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CAPITAL OF THE NATION
SENATOR PEFFER WANTS TO INVES
TIGATE TUB SENATORS.
The Republicans Kndeavorins to Get the
Democrats to Make Changes in the
Tariff, Rut Have Failed.
Washington, March 12.—(Special.)-Sena
tor Peffer’s resolution to investigate the
•charge that senators speculated on sugar
was buried today. The senate tabled it by
a vote of 33 to 27. Thus there will be no
Investigation, and why should there be
one? It would develop nothing; not that
many senators have not been speculating
in sugar and other things, but senators
don't speculate in their own names. They
have brokers and friends to do that, and
neither their brokers nor their friends would
tell anything.
Mr. Peffer was very anxious to get up
this investigation and this resolution would
probably have been adopted but for a
speech by Senator Gorman against it. Mr.
Gorman indignantly repelled the charges
that have been made against the senate,
and characterized the effort to bring about
an investigation as an effort to delay and
embarrass tariff legislation. Senator Gor
man’s speech defeated the resolution. It
■will be noticed from the vote that all the
senators whose names have been connected
with speculation voted for the investiga
tion. while others voted against it. All
the members of the finance committee voted
for the resolution, but it was defeat* d, so
the niatter ends unless the house should
take it up. There are some members who
want to do it. but the great mass ot I house
members hold that the house has nothing
whatever to do with it. and even if it did
and had the investigation, it would only be
Another farce. Neither of the Georgia sena
tors voted today.
Atlnnta Has Been Recommended.
General Schofield was seen today in re
gard to the report that he intended recom
mending consolidating tin 1 army department
ill Texas with the proposed department in
Atlanta to be kown as the military depart
ment of the south. The combined head
ouarters are to be located somewhere be
tween T< xas and Georgia. He denied the
rumor and said that he had even heard th.it
p,.me officers credited it. ‘ The area is too
great for it to be considered for a moment.
The department will b< kept in Texas un
der anv circumstances and what ever hap
pens. but it is of equal importance almost
mother department be established
farther east and Georgia is the place for
it and Atlanta has been recommended.”
IheTaritf I ill Not R«‘i’o Ini.
Washington, March 13.—(Special.)—The
tariff bill has not yet been reported to the
senate by the finance committee.
It is being considered by the lull com
ma too and the republicans are endeavoring
to p* rsuade the democrats to make changes.
I p to date none have been made, but the
rewiblieans are managing to delay things.
Jus; whin the bill will be reported no
one knows, but peril ips not later than next
It has been discovered since the senate
committee put a duty on sugar that an
other change w ill have to be made to make
tnis (if. ctive. Under the reciprocity clause
of the McKinley bill. President Harrison
formulated treaties witii Cuba, Germany
E> ~ s. veial South American countries by
which tin ir productions of sugar should be
Admitted free.
These treaties will have to be abrogated
®r else the sugar duties in the new bill
will amount to nothing.
N'd . lv sc ms to have thought of this
until today. If the bill should finally be
ll law with a duty on sugar, it will
I", nec.ssary for the president to be given
authority by congress to abrogate these
treaties ’or else the duty on sugar will
amount to nothing.
Interest There in Georisin Polities.
There is all sorts of gossip in Washing
ton since Secretary Hoke Smith’s return
sbout the political situation in Georgia.
Os course, as everybody knows, the able
and powerful secretary of the interior, who
has been irreverently termed the “enfant
terrible” of the cabinet, has a great ambi
tion to control the political affairs of his
state. And naturally, too. A cabinet officer
is always considered as a man powerful
enough at home to have his home folks
adopt all his suggestions. The interior de
partment has no offices in Georgia, and it
can't have the pull there it has in western
But, nevertheless, Colonel Hoke wants
Administration men to fill all the
offices to which men must be elected this
fall. Particularly he wants Georgia to have
two administration senators. It has but
one now. If an administration man—an an
ti-silver man -is electeu to succeed Senator
Colquitt, then Secretary Smith will have
done his work well.
Rumor among Georgians here says that
Secretary Hoke has been nursing the Henry
G Turner boom and wants him to run as
tne administration candidate. But Mr.
Turner knows too much to run on that
platform. It is true he partially aided the
administration in its tight to repeal the
Sherman law. but Mr. Turner says he is a
silver man and it it not probable that he
■will weight himself down with the admin
istration collar in his contest for the sen
ate.
The Senators Do Not isree.
Washington, March 15.—The executive
session of the senate today developed a dif
ference of opinion between Senators Call
and Pasco, of Florida, as to the propriety
of confirming the appointment of 11. W.
J.ons. to l>e registrar of the land office at
Gainesville, in that state, Long was ap
pointed at the instance of Mr. Pasco and
Mr. Call objects to his confirmation on the
ground that he is a personal enemy of his
and raises the point of the propriety of the
appointment of a man to office who is per
sonally obnoxious to one of the senators
from the state from which the appointment
Is made. The appointment was reached to
day. but went over by mutual consent until
Monday.
Guying the Senators.
Washington, 11. March 11.—[Special.]—
The fact that’ the English house of com
mons by two majority voted to abolish the
house of lords has caused the senate to be
made mu -h sport of by the average repre
sentative here. There is talk of abolish
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ufactured by the California I'ig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name. Syrup of Figs,
and being well informed, you will not
accent any substitute if offered.
S THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION; ATLANTA, GA-j TUESDAY. MARCH 20,1894.
ing the senate, jocularly it is true, by the
great mass of members, but there are some
members who would like to make them
selves talked about, and it may be that
some one ol these will seriously introduce
a resolution to so amend the constitution.
One of these, a young member in point of
service, and one who has no hope of ever
getting to the senate, was talking in the
lobby of the house today.
“I don’t see why we should not abolish
the senate?" said he, gesticulating and
wearing a serious air. “Os what use is it
except to delay the work of the house? and,
anyway, the senators are too far removed
from the people. They do as they please
and apparently do not fear the people. Book
how thev are changing and holding back
our tariff bill. They are rich men and are
always looking out for their interests in
corporations. They even have the nerve to
refuse to investigate their own members
when they are charged with speculating on
inside information. Whenever they get an
opportunity they have no hesitancy in say
ing, ‘the people be d—d.’
After Cuke’s Place.
Senator Coke, of Texas, has announced
that he will not be a candidate tor re-eiec
tion to the senate. His term expires the
■lth of next March.
Texans here say his successor will be
either Judge Culberson or Mr. Bailey. It
Judge Culberson becomes a candidate Mr.
Bailey will not antagonize him. He will
wait to step into the shoes of Senator Mills,
whose term expires rn 1897. But if Judge
Culberson declines to enter the race Mr.
Hailey will, and Texans say he could easily
be elected. Mr. Bailey, who is a young
man, and one of the strongest in the house,
young or old. would not seriously object to
waiting until he can cross swords with
Senator Mills. Senator Mills has not been
very clever to the young Texan. Indeed
Senator Mills is not popular with the
Texas delegation. He holds himself rather
above them. He does not associate with
them, and in consequence the representa
tives do not feel very near or dear to him.
The best posted representatives from the
Bone Star State say Bailey, as young as
he is. could beat Mills before the people of
the state, and all of them would like to
see the race. Judg-ire from their expres
sions Mr. Bailey seems to be decidedly in
line of promotion for the senate.
To Prevent Interference.
Washington,, March H.—Mr. D'Armond,
from the judiciary committee, reported to
the house today with the recommendation
that it pass, a bill to prevent interference
in the collection of state, county and munic
ipal taxes assessed against corporations.
The measure, the report says, is designed
to put corporations in the hands of receiv
ers appointed by judges and courts of the
United States, in the same condition with
respect to the collection of these taxes as
if no receiver existed. It often happens
that corporations by order of United States
courts, pass into the hands of receivers and
remain there for a number of j ears, during
which time taxes assessed against them and
their property are paid or not pant, ac
cording to their judgment and discretion.and
sometimes the caprice of the federal court.
By this practice corporations in the hands
of receivers are enabled to defer the pay
ment of taxes almost indefinitely, to the
great inconvenience and prejudice of the
states.
The committee is of the opinion that cor
porations in the hands of receivers should
not enjoy any greater immunity with re
spect to payment of taxes than that which
is possessed by corporations carrying on
their business outside of courts and without
receivers.
It Pays.
It pays to read the papers, especially your
own farm paper, for often in this wav good
business opportunities are brought to vour
attention. It may be that you wish to se
cure a bargain in implements, or a situation
for one of ybur boys, or von wish to use
J’our spare time to good a'dvantage; if so,
B. F. Johnson & Co., of Richmond, Ma.,
have an advertisement in another column
that may interest you.
WEEKLY BANK STATEMENT.
Seven Million, One Hundred vnd Mxt.v-Two
Thousand, Seven Hundred Increase.
New York, March 17.—The New York
Financier says this week: The exhibit of the
New York clearing house for the week,
ending March 17th. shows the extraordina
rily large increase in deposits of $7,162,700,
but it also shows a larger increase in loans
than any statement published since the pan
ic, with the exception of the time when lite
loan jtas lloated. This is a very
tavorable feature in the statement, as it
indicates that there has been a greater de
mand tor tunas during the past six da vs
than was supposed. Tne aggregate .expan
sion ot loans amounts to •>.!, 108,t,00, winch
is a surprise to many, as it was gven out
by a prominent batik president before the
publication of the statement, that in his
opinion, it was the dullest week in the loan
market for twelve years. The enormous
amount of surplus cash which the banks
bol l keeps the rate for mercantile paper
downs. In fact, single name paper is quoted
3 per cent, which is the lowest since the
panic of 1573. The net gain in cash forth"
week was $3.159,6011, of which $1,219,200 was
in specie, and $2,260,400 in legal tenders.
<>ne million two hundred and littv thousand
dollars in gold was drawn from the Fourth
National bank and shipped abroad on Sat
urday, and this transaction will likely show
in next week’s statement, as it is not re
flected in this one.
The changes brought about an increase
of the reserve to the extent of $1,668,925, and
the banks now hold $77,302,300 in excess of
legal requirements. The total clearings of
all the clearing houses in the country for
the week amounted in round figures to
$865,000,000. of which $169,000,000 was cleared
through the associated banks of New York.
The averages exhibited in the statement,
compared with the same time last year,
are as follows:
Mar. 17. ’94. Mar. 18, ’93
Koan 55443.058 $ 139.501,001 i
Specie 98.583,000 72,139,500
J .egal tenders 113.785,900 44.389,900
Net deposits 540,266.400 441,961.100
Circulation 11.305.900 5,634,000
Total reserves2l2,36B,9oo $116,529,100
Reserve required 135,066,600 110,490,275
Excess of reserve.. ..'.s 77,302,300 $ 6,030,125
By Associated Press.
The Visible Supply.
New York, March 17.—The total visible
supply of cotton for the world is 4.330,920,
of which 3,716.720 bales are American
against 4,072,830 bales and 3,581,630 bales re
spectively last year.
Receipts of cotton this week at all interior
towns, 33.438 bales. Receipts from the plan
tations, 49.233 bales. Crop in sight, 6,676,652
bales.
Cotton Gossip.
The news on cotton the week just past
has all been of a bearish character, but
the market has held extremely well the
decline, as compared with the closing of
last Saturday, amounting to only 3 to 4
points, and about s sc on spots.
The rumor that most dusturbed the cot
ton trade was to the effect that the farmers
in the cotton belt were making preparation
for the planting of another enormous crop,
it being said that purchases of fertilizers
were considerably ahead of last year.
The ruomr could be traced to no authentic
source and it is denied by fertilizer dealers
in this section, who state that their sales
will fall fully 20 per cent below those of
last year, while it is stated by a number of
farmers that a good portion of what they
have bought will be used on corn, and it
was stated on ’change yesterday by a
broker tnat meats would be cheaper in a
short while, owing to a lack of demand
from the south.
It was also rumored during the week the
New England spinners were discussing the
propriety of shutting down on account ot
a. poor trade demand.
Cotton speculation has also been affected
by the expected passage of the Hatch anti
option bill.
CLRKEXCY TALK.
< harlotte Observer: There is much en
couragement for bimetallists in- the views
recently expressed by Senator Allison, of
lowa, upon Hie new bimetallic movement in
Germany, .'dr. Allison is one of tne ablest
uiki best ol our public 111611. ilc is it bi
metallist in fact and was one of the mem
bers ot the late Brussels monetary conter
ence. I here is further encouragement in
the more recent news that the German em
pire is preparing for an additional coinage
of silver. The bimetallic sentment is also
giowing in England. .Mr. Balfour’s agitation
is helping it, and Lord Roseberry, the new
prime minister, is believed to be much less
hostile to silver than Mr. Gladstone has
proved himself to be.
Birmingham Age-Herald: As the measure
has been enacted into law by a vote of the
democratic party, the country certainly will
not have to wait long to ascertain what the
action o, the president will be with regard
to it. If he shall veto the measure, then
■there can be no longer any doubt as to
the attitude of the president on the silver
question or the subject of bimetallism, as his
action on this measure will afford a clear
opportunity for ascertaining his posi
tion. It will settle the matter as to whether
his hostility to silver coinage will go to the
extent of repudiating the action of his party
!n both branches of congress.
GATLING GUNS OUT.
GOV. WAITE, OF COLORADO, FILLS
DENVER WITH SOLDIERS.
City Officials Have Barricaded Themselves in
the City Hall—Waite Says thnt Ho Fire
on Them—U. S. Troops on the Scene.
Denver, Col., March 15.—The political
fight waged by Governor Waite, culminat
ed today in most exciting scenes and mob
violence was imminent many times during
the day. Fortunately the common citizen
was calm and collected and the prompt
action of leading citizens in leaving their
business and appearing in solid bodies to
beg for time to consider the situation care
fully, caused a delay that probably pre
vented bloodshed, rioting and tne assassi
nation of Governor Waite.
In all probability had a shot been fired,
a mob would have quickly formed that
would have captured the governor before
official assistance could have reached him.
At 6 o’clock the intelligence that the
governor had called upon General McCook
to preserve the peace settled all fears of
a contest between the militia and the police
backed by as fearless a lot of deputies
sworn in by the sheriff as could possibly
be gathered together.
“Soapy” Smith’s crowd of sports had
been sworn in as deputies and they were
placed at the hall to await orders. From
2 o'clock until long after dark a dense
mass of humanity was packed in front of
the city hall and upon the streets adja
cent. They cheered and chaffed and joked,
yet did not hesitate to express indignation
at the situation. On Fourteenth street, the
first regiment of the Colorado National
Guards stood Hanking the Chaffe Light Ar
tillery, consisting ot four Gatling guns,
with caissons filled with ammunition. Their
position commanded the entire front of the
hall and at one time the militia was under
motion to attack the hall when the arrival
of Secreary Lorenz witii a message from
the governor staved the attack. This was
for a half hour’s delay to permit another
conference looking toward a peaceiul set
tlement. Froffi that time on until the
United States troops were called out, the
most intense anxiety prevailed. All sorts
of rumors lloated about.
VI 11, tie ill rest (cued to Fire.
The sheriff issued an order to arrest the
militia and take their arms away. A friend
of the deposed members of the lire and po
lice board went out of the city hall to ap
ply for a warrant to arrest, the governor.
Committees of the most influential citizens
were arguing with the board, with the mi
litia, with the governor and with the pt
lice, but nothing was accomplished.
Tne governor declared iii.n lie war' I
order the militia to lire on the city ha
regardless of the crowds of spectators i i
the police board within as solidly n>A ' -
tained their position to resist attack. Ta
police stood with guns in hand ready tv.
charge if necessary and Chief of Police
Stone said he would die before he would
surrender. j’
Meanwhile business was practically
suspended and the crowds gathered j>n'
every corner and upon the tops of adjace . ’
buildings.
Soon after 6 o'clock this evening Chief
of Folice Stone received a telephone mes-<
sage from General McCook stating that in
had ordered troops from Fort Logan to
protect the chief and aid him in preservimv
order. Soon after T. M. Patterson nsked?
on behalf of the governor, for a committee
of arbitration, but the city hall people
clined the offer, saying that they made a
| similar offer early in the day and it had
j been refused. The attorney for the gov*
I ernor made a s.ihilar request and it wa»
also declined.
It was not until this morning that the*
people realized the extent of the trouble
and the determination of Governor White/
to have bis way regardless of courts. WheiT
they rc.l* in the morning papers that I
had ordered out the militia they were loat *
to believe even then that any trouble of ; ’
serious nature would arise. But as th
day passed the fears of all began to ris-
As early as 9 o’clock this morning the curi
ous spectators began to assemble arouticl
the city hall building and by 11 o’clock
Laramie and oFurteenth streets for a bloc
in each direction were literally packed.
VrniiiiK the Police;*. „
At 10 o’clock two wagon loads’of breecis,
loading shotguns and ammunition were un -
loaded at police headquarters in the city
hall. The department was now equipped
with a shotgun and two 4.1-c.iliber Colt's re;
volvers for each man. in addition to th?
regulation club. A quantity of dynamite
cartridges was also stored in the police
vaults in readiness for any emergency.
“We will hold the city hall against all
attacks from the outside, If it fakes dyna
mite to do it.” was the expression,of Chief
i of Police Stone. We nave 110 men on uut.v
I and they will be here as long -as they are
needed. If The governor wants ’blood to
be bridles’ we will give it to him, but he
cannot have the city hall.”
Detrnnhieil to Carry His Paint.
By noon the crowd about the armory
was nearly or quite as great as that assem
bled at the city hall and when the militia
men began to arrive, they found it difficult
to make their way to headquarters.
The militia started from the armory
promptly at 2 o’clock Adjutant General
I Tarsney was in command, assisted by Brig-
■ a<iier General Brooks.
At 3:15 o'clock, p. m.. Brigadier General
I Brooks, accompanied by four aides-de
! camps, rode up to the city ball and stated
' that the governor’s orders must be obeyed.
Governor Waite remained in his private
I rooms at the Douglass all day and admit
ted no one but his closest friends, until a
i committee ol citizens from the Chamber of
' Commerce called upon him late in the day.
■ The result, was a failure to get him to
consent to anything.
“1 shall order the militia to fire,” he re
-1 Iterated. “The people may assassinate me
i If they will, but I propose to have my
■ way.”
This was the situation when General Me-
I Cook asserted his position and prepared to
i governor who preferred to wait until the
preserve the peace.
l'li<- < of llii' Trouble.
The history of this truoble dates back
■ some weeks. The crisis was delayed by the
: extra session was ended before he acted.
To understand the situation it must be
known that some years ago, the citizens
of Denver ask<-1 the legislature to give
them a new cjjarter that would take the
I police, fire and public, works departments
out of the hands of the municipality, and
: put them in the hands of boards appointed
I by the governor. It was believed that this
; would result in removing the matter from
! the corruption of politics. Governor Waite
! had shown a desire to make these depart
i ments subserve his political ambition, and
j has tried to make all of them political
1 boards, filled with populist followers. The
j board of fire and police has been changed
i repeatedly to suit his whims.
Two members resisted, but the governor
won his ease before the supreme court,
which declared that he could remove for
I cau~e. When he demanded the removal
I of Martin and Orr recetnly, they refused to
i go until the courts should so decide. Gov
ernor Waite, relying upon the decision of
; the supreme court in the first case, did not
: ask of the courts how to proceed. He de
j i lured that the memh-'-x ’■ violated their
! trust by placing special policemen at gam
bling houses contrary to law, and he ap-
I pointed two new members. The deposed
: members applied to the district court and
I obtained a tenmorary injunction to restrain
j the governor, the mayor and he new mem
bers from taking possession of the office of
the police and fire board by force. This
was objected to. bn*, after arguments had
been heard. Judge Graham declined to re
move the injunction. Then, after several
<lavs' deliber-iHon. the governor decided to
ignore the injunction and so issued, last
night, his order to the military.
During the excitement around the citv
j hall a man named Tides fell from his perch
| on a storm door entrance to the hall, strik
-1 inc his head first unon she pavement, frac
turing his skull. He will die.
It is said that a warrant for the arrest
of Governor Waite has been sworn out, and
will be served by a posse of deputj’ sheriffs
; tonight.
A little after 6 o’clock Chief of Police
Stone received a. telenbone message from
General McCook, stating that he had or
dered troops front Fort Logan to protect
the chief and aid him in preserving peace.
Th-' governor now asks for a committee on
arbitration.
til tlic Troops Dnlcreil Ont.
Late tonight Governor Waite issued an
order calling out every company of militii
in the state. They are to come to Denver
immediately ready to act. The Colorado
National Guard consists of two regiments,
one with headquarters here and the other
in Pueblo. The entire force can muster
probably 1,200 men.
The governor says the companies here
are not sufficient to cope with the crowds
and police force. They cannot reach Den
ver before Saturday. The sheriff will at
tempt to cause the arrest of the governor,
Adjutant General- Tarsney and Brigadier
General Brooks early tomorrow morning.
The United States troops will remain in the
city until peace is assured and the promi
nent men will continue to urge peaceable
means of settlement.
As Governor Waite seems insensible to
argument looking td arbitration, peace can
come about only by the withdrawal of the
c.ty hall people, or by some action of the
courts that will restrain the governor.
The situation now looks serious fbr to
morrow.
Says It Is Insurrection.
Platt Rogers, counsel for the governor,
said tonight: “It is insurrection— clearly in
surrection. Under the law and under every
day rules the action of the police depart
ment is an open insurrection, and the gov
ernor would be Justified in putting it down.
The signing of a document agreeing to re
sist the will of the governor, which no one
denies, was done by those of the police de
partment, the engaging of armed force, the
barricading of doors—all constitute an in
surrection tinder the state military and fed
eral laws. The governor, as head of the ex
ecutive department of the state, lias cer
tain duties prescribed tinder the constitu
tion and the state statutes to perform, and
among those is the appointment and re
moval of the fire and police commissioners
The supreme court of this state has laid
it down in the plainest language. Gov
ernor Waite has the right to remove his
appointees for cause, and the district court
had not the slightest excuse for interefer
ing. When the members of the board, who
had been removed, took such elaborate
steps to prevent the will of the governor
being carried out they were violating the
law.”
ALL QUIET *AT DENVER,
Rut Governor Wuite Tlirentens to At
-liiek the City Hull, if NeceHMSiry.
Denver, Col., March 16.—A1l is quiet and
business has been resumed. Advices state
that six companies of militia are assem
bled at their armories awaiting orders to
come to Denver. Governor Waite has de
clared, despite all advice, that he will again
attempt to take the city hall by force,
if Commissioners Martin and Orr Uo not re
tire peacefully. The governor is in consul
tation with General McCook.
Orders to Genera; tleCook.
Washington, March 16.—Late this after
noon instructions were telegraphed to Gen
eral McCook by order of the president.
Secretary Lamont states the instructions
were as follows:
“General McCook was only authorized to
use tne troops tor the protection ot the
government when the representation was
made to him by the governor of the
state that the state authorities are unable
to suppress the insurrection. This is in
effect an approval of General McCook's
action in oruering the troops from Fort
Logan to Denver, but not to the extent
of giving him discretion to preserve tne
peace or of rendering assistance to tne
state militia in enforcing state law. Neither
is the general to troops at the
command of the governor, nor is he to
take any directions at all from the gover
nor, who can expect nothing troni tne
United States forces until he has contessed
his inability to uphold the law and at
that moment General McCook, uniter the
constitution and as the representative of
the president, will preserve order under mil
itary regulations. General Schofield, com
manding tlie army, says it is not possible
tor General McCook to take orders from
Governor Waite or any other person than
the president or the president's direct mili
tary subordinates. It is impossible to dele
gate any military authority as a civil of
ficer and, therefore, General -McCook will
continue supreme as far as the United
States forces are concerned and responsible
to the president alone. General aicCook's
ability to go safely through the present
complication involving, as it does, so many
delicate points, is declared at the war de
partment to be second to that of no officer
m tlie service and the fullest, confidence is
expressed that he will commit no indiscre
tion, no matter how great the provoca
tion.”
Always avoid harsh purgative pills. They
first make you sick and then leave you
constipated. Carter's Little Liver Piils reg
ulate the bowels and make you well. Dose,
one pillF'
-MORE TRIM RLE IN COLORADO.
A Miners' Riot nt Cripple Creek—The
t Situation at Denver.
nver, Col., -March 17.—Efforts are being
by everybody in authority to gel tlie
nor to agree to arbitrate. The county
sioners passed a sei of resolutions
_'ing auu nave gone It a. uuuy lo
General Tarsnej
<r Ai’.'Cl a requv.M. o. omral ooWcis, at «... qi-
Creea rur me miuua to assist in panuig
aavVu a iiuuero iiuu lie unaweretl aS lox
luas:
“uenver, Col., March 17, 3 a. m. —Sheriff
El i a.~>o vuuiiij, tuppie’i iven: iou uuglil
first summon a pos.>v comtlatus ot your
county, it luey -anuot maintain order, men
can upon me as governor for aid. Calling
me troops must lie tne last resort. I win
order troops held m readiness immediately.
Wire me. DAVIS WaITH, (governor.”
The trouble at Altman and Cripple Cteek
is over a question of wages. \ b • mines itave
been practically idle for thirty days. The
miners insisted on working only eight hours
a day, the owners wanted nine hours’ work,
and pending a settlement of the dispute the
miners struck. A tew weeks ago proprietors
working nine hour shifts were notified by
the miners that the men must labor only
eight hours a day in the future or quit work
altogether. Some of the owners acceded to
the demand and others closed down.
A few days ago the sheriff went to the
scene and posted a notice waning the miners
that if they interfered with the working of
the mine, they would be in contempt of
court, and no other difficulty was expe
rienced until yesterday, when the men went
to the Victor and. as stated in a dispatch
from Cripple Creek, were halted and dis-
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They are the foundation of health and <Tr a )
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Health, because of pure blood; i
Happiness, because of clear skin. *
Thousands of useful lives have been
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As well as blood purifiers. J 1
Because of its peculiar action on the y £
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It is successful in preventing
And curing all forms of
Skin, Scalp, and Blood humors,
When the usual remedies and even
The best physicians fail.
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It especially appeals to mothers and children, Y
Because it acts so gently yet effectively
Upon the skin and blood, as well as upon the
Liver, kidneys, and bowels.
Its use during the winter and spring
Insures a clear skin and pure blood,
As well as sound bodily health.
Sold everywhere. Price, Cuticura Resoi.vhnT, $t ; Ointment, 50c.: Soap, 25c. Potth*
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rfChim d tea rl Arc most corn P ctent to fu ">’ appreciate the purity,
W Ulls■via CXFIO. .sweetness, and delicacy of Cuticura Soap, and to
. discover new uses for it daily.
y y OfOeO OI V I n th o preparation of curative washes, solutions,
etc., for annoying irritations, chafings, and excori
ations of the skin and mucous membrane or too free or offensive perspiration, it has
proved most grateful.
Like all others of the Cuticura Remedies, the Cuticura Soap anneals to the
refined and cultivated everywhere as the most effective skin purifying and beautifying
soap, as well as the purest and sweetest for toilet and nursery.
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Mention The Constitution.
FEMALE PILLS
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titulars'! cts. Address Al HIM MEDHISE C0.,1>& State St., CUiCAGO.ILL.
>, iiFinn i'L»- <’oust iiutlon.
WANT TO MARRY.
f yyy
Meatton The Oonatitutton. u uJn.’Vil j
armed and the sneriff decided to ask the
Intervention of the state. Sheriff
with a large posse, is in possessotn of tlie
mines at Altman and no trouble is antici
pated during daylight. The hills there are m
an uproar and the miners are congregatmg.
The trouble will come in the t. Ine
mines are working with a limited number
Waite's lengthy statement and
Question" were submitted to the supreme
q court today. He will await decision
fore making anv other move. Ute city nan
people were not considered and no stipula
tion or agreement was signed-
Water Cure Snnitaflun*.
Is permanently located in
receive and treat all invalids, bend postage
stamps for circular.
Ma DR. J-’ M ARMSTRONG, Proprietor.
mar2o wk lyr.
For Sale, lit Less Tlinn Half Valnc.
Valiev View stock farm, comprising 2,6.;9
acres of beautiful land. 1.500 aej-es rich val
ley In Erath county, Texas twe ve miles
«outh( Ist of Gordon, a station on tb( 1.
and P railroad. Farm well stocked v.it.i
registered and graded Percheron and Amer-
horses and registered and graded E'j’S
ford cattle. Price. $12,000 for farm stock
and outfit: one-half cash, bakime nn -•
terms. No exchange wanted. I ins proper
iv can in five years' good management of
owner living on place be tna'ie vi• m V’oftered
or more. A rare opportunity is hete oticrea
to make a fortune on small in ™stm<?nL
For fuller information l ailvel ’‘sj ntent
in this paper of January 16th and 23d, or
write to W. P. Pattillo, Atlanta, Ga., room
8 Gate City bank building.
The Vacant Sent.
Birmingham, Ala., March
The lawyers of Alabama are naturally vety
much interested in the matter ol the ap
pointment of a successor to the late cnici
Justice Stone, of the supreme court ot tnis
state. Most prominent, among the nortn
Alabama eligibles are ex-Chief Justice K.
C. Briekell, of Huntsville; Associate Justice
Thomas McClellan, of Athens: Associate
Justice T. W. Coleman, of Greensboro; J ltd A-
J. R. Dowdell, of Clanton: Judge Milham11.
Simpson, of the city court of Decatui, and
Mr. R. G. Simpson, of Florence.
CONSUMPTION CUR E ».
An old physician, retired from practice, had
placed in ins hands b.v an East India missionary
the formula of a simple vegetable remedy lor the
speedy and permanent cure of Consumption,
Bronchitis. Catarrh, Asthma, ami all Throat, ami
Lung Affections, also a positive ami radical cute
tor Nervous I lability ami all Nervous Complaints.
Having tested its wonderful curative powers in
thousands of eases, and desiring to relieve hitman
suffering,l will sen l free ol charge to all who wiMi
it. this recipe in tfennan, french or English, witii
full directions lor preparing ami using, bent by
mail, bv addressing with stamp, naming tins
paper, W. A. Noves, 820 Powers’ Block, Roches
ter, N. Y
DEMOCRATIC VOICES.
Otslspoken ComiiH-nts of Straight
Party Papera.
From The Cincinnati Enquirer.
The question aS to who should have the
Offices is as simple as the alphabet. They
belong naturally and rightfully to the party
that is in control of the government. A
denial of that right, is subversive of the
sound principles of our system. Those
democrats who have been appointed to
office have succeeded. Tlie changes have
made no Inconvenience and have not in
jured the public service.
There are a great many laws of nature
which Mr. Cleveland is obliged to obey.
Why can he not recognize a natural law
of politics and government'? His present
position is abnormal. He cannot establish
the policy of a non-partisan distribution of
the offices, lie might if he had to deal
only with the affairs of a city where poli
tics played no part in the elec,.ons; but the
political consideration is present in all the
affairs of the general government. Now
that the republicans have overlapped a
year on Mr. Cleveland’s term, can’t we
have a return to sound and logical prac
tices? The people' can't be fed long on the
far-fetched philosophy of non-partisan ad
ministration of the government of the
United States. Every man who is mentally
and morally fit for the public service is a
partisan on national and state questions.
Those who claim that the democratic
party can be brough up enthusiastically to
the support of leaders who are constantly
favoring republicans are fanciful theorists.
In this matter of the offices and other
places under the federal government,
neither the democrati.---vir republican party
is on an ethere.u ITraaic- 7TII parties and
all people are on earth. Not even the
mugwumps are exceptions. They preach a
heavenly state of unselfishness as to the
offices, and then get sour if they are not
appointed to good places themselves.
From The Courier-Journal. 4
Tn view of what they see going on at
Washington, thousands of democrats in
every part of the country feel like echoing
the sentiment of Tom Corwin’s philosophic
Kentuckian, who declared that the _true
specific for happiness consisted in not car
ing a blankety-blank what happens so it
don’t happen to you.
From The Newburgh Daily Register.
Mr. Cleveland has had considerable of
late to cause him uneasiness. Congress is
recalcitrant, and people are recalcitrant.
There seems to be trouble all around. Mug
wumps infest the white house, and the
president is induced to give them an ear,
when he should listen to the men who
worked for him and put him where he is.
A man who gives himself up to mugwump
society is lost. He is led astray. Mr.
''leveland should give these mugwumps the
cold shoulder and return to the friends
of his early days, who stood by him when
he was unknown and came up from Buffalo
to the state convention.
Chb'he.trr’R Knclt.h lllnmond Brand.
PENNYROYAL PILLS
/—Oi iuliiid ion! Oiilj tienuh.v. A
. 7-;.A safe, Always reliable, ladies, ask /r\
CiA < .FIXW. ilru - u,s ' h,r 'Vie r« Asv’l.O;
Ihnnd I:. I£,.<| at.ii 1A.1.' laefatlicyvjy
scale! wirh blue ribbon. 't' Jl | >e YW 7
jWS -.'Vw no oth**r. f'ffuse daivjeroux snustitn-
I / ~ flf'ir>ni: "li'l imitations, .vi liru ’eisis, or send 4c.
t dr hl stamns for :.:irticulars r.stinioniuls and
\ l.i'lii for* l.rirlicA.** in tftti'r. return
,Xr Mnil. 10,000 T< >ninoni>ils. Natnr. Pa-n-r
c.,a c i. nlr-he.tcr < henitent Co.,Mn.tl.on Square,
Bold by all Lor >1 Orur-1,1 J'htludu., (’a.
Mention The Constitution.
I 3 *1 AO’ an ’l Dip needles for pres-
JLvV> JL7 rectors. Miners and Treas
a, , ~ ur e seekers. Cir. 2c. P. &
M. Agency. Bachmanville, Pa.
Mention The Constitution.
SI,OOOO
JLZZ-— WILL : 21
Given Awau
IWBIB
!n of Prjzes Based
On the Best Estimates ot
Tliis Year’s Cottaa Crop
This 91,000 will be in addition to our
numerous other premiums and prizes, and
every new subscriber, or every renewal, has
the privilege of contending for every prizo
in this or any other of tho several prise
contests instituted for our subscribers.
THE PLAN.
The prospective size of this year’s supply
is the determining factor of this year's
prices. Hence, everybody is interested in
the probable size of the cotton crop of
1803-9-1 the crop which is already harvest
ed ami which is now being marketed. The
official announcement of the size of this
crop will be made about .September 1, .1894,
and the figures_accepted in determining this
contest will be those of tho New Orleans
cotton exchange.
The prizes will be awarded and
THE SI,OOO DIVIDED
among the successful guessers just as soox
as the official announcement of the Now
Orleans cotton exchange is made.
THE PRIZES.
There will be SI,OOO iu prizes, to be
divided and distributed as follows:
First Prize.
$-100 IN GOLD to the person making the
nearest estimate of the official announce
ment of the size of the crop.
Second Prize.
?200 IN GOLD to the next closest
guess.
Third Prize.
A S2OO SCHOLARSHIP and board in a
leading university for one year, transferable
if the winner desires, and available for
male or female. This prize for the third
nearest guess.
Fourth Prize.
A SIOO TRIP TO HAVANA, Cuba, and
return, this amount including railroad
and steamship fare from the home of the
winner to Havana and return, and allowing
enough for expenses for a delightful week
or ten days’ trip for the fourth nearest
guesser.
Fifth Prize.
A SIOO TRIP TO THE CITY OP
MEXICO, traveling expenses to be borna
by The Constitution, including all railroad
transportation to the above amount. I’his
prize for the fifth nearest guesser.
THE CONTEST.
The conditious governing this contest are
very simple, indeed. Every person who
sends his own name or any other name,
or a renewal, for one year’s subscription to
The Weekly Constitution will be entitled
to make an estimate iu this contest.
He can make a guess for every stilt
scriber sent, and the names so sent will
also be entitled to a subscriber’s guess.
Thus, if a person sends us the names of
six subscribers, he can make six guesses,
and each of the names be sends Nvill bo
entitled to a guess. He can send a guess
with every additional subscriber.
All clubbing subscriptions are entitled to
participale in this contest.
Every guesser is required to write his
name and address on a separate piece of
paper, on which should be written his
guess in legible figures.
No guess will be vtnered that is not
accompanied by cash for the subscriptions
sent.
Other Crops.
In order that the guessers may have *
fair insight into the statistics concerning
past cotton crops, wc present herewith tho
total crops from the year 1877 to 1891.
inclusive, as follows:
Year Bales 1 .
1.577 ... .1 4,485,423 11 ISS4.. . .1 5,714.052
iS7S .. . . 4.Sil 265 h 185.5 .. . . '2l.
IS7-J ... .| 5,073:5311 215
ISBO .. . -I 5,757.397 0 l«u .. . .
1881 .. . .1 0.589,32t> 1 isx'J .. . . 1»,:i35.0-2
1882 .. . .[ s.'■>•'.M- 1 is'jt) .... 7.313,72(1
.. . .1 t>.'.''.>2.2’• t .... s '155 518
1884| 6,714,052 | | 1892 j 6,700,365
THE CONTEST NOW OPEN
A special clerk has been assigned to tho
work of compiling the thousands of guesses
that will be received iu this contest be
tween now and next September. Special
books have been prepared, by which careful
record will be kept for every guess, so that
there will be no possible confusion in the
award of the one thousand dollars which
The Constitution offers, and which will be
distributed in settlement of this contest.
The contest is now open, and every new
subscriber or renewal of a subscription io
entitled to a guess iu accordance with the
conditions above stated. It is not every
day that a paper gives away one thousand
dollars in one contest; but The Constitution
does this to interest its readers. This is
but one of several contests that The Con
stitution will run during the coming year.
The contest above announced is the most
interesting that The Constitution has offer
ed in a long time, and it is a splendid op
portunity for its subscribers to make a test
of their guessing ability.
BE SURE TO PUT YOUR GUESS ON
A SEPERATE PIECE OF PAPER AND
SIGN FULL NAME AND POSTOFFICE
ADDRESS.