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The Banner Will Give loo All The Sews of Conyers ftnd Rock dale County. XXIV. iiSi Kew Year to All A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL. » H$b New Tear to Ml A Is what our new firm has to begin the New Year in saying, also thanking each one for patronage in past, and promising to continue selling goods at the extremely low prices they have in the past. They invite one and all. Come to them for good goods and owest prices—having only ONE PRICE for all. Uss m Wmi'r ■ r> bailey dry goods company, ^egssx—^CONYERS, GEORGIA KEEP ISLANDS, SAVSINDIANSAN Vonng Beveridge Makes Strong Expansionist Speech. MINISTRATION IS SUSTAINED [“The Islands Are Ours, and Should Be Held As Such”—Senator Hoar Replies. In tho senate Thursday, Mr. Allen, !of Nebraska, offe ed a resolution call¬ ing upon the secretary of war for (information as to the name of the transports, the persons from whom they were acquired, the prices paid and all other information relating to the transport service. It was adopted. At the conclusion of the routine business Mr. Beveridge, of Indiana, vas recognized for his speech on ihe Philippine question. The text of his address was a resolution which he offered a few- days ago, which declares ‘That the Philippine islands are ter¬ ritory belonging to the United States; that it is the intention of the United StateR to retain them as such, and to establish and maintain such govern iWiental control throughout the archi Wigo as the situation may demand.” It was a brilliant audience which freeted Mr. Beveridge when he began lowing 0 speak. Every gallery was crowded, ®«ny a fringe about the table were members of the house of repre¬ sentatives, ear the maiden wbo had effort been in the attracted to of te senate 'lie young Indianian. Throughout Beveridge effort, which was very Jong, Mr. , kls commanded the attention auditors colleagues *f the senate and of both on the floor of the raamber and in the galleries. Ho ‘Poke rapidly, with notably clear nnnciation atid at times with pas Mnate force and dramatic fervor. Ike attention of Washington had wn attracted to the boy senator first J is election, which the Republican Politicians of Indiana had said was impossible; I ---. next.by his action in go Rout to the .Philippines to study !**. f conditions there himself; then 11 by newspaper notices of a hardly pnphmentary tleney nature which had _ to misrepresent the young and lastly, by his announcement a set speech upon a live topic in , ' test session of his service as a . or - M?***™” ^ is not PPosed “ su to hs dv peech for a year or two after |e*r e q Senator Lnj Uttle for ethics. There [tst Soviee1- ?V* 16 r 7 so Pk°more and nothing in his of Aimo t if treatment °f his subject, herd ° { tbe orator y ^hfo-h has !% We 0tt a e Sl f ? 0D m tk ’ s subject opposed itti , men to !» tie w th/ a e ' *P l0n 8ns P i°o oli °y- side have Those had lit to sa 7 an, of those ‘ noa e who .7,! taken the frank open, Nko .2,1 that sea ator this from Indiana, teivL 0 0Di y refuse to hold out , dependence a-w- of i. nd ^ Ilre » but that !t onr Purpose to Swn PPln • **4.Vf Sess,on e archipelago as a and should give its l^Ndeth* II , R colonial government. 1 ^ 4 S ? nator Beveridge l'2 ^ i W'noV bronght nvestigations testimony for I l L**hi* “7“ ° f the isIand8 7‘ftod c ? Q t e ntion that it 1 th.. 688 P ro P°sition for us lB i 8nds : that tlj ® people Rockdale injury to them rather than a bless¬ ing, gave peculiar value, to his speech in the opinion of his hearers. At times he was quite dramatic in his utterances, particularly when he charged that the blood of American soldiers must be upon those here at home who had been instrumental in keeping alive the insurrection by thaif opposition to the policy of the adniin istrafion. Mr. Beveridge concluded his speech nt 2:25. He received great applause from both tho floor and galleries. Mr. Hoar followed Beveridge and addressed himself to the Indiana sen¬ ator with great earnestness. It would be a base thing ho said, for this coun¬ try to strike down the young republic in the Philippines. by Mr. Hoar said he could prove Otis and Dewey that there was a Fili¬ pino government. said the Otis in all communications president of the Philippines desired to establish their independence. Mr. Hoar said Agninaldo was brought over and placed at the head of 30,000 peo¬ ple who desired independence and who were famished arms by the United States government. CLVI.UK 1) BY CATHOLICS. Independence of Roman Church la X)e ma’nded In Philippines. Advices from Manila state that it is asserted on high authority that Arch¬ bishop Nozaleda conteuds in his inter¬ view with Mousignor Chapelle, the papel delegate, on behalf of the Un¬ man church and the brotherhoods, that the titles to all property held by the church and the brotherhood in the Philippines should be recognized; that the Roman catechism should be taught in the primary schools; the existing religious orders should continue to administer the parishes; that other parishes should be establish¬ ed under the same control and the parochi.-.l control of cemeteries should continue. He also lays stress in his conten¬ tions, upon the importance of the church to administer its own fairs without state interference, upon the necessity of a regime that will antee the liberty of the church, the desirability of European clergy, the establishment of a new college the instruction of native priests and the continuation of indirect tions for the maintenance of and clergy, and upon the of maintaining the system of fees, including revenues from births, mar riages, 1 funerals, dispensations apostolic indulgences. In addition Archbishop advises the continuation of the church control of pawnshops ami certain signated hospitals and schools, gether with the establishment of special form of parochial actual tion exacted by the in the Philippines. Finally be a plea for the continuation of the ent missionary work of the qhurch. NEWSPAPER REORGANIZED, Atlanta Constitution Piles Deed of No Chance In Management. “The Atlanta Constitution ing Company,” of Atlanta, Ga., filed a deed in the office of the of the superior court of Fulton county, conveying to “The Constitution lishiug Company,” Atlanta’s newspaper and all its assets, tho building at the corner of and Forsyth streets, the plant, chises, etc. $475,000 The consideration is cash and half a million dollars of common stock of the new company. The deal is simply the transfer the old company’s property to the company in furtherance of a za tion with a bond issue of au d a preferred stock issue of 000 The Constitution recently its plan of selling 8350,000 of mortgage sinking fund five per gold bond* and $150,000 of tive six per cent preferred stock. is announced that these securities *11 been s old. _ . _ _ CONYERS. GA.. FRIDAY, JANUARY 12 1900. LIQUOR '■ FIGHT BEGUN South Carolina Legislature As¬ sembles In Columbia, GOVERNOR’S MESSAGE IS READ. Initial Session Involved In a Hot Fight Over Dispensary Matters. Tho South Carolina legislature met in annual session at Columbia Tues¬ day and within eighteen minutes after the body was called to order it was in¬ volved in a but fight over the follow¬ ing resolutions, simultaneously intro¬ duced in both houses: First—That a joint committee, con¬ sisting of two senators and three rep¬ resentatives, be appointed by the pre¬ siding officers of tho respective houses to investigate the affairs of the »tate dispensary. said committee be and Second. That is hereby empowered to send for papers and persons, to swear witnesses, tore quire the attendance of all parties whose presence shall be deemed neces¬ sary, to appoint an expert accountant and stenographer, to investigate freely all transactions concerning said dis¬ pensary nnd its management and to Take testimony within and without the state and shall have access at all times during its service to all books and vouchers and other papers of said in¬ stitution. Sections 3 and 4 give the committee authority to sit during the sessions of the house, to apply for any additional authority needed and request a report if possible during the present session. The resolution was bitterly opposed. Its advocates declared that former in¬ vestigating committees lacked power and were but whitewashing concerns. The resolution was amended in the house, giving the committee power to punish for contempt as in circuit courts and providing that statements made by witnesses should not be used against them. The committee is to also have a marshal and its sessions are to be open to the public. govebnob’s message bead. Governor Miles B. McSweeney sent in his first message to the general assembly. It was a paper of about 10,000 words, moderate in tone, and being for the most part a record of public conditions. The governor first refers to tho death of his predecessor and then to the “very marked material progress in almost every line of industry." Of cotton mills he says: During the past year eleven new mills have been organized and are in progress of construction, representing a total capital of 83,275,000. Sixteen old mills have been enlarged, repre¬ senting an increase of their capital stock of 82,429,000. miles have In railroad building, 237 been completed and in actual process of construction. This represents an outlay of at least 825,000 a mile, or nearly 86,000,000, and when completed and returned for taxation even at a valuation of 810,000 a mile, will add 82,370,000 to the taxable property jf the state. In cotton seed oil mills, the lumber and , other , branches , of . lndns- . , business try there has been very marked activi ty. time I received . com A short ago a - mnnication from the secretary of the treasury at Washington, calling my attention to a claim of the United States government against the state of South Carolina, andean act of congress passed March 3, 1899, requiring him to institute such proceedings a 16 might deem proper to collect any which bonds or the stores, general go e ^ against this state, before anycam the P“ Tt °* th 7, “ -..fj . ’■"■v<“*»“• This com- red in organizing volunteer troops for service in the war with Spain. A statement from the state treasur¬ er is submitted showing the state does owe* principal and iuterest, about 8250,000 to tho national government, b*t stating that the government is due the state 8550,000 for money ad¬ vanced during the revolutionary war and the war erf 1812. SPANISH (iUNS DONATED. The Navy Department Presents Relics For Lieutenant Brum¬ by nemorial. The six-inch bronze cannon that tic fended Fort Sau Felipe, at Manila, against the American fleet under Ad¬ miral Dewey, and which wer# dis¬ mounted by shells from the Olympia, have been presented to tho city of At¬ lanta by the navy department to be placed at the base of the monument to be erected in honor of Lieutenant Thomas Brumby. Announcement of tho gift was made public Wednesday morning in a letter received by Colonel W. 1. Heyward from Admiral George Dewey, in which the admiral incloses a letter from Sec eetary Long stating that the cannon are now at Mars island, California,and can lie seemed by the city as soon ns desired. The news was received with enthu¬ siasm by those interested in the erec¬ tion of a monument to the memory of Lieutenant Brumby. The announcement that the two cap¬ tured cannon had been presented to the city was in the nature of a sur pri e to those who had pushed the matter since Admiral Dewey had been asked to use his influence to obtain only one of the famous guns. The presence of the two Spanish guns at tho base of the proposed tnon ument will give a thrilling iuterest to that memorial, and they will servo as a reminder of the dangers tho lament¬ ed lieutenant faced when he stood by the side of Admiral Dewey on the Olympia at the capture of Mauila. hale makes inquiry. Demands Facts Regarding England’s Seizure of American Flour. Senator Hale, of Maine, created a sensation in the senate chamber Wed nesday by introducing a resolution of inquiry concerning the British seiz ure of American food stuffs in Delagoa Bay. plainly it could be insinuated As as there was the suggestion in the reso lution that the executive branch of the government may have been derelict in its duty to uphold the dignity of the government and the rights of American commerce, and coming from the senator from Maine, the chairman of the naval committee, and the man who was most conservative of all sen ators in the days before the outbreak of the war with Spain, caused his Re publican colleagues to wonder greatly, TRIAL ENDS IN FIGHT. Kentuckians Use Their Oun«, As Usual, with Deadly Result. News has been received of a general fight on Otter Creek, Clay county, Ky., in which Lige Lewis and General May were shot and killed, and four other participants seriously wounded. The fight occurred at a school house on Otter Creek, where one of the Jacksons was on trial before a magis trato for killing another Jackson. BISHOP CAPERS ON AVAR. South Carolina Prelate Criticises the Notional Government. . Plliann CaDers formerly , a j con{ede ^ te genera ] t in ’his ifjit to Trinity Episcopal church at Colnlnbi s c> Sunday criticised the national government in the prosecu tion of war in the Philippines. He lamen ted the fact that a Christian nation was using shot and shell to re- HELD BACK _ Onslaughts Kept In Check By General White. VICTORIES ARE CLAIMED at Ladysmith Is Dwindling and Troubles of Britons Are as Aggravated as Ever Before. Tho London war office has just pub¬ the following dispatch from Bailor: Fbebe Camp, Natad, Jan. 8 . —The is from General White, yesterday: i i ‘An attack was commenced on my but was chiefly against Crosar’s camp and Wagon bill, The enemy was in great strength and has pushed the attack with the courage and energy. Some of the en¬ trenchments on Wagon hill were three times taken by the enemy and retaken by us. The attack was continued un¬ til 7:20 p. m. One point in our posi¬ tion was occupied But by the enemy whole day. at dusk, in a very heavy rainstorm, they were turned out of this position at the point of bayonet, in a most gallant manner, the Devons, led by Colonel Park. Colonel Ian Hamilton commanded on Wagon hill and rendered valuable ser¬ vice. The troops have had a very try¬ ing time and have behaved excellently. They are elated at the service have rendered the queen. “The enemy were repulsed every¬ where with very heavy loss, greatly exceeding thnt 011 my side, which will be reported as soon as the lists completed.” Another London special Bays: Gen¬ eral White still holds out, or did sixty hours ago, when the Boers, oust¬ ed from their foothold inside the works, suspended their assault at nightfall. England has taken heart. The situation, however, is worse. The beleaguered force must have expend¬ ed large amounts of amunition, which cannot be replenished and must have lost a number of officers and men, which is counterbalanced, so far as the garrison is concerned, by greater ] 0BS G f the Boers. “General White still needs an d the difficulties confronting Gener¬ al Buller are as great as before. “The former’s unadorned sentences as rea d and reread suggest eloquenty the peril in which the town was for fourteen hours, and how barely big nine thousand men were to keep from being overcome. “The chief concern for General White is in respect to ammunition, Sixty-eight days ago, at the c f the siege, his small arm ammuni tion was vaguely described “plenty.” His artillery then had 300 per gun. Some of the bat¬ teries have been in action frequently since then and all were probably en¬ gaged last Saturday. His stock of ghells, consequently, must below, and will make it difficult for General White to co-operate in a movement by Buller. The intrenchments at Ladysmith as in a message that left a day two before the fighting and as jus through, are fortified hills, well with rifle pits, and trenches tke in I antr 7 move in sin «e to the various poets in absolute safety. Full rations are still served. GEORGIA REPUBLICANS Put Out a Full State Ticket This Fall According to Chairman Johnson. An Atlanta special sa^s: According issued to the call for a state convention Monday morning by Chairman Pro Tem H. Johnson, of the Republican central committee, the Bepnbli of Georgia will take an active part state politics this fall. * -* *• Official Organ of Rockdale (oiin ty. Has Largest Circulation in The County. state central committee through its chairman pro tem that candidates for governor and other stntehonse officers will be nominated at the state conven¬ tion, which is called to meet-in Atlan¬ ta Maroh 7th. If the Republicans carry out their plans it will be the first timo in a num¬ ber of years that they have put a state ticket in the field and will bring them more prominently into the arena of state politics. TRAGEDY IN MISSISSIPPI. Throo Hen Kllleil In a Desperate Duel With Revolvers. Oak Ridge, Miss, a little hamlet eighteen miles northeast of Vicksburg, was the scene Tuesday morning of a desperate pistol duel in which three of the best known residents of tho county were killed. Tho dead are: A. D. Holland, R. S. Stephenson and Dr. Otho Austin. Dr. James Austin, his son, Otho Austin, and his son-in-law, R. S. Ste¬ phenson, had been arrested on an affi¬ davit sworn out by Holland, charging them with whipping one of Holland's negro tenants. The trial was set for Tuesday morning,but bad hardly open¬ ed when the shooting began. NEW JtOAl) ORGANIZED. Stockholders of tho C., A. and C. Airline Meet In Athena, fl». The Chattanooga, Augusta and Charleston Air Line Railway Com pany was formally organized at a meeting of lhe stockholders in Ath¬ ens, Ga. The charter, which was granted several weeks since, was for¬ mally accepted and directors elected. It was stated in the meeting that 8150,000 has been spent in Charleston for real estate and over 8100,000 in Augusta and that a large portion of the rails for tho construction of the road have already been purchased. Tho road will be built from Charleston to Athens. FOURTH HAY’S TRIAL. Grind of Testimony In Morrison Case Was Steady and Monotonous. The fourth day in the sensational trial of Actress Julia Morrison began at Chattanooga Monday morning at 9 o’cloo’: in the superior court thousand room, before Judge Estell and two spectators. prisoner, pale and distressed The looking, entered the court room, de¬ claring with an attempt at a smile that she was feeling some better than she had on Saturday. without The trial Monday was grind any of sensational features, and the testimony has been steady and monot¬ onous. CRAIG WON’T RESIGN. The Htate Treasurer of Tennefse© Do cidefi to Ilohl Two Jobs. A Nashville dispatch says: It is no> definitely known that State Treasure! E. B. Craig will not resign, having changed his mind since announcing his intention to resign some weeks ago. He has accepted the position of treasurer of the Virginia Iron, Coal and Coke company, but will hold on u state treasurer, because, it is al¬ leged, he was not satisfied with the gentleman he looked upon ashis prob¬ able successor, the appointment being in the gift of the governor. Governor McMillan, however, has never said wdom he would appoint. COTTON GIN COMBINE. Six Manufacturing Plants Are Now Under One Set of Officers. The organization of the Continental Gin Company has been affected with a capital of 82,000,000, and the follow¬ ing plants have entered the consoli¬ dation: Daniel Pratt Gin company, Prattville, Ala.; Smith k Sons, Gin and Machine companj, of Avondale, Ala.; Winship Machine company, of Atlanta; Eagle Cotton Gin company, of Bridgewater, Mass.; Munger Im¬ proved Cotton Machine Manufactur¬ ing company, of Dallas, Texas, and Northington-Munger-Pratt Gin eom pany, of East Birmingham, Ala. NO 52. PULITZER HOME BURNED. Two Women Servants Lose Their Lives—Total Loss Is Esti mated at About $300,000. The handsome residence of Joseph Pulitzer, publisher of tho New York World, at 1012 East Fifty-Fifth street. New York, was destroyed by fire Tuesday, and two women servants were suffocated or burned to death. The total loss is estimated at about 8300,000. The insurance is 8250,000. The victims of tho fire were Mrs. Morgan Jellot, the housekeeper, and Miss Elizabeth Montgomery, a gov¬ erness. The origin of the fire is variously as¬ cribed to electric wires, the steam heaters and an open fire. It started about 7:30 a. m„ while Mrs. Pulitzer, her daughters, Constance and Lulu, twelve and fourteen years of age re¬ spectively, and Herbert, a boy of three years, and the housekeeper and governess were asleep. Mr. Pulitzer nnd his son, Joseph, Jr., were at Lakewood. There were sixteen ser vants in the house. Tho servants and passors-hy discov¬ ered the fire about the same time. There was not much smoke, but tho flames spread rapidly and were soon beyond control. Mrs. Pulitzer got her children together and with the aid of their nurses got them safely to the street. Several of the servants had narrow escapes. partly burned Tho firemen found tho body of the housekeeper, Mrs. Tellett, on the top floor. 'The body of the governess, Miss Montgomery, was discovered several hours afterwards in the ruins on the third floor. Mrs. Pulitzer, who is a niece of Jefferson Davis, had a number. of jewels in a safe in tho house which was buried in the ruins. MERELY A “TEST.” Prloes O11 Ijondim Stock Exchange lte spond to Stories From Kutsla. Prices were weak at the closing of the London stock exchange Saturday, partly due to stories of Russia mass¬ ing troops on the frontier of Afghan¬ istan. A semi-official explanation of these moves comes from 8t. Peters¬ burg to the effect that they were merely to test the capacity of the Cen¬ tral Asian railroads to transport troops. The experiment, it is added, is regard¬ ed as highly successful, as it proves that in case of necessity, troops from the Caucasus can reach Cushka in eight days. ________ SON’S BODY REFUSED. Parents Would Have Nothing to Do With Kavixlier’s Remains. Police Sergeant Watt, of Lynch¬ burg, father of W. W. Watt, who was lynched at Newport News for assault¬ ing Mrs. Simpson, on learning that his son was guilty, declined to go to Newport News and arranged by tele¬ phone for the burial. N\ att s sister, who is a teacher in a Lynchburg school, also telephoned if her brother was guilty she did not want the body sent home, so it will be sent to the Richmond Medical college. PARENTS SELL CHILDREN. Starving Millions In India Compelled to lireak Family Ties. Latest mail advices from India aver that the situation there grows darker every week. Three million people are working on government relief work. The sale of children by starving par ents is becoming common, Families are breaking up, each member shift¬ ing for himself in search of food. CUBAN EDITORS FINED. General Eudlow Will Not Tolerate Publi¬ cation of Fake Articles. A Havana dispatch says: General Ludlow has fined Ei Cubano $5 for ma'u Tuhif office° that he struck a in the presence of the Spanish consul general,Senor Sagrario. The statement was pure fined for pub La Lucha will also be lisbing two objectionable artic.e*.