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I The Press and Banner. BY HUGH WILSON. I abbetillf:, i. I TILLMAN'S PITCHFORK. "* " iiKniniMr.l V ftMPI CUE. ML U&tS I I UI\or?nniuL. i u.i w__ , LAND AND CARLISLE. Terrific Arraignment of llie Oppressors of the People?The Crowds in the Galleries Could Not be Kestriiiued, but Applauded Him Again and Again. Washington, Jan. 29.?The presentation of committee reports on Cuba and a highly dramatic and sensational speech from Mr. Tillman, the new Senator from South Carolina, furnished two stirring events in the Senate today. The majority resolution on Cuba, presented by Chairman Morgan, asks the President to urge Spain to grant belligerent rights to the insurgents, while the minority report, offered by Mr. Cameron, directs the J A A ? 4 4/MTTOWI C CO/H11* (rresiaeni iu ing from Spain the complete independence of Cuba. Both resolutions i went to the Senate calendar. Such a torrent of invective has selI dom been heard in the Senate as that in the speech of Mr. Tillman. Veter' an members of the body characterized the speech as one of the most remark able in the history of the upper branch of Congress. It abounded in statements of a sensational character, arraigning President Cleveland, Secref tary Carlisle and other men in high places. There was a directness of statement and a dramatic manner of delivery which awed floor and galleries. The gestures of the Senator were used frequently in acting his words. At one point he made a profound salute and "tipped his hat to Sherman as the financial victor of a quarter of a century. The galleries were moved alternately to applause and laughter. Pausing for a sip of water araid roars of laughter, he remarked, "I seldom wet my wtiistle while I speak; still * - ? _ J ? ill )) I you can't run a winanmi ui? watt*. ' The next moment there was a hush , through the chamber as the Senator applied such names as "Judas" to a member of the Cabinet, or characterized the President in superlative bitterness. At times the Senator's voice sank to a whisper, as for instance when he gave warning of the approach of a popular revolution and communism and the marching on Washing-1 ton of a host with rifles in their hands. Again his voice resounded through the chamber and the outer corridors as he called Senators and members "cowards" for not resorting to impeachment. Mr. Tillman took the floor at 2 o'clock. The galleries filled quickly and the Senator was accorded close attention. He moved down from his rear seat to one in the front row immediately in front of the presiding officer. Although provided/with manuscript he began extemporaneously. % During Mr. Tillman's bitter criticisms of the President, he laid aside his notes and put Senators and galleries in roars of laughter bv telling how, as Governor of South Carolina, he had come here to inaugurate the President -f/vnw VirMiro mit in t.hfi AllVI UAU OIAAAA AVUi mvm.4m snow and sleet until he was nearly frozen to death to do honor to this President. "And," concluded the Senator, "I ask God to forgive me for doing it." At one point, after bitterly arraigning the President, the Senator addressednimself to the Republicans and exclaimed: "Why have you not impeached him? You have the majority to do it." . Mr. Hawley interrupted with the query: "Why didn't the last Congress ao this?" "He is not impeached," continued the Senator, "because he carries out your Republican policy. The last Congress was no better than this.". Senator Tillman, in his introductory remarks, referred to the so-called Senatorial dignity which does not permit applause from the floor or galleries. He was a farmer pure and simple. be said, accustomed to speaking I in the open air upon the hustings, wnere men were free to applaud if they felt so disposed. In the Senate it was considered undignified to applaud the galleries being reprimanded and the Senators confronting the orator with "a Senatorial stare which turned him into stone." Senators got up like school boys and read essays in a monotonous tone to empty chairs. Where was the purpose of the founders of the country when they made the Senate the greatest deliberative body in the word? It was never intended that the speeches of a Senator should be buried in the archives, which was now the case. 4'How much of this,Mr. President," ' exclaimed Mr. Tillman, '"is due to self complacency, to the feeling among you?I hardly feel prepared yet to say among us?that you are the Senate? How much oMhis so-called Senatorial I dignity, of which we hear so much is worthy of preservation? It hangs over this chamber like a wet blanket; fit smothers down independent action; it obliterates the man and we are here the puppets, the cops in the wheel of party, to do the bidding of the manipulators of the party machines." These words, uttered with much energy, provoked the first manifestation - ttse- itt-tbfr T^eriSTwliiclftEe Senator hardly seem^i -otice. He i returned to the assertion that he was the only farmer, pure and simple, in the Senate, although out of seventy million people, thirty-five million were engaged in agricultural pursuits. As a farmer he had broken the barrier and forced his way into the Senate and he proposed to give utterance to their wrongs. Mr. Tillman began by i aj ing he 1 would use plain Anglo-Saxc a, the language of the common people, for he was one of them. He spoke bitterly of the essay reading indu ged in by Senators. He referred to the statement of the Senator from Ohio (Sherman) that the silver question had been - * * - ' fiL. J 1 thrasnea out, saying yes, :tnau Deea thrashed by the speculators but not by the farmers." As a farmer he would thrash it again, taking up the whole subject on a pitchfork, ready, if need be. to uncover the manure likely to be found." ?v Mr. President," he said, "it is not saying too much and I feel warranted ' in charging that the derangement in our finances and all this cry about sound money and maintaining the honor and credit of the United States are all a part and parcel of a damnable scheme of robtery which had for ! its object first, the utter destruction of k silver as a money metal; second, the o increase of the public debt by the issue of bonds payable in gold; and p third, the surrender to corporations of E the power to issue all paper money c and give them a monopoly of that c function." a Senator Tillmau referred to the w Sherman silver law in 1890 and in this connection said: "The silver Re- o publicans of the West who had de- n serted the silver Democrats of the South and accepted the compromise e offered by Senator Sherman, may ii take warning as to what faith or trust o they can put in any utterances or ac- s tions of the Senator from Ohio as to tl legislation in regard to our finances, h The time for another Presidential elec- 1 tion approaches. They must under b stand that the election of any man to o the Presidency who would veto a free j b coinage bill means defeat. It means n more; it means continued disaster to p our industries and increased poverty lj to the masses of our people. S Under the sherman law, he contin- Is ued, there was a diminution of the cl amount of free gold in a gradually u decreasing scale, but not enough to n cause any alarm. During the entire h year of 1891 and the entire year 1892, a there was approximately as much gold a as there was during 1884 and 1885. ^ He said: y "If the secret history of the year p 1892 shall ever be written, it will dis- o close the fact, which cannot be proven now, but of which I have not the a: slightest doubt, that the gold ring of a New York, which embraces nearly all r< the bankers in the Eastern and Mid- cl die States and the Stock gamblers of n Wall street, controlled the President- cl ial nominations of both the Democrtic S and Republican parties and had an ^ uuderstanding with the managers, or T with both the candidates themselves, ]i in regard to what policy should be a: pursued towards our-finances. They o contribute money for the booming of cl Mr. Cleveland, as the only available h Democratic candidate, and they abused b and ridiculed every other Democratic aspirant. h "There was plain evidence 10 snow a that the President himself had weak- A ened on the question of tariff reform l? and the financial plank was cunning- ii ly drafted so as to satisfy both gold n and silver men with the intention that o it would be interpreted, if Mr. (Jieve- ti land was elected, as meaning the ces- tl sation of silver coinage and the fore- n ing of a gold standard upon the peo- t] pie. Interpreted according to the & plain use and meaning of the English p word, the platform means bi-metall- a ism, but there are conditions and am- ci biguous phrases which have afforded tj an excuse to the conscience of the ri bull headed and self-idolatrous man b who holds the reins of power to pur- a sue the policy he has. Whether the p scheme was agreed to by the President p in person or not, and whether he bound u himself in plain terms or not, will per- a haps, never be known. Jlis course has been unswerving in the absolute it contradiction of his public professions a and letter of acceptance. The expec- cj tations and interests of the people n have been forgotten and ignored. The F party which elected him has been be- h trayed and its banners, which floated so triumphantly in the breeze of 1892, tj now trail in the dust of defeat. The a: practical destruction of the party has a: been accomplished." ir There haa been no trouble with the u gold reserve, the Senator asserted, V and no hint of any loss of confidence a: in the national credit, until about the time of the last Presidential elec- T tion. Then, for the first time, we got C a glimnse of the conspiracy which he II had referred to before. Mr. Foster a: gave the holders of greenbacks and fi Treasury notes the option of having pi government paper cashed in gold or e: silver, and as they all demanded gold tc the gold in the Treasury rapidly ran g: down. The financial papers took up si the cry of the country going to a sil- u ver basis, and the first premonitory n breezes of the panic of 1893 swept over tc the land and the conspirators foment- c< ed it by every possible means. te "Instead of endeavoring to stem the p; tide of ruin and redeem the pledges ei of the Democratic party, to give the si people relief, President Cleveland lent c: aid and comfort to the conspirators by his utterances and official actions in c] continuing the policy of his predeces- rr sor.? The Senator quoted from President ii Cleveland's response to the committee h that notified him of frs nomination the si last time, and decleared there was h nothing in it to warrant one to expect tl that the leader of the Democratic h party would ignore the platform and t( treat with contempt thet rusted lieuten- li ants whom the people had sent to the a national capital to assist in shaping lpoislnf.inn a "The language would lead us to ex- o pect the very reverse. How many of n these reasonable expectations have w been met? tl "How many cf you men grown old 41 and gray in the service of the party h and of the nation, men who were the n trusted leaders before Cleveland was it ever heard of, how many, I say, have p been called into his councils? If any T speak, I shall be glad to hear them. C Where has this man sunk his person- ti ality? Whom has he consulted? I Whose advice has he recognized? t] None, but that of the bootlicks and o sycophants, who have crawled on o their knees for the crumbs of patronage and betrayed their costituents for p the office in his gift. u "la the entire history of this coun- d _try, the high^ofgce^f^President HaT 1) Hever been~so prostituted, and never h has the appointing power been soabus- cl ed. Claiming to be the apostle of civ- ti il service reform, he has debauched h the civil ssrvite by making appoint- ti ments only of those whose sponsors w would surrender their manhood, and, p with bated breath, walk with submis- y, sive head in his presence. With relentless purpose he has ignored his d oath of office to uphold and obey tfte (j law, and has paid out gold instead of h coin and issued bonds to buy more h gold, by both actions overriding the d law and giving no heed to the interests si of any but moneyed friends?I might si say his owners or partners. "While to this besotted tyrant coin ii has come to mean gold alone he can- ii not by his mere 'ipse dixit' change the d law of this land and pervert the plain p meaning of the English language, d His Republican partners in crime, who e: set the unrighteous and unlawful ex- o ample which he has so persistenly fol- o lowed. And encouraged him in it to t) the utmost extent, cannot escape the ti condemnation of the honest, working, p business men of the country as equal partners in his guilt." a; The repeal of the Sherman law, it t< was asserted, which was the first point u of attack of this "unholy alliance," w was only accomplished through the a aid and in conjunction with a majority n f the Republican Senators. "This Democratic President accomlished what was not possible for any Republican executive under the cirumstances to have brought about. A hange of the party in power had left large number of offices in his gift rath which to buv votes." In discussing the "honest meaning" f parity of gold and silver in the Sberlan law, he said: The object was to have them assist ach other, to hold silver up by holdQg gold down,and an honest Secretary r .1 - wllO cVinillfl flATTA ?>A I lilt? i-vcaauij, ?'.w igned his office rather than submit it be dictation of a besotted chief, would ave paid out silver to protect the 'reasury from the gold gamblers and ond robbers, as the law and his oath f office required. But, alas, the old reed of Southern statesmen like Caloun, who, after a life spent in the ublic service, had to be buried at pubc expense and his debts paid by the tate of South Carolina, is no more, fo wonder the Senator from Massahusetts feels warranted in twitting s with the decay of Southern stateslanship and charging us with disonesty. He charges it, however, in notber connection and as aiding and betting this Judas from Kentusky, rho, after a brilliant career of twenty ears and more as leader and chamion of the silver forces, has, in his Id age, come to this pitiful pass. "The South bows its head in shame t this exhibition of moral cowardice ad despises the renegades; but I must ;mind the Senator from Massahusetts that there is as yet only one otirl trOQnVlOT'TT t.O l\Jk ai lUiJk>XVUUU MUM W1VVWMV? J vw liarged against these men. The outhern Congressmen and Senators pho came here poor, are still poor, hey have not become millionaries ke some of their Northern brethren; nd there is no credit mobilier steal, r Colfax scandal, or Belknap bribery, hargeable to any Southern man. Let im remember these things and keep ack his sneers and taunts." The Senator contended that if there as been one idea more persistently nd prominently presented to the .mencan people by President Cleveind than any other, it had been the liquities of the tariff and the deland for- its revision. In season and ut of season, with "damnable iteraon," he had sung this siren song in le ears of the farmers. In this con ection he quoted from messages of le President of 1887 and 1888, and lid he did it for "the purpose of ointing out the evolution of a tryant nd of showing the transition from a anscientious, law-abiding chief magis ate to an arrogant and obstinate iiler who ignores the law and issues onds at will and issues them under statute that is subject to the susicion that it was intended to be temorary and limited in its application, istead of conferring a discretionary uthority. "He not only issue? them, but does ; secretly, |with hisj law partner as witness to the contract, and has reated the suspicion in the minds of lUlions of his countrymen that a resident of the United "States can use is high office for private gain." He differs with the Republican parT only in one particular of the tariff ad on that he has blown hot and cold 3 his pet hobby, and will go down i history as the most gigantic failre of any man who ever occupied the Phite House, all because of his vanity ad his obstinacy. "To make good this charge," Mr. illman argued, "that when President leveland came into power in March, 393, and could have called the Senate ad House (both Democartic for tne rst time since the war) to carry his olicy into effect, he did not call an ctra session to give the tariff reform > the people, but intead called Conress together to stop the coinage of lver. He the President, had waited ntil the 'object lesson,' the panic lade to order by his fellow conspira>rs, had swept like a cyclone over the )untry, prostrating all business ensrprises and industries and the newsapers had howled in chorus in the irs of the people that the coinage of lver was the cause of the monetary risis." Discussing the repeal of the purtiasing clause of the Sherman law rhich followed, he said: "Democrats nd Republicans vied with each other l the furtherance of the policy which ad been formulated and steadily purled by the Senator from Ohio ana he as the proud satisfaction of knowing iat he has brought the party which e so hates to its knees and has lived ) see many of his old antagonists ensted under it banner sit at his feet nd acknowledge his leadership. "When the Senate met, there was & ?j ?^?< u auniiuwicugcu iuajLiritj ui uicu pen and outspoken in their determiation to stand by the white metal and rho were elected on that issue. But le process of debauchery began. Vote according to my will or you will ave no offices.' 'Vote according to iv will, and if your people do not Tike ;I will take care of you.' The newsapers raved and abused the Senate, he bankers telegraphed and wrote. Chambers of commerce passed resoluons and slowly the Senate yielded. a ninety days the deed was done and le claims were riveted on the wrists f the toiling millions. Did the raid n tbe Treasury stop?" Discussing then the tariff bill which assed in the regular session followig, he said: "It is true he (the Presient) did not sign it, and allowed it to ecome a law without approval. But ere again we have a spectacle of harlatanoy and hypocritical assumpon of superiority to his party which as always marked his career. The iriff law which he repudiated as untt i r?xrr\l rrin cr 'norf tt norfiflr Qnr] V7A LJLIJ , lUTVATlUg t'Wi ?J w. *-* v? arty dishonor,' is the sheet anchor to rhich he clings." And again, referring to the Presient, "if he was honest at the start md I am willing to grant that much) is association with Wall street and ii connection with wealthy men had ebauched his conscience and detroyed all sympathy with the mas3S," The Senator then referred to the fall 1 the prices of all farm products. The npoverishment of the farmers had oo(t>ni7iirl V><? oaiH thoiv oKilitr fr? V/tJUJ. VJ VUj 1AV VUV1A MWlAiVJ ?V urchase on the one hand, while the ecreased price of their products of xport in European markets had left ur debts for imports and interest on bligations abroad unpaid. Hence tie export of gold to meet these obligaons. In this connection, he said in art: "Rothschild and his American gents graciously condesend to come j the help of the United States Treasry in maintaing the gold standard rhich has wrought the ruin nd only- charges a small comlission of ten millions or so. M Great God I That this proud government, the richest, most powerful on the globe, should have been brought to so low a base that a London Jew should have been appointed its receiver and presumes to patronize us. "The responsibility of providing revenue and looking after the solvency of the Treasury, which rests with Congress, has been usurped by the President. Why is he not impeached ? Because he is carrying out Republican policies and the majoritv in the House of Representatives feel safe and believe that they are certain to elect I,he ? - ? ^ ' J 1 -/ next President ana ootain coniroi in the government. They are willing to load down the incompetent or dishonest Democracy, I say the incompetenl and dishonest Democracy, with the odium of misgovernment to lend theii help by acquiescence in wrong-doing. The policy is to do nothing?to preserve a masterly inactivity?and only obstruct where relief can be given. "The encroachments of the Federal judiciary, and the supineness and ve nality?corruption I may say?of the representative branches of the govern ment, are causes of deep concern tc all thinking and patriotic men. We are fast drifting into government bj injunction in the interest of monopo lies and corporations, and the Supreme Court, bv one corrupt vote, annuls an Act of Congress looking to the taxa tions of the rich. "The struggle from 18G1 to 1865, which drenched this fair land in blood, was to emancipate 4,000,000 black slaves. We are fast approaching s condition which will place the collai of industrial bondage around the necks of ten times that many white slaves, I would not predict revolution or wai if I did not feel that relief must come either by the ballot, or that an effort will be made in a few years to obtain it by bullets. You may look upon m? as an enthusiast, as an alarmist, or as an anarchist, but with the sober con victions of common sense I tell you that the teaching of all history is be lied and we must surrender the be lief that like causes produce like effects if men expect that the millions now out of employment and the othei millions who are working out a hope less existence of toil year in and yeai out, the women stitching in poverty, hunger and dirt, the men bearing then hopeless burdens of debt, all directly traceable to bad government, will nol some day have a reckoning." In concluding the Senator said: ' 'A day of reckoning will come, unless there is no longer a just God in heav en, and when it does come, woe bf unto those who have been among the oppressors of the people. The presenl struggle is unfortunately too like thai which preceded the late civil war, in asmuch as it is sectional. The cred itor and the manufacturing States ol 4V*a on/1 T?.oof fliaoq Viqrrc bllC iiurvu auu waw>jv n uavu umtv grown inordinately wealthy at the ex pense of the producing classes of the South and West, are urging this policy with the besotted blindness or Bel shazzar. The old slaveholders of th( South were not more arrogant or more determined. "The sordid despotism of wealth, tc use the apt phrase of Justice Brown, is already felt throughout the land. "You have already been told ir glowing language by the eloquenl Senator from Missouri that the conflict is 'irrepressible' and it is easy tc see from the temper and feeling of the equally distinguished Senator fron: Colorado and other Western Senator* that the struggle for the netf emanci pation has begun. And the new Ma son and Dixon's line, which is drawr not by the surveyor but by the denia Of the< natural and alienable rieht tc life, liberty and the pursuit of happi ness to a large majority of citizens, will sooner or later bring together ir the bonds of union the toiling anc now downtrodden masses of the cities and the equally desperate masses oi the country: agrarianism and com munism will join hands. There are millions now on the march; and thej tramp, tramp, tramp the sidewalkf hunting work, and tramp the high wava beffeiner bread. Unless leliei comes, they will some day take a 110 tion to tramp to Washington with ri fles in their hands to regain the liber ties which have been stolen from them, or which the representatives have sold, and the hitherto conserva tive force of the republic?the well-to do agricultural class?will lift nc hand to stay the march, but join it God grant that our country may be spared the enactment of such scenes as were witnessed in Paris in 1789. Bui the fair flower of liberty planted bj Jefferson in the immortal aeclaiatior of the Fourth of July, 1776, watered by the blood of our Revolutionary sires under Washington, cannot be jprooted or smothered by the noxious weeds of monopoly and class privilege without bloodshed." Senator Tillman closed at 4 o'clock, With sarcastic irony he thanked his colleagues for not having adjournec1 and left him to deliver his speech tc any empty hall. At the close of his remarks the members of the House from South Carolina and many others crowded around him and congratu lated him. "Pay aa You Go." mu- e A ? j l,/ j.ue laruuer uuunui auutecu uuiu u< learns to live on what he makes aftei it is made, and not on what he ex pects to make before it is made. Manj years ago, 4n economical, thrifty far mer, was asked by a large cotton planter, why it was tbat, though he was called a poor farmer and made much less to the hand than many ol his neighbors, he was prospering, while they, with all their broaa acres and heavy crops, were constantly fall ing into debt and becoming embarrass ed. He replied: "You begin at the wrong end; you buy your supplies at the beginning of the year on credit, 1 buy mine at the end for cash." Thu was the true secret of the difference. Mrl McDuffie, in an agricultural address, delivered thirty years ago, in the hal] of the General Assembly at Columbia introduced, in connection with this subject, the language of that remarka ble statesmen, J ohn Randolph, who, in the midst of one of his brilliant rhapsodies in the United States Senate, suddenly paused and exclaimed witb the utmost tention of his squeaking voice: Mr. President I I have discovered the philosopher's stone! II consists in these Jour plain English monosylables: ray as you gor A piece of bituminous coal was re cently due out of the coal mine of Newsam Bros., near Pekin, III., on which were imprinted the Arabic nu merals 306,030; the characters being about an inch long. The find was made 125 feet below the surface of the earth, and the local scientific "sliarps" are puzzled to account for it. irrwrrr i imii jii"?ssj? SbsPSSw. SkvdficuBi safe # ?" i~i 'm i THE STATE MILITIA* Official Orders From the Adjutant General. The following important orders have just been issued by the Adjutant General. The first disbands all companies in the State which have not enlisted in the militia: General Order No. 1. All millitary companies that have heretofore existed that have not enlisted in accordance with the militia laws of the State are hereby disbanded. By order of the Commander-in-Chief. J. Gary Watts. ' Adjutant and Inspector General. ; Official: W. W. Bruce, Asst. A. & I. Gen. Columbia, S. C., Jan. 28, 189o. General Order, No. 2. I Attention is hereby called to the fol. lowing sections of the militia law of > the State: Section 427 (367). Any officer who , shall receive, according to the provij sions of this article, any arms, equipr ments or other military property from . the State shall distribute the same to s his command as he may deem proper, taking vouchers therefor; and he snail . require those to whom they are distributed to return them at such time and place as he shall order and ' direct. Every offictr, non-commis! sioned officer and private of a com; ' pany of the militta to whom any arms, . equipments or other military property , shall be so delivered shall be held personally responsible for its care, safe, keeping ana return. He shall use the j same for military drills, parades and l musters only; and upon receiving a discharge or otherwise leaving the j military service, or upon the demand ( of his commanding officer, he shall forthwith surrender and deliver up L said arms and equipments, together oil nfliAw mi hfovtr nYtAnattfrr fV*af YVXbLl ail V/UUV1 XJLiiXi IKAl J JJ4 V/^VJL I/J VUMV [ may be in his possession, to the said commanding officer, in as good order i and condition as the same were at the , time he received them, reasonable use ; and ordinary wear thereof excepted. Sec. 428 (369.) The Governor shall call in all arms, equipments and muni\ tions which are in the hands of any persons not authorized by law to hold . the same. Any officer, non-commissioned officer or private who shall, contrary to the lawful order of the , proper officer, retaining in his possession or control any arms, oquipments j or other article, of military property 5 belonging to the State, or shall will. fully or maliciously destroy or injure [ any such pioperty or who shall when not on duty use or wear any such property without permission of the com! manding officer shall be tried by a s court martial and punished as hereinafter provided.- Whenever such mili' tary property shall be found in the r custody or possession of other persons without right any commanding officer , may take possession of the same, j Sec. 430 (371.) Any officer receiving public property for military use shall be accountable for the articles so > received by him -ind shall not be discharged or allowed to resign from the service until he has returned to the f Adjutant and Inspector, General a rei ceipt from his successor in command, or a proper accounting officer, for the articles issued to him, in good order and condition, or has shown to the Adjutant and Inspector General, by satisfactory proof, that any article not so accounted for has been properly expended in the service, or injured, lost or destroyed without any default or neglect on his part; or if lost or willfully injured or destroyed through the misconduct of any person, that reasonable efforts have been made by him to recover or prosecute for the same. In addition he shall be liable to make good to the State all such property so injured, lost or destroyed by any neglect or aefaull on his part, and for the recovery of which he has made no reasonable effort. All commanding officers are hereby ordered to see that the above named sections are strictly enforced. By order of the Commander-in-Chief. J. Gary Watts. Adjutant and Inspector General. Official: W. W. Bruce, Asst. A. & I. Gen. BnniA flnnrl AHvIaa. ' A prominent Southerner, now liv' ing in New York, but still interested 1 in the prosperity of our people, writes ' to the Columbia State as follows: \ "I have noticed several of your references to cotton acreage this year. I f think that if you could urge upon the \ farmers the importance of a short crop this year it would be the greatest good | any one could do for the South. The 3 professional bears are simply wild 5 with delight and are looking for a grand bear campingn on account of the increased mule and fertilizer sales. 3 English spinners are over 500,000 1 bales short, but they think the South ) will turn loose its spots if a large area 3 is planted and that price will decline. \ They are therefore uoine their utmost 3 to break prices and make the South turn loose its holdings." As will be seen by the above the immense trade in mules and fertilizers is taken by the , cotton sharks as an indication that the ' Southern farmers are going wild over cotton planting again and they are - using the argument of a large cotton r crop as a reason for reducing the price of cotton. They seem to think that HlUJ.es U.UU icrilj.iz.cra arc viiiy uocu m the South for making cotton. Already they have their agents throughout the cotton belt reporting the prospect of an increased cotton acreage, and on these reports they predict a fall in the price of cotton. We adhere to the opinion we have always held, that the Southern farmer cannot afford to raise cotton except as a surplus crop, and when he does that he can do so profitably even if the price goes down to five cents. Let your first object be to make plenty of meat and other home supplies and then plant all the cotton you can cultivate and you will be prosperous and happy. The colored Bishop Turner is reported to have used the following lan ' guage recently in Baltimore: "I believe that the time will come when - this contiaent will tremble beneath 1 the foot of the black man, but it will ; not be until we have someindividualiL ty, a countrv of our own, a flag of our own. The black race in this country is yet in its infancy. We have a ; great and grand future and we will be in the prime and vigor of our existence i when the white race is on the decline. The black race is God's youngest child. ; This world runs by periodicity, i Races have their day, play their part i and go out. Bringing us to this country was no accident, not a work of the ' devil." r s :-t V .. ' -' % - THE LEGISLATURE. . TWO SUPREME COURT JUDGES ELECTED IN SESSION. Speaker Jones Elected to the Supreme Bench and Justice Pope Reelected? Other Bnslness Transacted by tbe Senate and Honie. On Thursday Mr: Hough offered s resolution providing that the houst stand adjourned after today's session until Tuesday at 12 o'clock, in ordei to allow the members to be at home on February salesday?Monday next, He asked for immediate consideration of this resolution, but 10 members objected and the resolution went ovei for consideration. Mr. Fowler then offered the following resolution: Resolved by Che house of represents tives, the senate concurring, That we have heard with pleasure and interesl the eloquent and patriotic speech ol our junior senator in the United States Senate, Hon. B. R Tillman, on the 29th inst., and we desire to say thai by all we are and hope to be, we will sacrifice our lives if necessary in resisting tyranny and oppression, believing as we do that resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. On motion of Dr. Wyche, the resolution was referred to the committee on federal relations. The Senate returned Mr. Sturkie1f bill to require county-treasurers to at tend at certain convenient places is the several counties to collect .taxes, with an amendment which struck oul all after the enacting words and sub stituting another bill, which left il optional with the treasurers whethei they would attend these places or not After some debate, Mr. Sturkie stating that the object of his bill was nullified the house refused to concur, and { committee of conference was askec for. Mr. Shuman's bill to provide for th< appointment of constables by magis trates and prescribing their duties anc term of office and for removal of sam< was taken up. Mr. Shuman put ii several amendments, men Mr. uaer ton had a slight amendment made anc the bill was ordered to its third read ing. As the bill passed it provides that each magistrate in this State ma} appoint separately or conjointly on< constable to execute writs and process es issued by him; that a record musi be made of the appointments; that the constable must take the constitutional oath and give a $200 bond; that th< constable shall serve all writs and pro cesses, both criminal and civil, except writs and processes in cases of whict the court of general sessions has ex elusive jurisdiction and he shall serve writs and processes in such casas, un less such magistrate shall direct th< same to the sheriff of his county to b< served by him. Mr. Whitmirt's bill to amend th< law relating to boards of equalizatioi was called up and there was some dis cussion. Alter a few slight amend ments had been put in, the bill wai ordered to a third reading. The bil requires that the boards shall not re fiflivfl nav for mora thin five diivs n< matter how long their session. At this juncture a request was reac from Mrs. Virginia D. Young, presi dent of the State Equal Rights associa tion asking permission to address th( house at night on the suoject of presi dential suffrage for women. Mr. Patton offered the following resolution, which was adopted: Resolved, That the use of the hall o: the house be tendered to Mrs. Young president of the Woman's Rights as sociation, for the evening of Jan. 30 for the purpose of addressing thi members of the general assembly or the subject of suffrage for women. Before the adoption of the resolu tion, during the discussion over tin matter, some one asked Mr. Pattoi what would be the time limit of th< address, and Mr. Patton exclaimed "Why, the time will be indefinite, o: course; who ever heard of telling j woman how long she should talk?" Later Mr. Weston called attentioi to General Rosser's lecture and to pre vent a conflict tne time ior mrs Young's speech was fixed at 6:30 p.m The distinguished Virginia veteran (Jen. Rosser, having come in with sev eral gentlemen, Mr. Floyd rose anc after making some appropriate refer ences to the distinguished visitor moved that the courtesies of the houst be extended to him. This was unani mously agreed to. At 1 o'clock the members of th< senate, headed bv the president anc clerk arrived and marched in. Mr Breazeale, who was in the chair gav< way to the lieutenant governor, whc called the joint assembly to order anc stated that the object thereof was t< elect two associate justices of the State supreme court. He declared that nom inations were in order for the electior of a justice to succeed Justice Pope. Mr. Floyd took the floor and nomi nated Justice Pope to succeed himself, The nomination was seconded firs' by the delegations from Edgefield anc Charleston. Messrs. Barnwell and Brown,on the pare of the senate, and Tatum and Wyche, on the part of the house, were appointed tellers. There being nc further nominations the roll was call ed as required by the new Constitu tion. The election of Judge Pope wa* unanimous. He is to servo for a pe riod of eight years. Mr. Thurmond, of Edgefield, nomi nated Speaker Jones. The same process was then gone through as to the vote, and Speakei Jones was declared elected an associ ate justice of the State supreme courl for a term of six years. The senate then retired to its chamber, the joint assembly being dissolved, many congratulating Mr. Jones on nis elevation to the supreme bench. The house was then called to order again, with Mr. Breazeale in the chair. Mr. Jones rose and said: Mr. Speaker, having been elected as one of the justices of the supreme court of South Carolina by the general assembly, I tender to this body my resignation as speaker, to take effect immediately." Mr. Bacot, after "expressing regret that the house had to part with its able and popular speaker, moved that the resignation be accepted. Miller suggested that it be done by a rising vote. This the house agreed to, ana the resignation was accepted. The house then adopted appropriate resolutions of thanks to the retiring speaker for his uniform fairness ana couitesy as a presiding officer. A resolution, offered by Mr. Thurmond, that the house proceed with . . . / ; ' '": the election of a speaker, was then adopted, and nominations for speaker were called for. I Messrs. F. B. Gary and 1L R. Cooper were nominated. The vote stood Gary 60, Cooper 44. Mr. Gary thanked the house for the honor conferred ' on him. In the senate the bill providing for a bank examiner was reached and * ' there was some unexpetced opposition to the bill, but it finally passed to it* third reading. The following Senators L voted to kill the bill: Archer, Barn> well. Barton, Brice, Brown, Boist, t Derham, DuBose, Harrison, Kirkland, ' . Mauldin, Miller. Norris and Watson-' : t? NOTES OF THE SESSION. ' Mr. Harper, of Colleton, has intro* gjl&i duced a bill to provide an additional ^ ^ i magistrate for that county. W. Fnmlm lias ft Kill /* n*A. . . ' vide for an income tax. The bill con- | tains the following as its principal provisions: t After June 1, 1896, there shall be assessed, levied, collected, and paid an' nually upon the gains, profits and in1 come received in the preceding calen; dar year by every citizen of this State, whether residing at home or abroad, i and every person residing therein, ' whether saia gains, profits or income [ be derived from any kind of property, ! rents, interest; dividends or salaries, or from any profession, trade, employment, or vocation carried on in this ' State or elsewhere, or from any other source whatever,a tax of 2 per centum ' on the amount so derived over and > above $1,000, and a like tax shall be levied, collected and paid annually > upon the gains, profits;" and income ' from all property owned and of every 1 business, trade or profession carried on in this State by persons residing ^ without the State. The present coun" ty officials are to collect the tax. It t is to be paid upon the gains, profits r and income for the year ending Dec. 31st next preceding the time for levy ing, collecting ana paying said tax. ? The Governor officially notified J both houses of the death of Mr. James 1 Sprott, a director of the penitentiary. Among the house bills passed to v i their third reading are the following: To exempt certain portions of Picxl ens county from the operations of the i general stock law; to authorize and l require the treasurer of Kershaw - county to pay the auditor of said I county $50 for extra service; to change . the name of the State lunatic asylum ) to that of the State hospital far the r insane; to repeal the act to prohibit ' . r 3 emigrant agents from plying their vo cation in this State without first obt taming a license therefor and for i other purposes; to require the county L boards of commissioners in this State i to provide footways wherever/ neces- -to! - sary on the public roads in their ret spective counties; to authorise the i county boards of commissioners of the - several counties in this State to change > the location of the public roads in said - counties and to condemn the land tor i rights of way forsame. 3 Senator Jordan has introduced a * joint resolution to empower the board i of county commissioners of Aiken i county to renew and pay certain or dinances of indebtedness. Senator Stribling has introduced a i joint resolution to authorize and re1 quire the county board of commiwion ers of Pickens and Oconee countiesto ) build a public bridge across Keowee , of />, nf T.M1a 1AVC1 aw Vi UUtl UUU UAVUUi V4 JLUIItlU I river. At 1:30 the Senate ad framed. . The two houses have settled their s differences as to the new Supreme - Court The justices' salaries will be , ' $2,850 each, and the court will hold r two sessions a year. In the absence of both the lieutenf ant-governor and the president pro tem , Mr. Finley of York was called to pte side over the Senate. , The Senate passed the bill requiring 3 county treasurers to "go the rounds" i in collecting taxes, with Dr. Barton's amendment providing "that the coun3 natesafe andcanvenientplace/fort^e i treasurer to attend for the collection 3 of taxes, and that if the treasurer con: eiders such places safe and convenient, f he may attend. i Senator Williams has introduced* bill to provide for the settlement of i controversies by arbitration. * Representative McSweeney nas offered a bill prohibiting the drilling or forming of armed companies except under the provisions of the militia laws. Representative Williams has introduced a bill reducing all salaries on an average twenty per cent Fearful Crime Untreated. Tavabks, Fla., January 29.?Today, after a trial lasting sixteen days, Irwin Jenkins, Marion Clinton ana William McRae were acauitted of what are known as "the Packwood murders." The crime with which the men were charged was committed on < the night of December 10, 1891, and was most brutal. The victims were Miss Bruce, a young woman, aged 30; her nephew, Frank Packwood, aged \ 7; Mrs. Hatch, aged 40, and her son, Beanie Hatch, aged 10. The victims mawv i n It AimiVklA monnAH wore UUI^UGI^U ui a uvuii/io : and Miss Bruce and Mrs. Hatch were I ravished. The crime was committed near New Smyrna, in Volusia County j and the case came here on a change [ of venue. Miss Bruce was from New York and came to Florida to keep house for her widowed brother-in-law. F. J. Packwood. On December 10, 1891, Mr. Packwood left home for Jacksonville, and not liking to leave Miss Bruce and his son alone, got Mrs. Hatch, a neighbor, to remain with them over night. Mrs. Hatch took her little boy along, and either on the . night of the 10th or the morning of the 11th the two women and the little boys were butchered. For a long time the murder was a mystery, but at last suspicion fell on Jenkins, McRae and Clinton, the first being an Indiaa and the two latter prominent young white men, and they were arrested and indicted. Last year the men were tried here and convicted, but they appealed, and the Supreme Court re? 1 i 1 - _ J 1_!.1 manaea tne case ior a secona iruu. which to-day resulted in the acquittal of the accused, as stated The evidence 1 was purely circumstantial, but od the first trial was considered strong. In the second trial the State was handi1 capped by the absence of material witnesses. and did not make eut a stronc ; case. The two trials have cost Volusia 1 County thousands of dollars and bankrupted the defendants and their families, and after all the persons who murdered and ravished Miss Bruce and Mrs. Hatch and killed two innocent little boys are unpunished. A bicycler of Exeter, Conn., had both hands badly frozen while riding without gloves during severe cola weather last week. It is thought hia hands will have to be amputated.