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\ . ?? ? THE HAWAIIAN INCIDENT. PRESIDENT CLEVELAND TELLS CONGRESS ALL ABOUT IT. * How Hl? Plan to Reatore Qaeen Lll Was Chtoked?Stevens Blamed for Her Overthrow?Ml nlstfr W111U' Iuitrnotloni. Washington, Dec. 18.?The President's message upon the Hawaiian complication was sent to Congress today. It is a document of about six thousand words and the instructions to Minister Willis, which were sent to the Senate but not to the House, mak6 < an additional 3,500 words. Following * is a synopsis of the President's mesI sage: In hla nnpnir.ff naraaraDbs the Presi dent says: "Though I am Dot able 7 now to report a definite change in the actual situation. 1 am coovlDced that the difficulties lately created both here and in Hawaii, and now standing in the way of a solution through executive actiou of the problem presented, render it proper and expedient that the matter should be referred to the broader authority and discretion of Congress, with a full explanation of the endeavor thus far made to deal with the emergency and a statement of the considerations which have governed my action. I suppose that right and justice should determine the path to be followed in treating this subject. If Datiooal honesty is to be disregarded and a dt-sire for territorial extension or dissatisiaction with a form of government not our own ought to regulate our conduct. I have entirely misapprehended the mission and character of our government and the behavior which tneiconscience of our people de ? xnands of fheir public servants."" Mr. (Cleveland then gives a history of the situation as he found it upon taking office, the then pending treaty of annexation, its withdrawal by himself, and the sending of Mr. Blount to investigate the facts attending the nego,. tiation of the treaty and the overthrow of the Queen's government. Mr. Blount's report accompanies the meej, x sage. It has been published already. Of this report, Mr. Cleveland says: "The report, with its accompanying proofs and such other evidence as is now befoie the Congress or is herewith iNnflftAa in mw AnlntAn tho OUUlU^blCUy JIUbUIQOyiU U1J V|/AU1VU | vuv statement that when the President was led to submit the treaty to the Senate, with the declaration that 'the' over? throw of the monarchy was not In any way promoted by this government,' and when the Senate was induced to receive and discuss it on that basis, both President and Senate were misled." Discussing the facts and evidence relating to the inception of the annexation movement In Hawaii, Mr. Cleveland observes: bTbe project was one which wcs I zealously promoted by the minister I representing the United Statts In that V country. He evidently had an ardent * desire that it should become a fact accomplished by his agency and during his ministry, and was not inconveniently scrupulous as to tffe means employed to that end. On the 19th day of November, 1892, nearly two months before the first overt act tending towards the subversion of the Hawaiian government and the attempted trans* fer of Hawaiian territory to the United States, he addressed a long letter to the Secretary of State, in which the case for annexation was elaborately argued on moral, political and economical grounds. He refers to the loss to the Hawaiian sugar interests from the operation of the McKinley bill, and the tendency to still further depreciation of sugar property unless some positive measuie of relief is granted. He strongly inveighs against the existing Hawaiian srovernment. and emphati cally declares for annexation. He says: 'In truth, the monarchy Lere is an absurd anachronism. It has nothing on which. it logically or legitimately stands. The feudal basis on which it once stood no longer existing, tbe monarchy now is ouiy an impediment to good government?an obstruction to the prosperity and progress of the Islands.'" Ajfniifhoii onH lihfiPQllo fpnm ^UVUUg A U1 vuvt MUU ?? V uu Minister Stevens's communication to the State Department, Mr. Cleveland says: "Those declarations certainly show a disposition and condition of mind which may be usefully recalled when interpreting the significance of the minibter's conceded acts or when considering the probabilities of such conduct on bis part as may not be admitted In this view the President quotes Irom a letter from Stevens, dated March 1.1892, in which Stevens asks for information as to bis powers ar,ij duties in the event of a rt vt-lu um uccuriDg in HodoIuIu; atci a!a ?oue dated February 1.1893. in which Stevens declares that: "The Hawaiian pear is now luny ripe, una inis is me goiaen hour for the Ur.ited States to pluck ' (t" Mr, Stevens's protectorate Incident j also referred to. Tbe President rehearses tbe incidents attending the overthrow of the $ueen, and from them gives this deduction: "Thus it appears that Hawaii was . taken possession of by the United ' States forces, without the consent or wiBb of the government of the islands, or of anybody else, so far as shown, except the United States Minister. Therefore, the military occupation of Bonolulu by the United States on the day monHnnod was whnllv wlthnnt instin cation, either as an occupation by consent or as an occupation necessitated by dangers threatening American life and property. It must be accounted for in some other way and on some otner ground, and Its real motive and purpose are neither obscure nor far to seek." In further discussing these events, the President says: "When our minister recognized the provisional govern[ment, the only basis upon wbich it rested was the fact that the committee of safety had in the manner above , stated declared It to exist. It was * neither a government de facto nor de jure." Of the state of perplexity In which this state of things placed the Queen ), Mr. Cleveland says: "If the Qaeen could have dealt with the insurgents alone, her course would have been plain and the result would , have been unmistakable, liut tbe United States bad allied itself with her enemies, had recognized them as i the true government of Hawaii, and had put her and her adherents in the nnnitinn nf OTiDosition asrainst lawful authority. She knew that she could not withstand the power of the UDited States, but she believed that she might safely trust to its justice. Accordingly, some hours after the recogniztion k of the provisional government by the ' United States minister, the palace, the barracks and the police station, with all the military resources of the country, were delivered up by the Queen upon the representation to her that her cause would thereafter be review| ed at Washington, and while protest ? rior force of the United States, whose 1 minister had caused United States < troops to be landed at Honolulu and t declared that he would support the t provisional government, and that she yielded her authority to prevent collis- ' ion ot armed forces and loss of life.and ' only until such time as tne uniteu States, upon the facts being presented to it should undo the action of its representative and reinstate her in the au- r thority she claimed as the constitu- i tional sovereign of the Hawaiian Is- , lands." ; Mr. Cleveland cites a number of pre- ; cedents as telling against the action of 1 the United States In the present case, among them the admission of Texas as J a part of our Union, the revolutions in i Brazil, Chile and Yeneeuela, and sums * nn oo f/\lInrro * u?/ no tuiivnoi ' As I apprehended the situation, we s are brought face to race with the fol i lowing conditions. "Tbe lawful government of Hawaii c was overthrown without the drawing ^ of a sword or tbe firing of a shot, by a process every step of which, it may be 1 safely asserted, is directly traceable to . and dependent for its success upon 11 the agency of the United States, acting through its diplomatic and naval rep- 1 resentatives. d "But for the notorious predelictions of the United States minister for an- t nexauon, ine comiimiww 01 aaiouy, & which should be called the committee \ of annexation, would never have ex- r is ted. d "But for the landing of the United States forces, upon false pretexts res- D pectlng the danger to life and proper- B ty, the committee would never have j exposed themselves to the pains and v penalties of treason by undertaking the subversion of the Qaeen'a government. a "But for th? presence of the United d States forces in the immediate vicinity " and in position to afford all need pro- " * ?iinnni\i>t tho nnmrnitUa IC^bll/u auu oup^v/i V| wuw vvtMijU??vw would not have proclaimed the provls- 8 ional government from the steps of the n government building. o "And, finally, but for the lawless oc- ii cupation of Honolulu under false pre* h texts by the United States forces, and but for Minister Steven's recognition n of tbe provisional government when f, the United States forces were its sole support and constituted its only mill- Q tary strength, the Queen and her government would never have yielded to the provisional government, even for a , time, and for the sole purpose of sub- D mittlng ner case to the enlightened 8 justice of the United States. & "Believing, thererore, tnat tne uni- ? ted States could not, under the clrcum- b stances disclosed, annex the Islands p without justly lncujring the imputa- p tlon of acquiring them , by unjustlflable methods, I shall not again submit n the treaty of annexation to the Senate ^ for its consideration, and in. the in- Q structions to Minister Willis, a copy of 7 which' accompanies this message, I n have directed him to so Inform the provisional government." Mr. Cleveland says here that, in his E opinion, our duty does not end with re- P fusing to consummate this questiona- u ble transaction, but that4,a substan- * tial wrong has thus been done, which a due regard for our national charac- b ter, as well as the rights of the Injured people, requires we should endeavor to t; repair, and that the United States j, cannot properly be put In the position D of countenancing a wrong after its 8 commission any more than in that of _ X. -4.1- ~ J consenting 10 it iu uuvauuc. vu tuai ground, it cannot allow itself to refuse * to redress an Injury inflicted through 1 an abuse of power by oflcers clothed 1 with its authority and wearing tbe uniform; and, on tbe same ground, if a c feeble but friendly State is in danger of a being robbed of its Independence and u it8 sovereignty by a misuse of the name t and power of tbe United States, the ? United States cannot fail to vindicate ^ its honor and its sense of justice by an earnest effort to make all possible rep- b aration" 1 The President says: '*1 have not, . however, overlooked an incident of this ,n unfortunate affatr which remains to 1] be mentioned. The members of the provisional government and their sup- ? porters, though not entitled to extreme s svmDatbv. have been led to their pres- a ent predicament of revolt against the d government of the Queen by the inde- s fenslble encouragement and assistance ? of our diplomatic representative. This fact may entitle them to claim tbat in ^ our effort to rectify the wrong com- 0 mitted some regard should be bad for their safety. This sentiment is strongly seconded by my anxiety to do nothing wbich would invite either harsh retaliation on the part of the <|aeen or c violence and bloodshed in any quarter. t In the belief tbat the Queen, as well as t her enemies, would be willing to adopt i such a course as would meet these con- r ditlons, and in view of the tact that t both the Qoeen and the provisional t government had at one time apparent- t )y acquiesced in a reference of the en- 3 11 r? case t.n t.hfi United States covern- a ment, and considering the further fact that in any event the provisional government, by its own declared limitation, was only to exist until terms of union with the United States of America have neen negotiated and agreed upon, I hoped that after the assurance to tbe members of that government that such union could not be consummated, i might compass a peaceful adjustment of the difficulty. Actuated by these desires and purposes, and not unmindful of the. inherent perplexities of the situation, nor of the limitations upon my power, I instructed Minister Willi* to advise the Queen and her supporters of my desire ? to aid in tne restoration 01 me siaius existing before the lawless landing of the United States forces at Honolulu on the 16th of January last, If such restoration be effected upon terms providing for clemency as well aa justice to all parties concerned. The conditions suggested, as the instructions show, contemplate a general amnesty to those concerned in setting up the provisional government, and a recognition of all its bona fide acts and obligations. In short they require that the past should be buried, and tnat toe restored government should reassume its authority as if its continuity had not been interrupted. These conditions have not proved acceptable to the Queen,and tnough she has been informed tbat they will be insisted upon, and that unless acceded to the efforts of the President to aid in the restoration of her government will cease, I have not thus far learned that she is wlllin'g to yield them her acquiescence. "The check which my plans have thus far encountered has prevented their presentation to the members or the provisional government, while unfortunate public misrepresentations of tlvA nfnfikmAnfa Af fhn annfimnnfa nf tuo ouibuuicuw vi wuv ovubiiuuuuu vj. our people have obviously iDjured the prospects of successful mediation. "I, i therefore, submit this communication i with its accompanlng exhibits, embracing Mr. Blount s report, the evidence and statements taken by him at Honolulu, the Instructions given both Mr. i Blount and Minister Willis, and tbe correspondenc8 connected with the affair in hand. ' In commending this subject to tbe extended powers and wide discretion ' of the Congress, I desire to add the assurance that I Bhall be much gratified to co-operate in any legislative plan J; ? ivbich may be devised for the solution >f the problem before us, which is eoailstent with American honor, Integrity md morality. Grover Cleveland." 'Executive Mansion,. 'Washington, D. C.,Dec. 18.1893." Warning to Blasphemers. Shamaokin, Pa., Dec. 20.?The ter ible experience of poor John Simpkins ias served as a warning to the blasphemes of this city, and now many of the kicked residents are scarcely ever heard o utter an oath. John Simpkins was one of the most aithful employes engaged In the large ron mills of Sbamaokin. But he was a rery pralane man, and whenever anyhing occurred to anger h'm he would ;ive full vent to his temper in the most florfni im nrnrationa. He hecama angered one day, several nonths ago, at a pieca ot work he was loins: and indulged in more sulphurous irofanity than usual. ?ie had scarcely ceased his blasphemes when a strange sensation came over lim, and the next moment he realized he awiul fact that he was deaf and lurnb. Although working steadily at his rade since then, he was unable to uter a sylable or hear a sound until last Vedoesday evening when he attended a eligious revival in progress at a Metholist church in Shamaokin. The minister had concluded a short ser inn and trivpn nn invitation to relious eekers to assemble at the altar, wheDgohn Simpkins, seeing others press torard the front immediately loft his paw nd bowed with the others about the Itar rail. rJ otue surprise of everyone in the an* lience the dumb man's tongue was then nloosened and he offered up a most #rvent prayer for mercy. Before the erviceB closed Sisapkins addressed the aeeting for about ten minutes, telling f his wonderful experience, and expres3g his gratitude for t.ie restoration ol is speech and hearing. "No one can imagine the agonies of lind I have endured during the past sw months," said Simpkins to a lriend. LI repented of my great wickedness gain and again, but never expected to egain my speech or hearing." Just after indulging in his last outurst of profanity Simpkm3 says he sav wonderful vision in the form of an anel of dazzling brightness. The mesenger informed him that his conduct ad been such a9 to demand speedy luoishment, and when the an?el disap>eared be was unable to talk or hear. Simpkins - after his recovery, spent lost of Thursday calling from bouse to ouse among bis neighbors and acuaintances urging them to forsake heir evil ways. Yesterday morning he urprised his wife by remarking: "Mary, I had another vision last light, and I am confident that before ioon I shall lose my speech and hearag again, never to regain it in this rorld." "Oh. John, do not think that." said Is wife. "I cannot help ij, Mary. Another right messenger stood by my side as I ?y in bed last night, and declared that ay speech and hearing wer<5 only retored to me for a short time and then roald be taken from me for good. This xperience is all for a good purpose and will not murmur, whatever may be be result." Toe husband and father continued to nverse cheerfully with his family and ttended to a little work about the tlouse ntil 10 o'clock, when he remarked bat ho must go and visit a friend rhom he was trying to induce to abanon his evil ways. TTa wan ornnA ahniih an hour, and re urning home, said to his wife: "Mary, Fred Shorter has renounced lis wicked ways and start? d In better ile. Isn't it encouraging.?" The next instant his speech went rom him and ne was unable to hear a ound. Then his sight began to fail, ,nd now, in addition to belne deaf and umb, he is al nost entirely blind. His trength is failing, md it is thought he rill not long ?urvive. TLe affair baa created groat excite sent in the city and is the main topic Miscussion. A Naval Demonstration, Washington, Dec. 20.?That the ruiser New York will go to Rio Jaleiro In the event that it is necessary o strengthen the United States fleet n RrH7.il has hpfln decided bv Sec eta y Herbert. No orders have been sent o ner commander, Capt. J. W. Philip, o proceed to the Brazilian capital, but le ha3 been directed to pre pare his vesel for sea without delay, in order that he can leave for Brazil immediately ipon receipt of orders to that effect. Misstated at the Navy Departmeht hat the New York will not be ordered o Rio if no change takes place in the >resent situation there; but it is beieved that affairs are ne&rirg a crisis hat will call for her presence at Rio Orders have also been issued by the Department directing that the double wtAnif ah ldinnf AnAmnh n r\ nr lUH CtCU LLiULil tui iuiauiuuviuuu) uv II it the Brooklyn navy yard.be prepared 'or sea as speedily as po3oible. The Hiantonomob will be fitted out subject ,o the same condition? governing the preparation of the New York; and if ihe expected should occur, the two vesie!s will proceed to Riu in company. There was no secret made today at ;he State and Navy Departments of ;he reasons that have induced tbis government to increase its naval force in Brazil. The United States government :eels that the commerce of thiasountry las been interferred with by the Brazilian trouble. Merchant vessels have jeen ordered from their accustomed mchorage to a point farther away irom me line or ure, ana uie ursi, iaw )f nature has compelled the foreign warships to do likewise. The anchorite for mercnantmen Is situated north )f the Rio arsenal and between that point and Enchadas Islands and mother small Island are in the posseslion of the insurgents. From these four positions they are pouring shot md shell into the arsenal and the custom house. The line of fire is directly icross the prescribed anchorage for merchant vessels/ All the American business houses are situated In the vijlnity ef the custom house and the aisenal, and the constant firing prevents noonUnn nf htiainaoa A mPPIA^n juu biaaoav/uiuu vi k/uuiuvuu> a*.>mu4 ships cannot, from their present position, communicate with the shore, and commerce is being seriously crippled. In addition to this, it is expected that when the iiaal battle begins in earnest the business houses of Americans will 3uffer considerably. It is to prevent this interference with Rommerce and destruction of American interests that an imposing aval demonstration will be made by the United States at Rio. The expectancy of a turn in events Is acute in both the State and Navy Departments, and almost any moment may witness tt e United States taking a part in the controversy which it has endeavored to escape by a policy of non-recognition and non-interference FOR REVENUE ONLY. THE TARIFF BILL REPORTED TO THE HOUSE. The Existing Liw, "Which Is Wronjc in Frlnclplo aud Grevlonsly Urjust la Operation, Repudiated by the American People. Was nr no ton, Dec. 19.?The majority report of the ways and means committee on the tariff bill, presented in the House today, was written by Chairman Wilson. Following are extracts lruui it: "The American people, after the fullest aQd most thorough debate ever given by any people to their fiscal policy, have deliberately and rightfully decided that the existing tariff is wrong in principle and greviously unjust in operation. "They have decided, as free men must always decide, that the power of taxation has do lawful or constitutional exercise except for providing revenue for the support of the government. Every departure from this fundamental principles of popular institutions, and inevitably works out gross inequality in citizenship of the country. For more than thirty years we have levied the largest part of our Federal taxes in violation of this vital truth until we have reached in the existing tariff, an extreme and voluminous system of class taxation to which history Kq nViallannrod trt frirnlflh flnv HUT. LUC*j uo ouauvugvv> w ^ jr? ellel. "So many private enterprises have been taken into partnership with the government; so many private interests now share in the prerogative of taxing 70,000,000 of people, that any attempt to dissolve this illegal union is necessarily encountered by opposition that rallies behind it the Intolerance of monopoly, power of concentrated wealth, inertia ot fixed habits, and the honest errors of a generation of false teaching." The bill on which the committee has expended much patient and anxious labor, is not offered as a complete response to the mandate of the American people. It no more professes to be purged of all protection than to be free of all error in its complex and manifold details. However we may deny the existence of any legislative pledge, or the right of any uongresa 10 maae such pledge, for the continuance of duties that carry with them more or less acknowledged protection, we must recognize tbat great interests do exist whose existence and prosperity Is no part of our reform either to Imperil or to curtail. We believe, and we have the warrant of our past experience for believing, that a reduction of duties will not injure but give more abundant life to all our great manufacturing industries. however much they may dread the change. In dealing with the tariff question, as with every other long standing abuse that has interwoven itself with our social or industrial system, the legislator must always remember that in the beginning temperate reform is safest having itself the principle of growth. "A glance at the tariff legislation of our own country ought to satisfy every intelligent student that protection has always shown its falsity as a system of economy by its absolute laiiure to insure healthy and stable prosperity to manufactures. It teaches men to depend on artificial help, on laws taxing their countrymen for prosperity In business, rather than upon their own skill and efforts. It throws business out of its natural channels, where there must always be fluctuation and uncertainty, and it makes a tariff system the footfall of party politics and the stability of large business interests the stake of every popular election. "We have believed that the first step toward a reform of the tariff should be a release of taxes on the materials of industry. There can be no substantial and beneficial reduction upon the necessary clothing and other comforts of the American people, nor any substantial and beneficial enlargement of the field of American labor, as long as we tax materials and processes of production. Every tax upon tte producer falls with increased force on the consumer. Every tax on the producer in this country Is a protection to his competitors in all other countries, aod so narrows his market as to limit v the number and lessen the wages of I those to whom he can give employ ment. Every cheapening in the cost or enlargement of the supply of his raw materials, while primarily inuring to tne benefit of the manufacturer himself, passes under free competition immediately and passes entirely to the consumer^ who very soon gets ven more benent out of it than such reductions seem to carry, because with the rapid widening of his market the manufacturer is able to sell at a smaller profit. "It is neither necessary nor practicu lar redactions we have made upon the long list of articles that still remain in the dutiable list. A few only of the most important need be enumerated. In the earthenware schedule, we have made substantial reductions, still leaving rates as high as were deemed necessary in the war tariff. In common window glais, where close combinations have kept up the prices to consumers under a scale of duties averaging more tban 100 per cent., we have made a reduction of about one-half; "In the iron and steel schedules, beginning with free ore and a duty of 21 per cent, oa pig iron, we have reported a scale of duties considerably below those of the existing law graduated according to the degree of manufacture, which should bring benefit to the consumer without calling for any halt in the imperial progress of that great industry in our country. The duty upon steel rails has been put at 25 per cent., which according to the reports of our department of labor, quite compensates for all difference in the cost of production in thid country and abroad. "Upon tin plate the duty has been gauged with reference to the revenue it will bring into the Treasury, and the difference between this duty and that upon the black plate has been lessened, with a view to discourage what may not udjustly be called the bogus industry of making American tin plate by the mere dipping in this country of the imported black plate. "In the sugar schedule, we should have preferred to wipe out at a single legislative stroke the existing bounty system. We believe it to be contrary to the spirit of our institutions, and can conceive of no circumstances under which we should have advocated or approved its introduction into our laws. We have found it existing there, as we And it virtually existing in every other schedule of the tariff, and deiling with it in this more open and offensive form, as we have dealt with other schedules where large pron^ri-.v intfirAflf.H are at stake, we have reported a provision for its repeal by such stages ra shall gradually obliterate it from Aftf laws, while permitting those who.a^ve^invested large means under the expectation of its continuance, reasonable time in which they may prepare to take their stand with the other industries of the country; \ A "Duties upon Imported tobacco leaf suitable for cigar wrappers, which were emormously advanced by the act of i tOAA Ka?a Kaon nlonflfl of annh flffnPOO Qa JLOt7V,UC* V C UCOU J^lUbVU c* w uuwu uguiv^u MM after careful investigation, were deemed likely to produce most revenues to the Treasury, but this object has alone decided the rates; their amount t is so high no domestic producer need 1 claim that there is not abundant pro- t tection and to spare for his product in t fKflm j VUQUil ( "To the farmers of the country, we g have given untaxed agricultural implements and binding twine and un taxed cotton ties?for the additional reason, in the latter case, that cotton is the largest export crop of the country, sold abroad in competition with the cheap lahor of India and of Egypt, believing thac it was sufficient for the private tax gatherer to follow the farmer in the markets of his own country and not to pursue him into all the markets of the world. As cotton bagging zan be used but onee, we have thought it but just to extend the drawback system to such bagging made of jute butts when used upon our export ed cott >?a privilege which the exported or wheat can already now enjoy coupled with the futher advantage that the same bags may be used for successive exportation of grain. fVin 4mnAi>fnfinnfl rtf 1QQ9 f ha XttCkiUg LUC liujh/v/ibauivua VI vuv t latest which were prepared, the new l rates would operate a reduction of near- v ly one-third of the duties collected under the tariff; but this great reduction v in taxes actually paid to the government is no measure of the lightening a of burden to the taxpayers of the coun- t try. That reduction may be estimated at several times more than the reduc- . tion of taxes. {; "It is the purpose of the present bill ~ to repeal in Section 3 of the tariff act 1 of October 1,1890, commonly but most 1 erroneously called its reciprocity provision. That act placed suggar, molasses t coffee, tea and hides on the free list, but t authorized the President, should he be ? satisfied that the government ot any " other country producing such articles imposed duties upon the agriculture or . other products of the United States J which he might deem unreasonable, to 1 suspead the provision under which * these articles were submitted into the f' country free. This section has brought I no appreciable advantage to American exporters." s HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. a Washington, Dec. 19.?In the House today, Boutelle of Maine offered a re- t solution condemning the Hawaiian t policy of the administration, and asked * for its immediate conslderatron; but, 1 upon a point of order sustained by the . Speaker, and after a protracted wrangle : the resolution went over. [ Wilson, from the ways and means 1 committee,, submitted the majority re- a port on the tariff bill; which was referred to the committee of the whole. t The deficiency appropriation bill was t passed, and the Houbb adjourned. e 81 ATE WAR RELIC MUSEUM- 1 c ? 1 Inauguration of a Movamont to Secure v One. S Columbia, S. C., Dac. 20:?A determined effort is to be made looking to ^ the establishment of a State maeeum of ^ Revolutionary and Confederate war re- t lies, Such aa flags, etc, in which the c State is so.wealthv. The object is to ? establish this museum and set apart quarters for it in the State Capitol building, were all strangers and lovers of relics can go at any time and inspect the exhibits. Some weeks a?o Adjt. Geo. Farley received the following letter from Gen. M. C. Butler, which letter has caused the inauguration of this effott wbich will likely result in the establishment of such a mu3?am: 'Edbefield, Nov. 30, 1893. Gen, H. L. Farley: Dear Sir: L?t me make a suggestion. I find there are a great many relics of the Revolutionary as well as the Confederate war in tho hauds ot private parties that pught to be in a State museum. As time goes on these parties take less interest in them and my suggestion is that you arrange to have them deposited in the Adjutant General's office for safe keeping. Some plain ?1 ?4-Ka pwaIIo .itahI/1 nrvf gl&SB CUH03 tuu n cwio "uuiu uu? j occupy much,Jspace end would not cost s muoh. Don't you think you could get ? the Legislature to allow you a small ? appropriation to start il and then invite ? people to deposit their relics? Yours very truly, { M. U. But?er. Gen. Farley has Peen 'hinking over the suggestion of Gen. Butler tor some t time. Yesterday Gen. Kerehaw came t to the city and after a brief consulta- t tion he and Gen. Farly called upon c Governor Tillmaj. A consultation was c held by these three lor quite a time. It was decided to undertake the estub ^ lishment of such a museum at once. c Governor Tillman and Gen. Failey will not oolr frtp an Armrnnriation at this session of the General Assembly, but ^ will appropriate so much of their contingent funds aa may be necessary to carry out the scheme. They request all parties who have relic3 of either war to send them to Adjt. Gen. Farley, together with a brief historical sketch of the articles. They will be properly taken cure of and marked with the name of the owner. Any articles that may have belonged to distinguished men, any battle flags, or any articles with associations of an historical nature, etc., are wanted. The object ie to'get as many of these relic3 as possible into the hands of the Adjutant General by next fall, when a grand meeting of the people of the State will be arranged to be held in the hall of the House of Representatives, at which the notable rel" 1,1 ' ? V* yl A T7A/3 Ko ^ ICS Wilt DO preeeuixu uuu uio^iajcu uj ^ men who know their history. This v accomplished, the Legislature will tie -v asked to establish an attractive museum in the Capitol building. g A FlRht to the Finish, 8 A unique feature of the Iveeley f Treatment is the fairne83 with which b it treats the enemy. "Do your worst," It seems to say to the whiskey bottle, t "and we are ready for you!" If the pa- v tient craves the intoxicant to which he t has so long been accustomed, he is not jput off with a substitute, but given the q very stuff Itself, and the b9st of its c kind. There is not eren any attempt made to taper him off after the oldtime fashion with the poor wretch I who "had been mortgaging 1 miserable morrows for nigbts or u madness." Tbere is no restric- r tion when stimulant is demand' c ed, neither is there that overdosing n which has often been suggested, and f perhaps tried a time or two, by enterprising reformers?putting whiskey in 2 the patient's soup, coffee, beef gravy, etc. On the contrary his dram is nor. j only readily furnished, but made as y palatable as he is used to having it leaving first-rate whiskey and the ? Double Chloride oi Gold to fight it out e between them for the possession of the inebeiate's body. Which ij the strong- 1 er is being every day proved by the t usual result of the battld at the no* f famous leeley Institute, Columbia . s. c, e > / / f 4 i I ___ ! TEMPEST IN A TEAPOT\ How About the Attorney Oener?l'd Extra Clerk*. Columbia, S. C.f Dec. 20.?After ,be roll call in the Hou3e yesterday Col. laskell stated that the Attorney Gensral, in his communication submitted he night before, had asked for an invesigation. He accordingly offered a relolutlon providing for the appointment >f a committee to ascertain from him he number of clerks employed and the lumber dismissed. Mr. Duncan, of Newberry, declared hat the Attorney General had justified 1 lis act, and then went on to say, "He idmits the mistake he has been lead nto. I think the gentleman is trying to ; nake a mare's nest out of this thing, "f he wishes4o make political capital let ( 11m go ahead." Mr. Gary, of Abbeville, then read a ( etter from Chief Clei k Covington to the , ittorney General, in which Mr. Covinz- ' on made the iollowing statement: ''Taking the view that if the Code i ihould be read in both houses as a bill it , ihould be enrolled in the Engrossing de)artment, the number of clerks an- . jointed would not have been sufficient , o do that work and the other regular york of the department." Mr. Brice, of Chester, a3ked what 7a8 'the date of the letter. Mr. Gary glanced at the letter again ind said he was compelled to Bay tbat here was no date to it. On being informed of this Mr..Covingon went to Mr. Gary and stated that he tad inadvertently omitted the date and bat the letter was written yesterday norning, Mr. Shuman, of Greenville, said that < ie did not think the House could afford j o shut off the proposed investigation, Jthough he considered the letter suffllent. 1 Mr. Skinner, of Barnwell, thought I hat the letter was abundantly satisfac- i ory. He declared that the Attorney 1 Jeneral was responsible under the law | or what he did, but notprimarily to this . louse. i Mr. Magill, of Abbeville, offered as a ] ubstitute to Mr. Haskell's resolution i mother resolution to the effect that ((the i sxplanation of the Attorney General as o why he had an extra force of clerks in he enrolling department is satisfactory ] othis House." 1 Mr. Johnston, of Fairfield, thought j hat the letter W88 sufficiently explana- i ory and that further investigation would >e humiliating to the Attorney Gener* ] il. I Mr. Haskell: "I declaim any attempt* o humiliate anybody. The custom has i teen unbroken for fifteen years to let sach solicitor have one clerk, and in the ast hours, on account of the pressure if work, to employ several extra clerks, i !f I wanted to make political capital I rould talk it here, and let the objectors i :o on record. If it were the best friend i ! had I would demand an investigation." : Mr. Duncan, of .Newberry, said there vas nothing bidden, and that farther investigation would bring out only reiteraion, and out of justice to an honorable nan the House sh:uld expressed itself is fully aatisfled. Mr. Haskell moved to table Mr. Hagill's substitute, which motion was ost by the following vote: Yeas?Anderson, Ashley, Bacot, 3reeland, Brtce, Egan, Glover, Gunter, Hamilton, Hardee, Haskell, Hughes, lydrick, Kellep, Xlrkland, Lofton, ^awrance, Manning Moses, Shuman, Jullivan, Tupper, Von Kblnitz, Wiliams?24. Nays?Barry, Blease, Breaz9ale, ? i 1.? /i? 3Ui3i;, uarpeuier, iiuviugiuu Jooper, Urutn Davis. Dendy, Dennis, DuBose, J. T. Duncan, T. C. Demean, Sdwards, Elder, Ellis, Estridge, Farley, Welder, Garris, Gary, Graham, Hamnett, Hardin, Hardy, Harvey, lloper, lenderson, Jefleries, Johnson, Kuotts, i r. A. Kinard, H. J. Kinard, Lancaster, jfimmoo, Love, Magill, Laban Maul- i iin, W. H. Mauldin, McLaurin, McVbite, Mishoe, Mitchell, Nettles, Oil- : rer, Parks, Patton, Pearman, Phillips, iast, Rhodes, Eoper, Rogers, Russell, i >indetary, Skinner, A. J. Smith, J. L. i Smith, S'.ackhouse, Stokes, Sturkie, Suddath, Tatum, Taylor, TIndal, Yauglan, Waters, WaUon, Whitman, .Whit i nire, Wilborn, W. C. Wolfe, J. S. i Volff, Woodward, Yeldell, Youmans -82. i \fp TTdftbftll nffrtPfld an amendement o Mr. Magill's resolution to the effect < hat tbe Attorney General be requested o send to the House a list giving tbe lames of the clerks, the date of employnent and the amount of compensation, j Mr. Kinard inquired whether Mr. Has- j ;ell was a member ot the ways and ] aeans committee. Mr. Haskell said he was. Mr. Kinard: "Then why don't you :now all about this without getting the j louse to see about it?" ' Mr. Haskell said he bad neglected his | luty, which he cheerfully admitted. Mr. Johnston, of Fairfield, said that j he Attorney General was not to blame, le has employed extia clerks in antlci- j >alion of tbe reading of the Code, and j rrimrv if- utoo intimafnrl tn him t.hoh I Jodo would not be read be dismissed i le extra lorce before he knew the mater was coming up. Mr. Haskell said it was in'the air that ' hese clerks were dismissed after attea- ' ion had been called *to the unnecessary \ iumr;er in the Senate. Mr. TuDper, of Charleston, said be ; lad known the Attorney General for : 'ears and that he was an honorable ;entlaman. As such he felt sure that i he Attorney General was perfectly ] rilling to have his actions thoroughly Li V CO . Mr. Magill, of Abbeville, said bis reolution was not intended to cover up ] tny thing. It was an iDjastice to go any urther, and he moved to table Mr. Has- 1 ;ell's amendment. Mr. Yeldell said that this waste of ' ime was attributable to Mr. Haskell, vho could have investigatived the mat- ' er in the committee room if he had ieeD there. If the Attorney ; Jeneral had the right to employ one ] lerk he had the right to employ a dozen, j r more. Mr. Haskell replied to this by aaviog hat he had stayed away from the com- ] aittee meeting for good and satisfactory ea3on. Whenever he thought that he ; ould not be of any use* ho attended the \ aeetlngs, but when there was no use ; arhim he attended toother business. His amendment was lo3t by a vote of i !1 to 85. 1 Mr. Bacot wished to add this to Mr. < tfagill'a resolution: "J>at they deem it ? >est for the Attorney General himself J ind others that a committee b3 appoint:d." ' Mr. Blease declared that it was time ! or this foolishness to stop; that precious j ime was beina: wasted, and he called ( or the previous question. Mri Magill's resoltion was agreed to, i 10 no investigation will be made. li MONUMENTAL MATTERS. I THIS STATE ASKED TO CARE FOR IT8 HEROIC DEAD. An Appropriation to Mark Their Betting Plac* on Chlckamanga'a Bloody Field Wanted?Alio One In "Ole Virgin7.'' Columbia, S. C., Dec. 16.?Governor Tillman last night sent to the Geeeral Assembly the following message, which is interesting to patriotic Caro* Mans, He has asked a member of the Senate to prepare a resolution making tbe suggested appropriation: Gentlemen of the General Assembly: " f tronomif havaarifh o nrtmmnni/*ohnn A. HI, MUUU11V UWiVTf i||U H wvl 11 111 UUIVWtWIi from Gen. A. P. Stewart in reference to the appointment of a commission from tbia State of officers engaged in the battie of Cbickamauea to mark the positions on that battlefield occupied by the South Carolina troops. The national government has provided for the purchase of the battlefield and the establishment ot a national military park thereon. It is altogether desirable that the 'place in the picture" filled by our Jjfl brave soldiers shall be commemorated . ? fl the same as by other Slates. I there- \ [ore advise that the Governor be an tborized to appoint a commission of five _ officers who participated In the battle io discharge this patriotic dnty, and that an appropriation covering theic ictual expenses be made, so that the work may ba done as suggested in Gen. Slewart's letter. Owing to the lapse of ,1me and the changes in the face of the country resulting therefrom, It may be i work of considerable difficulty, reqnirn i some time to perform, and consejuently win entail an expense of probacy >750. f x In bis lettir Gee. Stewart says: , "There were eight or ten South Carolina infantey Regiments and several bat | series in toe jajuaae or umcsaipauga, aua 10 troopi;i|gfce more distuftfOlshed by leroic courag^f. They- deserve to have >r?. i ;helc valor commemorated in this park. A. State coawnissiotfof five or tensorriving pad^pantgy^Afe-proviaiop ffcr paying thai* expeii"MBpS y?Ey- desirable, md we hope your Slate wW take early iction in the, matter." . WHAT A NOBTHEBNEB PBOPOSB*^ j? Ao appeal comes from Virginia to'3Sfr ? people of S5ath Carolina to raise onehalf of the comparatively small sum of >600 or $&>0 for purpose of erecting a monument to the C ''federate dead of this State, bnried in tu? South Carolina lot in the Confederate Soldiera' cemetary nfr. Win^hoafMr About a month ago Wm, M. Atkinson, Esq., an attorney of Winchester, who married a South Carolina lady, wrote Governor Tillman a letter stating that Mr. Charles B. Rouss, a wealthy merchant of New York, had offered to Day one half of the cost of the erection of suitable monument to the memory of the 150 South Carolina soliders bur- 1 ried in the Winchester csmetery. Aires jy, he raid, through the aid of a society of ladies in Charleston, and with Mr. Rouss' aid, marble headstones had been placed at the graves of all these dead soldiers, and that nearly every other Southern State had already erected a monument their respective soil|" ; 1 1 -I TT_ .Ut.J n'litn thai aers' mciutsiirco* no ouibcu ausu ?ua? he was anxious to have the monument ready to be uuvlled ou the next memorial day, Juue 6th, and asked the Governor to have the Legislature appropriate half of the money needed or else get the patriotic people of the Sttte to raise the money in some way. - i J. Governor Tillman replied endorsing the effort and promising his encouragement. Yesterday be received another letter urging haste in the matter. He had intended, h6 says, to send the letter to the Legislature as a message, but . upon reflection concludes that the state needs all the money it can spare to take care ot its living veterans. He thus lets the matter go to the people, hoping that some patriotic organization will accept the offer of the New York gentleman and raise the oalance of the money* The Governor thinks that the differ- _ ent Memorial Associations in the State might raise the money. Mr. Bousa, wbOBe generosity will be appreciated by * Caroiinans, .vas a brave Confederate soldier. He went to New York afttft ^ the war and made a fortune. He built a mausoleum in the Winchester*? cemetery in which he will be bon^r^r' wb*n be dies. He has spent hundreds ' ' of dollars beautifying the cemetery. No Greenwood County. Columbia, S. C., Dec. 20.?Greenwood County Is dead. The Senate killed ? It yesterday on the ground that the law requiring publication of intention to form a corporation had not been compiled with. This was the feature of ;he day in the Senate. When it came up, Mr. Hemphill objected to the consideration, reading from the Code the Law relating to the method of procedure by which such matters must be brought to the attention of the Legislature, and holding that the law had not been complied with. Mr. Mayfleld replied to Mr. Hempbill. This was no SDap judgment, nnHoo hari criven and piOUUJ VI UVMW -? ?. the question of legal right raised cannot apdy. Mr. Fuller took the same position. 'Mr. Moore called up the Code to 3how that Mr. Hemphill had gotten hold of law that effected an entirely lifferent class of legislation. The title t was matters of legislation of personal Interest. Mr. Maytteld and Mr. J. G, Evans gradually drew the discussion infn a dismission between themselves. Mr. Mayfield wanted to know if he ' considered this a matter of personal legislation. Mr. Evans thought it effected personal interests. * The Chair declined to rule on the point, but submitted it to the Senate. It was sustained and Greenwood County killed by the following vote: Yeas?Beaseley, Brine, Derham, .'Evans, J. G, Fuller, Glenn, Harrison, Hemphill, Jenkins, Magill, McDac.iel, Miller, llagio, Timmerman, Verdier, Wilson?17. Nays?Abbott, "Bigham, Brown, Ellrd, Evans, W. D, Mayfield, Moore, Mower, O'Dell, l'eake, lledfearn, Stribllng, Williams?H. . A -> O W JIUBCBi Birmingham, Dsc. 17.?Iq thismor? ning's issue of a local paper, Joseph F. Johnson, president of the Alabama National Bans of Birmingham, announces himself a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor, lis is a free silver doctrinaire and an anti-Cleveland man. He is the fiiat man to announce, and it is now almost conceded he will get the nomination, is it is not believed that Congressman Dates cares for the leadership of what bears signs of becoming the bitterest campaign in the history of the State. """"' * f-han ono nf.llAr JODU3LUU aiauu.3 tiusci uuiiu i.mj ...... man to the Kolbite-Populist combination in his views, and a large element af the Democracy believes this will make him tr.e stronges; possible candidate. It is beld doubtful if any other man will announce for the nomination