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CONSTITUTION
THE UNSIGNED DEED.
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1880.
YOL. XII., NO. 36
INDIGNATION OP SOUTH GEORGIA.
Tk« Failure ef tbe Msecs sad Brnanrick Project
CtmruJ-ln Interview Witk Mr. Bacon
tad a Brssawiek Delegxtioc-
Tfce Goventer'e Abeenee.
Colonel A. O. Bacon.speaker of the bouse
u( representative*. i* in the citv attending
the minieme court. We called to nee him
yesterday at the Markhaiu, and probed him
to find out how seriously wounded bit part
of the state wm over the failure of the Ma
♦•on and Brunswick sale, Colonel Hacoo
lias been sneaker of the bouse several time*
and in the best authority we can find on the
intention and feeling of our legislature
We asked Colonel Bacon the pointed ques
tion; “Wiiat waa thought in Macon of the
failnre of the sale?"
He replied: 4 Why, air, it waa like a
thunder-clan out of a clear iky. The day
before we ha t learned that tba require
ment* of the ac. had all been complied
witii by the purchaser?, and that nothing
remained u» 1m? executed hut a few forniali-
viea about which there was no doubt or
ditficnDy. There**** a considerable amount
of plain swearing the next mormug when
T»i* CoiuTimioa told the resii’t, of the
matter."
••Well, what do yen think of tlie refusal
of the governor to »i*.« the deed which was
demanded ■*
"I don't know what may have been the
terms of that particular deed, hut I think it
would have been right for the governor to
liave given the purchasers a proper war
ranty deed to the properly. The governor ia
suptiorted in his construction of his pone*
under the act by very high legal authority,
lint I think it very unfortunate »har lie
should have held to such view of t it is
imnosMble to frame « statute in w«ni»
which arc not liable to more then one «on-
struction, and therefore I thii k a plain,
reasonable, common-sense co i*lruc"< u
should have controlled rather than on
which is technical. The fundamen al
principle in the construction of» aiatuu? is
to ascertain the will of the law msk* r*
What they intended, that is the law. Now
f don’t believe there was a single member of
the legislature who intended alien he voted
for this act that the imif.baser should only
receive a quit claim deed to jne property. I
certainly had no such intention, and I have
Vet to see a senator or representative who
"If the recollection of other legislators is
to the same effect it would then seem to he
conclusive as to the pro|>er construction of
the act.’"
"No, that cannot he said; bee me the
proper construction of a statute cannot Im*
determined by taking the testimony of the
legislators as to their intention. Itut there
aie several rules recognized by the court- by
which such intention can lie ascertained.
One of the most common of these is that
the law makers intended that which was
reasonable. The reasonable construe; ion of
thin statute is that it was intended that the
purchasers should have a warranty deed.
It would have been unreasonable * in the
extreme for the legislature to have intended
and expected that the purchasers would
l«y over a million of dollars for a quit
claim deed to the road. Every one must
know that if such intention had been ex
pressed in lire act. it would have effectually
driven off every bidder from the sale:
and I don’t think there h anything
in the act which under a proper construc
tion indicates directly or by implication any
such intention. Much an idea never entered
the minds of the legislature or of the peo
ple, and the best evidence of ft is found in
the fact that the raising of the point ha*
taken everybody completely by surprise.
The state claims to have a perfect title to the
property, and it was mteudcu to convey a
l»erfect title to the purchaser. It seems to
me that a refusal to give a warranty title
implies a want of confidence in the till*
of the state which is not warranted by the
•acta of the case."
"What do you say aa to the $010,000 second
mortgage bonds. Don’t you recognise any
danger there?"
"No I do not-—the road was sold under
the tint mortgage some years ago, and fail
ed at the sale to bring naif what was due
on that mortgage. I am unable to see how
unylien can still remain in favor of the
second mortgage, even if that were other
wise. I doubt if the second mortgage
bunds would be binding on the road. Tuey
were not all issued to third parties, but the
former owners of the road bud the bond*
executed and divided totween themselves.
It can be easily shown that at the
time of the sale of the road, over $5)0.000
of these I*ouds were still in their posses-
. sion."
"I nder all the circumstances then, what
would you say is the l»esi thing to be done?"
"That's a delicate question to answer
where the responsibility rests with the gov
ernor; hut a* a matter of opinion, holding
the views I do as to the propriety of giviug
a waranty deed, I should say the beM
thing still would he to sign such a deed.
The limitation of thirty davs was upon
the purchasers that they should do certain
things within that time. I see nothing
in the act which prevents the
governor from executing the derd after
(tie expiration of that lime, if he is satisfied
the purchasers have made proper compli
ance within the specified time "
"What do you think of the proposition
to call an extra session of the legislature?"
•If it was necessaty I should say call it,
as great public interests areat stake. But
I do not think it necessary to put the Male
io an extra expense of twelve or fifteen
thousand dollars to accomplish what ran lie
•lone by the simple signature of the gov
ernor, a signature which 1 think
he now has authority to make.
The failure in this matter is a great public
calamity. The Brunswick road with the
which, he aid, was like a giant com pared
to a liliputian, when we consider the mon
opoly of the Central when the* act wan
passed, and what it will be when this com
bination commences to w-.rk. Onr people,
aid he. are in arnest about tbia matter,
and if is wrong to carry out the policy of
the lase act, we demand an extra session
of tire-legislature to prevent its failure,
which would be a great public calamity.
Judge Merabon agreed with Mr. Goodyear
about the extra session, a»didMess:s Hal
and McArthur.
From every sr.urce we can hear that the
greatest dissatisfaction exists iu southern
and central Georgia over the failnre of the
lease. Governor Colquitt has gone to New
York. He left on Saturday night, and it
is thought here that lie has gone on matters
connected with the Macon and Brans trick.
MRS. GREEN
And Her Hoarded Trillions Well
Guarded I rom Her Husband.
"Gath." In the Cincinnati Enquirer. ,
Some time ago the president of iheLbuia-
ville and Nashville and Great Southern
railroad said tnat there was a woman Own
ing stock in that railroad who had $25,600,-
bOO. I thought over the whole range of
women in this country, and failed to drop
to any with that amount of mouey. I in
quired of other persons, and they thought
tbe woman was a myth. Itut f have nn-
dvn-too^I, within a day or two. Up: there is
really a woman with a fortune of that, or
approx I inate, magnitude, though sbe in
scarcely known to anybody in either finan
cial or social circle*.
a he is a Mrs. Green, the wife of a former
American merchant in China, who ia him
self said to be worth $.>,000,000. This gen
tleman spends must of his time about the
Union dub. New York, while liia wife re-
rides with an invalid son at Bellows’ Falls,
Vermont.
She derives her fortune from a man
known as "Blubber" Robinson, who owned
the largest line of whale ships at New Bed
ford. Mass. New Bedford, you will re
member. is quite a modern town in New
England, having been settled ouly ten years
before the revolutionary war. It took the
name of Bedford, because the laud was
owned by a Mr. Rustell, who remembered
that Russell was the family name of tbe
dukes of Bedford This town grew rich by
the address of a tpiaker named Botch, who
!»er»uaded the French and British govern
ments to let him ship them whale oil duty
free. Then arose a magnificent whaling
business for New Bedford, which, in |s3g,
had 170 whale ships, employing 4.000 sail
ors and which Heel brought in 160,Ojo bar
rels of whale oil a year.
The man knowu as "JJlnhbei” Robinson
is said to have had a line of whale ships
painted blue in color, and had extraordinary
success, both on the sea and in the employ-
it of his capital on shore. After the dis
covery of gold in California the whaling
business declined. and during the war of the
rebellion the big New Bedford Jleet iu the
Pacilie ocean w«a destroyed by one of the
worthless rebel privateers. Meantime it
seems that the carfully-treasured wealth of
••Blubber" Robinson passed into the hands
of a daughter, educated into an extraordi
nary |»as*ion for |M?nury. and taught that
there was hut one commandment left to
man. ami that wan to "know the value of
nionev." In the city of Paris, on an occa
sion, Miss Robinson encountered Mr. K 11.
Green, and their fortunes were joined. She,
however, kept her own separately, both in
the a-iiounl and the management, and I
uiider.-tand that Mr. Cisco, in New York,
the banker, is her business agent and makes
her investment. Mr. Green meantime hunts
out investments on his own account.
Mrs. Green is said to have ten thousand
shares of stock in the Louisville orgunizt-
tion, and considerably more than that in
the Houston and Texas Central railroad. If
we will suppose that these ten thousand
shares originally cost $ Ida share, they have
gone up about $l,U00,UUU in tbe subsequent
rise of the stock. I am not sure that 1 have
the figures r irrectly in my mind as to the
number of shares iiossessed by this woman.
The husband, Mr. Green, is said to have
been originally a man of line general obser
vation and respectable scholarship, but his
connection with such a well-husbuuded for
tune has also made him something of a
monomaniac on wealth.
A BOOM FOR ATLANTA.
Correspondence Frank iu, Pa., Evening News*
The climate of Atlanta and the region of
middle Georgia commends itself to me as
among the best. Tne thermometer seldom
reaches over ninety degrees in summer or
below eight in the winter. The breezes from
the northwest render the summer mouths
delightfully cool and pleasant. A Con
necticut gentleman teds me that he
left that state last spring and came
here, and that lie never passed a more pleas
ant summer, lie liked it so well that be
had his family join him in the fall. There
are no fogs to enshroud the advent of Au
rora, but with the sunrise she ushers in the
day. The nature of lit* soil ia such that it
soon dries after a rain, and hence there is
but little mud. One can walk all over the
city and not ^et as muddy as by traversing
a street crossing in Franklin.
To the stranger from the north the streets
of Atlanta presents many novel sight*.
Street auctions, at which you can' buy
almost anything ami everything ever used
by mortals, are common. Yonder i» a dar
key driving a poor mule hitched to an odd
looking wagon or cart, sitting on a bale of
cotton which he is taking to market.
There a "poor white." dressed in his
butter-nuts, with his two mules hitched
to i a wagon on which
three bales of cotton is being taken to
the cotton factory. Here comes a four
horse express wagon as though the driver
meant business; there is ttie elegant turn-
extensions authorized by the act filrnish | out of some well-to-do merchant or bank-r,
the only mean* now in sight of releasing oik for a drive, and a colored man holding
the whole state from the grip of the most the lines; over yonder ou the sidewalk
gigantic and growing monopoly. Our peo- [ bevy of well dressed ladies on the usual
pte are dazzled with the ideas ♦ if tue great ; shopping ex|iedilion women so much
traffic to llow through the channels of these i delight » . the world over; there at the
I’ar-reachiug coml>ination'. They do not j public fountain, at the corner of Mari-
reflect that they are in violation of law, nor eita and Peachtree streets, I see
HE REGRETS IT.
STILL THE CONSTITUTION HAD IT.
Coloacl Newcomb Speaks 0a the Briariax Combi-
ration—The Question Brought to the At-
tentioa of Others High im Place—
The Cincinnati Bomthera.
do they realize tbe evil* which they threat- I
en. Capital properly employed fa a great
blessing to the country; but these great
combination* of capital reaching up into the
Thirty millions, will make a despotism
which cannot lie easily overthrown, lb.' it
will coi trol the politics and the courts of
the state This seems to he alrea ly much
the case in Pennsylvania. 1 read aoiuc time
since that a member of the Pennsylvania
house of representatives rose and aaid. "If
the Pennsylvania Central railroad had no
farther business to bring* before the house,
he would move an adjournment."
* PKUCGATION FROM BRUNSWICK.
After talking with Colonel Bacon, we
went to tlie Kimball to see if we could find
any further information. There we found
a regular delegation from Brunswick and
along the line of the Macon and Brunswick
railroad, who had come to the city to see
Governor Colquitt. Judge M. L. Mershon.
and Mr. 0. P. Goodyear from Brunswick,
and Mr. A. G. McArthur and Mr & A. Hall,
representing people along the line of the
Macon and Brunswick railroad.
From Judge Mention and Mr. Goodyear
we learn that the people of Brunswick were
startled on the morning of the 13th on re
ceipt of a telegram from Mr. Couper to Mr.
Goodyear, stating that there was a "hitch in
making deeds—no lease or sale."
"It startled our people," said Judge Mer-
shon, "like « thunderbolt. We had been
l«*i to believe," he continued, "from what
we had heard on the 12th that our fondest
hope* would tie realized, and ever>bjdv
rejoieed at tbe prospect of a speedy termi
nation of our longNiroubles. When they
found this sudden and unexpected failure
they were stunned by the blow."
"What do they say about Governor Col-
quiu's refusal to sign the deed?" "They
are not at all satisfted with it." said Mr.
Goodyear. "Many of them are quite in
dignanl and some make very intemperate
utterance* over the defeat by a technicality
of the policy of com pern ion’acros* our star
from our ports to the northwest, which has
been fought for earnestly tor the past forty
yean*. The governor would hare been tri
umphantly vindicated by our people if he
had given any warrantee to the property."
"Yes," said Judge Mershon, "the people
of Camden. Glynn. Wayne. Liberty. Pierce,
Ware. Coffee, Clinch. Berrien, Irwin,
Dougherty. Appling. Telfair, Wilcox. Tat-
nail. Ikxlge, l’u’aski. M* In tosh. lkxdy,
ftuwvr. Twiggs. Bibb, Jones and Jasper,
are aroused, and Consider the commercial
liberties of the people of Georgia iiu|»er*
tied. Twy believe that if this opportunity
it lost the death knell will be sounded to
the policy of competition in transportation
in Georgia."
These views were indorsed by all the
members of the committee.
Mr. McArthur aaid that the people were
olored man jump off his nonde
script vehicle, jamb down the crown of his
soft hat and use it for a drinking cup, then
jump on his vehicle and away. l.-t ns go
to another street and here we see hundreds
and even thousand* of bales of cotton, on
each side of the street; at the dejiot are
thousands more awaiting transportation.
Cotton has advanced to 12,'j cents per
pound, and dealers areas happy as oil men
when petroleum "goes up.” The price of
cotton influences business here as that of
petroleum dues that of western Pennsyl
vania.
I like the people of Altanta. They are
generous to stranger*. So far I have not
been able to perceive any of that ostracism
exhibited toward northern men, 1 formerly
heard so much about. Its people are too
well enlightened to iudulge it. Ou tne con
trary they invite northern men to come
and settle among them, identify them
selves with them and help build up their
city; ami if its climate, business,
commercial, educational and social advan
tages were better known. I know they
would come. One can express his political
views here as safely as in Franklin. I al
ways had a desire to "go west," but since
coming to this "Mecca of thy south." that
"hankering" is gone.
ON ITS DIGNITY.
WilAT VICE-PRESIDENT NEWCOHB SAYS.
IzmiiriUc Commercial.
A Commercial representative called at the
residence of Vice-President Newcomb last
night, and finding him at home, the follow
ing conversation ensued:
"Mr. Newcomb, can you give me any ad
ditional facts which are not conveyed in
tbe article published in The Atlanta Con
stitution? asked tbe Commercial man.
• The article is substantially correct." re
plied Mr. Newcomb, "bat I regret iu an
nouncement at this juncture."
"Will this combination involve any
change in the relation between the Georgia
Central mod Louisville and Nashville
roads?"
Nothing further than that which Would
result from a closer or more intimate alli
ance and entire harmony of Interests be
tween tile roads. Each road will preserve
its integrity unimpaired in regard to its
local business All through traffic origna-
ting from this section and carried over the
Georgia Central lines will be operated as
one system ”
"What about the revolution in freight
business, and the proposed new route?
•Traffic will be revolutionized, and a* re
gards the freight line, it is a shorter and
more direct route from Chicago, St.
Louis and Louisville to New York and
Liverpool, and a route which can he oper
ated more cheaply, than is the route by
rail to Savannah‘and thence to New York
and Liverpool by steamer. The whole south
will not only be benefited, but it must at
once rresenize the fact that ench a consoli
dation will be to its interest. The south
wants cheap food, which must come from
the west, and will cotue by this road. Then
a great railroad system such a* this will
draw business from other channels, and will
build lit business in every section of the
south. The true course for a railroad to pur
sue is to haul more cars and fuller ones.
Long trains carried full In one direction,
must be carried full in the opposite direction
Local interests will also, and should be. care
fully looked after and not be sacrificed to
through burin.-s*. We look for and we intend
tohavesuch an increase that our traffic will
bear somel^proitoi lion to that carried by
northern roods."
"What effect, if any, will this alliance
have in regard to tbe rumor that Uolonel E
\V. Cole Is to be made president of the Nash
ville and Chattanooga road?" asked the re-
jiorter.
"This alliance," replied Mr. Newcomb,
will have no significance whatever Iu re
gard to that matter."
Mr Newcomb then said that he had
nothing more to say; that his statement ex
plained everything in brief, anil that he
was sorry lie had no further intelligence to
communicate at present in regard to the
matter.
THE NEW* IS »'lNCINXATI.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
The dispatch from Atlanta published in yes
terday's Enquirer, giving mi account of "ihe
last grand scoop" by tlie Louisville and
Nashville company, has excited much com
ment among railroad men in Cincinnati.and
it is the opinion of those who are familiar
with the? matter that, if the combination, as
stated in the telegram, exists, it would he
based upon a full recognition of the rights
and interests of the Georgia railroad*.which,
in proportion to the amount of the property
they may put into the pool, will exercise a
voice in its management. This is regarded
good omen for Cincinnati and the set
tlement of her difficulties with the Lonis-
ville and Nashville railroad, as it is not sup
posed that the Louisville and Nashville
road and tbe city of Louisville will be al
lowed to dictate terms to the entire
state of Georgia and the Carolina*,
and the immense railroad interests repre
sented by the two Georgia railroads that
are said to be scooped These new elements
introduced ioto the Louisville and Nash
ville combination are powerful and conser
vative. and will rather give tone to the
counsels of th«* new orgmizition than ac
cept dictation in tbe interestof any particu
lar locality. The interests of Cincinnati
and her Southern railroad are not consid
ered a* being placed in jeopardy by this
combination.
The Cincinnati Koutliern.
Cincinnati Gazette. 14th.
The long pending negotiation* between
H. G. Huston A Co., the contractors, and
the trustees of the Cincinnati Southern rail
way have at last been concluded, and work
looking to the qieedy opening of the road
for through business has been vigorously
began. The trustees hare accepted the
completed portion of the road, and Messrs.
Huston A Co. have agreed to finish the
woik of construction under the direction
of the trustees, receiving from the licensees
the right to run trains over the road for
that purpose. Yesterday Mr. Woodward,
the suporiutendant of the Cincinnati rail
road company, went down the track for the
purjMiseof appointing section men and *s-
signing them their work, and it is expected
that within a few days the company will be
pre)>ared to run regular trains through to
Chattanooga, under au amendment to their
license granted by the trustees. The only
drawback then to the operation of the road
will be the poverty of terminal improve
ments here.
The general committee* in charge of
the preparations for tlie inau
gural excursion over the Cincin
nati Southern railroad met yesterday after
noon at tiie Burnet house. The members
present were Messrs. Krohn, Gienu. Davis,
Dickerson, Hooker, Kinsey. Harper, Taylor
ami Colonel Weir in the chair. Mr. J. F.
B ack burn acted as secretary. It was stated
that authorities of ihe railroad were unable
to fix a time when they would be ready to
bring the visitors to this city, and that it
would require at least twenty day> after the
road was turned over by the contractor be
fore a date could be nxed. Considerable
discussion followed on tbe subject of toe
banquet, resulting finally in the adoption
of the following offered by Mr. Honker:
Resolved. That the entertAinmeot committee
l»? requested to submit u» the general committee
ptnpuMl* tor a banquet of i,. l iu0 to 2,(XX* plates,
•Aid proposals to include the iuruishing of all ra
bies. eba r». table ware, service, rent of music
hall, and a 1 incidentals, and to include the serv
ing of wine, should. th«t be furnished by the
conitniuee. the executive committee to submit
separate proposal* for wiue.
A debate upon the subject of invitations
two feet in diameter, were uprooted and
ti rown to tbe ground at angles of about 10
degrees relative to either side the tornado’s
path. Tbe branches of one tree were twisted
off, leaving tbe butts in appearance similar
to so many gimlets. Tbe Edgefield and
Nashville manufacturing company’s build
ing also presents an example of the enor
mous lifting p'vver of tbe whirlwind.
The roof timbers, caught in tlie whirl,
were thrown off, at tangents, in
every direction, the heavy ones, how
ever, falling at angles similar to the
trees at Colonel Moore’s. Most of tbe
damages south of Union street (presumed
to be tbe southern limit of the tornado’s
path) may be ascribed to the force of a 40
inile-per-oour gale which blew from 10 p.m.
to midnight and which was independent of
tbe whirling force, as illustrated in tbe
cases of Colonel Moore’s gronnds and tbe
E. <fc X. manufacturing company. A gale
blowing 40 miles per hour, with a pressure
of eight pounds upon every square Coot of
surface, is sufficient to demolish many of
tbe weakly built chimneys, spires and
roofs which fell during the storm. It is
probable that the tornado was formed in
this vicinity by an upward current of warm
air meeting with a colder upper current. A
temperature of observed at 11 p.m.,
last night, in connection with other at
mospheric conditions, lead to this assump
tion.
A shed was lifted from the custom-house
yard and Iandt?d shattered in tbe street
which contained a block of granite weigh
ing nearly two hundred pounds. This
block was found subsequently some hun
dred feet or more from tbe storting point,
hating been lifted over another fence. This
shows th* terrible force of the wind.
A drove of about one hundred cows,
frightened probably by the fulling of trees
in the country, came into the city on the
Harding pike shortly after daylight.
The s orm did about $160 worth of dam
age about the capitol. Several windows
and doors on the west side were blown out,
and in tbe upper stories and tower numer
ous panes of glass were blown out, large
pieces of which could be found all over the
grounds.
The estimated loss of Rhea & Son is
$800; that of Col. William Moore from
$3,000 to $.>,000; the Edgefield A Nashville
manufacturing company $20,000; First
Colored Baptist church from $8,000 to
$10 000; Northern Methodist church from
$3,000 p» $5,000; St, Paul’s church from
$15,000 to $20,000; Newton McClure. $q000;
John Lumsden. $1,000; Sheriff Price, $5,-
000; custom-house, $10 OOOl These were the
principal losses sustained. The aggregate
losses will probably amount to $75,000
The wheat in Rhea A Son-’s elevator was
stored in the first story and was saved by
the tightness of fhe tioor of the secorni
story.
The city work-house lost a portion of its
roof.
The Murphy block, on South Market
street, was unroofed, and a loss of about
$300 sustained by Kinney. McLaughlin «fc
Co. Ewing. Bransfonl A Gaines, iu the
same building, also suffered from the effects
of the storm.
Gray, Kirkntan A Co., on the public
square, estimate their loss on stock at $30u.
The loss on the building, owned by Mrs.
Hogan, of laniisville, will exceed this
uount.
Thomas, Dibrell A Morgan sustained a
loss of abu«t $300 on their stock from the
partial unroofing of their store, in the City
hotel block, public square. The loss on the
PUBLIC PENSIONERS
CREDITED TO GEORGIA’S QUOTA.
The Discrimination Practiced Against Georgia in
the Public Departments—Men Who Hover
Saw Georgia Pulling the Pub
lic Teat in Her Hame.
Washington, February Iff 1 —I have taken
the trouble to examine into the government
patronage that Georgia gets from the United
States, and it is pitifully srnalL Of the 0S.-
000 people that the government pays, Geor
gia does not furnish 300. While of the
number credited to Georgia fully one-half
are not Georgians, but hail from other
states. It is certainly time to equalize this
matter. There is no reason in the world
why such a beggarly apportionment should
be given to our state, and why the
northern and western states should have a
monopoly of this government patronage. I
believe that our southern congressmen
should unite and insist upon their rights in
this thing.
I give a table of the names of persons ac
credited to Georgia in the United States
government employ, their states of birth
and their salary. It makes an interesting
and suggestive array of statistics, to which
especial attention is invited:
A. W. Reese, Georgia, clerk house committee,
* jf?R. aueed. Georgia, postmaster senate, $2,048.
W. H. Harrison, Georgia, clerk bouse commit-
UpirKoti Itaw 1*. Georgia, superitAtiffUeht docu
ment room. $2,COO.
James lianlu, Georgia, clerk senate committee.
8am Cleghorn, Alabama, messenger house, tb-
General C. W. Field, Kentucky, door-keeper
house. $2,500.
^Eugene Speer, Georgia, tally clerk house, $2,-
c — Braswell, Georgia, post-office messenger,
J. G. Paine, Georgia, clerk lolding room, $1,800.
Nesbit Mills. Georgia, page. $2.50per day.
plished, and its subversion In form is only a
question of time: and they believe this inevita- •
Me result can be reached more easily and with
less abo. k through General Grant than through
any other man I doubt whether both of these
cissies combined, number one hundred men
in Georgia, but they are men
of. Intelligence. and they -entertain
with favor the idea of electing Genera- Grant
nominally for a third term, and resily for life.
selves aa his foremost irieuds in the south. __
command the offices which will then be in hi*
gift. These last are more numerous and more
noisy ana less inteUigent than the tint two
mentioned above, but they are
*“ every sense to *uthor-
• $720.
J. S. Dobson, Tennessee, L
J. 8. Knight, Georgia, laltorer, $720.
Frank Dixon, Georgia, laborer, $720.
F. H. Alfrieud, Virginia, clerk senate, $2,22».
<’ H. Williams, Georgia, clerk pension office,
$720.
George A. Gust in, England, stenographer, $1.-
800.
classes
too weak
ize any chance of giving the electoral
vote of any southern state to General Grant. •
Nearly all the southern people have a kindly
feeling for General Grant. He is stronger at the
soudi than anv other republican. Our people
never forget his mauly and magnanimous con
duct toward them at toe close of tlie war. If he
had manifested the same magnanimity In his ad-
his seeming disregard <
the returning board fraud* both iu state and fed
eral election*, and his unexpected subserviency
to bad men who tilled the world with scandals
during his administration, have fully convinced
our people that General Grant was not equal to
his grand opportunities aud ought not aguiu to be
trusted with power, however persona ly houest
and kind he may be.
it is a national c.
people are not permr
Views aud feelings of the southern people, and
* vent such understanding, are the
of both scctious. Let tue state one
fart All thinking men iu the south feel and be
lieve that our constitutional system of free gov.
•nuneut is in verv proat »*er 5 l of dual and cum
pletc overthrow. With the few exceptions I
mentioned before, we are naturally more auxious
to avert the overthrow than are the northern
people. Why should we teel more anxious? it
* ' ' southern people feel and believe
strength.
While not , ,
the sectional spirit which dominates the repnbli
can party, and which enables that party to domi
nate the northern people has grown to its daugcr
gerous proportions through the passions
engendered by secession and the war.
If, therefore, this sectional spirit shall
dually pluuge all soetious
direction directly the opposite of secession.
It is thus proper and natural that onr people in
Itould b “ *
CRIME AND CASUALTY.
terminated with a resolution from Mr. Tay
lor that the policy of the committee in re
spect to ibis matter be strictly adhered to.
Mr. Hooker offered as a substitute that the
matter of invitations be left in the hands of
the authorities of the southern railroads.
Mr Kinsev thereupon move*! that the
subject belaid on the table, and this was
agreed to.
Adjourned subject to the call of the chalr-
NASHVILLE’S SENSATION.
A Tornado That Carried Everything la
Ita IVny.
Nashville, February 14.—The tornado
which occurred here Thursday night, defies
description. The wind was moving at a ve
locity of forty miles an hour, rendering um
brellas utterly useless, signs, bricks, por
tions of roofs and limbs of trees were living
in every dim :ion. The lightning was sc
vivid that it blinded one every few steps
Tbe thunder was deafening. Rain poured
down in a tlood. Buildings were shaken
to their foundations. Many were im
pressed with the belief that the storm was
accompanied by a succession of earth
quakes, but in this they were mistaken. It
was the unprecedented velocity of the wind
which, for a time, seemed to threaten the
destruction of the entire city. Hacks were
blown over. Persons were picked up and
Harden, Stridden, K.bberletand Fire
llARRisttrno, February 18.—Tbe vicinity
ot Baiubndge, Lancaster county, and the
country lor miles around, has been startled
a horrible tragedy involving the death
four persons. In a small frame house
abutting on a public road, about a quarter
of a mite from the Pennsylvania railroad,
there resided Charles Lane and family,
consisting of his wife and three
children. On Saturday Agent ice
man, living in the neigh
borhood, suspected that something had oc
curred in the house, as he had not seen any
of the inmate* for several days. He insti
tuted an investigation, and through the
windows discovered Line and his wife, the
latter clasping an infant to her face, and a
girl, aged about five years, and a boy two
years older, lying on a rudely constructed
cot near by. The doors of the buiiding
were found locked. One of them was burst
open and the sleeping-room thoroughly ex
amined.
Lane, who was six feet five inches
tall, lay diagonally across the bed. with no
signs of life. His wife occupied a crouch
ing position with her s<ull
crushed and her neck broken. From
the Lead to below the breast her
body presented a livid appearance. She
held in her arms a child ah mi three months
old, which had evidently been smothered.
The face of the little one was barely under
tbe cover, and wa* pressed tightly
against the face of its mother,
both of which were flattened out
by tlie contact. The b->dies of the
mother and child were in an advanced state
of decomposition. In an ill-provised bed
wa* the dead body of the littie girl, her
neck broken, and presenting au appearance
indicating that she had been dead some
time. Alongside of her was her little
brother, who wa* on his hands and knees,
his feet and |iortionsof his legs being badly
frozen. He was protected by no clothing,
and when the discovery of the tragedy was
tirade by outside parlies, he exclaimed.
Hush! Hush! They are sleeping.'’
There was considerable blood on the bed
occupied by Lane and his wife, hut no evi
dence of a struggle. As no implements
were found about the house with wliicb the
woman’s skull could have been crushed
without leaving a mark, it is supposed Lane
pres-ed her violently against the rail of
the bed. Dr. Weseinau, of Biinbridge,
made a post mortem examiua ion of
the body of Lane, and discowiel
mistakabie evidence of po son in
stomach, and came to the couclu-iou that
he died from it. Althuugh he made
aminulion of tbe body of the little girl, he
is convinced poison had been administered
to h.r : but as her neck was also broken, lie
is unable to say which caused her death.
The mother aud child were placed in one
lliu, and Lane aud his daughter in ser
rate coffins, and all interred -n tlie ce
lory in the suburbs of Uuinbridge.
The surviving member of the family is
being cared for oy a neighboring family,
and the attending physician has holies ot
his recovery. The little fellow is quite
cheerful, but doea not realize the terrible
situation. He says his sister is dead, but
thinks his father and mother alive He
says his father gave mother and sister some
thing they did not want to take. It is sup-
itoseii this was poison, but there was noth
ing to show that the boy had partaken of
any. As Lane had evinced much afi'.clion
for the child, it is believed he could not
find it in his heart to kill him.
Dr. Weseiuun is of the opinion that Mrs.
Lane was dead at least four days before the
discovery of her decomposed body. The
last seen of her and her children until the
revelation of the tragedy was ou Monday
last. Lane was alive ou Thursday and is
supposed to have taken poison that night.
In*the afternoon a little girl through a door
saw all the inmates iu bed, and says Line
kicked his wife and sp inked the little boy.
Robert W. Alston, Georgia, messenger senate,
1.440.
H. W. Hilliard, North Carolina, minister to
Brazil. $12,000.
William L- Scruggs, Tennessee, China consul,
$LoU>.
Robert T. Clayton, Georgia, Callao consul,
Johi
: 1,500.
i’hillip Carroll, New York, clerk department of
state, $1,200.
Thomas Robinson, England, clerk treasury,
SI,GUO.
Allen Wood, Alabama, clerk treasury, $1,00).
I. uiins D,’ Alden, Pennsylvania, clerk treasury,
1.200.
Walter L. Clift, Massachusetts clerk treasury,
1,400.
John T. Bivins, Georgia, clerk treasury, $1,400.
‘lhadden* Stmgiw, Georgia, clerk treasury,
Arthur Clements,
$1,600.
George M. Fisher, Illinois, clerk treasury,
.400.
M. H. McWhorter, Georgia, clerk treasury,
$1,200.
Charles P. Freeman. Michigan, clerk treasury.
1.200-
James It Dcveaux, Georgia, clerk treasury,
i.-A0.
Mrs. M. B. Ashburn, Georgia, clerk treasury,
f'.MJO.
Mrs. Helen N. Chelf, Georgia, clerk treasury,
$210.
W. F. Warner, Ohio, clerk treasury, $1.2 0.
John P. Turner,Georgia, clerk treasury, $GGQ.
Madi*ou Bell,Geo.gia, clerk treasury, $ 1,200.
Mrs. Eliza Peters, District of Columbia, clerk
treasury. 1000.
Mrs. Ellen P- Fisher, Maine, clerk treasury,
$0UO.
Mrs. Anna H. Bowles, Georgia, clerk treasury,
$1W).
D. A. Spencer, Connecticut, clerk treasury, $8
per day.
John P. Butler, Ohio, clerk treasury, $1,800.
William U. H. Hart, Alabama, clerx treasury,
$660.
John M. Judge, district of Colorado, clerk treas
ury. won.
Mia* Jennie W. Franklin, Georgia, clerk treas
ury $1.25 per day.
Mbs Virginia Ward, Georgia, clerk treasury,
SI.25 per day
the south should be anxious, above all ot&er
pie. to allay the section heats their
so greatly iniLmed;
TBia Virginia lIou*»e Delegate*
Angry Witts a Magistrate.
imoxp, V.v., February lt» —The com
mittee of the 'house of delegates charged
with the investigation of • recent affray
the rotunda of tne capitol bet ween \V. \V.
Archer and C. N. Harrison, newspaper re-
( iorter%and J.A Fraxier.delegate from Rock-
iridge, have made a report recommending
the expulsion of the former from the fiojr
of the bouse daring further session* of
that body. The committee rebakes the had
taste and impropriety of Mr. Frazier’s oriii- blown half-way
c:sra of a fellow member in aputfficnew^ } ingin the mod.
paper, and in unpar.ian.emary language. | time between the commencement of the
but recommend that he be re’emed from storm and the paper going to press, had to
arrest and restored to his privileges a* a keep in a dead run. dodging all sorts of ob-
metuber. The committee also submitted ] mructions revealed by the constant Hashes rf ._
another report setting forth that Police- J of lightning, and then were drenched to the | Missouri river, last Friday, in which the
Justice Crutchfield had been guilty of con- J »ktn. It was, in fact, the roughest time notorious Jim Sauers and Mr_Somers, bis
blown half-way across streets to find a land-
The reporters, in the short
Sirs. Beutrice Pope, Georgia, clerk treasury,
Miss Susie U. Owen, < Georgia, clerk state depart
ment. SHOO.
William II. Grigsby, Georgia, clerk land office,
l.OuO.
John R. Kendrick, Georgia, inspector customs,
1 per day.
Carlisle Terry, Jr.,
auutn.
George II. Stone, New York, assistant surgeon.
Georgia, survey, $35 per
spector, Sl,2u0.
H. I>. Headman, Pennsylvania, steamboat in
spector, «i,2oa
A. II. Gasteu, North Carolina, public buildings.
meat, $1,500.
Malcolm Frazer, England, quartermaster de-
purtmeut, 1060.
J F. H. Blols, Georgia, post-office department.
W. W. Colquitt, Georgia, post-office clerk, $1.00).
Mrs. Mary Kramer, Maryland, post-office clerk,
£VU0.
Robert Levitt. Georgia, post-office clerk, SGGQ.
Pierce LaFayetie, ueorgla, clerk interior de
partment, $720.
Mr*. Annie M. Peters, Georgia, clerk interior
demrtmeut. $'.*►).
James G. Zachery, Georgia, clerk interior de
partment, S*J0J.
Edward H. Johnson, Virginia, clerk interior de
partment, ma
* VirgikHillyer, Ohio, clerk Interior department,
Charles F. Sawyer, Maiue, clerk interior de
partment. $1,600.
s. H. Kramer. Marry land, watchman, $G60.
** 1 lodge*, Yermout, clerk dejmrtuieot of
peo-
iduct
store the constitutional
_ _ _ mistake so woefully unsel-
tledran’d preserve the union of states their own
madness so nearly destroyed. The faet 1 have
just stated will explain much of south
ern history since tlie war. There
never was such a social, industrial, and political
So also, there never was such an ordeal of humil
iation. insult, robbery, and wrong as tliat
through which we were forced
to pass in the negro domination
and^carpet-bag rule of reconstruction. That some
re-entment* were provoked, I do*nct deny. That
some excesses were retaliated, I ireely admit, aud
that some temporary* violent remedies were re
sorted to iu the de.q»eratlon of self-preservation I
concede. But when the history of that terrible
ordeal shall be fully known, the world will be
because they knew that those who
inilict-d the wrongs denved their power to intlict
them from the powers engendered by secession,
and because they saw also that every groan,
ev. ry murmur, event protest, and every individ
ual excess or iudficretion, was eagerly caught up
S their plunderers, aud exaggerated and herald-
before the northern people, as evidence of a
continuous spirit of rebellion, in order to con
tinue their oppressors iu power.
* £ southern people have lost every-
by sectionalism. The repubii-
party owes all its successes, all its
power, aud all its offices to thi* same sectional
ism. The southern people desire above all
things, to put au end to the sectiooalism which
has destroyed them. The republican party desire
above all things, to keep alive the sectionalLsm
which has made them. But the republican party
cannot keep alive that sectionalism if tbe north
ern masses can on«*e fully understand the pres
ent views and feelings of tbe southern )>cople;
•outhern
imls and beneficiaries of sectionalism have
persistently misrepresented everything in the
south, with all the energy which tne greed for
power can inspire.
In the last presidential count the southern
democrats insisted upon submitting
loss ot t president, elected
by the people, rather than hazard the dangers of
another civil war. Yet republican leaders who
knew this fact, and who in private here expressed
warm admiration for it,went home to their people
and represented that the country would he in
danger again, if the fouth with the democratic
party should again obtain powei! And every re-
^mblican^ partisan paper daily emphasized the
Duriug the late extra session it wa* well known
that while the southern democrat* desired the
repeal of certain laws, and most especially au
odious jury law. under whi h nearly all the
white men in the south could be exclu led from
i without votiug appropriations
—. ^ the republi-
. ‘presented t* **• ~
northern people "tliat the rebels, having faib
shoot the government to death, were seekit
starve it to death!"—and all the republican
RULE TWENTY-®
WHAT MR. SPEER THIKS OF IT.
The Debate on Mr. Emory Speer’s Amendment to
Rule-Twenty-one, Prohibiting Riders tq
Appropriation Bills—Mr. Speer
Gives Hi* Reason* for It.
admitted ou all occasions that secession wa*
settled by the war. and it would be treason to at
tempt again to assert it. But because they be-
reserved to the states respectively or to the peo
ple," these republican leaders and journals have
actually sought to create a paulc at the north, by
affecting to believe the south is again reviving
the doctrine of secession.
ihese instances, with many others, illustrate
the two great facts. (1) that tbe southern people
sectionalism. Outside of sectionalism that
party has neither history, nor policy,
nor purpose nor prospects. When it shall cease
to be sectional, it will cease to exist. But scc-
tionali-m is the very death of the south. We o m
have neither hope nor life, save in
a broad constitutional nationalism. It is not
possible, therefore, for General Grant orauy other
man nominated by the sectional republican
party, to carry a single southern siate. I ad mi
the democratic party Is not all that we derire.
There is much in the history of that party I can
not approve, and it vacillates now on
some questions in a manner which
i* mortifying. But with all it* faults
it is the only party in sight with which any
mau can affiliate who sincerely desires to frater
nize the feelings, nationalize the interest*, and
constitutionalize the government of the Amer.can
people.
Tnat would indeed be a glorious movement
She communicated the intelligence to b<
mother, who did not suspect a tragedy, as
he had frequently abused the wife. Jhe
woman was evidently dead when Lane
kicked her.
Lane was about twenty-four years old,
amt hi* wife thirty-four. Tuey moved to
Bainbriige last May trow near West min ter,
t'arroll county. Aid. After living there a
short time she left for her home, and after
the. last child was born, when it was about
three weeks* old. she returned with her
children. He had meanwhile sold all the
furniture, and was getting ready to leave
the onmuumitr. Against his wishes they
resumed housekeeping, and recently he in
dicated that the people of Batnbridee
would be startled by something he would
do.
j Yankton, D. T., February 17.—Iutelli-
I genoe ho* just reached thi.* city of a fatal
>unter at Brule City, 150 miles up the
panmeut of agriculture. *1,0j0.
W. 11. Elliott, Georgia, national board of
health. $10 per day.
J. »V. Carter. Virginia, public printing.
«» in addition to the loregoing (tersons we
have In Georgia ,V.t men employed in the
revenue department as collectors, store-
keejiers and gaugers of whom 27 are from
other states. Their salaries range from $4
per day to $3 000 a year.
There are 18 men in li;.
whom 10 are from other states who receive
fr mu $400 to $7(Jo per year.
Theie are thirty-one men in the port col-1
lector's depar meats at .Brunswick, St.
Mary’s and Savannah, of whom twelve are
from other states.
Of the eighty-nine whose names we have
given, forty are from other states.
There are thirty-three persons in the
federal judiciary of Georgia, of whom six
teen are front other stat .*.
Aiul of the six men connected with the
Atlanta custom-house, all but one are from
oiber states.
To sum up, there are but 23G employes of
the United States government from Georgia
out of !»8,00b, while of the 2-M» nearly one-
half, or 110, are from other states, many of
whom were never in Georgia. This is a
condition of things unjust to Georgia, that
our senators and representatives should
take in hand and if possible remedy. Geor
gia is entitled to more and her congressmen
s hould git it. I hope tbe press of Georgia
3 ill ventilate and urge the reform.
to honest government, into cordial co-operation.
The aoutneru people would bail such a
movement with delight We of the south,
present no names for presidential hon
ors. I believe the very best thing which
could happen would be au admlnfitr-ition of the
government by a wise southern statesman, for It
would be the pride and pleasure of such a
man. to so administer oar national affairs
banish from the min 's of «he northern people the
last vestige of distrust and apprehension of south-
national fidelity growing out of past sectionul
** are aware that the section-
. ipero. 1_ “ '
calmly on this subject, and would
such a suggestion, therefore. n • thought
ful man m the . south is even expect-
tiug such honors. All that
expect
. w _ union.
many such statesmen in every state of
the north, in both parties: but not one such is
spoken of for the republican nomi-
u I can name men in New England—even
in Massachusetts—who would administer the
govemmeutin a spirit worthy of Washington,
* ■ * ^ the southern peon’
. _ elevate to that hq
position.
After all, such men mnst ultimately be chose
the people will lose their right to choose at a
The people mnst end tbe triumphs of fraud. <
BILLON GRANTISM.
tempt of authority of the house iu refusing I ever experienced,
to give up the parties to this affray, when Tbe stortu was very extensive, and heavy
ctlted for by the house, and in saying, "that rain* were general, bat from a *outhwesier-
machine (meaning house delegated! ly direction. The severity of the storm as
should not run lose *urt .snd that every j to rainfall was confined to n tract starting
damned one should go to jail." 1 pou rec- j from northeastern Texas and directed to
owmendattoa of the committee process the northeast, as follows: Little R^ck. 170
rred upon t’rutchfield, and further I inches; Memphis, 4.00 inches: Nashville, up
proceedings postponed until to-morrow;
A Little Boom far Khfrman.
Richmond. February !?.—A tetter signet!
11»««.— riI1F - th , irinlra .
bsneath thedign I.* of the state of Georg a
to be dealing in doubtful titles. If the act
ia defective the |«ople in every county
along the line want an extra session of the
legislature to rectify the errors, and such
f*:#pa taken as will surely carry out the de*
*im of our people. The policy of compe
tition across our state to our seaj«ort* in-
domed aa it waa by four-fifths of the last
legislature must be earned out."
Mr. Goodyear aaid that another cause
that had to some extent aroused the people
was tbe new combination between
he Central and tbeLotusville and Nashville.
tion of supporting hint for tbe presidency,
and expressing their belief that in the
event of his election the colored people will
find in him a friend ever ready to defend
to 2 p iu., 7 ’.«o inches, showing tbe charac
teristics of the storms in general. Le w
increase m intensity as they advance. <A»ld
west to northwest wind* have succeeded tbe
passage of the storm over this place, and
clearing weather may be expected. The
tornado, which created such havoc
in our locality, may be regarded as
light in character, having no well-
defined path of destruction. The whirling
gyrating movement of the wind, which
ue|»hew. killed each other. Taere wta a
feu 1 of many years'^ standing between
their families, and oa Friday young Com
ers and hi* uncle came togetuer aud had an
altercation. Jim grabbed » needle guu and
shit his nephew in rough the body: a* ue
fell the latter pulled out a revolver and
shot liia uncle, silling him instantly.
Baltimo&x. February 17.—Louis Mar
burg. aged Jfc, ot the firm ot Marburg Bros..
tobacco manufacturers of this city, wo*
found dead tin* uiuruing with two bullet
wounds in hi* head at hts home in Wood
park, near Baltimore. The |>istol was
found lying near his side, and it is thought
he oommi.ted suicide.
Galveston, February 17.—Dr. J. J.
The Senator From Georgia Analyxea
the Makeup or the Southern Grai
Element.
From the Brattlebo;o (Vermont) Reformer.
The letter below from Senator Ben Hill
is a mauly. straightforward, temperate doc
unient, which does great credit to the
writer and to hts constituency, so far a* his
view* represent it. It ought to put to
shame every bloody shirt demagogue who
is trying to retain his grasp of the plunder
of office by prolong!ngl*eotional strife.
heir interests. To-dav. a replv was re- j » rite principal feature of tornadoes, ap- 1 Oreilly, a' stranger here, committed suicide
ceived from Sherman 'expressing pleasure I pears to have commenced at tbe edge of tne j in the station-house Sunday night by cut-
at tbe kindly sentiments contained iu the 1 ooe quarter of a mile west ting his Jugular vein with a lancet. It is
communication, and concluding: "All are j °* Jubilee hall, and at the house of Mrs.
alike citizens of a common country, equal- | Merriman, thence progressing tn a dxrec-
It cntuM to acn at and T-Jual- i UMfrorn wuthwm uuanbMK by bountU
ly bound to obey it* law* and usages."
and in a path one-quarter of a mile
width.
John Kkijly slipped on a piece of demo J The grounds of Colonel Moore, of Edge-
cratic ice tne other day and dislocated his 1 field, present tbe most remarkable example
shoulder. | of the gyratory force. Several trees, some
said he is a prominent physician of
IamtsviUe. and that he strayed to Texas
while under the influence of liquor.
Baipocroirr, Conn.. February 17.—The
trial of Wrn. Buchaiz for tbe murder of H.
tv Chulte at Norwalk, December 2s:b. 18*8,
commenced to-day.
>t to iateutiouai neglect, the delay in answer
ing your letter of the l'Jth instant.
You oak. "Do you favor G meral _
idem, under any consideration? (as some people
claim.) Has Gram any following among the
southern democrats? and iu cose of
bis nomination by the republican*, do you think
he c-ould carry a single southern state?" An«wer:
I do not favor General Grant’s election to the
presidency under any contingency that 1 can now
imaaiue. General Grant does have some follow
ing in the south, among those who say they are
democrat!, but if nominated by the republican
party, he could not carry a single southern state.
There are a few men in the south who are still
unfriendly to the union. Haring failed to dis
solve that anion by secession, they now hope to
,*ee a worse result, practically, acc .mph-hed
through the opposite extreme of centralism
and d» spotiom. They believe this result can be
reached more certainly and speedily through the
third election of General Grant than by any
other mean*. An illustration of this class is f r-
nished in General Toombs, of my own state, who
Mr. White—I rise to make a proposition.
^The Chairman—The gentleman will state
Mr. White—I desire to withdraw the
amendment which I have offered to tbe
second clause of rule 21. inasmuch a* tbe
gentleman from Georgia [Mr. Speer? >ia*
given notice of his intention to offer an
amendment to the next clause which will
accomplish the same purpose. For that
reason I withdraw my amendment.
Mr. (jarfieltf--Allow me to suggest to gen
tlemen on the other side that vve pass with
out further debate the second clause, so
that we may proceed to consider clause 3
in this rule. *
Mr. White—I offered tuy amendment as a
new clause, but withdraw it for the purpose
of allowing the gentleman from Georgia
[Mr. Speer] to offer his amendment to the
next clause.
The ahiendmeut of Mr. White was ac
cordingly withdrawn.
The clerk read a* follows:
3. No appropriation* shall be reported in any
general appropriation bill, or be in order as an
amendment theieto, for any expenditure not pre-
vioudy authorized by law, uulc*« iu continuation
of appropriations for such public works and ob
ject* »s are already in progress. Nor shall any
any such bill or amendment thereto
—.sting l*w be in order, excep such as
being germane i ► the subject-matter ot the bill,
shall retrench expenditure.*.
Mr. Speer—I move to amend the clause
just read by striking out of the latter jKtr-
tion of it the words " except such as being
germane to the subject-matter of the bill
shall retrench expenditures" and to insert
in lieu thereof that which 1 send to the
clerk’s desk.
The clerk read as follows:
But it shall lie in order to strike any sum of
money in an appropriation bill aiul iusert a les*
The latter portion of clause 3 as proposed
to be amended was as follow’s:
Nor shall any provision in any such bill or
amendment thereto changing existing law be in
order, but it shall be iu order to strike out any
im of money in an appropriation bill and insert
less sum.
Mr. Speer—I think that amendment will
accomplish tbe object which U sought tube
attained by all of those who desire to see
general legislation divorced from the gen
eral appropriation bills; and it will also ac
complish fully the object of retrenching ex
penditures when necessary.
Mr. Chairman, in presenting the reasons
why general legislation should be divorced
from the unnatural union with the appro
priation bills, l protest that I am not. in
the slightest degree, influenced by partisan
feeling. 1 take no interest in the inquiry
who began to affix riders to the appropria
tion bills. 1 shall not remind the republi
can party of the vital legislation they have
accomplished by these methods nor is it
necessary for me to occupy the attention of
the hou?e in defending the motives of tuy
democratic brethren, their patriotism, or
the purity of their purpose* in the uses
they have made of the same resource*.
Sir, if it is possible, at any time, to rise
above the sordid considerations of party, it
should be in the discussion of rules* for
the permanent guidance and control of the
business of legislation by this house. Mr.
Chairman, all men of uli parties, it seems
to tue, must agree that the practice of at
taching positive laws on other subjects or
on any subject to the money bills ot this
house is a practice which finds no legiti
mate parentage in the constitution of this
government, and is fraught with mischief
which at any time and when least expected
may become irreparable. To abolish the
practice would be a stride in the advance
ment of political science which would ex
cite the interest and the admiration of
every intelligent patriot in this country.
In the discussion of questions like this
we are to some extent remitted to the dis
cussion of elementary principles. The three
co-ordinate departments of our government
are supported by the appropriation bills of
the house of representatives. Have gentle
men considered what tlie failure of these
bills means ? I do not mean a temporary
failure; 1 do not mean a failure which can
be cured by an extra session of congress, or
which can be tided over by the credit of the
government; but I mean a refusal on the
part of the people’s representatives to grant
the money necessary to sustain the govern
ment. Sir, it means anarchy; it means the
paralysis of.every department of this gov
ernment; it means the repudiation of the
national debt; it means the destruction of
the judiciiry; it means the abdication of
the executive: it means the dispersal of
congress. Whenever the representatives of
the people i>ermanently and continuously
refuse to vote the people’s money to sustain
the people's government, red-handed revo
lution or the iron grasp of despotism will
seize upon and ravage the unprotected heri
tage of freemen
Mr. Atkins—Has any party ever done
that?
Mr. Speer—I decline to yield to the gen
tleman. I am not discussing this with re
gard to party now. It may be very easily
demonstrated that the practice of riders on
the appropriation bills may at any time
eventuate in the refusal of the supplies. If
there is one national characteristic of the
American people which is strong and in
tense. it is astrong and intense party spirit.
If this characteristic find* nndounded ex
pression and demonstration anywhere. I say
with profound deference to this imposing
presence it :s in the house of representa
tives. Now, sir, let us do what it is not very
difficult to do. Let us suppose thdt the
two great parties of this house are
divided on what they conceive to be
a vital political question. Let
us suppose that the measure in which this
ita! political diffi-rmce presents itself is in
rider oil the post-office appropriation bill.
Let us suppose that the party which is in a
majority in this house is in a minority in
lae senate; or that the occupant of the
presidential chair belong* to the minority
school, the p<>9t-offloe bill for the support of
the post-routes and post-oifices and mail
carriers of tbe great and complicated ami
eneticent postal system of the United
States passe* the house with the r.derat
tached.
[Here the hammer fell ]
Mr. Speer subsequently obtained the
floor, and concluded as follows:
When interrupted 1 was giving a hypo
thetical case of the effect of a rider of polit
ical legislation on the post-office appropria
tion bill. The senate refuses to concur. On
_ committee of conference, both the senate
and the house decline to recede from their
positions. Neither party desires to strike
down the postal system. The nolitical nder
is the rock on which they split. They are
conscientious, and they will not surrender
their convictions. They are firm, and they
will not abate a jot or tittle of their just de
mands. The closing hour of the
wioa approaches. The session ex-
res. Not a dollar i* voted
for the maintenance of that system which
to-day is one of tbe greatest agencies of civ-
if th? power of judging be not separated
from the legislative and executive powers."
Now. sir. does not the political rider de
stroy this independence? Is is not intend
ed as a threat to the senate
and to the executive? Iloes
it not impliedly declare that the money
shall not be forthcoming to sustain the gov
ernment unless the senate ami the execu
tive will accede to the demands of the house
of representatives? We have, within the
past decade, been regaled with a great deal
of eloquence iu the discussion of measures
9f this character on the subject of parlia
mentary heroism. What does parliament
ary heroism in this connection mean? ll
means, sir, to refuse to vote the money uti
les* the senate or the executive shall con
clude to coincide with the house of repre
sentatives.
Now, sir. is not this an illegitimate exer
cise oronr prerogative? Has not the senate
the same constitutional right to pronounce
upon tthc merits of a measure that we
have? Has not the president, with the
power of the veto, functions just as import
ant toward the enactment of a law as con
gress itself? And yet, though it is our im
perative duty to sustain all the depart
ments, when we send the senate and the
DEATH OF DR. KENNEDY.
tbe Union.
I b,esst j 1 « ‘ h>t of <be just is ever aid bis life Mootewiuien, before the day of Hamilton, I with victory. ~ Tbe’poiaon woried”repIdiy’
Whn?i “Jlrieadly to tt?nnl“? h?ve may Y on * *“* h «“ . s .P ent »» '■>’ oracular ueatUe on th« subject, had I and the agitation ot the troop, was alarm!
lespaired of the ..reaervati-jn of that mrion under raore for “then than for self, and is there- declared * there can be no liberty where the } ing. Washington, apprised of the design* of
our constitutional system; who believe its aub- | fore worthy of the love which made it hap- * lesiiative and executive powers are united ; the mischievous advisers,appeared in a meet
version in principle has already been occom- j py to him who is now at peace. * in the same person or body magistrates, or ing of the general and fieldofficera, and oon-
A Brier Nkclcb ot Ills Career.
The telegram announcing the death of
Rev. F. M. Kennedy, I).D , will cause deep
regret to many of our readers. Few men
stood higher in the Methodist ministry than
the deceased. He was a son of Rev. \Vn
M. Kennedy, of South Carolina, who wa*
contemj»orary of the late Dr. Pierce and the
other noble men who established Method*
the south. His son early resolved to
enter the university where his father had
done such good service. After
graduating at Wofford college
he joined the South Carolina conference.
He soon rose to prominence and wa* en
trusted with the pastoral care of the leading
charges in the cniference. .Vs a preacher
Dr. Kennedy ranked among the best in
South Carolina and Georgia. He wa* a stu
dent and a scholar, and his sermons were
always strong and fervent As a pastor he
excelled. His genial manners and hi*
sweet temper made him beloved
wherever be went, and
congregation ever parted with him will
ingly. In 1871 he wa* chosen editor of the
Southern Christian Advocate to take the
place of Dr. Myers, who resigned the edi
torial charge of that paper. Until 1*78 Dr.
Kennedy edited the Advocate with ability
and success. When the paper was earned
back to Charleston he left
Macon and returned to Charleston
where he continued hi* editorial labors
only a short while. His health, which had
been delicate for several years finally failed,
and the last two years of his life were spent
in great suffcrenng. He waa about fifty
years old, and a few year* ago his friends
hoped that his life would fill with its
honors and its services tbe full three
score years and ten. Hi* memory will be
blessed a* that of tbe just is ever and bis life
to support the* government provided
you, the senate, or you, the president, trill
consent ti> agree with our proviso. Thi* is
Usurpation. This is the aggrandizement: of
senatorial prerogatives and the veto power
iu the house of representatives. But, sir,
there is another most insidious effect which
this species of legislation mav have upon
the independence of the executive and judi
cial departments of the government. X am
discussing this question abstractly; I am
speaking impersonally. 1 mean the facility
it gives to congress to withhold the salaries
of the officers of these departments beyond
the period ojf payment lixed by the consti
tution. ft is useless for gentlemen of an
optimistic turn of mind to deuy the propo
sition that the control over a man’s salary
very likely to be n control ove‘r
will. Human nature is pretty
much the same thing it always has been.
We have advanced but very little toward
that state of perfectibility Which was im
agined by Plato while dreaming in the gar
dens of the academy. It was for this reason
that tbe constitution wisely provides that
the president shall receive for his services
a tuiary which shall be paid at stated inter
vals, and shall neither be increased nor di
minished during his term of office. In sim
ilar terms, it provides that the judges of tlie
supreme and inferior courts shall at slated
times receive for their services a comi»en-
sation which shall not be diminished dur
ing their continuance in office. The consti
tution seeks to deprive congress of the
power of discretionary action with regard
to the salaries of these officials.
Sir, I again cite the authority of Hamil
ton, whose splendid exposition of the con
stitution cannot be too frequently or too
carefully consulted by those who desire to
place a patriotic and rightful interpretation
upon that instrument. It is in the Feder
alist, in the seventy-third number, that he
declares "the legislature, with a discretion
ary power over the salary and emoluments
of the chief magistrate, would render him
as obsequious to their will as they might
think proper to make him. They
might in most cases either reduce him by
famine or tempt him by largesses to sur
render at discretion his judgment to their
inclinations. "There are men," ho con
tinue* "who could neither be distressed nor
won into a sacrifice of their duty, ’out this
«tern virture is the growth of few soils, and
in the main it will he found that a power
oyer ft man’s support is a power over his
will It is not competent, for con-
cress to weaken tlie fortitude of the
president by operating upon hi* necessi
ties, nor corrupt his integrity by appealing
to his avarice."
Sir, the same reasoning applies with equal
force to the injurious effect on the inde
pendence of the judiciary, which a dirore-
tion to delay and refuse the salaries of the
judges would occasion. But it will lie con
tended that the political rider on the ap
propriation hill will not diminish the coii-
ituiional salaries^ these officials. 8ir.it will
directly diminish such salaries. At best it
postpones the payment. This deprives the
preMdent or $the judge of the use and
interest of his money, which is to diminish
the salary. It does more. It violate* that
provision of the constitution which declares
that the salaries shall he paid at stated
times. That is to say times which are to be
fixed by law. To illustrate: the statutes
now declare that the salary of the president
shall be paid monthly. This was the law
when he was inaugurated, and cannot law
fully and rightfully be changed to as to af
fect his salary during his term of otlic-. In
other word*, he has an undeniable, vested
right to monthly payments.
Now, sir, I ask what difference does it
make to the rights of the president whether
you postpone the payment of his salary until
his term of office expires,or whether, because
of a political rider on the appropriation
bill about which you disagree, you do not
vote the money to pay his salary until his
term of office expires. To him the effect, is
the same. He is deprived of his money.
The constitution which sought to deny *to
the legislature any control over the emolu
ments of the chief magistrate during his
term ot office is disregarded and nullified;
and, dependent upon your caprice for a
support, to recall the language of Hamil
ton, "you may reduce him by famine
or tempt him by largesses to surren
der his judgment to your inclina
tions." Sir. is it safe? Is it wise? Is it
patriotic? Is it indicative of permanency
and durability in our institutions when
constitutional and fundamental distinc
tions are obliterated norm the merest pre
text of the exigency of the moment, upon
the most insufficient reason of party neces
sity?
Sir, gentlemen are fond of citing British
precedents for the practice of refusing the
supplies as a legitimate parliamentary re-
jured them to adhere to the line of moder
ate counsels and patriotic duty.
By thus determining and thus acting—
8aid he,
you will pursue the plain and direct road to the
attainment of your wishes; you will defeat the
insidious designs of your cuenjies, who are com
pelled to r son from open fort* to secret artiiioe;
you will give one more signal proof of unexampled
S triotum and patient virtu* rising superior to
? pre#Mire of the mo>t complicated sufferings,
to mankind, "hud Um day.been wonting, the
world had never seen the^loSt stage of perfection
to which human nature is capable of attaining.”
Sir, under changed conditions this house
may profit by the timely admonitions of
Washington. The peace of the count!\%
the regular discharge of all the func
tions of the government, the confi
dence of our commercial and industrial in
terests, the quiet of the public mind, and
above all, the supreme necessity of main
taining the government, are so far superior
to the importance of any mere party vic
tory' that reason will not brook hesitation,
and patriotism but obevs the dictates of
reason.
Sir, as no man can question the consistency
i ^opinions upon this subject, so no man
sliomddoulit the sincerity of tuy convictions
or the patriotism of my motives. Sir, I re
iterate that the political rider on the appro
priation bill imports that the money to
maintain this government may be refused
at any moment. Refuse the supplies, and
your government will be first palsied, then
paralyzed; refuse the supplies, and Bthe
mariner, as he approaches your shores, will
i- u i n Vain< f<-H‘’>*!• welcome ray of the
light house to warn him from hidden dan
gers or to direct him to the secure harbor
and the placid roadstead; refuse the sup
plies, and thousands of families of innocent
women imjl children who depend for their
support on the good faith of the govern
ment will suffer from hunger and penury;
refuse the supplies, and iu the absence of
the gallant defender* of our border
the vile peons and fierce banditti
of Mexico will sweep across the
frontier, and devastation and robbery, ra
pine and murder will mark the places once
l , 1‘Py Domes of your citizens. Leave
the Indian frontier unprotected, give unre
strained license to tho cruel tribes of merci-
less and revengeful savages, even now with
difficulty restrained by the mailed hand of
the government, and picture, if you can, the
shapes of terror and despair which will sit
for Household gods upon the hearts of the
people of your western borders. Refuse the
supplies, and you shake the credit of the
g overn ment at home and abroad; you
umiliate the American people; you
shake . the confidence of the
world in the stability of our institutions;
and instead of a secure, and peaceful, and
prosperous country of refuge for the toiling
subjects of despotism and victims of tyran
ny in the old world, you will afford the
spectacle of a decaying republic, a govern
ment torn by great and ambitious factions,
and where power has usurped the preroga
tive of the law.
Sir, I do not arrogate to myself any love
of country superior to those with whom I am
associated. £an» sure it is the proudest de
light of the America!! citizen to dwell upon
the marvelous future which it requires no
prophetic eye to see is the inheritance of
this great union of states. There is but
one danger ahead of us, and that is
that we may be induced to take
some departure from the constitution. As
long as we hold to this rock we are safe.
There is no wave of popular commotion
strong enough to sweep us down. I^t us
hold to the constitution; let us support the
government; then, esteeming country supe
rior to party; then on the plane of common
humanity, a common destiny, a common
brotherhood, a common country, oblivious
of the past, let us labor to protect the lib
erties, to increase the happiness of the
union, and to augmeut the prosperity of
that goodly heritage with which Divine
Providence has blessed tbe American peo
ple.
THE REPUBLICANS.
iiization on the earth, without which no
modern nation can preserve its decency,and
whose destruction will carry confusion and
misery and distress into the home of every
American citizen. Sir, it i* the political
rider that ha* done the work. Sir, i* this
contingency impossible? Is the picture
fancifully drawn? What man among you
is there who can lay his hand on his heart
and, with the history of this country
memory, say that the conjuncture which I
have foreboded i* either impossible or im
probable?
Mr. Chairman, to place a measure of
general legislation on an appropriation bill
which mu -t of necessity be passed deprives
tbe representative of all op{M>rtunity of crit
icism or of independent action witn regard
to that measure. How is it
po«sibte in the closing hours
of a session for the representative to make
his notions of right and wrong effretive,
when it he votes against the general legis
lation he must of necessity vote against the
entire appropriation ? He must vote for the
bill, or he may defeat the appropriation. He
surrenders, may be, his judgment and bis
conscience, and votes for the bill with the
rider attached Or be votes against it, and
is liable to have his motives misconstrued,
and not improbably will incur tbe disap
proval of others when perhaps be least de
serves it. But, sir, it is not alone the inde
pendence of the representative to which
this practice is inimical, but it is aimed
likewise, whether intentionally or r.ot it
matters not, at the independence of the
other branch of congress and at the inde-
j»eudence of the executive.
8ir. the most admirable feature of
most admirable system is the complete in-
dejiendence of its co-ordinate branches. It
was sa.d by Hamilton, in tbe federalist,
along with his honest, zealous, luminous,
and masterl / advocacy of the constitution,
"that no political truth is of greater value,
or stamped with the authority of more en
lightened patrons of liberty, than that the
legislative, executive, and judicial deport
ment* ought to be separate and distinct,
and that it this constitution was justly
chargeable with a mixture of these powers
no further argument would be nece&sary to
inspire a universal reprobation of the sys
tem ’’
sort. ^ I should he delighted to hear
the distinguished parliamentarians who
so earnestly and zealously contend for the
rider on the appropriation bill* point out
the analogy between the refusal of the
British parliament to vote a gratuity to a
French sovereign to carry on one of his
wars and the refusal of the American con
gress to pay the men who have devoted the
best years of their lives to the public ser
vice for their meritorious services. The
ca-es are entirely di-similar. When in
British history, save in times of actual
revolution, did this “ parliamentary
heroism” refuse to maintain every
department of the government, from the
chief justice of the realm to the light-
keeper on Kddystone Reef? The waves of
party feeling have run as high in Great
Britain as in America. They have sub
merged tbe lives and the reputations of the
most illustrious patriots. They have dashed
with all the fury which tbe'whirlwind of
passion could impart against the granitic
foundation of that unwritten constitution.
But, sir, tbe government was maintained
all of its usual furciions; and though the
eloquence of Pitt and Fox had lashed the
public mind into a frenzy of sympathy,
though the death grapple of Brougham and
Canning made the world bold its breath,
the British public were secure; they were
confident; they did not question that their
institutions would survive the struggle.
Sir. children yet unhorn will pronounce
blessing* ut»on tlie forty-sixth congress of
these United States, if by your wisdom you
Meeting; of tbe State Executive Com
mittee.
Tuesday aftemom at 2 o’clock there
was a meeting of the republican executive
committee of the state in the office of the
Atlanta Republican publishing company.
The meeting was called for the pur
pose of making the necessary
preparations for the coming political con
tests of the present 3’car. in which it is
understood that the republicans are going
to take an active pare At the meeting
yesterday were present: J. K. Bryant,
chairman, Volney Spalding, secretary, and
the following members: S. A. Darnell,
C. O. Fisher, S. G. Thomas,
John R. Hayes, Madison Davis,
Archibald C. Wade and Jeff Long. Only
two members of the committee were ab
sent The following members of the state
central committee were present and partici
pated in the proceedings: Henry P. Farrow,
W. H. Smyth, James B. Deveaux, W. P.
Pledger and W. H. Harrison.
After some consultation the committee
resolved to call
STATE RKrnilLICAN CONVENTION
to meet in Atlanta on the 2lst of April.
This convention will be expected to do a
great variety of work. It will have to send
delegates to the national republican con
vention. It will also nominate electors to
stand for whomsoever that convention
shall nominate, and will probably put
out a full state ticket for
the October election. It is the purpose of
the leaders of the republican party in the
state to do all that is possible to reorganize
their shattered strength and to make some
impression on tbe approaching elections
The drift of the discussions yes
terday showed that there will be
a more determined effort than has
been made in this direction
for several years past. The representation
in the convention will be twice thenumlier
of delegates which each county has in the
lower house of the legislature, and in the
temporary organization of the convention
no delegates will be allowed to participate
except those who hold certificates from a
convention duly called in the county they
claim to represent.
It is certain that there will be a warm
time over the question of delegates to the
nstional convention. The friends of Sher
man are very busy in his interests, while
the advocates of Grant and other promi
nent candidates are also hard at work.
Georgia has twenty-two votes in the
national convention, qnite enough to tnm
the scale in a tight vote between two of
the aspirants. There seems to be a sort of
revival of interest among the republicans
in this stat*, and there can be no doubt
that they intend to do all they can to make
a good canvass »n Georgia, both on state
and national issues.
FOREIGN FLASHES.
relieve the public mind from the possibility
of apprehension that your institutions may
be destroyed, your government paralyzed,
your departmentsdisorganized, your armies
dUbanded, your fleets scattered like the
Spanish armada, by withholding, from the
exces*of party spirit, the f>ower to deprive
this great government of its usual, its legit
imate, its necessary support. Sir, if gentle
men suppose that in this discussion of an
abstract and yet a nio*t practical question I
naveany allusion to the action of any party
they entirely mistake the scope of ray re
marks. I do not mean to say that any rider
— my appropriation bill would have occa-
leu tlie consequences which I have de
picted, but these are consequences which
may ensue at any time, and this in itself is
sufficient argument that the practice is to
be deprecated, must be Abandoned. Will it
require any particular degree of fortitude
or patriotism for gentlemen to support the
reform which I advocate? I know that it
will place it out of the power of the major
ity to repeal at present certain measures of
political legislation which I mast heartily
desire should be blotted from tbe statute-
book. but the good to be attained i* worthv
of that sacrifice.
Let us divorce general legislation from
the appropriation bills. Let us enter up a
decree of perpetual divorcement, and we
will have given to the republican party, to
the people, to history, aud to the world a
signal instance of what the representatives
of tbe American people are willing to do
ami to suffer in the cause of that free gov
ernment which was conveyed to them in
title deed* indented with the good swords
of their revolutionary sires. 8ir. when
the continental army, with unparal
leled devotion to country and to
liberty, had fought out the great bat
tle of revolution which gave liberty
to a continent aud the hope of freedom to
the world, in tbe hoar of their final tri
umph insidious efforts were made to In
duce them to misuse the strength which
hid crowned their sacrificial struggles
Tbe Attempt ou tbe Cznr—The Finan
cial .Situation In Germany.
London, February 18.—A Dublin dispatch
to the Pall Mall Gazette this evening says
that accounts from the country during the
past few days have been more hopeful and
are summed up in the words: Much suffering
but no starvation, except in far-off islauds,
to which relief is bring sent without delay
or stint. In parts of county Donegal also
the want is great, but the Dublin Mansion
house fund has lieen made peremptory
available in that quarter. In the mean
while the agrarian agitation may be said to
have completely ended. All attempts to
get up meetings of tbe sort recently have
failed.
The Mansion house relief fund now
amounts to £67,700; 3,440 grants in all have
been made.
Mr. P. Lorrillard’s brown gelding. Parole,
is the favorite in the betting at 10 to 1 for
the race for the Lincolnshire handicap,
which will take place at the Lincoln spring
meeting on Wednesday. March 17th.
For the Oxford and Cambridge university
boat race, which is to take place on the
Tnaraes Saturday. March 20tb. the latter
crew is the favorite in the betting at 65 lo
40.
AFGHANISTAN.
Lahore, February 1H —A Turcoman
force, believed to be accompanied by Abdul'.
Rahman Khan, has reached Akweba in
Afghan, Turkestan. There is great excite
ment at Cabal over this report
RUSSIA.
The Berlin correspondent of the Times
telegraphs as follows: It is said that Gener
al 8kobeloff will command the Russian
main army of invasion in central Asia,
numbering 26,000 men, which will march
from Tashkend across Bokhara to meet,with
a view of operating in the rear of tbe Turco
mans, two other armies starting from Tchi-
keslar and Krasnovodosk respectively,
which will form a junction with bitn before
the end of May.
The mine which was exploded last even
ing in the basement of the winter palace
was filled with dynamite and gun-powder.
The train by which it was fired can be
traced to a cellar in the inner court, where
a quantity or fuel wa* stored.
Bald Mountain quake* Again.
Spartanburg, February 17.—Mr. R. L.
Taylor, of this place, who accompanied
your reporter to Bald Mountain about two
S ear* ago, bes just returned from the neigh-
orhood and reports that the residents
there felt i*evere shocks and heard rum
blings in the mountain on the *28th and
29th of January. On tbe 10th of February,
he heard the rumbling very distinctly him
self a distance of seventeen miles. The
people are considerably excited again, and
confidently expect the whole mountain to
fall to pieces soon.
