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VOL. XX. MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY PI, 1906- NO. 21. COULDN'T AtREE. Raysor-Manning Dispensary Bill Passed the Senate But DIED IN THE HOU8E. The Lower House Declared for the Rucker Bill, but It Ot Kilied in the Senate, and So the Session ias Ended Without Dis pensary Lgisiaden. The Senate and House it seems could not agree en any dispensary leg Islatio, and so the eaica has ended with the dlspensay right where it was when the Lagislature first mst in January. The Senate Wedneaday morning rsad, for the second time, the Bay'sCi-&anning bill, and on Thursday passed it and sent It to the Hous. for concurrence, which the House refu;ed. The bill was sent to the House not to be voted on, bu as stated above for conwurrten, as the bill was rearlly a house mmoare. This status was obtained by affi dg to the title of the Morgan bill wnioh has a ready passed the houw, the body of the Rsysor MUnning bill, which orig inated In th - -e ate, and bad never been r-7 acrwu .t- State house. S~'-. afDer the senate was oalled to order va Wednesday morning Sen tor Blease of Niervb rry announced that he would not continue to hold the ficor, as he had been advised that the dispensary bills were not in any danger of b.m'ng law and he tbought the issue would be in the campaign, after all, duren the summer. Senator Efird, who made an unmuccessful mo tion shortly before to limib all apeeci. es during the remainder of the seuon to 15 minutes, off.;red two minor amendments to the Raysor-Kinning bill. These were adopted but amend ments by Senator Ryor to eliminl.es the board, of control from the bill were rejected. The bill was then glven and aye and nay vote as follows: Ayes-Senators Bates, Biven, Black, C. L. Blease, E. S. Blesse, Car penter, Davis, Dennis, Douglas, Earle, Erd, Hardin, Hay, Hohday, W. R. Johnson, W. J. J.hnson, Manning, McGowan, McL od, McIver, Pearifoy. Baysor, Stackhouqe, Walker, Warren, Wells, Williams-58. Nays-Senators Brie, Brown, Brooks, Batler, Carlsle, Hood, Honh, Hudson, Mauldin, Talbert, von K1 nitz-12. A number of senators stated their positices Senator Hardin was in far vor of local option, but now that the Morgan bill bad been killed, he be lieved the Ravsor:Manning would re Heve the present conditions, whfe'i he could not v use.it to coatinuiag as they are. SLators Mclver, Btes and Holday shared this 'view. Senator Hough, thought the b~ll worse tnan present condlifns, 'while Senators Talbert, and Brooks, were against the dispensary and 13s baing patched up. Senator Mauldin did nt~t think the bil would help conditions but Sena tor Black thought it would. A large number of senators, includ Ing dispensary advocates, declared temselies against beer dispensaries and hotel privileges. The neXt bill taken up was Senator Mau:din's to abolish these forms of the digpmar law. A direct vote was-taken on the bi's passage and every senator in thre chamber voted for It except Senators . L. Blease, Denns, Douglass, Hay, Hudson, W. E. Johnson, Mashall, von K-ini -s, Wazker, Warren and Wlliams-13. Seniator Carpenter did not vote, as fe was out of the chamber at the time. -The senator was of a mind to get through with all dispensar! ensinass possible, and Senator Warren's bill to bave a general State electin and abide by the results for S yesus was klled by avotecef 31 to 9 Sntor Blesse withdrew his bill, whieb was to rest the opening of dispenmaies upon the decision of the mayor and county supervisor and board of direc tors. The Mauldin bil and the Baysoi Mnningr bill was read the third time, and sent to the bcuse where tbey both died. Senator Mauldins bill origlit ed in the senate bunt the other mess ure, as said, was a bcus bill. The last bill on the senste calendar that touched on the dispensary came up at the night session. Tils bill, by Senator Mauldin, was designed to prohibit mnanufaOcure of whiskey in dry counties and to have the deiga tion ley a speeln tax sofflaient for that county, instead of having i. gen eral tax as under the Brice bil, the enforcement of law being done by the sherf s and their deputies instead of the consabulry. The bIll is along the lines of Gov. Heyward's recom mendation in his message. The senate refused to kill the bill by avoteof 2 tol14. Senator Maul din spoke for his bil and Senators Blesse and Walker against 15, but It was final1y disposed of by debate be Ing pottopned. As this left no chance for iit to pass at this session, Senator Maldin withdrew it from thle calen dar. This ended dispensary legisla ion in the senate f or the session. THE EtCK~ER BILL. On Wednesday in thle House Mr. Bucker called up his straight county dispensary bill. He did this, he ex plamet d, because the senate had killed the Morgan till ard he wanted to give the senate the chance of holding the bag. Let the senate have the burden of keeping that bouquat on the Con gaes river, Hes wouldi never see the aspensary In Anderson if the State dispensary was allowed to live. He wanted the senate again and aam held responsible for the dispensary on the Congaree. Mr. Lsney thought this a pure waste of tima and wan~tea the bil kill ed. Tne RuLoter bill simply provides for the abolition of the StateO maa sary and tjie option between prhibi tion and county dispenisries. Uinaer this bill counti1es teat have vned out thn disPensary have Ithe ehance of another electiln in May, 1906. Tae hous-, by a vote of 47 to 45 refused to indelnitely pAtpone the bill. Mr. R cbards then m~ved to cor tinue the bill. Then 'be house decliL ed to contium t-e bill on another yea and nay vote. which stood Aye, to kill t~s Rucker bill; nay, for the bill: Ye&a-Smith, sp' aker; Ardrey, Boyd, Brant, Brantley, Bmuoe, Clifton. Cul ler, D-.-C-amps, Dar, Dakes, Ept irg, Etheridge, E. J. Faust, Ford, Ganse Graham, Gray, Greon, D. L. Greeb, W. McD, Grias, Harrelleqn, Harrison, Higgins, Hutto, Irby, Kc7 ntn, Kirve, Linev. DetrLttle, McCants, McC.l. McFaddln, Maey, Manidin, T. J. Nance, Parker, Pitt m m, Policek, Rwlison, Richards, Riley, Stoll, Tu:ner. Walker, J. M., Watst'n. J. B., Webb, Whatley, Ye d.l-50' Nay-Arnold, Ashley, Ballentine, Bass, B;amguard, Bradham. Brice, Brownirg, Olcock, C ithran, Dabbs, Davis, EsZtardt, Etieredge, L. B , Fshbuern, Frost, Gwque, Gbson, J P Gibson, W. J., H.:h, Himal, Har lin, Hazley-, Hemphill, Heyward, Irshaw, Lawson, Lofton, Lcmax, McMasr, Mauldin,L., Miller, Mar gan, Morrison, Nssh, Nesbitt, NYch olan, Ot, Patterwo, Pcsson, Eavss, Rucker, Sanders, Say, Sel ters, Sinkler, Strorg, TodIe, Tribble. VanderHorst, Walker, M. W., Wha ley, Wimberly-53 Paira-Pyatb and Foster; H.rbert, D. 0., and Green. The Backer bill was then sent to the Senate, wqere it met the faWe of the Morgan bill. So ended dispensary egislation for the semion. Tae. Ljaestion will have to be decided by bae people this summer. JA STOWN !XPOSITION. rho State Senate Votes I- Thircy Thousand Dollars. In the Senate an Wednesday even ng the Jamestown exposition bill was alled up. Senator Brown spoke fer bhe bill, saying the relions bet ween outh Carolina and .Vrginia mad4 bs a pecuiar call. It would be an ffront to Virginia to decline to re pond and a disgracs not to appropri is enough to make a creditable dis play. Senator Purifoy had no sympa biy with the cry of poor mouth and wanted his great Stste creditably rep resented, commenti;.g that South Darolina was not represented at St. Louis in 1904 He made a spirited >lea for the bill. Senator Bates said that though op. osed to expenditures when not neces ary, this was one time when he did osder it worlh while. Senator Car >enter, too, spcke for the bill and ci' .d the advantage of exploiting the state. A vote was then taken and he bill read a second time by a vote if 30 to 8. Senators E S. Blease, Carle, Efrd, Hood, W. E Jobnson, W. J. Jo hnson, Raysor, Talbert vot ng aganst it. Senator Brown then spoke for the havge from the 810,000 stiuliation )f the house to 830),000 as originally ppropriated under thle bill. Senator ood spoke against it and Senator C. . Blease for it. It was adooted, enators Black, E. S. Bisase, E rle, ood, W. =E. Johnson, W. 3. Johnson, do:Gowan, McLlod, Raysor, Talbert, Warren, Wells voting against it. Thle ,'.U was than read thle second time md passed. During the discussion Chief David arris of the Catawba Indians came nt" the chamber and was aaked by >resident Sloan to occupy a chlair on ~he stand. Ill was ratner a remarka >e incident that the chief of one of he few tribes of full bloc~dd Indians ~hat still rema:n in tis country should ,a present to see a Seate voting to rartiipate in a celebration to corn neminrate the landirng of the first hie men in the land which his aters orca owned from the Pacino o tile A1tlantic. A ConnetL's Laek. The winner of the $25,000 prise for orretly naming thle atteunda~nc at tin St. Louis -exposition in 1904 was Frank Carnybell, a convict in thle lioraska state penitentiary. who still bas about one year to serve. ampoell was convicted of embezzle mnt. He will receive only $12,500 f the pris., as he fearing difficulty n secnring the money while he was imprined agreed to pay a lawyer alf of the Drf zs in case of success in seering it. Osmrpbell's attorney had a conference with him at the penitan siry in regard to the disposition of ?e money which will be received in few days. Thle convict will be un able to use the money until his sen ence expires. Wedded on Deathbed. At Wilmington, N. C., with his life ebbleg away, Dr. Richardi J. Pnice and Miss E :ibeth Wiggins were married Wednesday morning. Dr, Price was unable to raise his head pnd the responses were uttered in alo voie. -He was .a surgeon in:= tile Uited States army jatie Pailipaines and ranks as first llewnaant. While In the Pollppines tie contiacted to berculo'~is, and returned to this coun ry. For a long time he was at F .rt Bayard, New Mics, but recentily returned to his home in Wdlmrgton. Dr. Prios and th~e young woman -he married had been engsgEd ft~r sentral years. His death is expected at anty moment. Facaliy Barned. At anr early hour Wednesdav morn ing the infant ca:ild of Mr. J Ahn B. Cleary, of the Trinity section of Nkw berry county, was fatally burned, the child succambing to the i~ jaries at noon. Tne child was ph~ying before a fire in the house, the .mother being absent from the room at thle time. Ini some way the elothes of the little boy caught fire and before the nl.mes could be extinguished the body had been terribly burned. Dzeath relieved the little fellow from his sufi rng at abut 11 o'eir ck of the na'm day. SMr. Tillman's resolution directing the committee on immnigration to make an investigation of the Chlnrsse boycott of American goods was adopt. ed Wednasdaybhy tile Senate. THE BOXER RIOTS Are Said to Be Imminent in China Against Foriegners. FEELING IS BITTM. American Soldiers. Are Hcid Ready. American Missionaries Are Notified To Keep in Touch with Certain Cities of Refuge Known as Treaty Ports. E. P. Schwerin, vice president and gineral managsr of ths P.cfic Mail Seamship company. whose busi ness relations wtih the people of China have been intimate for more than a d, zt years, regards the situation In China with grave apprehension. He considers th3 manifesslon of diL order as priaarily anti American, bus what s.ntiment of "China for the Chinese" underlying the erup'Ions, the trouble is certaln, In his opiilon, to spread and b.,come an anti-foreign uprising that will make all other na tionalities excepting the Jlpnese to be subj-.,Ots of attack. Speaking of the prospect of trouble, Mr. Soh werin last night said: "TheBxer uprising of 1900 was the cne svidence of the ferment of anki-.oreign feeling, but when order has been restored no people stood closer to the Chinese than did the Americans. And as a result, our trade with China has increased by leaps and beunds sinc the end of the Boxer cutbreak. But the anti-Amer can boycott has not only chocked the davelopment of trade relations, but what has already been built up it now threatened. Tnis is only the re fi.:x of the active and aggressive meth da of certain labor organizvsions of the Paciflo. The clear intent of tne *reaty of 1894 has bren perverted. It defined the excluded class but in re ponse to the constantly asserted lat Dr influence the provisions have been burled out of sight. "'Then again, the laboring organ's stions on the coast have applied tne oyc)zt, not only against Cninese goods Imported into the country. but againat Cninese goods imported into he country, but against the merchant who would tuy the garden products he Chinese farmer in the coast states and the result has been that the 'hinamen have turned the weapon upon the Americans, who taught hem the example and power It po& The Presbyrerian board of foreign missions, in New York In consequence A the embark.tion of Ameroan sol liers for the far east, in anticipation A service In China, has decided to keep in touch with the nearest theaty orts in case of ticuble. The chief cause of anxiety, accor Sing to the secretary of the board, Is she constant spreading of wrorng ideas af the treatment of the Chinese in this country. Stories are being cir suated throng China of the massacre a Caiinese in Amtrica and they have yellow j urnals just as we have them ere. But they have not the intelil gerca we have and the stories have a greater pertentage of believers. We knew of tne the presidents IntEn tion to send troops to the Philippines weeks ago. "Trje treaty ports the missionaries -ay use as refuge placa are Canton, Shangnal, Hanow, Hangohsw, Sno, Dhow, Ningh Po, Tsetng, Ctee Foo, Tien Tain and Pakin. The ma jority of these would give a means of asca.pe or refuge and by water routes. In all of them missionaries and their amilies would Und high COnase offi dis and foreign repremsniatives who would be of help to the~m. Bat in many caOs the misionaianad Americans are at such remote plabes that they could be easily cut oftand their 0only 01hanne of afety 0ouid'-rest with the government of Cnina&gditt represenati~rss." Oae of the visitors te the Prsby serian board ot missions was Rev C. Cnarks Fairckcush, a mlasonary, who had just arrived from Onina. " While it takes time for the news of the boycott. on American goodt~o traves from the coast to the int'elim, said Mr. Fa.irclough, "the anti- Ager lan and ani-oreign feeling In Nakh China is very bitter, and I bes it is more bitter than It was at any/time during the boxer war; "Tne feeling was very strong when I left the Anhui province in pacemoer. Is was caulsed. by the spores of ill treatmens or Ounamene~ America and the exclusion law. *n~i e1arer for towns the merohahr- . _ selling no Amnercsn goods rjbbher4qp have their countrymen kapw f~y have had them in theIr pou on. "It is not the.- sa:anti-foreign feeling of the boxer tce, it comes out of what they believe -~npatriol ism. The Chinse are sious to get their p-opsrties into Ihciown hands. There areaalroads, mintlig and other kinds et4yndsatesgveoping proper s in China and the men buek of them are fo-[ngners. 0 aly reoently I sas An of eee syndicabes go through all the stags of development in bbe building of a railroad line and at the ast moment the Cninese rescinded ah~ the rights given to them. "I was arnaZud to find a rcmarka bie liberality of views among the Chinese students in Japan. They cut cif their qucques, wear Eropean clthes~~ and even talk about the necessity of a new form of government f.,r Caina; Tnaere is a spirit of governmental revoution amor~g them. A dispatch to the Tribuhe from Washington, D. C., sayi: Thirby eignt thcusand men of the regular army are to be mobilized at Manila or service In China in case of an up rising agaimst foreigners In the an cient empire. The war department nas detesrmined to send four regimenWs of cavairy and seven batteries of artL lery to the far eastern Islands in addl Itno to the troops alradyordrierdr The navy also is active and haA d rected REar Admiral Sigsbee's eqsqad ron, consisting of oae armored and three protected cruisers, to hold it self in readiness to proceed to the far east and report to Rear Admiral |Train, commanding the Asiatic fleet. The. navy department also has sent instructions to R..'ar Admiral Train to take such measures as may seem to him advi able for the ad,-qutte prc tection of Americans and their Inler ests. A gunboat of the Helena class whicb ha; betn undergoing repairs at Manila, will be commissioned without further delay and sent to China for use on the Yang Tse K!arg. Rear Admiral T'ain bas arranged with missionaries living in the terr tory transvesA by this stream to hurry to certain points in case of ap prehenslon of trouble and upon arri val they will be picked up by men of war. BOLICITORS SALARIES. They A-. Fx ' d at Seventeen Hun dred Dolaru. In the House after the Rucker bill had been adopted Mr. Clifton took up the bill to fix salaries of solicitors. He wanted the increase applicable to 1906. Col. Harbert protested against the increases. He saw no. use for it. Mr. Clifton wanted all solleitors paid a uniform salary of $1,890. Mr. Laney thought 81,600 was a good salary-and they reeived '160 crom the engrossing departmient. There was a dispute whether so licitors drew $4 a day whether attend Lag session or not. Mr. Laney urged that the solicitors all received $4 a day for the entire session whether at tending the session or not. He pro duced the record and showed that mach solicitor was paid a minimum of 9160. Mr. Sinkler favored the bill to In crease salaries and said Mr. Richards favored certain increases. Others he >pposed. It was too small an Increase to worry about. The solicisor repre ented the actual cvilizatlon of the State and should be well paid. The slicltor should be well paid. T.e olicitor should be a man of character, e.-rc3 and ability. Mr. Richardson made a vigorous and forceful speech called for a halt [a legislative extravagances. He wondered where it was all going to atop. He said already the house had Lrreased las year's appropriation bll by 8128,000 although the ways and means committee reported a bill which carried lea money han last rear's act. Mr. Richardson is a hard and earnest ighter and Mr. Clifton ays liie in aebate but he made a Ine fight for the increase in solicitors alaries. Mr. Richardson urged that he poke sinply for himself, but spoke or himself alone as the ways and neans committee had not discussed he matter. By a vote of 31 to 56 the house illed the $1,830 amendment. The house refused to let the in ~reases apply for 1906. Mr. Hutto wanted to fix the sala ies at 61,600. T ae senate bill pro rided for 61,700 salaries for solici On the motion to fix the salaries at !l,600 for all solieitirs thle vota stood 18 for to 55 against, and then thel [uestion came up on the $1,700 a nendment. Mr. Walker moved that the Increase ~ake effect on April 2, 1906, and this roughat on another fight. The a- l nendment was agreed to. Mr. Sinkler wanted the solicitor of I he ninth oircuit to receive $1,800 be- I ~ase his solicitor was elected and| nade the contest with the under-. tanding that he was to receive 61, ~00. L ast. The bill as passed to ita third read ng flx% the uniform salary for solici trn at $1=,700, effective April 1, 1906. The B.>J Weevil. A dispatch from Wasaington says Kr. W. D. Hunter, oQf the Depart nn of Agriculture, who is in charge f the cotton boll weevil investiga Sion, is preparing to return to Texas where he declares the problem of wee il extermination is farifrom solution. ur .ltest risports, said Mr, Hunter, show the wher.1 last year bas made is cusatomnary advance for Aifty miles as-ward. An unfavorable para of the present situation is that the late ad ance puts the pest in the lowlands aong the Mississippi river where onditions are most favorable to its existence. In Texas the low wet etions eacfred most. In Western Louisana, there was a belt in which no cotton was grown, a great timber beit. We endavored to keep the boll weevil from getting past this belt, but have failed. The Mississippi river can not be regarded as a barrier as the weevils have been known to fly twenty-five miles with a favorable wind, and as there is much traf~e across the stream It is sure to be carried in baggage. Along the Missi ssippi river is whlere the greatest damage will be done. All the South ern States will be affscted unless some new thing is discoveed. SKilled by a Mala. Mr. W. ;xWStarr, a farmer who 1Lv% daar ~Greshamvllle in Greene cinty, was killed by a.mnule Wednen day siT'eripon bout 3 o'cok in the atin Ritaea-Ga, He had gone to:Madson dfl,4i a pair of miles hitcbedt a wagon to L'ell a bale of otton. After selling the cotton he drove his mules to the public well naar the bank no give them water be fore leatiog town. The mules started away while he was drawing the water and he caught the lefthand one b; - bit of the bridle. They ran. drgging him, threw him down, and ~etppng on him, broke his neck and jawbone, two wheels of thes wagon passing over his b dy. Dr. R. W. Trotter, the physician who was sum moned, says he was instantly killed. Lign-c.Shrp J.ost. The Uoited Siates. revenue cutter-, Seminois, and fbe..steamer Compton wenn in Wilmington, Nr. C., Wednes day night from a frultles search all day for the F yir g Pan Shoals light ship welch was torn adrif t from her mooing in Monrday night's storm. LASHED TO FURY Hawthorne Pictures Senatoi Tillman Discussing the R AILROAD R LTE BILI In the Senate, and Describes the Won. d.rful Transformation from Lodge andthe Isles of the Biest to the Storms and the Buc cancers. Julian Hawthorne draws on amus ing picture. of Senator Tillman ad. dressing" the Uaited Stats Senate last week on the railroad rate bill. With the scholarly Senator from Mas sachuseets, says Hawthorne, we had been sailing long and smoothly on Summer seas. He seemed to be en acting the parts both of Youth at the Prow and of Pleasure at the Helm. The rise and lapse of his mellina. ons a csnts, as he read his speech, and. at stated Intervals, lifted the leaf from the pile of law books on his left and laid It gently and acurately on the slowly augmenting pile on his right, seemed like the sof ly swelling and subsiding waves of the blue (can over which we voyaged. The Senatorial audience sat. en tranoed, with eyes half closed in dream comfortableness. The galler iss, graced with much that was femi nine and beautiful, sailed on serenely with tht; rest of us. Mr. Knox, keeping his eyes resolute ly ajar beneath his level and slightly gathered brows, gave his most courte ous attention. Other great railroad representatives - Foraker, Aldridge, Eikins, Gallinger-attempted not to conceal the plentitude of their satis faction in the argument cf the spokes man of the White House. The desks of the opposition were less well filled, but several of their oc eupants confessed to the spell of the orator. Mr. Tillman read pamphlets, but he was to speak after Massacun setta had finished. The Isle of the Blest seemed near. All was well alow and aloft. The nation, under the aegis cf the Executive, was safe. Tne rate bill was an important measure, but Mr. Lodge had given the suIj ect of rail way rates his earnest attention dar Lng several months, and he knew, he might venture toubeliebe something wtout it. He had even gone so far as to unload his modest holdings of rail way stock before beginning his exami ation, lest any shadow ef self-inter sat might creep into his point of view. He was explicit, after all this study, in announcing that personal rebates were really and truly wrong, and must be stopped. But ab! gen llamen, what a mighty and prosper uau nation was ours; and ab I again, what a mighty element of beneficence were our railroads! Railroads are the property net of a 'ew haughty millionaires, but of mil ions of trusting and deserving stock tilders, for whose benefit they are sonducted. To injure railroads, then, La to aim a blow at the common peo ple. "Is any here so base that does not ove the common people? If any, speak, for him have I offhnd! And, de~ nob railways d~pend upon the pros perisy of the couatry for their living? How, then, can they bi suspected of working ag&Lnst its interests. "Ib is preposterous," exclaimed the Senator, almost raising his volos, "than they should be suspected of be ing shortaightedly avaricious." And so, an laaS, he laid down the last leaf upon the four squsre pile and turned to receive the congratui lations of kMessrs. Aldrich, IForaker and the rest of the men against whose interests the Hepburn bill is under stood to be aimed. It was beautiful; it was like the lotus eat-ere; and we were just falling into the sweetest slumber wnen all as once an awful thing happened. In the Senate Mr. Tillman is al most the only event that ever does nappen. Up he came from the dark some hold of our Ship of Sjtate, sav age and threatening, a freebooter, armed and fierce-eyed; a buccanoeer, with a knife between his teeth and a pistol in either hand. The Summer seas passed away like a dream. The Isles of the Blest sank beneath the horiz mn. The clouds blackened the sky and the storm wind shrieked In the silken cordage of the rigging. Tillman~ bad ripped the entire bots tom out of cur craft, and we were sinking.. Tne seas rose In fury; we were plunged headlong into them, swim mit-gly suddenly for our lives. There was no peace, no pros >erity,, no econc ito beneficence of natural laws. Sharks bit cfr our legs, sworddish im paled ut-water swallow'ed us whole. The nation was once more strug gling in the grasp of the octopus. They were starving,... they were wronged; they were victms of an out rageous and destructive tyranny. And what a .hideouis farce it all was! Herewr 4our.PresIdent, who had this me for the relief of the pee pie so cloan.yat heart, on whose c :t tails we were'admonished tlindly to nang, in whose courage and wisdom we were invited to trust,. who feared no foes-least of 9:11 railroads--here he tras withi his bill, and whom had he- called iito- counsel with him to manufacture it? - He had called in-shouted the buc caneer, staling -forth upon the deck and menacing the Republicans with uplifted arms--two men who more tnan any -4thers were devoted body and soul to railwaya! He had called In Mr. Rot and Mr. Knox: he had confided the drafting of the measure to thieir wisdomz; to their tender mer ce had he entrust~d the salvation of ihe people. Truly, Mr. President, this is a fur. ny worl.! I finite is the ridiculous ness of human nature! These are the adviers whom cur brave and independ ent Erecut'ee summons to aid him in defnc~iog the mas es aginst the r. pacity of the clisse ! B it Mr. Til man would feel a li.tle safer In tait Ing the meat--:st it have p'iison in lt-ha i it not been submitted to the cookery of such cooks. Something ev d-ntly had to be done; and Mr. Koox, clambering upon a piece of wreckage, was heard to de clare, in a bold, hardy voice, that -ever, either directly or indirectly, he acted as counsel for the Pnnsyl- f vanla Railway. - . "Well, I'm glad to hoar you say I !" roared Tillman. 'I m glad there's C a man I can iespect as not having been bougt- by a c rporation before coming to the Sznate to frame a bili against it. But I don't think it will be denied that Mr. Root has beeL very close to railway inte: e3ts. "And I say It is false to say that the railways alwav s desire the p-o- v perity of eacha region. I see too much J evidence ha, al this pretended z,.4! for the people Is apparat but not real. I ftsee two hundred thousano 1 miles of railways in this country, ana a they are under only live d ffareut e ownerships, and those owners are so b bound sogetber and interrelated that 2 you can't tell. them apart. "I am a plain, blunt man, and I c say they are robbing the people. "Here's the Fnnsylve.nia has such faith in the innocutus character of 3 these thunderings from the White 11 House that they advertise in a New 0 York newspaper a direct prcof that 3 they are acting in restrain" of tradei A The3y say, like the late eminent finan- J cier, "Tne public be damnedI' Tney *s are striving tooth and nail to get the President to put In a proviso tnat the 0 courts may be appealed to and t'ie g decision of the commissiof be sus- P pended till the appeal is dcclded. it They wont let him fly the coop if 3 they know it!" c1 At this point Foraker got his head i above water. "Should tnere not be d. a proper prevision f>r appeahng?" he a inquired. "What is a proper prcvisior.?" re- le torted the freebooter. "A just one," was the rej Ander?" "And does not .this bill secure j Is tic: ?" "I say it's a farcml" roared Till- J man, "and I ask you are you satisfied with It yourself?" "I don's have to be," replied Mr. Faraker,.sidestepping qlickly. tr "Then I ask you wnether you are ?4 going to vote for- It?" his antagonist nm persisted. "I am not," the forlorn-hope cham- aW pion was obliged to confess; and South SL Carolina held the deck alone and tri- 1 umphant. 7 But vain is it to atlempt to report a% such a man. A combined vitascope r and phonograph would fail In the I aff3rt. Jaly we may be sure that so fr long as he holds his seat the public will have a chance of knowing what I is going on-what Is and what is not A done by our Government. U He talks right out in meeting; he C1 has no reserves, no subterfuges or I ambiguities. The galleries are en J c1anted with him, the Senators both 6 er j sy aud abominate him. Be Is the ~e great, rude, natural force asking ques edC tions and shoutirng out the awkard in :ss facts. And, in his own way, in ,zi in his action and his aspect, he is the o0 true orator, the tribune of the pro. m letarit. If aught in the' State of M' Denmark be rotten he will rev,:al it, and under his manipulation It will a! lose naught or its aroma.* T IED OF LIE. ?eople Who Cemmitted Suicide For cs One Cause and Another. r Dr. E. H. Hutcherson, a wellknown " physicia.n of Toccoa, Ga., committed i suicide.withi a pistol on Wednesday. Bad health is thie alleged cause. REv.- J. G. Norton, a Baptist min- * iater of V.?domta, G2.,. committed -~ suicide on Tuesday by jumping into . him well. Ha ws 60 years old and. was well to do arnd popular. Miss B3artha Marslea committed '0 suicide at Selmna, Aia., on Tueaday by taking caloroform besuse bihe was in love with a young man who did not reciprocate. Miss Charlotte F'errell,. aged 20, of ' Roan county, W. Va , oommittad ' suicide on Tuesday by hanging her self because her parensi would.not'let ~ her marry the young man she was in e love with. -Mrs. Lilburn McNair, aged 34,1] prominent in St. Louis society and champion golf player of ,the city, committed suicide at her home on Monday with a pistol. She was in bad health. Eugene Moore, aged 28, manager for a large cotton firm at Americus, s Ga., committed suicide on Wednesday by shooting himself the head with a revolver. No cause is assigned. Bev. Justii G. Wade, pastor of the 04 t irst Congregational church of Wau- 1i kegan, Ill, was arrested by the poss- P cffica authorities on Wednesday for l sending obscene matter, through-1the ai mails. Next day he committed sui- b~ cide by throwing 'himself under a S train. Killed Serseli-andi Obildren* At'Boston on Wednesday morning ct a woman and four chiren were founa] ci dead in bud at their home. An invus- ;g tigation by the polc3 indicate thats st the woman, Mrs. Annie L. Dixon. h: had killed she cnildren and hermsif by a. opening three gas jets. Tue children o were Annie, aged 5 years; George, p: three and a half; Mildred two yeea s and Marion, one year. The - sed tt was omcovered by the woman's tins band, Arthur B. Oixon, when he re turned home from wogk this evenL.g. Dixon found the house locked and at was obliged to break in the front al door. s He found tne bodies of his T wife and children In a bedroom. al IMedical Etaminer A. E. MacDonald Iri decided that Mrs, Dixon had killed of the children and herself. Dixon told w the police that he left home at 8 ;e o'clock this morning to go to his of work.' At that time his wife was up, p1 the children were all awake and he sc dJd' not notice anyt4]iog unusual. t3< Djxon is 31 years old and his wife was ci 27. -They haed been married for about fe six years.- Of late Mrs. Dixon had hi no.s been in good health. b THE WAGES OF SIN PAT CROWE CONFESSE IN XLE' IER TO A PRIESE. rhe Farmers .id~apper Gives His tory of the Xiserable Life He ipsnt After His Crime A dispasch from Omaba, Neb., ssys Pat Crowa's last chace to escape rom tze pauilentiary for kidnapping CdMe Cudahy and robt'ng his father I $25,000 in gold, has failed. Hit onfewson to the crime as Vritten tc Pazber Murphy, of the Catholic church V.11 I wa, was Fiday morning ead to the jury before which he is ow bei.ag tried. During the reading of the letter rhich it is believed will send him to rison for a term of years. Crows t with bowed head, never once look. 2g up, his hands twitching nervous r. His old smile had disappeared cd there are drawn lines around his yes and mouth. He whispered two his rother, wio sits with him, and each rore a look of care. There was an air of surprised ex Itement In the room, which was rowded an hour before court COL ened, when Tudge Sutton took his eat. It was known that the decision i regard to the lener, which, it Is elleved, would practically settle the %se, would be handed down and the ,ter read In open court if admitted. dge Sutton admitted the, letter, Lying in his ruling. "Thereis nothing in the commun Lion which could not have been rantedtby any person other than a riest. He does not ask for any spir ual relief whatever. The sole res in for writing this letter was to se ire relief from secular law, not from i1 spiritual law. He authorized a solosure of this letter to both Mr. id Mrs. Cudahy, thus showing it is t a spiritusl communication. The tier .was to secure earthly, not Spir ual relief." CONTEssION TO FRIEsT. The letter which was then read to te jury, in oart as follw2: 'Omaha, April 22, 1904. Rv Father Murphy, Vail, Ia.: "Dear Friend-I wrote you a letter m Chicago a few months ago, and >ur answer was very encouraging to e, as I have for several years Lought cf reforming and starting life iew. For the past fifteen years my ring has been intense. My chil en are dead and my wife is a sel nt for others. I am an .utcast and disgrace to the 4nother that gave e birth, and to add to my suffaring 2ave wronged a man that has been a end to me. "I am guilty of the Cudahy affair. am to blame for the whole crime. ter it was over I regretted my. IDi Id I offered to return $21,00 to Mr. idaby, but he refased to taie it and en I went to South Africa, where I ned the rebel army and was badly minded, being shot twice. Then I tutned to America and have repeat ly tried to make peace with the an I wronged. Now I am going to ve myself up and take whatever mes, and if Mr. Cudahy wou~d show e mercy I would come out all right Ld culd star~t life anew. "udahy is'a rimarkably good man id I haye known nim man) years and ust say that he is generous and fa.r ving, and it would be hard fhid a tter man. But he feels he o wes it his duty to tne public to prosecute e. I could stand trial and beat ee s, but that would nat reheveef the iden that is Crusbuing ornt the last. y f happiness in my wasted life. I uld ratnter plead guilty and have .e sentence eutpended, giving me a nce to start hife anew My plead g guilty would barm no onre but mn - i, and if I c.;uld induoe Mr Cudans show me mercy, It gould stimu I the-harsh Jfuigment than Is prac nd in courts w1en a feeling of mer that.G:>d intended should ba shown sinners. I wish you would write to Mr. idaby and Mrs. COd~aiy and pay r mrcy. BRmemzber this: And r. Cudaby knows, as do hundreds of he.-s in this city, that I . fed the ingry and I myself was poor anid at I showed mercy to the rich ano ighty when they were In my pow and that If I cared to surrcund yseif with stolan gold I could have n niillions inside of thirty days. But have found no happiness in evil, and going to returnto the teachings my oildhood. If I must stffer I. 11 not repine. Write to Mr. and r Cudahy and ask them to show nme me mercy. This Is all, and I will y goo-by. "PAT CBOWE." .' Foot Padi Caught. At Charleston Magistrate O'Shaug y committed to jail Henry Sterl g, a stranger, who Is charged by the >sca department with having been ie man who held up Messrs. Siegling id Spear during the past week, rob g them of money and varusbies. :erling Is six feet, five inches. He is been walking on orutenes, which e detectives say, however, he dis .rds at night, when the hold ups oc r. The man denies his guilt and ams that he came to Charlestonl 1or le bentfit~ of his heatfn, afters'short ay In Columbia. i. claims "that a spine is itjared and the crutc~95 e ncessary, but the police depart-. et takes Issue with him on this' nt. Both St~egling and Spear iden ied the miin as the- par~ty who hela iem up on Rutledge'avenn. .-, S3riofts AcO~caen.* The Augusta Herald.sa'y~s a serious cident happened to Everett Bryan Langley on Tuesday of-ast week. ne adI whle eng'g~ din play with other b~y, Denny Hitel, was stuck one of his eyes bf the sharp point an umbrell.- .The wcunded lad s attended by Dr. Shaw, of Lsng 7, who deemed It best that the boy carried to the Augus City Ht s tal for treatment, and he was tak L the shove institution, where it is >ped, to save his eyesight. The tar ca. are rather against the ltth 1ow, as the sharp poino of the umn ella i oa t, hatve pierced the eye BILL KILLED. The State Senate Rejects the Morgan Measure. ROW MEMBERSVOTED, The Big Abolishng the StateDispeasairy and Establshing in Its Stead C... ty Dispensaries Failed to Pass by a Vote of Fiftees to Twenty. After coanderable dsggggn In g State Senate the Morga B"1, h* abolishes the State dispenury =I W ablinhes county dla~nsaries wa kilL ed in the Senate on Tuesday by * ds casive vote. The bill was dknseg 9e and con thoroughly by the sMenO . The bill had been passed by the Roam as will be seen by referense to pap six, where we report the House preO ceedings. It was 11 o'clock wben SqnMar Blease closed. In the meantime, -O parties of both sides had been a7a ference and it was decided to take vote. S-nator Eugene Bleas made motion to table Senator BrIega aMio tion to kill the Baysor-Manning Uill. Senator Brice's motion was the initial move in the whole fight. When the aye and nay vote 'a taken, there was perect aWknen &I. thcugh the senate chamber WOs Ute6 alle thronged with visitors on the floor and in the galleries. T.'ere were chairs in every available plaos.. The vote resulted as follows on Senator Blease's motion (those voting -"aye"' wiwslng tie Bfyaor-Manning bill to survive): Aye&-Senators Blaok, Blake, M. 8 Blease, Carpenter, Davis, Dennis, Douglass, EaBrle, Efrd, Hay, W. E. Johnson, W. J. Jonschi. - Manning, McGowan, McLsod, Partfoy, Stank house. Warren, Wells, VWiMam-20. Nays-Sanators Bates, C.L. B es, Brice, Brooks, Brown, Butler, Carlise, Christesen, .- Hardin, Holliday, Hough, Earshali, .Mauldin, elvur, Senator Baysor lye) was pal with Senator Hood (nay), :Stor Walker (jye) was paired with Seqwir Hudson (a&)) and Senator Bivens (aye) with Senator TAlbert (nay). Sanator Eftrd then moved. "t strike out all the enacting words" of the Morgan bill and amend by in erting sthe Baysor-Mannixg b.lU- which, by the way, is now the "purification bill the committee suoastiate for 1n original measure. Tnis mstlon W% accepted by a viva voe Taie, no 114 bastering bAng done by the anti-dis pensary panry vwhich acepted de'feat gallantly and without bitterness. Just as Senator Eird was' moving to have two amendments to the bill adopted, Senator ?iease appeared in the onamber, having basa out for a short time, sad moved takill the bill by "striking ons t.a ensesig This had the effect of holding r p the Rassor Minning bill, and lis a. to say that there wui ona dispensiry legislation tis session as tne L-gia. tare will adj >urn Sarurvav. Voted D.,w.i in Tae Hoiuse by Thisty. Four Members. The biennial sessions matte em up in tne Bouse oni Wednesday. CaL D. 0. Herbert wanted the resolu~. enhmitting tne question to the people passed. Mr. Richards .agroeed wt 001. Herbert. He said he thogm every barrier bad been removed get ne wanted the resolution psassed ia justice to the people Tne house killed the bleuntal, u sions resolution by a vote of 78wt M. 'This finally dispoased of all blIiaL session legislation. Last year fia house referred tlie matter, after the Tavorable voite of the people, to a sub committee to prepare all nesry resolutions looking to proper leisa tion to secure biennial sessions. Eiea under these resolutions the masser was to go before the people again. The resolutlans simply proposed resolutions for the people to vote en biennial sessions. The senate passed the resolutions some time ago and the vote of 78 to 34 killed all resolutioUs looking to biennial session Ieglsistidn next summer. All-such proposed res oluton looking to e~mnietional a mendments need 83 votes. The main resolution received 78 votes and ans .Drevious billob 79 and these two voin settled tne Issue. The 34 members who voted against the resolation laaking to a vote on b! ennial sesons were: Messrs. Arnold, Brant, Bruce. Clifton, Dabbs, Des Cnamps, E~weards, Epting, Er7rheredge Emhereage, F'raser, McD. Fross, Gause, W. J. Gibson, D. L. Green, McD. Green, Heske11, Hemptiill, Hig msin, Bumo, Irby, Little, Lomax, Lyon, Mciiaddln, McMaster, Mottmani, Bawlinson, Eaves, Sanders4, Bolers iWalaer, Walker, Wualey, Whatley These thirty four killed the poedi bility of biennial sessions of the .ga eral assembly wishin the nerts two -ar three years. Banged Himselt. A special from Monticello, Ill., says that the dead body of William De Grei, an aged director of the Fiat National B~nk of Mansneld, was found hanging in his home at Mans deld, today, he having commit ted suicide. The reason asigned for the deed is that the grand jury is on the eve f i n examnination of the conaitioni f the bank on report that 5700,000 has b en2 embezZled. W. 0. Fairbanks, preside z, and L. .M. ia : nanks, anotier d~trecior -of .the haut, are brothers of Vice President lair roaks of the United States.