The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, June 25, 1897, Image 1
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Representative Stokes Introduces a1
^Sweeping B i I K ,
0 . ~ % >
TO START WITH PRESIDENT
And (o linn Down tl?o Hoate to tho
?""I'oorwt l*n!<l Wcrtili Woman
In tho Department.
HopresSfttnti'vo tttokos, of Month Oar
?..oliuu, -propose* to immortalize himself
b;Y appotaing in political history as a
public ofllcor willing to roduco his own
?salary* On tho 31st, Stokos, who was
formorly prosidont of llto Farmers' Al
banco of hiH Stato, introduced iPoill to
roduco tho expenditures of tho govern
moni by outt.iug down salaries of all
imblio oftlcials and pensioners 80 per
x'Oni. His cnt begins at the Pres
ident of tho United fcJtatos and
runs down tho scale to tho
poorest paid scrub woman in tho depart
ments Tho bill providoa that after
Alarcli 0, 1898, tho compensation of all
Senators, members of tuo House, offi
cers aud employes, and pensioners of
tho Government shall bo re-adjusted to
tho changed valuo of our mouoy stand- j
aid, Tho President of tho United
htatos judges aro exempt until their
successors shall be soloqtod. Tho re- 1
adjustment of Salaries shall be based
upon a coiyiparativo statement of tho
average prices in tho first, ilve yoars in
comparison with tho last Hvo in tho pro
Ceding dccouiftql poriods. The dlsV
bursing ofllcors of the various brauohos
of tho sorvico shall ro adjust their pay
rolls correspondingly, bo that the pay
of da oh o nicer or ouiployo of tho gov
ernment shall boar to his pay in tho
provious decennial period tho same pro
portion that tho average prices for tho
respective periods com pared bear to each
pther, * . , (>
Hoprosontativo Stokos says in sup
port of his measuro: "The bill empha
sizes in a praotical way tho growing
evils of an appreciating money stand- '
aid. From 181J2 to 1895 tho'avorago
prices of 223 commodities in common
uso had decreased fully 83 per cent.
During tho samo period the compensa
tion of ofllcors, employes and pension
ers of tho govonmont has steadily in
creased, either in salary, perquisities
or both. Frfim 1888 to 1889 the averago
annual cxponsos of tho government
wore ?208, 010,403. 18. The averago an
nual expenses from 1898 to 1890 inclu
sive, roaohing tho alarming flguro
mm Sili 40P an increase in less than
a decade of unparalloled distress among
' tho peoplo of nearly 80 per cent. Of
course all of this was not ealtfWes and
pensions. But the groalor part was. I
do not think the servants and pension
ers of tho peoplo aro any hotter than
tho people thoy servo aud there ought
to he some such method of maintain
ing equilibrium between salaries and
pensions on the one hand, and prices of
commodities on the other. Tho biU also
illustratos in a very praotical way tho
? good old Democratic way of keeping
tho government out of debt and reliev
ing the burdens of tho peoplo by cut
ting down expenses rather than by pil
ing on taxes. Upon a rough estimate
such an adjustment as proi>osed in the
bill should savo the government more
than $00, 000, 000 a year, without injtis
~tico to any and witflioufc detriment to
tho publio servioo. Tho legislative, ex
ecutive aud judicial departments of the
* government are responsible in large
measuro for the conditions thftt brought
?on and perpotuate falling prices and
there iB^absolute justioo in the proposi
tion that thoy should ehare with the
people at large tho consequences of
their <?ftja-actions. Under present oon
, ditigtiB they aotually profit by the dis
tress of the peoplo.
TEHIJANTKI'KC OK8TKOYKD.
Not On? IIoubo Left. Standing In a
City ofl5,0(fl) Inhabitants.
Oaxaoa, Mexico, June 21.? Tho con
tinued earthquake shocks ond heavy
rains have seriously interrupted tele
graphio communication with the Isth
mus of Tehuantepeo, during the last
three days. Advices were received here
la&t night that ' the official commission
sent to the city of Tehuantepeo by
President Diaz to investigate the re
ported formation of a volcano and tho
extent of the earthquake damage, has
arrived at its destination and found the
1 Condition of affairs muq}i worse than it
hod b?en expected.
The. town of Tehuantepoo contains
about 15,000 inhabitants, aud is com
pletely destroyed, so far a.*> houses and
buildings are concerned, not one re
maining standing. There were a num
bcr of substantial and costly buildings
in town. Tho people are living in
' tenU on the outskirts of the place. The
earthquake shooks continue to bo felt
$ frequent. Jo tern! h, and the peoplo
f'fltp terrified. The heavy smoke and
other indications of an active volcarfo
. to the west of Tehuantepeo are no long
er visible^ ]
SHOCKS 1 ^ CAM FOItNl A.
Severe K(?rttjflu?kc in Son Francisco? I
pHfcks Were Stopped. ?
Two sharp and severe shocks Of
earthquake were felt at Ban Francisco^
CaLTon tke 20th, the ojfigfoljfane of the
tff&k** Uken by_ the United States
weather bureau, l>eing 12:14:04 It
- -was followed almost immediately by a
from west to east Clocks were stopped,
ided lamps and decorations were
in eom* pjaoee, bnt no re?l dam
is reported. The shocks were the
NEWSJTEMS. ]
f*0Utli9**u Pointers,
Norfolk, Ya. , is to lmve ait industMal/
I, school for tho odueatiou of oolo???T
children.
Waltoi tttoole, an aoronaut, met liis
(tenth at Lynchburg, Va., while making
aba loon ascension. '* ^
Charles L. Montague, a lenfling coW
ton factor of Savannah, (Sa . , was'Jij.}Jea
in a bioyolo accidont.
Arrangements for the annual con
vontibu ot the JHaptist Young Poopio'u
Union of America at Chattanooga,
'foiui. , have been practically cum
plotod.
Lightning struck Henry Sotzler'a
?fltoro house, near Columbia, S. (!. , and
entirely consumed tho building and
contents.
Tho reooipts at tho Tennessee Con
tonnial for tho first llfleon days of .June
pearly equal tho reooiptH^for tho entire
month of Mitt*
Win. J. Uryton spoko on tho 2 1 ft at
Staunton, Ya. , to an audionco of over
8,500 for over two bourn in an opou
field. Hio Hubjoot was freo silver.
Tho Western Union oftlce at Mont
gomery, Ala., has been burned.
On tho streets of Portsmouth, Va ,
James MoAlpin was allot and instantly
killed by William Iioon.
Several North Carolinians win J
scholarships at Johns Hopkins' Utii
versity.
At Old Point Comfort, Ya. , the citi
zens of ltiehmond .presented a -loving
cup to the battleship Texas.
At Hogart, (la., Walter N orris i*
k'dhed by lightning; lio had a baby in.
^fs arms which was not injured.
A South Carolina man has forty
acres of tea plants. Tho shrubs rue
about threo feot high and planted in
rows six feot apart.
In Virginia a negro shoots aconstublo
and thon defies tho authorities; his cab
in is sot on firo and hois captuiod as ho
I'll us out.
Judge Cant-rill has decided that Kon
tuoky cannot issuo the 8-r>0,(K)() bonds
{ provided for ' by a rocent act of tho
-legislature.
A Louisvitlo and Nashville train, bo
t.weon Clarksvillo and .Nashville, was
hold up by ono man at the point of two
pistols and robbod of from $2,000
to $4,000, according to reports from
Clarksvillo,,
Near St. Louis, Martin Ensloy beat
into 'insensibility O. 1). Collins, of
Tonnossoe and robbod him of $(1,000;
tho men bad been acqunintnncos all
thoir livos and intimate friends for six
years. Knsley has been captured and
identified by Collins.
A Maysvillo, Ky. , dispatch says:
Tollgate raidors, thirty eight in nuni
bor, tore down the ga\o beyond HI no
Lick. Tlioy captured tho guards,
James Dawson, Harrison Greon and
Charles Dawson. Tho raidors placed
a rope around Dawson's neck, but re
leased him on condition that ho would
colleot no more toll.
All About, the North.
Tho President hns appointed Jolin O.
Brady to bo governor of Alaska.
A bronze bust of Reetliovon Las
been nnveiled in Lincoln Park, Chi
cago.
Austin Smith. aged is years, of
Sandy-'liill, N. Y., was killed while
playing baseball by being struck under
the ear by a chrvo ball, while atthebat.
Thereiwaa a verv heavy frost in Sulli
van county, Now York, on tho night of
the 21 et. Considerable damage, was
done t6 crops. < .
Maine Populists declare against any
more fusion. #
The allied printing "trades of New
York State have entered a formal, po
test against the State printing beiug
done by convicts.
An anti-lynch law society has boon
formed in Columbus, Ohio. It will
establish branches all over tho coun
try.
A northbound suburban train on the
Chica'go^AHlwaukeo and St. Paul roa<l/
ran into^thev Chicago, river at Kin/A6
street; (feix men ifeingliurt. /
Th</ great tpilors.V.ut^ike, in Now
Nork", which at-oiio time involved
about 20,000 hands, is ended. Tho last*]
of the contractors have surrendered to
the men.
John L. Sullivan is in 'training at
White Plains, N.' Y., under the direc
torship of Win, Muldoon, tho wrostlor
and trainer, and the prospects of a
meeting betweon him and Fitzsiui*
mens is growing more favorable ovory
day. ? r>
In Chicago, 111., a now bullet proof
cloth is to do tested, aud in response to
an advertisement a large 5 number of
men and women have offered them
selves as targets. Home say they don't
care whether they are killea or not, as
they cannot get work.
-'JflllccUpn^uttir^?' -
The annual session of the World's
Lodge of Knights Templar, has select
ed Toronto, for the meeting of 1808.
On the 16th severe earthquakes Were
felt inrMexfoo,
AtVTiguiz*, * Cuban town Qf 8.000 Ja.
habitants, "17F died of^hunger and dee
titution last month.
The decree of LL. D. has been con
ferred upoft ex-President Cleveland by
tfcjs Princeton (N. J. ) University.
' Kranoe has resumed diplomatic re
lation* with -Venezuela and the apology
of' that republic for the incident
which led to the mpiare has been ac
mpUi. 0
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I OHWATKO C0MMICNT.
I'Ho ICuoo Question ,1b tho Charleston
J Out ton ^Itll.
[ A special to tho Uogistoy from Chnrloa 1
1 itonof tho utth, eaya tho troublo iu tho j
Charleston cotton wills has broken out '
tfresh. A largo number of handbills >
bayb boon distributed 011 tho streets, |
| y/iich contained an address to tho pub- ,
plio and was signed "Many Operatives. '*
rhe address in very longthy and cots !
forth the grievances of tho white oper
atives, and protests against tho employ
ment of negroes in the mills. "Soiue
(that is, whito operatives,) have applied
And boon refused employment-, " tho
add resB -ways, "bocauso their complex
ion clearly indicated they were not
tinged with nogro blcod." The address
oouoludos with these words:
".But, as u herditary right, we claim
for our raco the first prints of tho land,
and aro determined to oppose nil for
eign flsooialists or Soutliotfn apostates
who attempt to deprive us of them. We
affirm, by all our physical powers and
brave hearts, not to sit. supinoly by and
witness the nogro hordo turned loose
upon tho pursuits of our mothers, our
wivos, our widows, our daugluers, our
Bisters, and yob them of their Having.''
Tho paper has boon widoly circulated
and has created somo comment.
TUil<ll> OK TWITTING.
Senator Melmurln Strikes on Both
Sides ol' the Party.
Smarting under tho constant twitting
and prodding of Senators Jones and
Mills, Senator MeLauiin vigorously
resented on the 17th in the United
States Senate tho imputation that he is
a protectionist and that in advocating
a dutv 011 raw material he has aban
doneil the J)emocratic party. With
effective vehemence, he defiantly chal
lenged tho statement of Senators Vest
and Mills that free raw material is a
tenet of tho Democratic party. It is
(HovolandWnn, ho said, but. not ortho
dox Democracy. H originated with
A brain S. Hewitt, of New York, and
was rospoftiblo for tho disastrous policy
afterwards of Cleveland's administra
tion. Tho advocacy of that doctrine
today is in defiance of tho Chicago
platform of 1800, I10 said, and its ad
vocatoB are unsafe leaders.
Tho South demanded equality in tho
?burdens and bonefits of tariff taxation,
and tlio solid South, based 011 thirt
vital and just principle of solf-preser
gation, I10 said, would soon become tho
Meat industrial empire of \he world.
The pending bill ho denounced as vie
iously sectional in its flagrant discrim
inations against the South.
HAMPTON VISITS RPIjAUIUN.
Tho General Went to Thank Hlin for
tho Stand He Took lit Ills Boliulf.
A Washington dispatch of the 10th?
says: liero is tho story of a visit of
interest equally to tho friends of n
famous Georgia Confederate general
and thoso of a famous South Carolina
Confederate general;
This morning General "Wade Hamp
ton went to the oapitol and" called on
Senator MoLauriu. General Hampton
and tho now Senator had not spokon
iu somo years, but tho Gen
eral called to thank McLaurin for his
visit with otkor South Carolinians to
the White House in his behalf.
The two lunched togother in tho Son
ate restaurant and the ol(\i ox-Senator,
who was so popular as a member of that
bod& was givep a right royal welcome
by lifs former associates. .
Then he and SonatorMoLaurincallod
on Secretary Bliss and the Secretary
confirmed tho plan suggested by tho
President the other day which was that
Goneral Hampton need fear no' alarm
about his hold on the oorrvmissionorship
of railroads, certainly not until ho re
turns from tho .trip he is preparing.
Tho Georgia end of the story is that
General IjongHtreot will remain nt
Gainesville.- in tho meantime tho salary
of tho office feeing to his old comrade in
arms. Georgia Hopublicans hero aro
not at all pleased ut the turn tho case
has taken.
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THOIt.NWUIiL OKI'HANAUK.
f-A,? tir<Vf?t Charity's Commencement
KxorclneH.
The announcement of the commonoo^
mont exorcises of tho Thorn well ?Som
? inary for Orphans, ?which aro to t?ke
|gjletf6~ at Clinton beginning Sunday./
Juno 2?th, has boon issued and promiA
soh an interesting weok for tho pupilcr
and friends of orphanage. Tho exer
cises begin with tho baccaluurcato ser
mon and end with tho exhibition by
tho orphan ? ?? is shown by tho pro
gramme:
Hunday, June 27, 11 a. in. ? Macca
Umreato sormon.
Monday, Juno 28th, 8:30 p. m.? Ex
orcises of Euphradian Hooiety.
Tuesday, 11a. in.? Training college
commencement; Op. in. animal meet
ing of tho board of visitor*; 8:00
p. m.~, commencement of orphans' sem
inary.
Wednesday 11 a. m. ? Mooting . of
alutnnij &:B0p. m. tho orphans' oxnibi
,tion.
if The following yougg ladios compose
the graduating class this year: Miss
Hattie Bishop, Miss Elizabeth Hack
ney, Miss Hester Cannon, Miss Lidie
Ferguson and Ml? JLtuth Mansion. ^
Vurntaa's Board of TrniUei Bar Out
door SporlaatGra^ytile.
-? The trustees ofFurman Unirersity
hare put a stop to the student* engag
ing in intereollegiat* athletic oonte^te.
A resolution forbidding participation
has been passed almost unanimous j.
Wrman ka? always been a lMWUft
*-U4(ee in this fttaW U* many
in seocear focr held the fdotbaft.
In a game at Green Till* with Clsaso*
: ^ ef the
IMIMiOVKMKXT OONTINUKS,
I
Morn (CstubllahmeutH lluvo Itoou Mel i
at Work and Muro Hands Km- i
ployed.
R, G, Dun & Co'ti weekly review of j
trade mivp in part:
"The retarding influonco of oold ft ml
iinacAionablo weather has passed. Tho
gain in business in spite of it, which
was seen a week ago, has bocomocloarer
to All, as no genuine Imprpv.cmont over
logins with an uplifting of priees boforo
the produoiug force has beoomo fairly
employod, And tho buying of 7,000
bales Australian wool l>y one Iloston
houso and 100,000 tone pitf iron by a
Wall shoot operator and advancing
prices for stocks in only proof that tho
actual conditions are uiuleratood by
aoino capable mon.
"Thoro ia evidence of gradually en
larging business in every important de
partment. More establishments have
boon not at work and more hands em
ployed, and while prudeneo at ill hin
ders Hpooulativo excises, the progress
toward bottov things is unchecked.
"lleports from the various oitios this
week show a very general progress and
a continued hlr^o distribution through
retail trade. '1 lie proof ia clearer, aH it
should be, in the industrial than in the
trading Held. Contracts providing for
the oonsumption of aevcral million tons
of iron oro have already boon made, two
million within tho past fomight, it ia
bcliovod, though last year's contracts
only terminated about two months ago.
''In tho produce markots tho year
draws toward a close, with slightly
stronger prices for corn, owing to
heavy foreign buying, and in cotton
owing to a bettor foreign domaud, not
withstanding the encouraging crop re
ports. Nobody can oount bales in
.June, but tho outlook is so far favora
ble that few mako largo vonturea
against tho yield exceeding t),000,Ui)0
bales.
''Wheat waa hoisted nearly 2o. , but
fell about as much, closing at ^o. higher
for the weok, in spito of reduced
wostorn rccoipts and Atlantlo oxports.
.For tho two wocks of duno, Atlantic
oxports of wheat and flour havo been
equal to 4,977,053 bushels, against (?, -
210.W28 l?ist yoar. ^
"Failures for tho weok havo boon 15)8
in tho Urptod States, against 270 last
yoar, and 110 in Canada,, against SO last
year. "
OUR COMMKIICB WITH CUBA.
How It Has ISoou Kflectml by tho War
In That Island.
A signiflcent report or our trade
with Cuba from IQ87 to 181)7, prepared
by Chief Ilitohcock, of the foreign mar
kets soction of tho agricultural depart*
mout, haa boou promulgated by Secre
tary of Agrioulture Wilson. The statis
tics show vory clearly the effeot of pros
eut hostilities in Cuba upon tho com
mercial intercourse of tho United Statos
with thnjjt island.
During the last fiscal year, 1890, tho to
tal value of ourCuban trado amounted to
only 817,648.010, as compared with
$102,80-1,204 in 1898, tho year preoeding
the broaking out of tho war. This was
a falling off of more than 50 percent,
in throe years. Returns already avail
able for tho curront fisoal yoar, indicate
a still further docline, the records for
the nine months, ending March HI,
1897, placing tho total value of Iho
trade for that period as low as $M,92H,
847. At this rate the figures for tho
fiscal year 1897 Will hardly roach #20,
000,000, or leBB.than one-fifth tho value
reoarded'for 1898.
During th^ eafly yoars of tho proa
ent decaae our Cuban trade had recoiv
od a matorial impetus, tho years 1887
1898 inolu?ivo showing uninterrupted
gains and but for the oi>ening of tho
war a still greater expansion, it is pre
dicted, probably would hiw^e followed.
As it is, howover, commercial inter
change bntwoen tho United States and
Cuba has boou vory largely abridged.
ITS CHARTER NOT IN DANtiKK,
Judge Christian M?ke? a Statement
About t/io Joftorsoii Oavls Monu
ment Association.
Concerning ? tho quostion raisod
as to whether the Jefferson Davis
Monument Association has "lived up
to" tho torms of its charter, and has
,npw any legal existence, ex-Judge
UcorgirJu. Christian a loading lawyer
of Richmond, Va., and for a long timo
prosident of the Richmond chamber of
commerce, writes. to ono of tho evening
papers as follows:
"f am one of the corporators alid di
rectors named - in tho charter and feel
tho deepest interest in the accomplish- <
mont of the purpose for which the as
sociation was organized. There is no
such provision in it about an jumual
mooting, and tho election, of officers, as
stated m vour payor. JThe association
has hold frequent meetings every year,
sinco it was organivjfed, and I believe
that all of its proceedings have been as
| legal and as regular}^ conducted as
thoso of auy corporation of a similar
i character ever chartered under the
laws of this, or any other State.
"Respectfully, ?
- "Oho. L. Christian.'*
(pec ret Mpetlng of Cotton Seed- OH
Men,
At Chattanooga Tenn. ,a..secraiirfeet
ing of cotton seed oi! men ' has just
been held at Lookout Inn, the pro*
cee4it}? ?f attending mom
berp nafe Reclined to give ont.
Enough has been learned, however, to
?UU Uut the question of prioee and.
production was oodfidered and that a
a nasi trmst was discussed, Whether
i waa formed or not ia not definitely
known.
*3*e M
Jmdgm Simon ten of the United States
clrenit Court, has re-afjhmed hie de*
erf* in Urease Of IfetJTini arsVLoao
Ratfrcid Compear, eiiM. Thia decis
WORK OF THE CYCLONE;
Heavy Damage Throughout Illinois
ami Other Places,
BAPTIST CRUNCH BLOWN DOWN
Soari'Miitf |\?r Uiq Dcnil ami Wounded
--('olttiROH It low n Down and Oroat
Ilavoo <>cucratty.
Hoturnn received from both tho North
and Westorn portions of Indiana indi
cate that last Thursday's storm, which
did not cease until Friday morning, did
much damage. A telegram from Grow
Castle says that reports from tho coun
try show that largo quantities of valu"
ahle timhor has boon destroyed, huge
t vo os being twisted oil* at their roots,
farm fencing and stock HUlVorod so
vcroly aud two largo barns, valued at
$1,000 each, woro doRtroyod by light-,
niug, (>no at llHnibrick's station, con
taining Bouio valuahlo live stock, was
destroyed. At llochostor, Hrownahurg
and \\ abash tho doinago was heavy to
farm i>r?.?i ?ei t v.
A special iroiu Durham, N. C. , <>!
tho IMtli to the Charlotte Observer,
nays: About 0 o'clock this afternoon j
Durham was visited by a terrifllo rain,
hail and thuiulcr storm and at tho saino
time a oyolono passed over west Dur
ham, doing great damago. Tho Hap
list Church was blown down an'l every
thing in tho building demolished,
except tho organ. It in a total loss,
thoro being ho insurance.
The storage warehouse of the Krwin
Cotton Mill was olso blown down and
the loss will roach no into the thous
ands of dollars. When asked what tho
loss Would bo tonight, tho president
of the mills said it was impossible to
toll vet, but he said lio was fully cov
ered" by tornado insurance and would
loose nothing. The warehouso was a
two-story structure, about 100 foot
long, and w<^ packed with fine oloths,
and the rain which fell In torrents as
tho cyclone passed, wet all the goods.
It is said there was between $75,000
and $100,000 worth of goods in tho
building at the time it was blowd down.
At Trinity College both the snioko
stacks at tho lighthouse were blown
down. Windows wore blown i ut and
numbers of gimmes broken by tho hail.
Several. trees in the lawn were broken
and torn down. The damage to proper
ty is considerable. One dwelling house
was unroofed and two ehimnoys blown
down, near Trinity College, while the
family was inside. No one was hurt.
The chimneys of small houses were
blown down in difl'oront parts of the
city, but so far no ono has boon ro
portod killod.
Telephone, telegraph and oloctrio
light wires are down all over the west
ern part of tho oily and botweon hero
and West. Durham, two miles distant.
A largdLpJutc glass window in tho
Morohentt Hank was broken. Tho loss
is about .f^iOO.
The cyctano cnino fro.n tho north
west and wojjtjc#olrtt?east. Nothing has
been hcurd from tho country.
On Thursday, tho 17th, Charlotte,
Salisbury, High Point, Marshall aud
othpV points, in North (Carolina, woro
visited by a fioreo tornado.
At Salisbury a nogro woman was
killed by lightning and many troOR and
buildings woro damaged.' At Mar
shall a furnituro factory was blown
down. , ? I
Paris,- Juno I*. (By.. Cable). A cy
clone swept over tho villages of He
zoiioh and Colonibos, noar this city,
Mb in afternoon. Houses collapsod, trees
were torn up, {olograph wires broken,
several people' injured and much gon
oral damage douo.
At tho time too cyclouo . struck A$
nieresc, a fair was iii progress. In tlif
diatnuco tho cyclone presentei^the v^P
Jtonranco of a cloud of smtfKe. JLyoofs
wore soon flying in the arr jniidrkitos.
A\May polo, 1/50 yards loi\'g, was car
rieitovor tho houses contiguous to tne
fairgrounds, Ambulances and forty
carrifl^os arja-How searching for tho
dottd a fid nd od.
Madrid June IH. - (By Cable. ) Yio- I
lent hail and rain storms have swept
the Provineo of Savogia in tho old |
Castile district. Crops have boon
ruined, houses have been flooded
and cattle and goods have been carried
away by floods. Tho people aro paiyo"
stricken.
Til ft TAKIKI'1 ON TOIl ACJC'O.
A Compromise lla(o of .$1.7/* Asreed
Upon hy the Republican Members
of the Finance Committee.
Tho controversy over tli^ rate of duty
on wrapper tobacco, which has been in
progress ovor flinco the tarifl bill was
takon up in tho Senate, has been settled
so far as tho Hepublicau metiibera of
the finance committee could settlo it,
tiioy agrooing upon tho rate of $1.7.1
por "pound. This is a compromise rato.
The growers of wrappor loaf wanted n
rate of; $0, while the manufacturer#
asked that tho rate should not exceed
81.00. The committee has held mauy
meetings to consider the question, as
both shUh were vory peu^stent in thoir
claims, " V __
A PmoborCooifeMei.
Waehington Craft, tho Primitive Hap
list minister, on trial in the INoyd Cir
cuit Court. for the. murder ol l^mdeH
Higgtns, fifteen yews ago, wm placed
on the witnteaa stand. He denied kill
ing lliggina. claiming be waa forty
miiea away when the deed waa commit
ted.- On oiroaa examination. Craft broke
dow.n and admitted kiUinAhia ancle,
Wiley Craft and Wra.tffCBk. fifteen
year* ago. Craft ^haa been ana
pected of killing men.
Killed I ler" B roth rr
and kilHn^ h
KIKTY-KIITIl ( IttQHH, I
Koport of tho I'nu't^cdlnxH IVoiii Out ?
to Day.
HF.NATR
JUNK lOrit. Tito Senate did rapid
work on tho tnrilY hill. There wore no
long spooohos, mid tho dobato was of u
snappy character, Thirteen pages wore
disposed i?f, carrying lint Soimtu
through tho agricultural schedule and
up to achodulo II, rolutiuu to spirita,
wines, etc. Tho paragraph* on tlairv
products, farm product, lisii,
fruit ami nutH, moat products and
miscellaneous agricultural products,
wore acted on. Tho finance com
mittoo propoHod many changes in
tho main advancing rotes *omowhat
ovor those, heretofore roporlod. Tho
oommittoo was sustained on ovory volo,
although a eon t oat watt made on almost,
ovory paragraph. Voat's motion to ro
atoro aalt to tho free list. was rojoolod ;
yoaa 21, nay a 2 I, ? Tho important para
graph proposing a tax on toa wont ovor
at tho suggoation of Alliaon. Tho flrat
contest was ovoroondensed milk, Jones
movod to make tho rato 20 por cent. ad
valorom, whioh waa lost. Vest movod
to put cabbage on tho free liat. f.oat,
>1 1'Ni; 1?th. ? 'I ho Senate mado greater
progress on tho turilV hill than in any
.rniy since tho dobato oponod. Two en
tire aehod u I oh, covering twenty pages,
wo^o completed, namoly. schedule II,
on apiritH, winos and * bovorngeB ami
aohodiilo i, on manufactured cotton
goods. Thia brings tho aonato to tho
(lax aohodiilo, with tho important wool
achodulo standing next. MoLnurin of
j South Carolina ronowod attention to
tho division among Homooratio Soii
atora on certain duties, including cot
ton, and defended hia courao aa
in lino with f)omocratio prinoi
,U1(' . ,*'i0 Chicago platform.
1 illmau, ol .South Carolina, said ho waa
ono of tho DomociHtB voting for a duly
on raw cotton, llo avowed that, ho
wanted tho hill loaded aa hoavily as
possible, ao as* to diagust tho people
and make them "tuVn you out." If hia
Domorotio as^ociatoa could got any
consolation by twitting him for voting
for hia sootio.i in tliia "general game of
grub, " well and good. Ah to tho Re
publican senators ho warnod them that
no tarift bill would bring proapority
which gave componaatory duties to tho
maiMi facturora out of tho pockets of tho
pc<Jplo.
J un u 18th. ? The tarift bill camo to a
halt in tho Son at o, loaa than ono j>ago
of tho llax aohodulo being diaposod of.
1 ho debate driflod into political' ohan
uela, Sonatora lhicoii, Yoot, Jonoa, of
Arkansas, and Tillman taking parkin
an exposition of .l>omocrntio doctrine ton
tho tarift'. It lud to several livoly ex
changes during which fho washing of
political "dirty linon" waa froqiiontly
roforrod to.
.Junk IUtm.-- In tho Sen a to tho flax
Hchodulo of t)ie tariff bill waB takon up,
tho j>endlng question being on Senator
Allison's motion to inoreaao tho rato on
thread, twine, oto. , mado of flax, hemp
or ramie. Sonator Vest, of Missouri,
and Sonator Jonos, of Arkansas, con
toatod the propound change, arguing
that, tho rates wero oxoeaHive. Senator
A lliton's amondmant was agreed to?
21) to 10, Senator MoEnery voting with
tho Republicans. Senator Allison
moved to incrouao tho rates on yarns,
making tlio rate 7 centa infltead of 0
cents a pound on single yarns In tho
gray, not flnor than eight lea.
After arguments by Sonators Oray,
Sowall and others, the amendment)*
were agreed to without division. Tho
oommliteo ainondmenta to t?x uill net
ting wero agroed to.* Floor matting
was plaood on tho free list. Tho two
paragraphs in regard 10 burlaps and
cloth for cotton bagging was carriod 23 1
to 28. i'ho oftoot of tlie v6to is to loave
thoflo articles on tho free list.
Junk 2i HT, The Senate inado giant
strides on tho tariff bill, covoring flfty
aix pages, and establishing a rocord for
progross during this tarift' debate, Tho
Inst two schedules of tho dutinblo list,
covering paper and manufactured sun
dries, wore oomploUd, with tho excep
tion of tho paragraphs on hidos, gloves,
coal and soino lesser articles. Early in
the day the wool and silk schedules wont
over, with an agreement that wool
wo^ld ho takon up on the 22d. Tho to
baceo schedule, 'and tho internal reve
nuo portions of the bill, as woll fpmany
isolated paragraphs, panned over, re
main to bo eonsidorod. Tho progresa
I today war, so inarkod, howevor, that
thero is a fooling that tho ond is not far
oft*.
Junk 22ni>, ? In the Souato, after a
rather extended dobato, tho reduction
on tho duty of ftrat-olass wools "waa
agreed to at 10 oents per pound and on
socond-olnsH wo^ls, 1 1 cents, whioh is
botweon the House and Senate rates in
oaoh case. Tho rates on third-class
wool a wont ovor. A joint rosolution
was agreed to appropriating $700,000
for tho immodiato repair of dry dock
No. 8, at tho New York navy yard.
HOUSE.'
Junk 17tii. --The IIoubo waa in boh
aion n;i hour and a half, the tirno boing
tnkflii up with roll chIIh. Mr. Nulz.er,
Domoorftt, of New YorJ<, Hiiccooded in
injecting into tho proceeding!! n brief
, ftpeonh in favor of Culm, in which ho
denouncod Woylor oh a thiof and inur
deror. The bill for tho relief of rosi
dontB'of (Iroor county, Oklahoma, wah
panned after the approval of. tho joumuLJ
which was uoi accomplished -yithourlN
contest. . ? . . 1
?T unb 21?t. -Tho Houso wall* in Ses
sion only a short time. During the
session a Mil wAs adopted to appropri
ate flOO^Owf or the ren?ir of dry dock
No. 8, . at the New. Yorknavy yard
Latimer (Deni. ), of South - Carolina,
meked qpauimous consent to hayff~CoA
aJdered a bill declaring * State capable
of entirely controlling tho liquor
trafRc, but thf? ?h objected toby
Stone ( Hep, )[ot Pennsylvania, and the
House adjoured without action on the
Nil. _ ;
BAT UP* AT HBR OWN VUNKBAL.
Coffin'* OecM?**t C?*W fo I4ife *?4 j
' Frtghtm Mowracra.
Miaa ClarU#a Pur king had a narrow
eiaqU from being MfM tlir#
port New*, Va. Tha young wom^ had
been ill with mi ailweat Ilk#
whw* fcOM tU thfdcitn*
President McKinloy's Mossago to
CongYcss Regarding tliq. Treaty.
IT WILL NOT BE A CHANGE,
Ho Rnj'g, Tlui h OonHummatlon? it?
Aooompli.shmont Huh Deon Merely
i a Quotation of TImo,
Tho President sont bin message to
(.'engross oh tho 17th, regarding tho
treaty. It in as follows :
' ' l*'or tho hottor understanding of tho
subjoot, 1 transmit, in addition, ft re
port of tho Secretary t > f State, briotly
roviow ing tho negotiation which haslod
to I his important result.
"_lu incorporation of tho Hawaiian
in!i ruls into tho body politioof tho Uni
te' Statos, is tho necessary and fitting
NO<iii?l to tho ohaugo of ovonts which
from ft very Oftrly period of onr history
has i controlled tho intercourse and pro
scribed tho assooiution of tho United
StatOH nud the Hawaiian Inlands.
'1 ho predominance of American in
terests in that. neighboring territory
was first assorted in 1820, by Heading
to tho islands a representative agent of
tho United States, it found further
exproBsion by tho signatuvo of u
treaty of friendship, oommorco and
navigation with Iho King in I82H, tho
first international compact negotiated
by Hawaii. It was signally nnnonnend
in 1818, When the intervention of tho
Unitod States caused the Hritish gov
ernment to disavow tho seizure of tho
.Sandwich Islands by a British naval
commander, and to rooognizo them by
treaty, ns an indopon<ient State, re
nouncing forovor any purpoHo of annex'
ing the inlands, or asserting a prole**
torato for them. In 1851 tho cossion of
the Hawaiian kingdom to tho Unite<)
States whs formally oll'crod, and, air
though not then accepted, (bin govorp*
mont proclaimed i t ? duty to presorvo
alike tlio lionet and dignity of tho Unit
ed Stales, and tho safety of tho govern
ment of tho Hawaiian Islands. From
thiw time until tho outbreak of the war
in lMiil, tho policy of tho United States
towiuds Hawaii, and of tlio Hawaiian
sovereignty towards tho Unitod .States,
was oxOihPlufied by continued negolUfe
turns for annexation, or for a rosoryeu
eo;nmorcinl union. Tho latter altoVuft
live .was at length accomplished by tho
reciprocity treaty of 187o, tho provis
ions of which wore renewed and ox
pandod by tho convention of 18JJ4,
embracing the ?peV tiyTf* to tho
United Stales of ttio ifurbor oP .Pearl
rivo'r, in Die island of Oaliu. ' in 1888 a
proposal for the joint guaranty of tho
neutrality of tho Hawaiian Islands by
the United States, Oormauy nud Groat
Britain, was doclined on tho announced
ground that the relation of the Unitod
States to the islands was. suftlcleilt for
the ond in .view. In brief, from 1820 to
1HU8, tho course of the United States
toward* the Hawaiian Islands has con
sistently favored their autonomous
welfare with tho oxolusionof all foreign
influences save our o\Vn, to the extent
of upholding eventual annexation as
tho necessary outcome of that polioy.
"Not only is the union of the Ha
waiian territory to the United States
new Bchcmo, but it is the inevitable '
ooh/?o<|Uouco of tho relations justly
mniutninod with that mid -Pacific do
main for three-quarters of a century.
I ts nocomplishmont; despito" BUCCOSftivo
denials and postponements, has been
merely a question of time. While it?
failui o in t?t)iJ may not be * cause of
congratulation, it is certainly a 'proof
of tho disintorostednoss of the United
Statofb Tho dolay of four years has
abundantly sjifficod to establish tho
right and ability of tho republic of Ha
waii to outer, as a sovereign contract
ant, on a conventional union, with the
United States, thus realising; a purpose
held bj' the Hawaiian people and pro
claimed by succesBivo Hawaiian gov
ernments through some twenty suo
ccflsive years of this virtual dopendenco
upon the bsnevolent protection of tho
United States. Under these circum
stances, annexation is not a change; it
i? a consummation. ^
"The report of tho Seorotar^odf State
exhibits the obaractor and course" of
tho recent negotiations, and the feh*
tures of the troaty itself. Tho organic^
and administrative details of incorpor
ation, are noce'BHarily left to the wisdom'
of Congress, aud f cannot doubt, whon
tho function of 4he constitution treaty
making power shall have 'been accom
plished, the duty of the national Legis
lature in the qase will bo performed,
with the larg^t regard for the interests
of tho rich insular domain, and for the
inhabitants thereof.
fSigned. J Mm, MoKiklr?.
Kxocutive Mansion, Washington- 1>. 0.t
?;uue HI, IJ5U7..".-.
PINKCSSOIIN MAKES A BONI)
'0
Test Case on Orlgliml PsolMgci.ll
r._. Being
Tinkussohn, *Ko was arrested
| in .Charleston for aiming liquor in the
original unbroken package, has been
bound over to ihe court of general see
>ne for vlol/fting the dispensary lair
A maintaining a common nuisance.
ia boad wat fixed at *000.
lirenll Jtjdgo Beanei iMtfed ?r#-'
? agalnit~FtgfcTxi?elur
? _ ? fmg eoa tin
_ M State Ir toiaalra ihJaa 4^*4
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