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WASHINGTON, D. C.
NEWS NOTES AND ITEMS FROM
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Proceeding’s of the Second Ses¬
sion of the 51st Congress.
CLOSING SCENES.
Tho fifly-fir-t con.iess was brought to
a close Wednesday nt noon. in the
It ended at no other congress
history of this country has ever ended.
Indeed, the scenes at die close were a
conglomeration of cheers, for the past by
the republicans and yells of delight for
the future by the democrats. The audi¬
ence, like the numbers, whs divided in
its enthusiasm, but all ended with the
“doxology” from every throat of tho
10,090 that, trowded on the floor and into
the galleries. remained in from
The senate sess on
Tuesday night until daylight Wednesday
morning, when a recess was taken foi
breakfast. But at 9 o’clock it met again
and proceeded iu a rush until noon. The
senate as usual was dry. Mr. Morton
made a short speech at the close, and after dig¬
being thanked for the courteous
nified and able (the word “lmrartial”
being omitted) manner in which he had
presided. Then after setting back the
hands of the clock three times the hour
•of noon was finally reached and the sen¬
ate udjourued. house night without
The sat all a
moment’s recess. It was dry in the house
up to shortly before noon as in the senate.
But after all the appropriation bills were
Anally disposed of, Speaker Keed rttired
from the chair, and Major McKin¬
ley offered a resolution thankin'?
him for the “able, impartial and
•dignified manner in which he had pre¬
aided.” The democrats had nothing to
say of this. They simply demanded the
ayes and nays, and each and every one oi
them voted “no.” Every republican
voted “aye,” and Speaker Reed was
thanked by a strictly partisan vote of 152
to 116. When the vote was announced
by Mr. Payson, from the chair, the re¬
publicans, to a man, rose and yelled.
They threw paper files and books in the
air and cheered until they could cheer no
more. But hardly had the applause
ceased, when the speaker returned and it
broke out again, even more enthusiasti
•cally than before, but Reed rapped for
order and appeared not to recognize it.
Then Mr. Cannon announced that all the
appropriation bills were safe, and the
government was provided for. Again the
republicans cheered. A few miuutes
later, the speaker announced that a mis¬
take had occurred in enrolling the
agricultural bill and the appropriation
for $150,000 to buy seeds for the western
farmers that have suffered by the drouth,
'which had been stricken out, was in the
bill when the president signed it. He
•offered a resolution to correct it with the
required unanimous consent. Mr. Pickier
of South Dakota who fought hard to get
it in the bill, but failed, was delighted at
the mistake, and he rushed to the front
and objected to any correction. As he
•did it, Mr. Funston, of Kansas, who had
charge of the bill, likewise rushed to the
front in frenzy of rage, and, pointing hiss¬ his
finger in the face of the alliancman.
ed: “Shame on you? Shame on you! You
villian 1 You villiau 1” Then everybody
yelled, and hissed, and hooted, but Pick
fler stood his ground. This over, but
•eight minutes remained before noon.
SPEEKER REED’S FAREWELL ADDRESS.
A hundred members were yelling “Mr.
Speaker,” but Reed recognized proceeded no one. de¬
He rapped for order and to
liver his farewell speech. He began by
saying: “After two long aud stormy
sessions, in some respects unparalleled in
100 years, the house of representatives with of
the fifty-first congress will soon pass
a completed record into the history of
the country; and its work will follow it.”
He scored the democrats in the very last
sentence and went down with colors fly¬
ing. He closed his speech as follows:
“Towards those who have opposed what
the majority of the house has desired, we
can have no unkindly or personal feeling.
Whoever offers battle to old convictions
and faiths must expect battle, and the
vigor of resistance must always bear
•some proportion members to the vigoj <Joi
onset To the on A r my
left, with whom I am politically
associated. I beg to tender my most
sincere and heartfelt acknowledgments.
No man ever received more ungrudging
and unflinching support, or from a band
••of men more patriotic. I am proud to
acknowledge in all that has been done I
have been but one in the multitude, and
that the honors of the fifty-first congress
belong to you alone. I now declare this
house to be adjourned without day.”
As the gave 1 fell and Speaker Reed
stepped down and out, every man on the
.floor arose. They applauded, the and air
•cheered, and threw papers into
until the floor of the house looked like a
cyclone had struck it. The republicans
•cheered for what has been, and the dem¬
ocrats for what is to be. Then the re¬
publicans struck up the song, “Tramp,
-tramp, tramp, we are marching, ” and, as
that was concluded, the 200 newspaper
■correspondents in the press gallery re¬
sponded, saying, “Listen to My Tale of
Woe.” It was so appropriate that every¬
body laughed and applauded. Then the
■correspondents sang a song, entitled,
“Goodbye, Congress,” and followed it
■with, “Praise God from Whom All
Blessings Flow,” which was taken up by
■every voice in the great hall, aud sang in
tones thr.t made the very stained glass of
the ceiling vibrate in unison. It -was a
-great, a wonderful scene. There was
never anything like it before. There
•never will be again.
NOTES. *,
Jim the negro who President
Harrison n^poinlwl p stimoter at Vi ks
burg, failed to lieconfirm' <1 by the senate
Societal - '' of War Proctor issued a gen
eral order Friday nf'ernoon authorizing
the enlistment in the army of not more
than 2,000 Indians.
The president, on Saturday, Idaho, United appointed
James H. Beatty, of States
district judge for Idaho. The president
nominated him to thesenate, but the m in
inatiou failed of action.
A rumor has been current at Washing¬
ton to the effect that, upon information
cabled by the Chinese minister there, the
Chinese government has entere I an oh
lection to Senator Blair as minister to
that country. 'Ihe Chinese minister be¬
ing in Peril, Mr. Yo, one of the attaches
of the legation, was on Tuesday ques
dotted and in reply to inquiries said that
there was absolutely no truth in the re¬
port.
The president signed the Friends copyright
bill Wednesday morning. of
the bill bad asked Private Secretary
Halford to request the president to place quill
his signature to the measure with a
pen of the style used in the early days of
legislation, and this was done, The
quill vt as plucked from the wings of a
large American eagle and was at least
two feet long. It was sent to the presi¬
dent by Robert U. Johnson, of New
York, secretary of the International
Copyright League. The pen was then
returned to Mr. Johnson with the presi¬
dent’s compliments.
The following is an approximate state¬ both
ment of the appropriations made at
sessions of the fifty-first congress, commit- pro
pared by the clerk of the senate
tee ou bills, appropriations: deficiencies Amount and of mis- reg
ular including
cellaneous appropriations for the first
session, $361,700,000; amount of regular
bills, including deficiency and miscella
neous appropriations for the second ses
sion, $405,000,000; permanent appropri
ations for tho first session, about $101,
000,000, and permanent appropriations
for 1892, estimated, $122,000,000. This
makes a grand total of $989,000,000.
A petition has been signed by near 200
congressmen aud senators requesting the
president to appoint Judge Culberson,
of exas. junge of the sixth judicial cir
cuit, provided for in the new circuit
court law. Although Judge Culberson
is a staunch democrat, has served eigh¬
teen years in congress aud has been re¬
elected, it is believed that on account of
his great legal ability Mr. Harrison will
appoint him. Judge Culberson has had
the reputation for ten yeats of being the
ablest lawyer in either house of congress.
His opinions are sought on all questions,
and it is certain that no better man to
fill the office could be found in America.
The sixth circuit comprises Georgia.
LEFT THE TRACK.
The Fireman Killed and Two
Passengers Fatally Injured.
A Jacksonville Southeastern fast pas¬
senger train, over the Atchison, Topeka
aud Santa Fe, met with a terrible acci¬
dent at Havana, Ill., Sunday. The train
consisted of a baggage car, coach, chair
car and two sleepers, and was an hour
aud a half late, owing to the terrible
storm which raged all night. At Havana
the engine struck a curve at the switch
and left the track. All the cars followed,
jtiling up in great confusion. Under the
engine was the fireman, Saddler, who
was instantly killed. Engineer Birken¬
head, had one arm and one leg cut off.
Many others were more or less seri¬
ously injured, txvo of whom will die
The wreck immediately took fire and
burned with great rapidity. It was with
the utmost difficulty that some of the
passengers were rescued, and one or twi
were burned. The loss to the company
including death and accident claims,
will not fall short of $100,000.
TOM HARDEMAN DEAD.
The Life of a Patriot, Soldier
and Statesman Ended.
The great heart of Hon. Thomas
Hardeman, Jr., has cea‘c;i to beat, and
the voice of Georgia’s peerless orator is
silenced forever. The patriot, soldier
and statesman passed peacefully fashionable away sub¬ at
his home in Yineville, a
urb of Macon, on Saturday morning.
For sever d years Colonel Hardeman had
suffered from heart trouble, which finally
caused liis death. The deceased was the
son of the late lamented Thomas Harde¬
man, Sr. He was born in Eatonton, Ga.,
Putnam county, January 12, 1825, con¬
sequently he was a little more than sixty
six years of age. He graduated at Em
ory college, Oxford. In college he was
noted for his oratorical powers. He filled
many offices of trust and honor, and his
services in behalf of his beloved state
will he a lasting monument to his mem¬
ory.
THE PAPER PROTESTS
Against a Supposed Scheme of
Uncle Sam.
The Ileraldo, a newspaper published at
Madrid, in an article protesting against
the supposed scheme of the United St tes
government to annex the island of Cuba,
says that Mr. Blaine ought to recollect
that the congress of American nations
plainly proved that the Spanish-Amcri
cans are not disposed to allow themselves
to he absorbed by the great northern re¬
public. The people and of Cuba, it says, arc
strongly Spanish, becoming are of equally the United op¬
posed to part
States. Probably, with the exception of
a few tradesmen, there is no one- on Ihe
island who is at all desirous of annexa¬
tion. Spain, the paper continues, would
shed her last drop of blood in resisting colony^
any attempt to deprive her of her
fearing neither Cuban revolution nor war
w bk the United States.
SOUTHERN BRIEFS
Daily occurrences in the
SUNNY SOUTHLAND
Curtailed into Interesting 1 and
Newsy Paragraphs.
The census bureau gives the popu'a
tion of Texas as 2,235,523.
The census bureau gives the popula¬
tion of Louisiana as 1,118,547.
Ex-Senator Jashua Ilill died at his
home, in Madison, Ga., on Friday after¬
noon.
The census bureau gives the popula¬
tion of the State of North Carolina as
1,017,947.
On Friday the North Carolina senate
passed the bill making the changes in the
congressional districts, in accordance with
the new census.
The courthouse at Archer, Texas, was
burned Friday night, together with
nearly all the county records. Loss esti¬
mated at $50,000.
The state senate of West Virginia on
Friday, fixed the sum to be spent at the
world’s fair at $40,000 double the sum
spent at the centennial in 1876.
The indications are that the American
Tobacco company, in addition to its
cigarette factories, is buying up all the
leading factories of Virginia.
The census bureau l.as announced the
population of the state of Georgia by
races as follows: Whites, 973,462; col
oied, 862,716; Indians, 64; Chinese, 110:
Japanese, 1. Total, 1,837,333.
The city of Montgomery. Ala., has
disposed of the bonds issued for paving
purposes, and the work the of putting d. iwn
belgian blocks on principal streets
w jn | je begun at an early date,
The census bureau has announced the
population of the state of Virginia by
races, as follows: Whites, 1,014.608;
colored, 640,657; Indians, 370; Chine-e,
50; aapanese, 12; total for the state,
j ’ (jgg 970
j ud ^ „ e Head, ’ at Jasper, t ’ Ala., ’ has set
aside verdi ct rend ere d by J the jury J J
against the Kansas City, Memphis &
Birmingham railroad for $44,500, for kill¬
ing R. E. Sanders in a collision. A new
trial has been ordered.
The North Carolina legislature has
wound up its business. It has redis¬
tricted the state, making eight demo¬
cratic and one republican district. It
has appropriated $25,000 for an exhibit
at the xvorld’s fair, and $10,000 for a
geological survey.
The Texas senate and house met in
joint session Saturday aud adopted reso- the
lutions of respect to the memory of
late Jefferson Davis. After prayer by
the chaplain, the members paid glowing
tributes to the deceased chieftain of the
confederacy.
A special from Luray, Va., says: D.
F. who Koggand failed in J. W. business Miller, last Luray December, bankers
were arrested in Newmarket, Va., Sat¬
urday morning, upon warrants sworn out
by various depositors in the bank. A
preliminary examination was waived, and
they were bailed in $20,000 for their ap¬
pearance at the March court.
Afire at Shelbyville, Tenn., Sunday
morning, destroyed five store houses, to¬
gether with their contents. The build¬
ings were valued at $20,000, and the
total loss on buildings and stocks is be¬
tween $45,000 aud $50,000; nearly all
covered by insurance. The Bedford
County Times was also burned out and
the stock of several other merchants dam¬
aged by being removed.
Judge King, of the civil district court
at New Orleans, Thursday, decided the
Hope bond case in favor of the state.
The suit involves over $4,000,000 of state
bonds. The court held that the state’s
obligation upon the bonds sued on was
that of surety, aud not of principal and or
creditor with the Citizens’ bank,
that when the. latter was released from its
obligation, the was also discharged.
A dispatch of Thursday, says: W. J.
Cowart, tax collector aud sheriff of
Marion county, Miss., had absconded
with the public funds. He had probably
owes the state $2,000. He been
sheriff sever il ye>rs, and is ihe same
officer who failed to prevent the Sullivan
and Kilrain fight, though he was on the
ground. He was afterward inoicted
for receiving a bribe of $5u0, but the
charge was not proven.
J. S. Mooring, president of the Annis¬
ton, Ala., National Bank, received a tele¬
gram Friday afternoon, from the receiver
of the United States Rol ing Stock, A.
Hegewiscb, instructing him to draw ou
the receiver in New York, for the amount
necessary to pay creditors. The nnis
ton Plant, Mooring’s bunk, is trustee for
the attaching creditors, and the amount
due them is $90,000. This payment re¬
leases the Anniston works.
At a joint meeting of the Cotton ex¬
change and Merchants’ exchange, of
Memphis, held Saturday, action was
taken against the measure now pending
in the Tennessee legis ature, prohibiting
the movement of freight trains on Suu
day, a resolution was adopted setting
forth “that such legislation that must result
in turning the business now comes
to and passes through this state, • n to
and ov r the lines of tra sportation
around Tennessee, an will delay, hamper
and injure our owi trade and traffic.
tioned Our senators to reject and representatives this and are leave peti
measure
the matter free, as hretof re, until such
time as congress may see fit to subject
all lines and all mark ets of the union
alike to such res:rict:ons.”
thefr^busiuess ^jlLerchants should who want advertise to build in this up
paper, as it will pay hem to do so.
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■AND
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CURES
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NERVOUS DISEASES.
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To the Gteat South American Medicine Co.:
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Ex-Treas. Co.
A SWORN CURE FOR ST. VITUS’S DANCE OR CHOREA.
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Stale Montgomery of Indiana, County, \ J 887
19, Subscribed 1887. Chas. and sworn M. Travis, to before me Public. this May
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Crawfokdsville, Ind., June 22,1887.
My daughter, eleven years old, wa3 severely
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Subscribed and swora to before mo this Jung
22,1887. Chas. W. Wright,
Notary PubUo. i