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XXL?NEW SERIES. ' UNION C. H., SOUTH CAROLINA, AUGUST 29, I8W NUMBER 35. ? ? * " 1 " TUBS TO THK WHALE. 8 CONGRESSMEN IN A HURRY TO PASS AGRICULTURAL BILLS. ? I The Committee on Rules Plies the Whip? s Cl Much Legislation to be Rushed Through g ?The Agricultural Colleges Liberally ^ Provided For. j Washington, I>. C., Aun. 19.?The r House to-day tabled a motion to recon- c aider the McKay bill, so it is finally J passed. Then Cannon, from the Com- y v mitteeon Rules, reported a resolution | V. setting apart to-day, Wednesday, * Thursday, Saturday and Tuesday and * Wednesday of.nex t weekforconslde^*1 i on which shall be considered as order- ? ed after two hours' debate. The next 1 to be taken up is the bill providing for 1 the inspection of meats for exportation t and it shall be voted on after two 1 hours debate. Then the lard bill shall t be taken up and a vote ordered at four 1 o'clock Saturday. On Tuesday of next t ^ week the bill defining options shall be f W taken up and the previous question t shall be considered as ordered at three 1 o'clock Wednesday. On the days spec!- c fled the House shall meet at eleven I o'clock. The order also provides for a morning hour each day and gives place to general appropriation bills or conference reports thereon. Crain, of Texas, inquired whether under the order the river and harbors bill could be considered. Cameron replied that he thought not but that the bill could be called up Friday or Monday or during the morning hour on other days. Blount, of the llulesCommittee.criticised that committee for its action in bringing in rules on such unimportant subjects without opportunity for fair discussion. The Ilouse had degenera. A ted from common respectability. He ^ thought that the agricultural bills had beon purposely excluded and could not be considered. He thought that it should lie included and the timo for debate extended. McMillan, another member of the Rules Committee, said that it must be admitted in view of the late hour in the session that the proposed order put the rivers and harbors bill in a perilous condition. Business had already been outlined that would occupy the time of the House until September leaving unconsidered the rivers and harbors bill with its $24,000,000 appro- 8 nHoHnn TTo ivnrno/l thn ITnuon nAw r in order that the friends of the rivers c and harbors bill might adopt the speci- f al order with their eyes open. Funston, of Kansas, chairman of the 1 Committee on Agriculture, said to the < friends of the rivers and harbors bill s that if they knocked out tlu> Agricui-ji so high that it would never be seen c again. (Laughter.) He should think tnat'the gentlemen from Georgia and Tennessee (Blount and McMillan) in view of the arising of farmers in their States would concede a few days to the Committee on Agriculture. Hatch, of Missouri, said that these bills were among the most important offered to the House. Behind these bills were more voting thousands than were behind any other species of legislation on the calendar. These thousands were restless, excited and uneasy from one end of the country to the other for the reason that their measures had been cut out by such measures as the rivers and harbors bill. He warned his friends on the Democratic side to make no mistake in voting { against inis oroer. it was the best that ; could be done; and any Democrat representing an agricultural district who ' threw an obstacle in its way wonld rue it before.tfajfr firat of 5 man from Kansas, (Mr. Funston,) said ( In regard to the rivers and harbors bill. * If the adoption of the conference re- , port on that bill was to stand in the = way of the consideration of these mens- t urea let the rivers and harbors bill wait . until December next. Blount thought that there was a de- r sign in the proposed order to exclude . action upon the rivers and harbors bill. ( The bills mentioned in the order were most important and he was content for c them to nave fair consideration under . ^ the rules of the House. Hfe suggested , an amendment including the rivers s and harbors bill among the measures ' which might interfere with the operations of the order. McKinley said that there was no leg- i islation demanded by the country so c universally as that comprised in the i pending resolution. In reporting this ? order the Committee on ltules hud but s responded to the agricultural senti- t ment of the country, both North and j South. The resolution was not antag- t onistic to the rivers and harbors bill, c 3?hetawt the irder excluded the rivers j and harbors bill wus not because gen- t . tlemen on that side loved the rivers ( and harbors bill, but because they op- C posed the dispatch of the.public busi- C ness. He then intimated that the Com- t mittee on itules would map out the lat- C ter part of next week for the consider- t ation of measures reported by the Com- I ? mittee on Labor. t The resolution was adopted and the C House aecordiiifdy proceeded to consid- I eratlon of the Senate agricultural col- t lege bill. ti The time allotted for debate was uti- a lized by over a dozen members, and most of whom in short speeches favored the bill. The discussion closed and the bill as amended was passed without division. It appropriates out of a money arising from the sale of public s< lands to each State und Territory for ? the more complete endowment and h maintenance of colleges for the benefit c< of agriculture and the mechanic arts \ the sum of 1116,000 for the year ending ? June 90tb, 1890. and an annual increase t< of such appropriation for ten years m , thereafter by an uditional sum of 81,000 ti over the preceding year. The annual sum to be paid thereafter shall be 25,000 dollars. u . , 81 According to Senator Carlisle every tl man woman on/1 nliiw m . -J 1 ,?' , ? """ ir((aiuici? UI U| ?2 ?lr' P tbl8 "Iand of the free and home fit W/2L. braTe' l)n>? on annual tribute of ol 10 in cash to the protected manufactu- h< rers, who are still not satisfied or happy, kt I r\ R fa A DRAMATIC SCENE. ' ' * enntor Vance Point* Out the IfjrpoorlMcjr of the Republican*. Mr. John It. Morris, of Baltimore, in , letter published in the Wilmington, tf. C., Messenger, thus decribesa recent cene in the United States Senate luring the discussion of the glass chedule: "You know that Senator Aldrich, of ihode Island, has charge of the tariff till. The glass schedule had been eached. Vance asked Aldrich why otmnon window glass, the glass of the >oor man's house-, was made dutiable it one hunaV and fifteen per cent., vhile fine, polished plate glass, the rlass of the rich man's mansion, was to mstain a duty of but fifteen per cent. ^hjrichUirMd btoeyes fromV|gce, 'n a fe\v 'moments Vance itood awaiting recognition from Piatt. While he stood he seemingly grew taler. Quickly raising his hand he threw a treat muss of iron grey hair from his orehead and exposed a brow red with he blood of emotion. lie did not turn lis eye toward the gallery?he seldom loes. Hut all eyes in gallery and Senite were fixed on Vance. "The Senaor from North Carolina," said Piatt, as le lightly touched the desk with his ravel and inclined his head deferentialy toward the majestic figure of the treat Southern statesman. "Mr. Presilent," cried Vance, in a shrill, tremu ous key of which I did not know his ,-oice capable, "I want it to go abroad o all the American people that I have isked the Senator from Rhode Island vhy the (class of the poor man is taxed 115 per cent, and the glass of the rich nan but 15 per cent., and that I have received no answer." Raising his voice (till higher he almost shrieked the re'rain of his own words, "Yes, I want .he American people to know tuat I lave received no answer." "Vance was mconsciously dramatic. The effect vas to bring a deep hush over the Senate chamber. The Republicans could lot say anything without admitting .00 much. They had to refrain from idmitting the truth that they were laying for Harrison's election, and iwed much to the makers of common flass in America, but nothing to the nakersof line plate glass in France. The Republicans did not soon recover !rom the question and the terrible manler in which Vance had hurled it at \ldrich. John Sherman figured his itubby beard. Judge Edmunds, who effects indifference to everything and everybody by apparent absorption in tome book, peeped over the top of his constant volume. Quay, the stolid lude, shook the lappel of his grayish lannel neglige coat. Allison rolled his >yes towards the frescoes, while Frank riiscock, on whose shoulders rests Jonklin's mantle of vanity, with severil additional breadths. looked helpless^tow.rdj.U old,fjjjg, arther intd the physical nothingness >f an unsexed watch." A Good ShowlDf for tha South. Washington, August 22.?The enunerators' returns to Superintendent 'orter of the cenRllR of the Knntharn States shows an unexampled and Astonshing growth of that section. Even he warmest friend^ of the South are kstonished at the figures. The returns irove that the South has had a genuine ind substantial boom. They also show hat the States of Alabama, West Virginia and Tennessee, where it was sup>osed that the greatest increase would >e found, are actually lagging in the ace for population. The States that ire not distinctly mineral producing egions are the ones that are the largest gainers. Texas and Georgia largely ead the column. On the basis of 161,)00 for a Congressman, which is the present basis, every Southern State, vith the exception of Delaware, will tecure an ad<MtipnaJ^Congr^sman/tmd jasls of representation prevail of 181,XX). all the States, with the exceptions >f Florida and Delaware, will secure an ncrease. Texas shows the largest gain n population, her increase being 600,>00. Alabama has gained 357,000; Arkansas. 369,475; Delaware 29,392; Florila, 2,700; Georgia, 298,000: Kentucky, !22,000; Louisiana, 176,000; Maryland, 166,000; Mississippi, 234,000; North Car>lina, 241,000; South Carolina, 292,000; Virginia. 208.000; West Virginia. 156,>00; Tennessee, 258,000; Missouri, 400,>00. It is now claimed that the increase n the South will exceed that, nf t.h? itates of the Northwest. A Hutch of Mow Doctor*. Columbia, S. C., August 20.?The State board or medical examiners conceded their labors at 8,30 to-night, havng been almost continuously at work ill day. Twenty-four applicants for id mission to practice appeared. Thireen passed successfully, eight were reectcd and three left before the examimtion ended. The successful appliwe 3. Manning. Little Rock, Marion Couny; J. B. Minis, Lamar, Darlington bounty; W. H. Civ burn. West, Kersnaw bounty; Charles A. league, Newberry; Charles A.Jeffries, Home,Union Couny; T. E. Nott, Enoree, Spartanburg County; John M. Thompson, colored, Charleston; W. B. Cox, Landsford, Chester County; J. T. Jeter, Santuc, Jnion County; Charles E. B. Flagg, ieorgetown County; J. Simpson Wise, lallsallville, Chester County. The wo colored doctors admitted to pracics passed exceedingly creditable exminatlons.?News and Courier. Wont* to Oo to Conferesa. Gafknby City, August 19.?W. W. Lussell, the famous Greenback leader nd the present postmaster at Anderin nuaonH hoeo ?? ?? ? * ' , , .... u ..nu una niveiUUUU OL1 1)18 ray to Washington. He seemed in a uppy frame of mind, but rather unimmunicative on the subject of his isit to the Capital. He said, however, lat it was of considerable Importance > the people of Houth Carolina. MYou lay say this." he added, "that I will be ie next Congressman from the 3d disict. I am just as sure to succeed ! udge Cothran as the sua shines, and tere is no power that can prevent it < ive from Heaven. The rase among j ie Democrats in my district is very ' xlly mixed and 1 am thoroughly con- 1 lent that I will be elected in the 'ides I I UnvKinlu.. ?" - ** - . .. i iii.i whs an mr. uus- i ;li would say, preferring, be stated, to i ?ep out of the public prints. | y SOLD AND SWINDLED. w A CHALMERS PLEADS IN VAIN FOR THE PRICE OF HIS SOUL. * in Hitter Taunts for th? Republicans and State Slanders Against the South?His bl Coaduot at Fort Pillow?Denied the Seat yy T by a Strong Vote. Washington. 1). C- Aug. 22.?In h< the House, Dalzell, of Pennsylvania, w called up the Mississippi contested p election case of Chalmers vs. Morgan. U] The majority report finds in favor of p] Morgan, the sitting member. Chalmers was then granted permission to address ^ 'tii carrying of^elections for the Democratic party. That party was deter- ^ mined to carry elections honestly if it vJ could, forcibly if it must. The State rj of Mississippi was a leader in that conspiracy. Men who dared to run on a J,! Republican ticket or to make ltepublican speeches carried their lives in their own hands. That the black vote was "t suppressed could not be successfully ZZ denied. It was the suppression c? this "J vote that had justified the Republicans of the House in the passago of the th Lodge bill. If the Republicans after " passing that bill should turn around ^ and accept the majority report in this r.? case they would set themselves in a suspicious attitude before ine country. Before the meeting of Congress It had been charged that the Republicans in- " tended to turn out enough Democrats to give them a good working majority. If aftPP fTAttintr that: moi/vrltv fKou ll< v th decline to Rive him his seat they would ? give color to that charge. It would be hJ. said that when they were undertaking jn to pass a law to give them a chance for ^ a majority in the next House they said nn that certain testimony was true which d( in this case they said was not sufficient tv to establish a conspiracy in Mississippi. He did not believe that the Republican party could afford to place itself in ... that attitude, and he did not think it ,i. could do it. He then proceeded to ex- _? amine in detail the evidence of fraud and intimidation in the various coun- ?e ties of the district to substantiate his charge that a huge conspiracy existed In to defeat him for Congress. For the House to sustain the report was to say that the stealing of a congressional seat was nothing but political purchase. fr He said that in order to prejudice his g. case the old story relating to Fort ' Pillow had been revived. In the For- ^ ty-sixth Congress charges had ureu made against liiin in connection with n. Fort Pillow. He had asked for an in- Kn vestigation and it had been denied him. ai , When the truth of history came to l>e ' written calmly it would be seen that lj^.n sinrr*- ? -V* |!MU surrendered in the fort. Every J man killed had been outside the fort. But even if every one of the charges against him were true he had not been yc the commanding officer. Ifthecharges at were true, they brought disgrace upon th the gallant Forest who stood by his m side. The fact that until the end of dsi the war he had served with that officer at as second in command was proof that pi he was guilty of no conduct unbecom- al ing an officer and a gentleman. No ev gentleman on the Democratic side th would believe a story which would in disgrace the brave Forest, and the men th who had served under Grant and Sher- to man were too manly to bring disgrace m uyuu mi American souiier. uontinu- ed ing, Chalmers said that he felt that W this republican form of government b< was in danger of being over ridden and w trodden under foot by a Southern in oligarchy. For fifteen years the Re- m Sublican party had been fighting the to Torthern Democrats in the open field th walls erected by fraud and violence, ca They should see to it that the national qi government was not controlled by w fraud and violence. A Southern gov- th ernor who had without protest seen w outrages like the killing of negroes at sa Yazoo and Carrollton grew frantic Hi with rage over a fair Hght between two hi pugulists. It was a fair question ti? whether the Democratic party was not h< going to the devil as fast as it could ed and taking Mississippi with it. di Kelley, of Kansas, offered a resolu- at tion reciting the following paragraph pu from the majority report: "With respect to the other seven counties there is a number of boxes as ^ to which no testimony was taken, but it may safely be affirmed in not one of _ these counties, taken as a whole, was the election an honest one. Fraud in various forms, including intimidation ^ of voters, corrirpt manipulation of registration, stuffing and stealing of f ballot boxes and illegal voting finds -vr ample illustration in all of them;" and recommitting the case witb instruc. *?? cmuuiiLiee on Flections to r" exclude from its count the unexamined boxes. Lost, 81 to 136. The minority substitute was rejected and the majori- Sv ty resolution, declaring Morgan entitled to the seat, was agreed to without division. Y Korty-FIve Horui Harnnl. lj New York, Aug. 17.?Fire broke out hi to-night in the stables belomrinsr to the r* ? ca Liion lire wing company, in which 138 he horses were kept. The stables are lo- ce cated very near the brewery, and fears Wi were entertained that the latter would xi be burned also. All the force attached w< to stables and the brewery were at once dii put to work to aid the firemen and to tw save the imprisoned horses. Ninety- w, three horses were saved from the first thi floor of the building, but the other forty- tei five which were located in the basement, were roasted to death. The horses burned were valued at 820,000, and the stock of feed and harness, all of which was tio burned with the building, is estimated Co to be worth 8100,000, and the building ca] 875.000. The brewery was saved. tui j\b Senator Vance Will Mot be Opposed. Asiivillk, N. C. August 12.?The Tli State Farmers' Alliance met here to-day jie with 600 delegates in attendance, every County in the State being represented. 9. B. Alexander, a prominent delegate * who will be the Democratic candidate trc For Congress from the Sixth District, cit said to-day that the Alliance as a body inj would not oppose the re-election of Sen- Tv itor Vance, and he was certain that he ed. would be renominated. ws death and destruction fmrfol Cfclone In Wlllwib?rri| Pennsylvania. Wilkksbakue, I'a., Aug. 20.- A tcrble cyclone struck this city thi eveng. . The telegraph wires are all/down. 083 of life is heavy. Hundrtds of .illdings were blown down. The storm came up the river. From hat point it originated is not 1 nown. he suddenness of its coming vas one r its most awful features The ?avens wore as black as night, i nd the ind blew with most frightful v locity. rhole rows of trees were blowndown. ollowing this hundreds of house s were nroofed, partially blown over o: comletely demolished. 1 The total death loss, so-far as ascerdned is twelve. Four men areknown > have been killed in the Hagjfrd^wire nokestack of the Ky$8**?ranh^ri^m ill on a man and two horses and all ere killed. A little colored girl was llled by a falling buiidinr on South Iain street. Two men suffered death f the falling of a portion of .St. Marge's ewery, and a third incurred the same ite through the almost complete deolition of S. L. Brown's handsome rick business block on Fast Market reet. There are undoubtedly fifteen sixteen others killed. Other reports e coming in constantly to that elTeet. Large districts in several sections of te city are in absolute ruin, and omen and children are in the streets ying and wringing their hands in isolute dismay. The damage will acfchundreds of thousands of dollars. Passenger trains and locomotives at ie depot were blown over, and every iru iu me city, eiectric ngni, loieplione id telegraph, is down. The devastaon is to be compared with nothingwn ie memory of the oldest inhabitant, verybody is rejoicing that no ilres ive as yet followed, for (lie streets are npnssable with fallen buildings and ie engines could not be drawn through, he Murray shaft fan house was blown >wn and the fan stopped. There are venty-seven men in the mine, but it hoped they can be got out safely. Reports come from Sugar Notch, a ining town three miles from here, tat the destruction of property is terble, and that fifteen persons were lied. At Parsons and Mill Creek, the rritory four miles from here, coal eakers in all directions have been ore or less damaged, and the number : killed will reach ten. A special dispatch from Scranton to te Times says that a train coming in qfi Summerville, thirty miles west of sranton, was struck by a cyclone this rening and totally annihilated. Enneer William Fisher. iu giving an :count of his train experience while | issing through the cyclone, said: Che engine was lifted from the track id all the windows in the cars were, ushed in by the terrible cyclone. Two ' \ 1 Shocked the Senator. WAsniNGTON, August 22.?The >ung grandson of the famous ex-Senor Nye of Nevada and a nephew of e equally famous Bill Nye of Laraire City and New York was a few lys ago appointed a page in the Sen?. He is very popular with the other iges in the chamber, and with nearly 1 of the Senators. One of them, howrer, Mr. Colquitt of Georgia, rather links the new page has done him an jury. Soon after the boy had taken e oath to support the constitution and defend his country against all eneies, foreign and domestic, he was callI upon to do an errand for Senator rade Hampton, who told him to get a ittle of Congress water and a sanditch at the restaurant, and place them the cloak room for him. The page ade a slight mistake in the order, and ok the articles of refreshment into e Senate chamber and put them uninMr (VUm*144* here they remafnecT for some tune the iuse of much comment. Senator Collitt is an ardent prohibitionist, and as greatly shocked when he entered ie chamber to find his desk adorned ith a long necked black bottle and a ndwith covered with a napkin. At -st he was inclined to think some of s colleagues had been playing a praccal joke. When he learned tne facts ) gave young Nye a lecture, and warn[ him to be more careful hereafter to stinguish between a prohibition Senor and one who is in fuvor of original tckages. An Important Decision. Raleigh, N. C. August 21.?Judges lymour and Bond of tlie United States rcuit Court recently rendered a decisn the in case of the American FertillizCompany of Virginia against the Comissioner of Agriculture of the State of orth Carolina. The Court decided at the law imposing a tax of $500 upon rtillizer companies doing business in orth Carolina is a violation of the inrstate commerce act. and unconstitujuai. xue tax realized from this source nounted to ?36,000 a year, and was dotted maintaining the State Departents of Agriculture and Mechanical >llege. In Too Illg; n Hurry. A German named Huegel, of New ork, is in a bad shape. A year ago s wife, to whom he was a devoted tsband, was declared to be dying. She rnestly desired her husband to marry t younger sister and insisted on a remony being performed by what as supposed to be her dying bedside, lis was done and it took such a sight from her mind that she imme-? ately got well. Huegel was left with 'o wives on his hands but the matter is kept quiet until last week when d birth of a baby to the younger sisr caused a revelation of the facts. We Hope It Will Succeed. A.UGU8TA, Ga., August 19.?AppLtcan was made to-day in the Superior urt for letters of incorporation by pitausis wno will begin tha manufacre of cotton bagging from ffctton Stalk re. The principal place of the manu;tory ana office will be in Augusta, le capital stock is 96000,000. with priv* ges of increasing it to 96,000,000. A Cloudbarat In Colorado. Colorado Springs, Col., Aug. 16?A imendous cloudburst broke oyer this y yesterday, deluging the town, beatX in roofs and undermining walls, vo people were swept away and drown, Twelve miles of railroad track were ?hed away; damage at least 9260,000. < STARTLED STATESMEN. {J n: THE ALLIANCE BLIZZARD BLOWING ? THROUGH THE HALLS. jc tl Many Member* Hurrying Home to Look ^ After 'their Fences?Tlie Sections Struck gi and the Men Threatened?The House ^ Demoralized and Distempered. Ill Washington, D. C., Aug. 20.'?Toward the end of Jul> full half theiuem- tt bers of the House of Representatives * were absent from their duties. Storm ^ clouds had unexpectedly appeared in Sj nearly every Congressional District in tl agricultural sections of the country, ol South and West. The political sky was S ablaze with suggestive premonitions, u Kamgrsmtfniance In a few dlstricl^t hqdroared like a torna- ^ do, overwhelming representatives seek- Jjl ing t a re-election. Republicans and 0 Democrats had been served alike. In p other districts it resembled a llood a sweeping over river bottoms andcarry- j ing everything before it. There were t< astounding reports from Kansas and reports equally alarming from North v Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, and the n Gulf States. Senators as distinguished a as Ingalls and Vance were threatened. f( There were anxious faces in the House, d Experienced veterans heard the whist- v ling of the stprm and knew they were s in danger. They paired with men of a opposite political faith in equal peril, s and sped to their districts to look after e< their political households. In some a cases they were too late to save them- t< selves. In others they are still strug- n ei The rising or the farmers might aptly s{ be compared to the rising in the de- p parturients of France at the time of the French revolution. Honest legislators, n who had never failed in devotion to the jj agricultural interests of the country, g struggled for their political existence. D, in Georgia tnero was a violent gale. James II. Blount, of Macon, serving his eighteenth consecutive year in the a House, was forced to raise his umbrella, v* Judge John D. Stewert was owerwhelmed. Tom Grimes and Judge c< Barnes also went under. There were R alarming reports concerning the politi- r< cal future of that prince of Oonfeder- tl ate soldiers, Gov. John B. Gordon. a The farmers were making the fight for ii the Legislature with the intention of e, putting one of their own number in the p United States Senate in the place of / Gov. Joe. Brown. Governor Gordon s had thrown himself into their ranks in n the hopes of securing the prize. q Such were some of the reports that h reached the House. In Mississippi such b tried veterans as General Hooker, a James Bright Morgan, General Catch- d mgs and 'Thomas R. Stockdale were en- h dangeredv Uriiiin^t. .T?hn m Allan re- s tu^w uaiiW|? belorb the stdfen had fairly ?urst. In Alabama Gen. William II. Forney was seriously threatened. Ilis loss would have been t a national loss. lie well fills Samuel J. Randall's place in the Committee on Appropriations. . In Kansas, Iowa and Illinois every- }! thing is at sea. The political life of J the Rev. John A. Anderson, rough-and 11 ready Perkins, and of pertinacious Fun- P ston is at stake. Anderson is a born 11 fighter. His assault upon the Pacific e' railroads alone ought to endear him to ? the farmers. He will be in tho field 11 despite all opposition, and if he must go, will fall like a hero. . Then there was alarming news from ? South Carolina. The veteran George J1 D. Tillman alone was undismayed. lie r! is a brother of the Tillman who is shakn 11 ing up the political aristocracy of the f Palmetto State, and whose obituary is " probably already in type in the com- F posing rooms of more than one daily newspaper. . ? Wild ,cy"y ??'"a f'??n t.Hate-NorthwestT The sitting members were not * only exposed to the blasts of the Farm- a ers' Alliance, but were shaken by the school question that had excited the f German Lutherans. This agitation 1 I) I.II T> - ? tuicn mo ivcpuuiiuau ivepreseniailves f of the Badger State Into a fever. It threatens their supremacy to such an a extent that it is claimed the State will .. go Democratic. The great Caswell is !l said to have been knocked out of a re- 11 nomination. There were also cyclones in Congressional districts in Illinois, 0 Indiana. Minnesota and Michigan. ? All these rumors withered up the House lrke a sirocco. It shrunk to the w smallest dimensions. The Speaker had difficulty in counting a quorum. Many ei an empty seat tells of the desperate . struggle. Both sides find it (difficult to J' keep their lines. Telegrams are received daily telling of the fortunes of l Representatives hundreds and thous- ,a< ands of miles away. A quorum was found only when a w vote was taken upon the most impor- ftant measures. There were tiresome J*1 debates in committee of tho whole on the original packake, tho bankruptcy, and other bills. Men spoke to empty seats. The Committee on Rules kept ? its grip on the throat of the House, J1 It not only directed what bills should J1 be taken up, but allotted the time for *' consideration and specified the hour 1 for voting. Without this specification f it would have been almost impossible J.' to have obtained a voting quorum ut ?' the critical moment. " There was no chance for the thous- J* ands of little bills upon the calendars) L1 These are usually shoved in to fill the al interstices of legislation by unanimous ^ consent. The list of bills on the print- a ed calendars toward the end of the A month filled 120 pages. The calendar of the committee or the whole on tho state of the Union took up twentythree; the House calendar carried nine, t\ and the private calendar was spread tc over forty-seven pages. There was a ?r page of special orders, five pages of un- h, HnloKoH ? ul?o..vu uuaiuoon, auu t |HtKU Ul privll- L()j eged reports. Over 1,700 bills remained w upon the calendar, only 237 of which 13 were private pension bills. hj The laboring men looking for labor ^ legislation, the claimants seeking just dues from the government, nnd the thousands interested in measures affecting commerce, agriculture, and tl other business interests of the country, d can readily understand why nothing is II done to relieve them. The rules, It lc was said, were made to do business, a They do business, but it is the business c\ designated by the Committee on Rules c< under the rules. Privileged business lc eats up much of the time. If through p< nportunity a member. secures recogItion from the Speaker and asks uaaoitou3 consent for the consideration of bill which takes not a dollar from ti le Treasury, soiqpbody invariably obcts. If by any accident, the objection not heard, somebody is sure to raise le point of no quorum when a vote is a tken. Not an hour up to date has been iven by the Committee on Rules, to ] le Committee on Labor, to the Comlittee on Patents, or to a dozen other nnmittees equally important. Indeed, le Committee on Patents has had a . srrible time. It got no day in the iftieth Congress, and has had no day c< i the Fifty-First Congress. The rules w 5t down Friday as a day for the con- ^ deration of private bills; yet under Tf le rules these bills have been robbed 11 f their day for over four months. r<J trange anomaly?a net that lets all the tb ig ttsh through and catches all the lit,o ones. v Here is a bill granting fifteen days save of absence to per diem men in the iiatnma appvinn Thn Sinnrnforu nf thn of reasury favors It. it takes not a cent jj at of the Treasury. All the other em* loj'eesln this service have leaves of 0j bsence for thirty days with pay. They 'ork eight hours a day. These per fr iem men work in relays from sunrise te > sunset and from sunset to sunrise. a, l 11 are compelled to remain upon duty i0 rhether their services are needed or ^ ot. In summer importations are not B heavy as in winter. One fifth of the lv nrco might easily be spared for fifteen ? ays while the other four-fifths did the ^ fork. Yet thrice has unanimous con- ? ent been asked to consider tills bill, nd thrice has objection been made. A f, imilar bill affecting post office employes remained hanging by the eyelids for G] month on a motion to reconsider, en- 0; jredtwo days after its passage. No lan can get consent to bring up the Q< ight-hour back pay law, the bill to re- f, tore the wages in the government ^ rinting affice, and a score of similar displaced on the calendar by the Com- ^ littee on Labor. It is an ill-tempered re louse. The Speaker has made it so. g enseless objections are made and the f( oint of no quorum raised apparently a) ithout reason \Y Despite these overloaded calendars ^ nd the absence of over 150 members ^ 'ho are skirmishing with the Farmers' Jj Llliance and the Lutheran preachers, ? jmmittees are urged to report bills t,j itely introduced. The committee ^ loms, however, are even more deserted w lan the chamber of the House. Effort 4 fter effort is made to secure a quorum 1 vain. All see that a measure report- 0 I at this late hour, unless of vital im- ^ ortance, must fail of consideration. 4 it times the clerk of a committee n pends days in searching for enough (j lembers to make a quorum. This ^ uorum is frequently secured by bring- w ig their signatures-together upon the ack of the bill to be reported. Many ^ poor devil seeking private legislation j eparts from Washington with a joyful a] eart after this is done.?New York c; am, * h THE COTTON BAGGING BOYCOTT. r Vhat a Georgia Journal Say* About the ^ Si Fight of the Farmer#' Alliance. p Atlanta, Ga., August 22.?Speak- ei ig of boycotts, it may be remarked a hat the boycott of the Jute Trust by b he Farmers' Alliance has been a com- E lete success. From 15 cents, the price d< emanded by the trust, which was c< nuui iu <1 direct uix 01 o-j,lraj,UUU a 0' ear on the Southern farmers, jute has illen to But even at this price there is no deland for jute bagging on the part of M he cotton growers. As a matter of P' ict the boycott has just fairly got in- ^ a working order, and it is not likely hat the tarmers will again place them- ? elves in the power of so vicious a com- ~ iuation as that formed by the jute d lanufacturers. To resort again to " ate as a covering for cotton would L ot only be against the best interests a f the frrmefeL but would be unjust to u. nrr-mteresra wbfeb bave been built up 81 s a result of the boycott. 8 The greed of the jute men over- f eached itself in this instance, and all 1 he indications go to show that the 81 rofitahle market into which they en- 0 ered as highway robbers will never a gain be opened to them. a The Manufacturers' Record makes a k ttle estimate that is of special interest ai i this connection. If the entire new P rop, which is estimated at 7,000,000 JJ. ales, should be wrapped in cotton bag- 1 ing, 35,000,000 yards of it would be w squired, which is equivalent to 27,000,X) pounds of the staple, making a new * larket for 55,000 bales of 500 pounds *ch. | At a very low estimate, it is believed ? lat this increased consumption will add J ) the market price of the staple at ;ast half a cent a pound, giving an Iditional value of 82 50 to each bale, hile the saving by the use of jute 'ould be but 23 cents a bale. It is not w icpected that this result will be A rough t about at once, but it is certain *i > follow the persistent refusal of the irmers to use jute. ^ we may say nere that an Atlanta entleraan, whose process for extractig fibres has attracted attention even pi 1 foreign counties, is now experiment- p< ig with the fibre of the cotton plant. [e thinks that for a comparatively in- ?( igniflcant sum he can place on each al irm a machine for stripping the bark . rom the cotton stalk directly the pick* ig is over, and before the plant has a] ecome dry and hard. From the bark ^ in fibre can be extracted at a cost t< Imost nominal, and it can then be _ 'orked up in the same manner as jute nd woven on the same machinery.? K .tlanta Constitution. ___ 8I A Had Place to Live. St Louisville, Ky., Aug. 21.?A man 6( lust pray circumspectly in Perry Coun- AM r if he dares close his eyee long enough is > pray at all. A correspondent writes: $ The ltev. J. J. Dickey of Jackson was are when Joe Eversole was killed and Ffered a prayer at the grave when he as huried. This action of the Kev. ,s ickey incensed another faction, and n Is life was threatened. lie has never ?! aen lni'erry since." v a A Fountain of Tnr. U Richmond, Va., August 18,?It is said Si hat a veritable fountain of tar has been nc iscovered three or four miles trom ti :aleigh, on the lands of Mr. It. 8. Pul- In ir. The stuff in question exudes from v< bank, and when the oozing stream is in nt off it comes out again with the m insistency of soft putty, havinsr the re K>k, taste and smell, and Is to all ap- pi earancea genuine tar. ai SUICIDE IN A PALACE. HE TRAGIC END OF A NEW YORK MILLIONAIRE. Wealthy Broker Hangs Himself with k Sheet to the Door of his Bed Boom? Illness and Loneliness the Supposed Causes or his Reckless Act. New York, August 17.?In the palanl residence of his sister, Mrs. Amos 9tting, 835 5th avenue, this afternoon as found the body of Joseph A. Jam ion, a Broad street broker and banker, e had hanged himself from the bed torn door in his fine suite of rooms on ie fourth floor. Jameson was reported be a millionaire and was the Stock xchange member of the Arm of Jamion, Smith & Co, bankers and brokers, . the corner of Exchange place and road street. The second member of ie iirm is James I). Smith, commodore ' the New York Yacht Club. Jameson's family are out of town, and om what canbe learned from his friends mporary insanity, caused by illness id perhaps aggravated by a feeling of neliness m the absence of his family, is (ought to be the cause of the tragedy, [rs J ameson and lieryoungest son, a mior 17 years old, are at Scarboro 1 teach, ^e. Two sons?Addison, the eldest, a ldower 33 years old, and Alexander, 28 Bars old?and a daughter, Mrs. Thomas Manson, were spending Sunday at their ither's farm at Clinton Connors, eight tiles from Poughkeepsie, and the secnd daughter, Mrs. Myra Murphy, widow f Richard Murphy, Jr, at Elberton,N. J. The last seen of Mr. Jameson was at 5 clock on Saturdav, when he came home om the oflice and told a servant that b would go to his room to rest. He Ld not appear to-day, and becoming larmed the servent called a Park police lan, who entered the broker's rooms irough the one unlocked door. He >und the body hanging with a sheet round the neck, the other end of which ;id been thrown over the door and tied > the knob. The suicide had knelt so i to cause strangulation quickly, and is knees almost touched the floor. The dilionairc had evidently disrobed with ie tntention of retiring for the night efore the awful impulse seized him. lie as only clad in his night shirt and rawers. The body was taken down and placed n a bed. Superintendent Jenks. of the lurray Hill Hotel, a near friend of the eceased, took charge of the funeral arungements. Nothing was found to inicate the cause of the deed. Jameson ras taken sick three months ago, and as still weak when, three weeks ago. he ras taken with throat trouble. The latir affection was so serious that Prof. E. . Jane way was kept in close attenduce. The trouble increased, and nhvsi ill pain may have resulted in sudden isanity. Jameson came to New York from St. touis in 1865 with his brother-in-law, Lmos Cotting. since deceased. Each is iiid to have Drought 81,500,000 as the rofits of a dry goods business. A brokrage business was opened on Wall street nd at first the firm belonged to the open oard of brokers and later to the Stock ixchange. Jameson was a man of omestic taste and was regarded as a jnservative and prudent financier. His Lisinesa is said to be in good shape. Refuting m Hue Slander. To the Editor of the News and Couer: In your issue of August 15 apeared a special from Greenville, in hich your correspondent repeats a ory to the effect that "Capt. D. K. [orris was forced to leave Orangeburg ounty in consequence of immoral conuct." Now we, the undersigned, old eighbors and acquaintances of Capt. >. K. Norris, among whom he was born nd reared, deeply rqmt and deplore lat such base and unfounded rumors kiould be circulated through the repectable press of the State to the inury of one of her best citizens, take his occasion, unsolicited by any one, ave our sense of right and justice to ur old neighbor, to denounce and deny, nd pronounce unqualifiedly false any nd all such base slanders. We have nown Capt. D. K. Norris all his life, nd a more honorable, upright and ure citizen Orangeburg County has ever reared, and instead of being forced" to leave this locality it was 1th great regret and a deep sense of ur love for him to sever his associaons from us and remove to Anderson ounty. . L. Dantzler, P. M., H. W. lthame, , P. Wells, W. L. Stoutamire, . F. Felder, J. S. Hart, D. J. Avinger. Vance's, S. C., August 18,1890. Staring Starvation In the Faoe. A dispatch from Bad Axe. Mich., says: rhe farmers of a portion of Huron aunty have asked for pubiio aid because teir crops were totally destroyed by the srrific storm which swept the Eastern irt of the county at harvest time, he appeal has been made by 200 of tern in the face of absolute want and assible starvation. The storm was a henomenal one, the hail falling in ouds and covering the ground from iur to eight inches, completely burying 11 their crops. The track of the storm as through Siegel and Bloomfleld and art of Paris townships, and covered an rea eighteen miles long and a mile ide. Many of tho farmers in that seeon live onrented farms, which only agravates tho suffering as they cannot av their rent, besides having nothing > live upon. Many will be in danger of iarving unless help is given. An inmice is reported where one man had X) acres rented and all In crops. Every ere was destroyed. The estimated loss i at least $40,000, ranging from $60 to 3,000 for each farmer. The North Caroline Democrat*. Halkioh, N. C- August 20.?The tnt. T\ n ' * uivD uviiiwriiuc tiuuTwuua uHimy omin&ted a judicial ticket and adjourni. Police Justice Merriman and Justice lark were nominated by acclamation nd nine Superior Court Judges were nanimously endorsed for re-election. Biiator Vance was cordially recomtended to the Legislature for re-eleoon to the United States Senate. Resoitions favoring the free coinage of sil?r, increased currency, repeal of the ternal revenue system, aoolition of itional banks, financial reform and lief from the existing agricultural de-ession and denouncing the McKinley id Lodge bills, were adopted.