The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, January 23, 1895, Image 1

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VOL. X. MANNING, S. C WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1895. NO. 23. WORK OF THE LAST DAY. THE WIND-IJPSESSION OF THE GEN ERAL ASSEMBLY. The House Backs Down from ItS Position Favoring Five Dollars Per Day-The Sen ate Has Its Way Also Abont the Appro priation Bill. CoLumBI. S. C., Dec. 25.-At 1:40 o'clock yesterday afternoon the G en eral Assembly of South Carolina end ed its sessionof 1894, both Houses ad jorning simultaneously a few min utes after Governor Evans had signed the general appropriation bill, and had notified the bodies of his action. Abouttwenty members of the House and about half a dozen Senators were in their respective halls when the mo Sons to adjourn were made and car ried. One by one the members had left the halls to take trains for their homes. In the House, for instance, only thirteen counties were represent ed at the wind up. Five of these bad one member holding out to the With the adjournment* went into history a session noted more for its heavy, hard and fast work than for anytiing else. As far as leg ilation is concerned. ex6er$ for five or six bills, the Assembly has nothing to its record to attract particular attention. The three most prominent of these measures are: The Constitutional Convention, the Metropolitan Police and the Dispensary Law. The last three measures enrolled and ratified were the supply bill, general apropriation bill and ]5ispensary bill. The enrolling of these bills prevented adjourment at noon. the hour fixed. The Dispensary did not get all the finishing touches on it untii nearly 12 oZeloek,and the same was the case with-the other two bills. It was after noon when the enrolling department got possession of them. It was a sleepy and weary lot of-leg islators which miandeied down to Senate and House halls before three o'clckyesterday morning to be pres ent at :aie last day's session of the General Assembly. ' There was a hag gard look on the faces of some of the members, while others looked fresh and bright. The present session has been a hard one and it is not 'to be wondered that the physical capabili ties of the more hard-worked law makers have given way under the strain.. The faithful Representative or Senator who is at his post at all night and day sessions deserves credit. It is not that the work itself is so severe, but it is the monotony that is wearing - and tiresome. The legislator who think more of himself than of his constituents can-always keep fresh by going to his boarding house or hotel early at ' ht and leave others to re main untilr'i body adjourns. I do not know that a longer session of the Legislature would prevent the *tsh of basiness which now character _%vsthe last days of the sessions in titate, but I do not think twenty sir or twenty-eight days sufficient time in which to make wise and safe lis. Nearly every new law on the Btaute books of South Carolina has been ut there after consideration of but a few days. All the most import ant laws of recent years have been put through the two bodies in the rush and confusion of the last days of the desons, when errors and mistakes were liable to creep in despite the care and watchfulness of the shrewdest members and officers. The Legisla tare ought not to be limited as it is. It ought to be allowed at least thirty five day so that it can finish its work deetyand in order. THEY GOT FROLICSOME. From 3 o'clock in the morning until 1:40 o'clock, when adjournment was taken, the House was serious and frolicsome by turns. No business is done in the last hours, except to settle -differences between the two bodies over bills; to send these to the enroll ing department, and later to ratify them. Recesses were frequently taken and the intervals are spent in holding mock sessions. Several mock sessions were held be fore dal~tyesterday, Mr. Connor, of Orn~brpresiding. He is pos sessed ofa barrel of humor, and the meek dignity with which he presides deceives members and officers who happen to walk in after an absence and find him in the chair. With a great deal of grivity the House geterday pased various reso lutions-df a witty nature, among them the following: "Resolved, That members be re quested to keep off the grass unless their feet are clean." Mr. Connor referred this fo the Ju diciary Committee," About 5 o'clock, when the members were sleepy and thirsty, and Mr. Con nor was presiding, a resolution was passed requiring dispensaries to open immediately for the convenience of members. A resolution was also passed abol ishing the Senate for its tardiness. Speaker Jonies never takes part in these divarications from the dipnified customs of therlower body~and is gen erally absent from the hall when the frolics are in 'rogress. Wyche, of \ewberry,, is one of the leaders in the mock session frolics. .THE PRESS CoMIPLIMENTED. Mr. Garris, of Colleton, yesterday offered, and the House adopted, the following resolution: "Resolved, That the House wishes to express its appreciation of the cour tesy and gentleman]ly demeanor of the representatives of the press-Messrs. Kohn, Price and Watson-who have been untiring in their efforts to serve members and ofticers. * Resolved, That we also appreciate the fairness and impartiality of the rprts of -thiese gentlemen." ,r. Garris is one of the youngest members of the House. and at .the same time one of the 'most efliciem: Segeton County lacks only a few acres of beino- as large im area as the State of Rho e Island. .THE HOUsE BACKS DOwN. The House took back water on all the.appropriation bills, but not until the members were satisfied that the Senate wa.s right from a legal point of view. It was about 3:30 o'clock in the morning when the Committee on Free Conference on the question of the per diem of the members reported to the House recommending that it agree to the Senate amendments to the bill. These amendments, it will be rememn bered, put the per diem of the mem h...+ at$ peay, while the House was in favor of 55. The House con ferees obtained an opinion from At torney General Barber on the question of the salary reduction Act of 1803. Mr. Barberconstrued the Act as goincr into effect, as to members, oflicers ana 'employees, at this session.or as having gone into effect the first of this year. He stated, however, that the Act as to State officers does not go into effect until the 1st of January, 1S95. The House conferees came to the conclusion that the law was against them, although equity was on their side. They, therefore. agreed to the report thatthe House recede from its position. The House adopted the report with out a speech or a voice against it, and so members were paid 4 a day. OTHER APPROPRIATIONS. The House did not so readily agree to the report of the free conference committee on the general appropria tion bill, but finally came to time. The chief differences between House and Senate on this bill were as to the appropriations for the educational in stitutions. The House was in favor of ,iving the South Carolina College 21.000: Clemson, 15,000, and the Citadel, $15,000. The Senate raised these to S25,0.00, $35.000 and A18,000 respectively. The House refused to agree to the increases, and a free con ference com-mittee had to be appoint ed. On the part of the House the con ferees were Messrs. Gary, Garris and Crum. ' The committee worked bard Satur day night and early yesterday morn ing, but was unable to reach a unani mous conclusion. The Senators in formed the House men that theyv would not budge,. and that if the House did not give in it would necessi tate an extra session. At last Mr. Garris, of the House side. went over to the Serators, making-a majority of I the committee. This majority recon mended that the House recede from its position. the Senate refusing to cut anything except the appropriation for Clemson Cc. ge, which was put at $25.00J0. When the commiitee reported to the House Mr. Garris said that he had signed the report after finding that unless the House agreed to the Senate amendments an extra session of the Legislature would be necessary. The extra session. he said, would cost more moner than the increases made by the Senate in the appropriations. It was a business like-talk which Mr. Garris made. Mr. Crum said that while he had refused~ to sigzn the report he also thought that tle trouble would not warrant an extra session. After considerable talk the House adopted the report of the committee by a vote of 50 to 29. as follows: Yeas-Speaker Jones, Adams, Bacot. Breazeale, Carroll, Cooper, Crum, W. C. Davis, Devereux, Dothage, Duncan, Elder, Floyd, Gadsden, Garris, Gary, Gaston. Gregory, Harper, Haselden, Hiott, Hollms, Kennedy, Kinard, Kirk, Demmon, Love, -Magill. Mehr tens, Mellett, J. W. Mitchell. Mc Keown. Patton, Price, Pyatt, Robert son. A. K. Sanders, ThomAs. Todd, Tyler, Waiace, W:iIsor. Weston. Whitemire, T. S. Willlams, John G. Williams, Fred. Williams, Wilson, Wyche and Pickens-50. Navs-Blackwell, Bowman, Bram lett, Brown, Burns. Caughman, L. S. Connor, Edwards, Finklea, Fowler, Hammett, Hardy, Holloway, Hump hreys. Ilderton Lancaster, Leverett, Moore, McIntosh, Prince, Rowland, Tatum, Thompson, Townsend, Thur mond, Warr, Welch, Wolf-29. The committee split the differences o'er the salaries of the health inspect ors at the ports, reducing the pay about half the amounts proposed by the House. The House desired to give only $500 forreprairs to the Executive Mansion. but had to come to time and agree to the Senate appropriation of 1000. The Senate also had its way as to a number of minor diferences. For instances the Senate reduced the pay of State officers from $1,933.33 each a year to $1,900, mnakin"' even amounts. It also cut otf smaTl sums from the salaries of other State em ploees. The House at first refused to accept this, but did so on the recom mendation of the committee. The differences as to the Dispensary bill were settled as ' indicated in The Register on Sunday, the salary of the State Commissioner being fixed at $2, 50) a -year. A rather funny incident occured in the House shortly after noon. when about twenty-five members were lounine around and talking to each other. SIr. Thomas of Richlaud of fered a joint resolution permittiug the use of the hail of the House for the annual bail of the South Carolina Club. The resolution stipulated that the club would guarantee to secure the State from all damages. Mr. 31itchell of Lexington objected to the resolution, and sprung the point of no quorum. MIr. Caughman of Edgefield hoped the resolu'tion would not pass. He objected to it on general principles. State property, he said, was not for the use of balls. Mr. Cooper of Colleton could see no obetions to the passaxe of the resolu tion. Neither could 3fr. Blackwell of Williamsburg. The latter thought it simply and act of ,justice. 31r." Mitchell still objected, saying the House should not be turned into a dancing room. His objection pre vented the passa~e of the bill thhn, r. M1itchell walsed out of the hall a few minutes later and while he was absent the resolution was passed. It was sent to the Senate and passed byV that body. So the next ball of the club will~ be held in the hall of the House. The only mem-nber of the House who has received any aplause fromi the floor this session is M1r. Floyd of Ker shaw. H~e madhe a strong speech on the mietropolitain police bill and was applauded by his fell ow nienmbers. Wheni inteireste'd on a subject MIr. Fod mnakes a riniginig speeih. lie uss good language. is graceful in his gestul'e. althoughi onie armed. and has a splendid voice. He is a p)romising member of th'e lowevr body. Short ly befor e adjournmient the House resolved itself into committee of the wholeM 31.Gris being request d to take thec chair MIr. Bacot made the followingr speech and offered the accopning i resolu'tionis. "31r. Chirnman and Gentlemen: Before otieinig iresolut1ins appreciat ive of our various otlieer's, pernut me to say a word to theC members of the House of Representative's collectively and ind~ividually. "The carol of the Christmas-tide is now ringing in our ears, 'Teace on earth good will towards men,' as we -armot to hi us to our several homes. "In parting with each other, my brethren of ?outh Carolina, let us us cherish and keep fresh in memory all that has been and is a living joy and pride. As to the dead past may it bury its dead. I heartily wish you. one and all, God-speed and a happy Christmas, and invoke benedictio. the benediction which cannot be too often repeated: 'Peace, God of Peace peace in all our hearts and peace in all our homes.' "Mr. Chairman and gentlemen. I ask your unanimous and hearty as sent to the following resolutions: "Resolved. That the unfeigned thanks of this House are due and are hereby tendered to the Speaker of the House, Hon. Ira B. Jones, for the con spicuous ability, efficiency and court esy with which he has d'ischarged the important and onerous duties of his high office. "Resolved, further. That this House -ratefully appreciates the services so $blv renaered by the honored Clerk of the'House, Gen, J. Walter Gray. and by Mr. S. W. Vance. Assistant Clerk, and also by Mr. J. S. Withers. Read in Clerk.'T. C. Hamer, Bill Clerk. an'd the other officials as well as the pages of the House. -Resolved. further, That these reso lutions be spread upon the journal of the House." The resolutions were unanimously, passed. On again taking the chair. Speaker Jones thanked the House for its kindness and esteem. le said that he could truthfully say that he had never presided over a b;etter House. i t had worked hard and intelligently. le then wished the members a happy Christmas and a prosperous. and con tnted future. It was 1:10 'clo-k when (rt- - Hemphill of the Senaiteappeare-d in ih hall of the House and solemily an nounced that the Senate had finished its work and was ready t. adjourn. Clerk Gray of the House went over to the Senate and performed the same duty on the part of the lower body. The two bodiesnext sent commutees to the Governor to ascertain if he had any further conim-nications to make. The Governor answered that he was reading the appropriation bill and would know in a short time whether he would have any communication. Thirty minutes later the Governor siginel the appropriation bill and noti fid the Assembly that lie had no fur ther communications. Adjournment was then taken. LIVELY IN THE SENATE. The closing hours of the session in the Senate developed some lively and interesting incidents, some of which were whoTll unexpected. When the two houses adjourned Saturday ight they were in a sort of deadlock over the legislative appropriation, general appropriation and Dispensary bills. During the interregnum. so to speak, these matters wvere adjusted by com mittees of free conference, whose ac tion is fully set forth in the account of the proceedings in the House. The Senate adopted without discussion the reports from the conferences upon the two appropriation bills, which was to be expected, as those reports practical [v endorsed the entire stand taken by the Senate. The Senate spent considerable time n executive session, and there were some lively discussions over a number of the appointments made by Gover nor Evans, several of which were re jected. The Senate only makes public its action upon such nominations as it confirms, but the enter prising newspa per man does not let that bother him much; it simply entails a little extra work upon him, and, in the language of a certain little classic p~oemi, he "gets there all the same." The execu tie sessions might as well be doiie away with for all the secrecy that is obtained by their holding. Somehow or other thines will leak, and it is fun ny how quic~dy the aforesaid enter p-ismng newvspaper man finds out where suchi leaks are. The unsophisticated wonder how the reporters get on to the secrets of the executive sessions.. Well, they will have to continue to wonder, for no newspaper man was ever known to give away the sources of his information as to matters sup posed to have been conducted on the dead quiet."~ When bothered with questions on that score, he simply looks wise and refers with a knowing smile to the familiar old grape vine. or to the newer kinetoscope, and leaves his interrogator to fig-ure out how from them he obtained thie in for mation about matters too sacred for the public or the press to see conduct ed. But that is too long an introduction upon a matter that required no very great skill to obtain. The Charleston appointments caused a reat dealof talk~some rather warm at "that, but they stood. Senators uist and Barnwell, particular-ly the latter, were much opposed to the noxo inees sent in by the Governor. partic larlv to his refusal to nominate Jus tice Burnet, who has held his position ever since '76, and who has the esteem o the entire Charleston Bar. The talk s simply wasted breath for the ap pointments went through wtth a rush. When Richiland was struck the re sut was somewhat diff'erent. The firist app ointment for this county ope~ned a figt. Senator Sloan did n~ot unt the appointment of Dr. Hopkins as Coun tv Auditor confirmed, and talked out in meeting. He had not a word to say about Dr. Hopkins personally,. nior could he have madec any objection on1 that score for Dr. Hlopkin's is as clever a gentlemran as therie is in Richland Count';. Senator Sloan fought the ap poinunent on another line entirely. He held that the appointment ought not to be confirmed because the place in his opinion belonged to Mr. So uier, who was nominated for it in the Dem ocratic primary which was held prior to the bolt which carried Columia for a Republica~i Congressnl:an and iche land for an independent gubernatorinu candidate. A number of the R-eform~ Senators coincided with this v-iew (of the case, and, owing to the abs~ence of several of the "stalvwarts." the appoint mn-t of Dr. Hopkins went by the boad, the confirmationi being irefuse-d. The -ffect upon thec situation will be small, for Dr. Hopkins will get the po sition without regard to the Seniate s wishes. Senator Moses of Sumiteir took a lit tle hand in enlivening the proceedhing. and secured the dlefeat of four out of eight of the Trial Justices nommiiate~d fo'r Sumter County. la each case be gave more or less plausible reasons h the appointments ought not to be con timned. The nominees were tur ed own and the reasons given by Mr. Moses are as follows:. J. W. Broadway, nominated to be Trial Justice in Privateer andl Manches ter Townships; turned down because he di no wan thnosition. Mr. Moses subunitting a letter from him to that effect and also endorsing the incum bent. L. ). .leimings.noinated to be Trial .Justice of Providiebhee and Raft ing Creek Township.:md t urned down because lie lives at the extreme end of his district, some thirt y miles from the other end. Daniel Keels. appointed to be Trial Justice of Shiloli and _Mayesville Town ships: turned down because he lives thirteen miles from Mavesville. There is a Dispensary in Mayesville and Mr. Moses urged that for the enforeement of the Dispensary law the Trial Justice for that district ouglht to live nearer to Mavesville. B. P. Kelly. nominated .to be Trial Justice for Wedgelield Township; re ;ected because of submission to the Senate of a paper of soie sort a-sscrt ing that every white man in that town ship except Ker. elly and one other wanted the inconbent, J. M. 310seley. reappointed. And Senator Verdier was also ini it. but to a less extent. He secured the defeat of the confirmation of C. E. Foy, appointed to be Trial .ustice at Grahamviille, because of some charge or other that lie changed his residenee more or less promiseuouly in erder to get the aforeseid appointment. Some obieetion was made tothe appoitient of'H. C. Pollit-er as Auditor. but he got there with hoth feet. Senator liowr-r was also modxest. He secured the defeat of J. H. Williams. appointed to be Trial Justice of No. 0 After % little reces; for the purpose f seein how brea1Kfast tasted after 1i ur h t o (%rk bfore 1su-11u. the .s natot (owni to business ind st irred up a arr eze over th:e Dipsary Act. Whe th bi emn over f1rom1 the wii:-h wre adopted. WVhile there was no dtnial of tei fat that those nIaenits were adopted. unfortu natelv by sone accidenat they were not incorpolated in the bill, nor was there any record of thii in the journal of the Senate. The lIouse objected to soic of the Senate anendments which were incorporated in the bill and a committee of free conference was fin ally needed to settle these differences. This committee discovered that the Senate Judiciary Committee amend nients were not ncorporated inr the bill. but the House members of the conference committee refused to con sider the aiendnents that had been omitted, saying that they had no autho rity to do so as their body had not acted upon them. Senator Bar: well held that because of the fact that the Senate auendments had ;ot been incorporated in the bill, the report ought to be rejected, which would have the elfect of killing the bill. He made a long argument in favor of this course, holding that the omitted amendmineits were of sufficient importance to justify it. One of these amendments killed the section allow ing the Solicitors and .1 udges to secure and grant a change of venue before a grand jury reported a true bill in a ase of alleged violation of the Dis pensary law. The loss of record of that amendment left tihat section liv ing. The -other amendment was of minor umportance. Mr. Barnwell held that retention in the bill of the above section, which the Senate had stricken out on an unanimous report of its Judiciary Conunittee. was wrong. and that the section itself was in violation f the Constitution. for that instru ment requires the submission of alli :avits to secure a chiange of venue, while the section allowedT Solicitors to ask for changes of venue at their own :iscretion, and the Judges the same freedom as to granting it. He further held that changes of v-enue could only be granted by Circuit courts, in cases of which they had original jurisdiction and that a' court had no jurisdiction of a case until the prisioner was at the bar and lie was not there until a grand iry had reported a true bill. 'Messrs. Wilson and MIay tield stated that the time was too short to allow them to make speeche~s; they simply warned the Se nate that if the report was not adlopted the bill would be killed. Mr. Kirkland said he thought the bill ought to be killed for it wa~s wrong to enact into law anything that the Senate had by its vote condemnedl. The report was adopted by a vote of 13 to 7. as follows: Yea s-Barton. Brice, Douglass. Du Bose. Efird. Fuller. Harrison, .1 ordan, Mafield. 3MeDaniel, Ragin. Williamis nd Wilson. Na vs-Barnwell, Buist. Kirkland. Miller. M10ses, MIower and Verdier. So the Dispensary bill stands and will become a law as soon as it receives the Governor's signature. The bill reducing the Shieritfs fees n certain counties for dieting prison ers from :3u cents per diem to 23 cents was put1 in tihe cokt, cold soulp. Some dite renmces between two houses as to :at bill -. re submitted toa committee i free con ferece.C which reported that erain otheri counies be included. Rersen tatives. 0f thiose conuties. par icularlyh ChlesIton, kicked vigoro0us lv and'thle Liriends of tihe bill sa'id they did not careL to include tunder its opera tios counties x whi( ch d niot want it. Te ret~ji ot' the conm~iiittee upon the ) i was almost unaimo~us.ily~ rejected. which kils the bill. - 31uch of the time of tie Se'nate was Spent in ratification of Acs Senators 3Maylield. Sloan and Bumst were appoinited a couiiini'tee to wait pni the G overno:'r and mfom~ 1 hun that the Seinate had ti ni-shed it b usi n OSS anid was ready to adjourni i e had no farthxer c.ommumeifationsl~ to mae to it. After Gjoi veror xi Evas had signed- the appropeiationi bile iniormed the Generai~i Assembily that1 he had no furthe.r mesc.-ies for it n then the Senate. adjaurn sit no die. A:i-:sosS C.. Dc.' 2 . homi cdte wais cannite (at iiinldletoni last Saturday nighmt. the party dloing the killing Lein<.r 10Thn Dickson. whio shaot rougitt xlie men. It semi that the two were rivais for the hanid of a voung woman a oy then .me of Carroll. ' hev ment at heri fati( he' house. Dick s nasked the young lady\ to go out on th piazza with1 him. Sae declined to do so and i ckson starited out of the house. At the door he turned and cursed'( :icAll ister and d rewy i s pistol and .shlt him dead. Dicksoni escap~d aid has not yIt beenI apprWehenlded. STY famiulies of Illmder. whol have lived ini 31achigii fori ai nonbei)r If veurs. ire said toI be. en route rom laluazoo) to) haieigh adl mungage la ie raising of (eler. Thuey say that in North Car olina they will be able to raise celery the v-ear round m. Three hundred ao'es will he planited in elr at oce. and the aereai.e will be grad FROM LAKES TO GULF. THE GREAT STORM EMBRACES A VAST TERRITORY. The 3lississippi Valley and East to the Atlantie Encased in Snow and Ice Many Shipwrecks on New England's Coast. WASmNGToN, Dec. 27.-Last night's stortm prevailed with varying intensity ovethe entire country east of the Rocky Mountains.. It was most severe ac,:;- the North Atlantic coast and in the region of the Great Lakes. From eighIteen inches to two feet of snow is reported from Northern Pennsylvania and.Central and Northern New York. At York, Pa., the storm is described as a blizzard. and one man was found frozen to death this morning. At -Lock Haven. Pa.. with twenty inch!esof snow on a level. driftsof four to sev'en feet were found, and travel of all t-inds is practically suspended. At., Hazleton, Pa.. freight traffic on the railroads has been aliandoned and passeiger trains are much delayed. All e-eries have suspended, throwmg 20.000 men out. A passenger train on ihe Lehigh Valley road this morning ran into a snow bank at Pennsylvania Haten Junction. derailing the train and wreckingIthe engine. 'uJburn, N. Y.. reports severai pas singr trains stalled in snow drifts and the uassengers fed by farmers until re iea"s':d. County highways are inipas 03-e'ego and WAtertown., N. Y., re )o the storm a blizzard; wind tifty wo niles aln hour. twenty inches of sno n ,a level and drifts of enormous prapOrtions. Travel is practically sus I) n1ded. ~-.ortland, :Me., reports a gale with sui-wand hail. No vessels arriving or At Bo'ton, six inches of snow, wind fihyty-two miles anhour with the tem perature scarcely above freezing and snow turning to rain. In Montreal, the street car tracks are blocked and traffic suspended. Along the eastern part of New Jer sey, about six inches of snow fell. mixed with rain and greatly impeded travel. Nearly every town along the Jerser coast reports vessels in distress along the shore. At Cape May, the schooner Rodman R. Nickerson is ashore. Seven of the crew were rescued by the life savers and the cook was drowned. At Atlantic City, nearly all the bath ing houses were 'destroyed and much other damage done. At Par Rockaway. N. Y., an unknown bark is ashore with life savers unable to reach her. SKATING IN THE STREETS. WASHINGToN. Dec. 27.-The streets of Washington were almost impassible to day. No such severer infliction of tempestous wihther has been known here for many years. A heavy snow fall of yesterday afternoon was fol towed by a cold rain and then by bit iug winds and keen frost, and conse cnyjv the streets and sidewalks are [ai. oir in ridges of corrugated ice, whieh render locomotion extremely dilicult. Slight flurries of snow pre vailed during the morning but not enough to smooth over rock-ribbed surface of streets. Of ninety-seven Western Union wires extending from Washington to New York City. only tw~o were in fair working order at 10 a. nm. ICE BOUND. PENNSYLVANIA. SCRANTON, Pa.. Dec. 27.-Since 7 'elock last night a snow storm of blizard proportions has raged con inuously throughout Northeastern Pennsylvania. equal almost to the great storm of seven years ago, when tis region was isolated for a nearly week. Only* local passenger trains are running. Throngh trains on the Dela ware. Lackawanna and Western ad the Jersey Central railroads are ompletely tie'd up by immense drifts r hich fill the mountain cuts. There is aentire blockade of-every electric treet ear line, and traffic is at a stand still on all city throughfares. All chools are closed, pupils and teachers eing unable to get to the buildings in the city and country districts. UNPLEASANT IN BALTIORE. BALTIORE. Dec'. 27.-Snow, sleet ad rain. alternatcly throughout the ight. filled the streets with slush and mpeded traffic. Three and a half in ces of snow fell before it turned into ain. This morning a light snow is alling and there is a high wind. All n-conming vessels are behnd time and hose scheduled to depart are delaying hei.' trips. Telegraph wires are in ad shape, but meagre reports from estern Maryland cities indicate small blizzards prevailing there. SEVERE IN ST. LOUIS. sT. LotrIs. Dec. 27.-The mercury is slowly traveling dowvn the tube and at o'eiioek this morning registered 8 de remes above zero. The Iirst snow of thei season is falling with indications f continuing several hours. Reports from points south of here. including orthern Texas. state that the weather s cold and snow falling in many places. HEAVIEST SNOw IN YEAF~s. WHEELING. W. Va..- Dec. 27.-Tfne eaviest snow in years fell here last iht and this m'orning. Snow fell otinually from 4 o'clock yesterday ifieroon until 3 o'clock this mcring. rains are all Ilt and street car tr-allic s ompilletely block-aded.. A BLow ON THE LAKES. 1kLUTH, Minn.. Dec. 27.-Tlhe cold est wavec of the season struck Duluth restrdar. andi~ the mecuryii has steadi v lowered, with the wind blowing~ hirt e-five milesan hour. This morn inr it is 16; degrees below zero. This is the first time in several years that there has been no sleighiing in Decem SLEEIN IiN 7. ANESVILLE. ZAxF:svu.LE. O.. Dec. 27.-Snow be ai failling yesterday afternoon, and i~s coint inuted att initervals since.Th gir tund is c:overedl to a depth of six jiches. The miercury stands about 10 above zer~o. (LEAR iN DETRoIT. DErToiT. Mien.. Dec. 27.-The weter~ todav is clear and coldl. Ther ws a light Ilur-ry of snow early in the Iio~arng. C'LEVELANiD STREETS BLOCKED. CLEVELAND. 0. Dec. 27.--The city was visited by a heavy snow storm copniied i~v high winds last night. Street railwar'tratlic was interfered with and sidewalks were blocked by high drifts. AN oLD FASHIONED SNOW. CiiAGo. .1ll., Dec. 27.-After a short inrii ion towards morning, tie snow which hiad been falling dur ig the greater part of last night. be ga to conme down again with renewed vigor arid old fashioned snow storml now in progr'ess. Street railway lines -,.r.k.ng,. ha- with snplows to keep their tracks clear, hut indications are there will be a blockade before ev ening if flakes continue -to fly. The cold early this morning was much greater than later in the day, the ther mometer registering twelve above at 10 o'clock. All trains from the North west are reported late this morning. At the weather office it is stated snow storm general throughout the coun try. and all points in Illinois report worst storm of the season. SEVERE STORM AT CAMDEN. N. J. CumDE-N. N. J.. Dec. 27.-The storm in this vicinity was the most severe since the evelone of 1SSC. Electrical wires of all kinds wre torn from their fastenings and poles were blown down by the high wind. Market street. one of the principal thoroughfares was lit erally blocked with the debris until late in the day. The danger of fire and loss of life from the wires was so great that the electric lightin-plant was closed down and the city is <Yepending upon gas, oil and candles for light toight. Sever al houses were unroofed and partly de stroyed. trees hy the scores uprooted and many people injured by flying debris. FROM SNOW To RAIN. QUAANTINE, L. I., Dec. 27.-The hail and snow storm which set in short iv after sundown last evening, setting into a heavy rain storm during the early morning hours, and accompan ied by fresh northeast winds. caused an unusually high sea in the upper and lower bay this morning. At 9 o'clock the wind was still blowing fresh from the northeast. An unusu ally high tide washed upon Staten Is Land shores this morning. but no dam age of a serious nature is reported. AT PITTSBURG. PITTSURG. Pa.. Dec. 27.-The snow storm which began at 3 o'clock yester day afternoon continued until 11:30 O'clock this morning. Throughout the night heavy winds caused much drift inr. Street car traflic was greatly im pe'ded and trains on all railroads are from one and a half toffour hours late. Indications are that the snow fall is over for the present. The depth of snow given by the United States sig nal otlicer is 12L inches: maximum temperature 32 degrees; minimum tem perature IS degrees. A FALL OF 72 DEGREES. SioUx CITY, Ia.. Dec. 27.-Intense cold has prevailed here since yester day morning, the mercury dropping fr;m 60 above to 12 below. 25 DEGREES BELOW ZERO. ST. PAUL. Minn., Dec. 27.-This was the coldes day of the winter in Min nesota. the temperature ranging from 14 below zero at 7 a. m. to 4 blow at 9 p. m. Out in the State the range was from 25 below at Grand Rapids to 20 below at Still Water, but it is moder ating rapidly. THE LATEST BANKING PLANS. Wherein the Committee's Snbstitute Dif fers From the Carlisle Bill. The substitute for the pending cur rency bill, which Mr. Springer has laid'before the House consists of the amendments whteh -nave Udenagreed upon by the Democratic members of the conmittee; some were suggested by Mr. Carlisle. and certain features of the Carlisle bill it has been deemed advisable to retain. Mr. Springer ex plained the important changes made in the Carlisle bill and their effect, as follows: First-Permitting the deposit of cur rency certificates issued under section 5.193 of the Revised Statutes to secure circulation, as well as the deposit of legal tender notes and Treasury notes. These certificates represent legal tender notes actually held m the Treasury~and the effect of depositing certificates is, therefore, the same precisely as to re uire the deposit of notes. Second-So amending the present law as to permit State banks to deposit legal tender notes and procure these currency certificates in tile same man ner that National banks are now per mitted to do. Third--Dispensing with the provision which authorizes an assessment upon the National banks to replenish the safety fund for the redemption of the ntes of failed banks, and. in place of this provision, inserting one providing that the collection of one-fourth of a ent tax for each half year shall be re smed wh-ien the safety fund is imparied ad continued until the safety fund s restored. Fourth-Authorizing the Comptrol ler of the Currency, instead of the anks themselves, to designate the gencies at which National bank notes hall be redeemed. The effect of this ill be to secu-re the redemptoin not oly at the office of the bank, but also t the other places accessible to note olders. Fifth-Dispensing with the provis ion comp)elhing existing National banks o withdraw their bonds now On de )osit. and take out circulation under the new svstemi. and in lieu of that: >rovsion inserting one permitting the banks to withdraw their bonds if1 hey see proper to do so, by deposit ing'lawf'ul money as now pond ced by aw, and then to take oist circulation uder the new system if they choose odo so. Sixth-Providing that the notes of failed National ban~ks which are not edeemed on demand at the otlice of the Treasurer of the United States. >r an assistant Treasurer of the United Staes. shall bear- interest at the rate of 13 per' cent. per annum from the date of the suspension of the bank ntil thirty days after public notice has been give1n that public funds are on hand for their redemption. This imposesC no obliigation on the ~art of the United States to use its. wn funds for the redemptions. as the safety fund is in the hands of the Treasurer. and lhe will redeem notes out of that fund. It is not necessa'y to repeal the repealing clause in sec tion 7 s rec'onstructed, because sec tion 1 as proposed to be amended repeals all bohnd reureet as to ~an ks taking out circuilatio:n under the propo.sedl biil: nor is it neces sarv in setionl 7 to set Out how the noes of e'xisting banks shall be re leeed. when lawful money has been deosited, because the present law prvdsfor all that. In regard to the p~rovision making the notes of failed banks bear inter 'st. it is absolutely necessary to re quire their presentation at some place before they begin to bear interest: otherwise it is im possible to frame a clause which wouldc not make all of these notes bear interest from the date of suspension, even though there might be funds on hand to pay themi. There are ten sub-treasuries in the United States. and ther-e will be nlo fliculty in presenting the notes if the hol'der of themi 1as auny doubt about their immediate redemption and thu akin. them boer interest. ON HIS DIGNITY. SPEAKER JONES RESIGNS AND THEN RECONSIDERS IT. He Construes a Vote of the House as a Tote of Want of Confidence and Resigns. The House Cans Him Back-A Dramatic Scene. I COLMMIA, S. C., Dec. 22.-The night session in the House started off without incident, and there did not seem to be the least nroqpect of any thing occurring beyond such as is us. ual to the end of a legislative session, such as conference reports. etc.. but it is "always the unexpected that hap pens," and it did happen and in this wise. The majority of the House wants a $5 per diem for this season, claiming that the salary reduction bill should not affect them if it did not affect the State officers. The Senate and a mi noritv of the House favor a $4 pr dien, and to adjust the differences tween the two Houses a conference committee was appointed. On the part of the House Speaker Jones appointed at the morning session Messrs. Brea zeale, Thomas and Whitmire. and at the night session this committee rec onmended an agreement with the Sen ate. This report did not suit the $5 men and they claimed that it did not reflect the sentiment of the majority of the House, and Mr. Cooper of gle ton offered a motion that the House proceed under rule 16 to elect a com mittee. Messrs. BreAzeale, Thomas, Winkler and one or two others opposed the motion as a slap at the Speaker, or as one that might be so construed, even if not so intended by the mover. The motion of Mr. Cooper was put and carried by a vote of 45 to 44, and then followed one of the most sensa tional incidents of the session. Pend ing the announcement of the vote Speaker Jones had called Mr. Breazeale to the chair and when the vote was announced, he at once stepped out. on the floor, and in a clear ringing voice, said: "Mr. Speaker, I have the honor to tender my resignatidn as Speaker of this House." The scene that for a few moments followed this announcement bafflesde scription. For a mcment there was a dead silence and then Mr. Bacot, ad dressing the tempora presiding offi cer, said: "Mr. Speaker, I imove that this House do refuse to accept the Speaker's resignation." The motion was put and carried unanimously, and the voice of Speaker Jones was heard again, declaring that he would no longer serve as Speaker, and a mo ment or two later he retired from the hall. Then for a few moments there was scene of confusion and the House did not seem to know what to do in the dilemma that confronted it. Some half a dozen or so moved that the House take a recess for fifteen minutes, but this was Vted down. Mr. Thomas moved to reconsider the Cooper resolu tion and this motion would have gone, through like a flash, had not Mr. Cooper taken the floor and withdrawn it~ eGary thio&ff aed a resolution, that the House appreciatet isti guis hed services of the Hon. Ira B. Jones as its Speaker and had every confidence in his ability and integrity, and requested him to reconsiderhis re signation. This was adopted unani mously and conveyed to Mr. Jones through Messrs. Otts, Goodwyn and Cooper, as a committee from the House In a few minutes they returned with him, and as he reentered the hall he was received with loud applause, in which the galleries joined. Upon resuming the chair, Speaker Jones said that he appreciated the great honor they had done him in re calling him to the chiar, and he felt veryv deeply this expression of their kind feeing. He had felt that the vote on the passage of Mr. Cooper's resolution offered under the peculiar circumstances was a vote of want of confidence, for which the rules of the House permitted such a resolution. He had never known one such passed in the history of legislation in this State, and he had too much pride to occupr-Ahe'-seat of p residing officer over- a'Hou~se'tt lacked confidence in~ him. All men were liable to mistakes and he was glad to know that he had mistaken the sentiment of the House. This ended this dramatic incident ~ and from that time forward everything -- went on smoothly. A new conference committee on the per diem bill con sisting of Messrs. Cooper, Townsend and Floyd was appointed. At a few minutes to twelve, the ap propriation and per diem bills and several other measures being still in the hands of the conference committee the House adjourned until 3 o'clock to morrow morning, by which time the engrossing department will be up with its work. and an agreement be tween the two houses reached in time for an adjounment before noon omor row. A Horrible Fate. MoPnmS, Tenn., Dec. 22.--Mable Shelton, aged 3 years, was burned to death, her 5-year-old sister was killed by being thrown from a second story window, and the mother lies injured at the city hospital beyond hope of reovery as the result of a fire ait 42~ Echols street tonight. The family lived~i on theA second story of a frame house. The mother niad just put the children in bed when the tire burst through the door, prevent-. ing excess except by way of the win dow. The mother threw one child out of the window, crushing. its head on the pavement below. Shie started to get the other child, but her own cloth ing took fire, and she was forced back. Then she jumped thrcugh the win dow. The skeleton of the burned child was found after the flames were subdued. Tillmian's Portrait. CommIBa. S. C.. Dec. 22.-A life size portrait of ex-Governor Tillman ainted by an Atlanta artist has been bought by the friends and admirers of the senator elect and was presented to the house today. in a special message from Governor Evans. The house ac cepted the picture and ordered that it be hung in a conspicuous place on the walls. It will go up someyhere near the portaits of Butler and Joh B. Gordon. ________ The gallows has been abolished in Michigan. The severest punishment that can be inflicted upon a murderer in that State is imprisonment for life. From October 15 to November 30, there were eight murders and proba bly half a dozen murderous assaults committed in the State. These facts will be brought before the coming legislature in an argument favoring the re-enactment of the old law carry THE CURRENCY BILL. Judge Crisp, of Georgia, Is of the Opinion it Will Fa. WASHINGTON, D. C.. Dec. 24.-The vote on the currency bill will be tak en one week from New Year day. This has been practically decided unon by the Speaker and the committee on rules. Judge Crisp is still of the opin ion that the bill will pass. It is rather difficult to judge of the fate of a meas ure by the way congressmen talk as they talk one way and vote another. Represensative Patterson,of Memphis. for instance, who is the most pro nounced supporter of the administra tion on the floor endorses the measure and will vote for it, but in his anxiety fears that it may not pass. Represen tative Ellis. of Kentucky, on the other hand, who voted against the bill in the committee, spoke against it on the floor, and pronounced it vicious in private thinks that it will probably wedge through the House. This shows what a narrow margin the bill has either for or against it. The change of lights on the meas ure, however, and the few ornate coaches which have been added to it 'will help its passage inasmuch as it will give many of those who have pronounced against it an opportunity of voting for it. There is Walker of Massachusetts, who has leading the opposition who says that the amend ments that have added to it bring it very close to his own financial meas ure. If he can get an amendment or two more tacked on it he will claim the entire scheme as his own and vote for it. While he will not carry many Republicans with him yet there will be suffcient number from that party voting in its favor to put it through the House. It is talked here on the quiet that while Reed is supposed to be against the entire measure he is hunting for votes for it with a dark lantern. He clearly sees that if all financial legis lation fails at this session it will be a bugle call for an extra session of Con gress and the whip lash and the reins will be placcd in his hands. This is just what he doesn't want. He wants to keep off the congressional talloho just as long- as possible. He is even so afraid of getting mixed np in this cur rency scheme that he -will not remain on the floor while the debate is pro ceeding. So in fact while the Repub licans are claiming to make party warfare on the measure yet those who have presidential bees buzzling about their heads are anxious to see it ass. Now that Mr. Cleveland is back re cruits to the bill may be expected from some of the members of the eastern delegations. Burke Cochran who be gan with a mighty roar against the measure subsided to a whimper and has finally refused to grunt which is his wont to do when, buttacily op posed to a bill. Before another fort night rolls around it will be seen'that he is for it. De Witt Warner who started on a straddle has veered around to side saddle and is ready at a moment's notice to leap among the administration forces and fight with them. The majority of the Democrats in the House, however, are in a posi tion that a criminal might be in Wash ington when the chance is offered him to get out. He might choose Baltimore or he might choose Rich mond, but gosomewhere he must. So it is with te pack of congressional members who have got to do some thing. They may not altogether agree with the entire scheme, but with Mr. Carlisle sitting in the Treasury telling them that it is political and financial suicide to remain where they are they have to get somewhere and do that quickly. Let it be remembered that another bond issue is staring them in the face and if they have eyes that can see be-. yond their noses they realize another one and another one still is not so~ very far distant unless some short cut is taken. As an abstract proposition the bill is unpopular and if-a. vote should be taken at the p resent time the probabilities are that the bill would fail, but another week remains for debate and in the meanttme con gressmen will have ~been home and learned a few things that they cannot learn here. In fact logical reasoning doesn't always predict correct results in and about the Capitol and it is more often that what appears impos sible really comes to pass. One ha but to remember the repeal of the pur chasing clause of the Sherman law and the passage of the tariff bill to predict with some safety the fate .of the present bill in spite of the contin ued interviews on the part of the op position.-Augusta Chronicle. A Maniae Brid. ETEHART. Ind., Dec. 21.-Frank Perry and Frances Conley, the daugh ter of wealthy parents, after a court ship of four years, eloped last Sunday because of parental objections. Yes terday the young bride became a rav ing maniao, and was prevented from kifling herself only by the herculean efforts of her husband. She attempted to thr'o'am~~elf from the third story of the St. Jose ph aney hbs hud ing. 11er hallucination is that her parents would reproach her and that she would not become heir to her fath er's estate. Her cries brought a thous and people to the bank building, where Mrs. Perry hung tow-thirds out of the window, making frantic efforts to cast herself to the payment. Perry in an instant grasped her about the body and for several minuttes the struggle for mastery was witnessed by the horror sticiken throng. When assistanee came, she was saved from a horribie death. The unfortunate woman was taken to the house of her parents, she partially recovered her senses but there is little hope that she will be sane again. WITUT attracting a large degree of public attention, the life-saving service does its work faithfully anad well from year to year. The annual report of its operations for the last twelve months shows nearly 4,000 shipwrecked persons rescued and neerly $.u00.00 worth of property savedf, all at a cost of $1.250,000. More disasters occurred during the year than in any previous year in the history of the service. THE New Orleans Daily States says. "Governor Tillman prides himself on being something of a talker, but he will r-ealize whecn he gets into the Senate that he is a mere whiffet compared to the tireless old storm caves, who con stitute the membership of that once aunumt body-"