The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, January 29, 1891, Image 1

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

VOL. XX. PICKENS, S. c., Tii'URSDAY, JANUARY 29, 189I. NO. 19. COL. KEITT'S REJOINDER, MAKING THINGS LIVELY IN ALLIANCE CIRCLES. Ue Calls on Dr. Stokes, Prejilent or t1w State Alliance, to Explain that Mixeil Caucus-The Former Charges Roiterat ed and Sonme Further Facts Given. [From the Newberry Observer.] Editor Observer: I have read in the News and Courier the reply of Senator Stokes to my letter first published in the Observer and reproduced in the News and Courier. 1 will not allow him to cloud and obscure the matters in issue by an effort to mako the pub lic believe I was moved in what I have said by personal feeling. When I say 1 was not a candidate for the United States Senatorship at ainy time before the General Assembly, I am sustained by the record. My name was not presented in either house. Two votes were cast for ine on the first ballot; not a vote was cast for me after that, although they balloted for three days. Congressmen Hemphill and Till man and others got scattering votes on several ballots. They were not candi dates. IIampton, Donaldson and 1rhy were the only ones whose names were presented to both houses, and they were the 'only candidates. I have no personal desire to go to Washington. I doubt if I could live long in that cli mate. I went to Columbia a loyal Alliance man-loyal to its principles, demaRtids and measures. All I an is at the ser vice of the Order; for its principles are intimately interwoven into my being. f ay services had been demanded by Pr"eOrder, and after a full and free canvass if the Order decided to make me their nominee, I would have ac cepted. If the Order decided on anoth er than myself, I would have f'o-.ght, all the same for his election. I requested my friends not to let my name be used in the caucus of Non Alliance men as soon as I learned Sen ator Stokes had called In the Alliamc meeting and had determined to go into a caucus with Non-Alliance men. Ihat caucus determined to present to the General Assembly the three highust names. My name was one of the three; but I declined to accept, and my name was not presented. WHAT IS AN OFFICE-SEEKiER?Y Senator Stokes would have the couu try believe I am an office-seeker. What is my record? I am near 0 years old. Before the war I resided in llichlanil County, and was often urged to I come a candidate and always re fiis-. I was captain of the Emimet Guards in Columbia, sons of ireland, the hiome of heroes and statesmen. ThIis was the first company tendered to the Govern ment. The writer heard the first and last gun in the n%ar, and no iman can point to asingle instanco that he failed in his duty in any position to wh:ch he was called. In May after the close of the war he came to his plantation in Newberry County, and was Olecteil to the Legislature in October. The Jlour inal of the House will show lie was no idle member. During the eithit years of misrule, fraud and crime he was in the front rank with pen and toiinguie fighting to get control of the state Government. In 1877. after we got control, he retired from practical poli tics, as far as office holding goes. In the convention of his connty he wai nominated three times and tiged to go to the Legislature. Ile rose and said to the convention: "Our people now have the Government. it is in safe hands. 1 cannot go, and vil not if you elect me." That ended it. 1ie has often been urged to be a candtid(ate since that time, and has al ways refus ed. He gave his time and powers, gratls, in the North during three Presidential campaigns for t he D)emo cratic party. in 1884 lie spetnt eight weeks advocating the election of itir. Cleveland. On his way home he was urged to apply for the colloctorship at Charleston by friends wvho desired to hold offices undler him, by one man who stands high in the State, wvho ask ed for the second place. W hen genicl men in Charleston got to fever heat over the office the records will .showv that he wrote to Mr. Cleveland andi ' withdrew his application several w eeks before the appointmnent was mlade. lie is frank to say a gentleman better fitted for the place than himself was ap pointed-one trained to the business. Is this the record of a man who seeks office? Is it not the recordl of one always ready to do his dluty when call ed upon? I work for my living, and I am not ashamed to own it. All I have except what I got by Inheritance, .1 made farming-the vocation of my life, it is more congenial to me to re main in the quiet of my home than to enter the bustle and storms of political strife. If the Alliance, however, had called uipon me at any stage of the election and had put me uif as their nominee, I wouldl have stood as s'eh. and, if elected, as I went int o the late war, I would have gone to Wasing ton, and, drawing my blade and a tter whetting It, I would have inade it hot for all foes while life lasted, as at meat ter of duty, asking no favors and giv ing no quarters. A MATTER( OF' HiSTOiY. That any one may say I am miovedl in this matter by personal feeling is of no concern to me only as a matteri of history. I am p)roudh of my Stat o. IIe'r history is made up of the history of heroes and statesmena. I will tI kemcar of mine. No one's personality coumnts for anything when great principles,<dhs' mands and measures and the bo(1 of',II the State are in peril. That the e ws and Courier is hostile to mec is no,t strange. it is deadly hostilo to the Alliance, and the more loyal the memn ber the more hostile to himi. lIn my efforts the past summer to solve na tional questions of the greatest magi tude, when It was nmot misleading tin its headlines to my letters it w as n-. just. I said nothing publicly about it. I did not allow It to divert my atteni tion in the least from thle solution of the great questions then before ine; norw will I allow it to do so no w. I will now proceed to make clear the matters in issue-so clear that any one can take it in andl understand it and what I shall say is based on the record. On the 27th of last December tim follo,wing extracts, touching the Sena Jrial election, appeared in t he Cotton .-'Plant, the omlcial orgau of the Alliance from the pen of Senator Stokes, pre si dant of the State A 1Hianie-.drawn not by a letter from me, which appeared in the News and Courier of a previous date. They read as follows: "The bare staternent that I had called in the appointinent for an Alliance meeting, and had, agreed to go into a general caucus appears to ir to give scarcely a just con cepttion of the case. "I n that caucus Alliance principles were absolutely safe, Brother Keitt to the con trary notwithstanding. "I am free to adinit that I was alone in this view at the outset. "1owover that may be, I accept the re sponsibility thrust on me by Brother Keitt, and point to a United btates Senator who will efecetually protect our interest." PRCE.A DENT STOmREESPONSInILITYV. Now let it be remembered that Senator Stokes. two weeks after the Senatorial election, assuned the sole responsibility for calling inl the appointment for an Al liaiince meeting, agreed upon and appoin ted for the specifie purposeof puttingin nomination an Alliance candidate for the United States Senate, and leading off into a meeting of Non-Alliance men. I Ie admitted that he was alone in this v iew at the (outset,and pointed with pride to .11r. Irby as a I'nited States Senator, 'who will effectually protect" Alliance interest. What moved Senator Stokes to this action ? On Friday, the 5th day of December, the following appeared in the Charles ton World: "What I have seen and heard to-day con firins ie in my previously expressed opinion that State Senator-J. W. Stokes, who is also president of the State Farmers' Alliance, will cut no figure in the fight for the United States Senatorship next Tuesday, but that, on the contrary. he is being carefully gioomiied for fitu Governorship in 1894, when Tillman is more than likely as I have already pointed out in these colunis, to succeed the lIon. M. C. Butler in the United States Senate." ],ight here I will say I was not in a caucus or political meeting of any kind while in Columbia. There wa,; an Alliance meeting held on Saturday night, )ecember 6, over which Senator Stokes presided. As imore than half of the Alliance mem bern were absent from the city, it was agreed to hold a meeting on Monday night, when all the Alliance members could be present, and nominate an Al liance candidate for the United States Senatorship. A committee was ap poiited to wait on Donaldson, Irby and Keitf, and get them to state in writing their position on the principles, de mands and measures of the Alliance, to be read before that meeting. The Sunday News of December 7, gave the following as Senator Stokes's position at that time: "Dr. Stokes's idea, in brief, is that the Alliance in terests or this State demand an AlII ancs nomininee for the United States at orship." That was, or should hc \ e I een, lie idea of every Alliance man. It eLrt:inly was the idea of Sen a or Stokes at that time, or why was he presiding over a meeting that did the preliminary work and appointed Monday night following for a meeting to noiminate in Alliance candidate for the United States Senatorship? 0n Monday Senator Stokes writes to The News and Courier, from which I make the following extract: "The Iden held and c xpressed by me on the occasion of the interview was that the A lliance would demand a candidaie in sym pathy with its duaian(s. This is notsaying we demand anm Alliance nominee, nor does it imply any antagonism to Col. Irby.'' WlY TilS NICE DISTINCTION. N% hat brought about this change in the iden of Senator Stokes from Satur (lay until Monday ? Why did lie name ('Co. Irby? Why did lie not say Col. )onalson? )i lie have Col. Irby on the brain ? Did it result from the pre diction in the Charleston World that lie "wili -nt no figure in the fight for the Unitned States Senatorship next 1 Tuesday, but that, on the contrary, lie is being carefully groomed for the Gov ernorship in 1894? if it was not true,c] why is it Senator Stokes did not i promptly correct the World as he did Thie News and Courier. The Charleston World is the organ of Tillman and Irby, and is in the secrets of the Adlministration, all the powers of which were exhausted to I secure the election of Irby. Does Sen- I ator Stokes (denounce the World as a disrepuitable newspaper ? D)oes he (de-4 nounce its correspondlent as a falsilier? lie dare iiot (10 it. iIe knows, and he knows the World knows; and he (dare' rnot denounce them, for they might tell if lie doees. The World knew and lion estly hoisted the signal. Was all this careful grooming for nothing ? IIard 1 ".'TIckle me, ,Johnnie, tickle me do; Yoni tickle me and I'll tickle you.' A UliiAMIATIG( DENO-':E1. We outsidlerers have no positive knowledge. andl can only draw our con clusions from actions. In a little while we will know more. Day now breaks. AMonday night has comte. The supreme moment is at hand. Senator Stokes, p)residlent of the State Alliance, exer cises the powers of his high ofilce with soverein will, lIe dictatorially called ini the Alliance meeting, agreed upon amid aploinied for the specific purpose of noiniiriting aii Allhance candidate f or t ho 1' nit.ed States Senatorship, against the earne:,t protests of Alliance nwieo, anid miarchled off into a meeting of N o:-Alliaence mieni--T'illmaniites who pu1 lle:1 thint'iv es into the Legislature htohling on to Tlillmanm's f.ail, (a secure4 possson.) friends of I rby--from wh.ich Allinen mn w~ho did not sup port T.''illminan were exel uidd, andi de Ii yer(ed int thiir hands i or sare kee p ing all the gtoods of the Alliance. Was this Lii: price of the careful grooming? Is it not the logical conclusion ? I (lid not say of my personal knojwl edge I hat "Stokes sold1 out the~ Alliance for thle admow of being (Governmor of the State tour years hence. I could niot be p)rivy to such a crime. I said: "T'hat is the logical conclusion." I re -peat. it. Break the logic, i fyou can. 8(m I: QUiEsTroNs IvolC sTo(Es. I ask that Senator St >kes, president (f the State Alliance, answer the fol lowing (luestions: Ia it, loyalty to the Order for the president of the State Alliance to ex irie.e theu powers of his high of lice and calml in a imeetiing of Alliance men, aigreedl upon and appo.nted~ to nomi nate a canidi(ate f or the United State Senatorsh ip, against the protests of Al hianice nmen, and go into a meeting of Non-Alliance mnen from which Alli anice min are excluded, and with them ballot f or a candidate for the United St ates Senatorahip ? Everything has its opposite. The opposite to loyalty Is treason. Answer the qluestion and stand self convicted. Let ime say to Senator 8tokes that for a far less cffence than his seven 4 Alliance members of the General As sembly in the State of Louisiana were expelled from the Order. Let me say to Alliance men, the principles, demands and measures of the Alliance are not safe in any hands .xcept the hands of Alliance men, Son ator Stokes, president of the State Al liance, to the contrary notwithstand ing. Alliance men should no more go into a meeting of Non-Alliance men than Non-Alliance men should be ad mitted into a meeting of Alliance men when Alli'nee interests are involved. Alliance men, the glory and success if our noble Order depends on its purity. Clean men alone should be in the lead. Unclean men should not be ioen or heard. THE ALLIANCE MAJORITY. While in Columbia the writer learn !d there are ninety-six Alliance mem jers of the General Assembly. Eighty ne make a majority. There are fif ,een more than a majority. Senator Stokes, by his arbitrary call ng in (and in the Cotton Plant of De %ember 27 ultimo he assumed the sole esponsibility) the Alliance meeting igreed upon and appointed to notni iate an Alliance candidate for the United StaLes Senatorship, defeated the ivill of these Alliance men, prevented he nomination of an Alliance candi late, and he trampled under his feet Phe welfare of the Order when, against ie protest of Alliance men, he went nto a meeting of Non-Alliance men rillmanites-friends of Irby---and de ivered into their hands for safekeep ng the principles, demands and meas .1res of the Alliance. All was lost. It can now be seen what that "all" 6vas and what "all" means. Why did he do it? Clearly to give Vr. Irby the advantage, and if possible 'o secure his nomination and election or it was well understood Mr. Irby 1ould not get the nomination in an Al iance meeting. Ilence these tactics. [he why of his "beingcarefully groom ,d" is now in full view. The Alliance had no nominee and tid not present a candidate to the leneral Assembly. A large majority >f the (eneral Assembly are Alliance nen. They should have nominated a lean and able representative and run iim on clearly defined principles, and itood by their colors and go up or down ,vith them. If they went down, rise mnd come again, and never yield, for we are fighting for great principles. 'he writer would rather we should go lown and be right than to go up and >e wrong. ALLIANCE RULE ADVOCATED. If Senator Stokes had proved loyal to ie Alliance the Order would have iominated a candidate and elected him Non-Alliance men in the General As senbly whose sympathies are with the Alliance had no right to have any say as to who should be the Alliance' can didate. That belonged wholly to A1i ince men. Where does Senator Stokes get his authority to deal with Non Alliance men? A loyal Alliance man will not permit his name to go before i meeting of Non-Alliance men. If hlampton's defeat was necessary, he fhould have been beaten with a clean man and on clearly defined principles. If that had been (lone, Hampton and lis friends could not, ani would not, iaTe sai(I one word; for their pabulum a principle, honor and truth. But to )eat him with an unclean man without my defined principles, is a crime igainst the Christianity and civiliza ,ion of the State. South Carolina is dishonored, and senator Stokes is responsible for it. All can now see that all was lost, nd what the "all" was that was lost. The writer does not possess the au hority and power to say "go and sin io more." That belongs to the Master tione. If lie had the authority and >ower, andl Senator Stokes came up a enitent, he would say as the Master aidl: "EGo and sin no more." It seems ;enator 'Stokes, by exercising the au hority and power of his high office, in aialing ini the Alliance meeting, and Lfterwardl assuming the sole responsi >ility for the act, thinks he Is the mnas er. Irby and D)onaldson camne before the oneral Assembly from a meeting of ion-Alliance men, and as such had 1o claim on the Alliance for support. l'hey forfeited it when they went into he meeting of Non-Alliance men. As here was no Allianice nominee every alliance member was free to vote for ,hom he p)leasedl. All Alliance obli rations were suspended, if there had een an Alliance nominee every Alli mece member was bmoundl by his obliga ~ion to vote for him. I'iiE nmULE OF VNQUESTImONING OIEE1I EN CE. The following agreement shows the bligation of each member of the Aili mnce to the Order and to those organi .ations with whom we have confeder ited. ST. Louis, Mo, Decemb)er 0, 1889. Agreement made this day by and be ween the und(ersignedi commnittee repre enuting the National Farmiers' Allianice id Indumstriaf Union, oin the one part, anid ho undersignedl commIttee repiesentinig he Kights of Labor, on the other part, vitniesseth: Th'le undersigned committee, -epresenting the Knights of Labor, having 'ea,d the demands of thme National Farm ~rs' Alliance and industrial Union, whlich ire embodiied in this ageemient, hereby eni lorse the same on behalf of the Knights of labor, and for the purpose of giving prac hcal effect to the denmands herein set forth, ho legislative comminittces of both organi. ~ations will act ini concert before Congress or' the purpose of securing the enactmenit >f laws in harmiony with the dlemainds mu *uahly agreed( upon. Amnd It Is further igrneed, ini order to carry out these objeets, ye will sup)port for ollice only such mn as anlh be dependedIC( upon to enact these prin ~iples into statute law uninfluced by par y caucus--National Economist, Vol. 24, No. , page 214. Th'le above agreement was adopted y the Supreme Council at their meet. ng held in St. Louis, Mlo., In D)ecemnber, 1889. It was reaflirmned by the ,Su preme Counicil at their meeting in Deala, Fia., last Diecemuber. It is thme mupreme law, andl from it there is no ap)peal. All Alliance men imust con rorm to it, or get out of the Order, or if Senator Stokes were an LL.D1., in stead of an M. D)., lie would know that in all compacts between organizations hiere are no reservat,ions unless they ire incorporated into the agreement, ~he written instrument. This instru ment shows there arc none; hence there is nothing to adjudicate. If each or ganization could have secret reserva lions, and one not know what the other reserved, the agreement would be a enne of andandal t ieces. AN ALLIANCE MAN CANNOT nU- A DI31- C OURAT. Mr Irby, on the heels of his election to the United States Senate, is report- RI ed as making the following statement: "I am going to tho Senate as a Democrat and in full accord with the National Demo cracy. I a) In full sympathy with the Al liance, but whatever iay he obtained by Me TI for the Alliance must he obtalnud through the National Democratic party." I ask Senator Stokes if this statement of Mr. Irby is in accord with the above cited agreement ? Is it Alliance doe trine? Is it the doctrine of a non-par tisan organization ? Can the man who m makes such a statement be depended fa upon to effectually protect Alliance in- of terests ? th The writer has said, and will have to es say, some hard and unpleasant things. ar But he will not knowingly say one s% word that is not the truth. If he does se an injustice to any one, and it is clear- ti, ly pointed out and shown to him, lie sij wili exhaust every means to repair it: b( otherwise, it shall stand forever. lie fo scorns the spirit that cringes, squiris and cowers before any earthly power, th and he equally scorns the spirit that ar for pelf crawls and feels and worms ft himiself into position by trickery. iIe sp has all his life spoken out fi ankly what at he feels and believes, and will do so to to the end. il Mr Irby, with his record, should have displayed a becoming modesty, and not tlj thrust himself into a position to bring w reproach on the State. p( That he has done so is a fact. 1By do- h1, ing so he shows that lie is reckless of m1) the honor of the State. til SENATOR IRBY'S ifElCORI. A people are always judged by those P they send to represent them. Mr. Irby may be an innocent man, but the facts a are all the same. His iame is on the a criminal docket of Laurens County con nected with the most diabolical of crimes. It is a fact he Iled the laws of a the State and the people among whom he lived. The people of Laurens Coun ty are as true, generous and brave a peo- th ple as live on the earth. It is a fact he hid out for years from these people and I the laws of his State. Is not this enough to disqualify him from goiug ty to Washington city, as the representa- o tive, on the floor of the American Sen- D ate, of the purity and honor of the proud State of South Carolina? 0 c Carolinians! Shall this iian go to Washington as your representative amd t be a stanuing reproach to the State? rc What has Lhis proud State done to be so dishonored. c All the glories won by the peerless - Calhoun, who for forty years on the P floor of the A inerican Senate was the a admiration of the world, and who mado cl Carolina perpetual and imnortal, will go into eclipse. OU(ilIT TO IIAVE BEEN Tio(;l'IT 0 i BEFOE. , And, too, to give this man the pos.i tion, Wvde lainpton, in his old age, is driven fron the service of the people a to whom lie gave a lifetime of heroic; Wade Iampton, whose fplorriuptible o integrity is known the world over; % Wade Iaipton, one of the foremost S cavalry leaders in the animals of war- tI fare; Wado IIaipton, who shed his , blood from the heights of Gettysburg to the shores of his native Carolina for e( this people; Wade Hampton, who never saw one moment of his existence that s he would not have cheerfully laid down rc his life for the honor of his State; Wade Ilampton Who when your hoines o and firesides, altars and temples, four- y teen years ago, fwere in imninent peril ti of desecration by a vandal horde, brave- a ly breasted the storm, and, with cool, m clear head and steady nerve, led you into peace and security, has been cold- S, ly drven from the servic of this peo- 11 pie he loves so well, and he% position St given to this man. Ilow long, 0, Carolinians, will you in whose veins flows the blood of heroes in submit, yes, tamely submit, to this so crowning outrage on the honor of your la State and the digniity of her foremost w, citizen? Will you stand idlly and si- ro lently by aiid see all the p)ast glories cc of your State, that cliu ster thick around hi us, and were won by heroic virtue, in buried forever in dlishionor ? Will ye,u ly transmit to your children this dishonor as a legacy ? No, never, unless the man - Li hood displayed by your sires is extinct. se Rouse yoursielves, andl rally, and F speak out for GJod and country, or for- m ever hereafter hold( your silence, and let it be said to the world that the v'ir- elI tues diisplayedl by your sires are ex- I> tinct, and that you accept (degradation. " Know that one son of Carolina "to the ei manner h)orni" raises his voice for the al honor of Lhe State, and will continule to raise it, amid will never falter, never yield, until her honor is safe or life is extinct.r Ye sons of Carolina, whlo upon thle fiels of your country displayed moire than Ifoman couurage andl Spartan valor, ~ rally upon hilltop and in v'alley and swear by the Great F,ternal that thle honor of your State shall live and inr your keeping shall never die. Swear it. Swear it, andI show to the world1 that you mnean it. Il.espectfuxlly, lCllisonx S. Keitt. S3OII for ai vote,c OLm11A~ 'm., Wash., J1an. 21. -,Juist after L Speaker Shaw, of the 11louse(, yesterday 3 afternooni issued thec call for nloinla- p t.ioins for I:nited St ates Senator, Il{epre- a~ sicutaf ive ,John I. Aletcal f arose and( said;: am "Gentleman of 'he Legislature of W~ash ington: 1 hold( in my hlanid 8500, which F' was hlanded me by lIarry A. Clark of al Spokane Fall with1 the express5 under- Li standing thlat I east iiy vote for C. iI. w Calkins for Senator." Several secondls tI of' profound silence p)revailed thirouIgh- ei Out the hall, Mietcalf senit thle mlontey S< to the Speaker and( resum ed his seat. I) A miotioni was putL andl carried apploinit- Sc inig a com mittee to investigate the charge ol of bribery and t lie Il ouse adjourned uni- mn Lii 8 p. mn., wheni a vote for Seiiator was Li< taken. 5(11nire receive'd 413, Calkm ni> ,, se Carroll 17. Sipuire lhas a majority of at bo0th houses. s i ,O0o to Unnat SIurdler. Li NUotJN, Ni:n, Jian. l .eTh'lree ar- ce rests have beein madle withuin the Past ai Lwenty-four hours in connection with the ed murder of,John Sheedy one wYeek ago to- Wa night. Monday McFarland, a colored o~ barber, was the firat suspect, andl( to-day Lt he made a confession acknowledging the w" killing and implicatiing thie wife 01 the of murderedl man andl her supposed hover. PF All are in il. Mcl"arland dleclares that Mrs Shieedy agreed to pay him $15,- cc 000 to make awvay with huer husband, at Developments of a sensational nature yc are expected. Sheedy was an old resl- B dent. and qmnte walthy. LOSING UP FOR A VOTE. .PUBLICAN SENATORS AFRAID 01: THEIR PARTY LASH. i Forc 1iil Under Senator i rit's man 11:meinelt Is M1aking iteadway ill 1th0 -ell Lte--lommorats tigit it i nlt by I mit---A ively )ebate in the 801aute. WASlIINWTON, 1). C,lnir i.-t idiight, while the snow was falling st around the Capitol, the ineinber the Senate were still struggling with e force bill. The light began in earn t this morning when the s(-rgeant-at Ins of the Senate was altliorized to) vear in a number of additional deputy rgeant-at-aris, and other pri-para ms were made for an all-night ses in. Word was passed around on th sidesof the chanber to get ready r 'in all-night stay at the Capitol. Senators notifled their famtilies that ey would not hw at liotile to-night, *d several tender-iearted and thought. I wives itillnediately voluiltveret to [id to the Capitol pillows atl other ticies calculated to promotte Sotnia rial comfort luring the ling weary iirs of the Iight. The lepublicans are tahle to leave e building for fear the Dv-tioerats ill secutre al adjoiriitnent oi t1m int of no qluortim. (in the otlier md the Democrats ar-e obliged to r ain on tity, ready at a mI omenuit's n4 !( to join such li eptublians as are illing to secure ilan adjominew. or a i.tpolCeelt of the periling lill. E-ven at this late hour tlIre .is a good tendance of Senators upon t lie 11oo id the galleries are pretty well fille,l. Mrs. .Morton, the wife of the Vict. esident, wi th everal Senator1's wive, e in the reserved galltrv. The first sho%wing of iins wi the pu blicani side tot-ivrrei latt this a rnoon, when Senatoir Pi'aw, o Floi , conclju(Ie( a Ionr sp-j!ci. at.or olcott iloved to adjourli, biut his nit )I was def1'eated by li a tln-ow inajq'o Stewart. of Nevada, was the oil her lUopublican who voto'l with th.. Ciocrats. Senitor liaiton thni ok the floor and was about it) pI ed with his spicuh when he app.1 Il Senator ollar, in cha-gv ti .e hill, allow an adjourtnment until hi-mil-, W. Senator lloar said he woild ghldly inply with the reImest of the sout h trolina Senator it the latter was pi tred to vive the Stnate some assu we that a vote might be t akcln at a rtain day to be lixeil at (tne,. Senato- a111ptonl was o p. elr >lix a day, so t he deba1ute vcnt in uil. ThIiere were s-veral littl i1111cf.il ;r oi it erest overi parlia net ary poi I - veeni Senators Grioian IlI. tmr. a-l ice-'resident Motloiol dulring the ear part of the evenin, blt alout iI clock Senator Faulki-t- h:-z: a long id carefully prepared aeghl a snl-is [the hill. lIN poinitc(I mut n1:1n1(r<-m s rors mnd incisistencie--, :tw forced .nator Spooner t> atldiiit, in subst an--, tat the bill is ailted diectly at Ihe )I>tliern States. Dinitig tihe evling Senat(Ilrs wander Iaimlessly about the chaiber, soi1e clining upon the leather etishioned fas inl the cloak rooms anld allite oins. ()n the I )eiloemotic sideSenators (Gor an, Dalniel, Iiutler, Ivagaln, \'allce, Istis, Call, Coke atin Gibsonl (ltsplay:t-4 e best staying powers and appeated fresh as when the day's session com 1.nced. )n the Reliblican Aide Senators ioonier, Nlitcelvl, A llison, 0illoin, ale, Dixon, Me('onniell, Power and I ockbiridge showedt no signs of lfat i Ie. About 11 o'clock Senator IIloar wenit to the cloak room anid cuirlaid up on a in for a short nap. A few minutes Ler Senator ,Johin Shieriian bueaite ary anid soutghtL a sofa in the (loak out. Senator l)awes made hinmself as mifortab)le as poissile bty reiniovinig ii Alassachuisett s boots, eareli ully pi:n g them under a sofa, arid slept sounlili. The proceedings were enlI ireed at mes by a pileas9ant iinterchanirge of sper i al coinp110-inet s het. wet i Sirn at ors aiulk netr tand Spoone r, thie t wvo I in t aiin etinbe rs of thle Senate. Th le proceein tgs were fur thle r ciiliv. iedl shortly aft ter 12 0(1clock, w heni M t. i'eo iniade a pit, of noiititi qurii. 4ake emip,'' shout ti Sena;tor \litch-. I, of ( )regin, to ihe depuitty siergeaiit arnis. In au few~ ininute's the Ieplitias unei Iloikinig itnto the chiainer, sorti tbIdng thir sletepy eyes, othIecrs coliin aiuning of be-itng distuirbeid, antI Senai r 1"rye, of A-laine, .9hotckedu the digmntty 'ltie Sentat.e by~ procetding dlowti t lie iddle aisle withI a cigar in his inouth. Fort y four Senators respiiioih- to the ill-call, I ihit showinrg a iquotruni, a ini *tiator Fautlkrier ri-sitied his .spe-eei. fe w toninu1tos fat er the Sente waovs al o.9t etuipt y agaiii, thew l.iiiii-rim tickens hiavinig returnied to roii At this hour it is impon-ihi- to prneiitt hat the ottcoiie will be. The- )etmo mnts are hopefutl tif e-vient ally si'! issage. It has slttiply dievelop1.d tnd-o etintest of physi cal e'tithitturnce. - Newtvs ial Cuiirier. aulktier wvhot was addret-ssinig the Si-i Il I 2.30, whIeni thle ab)sence of a qutioum as agraitn brought to thei-:i attntion oft t (:hi;iir by Sen-tator Saniderms. Thei II of the i-oIl shiowedt only thlirty-si x ntotrs piresetnt live of whlomn were -umocriits. .\ mtio w11 as iade b y lie ablsetees, lbut Sci nmt or lIai-is ade a p)oiint of o)rder- tat t- litrst nto )t uni deri th e riules was fto ditt-ct the rgeantat 4-air;m; to requI est thle at tenid ce of I lie absen t Setnat ors. 'lTho presidingu ollicer (sentatort Wash i irn) siustaitidti he li-poitit tif order, andt niator Iloar chanitged his inotiounea rdinigly. Thie mnotioii was agriieed to, d a list of thle ab)sett(is was fitrniishi to the sergeanit-ait at-mis, who (is telhed messeiigers to c-arty ouit thle dler of then Sentate. I )uiring thme Itime e meossenigers of the 5ergeanit-at-aurms tie callitng at the~ hotels anid r-esidlences the aubsenitees all butsiniess was sus At 4.20 forty-seven Senatoi-s anlswer the roll-call andl Seniator- Faulkner ntinued his speech. Seniator (Gorman 4.30 moved an ad(journment. TIhie te was annouinced -yeas . Senators til, Cockrell, F-aulk ner Gormon, mnes of Arkansana ndari ; flt. . No <Iuortim voting the roll was igain called and only thirty-eight an- V ;wered to their names. Tle appear- to ince of Senator (Reorge at 5.45 com leted the <Iuorum. Senator Faulkner ar itde :mother start on his speech at 6 tic >-1ltck. Senator Gornman made another li l'ort to close the (lay's session and pc 4ple of tihe futile efforts ever since tr; Iiiahi.,-lut to get a (iorum. th lie inoved to dispense with all fur- I ber lrt1etedings under the call so as Se '(t to distlirb the Senators who were ca i1iisised. and give to the Senators jprtseent it the otlicers of the Senate a (w !iance t o go hIoime and get their break- Se last, so as t o get back at 10 o'clock. th Se-nat or Ediniuiids demanded the yeas Ci id nays. The result was --yeas 5,nays to 13. A t 7.30, wnlivii there were live Dem m-rats )n the Iloor anI only one Repub- Tti lican. (Seiator Casey,) Seiintor Daniel pr noved an adjouriimeint. 'THie motion olt did n1 iot succeed, however, for Senator atc Casey rishei for and obtained allies - Iromi t ho cloak room and Senator Platt, th who was inl the chair, declared the mo- M ion lost. A flWr that there was another it lead lull lit il 9.30, when, a quorum hiavirg appean, Senator Faulkner pro- re eeded with his remarks. bi N ot wit histaliding his long vigil sena- (1, tor -ailkuier was in good voice, and ic when no(t quoting froni his books, spoke wit h eartnest ness. lie paid special at- re [ention to the features of the bill, th which lie claimed conferred on the can- bi bssing hoard power to carry on their ot qpe:;at ions behind the returns. A t 10.0~ Senator Harris rose to a par- St ian en tary inqitiry. Ie deiredto know o Oether the .1oirnal would show that fr li1re was a legislative (lay of January pt I a, and idi so, when t hat legIslative day bi 'Ie'll. Te standing order was that h Setiiate should iweet at 10 o'clock, tc in11 was inow past I hat hour, and he M Ised tihe (Iie-stion in order to enable se lie cltrls tip keep tle Journal proper Sn.tmr Almorrill suggested that the fith had(i not yet finislied. er S.4nabr li Iarris said the filestion lie prloindted to the Chair was, when woili the Senate have the legislative a 1;ly( of the [71 tv The presiding oieer (Senator Fry:) W TI'- Chair is of the opiion that there n nWv \r w i! ho such a legislative day as iR tMe h.h.ij .srnilr -'Vailkner thni resumed the er 'o". hiit cmilided at 10.20, having Ob I hwb I IIi ititor for almoit twelve hours. P senat o I anivl then took the floor. w ttiint t iiie after Senator Daniel began ti it, speak lie yit-lded to ;ntiator Stewart, ti wht gav notice of a motion to recom mit tiie hill with instructions to the i viiinittive oil privilegs and elections il t ';to initn it it as to irovide for the hi elet itn tf niihers of Congress on t das whe i no other election is held in h Cit:vral Statts, and to provide for Ii ihe nltarat t anid independent registra- b I it l i telct irs as are italitied to vote forl iin'mehvrs of Coigress. 0 Sen :itr I l>anliel closed his Speech at - 1.:i, having occupied the three hours. b .1enato 'r Vest then took the floor and 1i deiui-ntl(ed a yva and nay vote on Sena- t It r Faulkier's amneinent which elinii- t( naies rrtmn the bill such features as a1 cifo i,r ijildivial finct ion oi canvassing c botIirds. ke Senlator Teller suggested that this was :ti iiportant, amendiment and asked h IhaIt it Ibe la id over till Monday. je Sinat or spooner (taking charge of the ti till in Seiator lloar's absence) said lie tI I hight that the Senator from Massa eiiisetts woluld be willing that the inneiitient should goover. Sen t or E.dintinis, however, objected t its going over uiiitil Monday, but ti indel ) no idbjection to its going over it I'or I lit present, and it was so orderod. i Se'nat mr \'esi, then proceededin a geni , h -ral deliticiat ion of the measure. T'it- qutest itin reciurrinig onl Senator r \'est's anu,-ndnuienut,Senator Hoar moved tli t talelt it. A greed to-yeas 32, naysw Sin iniot itin of Senator Faulkner an go ;iiinitendenit was adioptedl strikinig out o' Ilhe clause giving thie chief supervisor u tof elect itiis power to transfer any su-a per'vistor tfrtain service ini one part of a 'tonigiessionital dlist rict to another part of thlt'same district. seiiattor Vest. (PIeredl an amendmentb i sI srike out thle clause permuittin g per- hi sin 'u htliiinig to be cit-izenis of the 'Uni i'd States to sign applications for sit per'v is,r oitf elect ions. ci Stiit orii lIt ar defended the lanigtuage ti '-eniat or Wi lcot t obijectedl that there e was nit lptiiiity o)fferedl to theo false tclaimoni it' it aian that lie was a citi zen. II le iinoved~ toP amenid the bill by a protviding t hi any person falsely claim- t ings to btle a citizeni of the U niited States g tr t , he a residenit or (iuliiied voter in :niyv apiplicaitioni shall be punilishied by U t'olntietit, tof niot moiire than two years ttr by tin- of not more than $lt,00,ors by bthl tine anid imprisonment. Tlhiis li ;ineciihnint was agreedl to. Seiiat trip lear iiovedl toi table Senator \'est's armendmiienit. Agreed to-yeas (emit or' cla gian oliftred as an amend ment. t i t'tiiit ini t the end of Section 4. a provisioni t hat, the chief suipervisor shall k'o'r p pt it ionIs andi( lists of~ names appen ',di-t tti t lhm openi for inispe2ction t int -xonina;tittn biy cit izens at all rea- oh sathh-2t huirs. 1P Sttnatotr Ili*a mioved'i that the amend- LI mnt be laid tiin ihe tabile, saying that a ill inaunyp ptart~ lit the country such a dh thig iinighit not bie safe. wn'iat tor moorhiees: "Is it the inten- [lI ion of' li h ill to keep secret aInd hid- T .1(1 atway .t iose resipnisible for putting y tIis iiahinry mi operation ?". '-ena:t torI loar: "T'lhe matter must be e ~ it' ettontrol of' thle Court.''" 'lh' vote' was t akein, the result being ci eoltio was aionthe table. TIhe r uollowiuig is the dletailedl vote. Yea'is' *Aldrich, Allen, Allison, Cam- R 'rtmn,('arev,( Casey, Culloim, Davis, Dix. ti on, lKdmmuids, Frye, llale, IIawley, 01 I hggmus, Iliscock, IIoar, McConnell, Si l e "! illain, Mlainderson, ilitchiell, Mor- ci rII. I'tlat t , Il'ower, Sandlers, Sawyer, gi lo!i'rinum, Shiouip, Stockbridge, 'Warren, tI \\ilsttn, of' Iowa.---30. N ays Senators lHarbour, Bate, Black b,tirn, ller, Carlisle, Cockrell, Coke, l-aulliuer, G ormnan, Gray, IHampton, 7I lharii, .Jone.s, oif Arkansas Kenna, Mc- S Il'hiersoni, Mlorgan, Pasco, Pugh, Quay,y Hansom, IHagan, Stewart, Tfeller, Tur plt, \Vance, \'orhees, Walthall, WVilson (if Mlaryland, Wolcott-30.0 '.The following were pairs: Chandler and liodgett, P'ettigrew and Call' t I )olph andt C'oluitt, Blair and Ger' Pierce andi( Gibson, Plumb and Vest.'h Senator Vanice moved to add to See- tI tioni 2 the wor'ds "and shall be sworm I to same." ft Senator Hoar agreed that Senator ince's amendment should be agreed Senator Vorhees gave notice of an iendment providing that the applica. m and names signed thereto be Pub lied in at least two newspapers of oP site politics im the Congressional dis et every day for one week preceding e appointment. Senator Hoar moved to strike out of etion 23 the words "return to house nvass." Agreed to. Senator Morgan offered a resoltution hich was agreed to) calling on the 3retary of the Treasury for copies of 3 accounts of Johm I. Davenport as rcuit Court commissioner from ishl; 1890. senator Aldrich gave notice that on esday lie would ask the Senate to >ceed to the consideration of the res ition to change the rules of the Seii 'Suppose the elections bill shall have right of way then ?" queried Senator )rgan. "Do you propose to displaco 'The Senate has my not ice," was the polse. "I suppose that tho() elections l will have passed by thav time." augh of incrediulity on t he 1)emocrat side.] "'Trhen, of course," Senator Morgan markod.with a sneer, "the change of e rules is not to apply to t Ihe elections LI, but to the apport ionment, bill and her such matters. The other amrrlit offered by mitor Hoar were agreed to without 1position, including one incereasiig om thirty to forty the nuinber of su rvisors of election in a dist ri. The 11 was then laid aside informally. The Senate then on motion of' Sena r 11oar, at 6 P. M. adjourned till onday at II A. M., after a continuous ssion of thirty hours. A School Room Muirder. SYRAcUSE, Jan. 21.-Wilbur F. lark walked into the public Bissett street Iblic school at I I o'clock this mioring, ( in the presence of forty pupils fired ice with a revolver at his wife Nellie, 'o is a teacher in the highwr depart mnt. Both shots took effect, one go g through her hand aid thbe ot her lodg g in the Ileshy part ofr hi hip. Bark then dropped their thirteen-mouths I child that lie had beenl carrying and irsied his victim, who ran into a hall y. She crouched under a stairway d begged for her life, but he fired ree more balls into her head. lIe then ran into the street, jiijmped to his cutter and rode finiisly away. e had not been capturd up to a lato mr last night, but hI Iw,ei traced %enty miles and the police are oily ilf an hour behind him. 'Iris. Iarker es in an Incoisciolls conldit ion, with ut little prospect for recovery. Barker is a handsome mn I i, il ty years hd and has been a sucesst til t raveling gent for a pIblishing hou.se. lie has een married three t imes. lIe married is present wife, who is only about tirty years old, two years ago last Oc )ber. lIe soon becam1e very jealous, ad her relatives say, entirely without lise. She finally took the child and* ft him. Barker's relatives sa:y t h at I h ey bel ieve3 3 isisane on aceunt ofl his extremely alous temperament. 'l'he disparity inl eir ages was the principal vais of e trouble between them. Shot Down in Ihe Rmad. SUT'Rt, S. C., Jan. 20.- Capt. John axcy was waylaid and murdered oi e road, about, tlbree Iiles froi his mie in tho tpper part or the counity, * night between 9 andi 10 o'clock. Ife td been to Sumter and was goig home me in a spring wagon, and ijist as ho ached a dark p)lace by a smiall stream e dleed was comnmitted. lie fell back irds on thie floor of the wvagon and the rse carried him on homse, anid after (ting into the yard thie wagon was fert urned and Capt. Maxcy was I birowvn poni the ground, whiere lie lay all night id was found by his family early this orm ng. lHe was not dead w~hien foutnd, butt died few minutes afterwards. A load of .tckshot was ired ito thle left sideO of is face anti head. Tl'wo negroes, named amp)ton Nelson and Ephrmaimt liutler, ith whom Cap)t. ANaxcy 1h- ' 'tad a dhihi lt.y about the violat ion t the Iicir con acts have beeni arrested oni suispiciont, it at this time, 8 1'. M. hiave ntot reach I Sumter. The people in the( viciniity of Capt. axcy's home are very jit cli aroused, id a gentleman frots there says that ere was strong pr'obabi dlit y t Iluat thie ne cs would be lynched before they ached Siumnter. Capt. Maxcy came to this count y from )lumbia a few years ago. lIeI was a iccessful planter anid was very popu)1 r.-News and Co)urier'. Michigan's Etectorat Vote GRAND ICAPtIDs, Mich., Jain, 19,-ln blition to stirengthening and extending e State election law with (lie purpose view of throwing additional s dfe atrds around (lie hallot, t he prIesenit ate Legislature will .consider a b>ill in aducodl by Itepresentative Joh l411a inor I)ctroit,, which pr'ovidles that thie 'esidential Electors corsakg e Congressmen shall b)e elceted. not on general ticket, but b)y Conigressional stricts, and (lie two at large on the neral ticket. Michiigani is etntitled to irteen votes iti (lie Electoral College. tere has never beeni a time when (lie emocrats could not carriy from two to ~ht Congressional districts in (lie ate, while under (lie presetit systeim of' oosing Elect,ors (lie vote (4f (lie State is always been lumped solidhy in vor of the fliepnblican canididatte by a using majority. TJhie State as a whole w~ouldl give a epublican majority, but the P'residen 11 vote failed t(o represet thec mnajority the commmiities that cotmposed (lie ate. In 1883, for instance, the D emno ats elected seven of the eleven Con essmnen, b)ut thie lIepub)licans carried te State by a narrow margin. A Farme.r Turns D)esperadoc. SirI ERMAN, Tex., JIan, 1(.-At, Mills, exas, 130 miles East of herec. George mith, a farmer, entered a milbon on Tednesday night and compelled seven Len at the point of' a revolver to hand rer their valuables. As lihe was leavinE os saloon, Jim Sibel, the towtn marshal red but missed him. Smith returned io shot and the bullet entered SibeP's sad. Sibel will die. Smith was cap tred, brought here and placed in jail. [e says that hard times and poor crops arced him tn beomea ro..ber.