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ALLIANCE TALKS.
HEWS OF THE ORDER AND
ITS MEMBERS
Beform Press Comment and Items of
Interest to Ahianeemen Everywhere.
The Louisiana State Alliance has ex¬
pelled nine members of the legislature be¬
cause they voted for the Lottery. Hur
t&h for Louisianaj
Some of the papers countinue to refer
to the “Alliance split.” These papers
had letter look for leaks and “splits” in
other directions. The Alliance split is
not their property, even if there had been
a split.
***
Lcgislatlbn in the interest of the farm¬
ers cannot be class legislation. population They
constitute a mnjority of the
end whatever shall be done for the ma¬
jority cannot be for a class. A class
must be the minority, in the sense iu
which class legislation is used.—Alli¬
ance Herald.
***
The Nashville Toiler is right when it
Cays: “It is only a matter of time when
the great mass, the rank and file of
American citizens, will rise and in one
▼oice demand the disarming of plutocra¬
cy. The tide of reform has set in and it
may be temporarily diverted, but perma¬
nently impeded, never.”
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TIIE GREAT DIFFERENCE.
Plain Talk gets off the following
•bout the difference in interest under the
present system, and what it would be in
certain cases if the Sub-Treasury was in
operation:
The Sub-Treasury plan may be “im¬
practical;” but suppose, for instance,
-that the farmers of Union county were
only compelled to pay 2 per cent, on
the $50,000 they borrowed during and the
thirty days between October 14th
November 14th. The interest on $50,
000 for one year at 2 per cent would
equal $1,000. The probability is that
4hem under the present plan this money The costs in¬
an average of 12 per cent.
terest on $50,000 at 12 per cent for one
year is $6,000; and the difference be¬
tween the subtreasury plan and the pres
eut plan is the difference between $1,000
and $6,000. In other words the
farmer would save $5,000 a year by the
adoption of the subtreasury and land
Joan plan. Would this not be a very
^radical method of increasing the pros¬
perity of the farmer?
***
WHAT A PREACnEB SAYS.
We clip the following from the New
York Herald of recent date. It is inter¬
esting reading, coming as it does from a
noted divine:
The Rev. Thomas Dixon had some¬
thing to say for the Farmer’s Alliance in
his reninks preceeding his sermon in As¬
sociation Hall. He said that it was by
>no means sure that the recent election
had proved a death blow to the Alliance—
“this nameless hobgoblin with hayseed
in its hair.” “The simple truth is,” he
said, “that all this talk about the death
of the Farmer’s Alliance and Industrial
Union is cheap partisan twaddle. Its life
Was not involved in the fight. It was
not seriously affected by these elections
because it is primarily a moral, not a
political in its movement. last analysis The movement religious
is a
movement and finds its basis on the
religious natures of the millions of
under masses who compose its rank and
file. $fot a single one of the problems
that gays birth to this movement has been
met as yet. They have not even been
given a hearing. They have been hooted
out of court by the hired assassins of
thought in the older parties, who fight not
for principle but for office. In bread spite of
good crops, gambling in the of a
starving world still holds its carnival of
hell on the floor of your exchanges.
Conservatives may hoot and poohl and
bah! but the movement is one of the
restless power. You had as well try to
sweep back the sea with a goose’s tail
feather as to try to stop it with the pen
of ridicule. You had as well try to dam
Niagara with an anathema.”
***
THEY VIOLATE THE BANKING LAW.
The Plain Talk, of South Dakota, has
the following article in regard to the
national banking business:
The national banking law was passed
for the purpose of furnishing means
through which the peoplb oould be sup¬
plied with currency. The banks were
intende 1 to be banks of issue merely.
The officers are forbidden by law to use
the money in speculation. They can
only loan it out, and the loans cannot
be made on real estate or chattels, for
this would afford a means by which the
currency might go out of the active
channels of business on long time loans.
The bank currency was intended for
ahort discounts, and with a view of keep¬
ing money actively in circulation the
^banking law requires that the bankers
shall take only personal security on loans
of money. But this the banks do not do.
They do not loan money, as banks, if that
can be avoided. Go into any national
bank to borrow money and ic nine cases
out of ten the note you give will not be
drawn in favor of the bank, but to some
-of the officers of the bank; and by this
-device a chattel mortgage will be taken
and you will pay 12 per cent interest or
more for your “accommodation,”
instead of the straight ten national per
cent permitted by the
bank act. In this manner the law ia
evaded and purpose defeated. But when
*be cheap demagogues who contend that
J ‘national banks don’t pay,” assertions, begin to
produce figures to prove their
they invariably pretend that the banks
only get 10 per cent, for their money.
But the fact is that there is not a bank
in South Dakota that makes a practice of
making discounts at straight 10 per cent., in
and there is not odb note iu ten drawn
the name of the bank. The national
banks are constant and willful law vio¬
lators, and the record of the nutional
bank failures ought to be a warning to all
sensible men that these institutions are
very unsafe as places of deposit.
***
HOLD YOUR COTTON.
During the late letsion of the Supreme
Council of the National Farmers’ Al¬
liance and Industrial Union the follow¬
ing resolution was offered, and unani¬
mously adopted: That committee consisting
Resolved, a each State be
of one delegate from cotton
appointed to take under consideration
and if possible formulate some plan by
which the world’s greatest producers of
the South’s greatest staple, cotton, toregu'ate may
be able to some extept at least
me quautuy, consumption and market¬
ing time and price of said crop. made
By motion the committee report was a
standing one to make a final at the
next annual meeting.
Several resolutions relative to acreage,
marketing, etc., were introduced by L,
F. Livingston, of Georgia; R. F. Rogers,
of Florida, and others. The committee
made a partial report by offering as a
substitute the following resolutions:
Whereas, The cotton growers of the
South are greatly oppressed because of
the depressed price of the raw material,
caused, in a measure, from combines and
speculations in futures, but mainly from
an unjust, oppressive and discriminating
financial system and a high protective materials;
tariff on manufactured cotton
and whereas, it is now alleged by specu¬
lators and combines that overproduction in
is the prime cause of depression
prices, when in fact we have overproduc¬ reason to
know that the cause is not
tion, but underconsumption caused by
inabi ity to buy . esulting from advanced
prices of manufactured articles cf cot¬
ton and other causes as stated above;
and wlureas, it h»s been recommended
1 y members of the Farmers’ Alliance in
several States in the cotton belt that
the acreage be decreased one-third by
the growers, and knowing, as we
do, that the price of the raw material
cannot be affected by the loyal Alliance
men alone of the many thousand growers
decreasing their acreage, while, in fact,
the effort to thus reduce the quantity
would actuate thousands of growers to
increase their acreage in cotton; there¬
fore, as one of the remedies to secure an
advanced price in raw cotton material by
cheapening and the manufactured products, the
thereby increase the ability of
masses to cousume; be it
Resolved, That the National Farmers’
Alliance and Industrial Union, represent¬
ing the best interests of the pro¬
ducers and consumers of America alike,
do respectfully ask that Congress entirely
relieve manufactured articles of cotton
from any tariff duty whatever, and place
the same on the tree list of Americen
products. Resolved, That of these resolu¬
a copy
tions be certified to the speaker of the
bouse of representatives and president of of
the senate of the fifty-second congress
America, duly attested by the president Farmers’
and secretary of the National
Alliance and Industrial Union under seal
of supreme council,
Marion Butler, chairman, North Caro¬
lina; W. D. G. Gibbs, Mississippi; H.
D. Greer, Tennessee; S. M. Adams, Ala
Lama; R. F. Rogers, Florida; L. P.
Featherston, Arkansas; T. A. Clayton,
Louisiana; Harry Tracy, Texas; D. P. 1
Duncan, South Carolina; G. M Lorden,
Missouri; L. F. Livingston, Georgia.
A further report of the committee is as
follows:
Resolved, That, being in possession of
facts that are thoroughly reliable which
warrant us in a belief that a false esti¬
mate has been purposely made of the
present crop of cotton, we feel safe in
guaranteeing better prices if cotton can
be held for sixty days.
TWO TICKETS.
The Lottery Question Causes a Demo¬
cratic Split in Louisiana.
A dispatch of Thursday from Baton
Rouge, La., says: In the democratic
primary democratic held in this state for delegates to
the convention there were two
tickets, one favoring the nomination of
Judge S. D. McEnery and the adoption
of the proposed revenue amendments to
the constitution known as the lottery
amendments; the other a ticket, favoring
T. 8. Adams, of the Farmers’ Alliance,
for governor and opposed to the
adoption of the lottery amendments,
and was known as the Adams
anti-lottery elected combine faction. The Mc¬
Enery panj more than four hun¬
dred of the 686 members of the demo¬
cratic convention, while the Adams anti¬
lottery combine elected but 233 uncon¬
tested delegates. Being hopelessly in the
minority, the members of the combine
faction concluded to hold a oonvention
of their own. The governor of the state
belonging to this minority faction, al¬
lowed them to meet in the state house,
while the majority is holding the state
democratic conven ion at Pike’s hall.
FEDERAL DISBURSEMENTS;
Finances Considerably Reduced on
Account of Heavy Pensions.
A Washington dispatch of Thursday
says: The recent heavy disbursements
for pensions have reduced the treasuiy
cash balance to $33,128,315, of which
amount $13,369,491 is on deposit with
national ha ks, and $13,984,292 iB in
subiidi uy coin.
NATIONAL CAPITAL
THE FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS
AT WORK.
Daily Routine ©f Both Houses Briefly
Outlined.
TIIE HOUSE.
Wednesday Wednesday. —In his opening chaplain prayer in¬
morning, the
voked Divine protection on the members
of the house against the assaults of the
insiduous disease, influenza, now per¬
vading the land. The speaker announced
the appointment ol the committee on
rules as follows: Speaker (Chairman),
McMillin, Catchings, Reed and Burrows.
Burrows, of Michigan, presented the
report of the board of visitors to the mil¬
itary academy. Referred. Oates, of
Alabama, offered a resolution standing providing
for the appointment the of order a com¬ busi¬
mittee on of
ness, to consist of fifteen mem¬
bers of which the speaker shall be
ex-officio chairman which shall have
jurisdiction of order in which that busi¬
ness shall be considered as having due
regard to lairness and equity transaction among sev¬ of
eral committees and to the
public business. Referred to the com¬
mittee on rules. Bartine, of Nevada,
who has been absent on account of
illness, appeared at the bar of Taylor, the house of
and took the oath of office.
Tennessee, rising, said that it was his
mournful duty to announce the death of
his friend and colleague, Hon. Leonidas
C. Houk, who died suddenly from acci¬
dental poisoning at his home in Knox¬ after
ville, in May last. Mr. Ilouk,
serving gallantly in the war, and
after having held various state
offices, had been elected to the 46th con¬
gress and to each successive congress
since. He had a hold on his people far
beyond that of any other man or combi¬
nation of men. Had he lived he could
have been returned to congress as long as
he might have desired to remain in pub¬
lic service. He died poor in this world’s
goods, but rich in friendship and love for
his countrymen. The house then, as a
mark of respect to the memory of the
deceased, adjourned until Saturday.
THE SENATE.
Among the bills introduced in the
senate lowing; Monday and referred were the fol¬
For the monument to General
U. 8. Grant in the city of Washington;
a bill amending the Chinese exclusion
act so United as to require Chinese removed from
the States to be sent to China, in¬
stead of the country from whence they
came. It is provided further that the
burden shall be on any Chinese laborer
or person who shall claim the right to
remain in the United States to establish
such right; to repeal all laws discriminat¬
ing against the circulation of state banks;
to prohibit absolutely the coming of
Chinese into the United States, whether
they are Chinese subjects or otherwise.
Mr Aldrich moved an amendment to the
rule regulating admission to the floor of
the senate. The amendment was adopt¬
ed. The principal change is as to clerks
to committee and clerks to senators,
they are admitted when “in actual dis¬
charge of their official duties, ” and it is
provided that clerks to senators “must
be regularly appointed arid be borne on
the rolls of the secretary of the senate as
such.” The senate then went into execu¬
tive session, when some nominations were
referred to committees, and, then, at 1:20
o’clock the senate adjourned till Tuesday'.
Wednesday —The president sent to
the senate the following nominations:
To be United States circuit judges, as
provided by section 1. chapter 517, U.
S. statutes at large, William L. Putnam,
of Main, for first judicial circuit; Na¬
thaniel Shipman, Connecticut, for sec¬
ond; George M. Dallas, Pennsylvania,
third; Nathan Goff, West Virginia,
fourth; Win. H. Taft, Ohio, sixth; Wm.
A. Woods, Indiana, seventh; Warren
Truitt, Oregon, U. S. district judge for
the district of Alaska. Memorials were
presented and referred against the open¬
ing of the world’s fair on Sunday, favor¬
ing women’s suffrage, promoting efficien¬
cy in the life savins service, and f§r the
election of United States senators by the
people. A number of bills were intro¬
duced, Stewart gave notice that he
would on Monday adddress the senate on
that portion of the president’s message
relative to the coinage of silver. The
senate at 12:40 proceeded with the execu¬
tive business and at 1:15 adjourned until
Thursday.
Thursday. —Senator Manderson pre¬
sided over the meeting Thursday as
president pro tem. On motion of
Senator Cullom, rule 24 (for appoint¬
ment of committees by ballot) was sus¬
pended, and a resolution was offered by
him for appointment of standing and
select committees. Mr.Cockerill remarked
that in the absence of Vance (not yet
sworn in) the committee places that were
intended for him and that will be as¬
signed to him as soon as he takes his
seat, had been temporarily assigned to
his colleague (Ransom). So, too, places
on the committee that would be
assigned to Mr. Hill, of New
York, when he took his seal, were tem¬
would porarily assigned to other senators. That
explain, he said, why so many
committee places were assigned to Mr.
Ransom and other democratic senators.
The resolution for the appointment was
agreed to. The president pro tem. laid
before the senate the credentials of Sen¬
ator-elect Hill, of New York, and they
were read and placed on file. Turpie
then proceeded to address the senate in
support of a joint resolution introduced
by him December 10, proposing an
amendment to the constitution, providing
for electing United 8tates senators by di¬
rect vote of the people of the several states.
Mr. Stewart then proceeded to address
the senate on that part of the president's
message relating to free coinage. He
closed with the remark that the silver
question could not be ianored, that it
must be settled; and that ‘unsettled
questions have no pity for the repose of
mankind.” Mr. Morrill gave notice that
he would on Saturday next, or at the
earliest opportunity, address the senate
on the questions discussed by Mr. Stew¬
art. Mr. Plumb introduced a bill to re¬
move limitation on the arrears of pen¬
sions. The senate proceeded 3:10 o’clock to execu¬ ad¬
tive business and at
journed till Monday.
REVIEW OF TRADE.
Dun’s Report Shows a More Hopeful
Outlook.
R. G. Dun & Co. say that trade is in a
more healthy condition. Their report
for week ended Dec. 11, says: As the
Holidays draw near all signs indicate a
large volume of business at present, with
i growing confidence of improvement in
ihe future, except in parts of the south
where unusual accumulation of cotton
ind its low price have a depressing influ
?ncc. At the east there is again a dis¬
tinct, though moderate improvement in
the leading branches of industry; at the
west trade continues iu a volume never
approached in any previous year; and
even at the south, in spite of some is em¬
barrassment, the volume of trade on
the whole large, though not equal to last
rear’s. There is no lack of money in any
part of the country, except at some
Southern points, and the mere fact that
the cotton now accumulated at a few
ports and interior towns represents paid
fully $60,000,000 in value
to planters at once explains the difficulty,
ind suggest that it is not permanent. It
is a good sign, also, that collections are,
on the whole, improving, though points, slow
it New Orleans and some southern
jihd only fair in some lines at eastern cities.
Reports from all parts in of the the distribution country
ihow very fair activity reduc¬
Df merchandise. The expected haB
tion in the prices of carpets come
from ten cents on body brussels to five
cents on ingrains, which are now said to
be cheaper in New York than in Eng¬
land. Among clothiers the better clast
of goods as in excellent demand. Print
cloths show some improvement and printt
ire more active. Boot and shoe business
clearly increases. The iron business is
more active. Cotton is unchanged, the
receipts being still beyond those
of the same weeks last year.
Fqrk lee is products quarter are of slightly cent stronger. and oil 1 Cof¬ 5-8
a a
cents Ligher, without great trade. activity Exports in any of
pranch of speculative unchanged,
lomestio products continue
md for last week were 44 per cent more
than the first week of December last year.
Favorable monetary prospects strengthen
Ihe market for securities, especially divi¬ as it
is evident that disbursements in
dends, interest and profits about January
1st will be large, and will weaken new
investments. With better tone, some
securities have advanced, and there is no
feeling of apprehension regarding the
monetary future. Business failures oc¬
curring throughout the country duiiup
last week, as reported to R. G. Dun A
Go., Dumber, for the United States, 280
Canada, 40; total, 320, against 330 las)
week.
THE SILVER COMMITTEE
Will Hold an Important Mectiug at
Washington in January.
A Washington dispatch says: The fol¬
lowing call for a meeting of the national
executive silver committee was issued
Tuesday:
A meeting of the national executive
silver committee will be held at the room
of the committee, No. 1202 Pennsylvania
avenue, Washington, D. C., at 12 o’clock,
noon, Tuesday, January 5, 1892. In view
of the probable action of cougress at its
present session on the silver question, the
meeting of the committee will be an im¬
portant one. It is believed the disposi¬
tion of a majority i-n both houses of con¬
gress is favorable to a full remonetizat’on
of silver. On the other hand opposition
to the present law has rapidly developed
in the east, while antagonism to free
coinage of silver has grown more and
m' re demonstrative.
CULBERSON DECLINES
The Appointment for Interstate Com¬
merce Commissioner.
A Washington dispatch of Wednesday
says: Judge David B. Culberson an¬
nounces himself as a candidate for the
senate from Texas to Blithe seat now oc¬
cupied by Senator Chilton. It will be a
three-cornered scramble between ChiltoD,
Culberson and Mills. Judge Culberson’s
announcement Saturday created a great surprise. Har¬
Only last he notified Mr.
rison that he would accept tho appoint¬
ment as interstate commerce commission¬
er. While the appointment had been
made out and officially signed still it had
not reached the senate, and Wednesday
morning Judge Culberson sent a message
to the president thet he had reconsidered
his action of last Saturday and must de¬
cline the appointment.
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Dedication of His Mamnoth Institute
Building at Philadelphia.
The spleudid institute building at
Thirty-second and Chestnut streets, Phil¬
adelphia, provided by the generosity of
Anthony J. Drexel, the eminent banker,
was dedicated with appropriate ceremo¬
nies Thursday afternoon. The institute
occupies an entire block. There is room
for 2,000 pupib, and instruction will be
given in art, sci< nee, mechanic- 1 , the me¬
chanic aits, technology, business meth¬
ods and physical training.
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