The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, February 20, 1901, Image 1

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VOL. XV. MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1901 PISTOLS MUST GO. I it At Least That is What the L-gis lature Says. SENATEAQREES WI rH HOUSE The Bill Forbids the Car-ying of Fire Arms Less Than Twenty Irches in Lerg-h. Mr. Cooper's bill to regulate the i carrying, manufacturirg and sale of 1 !rearms usually usd for the infi'tion of personal injury, and to mike a vio lation of the same a misdemeanor, was taken up in the Senate on Tuesday of a last week. The bill is very drastic in its provisions, and the cmmittee re port on it was unfavor able. t Senator Graydon cffered an amend- a ment making the bill apply only to a pistols, and advocated the bill with his c amendment at some length M Senator Aldrich thought it the best s bill that has been introduced at this v session. Public opinion has crystal- c ised on two roints, he said, that whis o key and pistols are responsible for o most of the crime. The penalty for r carrying concealed weapons is entirely r too low. He knew of no evil in the e State more to be deplored than the al. most universal custom of carrying con- G oealed weapons. It is a most de I moralising and degrading thing. The a penalty cannot be made too severe. The-habit of carrying a concealed wea- e pon will make a coward of any man s All the courage he ever had will be 6 sunk in the barrel of his pistol, and if ii he ever gets into a row without his pistol he will run as sure as he lives. s, A pistol is a disgraceful thing, and no 4 man ought to be allowed to carry one f? whether concealed or not. If a man v need a femm at all he needs a gun it not a pistol. fJ Senator Henderson said ke was as much opposed to carrying concealed weapons as anybody, but he thought this profosed law would be unoonsti C tutional, as it forbids the right given 1 by the oorstitution of carrying arms, t and this bill will prol ibit us from car- e rying pistiols, concealed or rot. The a bill, he thought would be unconstitu- d tional, and for that reason he could not b vote it. 0 Mr. Ilderton suggested an amend- is ment that a man could not carry t weapons "without just cause or ex L cuse." He thought the wisest thing to b do would be to stop the importation C and sale of pistols. He thought the t< bill under discussion should pass. c Senator Mower analyzed the bill. In . the first place it absolutely forbids a i citizen carrying a pistol, whether con- u coaled or not, and a provision of that e; kind is entirely unconstitutional. It ti also provides that there shall not be v sold in this State a fire arm of less than d a certain size ad weight. He seriously I doubted if the passage of laws on this el subject will accomplish much gdod. ii We will have to have something be- u sides Laws. s. Senator Henderson aid he did not be n: lieve the Jaw would do any good, that o: it would be violated just as the present t< law against concealed weapons is C violated. Senator Mayfield offered an amend ment that a person desiring to carry a concealed weapon might obtain an an p: nual license from the clerk of court at ti an annual cost of $50, and spoke in favor of his amendment. If a man u~ thinks he ought to go armqil he ought t< to be allowed to do so, and the people a ought to know it. So let him take out ia a license, and let everybody knowv that u he has taken out such a licenee. t Senator Henderson said this amend- ii ment would still not make the law con- tJ stitutional. The taking out of a li- le eense would not prottet any body. He fi moved to strike out the enacting b words of the bill. Senator Gravdon contended that this ca bill would be constitutional as the lan- a guage of the constitution as to the u. right of the people to bear arms re- o ferred only to the militia. I Senator Stanland thought this a most a important measure, and that some law n of this kind should be passed. He I spoke of the conditions in the lower I counties, and said protection of some a kind was sorely needed. t The vote to strike out the enacting a words resulted as follows: Ayes-Barnwell, Bowen, Brantley, Brown, Dennis, Glenn, Gruber, Hender ion, Bydriok, Moore, Mower, Sharpe, ti Talbird and Walker-16. d Noes-Aldrich, Appelt, Blakeney, ft Brice, Caughman, Dean, Douglas, r Gaines, Graydon, Ecugh, Ilderton, g Living ton, Manning, Marshall, May- t bold McDermnott, Sarratt, Stacki ouse, fI Stanland, Sullivan and Williams-21. a The senate refused to strike out the b enacting words.t Senator Appelt offered an amend f, ment that a man might be allowed to a carry a concealed weapon upon paying ( an annual fee of $50 a license to be is a sued by clerk of the court. Senator Hough opposed this licence o feature. If we are going to prohibit t the carrying of conealed weapons let us prohibit outright. If a man wants to carry a weapon for defense let him earry it open and aboveboard.J Senator Ilderton also opposed it and i thought it would discriminate against i the poor man, who iiht be unable to i pythe license, whatever it might be. a He thought his amendment as to' "just a cause or excuse" would cover the ground. Senator Mayfield withdrew his g amendment.( Senator Graydon offered an amend ment to simply make it unlawful for a y man to carry a fire arm less than 20 1 inches in length or less than three I pounds in weight. This, he said, will s give a man the right to bear any arms a except pistols. Senator Brown moved to indefinitely postpone the whole matter. On this the vote was 15 to 12, and theK senate refused to postpone the bill.. The question of adopting Senator i Graydon's amendment then came up and was adopted by a vote of 16 to 10. 1' A vote was then taken on Senator 11- I derton's "just cause or <xcuse" amend- t ment and it was voted down. I Senator Gruber moved to indefinitely 0C nostpnen the bill,. the casir rl I he motion ont of order. Senator Giu er then moved to recommit the bill. his was voted down by a vote of 19 to A and he Eenatc rtfused to recommit. The mincrity amendment that the ines collected under the operations of hi. bill shall go to the school furd in h- e'uo try in which the violation oc urrci, was then bdopted. eL bill then pas~cd it second read. eg. ANTI PISTOL BILL PASSED. Mr. Cooper's anti-pistol bill was greed upon in conference on Friday nd as pissed it prohibits the carrying bout tee prsen, whether concealed o0 ot, a-ly pistol of Less than twenty nebes ln3 and three pounds' weight. I. irohibi's the manu'acture, sale or portaiuon for sale -of any pistol of ess legtL a- d weight. is doe: r.ot apply to peace cf!c 'rs in he actu Il di- ia:ge :f t?eir duiies and o peisos thile on their on i.rrmises. it goes into ci'et on July, 14U:, so s to alow the sale of stock on haau. Reversed Itself. The bill that passed the house some ime ago to repeal the anti-free pass law as taken up in the Senate on Thurs ay. Snator Graydon maved to strike ut the *.nacting words and the vote as taken without debate. The vote rood 15 to 14 at first, but before the ote wa; announced Senator Talbird hanged his vote from aye to no and by ne vote the senate refused to strike ut. Tha bill then passed its second ading and was engrossed for the third jading. On the vote to strike out the nacting words the vote stood: Ayes-Barnwell, Blakeney, Brice, ranes, Gienn, Graydon, Gruoer, Hay, li drick, Muore, Mower, Ragadale, aritt, Sullivan-14. Nays--Aldrich, Appelt, Brown,Bow n, Den-ris, Henderson, Hough, Living ton, XMayfield, McI)ermott, Sharpe, tackhatse, Stanland, Talbird, Wil ams-to. By this vote the Senate reverses it ilt. Week before last it killed Sena )r S:aniand's bil to repeal the anti :ee pass law. Untss iov. McSweeney etots the bill any member of the legis ture can accept and use free pas.es -om any railroad. The Chinese Way. A dispatch from Pekin says Prince 'hing and Li Hung Chang have received >ng dispatches ?121 the court which ey have not disclesed to the foreign voys. It is understood to contain in Idition to the recent celebrated reform ecree, an account of how Emperor wang Su has sent a choice of methods t suicide to all those named for pun hmens by the envoys, closing with ie inquiry whether Prince thing and i HuugUhang think the envoys will e satisned. It isunderetood that the hinese plenipotentiaries in their reply the court said the foreign envoys mold not object strorgly to an accom Lthed fact, out that tney would proba ly insist upon the sentence of execu on bing published throughout the npire and possibly upon the heads of lose condemned being exhibited at arious points. It is very seriously oubted in Chinese circles here that ung Fu Hsiang will agree to commit iide. The army worships him. He as absolute control of the Moham edans and is believed to be one him af. He refused to allow the disband ent of 5,000( men and the emperor edred him tar f rom the court. To a> :mpt his execution, it is thought in hinese circles, might mean civil war. Freak Legislation. Possibly more freak legislation is rposed at Albany than in the legisla ire of any other State of the union, aot long ago one of the solons proposed >regulate by law the number of OYs ~rs which each "stew" is to contain. .nd now comes Mr. Lynn, of the same gisature, with a bill to prohibit the ,e of smail tyje. No book or paper is >be printed in New York, if this bill to become a law, with ty pe smaller ian eight point, or without so mny ~as between the hunes. Thxe member ~om 'Way Back" in every legislature as a sunlume confidence in legisla on. He thinks that every evil can be tred by passing an appropriate law adt that tne wisaem of tne members of a legislature is superior to that of all ther peopie. This being the case, a legnIanure should ne the guide in d the afhairs of Lie. Nothing cana be ore dangerous than leaving man as a ree agent. Thie memb~er from 'Way ~ack" is also as a rule a humane man ad generally has a bill to irohibit the eating of eggs or something of that in. -Baimore Sun. In Self Defence. The Columbia State Eays informa ion was received in that city Thurs sy afternoon that Capt. W. B. Brad nrd of Fort Mill Light infantry had een forced to kidi J onn McCord, a ne ro of unsavory reputation. it seems hat the negro came into Capt. Brad rd's back yard and was trying to kill nother negro's wife residing there, aving alreacy fired several times at he wsn's husband. Cspt. Bran rd's motaer was sier ann when he -ent out to stop tne disturbance Mo lid turned the pistol upon the young ian. t ie latter thereupon shootirig him td killing him. Capt. Bradford at noc gave himself up to the avtthori es. __________ _ For Killing a Negro A dispatch from Fairburn, Ga., says udge Chandler has sentencet. three ~bite men to life imprisonment for the lrd-.r of a negro. The cases, which rere pardly concluded Thursday, have roused intense interest as the parties re all well known. Sentence was im osed a few days ago on Pegram Co han and Thursday Judge Chandler ave the court's pronouncement to Shell ohran, a brother of Pegram, and T. L Hester. These men with five others rere indicted for the murder of Sterling W1ompson, a negro who it was charged ad "info'rmed" on the white men. In entencing the men, Judge Chandler aid he thought the lawlessness which ulminated in this murder had begun ith illicit disstilling. A Paper Trust. A prominent Georgian says that there s a plot on foot to bay up all the week y papers in that state and run them in combine. When the trusts begin to et their hand' on the press of the coun ry they are po'isoning the springs from rhich the country draws its life. They ught to be stopped before they get hat far I MANY oCTOPUSES. ly Countless Hordes of Them in vade the British Channel THE HORRIBLE CREATURES >r ts Have Tentacles that Spread Six is d ; teen Feet and Have a e d Suction of Several Horse Power. n s A plague as horrrid in its way as any 4 of those from which the a:2cient Egyp tians suffered has assailed the south coast of England. Countless hordes e of octopuses-the devil fishes of Victor E. Hugo-have invaded the English Chan a nel. and have swarmed along the shores t of Devon and Cornwall in snch numbers as to beggar belief. Travelling about y in marauding armies, they have well s nigh destroyed the local lobster and cra fisheries by devouring those crus 1 taeans whole sale and or. the French side of the strait, especially in the De p-rtmeat of Finistere, they are thrown up on the beaches by the sea after storms in such quantities that their loathsome bodies have been gathered up and removed by hundreds of cart e loads to prevent them from endanger ing the public health by rotting. Many of these creatures have a spread 0 of six feet or more, the tentacles being f three feet in length and covered with suckers as b'g as 50-cent pieces. But a specimens have been seen very much r greater in size, and individuals are known sometimes to attain a measure e ment of sixteen feet fro:n arm tip to arm tip. That the larger ones will e readily attack human beings is well e known, the suckling discs with which e the arms are provided holding the vie tim with a force equal to some horse pow er.Once fairly embraced by the animal, these is small chance for the strongest man, unless he is lueky enough to have a big knife ora spear. e The most surprising point about the plague referred to is that the octopus - has rarely been seen hitherto in British e waters, so rarely, indeed. that during many years past specimens could only f be obtained for aquaria ir. England at long intervals, and half a sovereign was frequently paid for a small one alive. It is very numerous in tie Mediterra nean, ard ranges as far north as the south side of the English Channel, which is its extreme limit ordinarily. - Seemingly the present scourge is due to a series of hot summers and mild win B ters, which have encouraged the propa gation of the disgusting mollusk-by ' nature a warm water animal-and pos r sibly other conditions may have helped 9 it to multiply in unprecedented num S bers. Its marked incaease was first no g ticed along the French shores in 1893, f and recent investigations go to show t that, after having exhausted the avail able food supply on that side of the e strait, the overplus migrated in swarms across the Channel to England. 9 First there was an abnormal multi 3 plication of the poulps in the neighbor a hood of the Channeli Island and along the Fiench coast; then came overcrowd ing and a constquent scarcity of food, e and finally armies of octopods advanced across the Channel to the English shore. SOne of the first signs of its arrival upon a the shores of Devon and Cornwall was the appearee e of great numbers of crabs which had ceen driven into the - shallow waters by the marauding mol lusks. The latter enter the traps of the Sfishermen and destroy the lobsters ,and crabs which have been caught, and sometimes the seines are literally bur Sdened with the writ!hing, y ulpy mon Ssters. SThe female octopas makes her nest in any sheltered and convenient hollow in Sthj rooks. There she lays her eggs, Swhich in due time hatch cut young oc topods. One of the curious phenome na incidental to the recent plague has the finding of immense numbers of minute poulpa, not long hatched, and hardly bigger than grains of rice. Not I much is known as to their rate of grow - th' but it is-believed that they do not Ireachfulsize until they are about 8 - years old. The presence of the devil fishes in I such great numbers in the* English -Channel being due to the unusual con -ditions, it is expected that the plague e will not last ve ry long. One severe winter would probably aestroy a major L ity of them. Meanwhile, however, de -vouring immense numbers of oysters as a well as edible crustaceans, atd scienti i fib experts have been trying to find e some means whereby the enemy may Y be fought. In Piymouth Sound ex. periments have been made recently in 0 fishing for the poulps with pots such as are used in the Mediterranean. e in the Mediterranean the octopus is regu erly fished for and used for food. Pitcher-shaped earthern pots are attach I ed at fixed intervals to a long line and -lowered to the bottom, the cord to f which they are fastened being buoyed I at the ends so that it may be found -again. Every few days the line is haul. -eci up and itis not uncommon to find n every one of the pitchers occupied by a s devil fish. The poulp, being a soft d bodied animal,it is an easy prey to many Senemies, and on this account it eagerly takes advantage of any suitable shelter. The jugs, which are not baited in any way, afford ideal places of concealment, a the octopus occupying the interior and e spreading its tentacles from the mouth. e Hence the cffectiveness of these queer f traps. e The octopus has eight tentacles of f equal length raidiating from its central e mass and armed with suckers. It hab 3 it is to lurk in some dark cranby in the .rocks, waiting for an unwary victim to s venture within reach. With three or ,t four of its arms it clings fast to a rock, a. while with the remaining tentacles wav ing, gliding and feeling about in the water it keeps on the alert-for prey. A man coming within its reac.h is likely to rbe instantly embraced. Inst antaneously, Las the pull of a trigger, the pistons of the t hundreds of suckers on a tentacle are w simultaneously drawn inward, the air is is removed from the pneumatic holders, o a vacuum being created in each, and h the unfortunate is so completely pin s ioned that hardly a strutggle is possible. et Immediately the other tentacles not cc f cupied in clinging to the rook are wrap e ped about the victim, and he is drawn Sinto tenloe hug of the oulp. to be TILLMAN ENDORSED. Resolutions to that Eff~et Passed I the House In the house on Th2rsday Mr. J. I McLauchlin, of, Orangeburg Count introduced the following preambie sr resolutions: Whereas the course of our seni< senator, Ron. B. R. Tillman, in tl United States senate has been and that of a true Democrat and contail much of which his State feels prot and honored, -towit, his vote against ti ratification treaty, his strong star against the armor plate trust, his mis nificent fight against the ship subsic steal, his manly position at all times i favor of those principles and measure founded upon Jeffersonian Democrao: therefore be it Resolved, That we the represents tives of the people of Sou.h Carolin do hereby endorse and approve of th course of our said senior senator, B. I Tillman, but that it is with great regr< that we cannot lend our endorsemer to the course of our junior senato John L MoLaurin, who has seemingl allied himself with the Republica party and gone back on the tenets Democracy, which are so dear to a true South Carolinians. Mr. Jarnigan said that he oppo e the insidious attack against Mr. M< Laurin, but he moved the adoption c that part which refers to Senator Tili man. Mr. Cosgrove moved a substitut which was much milder in tone. bi Coagrove's resolution statEd: Whereas measures of great import t the welfare and future prosperity o the people of the United States as we] as to the citizens of South Carolin have recently been and are now unde consideration by congress, and Whereas upon these questions 'h votes of the Hon. Benjamin Ryan Till man, senator from this State, hav been given in accordance with th principles of true Democracy and th sentiments of the people of SouthCarc lina, therefore, be it Resolved, by the house of reprser tatives of the State of South Carolina the senate concuring. That the recor of Senator B. R Tuiman in the senat of the United States is hereby ap proved as the true and only represen tation at this time of the wishes of th people of South Carolina. Resolved further, That a copy o these resolutions, suitably engroa:ed be transmitted to Senator Lillman. Mr. Lsvor auggested that Mr. Coe grove's resolution contained a slap a the members from this State of th lower house of congress. Mr. Cosgrove then offered an amend ment to his substitute restricting ii t members of the United States senat from this State. This was adopted. Mr. Prinoe offered an amendment t, strike out of the substitute all aite the word "approved." The effect of thi was mere..y to approve of Tillman' course and to nullify all reference t MoLaurin. There was a great deal o confusion over the amendment, but i was adopted. The guestion then was upon th adoption of the substitute of Mr. Coo grove as thns emasculated. Before th question could be put, the motion t aujourn was made and carried by a vet of 40 to 3L. sENATOR TILiLLAN ENDORSED. The Hcuse on Friday received th Senate resolution endersing Senator .8 B.. TJ'ilmali. There .va no onjectie: whatever to the resolution, it wa taken up sat once and was unanimous2 adopted without discurssion or qaibble T'he resolution as agreed upon an< adopted reads: Be it resoived by the Senate, th, House of Retpresentatives conourring L'has the schnowledgments of the Gen eral Assembly are hereby tendered t the Hon. Benjammn R. T'illman for hi able,"patrnotio and consistent course il the United States Senate throughoc his service in that body, which cours is hereby endorsed and pronounce worthy or his 8tate and people. The Negro in Maryland. Senator Gorman is the leader o:~ movement to amend the c.onstitutio of Maryland by embodying in it a tran chise restriction similar to that whic Mississippi, Louisiana and North Carc lina have adopted. lie is urging tiov ernor irmitn to call the legislature i: extraordinary session so that it can sub mit the proposed amendment this year Senator G.orman is confldent tnat tn amendment wili be supported by a ma jority of the legislature and that woaid prevail at a popular election There are about 40,000JI negro voters i: Mary land and the great maj ority thm would be disiranchail by to plan Senator G.orm is strenuousi a'voaning. As the negro vote in Mary land is almost soniely Repubhican t easculate it would insure the contrc of tne state to the Democrats. Ta emocrats5 carried it by a good maj r; ty at sne last election but at the n tonal elecuion last iovemoer a sob Repub~iean delegauion was electec Tfhough the Demnocrats have controi l both nouses ot the iegislature some se leading Maryrand newspapers cor sider is very doubtful whetfler the irar hise amendment would be carried i hat body. Mr. Gorm~an, however, think that there is no douct abo~us it an with a number of othe Democrat lead era insists upon the extra session, A Ruling Family. An editorial in the Philadelphi Press calls attention the remnarkab] extent to which the blood of the lat Queen Victoria rules the destinyc Europe. Members of her family ar connected with the thrones of manyc the great European nations, and th line is so numerous that its influence:i likely to grow rather than to declint It is now certain that Queen Victoria offspring will rule not only in Grea Britain and Germany, but in R~ussi and Rouinanis as well. Hurrah for Kansas. An exchange says Allen count: Kansas, does not claim any ancier beau who danced with the Queen, bi Allen county has a woman who sa Queen Victoria crowned, a man who in,direct descent from the .Earl wi once owned the Isle of Wight, on whic the Queen died, and a man who we once knocked. and trampled in the di: by a crowd watching the Prince< Wales unveil a monument. Thre cheers ad a blind tiger for Kansas. torn to picces by its parrot-like beat and absorbed. The Chinese consider the octopus gr-at delicaay for eating and it ;s simi larly reli-hed in many other parts of the world. Is the graves of the an Peruvians, buried with the mumies have been found in large numbers ob jects which were for some time suppes ed to be desiccated human eyes. In realigy, however, these objects are eyes of cctopuses, which were regarded evi dentl:, as charms of value. Rene Bache. PARKER'S" HAUL " A Leaf from the Past Brought to Light. A Colnmbia %end has sent us one of the original copies tf a now rare and precious bhanab', historic in Sauih Carolina, the irony of which will be appr cated by S ruth Carolinians of this gencraticn as it was by those of the last. We believe the bill was the prodtction of "Tim" Hurley, the emi nent Radical poli'ician whose name locally survives in Huleyviilo: Parker's "Haul." Thursday E eLing, Feb. 5, 1874. L:cture on . ReligionI by Hon. F. J. Moses, Jr. Author of Mosses' Notes, Moses on Virtue, etc., etc. Ex-speaker of the House of Rerre sentatives and now, through the Un accountable Mercy of a Divine Prov idence, Exercising the Duties of Gov ernor of South Carolina. The Lecturer has been secured at an immense expense to the State. The sub ject of his Lecture is Religion, which for many years he has made his study, and, in order to become a master of his subject, he has devoted the entire Con tingent Fund. to this purpose. He is a living example of what Religion can do for humanity when properly under stood. He will show how little faith can be placed in the doctrines of the Dhurch fathers that to have Riligion one must necessarily poseess Morality, Chastity, Truth, Honesty, Good Faith, Reverence and Filial Love (:o say nothing-of Virtue). He will sthow in his own person that one can, in his opinion, be Religious, from' a Christian standpoint, without possessing any of the aforesaid imaginary qualities. He will show that without them one can rise to the highest position in the State. During the Lecture he will pro duce Neagle as an example of a man without Religion, possessd of the Devil. In order to illustrate his sub ject thoroughly, he will show to the audience a tablet upon which is engrav ed a pay certificate s'gaed by the or iginsil Moses for current expenses in curred in drowning Pharaoh; a stone from Mt. Sinai telling the. price of an office in that land 3,000 years ago; a vase found in the garden of the Repub licart Printing Company, containing $20,')00; also several duplicate copies of the Colleton Gazette, taken from the corner store of the Preston Mansion. Oin this occasion the Lecturer will be dressed in full uniform, manufactured by Cowdilly from the original flag, hauled down at Sumter. He will also wear the sword withr which he cut him self lese from Truth and Virtue ever sine infancy. Tie Mu~sic for the occasion will be furnished by the $1,000 Certificate Post Band, which will play, by request, some of the airs performed at the Gub erantorial Mansion during the summer, with seli ctions also from "a hundred thousand more." A Quartette from the Penitentiary will be present and sing at the close of the Lecture "Return, ye Ransomed Sinners, Homne." The Cashier of one of our Banks has kindly consented to preside at the or gan. Price of admission. 75 cents. Unpaid Notes of the Lecturer will be taken at their market value. County Treasurers are invited to come prepared. Paiker's "Haul,"as Columbians well know, was purchased about 20 years ago by the State and was used I o: eight or ten years by the department of agriculture, the first floor being occupi ed by an exhibit of the State's minerail and forest productions. On the abolition of the department it remained vacant until it came to be used as a State dis pensary, and this use continued untit Gjoy. Tillman gave up the building to Mr. E. B. Wesley, for whom it was purohased in part with Blue Ridge scrip. It fell as a fee to Mr. Wiliam H. Lyles, the shrewd and active attor ney of Mr. Wesley, and has now been converted into the Albemarle hotel, the first floor, formerly notorious as Fine's saloon' or " the Third House" of the days of good stealing, being oc cupied by a wholesale fruit establish ment. Many have been the changes in the last quarter of a century, but the fluc tuations of fortune have been nowhere better. illustr ated during that period than in the history of Parker's "Haul." -Columbia S:ate. Do Not Need It. The people of Statesboro, Ga., are yery much exercise d over the proposed building of arnother railroad to trne town. Ihey have acaually held a mass meet ing to protest against the building of the road. They say that they have encugh roads ani dca r~ot want to be further Ourcened. Verily it is an in stance of having prosperity thrust upon one. _________ Oaring for Animals. A Pailadelphia society known as the Morris Refuge Association for Hame less and Suffering Animals spent $3, 858 in providing food and homes for such last year. During the sear it cared for 24,810 cats 4,740 dogs, and 45 other animals. The care k estowed upon fortyv-five of the animals was put. ing them to death in as painless a man ner as possible. Believes in an Empire. The Commoner says one of the ad. ministration organs in Chicago criti cises Chancellor Andrews of the Ne braska State university because he pre dicted the ultimate disintegration of the British empire. To secure bouquete from Republican papers, one must ad vocate the establishment of an empire here, rather than suggest the disinteg rain of empires elsewhere. THE MeLAURIN MATTER The R solutions to Condemn Him Laid on the Table. The resolution introduced in the house to condemn the sction of Senator John L. MoLaurin in the United States Senate was laid on the table on Wed nesday by the following vote: Yeas-Ashley, Aal. Bates, Beam guai d. Blesse, Brooks, Bostick, Bryan, Campbell, Carter, Coggesball, Colcock, Croft, Crum, Dantsler, Dean, deLoach. Denni?. Dodd, Dunbar, Durant, Elder, Fox, Fraser, Freeman, Gunter, Hill, Humphrey, James, Jarnigan, Kinard, Lever, Lofton, Mauldin, McCall, Mc Gowan, Mishoe, Morgan, Moses, Mur chison, Patterson, Richardson, Robin son, C. E , Robinson, R. B. A , San ders, Seigier, Sinkler, Smith, J. B, Spears, Tnomas, J. P. Jr. Thompson, Wolling, Webb, Wells, Wilson, Wcoda, Woodward-58. Nays-Austin,Bivens,Brown,Cocper, DeBruhl, Dominick, Dorroh, Estridge, Gaston, Gourdin, Galluchat, Haile, Hardin, Hollis, Johnson. Kibler, Kin sey, Lide, Little, Logan, Lomax, Lyles, Mayson, McLeod, McMaster, Jno., Morrison, Moss Nesbitt, Nichols, Par ker W. L., Pince, Pyatt, Rankin, Redfearn, Robertson, Rucker, Smith, M. L., Strom, Tatum, Thue, Thomas, W. J, West, Williams, Wingo-44. The house was somewhat surprised Thursday when Mr. Bucker moved to take up from the table Mr. John Me Master's resolution of censure for John L. McLsurin. This motion was not debatable, but the speaker indulged Mr. Rucker to state his position. Mr. Rucker said: Mr. Speaker: Wednesday a resole tion was laid on the table without giv ing an opportunity to those that favored it to give their reasons for its passage. It was an important one and whilst we who are present know the reasons that actuated those who opposed the, resolution it will be misunderstood and' used elsewhere as ev:dence that the house of representatives endorse the course of the junior senator from this State. I feel sure that not 10 per cent. of those who voted against the resolu tion endorse Senator McLaurin's course. It is not a question of the advisability of the resolution. It has been introduced. The question I re spectfully submit to you is, shall we endrose his course, for that will oD the estimate placed upon the re jection of the resolution. It has been urged in conversation that we ought not to con demn him in his absence. Why should we not? He has not hesitated in our absence to betray the trust we placed in him. He ran as a Democrat in a Demo cratic primary and as the result of That election was chosen by a Democratic legislature to the senate. I find fault with no man because of his vote upon any one question, even though he disagree with his political associates; but when the disagreement with his party associates reaches that point that it is heralded over the coun try through the medium of the press, that "Senator MoLanrin voted with the administration as is his custom." I say that the time has come for us to put on record our condemnation of his course, and in so doing voice the senti ment of those who puathim where he is. The junior senator's course has not only been absolutely at variance w-th the well known wishes of the people of the State, but has been inconsistent with his own public utterances. A few days before the vote upon the treaty of Paris, Senator McLaurin said upon the floor of the senate (I. quote from mem ory,) "I am opposed to the ratification of the treaty. in my judgment it means the establishment of a large standing army which will be used at zirat to conquer colonies abroad, and sooner or later, will be used here at home to override and intimidate the popular will," And yet after in this solemn manner having denounced the treaty, 48 hours thereafter he voted for it. kiow then can we have any con fidence in the senator. I submit to you therefore, gentlemen, that there is no course left open to us, the reEolution having been introduced, but to pass it. To do less would be to have the interpretation placed upon our conduct that the house endorses the conduct of Senator McLaurin. He was elected as a Democrat: To sl intents and purposes he is now a Republican. He is in favor of the ship sunsidy bill, a Republican measure which, under the guise of assistanco to our commerce, is an unqualificd raid upon the treasury of the country of hundreds of millions of dollars. Is there any reason-and valid reason why we should not condemn him? D.oes he represent anything he was supposed to represent when he was eiected? In no sense has he carried out the desires of his constituents. But on the contrary he has violated the confidence reposed in him. I move to take the reao.ution from the table T be vote on the motion to take up from the table was as follows: Ages-Austin, Bicot, Banks, Bates, Brookq, Brown, Cooper, Dodd, Domi nick, Dorroh, Gaston, Gourdin, Haile, Har din, Hollis, Kib!er, Kinsey, Lever, Lide, Little, Lomax, Lyles, Mayson, Mdaaughlin, McLeod, John MoMaster, F. H. McMaster, Morrison- Moss, Mur chison, Nesbitt, Nichols, Prince, Pyatt, Rankin, Redfearn, Richards. Ruoker, Sanders, Seabrook, 8eigler, Strom, Ta turn, Theus, W. J. Thomas. Webb, West, Williams, Wingo. Total, 49. Nase-Speaker Stevenson, Ashley, All, Beamguard, Blease, Bolts, Bost wick, Bryan, Butler, Carter. Cogge ahall, Colock, Croft, Crum, Dantster, Dean, deLoach, Dennis, Danbar, Dx rant, Elder, Fox, Freeman, Gunter, Hum phrey, James, J arnegan, Keels, Kinard, Lo-kwood, Lofton, Mauldin, McCall, McGowan, Mishoe, Mcffett, Morgao, Moses, W. L. Paiker. Pat torson, Ric ardson, R. B. A. Robinson, Staekhouse Binkler, J. B. Smith, Spears, J. P. Thomas, Jr., Thompson. Vincent, Wolling, Wells, Whaley, Wil son, Woods, Woodward. Total, 55. Great Scott. -Here is a startling item which we clip from an exchange: "British socity is in a state of suspense respecting the position with regard to it that is to be asumed by the King. It has been in timated that he will have a weeding out of the s<ciety mushrooms; that the Newriches and the moneybags will have to go, and that the King's social set will be made up according to birth and blood." AN EOBrT mN A Worthy Example That Should be Oftener Pollowed. We commend the following which we clip from the Augusta Cnronicle to those of our subscribers *ho have been from time to time drpped from our sub scription-list for not paying for their paper. The Chronicle says there are few honest men left in the world. Some of this category who still remain with us are too honest to live long. They are needed in-Heaven to lift the aver age of that place where even all are just. Col. Dyer sestcrday received a letter from one, who is calculated to do great work ai an average lifter any where he might find himself. He is enrely, too good for this wicked world and'it loks like a shame that he shou!d be forced to remain so long with mor tab of only common human honesty. The following is the letter alluded to abov 9 So. Mingo St. Albion, Mieb., Feb. 10th, 1901 Pres. of Augusta Elte:ric R. R. I remember that while camped near your city in the winter of '98 and '99, and while acting as provost guard, I nojustly used my right of riding on your oars at two different times. I wish to be honest with all men and hoping you will forgive me for delay in paying the same, please accept amount enqlosed. Yours truly, M. P. ELDER. Formerly a member of the 35th Mich. the amount sent from the honest Michigander is eleven cents. This includes the two fares and interet there on. The interest "Old Honesty" fig ures out at one cent for the time since he took the rides without the perimis Sion, or the igbt, to do so. The inter est was figured all over a sheet of pa per and was correct to a goat's heel. Col. Dyer should immediately send r. re ceipt in a fr ame to this man of exoop tional conscience, so thatit can be hand ed down in his family to ger erasions yet unborn To be descended from such a man would be a grzater sourcs for a little able-bodied bragging in the future than to, in this day and genera tion, Holland dame or any dignitary. More Pension Money. The bill to increase the amount of the appropriation for pensioning old Confederate s.dier was taken up in the Senate on Thnrsday. The house bill proposed an inerease of $I!O,000, making the total amount $200,0(0. Senator Mower moved to stike out the enacting words of the bill, and, as chairman of the financo committee, made a statement of the State's finances. Senator Henderson hoped the appro priation would not be killed, but that the extra sum of $50,000 be given, as Capt. 3rooks intended it when he in troduced it in the honee. The comp troller general says this will met in arease the tax levy this year, but whether it did or not he would vote for it. If the State is to help the old soldiers it should do eo in proper shape. On the vote to strike out the enact ing words the motion was overwhel mingly defeated, the vote being: ayes 4. nays 27, as follows: Ayes-Blakeney, Glenn, Walker, Winiams-. Nays-Aldrich, Appelt, Barnwell, Bowen, Brantley, Bird, Brown, Caugh man, Daan, Dennis, Douglas, Grardon, Gruber, Hay, Henderson, Herndon, Hough, Hydrick, hlayfield, Motermott, Moore, Ragadale, Barratt, Sharpe, Stanland. Sullivan, Talbird-27. Senator Mower was paired with Sen ator Marshall, who favored the in crease. Senator Henderson then offered his amendment to make the appropriation $150000, which was adopted and the bill was ordered engrossed for its third reading. Food for Thought. Two years ago this-mouth the Philip pine war began. It has cost this repub ic a quarter of a billion dollars, 3.500 lives and its self respect to further the selfish schemes of promotors. Daring these two years we had more men u der arms in the Philippines Washing ton had during the Revolution; more men than the republic had under arms during the war of 1812; more men than Scott had when he invaded Mexico; more men than Shafter had when he invaded Cuba and compelled the surrender of the Spanish forces, and more men than Grant had at any uime during his Vicks burg campaign. And 3 et it has been im possible to subjugate a weak people who are fired by a love of liberty. There is much in these facts that demands the consideration of the thoughful.-The Commoner. Officers Galore. The new army bill provides for about lieven hundred officrs running rrom major-general down to second lieuten ant. These-are life positions and there will be a scramble for them. P they are judiciously distributed a conieter able sentiment will be created in favor of a large military estabiiehmet. Army offiers are, as a rule. men of n telligence and have infinenti:. il connection, and the advantages which they derive from the system can De easily aeon. The burdens of a largeI standing army are, however, distributed among all the peopie, and are nc: so easily discerned. The few w .~ are benefitted are aggressive while .9a our den bearers are ncrganised, It is not strange, therefoire, that the peer& find it diffcult to keep a standing army within bounds.-The Oc 'mor.r Plucky Mrs. Pryor. Mrs. Louise A. Pryer, wife of Dr. W. R. Payor, who is a soa of ex Jndge Roger A. Pryc-r, was struck on the head Iby a picos of lead Dip-o anad robbed Wednesday ia New York. The cn Iof the crime was the stairway leading Ifromn the uptown traok of the Fourth avenue tunnel at Thirty eighth streat. Mrs. Pryor had sever.-l hundred doitars worth of diamonds and serte money in her purse when she V7 :tsek. Mrs., Pryor fought bravely and -ianged to! escape with a c.ut on the head twhere she was half stunned ny a slow from the lead pipe. She pinekily gave chase and a policeman caught her assailant, who calls himself Patrick Hynes. He was hold in $5t000 bail for triaL NEARLY A BILLION. Appropriation of this Session Reach Almost that Figure. T EN DOLLARS FOR EACH HEAD Democrats Assail the Majority In - Congress on Account of the Reckless Expenditure (f Public Money. On Thursday the Democrats it Con gress opened a general assaultu .-. the extravagance of the present e--igress, Messrs Bell, of Colorado; Rich ardson of Tennessee, and Cochran - rf Mis souri, in turn made speeches, Meesses Cannon, of Illinois and Moddy of Ma sachusetts, defended the record of Oon gress in the matter of appropriations. Fifteen of 134 pages of. the bill were disposed of. Mr. Bell of Colorado, a member of the appropriation oommittee produced figures to show that in a single decade the per capita cost of carrying on the governmental machinery had inereased from $4 75 to over $10. The speech was interrupted to permit the couti of the-electoral votes and was cocoluded immediately after that ceremony. Mr. Cochran of Missouri dec:red the total appropriations for the net year, if reckoned in gold would esoeed the appropriations in 1864 when the Federal government hadi 1,200 ships on the sea maintainieg a b;oeJdo frm Galveston to the Oespeake, a4 1,000,000 men en land engaiged in te the tremendous milisary enterprise in most history of the age. "Talk about progseas and chris Lianity," he continued "if progress and ehritianity mean marching under many sags of pr:derer ani the swords of ehristiao soldiers dripping in the bc.i of Plundered people, it is time to quit ^r fling away the z&qurade aud say "Progress has tnuned freeboc. ehris tianity slumbers and God is dead." (Democrane applause.) - Mr. Eicdardson of Tennessee, the :inority leader, said the total sppro priations at this session would resoh E8G,000,000. Four years ago when President McKinley's administration began; the annual appropriaticsa were about $470,000,000. He conceded that the appropriations would naturally in grease every Sear, bas why, he asked this prodigicus increase of over $300, The war had been over two -ears ?d could not be charged withtheoe in reasecs ;or the increase were not eon ined.to the army and navy approria den bills. There was an inreac in :very one of the appropriieon bill. Mr. Richardsoa referred to the zp propriation for the New York cuasom house as an item that could have been ~mitted. Will Have Free Passes. When the bill to repeal the law for biddrng public officials from using rail. road passes came up Friday for its mecond readinganother efort was made bo kill the bili and it got through on the -lieuteant governor's vote. Senator Manning moved to indefi nitely postpone the bill. The sys and noes were demanded and the vote tak en without debate. This was the result: Ayes-Barnwell, Blakeney, Brie, Douglas, Gaines, Glenn, Graydon, Hy drick, Manning, Moore, Mower, Bagp dal and Bullivan-13. Noes-Aldrich, Appelt, Brown, Den nis, Henderson, Hough, Livingston, Mayfield, Sharp, Staekhouse, Stan land, Taibird and Williams-13. Lieut. Gov. !illman states the tea son for his vote as follows: "The chair in casting its vote upon this question desires to state that -it has never used a railroad pas ercept when a newspaper correspondant a number of years ago, nor wili i do so now. "The act which this bill repeials is a festered sore-a remnant of factional pilities which every good citisen - in South Carolina wants obliteratedi. The act is a refiection upon every member of the general assembly. If they can be subsidized with a pms it is high time that other people be sent hero to represent the Ssate. The chair is of the opinion, however, that South Caro inians are not yet so debased." There being a tie, the lieutenant gov ernor announced that he would vote co, and the senate refaused to indafi nitely postpone the bill. Senator Hydrick then made a motion to recommit, but this was defeated by a vote of 15i to 13 and the bill was road and ordered enrolled for ratifieation. A Poor Trader. The Washington P: e-a d government wil! never get riez by a gaging in the ship br.dkgn' beine.. 5a the'.bginning of the var win' Spain it paid $,2932.000 for five Vessels which were offered by private ratriets. Since then it has been abao to sell th~ese :smsi shps for the eam of $7O0.901) A si'no~e arisetice prooess shows Uncle 2 to be wo: iuo..er to de eztent 'of $N3 - 030 It masy be that the eontmen via. Jld the purcheing to the gcvrnment were altogether seu anzicus and. overee timated oir dcnger. A Cer the Barbers. The Ne' York legislatuso bas he'eno ta bill to, icenzse ed~ :.njrrvias ber yers. Every person ,-Lo sei i'c' or ein dhe heir of another for a oderto is to be ensid~ere: a babe, and no barber is to be pertuiiteed to do biuiiness' mithout a .:..ase. All shops, soaps, bowels, etc.. are te " eabjectedi to rigid if e * w will he purished by a fine of $25 Of coure baroer shop inspectors wu. have to be appointed. Death of Mrs. Maury. A diepatch from Rihn d, Vi., says Mrs. Ann Undiison seer1, w...w of Cmnmodore hi~stthew F. Masury, of the United States and Confe.irrats states navies, who is known the world over as "Tke Pathfinder of the Seas," die4 in that city Wednesday :gd ninety years. Commodore Maury was the author of the georgraphieu now in use