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i '•-A VOL. XVIII. BARNWELL, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1895. ' -n"' ^ ^ j ^ - NO. 40. THE SILVER BALL. ILLINOIS DEMOCRATS START IT ROLLING. _ L I'ror.-.'.ling* of th« (ireat Free Silver Con- f' * - ' vriillonln Springfield—A Row Narrower Avjrrted—Will I)emi»cra?y Unfurl the l;ai*u<v. ■ . ' «•’ » 'H Sprinofild, Ills., June 5.—Had it mil bt^n for the timely action of Secre- tary of State W. H. Hinrichsen., who issued the call for the Illinois Demo cratic silver convention, the event would have ended in a row. Jt all came about because of a plank in the resolution endorsing Governor Altgeld It had been expressly agreed before -the convention was called to order that there was to be no action taken outside of that for which the call provided— the placing of the seal of approval on free coinage and the election of dele- gab s to a national convention to be held Fome time in the near future. The trouble began in the committee room, where the platform was being prepared. Ten members voted for the Altgeld plank and none against the insertion. The plank was put in. The platform had been read by ex-Con- gressman Fithian, chairman of the resolutions committee, a firm friend of the Altgeld plank. £. storm of protests had aris^i all over the hall and it looked as if the peacemaking silver convention of the West would end in a row', which would be fatal to the fu ture of silver. At this juncture, Rin- richsen arose and waved his hand and instantly tht uproar was hushed. “Gentlemen, 4 ' he said “I have a per- sonal request to make of you. I do ■rbelieve there is anybody in this yjiBl who has any more right to make such a request than I have. It is this : That the part of the resolutions endors ing Governor Altgeld be stricken out and for this I ask unanimous consent. The members of the State administra tion did’not expect to be endorsed by this convention, either as individuals or as a whole. If such endorsements were made, the object of this conven tion would be nullilied.” Judge SamuelH. McConnel, the per manent chairman of the convention, joined his request to that of Mr. Hen- richsen, and Chairman Fithian without even waiting for the cpnvention to rat ify the request, read the resoliRions over again, this time leaving out the obiectionable paragraph. Then the delegates adopted them with a yell. There was a full representation and abundant enthusiasm. Ex-Congress man Bryan's speech was the feature of the day and he with dilliculty con tinued on account of the applause. The platform follows: “Whereas, silverand gold have been the principal money metals of the world for thousands of years, and sil, ver money recognized and used as honest money, between nations not withstanding the varving ratios be tween silver and gold, and, whereas the demonetization of silver has de- E rived the people of the free use and enefits of an invaluable and original money metal and has increased debts and added to the burdens of the peo- ple bv lowering the valufe. of labor. products, and, whereas, the constitu tion of the United States prohibits the use of anything but gold and silver coin as legal tender for the payments of debts, thereby recognizing that coin compost d of silver and gold is honest money and for it to be used as legal tender, therefore, by the Democracy of Illinois, in convention assembled, be it. Resolved, That we are in favor of the use of both gold and silver as the standard money of the United States and* demand the free and unlimited coinage of both metals at the'ratio of 10 to 1, without waiting for the action of any other nation and that such coins shall be a legal tender for all debts both public and private, and that all contracts hereafter calling for pay ment of money whether in gold, silver or coin, may be discharged by any money which is by law a legal tender. We hereby endorse the action of the Democratic State committee calling this convention, and we instruct the committee to carry out the will of the convention as expressed in its platform by inaugrating and carrying on acam- paignyrf education in this State and. tb thoroughly organize the Democracy of the State on the lines laid down in the platform of the convention. Resolved. That ige request the Dem ocratic national convention to call-a Democratic convention to consider the money question not later than August. If thp national committee refuses to call.such a convention then invite the Democratic State committees of other States^ to concur in action with the Democratic convention of Illinois. Resolved, That the Democratic mem bers of Congress and members of the Senate from this State lie and are here by instructed to use, every honorable means to carty out the principle above enunciated.’’ This morning's trains visibly apg- mes.Ud the number of delegates to the Democratic silver convention and the prospects of its bcinga success were conespondingly increased.. Secretary of State Hinrichsen by virtue of his office, chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee, called the meeting to order. When Chairman Crawford had finished his speech, a delegate from one of the country towns of the State made a movement to stop all abuse of Cleve land or praise* of Altgeld out of the convention by introducing a resolu tion that all resolutions of a political nature offered to the convention be re ceived and be referred to a committee on resolutions .without being read. Thomas Merritt, of Marion, was on his feet in an instant and strenuously ob ject t d to having what he called the B ig law applied to the convention. e wanted any resolutions introduced to.be duly read. It waseveident there was going to be a hot fight by the ene mies of the administration to get in their attacks. The original introducer of the motion withdrew it, and the point remained unsettled. The con vention then adjourned until 2 o’clock to allow the various committees to prepare their reports. The makeup of the committee on re solutions shows an overwhelming pre ponderance of free silver and anti- Cleveland men. Not content witir the regular selections of this committee a motion was offered to add ex-Congress- man Hunter to the committee. This was carried by acclamation. Hunter is a violent anti-Cleveland mam, and denounced the President as being a traitor to his party. Despite the assur ances given out by the leaders last night that the con vention would not undertake to condemn the national ad ministration some of the .friends of President Cleveland seemed apprehen sive of coming trouble. The delegates from the various Con gressional districts met At 10 o’clock to select delegates to the proposed na tional convention on the currency ques tion. In some of these caucuses the subject of denouncing Clevelend and Palmer were talked over in an inform al way, but the sentiment appeared to be against that which was hot conser vative: In the case of the 17th Con gressional district, General Palmer’s home,_ a resolution was offered in structing the chairman of the delega tion and the district member of com mittee on resolutions to vote against any proposition either condemn the national administration or endorse the Btate administration. Several speeches were made on thq subject, and the general impression, while strongly against Mr. Cleveland, was that it would be bad policy for the conven tion to take any action which would widen the breach between the two fac tion of the Democracy. Timothy Beech voiced this sentiment in a pep pery speech in which lie spoke bitterly of Cleveland, as a traitor to the De mocracy, but he said Jie did not think it the business of a monetary conven tion to denounce him. Tlje conven: tion reassembled at 2 o’clock. The committee on permanent organizations then made its report. Samuel P. Mc Connell was conducted to the chair, and spoke as follow's: “This convention has a most pecul iar and most important significance. Heretofore, managers of political par ties have so arranged that party poli cies shodld be declared only at the time candidates were chosen,and only a short time before the gathering of the franchises of the people. The re sult has often been that your conven tions have put forth a mere assertion of general principles, or on live issue expressed themselves in meaningless compromises. Candidates have been put in who were unsympathetic with the real pur pose of the party. This convention makes a departure and is intended not only to allow a free discussion before the next political engagement, but to define our party position with distinct ness so that no voter shall fail to un derstand us, and no candidate, if chos en to office, have a chance of excuse to defeat our command. Judge McConnell recently became widely know'n by his resignation from the presidency of the Iroquois Club of Chicago, because of his leaning to si!- y«E Ills audience gave him an ova tion and then loudly cried for Con gressman W. J. Bryan. Mr. Bryan was ready. In the course of his speech he said: In 1896, the people of the United States will be called upon to decide whether the intluence of this nation shall be cast on tlie 13 side of bi metallism or in favor of a universal gold standard. All admit that the question is the greatest economic ques tion which has oeen before the people before the of the United States during the pres ent generation, if not the present cen tury, This question cannot be settled by the fiat of bank presidents or mon ey loaners of Federal officials. It will not be finally settled upon until the great common people of the United States sit in judgment upon it and ap ply to it their principles of justice by which alone public questions can t>e measured. If, as all admit, the money question is now the question of su preme importance^it must follow that the people will trust that party with its settlement which fearlessly espous es the truth. The Democratic party must take its position upon this ques tion and by the correctness of that position will rise or fall. No coward, whether an individuahor a party, can long retain the confidence jof the peo ple. Not only is it necessary that the Democratic party to take a position, but the sooner it-defines its position, the greater will be its opportunities in 1896. “There can be no compromise upon this question; there can be no political fellowship between the advocates of a single gold standard and. the friends of bimetallism. “It is to be regretted that the first Democratic President since the war should become the trusted instrument in the hands of concentrated wealth, the official head of the commission of pelf. When he was found he was as modest as Saul and as conspicuous among his fellows for his good con duct, out since he has sought counsel of the familiar spirits of Wall Street he lias tried to take the political life of every David whom the people trusted, Grover Cleveland is not the Demo cratic party—Democracy is greater than any man. It will exalt him who rightly interprets its truths but it will cast him down who seeks to wear its livery and yet serve its plutocracy. “The reason why bimetallism has been difficult in the past was because of different ratios existing in different countries. If we slioula attempt free coinage at 16 to !, wej would invite the silver of other countries to coins here in exchange for gold but we offer free coinage at 16 to 1 our gold will not leave because it cannot find a more favorable ratio where there is anv quantity of silver to exchange. If a change in the ratio is desirable we cannot intelligently choose a new ra tio unless we have put gold a&d silver upon an equal footing, It is absurd to measure silver by jfold when we open the mints to gold and close them to silver. This country must act alone because it cannot afford to submit the interest of American citizens to the government control iff foreign nations and because other nations are not sim ilarly situated and therefore cannot t>e relied upon to co-operate with us. We did not ask the consent of other na tions when we demonetized silver and we should not ask their consent when we restore it. “Illinois is the imperial State of the West,and the Democracy of tliis State, by meeting in this convention, earned the right to lead the fight of 1896. The platfor*m adopted by this convention, will be in substance the Democratic platform of 1896. If we are right, as we believe we are, they that are with us at*all right Truth uujight and will prevail.’" It is now apparent the convention determined to hear Gov. Atgeld, de spite his protest that he would, under no circumstances, speak. The Gover nor was on the floor below in his of fice and a committee was sent on to conduct him in. His appearance was the noisest demonstration of the day. Men stood on chairs and yelled like cow bovs of a reservation and spun their silk hats on the end- of' their sticks. Women clnpped their hands, having no canes, swung their bonnets by the strings and howled as if it were a university foot ball game. It was fully five minutes before a semblance of order could be patched up. - ’ftie Governor said; “I am told Cleveland is the friend of the workingman. He has written some beautiful letters ahd in them he has told the workingman his dollar would go farther tfiau it used to, but neither he or any other man has told the working man where he is going to get that dollar. You’ve got to have a market that will pay a fair price for the workingman's product. There are Democrats who say, ’Don’t disturb things; do not split the Democratic party., No, leave it alone and when the next national convention is called, elect men as you did before, who will straddle everything under the sun, and not even know that there is country of allegiance. There is only one way to head the gold men off and that is to get back of them. Call a convention for this fall and let Democrats send delegates to it “Have you seen a single man in the honest money party who comes home at night with the sweat of honest toil on his clothes? This in itself is not necessarily greatly against him but this is no reason wny he should inter fere with the masses and not allow that they speak their minds on the great questions of the day. Let these men know that it is not a mere ques tion of getting offices; that it is more than this, a question of principle. Stand shoulder to shoulder and you will find there is no power in Ameri ca that can withstand your onward tread.” Richard Michaelis,editor of the Free Press, Chicago, then addressed for the first time in nis life a Democratic con vention. Ex-Congressman Fithian then read the resolutions—the row was on at once. One delegate wanted Attorney General Moloney endorsed for his war on the trusts; another wished to praise Hinrichsen and a dozen others were trying to gain recognition in order to introduce amendments. Finally, the tumult was stilled long enough to al low Hamp.ton Bell of McOupm coun- 4yrto ah'out, “I move that so much the resolutions as relates to Governor Atgeld be stricken*” out.” There were loud cries of “No,” “No,” and “Put him out.” Mr. Bell continued and Babel reigned again until the secretary made his pacific personal plea with the result that an adjournment was taken after the adoption of the reso lutions with everybody in a good humor. Seventy-six delegates to the nation al convention were selected at the caucuses in the meeting. The dele- g ites at large are ex-Mayor John P. opkins, Chicago; Secretary of State Hinrichsen, Jacksonville; ex-Con- gressman Geo. W. Fithian, Newton, and Lewis B. Parsons, Florida. A TALE OF HORROR. Arreated for Conspiracy. Columbia, S. C, June .WThis morning another interesting legal move was made in the matter of the dispensary law. State Commissioner Mixson and Liquor Constable Beach were arrested. The proceedings, are made under the special conspiracy act of Congress which was referred to in the Debs case. They were arrested upon a warrant sworn out by two leading citizens, Messrs. Muller and Beck, before United States Commis sioner Reid, of Newberry. They are charged with conspiracy to violate the special intor-State commerce act of 1890 in seizing some beer belonging^to the complainants. The commissioner also issued a warrant for tha; search and seizure of the confiscated^Timior. The prisoners were taken up for a* pre liminary hearing. Dr. Pope appear ed for the complainants and asked that the prisoners be bound over for conspiracy. The assistant attorney general told the deputy marshal to consider the seized property in his S ssession for the pusposes of this case. te State maintains that the defend ants cannot be held criminally liable, under this a!ct of Congress. Tne hear ing will b6 continued at 3:30 o’clock. This is an entirely new ' ptoceediug. The hearing was concluded at tluraf- ternoon session, both Dr. ‘Pope*and Judge Townsend both making lengthy speeches, the former arguing that the commissioner had jurisdiction and the latter denying it. Dr. Pope's speech was a spicy one. The commissioner decided that the defendants were in contempt of Jud^e Simonton's order of injunction which he said was now the law and bound Mixson over to ap pear for trial at the November term of the United States district court here in the sum of $1,000, making the con stable's bond only half that amount. A Crazy Craft. Tampa, Fla., June 6.—The steamer Electron arpived at Port Tam pa ■ tonight loaded with vegetables from the Manatee county. The crew began unloading on one side and the steamer tipped over and went to the bottom. No one was drowned and they expect to raise the vessel at once. Only the top of the pilot house can be seen. able to do so. The shin 1 beam ends and the decks bulged SURVIVORS Ok THE COLIMA TELL HOW THE SHIP WAS LOST. In a Hurrlrane For Twenty-Six Hour*. Sank In Wen Minute* Time—Pan- Hengerit ItrowneU Like KaU In a Case. San Francisco, Cal., June 6.—The steamer San Juan arrived this after noon from Panama and way ports with the survivors of the wrecked Pacific mail steamship Colima. As soon as the marine observer reported the ship two miles out, (he water front became a scene of excitement. The Pacific mail dock was beseiged by a curious crowd that blocked the street. As the reve nue cutter bearing the customs officere and newspaper men neared the ship, some of the Colima's rescued passen- G rs with bandaged heads were seen uiing on the bow rail. Just prior to the arrival of the reporters, however, the Pacific Mail Company's tug, Milan Griffith, came alongside the San Juan and took third mate Hausen of the lost ship, who more than any one else could throw lighten the cause of the wreck. There was general disinclination among the surviving passengers to was on her out and were finally rent, i “I then jumped into the water, seiz ed a box and was washed about from one float to aaother like many others. The heaviest squall came following ihe disappearance of the ship. While ' it prevailed many who were struggling ! in the waves were mangled and , drowned by floating; lumber. Five of us, Tom Fitch, -Jack Carpenter, two Mexicans and myself, got on a raft icfed up by a boat in com- !apt. Long, formerly captain riving p o _._ _ TThe-onlyveasoHgiv- mp- T<) .sayg_my life I had to knock en for their refusal to be interviewed being that under the circumstances they did not feel disposed to talk. Geo. D. Ross, formerly boatswain's mate on the cruiser Olympia, who was on his way to his home in New York, gave the United Press representative the following graphic account of the wreck: “We left Mazatlan Sunday, May 26, at 4 o’clock p.J m., with a fair breeze blowing. Toward 9 o'clock in the even ingtke vind increased a little and con tinued blowing pretty fresh all night. Next morning at 6 o'clock the wind moderated considerably untilfi o'clock, when it again began to blow and stead ily continued to gain in violence until it acquired the proportions of a hurri- qane. The wind blew in. great gusts, causing the ship to list badly to star board. The Colima labored heavily and it was evident that we were in a very precarious predicament. The greatest excitement prevailed on board and the faces of passengers plainly showed that they were keenly alive to their perilous position. Unfortunately, just at the last mo ment a fatal blunder was • committed by the third officer, who cut the lash ings of a deck load consisting of 32,(XX) feet of lumber. Some of this was washed, into the sea, and what remain ed on deck was driven about, knock ing down and maiming those whom it struck. A particularly heavy sea struck the ship, tumbling the fore mast and smokestacks Shortly before this, however, a succession of huge waves had punched a hole in our star board bow, through which the sea poured. Women screamed, and rushed up the common way imploring the men to jave them. The ship gave a couple of heavy reels and an enor mous sea climbed on us, smashing the hurricane deck, and with one-mighty lurch the ship went down. As she was making her last lurch I dived into the id when I came up she w'as out sea, ant of sight. People were floating around clinging to all sorts of wreckage, and some sinking under our very eyes. Some who had managed to grasp hold of boxes or planks were knocked senseless and drowned. The force and effect of this floating mass of lumber cannot be described. It caused the death of many who might otherwise have been saved. - • “It is a difficult matter to say to what cause of the wreck of the ship Colima is attributable. She must certainly have shifted her cargo, as her strong list to port showed. I firmly believe that but for the shifting of tne cargo Ahe shin would have road out of the S le. I had been in the water some tie time clinging to one object or another, when, jinally I managed to get hold of a good sized piece of hurri- caiie deck, upon which It climbed. I drifted about fof some time, when I observed a rather effeminate looking fellow on another piece of wreckage close to me. He seemed about done up, so I seized his raft and hauled him on to mine. We madethe rest of the trip towards the shore together. He turned out to be Thornton.' "We were the closest in shore of any of the sur vivors, and were picked up by the first officers boat of the San Juan after be- .ing twenty-three hours in the water.” Ross was severely cut about the head by floating wreckage, and had numer ous other cute about the body. T. J. Oriel, an electrician on his way to Mexico, gave about thefsame version of the commencement of the storm. He said the Colima during the height of the storm listed so badly after each succeeding rush of waves that she did not recover. “About 9 o’clock on the morning of the wreck,” he . said, “I went below to the steerage quarters and noticed water coming into the starboard scuppers. Shortly after ward a quartermaster came down, say ing the captain wanted to see the en gineer. The latter went on deck, but returned to the engine room in three or four minutes looking like a dead man. His face was ashy pale. That was the last seen of him.” While Oriel was telling this part of the story a relative of the engineer who had boarded the steamer with the re porters, broke into tears and shook convulsively. “By this time,” Oriel went on, “tne steerage passengers had all gone below when the seven men-of- war men from the American cruisers Olympia and Philadelphia, tried to console -those around them. One of these finally told us we were doomed. We shook hands, said good-bye, and he knelt on a sack of era. I then started to go on deck and were mand of of the Colima. A -'Mexican named Serrtfbia went crazy from drinking salt water", . 4 . ' C. II. Cushing, Jr, was in bed the first part of the blow, but got up in time to be hurled into the sea with a cabin roof. He told his story as fol lows : “I found myself in the water with out knowing just how I got there. By some means or another, just when I had abandoned all hope of being saved I found myself floating near a portion of the cabin roof with the others.' Shortly after we got on the raft a keg of claret floated near and we captured H. It was a long time before we got thelieg open, and I am sorry it was ever opened. My two friends drank until they became worse than intoxi cated. i.)ne of them laid down and went to sleep, but the other insisted upon quarrelling and finally attacked my~ ' ~ ~ ~ him overboard. The other " man sobered him and I pulled him aboard again. He began drinking harder than ever, and finally fell overboard and was drowned. After his com- panion awoke he behaved himself, and finally we were picked up. “X.s to the cause of the wreck I can say but little v , I really cannot say as to the list of the ship. I had not'gone to breakfast, and was only up long enough to notice that it was a terrific hurricane and. that the waves were mountain high." Mr. Cushing had a brother 18 years old on the Colima. Nothing has been heard of him. The surviving brother was terribly cut on the head by float ing lumber, besides being bruised about the body. - - — George Rowan, another passenger bound for New York, agrees in the main with the statements of the storm and added: “There was alisolutely no discipline, no organization of any kind. Everything was a panic. The captain stood on the bridge. Women screamed and the children cried clinging in des peration to their parents and even to strangers. As soon as I became con vinced that the ship was doomed I hastily pulled down some life preserv ers. When seen by the stewarel he or dered me peremptorily to discontinue ing. Will what I was doing. Without paving any attention to him I kept on pulling down life belts and passing them out. As I am unable to swim I tied one of these belts around me and jumped into the sea. Three times I sank and had just reached for a piece of wreckage when I was again knocked under by something, presumably a plank, a large gash was cut ia my head and I am cut and bruised all over. After floating about for twenty-four hours on a large piece of wood I was picked Upr 41 —— Sailor A. L. Capenter was one of the party on the raft. He says that at tempts were made to lower the boats, but^failed. All the women were in their staterooms, for none of them ex pected that the disaster was upon them. “I think that something shifted be low," added Carpenter. “The vessel ran into a gale from 9 ^o’clock Monday night until 11 o’clbck the following evening. She steered badly, and when about 30 miles below Manzanillo she lost steerage way, swung her head around a few points and in less time than it takes to tell it she careened over on her beam ends. Scarcely ten minutes elapsed before she went down. Captain Taylor died at his post. I was thrown into the water, and when I came up 1 seized a stick of lumber and Moated about until picked up ny the people on the raft. Such a hurricane 1 never before experienced in all my sea faring life. Lumber, broken, deck ing and dead bodies drifted by us, and the horrors of the situation was alone enough to render us helpless.” The following is the list of the sur vivors landed today: Third Mate Han- serj; R. Avilles, a carpenter; "A, Rich- afdsbn and'Thomas 'Fish, numbers of crew; H.' A. Sutherland, C, H. Cush ing, J: M. Thornton, H. P. Boyd, George "Rowan, Bruno Cenda, Jos. Manuel, G. D. Riss, J. Sanelenes. T. J. O'Riel and Juan A. Ramos. The following survivors were landed at Mazatlan: Thos. Serai ia, D. Olivas, A. Guttierez and Carlos Luitz. The Cotton Pronjiect. New York, June6.—The Chronicle has issued its annual statement of cot ton acreage, stand and condition. The estimated decrease in acreage by States is as follows: North Carolina, 20 per cent,; South Carolina ,1b per cent. Georgia. 13 per cent. Florida, 5 per cent.; Alabama, 11 e r cent.; Mississippi, 10 per cent.; misiana, 14 percent.; Texas, 11 per cent; Arkansas, 12 per cent ;*Tennes see, 9 per cent.; other States and Ter ritories, 12 1-2 percent. The average decrease is 11.6 per cent. The acreage is 17,767,663 against 20,410,247 acres last year. The small decrease in Florida is due to larger planting of sea island cotton. The crop is unques tionably late. The weather up to May 2 was not favorable. It is not certain whether permanent injury has result ed or not. Probably serious harm has resulted in only limited areas. Culti vation has not been as through as it was a year ago. There has been very heavy decrease in the taking of com mercial fertilizers, but of home made .fertilizer a slightly greater use is re- , „ ported. The condition of the plant our and said was less satisfactory at the close of the -i--'- 1 month than at the same date last year. could The States of less promise are the Car- ‘ olinas and Georgia, but the plant pray but the ship listed so badly scarcely malce my way upstairs. At this time the third officer cut the lash- late almost everywhere and so is farm ing that bound the lumber deck load. work. The conditional not necessarily The smokestack had toppled over. I unpromising, but more depends upon made for a boat intending to cut it future development than has been' the loose from its fastenings, but was un- 1 case in other productive yean. A POLL OF CONGRESS. The Outlook lz For n Good Oral of Tariff Loglzlatlon. New York, June 4.-A few days ago The World sent to each senator and representative whose address could be ascertained ' a .i,telegraphic request for answers to following questions: Do you favor single gold standard or free coinage? Do you favor further tariff changes? Do you favor principle of income tax? In a general way it may be said that of 116 members, who gave ^unequiv ocal answers to the silver question, 55 are unqualifiedly in favor of free coin age. 44 favor bimetallism, generally with the proviso of an international agreement. Only 17 can fairly be classed as favoring a singlegold stand ard, and the attitude of some of these, even, is not definite. _ The southern and far western states are almost*^ nanimous for free coinage the central states lean towards silver with international bimetallic- qualifications, arid it is only in New York, New England (*nd adjac- ent eastern states that there are any avowedly gold standard men. An unexpected and unpleasant possi bility of renewed tariff agitation is ap parent in the replies to the question as to further changes i n the tariff. Only 28 members are against any change, while 35 favor moderate changes and 38 are pronounced for radical changes. Most of the latter are Republicans who hanker for the McKinley law. A few are free traders. The moderates are chiefly those who think changes will be neeesary in order to increase revenues. - The income tax question brought out many sharp and piquant answers and proved that even in the minds of congressman a supreme court decision does not always decide. Forty-nine congressman say that they favor the principle of the tax. Fort, seven oppose it, A great many evadei the question or failed to answer it • A few details by states will be inter esting. Alabama, Arkansas, Califor nia, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Missis sippi, Montana, Nevada, North Carolina, South Carolina, South 'Dakota, Virginia, Washington Wyoming are solid so far as from. The bimetallists are chiefly in Dela ware, Georgia, Illinois. Indiana, Iowa Kansas,'Lousiniana, Michigan, Min nesota, Missouri. Nebraska, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. New York, New Jersey, Pennsylva nia, Rode Island, Massachusetts and Vermont have the gold advocates. * Alabama, Arkansas, Texas, the Car- olinias, Georgia, Louisiana and most of the other southern states are solid for the income tax. New York and the east generally oppose it. Else where the division is nearly even. Owing to the fact that the exact ad dresses of new congressmen are fre quently indefinite, it has been impossi ble to reach a large number of them on such short notice. In addition to tliis, nearly 100 senators and represent atives were found to be away from home on trips abroad or in other dist ant parte. Next session being a long one, this is the only chance for vacation the congressmen will have, and they avail of it largely. ISSial heard To th« Convention. Columbia, S. C., June 6.—South Carolina, it seems, is to be represented at the big convention to be held in Memphis on the 12th and 13th—the bimetallic convention mentioned very fully yesterday morning. Gov. Evans was requested to appoint ten delegates from this State ana this he has done, yesterday announcing the following appointments: State-at-large—Senators Tillman and Irby and W. D. Evans. I* iret Congressional District—Thos TalbinKl Second District—W. J. Talbert. Third District—A. C. Latimer. Fourth District—Stenyarne Wilson, Fifth District—T. Jj Strait —— Sixth District—John L. McLaurin. Seventh District—J. Wm. Stokes. As will be noted, of all South Caro lina’s representatives in Congress, only Col. Elliott is omitted from the dele gation. It is very easy to understand why this is thus. Scorching Kent In Now York. New York, June 1.—All records for heat on the 1st day of June are smashed \ by to-day’s temperature. Never in the history of the weather bureau has the mercury climbed to such a height on June 1 as it reached to day. Added to this the humidity is 2 per cent greater than yesterday, so that the slightly cooler weather is just as oppressive to-day as it was on the re<x>rd-breaking May 31. The highest poiut reached by the thermometer to day was at 4 p. m., when it registered 94. Shortly after that hour a thunder shower of a few minutes’ duration sent down the mercury 10 degrees in a few Ainutes. The highest tempera ture on record for a previous June 1 fwas 89 in 1879. The highest^ for an; June day is 96 degrees, June*28i and 'Jlioe 20, 1893. Twenty-three cases of prostration by the heat were reported at police headquarters. Free Silver In Iowa. DesMoinbs, la., June 6.—State con ference of free .silver Democrats which opened here at 2 o'clock, was called by ex-Lieutenant Governor 8. L. Bestow and others "for the purpose of decid ing upon a plan of action.” It is a practical continuation of the Democr- tic end-of the non-partisan conference held yesterday, with an augmented THE OUTLOOK IS BETTER. THE CROP SITUATION IN THE STATE AS REPORTED- v Director Hauer'* Weekly Balletla of the Condition of the Weather aad the Oreyz. the | TkePeeniiar Cliaiate ChaagM. Columbia,June 5.—The following weekly bulletin of the condition of the weather and the crops during the past week was issued by State Observer Bauer yesterday: There was a quick transition famn the cold conditions that ended wittrlne beginning of this crop week, to an ex treme of heat, with the highest re corded temperatures for the last de cade of May or the first decade in June in forty years in Charleston, where the maximum reached 97 on June 1st and Sd. In various other localities where less t xtended records are kept available for comparison, they show that it was the hottest week ever known at this season and rarely ever surpasrad by the wannest periods in July or Au gust. Many reports indicate tern tures of 100 3d. There was practically no cloudiness during the entire week with the ex ception of a few foggy mornings over the southern portion of the State. The continuous sunshine and excessive heat dried the ground rapidly and in a few plaoes rain ia needed and it would be highly beneficial over the entire State, more especially on light soila that be come dry quietly, ‘ although crops are not suffering for the want of it. This hot, dry weather has tended to equalize the previous abnormal condi tions by supplying some of the heat lost during April and May, and to re duce the previous excessive rainfall to nearly a seasonable amount. Its ef fects on all crops has been very favor able. It was the indicated need of corp and cotton, and perhapa more particularly for peaches, plums and Denies, which are beginning to ripen. _ The mean daily temperature ranged above the normal on eadh day of the week, except on May 28th (Tuesdav), with departures of from 3 to 12 as- grees per day, the latter generallv on the 2nd and 3rd (Sunday and Monday). On May 22, the departure was 16 de grees below the normal, making a rise of 28 degrees in ten days. The av daily temperature was about grees higher this week than last The highest temperature reported was 105 on the 2nd (Sunday), from Ella, Lexington county. The lowest reported was 50 .on the 28th of May, from Greenville, Liberty, Looper’s and Spartanburg, making the Weekly re in the State 55 de< sverage 14 de range in the State 55 degress. Tim mean temperature for the week for the State was 82.5 and the normal for the same period is approximately 75.5. There was no rain in any portion of the State during the entire week. The normal rainfall for the same period is approximately L06 inches. The winds were very light during the entire week, from the west and north du unng latterly aoutnerly. week, this early portion aad “patching” or replanting is still sary and that some of the late plant ing is slow in germinating. “Black leg” or “sore shank” was bad in places and makes recovery slow. A few state that it is still dying on sandy land bat this is not common now. Also that some fields planted in cotton have been plowed up and planted in some other crop. Cotton is smaB-for the season. Fields are being cleaned from grass very fast, and chopping to a stand is nearly finished. Corn has been much improved by the hot weather and has regained a healthy color. It is generally small for the season with an uneven stand. Bottom lands nearly all planted. Bud worms and cut worms less active than heretofore, but they have already damaged the stand very much on bot tom lands. Fields generally well worked and free from gram. Peas are being sown in Willi (torn At this time as well as alone.' In some sections idle lands are being sown to paaa. * _ October oats are ripening and gener ally promise a full crop. The general condition of spring oats has improved very much, but its condition oontinuss to vary with locality, from verv good to poor. Rain will soon be neeoea for it, as it is just in the milk. A number of reports state that rust has appeared in wheat, and is serious in a few places, Wheat has headed well, generally, and will soon be ready for harvesting. The rice crop continues to grow well and looks very promising at this time. The hot weather has dried the boggy lands so that plows could be S ut on and preparations for planting une rice are well under way. It stated that the stand of sugarcane and sorghum is very poor. Melons hare improved, greatly, bat, insects continue to eat the plant at places, and others say that the hot sun wilts the vines. Potatoes along the coast are yield- domg as well in the interior, ^weet .J — \J ' 'll Si ■ :|1 'Cl object of the managers of the present conference to shape matters so that the coming Democratic State convention will name only free silver men. General Weaver has promised so much of Populist support ss he can control for a suitable Democratic ticket and some assurances of free silver Repub lican help have been received. by the of the previous week. Peaches have ceased to drop and a lull crop is now beyond peradventure tof a doubt Plums are said to be ripening prematurely, and are not good. Varieties of wild berries are very plentiful. Sunshine has bean very beneficial to fruit and berries. . Tobacco has shared in the general improvements, noted for crops, doe to the hot weather. Gardens wilted during the^ under the influence of the fa iriust soon have rain or else will de teriorate. Vegetables abundant Track shipment to Northern tinue heavy from the coast counties, where the industry, is centered. All correspondents agree that the crop prospects imj during the past week, I the present indicated need.