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VOL. H.
NATIONAL CAPITAL
What is Being Done in Congressional
Hails for the Country’s Welfare.
PROCEEDINGS FROM DAT TO DAY BRIEFLY
TOLD —BILLS AND MEASURES UNDER
CONSIDERATION—OTHER NOTES.
THE HOUSE.
Wednesday. —In the house Wednes
day, Mr. Burrows, of Michigan, from the
committee on rules, reported a resolution
providing that from now until the end
of the session the speaker may, after the
call of committees for reports, call com
mittees lor one hour, when measures on
any calendar may he oiled up for action.
Agreed to. Mr. O’Neill, of Missouri,
asked that a consent session be ordered
for Thursday night for the consideration
of bills reDorted from the committee on
commerce. Objected to. Unr'er the
terms of the resolution just passed the
speaker proceeded to call the committees.
Mr. Culberson, from the committee on ju
diciary, called up and the house passed the
senate bill providing for the holding of
terms of the district court for the eastern
district of South Carolina. Mr. Mcßae,
Arkansas, from the committee on public
lands, submitted the report of this com
mittee on the Yellowstone park investi
gation. It was ordered printed and went
over until next session. Mr. Price, from
the committee on commerce, called up
the senate bill to fix the compensation of
keepers and crews of life saving stations.
Mr. O’Neill, of Missouri, spoke in sup
port of the measure. “It would,” he ex
rilained. “increase the salary of keepers
from S7OO to S9OO and of members of
crews from SSO to SOS per month while
actually employed. The measure would
involve an annual expenditure of $233,-
000. The bill was passed—yeas, 147;
nays, 38. Mr. Price also called up the
senate bill for the establishment of addi
tional aid to navigation in Tampa B y,
Fla. Passed. Mr. Coombs of New
York, from the same committee,
called up. and the consid
ered in committee of the whole, thereso
lution directing the committee on com
merce to investigate the alleged Rading
combination. The resolution was re
ported favorably to the home and was
adopted. Mr. Hatch called up the sen
ate bill to provide a uniform standard of
classification and grading of wheat, corn,
oats, rye and barley. Mr. Warner mov
ed to lay on the table, pending which
the house %jtbopgh Mr.
Warner attempted, by affiarorf motions,
*o consume the time accorded to the com
mi'tee on agriculture.
Thursday. —The regular order in the
house was the motion of Mr. Warner to
fay on the table the bill called up hv Mr.
TTatcli, to provide a uniform standard
classification and grading of wheat, corn,
oats, barley and rye. Opponents of the
measure refrained from voting, thus
breaking a quorum—the vote bv letters
being announced 7 to 121. The hour
accorded the committee of agriculture
having expired, the bill resumed it*
place on the calendar. Mr. Blount
from the committee on foreign affairs
called up the bill to enforce recipro
cal commercial relalions between th
United States and Canada. The bill was
passed without division. Also the bill
granting to the Pensacola Terminal cofn
pany the right of way through the naval
reservation at Pensacola. Mr. Sivers pre
sented the disagreeing conference report
on the general deficiency appropriation
bill. The main amendments now in dis
pute are those relative to the Indian dep
redation claims. French spoliation claims
aud Pacific railroad claims. The report
was agreed to, and the amendment
on which no agreement was reached
went over for discussion and action until
Friday at 12:30 o’clock. Mr. IP nder
son. of "North Carolina, called up the bill
authorizing t li e postmaster general to
issue pos'al fractional notes of the de
nomination of $1 and less which shall be
furnished to all postmasters in such sums
as the postmaster general shall deem suf
ficient and shall be sold at their face
value. Postmasters shall be allowed as
compensation for issuing and paying
postal fractional notes at their respective
offices 1-4 of 1 per cent on the gross
amount thereof. On ordering the pre
vious question no quorum voted,the vote,
standing yeas 151,nays 7, and the .house
adjourned.
F niDAY. — The house, immediately after
meeting Friday morning, proceeded with
the regular order, which was the call of
committees. The time allowed the post
office committee having expire !, with
out action on any measure, the commit
tee on public lands called up a few bills
of little general interest and none of
them succeeded in passing, the filibuster
ing being so strong. Mr. Sayers then
called up the senate amendments to the
general deficiency bill, which have not
yet been agreed upon. One hour was
granted to debate on the subject of In
dian depredations .claims, one hour for
French spoliation claims, one hour for
the amendment paying the widows or
legal representatives of deceased mem
bers of congress, half hour for Pacific
railroad claims and ten minutes
for the item relative to the
salary of the assistant attorney
general in charge of the Indian depreda
tion claims. The amendments relative to
the claim of the Pacific railroads and for
the payment of the assistant attorney
general were non-concurred in. An
amendment was adopted to the senate
paragraph relating to the payment to
widows of deceased representative. The
amendment specili s the persons to whom
the various amounts may be paid, : ad
provides that the legal representatives
shall be p >id the balance of the salary to
which the member would have been en
titled, deducting mileage. The next
amendment relates to the French spolia
tion claim amendment, but before the
bouse had dispose ! of it the hour of 5
o’clock arrived, and a recess was taken
until 8 o’clock, the evening session to be
for the consideration of private pension
bills.
Saturday. - The house resumed con
sideration of the senate amendment to the
general deficiency appropriation bill. The
pending amendment was that relative to
the French spoliation claims. It was
non-concurred in.
Monday.— ln the house, Monday, Mr.
Wheeler, of Miehi; ;an, called up as spe
cial order the report of the committee
investigating the workings of the pen
sion office. Mr. Little, of New York,
took tfie floor in advocacy of the m ijori
ty resolu 1 ion, which give it as the judg
ment of the house that the president
should remove Raum. He he ieved that
the present administration of the pension
bureau was unfortunately one of the few
dark pages that had occurred in connec
tion with departmental management. He
believed ,t to ue a political ami moral
crime to permit such management to
continue. Mr. Liud, of Minnesota,
in opposing the resolution, turned
bis attention chiefly to repre
sentative Cooper, of Indiana, and the
part Mr. Cooper bore in the investiga
ion. Mr. Knloe, one of the authors of
the investigation resolution, spoke in fa
vor of the report. The debate was in
errupted at ths time by Mr. Sayers,
who submitted the disagreeing report on
the general deficiency appropriation bill,
ad the report was agreed.to. Mr. Hol
rn iu th m move I that the house recede
ro;n its amendment granting to widows,
or legal representatives of deceased mem
nr-, the balance of the salary which
s.ich members would have received.
No action was taken and the house ad
journed. <
THE SENATE. '
Wednesday. —The first two hours of
the senate, Wednesday, were occupied in
discussion of the bill to permit the Pa
gallup Indians in the state of Washing-
ton to alien a portion of their lands in
the neighborhood of Tacoma. The mat
ter was still under discussion when, at 2
o’clock, anti-option bill came up as
unfinished* business. Mr. Vest assailed
the measure as an undue stretch of the
constitution, as an attempt on the part
of congress to exercise police powers
within the states and as a delusion
to farmers, whose interest he said
it was masking. He dec ared it to
be one of the most pernicious measures
that had come before congress during
• ur'i- u viars f hi.- ►■ -ice. M*. Vc*f
in the course of further remarks, de
nounced the bill as a “bold, wicked,
legislative highwayman, booted and
spurred.” Otner senators might find
that they could, under some sort of ex
cuse, vote for such a bill, but he was
unable to do so. It could not be
amended, because it was vicious in prin
ciple. It was an attempt to
meet the popular demand, but that de
mand was, in his judgment, not based on
the real condition of aff iirs. Mr. Wash
hut n defended the bill from some of Mr.
Vest’s thrusts; aud, as several other sen
ators took part in the discussion, inter
est in the measure was well maintained
for over three h 'urs. Mr. Daniel had the
floor, and was arguing against it on some
what the same lines as Mr. Vest had
done, when the hour of adjournment
came. He gave notice that he would
move to strike out sections 12 and 13.
The bill was laid aside without action.
A conference was ordeted on the defi
ciency bill, aud Messrs. Hale, Allisou and
Cockrell were appointed conferees on the
part of the senate. After a short execu
tive session, the senate, at 5:30 o’clock,
adjourned.
Thursday* —ln the senate, the dis
agreeing conference report on the defi
ciency appropriation bill was presented,
agreed to and anew conference asked.
House amendments to the senate bill for
the establishment of additional aids to
navigation at Tempa, Fla., were dis
agreed to and a conference was asked.
Mr. Carey, from the committee on terri
tories, reported back the house bill for
the admission of New Mexico as a state
and said that he wi.uld not call it up
until next session. The anti-option bill
was taken up and Mr. Washburn, in
cherge of it, moved to strike out section
12, wh : ch he said he had never regarded
as essential. It required every man
who possessed property which he
sold and who dealt in futures to take out
a licecse and keep a record. No action
was taken on the amendment, and Mr.
Daniel proceeded with his argument
against the bill, which he had begun
Wednesday. Mr. White, of Louisiana,
t ext addressed the senate in opposition
the anti-option bill. Mr. White’s
speech was a passionate and ener
getic arraignment of the bill as a usurp
ation of state’s rights, as detrimental
to the interests of the producers of the
country. Mr. White did not conclude
hjs speech, but the bill went over to Fri
day. The house bill to enforce reciprocal
commercial relations with Canada was
laid before the senate and was placed on
the calendar. The bills were passed
granting pensions to survivors of the
Indian war of 1832 to 1842, inclusive.
The senate amendments to this bill were
all withdrawn. The bill to provide for
the improvement of the outer bar of
Brunswick, Go,, passed. The senate then
adjourned after a brief executive session.
Friday. —The resolutions offered
Thursday by Mr. Peffer, in the senate,
instructing the judiciary committee to
inquire into the relations of employes
and employers, was takeu up Friday
M ruing and Mr. Peffer addressed the
senate in its support.. Mr. Peffer argued
there was but three ways to meet labor
tr übles. One was for the government
to keep its hands off and let employers
aud employes settle the matter between
themselves; the second was for the gov
ernment to establish and regulate the
TRENTON, GA. FRIDAY, JULY 29,1892.
rate of wages; the third was that the
government take possession of private
manufacturing establishments and con
duct them as public institutions. Mr.
IVffer’s preference was for tho first
named method. At the close of his re
marks, the resolution was referred to the
c nnnittee on education and labor. The
res ilution heretofore offered by Mr.
Voorhees, looking t<> the establishment
of a tribunal of arbitration in labor ques
tions, was then taken up and Mr. Call
addressed the senate in support of it.
He argued that the employment of the
Piukertou detective force was a violation
of law, and of the constitution, and that
any man should be indicted for raising
tro q>B at bis own sweet will and pleasure
without, 'he sanction of the courts or of
the authorities of the country. No action
was taken on the resolution which went
back to the table. The anti-option bill
wasr then taken up at 2:15 o’clock aud
Mr. White resumed his argument begun
Thursday iu opposi ion to it. There was,
Mr. While said, a concensus of opinion
on the part of the great commercial bod
ies of the country against the measure.
Iu proof of this he sent to the clerk’s
desk and had read resolutions of the
Chamber of Commerce of the state
of New York, protesting against it
as injurious to the best interests of the
community. He also sent up and had
read protests of bankers of New York,
Chicago and New Orleans against the
bill. He also sent up and had read a list
of other bodies that had sent memorials
to congress against the bill. That list
comprised New York, New Orleans, Sa
vannah, Houston, Mobile, Greenville and
Memphis cotton exchanges, Milwaukee
chamber of commerce, Chicago board of
trade, New York produce exchange,
New Orleans board of trade, New Orleans
dealing house association, baukers, mill
ers and merchants of Toledo, Ohio; Bal
timore corn snd flour exchange, Chicago
merchants and m inufacturers, and Min
neapolis clearing house association, busi
ness uuion and chamber of commerce.
Were these great associations, he asked,
mere bodies of degraded and abandoned
gamblers? And yet that was the inevit
able outcome of arguments in support of
the bill. Mr. White spoke for nearly
three hours and when he closed the bill
went over without action till Saturday.
Mr. Davis asked and obtained unanimous
consent to have taken up for immediate
action the house bill to-enforce reciprocal
commercial arrangements between the
United States and Canada. It was taken
up, read and passed without any explana
tion and without division. (It is the
Cauada canal tolls retaliation bill.) The
bouse bill to pay toe state ol S uilh Caro
lina money to which she is entitled under
the agricultural college bill, was reported
and passed. The senate then adjourned.
Saturday. —ln the senate, Saturday,
Mr. Morgan introduced a bill to
provide for the control of the Union
and Central Pacific railroad com
panies until their debts to the govern
ment be fully paid up or secured. It
was referrt and to a select committee on Pa
cific railroads. The house bill granting
right of way to the Pensacola Terminal
company through lands of the naval res
ervation near PensacO; granted.
Monday.— ln the seuaro, Monday, Mr.
Vest introduced a joint resolution author
izing the president to proffer to Great
Britain, Germany and France as an in
ducement to enter into an international
agreement for the free coinage of silver,,
a reduction of 25 per cent in tariff duties'
on textiles, hardware, earthfenware and
glass. Laid on the table. The anti
options bill was then taken up. *lr.
George addre-sed the senate. At
2 o’clock Mr. George yielded
the floor temporarily at the re
quest of Mr. Allison, who presented the
conference report on the sundry civil ap
propriation bill. The report, although
referring to amendments of the bill by
numbers, covered many pages of type
written paper, and its reading occupied
twenty-five minutes. Mr. Allison made
an explanation of the conference report,
stating that, outside of the provisions
about the world’s fair, there was but one
other matter left open, the provision in
serted by the house, prohibiting the em
ployment of Pinkerton detectives. He
went somewhat into detail upon other
points, on which the senate conferees had
surrendered. The report was agreed to,
and a further conference was asked as to
the points on which there had been no
agre< ment. The senate voted to
insist on its 'amendments agreed
to by the house, a#id asked
for a further conference, and tlieD, at 3
o’clock p. m., the senate went into execu
t.ve se-sion. After the doors were re
opened and some unimportant business
had been transacted, Mr. George resumed
the floor, and held it until 5:20 o’clock,
his speech being an argument in favur of
his own substitute for the anti-option
bill. After a short executive se-siou, the
senate, at 5:55 o’clock, adjourned.
NOTES.
The world’s fair people have done'
some good work in the house withiu the
last few days, and the indications are
that when the $5,000,000 appropriation
is voted on again they will have a ma
jority of the house.
The senate, on Friday, confirmed the
nomination of Ministers White to Russia,
Snowden to Spain and Beale to Greece,
Roumania and Servia, all nominated
Thursday. Cyrus W. Field, son of the re
cently deceased Cyrus W. Field, who
was nominated consul to Brunswick,
Germany, was also confirmed.
The World’* Fair Bill.
Congress will not adjourn on the date
fixed bv resolution of the house. The
couference committee on the sundry (Svil
bill announced on Friday that, they
would be unable to report till Monday.
The senate added $10,000,000 to the bill
as it passed the house, including the
$5,000,000 for the world’s fair, and, of
course, there has been much work for the
conference committee. When made, the
report will have to be printed, and it is
not probable that the world’s fair amend
ment can be voted upon again before
Wednesday. Should it ba again voted
down iu the house, adjournment can be
had by Monday week, but in the event
the world’s fair people have the votes
they claim now, then the opponents of
the appropriation will commence fill
b isteriug, which might la*t several
weeks.
Progress, on the Sun dry Civil Bill.
The comumtee of conference on the
sundry civil appropriation bill made un
expectedly rapid progress Saturday, and
succeeded in adjusting the points of dif
ference between the two houses, except
in regard to the world’s fair appropria
tion of $5,000,000. They will report a
total disagreement on that amendment,
die other senate amendments (some 300
iu number), which were non-concurred iu
by the house, provide for an addition to
tve bill of about six million dollars, dis
tributed through almost all branches of the
service which it covers. The senate con
ferees agree to recommend that the senate
abandon about four million dollars of
this amount, and the house conferees rec
ommend that the house agree to grant
the remaining two mil'ion. The con
ferees have stricken from the bill all the
Bw legislation inserted by the house in
regard to district attorueys and marshals.
The managers on the part of the house
consent to the seuate increase of the ap
pyopria ion for survey public land from
$200,000 to $375,000, and van
ous other larger amendments are
agreed to or compromised, so as
to fix the amounts as follows: For the
international momentary conference,
$80,000; for the enforcement of the
Chinese exclusion act, $100,000; for the
‘special fund to bo placed in the hands ot
the president for use iu case of need to
prevent the spread of epidemic diseases.
SIOO,OOO. Among the senate amend
ments wholly stiickenout are those ap
propriating SIO,OOO each for the widows
of three supreme court justices.
EMPLOYMENT OFFERED
ffhe Locked-Out Men at Homestead to
• Grade a Railroad.
A dispatch of Thursday from Home
stead says: This wa3 the lust day of grace
allowed by the Carnegie management for
the striking steel makers and other em
ployes of tbe Homestead mills to apply
for reinstatement. Scores of workmen
were putting iu applications for work,but
it was not at the Carnegie office. Work
was to be had for the asking at the rooms
. f the Amalgamated Association advisory
board and at the headquarters of the me
chanics and laborers further down the
street. The Dwyer & ffigel firm of rail
road contractors had made a requisition
at both places for at least three hundred
workmen and as many more as wished
to come to help grade anew bAich of
the" Penqsyivaniiuline near Mijpille,
short distance |rom The
boon was readily accepted, chiefly by
unskilled workmen, and Tug vicinity of
the Carnegie offlk's presented a more de
serted appear i ee than ever.
PEOPLE’S PARTY IN FLORIDA
Hold Their State Convention and Norn
lnate Candidates.
convention of the people’t
party mikd to order as
luoon \\ tnfFksonville. About
thirty *Wo out of the forty-five counties'
were represented. Temporary organiza
tion was effected, and the committee on
credentials retired". The rest of the day
was consumed in speech-making.
SECOND DAY.
♦ At Thursday’s session a state ticket was
completed with the exception of attor
ney general, by the .following nomina
tions : Commissioner of agriculture, John
W. Henry, DeSoto county; comptroller,
William Hickson, Marion, editor of the
Ocala Demands; superintendent of public
instruction, O. M. Williams, of Orange.
The state executive committee will make
the nomination for attorney general. J.
L. Moore, of Clay county, a leading col
ored man of the state and president of the
Colored Farmers’ Alliance of Florida, was
added to the state executive committee.
CHILI’S INDEMNITY -
Of $75,000 in Gold Formally Accept
ed by Uncle Sam.
A cablegram from Valparaiso, Chili,
says: The formal acceptance by the
United States of the offer of Chili to pay
$75,000 in gold as a settlement of the
claims of indemnity for victims of riotous
attack upon the sailors of the Baltimore,
was formally presented Friday at the
council of state. The bill making an
appropriation in payment of the indem
nity will be drawn up by the council and
sent to congress. Secretary Foster has
instructed Minister Eagaij to press a set
tlement of all outstanding claims against
Chili. Some have been pending since
1828. The claims aggregate several
millions of dollars. Secretary Foster has
proposed that the matter be sett ed by
arbitration.
A NOVEL PLEAT
On Which H Clay King’s Lawyers Will
Try to Save His Life.
A Nashville Telegram says: On Sat
urday the attorneys for Colonel II
Clay King, the prominent Memphis
lawyer, who is under sentence to be
hanged August 12th for the murder of
David H. Postou took the case int<>the
United States court on a writ of hab as
corpus and will attempt to procure his
freedom. The ground of the plea ’s th it
during his trial a bailiff allowed the jury
to take a steamboat excursion and that
th y landed on the Arkansas side ami
were thus out of the jurisdiction of the
c urt. The point is an entirely new cm
and Judge Jackson .vill hear the case in
a few days.
NEWS IN GENERAL.
Happenings of the Day Culled from Our
Telegraphic and Cable Dispatches.
WHAT IS TRANSPIRING THROUGHOUT OUR
OWN COUNTRY, AND NOTES OF INTER
EST FROM FOREIGN LANDS.
A St. Louis dispatch of Thursday says:
The people’s party campaign through the
silver states has been mapped out and
Weaver and Fields will fire off the first
gun at Denver, Ju’y 26th and 27th.
A cablegram of Sunday from Copen
hagen states that Mrs. Ryder, wife of the
United States consul in that city, has
been arrested in connection with the
charges of embezzlement upon which her
husband was arrested a few days ago.
Advices from Paris state that no cases
of cholera were reported in the suburbs
Moi day. A violent outbreak of a disease
supposed to be cholera has occurred in
the lunatic asylum at Bonneval on the
River Loire, seventy-five miles northwest
of Paris.
A dispatch of Saturday from Bates
ville, Ark., says: The democratic con
gressional convention is still in a dead
lock. Two huudred and fifty-one ballots
show absolutely no change in the voting.
The deadlock will probably continue in
definitely.
The Paris Figaro in its issue of Thurs
day says that the police have discovered
an anarchist plot to blow up the bourse
and other public buildings. The paper
adds that two of the conspirators have
been arrested.
The famous Bollingbroolc stables, on
the farm of W. W. Allen, at Middles
boro, Md., was struck by ligh'&ing and
set on fire Friday night. The buildings
were entirely destroyed. Sixteen horses,
valued at nearly a half million dollars,
were burned to death.
A cablegram of Thursday from Liver
pool says: The board of trade in the
case of Captain Redford, of the Inman
line steamer City of Chicago, censures
the captain for running his boat ashore
near the Old Head of Kinsale, and sus
pended his certificate for nine months.
According to a New York dispatch of
Saturday the total supply of cotton for
the world is 3,061,147 bales, of which
2,537,847 is American, against 2,027,261
and 1,526,261 respectively last year. Re ’
ceipts at all interior towns, *5.298; re
ceipts, 5,668; crop in right 8,966,048;
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
company will expend $75,000 upon its
exhibit at the World’s Columbian Expo
sition. An extensive plant has been put
in at Baltimore for construc'ion of full
size reproductions in wood and the early
examples ol motive . power equipment
upon the pionee* railway of the world.
Fire broke out in tjie building known
as tube .works of the Edison general
electric-works-in Schenectady, N. Y.,
Monday morning. The entire buildir.g
with its contents and much valuable ntn
chinery and a large quantity of stock,
wer<?.entirely consumed. The fire was
supposed to be front spontaneous com
bustion. Loss about one hundred thou
sand dollars.
The president sent, to the sonata
Thursday the following .nominations:
Andrew I). White, of New York, envoy
extraordinary and minister plenipoten
tiary of the Uo'ted States to Russia: A.
Loudon Snowdery, of Pennsylvania, to
be envoy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary to Spain; Trnxton Giale,
of California, to be envoy extraordinary
and minister plenipotentiary to Greece,
Rounianfa and Servia.
THE PINKERTON’S CLAIM.
They Say Their Men Were Deputies
and Aeted in Self-Defense.
A Washington dispatch says: The
Pinkerton brothers were given a bearing
Friday morning by the house committee
on judiciary. They submitted a written
statement in which they said the men
employed by the agency were selected
with great care, tind only after a full in
vestigation of their charcter aud ante-
that they seldom allowed men
to carry arms unless authorized by the
legal authorities or sworn in as deputy
sheriffs; - that these men have only
used arms as a last extremi
ty in order to protect life.
They refused to send watchmen to
Homestead unless the men were
sworn in as deputy sheriffs; that Deputy
Gray accompanied the men to Homes
tead and distinctly understood that he
had the power to deputize them in ease
of necessity. The instructions to the
men were that they should not be armed
unless deputized by the sheriff; that the
boxes in the barges were not opened and
arms and ammunition distributed until
after the strikers began firing on the
watchmen. Klein had been murdered
and about five others wounded before
the men betran to fire in .‘clf-defease.
QUIET IN IDAHO
Anti the Troops Will be Gradually
Withdrawn.
A Washington dispatch of Sunday
says: General Schofield reports that or
der having lieen completely restored in
Coeur d’Alene mining district most of
the United States troops now there will
be gradually withdrawn. Over three
hundred rioters have been arrested bv
the troops and turned over to the civil
authorities at Boise City. Most of the
others have fled to the mountains, and
there are no indications whatever of fur
ther trouble.
CLEVE AND STEVE
Notified of their Nomination—Great
Gathering at Madison Square Garden.
Grover Cleveland and Adlai Stevenson
have been officially notified that they are
the choice of the democracy of this
great country to lead the party to victory
or defeat.
The notification took place Wednes
day night at Madison Square Garden,
New York City, in the presence of a
crowd of people that surpa sed in enthu
siasm and members even tho vast throng
that, on September 6, 1888, at the same
place gave greeting to Allen G. Thurman.
The great amphitheater of Madison
Square garden was crowded as it never
had been before and a thousand and odd
electric lights twinkled in wonder as
they looked down from their lofty
perches upon the sea of heads and at the
gesticulations of speakers.
A STRUGGLING MASS.
Madison avenue, Twentv-sixth to
Twenty seventh streets and Fourth ave
nue were crowded as early as 6 o’clock.
It was a struggling mass of humanity
pushed like waves against a pile of rocks,
iu this instance being burly policemen
who showed no favors, took no back
talk, simply pushing people back until
the management saw fit to open the por- -
tals of the great hail. When the doors
were opened the people overrode the
police, clubs and all. They made one
frantic rush for seats, and in the remark
ably short space of ten minutes all the
room in the building that remained va
cant was the reserved seats on the plat-
form and the boxes.
THE CANDIDATES APPEAR.
Mr. Stevenson was the first to appear,
but Mr. Cleveland soon followed. After
waiting some time for an opportunity t 5
be heard and for the uproar of applause
to subside, Mr. Cleveland arose and Mr.
Wilson notified him in a speech of tea
minutes duration that he had been nomi
nated for the presidency. Owing to the
great din that prevailed it was with diffi
culty that Mr. Wilson’s voice could lie
heard.
READING THE OFFICIAL LETTER.
Secretary Nicholas Bell, of the notifi
cation committee then read the official
letter of notification. Mr. Cleveland then
arose to reply and again pandemonium
reigned. His voice could not be heard
ten feet from the platform. The people
were not aware that he had begun and
when it gradually dawned upon them
that they were losing the best part of the
speech they quieted down and the tones
of the ex-preSdent were heard in every
part of the house. He was listened to
attentively and interrupted but seldom.
It was 9:10 o’clock when the ex-presi
dent finished. He closed amid cheers
and cries of “four—four—four years
more.
NOTIFYING MR. STEVENSON.
The next speaker, ex-Lieutenant Gov
ernor. Steven M. White, of California,
had more success with his speech, notify
ing General Stevenson of his nomination,
than did Mr. Wilson in his effort. Mr.
White’s voice was most powerful. He
quelled the disturbance by its very loud
ness.
General Stevenson exhibited some signs
of nervousness as he stepped forward to
respond, but quickly recovered his com
posure and gazed calmly on the crowd as
it cheered. If General Stevenson had any
doubts in his mind as to the enthusiasm
of a New York audience they were com
pletely effaced by the reception he got.
He delivered his speech with eff ct, and
at its conclusion received tremendous
applause.
At the conclusion of General Steven
son’s speech the meeting was adjourned.
THE LARGEST MEETING HELD.
It is no exaggeration to say that prob
ably never has there been in the history
of New York such an immense crowd
gathered under one roof. An idea of
the crowd can be had when it is known
that the seating capacity of Madison
Square garden is in the neighborhood of
eight thousand, and that between twenty
and thirty thousand were there assem
bled.
CHAIRMAN HARRITY.
The National Democratic Committee
Elect Him to that Position.
At the meeting of the Nationl Demo
cratic Committee in New York, Thurs
day, William F. Harrity, of Pennsyl
vania, was elected chairman of the com
mittee. The nomination of Mr. Harrity,
as chairman, was made by W. C. Whit
ney, who acted as proxy for O. T. Holt,
of Texas, and he was unanimously elected
chairman amid spplause. Mr. S. P.
Bhe er in was re-elected secretary and Mr.
R. B. Rosevelt elected treasurer. On
motion of Mr. Whitney, the following
plan of organization was adopted:
Resolved. That the executive committee oi
(he democratic national committee shall con
sist of tw< ntv-five members, who shall be de
signate:! by the chairman of the national com
mittee and that the chairman of the national
committee shall be ex-officio chairman of the
executive committee.
Resolved. That the campaign committee of
the democratic national committee shall consist
of nine members, who shall be designated by
the chairman of the national committee, the
said chairman to be also one of the members of
said campaign committee and that said cam
paign committee when appointed shall select it*
own chairman from within or without said cam
paign committee from within or wtthont the
democratic na’ional committee.
Resolved, That the advisory board of the de
mocratic national committee, which committee
the chairman of the democratic national com
mittee is hereby authorized to appoint from
within or without tho membership of the dem
ocratic national committee, shall consist of
uch number of members as may be deemed
proper by the * xeontive committee
Resolved, That the conduct and direction of
the campaign of 1892 shall be under the charge
of the chairman of the democratic national
committee and of tho campaign committee,
subject to the approval of the executive com
mittee of the democratic national committee:
NO. 22.