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VOXI.PCES . C,. THRDY .?UE7 A BREEZY DAY, 7H.E 8ENATE FRAUD COMMITTEE MAKE8 ITS REPORT. Wa s Aainzius to Provent Any Fur; tier Invistigation of the sugar Trus !Y01gt, bot His Plan@ Miscarried. NiWIIINOTON, May 80.-At one lock p. m. in the Sen ite yesterday Gray .ose and said that ho had been tireced' by the select committee ap ted on the 17th of May, to make a tal report and be asked that it be eAd. li11l said that before makfng any ob tot4on,be would like to know from the rebator from'Delaware what the pro gramme was. Gray replied that ie had no pro, gramme other than indicated in the eport. The committee had submitted preport which 'it considered as one of e highest privileges, and he supposed ere was no question that the report as in order at any time. It concerned the privileges of the Senate and be 'akfd that the report be read in order *lt the Senate might determine ether it was a question of privilege 'nMot. 11111: In the light of the explanatior of the Senator from Delaware, or rather in the light of the explanation Which be does not giveI am compelled at this time to object to the receptior of that report. Gray: I make the point of order that a report concerning the privileges of the Senate is one entitled to present consideration and is not subject to ob Jection. Manderson coincided with the view expressed by Gray and argued that the chair or the Senate could not-determine whether it was a quest ion of privilege unless t he report was Pead The presiding ofilcer (Faulkner) ex pressed the opinion that the Senatoi q from Nebraskt was right. The report was then read. It con sists of five printed pugfs, some of it being quotations from that part of the testimony where answers were refueed A portion of the testimony was als< submitted to the Senate. It relaLei that. Ebisha J. Ed wards appeared before the comntittee May 24th, and stated that he was a correspondent of the SPhiladelphia Press and wrote the letter signed "B olland,"relativc, to the doinge of the sugar trust and certain Senators It appears from this report that the specific questions Mr. Ed wards reruset to auswer were those at.king him wh< informed him of Mr. C0rlisle's recent visit to the committee on flnance, wber he, as Mr. Edwards alleged, made ar appeal to the Democratic members it February, that appeal being supposed to have reference to a du;.y on sugar. The committee states that it over ruled the objections of Judge Ditten hotifer, Edward's counsel and insistet upon an answer to the questions These g uestions sought to ascertait the authority for the #tatment thal Carlisle signfled his willingness himaell to prerare an amendment to the sugal scheduleOwhich -he thought would bc tair to the government and yet just tc the sugar intereste; who gave the in. formation concerning the alleged in terviev' s between officers of the sugar trust--Havemeyer, the New York sui ar refiner, Senator Brics and Senato, mith; who was his informant that or the day Voorhees denied any amend ments were proposed to the bit as originally reported to the Senate, thE list of 400 amendments as prepared by Senator Jones, was in the hands of ont of the members of the brokerage fir: of Moore % -chley; that the draft o1 the sugar schedule as finally adopted was the result of a conference betwee, Senator Catlery and representatives o: the trust meeting in ore room of th< Capitol building, while the comnmitte4 was in session in another. All of thesa * questions, the committee says, Ed wvards, acting upon the advice of hi counsel, refused to answer. Referring to the testimony of Jobi Shriver, correspondent of thbe Nov York Mail and Express, the committe quote from Shriver's letter detaili what a prominent wire imnufacture. was alleged to have 'overheard at th4 Arlington H ote in a talk~ between cor tin Senators and representatives o thesugar trust. Shriver said a membe: of Congress gave rdm the informatiot and the conmmittee say that in responsi to the direct questiot', lhe declined ti give the name of either the Congress man or the wire manufacturei', ti whom he referred in his news dis patches. In conclusion the committee say: Ii the opinion of the commnittee eacd question put to these witnessej was a proper question and pertinent to the question uinder inquiry before the corn mittee and wats necessary to trake th< -examination ordered by said resolutiot of the Senate, and thbat each of the sal witnesses is in contempt of the' Sen~ati and merits to be dealt With for his mis conduct, and that each of said witness -ea by his various refusals to answe these que stions as herein set forth ha violated the provieions of that certail act of Jongress in such cases made ani - providled,being chapter 7 of the revisei statutes of the United States. The committiee quotes in full section 102. 108 and 104 of the revise d statuttem being the act of 1857 as published il these dispatches of .3esterday. The closing words of the report ar as follows: "Wherefore tho comnmittee reques that the president of the Senate certif as to each witness his aforesaitd failur to testify and his aforesaid refusals tt answer all the facda herein, under lh seal of thbe Senate to the United State District A ttorney for the District 01Cc * lumbma~ro the end that ecat of said wit nesses may be proceeded against ib .mannea and form provided by law." T 'heresia no reference to the case o IHarry WalkeP, corresponuenit of thi New York D~aily America. When the reading of the report wa concluded, [Hiii took thea floor and ar guei that the report did( not presen suc a question of privileg e as ahoe dls ace the pending bill, If the repor -ha een on the pattof the inquir (the attempt to br ihe the two Senators it would have beenm a question of thi highest privilege, but that report ha< been already made and diapnsed of But the secon#l part, of the inqu iry-a to whether Senators had been specula t ing in sugar stock-did not involve question or crime, although it migi involve a question of impropriety. Ilarris interrupte'd Hill with a ques tion of ordler and argued that the re port presented no quston fo n. a tion by the Senate. There was no que tion for the Senate to vote upon, an( therefore no question for the benate t debate. There was a statute which do volved a duty on the Ohair on the pro sentation of ti. report and the chal alone could act Apon it. 11111-regardless of Harris's point o order-went on with his own argumen and 0ae, after a while, again inter rupted by Harris, who asked the ruling of the chair on his point of order. The Vice President, who hadiresume the chair, made the followinit ruling "This Is a privileged report, and it if not such a report as calls for any ac tion on the part of the Senate. Tht only action called for by this report if the action of the presiding officer. Tha Is, the decision of the chair. The ques tion before the Senate is the amend meLt of the Senator of Kansas (Peffer to the lmber schedule of the tarif bill." Hill appealed from the decision of th Vice President and argued that the Senate had a right-to direct the presid ing officer not to proceed further in tif matter until after further action of th Senate. The statute in question wa loosely and carelessly drawn. But th Senate had complet jurisdiction of th latter until the last moment. The Sen ate might see fit to direct that the cer titicate provided for in - the statut should not be transmitted to the die trict attorney; and It had complete ju risdiction over the matter. He had n( sort of interest, he said, personal o otherwise, in the investigation. It wa proper enough that the Senate shouli investigate the charge of bribery - bu the report on that question had beei presented, and that portion of the wor had been substantially completed. H4 doubted the wisdom of the other pr< ceeding. le doubted the propriety o endeavoring to Und out whether news paper men always told the truth. I the Senate undertook that great wor it would be kept busy until the end o time. S&nators could speculate in si gar stock or in silver or in any oth( kind of stock, and would violate no las in doing so. Why does the committe not call these Senators instead of pei secouting these newspaper correspond ents, whio dd not pretend that the have any personal. knowledge of th subject? Why seek out those correi pondents and then invoke the power o this great government to make thei tell thesources of their confidential in formation-when the very people abot whom they speak are in the city < Washington and can be summoned an compelled to testify. The real question ias not what thee correspondents said, but what were t exact facts. That was what the publ wanted t9 know. And nobody object to the committee finding it out, to I heart's content. If a newspaper ma who had written something as to spe ulations in sugar was on the stand an sqld that he wrote it in good faith an had derived his information from cot I fidential sources, why, Mr. Hill asked . should he be pressed on that point ii stead of having, the parties calle against whom the charge was present ed ? "How are we to ascertain," aske Allen, "who they are, when the wil nesses refuse to disclose their names o the sources of their informatiof?" "Swear them all, if you have an doubt about it," Hill replied, with snap; and the galleries applaudt d, an( were rebuked by the presiding office for such a breach of propriety. "8o long as you have," lill went on "entered upon this inquiry-fooliablj in my judgment-it is your duty to ex haust it and .to go to the bottom. I .you have seen fit to investigate mer idle newspaper charges; not founded o: affidavits, not founded on persona knowledge, then carry it out, and d not simply take the newspaper met who strarted the i quiry. There is n objection to swearin~g every Senate around the circle. If any newspape man bad circulated a story which rn ilected on my honor and integ ity as Senator, and if the Senate had seen 11 to enter on an investigation ot this sor and if the newspaper man disclaime on the stand, all personal knowledge d the matter, I should be the next wit nesto becalled. I do not think it we wise to have entered on to this branc of the itquiry, but the committee hai ,ing entered upon it should follow it u Two of those newspaper men are real dents of my State and represent news -papers published in my State, and tha is one reason why I desire to presen these suggestions in their behalf. Th other reason is, because I think the the Senate is treading on ground o which it ought not to tread. I thin t har, no good will come of the investi gation in thus seeking to persecut these men. Thirdly, 1 deny the rigb iof the .presiding officer, without any ri tion of this body, to certify th efaci to the district attorney of the Distrit and fourth ly, I believe it is within Lb control'of the Senate to say whethe this prosecution or persecution shall g 1 arny farther in that direction. I desie to offer a resolution on this subjei - arid I withdraw the appeal in regard t one part or the ruling of the chair." rilarris objected to a part only c 3 lHil'a appeal being withdrawn and ale to the reception of I1111's resolutiot I but, 11111 continued to bold the floor an Iread~ the resolution which he desired I off'er: "Thiat the questions aske d all a refused to be answered are not pert: , nent fo the inquiry and that the presih i ug~ oilleer b~e requested giot to certif thesaime to the district Atttorney unt Ei further direction of the Senate." The resolution was not receive d, an t H11ll's appe .1 from the decision of tt chair was laid on the table. 'or'y Paucpi tJrJ Jured. 3 MACON, Ga., May 30.-The rsi coau a on the Albany and CJolumbi branch of the South Western Riilroa o)1 Geom. wsoetredb rk rail at Hot ti orreng and op 1)1e were injured, two or three of' whoi will in all probability die, The tra consisted of sax coaches loaded with ey curslonists from Andersonville, to a' - 'end Decoration Day exercises at ti Nitional Cemetery. T'hofte latally ih I jured are: John Smith of Bluffton, ini Johnes of E'lison, and Mrs. Little illton, Ga. N'one of the others a thought to be seriously injured. A bol 1,000 peole were on the train, ea( concn ol which was crowded almost I suffocation. The derailed coach rollr down a steep) emb~nkment and it le miracle that many were not killed oul rIght, as it contained over 100 peopli many of whom were standing at Lil time of the accident. Owing to the ot scure locality of the wreck, full partie lars cannot. be gaisned un~t lter INDUSTRIAL CONGRESS. THE MEETING OF THE SOUTHERN IM r MIGRATION CONyENTION. Speeches of Weloome-Autusta as 0n Example-What Governor Tillman Had to Say-Intent on nueines-The Dete gates all Hopeful. . * AUSTA, May 80.-The Southern Industrial Immigration Congress open i ed auspiciously in Augusta today. It I was called to order at noon in the grand opera house by President Bryan of Nashville, who introduced Mayor J. II. Alexander of Augusta, who wel comed the congress on the part of the city. Mayor Alexander's speech was full of interesting historical facts about Au gusta. He said: "Augusta is the oldest inland city in the South Atlantic States, and was the ) second eatablished by Oglethorpe. This ) city, before the days of railroads, being the furtherest inland city with river navigation to the sea, south of Vir ginia, was the point of communication with the outer world of all that territo ry embraced in Northern Alabama, East Tennessee, Western North Caro. r lina, North Georgia and South Caro a lina. Here all this vast section came i in wagons to trade. t "I have been told by old citizens, who k saw with their own eyes, that in the C fall and winter it was not uncommor 3 to see our capacious Broad street so closely packed with wagons that one f mi ht step from one to another for a Mile or mo.1e. f "This city is mentioned in contempo raneous history in 1740, five years after f the settlement was planted, as already 'in a state of great prosperity well r equipped for trade and conducting an v extensive traffic throughout the vast 8 and fruitful tributary country.' It was here that Eli Whitney conducted his experimental works and, in 1793, devel. V oped the cotton gin, one of the most 8 famous industrial inventions of the world, wnich immediately revolution f ized the agriculture of this section a from tobacco and indigo to cotton as its staple crop. In 1791, the whole cot t ton crop of the South was thirty-eight f bales. In 1800,seven years after Whit. d ney's gin apoeared,Georgia alone ex ported over 7,000 bales. 0 "We have here the oldest public jour. e nal in the South, the Augusta Chroni c ble, estaulished in 1785 and published A continuously since that time. We have ;s the oldest incoporated educational in n stitution in the South, the Richmond Academy, established by act of the d Legislature of Georgia in 1783. We d have the second oldest completed rail road in the country-the South Caro , lina road, running from Onarieston to Augusta, and preceded only by the C Uamden and Amboy railroad in New Jersey." I Following Mayor Alexander, Hon Joseph R. Lamar, president of the r Young's Men's Business League of Au gus'a,which secured the convention for V this city, welcomed the congress. and i followed with more valuable ~facts con I cerning the Augusta of today. Taking simply the official census figures for 1890, he showed that Augusta had in creased in the number of manufactu ring establishments in the past decade 633 per cent.; in capital employerl 275 f tier cent., and in wages paid of 80 per per cent.; and that it had spent more 1 money for public improvements than 1 any other city in the South, and had the lowest death rate in the South. I Governor Northern welcomed the ) congress on the part of Georgia, and r gave a glowing picture of her progress r and thrift. H~e declared the readiness of - Georgia to welcomie industrious immi 4 grants,who came to cast their lot here. t Senator Patrick Walsh, whose home t is here, welcomed the cougress and ex Stended them the privileges of the Corn mercial Club, of whIch he is president. He said the assembling of thirteen S Southern States reminded him of that 1 first convention of the thirteen origi -nal States to declare their independ @ ence. The present movement is to for - mulate plans by which this most favor - ed section could enlarge its citiaenship t and work out its material independ t ence. He thought the occasion moat e auspicious and the outlook very bright t for the success of the congress. 1 Responses to the addresses of wel C come were made by Governor MacCor - kle of West Virginia, Governor Carr of 5 North Carolina and Governor Tillman t of South Carolina. Governor Tillman declared it was well enough to invIte 8 people and capital from the outside, t and all that came would be welcome, e but for every dollar of outside capital r the Southern people must expend ten Sof their own, if they were in earnest e3 about desiring to build up the South. The future of this section, he said, de 1) pends on the efforts of our own peo ple, and what the Southern farmers f need most is an immigration of ideas o) and intelligent agricultural methods. I, Southern farmers would never prosper ci as long as they sperst six months in 0 the year trying to kill the grass in their d fields and the next six months in buy. - ing hay from Maine and Northern 1- States. V At the conclusion of the address of i1 welcome and the responses, President Bryan addressed the convention, Hie I explained the need for immigration InI e the Southern States by contrasting thel population per square mile of some of the States as follows: Massachusetts 287, Kentucky,whicb is the most dense hr ly populated of the Southern States,49; SIthodle Island, 264; Texas, 8. Hie showed the materIal advance which has taken place in thie South, and call ed1 attet'ion to the fatct that education al advantages were kee ping .pace, the increase having been 100 per cent. in Sthe p -at decade, in appropriations by Southern Stales for this purpose, last year being over 16,000. TIhe total val IS no Of s'chool property in the South is $10,000,000; number of t eachers, 84,000; y willie pupils, 2,250,000; negro pupils, if 1.150 000; pupils in private schools, 800, -e 000; in parochIal schools, 40,000. H~e t thought the time was ripe for the im h .l mration movement in the South and o believed that by patriotic and united Sefforts on the part of the Intelligent. men composing the congress some wise and practical plan would be adopted. At the afternoon session, permanent organizttori was effected by the re *election of P'resident M. T. Bry an, of Tennessee arnd Secret try 1B. F. Eiott - of Fliorida. It was decided that, eachi State represented should vote according g9 to its vote In the electoral college, and A aaoh territory have one vote. The credentials committee reported represented in the congress the follow. M Lng States and TerrItories: Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona District of Colum bia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mary land, Missouri, Mississippi, North a Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West VirginIa, and Texas; tooether with the leading railroad sys tems of the South. To a committee on resolutions will be referred, without debate, all resolu tions offered. It is composed of four from the South at large and one from i each State and territory. h All details of organization and the order of business having been gotten through today, the congress will begin r on its practical work tomorrow. Just p what line of action will be taken no body seems yet to know. There ap pears yet to be no preconceived scheme s to cerry out. Everybody seems to be at the point where he believes the time 6 is ripe for a concerted movement in the interest of Southern immi gration, and to believe that it is a good t thing to undertake. But just how it - is to be done, is yet to be determined by the convention. Governor Tillman of South Carolina b probably expressed the sentinents of t the majority of the delegates present when he declared that he had no plan i of his own, but had come to the con- I vention to put his shoulder to any I wheel that started in the right direction and to do all in his power to check any that he saw starting wrong. le has no pet scheme of his own, but is ready to cooperate earnestly in any that promises to accomplish the objects of the immigration movement. INJURED BY THE COLD. The Weekly Bulletin of the Weather and the Crops. COLUIBIA, S. C., May 31.-The fol lowing is the weekly bulletin of the condition of the weather and crops about the State issued yesterday by Observer J. W. Bauer, of the State weather service. The weather was unusually cool dur ing the past week, the variation below the normal temperature ranging from fve degrees a day on the coast to seven in the interior and from eight to nine in the western part of the State. The nights were very cool. Light frosts were very general in central and west ern counties, on low lands, on the 20th and 21st and reported from one place on the 25th. Ice formed in upper Greenville county, and Hog Back mountains were covered with snow on the morning of the 20th. The sun shine was also dilcient, averaging from 55 to 70 per cent. of the possible, for the whole State. The rainfall was also less than the usual amount and that that fell was very poorly distribu ted. No particular portion of the State was favored more than any other, but. what heavy rain there was came in heavy showers that covered limited areas only, while adjacent townships had no rain or only sprinkles. In general the southeastern, extreme northeastern, the north central and ex treme- western counties had the great est rainfall. In a few places hall dam aged young crops seriously. High winds were prevalent and caused more or less damage in the early part of the werk. The effect of those unfavorable weat her conditions has been not only to check all apparent growth but in many instances to give crops a Eet back or to kill stands sufficiently to necessitate much replanting, especially of cotton. Before the cold weather set in cotton was louking far better than usual at this seasun of the year, but that condi tion has been materially changed for the worse, and at the end of the week there la a remarkable unanimity in the reports regarding the injury which was caused by the cold weatner. The plant is less injured in some localities than others, and less on upland soil than in bottom lands. It looks red and sickly every where. In places the frost killed the tender plant outright; In other places the leaves only were touched. Some correspondents report that the plant is shedding its leaves leaving only the green stalk standing. A few reports estimate the damage at 50 per cent., which is by tar too great for the whole State, and should their come a warm general rain within a few days much of the stand now thought to be destroyed would take on a new growth. it is generally stated that the crop was thrown back from ten to fifteen days. The week was favorable for plowing and chopping and the fields are report ed quite clean. Much planting has al ready been done and much more will be done the coming week. Corn withl stood the cool weather much better than almost any other crop and is look ing well, but has made no apparent growth during the week. Bud worms continue to be destructive, also some cut worms. Melon, pea and sweet po tato vines suffered considerably from the frost and their condition deteria ted during the week, except in favored localities. Gardens and truck farms were also unfavorably affected. Oats harvest quite general and reports differ widely as to the condition of the crop, ranging from very good to almost to tal failure. The former estimate of half a crop being a fair average of all the statements. Wheat ripening rap idly arnd nearly every county reports varying conditiorts. The stra w will be generally short, heads short but well tilled and very plump. GIrasses ber ries and the little fruit left, shiow a slightly improved condition. Farmers will advance with thleir work. The need for rain is almost general over the State. The following places report one incsh more of rainfall during t he past week: Looper, .26;3eaufort, 1.15; Port Royal, 2 51; liid. 1 00; Heath 8 jdngs, 1.50; Green wood, 1.22. FVimfen 1(esr SPARLTANBURLO, S. C., M!ay 26.-Lou Parrid, who stabbed a young, .man to whlom she had been Bngaged and killed him at Saluda in April, was arraigned for trial yesterday at Hlendersonville. Iher attorney entered a plea of gu'ilty of murder in the second degree and asked for the leniency of the court in passing the sentence. Judge Boy kin sent her to the peiitenriary for fifteen years. S3he is abouit 17 years old now and she was said to be a pretty tough case. rhe railroad and all the travel and tarillo thereon failed to soften her character. When arrested and carried to jail the constabled suggcestedi to the sheriff that ho should search her person. A danger our knife was found concealed in her hair.--rannville News. PROHIBITION APPEAL. o re RS. CHAPIN WRITES TrO GOVER - NOR TILLMAN. 179 that the Bar room Element is &gain Taking Charge of Affairu-Tho Law Ought to be Enforced-Utaroilna'a Men A lo Called On. COLUMWIA, S. C., May 30.-The roman's ChristIan Temperance Union c as made an appeal to Governor Tillman do what he can to aid in the en Force- r( taut of the prohibition law and also ap- C eals to the men of the State to do like C rise. The appeal is as followb and n peaks for itself: s CHARLESTON, S. C., May 22. V 'Governor Tillman: f "The members of the Woman's Chris. 0 an Temperance Union o f Charleston r o most earnestly entreat you not to re ix your efforts for the protection of our omes and dear ones from the destruc ton that now seems to threaten them in I he return to license and the restoration I o power of the rum fiends. Newspa ears which a few months ago preached ?rohitition so eloquently that many eally beheved they mean.t what they reached are now advocating license, A1High license with restrictions" as ;bough the restrictions they propose have not been a dead letter on our stat.. Lite books for years, scoffed at and delled by the lawless crowd which they propose to restore to office. "South Carolina, the Palmetto State, in the liquor traffic,"l has been a rallying cry [or the anti-Dispensary host. and and now, no sooner have the Dispensa ries been closed than these very people advocate forming a new P irtuership with "The Palmetto State,' which they had taught us to believe they held so spcred, as chief partner in the firm of Van .Uucket shop & Co. "When the Evans bill was passed in [892 we wished it had been prohibition mud felt dreadfully over it, but when we :ead the bill and found it propose(i to I .lose every open barroom in the State mnd allow liquor sold only by responsi - ble persons, whose choracters had Lo be Bndorsed by a majority of persons in their ward or town, as the case might be, and who were pledged under oat i not to sell to minors, drunkards, or any one ander the Influence ( fliqu >r and to Ke ep a record of all sales madt', which would at all times be open to inspection; tie li quor sold in the Dispensaries was to be analyzed by the State Chemigt tu in. sure its purity, an( the places i'i which it was sold were to be closed alt. 6 , 'clock ant' kept closed on theStibhatb; the New York Tribune pronounced It "i*r-niclad prohibition," and we fell, that it was only one step from it. So we itve it, our encourmt ement, and tupport and (es pite of threats from harkeepers, and only niscouragemeut, from those whom we had a right to exoect would have stood by us, we have held the fort, working %nd prayi;ig for prohibition. Some are #.ajoicing that IL has come, not in our umy, however, where the dens of im)qui v ire all open, even on Siodays. We tre still hoping, pravine, walting. When the Supreme Court decided that the Dis pensary bill was unconstitutional many were inclined to think as Jicob did, 'All hese things are a2ainst me'; but we know better. The Dispetiary had done the work God in.ended it to do. This tight, is a battle between the Devil and( his allies and our great, King and If is fol lowers, tand unless we p'rove tralitors we must win with the victory, fori "'Our God is within the shaidowi Keepliig watch ablovo 1lI3 own.' The Dispensary proved that, with a man of courage at the head of allairs, I'or laws could be enforced, if not, ab solutely at first, fully as well as laws against burglary, murder or any other crime. Puolic barrooms were most cer tainly closed and that in despite of the combIned ellorts of all classes of p eople who gave encouragement andl actually brought into prommtence the lowest class of people because they dared to (lety the law. You have shown whiatan immense revenue accrues from the sale of whiskey but, you have told us your "object, is not reeu, and we believe you are too true a man to sell the right of way inito our homes and barter our b-sys 'to the foreign rum seller for- reven'ue, "When for our cause all hope) wvas lost., And every heart was tempeI~st tossedl, W~hien homes in ashets rounud us hay And o'or us beamed no0 chiering ray, When (c'en ouir biravest were utnimnnd, Andr waves of woo w uvedl o'er the land Your Sou therni wVoen c!heckedt each te'ar And offered nothinug butt words of cheer.'' "And now we come to the mna of Carolina, particularly to those who make and enf'orce otir laws, and entreat you to protect the homis we took care of (lur ing the war. 'Ihome is our kingdomn, you say, but we are powerlesa to defend It. You put into the hands of the vilest ofl~scourimg of creation a weapon "Fir mner set than hutleis or than bayonet,"' with which to attack our homes and 'lea. troy our dearest. ones. Your protection you say is all suflicient. God grant it, may be so In thi., case, for we are stand ine ballotless, utterly unable to defend our homtes and we appeal to the meni of our State for help in this timne of threat eiied destruction. Iu you dto not hel p us now and the destros era of uur homes get into po ver again, the wives aind moth ers of our State will have againi to Qo, as they have gone in the past, Into the rum shops at ight and on their kees plead with brutal barkeepers, who, wi ii curses, haye thurst themi inato the street. '-We want p)rohibitioni, absolute pirobi bition, with(us! any 'Ohtauses' exemp jting~. wine, beer or any lhquor as a bever.igo. "Atlanta's experience is an objact, lesson ho us. Men who solemnly swore not to sell spirituous l'quora 800n per jured themselves, and as an excuse for openinge their barrooms on Sundju ke pt a menagerie andl made the excuse 'They had to feed the animals.' I can never forget, Mr. Grady's look as he prophtesied what exactiy came to pass. "Let us be warud by Atlanta's expe rience to make no compromise with the horrid traffic, for the divmne cond1emna tion rests upon any niatton or govern ment which legaliaes evil. "framne h mis lef by law and justifies the wicked for ward.' With great respect.. Mus. SALTHr F. CIrAPIN, State President of South Carolloa. T Mus. T. P. DE.GAFFIREI.LY, President of' Charleston Woman's iristian Temperance Union. OUR SOLDIERS AND SAILORS. aveiiingof the Monumout II, Momory of thd r Valor. RICHtMOND. Va, May 30.-The exer sea incident to the unveiling of the i onument to Confederate soldiers and 1 flors began today with the cavalry iunion. Fitz Lee, Vade Hampton, a overnor O'Ferrell, the Rev. J. William I ones and Gen. Rosser made speeches. d cn. Roser was bitter in his arraign. ient of the United States pension Fstem. The exercises of the day passed off t rithout a hitch, notwithstanding the o aict that quite a heavy rain fell during imost the whole time of the renditon f the programme at the monument. lie r arade ot military commands and I ,onfederate veterans was the finest I ver seen here, with the exception of ( hat at the time of the unveiling of the ( iee monument. The column was an iour and a quarter passing a given )int. A noble feature of it was a body >f several hundred children dressed in aon federate colors-red white and red. Cheae headed the line. The number of veterans was a3 great probably as at the Lee monument un reling, and the presence in the ranks )f Wade 11ampton, Fltz Lee and other ieroes of the "Lost Cause," was the )ccasion of enthusiastic cheering all al. ng the line of march. The city was 3rowded with visitors from other points in Virginia and Southern States, .he number being conservati vely esti flated at 25,000. The Maryland delegation of veteraus, eaded by Gen. Bradley T. Johnson, vas large and imposing. That from Washington city was also conspicuous n the parade. A delegation from Char eWt on carried branenes of palmetto in heir hands. North Carolina was re >resented by Adjutant General Cane on and several companies of State Iuards, and Sout.h Carolina by several ompanies of State troops. The Vir :ina Volunteers made a remarkably inn sho wing. Business was almost entirely sus wnded during the day, the banki, ex .hanges and State and municipal offilces eiog closed. Almost without excep. ion, t he houses on the line of march were prof usetv d.corated with the Con federate aud Virginia colors, so that , he parade was through lanes of bunt Ing. "Od Glorly" was by no means ab sent, h, wtever, being often intertwined with other colors and ilyiug from almost every flag staff. At the monument the progamme was cayried out is arranged. Mr. D. C. Richardson, presi't-nt of the Moun iimital Association, filled the post of chairman with ability and modesty; there was a praer by the Rev. Dr. [loge, Mr. A C. Grdon reud his poem, written for ihe occasion, and the R-v. Mr. Cave of 8r,. Louls then made the ,ddress of the day. On the conclusion of the address, the veil wuas withdrawn jy a little boy and a little girl, repres uf ing respectively the army and the xavy and ihere was a salutA by artil cry and infantry, lasting some time md walking the echoes or the James is of yore. Toneight camp fires and iecial reunions are 1he order, )rder, and the city is alive with hle strains of music from military hands serenading here and Ihere. Triad tis Swindio (CIIAuLESTrON, S. C., May 30.-An im )ortant. and interesting case was tried in the United States circuit court at LDharleston, S. C., Judge hirawley pre liding, on May 17, involving the sup. pression, for the present, at least, of a proposed forger, who also served a term in the penitentiary for forgery; and at so involving tne princip~le that the United States mails cannot be used for the purpos of fraud, even if the prepet rator may not ilnally consummate his schemes and become the beneilciary ofI his fraud or proposed fraud. One F. A. IBlackwood. writing over the hicti l ions signature of WV. D). Morris, Sr., addressed the American Bank Note company, at New York, asking them to furnish him with a supply of South ern express money orders. ie alleged that his uncle was an agent of the Southern Express company, and had lost a lot of' money orders, and they were ashamed to make loss known to Company and he wished to have prices quoted by the hundred, the object being to obtain a supply of blank money or diers b~y this subterfuge. At the same time he was~ negotiating by mail with the Cole Printing company, of Sanford, N. C., with a view to obtaining checks on sundry banks and letter heads with the name of C. L. Loop, general audi tor, Sounthern Express comnpany, pirint. ed thereon, The American Bank Note company promptly referred the corres. ponadence received by them to General Auditor Loop, of t he Southern Exprest company, who placed the matter in the hands of Route Agent A. M. Richard son, of the same comp~any, at Columbia S. C., who succededx in locating the all ege-d W. D). Miorris as one F. A. Bllack wood. Bilackwooit was arrested upon I warrant sworn out biy F?. D. Peer, post flice inspector, who rendlered matera ser vice in working up and prosecuting thme case. lBlackwood was takena beforl the United States commissioner ii Charleston and committed for trial l'he witnesses againsrt Blakwood weri 'T. I I. Lee, of the American Bank Notb company of New York; C. L. L'ooo, the general auditor of the SouthmernjFxprei cornpany; tihe post masteor at Barn well S. C , ane others. TVhe guilt of Bilack woodi was estabiished so clearly thal 'here could be no doubt whatever iack w >od w.IS prosecuted by Uite i States Ditric At~torney M-trphy ann hits a?)lt, assistants, Messrs Wo ed and Hlughei. A very forcible airgumet wias made la the case by District At l.orney Murphy. iliack Nvood was ably3 dfenided by R. Withers Memmiinger, of the Charleston bar. An able and elaborate charge was dolived by Juldge lirawley, in which the law of the case was carefully set forth, arnd the duty of (lie jury iin the considerat ion of then evidence and the atpplicabilit y of then la w carefully set forth. The- jury, after retiring for a short. time,~ returna-dia verdiact of guilty. Blatck wood was sen tenced by Juiidg e 11rawley to imprison maent in the Columbus, 0., penitentiary for a term or one year anda one month and to pay a ine of 8500. 1ID NOT SATISFY TYIEM. ILLMAN AND BUTLER'S LETTERS COMMENTED UPON. hoy Do Not Suit "Alliancens,'' who P#roceq d to Show Wherein They are Me taken in Diisenting Fron Any of the Anliance Demande COLUMBIA, S. C., May 31.-The Co imbia Reglster of this morning pub shes the following letter, which is the trongest kick yet made against Gov. 'ilman's attitude towards the Alliance emands: 1hditot Register: The answers of enator Butler and Governor Tillman ) the questions propounded to them by rder of the State Alliance brings the Lillance face to face with a crisis. 'tiey are the only avowed candidates or U. S. Senator. Both of them are oractically in the same boat and neith ir is in full accord with the demands if the Alliance. Bloth of them gag at ,he same two of our demands. Sena ,or Butler thinks the subtreasury is un lonstitutional and of course it never >ccurred to the learned Senator that the Constitutton might be amended. lie says the subtreasury has been aban doned, but fails to give the time and place when it was abandoned. Ile can see no way of the government owning arid operating railroads except by the government buying thosealready in existence Of course it has never occurred to the versatile Senator that the government has the right to build and equip such roads as are needed. Millions of laborers would be glad of the job at very reasonable wages to be paid in legal tender greenbacks-build iug two, turee or ilve thousand miles a year. 0h, no; the Senator is too good a railroad attorney to see any other way )f having government railroads except )y purchase of his client's property at 'normously inillated valuation of wa ;ered stock. But the people have been Lhitking along this line a little in the uterest of the pe-iple rather than of h.e railroad wreckers and mmanipula Gors. G 'vernor Tillman, on the other iand, objects to the ownership of rail roads on the ground of wisdom and practicability, but be can advocate and fight for this along with the other de iantis. To the subtreasury demand he is "unalterably opposed." Ilia reason seems to be that it is identical with the national baniing principle, ie says too that the Alliance is inconsistent in this demand. It would seem that the Governor has shitted his position some what on this p iint. In 1891 he on jected to the subtreasury oecause it was "paternalism run mad," noi he objects to it because it is like the na tional banking system. It seems strange that a man of such splendid abilities should make so egregious a mistake. The only poinrs of resem blance between the sub'.rasary and the natilonal bArking system are purely su perticial. Under the national oauking system the government farms out to the banks the function of issuing mon ey, thus giving to a thousand or two individuals the right to issue or with hold the circulating menium at wil. Under the subtreaeury idea the gov vrnment itself issues the money-not to a few thouand plutocrats, not mere Ip to holders of cotton and wheat nor yet necessarily to farmers exclusively, but issues it direct to the masses of the people upon such security as the people can give. He says he is in favor of the government issuing money direct to the people. When he considers the proposition in all its bearings, he will see that there is no other way of get ting it to the pecople. lie says ha did not oppose the incorporation Alliance demands Into our State Desmocratic platform in'92. It was currently reported at the time that the Governor did oppose this in the Reform platform caucus as contra to his judgment, but coupled his pro test with the sound Democratic senti--. ment that if "my people won't go with me I will go with them." Hie accepted this platform and represented South Carolina D~emocracy on itat, Chicago. So much for the viewa ol' these candi dates for U. S. Senator. The all impor tant practical question is what are we going to (do? These gentlemen claim to be hon ost, and we must concoed their claim. It would not be right to question their honesty or abuse them because they honestly differ with us. We must grant them all the right to free thought and speech that we de mand for ourselves; but we h'ive a right to protect our honest convic tions from being shut in to choice be tween two men almost eqlually opposed to us. Ilow shall we protect ourselves? 1. By protesting against a box for UT. S. Senator mi the August primary, and if' one is provided over our protest, then refrain from voting in that box 2. We should see that in catechising candidates her the Legislature no can didate is iequired to commit himself f urther than to vote for a U. .S. Senator who is In full accord with our deminds 3. See to it when the State con ven ven tion meets that the platform of 18912 is reallirmed. What is here presented is not to be construed as in oppositIon to Governor Tilman. Every IReformner in the State would be proud to honor him, where it Idid not involve sacrifice of principle, We could even wish he might see thing as we see them; we must even comn mend his candor in de'claring his oppo-. - ition to our conviction. But being equally honest in our convictions, we are' bound to follow them with the same hit-lity and cargior that we con cede t o him AILLIANCEMEN. May 80, 1891. A alsd 0,t. GALLTPOLIS, 0 , May 27..-Miss Ela Ilarris was attaucked by a huge house cat, anid her screams 'iroumt. to her as sistance Jake Copenhave, who gave the cat a vicious kick, whein the infuriated animal attackedi hlm fastening its teeth and claws in his ieg, terribly lacerating it. CJopenhave t rl-d his best to share it off, and then fInding he could not he then alt~zei it by the hbroat and tried to choke it to deatni. Failing in this he drew his pocketknife and literally severed its head from its body, and even then he had to Lake a spike and pry the oat's teeth apart before he could release its hold. In slashing at the cat Copenniave cut his rig'it arm severely and a physician was sent for, who pronlouuced his wound very Se ious, as the cat was sufferiug from rabies