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About The Rockdale banner. (Conyers, Ga.) 1888-1900 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 20, 1898)
GOV. TAYLOR ENTERS RACE. Senatorial Fight in Tennessee Is On In Earnest, TURLEY’S FRIENDS ANGRY. It Was Thought That the Gov¬ ernor Would Hold Off. A Nashville, Tenn., special says: The contest for the United States sen atorship is overshadowing the other .questions that will come before the general assembly. Governor Taylor lias at last yielded to the solicitation of friends who have been endeavoring to drag him into the senatorial race, and Saturday after¬ noon announced openly that he was a candidate. His friends had already opened headquarters. Governor Before his announcement, Taylor sent a messenger to Senator Turley, asking him that he he released from the obligation to not run against him. Senator Turley replied that the governor was under no obligation to him but was his own free agent. An effort was made to have Senator Turley give a written statement that he, Turley, had voluntarily consented that Taylor should run, but Senator Turley declined to do so, stating that it would ho untrue. He would neither give nor withhold his consent. The Turley men are indignant at Taylor’s candidacy. Senator Turley’s friends still talk with confidence and Mr.McMillin says he sees no change in the situation, as he realized from the start that Taylor was a candidate and based his cam¬ paign plans on this fact. BEN. BUTTERWORTH DIES. ’Well-Known Government Official Suc¬ cumbs to Pneumonia. Han. Ben Butter worth, who has been ill at the Piney Woods hotel, Thomasville, for some weeks, died at 3 o’clock Sunday afternoon. The end come peacefully and iu his dying hour he was surrounded by his wife and children. Benjamin Butterworth was what is known as a “birthright Quaker.” Those who knew him best during his busy career are unanimous in saying of him “his daily life was an exem¬ plary of the tenets of that good old faith as that of any public official could be.” He was horn in Warren county, Ohio October 22, 1837, senate and was a member of the stat.eof Ohio from War¬ ren and Butler counties in 1873-’74; was elected from the first Ohio dis¬ trict to the forty-seventh, forth-ninth and fiftieth congresses and was re¬ elected to the fifty-first congress as a republican. During the war he attained the rank of major in an Ohio regiment, lie was commissioner of patents first during the administration of Garfield mid Arthur and his record made then and subsequently had great weight with President McKinley in selecting him for that position. He was made secretary ol the World’s fair project early in the in¬ ception of that great, enterprise at Chicago during the early nineties and worked along in that capacity with honor to himself and profit to the company until its close. In Washington City, no less than in his native state, Major Butterworth enjoyed a wide acquaintance and great popularity, and the news of liis death, while by no means unexpected, caused general sorrow there. No public man probably had a larger circle of per¬ sonal friends at the capital. He con¬ tracted hiN fatal illness while on the stump in the late Ohio campaign. EXPORTS FOR LAST MONTH. Figures For December Given By Bu¬ reau of Statistics. The monthly statement of the ex¬ ports aud imports issued by the bu¬ reau of statistics at Washington shows that the exports of domestio merchan¬ dise for December last amounted to $123,181,743, an increase as compared with December, 1896, of over $7,000, 000. For the twelve months the in¬ crease was over $90,000,000. The imports of merchandise during Decem¬ ber last amounted to $51,514,783, of w hich $24,184,588 was free of duty. Don't forget that we are always pleased to contract for advertise¬ ments or enter subscriptions to our paper. We would like to hear from YOU. Americans Imprisoned In riexico. Advices from Mexico City state that four Americans have been arrested and are rigorously incommunicado, being suspected of complicity in robberies of great magnitude. Gold and Sliver Standard. Representative Bland, of Missouri, introduced a free coinage bill iu con gross silver Thursday. It makes gold and the standard and declares all rules discriminating against the legal tender of such coinage unlawful. GROWTH OF THE SOUTH. Various New Industries Established the Past Week. Southern correspondents report en¬ couraging prospects in all lines of trade for the new year. A feature of the week is the increased number of new industrial enterprises, prominent among them being the organization of companies with large capital to develop valuable water power in Geor¬ gia and Tennessee. Furnace operators in the south re¬ port inquiries for iron more numerous than for a long time and orders are booked ahead for several months. Alabama iron shows especial activity, and among the large orders being filled at Birmingham is one for 10,000 tons of iron from Japanese brokers. - The Clifton Iron Co.’s furnace at Ironaton will be put in blast Feb. 1, and the No. 3 furnace of the Sheffield Coal, Iron and Steel Co. will be blown in about Feb. 10. The Rome, Ga., Fur¬ nace Co. has received an order for 6,000 tons of high grade product, which will keep the furnace busy nearly four months. Consumers of steel billets are ask¬ ing for figures covering the year, but the mills are not selling that way. The demand for billets, pipe and structural material is havy and prices are stiffening. Heavy orders are booked from the railroads for spring and summer delivery. The coal trade in the mining dis¬ tricts of the south is still active. Coal is moving out rapidly, taxing the out¬ put of the mines at many points and some opferators are compelled to run extra time to supply the demand. Among the most prominent new in¬ dustries reported for the week are the following: The American Dynamo Engine and Motor Lamp Co., capital $150,000, Memphis, Tenn:; a 100-bar¬ rel flouring mill at Browinvood, Tex.; furnace works to cost $100,000 at At¬ lanta, Ga.; the Pyrites Mining Co., capital $250,000, at Alexandria, Ya.; the Mooseland & Kootenai Mining Co., capital $10,000, at Louisville, Ky.; the Isbell Corundum Co., capital $250,000, Shooting Creek, N. C.; the Water Gas Heating Co., capital $25,000, Norfolk, Ya.; the Atlanta (Ga.) Water Power Co., to represent a probable invest¬ ment of $1,000,000, and the Muscle Shoals Power Co., Sheffield, Ala., to erect a $500,000 plant. A hosiery mill be erected at Cuero, Tex.; the Enterprise Manufacturing Co., capital $10,000, has been char¬ tered at Mobile, Ala., and the Harlow Lumber Co., capital $15,000, at Har low, Ark. A $25,000 sash and door mill will be established at Yaldosta, Ga., and other woodworking plants at Bolling r.nd Mobile, Ala.; Cordele, Ga.; Nash¬ ville, Tenn.; Cleveland, Tex., and Norfolk, Ya.—Tradesman, (Chattanoo¬ ga, Tenn.) WAGE STRUGGLE BEGINS. A Great Majority of Hill Operatives Remain Out. A special of Monday from Boston, Mass., says: The 80,000 or more skilled operatives employed in about 70 of the chief cotton mills of the New England states have come under the sweeping order of a new wage scale. This reduction brings on in New Bedford, Lewiston and Bidde ford, Maine, labor strikes which may prove the beginning of an industrial battle greater in extent and more dis¬ astrous in effect than any in the pre¬ vious history of cotton manufacturing in the United States. The battle against the corporations undoubtedly would have been fought everywhere had not the voice of the men and women who are ill prepared at this time of the year to go into idle¬ ness been heeded by the conservatives. As it is, the great majority of per¬ sons employed in nine corporations in New Bedford and one corporation each in two Maine cities will take upon themselves the task of forcible resist¬ ance to the reduction. In New Bedford the nine corpora¬ tions represent 22 mills, with over 770,000 spindles, or 21,000 looms, giving means of livelihood to nearly ten thousand. The strikes will be directed by the labor union, the lead being taken by the Mule Spinners union, the national executive committee of which has sanctioned the strike of opposition and promised financial aid. General Longstreet’s Bookkeeper. A Washington dispatch says: Gen eral Longstreet, United States railroad commissioner, has appointed Mr. Al ton Angier, of Georgia, as his book keeper. IHMIGRATION BILL PASSED. Senate Votes In Favor of the Measure By a Good Hajority. The senate Monday passed the Lodge bill restricting immigration iu to the United States. The bill provides that all immi grants physically capable and over sixteen years of age shall be able to read or write the English language or some other language; but a person not able to read or write who is over fifty yfcars of age and is the par ent dr grandparent of a qualified immi grant over twenty-one years of age and capable of supporting such a pa rent or grandparent, may accompany the immigrant. WALCOTT SPEAKS OF COMMISSION. Reviews the Recent Effort To Secure Bimetallism, MARK HANNA IS SWORN IN. Newly Elected Ohio Senator Welcomed By Colleagues. A Washington special says: In an¬ ticipation of an interesting session of the senate Monday, all of the galleries were well filled some time before the senate convened. The long-looked-for speech of Senator Wolcott was the drawing card. Mr. Hanna, who has just been elect¬ ed senator from Ohio, made his first appearance on the floor since his elec¬ tion. He was cordially greeted by his colleagues on both sides. Mr. Foraker presented the creden¬ tials of Mr. Hanna for the remainder of Mr. Sherman’s term of six years, ending March 4, 1889. They were read. As there was no objection to the administration of the oath of office Mr. Foraker escorted Mr. Hanna to the vice president’s desk and the oath was administered. Senator Wolcott Speaks. Mr. Wolcott summarized the work of the bimetallic commission and the present situation by saying that it is apparent that for the time being it is useless to count on any co-operation from Great Britain towards a bimetal¬ lic agreement, and that while France actively desires to see silver restored to its old position as a stsndard of value-equally with gold, she insists that the problem is one which demands international action and the co-opera¬ tion to some adequate extent of other leading commercial nations of the world. Questions of possible future negoti¬ ations between France, the United States and other countries and the question of change of ratio, are for the moment held in abeyance. While we hope for continued jointaction, France owes no further duty to us. “It is my sincere conviction,” he said, “that an international bimetallic agreement is still feasible, by the terms of which certain countries will join us and open their mints to the unlimited coinage of silver, and others will contribute to the plan an enlarged use of that metal as money; and I say this the more freely because I shall give way upon the commission to somebody more fitted for such ne¬ gotiations and better able to give them his constant time. This result cannot be brought about without the expendi¬ ture of both time and patience, aud the persons entrusted with the duty of negotiation must have back of them the hearty support of the president and of congress.” He thought it might be necessary to change the ratio to something like 20 to 1. Referring to the attitude of Secreta¬ ry Gage on the financial question,con¬ trasting it with the president’s posi¬ tion, he said of Secretary Gage’s re¬ marks upon his currency bill. “The two statements are utterly at variance, and contradictory to each other. They cannot be reconciled. This is not the proper occasion to analyze the bill of the secretary. It will reach limbo long before it reaches the senate. But I do not intend to discuss the bill which the president’s message specifically does not indorse; and it is premature to criticise the sec¬ retary’s republicanism, for his advent into the party and the cabinet were practically contemporaneous. We must accept the situation. In my opinion, the great majority of the members of the republican party are bimetallists, and the fact that they are misrepre¬ sented by a cabinet officer is not pleasing, but it is endurable. “The selection of the members of his official household is the president’s own affairs, and so long as he stands upon the question of bimetallism where he has ever stood, there is no serious ground for apprehension. But even in the inconceivable event that the chief magistrate of this people should in the excercise of his judgment deter¬ mine to countenance the final fasten ing upon this country of burdens of the gold standard, I trust we way still find warrant for faith and hope in the pledges of the party and the wisdom of its counsels.” CARTER COURTMARTIAL ON. Captain Gillette Tells of Work Under His Supervision. Captain Cassius E. Gillette was the first witness introduced in the Carter courtmartial at Savannah Friday morn ing. He was on the stand some time and testified as to the work under his supervision and relative to the method by which it was done by the Atlantic Constructing Co. He told of the work on Cumberland sound being taken out of his jurisdic tion. He recited the fact incident to his inspection of material for the Cum berland island work and said that it was not constructed as tightly as it should have been. REDUCTIONS GO INTO EFFECT. New England Mill Operatives Con¬ fronted With Cut Wages. Advices from Boston, Mass., say: The operatives in over half a hundred cotton mills in the New England states ceased to be paid under the old sched¬ ule of prices when they left their work Saturday. On Mouday morning the general policy of the manufacturers to reduce wages went into effect in nearly every mill center in the six states. The reduction also became operative in the cotton mills of New Bedford, Lowell, Pawtucket and Blackstone valley in Rhode Island and in the states of Maine and New Hamp The Fall River mills, with the ex¬ ception of three corporations, cut wages earlier in the month, as did also the Amoskeag company, of Man¬ chester, and the mills in Salem and a number of smaller places. the New Bedford continues to be storm center. The indications are that all the cotton mills in that city will be silent for some time to come, the employees having decided almost unanimously not to go to work under lower wage scale. The attempts of the state board of arbitration to bring about a compromise failed. The New Bedford mill hands will be supported by other centers. The operatives in the Biddleford,Me.,mills voted to stay out, aud it is possible several more strikes will occur in other places. A portion of the Queen City mill ojreratives at Burlington, Vt., are already out. Saturday notices of a 10 per cent redaction were posted at the Atlantic and Pacific corporations of Lawrence. A dispatch from that city states that the other cotton mills will undoubted¬ ly follow. The Lawrence mills are last to come into line. They employ about 12,000 hands. The reduction in most of* the New England mills amounts either to 10 ro 11 1-9 per cent. AFTER CLYDE SHROPSHIRE. Hinton Wants a Bill Passed By Con. gress to Cover the Case. The Clyde Shropshire case has been brought to the attention of congress in a very singular way. The Hon. John W. Hinton, of Milwaukee,at the head of the northwestern tariff bureau, in a pamphlet of twelve pages reiter¬ ates his charges that money belonging to his son, Francis Hinton, who died in Paris in 1895, was misappropriated by Clyde Shropshire, the vice-consul in Paris. The pamphlet is in the form of a petition to congress asking that a law be passed “To punish American consuls for robbing Ameri¬ can citizens dying in foreign coun¬ tries. ” In order to show the necessity of such a law, he gives his entire corres¬ pondence with the president and the state department concerning the al¬ leged misappropriation of his deceas¬ ed son’s money and points to the fact Shropshire was not made to answer to the government. Mr. Shropshire denies the allega¬ tions in toto. SETH fllLLIKEN EULOGIZED. Saturday’s Routine of the Upper and Lower Houses of Congress. A Washington special says: The senate and the house Saturday, after 2 o’clock, was devoted to eulogies on the life and public services of the late Representative Seth W. Milliken. Immediately after the reading of the journal Representative Starr (pop.), of Nebraska, rose to a question of privilege to deny a publication had in a local paper stating that he acted as attorney in the pension case of Jackson W. Cheney. said, As a representative, he he had interested himself in the case, but he had never acted as a pension attorney in his life. The house then went into committe of the whole, and took up the consid¬ eration of the army appropriation bill. GREATER KNOXVILLE’S ELECTION Captain Rule, Republican Candidate For Mayor, Wins Out. The most exciting municipal cam¬ paign in the history of Knoxville, Tenn., closed Friday night and the votes were cast Saturday. and Tha fight between the regular in¬ dependent democrats was a bitter one. The contest resulted in the election of Captain Rule. The republicans al¬ so elected the chairman of the public works, but lacked one of getting a majority of the board of aldermen. DECIDED AGAINST CORBETT. Committee Says Oregon Senator Is Not Entitled to Seat. A Washington dispatch says; The senate committee on privileges and elections Friday decided to make an adverse report upon Hon. H. W. Cor¬ bett’s claim to a seat in the senate from Oregon. The vote was 4 to 3 and was cast on partisan lines, except that Senator Burroughs, republican, who was ab¬ sent, was counted upon his authority in opposition to Mr. Corbett. A motion was then made to declare that Mr. Corbett was not entitled to his seat and was carried by the above vote reversed. FODGHT M’KEHNA'S CONFIRMATION I Senator Allen Makes Sensational Allegations. SAYS M’KENNA IS UNFIT. Other Matters of Routine Natu re i In House and Senate. A Washington special says: Almost the entire four hours of the executive session of the senate Friday were de- ^ voted to the indirect consideration of • the nomination of Hon. Joseph Mc¬ Kenna, now attorney general, to be associate justice of the supreme court. The discussion was the result of an jr effort on the part of Senator Allen, of I Nebraska, populist, to secure a post- j ponement for two weeks. In the end a compromise was reached deferring consideration for a week on the con¬ dition that the Nebraska senator should I agree to allow a vote to be taken on that day. The Hawaiian treaty was not touched upon during the session. j J The debate upon Mr. McKenna’s nomination was precipitated by Sena- L tor judiciary, Hoar, chairman who called of the committee the j 1 on up nonii nation in accordance with his notice 1 of Thursday, and asked for immediate * action. In doing this Mr. Hoar spots briefly of the opposition ■ of Mr. Mc¬ Kenna, saying that the judiciary com¬ mittee had investigated most of the charges made and had reached the conclusion that they were without foundation. He said that the greater number of charges had been made by the members of the American Protect¬ ive Association, and that as they had been founded solely upon the fact that Mr. McKenna was a Catholic in reli¬ gion, they had not been deemed worthy of serious consideration. Senator White, of California, also spoke of the efforts of the American Protective Association to interfere with the course of the senate in giving proper attention to a question, the de¬ termination of which should depend upon considerations of fitness and jus¬ tice as between’ man and man rather than appeal to bigotry, prejudice and a false claim of patriotism. As for himself, while he did not con¬ tend that Mr. McKenna was a giant in his legal attainments, still he be¬ lieved him to be an honorable man, a competent lawyer and a just jurist,and £ he should support his confirmation. It wms here that Mr. Allen inter¬ posed an objection to immediate ac¬ tion, and characterized the nomina¬ tion as the weakest ever sent to the senate. He said Judge McKenna was too narrow, had not sufficient legal training and was in no way qualified to fill the position. In the open session of the senate, Clay, of Georgia, presented petitions signed by several hundred Georgians protesting against the passage of the so-called anti-scalping bill which were referred to the committee on interstate commerce. The house, on motion of Mr. Cooper, of Texas, considered the hill to reim¬ burse the book agents of the Metho¬ dist Episcopal church, south, in the sum of $281,000. Mr. Gaines, of Nashville, and Mr. Cooper, of Texas, made some arguments asking for the passage of the bill as reported by the committee on war claims. The house managers decided not to praceed with the consideration of the diplomatic and consular appropriation, but to give the day for the considera¬ tion of private bills. PERFECT QUIET IN CUBA. Consul Lee Reports Scare as Calmed Down. A Washington dispatch states that the Cuban scare had subsided Friday, and little interest or anxiety was map ifested in it in official circles. Presi dent McKinley was unusually free from callers, and even the office seekers were not on hand in their usual numbers. The first congressional caller was Senator Sewell, of New Jersey, who came at half past 9 o’clock. Shortly before 10:30 o’clock Representative Grosvenor, of Ohio, and Senator Platt, of Connecticutt, put in an appearanc-e, but none of these visitors discussed foreign affairs with Mr. McKinley. TO INVESTIGATE ELECTION. Senate flay Look Into Methods Used In Ohio Senatorial Contest. A Washington special says: It is understood that some senators have , been notified of the probability of the senate being called upon to investigate the methods of Senator Hanna’s re election to the senate. It is said to be the purpose of the Ohio managers of the opposition to secure an investigation of Represen¬ tative Otis’ charges of bribery by the Ohio senate, and they have made the inquiry whether, if the state serate forwards properly formulated charges, they will or not receive the attention of the senate of the United States.
