TALK. The Extraordinary Session Drags Along Continuously. THE DAILY PROCEEDINGS Silted In a Condensed and Intereating Style.— Some Important Matters are RectMng Careful Consideration.—Many Hills are Being Introduced. SEVENTH DAY. Senate, The Semite spent only half an hour In open session to-ilay, the re¬ mainder of the time being given to the eonulderation of the arbitration treaty behind dosed doors. The agricultural a|i|iro|irlatfon Idll one of the four money hills that failed at the la at ses¬ sion wax reported back In the ahape In which It parsed the House last week, and wax plaeed on the enlendar. It will be acted on at an early day. The attack upon the civil service law and Its administration, which dis¬ tinguished yesterday's pns'eedlngs, wax followed up to day by the Intro¬ duction of two bills, one by Mr. Allen, Populist of Nebraska, for the repeal and annulment of the law ami of ail executive orders Issued under It; and the oilier by Mr. Pritchard, Republican of North Carolina, Chairman of the Committee on Civil Service and lte Ireitchmcnt, modifying its application to the Government printing office. Mouse. Large audiences in the galleries, uiul an unusually large at¬ tendance on the Moor of the Mouse of Representatives heard the third day's general debate on the tariff bill. The prUit‘i|xi 1 speeches of the day were those of Messrs. Johnson, of North Da¬ kota; tlrosvenor, of Ohio, mid Evans, of Keniticky, Republican mcmls-rs of the Committee oil Ways anil Means, In favor *of the bill, and of McMillan, of Tennessee, the oldest Democratic member, against It. Other speakers were Messrs. Deim -si of To ucss-e; Williams, ,J o-rm.vra! t iTry, lVino oral of VrkuusuR'. Sayers, Democrat of Texas, and Maddox. Democrat of Geor giu against the bill, end by Adams, Roptlhlleati. of MassnchUiivtts, In fa vor of it. The general debate will be i loscd to morrow, when Rttsselt, of Cmmcilleut, Dalzell, of Pennsylvania, St, tic. of Indiana, ilrnl Payne, of New York, llcpiiblican members of the Com¬ mittee on Ways and Means, anti Ball ey, of Tt>xas, the Demoerutle leader, w ill speak. The latter makes the for¬ mal closing for the minority, and I*uj ne for the majority. Resides these. Messrs. Hepburn. Republican of Iowa, and IUt hardsell, Democrat of Tenues \ tvIM s)H-ak. Nil Rrewnlow. Republican of Ten in see. Imrotlneed la the House a hill t lablishlog a Department of Coin I'. Labor amt Manufacturers. 1 , , It a,l Is to be a Cabinet officer and the necessary clerical force Is provided tel. Mr. Livingston. Democrat of oGor gt:t, was the tlrst speaker at to-night’s session anil linlulgrd In a brief half hour's protest against the tariff hill. The last speech of the evening was delivered by Mr. Oldstead. Republican of IVunsylvattla. ■ n support of the b II. who addressed six Representatives on tin 1 thsir and a score of visitors in the galleries. At U o'clock tin- committee row' ami the 1 louse mljoiirmsl. EIGHTH DAY. Washington, 1* C. Among the bills Introduced ami referred was ow by M r. Forakt-r, of Ohio, to provide a modern organlxnt >n of the artillery of the my Mr. I*rt uft*«l in an amended r* of John A. Hen a n roil: the State of Ft aU\ z~ *r nt hy t (liVt j the next miH'iiiijir of the Sf.it» April m vt. \; It! 2, oil nio I U su* x K MUv Ii \* ? Jlljjf t f the Cdiu 11 ! notations' S !\ ate Jed to t a iwHii j doors> of the arbitra a treaty ro-opemxl At 3 p. *o. t doors werr \ the it mini hod b \<dtn s> bank w n up, Ivins read f She Mil occupied ex r; me formal amend rnents were offered by Mr, Hoar and were agreed to. Mr. Nelson, Republican of Minneso¬ ta, offered a substitute for the bill which was also read in full, and when it was concluded the Senate at 4:2b p m. adjourned tinrii Saturday. House.—This was last day of gi-.neraj debate on tariff bill in the Hotn...... Representatives under the order adopt ed last Week hut Itcrailoe Mr. Hail ts throat would not permit him to speak this afternoon, an agreement was mad: to give, two hours to general debati just hefore taking the vote m-xt Wednesday, which will be occupied hy himself and Mr. Dlngley. The proceedings were unusually in¬ teresting ami they were listened to generally hy a large number of mem¬ bers and crowded galleries. Speeches against the bill were made by Messrs. Talbert, Democrat of South Carolina, Clark, Democrat of Missouri; Maguire, Democrat of California; Gunn. Popu¬ list of Idaho; Simpson, Populist of Kansas; Cox, Demoreat of Tennessee; McRae, Democrat of Arkansas; Iturke, Democrat of Texas; Ix-ntz, Democrat of Ohio, and Dearmond. Democrat of Missouri; and its favor by Messrs. Tawney, Republican of Minnesota; Dalzell, Republican of Pennsylvania; Russell, Republican of Connecticut, anil Payne, Republican of New Y'ork, inemtiers of the Committee on Ways and Means, and by Grow, Republican of Pennsylvania; Curtis, Republican of Kansas; Orison, Republican of Ken¬ tucky, and Hawley, Republican of Texas. At 5 o’clock the House took a recess until 8 o’clock to-night, the night ses¬ sion to witness the last general debate, except two hours on Wednesday next, just prior to taking the vote on the bill. ___ NIGHT SESSION. At the evening session the debate on tin tariff bill was continued. Mr. Skinner, Populist of North Caro¬ lina, in supporting the-bill said that if for the pitst. twenty-five years the South hud been trying for protection as the North and EaHt had, it would today be the most prosperous section of the country- The bill hatl its tie fts-ls and he did not think It would bring prosperity without supplemental financial legislation. Revenue, in ids opinion, sufficient to supply deficien¬ cies could be sustained by reducing by one-third of the salaries of all Govern¬ ment employes or by a proper income tax. Mr. Myers, Democrat of Louisiana, said that some of the duties Inferred by the bill might tie ervottWSttB"803 ex¬ cessive, bnt as a representative of Louisiana, representing tv great and suffering interest be should support the sugar schedule. \ number of apeeches were made by various members, and at 11 p. m. live House adjourned. NINTH DAY. Senate.—Mr. Morgan offered a reso¬ lution which was agreed to, directing tiie Attorney General to inform the Senate whether any and what agree n.cut has been entered into by the President or any of the departments relating the the future disposition of tho Culon Pacific Railroad property. by sale or otherwise. A resolution was offered by Mr. Lodge. Republican of Massachusetts. ami wits agreed to. calling for copies of all papers and correspondence, di plomatlc or otherwise, ou file in tile State Department relating to the ur rest and imprisonment iu Cuba of two American sailors, Richelieu and Bilt Oil. A largo nunilK'T of bills wotv intro iIiknnI, among thorn one by Mr. Quay, Republican of Pennsylvania, by re quest. to suppress pati|>erism. atul by Mr. t'tilloil!. Republican of Illinois, to promote aerial transportation. At 12:50 tlu* Senate on motion of Mr. Davis, Republican of Minnesota, vent Into executive session on the nrbitra tlou treaty. At 4 o’clock the Semite adjourned until Monday. The consideration of the tariff bill under the tire minute rule for the tmr pc* of amendment which, as was ex JH'C. ed would be strictly business, "is ml with the liveliest political <’a n ' test of the s*-sslon. lasting for nearly three hours. Pn-limluary to the main liattie >>f the day there was a lively ski rm; sh immediately after the House cut inlc 21 committee of the whole aud the t'h-rk instructed to begin read > tig the Mil. Promptly on the reading of the pro fstorv paragraph 1 'f tin’ bill Mr. Doi’k f it. Democrat of Missouri, offeretl an an ointment authorising the Secretary of the Treasury to admit free of duty a :n article, the production and prii-e if which would Ik- controlled by a trust in the Dnited States. Mr. Dlngley, Cbalrmaln of the Com miuei on Ways and Means, made the tl the amendment was not iu . order at that place, aud Mr. I>alscU, Republican of Pennsylvania- that if it were in order as to time. Congress could not devolve on the Secretary tt judicial duly sneh as that of determ¬ ining whether or not- a trust was in control of certain articles. This pre¬ cipitated a debate, based on Demoerat ie charges nhat Republicans favored the trusts theni. ami did not want tit legislate against All of the leader* on both sides alntl some not recognized in that rank.i took part. Charges and counter charges were bandied back and forth. aLd the record of the past seven years was searched to show the action of bulb parties on the subject of trusts. Alftor nearly three hours of skirmishing, ■ the question ostensibly taring the point of order. General Hen¬ derson, Republican, of Iowa, appealed to both widestto put an end to it, say¬ ing that if ft was tin- desire to get through the bill in the time allotted for its consideration, “a mighty bad start hail been made all around.” The isiint against the amendment was sustained by tiie chair, and on ap¬ peal his ruling was sustained—158 to KM. Many other amendments having the same object tty put artie'es controlled by trusts on Ihe free list, were offer¬ ed, and on objection by Mr. Dingle.v, all were ruled, out of order. In the eourstt ■ of the afternoon *ev era 1 changes I of duty were made, among them Itf-ing an Increase of half a cent on the duty on carbonate of ammonia, an increase of from twenty five to forty relnts a pound on the duty on sulphuric ether, and increasing the duty on the products 1 of pig lead from 2> r< to 3 cents pound. At 5:15 p. n\ the House adjourned until to-morrovtf- at 10 o'clock, having disposed of nine and half pages of the 103 pages of the MIL NIljJTH DAY. House.—The ilouee In Committee of the Whole progressed even more slow¬ ly in its consideration of the tariff bill to-day than yesterday. Having disposed of but five and a half pages against uine, and a half the day be¬ fore. This was the rate exactly one page an hour, and if the same rate should be maintained until the expira¬ tion of the period allotted for discus¬ sion by the order adopted last week, there will have been 31 of the 163 pages of the bill considered when the hour for the vote on its passage ar¬ rives. The dilatory method of hand ling tin* bill pronoked Mr. Johnson, Re¬ publican of Indmna, to protest against the irrelevantf discussion which im¬ peded progress find in which members of the Coinnil^’i -e tin Ways and Means [ iu charge of tm? lull Indulged as well as Democrats bad to ask Obairman Dlngley if a change could not Ih> made which would result in more rapid work. When the Hons*- entered upon Its work this morning there was not a quorum present, a* revealed by a vote, and there was a wait of fifteen minutes until 101 members appeared. The discussion took a with* range, cov¬ ering the propositions that the forelgn cr pays the tax! under a protective tariff: that a duty on bides would be more beneficial tt> the- farmer than all the duties In the agricultural schedule; tlxat pig iron eait be ptodueeil in Ala¬ bama and Tennessee in competition W itit the North find foreign countries >V i|-li a smaller duty than SI a ton tal though no motion was matte to reduce { iti; tiiat trusts are in the main benefl | tu d u > consumer. A s a result of (the days' work a few immaterial changes earills were and matte earthenware in the C i iwl ]|c;tl and s ,.j„Hlules. proposed by the Committee m \ Vllvs llm i Means, ami at 4:15 L the lloustj adjourned until next Monday at 10 a. nu Eighty Thousand D.ic.—Since Apptfcants. Washington, the change of adminlstrattoq over rihffW appli¬ cations for postoffices have been filtsl at the Postoffice Department. The nutnlsxr is said to be somewhat smaller thftu (l>ur j.p aTS ap> . All the papers i 1!lVt , reetmled amt classified ami (hti tllud( , op to date. Dp to the of businosti Sattrrday tlu- ap¬ pointment division of the Interior De¬ partment has record-.! 1,000 applica¬ tions for Presidential positions under ! the Interior Department. Several Fire4 Near Columbus. Cifitimbus. Ga.I Three houses were destroyed hy fire in Girard Sunday at tt'rnooo. The l<4*s aggregated j | ami it was partially Seoitt covered by Insnr tlit a nee. W. E. owned two of j houses. Sunday moraine tire destroy ->1 a dwelling In Phoenix City, owned i - by M. E- Edward, A house on Ninth j i also slightly damaged by J street was fire. Furnace to Start Dp. Florence. Ala.— The Sheffield Coal Iron & Sheet Company will light th< fires in their big No. 2 fnvnace at Shef field Wexlnesday evening. Maj. A. A j Wills, of Nashville. President of tie Company. intended to put this furnace FIVE MURDERED. They Were Then Cremated to Hide the Crime. CAUSE OF CRIME A MYSTERY. The Horrible and Brutal flurder of Jacob Ade and Family. A WELL KNOWN FARMER. — _ Neighbor Saw the House on Fire, and on doing to the Building Discovered Evi deuces of the Awful Crime That Had Been Committed. Nashville, Tenn.—Particulars of what appears to have been a horrible and brua! murder was received here from Paradise Ridge last Saturday. Jacob Ade, one of the oldest and best known farmers- of the Ridge settle¬ ment, his wife, his daughter and son, and a little daughter of Henry Moir er, were probably murdered and heir bodies cremated in Ade’s house, which was burned to the ground. The story of murder is strengthened by the fact that all of the bodies were found in tire same room, but scattered around over the space occupied by this room, tt was first thought that the old man was killed! for his money, as he was known to be well-to-do, and al¬ ways kept a supply of money on hand, but whether this Ik- true or not cau not be positively stated now, or at least the ashes of what was once a big roll of money, has been discovered in the ruins of the house. The dead are: Jacob Ade, Mrs. J. A do, Lizzie Ade. aged 20 years, Henry Ade, aged 13 years; Rosa Moirer, aged 10 years. Jacob Ade lived flfiteen miles front this city, near the Cheatham county line. The house sits hack a half at mile form what isknownasthe Clnrks ville turnpike. It was a one-story frame dwelling with live rooms—two rooms hi front, with a hallway br¬ tween, and three rooms running back, forming an ell. Old man Ade and his wife usually occupied the first room in the ell, just iu the rear of the front room, or parlor. There was only one bed in this room, tt was in this room t hat-ail the first indication of the tragedy was d;s j covered at 10 o’clock last night by Jus¬ tice Simpson, who lives half a mils, j from th* Ade place. There was a sick man at Mr. Simp¬ son's house, and about 10 o'clock Mr Simpson went out to get some water for the man. when he saw that Ade'* house was on tire. He at once rode i over to the sceuo and found the house- i in ruins Finding no-one near, Simp son's suspicions won* aroused, and, upon a close inspection he saw the bodies of several people in the ruins, He went to work to rescue the bodies and succeeded in getting four of them out. These proved to be the bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Ade. Mis* Lizzie Ade and Miss Moirer. After this Mr. Simp sou rode around and, .tsatified a number of. rile' neighbors, auai - .I a short whihs quite a crowd had. collected about the ruins. Henry Ado, the 13-year-old son of Mr. Ade, was a?ho missing, but his body could not lot found. It was irst thought that he had escaped to -She woods, but a further search off the ,-nias of the house tills morning disefas eii his body, The bodies of Mr. and ills. Ade. Miss Lizzie Ade and Henry Ad** were burned to a crisp. The limb and heads were burned off. in; fact, owty a small mass of flesh and bones remained. The old man and hi* wife were more horribly burned than tbe The l>ody of Rosa Moirer was not burned so btulTv as the othovs. The little girl's leg* were burned off; one -,rtr was raised over her head and the h.,„d Of this was gone. A mu'tion of her skull was tnisslng, but the brain, which was exposed, aud tbe skin on her face was on ly partiaJty burned, This fact gives further evidence in support of the theory of iaordf-r. Some 0 f the people tielieve that, po-siblv., while* the other members ,»f the fain ly WOTf being murdered this child escap tttl and tras not killed until after liie hon had burned awhile, when the thrown into the fire, fact that a part of her skull is ■>,( the rest of the head perfect, skin of Iter face only badly lends weight to the theory that . was nocked In the head, and it ax be that in trying to protect her >-tf she threw up her arm and the 'ii! 1 was cut off by the same blow ’ a - t- re away a part of her skull. ; i blow paralyzed her muscles and . Hie arm rt'iasuu: d in this protecting po -iiti on after (h*ath had enstxedv purpose of the murder was at thought to be robbery, but if this , correct, the murderer was ill-paid , horrible crime. In searching .» ruiiiS of the house, this morning, can was found under the [r’aict* where ;i closet once stood in Mr. Adv’s sleeping room. L_ In this can the , remains of what was evidently a large roll i i money was found, together with four silver dollars, which had been melted so that they were sticking to gether. that he Mr. Ado's neighbors knew kept bis money in this closet. He was in the city Monday. While here he told Jerry Matthews that he had $2, 000 and he did not know wnat to do wittl it j [r Matthews advised him to deposit it in the Fourth National bank. Mr. Ade did not say that he had the money with him. Sheriff Sharp was notified of the sup¬ posed crime early Saturday morning, and he, with several deputies, went to the scene and are there now working on the case. Disposing of the robbery theory, it is very hard to find a motive for the horrible crime, as Mr. Ade was a very popular man and well liked by all his neighbors. The only enmity which might pave existed between him and any of the people living in that section was- that which resulted from a charge he ma~w against a man who was arrested in Cheatham county a few days ago, charged with stealing hogs from Ade. This man was tried before a Magis¬ trate in Cheatham county and bound over to the Circuit Court. There is. however, no evidence against this man which would in any way connect him with the murder. Mr. Ade was 60 years old and had: lived in that community for twenty five years. A CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS. They AH Occur in Chattanooga in oik Day. Chattanooga, Teun.—A series of fatal incidents occurred here Sunday, which strikingly illustrate the truth of tlic saying that troubles never come sing ly 1‘irst was the tragic death of J. F. Coffey, a well-known merchant tailor Dir. Coffey wont to hi* room this morn ins. having taken a dose of some nar cotie to make him sleep. His deal; body was found at noon by his land¬ lord. lying on his bed in his room, lib clothing half removed, as if preparing to He down. Coffey came here from Cincinnati. He was State Secretary ol and was welri do. * to Squire J. D. Blackford, aged eighty jcais, one of the pioneers of this see turn, while going to attend church this ti oruig, was run over by a train of the Memphis & Charleston Railroad and received injuries ftoaa which he died 111 '* evening. ” his morning Mrs, H. C. Llnderman wife of a well known German dairy thrown from her buggy, while driving to the eitv and sustain ii.JUXMO« from which it is expected she will die is-forc morning, tt ap pears that her horse was frightened I';.- e. mischievous- negro boy, who jumped out at the aasimal from behind a fence along the roadway. Walter; Houston, a colored draymiau and a man of some'property, while as sliding in the preparation for a bn 1 n *n ascension this afternoon, wa< struck on the head by a heavy scant ling v.hich had Been knrcited from iti place lty the swaying balloon, ami wax knocked senseless. His nose wax-brok¬ en a mb he was otherwise injured, from the efiscts of which he is now lying ai the point of deirSb Tliis evening a tire broke out fit the St. Elmo buteSer shop and 11m build ing and contents were totally destroy¬ ed. The proprietor narrowly - escaped witik his life, and not until ho,tad been burned. Steel Heid the Pistol;. Austin. Tex.-A dispatvb frotm t,>orgetow& says that Jaafc Steele, a prominent business man <1: that city, diot and kfited W. W. Dimmittee, an »ther proaiineut business man of tbe same pla**. In the County Court room. during *e proceedings of a trial, Dimmittaw was irritated; I r soure sharp words from Steele, wker- up -n li hit him over the head v\tU t\ Suele Irew his revolver and lred four times, each sliot taking effect, ijiliog him u^tantly. Bijr Wheat Crop In Scqwfucp’e. I>tiBlap. Tciid.—'T his c has a larger area planted to viva’. Gan ever l^-forc. and it is in splendid < udition. Che crop iu the Sequaeh-e Valley this se ason will be the largest ever known. The handle factory at Bridgeport, Ala., is ts-lng overhauled and will lie in y\u ration by April 15. Pros dent N;.x *>n lia^ large erd-jrs for handles from E&SlitU'j 'Uid > >v» l-u.
