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BOERS BATTLE
AND RETREAT
By Skillful Tactics They
Elude Britishers.
ROBERTS IS KEPT BUSY
Burghers Fail To Make Expected Stand
and Running Fights and Change
of Positions Is the Order.
A London special says: All the in¬
terest in the South African war is now
centered in the running fight in pro¬
gress between the burghers retreating
from the southern part of the Orange
Free State, of Ceneral French’s horse¬
men and the infautry of Generals Pole-
Carew, Chermside and Rundle. But
the British hope of conclusive results
is slim at present, the Boers escaping
unbeaten and having accomplished an
immense amount of damage. They
clung to their position as long as it
was safe to do so, aud they have slip¬
ped off to hold the next commanding
ridge through a broken couutry, ad¬
mirably suited for a rear guard de¬
fense.
Dispatches from Aliwnlnorth under
date of Wednesday, April 20, say the
Boers left Wepener so hurriedly that
many of the dead were left in the
trenches unburied.
Commander Cronje is reported to
have beeu killed.
According to advices from Bloem¬
fontein, the attempt of the Boers at
Brandfort to get in touch with the
command at Thaba N’Chu was frus¬
trated by a force dispatched by Gen¬
eral Tucker from Glen.
A dispatch from Pretoria reports
the arrival there of Lord Roslyu, as
an unwounded prisoner.
General Hamilton is using his ut¬
most endeavors to cut off the Boers
who are retreating from Dewet’s dorp.
The Boer forces at Thabanchu are
not unlikely to make a stand to cover
the escape of the convoys from the
southward. They have laagers about
eight miles apart, stretching from
Brantfort to Thabanchu with a base
camp st Smalldell station.
A report comes that a small force of
British mounted infautry had a brush
with a party of Boers ten miles east of
Caree siding, who were trying to estab¬
lish a connection between Brandfort
and the Boer forces to the southward.
General Brabant, in a fight with the
Boers at Wepener, had a narrow es¬
cape. General Pole-Carew’s advance
was much hampered by the arrival of
artillery, which preveuted him from
capturing Leeuw kop before darkness
set in, and enabled the Boers to secure
their retreat. Apparently Lord Rob¬
erts, with the commands in.the hands
of younger generals, now has an ex¬
ceedingly efficient army.
WOMEN nAKE APPEAL
To Georgia Voters, Urging Them To
Favor Anti-Whisky Candidates.
At the first day’s session of the an¬
nual convention of the Georgia W. C.
T. U., held in Augusta, tho following
resolntiou was passed:
Whereas, The prohibitionists of the
state have decided not to place candi¬
dates in the field for the state and
county offices for 1900, and,
Whereas, The Democratic party in
Georgia holds a uniform primary
throughout the state for the nomina¬
tion of these officers on May 15 next,
therefore be it
Resolved by the Woman’s Christian
Temperance Union of Georgia, in con¬
vention assembled, that we urge all
Prohibitionists who participate in said
primary to cast their ballots for candi¬
dates for the offices of senator and
representative who are avowed Prohi¬
bitionists, realizing as we do that an¬
other battle will be fought in the next
legislature for the cause we hold so
dear. As a nomination by the Demo¬
cratic party iu many counties is equiv¬
alent to an election, we therefore re¬
spectfully urge all Prohibitionists who
participate in said primary to vote for
men representing the grand principles
of prohibition. Let them do this, and
the whisky traffic will be driven from
the borders of our fair state.
BIG EXPLOSION IN PRETORIA.
Arssnal Blows Up, Killing Ten flen
and Injuring Thirty- Two.
A serious explosion occurred at the
Begbie works at Pretoria used by the
government as an arsenal Wednesday
night. The walls of the building were
destroyed and the structures in the
neighborhood were a mass killed of flames. and'32
Ten workmen were
were injured, including Herr Gruu-
berg, the manager of the works. The
most important of the machinery was
saved. The cause of the explosion is
unknown. The works employed 200'
persons, mostly French and Italians.
The Red Cross ambulance did good 1
work in helping the wounded.
LIVINGSTON MAKES THREAT.
is Determined That His Resolution i
Shall Ba Acted Upon.
A Washington special says: If the
house committee on judiciary does not
at once take action upon Colonel Liv¬
ingston’s resolution calling for infor¬
mation about the Green and Gayuor
cases, Colonel Livingston will demand
that the committee be discharged from
further consideration. This he can do
under the rules.
HANNA RESPONDED.
Senator Makes a Rousing Speech
At the Ohio Republican
State Convention.
The Ohio Republican state conven-
tion assembled in Columbus Tuesday
and made a great administration dern-
onstration. Usually there is only one
keynote speech, that of the temporary
chairman, but there were two on this
occasion, and the one that caused
more comment than any other con¬
vention speech in tho history of the
Ohio Republicans was by Senator
Hanna.
Hon. Robert M. Nevin was elected
temporary chairman. He said:
“We congratulate ourselves upon
promises kept, platforms fulfilled and
pledges redeemed.”
Referring to the Philippines Mr.
Nevin said:
“We hold the islands only that we
may train the people in the right ideas
of government, educate them to what
is necessary to maintain and build up
a people—civilize them as we under-
stand it, in the highest and best de-
K ree ”
-
Mr. Nevin characterized the Porto
Rican tariff bill as “not only the
wisest aud best, but the most charita-
ble that could be enacted,”
Chairman Nevin attempted to proceed
with the call of congressional districts
for their respective selections of mem-
bers of the committee, but the conven-
tion w as bound to call out Senator
Haunn. Tho latter after repeated re¬
fusals finally spoke in part as follows:
“The republicans of the United
States are confronted today with many
new propositions and issues thrown
around us like tangled grass in our
pathway by the Democratic party at¬
tempting to raise new issues upon ev¬
ery move of policy made by the govern¬
ment, seeking some issue, some oppor¬
tunity to manifest their opposition to
the Republican party.
“We are conscious of having fulfill¬
ed every promise made. We took this
country into our hands and under our
care after four years of the greatest
vicissitudes through which we have
ever passed in history. At our con¬
vention in St. Louis we aunouuced the
policy and the doctrine of tho repub¬
lican party upon which had beeu
builded the material interests for
twenty odd years. The best evidence
of the success of that policy is what
we have accomplished as affecting the
material interests of this country.
“I do not care whether you call it
imperialism or expansion. The desti¬
ny of this country is written aud any
party or combination of men that at¬
tempts, by any subterfuge or make¬
shift in politics, to stop the power and
progress will go down under it just as
the Democratic party has gone down.
(Applause.) W’e are proud of our
record; we are proud of our business
experience, and we are gla.l to have
had the opportunity to demonstrate to
the world that the policy and business
principles of the American people
mean the civilization aud Christianiza¬
tion of the whole world.
“Now that we are embarking in this
new policy, aud now that this govern¬
ment is confronted with the responsi¬
bilities which are open to us, we ask
the Republican party of Ohio as we
did four years ago, to sound the key¬
note to the balance of the union; to
express her confidence in her great
leader, our president. His courage
during all the dark days of that war
and many complications which suc¬
ceeded it has never failed for one mo¬
ment.
“And I want to improve this oppor¬
tunity to say in his presence that
there has never been an hour, no, not
a moment, that he has not beeu iu
touch with bis party in Washington.
(Applause.) The consciousness that
lie is prepared for and is meeting
every difficulty, determined to do
what seems best and right for the
people iu our insular possessions, at
the same time maintaining the dignity
and prestige of our own country and
protecting our labor and onr indus-
tries—that feeling that he is doing
right, has enabled him to call to his
support that aid which always comes
to a strong leader of men, and, no
matter what collateral issues may be
arranged iu this coming campaign. I
know that the people of the United
States feel comfortable and confident
when they know that William McKin¬
ley is at the wheel.” (Applause.)
After appointment of committees the
convention adjourned until Wednes¬
day.
A LA PORTO RICO.
inaugural Ceremonies of Governor Al¬
len Will Be Impressive.
Governor General Davis, of Porto
Rico, through a general order, has an¬
nounced to the people of the island
that the inauguration of Civil Gov¬
ernor Charles H. Allen will take place
in the executive mansion May 1st.
Following a time-honored custom
the day’s ceremonies will begin with
sunrise serenades by bands of music,
followed at 9 o’clock by military, na¬
val and civil parades, which will be
reviewed by the governor on the Plaza
Principal. Tuesday, May 1st, will bo
observed as a general holiday through¬
out the island.
BOERS RETIRE.
Leave Their Position In Front of
Wepener and Hove Northward.
The London war offico has issued
the following from Lord Roberts dated
Bloemfontein, April 25tb, 3:25 p. m.:
“The enemy retired from in front of,
Wepener last night and this morning’
fled northeastward along the Lady-
brand road. Their number was be¬
tween 4,000 and 5,000.”
II c
n
MUST REMAIN.”
SlIc j, \ s the e mp hatlc Dec'aration of
W. J. Bryan.
A LONG WITH OTHER ISSUES
Nebraskan Makes Characteristic
Banquet Speech In Wichita.
W. J. Bryan arrived in Wichita,
Mas., Tuesday on his way from Texas
to hi3 home in Nebraska. In the af-
tevnoon he delivered an open air
s P eecb ,0 S - 000 persons. At night . , . . be
was 'he guest of hoDor at the annual
banquet of the Sunflower League.
John S. Crosby, of New York, and
Allen 0. Myer, of Ohio, were also
guests. Mr. Bryan in the course of
his banquet speech said:
“The public wonders why I
h ave uot dropped the silver ques-
tion. New measures are resting
upon us, but I shall never
drop the silver question until the
little corterieof English financiers
cease to meet in secret and plan
the laws of this country,
“Hie difference between this cam-
paigu and that of ’96 is that the mat-
tors of trusts and imperialism have
been injected aud that the east has be-
come educated on tho silver question.
The east no longer regards Populists
as anarchists, but has come to respect
them.”
Referring to the Boer war, he said:
“I measure men’s opinions by their
sympathies. The sympathies of all
people are with republics, and iu the
great contests that are fought between
kingdoms aud republics we know
where to place the heart of Americans.
It is today with the Boers, and I do
not say this because I am against Eng¬
land. I have some regard for Eng¬
land, because I am part English my¬
self. I am also part Irish and part
Scotch, but above all I am Ameri¬
can.”
As to Colonial affairs, Mr. Bryan
said:
“We are unalterably for the repub¬
lic aud everlastingly against the em¬
pire and denounce the present national
administration for its shameless at¬
tempt to unsettle the foundations of
our government. For its abandon¬
ment of tho Monroe doctrine, for its
attempt to thrust our couutry into
European and Asiatic politics, against
which we have been warned by the
fathers; for its attempt to subjugate
unwilling and liberty-loving people
not to make them citizens, but serfs;
for its attempt to adopt for
our country the English colonial
system, as foreign to our plan of
government as a titled aristocrat to a
king; for its gross disregard of our
promise to the people of Cuba to give
them their freedom; for its permanent
increase of our standing army from
25,000 to 100,030 men with no possible
justification except to keep unwilling
foreign peoples in subjugation; for its
notorious secret alliance with England
to be used as a menace to other friend¬
ly nations, and for its carpet-bag gov-
eminent and unconstitutional tariff
luaugu ated in Porto Rico. All ot
these tilings, the natural sequence of
iepu ) icam.sm anc e rs syrnp oms
of a military imperialism, we will for- ;
s’! oi oppose. j
a plain statement. :
A special from Wichita, Kau., to
The Chicago Times-Herald says: : |
“Neither Editor Morse nor anyone
else cau succeed in getting me to
abandon free silver. I favor it as
much as I did in 1896. While free
silver will not be the leading issue in
this campaign, it will be one of the
issues. ”
William J. Bryan made this
footed statement during an interview
Tuesday afternoon.
MONUMENT TO SAM DAVIS.
Appropriate flemorial Will Be Erected
By Tennesseans.
One of the most famous heroes of
the civil war was Sam Davis, a Ten¬
nessee youth, to whose memory a
monument will soon be orected in his
native state. The committee in charge
of this movement has issued an ad¬
dress to the people of the south so¬
liciting co-operation in the laudable
undertaking.
CONVICT LABOR REPORT.
Industrial Commission Recommends
State Control of Convicts.
The interstate industrial commission
sent to congress Wednesday its results
on prison labor. The commission after
a careful consideration of the subjects
concludes that provision should be
made in the laws of each state for the
employment of all prisoners on pro¬
ductive labor; that the state should
have absolute control of the care, pun¬
ishment, reformation and employment
of the prisoners, as well as the dispo¬
sition of the products of their indus¬
try, and that the employment of pris¬
oners in the production of supplies aud for
the maintenance of state, county
municipal institutions.
FIRST LOT OF COIN
does to Porto Rico on Transport.
Nearly Half a Million.
The United States transport- Mc¬
Pherson sailed from New York Wed¬
nesday for Porto Rico with between
$400,000 aud $500,000 in subsidiary
coin. This is the first installment of
the $2,000,009 voted by congress to
be distributed among the inhabitants
of that island.
FAST MAIL MONEY
STILL AVAILABLE
ttard Fight Made In House Against
Its Retention.
OPPOSITION INEFFECTIVE
—_
Appropriation Is Retained In the
Postoffice Bill.
A Washington special says: By a
vote of 90 to II tho house of represen¬
tatives decided Thursday to retain in
the postoffice bill the appropriation for
a fast mail service from Boston and
New York to the south. This result
was reached after the usual fight,
which was led in this instance by Mr.
Little of Arkansas, Mr. Williams of
Mississippi, and Mr. Bromwell of
Ohio.
The fight was, however, Jess bitter
than it it lias been in some past con¬
gresses, some men who have been
prominent in former fights having ev¬
idently come to realize that the small
appropriation necessary to put the
mail service into cities in the
heart of the south on the same footing
with the service in the more densely
populated sections of the country ii
just and right. Mr. Underwood, of
Alabama, led the fight for the appro-
priation on the floor, and was ably
assisted by Colonel Livingston, Mr.
Swanson, of Virginia, and the mem-
hers of the postoffice committee who
had reported in favor of the appropri-
atiou.
No one demanded a separate vote
upon the amendment striking out the
pneumatic tube provision nud the
house by a large majority stood by the
amendment to give extra compensation
to letter carriers for work in excess of
forty-eight hours a week, although the
carriers were said by Mr. Cummings,
of New York, to be opposed to it. The
bill to increase the salary of the direc-
tor of the census to $7,500 and the
salaries of supervisors of census by 2
per cent of the amount received by
*
their enumerators was pasSed.
Without preliminary business the
house resumed consideration of the
postoffice bill.
Mr. Tawney, of Minnesota, moved
to increase the salaries of 479 railway
postal clerks class five A from $1,300
to $1,400.
Mr. Loud, chairman of the postoffice
cornmittee, opposed the amendment,
Mr. Loud had read a postal the writer
had received from Mr. Tawney urging
all rail vay postal clerks to urge their
congressmen to vote for the Tawney
reclassification bill for the provision in
the bill. This. Mr. Loud said, is on-
ly part of the scheme of concerted at-
tack being made by congress. The
amendment was adopted, 83 to 32.
Two hours were devoted to debate of
the provisions appropriating $171,233
for special mail facilities from New
York to Atlanta and New Orleans and
$25,000 from Kansas City, * Mo., to
Newton, Kau.
Mr. Little, of Arkansas, opened the j
debate in opposition. He declared that i j
they were relics of the most vicious
system of legislation that ever invaded 1
. , s
Underwood, of Alabama, favor- i
ec i appropriation ^ | for the southern j j
^ Bnb d which> he 8aidi was Dec .
ogsar y ^ keep ^ ^ up quick communica-
tion The particular
train which carried the mail to the:
g 0ll th from New York would not be
run were the appropriation withdrawn.
All the boards of trade in tho south,
he claimed, had petitioned for a con¬
tinuance of the appropriation.
Mr. Williams, of Mississippi, vigor¬
ously oppposed the appropriation. It
was no benefit to the people of the
south,be said. It went into the pockets
of a syndicate that resided partly in New
York, pnrtly in England and partly in
Germany. He denominated it as a
“job,” part of the scheme in which the
pnennatic tube people were interested.
The people who supported one, he
said, as a rule would support the oth¬
er. All these “jobs,” he declared,
should be defeated.
Mr. Little, of Arkansas, moved to
strike out the appropriation for special
mail facilities from New York to New
Orleans The motion was defeated,
41 to 90.
The motion to strike out the appro¬
priation for special mail facilities from
Kansas City, Mo., to Newton, Kan.,
was also defeated, 35 to 82.
BAY STATE REPUBLICANS
Select Delegates To Philadelphia Con¬
vention and Reaffirms Platform.
The Republicans of Massachusetts
met in Boston Thursday and elected
delegates and alternates to tho nation¬
al Republican convention at Philadel¬
phia.
The delegates at large, chosen by ac¬
clamation, were Senator Lodge, of Na-
hant; Congressman McCall, of Win¬
chester; William B. Plunkett, of
Adams, and Walter Clifford, of New
Bedford. The platform, adopted unani¬
mously, affirms adherence to the St.
Louis platform, congratulates the
country upon the rejection of free sil¬
ver coinage and establishment of the
gold standard.
HOWELL TRIAL COMES LATER.
Arraignment of Union Ticket Agent Is
Temporarily Postponed.
An Atlanta dispatch says: The trial
of Colonel Albert Howell, former
union ticket agent, will not follow
that of ex-Auditor T. J. Hunter im¬
mediately. The criminal court will be
adjourned for several weeks. At the
end of that time bond cases will be in
order and Colonel Howell may then be
tried.
ROOT EXPLAINS.
Informs Senate In Regard to Dual
Pay of Army Officers
In Cuba.
Secretary of War Boot sent to the
senate Wednesday in's reply to the
resolution of April 21 ns to whether
ofacers of tlie United States army in
Cuba or Porto Kico have received any
compensation for their services there
other than the compensation to which
they were entitled by law to receive as
salary and allowances; and if so, names
and rank of the officers and the amounts
received by them. The reply is as
follows:
“Pursuant to the orders of the sec.-
retarv of war, dated respectively March
1, 1699; Aprd 19, 1899, and May 9,
1899, copies of which are annexed
hereto, allowances have been paid four
officers of the army who have been re¬
quired to live in the city of Havana,
and to perform important civil fune-
tions in connection with the ndmiuis-
tratiou of the government of Cuba as
follows:
“To the military governor of Cuba,
at the rate of $7,500 per year,
“To the military governor of Ha¬
vana, at the rate of $5,009 per year.
“To the collector of customs for the
island of Cuba, at the rate of $1,800
per year.
“To the treasurer of the island of
Cuba, at the rate of $1,800 per year,
“These payments were in addition
to the salary and allowances which the
said officers were entitled as such to
receive out of the treasury of the
United States. I am Uot aware of any
other payments of the character de-
scribed in the resolution of any officers
in Cnba. I annex hereto a a report re¬
ceived some months since from the
headquarters division of Cuba showing
that none other have been made. The
payments have been made monthly
from the dates stated in said orders
until the present time. The precis*
dates of payment will appear in an
itemized statement of receipts and ex-
penditurea now in the course of prep-
sration under a previous resolution of
the senate.
Payments to the military governor
of Havana will cease with the termi-
nation of that office on May 1st, 1900.
The names and rank of the officers re-
ceiving the payments were, as military
governor of Cuba, Major General John
It. Brooke until the 13th day of D*-
cernber, 1899, and Major General
Leonard Wood. United States voiun-
teers, since that time; as military gov-
eruor of Havana, Brigadier General
William Ludlow; as collector of cus-
toms for Cuba, Major General Baker
M. Bliss; ns treasurer of the island of
Cuba, Major E. F. Ladd, United
States volunteers.
“No allowances have beeu made to
any officer in Porto Rico other than
the statutory salary and allowances
out of the treasury of the United
States.
“The payments specified were our
of the revenues of the island of Cuba,
on account of the government thereof,
and they were made on that accouut
for the reason that it was impossible
for the said officers to properly per-
form the necessary duties pertaining
to their positions without the expen-
diture of the full amount of such al-
lowances iu addition to their statutory
salaries and alio wances out of the
treasury of the United States.
The aggregate of the payments thus
ma de pr i 0 r to the first day of the pres¬
ent month was $17,441. The total re-
ceipts of the island of Cuba collected
by said officers during the period cov¬
ered by the aforesaid expenditure
therefrom amounted to $21,026,572 and
tho total disbursements under their
direction amounted to $19,280,512.
“Similar allowances to officers of the
army performing civil functions in
Mexico and California were March approved
by congress by the act of 3,
1819, and the act of February 3, 1853.
(A copy of the section of the said first
mentioned act is annexed hereto.)
“The said payments were author¬
ized by the president of the United
States upon t.ke oral advice of the at¬
torney general that the same were ir-
all respects lawful.
“Respectfully, Elihu Boot,
“Secretary of War.”
A TRIPLE HANGING.
Two White Men and Negro Executed
at ricninnville, Tenn.
John Watson and Bill Brown, both
white, and Sonuie Crain, colored,were
hanged Wednesday at McMinville,
Tenn., for murder.
Watson was convicted of having
shot his neighbor, James Hillis, from
ambush as the latter was entering his
own home near McMinville.
Bill Brown was charged with com¬
plicity in the murder of his wife,
Mary, near McMinville, May 5, 1888.
Brown made a confession implicating
his brother John.
Crain was a double murderer. He
was convicted of having helped kill
another negro in a fight over a game
of craps, and while serving a sentence
was confined iu jail with the Brown
brothers. While thus confined he
killed John Brown with a bed slat.
WILL BOYCOTT CELEBRATION.
Organized Lebor At Chicago Antago¬
nistic To Dewey Blowout.
The long-talked-of boycott of the
Dewey celebration in Chicago by or¬
ganized labor took form Thursday.
The executive committee of district
eight of the International Association
of Machinists issued an edict de-
daring the promoters of the celebra-
tion antagonistic to union labor and
ordering members of the union to take
no part in it.
CLARK LOSES
SENATE SEAT
---
According To Dcclsicn of
Elections Committee.
THEIR REPORT SUBMITTED
§ ena t e | s Asked Tl) Declare Montana
Man’s Seat Vacant and His Election
Thereto As Illegal. Nall and Void.
A Washington special says: Senator
Chandler, from tho senate committee
on privileges and elections, submitted
1° the senate Monday the report of
that committee in the case of Senator
Clark, of Montana. The report says:
“The finding of the committee is,
that the election to the senate of Wil¬
liam A. Clark, of Montana, is null aud
void on account of briberies, attempt¬
ed briberies and corrupt practices by
his agents, and of violation of the
laws of Montana defining aud punish¬
ing crimes against the elective fran¬
chise.”
The committee unanimously recom¬
mends the adoption by the senate of
the following resolution:
“Resolved, That William A. Clark
was not duly and legally elected to a
seat in the senate of the United States
by the legislature of the state of Mon¬
tana.”
The report concludes:
“The senate should, as a duty to it¬
self aud lo the country, demonstrate
by its action in this case that seats in
the United States senate procured as
Senator Clark’s has been procured
cannot be retained by the deliberate
judgment of the senate. The senate
also owes a duty to the people of Mon¬
tana, who, conscious of the bad re¬
pute into which the state has fallen by
reason of vast expenditures of money
in connection with its elections, mani¬
fested such a public sentiment that
the legislature of 1895 passed a stat¬
ute which, if obeyed, would have re¬
deemed the state from its bad name.
Montana has a right to expect a
prompt aud decisive remedy from the
action of the senate upon the report of
this committee.”
The findings are based on the fol¬
lowing admitted and undisputed facts
appearing in the testimony:
“1. The expenditures in the contest
of 1895 as testified to by Senator
Clark and Governor Hauser.
“2. The law of 1895 relative to
crimes against the elective franchise,
limiting the purpose and amount of
political expenditures in any election.
“3. Senator Clark has been con¬
stantly a candidate for office. The
organization of a committee in bis in-
'srest in the summer of 1898, to which
report says: ‘He gave unlimited
-itliorited to spend money which he
agreed to furnish; an estimate, how¬
ever, being made that at least $35,000
would be necessary to secure the state
convention and that $75,000 might be
needed to secure the state legislature.
“4. In the cauvass which ensued
the approximate expenditures admit¬
ted by the various members of his
wmmittee, and their assistants, were
as follows: By Charles W. Clark,
$25,000; by McDermott, $22,000; by
Davidson, agent, $22,300; by Well-
-jome, $25,000; by Corbett; $5,000;
by Whitmore, $4,000; by Cooper,
$2,900, mainly furnished by Charles
W. Clark, and the amount cf these
expenditures Senator Clark himself
paid to bis son. The advances and
payments made by Senator Clark to
his committee and agents, as admit¬
ted by him, amounted to about $139,-
U00.
"5. None of the members of bis
committee or their assistants made
the sworn returns required by iaw,
uor did Senator Clark himself make
any return. ”
Sections 6 to 15 deal with the busi¬
ness transactions of Mr. Clark and his
representatives with members of the
legislature.
Two Days For Canil Bill.
In the house Monday upon the re¬
quest of Mr. Hepburn, unanimous
consent was given to set a«ide May 1
and 2 for the consideration of the
Nicaragua canal bill.
BY ASSASSIN’S BULLET.
Farmer Shot From Ambush While
Plowing In Field.
Harris Bramlett, a well known citi¬
zen of Murray county, Ga., who was
accused of being an informer in recent
whitecap cases, was brutally shot
down while plowing in his field
Wednesday afternoon.
An unknown man, with a black,
beard, appeared from ambush and
fired both barrels of his gun, the con¬
tents of which lodged in the stomach
of Mr. Bramlett, killing him in¬
stantly.
Clark Minority Reports.
Wednesday the minority of the
members of the senate committee on
privileges and elections, consisting of
Senators Pettus and Harris, who do
not accept all the views of the majori¬
ty committee in the case of Senator
Clark, of Montana, presented their
dissenting report in the case.
No Imprisonment For Debt,
After a brief debate Wednesday the
senate agreed to the conference report
cm the Hawaiian civil government bill,
* be provisions relating to the right of
franchise and imprisonment for debt
having been amended.