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Irwin County News
Official Organ of Irwin County.
A. 6. Ds LOACH, Editor and Pronrietor.
THE 54TH CONGRESS.
ROUTINE OF HOUSE AND SENATE
BRIEFLY CHRONICLED.
Summary of Bills and Resolutions
Presented and Acted Upon.
THE HOUSE.
In anticipation of a field day in the
house Thursday over the passage of
■t the tariff bill agreed on by the ways
and means committee, great crowds
were attracted to the capitol and every
available inch of space in the public
and private galleries, save the seotions
reserved for the executive and diplo¬
matic corps, were taken. Alost of the
members who had gone home for the
holidays had hurriedly returned, and
the attendance on the floor waB almost
as large as on the opening of the ses¬
sion. In addition, many senators were
present. Immediately after the read¬
ing of the journal, Air. Diagley, the
chairman of the ways and means com
mittee, reported from that committee
*the revenue bill, which the speaker
forthwith referred to the committee of
the whole house on the state of the
union.
Air. Crisp, the leader of the minor¬
ity, explained that the minority had
had no opportunity to prepare and
file the views of the minority. Mr.
Henderson, republican, from Iowa,
from the committee on rules, pre¬
sented the special order under which
the house was to operate. It wag
iron-clad in its character. It pro¬
vided that immediately after the adop¬
tion of the order it would be in order
to call np tho revenue bill just pre¬
sented by Mr. Dingley, and that the
debate should run until 6 o’clock,
when, without intervening motion,
the vote should be taken on passage
of the bill. Air. Henderson demanded
the previous question on the adoption
of the order, which was ordered with¬
out division. Air. Henderson then
took the floor and' explainedbriefly necessitated
the urgency which
such summary action of the house on
such an important measure.
Air. Crisp called the attention of
the honlb to th&effectof the rule imder
which it was proposed to operate and
asked every member to weigh his re¬
sponsibility when he voted for it. Here
was a bill, he said, that affected every
interest and all sections of the country,
which it was proposed to put through
under a rule that deprived the mem¬
bers of any right to offer amendments.
It must be taken or rejected as a whole.
He insisted that there was no necessity
for such a course. This bill was not
demanded by any department necessity of the
government. There was no
for increased revenue. He protested
against the use of the whip and spur
for its passage before the opinion of
the experts of the treasury department
could be obtained as to its effect.
Mr. Dalzell, a member of the com¬
mittee on rules, said there was no one
who did not know tliat we face a pecu¬
liar exigency. The president and the
secretary of the treasury had both be¬
come alarmed and the president had
asked the house, notwithstanding it
was opposed to him politically, to
come to his aid. Tho treasury was be¬
ing rapidly depleted, and since the de¬
mocracy had come into the control of
the executive branch of the govern
ment there had been frequent bond
issues. i
Mr. Turner, democrat, Georgia, call
ed attention to the fact that both the
president and the secretary of the
treasury had given congress the high
est assurance that there was ample
revenue in the treasury. Both the
president and secretary of the treas
nry had pointed out the evil in the
financial situation and its remedy.
Everybody understood the stress ex¬
isting. And what was to be the re
spouse of congress? Before all 1 reme
dial legislation was to be put a propo¬
sition to still further bleed and tax the
American people.
Mr. Henderson closed the debate in
I a speech which aroused the republican
side to great enthusiasm. This was,
I he said, a business matter for a fousi
I ness people, and should be met in a
business way. The republicans were
not afraid to resume responsibility.
Democratic policies had emptied t,he
I treasury. The republicans would fill
it. They would right the ship of state
that had been plunging half seasnuder
ever since the democratic . party as
sumed the bridge. A democratic
president had sent to congress a deola
ration of war, and four days after-1
I wards had filed a petition in bank-1
ruptcy. (Kepublican applause.)
The rule committee’s order was then
to 89—a strietly party
save that Linncy, North Caro
and Connelly, Illinois, republi
voted with the democrats. By a
Ho’clock ■vote of 205 to 81 the house at 5:30
passed the revenue bill.
■ In accordance with the deoision of
■he committee on ways and means last
Ho Chairman Dingley reported
tho house Friday tho bill to provide
■or the restoration and protection of
gold reserve by the sale of 3 per
ent bonds and to authorize the issue
,f certificates of indebtedness to meet
lefioienoies iti revenue. But under
ie protests of a large number of re
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publican members the bill -was amend¬
ed by the committee at a meeting held
during the morning and the program
calling for a vote on the passage of the
bill at 6 o’clook was changed so as to
give six hours additional debate, three
Friday night and three Saturday, the
vote to be taken at 8 o’clock Saturday
afternoon. The resolution from the
committee on rules to this effect was
adopted by a vote of 195 to 101, after
it had been antagonized by Messrs.
Crisp, Baily and McMillin, the repub¬
licans refraining from discussing it.
At 5 o’clock tne house rose and took a
recess until 7 o’clock.
There were not more than a doz»n
republicans in their seats when Speaker
Reed called the house to order at 7
o’clock. Wr. Wheeler, democrat, of
Alabama, who was entitled to the floor,
having held it when the house arose
for recesB, being absent, Air. Terry,
democrat, of Arkansas,wusrecoguizid.
He read a speech against the single
gold standard, introduced by a brief
reference to the pending bill. Iu the
course of Mr. Terry’s speech probably
another dozen republicans appeared in
their seats.
The remedy for the situation whmh
would occur to any one from the ordi¬
nary ranks of life, said Air. DeAr
mond, democrat, of Missouri, was to
coin into standard dollars the silver
bullion in the treasury, with its fifty
five millions of seigniorage, followed
by the coinage of silver as gold is
coined.
The debate was continued by Air.
Northway, republican, of Ohio, in
support of the bill; Mr. Tarsney, dem¬
ocrat, of Alissouri, in opposition ; Mr.
Henderson, republican, of Iowa, in
support, and Air. Shofroth, republi¬
can, of Colorado, against it.
At the conclusion of Mr. Shofroth’s
speech the opposition to the bill had
occupied three hours and thirty-eight
minutes, and the affirmative two hours
and forty-six minutes. At 10 o’clock
the house adjourned until noon Satur¬
day. 136 the house,
By a vbte of 170 to
at Saturday’s session, passed the sec¬
tion of the bill introduced Friday by
the committee on ways and means au¬
thorizing the issue of 3 per cent, coin
bonds to maintain the gold reserve.
Forty-seven republicans voted with
the democrats against the proposition,
as did all the populists and Mr. Nsw
lands, silverite, of Colorado. Mr.
Hutcheson, of Texas, was the only
democrat to ally himself with the great
body of republicans in support of the
measure. ,
After the reading of the journal the
discussion of the bond bill was re¬
sumed, the discussion to close at 3
o’clock. The first speaker was Mr.
Brosius. The gold reserve, he said,
must be maintained and the revenues
to meet the expenses of the govern
menf must be procured; the proposi¬
tions, he said, were fundamental and
indisputable. Air. McLaurin, demo¬
crat, of South Carolina, said he should
oppose the bill because it would not
only increase the burden, bat legalize
a series of improper and unfounded
assumptions by the secretary of the
treasury. The bill should clearly and
explicitly state the purposes of this
provision so that the people might
know the intention of congress.
Messrs. Cannon, of Colorado; Pane,
of New York; Hopkins, of Illinois,
Burton, of Missouri; Marsh, of Illi¬
nois, and Russell, of Connecticut,
spoke in favor of the bill. Air. Crisp
closed the debate in opposition to the
bill. A coliqny between Boutelle and
Crisp over the views of the latter as to
whether or not obligations of the
government were payable in gold or
not caused some amusement. Mr.
Dalzell closed the debate on the bill
in favor of its passage. He said that
if the legislation it proposed had been
on the statute book it would have
saved to the people in the matter of
interest upon bonds issued by the pres¬
ent administration alon6 over $100,
000 , 000 .
In accordance with the provisions
of the order of the debate Mr. John¬
son at 3 o’clock demanded a division
of the question and the vote was taken
on the first section of the bill. It re¬
sulted, yeas 170, nays 136. Tho an¬
nouncement was received with ap¬
plause. division the
There was no upon sec¬
ond section of the bill, and it was de¬
clared adopted and the bill passed at
3:25 o’clock.
Mr. Dingley, chairman of the com¬
mittee on ways and means, stated that
a general understanding had been had
by which no business would be trans¬
acted the coming week, so that mem¬
bers who so desired could spend New
Year’s at home. Three-day adjourn¬
ments woujd be taken and business re¬
sumed on Monday January 6th. He
moved that when the house adjourn
it be until Tuesday. Agreed to. After
some further routine business the
house, at 4:30 adjourned until Tues¬
day,
THE SENATE.
The financial question came to the
front in the senate Friday in th e form
of a joint resolution introduced by
Mr. Hill, democrat, of New York, to
after the effect iesued that shall, all be fiends ajade to payable be here¬ in
gold the coin option or in of standard the holders; silver and dollars that
at
no bond containing such, inpurest option shall
bear a higher rate of than 3
“In Union, Strength and Prosperity Abound.”
per Cent. Ho made a long, carefully
prepared speech on the subjeot, wind¬
ing up with the declaration that his
proposition waR a measure Bimply for
temporary relief; but that as a meas¬
ure of permanent relief it was reason¬
ably clear that all United States notes
and treasury notes should be redeemed
and then canceled. In conclusion he
said:
“Why is it not the part of prudence
and wisdom to create a bonded debt
for the whole amount of these notes
and then cancel and extinguish them?
That sensible course would stop the
creation of any further bonded in¬
debtedness. Otherwise the process of
borrowing and bonding must continue,
to what extent no one can foretell.”
Mr. Teller then took the floor and
said that he did not desire to entertain
the discussion of the question now.
But he wanted to entertain his protest
against the repeated assertion made by
the executive department and now in
the senate that the government is
bankrupt. “The contract under which
bondB were issued last year,” said Mr.
Teller, “is a lasting disgrace, due
either to the dishonesty or imbecility
of the administration. We are told by
the public press that we are to have
another bond issue and that it will be
as favorable at this time as before, be¬
cause the government of the United'
States is in greater distress tfewna year
ago. Against all that I protest.”
Pending the debuts on Senator
Hill’s joint resolution Mr. Butler,
populist, of North Carolina, offered as
a substitute for that resolution his
own proposition for • the payment of
treasury notes and greenbacks in
either gold coin or silver coin—pre¬
ferentially in the cheaper coin. He
also introduced a constitutional
amendment in favor of an income tax.
Both propositions were laid on the
table for the present.
Air. Lodge gave DOtice that he
would, on Monday, submit some re¬
marks on the subject of. .the Alonroe
doctrine. The senate proceeded to
he consideration of executive business
and at 2:40 o’clock adjourned until
Monday.
THE EXPOSITION CLOSES.
A Great Educator and an Advertise¬
ment for the Whole South.
The exposition haB drawn to a close.
It seems probable that the fair will
prove a financial success, But a
small portion of the second mortgage
bonds will remain unpaid, and it is
probable that the salvage will wipe
out the remainder. Now that the ex¬
position is over, it will be interesting
to look at the results. So far as At¬
lanta is concerned, she has become an
international city. There is no place
in the civilized world where she is not
known, and especially among the
South American republics. Atlanta is
regarded as one of the chief seats of
enterprise and industry in North
America. The south has gained both
by its advertisement of natural re¬
sources and by the certain influx of
capital and desirable immigration.
One of the happiest results, however,
is the fact that the whole country has
been brought to realize that this is the
most American part of America.
Another result of very great import¬
ance in the fremendious stimulus
which this exposition has given to
progressive minds, especially of young
people, throughout the south the ris¬
ing generation has seen a great light;
thousands of schools have sent their
pupils here in force. These young
people have gone home with their lives
broadened and their minds inspired
by what they saw. Naturally it would
be supposed that all display here tend¬
ed to materialism. The great eager¬
ness of the progressive men of the
south to catch up in the race of indus¬
trial progress has appeared to dwarf
everything. Much to the gratification
of the broadest-minded people, this
feature, while strongly developed here,
has not dwarfed or stunted the liberal
arts or the fiue arts. The ethical and
moral culture of man have had their
proper place, and the scenic beauty of
the exposition has surpassed that of any
previous enterprise of the same char¬
acter. The electrical building has
made the place both brilliant and po¬
etical, and the finer features have been
emphasized at great expense, This
has been a high-class exhibition in the
best sense of the term.
TOO MUCH GLASS.
Manufacturers Decide to Shut Down
Temporarily.
As the result of a meeting in Chica¬
go, every window glass manufactory
in the United States will close down
January 11th and remain closed for
four weeks, the object of this action
being to ourtail the production.
The prices and discounts are to re¬
main the same. No other business was
transacted by the association, which
was called for the express purpose of
limiting the production, which for
some time has far exceeded the de¬
mand. This action means a saving of
$1,000,000 for the manufacturers and
the throwing out of employment of
thousands of men.
Texas Firm Fails.
Evans, Green & Co., general mer
chants at Athens, Tex., have failed.
Liabilities *13,000.
CAPITAL NOTES.
GOSSIP OF WASHINGTON IN
BRIEF PARAGRAPHS.
Doings of the Chiefs and Heads ol the
Various Departments.
Secretary Herbert has practically
concluded to award the contract for
the construction of battleships No. 5
and 6 to the Newport News Dry Dock
and Shipbuilding Company, of Vir¬
ginia, at their bid of $2,500,000 for
each ship.
A search of the records on the file at
the navy department has brought to
light the fact that Grover island, in
Camden county, Georgia, is the prop
ery of the United States. For nearly
a hundred years title to the island has
been in doubt. Records show that
the island was conveyed to the United
States in 1779 by Josiah Tattnal and
wife, but title never asserted.
The postoffice department has denied
the privilege of the mails to five con¬
cerns conducting fraudulent enter¬
prises. The Mexican Lottery Com¬
pany, of San Louis Potosi, which was
declared a fraud some time ago,
adopting a new method to secure
the transmission of its matter through
the United States Mails. To deceive
the postal authorities it franked its
envelopes as the “Mexican-American
Coffee Culture Company,” but the
postoffice inspectors discovered the
deception. A. V. Yager, of Nashville,
'Tenn., who has been working the old
“fortune in England” scheme on
American citizens, was also excluded
from the mails.
Minority List Complete.
The democratic steering committee
has eolnpleted the assignment of the
minority representation on the senate
committees. The minority chairman¬
ships have been, assigned as follows;
Conference room, Mr. Gorman; en¬
grossed bills, Air. Cockrell; epidemic
disease, Mr. Vest; Nicaraguan canal,
Mr. Morgan ; private lands and claims,
Mr. Harris ; revolutionary claims, Mr.
Pugh; Potomac river front, Mr.
“■George- woman’s suffrage, Air. Call;
additional accommodations for the li¬
brary, Air. Voorhees; five civilized
tribes, Air. Gray; transportation and
sale of meat products, Mr. Blackburn;
corporations in the District of Colum¬
bia, Air. Jones, of Arkansas.
Bond Bill Amended.
The opposition to the bond bill
which developed with unexpected
rapidity among the republicans in the
house resulted in its amendment
Friday morning so as to prevent
the retirement' of the legal tender
notes. The implied retirement of these
notes in the bill as orgiually agreed
upon furnished the inspiration for
much of the hostility to the measure
among certain of the republicans who
belong to what is termed “the sound
money wing of the party.” The ac¬
tion of the committee nulifies this
hostility, and, in the language of Air.
Hopkins, of Illinois, through whose
efforts the bill was amended, “insures
its passage through the house.”
When the ways and meuns commit¬
tee met Friday morning the amend¬
ment prepared by Ml - . Hopkins was
inserted in the bill as a part of section
1, and the chairman was directed to
report the measure to the house in
that form.
Section 1 as amended after giving
Authority to the secretary o‘f the treas¬
ury to sell coin bonds bearing interest
at 3 per cent, redeemable after' five
years, reads as follows:
“And the secretary of the treasury
shall use the proceeds thereof for the
redemption of United States legal ten¬
der notes and for ,no other purpose;
provided, that nothing in this act shall
be construed to repeal or modify the
act approved Alay 1, 1878, entitled an
act to forbid further retirement of
United States legal tender notes. > 77
Then follows the remainder of the
section with reference to advertising
the bonds for sale.
Another amendment inserted by the
committee in section 1 provides
that the bonds shall be payable in fif¬
teen years after their issue.
Secretary Smith’s Reply.
Secretary Hoke Smith Bent to the
house Tuesday a reply to a resolution
introduced by Mr. Flynn, of Okla¬
homa, and adopted by the house, call¬
ing for information relating to the al¬
lotment of Wichita Indian lands in
Oklahoma. Replying to the section
of the resolution as to the cause of the
delay in opening the lands to settle¬
ment the secretary says that the mat¬
ter of ownership of the lands is not
yet definitely settled, and he is of the
opinion that it would be unwise to
throw these lands open to settlement
while the claims of the Choctaws and
Chickasaws are unsettled. It is un¬
necessary, he says, to discuss the seri
ous*oomplications which might arise and
involving the settlers, the Indians
the government by such action. Re¬
plying to that part of the resolution
asking if any of Secretary Smith’s rel¬
atives are interested iu delaying the
..opening of the lauds to settlement,
Secretary Smith says:
“One of the counsel for the Wiobi
.be lit.g.t.oa .. tb. bu.b.ed ol
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tho second cousin of my wife. It will
be seen that the compensation of tliih
counsel is to be n percentage of the
money derived from the sale of * surp¬
lus land in case it is decided that the
Choctaws and Chickasaws have no re¬
versionary interest in those lands. I
am not aware of any interest which the
counsel of the Wichitas can have in
delaying the allotment and sale of the
surplus lands. Neither has ever sug¬
gested au interest or desire on their
part or their clients’ part for delay.
No connection or relation >bv blood or
marriage of mine is acting as attorney
for any party or parties interested in
delaying the opening of these lands to
settlement. No party or parties have
presented to the interior department
any objection to the full and immedi
lto execution of the act of March 2,
895, which provided for tho opening
! (he Ihi kK” >
INCREASE OF FAILURES.
Bratl street’s Has Recorded 1.3,013
for the Year.
Bradstreet’s review of business for
the past week, says: As is the rule in
Christmas week, wholesale trade bas
been quiet. Tho holidays, the close
of the year and stock-taking tend to
make business slow, and promise only
a little trade until after January. In
various cities, notably New York, Bos¬
ton, Baltimore and Chicago, anticipa¬
tions as to the character of trade early
in the coming year, are hopeful but it
remains to be seen whether the down¬
ward movement ot demand and prices
and the delay in putting the currency
on a sound basis, all of which have be¬
gun to show themselves in trade con
ditions, will permit of as early and
marked gains in staple limes of trade
in 1896 as has been confidently antici¬
pated.
Business failures in this country for
a completed year number 13,013, an
increase in number of failures are at
the west, northwest and in the middle
states, decreases being shown in New
England, at the south and on the
Pacific coast.
The quotation for coke has been ad¬
vanced, as well as those for mohair,
wheat, indian corn, oats and for sugar,
while for leather, hides, lumber, coal,
wool, coffee and print cloths quota¬
tions are unchanged. Fractional re¬
actions are reported in prices of Tiffined
petroleum, cotton, pork, flour, iron
and steel.
The week’s features in commercial
lines are a rather better trade in
Christmas specialties than expected,
smaller business at the west from long
continued rains and light stock of
goods in hands of retailers, and the
pronounced movement of funds from
the west to the east, not only to pay
interest but because of the better de¬
mand for currency at the large finan¬
cial centers.
ME LUD DISGUSTED.
Dunraven’s Charges Were All Dis¬
proved.
The earl of Dunraven, accompanied
by his friend, Arthur Glennie, rear
commodore of the Royal New Portsmouth York
Yacht Club, sailed from for
England Saturday on board the Cu
narder Umbria. The investigation of
the charges made by Lord Dunraven
against those iu charge of the Defender
had not concluded when the earl and
his henchman took their departure and
only part of the evidence in rebuttal
had been given when the special com¬
mittee consisting of J. Pierpont Alor
gan, chairman; George Lockhart Rives,
secretary; William C.Whitney, Captain
A. T. Alahan, United States navy, and
Hon. E. J. Phelps, adjourned the hear¬
ing till 10 o’clock Monday morning.
The Defender syndicate presented
testimony in rebuttal of that offered
by Lord Dunraven and although the
gentlemen who were present at the in¬
quiry refused to talk for publication,
it was learned on good authority that
the charges made by Lord Dunraven
were totally disproved.
MORE BODIES RECOVERED
From the Death Trap Mine at Dayton,
Tennessee.
The bodies of four of the six en¬
tombed miners at the Nelson mine,
near Dayton, Tenn., where the recent
explosion occurred, were recovered
Friday afternoon. They were Cyrus
Alexander, Floyd Jewell, Robert Jew¬
ell and Robert Hamilton.
The men were in a kneeling posture
when found, their faces against the
bottom of the mine, indicating that
they died while trying to get fresh air
near the surface of the mine. They
were all found asphyxiated.
Aline Inspector F. P. Cluts, who has
just closed his investigations, states
that the accident, was principally
caused by the explosion of a pocket of
gas in one of the miner’s rooms, which
started the coal dust, the dust becom¬
ing fgnited from the lighted gas.
Four of the men were killed by the
falling slate and by the burning gas.
The other twenty-four were killed by
the after damp, caused by ^be explo¬
of the opal dust.
Italy Wants the Job.
The Paris Temps newspaper, pub-,
lishes a dispatch from Rome saying
that Italy has offered to act arbitrator
of the difficulties between Great Brit¬
ain .and the United States. Great
Britain, the dispatch adds, has not re¬
plied to the offer.
1.00 A Tew.
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
’ The Industrial Condition as Reported
for the Past Week.
Reports of industrial and business
conditions in the southern states for
iuo past week indicate that general
business is fairly aotive, but does not
increase in quantity, as the usual set¬
tlements of affairs at this season en¬
gage attention. Recent variations in
the price of eotton attract but little at¬
tention. Planters have marketed
enough of the crop to realize funds
for their immediate needs, and are
holding back- the rest in the belief,
which is quite genera), that the price
is sure to advance again to as high a
point as was reached in the early part
r of the season. Textile mills oontinue
1 to be actively employed, and the out¬
put of manufactured goods is steadily
increasing.
Orders are plenty and quotations are
firm. There is no change in the con¬
dition of the iron industry. Large
orders are not plentiful, but small
ones are numerous, and a good many
orders received earlier in the season
are not yet filled. There are rbmors
of some irregularity in prioes for iron,
which, however, are not confirmed.
Coal miners are doing a very large
business. Low water in the Ohio
river has prevented the transportation
of much of the coal usually brought
from the coal regions of that valley,
and has caused a great increase in the
demands made in the southern mines,
which are being worked to their full
capacity. Prices are firm and steady,
with an advancing tendency. Lumber
mills are running on somewhat de¬
creased time, but the lumber opera¬
tors are looking forward to an early
increase in the demand, which is not'
at present, equal to the full capacity
of the mills in any branch of the bus¬
iness.
Among new industries established
or incorporated during the week are
the Thomas Gin and Machine Works,
Dallas, Tex., capital $20,000; the Paul
Sbean Sanitary Plumbing and Manu¬
facturing company, Galveston, Texas,
capital $25,000, and the Consolidated
Water and Electric Light and Power
company, Sheffield, Ala., capital $250,
000 .
The Ray-AIouras company, limited,
capital $3.0,000, has been chartered to
manufacture woodenware at New Or¬
leans, La.; the Junction City Lumber
company, capital $34,000, has been in¬
corporated at Junction, Ark., and the
Norfolk Electric Light and Power
company, capital $15,565, at Norfolk,
Va.
There is also reported brick works
at Crowley, La., au electrical plant at
Henderson, Ky., ice factories at Char¬
lotte, N. C., and new mines to be
opened at Asbboro, N. C., and Pied¬
mont, W. Va. A sewer company has
been chartered at Temple, Tex., an
oil company at Wheeling, W. Va., and
cotton mills are to be erected at Ash- *
ville and Bessemer City, in North
Carolina, and at Columbia and Spar¬
tanburg in South Carolina. A knit¬
ting mill will be built at Charleston,
S. C., a woolen mill at Louisville, Ky.,
and a tobacco factory at Pilot moun¬
tain, N. C.—Tradesman (Chattanooga,
A BIG FIGHT ANTICIPATED
When the JVage Question Between
Miners and Operators Comes Up.
A special from Columbus, O., says: '
A long fight between the miners and
operators over the wages question for
the new year is promised. Both the
representatives of the miners and the
representatives of the operators were
in separate sessions Friday, getting
ready for the fight which will come up
in the joint convention. The truck
system is the bone of contention. The
miners are determined that the compa¬
ny stores shall be abolished, and will
demand that where these stores are op¬
erated and miners are paid in store or¬
ders 20 cents per ton shall be added
to the price of mining. This means ol
course that the stores will be abolished
if the miners succeed. The operators
say they will never agree to the de¬
mand.
BIG TOBACCO FAILURE.
Leslie Combs, of Lexington, Ky.,
Makes an Assignment.
On account of the recent order from
England to tobacco agents in Lexing¬
ton to cease buying the Kentucky
produot, together with the decline in
prioes caused by the warfare between
manufacturers, Leslie Combs, the lar¬
gest tobacco planter in the world,
has made an assignment. Liabilities
are $300,000. Among the assets is a
quantity of tobacco estimated at 700,
000 pounds and nearly 1,000 acres oi
itliio rrrfl.<as land.
TO BUY THE ROAD.
Western Capitalists Negotiating foi
Caroltna Midland.
It Is Rumored very strongly in
Charleston that negotiations are being
conducted between the owners of the
Carolina Midland road and western
capitalists for the sale of the road.
On the best authority it is stated that
legal representatives of both parties
have been drawing up papers to that
end. The Carolina Midland is con¬
sidered a valuable piece of property
and is owned by Charleston people.
It is said that the westerners will ex¬
tend it.