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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA, GA, TUESDAY MARCH 16 1886
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CONGRESS.
Proceedings of the Two Houses
Last Week.
With the President and His Ad'
visers—General News.
In tbc Seute.
Tho president vetoed the bill granting Ian I
to settler* on the Dee Moines river in Iowa,
The veto message took the position that the
claims of the settler* had been determined hy
the courts, and the interference of congress
would be improper.
The nomination of Dement to be surveyor
general of Utah, was confirmed after a long
and heated debate by a vote of 23 to 22. Ur.
Login advocated hi* confirmation, and sir re
publicans voted with him.
In the House.
Under the call of states a number of bills
were introduced and referred, among them one
by Mr. Bennett, of Horth Carolina, repealing
the civil service law, and by Hr. Green, of
North Carolina, defining pure wines and pro-
viding for the taxation or certain compounded
beverages.
On behalf of the committee on labor, Hr.
Janies, of New York, called np the bill to pro
hibit any officer, servant or agent of the gov
ernment to hire or contract out the labor of
prisoners Incarcerated for violating the laws of
the United states government. Ur. James
said that the bill was in the interest of the
honestjmechanic. JThc*sy8tem which prevailed
at some of the penitentiaries of the country
of hiring out convict labor bad worked great
hardship and injustice to the honest mechanic.
In his own district a great industry, the man
ufacture of hats, had been entirely crushed
out, because it could not compete with convict
labor. The bill was passed, yeas 219, nays 8.
Senator Edmunds Against the President.
Washington, March 9.—[Special.]—Senator
Edmunda’a speech was evidently prepared with
great care. It evinced a thorough study of
the question of the rights of the executive and
the legislative branches of the government.
Of the many alleged precedents produced to
justify the attitude of the republican senators,
not one in ten had any relevancy whatever to
the issue now raised, and probably the only
one which presented any similarity was that
in which Andrew Jackson refused to send to
the senate the papers in the case of a removed
surveyor general.
The general verdict la that it was an ingeni
ous but not a strong argument. Hr. Edmunds
appeared at the president's reception tonight
in smiling complacency. He was
perhaps the most observed man in the
great gathering, owing to bis attack on the
administration this afternoon. One amusing
incident of the evening occurred when Ed'
monds approached the president. The presi
dent extended his hand, they shook bands
cordially and exchanged a few words, then
both langhed. Edmunds turned and spoke to
Hiss Cleveland, who smiled and shook the
forefinger of her right hand coqnettishly in the
faco of the stern Vermonter. The sceno was
-witnessed and eqjoyed by several hundred
spectators.
At two o’clock other business was cut off by
the unfinished business, being the resolution
reported by Mr. Edmonds, from the judiciary
committee, concerning the Duakln controversy
between tho senate and the president and the
attorney general.
Hr. Edmunds began his remarks in a rather
low tone, but his voice soon acquired its usual
full, rltar and ringing volume. Forty years
had elapsed since the last controversy of this
kind between the legislative and executive
branches of the government had occurred, and
it had then been many years sines a similar
occurrence bad arisen.
The question, Hr. Edmnnds said, was what
was tho nature of the nomination sent by the
president to the senate. The president had
not undertaken, in tho fkce of the statute for
bidding it, to remove Dusktn from oflloe, but
had suspended him. Dnskin still remained
attorney of the United States for Alabama.
Be stood in the attitude of a military officer
under arrest, as the president might place the
lieutenant general or the army, (tenoral Sher
idan, under arrest. When the
nomination of Burnett camo to the senate,
therefore, Dnskin was attorney of the United
States for Alabama, and the proposition was
that he should be removed by the appointment
of the gentleman selected as his successor, if it
should meet the approval of the senate. There
fore the senate, if it were even a Jury and had
to aubmlt to tho judgment of the
president as judge, as to what
the evidence should be laid before it
connected with tho case, and Its relevancy, it
would have been relevant (on the very issue
submitted by the lodge to the Jury) to know
what was the conduct and management of that
office in the bands of the person whom the
president asked the senate to assist him in dis
placing by a new appointment.
Hr. Edmnnds inquired, “What is an official
paper ?” and asked the presiding officer
whether be (Sherman) would conalder “offi
cial” a letter addressed to him as '-presi
dent pro tempore of the senate
relating to a measure pending before the sen
ate 1" “I take it,” said Ur. Edmnnds, “that
there would be but one answer to the question.
Yon would hardly think it within the fitness
of things. I take it, to carry it to your house
or pnt It In your pocket, or put It in your fire
place and destroy it. It is addressed to you
In your official character, and that is what
S ves character to a paper of whatever kind it
-whether official or private.”
Therefore, the proposition was that the
senate being cmlledipn in the exercise of its
Jurisdiction to judge of the official conduct of
Dnskin—the president having already been
called on within bis jurisdiction, to pronounce
judgment on a similar question about the ama
man—tbs senate could not have the papers
because, if it did, they would diacloao tho
grounds on which thepresident acted.
"If that," said Hr. Edmunds, “is not a prop-
meat of reason, I am quite enable to compre
hend wbat would be.” In 1835, Presi
dent Jackson removed a surveyor-general—a
man named Wirt* as he had the lawful right
to do. He had not impended him—there waa
no law for suspension. He appointed to fill
the vacancy a man named Williamson. The
senate called on the president for the papers
and information regarding the removal of
Wirts. Tho president replied In awharacter-
iaticlmeasags, saying in substance that that was
one of the numerous cells mode on him by
the senate, which he had hitherto complied
with, but hs was going to atop now-thrt he
had removed Wertx, asj he had a
right to do, and the reason was none
or the senate’s business. The senate next day,
without division, rejected Williamson, al
though in the very message in which the
president said he would not tell anything
abont wbat Worts had been doing, ne took
particular pains to say that Williamson was
one of the brat qualified
one or the best qnaiineu and most valuable
personages he had ever known. That was the
end of the aflklr between President Jackson
and the senate on the subject of papers about
appointments.
1 Let’s see,” said Ur. Edmunds. “On the 1th of
March, 18T8,tbe democrats bad a majority or
this body. Their committee on judiciary was
Thurman, chairman; McDonald, Bayard, Gar
land, Lamar, Davis, Edmnnds, Conhling, and
Carpenter." Beferring to the committee's
letter book, Ur. Edmnnds said: “I do not
know bnt that it it ’private and confident!-!!,’
but I will taka the liberty of reading it,
[Laughter], even if it gets to the ears of the
attorney-general and preaident of the United
Ur. Edmnnds then read a copy of a letter
from Thurman, an chairman of the committee,
to the.attorney-general datad March 24. 1879,
caning for '’sack information as may he in
Posaeailon of yocr department concerning the
following nominations, together with any mg-
gotten you may be pleaeed to note.” “On the
< th of April,” continued Hr. Edmunds, “there
esme in a horse of a different color, the same
kind of an animal that wo have here now,
[J-sughtcr.] Accordingly on that day,
this letter waa written to the attorney
general of the United States.
Bit—Under direction of tho Judtclary committee
of the Matte, t here the honor to request that yon
will communicate to the committee any paper
information In yourpoasosioo, touching the q
supreme coart of the territory of Utah, and the
appointment of David J. Corbin to office. Very
■OKCtfUUy your obedient aerrut.
(Signed) Allen G. Thurman.
Chairman.
Alas for the democracy of those days.
[Laughter.j Think, Mr. President, of the in
finite idiocy, unpatriotism end usurpation of
that number of five senaton of the United
States, of the democratic party, aseaUing a re
publican attorney general and a republican
preaident, with an intuiting and Impertinent
Inquiry as to the papers and Information
touching a suspended officer, whose successor
wss nominated to accomplish Us
removal, and yet these men were in their day
—In those times—among the beadlighto of the
democratic locomotive. [Laughter.] There was
Tbnrman, his light is put out [renewed laugh
ter], the greatest democrat in the United
States, [applause in the gillorieaj, and the beet
one, and the nobleet one, and the bravest one,
for he had the courage not long ego in yonr
state, sir, to denounce democratic frauds at the
ballot. There was Thurman, and there was
"Joe” McDonald—a name familiar in the west
as in the east as the embodiment of upright
democratic plnck and constitutional law: and
there was Garland, wham we all knew here,
the leader on the democratic side of the sen
ate, full and running over with constitutional
and statute and reported law; knowing his
righto as a senator and os a member or the
committee, and knowing his duties; and La-
mar; and then all the rest of us on this side,
joining in what the present president of the
United States calls an impertinont inovstion
of his rights in asking for papers. Hr. Presi
dent, if I were going to be rhetorical I should
say jnst there: “Oh shame, where is thy
lilnab?” Bnt that was not the only instance.
Ur. Pugh said ho bad expressed views his
folly upon the subject of this debate in the
report made from the judiciary committee by
the minority, and the main object he had in
now addressing the senate in reply to the sen
ator from Vermont was to prevent, if it was
in hispower to do so—which he admitted was
a difficult undertaking—that senator from
changing the character of theqneetlon between
the renate and the president.
When the senator from Vermont
was at the wheel be steered by his own chart.
He never ran on straight lines. He never
consnlted other sailors, and he lost his temper
when there was nny question of skillful sea
manship, and when the officer of the ahip un
dertook to select a crew to man It without
his advice and consent ha Instantly headed
a mutiny.
Mr. Pugh rend at length from the presidents
message, among other things, the statement
that there “had been no official papera or
documento filed in hit (attorney general’!)
department relating to the care within the
period stated In hla resolution.”
The president had stated that tin
were private and unofficial, and rel
nothing over which the renate hod any juris
diction. The majority of the judiciary com
mittee and Its distinguished chairman—the
senator from Vermont—sold that although
private end unofficial they would enable tne
senate to diacharge a duty It had to perform—
the power It claimed—of revising the official
act of the president in suspending George U.
Duakln as district attorney; that waa the un
disputed bash of the claim to them private
unofficial papers. It was the power of the
senate to exercise the same control and revis
ion over the act of suspension
or removal that waa claimed and exorcised
and given to the senate exprerely by the con
stitution, of advising and contenting to appoint
ments. There wae no mistake abont that being
the claim asserted by the majority of tho Judi
ciary committee, and there was no mistake
that tho reeolntlon reported condemned tho
official act of tho attorney-genoral for tho rea
son that he had withheld, on the order of tho
president, Information that ho stated was pri
vate—documents and papers that he said wore
unofficial and private and withheld from the
senate on the president’s positive order; first,
because they were private and unofficial, and,
secondly, boesuso they related to no duty that
the constitution or law imposed on the seoato.
“Js there anything," said Hr.
Fogb, “in tho history of the gov
ernment to support this claim?” The
distinguished senator from Vermont has pre
sented a long array of wbat ho calls “preced-
eats.” I undeitako to say—and I chalicngo
denial, upon the fullest teat—that there is no
the history of the government for
sat* where any such documento ms
led for in this resolution, were over
transmitted to the senate In executive or
public session, or order of tho senate upon an
attorney-general or president. Hy honorable
and distinguished friend paraded in a manner
that indicated that he eras about to achieve a
great triumph over tho preaident in the pro
duction of a letter sent from tho Judiciary
committee end signed by Allen G. Thurman,
as lta chairman, to the attorney-general.
I Indorse ell that tho senator has
so well said about Allen G. Thurman.
Yes, Mr. Preaident, Allan G, Thurman la the
greatest and wisest and purest American states
man now living.” [applause tu galleries,whoso
occupants were notified by the occupant of the
chair (Harris) that any further demonstrations
of applause would result in the gallerias bolog
cleared,]
I was surprised that the great senator from
srmont In this great law-making department
of tho government should invoke the nsmo
and fame and authority of that great etotes-
man to sottain the claim now m*ao on tho at
torney [general for theec£docnments. What
bad Senator Thurman said on tho floor of tho
senate in relation to this power of removal?
Hr. Pngh read from the speeches of Ur. Ed
monds daring tho debate on the tenure of
offico bill to show that Ur. Edmunds maintains
tbit removal was a legislative act. In that
debate, Hr. Pngh continued, there was no
donbt n beginning of this view entertained by
the senator today. He (Pugh) hod no doubt
that it was the legal opinion of that distin
guished lawyer (Ur. Edmunds,) tbit under the
law-making power of congrees thin power of
removal could 1 *
I bo vested In the boose of ropre-
speakers of the boose, or tho president of the
senate alone, or that it conld lie posted in two
booses Jointly, that it wm a pare creation of
)aw end under tho absolute control of con
gress.
Hr. Pngh read from speeches of Calhoun and
Clay to show that the views entertained by
those public men suggested the views of Hr.
Edmonds. This removal waa a legislative
ftmetien. and nndar the control of coognm.
Ur. Pngh further read from tho report
of the minority and from the journals of coo
tenure
and Qny upon the powers of tho senate in the
matter of removals. InVonctasten, Ur. Pugh
•aid bis object had bean to define
the choraeter of this conflict of au
thority between tho preaident and the smote
and to fortify tho view that had alarays been
taken by the democratic party, end to fortify
it byaathoritiee, commencing aQhe first con
gress end running down to the latest period.
Ur. Wilton, of Iowa, addressed the senate
in support of the resolution reported by the
majority of the committee.
Hr. Wilson sold, for the firat time in the pro-
grneof this government Its executive power
is now being used as a means of assn'll t on tho
character and reputation of its citizens. Ho
stated the foot ana would not now atop to de
termine whether it was the result of purpose,
inexperience, want of thoughtful action, or
other canse wbateoever.
Id his fortherargnmentHr. Wilson followed
the 1 ine of Mr. Edmonds's speech on Tuesday,
that the law and precedent were against the
position assumed by the president and hll cab
inet, when they affirmed that the right of sus
pension waa distinct from that of appointment
and was independent of revision by the sen
ate ; adopting it, however, to his assumption
that the protection of the character of the sus
pended officials was a prime factor in the con-
Wamimotox, March 12 —[Speetel.]—Young
gens tor Ken ns, of West Virginia, slender nod
smooth shaven, made s very successful reply
to Ur. Edmunds, in the senato today. It was
n reply that Hr. Edmunds felt, and not only
Edmnnds, but Logan and Sherman, ills
■harp thru its at these three presidential can
didates greatly delighted William M. Everts,
who sat listening to him with rapt attention,
and who congratulated him in executive ses
sion. Hr. Henna's gallery audience was not as
large aa that which listened to Hr. Edmunds.
Popular Interest in the debate it on tho wane.
Nor were there as many senators or represent
atives on the floor as the previous days, but
everybody who was present listened and gave
audible evidence now and then of the appreci
ation with which tho really clever speech was
received.
Ur. Edmnnds ires not in hit teat when Mr.
Henna began. He did not come in for some
fifteen minutes alter. When he first sat down
he affected great indifference to what was
being said by Ur. Henna, opening his morning
moil and reading his morning newspaper as
though the speech bad no special Interest to
him. Bnt by and by ho began to liaton,
and having once begun be listened
intently to tho ctoed. Daring tho
time when Ur. Henna sms reading tho extracts
from Blaine’s book Edmonds never lifted hit
eyes from n law book, which ho picked up as
soon as Ur. Henna announced what ho was
shout to retd, and the leave* of which ho
turned slowly while Hr. Henna read Blaine’s
severe comments, and everbody else in the
chamber smiled. The Logan episode eras fun
nier. Ur. Henna referrea to an amendment,
proposed hy Logan In March, 1889, to tho ten
ure of office act declaring vacant In June, 1889,
all offices which had been filled by appointees
made before March 4,1689. Everybody laugh
ed at this. Logan waa quietly napping in tho
republican cloak room. While Mr. Henna was
reading tbia an officious page rushed in
woke him up and he came out robbing his
eyes sleepily as ha camo. This made every
body laugh again. Hr. Henna langhed so that
fated for a moment or two and Lognu
himself smiled, though he had no cloar idea as
to what he was nulling about. Ur. Shor-
man took the rending of hla letter more qulot-
ly.
Mr. Henna took tho floor and ad
dressed the annate in opposition to
the report of tho committee.
‘ ‘ " ' entlemen, composing a part of
a co-ordinate branch of the government, hav
ing listened to the argument which undertook
tossy all mankind ahould have no secret from
the senate, was admonished by that ringing of
hells that the time had come that tho senato
wonld put on ite robes of royal purple. Five
thousand brave men and fair women were ex-
ellcd from the galleries. The eyes of the
merlcan press viciu closed. Doors nttlo and
sentinels took their pasts, and as a fitting testi
mony at the conclnuon of tho speech of the
senator Item Vermont, tho sen
ate was resolved Into It* ancient
secrecy, and ss the file* marched out and the
officer* assumed their posts as guards of tho
sacred privileges of the oenato and denied
everewnere else, tho thought come how abun-
dondantly practices may engraft themselves
upon human composition and how little reflec
tion, perhaps, the members of the oenato had
given to tho Act that for a hundred years or
more that body bad been the star chamber of
tho American republic. Why. the senator
from Vermont would deny privacy or
confidence to every paper In every department
of the government. Let It be seen where
that might lead. Suppose some respectable
citlxen or some vile man, profiting by the sug
gestion of the senator from Vermont, should
choose to addrem a letter to tho president pro
tempore of the senate, declaring that the ques
tion involved in this debate was purely a moot
question—that nobody supporting it had any
faith In it—that it was only thlni or fourth
suggestion of a change of position and status,
occupied by those advancing it since tho be
ginning of tho controversy, and urging the
president pro tempore to advocate it on the
hcory that it might prove to bo a profitable
make-shift to maintain in their present posi
tion n hundred thousand repablioan oflloe hol
ders, and to prostitute to party ends tho
present executive department of the
government. That might ho vile—it might
come from a vflo source, and yet under tho
definition of this issue laid down by tho sena
tor from Vermont, that wonld bean official
paper subject to any uses to which ho chose to
auMect it
That letter would ho an official paper
under the definition laid down by the ienator
from Vermont, to which the senate, house and
executive^ and tho Judicial departments of tho
government wonid be entitled under any cir
cumstance* in which they might ask
for them. After citing other illustrations
Ur. Kcnnustated what he believed to bo sim
ile truth, namely: that one qi
lerowas whether the present
should bo allowed, in tho fulfil
ligations to thopeople, to administer tho gov
ernment through agencies of his own, of his
own choice, or bo compelled by
the obetructive power or the ma
jority of tho senate to administer
and be responsible for the government through
agencies not of his own choice. And not only
(o, hut agencies lacking hla confidence, and In
a multitude of cases actually interested in
bringing him and his administration Into dis
repute. Tho issue after all was whether the
democratic sdmlnlstration should appropri
ately perforin Its Auctions In the faco of the
negativo obstructive majority on the other
tide of this chamber. [Applause in tho gal
leries, which drew from the occupant of tho
chair (Ur. Blackburn) tho admonition that
evidences of approval or disapproval ware not
allowid.]
In conclusion Hr. Henna said:
When President Cleveland assumed Amotion of
tho olllce of chief executive of the government I
do not believe there ts a citizen In this land who
reason wbatovtr to doubt that he camo to
ante ol the duties of that high office dc
ts for as In him lay, to dovote a conser
vative and patriotic anpUcatfonlto the discharge of
his duties. I believe I speak within bounds when I
say that this whole country knew that the one great
Idea of sendee to hla country In an acceptable
manner In the high capacity In which it had retoo
led him for that high renrlco was bU only aspire-
lion. I would mil io express ay own candid con
viction now If I did not say that,
looking bock from the long line
of his predecessors In that high offiot, and con
fronting, aa ho mar, tho Issues presented here, be
will not he the first In surrendering Its k—- —
rocatlve. The senate roar continue, as hto
Indicates, to ply him and bis various subordinate
depart meets with harrasslng and embarrassing
this rice at a lower rate of duty, it would bo
heller to state it specially in the tariff, and
not leave the rate to be fixed by unstable tress*
uiy rulings. Almost tho entire cost of rlco
Production was in the labor, ninety cento on
the dollar, he ahould any. Hr. Trenholm told
of a planter who had abandoned bia plants-
tlon because he fauna that s
ST"*. . , r0 *'' storekeeper was selling
East India rice to his laborer*. Mr. Trenholm
admitted thathe had free trade ideas general-
ly, but said that if the protective system were
maintained, then he should regard tho tariff
on rice as a necessity, Protection enhanced
the cost ofalllalior, and this country could
not compete in rice culture with the Asiatic
nations with theirchesp labor, without includ
log rlco in the list of Imported articles.
Representative Gsy, of Looiaiana, spoke of
the excessive cost of harvest labor on rlco
plantations in bis state, as compared with the
cheep East Indian labor. He said that it bad
bccomethop “
break upwl _
advantage of the low tariff on that grade in
this country.
Mr. Morrison, representing the rlee dealers,
said that the brewers consumed broken rice to
tho extent of several million buihels per
ns ana oi tno cnamoer oi commerce or
nab. Hemada n strong argnmont In Avor
ntslning thopraeent tariffon rice, and the
Ion of the distinction between broken
issues: U may defeat aver; nomination that at
before it for conahtontton: it may assort in any
measure, arbitrarily or otherwise, every prerega-
re granted or not granted In tbs constitution: Sat
mistake that man If ht docs not stand firmly to
b i post, raalntain his sworn duty nndar tho con
stitution at bis country, maintain every preroga
tive of hla high office and transmit It unimpaired
hla successor.
Discussing the Tariff.
Washington. March 8.—[Special.]—Today
L. Trenholm, of the civil service comm ra
tion, appeared before the ways and means
committee, and preeented an argument against
the reduction in the rice tariff proposed In the
Horriaon MIL Mr. Trenholm appeared as tho
representative of the rice planton of Sooth
Carolina and of tho chamber of commeroe of
herannah. He made
of maim
abolition M.
and good rioe, which area established three
years ago. He wis followed by Congressman
Dibble, of South Carolina. It is trail settled
that unless this bill is amended in it* rice,
sugar and lumber schedules, it will he opposed
hy a large number of southern votes which
were cast for the fiunoos, but ill-fated, hori
zontal bill two years ago.
Washington, March 8.—Civil Service Com
missioner Trenholm arid that the duty on
rice imported into the Pacific states seat paid
by the Chinese laborers, who were the consum
ers, and sms almost the only tax paid by the
Chinese. Hr. Trenholm told of the ill effects
rice plantations In this country resulting
from the disuse daring the war, and said that
if the production should bo chocked nt this
time, it would be difficult or almost impossible
to re-establish the sources of supply within n
long period. Tho land was fit for no other pur
pose, and the laboring people would drift sway
and conld not he reached. Secretary Folger had
made a ruling assimilating broken rice meal
under th* name of granulated rice, and that
ruling had the effect of increasing the importa
tion of that clasa ef rice from eleven million
rounds to two hundred end Mventy-flve mil-
ion, end th* price bed Alton from four to two
cests per pound. If it waa the Intention to let in
month, and that the production of this country
was too small to supply the demand. It hod
been shown that tho aouthera dealers bought.
Washington, March 12.—Tho session of the
committee of way* and means today waa pro
tracted from 11 a. m. o'clock till 30)0 p. m.
Delegates of workingmen, in the Iron aud cool
Industries of Pennsylvania and Ohio, made a
very strong presentation of their caao tgainst
any tariff reduction, and; held their position
with greet ability against the snggcetlve ques
tionings of Messrs. Breckinridge, of Kentucky,
Breckinridge, of Arkansas, and UoUillan, of
Tennessee. Several of them, including "
Jarrett, gavoout veiy direct intimations t
the last presidential election the workingmen
of the country had givon a different interpre
tation to tho declaration In tho democratic
platform of tho neceulty of a revision of the
tariff from that which they wore now reolixli
in tho introduction of tho Morrison bill, an,,
declared that the political Influence of the
workingmen would be directed against the
political party that Avored any attack upon
the present line of tariff duties.
Senator Milter's Heath
Washington, March 8.—Senator John F.
Miller, of California, whoae death canted the
early adjournment of congress today, hat boon
tick all winter from a complication of diseases,
hnt his death was mainly dne to an old wound
In tho head received In battle daring the tote
war. He was colonel of tn Indiana regiment;
became brigadier general, and was brovetted
major general after the battle of Nashville.
He bad no mean ability, bnt
was most conspicuous for hit lioa
city, hto suavity and hto courage. Ha entered
the senate In 1881, jnst ms Mahona ires dicker.
Ingsrith the republican leaden. When the
trade was completed which threw the pigmy
senetor’s vote on the republican tide of the
perfectly balanced scale, Senator Miller went
along with hto party caucus and tried to foreo
the election of Its ticket for officers of the sen
ate, with Blddleberger for sergeant-at-arms as
part of the eompenntion to Mehonc. Bat ho
was tho first man iu his party to protest ngaii
the continuation of the dead look i
casioncd by the effort to carry
out the conditions of that historic trade. At
last ho went to Preaident Garfield and to Sen
ator Dawes, tho chairman of the republican
caucus, and assured them that if the repnh.
licans insisted on prolonging the session
of the senato merely for the pur
pose of iccuring the spoils of its official pat
ronage ho should vote with tho democrats in
opposition to the resolution to
elect new officers. That manly
determination it wlist broke tho senatorial
deadlock of 1881.
Hto death will give the domocrata one more
voto in the renate, u Governor Stonoinan
will appoint bit successor, who
will hold hit seat until tho California
legislature shall moot in January
Tbe’sonatb will stand, with tho California
member to boappolnted, thirty-fivedomoorato,
forty republicans and one conundrum. Ms-
hone to classed u a republican in this state
ment and Blddleberger to put down as a
a uestionshlo quantity. Itecentiy ho hu
ten voting with tho domocrata, and aomo
persona believe that he will voto with
them consistently before long. Ho and Ma-
bone are thoroughly out with each other. Bid-
dicherger feels that he has been snubbed hy
the republican leaders, and may come ovor to
the democrats for spite. With hto voto and tho
retention of the California ienator the senate
would stand thirty-six democrats to forty
republicans. If the democrats can
elect tho senators In Now
York, Michigan and Wisconsin next
winter, u they hope to do, tho senate will past
into their control on tho fourth of next March.
It is a lamentable Act, however, that this to a
most rickety and uncertain calculation, und
that in ail reasonable contlnrencteo tho repab-
lint s will hold the senate for four years to
come, at leash
ran-EIactrto Talk.
Washington, March 12.—The special com-'
mittee of the house charged with the investi
gation of the Pan-Eloctrio matter met today.
Mr. Boyle, of Pennsylvania, chairman. Joseph
Pulitzer, of the New York World, and n mem
ber of the house, wu first oxamlnod, Mr.
Pulitzer arid hto name had boon connected with
ihonestocks. Hew-
llicatlonofthOM Acte
no, solely am responsible and no
one else to,” said Mr. Pnlitrer. “No homtn
being hM tried to influence me in any manner
whatever, 1 do not know a human being to
day, so far as I am awaro, who to a stockholder
or interested in the Bell telephone company.
J. 11. Rogers, Inventor, took the stand, lie
raid the original transfer of hto patents, about
twenty In number, had been made to Moasra.
Garland, Harris, General Johnson, J, D. C. At
kins, tnaCtaey Young, in March 1883. Her.
riiwn not then's member of the senato. Mr.
Garland was. Governor Brown of Missouri
esn o in afterwards. Nona of the gentlemen
named had paid anything for their shares.
The slock Had been sold to either parties whom
Kogere named for cash, among them Senator
Vest. The company expected to
derive an income from the aala of
state rights, royalties and a proportion of th*
local stock. The National Improved telephone
company hod canted to be published attacks
upon Rogers, and the latter bad asked hto M-
soda tea to com* out In a card defending him.
This they had declined to do, and deeming
himself aggrieved, Rogers had taken to a
World correspondent the albom In which he
htd preserved all correspondence that it might
be published and constitute hto vindication,
Tho Garland opinion, of which much hid been
said, wm given to a man named Myara, who
negotiated for Indiana right. Witnoss Mid
the stock had no market value, only a specu
lative value.
Waahlagtoa Gossip.
Senator Call, of Florida, wm Mked tonight
If h* bad recently heard from Senator Jones,
hto colltagne. He replied: “No, not recently.
I have not expected to hoar from him. Tho
man to craey—mad m a March hare. I am
y for it, hut it to so.”
ashington, March ll.-[Sp*cbl.}-Alt
danger that the preaident wonld lack tho
hnenimoue and hearty support of th* demo
crat* In th* senate to past. Mr. Eottla, of
Looislana, the most outspoken opponent of th*
democratic critics of th* administration, an
nounced immediately upon th* formation of
the prezent Irene with the repablioan majority
In tho oenato that the preaident waa
dearly right and should b* sustained.
Since that there hM been n conference between
the preaident and Mr. Eustis which resulted in
better feeling than had hitherto oxtotad be
tween them.
Romort ore thick in Washington, end all of
consumption with-
whero grown to
j. js. mau.
The Regulator and Controller of Lew Prices.
Will moll samples of all clamM of Dry Goods, and
ray espressos* on ail orders above? 111.00. You
Will sere money and get better variety to select
Hereby writing us shoot whet you want and fat
ting our samples. Tha largest slock In Atlanta and
the ack*owledgsd lowest price*. Mtndtf White
hall meet. Atlanta, S*. Mention tell paper.
them are not reliable. One of the latest to
that Attorney General Garlsnd to going to
resign, and that the president willappointCon-
gressmsn Randolph Tucker, of Virginia, uhis
successor. Hr. Garland’s friends indignantly
deny the tumor that he means to resign. They
my he wonld regard such an action m a con-
feaslon that ho hod been guilty of reprehensi
ble conduct. There to n o ground for the asser
tion that tho president hM grown cold toward
Mr. Garlsnd since tho Tan-Electric scandal,
lio would, perhaps, prefer that Mr. Garland
shonld fight It out now m a
■nctnler of the cabinet. Secretary Whit
ney and Secretary Manning are believed to bo
favorably inclined to Mr. Garland's withdraw
al from the cabinet. Hto warmest friend and
reott (rusted adviser to Secretary Lamar. Tho
attorney general to a plain, blunt man, who to
ss little tormented by the clamor now raging
sgsinst him m it is possible to tmaglno.
The Malt- Educational Bill,
The friends of the Blair educational bill do
not think thM tho advene action of the edu
cations! committee on that bill today ends Its
chances in the house. Speaker Carlisle has
been against the bill from th* first and consti
tuted his committee to carry out hto own anti-
ousted ideas on this subject. Mr. Morrison
fights it too, for ho and Mr. Carlisle never go
apart. The friends of the bill will try to bring
it spin tho house in spite of the advene re
port of a fixed committee.
In the renate today Mr. Colqolttby request,in-
troduccd abiil to provide that it shall be unlaw-
ftit In all that portion of the District of Coinm-
bl* lying and being within a radius of one
mile of tho Notional Soldiers’ home, after the
expiration of the liceniM now In force, to buy,
sell or barter, directly or indirectly, any aloo-
hpllc, spirituous, malt or Intoxicating
kitten, or intoxicating bitters,
or other driuks which if taken to exceM will
produro intoxication.
The Government's Crop Estimates.
Washington, March in.—’The March report
of tho department of agriculture on the con
sumption and distribution of the grain crops,
makes the proportion of corn still fit the hands
of tho Armors, forty per cent of iMt crop.
One year ago, the proportion wm 37.8 per
cent; two years ago, 33 per eent of the short
crop of 1883. It amounts to eoven hundred
and seventy-three million bushels, aovonty-
eight more thin tostpiarch, and two hundred
and slsty-one more than March, 1881. The
proportion to lowest in the west, where heavy
winter feeding wm required, averaging 38
per cent in twelve state*. It to 45 per cent
in the south, where it to required for feed of
plow teems in the spring and early summer,
and 40 In the mlddlo statee.
Tho proportion of merchantable to
82.0 per cent, which to •lightly
above tho avenge of wriM of yean. Value of
merchantable averages 35.9 oanta per bushel
unmerchantable 21.8 cents. This makes tho
average vsloo 33.3 oenta which to half a cent
more than the December value of tin) crop,
when the aggregate value wm estimated at
$038,000,000, The stock of whnt In ibo hands
of fanners to 30,1 per eent of the crop. It wm
33.1 ono year ago, and 28.4 two yean ago. It
amounts to 107,000,000 btuhato against ICO,.
000,000 tost March, and 119,000,000 tiro yean
•go. It to only 9,000,000 bushels more than
March, 1882, tho shortest invisible supply of
recent yearn. The visible and invisible sup
ply March 1, was therefore 180,000,000 against
212,0OO;(JOO tost Msrc' “ ” * "
crop estimated for
in the country
41.8 per cent. Tho avorego weight
per bushel is estimated at fifty-seven pounds
ml 00,9 for
bread and
other uses, tho seed sown and approxi
mately eighty-five million bushels exported
since th* first of Merck, 1885, make* tho dis
tribution equal to th* supply from Uareli last.
How th* Negro wee Nominated.
Washington, March 11.—[Spoeial.]—Thor*
era* an amusing scene in the senate tost Thurs
day afternoon whan th* nomination of J. O.
Matthews to succeed Fred Dongtoe M recorder
of deeds of the district of Colombia wm re
ceived. Mr. 1’oiden, the mild looking Indi
vidual who 1>m oecillstcd between tho white
house end tho capital nieces-
lively na tho meMonKcr of
Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Arthur aud Cleveland
put In an appearance just as that augnat body
wm about to adjourn. Father Hastett, who
hM served hto country for fifty-two yoan as
herald of the senate, and who boars a striking
resemblance to Senator Brown, announced
Pmdcn In hto storotyped way. The
wm received and the ssn-
Immediately adjourned. The eealed
envelope containing tho nominations waa
opened hy Jim Young, executive clerk of th*
■enate, In the present* of General Antra Ha-
Cook, tho secretary of that body. McCook It
■n ex-congressman from Now York, and one
of tho hast posted politicians In the atate. At
ho read tha nominations ho said; “Wall, that
•tump* mo. Who to J. C. Hatthewa. of New
York?”
Yonng confessed that he did not know.
, McCook callod Senator Warner Miller and
Mked for information concerning the ap
pointee.
“Never bMrd of him,” me Hillor’e reply.
Senator Evarte passed by about that tune
and wm called to Join the group
which by this time bad gathered about
te mysterious nomination, lie confessed that
Matthews wm a new one on him. Senators
and secretaries were about to despair of ascer
taining who the newly nominated rtoordor
wm when McCook aoggeatod that one of tho
doorkeepers of the senate wu the beat posted
man on New York polities he bad ever aeon.
He wrote to this doorkeeper on th* back of an
envelope;
“Who to J. C. Matthew*, Just nominated to
be recorder of deeds?"
in a few minute* th* page who boro th* in
quiry returned with this inscription on tho
other aide of tho envelop*:
"Ho to ono of Dan Manning's coon* from
* AsjfcCook read th* reply there was> hearty
laugh lu the group in which Sonatora Evarte
andHiller Joined.
The ftinnieat thing aboutUatthewa'a nomina
tion to the fact that tho WMhington negroes
arevery Indignant over ft. They regard it as
* reflection on them that the president had to
import a negro to fill this office.
It to Mid that Secretary Hanning and
Colonel Lnmont, the president's
private secretary, endeavored to dlaeuade tho
president from making tha nomination, nnd
that Him Cleveland itrongly urged It,
Th* Telephone Investigation.
Washington, March 0.—The select commit
tee of lb* houtta,charfed with the telephone Inves
tigation, held * meeting lor organisation tbb after
noon In tha speaker's room. Alllhc members were
present The general sentiment of the committee ts
that th* examination of wltnsssssshooldhopubllo,
If a suitable mass can b* secured In time. The in
vestigation proper will begin next Friday morning
at ten o’clock, with th* examination of the Rogers
family, and Csasy Young, end subpo-nM have been
baa requested that he be afforded an oppoctunltyto
explain hla connection with the Issue of Iton-ebc-
trie stock, -
Elisabethtown, Bladen county, N. C.. March J,
ISM: Editor of GonsritaUoa-Daer air: f hare bora
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