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THE MORNING NEWS,
r.tablished 1850. - - Incorporated 1888
*■ J. H. ESTILL. President.
army bill taken up
/
geVAIOK BACON LEADS IN THE
DISCUSSION.
CALLS DOWN SEN. HAWLEY.
eH ir.SIBSIi>Y BILL. SENT BACK TO
calendar.
glr. Bacon Ready to Vote for a Hill
Providing an Attenuate Army for
present Needs—Willing to Stand by
the Administration in Maintenance
~i its Authority in Pliiiippiucs, l>ut
opposed to Policy of Those in Cos II -
t r o|-GeMgia Has Enrnished Her
({until of Soldiers to Philippines.
Washington, Jan. 3.—Without a murmur
of dissent and without a word of com
mfm, the Senate to-day displaced the
shipping subsidy bill from its privileged
position as "unfinished business,” which
It has occupied since the second day of
this session, and substituted for it the
army reorganization bill.
When the Senate convened to-day in Us
first session of the twentieth century the
army bill was taken up with a view to
pressing it to a final vote as soon as possi
ble. fts consideration proceeded until 2
o'clock—the end of the morning session—
shen the subsidy bill was laid before the
get.ate. Mr. Pettigrew of South Dakota
then objected to a request for unanimous
consent to continue the discussion of the
ermy bill. By a vote of the Senate the
military measure was continued for con
sideration, thus making it the unfinished
business and sending the subsidy bill back
to the calendar. During the discussion of
the army measure the opposition senators
indicated that their line of attack upon
the bill would be against the creation of
e large, permanent standing army. There
tvas intimation that objection would not
be offered to a temporary measure to pro
vide an adequate force to maintain the
authority of the United States in the Phil-
Ippines.
At the opening the bill was laid before
the Senate and on demand of Mr. Petti
grew, read in full.
Mr. Proctor, a member of the Military
Committee, explained that the original
9. rite measure had increased only the
artillery arm. The bill provided in brief,
Jlr. Proctor explained, for an army of 58,-
000 minimum strength, and 98,000 maxi
mum strength.
Mr. Bacon inquired who would have
discretion in the fixing of the strength of
the army. -
"The President of the United States,”
replied Mr. Proctor.
' Aguinaldo will have something to say
ai'uut it,” interjected Mr. Hawley.
To Air. Hawiey's remark. Mr. Bacon
retorted hotly. He said the Senate was
fcrrc to di;uss this great question of
the army reorganization seriously, and
with a due sense of its gravity. He had,
he said, asked his question in good faith
end resented therefore, the jocular in
terjection of Air. Hawley.
The Senate was engaged in a most seri
ous discussion. It involved the more se
rious question whether it should be the
recognized policy of the government that
the chief executive should have unlimited,
uncontrolled, unbridled power—the abso
lute power to increase at his will the army
of the United States.
Mr. Hawley disclaimed any intention of
being uncivil, and said he had meant
that the cause of the Filipino insurgents
might be a determining factor in the size
of the army.
Air. Bacon inquired why the discre
tionary power of fixing the size of the
army should be taken from Congress and
conferred upon the President.
Air. Allison maintained that the
strength of the army from year to year
•wotil.t be determined by the appropria
tions for the army made by Congress.
I his year, he said, appropriations would
oc made for an army of the maximum
strength.
Air. Hawley referred to the opening ot
the Civil War, the firing upon Fort Sum
ter, possibly in the presence of Mr. Ba
con—and President Lincoln's subsequent
c<d! for 75,000 men without action by Con
go as.
Mr. Bacon replied that he was not at
that exact point when Sumter was fired
upon. “The time has come,” he said,
"hen the statute of limitations ought to
bur such discussion."
At 2 o'clock the shipping subsidy bill
*a laid before the Senate as the un
finished business. Without division a mo
tion of Mr. Hawley to proceed with the
consideration of the army bill prevailed.
Mr Pettigrew demanded an explanation
°f the army bill.
Mr. Sewell of New Jersey replied that
seventy-six thousand troops are now in
the Philippines, divided among four bun
dl'd posts, and said troops must be pro
vided to replace the volumeers now being
withdrawn. “The conditions,” he said,
"demand the presence of a very consia
ctable force. No matter how. No matter
how we got there, we are there, and we
ought to stay there.”
Mr. Bacon said he was ready now to
'oie for a bill providing an O'Wquate army
for the present need-s of the government,
I'm limited as to the time of its operation.
Me was Irrevocably opposed, he declared,
to the present bill because it fastened
"Pon the country for all time an immense
•landing army. He expressed his perfect
"iiingness to support the administration
in its maintenance of its authority in the
He differed frojn the con
trolling powers In their Philippine policy,
bl " he was always willing to support the
authority of the United States. He
Pointed out that among the soldiers in
' h * Philippines his own state (Georgia)
nad furnished its full proportion.
Nothing was further from him, he said,
"an to suggest that the Senate should
( maintain the government’s hands In
'hose Eastern islands, however Individ
"al senators might feel and think as to
the government's policy. The danger was
'hat the army would be increased event
ually to one of several hundreds of thou
t.uids— to an army that would dominate
" e country. He suggested that the Mili
,a,y Affairs Committee ought to pre
pare a bill providing for a special Phil
ippine army. That, he thought, would re
li'-ve the country of the menace of a great
landing array.
Mr. Sewell said “We now have more
’rnlshes In the Philippines than at any
~rnp almost since the beginning of the
w rtr,”
Nlr - Tillman of South Carolina Inquired
Whether any provision of the bill re
'luired that enlisted men should be re*
1 ,r ned to this country when their ser
' i'es no longer were required. He said
s' It was understood that a young man
1,1 w hom he was interested had been
' r urt-martlaled for some trivial offense,
!' ' "t the expiration of his sentence
“ad bean discharged without friends or
jsatetmrab Motfnina
funds. The War Department had no trace
of him. He declared that no matter what
the charge against the soldier was. he
ought to have been returned to this
country.
Mr. Hawlfry said the necessity for an
adequate army was evident to ail. In ad
dilion to conditions in the Philippines,
known to all, he said that the United
■States might at any time come within the
pale of war with some European Power.
Mr. Hawley said:
"We are not altogether out of sight of
some possibility of war with some Euro
pean Power. We do not know. They are
in a great deal of trouble there and I un
derstand they look with very great jeal
ousy upon our talk of a Danish Island
and our talk about acquiring other terri
tory.”
Mr. Carter defended the proposed in
crease in the permanent army.
Mr. Bacon asked how long a time would
be necessary to keep so large an army in
the Philippines. Mr. Carter finally re
plied that the word "indefinite" fits the
situation very well.
Mr. Daniel called up and had read the-
House resolutions on the death of the
late Representative Wise of Virginia. He
then offered a resolution expressing the
sorrow of the Senate, arffl at 4:18 p. m.,
as a further mark of respect, the Senate
adjourned.
OUTPUT OF*THE MINES.
Director Roberts Estimates Gold anil
Silver Production, of the 1 nited
States for I{KM>.
Washington. Jan. 3.—George E. Roberts,
the director of the mint, to-day made
public his preliminary estimate of the
production of gold and silver in the United
States during the calendar year 1900. The
aggregate of gold is given, as 3,837,213 fine
ounces, valued at $79,322,231, and of silver,
59,610,543 fine ounces, which, at the ap
proximate average price of 61 cents for
the year, makes the value $36,362,431. Dur
ing the calendar year 1899 the gold produc
tion was $,71,053,000, and the silver produc
tion 54,764,500 fine ounces.
The Nome gold and silver production
for 1900 is given as $5,100,000 and that of
the Klondike, which Includes both the
American and Canadian fields $22,287,566.
The product of the Carfadian is not
included In the figures given, but as the
gold and silver comes to the American
mints, the value Is given separately. Fol
lowing is the production of Southern
states:
Georgia, gold, value $120,165; silver, 478
fine ounces. .
North Carolina, gold, value $51,018; sil
ver, 13,092; fine ounces.
South Carolina, gold, value, $122,625; sil
ver, 395 fine ounces.
Virginia, gold, value, $3,534; silver, 285
fine ounces.
COUNCILMEN ARRESTED.
Three of Scranton Members of Conn
ell Chnrged With Soliciting'
Bribes for City Franchises.
Scranton. Pa. ( Jan. 3.—Edward J. Cole
man, common councilman and John J.
McAndrew and Thomas J. O'Boyle, select
eouncilmen, were arrested to-day on war
rants sworn out by the municipal league
accusing them of bribery and solicitation
of bribes in connection with the granting
of city franchises. Twelve of the city
eouncilmen have already resigned their
seats to avoid prosecution and four oth
ers are under arrest. Other arrests are
expected.
ANNAPOLIS*TURN NOW.
Superintendent of Nnvnl Academy to
Report Upon Death of Private
Green of Virginia.
Washington, Jan. 3.—The Navy Depart
ment has called upon the superintendent
of the Naval Academy for a report upon
a charge submitted by Representative
Rixey of Virginia that Private Marine
Robert Green of Virginia had died at An
napolis from ill treatment while sick.
The medical record shows that Green died
Dec. 14 from quick pneumonia. His father
is a special pension examiner.
TO IIE COURT OF INftITRY.
Green Was Member of Marine Corps
anil Not H Cadet.
Annapolis, Md., Jan. 3.— The order of
the Navy Department to investigate the
death of Private Marine Green has been
reoeived at the Naval Academy. Supt.
Wainwright will appoint the board of in
vestigation in a few days.
The charges preferred by the friends
of Private Green embrace two branches:
That the Santee, on which the marine
guard is quartered, is overcrowded; and
that Green received improper treatment,
the specific charge in this connection be
ing that the deck of the Santee was wash
ed with a hose while he lay in hiß ham
mock 111 with pneumonia.
The charges do not specify any partic
ular officer or officers as culpable, so the
board will probably sit in the nature of
a court of inquiry.
another shoe combine.
Manufacturer* ami Machine Men to
(in In Together.
Columbus. r>., Jan. 3.-The publication ot
a dispatch from Chicago concerning the
proposed consolidation of-shoe munufao
turere, which is being promoted by Robert
F. Wolfe of this city, has brought out
the fact that plans for a combination of
shoe manufacturer® and shoe machine
manufacturers are also being matured.
The head of one of the largest shoe fac
tories In Ohio to-day said:
‘The combination, if It Is formed, will
moC certainly restrict the erection of new
factories, as shoes cannot be made with
out machinery, and the machines used in
the shoe trade are covered by patents
which have a long time to run.”
NEGROKA OFF FOR HAWAII.
Two Curl end* Leave Montgomery for
the Sugar Plantation*.
Ala., Jan. 3.—Two car
loads of negroes left here to-night for
the Hawaiian Islands, via San Francis
co. They go to take employment on the
sugar plantations there.
Prominent HntUvrare Man Dead.
Knoxville. Tenn., lan. 3.-W. E. Gib
bens, a member of the firm of the Wood
ruff Hardware Compny, and who has
been prominently ld.ntltled with the
Southern Hardware Jobbers’ Association,
died at hi* home in this city to-night.
SAVANNAH. GA„ FRIDAY. JANUARY 4, 1901.
PREPARED TO SIGN
CHINESE ENVOYS HEADY WHEN
MINISTERS ARE.
IS VON WALDERSEE DEAD?
REPORT PUBLISHED IN PAniS THAT
HE WAS KILLED
By an Ollleer of the Allied Troop*.
Rumor Said to Be Current in Ber
lin—The Count Cabled Hl* Wife
New Year'll Day, Saying "Hence la
In Sight at I ami. Hurrah"—Chinese
Plenipotentiaries to He Required
to Mgu Agreement First nnil Con
sult Afterwards.
Pekin, Jan. 3.—At a meeting of the for
eign ministers to-day it was announced
that Li Hung Chang and Prince Ching
were prepared to sign an agreement as
soon as it is ready for signature.
Li Hung Chang desires to conduct the
peace negotiations to a conclusion and the
physicians attending him think he might
be taken to the Spanish legation, where
the conferences have been held, if the
weather is favorable.
The Germans are reported to be return
ing to San Ho with a number of prison
ers.
Chinese Unit Come to Taw.
Pekin, Jan. 2.—The foreign envoys with
the exception of the British minister, Sir
Ernest Satow, met to-day to consider the
time and place for the acceptance, and
signing of the joint note. Nothing Defi
nite was decided. It seems to be the
opinion of some of the envoys that the
acceptance of the terms of the note by
the Chinese is not explicit enough. The
Chinese desire for consultations regard
ing the razing of the forts and the lega
tion guards is open to misinterpretation
and liable to lead to long and continuous
arguments, which might, in the opinion
of some of the ministers, simply mean
sparring for time on the part of the Chi
nese.
Consequently the Chinese plenipotentia
ries will be notified that they must sign
the note before the meeting between them
and the foreign envoys can be held.
Sir Ernest Satow, who h’as been suffer
ing from chills and fever, is better.
The military engineers' of the allies
have agreed upon a plan for the future
defenses of the legations.
VON’ WAbDEBSEE REPORTED
Killed by nn Officer of the Allied
Troops.
Paris, Jan. 4.—Be Journal reports, un
der reserve, the death of Count von Wal
dersee, the rumor being that lie was kill
ed by an officer of the allied troops, the
circumstances not being related.
It is said tha#*the rumor Is current in
Berlin, where it is not confirmed.
VON’ \VALDERSEK’S DISPATCH.
Cabled the Countess on New Year's
Day.
Berlin, Jan. 3.—Count von Waldersee
cabled the Countess New Year's day:
"Peace is in sight at last. Hurrah!”
The final peace negotiations will not be
gin, it Is understood in official circles
here, until not only the note of the Powers
but also the Chinese acceptance of the
preliminaries shall have become a formal
international agreement on the part of
the Powers at present engaged in this
matter.
WILL SEEK CONCESSIONS.
Chinese Newspapers Sny There Are
SStHt Debatable Questions.
Shanghai. Jan. 3.—The Chinese news-*
paper Chung-Wel-Yel-Ao mokes the fol
lowing statement:
“The Imperial rescript accepting the
peace conditions instructs the Chinese
commissioners, when discussing points
not specified, to gain as many concessions
as possible. The conditions involve 200 de
batable questions.”
PRINCE SC TO APOLOGIZE.
May He Sent to Berlin to Do Penane-e
for Von Ketteler.
London, Jan. 4.—Wiring from Pekin
yesterday to the Times, Dr. Mojrison says
he behaves that Prince .Hu, whose palace
was destroyed during the siege of the le
gations, will be chosen to go to Berlin to
apologize for the murder of Baron von
Ketteler.
"Russia Is negotiating with Germany a
convention aiming to restore the railway
fiom Tien Tsln to Shan Hal Kwan to
Great Britain,” Dr. Morrison says, "sad
dled with certain conditions in Russia's
favor.”
THE ELSA IN DISTRESS.
German Burk. From Savannah for
Hamburg. in n Bud Wy Dee. SI.
London, Jan. 3.—The British steamer
Maranhense, from Liverpool, Dec. 20, for
Para, has arrived at Havre and reports
that on Dec. 31 she spoke the German
bark Elsa, Capt. Springer, from Savan
nah. Nov. 19, for Hamburg, In latitude 52,
longitude 3, "damaged and leaking. The
Elsa wished to be taken In tow, but the
gale would not permit. Her crew refused
to abandon her. The masts and rigging
appeared to be iptact.
heard two messages.
Plngree Attacks Congress. Courts,
Legislature and Pres*.
Lansing, Mich., Jan. 3.—Both houses of
the Michigan Legislature assembled in
joint session to-day to hear the exaugu
ral message of ex-Gov. Plngree and the
Inaugural message of Gov. Bliss. Mr. Pin
gree virulently attacked Congress, the
courts, Legislature and the press.
Gov. Bliss recommended stringent legis
lation to discourage, If not prohibit, the
sale of cigarettes.
Russia Now Working Japanese.
cp Petersburg, Jan. 3.—The \ ladlvoa
took correspondent of the Novoe Vretn
va telegraphs that the Japanese and Rus
sians are fraternizing, the Japanese Bing
ing Russian soogs.
APPROVE CHINESE POLICY.
Committee of American Asiatic Asso
ciation Memorialises President
on Chinn Treaty.
Washington, Jan. 3.—A committee from
the American Asiatic Association, with
headquarters in New York, called on the
President to-day and presented a mem
orial expressing their emphatic approval
of the efforts made by him and the Secre
tary of State to hasten a settlement of
the questions at Issue between the Powers
and the government of China.
The memorialists single out for special
approval the demand made upon China
that In future the diplomatic representa
tives of foreign governments have direct
access to the Emperor. The belief is ex
pressed that the good of all concerned re
quired the resumption of authority by
Emperor Kwang Hsu, and the hope is ex
pressed that the integrity of the Chinese
Empire may be a condition precedent of
any settlement to which the United States
is u party, and also that the great prov
ince of Manchuria should continue to be
regarded as inseparable from the eigh
teen provinces of the middle kingdom.
In the negotiations of anew treaty of
trade and navigation the memorialists
represent the necessity of insisting upon
full heed being paid both by the imperial
and provincial governments to the letter
of such treaties in respect of the transit
passes issued in return for stipulated pay
ment, and intended to clear imported
merchandise from all further taxation on
its way to the inland markets.
One of the principal objects and pur
poses of the association is to foster and
sdfeguard the -trade and commercial in
terests of citizens of the United States
and others associated therewith in the
empire of China, Japan and Korea, and
in the Philippine Islands. The member
ship is said to consist mainly of persons
interested in the cotton trade. The dele
gation which called upon the President to
day consisted of Joseph R. Patterson.
Clarence Cary, Sikis D. Webb, John
Koord and S. G. Hopkins, all of New
York; A. T. Leftwich of Baltimore and
D. A. Tompkins of Charlotte, N. C.
CHAFFEE NO RAIDER.
He Makes a Stnement of the Move
nienls of Troops—No I’nrt Taken
In Offensive Operations.
Washington, Jan. 3.—Gen. Chaffee has
cleared himself of any suspicion of par
ticipating in any of the looting expedi
tions which are said in some quarters to
be going on in China under the disguise
of punitive expeditions. It would appear
that the officials had invited his explana
tion given in the following cablegram:
“Pekin.—lV> Adjutant General, Wash
ington, Jan. 2.—C01. Theodore J. Wint re
turned. Movement simply to verify report
Christians had been murdered and secure
the arrest guilty parties if allegations
found true. •*•••• Germans from
Tien Tsin had been in country. Talc© no
part in offensive operations; patrol coun
try between Pekin, Hoshiwu and Chang
Kiawan occasionally for the purpose of
order. * Chaffee."
BRADSTREET’S REPPHTS.
More Failures in 1900 Than There
Were in 1899.
New York. Jan. 3.—There were 9,913 fail
ures with liabilities of $127,184,705 and as
sets of $60,119,896, reported to Bradstreets’s
in 1900, a gain of 2.8 per cent, in number
over 1899, and an Increase of 6 per cent,
or about twice the former percentage in
liabilities, but assets pnly equalled of the
preceding year.
An increased number of failure is noted
in the Middle, Western, Northwestern and
Southern states. The increase In the South
is 8 per cent.
As regards liabilities, perhaps the best
test of the statistics, the heaviest gain is
in the Northwest. 68 per cent., while the
Middle states gained 45 per cent., the
Southern states 38 per cent., and Western
only 1.3 per cent.
SUGAR-COFFEE FIGHT OVER.
Arhneklen and Sugar Trnut Fix Up
Their Difference*.
Chicago, Jan. 3—The Tribune will print
the following story to-morrow:
Private advices have reached Chicago
that the war between the great sugar and
coffee trusts, which has cost these trail
rivals approximately $25,000,000 is to be
brought to a close.
Negotiations have been.closed in New
York and Chicago, whereby the Arbuckles
will nominally give up sugar refining and
become dictators in the coffee trade; Hen
ry O. Havemeyer and the sugar trust
will practically give up the coffee roast
ing plants, with which an effort was
made to crush out John Arbuckle and han
dle only the sugar business.
THE NAVAL STATION.
Port Hoynl-Chnrlesion Rimril to Fin
ish Up Its Work.
Washington, Jan. 3.—The Port Royal
board, headed by Rear Admiral Rodgers,
to-day began the further consideration of
the question of the removal of the Port
Royal, S. C., naval station to Charleston
harbor.
The work of the board has been retard
ed by inability to obtain certain neces
sary data from soundings in the harbor
at Charleston, on account of Ihe weather.
However, all necessary information is
now before the board, and It Is expected
to complete its work and submit its re
port within a week or ten days.
CREW OF THE IVYDENE.
One Man Drowned and Twenty Rad
iy Frostbitten.
St. John, N. F., Jan. 3.—The crew of the
British steamer Ivydene, Capt. Milburn,
from Hamburg, Dec. 15, for Wilmington,
N. C.. which went ashore Tuesday night
during a storm at LaManche, arrived here
this afternoon. One man was drowned.
Twenty of the twenty-seven survivors
were badly frostbitten. The steamer
broke up to-day. Nothing was
saved. Most of the crew are Italians or
Swedes, and they are pnle-atrlcken.
FOR ARMY MBS I STANCE.
Deficiency Estimate of $13,000,000
Submitted by Secretary.
Washington, Jan. The Secretary of 1
War has submitted to Congress an ad
ditional deficiency estimate of $3,(190,900
for army subsistence, caused chiefly by
the heavy demands made by the forces
in China and tha Philippines. .
THE CAPE IS EXCITED
CITIZENS BEING ENROLLED AS
VOLUNTEERS.
NAVAL GUNS AND MEN LANDED.
‘ -"n, t eg
BOERS TRAVELING THROUGH THE
COLONY AT WILL.
liner Prisoners lifc Re Transferred to
Transport*—Business Men II ei n K
Uruunixeil ns Home Guards and
Millionaires unit lie UK nr s Enlist
ing; Willi liiimi 1 Ardor—Six Thou
sand nnd Five Hundred Irregulars
Enlisted in the Lust Few Days.
Boers Travel in Parallel Uoluniiis,
Sweeping the Country of Horses
mill Supplies.
Cape Town, Jan. 3.—The military au
thorities are preparing for all contingen
cies. it has been decided to transfer the
Boer prisoners from the camps to trans
ports.
Farmers coming into Carnarvon describe
the Boers as traveling in parallel col
umns, with numerous flanking parties
sweeping the country of horses, plunder
ing loyalists and carrying off everything
eatable. It appears that they are accom
panied by strings of pack horses lightly
loaded.
Colesberg telegraphs that Kritzinger’s
commando is crossing the Middleburg dis
trict, but is getting few' if any recruits.
Here in Cape Tow n, such business men
as are unable to leave are organizing a
town guard composed of the leading cit
izens. The commercial companies have
asked the mayor to call a mass meeting
to urge the government to suppress dis
loyal newspapers and to proclaim martial
law. The enrollment of volunteers for the
defense of the colony was started to-day
with the utmost enthusiasm. The mem
bers of the civil service enlisted in a body
and millionaires and beggars are enlist
ing with equal ardor.
A station master of the Fraserbttrg road
has seized a number of cases marked
“condensed milk” addressed, to Fraser,
burg, which contained 3,000 split bullets,
500 detonators and 160 pounds of dyna
mite.
The British battleship Monarch to-day
landed men and guns to relieve the troops
for service northward. It is believed that
the guns will be sent up the country.
Five hundred citizens enlisted to-day,
the enrollment being very active. It is
hoped that the first batch of mounted
men will leave within three slays for
Worcester. They are to hold the passes of
the Hex river mountains and to protect
the railway tunnel. The organization Is
rough and ready and not troubled with
drill or special uniform. Horses are
scarce.
Six thousand flvq hundred South
African irregulars have been recruited
during the last eight weeks.
Tlie Boers in the Transvaal have been
exceedingly active for the last week or so,
daily attacking trains, convoys nnd Iso
lated posts. In most instances they have
been repulsed and th? railways are now
working more regularly.
A commando is supposed to be In the
mountains dividing Middleburg and Graaf
Reinet, but cannot be exactly located.
The invaders in the We'st, who were ex
pected at Fraserburg to-day have altered
their course and are now in the direction
of Wllliston, to the northwest. The
British have occupied Fraserburg.
The Boers in Bechuanalafid have been
again Joined by the inhabitants who once
before rebelled.
Commandos are reported to be at
Bllkfontein, Boetsay and Daniels Klul.
Their objective is believed to be Grlqua
town, which is now occupied by the Brit
ish.
ADVICES MORE HOPEFUL.
Lord Roberts in Chnrjir of War
(Mice Causes Metier Keeling.
London, Jan, 4.—Advices from Cape
Town this morning are more hopeful, ow
ing to the active recruiting of local forces
in all quarters, and a better feeling pre
vails In London, based upon the prospecls
of Lord Roberts taking the reins at the
war office.
From Sydney, N. S. W., it is reported
5,000 men have joined the new contin
gents.
According to the Dally Express laor 1
Kitchener has wurnrd the mine owners
that they must not count upon military
protection.
Fighting Reported North of Matjes
footeln.
London, Jan. 3.—There is an uncon
firmed report from Cape Town current
that lighting has occurred eighty miles
north of Maljeefonteln.
FOREIGN MAIL FAVORED.
Small Package* Carried in Mails nl
Lower Rates.
Washington, Jan. 3.—Representative
Rixey of Virginia to-day introduced a
resolution for an investigation of the rea
son why small packages are carried
through the malls for foreign govern
ments at a lower rate than Is given
American citizens. The Inquiry grows
out of the parcel post conventions which
tho government has made with a number
of foreign countries. ,
TO RETIRE LEE AND WILSON.
As Brigadiers and Klin Her as a Maj
or General.
Washington, Jan. 3.—The Senate Com
mittee on Military Affairs to-day agreed
to accept the amendment to the army re
organization bill suggested by Senator
Daniel for the retirement of Gen. Fita
hugh Lee end Gen. James H. Wilson as
brigadier generals anl also agreed to an
amendment for the retirement of Gen.
Shsfter as a major general. Tile commit
tee also decided to press the bill with all
possible speed.
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To Extend National laws to Hawaii.
Washington, Jan. 3.—A bill providing
for the '.tension of the land laws of the
United . tates to Hawaii was to-day in
troduced by Senator Hansbrough.
SENATE’S REQUEST REFUSED.
President Declines to Furnish Lnw
siie Report on Conduct of Cu
hnu I’ostni Service.
Washington. J.m. 3.—The President to
day sent a message to the Senate, de
clining the request of that body made
in a resolution passed on the 19th of De
cember, and addressed to the Secretary
of War for the transmittal of the Lawshe
report in regard to the irregularities in
connection with postal affairs in Cuba.
The declination is considered exceptional,
and It is possible it will create more or
less discussion. The President’s message
is as follows: •
"To the Senate of the, United States:
In reply to a resolution of the Senate of
Dec. 19, 1900, directing the Secretary of
War to transmit to the Senate the report
of Abraham L. Lawshe, giving in detail
the result of his investigations made un
der tlie direction of the War Department
into the receipts and expenditures of
Cuban funds, the Senate is informed that
for the reasons stated in the accompany
ing communication from the Secretary of
War, dated Dec. 28, 1900. It is not deemed
compatible with the publio interest to
transmit the report to the Senate at this
time.
“Executive Mansion, Jan. 3, 1901.
"William McKinley.”
Secretary Root’s explanation to the
, PresidtffTt was couched in the following
language:
“The document referred to is a confi
dential report of an investigation made
under your authority for the purpose of
enabling you. through this department,
to properly direct the prosecution of cer
tain offenders against ttie laws of Cuba.
“The prosecutions are now pending.
While they are pending it is not, in my
judgment, compatible with the public in
terests that the reports should be made
public.
"I transmit a copy of the report, to
gether with the resolution for your ac
tion or instructions.”
ROME NEGRO LYNCHED.
Afler Being Helenseil From .tail by
Order of the Judge tlie Mob
Took Hecil'and Killed Him.
Rome, Jan. 3.—An Associated Press dis
patch says George Reed, a negro charged
with an attempted assault on Mrs. J. M.
Locklear of thin city lust night was
hanged to-day to a tree, after which his
body was riddled with buliets by
of 159 citizens. Reed protested his inno
cence. Considerable excitement prevailed
throughout the day before the lynching
was accomplished. After hts arrest thl3
morning the negro was taken before Mrs.
Locklear, but she failed to identify him.
and he was returned to Jail. However,
the mob which had been seeking the
prisoner's life apparently was not satis
fied.
The demonstrations were so pronounce*!
that Judge Henry of the Superior Court,
not seeing any reason for holding Reed
and fearing an attack on the Jail, or
dered the sheriff to release him. The
mob, learning of the release, formed with
in the city limits and in an orderly man
ner marched to the house of Lila Giover
in North Rome. There the men found
Reed. He was taken three miles from the
place before being lynched. Mrs. Lock
lear's condition is serious.
THE DEADLY MINE GAS.
Fonr Mine Olltcial* Overcome anil
Two Are Dead.
Wilkesbarre, Pa., Jan. 3.—An accident
at the Pine Ridge colliery of the Algon
quin Coal Company to-day caused the
death of two men and the fatal injuring
of two others. Considerable gas had ac
cumulated in the mine.
This morning D. J. Williams, the sup
erintendent of the mine, William Morgan,
the assistant superintendent, and William
Early and Marline Fortune, fire bosses,
entered the mine to make repairs. The
party did not return at noon. A4 2 o’clock
a searching party went Into the mine to
look for them. The searchers were driven
back by the black damp.
A rescuing party of experienced miners
was then organized and at 5 o’clock re
ported that they could find no traces of
the missing men.
Another reselling party of six volun
teers finally managed to push heir way
into the workings and came across the
dead bodies of Williams and Morgan.
Later a fourth rescuing party found
Early and Fortune. They were uncon
scious and, when brought out physicians
said they could not recover. Two thous
and people cheered the rescuers. All the
victims had families.
BULLETIN!! FROM THE SEA.
Ilrillsli Steward Commits Suicide b>
.Inin plug; Overboard.
New Orleans, Jan. 3.—The British
steamer Indian from Belfast reports:
Dec. 16, Chief Steward T. Smith of Liver
pool, aged 31, disappeared and Is suppos
ed to pave committed suicide by jumping
overboard
The steamer Etruria, from Buenos
Ayres reports on Dec. 17, latitude 9,
south, longitude, 34.40 west, spoke a four
masted English bark, showing the stgnal
letters M. S. P. H. from Japan for New
York, 152 days out; all well, wished to be
renorted.
On Dec. 28, latitude 28, north, longitude
74.20 west, spoke a Norwegian bark, show
ing letters H. K. D. P., all well; request
ed to be reported.
TO DAM THE SAVANNAH.
————
Senator Tillman In t rod urea Rill for
Twin City Power Company.
Washington, Jan. 3.—Senator Tillman
to-day lntrodueed a bill in the Senate,
authorizing the Twin City Power Com
pany, a corporation organized under the
laws of the state of South Carolina, to
construct two dams on the Savannah
river. One of the dams is to be con
structed across the river at or near where
Dorton's creek, in Edgefield county, emp
ties into the river, and the other is pro
posed to be built at the southern end of
Price's Island, about five miles from the
mouth of Dorton’s creek.
A Change at the Naval Station.
Washington. Jan. 3.—Rear Admiral G.
W. Sumner has been detached from the
command of the Port Royal naval station
and will succeed Rear Admiral Casey as
commandant of the Philadelphia navy
yard.
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WEEKLY 2-TIMEB-A-WEEK,SI A YEAR
RADICALS iDEFEATED
A MOVE TO REDUCE THE SOUTH'S
RE PH E SENT A TION.
QUITE A FLURRY CREATED.
DEMOCR ATS BEGAN FILIBUSTERING
AT ONCE.
Many Republicans ((uletly Aided
Them by Pairing; With Absent
Members, or liy Hi-niii iuinu Away
From the lliiuse—The Resolution
Introduced by 04instead of Penn
sylvania—Vote Was Very Close,
•nit No Huornni Was Declared uml
tlie House Adjourned.
Washington, Jan. 3.—The radical ele
ment among the House Republicans wno
favor cutting down the representation
from the Southern states in which the
franchise is abridged suffered defeat to
day because a number of their col
leagues refused to act with them.
The issue was precipitated quite unex
pectedly. The leaders had decreed that
the reapportionment bill should be taken
up to-day, but before it could be called
Mr. Olmstead of Pennsylvania offered as
a matter of privilege, a resolution recit
ing the alleged abridgment of the suf
frage in Louisiana,Mississippi,South Car
olina, North Carolina and directing the
Committee on Census to investigate and
report the facts to the House in order
that a constitutional basis of representa
tion could be established for those states.
The resolution created a sensation. It
was a surprise even to several of the
Republican leaders. The leaders on the
Democratic side sought in vain to head off
the resolution with points of order, but
the Speaker ruled against them. They
then began a filibuster, openly avowing
that they would fight every proposition
looking to the reduction of Representation
from the Southern states to the bitter
end. /
Several of the Republicans were in
sympathy with them and their tndlfbsr
enee to the fate of the Olmstead resolu
tion In the end gave the opposition tho
victory of to-day. Many of them quiet
ly paired with absent Democrats, leaving
their absent colleagues unpaired. Asa re
sult, when the question of consideration
was raised against the resolution it was
defeated, 81-83.
Although the vote was a strict party
vote, two Republicans, l,andis of Indiana,
and Mann of Illinois, answered present,
but did not vote. But the story of the
defeat is found in the absentees on both
sided who were unpaired. Thirty-two Re
publicans were absent and unpaired
against sixteen of the opposition. Those
absent and unpaired, were:
Republicans—Boutelle of Maine, Brosl
us, Brown, Burkett. Caiderhead, Clark of
New Hampshire, Da hie, Samuel Daven
port, Dick, Fowler, Gardner of New Jer
sey. Hawley, Hoffecker, Knox. Lorimer,
Loudenslager, McCleary. Metcalf. Miller,
Mondell, Morgan, Needham, Otjen, Par
ker, Prince, Russell, Showalter, Smith ->f
Illinois, Sprague, Stevens of Minnesota,
Wadsworth, and Wanger.
Democrats—Barber of Pennsylvania,
Bradley of New York, Brewer, Caldwell,
Oatchings, Gaston, Gayle, Glynn, Levy,
May, Meeklnson, Shephard, Stallings, Wil
son of South Carolina, and Zelgler.
Silver Republican—Wilson of Idaho.
The situation witii reference to the ap
portionment bill is greatly complicated
as a result of the Injection of the Olm
stead resolution. Chairman Hopkins, how
ever. is confident of victory for his bill.
He thinks the Olmstead resolution may
pass In a full House, and that the inves
tigation may be made, but that the mat
ter will end there. Irrespective of the fats
of the resolution, however, he will press
the reapportionment bill and thinks it will
pass on Monday. If possible he will dis
place private bill day to-morrow with his
measure.
The resolution was offered immediately
after the reading of the Journal. A flurry
ensued on the Democratic side. Mr.
Richardson of Tennessee, the minority
leader, interrupted the reading o ask
whether the resolution required unani
mous consent.
"It does not," replied the Speaker. “Ii
is offered as a matter of privilege."
"I make the point that the resolution
does not constitute a matter of privilege,"
said Mr. Richardson.
"The reading has not proceeded far
enough to determine that point,” respond
ed the speaker.
Mr. Underwood of Alabama immediate
ly made the point that there was no quo
rum present. The speaker glanced about
the House. Evidently there was no quo
rum present.
"The chair will count,” he said. The
House was counted, and when the Speak
er announced 141 present—not a quorum—
Mr. Underwood Immediately moved an ad
journ merit. The ayes and nays were de
manded and obtained upon this motion.
During the roll call there were hurried
consultations on both sides of the House.
Many of the Republicans were taken aa
much by surprise as the Democrats. The
latter decided to filibuster to the last
ditch. The motion to adjourn was lost,
ayes 68, noes 90, answering present but
not voting 14; noted present 2; total, 179.
The speaker Included himself in order to
make up the quorum. When ihe reading
of the resolution was concluded Mr.
Richardson insisted that the resolution
was not privileged. He argued that the
resolution should go to a committee.
Mr. f|lmsteud. In reply, argued that Un
der the constitution matters affecting the
reapportlonirveut of representatives were
of the highest constitutional privilege and
cited an elaborate opinion of Speaker
Kelfer I nthe Forty-seventh Congress in
support of hts position. f
Speaker Randall, he said, had also held
that an apportionment bill was a mat
ter of the highest privilege. His reso
lution, he contended, seeking as It did
to determine the constitutional basis of
representation, was equally privileged.
The House, he argued, could not act In
telligently unless it was advised In what
states and to what extent the suffrage
of citizens of the United States had been
abridged. Mr. Olmstead said tho resolu
tion touched the dignity of the House it
self. If the suffrage hud been abridged
in certain states then members were un
justly and unconstitutional holding seats
upon this floor and this constituted an
Invasion of the dignity of the House.
The matter dealt with by the resolution
might also affect the election of the Pres
ident of the United States, the matter
held repeatedly to be a matter of high
privilege.
Mr. O'-nstead was willing to rest his
case upon the plain mandate of ths con
stitution.
Mr. Richardson made a brief reaponae
to Mr. Olmstead. He conceded that an
apportionment bill was privileged, hut
contended that a resolution itself was
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