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About The Rockdale banner. (Conyers, Ga.) 1888-1900 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 14, 1891)
WASHINGTON, D. C. NEWS NOTES AND ITEMS FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. Proceeding* of the Second Ses¬ sion of the 51st Congress. In the liou-eThursday (liehouse foreign affairs committee iiMrue'cd the chairman, Represent,iiv- Hut of Illinois, to report the diplomatic and consular appropria t,on lull. .Ih-lu)lcarr»s an aggregate appropriation of $and is ♦811,81)0 l.-tt than the appropriation for the current year No new ensu-ates - r, provided for in the Jill, and no fcalariefe of min inters or cotuuta are increased. Sixteen consulates, which have heretofore been paid in wore made salaried ofliecs. The aggregate fees of these six tcen consulates during the past provided year were for ♦41,870, and the salaries debate aggregate |84,000. Owing* to the upon the mb-My bill, Mr. Fithian, of Illinois, opposed' the measure, of subsidies. and in veighed against projected lh< system in favor of He then to argue free ship policy and the policy of abolish ing restrictive navigation laws, ns the best means of restoring the American flag to its proper place upon the sea. England result hud that adopted she that policy commanded and the was now fifty-two per cent, of the tonnage of the world. Mr. Wheeler, of Michigan, spoke briefly in favor of the bill. On Friday the house vent into com uiittee of the. v. hole, Mr. Allen, of Michi gan, in (.Inf chair, on the private calendar. Theilrst bill on the calendar was one re ferring to the court of claims, the claim of the Giti/en’s hank of Louisiana, grow ing out of the seizure ami covering into the Unjtcd Hiatus treasury of certain F. moneys of the I ank by General 11. Butler. The amount involved is $215,000. The measure gave rise to quite a long dis eir-sjon, it bring advocated by Messrs. Blanchard and Boatuer, of Louisina, and opposed by Messrs. Thomas, of Wisconsin, and Grosvenor. of (jffiio. The hour of 5 o’clock having arrived, the bill we nt over, the commit.tc rose, and the house took a recess lie until the 8 o’clock, consideration the evening of private session to for pension hi lb. The vice-president laid before the sen¬ ate on Saturday, the protest of twenty three members of the Idaho legislature nguinst, allowing Mr. Dill ois to take his seat. Referred to the committee on privi leges ai d elections. M r. Sherman, from the committee on foreign relations, re ported a bill to amend the act <>1 Februa Canal ry 1889, incorporating (authorizing the Nicaragua bonds Company the issue of guaranteed by the United States) placed on the calendar and with the ac company ing repoit ord red printed. 'The senate then Dimmed consideration of the finance bill (or of the nnli contraction bill, as Mr. Sherman termed it in his motion) and Mr. Morgan continued his speech begun by him Friday, in support ol the free coinage amendment. Mr. Morgan yielded the floor, temporarily, and Mr. Dawes presented the conference re port on the bill to curry out,, in part, the provisions of the net to divide the Sioux imhuii reservation and, and in response to a question by He Mr. Mini Edmunds, made an explanation. that the commis siou of which Gen. Crook was the hea t, promised , the Sioux Indians, , the in course V,. ,U ‘K°*'ation, to use its influence at W ashmgtsn for theft-dress of .certain grievances. 1 he commission subsequent y met forty representative .Sioux Indians roui the reservation where the present outbreak occurred, to see to it that those assurances were carried out. 1 he Indian committees of both houses were also pres ent, and all being together, the bill had been prepared to carry out exactly the •KMjranoes irs the Indians understood lem. 1 m conference report was agreed o, and i lr. Morgan resumed his speech, uring an intermission the pension ap propm mii bi iqffi the bill appropriate ing $800,000 for* public building at placed roMieme, \. I., were reported and outhe calendar. Mr. Morgan jom.ui laid aside ii and a * oc ock, and the bill was a message from the prtsi dent was rend, forwarding a memorial of ♦l*, 0 of Oklahoma for , ' 'L V 1 '(vi e people of that teri *"• TU«b,,u»drir.M,“A only* T, i. Srcles. £ Hum..... Monday and unimportant appropriation bills were acted on. Senator Quay got in*his much talked of election bill Monday which proved to be a twin to the Hoar lodge bill. It au thorizes the president to use troops to in sure fair elections when in his judgment troops may rff be necessary The bouse by a charged vote iG8 to ou^rules eighty dis* the committee from further consideration of the Doekerv res oiution, the asking lor au investigation of bankers alleged silver pool by which certain and members scooped a million. A heated debate preceded the vote notes. C :s 1N e a Ppropnation . bill i • i i f was U H °? * C , 10 u >aIur,!; I placed >l, »i 1 1 !i tIU | ""i ,rj arm ' appropriation ‘-V ' ,,H » biil n was then taken up in committee of tWhtfle * The secretary of state is in corr spoud ence with the Spanish minister iu regard to the alleged outrages perpetrated o the American missionaries in the Uaroiiu islands. L_. benator bili Stanford, providing on Friday, uuetd a for au extension of tae executive mansiouiu accordance with the plans suggested by Mrs. Harrison, at a cost not to exceed $950,000. The secretary of the treasury laid be fore the house Hat unlay morning a ree- ©mmcndalion for m appropriation in certain of 187.000 to put electric wiics public buildings now being constructed, t he building »t Atlanta and Augusta, Ga., are named in the list. The secretary of war has appointe i Gen. Charles W. Field to the place made v.'.cant in the war records office by the lecent death of Gen. Cadmus M. Wil cox. Gen. Field is a graduate of West Point, and was a distinguished major general under Robert E. l»ec in the army of Northern Virginia throughout the war. T(j( , followin ,, postmasters were ap ^ - t( . a f(jr Geor(fia ljy the president Vu(luesJu j. * j c . McCall, Bingen, De /.’ M . t . Buffington, Bowdre, jj;)JJ r „ U(jt J J{ D s luith , Candler, Hall ; S vV < Patterson. Demurest, „ county; j. Hargroves, , l)woy( j Wmc cuunty . fhe available cash mu plti-* oi t *e reas u-y, which was reduced to about ?o,UQb, 000 *-uriog the recent hmi-eial lluny b} die heavy piirehn.se ot 4 per cent bonds, ; has been steadily increasing since the 1st Instant, by reason of the large excess of receipts over expenditures, until it has now reached nearly $18,000,000. In speaking of this increase, a aprorrnneriL treasury official -aid 1i id ay, that the uc partment was once more in a position where it could again go into the market at.d buy 4 per cent, bonds if there was any urgent necessity for so doing, The house committee on appropriations, of the Friday, comp feted consideration legislative, executive and judicial appro- The priation bills for the next fiscal year. bill carries with it a total appropriation lesp 0 f $21, 059 , 146 , being $1,186,186 than than ihe estimate, and $208 411 less the nppr. priaii >u for salaries the current specifically year, The whole number of provided for in the bill is 10,597, bring 201 le s than the number estimated for and the* fifty nine less than is provided Ten for j„ act for the'current year. clerks to the civil service commission, w jth salaries aggregating $15,800, are provided for, this nice to take the place () f ten clerks with salaries aggregating $14,600. detailed to the commission from the several executive departments. This change was strongly recommended by p,,. ,.j v j] SL .,- V ice commission, FEARFUL WEATHER Which is Being- Experienced in European States. A London cablegram of Friday says: It is now the seventh week of the preva l en ce of frost throughout the United Kingdom, with no signs weather. of abatement du <,f the severity of tlic For ration of the frost period this is the greatest winter of the century, and in point of severity, exceeded the winters The of Thames 1818 im d 1814 alone it. below Richmond remains partiallv frozen "re aud is covered with ice flois, which impeding navigation. Numerous deaths } mve resulted from the extreme cold, several oi them at the very gates of the workhouses, where groups of poor peo pie were waiting for shelter, Midland newspapers declare that thous nmls of persons in that region arc in a condition of semi-starvation, many labor ers being compulsorily idle without fires or f 00< j. The m .yarn of cities, with the Q f ] oca i boards, are directing bread au or gan lzed distribution of and coal, lllH i arc starling relife kitchens; still they fail to reach most of the cases of distress, The coasts of Belgium, Holland and north Germany are blocked with ice. In Scheldt river, navigation is nearly at a standstill on account of ice. At the north German port of Cuxhavcn, twenty-nine steamships are ice bound, _.\n Antwerp 10,000 workmen have been thrown out. of employment, owing p, unusually severe weather. The misery caused among the poorer classes ineonse quence is widespread and intense. The use of dynamite is about to be tried to break the ice at Copenhagen, where 8CV cral steamships lie ice-bound, sixteen At Berlin the temperature is at degrees Fahrenheit, In the northern . ml -f G f Italy snow began to fall YVedne- day and did not cease till Friday. The inhabitants of that region are suffering lu . ut ffiy, such weather being entirely un known to them, and it is feared that immber s of people 1 have perished In the slorm • Dispatches from Vienna that say com nu inieation with points south of that city “ -ireatq u,e ".T r .lyl,»ndo» 1 U M railways ,r “ mS “ SNOW' IN SPAIN AND FRANCE. A telegram from Madrid reports heavy n ow * falls in aud sa >' stlla t £ om mi{ - n ! . ci ltl0n wllh u11 provinces of l Hpuiu . is dl l Rcu , ' t Vnsely lc also cold ^P weather 0 * 3 , the in . ^valence \aleucm, of wher* in¬ oran « e groves J‘»vc been swept by the suum ’ losses, A violent storm accompanied by hail ami SI,ow laud - ;lu<i extending a long distance iu th<5 is 18 reported from Algiers. I he 'eport nothing coupled such with the assurance that like severity of weather was ever known in that re.ion before. Advices from Paris say that the Seine ,s with ice near Rouen and that the Saone is frozen above Lyons. Tolc grams from Arras a fid Nimes sav that much suffering is being caused at these plaqes by the intensely cold weather, and that .a number of persons have been Kund fiozen to death. Till¬ total annua! income of the gam ing i >ies of Monte Carlo is about 20.000 0 0 francs, oriu the neighborhood of.$4, 000 , 000 . A roulette table shows an average ♦L2?>0. daily' profit of from $1,000 to and occasionally, whea n reckless piayer h is been putting down the maxi niinn, stakes, ihe table’s winnings will amount- to $15,000. Eight .of these ,a " les " er0 ia aclion Jlt Monte Carlo ‘broaghout the busiest part of last sea- ALLIANCE NOTES. NEWS OF THE ORDER FROM ALL SECTIONS. items of Interest to Alliance men Everywhere. THE DEMANDS AT OCAI-A. On ace-unt of the continued and per¬ sistent m isre present at ion.s«by the press in regard to the action of .he recent na¬ tional .meeting at O ala, with reference to the sub-trea-ury plan, it is deemed best to give the plain.facts in connection with that matter. During the evening of the sixtii day the committee on demands made the following report, as shown by the official minutes: Section 1. ^Ye demand the abolition of national banks, and that the government deposi¬ shall establish sub-treasuries, or tories in the several State- 1 , which sub¬ treasuries shall loan money to the people on approved security i t a low rate of in¬ terest, not to exceed two per cent, per annum: Provided, That real estate, non perishable farm products shall be con¬ sidered approved security: and. that the circulating medium be increased to at least $.50 per capita, keeping the volume equal to the demand. For this the following substitute* was adopted, to which Wade, of Tennessee, had his name withdrawn from this por¬ tion of the report: la. We demand the abolition of na¬ tional banks. b. We demand that the government shall establish sub-treasuries or Deposito¬ ries in the 'several States, which shall loan money direct to the people at a low rate of interest, not to exceed two per cent per annum, on non-perishable farm with products, and also upon real estate, of proper limit dious upon the quantity land and amount of money. * c. We demand that the amount of the circulating medium be speedily increased to not less than .$5!) per capita. The vote by States on the first proposi¬ tion was as follows: Ves. JSfo. Alabama............... ^ Aikansas Alliance...... C 1 Arkansas Union........ C 1 Indian Territory........ iC Virginia.. ............ West Virginia.......... New York ............ Kansas ................ Florida................ North Dakota........... South Dakota.;........ Kentucky.............. Pennsylvania, not voting. Michigan ... • .• • • W Louisiana ... Mississippi.. Indiana AC 1 .... 2 Illinois . .v.. Missouri .... tCr Georgia .... ^ North Carolina...... ^ South Carolina ..... 4^ Texas .............. ** Colorado, not voting Tennessee.......... 1 8 Maryland........... 2 California........... . 2 L. L. Polk, President 1 B. H. ( loner, Vicc-Pres.... 1 ,T. II. Turner, Secretary 1 C . W. Macunc, Chr. Ex 1 Jones, Judiciary Com... . Absent, A. Ward all............ 1 Tennessee, in voting 1 aye and 3 no. explained that they would have voted 4 aye on the sectionns.it came from the committee before it was amended. This would have made but seven votes agains; ihat portion of the report which contained the subtreasury clause, The balance of 4he demands were adopted unanimously, as follows: 2. That we demand that Congress shall pass such laws as shall effectually prevent the dealing in futures of all ag¬ ricultural and mechanical productions; preserving in a stringent system of proced¬ ure trials as shall secure the prompt conviction, and imposing such penalties as shall secure the most perfect compli¬ ance with the law. 8. We condemn the silver bill recently passed by Congress t and demand in lieu thereof the free and unlimited coinage of Ihy, 4. We demand the of laws prohibiting alien ownership passage that Congress ike action of land, and t prompt to de¬ vise some plan to obtain all lands now owned by aliens :yid foreign syndicates; and that all lands now held by railroads aud other corporations in excess of such as is actually used and heeded by them be reclaimed by the government, and held for actual settlers only. "4 5. Believing in the doctrine of iqual rights to all and spec al privileges to none, we demand that- our national legis¬ lation shall be so framed in the future as not to buitd up one industry at the ex¬ pense of another; aud we further- de¬ mand a removal of the existing heavy tariff tax from the necessities of life that the poor of our land must-have; we fur¬ ther demand a just and equitable system of graduated tax on incomes; we be¬ lieve lhat the money of the country' should be kept as nluch as possible in the hands of the people, aud hence we demand that ail national auu St.te r. v enues shall be limited to the necessary expenses‘of the government economic !, P. V ai ‘d honestly administered. (i - M e demand the most rigid, honest and just State and national governmental control and supervision of the means of public communication and transporta Uon, and if this control and supervision do s not remove the abuse nowexistinc "C demand the government ownership of such means of communication and trans portation. # 7. We demand that Congress t>f the Ui,i i (1 Staffs gu'<mt* an fimen tment to licconsfiiuti.il providing for the e'ec ;iu,i of Unite i St.-i es Svmuors bjr direct vi t • of the pe* ]il ■ of each State. burned latilv after th>- a loytioa of the Mr. following Davie, • 1' resoiuti,ei, Ke tu;.ky, which in-yo iluce.i me with only vva * adopt-it !>v a rising vote four membt-s voting againstffif. Whereas, there is now a bill known as the sun-treasury bijl iti .the'hands of the , va \ s and means committee of the house of * representatives which should have i,<-e i reported and acted upon at the last session, and which if enacted into law would brinst the finmcial relief so much needed by all classes and industries; Therefore, be it. Resolved, that this national conven¬ tion of ihe Farmers’ Alliance and Indus¬ trial Union do most respectfully enacted and earu- into esth ask that said bill be Imv as soon as possible, or some other measure that will carry out these princi¬ ples and meet the necessities of the toil¬ ing masses. After a whole year of ridicule, false ar¬ gument and misrepresentation, in a con volition representing twenty-nine States, bu,t seven votes could be found against solidly it and only one Side, Illinois, voting in opposition. Even o e third of.the dele¬ gation from Missouri, the home of the most unfair, ufsjust and misleading oppo sifion, voted for the proposition. It was a complete victory fpr the support¬ ers of the subrtmjsury plan, and demon¬ strated that it or something better wouk be demanded a ad insisted upon by th intelligent farmers of til's country. TOPICS OF TRADE. Dun & Co.’s Business Review for the Past Week. R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: The year opens with the ex¬ pected improvemeqf in the money market, and in collections resulting from annual disbursements, which have been larger than usual. The hopeful feeling in most branches of trade continues also, and tlic railroad outlook is improved.. The legis¬ lative prospect is regarded by many with apprehension, and the situation in the iron and cotton industries is not satisfac¬ tory. Prices of some products in. both have been further reduced and many works have stopped for a time. The cur¬ tailment of credits, which the monetary uncertainly causes, is, therefore, severely busi¬ felt in these as in other branches of ness. It is becoming clearer every day that one great obstacle to prosperity is a fear that the debasement of the dollar may produce violent contractions, the withdrawal of foreign investments, a col¬ lapse of credits and disaster which will be felt in every branch of trade and industry. the shrinkage of In cotton manufacture credits has severely strained many con¬ cerns, and prices of goods have been low, but further reductions have been made during the past week in bleached cotton. Reports of trade from different cities lire sitill much influenced by reviews of last year’s great size, but generally indicates a large volume of traffic in progress for the season, with marked improvement since the monetary pressure abated. At Philadelphia, retail the leather and shoe trades are dull, and purchases arj confined to evening up sizes. Wool is in little demand. Some uneasiness is seen regard¬ ing obligations in tobacco, but better col¬ lections in paints. Higher cotton pro¬ duces greater activity throughout the South. Sugar and rice receipts at New Orleans are good. The money markets throughout the country are less stringent, and reports of collections are more favor¬ able. Speculative operations continue wholesomely inactive. The foreign trade continues favorable, exports showing a large gain over last year, while there is more increase in imports. The week’s failures number 375; for the correspond¬ ing week of last year the failures weTe 384. TO CULTIVATE RAMIE. Plans on Foot to Grow the Plant in Texas. A Galveston dispatch of Sunday says: Following the organization of a* stocks company to utilize the lands adjacent to Galveston for the culture of ramie and other fibrous plants, u meeting has been held and a committee selected to formu¬ late a prospectus of the enterprise, which was done later. Four parties have each donated 100 acres of land adapted to the purpose, between Galveston and Houston. Subscriptions to the stock will be taken for small amounts, thus making interest in the entorpri-c include a large number of people of the city. About $7,500 will bethe amount required to meet tha ex¬ penditures of the first year, and will cover the cost of machinery for decorti ing. labor and all the expenses incident to the undertaking for thirty acres of land. The demand for this material is unlimited. Experiments with the ramie plant in Texas prove the ability of the soil for its cultivation. A TEXAS CYL0NE Which Left Death and Desola¬ tion in its Wake. At 3 o'clock Thursday afternoon a cy¬ clone passed about three miles of this town, its carrying death and destruction in and path. It was 100 yards in breadth, demolished everything it struck. Several houses were blown down, and an iufant was killed and four adults se¬ riously, if not mortally, wouu ’ed John Schmidt was blown over a barb woe fence. .He seized the wire c,< he passed, and his hand was almost torn efff. II«usehold goods were scattered about for miles, search and the loss is great. A furthei may reveal many more dead bod¬ ies, quesV but night comiug on put an end lo the of the rescuers. NEWS AND NOTES CONDENSED FROM TELEGRAPH AND CABLE. Epitome of Incidents that Hap pen from Day to Day. ! The severe weather in England is caw ing deep distress among the classes of people. The failure of E. Hornbosthe, was announced on the Stock Exchangi at New York, Monday. . The long strike in the shoe tories aj Rochester has ended, The cm ployecs are returning to w'ork. A gang of five safe blowers was by the police of Chicago Saturday One of the gang is an old professional. The advisory board of railroad dents has decided upon an agreement the association, and have elected officer The picture “The Angelus,” that ■been on exhibition iu this country some time, was shipped to Havre day morning. Judge Pratt, in New York, v„ cated the order appointing Saturday, a for the sugar trust and that the compauy be handed over to tb. reorganization commitfex A cablegram cf Monday from Paris, says: Though only 141,000,000 were required by the terms of the loan, the enormous.sum of 2,340,000,OP francs was deposited by subscriptions. A London dispatch of Monday sap Baron Hirsh is negotiating for an sive Jewish settlement in Palestine for benefit of-several thousand Jews no« being driven by persecution from Russia William C. Jillsoti owner and bus; ness manager of the Hope River Warf Company; at Willimantic Conn., In closed the mill. An assignment is/pi dieted in a few days with heavy J inbil itiis. A dispatch McCarrell, from Clearfield, Smith Pa., sap-. S. J. M. A. O, and W. | E. Wallace, assignees of W. A. Wallaoi. filed their bond Saturday morning. Judge *Tlfe Furst, of Centre count's, approve: ; it. bond is for $1,000,000. J. VY W r riglcy, assignee of Judge Kribbs, Wul lace’s son-in-law, also filed his bond it the sum of $120,000. It was approve*; by Judge Furst. A cablegram from Cork, says: Tin state of destitution into which the poor people of some portions judged by of Ireland ar>* plunged, can representatives bo the fact that Saturday the in of over 100 families living Cioyne district, waited upon the board of guardians aud ear nestly begged for assistance. They stated that for some time past they had been starving and living almost entirely upon turnips. The bureau of American republics of the is informed that since the passage McKinley bill, which places a heavy dutv on silver-bearing lead ores, formerly brought from Mexico to the United Stat™ for reduction, a company has been estab lished for the erection of large smelting works at San Luis Potosi, with a capita o‘f $4,000,000. The capital is mostly furc ished by a New York syndicate, and thf company is organized undee the laws of New Jersey. ■ The steamer State of Nevada, of tin State line, which arrived in New York di Thursday, brought to port the officers and crew of the British steamer Pollux. The State of Nevada fell iu with th* Pollux on the 29tn of December, in lati tude 54.14, longitude 21.15, in a helpless condition, and took her officers and crew aboard at the request of Captaift Whitson, in of the Pollux. The Pollux was » sinking condition, her rudder gone, am; she was leaking so badly that it was only a question of a few hours before she would go down. A Berlin dispatch of Sunday hospitals siys Reports received from German are favorable to the Koch remedy. Dr. Koenigshafer, of Stuttgart, has applied the lymph with success in the treatment of diseases of the eyelids and cornea, Professor Z'emseen, of Munich, declare* by the use of the lymph he has ef fected the complete cure of three patients thirty in the early stage of phthisis, and patients suffering from phthisis in Rome hospitals, who are undergoing the Koch treatment, arc reported to be progressing favorably. THE INDIAN census; The Census Bureau’s Latest Bul¬ letin of Indian Statistics. The census bureau on Friday .ssuea a bulletin giiimr the population aud other information, of the various In 'ian tribes. exclu ive of Alaska. The bulletin shows the total Indian population of the United States to be 244,704, which is made up as follows: On reservations or at school under control of the Indian office— net taxed—130,254; Indians under Indian office aud self-supporting are as follows. In the Indian Territory, 25,357 are Chero kees, 3,464 Chieasaws; 9 996 Choc taws, 9,291 Creeks and 2,539 Sem noles, There are also about 14,247 coloreu peop and members e (mixed of Indian the above blood), tribt living _ s. w*j‘ T he civilize _ total population Of the five tribes iq the efore, 64,871; Peublos, o* New Mexico, 8,278; Six Nations and b*. Regis, of New York, 5.304; «Easteu Cherokees of North Carolina, 3,885; i u dians (98 per cent of whom are m t o res- rvatiuns) taxed and self-susjaininfe popi%‘ ,Ioa citizens counted as general Verflon barrai j 32,567. Ap <ehes at Mt. - (pris -ners) 384, Indians in state or ttJ r torial prisons 184. Total, 114,473. makes a total population of the cou . > including Alaska estimated at 3i.t v • ““ '
