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VOL 11.
IN CONGRESSIONAL HALLS.
Dally Rontine of Eotb Houses of the
Fifty-Secoi Cougress.
Measures Discussed and Bills Passed
By Our National Law-Makers.
THE SENATE.
Mr. Teller, iu the senate, Friday, in
presenting some petitions against the re
peal of the Sherman act, declared that,
in his judgment, there was a decided
majority on both sides of the chamber
opposed to the repeal of that act, and
also that in his opinion it could not be
made a political question at the next ses
sion whatever might be the inclination
of the incoming president. Mr. Hiii said
that, in his judgement, the best way to
test the sense of the senate was by a di
rect motion, and he, therefore, gave no
tice that on Monday, during the morn
ing hour, he would move to take up the
bill to which Mr. Sherman referred. The
senate then proceeded to other business.
The house bill to ratify and confirm an
agreement with the Cherokee na
tion of Indians, of Indian Terri
tory was taken up and many amend
ments were offered, discussed and dis
posed of. The bill was laid aside with
out final action and at 3 o’clock the bus
iness of the senate was suspended in or
der that fitting tributes might be made
to the memory of the late Senator Bar
bour, of Virginia, who died in the city
of Washington on the 14th of May, 1892.
Eulogies of the dead senator were pro
nounced by Messrs. Daniels, Manderson,
Faulkner, Gallinger, Platt, His
cock nnd Hunton, Mr. Barbour’s success
or in the senate. The usual resolutions
were agreed to and the senate —as a fur
ther mark of respect to Mr. Barbour—
adjourned till 11 o’clock Saturday.
Saturday morning the senate proceed
ed to the consideration of the house bills
on the calendar. The first taken up was
the bill to promote the safety of em
ployes and travelers upon railroads by
compelling common carriers engaged in
interstate commerce to equip their cars
with automatic couplers and continuous
brakes, and their locomotives with driv
ing wheel brakes. "At the suggestion of
Mr. Harris, the bill was laid aside tem
porarily without action, Mr. Harris ,
stating his belief that its passage would
put into the hands of receivers a
majority., af the railroads of the south.
Consideration of house bills was inter
rupted to permit Mr. Teller to report
from the judiciary committee anew bill
to submit the McGarraban claim to the
court of private land claims and it was
placed on the calendar. The hours as
signed to the consideration of house bills j
on the calendar having expired, the con- |
ference report on the bill concerning tes- I
timnuy in criminal cases under the inter
state commerce law was presented and
agreed to. Mr. Harris asked unani
mous consent that the consideration of
house bills on the calendar be continued
in the morning hour Monday, and that
tTie quarantine'bill shall not be sub
ject to objection. Mr. Frye suggested
as an objection that Mr. Hill had
given notice that he would move
to take up the bill to repeal the
Shermau act in the morning hour of
Monday. After some time this point
was waived aDd Mr. Harris gave notice
that he would immediately, on the con
clusion of routine business on Monday,
move that the senate proceed to the con
sideration of the quarantine bill. The
senate then passed the senate bill to au-.
thorize the construction of a railroad
bridge across St. Mary’s river between
the states of Florida and Georgia. Memo
rial proceedings in memory of Sir. Gam
bee, of South Dakota; Ford, of Michi
gan, and Stackhouse, of South Carolina,
late members of the house of representa
tives, were begun at 4 o’clock p. m. and
after eulogies on each of the dead repre
sentatives the customary resolutions were
agreed to aud the senate adjourned until
Slonday at 11 o’clock.
In the senate, Monday, Sir. Morgan
demande 1 the regular order of business,
nnd the vice president decided that the
regular order of business was the motion
of Sir. Hill to take up the bill to repeal
the Sherman silver act. After a good
deni of confusion and parliamentary
wrangling the question was. brought to a
direct vote on Mr. Hill’s motion to take
up the bill to repeal the Sherman act,
aud the motion was defeated —yeas, 23;
nays, 42. Twelve democrats and eleven
republicans voted to take up the bill—all
the free coinage senators voted together.
Several who had not been advocates of
free coinage voted against the motion.
This vote, however, cannot be considered
a test of the silver question in the senate,
because should it have been adopted
Senator Hill’s bill would have become the
regular order and would have oc
cupied the time of the senate every day
after 2 o’clock until disposed of.
The senate, Tuesday, ratified the Rus
sian extradition treaty with amendments.
The Norfolk and Western railroad bill
was reached on the calendar and laid
aside on account of the absence of Mr.
GormaD. In response to the senate reso
lution the chief of engineers of the
United States army submitted several
communications showing that the mate
rial used in the construction of the new
library bui ding consists of imported
trom foreign countries and not home
production. The material is Vienna and
African marble imported in rough, to
cost about $46,000; Italian marble im
ported in rough, costing about $57,000;
foreign mahogany wood costing $6,000.
A number of unobjected housu bills on
the calendar were passed, nmong them
sixteen private pension bills; also senate
bills for the relief of the assignees or le
gal representatives of Johu Roach, de
Stilt’ of saft* Iptßl
1 ceased, to pay the balance due on the
United States ship Dolphin.
the house.
ihe anti-option bill came up in the
house the first thing Friday morning.
Toe speaker rendered a decision that the
bill would first have to be referred to one
of the standing committees of the house
and when reporte i back to the house
being a revenue hill, it must be consid
ered in committee of the whole. Mr.
Hatch then moved that the bill be re
ferred to the committee on agriculture
and upon his motion demanded the pre
vious question. After considerable de
bate, iu which Mr. Boatner,of Louisiana,
was tlje principal speaker on the part o'
the opposition, a vote was taken nnd th
bill was referred to the committee on ag
riculture by 151 to 54.
There was an unusual scene on the floor
of the house Saturday morning. The con
sular and diplomatic bill was before th<
house. It was in chaige of Mr. Blount,
of Georgia, the chairman of the foreigi
affairs committee. Mr. Blount retires
from congress on the 4th of March after
a service of twenty years. The man
agement of this bill on the floor was
looked upon therefore, as probably
fh* last onnanipiinno ■ of fho flpnr
gian <i! the floor of the house. la view
of this feet his colleagues had determined
to do him honor. Their determination
wap, however, unknown to the Georgian.
Mr. Holman, of Indiana, was the first
speaker. To the surprise of a majority
of the members of the house he began in
eulogistic terms of Mr. Blount as a legis
lator and patriot. Among other things
he said: “I know that there is general
regret on the part of the gentlemen here
that this distinguished gentleman now
retires from legislative duties, volunta
rily, aud seeks the peace of his own
fireside at home. I feel assured that
I speak the general sentiment of every
member when I say that the retire
ment of Mr. Blount from his high po-
sition in congress takes from the legisla
tive duties one of the most conscientious
and upright legislators and gentlemen
who have ever figured in our affairs, and
I feel assured that he will carry with him
the respect and confidence, and esteem
of every gentleman comprising this great
house, and that the general wish will
follow him for his future happiness and
prosperity.” (Applause.) Mr. Hitt, re
publican, of Illinois, speaking for the
minority, endorsed every word that Mr.
Holman had uttered. Messrs. Bland,
Springer and O’Neil also made highly
c mplimentary addresses. Mr. Blount
was very much moved when he rose to
respond to the expressions of the iriend
ly feelings of his colleagues?* As he took
his seat he was warmly and earnestly ap
plauded and he was for the remainder of
the day tbe recipient of congratulations
tor being the first member of the house
who ever received such a tribute of re
gard and esteem from his colleagues.
Monday was suspension day in the
house and absolutely nothing was done,
although the body was in session
five hours and under the rules
any measure having a two thirds
majority of the members present
in favor of it, could be passed under a
suspension of all rules. Oates, of Ala
bama, expected to call up the bankrupt
cy bill, and had arranged to be recog
nized for this purpose. Mr. Kilgore, of
Texas, who has been fighting this meas
ure all the time, began filibustering as
soon as the house met and continued his
tactics all day. It was nearly three
hours after the house met before the
journal could be read and approved.
Tuisday morning in the house, the
rending of the journal having been com
pleted, the speaker stated that without
objection it would stand approved. The
routine business baviug been disposed of,
the house proceeded to the consideration
of the legislative appropriation bill.
CAPITAL GOSSIP.
After many delays the Panama investi
gation was begun Monday morning by
the special committee appointed by the
house for the purpose.
The agricultural committee! of the
house met Saturday morning and de
cided to report the anti-option bill back
to the house and non-concur in the senate
amendments and agree to the request of
the senate for a conference.
Senator Gordon introduced a big peti
tion from Columbus, Ga., Friday, asking
for an increase of the appropriation for
the public building, also petitions bear
ing the names of nearly all the corpora
tions, bankers and business men of Sa
vannah asking the repeal of the
bill.
The report of Representative Oates on
the investigation into the Pinkerton sys
tem and Homestead troubles was at last
piloted through the judiciary committee
Tuesday, the comittee b/*a majority vote
ordering it reported to the house with
leave to the minority to file their separate
report.
The committee on rules has reported
the resolution providing for the consid
eration of the silver bill on the 9th and
10th of February. A cloture amend
ment will be offered in the house pro
vided the advocates of the bill to repeal
the Sherman law have sufficient votes
to vote down the previous question on a
report.
The senate judiciary committee, on
Monday,took up the nomination of Judge
Jackson, but its consideration was post
poned until next Monday on u'vmunt of
objections made by democratic members.
It Is understood that at the next meeting
of the committee an effort will be made
to cause the nomination to be favorably
reported to the senato.
The placards bearing the word
“Closed,” which has been displayed on
the front door of the white house ever
since the day before Christmas, when the
president’* grandchild was stricken with
scarlatina, were removed Tuesday, and
the public part of the house is once more
TRENTON, GA. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1893.
open to visitors. The president wiir now
probably resume his tri-weekly receptions
to the public.
The naval committee of the hou e has
decided upon a policy of economy this
year, and no provision will be made in
this year’s naval appropriation bill for
new cruisers or new battle ships.'* The
committee Tuesday morning practically
agreed upon the bill it will report to the
house. One new gun boat, to cost not
exceeding $400,000, is the only new war
vessel provided for. The bill is of a
more routine character than usual, and,
roughly speaking, its aggregate appro
priation is about $2,000,000 less than
last year’s act.
The indications are that Judge Jack
son’s nomination to succeed Justice La
mar as justice of the supreme court will
not be confirmed. Senator Harris, of
Tennessee, is vigorous in his opposition
to the confirmation, as are a number of
other senators, including many republi
cans. There seems to be marked indif
ference to Judge Jackson on the part of
all the senators. The democrats, as a
rule, seem to oppose his nomination on
the ground that they do not want Presi
dent Harrison to appoint a republican as
circuit judge in the district over which
Judge Jackson now presides.
Will Abandon Their Petition.
Advocates in the house of the repeal
of the Sherman law held a conference
Tuesday afternoon. A resolution was
adopted declaring that it had been dis
covered that a majority of the house was
in favor of the repeal of the Sherman
silver bullion purchase act and that it
had been decided to abandon the attempt
to get a majority of the democrats to
sign the cloture petition and to make a
fight on the floor of the house, where all
friends of honest money—whether dem
ocrats or republicans—might join in
the attempt to secure the 1 repeal of the
law.
CLASH OF AUTHORITJ,
Sonia Carolina’s Gomor at Tar witk
Uncle Sam’s Courts. H
He is Making a Determined Effort to
Collect Railroad Taxes.
A Columbia, 8. C. dispatch of Tuesda
aays: The clash has come and Governor
Tillman and tho federal court are in di
rect conflict oyer the railroads situated
in tne state. Governor Tillman Has
thrown down the gauntlet and bid defi
ance to the United States court, and
Uncle Sam has accepted the challenge.
As stated in the press dispatches,
the sheriffs throughout the state, acting
under instructions from Governor Till
man in a secret circular issued recently,
have levied upon the rolling stock of the
railroads which have not paid their taxes
as claimed to be due by the state, and
have chained the cars to the track, thus
blocking the proper operations of the
road, delaying valuable freights in tran
sit, amounting in value to - several
times the taxes for which the levies have
been made, and which were declaied by
the courts in 1892 to be illegal.
After hearing the petition of the
Richmond and Danville road concerning
this “arrest of trains,” Judge Simonton
of the United Stites court issued au ordei
releasing all trains that have been ti&i up.
and restraining sheriffs from further in
terference with the property. This was
ordered served upon tbe sheriffs Tues
day by United States marshals.
Dispatches from several of these points
state that the sheriffs are paying no at
tention to these orders. When the gov
ernor learned of this procedure he called
a conference with the attorney general,
the assistant and Judge Samuel Melton.
After a lengthy council of war the gov
ernor telegraped the following instruc
tions to the sheriffs:
Where the amount of taxes in execution foi
1891 and 1692 is less than two thousand dollars,
hold the property to satisfy the executiun, un
leas it is taken from you by force. '1 he u sub
mit to arrest aud we will take the case to the
United States supreme court on habeas corpus
proceedings and make thiis federal judge obey
the decrees of that court.
In regard to his p sition in the matter
the governor said : “We propose to see
that the state of South Carolina collects
her just taxes. Our present purpose is
to hold all of the property on which
levies have been made, and let Judge
Simonton do bis worst. Tuesday morn
ing I telegraphed all of tho sheriffs to
hold the property on which they have
levied. Our idea is that Judge Simon
ton is in contempt of the state govern
ment, and we want him to act so we can
get the case to Washington as soon as
possible and prove it by the
supreme court. 1 think we can
prove that he is in contempt. What
we want is for him to arrest the sher ffs.
If they are arrested the matter will go up
iu the shape of habeas corpus proceedings.
If we are wrong—that tho state hasn’t
the right to collect hir taxes—the sooner
we know it the better. Judge Simonton
has just been told that he has no right
to interfere in cases where the amounts
are less than $2,000. We will resist tyr
anny, or ignorance—whichever it may be
—and bring the matter to a focus and
have our rights established.”
MRS. WHITNEY DEAD.
Wife of the Ex-Secretary of the Navy
Dies Suddenly.
Mrs. William C. Whitney, wife of the
ex-secretary of the navy, died at hex
home, No. 2 West Fifty-seventh street,
New York City, at three o’clock Sunday
morning, of heart disease. Only Mr.
Whitney and the nurse who attended her
during her illness, were present at
the death bed, the end coming unex
pectedly.
TELEGRAPHIC GLEAMS.
The News of the Worth Condensed Into
Pithy amd Pointed Paragranhs.
Interesting and Instructive to All
Classes of Readers.
The Michigan supreme court handed
down a decision, Friday, in the contest
ed election case in the fifth congressional
district, seating Charles E. Belknap, the
republican candidate.
The Pennsylvania house of representa
tives, Tuesday, by vote of 150 to 18,
passed a bill to prohibit the manufacture
and sale of cigarettes within the common
wealth. The bill now goes to the senate.
A c iblo dispatch of Tuesday to the New
York World from London says: Algernon
Sartoris, who married Nellie Grant,
daughter of Genaral Grant, died Friday
at Capri, Italy. He had not lived with
his wife for some years.
A Indianapolis special of Tuesday says
that a strike is threatened by the engin
eers on the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad. They had asked for three and
a half cents for passenger men aud were
refused. The question of a strike in
consequence is being considered.
The First National bank of Little
Rock, Ark., closed its doors Thursday.
Its liabilities are understood to be over
half a million dollars. The cause that
lead to the suspension was the issuance
of fraudulent paper by former officers of
the bank to the amount of several hun
dred thousand dollars.
Fire at Philadelphia early Saturday
moaning at the Twenty-fifih ward gas
works totally destroyed the purifying
house aud two sheds, one of which was
owned by the city. The total loss is es
timated at $150,000, of which the city
l©ses $25,000, the remainder falling upon
the Philadelphia Gas Improvement Com
pany.
An explosion occurred Thursday night
in mine No. 11 owced and operated by
the Osag Coal and Mining Company, at
McAllister, I. T. Two men were killed
and perhaps more, it not being known
how many miners were exposed to the
explosion. A windy shot being fired in
an entry east from the main shaft was
ihe cause of the accident.
Cablegrams* of Tuesday are to the ef
fect that the city of Brisbane, in Queens
land, continues iompletely isolated by
■•£. ods. In the region about Wide Bay,
Queensland, hundreds of houses were de
molished by the rushing waters; thous
ands of destitute people have taken re
fuge in the hills, without shelter and nec
essaries. At Brisbane business is com
pletely suspended.
A dispatch from BerantoD, :
Miss Anna E.
actress, on Saturday three suits
in the circhit Airt of the United States,
directed again* tight persons, two of
whom are physicians, asking damages
aggregating $150,000. These suits are
directed against the persons who were
instrumental in lodging her in the Dan
viiiezasylum for the insane in February,
ISO/.
t Kansas City, Mo., dispatch says:
county judges, who have been in
for nearly a year for contempt oi
t, appeared before Judge Phillips
Tuesday morning and reported the Adop.
God, by over 2,000 majority, of the 70
cent bond compromise proposition sug
gested by Judge Phillips. He accord
ingly discharged them and remitted their
fines. If the bondholders accept the com
promise new bonds will be issued.
A rear end collision and explosion of
two car loads of powder occurred on the
Lake Shore railway three quarters of a
mile east of Strycker, 0., Thursday nf
teruoon. Westbound local freight No. 8
ran into the rear end of extra freight No.
583, which had parted from the main
part of the train, explodeding two car
loads of powder, and blowing theca
boose and three cars to atoms and badly
damaging the engine, "l'he engineer and
firemen saved themselves by jumping.
There was no one in the caboose and no
loss of lives resulted.
A special of Saturday from Hampton,
Mich., says: A terific blizzard has raged for
the past two days with mercury 30 to 40
degrees below. Snow drifts are as high as
the tops of passenger coaches. Mineral
Rtngeand Hancock and Calumet pas
senger trains, consisting only of one
roach and baggage car, takes two and
three powerful engines to
The mines are shut down for lack of fuel
aud stamp mills for like of rock. Train
men are having their faces badly frozen.
It has been more than a quarter of a cen
tury since there was so many continues
blizzards and such low temperature.
FUNERAL OF MRS. WHITNEY.
Distinguished People Take Part in the
Last Sad Rites.
Tne funeral of Ms. Whitney, wife of
the ex-Sfccretary of the navy, was held at
St. B irtholomew’s church, New York
City, Tuesday morning with impressive
Episcopal services. The furneral was
under charge of Col. Dan Lamont. The
pallbearers were: Grover Cleveland,
Cornelius Vanderbilt, George Peabody,
Wetmore Hamilton, McK. Twombley,
E Randolph Robinson, George G. Haven,
Ge r_e H. Bend, Edward A. Wicks,
Thomas F. Cushing and Buchanan Win
tb.rop. The services at the grave were
simple but impressive. The floral decora
tious at the burial dot were beautiful.
The flowers that were used at the funeral
wete, by order of Mr. Whitney, distribut
ed among the various hospitals of the
city. There were three wagon loads of
them.
BUSINESS REVIEW.
Reports of liradstreet and Don k Cos.,
for Past Week.
Bradstreet’s report of business for the
past week says: Features of the business
week include ac unusually large number
of decreases in prices for staple articles,
among which are pig iron, 21 cents; finish
ed iron, 50 cents; wheat, 1-2 cent; corn,
7-8 cent; oats, 7 8 cents; lard, 8-4 cents;
cotton, 1-16; raw sugar, 1 16 cents; hogs
6@ 10 cents, and Bteel, billets, petroleum
and high wines as well. In contrast
there has been an advance of 1 cent in
special grades of domestic wool, 1-2 tent
on sole leather, 1-8 on hides and pork 60
cents, as well as advanoes for rubber
goods, shoes and bricks. East and south
milder weather has opened up the ave
nues of trade, but in the northwest a
second cold snap has further restricted
business. So far as heard from the vol
ume of transactions throughout the coun
try in January, with few exceptions was
the largest of any in that month on rec
ord.
REFOBTS FROM THE SOUTH.
Business in the south has been favored
by the opening up of traffic routes, and
advices from the larger cities announce an
improvement in the demand for spring
goods. Some delay iu placing orders for
hardware and clothing is experienced.
Wholesale merchants at Baltimore report
collections in the south freer aud trade
improving. At Richmond the demand
for groceries and shoes is relatively most
active, but there is a good request for
plug tobacco, cigarettes and cheroots,
while the lack of demand for pig iron
causes prices to tend downward. There
is no change in trade conditions at
Charleston, where the prospects for
spring business is good. Memphis mer
chants report co siderable activity in
hardware and planters’ supplies. A like
state of trade is reported at Birmingham,
where the volume equals the average for
the season. Wholesale business at At
lanta is active and of satisfactory propor
tions, but warm and damp weather has
checked the retail trade.
Generally favorable commercial con
ditions in the region tributary to New
Orleans promise much for the merchants
of that city. The movement of produce
is large, exci pt that of meats, which has
been checked on account ol higher
prices. Large sales of sugar and rice
cause prices to tend upward.
The .production of cotton goods at
eastern mills is heavier than in any pre
vious year. There are no stocks in hand.
The output of print cloths is sold ahead
to April and there are no stocks at Fall
River against 229,000 pieces held there
a year ago.
WHAT DUN BATS.
Dun’s weekly review of trade says:
Actual business is surprisingly large for
the season, and yet fears about the fu
ture are also large. Congressional uncer
tainties cause fears, but the prosperity
and needs of the people make business
what it is, and never before has the dis
tribution of products to consumers been
larger than it has,been thus far this year.
Hence industries are remarkably pros
perous. The volume of trade measured
by the clearings in January was nearly
12 per cent iarger than in any previous
year, and the railway movement shows a
great increase in the tonnage transported.
Yet it Is probably safe to say that rarely,
if ever, except in a time of panic, has
business been more cautiously and con
servatively regulated. Monetary uncer
tainties are excused by the continued
outgo of gold, but the passage of the
anti-option bill by the senate has had no
jfleet upon the market as yet.
At Louisville, prospects are encourag
ing; at Nashville, business is good, aud
at Knoxville, improving with money in
better demnad. At Littl Rock collec
tions are slow and many planters are be
ing carried over, but at Mobile trade is
very satisfactory with good prospects.
Business at New Orleans is quiet with
money in good demand aud easy; cotton
more active and sugar strong and trade
in rice improving. The wonderful de
mand for textile fabrics is unabated.
For brown and bleached cotton the mar
ket is said to be the best for twenty
years and some makes of sheeting have
advanced.
The price for manufactured products
of iron and steel are depressed beyond all
precedent and nevertheless sales continue
urmirkably large, and the volume of bus
iness is greater than in any previous year.
The stagnation in steel rails has been
broken by the placing of orders for
60,000 tons by the Pennsylvania railway,
and in plates orders for 20,000 tons have
been placed for Cramp’s, at Pittsburg
mills, though at very low prices. Large
structural contracts have also been placed
for buildings in New York. The uncer
tainty about the monetary future retards
business engagements, but in other re
spects trade is most satisfactory, and per
haps all the more safe and healthy for
the feeling of caution that prevails.
Business failures duriog the past week
number, for the United States, 255 ; Can
ada. 46: total, 801.
ANOTHER INTERVIEW
Between Hawaiian Commissioners and
Secretary Foster.
A Washington special says: The Ha
waiian annexation commissKtners and Dr.
Mott Smith, Hawaiian minister, had an
other interview Tuesday morning with
Secretary Foster,at the state department.
As was the case with the previous two
interviews, it was entirely'informal, be
ing confined to an interchange of unoffi
cial views upon th®. subject of annexing
the Hawaiian islands to the United
States. Nothing was said about the
time when commissioners shall be re
ceived by President Harrison, and thus
formally recognized, and the determina
tion of this date depends upon the nature
of advices from Honolulu.
NO. 48.
IT IS JUDGE JACKSON.
President Harrison Nominates a Dem
ent as Justice Lamar’s Successor.
The Nomination Generally Endorsed.
Sketch of Judge Jackson’s Life.
President Harrison, on Thursday, nom
mated Howell E Jackson, of Tennessee,
to be associate justice of the supreme
court of the United States, vice L. Q. C.
Lamar, deceased.
Howe'i Edmunds Jackson is an ex-sen
ator, and at preaent judge cf the United
States court for the district embracing
Tennessee. He is a native and lifelong
resident of Tennessee.
Inquiry about tbe capitol shows that
tiie appointment, considered from a judi
cial and not political view, is a splendid
one. About the supreme court it is said
that President Harrison has shown once
more a great deal of judgement in his
selection of a man for the place on the
bench of the highest tribunal in the
’ land. It is stated that Mr. Jackson has
made a fine circuit judge, and that no
doubt is entertained as to his making a
good justice.
Tbe appointment was a great surprise
to the Tennessee delegation in the house,
The two republican members felt sore
over the selection of a democrat, and
a state’s rights man, but when asked as
to Jackson’s personal fitness, conceded
that his character and abilities ware all
that could be desired. Tbe selection
was politically no more pleasing to some
of the democratic representatives, who re
call the fact that Judge Jackson was the
leader of the “up school democrats of
Tennessee,” an element winch made a
warm but unsuccessful fight within the
party in favor of the payment of the
state debt, dollar fqr dollar, substantial
ly as demanded by the bondholders.
These men said, however that the new
judge was strong, clean and able.
A SKETCH OF HIS LIFE.
Howell E. Jackson was born at Paris,
Tennessee, in 1833, where his early years
were spent, and where he received hi*
early education. When come to a proper
age he entered the University of Virginia
where he studied law, graduated, and re
turned to Tennessee. He began the prac
rice of bis profession at Jackson, where
his father had removed about the time he
left college, but in 1859 he moved to
Memphis, having marned a Miss Molloy,
of that city. Here he formed a partner
ship with Judge B. M. Eudis.
He remained in Memphis until after
death of his first wifo,which occurred
in 1873. In 1875 be married the daugh
ter of General W. H. Harding, of the
Belle Meade farm, near Nashville, and in
1880 was elected to the United States
senate, but resigned his seat in 1886 to
accept the position of United States cir
cuit judge of the sixth ju iicid circuit of
the United States, comprising Kentucky,
Ohio, Tennessee and Michigan. This
appointment was made by Mr. Cleveland
during his first administration, and is
the position he now holds.
Judge Jackson baa always been a
stanch democrat, though in 1881 he left the
senate to canvass the state in the interest
of the state debt question, being the
leader of the wing of the democratic
party known it that time as the “sky
blues,” who were opposed to repudiating
the state bonds. The bonds were repu
diated, but it was against the convictions
of some of the best men in the state,
particularly of the old school, who deem
ed it a blot on the reputation of Tennes
see.
While in the senate Judge Jackson
formed an acquaintance with President
Harrison, then serving as senator from
Indiana. The acquaintance soon ripened
into a warm friendship, which extended
to the families of the two senators. Thu
two families became very intimate, and
while in Washington were on the easiest
and freest relations, it beiDg a frequent
thing to find the two senators dining to
gether at each other’s homes, or drop-
Kinto a cup of tea. The friendship
iot been diminished by years, and in
this probably lies one of the motives
which governed the selection of Judge
Jackson as Justice Lama’r successor.
IHJ&LSQ t id year 18JJ the .Sew Yorx Posc
ouijo .'idj uauUiea i,its>,etfi.tfj'l pieces of
Uia.c.-r, a Uauy average oi 3,oefile
tota. receipts oi Due oaice were *>i,U >J, 535.63,
sue tne expenditure. *2,615,3 IU.U.
NORTH GEORGIA
Agricultural College,
AT DAHLONEGA.
A branch of the State University
Bpring Term begins First Monday in Feb
ruary. Fall Term begins First,
Monday in September.
Best school in the south, for students with
limited means. The military training is
thorough, being under a U. 8. Army officer,
detailed by the Secretary ot War.
BOTH HEXES HAVE EQUAL, AD VAN
TAG EH.
Btudecs are prepared and licensed to teaoli
in tbe publio schools, by act of tbe legislature.
Lectures, on Agriculture and the Sciences
by distinguished educators and scholars.
For health the climate .is unsurpassed.
Altitude 2237 feet.
Board $lO per month and upwards. M Being
at lower rates.
Each senator and representative of the state
is entitled and requested to appoint one pupil
from liia district or county, without paying
matriculation fee, during his term.
For catalog or infor nation, addrew Seers
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