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'v r.v ' " vt ... REGULAR SESSION j The Fifty-Eighth Congress is Formally Organized. THE MESSAGE IS READ Transition from Special to Regular Session Robbed the Day of Many interesting Features of Opening Exercises. Washington special says: The first regular session of the 58th concro.cc howri nr nonn \Toildav. but. the ?* ^ ~ WW senate met half an hour previous to i that time in accordance with the adjournment of Saturday for the purpose of permitting an orderly termination of the called session. The senate closed the extraordinary session and entered upon the duties of the regular session, but the transaction was so natural as to be scarcely noi. ? ticeabie. The unusual features were the close of the called session by announcement from the chair and the offerink of two prayers within half an honr of each other. The business transacted consisted of the reading of the president's message and the beginning of the discussion of the Cuban roronrr?r?itv hill. On this bill Mr. Coi - .r ? -? lum, who has charge of it, made a 1 speech, advocating its passage in the interest of American trade. Mr. Kean made a favorable report from the committee on contingent expenses in the resolution, of Mr. Penrose requiring the transmission to the senate by the postmaster general of all the papers relating to the postoffice investigation. Mr. Gorman suggested a number of amendments, the effect of which was to make it mandatory for the commit. tee to maintain and to compel the ' committee to make a report to the \ senate by May 1 next. After some informal discussion Ibe resolution was laid over until Tuesday and Mr. Collum began a speech on the Cuban reciprocity bill. He spoke especially of the effect of the bill upon j the trade with Cuba, which he contend ed "would be greany sumuiaieu uy us passage. Suituated as we were, within a few miles of the Cuban coast, w<? should control the Cuban market, but as a matter of fact this country supplies less than one-half of the Cuban imports. x As bills and petitions were being presented, Mr. Hoar suggested that t b was not customary for the senate to transact business pending modification of the president, and his motion for a recess was taken at 12:10 o'clock for p~: one hour. Upon reconvening the senate, Mr. Hale reported for the committee that j- the president had been advised and would shortly communicate a message. Mr* Barnes, assistant secretary to the president, then presented the message, which' was read at once. fP ' Session of the House. The house convened in regular ses- ! " sion and listened to the reading of the president's annual message to congress. The extra session robbed the first day of many of the features interesting" to spectators. The house having organized four weeks ago, the ceremony of opening was materially shortened, it only being necessary to call the roll to develop the presence of a quorum and to provide for the customary notifications to the president and I to the senate. fggk* " No reference was made to the special session or as to its termination, the proceedings being the same as they would have been had the extra session not adjourned. More than an hour and a half was consumed in the reading of the presi- } dent's messhge, at the conclusion of which there was a general applause on the republican side or tne cnamoer. a : considerable amount of routine mai j ters necessary to facilitate the work of committees was transacted prior to the reception of the message. The house adjourned at 3:30 o'clock, out of respect to Henry Burke. 01 Pennsylva- ! |uia, a member who died Saturday. j BANDITS SEIZE MERCHANT. Sensational Disappearance of Well- i Known Bainbridge, Ga.r Citizen. Quite a sensation was caused in j Bainbridge, Ga., over the disappear- j ance of John Sapp, a prominent mer- i chant of the city. Sunday night he drove out to his j father's home, about five miles below i RE '* ' j the city, for his wife, who had spent j the day out there. Before gcing he j put all of the money in the store in his j Tu->r>t'Pt nmminHnjr' tr> i While returning home with his wife j t three men stopped his horse and drag- ; ged him fro mthe buggy and quickly j disappeared in the woods. i NEEDS OF GOVERNMENT. Secretary of the Treasury Asks for j Sum of $624,502,146. Secretary of the Treasury Shaw j transmitted to congress Monday the ! estimates of appropriations required ; t>y the government for the fiscal year j ending June 30, 1905. The appropria- j fcions asked for aggregate $624,502,146, j as against $339,189,112 asked for the i year 1904. ' R \ - * ' r. V WAR MOVE REPORTED. Once More it is Given Out that Colombia is Marching an Army Against Panama. A rumor is in circulation at Colon i to the effect that three thousand soldiers have left Cartegena for the purpose of invading the isthmus. No de tails are known, and the rumor cannot be confirmed. The only possible means of approaching Panama is by narrow and difficult mountain passes through the Indian country. The United States cruiser Atlanta is now off the Indian coast. Following the instructions received December 4, from the navy depart ment at Washington, United States gunboats on both sides of the isthmus have started or are starting on reconnoitering expeditions along ihe coast, principally in the direction of Colombia, for the purpose of ascertaining the condition of the trails and roads between the Panama and Colombian frontiers, the facilities of the country for sustaining expeditions marching on Panama and to generally determine the best course of action in case of Colombian invasion of the isthmus, and also to learn the attitude of the various Indian tribes inhabiting both coasts. The United States cruiser Atlanta has gone to San Bias for this purpose and probably will continue to the Gulf of Darien. Another vessel will be set to San Miguel, on the Pacific, and a third to David, also on the Pacific, Dut toward uosta JKica, to iook over the local conditions at Chriqui and make a show of force, if it is thought necessary, and study the possibility of Colombia's landing small schooner expeditions at Chriqui from southern points. The Panaman authorities are lending aid to these efforts. They have sent out several parties on both sides of the isthmus to seek information and watch possible movements on the part of the Colombians. * HANSON ELECTED PRESIDENT. Directors of Central of Georgia Hold Annual Meeting in Savannah. The election of officers by the board ~ - ai i. i ~ e /"i oi directors or me ueurrai u?. ucui* gia railway company, went through Monday at the meeting held in Savannah, just as was forecasted. Major J. Ft Hanson, of Macon, was elected president; W. A. Winburn, vice president and traffic manager, and Theodore Kline, general manager. Colonel A. R. Lawton and Major Hanson gave out the following statement: "The resignation of Mr. John M. Egan as president and also as director of the Centra] of Georgia Railway Company, was presented to the board and the following resolution was unanimously passed: "Resolved, That,the resignation of Mr. J. M. Egan as president and also as a director of the Central of Georgia railway company, this day presented to the board, be and it is hereby accepted. "Resolved further, That this board tender to Mr. Egan its best wishes for his future happiness and prosperity. "Mr. J. F. Hanson, now chairman of the board, was unanimously elected president of the company, and preliminary steps were taken for so amending the by-laws at the January meeting of tTTe board as to abolish the office of chairman of the board and vest in the president all functions now exercised by him. "There was no change made in the office of vice president and traffic manager now*filled by W. A. Winburn. The office of general manager was created and Theo. D. Kline, now general superintendent of the company, was unanimously elecied to this office. "The vacancies in the board and in the executive committee created by the resignation of Mr. Egan were not filled." One of the directors of the Central said that Major Hanson as president of the Ocean Steamship Company and tne central railway win receive $lb\000 a year, $10,000 from the Central railway, and $6,000 from the Ocean Steamship Company. DOWIE NOT A BANKRUPT. A Claim of Solvency is Made by a Number of Creditors. Stronger proof of the fact that all of John Alexander Dowie's creditors are not a unit in the desire to have his estate administered by the bankruptcy court, was given in Chicago Friday, afternoon and seven prominent creditors filed answer in the United States district court in which they asked Judge Kohlsaat to inquire into the question of Dowie's solvency at once. They denied that the head of Zion City Is insolvent or tnat ne was in mat. condition when tho bankruptcy proceedings were begun against him. MARTIAL LAW RUINS TRADE. Citizens of Cripple Creek Fear to Ven. ture Upon the Streets. The declaration of martial law has paralyzed business in Cripple Creek. CoL Heavily armed pickets of the national guard are stationed on all street corners and many residents of the city do not venture upon the streets. Provost Marshal Thomas E. McClelland is occupying the mayor's office. LABOR MAN OUSTED By Speaker Cannon From Committee Room, INSINUATION IS RESENTED Trouble Resulted Over Request to Appoint California Congressman at Head of Labor Committee in Congress. A Washington special says: Charges and countercharges of efforts to pack the house labor committee for auu against certain interests lea to a sensational scene in the speaker's room Friday. Speaker Cannon,; as mad as a man well could be, had a caller pushed out of the room, and for a time t?e lookers-on thought there would be a knock-down-and-drag-out fight Two weeks ago., Herman J. Schulteis who is chairman of the legislative committee of the Knights of Labor, called to demand the appointment of Representative Livernash, of California, to the chairmanship of the labor' committee. Mr. Livernash is an editorial writer on Mr. Hearst's San Francisco Examiner, and was elected by the union labor and democratic parties over former Representative Julian Kahn. Kahn is contesting the seat. Upon the occasion of that first visit Speaker Cannon told ScEulteis that under me principles or majority ruie it was quite impossible that Mr. Livernash should be selected. He explained that the majority in the house is responsible to the voters of the country, and that the chairman of the labor committee would naturally be a member of the majority. The speaker said, that even if Mr. Livernash should remain in congress, his seat being contested, he was a minority member, and, therefore, could not be considered. The caller protested, but retired without much further ado. Friday morning he made his second visit to the speaker's chamber. Those in the room awaiting their turn to talk to Mr. Cannon were decidedly startled to hear Mr. Schulteis blurt out that he hwi heard that the committee on labor was "packed" against labor, and he had come to see about it. * Mr. Cannon replied sharply that such a remark was an insulting insinuation. He said the committee would be composed of representative men, honest and fair, and that such charges were not to be countenanced. "Oh, I didn't expect any consideration for labor," asserted the caller. "I want to say to you right now,'' i quickly spoke Mr. Cannon, thoroughly aroused, "that any reputable representative of labor is just as welcome to this room and will always receive che same earnest consideration as that extended to a J. Pierpont Morgan or any one else. We are always ready and willing to do anything we can for labor?" "Then appoint Mr. Livernash, our representative?" Mr. Cannon interrupted:- "Committees are appointed in this house with the best interest of the country at heart and the majority is responsible for the committee as a whole, while the minority places have been left co the minority leader." "I demand that Mr. Livernash be appointed," replied. Schulteis. "It is you who would now 'pack* the i committee, is it, sir?" demanded Mr. Cannon, rising from his chair. "Committees are not to be packed in this house." "You were a member of the committee on rules in the fifty-first congress when you ruled agakist labor, said , Schulteis, in what was apparently intended to be a menacing tone. "I went to your district," he continued, "and , you remember what happened." "Your threats are nothing to me," i replied the speaker, excitedly, advancing toward his caller. "Show this man out of here. You : ~ V>>? /Tliies f-Via Hnrirlrooner ^ Otrt? UIJJLI. ^ JL UiO W vuv UVU. , "Well, never let him enter my room again." EWEN DEFIES THE FEUDISTS. r Witness Against White and Jett Now j Walks Streets Unguarded. Captain B. J. Ewen. principal wit- j ness against White and Jett in Breath- j itt count v. Kv., assassination cases, is ! boldlv walking the streets of Jackson unguarded. His appearance on the stfeets immediatelv after all the soldiers were recalled has occasioned surprise. He has been closely guarded by a large bodv of soldiers and on numerable occasions expressed the belief that he would be assassinated if he ever returned to Jackson. _________ , WROTE TO WHITE WOMAN. Colored Employe of Pension Office Gets Himself Into Trouble. William Ferguson, a negro clerk in the census office at Washington, who is put down as hailing from Alabama, has been suspended by the director of the census pending the investigation of the charge that he wrote an entirely too friendly letter to a white lady clerk serving in the office with him. ? / i \ I REYES AT WHITE HOUSE. f Colombia's Representative Has FelicI-1 j tous Conference With President. Gets Small Encouragement. ! I General Rafael Reyes, the special j minister from Colombia, practically | initiated his mission when he called J upon President Roosevelt at the white j : house Saturday and told him why he j had come to the United States. Gen; eral Reyes was accompanied to the ! white house from the state department j ! bv Secretary Hav who introduced him to the president, and by Dr. Herran, the Colombian charge. There was no exchange of formal speeches, though the Colombians were prepared to do so in case of need. The president greeted General Reyes informally as a former acquaintance, having met him when the general was visiting the United States some time ago. Instead of standing to receive his callers, as is the custom in ordinary diplomatic presentations, the president himself sat down and invited General Reyes to a seat beside him. The two then entered upon an animated conversation which touched upon some notable exploits in General Reyes* life, with which the president seemed to be more or less familiar, and gradually drifted arround to the subject or General Reyes* mission. J There was no definite proposition aHvatlPOil )it- tha Crtlnmhianc fny f)io <w?v?. ? MMWU WJ l-**v XV* *.uv president intimated that the Panama problem was a matter with which the state department alone could properlydeal. So the conversation on this point closed with an understanding that General Reyes, who now regards his mission as duly launched, should hereafter make any representations respecting Panama that he cared to' broach to Secretary Hay. Neverthe- j less, there was just enough limitation in the president's talk to make the ' callers aware that he saw little prospect of being able to meet their wishes. DOWIE HAS THE MONEY. Head of Zionists Shows to Satisfaction of Creditors that He is Amply Able to Pay All Debts. A Chicago dispatch says: By a stroke of diplomacy, John Alexander Dowie has established narmonv be- i tween Zion, its receivers and its creditors in and out of court. He proposes to settle with his immediate creditors and to arrange with others on a reasonable time basis, and to end the receivership. At a conference held Sunday be> - ; tween the attorneys representing the heaviest creditors and Jacob ITewman, f attorney or he receivers, Dowie I showed the lawyers a statement set- ^ ting forth Zion's assets and liabilities. He declared he valued .Zion's estate at $14,000,000 above all liabilities. He exhibited large orders for lace and candy. He said neither the lace nor the candy factory conld supply its orj ders. He showed an order for sevcai ty-five car loads of candy'irpm a Cincinnati firm. He showed a draft, for $50,000 from a'wealthy wellwishes.: and declared he" could draw for $200,000 more on one of Zion's friends In Wisconsin. On this showing he offered to settle ail urgent claims in casn ana ii> put. i Zion on a cash basis In all future deat i lngs with the outside world. With his heaviest creditors out of the way, he I said, the debts demanding immediate ; payment would not amount to more than $150,000. Samuel Stevenson's judgment notes for $100,000 are not yet j due. 4 - v - Mr. Dowie's presentation of figures ! and his offers of settlement were satis- f factory to the attorneys. His plan will be submitted to a meeting of the receivers, their attorneys and the attorneys for his creditors, and it is believed will be accepted. In fhat event receivers and all creditors will join hands with the self-styled propnet in a plea to Judge Kohlsaat to dismiss the pending litigation and permit Dowie's freedom to gather funds and settle ob- i ligations. CHARTER IS HELD UP. White Elks Claim that Colored Order is an Infringement. j Delegations from tlie Elks lodges o: \ ' Jackson, Vicksburg, Natchez and Mo- j Comb City, Miss., called on Governor i Longino Saturday and requested him j ! not to approve the charter for the col- J ored lodge of Elks. They hold that the | name Elks has been copyrighted by j | the white lodges, and that the charter j | of the colored Elks is an infringement. The governor stated that- 11 proof to ! this effect was produced he would not | approve the charter. In the meantime ! he will hold it up until the proof is , forthcoming. EXTRA SESSION WANES. Both Houses of Congress Held On!) Brief Sessions Friday. A Washington dispatch says: The house was in session but five minutes J Friday and adjourned until Saturday, j after transacting minor business. The seiate was in session from i noon until 12:35 o'clock, and also adjourned until Saturday. The business ! i transacted was purely of a routine character. - FLURRY JNJBOTTONI Government Estimate of Crop Sends Prices Skyward. A GREAT RUSH TO BUY ^elimlnary Statement Issued from the Census Bureau Places Number of Bales for the Season at 9,962,039. A Washington special says: Prelim inary returns to the bureau of statistics of the department of agriculture indicate that the actual growth of cotton in the United Staes in the year 1903-1904 will amount to 9.962.039 bajes, of an average net weight ot 490.8 pounds. A New York special says: An an\ precedented rush to buy, a sensational soaring of prices upward and the heaviest sales on record, followed the announcement on the New York cotton exchange Thursday of the agricultural department's* estimate of the cotton crop of the present season, 9,962,039 bales. At the sound of the word * Nine," indicating the number of million bales in the estimate, a scene of frantic bidbind set in, the shorts in their excitement not waiting to learn that the total estimate was but 37,961 bales short of the round ten millions, and instantly prices jumped from 10 to 20 points :>n the fir&t sales, the rise continuing jntil advances of from 30 to 40 points nqre registered before the close of m hour, and from 60 to 70 points before the upward movement was checked. Then the uncovering or long cotton in tremendous voTume met the advance and the realization that the estimate was practically ten million bales caused a temporal y reaction, but soon an inpcur of buying orders from outside markets and bullish reports sent prices upward again and at the high point reached shortly "before the close December sold at 12.32, January at 12.46, March at 12.59, May at 12.57 and July at 12.56, or 79 to 87 points above the low level of the morning. The market closed strong at nearly the top, with prices net 69 to 74 points viorfcoT- Coloc wore p?timatpd at 2.000. UU4VU T? V4 V ?, , | 000 bales, exceeding anything before recorded, while prices broke all records for the season of the cotton year. The cotton market opened with prices a little off from tnose at the closing Wednesday. The market was depressed to 11.60 for January and 11.72 for March, May and July, and there seemed to be a disposition among the bidders on both sides to postpone trading until the government report was received. When the report was read at noon the effect was electrical and ,the immediate clamor of bidders drowned the reading of all but the first figure of the report. Shorts did not wait to hear whether the estimate might be only one bale less than ten millions or only nine millions, but in a panic rushed to cover, and in fifteen minutes 12 cents or more was being asked for every option on the list. 4 .ftunougn me iraue uau uecii cyaicu i for a low estimate, an average of private estimates put forward last week by cotton exchange members being 10,353,000 bales, nothing below 10,000,000 had been anticipated ana the wildest buying movement in the history of the exchange ensued. So great was the excitement with over 100 brokers seeking to buy, that at times prices were 10 to 15 points apart in different sections of the pit rfe volume of business was so great ind the excitement so intense that the jrokers were on the verge ot collapse, j Ihe maximum advance representing an | enhancement in value ot from $3 t.o j $3.50 per bale, and the fluctuations meaning the gain or loss of fortunes. The day was also the wildest one ever seen in the cotton market at New Orleans. The bureau estimate at 11 { o'clock of 9,962,039 bales for this season's crop sent prices up from 90 to 91 points above Wednesday's closing figures. The confusion was so great that trading was difficult, and it was fully two minutes after the estimate was read before nuotations were post ed.. Within four minutes prices had \ advanced 40 points. The advance was j steady until March stood sixty point3 | higher than the last quotations before the reading of the estimate. Chinese Boxers Again ^t Work. A dispatch from St Petersburg says I a report is current in Port Arthur, originating in Chinese quarters, of an anti-Christian rising in the province of ze Chuan. BOLL WEEVIL IN CONGRESS. Texas Representative Seeks Legislation Against Dreaded Pest Representative Burgess, of Texas, introduced a bill in congress Friday to lessen the damage of the cotton boll weevil, directing the secretary of agriculture to appoint a cotton commioet/vn in Vi?o dpnartment. to Include iuiooiuu au ? , ? residents of the states of Texas and Louisiana, to study the problem. The bill appropriates $250,000 - i' ' 'rk'-'- " . -v * ''ia& ?????? ??? MARTIAL LAW DECLARED ' V ?/ S .r Governor Peabody Declares Cripple Creek Mining District in State \ of Rebellion Owing to Strike. A special from Denver, Colo., says: Governor Peabody has issued a proclamation declaring Cripple Creek un- ^ der martial law and suspending ithe writ of habeas corpus. He declares that the gold camp is in a state of insurrection and rebellion and that the civil authorities are powerless. In support of this action, the gov- [ ernor cites the blowing up of a portion of the Vindicator mine and other acts of lawlessness, and declares that t It .is impossible to control the turbulence of the camp by ordinary peaceable means. The proclamation does not state in so many words that martial law has ?. been declared and that the writ of habeas corpus has been suspended, but officials at the state house say that both these things are intended. The military will now deal with all alleged voffenders and try to punish them. ?. Colonel Edward Verdeckburg, commander of the military forces in Crip- 1 pie Creek, was with the governor in Denver when he dictated the proclamation. He left for Cripple Creek later in the day with a copy of the \* proclamation. Wholesale arrests of strikers suspected of implication in . the Vindicator explosion and o^ier cases of violence will be made. The "bull pen" will be enlarged so as to accommodate several hundred prisoners. C. G. Kennison, Sherman Parker and W. F. Davis, the executive committee, * , 3 of the Western Federation of Miners, of the Cripple Creek district, against whom informations were filed charging murder and conspiracy to murder, are now confined in the county jail. TheirV. . j i?iof oQch 1 Uttli iiAQ UCCU ilAW ac y xujwvv VMVM? The accused men say the charges - ! against them have been trumped up to get them out of the way. BRITISHERS ARE HARD HIT. Cotton Shortage Threatens {Nre Ruin to Mills Across the Water. Advices from London state that the rise in cotton caused intense excitement in Manchester and Liverpool Friday. American cotton advanced 28 to 44 points over Thursday's closing prices. ' :S\ It is said locally that if the official crop estimate of the United States department of agriculture made public Thursday is correct, i means a terrlble calamity for Lancashire. The cotton trade is divided in opinion, one section contending that the demand for cotton goods, because of the falling off of orders from India and China, is not likely to be exceptionally great during the coming year, and that 10,000,000 bales, as estimated by the American agricultural department, will be sufficient to meet all re- * . quirements. One of the largest firms of cotton spinners at Bradford announce that they are preparing to erect mills in , the United States, to which they will :t transfer hundreds of looms, with their complement of machinery, the dismounting of which has already commenced. In making the announce- ' ment the firm says: "The Amerlcan_jspanufacturers re- \ cently have made such vast improvements in the manufacture and dyeing of the finest classes of goods similar to those we produce, on which we aire paying 100 per cent and upwards In duty, that we are confident our present American department will never be able to pay its way more than three four years more at the most." ARMSTRONG DOOMED TO HANG. I m - ' Alabama Youth Who Killed His Voung Lady Relative Found Guilty. "We, the jury, find the defendant' -?/ guilty of murder in the first degree, and fix the punishment at death." This was the verdict of the jury in. the case at Tuskegee of Ralph Arm strong, charged with the murder of his cousin, Miss Allia Armstrong, at Notasulga, on the night of October 23 The defendant heard his death warrant read. He sat as if dazed and his lips moved, but not a sound escaped. The judge set the date of his hanging at January 8. COTTON MILLS TO CURTAIL, High Prices May Cause Further De- ' ductions Throughout New England. v That a widespread curtailment .of production by cotton mills in the United States will be found necessary during the next few months, on account of the great cost of raw material, is the opinion of leading mill men in Boston, from which the policy of many cotton mills in the north is directed. The mills in New England employ fully 175,000 hands, 655,000 of who? had their wages reduced 10 per cent this fall, and 15,000 additional win be cut within the next two weeks. DRUNKENNESS HIS PLEA. * ' ' ' urderer Armstrong Testifies Regarding the Killing of His Cousin. Nervous and wringing his hands, Ralph Armstrong, charged with Killing his cousin, Miss Allie Armstrong, took the stand in his own behaii in cou^t at Tuskegee, Ala., Thursday and teetfc3ed that he knew nothing of ?he kfllng, admitting that ho was drunk aad iad been in that condition several laya. v" - ijK