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VOL. XI. MANNING., S. C.. WEDNESDAY, NO. 41. RESULTS OF CUtBA'S WAR. THE INTERIOR CF THE ISLAN. HELD BY THE PATRIOTS. Spanish Armies Numbering '!:S'93 Men. Unable to Check Them--Org nization of the Cuban Government--.The Futility of Trochs.. The importanceof the results achiev ed thus far by the Cuban insurgents is demonstrated by the uowerful army which Spain is obliged to keep in the island and with which she is still un able to put down the revolution. In "El ano Politico" (the political year) a book just published at Madrid by a memberof the cortes, SenorSolderilla, the following estimate is made from official sources, of the number of men sent to the field against the patriots by the Spanish government: Spanish regular troops in Cuba when the revolution broke out Feb. 24,1S95......... 13,000 First expedition from Spain... S,593 Secondexpedition.......... 7,477 Third expedition............. 4,08S Fourth expedition..--........2.902 Fifth expedition.............. 9,001 Sixth exoedition.............. 29,055 Seventh expedition........... 26,639 Eighth expedition............. 9,033 Ninth expedition............. 18,901 Troops at Porto Rico sent to Cuba...................... 1,562 Cavalry detachment paid by the merchants at Habana....... 300 Naval infantry incorporated in the army................... 3,000 Volunteers of Habana........ 2,000 Volunteers sent from Spain.... 2,500 Criminals pardoned in Spanish prisons and enlisted as sol diers....................... 2,500 Reserves called out to replace thedead............... 23,000 New reserves called out at the end of 1895................. S,000 - Total men................172,295 To these may be added the expedi tion of 16,000 men sent to the island in February, 1896, and not included in the estimate of Senor Solderilla, which refers to the year 1S95, and the 50,000 volunteers employed for the garrison of Habana and the principal towns of Cuba. That makes a total of 238,295 men in arms on the Spanish side. And it was said lately, that General Weyler had asked for more re-enforcements. The above figures are eloquent to prove that the revolution is not a ne gro movement and an uprising of out laws, having against them the large majority of the Cubans, as the Span. ish government usually states.. They prove also that the Cuban army is not a band of bandits without a military organization and intelligent leaders. A band of bandits does not require 238,295 soldiers, under the command of the, best Spanish generals to sup press it. The Cuban army number 45,000 men, as stated before in The Sun. It is divided in five army corps, the first four operating in the provinces of Santiago de Cuba, Puerto Principe, Las Villas and Matanzas, and the last, called also the invading army, oper ating in Habana and Pinat- del Rio. At the present moment the Cubans are in possession of the six provinces -in which the islanid is divided, with the exception of the seapdrts and the princinal towns in'the interior. Out side the towns the Spanish have no control. The soldiers hold only the land on which they step as they pass from one town to another. 'The whole country is in the hands of the patriots, and in some parts of the is land, as in the Orient, their troops are undisturbed. General Calixto Garcia, 'with the men of the Bermuda expedi tion, landed there. He is unmolested by the Spanish, and employs his time at present in orgyanizing and training his troops for an attack upon the en.s my. People not conversant with Cuban affairs cannot easily understand two things: First, how it is that the Cu bans are not in possession of an im portant town or seaport, and, second, how with only 45,000 men, and not so well armed as the Spanish,- they can stand successfully against 238,295 men. With regard to the interior towns the situation is explained by the fact that in an attack upon them many Cuban families, including those of some of the Cubans in the army would perish either from Spanish revenge from bullets of thepatriots. When the rev olution broke out Cubans and Span iards lived together in the towns. The Cubans for the most part were married * or had parents and relatives, while the Spaniards were single,having their parents and relatives in Spain. The Cubans left in the towns their families when they went to the country to join *the insurgent army. Having r-emem -brance of the experience of the war of 1868, when the women who took the field proved a burden for the Cuban soldiers, and some of them were the victims of infamous outrages by the Spanish, they preferred to leave their failies in the towns, where cruelties cannot be committed openly without arousing public indignation and per haps inviting the protest of foreign representatives. But notwithstanding the danger of their families, the Cu oans would seize an important town, especially a seaport, if they had bel ligerent rights and were in possession of a navy which would enable them to keep it- At present the Cubans cannot hope to possess war ships.- The American public is well aware of how many difficulties the Cubans encount er in sending even an expedition to Caba. Their ships are liable to seizure and detention, and have to sail as merchant steamers when at ha t they find a chance to start. It is a mi.stake, therefore, to compare the situation of the Cubans with that of the Confeder ates during the civil war in this coun try. The seaports of the Confederacy were not occupied by the Federals when the war began. It was a strug gle of the south against the north, each side having its own territory and its own cities. Cuba's war is the up rising of a colony against its govern ment, of the natives of an island agairnst their oppressors, with the lat ter possessing all the bene fits of bel ligerency. The following sketch of the progress of the revolution from its humble be ginning until December, 1895, is taken from a book by Senor Fidel G. Pierra under the tiule of "Cuba, Physical Features of Cuba; Hecr Past, Present and Possible Future." "The uprising torok place on the 24th of Feoruary, 1s95, in the prov ince of Santiago de Cuba and in other places. During the first month the success of the movement was rather doubful and it was only saved by the firmness and resolution of some of the chiefs, especially by Bartolome and Guillermo Moncada, who. al though they saw that the people did not respond as quickly as it was ex pected, refused to listen to any propo sition to give up the attempts. On the :31st of March General Antonio Maceo. his brother Jose. Flor Cromibet, and Agustin Cebreco. all veteran leaders, with 22 others, landed at Duaba, near l3arnacoa, and as soon as they joined those who were already in arms, and the news of their arrival reached San tiago and other cities, the aspect of things changed. and men who until then hesitated to support the move ment began to join the army. On the 11th of April Gen. Maximo Gomez and Jose Marti with six friends land ed at the southeastern extremity of Cuba, and having joined Maceo, a general plan was arranged whereby General Maceo was to remain in the province of Santiago, and Gen. Go mez was to proceed to Camaguay as general-in-chief of the army. Before the landing of Generals Maceo and Gomez the majority of those in arms were colored men, but immediately after, the proportion of white began to increase, and although in the prov ince of Santiago the colored element preponderated in the rank ahd filethe great majority of the olicers were white, while in Camaguey, on the contrary, the army under Gomez from the beginning was composed almost exclusively of whites. On the 25th of July, the expeditions commanded by Roloff, Sanchez and Rodriguez landed in the province of Santa Clara not far from Trinidad. From this moment the success of the revolution was entirely assured. Maximo Gomez established his head quarters not far from the city of Pue tro Principe, and devoted himself with great energy to the organization of the army, and to devising a gener al plan of campaign. The first en counter between the Spanish army and the Cuban forces took place in the province of Santiago at 'Los Ne gros. The Cubans were led by Jesus Rabi, now a brigadier general, and although the Cubans were very poor ly armed, the Spanish forces were routed. The second encounter was at El Guanabana, the Spaniards com manded by Santocides and the Cubans by General Moso The Spaniards were again routed, having lost 206 men. The Cuban loss was 35. The next important move made by the Cubans was the simultanious attack on the villages El Cristo and El Caney, and a railroad train carrying arms and ammunition. Botts villages were cap tured by the Cucans and the barracks destroyed. The train was also cap tured with 200 rifles and 40,000 cart ridges. These operations were direct ed by Gen. Maceo. Next came the at tack and capture of the fort of Ramon de las Yagnas, where the Cubans took possession of 150 rifles and 30.000 cart ridges. Shortly after they attacked and captured the Dort of Campechueia, which they held for two or three days. Another important encounter was that of Yuragnanas, where the Spaniards were routed, leaving on the field 77 dead, arms, ammunition and baggage. After some other minor encounters, about the nidile of July the impor tant battle of Peratej was fought. The Spaniaras were commanded by Gen. Campos himself and the Cubans by Gen. Maceo. The former was ut terly routed, losing over 400 men, mong them one of their- generals, idel Santocides, and Martinez Camp os5 himself came very near falling nto the hands of the Cubans. Next ame the capturer of Baire by the ubans. Afterwards came the battle f Descanso del Muerto, where, the Spaniards sulifered heavy losses and abandoned arms, ammunition and aggage. "The increase in number during August and September of the army uder Gomez in Camaguey, and in he army in Santa Clara commanded y Roloff, Sanchez and Rodriguez, en ouraged General Gomez to prepare n important movement toward the west, and he announced that by Christ nas he would be with his army near atanzas and Habana. At the same ime he issued an order to all the lanters of Santa Clara, Mantanzas nd Habana forbidding the grinding f sugar cane this year. Gen. Marti ez Campos~ then answered that the sugar crop would certainly be gather d this year, and he would see to it, romising that by the last of Decem er there would not be a single rebel left in Santa Clara province. About he beginning of October, General Gmez began to prepare for his march o the west, and ordered Gener al Ma ceo to join him as soon as possible. Some weeks later it was reported by the Spaniards that General Maceo was ead; then that his army had been ispersed, and later that nobody knew where he and his army were. At that ime General Maceo was going over the distance of 300 miles at forced arches to join General Gomez. They et about Placeta, in the pr-ovince of Santa Clara, and continued their westward march, 'carrying before hem everything which obstructed hemi in their for ward movement, and y Christmas eve both generals were establishing their headquarters with n a few miles of Matanzas and Sa ana, while Gen. Campos was flying o Habana, as he said, to direct opera tions from the capital. When Gen. Martinez Campos entered Habana on the 25th of December he did not know where his army was, as all conmmuni cation between himself and the vari ous divisions had been cut off by the ubans. Gomnez's promise had been made good, while General Campos, as e himself declared in his speech at Eabana, had been entirely undone by those of wvhom lie haa spoken so light Since that time the Cubans have had one triumph after another. Gen. acco invaded the province or Pinar del Rio, and on Jan. 93 took possession f Mantua, the miost westera town of the islaud. Frm~ a Nov. :3, when he started from llolguin, on Jan. 2:3 he had marched, iighting nearly every day against the Spani'sh troops, 379 Spanish leagues, and had captured from the enemyI tLree canuous anid about 3,t'.0 rides a ad up 'u eartridges. ie had only :30 mn kiled and 160i wounded. From Feb. tJ to March 1t9 he abandoned the province of Pinar de Rio and retired to a place near Colon. Then he invaded Pinar del Rio again, defeating in every enicoun ter the Spanish~f who tried to oppose hii. lu-ring that time hie marched several thousaud staussT of arms and much ammlaunition. Thle nrincipal battles of these successfal campaigns are those of Jobito, Mat Tenmplo, Cali mete, Ratabano and Caudelai-ia, all described in the report of Brigadier i,-. chief of M1ac's sutt published in The Sun. In the mean time Gomez moved to the Orient, making also a successful campaign in Las Villas. He attacked Santa Clara, -capturing a large supply of arms and ammuution. but abstaining from harm to the- city for the sake of the Cuban families liv ing there. The present situation is 4s follows: In the province of Pinar del Rio is Maceo with more than 12,000 men. encamped near the trocha or military wall made by the Spanishfrons Mariel to Majana to prevent him from pass ing into the province of Habana. Gomez is marching to the Occident probably, with the intention of attackt iag the trocha and aiding Maceo in passing it Great concentration of Cuban forces are being made in the province of Habana, and an impor tant engagement is expected at any moment., The battle of Lechuza, which was fought a few days ago, was a brilliant triumph for Maceo as Perat ejo, gives hope for a result equally satisfactory to Cubans in the suture encounter. From these facts it will be seen that the Cubans have accomplished impor tant results, even if they are not in possession of any important city. Now, as to their ability to defeat the Spaniards, although fewer in number and under many disadvantages. It can be explained by two principal. facts. First, the superiority of the Cuban generals over the Spanish com manders, and, second, the superiority of the Cuban soldiers over the Span ish rank- and file. The Cubans are fighting for an ideal and the Spanish because obliged to do so by their gov ernment. Gen. Martinez Campos was bitterly attacked in Spain for his fail ure to stop the revolution. -Notwith standing this, he was a brave soldier and an able political leader. But Gomez is undoubtedly a military ge nius, and Maceo has proved the pos session of no .less skill and courage. After Campos, Weyley took com mand of the Spanish army. He has demonstrated his cruelty upon de fenceless and peaceful people, bat has not shown talents as a military leader. What he'is doing is considered proof of his incapacity by some critics. In the former Ten Years' War trochas proved to be a failure from a military standpoint. The formidable trochaof Mormon was passed by Gomez in 1875. In this war it was passed again. several times by Gomez and Maceo. The same trocha from Mariel to Maja na was passed before by Maceo him self and other Cuban leaders with small forces, and by Gomez three months ago. Now Weyler has con centrated there his main forces, and. to do this he has been obliged toaban don the other parts of the island, while Maceo, in possession of the Pinar del Rio province, does not intend to try to pass until he can do it with suc cess. Nothing can be better for the Cubans than a trocha, the patriots say. While the Spanish are kept in one small line, the Cubans, on one side and the other, without the least dis turbance, levy their taxes and en force their laws over the whole coun try. The formidable army which Spain is obliged to keep in Cuba is one proof of the strength of the Cubans and their control over. the country. An other proof is the fact that they stopp ed sugai- grinding throughout' the' s iand. -The first order to stop the -grinds ing was issued in July. - Then the purpose of - Gomez was a taned. To sorne complaints, of suga.. estate proprietors he replied in another proclamation under the date of No ember 11, in which these words 6c-' cur: "I therefore place the responsibility for so great a ruih on those who look on impassively and force us tqthe ex treme measures which they. then con demn like dolts and hypocrites that they are. Af ter so many years of sup plication, humiliation, contumely, banishment and death, when this peo ple, of its own will, has arisen in arms there remains nothing else to do but to triumph; it matters not what 'means are employed to accomplish it." The severity of these meastures was palliated to some extent by the provi sional government of the republic, and for the sake of the Cuban families liv ing in the interior towns, beef and cat te, as well as some other provisions were allowed to enter upon payment of a war tax.. -Furthermore, as stated in the proclamation of President Sal vador Cisneros, issued at Najasa, in last February, those sugar plantations were allowed to grind whose proprie tors had made~ special arrangements with Cuban chiefs before the decree of Gomez of July,- and had- paid a heavy contribution. As stated in the letter of T.- Estrada Palma to Richard Olney, secretary of state, under the date of January 7, of this year, and reprinted for the use of the senate at'Washing ton, "the reasons underlying Gomez's orders are the same which caused this country to destroy the cotton crop and the baled cotton in the south during the war of the secession." The effect of Gomez's order is clearly seen at pre sent. The island is ruined and Spain is obliged to furnish all the money' re quired for the war out of her own ex bausted treasury. For one year, for two years perhaps, Spain may be able to borrow. But afterwards what shall she do? 'The war expenses of Spain are 'estimated at $6'0J00,000 every month., If it asked from what sources the Cubans derive their money, it is neces sary first to explain what is the Cuban-. goermenut and how it works. .Ona April 1. 18115, Jose Marti landed in Cuba. His first step was to issue a call for the el'ectiohi'of -representatives of the Cuban people to form a civil gov ernmen't- He was killed in'an encoun ter with the Spanish, -bo.:t his call was complied with. Twenty representa tives from all the provinces were elec ted to the~constitutent assembly, -which met at Jimagnayu,.province of Puerto. P~ricipe, September 13,. 1895. . On September 16 the assembly adopted a constitution of the Republic of Cuba. And on the -18th the- provisional gov' ernent 'was elected~ in accordance with this terms of the coastitution. It is compdied .thuis: Presid1e't, Sibrgdor Cisnteros Betan court of Puer~to.Principe.. Vice president, ;Bartolomne Massa of Manillo. ----- Secretary of, war, -Garlos RololF- of Sata Olara - - Secretary of the interidr, Santiago Garcia Canizares'of Remedios. - Secretary of foreign relations, .Ra fael M. 1.'ortuondo of Santiago de Cuba. Four sub-secretaries were also elect ed, among them Dr. Joaquindel Cas tiui of the treasury, who came to New York on a special commission from the government, and is now sub dele gate of the Cuban revolutionary party time General Gomez was chosen com mander-in-chief of the army. General Antonio Maceo as the second in com mand, with the title of lieutenant general, and Senor Thomas Estranda Palma as delegate plenipotentiary and general agent of the republic abroad. As soon as the members of the govern ment took possession of their offices or ders were issued to divide the provin cas into prefectures. On each of these taxes are imposed on all articles of commerce entering into the towns. For the purpose of properly collecting the taxes., the roads to all the cities, as well as the coast are patrolled by the Cubans.. The money collected, which ambhts'some months to sev eral thousands of dollars is sent to New York to Senor Palma to be spent for arms and ammunition. The fund so formed is called here the treasury of of the republic. There is another treas ury in the junta, that of the Cuban reolutionary party. The Cuban revolutionary party is the organization founded by Jose Marti in the United States by which he obtained the necessary elements to work for several years in preparing for the revolution. The party is com posed of the many Cuban political clubs which exist in the United States. The clubs elect the delegate and treas urer of the party, and there is a coun cil formed of the presidents of all the clubs. The members of the clubs in clude most of the cigarmakers and employees of the Cuban cigar factories in the United States. They number over 1S,09.Q and contribute for the Cu ban fund 10 per cent. of their wages and the whole product of one day of labor during the week. They do even more. When money is needed for some special purpose,.as after some un fortunate event. which has entailed extraordinary expense they give one day o? labor mere to "Cuba Libre." After the wreck of theiawkins, for instance, this was'done in order to pre pare the next expedition of General Calixto Garcia. After tie firstunsuc cessful attempt of the Bermuda to sail from this port, they offered to make the same contribution, but Delegate Palma did not like to accept the offer, having then money enough to proceed with his work, The patriotism of the Cubans seems exhaustless. They all contribute to the Cuban fund, from the highest to the lowest. The amount collected monthly by the Cubans, without including extraor dinary gifts of sympathizers, is from W8,000 to $100,000. It isemployed'in buying arms and ammunition for the Cuban army and steamers in which to send the expeditions. Although all the power is in the hands of the delegate, who appoints the secretary of the party, now Senor Gonzala de Quesada, who is in.Washington, Senor Palma consults voluntarily on im portant matters some prominent Cu ban living in New York. The infor mal coundillors constitute what is im properly called the Junta in-the Am erican newspapers. No such organiza tion as the Junta.really exists. It is a word which remains over from the last war in 1868, when an organized Cuban -u-nta existed in New York, presided over by the wealthy Cuban, Senor Miguel Aldama. The treasurer of the revoltionary party is SenorBenjamin Guerra. When the time for the elec tion of delegate approached this year all the clubs decided that the delegate should be the plenipotentiary appoint ed. by the g:>vernment of the republic, now Senor Palma, who will probably bold the'oflice until the independence f Cuba. - - The letter addressed by Senor Palma to Secretary of State Olney, and quoted above, ends with these w->rds: "In view of the history of this re volution as herein stated, in view of the causes which led to it, its rapid growth, its successes in arms, -the establishment, operation and resources' of the government of the Cubali re public, the organization, number and discipline of its armies, the contrast in the treatment of prisoners to that of the enmey, the territory in its control and subject t- the carrying-out of -its decrees; of-the'futility-of-the attempts of the Spanish government to crush, the revolution, in spitee.of: irhe im& mense increase of jts~grmy in Cuba and of its blockade'and the man~yi.1i ions spent for that pui-'pos, the c'nel ies which, on the part of the-S-panish?,' have-especially -hacterized1is san guinary and tiercely. condmcted- war and the.damage to the injtesets of..he itizens of this countryy~decthe pres: ent conditions, I, as th# ,uly accredl ited representative, in the nameofte uba-n -people in-in-s 'tho h#& rought singly andalloie - against'the nonachy of Spain- for--early a year in the heart otascontinent. devoted to republian institutions,in:tae,uamne of justtice, in the name of . Jgmanitym in he name of liberty, 'petition you, and through you the government of the inited States, to accord the rights of elligerency to a people' Eghting -for their absolute independence." - A Case of self-Defence. SPARTAsBUnO. S. C.; April 29.-This morning about sunrise a strangei- call ad at the jail and asked to see Deputy Dean, if he staid there. Dean said he lid. The stranger, whose- name was W. M. Scruggs, said he .had killed a man by the name of .Turner, and had :ome to surrender. On Sunday night wo inn Henry Black-well and Tur cer, wvent to the House of Scruggs. ear Ez'ell's postotlice, aroused and threatened- him, and then went off. After they left the par ties said that hey interided to-return, and Scruggs gaded a single barrel shotgun. When they returnled. Turner alone -went to the house, and was forcing his way. in a threatening manner.. when he shot him. He did not wait for arrest but camne to town and surrendered. rhose who were at the inquest yester day say Scrugg was actin-g in self der fence. He was about-54 years of age. Suicide in Atlanta. AUGUsTA, Ga.,' Apil 30.-The dead body of Gus Schlessinger who covn nitted suicide, by taking morphiune at iLhe Kimball house last Tuesday, was found in a room in that hotel this af ternoon. Schlessinger was a salesman for Biseman and WVeil, Whitehall sreet clothiers, He was 35 years of age. He camne to Atlanta'from Macon several years ago, and had many friends. Tuesday he registered at the Kimball as '.:A. Brown, city." He was given a room and had not been seen since that time,- until the chamn ber maid found the partly decomposed body this~afternoon. The cause of the suicide irunknown. Explos.Ion Kilis a Hundred. Lexuos. Apri-l30.-An explosion by which 100. pe-rsons are -believed to have perished, has occurred at Micklefield, Yorkshire. The explosion took place in a colliery. Twenty injured per-. TILLMIANS PITCHFORK. HE PLUNGES IT DEEP INTO THE AR MOR PLAl E TRUST. Sharp Criticism of Retired Naval Officers Who Serve Two Masters-A Running De bate With Senator Gray of Delaware. Senator Tillman is a member of the Naval Affairs Committee and as such took part in a running debate in the Senate Monday. He said: Mr. President. as a member of the Committee on Naval Affairs I have taken a great deal of interest in the in vestigation which has been under dis cussion here, and I have listened with a great deal of pleasure, and I must say wiith some amusement. to this de bate, which, it seems to me, is one of taste. Senators will remember the old adage that on questions of taste people must be allowed to disagree. The committee, I think, had in view and very rightly, in presenting the amendment the :topping of a scandal, to prevent a man from being accused of improper or dishonorable action or even suspected of it. In investigating the question of the cost of armor we the armor-plate manufacturers and the government were enemies Their in terests are directly opposed to each other. The government wants to get the armor of the very best quality at as low a price as possible. The manu facturer wants to get the last dollar possible. Now, we find in the employ of the manutacturers two of the ablest ofli cers of the United States Navy that I have ever met. I hope we have a great (any if them. I have not met a great many like them, but I doubt it. The government has educated those men at its own expense. It has had them in its employ until the time has come un der the law when they could be re tired or when they were forcibly re tired, and they go upon handsome pay. They go into retirement not as beggars as the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Gray) says, but their pay is such that they can live comfortably if they had nothing else. Mr. Gray: It is $75 a month. Mr. Tillman: Is that all? I think the Senator is mistaken. Mr. Gray: They are nct retired on the longevity plan. Mr. Tillman: They are retired for disability. Mr. Tillman:.Of course I do not say that a man can live handsomely on $75 a month in this community. I have discovered the contrary. But here are men who hold the right for the balance of their lives to draw on the Treasury for so much money. That is, they come and draw their pay on the retired list. They certainly owe the government some obligation and if they were not in a semi-capaci ty at least in the employ of the gov ernment, with the right of the govern ment to call on them, they would be under no moral obligation Mr. Gray: That is right. Mr. Tillman: The Senator acknowl edlge that they are under a moral ob ligation to the government of some kind. Let us see to what extent it goes. They are now in the employ of enemies of the government, men who, I said, are trying to get all they can out of the government They are using the skill which the government has furnished the min educating them; they. are using the technical knowl edge in the management and construc tion of ships wbich tiey received from the government in helping the enemies of the government to cheat the government or to rob it. If that is not a position in which no honora ble man would like to be placed, I ask the Senator from Delaware just to tell me what sort of a position it is? Mr. Gray: As the Senator from Bouth Carolina puts the question, I will agree with him- entirely, and that is the trouble all through this debate. You put the question in such guise as j~ts-your own argument. But'that oes not-suit the facts. That is what Ehave been trying to show..,JI will gree wi~th the Senator perfegtly, that in:theg ay he puts it he is right; but let me ssk the Senator if I iri not tres passing' on his patience-d fir. Tr11man: Certainly not. r Ghay: This is a matter of some importanca,-.perha8ps. He says that he has in the course of the performance #his duty as a member of the Coin ittee *on N~aval' Affairs 'discovered hat the con ractors and the govern ent are etittes. - Mr. Tillmnan: I have. - Mr. Gray: Are.-.hey enemies after th-e contract is made. in the same sense hat thaey were before?. d[r. tllman: Ofcourse they. are, briis'reason - Mr. G'ray: Not if they ae hionora ble men. Mr. Tillman: Wait a moment.- We re tryiug~to discuss what is an honor ble man,.. Suppose the .contractors iscover tliat they have au armor plate which he cost-:themn-seve:ral thousand ollars ta' manufacture.- the plates weighing 30 or 40 tons, in which there are some dlaws and defegts, and the fficer of the government, who is re ~eiving government pay, knows that :he plate is not. an honest one under he contract, could he come a'nd tell us o? Would he not lose his employ ~ent with the company if he did? Mr. Hale: Let me ask the Sena'or ?rom South Carolina a question Mr. Tillman: Certainly. Mr. Hale: Did the investigation by he comritte-e disclose a single case where a naval officer in such employ sad ever disclosed any defects to the rovernmnt? Mr. Tilhwan: :Does the Senator mean tretired oflicer? Mr. Haleh Kretired officer. Mr. Tdiman: We never have heard f one of them hinting that there was uything wrong with~ the manuracture. f armor plate or that the government d ever been cheated in the slightest partile. Let us put it in this way: 3upp.,e- instead of sayini that the maniaturers are enemiehs, which, of ourse, is a little stretch of the imagi nation Mr. Gray: Say they are antagonists. Mr. Tillman: Say they were Brimsh >r Spanish people. against whom we. just now have a kind of aversion. Mr. Gra,: Say they are antagonisti. Mr. Tillman: Say these mnanu~fa' urers were somebody else, an actual emy, and that these naval oflicers were in1.heir employ while-receiving >ur pay. Does the Senator think it < would be right for the oilicers, while hey are on our retired list, to go into he employment of the enemyv. .4 Mr. Gray: I agree with the Senator 1 n that xnspect. Mr. Tillman: I think we will get he Senator~ down to a point where hie will withdraw his objection and let ~i e mmitteeamenlmeznitothrough. 1j Mr. Gray: Go on and let us see. Mr. Tillman: The Senator said a lit tle while ago that we were acting only for the government. We are appropri ating money for both sides. Mr. Gray: How? Mr. Tillman: We are appropriating to pay the retired officers in the employ of our enemy. Mr. Gray: We pay them whether they are so employed or not. Mr. Tillman: Very well. We want them to get out of that, as a matter of decency, as a matter of taste. We want them to get into an employ in which the government has no inter est, in which their talents cannot be used to cheat the government. Mr. Gray: How can their talents be used to cheat the government? Mr. Tillman: These otlicers are right here using their technical skill in drawing up contracts for the com pany, and they get every advantage they can in drawing specifications for the contractors. Mr. Gray: Do they make contracts for armor plates? Mr. Tillnan: They are here as rep resentatives of the contractors to draw contracts between the government and the factory. Mr. Gray: I have asked once or twice whether anybody knows that fact. I have not received any reply. Mr. Chandler: The Secretary of the Navy now meditates making a con tract with these two concerns, who are in combination and not competing with each other, for $3,000,000 worth of armor for the Kentucky and the Kearsarge, and of course these two re tired naval officers are giving their employers their very best . service in every direction to get the highest price for that armor. Mr. Gray: The question I asked was whether the officers were acting for their concerns in making contracts; whether they were the hand or mind that made the contract? Mr. Tillman: We do not pretend know who is coming forward as the outative bidder. We suppose the Bethlehem works and the Carnegie Iron Works, the only two concerns in this country that can manufacture armor plate, will be the only bidders. We prrsent the spectacle, I may say, as we are entering on the question of armor plate, although it is not the right time, because we have not got to that quettion, of putting our hands in the hand cuffs of these two compa nies. They have formed a trust, and to the best of my knowledge and be lief, I am ready to take oath to it, they propose to rob this government be cause you have on the statute books a law requiring us to use only American armor. Therefore we are in the posi tion of giving -o a monopoly the right to charge the United States $600 a ton for armor which they have sold to the Russian government for $300. Mr. Gray: Why do you not repeal the law? Mr. Tillman: Very well; I am ready to go with you to repeal it. I am will ing to give pi eference to the Ameri can industry; I want to have armor plate for American vessels made in the United States, but I am unwilling to see monopolies grow rich by put ting their hands into the pockets of the United States and taking out as much as they want. Mr. Gray: Let us get back to these officers. Mr. Tillman: These officers are in an unfortunate position. Perhaps they do not realize it, and I am per haps unfortunate that I can not see the matter as the Senator from Dela ware does. He thinks it is honorable arid in good taste for men who are in the employ of the government to go into the employ of our enemies Mr. Gray: I agree with the Sena tor abo-ut enemies. Mr. Tillman: If the armor-plate manufacturers who have been trying to get the last dollar from the govern ment are not enemies, whaat are they? Mr. Gray: We ought not to have anything to do with them. Mr. Tillman: How? M~r. Gray: By not making any con tracts with them. If they are enemies in the sense in which the Senator from South Carolina asserts they are then I say that it is the duty of the Navy Department, it is the duty of Congress to cut short all connection between us and them. Mr. Tillman: That is begging the guestion. We must have armor made smewhere. We either have to re peal the law by which we are forced o buy American armor-and I have deard that all the armor-plate manu acturers of the world are now form inig a tru~st :to rob the government of the world Mr, Gray: Very likely. Mr.'Tillmant: The only thing we aan do would be to have an armor establishment of our own, and take hese skilled people whom we have educated and put them their, and put ~he material there, and make our own rmor. Mr. Gray: These gentlemen wilt se very glad if you will. Mr. Tillman: Let it be cleirly and listinctly understood that so far as :his discussion and these individual rentlemen are concerned, I have no >ersonal feeling in the world. Mr. Gray: I understand. Mr. Tillman: I have no feeling ibout it. Mr. Gray: I understand. Mr. Tillman: I never met them rior to the time when they came be ora the committee. I never heard nything about it until they came here. Then we discovered the posi ion which they ocenpied toward the covernnent and toward the people ,vho are furnishing the government ;ith armor. It is a scaudal in my ol.inion. I nay differ with the Senator from D)daware as to what is gzood taste and vhat is decent and what is honest, but ~till I believe we ought to require that 10 officers of this government, either etive or retired, shall receive its pay mad then go into an employ and use he brains which he has had educated t the expense of the government to he disadvantaze of the government. Mr. Gray: Before thle Senator from southi Carolina sits down, I should ike to ask hinm a question because .his is the re-ai point in the case, lay iig aside ak speculation about the iones y of these men. Is it not to the nterest of the United States govern nent whenr it makes a contract with m I' one of these concerns, to get the >et possible skill in the performance >f tne conitract? Mr. Gray: How is the government ujured if these otlicers poesss sup-:ri >r skill and it is devoted to making he best possible product? Mr. Tilbauan: We do not say the ~overnmient is injured at all. We re simnply trying to prevent that feel n.g of svrong on the part of the tax-i )ars that here ea men whom they have educated and trained using the skill and the education the govern ment has given them in aid of men who are not working for the govern ment's interest. We want the skill on our side and the honesty, too. TROUBLE AMONG THE LLOYDS. Claimants Against Them Can't Collect Their Money For Losses. The Columbia State, a few days ago, published the following in refer ence to the above insurance compan ies: The fact was discovered yester day that last week several attachmert suits were begun against the Lloyds, represented by Mr. W. S. Monteith and an inspection of the court house showed that papers had been filed in the following cases and attachments had been served? Mrs. L. B. Will iams. .J. E. W. Haile, L. B. McLaurin and J. S. Moore. Suit has also been brou. ht by Izlax & Fairey of Orange burg. Mr. W. S. Monteith was called upon to explain, and he was very unwilling to speak on the subject. He stated, however, that towards the close of the last month he was sum moned to New York and there inform ed that the South and North American Lloyds, of which he has had the south ern management, had decided to go out of business and would at once re organize, and he was directed to re turn home and after a certain day to write no more for them, but to send in all the policies he nad and new pol icies of the reorganized Lloyds would be supplied. Mr. Monteith said that if this had been done he could have continued business without interrup tion. The reorganization, however, did not take place until about the Sth or 9th inst., and then it was decided to write all policies in New York on ap plications to be sent in from this and other points. Meantime several losses had reached a period of maturity and as Mr. Monteith had up to that time paid all losses promptly, and as the interruption above stated had stopped his collections, he went back to ew York to urge upon the underwriters the importance of paying the losses then mature and also to get them to re sume business in a way to restore con fidence: This he was unsuccessful in doing, and the holders of mature loss es on the policies have brought suit and attached the business in his hands. He says the reason of his unwilling ness to speak is that he has hoped and still hopes that the underwriters will take steps at a very early date to set tle these matters and go on actively. He declares that they are all persons of means and can be made to respond, but he does not think that the suits will be allowed to go to judgment. Commenting on the above the Sum ter Watchman and Southron says: "The above article wilt be unwelcome information to many citizens of this county who hold policies of insurance in the Lloyds. It is true that it will not be a surprise to them, for they have been prepared for some such in formation bt the well founded runors concerning the shaky condition of the Lloyds that have been in circula tion for a :nonth or longer. Th.e ru mors have been condrmed in a very tangible and unsatisfactory manner by the failure of the Lloyds to pay the half dozen or more losses that they have had in this county within the last three or four months. Settle ment has been postponed and decayed on one subterfuge or another from time to time, and the policy holders have been led to hope and to believe that they would receive this money in a short "time until recently. Within the last ten days Mr. WV. S. Monteith, the State agent of the Lloyds, has written to the policy holders who have sustained losses that they had best place their claims in the hands of an attorney and follow his advice, if they wish to obtain anything, thus showing that the Lloyds had no intention of paying the losses except under com pulsion of law. The following is a list of those who have claims against the Lloyds in this county: R. F. Jackson, L. S. Vinson, E. C. Nicholas. L. D. Jen nings, R. C. Westberry, Dr. B. Mc Lauchlin, J. S. Booth & Co., Mrs. S. Keels, Hazelhurst and Sanders." Uniform Bales. From time to time there has been complaint in the great cotton markets of the world at the want of uniformi ty in baling cotton. There has been much talk of docking cotton not reg ularly baled, and in some cases this has been done. To avoid further trouble the cotton exchanges have taken the matter up. At a meeting recently held in Augusta resolutions were adopted recommending: First, That producers , ginners and packers use bagging weighing not less than 2 nor more than 2t pounds to the yard, the bagging to b3 woven and calendered to allow for clear and distinct marking. Second, six ties to the bale of mate i-al, weighing not less than 45 nor more than 50 pounds to the bundle of 3J, 11 to 14 feet in length. Third, Farmers and manufacturers urged to conform to these recomnmen dat ions Fourth, That compressed bales have shipside density 22i pounds per cubaie foot and 8 bands, weighing an average of 15 pounds per band. Fifth, That sample hole patch be used in compressment of bales. Sixth, That railroads decline to re ceive c 'mpressed cotton of 1l. 'r dea sity than 22b pounds per cubic foot. Seventh, That attempt to en force arbitrar-y nenalhy of live pounds per bale by Liverpool exchange w.iil only retard every movement lookmgi to correction of evils complained or. Weyler Rtudely Warned. IHaBnA, April 30.-A dynamite bomb caused the explosion in the cap ain general's palace yesterday, a-nd not a gas engine as reported. The -noise was tremendous, and caused in tense excitement in the palace and vi :inity. The general's otltices rushed about, giving orders. Even Weyler left the room greatly excited. Univ one person was hurt slighitly Tn others escaped miracululy T ne~ whole palace shook by th e forc of the explosau. Clouds of dust blinued all persons inside, and manylI 'law windows wvere broken. The bo::ab des troved the partition wall of thle orin :ipal counting room and br-oke two safes. The bomb was liaced in the water- closet at the south~easL cor-r ut he palace on ME reatderes and Ubispo1 treets. The occurrence is the general ~olie of c-)uversatlin. It is belieCedl obe the work of laborers. The gov snment says anarchists did it. The police are making diligent search, b-ut ijo arrest has been made yet. Strong :easures, it is said, wvill be adopted to 'revent a repetition of smulr acts. 'his happened .a 11 a. m. DISPENSARY FIGURES. REPORT OF THE SPECIAL LEGISLA TIVE INVESTIGATION COMMITTEE. The Dispensary is Now Running on a Cash Basis-Lots of Accrued Profits Tied Up !n Stock-Clerk Scruggs Commended. The special legislative committee charged with the duty of examining the books and financial transactions of the State dispensary for the quarter ending March 31, 1896, made a report to the State Board of Control yester day. The report is signed by but two members, as the third, Hon. F. H. Weston, was off on a wedding trip when the investigation was made. The report shows plenty of profit in the way of accumulated paid for stock, and the business is now being run on a cash basis. The report is as follows: To the State Board of Control: We herewith submit our report of our examination of the books and fi nancial transactions of the State Dis pensary for the quarter ending March 31, 1896. Mr. C. W. Garris, of this committee, with representatives both of the State Board and the State Com missioner, took stock at the close of the quarter. On the 20th day of April, the committee assembled at the office of the State Board of Control and af ter a careful examination of the books and vouchers of the State Commis sioner, we find the following: ASSETS. Merchandise in hands of county dis pensers, State's profit added, $145,038, 20; less the State's unearned profit ad ded at time of shipment, $41,453.77; value of above merchandise at cost price, $103,634.43. Amount due by ex-Dispensers and in process of settlement, $4,526.43. Personal accounts due the State,$4, 408.06. Cash balance in treasury, $3,921.22. Teams and wagons, inventory, $1, 257.25. Machinery and office fixtures, $2, 657.47. Merchandise at State Dispensary, $73,067.17. Supplies at State Dispensary, $47, 741.54. Total assets, $241,13L25. LL RILITIES. Personal accouats due by State, $4, 065.36. Due the general fund of the State from former earnings, $192,247.80. Net accrued profit for present quar ter, paid to the credit of the State school fund, $44,299.32. Of the net accrued profit for this quarter ($44.299.32 as above) the amount of $31;300 84 represents an unearned profit on goods in the hands of county dispensers on December 31, 1S95, additioaai with an increase in valuation of goods in consequence of an advance in prices of goods in the month of January by order of the Chairman of the State Board of Con trol. The remainder, $12,998.48,is an accrued profit on sales for this quar ter. PROFITS FOR QUARTER. City of Columbia's 1-2 profit for quarter ending October 31, withheld by order of the State Board of Control, $565.12. " City of Columbia's 1-2 profit for the quarter ending December 31, withheld by order of the State Board of Con trol, $1,000. Gross profit on merchandise for present quarter, $105,557.50. Contraband seizures, $2,807.75. Profits from beer dispensaries, $4, 754.06. Discounts, abatements on whiskey purchases, $5,207.22. Total gross profits, $119,954.65. LoSES. Losses by fire, Florence dispensary, Losses by fire, Bamberg dispensary, $812.56. Supplies used during the quarter, $18,027.42. Breakage and leakage, $182.95. Insurance, $390.29. Constabulary for the quarter, $15, 523.50. Freight and express charges, $21, 048.79. Bxpenses, statione .'y, printing, post age, salaries, etc., $4,593.78. Labor, $4,734.53. Net profit on sales for the quarter ending March 31, $54,452.25. Total $119,954.65. Of the net profit of $54,452.25 on sales for this aguarter, the amount of $12, 998,4S is an accrued profit; the re mainder $41,453.27 is an unearned profit on goods in the hands of coun ty dispensers at the end of this quar ter. RECEIPTS. Balance in Treasury on December January receipts, $96,614.46; Feb ruary receipts, $93,391.70; March re ceipts. $113,630.65-receipts for the quarter. $303,636.81. Total to account for quarter $357, 743.81. DISBURSE3MENTS. January dis bursements, $116,685.79; Febraary disbursements, $116.708.97; March disbursements, $120,427.86 total disbursements for the quarter, $353S.822 .62. Balauce in State Treasury on March :31, $3,921.22. UJNE.ARNED PROFITS, Unearned profits on goods in hands o' county dispensers on December 31, $25,471.85. Advance in prices on above made in January by order of the State Board, $5, 72.99.l Unearned profit on March 31, $31, :300 S4. Your committee beg leave to say that they have taken every precaution to do their work properly. They have carefulv chtecked every voucher on the books of original entry, and thence the different postings to a general ledge. fromn whence this statement is made up A compuariscon of this with formner re ports will show that the State .lispensary is in a very healthy condi Lion. OUr work was very much facili ated by Mr. S. WV. Scruggs's comn arehensive style of bookkeeping. We ire iudeoted to him for courteous as ,istance also. Respect fully submitted, T. S. BRICE, C. W. GARR.IS, Committee. Driven to Despair. DEn, Col., April 30.-Robert .amriJl, a prominent society man > us city. ex mayor of Central City, owsim poverished by yesterday's ire at Cripple Creek, having his ex ensive properties there uninsured, tilled hi~sself this morning in a fit of .lesso:denev by shooting himself nr/>ugn thee heart. HisS wife subse auentlv attempted self destruction.