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T1IE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY MORNING, JULY Si.—TWELVE PAGES.
THEY HELD THE HELM
Political Pilots Who Have
Steered the Campaign.
SCHELL, BELMONT ANO BARNUM.
Carious Capacity Required to Manipulate
the Machine—Gorman, Hewitt and
llrlco -YVha. Is Said of the New
Democratic Chairman.
From the New York Telegram.
The organization of the executive com
mittee in charge of a Presidential canvass
is one of such supreme importance that
the qualifications for the position are, or
ought to be, most carefully considered.
The appointment of the chairman of
that committee is of paramount impor
tance, for upon him depends largely the
success or failure of a campaign.
The campaign of 1884 was, I believe, the
first Presidential canvass in which the
chairman of the executive committee as
sumed supreme control. Previously the
chairman of the national committee was
in charge of the campaign, and resided in
the city where the canvass was being con
ducted, and where the headquarters were
established.
The success of Senator Gorman as chair-
man of that committee, in conducting the
greatly*" the reputation he had achieved
in his own State, Maryland, where lie was
regarded as one of the wisest political ad
visers and workers.
In the campaign of 1884 he extended
that political Bagacity over the whole
Union, and his success won lor him a
national fame and placed him in the front
rank of those who had achieved that tn-
U "senator Gorman’s confidence never
wavered during those days of doubt, when
the claim of Mr. Blaine’s success was being
urged by the opponents of Mr. Cleveland.
His admirable conduct of that campaign
rendered it almost certain lie would again
assume the command; blit he declined the
arduous duty, and the choice was made of
the Hon. William L. Scott to succeed him,
but he, too, declined.
Mil. 8COTT*8 DAD HEALTH.
I think Mr. Scott acted wisely, for his
health and nervous temperament unfitted
him for a place of untiring labor, and
where, of all things requisite to a success
ful conduct of the canvass, a man of firm
and uniform temper is needed.
These paramount qualifications renator
Gorman possesses in an eminent
degree and to them may be at
tributed his success. It is a sin
gular coincident that the two gentlemen
leaders of the Democratic party, com
mcnced life in the same humble capacity
as pages on the floor of Congress. Mr.
Scott was a page in the House of Repre
sentatives, and Mr. Gorman in the henate,
Mr. Scott commenced his career at Wash
ington several years before Mr. Gorman,
but there are a few of the
who remember him as little “Billy Scott.
As a page he attracted the attention of
the lion. Charles M. Reed, of Erie, who
took him into his employ and to whose
vast enterprises he succeeded oil the death
of bis patron. ,
It is difficult to recall in the present Mr.
Scott the little page of nearly forty-five
years ago, whose largo, wealth seems to
bear so heavily upon him, as his stooping
figure is Been in Congress, where the former
page is now a member.
gossan a senate page,
Mr. Gorman served several years as a
page in the Senate, and subsequently held
a position in the Senate post office. Age
has left no impress, upon him, and hts
cairn, imperturable manner and .tempera
ment, winch is his distinguishing, trait
admirably fitted him for the position o
chairman of the executive committee o
the national Democratic committee.
Like Mr. Scott he has won fortune a
well as faint, but berrs them more easily
In 1856, as a supporter of Mr. Buchan
an, 1 became, for the time beinjj, an at
tache of the Democratic executive com
mittee, whose headquarters were in Phila
delphia, at the Merchant’s Hotel, so long
the Democratic headquarters, where Cham
bers McKibben and his two sons, Jerry
and Joe, succeeded him, until Joe went to
California, which State he subsequently
represented in Congress.
favorable result, added
joiin w. forney’s industry.
John W. Forney was the chairman of
that committee, and I now recall with
amazement the labors, mental and physi
cal, he performed. He was in his own
S imon the embodiment of the campaign.
e edited six or eight papers throughout
the Slate, dictating editorials for them, in
turn, writing and answering letters, flying
to New York by midnight trains, and
back to fly to Lancaster the next night, or
somewhere else in the State, attending to
almost every detail, seeing everybody who
came to talk of the campaign, and never
too busy to hear suggestions and act upon
them if worthy of attention, and doing it
all with a zeal and fidelity that could only
be done con amore.
His confidence never wavered, but to
ward the latter part of the campaign the
American party began to peter out. Their
funds were growing “small by degrees, and
and beautifully leas” every day, until it
was announced their headquarters would
be closed.
Forney was equal to that emergency.
He dashed over to the New York Hotel,
where the headquarters of the national
committee was, anil returned with the
money to keep the American party in the
field, to infuse new life in it and to secure
the election nt Mr. Buchanan.
BELMONT PULLED THE WIRES..
The chairman of the Democratic na
tional committee was Mr. August Bel
mont. He was contmued until 1872. He
called the Baltimore convention to order
which nominated Mr. Greely and declined
a re-election.
Mr. Augustus Schell was made, chair
man of the national committee which had
the conduct of that unfortunate campaign.
F °r that resenlt Mr. Schell was not in any
**y to blame, for everything that could
be done by an energetic, earnest Democrat
was done by him. He spared neither
time nor means to insure success.
Every demand made upon the commit
tee that promised to gain votes was
promptly met—from his own pocket gener-
*tly. He had confidence in the result;
heard and believed the usual campaign
chestnut “that we could carry l’ennsylva-
n >a if we had $30,000;” raised the mone^
‘"d gave it to “the visiting statesmen ’
who made the absurd claim, and with the
n *nal result
To that sum the present chairman of
the national committee contributed lib
erally, with the remark, “He thought he
might as well throw it in that furnace,”
for the writer found him amid the hills nt
Lime Rock, as he fonnd other unbelieving
Democrats at Albany, Buffalo and Watkins
Glen, who nevertheless paid their “assess
ment,” but Pennsylvania was wedded to
her idols, and lemaincd true to her Re-
pnblican ideals.
SCHELL’S CONFIDENCE FIRM.
Nothing seemed to shake Mr. Schell’s
confidence. “An eminent statesman” from
Indiana came to him after the election
when the State had gone Republican, and
assured Mr. Schell that with $8,000 “thev
could redeem the State in November."
That's the way he put it, and Mr. Schell,
against the earnest protest of Mr. Banks,
the secretary, and the writer and other
friends, gave this eminent statesman a
check for the $8,000, and the Slate in
creased her majoiity in November for
Grant.
The secretary of the national committee
during that campaign was A. D. Banks, of
Mississippi—Anno-Domini Banks as we
used to call him. Banks was a very well
informed man, had made politics a study,
and, with n marvelous memory, was admi
rably fitted for the position he held.
His memory was stored with election
returns, and in bis presence there was no
need of consulting the usual sources of po
litical information. lie was alway ready
with any political results to the smallest
details. An incident occurred during the
campaign which exhibited his astonishing
recollection of names and residences.
“ANNO-DOMINl” BANKS.
An important letter was to be sent out
to the .South principally, and we had very
imperfect lists, and Banks called oil from
memory from five to six thousand names,
residents of the Southern States—their full
names or initials, with their post office ad
dresses and the counties.
His acquaintance was universal. From
one end of the country to the other he
knew personally every man in political
life, hts political history and any incidents
in their career worth remembering. How
few remain of the prominent actors in that
campaign 1 I am the only one who was
immediately connected with the headquar
ters renut--.iiig heie. A list of them would
fill a half column of the Telegram,
and all gone before the h rizon.
SEYMOUR AND CHURCH.
The campaign of 1868 was one of al
most utter hopelessness. The retention of
the nomination by Mr. Seymour, which he
was expected to decline, and the dissatis
faction with the nomination which perva
ded a very large part of the Democratic
party rendered the canvass anything but
energetic.
The chairman of the committee was
Governor Sanilford E. Church and on the
committee were Governor Tilden, Augus
tus Schell and other magnates of the party.
The want of confidence, which was univer
sal, prevailed until the end. After the
October election in Pennsylvania, Ohio
(then October States) and Indiana, the
World, edited by Manton Marble, aban
doned the contest, and the National Intel
ligencer suggested a reversal of the ticket,
placing Frank Blair at the head.
Governor Seymour made the best fight
he could, but he regietted his acceptance
of the nomination In August of that
year the writer visited Governor Seymour
with a letter from the President, tender
ing any aid the administration could give
him, and he then expressed sincere regret
that he had not adhered to his intention of
declining the nomination. Very little was
done by the committee during that can
vass.
TWO TICKETS IN THE FIELD.
The national committee in 1860, was of
course divided, or rather there were two
commttees—the Brcckenridge and the
Douglas committee. I cannot at this mo
ment recall the chairman of the Bracken
ridge committee, but Mr. August Belmont
was the chairman oi the Douglas national
committee, which was actively engaged in
the canvass. The Brcckenridge national
committee did very little.
George N. Sanders was a very prominent
character in that contest. He was a very
active friend of Douglas, and hated Buch
anan as ranch as he loved Douglas. Dur
ing the Charleston convention, where he
figured conspicuously, he sent a long tele
gram to Mr. Buchanan (“C. O. D.”) at a
cost of somewhere between $25 and $30.
Buchigian’s curiosity overcame his penuri
ousness, and he paid for the telegram to
fiud it an arraignment of his administra
tion in George Sanders’ most vigorous
English, and pointing to the condition of
affairs at Charleston as the result of his
administration of forty years. A copy of
that telegram would be os valuable as one
of the lost books of the Sybil.
tilden’s master organization.
The campaign of 1876 was one of the
most remarkable that ever occurred. It
will never be repeated, for the master
mind which laid out that campaign left no
successor.
Mr. Tilden believed implicitly in the
S ower of the press. He had great confi-
ence in the intelligence of the (leople.
He believed in political education ss
firmly as in the education of the common
schools, and therefore he cast abroad, all
over the land, the documentary principles
of the Democratic party. He spared no
expense to carry out his system of educa-
tion. , .
His powers of organization were as ef
fective as his distribution of the Demo
cratic truths taught by Jefferson and other
sages. He carried his system of organiza
tion into the smallest precinct, insisting
upon its being done with a thoroughness
that left nothing to guess-work.
they didn’t want iiewitt.
ject from a diff.-rent standpoint Mr j
3
Barnum being more to accord with the
Democratic workers. His success demon
strates the value of his mode of conduct
ing a campaign.
He is not to blame for the defeat
Hancock in 1880. It is generally admitted
Hancock’s letter on the tariff was alone
responsible for the result. That Governor
Tilden regarded Barnum as in every way
competent for the great responsibility, is
proven by the fact that lie insisted on his
remaining as chairman of the committee,
when General Hancock’s friends sought
to place ex-Senator Wallace, of Fennsyl-
vania, in that position.
In 1884 the election of Cleveland was
due to the experience and sagacity of Mr.
Barnum, with the able co operation of
Senator Gorman.
Calvin brice’s career.
The opening of the present campaign
brings to the front as the chairman of the
executive committee a gentleman not much
known in politics, but judging from his
success in the other walks of 1 fe to which
he lias devoted his time, we may hope he
will prove as successful as Senator Gorinan
in piloting the Democratic party to victory
in November next.
Calvin S. Brice, the chairman of the
executive committee of the Democratic
national committee in charge of the cam
paign, was born in Denmark, Ohio, in
18i5; he is consequently in the prime of
life. After the usual primary education
he entered the Miami Univercity at Oxford,
Ohio.
In April, 1861, though only fifteen years
of age, be mustered into the Union army
as a volunteer, and going at once into ser
vice participated in the Virginia campaign
of that period. After a service of a yeur
he returned to complete his college course,
and graduated with distinction in 1863.
distinction in the army.
In 1864 he organized a company and
served thereafter in the Tw«nty-third
Army Corps in Tennessee, Georgia and
South Carolina; was promoted in the field
for personal bravery, and when the war
closed had risen to the rank of lieutenant
colonel,
He entered the law department of the
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor,
and in 1866, having received his degree,
was admitted at Cincinnati to practice in
the State, United States district and Cir
cuit courts, where he attained distinction
as a corporation lawyer.
He soon retired from the active practice
of the law to devote himself more closely
to railroad development and to the per
sonal supervision of other important in
terests.
In furtherance of these enterprises Mr.
Brice became a citizen of New York,
where he is recognized as a leader in rail
road and financial circles. His friends say
of him:
“He is a very unusual man and by an
individuality of manner and speech im
presses one instantly with his force of
character and originality of thought.”
“He never says perhaps so, but always
’Yes’ or ‘No.’ ”
“He has agencies for ways and means of
the furtherance of enterprise and for mas
tering circumstances.”
will make ms mark.
One of his friends says of the new chair
man of the national Democratic committee
“He is a man of strong character and of
consummate ability, ami will make his
mark in the political field, which he so re
cently enter«l, as he has done in the finan
cial and business field.”
I cannot recall the name of the chair
man of the Democratic committee of 1844.
There were two committees in the cam
paign of 1848, os Cass and Van Buren were
candidates agaimt General Taylor. In
1862. when the contest * as between Gen
erals Pcott and Pierce. William II. Eng
lish, of Indiana, was chairman of the com
mittee at Washington in charge of the
campaign, nnd left some unpleasant mem
ories behind him there.
In 1864, when McClellan was the candi
date, the contest was an equal one. The
power of the administration under Mr.
Lincoln, the reign of Stanton in the IVar
Department, the manipulation of the sol
dier vote in the field, and the restraint
felt by the people generally, rendered the
campaign one from which the friends of
McClellan could not hope for success; and
yet the vote was, under the circumstances,
Very large, showing the vitality in the
Democratic party, which all these depress
ing circumstances failed to* extinguish,
The Moral InUnence of Flowers.
II. F. Dunster In the Argosy for July.
That the love of (lowers is a mark of
social improvement, no one can for a mo
ment gainsay. There is a humanizing in
fluence in associating with flowers that,
wherever it exists, cannot fail to bo pro
ductive of good. We often call to mind a
little incident which some time ago came
under our own observation in confirmation
of this. We were calling on a friend—a
man of high standing in the medical pro
fession, whose opinion was always well
worth bis fee. We found him just home
from a hospital meeting, agitated and
vexed at something that had gone
wrong. He began to speak—full of
bis grievance—stopped short after
few minutes, rang the bell and
ordered his servant to bring him
jug of cold water and liia aciasors. Then
spreading a newspaper on his table, he col
lected all the flowers that were in the many
different vases in his room, cut their stalks,
gave them fresh water and rearranged
them. This done, “There now,” ho said,
“I am all right now In the whole phar
macopoeia there’s no lie iter medicine for
• WASHINGTON.
i cities in which the gross post-office receipts POLITICS IN MAINE.
I “ Ur i'Vt C „“ °‘ th ',r, U tWU yearS UaVP ex - ««"• Ha«W. .sTTm.imtlon „ Disappoint-
?uf d , e ,,, 1,16 provisions of ./lent to the Republicans.
It- /-N • • ,1 T-> i .1- I -II 71 1 .r , i ivumuih vi ./lent to me Kopuhllcanr
(Opinions on the Proposed thl* MU, the limit for the ereation of these Prom the Boaton Herald
ji „ ... _ . . lorty-ttve post-office buildings would be AunnaTA Mr i„i„ ,o
Republican Substitute. K^^^^^c^uh^rete . P a «'<? Maine are
The chairman of the committee is in
charge of the campaign with the Hon.
Abram S. Hewitt. Mr. Hewitt, with his
great ability and untiring, laborious
nature, was not a successful chairman of
the committee. He brought to it great
zeal and knowledge, but his infirmity of
temper and chronic ill health unfitted him
tor a position requiring patience anti
attention to details, against which his
nature rebelled. . .
When it was announced at Ht. Louis
that Mr. Hewitt had been made chairman
of the National committee, ex-Senator
Gwin, of California, pronounced,it os fatal
to the success of Mr. Tilden, and meeting
Edward Cooper he begged him to take Mr
Hewitt’s place. .
The success of the campaign was largely
due to the active part—the leading part
indeed-of Mr. Cooper. The history of
that campaign, going into the minutest
deUils will Bee the light some day.
The campaign being over, the contest
was carried to Washington, and there in
1887 Mr. Hewitt retired from the chair
manship of the national committee and
Mr. Barnum was elected to succed him. A
greater contrast could’nt be found than be
tween the retiring chairman and his auc-
cosBor.
B.YKNTM’s FRACT1CAL VIEWS.
Mr. Barnum believed in practical poli
tics, to which Mr. Hewitt could not bring
his mind. They looked at the same eub-
REPUBLICANS NOT AT ALL ACREED.
Fesr of an Extra Session the Impelling
Motive-Seven Weeks Store tlie listl*
mated Length of the Session—
The Army Bill Passed.
IntOU OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.
Macon Telegraph Bureau,
No. 615 Fourteenth Street,
Washington. July *
The action of the Republican conference
•h Bureau, Y
beet, N. W. V
r 26 1888. )
thirty-four cities or towns In which the gross ‘•“msdves in position previous to
receipts of the post-offices for each of the *®«' n g horns in the Mming conflict The
past two years have exceeded $20,000 and ff tlve an J* Mobtle workers in the Repute
have not exceeded $25,000. The limit of cost, hcan ranks intend to make their cam-
for the erection of these thirtv-four , I»**K** ** brilliant a* puMtbie oratoricaily.
post-office buildings would be $6a0,000. Already the services of the best *peech-
Interest on that sum at 3 per cent, makers in the party have been secured
t9 twenty thousand four hundred dollars, and a programme is being arranged that
It expends for rent, will bring into use the most Approved
attljese places thirly-.e.cii thousand six nmnharaalia Timm ...» „t.,t. * *
hundred an.l MtyWdollars. In the third ! organ'aa-
clas* there are one thousand three hundred
ami fifty-four cities and towns in which the
gross receipts for each of the past two years
have reached three thousand dollars and net
exceeded twenty thousand dollars. In two
last night in agreeing to have a substitute hundred and thirty eight of these places the
tariff bill offered in the Senate is severely government pay* rent; in one thousand one
commented on by some Republicans. It is not SI? j FC * ixte *’ n places, as the law now
. it J At. . J t r • I, * stand*, the government pays no rent. The
believed that a measure harmonising all in- • bill appropriates two million dollars to be
terests can be presented. Republicans op- expeuded for the pnrpo es of this act.
posed to a substitute say that it would divide TUB OKLAHOMA bill.
the responsibility with the Democrats, Pending action on the bill, the morning
whereas now the De * ocraU are alone re- hour expired and the House went into com-
sponsible. But it is said in reply that this | “ittee of the whole, (Mr. Dockerty, of Mia-
is sophistical, since the people hold both J B0Ur *» in ihe chair,) on the Oklahoma bill,
parties responsible. They demand reduc-1 The bill was opposed by Mr. Hooker, of
tion, and will not excuse that party which j Mississippi, who ealled It a bill to legalize
simply denies that the proposition of the robbery of the wards of the nation, and was
other side is admissible. . j ° f
A Democratic member of the ways and. Mr. Cobb, of Alabama, thought the whole
means committee says that he thinks the \ argument upon which the measure was bated
whs, that an Indian had no light which a
while man was bound to respect.
Hr. Byrnes, of Colorado, suggested that
the bill provide for a commission to treat
with tbe Indians for their lands in the usual
other course would have been wiser, as it
would hrre necessitated no defence of a par
ticular measure, and remarks that the Re
publicans cannot agree on the provisions of
the bill which would be as strong as the
Hills bill before the people.
On the other hand, Hr. Blount regards
the action of the conference as indicative of
an admitted necessity to meet the de
mand for reform, but he thinks
also that it will do the Republicans no good
if they will not go fur enough tn meet- this
popular demand. He points out also their
inability to agree on any measure.
Hr. Grimes and some others state their
belief that the Republicans are in trouble
anyway, and whether they can frame a hill or
not are bound to suffer in the approaching
election. If they make a substitute it will
not be adeqnato, and Republicans will differ
as to certain of its provisions. If they
present nothing, the people will say they
ought to have framed a counter bill to that
of the Democrats'.
Hr. Anderson, of Illinois, says it looks as
if tbe Senate leaders are yielding to the
clamor of Western Republicans In favor of
tariff reduction.
Mr. Peunington, of Delaware, thinks the
Republicans pursued true policy under com
pulsion, but he does not eee how it can be
effective in the campaign. All Democrats
talked with regard—the Republicans as in a
hole.
The following agricultural articles are in
creased in the Republican substitute over
the present rate: Barley, potatoes, onions,
cabbage, hay, hops, beans, peas, vegetables
in tbe natural state or in brine, and eggs.
This party measure is retaliatory upon Can
ada. Fear of the calling of an extra «r««ion
if Congress ahould adjourn before action on
the Mills bill, it is said by a Republican*
actuated the caucus last night and was the
cun-.- of the unanimity aliown there.
Mr. Blount took the floor in the morning
hour with bills from the post-office commit
tee. and called up bis bill to erect post-
offices in places where the receipts for the
two past years have been $3,000. He took
part in the running debate, and tried to
hare an extension of time, ao as to pais the
bill to-day, but there was objection by Mr.
Rogers.
In voting on the amendments to the Okla
homa bill all tbe Georgia members sup
ported the opposition to the meaiure. A
Anal vote will probably be taken to-morrow.
The bill will pass by a majority of three or
four to one, judging by to-day’d preliminary
votes.
Hr. Blount presented the petitions of
Dickson, at Macon, for reference of war
claims for $500, value of a horse and a mule.
Within a few days the following young
employes of the government will take their
summer vacation tn Georgia: Messrs. Mob
ley, Whipple, Drane and Charlie Crisp. Mr.
Harding Is now at home.
Mrs. Georgia Lawton Morgan has been ap
pointed a copyist in tbe pension office at
nine hundred dollars.
An excursion party from Augusta and
other points South arrived here to-day.
Among the excureionists are Mrs. M. E.
Degas, Mrs. Jefferson Thomas, Miss Colo, D.
S. Fullerton, W. J. Rutherford and wife, Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Pressby, Kiug P. Moore,
W. II. Stallings, Albert P. Austin nnd J.
Gardine Weigle. C. W. II.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Frovlalona of the Fost-OUlce Bulldinga 11111
—Oklahoma Util Debated.
Washington, July 26.—On motion of Ur.
... , Bowden, of Virginia, a Senatebill was passed
nervous agitation than that—nothing that | appropriating $75,000 for enlarging the iron
way.
Hr. Cobb replied it was this “usual way”
to which he objected. The “us i o
treat with the Indira was with a rifle in one
hand and an axe in the other, and it was
time the “usual wav” should cease.
Hr. Cannon, of Illinois, believed that
sound policy, statesmanship and humanity
all dictated that Congresa should take lamia
outside of the Territorv belonging to civil,
ized tribes and put them uuder the govern
ment of the law, so that the strong arm of
the law should be lniil upon white men who,
in the teeth of the law, went upon those
lands. lie believed it was sound policy to
treat with the Indians so as to throw open
the lands to settlement. He was for the hill
because it tended in the proper direction.
General debate was closed and the bill was
read by paragraphs for amendment. On
motion of Hr. Carey, of Wyoming, un
amendment was adopted providing that after
the Territory of Oklahoma shall have been
organized for five years Territorial officers
•hall be appointed from among citizens of
the Territory.
Hr. Payson, of Illinois, offered an amend
ment providing that the lands contained in
Oklahoma Territory shall he disposed of
nndcr the homestead law instead of at $1.25
per acre, as proposed by the bill. Pending
a vote, the committee rose, ami Hr. Sayres,
from the committee on appropriations, re
ported the fortifications appropriation bill,
und it was referred to the committee of the
whole.
Mr. Springer gave notice that he would
presB the Oklahoma bill to a final vote to
morrow, and if any disposition to filibuster
against it is shown he will, the Grst thing in
the morning, ask for a call of the House in
order to secure the attendance of a quorum.
The Honse then, at 6 o’clock, took n re
cess until 8 o’clock, the evening session to
be for consideration of hills reported from
the committee on the judiciary.
Tin- liuii-c at its evening eesslon pasted
several biils, the only one of general interest
being that authorizing juries of the United
StateB Circuit and District Courts to be used
intcrchangably.
THE FORTIFICATIONS DILL.
sooner gets rid of anger, malice aud all on
charitableness, with the physical ills that
are sure to attend them, than re-arranging
cut flowers.” And who that has tri- *1 it
will deny that he was right? It would he
interesting to teat the moral influence of
association with flowers by reference Mould
naturally support the same conclusion;
nnd if ao, thi» prevail!";; ‘a-*- for flower*
would seem, without a doubt, to merit
every encouragement
New Furnaces In Alabama.
Birmingham, July 25.—Ground was
broken to-day at Bessemer, Ala., by the
Bessemer Iron and Steel Company for the
erection of two naw furnaces. The syndi
cate represents Chari- ston, Savannah and
Alabama capitalists owning large bodies
of ore and coal lands. The plant will have
a capacity of two hundred and fifty tons
G r day. Their capacity ia $1,500,000. A
cation was alto selected and work com
menced on the Little Bell charcoal furnace
plant at Bessemer, which will have a ca
pacity of 700 tons daily with a capital of
$200,000.
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ical Association, Bnffido, N. Y., for pamphlet
on this disease.
wharf at Fortress Monroe, Vo.
On motion of Mr. Tuwnsheml, of Illinois,
n joint resolution was passed providing tem
porarily (uutil September 1st) for the sup
port of the Briny.
In the morning hour the House proceeded
to discuss tbe bill to provide for post-office
buildings. The report accompanying the
Ml! explain:-, its provisions ss follows; It
proposea to establish a plan for the con-
■traction of public buildingi for the use ex
clusively of the post-office department, of n
uniform character, and which shall be
especially adapted for the purposes of that
department; its provisions to operate only
in places where the gross receipts amount to
three thousand dollars annually for two suc
cessive years. The extreme limit of cost to
the United States for any building shall not,
in any case, exceed $26,000.
Subject to these limitations it provides
for three classes of buildings, varying in cost
according to the amount of gross receipts as
follows: First, where the gross receipts for
each of the two preceding scars exceed $25,-
000, the cost of such building to the United
States may be a sum not exceeding $25,000;
second, where such gross receipts for each
of the two preceding «.-«.■ exceed $10,000,
and shall have bten no more than $25,000,
the cost of such building shall not exceed to
the United States $20.0nO; third, where such
gross receipts for each of the two preceding
years shall be $3,000 ami not more than $20,-
000, the cost of such building shall not ex
ceed to the United States $15,000.
OOST AND SAVING.
Under the first class there are forty-fite
Six Million Dollnrs Approprintod for Const
Defense AnnnmenL
WASHINGTON, July 26.—The fortifications
appropriation bill, ns completed by the
llonse committee on appropriations to-day,
was based upon estimates aggregating
(8,230,600. The lost bill passed (that of 1886)
appropriates $72,500. The present MU car
ries an appropriation of $6,202,670 nnd in the
report the committee says if the provisions
of section six result in the procurement for
the government of the guns, mortars and
carriages therein described, further appro
priations will bo necessary of not exceeding
$13,215,438 in earns of not more than $2,500,-
000 in one fiscal year. Section four pro
vides for the erection of n gun factory at
Wntcrviiet arsenal. New York, for the fin
ishing and assembling of heavy ordinance in
m • '.rdini .• u nil tin m'lniiiiicndiithnis ni lin
gua factory board. For this purpose $750,000
is to be appropriated. This section also
provides $100,000 for the pur-
chase of rough, finished,
tempered and annealed steel for high pow
ered guns for coast defense, of eight, ten and
twelve inch calibre. 8ection six is drawn
with opening the field of gun construction
to parties outside of the government to in
cite competition among manufacturing es-
tnUisbmcnts to compete for this class of
work nnd thns secure the result, ultimately,
of establishments independent of the gov
ernment Accordingly, the section provides
(or the creation of a mixed board of civil
ians and army officers, three civilians and
three officers, with a provision inserted that
no action shall be taken by the board ex
cept wstli the concurrence of five members,
This board is generally anthorixed to ex
amine and make recommendations in re
gard to inventions and designs of heavy or
dnance, carriages, platforms, protective
torpedoes nnd other defensive appliances
which may be submitted to it.
Presidential Stature.
From the Chicago Ileralil (Dem.)
William II. Seward once saul that the
coat-tails of Stephen A. Dougins were ‘oo
close to the ground to admit ot his ever be
coming President, or words to that effect.
Tiie saying proveda true one.
General Ben Harrison is about tiie same
height as Douglas, and his coat-tails swing
about as close to tbe ground. If Sewarc
enunciated a great principle, and he was
statesman enough to do it. General Harri-
son certainly comes within it, and wilt
surely be elected to stay at home.
The American people have never been
much given to electing short men to high
office. John Adams, his son John Quincy,
and Martin Van Buren were the shortest
of onr Presidents, and they stood five feet
six inches. Harrison drops one inch under
this, Polk was five feet nine, and Pierce
five feet ten. All the mt from Washing
ton to Grant were six feet or over. Grant
was five feet eight, and the Presidents since
his time all exceed his stature.
It will lie found on investigation that
Harrison is too short to reach.
Is Consumption Incurable?
Read the following: Mr C. H. Morris,
ark. Ark., said: “Was down with abscess of
lungs, and friends and physicians prouounced
mean Jnrnrabt* consumptive. Began taking
Dr. King's New Discovery for consumption, am
now on mv third bottle and able to oversee the
work on my farm. It Is tbe finest medicine ever
m jeme Middleware Decatur, 0„ says: "Had it
not been for Dr. King's New Discovery for Con
•iimptlon f would hare died of long troubles.
Was given up by doctors. Am now tn belt of
health." Try It. Rumple bottles free at U. J
iAmar A Son's drag store.
trails in all the principal cities and towns,
and they will be kept under inarching
orders, and will perform some very
hard work. All the old songs and
catch phrases of the Tippecanoe campaign
are being rehearsed, with the view oi
arousing a whirlwind of enthusiasm. A
veteran Republican laughingly said to the
Herald niau to-day, while indulging in
reminiscenses of the campaign oi ’40: “if
they’d only give us plenty of hard cider,
we can sweep the Sta’e like it cyclone.'
But, of course, you know, (and here the
veteran winkeu and smacked his chops)
Maine is a prohibitory State, and apple
juice is under the ban ” The Democrat)*
chieftains are not to be ou'done by there
antagonists. They have also secured boiuo
o( the best campaign spouters in the
party, have formed club organisa
tions, and they propose to rattle the
enemy in a way they never did before. It
cannoi escape observation that the party
appears to be in a move homogeneous and
vigorous condition than it has shown for
many years. A new set of leaders havo
come to the front, who have infused a new
life into it, aen who command the highest
respect, and who have the confidence oi
their followers. Even the Republicans arc
forced to admit that the party’s nominee
for Governor, M . Putnam, is a gilt-edged
candidate, and in point of attainments is
far ahead of their own. If all reports be
true, the Democrats intend to make the
most aggressive fight they ever made in
the Pine Tree Stale,
In tiie work of party organization the
Republicans are not falling into line ns
gracefully and in sucli good spirits ns the
Democrats. In plain English, there is
not only a feeling of apathy displayed by
the rauk and file in localities where better
things were expected, but there arc positive
indications of spostacy in spite of the
crack of the party whip. There is no
doubt hut that tiie Maine Democrats wore
overjoyed because Mr. Blaine was not pit
ted against Mr. Cleveland again, in the
race for the White Home. “He’s the
strongest man the Republicans coaid
linve nominated,” said an old
foxy Democratic politician to ino
during a recent conversation, “and, bv
gracioui, I’m not sure but what lie wuiild
have beaten us if his party hod nominated
him. At any rate, it would havo been nip
and tuck, with the chances, porsibly, in
our favor." Now, wliilethe Democrats are
exceedingly ph-a-cd U cause Mr. Blaine .
does not bear the gonfalcn of his party os
a presidential candidate, iiis thousands of
admirers among Mnine Republicans be
come correspondingly depressed when tlio
choice of the convention fell as it did, and
they have never fully rallied from the
shock. They had confidently expected
that Blaine would be the national standard
hearer of the party, in spite of himself,
nnd to put it as it is,
it was a terrible disappointment
to them that their fondest hopes were
dashed. At the homo of the plumed
knight in Augusta, his townsmen felt so
sure of his nomination that they wcut to
work and hail printed on large cards the
legend, “Blaine and protection by accla
mation,” and these cards were conspicu
ously posted at thl headquarters of the Re
publican State committee. It is now an
open secret that there was also in readiness
at these samo headquarters an immenso
campaign flag, bearing the name of Blaine
for I’resident, which would have been in
stantly thrown to the breeze if the tele
graph wire had clicked his nomination.
MAJOIt KLINK’S SUCCESSOR.
I
Major A. C. Knapp Appointed Acting gu.
perlntcndent by Mnnngor IJclknnp.^
Yesterday General Manager Belknap, of
the Central railroad, telegraphed /rain
New York that he bad appointed Major' A.
C. Knapp acting superintendent of the
Southwestern railroad to relieve Major
Kline on the 31st. This appointment
leaves Major Kline free to go on the 1st of
August.
This appointment, while a temporary
one, will be gratifying to the public. Maj.
Knapp has been the agent of the Central
at Macon for a number of years, ami tlio
business community with which he has
dealt almost daily find him a most efficient
and accommodating official. He is familiar
with the workings of the road, and until a
permanent superintendent is appointed the
work will go on uninterruped.
The Savannah news of yesterday con
tains the following in reference to Major
Kline:
Major T. D. Kline, superintendent of
the Southwestern railroad, is in tbe city.
Major Kline tendered his resignation to
General Manager Belknap on July 23d to
take effect August 1st. He has resigned to
accept the (million of general superinten
dent of the Mexican National railway
under Captain Raoul. Major Kline said to
a Morning News reporter last night that
his proposition with the Mexican National
will be a good deal more authoritative than
his present position. He will have charge
of the building of shops, engines, eic.,
which promises to be an item of some mo
ment. His authority will extend over the
mechanical departments, as well as in
cluding the ordinary duties of a super
intendent. He will also look after the
roads. His headquarters will be at Laredo,
Tex., n place at present of about 8,000
population. Major Kline will have nnder
nis control about 300 talks of railroad.
“The Mexican National,” said he, “is just
now attracting some attention. It is tbe
gateway h-twten the United States and
Mexico, and is developing a country et
which little has heretofore been
known. Major Kline slated that
he did not know who
will succeed him on the Southwestern
road. He is one of the few superintend
ents who is as fine a mechanic as he is
railroad manager. He rose to be superin
tendent of the road with ivhrah he was
first employed as an apprentice. He wcut
to the East Tennessee, Virginia and Geor-
K ‘a road as superintendent from the At-
otic Coast line, and afterward accepted
the position with the Southwestern rail
road, which he now holds. He hts been
superintendent of the Southwestern for
five years, and tbe road has prospered un
der his management. Major Kline is
pleased with the change he is about to
make. He was for Several years nuler
CapL Raoul, when the latter war at the
head of the Central railroad, and he under
stands about what his duties will be, and
what is expected him.