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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. Subscribe for The Home Journal. 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.