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v.'. ■ ■ ■ ■ +* ' r T \ \ VOL. XVIII. WORK OF THE LAST DAY, THE WIND-UP SESSION OF THE GEN ERAL ASSEMBLY. \ ■ m ■ f The Honte Dackn Down from ita Position \ BARNWELL, S- C.. THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1895.': NO. 17. Vavorlag Five Dollars Per Da;-The Sen ate Has its Way Also About the Appro- l' ■ ‘ ^ prlation Bill, : Columbia, 8. C.. Dec. J5.—AY1:40 o'clock yesterday afternoon the Gen eral Asuifcpnbly of South Carolina end ed ite session of 1894, both Houses ad journing simultaneously a few min utes alter Governor Evans had signed the general appropriation bill, and had opfened the bodies of his action. 'AibouttwentY members of the House and about half a dozen Senators were in their respective halls when the mo tions to adjourn were made and car ried. One by one the members had left the halls to take trains for their homes. In the House., for instarfee. Only thirteen coupties were represent ed at the wind up. Five of these had only one member holding out to the last. With the adjournment went into history a session noted more for its heavy, hard and fast work than for anything else. As far as legislation > is concerned, except for five or six L acres of being as large in area as the State of Rhode Island. THE HOUSEIsBAUKS DOWN. The House took back water on all the appropriation bills, but not until the members were satisfied that the Senate was right from a legal point of view. It was about 3:30 o’clock in the morning when the Committee on Free Conference on the question of the per diem of the members reported to the House recommending that it agree to the Senate amendments to trmvbill-. These amendments, it will be remem bered, put the per diem of the mem bers at |4 per day, while the House was in favor of $5. The House con ferees obtained an opinion from At torney General Barber on the question of the salary reduction Act of 1893. Mr. Barber construed the Act as going into effect, as to members, officers and employees,, at this session, or as having -iftto-effect the first of this year, 'e stated* however, that the Aoi as to State officers does not go into effect until the 1st of January, 1895. The House conferees came to the conclusion that, the law was against them, although equity' was on their ride. They, therefore, agreed to the report that the House recede from its Mr. Mitchell walked out of the hall a few minutes later and while he was absent the resolution was passed. It was sent to the Senate and passed by that body. So the next ball of the club will be held in the hall of the Hewo. - . -- The only member of the House who has received any applause from the floor this session is Mr. Floyd of Ker shaw. * He made a strong speech on the metropolitan police bill and was applauded by his fellow members. When interested on a subject Mr. loyd makes a ringing “speech. He uses good language, is graceful in his gestures, although orib-armed, and has a splendid voice. He is a promising member of the lower body. Shortly before adjournment the House resolved itself into Committee of the whole, Mr. Garris being request ed to take the chair. Mr. Bacot made the following speech and offered the accompanying resolutions. Mr. (Chairman and Buist and Barnwell, particularly the latter, were much opposed to the nom inees sent in by the Governor, partic- ularly to his refusal to nominate Jus- i The report was adopted by a vote of tice Burnet, who has held his position , 13 to 7, as follows ever since 76. and who has the esteem of the entireCliarleston Bar. The talk was simply wasted breath for the ap pointments went through with a rush. When Richland was struck the re sult was somewhat different. The first appointment for this county opened a fignt. Senator Sloan did not want the Yeas—Barton, Brice, Douglass, Du- Bose, Efird, Fuller, Harrison, Jordan, Mavfield, HicDaniel, Ragin, Wmwnw am! Wilson. —Nay--Harwell, Bulat. Kirhland, Miller, Moses, Mower and Verdiar. So the Dispensary bill stands and will become a law as soon as it receives appointment of Dr. Hopkins as Conn- the Governor’s signature, ty Auditor confirmed, and talked out The bill reducing the Sheriff's fees in mwtfng.^m'Rhffh«t A wbrdtdr^ ffl counties for dieting prison- about Dr. Hopkins personally, nor ers from 30 cents per diem to 13 cents could he have, made any objection on was put in the cola, cold soup. Some that score for Dr, Hopkins is as clever. differences between two houses as to gentleman as there is in Richland that Wll were submitted to a’committee County. Senator Sloan fought theap- j of free conference, which reported that pointment on another line entirely, j certain other counties be included, lie held that the appointment ought Representatives of those counties, par- not to be confirmed oecause the place ticularly Charleston, kicked vigorous- in his opinion belonged to Mr. Smner, who was nominated for it in the Dem- hills, the Assembly has nothing to its record to attract particular attention. The three most prominent of these measures are: -TtiB Constitutional Convention, the Metropolitan Police and the Dispensary Law. The last three measures enrolled and ratified were the supply hill, general appropriation bill and Dispensary bill. The enrolling of these bills prevented adjpurment at noon, the liour fixed. IThe Dtspensary did uot gef aTI Ihel finishing touches on it.untu nearly 12 O'clock, and the same was' the .case with the other two bills, jt was after noon when the enrolling department got possession of them. The House adopted the report with- rrut n, speech or a voice agsrinst it, and so members were paid $4 a day. OTHER APPROPRIATIONS. The Housje did not so readily agree to the report of the free conference committaLpn the general appropria tion bill, but finally came to time. The chief differences between House and Senate on this bill were as to the’ appropriations for the educational in stitutions. The House was in favor of f iving tl 21,000; Clemson, $15,‘000, and the Citadel, $15,000. The Senate raised these to $25,000. $35,0Q0 and $18,000 respectively. The House refused to GentlemeTrr^-ocratic primary which was held prior tions eoutrties Before offering, resolutions appreciat- to the bolt which carried Columbia for The report of ive of our various officers, permit me to say a word t6 the members of the House of Repnepeutatives collectively aud individually. “The carol of the Christmas-tide is qpw ringing in our ears, ‘Peace on earth good will towards men,’ as we are about to hie us to our several homes. Tr nr It was a sleepy and weary lot of leg islators whRh meandered down to Senate and House halls before three o'clock yesterday morning to be pres ent at the last day’s session of the General Assembly. There was a hag gard look on the faces of some of the members, while others looked fresh and bright. The present session has been a hard one and it is not to lie wondered that the physical capabili ties of the more hard-worked law makers have given way under the strain. The faithful Representative or Senator who is at his postal all night and day sessions deserves credit. It is not that the work itself is so severe, but it is the monotony that is wearing and tiresome. The legislator who thinks more of himself than of his constituents can always keep fresh by going to his boarding house or hotel early at night and leave others to re main until his body adjourns. I do not know’ that a longer session of the legislature would prevent the rush of business which now character izes the last days tff the seasions W this State, but I do not think twenty- six or twenty-eight days sufficient time in which to make wise and safe laws. Nearly every new law on the Statute books of South Carolina has been put there after consideration of but a few days. All the most import- ahflaws oTreceitt years have been put through the two bodies in the rush and confusion of the last days of the session*, when errors and mistakes were liable to creep in despite the care and watchfulness of the shrewdest members and officers. The Legisla ture ought not to be limited as it is. It ought to be allowed at least thirty- five davs so that it can finish its w.-ork agree to the increases, and a free con ference committee had to be appoint ed. On the part of the House the con ferees were Messrs. Gary, Garris and Crum. The committee worked hard Satur- daynight and early yesterday morn ing, but was unable to reach a unani mous conclusion. The Senators in formed the House men that they would not budge, and that - if the House did not give in it would necessi tate an extra session. At last Mr. Garris, of the House side, went over to the Senators, making a majority of the committee. This majority recom mended that the House recede from its position, the Senate refusing to cut anything except the appropriation for Clemson College, which was put at $25,000. When the committee reported to the House Mr. Garris said tnat he liad signed the report after finding that unless the House agreed to,the Senate amendments an extra session of th£ Legislature would be necessary. The extra session, he said, would cost more money than the increases made by the Senate in the appropriations. It was a business like-talk which Mr. Garris made. Mr. Crum said that while he had refused to sign the report he also thought that the trouble would not warrant an extra session. After considerable talk the House mhiptftd thp nf thft rommitto* »ys decently and in order. THEY GOT FROLieSOME. Freni .3 o'clock in the morning until 1:40 o'clock, when adjbtirnment was taken, the House was serious and frolicsome by turns. No business is done in the last hours, except to settle differences lietwoen the two bodies over bills; to send these to the enroll- 'ing department, and later to ratify them. Recesses were frequently,taken and the intervals are spent in holding mock sessions! Several mock sessions were held be fore daylight yesterday, Mr. Connor, of Orangeburg, presiding. He is pos sessed of a .barrel of humor, •'and the mock dignity with which he presides deceives' members and officers who happen to walk in after an absence and find him in the chair. With a great deal of gravity the House'yesterday passed .various reso lutions of a witty nature, among theiy the following: . »•.-. “Resolved, That members be re quested to keep off the grass unless ttjeir feet are clean.” Mr. Connor referred this fo the Ju diciary Committee,” About 5 o'clock, when the members were sleepy and thirsty, and Mr. Con nor was presiding, a resolution was passed requiring dispensaries to open immediately for the convenience of members. A resolution was also phased abol ishing the Senate for it* tardiness. Speaker Jones never takes part in these divarications from the dignified customs of the lower body,and is gen erally absent from the hall when the frolics are in progress. jj Wyche, of. Newberry, is one of the leaders in the mock session frolics. THE PRESS COMPLIMENTED. Mr. Garris, of Colleton, yesterday offered, and the House adopted, the following-resolution: J “Resolved, That the House wishes to express its appreciation of the cour tesy and gentlemanly demeanor of the representatives of the press—Messrs. Kohn, Price and Watson—who have been untiring in their efforts to serve members and officers. , Resolved, That we also appreciate the fairness and impartiality of the reports of these gentlemen.” Mr. Garris is one of the youngest members of the House, ana &t the same time one of the most efficient. Colleton County lacks only a few r\ » by a vote of 50 to 29, as follows: Yeas—Speaker Jones, Adams, Bacot, Breazeale, Carroll, Coopt'r, Crum, W. C. Davis, Devereux. Dothage, Duncan, Elder, Floyd, Gadsden, Garris, Gary, Gaston, Gregory, Harper, Haselden, Hiott, Hollins, Kennedy, Kinard, Kirk, Demmon, Love, Magill, Mehr- tens, Mellett, J. W. Mitchell. Mc- Keown, Patton, Price, Pyatt, Robert son. A. K. Sanders. Thomas. Todd, Tyler, Walace, Watson Weston, Whitemire, T. S. Williams, John G. Williams, Fred. Williams, Wilson, Wyche and Pickens—50. • Nays—Blackwell, Bowman, Brani- lett, Browni'Fhirns, Caughman. L. S. Connor, Edwards, Finklea, Fowler, Hammett, Hardy, Holloway, Hump hreys. llderton Lancaster, I-ieverett, Moore, McIntosh, Prince, Rowland, Tatum, Thompson, Townsend, Thur mond, Warr, Wrich, Wolf—29. The committee split the differences over the salaries of the health inspect ors at the ports, reducing the pay about half the amounts proposed by the House. The House desired to give only $500 for reprairs to the Executive Mansion, but had to come to time and agree to the Senate appropriation of $1,000. The Senate also had its way as to a nufffber of minor dffereneea For instances the Senate reduced the pay of State officers from $1,933l33^ each a year to $1,900, making even amounts. It also cut off small sums from the salaries of other State em ployees. The House at first refused to accept this, but.did so oh the recom mendation Of the committee. The differences as to the Dispensary bill were settled as indicated in The Register on Sunday, the salary of the State Commissioner being fixed at $2,- 500 a year. A rather funny incident qccured in the .House shortly after noon, when about twenty-five members were lounging around and talking to each other. Mr. Thomas of Rich laud of fered a joint resolution nermittiug the use of the hall of the House for the annual ball of the South Carolina Club. The resolution stipulated that the club would guarantee to secure the State from all Damages. Mr. Mitchell of Lexington objected to the resolution, andsprungthe point of no quorum— -- ■' ■ Mr. Caughman of Edgefield ho the resolution would not pass, objected to it on general principle*, State property, he said, was not for the use of balls. Mr. Cooper of Colleton could see no objections to the passage of the resolu tion. Neithej could Mr. Blackwell of Williamsburg. The latter thought it simply and act of justice. Mr. Mitchell still objected, saying the House should .not be turned into a dancing room. His objection pre vented the passage of the bill then. pijytjng wRh each other^. hiy brethren 'of South Carolinff, let us us cherish and keep fresh in memory all that has been and is a living joy and pride. As tothe dead past may it bury its dead. I heartily wish you, one and all, God-speed and a happy Christmas, and invoke benedletio*. the benediction which cannot be too often repeated: ‘Peace, God of Peace jH'ucc in all our hearts and peace in urHour h runes. T ""~ r ‘ L ~—^— — “Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, I ask your unanimous and. hearty’ i sent to the following resolutions: “Resolved.' That the unfeigned thanks of this House are due and are hereby tendered to the Speaker of the House, Hon. IraB. Jones, for the con- spicuuua ability, efficiency, and, court esy with which he has discharged the important and onerims duties of his high office. “Resolved; further. That this House gratefully appreciates tins services so ably rendered by the honored Clerk of the House, Gen, J. Walter Grav. and a Republican Congressman and Rich land for an independent gubernatorial candidate. A number of the Reform T^enators coincided with this view’ of the case, and, owing to the absence of seveml of the “stalwarts," the appoint ment of Dr. Hopkins went by the board, the confirmation being refused. The effpet upon the situation will lie small, forBY HfrpftlriS'WHl get the pee Iv, and the friends of the bill said they aid not care to include \mder its opera- whieh did- not want it, port of the committee upon the bill was almost unanimously rejected, which kills the bill. ^, Much of the time of the Senate was spent in ratification of Acts, Senators Mayfield, Sloan and Buist were appointed a committee to wait upon the Governor and inform him that the Senate had finished its busi- ne.ss.and was ready to adjourn if he -had—no further communicationa to THE CURRENCY BILL. JuSgm Orlap, of Georgia, U of the Opinion ] it Will Ppm. Washington, D. C. t Dec. 24.—The vote on the currency bill will be tak en one week from New Year da; This has been practically decided upon by the Speaker and the committee on rules. Judge Crisp is still of theopin- ion that the bill will pass. It is rather difficult to judge of the fate of a meas ure by the way congressmen talk as they talk one way and vote another. Uepreaensative Fattoraon^if Mciftphi#. for instance, Who is the most pro nounced supporter of the administra tion on the floor endorses the measure and will vote for it, but in his anxiety fears that it may not pass. Represen tative Ellis, of Kentucky, on the other hand, who voted against the bill in the committee, spoke against it on the floor, and pronounced it vicious in private things that it will probably wedge through the House. Thi* shows what a narrow margin the bill has either for or against it The change of lights on the meas ure, however, and thdJfrew ornate coaches which have beep added to it will help its passage-- ihasmuch as it will give many of those who have \ ON HIS DIGNITY. SPEAKER JONES RESIGNS AND THEN RECONSIDERS IT. sition without regard to the Senate's wishes. Senator Moses of Sumter took a lit tle hand in enliveningtheproceedings ami secured the defeat of four out Of right of the Trial Justices nominated for Sumter County. In each case ho gave more or less plausible reasons why the appointments ought not to be confirmed. The nominees were turn- ed floWTTBffitt lh^n»PHBnTiRgrve-n hyMr, Moses are as follows: J. W. Broadway, nominated to be Trial Justice in Privateer and Manches ter Townships: turned down because Tie did not want the position, Mr. Moses submitting a letter from him to that effect and also endorsing the incum bent. L.D. ..Umuing^numinaJ&d. lobe Trial Justice of Providence and Raft ing Creek Township, and turned down because he lives at the extreme end of his district, some thirty miles from the other end. Daniel Keels, appointed to be Trial Justice of Shiloh and MayesvilleTown- turned down because he lives nrr make to it. After Governor Evans hivd signed the appropriation bills he informed the General Assembly that he had no further messages for it and then the Senate adjourned sine die. THE LATEST BANKING PLANS. Wlx-riUn Gif Committee'* Substitute Dif fer!* From the Carllde Hill. Thir sTiTisTlfute for the ic ppiidni . Spring! mg cu"r ; by Mr. S. W. Vance, Assistant Clerk, and also by Mr.-J. S. Withers, Readytthirteen miles from Mayesville. There T *-» I Ft 11 f'Mrv _ T \: ...... 111.. ^ el — ing Clerk T. C. Hamer, Bill Clerk, and the other officials as well as the pages of the House. “Resolved, further. That these reso lutions be spread upon the journal of the House. ” The resolutions were unanimously passed. On again takuir the chair, Speaker Jones thanked the House for its kindness and esteem. He said that he could truthfully say that he had never presided over a t>etl er House. It had worked hard and intelligehtly.. He then wished the members a. happy Christmas and a prosperous andcon- 4fented future. THE AGONY OVER. It Was 1:10 o clock when merit Hemphill of the Senate appeared in the hall of the I^ouse and solemnly an nounced thatihe Senate had finished its work and was ready to adjourn. Clerk Gray of the House went over to the Senate and performed the same duty on tlie part of the lower body. The two bodies next sent committees to the Governor to ascertain if he had any further communications to make. The Governor answered that he was reading th<3 appropriation bill and wouldTcnow in a, short time whether he would have any communication. Thirty minutes later the Governor signed the appropriation bill and noti fied the Assembly that He had. no fur ther communications. Adjournment was then taken. LIVELY IN THE SENATE. The closing hours of the session in the Senate developed some live'ly and interesting incidents, some of which were wholly unexpected. When the two houses adjourned Saturday night they were in a sort of deadlock over the legislative appropriation, general appropriation and Dispensary bills. During the interregnum, so to speak, these matters were ;uljlisted by com mittees of free conference, whose ac tion js fully set forth in the account of the proceeilingb in the House. The Senate adopted without discussion the reports from the conferences upon the two appropriation bills, which was to be expected, as those Reports practieal- 4y enuorsed the entire stand taken by the Senate. • . *” The Senate spent considerable time in exrimtive session, and there were some lively discussions over a number of the appointments made by Gover nor Evans, several of w’hich were re jected. The Senate only makes public its actiom upon such nominations as it confirms, but the enterprising newspal per man does not let that bother him much; it simply entails a little extra work upon him, and, in the language of a certain little classic poem, hi “gets there all the same.” Tlie execu tive sessions might as well be done away with for all the secrecy that is obtained by their hpldijig. Somehow or other things will leak, and it is fun ny how quickly the aforesaid enter prising newspaper man finds out where such leaks are. The unsophisticated wonder how the reportfers get on to the secrets of the executive sessions 'Well, they will have to continue to wonder, for no newapajier Yuan was ever known to give away the sources of his information as to matters, sup posed to have been conducted on the l dead quiet” When bothered with ? [uestiDns on that score, he simply ooks wise and refers with a knowing smile to the familiar old grape vine, or to the newer kinetopcope, and leaves his interrogator to figure out how from them he obtained tne infor mation about matters too sacred for the public or the press to see condiict- ,ed. But that is too long an introduction upon a matter that required no very great skill to obtain. The Charleston appointments caused a great deal of talk, some rather warm at that, but they stood. Senators is a Dispensary in Mayesville and Mr. Moses urged that for the enforeement of the Dispensary law the Trial Justice for that district ought to live nearer to Mayesville. B. P. Kelly, nominated to be Trial Justice for Wedgefield Township; re jected because of submission to the Senate of a paper of some sort assert ing that every white man in that tow’n- ship except Mr. Kelly and one other wanted the incumbent, J. M. l^loseley, reappointed. - And Senator Verdier was also in it, but to a less extent. He secured the defeat of the confirmation of C. E. Foy, appointed to be Trial J ustice at Grahamville, because of some charge or other that he changed his residence more or less promiscuouly in order to get the aforesaid appointment. Some objection was made to the appointment of II. C. Pojlitzer as Auditor, but he H* Conatmea m Vote of tha ] Vota of Want ofOonfldnM* i Tha HooM Calls Rim BMfc— * . - ' V’*” ] • ‘— ^ —^—;—--aI,.. * • Columbia, 8. C., Dec. 33—Th® night session in the House started off t incident, and there did Mt seem to be the least prospect of any thing occurring beyond such as is nt- ual to the end of a legislative session, such as conference reports, etc., but it is “always the unexpected that tap- and it did happen and m wise. The majority of the House wants a $5 per diem for this season, claiming that the salary reduction mil should not affect them if it did not affect the State officer*. . The Senate and a mi nority of the House favor a $4 per diem, and to adjust the differenoes be tween the two Houses a conference committee whs appointed. On the part of the House Speaker Jones appointed Brea- at ■ir'.Tar -*.v . ST give many or .. , . w -. _ prbnounetd against it an opportunity at the nioromg session Messn. Bre of voting for it. There is Walker of I teaK.TWas and Whitmire, and Massachusettsr,-who has leading’the ?° 881o n this committee reo- rmposilion whrsavs tm m>m^ merits that have added to it bring it] a ^- This repurl did not salt the 1 men and they claimed that it did not reflect the sentiment of the majority got there with both feet, Senator Mower was also modest, secured the defeat pf J. IT He Williams, a,P To le {Minted, to be Trial Justice of No. 6 Wnship. 1 After a little recess for the purpose of seeing how breakfast tasted after four hours’ work before sun-up. the Senate got down to business and stirred up a breeze over the Dipensary Act. When the bill came ofer from the House the Senate Judiciary Committee proposed certain aniendments to it, which were adopted. While there w‘as no denial of the fact that those amendments were adopted, unfortu nately by some accident they were not incorporated.in tike bill, nor was there any record of them in the journal of the Senate. The House objected to some of'the Senate amendments which were incorporated in the bill and a committee of free conference was fin ally needed to'settle these differences. This committee discoven'd that the Senate Judiciary Committee amend ments were not incorporated in the bill, but the House members of the conference committee refused to con sider the amendments that had been omitted, saying that they had no autho rity to do so as their body had not acted upon them. Senator Barn well held that liecaiise frf the fact that the Senate amendments had not been incorporated in the bill, the report ought to be rejected, which woulu have the effect of killing the bill. He mfide a long ,argument in favor of this course, holding that the omitted amendments were of sullicient importance to justify it. One of these amendments killed the section allow ing the Solicitors and Judges to secure ami grant a change of venue before a id jury reported a true bill in a alleged violation of the Dis pensary law. The loss of record of that amendment left that section liv ing. The other amendment was of minor importance. Mr. Barnwell held that retention in the hilTof thfe above section, which the Senate had stricken out on an unanimous report of its Judiciary Committee, was wrong, and that the section itself was in violation of the Constitution, for that instru ment requires the submission of affi davits to secure a change of venue, 'while the section allowed Solicitors to ask for changea-of venue at their own discretion, and the Judges the same" freedohi asto granting it. He further held that changes of ve^niecould only ’ Circuit courts, in cases of rency bill, which Mr. Springer has laid liefore the House consists of the amendments which have been agreed upon by the Democratic members of the committee; some were su Mr. Carlisle, and certain features of the Carlisle bill it has been deemed advisable ,t<t.retain, ..Mr, Springer ex plained the important changes made m the Carlisle mil and their effect, as follows: First—Permitting the deposit of cur rency certificates issued under section 5,193 of the Revised Statutes to secure circulation, as well as the deposit of legal tender notes and Treasury notes. These certificates represent legal tender notes actually held in the Treasury,and the effect of depositing certificates is, therefore, the same precisely as to re quire the deposit of notes. Second—So amending the present law as to permit State banks to deposit legal tender notes and procure these currency certificates in the same man ner that National banks are now per mitted to do. Third-Dispensing with the provision which authorizes an assessment upon the National banks to replenish the safety fund for the redemption r of the notes of failed banks, and, in place of this provision, inserting one providing one-fourth of a cent tax for each half year shall lie re sumed when the safety fund is imparted and contmned until the safety fmtd is restored. Fourth—Authorizing the Comptrol ler of the Currency, instead of the banks themselves, to < designate the agencies at which Nat ional Sank notes redeemed very close to his own financial meas nre. If he can get an amendment or two more tacked on it he will claim the entire scheme as his own and vote, for it. While he will not carry many Republicans with him yet there will be. sufficient namber from that party voting in its favor to put it througn the ifouse. It is taiked hisro on the- quiet that while Reed is supposed to be against the entire measure he is hunting for votes for it with a dark lantern. He clearly sees that if all financial legia- lation fails at this session it will be a bugle call for an extra session of Con- the whip lash and the of the House, and Mr. Cooper of 1 ton offered a motion that the .House proceed under rule 16 to elect a com mittee. Messrs. Breazeale, Thomas. Winkler and one or two otheraopposed the motion as a slap at the Speaker, or as one that might be so construed, ven if not so intended by the mover. The motion of Mr. Cooper was put and carried by a vote of 45 to 44, and then followed one of the most sensa tional incidents of the session. Pend ing the announcement of the vote Speaker Jones had called Mr. to the chair and when the vote gress and the whip lash and the reins. j u a j will b# placed in his hands. Thu is announced, he at once stopped out on jnst whsrt he doesn’t want. He wants the Apor wtd in a clearnngmg voice, to keep off the congressional talloho “id: Mr. Speaker I have the honor 1 - • 1 to tender my resignatidn grand case of just as long as possible. He is even so afraid of getting mixed tin in this Cur rency scheme that he will not remain on the floor while the debate is pro ceeding. So in fact while the Repub licans are claiming to make party warfare on the measure yet those who have presidential bees buzzling about I T’ : ■®i r - their heads are anxious to see it pass. | „ aa ^btouse do ft: Now that Mr. Cleveland is back re cruits to the bill may be expected from some of the members of the eastern delegations. Burke Cochran who be gan with a mighty roar against the measure subsided to a whimper and has finally refused to grunt ^hich is his wont to do when, out tacily op posed to a bill. Before another fort night rolls around it will be seen that he is for it. De Witt Warner who started on a straddle has veered shall lie redeemed? The effeeTor (his will be to secure thp reaerhptoin not only at.the office of the, bank, but also at the other placifes accessible to note holders. * Fifth—Dispensing with the provis ion coin]>el ling existing National banks to withdraw their Wonds now on de posit, and take out circulation under the new system, and in lieu pf that provision inserting one permitting the banks to withdraw their bonds - if they SGe proper to do so, by deposit ing lawful money as now povided by law, and then to take out circulation under the new system if they choose to do so. Sixth—Providing that the notes of failed National banks which are not redeemed on demand at the office of the Treasurer of the United States, or an assistant Treasurer of the United States, shall bear interest at the rate of griper cent, per annum from the date of the suspension of the hank until thirty days after public notice has lieen given that public funds are on hand for their redemption This iin[Hist's no obligation on the part of the United States to use its own funds for the -redemptions, as the safety fund is in the hands of the Treasurer, and he will redeem note* out of that fund. It is not necessary to repeal the repealing clause in sec tion 7 as reconstructed, because sec tion 1 as proposed to be amended repeals all wind requirements as to banks'taking ont circulation under the proposed, bill; nor is it neces sary in section \ 7 to set, out how the notes of existing banks shall be re deemed, when lawful money has been deposited, because the present law provides for all that. - - , .. . ^ ^ In regard to the provision making the notes of failed ^ banks bear inter est, it is absolutely necessary to re quire their presentation at some place before they begin to bear interest; otherwise it is impossible to frame clause which would not make all of these notes bear interest from the date of suspension, even though there might be funds on hand to pay them There are ten sub-treasuries in the United States, and there will be no difficulty in presenting the notes if the holder of them, has any doubt about their imfnedliate redemption and thus making them bear interest. be granted by Circuit courts, in cases of Tinman’* Portrait, winch they had original jurisdiction. Columbia, 8. C., Dec. 22.—A life and that a court had no jurisdiction H j ze portrait of ex-Governor Tillman of a caseuntil the prisioner was at the painted by an Atlanta artist has been .bar and he was not there until a grand bought by the friends and admirers of jury had reported a true bill. the senator elect and w^ft. presented to Messrs. \V ilson and Mayfield stated the house today, in a special message that the time was too short to allow from Governor Evans. The house ac- them to make speeches; they simply cepted the picture and ordered that it warned the Senate that if the report ^ be hung in a conspicuous place on tljfc was not adopted^.the hill would be wa Ug. It will go up somewhere.near killed. [ the portaits of Butler and John B. Mr. Kirkland said he thought the ( Gordon. as Speaker of this House.” The scene that for a few moments followed this announcement baffles de scription. For a moment there was a deaa silence and then Mr. Bacot, ad dressing the temporary presiding offi cer, said: “Mr. Speaker, I move that ■fuse to accept the Speaker’s resignation.” The motion was put and carried unanimously, and the voice of Speaker Jones was heard again, declaring that he would no longer serve as Speaker, and a mo ment or two later he retired from the hall. Then for a few moments there was scene of confusion and the House did not seem to know what to do in the dilemma that confronted it. Some half a dozen or so moved that the House take a recess for fifteen minutes, around to side saddle and is ready at but th » ^ V*? d <”™‘ & Thomas a moment s notice to lean among the ® oved ^ reconsider the Copper resolu- administration forcei. and fight with fc in thHto™Cevw,trti in a 0 ^!^ 1 ^ tAken ^ floor end withdraw^ tion that a criminal might be in ‘Wash- ll - 1 ington when the chance is offered! Mr. Gary then offered a resolution that the House appreciated the distin- J uished services of the Hon. Ira B. ones as its Speaker and had every confidence in his ability and integrity, and requested him to reconsider his re- thing. They may nofaltogether agree | «F na f ion - wai adopted un*ni- with the entire Scheme, but withMr. ™ ou81 * oon ^ ed narli.lc Kittimr in the Treasury teflimr I through Messrs. Qtte, (fdodwyn and the House. him to get out. He might choose Baltimore or he might choose Rich mond, but go somewhere he must. So it is with the pack of congressional members who nave gotr-to-ae-seme' Carlisle sitting in the Treasury telling them that it is political and financial suicids to remain where they are they have to get somewhere ana do that quickly. — — ‘ Let it be remembered that another bond issue is staring them in the face and if thtey have eves that can see be yond their noses the one and another one very far distant unless some short cut is taken. As an abstract proposition the bill is unpopular and if a vote should be taken at the present time the probabilities are that the bill would fail, but another week remains for debate and in Jhe meantime con gressmen will have been home and learned a few things that they cannot learn here. In fact logical reasoning doesn't always predict correct results in and about the Capitol and it is more often that what" appears impos sible really comes to pass. One' has but to remember the repeal of the pur chasing clause of the Sherman law and the passage of the tariff hill to predict with some safety the fate of the present bill in spite of the contin ued interviews on the part of the position.—Augusta Chronicle. . A Horrible Fate. Memphis, Tlpnn., Dec. 22.v-M*ble Shelton, aged J' years, was burned to deathj her 5-year-old sister was killed by being thrown from a second story Cooper, as a committee from I In a few minutes they returned with him, and as he reentered the tall he was received with loud applause, in which the galleries joined. Upon resuming the chair, Speaker Jones said that he appreciated the y reaiize^another 1 h <?« or they had done him in re- b still is not so M 110 ? to (he chiar, and he felt I very deeply this expression of their kind feeungs. He had felt that the vote on the passage of Mr. Cooper’s resolution offered under the peculiar circumstances was a vote of want of confidence, for which the rules of the House permitted such a resolution. He had never known one such passed in the history of legislation in this State, and he had too much pride to occupy the seat of presiding officer over a House that lacked confidence in him. All men were liable to mistakes and he wasglad to know that he had mistaken the sentiment ofthp House. This ended this dramatic incident and from that time forward everything went on smoothly. A new conference committee on th© per diem bill.con sisting of Messrs. Cooper, Townsend and Floyd was appointea. At a few minutes to twelve^ the ap propriation and per diem hills and several other measures being still in the hands of the conference committee. the House adjourned until 3 o’clock to morrow morning, by which time op- window, and the mother lies injured the engrossing department will be up at tfie city hospital beyond hope of with its work ana an agreement ba the result of a fire tween the two houses reached in time itory had recovery as the result ol a at 42 Echols street tonight, The jamily lived on »the second sto of a frame house. The mother just put the children in bed when the fire burst through the door, prevent ing excess except by way of the win dow. The mother threw one child out of the window, crushing its head on the pavement below. She started to get the other child, but her own cloth ing took fire, and she was forced back. Then she jumped through the wi dow ( . The skeleton of the burned child was found after the flames were subdued. _ Killed For m Girl. Anderson, S. C., Dec. 24.—A homi cide was committed at Pendleton last for an adjounment before noon omor- row.. , A Manioc Bride. Elkhart, Ind., Dec. 21.—Frank Perry and Frances Conley, the daugh ter of wealthy parents, after a court ship of four years, eloped last Sunday because of parental objections. Yes terday the young bride became a rav ing maniac, and was prevented from killing herself only bv the hereulean efforts of her husband. She attempted to throw herself from the third story of the St. Joseph Valley bank build ing. Her hallucination is that her parents would reproach her and that. she would not become heir to her fath er’s estate. Her cries brought a thona- roughta the party doipg the I and people to the bank building, where John Dickson, who shot \ Mrs. Perry hung tow-thirds out of the window, making frantic efforts to cast herself to the payment Perry in killing b«tng«l and killed Henry Mq A lister, both young white men. It seem that the two were rivals for the hand of a young woman by the nama-of Carroll. They met at her father’s house. Dick son asked the young lady to go out on the piazza with him. She declined to do so and Dickson startled out of the house. At the door he turned and cursed McAllister and drew his pistol and shot him dead. Dickson escaped and has not yet been apprehended. i > tne payment, retry in an instant grasped her about the body and for several minutes the struggle for mastery was witnessed by the norror- stricken throng. When assistance came, she was saved from a horrible death. The unfortunate woman was taken to the house of her parents, she partially recovered her senses tat there is little hope that she will be •aneagrin. t • J&fcw'WW S