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KERS ARE DOING.
proceeding 3 of Both House#
Briefly Epitomized.
the senate.
jfffroS the senate was
start to finish. Eady
day the resolution offered fc it
"by • that
Uno Mr. Stewart, declaring
authority in law for ihe
L e 0 f gold coin in preference to
co j n was laid before the senase,
, , took advantage of it to
ifc L Gray attacks made last Satur
Lon the of the United
the president with the contract
Ijgin connection the isme
tie purchase of gold by Mr.
« cent, thirty-year bonds.
made a strong argument to
_ payable in coin
i that all bonds
u be paid in coin of the
was
that the motion, if carried, would
(he bankruptcy bills and he
that the senate adjourn. Mr.
motion was voted on by yeas
and was rejected—yeas, 17;
36. As the vote was regarded
of test on the silver bill
was much excitement over the
As soon as it was announced
to proceed to the considera
the ludian appropriation bill
interposed by Mr. Call. A pre
dispute arose as to whether
Call’s motion took precedence of
and the vice president held
under the rule, which gives pre
to appropriation bills, Mr.
motion had first to be voted
bated—yeas, by yeas and nays and was
26; nays, 30. The
was then taken on Mr. Jones’
to take up the silver bill, which
30 ; nays, 27. The
then laid before the senate and
Mr. .Tones, of Arkansas, asked
hour Tuesday- to be agreed
the vote should be taken
passage of the bill. Several
suggested that it be taken
Junes but there was objection.
finally moved an adjourn
at the same time stating that he
ask the senate to remain in ses
Tuesday until the final vote is
on the bill and amendments.
prevailed and the senate at
m.
was a large attendance on the
! ihe senate Tuesday and the
.
were well filled, in anticipa
; t a struggle, and perhaps a vote
silver bill, which had been
forced to the Iront as the un
business. There was hardly
1 vatte on the democratic side,
the anxiety’ of the different
to present full ranks on the
contest. A report from
: secretary of the treasury was
*" response to the resolution
the need of legislation
eet the deficiencies. The secre
^atcd that an available balance $55,- of
exclusive of over
gold reserve is on hand. Mr.
democrat, of Kentucky,
from the conference commit
'he diplomatic and consular bill
as agreeant had been reached on
‘"“items except the $500,000 for
the Hawaiian cable. The
1 ' was confirmed and a further
directed on the Hawaiian
Bllv er bill, got on his feet with a
that the senate proceed with
‘“gular order, which was the silver
,^Ir. Hill objected to displacing
business. “Then,” said Mr.
®> “I will move to take it up at
It was apparent that a vote
Eminent. democrat, Thereupon Mr. Yoor
’ of Indiana, arose and
“uted the credentials of Mr. Wil
new senator from Washing-
1 he was sworn in. Mr. Jones
further for the resolution of
- ror man, which was agreed to, for
"essions beginning at 11 o’clock
h ‘ ter Wednesday. Mr. Jones
te Presented his motion to
n P the silver bill. Great
‘“test was shown while the
“ad nav vote was being taken,
j motion prevailed—36 to 27.
® the tug of war was on. The bill
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CONYERS, GA.. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY ‘20. 1895.
was read in full. In the opening
skirmish, Mr. Jones said the friends
of his bill were willing to put the mat¬
ter to a test now, without a word of
debate. If the opponents of the bill
saw fit to resist, and to discuss it, of
course its friends could not help it;
but they had to make an earnest effort
to get a vote. Mr. Jones added that
he did not propose to jeopardize
any appropriation bill. There was
plenty of time to pass them all. It
was apparent, however, that no vote
could be taken at once, nor at any
time that could be definitely stated;
so Mr. Jones said he had only to re
qnest that the debate would proceed
as rapidly as possible and that the vote
might be had at the earliest possible
■hour.
The senate began its 11 o’clock ses¬
sions Wednesday, Tendered necessary
by the pressing demands of the appro¬
priation bills. Mr. Jones, of Arkansas,
in charge of the silver bill, which
still held its advantages as the unfin¬
ished business, circulated among his
associates. Mr. Platt, republican, of
Connecticut, Mr. Higgins, republican,
of Delaware, and other republican
senators were evidently prepared to
carry forward the opposition to the
silver bill and Mr. Higgins secured
the floor for a speech but Mr. Jones
soon came forward with an important
announcement, “The friends of
tne regular order—the silver bill,”
said he, “have no wish to risk
the danger of an extra session of
congress. They so stated at the out¬
set. The events have shown that this
danger might be incurred and that the
great appropriation bills might be put
in jeopardy. For that reason, the
friends of the silver bill have author¬
ized me to say that it will not be fur¬
ther pressed at the present session of
congress.” The presiding officer pre¬
sented the Wolcott silver resolution,
declaratory in favor of silver coinage
at a ratio of 16 to 1, but stating that
it was inexpedient at this late day in
the session to take up the silver bill.
Mr. Call sought to cake up the Indian
appropriation bill but it was cut off by
objection. Mr. Higgins then address¬
ed the senate on the Wolcott resolu¬
tion. He argued that it was meaning¬
less and could effect nothing. It
would not receive executive approval
even if it went through congress. He
said the repeal of the Sherman law was
notice to the world that the United
States would no longer be the patient
ass to bear the burden of silver. At
12 o’clock, the hour of unfinished bus¬
iness arrived and a sharp controversy
arose as to the precedence of various
bills. The Wolcott resolution, under
the rules, went to the calendar. Mr.
Gorman appealed to senators to stop
the fruitless discussion on the pending
Wolcott resolution, and to take up the
appropriation bills which were de
manding attention, if it was hoped to
pass them. He then moved to take up
the Indian appropriation bill. Mr.
Butler, in charge of the pooling bill,
objected, and demanded a roll call.
The motion prevailed—55 to 12. The
effect of the vote was to displace the
silver bill as the unfinished business,
and to send it back to the calendar.
The Indian appropriation bill being
taken up Mr. Higgins continued his
interrupted speech on the finances.
THE HOUSE.
General debate on the naval appro¬
priation bill was closed in the house
Saturday. Mr. Washington, demo¬
crat, was the only opponent of the in
crease of the new navy proposed Ad¬ in
the bill, and this fact caused Mr.
ams, republican, of Pennsylvania, to
express surprise that one of that name
should be heard uttering such senti¬
ments ou the floor of the house.
Among the miscellaneous business tran¬
sacted was the passage of the following
bills: Declaring it to be the sense of con¬
gress that Great Britain and Venezue¬
la should settle by friendly arbitra¬
tion the Guiana boundary dispute
which had been in existence since
1837. Directing the secretary of the
interior to sell isolated and fractional
tracts of public lands of less than a
quarter section at a minimum price of
$1.25 an acre. The general difficiency
bill for the year ending June 30, 1895,
and for previous years—the last of the
general appropriation bills was re¬
ported and placed on the calendar.
The postoffice appropriation bill for
the year ending June 30, 1895, was
placed in conference with Messrs,
Henderson, democrat, of North Caro¬
lina; Dunphy, democrat, of New
York, and Loud, republican, of Cali¬
fornia, as managers on the part of the
house. The hour for the special listened or
der having arrived, the house
to eulogies upon the life and services
of the late Senator Colquitt, of Geor¬
gia, by Messrs. Turner, of Georgia;
Blair,'of New Hampshire; Georgia; Lawson, Living¬ of
Georgia; Tate, of Ala¬
ston, of Georgia; Wheeler, of
bama; HarrisoD, of Alabama; Grosve
nor, of Ohio, and Maddox,of Georgia.
At the conclusion of these, and as a
further mark of respect, the house,
at 3:05 o’clock, adjourned until Mon¬
day at noon. Tuesday, the senate
In the house,
amendments to the house bill to au¬
thorize the Oklahoma Central railroad
to construct a railroad through Oklaho
ma and Indian Territories were agreed
_ naval
to. The consideration of the ap
propriation bill was then resumed, the
pending question being the decision of
Mr. Sayers against the item in the bill ,
authorizing-the secretary of the navy
to enlist in his discretion 2,000 addi¬
tional seamen with which to man the
new ships. Thechairman (Mr. O’Neill)
announced his decision overruling the
point of order. Mr. Sayers appealed
from the decision of the chai.
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.
Heavy snows have blockaded rail¬
roads and highways in the interior of
Newfoundland. I
It is said that Mexico’s negotiations
with Guatemala are proceeding slowly
but on the whole satistactorily
A committee of the New York legis¬
lature is now investigating the recent i
street car strike in Brooklyn. I
At Evansville, Ind., Captain John T
Inglo was appointed receiver for the
Evansville,, Paducah and Tennessee
River Packett company.
At New Orleans a mistrial has been
entered in the case of ex-Councilman
Thriffiley, on trial for proposing to
receive a bribe from Superintendent
Marshall of the L. & N. railroad. j
At a meeting of District Assembly
75, K. of L., it was voted to call off
the strike on the trolley railroads in
Brooklyn, N. Y., with the exception
of the Atlantic Avenue company’s sys¬
tem.
The destitution in St. Johns, N. F.,
is increasing. Between 5,000 and
6,000 persons are not receiving relief.
The government announces its inten¬
tion of proceeding with relief works
at once.
At Pueblo, Mexico, four of the pris¬
oners implicated in the Scott camp
shooting affair were shot by order of
Captain Fragoso. Nearly all the ban¬
dits have now been captured or killed.
At Fall River, Mass., the agent of
the Chace mills has agreed to pay his
weavers for all cloth woven in a print
cut over forty-six yards long. A strike
had been ordered at the mill by the
Weavers’ Union, but the concession is
deemed satisfactory.
At Duluth, Minn., William McKin¬
ley, one of the best known men in
northern Minnesota, and a heavy owner
in mining and lumber lands all over
the country, has made an assignment.
The liabilities ale estimated at from
$300,000 to $600,000, while the assets
are small.
At Milwaukee, Wis., the J. Ober
man Brewing company has gone into
the hands of a receiver, and will be
continued in operation under the di¬
rection of Judge Johnson. J. Ober
man, individually, has also made a
voluntary assignment. The assign¬
ment of the company is for $120,000.
Referee W. G. Choate, of Brooklyn,
has decided that ex-Boss McKane, of
Gravesend, now in Sing-Sing, swindled
the widow of Paul Bauer out of large
sums of money and that he must make
restitution. Paul Bauer was Mc
Kane’s friend and the latter adminis
tered on his estate.
FAVOR BIMETTALISM.
The German Reichstag on Interna¬
tional Monetary Conference.
The German reichstag debated the
interpellation of the government by
Count von Mirbach, the agrarian lead¬
er, urging the government to call an
international monetary conference
with a view of remonetizing silver.
Count von Mirbach held that the time
was opportune for Germany to sum¬
mon such a conference. The trade of
the world, he said, was suffering from
the disordered state of the currency
of the various countries, aud an inter¬
national agreement fixing the ratio of
the metals was the sole solution of the
difficulty. the reichstag
After full discussion
adopted the resolution by an over¬
whelming majority.
CONVENTION OF WOMEN.
Triennial Session of the National Con
cil in Washington.
The formal opening of the second
triennial session of the National Coun¬
cil of the Women of the United States
began at Washington, D. C., Monday.
Mrs. Mary Wright Bewail, its presi¬
dent, called the meeting to order.
The council is a representative body,
composed of delegates from all the
various associations of women through¬
out the country. Among the twenty
associations reprerented are the
woman suffragists; the W. C. T. U.,
Universal Peace Union, various social
releif and missionary societies, the
women draughtsmen, women stenog¬
raphers, National Council of Jewish
Women, American Anti-vivisection
Society, and various local councils of
women.
A STEAMSHIP BURNED.
Lady of the Lake Destroyed at Her
Wharf at Washington.
The steamer Lady of the Lake was
burned at her wharf at Washington,
D. C., at an early hour Saturday
morning. All the water plugs in the
vicinity of the wharf were frozen and
the firemen had so much difficulty in
obtaining water that the boat conld
not be saved. The steamer was owned
by the People’s Transportation Com
pany and formerly plied between
Washington and Norfolk.
STATE news items
CULLED FROM MANY SOURCES
BRIEFLY PARAGRAPHED.
Happenings of General Interest to
Georgia Readers.
Valdosta will soon have a well pat¬
ronized and complete telephone ex
change.
v ^ “J 1 ‘S/nTezuma ‘ wflf pllnt
ffittny - n watermelons this year.
The committee on agriculture of
the North Carolina legislature have
favorab5y repor t 0 d the bill making a
,$20,000 appropriation for an exhibit
at the Atlanta exposition.
* * *
s 0cre tary Lamont in a recent report
t e congress says Georgia has 264,021
available fl gh ting men. The secre
t ary should have added that one fight
j Georgian can whip six ordinary
men.— Exchange.
There are now forty-two widows of
confederate soldiers in Hart county,
entitled to pensions. The ordinary has
received checks for the amounts for
these pensioners, and they are now
ready for distribution.
* # *
Suits against the Augusta Railway
Company, W. E. Moore and R. J.
Westinghouse Electric and Manufac¬
turing Company have been dropped.
These suits were brought on alleged
violations of the patents held by the
last named company.
Another telephone company is about
to be organized at Augusta, The tele
phones to be used are the Columbian
’phones, which work automatically. make
Each subscriber will be able to
his own connection. The new ’phones
will be put in very cheap.
The Association of Editors of the
Weekly Press of the State have de¬
termined to memoralize the legisla
lature, asking that a law be passed
naming the judges of the superior
court of every county as the one to
pass upon the matter of the connty’s
printing. Every member of the asso
ciation will work for the passage of
the bill.
A party of national guardsmen left
Jersy City, N. J., last Tuesday for
Savannah in a special car attached to
the Florida express on the Pennsylva¬
nia railroad. The party includes the
state rifle team, which will compete
with Georgia’s orack team on Wash¬
ington’s birthday. The southerners
were defeated by the New Jersey marks
men last September, at Sea Girt, at
the interstate rifle match. They want
another test of marksmanship, and
invited the New Jersy men to pay
them a visit.
Another contest case has been set¬
tled by the house committee in session
at Atlanta and the final decision was
in favor of the populist contesteos.
Although the committee is strongly
democratic, its actions hava demon¬
strated that in its consideration of the
various cases which have come before
it, the question of politics has not en¬
tered. The members of the committee
have been actuated only by a desire
to arrive at exactly what they think is
the right, and it is a notable fact that
on no single question have party lines
been drawn.
The question of delay in the matter
of filing the bonds of the tax collec¬
tors and receivers in the forty coun¬
ties, heretofore noted, and the proba¬
bility of calling special elections in
the various counties has been sub¬
mitted by the governor to the attorney
general. After a conference it has
been decided to allow precedent in
such cases to govern in these. There¬
fore no such office whose incumbent
has been direliet in filing his bond
within the limit of forty days specified
by law, will be declared vacant and a
special election ordered unless the case
is an exceedingly aggravated one.
Organization has been perfected re
cently for three concerns in Valdosta
involving a half million dollars of cap¬
ital. Probably the largest of them is
the Georgia and Florida Round Tim¬
ber company, a charter for which was
granted and the organization perfect¬
ed. The authorized capital stock of
the concern is $500,000, and over
$100,000 has already been paid in.
The company will deal in round tim¬
bered lands, and will be a great factor
in developing a large area of undevel¬
oped land through this section. They
have purchased within the last few
weeks 271,000 acres of timber lands in
Georgia and Florida.
W’hat About the Central.
There is much interest felt in the
rumors that come from New York with
reference to the Central’s destiny. It
was announced the other day that the
plan of reorganization of the Central
had fallen through, or else that it
would probably hang fire for a good
long while to come, and this has
caused some alarm and concern among
the holders here of Southwestern
stock. They want to know what is to
become of the Southwestern in the
shuffle, and since the courts have
granted permission to the Southwest¬
ern to expend thousands of dollars in
repairing track, many of the stock¬
holders are asking what does it sig¬
nify. Some of them say if the South¬
ern has the money to spend this way
and there is to be no redemption by
the Central, in case of the failure at
reorganization, why should not the
Southwestern be holding its money to
meet obligations which hang over it
threateningly ?
Danger of Too Many Melons.
From all the information obtainable
it is feared that there is dang,r of too
many melons again this year. Quite
a number of farmers in both Houston
and Crawford will increase the acreage
in melons this year over last. There
is also a number of others who will
plant liberally this year. It would be
wise in growers to plant some, but
not so many as to make them unpro¬
fitable to all. Unless there is quite an
improvement in general conditions,
the laboring classes in the United
States will not be able to buy as many
melons as they did last year. Men out
of employment cannot buy bread now,
and if there is not a change before
melons get on the market we cau’t see
where the buyers of melons are to
come from. Then again, if there
should be a full crop of peaches it will
have the usual effect of depressing the
price of melons. It may jmy to think
of these things and not plant too much
of either cotton or melons.
EX-MAYOR GILROY INDICTED.
A Sensation When the Grand Jury’s
Work Was Made Known.
The New York Herald of Saturday
morning says: “The result of the
special grand jury’s work was certain
to be interesting to the public, but the
size of the sensation to Be created was
not known to anyboil.. except the
prosecutiug attorney until yesterday
afternoon when the news leaked out
that the following had been indicted,
and that papers were then being pre¬
pared for submission to the court:
Thomas F. Gilroy, formerly mayor of
the oity; Thomas F. McAvoy, polio*
inspector; William W. McLaugh¬
lin, police inspector; Alexander S.
Williams, police inspector. Two
police captains were also indicted, but
their names are kept secret. Although
it is impossible to obtain exact infor¬
mation before the indictments leave
the hands ot the grand jury, it was au¬
thoritatively announced that the in
diotmeut against Gilroy did not relate
to any act he had committed while
mayor of the city, but was based on
the allegation of official misconduct
at the time he was commissioner of
public works, The nature of the
charge could not be learned.
THE LOAN SUCCESSFUL.
It Is Subscribed for Many Times Over
in London and New York.
Advices from Loudon state that
Messrs. N. M. Rothschilds Son de¬
clare that the new American loan has
proved colossal success. Though
the opening of subscriptions only be¬
gan Wednesday morning, the amount
of the loan allotted to Europe has
been covered very many times over
both with them and with Messrs. J. S.
Morgan & Co. It is impossible as bids, yet
to give the exact amount of the
as applications are still coming from
London, and the country is yet to be
heard from.
The Pall Mall Gazette says that the
success of the loan is a tribute to the
power of Messrs. Rothschilds and a
mark of confidence in the great wealth
and financial ability of the United
States.
THE LOAN IN NEW YOTK.
Messrs. August Belmont & Co., and
J. P. Morgan & Co., the managers of
the bond syndicate, closed the sub¬
scription list for the new 4 per cent
bonds at 10:20 o’clock Wednesday
morning, the amount having been
subscribed for many times over.
HONORING PEABODY.
HI# Centennial Right Royally Cel¬
ebrated.
Peabody, Mass., celebrated the cen¬
tennial of the birth of the noted phi¬
lanthropist, George Peabody, Monday.
There was bunting everywhere and
flags floated from all the public build¬
ings, while the decoration of private
residences was general. The school
children in the Peabody Institute lis¬
tened to an address by the Rev. J. W.
Hunt on “George Peabody.” In the
afternoon in the town hall the public
exercises were continued with an ad¬
dress by the Hon. Francis M. Apple
ton, an oration by Lieutenant Governor
Walcott, and a poem, “One Hundred
Years,” by the Rev. Minot J. Savage.
At night there was a big banquet at
| which distinguished guests from all
; parts of the state were present.
j An Ifuitarfapolis Blaze.
The wholesale grocery store of
GeorgeW. Stout at T Imbauapohs, ,. Ind., T ,
was destroyed by fire Monday after
; noon with a loss of $115,000.
NO. 8.
OATES VETOED IT.
ALABAMA’S RAILROAD LITIGA¬
TION BILL FAILS,
And the Matter Will Now Have to be
Settled lu tlie Courts.
A Montgomery special says: The
house of representatives ‘promptly de¬
clined to pass the bill ISvolving the
litigation over the ownership of the
Alabama Great Southern over the gov¬
ernor’s veto. The matter" will have to
be settled in the courts, wli^re a suit is
now pending between thg -,t?vo contest¬
ants, Hamilton the Southern and Dayton. and the pincinnati,
This has been the most "sjfirited con¬
test ever known in the Alabama legis¬
lature, the bill having pastel through
amendments both houses several being times taokdrl' bj reason of It
on.
finally passed both bodies.in due form
and went to the governor fof his sig¬
nature. He vetoed it on account of
its unoonstitutionality in that it dis¬
criminated against alien stockholders.
The house by a vote oj, .53 to 35
declined to pass the bill over the veto
of the executive and thus settled the
matter finally.
COTTON AND FERTILIZERS.
South Carolina Farmers Vdte to Re¬
duce the Acrengw#
A convention of alliumc/*non and
farmers called by Fresidcut.Evans to
consider the fertilizer ami cotton
acreage questions, met ih'-tfeo hall of
the house of representatives#t Colum¬
bia, S. C., Wednesday uigljLh It in¬
cluded about fifty represeutaftvo plant¬ Con¬
ers from all sections of tho stiite.
gressman-elect J. William Stakes intro¬
duced a series of resolutions suggesting
that farmers purchase commercial fer¬
tilizers upon a contract tf> pay for ,
them in cotton currency on November
1st. For acid phosphate, 17,5 pound#
in middling cotton, or $10 in money
per ton, was suggested; for kainit,
190 pounds or $11, and for alnmonia
ted fertilizers 300 pounds or $17—
these prices to bo for the goods free
on board in Charleston. Freight, if
prepaid by sender, is to be* paid in
cotton at 5 cents.
It was resolved, also, that planter#
use ns little commercial fertilizer as
possible, and several speeches With were
made favoring its total d’suije.
regard to the cotton acreage, it was
resolvod that it be cut down to the
point at which cotton may be produced
strictly as a surplus crop and-without
interfering with the productions of
broad and meat and other supplies
necessary to sustain farming opera¬
tions. A resolution favoring a hori¬
zontal reduction of 33 per cent, after
debate, was lost.
The railroads were asked to reduce
the freights on fertilizers 20 per cent.
A committee was appointed to Issue an
address to the farmers setting forth
the action of the convention, and, at
11:15 p. m., the convention adjourned.
It was declared in the convention that
the suggestions were to be considered
as merely advisory and not binding
upon those present. In all the spoochc#
a strong sentiment in favor of .reducing
the acreage was manifested.
PHILADKLI’H 1 A’S ELECTION
Results In a Great Victory for-the Re¬
publicans. 1
Philadelphia maintained ifs Teputa- •
tion for stalwart republicanism in a
city election Tuesday and elected the
candidates of the republican party by
a majority of from 45,000 to 55,000.
The election was for mayor,; receiver
of taxes, conncilmen, police mugis
trates and school directors.
The candidates of the republican
party for mayor aud receiver of taxes
were City Solicitor Charles J. War¬
wick and Charles J. Rohey respective¬
ly. Ex-Governor I'attison aud Col.
Sylvester Bonuafone, Jr., were the i
candidates of the democratic party for
the same offices.
FIVE PERSONS FROZEN.
Death Came to the Whole Family
While Asleep. l •
-
From Beaufort mountain eight miles
south of Irondale, Mo., comes the re¬
port of a sad incident which happened bliz¬
m that section during the recent
zard. A woodchopper named John C.
Warner, his wife and three children
were found frozen to death. The. place
where the bodies were found is an
isolated wood-chopping, three miles
rom the nearest farmer and fjve miles
rom any town.
A DISASTROUS BLAZE.
Hamilton, N. V., Suffers to the Tune
of $400,000.
The business portion of the village
of Hamilton, N. Y., has been almost
entirely destroyed by fire, About
thirty places of business were burned.
The fire started in the Woodruff
block. From there it spread west,
taking the undertaking establishment
of Ramlands <fc Beab, then crossed the
street, destroying Tripp’s opera house.
Fifteen stores were consumed on Utica
street. It is thought the loss will ag¬
gregate $400,000.