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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION" ATLANTA, GA, TUESDAY APRIL 13 1886.
V»
CONGRESS,
Proceedings of the Two Houses
Last Week.
With the President and His Ad*
vlsers—General News.
The republican! force the eecUonel ieiuc at
every point. The “bloody ehirt” though If
led them to defeat, ia etlll their favorite flag.
Senator Conger waved it fiercely on the army
bill, which waa defeated became of hie lnaane
abuae of the aoutb. Bead what he haa to My.
’ The tariff bill will probably come up next
week.
The Senate.
Washington, April 8.—In the aenete. Ur.
Plumb presented the petition of an association
of colored eltlzena of Kansas praying for as
sistance to emigrate to Africa with the view of
there building up another United States re
public. Ur. Plumb aaid ho understood there
waaa strong determination on the part o'the
petitioners to carry ont the emigration ra
ferred to. Referred.
Ur. Blair reported favorably, wlthoit
amendment, from the committee on education
and labor, the arbitration bill recently passed
by the house of representative.
Washington, April 10.—In the senate, at
li30 o’clock, the Washington territory ad
mission bill was passed without substantial
amendment: tcu 30. ntn 13*
The negative votes were all democratic,
among them being that of Mr. Hearat, whom
first vote was cut on this bill. The senate
then adjourned until Monday.
The flonae.
Washington, April B.—In the house the
speaker snueunced the unfinished bnaioess to
he the motion submitted by Mr. Eldredge, of
Michigan, on the first Monday ia March, to
■upend the rales and pass the MezCcaa pen-
tioil bill.
The motion to suspend the rales and piss
the bill was agreed to—yew 158, nays 6S.
The text of the bill oroTides—
. That the secretary of the interior be, and he is
. hereby, authorized and directed to place Uto
names of all turrivivg officers, soldiers and tailors
who enlisted and served In tho war with Mexico
for any period during the year* of 1815, into, 1817 and
. IMS, and wero honorably discharged, and their
■unrlvlog widows, on the pension roll, at the rato
of 98 per month, from and after the passage of this
act, during their lives.
Representative Herbert introduced s reso
lution to appropriate $300,000 to be immedl
utely uvaileble to be expended under the di<
rtetion of the secretory of war in tha pure hare
and diatrjlmtlon of subsistence atorea nnd
ether necraaaiy articles to aid in tho relief of
destitute persons in the ovsriiowod districts of
A abama. The bill or Ur. Her
bert for three hundred thousand dollars to
Alabama sufferers was objected to in the house
today by Mr. Beach, of New York, and has
little chance of paaaing. Mr. Hammond, of
Georgia, attempted to get the appropriations
committee to recommend ouo hundred and
fifty thousand dollar* for flood-sufferers in
Georgia,but the committee declined to do so on
the ground that no aid had been asked by tho
people in the flooded sections of the state.
Washington, April 5.—In the contested
election caso of Campbell vs. Wesvsr, of the
Oth low* district, the house elections com
mittee tedny decided, by a party vote, In favor
of Weaver, the sitting member.
Ur. Forney, of Alabama, reported from the
committee on appropriations the |oint resolu
tion introduced by Ur. Herbert, miking an
appropriation for the relief of the sufferere by
the Alabama floods. The committee roeom-
n ended an appropriation of $150,000, instead
of $300,000, as provided in the original retain'
tion,
Talk on the Tariff.
Now that the silver question it disposed of as
far uthehouae is concerned, tho tariff is ex
pected to be the next matter to oecnpy tho ab
ed until finally disposed of.
From the moment the bill is report
ed to the final vote, there will be ■ sh ir
contest over this bill, A long debate on it ia
osrtaln, and at itsconclualon Ur. McKinley, of
Ohio, one of the leading republicans on the
ways and mean* committee, will move to strike
out the enacting clause.
Mr. Beed, of Maine, also of the committee,
was asked today if he thought tho bill would
pass. He replied that ho didn’t know and
didn’t care. The hill in a mild form which
the committee have finally agreed on, will be
much stronger than Mr. Morrison’s original
measure would have been, but it wlllstillbave
carious trouble. The Ohio democrats will vote
solidly against it, bscuuse it puts wool on the
free list. Bandatl's position is undelied. He
declines to say what he will do, and will take
position only after tho bill comes up for con'
old ora tion.
Washington. April 11.—Chairman Morri
son and Mr* Hewitt, of the committee on
wavs and mean*, completed the report of tho
majority of the committee to ecoompany the
• tariff bill, which will bo reported to thohoi
■ tomorrow. Tho report aayi:
The rate of duty or tax on Imported goods sub
ject to duty is as low as 6 on some and higher than
200 per cent on others. The average rate for tho
fiscal pear 1885-a little exceeded 47per cent, on the
9100 worth of imported goods. Thfe la the blgheet
*- my year since 1868, and above the av*
r the war period from U02 to 1M& The
for the fiscal year 1895, lnctud-
_ and the legal requirements of the
, were 9903,K»,m Neither the actual
"economical administration of tho
oas an-
may safely
» the pro-
people Justify any increase]
nuai expenditure, and ■■
Ultimate tho anntlnl surnluv
1X0,000, 000. The reductions to result frratliepro?
joicd bill are within this estimated surplus, and e
UUle exceed 24,OOOJOOJin tbebaala of last yean Im
portation*. It Is tho purpose of tho bill reported to
correct some of the ciusifllc*tloai,to rid the custom
laws ot complications, aod 10 chahge these laws
the the better that they will be capable ot being ad
ministered with Impartiality to all our merchants.
The duties Intended to be removed by the bill are
chiefly Utoee which tax articles used by oar own
manufactories, which now subject them to hope-
leas competition at home and abroad with mauu-
urlng nations, which do not tax inch materials,
thus securing markets for the products of the hands
now Idle for want of work to da Some of tnc ma
terials upon which the great Industries are built,
aueb^u wood, salt, hemp and wool, an placed on
Tho report give* at considerable length the
reasons of the majority for making the above
named articles free, and lay* that in somo of
tbs schedules wherein rata* are proposed to bo
reduced, especially wooden and Saxhornp, jute
or linens, the industries are left with substan-
tlaily the game, if not greater, advantage* thin
under existing laws. Other article*, the rate*
on which an oo to be reduced, al cotton yarn*,
thread and coarser cotton doth* and an gar, are
now dutiable at unnceMarUy and unreasona
bly high rates. Thu* will find compensation
in the burdens of taxation sought to be re
moved for redactions fer greater than any pro-
pond by the MU. We get from duties on cot
ton good* $10,1100,000. 'Die rate* on good* upon
which we collect are $2,100,000. Of thaw $10,-
000,000 are slightly reduced, while rate, on
which we collect the other $8^800,400 are on-
changed. Sugar, with the present lew price, U
left at a high bat still revenue rate equivalent
to SB per centmu. At the present high rate we
collect on sugar more than one fourth of *11
the revenue derived from customs. With
the still existing high, if not unwsmnteblo
scale of ordinary expenditures, and
the one-half of the money obligations of the
Iste civil wsr. yet to be paid a high rate of
taxation must be long maintained, end in sob-
mlttlngtbe proponed bill affecting the cost of
shelter of a part of the food tad of all the
clothing of the people, it has been the effort of
E committee to adopt such rates of texa-
aa will be permanent, end
>d to be disturbed by an anf<
I emergency, and at the same
empt the necessary articles from taxi
thereby promote nomoitki Industrial.
. The report of the repnbiicen i
Which has been prepend hr Bspreaentatlve
McKinley, of Ohio, begins with the statement
that the substitute agreed upon by the major
ity Is a new creation, ana embodiei little
matter that was Included In the original biU,
as introduced by the chairman. Tee majority
ament that in the year 1885, the average rate
of doty upon Imported goods e little ex
ceeded 47 per cent, but thia only ran tea that
tha prices and values were unusually low, uni
furnishes no Justification for this hill.
The “unfriendly blow" dealt the wo ilgrow-
ere ia condemnedin the strongest terms, and
the report rays they are to be the first vio-
timsof British policy through thenxeacy of
the Amtricrn congress. Tho minority Insist
that the true method of levying duties upon
imports to raise the requisite revenues for the
government is to impose them upon imported
articles which compete with the products of
our otvn industries and labor, and, while such
duties trill secure the necessary revenues,
they will at the same rime encourage home
productions, create a home market, land
furnish employment for American work
ingmen without increasing the burdens
of the people. All articles, other than
luxuries, not produced in the United States,
except in case of great national
necessity, should be admitted duly - free. The
bill recognises nojust principle, and procaeds
upon no system of equitable revision or re
duction of the tariff, it singles out a group
The Telephone Investigation.
Washington, April 7.—General Joseph E.
Johnston, commissioner of railroads, waa ex
smlned by the telephone lnreetigatlng com
mittee today. He aaid he waa one of the orig
Inal aix stockholders in the Pan Electric com-
pany, and had Joined that comnany uoou lnvi-
fallen of Senator Harris. He repeated the
atory of the organisation as told by Messrs.
Harris, Yonng and others, and added nothing
of consequence to the stock of information
heretofore gained during the investigation.
The witness was veiy sure the idea of using
official influence to further the interests of the
company had never been thought of by his
aeaociates. Witness was surprised to hear that
bis name appeared as indorser of Dr. Rogers's
application for offico of assistant
attorney in one of tha departments, as he did
not know that the doctor was a lawyer. The
Pan-Electric company bad never made an ap.
plication to hare the government bring- suits,
and witness had never had any consultation
with his associates upon the subject. Wltnem
had never heard, until the subject had been
mentioned by Banney, that Garland and Harria
bad written professional opinions teaching the
validity of the patents. He saw now that tha
opinions of bis associates as to the vatae of the
Rogers patent were highly extravagant.
A Southern Member Want* Spoils.
In the morning hourthe boose resumed con
sideration ot the bill to secure an equitable
classification and compensation of central
officers of tho United States.
■ Mr. Bennett, of North Carolina, critieised
the first section of the bill which authorises
the president to employ three persona not in
the publio service, and two persona who are
officers in the service, not more than three of.
whom shall be adherents of tht same political
party who shall constitute a commission for
the
> purpose of this act.
'why should
not the whole commission be
of the ssme political party!” quarried Ur. Ben
nett. “Were not the democrats the best expo
nents of democratic policy? Were not the sec
retary of tho treasury and the secretary of
state as well qualified to deal with this subjoct
as men who ware ‘half horse, half alligator
and tha balancesnipping turtle?- [Laughter.]
Is it a crime to be ft democrat?” he exclaimed,
•mid an affirmative chorus from the republican
tide. The great average of the demo
cratic party in 1881, who lifted
i their voice* in one ’ grand
lorus and pointed to the standard bearer of
the party at an ideal democrat supposed that
’ ’» victory and
hit election meant a democratfo
ices wonld fol-
ty had been preaching economy
iscle was daily present hereof that party in-
iretslng the publio hardens. Anlnstancoof
bit kind of legislation was found
in the first section of the pending bill which
wonld Increase salaries for the purpose of giv
ing tome gentleman who had the advantage
ef beluga political harmorphnditea place in
" s public service. He hod no sympathy in
s doctrine that the spoils ware to bo divided
among tho vanquished, “to tho vletor* belong
the spoils,” was as tree today as when nttored
by Ur. Usrey, and the gentleman
who thought in the south that that was not
God’s got pel truth, had set his sights too high
lor game. [Langi t r.l
Tho Bduoatlonal Bill.
The friends of the education blit are uneasy
at the delay of the committee on labor in
taking action on that measure. It was con-
tldcrcd yesterday, bnt nothing occurred on
which an etilmtte of the temper of tha com
mitteo toward the bill could ha ascertained.
Two of its members, Hetare. Crain, of
and Lawter, of Illinois, hare already d
on the floor of the house their hostility to tha
metanre. Well petted advocate*
of the bill, however, exnraasce thelrconfldonoe
that the committee will soon report the bill to
the honte, though it may be without any
recommendation whatever. Once before the
house they say the hill will sorely pass
A Lively Debate on th* Army.
Tho Army bill waa then placed before the
resale, the pending question being on Ur.
Hale’s motion to strike out section 2, which
provides that hereafter the army shall consist
of thirty thousand enlisted men.
Mr. Cockrell spoke in opposition to th*
army bill. Ha aaid the Increase of th* army was
not ntctassry on account of Indian trouble*and
that the etrength and perpetuity of oar insti
tutions depended not on * standing army, but
on the respect of the people. A standing army
waa a danger to any republic, and was in di
rect contravention of a republican ayatem of
government.
At 3 O’clock, according to previous agree
ment, a vote waa taken on Mr. Hale’s motion
to sink* ont section two of th* bill which es
tablishes the force at 30,000 men. The motion
was list on s tie vote of 22 to 22.
Mr. Gibson moved to add an additional eec-
on, repealing section 1218 of th* reviaedatat-
utee, which now prohibit* any person who
served the confederate government from ap
pointment to tho army of the United States.
Mr. Ulteon spoke at soma length
reading from the constitution and from decis
ions of the supreme court to show that section
1218 of the revised statutes was unconatltn-
tioi ul. It waa also In conflict, ho aabl, with
tLe pinirous ai,d maguauimoiis course of the
gowmment and people nftha United States,
•leaking especially of the people of the north
townid those who were engaged in the ser
vice of the confederacy. It was an extraor
dinary spectacle, that presented by this
nation that the men who, a few years
■go, wire enraged in rebelion
against the United States wen
liday members at this senate, treated as
K ars of those who upheld the onion causa.
en who could be thus honored, and who
were honored as ministers of the United
Slates in tbs courts of Europe, and might be
come judges of the supreme court of th*
Uaiteri States, even chief justice, were th*
men who bad served the confederate govern
ment. This was a remarkable circumstance
in tho history, not only of the United States,
but of civilisation itself, and charmeterixed the
people of thia epoch as the moat magnanimous
known to history. The statute which prohib
ited men who served the confederacy from be
ing appointed to the United States army, Ur.
Uihscn thought, could only be regarded
aa a bar sinister, and net in harmony
with the spirit which character!red the treat
ment of southern people in other ret pacta by
the people of the north.
Mr. Logon thought that it might not he well
to go too fast. He thought that in the eye* of
th* people there were certain persons more
capable tkan others. There were man who
.Urea its moraines*.
Jr. Morgan said the country had very
gely outgrown tho feeling that prompted
i enactment of that section, If he eonld
Ige by the expressions of senators and of
-h»d been officers of the army »nd n»vy before
the war *na bad entered the service of tbs
confederacy. He would suggest an amendment
of Ur. Gibson’s motion so at to oover that clast
of peop'e.
Ur. Oibton could not accept the amend-
Ur. Butler suggested that in etee of foreign
war there were many men who aerved In the
confederate army who would be competent tc
command brigades snd divisions, bnt wool 1 ta
excluded by Ur. Logan’s suggested amend'
meat.
Ur. Logan said that when that time should
arrive, the country wonld, no donbt, appreciate
the services of those men.
Ur. Sewell, aa a member of the military era
mittee, fevored Mr. Gibson’s amondminb
When one-third of the senate were men i
had served In the confederate army, ha thou
that section 1218 of the revised statute*1
outlived Its nsefalness.
Mr. Morgan said the country had
largely “• *•*”——
the i ‘
gentlemen who bad been in the anion army.
She law was undoubtedly unconstitutional.
The point Involved wu that a man who lived
In the south eonld not be appointed to the
army, ho most live in th* north. When tho
senators wen taking for money to Increase the
army, which money came from the pockote of
all the people, the senators most not expect
ether senators to violate their tense of consti-
tntional obligation, snd their sense ot respect
for the men who had grown op with them, and
worked with them. He (Morgan! would
never vote for the bill to inereaee the army
while a tingle man was excluded, unless
it were Jeff Davit, snd he mentioned him be-
note ha knew Ur. Davit would not accept.
That was Ur. Morgan's view of the qneitlon,
and be wu sorry that any occasion had arisen
for ita discussion.
Ur. Call believed that If General Grant and
General Leo were living, and a foreign war
were to arise. General Grant wonld select Gen
eral Leo for a high command in tho nnlon
army. Who wonld donbt the loyalty of Gen
eral Lee to a restored union?
Ur. Conger ventured to think that tho sol
diers of the union who wonld read this discus-
lion wonld wonder whether ft was not they tha'
were most in the wrong in the
late war. Honey and molasses
•porches of today wonld indicate thatxnir
southern brethren were farced by providen
tial circumstances—compelled by an over
rating providence-to enter on war. He (Con
ger) had -been waiting soma years for this
day to come. It had coma a little earlier than
he had expected. Some senators did not see
that they were traitors to tbeir country.
Some ef them undoubtedly regretted that
there wu not now a southern confederacy
with the blaek marble slab of slavery as the
keystone of Its organisation. Thoso views,
however, were not expressed in these piping
times of peace. The tlmo had
not como for that exhibition of
scetimcnt or for the proposed return to
a titular condition of opposition to tbit gov
ernment, if there should be any canto for
withdrawing allrgiance to it. The senators
wanted to repeal this little distinction be
tween loyalty and treachery. Probably to
morrow, or perbape the day after, for theso
things must not follow too Out, we should be
called open to vote tho confederates thanks
for tbeir bravery. Ur. Conger supposed they
would hardly expect him to express thanks
for their loyalty. That would be almost too
much. He would say to the gentlemen that
they had began a little too soon to remove all
distinctions between the soldiers of the Grand
Army of th* Bepubllo and thou who deserted
their country and fought for the destruction
of its Institutions-, he expected to live to see
the time when an attempt wonld be made to
no uuutucat orates uuupr
did not-spsak when they
'amendments’ 1 and MBs
te old matters. No matter
J. M. HIGH,
Tha Regulator and CoatreDar ot Low Prices.
Will mail raatpls* at all els mss of Dry Goods, sod
fayexpresaagt on all orders sbova*glA.Ofi. Too
wtllaare money and 1st better satiety to salts!
brutes under
God's hsav*a.if w* did.
brought In tbeir
that brought np these old
hew many bills or amend menta are brought
In involving old Issues, the republican side of
the chamber wu taunted with the reviving
past if it made nferenee to them. Everyman
that wore the bine bad been driven from the
aontb, except when Texu cattle were stolen
acressthe borders of the Bio Grande.
Then th* men that wore tha blue were call
tdfor. Who overheard of a call for United
Btatca troop* when human life' wu jeopardis
ed In the aontb? The call came toon t
when the long horned steers cfTexuv
Jeopardy. [laughter.]
{he following is the detailed vote of tbo
bill:
claims during the first two years after th*
wu. One of the first salts brought was
thrown out because it wu proven that
the plaintiff wu not loyal. This decision dis
couraged nearly all tha other claim rats.
Nearly everyone of them had sympathised
with the confederacy and thought it tunicas
to sue if disloyally to the nnlon wu a bar to
recovery. The ease alluded to sru appealed
to the supreme court of the United States, and
after a lapse ef three yean that court reversed
the decision of the coifrt of claims by deeUr*
log that a proof of loyalty wu not necessary
to the recovery of the property eelsed under
the captured and abandoned property act.
The supreme ooort held that Andrew John
son’s amnesty proclamation had enrol disloy
alty In all cases simitar to that appealed from
the court of claims. This decision would have
Mr. Culberson's biU ta to
ft this specie* of property to the position they
occupied when th* court of claims mado disloy
alty a bar to recovery. The bill is virtually to
give effect to the decision of the supreme
court. -
Washington Gossip.
Washington, Aprll7.—[Special.]—The gen
eral supposition that Assistant Secretary Fair-
child will succeed Secretary Manning hu been
strengthened by the president’s request that
Ur. Fairchild should attend cabinet meetings.
He went to the meeting yesterday and will at
tend regularly u the representative of the
treasury while he continues to ut u the bead
of thst department. The continued improve
ment in Secretarj'Hannlng’t condition is re
ported, bnt at best it will be a long time be
fore he is restored to anything like health.
Th* silver Bill.
Wauhnoton, April 8.—In the house, Ur.
James, of New York, called np the silver bill.
Ur. Bandall objected to any change being
made in th* order or th* hoot*.
“Let the Mil stand on Its own
mukrd.Hr, Durham, of Illinois.
“It bu no bottom to stand on,” suggested
Mr. Lons, of MossacboKttf.
Ur. Dabbsll, of South Carolina, wu opposed
to the unlimited coinage of silver. Hewn in
favor of international M-metali*m If it eonld
ho obtained, and if it couldn’t be obtained he
In flavor of national bl-metallsm. If w*
agreement.
tageous to th* country or to silver itself. At
th* urn* Unto ha did not sab-
scribe to tho idea that the silver dollar
was a band. It wu a bona flda dollar, and he
was unwilling to toko tho bullion standard of
the London market u a standard ot vain* ol
the coin which congress had coined end regu
lated the vatae of stace the days of the fathers.
He favored the suspension of the silver coin
age Tor a definite period, one or two years.
Mr. Herbert, of Alabama, commenced bii
speech with the declaration that in the presi
dent and in tha success of his administration
lay th* hope of democntle ascendancy, and he
had no sympathy with thou democrat* who
teemed to think the hope of democracy lay In
tho destruction of the present administration.
He favored the rehabilitation of silver, hat did
not think this government by itself wu equal
to the tuk of rehabilitating it.
Inatwomlnntea' speech, Ur. Findlay, of
Maryland, replied to criticisms made on hit
speech by Mr. Norwood, of Georgia, which ho
drnomtaated u “the plantation thunderbolts
of the Georgia Jupiter forged on.the smithy of
Simon Suggs.”
Ur. Dibble offered an amendment providing
that, unices in the meantime, threagh the con
current action of th* nations of Europe with
the United 8tates, sliver be remonetised prior to
the first of July, 1880, then and thereafter so
much of the act ol February, 1878, u author
ises snd directs tha secretary of tha traaanry to
purchase silver bullion and caul* th* same to
to coined, shall b* suspended till farther action
by congress.
Tht amendment wu defeated—yeas St, nays
201.
Tha question then recurred on the engross
ment and third reeding of tho bill, and it w*e
decided in the negative—you 128, nays 183.
Bo th* bill wu kilted.
Opening Ihe Way to Sonthern Claimants.
Washington, April 8.—[Special.]—'Today
tho judiciary committee ef the boose agreed
to report fevorsbly tho bill of Mr. Culberson,
of Texas, reopening th* coart of claims to
claimants of property seized by United Statu
author!tie* under th* captond and abandoned
property act. Than te now u the treasury
shout eleven million dollars representing tbo
proceedtof rate* of soeh property which wu
seised in oil porta of the sooth. In moat cease
th* nam* of the owner sod locality is reeoided
with th* vain* ot tbo property. Where*
name wu not ascertained a toll description of
the property and loallty is preserved. This
money hu batn la lb* treasury ever staea th*
war snd cans at ha appropriated teeny ore
Every day or two * report is circulated that
Attorney General Garland means to resign,
bnt there is nothing to support such an asser
tion. On the contrary, the frienda of the at
torney general assert emphatically that he
doc* not intend to reelgn. Ur, Garland will
probably remain in the cabinet to
the end of his administration nnlees the pres
ident should request his resignation.
Judge Montgomery, of Michigan, preunt
cimmlfiloncr of patents, is mentioned u the
probable successor of Judge Baxter.
The cue of P. Schweitzer against the
United States, involving $1,400,000 face value
of the Brunswick and Albany railroad bonds,
wu begun in the court of claims today. Tbit
salt it brought by Prussian holders of
Brunswick ana Albany bands whleh have been
repudiated by Georgia, and rests on the theory
that at the tint* the bonds were Issued tho
United States had absorbed the sorerolgatr of
Georgit, and wu exerelslng all tho funotlons
of that state. One hundred thousand dollars
of there bonds, which havo recently passed
into the hands of tho state of Illinois tor the
benefit of her eoldlcrs’ home, will be made the
basis of the suit by that state against Georgit.
Considerable talk wu had at the capilol to
day over the recent local elections In the west.
Bepubltcan congressmen construo tho Urge
gains of tbeir party in Chicago and Cincinnati
aa a happy omen toreongreaiional oloctions.
Some democratic members from the
west take rather a gloomy
view of theu elections, bnt most of them say
the result is natural and eully accounted tor.
They say the democrats teat Chicago bee suae
of their corrupt olty administration, and in
Cincinnati because of the frauds they attempt
ed at the lutstate election.
MMX qUXXk THINGS
happening in Wuhlngton in connection
with this question of appointments and remov
als. A remarkable instanco which hu just
a deputy icrgeant-at-arms
1870 until a tow days ago, when he received
a notice of dismissal. He had boon
on* of tho most punctual and efficient
employes of tho senate, and the only charge
gainst him wits that lie is a democrat. He
wu dismissed on tho demand of Senator Ed
munds in lets than n-w-reV after that pious old
fraud had expressed his HghteeX indignation
at the dismUnl of men from office on account
of politics. Bnt there is a story back
of Senator Edmonds’s action whleh is
deserving of consideration. Cross wu pointed
ont ua lit victim tor republican vengeance by
a republican clerk who te retained In offloe un
der a democratic secretary of war. H* wrote
to Senator Edmunds ashing him to see that
Croea wu bounced because he te a democrat.
That letter wu the official death warrant of
the unfortunate Cross. If Gross had written
to the democratic secretary of war and asked
that tho other fellow bo ''fired’
because he Is a republican his letter would
have been dropped into tho wute bukeb
lean clerk still holds hts place and
Tbo republican c
Is likely to hold It u long u he cheosu to do
so. The deportments are full of such spies,
holding tbeir places on democratic sufferance
and eagerly watching for opportunities to do
republican partisan service.
General Black,tho commissioner of pensions,
complained totb* senate committee that be
wu surrounded by men whom he could not
trait be cans* of thslr seal to do partisan work,
even to the iojnry of th* doportmont, and
yet he wu powerless to remove them. Sena
tor Plumb flored up at what be styled an un
just Importation on'’the honor” of the pension
clerks. Evidence oomes to light almost every
day to chow that General Black put th* truth
in a mild form.
Of the men on whom he most rely for the
efficient performance of the onormona boslnoso
of his owe*, tour ont of five are In political
hostility to him, and wonld profit more by his
failure than by hit soccetsfril administration.
There are torno simple minded persona who
look opon the civil service act u th* biassed
branch which It toswseten all the bitter waters
of partiasn animosity, u the bough
which Moses dropped into Ut* wells of Mora
turned them to dtilclons parity. It it better
philosophy, certainly it is nearer the actual
truth, to balleve that the party poison whleh
It carefully suppressed from eruption thereby
becomes the duper and more malignant. The
thousands of clerks now in tho department* at
Wuhlngton who chipped in to the republican
corruption frtnd of 1884 will have a double
contribution tor the ronublicsn corruption
fund 0/1888. They will give tbeir money to
defeat the party nnder which they will havo
served ana drawn a Bring fur four years, and
they will b* enabled to aupply valuable infor
mation concerning “th* plana of th* tnemy.”
If the authors of the present plan of patronage
could havo carried with them In thur
••cent to this high plane all
theca to whom their Ideals of the public ter-
so apparent la
premium on 1
Great it civil
party feeling among government employes U
u high as it aver was. Th* reason It it not
' is that so many have accepted the
hypocrisy, which Is now offered.
_ _ civil service reform!
Washington, April II.—The official statis
tical investigation tor April make* the reduc
tion of the winter wheat are* of three and a
ball million acre* from breadths seeded two
yean ago, and fir* per cant reduced from
three seeded years ago.
On the Atlentlc coast there hat bun a very
slight reduction, and none on tbo Pacino
Tho largest decreoso Is in Illinois, Kansas
and Missouri. A moderate degree
of protection by snow hu boon enjoyed,
though the covering hu neither boen boavy
nor continuous. Tho winds bar* laid bare
ex pored surface* and covered th* valleys
detper. Winter killing In patches te therefore
reported to lome extent, white it is generally
found that brown snd apparently lifeless
plants have tha roots nniojared. The general
average of condition is U21, against 78 lut
year (the lowest ever reported j, aod 1)1 two
years ago. The average of 18S3 wai80,and
thst of 1881 sru 88.
Th* exceptions ire more frequent in dis
tricts of small production. In the Ohio valley
and In the middle statu, the seed bed waa In
seed condition in nlao-tenths of the ares. In
Mluourl and Kansas there wu enlarged pro
portion ef dry area*, and one-fifth of th* re
ports wero unfavorable. In Virginia aad the
Carolina!, oce-aiitb of tbo on* seeded eras
DO* in good condition; in Georgia one-third;
in Texts thru tenth*; fat at least five-sixthi
of Ho entire brdadlh of winter wheat, th*
eoadftioa of th* toll ires fkvorabl* f,(receding
Belarus of tho conditions and diseases o’
farm animals show sa Increase of th* prava-f
team of bog cholera, aad tou of six million*
of swine from all antes, or 14 per cent. Lease*
of sheep are reported at 7 Mr cent; of oattlo
at 4 per cant. The loam of horses are small,
amounting to 7-lOths of one per cent, Tbo
losaeoof rattle aro heaviest in tho southern
states and on the nngu from 4 to 8 per cent,
whUa in the farm regions, where shelter Is
provided, tho loss Is only B per cent.
STORIES OF THE WAR.
GUmpata of tbo Gampfira, March ana
Bnttleflold.
Sow a Yonng Lady Saved a Soldlar** Life aad
Won a Loving Hatband.
Washington, April 2.—Congressman Stone,
of Kentucky, who walks about tho house and
npjand down tha avennes on crutch**—having
lost a leg in tha confederate aervloo—1* expect
ing his wite to arrive hero shortly from her
Kentucky home. Tho story of Stone’s |mar-
. story of stone’s {mar
riage it a strange and Intonating one, and
provea again that there are uninteresting
Stone wu a confederate soldier, and at a
In CvnUthuta, Kentucky, was
wounded. At ho foil his hat
went one way and his musket another,
and be found himsolf nnablo to more to regain
either. It wu a scorching summer dsy, and ht
was obliged to he on that hot hlllstdo exposed
totbeinunieheatof the biasing son, unable
even to protect his face except by throwing bis
arm acrors his eyes. His life hlojd was rapidly
running away, and he becime weaker and
weaker, and soon wu unablo to speak or more.
The blazing tan which fell on his head and
face was adding untold suffering. In hit on-
frcblcd^oondltlon. After the llght^io wu loft
with the dtad and dying, tor it wu supposed
ho could not live more than a few 'minutes or
boors. After tho troops had with,
dtswn, soma of Ihe people living In tho vlnin*
By of tho bauloflela passed over it, relieving
tbo necessities of tbo woundodso far s* pos
sible. As they passed near where Stone lay
luflhrlng in tho hot tun, unable to opuk, a
yonng lady In tha party noticed him and tho
sufferings tho sun must prod no* It ho wore
•till conscious. Tolling her companions she
believed ha wu still alive, sho procured tha
ramrods from tour muskets lying near by, and
sticking them in the ground near his head,
fastened over the top a scarf from her ahoui-
dorr, to break tho rays of tbo sun. When tho
wounded wore gathered from the field it wu
found that 8tono wu still living, and bo wu
sent to the. hospital. There wu a long
struggle between life and death, bnt
ho finally rallied and slowly regained
strength, after tho amputation of his right log.
Tho residents of tho town and vicinity did all
they could tor tha sufferers in tho hospital,
lending them food and dellcaclu and often
vleitlng them. Ono day, after ho had gained
sufficient strength to apeak and notice thou
who visited thohupltal, beuw among the
visitors the young lady who had probably
raved his life by her ktadnem when ho lay
helpless and apeeohieu on the battlefield.
When opportunity offered, he spoko to hor of
th* occurrence and thaokod hor tor hor kind
ness. The acquaintance thus began ripened
Into love, and tho Is now hts wife.
He Was a Famous Shot In Uta Pay,
Hampton, & O., April 8.—There resides not
far from this place a nun who wu ono of tho
most famous sharpshooters in tho confederate
rervlce. Ho is a North Carolinian by birth,
bnt volunteered In a Charleston company. On
a battlefield In Virginia part ot his brsut bone
and two riba wero shot away, on another*
bullet penetrated his arm, leaving it all scarred
and deformed. Othor wonnds mark his per
son, and bis emaciated frame Is bent bydlacuo
ana tho hand of time. Ho bouts that he
“never fired agon bat ba brought his game.”
On ono occulon ho relate* that on James
island, nt or near Socosslonvlllo, ho prevented
tha milking of n battery by killing outright
tbrre blue oonta with his magnifying rifle.
Ills eye brightens when ho relates this nnd
other incidents that might ho woven Into an
lull ruling ulo. This msu U pour, friendless
and hoc ohm, snd hu lately mot Srith mis
fortune.
Fighting in Ut* District of Colombia,
IjAGbangk, Go., April 4.—Editors Uonstl'
lullon: In your column of Echoes From tht Peo
ple, about tho Slat of January, 1 noticed a letter
from W. X. Patterson, Mount Airy, N. C., In refer
ence to wbst troops fought in Ihs District of
Coltimbte when General J. A. Early adranced
agalutt Washington city. Mr. Pattersonputaaomo
questions which I think deserve answering by
•ometiody. He also nils Into soma errors which
ought to ho oorrected. I fully expected to have
seen a reply to his letter, bnt nono hsvlngnp-
peered, and buying belonged to the urns divis
ion, perhaps I pan give tbs Information
desired and correct tho errors at Urn sum time. It
teems tbar somebody bu claimed that Phil Cook's
brigade were the only troops who ever had tbo
honor ol fighting In the district of Columbia,”
If that wu published In yonr paper it escaped
my notice, but it looms to have called out Mr. rat-
temin's tetter, In whloh ho uka “who was General
Phil rook, and what division did ho belong to?
Well, 1 reckon soy native Georgian could tellhlm
tht. lint if Mr. Patterson wu with his
brigade (Daniels) at Ut* tlmo and
doting Ut* remainder _ of the wsr, it aunt
quaatian^bnt
I onoe thought
Ml
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This paper may bo son! yon psaremptoeopy.
Yon msv like its looks, but want to know more
Jbont ft before yon toko it. TbU I* right.
Now, who are the boat men to tall yon about
it? Clearly, tho** who hav* been reading It,
•nd who know wh»t It Is every week and
nexy year. Here b the unsolicited opinion of
™ • doton subscribers. Bead what they say,
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tion*
8. A. Gsrrlfon, Garrison, Mecklenburg Co.: 7 sat
a reader of your paper and we tblnklt the bast
»sSIptei.rt"w1thl " ,he family are
Geo. R. Skinner, Baiifex, N. C.: I hare been
reading you, pepor only » short time, and very
much regret tho tlmo I missed.
Mr. G.W. Bachelor,of Roelon. Ate, writes: I
Retired the bundle or samples, and have scattered
tbim. I bare got another chib ready, and will
rend It In a few day* 1 mint say thst Thi Con-
mrt-noM Is tho most popular paper that cantos te
S Made of worth Caronnlsus, oommandsd by Brigs-
■jer-Geueral Stephen D. Kamssur; Dentil's bet-1
[gadc of North Carollntens, coinmanfeM
dler-Geucrsl Junius II ' ' ' ‘
(imposedof Northern
two from «.mo oilier its'o. I think,
by Brigadier-General Allred Ivenon.
tht change, as tar as I remember tbmdnnnWTT
known that when a major-general or brigadier-
general sai killed, nltevtd or transferred, his
command look Ut* nuns of the next officer ap
pointed to command 11 At (h* battle nr Gettys
burg General Ivenon wu relieved, snd f can’t re
member who took hts pteet. Inthofeitamtau
tptlng. at BpottsylvsulsC. 11.. thHHH
mortslly wounded on tbo 12th]
ESS "S^tTGES.*
win’s troops. 1 don't know ■■■■
IS SS
Cook wu promoted to brigadier general te anod
cetd him. snd ably and gallantly oommswt-
id the brigade until h* wu wounded on then*
of K« binary, 184*. at Petersburg, In GmorslJ.il
Gordons mreucterefill sally on Grants linos. Jo*
before or stlsr the return from Washington to Wlo ;
General Bhodcswss killed, snd Gent
look command ol our division itni
Gctobcr, when ho WMlllle-1 u<M
din's fre-h corps arrived from
tunic! vlcton' Into tltfcAt of ■
IlrlgsdlerGeneral HrjsiK.rlmcs vl
toreajor gtrural in command of MMHMIMNH
which h* did to Appomattox, tad I regret teuy
iiIT’ r
to march ibe ol<
kl.’j >• 11-K i;.’ -r ».
KKS'cH
olt nweie hurried!y 0lHMipR|
r!«rk» »r.»l the inm treaklnj? up Into
n*Ce a tec line foe ho me «.« tout
without rtE*Mto rozdlN. Fonie ha-1
’<-* to go an<l co rat loin In thtlr I
tbtjr wantcl to scatter otW
■ Kcurc that »ub*ltenco which they coohl
have >*aa so rainy Sfrois, not I te call them hard*
thst H would be Tain MS
Ilit tergesnt company H, MthNOri
War Over Two Years.
Ttresnooem orTmComnvnog Watertniry watch
Harassing. By the hundreds they bars gooo tarn
•very state. Why not? A good watch, accurate
timekeeper, forILM Is a miracle.
Bnt dou It test? That la tbo question often uksd
Den Is an answer from ono who hu tried It;
Kmtou Coytniunojc; Two yoare ago 1 bought
ono of yoor Waterbary watches, which bu given
rcr/ect utlsflioUon. It novo? bu stepped a minute
and kept perfect tlmo. I certainly recommend
theu watehoa to yonr readers, a D. Bull,
Atlanta, On, formerly PennlngtonTua.
Here te plain testimony, For over two yean this
little Waterbary hunotstopped a minute. Not a
cent hu been spent on repairing It, though in tha
ssme tlms Mr. Ball spent ta girttlng his wife's gold
wsich repaired. At the end of two yoare Mr. Ball
mis: "I wouldn't taka FJO for my Waterbary If I
couldn't rtplac* lb”
Onr Waterbary te Ut* Its* Investment yon can
mike. You ought to hav* on* Your wife ought
to have one. Your am ought to hav* one. Only
*.® for tha watch, chain; charm and Tna Co*.
sTirnnoN ono year. Where can you boat that? O?
KAO for Ut* watch and chain and charm alone.
8codat one* Budget on*.
Onr 019 Gun*
Tho twelve dollar donble-harreled breech-
loading shot gun that w* pat on oar premium
list a few weeks ago has caught tho public,
and se*ms to bo getting almost u popular si
Thb Constitution. We bare sold scores of
them, and tha universal verdict te that It It
tho host gun over offered tor tho monoy. Hora
te ono of tho many letters whloh each day’s
mall brings ns. Bond what Ur. Blvors says,
and thon decide for youraolf:
It. 8. Rivera, Fairborn, Gn.: This cortlfloa that 1
pnrehaaed ono or your 112 auns w few wocka ago.
1 hare used it beafdc n tfCguri, snd fled it equally
■ (mod. It gives satisfaction In every respect.
The Gun and Wszxlt Constitution ono year
Ut; Gun alone 113. .
A Perfect Tlma-pleoe.
M. J. MoElreatb, Sulphur Springs, Tax.: Tho
watch I ordered inmo lime ago la a daisy; snd hu
given perfect ittlrfectlou. The ownsr te a teacher,
Dow to 8*v* Thirty Dollars.
The sewing machlno monopolists are howl*
tag snd rubbing their sore spots becatuo Thi
CoNtrmmow is soiling tor $18 with tho
paper thrown ta, a bettor machlno than th*
Singer, whloh Is sold for $45.
Last year wa sold about 2,000 OoxgrmmoN
machines. Each machlno wu sent ont with
this guarantee: ‘Take car machine; pal it
alongside of any machine that cost fits; work
them for ten days. If ours te not hotter, In
looks and work than the fits machlno, w* will
refund yonr money,” Undor thia guarantee
only one of th* 2,000 mschlnos wu retained
and wa hear that on* cam* back from a sewing
machlno agent. Wa are sailing more now
than over.
If yon want to save $30, bay onr rhachin*.
If yon bars $30 to throw away, pay fits tor on*
not u good u oora. See what thoso who havo
tried onx machine uy about lb
James ninma, Hutehurst, On, March fit. UM.
b*. machlno I ordered from yon wu received In
{ our recommendation and auo equal to any ah*
as ever used.
Mrs. M. P. Firry, Knoxville, Ga.. Much 99,
1IM: The sowing machine thst wo ordered of you
UrentB&Uon. Ism well pieuod wlUiboth ma
chine and—
If Utsre aver wu a speclfls ter any ono com
plaint, then Carter’s Little Liver Pills are a
•ceclfle for sick headache, and every woman
should know thin Only ono pill* dose.
lslmsfordsmagrs during tho recent Lou
is amount to Muo.OOO. with more In sight,
WINSLOW'S SOOTHING SYBUP log Chile
itblnft WflfPf tbo IU1DS,
MneusUsys *a pain and aura* wind ooltL taunts
haa Lffcn tha main deiK'nilfinro of raiuv
famiroMrickcn IrDh ii-lan*lcrz IiiQliboi&o "
M. Armstrong receives Invalids
n* remmor aad winter, at his Water
Cure Infirmary, Ho never falls te terra all s-ck
rrrsom curable, and benefit thorn Incurable Alt
charger mode reasonable snd arranged to suit alb
Fur particulars MOO for eireoter. Address, Tent-
pie, Ga. , (Ukwlao
Tbei
S5K
•• It Knocks tbs Apots”
and everything In tha nature of crapttonv,
blotches, pimples, nicer*, scrofulou* humors,
and incipient consumption, which i* nothing
more nor lets than acrofnla of the lungs, com
pletely ontof lit* system. It stimulate! and
Invigorate* the liver, lone* op the stomach,
regulate* the bowels, purifies the blood, and
builds np tho woak place* of th* body of the
to Dr. Piere*’* “Galdam Modltal Dteeomy.”
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indistinct ram