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The Morgan Monitor.
VOL. II. NO. 26. $1 PER YEAR.
THE SECRET.
Nightingales warble about it
All night under blossom and star;
The wild swan Is dying without It,
/ And the eagle cryeth afar;
The sun he doth mount but to find It,
/ But Searching the green earth o'er;
/ more doth a man’s heart mind it,
f Oh, more, more, more!
A Brother’s Sacrifice.
By STANLEY HOWARD.
WAS leaning
against the rail¬
tab m ing in the park,
m enjoying a cigar
and watching
tW the carriages as
m they passed. the fash- It
My j)Tgfe- ionable was hour,
ftu< ^ this was a
favorite occupa-
Had I been
younger, I might possibly have in¬
dulged in « dream of the time when
riches and luxury should be mine,
when the inner circle of society should
be my world; but I was no longer
young. At sixty one is contented with
sufficient, and wealth loses much of its
fascination. I have found it so, at
least.
There was a block for two or three
minutes, and the occupants of the car-
l'iage which was standing just in front
of me arrested my attention. There
xvere two ladies and a gentleman—
Husband and wife and daughter I took
t-hem to be. The man, who was about
my d age, the was exceedingly good-looking,
au the elder young lady was pretty, but it
xvas terested lady who particularly in¬
me. Her hair was quite white
and her face pale, but so handsome,
and so exquisitely sweet in expression,
that in a moment my old brain was
weaving a romance about lier. Many
people looked at the carriage aud sev¬
eral bowed. Evidently the occupants
xvere people well known.
“You seem interested,” said a man,
touching my arm, as the carriage
moved on.
“Yes,” I answered, shortly. I have
a rooted aversion to entering into COll-
versation with strangers.
The man looked at me curiously,
xvitk a smile upon his face, He was
tall and thin, only fairly xvcll dressed,
but of gentlemanly bearing, and there
xvere deep lines under his eyes and
about his mouth.
“I have been looking for you for
two months past,” he said.
“For me! You Ii.tvo made a mis¬
take, I think.”
“You have changed little, Mr. Har¬
graves; I must have changed much,
or you would remember me.”
“Certainly I have forgotten you,” I
said, politely, hearing him call me by
name. x
“Robert Denmore.”
For a moment I xvas silent—Den-
more I
‘ ‘Of course—yes. We met in Vienna,
didn’t we?”
He nodded and xve shook hands.
“Vienna—twenty years ago,” I said.
“How time Hies! What have the years
brought to you?”
“A living death,” was the strange
answer.
I looked inquiringly at him.
“True,” he said. “Come to my
rooms and renew our old friendship,
1 haven’t a friend left in the world ex¬
cept you; and I cannot let you go noxv
I have found you. I have been look¬
ing for you for two months—two
months to-morroxv. I can fix the time
to an hour.”
Robert Denmore had alxvays puzzled
me—he puzzled me now. As I xvnlked
home xvith him, my mind slipped back
txventy years. He and I had met in
Vienna, aud finding our tastes agreed,
had traveled about together for a few
months. AVe became very good friends,
but he told me little about himself.
He seemed to have done with the past
altogether, and thought very little
about the future. I remember him
sayiug once, “I never think about
xvhat I did yesterday; I don’t care xvliat
happens to-morroxv; to-day is all I
trouble myself about,” and he carried
this system of existence to such an ex¬
tent that arrangements xvere often up¬
set. No doubt there xvas a secret in
his past life, but I found him an inter¬
esting companion, and his secret did
not concern me.
After dinner that night xvo sat and
smoked.
“It does me good to seo you again,”
he said. “The fact of the matter is,
that I xvaut to tell you a story. Were
you never curious ubout mo in the old
days?”
“Yes, often.”
“AVell, 1 xvaut to tell you my his¬
tory. I xvas a disappointed man then;
I am a broken-doxvn one noxv, xvithout
friends, almost xvithout money. Oh!
I am not going to borrow, You re-
member when I left you and returned
to England?”
“I do, and you promised to look me
lip in London, xvhich promise you
never kept.”
“No; but you received a letter from
me telling you that I xvas going
abroad?”
“Yes.”
“That letter was ft lie, • I have not
been out of the country since. I knew
I was not going xvlien 1 wrote that let¬
ter. ”
He spoke as if the statement wax
Ijjre keynote to his whole history. His
manner quite startled me.
‘jKuu xvoitder why I took the trouble
to tell you a lie? Well, I wanted to be
forgotten; I did- not waut you to try
to find me.”
“And yet you have spent the last two
months looking for me,” I said.
“I don t want to be forgotten any
Over the gray leagues of ocean
The Infinite yearneth alone;
The forests with wandering emotion
The thing they know not Intone;
Creation arose but to see It,
A million lamps In the blue;
But a lover he shall be It
If one sweet maid is true.
—G. E. Woodberry, in the June Century,
more. I want to have a friend in
xvorld to talk to.”
He was silent for a moment and
lit his pipe.
“There xvere txvo of us,” be
"twin boys. I xvas the elder by
minutes, and xve were born
months after our father’s death,
grew aud up great friends, as txvins
are, yet wo were very different.
developed into a quiet, studious,
faced youngster. I xvas slow at
ing, sloxv of speech, aud nobody’
favorite. My brother, Richard, on
contrary, boy xvas bright, clever; even as
his conversation xvas
brilliant. He could do anything
everything, was full of f uu and laughter,
and generous and thoughtless to
fault. Richard Deumore was
by everybody. When we were
sixteen my mother died. I
the night before her death as if it
yesterday only.
“ ‘You are my eldest boy, Robert,’
she said, taking my strong hand in her
feeble one. ‘You are, perhaps, not so
clever, naturally, as Richard, but you
have got balance, which ho has not.
Richard troubles me often.’
“ ‘Everybody likes him, mother,’
answered.
“ ‘That makes all the danger;
more
and I want you, Robert, to look after
Richard.’
“ ‘I shall alxvays love him.’
“ ‘And you will help him?’
“ ‘Yes, alxvays.’
‘ ‘More than once that night she made
me repeat the promise, and I took
oath, little knowing xvhat the oath
meant.
“Time passed, and we both got on
well. Ihad, perhaps, the most money,
but then I did not go out as much as
Richard did, and he gave away more
than I did, too.
“The humdrum round of my daily
life xvas suddenly disturbed—pleas¬
antly so. Alice Eversham came into
it, and from the first moment I saxv
her I loved her. I had never even
cared about a woman before; bad
never for even, as a boy, had a preference
one of the pupils at the seminary
for young ladies xve passed evory
morning on our way to school, For
a long time I loved in silence. I
feared to put my fate to the test, and
hen I plucked up my courage to ask
Alice to be my xvife I xvas too late.
She xvas kind and gentle, but her ‘no’
xvas final.
“ ‘But, Alice, I xvill xvait. You xvill
change—you must change,’ I said, in
in my despair.
“ ‘I shall never change.’
( t < Who hi the—the other man?’
“ ‘I cannot tell you that. A
xvoman
does not confess her love for a man
before that man has asked her.’
“Life has been black enough for me
many times, heavens knows, but never
so black as it was then. It is the one
great has passion I have knoxvn, and it
made me what I am to-day.
“A week later Richard bounced into
my room one night, threxv himself
doxvn in an easy chair, and began to,
laugh.
“ ‘Got the blues, Bobbie?’
“ ‘No.’
( ( ( Well, congratulate me. I’m the
happiest fellow in the world. I
xvaut. you to bo my best man. I’m
going to be married.’
“ ‘Married!’
“ ‘Yes; I am caught at last—the
dearest girl living. You knoxv her
xv ell.’
i < < Who is it?’
“ ‘Alice Eversham.’
“I sprang from my chair and brought
my clinched fist doxvn upon the tablo.
Blind rage took possession of me for a
moment.
“ ‘Hallo!’ ho exclaimed. ‘AVhat’s
tho matter? Are you in love with her,
too?’
“ ‘No; I was thinking,’ I answered,
stupidly.
“‘If you think like that often you
xvill smash all your furniture. Come,
toll me the truth, Bobbie. You are m
lox’e xvith Alice yourself, I cannot
blame you. Anyway, she will bo your
sister, old follow. ’
“His words xvere intended as a con-
solation, but they xvero maddening.
It xvas only afterxvards, when I became
sane enough to think calmly, that I
felt Richard had as much right to
happiness as I had. AVe both loved
her, and she loved me. It xvas all
fair, honest dealing; I could not eom-
plain.
“Richard’s wedding-day was a tor-
ture.
“ ‘Good-by, Robert,’ Alice said, just
before they went axvay. ‘You forgive
me?’
‘“There is nothing to forgive,’ I
ansxvered.
“ ‘And you xvisli mo happiness?’
“ ‘With all my heart!’ I said. ‘We
shall not see much of each other,
Alice, in the future; it is better not;
but remember, I atn your brother—
more, your friend. If you should ever
want me, send for me.’
“ ‘When xve come back I shall
send for you at once,’ she ansxvered,
merrily.
“ ‘And I shall not come. In trouble
you shall find me ready, but otherwise
I shall be out of reach. I leave Eng¬
land to-morrow, and I do not knoxv
when I shall return.’
POPULATION AND DRAINAGE.
MORGAN, GA.. FRIDAY. JULY 9, 1807.
“ ‘I shall have to get into trouble
quickly,’ she said. ‘Good-by!’
“I left England and wandered about,
trying to forget. Alice had been mar¬
ried ten years when I first met you,
Hargraves, and during that time I did
not Bee her, but I heard constantly myseif
from Richard, and beggared
almost in helping him. He did not
seem to have an idea of the value of
money—spent limit it as if there was no
to his income.
“It was a letter I received from
Alice which made me leave you bo sud¬
denly. Richard was again in Berions
difficulty, his and she wrote to me with¬
out knowledge, he having told her
then for the first time how often I had
helped him before, saying that he could
not ask me again. I went to her, and
found matters about as bad as they
could be. Richard was desperate and
half ashamed to see me. By a terri¬
ble struggle, and pledging my credit
to the utmost limit, I managed, as I
thought, to sot him straight. I be¬
lieve Alice would have gone down
upon her knees to thank me had I let
her; and Richard thanked me, too, but
did not seem quite at ease. I was glad
to get away from them, and I made
arrangements to leave England again.
To be perfectly truthful, my resources
were so reduced that I meant to set¬
tle in some continental town where
living was cheap. All my preparations
were made, when I received a tele¬
gram:
“ ‘Come to me at once. Amok.’
“AVondering xvhat new complica¬
tion had arisen for I could read trou¬
ble in the message—I went.
“Alice xvas alone.
“ ‘Robert,’ she said, clutching
aud there look horror my
arm, xvas a of in
her eyes, ‘is it true?’
“ ‘Is xvhat true?’
“ ‘That Richard is thief?’
a
“ ‘No. Who has said so?’
(( < We xvere dining out last night,
and I overheard two men talking about
Richard. They xvere surprised to see
him there. One of them said dis¬
tinctly that he had committed for¬
gery xvith regard to some company
matter, and xvas liable to be arrested
at any moment. ’
“ ‘Nonsense, Alice! You mis¬
are
taken. ’
“‘They mentioned his name—R.
Denmore. Oh, Robert! I have been
brave through my troubles—heaven
knows I have—but if this is true it
will kill me. ’
‘“Did these men appear to know
Richard xvell?’ I asked.
“ ‘No. They heard his name, and
then began to talk. ”
“ ‘Have you said anything to Rich¬
ard about it?’
“ ‘No. I ought to do it, but I
am a
coward, and dare not, If it is all a
lie he would never forgix r e me for
doubting him. If it is true—Robert,
you once promised to always be my
friend—- you must save him, for my
sake and my child’s.’
“ ‘I am always your friend,’ I
an-
sxvered, taking her hand in mine. ‘I
will find out all about this story. It is
all a mistake, probably; and if not,
there is more than one R. Denmore,
for instance.’
“I was terribly afraid that the
story xvas true, but I spoke to lessen
her anxiety. Tho look of a startled
hare came into her eyes, hut I did not
think about it until afterxvards. How
the men Alice overheard obtained
their information I do not knoxv, but
it xvas in substance true. A heartless
fraud had been committed, and appar¬
ently by R. Denmore. I xvas help¬
less. AVhat could I do? And then
Alice’s words and look took posses¬
sion of me. I think for a few days I
xvas almost mad. I need not tell you
hoxv, link by link, the chain of evi¬
dence was forged—I holped to forge it
myself. It xvas easy. The fact of my
preparations for leaving England, the
uncertainty of my destination, my
pledged credit.
“I xvas arrested, tried, convicted.
There xvas no mercy for the man
xvlio, by a heartless fraud, had brought
ruin aud destitution to many—death
by suicide to more than one. I was
sentenced to twenty years’ penal servi¬
tude. Txvo months ago to-morroxv I
regained my liberty.”
He stopped—his tale was told.
“Denmore!” I exclaimed, starting
to my feet. “You did this for a
brother’s sake?”
“No; for tho sake of the woman I
loved.”
“It was a monstrous folly, It was
wicked.”
“It is over.”
“And your brother?”
“He remained silent—has been
silent ever since. Things have pros¬
pered with him—fortune is hift.
Twenty years is a long time to re¬
member. He has quite forgotten
me.”
“Scoundrel! And his wife?”
“I do not know, Hargraves, but I
think she must have beliex'od me
guilty. You see, the evidence against
me I was very strong.”
xvas silent. Presently Denmore
took some papers from his pocket.
“I saw this ina shop xvindow yester¬
day, and bought it,” he saiil, handing
me a photograph. “On it xv»s printed,
‘Hon. Bichard Denmore and xvife.’
He has become famous. Do-you recog-
nize the picture?”
Then I remembered the occupants
of the carriage in the park.
“I think I have kept my oath, Har¬
graves.”
I took his hand and pressed it, but
T did not speak. A lump xvas in my
throat, and xvords would not come.—
The Home Queen.
Of the $569,000,000 worth of goods
exported from the United States last
year 1,340,000 tons of coal, 2,386,186
ounce!! of produce.
Green Fluke, one of the three col¬
ored men who xvere in the band <i
pioneer Mormons who founded Salt
Lake City, is still alive in Idaho,
)
THE SOUTHERN PEOPLE ARE THE
NEGROES’ BEST FRIENDS.
PHILOSOPHER DRAWS COMPARISONS
Ife Han Strong Conviction. In Itcgnrd to
Lynching and Throws Out Some
Timely Suggestions,
These “Boston yankees" already
have big money in cotton mills i'n
South Carolina. Three-fourths of the
capital in the new mills in Spartan¬
burg is New England money, and they
have never yet even suggested the OIll-
ployment is of negro operatives. Indeed,
it a new departure if Boston has
suddenly fallen in love with the negro,
for all the genuine yankees I know or
have known had little use for him, ex¬
cept as a base of political operations.
The new little city of Fitzgerald that
is made up of Illinois yaukeos, won’t
even allow him a domicile in the cor-
poration. I know a yankeo lady who
was taken sick here and she wouldn’t
cat anything they cooked, and liked to
have perished to death during her
long illness. Kind neighbors took
nice things to her, but had to tell her
they were cooked by negroes. It, is
curious how they don’t mix things
up north, for in one hotel you will
find all colored waiters and in another
all whites. There are hotels in Flor¬
ida where all the waiters are New Eng¬
land girls. In tho northwest no color¬
ed barbers are allowed. They would
lynch one just as soon as lie put up
his striped pole. Thero is really less
prejudice against tho negro at tho
south than at, the north. There are
more trades and occupations open to
him. But, all this has been said and
resaid for thirty years. “Oh, but you
lynch them,” they say, and the Now
York Herald keeps an account against
us—over 300 in the last twelve months,
If it was 3,000 we would still
ask, like Governor Oates, “What
are Lynching you going to do about it?”
for that crime is the law
of nature, and will goon. When juries
are organized to try hyenas and wolves
and gorillas, maybe these brutes in hu¬
man form will be tried, but not before.
The argument is exhausted, and we
stand by our wives and children. If
the brute who was burned at, Dallas
had had as many lives as a cat, I would
have have burned them all. The fate
of that poor little child has haunted
me ever since. And so let tho negro
bishops and preachers and teachers
and editors stop bewailing the lynch-
ings and go to denouncing the outrages
and teach to their people the enormity
of the crime and its swift and sure pun¬
ishment. The emotions of the human
heart are the same at Urbana as at
Dallas.
But Anglo-Saxon fears are aroused
prematurely. No white children have
yet been displaced that I have heard
of. The papers say that some xvealthy
negroes are about to build a cotton
mill in Alabama. That is alright, of
course, and they xvill employ negro
labor. Mr. Anglo-Saxon can’t com-
plain about that, but he charges that
Hon. Hoke Smith in 1.893 wrote an
article for The American Reviexv ad¬
vocating the employment of negro
labor in our cotton mills as a means
of competing xvith tho Chinamen.
Well, I don’t believe that Mr. Hoke
Smith wrote any such thing, for we
have no Chinamen in that business,
and if xve had, liow could tho negro
compete any better than the white
race? I know of no trade or occupa¬
tion in which the negro excels the
white man, either in skill or cheap¬
ness. But this man is very mad xvith
ns, and actually abuses Frank Stanton
for xvriting poetry about mules and
xvatermelons and violets and daisies,
while the white people nre threatened
with the direst calamity of thirty ye ars.
Stop, Stanton, stop; and write a poem
about the black cotton mills that loom
up in the distance.
But while on the subject of tho
dusky race, my attention was called by
my wife to a photograph and a sketch
of Queen Li 1 that appears in the July
number of The Puritan. The photo¬
graph indicates a handsome woman of
Moorish complexion and features quite
as English as Queen Victoria’s, Tho
sketch gives her praise for her man¬
ners and her lavish entertainments and
her modesty of deportment. It closes
with these words: “She is really a
queenly woman, Her bearing is dig-
nified, her manner gracious, her lan¬
guage perfect and one leaves her
presence echoing the sentiment: ‘< )nco
a queen, always a queen.’
Now that dethroned woman has been
the butt of hundreds of cruel jokes
and slanders and for what was it? For
political schemes that are noxv about
to mature in the annexation of Hawaii.
Or am I too suspicious of our Ameri¬
can politicians? May tho good Lord
help us all aud keep us frqm stealing,
especially from a woman.
P, S.—Allow me to thank all those
kind friends, far and near, who have
sent me the poem 1 asked for: “Man
xvauts but little here below,” by J. Q.
Adams, It gratifies me to learn that
so many are better versed in literaturo
than T am, and I thank them for their
kind consideration of my ignorance.—
Bill Art, in Atlanta Constitution.
A Kansas man has petitioned the
Legislature to change his name, John
Rat, because he can induce no young
woman to accept it. Very naturally
the feminine sex is averse to becoming
a Rat catcher.
Elects Senators by Popular Vote.
Next September, for ib« third time, South
Carolina will elect a Buffed States Senator
' v a popular vote.
THROUGH GEORGIA.
Preparations will be begun at OllCO
for the entertainment of the hordes of
old veterans that will pour into Atlanta
on the occasion of their reunion next
year. The veterans in the city aro all
enthusiastic over the next reunion.
They say Atlanta will do the right
thing and see that the thousands who
come will receive every attention.
A protest has been made against, the
issuance of a charter for the Teflon,
Thomasville and Gulf railway by the
owners of the Pensacola road, from
Pidcook to Moultrie, and the question
will be argued before the secretary of
state on Friday, July 2d. It is the
case of an existing road trying to shut
out competition under the ten-mile law,
The Third Georgia regiment, under
the command of Col. R, U, Thomason,
of Madison,xvill spend n xveek at Nash¬
ville during the summer. The trip
xvas planned during the stay of the
Third Georgia at Camp Northen re¬
cently and all the companies agreed to
go on the trip. The Clark Rifles xvill
be well represented on this trip.
Macon is to have a new hotel cost¬
ing anywhere from $250,000 to $356,-
000. The best business men in the
city are behind the movement They
set the necessity for a large and ele¬
gant hotel, and xvill put their money
and the money of a number of outside
capitalists into the enterprise. The
site has been selected, but tho promo¬
ters are keeping it a secret, Macon
has long felt the need of a lino hotel.
The report of the Fulton county
grand jury recommending that salaries
be paid the justices of the peace in¬
stead of fees has caused quite a stir
among Fulton county’s justices. While
the grand jury was in session nil of
the justices in the county wero summon¬
ed to appear and nearly all of them
were reprimanded for the manner in
xvhich they had conducted their offices.
There xvas some talk of finding a bill
against one or txvo of them for their
negligence in failing to record all of
the cases that come to their courts.
The brandy season is noxv on and
the moonshiners have competition in
the lino of supplying the thirsty xvith
pure distilled brandy. United States
Internal Revenue Collector Tramell is
busy issuing licenses to brandy mak¬
ers, who xvant to manufacture the fire
xvater during the peach season. The
number of patents issued so far is
small, but eventually the revenue men
think they will have more than they
can do registering the government dis¬
tillers. Mr. Trammell thinks that
there xvill be nearly 300 bonded dis¬
tilleries in Georgia this year. The
peach and apple crops are very large
and he thinks that a great deal of
brandy keepfcup xvill lie manufactured, lie
with the fruit crops and says
that this year’s yield xvill bo very good.
* * *
Mrs. Enoch G. Jones is still being
held at the Fulton county jail. The
authorities in Fayette county have sent
word to Sheriff Nelms that as the jail
in Fayetteville is not completed, it
will be best to let Mrs. Jones remain
in Atlanta pending her trial for assault
xvith intent to kill. Mrs. Jones spends
her time in sewing and reading. She
refuses to see any callers. Tho latest
news from the Jones’ home states that
the old man is getting along very well
and that his injuries will not prove
very serious. E. G. Jones is a first
cousin of the father of Mrs. McCul¬
lough, who xvas foully murdered near
Riverdale a year ago, and of which
murder John McCullough, her husband
is charged and in jail at Jonesboro
awaiting trial.
Judge Lumpkin, at Atlanta, lias
handed down his decision in Hie peti¬
tion of the receivers of the Southern
Mutual Building and Loan Association
asking for direction in regard to a
number of matters. The first question
answered is in regard to the defunct
association. Judge Lumpkin has de¬
cided that the association shall no
longer bo conducted and managed as
a going concern, lmt that it shall be
wound up in the nature of a liqnida-
tion, and that no further efforts “ shall ‘
he made either by tho court or the
stockholders to perfect a reorganiza¬
tion that would look to an increased
outlay of capital or a divergence of the
funds now in the custody of the re¬
ceivers. The second important ques¬
tion which has been decided by the
court is xvhelher or not a reward should
be offered for flic arrest and convic¬
tion of William 0. Hale, the erstwhile
president and wildcat financier. In
his order Judge Lumpkin decides that
the reward will not bo offered for tht
missing president.
A stiff fight is on between Governor
Atkinson arid Hie state geological de¬
partment. The first inkling of tho
fact that the governor didn’t love the
geological department came with the
day xvlien the Blalock investigating
committee began to examine the affairs
of that, department. Jt was then
found that the governor thought tho
state could got along without the de¬
partment, and if signs count for any¬
thing tho governor will try to have the
state geologist shoved out of a job, oi
l ather have> the job taken off the state
geologist, by abolishing the depart
ment. Tho first open demonstration
of war came when tho governor and
his party went up to Bee the exposition
at Nashville. The governor was in¬
finitely until pleased xvith the Georgia ex¬
hibit he came to the mineral dis¬
play. He looked up at the mineral
display and found that every Georgia
mineral sent from this section of the
stale xvas classed as coming from the
Birmingham, Ala., district,
T. P. GREEN. MANAGER.
THE SUBJECT OF MUCH SPECULA-
TION IN WASHINGTON.
PRESIDENT MAY RECOMMEND ONE,
It Is Rumored That no Will Send Special
Message to Congress Regard¬
ing tho Matter.
A Washington special of Friday
! says: The question of whether the
| president will send a special message
to congress recommending the crea¬
tion of a currency commission will be
definitely decided next week.
The president is strongly inclined
at this time to send a special currency
message to congress, regarding himself
as in a creditable measure pledged to
this course.
In fact, it xvas semi officially an¬
nounced at the white house that such
a message would be sent to congress
next week, but some of tho president’s
most influential advisers on financial
questions are opposed to a message as
impolitic at this time owing to hos¬
tility to a commission on the part of
congress, and the final determination,
ns stated, will not be reached until
Mr. McKinley’s return from Canton.
The executive committee of the In¬
dianapolis sound money convention
hax r e been actively advocating tho
committee’s scheme ever since the ad¬
vent of the present administration.
H has also tho sympathy of the presi¬
dent, xvlio committed himself to it in
his inauguration. President McKin¬
ley, however, did not rnro to recom¬
mend it to congress while the tariff
bill xvas pending lest it might compli¬
cate and delay action on that measure.
All along the chief difficulty which
presented itself to those xvlio favored
a, commission for the investigation of
tho currency system has been the op¬
position it would encounter in en li¬
gress,
AA’hile a bill for the creation of a coin-
mission could easily be passed in the
house where faot’ous opposition would
he unavailing against the operation of
a cloture order that would bring it to
a vole, such opposition in the senate
might be almost interminable. Sev¬
eral of the silver senators have openly
avowed then unalterable hostility to
the creation of a commission and Sen¬
ator Teller, of Colorado, has declared
that he would remain here unit! De¬
cember to defeat it.
This being the situation, it is under¬
stood that 8OH10 of tho executive com¬
mittee members of the Indianapolis
convention are noxv inclined to believe
that it would perhaps bo a mistake to
press their request for tho creation of
a commission by congress. The better
and wiser thing to do, some of them
noxv think, would bo to withdraw their
requests for a commission and to use
tho provisional power vested in tho
committee by the Indianapolis con¬
vention and themselves select a com¬
mittee to investigate the currency
question and present their conclusions
through the public press.
If those conclusions wore such as
the administration could subscribe to,
they could be made tho basis of an ad-
ininistration measure modified as Hoc-
retary Gage, conducting an independ-
ant investigation, might suggest.
Tho secretary has been at work for
some time on a comprehensive curren¬
cy reform scheme and some suggestion
lias been made ns to the wisdom of not
having a farther agitation of the ques¬
tion but of permitting Mr. Gage, who
has the full confidence of business
men generally, to frame a measure af-
ter as much consultation as he may de¬
sire xvith financiers, business men,
members of Iho houso and the senate
and others.
Tho matter xvas under discussion at
the cabinet meeting Friday, but not in
a manner to lead to a definite conclu-
sion on policy, and the matter wont
over until their return to the city
next, xveek, xvliou it is probable that
Mr. 11. M. Hanna, chairman of the
executive committee of the Indianap-
olis convention, and perhaps other
members of the committee will come
to Washington to discuss the sitxiatiou
xvith the president and Mr. Gage.
Upon the result of the conference
xvdl proba ily depend I resident Me-
Kinlcy s action as to a special nies-
sago to congress.
TO TAX STOCKS AMI RONDS.
IjOtlg© I’ropofioi Anwmliufiiit to Tariff Bill
lor Tlmfc Purposes
A Washington telogram says: Sena-
tor Lodge Friday proposed a draft of
an amendment to the tariff bill provi-
ding for a tax on stocks and bonds.
As prepared, the amendment
vides for a tax of 5 cents a share on
$100 or fraction of the face value of
capital stock or of bonds of either is-
Finance, and of 2 cents each for each
*100 or fraction on each transfer
stocks or bonds. United States and
state bonds are exempted, as aro in-
dividual bonds to secure mortgages,
aml also the stock and bonds of mu
trial benefit building associations.
CORNELL WINS AGAIN.
Thin TIm« the Doughty Crew Captures tho
Fresh man Face.
Cornell won the freshman race at
Poughkeepsie, N. Y„ Wednesday, by
three-fourths of a length; Columbia
second, by one-third of a length over
Pennsylvania. The official time: Cor-
noil, 9 minutes 21 1-5 seconds; Oolum-
liia, 9 minutes 22 3-5 seconds; Penn-
sylvauia, 9 minutes 23 1-5 seconds.
Tho race was over the two-mile
course botweon three American orews
rowing xvith purely American laethoda.
OFFICIAL STRIKE ORDER
Iasuad By National Board of United Min©
Workers, With Instructions.
A special of Friday from Columbus,
O., says: A general strike of miners
of the United Mine Workers of America
has been ordered for July 4th by tbo
ntiaonal executive board, whose head¬
quarters are in this city, and also by
the district presidents, as a result of
the meeting held hero June 24th, 25th
and 26th. The official document says:
“To the Mine Workers of the Coun¬
try, Greeting— Fellow Miners: At the
last annual convention of the United
Mine Workers of America, held in the
city of Columbus, O., January 12-16,
1867, it was determined that the scale
of prices should be advanced to the
following rates:
pick “Pennsylvania mining, (Pittsburg district) Ohio,
69 cents per ton ;
60 cents per ton; Indiana, bitumin¬
ous), 60 cents per ton; Illinois (Grape
creek), 55 cents per ton. Machine
mining to be paid three-fifths per ton
of the price for pick mining except in
Indiana (bituminous), four-fifths where the price
shall lie per ton of the price
paid for pick mining; other mining
sections a corresponding increase in,
price that will place them on a relative
basis.
“It xvas further agreed that the
time for tho enforcement of the scale
was loft with tho national board and
district presidents to determine when
it xvas most opportune to put this
scale into effect.”
The document then urges unanimity
and fidelity among the members.
“The signs of the times,” tho paper
says, “as pointed out by the press and
by the affairs testimony of men versed in
public arc that business is im¬
proving; that au upward tendency in
prices of all eomodities is apparent.
“In the general business revival and
industrial improvement which is ear¬
nestly proclaimed xve ought to share,
and if xve do not attempt to share, xve
shall bo false to ourselves aud to those
dependent upon us.
“Let the watchword bo,” says the
circular, “mine xvorkers aro entitled
to a fair day’s pay for a fair day’s xvork:
Local committees aro directed to bo
formed, “and see that action is
taken at once. The field is large and’
it xvill be an impossibility for national
and district officers to attend at all
points, consequently all local leaders
arc ordered to assume the responsi¬
bility and authority for the successful
oonsumation of our desires,
“To insure success great caro should
be exercised by all that no breach of
tht: peaco occurs at any time or place,
under any circumstances. Bulletins
xvill be issued from time to time to
keep you informed of the progress of
affairs. ”
STRONG RESOLUTIONS
Adopted by the fteorght Bur Association
lteemnmeiidifiK Kolb tins.
The following resolutions were
adopted by the Georgia Bar associa¬
tion in session at Warm Springs, after
the warmest debate which has ever
agitated the association:
“Resolved, That it Is the sense of this as¬
sociation—
“1. That criminal pleadings should he
amendable.
“2. That tlic stale and the defendant in
criminal oases should ho put upon an equal¬
ity in tho challenges of jurors.
“3. That prisoners who desire to make
any statements on their own behalf shall ilo
so under oath and subject to cross-exainina-
tion; that in 1I«» of the rigid, to makes
statement, ns Is now practiced, tho defend¬
ant shall have tho right to be Sworn as a
witness lu his own behalf,
“4. That the president shall appoint a
special committee of nine, of xvldcli Judge
Georgs ffillyer, of Atlanta, shall ho chair¬
man, to present tho draft of bills embodying
the foregoing resolutions to the next general
assembly, and shall urge the adoption tliere-
of.
“B. That said committee be, and is hereby
requested to present to tho next meeting of
this association a report covering the wholo
subject of needed reforms in tho criminal
law and its administration, and shall cause
to be printed and mailed to each member of
this association, thirty days before the next
meeting, a copy of said report.”
LAW SHUTS THEM UP.
A third Louisville building and loan
association, The Globe, xvent to the
wall Friday afternoon, finding itself
unable to carry on business under the
state law as construed Viy the appellate
court. The assets and liabilities are
estimated at $400,000 each. The
managers and presidents of the build*
ing and loan associations have issued
cards calculated to restore confidence.
TWO B. & L. FAILURES.
Caused By a Recent Decision of Kentucky
Appellate Court.
The Commercial Building Trust, a
corporation doing building . and , , loan
a
business at Louisville, Ky., assigned
Wednesday. liabilities ..
The assets and . estima-
are
ted & about half a million dollars
each- The assignment is caused by
Hie recent decision of the appellate
court in which it was held that all nr
forest charged or collected by any cor-
poration or persons in Kentucky ill
excess of 6 per cent xvas usury.
Following , the heels of the faii-
on
nre of the Commercial Building Irust,
tho Columbia Building and Savings
Anraoc'iatloru went to tho wall.
THIS TRAIN WAS DITCHED.
only One Passenger, However, Was So-
rionsly Hurt Tn tho Smash-Up.
__ The westbound ,, . passenger train on
the Oregon Short Line road went into
the ditch near Glenn s ferry, Idaho,
Wednesday night, owing to a broken
One person was seriously .... injured .
and one slightly injured Iho names
of the injured one is not given
| Superintendent O ft 'jm and Chief
Bxirgeon Pwkerton left on a special
train for the soene of the aooident.