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JOHN H. HODGES, Nopr. DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PROCRESS AND CULTURE. $1.50 a Tear in Advance.
VOL. xxx.
PEREY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1901.
NO. 3.
These stylish Suits are in Fancy Worsteds,
Blue and Black Cheviots, and the elegant
Gray Oxfords. You can’t do near so well
to-day anywhere else.
The New Store. '454 Third St.
MAG0H,' |i
—: OF
Shoes, Dry Goods, Clothing,
Furnishing Goods,
Millinery, Ladies’ Skirts,
Capes and Jackets.
IN PACT THIS IS THE STORE WHERE YOU CAN
. - Shoes,: !
We sell on y the very hest that are manufactured. Ev-
ry pair that leaves our store is guaranteed to give satis-
iction or money refunded. They go at Factory cost dur-
ug this stock-taking sale.
Clothing.
As complete a stock of Men's, Boys 5 and Children s
3thing as can be found in Georgia. All go at Manilla e-
■ers 5 oost during the stock-taking sale.
Dry Goods.
This line we sell absolutely without profit. During the
'CK-tairing sale hundreds of dollars worth of Dress
►ods, Domestics, Notions and Ladies 5 Furnishing Goods
11 he sold for muoll less than New Yorlc cost.
jadies’ Capes and Skirts
for one-half the first of/be season prices. We have Plush
Capes from 85c. to $20.00 each .
Millinery.
We have just received two full lines ofiDi'nmmera Samples,
cap sell you Millinery or Millinery Furnishings at half what regular
Millinery Eeftablishinents are compelled to charge.
When you are in Macon come to see us. We will save you money
anything that yon have to boy.
• 5
& 416 Third St. MACON, GA.
Nbxt Door to Roff Sims* Old Stand.
Now is the time to have
your JOB WORK done.
The Born ^(mrncd m
'ed to do it in a neat and artistic manner at reasona-
Satisfaction guaranteed.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Our Regular Correspondence.
“Politics” came to the surface
three times during the three days
that Congress was in session last
week and held sway in both Sen
ate and House. This was the more
striking because the pre-Holiday
sessions were marked by the entire
absence of anything of the kind.
The game was inaugurated in the
House promptly on re-assembling
by a resolution called up by Rep
resentative Olmsted of Pennsylva
nia, providing for an investiga
tion by the Census Committee, as
to whether the franchise was re
stricted in the south in such away
as to call for a reduction of repre
sentation under the 14th Amend
ment to the Constitution. The
resolution stirred the Southern
members, who had been aroused
before by the steps taken by Rep
resentative Crumpacker, of Indi-
anna, in the same direction. It
directs the Census Committee to
ascertain where the vote has been
restricted and to make full and
complete reports to the House.
This involved to a certain extent
the consideration of the .appor
tionment bill. The whole sub
ject was gone over -thoroughly by
Mr. Garfield in the ninth census.
The committee could, of course,-
bring the information down to
date, and perhaps it would be a
good thing to have that done. It
would satisfy.-the public and show
something of what the situation
really is. The language of the
fourteenth Amendment applies to
all male inhabitants. It would
affect Illinois, for that state has
a. law requiring residence for a
certain period before one can vote.
Probably there are 80,000 males
over twenty-one years of age in
Chicago who are unable to vote
becanse of this State law. Mas
sachusetts has .an educational
qualification, Rhode Island has
a poll tax. Other states of North
also have suffrage qualifications
which would bring them within
the scope of the constitutional
amendment.
In the Senate, politics was play-?
ed by no less a personage than the
President himself, who sent to
that body a refusal by the Secre
tary of war to transmit the report
by A. L. Lawshe, who investiga
ted the Cuban postoffice frauds,
demanded from the Secretary of
war by resolution of the Senate.
The President declared curtly
that he did not deem it compati
ble with the public interest to
make public the report. The
truth of the matter seems to he
that the report shows gross negli
gence and possibly corruption on
the part of 'high officers of the
Government, whom the President
and Secretary of war, hope to be
able to shield. The refusal is a
direct defiance of the Senate’s
right to inquire into Government
matters. To say that an execu
tive officer can refuse to furnish
information to the legislative
branch when that information
concerns the challenged conduct
of an administration, is a mon
strosity. In this case, especially,
it is believed a festering mass -of
corruption exists in Cuba, and if
the Administration deliberately
withholds official reports it is a
matter for the whole country to
know. The determination of the
President to cut off all informa
tion is shown by tne fact that Mr.
Lawshe, whose report the Secreta
ry declines to make public, has
been suddenly hurried to the
Philippines to fill a$6,000 position
as auditor. If he had remained
in Washington, he couldhave been
summond before the Congression
al Committee to describe the situ
ation he discovered in Cuba and
which makes the publication of
his report incompatible with the
public interests or with the well
being of the Republic party.
The army reorganization bill,
which was taken up in the Senate
on Thursday, displacing the sub
sidy bill from its favored position,
also gave rise to a semi-political
debate, the Democrats expressing
their willingness to give the Pres
ident a special army for use in
the Philippines, but objecting
strongly to the pending bill which
endowes him with almost absolute
power over the size of the army
used in the United States. The
sensational part of the debate was
when Senator Sewell of New Jersy
speaking for the President, declar
ed that thare was more fighting in
the Philippines today than there
had been since the beginning of
tbe war. During the course of his
remarks he made this statement
which is significant: “If you will
look at the reports of the general
commanding you will find that
every two weeks or every four weeks
there were so many men killed, so
many wounded, and so many died
of disease in hospital. That is the
situation. I have said, and I
think it is the view of the Secre
tary of War, that it will take 60,-
000 men in the Philippines for
some time to come.” Yet it was
Secretary Root who prophesied
before the election that the rebel
lion -would end with the re-elec
tion of McKinley, and that the
followers of Agninaldo were only
clinging to the desperate hope
that Bryan might be elected.
The resunding operations under
the gold bill ceased on the last day
of the century, about one half of
the outstanding high-interest
bonds expiring in 1904, 1907 and
1608j having been converted into
two percents which will run for
thirty years. The Treasury De
partment declare that these trans
actions show a great saving for
the Government, estimated to
amount to some $10,000,000, this
being the amount saved by the re
duction of interest to the date of
maturity of the old bonds. No
accounts is taken of the fact that
the new bonds have to run some
twenty-two years longer than the
old ones. Two percent interest on
say $450,000,000 of converted
bonds is $9,000,000 per annm, or
$198,000,000 for twenty-two years,
all of which will be a dead loss if
the government should be able to
pay off these bonds at or before
their maturity. The loss will be
in proportion to the amount that
mignt be paid off at or near ma
turity. However the Treasury
Department treats the American
people ’ as infants by assuring
them that they have made a great
saving when they have actually
made a loss.
One of the means used by the
Republicans to carry the state of
South Dakota, has been made pub
lic property by the arrival in this
city of John Eastman, a full
blooded Indian, who acted as Mr.
Hanna’s agent in inducing the
Dakota Indians to become Amer
icans citizens and vote solidly for
McKinley. The consideration
was a promise of the renewal of
annual subsidies, suspended in
1868, to the tribes and the approv
al by Congress of certain claims
held by them. Eastman having
fulfilled his part of the contract,
is now here insisting that Mr.
Hanna deliver his goods. The In-
dians’ claims are now before the
Senate Committee on Indian Af
fairs. They amount to the sum
of $1,900,000, and despite the ef
forts of Mr. Hanna to force the
committe to make a favorable re
port, a majority refuse to be
bullied and are against the scheme.
Mr. Pettigrew, as a member of
the Committee, has exposed the
true inwardness of the scheme,
and has mustered eight votes
against the bill to six favoring it.
Stop tlie Cough andWorks off the Cold
Laxitive Bromo-Quinine Tablets
cure a cold in one day. No Cure,
No Pay. Price 25 cents.
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A Marvelous Growth.
Atlanta Journal.
The growth of exports of mer
chandise from the United States
is without a parallel. Nothing
approximating it can be found in
the world’s history.
For a long time Great Britain
was so far in the lead of all other
nations as an exporter that it
seemed to be taken for granted
that she would never be equaled
in that respect, but the United
States have caught and passed
her.
In 1875 the eports of merchan
dise from the united kingdom were
valued at $1,087,497,000, while
those from our country were worth
only $497,263,737, or less ■ than
half as much. For eleven months
of the year just closed the exports
of merchandise from this country
were more than $5,000,000 in ex
cess of those from Great Britain,
the figures being $1,308,913,780
for the United States and $1,303,-
440,000 for Great Britain.
The rapid and enormous in
crease of our foreign commerce is
viewed with undisguised alarm in
England. In a recent editorial
The London Times said:
“It is useless to disguise the
fact that Great Britain is. being
outdistanced. The competition
does not come from the glut caus
ed by misscalculation as to the
home demand. Our own steel
makers know better, and are
alarmed. The threatened compe
tition in markets hitherto our
own comes from efficiency in pro
duction such as never before has
been seen.”
As great as has been Germany’s
commercial growth in recent
years the fact that it does not ap
proach that of the United States
is admitted in Germany itself.
The Berlin Yossiche Zeitung of
recent date said:
“It is known that the Ameri
can iron works eclipse those of all
other countries whether in the
magnificence of their establish
ments, or the method of saving
hand labor by technical devices,
or in facilities for reducing the
cost of production through the
wholesale scale of their manufac
ture.”
All the indications point to be
continuance of that commercial
expansion and prosperity which
have put the United States in the
front of the nations.
How’s This?
We offer One Hundred Dollars
Reward for any case of Catarrh
that cannot be cured by Hall’s Ca
tarrh Cure.
F. J. Cheney & Co., Props.,
Toledo, O.
We, the undersigned, have known
F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years,
and believe him perfectly honora
ble in all business transactions and
financially able to carry out any
obligations made by their firm.
West & Tbuax,
Wholesale Druggist, Toledo, O.
Walding, Kinnan & Mabvin,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken in
ternally, acting directly upon the
blood and mucous surfaces of the
system. Price 75c. per bottle.
Sold by all druggists. Testimoni
als free.
Halls Family Pills are the best
It has heed predicted that the
steamship that will cross the
ocean in five days, and the horse
that will trot a mile in two min
utes, will be forthcoming within
the first quarter of the new centu
ry. Mr. William C. Whitney,
who Is an expert horse fancier,
says the two-minute horse may be
expected in about five years.
Such little pills as DeWitt’s Lit
tle Early Risers are very easily
taken, and they are wonderfully
effective in cleansing the liver and
bowels. H. M. Holtzclaw’s Drug
store.