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IN CONGRESSIONAL HALLS.
Daily Routine ol Botb Hows of Ike
Rfty-SMi Conress.
Measures Discussed and Bills Tassed
By Our National Law-Makers.
THE SENATE.
Saturday the senate bill to authorize
the Montgomery Bridge Company to con¬
struct a bridge across the Alabama river
near Montgomery, Ala., was reported
ffom the committee on commerce and
Mr. Vest making a speciul re¬
quest to that effect in order to oblige
Representative Herbert, who has been
calted to the cabinet. Notices were
given that the senate would be asked to
suspend business in order that a fitting
tribute might be paid at 4.30 o’clock
p. m. to the memory of the late Rep¬
resentative, F. P. Spinola, of New
York, and on Wednesday, at 3 o’clock
p. m., to the memory of the late Sen¬
ator Gibson, of Louisiana. The leg¬
islative appropriation bill was taken
up and an amendment agreed to ap
propriating $75,000 for the purchase of
George Bancroft’s library for historical
manuscripts and printed books and pam
phlets. After the adoption of two minor
amendments, the bill was passed. A
motion by Mr. Sherman to go into exec
utive session was voted down, and after
considering, without final action, a local
bill relating to the District of Columbia,
business was suspended in order that a
fitting tribute might Representative be paid to Spi- the
memory of the late
nola. After eulogies by Messrs. Hill and
Hiscock, the senate, at 5:30 o’clock, as a
further mark of respect to the deceased,
adjourned till Monday at 11 o’clock a. m.
In the senate Monday, Mr. Call intro
duced a joint resolution to suspend the
list of swamp and overflowed public
lands in Florida until further action of
congress, and asked for its passage,
After considerable discussion it went
over without action and the senate took.
up the pension appropriation appropriation bill passed bill. with The
pension discussion and without amend
but little
ment. The agricultural placed appropriation cal
.bill was reported and on the
endar. The conference report on the
military academy bill was agreed to.
A conference was ordered on the sundry
civil appropriation bill and Messrs. Alii
son, Hale and Gorman the were appointed bill,
conferees on part of senate. A
local to the District of Columbia, was
under discussion when, at 4 o’clock in
the afternoon, on motion of Sir. Faulk¬
ner, business was suspended, in paid order
that fitting tributes might Le to
the memory of his late colleague, sen¬
ator John E. Kenna, who died in Wash¬
ington last January, Mr. Faulkner
offered the usual resolution of sor¬
row and condolence, and went on
to deliver a eulogy on the dead senator.
Mr. Faulkner was followed by Slessrs.
Frye, Gorman, Blackburn, Cullom, Gray.
Vest, Stewart, Daniel, Hawley, and by
Kenua’s successor in the senate—Mr.
Camden. The- resolutions were unani
mnnsiy adopted and the senate at (i
adjourned ‘ till 11 o’clock Tues
<j ay>
In the senate, Tuesdav, the naval ap
propriation bill was taken up with
amendments and reported from the com
mittee on appropriations, being first act
ed upon. The amendment appropriat
ing $300,000 for a naval review was
agreed to after a somewhat caustic criti
cism of the Yillard petition for money
to entertain foreign dignitaries in New
York. The Hudson river bridge bill was
then taken up, but it was displaced by
the agricultural appropriation bill which
passed with a few unimportant amend
ments. Sir. Teller gave notice that he
would move to take up the McGarrahan
bill Wednesday morning, and Sir. Hill
gave a like notice as to the Hudson river
bridge bill. Tbe senate then, at 6 o’clock
p. m., adjourned. meeting, the Wed¬
Soon after senate,
nesday, on motion of 3Ir.[Sherman, went
into the ;xecutive session without oppo
tion from the democrats. The doors
were closed for about half an hour, and
when they were reopened the routine
morning business was proceeded hour wl _th. Sir.
At the close of tbe morning
Hill, iu pursuance of notice given Tues
day evening, moved to proceed to the
consideration of the Hudson river bridge,
Ignoring the request of Mr. Teller to with
draw the motion until the McGarra
Se !empTrarily en in (no order P t losing to have the
rieht of way) bill coosid
the in ' siofficc appropriation that
ered. The first amendment pro.
voked discussion was the one striking
out of the bill the items of $190,000 for
special facilities on trunk lines. Sir.
Call opposed the amendment, but moved
to strike out of the paragraph words
specifying the route as being “from
Springfield, Slass., via New York and
Washington, to Atlanta and New Or
leans,” and also to strike out the proviso
that no part of the appropriation
shall be expended shall unless deem such the
postmaster general in order
expenditure necessary to promote
the interest of the postal service. He
argued in favor of sending a fast mail by
the Tampa line. Sir. Call’s proposition
was antagonized by Messrs. (JordoD,
Hinton and Daniel, who argued in favoi
of retaining the paragraph as it came
from the house. A conference was or*
dered on the naval appropriation bill.
Discussion on the postofnee appropriation
bill was continued by Messrs. White, Cul
lom, Gorman, Butler, Vilas, Pasco and
Call and was again inteiruptea iu order
to have the conference report on the
sundry upon. This civil action “PF°R deprived r, »j!®“ the Hudson
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river bill of its right of way. ordered Pending
discussion, a conference was on
the agricultural appropriation bill, and
Messrs. Allison, Cuilora and Call were
appointed conferees on parted the the District senate,
and the conference report on
of Columbia appropriation bill was
agreed to.
the house.
In the house, Saturday, Mr. Holman
renewed the request made by him Friday
that the senate amendments to the suu
dry ci.il appropriation bill, with one ex¬
ception, be formally non-concurred in
and Hatch a said conference agreed upon. objection, Sir.
he would make no
provided a similar course should be
taken with the anti-option bill and that
it should be sent to conference. But ob¬
jection was made to this request, where¬
upon Mr. Hatch emphatically objected
to Mr. Holman’s proposition. Mr.
Holman moved that the house go in¬
to committee of the whole for the con¬
sideration of the general appropriation Hatch’s
bills. Notwithstanding Mr.
opposition, Mr. Holman's motion was
agreed to—yeas 137, nays 103. The first
Ijjll on the calendar was the Indian ap¬
propriation bill. This bill Mr. Holman
requested should be passed over for the
present. Mr. Hatch objected and the
committee was compelled to rise in order
fo submit the question to the house,
which decided that the bill should
he passed over. The commit
having resumed its _
ses
sion, the sundry civil bill was taken up.
A fter some discus-ion the bill went over
without action. The body rose, and pub
He business having been suspended, the
house proceeded to pay a tribute of re¬
spect to the memory of the late senator
John 8. Barbour, of Virginia. After Meridith, eu
logistic remarks by Messrs, and
Wise, Milliken, Kendall, Tucker
Jones, the house, as a mark of respect to
the memory of the deceased,at 5 o’clock,
adjourned,
Monday, in the house, the demand foi
the “regular order” made by Mr. Simp
son blasted the hopes of a number of
gentlemen congregated in the area in
front of the speaker’s desk, each waving
a bill which he desired to have passed On
during the closing hours of Indian congress.
motion of Mr. Peel, the appro
priation bill was passed under the sus
pension of the rules. The sundry civil
appropriation bill was sent into confer
ence under a suspension of the rules,
An understanding was reached that all
the amendments shall be formally non
concurred in, and that unless the senate
recedes on the Sherman bond amend
meat the house conferees shall insist on
their disagreement and report the
amendment to the house for its approval
or disapproval. Sir. Wise moved to sus¬
pend the rules and concur in the senate
amendment to the car coupler bill. The
bill was parsed.
After agreeing to the conference re
port on the diplomatic and consular ap¬
propriation bill, the house, Tuesday
morning, proceeded to the consideration
of the Alabama contested election case
of SIcDuffie vs. Turpin, the majority sit¬ re¬
port being in favor of Turpin, the
ting democratic member.
The anti-option bill was finanlly de¬
feated Wednesday by a vote of 172 to 124.
General Hatch took his last desperate
chance of its passage by moving the to sus
pend amendments. the rules The and agree motion to required senate
a
two-thirds vote. The opponents of the
bill were determined. Under a motion
to suspend the rules no leeway, bow¬
ever, is given for filbustering and the
most they could do was to marshal their
forces for a vote. Tom Johnson, of
Ohio, assumed the leadership of the sides op¬
position. The speeches of both
were exceedingly caustic. The vote re
suited 172 to 124, thirty-seven less than
the necessary two-thirds. The vote in
dicates the strong drift of sentiment
against the measure since last June,
when it had twenty-five to spare on ad- a
two-thirds vote. Before announcing
journmeDt, the speaker made the follow¬
ing appointments: Visitors to the naval
academy, Slessrs. Cummings, Blount,
and Robinson. Visitors to the military
academy, Slessrs. Wheeler, Gorman and
Binsham. _
CAPITAL GOSSIP.
The course of events in the house and
8ena t e Monday indicate that congress
w jq have finished ail its legitimate bus
jnees when the hammer fails Saturday
noon.
£ ^ Georgia, made his ap
ce 8enate chamber Monday
first time this session, ^ and he was
heq[ atteDtion on
the part of his fellow senators
Monday The president without returned his approval, to the the house bill
prescribing the number of district attor
neysand marshasm the jud.cialdistric the first
of the state of Alabama. This is
veto of the present session.
The appointment of Hon. Patrick
Walsh, of Augusta, as commissioner at
large to tbe world’s Columbian exposition, the
is received with much gratification by
Georgia members of congress. No better
man could have been selected,
Recent events in the west indicate that
democrats will have enough members in
the next senate to reorganize that body
without outside aid. Still, if that aid
should become neccessary it is pretty
well settled that the populist Sir. senators Peffer
will vote with the democrats.
has given utterance to such a statement.
The controversy in congress over the
ap p ropr jation of $300,000 for the Colum
bus Daya i display in the Hampton roads
an( j j n jj ew York harbor next regarding April and
conge q U ent uncertainty
a jj a j r has caused several of the great
naya j powers of the world to delay the
accep tance of the invitation to take the
t extended them by this country.
The president' Beal; of Wednesday Ca i ifornl nominated
a, envoy ex-
STATESBORO, GA , THURSDAY, MARCH 9,1898.
traordinary and minister plenipotentiary
and consul general of the United States,
to Roumanis, Servia and Greece. Gene¬
ral 31. Lsmberston. of Nebraska, arbitra¬
tor on the part of the United States un
der the treaty for the claims commission,
concluded between the United States and
Chili.
There will be no action on the part of
congress this session regarding the Ha¬
waiian matter. Senator Allison said in
executive session of the senate Friday
that it was more important to get
through with the appropriation bills than,
to transact any other business, and that
the discussion and final action in regard could
to the annexation of these islands
well go over to the next session of con¬
gress.
Whisky Must be Cheaper.
The house judiciary committee Tues¬
day adopted the report of the sub-com¬
mittee which investigated the whisky
trust. The report recommends the duty
on imported liquors to be reduced from
$2.50 to $1 per gallon and the tariff on
all goods be reduced whenever found
that they are influenced by a trust or is
combination. The recommendation
also made that rectifying establishments
be made subject to governmental super¬
vision, and that all rectified or com¬
pounded goods be stamped so as to show
their components.
Naval Appropriation Bill.
The naval appropriation bill was re¬
ported to the senate Saturday with au
increase of $531,800 to the house bill.
As the bill passed the house it carried an
appropriation of $21,550,331, and as re¬
ported to the senate $22,082,131. The
appropriation for the current year was
$23,543,385, and estimates upon which
the appropriations made in this bill were
based, amouuted to $24,471,408. Among
the items of increase were one for a sub¬
marine torpedo boat and experiments
therewith, $200,000; for international
naval rendezvous and review, $300,000;
for any expense on account of this re¬
view, $6,800. The appropriation for the
naval review is to be immediately availa¬
ble. The number of persons who may at
one time be enlisted into the navy, in¬
cluding 1,500 apprentices and boys au¬
thorized to be enlisted annually, shall
not, under the provisions of this bill,
exceed 9,000.
BIMETALIC LEAGUE.
lb First Annual Convention in Wart
ington City.
The first annual convention of the
American Bimetaiic L„e«e died ,0
order in Washington Wednesday mom
ing by its president, General A. J. War
ner. About fifty delegates from western
were among «*. Seneml
Weaver, candidate for president Oc the
people’s party, accompanied the by aim Mrs. of Mary the
Lease. Mr. Warner stated
league to be the securing of legisla
tion for the free and unlimited coinage
of silver. Three sessions were held.
Among the speakers were Mr. Warner,
General Weaver, Sirs. Lease, Senator
Stevmrt, rv>I Col. A. A f C, ^Vilnn Shinn, of ot Kansas- Kans ,
Mr. Bland of Slissouri; i Representative
elect Sibley, of Pennsylvania, a free coin
age democrat; Mr. Hatch, of Slissouri;
and T W Hiieton rhipf iiistion of
Idaho. Marion Butler, of oouth Caro
lina, in a prepared paper sustained spoke gen- the
erallv of the losses by
cotton interests of the south since 1873
b,tte demonetization of diver. The
free coinage question was a burning one
in the South which had been first to feel
the effects of its demonetization. He
expressed the belief that the time had
come when the people of the ,e„t and
south should unite and stand upon one
common platform and strike a blow for
industrial freedom.
INAUGURAL PREPARATIONS
Being „ . Made in Washington . on a Grand
Scale—A Crowd Expected.
A Washington special, of Wednesday,
says: The city is beginning to white put and on
her inauguration attire. Red,
everywhere, «be f re„.
and hotels are swarming with people ana
every incoming train is heavier than its
predecessor. The prospects are for
an unprecedentedly large crowd. The
preparations for the inauguration are
on a vast scale. Th streets are to
be roped to give th military and
civil organiz S itions full play for maneuv
eriDg . The re.».ge, S hav, be»«
ing Pennsylvania avenue, and they find
it will accommodate 175,000 people from
to.pe.Vo7roc,. the treasury to the .Ld. peace monument, not
a„d w tod OWA
There Will be 40,000 men in line with
over a hundred bands and druoi corps.
Extra policemen are beiog engaged
by platoons. Railroad men talk of the
passenger traffc in six figures. The ho
tels and boarding houses are putting in
thousands of extra cots. The men in
charge of the inauguration ball say they
will have 5,000 spinning waltzers on the
floor at one time. The display of fire¬
works is to be unparalleled. Even the
thieves and pickpockets are expected in
large numbers and a proportionate effort
is being- made to meet them.
A BRITISH GROWL
Elicited by the Recent Flag Raising In
New York Harbor,
A London cablegram states that in the
house of commons Slonday William G
Cavendish Bentinick, asked whether the
attention of the admiralty had been
called to the recent celebration at New
York at which President Harrison was
present, when the flag of a steamship
that had been built and suhdized as a
queen’s cruiser had been changed and
the flag of the United States hoisted in
its stead. Mr. Bentioick also wanted to
know whether the admiiaKy would
henceforth prevent such a proceeding.
CLEVELAND’S CABINET.
His Official Family Announced
Before the Inauguration.
Biographical Sketches of the Pres¬
idential Advisers.
In defiance of numerous precedents in the
case Mr. Cleveland removed the ban of
secrecy which usually makes the composi¬
tion of the Presidential cabinet a mystery
until the inauguration, and as fast as he had
chosen his advisers and their acceptances of
the positions were received official an¬
nouncement of the fact was made from the
“Little White House” at Lakewood, N. J.
The list of appointments as thus given out,
supplemented each cabinet by a biographical sketch of
minister, is as follows:
of Secretary Illinois. of State—Walter Q, Gresham,
Secretary Kentucky. of the Treasury—John G. Car¬
lisle, of
Postmaster-General—Wilson S. Bissell, of
New York.
New Secretary York. of War—Daniel S. La-nont, of
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Secretary of the Navy—Hilary A. Her¬
bert, of Alabama.
Attorney-General—Richard Olney, of
Massachusetts.
Secretary of the Interior—Hoke Smith, of
Georgia. Secretary
Morton, Nebraska. of Agriculture—J. Sterling
of
Secretary of State.
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WALTER Q. GRESHAM.
Judge Walter in Quiutin Cleveland Gresham, Cabinet who will
occupy a seat the as
Secretary of State, was born on March 17,
1832, in a queer old farmhouse near Lanes
ville, Harrison County, Ind. His father,
William Gresham, was Sheriff of a back-
7^“ o™Si.
ing to arrest an outlaw by the name of
«P ie *- Judge Gresham was then ST*sE, next to the
managed by hard work to keep the family
together, and, as a boy, Walter followed the
plow ami studied by night. When sixteen
JK? Va^oE,* earned defrayed his 2W IE at
m 0ne y expenses
school and at Corydon Bloomington studied University. law
Returning to J tar^oA he waf in
JjgJ ^ent^o f agfte’ g £ ad
^ b ir> politics
be was a Whig, and joined organized. the Republi- His
can Party when it was
partner was a delegate to the convention
which nominated John C. Fremont in 1856,
ftncl young Greshan stumped the State for
tba pathfinder. In 1869 Gresham was eiect
ed on the Republican ticket to the L9gisla
ture. When the war broke out his constitu
®nts wished him to return to the Legis.ature enlisted
but Gresham wouldn’t have it. and
as a private in the Thirty-eighth made Regiment, its Lieu
Almost immediately he Leggett’s was Hill, before
tenant Colonel. At
Atlanta, he was shot in the knee, and he has
rarrend .r ot Viotabure (irant and Snermui
recommended that he be made a Brigadier
General, and shortly after he received his
commission. In tSOo he was brevetted a
JJSST!; i n d. Two positions were offered him !AlbmJ. under
General Grant as President and he refused
defeated 5°^- ,5 by Michael or ,9? C. n tL Kerr. reS .? tK i In ce “.^1, 186J he
was appointed United Utates District Judge
for Indiana and accepted. He was Post
master-General under President Arthur.
At the close of President Arthur s
term he was made Secretary of the Treas
ury, but only held the position for a short
time. Subsequently he became United
States Judge for the Seventh Judicial Court.
In I860 he made some remarkable deeisons
in the celebrated W abash cases. He was .
SSlSSSSflS“S"& the last . compaign
needed and announced from his his party intention m of voting for
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JOHN G. CARLISLE.
seaton the S*ate to or Jerto accept is the po
sition of Secretary of the Treasury, County, a na
tive of Campbell (now Kenton) September
Kentucky, where he was born on
5 ’835. He received his schooling from the
common schools of the county and subse
quently became a school teacher at Coving
ton. He began the study of law. and in 1858,
al the age of twenty-three, he was admitted
to the bar. He began practice at Covington
and met with almost immediate success,
When the war opened he was a member ol
tbe Kentucky Legislature. After the war
he served in the State Senate and as Lieu
tenant-Governor. In 1876 hs was elected to
represent the Covington District in Con-
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gross and was re-elected biennially thereaf¬
ter up to 1890, when, the on of May li, B.Beok, he wai
chosen to complete term James
deceased, in the United States Senate. As »
member of Congress he ranked high as an
authority on fiscal and of economic the Forty-eighth, subjects.
He served as Speaker
Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses. He
was a recognised leader in the Senate, where
in debate he was ready and sometimes ag¬
gressive. When speaking he was deliberate
and undemonstrative. He was a careful
student and a hard worker,
Postmaster-General,
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WILSON S. BISSELL.
Wilson Shannon Bissell, who succeeds Mr.
(Wanamaker as Postmaster-General, isa Buf¬
falo lawyer. He was born in New London, N.
Y., December 31,1847, and when he was six
years old his parents removed to Buffalo. lie
studied in the schools of that city, and then
entered Yale At the age of twenty-two he
had graduated and was studying law with
A. P. Lansing, who subsequently formed a
partnership with Mr. Cleveland and Oscar
Folsom. In 1872 Mr. Bissell formed a part¬
nership with Lyman K. Bass, and a year
later the firm became Bass, Cleveland &
Bissell. The firm dissolved on the removal
of Mr. Bass to Colorado and the election of
Mr. Cleveland as Governor. Mr. Bissell re¬
organized the firm with new partners and
built up a large practice. He He has is regarded been Presi¬ as
an able railroad lawyer.
dent of two or three small railroads in the
western part of New York State and Penn¬
sylvania. He is also a director in a number
of corporations. He is a man of strong con¬
victions, but is uniformly good natnrea. He
is President of the Buffalo Club, and Mr.
Cleveland is very fond of him. When Mr.
Cleveland was married Mr. Bissell acted at
best man.
Secretary ot War.
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St ofd. He was' boru’ at
(j or tiandville Cortland County, N. Y. For
tbjpty-five years, up to a short time ago, his
father was a storekeeper in a Cortland
“K S'^SSed^ time he at
father’s school’. clerk, and at the same in
tended He entered Union College
1873, and even before his graduation When be was
Komet hing of a politician. Clerk in Assem- was
ninete en he was Deputy the
w and st twenty, which was in 1871, he
de w a te to the Democratic State Con
ven ti 0 n at Rochester. When Lamont was
twenty<me he was nominated by the Demo
crats for county Clerk of Cortland County,
but j ost< In 1874 he ran for Assembly and
1^ bv a few votes only. He then became
Deputy cierk of the Assembly at Mr. Til
den’s request. Subsequently he was ap
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the rty ln tbe ytate he called upon young In
j janl on t> among others, for assistance.
3875 during the State campaign, he was
acU^Ingag^ln W “
up
the tide he went to Washington as Grover
Cleveland’s Private Secretary. When
Cleveland was Governor, Mr. Lamont ac
cepted the post of Military Secretary of the
wS.'’Su.Tfc Lamont
land retired to private life Mr. ac
cepted an offer from William C. Whitney
and Oliver H. Payne and became associated
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aquiet disposition. He is slow when talking Miss
and of modest demeanor. He married
J alia Kenney of Cortland in 1874, and they
h<W 0 three child ren.
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HILARY A. HERBERT.
Hilary A. Herbert was born at Lauren**
& q > on March 12,1884 He removed
li Piano manufactured p in
the only u>»
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none ic. Made and sold by
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to Greenville, Ala., in 1846. an t was eduea-,
ted at the University of Alabama and the
University of Virginia, He is a lawyer by
profession, having been admitted to the bar
just before the war. He has served sixteen
years in Congress. During much of his Con¬
gressional career he has been a member ot
the Committee Chairman on Naval of that Affairs, Committee haying
been made Cleveland's
about the beginning of Mr.
former teem. During this time he has
worked zealously for the interest of title the of Navy^-i th*>
which has earned for him the
Congressional Secretary of the Navy. At thei
time the Civil War broke out Mr. Herbert,
entered the Confederate service as a captain, of
and was soon promoted to the Colonency
the Eighth Alabama Volunteers- He was
disabled at the battle of the Wilderness, resumed' ini
1864. At the close of the war he
his law practice, and in 1872 removed to*
Montgomery, which has since been, his home.
In 1876 he was elected to Congress and re¬
elected in 1878, 1880, 1883, 1384, 1886, 1883
and 1890. He is a widower, with three chil- .
dren—a married is daughter, in Washington a younger,
daughter who popular so- f
oiety circles, and a son at school. His left,
arm is shorter than his right, the result of •
injuries received in the battle of the Wilder-’,
ness. In Washington Mr. Herbert lives at
the Metropolitan Hotel.
Secretary ot Interior.
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HOKE SMITH.
Hoke Smith, of Georgia, named as Sacra
tary of the Interior, North is thirty-eight Carolinu. years His
old and was born in
father was H. H. Smith, and the new comer
was named Hoke after his mother, who was
a Miss Hoke. The Hokes are an eminent
Southern family, and are represented in
North Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee. He
began to practice iaw in Atlanta in 1876,
and he stands well in the profession. Mr
Smith is over six feet tall and weighs about
250 pounds. He has regular features and a
deathly paie complexion, which is not an in¬
dication of bad health for he scarcely knows
what it is to be ill. In some ways he bears
a forcible resemblance to Mr. Cleveland.
His fame has been won as a politician and
not as a lawyMr. - He is the owner of the At
lauta JournaK ill an artprnoon newsoaper. but
does not cla to bean editor. The ipoome
from his lawfbusiness 815,000 is•Ujnaj&jLt&sij' He is
f30,000 throughout to (Georgia a and year. in Alabama
anti-corporation lawyer, and the big suits
against railroad companies which he has
won for his clients are numbered in the hun¬
dreds. Mr. Smith married in 1883 the daugh¬
ter of Howell Cobb, ex-Governor of Georgia,
a Confederate General, who was Secretary
pf the Treasury under President Pierce. He
has three children
Attorney-General.
Richard Olney was born in Oxford,
Mass., September 15. 1835, and is a member
of the Massachusetts bar. He was gradu¬
ated from Brown University in the class ot
’56. He studied law at the Harvard Law
.School, and entered the law oflicas of Judge
Benjamin F. Thomas, in Bostou, in 1859. He
advanced rapidly counsel in his profession for ana Eastern. was
for many years the
Railroad Company, and after the consoli¬
dation was retained as counsel for the Bos¬
ton & Maine, a position which he now holds
He is also counsel for the Atchison, Topeka
& Santa Fe and Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy railroads, ln Boston Mr. Olney he is
known as an old line Democrat, politics. althougn He
was never actively engaged in
has on several occasions refused to accept
public preference to confine himself to his.
law practice. He has at least twice rafu-ef
to accept a place on the bench of the Su
preme Court of his State, Governor Russell
having been desirous to appoint him when
the last vacancy occurred. Mr. Olney served
one term in the lower branch of the Massa¬
chusetts Legislature in 1874, and once ac
septedthe Democratic nomination for At¬
torney-General of the State, alttaouzh it
was only an honorary nomination. When
the vacancy occurred in the office of Chief.
Justice of the United States, Mr. Cleveland, Olney’s
name was presented to President
but the appointment went to Melville M,
Fuller.
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Secretary ot Agriculture.
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J. STERLING MORTON,
J. Sterling Morton was born in Adams,
Jefferson County, N. Y., April 2 j, 18J2.
While yet a boy his parents removed to
Michigan, where he attended the scnoolat
Albion and subsequenOy at the State Ui»i
versitv at Ann Arbor. He went later to
Union College, New York, where he gradu¬
ated in 1854. At the age of twenty-two n»
married Miss Caroline Jay Franco, and
sterted almost immediately with his bride
for the West. He located first at Bellevue,
but shortly afterward removed to Nebraska:
City, where he became the editor ot the
brasta City News, which position he hem
for a number of years.