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VOL XV. flSGKESSIONAL. THE NATIONS’ LAW-MA g 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 Hales Weekly 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.