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THE PEOPLE'S RECORDER, A Journal of Nows and Opinion.^ Published Every Saturday, at Oolambi?, S. C. SUBSCRIPTION EAT ES: . Is AIJVANCR--OD? Year. 91.50; Six Month?. { 75- cents; Three Mooth?, 50. con t??. A cash' discount of 25 cents will be allowed ou all Yearly Subscriptions wheu ^ald strictly IN ADYA.HCK. Glty Subscription 15 cents per Month, naynhle nt end of Month; Vi centa per Month wiicu paid IN aovaxcx. COMMUNICATIONS: THB UKOOIiDER will publish brlof and. ra tional communications on mtyoets of goner alinteroat when they aro accompnniBd by thenames and address** oftbe nuthora.and are not ot a defamatory nature, and when smCQctunt cash ts sentto pny'for "?et-up" no charle for space. JLtraooytn 'Us com munition* will not be noticed. Wa do not return rejected mamiporlot, unless Bl am pa are sent for same. Nociceaor marrlimes, birth?, deaths, lost, found, etc., 25 couts each lufortlon nf Hix lines or lusa. Make nil portal and express monty orders pavable to a P. HOLME3, Editor and Publisher, t'olnmbin. S. O. According to tire BuTfalo News there are 257 farms In New York state that make tho culture ?rt trees their prin cipal business. The valuation ls $3, 607,107. Vermont has four -similar farms valued at $28,500. The oM saying that '?His note is as good aa gold," has been modified in Kansas to "His, note ls better than gold." A Reno county farmer has jost brought suit .to compel a mort gage company to accept mon?y for a note which it holds against him. New Orleans, a city af nearly 300,000 population, consumes less than 15,000. 000 gallons of water daily. The total cost of the New* Orleans water works was 14,000,000. St. Louis has spent $20,000,000 for the same 'purpose and has a dally consumption of 60,000,000 gallons. 'and wui cover ?ver two loer^^br^i ground than ?did the bp??m??tr^Yture and liberal Arts building at the Columbian expo sition la Chicago. In this thought tho fit. Loulsans take great delight. Joseph Lc Thompson of Franklin, ?. H., wbo is now in the 85?.h year of his agc, baa taught school in that town and vicinity for 65 years. He says, aa one thing learned in Iii? long practice of his calling, that one-third of a teacher's timo is taken up in maintain ing order. On the wall of his "study" banca a card with the word "Why" ir. large letters. This, he says, has hoon his motto all through his life and studies. . A great many California oranges are shipped east in what are known as tramp cara. There is no fruit the price of which fluctuates aa much as does that of oranges, and thousands of carloads of oranges are, therefore, started east with some uncertain dosJ tinatlon. Tho car may be consigned to Kansas City, but in the meantime there are agents watching in the east for the best markets and ou telegraphy. lc Information the car may bo ordered on to Chicago or New York City. Reportera aro often more active and ?ore gifted with an instinct for de tail than the officers, says Charles Pi Grin nell in the Atluntlc. Together they make a formidable combination. But they are often divided in opinion, and yet oftener in their, sympathies. Reporters, Uko the average citizen, are more apt to pity the prisoner, if for nothing else for the very reason that the police aro down upon him. It ls an ambition of reporters to unearth more facts than the police. Newspa pers print news from a prisoner's friends as readily as news from his persecutors. Nevertheless, they spr?ad abroad the charge against a suspected port?n more than he or his friends trish. Since tho newspapers begin long beforo a trial to work up a popu lar in ter oat in all tho persons con cerned, tho results, cannot be ?other than an exaggeration of tho impor tance to tho public cf what stimulates and gratifies curiosity, vhether or not it affects the question of the prisoner's guilt ft ARE AT IT AGAIN. Tillman and Mclaurin- Air Their Views in the Senate. A VERY DRAMATIC SCENE ENSUES The -t?gplor Sojith Carolina Senator Asks the Junior Senator That They \ Teudis? T..c..Joint. Resignations. Washington, D. C., Special.-The fonate chamber was the scene of a highly dramatic episode Monday, whoa Senator Tillman, of South Carolina, challenged his colleague. Senator Mc Lauriu, to resign with him on tho ppoi, in order, to use his language, that they might bo able "to wash their dirty linen.at home." Mr. Mclaurin did not take up the gauge. Thu* exciting clash between the two .Senators waa the direct sequel of the very bitter controversy which arose between th-Aiu In South Carolina last spring. McLaurin arose to a querilon of personal privi lege Monday and proceeded to explain what he charged was a conspiracy to discredit him lu his own State for acts and views which did not meet the ap proval of certain Democratic leaders. He declared that he was being humilia ted, and, according to public prints, was to be excluded from the Democratic caucus, becauso he had acted upon per: tain public issues in a way which he considered was for the best interest of tho country and the people of his j State. He announced himself ?I bc-i liever in the cid Democracy and after I denouncing the new Democratic lead-j erp who, ho said, had brought desirae- ; tipn upon the- party, de'clareU that he' could not be driven from his old alle giance into a.-party with which he didi i not care to affiliate. Mr. McLauriu's [ statements drew the fire of Senator Jones, chairman of the Democratic\ uational committee, who denied that j he had any ""ulterior rupUvea" in not inviting Mr. McLaurin to .enterthe' caucus. From Mr. Tillman it brought forth a review of the whole controver- i sy, in the course of which Mr. Hoar: took occasion to express the opinion ? that it was very doubtful whether both j the South Carolina seats ? were not in reality vacant. He contended that when the resignations were offered' last spring to the. Governor, they could not thereafter bo withdrawn and that' .they became immediately operative. Hs! cited a precedent and suggested thati the committee on privileges, and cita tions should look into thc matter. j *?bs. climax came when Senator Till- ! man challenged Mr. Mal .a ii ria to join with him in preparing a joint resig nations and handing, tjem to-lhg'tififl.-' piiflp^fowever, Mr; ?Mclaurin did not accept and thc epiBode was brought to an abrupt clo3e hy a motion of Sena tor Lodge that the Senate go into ?xetv" utive session. At" the conclusion of* the morning business there was something of a ttlr in the chamber when Mr. McLaurin, of South Carolina, arose to a question of personal privilege. He had before him a huge pile of manuscript. "I aris-3 to a question of personal privilege in connection with thc published state ment that I have been excluded from participation in Democratic caucus," he announced. With evidenco of con siderable emotion, he proceedod to ex plain that if such was the case and if he was to bc without assignment upon committees, the right of his State, which he In part represented In thc Senate, would suffer. The personal i effect of an exclusion from repr?senla-1 tion on committees was, he said, not! of so much importance a3 its effect upon the State of South Carolina.. By this time the entire Senate was interested. Several Republicans cross ed the political aisle to the Democratic! side the better to listen to what Mr. | Mclaurin had to say. Continuing, Mr. McLaurin said he would be silent did he not fear that the movement against him was one to keep alive .sectionalism. For many years the people of the South hau realized that they had not obtained their fair share of the national bene fits.. Mr. McLaurin recalled the lar 11 that although SamueKJ. Randall hud advocated a protective tariff, he. had been voted for in a Democratic national'! convention for President. Hancock, al though he declared that the tariff was a local issue, had been nominated for President, and David B. Hill, although ho opposed the income tax, had not been, read out of the Democratic party. Mr. Tillman, of South Carolina, was on his feet when Mr. Jones concluded In his characteristic way he announced that while his name had not been mentioned, he realized that he was tho cans*? oi it all. He said he would natl at thi-: time, make an extended reply. Briefly, then, he reviewed' tho contro versy between himself and Senator.l McLaurin, which led to the joint tender [ of their resignations to the Governor of South Carolinta : last spring, and told of tho Governors suggestion tbat tho lesignations he withdrawn. Mr. Tillman said he contended that the Governor was simply "a box into which wo had put letters for the Legislature," and they could not undo their act, but that Mr. McLaurin has hastened to withdraw his:letter. Mr. Tillman sahl ho had examined the record of about 200 cases In tho history of tho' govern ment v hero Senators had resigned, and Mr. McLaurin enjoyed the enviaolo distinction of being the only one who had withdrawn his resignation after offering it. . As to Mr. McLaurln's charge of con spiracy to "humiliato him by barring j him from the Democratic caucus, Mr. Tillman called attention to tho fact that ho had not been in Washington during the extra session of the Senate las? Spring. "Thia conspiracy," he said, "is a dream conjured up by bbn. It ls ibo creatioa of bis own brain." In conclusion Mr. Tillman, with a sweep of his arm, adjured his Demo ci al lc colleagues not to "fret" about the charge that they were conspiring to discredit Mr. MeLaurln at home be causo "his crowd was demoralized, cowed and whipped." Mr. MeL?U^alJii^?jreply to Ivlr. J?HHK?8*\a mument to say that he ould be any e.that there r .purpose" In aay '.t^houebt I-wa? did?' said he retorted Mr m his neat. "1 Tillman, but reply to Sei did not desi .thing perso had been a thing he. he jusi?fled in say. accept hla "I disclaim Jones, wlthou simply contr "I thank th*.' SeAitiOr for his cour tesy observed i Mrv-'tecr.aur in, bowiu with mock deference,, 'as he took hla seat." Mr H'oai. of Massachusetts, ad dressed himself to the legality of the resignations, which the South Caroli na Senators had sent to the Governor ot their State. Undeclared that the iTsisimt?ort5?.? -fy, legislativa, mil. er vsic?u s ? hoMtilcS?ff, once, and lin t ho doubled?^ra^\tUch resignations muid be *l$Am*?U :> He said thal Speaker BlainehailO.held upon one occasion in'Ufib ,Wouse contrary to the English TOI h ^fn'.il a lef;ismt. -a office cannot ?e_ resigned. Ko said thu a man could not bc kept m omet againsl i.is will am. raised a laugh by observing Mat hi his opinion neituei of the South Carolina Senators had a right to address the Senate. If thc Mr. Tillman were to the sally Mr. d himself beei ci although ho ^as in withdrawing his e Governor ot the State he had adlted that be /wlthdreyr lt -if' lt waa lawful to do so." He suggested that t]he Judiciary commit tee should look into the matter as he should enjoy jThThin^ so much as washing th e . dlrt;>rrlinenTllt~ h o me. , Jumping tt> hto;ife^fcVJ?ri Mclaurin declared, in,T?ttgi?8f ' 'tones, that ho was really t??1ii{jg^ at .my pluee orl?t'lt?|^'ipmV-ff'1' tho dis cussion of t iie r 1 asnea bet we vu them. Thereupon, 11rjpr'?twf^jlftti*^ntu' fash ion, Mr. Tillman cnaJleuged his col league to resign on the spot. "Let as draw up the papers now." said he, "and tender them to this statements mad( correct. In ro? Tillman said h the same cpini not a lawyer ar resignation fron man," point! tower.1 the that -will set All eyes w Lanrin. us J .'Mitlng for hi challenge, though loo-kl c>e. did ?ot m'a'tu reply. 1 Mr. Hoar again ?xpJaitf?iJn. tretched arm meer, "and pon Mr Mr paused a J if to accept the Laurin, al adlly In the from his seat or ?ok the floor and iie^ccasi MThel designation Immediately ii vaca seat in the nou?e. A resolution the expulsion of a member from Carolina, wasabout to.be voted upon, and. tho member, knowing that the re solution -would bo adopted, sent his resignation to the chair with. the In tention of addressing the House and then offering lt before the vote on the resolution was takn. As soin as Speaker Blaine saw the nature of the communication sent to him hr imme diately declared the 'seat vacant, thus putting an end to all further proceedings. Mr. Hoar continued that if- the facts bearing upon - the case of the South Carolina Senators had been correctly stated, it waa doubtful whether they were entitled to seats upon the. floor of the Senate at this time. He thought the commit tee on privileges and elections should inquire into the matter. Mr. Tillman said he was glad that his own legal instinct had been back ed up by such an eminent authority .88 the chairman of the judiciary com mlttee. If his colleague^would pre pare any document that would vacate his seat as well as his (Tillman's) he would be glad to sign it. As Tong HS he represented the people on the floor, he said, in conclusion, he pro posed to represent them honestly and not in the fashion which was a dis grace to his State. Mr. Lodge at this point arose and ' announced wlj.h a smile on his face that while tbe.resig* nations were preparing, he would move that tho Senate go Into execu tive session. The motion was carried. After half an hour behind closed doors tho Senate adjourned. Boston does Democratic. Boston, Special. - The Democrats completely overwhelmed the Republi cans Ia the city election Tuesday, Gen eral Patrick A. Collins being elected over Mayor Thomas N. Hart by the largest plurality in a quarter of a cen tury. '. Tho Democrats likewise obtain ed control of both branches of the city government, elected their streeet com missioner, Salem D. Charles, and prac tically all . their candidates for the school commission. As'usual the city voted strongly In favor of license. Fighting: In Philippines. Manila, By Cable.?-Thousands of' people are leaving Bataugas province for places of sainty. General James M. Bell reports en important engagement between a force of insurgents at Labo, province' of Camarines, and a detachment of the Twentieth Infantry. Three Americans were killed. Tho loss of tho enemy is not know?,-but is believed to have been heavy. "General Bell anticipated a speedy extermina liioo of the irreconcilables. Infectious1-diseases are said Urbe un?? known in Greenland; but it may be re garded as doubted jf t\]'i limam?rr will attaact many ii GOLD AND SILVER Statistics of the County's Product ot Precious Metals. WORK OF THE MINT FOR THE YEAR A Suggestion to Raise the Country's Stock of Subsidiary Coin to Meet Our Needs. Washington, D. C. Special-The ru port of Mr. George E. Roberts, direc tor of the mint, upon the operations ol the mint service during the fiscal year ended .Tun? 30. 1901, has been com pleted. The coinago of the mlnt3 dur ing the fiscal year amounted to 176. 999,132 pieces, of thc value of $130,340,. 781. Of this $99,065,715 waa in gold; $24,298,850 was in silver dollars, S10, 966.648 was in fractional silver and $2, 009,568 was in minor coin. Thc coinago of silver dollars during tho year was wholly from the stock of bullion accumulated under the act of July 14, 1890. The amount bf thl3 bul lion on hand at the beginning ot the fiscal year was 82,268.054 standard ounces, and at the end of the year 52, 562,927 standard ounces. The coinago of this bullion lias been accelerated to enable the treasury to retire the treas ury notes issued on its purchase and at the same time Gupply'the pressing de mand .which has existed throughout the year for the small denominations of money required in retail trade. The original deposits of gold'at the mints and assay offices amount to $153,101,580, an increase of$19.1S1.561 over the preceding year. Of thia $27, 906,489 was in foreign coln; $17,600,483 that of Great Britain, nearly all- bains from Australia and $50,425,600 that of Japan. The estimated production of gold in the United States during the calendar year 1900 waa $79,171,000, and-notwith standing the fact that this country led the world in production, its imports exceeded its export3 by $12,866,010. The production of North America, practi cally all of which cornea to the United States, was $116,151,500. Tho world's coinago of gold in the calendar year of 1900 was $354,936.497, and of silver $117,011,902. .The industrial consumption of gold In tho Unite<L?t&te*;d^Jrtng the calen dar year 19ttoLfe.e?UnMl.t?d at $16,6r>7, _500 ,and o f fctflj-'jjfliirore?pp r ood m at -j 1 y coin ^n^the to $100,000, 1901. the ex US. The re L probable that before another Congress shall have op portunity to act, th3 growing needs of the country will have absorbed the en tire amount authorized It is suggested that the limit of the country's stock of subsidiary coin bc raised to at least ?120.000,000. No good reason ia a parent, say s the report.why the coinage of dollar pieces should not be allowed to cease and all of the ;;.l ver on hand be used in subsidiary coinage. The Bonine Trial. Washington, Special.-Counsel for tho defense in the trial of Mrs. Lola Ida Bonine for the murder of James Seymour Avres, Jr., Saturday, precip itated a lengthy argument over the right to ask an expert witness cer tain hypothetical questions bearing on the hip wound of Ayres. The court directed the jury to retire dur ing the discussion. The defense stated that it would endeavor to show by the witness, Dr. W. P. Carr, that the government's contention that Ayres received this wound at long range, was wholly untenable from the very nature of the wound.? Tho court will render its decision Monday. Roosevelt's First Bill. Washington, Special. -'President Roosevelt Saturday, signed the first bill Bent to-him by Congress, thus creating the. first daw, to be enacted under his administration, lt was thc act to ad mit free pf duty and to permit the transfer of foreign exhibits from the Pan-American Exposition of thc South Carolina Inter-State and West Indian Exposition ak Jharicston. S. C. Married By Telegraph. Bowling Green, Ky., Special.-M?38 Maude Wllcutt stood in the telcgrepb office here and became the brido of Dr. J. W. Simmons, of Poastcr, Tex; Th^y were married by wire. The questions were asked from tho Texas end hy a justice of the peace and were answered by Miss Wllcutt. Miss Wilcutt at present Is teaching school in Butler county. She and Dr. Simmons recently met while travelling. The "operator and newspaper acquaintances wera the Bowling Green witnesses to tho Ular riages Mrs. Simmons will leave next week for Texas to join her husbaud. A Negro Lynched. Lake Charles, La., Special.-Saul Poydras, a negro, who cut Chief Dep uty Richard and wifo seriously Vhiirs? day night, was lynched hera Saturday morning. Poydras was arrested a{ -Welsh and tho officers were abott*, lo 'lodge' him in the parish prison, when a mob overpowered the guards, took charge of Poydras, and hanged bim to An electric ll cht pole. STARTLING WORDS 1,000 Soldiers Said to Have Died fla Account of Neglect CHARGES AGAINST ARMY OFFICER A Cincinnati .Physician Claims That Mnny Lives Have 3ccu Sacrificad Needlessly.. Marlo?, O., Special.-Dr. Charles A. L. Reed, of Cincinnati, the retirlas president o? the American Medica! *Ya- . 30ciation, was ( given a banquet hera Tuesday night by tho molicaJ profes sion of northern OhJo. In the course ?f his remarks on pending congressional topics, viewed from a medical stand point, he said: "It seems, from evidence thai. haa. recently come from within tho army itself, that tho medical department has not only been degraded, but that it i? practically without authority. This wa* Strikingly, Indeed tragically, illustrated during the recent war. A commandant, was in charge of a quarter of t!ho en tire army. His command was morie up of the flower of American man hood, and was encamped at a health resort. He, however. In violation of thc precedent of the usually cultivated and competent gentlemen of tho linc, but acting under the permission of ex isting army regulations, not only sci aside recommendations of his sanitary officers, but by personal example in cited his mon to'vlolate the most fan damental'sanitary laws. The result wa? what might have been expected. Of tho moro than 60,000 men In his .com mand 12,000 were Invalids, nearly ?,0oO died from preventable causes. If in an active campaign the com niau (Lan t had Ignored the advice of his scout and had'led his command into ambush with similarly disastrous result, 12.000 Wounded and 1,000 killed, he would have been court-martialed, anil, doubt less, dismissed from the service. "The resolution, however, I am In formed, fix no responsibility for this parallel calamity, the enormity of which ls only beginning to bo under stood. It,is not surprising that effort? have been made to suppress knowledge of it. I am advised -that tho army in vestigation committee, in W of public d?cency, omitted public report much testlmoi phase of the conduct of theojj ??^??^?--i?Vifeu?'c*rrr*o/3 w?|r tates this unsavory subject ! to the Philippines. No wc Surgeon General cannot fill tho 6D and more vacancies now existing in his corps; self-respecting medical mea aro not offering themselves for a servi?? that ls dominated by gag law and tyranny. But such methods must fail.. The agitation conn?t stop until the re sponsibility is fixed foi: the enforcement of a regulation duder the present terras of which the bumptiousness of an ac cidental and incapable commandant, with Impunity to himself, may doprlv? an entire army of the benefactions cf science." Large Canal Appropriation. Washington, Special.-Senator Morgan introduced a bill providing for the con struction of the Nicaragua Canal. Tho bill provides an aggregate of $180.009. 000. of which $5,000,000 is made Imme diately available, and of which aggre gate sum such amounts as are neces sary are to be appropriated by Con gress from time to time. The control of the canal and the canal belt is vest ed in a board of eight citizens of the United States In addition to the Secre tary of War, who ls to bo president. The members of the board aro to ba paid a salary of $S,000 a year each, and they are to ba chosen regardless J' FO litical affiliation. There is a provision authorizing the establishment of a reg iment from the regular army on thc canal belt to properly guard it, and courts also are authorized conformable to. the powers granted by tho govern ments of Nicaragua and Costa Rica." There also is a provision making throe divisions of the cannl during thc con struction and there Is to be a chlter en gineer and two assistants on each ai vision, the chief to receive a salary ot $6,000 and the assistants $8,000. To Be Deported. Manila, By Cable.-The Supreme Court Tuesday dismissed tho writ of habeas corpus In tho case of Patt orson. ? the Englishman, private secretary to Sixto Lopez, whoso deportation fs sought by the authorities, as ho refus ed to take the oath of allegiance to thc United States when ho landed at Manila.'Justice, Coopervdissentod. Pat terson wlll. be doportel on ' the. firot steamer bound for Hong Kong. Will Protect Germans. Berlin, By Cable.-Tho Poliah griev ance growing out of the punishment of paren ts at Wrosdhen, who refused to>v oblige their children to loam their catechism and prayers in tho German language, was tho subject Of an inter pellation by Prince Rodslwlf?, in Ibo Reichstag. Tho Imperial chancellor. Count Von Buelow, replied that the question pcrtaindd to tho Prussian. Diot and that thereforo ho must re fuse to discuss ii. in tho Reichstag. Ha could say, however, the prestige of the Empire had not In any way suffered through tho attitude of tho Wrfschea 8a'horltlea. and that thc relations with Austria and Russia wero entirely un affected. . i _ ..".,