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VOL,. 1 V. TANNING. S. C., WEDNESDAY, ECI DECEMBER 12, 10.N.~ TU E 3.!SKS O R. The Republtans Demand a Large Standirg Army. HOT DEBATE IN CONGRESS. The intoduclcn (f Army Bill in the House Causes Lively Scenes. It Is Attacked by R- publ.cans. The introdu tin of the armybillin tho houselast Thtrsdav nadc things lively for a time Mr. Richardson, of Ten nesgee, on bh h-if of the minerity, said those on his of the 1. um r-coy nised the r.e&esit for sons ,gi-la i -.r but thiy oti rt agree tha. tisi b._l establi-hing Ic yeanent stand' g nro should hee. m. a If an emerg-ney exists an en' e' rey should b- prcvidid for, aiarge sarding a-my shou!d n't be establin'- Oe obroxi.ius feature was fuOdatrentaL It was propos- t,, provide an ar-t-y which could be exnard - ed at the will o' ote man from 58 000.] to 10,000. No matter bow grod or able that man might be, be was not williDg to see one wan given such power. It was, in his opinion, abdicat ing the functions of ('(ingress. Mr. Grosvenor, Lf Ohio, in support of the resolution, 'aid that persotally be was in favor cf a standing army of 100.000. The people, he said, were not alarmed bys the cries that their liberty was to be subverted. It was a glorious tribute to our system that never hbd the P.es:dent of the United States at-'m:tel to abuse his prwer over the army One of the magnifcent acts of Grove"r Ct veland had been his assumption of his duty to keep the leace in a great t'ommonwealth by mears of the U:%ited S ates army when the G,verccr -A that Sta'e did not want hia to interfere. Mr. Grosvenor said that if there had been a standiog army of fifty thousand l.yal men at the bat tle of Bull Run the rebeliion would have ended in thirty daya. Mr Gros venor and Mr. Underwood indulgd in some sharp crossnrin, after which the resoiuti in was ado; ted witbout division. Mr. Hull explai>d the details of the bill, which, he said, followed p-actical ly the schee e ircady twice endorsed by the House. The main o1 jction he had heard to the organization pro posed was to the alleged preponderat ing itfluence of the cavalry. This, he raid, was necessary because of the e fectiveness of c:,va'ry in operatio! s in the Philippines. Mr Hu l ridieused the charges made during the recent campaign by the opposition to the effect that the Rtpubl:cn party desired to foist upon the country a great standirg army. Replying to Mr. Hepburn, of Iowa. Mr. Hul said that 'o aptoint volunteer officers to the gra-ie of m j r would do a great injustie* to regalar army officers who have s- ived twenty or twenty-tiva years in the army. Mr. Ccchran. of Misouri, who fol lowed Mr. Hail. introduced the politi eal phase of the question He charged that the avowed ;urpose of the Admnin istration, to use an army of 60 000O to enf orce its mandat es in t be Pri'ippines. was the very essence of inperalism No army that marched upon the face of. the earth ecuWd accomplish the subjec tion of the Pnilippint s Their geo graphical position made them practi cally indcpetndert of outside control. Mr. Kieberg, of Texas, announced his unaiterable opposition to an in eresse of the standirg army. Its only use could be the establishment of a mili tary government in the Poilippines and he appt aled to his colleagues to stand1 unflinoningly against the subversion of the Constitution. Mr. Shafroth, of Colonrdo, offerei me figures to show ti ,he retention of the Philippines, for which this pro proposed large increase in the standing arrny was to be acopted, must prove a ditastrous investment. fle st ated that it would cost the people of the United States sixty mi~lion of dollars a y ear to earn $135 (000 for American manufa ctur ers and (xporteis. The sensation of the day occured when Mr. Shafroth took his seat. Mr. Hull, in charge of tic ti ne on the Rt publican side, stated that no one on his side desired to speak further. Thereupon Mr. Su'zer, who had charge of the time on the Democratic side, yielded an hour to Mr. McCall, Repub lican, of Massachusetts. This was the first intimation the House had that the Massaehutsetts member was to oppose the bill. Mr. McCall declared that he did not believe in the principle of giving the Executive authority to multiply almost by two the retgular army, although President McKinley would doubtless exercise that discretion patriotically. The objection was one of principle. Such a grant of power could not be paralleled in the conbtitutional mon archies. It was not conferred with any limitation as to time. The Gov ernn.ent should have declared at the ottset a potiev in the Ph~ipinos si-mi lar to that declared in Cuba. Our sys tem of government was nifestly un fit for a colonial policy, but that riosi tion had been so frequently dieussed that he would considier the tracticai question whether it was for our int erest to remain in the Pniilippines. There was nocomm~unity of interest beween the people of those islandOs anid the Unit ed States, and they were almost asiar as the poles asunder. No advecate of rei a'n ing the Philippines had been daring enough to maintain that they should be a part of our pAtie ,l et m Infant tne great argument in f?avor of the principle of the Porto Rico tariff was that if we could not apply t'rat priccip.le to Porto Rico we could not retain the Pailp p1Des. Upon what theory, he asked, are we to remain in that coulir>? T a Fnh armY costs $125 (t00t00 a year; .the German, $13u 000J,U0J; the Britisri, $10,000,000R and tbe Riissian, 4153, 000 000. These figture-i include pen sions and fortufications. "If this bill passes the war de.gartment will need $113.000 000. There is atother cost not irclud d in these finures, which is a nec-essary incident to an army, as mucih a part of its cost as the pay of the soldiers. That is .the pen ion system We. are aippropriating for that purpose $145 000,(;00 a year. Our total charges, therefore, for military p-r.. e are 2 n0OiUnaJ parryear, an a u' :r.ater than the jmnt military x:-en-ei- f thee tv.o armed rivals, Irvce and Germary." In eorctusion Mr. MIC dll pleaded that in dealing with the Philippines we pur-ue A eriean precedents, and :aid: "T('he time haQ come when we can frrrkh- declare our purposes. Let us give thse people those ascu-anees which our his' ory inspired. Lott us tell them that W3 will aid them for one year .r far yive, if need be, in setting up a G overnment cf their o.n, symbol.z'd byV their o.sn fiz, and we wtil leavo 1i h th- in all t" i most glorious in tt e mearing of our flag-liberty, in derner"nei ass nelf iovernment." When Mr. .MeCai faishei the Demo c-a's applauded him vigorously. Mr. Cox. of 'enn:esse, a member of the rilitary committee, spoke against the general principle of increasing the stz-a of the permanent army. Mr. Hull doarcd that Mr. MoCR'nl had n is pr'hendee the purplse-&t''he i T" Pr,id-:nt nr:der the ie:y of Paris mest assert the sovcregnty of he Unitto 8;ates over the Phil ppine (-.ao'ds. I n peope of the Uoited States mu-t cid;' how low our auttori ty th.'-e shali cxast. Personally he h. v. d tthat ur soverignty over the P'ilippiees would continuo as long as th. Republic endured. "Honrsay, now," asked Mr Wil liams, "irndepeudently of the Philip pine qies.ion, c'o you not want a per i.nenar ry of 96,U00 men for other purposes?" "No, most emphatically no," an swered Mr. Hall G-neral debate was then clesed and the biil was read for amendment under the fife minute rule. A YOUNG HIGHWAYMAN He Will Stay in the Peniteniary Five Years Charlesten recently sent a batch of thirty criminals to the penitenitarv Amtutg the nember is a ten year o:d boy, wh., gets five years for snatching a pocket-book from a lady. Here is an account of the youthful criminal as givL n by the Nexvs and Courier: "Photographs of the mo.t nottrious menibers of the penitentisry delegation were taken from the poiice Saturday afternoon. When the photographer went to the jail the prisoners hailed his arrival with more or less pleasure. They all seemed glad to learn that pie ures of the "bad niggers" would be preserved. The boy Sngltton, the youcg highway robber, was the proud est negro in the bunch. He was so de ightea over the tflh ught of having his photograph prese;v d in the p-lice archvcs that he brushed himself up and did the best he knew how in the way of looking pleasant. Before his 'sitting' he a-ktd for a pocketbook. This created surprise, but the boy sa!d he wantel to pin it on his breast, so it wouid show in the picture. '1 is er highway robber' he said behind smiles 'an as I is goin' up for stealia' a pocket hook [ wants to hab one ob dem ting an me brea-t. "fhe iuse was pin ed on the boy's shirt, where it would be seen, and he stood up with his best ex prt ssion. while the photographer press ed' the button. The piotur.s of the other criminals were desired by the pa liee, and these widl be preserved for fu ture re ference." 3lu~h coonment is being made as to this case, and it is likely that some good people will undertake to secure a pArdon and send the b~y where his character may be formed. A writer in the News and Courie:r says: 'h ease of the Sirgleten boy has attracted a nreat deal of attraction. He was with another boy in King street one aftr noon when a young lady passed by Sne was wearing a purse tuspended f'm her beit, and is contained about SGS The boy folloatcd her until he saw a good opening, andI without a word heo ran up close and snatched the wal !et. A crowd had himn cornered in Went worth street a few mir.utes later, but the pur:e was not found. At the trial the boy said he took the money, but gatve it to another boy when he saw the crowd following himn. While the buy is y eung in years, he is old in ex perience and time, and he is btelieved to have been the leader of a young rob oer bani which had been operating quietly for some time His stay in Coluabia, however, will help to de velop his body, althoug~h it is doubtful if it will improve his mind or his mor als." A NEW CONGRESSMAN Who Came Very Near Being Hung During the Civil War. Among the seven new members of the house of representatives is a man who was cnce sentenced to be hanged the hero of one of the most exciting episodes of the civil war. In 1863 a y oung cot~f derate from Alabama named William Richardson was captured by the feieral force in TPennes.ee and taken to a prisoners' camp in Indiana He made his escape and got back to Nashville, where he had relatives who symnpathized with the S>uthern osuse and who arranged for him to go through the U.aion lines with a confederate spy known as "Mr. Paul " The pair were captutred by Gea Crittenden's forces, taken to his headquartr at Murfreesboro, and, after trial before a drum-head courtmnart ial, were sen tenced to ignomninious death by hang ing, which is the fate of spies, who, un der the rules of warfare, do not deserve honorable death by shooting. In some manner the news was Ibrought to Gen. Forrest -forty seven miles away-that one of the most val uable men in the secret service of the Confederacy was about to be hanged by Gen. Crittenden, and an hour or two before daylight on the morning ap pointed for the execution Forre.-t sur prised Crit tenden's fross, dem italising them, killing 8 good many and takiig a large number of prisoners. Daring the fight "Mr. Paul" and young Rica ards'.n managed to escape. Atter the w.ar the latter returned to Alabama, studied law with his father, who was an eminent member of the bar of that state, and now comes to congress as the buceesor of Gen. Joe Wneelr. Chicago Record. An engine on the Grandi Trunk rail road near Inglewood Juoction Oait., Wednesday, crashed into a hand-ear on Iwhich were five section men going to tirwork. All were killed instantly. BUYING UP VOTES. How Money Was Lovishiy3.Used by the Repub'icans. ANYTHING TO BEAT BRYAN. Sale of Votes in New York State. Some Inside Facts on the Late Election. The Washington sorrespondent of the Baltimore Suo lets in aon-i3rable !igt on the late election. He says: ,te brib ng in Kent and other Eastern Shore c'unties of Maryiand, as recently tet forth in The Sun. had its paraliel in Western Shore oeunlies of the State and in hundeA of coun tics in diff r-n S-ates of the Uoion. If the p.racicr (". buying votes is not bro)ken up it wi 1 attain to such an extent that electic-n will universally b3 denided by the cor rupt use of money, and not by the free will of the peele. Campaign cotnmitt-es and subscrip tions by vested interests for the defra? m'nt of elcetion expenses were practi tally unknown in the politics of the UVaitei States until after the close of Civil War. Tne poorest and most obscure man in the backwoods would have promptly resented as an insult any proposition looking to the purcaaae of nis vote. It is true there were election frauds; witrie's the Prsq amines frauds in Louiiana and the repeating and false couoting which were done under Know Kothing auspices in the city of Baltimore. But bribery, which has now taken ceep root in every doubtful State and every doubtful Congressional district in the entire Union, had no part in the determination of election contests. A REPUBLIOAN PRODiCT. It is one of the manifold blessings which has come through the rise and progress of the Rpubliean party. From campaign to campaign it has grown un til now it flourishes like a green bay .tree. Tne story told in the Tne Sun of Kent is startling (nough, heaven knows It is very far from being the wholestory if any reliance can be placed in the current political gossip which fl ats in this dirction. According to his, a sum in the neighborhood of $50 000 was spent in the interest of the dt.pub ican Electoral and Congressional ticket on the Eastern Shore of Mary land. The same policy of buying votes as practiced in almost every county .)a the Western Shor', and tumor places the expenditure at $80,000. It is not undtr-tood that any vote buying of con-eqience was done in the city of Baltimore. It seems to be the fact that in the large cities there is not much of this kind of business. For various reasons it is rather a dangerous peration in the cities and one which is very likely to get those concerned into into trouble. OTHER METHODS IN CITIES. There are other methods of improper ly iifleLc:ng city votes, which are iberalty aviled of-methods perhaps ot so bad as bribery, but certainly of a haracter which those responsible for ould hesitate very long before intro ucing into private bu-iness transa3 ions. Politics in the Uuited Srates is fast becoming a vast gambling game, where bragt, bluf, trickery and stacked ards are the leading features. The princical players show very often that private motives, not public policy, in luence all their actions. The campaign in Maryland just end d furnishes more than one striking illustration of this. Suspicions were ntrtained, and upon several o;:casions found utterance, that several gentle.nen -uppond to be active in promoting Mr. Br.a an's prospiects at heart were really takine no interest in the cause and in a tcvert way were throwing all the cold water upon it they could. These charges were indignantly denied by tose aff~cted. Since the election the stories have been revived and brought to Washington by Maryland Repuoli ans, who make great sport over it, and affim they know what they are talking about. ''IFIGHT NEXT TEAl." A very prominent Maryland Demo crat of the regular persua-ion, pcaking to me a night or two before the election of another not less promit nent than he, said: "I believe if he thought it would not be found out he would plump in a vote for McKinley." A friend of mine, who does not reside in the State of Maryland-a man worthy of all confilence--told me the gentleman who has for years been known as the Democratic boss ef Balimre said to him in October that he was tak ing no interest in tha fight; that it was not his fight; his fight would come next year. Oae of the most noted Democratic ward bosses of Baltimore, wrio was os tensibly working very hard for B:yan, in his cornfidential moments had no hsitation in expressing the most cor dial wishes for his dezfeat. All of these gentlemen wili be in the fight next year ia Maryland tooth and toe nail, becauase it will be their fight, and, as politics goes, it may possibly make no difference that passively, if not actively, they as sited in the downfall of the national candidate of the party. 30ss-RIDDEN STATES. The tortuous ways of M-ryland poli tica are, of course, not much better and not much worse than the politics of other States ruled by botses who think of themselves only. You will recall that grave doubts were expressed dur ng the campaign of the sincerity of Richard Croker's professed devotion to Bry)an. I had that doubt myself, and p is now seareely less than a conviction. Eerything tends to confirm the belief that, as usual, there was a deal between Croker and Piatt, and each of them knew what he was about. I must tell you what I heard down in Wall street in the later days of the cam paign and from men who professed to have a share in the traesa;:tion. It was sd taa: a mnth or two before the Kansas City Convention a fund ws ried, variously estimated at from $500,000 to $ 1,100 000, for the purpose of securing the insertion of a silver plank in the Kansas City platform. [e silver plahk was put in, and, as is a matter af history, by an. maith ui y. DUv'd 1; [lml was most anxious to be a mK m,,r of ti:e conr.umittee on resolu:ions Mr. Crokerwould not er mnit this. b'tt put on the commi'ee fr.vn New York one of his own nen. who voted for silver. If M r lill nd been on that committee silver wouid have be'n left out. SBNATOR DANIEL'S ATTITUb3. S.nator Daniel, of Virginia, an in tense silver man, earn'stly que tioned th; expedi ney of reafirming the si.ver elsuae of 1896. Other Southern rtn on that committee sided with hn. C:o'el Baugbman, of Maryland, made an cloq tent and passionate appeal anats' it It has be^n said the vote of lrineo David, of Hawaii, put in silver. It might just as well be said the vote of of any other mcmtber of the maj-rity determined it. C'rt-ioy but for dlr. Croker's man it could nct have carried The Wall street mcn told me Croker got .he u'ooey which was raitd, and wh- ther h-e divided with auone else was neither kno.sn ncr oared. As Mr. Urkeris on record assaying he in poli tics for his pocket, ev- r) one is at liberty to dra, hi. own infer"nces. WHERE BRIBERT EAN AM?. To return to tne qu.:s iou of 'the ,ystematic br bery of voters everywhere a. graphically d:lated upon in The Ban editorially, I will tell you in what States it ran-riot on election day, out side of Maryland: In West Tirginia, in Ohio, 'a Indiana, in Illinois, in Kanas. Newbraska, in South Dakota aud in New York. There at re others, of c'urse, where bribery was more or less argely resorted to, but it was mast gariog in the S:ates named. It may te a surprise to people generally to hear this about "ap-State" in New York. the practice is cared ou in so bold and nablshiog a manner that the bargains are made in sight and hearing of all those around. It is no nncommon cctale to see an old farmer in Western New Yurk orive up to the polls with iis sons, holding the reins over a pair f horses which belong to him, getting >ut and negitiating with the vote buyer F.r the votes of himself and his boys. Fot this statement I have the authority , one of the most eminent citizens of Buffalo. Whatever may be said of Mr. Bryan's lotrines and of his utterances, there i this which mnst be said in his favor: 't one of the millions of votes cast For hint repreoented bargain and sale. NO MONEY '10 RUT VOTES. Uaduubteuiy D.tuouratc managers ave been as guilty as Republicans in this horrible traffic, but as it happened ,his time the Dcmocrats had no money :o buy votes. Their campaign commit .ees from one end of the couttry to the >ther were lietrally riding under bare po!es. From Mr. Jones chairman of :be National Committee, down so lender was the.exahegner that they were all compelled to practice the most rigid economy in every item of ex penditure. They could not even have il the printing done which they would have liked. It is said that the contributions which came to the National Democratic Jommitttee did not in all exceed $200 )00, while the strean which flowed into ,be coffers of the Republican Commit ee aggregatee $15,000 000. What may >e styled legitimate expenses could not possibly have absorbed more than half imillion of this sum. Just think of he golden shower which was left to ain down on the heads of the venal oiers, and how sickening it is to claim he people have indorned the Adminis ration! Thed4ollars which the trusts threw oto the lap of the Republican Coin siittee came thicker than doughnuts. , muchaof the treasure is left that the Ntional Committee and the Maryland nd other State committees propose to eep open house in the entire four years' nterval between now and the next residential election. Phosphates and Fertilizers.. A writer in the French paper L' En ~rais, recently said, commenting on the ars Expcsiton, and especially the merican exliibit at this ExpositioD: T'he American exhabition in the gal lery of mines is in all points remarkable, and complete specimens of all the phosphates exploited in the United States were expected, but the disap pointment was great. There was noth ing, or nearly nothing, bearing eon the aro is phosphate exploitations in iorida, Carolina and Tennessee. One f the finest productions of America was found completely ignored." It is easy to see the cause of this neglect, in the faa. that the Southern States as a whole, took very little interest in the Paris Exposution, and thus failed to present to the world one of the largest ndustries of that part of the United States, and one which furnishes the hief source of wealth to the citizens f certain of the more important States f the South. This is a feature in which owever, it is safe to say, The South arolina Inter State and West Indian hxposiion will surpass any that has ever been held in this or any other ountry. It would be strange if this hula not be the case, seeing that this Eposition will be held at Uharleston, the largst manufacturing centre of cxmmercial fertinizers in the world, whicn is surrounded by regions which ontain somne of the tichest beds of phosphatic aeposits which have been discovered in this country. Gen Eagan REstored. Brigadier General Egan, commisssary general. was Thursday restored to du-y y the President and was at once plac d on the retired list. The order issued by the President remitted the un xpired portion of his sentence and re tored him to duty. This order was imediately followed by one issued by Gen. Mdles annonuacing that Eagaa had been placed on the retired list on his application, after thirty years of ser ice. Col. Jiohn F. Weston who has been acting as commaissary general since Egan was suspended, will bie promoted to the full rank of the office. Chinese Cruelty. Walter Kennedy, contractor and ex pert engineer who has jost returned from completing some big contracts in China said he saw twenty-six Chinamen beheaded for no reason other than that they were in his employ. D)uring the time he was erecting extensive ma chiery he was practically a prisoner and did not know what moment he would be taken from his work and ex. uted. PRE&CH31a AND LAWYF?t j Enact a Shocking Tragedy in a West Virginia Town. Hon. S. Davis Stokes shot and in stantly killed Rev. John W. Wohl in a street duel at Williamson, W. Va., Mr. Stokes being also dangerously irjured. Throughout the whole town and even in the country districts the excitement is intense. Mr. Stokes, one of the most prominent young lawyers in Mingo ejunty, left his .fie this afternoon immediately after dinner and pleasantly greeting friends on the way, walked up with quick and firm step in the direction of tae house occupited by Rev. Mr. Wohl and his housekeeper, Mrs. Levine, Mr. Wohl's family bairg in Kentucky. Mr. Stokes stopped at the gate to tak with Mrs. Levine, who stood in her doorway. Within a few minutes the mi:.itter came out of the hoase. He seemed to be greatly excit:ed about Something, and said to Mrs. Levine as he passed her at the door: "You would be much better at present in the house." Sh- laughingly roplied that the day was far too pretty to be spent entirely within doors, and Mr. Stokes interrupt ed by remarking: "Yes, don't think of leaving us for the house." Qtook as a flash Mr. Wohi turned, and addressing Stokes, said: "Leave the premises." An altercation followed. Both men ran quickly to the sidewalk directly in front, of the hons3. Something was said, al most indiitingubhable that drew from Rev. Wohl a sharp retort. "You are a liar," and in an instant the report of a revoiver was heard, Stokes stumb'ed, tried to regain his footing, tai fell in the street. Wounded as he was, he drew his re volver and cove.ed the minister, now within ten feet of his fallen foe Again Woni fired, and simultaneously with that shot the gun in the sinking hand of Stokes spoke. When the smoke clear ed away the two men lay in their own blood upon the sidewalk. A crowd ran to the scene. Rev. Wohl was dead. (Uance had carried the bullet from Stokes' pistoi through the head of the minister, killing him as 'ho fell. The bullet had entered Stokes' side below the heart and passed entirely through his body. I2 the hall of the minister's home, facing the fearful duel to the death, fallen across the doorway, was found Mrs. Levine. It was first th' ught she was dead, and had probably been shot, but an inves:igatlon showed that she had only fainted from fright. Up to a late hour this evening Mr. Stokes has refused to any anything con cerning the .terrible tragedy, and Mrs. L ivine is in to, much of a state of ex citement to la k. Rev. Wohl was recognized as one cf the mast forceful and eloquent Presby terian ministers of this State. Mr. Stokes is an ex-Virginia university pres ident and comes from one of the best families of the old dominion. CAUSE OF TIE TROUBLE. It be comes more evident that the shooting of Rev. John H. Wohl by the Hon. S. D. Stokes was the result of the seathing sermon preached by Rev. Whol last Sunday. Mr. Stokes is to night improving and it is now expected that he will recover. Mrs. Lswts late this evening made an affilavit in which she, the only eye witness of the fight throughout, s wears that the first shot was fired by Lv. Whol ..fter a prolonged discussion of the sermon and the cartoons and cari catures that had been used to empha size its more striking passages. The Rev. Whol in his sermon depicted in vivid language the terrible results of the dance and drink, and condemned without exception every woman, mar ried or single, who indulged in either. Six Hundred Elillion a Year. The Secretary of the Treasury to-day sent to Congress the annual entimatea of the expenses of the Government for the coming year. They aggregate $626, 741, 762. This is a slight decrease from tne total estimates of last year. The appropriations for the present year are $586.655 362. The estimates covr every bianch of Government service and by department are as fol lows: Legislative, $10,956,700; exceutive, $23.400;8States department, $2 125. 48;' treasury department, $158,869 136; war oepartment. $176 658 345; navy department, $88 913,248; interior department, $170.799 705; postoffice de partment, $6 295 877; department of agriculture. $4,669,U5tl; department of lator, $177,980; department of justice, $6,993 170 Tne details of the war and navy esti mates, including rivers and harbors, have been published. The public building estimates include Baltimore, Md, cuistomn house $500 0010, New York custom house $500,000, Tam: a, Fla, Court House, postoffice and custom house $100, 00 0. marine hos pital at Honolulu $2u0,000. Tfhe total for rivers and harbors, in cluding continuing contracts, is $33, 881,317. Tue total for pensions it- $144 000, 000. for fees and examinations $7i$), 000, and for pension agencies $545,230 Newv consuls are estimated for a's fol lows: Niachwang and Hanachow $3 000 each, Port L'mon, Costa Rtca, $2 000O; Mosow, $2.0001; Manzanillo, Cuba, $1 500. F'or Indian affairs $9,250,571. Rich Rag Picker. An inventory of the estate of Sarah E. Gardner, an eccentric old woman who died last spring, was filed in the probate court at Newport, R. 1., Wed nesay. Miss Gardner, who lived to be more than seventy claimed to be a di rect decendant of the faa~ous Comnmo dore Perry. For years she lived in a wretened hovel in the most sqsalid sec tion of the city. She left a will, how ever, naming Lewis L. Simmons execu tor, without bonds and with the stipula tion that he need not make an inven tory to the courts, hut that after all har debts and funeral expenses were paid, he was to turn over to the Rhode Islead Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals the residue of the estate. This is now found to be $30,000. For years Miss Gardner had devoted her life to rummaging in ash barrels. When her home was searched piles of rubbish were found, besides expensive silk gar mats. RATIIBUNES llAUL. The Expenditures of Late Direc tor General of Cuba. PROVES HIS RASCALITY. Charged Everything to Public trom Coachman's Gloves to $850 Carriage. A Mass of Figures. Senator Platt of Connecticuti, chair man of the senate committee on rela tions with Cuba, Friday made public the statement prepared by the auditing aevision of the war department show ing the expenditures made by E. G. Rathbone, late director general of the department of posts for Cuba. The statement cownrs the period from January 1, 1899, to April 30, 1900. There are no remarks, and the book is a solid mass of figures. The total disallo.-ances for the 16 montbs were $72,631 The first disallowance was on aceonni of an expenditure of $350 for a dueness carr;age, made on the 2d.h of February, 1899. There were frequent dibburse ments for the director general's car riage service. Rent for the coachman, stable, etc., seems to have been regularly paid our of the public funds at the rate of $110 per month, and in one or two instances the hostler's salary was thus supplied All the coach furnishings were pro vided in this way. In 1899 a uniform costing $40, a pair of boots costing $15 and another hat costing $9 were bought for the coachman. June 9, a rain coat costing $26 was supplied to that indi vidual. The coach later was supplied with rubber tires at an expense to the public of $110. In addition there were many miscellaneous charges for stable rent and for carriage and car hire. All < of the payments made to C. W. F Neeley, chief of the financial bureau of the department, appear to have been carefully scrutinized, and many of them were disallowed. Neeley made a trip to the United States going as far west as his old home in Indiana under the direction it is stated in the report, of the director general, and many of the charges in this connection were disallowed, upon re-examination, but not of course, un til they had been paid. In April 1899, Cdr. Rathbone made a visit to this country under the claim that it was made in obedience to the orders of the postmaster general, and the auditor finds that the trip was not authorized and refuses to sanction the entire expenditure which was an even $500. Smilar action is taken with ref erance to the purchase of an enameled bath tub for the department of posts securred at a cost of $42. Attorneys and notaries were paid $110 for services in connection with the leasing of Mr. Rathbone's residence. There was also charges for plumbing and paper hang ing at the residence and for a chande her in the billiard room of that estab lishment. In one case the rent of the house was paid from the public funds. The house also appears to have been furnished at the cost of the public. In December of 1899, and January 1900 several bills were paid to New York and Washington firms by Rathbone, aggregattng $925 and $368, one $133, one $121, another $135. The last bill includes 240 entries and covers many articles of domestic use, such as clothes, gloves, scarfs, toilet articles, cusptdors, champagne and oth er wine glasses, table ware, kitchen utensils, bedsteads, bed room sets, bed clothing, etc., shirts, collars, and cuffs were charged to the government. All the payments made -to Cowan & Co., of Mancie, Ind., for printing anu stationary aggregating several thou sand dollars, are found to have been illegitimate. Burned to Death. Wednesday Pat E. Bain, ex-consta ble, and higtily respected citizen of the Garland preinct, Dallas county, Texas, was burned to death in John Cnapman's saloon. According to his dying state ment he was drugged, robbed and then set afire. His clothes were saturated with four ounces of turpentine and then ignited with a match. His body was burnedto a crisp before the fire could be put out by those who, discovered 'him. His eyes were de stroyed by the lames and there was a sound piece of skin on his body. He died at Parkland Hospital two hours after being taken there. John Chap man and .E D. Faulkner, Chapman's3 bartender, were arrested charged with the murder, and three other men are being looked for. A body of armed men without masks, said to be farmers, call-. ed at the county jail and demanded to be given the custody of the men charg-. ed with Bain's murder. They declared it to be their intention to burn them as B~aine had been burned. Jailer1 Ovens met the men at the barred jail door, which was looked. He told their leader it would be useless for them tot take further proceedings as the prision ( ers had been taken from his custody early in the Eight and conveyed to the j 1il at Furtworth as a matter of precau tion for their safety. The men de-t parted, but there are fears that they 4 may return to-night. No one believe3 the men have been removed. Stieriff Johnson and his deputies are far in the country districts looking for sue- 1 pects. Tillman Soores One To Senator Tillman belongs the credit of obtaining the passage of the first bill of the section in the Senate. t was the bill making an appropriation for the Charlestoa hposiaion. Just before the ship subsidy bill was called up Senator Tilman was observed air ulating freely around the chamber converting earnestly with certain re publisan senators who mighs have been inclined to interpose an objection to the immediate passage of the bill. He returned to him desk with a smile of satisfaction on his face and presented the bill for immediate consideration.J He briefly explained the provisions of1 the bill and the objeet to be obtained. His explanation was entirely satisfac-< tory, so that the measure passed with out a dissenting vete. The bill ap-1 |rorate. 2W0 0 far the enneuition. VERDICT AGAINST DR KILGO. Rev. T. J. Gattis Wins His Suit for Slander. A dispatch from R1diegh, N. C., says a noted legal con'est in that State came to a clone Saturday when the Jury awarded to the R ;v. P. J. Gattis, a Methodist minister, $20,000 as dam ages in his liel suit against the Rev. Dr. John C. Kibgo, president of Tri nity college;.B. N. uke t he millio'i aire tobacco manufaeturer s f the Am: r joan Tobacco company, and W. it. Odell, a wealthy cotton manufacrer. The last two are trustees of Trinity ecl lege, which is the Methodist in:itu tioa for young men in North Carolina It is the wnaltbiest endowed its:titu ion in the South Atlarnaio States, havra received bencfae:ics to the auiount of $600,000 frua thic Dake-. Mr. Gstkis used for $100,000 dam ages. The suit was b-sed oa a spech made by President Ksago, in whict tic said Mr. Gat:i was a back sidr, a hypocrite ad that lie r-tsil.d g,7sip over the couver. Msers. Dake sad Odell were made parries to the suit by reason of the fact that as trustees of the e-'ltege they voted to have publ:shed Dr. Kigo's speech. The suit involved the leaaers of the Methodist chu:ch in North Carolina. It aros4 out of a controversy between Dr. Kilgo and Justice Walter Clark of the North Caro lina supreme court. - Juage Clark, who was a trustee of Trinity, charged that Dr. Kilgo had the reputation in North Carolina of be ing a wirepuller and manipulator of the ward politician type. He demand ed his removal and when the charges were hoard before the trastees, Mr. Gattis gave testimony against Dr. Kilgo. Ln replying to them, Dr. Kdgo denouno sd Mr. Gaitis. and the trustees, after onerating Dr. Kilgo of charges, eoided to publish all the proceedings, which inciuded the president's speech. &imost the entire church was arrayed igainst Mr. Gattis at the meeting of :ho conference. Dr Kilgo was made he hero of the occasion. Bishop Dun -an of South Carolina was a witness in .he case at the recent trial and af idavis were read from ex Gov. Eilerbe ad Uaited States Senator McLaurin f South Carolina, who testified to Dr. Kilgo's high character.' Tne trial was in progress ten days mud twelve of the ablest lawyers in the state adaressed the jury. Governor elect Aycock appeared for the defence, sonoluding the argument. Tha verdict was a surprise. At Oxford, where the ease was tried, there is great prejadice gainst the American Tobacco comn )any. The case is appealed to the su rem court, of which Judge Clark, one if the central figures in the trial, is a nember. Judge Clark will not sit on he ease when it reaches that court. Wireless Messages. Consul Roosevelt, of Brussels. re ,orts to the state department that a station has been established at La Panne, Belgium, for the exshange of wireless telegraphic messages between Belgium and England. La Panne was selected on account of its being the point of Belgium littoral nearest the anglish coast and a mast of the Mar ,oni system 13; feet high was erected There. The Dover Ostend mail boat Princess Clementine was fitted up with emporary apparatus for use in exper nental trials. An additional mast was ffixed about 60 feet. From that ex remity the telegraphic waves are pro ected towards each coast. A special room has been fitted up on the steamer for the instruments and from that room the cable is carried to the top of the, extended topmast. It is confidently xpected to maintain communication bet ween ship and shore for at least 30 miles, which is about half way across. With stations at La Panne and Dover those on board the vesscl will be able to keep in touch with the land during the entire trip acrjss. Recent exper iments showed that replies arrived with 1h same regularity and celerity as or dinary telegrams. When about 40 miles from Ostend the captain was ibout to telegraph the station master it Ostend the probable hour of his ar ivl. Varitus telegrams were sent rom the vessels to O~tend, Brussels, iver and L'ondon, and the reception >f each message was acknowkdged romptly. Subscquently, the consul dds, a message was sent from the yes el to the station at Dover court, Es ex, a distance of nearly 90) miles, in sludingmany miles of cliffs and seas. Bester's Cotton Statement. Secretary Hester's weekly cotton ex hange S..atement show an increase in he movement in sight compared with he seven days ending this date last ear in round figures 64,000. For the even days of December, the totals how an increase ever last year of 64,-. 100. For the 98 days of the season that lave elapsed the aggregate is ahead of1 he 98 days of last year 364000O. 1 The amount brought into sight dar- 4 ng the past week has been 441,131, igainst 377,041 for the seven days end ng Dec 7, last ycar. The movement since Sept. 1, shows< .eei pts at all United States ports 3, i65763 against 3,255.929 last year; verland across the Mississippi, Ohio d Potomac rivers to northein mills 1 nd Canada 530,709 against 660,889 ast year; interior stocks in excess of hese held at the close of the commer ~ial year 605.514 against 509,539 last 2 ear; southern mill taking 458,296 gainst 470,440 last year. I Foreign exports for the week have een 259,039 against 109 371) last year. orthern mill takings and Cacada dur nthe past seven dass show a decrease if 69,500 as compared with the corres yonling period last year. Then total akings of American miils, north south 2 and anada thus far for the season ave been 1,275,896 against 1,581,618 at year. 8 oaks at the seaboari and th 29 eading southern interior centres have noreased during the week 51,523. An explosion of dynamite Wednes lay at the mines at San Andres de La sierra Mexico, killed and woundea nany miners. At the latest advices 17 dead bodies had been recovered. 'ffteen ir jured pe~on', some of whom E ill die, were taken from the wreckage, mud the ruins are thought to contain >ther victims. Nine eases of dynamite )lSW up the power house with an ap paliing roar, shaking the country for zlus around. A SERIOUS MATTER. Sma!p:x Appears in the Hos pital for the Insane. THE MATTER TAKEN IN HAND The Status of Affairs at the County Jail Whence the State Hospital Case Came. It was only a few days ago that The State gave an account of the introdue tion of a nalipex into the men's build n for colored people at the hospital f r the i sane by a patient sent from the Union crusty jail after cerfiaement with persons hav:g the diiea e. At the time r'zors were plentiful here the smallpox was generally prevalent at U'ion. Tuursday a levter from a thoroughly reliable man reached the executive cham.uber. Here are some extracts from 'his letter showing a bad state of af fairs: "My object in writing this letter to you is to pu: before you our condition. [ mean the people of the town of Union. The j iil has been used by county and town (in common) since its erection I suppose. It has been a pest-hole for some time. Scvcral cases have been Ia jail and no steps have been taken to suppress or stamp it out. The town council is the cause of the disease spreading on account, of using it for a lock up. It is fearful to think of the number of cases we have in this town. No one knows; I know of at least ses iasos. We have ten doctors. De. Y. L. Poole, one who has a fair practice in the town, told me this morning that he had about 20 cases under treatment. All the doctors will treat the disease; mane seem to be afraid of it. Dr. Poole said that some of his patients had it rn its worst form. It is in every portion f our town. Now these are facts. We have a pest house. Town authoritites send patients to same. He or she re urns at night to visit about the town md returns to pest house for break fast. The health offis3r of the town :old me that he could not keep them in the pest house because the beard of ealth would not give him power to have a guars. The board of health is esponsibie for the condition today. If anything can be done, for Heaven's ake order it to be done. We have some ases I am told (on good authority) that have to be handled altogether with sheets. It is awful to think that noth ing is being done to suppress it. I want you to understand that this dis ease is not confined to the Negro race. [ think more whites are down now than. )lacks, I don't wish to appear as a trumblers, but Ican't stand everything. [do hope that you will order the mat ter investigated and have is thoroughly lone. I do hope that you will act at >nee, not for my sake, but for the sake )f the community. What I have told ou in this letter is not half as bad as ,t really is." The governor at once ordered this re vrt forwarded to Dr. T. Grange Sim me, chairman of the State board of alath, at Charleston, his secretary wr ting Dr. Simuons in part as follows:, "He directs that you will at once ake this matter up and use such means ad measures as you deem nccessary and a are authorized by law to stamp out the disease and prevent its further spread. You no doubt have observed as that it was from Union that a patient for the hospital for the ineane was sent^ after having been exposed to smallpox and has caused it to break out in the hospital. It is very important that something should be done and that promptly. The governor will be very ~ial te cooperat~e with you in any way ~hat he can in handling the diease, nd will be glad to hcar from you in egard to this ma:.ter. Please give this natter your very'earliest attention. Sc far no new cases have developed it the hospital for the insane here, and he sick are getting along very well, [r. Babcock is still using ev.ery en eav.,r to stamp the dis::ase out of the rstitut ion. The Negro tramp sent here rm Uaion is said to be improving. de is as the pest house.-The State. A Severe Storm. The heavy gale which swept the New England ceast last week created havoc mng the large number of schooners aught off the north shore of Boston nd the beaches~ of New Hampshire and outheasterr. Maine. More than a dos an schooners werc wrecked, a large mmber of others were damaged and everal narrowly escaped being dashed o pieces. Serious loss of life reported p to early this afterneon were in the reck of the Gloucester fishing schoon-. r Mary A. Brown, which was wrecked ff Hampton Beach, N. H., whose crew f seven men perished. At 2 a. m. ife savers discovered parts of a vessel oming ashore. A patrol of the shore vas thea begun. Stiortly afterward he body of a sailor was picked up and nch wreckage washed in. The Brown. ras a two masted vessel of 15 tons ross. She was built at Bath, Me., in .876. A schooner was reported on icarboro beach at noon. The storm soved northwesterly. Severe gales wept over Nova Scotia and New Found end. Could Jot Resist. After having served for twenty-three 'ears the firm of Frank and Dabois, of f w York, whose employ be entered s errand boy, and anter having been dvanced until ho had full charge of he effice as manager, William M. Gates t is asserted, confessed that he had og been robbing his employers and ras involved in ruin. The full amount ,f his alleged stealing is not known, ut it is believed he has taken $50,000, erhps more. He is now a fugitive rough the courtsey of the men he is aid to have robbed, who were reluot ,nt to see him imprisoned, and who of ered him the opportunity to escape. hert accountauss are endeavoring to traighten out the tangle which Gate's. sooks for the last seven years seem to how. Meantime the amount of the lleged defalcation increases, though t cannot by any possibility reach a 5o al which will embarraas Frank & Da