The Advocate-Democrat. (Crawfordville, Ga.) 1893-current, July 09, 1897, Image 7
AT THE CAPITOL. Dursnt Appeals to United States Supreme Court, LONG LIST OF APPOINTMENTS Sent to the Senate by the President—Jap¬ anese Minister May be Recalled—Re¬ ceipts and Expenditures for Month oi June.—Other Items of Interest. An Embezzler Pardoned. The president has pardoned Charles R. Fleischman, sentenced iu Illinois to five years’ imprisonment in the Mil ivaukee house of correction, December 8th last for embezzling the funds of the National bank of Illinois, Comparative Statement. I he monthly comparative statement of the government receipts and ex penditures shows that during the month of June the receipts from eleven sources amounted to $36,o84,- 708, and the expenditures 8-22,934,694, leaving a surplus for the month of $13,650,014. The surplus during June, 1896, was$2,340,400. Thestate ment shows that the deficit for tho fiscal year closed Wednesday, last week, was $18,623,108, a reduction of $31,821,9S5, since March 11 of the present year. The receipts from customs during last June aggregated $hl,o60,l.)- as SH>851,803 for June, The receipts from internal . revenue agrees ^- U nUg th6 lllSt m ° nth Wer f $12,367,085, - a loss , as compared i with June, 1896, of £>500,000, Congressman Knowles Hot. In the house one day last week Mr. Knowles (pop., S. D.) rose to a ques tion of personal privilege, aud sent to the clerk’s desk and had read an Asso ciated Press dispatch dated Lewiston, Me., in which Prof. L. C. Bateman charged, ou the alleged authority of Mr. Knowles, that the “middle-of-the road populists had accepted $1,500 from the proceeds of Mr. BryaaLj book, with the understanding nothing should be done to prevent fusion ii 1900.” Mr. Knowles de nounced Mr. BaVeiian’s statement as a falsehood. Mr. jected to the airing of private grievan cea in the house. He said the gentle man might “hire a hall” if he desired to make a personal explanation. Mr. Knowles, however, insisted that he had a right to denounce a statement that was “false as hell,” and the speakei allowed him to proceed. Mr. Knowles read letters in vindication of himself. Threatened With a Deficiency. For more than a month all pension certificates issued by the government have been held up in the pension bu reeu. The suspension ended last week when an immense batch of certificates was mailed to the various agencies. This terminates the operations of an order which taking effect on May 31 last was designed to avoid increasing the existing deficiency in the pension applications by crediting the payments which would follow the issuances of these certificates to the new fiscal year instead of to the fiscal year ended Wednesday of last week. The pension bureau was threatened with a deficien¬ cy of about $300,000 in its appropria¬ tions, and the discovery of the threat¬ ened deficit by Commissioner Evans led to the suspension. The prompt action saved the office in this respect, and it is stated prevented a deficiency being recorded against the past fiscal year. A Novel Scheme. Representative Shafroth, of Colora¬ do, introduced in the house the other day a novel measure, entitled “A bill to encourage tho economical adminis¬ tration of the government.” It pro¬ vides that “in order that each officer and employe of the United States shall have a direct interest in the economi¬ cal administration of the government, the secretary of the treasury is direct¬ ed for each month the expenditures of the government are greater than the receipts to deduct and retain in the treasury from each salary in excess of $200 per month 20 per cent, thereof, ,and from each salary under said amount 10 per cent, thereof,” It further provides that in no case shall the amount so deducted be repaid un¬ less at the end of the fiscal >*ar the receipts for the year have exceeded the expenditures. The president and jus¬ tices of the supreme court are the only officials exempted from the operations of the act. Likely to be Recalled. Toru Hoshi, the Japanese minister, is likely to be recalled at an early date. While officials at Washington of the Japanese legation claim to be in ignor¬ ance of anv such probability, well informed opinion in state department circles inclines to the belief that Sir. Hoshi will ask for his papers within a short time. The reasons for the minister’s recall are two-fold, not the least potent of which is said to be the feeling of the Mikado’s government and the minis¬ ter personally toward this govern¬ ment’s policy in Hawaii. The minis¬ ter himself feels insulted because the state department did not apprise him of the negotiations which led to tho signing of the treaty for the annexa¬ tion of Hawaii, and while the Japan¬ ese home government is incensed oa account of this and what it termed u lack of consideration of its rights in Hawaii in the framing of the treaty itself, the condition of Japanese poli¬ tics affords a second reason for the minister’s recall. ct Appo n m The president last week sent the lol lowing nominations to the senate . Treasury—-George C. Bidwell, to bo collector of customs for the district of New York. Wilbur F. Wakeman, appraiser of merchandise in the district of New y ork J lls tiee—Emery P. Close, attorney of tho United States for the northern district of x ew i’ or k. state—John F. Gowey, of Washing consul at Kanagawa, to be consul general at Yokohama, Japan. George N. West, of the District of Columbia, now consul at Picton, to be consul at Sydney, N. S. W. To Be Consuls—Oscian Bedell, of New York, at Fort Erie, Out. John C. Higgins, of Delaware, at Dundee, Scotland. Interior—C. Sanford Russell, of Missouri, to be receiver of publicmon eys a j i rou t OU) Mo. Loe Patrick, of Oklahoma, to bo a g en t for the Indians of tho Sac and “Reucy, Oklahoma. Postmasters—Jerome E. Poche, Washington, Ga.; Sebastian Anderson, Jasper. Ind.; Abel Laudrich, Napa leonville, La. State—John Russell Young, ^ of Penn sylvania, to be librarian of congress. Bernard R. Green, of the District of Columbia, to be superintendent of library building and grounds. Francis B. Loomis, of Ohio, to bo envoy extraordinary oml minister plenipotentiary to Venezuela, To Be Consuls—Henry Rordewick, of Minnesota, at Christiana, Norway, -John C. Caldwell, of Kansas, at >.an Costa Rica. C. Hanna, of Iowa, ai Inni ’• West Indies. Louis. LftBge, Jr •V. .&* .QU.uqis, Bremen, Germany, Indiana, Joseph J. Stevens, of at Plymouth, England, Merriam, Sev War—Col. Henry C. enth infantry, to be brigadier-general, Justice John R. Thomas, of Illi nois, to be judge of tho United states courts in tho Indian Territory, Treasury—Thomas J. Yandell, of Kentucky, to be collector of internal revenue for tho Second district of Ken tucky. Kentucky, be John W. Yeakes, of to collector of internal revenue for tho Eighth district of Kentucky. William Woodville Rockhill, of the District of Columbia, to be Envoy Ex¬ traordinary and Minister Plenipoten¬ tiary and Consul General to Greece, Uoumauia and Servia. ArthurS. Hardy, of New Hamsphire, Minister Resident aud Consul General to Persia. Abraham E. Smith, of Illinois, Con¬ sul at Victoria, B. C. Asa W. 'Penny, United States Dis¬ trict Judge for the Eastern District of New York. Richard W. Austin, Marshal of the Eastern District of Tennessee. George W. Allen, Collector of Cus¬ toms for the District of Key West, Fla. Mr. Rockhill, the new miuister to Greece, was until recently Assistant Secretary of State. His appointment is not a party one in auy sense, but is based entirely upon his experience as a diplomat aud his excellent work while in the Department of State. He en¬ tered the diplomatic service as far back as 1884, being appointed from Maryland to be Second Secretary of Legation at Peking. In 1886 and 1887 he acted as charge d’affaires at Seoul, the Korean capital. long In 1788 he resigned with devoted a leave of absence, which he to an exploration of Thibet, then an all most unknown country. Oneresultof this journey was a most interesti"g contribution to the scientific literature of travel. In 1893 Mr. Rockhill, who had then returned to the United States, was ap¬ pointed chief clerk of the Department of State, a post he relinquished in the following year to become Third As¬ sistant Secretary of State. At the per¬ sonal request of President Cleveland, Mr. Rockhill in 1896 relinquished this place, which from custom had come to be regarded as nou-political and safe from the vicissitudes of changes in the administration, to accept the place of AsBsistant Secretary of State vacated by the appointment of Mr. Uhl as Ambassador to Germany. He contin¬ ued to hold the place under the pres¬ ent administration until the appoint¬ ment of Judge Day, and remained in the department until some time after the accession of the latter to close up the Cuban correspondence of the last admintration. CURRANT’S APPEAL. Papers Received by the Clerk of the United States Supreme Court. A telegram from Washington says : The papers in the appeal of W. H. T. Durrant, under sentence of death in San Francisco for tho murder of Blanche Burnout, were received by the clerk of the United States supreme court last Thursday. The appeal is from the decision if the circuit court of the United States in the Ninth district in refusing to grant Durrunt’s applica¬ tion for a writ of habeas corpus. In his petition Durrant alleges that the irregularity and illegality of the pro¬ ceedings against him iu the California state courts in that trial “was conduct¬ ed upon information not iu accordance with the equal protection of the laws and not by due process of law,” and that testimony was introduced and cou viction secured without any process of law and without trial by au impartial jury, and without process of law. As the supreme court will not sit again until October 12, the application can¬ not be argued before that time. SUFFERING AND DESTITUTION. Senator Mason Told ot the Condition of 40,ooo of His Constituents. W. D. Ryan, secretary of the United Mine Workers of Illinois, has written au open letter to United States Sena ^or Ylason, in which he says: “The stund taken by you in behalf 0 { the patriots in Cuba deserves the commendation of all liberty-loviug people, but let me call your attentiou to the condition of 40,000 of your constituents—the coal miners of Illi D ois. The competition inaugurated the coal operators has brought about a condition of suffering aud destitution which was never equalled. h avo been iorceil to accept reduc tion after reduction until the price now paid is so low that miners cannot earn an average of 75 cents a day, aud the mines work only half time, 't aking au aTera g 0 of $1 a day and three days’ work a week, a miuer earns $12 a month. With a family of five—a fair average—the wife has less than three cent for n meal, to say nothing of clothes, rent, etc. I doubt if any more lives have been lost iu Cuba since the insurrection commenced than in the mines of Illinois during the same time; and I am certain that there are no more women and children hungry in Cuba at present than among ot -thi <r”; Do something to put the idle miners of Illinois and I to will work guarantee at a jfiir that rate of wages every miner in Illinois will contribute at least one days’ wages every month for the benefit of the down-trodden peo¬ ple of Cuba.” EX- QUEEN LIL’S SUBJECTS Have Not Forwarded a Petition In Her Behalf. Capt. Charles A. Palmer, private secretary to ex Queen Liiioukalani, states that there is positively no truth iu the rumor that a monster petition was being forwarded to Washington from Hawaii by the ex-queen’s sub¬ jects in her favor. “The people of Hawaii,” he said, “have as yet learned nothing about the treaty having been signed. We were not expecting such An act on the part of the administration, so a peti¬ tion of tho kind mentioned was not deemed necessary. Communication is bad between the islands. It is not as it is in this country, and even after the news reached there it would take several days to circulate it among the people. ” WILL RETAIN THESSALY. So the Turkish Cabinet I Announces to the Ambassadors. A dispatch to the London limes from Constantinople dated Wednesday says: Tewfik Pasha will announce to the ambassadors of the powers tomor row (Thursday) that the cabinet main tains the indefensible right of Turkey to retain Thessaly by fright of con¬ quest. EDHEM PASHt RESIGNS. -/ Can t Guarantee Dlscipffns Under the Proposed Peace Copditi MM. Edhem Pasha, commander-in-chief of the Turkish forces iui Thessaly, has tendered his resignation! of command to the sultan on the groulnd that under the proposed peace conditions he will be unable to guarantee 'the discipline of the army. Hawaiians Not A farmed. The steamship Empress, of China, bas arrived at Van Couiver, B. C., and culty brings with advices Hawaii in reference to thte effect to the that diffi¬ the government at Honolulu is not the least warship intimidated Naniwao by t|ie ijn their presence of the waters. They believe that Japtun will not dare adopt so extreme measure as to go to war with so small a (country, being ashamed to do so. LARGE DEAL CLOSED. An English Syndicate Ready to Buy the Coal Lands. Maj. E. E. McCrosby, the ageut for an English syndicate iu Knoxville, Tenu., has received a cable dispatch from Loudon, England, worded as follows: “Deal has been closed all right. Taylor will be with you soon. ” The deal referred to is that whereby au English syndicate has secured op tious ou nearly all the coal miues now iu operation iu tho Jellieo districts of Tennessee and Kentucky, and of many of the mines along the Cincinnati Southern railroad in Morgan county’, Tennessee, and Whitely county, Ken tucky Tlie the “Taylor” referred to is financial ageut of the English syndi eate, who has already sailed for this country’. The lands involved iu the deal comprise 100,000 acres, which include seventy miues now iu opera¬ tion. Maj. Crosby stated that the money for the first payment, $5,000, 000, is on deposit iu tho Bank of Eng¬ land . This announces officially tho accept¬ ance of the options aud tho consum¬ mation of tho largest purchase of coal lauds iu tho history’ of tho south. COULD NOT AGREE. Twenty-five Thousand Iron, Steel and Tlnworkers Out. Every mill iu the United States whoso wage scales are under the juris¬ diction of tho Amalgamated Associa¬ tion of Iron, Steel and Tinworkers closed down last Wednesday. These mills altogether employ 25,000 mem¬ bers of the Amalgamated association, besides those who are not members. The general shut-down takes place ou account of the failure of tho Amalga¬ mated association scale committee and the manufacturers to agree ou a pud¬ dling rate at the conference held at Youngstown. The committee holdout for $4.50 n ton for puddllug aud tho manufacturers refused to budge from $4. Au adjournment siue die was finally tftkeu, each side to let the other know when it had experienced a change of heart. HARVARD AND YALE. Hundreds of Young Men Receive Diplomas From the Famous Colleges. The commencement exercises at Harvard were held last Wednesday. In the presentation of degrees there were 383 bachelors of art, 26 bachelors of science, 111 masters of art, 25 doctors of philosophy, 1 doctor of scieuce, 2 bachelors of agricultural science, 20 doctors of veterinary medicine, 32 doc¬ tors of dentistry, 72 doctors of medi¬ cine, 103 bachelors of law aud four bachelors of divinity. vale’s commencement. Nearly 700 young men received dip¬ lomas from Yale last week. Tho ap¬ proximate number of tho various de¬ partments follow: Academic, 200; scientific, 240; law, 80; divinity, 30; medicine, 80. Besides these, there were many special degrees given for work iu music, art, graduate and other departments. This is the largest class that ever grtyluated from the univer¬ sity. RUSSIA’S POPULATION. For the First Time a Census is Being Taken In the Czar’s Uomnins. For the first time in history a gen¬ eral census has beeu takou of the pop¬ ulation of tho Russian empire, which is shown to number, 139,211,113, of which total are 64,616,280 are mules and 54,594,866 females. United States Cousul General Karel at St, Peters¬ burg, who sent the figures to the state department, says they show that in forty five years the population of Russia has doubled, and during the j a(j ^ twelve years it lins increased 20 c( . nt Tu tllko this census, the jt nss j an government employed iuj ft of 150i0 00 persons, aud its com ^ .,i et j on j n three mouths is regarded as t ach i eV emeiit. TRAVEL SUSPENLED. Four Big Bridges Burned by Turnpike Raiders. A telegram from Louisville, Ky., says: Turnpike raiders applied tho torch to four big bridges ou the most and used turnpikes in Madison county, in consequence all travel over these pikes has been stopped. The damage is estimated at $10,000. The fiscal court was in session last week at Richmond and freed nineteen of the twenty-six turnpikes iu the coun¬ ty, but because the remaining seven were not freed it is supposed the raid¬ ers burned the bridges. Thousands Homeless. A dispatch to the London Daily Mail from Brail, the principal port of Koumania, says that 20,006 inhabi¬ tants, of Galatx, in Moldavi, on the left bank of the Danube, are homeless as a result of the recent floods. FAMILY EXTERMINATED. Suspicion That They Were Poisoned, and Arrests Will lie Made. The vicinity of Belmot, Browncoun tv, Indiana, is greatly excited over the extermination of the iumily of John Stephens. The mother and five chil dren were taken suddenly ill with what was thought to be flux Monday after noon. That uighi the infant died. Tuesday morning tho little 4-year-old boy died, this morning the mother died and an hour later the t‘>-year-old boy died. Two little girls are all that left of tIia family, and they aro dangerously ill. Cine is dying and tho other will uot recover, l’hysiciana thought it, was flux, but now the gou oral suspicion is they were poisoned. Investigation by the coroner will fol low, «ud probably arrests will bo made, UNABLE TO CONTINUE. Third Building and Loan Association in Kentucky I alls. Tho Globe Building and Loan asso¬ ciation of Louisville, Ky., went to the wall last Thursday afternoon, find¬ ing itself unable to carry on business under the state law us construed by the appellate court. Tho assets nutl liabilities are estimated at $400,000 each- L. O. Cox is president. Tho managers of tho other building and loan associations have issued cards calculated to restore confidence, claim¬ ing that the ruling of tho court did uot affect them. This makes the third corporation of this character that has gone under during the past two day’s. REPUBLICAN HARSHAL Compelled to ke-Appolnt the Old Set of Deputies. John K. Thompson, tho newly ap¬ pointed republican United States mar¬ shal, was compelled by of a mandate United is¬ sued by Judge Jackson, tho States court, to re-appoint the old sot of deputy United States marshals at Parkersburg, W. Ya., who are demo¬ crats. MurslmJ Thompson intended to ap¬ point new men, whereupon au injunc¬ tion was obtained under the civil ser¬ vice law, with tho result already stated. Export Shipments of Iron. Tho report of export shipments of iron from tho Birmingham district the past six months show au average of 15,000* to 20,1)0(1 "tons shipped of 120,- pet month, or in the neighborhood 000 tons nil told. It being months fair to pre¬ will sume that the second six make at least as good a showing ou ac¬ count, of the willingness of cotton VCH eels to take iron us extra cur^o» it is fairly estimated that iron shipments for export out of tho Birmingham dis¬ trict for 1897 will be 240,000 to 250, 000 tons. Indians Drink Hair Oil. Five Indians, including Chief Wee Bug, are dead at Malone’s Point on Mille Lacs Lake, Minn., and several others are expected to die, as the re¬ sult of drinking pain killer, hair oil and other preparations containing al¬ cohol. J i 4 riorj War Possible. A pessimistic view of tho negotia¬ tions for peace between Turkey aud Greece are taken at Athens and even the resumption of hostilities iu the near future is regarded as possible, ft is stated that iu such au event King George will commuud the Greek troops. Bank Wricker Gets Eight Years. At New Orleans, La,, Louis Gallot, the convicted Union hank wrecker, was sentenced tho other day by Judge Parlunge to eight years m the peni¬ tentiary at hard labor. The case will bo appealed. Miners Strike. At Altoona, Pa., Taylor &■ McCoy’s Gallitziu coal miners, who struck » month ago against a reduction of 5 cents a ton ou coal going into coke, and who returned to work ou Tuesday at the reduction, have again gone ou a strike. WHY NOT ATTEND? One of the greatest drawbacks our 'church has to contend with is the non attendance of the members at Its ser vices. We are told to “forsake not the assembling of ourselves together,” and throughout, the Bible we are urg¬ ed to meet and mingle together. Yet, in the faee of all this some of our members never attend the church scr viecs, and especially is It so of prayer meeting services, There must be something lacking when a church member loses his love for the services of the church Why Is it we do uot attend? Echo answers, Why? We Invite all tire good people who desire to change locality to come and see our lovely place.