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f Wat fairficlD :Tms anD Heralir. p VOL LIV, WINNSBORO. S, C, WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 12, 1900. NO. 25. , ;* P "WE MASKS OFF. j The Republicans Demand a Large Standing Army. r -- - HOT DEBATE IN CONGRESS. iThe Intoducticn cf Army Bill in th?? House Causes Lively Scenes, it Is Attacked by Republicans. The introduction of the army bill in the house last Ximrsaay maae tamp uwtsiy for a time. Mr. Richardson, of Ten rnessee, on behalf of the minority, said those on his side of the House recognised the necessity for some legislation but they did not agree that this bill fe establishing a permanent standing arm? f should become a law. If an emergency * exists an emergency should be provided for, a large standing army should not be established. One obnoxious feature /was fundamental. It was proposed to provide an army which could be expand<sd at the will or one man from 58 000 ^ tfco 100,000. No matter how good or able that man might be, he was not willing to see one man given such power. It was, in his opinion, abdicating the functions of Congress. Mr. Grosvenor, of Ohio, in support of the resolution, paid that persoually he was in favor of a standing army of 100,COO. The people, he said, were not alarmed by the cries that their liberty was to be subverted. It was a glorious tribute to our system that never had the President of the United State; attempted to abuse his power Onp of the maeoificent sots of Grover Cleveland had been his assumption of his duty to keep the peace in a ?reat Commonwealth by mears of the United States army when the Governor of that State did not want him to interfere. Mr. Grosvenor said that if there had been a standing army : j? of^jfiy-taan^aq.d loval men at the battie ot Bnll Kun the rebellion would, have ended in thirty days. Mr Grosvenor and Mr. Underwood indulged in some sharp crossfiring, after which the resolution was adopted without division. * Mr. Hull explained the details of the bill, which, he said, followed practical ly the scheme already twice endorsed by the House. The main objection he had heard to the organization proposed was to the alleged preponderat ing influence of the cavalry. This, he said, was necessary because of the effectiveness of cavalry in operations in the Philippines. Mr. Hull ridiculed ike charges made duriog the recent .^wimp&ign by the opposition to the effect the Republican party desired to g% rat upon the oountry a great standing R^P'my. Replying to Mr. Hepburn, of NHsisL wa, Mr. Hall sa?d that to "appoint _ x ?C J ? ^ ^BIlf vojuni*er oxncers iu grauc ui unj m | ^wnxld do a great injustiee to regular army officers who have served twenty or twenty-five years in the army. tateM Mr. Ccohran, of Mi3soari, who folB&pwed Mr. Hall, introduced the polltiphase of the question- He charged PP^^J^the avowed purpose of the Admin istrationrto "use an army' of 60,000 to enforce its mandates in the Philippines, was the very essence of imperialism Ifo aimy that marched upon the face of the earth couM accomplish the subjection of the Philippines. Their geo? * * * - -1- J - At i.* grapmcai posiuon raaue taeni prauueally independent of outside control. Mr. Kleberg, of Texas, announced lis unalterable opposition to an increase of the standing army. Its only use oould be the establishment of a military government in the Philippines and he appealed to bis colleagues to stand unflincningly against the subversion of the Constitution. Mr. Shafroth, of Colorado, offered some figures to show that the retention of the Philippines, for which this pro proposed large increase is the standing army was to be adopted, must prove a Qlt&siruus liiYCetiiiCiii. UC Diaicu vuav it would cost the people of the United 8tate*sixty million of dollars a year to earn $135.000 for Amerioan manufacturers and exporteis. The sensation of the day occured when Mr. Shafroth took his seat. Mr. Boll, in charge of the ti ne on the Republican side, stated that no one on his side desired to speak farther. Thereupon Mr. Stiver, who had oharge of the tim3 on the Democratic side, yielded an hour to Mr. McCall, Republican, of Massachusetts. This was the first intimation the House had that the Massachusetts member was to oppose ttte D111. Mr. McCall declared that he did not believe in the prinoiple of giving the Executive authority to multiply almost by two the regular army, although President MoKinley would doubtless exercise that discretion patriotically. ' The objection was one of prinoiple. twtpoh Armli) nAt. Ka ' kJiUJU a giauti ui yvnui vuiuu mvv vw paralleled is the constitutional monarchies. It was not conferred with any limitation as to time. The Government should have declared at the outset a policy in the Philippines similar to that declared in Cuba. Our system of government was manifestly unfit for a oolonial policy, but that Dosition had been so frequently discussed that he would consider the practical ffnoe*inn whAt^AT it. was fnr ftlir int.ATASr, # to remain in the Philippines. There was no oommunity of interest between the people of those islands and the United States, and they were almost as far as the poles asunder. No advocate of retain* *"kt - 1_ 3 "L i mg tne rnuippxnes naa oeen aanng enough to maintain that they should be a Eh part of oar political system. In fast the great argument in favor of the principle of the Porto Rico tariff was that if we could not apply that prinoipie to Porto Rico we could not retain the Philippines. Upon what theory, he ssfced, are we to remain in that country? The French army costs $125 000,000 a year; the ?-German, $130,00U,UUU; tte tfritisb, $100,000,000 and the Jttussian, $153,000,OuO. These figures induce pensions and fortifications. '"If this ^ bill passes the war department will B| need $113,000,000. There is another Slg^cost aos included ia these fiuures, fewhioh is a necessary incident to an [pftrmy. as maoh a part of its cost as the 1 TUf nan. I a? Ui oviutgJkO. AO j/vm ?L won system. ' We are appropriating for ||l lihat purpose $145,000,000 a year. Oar H& liotal charges, therefore, for military ^a>arpose3 are $260,000,000 par year, aa amount greater than the joint military rxDen'esof these two armed rivaia, Franceaod Germany." In conclusion Mr. McCall pleaded that in deaJing with ihe Philippines we pursue American precedents, and said: "The time has come when v?e caa frankiy declare nur purposes. Let ua oi?a fhnno nflrtnin "fchnsa assurances which oar history inspired. Let us tell them that wo will aid them for one year or for five, if need be, in setting np a Government of their own, nymboliied j by their own Sag, and we will leave wish them all that i3 most glorious in tie meaning of our flag?liberty, independence andtelf eovernmant." When Mr. MoCall finished the Demo crass appiauueu mm vigutvusij. Mr. Cox, of Tennessee, a member of the military committee, spoke against the general principle of increasing the size of the permanent army. Mr. Hull declared that Mr. McCall had misapprehendee the putpose of the bill The President under the treaty of Paris must assert the sovereignty of the United States over the Phil'ppine Islands. The people of the United States must decide how low our authority there shall exist. Personally he believed tbat our soverignty over the Philippines wouH continue as long as thfi RennHlin Andnred. "Honestly, ne w," asked Mr Williams, "independently of the Philippine question, do you not want a permanent army of $o,0G0 men for other purposes?" "No, mort emphatically no," answered Mr. Hull. General debate was then closed and the bill was read for amendment under the five^minute rule. a young- highwayman He Will Stay in the Peniteniary Five YearsCharleston recently sent a batoh of thirty criminals to. the penitenitary. Among the number is a ten year old boy, who gets five years for snatching a pockofc-book from a lady. Here is aD account of the youthful criminal as given by the News and Courier: "Photographs of the most notorious members of the penitentiary delegation were taken from the police Saturday afternoon. When the photographer went to the jail the prisoners hailed his arrival with more or less pleasure. They ail seemed glad to leara that pic in'res of the "bad niggers" would be preserved. The boy Singleton, the young highway robber, was the proud est negro in the bunch. He was so de lighted over the thought of having his photograph preserved in the police archives that he brushed himself up and did the best he knew how in the wa? of looking pleasant. Before his 'sittine' he asked for a Docketbook. This created surprise; but the boy said he wanted to pin it on his breast, so it would show in the picture. 'I is er highway robber' he said behind smiles 'an as I is goia' up for stealia' a pocket book I wants to hab one ob dem ting an me breast. 4'The puree was pined on the bey's shirt, where it would be seen, and he stood up with his best ex pression. while the photographer pressed the button. The pictures of the other criminals were desired by the police, and these will be preserved for fu tnre .reference." Mush comment is being made as to this case, and it is likely that some good people will uoderrake to secure a pirdon and send the boy where his character may be formed. A writer ia the News and Courier says: '"The case of the Sicgleten boy has attracted a great deal of attraction. He was with another boy in King street one afternoon when a young lady passed by. She was wearing a pursa suspended f.-om her belt, and it contained about $65. The boy followed her until he s<*w a good opening, and without a word he ran up close and snatohed the wal let. A crowd had him oornered in Wentworth street a few minutes later, but the "puree was not found. At the trial the boy said he took the money, but gave it to another boy when he saw tie crowd following him. While the boy is young in year3, he is old in ex perienee and time, and he is believed to have been the leader of a young robber band whioh had been operating quietly for some time. His stay in Columbia, however, will help to de velop nis. body, altnon.^n it is couDtiui if it will improve his mind or his morals." A NEW C05GEESSMAH Who Ctime Very Hear Seiiu? Hung ])uring the Civil WarAmong the seven new members of the house of representatives is a man who was once sentenced to be hanged? the hero of one of the most exciting episodes of the civil war. In 1863 a * 3 j. _ ? J 1 youug conieuerate irom Aiaoama nsmea William Richardson was captured by the federal force in Tennessee and taken to a prisoners' camp in Indiana. He mace his escape and got back to Nashville, where he had relatives who sympathized with the Southern cause and who arranged for him to go through the Uarion lines with a confederate spy known as "Mr. Paul." The pair were captured by Gen. Crittenden's forces, taken to his headquarter at Murfreeeboro, and, after trial before a drum-head courtmartial, were sentenced to ignominious death by hanging, which is the fate of spies, who, unt . t * # m 1 , 1 aer tne rules or wariare, ao not aeserve honorable death by shooting. In seme manner the news was brought to Gen. Forrest?forty seven miles sway?that one of the most valuable 2c.en in the secret service of the Confederacy was about to be hanged by Gen. Crittenden, and an hour or two before daylight on the morning appointed for the execution Forrept surprised Crittenden's forces, demoralizing them, killing a good many and taking a large number of prisoners. Daring the fight; "Mr. Paul" and young Rich ardson managed to escape. After the war tho latter returned to Alabama, studied law with his father, who was an eminent member of the bar of that state, and now comes to oocgress as the successor of Gen. Joe Wheeler.? Chicago Record. An engine on the Grand Trunk railroad near Ingle wood Junction Oat., Wednesday, crashed into a hand-car on which were five aeotion men going to their work All were killed instantly. [ BUYING UP VOTES. How Money Was LovishiylUsed by the Republicans. ANYTHING TO BEAT BRYAN. s of Votes in New York State- Some Inside Facts on the Late Election. The Washington correspondent of the Baltimore San lets in considerable light on th? late *leotion. He says: Vote bribing in Kent and other Eastern Shoro counties of Maryland, as recently set forth in The San, had its parallel in Western Shore counties of the State and in hundreds oi ooun ties in diff rent States of the Union. If the praotioe of buying votes is not broken up it will attain to such an extent Chat elections will universally be decided by the corrupt use of money, and not by the free will of the peole. Campaign committees and subscriptions by vested interests for the defray ment o? election expensee were practically unknown ia the politics of the United States until after the close of Civil War. The poorest and most obscure man in the baokwoods would hare promptly resented as an insult any proposition looking to the purchase of his vote. It is true there were eleotion frauds; witness the Plaquemines frauds in Louisiana and the repeating and false counting which were done under Know-Kothing anspices in the city of Baltimore. But bribery, which has now taken deep root in every doubtful State and every doubtful Congressional district in the entire Union, had no part in the determination of election contests. A REPUBLICAN PRODUCT. It is one of the manifold blessings which has cooae through the rise and progress of the ^tspublican party. From cainpaiga to campaign it has grown until now it flourishes like a green bay tree. The story told in the The San of Kent is startling enough, heaven knows. It ia very far from being the whole story if any reliance can be placed on the corrent political gossip which fl >ats in this direction. According to this, a sum in the neighborhood ot $50,000 was spent in the interest of the itepub ican Electoral and Congressional ticket on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. The same policy of baying votes was practiced in almost every eounty on the Western Shore, and iamor places the expenditure at $80,000. It is not understood that any votebuying of consequenoe was done in the city of Baltimore. It seems to be the fact that in the large cities there is not much of this kind of business. For various reasons it is rather a dangerous operation in the cities and one which is very likely to get those concerned into into trouble. OTHER METHODS IS CITIES. There are other methods of improperly icflaenoing city votes, which are liberally aviled of?methods perhaps not so bad as bribery, but certainly of a -i i ti cii&rauier wuivju iuuso lcspuusiuio xv/i would hesitate very long before introducing into private business transactions. Politics in the Uuited Srates is fast becoming a vast gambling game, where brag, bluff, trickery and stacked cards are the leading features. The princicfil players show very often that private motives, not public policy, infiaence all their actions. The campaign in Maryland just ended furnishes more than one striking illustration of this. Suspicions were Antprtairifld. and man several occasions found utterance, taat several gentlemen supposed to be active in promoting Mr. Brian's prospects at heart were really taking no interest in the cause and in a covert way were throwing all the cold water upon it they could. These charges were indignantly denied by those affeoted. Since the election the stories have been revived and brought to Washington by Maryland Republicans, who make great sport over it, and affirm they know what they are talking about. "his fight next teas." A very prominent Maryland Democrat of the regular persuasion, speaking to me a night or two before the election of another not less prominent than he, said: ''I believe if he thought it would not be found out he would plump in a vote for MeKinley." A friend of mine, who does not reside in the State >of Maryland?a man worthy of all confidence?told me the gentleman who has for years been known as the Democratic boss of Baltimore said to him in October that he was tak ?- ? f kn f mao XUg UU liibClCCU lu IUO u^LLLj vuau iu naa cot his fight; his fight would coma next year. Oae of the most noted Democratic ward bosses of Baltimore, who was ostensibly working very hard for Bryan, in his confidential moments had no hesitation in expressing the most cordial wishes for his defeat. All of these gentlemen will be in the fight next year in Maryland tooth and toe nail, because it will be their fight, and, as politics goes, it may possibly make no difference that passively, if not actively, they assisted in the downfall of the national candidate of the party. JHJOO" D*X>WX*?-\ k3LAAJB9? The tortuous ways of Maryland polities are, of oourse, not much, better and not much worse than the- politics of other States ruled by bosses who think of themselves only. Yon will recall that grave doubts were expressed durir>?* ??mn?iun f\t fliA tv nf VUV V* V?W V. Richard Croker's professed devotion to Bryan. I had that doubt myself, and His now scarcely less than a conviction. .Everything tends to confirm the belief that, as usual, there was a deal between Croker and Piatt, and each of them knew what he was about. I must tell you what I heard down in Wall street in the later days of the campaign and from men who professed to have a share in the transaction. It was s*id that a month or two before the Kmsas City Convention a fund was w-piamoItt flifimflffld ftf i? DJ.1CU, TAliUUOlJ OOVUUMWW Hk $500,000 to $1,000,000, for the purpose of securing the insertion of a silver plank in the Kansas City platform. The silver plahk was put in, and, as ^ ia a matter of history, by one majority uu y. Dyvid B Hiil was most anxious to be a xu;iiiHer of the committee on resolutions Mr. Crcker would not per mit this, bnt put on the committee from New York odo of his o?=n men, who voted for silver If Mr Hill -had been on that committee silver would haye been left out. sbnatoe Daniel's attitude Senator Denial, of Virginia, as in tense silver man, earnestly questioned the expediency of reaffirming the siiver clause of 1896. Oiher Southern men on that committee sided with h'tn Colonel Baughman, of Maryland, made an eloquent and passionate appeal I against it. It has been said the vote ; of Prince David, of Hawaii, put in j silver. It might just as well be said the vote ef of any other member of the majority determined it. Cemioly but ts\y V5* P.iinlrAr'ii m?n if f?AnlH hivo A. \JX i-'MA. * V/AVAW* kJ MIUM ? wvw J-W- . v oarried. The Wall street men told me Croker got the money which was raised, aDd whether he divided with anyone else was neither known nor oared. As Mr. Croker is on record assaying he in politics for his pocket, everyone is at liberty to draw hi* own inferences. WHERE BRIBERY RAN RIOT. To return to toe question of the systematic bribery of voters everywhere so graphically dilated upon in The 8an editorially, I will tell you in what States it ra? riot on election day, oufc-:j ~e vf 1 j. t? TX7??t V; blue ui luai/iauu. xu f? cau t ligiuio, in Ohio, in Indiana, in Illinois, in Kansas, Newbraska, in South Dakota and in New York. There were others, of oourse, where bribery was more or less largely resorted to, but ifc was mosfc glaring in the States named. Ib may be a surprise to r pie generally to hear this about "up-b?*te" dn New York, the praotice is -carried oa io so bold and uoblushiDg a mancer that the bargains are made in eight and hearing of all those around. It is no unaommon speotale to see an old farmer in Western vr _ XT ?1_ j_i__ ; At. ll_ new JtorK anve up 10 iue puim wua his sods, holding the reins over a pair of horses whioh belong to him, getting out and negotiating with the vote buver for the votes of himself and his boys. Fot this statement I have the authority of one of the most eminent oitizens of Buffalo. Whateyer may be said of Mr. Bryan's doctrines and of his utteranoes, there 10 *Vvia nhinh mnafr Via in hiq faffftr1 Not one of the millions of votes oast for him represented bargain and sale. NO MONET TO BUY VOTES. ' Uadoubtediy Democratic managers have been as guilty as Republicans in this horrible traffio, but as it happened this time the Democrats had no money to buy votes. Their campaign committees from one end of the country to the other were lietraiiy riding under bare ' T* t* T _ 1 * poles, f rom inr. jones onairman 01 the National Committee, down so slender was the exchequer that they were all eompelled to practice the most rigid economy in every item of expenditure. They could not even have all the printing done which they would have liked. It is said that the contributions which came to the National Democratic Commicttee did not in all exceed $200000, while the stream whioh flowed into the ooffers of the Republican Committee aggregatee $15,000,000. What may " -i?I AAnl /3 ?Af UU OtjriCU JLC<lLLLALO CA^OUDgg gumu UVU possibly have absorbed more than half a million of this sum. Just think of the golden shower which was left to rain down on the heads of the venal voiers, and how sickening it is to olaim the people have indorsed the Administration ! The dollars which the trusts threw into the lap of the Republican Committee came thicker than doughnuts. Si muohaof the treasure is left that the National Committee and the Maryland and other State oommittees propose to keep open house in the entire fonr years interval between now and the next Presidential election. Phosphates and Fertilizers. A writerin the Frenoh paper L' Engrais, recently said, commenting on the Paris Expcuton, and. especially the American exhibit at this Exposition: "The American exhabition in the gallery of mines is in all points remarkable, and complete specimens of all the phosphates exploited in the United States were expected, bat the disappointment was great. There was nothing, or nearly nothing, bearing on the vario is phosphate exploitation^ in Florida, Carolina and Tennessee. Oae of the finest productions of Amerioa was found completely ignored." It is easy to see the cause of this neglect, in the fact that the Southern States as a whole, took very Jittie interest in tne Paris Exposition, and thus failed to present to the world one of the largest industries of that part of the United States, and one which furnishes the chief souroe of wealth to the citizens of certain of the more important States of the South. This is a feature in which however, it is safe to say, The South Carolina Inter State and West Indian Exposition will surpass any that has ever been held in this or any other oouotry. It would be strange if this should not be the ease, seeing that this Exposition will be held at Charleston, the largest manufacturing centre of commercial fertilizers in the world, which is surrounded by regions whioh contain soma of the richest beds of phosphatio deposits whioh hare been discovered in this oountry. Gen Eaa;an EestoredBrigadier General Egan, oommisssary general, was Thursday restored to duty by the President and was at onoe plac ed on the retired list. The order issued by the President remitted the unexpired portion of his sentence and re stored him to duty. This order was immediately followed by one issued by Gen. Miles announcing that Eigan had been plactd on the retired list on his application, after thirty years of service. , Col. John F. Weston who has been acting as commissary general since Egan was suspended, will be promoted to the full rank of the office. Chinese Cruelty. Walter Kennedy, contractor and ex pert engineer who has just returned from oompleting some big contracts in China said he saw twenty-six Chinamen beheaded for no reason other than that they were it his employ. During the time he was erecting extensive machinery he was practically a prisoner ' * * . 1 and did not mow wnat momens no would bo taken from hii work and ?xooutod. PSEACHE& AND LAWYEii p ? ? ? el u; T<-? xmaofc a OUUI;JUJU^ xiagoujr m a noik Virginia Town. Hon. J3. Davis Stokes shot and instantly killed Rev. John W. Wohl in a street duel at Williamson, W. V?., Mr. Stokes being also dangerously injured. Throughout the whole town and even in che country districts the exoitemeni is intense.. . Mr. Stokes, one of the most prominent young lawyers in Mingo county, left l:_ JC ?w:~ _*i. : LI 15 LlU<JO bJJXB ftiWGfUUUU UUUICUI&KU/ after dinner and pleasantly greeting frienda on the way, walked up with quick and firm etep ia the direction of the house occupied by Kev. Mr. Wohl and his housekeeper, Mrj. Lsrine, Mr. Wohi's family beirg in Kentucky. Mr. Stokes stopped at the gate to talk with .Mrs. Levine, who atood in her doorway. Within a few minutes the minister came out of the house. He seemed to be greatly exoited about something, and said to Mrs. Levine as he passed her at the door; "You would be much better at present in the house." Shd laughingly replied that the day was i&r too pretty to be spent enurely within doora, and Mr. Stokes interrupted by remarking: ''Yes, don't think of leaving U3 for the house." Quick as a flash Mr. Wohl turned, and addressing Stokes, said: "Leave th8 premises." Aa altercation followed. Both men ran quickly to the sidewalk direotly in front of the bouse. Something was said, almost indistinguishable that drew from R?v. ,Wcbl a sharp retort. "You &T3 a liar," and in an instant the report of a revolver was heard. Stokes stumbled, tried to regain his footing, tas fell in the street. Wounded as he was, he drew his revolver and covered the mioister, now within ten feet of his fallen foe. Again Wohl fired, and simultaneously with that shot the gun in the sinking hand of Stokes spoke. When the smoke cleared away the two men lay in their own blood upon the sidewalk. A crowd ran to the scene. Rev. Wohl was dead. Chance had carried the ballet fromStokes' pistol through the head of the minister, killing him as He fell. The bullet had entered Stokes' side below the heart and passed entirely through l: HIS UUliy. Ia the hill of the minister's home, facing the fearful duel to the death, fallen across the doorway, was found Mrs. Levine. It was first thought she was dead, and had probably been shot, but an investigation showed that she had only fainted from fright. Up to a late hour this evening Mr. Stohes has refased to say anything concerning the terrible tragedy, and Mrs. T : : _ * u AJZVLUV la 1U D<JJ lUUUU Ui A DM?kC Vi OA citemenfc to talk. Rev. Wohl was recognized as one of the most forceful and eioqaent Presbyterian ministers of this State. Mr. Stokes is an ex-Virginia university president and oomes from one of the best families of the old dominion. CAUSE OF TEE TROUBLE. It be comes more evident that the shootiDg of Bev. John H. Wohl by the Hon. S. I). Stokes was the result of the seathing sermoa preached by Rev. Whol last Sunday. Mr. Stokes is tonight improving and it is now expected that he will recover. Mr$. Lswis late this evening made an affidavit in which she, the only eyetrifnpaa nf f.hp fi<rhk thrniiffhnnfc. ntTAftrs that the first shot was fired by Bav. Whol after a prolonged discussion of the sermon and the cartoons and oaricatures that had been used to emphasize its more striking passages. The Rev. Whol in his sermon depicted in vivid language the terrible results of the dance and drink, and condemned without exception every woman, mar ned or single, who indulged in either. . Six Hundred Million a 'Sear. The Secretary of the Treasury to-day sent to Congress the annual estimates of the expenses of the Government for the coming year. They aggregate $626,741, 762. This is a slight decrease from the total estimates of last year. The appropriations for the present, year are $586,655,362 The estimates cover every bianch of Government service and by department are as follows: Legislative, $10,956,700; executive, $283,400; States department, $2 125. 148; treasury department, 136; war department, $176,658 345; navy departmont, $88,913,248; interior department, $170,799 705; postoffioe department, $6 295 877; department of agriculture. $4,669,050; department of labor, $177,980; department of justice, $6,993,170 Tne details of the war and navy estimates, including rivers and harbors, have been published. The public building estimates include Baltimore, Md, custom house $500,000, New York custom house $500,000, Tamra, Fla, Court House, postoffice and custom house $100,000, marine hospital at'Hoaolulu $200,000. The total for rivers and harbors, including continuing contracts, is $33,881,317. . . . The total for pensions is $144 000,000, for fees and examinations $700,000, and foi pension agencies $545,230. Neve consuls are estimated for as follows: Nuchwang and Hangchow $3,000 eaoh, Port Limon, Costa Rioa, $2,000; Moscow, $2,000; Manzanillo, Cuba, $1,500. For Indian affairs $9,250,571. Rich Bag Picker. An inventory of the estate of Sarah E. Gardner, an eccentric old woman who died last spring, was filed in the probate oonrt at Newport, JR. I., Wed needay. Miss Gardner, who lived to be more than seventy claimed to be a direct deoendant of the famous Commo dore Perry. For years she lived in a wretched hovel in the most ecmalid aeo ticn of the city. She left a will, however, naming Lewis L. Simmons executor, without bonds and with the stipulation that he need not make an inventory to the ooxirts, but that after all her debts and faneral expenses were paid, he was to turn over to the Rhode IsUnd Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals the residue of the estate. This is now found to be $30,000. For years Miss Gardner had devoted her life to rummaging in ash barrels. When 1 i . J _:i a vu:_v ner uome was searcueu pnea ui ruuuiau were found, besides expensive silk garments. RATIIBONE'S HAUL. The Expenditures of Late Director Genera! of Cuba. PROVES HIS RASCALITY. Charged Everything to Public from Coachman's Gloves to $850 Carriage. A Mass cf Figures. 8enator Piatt of Connecticut*, chairman of the senate committee on relations with Cuba, Friday made public the statynent prepared by the auditing /i nrri cirtw r\f fliA nm aViAor. UCT4D1VU VL bug wax .uvfouiuguv ouvning the expenditures mad# by E. Gk Rathbone, late diiector general of the department of posts for Cuba. The statement covers the period from January 1, 1899, to April 30, 1900. There are no remarks, and the bock is a solid mass of figures. The total disallowances for the 16 months were $72,631 The first disallowance was oa accoanfc of an expenditure of $S50 for a duchess oxrriage, made on the 28 ?h of February, tnnn mi t i i ioy?.- mere were ircqaent uisoarsements for the director general's carriage servioe. Bent for the coachman, stable, etc., seems to have been regularly paid out of the public fuuds at the rate of $110 per month, and in one or two instances the hostler a salary was thus supplied. All the ooach furnishings were provided in this way. In 1899 a uniform costing $40, a pair of boots costing $15 and another hat costing $9 were bought for the coachman. June 9, a rain coat costing $26 was supplied to that individual. The coach later was supplied with rubber tires at an expense to the public of $110. In addition there were many miscellaneous oharges for stable rent and for oarnage and oar hire. All of the payments made to C. W. F. Neeley, chief of the financial bureau of the department, appear to ha re been carefully scrutinized, and many of them were disallowed. Neeley made a trip to the United States going as far west as his old home in Indiana under the direction it is stated in the report, of the director general, and many 01 the charges in this connection were disallowed, upon re-exami natron, but doc or course, until they had been paid. In April 1899, Mr. Rathbone made a visit to this country under the claim that it v/as made in obedience to the orders of the postmaster general, and the auditor finds that the trip was not authorised and refuses to sanotion the entire expenditure which was an even $500. Similar action is taken with referaoce to the purehase of an enameled . bath tub for the department of posts eecurred at a cost of $42. Attorneys and notaries were paid $110 for services in connection with the leasing of Mr. lUthbcne'a residenoe. There was also charges for plumbing and paper hanging at the residenoe and for a chandelier in the billiard room of that establishment. In one case the rent of the house was paid from the public funds. The house also appears to have been furnished at the oost of the public. In Deoember of 1899, and January 1900 several Dills were paid to New York and Washington firms by Rathbone, - Li. *Q9& ..J *QCQ *199 aggregating yvuu auu vug one $121, another $135. The last bill includes 240 entries and covers many articles of domestio use, euch as clothes, gloves, scarfs, toilet articles, cuspidors, champagne and oth er wine glasses, table ware, kitohen utensils, bedsteids, bed room eetfi, bed clothing, eto., shirts, collars, and oufs were charged to the government. All the payments made <to Cowan & Co., of Muncie, Ind., for printing and fltaiiouary aggregnuug eovcrai iuuusand dollars, are found to hare been illegitimate. Burned to Death.' Wednesday Pat E. Bain, ex-constable, and highly respeoted citizen of the Garland precinct, Dallas county, Texas, was barned to death in John Chapman's saloon. According to his dying statement he wai dragged, robbed and then set aire. His clothes were saturated with four ounces of turpentine and then ignitec with a match. His body was burnod to a crisp before the fire could be put out by those who i - 1 i tt?_ 1 _ discovered mm. ins eyes were ue-1 stroyed by the flames and there was a sound piece of skin on his body. He died at Parkland Hospital two hours after being taken there. John Chap man and E D. Faulkner, Chapman's bartender, were arrested charged with the murder, and three other men are being looked for. A body of armed men without masks, said to be farmers, called at the county jail and demanded to be given the oustody of the men changed with Bain's murder. Tbey declared it to be their intention to burn tham as Baine had been burned. Jailer Off ens met the men at the barred jail door, which was looked. He told their 1 * 1 J 1- I U. X ieaaer 11 wouia dq useless iur tnem w take farther proceedings as the prision era had been taken from his custody early in the night and conveyed to the jail at Fort worth as a matter of precaution for their safety. The men departed, but there are fears that they may return to-night. No one believe the men haye been removed. Sheriff Johnson and his deputies are far in theoountry districts looking for suspects. Tillman Scores One? ? ? * j_ To Senator xuiman dcioh^b me credit of obtaining the passage of the first bill cf the seotion in the Senate. It was the bill making an appropriation for the Charleston Esposition. Just before the ship subsidy bill was called np Senator Tillman was observed circulating freely around the ohaxnber conversing earnestly with certain republican senators who might have been inclined to interpose an objection to the immediate passage of the bill. He returned to hu desk with a smile 01 satisfaction on ilia face and presented the bill for immediate consideration. He briefly explained the provisions of the bill and the object to be obtained. His explanation was entirely satisfactory. so that the measure nassed with oak dissenting vtfce. The bill appropriates $2W,?0$ far ths exposition. VERDICT AGAINST DE EXLGO. Kev. T- J- Gattis Wins His Suit for SlanderA dispatch from Ralicgh, N. C.,sajs a noted legal contest in that State came to a close Saturday when the jury awarded to toe Rev. T. J. Gattis. a Methodist minister, $20,000 as damages in his libel suit against the Rev. bt. John C. Kilgo, president of Trinity college; B. N. Duke the millionaire tobacco manufacturer, cf the American Tobacco company, and W. K. Odsll, a wealthy ootton manufacirer. The last two are trustees of Trinity college, which is the Methodist institution for young men in North Carolina. It is the wealthiest endowed institution in the South Atlantic States, havitg received benefactios to the amount of $800,000 from the Dakes. Air. GaUis used for $100,000 damages. The suit was baaed, on a speech made by President Kilgo, in which he said Mr. Gatii? was a back-slider, a hypoorite and that he retailed gossip over the couater. Messrs. Dake and Odell were made parties to the. suit, by reason of the fact that as trustees of the oollege thev voted to have published Dr. Kilgo's speech. The suit involved the leaders of the Methodist church in North Carolina. It arose out of a controversy between Dr. Kilgo and Justice Walter Clark of the North Carolina supreme court. Judge Clark, who was a trustee of m *_ _ j a.1. rk. rr:\ 1 J iniuiy, cuargeu tone jjr. ixugo uau the reputation in North Carolina of being a wirepuller and manipulator of the ward politician type. He demanded his removal and "when the charges were heard before the trastees, Mr. G-attis gave testimony against Dr. Kilgo. Inreplying to them, Dr. Kilgo denounced Mr. Gaitis, and the trustees, after exonerating Dr. Kilgo of charges, deoided to publish all the proceedings, which included the president's speech. Almost the entire ohurch was arrayed against Mr. Gattis at the meeting of the conference. Dr- Kilgo was made the hero of the occasion. Bishop Duncan of South Carolina was a witness in the case at the recent trial and affidavis were read from ex-Guv. Eilerbe and United States Senator McLaurin of South Carolina, who testified to Dr.. Kiigo's high character. Tlie trial was in progress ten days and twelve of the ablest lawyers in the 8fcate addressed the jary. Governorelect Aycock appeared for the defence, concluding the argument. Tin verdict was a surprise. At Oxford, where the case was tried, there is great prejadice against the American Tobacco company. The case is appealed to the suprem court, of which Judge Clark, one of the central figures in the trial, is a member. . Judge Clark will not sit on the ease when it reaohes that court. " O" Consul Roosevelt, of Brussels, re porte^jia the state department that a station has been established at L* Panne, Belgium, for the exchange of wireless telegrapiiio messages between Belgium and Eagland. La Panne was selected on aeoount of its being the point of Belgium littoral nearest the English coast and a mast of the Marconi system 130 feet high was erected there. The Dover Ostend mail boat Princess Clementine was fitted up with temporary apparatus for use in expermental trials. An additional mast was affixed about 0 feet. From that extremity the telegraphic waves are projected towards each coast. A special room has been fitted up on the steamer H it A. A '* i.L.i ior tne instruments ana irom oust room the cable is earned to the top of the extended topmast It is confidently expected to maintain communication between ship and shore for at least 20 miles, which is about half way across. With stations at La .Panne and Dover those on board the vessel will be able to keep in touch with the land daring the entire trip across. Recent experiments showed that replies arrived with the same regularity and celerity as .ordinary telegrams. When about 40 miles from Ostend the captain was about to telegraph the station master at Oitend the probable hour of his arrival. Varicus telegrams were sent from the vessels to Ojtend. Brussels, Dover and - London, and the reception of each message was acknowledged promptly. Subsequently, the consul adds, a message was sent from the ves . sel to the station at Dover court, Essex, a distance of nearly 90 miles, including manv miles of cliffs and seas. Better's Cotton Statement. Secretary Heater's weekly cotton ex ; change Statement show an increase in < the movement in sight compared with ; the seven days ending this date last i year in ronnd figures 64,000. For the < seven days of December, the totals ) show an increase over last year of 64,- i 000. For the days of the season that i have elapsed the aggregate is ahead of i the 98 days of last year 364,000. 1 , The amount brought into sight dnr- < ing the past week has bsen 44 L, 131, < MMAlMOf Q77 C!A1 frtK tVlA OATTAfl A O T7CJ nr^_ i ogaiuot* ui ijVTi ivi vug cctquuo;o quu~ ' ing Deo 7, last year. ] - The movement since Sept 1, shows < receipts at all United Stated ports 3,- 1 665,763 against 3,255,929 last year; I overland across the Mississippi, Ohio 1 and Potomac rivers to northern mills 1 and Canada 530,709 against .660,889 j last year; interior stocks in excess of' j these held at the close of the commer- i cial year 605,514 against' 509,539 last i year; southern mill taking 458,296 t against 470,440 last year. 1 Foreign exports for the week havo been 259,039 against 109,370 last yew. Northern mill takings and Canada during the past seven days show a decrease of 69.500 as compared with the corres- \ ponding period last year.* Then total 1 takings of American mills, north soath 1 and 'Canada thus far for the season 1 have been 1,275,896 against 1,581,618 j la?t year. j Stocks at the seaboarl and th 29 J leading southern interior centres have 1 increased daring the week 51,523. j An explosion of dynamite Wednes- j day at the mines at San Andres de La , Sierra Mexieo, killed and wounded , many miners. At the latest advices 27 dead bodies had been recovered. Fifteen icjured persons, some of whom , will die, were taken from the wreckage, ] and the ruins are thought to contain . other victims. Nine cases of dynamite ! blew-np the power house with an appalling roar, shaking the country for \ miles around. A SERIOUS MATTER, Smal'pcx Appears in the Hospital for the Insane. THE MATTER TAKEN IN HAND - > . ; *> ?rf The Status of Affairs at th* County Jail Whence the State Hospital Case Came. It was only a fevr days ago that Tlx* State gave an account of the introduction of smallpox into the men's building for colored people at the hospital for the insane by a patient -gent from v the UnioQ cou&ty jail after confinement with persons having the disease. AI the time rumors were pleniifol here that smallpox was generally prevalent at Union, . iThursday a letter from a thoroughly reliable man reached the executive chamber. Here are some extracts from this leiter showing a bad-state of affairs: ' . . . - v> "My object in writing this letter td you is to put before you our condition. I mean the people of the town of Union. The jail has been used by county and town (in common} since its erection I suppose. It has been a pest-hole for some time. Several eases have been in . jail and no steps have been takes to suppress or stamp it out. The town council is the cause -of- thndiseaw spreading on account of using it for a lock up. U is fearful to think of tht number of cases we Have in this town. No one knows; I know of at least ten oases. Wehavsten doctors. Df-Y. L. Poole, , one who has * fair practice in the town, tcld methismornin^t tlurt he had about 20 oases under treatment. All the doctors will treatthe diteese; none seem to bo afraidofit/ Dr. Poole said tint some of his patients had it in its worst form. It is in every portion of onr town. Now these are facts. We ? have a pest house. Town authoiititea send patients to same.. He or she returns at night to visit about the town and returns to pest house for break- fast. The health officer of - the to*a told me that he could not keep them in the pest house because the boar&of health would-not give him power to have a guard. The. board of health ia responsible for the condition today: If ar>T7f V>i r\<t 'Ko ^nnn frtW * HBtfTAIl'i MUJVUiUg V?U I/O V1VUO) JAVMTVW W sake order it to begone. We liave some eases I am told {on good authority) that have to be handleifaltogetkerwjth sheets. It is awful to thinkthat nothing is being done to suppress it. _ I want you to ^understand that thisdiaease is not ^nfwedTto the Negro race. [ think more whites are down now than blacks, I don't .wish to appear as' a srambiersj but I can't stand everything. I do hope that you will order the mat- " ^ ter investigated and'hare it thoroughly done. I do hope that, yon will acta* once, not for my sake, but for the sake of the community. What I hive told you in this letter is not half as bad as it really is." The governor at once ordered tills report forwarded to Dr. T. Grange Simons, chairman of the State board of health, at Charleston, his secretary writing Dr. Simons in part as follows: "He directs that you will at once take this matter up and uss snob moot and measures as you deem necessaryand as are authorised by law to stamp out the disease and prevent its further spread.. Yon no doubt have observed that it was from. Union that a patient for the hospital for the insane was sent after having been exposed to smallpox and has caused it to break out in the hospital. It is very important .thai something should be done and. that ' promptly. The governor will be very glad to cooperate with you in any way that he can in handling the diease, and will be* glad to hear from you in regard to this matter. Please give this matter your very earnest attention. So far'no heir cues have developed at the hospitjj for die insane here, and the sick are. getting along very well, Dr. Bab cock is still icing every endeavor to stamp the disease out of the institution. The Negro tramp sent here from Union is said to be improving. He is at the pest house.?The State. A Severe Storm* The heavy gale whioh swept ihe New England coast last week created havoo among the large number of schooners caught off the Berth shore of Boston and the beaches of New Hampshire and southeastern Maine. More than a dosen schooners were wrecked, a . luge Dumber of others were damagediand several narrowly escaped being dashed to pieces. Serious loss of life reported. up to-early this afterneoi were in the wreck of the Gloucester fishing schooner Mary A Brown, which, was wrecked dS Hampton Beach, N.^IL;whose arew jf seven men perished. At 2 a. m. life savers discovered parts cf a vessel soming ashore? A patrol of the shore wts then begun. Shortly afterward ;he body of a sailor was picked np and such wreckage washed in. The Brown *as a two-masted vessel of 15 tons rross. She was built at Bath, Me., in 1876. A schooner was reported oa scarboro beach at noon. The storm novel northwesterly. Severe gales iwept over Nova Scotia and New Foundend. ' ?' ' Could Not "Resist. "V After having served for twenty-three rears the firm of Frank and Dabois, of Srew York, whose employ he entered is errand boy? and after having been idvaaced until he had fall charge jf ;he office as manager, William M. Gates it is asserted, confessed thai he had long been robbing his employers and was involved in ruin. The full amount of his alleged stealing is not known, but it is believed he has taken $50,000, perhaps more. He is cow a fugitive through the courtsey of *he men he is said to have robbed, who. were reluctmt to see him imprisoned, and who of* - : fered him the opportunity to escape. Expert accountants are endeavoring to straighten out the tangle which Gate's books for the last seven years seem to ahovr. Meantime the amount of the dieted defalcation increases, though it cf.naot by any possibility xeaoh to* * * * " n i (L TV_ .-j tai vrnion will eaiDarrtss J?rnutot bois. * -