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VER Y LIVELY D1SNTSS1i0 CoNTIN FD FROM li: oN. trol them then, but a most serious fea ture in the measure was that it would enable dispensaries to be established in those towns. and ruination would in evitablv follow. Mr.-W. D. Ev.aus-How could they do it when all the buildings belong to the franchise? Mr. McGPwan-) ou propose to make it a corporation, sir. Mr. Tillman-By your argument they would elect the mill president mavor, and if he said so vote against th&dispensary. How about that Mr. McGowan-I was using there your argument. Do you believe it would be well to have dispensaries in these towns! Mr. Tillman-Answer my question. Mr. McGowan-I follow your plan, and ask one in answer to-one. Mr. Tillman (from his seat) -No. Mr. Johnstone, in alluding to Sena tor Tillman's reference to the legisla ture, said it was 3hocking. pitiful, mis erable that such an estimate of the leg islature of South Carolina should be held as had been expressed on that floor. If he -had such an opinion of that body it could not give him an of fice. If factories can debauch the leg islature, let's abolish the factories or the legislature. If there exists the power of debauchery let's cut out the cancer. The factory oflicers.had told 4.im they did115t "wish himif&be incorpo rated because they did not wisLi whis key put upon theim. The principle of local self-government will be violated by this amendment by the gentleman of Edgefield as much as he claims the factory presidents violate it. Mr. Tillman-Why are other towns much.smaller incorporated? . Mr. Johnstone-If other towns wish it they get it. Look at the expense of a municipal government; if they do not wish it why thrust it upon them. Mr. G. D.'Tillman (from his seat) Tge cure is worse. than the bite. Mr.- Johnstone, continuing-"Ex cept the imperious will of the gentle man from ,Edgefield, there is no evi dence that these people wish to be in or. mTilian-Except that all other towns 'have it and-exdept that they have not got it. - Mr. Johnstone-Except that the gen tigraan from Edgefield admits that they have never asked for it. He cannot ecape the predicament -in which he has placed himself. ; There are 50,000 fa'ctory p lQ in South Carolina. He charges t~y'' ai% 'controlled by emplo ers. If .that is so, God help the rest. i d~ny'thie imputation upon them." Mr. Henderson said he had examined all the Constitutio&acf State in this Uaion, and was unable to find where compulsory incorporation was legal. The question was then called, and Mr. Georze D. Tillman's motion to lay all amen<ments on the table was car ried by a vote of 93 to 44. Mr. W. B. Wilson moved to strike out section 2. - Lost. Mr. Stanyarne Wilson moved to add to section 2, "except factory towns." Log brgthe following vote: Yeas 59, navs 73. - TIhe section was then adopted- as reotdby the committee. Mr.Henersn moved to strike out section 7 as the judical -committee -would cover the, .subject matter. Secins 16, 17 and is, relating to municipal elections, were stricken out *as the report 6f-the. committee on suf: frage would-cover-.the subject matter contained -in them. THE ARTICLE ADOPTED. The article a--municipal corporations and police regulations as amended was then passed to a third reading. The committee on education, or rather, three sections of it, made three different reports, differing as to some points, abut all agreeing on the follow no': A constitutional tax of three mihs; separate schools for whites and blacks; proper provision for the State University and Clemson College; pro hibition of all sectarian control or in fituence in any institution supported or aided by public money. -.THE PER DIEM. -Upon assembling at S o'clock the ar tidle on legislative department was takenup. The amendment of Mr. Gray of Greenville to section20, making pay of members of the ogeneral assembly -$4 instead of $3 per 'ay was taken up. Mr. Sligh favored the amendment. In fact he preferred to have it $5 a day. Mr. W. J. Montgomery was unable to find in the Constitution of any State where the per diem of legislators was absolutely fixed. Would any man on the floor engage now to pay a certain fixed sum to an employee 10 or20 years hence? Mr. Gray would rather vote $5 than $4. He had been a legislator for four years, and knew what the expenses were in Columbia and incidental to getting here. Mr. Burn was as much of an econo mist as any one, but the men who came here to represent the people should be paid enough to enable them to live here with proper dignity. Con gressmen and State officers were paid handsomely, but the effort was always made to cut the pay of the representa tives of the people. Mr. Sligh hadbeen doing some figur in.At $2 aday the pay of the mem $730 per annum; at $3 per day it was $1,t, t$-per day, the amount he wanted to ~ egislators, it would come to $1C460; at'Tri~tnae to $1,825 per year. Now the State otlrde receive $1,900, and he thought it was little enough to pay.'meibers of legis lature at. the rate of $440 less than State'officers, when they had to work hiarder. Mr. -W. D. Evansinoveda substitute that it be left to the legislature, and that the pyof members should not be reduced blow $4 per diem. Mr. Barton spoke i- favor of cutting down salaries. Mr. Shighr'moved- to lay Mr. Evans' amendment on the table. Lost. The- amendment-was then adopted. Mr. Bellinger then moved to lay the whole section -on the table, and leave it to the legislature. Adopted and clinched. Section 25 was amended so that of fi cers of militia and notaries public can be members of- legislature, and strik ing out trial justicesand judges of in ferior c'ourts as dligible to such elec tion: Mr. Sheppardamoved to recur to see tion8to aniend it liy adding the fol lowing. "Senators shall .betso classified that one-half of.their number, as nearly as practicable, shall be chosen every two years. Whenever the general assem bly shall establish more than one county at any session, it shall so pre scribe the first term of the senators from such counties as to observe such clsificaioni." Adopted. THE ir-s ELING o.\TH. Mr. W. B.~ Wilson fnored to strike out that part of section 27 providing, for taking the asi-dueling oath. Mr. Henderson- spoke against the motion. Mr. Hutson hoped the amendment would be adopted. We might as well have a similar oath for murder or any other crime. They were gom;: too much into details. Mr. Clayton was not an apologist for duelng. Hehored the day was a long way oti wihe any it aki in South Caro lina would be. But this oath was such that the pardon of the governor, while reimvving the disabilities from the man committing arson or rape, and en abling hiimi u hold olice, could not re move it in this case. This had been a phantom, intending to cure an evil, and had resulted in making black guards of gentlemen, and in causing the loss of more lives by assassinations than-were ever lost under dueling law. The convention refused to strike out the oath by the following vote3 Yeas 59. navs.77. Mr. Stanvarne Wilson moved to amend by iaking the oath applicable to duelin'g in this State: . lie believed it was only theintention to preserve peace in this State and that gentlemen were not concerned about what their fellow-citizens did in other states. Few laws had so seriously at'ected the manhood of our men as the anti-duel ing law. Mr. Sligh novcd to table. Carried by a vote of 85 to 52. "The -Ti4lman brothers voted in the negative. Mr. Byrd offered an amendinent ex cepting ~State oflicers and meibers of the legislature. He made a speech on the line that campaigners were subject to insult, and because they were known to have their hauds tied, bullies sending challenge and holding them up as cowards because they could not be accepted. Laid on the table. Mr. Jervey moved to change the form of the oath so tha.t -:ie'--offer would only swear that -he will not en oage in a duel as principal or second auring his term of oflic6. Ibid on the table by a vote of 67 to 60. James Wigg moved to include in the oath "or in a lynching bee " so that a lyncher would be debarred .holding office. The question wxgput -. de clared lost while Wigg -was hlo ing the floor and calling on the president: Wigg-.Ir." President, I have t'he floor. Mr. Talbert-Well, hold it.' He was finally recognized and Vfigg made a good .speech on the line-indi cated by his amendment. The-. vote was again taken and his amensinient tabled. Mr. Johnstone amenddhe"soh prohibiting the paymgnt -of salaries of State officers after theii death by -ad ding "and no pensions shall be granted except for military service." i Section 27, on which a fight is ex pected, was passed, and section 28 called up. A LiVELY D;BA-E. The sections up to section 34 were adopted at once. Sectioi-34 read as follows: The marriage of a white person with a negro or mulatto or person who shall have any negro blood, shall be unlawful and void. - When it was called up, Gen. Smalls startled the convention and created a dignified stampede from the galleries. He offered the following as an amend ment to follow after "void - "And that any white petson who shall live and cohabit with a negro or mulatto or person who shal have-one eighth or more of negro blood shall be disquallified fro oldin"ingk of fice of emolument or trust in t~s *State, and the offspring from any such liv ing or cohabitation shall bear the name of the father and shall be entitled to inherit and acquire~property the: same as if they were legitimate" Smnalls spoke to the subtject at length. He noped the gentlemen would vote here to purify t uemselves; stheir.wo men were good and pure and he wanted the men to be. He read census returns showing the number of mulatfoes in the South. .He asked that~ey would put a stop to this crime;'bnew that if woman suffrage was allowed the women - would pass .some such law to purify the ien. . Mr. Cooper of Colleton moved. to amend Smalls' amendment by striking out the last 32 words relating to legit imatizing the offspring of the alliances. Mr. 'W.. D. Evans moved to lay both amendment-on. the table. The vote was very close,' and if anything the "noes" seemed to make more noise, but the motion was declared adopted. Mr. B R. Tillman took the floor and said he had been accused of being an arch enemy of the negro, but he want ed justifce, and he was now''going to show himself their friend. He ;renew ed the amendment of Mr. Cooper made to Mr. Smalls' amendment, and which had been declared tabled when ha did not believe it had been. He did not impute any unfair action on the part of the president. Mr. Talbert fired up instantly. The vote had been correctly stated, he said, and as long as he was in the chair he propsed to state it witho.ut assistance from the floor. Mr. Tillman reiterated that he had not desired to impute unfairness, and said he did not wish to get into a squabble. As the motion he had made was out of order, Mr. Tillman moved to recon sider the vote by which Mr. Cooper's amendent was tabled. This was car ried. Mr. Timmerman moved to adjourn. Lost. Mr. Price spoke against the amend ment. He believed it unconstitutional. How could they deprive a man of priv ileges for having illegitimate colored children, when they did not do so when the illegitimate children were white? It brought in the question of race-drew the color line. Mr. Lee was opposed to the amend ment. It was entirely out of place here. No man who could be convicted of living with a negro wtenan_ could ever be elected to an office in this State. Qen. Smalls spoke in reply to Mr. Lee . Tom Maeimlso had something to say. He evidently'thoug~t.Mr. Lee's propositionY did not hod g'df 1 that if this amendment was ado pted he ouaranteed to furnish valuable evi ence which would bar many men in high, places. Mr. W. D. Evans moved to table Mr. Cooper's a.mendment to Mr. Smalls' amendment. The ayes and nays were called, and the motion was lost by a vote oT 103 to 22 a~djourned. .- A QUESTION OF TALK. When the Convention reassembled this morning Mr. Sheppard, of the committee on rules, reported a provis ion as to pairs. It was adopted. Mr. Patterson moved to limit speeches to ten minutes each, except by consent of the Convention. This notion brought out a long discussion. Mr. Miller wanted to have more time-than that on the suffrage ques tion. . Mr. Wigg moved to amend by ex ceptigithe suffrage-article. Mr. J~ohns~tone said they were not all able to condense remarks as Mr. Pat terson; they did not want-to make - a Constitution by machinery. Mr. Patterson declared that some of them were being ruined by staying here, andi if they. did' not limit speech mking tiey would be here a month Ionger. A fter much discussion, a motion to .tabl~e the motion was killed, and it was adopted with the proviso that a speak er's time may be extended, on request, at the pleasure of the Convention. AS TO MILEAGE. The legislative report was taken up and Mr. Sligh offered the followinag in lieu of section 2i stricken outon Wed nesday nighit, relating to salaries: Each member of the general assem of travel in going and returning from r the place where the sessions of the I legtslature are held, and no general-|t assembiy shall havetha power to in- I crease the per diem of its own mem- I bers, and niembers -of the general as- ,' sembly, when convened, shall recer, r the same -compensation as is fixed by law for the regular .session and no I other. j SECTIoN TiRTY-FOUR. The section over -which there - was something .of a sensation oi ,. 0OCS:-. t day uight, caused by the Smalls reso- J lution. was'then called up. I Mr. Aldrich moved to strike out sec- I tion :1 Why was iA necessary to ' name mye crime and not name all? Was the crime mentioned 'more hein ous th'rWIurder, manslaughter, etc.? They had done a wrong to put that sec tion in there. and they could not pass r-nd stand before the world without passing something else. (Supposed ] reference to the Smalls amendment. I Mr. Johnson, after a spe-ed in which declared that God Almightv, 'declared the speaker never joined together the African and the Anglo-gaxon, - He moved to lay all amendments on the table. ~ Mr. Tillman attempted to get the floor. Mr. B. R. Tillman believed that if an indiscreet act had been committed, the gentleman from Barnwell: :(r. Aldrich) was responsilp. for it in try in($jobliterate section 34. The ques tion was here.: should we not meet it t like men? Whether the committee was wise in bringing in the section he would not say. If we pass a law mak- i ing ist unlawful for intermarriage. of the races, we cinnotin commonjus tice refuse t6 -punish a white nian for "ebauching a negro woman. He of fered this amendment and substitute, ] the ame.ndment to follow section;-34: ."And.the patijs1to- suehnarriage, V .orvictiq ial epunished as i the gineral ass -Mly my prescribe." ection 35: 'Any white '-erson who shall livendbhabit with a negro or mulatto, or person who shall have any negro blood, shall be'guilty-of aifiis demeqaorand shall. be-panished as the general aiinbly may prescribe. We dare not, said Mr. Tillman, pub lish it broadcast' that after this ques tion has come up we are afraid to act upon it. Mr. Johnstone declared that his mo tion was pending, and Mr. Tillman's amendment.was out of order. It was o held. Mr. Tilfi said that the question having been presented here, it should be acted on. Ajlludng to the senti ment at the no'rthi he declared that we knew nothing about it down-here. . They looked upon the intermarriage of races as natural, and he suppo'sd we would, be forced to shake them up there in this matter.. Public sentiment wasjndicated wher-the last cedsus for. New York State'showed that 1,300, whit'e women were wives of negro; mem . He had seen whitegirls waiters ii Massachusetts under orders of a negro head waiter. He had seen-a sad sight-a pretty girl, evidently with geritte blood in her veins. but who -had becomepr, married to a negro, and 1 with two mulatto children. He cited these things to show our ignorance of northern sentiment. Mr. Tillman then -toved to lay all pending amendments on the tablje1 This was carried with little opposition by a viva voce vote, the convention not seemingr to realize that they thus disps.ed:of' the Cooper amendment to Smalls' amendment, which they adopt ed the-night previous after a length'y. debate 'by .a vote of-lD3. to 22, 'and which reads as follows: ' And - that' any white person who shall live and cohabit with a negro or mulatto or person who shall have one eigth or more of nea'ro blood shall be< disqualified from hoI'ding any office of, em'folumnent or trustain this State." The question turned upon- a motion< j' Mr. G. D. Tillman to reconsider the vote by which the amendment to the original section, offered by Mr. John stone, was adopted. That.amendment inserted "any" instead-of "one-eighths or more," so that 'no imtermarriage of1 white persons with 'one of atify negio. bloo$d is 'permitted. 'ir. Johnstone spoke earnestly against striking out his amendment. He wanted AnglIo-Saxon purerule and~ *AgloSaxon pure blood, supen in, this State. He was oppos'ed to any in-j termIxture, whether there was 11 or 1 1-32. Mr. Sligh-Would you force aiiman of 1-16 or 1-32 to go back and raise up negroes. I should think it better to raise up white families. Otherwise, it seems to me, it would be unjust. Mr. Johnstone declared it would be.;. better by far to keep the man of all''i ages in the negro ranks than to mon grelize the races. . If you are going toi keep them separate, keep them separ- ] ate. If you are going to take down the barrier, take it down. After further discussion the motion to table Mr.' ~B. R. T'illman's amend ment,reading "and the parties to such marriages shall be punished as the general assembly may prescribe," was lost, 93 to 33, as follows: 14 Yeas-Aldrich, Barker,Behre.Brice, J. S.: Cunningham, Douglass, Evans.. 1 W.'D2; Farrow,.--Fraser, Gage, '&m:' ble, Garris, Gary, Gilland, Glenn, J. L; Gray, Jervey, Johnstone, Jorge, Kennedy, E. J.; Klugh, Lee, Meares, Peake, Rsaale, Read, J. H.; Red-. fearn, Slig, Stribling, Taylor, Till man, G. D.; White, A. H.; White, S. E.: Wilson, W. B.-33;. Nays-Alexander,' Austin, Barry, Barton. Bobo, BoWen, Bowman, Brea-. zeale, Buist, Burn, Byrd, Cantey,-Car-' - ver, Clayton, Connor, Cooper, DeHay, Dennis, Dent, Doyle, Dudley, Efird, Ellerbe, Field, Fitch, Glenn, J. P.; - Gooding, Gunter, Hamel, ,Harris, - Harrison, Haynsworth, Hender son, D. S.; Henderson, Win.; Henry, .i.ile4 HowelHutson, Irby, Johnson, T. E.: Jones, ~~ et''e, , Kennedy, J. W.; Lowmnan, Mc~alla. McCaslan,,.McCown, McDermotte, Mc' Kagen, McMakin, McWhite, Miller, Mitchell, Montgomery, J. D.; . Mont gomery, W. J.; Moore, Morrison, Nash, Nicholson. Oliver, Ott's, Par' rott, Pattersonm Perritt, Prince, Reed, John, Rogers) Rosbou~gh, Rowland, Russell, Sheppard, Sloan., Smalls, Smith, A . J. ; mith. Jetremiah; Smith,. R. F.; Smioak, Stackhouse, Stokes, Talbert, Tillman, B. R.; Timmerman, VonKolnitz, WatersWells,' Wharton, Wigg, Wiggins, -Wilaon, 'Stanyarne,' Woodward-93. There was some fuirther. talk about the matter..- Mr. .Tilldia'n-jtlidrew his substitute., Mr. - Henderson's amendment was laid on the tabile and.Secti-on 34 final" ly adopted. -.TO TAKE A. RECESs. At-the night session Mr. B. R. Til:l man offered the following: I Resolved, That when this convew-. tion adjourns Friday,. it .stand ad-c journed until Tuesday,. October 15th,s at 12 im. and that no pay be allowede during the recess except mileage. c Mr. Tillbnan said 'thatlin off'erings this resolutiori~he wanted to state rea sons promptiing him'. It is well know~n that on Saturday all lawyers will ab sent themselves with or without leave. They have- to go to'attend salesday. i It is thei'erop and it: i< their duty to theirclients?'- Then there aire farmers - here whose business demands their -t presence at home.*. The question- was- -luft on the adop tion of 'Mr. Tilhdtan's resolution. ThS' - ayes and noes were called with this 1 result; ve a Austin, Brk er, Ban, Bae. t: y, Bobo, Bowen, Bowman, B1reazeale, ,rice. J. S.; Buist, Burn, Byrd, Can ev. Carver, Clayton.Connor, Cooper, >ellay, Dennis, Doyle, Dudley, Eller .e, Evans, W. C.: Gamble, Garris, Tary. Gooding,. Gr am, Gray. lar is, Harrison. Ha ,'Havnsworth,lIfen erson, Wm.; Henry, .Iiers, Howell. Iutsou. Irby, Jolinstone, George: 'ones, Wilie, Keitt, Kennedy, J. W.: Clugh, Lowman, McCalla. MlcCaslan, IcCown, MMAItermotte.McGown, Mat hews, iller,;Mitchell, Montgomery. . D.: Mooi-e, Morrison, Nathans, icholson. Oliver, Parrott, Peake, >erritte, Ragsdale, Redfearn. Reed, ohn; Rogers, Rowland, Sligh,Sloan. mialls, Smith, Jeremiah: Staokhouse. 4tiibling, Tailor. Tillman, B. I.; illman, G, D.; VonKoluitz, Wells. X harton, Whipper, Wigg, Wiggins, Yoodward-83. Navs-Aldrich. Alexander. Barry, 3ehre, Cunningham, Douglass, Efird, arrow, Field, Fitch, Flovd, Fraser, Xage, Gilland, Glenn, J. L.: Glenn, F. P.: Gunter, Hamel. Henderson, D. .; Houser, Johnson,T. E. : Kennedy, . J.: Lee, McKagen, McWhite.Nash, )tts, Patterson, Prince, Rosborough, lussell, Sheppard, Smith, R. F.: .oak, Stokes, Talbert, Timmerman, White, A. H.: White, S: E.: Wilson, tanyarne--38. DOWN TO BLSINESS'. The president stated that there were ections of the Constituton to be read third time,and the clerk proceeded o read those on amendments, im )eachments, miscellaneous matters, nunicipal corporations and police -egulations and the report of same :ommittee on ordiance proposed by iqr. Farrow. - The first section on "miscell-neous natters" was amended on motion of fr. Gray so that the State librarian tmd department clerks may be women dr. B. R. Tillman thought the amend nent unneoessarj* to. accomplish the bject, but "let it go through-to pre rent lawrs getting out an injunc 'EH e amendment as adolited: -"Provided, Thdt tlepfovisi6n's of his Section shall not apply to the of ices of State librarian and department dI clerks, to either of which offices a oman. resident of the State two years 1na edgthe age of 2.1years (tn motion of Mr. Patton, the:sec ions ielating to exemption from taxa: ion was amended so as to'read thd#:s Section 8. Cities and towns may ex mpt from taxation by general or spe ial ordinance, except for- school pur poses, manufactures established with in their limits for five successive years Lom the time of the establishment of much manufactures; provided that much ordinance shall first -be ratified: by a majority of such quaMefid voters >f such city or town as shall vote at mn election held for that purpose." Mr. Patton spoke to his amendment, &hing that it was more explicit than he-section adopted, which left it in oubtas to whether the exemption of xdsshould run from five years from the adoption of the Constitution, or 'or five years from the action taken by .he city or town council. The ainend ment was put and passed. Mr. Wilson moved to reconsider. Mr. Ragsdale made several pertinent points. The memberiof this conven ion should be credited with being men mnd knowing whaf they were doing. When they passed upon a question entemen should not thfak that a lit le eloquence could turn their votes and hese" motions were simply wasting - eA He moved to lay the motion~of .i Wisoxito reconsider on the table, SThe rfotioli was put and carried in geat confusion. A half a dozen mem >ers were upon the floor calling to the aresident. ~Mr. Talbert declared the guestion to be upon the adoption of the hble section. A motion was made to trike out section S. He held it to be >ut of order. After five minutes of rapping, ex ,laining and restating the question as 1saw it, Mr. Talbert said that while le considered a motion'byMr. Wilson o strike out section 8 not in order. 1iere>eing a diversity of opinion he ould leave it to the house to say whether heshould entertain Mr. Wil on's motion' to strike'out section 8 the substitute offered by Mr. Patton nd accepted.) The ayes and nays ~ere ordered and the convention re used to alllow Mr. Wilson to make ,he. moQtion by the following vote: Yeas 6f nays 68S. Mr. W. D. Evans offered an anjiend nent to postpone the operation of the ection for ten years. Lost. Col. Sloan moved to strike out the ection abolishing the right of dower lands sold in the lifetime of the hus >and.. Mr. Rogers opposed the motion as lid Messrs. Sligh and Aldrich. Messrs 3urn aad Garrett wanted the section tricken out. Pending the debate the Convention djourned. . . g~ Black's- Majority. ATLAn, Oct. 3.--The official returns how that Major J. C. C. Black, Dem crat, defeats Thomas E. Watson. Pop ilist, for Congress in the tenth district y a majority of 1, (41. The election resterday was' one of the quietest ever eldin Georgia, a striking contrast to he one held just etven months ago. t that time three men were killed in he'streets 'ofAugusta -ani petty rows >ccurred throughout the several coun ies. Watson claimed that the~ elec ion was unfair, and Black, in defer ~nce to Watson's views, resigned. The pecial race of yesterday was honest in ~very sense.- New laws were-- respect Kin most eboanties and the majority or Blick shows that the district is )emocratic in a clean ballot. Watson ost in most of the counties from his rote of 18S94, and over a hundred votes n McDuflie,-his own county. Took Thirteen Thousand. *iOUNT VERiNON, Ind.; Oct. 3.-It ias been learned that Albert Wade, ssistant cashiier of the First National >ank, who disappeared Monday, took with him $7,000 in -gold and $6I,000 in ilver and paper belonging; to the >ank's depositors. The experts exam ning Wade's- books are not -ready to eport. Wade has not beern heard of ince he left the Louisville and Nash ile train at Nashville, Tenn., Mon lay evening. It is thought he has rone to relatives in Fort- Worth, Tex. [he fact-that Wade was a poker play-. ~rad lost large sums in that manner ~aused great surprise when it becam~e nown yesterday. Wade's bondsmen vill make his'shortage good. Blown Into Eternity.. SvaNnAu, Oct. 3.-A special to the iorning News fron' Waycross says: Ienry Carpentery .a. Plant system en ~ineer, and three negroes were killed >y a boiler explosion early this morn ng.a. sawmill near Alexanderville in thie YWest'Coast Line of the Plant ystem.. Carpenter was asleep necar his ngine, while the train was waiting for irders to leave thessawmill. The large awmilboiler exploded and Carpen er's head was blown oflf, Recent. Storm in Great Brit ian. London,- Oct. 3.-Muchi additional ireckage has been washed ashore in he vicinity of Ilfracombe, on the. Mti coast of Devonshire, and it is bought that several vessels founder d in the-Bristol Chann'el during the ecent gale. This would make the Lumber of craft of various descriptions :st over fifty, and may considerably acrease the loss of life, previously es mae at nlv twenty-four. TRE TFrA E PLANT REPORTED BY COMMITTEE TO THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION. Stringent negulatiosi- for the Exercise of the Elective Franchise--Ft 1 Text. of the Prop~osed Provisions. COLiuIA, October 2. -'Special: The long expected repoi-t of the conminttee on sull'rage was made to the Constitu tional Convention this afternoon. Fol lowing is the full text of lie proposed article: Sc. 1. All elections by the people shall be by ballot. See. 2. Every qualified elector shall be eligible to any otlice to be voted for unless disqualified by age. But no person shall hold 'two offices of honor or profit at the same time except oili cers in the militia and no-aries public. Sec. 3. Every male citizen of the United States. 21 years of age and'up wards, not laboring under the disabil ities named in this Constitution, and possessing the qualifications required by it, shall be a legal elector. Sec. 4. The qualifications for sulf rage shall be as follows: a. Residence in the State for two years, in the county one year, in the election district in - which the elector offers to vote four months, and the payment of a poll tax six months be fore any election: Provided, however. that ministers of the gospel in charge of an organized church shall be enti tled to vote after six months resi dence in the State, if otherwise quali fied. b. Registration which shall provide for the enrollment of every elector once in 10 years. c. The person applying for registra tion must be- able to read and write any section of the Constitution, or must show that he owns and pays tax es on.4300 worth of property in this State: Provided, That at the first reg istration under this Constitution and up to January 1, 1898, all msle per sons of voting age who can read a clause in this Constitution or under stand and explain it when read to them by the registration otficer shall be entitled to register and become elec tors. A separate record of all illiterate persons thus registered, sworn to by the registration officer, shall be filed, one copy with the clerk of court and one in the office of the secretary of state, on or before January 1, 1898, and such person shall remain during -life qualified electors, unless disquali fied by the provisions of Section 6 of this artidle. The certificate of the clerk of the court or secretary of state shall be sullicient evidence to establish the right of said class of citizens to registration and the franchise. d. Any person wh6 shall apply for registration after January 1, 1898, if otherwise qualified,may be registered: Provided, That he can both read and write-any-section of this Constitution or can show that he owns and haz paid taxes during the previous year on property in this State assessed at $300 or more. .e. Managers of election sha. require of every elector oIfering to vote at any election, before allowing him to vote,proof of the payment of all tax~es, including poll tax, assessed against him for the previous year. f. Registration certificates when lost shall be renewed if the applicant is qualified under the provisions of this Constitution, if he has been registered as provided in sub-section "c." Sec. 5. Any person denied registra tion shall have the right to appeal to any and all courts of this State to de termine the quest:.on under the limita tions imposed in this article, and the general assembly shall provide by law for the correction of illegal or fraudu lent registration and the punishment of the same Sec. 6. The following persons are disqualified from being registered or voting: First. Persons convicted of burgla ry, theft, arson, obtaining goods or money under false'pretenses, perjury, forgery, robbery,.britbery,adultry, .em bezzlemnent, bigamy, or crimes against the election laws: Provided, That the pardon of the governor shall remove such disqualification. Second. Persons who are idots, in sane, paupers sup ported at* the pubtic expense, and persons confined in any public prison. Sec. 7. For the purposeof voting no persou shall be deemed to hav-e gained or lost a residence by reason of his absence while employed in the service of the United States, nor while en gaged in the navigation of the water of this State, or of the United States. or of the high seas. Sec.8 . The general assembly shall provide for the registration of all qual ified electors, and shall prescribe the manner of holding elections and of ascertaining the results of the same: Provided, That each of the two parties casting thie highest number of votes at the preceding election shall have rep resentation on the board of managers at each precinct, and on the board of county canvassers in each county. Sec. 9, The several counties in the State shall be divided into election dis tricts, with one precinct in eacn of the same at which alone the voter regis tered for that precinct can cast his ballot: Provided, That a voter may be transferred from one election district to another. Sec..10. The general assembly shall provide by law for the holding of par ty primary elections and punishing fraud at the same. Sec. 11. The registration books shall close at least 301 days before an elec tion, after which transfers and regis tration shall not be legal, except as to persons coming of age in the interim. Sec. 12. Electors in municipal elec tions shall possess all the qualifications herein prescribed Sec. 13. At any special election in incorporated ci:ies and towns of this State for the purpose of bonding the same or for the raising revenue all resident owners of property in said cities and towns of the assessed value of $200 who are qualified electors un der this Constitution shall. alone be entitled to vote. At such election the voter shall produce a receipt for all taxes, cottity, State an.1 municipal for the previous year as evidence of his right to vote. Sec. 14. Electors shall in all cases except treason, felony, or a breach of the peace be privileged from arrest on the days of election during their at tendance at the polls and going to and r-eturning thlerefr-omi. Sec. 15. No power, civil or military, shall at any time interfere to prevent the free exercise of the right of suf frage.- _________ Ilan;;cd for Wife Murde-r. JERSEY (2rrv, N. J., Oct. :3.-John Czch, otherwise known as " Fish John" was executed in the county jail in this city today for tile murder 'of his wife on June 3. Jealousy was was the motive of Czech's crime. Einr-suVEx y-ears of thegold stan dard has brought nlo prosperity to the farmer's of Gxreat Briitain. Women and girls are forced to work for $1. 25 a week. Childr-en from fifteen vear-s down to live are driven from form to farm to labor f'or their bread, and hud ded together at night in barns with aut regard to sex. So says Gen. Frn A TRA.IE BATTLE. DR. TALMAGE ON GIDEON'S ARMY AND GOD'S WAY. ~The L~awfulness of Chri ,tiani strate;;,em. Gidon's Depleted Army The 4reat I Lessoni of H is onderful victory. NFW Yon. Sept. 29.-In his ser mon for today 'Rev. Dr. Tahnage dis cusses a subject of special interest to Sunday szhool teachers and scholars at the present time, being Gideon's battle with the Midianites near Mount Gilboa. The text chosen was Judges Vii, 20, 21: "And the three compan ies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal. And they stood every man in his place round about the camp and all the host ran and cried and fled." That - is the strangest battle ever fought. God had told Gideon to go down and thrash the 3Iidianites, but his army is too large; for the glory must be given to God and not to man. And so the proclamation is made that all those of the troops who are cow ards and want to go home may go, and 22,000 of them scampered away. leaving only 10,000 men. But God says the army is too large yet, and so he ordered these 10,000 remaining to march down through a stream and coinmands Gideon to notice in what manner these men drink of the water as they pass through it. If they get down on all fours and drink, then they are to be pronounced lazy and incom petent for the campaign, but, if, in passing through the stream. they scoop up the water in the palm of their hand and drink and pass on, they are to be the men selected for the battle. Well. the 10.000 men marched down in the stream, and the most of them come down on all fours and plunge their mouth. like a horse or an ox. into the water and drink, but there are :310 men who, instead of stooping, just dip the palm of their hands in the water and bring it to their lips, "lapping it as a dog lappeth." Those 300 brisk, rapid, enthusiastic men are chosen for the campaign. They are each to take a trumpet in the right hand and a pitcher in the left hand and a lamp inside the pitcher, and then at a given signal they are to blow tie trumpets and throw down the pitchers and hold up the lamps. So it was done. It is night. - I see a great host of Midianites sound asleep in the valley of Jezreel, Gideon coines up with his 300 picked men, and when everything is ready the signal is given, and they blow the trumpets, and they throw down the pitchers and hold up the lamps, and the great host of Midian ites, waking out of a sound sleep, take the crash of the crockery and the glare of the lamps for the coming on of an overwhelming foe. and they run and cut themselves to pieces and hor ribly perish. The lessons of this subject are very spirited and impressive. This seeming lv valueless lunip of quartz has the pure gold in it. The smallest dewdrop on' the meadow at nignt has a star sleeping in its bosom, and the most insigniticant passage of Scripture has in it a shining truth. God's mint coins no small change. I learn in the first place, from this subject, the lawfulness of Christian stratagem. You know yery well that the greatest victories ever gained by Washington or Napoleon were gained through the fact that they came when and in a way they were not expected -sometimes faling back to draw out the foe, sometimes crossing a river on unheard of rafts: all the time keep ing the opposing forces in wonder ment as to what would be done next. You all know what strategy is in military atrairs. Now I think it is high time we had this art sanctified and spiritualized. In the church, when we are about to make a Christian as sault, we send word to the opposing force when we expect to come, how many troops we have and how man,' rounds of shot, and whether we will come with artillery, infantry or caval ry, and of course we are defeated. There are thousands of men who might be surprised into the kingdom of God. We need more tact and ingenuity in Christian work. It is in spiritual af fairs as in military, that success de pends in attacking that part of the castle which is ue 2rmed and im trenched. Eor instance, here is a man all armed on the doctrine of election. all his troops of argument and prejudice are at that particular gate. You may bat ter away at that side of the castle for 50 years, and you will not take it, but just wheel your troops to the~ side gate of the heart's affection, and in five minutes you capture him. I never knew a man to be saved through a bril liant argument. You cannot hook men into the kingdom of God by the horns of a dilemma. There is no grace in syllogisms. Here is a man armed on the subject of perseverance of the saints. He does not believe in it. Attack him at that point. andl he will persevere to the very last in'not believing in it. Hlere is a man armed on the subject of baptism. He believes in sprinkling or immersion. All your discussion of ecclesiastical hydropathy will not change him. I remember when I was a boy that with other boys I went into the river on a summer day to bathe, and we used to dash wa ter on each other, but never got any result except that our eyes were blind ed, and all this splashing of water be tween Baptists and Pedobaptists never results in anything but the blurring of the spiritual eyesight. In other words, you can never capture a man's soul at the point at which he is espe ciallv intrenched. But there is in everyv man's heart a bolt that can be easily shoved. A little child 4 years old may touch that bolt, and it will spring back, and the door will swing open, and Christ will come in. I think that the finest of all the Sine arts is the art of doing good, and yet this art is the least cultured. We have in the kingdom of God today enough troops to conquer the whole earth for Christ if we only had skilful manoeuvering. I would rathier have the 3u0 lamps and pitchers of Christian stratagem than 10I, 000) drawn swords of literary and ecclesiastical comnbat. I learn from this subject also, that a small part of the army of God will hav;e to do all the hard fighting. Gideon's army was or'iginally comn posed of 3i2,000 men, but they' went otif until there wer-e only 10,000 left. and that w~as subtr'acted from until there were only :A00. It is the same in all ages of the Christian church: a few men have to do the hard :ighting. Take a membership of 50", and vou generally lind that ten peop~le do the work. There are :cores of' churches where two or three people do the work. We nmouirn that there is so) much useless lumber ini the miouintains of L eanon. I think, of the 10,100,000 meber.-hiip of the Christian church toay, if 5.00I0,((00 of the names were ott' the books the churchm would be stronger. You know that more cow ards and drones there are in any army tme weaker it i<. I would rather have the :;uo picked rmen of Gideon than :;2,'00 unsif ted host. How many Christians there ar standing in the way of all progress: I think it is the them and the quicker i does it the quicker it does its duty. Do not worry. C Christian. if vou have to do more than your share 01 the work. You had better thank Go( that he has called you to be one of th< picked men rather than to belong t( the host of stragglers. Would no you rather be one of the 30o that figh1 than the 22,000 that run? I suppos< those cowardly Gideonites who wen off congratulated themselves. Thei said "We got rid of all that fightin( (lid we not ? How lucky we have been That battle costs us nothing at all. But they got none of the spoils of th victory. After the battle the '300 me went down and took the wealth of th< Midianites, and out of the cups an< platters of their enemines they feasted And the time will come, my dea brethren, when the hosts of'darknes will be routed and Christ will say t< his troops: "Well done, my brav, men. Go up and take the spoils. B, more than conquerors forever:" An in that dav all deserters will be shot Again, I learn from this subject tha God's way is different from man's, bu is always the best way. If we had th planning of that battle, we would hay taken those 32,000 men that originail belonged to the army, and we woul< have drilled them and marched then up and down by the day and week an month, and we would have had then equipped with swords or spears, ac cording to the way of armin in thos times, and then we would hav, marched them down in solid colum upon the foe. But that is not the way God depletes the army, and take away all their weapons, and gives the! a lamp, and a pitcher. and a trumpet and tells them to go down and driv out the Midianites. I suppose som wiseacres were there who said: "Tha is not military tactics. The idea of 30 men, unarmed, conquering such ; great host of Midianites!" It was th, best way. What sword, spear or can non ever accomplished such a victor; as the lamp, pitcher and trumpet? God's way is different from man way, but it is always best: Take, fo instance, the composition of the BiblE If we had had the writing of the Bible we would have said: "Let one mal write it. If you have 20 or 30 men t write a poem, or make statute, c write a history, or make an argumeni there will be flaws and contradictions. But God says, "Let not one man do i but 40 men shall do it." And they di differing enough to show there ha, been no collusion between them, bi not contradicting each other on an; important point, while they all wrot from their own standpoint and ten peraient. So that the matter of fa< man has his Moses; the romantic n ture his Ezekiel; the epigrammatic h' Solomon; the warrior his Joshua; tb sailor his Jonah; the loving his John the logician his Paul. Instead of this B ble, which now I can lift in my han -instead of the Bible the child ca carry to Sunday school, instead of tb little Bible the sailor can put in h jacket when he goes to sea-if it ha been left to men to write, it woul been a thousand volumes judging froi the amount of ecclesiastical contro' ersey which has arisen. God's woy different from man's, but it is b'est, i finitely best. So' it is in regard to the Christian life. If we had had the plaraing of Christian's life, we would have sai "Let him have 80 years of sunshine, fine house to live in. Let his surroun< ings all be agreeable. Let him has sound health. Let no chill shivt through his limbs, no pain ache h brow or trouble shadow his soul." enjoy the prosperity of others so niuc I would let every man hays as muc money as he want and roses for h children's cheeks and fountains< gladness glancing in their large roun eyes. But that is not God's way. It seems as if man must be cut at hit and pounded just in proportion:a he is useful. His child falls from third story window and has its lil dashed out. His most confident il vestment tumbles him into bankrupte His friends, on whom he depended, ai the natural force of gravitation in tal ing him down. His life is a Bull Ru defeat. Instead of 32,000 advantage: he has only 1,000. A;.e, only 300 none, at all. How many good peopl there are at their wits' end, about thei livelihood, about their reputation. B: they will find out it is the best way afte awhile God will show them that he dei letes their advantages just for the san reason lie depleted ;.te army of Gidec -that they may be induced to thro themselves on his mercy. A grapevine says in the early spring "How glad I am to get through th winter ! I shall have no more troub] now! Summer weather will come an the garden will be very beautiful. But the gardener comes and cuts th vines here and there with a knift The twigs begin to fall, and the grape vine cries out: "Murder what at you cutting me for?" "Ah," says th gardener, "I don't mean to kill yor If I did not do this, you would be th laughing sfock of all the other vini before the season is over." Months g on and one day the gardener comes ur der the trellis, where gratest clustersc grapes hang, and the grapevine says "Thank you, sir. You had to cut nm with that knife." "Whom the Lot loveth, he chasteneth." No pruning n grapes'no grinding mill, no flour; n battle, no victory; no cross, no crown So God's way, in the redemption o the world, is different from ours. I we had our way, we would have hai Jesus stand in the door of heaven an< beckon the nations up to light, or w would have had angels flying aroun< the earth proclaiming the ui~nsearcha ble riches ~of Christ. Why is it than the cause goes on so slowly? Whyi it that the chains stay on when Gol could knock them off? Why d, thrones of despotism stand when Go could easily demolish them? It is hi way in order that all generations ma: co-operate, and that all men may knov they cannot do the work themiselves Just in proportion as these pyramid of sin go up in height will they comi down in ghastliness of ruin. 0 thou father of all iniquity : I thou canst hear my voice above th< crackling' of the flames, drive on thv rojets, dispatch thy emissaries, buik thy tenipies and forge thy chains. bul know that thy fall from heaven wa: not greater tihan thy final overthr'ow shall be when thou shalt be driven dis armed into thy fiery den. and for ever' lie thou hast framned upon earth thot shalt have an additional hell of fur' poured into thine eanguish by the vengeance of our God, and all heave: shal s::out at the overthr'ow as fron the ransomed earth the song breaks through the skies: "Hlalleluiah: foi the Lord God (Umipotent r'eigneth Ialleluiahi for the kingdoms of thi: world have become the kingdoms o 0.0' Lord Jesus Christ!" God's way i the composition of the Bible. G;odi way ini the Christiau life, God's wa: in tihe redemption of the world. God' way in everthing-diff'erent fron: mans way, but the best. I learn from this subje't that th ovethrow of God's enemies will bc sudden and teriife. There is the army of the MIidianites down in the vaile' of Jezeel. I suppose their mnighty men are dreaming of. victory. MIount Gilbo: never stood sentinel for so large a host. The spears and the shields of the ~idianites gleam in the moonlight and glance on the eye of the Israelites, ho hovei' like a battle of eagles, ready to swoop from the clif '. Sleep on. O night to hide them, and the mountain _toguard them, and strong arms to de fend them, let no slumbering foeman dream of disaster! Peace to the cap tains and the spearmen! Crash go the pitchers! Up flare the lanips: To the mountains! Fly: Fly! Troop running against troop, thous ands trampling upon thousands. Hark to the scream and groan of the routed t foe, with the Lord God Almighty af r ter them: How sudden the onset, how wild the consternation, how utter the defeat: I do not fear so much what is against me if God is not.. You a want a better sword or-carbine than I i have ever seen to go out and fight 3 against the Lord Omnipotent. Give i me God for my ally, and you may have all the battlements and battal r ions. s I saw the defrauder in his splendid ) house. It seemed as if he had con e quered God as he stood amid the blaze. e of chandeliers and pier mirrors. In I the 4diamonds of the wardobe I saw the . tears of the widows whom he had rob t bed, and in the snowy satin the pallor t of the white cheeked orphans whoni lie bad wronged. The blood of the op e pressed glowed in the deep crimson of v- the imported chair. The music trei i bled with the sorrow of unrequited 1 toil. But the wave of mirth dashed I higher on reefs of coral and pearl. The I days and Lhe nights went merrily. No sick child dared pull that silver door e bel:. No beoar dared sit on that mar e ble step. o voice of prayer floated I amid that tapestry. No shadow of a judgment day darkened that fresco; s No tear of human sympathy dropped a upon that upholstery. Pomp strutted , the hall, and dissipation filled her cup e and all seemed safe as the Midianites e in the valley of Jezreel. But God .t .came. Calamity smote the money 0 market. The partridge left its eggs a unhatched. Crash went all the pro e celain pitchers! Ruin, rout, dismay. and woe in the valley of Jezreel! ' Alas for those who fight agailt.. God! Only two side. Man immoml s which side are are you -on? WomaA r immortal, which side are you on? Do you belong to the 300 that are going , to win the days or to the great host 1 of Midianites asleep in'the valley, only 0 to be roused up in consternation and r ruin? Suddenly the golden bowl. of Y life will be broken and the trumpet " blown -that will startle our soul into .t eternity. I, The day of the Lord cometh as a d thief in the night, and as the God it armed Israelites upon the sleeping fos. 7 Ha! Canst thou pluck up courage-for e the day when the trumpet which hath never been blown shall speak the roll t call of the dead, and the earth, dash V ing against a lost meteor, have its s mountains -scattered to the stars and e oceans emptied in the air? Oh, thee, what will become of you? What will i become of me d If those Midianites had only given n up their swords the day before the Le disaster, all would have been well, and is if you will now surrender the sins with d which you have been fighting against .d God, you will be safe. Oh, make n peace with Him now, through Jests Christ the Lord! With the clutch ofa is drowning man seize the cross. Oh, 1- surrender! Surrender! Carist, with his hand on his pierced side, asks you-to. s An Honest Confession. a Col. Bob Ingersollrecently delivered l: a speech. at Peoria, Il.s., and after a discussing the war and its results, I- said: e "And let me tell you here, today-l er am soniewhat older than I used to b6: is I have a little philosophy now that I I had not at the 9 o'clock in the mornmng hi portion of my life-and I do not blame h anybody. I do not blame the South; is I do not blame the Condfederate sel >f diers. She-the South-was the fruit d of conditions. She was born to circum stances stronger than herseif, and, do d you know, according to myphsophy, LS which is not quite orthodox (laughter), a -every man and woman in the world As e what conditions have mnade them. $o .- let us~have some sense. Tne South y said~i jfWe will not submit, this is d not a nation, but a partnership -of a States." I am willing to go so far as n to admit that the South expressed the s original idea of the Government." '. In commenting on the above the le Augusta Charonicle savs "this utter ir ance comes opportunelyjafter the Ver tt mont governor's declaration that his r people would teach their children that -the South was wrong in the war be e t ween the States. -If the South fought n for "the original idea of our Govern ment, as Col. Ingersoll says, she was historically, morally, politically and . ternally right, and, by _parity of reasoning, the Nortti was e wrong. So the Governor of Ver mont proposes to teach the chil ,, dren of his State falsehood for historic etruth. We are persuaded that this Governor never critically read the ZConstitution of the United States, the articles of Union, the basis of indepen e dence of Great Britain and similar .documents. We are inclined to be . lieve this more surely because, in 1S63, eHon. James H. Hammond, who had been a Senator of the United States, ofrom South Carolina, declared that, -in his opinion, many of the Senators .f from Northern States were even at that day ignorant on this subject. d Hton. Alexander H. Stephens, Profes d r Bledsoe, and the author of "The o Rlepublic of Rlepublics,'' have so con summiiately demionstrated the j ustitfica .t-ion of the South that no mran can ever successfully answer them. Had Jef ferson Davis been tried, Charles O'Conor and other eminent lawyers ewould have proved the South's case. eNo one knew this better than Chief Justice Chase. and the potential au) thorities of the North were prudent in .releasing Mr. Davis without triaL. sWe advise the Governor of Vermont and the intelligent young men of that SState to study the South's side of the controversy and make a just decision. s They will probably do nothing of the 'kindi and so abide in ignorance which may or may not be blissful, in the long run, The one p rime security of a ssmall commonwealth like Vermont, in the Union, in the sovereignty of the States, within the Constitutional forbit of local self Government. Some day they may discover that this is true, andi it may not be, --~. future either. As to the expediency of secession or the wisdom of a. war for its mainten ance, that is another question. 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