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Is the debftta os the nootlon to pro vide fur the audntenMoe of Clemeou College end the Stole University, the TUlmsn brothers' egein looked horns end the oontest between them, excited much interest. The following synopsis of their speeches will prove inter esting: .7 " " Ur. George D. Till men then began an hour 2nd a half's speech which com manded close attention. Ue was afraid South Carolina was about to at tempt too-much for her means. South Carolina, though a little patch of thp world, about the size of three Texas cattle counties, had ajl the aspirations of an empire. It was “dum spiro spero, apes." He gave a liberal trans lation of this motto, and said nobody but a Huguenot could ever have con-t celved it. He referred to the late Al liance craze which had qwept over the country. He said that as the promise of 40 acres and a mule had drawn all the negroes into the Republican secret union league, the rural population in 8outh Carolina undertook to stem the tide. He cited the trouble Georgia had had. Georgia had gone along smoothly after she took Northen for governor. It had not been so here. All this, he said, was merely introduc- . lory to a long-winded talk. “we are attempting too much. We are trying to provide an elaborate system for a divided, impoverished and small State. When the 2 mill tax went Into operation it took several years to get the system organized at alL Our old State hadn’t had a show 1 . Ing when the system was started. We have been too impatient. Wo should have roformed the motto on the coat of arm Instead of the picture. W art, attempting too much. Why In crease this tax from 2 to 3 mills ? A good deal of perjury had already been committed in this State In the matter of th'e under valuation of property If this tax was Increased then there would be more of it. Under this thing wu can lata white man fall to pay his poll and yet let him vote. And there’s that eternal fraud we have been practicing and will still practice with this scheme. If our white men divide, as they are certain to do, all advant age will be token of the prosperous man. This was a supreme effort on the part of the State for education, be- oause It was a qualification for sof frage now. Such a qualification for suf frage lain't worth a snap of my finger. In England, whence we came, there was never such a thing known. Though 1 may be a little bit “old fogy ” In my I believe the compound mixture of all kinds of education on the face of God’s green earth. I k now nothing to be compared to It in the way of failure and humbug except the dispensary and the »u& treasury. (Laughter.) An agricultur al and mechanical college and indus trial college they ceiled It; If it was. so the term meant experimentation and lndustry.\ The tfo best institu tions of this kind were the govern ment Indian colleges. This was the only stop that the United States govern ment has ever token that has civilized the Indians at all. They work with their hands one-half the time and study books the balance of the day. Mr. Hu 1st—Have yob ever been to Clemson'r \. ,. - Mr. Tillman—No, sir, I don’t need to go there to know it Is a failure. Mr. Tillman, continuing, said agri cultural education was a phantom , If disconnected from labor. Thcscleocos could be taught anywhere. But what docs Clemson try to do? Yale or Harvard could not have put Cut a more ambitious curriculum than did Clemson when it started up. They tacked on the sciences and art of war and engineering. It couldn’t teach this great branch and .have time for experimentation. Its an impossi bility. He could understand how the South Carolina college Could teach all the sciences of the mind, so as to tna. un old Koglish government to be today beat ever existed on the face of tho earth. They base their sutfrage on property. An educational qualification was never heard of In this country until Conneotlout and Massachusetts adopt ed it to include men from the polls in stead of admitting them thereto. Let us discriminate if we dare against tho negro and it will cause a high school for them to be erected by the Northern people on every 10 miles square-of this State. The negroes have ten times more 1c terest In learning to read and write than our white children. Prussia had not shouted for education to qualify her voters; but It was to make her soldiers better. Besides we can’t dis crlmiuate against the negro In higher education. The gentleman from Beau fort n«^d not have one moment’s fear of South Carolina daring to fall to take care of Ciatlin University. In 18ti2 an act was passed by the united States government to give 30,000 acres of land to each State to erect institu tions upon. Scott sold it, and Moses stole the money. Mr. Tillman told how the matter was brought about. Half of this fund wont to Ciatlin ; the other half goes to Clemson college. Then in 1892 congress gave each State the Hatch fund to establish an educa tional agricultural station. Five thousund of this was given to Ciatlin ; the rest went to Clemson or the South Carolina college, I don’t know^ which. Then came the Morrill fund appro priated in 1890, a large portion being required to be applied to colored education. The intention of Mr. Morrill was that the colored col leges should have the bulk of it, He (Tillman) had tried hard to get the fund from the government and the trouble was that South Carolina didn’t want to give the negroes more than hall of the money. He had 'to get a bill through both Houses in order to E et the fund. He had had to show pw generous South Carolina had been with the school funds towards the negroes, when she was not compelled 10 be so. There was a provision In both the Hatch and Morill bills which allowed congress to recall the appro- { irlations. Now let us dare not to be iberal with Ciatlin and sue what will happen ? Now sir, I for one, am not In favor of having in the Constitution any of the State colleges. It might be wis dom to always give Ciatlin half of this 1890 fund, and put it in the constitu tion. But that college is provided for and no power in this country can take it away. Some action ought to be token either by the general assembly or by this body for our higher institu tions. Think for a moment how much money has been spent for our higher institutions! What comes in in the way of tuetion funds? Is the State to furnish all this for nothing? Three hundred students there are at Clum- son. How many of them pay tuition and how much ? I am told that it is 130 or S40 a year. What about “ equal rights toall^nd special privileges to none ?" It is the same at the State eeUege. The amount of tuition paid oould be published tomorrow It would I say now the cause an earthquake of indignation. The Citadel academy was doing a good work. The bovs are taken there and furnished board and all. There they get a superb education and are taught the knowledge of the soldier— the art of war. In case a great emer gency should arise, we would have trained officers to command our troops and not greenhorns, it was originally established to train officers for the ex pected war. South Carolina may neei some more of those officers. South Carolina was ambitious indeed. Didn’t they remember that she commenced this very building to make it the capi tal of the Southern Confederacy ? The citadel deserved earnest support. No autre so though In Its sphere than Clemson does in its. But Clemson won’t stay within its sphere! The citadel’s graduates paid the State back la work. When Clemson was lint established 800 boys martioulated. The State emptied her wealth into the lap of . and yet it was the strangest let a man say: “I’m an educated man." , .. Clemson violates her very founda tion principles when she trie*to teach literary branches. The only thing to do in experimenta tion is to study piges, their kinds and pecularities, and such things. Yet Clemson was going ahead trying to tko soldiers. Take a boy in this fque institution—for it is most uni que—he Is studying phillsophy or rhetoric, absorbed, trying to under stand, and bare comes the bell and tells him it is time to ''feed tho hogs. (Laughter.) Clemson in its place would do great good, if it don ? t have too much “ animus paratic and so on, dum, spiro, etc.,’’ it woirld be all right. He had thought sometimes that tho man who jinvented this State motto mubt have come from Gascony in France. By 1900 .South Carolina will be get ting *'>0,000 school money from the Federal government. The State should divide this money among her collegi ate institutions. These funds could 00 utilized. The State should be more liberal with the Ciatlin University. He was in favor of the United States government system of industrial educa tlon. What business has Clemson with the privilege tax fund, I’d like to know ; when she has those other funds? Money was poured out up there like we had it by the wagon loads. What does this word “scholarship” mean The alliance with its motto from Jef ferson “equal rights to all, specia privileges to none ” had a good deal to do with the establishment of Clemson Will the Slate come forward and add to the disparity by laying a tax to give free board and clotlfes ? . Is that special privileges to none? But to return to Clemson!--suppose these wise trustees carry out their theor; suppose every boy sent there can made a scientific chemist or botanist. Whatthen? The alhancomun thought they would come home and plow. Give a boy a smattering of higher educa tion and he’ll never do another lick of manual labor if he can help it. (Laughter.) Al,l liked to live by the sweat of somebody elso’s brow. He venture^ to predict that the majority of the students would turn out lawyers or something else instead of farmers. Ho thought it unconstitutional to work too much in the hot sun. (Laughter.' Ue thought the 2 mill tax and the $1 poll tax was enough. The liquor fund could go to nothing more appropriate. The phosphate royalty should be ap plied to it. If the people will take my advice, I would say to the schools to let the money go. He said the same thing about cotton faetoidcs There was no danger of the cloth market evef being glutted because the world would never cease to need skirts and chemises also. (luiugh ter.) Let’s try to find some means not da asked him to tell how they were ed ucating the boys at Clemson«ln accord ance with the object of the institation. Henator Tillman asked him to keep his seat and let him talk and be would tall him all about the matter. He would try to do so, too, in a way that would not “wound his feelings, because he knew that was the last thing ha would do.” Senator Tillman Went on to say that the free tuition at Clemson was allow ed by Mr. Clemson’s will and by the Legislature. If the gentleman bad been to Clemson he would not have uttered some of the unjust Criticisms he has Indulged in to-night, for his heart is always true when his eyes arc not blinded by prejudice, Mr. George Tillman said he knew all about such institutions and explain ed what he meant, citing several alleged agricultural and experimental colleges on the same order that be had inspected. Senator Tillman replied, saying that tho board had wrestled with the prob lem. If the students did manual labor all the time their brains would need sleep. Those boys were not afraid to work. And yet wo are twitted by a man who has' never seen it, yet who says that it Is a humbug and a far&e because we don’t make them work like dogs. I tell you now It is not what it should bo. There arc divisions in.the board, prejudices existing. I have been on the eve several times of asking the Legislature send there and Investi gate it, but I’ve wilted,' because I wanted to keep its dirty linen from being washed in public. The' students at Clemson knew as much about the science of war as the Citadel boys. The Citadel boys he wanted to see maintained. The farm ers had pledged their support to the old colleges. Because we want to put in our industri*! schools out of reach of political storms, they come -and tell you we must not. This reform conven tion for it is a Reform convention, and vou can’t deny it—will disgrace itself if it don't put them in the organic law. We can’t be educational iconoclasts either and break down old institutions. "Dum spiro spero, spes.” Yes, that is a splendid motto. Why should he riaiculed because fhy we are Jrv ; j-me to lax our landowners too heavily so as to found this grout common school sys tem in 48 hours. You say we must get ready for 1898. I am sorry to say anything about this sutfrage matttur hut 1 must do so. It is my duty. The sutfrage plan adopted is not “ tho entertainment to which South Carolina was invited,” to use Mr. Webster’s form of expression They were told that no white men would be disfranchised and that it would be done by honest constitutional methods. How does that sound along side the understanding clause ? It it adding hypocrisy to fraua and lying to hyprocrisy. The only way to have done it honestly was by quaUtied wo man’s suffrage. !: only mean to say that the people havt? been deceived. The admissions of the leaders on this floor and the thing on its face advor tlse to the world that, a ReppWloan ad ministration eaniay it out it it wishes to. One of the most distinguished Char leston gentlemen on the Uoofr had in timated in parliamentary language that he was in his dotage. Mr. Bryan—Did I-understand the gentleman to refer to me ? .Mr Tillman—Could all the adjectives 1 used apply to anyone else? (Loud laughter;) ^ dr. Bryan disclaimed any intentii of saying anything of that character. Mr. Tillmaq was glad to hear this from his Charleston friend. In con cluding he said : “ I have been try ing to find out whether I really was In my dotage or not, and I thank the gen tleman for assisting me. Mr. Bryan—I’m glad to assist you Laughter.)- * THE REPLY OF BEN TILLMAN Senator Tillman then took the floor and said he wished to answer some o) the severe criticisms of bis distin guished relative and colleague. He would cot attempt to follow him in all lis ramblings, for such he might term them. He wanted to speak of the col- eges. The section wanted to support them all. The State University in cluded the South Carolina College and Clailin as well. Clemson was separate. This criticism to-night reminds me of the articles that teemed in the news papers some years ago when the mat ter of educating the farmers was being*],p agitated. 1 might say it is all stale, jut I don’t like to use that term. The farmers had been liberal to themselves and to Clemson. Who paid the privilege tax? Tho farmers. That’s why they are allowed to take it. We demanded our owu money back W build our college, it comes with bad grace for any man anywhere to say we have no right to it. Mr. George Tillman—Let me inter rupt you. Haven’t you the fund from the government ? You don’t need it. Senator Tillman, continuing, said : The gentleman only shows how low an estimate the lawyers place on tbe4cind of education the farmers need. I say we won’t submit to the in dictation. Mr. George Tillman rune again and up with the march of progress we keeping •gn cheek would redden with the blush .His shame if he thought any member of that convention would refuse to sup port. all the educational institutions. All I’ve got to say about the criticisms on the suffrage matter is that it is now past. I want to say, however, that nobody has ever pledged that we would do what has been said on this tloor to night we would do. That was never said in tbp public press. No Reform leader has ever uttered such words as have been attributed to them. The people had been told that the Missis* sippi plan would be taken if something better could not be devised. THE HOMESrKAl> gUKSTION. Governor Evans Makes a Strong I'lea Tor the Women and Chil dren. The homestead exemption came up for consideration, and Mr. Siign offered an amendment, which provided that “ no waiver, mortgage or other lien shall bo permitted to defeat the exemption In lands after the home stead has been claimed.” This created an interesting debate, in which a num ber of lawyers too.r part. I’resident Evans took the Hour and addressed the convention as follows : Mr. I’resident and gentlemen, 1 feel deeply interested in this subject for the reason that it is the most im portant question that we have had to deal with. In all governments, in a despotism or a monarchy, the lands are held from the sovoreign ; the tile to all lands in a monarchy comes froth the king, and to perpetuate a mon archy the feudal system of tenure was adopted. To perpetuate a republic the underlying prHMMple ol~a republi can form of govdrninont, the founda tion stone 1 may say, is the patriotism of the people. Now patriotism is virtue, in a republic tiic people are sovereign, and the perpetuation of a republican form of government rests upon their patriotism. In South Caro lina the people are sovereign, and the title to all lands must be traced hack to the State. That being the case, what is the Jjjfgpry of homestead. Why does a republican form of government furnish a homestead to the citizen ? Congress passed a v homestead act giving to each man who would settle upon it 160 acres of land. The country was a vast plain—a wilderness—and it was thd intention of the government to attach him to the soil. Our State gives to the citizen a ^qmestead in lands for the purpose of planting theta the seeds of patriotism. ,Now, gentle men, the false theory of those who oppose this is this: They hold that a homestead is given to a poor man. I am not goin£ to speak for the poor man. I am -speaking for the young citizen who has not reached maturity.- 1" am speaking for the wif* and the mothers of the citizens, for that principlw with out which patriotism cannot be eh- gendered upon our soil. Who docs not know that the homeless man—the husbatid—the tenant who has been raised on a place that cannot be called home has not the love in his heart for his country as he who lives under his own vine and tig tree. Don’t you know that the man who owns his home is the bravest soldier in war ? Don't you know that hireling will always Tun at the point of the bayonet, when the man wpo lights forhisoWn home., will fight with the courage of the man who lovea^fiis country^? These gentlemen would haYo you believe that homestead was intended for a poor man. It is not true. If the homestead was intended for the poor man why don’t you allow the old bache lor and widower a homestead in his laud ? A Voice—A widower is entitled to * homestead. Gov. Evans—Yes,df he has anybody dependent upon him. Mr. W. D. Evans -And so is a bache lor under the same circumstances. \ Gov. Evans—Yes, if he has a sister or a niece or a nephew dependent upon him. This is for the benefit of those whom the State has guaranteed a home for. tho purpose of raising p&triota. The supreme court has practically nullified this constitution apd construed it against its express words. This constitution says that a man who is a bead uf a family shall have so much property exempt from a^tychment; levy and sale. ‘ The supreme court has decided that the homestead Is for the benefit of a man's wife and family. Every lawyer will admit that a man who holds property for the benefit of another is a trustee. Yet the supreme court got around it. They say, : f Oh, well; tha]t's verv true. He- is a trustee for „ thqee'peopfo, but the title is in him.” That Is true. Yet they say while it is , for ‘ your benefit in this case because the Con stitution does not say that the title does not change: that for that reason you cannot rob that man of his right I convent! to dispose of it. Isn’t that splitting hairs? The man is given exemption for the benefit of others, stad yet he Is allowed to destroy it in any way be sees fit. Where does the benefit come? Where is the wife add minbf child nefitted ? Where is the person for om you appropriatcr three mills to educate benefitted when a profligate father can come in and mortgage that homestead which he has wasted in debauchery ? He is a fine head of a family 1 ijfm’t you know that the con stitution never was intended simply to give that man exemption? The supremo court says it is simply a right of exemption. What is a nghtaLex- emption ? It Is a right that'anman has to come Into court and say to his creditors. “ You shall not take from my wife and children.” For whose benefit ? For his own ? all 1 He must come into oourt and say that there are people dependent upon him whom it ls*ihe duty of the State to maintain and support and give a home within her borders. Then why should they say that that ^msband can destroy that right of exemption by giving a mortgage to thD property? What’s the right of exemption then? Why, it Is a farce. Mr. Hutson—Where the party sells that property what becomes of the exemption ? Gov. Evans —No man has a right to mortgage that property which is set dent upon hiti>. Give them a real homestead o.f which the husband can not rob his wife and children. I would allow him to sell, but he would have to make them parties to- the contract. If you hold property as a trustee you know you can’t sell it. The homestead is not held in his right. You cannot sell property and defeat a wife’s right of dower. When a manl marries he has a title absolute, and yet the law says if you have got a wife dependent upon you she shall have^one-third of that estate for life. It is a right, and an inchoate rights it Is true, and he cannot sell it without her consent. That is the only thing we want to do for the widows and wives and orphan children, and you can’t get around it. If it is for a man’s benefit, let it be for his benfil. Mr. Hutson—Will you have It so that a man can fyold all of his property subject to the right of homestead ?■ Gov. Evans--Yes, sir, I would have that .constitution to say that his pro perty should always be subject to his wife and children to homestead. Whatever he may show that he has wasted his home I would have the arm of the law to come in and say we will protect these people and nuturo patriotism in them, and say to tho creditors ‘hands off;’ this is for the young citizen of South Carolina. Mr. Hutson—That would beperpetua- t ng by feudal tenure ? Gov. Evans—No. sir; where does the fuedal system come in theta ? Mr. Hutson’—You would perpetuate land bolding for all time. ^ Gov. Evans—Doesn't the State own all the land ? Doesn't she reserve the right to eminent domain ? 1 would preserve for the States’citizens to keep it out of the hands of the capitalists and millionaires who are coming to it now. Look at Barnwell and Edge- field, Thousands and thousands, of acres of land being sold for mort gages held by Scotchmen and English- Mr. Ragsdale—Do you mean to say that the State owns the land ? Gov. Evans—Oh, yoir know what I mean. , Mr. Ragsdale—No, l do not. Gov. Evans—Then I am sorry for you. What's the use of you -lawyers getting up here and trying to bam- btKJzle the people when you know what I mean ? \ , Mr. Ragsdale—Has the State any longer any title to it ? Gov. Evans—She always reserves her right of eminent domain. Vou have to 'trace tbe title back to the Slate. - Mr r Ragsdale--When you have shown that tho State das parteownfiThettlle. how can you statp.Alrift the State is the owner ?i r Gov. Evans—I don't slate that the State is the owner; I said that she reserved this right. Now, if you art going to give a home stead, give it to the wife, and children and don't place it at the mercy of creditors who may be unjust. Here's a mac who goes into bankruptcy ; he has the right to mortgage that prop erty and defeat the rights of bis wife and children by that mortgage. Mr. Fatten—What amendment are you supporting ? Gov. Evans said th*t he couldn't agree to the amendment for the reasun that it operated to take away from the person lor whom tho homestead was’oreatod tm ir.right and vest it in those persons who arc fortunate enough to be of age, leaving the minor children and other figpendents entirely at the mercy of those from the law in tended to protect them, thereby de feating the purposes of the framers of the constitution and destroying the patriotism-of the citizen^ ■ You have said to that man that he did not hold tho title, and yet you wish to destroy your purpose by saying that while it’s for the benefit of de pendent persons that he has the right to use it as he sees fit and their right amounts to nothing. Our juprfeqje court held “ The right to homestead depends upon two conditions. There must be a head of a' family and there must be a dwelling house where he resides.” Those conditions must ob tain before he can secure the right to homestead. The object of tfte constitu tion is to to secure the homestead to tile, family. , . / Mr. Ragsdale—Tbiat la the old con-, stitdtion you a>-e quoting. GOv. Evans—Whor* the old constitu tion was framed they gave that right, and when the constitution was aippnd- ed tha*e v ords wore not materially changed. The supreme eourt has de stroyed tho intention of them. His time being extended at this point be continued : I simply want to say that there is no constitution in the United States where homestead L provided for, with one exception, can a man destroy that right by mortgage. -You have heard stood an officer of the law holding in his hand a writ of ejectment .to turn them out of house and home, and un derneath was written, “The Mprtg-J and failed, a age.” That Is the picture that would succeeded r” be the picture in South Carolinlt if this thing were togoon. That Is ^he condition you would perpetuate io South Carolina. Was that the inton- tioa of our fathers ? Was that the in tention of Thomas Jefferson' in pro moting a republican form of govern ment? Wasn’t it the intention that the homes should be In the hands of the people so that those little ones when they grew up might go back to the old homestead and return in mem ory to childhood days, when they drank out of the “old oaken bucket,” that ['climbed up the old trees, swung on the old garden gate, and be happy again Not at at their old home and. make pat dotic citizens. of arriving regiments hurried forward by the loyal governors for the coming conflict, and over all hung a palatable, ominous foreboding, felt nowhere more kneely than at the headquarters of the army, where I then held the position of military sec retary to Gen. Scott with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. About three o’clock in the afternoon of the day ip question the doorway was darkened by the shadow of a tall, gaunt form, and President Lincoln entered the office of the general-in-chlef. He wore a long linen duster soiled by dust and stained with sweat, his vest was unbuttoned, his pantaloons hung limp about his long, angular legs, and a thick coating of dust covered bis shoes. All in all, he looked the very picture of weari ness and disgust. Without writing for Gen. Scott to rise to ^eieoiue him, he sank wearily into the first chair to which he came, and, taking off his battered slouch bat, began wiping his face with a huge bandanna handker chief. Gen. Scott meanwhile had ^gained his feet and bowed courteously ... while • quizzical smile spread over his face, asked: “Can you tell me, Col. Hamilton, how it is that I was so long and you were so short and A STOftY OF LINCOLN. An Incident of Hia Unselfishness and Warm-Hearted Generosity. The following story of Abraham Lincoln’s gentle, generous conduct is narrated by Gen. Schuyler Hamilton, and is worthy of preservation : It was a blistering day in the hot mid summer of 1861, a fortnight before the first shock of arms at Bull Run, The Washington’ streets, ankle deep resounded with the “Tospeak frankly, Mr. Preiident T I said, “ I very promptly Informed the commissioner of pension that it was the president who had made himself the champion of this pdor woman’s case. You cotild not do that, of course, and they did not know you there, sir.” Tho president laughed, put the pa pers in his pocket, and, turning to oen. Scott, said : ^ “ I am told, generalfAhat it is one of our standing rules that when the "esident or a member of the cabinet omes to see you a member of your taff shall keep him company on his re* turn home. I should be glad to have Col. Hamilton go back, with me to-day.” 1 walked with the pres- - Accordingly ident to the, White portico we found an old Irish woman waiting. He went up to her, and, banding her the papers, said : “Here you are, my good woman. Your pension Is all right, and all you need do now is to go to-morrow morn ing at 9 o’clock and get ypur money. But from my own experience to-day I would advise you not to go before 10 o'clock. If you do you won’t find the officers there.” The poor creature caught the presi dent’s hand and covered it with kisses, tramp at the same time showering a thous and" battofies trad hlessingson bar benefactor’s bead. me,” he answered" gently freed himself p. “Thi his young man did the jHisiness deserves all the Don’t thank kindly, us he from her grasp here is the one who for you, and who thanks.’ And he stepped aside and seemed keenly to enjoy the fervency with which the old woman poured her store of benedictions upon me. Then re marking that he must go and tell Mrs Lincoln that it was all right, he bade me good-day and hurried away. .THE WAY THEY VOTED. old face showed plainly his surprise if not dismay at the president's unex pected appearance. “ Sit down, general, sit down,” said I’resident Lincoln, kindly, as he wiped the dust and moisture from his foce. “ It is too hot to stand on ceremony. I have only dropped in totell you that I have learned something new today." "What is that, Mr. Pressdent?” asked Gen. ScOtt, his composure grad ually returing. - . “That it is a great thing to be an officeholder,” President Lincoln went j on. “ Since nine o'clock this morning I have been trying my best to get an audience witu some clerk in the Pen sion office,hut without success. 1 have been up stairs and down stairs, from the ground tloor to the attic half a dozen times, and I am fagged out.'’ “Pbf$Sn me, Mr. President,” Gen. Iiici-essiiig the Pay of Delegates—Two Dollars Versus Four Dollars. The constitutional eoqveption has dodbled the psiy of its members, be ginning With - October 15th. The de bate was quite lively and occupied an entire evening, in which many of the members participated. Oui ispace will not admiteven a synopsis gf the debate, but the resqlts will prove interesting. meraheq^ fix^STTbe per dtem at #2 from the 10th of September until the 4th of October, when the recess took place, and at $4 from the 15th of October to the close of the session. The pay of the clerks and other attaches was raised in proportion, ranging from $2 to *'» per day. Mr. Nicholson began the tight by moving to strike out $4 after October 15th, and to reduce the pay of em ployees. This amendment caused the principal debate, and it” was finally .aid upon the table by the following vote : Yeas—Barry, Barton, Behre, Bobo, Brice, J. S.; Brice, T. VV.: Burn, Carver, Clayton, Cooper, DeHay, Bent, Derbam, Doyle, Dudley, Fitch, Gage Gamble,Garris,Gooding Graham, Har- llemphni, Henry/Hutson, rison, i 1 *?- Scott broke in, with a gentle wave'of the hand, “ but it is rather an uncom mon thing for tho President of the United States to become a solicitor of pensions. When you have any busi ness of that kind demanding attention send it to me, and Col. Hamilton will attend to it without delay.” “ I am sure that the claim is a just one,” the president continued, without noticing the general’^ interruption. “ for I have gone over the papers in the case with care.” Here hegirew a bulky package of papers from one of his pocket-t, and adjusting his steel- rimmed spectacles, went over them one by one. " You see. general, the appiic&ul is the widow of a corporal of infantry-w4»o was-killed by IduilfilLuiLns some twenty live years ago. She would have had her money long ago, but no- Georiga brought up here as “an ex- rought ample, and, wrmle I think South Caro lina is un example to Georgia in every respect, yet Georgia allows a man’s wife a homestead which cannot be touched without .her consent. All of these provisions are for the benefit of the wife and children and-not for the benefit of the husband. Th» con stitution says that this exemption was for the benefit of certain dependent persons—a part of the family. Don’t you give them something that really does not exist when you aliow the husband to mortgage without the^tt was all a mistake. Within twenty consent of the parties who are to be minutes all the statements and affida- protected? I saw a painting It the »vita had been verified and Ahe ease world's fair that struck me more! certified for body seems to have taken any interest in the case. She has oeen haunting the White House almost daily for weeks, until between you and me, 1 am afraid that Mrs- Lincoln is getting a trifle jealous. 1 am resolved to wind tho matter up one way or another to day, and I have promised the poor woman an answer at 4 o'clock. She.is waiting over at tliH" White House now. Between the two of them, I am afraid to go home without having finished the job.” and the president's eyes twinkled merrily. I had been an interested listener to this conversation, and when Gen. Scott called, “Col. Hamilton,” I was instantly at his elbow. • How long do you think it would take yofiT colonel, to get this through the pension office, asked the president. “ It should be done in half .an hour, Mr. President,” I replied, as I glanced over the papers to see if they were in proper form. “Wait here,” ladded, “and I will return in>twenty minutes, or. if you wish it, I will take the cer tificate to you at the White House and save you that much time.,” -r "No, no, my son,” Mr. Lincoln broke in. “ Bring them back hem-and I will wait for you.” v 7 i At that time the’pension office was lo cated in Seventeenth street, a little way from war the department, and in five minutes after leaving the president I was in the office of the commissioner. I dad not arrived a moment too soon, for the officials and clerks were cleaning their desks and preparing to quit work for the d#y. The commissioner po- litelyasked what'he could do for me. “ Did you see a tall, dark complex- ioned gentleman here to-dav ?” I an swered. “ He wore a linen duster and. sluch hat, and was interested in the E ension of a woman who lost her hus- and in th'e’Seminoie war.” “Oh, yes, I remember the man,” the commisfioner replied carelessly. “ He said he was a lawyer from the West, and has been bothering us all day." “ Well,” said I dryly, yoy have got yourself in a pretty flx. That man is President' Lincoln, and I have just promised him that I would bring him an answer from you inside of half an hour. He is waiting for it now in Gun. Scott’s office.” The change worked in the pension office by this brief announcement was qothing less than marvelous. Bells were rung, heads of divisions sunt for, and desks hastily unlocked, while clerks and messengers ran here ana there at the peril of life and limb. A dozen times, while, giving orders to his subordinates, the commissioner paused to apologize for the shabby treatment the president had received, and to beg me to explain to him that Ij^rveyT Johnson, Ktngh. MeGalla, Me McGowan, McKagun, McMa- hau, McMakin, Mitchell, Montgomery, , J. t> : Montgomery,AYJL; Moore, Mur ray, I a*ler, Parrott, Patton. I toad, J. H : Ho ifearn, Rogers, Rosborough, Uowltni, . Soariwrough, Singletary, SLlgh. Smith. A. J.; Smith, W. O.; Smoi k, Stackhouse, Stribling. Taylor, YoulvoinitZ. Waters, Wells, Wharton, Whipper, White, A. H.; White, S. E.; Woodward—67. Nays—President John Gary Evans, Ashe, Atkinson. Austin, Bowen. Brea- Z“ale, Buist. Connor, Douglass, Elird, E-itridge, Field. Gary. Glenu, J. P.; Gray, Hamel, Harris, Henderson, D. S.: Houser, Johnstone, George : Jones. Wilie: Keitt, Meares, Mo#er, Nichol son. Oils, Peake. Prince. Ragsdale, Ttllsselt. "Shuler, Sloan, Smith, R—bl: Sullivan, Tillman. B. R.;\Tillinan, G. Wilson, Informed of Mrs. Martin’s former mar riage, and eleven years after Martin’s reported death they were married. NokhingdUturbed their happiness until about ten years later, when Mr. Hyde Informed her that Martin was living in the suburbs of Brooklyn with a wife and children. Investigation proved that the man did live Fn Brooklyn as stated, and also that be had left the city in 1862 and enlisted in the army. “The case came up before the refeiee, and there Martin swore that he had never seen Mrs. Hyde; that he was a single man when he joined the army ; that ho married on his return for the first time, and bad since been a resident of Brooklyn, add made no concealment of his marriage. When Mrs. Hyde was sworn she called on God in the most solemn manner to witness that she had never seen Mr. _ Mar tin, awL when the two were con- House, and on the fronted with each other neither was in the slightest manner discoucurted, and repeated their denials of having ever met before. “ Former friends and acquaintances of both, however, swore that they had been married, nnd w> ro positive of theirUdentity. Afteraeuvfal Investiga tion and long cOnvrdtrmtien* the ruferto decided the prupendt •anee o! testi mony to be against tiie dufeuuant, and passed an order, which was approved by the Brooklyn city court, annulling the marriage. Mrs. Hyde had no children by her second marriage. Friends volunteered , assistance to enable her to carrry her case to the Superior court, but she concluded to abide by the decision of the. referee. —That which is popularly known as the “ funny bone,” just at the point of the elbow, is in reality not a bone at all, but a nerve which lies near the surface, and which, on getting a knock or blow, causes the well-known ting ling sensation in the arms and fingers. —At a hugging bee for the benefit of a church, a man while blind-folded hugged his wlfe*for several minutes without knowing who he was hugging. Wben he’did find out he wanted his 15 cents back. . ^ —It is always .best to water horses before feeding ttiutnr If. they are watered scuu after they hnve eaten, much 01 the grain will be washed out 0/ the stomach and do them no good. —Control your temper, if it does not obey you, it will govern you, —Never attempt to form an opinion of a woman's weight by her sighs. —Gtvi* -toeokiottas a chance. Don’t know more than he does too soon. —Josh Billings says he doesn't care how much people talk, if they say it in a few words. ST. VITUS DANCE. A Phyaicinn Prescrlbea Dr. Mllnn’ Restorative Nervine. Dr. Miles Medical Co.. Elkhart, Ind.: My daughter Mattie. a«ed 14, was afflicted last spring with St. Vitus dance and ner vousness, her entire right side *as numb and nearly paralysed. VJfe consultod a phy- per D.^ Timmerman. Wiggins, Stanyarno/Winkler—i”. Those voting-aye favored *4 diem, while the nays favored $2. Mr. Hay ns worth, of Greenville, was paired with Mr. Wigg, of Beaufort, or otherwise he would have vbted hno.” An effort was made to recommit the ordinance, which was led by Mr. Geo. JohqBtqne, who also moved to turn over the .'KW.bOO appropriation to the employees and adjourn. The motion to recommit was defeated by a votoof 72 to 42. Mr. Stanyarne Wilson moved m *- :.-V sli'iuu uiivl ho presuril>ed Dr. Milos' Restora- tivc Nervine. Slio U*>k throe bottles before we saw any certain sL’iis of Improvement. 1>l after that sou bcgfin to improve very fas* and I now think sho is entirely cured. 8!ie has taken nine bottles of the Nervine, hill hoolner medicine of any kind. Knox, Ind .Jan. h. W. lloSTBrTBK. physicians prcscLho Dr."MilesT Remedies hi’calise t hey .ttc known to be the rerihlt of tho Ion? practice ami experience of one of the brl^lile'it. tnehils’ht of thetr profeah.-i, and urn carefully compounded by expe.i- enced chemists, In exact accordance with Dr. Miles' prescriptions, os Used In his practice to amend by fixing the pay for the en-^ 0 n sale at all druggists. Write for Dr. Dr. beg a all a forcibly than anything. It depicted the interior of a cottage in which a man was propped up on a pillow, hold ing bin head, and his little ones weep ing around him, and, gentlemen of the ini, at the foot of the bed there payment. Before the promised half hour had expired every thing had been properly signed^aod executed, and I had placed the final papers in the hands of the president. He looked them over carefully to make sure that they were right, and then, tire session at $2 pur day, which created a great deal of confusion. The final vote was taken on a motion to table Mr. Wilson's ameqdiuent, and resulted us follows i Yeas—Barry, Barton, Behre, Bobo, Bowen, Brice. J. S.; Brice, T. W.; Burn, Cantey, Carver, Clayton, Cooper, DeHay, Dudley, Fitch, Gage, Gamble, Garris, Gilland, Graham, Harris, Hay, Hemphill, Henry, Hutson, Jorvey* Johnson. T. E ; Kennedy, jE J.; Klugh, MeCalla. McCasiau, McGowan, McKagen; McMahan,^ McMakin, Mitchell, MontgomeryJT D.; Mont gomery, W* Jn-MourGfOiiver, Parler, Parrott, Read, J. [ H.; Redfearn, Rogers, Rosborough, Rowland, Scar borough, Singletary, Sligh, Sma is, Smith, A. J.; Smith, R. F. ; Smith, W. C.; Srnoak, Stribling, Taylor, von- Kolnitz, Waters, Wells, Whipper, Whiter*A. H.; White, S. E.; Wilson, W1 B. ; Woodward—64. Nays—President John Gary Evans, Alexander, Atkinson, Austin, Bow man, Cdnnor. Douglass, Eflrd, Field, Floyd, (lary, Glenn, J. L.; Glenn, J. P.; Gray, Hamel, Henderson, D.S.; Homer, Johnstone, George; Keitt, Kennedy, J. \V.; M.cWhite, Meares, Mower, Nicholson, Otts, Patterson, Russell, Shuler, Sloan, Talbert, Tillman, B. R.: Tillman, G. D.; Watson, Wiggins, Wilson, Stanyarne—39. A PECULIAR MVORCE CASE. They Doth Parties in Interest Swore Hat I Never Met Ueibre. -—“The an pals of the divorea courts contain manyjTurious histories,’’ said an old lawyer recently to the Wash ington Post, “ but to me the most re markable case that I ever beard of was tried in Kings county, New York, a dozot^years ago. Both parties were prominent In society, and for some time the milter was. kept a secret. Mrs. Martin was a young wife, and mother of one child, whoq. In 1862, her husband enlisted la the .Union army. She heard from him at'inter vals of moreThan a year, and then fol lowed a long period of silence. Next she received the intelligence of his death. Mrs. Martin donned widow’s weeds, and while mourhing her hus band’s death her child died. She then took up_ her residence with friends until 1873, when she received the At tentions of a Mr. Hyde, a well known business man, and a widower with seven children. Theoourtobip extend ed over a period of eleven months, during which time Mr. Hyde was fully Miles' Book on the Heart and Nsrres. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Did. Dr. Miles’ Remedies Restore Health. -.We Desire To introduce our furniture business inhu-very community in the South ern States, and In order to do so in the quickest time, hftvte concluded to make some very liberal offers In bed room suites to secure at least on* customer at every post-office In the next HO days. Please read this advertisement carefully and send at once for one of ©ur special offers. 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