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UNION & RECORDER.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Milledgeville, December 21, 1886
Gov. Gordon and Dr.
made friends.
Felton have
Tlia public anticipation of hostili
ties is affecting business in Germany.
The Legislative committee have
acquitted Fain and Rankin of the al
leged bribery
The Governer has appointed and the
Senate has confirmed Hon. L. N.
Trammell for Railroad Commissioner.
M. Merlatta has completed his 50tli
fast day. The doctors gave him a
small quantity of prepared wine be
fore they gave him any food.
When the Angel Gabriel blows his
horn a vast army of lawyers will rise
up, and from sheer force of habit
move for a continuance of the cases
before the court.—San Francisco
Post. ^
Russia.—Russia is appropriating
large sums for war material. She
wants 50,000 tents, 50,000 soldier’s
cloaks, two million cases of boots,
gunpowder and bullets, to be deliver
ed by April at the latest. What is
this but for war.
An effort is being made to join the
people of Eastern Roumelia and Bul
garia in constituting a State which
shall be “Great Bulgaria’’ with Prince
Alexander as king. Otherwise to join
in proclaiming Bulgaria a Republic,
with Alexander President. We favor
Republics every time.
The News from London of the 14th
shows a disposition on the part of
Sir Michial Hicks Beach and Lord
Randolph Churchill to abide by the
mild enforcement of the ordinary
law. Some members of the Cabinet
are urging Lord Salisbury to dismiss
Sir Machael Hicks Beach from the
office of Chief Secretary for Ireland,
and to appoint as his successor a
man in favor of thorough coercion.
The Royal family, of England, are
divided in their views about a ruler
for Bulgaria. The Queen favors
Prince Battenburg. and the Prince of
Wales and the Duke of Edinburg
favor Prince Ferdinand of Saxe Co
burg. The Prince of Wales ignores
the presence of Prince Alexander,
and the Queen has advanced him to
the rank of Military Grand Cross of
the order of the Bath Grade, to which
Emperor William and the Prince Im
perial, of Germany, belong.
Alabama Insane Hospital.—We
have received the Biennial Report of
the Alabama Insane Hospital, at Tus-
kaloosa, Ala., for the years ending
September 30th, 1885 and 1886—Dr.
P. Brvce, Superintendent. The total
number of patients under treatment
on the 30th September, 1886, was 733;
of these 350 are men, and 383 are wo
men; 643 are white and 90 are colored;
38 are paying patients and 695 are in
digent. Total cost past year, $107.-
051.38.
The Philadelphia North American
says. President Cleveland is in the
hands of his friends, according to a
Democratic Journal. What does the
•Journal mean when it says that? If
it says no more, the cabala of the
Jews is not more mysterious. We
want the President to be in the hands
of the Democrats to carry out Demo
cratic Principles. They have often
been declared in the National Con
ventions of the Democratic Party.
Mr. Cleveland is fully with the party
in opposition to the high protective
tariff, and we have little doubt that
he will be with the party on the civil
service policy and the silveF question.
On that platform he will be invinci
ble. will be re-nominated for the Pres
idency and will be triumphantly
elected in 1898.
The Golden Argosy.
We are indebted to 4he publisher
for a specimen copy of “The Golden
Argosy” published by Frank A. Mun-
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three dollars a year. It is a neat and
handsome magazine of sixteen pages,
issued weekly, and is chiefly made up of
serial stories, suited to the tastes of
young people, but by no means want
ing in interest to those of mature
years and experience, who desire at
times some light reading, to give
them h rest from the absorbing labors
of ordinary life. The stories we think,
from the examination we have been
able to give them are well written,
interesting and free from those gross
features which too often disfigure the
light literature of the day and they
are likewise copiously and handsome
ly illustrated. There are also inter
spersed among the serials, several in
teresting stories Which are complete
in the one issue. We are of the opin
ion that “The Golden Argosy” is an
excellent publication to interest and
amuse an intelligent family.
The Tariff in Congress.
On Saturday last, according to pre
vious announcement, Mr. Morrison, of
111., moved in the House of Represen
tatives to take up his bill to reduce
the tariff. The yeas and nays were
immediately called and the result was
a majority of five against the motion.
This probably is the end of any action
by the present congress on the tariff,
although a reduction of import du
ties was a prominent part of the Chi
cago Democratic platform and the
party has a majority of nearly forty
votes, in the present House of Repre
sentatives. Mr. Randall and his fol
lowing of protective tariff democrats
have strength enough to defeat the
party to which they profess to belong.
Now let the Macon Telegraph and
Other professedly Democratic papers
Of the South, of like anti-democratic
proclivities rejoice, but we have faith
to believe that the Democratic party
will yet have strength enough to
brin*? them to grief.
On the free delivery bill in the
House on the 9th, Mr. Dockery of
Missouri, on behalf of the Commit
tee, offered an amendment to pro
vide that letter carriers shall be em
ployed for the free delivery of mail
matter as frequently as the public
business may require, in every incor
porated city or town containing 50,-
000 inhabitants, and may be so em
ployed in every place containing 10,000
inhabitants, and to every post office
with a gross revenue, the preceeding
year, of not less than .$10,000. Mr.
Dockery’s amendment was adopted
and the bill was passed.
The electoral count bill was passed
but the provision, to announce the
names of the parties elected, was
stricken out. There was some furth
er discussion but no action, and the
House adjourned,
The Senate bill, for the relief of
graduates of the United States Mili
tary Academy, providing full pay for
the graduates, as 2nd Lieutenants,
from the date of their graduation to
the date of their acceptance of a
Commission, was passed. The amend
ment being concurred in the bill now
goes to the President. The Senate
adjourned until Monday,
The following is the Electoral count
bill as passed by the House.
The Electoral Count bill, as passed
by the House, directs that the electors
of each State shall meet and give
their votes on the second Monday in
January following their appointment.
Section* 2 provided that if any State
shall have provided by laws, enacted
prior to the day fixed for the appoint
ment of electors for its final determi
nation of any controversy concerning
the appointment of all or any of the
electors of such State, by judicial or
other methods or procedures, and
such determination shall have been
made at least six days before the time
fixed for a meeting of the electors,
such determination shall be conclu
sive, and shall govern in the counting
of the electoral vote so far as the as
certainment of the electors appoint
ed by such State is concerned. Sec
tion 3 prescribes the manner in which
the electoral vote of each State shall
be certified and communicated to the
Secretary of State at Washington.
Section 4 prescribes a meeting of the
Senate and House in the Hall of the
House on the second Wednesday in
February succeeding the meeting of
the electors. After providing fox - the
appointment of tellers and the read
ing by them of certificates and papers
purporting to be the certificates of
the electoral votes, the bill continues:
“And the votes having been ascer
tained and counted in a manner and
according to the rules in the act, pro
vided the result of the same shall be
delivered to the President of the Sen
ate, who shall thereupon announce
the state of the vote, which announce
ment shall be deemed a sufficient de
claration of the persons, if any, elect
ed President and Vice President of
the United States, and, together with
I a list of the vote, be entered on the
journals of the two Houses. Upon
such reading of any such certificates
or paper the President of the Senate
shall call for objection, if any. Ev
ery objection shall be made in writing
and shall state clearly and concisely,
and without argument the ground
thereof, and shall be signed by at least
one Senator and one member of the
House of Representatives before the
same shall be received. When all ob
jections so made to any vote or paper
from the State shall have been re
ceived and read the Senate shall there
upon withdraw, and such objections
shall be submitted to the Senate for
its decision, and the Speaker of the
House of Representatives shall, in
like manner, submit such objections
to the House of Representatives for
its decision, and no electoral vote or
votes, which shall have been regular
ly given by the electors whose ap
pointment shall have been certified
according to the third section of this
act, from any State, from which but
one return has been received, shall be
rejected. If more than one return or
paper, purporting to be the return
from the State shall have been re
ceived by the President of the Senate,
those votes, and those only shall be
counted, which shall have been reg
ularly given by the electors, who are
shown by the determination men
tioned in section 2 of this act, to have
been appointed. If the determination
as the section provided for shall have
been made, or by such successors, or
substitute in case of a vacancy in the
Board of Electors so ascertained as
have been appointed to fill such va
cancies in the mode provided by the
laws of the State; but in case there
shall arise a question, which of two
or more of such State authorities, de
termining what electorshave been ap
pointed as mentioned in section 2 of
this act is a lawful tribunal of such
State votes, regularly given, of those
electors, and those only of such State
shall be counted, whose title, as the
electors of the two Houses, acting sep
arately, shall concurrently decide, is
supported by the decision of such
state so authorized by its laws, and in
such case of more than one return or
paper, purporting to be the return
from the State. If there shall have
been no such determination of
the question in the State aforesaid
then those voters, and those only
shall be counted, which were cast by
the electors whose appointment shall
have been duly credited under the
seal of the State by the executivefhere-
of, in accordance with the laws of the
State, unless the two Houses, acting
separately shall concurrently decide
such votes not to be the lawful votes
of the legally appointed electors of
such State. When the two Houses
have voted they shall immediately
meet again, and the presiding officer
shall then announce the decision of
the questions submitted. No votes
have separated. Section 7 provides,
that the joint meeting shall not be
dissolved until the count of the elec
toral votes shall be completed, and
the result declared, and prohibits
either house from taking recess be
yond the next calendar day. In case
the electoral votes shall not have
been counted before tjie fifth calendar
day, after the first meeting of the
two houses, no further recess shall be
taken by either house.
The House was engaged during the
forenoon, Mr. Crisp in the chair, dis
cussing a bill for the allotment of
land, in severalty, to the Indians, but
no vote was reached.
A bill was passed bringing the cities
of Augusta, Galveston, St. Paul, Min
neapolis, Indianapolis, Kansas City,
and Omaha, under the provisions of
section 1591, Revised Statutes, which
requires the National Banks in cer
tain cities to keep on hand in money
of the United states, a sum equal to
20 per cent, of their circulation and
deposits. In the Senate Mr. Vance
introduced a bill to repeal the acts rel
ative to the civil service.
Senator Hoar moved to lay on the
table Senator Platt’s resolution that
Executive nominations shall be con
sidered in open sessions except when
otherwise ordered by the Senate.
Hoar moved to lay the resolution on
the table, agreed to, yeas, 30; nays, 21.
The Senate then went into Execu
tive session and soon after adjourned.
The President to-day, sent in a list
of persons for nomination to various
offices. Among them were George
V/. Lamar for P. M. Savannah, Ga.,
and Hiram Hubert, Quitman, Ga.
The Senate Public buildings to-day
15th, fell in. Eight persons were
wounded, 6 badly, two were able to
walk home. They were at work up
on the old Carroll building, tearing it
down.
whipping of convicts. His reply is
not reported in the Senate proceed
ings? that is, its cohtents as to who
were the whipping bosses, &c.
In the House a motion of Mr Cal
vin of Richmond to take up the Sen
ate resolution fixing Saturday the
17th as the day of adjournment was
tabled.
A resolution of Mr. Henry of Chat
tooga providing for the printing of
bills and resolutions passed at °this
session was adopted.
Reading of bills the third time was
resumed. The bill of Mr. Clav of
Cobb to incorporate the North Geor-
gia Telegraph Company was passed.
r -n e b 4r . lncor P° ra te the Douglass-
ville Banking Company was passed.
That by Mr. Bray of Fulton to incor
porate the Underwriters Mutual In
surance Company of Atlanta was
passed. That by Mr. Howell, of Ful
ton to incorporate the Southern Live
Stock Insurance Co., passed.
That by Mr. Little a bill incorpor-
ting the Georgia Midland and Gulf
Rail Road Company was passed,
That by Mr. McLendon, of Thom
as to incorporate the Tallahassee
Bainbridge and Western Rail Road
Company was passed.
That by Mr. Perry, of Gilmer, to
incorporate the Ellijay Telephone
Company, was passed. That by Mr.
Little to amend the act incorporating
the Columbus and Florida Railroad
Company was passed.
A resolution by Mr. Kenan, of Bald-
win, to appoint a joint committee of
three from the House and two from
Senate, to visit and inspect the
old Capitol at Milledgeville, for the
purpose of recommending
was tabled.
repairs,
THE LEGISLATURE.
16th—In the House a bill to create a
Board of Commissiopers of Roads and !
Revenues) for Baldwin county, intro- j
duced by Mr. Kenan, of Baldwin, was
passed.
After some time taken up in coun
ter motions that to take up Dr. Fel
ton's bill to levy a tax of $10,000 upon
dealers in domestic wines was carried
and the bill was read a third time. An
amendment was offered by Mr. Foute
offering the usual repealing clause
which was adopted. Mr. Birchman,
of Oglethorpe, offered an amendment
relating to wines made in Georgia,
and Mr. Heavy an amendment includ
ing wines made from berries, both of
which were adopted. The great ob
ject of Dr. Felton was, as he has said, j
to suppress the evils of drinking intox- ;
icating liquids in prohibition counties. !
He wanted wine drinking prevented
to give prohibition a fair chance. Mr.
Howell, of Atlanta, spoke in opposi
tion to the bill, Mr. Gleen in favor of
it. Several gentleman spoke in favor
and several against it. The speeches
are reported as very able. Mr. Gam
ble, of Jefferson, moved to table the
bill which prevailed by a vote of yeas
84, nays 77. Dr. Felton gave notice
that he would move to take the bill
from the table the 2nd day of the
summer session.
At the night session Mr. McCord
brought up his bill to incorporate the
Augusta and Chattanooga Railroad
company, and as reported secured its
passage after a spirited fight, in
which he successfully weathered a
storm of amendments. The following
bills also passed: incorporating the
Americus, Preston and Lumpkin R.
R.; Incorporating the Atlanta and
Nashville R. R.; the Exchange Bank
of Athens, Cartersville and the Gaines
ville Air Line R. R. Several other
bills (local) were read the first, second
and third times.
A message from the FIouse was re
ceived fixing the time for adjourn
ment, Wednesday the 22nd instant.
A large number of new bills were
introduced and read the 1st time.
In the Senate on the 15th, Mr.
Wright submitted a provision to an
educational bill that no teacher quali
fied to teach the other branches should
be refused a license or displaced be
cause he was not prepared to stand
the examination upon physiology and
hygiene. Several took part in the
discussion of the question and the de
bate was terminated by a call for the
previous question and upon taking a
vote, Mr. Wright’s amendment was
adopted, yeas, 22; nays, 15; and the
bill passed, by yeas, 25; nays, 11. The
rules were suspended so as to allow
House bills to be read the third time
and the following were read and pass
ed:
To incorporate the town of Harri
son in Washington county.
To amend the charter of the town
of Marsballville in Macon county.
To amend the act incorporating the
Eagle and Phoenix Manufacturing
Company.
To amend act incorporating the
Georgia Home Insurance Company
of Columbus.
To authorize the issue of interest
bearing bonds by Mayor and Council
of city of Macon.
To incorporate the Bank of Stewart
County in the town of Lumkin.
To repeal an act creating a Board
of Commissioners of Roads and Rev
enues for Taylor county".
A resolution providing for a joint
committee to visit the State College
at Dahlonega, was lost.
To amend charter of town of West
End in Fulton county.
To incorporate the Athens and Jef
ferson Railroad Company.
The President appointed the follow
ing gentlemen a committee to confer
with the House Committee on points
of difference between the two Houses:
Messrs. Butt, James, Favor, Powell
and Larnkin. In the afternoon the
Senate was engaged in reading bills
the first and third time. A large num
ber were principally of'a local nature.
AFTERNOON SESSION,
ihe afternoon session of the House
continued reading bills the third time
and a number of local bills were pass
ed. The only bill of general interest
w;is to incorporate the Atlantic, Bir
mingham and Great Western railroad.
After the bills for third reading had
been disposed of several local bills
were read the first time.
We have passed over a number of
bills of a local nature.
bills passed.
Reading bills the third
next in order, and the
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Company.
To amend the act incorporating the
Georgia, Cincinnati and Florida
Railroad Company.
To amend the‘charter of the At
lanta Loan and Banking Company.
To regulate the appointment of
School Trustees and prescribe their
duties and powers. Passed by sub
stitute.
To incorporate the Savanah and
Jacksonville Air Line Railroad Com
pany.
To incorporate the Oglethorpe Sa
vings and Trust Company.
A message from the Ho‘use brought
in at 1:10 p. m. was refused on motion
of Mr. Butt, the House having ad
journed.
Under a suspension of the rules the
general tax bill was read the first time
and referred to the finance Commit
tee.
Adjourned at 1:30 p. m.
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Threatened War in Europe.
The telegraphic dispatches from
Europe day by day show that all
the great powers are energetically
strengthening their armies, prepara
tory to whatever eventualities the
spring of the coming year may devel-
ope.
The Bulgarian trouble lias evident
ly been aggravated by Russia in eve
ry possible way, to give that arrogant
government an excuse for occupying
its territory with her armies, and the
other great powers are steadily pre
paring to intervene at the proper
time to thwart her ambitious designs,
which doubtless have the long desired
occupation of Constantinople for her
ultimate purpose. A general Euro
pean war would be a dreadful calami
ty and the Southern States would be
sufferers to no small extent.
or papers from any other shall be'j Among them were some of general
acted upon until the objections pre-'i interests The act to perfect the pub-
viously made to the votes or papers* lie school system was passed,
from any State shall have been final-j A bill to incorporate the Ea-
ly disposed of. i tonton and Athens rail road, read
Section 5 gives the President of. the first time. The introducer of the
the Senate power to preserve order. | Macon and Covington Rail Road bill
Section 6 limits to two hours the was allowed to withdraw it. The
debate which shall be had on any Governor’s Message was taken up in
question, after the two houses shall which he replied to inquiries as to the
Colored Awakening.
The Savannah Times says: Since the
earthquake shook up things pretty
generally in this city and neighbor
hood, there has been a religious awak
ening among the darkies. Hitherto
many of them were accustomed to
spend Sunday, and in fact other days
in a barroom if they were allowed.
The earthquake frightened them out
of this method of living, and in many
instances they joined the church and
are now tolerably fair members.
The New York Herald specially
advocates the establishment by Con
gress of an experimental farm in ev
ery State|and rf Territory [at a cost of
fifteen thousand dollars each. “It
will,” says the Herald, “encourage
the tillers of the soil and show them
the results of methods which they
cannot afford to test for themselves.
It will be money well spent. By all
means take good care of the farmers.”
All money of the United States
Government should be worth 100
cents in the dollar. We elaborated our
views at some length a few months
ago. It wonld cost something but it
would be to the credit of the govern
ment to attempt to effect it. The gov
ernment is rich enough to do it and it
would gain character at home and
abroad by making all its money of
equal value. Some kind of monev
might be preferred in certain ca=es
but let all be worth 100 cents in the
dollar at home and abroad.
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