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TILLMAN’S HOT TALK. !
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j>HF GOVERNOR USES ROUGH LAN
GUAGE TO CUARLESTONIANS.
General Butler iaGreeted with Applause, but
the Meeting is Mysteriously Stampeded
and Turn* Into, a Free Fight.
Charleston. S. C., July 12.—(Special.)—The i
campaign meeting here tonight was full of !
incidents. It is not a difficult thing to get !
up a crowd in Charleston with the aid of a
brass band and Governor Tillman on the i
bills as a star. His hatred of the city, |
which he has never hesitated to avow i
whenever he has been called upon to ad- •
dress a Charleston audience, renders him a i
drawing attraction. Hence, when he was
introduced to speak tonight there were some
thing like 5,000 or 6,000 people packed in the
equare at the intersection of Broad and
Meeting streets. The crowd was composed
almost entirely of white men, although
there could be seen a fringe of black faces
on the outskirts glistening under the flashes
of the electric light. It was a good-natured
crowd, and although it took part in the dis
cussion, Messrs. Whitman, Yeldell and Tim
merman, three of the reform candidates
who preceded the governor, managed to get
« very good hearing.
It was about half-past 8 o’clock when the
governor got up to speak. He was greeted
with cheers and hisses about evenly divided,
and these lasted for some time. Then the
governor poured a can of kerosene into the
seething crowd by shouting:
“This is the fifth time J*'-ve tried to poke
sense into the heads of you people, but I
suppose you don’t want it. and I think you
had better beat your drum and stampede
like a lot cowards, as you did the sec
ond time I came here.’’
Hough Talk.
This was alluding to a stampede which
occurred at a rm eting he. tried to address ;
here just after the earthquake. This made
the crowd mad. The governor was ma j
when he started. For fifteen minutes he
struggled with the crowd. Only disjointed i
sentences of his speech could be heard, but
these were like gall and wormwood to the
crowd. ,
“You are a set of old fossils,” said he,
“and you can go to the devil in your own
way. I don’t want your votes."
In reply to a request from the chairman
ot the meeting for silence, a voice in the
crowd shouted:
“Bet him talk like a gentleman and we
will listen to him," a suggestion which was
• heartily endorsed by the crowd.
Finally the governor sa 1 that he saw
th< pe (I le lid nit w mt to hear him, and
he would, then-fore, give the rest of his
time to General Butler. At this there was
a tremendous yell. Before relenting, how
ever, the governor, shaking his linger in the
faces of the crowd, shouted in melodra
matic tones: “Hear my parting shot. I’m
going to tarn the dispensary down your
threats with the constables and the militia
and a metropolitan police, and you 11 have
to stand it whether you want it or not.”
The Meeting Stampeded.
Governor Tillman was succeeded by Gen
eral Butler, who evidently had the crowd
with him. He began by expressing his won
der and amazement at the way in which
Governor Tillman had insulted the audi
ence. Just then there was a flutter in the
mi Ist of the crowd, and without any provo
cation another stampede, such as the one
ti. governor had alluded to, took place.
Men and boys rushed wildly in every di
rection, trampling and climbing over each
other in a mad and senseless scramble. No
one seemed to know what started it, al
th ugh the conservatives say that it was
start'd by a handful of reformers brought
up from Berkeley, who made the ef
fort to break up the meeting because it re
fused to hear Tillman talk. Several hun
dred hats were lost in the scramble and a
score or more persons were painfully
bruised.
General Butler, who is running for re
election to the senate, finished his speech
after quiet was restored, and evidently had
the audience with him. The other candi
dates all had a hearing. It Is evident that
the votes of Charleston will not be for the
governor, but his friends claim with great
confidence that he does not need them, and
that he will be elected by a large majority.
11LIMYN AS A SILAWIIEK.
He Says He Spit Fir»—Caaghman Is
Howled Down.
Walterboro, S. C., July 13.—(Special.)—The
campaign m eting here today had a little
more life in it than some others of late.
Five hundred people were present. The
crowd v. is overwhelmingly for Tillman and
gave him an ovation. The governor devoted
most of his time to answering questions
ask-d at Chester yesterday by Butler re
garding r--funding the state debt. The veiled
insinuation that any money in that trans
action had stuck in his pocket was mali
cious slander, the governor declared.
He told the crowd they ought to have
s- n him “spit lire at those hounds in
Charh -ton last night.”
Some one asked him if he was a populist
and he replied; “I am a white man and a :
dem< . rat, while you are a white man with -
a black heart.”
Colonel t'al Caughman, candidate for con- 1
gross from the seventh district, began his 1
speech with an attack on Tillman, calling i
him the most arrant fraud jn South Caro- j
lina, and was howled and hooted at. He
f'lllow-- i this with an attack on The Coluni- (
bi.t Register, and was howled down. Caugh
man got mad and the crowd did, too. '
General Ellerbe was not present, having ‘
b n 1 "ft in Charleston, and the gubernato- 1
> speakers were Evans and Tindall. ;
Evins had the crowd and was raptuously
received.
THEY Fill. TO AGREE. •
House and Senate tonferees Are Wide Apart *
on the Tariff. ’
M ashington, July 14.—Senator Brice was '
laconi - tonight when asked for informa- 1
tion as to when the tariff conferees would ’
it pert. “The report,” he said, will be made
to the house on Wednesday, of next week. I *
The conferees will report a disagreement, 1
and both houses will instruct for another 1
conference.”
When asked if he did not think there
would be a partial agreement he replied
that he did not, as no inclination had been
manifested to make a divided report.
Other senators also predict that a report ; ,
will be made during the week, but they are i |
not so positive as to the day, and some of j
the members of the committee in their con- i .
versation with newspaper representatives, j .
whatever they may say to their fellow sena
tors and representatives, discourage the ■ ’
idea that a report may be expected during ;
the week. They say that it is yet too early ,
to say when a conclusion will be reached i .
by the democratic conferees without taking
Into consideration the possibility of delay
after the republican members of the con- j
ference are invited to participate in its i
proceedings. I
On this latter point Senator Aldrich said
tonight that if. when the republicans are ;
risked into the conference, it should appear -
that the democratic senatorial conferees had |
made concessions sufficient to materially •
alter the character of the senate bill, they j
would certainly ask for full information as
to the reasons for the changes, and in that
event the probabilities were that consider
able time would be necessary after the be
ginning of the full conference before the re
port could be made. If, however, Senator
Brice is < orrect in his prediction that there
will not be a divided report, and that the
report made will simply state the fact of a
disagreement, thqre would seem to be no
reason for the republican conferees demand
ing prolonged consideration in committee.
With reference to the proceedings of the
l ake it when
“awfully tired”
Brown’s Iron
Bittern
conference it could only be stated that the
sugar schedule has consumed the greater
part, if not the entire time, of the commit
tee, and the work has been devoted largely
on the part of the senators in persuading
the representatives to consent to the re
tention of the one-eighth of a cent differen
tial on refined sugar. Inquiries have also been
sent by the conferees as to how much less
than 40 per cent ad valorem will satisfy the
sugar producers. Lousiaina members of
congress say nothing whatever can be
yielded from the 40 per cent rate and the
response to the conferees was to that effect.
While it is true that during the week al
most every schedule in the bill has been
under consideration, it is also true that as
yet few, if any, rates have been fixed other
than tentatively and when members of the
conference say that nothing has been abso
lutely agreed upon they are technically
within the bounds of the truth.
It appears from the best information ob
tainable that a great part of the time has
been given to a representation to the house
conferees by the senate members ol the ne
cessity of making the most liberal conces
sions possible in the interest of the final
passage of the bill through the senate. The
house conferees have indicated in most, if
not in all instances, what they thought the
house would assent to and it is the figures
given in these cases which have been ac
cepted as agreements by those who have
heard them reported.
TO PAY - COM»NEL'7.<MIDYEAR.
The Senate Passes the Appropriation
After Some Debate.
Washington, July 12.—Senators show
themselves less punctual now that the daily
sessions open at noon than they did during
the two months when their attendance
was required two hours earlier. There are
rarely more than a dozen present when the
chaplain offers prayer and there are no ob
jections as to the absence of a quorum,
as there were while the tariff bill was
pending. The unusual, if not unprecedented,
circumstance of having the conferences on
the tariff bill confined so far to the demo
cratic managers of the two houses, ex
cluding the republican conferees, was called
to the attention of the senate in a resolu
tion offered by Mr. Hale, republican, of
Maine, directing the chairman of the sen
ate conferees, Mr. Voorhees, to inform
the senate whether a full and free confer
ence is being held.
A conference was ordered on the pen
sion appropriation bill and Messrs. Brice,
Gorman and Cullom were appointed con
ferees on the part of the senate.
The river and harbor appropriation bill
was reported and placed on the calendar.
The fortifications appropriation bill was
then taken up. The amount appropriated as
it passed the house was $2,225,000, and the
additions recommended by the senate com
mittee on appropriations was $554,000, mak
ing the total $2,779,000. The amendments
were agreed to as the bill was read.
The bi]l was passed.
An amendment to the sundry civil appro
priations bill was presented, allowing $5,000
each to the families of the government
clerks who lost their lives in the Ford’s
theater disaster.
The river and harbor bill was then taken
up and the committee amendments were
acted on as they were ream
A committee amendment appropriating
$30,000 to pay C. P. Goodyear for improving
the harbor of Brunswick, Ga., led to a
short, but rather acrimonious discussion
between Mr. Blanchard, democrat, of
Louisiana, who opposed the amendment,
contending that the contract had not ac
complished the desired result and had no
claim on the government, and Senators Gor
don and Walsh, democrats, of Georgia,
who held that the contractor was entitled
to compensation for the depth of water
which he had obtained.
The amendment was adopted.
The appropriation for improving Cumber
land river below Nashville was increased
from $30,000 to $45,000, the $15,000 additional
being for a dam and lock at the mouth of
Harper’s river.
Brunswick’s Bar.
Washington, July'A—(Special.)—The sen
ate commerce committee has agreed to re
port in favor of giving Colonel Goodyear
$30,000 for the work he has already done on
Brunswick harbor, and $120,000 additional
when he gets twenty-five feet of water on
the bar.
A Rcdnced Majority.
The democratic congressional campaign
con mitti e is actively at work, and is re
ceiving encouraging news from many sup
pressed, doubtful districts. It is expected
that the democrats will Jose quite a num
ber of districts, but the most conservative
figures show that the next house cannot
be other than democratic by from fifteen
to twenty majority.
'1 he leaders feel confident that the repub
lican claim that they will cary the next
house is groundless.
LOLISYILLE AND NASHVILLE.
Report of Ils Earnings— Yu Official
Statement.
New A ork, July 12.—The report of the
Louisville and Nashville for the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1894 (June estimated), shows
gross earnings of $18,960,827, a decrease of
$3,442,762; operating expenses, $11,813,569, a
deci ease ot $2,569,074; net earnings from
traffic, $7,147,308, a decrease of $573,688; fixed
charges, $5,664,777, an increase of $173,981;
net, $1,482,531, a decrease of $1,047,669; other
income, $640,757, a decrease of $75,352.;. total
income, $1,823,288, a decrease of $1,.23,021.
Loss on Georgia railway, s24,7B47decrease
of $46,194; loss on other roads, ' $141,067, in
crease of $14,024; total loss, $165,851, decrease
of $257,907; surplus, $1,657,437, decrease of
$865,114. In 1893 the company, after paying
$2,112,000 in dividends, had a sulplus of
$410,551.
The following is the official statement
given out after the meeting today:
“In view of the unfavorable business
conditions prevailing throughout the coun
try, it is believed to be for the best in
terest ot the stockholders that the com
pany’s resources be kept in hand. It was,
therefore, on motion, duly seconded.
“Resolved, That this board does not
deem it expedient to declare a dividend out
of the net earnings of the company for
the fiscal year ended June 30, 1894.”
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
Silver Coinage at 20 to 1.
Editor Constitution—l was in Atlanta
when Mr. Turner made his much adver
tised speech. I stayed over partly to hear
it, because having heard so much about it in
advance 1 was prepared lor something that
would point the way to a full and peace
able settlement of all our troubles, financial
and otherwise.
The most notable feature of Congressman
Turner's address was his declaration for
the free coinage of silver only at a ratio of
20 to 1. He said that he would vote for
free coinage at 20 to 1, but that he did not
favor it at 16 to 1. He said that he favored
an honest dollar and while the 20 to 1 was
not an honest dollar any more than the 16 to
1 dollar, he was ready to take it as a start
ing point.
Now this feature of the speech was the
tQ.lk of tlie evening. I could scarcely believe
my ears when 1 listened to him, and I
looked next day in all the papers to see if
lie bad been reported correctly. Yes, there
it was —20 to 1. So said The Savannah
News, The Macon Telegraph, The Columbus
Enquirer-Sun, the Atlanta papers and all
the other papers in the state. To save my
life I could not understand how it was that
any one could be willing to declare for free
coinage at 20 to 1 while being unwilling to
have it at 16 to 1. Yet this was the posi
tion of Mr. Turner, though he admitted
that the 20 to 1 dollar was not an “honest
dollar,” as he construes it. The speech,
therefore, dissatisfied not only the genuine
bimetallists but was equally unsatisfactory
to the goldbugs. This feature of it pleased
nobody, and the idea of calling in all of the
silver money of the country and recoining
it on a 20 to 1 basis with the consequent
terrible loss to the people and to the gov
ernment was so monstrously absurd that I
could scarcely convince myself that I had
really heard it stated by such a distinguish
ed statesman.
A few days ago I received a copy of the
THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION; ATLANTA, GA, MONDAY, JULY 16,1894:.
revised and approved speech as published
in The JouHMil of last Monday afternoon.
There It was—presented as a revised and
authentic report of the speech delivered
the Saturday night before. It had been fully
revised by Judge Turner himself, and was
presented with the due solemnity of an
official document. I looked carefully over
it to read again about the 20 to 1 business,
thinking that possibly in looking over it in
the quietude of m> household I might find
something in the 20 to 1 argument which
1 had not been able to understand when I
heard the address.
Lo and beholu.' if there is any argument
in favor of the 20 to 1 coinage in the revised
speech I fail to see it. There is nothing
more than a simple statement that “I voted
for a ratio of 20 to 1, not because the ratio
would make it full measure, or up to the
required standard, but because it was ex
pected that silver would thus rise to a par
ity with gold and be restored to its old po
sition.
Thus Judge Turner admits that If
the existing discrimination against silver
were removed by the repeal of adverse
legislation, silver would rise in value. Then
why not start at 16 to 1 instead of at 20 to 1,
first removing restrictive legislation.
But I did not rise to discuss the question.
t simply desire to call attention to, and to
express congratulation at the fact that
the full 20 to 1. argument delivered on the
platform at the opera house was stricken
from the revision of the speech.
I hope that it means that we will hear no
more of this 20 to 1 business. It don’t take.
A SOUTH GEORGIA DEMOCRAT.
It’s Brown’s
Iron
Bitters
you need!
A PLANTATION COMEDY.
Continued From Fourth Column First Page
Uncle Cato, more seriously. “I been gwine
long ’fo’ now, an’ de fus news I know I
ketch myse’f talkin’ tu myse’f. I dunner
how come so, but hit’s des dat away. I
hear tell, sub, dat dem what talk long wid
deyse’f owes de ole boy a day’s work. Yit
I’ll be happy es 1 don’t owe him no mo’
dan dat.”
“Uncle Cato,” said the young man, “you
have a good face. 1 wonder whether I can
trust you?”
“You put one in min’ er de man at de
groce’y sto’. Dat des de way he talk. He
say he dunner whedder he kin trus’ me er
no. Yit, marster, he been trustin’ me, an’
ole marster befo’ ’im; an’ ole miss, she
been trustin’ me.”
“That is the point. They could trust you,
but can I?”
“Well, suh, some folks is diffunt turn
yuther folks.”
“Maybe I’ve got the cart before the horse.
I want to ask you to help me in something
that is of great importance to General
Herndon. This whole plantation is about
to be sold out to that man Beasley.”
“Uh-uh! Uh-uh! No, suh! Dat man never
live ter see de day when he kin sell er buy
dis place,” exclaimed Uncle Cato, straight
ening up.
“But 1 tell you,” said Otis Maxwell, ear
nestly, "he’ll have this place sold as surely
as the sun rises unless I can get hold of a
paper the general has in his possession.”
“Den whyn’t ha do it?” aked Uncle Cato,
defiantly. “Whyn’t he do it?”
“He surely will,” protested Otis Maxwell.
“Well, suh,” remarked Uncle Cato, boast
fully, “you des keep yo’ eye on marster, I
been seen dat white man in some mighty
close places ’fo’ de war an’ endurin’ de war,
but he allers come out on top. Look like
he know when ter trot an’ when ter gallop
an’ (When ter take de studs- You des
watch ’em!”
The young Bostonian regarded the negro
curiously. How could he make hku <’7.. ■
s t<l n d ? /
“There is but one way to save the place,”
he persisted, “and that is for me to get hold
of a paper that 1 think is in the general’s
library. Now, how am I to get hold of
that paper?”
“Ax marster for it,” replied Uncle Cato,
serenely.
The young inan was both puzzled and
vexed. He didn’t know how to reach the
old negro's simple but shrewd understand
ing.
"But 1 don’t think the general knows he
nas the paper. 1 think he has forgotten
about it. If I should ask him for it I
would have to go into ti long explanation,
and he might think 1 was making myself
too officious.”
“Y'esser,” said Uncle Cato, “I ’speck
so.”
"Now, then, 1 want you to help me get
that paper. 1 shall have business in the
village tonight, but 1 shall return before
10 o’clock. When the lights at 3 all out we
must enter the library from the outside.
You must be ready to help me.”
“Spozen marster come in dar an’ say
howdy wid his shotgun, den what we gwine
do?”
“Well,” said Otis Maxwell, confidently,
"the door must be locked on the inside. For
your part you are to have $5 and the hearty
praise of General Herndon when I tell him
about it.”
"Is you got it wid you, suh?” inquired
Uncle (’ate, anxiously.
“What?”
“Dat ar truck.”
‘Truck?”
“Dat ar natchul green truck—de scads”
“Oh, the money! Why, of course. Here
1 Uncle Cato took the bills—there were five
of them—and examined them carefully.
“She shuly has got de fever," he declared,
’’jiianky, suh. thanky! De moon don’t rise
twel after ten. an’ we got plenty time ter
work in de dark. I’ll be settin’ out here on
one er deze ver benches noddin'. Des lay
yo’ han’ on me an' I’ll be wide awake. I
wish ter gracious dat ar paper waz a yal
ier-legged pullet. I'd fetch ’er ter yo’ han'
widout rufllin’ a fedder.”
“Yonder comes our friend Beasley now,”
said Otis Maxwell, and with that he went
into the house.
(To Be Continued.)
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ner. *
Something has lately been said about the
“leading” paper in South Carolina.
According to our way of thinking South
Carolina has no “leading” paper—or, pos
sibly all of them are “leading” papers of
a faction.
If, by “leading” paper, is meant to con
vey the larger and truer meaning of the
term, then the “leading” paper in South
Carolina is The Atlanta Constitution.
That paper has, perhaps, in this state a
weekly circulation far in excess of the com
bined circulation of all the weeklies from
all the daily offices in this state, and its
utterances are more in touch with the peo
ple than of any paper published in this
state.
Naturally the people of the state would
look to the city of Charleston for its lead
ing paper, but The News and Courier hav
ing devoted its energies to the ridiculing of
the great mass of the people, has lost
much of the influence which it would oth
erwise exert. It has practically abandoned
its own legitimate field, and allowed an
alien and a foreigner to occupy the ter
ritory to which it is by reason and justice
entitled. It is indeed lamentable to note that
such a newspaper as The Atlanta Consti
tution is the leading weekly newspaper in
South Carolina .
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When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria.
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria.
STABLE CURRENCY.
AN IMPORTANT BIJ.L REPORTED IN
REGARD TO GOLD CONTRACTS,
Making Any Money Legal Tender—Discredit
inga Nation's Currency Has Been Punish
able by Death in Some Countries.
Washington, July 14.—(Special.)—The judi
ciary committee of the house has just made
a favorable report upon a bill of much im
portance.
It is a measure of but four lines, intro
duced by Mr. Lane, of Illinois, and reads:
“That all contracts for the payment of
any sum of money, whether in gold, silver
or coin, may be discharged by any money
which is by law a legal tender for the
payment of debts when the contract ma
tures.”
In its report, the committee recommends
the passage of the bill, saying it finds “that
the purpose of this bill is to regulate the
practice in the federal courts in regard to
entering judgments, in requiring such judg
ments to be expressed in dollars and parts
of dollars, and to preserve the stability and
uniformity of our currency.”
The report further says:
“The law now is that gold, and silver
coin, and treasury notes are a legal tender
for the payments of all debts, public and
private. There are some exceptions in re
gard to the payments of customs, etc., in
treasury notes, but this has no application
to judgments between private parties. The
law makes coined money and treasury notes
a legal tender in the payment of private
debts, that is, makes both kinds of money
equal for this purpose, and neither the
courts nor private individuals have the
right to annul the law.
“The law is greater than the court or
the individual, and neither have the right
to set it aside. The courts have no power
to legislate or to annul the laws of con
gress, or to permit private parties to set
aside a public statute. This the federal
courts have done in holding that a judg
ment can be entered in ‘coined dollars,’
which is done for the very purpose of an
nulling the act of congress making treasury
notes a legal tender for the payment of
debts. In England It was a felony to dis
credit the money of the realm. The courts
of France have held that parties cannot,
by special contracts, discriminate between
the bank notes of the Bank of France,
which are made a legal tender, and coin
money, which is also a legal tender.
“Many other nations of the earth even
went further and made it a crime punish
able by death to discredit the money oi
the country.
A Crime in Some Countries.
“The state courts of many of the states
of the union have passed on this question,
and they hold the law substantially it
was held by the court in France.
“These decisions were rendered in the
state courts after the passage of the legal
tender act by congress and before the de
cision of the United States supreme court
fully kfiown. A few of the cases will
be examined and the date of trial given.”
Then a large number of decisions are
cited from state courts, which hold inde
pendently of this bill, and on general prin
ciples that any money which is legal tender
may be used in the discharge of any debt
whether made payable in gold or not.
These decisions were made prior to the
ruling of the supreme court in 1868 in the
case of "Bronson vs. Rodes (7 Wall, 229),
when a bond or note was given for $1,400,
payable in gold and silver coin, with 7 per
cent interest, payable also in coin. A ten
der of $1,507 in United States notes, the
nominal amount of the note, was made and
refused.
“At this time $1 in coin was worth $2.25 in
United States notes. So the question is
here fairly presented, whether the United
States notes have an equal debt-paying
power .if! coin and whether the practice
should be that judgments may be entered
for ’coined dollars and parts of dollars’ on
coin contracts, and in dollars generally in
other cases. In this case, the supreme court
of New York held that the plea of tender
was not a good plea, but on appeal to the
supreme court in general term the plea was
held good, and this judgment was affirmed
by the court of appeals of New York and
the case was brought to the United States
supreme court, when the judgment was re
versed, Justice Miller dissenting.
“The United States supreme court held in
this case that a bond or note, payable in
gold aaid silver coin, must be paid in coined
dollars, and that such judgments may be
entered for coined dollars and parts of
dollars.
“There is no disposition to criticise this
decision, but it might be said in passing
that it was a judicial curiosity. When con
gress made treasury notes a legal tender
it was clearly the intention to give those
notes the same purchasing and debt-paying
power as coin, and public policy demanded
that the statutes should be so construed.
A ‘coin judgment’ is also an undesirable
innovation in our judicial practice.”
The Object of the Bill.
The object of this bill is to require all
courts, notwithstanding the ruling of the
supreme court of the United States, to hold
that all debts, whether payable in gold and
silver cr not by their terms, may be satis
fied by the payment of any money made
legal tender by the statutes of the United
States.
Among many .decisions from state courts
cited supporting it is this one:
“In 1873, in Glover vs. Robbins (49 Ga.,
219), the note was of date October 10, 1864,
and in five years after date promised to
pay $6,500 in specie with 4 per cent interest.
The trial court in this case rendered the
following judgment:
“ ‘lt is therefore considered and ordered
by the court that the plaintiff have and
recover of the defendant the said sum of
$7,540.15 in gold or silver coin, or its equiva
lent in United States currency, for which
execution may issue to be levied and col
lected in gold or silver coin, or its equiva
lent in United States currency, and also
that the said plaintiff have and recover of
said defendant the costs of this suit, for
which execution may issue to be levied in
United States currency.’
"On appeal the supreme court of Georgia
reversed this judgment, and in the opinion,
among other things, said:
“ ‘Yet, as the debt was contracted long
after the passage of the legal tender acts
of congress regulating the payment of such
contracts, the judgment should have been
for so many dollars only, leaving it to be
discharged in any legal tender currency or
money of the United States.’ ”
Contracts anti Public Policy.
Tn concluding its report, after citing many
other decisions, the committee says:
“Parties cannot make contracts in viola
tion of public policy. The statute of usury
cannot be annulled by contract; gambling
contracts, and contracts for the sale of
margins and for speculation in the rise
and fall of commodities, and contracts for
the sale of ‘puts’ and ‘calls,’ and contracts
in restraint of trade, are all void.
“A contract to defeat a public statute is
void. No lawyer will deny this proposition,
for it can only be sustained by unlimited
authority from the courts of this and other
countries.
“Congress passed a public statute making
treasury notes equal in legal value to coin
in the payment of debts; yet in the two
cases mentioned the supreme court held
that the parties could by private contract
annul and defeat this statute. The rule is
a menace to trade and commerce. A party
desires to borrow money to go Into business,
and when he applies for It he is told that
there must be the usual gold clause in the
note. The risk is too much, and he refuses
to borrow. It is to the interest of society
that money should be used in business.
The borrowers of money are the men who
build our railroads, span our rivers, tunnel
the mountains, build cities and towns,
churches and schoolhouses, and engage in
our vast industrial pursuits, all at great
risk to them financially, and it is unjust
in addition to the risk of their business to
hold them responsible for the fluctuation of
the currency. This rule also offers a
premium for rascality. When the money ot
the country is loaned in the gold contracts,
then the money power can greatly increase
their wealth by forcing to a premium and
compel the debtor to pay double the amount
of money borrowed.
“The rule is contrary to state policy, and
the committee report this bill back to the
house with a recommendation that it do
pass.”
EXD OF
Which Have Been Held at the White
House on the Strike Situation.
Washington, July 13.—The white house
conference, which has been a feature of
the strike every night during the past two
weeks, has practically ended.
This evening at 9 o’clock, when the pres
ident returned from his customary drive
with Secretary Lamont, none of the mem
bers of his cabinent were waiting for him
and it was announced that none were ex
pected, as little or no news requiring the
president’s action was anticipated, the main
strike being considered virtually at an
end. General Schofield spent ten minutes
wim the president, but had no information
of note to communicate, and about 10:30
o’clock Postmaster General Bissell cailea
to say that reports received today showed
that the United States mails were being
transmitted without delay in all parts of
the country.
The president has been somewhat an
noyed by the persistent attempts, in some
quarters, to make it appear that he had
appointed an arbitration board at the re
quest of the strike leaders. Nothing is
further from the truth, the commission
which he has agreed to appoint eventually,
under the law, having no power beyond
that of making a general investigation of
the strike on the railroads which led to his
proclamation.
The investigation committee, when organ
ized, cannot enter at all into the differ
ences between the Pullman company and
its employes. It will confine its work ex
clusively to the Debs American Railway
Union and the Railway General Managers’
Association. The president has been com
pelled to explain this to several statesmen
who mentioned arbitration to him today,
tel'ing them verj" positively that no arbi
tration was contemplated in his assurance
to the committee that called upon him.
Ladies make S6O a month managing our
business in their locality—pleasant, no can
vassing; permanent situation; enclose
stamp; lock box 83, South Bend, Ind.
ADMISSION' OF UTAH.
The House Passes Hie Hill nn<l It Goes
to the President.
Washington, July 12.—Among the house
bills with senate amendments laid before
the house by Speaker Pro Tern. Richardson
was that pioviding for the admission of
Utah to the union.
Mr. Wheeler, of Alabama, said he would
give way to the delegate from Utah, Mr.
Rawlins, with the single remark, "West
ward the star of empire takes it way.”
(Laughter and applause.)
Mr. Rawlins moved a concurrence in the
senate amendments, which were not vital,
and the motion was agreed to.
The bill now goes to the president.
In the course of the call on committees
for reports, Mr. Geary, democrat, of Cali
fornia, reported from the committee on in
terstate and foreign commerce its substi
tute for the several resolutions offered to
it for the investigation of the railroad
troubles. A dozen bills were called up by
the foreign affairs committee and passed.
Most of them were to authorize naval offi
cers to receive decorations and medals pre
sented by foreign governments in recogni
tion of various services; others were direct
ing the secretary of state to accept for the
United States the picture, “Love and Life,”
from G. F. Walls, royal academician, and
to distribute the Virginias award.
Os Interest to Every Laffy.
One who suffered untold agonies from
weakness prolapsus, nervous prostration,
leucorrhoea and many other symptoms pe
culiar to her sex will take pleasure in tell
ing other suffering women how she was
finally perfectly cured. Address with
stamp, MRS. B. FALKNER,
72 Martin Street, Atlanta, Ga.
SECRETARY' CA RLISLE’S STATEMENT
Duties NY Hi Be Collected on Sugar
front Ail Countries.
New York, July 14.—1 t is learned here on
good authority that Secretary Carlisle,
while not finally disposing of the important
question raised, has informed a New I ork
firm of sugar importers that any reciprocal
arrangements in force between the United
States and other countries would not be
considered a;s obstructing in any way the
collection of duties upon sugar under the
pending Wilson tariff bill, whether coming
from such countries or other countries.
Under reciprocal arrangements or agree
ments, which some hold have the force of
reciprocal treaties, certain countries, prin
cipally the republics of South America,
agreed to allow the admission duty free
into their borders of agricultural imple
ments and machinery in return for the free
entry into the United States of certain of
their products, the principal among which
was sugar. Provisions carrying out this
reciprot al idea were incorporated into the
McKinley tariff bill, and this statement of
the secretary of the treasury, foreshadow
ing the official action of the government
should the duty on Imported sugars still be
retained in the Wilson tariff bill, is looked
upon as significant.
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pation, pain in the side, and all liver trou
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New Hampshire ProhibH ionists .
Weirs, N. H., July 13.—The prohibition
•state convention today nominated Rev. D.
C. Knowles, D.D., treasurer of Tilton
seminary, fur governor, and Dr. Edgar L.
Carr, of Pittsfield, and David Heald, of
Milford, for congressmen.
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MentUmi OJie Const: tutioa.
Scrofula on His Head
Which became a mass of corruption, spread so
that it got into our little boy’s eyes. Ihe sores
MA JL
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gpread over his neck and wc thought he would M
blind. The doctors failed; we gave him Hood s
Sarsaparilla. Several bottles cured him after
we had despaired of his ever getting well.
is now a bright and healthy child. D. M.
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FOR SALE.—At less than half its value,
Valiev View stock farm, 12 miles south
east of Gordon station, on Texas I acme
railroad, in Erath county, Texas, embrac
ing 2 059 acres of land in one body,
acres inclosed and exceedingly rich, dark,
sandv loam; valley; about 200 acres in cul
tivation. Stocked with registered and
grade Perchoron horses and Hereford cat
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