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VOL. XI.A MA NNING., S. C,. WEDNESDAY, FE"BRUTARY 1.NO28 TILLMAN'S PITCHFORk. HE USES IT UNSPARINGLY ON CLEVE LAND AND CARLISLE. Terrific Arraignmuit nt of the Oppresscrs of the People--The Crowvd- in the Galteries Could Not be Restrained. but Applauded Him Asdin apd Again. WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.-The presen tation of committee reports on Cuba and a highly dramatic and sensational speech from Mr. Tillman, the new Senator from South Carolina, fur nished two stirring events in the Sen ate I oday. The majov ity resolution on Cuba, presented by Chairman Mor gan, asks the President to urge Spain to grant belligerent rights to the in surgents, while the minority report, offered by Mr. Cameron, directs the President to take steps towards secur ing from Spain the complete inde pendence of Cuba. Both resolutions went to the Senate calendar. Such a torrent of inavective has sel dom been heard in the Senate as that in the speech of Mr. Tillman. Veter an members of the body characterized the speech as one of the most remark able in the history of the upper branch of Congress. It abounded in state ments of a sensational character, ar raigning President Cleveland, Secre tary Carlisle and other men i high places. There was a directness of state ment and a dramatic manner of deliv ery which awed floor and galleries. The gestures of the Senator were used frequently in acting his words. At one point he made a profound salute and "tipped his hat to Sherman as the financial victor of a quarter of a cen tury. The galleries were moved alter nately to applause and laughter. Pausino- for a sip of water amid roars of laughter, he remarked, "I seldom wet my whistle while I speak; still you can't run a windmill on water." The next moment there was a hush through the chamber as the Senator applied such names as "Judas" to a member of the Cabinet, or character ized the President in superlative bit terness. At times the Senator's voice sank to a whisper, as for instance when he gave warning of the approach of a popular revolution and commu nism and the marching on Washing ton of a host with rifles in their hands. Again his voice resounded through the chamber and the outer corridors as he called Senators and members "cow ards" for not resorting to impeach ment. Mr. Tillman took the floor at 2 o'clock. The galleries filled quickly and the Senator was accorded close attention. He moved down from his rear seat to one in the front row im mediately in front of the presiding of ficer. Although provided with manu script he began extemporaneously. During Mr. Tillman's bitter criticisms of the President, he laid aside his notes and put Senators and galleries in roars of laughter by telling how, as Governor of South Carolina, he had come here to inaugurate the President and had stood four hours out in the snow and sleet until he was nearly frozen to death to do honor to this President. "And," concluded the Sen ator, "I ask God to forgive me for doing it." At one point, after bitterly arraign ing the President, the Senator address ed himn.af to the Republicans and ex . claimed: "Why have you not im peached him? You have the majority to do it." Mr. Hawley interrupted with the query: "Why didn't the last Congress "He is not impeached," continued the Senator, "because he carries out your Republican policy. The last Congress was no better than this." Senator Tillman, in his introducto ry remarks, referred to the so-called Senatorial dignity which does not per mit applause from the floor or galle ries. He was a farmer pure and sim ple, he said, accustomed to speaking in the open air upon the hiusan~gs, wnere men were flree to applaud if they felt so disposed. In the Senate it was considered undignified t'o applaud the galleries being reprimanded and the Senators confronting the orator with "a Senatorial stare whieh turned him into stone." Senators got up like school boys and read essays in a mon otonous tone to empty chairs. Where was the purpose of the founders of the country when they made the Senate the greatest deliberative body in the word? It was never intended that the speeches of a Senator should be buried in the archives, which was now the case. "How much of this,Mr. President," exclaimed Mr. Tillmnan, "is due to self complacency, to the feeling among you-I hardly feel prepared yet to say among us-that you are the Senate? How much of this so-called Senatorial Qjignity, of which we hear so much is worthy of preservation? It hangs over this chamber like a wet blanket; \it smothers down independent action; it obliterates the man and we are here the puppets, the cogs in the wheel of party, to do the bidding of the manip ulators of the party machines." These words, uttered with much en ergy, provoked the first manifestation of applause in the galleries, which the Senator hardly seemed to notice. He returned to the assertion that he was the only farmer, pure and simple, in the Senate. although out of seventy million people,thirty-five million were engaged in azricultural pursuits. As a farmer he had broken the barrier and forced his way into the Senate an he proposed to give utterance to their wrongs. Mr. Tillman began by say ing he would use plain Anglo-Saxon, the lan guage of the common people, for he was one of them. He spoke bitterly of the essay reading indulged in b~y Senators. He referred to the state ment of the Senator from Ohio (Sher man) that the silver question had been thrashed out, saying "yes, it had been thrashed by the speculators but not by the farmers." As a farmer he would thrash it again, taking up the whole subject on a pitchfork, ready, if need be, to uncover the manure likely to be found. Mr. President," he said, "it is not saying too much and I feel warranted in charging that the derangement in our finances and all this cry about sound money and maintaining the honor and credit of the United States are all a part and parcel of a damna ble scheme of robbery which had for its object first, the utter destruction of silver as a money metal: second, the increase of the public debt by the is sue of bonds payable in gold; and~ third, the surrender to corporations of the power to issue all paper money and .give them a monopoly of that function. Senator Tillinan refered to the 'Sherman silver law in 1890) and in this connection said: -The silver Re publicans of the West who had de serted the silver Denocrats of the South and accepted the compromise offered by Senator Sherman, may take warningas to what faith or trust they can put in any utterances or ac tions of the Senator from Ohio as to legislation in regard to our finances. The time for another Presidential elec tion approaches. They must under stand that the election of any man to the Presidency who would veto a free coinage bill means defeat. It means more: it means continued disaster to our industries and increased poverty to the masses of out people. Under the sherman law, he contin ued, there was a diminution of the amount of free gold in a gradually decreasing scale, but not enough to cause any alarm. During the entire year of 1~891 and the entire year 1892. ihere was approximately as much gold as there was during 1S84 and lSS5 He said: "If the secret history of the year 1l92 shall ever be written, it will dis close the fact, which cannot be proven now, but of which I have not the slightest doubt, that the gold ring of New York, which embraces nearly all the bankers in the Eastern and Mid dle States and the Stock gamblers of Wall street, controlled the President ial nominations of both the Democrtic and Republican parties and had an uuderstanding with the managers, or with both the candidates themselves, in regard to what policy should be pursued towards our finances. They contribute money for the booming of Mr. Cleveland, as the only available Democratic candidate. and they abused and ridiculed every other Democratic aspirant. There was plain evidence to show that the President himself had weak ened on the question of tariff reform and the financial plank was cunning ly drafted so as to satisfy both gold and silver wen with the intention that it would be interpreted, if Mr. Cleve land was elected, as meaning the ces sation of silver coinage and the forc ing of a gold standard upon the peo ple. Interpreted according to the plain use and meaning of the English word, the platform means bi-metall ism, but there are conditions and am biguous phrases which have afforded an excuse to the conscience of the bull headed and self-idolatrous man who holds the reins of power to pur sue the policy he has. Whether the scheme was agreed to by the President in person or not, and whether he bound himself in plain terms or not, will per haps, never be known. His course has been unswerving in the absolute contradiction of his public professions and letter of acceptance. The expec tations and interests of the people have been for-otten and ignored. The party which eXected him has been be trayed and its banners, which floated so triumphantly in the breeze of 1892, now trail in the dust of defeat. The practical destruction of the party has been accomplished." There had been no trouble with the gold reserve, the Senator asserted, andno hint-of any loss of confidence in the national credit, until about the time of the last Presidential elec tion. Then, for the first time, we got a glimnse of the conspiracy which he had referred to before. Mr. Foster gave the holders of greenbacks and Treasury notes the option of having ] government paper cashed in gold or I silver, and as they all demanded gold the gold in the Treasury rapidly ran down. The financial papers took up the cry of the country going to a sil ver basis, and the first premonitory breezes of the panic of 1S93 swept over 1 the land and the conspirators foment ed it by every possible means.1 "Instead of endeavoring to stem the tide of ruin and redeem the pledges of the Democratic party, to give the people relief, President Cleveland lent aid and comfort to the conspirators by his utterances and official actions in continuing the policy of his predeces sor." The Senator quoted from President Cleveland's response to the committee that notified him of his nomination the last time, and decleared there was ] nothing in it to warrant one to expect1 that the leader of the Democratic party would ignore the platform and treat with contempt thet rusted lieuten ants whom the people had sent to the national capital to assist in shaping legislation. 'The language would lead us to ex pect the very reverse. How many of these reasonable expectations have been met? "Hlow many of you men grown old and gray in the service of the party and of the nation, men who were the trusted leaders before Cleveland was ever heard of, how many, I say, have been called into his councils? If any speak, I shall be glad to hear them. Where has this man sunk his person ality? Whom has he consulted? Whose advice has he recognized ? None, but that of the bootlicks and sycophants, who have crawled on their knees for the crumbs of patron age and betrayed their costituents for the office in his gift. "In the entire history of this coun try, the high office of President has never been so prostituted, and never has the appointing power been soabuis ed. Claiming to be the apostle of civ il service reform, he has debauched the civil sarvice by making appoint ments only of those whose sponsors would surrender their manhood, and, with bated breath, walk with subnmis sie head in his presence. With re lentless purpose he has ignored his oath of office to uphold and obey the law, and has paid out gold instead of coin and issued bonds to buy more god by both actions overriding the law and giving no heed to the interests of any but moneyed friends-I might say his owners odr partners. "While to this besotted tyrant coin has come to mean gold alone he can not by his mere 'ipse dixit' change the law of this land and perver-t the plain meaning of the English language. His Republican partners in crime, who set the unrighteous and unlawful ex ample which he has so persistenly fol lowed.- And encouraged hinm in it to the utmost extent, cannot escape the condemnation of the honest, working, business men of the country as equal partners in his guilt." The repeal of the Sherman law, it was asserted, which was the first point of attack of this "unholy alliance," was only accomplished through the aid and in conjunction with a majority of the Republican Senators. "This Democratic President accom plished what was not possible for- any Republicau executive under the cir cumstances to have brought about. A change of the party in power had left a larg number of onmce in his gift with which to buy votes. In i discussing the "honest meaning" :f parity of gold and silver in the Sher man law. hesaid: The object was to have them assist each other, to hold silver up by hold ing gold down,and an I onest Secretry lf the T-easury, who should have re signed his office rather than submit it the dictation of a besotted chief, would have paid out silver to protect the rreasury from the gold gamblers and bond robbers, as the law and his oath f office required. But, alas, the old breed of Southern statesmen like Cal Lioun. who, after a life spent in the public service, had to be buried at pub lie expense and his debts paid by the state of South Carolina, is no more. No wonder the Senator from Massa yhusetts feels warranted in twitting Is with the decay of Southern states mnanship and cearging us with dis .onesty. He charges it, however, in mother connection and as aiding and ibetting this Judas from Kentuzky, who, after a brilliant career of twenty Fears and more as leader and cham pion of the silver forces, has, in his Ad age, come to this pitiful pass. -The South bows its head in shame it this exhibition of moral cowardice md despises the renegades; but I must emind the Senator from Massa ,husetts that there is as yet only one moral turpitude and treachery to be 3harged against these men. The outhern Congressmen and Senators who came here poor, are still poor. rhey have not become millionaries like some of their Northern brethren; md there isno credit mobilier steal, >r Colfax scandal, or Belknap bribery, :hargeable to any Southern man. Let im remember these things and keep aack his sneers and taunts." The Senator contended that if there 2as been one idea more persistently aid prominently presented to the kmerican people by President Cleve and than any other, it had been the niquities of the tariff and the de nand for its revision. In season and )t of season, with "damnable itera ion," he had sung this siren song in be ears of the farmers. In this con 1ection he quoted from messages of he President of 18S7 and 188, and aid he did it for "the purpoze of ?ointing out the evolutina of a tryant ind of showing the trausition from a onscientious, law-abiding chief magis rate to an arrogant and obstinate uler who ignores the law and issues yonds at will and isSuesthem under t statute that is subject to the sus icion that it was intended to be tem orary and limited in its application, nstead of con ferring a discretionary uthority. "He not only issues them, but does t secretly, Iwith his, law partner as L witness to the contract, and has reated the suspicion in the minds of nillions of his countrymen that a President of the United States can use 21s high office for private gain." He differs with the Republican par y only in one particular of the tariff tad on that he has blown hot and cold Ls his pet hobby, and will go down n history as the most gigantic fail ire of any man who ever occupied the White House, all because of his vanity d his obstinacy. "To make good this charge," Mr. 'illman argued, ' that when President 3eveland came into power in March, S893. and could have called the Senate md House (both Democartic for the irst time since the war) to carry his >ohcy into effect, he did not call an ~xtra session to give the taritf reform o the people, but intead called Con ~ress together to stop the coinage of ilver. He the President, had waited mtil the 'object lesson,' the panic nade to order by his fellow conspira ors, had swept l'ike a cyclone over the ~ountry, prostrating all business en erprises and industries and the news >apers had howled in chorus in the ~ars of the people that the coinage of ilver was the cause of the monetary ~risis." Discussing the repeal of the pur ~hasing clause of the Sherman law vhich followed, he said: "Democrats Ld Republicans vied with each other n the furtherance of the policy which ad been formulated and steadily pur ued by the Senator from Ohio and he as the proud satisfaction of knowing hat he has brought the party which e so hates to its knees and has lived o0 see many of his old antagonists en isted under it banner sit at his feet md acknowledge his leadership. "When the Senate met, there was m acknowledged majority of men pen and outspoken in their determi 2ation to stand by the white metal and rho were elected on that issue. But hie process of debauchery began. \ote according to my will or you will 2ave no offices.' 'Vote according to ny will, and if your people do not like .t I will take care of you.' The news apers raved and abused the Senate. (he bankers telegraphed and wrote. Jhambers of commerce passed resolu ons and slowly the Senate yielded. a ninety days the deed was done and he claims were riveted on the wrists >f the toiling millions. Did the raid n the Treasury stop?" Discussing then the tariff bill which assed in the regular session follow ng, he said: "It is true he (the Presi lent) did not sign it, and allowed it to >ecome a law without approval. But ere again we have a spectacle of ~harlatancy and hypocritical assump ion of superiority to his party which ias always marked his career. The ariff law which lhe repudiated as un vorthy, involving 'party perfidy and arty dishonor,' is the sheet anchor to ~vhih he clings." And again, referring to the Presi lent, "if he was honest at the start and I am wvilling to grant that much) iis association with Wall street and is connection with wealthy men had lebauched his conscience and de troyed all sympathy with the mas The Senator then referred to the fall .n the prices of all farm products. The moverishmnent of the farmers had lestroyed, he said, their ability to urchase on the one hand, while the lecreased price of their products of xport in European markets had left >ur debts for imports and interest on >bligations abroad unpaid. Heince he export of gold to meet these obliga .ions. In this connection, lie said in >art: "Rothschild and his American igents graciously condesend to come .o the help of the United States Treas ur.y in main taing the gold standard hich has wrought the rain md only charges a small corn nission of ten millions or so. reat God: That this proud gov ~rnent, the~ richest, most powerful n the globe, should have been brought o0 so lona base that a London Jew hould have been appointed its me :eiver and presumes to patronize us. revenue and looking after the solven cy of the Treasury, which rests with Congress, has been usurped by the President. Why is he not impeached? Because he is carrying out Renublican policies and the majority in the House of Representatives feel safe and be lieve that they are certain to elect lie next President and obtain control of the government. They are willing to load down the incompetent or dishon est Democracy, I say the incompetent and dishonest Democracy, with the odium of misgovernment to lend their help by acquiescence in wrong-doing. The policy is to do nothing-to pre serve a masterly inactivity-and only obstruct where relief can be given. "The encroachments of the Federal judiciary, and the supineness and ve nality -corruption I may say-of the representative branches of the govern - ment, are causes of deep concern to all thinking and patriotic men. We are fast drifting into government by injunction in the interest of monopo lies and corporations, and the Supreme Court, by one corrupt vote, annuls an Act of Congress looking to the taxa tions of the rich. "The struggle from 18G1 to 18G5, which drenched this fair land in blood, was to emancipate 4,000,000 black slaves. We are fast approaching a condition which will place the collar of industrial bondage around the necks of ten times that many white slaves. I would not predict revolution or war if I did not feel that relief must come either by the ballot, or that an effort will be made in a few years to obtain it by bullets. You may look upon me as an enthusiast, as an alarmist, or as an anarchist, but with the sober con victions of common sense I tell you that the teaching of all history is be lied and we must surrender the be ''Y that like causes produce like ef fects if men expect tkat the millions now out of employment and the other millions who are working out a hope less existence of toil year in and year out, the women stitching in poverty, hanger and dirt, the men bearing their hopeless burdens of debt, all directly traceable to bad government, will not some day have a reckoning." in concluding the Senator said: "A day of reckoning will come, unless there is no longer a just God in heav en, and when it does come, woe be unto those who have been among the oppressors of the people. The present struggle is unfortunately too like that which preceded the late civil war, in asmuch as it is sectional. The cred itor and the manufacturing States of the North and East, those which have grown inordinately wealthy at the ex pense of the producing classcs of the South and West, are urging this policy with the besotted blindness of Bel shazzar. The old slaveholders of the South were not more arrogant or more determined. "The sordid despotism of wealth, to usethe apt phrase of Justice Brown, is already felt throughout the land. "You have already been told in glowing language . by the eloquent Senator from Missouri that the con flict is 'irrepressible' and it is easy to see from the temper and feeling of t-he equally distinguished Senator from Colorado and other Western Senators that the struggle for the new emanci pation has begun. And the ne-w Ma son and Dixon's line, which is drawn not by the surveyor but by the denial of the natural and alienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happi ness to a large majority of citizens, will sooner or later bring together in the bonds of union the toiling and now downtrodden masses of the cities and the equally desperate masses of the country; agrarianism and com munism will join hands. There are millions now on the march; and they tramp, tramp, tramp the sidewalks hunting work, and tramp the high ways begging bread. Unless r elief comes, they will some day take a no tion to tramp to Washington with ri fles in their hands to regain the liber ties which have been stolen from them, or which the representatives have sold, and the hitherto conserva tive force of the republic-the well-to do agricultural class-will lift no hand to stay the march, but join it. God grant that our country may be spared the enactment of such scenes as were witnessed in Paris in 1789. But the fair flower of liberty planted by Jefferson in the immortal declaiation of the ?ourth of July, 17761, wateted by the blood of our Revolutionary sires under Washington, cannot be aprooted or smothered by the noxious weeds of monopoly and class privilege without bloodshed." Senator Tillman closed at 4 o'clock. With sarcastic irony he thanked his colleagues for not having adjourned and left him to 'deliver his speech to any empty hall. At the close of his remarks the members of the House from South Carolina and many others crowded around him and congratu lated him.________ Murder Will Out. PARIs. Jan. 28.-In the court of As sizes at Draguigana, Department of War, Victor Robello has been sent eiced to imprisonment with labor for life for the murder of Abbe Garbriel Segui, in Old Compton street, Paris, in October, 1894. Segui belonged to a rich and influential family in the Ar gentine Republic. He was found dead in his bed at the period above named in a private hotel hanging from the oedpost by a silk handkerchief, which had been tied tightly around his neck. Nobody then knew who he was, but on the table in the room was found this note: Dear Sir: Do not accuse anybody of my death. I am finished with life. I am disgusted with my family. I do not require any noise after my death. I have no papers. I do not wish an , body to know the other motives. Once more keep silent, so as not to have any scandal. May God bless you. Louis CAsEREs. It was concluded that the dead man was Caseres and that he had ini fact committed suicide, until a few days afterwards, when the officers of the Argentine Legation, Segui having been chief chaplain in the Ar-gentine army, identified tne dead man and told the police his proper name. They also said that they have rea son to believe that there had been foul play. it was found that an unidentiftied man had forged Segui's signature to a draft for 400 pounds and had obtained the money from a bank in Havre. It was, however, months afterwards be fore he was arrested at Toulon for taking part in a brawl. Hie was per sonating Gabriel Segui at the time and has been provcd to have been Segui's murderer. The police have succeeded in proving that Robello was former-ly a servant in Abbe Segui's employ and that after mur-dering Segui lie appro priated his documents to use in furth ering his plan of passing as Segui THE STATE MILITIA. Official Orders From the Adjutant General. The followinz impor; ant orders have just been issued by the Adjutant Gen eral. The first disbands all companies in the State which have not enlisted in the militia: General Order No. 1. All millitary companies that have heretofore existed that have not en listed in accordance with the militia laws of the State are hereby disband ed. By order of the Commander-in-Chief. J. G-ARY WATTS. Adjutant and Inspector General. Official: W. W. Bat-cE, -Asst. A. & I. Gen. Columbia, S. C., Jan. 28, 1890. General Order, No. 2. Attention is hereby called to the fol lowing sections of the militia law of the State: Section 427(367). Any officer who shall receive, according to the provi sions of this article, any arms, equip ments or other military property from the State shall distribute the same to his command as he may deem proper, taking vouchers therefor; and he shall require those to whom they are dis tribated to return them at such time and place as he shall order and direct. Every officer, non-commis sioned officer and private of a com pany of the militta to whom any arms, equipments or other military property shall be so delivered shall be held per sonally responsible for its care, safe keeping and return. He shall use the same for military drills, parades and musters only; and upon receiving a discharge or otherwise leaving the military service, or upon the demand of his commanding ollicer, he shall forthwith surrender and deliver up said arms and equipments, together with all other military property that may be in his possession, to the said commanding officer, in as good order and condition as the same were at the time he received them, reasonable use and ordinary wear thereof excepted. Sec. 428 (309.) The Governor shall call in all arms, equipments and muni tions which are in the hands of any persons not authorized by la w to hold the same. Any officer, non-commis sioned officer or private who shall, contrary to the lawful order of the proper officer, retaining in his posses sion or control any arms, equipments orother article, of military property belonging .to the State, or shall will fully or maliciously destroy or injure any such pioperty or who shall when not on duty use or wear any such pro perty without permission of the com manding officer shall be tried by a court martial and punished as herein after provided. Whenever such mili tary property shall be found in the custody or possession of other persons without right any commanding officer may take possession of the same. Sec. 430 (371.) Any oticer receiv ing public property for military use shal be accountable for the articles so received by him -tnd shall not be dis charged or allowed to resign from the service until lie has returned to the Adjutant and Inspector, General a re ceipt from his successor in command. or a proper accounting officer, for the articles issued to him, in good order and condition, or has shown to the Adjutant and Inspector General, by satisfactory proof, that any article not so accounted for has been properly expended in the service, or injured. lost or destroyed without any default or neglect on his part; or if lost or willfully injured or destroyed through the misconduct of any person, that reasonable efforts have been made by him to recover or prosecute for the same. In addition he shall be liable to make good to the State all such prop erty so injured, lost or destroyed by any neglect or default on his part, and for the recovery of which he has made no reasonable effort. .All commanding officers are hereby ordered to see that the above named sections are strictly enforced. By order of the Commander-in-Chief. - ~ J. GARY WATTs. Adjutant and Inspector General. Official: W. W. BaR-CE, Asst. A. & I. Gen. Metropolitan roiice for Charieston. Charleston is to have metropolitan police. Governor Evans took the first step in that direction yesterd &y, when he appointed Messrs. J. M. Eason, T. S. Wilbur and Edward Anderson, police commissioners of the city. It has been expected for some time that this actiou would be taken and when it was anuounced yesterday morning that the commissioners had been appointed, little surprise was created, although the matter wes pretty generally talked about. hIt is learned that the Governor finally came to a definite conclusion in the matter Monday night and selected his ap pointees. Se had nothing special tc say on the subject yesterday further than to announce the appointments and to state that the comimissionlers would assume their duties at once. It is understood that these gentlemen will accept. Members of the Legislature gen erally commented on the ac'tion of the Governor, and as a whole, it was ap proved, though naturally there was not a unanimous approval. The Charleston delegation, of course, thought it was all wrong, but they ere not inclined to talk much about it. A great many members expect re istance to be made on the part of the city-that is in a leg. d way-and what action will be taken there will be awaited with interest. The appointees1 are all young men. Messrs. Eason and Wilbur are mierchants and Gen.t Edward Anderson is well known throughout the State, especially in military affairs. The commissionersI are good business men and stand well in Charleston. They have all been identified with the Reform faction in ity p)clitics. Now that the ice has been broken it would not be surprising if other towns will also have police commissioners app)oiuted. Indeed it was stated yes terday that Greenwood would be theJ next and that very soon. The rumor could not be traced, however, 2:> ia.- t thentic sources.-Columbia Recgister. Fatal Mine Exi'losion. (hmnmT>v, Wales, Jan. 27.-A terri ble explosion has taken place in a col-t liery at Tylerstown!, near this place. The shafts were shattered and the whole town was shaken by the tre- t mendous coneussion, causing a scene of wild excitement. The afterdampr was earxied to the connecting pits,s from the Tylerstown pit. Fif teenc bodies have been recovered, and forty two mineare s. aid to be missing. 1 THE LEIfSLATURE. TWO SUPREME COURT JUDGES ELECTED IN SESSION. Speaker Jones E!ected to the Supreme Beuch and Justico 'ope feelected Other Business Transauted by the Senate and House. On Thursday Mr. Iough offered a resolution providing that the house stand adjourned after today's session until Tuesday at 12 o'clock, in order to allow the members to be at home on February salesday-Monday next. He asked for immediate consideration of this resolution, but 10 members ob jected and the resolution went over for consideration. Mr. Fowler then offered the follow in z resolution: Resolved by the house of representa tives, the senate corcurring, That we have heard with pleasure and interest the eloquent and patriotic speech of our junior senator iathe United States Senate, Hon. B. R. Tillman, on the 29th inst., and we desire to say that by all we are and hope to be, we -will sacrifice our lives if necessary in re sisting tyranny and oppression, be lieving as we do that resistance to ty rants is obedience to God. On motion of Dr. Wyche, the reso lution was referred to the committee on federal relations. The Senate returned Mr. Sturkie's bill to require county treasurers to at tend at certain convenient places in the several counties to collect taxes, with an amendment which struck out al after the enacting words and sub stituting another biji, which left it optional with the treasurers whether they would attend these places or not. After some debate, Mr. Sturkie stating that the object of his bill was nullified, the house refused to concur, and a comimittee of conference was asked for. Mr. Shuman's bill to provide for the appointment of constables by magis trates and prescribing their duties and term of o:Iice and for removal of same was taken up. Mr. Shuman put in several amendments. Then Mr. Ilder ton had a slight amendment made and the bill was ordered to its third read ing. As the bill passed it provides that each magistrate in this State may appoint separately or conjointly one onstable to execute writs and process es issued by him; that a record must be made of the appointments; that the onstable must take the constitutional oath and give a $20 bond; that the ,onstable shall serve all writs and pro eesses, both criminal and civil, except writs and processes in cases of which the court of general sessioifs has ex elusive jurisdiction and he shall serve writs and processes in such cases, un less such magistrate shall direct the same to the sheriff of his county to be served by him. Mr. Whitmire's bill to amend the law relating to boards of equalization was called up and there was some dis aussion. After a few slight amend ments had been put in, the bill was ordered to a third reading. The bill requires that the boards shall not re ,eive pay for more than five days no matter how long their session. At this juncture a request was read from Mrs. Virginia D). Y oung, presi :ent of the State Equal Rights associa ion asking permission to address the house at night on the suoject of presi :lential suffrage for women. Mr. Patton offered the following resolution, which was adopted: Resolved, That the use of the hall of :he house be tendered to Mrs.- Young, president of the Woman's Rights as sociation, for the evening of Jan. 30, ~or the purpose of addressing the members of the general assembly on ~he subject of suffrage for women. Before the adoption of the resolu ion, during the discussion over the 2atter, some one asked Mr. Patton what would be the time limit of the iddress, and Mr. Patton exclaimed: "Why, the time will be indefinite, of :ourse: who ever heard of telling a woman how long she should talk ?' Later Mr. 'Westoa called attention :o General Rosser's lecture and to pre rent a conflict the time for Mrs. Foung's speech was fixed at 6:30 p.m. The distinguished Virginia veteran, len. Rosser, having come in with seV tral gentlemen, N1 r. Floyd rose and tfter making some appropriate refer mnces to the distinguished visitor, noved that the courtesies of the house >e extended to him. This was unani nously agreed to. At 1 o'clock the members of the ;enate, headed by the president and :lerk arrived and marched in. Mr. Breazeale, who was in the chair gave way to the lieutenant governor. who ~alled the joint assembly to order and tated that the object thereof was to lect two associate juastices of the State upreme court. He declared that nom .nations were in order for the election f a justice to succeed Justice Pope. Mr. Floyd took the lloor and nomi 1ated Justice Pope to0 succeed himself. The nomiinationi was seconded first >y the delegations fromn Edgefield and .harleston. Messrs. Barnwell and Brown,on the arL of the senate, and Tatum and Nyche, on the part of thle house, were tppointed tellers. There being no ~urther nominations the roll was call :d as required by the new Constitu ,1on The election of Judge Pope was inanimous. He is to serve for a pe -iod of eight years. Mr. Thurnmond, of Edgelield, nomi iated Speaker Jones. The same process was then gone hrough as to the vote, and Speaker ones was declared elected an associ te justice of the State supreme court or a term of six years. The -senate hen retired to its chamnber, the joint tssembly being dislolved, many con ;ratulating Mr. Jones on his elevation o the supreme bench. The house was the~n called to order tgaiu,with Mr. Breazeale in the chair. Mr. Jones rose and said: Mr. Speak ~r, having been elected as one of the ustices of the supreme court of South ~arolina by the general assembly, I ender to this body my resignation as peaker, to take cirect immediately." Mr. Bacot, after expressing regret hat the house had to part with its ble and popular speaker, moved that he resignation be accepted. Miller uggested that it be done by a rising rote. This the house agreed to. an d, he resignation was accepted. The house then adopted appropriate esolutions of thanks to the retiring peaker for his uniform fairm ess and outesy as a presiding ollicer. A resolution, offered by Mr. Thur nnrl that the hb)cs proeedm with the election of a speaker, was then adopted, and nominations for spe'aker were clled for. Messrs. F. B. Gary and M. R. Coop er were nominated. The vote stood Gary 6'), Cooper 44. Mr. Gary thank ed the house for the honor conferred on him. In the senate the bill providing for a bank examiner was reached and there was some unexpetced oppositior to the bill, but it finally passed to its third reading. The following Senators voted to kill the bill: Archer, Barn well, Barton. Brice, Brown. Buist, Derham, DuBose,Harrison, Kirkland, Mauldin, Miller. Norris and Watson. NOTES OF THE SESSION. Mr. Harper, of Colleton, has intro duced a bill to provide an additional magistrate for that counv. Mr. Fowler has offered a bill to pro vide for an income tax. The bill con tains the following as its principal provisions: After June 1, 1896, there shall be as sessed, levied, collected, and paid an nually upon the gains, profit; and in come received in the preceding calen dar year by every citizen of this State whether residing at home or abroad, and every person residin therein, whether said gains, profits or income be derived from any kind of property, rents, interest, dividends or salaries, or from any profession, trade, employ ment, or vocation carried on in this State or elsewhere, or f rom any other source whatevera tax of 2 per centum on the amount so derived over and above $1,000, and a like tax shall be levied, collected and paid annually upon the gains, profits, and income from all property owned and of every business, trade or profession carried on in this State by persons residing without the State. The present coun ty officials are to collect the tax. It is to be paid upon the gains, profits and income for the year ending Dec. 31st next preceding the time for levy ing, collecting and paying said tax. The Governor officially notified both houses of the death of Mr. James Sprott, a director of the penitentiary. Among the house bills passed tc their third reading are the following: To exempt certain portions of Pick ens county from the operations of the general stock law; to authorize and reauire the treasurer of Kershaw county to pay the auditor of said county $50 for extra service: to change the name of the State lunatic asylum to that of the State hospital for the insane; to repeal the act to prohibit emigrant agents from plying their vo cation in this State without first ob taining a license therefor and for other purposes; to require the county boards of commissioners in this State to provide footways wherever neces sary on the public roads in their re spective counties; to authorize the county boards of commissioners of the several counties in this State to change the location of the public roads in said counties and to condemn the land for rights of way for same. '4enator Jordan has introduced a joint resolution to empower the board of county commissioners of Aiken county to renew and pay certain or. dinances of indebtedness. Senator Stribling has introduced a joint resolution to authorize and re quire the county board of commission ers of Pickens and Oconee counties to build a public bridge across Keowee river at or near the mouth of Little river. At 1:30 the Senate adjourned. The two houses have settled their differences as to the new Supreme Court. The justices' salaries will be $2,850 each, and the court will hold two sessions a year. In the absence of both the lieuten ant-g-overnor and the president pro tem Mr. Finley of York was called to pre side over the Senate. The Senate passed the bill requiring county treasurers to "go the rounds' in collecting taxes, with Dr. Barton's amendment providing "that the coun ty board of commissioners may desig nate safe and canvenient places for the treasurer to attend for the collection of taxes, and that if the treasurer con siders such places safe and convenient, he may attend. Senator Williams has introduced a bill to provide for the settlement of conitroversies by arbitration. Representative McSweeney has of fered a bill prohibiting the drilling or forming of armed companmes except under the provisions of the militia laws. Representative Williams has intro duced a bill reducing all salaries on an average twenty per cent. F'earini Crime Unav-enged. TAVAREs, FLA., January 29.-To day, after a trial lasting sixteen days, Irwin Jenkins, Marion Clinton and William McRae were acquitted of what are known as "the Packwood murders." The crime with which the men were charged was committed on the night of December -10, 1891, and was most brutal. The victims were Miss Bi-uce, a young woman, aged 30; her nephew, Frank Packwood, aged 7; Mrs.. Hr.tch, aged 40, and her son, Bennie Hamh, aged 10. The victims were butchered in a hor-rible manner and Miss Bruce and Mrs. Hatch were ravished. The crime was committed near New Smyrna, in Volusia County and the case came here on a change of venue. Miss Bruce was from Ne w York and came to Florida to keep house for her widowed brother in-la w, F. J. Packwood. On December 10, 18f 1, Mr. Packwood left home for J-icksonville, and not liking to leav-e Miss Bruce and his son alone, got Mrs. Hatch, a neighbor, to remain with them over night. Mrs. Hatch took her little boy along, and either on the night of the 10th or the morning of the 11th the two women and ;he little boys were butchered. For a long time the murder was a mystery, but at last suspicion fell on Jenkins. McRae andl Clinton, the first being- aii Indian and the two latter prominent young white men, and they were arrested and indicted. Last year the men were tried here and convicted, but the'y ap pealed, and the Supreme Couirt re manded the case for a secoud trial, which to-day resulted in the acqytittal of the accused, as stated Tihe evidence wvas purely circumstantial, bout on the first trial was considered strong. In the second trial the State was handi capped by the absence of miaterial wit nesses, and did not make out a strong case. The t wo trials have cost Volusia County thousands of dollars and bankr-upted the defendants and their families, and after all the persons who murdered and ravished Miss Bruce and Mrs. Hatch and killed two inno cent little boys are unpunished. A bicycler of Exeter. Conn., had both hands badly frozen while riding without gloves during severe cold weather last week. It is thought his handls will have to be amputatrdl OVER A MILLION DOLLARS. THE AMOUNT OF THE SALES IN THE SUB-D!SPENSARIES. During the Past Year--The Annuai Be port of the State Liquor Commissioner lixson isued Yesterday-Interesting In formation. COLU3BLI S. C., Jan. 31.-The first annual report of the State liquor com missioner was issued yesterday and it is a most interesting document, full of information of value to the public. In the report the commissioner says: "It is gratifying tome to be enabled to state that the operations of the dis pensary have been profitable for the period of my incumbency in office; a net profit of $133,467.77 havingaccrued from the sales of the past eleven months, whilst the unearned profit outstanding, December 31st, is $25, 571.85, making a total earned and un earned profit for eleven months of $159,039.62, on $903,055.63, total sales by me for the corresponding period. I have saved the State on my purch ases of mercandise ;for the past eleven months the sum of $20,939.67 in dis counts. "I would state, that there have been on an average 84 sub-dispensaries in operation in the State for the past year. The sales from these dispensaries for the past eleven months aggregate $1, 076,963.65, at a net profit of $106,13L28 to the towns and counties. Some of these dispensaios located in the smal ler towns have been operated through the dull season at a loss to the coun ties in which they are located, and I would respectfully suggest that your honorable board take such steps as are necessary to prevent a recurrence of these undesirable results during the coming summer. I am impressed with the necessity of an adoption by your honorable board of stringent rules and regulations for the govern ment of the sub-dispensaries and a rigid enforcement thereof. I would respectfully suggest that the county dispensers be required to sign their monthly inventories under oath or af firmation, as well as all other month ly and quarterly reports. "I would respectfully call the atten tion of your hon-orable board to the fact that divers complaints have been made by various dispensers on account of my inability to fill their orders in several instances. Your honorable board will, doubtless, remember that I foresaw this annoyance early in the past spring, and to provide against this contingency, I suggested the im mediate crection of a sumtablebuilding on the line of the railroads, that an in crease in the working force mi.ht be made advantageously, and hand Igof goods greatly facilitated. And asa provision against the impracticability of the immediate adoption of the above suggestion I also suggested, as an al ternative, that your honorable board empower the commissioner to pur chase in sufficient quantities to stow away a large stock through the dull summer months, to meet the heavy de mands of the fall and winter trade. But at the time litigation was of such a nature (and for other causes, of which your honorable board is fully advised) it was not deemed expedient to carry into execution either of my sugges tions; and, as a consequence, I was forced to meet the heavy demands made upon me as bestcould. Sta tioned as I was in inadequate quarters, with a stock on hand far short of the demands of the increasing trade, it was a physical impossibility to keep ab reast of the demands although Ihad a full force at work night and day, and every foot of available floor space .was utilized for storage purposes. That I may tide against a recurrence of these difficulties next winter, I would suggest that your honorable board take some steps looking to the construction of a larger building near the railroad line, and that the commis sioner be vested with the power to purchase supplies and merchandise in quantities sufficient to meet the fall trade. It is absolutely necessary to provide increased facilities to meet the requirements of this growing trade and if the suggestions thrown out by me are not adopted, will be impossible to meassure up to the expectations of the public. "Your attention is also respectfully called to the bee:, sale privilege granted certain parties. I am unalterably of the opinion that it is a fruitful source of illicit traffic and would respectfully recommend that your honorable board withdraw all privileges thus granted. "The 'personci accounts' item of this report represents $4,526.43, shoras due by county dispensers. Part of this deficit is in process of settlement, whilst the other part is now in the courts, $212 30 of this amount is due by the penal and charitable institu tions of the State and Clemson and Winthrop colleges for alcohol, whis key and wines. The asylum owing the amount of $183.50 for goods pur chased by order of the board of regents $900 is owing by the suspended bank of Chester, and Snow & Co., of King stree. These suspensions transpired before I assumed the duties of commis sioner. The remainder represents ad vances made by me to pay the govern ment tax on whiskey at local distiller ies, in order to remove it from the bonded warehouses, and amounts due by distillers and wholesale liquor deal ers for empty barrels reshipped them. These accounts must, of necessity, ap pear in each report issued from this otlice, as outgoing shipments and in coming payments for same are al most daily occurrences. Therefore, it is not to be assumed that these 'per sonal accounts' wholly represent a contraction of worthless debts, or a wanton disregard of the law in the contraction of any class of debts. But I am plainly with in the pale of the law in the opening of these particular accounts, and I think the correctness of my po sion will lodge itself in the minds of your honorable board at first thought, when I state t nat these accounts are a bsolutely necessary to a proper and satisfactory management of the rapid y increasing business of this institu The following is the summarized tatement of sales, gross and net profits cf sub-dispensaries for eleven months, ending December ;S1st, 1895, at the end f the report: Sales be county dispensers for eleven months to December :31, (consum er's price)..........1,076,963 65 ost of counties above merchandise ........ 875, 580 20 ross profits on above... $201,383 45 otal expenses for eleven months............... 95,252 17 Total net profits for elev en monthse........ 1611 28