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Ii i)4 VOL.XIV.MANNIN(KS. C. \Vi)NEI)AY FEBUAUV22. sv.WO.,3 WENTIOlHE BOT TOM Two Coast Steamers Wrecked on Our Shores Last Week. OWNED BY SAME COMPANY. Great Suffering Am: ng the Ship wrecked Crews, Many of Whom Were Terribly Frost Bitten. The steamship Wi. Lawrence. of the Merchanta and 3iner' Tranportation company'S liie ',etween Baltimore and Savannah, is a total wreck on Hilton Head Island, S. C.. near the Port Royal bar. She went ashore there Saturday morning while in a hlipless condition from storm damages. The crew stood by her for nearly twenty-four hours. When the ship began to break up, Capt. Willis cave oiders to take to the boats. The sea was running very high, a gale was blowing, and it was bitterly cold. The captaiu was the lat man to leave. the ship. and it is said that he chose the poorest of the boats. Boat No. 1. in char'ge -f Sceond Assistant Engineer Morrissett, with seven men, made Paris island, where the government na 41 ztation is situated, on Sunday morning. From that point a telephone message was -sent to Port Royal and a telegram to the Savannah agent. report ing the loss of the ship. Boat No. 2. in chargze of Second Of ficer R. A. Beale. contained beside Beale. Chief Engineer Roach. Steward Frank Dingle. First Cook Harry Kelly, Quartesmaster Oscar Bowler and Sea men Jack Montgomery and Charles L. Green. These underwent a most ter rible experience. They found it im possible to make land, and as darkness fell 'on Sunday night the cold became more and more intense. They were be numbed, wet. hungry and exhausted. The freezing spray was driven almost through them by the piping wind. By lueky 'accident they located the sea buoy off the Port Royal bar, and by al most superhuman effort managed to catch on to it. They made fast to the buoy where they spent the night, and where they were found Monday morn ing by pilot boat No. 2 of Port Royal and taken aboard. Boats No. 3, under First Mate Lee Hooper, and No. 4. under Capt. Willis. are still missing with fourteen men. In Hooper's boat is First Engineer L. .. Harper, and in the captain's boat is Quartermaster's Assistant Andrew Burgess. The names of the others can not be ascertained. Agent Carolan, at Savannah, under orders from President Jenkins, of the Merchants and Miners' company at Baltimore sent the tugs Cynthia and McCauley to the scene of the wreck. The Cynthia returned late Wednesday and reported that the Law rence is broken iu two and that nothing could be seen or heard from the two missing boats The passen.r steamer Clifton Wed nesday morniu; en route to Savannah from Beaufort, u as hailed by pilot boat No. 2, having on board the rescued crew of Beale's boat. They were trans ferred to the Clifton and brought to Savannah. The men were in a pitiable condition. Chief Engineer Roach, Steward Dingle and Second Offcer Beale had their feet and legs frozen stiff, and their hands were frostbitten. The three were taken to a hospital in carriages, and the report is that each may lose one or both feet. The other men were frostbitten on both hands and feet, but not so badly as the three mentioned. No connected story could be gotten from either of them on ae count of their suffering. It appears, however, that Sailor Gremen was the hero of the terrible night. Somne of' the men, crazed with cold and iaim. wished to commit suicide. But Green told so many funny stories, rang so many cheerful songs arnd could see so many lighthouses or approaching vessels which did not exist, that the spirits of the men were kept up and none of them jumped overboard to end his misery. Green and his sailor companions, in cluding the crew of Morissett's boat, are now being cared for in one of the best hotels of the city. Agent Carolan left Savannah early Thursday miorniug on the tug Cynthia to renew the search for Capt. Willis ann Mate Hooper and their boats. It is possible that they may have escaped to one of the sea islands. Telegraphic and telephone wires have been down since early Sunday morning. mnakit g communication very slow or cutting it o.ff entirely. The whole coast, north and south of the scene of the wreck. will be explored. The wreck lies within a few miles of the spot at which the passenger steam ship City of Savan nah was wrecked in the West India hurricane of 1893. RESetUED AT LAsT. E'very membher of the crew of the wrecked steamship Win. Lawrence was saved, but only after the greater num her of them had suffered terrible hard ips. The tugs Camubria and Cynthia arrived at Savannah Thursday from the sea islands of South Carolina bringing with themi Capt. A. L. Willis and 13 men, constituting those who had been missing since Sun day morning, when the shin was abandoned in the breakers off Port Royal bar. The tugs, with Agent Carolan on board the Cambria. lef't the city at daybreak this morning and searched every island and inlet northward until the castaways were found. At 9 o'clock the party were discovered on Hunting island and taken o'i board the Cambria. Capt. Willis and his men suffered 1,ut little less than the crew of Mate lHeale's boat. wh ch had tied up at the sa buoy, as told in last night's dis patches. They left the ship at 9 o'clock on Sunday morning. After 12 hours at sea in a blinding, freezing gale, the two boats under the captain and the first officer made land on Cap er's island, a desolate and bare little sand pit. In beaching both of the boats were smashed and the men were thrown into the surf. Though almost exhausted and numb they managed to scramble beyond the reach of the waves. What little brackish drinking water they had was lost together with the biscuits, lonr sinc'e salt-soaked, which had been brought off the wreck. There was no fresh water and extremely little fuel on the island, nor shelter in any shape. Thnaptain had a few matchesilin a ietallie box in hi poc Jket. Thcy were found to be dr. Tearing the seats out of the wrecked boats. after iuch coax ina, a tire was made under the lee of a sand dune. The boats were of iron or would also hhve been burned. The limited fuel saved the mci from freez iog to death. The men hovered over the little blaze all during the sleet and snowstorm of Sunday night and 3Mouday when the mercury was marking S to 10 degrees above zero. Ou 'Luesday morning one of the boats was temporarily repaired and both crews got into it to reach Port Royal. They had been without food since leaving the Lawrence early S'ounday morning and without water since Sunday afternoon. After painful efforts they reached Hunting island. Some soldiers are stationed there. These took then in and fed and warmed them. This morning the castaway were about to set out for Port Royal in their patched boat when the Cambria found themt. ANOTHER WRECK. Within tie past three months the Merchants and Miners' Transportation company of Baltimore lost four of its ships. The last one the State of Texas, r< cently bought from the Mallory Line. now lies in eighteen feet of water with huge holes in her bottom. near Wind mill Point. in Chesapeake by, near the mouth of the Rappahannock river. about forty-five miles from Norfolk. The State of Texas left Baltimore for Savannah, Ga., last Friday with a general cargo of merchandise, fourteen passengers and a crew of sixteen. She had a rough experieuce down the bay, and Saturday evening sprung a leak. having been caught in an unusually heavy drift. 1ler commander. Capt. Foster, soon realized that his vessel would sink, so he beached her. This was about 6 o'clock. Many hours af terwards the tug E. J. Cobb. of Nor folk came along and res,ued the suffer ers, arriving there Wednesday after noon at 5 p. in. I he passengers were forwared to their destinations over the Southern railxay. No Sunday Work. The House last Thursday passed a bill to further prevent Surday work. The bill provides that on and after the approval of this act, in addition to the penalties prescribed against tradesmen, artificers. workmen and laborers who shall d3 or exercise any worldly labor, business or work of their ordinary call ings on the Lord's day (commonly called the Sabbath) or Sunday or any part thereof, any corporation, company, firm or person who shall order, require or direct any work to be done in any ma chine shop or shops on Sunday. except in case of emergency, shall, on convic tion, be deemed guilty of a misdemean or, and shall be fined in a sum not less than $100 and not more than $500 for each offense. Beer Privileges Abolished. In the house on Thursday the bill to do away with beer and hotel privileges was taken up and after some discussion pro and con was passed by a vote of 78 to 24. The bill provides that from and after the approval of this aet it shall be unlawful for the state board of con trol to grant to any person or corpora tion, except to regularly appointed dis pensers, as now, or as may hereafter be, provided by law, the privilege of selling beer, or the privilege of seiling spirituous or alcoholic liquors, wine or beer at any hotel or tavern. or any oth er place. The bill also revokes all beer privileges now in force. Frozen to Death. The Columbia State says Jim Pugh, a colored barber, was found a few feet from his bed Sunday morning frozen to doath. Pugh was a well-known barber who worked at 31. T. Brown's shop, and his brother. Waiter Pugh, is also a barber, having a shop on Main street, near Taylor. Saturday night Jim Pugh went to the house on Washington, near Lincoln strcet, where he lived and it is supposed that he went to bed under the infl'ence of whiakey, for he evidently fell out of bed or got up drunk during the night and fell to the floor where he lay in the cold until he was frozen to death. In that condition he was found next morning. A Million Dollar Fire. Over a million dollar's worth of Gay. ernent property was destroyed by a dre which started in the large machine shop of the Brooklyn navy yard, known as Machine shop No. 28, Wednesday night, and the workings of the navy yard have received a serious set-back. Many fine models and patterns of bat tle ships. their par s and plans, have be-en destroyed. and some of them can not be obtained again except by going over the work mapped out in the begin ning. _________ Wanted a Clearance. The Columabia State says there was a round of laughter in the Senate Wed uesday night by the presentation oi a petition from Jno G. Thomasson, a white citizen of Sumnmerville, asking '-for a ecarance from his wife." The petition sets forth that the petitioner -'is now asking for a final separation from the woman who was once his wife for 21 years, and for the last nine or ten years has been living with another man." The petition was referred to the judiciary committee. Stono River Frozen Over. A dispatch from Charleston says the tugboat H. H. C. Smith, Capt. Peck, from Savannah, arrived there Tuesday afternoon after an eventful voyage up the coast. Captain Peck said he found Stono river frozen from Church Flats to Rantowle's creek, a distance of some six miles. The ice was six inches thick in places, and he had to break through it .vith the Smith. It took him two hours to do it. Hie says he saw a number of smaller craft caught in the ice. but these were not in distress. The Dewey Lost. The Boston Fruit Company s new steamer, Admiral Decwey, Capt. Mc Grath, bound from Pert Antonio, JTa mnaica to Boston, i-an on the rocks at Cuttyhunk Wednesday mrorning and is a total wreek. The eighteen passen gers on board were safely transferred to the steamer John J. Hill. A Rapid Talker. It is said that Congcressmrani Jiohnson of Indiana. has a rapidity of utterance without parallel, being a third faster than that of any other member. At times it reaches the phenomenal num ber of 4001 words a minute. Nor is he TIlE PIlLIP'PINES. What We Propose Doing With the Islands. PASSED ON BY THE SENATE. The Vice-President Kills the Bacon Resolution, but the McEnery Resolution Was Passed. The United States Senate have de fined our relation to the Philippine Islands as far as that body can do so. An amendment offered by Mr. Bacon, of Georgia. several days ago was de feated. The vote on the amendment was a tie-29 to 29-and Vice-Presi dent Hobart cast tha deciding vote against the proposition. The voting was preceded by three hours and a half of debate, the senate having convened at 11 a. m., in order to ad mit of di.,euF siou on the resolutin. Mr. Bacon declared that the reoldu tiou was a vicious and unfortunate: dee laration. le maiitained th:t the reso lution meant nothing favorable to th.! Filipinos. iHe regarded it as simply a declaration that while the Filipinos were subjects of this country they could never become citizens of the United State:. Mr. Hoar, of Massachusetts, was op posed to the McEuery resolu-ion be cause, he maintained, it cave no hope of freedomai or liberty or: elf-gover:uent to the iuhabitants of the Philip'inec, and because it provided that they dw id never take a part in their own >vern ment or become a part of the United States. To the Filipinos the MeEnery resolution would be a iessage of ty ranny, of hate, of oppression and of slaughter. Mr. Hoar adverted to the references in speeches to Aguinaldo as an "unprincipled adventurer," and then entered upon a defense of the Fil ipino leader. He spoke of Aguinaldo's appeal to the people of the United States as so remarkable as capable of being drafted by "not ten imen on this planet." "I do not see," said Mr. Hoar, with feeling, "how any American heart, not of stone, could fail to recognize the force of that appeal." Hr. Hloai said he was perfectly satisfied with his en tire course in the whole question cf the Philippines, belitving conscientiously that he was right. "I am satisfied," said he, "to stand with the fathers who founded our liberty and framed our constitution." Mr. Hale, of Maine, said lie had not much hope that the senate would take any course that would stop the desolat ing programme now being carried out in the Philippines. Hardly had the treaty been ratified. however, before a foreign war was precipitated. "I am not dis appointed," said he. "I am not in clined to say 'I told you so,' but I told senators when the treaty was ratified it would be impossible to take any steps to alleviate the condition of the Filipi nos. Congress will adjourn and the war will go on, and there is not a man who will not realize in three months that it is a war of conquest and subju gation. He said that Admiral Dewey and Gen. Merritt had se-id in three months not 5,000 troops wculd be need ed in the Philipines, yet we had 20, 000 men there and 7,000 more and the bat tleship Oregon on the way. "And yet," declared Mr. Hale. e are told that we arc traitors and held up and blacklisted in the newspapers because we want to give these people a chance, at least to show that they are f:-iendly and can set up a government of their own. Instead we kill them, not by scores, not by hundreds, but by thousands. More Filipinos have been killed by the guns of our army and navy than were patriots killed in any six battles in the revolutionary war. It he" become a gigantic event. The slaughtet of people, in no way eqjual to us, meeting us with bows and arrows and crawling into the jungles by hun dreds, there to die, has stupified the American mind. No one has said that our mission of commerce and of the gospel was to be precede by the slaugh ter of thousands of persons. "I am not enarmnored of the 3L-Ener: resolution. It contains little that i" good and a great deal that is bad." lie regarded the Bacon resolution as nmuch better. "But," he said in conclusion. "the car of juggernaut will go on. The grinding will continue until tile people finally make themselves becard upon it." Mr. Mason attacked the policy pur sued in the Philippines. He said, ho x ever, that he was an optimist and be lieved the people of the United States would declare for human liberty as well in the Philippines as in this counztry'. As Mr. Mason conclnded, the hour for the vote having arrived, Mr. Hawley inquirea if' it was Mason's purpose to insist upon his unanimous consent. Mason replied that it was as lie had done only that which was entirely hon orable and fair in the matter. Bacon's amendment to the resolution was then laid before the senate. ht follows: "That the Umited States hereby di- I claim any disposition or intention to exercise permanent sovereignty, j uris diction or control over said islands, and assert their determination, when a stable government shall have been ercet ed therein, entitled in the judgment of the government of the United States to recognize as such, to transfer to said government, upon termis which shall be reasonable and just. all rights secured the cession by Spain, and to thereupon leave the government and control of the islands to their p~eol]e. A yea and nay vote was demanded, resulting-29 to 29. In aunouncingz the vote the vice-presid 'at said: ''The vote is a tie. Trhe ciuair votes in the negative. The anmendmentr is lost. The detailed vote follows: Yeas-Bacon, Bate. Berry Cafier Chilton, Clay, Cockerell, IFaulkner Gorman, Gray, Hale. Harris, Heitfeld. Hoar, Jones (Ark.), Jones(Nev.), Lind say. McLaurin, Martin. 'Ioney. Mur phy, Perkins, Pettigrew, Pettus Quay Rawlins, Smith. Tillman. Turner-. Nays-Allison, Burrows, ('arter Chandler, D~eboe, F~aiirhanks, Frier. Gear, Hlanna, Hawley, Kyle, Ledge McBride, McEnery, McMillan, MantIle Morgan, Nelso-n, Penrose, liatt (Conn.), Platt (N. Y.), Pritchard. Ross Shoup, Sinion, Stewart, Teller. Warren. The 'i :.ide t : ite'd ii tihe n a T h.e ..'e was then take(n ol tihe ), Il' e r ; %.t n wh ii '-hi by t rttification of' t he treaty %t *e - hpin it is not i ntendeI to incor.a 'r. tihe Irzhabitaut. of the Phlipo 1 ilaid into citizership of the T n it Sti tates. nir is it intended to permanently annex said islands as an integral part of the United States; but it i the intention of the United States to establish on said islands a govern ment suitable to the wants and condi tions of the inhabitats of said islands to prepare them for local self-govern clent. aid in due time to make such diposition of said islands as will best pro-nte the interests of the citizens of the United States and the inhabitants of said islands." The resolution was adopted, yeas 26, nais 22. several Democrats who were present ard not paired withholding their votes. The detailed vote fol lows: Yeas-Alison. arrows, Chandler, Deboc. Fairbanks, Faulkner, Frye. Gear, Gray. Hale. Harris., Kyle, Lodge, MelEnery. MeLiurin, MeMillan. Man tIe, Ma'on. Nel0n. Perkins. Pettus Platt of New Yurk. Qiav. Sullivan, Teil:,r-2;0. N:ty. --!Pen. Bate, Caffery. Carter, Ulay. Cockr 1 axle. Ilor, Lindsay, dI id .t irtin, Money. Morgan. Murphiy. Pttitre t <-f Connecti eut. Rawl'n- I os i:non, Smith, Stewart. Warren-22. REORGANIZING THE MILITIA. Gen. Floyd will Decrease Companies and Put All on Firmer Basis. Adjt. Gen. Flod intends to start next week upon the work of reorganiz iuii the State militia and for that pur pose he and his assistant, Col. Johu D. Frost. will visit all the companies in the State to ascertain which of them shall be retained and to find out the status of affairs in regard to the arms and uniforms of the companies. There are now 70 companier, or al leged companies, on the roll. but many of these are known to be in a thor oughly disorganized state and not to be relied upon in case of need. It is pro posed to cut down the number to 30 companies and require every company to have not less than 45 or 50 bona fide members, which would give the militia a total strength of 1.500 men. With the organization on that basis, and the appropriation being $S.000, the compa nies would draw about 86 for eachmem ber, which is double the amount they now receive. The plans in view for the militia will call for a more compact and easily handled body of troops, and the companies to be retained will be those which have preserved the best organi zations and those in places where the militia is must needed. Gen. Floyd thinks the force of cavalry can very well be decreased considerably, if not aboliIied altogether, as the need for cavalry in tile militia is not very evi dent. It is possible that an artillery company may be organized in the cen tral part of the State and one in the upper part. as there are now nione out side of Charleston. Gen. Floyd and Col. Frost will visit all the companies within the next four weeks in order that the plans for re organization may be perfected before the regular inspections are begun. It is probable that the inspection of the Charleston companies, which are al wa the firstto be inspected, will be held during the veterans' reunion in the early part of 3May.-The State. Burned to 'Death. There seems to be no doubt but that three persons were burned to death in the fire Wednesday night. which de stroyed thre Arlington fiats at the cor ner ..'f Forty-first and Grand Bottle yard, Chicago. Those supposed to have perished are: Fred A. Marte. a mail carrier. Mrs. Fred A. Marte, his wife, and their infant son. Marte,who, was a mall carrier, did not report for duty Thursday at the postifice, and as every source ot information in regard to the possible whererbouts of the fam ily have been looked into without sue ces, all hope for his escape has been given up. All ahould .Alp. The Netvs and Courier estimates that there will be 40.000 visitors to Charles toiu on the ocsnion of the Confederate Reunion in Ctvrlestorj next May. The people of Chasrlston are making an rangemrents to enrtertainr that mrany if necessary, but the r'eople ot ihe Stare must not allow thre Chrariestonians to bear the whole expenrse alone. As we have remarked befor.', it is all South Carolina-not ji-t Charleston-that is to be the host of the Co~nfederate Ye teran s. Prices for Dispensary Bottles. Fromi thre procedings of tihe State board of control published in the Co lumbia State the following is taken: '-A letter was read from John A. WVil loughby. a 7-year-old boy at Florence, asking to be allowed to sell a lot of bot tIes he had collected and stating that thre dispenser there gave only 5 cents a dozen for all sizes of bottles. It wras ordered that thre prices fixed be sent him as follows: Eignt cents a dozen f ir half-pints. 12 eents for pints and uarts. The New Maine. The annriversary of' the blowing up of the battleshipi Matine in Havana harbor was marked at P hilaidlhia with the beginning oft work on thre powerful main-of-war whiach will bear tire name of thre hristorie batttlehilp, tile destruc tion of whielb did so mruchr to precipi tate theC war withr Sain. Thre battle ship will be built by the Cramp Ship Building Company. and at the comrpa roy t's rd. at I! o'clck Wednesdnay. tire first piece of the keel of thre vessel was itid. Stands at the H~ead. Dr. McCracken, chrancellor of the New York University, in speaking at the recent military convention in Tam mpa of tire value of a military education. ranked South Carolina ad Massachu setts hirest amnong tire states in giving miilitary inmstructioni :o thei:- nns. Thre Citadel Acardemyv is thre West Point of tie Soulth. and the mrilitary feature of tihe Qlemssim colleg~re ourse is especial ly good. In addition, various private a-ademies pay mruch attention to mihi 1ID NOT PA SS. The House Votes Down Prohibi tion and Local Option, HOW EACH MEMBER VOTED. The Dispensary Seems to Have a Large Majority of the Representatives in its Favor. The House of Representatives de voted a good portion of last week to the consideration of the whiskey problem. On Tuesday 3r. McCullough's prohi bition bill was taken up Prince then offered his absolute prohibition bill. as a substitute. 31eCullough accepted the subtitutc. Prince said he wanted the bill pased. Simkins said that this was a bad time to consider prohibi tion hills. Sturkie moved t> aliourn the debate on the bill anc' print it. Patton said there was no trouble about understanding the Priuce bill:. there may be some trouble about voting. Stevenson said it was time to stop ad journing debate ou these bills. De Bruhl moved to indeinitely postpone the Prince substitute. Thu vo:e result ed: Yeas-Speaker Gary, Bacot. Bailey. J. B. Black, W. ). Black, Blease. Blythe, Browning. Caughman. Col cock. Cos:;rove. Dean. DeBruhl, Dowling, Dukes. Efird Epps, 11. It. Evans, N. G. Evans, Fairey, Floyd, G(antt, Graham, Hill, Hoffinever, Rol 1is, Hydrick, Jenkins. H. E. Johnson, N. J. Johnson, Jones. Lyles, ,lagill, Manning, Marion, Laban Mauldin, William L. Mauldin, MeCraw, MeDill, McDow. McLauchlin, MeLaurin, Mchrtens. 3iley, Mobley, MIoss, Moses, Nettles. Patton, Pyatt, E. B. Ragsdale. J. W. Ragsdale, Richards, George W. Richardson, Henry B. Richardson, C. E. Robinson, Rogers, E. L. Sanders. Sawyer, Simkins, Sinkler, G. P. Smith, Stevenson, Strom, Sturkie, Suber, Theus, W. II. Thomas. W. J. Thomas, Threatt, Timmerman, Varn, Verdier, West, Weston. Wharton, Winkler, H. H. Woodward, M. B. Woodward, Wyche-83. Nays-Ashley, Davis. Henderson, Jackson, Lockwood. Lofton, Mann, McCoy, McCullough, Prince, George V. Richardson, R. B. A. Robinson, C. P. Sanders, Seabrook, Jeremiah Smith, Stackhouse, Whisonant, Williams. Wimberly, Wingo. Young-20. The Prince prohibition bill was snowed under. Then the dual local option 1il. between dispensary and prohibition. was called up. Mr. Robinscn said his bill covered the whole liquor question. He said he wanted prohibition, and was satisfied it could be enforced. Greenwood county had no dispensary and did not have prohibition, yet there seemi to be plenty of liquor there. Eis bill, he said submits the entire question to the people. His bill allowed two options -prohibition and dispensary. His bill only providd for the option be tween dispensary and prohibition. lie had no option as to license. He want ed the people to decide on what they wanted, and if the bill were not passed now the time would come when the people would be heard from. Ie was not going to discuss the matter at length. He came here as a Prohibi tionist and voted for it in good fait'-.. He was opposed to cramming anything down the throats of the people. He wanted to know if members were afraid of the people. Hie said he did not ob ject to a license option. He was not a high license man himself. After this statement by: Robinson. who introduced a long, rambling d is cussion took place, participated in by a great many memnber2. Finally De Bruhl -moved to indefinitely postpone the Robinson bill-option between dis pensary and prohibition and county control. ,On this the yea and nay vote resulted: Yeas-Speaker Gary, Bailey, Bell, .J B Black, W D Black, Blease. Blythe, Browvniug, Caughman,' Cross, Crum, DeBruhl, Dowling, Dukee, E ird, E'pp [- H Evans, N G Evan. Fairey, Gam ble, Gantt, dGahaum, idi, H'timeyer, Hollis, H E Johnson, WX J Johns i, Jones, Lyles, MIagill, M1anning. 3ariou Laban, M1auldi. M1eCoy, 3IeCraw. 31 Dall, 3MeDow, 31eLauchlin. 1eLaur in. M1eans, 3Miley, MIobley, Nettle, Pat terso., E B Ragsdale. .J WXHo- Rasdle. Rickads. Henry B Richardson, C E Robin,.on. Rogers. E L Sanders. Saw. yer. Sharpe. G P Smith. E D) Smith. Stackhouse, Strom. Sturkie. Thieus. WV J Thomas, Threat t, Timnmerman, Varn, Verdier, We,-t. Weston, Whisonant. Williams. Wilson, Winklecr, 3M B Wood ward, Wyche, Young-71. Nays-Ashley, Bacot. Bolts. Cdl c sk, Cosgrove, Dargan. Davis. Dean. Dendy, Estridge, Floyd. Henderson. Hlydriek, Jackson, Jenkins. Leverett, Lockwood. Lofton. MIann, William L. 31auldin, 31ehrtens. MIoses, Patton. Prince, Pyatt. George XW. Richardson, RI B A Robinson. C P Sanders, Sea brook, Sinkler. .Jeremiah Smith. -J L Smith Stevenson, Suber. WV H Thom as. Wimberly, Wingo. HI H XWoodward -38 Pairs: 31eCullough and MIoss: Whar ton and MIontgomery. So the bill was killed. M1auldin then called for his local op tion bill. wvhich provides for a vote ny counties on dispensary, prohibition and license and does away with State dis pensary. The m~otion to indefinitely postpone was carried by Si) to 31, as follows: Yeas -Sp'aker G ary. Bailey, Bell.J. B. Black. W. 1) Black, Bleae. By tihe. Browning Cauhnman. Cross Crummn. IDeBruhl, Dowlin. Du~ke Efird, Eps Estridlge, 1. II. Evans. Fairey. Gaiunble. Gantt,( Grham, Hill. Hloffieyer. Hli. Hydriek. H. E. Johnson, WX.J J.Johnson, Jone-. Ly les. M1acill. MIannin, Mlaren, Laban M1auldin.X le. 3IcCraw. 3ICul lru'h. 31elll .eDow, 3 Lauchlin Nettle. Patter-on.I Pinee, J. W. Ra dale. Richards. Geore W. ~ idson He~nry U. Richardson, C. E. Rohinsn. . B., A. blison. Rogers. C..Sn ders. E. L. "anders. Sawyer. Sharpe. G3. P. Smith. E."D. Smith. Stackhouse, Stevenson. Strom. Sturkie. Suber.1 Theus, XW. .J. Thomas. Threatt, Tim meman erdier, XWest. Whisonant, Williants. Wilson. Winao. Winkler. M. B. Wo)od'ward. WVyche. Young. N Nays, -Ashley, lyacot. Bolts, Col v4ne!k. Coser-novo. Ihrgnan, Da;vi!s. DMan. Dieniv. Flyd. Hendeson, Jackson, Jenkin-. Leve-tt. Lokwod, Lofton. Mana. William I. Muldin. Mourtens. Moses. Patton. P:;att. Seabrook. Sink ler, Jeremiah Smith. .1. l.. Smith, W. H. Thomas. Varn. Weston. Wimberly. 11. 11. Woodward-31. Pairs: Same as on other vote. Then the effort was imade to aet up the Archer bill, which had just come over from the Senate. but the House took a recess before anything could be cone. ABOUT HOLDING TWO OFFICES. Postmaster Cannot b! Magistrate Un der the State Constitution. Sonator Robert B. Scarborough, of Horry, ieferred to Attorney General Bellinger some days ago the qaestion whether one holding the office of post master under thE Uuited States govern ment can at the same time hold the of fice of na2istrate under appointment by the gvvernor, and to this inquiry Mr. Bellinger replied that prior to the constitution of 1895 the correct answer would have depeuded upon the mixed question of law and fact whether the two otiees were incompatible, forat the time there was neither statutory nor constitutional provisions to guide in forming an opinion. 1his question is discussed very fully in State vs Butts IX S. C., 156, and McCrary Am. Law of Elections, section 239. In article II, section 2, of the con stitution of 1S93 .,re these words; "No person shall hold two offices of honor or profit at the same time, proviaed that any person holding another office can at the same time be an officer in the militia or'notary public." Attorney General Bellinger concludes as follows: "The question naturally suggests it self does this section of the constitu tion contemplate national officesaswell as those within the gift of the people of this State, either directly or indi rectly? And the answer we find in the dissenting opinion of Chief Justice McIver in ex- parte Furniture company, 49, S. C., page 40, holding that a post master is an officer within the contem plation of our constitution. "Therefore we conclude that under the constitution above referred to the same person cannot at the same time hold the office of postmaster and the office of magistrate within this State." Down With Him. Representative Fairchild, of the Kansas legislature, has introduced a bill to abolish the "grafter," which, according to a definition embodied in the bileis "any person who loafs around legislative halls seeking employ ment by persons or corporations inter ested in measures pending before the legislature, and any member of the legislature who introduces bills of a prohibitory character for the purpose of extorting money and who assists outside 'grat.ters' in securing employ ment for intended victims." Any per son convicted of being a 'grater' shall be fined $10 to $500 and be disqualified from holding any office. Up, Up, Up it Goes. The monthly statement of the Treas ury D)epartment shows that in January the public debt increased $23,448,463. The cash in the Treasury decreased during de same time $20,180,019. It would appear, therefore that the Gov ernment "ran behind" over $43,000.000 in January. The official statement further shows that for the seven months of the fiscal year ending January 31st the expenditures were $380,604.802. being 8'92,867,982 more than the re ceip'ts. At this rate the increase of the public debt f'or'the year will be nearly 5160i.000. 000. A Confession. GJen. 0. 0. Howard who was in posi tion to know the facts, confesses ait this late day that his side missed being thrashed at Gettysburg by a very nan roy squeak. Writing of Gen. G. S. Greene, lately deceased, at Morristown, N. J. he says: "But for him, or some such intelligent and gallant, ofiicer in his place. we should have lost that famous field.- And Meade's superior force, it will be remenbered, fougcht on thle defen:,i'e and behind breantworks. -News and ' r Spred iJi ., 4Las. The Record ays the river nine miles below Columbia is spread over the country for six miles. Many head of cattde have been drowned and frozen to death. Many Negroes were suffering from the lack of weood. but they are now obtaining it from drift wood float ing down the river. Reports Friday say that the river wvill rise twelve feet hiiher still in the next few days. A Good Bill. TVhe house has done well to give the State board of health power to enforce vaccination. Without such power it will not be possible for the board to check the spread of smallpox in the country. All experience shows that the class of people most subject to this loathsome disease is the class most blindly and ignorantly prejudiced against the only known defense against its contagion. Their Last Sleep. A Times-Star special from Bellfon taine, Ohio, says Judge Mittenberger was found dead in bed Thursday morn ing and his. wife in an uneonscious con dition from which she can not recover. Escaping ;:as rom a broken fixture was the cause. Earthquake Shocks. Durins the past week earthquake sheshave been felt in V'irginia, North (' 'Ahna. Ten nesee. Alabama and in .seeral places in this State. It is to he hoped that this will be thc last of them. To Be Courtmartialed. A diispateh from Madrid says all the surviving cartains of Spanish warships destroyed int the naval battles off Santi ago de Cubat and in Manila Baiy by the Au:"ri'anifleet will be <-ourt mar tialed. Gen. Butler Free T'he war department has humorably diand Maj. Gens. Butler. Sumner adBrig. Gens. Kline. McKee. Wiley,. Lincoln andl Comba, all of the velunteer SOME MORE FIGHTING Between the American Troops and the Filipino Archers. Late dispatches fronm Manila says ou Sunday afternoon Gen. Miller or dered a reconnoisance in force to ascer tain the enemy's position. Major Chaatham's battalion of the Tennessee vlun+eer regiment marched beyond Molo. without finding the enemy, and returneid to Iloilo. Keller's battallion of the 18th United States infantry, with two Hotchkiss guns and one Gatling gun. marched toward Jaro. Midway between Iloilo and Jaro this battallion encountered a large body of the enemy occupying both sides of the road, who met the advance of the American troops with a severe and well directed fire. The Americans deployed and returned the fire with a number of volleys. The troops advanced steadily, support ed by the Hotchkiss and Gatling guns aud drove the enemy through Jaro to the open country beyond. The town of Jaro was found to be de serted and all portable property had been removed. When the Americans entered the place there were only a few Chinese there. At 4:10 p. m. Capt. Griffiths raised the American flag over the presidencia. During the fighting outside the town Lieut. Frank Bowles, of the 18th infantry, while working the light battery, was shot in the leg. In addition one private was seriously wounded and two were slightly injured. The rebel loss was heavy. Ali was quiet on Monday when Col. Potter left Iloilo. Four companies or volunteers, which had been clearing the country in the vicinity of Peteros, ten miles south east of Manila, and which had been re callPd, were followed by the enemy as they retired. On reaching San Pedro Macati tl Americans made a stand near the ~ churchyard and the rebels were driven back. The Californians again advanced, and are now occupy ing the same ridge, commanding the valley of the river, which they held Tuesday. A gunboat near Pasig is clearing the jungle. Wednesday afternoon several rebels in houses bearing white flags, having fired on the American outposts, Col. Smith, with Companies L, D and M, of the California volumteers, proceeded to clean out the enemy zlong his front. The rebels opposed him from the brush and several skirmishes occurred, dur ing which nine of the Californians were slightly wounded before the rebels were driven out. The work proceeded in a systematic manner, a gunboat shelling the villages and working her rapid-fire guns very effectively on the jungle. PHOSPHATE INSPECTOR An Effort Made in the Senate to Abol ish the Offie. On Thursday when the bill to abol ish the office of Phosphate Inspector, came up Ilderton moved to strike out the enacting words. Graydon said the bill had for its object the abolition of one of these useless officers. The phosphate companies were under heavy bond for a faithful accounting with the State, and the office was simply to pro vide a place. The phosphate commis sion could look after the affairs of this industry. He did not see the use of paying 10 per cent. of the royalty to a man to collect it when the commission could collect the royalty just as well. Ilderton thought it a bad plan to turn over to the phosphate - companies the management of the State's business. His duties were to check up the ac counts of these companies and see that they pay the State's royalty. Dean thought the office of phosphate inspec tor was as near a sineeure as anything he knew of. He then proceeded to show that the inspector's duties are en tirely perunctory and that lie seldom, if ever, visited the mines. Stanland believed the real grievance was against the incumbent and not against the'of fe. If he did not have enough to do it was the fault of the general assembly. Elis duties ought to be extended so he should inspect the manufactured fer tilizers and prevent the shipping out of 'three, three, plus two, X one, and a bag of dirt."' Talbird said that only in the last two months the inspector had saved to the State $2,800 in royalties. Archer thought if the State was going to continue to attend to this busi iese she ouu ht to have some one to look af ter it. Barnwell did not believe the offies ,hould be abolished, but suggested that the salary be reduced to $300 By the following aye and nay vote the senate rofused to kill the bill: Yeas-Aldrich, Connor, Dennis Gru bei, Hay, Hough, Ilderton. Love, May ield, Ragsdale, Stanland, Talbird, Wallace, Williams--14. Nays-Appelt, Ar,-her, Barnwell, Blakeney, Bowen, G WV Brown, W A Brown, Dean, Douglass, Glenn, Gray on, Henderson, Livingston, Manning, Marshall, Mauldin, Mower, Sarratt, Scarborough, Sheppard, Suddath, Sul ivan, Walker, Waller-24. Barnwell then offered an amendment to reduce the salary of phosphate in spector from $1,500 to $S00. By a vote f 28 to 9 th's was agreed to. The bill then passed to a third reading. A New Fuel. A newly discovered mineral, which is of a lustrous black color, and which s a fuel surpasses coal and all other substances heretofore known, is found n the island of Barbados, in the Les ser Antilles, where the natives call it 'manjak." It is thought that man jak is petrified petroleum, great quan tities of petroleum being found on the same island. It contains only two per cent of water and fully twenty-seven per cent of solid organic matter, thus surpassing in utility the best asphalt of lrinidad, in which thirty per ccnt of water is eon tained, and which has been lassed so far as the very finest fuel. Mixed with turf, it gives heat far sup rior to any known. A Good Law. Norway recently enacted a law for idding the~ sale of tobacco to youths uder 1f without signed orders from idls Torit who offer eigarettes :'i vouths render themselves liable to r ecution, while the police are emi owered to confiscate the pipes, eigars nd cigarettes of youths who smoke in public streets, a fine for the offense be ing likkwise imposed. which may be LIQUOR QUESTION. Is Fully Debated and Decided by the State Senate. THE ARCHER BILLPASSED. The Different Counties in the State May Decide by Vote as to Dispensary or No Dispesary. When the senate met Wednesday night and took up the liquor question for consideration these three general propositions were before it. The Archer bill, under whose terms a county now having a dispensary may. on presenting a petition signed by one fourth of the elector.- of that county, have an election ordered to determine whether or not the dispensary shall be removed and thus secure prohibition. To the Archer bill Mayfield had of fered an amendment by which the peo ple of a county should vote for high li cense, dispensary or prohibition. The ordering of the election was to be in same manner as proposed by the Ar cher bill. The Henderson substitute bill, in tended to take the place of the two above propositions, simply provided for a reference of the whole matter to the people of the State at large to be voted upon in a general election to be held next July on the three questions of li cense, dispensary or prohibition. The Mayfield amendment was reject ed by a vote of 9 to 26, the Henderson substitute by a vote of 8 to 27, while the Archer bill passed its second read ing by a vote of 20 to 14. After a long debate participated in by a number of senators the matter was decided by the votes as recorded be low. The first proposition was to strike out the enacting words of the .Archer bill. By the following aye and nay vote senate refused to do so: Yeas-Aldrich, Alexander, Appelt, Dennis, Graydon, Gruber Hay Hen derson, Ilderton, Mauldin, Mower, Ragsdale, Wallace, Williams-14. Nays-Archer. Barnwell, Blakeney, Bowen G. W. Brown, W. A. Brown, Dean, bouglass, Glenn, Hough, Love, Manning, Marshall, Mayfield, Sarratt, Scarborough, Sheppard, Stanland, Sud dath, Sullivan, Waller-21. Senator Livingston announced that he was paired with Mr. Griffith. He would vote "no" and Mr. Griffith would vote "aye" were he here. The next vote was on the adoption of Mr. Henderson's substitute bill. The senate rejected the bill by the follow ing vote. Yeas-Blakeney, Graydon. Gruber, Henderson, Mauldin, Scarborough, Wallace, Waller.-8. Nays-Aldrich, Alexander, Appelt, Archer, Barnwell, Bowen, G. W. Brown, W. A. Brown, Dean, Dennis, Douglass, Glenn, Hay, Hough, Ilder ton, Love, Manning, Marshall Mayfield Mower, Ragsdale, Sarratt, Sheppard, Stanland. Suddath, Sullivan, Williams -27. The next vote was on the adoption of Senator Maf'field's amendment, which resulted as follows: Yeas-Appelt, Barnwell, Brown G. W., Dean, Mdrshall, Mayfield, Shep pard. Stanland, Sullivan-9. Nays-Aldrich, Alexander, Archer, Blakeney,-Bowen, Brown W. A,, Den nis, Douglass, Gleen, Graydon, Graber Hay, Henderson, Hough, Ilderton, Love, Manning, Mauldin, Mower, Ragsdale, Sarratt, Scarborough, Sud datb, Wallace, Waller. Williams-26. The Archer bill was'then ordered to a third reading by the following vote; Yeas--Archer, Blakeney, .Bowen, Brown G. W., Brown W. A., Dean, Douglass, Glenn, Hough, Love, Man ning, Marshall, Mayfield, Sarratt, Sear borough, Sheppard, 8tanland, Saddath, Sullivan, Wallr-20. Nays-Aldrich, Alexander, A'ppelt, Barnwell, Dennis, Graydon, Gruber, Hay, Henderson, Ilderton, Mauldin, Mower, Wallace, Willians-14. Senator Appelt's bill similar to Sena tor Ma3 field's amendmnent was also killed. Presented to the Commodore. Wednesday afternoon at Galveston a beauctiful sword and Bible, purchased by the Sunday School children of Tex as, were presented to Commodore John W. Philip, who commanded the battle ship Texas duri::g the war with Spamn. The sword was made by the same firm who designed the Dewey sword and cost $3,500. The presentation was in approval of Commodore Philip's public utterances after the Santiago fight, ac knowledging the sovereignty of Al mighty God. The battleship Texas is at Galveston commanded by Capt. Sigs bee, and all officers and men attended the jeremony. Going to Mexico. President Diaz of Mexico has per mitted some Indians of Indian Territo ry to buy about 200,000 acres of land in his country, on which they will settle to the number of about 10,000, and be allowed to govern themsplves. The movement is due to a desire on the part of the Indians to escape the interfer ence of the white man. The number of civilized Indians in the Indian Ter ritory will be reduced about one-fifth by the exodus, those going out being the most intelligent and progressive. A Scrap of History. In reference to the Eagan-Miles af fair it is recalled that ninety years ago Geueral Winfield Scott, then a captain in the army, was courtmartialed for having said at a public table that he never saw but two traitors-Generals Wilkinson and Burr-and that Gener al Wilkinson was a liar and a scoun drel. He was found guilty and was suspended for a year. A Rich State West Virginia is an ideal state. On the first of February she did not owe a dollar and had in her treasury $1,284. 488. He~~rr she did not 'assume ~tatehood !ln:il late years and had no eostruction period to pass through. [Iappy people; blessed are they, indeed There are now two women in the Legislature of Utah. two in Colorado