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rr. WOBK OF THE LAST DAY. THE WIND-UP SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. n* Room Backs Down from Its Position TlTerlB| fin Dollars Per Day?The Senate Has Its Way Also About the Appro yrlttlon Bin. I Columbia, S. C., Dec. 25.?At 1:40 o'clock yesterday afternoon the General Assembly of South Carolina end 4 its session of 1894, both Houses adjourning simultaneously a few minutes after Governor Evans had signed the general appropriation bill, ana had n, notified the bodies of his lotion. About twenty members of the House and about half a dozen Senators were in their respective halls when the motions to adjourn were made and carried One by one the members had left the halls to take trains for their homes. In the House, for instance, only thirteen counties were represented at the wind up. Five of these had only one member holding out to the ^ last. With the adjournment went into _ history a session noted more for its heavy, hard ,and fast work than for anything else. As far as legislation is concerned, except for five or six bills, the Assembly has nothing to its record to attract particular- attention. TMv-iminont. of these jluc iduw ujivov ?.v*.? ? measures are: The Constitutional Convention, the Metropolitan Police and the Dispensary Law. The last three measures enrolled and * ratified were the supply bill, general - anpropriation bill and Dispensary bill. The enrolling of these bills prevented adjournment at noon, the hour fixed. The Dispensary did not get all the finishing touches on it until nearly 12 o'clock, and the same was the case with the other two bills. It was after noon when the enrolling department got possession of them. It was a sleepy and weary lot of legislators which meandered down to " Senate and House halls before three "o'clock yesterday morning to be present at tne last day's session of the -General Assembly. There was a haggard look on the races of-some of the * members, while others looked fresh and brighim The present session has been a hard one and it is not to be wandered ihat the physical capabilities of the more hard-worked law. Vjioto mmin nrotr nnflpr fhp BMHW IUIV ^IIBU nuj uuv>v. strain. The faithful Representative or Senator who is at his post {it all night and day sessions deserves credit. It is not that the work itself is so severe, < but it is the monotony that is wearing and tiresome. The legislator who thinks more of himself than of his constituents can always keep fresh by going to his boarding house or hotel early at night and l^ave others to re \ . main until his body adjourns. \ I do not know that a longer session -JAA6 Legislature would* prevent the -"""rush of business which now character. isas the last days of* the sessions in this State, but I do not think twentysix or twenty-eight days sufficient! time in which to make wise and safe &vi Nearly every new law on the 8tatute books of South Carolina has ~leea put there after consideration of but slew days. All the most import ant laws of recent years have been put through the two bodies in the rush and confusion of the last days of the nodosa, when errors and mistakes were liable to creep in despite the care and watchfulness of the shrewdest members and officers. The Lejpsla ' tore ought not to be limited as it is. It ought to be allowed at least thirtylive days so that it can finish its work decently and in order. I THST GOT FROLICSOME. F; From 3 o'clock in the morning until ? 1:40 o'clock, when adjournment was i taken, the House was serious and -irolioeome byturns. No business is done in the last hours, except to settle differences between the two bodies over bills; to send these to the enroll ing department, and later to ratify thea. Recesses were frequently taken and the intervals are spent in holding mock sessions. Several mock sessions were held before daylight yesterday, Mr. Connor, t>? Orangeburg, ^residing. He is possessed of a barrel of humor, and the mode dignity with which he presides deceives members and officers who feappc in to walk in after an absence] ana find him in the chair. With a great deal of gravity the House yesterday passed various resolutions of a witty nature, among them the following: I - "Resolved, That members be reL quested to keep off the grass unless ft their feet are clean." -Til r' JU*?. WliXLUl x gic/i x uu iuuao av vuv v u B dici&ry Committee," Sg About 5 o'clock, when the members B were sleepy and thirsty, and Mr. ConSB Bor was presiding, a resolution was SB passed requiring dispensaries to open ^ immediately for the convenience of A resolution was also passed abolEMfching the Senate for its tardiness. B Speaker Jones never takes part in I^Hiese divarications from the dignified HjBnstoms of the lowar bJiy,and is genS erally absent from the hall when the B frolics are in progress. WyChe, Of Newberry, is one of the KWdtrs in the mock session frolics. K. THE PRESS COMPLIMENTED. B I Mr. Gams, of Colleton, yesterday B offered, and the House adopted, the B following resolution: B "Resolved, That the House wishes B to express its appreciation of the courB tssy and gentlemanly demeanor of the B representatives of the press?Messrs. B Kohn, Price and Watson?who have B untiring in their efforts to serve B members and"offi cere. H; Resolved, That we also appreciate the fairness and impartiality of the rewrteof these gentlemen." H Mr. Gams is one of the voungest members of the House, and at the B j?m? time one of the most efficient Colleton County lacks only a f?w acres of beine; as large in area as the H8iate of Rhoae Island. a? THE HOUSE BACKS DOW. The House took back water on all Hnhe appropriation bills, but not until mthe members were satisfied that the |H$enate was right from a legal point of SeB' It was about 8:30 o'clock in the ^ norning when the Committee on Free j^Konference on the question of the per ^Hiem of the members reported to the HHlouse recommending that it agree to Senate amendments to the bill. jgKheee amendments, it will be rememSHered, put the per diem of the mem|Htrs atper day, while the House4 V Wmm?: M "T.l , ""f was in favor of $5. The House conferees obtained an opinion from Attorney General Barber on the question of the salary reduction Act of 1893. Mr. Barber construed the Act as going into effect, as to meml>ers, officers ana employees, at this session, or as having gone into effect the first of this year. He stated, however, that the Act as to State officers does not go into effect until the 1st of January, 1895. The House conferees came to the conclusion that the law was against them, although equity was on their side. They, therefore, agreed to the report that the House recede from its position. The House adopted the report without & speech or a voice against it, and so members were paid $4 a day. OTHER APPROPRIATIONS. The House did not so readily agree to the report of the free .conference committee on the general appropriation bill, but finally came to time. The chief differences between House and Senate on this bill were as to the appropriations for the educational institutions. The House was in favor of giving the South Carolina College 121,000; Clemson, $15,000, and the Citadel, $15,000. The Senate raised these to $25,000, $35,000 and $18,000 respectively. The House refused to agree to the increases, and a free conference committee had to be appointed. On the part of the House the conferees were Messrs. Gary, Garris and Crum. The committee worked hard Satur day night and early yesterday morning, but was unable to reach a unanimous conclusion. The Senators informed the House men that they would not budge, and that if the House did not give in it would necessitate an extra session. At last Mr. Garris, of the House side, went over to the Senators, making a majority of the committee. This majority recommended that the House recede from its position, theJ3enate refusing to cut anything except the appropriation for Clemson College, wmch was put at $25,000. When the committee reported to the House Mr. Garris saidtnathe had signed the report after finding that unless the House agreed to the Senate amendments an extra session of the .Legislature would be necessary, xne extra s&sion, he said, would cost more money than the increases made by the^enate in the appropriations. It was a business like-talk which Mr. Garris made. * Mr. Crum said that while he had refused to^ sign thr report he also thought that the trouble would not warrant an extra session. After considerable talk the House adopted the report of the committee by a vote of 50 to 29, as follows: Yeas?Speaker Jones, Adams, Bacot, Breazeale, Carroll, Cooper, Crum, W. C. Davis, Devereux, Dothage, Duncan, Elder, Floyd, Gadsden, Garris, Gary, Gaston, Gregory, Harper, Haselden, Hiott, Hollms, Kennedy; Kinard, Kirk, Demmon, Love, Magill, Mehrtens, Mellett, J. W. Mitchell. McKeown, Patton, Price, Pyatt, Robert1 son. A. K. Sanders. Thomas. Todd. Tyler, Walace, Watson Weston, Whitemire, T. S. Williams, John G. Williams, Fred. Williams, Wilson, Wycbfe and Pickens?50. Nays?Black well, Bowman, Bramlett, Brown, Burns, Caughman, L. S. Connor, Edwards, Finklea, Fowler, Hammett, Hardy, Holloway, Humphreys, Hderton Lancaster, Lever ett, Moore, Mcintosh, Prince, Rowland, Tatum, Thompson, Townsend, Thurmond, Warrt Welch, Wolf?29. The committee split the differences over the salaries of the health inspectors at the ports, reducing the pay about half the amounts proposed by the House. The House desired to give only $500 forreprairsto the Executive Mansion, but had to come to time and agree to the Senate appropriation of $1,000. The Senate also had its way as to a number of minor dfferences. For instances the Senate reduced the pay of State officers from $1,933.33 each a year to $1,900, making even Ti rtitl /vff frrv?r?ll cnimcT tUJLlUUIlLe. JLt OJU3U l/Ut UU ouiaii outn.i from the salaries of other State employees. The House at first refused to accept this, but did so on the recommendation of the committee. The differences as to the Dispensary bill were settled as indicated in The Register on Sunday, the salary of the State Commissioner being fixed at $2,500a year. A rather funny incident occured in* the House shortly after noon, when about twenty-five members were lounging around and talking to each other. Mr. Thomas of Ricnlaud offered a joint resolution permittiug the use of the hall of the House for the 1 i? n _r ii? o?..iu 1: auLLiuti uitii ui iuc ouutu v^aruima Club. The resolution stipulated that the club would guarantee to secure the State from all damages. Mr. Mitchell of Lexington objected to the resolution, and sprung the point of no quorum. Mr. Caughman of Edgefield hoped the resolution would not pass. He objected to it on general principles. State property, he said, was not for the use of balls. ,.Mr. Cooper pf Colleton could see no objections to the passage of the resolution. Neither could Mr. Blackwell of Williamsburg. The latter thought it simply and act of justice. Mr. Mitchell still objected, saying the House should not be turned into a dancing rooQV. His objection prevented the passage of the bill thbn, Mr. Mitchell walked out of the hall a few minutes later and while he was absent the resolution was passed. It was. sent to the Senate and,passed by that body. So the next ball of the club will be held in the* hall of the House. The onlv member of the House who has received any applause from the floor this session is Mr. Floyd of Kershaw. He made a strong speech on the metropolitan police bill and was applauded by his fellow members. Wnen interested on a subject Mr. Floyd makes a ringing speech. He uses good language, is graceful in his gestures, although one-anned, and has a splendid voice. He is a promising member of the lower body. Shortly before adjournment the House resolved itself into committee of the whole, Mr. Garris being requested to take the chair. Mr. Bacot made the following speech and offered the accompanying resolutions. "Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen: Before offering resolutions appreciative, of our various officers, permit me to say a word to the members of the House of Representatives collectively and individually. "The carol of the (Jhristmas-tide is now ringing in our ears, 'Peace "on 1 earth goal will towards men,' as we are about to hie us to our several wm %| *'. / -. *' - " homes. "In parting with each , other, my brethren of South Carolina, let us us cherish and keep fresh in memory a7 Iiat has been and is a living joy and pride. As to the dead past may it bury its dead. I heartily wish you, one and all, God-speed and a happy Christmas, and invoke benedicho*, the benediction which cannot be too often repeated: 'Peace, God of Peace peace in all our hearts and peace in all our homes.' "Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, I ask your unanimous and hearty assent to the following resolutions: "Resolved, That the unfeigned thanks of this House are due and are hereby tendered to the Speaker of the House, Hon. IraB. Jones, for the conspicuous ability,.efficiency and courtesy with which he has discharged the " - --A?^ ?.1 important anu orieruus uunw ui ma hiffh office. ' Resolved, further, That this House gratefully appreciates the services so ably rendered by the honored Clerk of the House, Gen, J. Walter Gray, and by Mr. S. W. Vance, Assistant Clerk, and also by Mr. J. S. Withers, Reading Clerk, T. C. Hamer, Bill Clerk, and the other officials as well as the pages of the House. . "Resolved, further, That these resolutions be spread upon the journal of the House." The resolutions were unanimously passed. On again taking the chair, Speaker Jones thanked the House for its kindness and esteem. He said that he could truthfully say that he had never presided over a better House. It had worked hard and intelligently. He then wished the members a happy Christmas and a prosperous and contented future. THE AGONY OVER. It was 1:10 o'clock when Clerk Hemphill of the Senate appeared in the hall of the House and solemnly announced that the Senate had finished its work and was ready to adjourn. Clerk Gray of the House went over to the Senate and performed the same duty on the part of the lower body. The two bodies next sent committees to the Governor to ascertain if he had any further communications to make. The Governor answered that he was reading the appropriation bill and would lcnow in a short time whether he would have any communication. Thirty minutes later the Governor signed the appropriation bill and noticed thp Assembly that he hgd no further communications. Adjournment was then taken. LIVELY IN THE SENATE. The closing hours of the session in the Senate developed some lively and interesting incidents, some of which, were wholly unexpected. When the two houses adjourned Saturday night they were in a sort of deadlock over the legislative appropriation, general appropriation and Dispensary bills. During the interregnum, so to speak, tkese matters were adjusted by -committees of free conference, whose action is fully setforth in the account of 4-"U.rv in TTaiSqo Tho bliU piVUCUUUXKO XU vuu amv Senate adopted without discussion the reports from the conferences upon the two appropriation bills, which was to be expected, as those reports practically endorsed the entire stand taken by tne Senate. The Senate spent considerable time in executive session, and there were some lively discussions over a number of the appointments made by Governor Evans, several of which were rejected. The Senate only makes public its action upon such nominations as it confirms, but the enterprising newspaper man does not let that bother him much; it simply entails a little extra work upon him, and, in the language of a certain little classic poem, he "gets there all the same." Tne executive sessions might as well be done away with for all the secrecy that is nl>(ainai^ Vvrr +Vioit? VioMina- finmehnw WbCbiXiUU KfJ VUXsA* ?> or other things will leak, and it is funny how quickly the aforesaid enterprising newspaper man finds out where sucti. leaks are. The unsophisticated wonder how the reporters get on to the secrets of the executive sessions. Well, they will have to continue to wonder, for no newspaper man was ever known to give away the sources of his information as to matters supposed to have been conducted on the dead quiet." When bothered with questions on that score, he simply looks wise and refers with a knowing smile to the familiar old grape vine, or to the newer kinetoscope, and leaves his interrogator to figure out how from them he obtained the information about matters too sacred for the public or the press to see conduct ed- . But that is too long an introduction upon a 'matter that required no very great skill to obtain. The Charleston appointments caused a great dealof talk, some rather warm at that, but they stood. Senators Buist and Barnwell, particularly the latter, were much opposed to the nominees sent in by the Governor, particularly to his refusal to nominate Justice Burnet, who has held his position ever since '76, and who has the esteem of the entire Charleston Bar. The talk was simply wasted breath for the appointments went through with a rusn. When Richland was struck the result was somewhat different. The first appointment for this county opened a fight... Senator Sloan did not want the appointment of Dr. Hopkins as County Auditor confirmed, and talked out in meeting. He had not a word to say about Dr. Hopkins personally, nor could he have made any objection on that score for Dr, Hopkins is as clever a gentleman as there is in Richland County. Senator Sloan fought the apg>intment on another line entirely. e held fhat the appointment ought not to be confirmed because the place in his opinion belonged to Mr. Squier, who was nominated for it in the Democratic primary which was held prior terthe bolt whioh carried Columbia for aJttepuDiican congressman ana ?ucnlana for an independent gubernatorial candidate. A number of the Reform Senators coincided with this view of the case, and, owing to the absence of several of the "stalwarts," the appointment of Dr. Hopkins went by the board, the confirmation being refused. The effect upon the situation will be small, for Dr. Hopkins will get the position without regard to the Senate's wishes. Senator Moses of Sumter took a little hand in enlivening the proceedings and secured the defeat of four out of eight of the Trial Justices nominated for Sumter County. In each case he gave more or less plausible reasons why the appointments ought not to be confirmed. The nominees were turned down and the reasons given by Mr. Moses are as follows: J. W. Broadway, nominated to be Trial Justice in Privateer and Manchester Townships; turned down because he did not want the position, Mr. Moses A '* ' \ 1.". v. " y. '* *' THE LATEST BANKING PLANS. Wherein the Committee's Substitute Differ* From the Carlisle Bill. The substitute for the pending currency bill, which Mr. Springer has laid before the House consists' of the amendments "which have been agreed upon by the Democratic members of the committee; some were suggested by Mr. Carlisle, and certain features of the Carlisle bill it has been deemed advisable 16 retain. Mr. Springer explained the important changes made in the Carlisle bill and their effect, as follows: T> i-i J - f submitting a letter from him to that effect and also endorsing the incumbent. L. D. Jennings,nominated to be Trial Justice of Providence and Rafting Creek Township, and turned down because he lives at the extreme end of his district, some thirty miles from the other end. Daniel Keels, appointed to be Trial Justice of Shilohana Mayesville Townships ; turned down because he lives thirteen miles from Mayesville. There is a Dispensary in Mayesville and Mr. Mnsfts u reed that for the enforcement I of the Dispensary law the Trial Justice I for that district ought to live nearer to Mayesville. ' B. P. Kelly, nominated to be Trial Justice for Wedgefield Township; rejected because of submission to the I Senate of a paper of some sort asserting that every white man in that township except Mr. Kelly and one other wanted the incumbent, J. M. Moselev, reappointed. And Senator Verdier was also in it, but to a less extent. He secured the defeat of the confirmation of C. E. Foy, appointed to be Trial Justice at Grahamville. because of some charge or other that he.changed his residence more or less promiscuouly in order to get the aforesaid appointment. Some objection was made to the appointment of H. C. Pollitzer as Auditor, but he got there with both feet. Senator Mower was also modest. He secured the defeat of J. H. Williams, appointed to be Trial Justice of No. G Township.' After a little recess for the purpose of seeing: how breakfast tasted after four hours1 work before sun-up. the Senate got down to business and stirred up a breeze over the Dipensary Act. when the bill came over from the House the Senate Judiciary Commitlee proposed certain amendments to it, which were adopted. While there was no denial of the fact that those amendments were adopted, unfortunately by some accident they were not incorporated in the bill, nor was there any record of them in the journal of the Senate. The House objected to somevof the Senate amendments which were incorporated in the bill and a committee of free conference was finally needed to settle these differences. This committee discovered that the Senate Judiciary Committee amendments were not incorporated in the bill, but the House members of the conference committee refused to con sider the amendments that had been omitted, sayingthat they had no authority to do so as their body had not acted upoq. them. Senator Barnwell held that because of the fact that the Senate amendments had not been incorporated in the' bill, the report ought to be rejected, which would have the effect of killing the bill. He made a long argument in favor of this course, holding that the omitted amendments were of sufficient importance to justify it. One of these amendments killed the section allowing the Solicitors and Judges to secu re aiui grant a change of venue before a grand jury reported a true bill in a case of alleged violation of the Dispensary law. The loss of record of that amendment left that section living. The other amendment was of minor importance. Mr. Barnwell held that retention in the bill of the above section, which the Senate had stricken out on an unanimous report of its Judiciary Committee, was wrong, and that the section itself was in violation of the Constitution, for that instrument requires the submission of affidavits to secure a change of venue, while the section allowed Solicitors to ask for changes of venue at their own discretion, and the Judges the same freedom as to granting it. He further held that changes of venue could oply be granted bv'Circuit courts, incase^of which they had original jurisdiction and that a court had no jurisdiction of a case until the prisioner was at the i bar and he was not there until a grand jury had reported a true bill. j Messrs. Wilson and Mavfield stated | that the time was too short to allow them to inake speeches; Jhev simply j warned the Senate that if the report was not adopted the bill would be killed. j Mr. Kirkland said he thought the bill ought to be killed for it was wrong to enact iuto law anything that the Senate had by its vote condemned. The report was adopted by a vote of 13 to 7, as follows: Yeas?Barton, Brice, Douglass, DuBose, Efird, Fuller, Harrison, Jordan, Mayfield, McDaniel, Ragin, Williams anu Wilson. Nays?Barnwell, Buist, Kirkland, Miller, Moses, Mower and Verdier. So the Dispensary bill stands and will become a law as soon as it receives the Governor's signature. The bill reducing the Sheriff's fees in certain counties for dieting prisoners from 30 cents per diem to 23 cents was put in the cola, cold soup. Some differences between two houses as to that bill were submitted to a committee of free conference, which reported that certain other counties be included. Representatives of those counties, particularly Charleston, kicked vigorously, and the friends of the bill said they did not care to include under its opera tions counties which did not want it. The report of the committee upon the bill was almost unanimously rejected, which kills the bill. Much of the time of the Senate was spent in ratification of A'cts. Senators Mayfield, Sloau and Buist were appointed a committee to wait upon the Governor aiid inform him that the Senate had finished its business and was read}' to adjourn if he had no further communications to make to it. After?Governor Evans had signed the appropriation bills he informed the General Assembly that he had 110 further messages for it and then the Senate adjourned sine die. Killed lror a Girl. Anderson, S. C., Dec. 24.?A homicide was committed at Pendleton last Saturday night, the party doing the killing being John Dickson, who shot and killed Henry McAlister, both young white men. It seem that the two were rivals for the liand 'of a young woman by the name of Carroll. They met at Iter father's house. Dickson asked the young lady to go out on the piazza witri him. She declined to do so and Dickson startted out of the house At the door he turned and cursed McAllister aifd drew his pistol and shot him dead. Dickson escaped and has not yet been apprehended. Sixty- families of Hollanders, who haVe lived in Machigan for a number of years, are said to be en route from "k"!ilnm!?.7nn to Ttnleirrb jiihI fin (raw in the raising of celery They say that in North Carolina they will bo able to raise celery the year round. Three hundred acres will be planed in celery at once, and the acreage will be gradually increased. ' u not/?x criiiittiug tuts uupusit ui uur- j rency certificates issued under section 5,193 of the Revised Statutes to secure circulation, as well as the deposit of legal tender notes and Treasury notes. These certificates represent legal tender notes actually held in the Treasury, and the effcct of depositing certificates is, therefore, the same precisely as to require the deposit of notes. Second?So amending the present law as to permit State banks to deposit legal tender notes and procure these currency certificates in the same manner that National banks are now permitted to do. Third-Dispensing with the provision which authorizes an assessment upon the National banks to replenish the safety fund for the redemption of the notes of failed banks, and, in place of this provision, inserting one providing that the collection of one-fourth of a cent tax for each half year shall be resumed when the safety fund is imparied and continued until the Safety fund is restored. Fourth?Authorizing the Comptroller of the Currency, instead of the banks themselves, to designate ' the agencies at which National bank notes shall be redeemed. The effect of this will be to secure the redemptoin not only at the office of the bank, but also at the other places accessible to noteholders. Fifth?Dispensing with the provision compelling existing National banks to withdraw their bonds now on deposit, and take out circulation under the new system, and in lieu of that provision inserting one permitting the banks to withdraw tneir bonds if they see proper to do so, by depositing lawful money as now povided by law, and then to take out circulation under the new system if they choose to do so. Sixth?Providing that the notes of failed National banks which are not redeemed on demand at the office of the Treasurer of the United States, or an assistant Treasurer of the United States, shall bear interest at the rate of 6 per cent, per annum from the rlate nf thp ?iisnAnsir?n r>f t.VlP hnnk X/A %?W w until thirty days after public notice has been given that public funds are on hand for their redemption. This imposes no obligation on the part of the United States to use its own funds for the redemptions, as the safety fund is in the hands of the Treasurer, and he will redeem notes out of that fund. It is not necessary to repeal the repealing clause in section 7 as reconstructed, because section 1 as proposed to be amended repeals all bond requirements as to banks taking out circulation under the proposed bill; nor is it necessary in section 7 to set out how the notes of existing banks shall be redeemed, when lawful moiiey has been deposited, because the present law provides for all that. In regard to the provision making the notes of failed Danks bear interest, it is absolutely necessary to require their presentation at some place before they begin to bear interest; otherwise it is impossible to frame a clause which would not make all of these notes bear interest from the date of susnension. even though there might be funds on hand to pay them. There are ten sub-treasuries in the United States, and there will be no difficulty in presenting the notes if the holder of them has any doubt about their immediate redemption and thus making them bear interest. # Tliq Storm Breathed Death, London, Dec. 23.?Reports of death and damage to property in the great storm are received constantly this evening. Three fishiug smacks went down last night off Stornaway on the Scotch coast, and all their crews, numbering 29 men were drowned. The British bark, Kirmichael, which was driven on the breakwater at Holyhead, had filled. Twelve of her crew were saved with the breeches buoy and seven were drowned. Many coal miners on the Donegal coast have lost their huts in the storm. At Teelin a house collapsed and three occupants were killed. In Strainolar two persons wpto lw a. fn.11 i n f chimnev. Several vessels went adrift in Aberdeen harbor and grounded. The roof of the MacDonala art gallery was ripped opei\_and many valuable pictures were injured. The brig liven was wrecked in the Firth of Clyde near Androssa, and her crew of five were drowned. At Loch Winnoch, near Paisley, part of a three story cabinet factory was wrecked. Forty persons were buried in the ruins. I our were killed outright and twenty were in'jured seriously. The proprietor was struck on the back by a falling timber and is dying. Only five persons escaped without injury. The coast steamship Brook was stranded last night near Berwick, Scotland, and her crew was brought ashore with the breeches buoy. The gables were blown off a dozen houses in Yarmouth and the tide in the river Yare rose several feet above the normal high water mark. Hundreds of houses have been flooded. Scores of small ships and sailing vessels are aground along1 the coast. The majority of them will be floated. Numerous cases of death or severe injury from falling timbers, trees and chimneys have been reported this afternoon from all parts of the United Kingdom. Dispatches from the Continent say that northern France and Germany suffered severely from the storm, although the loss of life and property cannot be estimated as yet. At Hamburg many vessels went adrift and collided or grounded. The tide was the highest since 1882. The lower parts of Wilhelmshaven on the North Sea were flooded and the dykes would have gone if the garrison had not worked energetically for i hours to strengthen them. Luebeck : T rv 11 ~ 1...^ UIUI UOlUt'ry tWSU suucreu wutu uuiu i ago. Tlie German bark Charlotte, < Capt. Gerdes, which sailed from Sa- j vauuah Nov. 14 for Hamburg', is 1 ashore at Esmond Aaan Zee. She is a total wreck and her cargo is being washed ashore. Some of her crew 1 reached land while others were 1 drowned. The British bark Tamar E. ] Marshall, Capt. Utlrey, and the Nor- 1 wcgian shin, America, Capt. Franten, j have been driven in on the sand bank s at Greenock. " i . ' . v- ,,? THE CURRENCY BILL. - ' Judge Crisp, of Georgia, l? of the Opinion it Will Pass. ' Washington, D. C.. Dec. 24.?The ' vote on the currency bill will be taken one week from New Year day. This has been practically decided unon by the Speaker and the committee on rules. Judge Crisp is still of the opinion that the bill will pass. It is rather difficult to judge of the fate of a measure by the way congressmen talk as they talk one way and vote another. "Represensative ratterson,of Memphis, for instance, .who is the most pronounced supporter of the administra tion on the floor endorses the measure and will vote for it, but in his anxiety fears that it may not pass. Representative Ellis, of Kentucky, on the other hand, who voted against the bill in the committee, spoke agaiflst it on the floor, and pronounced it vicious in private thinks that it will probably wedge through the House. This shows what a narrow margin the bill has either for or against it. The change of lights on the measure, however, and the few ornate coaches which have been added to it will help its passage inasmuch as it will give many of those who have pronounced against it an opportunity of voting for it. There is Walker.of Massachusetts, who has leading the opposition who says that the amendments that have added to it bring it very close to his own financial measure. If he can get an amendment or two more tacked on it he will claim the entire scheme as his own and vote for it. While he will not carry many Republicans with him yet there will be sufficient number from that partv voting in its favor to put it through the House. It is talked here on the quiet that while Reed is supposed to be against the entire measure he is hunting for votes for it with a dark lantern. He clearly sees that if all financial legislation fails at this session it will be a bugle call for an extra session of Congress and the whip lash and the reins will be placcd in his hands. This is just what he doesn't Want. He wants to keep off the congressional talloho just as long as possible. He is even so afraid of getting mixed up in this currency scheme that he will not remain on the floor while the debate is proceeding. , So in fact while the Repub ncans are claiming 10 mane party warfare on. the measure yet those who have presidential bees buzz ling about their heads are anxious to see it pass. Now that Mr. Cleveland, is back. recruits to the bill may be expected from some of the members of the eastern delegations. Burke Cochran who began with a mighty roar against the measure subsided to a whimper and has finally refused to grunt which is his wont to do when, .but tacily opposed to a bill. Before another fortnight rolls around it will be seen that he is for it. De Witt Warned who started on a straddle has veered around to side saddle and is ready at a moment's notice to leap among the administration forces ana fight with them. The majority of the Democrats in the House, however, are in a position that a criminal might be in Washington when the chance is offered him to get out. He might choose Baltimore or he might choose Richmond, but go somewhere he must. So 14- nrifV> IhA nonlr /tArt rrwAOQiATial All lO TTJlbU l/JLLO IWVn. VTA Wiig 1 ^tJOlVUOIX members who nave got to do .something. They may nol altogether agree with the entire sche'.i';. but with Mr. Carlisle sitting in the Treasury telling them that it is political f nd financial suicide to remain where they are they have to get somewhere and do that quickly. Let it be remembered that another bond issue is staring them in the face ;and if they have eyes that can see beyond their noses tney realize another one and another one still is not so very far distant unless some short cut is taken.. As an abstract proposition the bill is unpopular ana if a vote should be taken at the present time the probabilities are that the bill woujd fail, but another week remains for debate and in the meanttme congressmen will have been home and learned a few things that they cannot learn here. In fact logical reasoning doesn't always predict correct results in and about the Capitol and it is more olten tfiat wnat appears impossible really comes to pass. One has but to remember the repeal of the purchasing clause of the Sherman law and the passage of the tariff bill to predict with some safety the fate of the present bill in spite of the continued interviews on the part of the opposition.?Augusta Chronicle. A Maniac Bride. Elkhart, Ind., Dec. 21.?Frank Perry and Frances Conley, the daughter of wealthy parents, after a court ship of four years, eloped last Sunday because of parental objections.. Yesterday the young bride became a raving maniac, and was prevented from killing herself only by the herculean efforts of her husband. She attempted to throw herself from the third story of the St. Joseph Valley bank building. Her hallucination is that her parents would reprpach her and that she would not become heir to her father's estate. Her cries brought a thousand people to the bank building, where Afro Powv liiirirr tow-thirds out of thfi window, making frantic efforts to cast herself to the payment. Perry in an instant grasped her about the body and for several minutes the struggle for mastery was witnessed by the horrorstricken throng. When assistance came, she was saved from a horribie death. The unfortunate woman was taken to the house of her parents, she partially recovered her senses but there is little hope that she will be sane again. Without attracting a large degree of public attention, the life-saving service does its work faithfully and well from year to year. The annual report of its operations for the last twelve months shows nearly 4,000 shipwrecked persons rescued and neerly $8,000,000 worth of property saved, all at a cost of $1,250,000. More lisasters occurred during the year than in any previous year in the history of :he service. The New Orleans Daily States says: 'Governor Tillman prides himself on jeuig something of a talker, but he will i?fize when he gets into the Senate ;hat he is a mere whiffet compared to ;he tireless old storm caves, who constitute the membership of that once lugust body." M \ d wn i ON HIS DIGNITY. SP . ' SPEAKER JONES RESIGNS AND THEN RECONSIDERS IT. ? He Construe* a Vote of the House as a Vote of Want of Confidence and designs. The House Colls Him Back?A Dramatic Scene. Columbia, S. C., Dec. 22.?The "~ night session in the House started off without incident, and there did not ocrciii iaj uc liio lcitst uruapwi ui anything occurring beyond such as is usual to the end of a legislative session, such as conference reports, etc., hut it is "always the unexpected that happens," and it did happen and in, this wise. " jl>;The majority of the House wants a $5 per diem for this season, claiming that the salary reduction hill should not affect them, if it did not affect the State officers. The Senate and a minority of the House favor a $4 per diem, and to adjust the differences between the two Houses a conference committee was appointed. On the part of the House Speaker Jones appointed at the morning session Messrs. Breazeale, Thomas and Whitmire, and at the night session this committee recommended an agreement with the Senate. This report did not suit the $5 men and they claimed that it did not flio /vP mo-iAinlw A VMVVV VJULV UVU VUUVUV VJL VUV AJU?JV*1VJ of the House, and Mr. Cooper of Colleton offered a motion that the House proceed under rule 16 to elect a committee. Messrs. Breazeale, Thomas, Winkler and one or two others opposed the motion as a slap at the Speaker, or as one that might >be so construed, even if not so intended by the mover. The motion of Mr. Cooper was put and carried by a vote of 45 to 44, and then followed one of the most sensational incidents of the session. Pending the announcement of the vote Speaker Jones had called Mr. Breazeale to the chair and when the vote was announced, he at once stepped out on the floor, and in a clear ringing voice, said: "Mr. Speaker, I have "the honor to tender my resignatidn as Speaker * of this Hquse." The scene that for a few moments followed this announcement baffles description. For a moment there was a dead silence and then Mr. Bacofc,- ^ dressing the temporary presiding offi- \> cer, saia: "Mr. Speaker, I move that V J this House do refuse to accept the.l^ Speaker's resignation." The motion ' was put and carried < unanimously, and the voice of Speaker Jones was heard again, declaring that he would > no longer serve as Speaker, and a mo- <ment or two later he retired from the ^ halL Then for a few moments there" was scene of confusion and the House did not seem to know what to do in 0 the dilemma that confronted it. Some half a dozen or so moved that the House take a recess for fifteen minutes, _ but this was v^pted down. Mr. Thomas ' moved to reconsider the Coopeir resolution and this motion would'have gone through like a flash, had not Ifr. A Paavia* folrAn iVin flrvrvw vnfli/^nOTim flR VWJ^i UUX.U1L UWMQ^/1 UlUU TT ULUJL OTTU. H it. > Mr. Gary then offered, a resolution fl that the House appreciated-^he distinguished services of the HonSJraB. "j Jones as its Speaker and had S(j confidence in his ability and intee/7> a and requested him to reconsider]# **' . I signation. This was adopted JPam" P mously and conveyed to Mr.#0Be? through Messrs. Otts, GkjodjvT? and Cooper, as a committee fromy e House. In a few minutes they retried with him, and as he reentered the hall he i was received with loud applause, in 1 which the galleries joined. ? , ' j Upon resuming the chaiv Speaker 1 Jones said that h^ ap]}rcciated the 1 gTeat honortlievhkd dcnehinwnre^^ calling him to the JchiarWW0f^^HflHn very deeply this-'expression of tl^MM kind feelings. He had felt 'that BERN vote on the passage of Mr. CoopflaKE resolution offered under the pecuI^DHfl circumstances was a vote 01 wan^wu confidence, for which the rules o^HHH House permitted such a resolu^^^H| He had never known one such pasBHSQ in the history of legislation in State, and he had too much.prid<^HBN occupy the seat of presiding- oflTHHH over a House that lacked confidencr^^HH him. All men were liable to mistaHHHj and he was glad to know that hej^fl^m mistaken the sentiment of the^fl^^HH This ended this dramatie'^^gSMHP and from that time forward went on smoothly. A new co^B^HHl committee on the per diem sisting of Messrs. Cooper, Townsecl^HH and Floyd was appointed. tttl At a few minutes to twelve, the appropriation and per diem bills and I several other measures being still in fl the hands of the con^fe? ecomxmttee ffl the House adjourned until 3 -oelock to morrow morning, by which time |H the engrossing department will be up with its work ana an agreement be- M tween the two houses reached in time 1 for an adjounment before noon omor- , row. A Horrible fate. Memphis, Tenn., Dec. 22 ? Mable Shelton, aged 3 years, was burned to deathj her 5-year-old sister was killed by being thrown from a second story window, and the mother lies injured at the city hospital beyond hope of recovery as the result of a fire at 42 Echols street tonight. The family lived on the second story of a frame house. The mother had just put the children in bed when the fire burst through the d^r^^orevent-,^^ ing excess except by way of the win- ^ dow. The mother threw one child out 9 I of the window, crushing its head on | the pavement below. Sne started to get the other child, but her own clothing took fire, and sne was forced back. Then she iumned thrcusrh the win dow. The skeleton of~the burned child was found after the flames were subdued. Tillman's Portrait. Columbia, S. C., Dec. 22.?A life size portrait of ex-Governor Tillman painted .by an Atlanta artist has been bought by the friends and admirer^>f-?> A the senator elect and was presente^o Jh| the house today, in a special message fl| from Governor Evans. The house ac- BMI cepted the picture and ordered that ic be hung in a conspicuous place on the walls. It will go up somewhere near H the portaits of^Butler and John B. V Gordon. * The gallows has been abolished in Michigan. The severest punishment Vint ran be inflicted uDOn a murderer in that State is imprisonment for life. From October 15 to November 30, there were eight murders and probably half a dozen murderous assaults committed in the State. These facts ^ will be brought before the coming . legislature in an argument favoring the re-enactment of the old law carry3 < ing the death penalty. J jk