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THE 54 TH CONGRESS.
ROUTINE OF HOUSE AND SENATE
BRIEFLY CHRONICLED.
Summary of Bills and Resolutions
Presented and Acted Upon.
TH a HOUSE.
The galleries of the house were well
filled Friday in anticipation of a re¬
newal of the Cuban debate in connec¬
tion with the presentation of the con¬
ference report on the Cuban resolu¬
tions, but the attendance on the floor
was smaller than usual, Some pre
liminary routine business was trans¬
acted. Mr. Murphy (rep., Ill.) secured
unanimous consent for the consilera
tion of a bill to authorize the con¬
struction of a third bridge across the
Mississippi river at St. Louis.
Mr. Hepburn, chairman of the com¬
mittee on commerce, opposed the bill
on the ground that a third bridge
within a distance of two miles would
greatly impede navigation at St. Louis.
Mr. Murphy and Mr. Joy urged the
passage of the bill because of the ex¬
cessive tolls charged by the present
bridge company. Mr. Hepburn main¬
tained that congress had power to pre¬
vent the extortion complained of. The
bill was passed.
At 2:20 p. m. Mr. Hitt moved the
adoption of the conference report ad¬ on
the Cuban resolutions and spoke in
vocacy thereof. *
In the house, at Saturday’s session,
Mr. Hitt, of Illinois, called up the
conference report on the Cuban reso¬
lutions, and Mr. Adams, republican, of
Pennsylvania, one of the members of
the committee, took the floor. He
devoted his opening remarks to a con¬
sideration of the statement made Fri¬
day that sentiment had changed with
respect to recognizing the belligerency
of the Cubans since the passage of the
original resolutions in the house.
He denied this. Sentiment on this
subject, he said, had not changed
either in congress or among the Amer¬
ican people, and the only members of
the senate who opposed recognition
now were those who objected when the
pending resolutions were before that
body. He deprecated the attempt to
create a race prejudice against Cubans,
and asserted that all the leaders, ex¬
cepting Maceo, were whites and not
negroes and mulattos, as has been re¬
ported. republican, of Massa¬
Mr. Gillette,
chusetts, opposed the resolutions. He
admitted that the overwhelming sen¬
timent of the house as manifested by
the vote of several weeks ago, proba¬
bly represented public opinion. But
this matter should not be decided by
public opinion, for the reason that
public opinion was not the law and
right of the case, but should be consid¬
ered only as an expression of sympathy
with the Cubans.
When Mr. Gillette had concluded,
an effort was made by Mr. Hitt to se¬
cure an agreement to close debate, and
take a vote at 4 o’clock, but a number
desired to speak, and it was finally ar¬
ranged to debate the report the rest
of the day, including a night session,
and take vote on Monday immmediate
ly after the reading of the journal.
The debate was interrupted near the
close of tho session by Mr. Bartlett,
democrat, of New Yark, under a
privileged question, who made an ex¬
planation of his connection with the
now famous circular which formed the
subject of an acrimonious colloquy be¬
tween Messrs. Gibson, republican, of
Tennessee, and Sulzer, democrat, of
New York, in the course of the
debate on the Bayard resolutions
several weeks ago. From this it
appeared that the copy of tho cir¬
cular which Mr. Sulzer exhibited
had beou given to Mr. Bartlett from
the printer in whose office it had been
printed. He brought into the house,
he said, and it had been passed from
hand to hand until it reached the gen¬
tleman from New York, Sulzer. Mr.
Bartlett disclaimed auy connection
with the use of the circular made by
Mr. Sulzer, which was without his
knowledge or consent. Mr. Bartlett’s
Mr. Gibson accepted
disclaimer and withdrew any implica¬
tion upon that gentleman’s connection
with the incident which reflected upon
him in any way.
The house at 5 p. in. took a recess
until 8 p. m.
There were but six members present
when the house met at night to con¬
sider further the conference report on
the Cuban resolutions. Mr. McCall,
of Massachusetts, presided. The
public galleries were well filled. Mr.
Dockery, democrat, of Missouri, was
the first speaker. He was in hearty
accord with the resolutions. He felt
that he voiced the unanimous senti
ment of his people when he wished the
Cubans Godspeed in their efforts to
secure freedom.
Mr. Daniels, republican, of New
York, objected strongly to the second
resolution, although believing that the
first resolution w as proper enough. He
thought the two should be divided, and
if not, be believed that the house
should reject them.
Mr. Baker, populist, of Kansas, as¬
serted that the Anglo-Saxon race would
not stand what the Cubans stood. He
recited wrongs they have suffered at
the hands of Spain and said he would
be glad to vote for a resolution recog
mzing their independence.
Mr. Mahon, republican, from Penn
slyvania, evoked a burst of loud ap
plause from the galleries in his denun
ciation of the cruelties practiced by
the Spaniards against the Cubans.
Mr. Otey, democrat, of Virginia,
told a number of humorous stories
which created a great deal of laughter
in the galleries and on the floor. He
sympathized with the rebels—he was
one himself, he said. The United
States being fre *3 wishes to see every
other country free.
“Wo have a right to express our
opinion about this matter and Spain
canuot object. We express our opm
ion about everything,” said he. We
did it recently about Mr. Bayard, but
he did not resign. We shall do it
about Cuba and Spain will not get
mad, nor will Cuba either.’
The bouse passed the senate concur
rent Cuban resolutions Monday by a
vote of 244 to 27. The result of the
vote was receieed with rousing enthu
siasm on the floor and in the galleries
As soon as the tumult had BubBided
Mr. Hooker (Rep. N. Y.) chairman of
the river and harbor committee moved
to suspend the rules and pass the river
and harbor bill. He asked that the
reading of the bill be dispened with,
but Mr, Richardson (Dem. Tenn.) ob¬
jected to passing a bill carrying mill¬
ions of dollars without the formality
of reading it. The bill was passed,
however, by a rising vote of 216 to 40,
the opposition not being strong enough
to secure a yea and nay vote.
Before Chairman Hitt demanded the
regular order Mr. Wadsworth, chair¬
man of the committee on agriculture,
presented for the information of the
house a letter from the secretarv of
agriculture, notifying him that in def¬
erence to what seemed the unanimous
desire of the house of representatives,
he had telegraphed accepting the prop¬
osition to put the seeds to be distrib¬
uted by congressmen into packages of
five instead of 15 packets (making
2,025,000 packages instead of 675,000).
The members expressed their gratifica¬
tion by applauding the announcement.
THE SENATE.
Many of the senators who have been
prominent of late in the affairs of their
states were back in tho senate Monday,
including Senators Chandler, of New
Hampshire, Harris, of Tennessee,
Lindsay, of Kentucky, Palmer, of Ill¬
inois, and Thurston, of Nebraska.
Among the bills favorably reported
was one to prevent wholesale divorces
in the territories by requiring one
year’s residence before application for
divorce.
Mr. Call (Dem., Fla.) made an in¬
effectual effort to take up the Cuban
resolution offered by him several days
ago, proposing the immediate use of
the United States navy to protect
American citizens in Cuba and to pre¬
vent barbarities, but Mr. Allison in¬
sisting that the appropriation bills
were of supreme importance and must
be kept to the front. Mr. Call gave
notice that he would move to take up
his Cuban resolution Tuesday. In¬
quiries by Mr. Hale (Rep., Me.) as to
the parliamentry status of the resolu¬
tions indicated that Mr. Call would
meet with opposition returning to the
Cuban subject.
The postoffice appropriation bill
was then taken up, the pending ques¬
tion being that of consolidating coun¬
try and suburban postoffices as ad¬
juncts to city or metropolitan districts.
In the senate Tuesday Mr. Teller
Presented a large number of petitions
from branches of the American Feder¬
ation of Labor from various states
asking for the restoration of the free
coinage of silver and expressing the
opinion that such a course would pro¬
mote prosperity. Mr. Butler (Pop.,
N. C.) introduced a joint resolution
providing for an amendment of the
constitution to limit the veto power of
the president so as to make it compe¬
tent for the two houses to pass bills
over a veto by a majority vote. Speak¬
ing of the resolution, he said that the
idea of requiring a two-thirds vote was
due to the fact that when the constitu¬
tion was adopted the American people
were not far removed from the English
ideas. In his opinion the power vested
in the president was too great and
should bo limited.
During the debate on the postoffice bill
Mr. Wolcott, republican, of Colorado,
made an earnest civil service speech,in
which with Senator he said Gorman that he that did the uot^jigree
corner
grocery was the corner stone of the
republic. He did agree with that
senator, however, in denouncing the
habit of cabinet officers making speech¬
es all over the country. He himself
had had a great mind to call the atten
tion of the country to that abuse on
the part of the cabinet officials of the
present administration. The last cab
inet officer he had heard of doing it
was “barn-stalking down in Georgia
in favor of gold monometallism.” He
should have called attention to it earlier
had it not beeh for the fact that that
official was better away than at Wash¬
ington, so far as his public duties were
concerned and his performance of
them.”
Mr. AlleD, in charge of the bill, after
remarking that the question of civil
service reform had nothing more to do
with the pending question than it had
to do with the war in Cuba, moved to
lay Mr. Wolcott’s amendment on the
table. The motion was agreed to, and
the amendment was laid on the table—
yeas 48, nays 7.
Mr. Pasco offered an amendment
that nothing in the bill should author
j Z e the establishment or maintenance
D f any station, sub-station, or branch
postoffice, beyond the limits of any
city or town, 25.
This was adopted—yeas 36, nays
The committee amendment appro
priating $80,000 as additional corn
pensation to the Oceanic Steamship
Company for ocean mail service from
Urancisco to New Zealand and
New South Wales was agreed to—yeas
32> 2 1. And the item of $196,
£ qj . uecegsar y a nd special mail fa
c jjijj eg on trunk lines from Boston to
an( j Orleans by way of
jj ew ^orkand Washington was retained
^ Mr. Vilas’ motion to
gtrike it out having been voted down—
Teag 15> 89
“ amendm fc requiring the
Aq nt ex¬
diture of $50 ,000 for experiments
- n rursd f ree delivery was offered by
m Bat] populigt> of Nort h Caro
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was t^ en passed and th*.
geuate at 5 ;55 adjourned until Wed
,
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
The Industrial Situation as Reported
for the Past Week.
The reports of industrial and busi¬
ness affairs in all parts of the southern
states for the past week indicates that
the iron industry continues to be very
active. Production is fully maintain¬
ed and no accumulation of stocks is
reported. Recent combinations among
iron and steel producers have much
strengthened the market for southern
pig iron. The building of steel mills
in the Birmingham district is now. as¬
sured, adding greatly to the prosperity
of the region. Prices are still irregu¬
lar, but stronger than last week, al¬
though sales have been very heavy.
Southern cotton mills report that
business is active with them, but that
prices are low and there is no early
probability of an advance, especially
as cotton is weak and in large supply.
The new crop is to be a very large
one, judging from the acreage, the ex¬
tra amount of fertilizers and the care
given to its planting. All the south¬
ern cotton mills are running on full
time, and each week adds to their
number. For the past week is re¬
ported the organization at Spartan¬
burg, S. 0., of the Arkwright Cotton
mills, with $ 200,000 capital, of mills,
each with $100,000 capital, at Allen¬
dale and Orange C. H., S. C., of a cot¬
ton mill at Harmony Grove, Ga., and
a knitting mill at Lynchburg, Va.
The lumber market is active and is
steadily improving in all parts of the
south. The demand for both home
and export business is increasing at
Atlantic coast and gulf ports, and
shipments by rail to interior points
have much increased, with more rea¬
sonable freight rates and larger sup¬
plies of rolling stock. Grain ship¬
ments through southern ports are aid¬
ing the lumber trade by furnishing re¬
turn freights. Southern lumber, of
all kinds, is by this means introduced
into new territory, and once intro¬
duced it makes a market for itself.
General business is good in all parts
of the south. Weather conditions
are favorable and spring trade is sat¬
isfactory. Among important new in¬
dustries organized or incorporated
during the week were the Texas Yel¬
low Pine Lumber company, of War¬
ren, Tex., capital $50,000, the Stew¬
art Mining company, of Texarkana,
Ark., also with the same capital, and
the Columbia Dessicating company,
of New Orleans, La., capital $50,000.
The Fayetteville Wagon and Lumber
company, of Fayetteville, Ark., cap¬
ital $40,000, the Villegas Tanning
company, of Laredo, Tex., capital
$30,000, and the Bee Confectionery
company, of San Antonio, Tex., cap¬
ital $ 10 , 000 , have also been organized
during the week.
There was also reported brick works
at Centerville, Miss., bicycle works at
Savannnh, Ga.; an electrical plant at
Gallatin, Tenn., a flouring mill at
Pineville, Ky., and foundries and ma¬
chine shops at New Orleans, La., and
Dallas, Tex. The new woodworking
plants of the week include bent wood¬
works at Wickliffe, Ivy., a heading
factory at Johnson City, Tenn., and a
planing mill at Columbus, Ga. En¬
largements of industrial plants as re¬
ported include a cotton mill at Knox¬
ville, Tenn., a carriage factory at
Barnesville, Ga., a chair factory at
Columbus, Ga.
The new buildings of the week in¬
clude a $40,000 church at Monroe, La.,
and one costing $ 10,000 at Owenton,
Ky., a $20,000 court house at Lexing¬
ton, Ky., and a $10,000 residence at
Petersburg, Va.—Tradesman, (Chatta¬
nooga, Tenn.)
Missouri Conventions.
Democratic conventions were held
Saturday iD seventeen Missouri coun¬
ties to elect delegates to the state con¬
vention. Every convention but that
of Warren county passed free coinage
resolutions. The majority of them
instructed their delegates to vote for
Governor Stone, Senators Vest and
Cockrell and ex-Congressman Bland
for delegates at large. **
CARLISLE DECLINLS
TO PARTICIPATE IX THE CON¬
TEST EOR NOMINATION.
The Secretary Writes a Letter to
That Effect.
Secretary Carlisle has given out the
following letter to Chairman Long, of
the democratic state committee of
Kentucky, declining to enter the con¬
test for the democratic nomination for
the presidency:
“Treasury Department, Office of the
Secretary, Washington, D. C., April
4, 1896.—Charles B. Long, Chairman
Democratic State Central Committee,
Louisville, Ky.—My Dear Sir: Yonr
favor of March 30th, in which you say
in substance that many of my friends
in Kentucky and elsewhere desire me
to become a candidate before the ap¬
proaching national democratic conven¬
tion for nomination to the office of
president and requesting me to give
‘some authoritative or definite expres¬
sion’ upon the subject, was duly re¬
ceived and has been maturely consid¬
ered.
Many communications upon the
same subject and of similar import
have been received from my friends in
different parts of the country, and
while very grateful for these numerous
expressions of confidence and esteem
on the part of my democratic fellow
citizens, I have not been able to reach
the conclusion that the existing condi¬
tions require me to comply with their
request by authorizing them to an¬
nounce me as a candidate for the pres¬
idential nomination.
“While I feel a profound interest in
the welfare of my party, I am much
more concerned about its declaration
of principles than in its selection of
candidates, because, in my opinion, its
failure or success at the election, as
well as its capacity for useful service
to the country in the future depends
upon the position it takes or omits to
take upon the public questions now en¬
gaging the attention of the people, and
especially the questions affecting the
monetary system of the country and
the character and amount of taxation
to be imposed upon her citi¬
zens. Its position upon this and other
subjects having been agreed upon and
clearly and distinctly announced, the
convention ought to have no difficulty
in selecting an acceptable candidate
who will fairly represent its views;
and, in order that its deliberations
may be embarrassed as little as possi¬
ble by tht contention of rival aspirants
and their friends, I think my duty to
the party will be best performed by
declining to participate in a contest
for the nomination.
“The obligations assumed when I
accepted my present official position
require me to devote my entire time
and attention to the public interests
committed to my charge, and I shall
continue to discharge the duties im¬
posed upon me to the best of my abil¬
ity and in snch a manner as will in my
judgment most certainly promote the
true interests of the country; and if
in the opinion of my fellow democrats
in Kentucky my service entitled me to
their commendation and approval I
would regard their indorsement of my
public course as an ample reward for
the little I have been able to accom¬
plish in behalf of honest administra¬
tion and a sound financial policy.
With many thanks for your kind let¬
ter, I am very truly yours,
J. G. Carlisle.”
CONTRABAND LIQUOR.
Constables Make a Big Seizure in
South Carolina.
A Charleston special says: Officers
Toales, Brabham and Peterman, of the
dispensary service, made a raid Satur¬
day night on Long island, about six
miles from the city, and found 1,000
gallons of liquor for their trouble.
This haul is the biggest yet made and
the value of the contraband liquor can
be placed at leaet at $ 2 , 000 .
The officers received a tip in advance
and got every drop of the immense
stock, although it was hidden in email
quantities all over the island.
The invading officers went down the
harbor in two row boats and state that
they knew that their game would be
big. The officers value the liquor at
$2,500. While the stuff was being
loaded into the boats a well-known
gentleman of the city, who was form¬
erly in the liquor business, came up in
a boat, but had nothing to say. It is
believed that the liquor was landed on
the island at night and was to have
been brought in small quantities to the
city. The 1,000 gallons was in kegs
and half-barrels and there were fifteen
cases of flasks. The entire treasure
will be shipped to Columbia. Long
island is the island of which Elgar
Allen Poe wrote in the story of “The
Gold Bug” and has oniv one family
living on it.
Fifteen Lives Were Lost.
Further particulars received from
the flooded territory in Clay and
Owsley counties, Tennessee, show that
it may be several days before the com¬
plete list of the persons drowned in
Jlondsy’s cloudburst can be given.
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