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The Irwin County News
Official Organ of Irwin Oounty.
A. G. DtI OACH, Ellllor old F10) l itltr.
THE 54TII CONGRESS.
ROUTINE OF HOUSE AND SENATE
t BRIEFLY CHRONICLED.
Summary of Hilts and Resolutions
. Presented and Acted Upon.
THE HOUSE.
Two-thirds of the three hours’ ses¬
sion of the house Wednesday was oc¬
cupied in the consideration of a senate
joint resolution authorizing the ex¬
penditure of $55,000 in the prepara¬
tion of plans and specifications of tho
Chicago public building, In the
course of the debate the conduct of
the architect’s office was the subject of
considerable criticism. The joint res-
olution was passed.
The unanimous report of election
committee No. 2, that H. C. Minor
was entitled to the seat now occupied
by him as representative from the
ninth New York district, and that
Timothy J. Campbell, contestant, agreed was
not entitled thereto, was to
without discussion. The house, at
2:03 p. m., adjourned until Thursday. finally
The rules of the house were
adopted Thursday. They are a mix¬
ture of the Beedrules of the fifty-third
congress and the Crisp rules of the last
congress. The Crisp feature of ap¬
pointing one member from each side
of the house to sit at the clerk’s desk
-o note members present and not vot¬
ing was accepted and adopted by
Speaker Beed in preference to his own
original method of the speaker count¬
ing them.
• During the debate over, the rules
Mr, Dolliver, of Iowa, made an attack
on the Crisp rules. To this Judg»
Crisp made reply, showing that Mr.
Beed had adopted verbatim the quo¬
rum counting rule of the last congress.
He concluded by stating that Mr.
Dolliver in his ignorance had de¬
nounced this rule and in his earnest¬
ness had voted for it, which was re¬
ceived with great laughter and ap¬
plause.
Upon the final vote the democrats
contented themselves by simply voting
once for the readoption of the rules of
the last coDgress. They accepted the
new rules with but a mild protest.
After the transaction of some routine
business the house, at 4:30 o'clock-
took a recess until Friday night’s ses¬
sion, which was intended for the con¬
sideration of private pension bills, and
at the conclusion of that session to
stand adjourned until Monday.
THE SENATE.
The only incident of importance in
the senate Wednesday was Mr. Wal¬
cott’s speech on the Monroe doctrine.
The galleries were well filled in antici¬
pation cf the speech of the Colorado
senator. Most of the senators consti¬
tuting the committeo on foreign rela¬
tions were present. After referring to
the message of President Cleveland on
the Venezuelan question and the ap¬
pointment of the commission to en¬
lighten the country as to the true
divisional line regarding, Venezuela
and British Guiana, the senator said:
“Tho few remarks I shall malpwill Vo-
be chiefly to the effect that the
called Monroe doctrine has been mis>
npplied in the pending controversy),
that so much of President Monroefs
message as referred to the colonization
of portions of America by European
powers could have no applicability jin jto
nnv boundary dispute now existing doc¬
■South America; that the Monroe
trine was in no wise intended as insist¬ gov¬
ing upon representative forms of ejom-
ernment in this hemisphere or maintain as
mitting this government to bordets
the doctrine outside its own or
except as its own integrity might* be
affected; that this country is emlpark-
ing upon a new and different policy
from the one laid down by our thers,
and that from 1821 until now.cfongress define
has uniformly declined to to! the
so-called Monroe doctrine or accept
it as a rule of action. I
“There has been much letterVif for
the past few weeks. The J the
secretary of state to Bayard was, from
a diplomatic standpoint of view,almost melssago
incendiary. The president’s w\r.
glowed with the possibilities of republics
“The South American
were entitled to our friendly am af-
fectionate regard. As citizens c a
sister republic wo owe them prcB^ B 0 ’
tion wherover the interests cfvifi^ of ■ee
government or tho cause of
tion was attacked by assault upo
their autonomy. Beyond that ou
obligation ceases.”
The diplomatic correspondence o
our side was, the senator thought, un¬
necessarily irritating and the message
of the president ill-advised. There
would be no war and it would be
avoided not because our position to¬
ward Great Britain in her dispute with
Venezuela is tenable but because Great
Britain will yield the whole contro¬
versy rather than face the horrors of
war over such a question.
Mr. Sherman, republican, Ohio, re¬
ported adversely from the foreign re¬
lations committee the resolution of
Mr. Call, democrat, Florida, directing
the secretary of state to send to the
senate the dispatches of United States
consuls in Cuba. The resolution was
SYCAMORE, IRWIN COUNTY. GA.. FRIDAY, JANUARY 31/1896.
about to be indefinitely postponed,but
at Mr. Call’s request it was placed on
the calendar.
Mr. Mills, democrat, Texas, intro¬
duced a bill in the senate Thursday
to repeal the refundiDgnct of 1870and
the specie payment resumption act of
1875. Mr. Mills said he would callup
the bill Friday and seek a vote on it.
A resolution offered by Mr. Perkins,
of California, was agreed to, request¬
ing the secretary of the interior to fur¬
nish information as to the extent of
the illicit traffic in liquor in Alaska
and to suggest remedial legislation.
Mr. Vilas, democrat, Wisconsin, ro-
ported favorably a bill to prevent the
carrying in the mails of obscene litera-
ture from one state or territory to
other. Mr."Call
offered the following: “Be-
solved, That a special committee of
seven senators shall be appointed who
shall be charged with the duty of in¬
quiring into the imprisonment of Eu¬
gene V. Debs, for an alleged contempt
of court, and who shall report to the
senate and recommend such legislation
as may be necessary for the enforce-
ment of the law and the protection of
citizens from arbitrary and oppres-
sive ---------- excess „f of judicial -„j. -----„ power.
Mr. Call said he would call up the
resolution Friday. Mr. Warren, re-
publican, Wyoming, was then recog¬
nized, and spoke on the shrinkage in
the value of farm animals. He attacked
the AVilson tariff. A message from the
president, transmitting correspondence
relating to Turkey and Armenia, was
received. At 2:30 o’clock the bond
silver bill was taken up and Mr. Du¬
bois, republican, Idaho, addressed
the senate. In addition to advocating
the passage of the free coinage substi¬
tute for the bond bill, Mr. Dubois out¬
lined the position of republicans in
the silver states,
Many memorials concerning the
Turkish and Armenian question were
presented to the senate Friday and
this led Mr. Hill, democrat, New
York, to ask what had become of the
resolutions for energetic action by
the president. Mr. Cullom, republi¬
can, Illinois, who reported the Turk¬
ish resolution from the committee on
foreign relations, said he desired the
speediest possible action and would
ask for a vote on the resolution. Af¬
ter some routine business the resolu¬
tion was called up by Mr. Cul¬
lom. The senator spoke of
the serious conditions prevailing
in the Turkish empire, saying he
was appalled by the carnival of blood
prevailing. A massacre of innocence,
unparalleled for ages, had been per¬
petrated. The evidence of the bloody
enormities was given by all classes
and nationalities nntil it was the be¬
yond the slightest doubt. A Turkish
army had bayonetted, robbed,murder¬
ed and flayed alived the people of Ar¬
menia. There was no war, but a pit¬
iless, merciless tornado of ruin, blood¬
shed and death. The demon of fanat¬
icism had been let loose. There was
a responsibility somewhere. It did
not rest with the slavish ruler of Tur¬
key, the sultan. Back of this were
the disputes of the countries of the
European alliance, seeking their ter¬
ritorial advantages. These countries
were responsible. The sultan was but
a puppet in their hands.
Mr. Blachard, democrat, Louisiana,
said that for more than a year the
world had been shocked by the mas-
sacres in Turkey. Not o.nly was there
murder and massacre, but in the cases
of women, worse than massacre. As
a great free nation, it was the duty of
the United States to express its official
repudiation and protest against the
course of Turkey.
Mr. Frye, republican, Maine, took
the floor for a speech of such vehe¬
mence that the galleries quickly filled
to overflowing and he was repeatedly
interrupted by long continued ap¬
plause. Mr. Call offered a radical
resolution demanding that by either
peaceful negotiation or force of arms
the Armenian atrocities be stopped.
The resolution was defeated without
division and the resolution reported by
the committee on foreign relations
passed unanimously.
STUCK IN MUD.
The Steamer St. Paul Runs Ashore at
Sandy Hook.
The American liner St. Paul from
Southampton for New York, struck the
outer bar, off Hotel Brighton, Long
Branch, N. J., during the dense fog,
between 1 and 2 o’clock Saturday morn¬
ing.
Her passenger list is a large one.
She also has on board $1,300,000 in
specie, and 200 bags of mail.
Tho vessel struck head-on on a sand¬
bar, about a quarter of mile from the
■mi Pier. Her nose ran about 100
■in tho sand before her engines
B^ihid stopped.
from Southampton on
and was in charge of Cap-
u.
e the St. Paul ran ashore
4 | there was only four feet
the bar. Some of the
ion| he s hore say that
■kttted for sev-
^BBd in about
iber
ick
in
“In Union, Strength and Prosperity Abound.”
NATIONAL CAPITAL
GOSSIP OF AVASIIINGTON IN
BRIEF PARAGRAPHS.
Doings ot the Chiefs and Heads of the
Various Departments.
The treasury golfl reserve Thursday
stood at $50,343,556. The withdrawals
reP ° A for c the .i da i y were « 2u0 „ ’ 000 rtf , A ’
A su b-committee of the senate corn-
. on Saturday, heard Major
w' unn > the engineer in charge of the
improvement at the mouth of the
Missis sippi river, on the proposed
construction of a 150 foot lock near
e mouth of the Atclinfalaya. This
look , will cost one million dollars.
Committee on elections No. 3,of the
house, heard arguments in the con-
tested case of Johnson against Stokes,
from the seventh South Carolina dis-
trict. This concludes the hearing of
the eases, interest to which was added
by the question of constitutionality of
the registration law of the state being
brought in. The committee is
ready to finally consider the cases,
CJr .ers for Silver Coinage.
.rs were sent Saturday by Mint
Director Preston, by direction of Sec¬
retary Carlisle, to the mint superin¬
tendents at Philadelphia, New Orleans
and San Francisco to resume the coin¬
age of silver dollars irom the bullion
purchased under the act of July 14,
1890.
The amount of silver bullion to be
coined monthly “until further orders”
is $1,500,000, divided between the
three mints as follows: Philadelphia,
$900,000; New r Orleans, $500,000, and
San,Francisco, $100,000. Under the
act of 1890, the treasury has on hand
177,000,000 of silver bullion, against
which there are $137,000,000 of notes
outstanding. Of the bullion purchased
under this act $40,000,000 has been
coined.
AVant a National University.
A number of distinguished men
gathered in the room of the house com¬
mittee ou education to urge action on
the bill to establish a university of the
United States at Washington.
Those present included ex-Senator
Edmunds, ex-President Wm. Peffer,
University of Pennsylvania; Hon An¬
drew D. White, ex-president Cornell
University; ex-Governor John Lee
Carroll, of Maryland ; General John
Easton, ex-bommissioner of education;
Hon. Gardiner G. Hubbard, of the
District of Columbia; Simon New-
combe, Hou. A. A. Casson, G. Brown
Goode, ex-Governor John W. Hoyt.
Half a dozen of these gentlemen ad¬
dressed the committee, setting forth
in detail the reasons why the govern¬
ment should establish such a university
at the capital of the nation.
The Garden Seed Row.
Congressmen are very much annoy¬
ed over the hundreds of applications
they get from home for garden seeds.
Their constituents do not understand
that the government no longer fur¬
nishes seed for distribution. Hereto-
fore $130,000 worth of seed have been
distributed annually among the eon-
gressmen to be sent to their constitu¬
ents. But last fall Secretary of Agri-
culture Morton took it upo‘n himself
to abolish the seed division of this de-
partment. The congressmen have
raised a great row about Mortal it, a*l a res-
olutiou instructing Mr. to buy
seetl has passed the house. It is now
pending in the senate. But should it
pass now no seed for distribution could
be gotten until next fall. It is useless
for the people to annoy their congress¬
men with requests for seed. They can
get none, because there are none.
Canadian Sealers’ Claims.
The suggestion for the settlement
of the claims of Canadian sealers
seized prior to the sitting of the Paris
tribunal of arbitration through the
appointment of a commission have
been approved by the British govern¬
ment and its acceptance was formally
laid before Secretary Olney last Sat¬
urday by Julian Pauncefote, the
British ambassador. The next move
in the matter will be submission
of the plan agreed upon between tho
two governments for its approval. It
is understood that the president of the
Swiss republic has expressed a willing¬
ness to act as umpire of the commis¬
sion or to appoint a representative if
he be asked to occupy that position by
the two arbitrators, one American and
one British, who are given the right
under tho arrangement to select an
umpire. The British government de¬
layed its approval of the plan until the
Swiss president could be heard from.
Daniel on Monroe Doctrine.
Senator Daniel spoke in the senate
Thursday on the Monroe doctrine. He
said that least of all the nations of the
earth could Great Britain fitly object
to the assertion of the Monroe doc¬
trine by the United States, for in tho
language of Edward Everett, it was
announced not merely with the appro-
val of the British minister of foreign
affairs, but had his earnest and oft-re¬
peated solicitation.
Least of all nations did it become
her to contend that it was not recog¬
nized as international law, because it
was not founded on the general con-
sent of nations, for Great Britain her¬
self invoked the United States to its
utterance, not only without the con¬
sent, but against tho strong menaces
of France, Austria and Prussia.
Least of all the nations could Great
Britain fairly controvert that govern¬
mental policy which underlies the
Monroe doctrine, for she, foremost and
most intervened conspicuously of all nations, had
in the nffairs of the world
at large, not only whenever her peace
and safety were remotely involved, but
also wherever and Whenever capita
could be invested, her commerce ex¬
panded, or territorial aggrandizement
be exercised. Even as to existing dis¬
putes with Venzuela we perceived the
outcropping of her own Monroe doc¬
trine, so to speak, by her demand in a
cession to Venezuela, at one time
proffered, that no portion of the ter¬
ritory proposed to be ceded should be
alienated at any time to a foreign
power.
And with no better grace could Great
Britain persist in repelling the mani¬
fold overtures made to her for arbitra¬
tion. The senator referred to the two
sets of resolutions pending in the sen¬
ate. Th*>se proposed by the committee
on foreign relations he regarded as
simply embodying a detailed statement
of the Monroe doctrine as embraced
in the more general language in which
it was uttered. The resolutions offer¬
ed by the senator from New Jersey
seemed to him (Mr. Daniel) to “mis¬
interpret the history and to pervert
the plain language of the Monroe doc¬
trine. ”
MONEY OBJECTS TO MONROE.
Says America Should Avoid all PosSI-
bility of AVar.
A special from Jackson, Miss., says:
In accepting the nomination as United
States senator Colonel Money arraigned
himself in direct opposition to Govern¬
or McLaurin on the Yenezuelan con-
troversy.
Among other things, he said: “As
£ member of the committee of foreign
affairs, I have alyays been conservative
in our foreign policy, I hold the views
of George Washington have*no in his farewell
address, to alliances but com-
mercial ones, and those of Thomas
Jefferson, in his second annual mes-
sage, to avoid all entangling alliances.
As a self-governing people we have
found it to our profit and happiness
to attend strictly to our own business
and not to interfere in any respect
with the politic relations of any other
country. 1 stand for a policy that
means peace, plenty and high prices
for our products; that will keep open
to us the markets of the world and
promote commerce and good feeling
with other nations. I shall not yield
to tho war spirit that seems to have
swept like a wave over the nation.
Our people have war-like instincts and
are jealous of the national honor and
can be too readily induced in their
generosity to interfere in affairs when
their protection is invoked.
“In my judgment the most unhappy
consequences would follow a war be¬
tween our country and Great Britain,
the two English speaking nations.
We are descended from them and have
their blood, their language, their lit-
erature, their religion and are con¬
nected by a thousand business and so¬
cial ties. They are our best custom-
erB . and close relation with them will
n °t only insure to us and them per-
Potual peace as between ourselves, but
will also be a guarantee of peace to the
world,
“With the United States and Great
Britain determined upon peace no
other nation is powerful enough to
make war with another if they forbid
it.”
NOW DEADLOCKED.
Result of the Third Ballot In Ken¬
tucky’s Senatorial Race.
Tho third ballot in the senatorial
race at Frankfort, Kv., Friday, re¬
sulted in a deadlock. There was wild
excitement among the Hunter faction
during the latter part of th6 joint ses¬
sion, when it was discovered that
Populist Poor was not in the joint
session.
As it was the ballot resulted as fol¬
lows : Hunter, 67; Blackburn, 58;
McCrary, 4; Buckner, 2; Willson, 1;
Hazelrig, 1; Carlisle, 1.
A sensation was caused by the ap¬
pearance of ex-Governor John Young
Brown on the scene. Several myste¬
rious caucuses were held at his head¬
quarters and his entrance into the race
is looked for. Then, too, Congressman
Evans has suddenly wired that he
would be on hand.
This is accepted as an indication
that Congressmen Lewis and Colson,
who are now in Washington, had re¬
ported that things were ripe for his
appearance at the state capitol and
that Hunter could be forced from the
fight.
Hunter One Vote Short.
A special from Frankfort, Ky.-
states that the Hunter people an*
nounced that on Wednesday in th«
joint session they would elect Hunter,
but when tho result of the first ballot
qn joint session was announced in ih*
evening Hunter was still as far from
the senatorship as before the joiu£
session convened.
It is better to take a second look
than to lpve at first sight.
VOL. VI. NO. 411.
BIMETALLISTS MEET
A NEW AND INDEPENDENT
PARTY SUGGESTED.
Platform of Principles Announced by
Silver’s Leaders.
Nearly 100 of the most prominent
silver men of the country met in
Washington AVednesday to arrange for
holding a national silver convention to
put a ticket in the field for the coming
presidential campaign, this action to
be contingent upon the failure of both
tho old political parties to recognize
the whito metal by nominating candi¬
dates unequivocally pledged to its re¬
habilitation on a basis of 16 to 1. The
gathering is the result of a conference
held in Chicago several weeks ago of
the presidents of the American bime¬
tallic league, the national bimetallio
union and the national silver commit¬
tee, at which it was agreed to consoli¬
date under the title of the Ameri¬
can Bimetallio union with Gen.
A. J. Warner as president, At the
present meeting, which is being held
behind closed doors and with an evi¬
dent intention to prevent any prema¬
ture announcement of its proceedings,
it is expected to ratify the con¬
solidation and make a deal with
the populists, by which both organ¬
izations will have their convention in
the same place and at the same time.
General ,T. B. Weaver, of Iowa; J. G.
Field, of Virginia; Senator Marion
Butler, of North Carolina; T. M. Pat¬
terson, of Colorado; J. G. Bell, of
Colorado; C. M. Wardell, of Califor¬
nia; J. H. Turner, of Georgia, and E.
G. Brown, of Massachusetts, constitute
a special committee to meet the silver
men. They say they will take no part
in the conference, but merely carry out
the instructions of their national com¬
mittee.
General Warner was promptly made
chairman of the meeting. Senator
Marion Butler, of North Carolina, in¬
troduced Mr. Wharton Barker, of Phil¬
adelphia, who said that China was the
greatest commercial rival of the United
States. Senator Stewart, of Nevada,
occupied a front sest in the meeting
and several other members of , con¬
gress were in attendance. General
Warner said before the meeting
that a provisional committee be repre¬
senting all the states would ap¬
pointed and a date, the latter part of
July, would be set for a convention
and not until then would it be decided
whether to put a ticket in the field
and what name the party would take.
Everything depended upon the action
of the republican and democratic con¬
ventions.
Thursday morning’s session of the
conference was wholly given over to
the populist and silver men, the com¬
mittee on resolutions being still occu¬
pied with framing its report and it
being deemed impracticable to transact
any business in their absence.
The discussion was provoked by the
declaration of ex-Congressman Hatch,
of Missouri, who has come out squarely
as a candidate for the presidential
nomination on the silver ticket and
who in an impassioned speech had
blamed the populists for the defeat of
“that sterling silver advocate, Joe
of
Mr. Field, of the populist Hatch’s party,
vigorously combated Mr.
statements and caused considerable
excitement and bad feeling by his
pointed references to influences ex¬
erted in the Kentucky campaign
by President Cleveland^ Secreta¬
ry . Carlisle and others. Amid fre¬
quent interruption and much enthusi¬
asm, Mr. Hatch replied in his own de¬
fense and hotly reiterated his criti¬
cisms of the populists’ action in put¬
ting a ticket in the field which had
barely drawn enough votes from the
democracy to elect a single gold stand¬
ard republican. Butler, of North
Senator Marion
Carolina, repudiated the alleged facts
set forth by Mr. Hatch. He had been
present in Kentucky before the cam¬
paign and declared that his party had
not decided to enter the contest nntil
after the democrats had put up a strad¬
dling platform, indorsing a bond is¬
suing administration, and -until Har¬
din had interpreted the platform di¬
rectly in opposition to its proper in¬
tent as recognizing metallic parity.
The. committee on organization sub¬
sequently reported in favor of holding
a convention at St. Louis July 22d.
The appointment of delegates based
upon the silver strength, as ascertained
from the American Bimetallic union,
was determined upon as follows:
Alabama, 40; Arkansas, 15; Color¬
ado, 83; Delaware, 3; Georgia, 50;
Illinois, 50; Iowa, 21; Minnesota, 45;
Missouri, 38; Nebraska, 51; New
Hampshire, 6; New York, 44 ; North
Dakota,12; Oregon, 17; Khode Island,
8; Tennessee,24 ; Vermont,8; Washing¬
ton, 17; Wisconsin, 25; New Mexico,
8; District of Columbia, 4; Arizona,
6; California, 39; Connecticut, 15;
Florida, 3; Idaho, 10; Indiana, 30;
Kansas, 60; Louisiana, 15; Maryland,
9; Michigan, 34; Mississippi, 10;
Montana, 18: Nevada, 40; New Jersey,
12; North Carolina, 75; Ohio, 40;
Pennsylvania, 15; South Carolina, 20;
Texas, 75; Virginia, 50; West Vir-
1.00 A Tear.
ginia, 8; Wyoming, 15, and Utah, 80.
The silver convention adjourned sine
die Thursday afternoon after appoint¬
ing committees on organization,
finance and an executive committee.
An address to the country was adopted,
setting forth the principles declared of the
party. The present issue was
to be between the gold standard, gold
bonds and bank currency on the one
side and the bimetallic standard, no
bonds and government currency on
the other. The present treasury policy
is denounced as a blunder worse than
a crime and an appeal is made to the
people to “leave in abeyance for the
moment all other questions however
important and momentous they may
appear. ”
TO COIN SILVER.
Secretary Carlisle Gives Orders to that
Efflect.
Secretary Carlisle has directed Mint
Director Preston to prepare to coin
standard silver dollars at the Philadel¬
phia and New Orleans mints. The
amount of coinage to be executed has
not yet been determined, but probably
not more than 7,000,000 standard sil¬
ver dollars will be coined. The seign¬
iorage on this will also be declared and
coined, and this will not make, all
told, more than $10,000,000.
Two things will happen as the resnlt
of the decision to coin standard silver
dollars, viz: The reopening of the
New Orleans mint on a small scale and
the continuance of coinage operations
at the Philadelphia mint. Mr. Pres¬
ton says that by Tuesday night next
all the gold bullion at the Philadelphia
mint will have been coined and he
does not think that any gold bullion
will be transferred from subtreasuries
or mints elsewhere to Philadelphia at
present. is
As the appropriation for coining
well nigh exhausted the force at the
Philadelphia mint would have been
furloughed without pay, unless the
coinage of standard silver dollar, for
which he had a sufficient present ap-
propaiation, had been decided upon.
There was, he said, pressing need for
the coinage of subsidiary silver and as
soon as the necessary money was pro¬
vided by congress this class of coinage
would be resumed.
M’LAURIN INSTALLED
As Mississippi’s Governor, with Ap*
propriate Ceremonies.
The ceremonies attending the inau¬
gural of Hon. A. J. McLaurin, as gov¬
ernor of Mississippi, which took place
at Jackson last Tuesday, were the
most imposing ever witnessed in the
history of the state.
It was a big event in the history of
Jackson, in spite of a downpour of
rain and six inches deep of mud.
Twenty odd companies of the Nation¬
al guards of the state were in line with
bands of music playing and gay ban¬
ners flying. The program was to have
the oath of office administered to
Governor McLaurin on a plat¬
form in the open air, but on account
of the rain this oeremony was per¬
formed in the house of representa¬
tives, which was packed to overflow#
ing. The only recommendation in the
governor’s speech was for a deep
water harbor on the Missis¬
sippi gulf coast. The new gov-
ernor held a public reception
at the mansion at night, and the visit¬
ing militia were given a grand ball at
Lusk hali.
INDORSE THE PRESIDENT,
Florida Bankers AVant Only Gold as
America’s Currency.
The Florida Bankers’ association
held its eighth annual convention at
Jacksonville Friday. Offioers were
elected and the following resolutions
in regard to the monetary question
were passed :
We heartily endorse the financial
policy of Grover Cleveland and his ad¬
ministration, and declare ourselves in
favor of honest money and opposed to
inflation and fiat money.
We are strongly opposed to the free
coinage of silver except by an interna¬
tional agreement.
Wo favor a currency sound, elastic
and good as gold ; good everywhere by
the standard of the world and good in
the markets in the world; as good in
the hands of labor as in the hands of
capital.
Besolutions were adopted denounc¬
ing the money order business of the
expressing companies and legislation. calling for
its suppression by federal
The rates charged by express compa¬
nies were also denounced, and their
regulations by the interstate com¬
merce commission were demanded.
ELECTORS PREFERRED.
North Carolina Populists Want No
Gold Standard Men.
A special from Baleigh, N. C., says:
It has been assured for some months
that fusion between the populists and
republicans in North Carolina was
certain, but a great sensation is now
sprung in the shape of a letter signed
by the populist chairman and Senator
Marion Butler announcing that popu¬
lists would support only electors
pledged to vote for no man who favors
a gold standard and stating further
that it is more important to have the
electors than to have the governor.