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I SHE HAVE HER ALL »■— — THE NOBLE SACRIFICE HRS. HART E. TILLMAN » MADE FOR HER COUNTRY H<*r Husband and Three Sons Were Killed in the War With Mexico While Fighting the Battles of Their Country and Now Sleep on .< .ill Null. nt below the speech of Han. . -v limoks in the House of i.tiitnes, of which lie was a on April It!, ISoG, advo- - .. pension for Mrs. Mary E. i.i .i. of Edgelield, whoso hua- hntei und three sons were ki/Jed in the Mexican war. Mrs. Tillman's hu>band was a second cousin of Sen ior B. R. Tillman. The father and 'wo sons were memhers of the im mortal Palmetto Regiment, while Xhe hird son was a member of a Ala- wtirn i eginjent, he being a resid|mt >' that St.ue when the war began. ' e in .s Tillman, a brother of Sen- '-Tillman, the first horn of the Iv. was also a member of the ' ■ 111 If. ciment, and gave up his ' . m t h>- war wit h Me\ h o. " w It h 1 he-*' of t h" husband sen- of Mrs. Mary E. TMJ* *'• *fj 'be l’a!:i.."e U.mim.nt • : ' .-f} tl." Sta f e House - It Ce’ lin'd.i Ml d’.:'.- ’ I • • »• -et.- name is net on it • • — ’at a of the 1 . ' - ■ n ' t 1 ’; t 'X i a k . 11 * d s-t '• ec iii an Alabama regi • ■ ' ' . r* -man Prooks* speech Is a s' eai.jii* nt etie. and We feel sure 1 ' P will be read w ith Interest t'a ! a mes* inspiring subject and ■ hard!.*] It masterly We doubt If - ncle farndy In the State lost rn i: v u • tubers in the Mexican war T i" an f a it'.!! > live Till- ■ t •' -11 bd in i' w hi. h shows ’ ’ ' ■ ’ " a k ,' i \ • p V ' e* 1c p.-o. .■ 1 ! 1 ■ •' . 1 e. -r ■ ' ’ . r 't.i’e an 1 ,• •' ’ ■ • 1 . i • 1 * • ‘ • r • i .) ( ■ i ■. i t 1 e • •() o . --teii.il ( .li.be of April Hi. IH'.U '*r- '’nil I 111 in:, t, need. The Interest I take In the passage of this bill for the relief of their wid owed mother Is but a poor reflection of the friendship borne to myself by her noble sons; but it constrains me to do that for her which she will not do for herself. She appeals not to your magnanimity. I appeal to both. I come before you begging for bread for the widow and the fatherless. She comes in confidence and dignity, as the Mother of this modern Grac chi, and demands that her name shall be inscribed in honor upon the stat utes of her country. The pittance of eight dollars per months, which is all that is granted by the bill, is less coveted by this lady than the official and recorded acknowledgement of her service to the State; and yet, sir, because a few dollars are involved—a sum less Mian a single hundred for an entire >ear—apprehension is expressed lest the pr^edent may prove dangerous i nthe future. Never since this Government was established has a claim identical with the peculiar circumstances of this been ptesented to the consideration of Congress. In all human probabil ity another like ever be pre sented, and if it should be, then those of us who admire the example of this mother,—those of us who, in our country’s extremity, would hold up her heroism as a precedent for every American mother to follow, will but i le y an honorable instinct, and sub serve the best interests of our re spective constituents, when W'* fol Id A the pro * ■ ,!.■ n*. v\ hit h. I tr is', is H. ' s ■ay to Eif c -tabli -lu *1. M r. Sp* j 1 or, H i" r e is a g n M «11 rn* > ■; i n V ' ll in virt ii" ■ t < ■ If i.- ! i • o* n : 1 : t > P- *1 S( ) far 1* - "> . *.'1 rt i •• •• * * * :, ‘ ; f ? .* - o' f' .tr 11 i t i»n s’ " i' "*. i! * *• ■ ^ * r'h * ;<»m in r» v a ’•1 1 to th. • -ii- . *ti "... •lit of n.* Oh »*\ S n.av b. •• nthf * ri..:l as to pr ♦* ii«! o .* p uM o • X' t lie !j v iis im.ta- * .* >Ti of tho n * .i tii.^ of ;iv ar;* e. It VA i) ul.l he (!"1 ei lit to point out t h !: , or the -*'*'*, * > n. or the article of th** ( 'oriM I it lit ion v. .hi* i h au’tiorizes * ti ♦ » pun Ei i'.' of t Eie pa: ntlii^!* which fin f* f{!> h t! i: s f ■t P i ’ " 1 but h r. puEi- !i* c Oil'. •rn;' [ W o' iM w Hi **r t Ele wre’* El «k I o E*v h is V n»1 . \» o iM convert in**. f'h Hi v lu < r »* th.tt por’ r :t t ( if the sht- '<>r • ! ** < • o:!i< TV * P 11 ! Tl* ■ nc to tEie \, , r» mil t of ^ , i W !• *h 1. L- >..., » or *h-i' Iii; M ’* i 1 i . . r T * , 1 "f I 1 !;. i r. r * *x. M. , h ■ • V» e 1 ! ' h - 1 v ' mind our friends here of the impor tant subject which was before us yes terday, and which will be before us again to-day. At the time this war was declared, In which this mother was rendered childless, I was present here. I foresaw the hearts which would be pained and tortured, and made to bleed, in consequence of it. She comes here pleading the loss of her children; but eighty thousand other mothers, whose children were as dear and precious to them as were these to their mother, fell in that war, and three hundred thousand hearts were made to mourn the loss of dear friends. Yet, sir, with these facts before us—for no statesman could have failed to see them —only fourteen members of this House were unwilling to enter upon that war, Sir, opposition to it was made a hiss ing and a by-word. Notwithstand ing the dreadful, the unutterable, and the fearful pain which it was known would bo inflicted upon the people of (his country and of Mexico, these sons volunteered to go to a foreign country to strike down their fe/.ow men, but they themselves were struck down. Mr. McMullin • I rise to a question of order. The bill before the House is a bill granting a pension to a cer tain lady of South Carolina, and the member from Ohio Is discussing the Mexican war, and that is not relevant to the matter undet consideration. The Speaker: In the opinion of Hie Chair, the gentleman from Ohio, is in order. The proposition is to grant a pension for -"ivins in the Mi ' n an war. and it is certainly in or !• r for Hie gi nib-man from Ohio to allude to it, so far as It*' has done at pP >'•!:(. Mr M'-Mullin: But not to discuss H.* U" rf s of tile a .*r Mr Sapp; I' never had any. Mr Biddings: It grieves ute to in ti.'-t pain upon my friend from Yir- g uin <)f all men living, he is the last mie whose feelings I would in jure. But, Mr Speaker, I wish to .inpress upon this House what lias e.-n urged here for fifteen years i change of our policy so as to avoi I war so that when w.- have national difficulties to settle we will arbitrate them as an honorable people and an Eton arable Government should do. whtiout she*l 1’ng blood, and without :• "V t.g pain upon tnoHo-rs or <h!l !'*n. <*r f- •o. !- or .- .* !i v.t.-t * \p* n». to ; tux ; enple 1 kmaw t: .. pain w • * • w must •o " • r 1 r ' o a I • . -1 i - ' * I A - he m ust b. Il.i* n ■ • ' • * :. •• •. fr * n N v r u* k ib a a in ’ a" . and I hive f * n ! tie w ' ti. :td‘' a wit * a and E.* r ( !. idren fat 1.* r!< ss and tar tie it ’ •» • !•» * • *'. i - ft hese MISLED BY T. B. FELDER (.BAFT IN THE CHAHI.KSTON M- x yCOH SYSTEM. Ueport Refutes All the Charges Made by (lie Governor in Message to the Last Legislature. "Your committee also had a meet- it.g in Charleston and as a result of that and other testimony along the same line taken in Columbia we are convipced that a regular system of graft exists and has existed for years m that city in connection with the work of the dispensary constables," su>s the (ommittee appointed by the last gotieral assembly to investigate the charges made by Governor Blease agai-nst the Ansel winding up com- missiou and former Attorney General Iaoii, in their report filed with the mu a t e Friday morning, and ordered printed in the journal. The majority report is signed by Senators Carlisle, Sullivan^nd Clif ton and Representatives J. J. Evans and \Y. L. Daniel, while a minority report signed by Representative Cary agrees in the findings of the majority with the exception of the testimony taken in Augusta and afterwards in ColumEda, which Mr. Cary does not think is relevant. The report, witli the exception that lb F. Arthur, when a mem ** r of tile A n s * • I i n i n n,. i s.-111 n, o v i •: c h; i r a > ■ l 111 * ■ S'.i'c. of Hie ehurg.s made '•> Go a t r or Bbut-o t’ a• Ho y are " w h*i. !> un.-upporied by Ho- t* -1 mi u\ and. therefore, w ;•!*♦•-it fnun !a- | on :*i be i • V'liip,*", Gen.-ral 1 a on and H.e no 'i.bei's of I !,*• Alltel i o::i ii.i--;**!!. Dr \Y. I Muri.t;., * lia.:aaa: .1. S Bin*'. A\• ry Ba•'*.u, .1,*!.n Mc Sw* eii, \ V 1, are , xoteu ated of all charges made against them. The eominiMee think- that Thos. B Febl* r misled them m his statements about wli.it his testimony would show wh.-n the committee went to Au- Mista. Ga . last summer to take his testimony. They, however, went to Augusta as they thought something would be gotten from Feller, and a-i he would not Culue to Hie state be - * iu«o fie fcarel arM-M and po-sible - i - t. a' i "ti 1- ' ■ ' •. \ . •ab -b. 1 t.'.tl.i- g. la He : t <*' Hie * "III III I I 1 • T’ • tr -t • • ‘y (rf e ..:t Is •• • • • , ' ■ I 1, . ■ . • •),*!• b> U..e . * • • i r at i Hie i. • p ,* •. *1 tie : i -• ' 1 •• -• • ion f ■ i . *... ■ • -• iu.on . ! 1 ' ■ .1 ! "f whe 1. Is li.adc a , j r •. of He* t ■ ; nrt. * ' ■ a 't k • I i • I. re ' Mat y K ‘i a i - ' • a 1 a 1.1 st and ' 'S' 1 > .'-(• •■ s - r ^ * i k >• r. 1 E" g < ' ’ 1 • i i" , 1 11 make '• a 'eu.irks *• xpi inati'ry of the • ’"s t N till! I’Eie bill Itaelf If • ■ t:,,:: mis r.-ptut of the ootn- ’ •• ’" wtiicli XX IS r» 'erred the po ■ ' n CM's Mary F T. 11 mart a r.-s ■' my 1:stf * r, w Em w hen Hie • - '‘"ti xx as made on the State of ' 1 ( ' tr ilitiii for troops for the '• ti war, gave to tEie service of .ry. every rrerr.her of lior \ a • ne titne capable of bearing •I J I f ev were three high-toned ■ 1 sons, and Hie Etusband of Eter tiogom. a * nt. hut not one returned to • i cm'her s tears, with the story ' 'b.- g illiintry of tier soldier boys. !.*■ bones of one now lie at Sal- • uiO'her f.-ll at Jalapa, the fath- ■- luried beside the castlel walln ' 1 '• rote an! ttie last reached the ’ "m e of Eiis early career and "U'h;ul ambition, at the cap- ' • •* eXi i'O ' b a strange and crushing fatal- ' I ' t)X e r x ' ! " e t Elat t tl Is h.'tr- ■ w iis rpouing for this ■ f"rgi-'n land, her only re- - n. in the discharge of tiu- '' hp was too young to per- ■ d wti eh were ik'volved upon *'in‘ i eu lienee of the ahsenc« of •i-r *'• others, by a fall from his ’mr-'e became the victim of confirm 'd pA/alysis This latly Is thus left ir tE/e decline of life, with a helpless ■-hjTd and an Infant daughter depend- efit upon her personal exertions for Hielr and her own support. This Is the narrative of her peti- tH»n. and upon it she builds the hope H'at her country w-ijl remember her sacrifices, and requite her services Bv the laws of nature, and of regu lated sorietv, the services of a minor ire due to its parent; and we, who are Hie Representatives of the conn- it-v which has been benefited by the p'ertinns of the children, ought, y not and will not forget the obligation we mV e tbe mother. In sunport of the farts set forth In Hie petition, it is my misfortune to he s iii chief Those whom the MHntirr gave to the service of her c* nrtrv were my immediate nelgh- h >•« and friends One of her sons volunteered in the Alabama regi ment and in the company command ed hv his uncle, Captain Gallman Tbr father and two other sons en rolled in my company and were mus tered Into the service of the United States st Charleston, and under my command. Considerations of personal attach ment might, possibly did, influence them in Joining the army. But, air. the love of our frlenda la after all but another name for the love of our country, for he who le Incapable of the Aral, will be anrely found rec reant In the boar of hla eoantry's i t g • - .1 pM - \\ !.* w • F • *. a, . u :. ul.tt**s a:. 1 n.i'i. !• ■ .t' ’ T1.1• r. i i• . - ,ig i when ’•<>rdi" u !h * . ri "ii. : ■ a n. ti !• n a "ti Hu* sEii't.* ef l ake Ciinstau''** had gull.* t" ».-» k h*T fiiit ine in Swlt/er tnl aril buirri • g bv scctdent. In • E.*' fatii ! > Hi w Er.i ti st.e wa» ti'Utest:- .it' !, that an assault was intended up"ti Ei. r natiw vill.ige. under Hm i"M-r uf night hEie t""k a h'>rse an 1 swam t Et .• * urr* nt of He Kh.ne. Htid b> l;.r timel) warning, saved her birthplace nnd people from sack and -launEtter An eq ie-trian monument was ere. te | to h'T tiouor. but her heto;>m Is to tEr.s day commemorat ed by a memorial more touching Each nigh as Ho* wafcEiman goes his round, w lien the Eiour of midnight arrives, he .alls aloud the name of her wtio three hundred years before, awoke tEie sleeping Inhabitants and rest tied them from danger. The hls- (< rian appri tir.ately says, that the fame and memory of that girl has given a tone and spirit of the youth of that little town, which is worth in Us defense a batallion of armed men. 1 but repeat tile story; it is for tEie gentlemen of Hie House to make the applications. It is proper that I should state that Hie petitioner Eias already received the bounty of the Government;’ but these allowances ceases on the -ItEi qf March next, when, unless this bill passes, she will he thrown upon the cold charities of the world. I have stated her case with as much brevky as a full understanding of her claim would permit, and L now appeal to every gentleman who hears me, to yield to the generous impulses which now swell their bosoms, to unite with me in passing this bill with a unani mity which will be as honorable to them as it will be gratifying to the petitioner. The claim is so just, so peculiar, that I regard the passage of the bill but as a matter of form, and I there fore ask for its third reading, with a view to its immediate passage. Mr. Mare: I have examined this hill and it simply proposes to pay to this lady eight dollars a month. Af ter the statement made by the gentle man from South Carolina, I am will ing that relief should be granted, and as the amount in the bill is small. I move that tlie word “eight” be stricken out, and that the word "fifty” be inserted in lieu thereof. Mr. Giddings: It is not in con sonance with my feelings to oppose the passage of this bill. Mr. Mace: I ask the gentleman from Ohio to yield to me a moment, that I may modify my amendment. Mr. Mace: At the suggestion of |tnany members, I will modify my amendment so as to make the pen- slop twenty dollars a month Mr. Giddings: I feel disposed, on the present occasion, rather than op pose the passage of this bill, to re ' ■ .i ii • ■ ‘ j i .u.r.g to tti w <■,r- i . i . it.c - „: ! • r x* U b t E..-y f. ; 1 'i 1 ' Hi.* f xi ' * t" A-r.' uv tEi.it Hiv-t* - nu Went to a for»"rn ci-untry nnd '■tv* I .it '* \A by -ir. to ctig.igf* ir, ' •* ! '• - * -' t of xx xr to m u r Ft t En 1 r :*,. > a men, not E/cCautte tfi.-y had • *"n** ub any Injury, not be* a use th«* P*■<>pI•• of M.-xleo had In ati> manner * ff*■ ti*!•• d u«. not b.-i'aiiBc Hi.-v had de tracted from our happin.-BH or Inter est. hut for the purpose, »hu h had !*'en often avowed, to extend the in .stitutlon of slavery into Mexico Sir, I only rise to renew Hie inti tuatiou which I made yesterday that :t Is time for the people of this na tion to reform the policy of their Government, to seek a course ot peace and natioaal arbitration, to disband tEieir army, lay by the most of their navy, and pursue a course w tilt h shall save the nation from the flood of expenditures, extravagance, and corruption which are sweeping over It, save our people from the suf fering to wtiich human nature is ex posed in consequence of war, and pr*' vent such a state of suffering as that to wtiich the gentleman from South Carolina Etas alluded In such eloquent terms I have no objection to the amendment of the gentleman from Indiana as modified, Mr. Orr: TEie amendment that has Emeu suggested by the gentleman from Indiana emanates, I have no doubt, from himself, and from the generosity of his nature, responding to tiiia application. It is for the House to determine whether they will hdopt the amendment suggested by him of giving twenty dollars per month, or will fail back upon the or iginal report. The House can take its choice. I think this lady is en titled to some relief at the hands of this House, she having given to the service of the country her husband and three of her sons. I demand the previous question on the engross ment and. third reading of the bill. Mr. Kennett: I would inquire what pension the committee recom mends? ’ Mr. Orr: Eight dollars per month. Mr. Matterson: I ask that the re port may be read. The Speaker • The Chair is in formed there is no report. Mr. Brooks: The committee have reported by bill and reported unani mously. The previous question was second ed. and the main question ordered. The firat question being on Mr. Mace’s amendment, and it was agreed to. The bill was then ordered to be en grossed and read a third time; and being engrossed, it was accordingly redd the third time. Mr Brooks: I ask for the pre vious question on the paasage of the bill. The previous question was second ed. and the main question ordered; and under the operation of the pre vious question the bill was passed. Mr. Brooks moved to reconsider Mini I D H MHEK HL I WED? The (JueMion Dt-baU-U at la-n^th j U Mate Sx-nat**. V.o-a of Tl. irs'lav u.oiuiiig &«•!»*.on was consumed . v a debut** on Ho* Dennis bill to plat** a tax on timber in Hi:« State, requiring timber cu: in •■a* ti county to bo entered in the tax books as personal properly Senator \pp« lt offer* d an amendment, mak ing Hu* bill apply only to limner cut from Hie noil of another. The amend ment w aa voted down. The finance committee amended the bill so that it would not apply to individuals nr corporations cutting or manufactur ing lumber for local purposes. During the debate on the Dennis timEier tax bill Senator Dennts at tacked D \V. Alder*.an of Alcoiu and said that he represented the on!/ orporation opposing the bill He *'harged that letters had been writ ten to several senators by Mr. Alder man "Are you going to let D. \Y Alderman run tEiis legislature'.’” 'honied Senator Dennis. He said that Mr Alderman’s lum- ' *t carts destroyed the roads and that he was a gnat detriment to Clarendon county. Senator Appelt from that county defended Mr. Al derman, referring to him as one of the best citizens in the State and si> ing that he had a perfect right to s; eak for him it would be time for him or any other to leave the State. —— Body Found Beside Tracks. After an all-night search, the body of Mrs. R R. Kime, of Atlanta, wafi found eight miles from Kissimmee, Fla., lying beside the Atlantic Coast Line trasks. $t is thought that Mrs. Kime fell from the train while pass ing from the sleeping car to the day coach, where ^»er husband, Dr. Kime, was attending an injured man. No one saw her fall. The Kimes were en route to Lakeland. Lynchburg Over in Russia. A double lynching occurred Thursday near Kharkov, Russia. A mob .of .',000 peasants stormed the jail, demolished the buildings, seiz ed a horse thief and lyinched him Then they proceeded to the police depot and repeated the performance with another horse thief, who was< confined there. Blew l’p Her House. At Lynchburg, Va., although Mrs. George M. Jones, a ealthy woman eighty years old, was blown out of her bed Thursday night by a dyna mite explosion, which wrecked her home, the shock did no harm. The police say It was an attempt at mur der the vote by which the bill was passed, and also moved to lay the motion to reconsider on the table; which lat ter motion was to. MURUER HE LINCOLN ACTOR IN THE OLD THEATRE TELL Of TRAGEDY TALKS OF FATAL NIGHT E. A. Emerson, Who Flayed Fart of I.*ord Dundreary in the American Cousin (he Night the Fresident Was Shot, Recalls Vividly All In cidents of the Awful Tragtsly Be In nd nis desk in the olfiee of ln> art glass establishment at mo G Si.! northwest, in Waslungion, as mu*Ti J ngros,'*'.! m the business of to-day as 1 any youtbtul apprentice, sits the last human link between the present and Hie greatest tragedy of American his tory, says a Washington dispatch to the Chicago Daily News. He Is E. A Emerson, last of the leading actors in Hie troupe that played "The Ameri can Cousin'’ at the old Ford Theatre, An Washington, on that fatal night in April, 1 sf,:,, when the bullet of Wilkes Booth took away the life of Fresident Lincoln and tumbled the country into chaos Mr. Fmerson appeared on that orcasion In the role *il Lord Dundreary, the dan lified and ‘* in * * 11 o* ■ I *• d Lni'li'h "swell", prol*- *''1\ Ho* best known and certainly Hi*' iiio-t ;ii*; ular role in tin* play. "I was not on Hie s'ac*' at Hi*' rime of Hie tragedy." s.i.d Mr. Eiiier.-un I i * * **n H y. "It is marly half a cen-I turv ago. but tli*' ev.nts w*"*' mi ^ printed to** deeply , MI Inv ,,,m.i f nr I ">** ever to fnrg* t them it was Jos' after the beginning of Hie third ami j last act and I whs leaning up against a piece of scenery In tEie wings, wait ing for my cue to go on, wEieii I heard a sliot. "Truth compels me to iay that this caused not the slightest ripple of e\- ctement among a s hack of th** stage TEi**re were, we knew, a score f eauses In all the various parapher nalia of the stage rm'chatrsm that v !.' '.ii. *•• a -**'; r : I hkf t hat Wf "• t !.' H * )**■ xx * hi* r* ■! for a m< .in.'iit Hie ap; ariMon * *:i the h t .i « • of a vx E.o . I In': ' * o*..; Ho • r • • * r' ag t -oiiicH . 11( K W" ' ■"1' 1 ’ 'T * I.- * G !• ’ “tan* ! 1 hu i V "'I III ' 1 - t r • in. r tile '.* * tr ha4 "I-* 1 1 ,*i to all ! Hie B r. sulfur vx a « : n T hr Eio'l'f 1 most of Hi** a * t,.r-( I am sur.- oi.vE.t. f * a a ff * nr m nt »*fl. 1 Ei a * i * wa- 'usf s *me prearrang'd pttrl >"*■ dernonstrat on Fvcn tEie sigEit of a n an dashing through Hie w ngs did not Eirhig u** to any realization of the truth "TEien so Idenly there sped through the troupe gathered on the atage and in tEie wings the cry. The Fresident ■ ■ hot'' "Then, Indeed there waa confusion worse than confounded a veritable w Ei I rl pool of actors, supers, police men hurrying on the track of Booth, even some of the audience, all mixed In one Inextricable chaos of mad hu manity on the stage Even then, In the hysteria of the moment, the cur tain waa not run down and it waa some minutes after the President was taken from his box before It fell Meantime from the stage we could see them tearing the martyred man’s clothing from him In a mad spar^n for the wound even as they bore him away "A little while later I went to the ''ox the President had occupied. Just to the side of the chair In which he tiad sat I found a crumpled program. I am confident though I have no ab solute proof —that it was the pro gram lie had In his hand wli**n the fatal Eniih't struck him, and in the agony of the shock he t rumbled and dropped it. Here it is.” Mr. KmerFon held up a framed pro gram of the play. It was yellow with age*. On it was a dark minister spot about the size of a dime. “When I picked it up,” continued Mr. Emerson, "that spot was on it— wet. Of course I cannot say certain ly, but I am convinced that it was a drop of the life blood of President Lincoln.” "I was well acquainted with young Booth," Mr. Emerson c'orttinued, when asked about his knowledge of the man responsible for the tragedy. "I had played with him in theatres all over the country. 0ne Incident [ recall very vividly, occurring the morning before the fatal night; a certain case I have at my house, snapped into four pieces, will ever make me mindful of it. That morn ing as I stood before the stage door of the treatre Wilkes Booth came up to me: He was in a highly nervous state. As he stopped and spoke he snatched my cane from my nanff, and, with anagitated gp°ture, swung it over behind his shoulders. “ ‘Do you know what that man has done?” he cried, almost hysterically. "I knew to whom he referred, for Lincoln had been an obsession with him ever since Lee had evacuated Richmond a fortnight before " ‘He went down to Richmond yes terday,’ Booth continued, ‘sat in Pres ident Davis’ chair and put hia feet on President Davis' desk. Somebody ought to kill him!' "With that he brought hla two hands, holding the ends of the cane, down with auch force that R snap ped In fonr pieces I gathered them op. Intending to have them repaired. READY FOR TAFT TO SIGN SENATE PASSES MEASURE WITH OUT ROLL CALL. e Would Prohibit Interstate Shipment of Intoxicating Liquor* Intended , for Unlawful Sale. The United State* Senate Monday by a viva voce vote, passed the Webb liquor bill already passed by the House as a substitute for the Ken- yon-Sheppard bill. The Webb bill would prohibit shipments of intoxi eating liquors front one state to an othtr whin intended to be receiver, oi >oi*j in violation of the law of the state to vvhii h th*- .shipnn-nt is made. Friemi.-j of the legislation now wifi '< * k to li.tvc th** Ho ise eoircur in Hie Senate loi), w-huh bitters from tho l)iil pit'.'i'il bv the House only in number. >1hiu1(1 that it*; done tho hills will not be considered In confer ence, hut the measure passed by tlm Senate will go to the President tot his signature. The substitution of the Webb bill for Hie Kenyon-Sheppard bill cam** at Hit* (lose uf prolonged debate and was by viva voce vote, no roll tail being demanded. Senator Sheppard during th** day had failed to get un animous consent for Hu* subst it tr i*.i. ot the MeliEt toll [or ttu* measure of whicEi tie was a joint author. Senator Kenyon, co author of Ho Senate b 11. (losod the debate Ely ask- in: that the W.-hh tell he suhstitut* *1. a- th** o! tl- r of the d,ty did not pe;- mil the voting on He* Webb b.ll a . an iii*!' p'-ndi-nt measure The vot* was tir.-t u; on Ho* perfet tiou of th** K* : > "it Sheppard hill. By a vote of G l to 211 the Sen it.* agr'e*l to tli.* comniitte amendment, adding a section to tEie hill, xxhalt provided in terms that intoxicating liquors should become Subject to state laws on crossing state boun daries. S.-nator Hitchcock's amendment to except liquor intended for personal ".so was defeated without a roll call. Hiul one by ls**aator O Gorman ex cepting liquor intended for personal and for sacramental use was l/ewisx- I i *• 1 * at*'d. 'll to .'*o Senator bG-ovon succeeded in hav - * it g tiis measure am* uded to hecoiut' * p* lativ** J ii I v 1. I'll Th* r •• ti p* i*-, S* na'or Gal! nger ash* I for H.e su'i -tit III oil of the U ebb 1)111 for th*- Sen a'** :n • a - u re lie I. k < * ,s** ? . c eded m having tEie title amend* <t so as to bring the houses In a<ct>*J ♦•xc ; t as to tit** nuniExT of the bl".s but ke; t Hient as they were after th* event* that followed. "I tried to quiet him, telling 'bias the war was over and that such talk was intemperate, tf not dangerous. But It never occurred to me that ha had any Idea of putting that thought into execution, for Booth waa always a wild Impetuous talker ” Mr Emerson, who la the last sur viving niemt*er of the troupe that held the hoards on that fateful n ght. was born In Alexandria. Va., aeventv- three years ago. He was taken to Louis, Mo . by his parents at an early age hut In roiith return to (he •aer and went on the stage, playing wltw the Booths. Charlotte Cushman amf other celebrities of that long ago* day. He was for several year* be fore the war ami during that eontlliA In the companies of the famous man ager, Ford, of Baltimore, and also played in the companies of the elder Wallack. After the tragedy of that nlghttrj April, i S6 r i, he gave up the stage, going into the bookselling buslnes* in Lynchburg. Ya., for many years More than half a score of years ago he returned to Washington, where ho founded a stained glass works, of which thriving concern he Ms the head. Despite hia years he ts tn as fell possession of ail his powers as he was thirty years ago. He dis courses on the events of that terrible night with a fluency and correctness that show not only a memory unim paired, but also the Indelllble impres sion that was made upon him. On not one single point was his memory at fault. "It all seems to me as though it waa last night." he said Fell Five Handred Feet. At Mansfield, England, thirteen men were killed and a number were hurt at the Bolsover colliery, because of the snapping of a chain to which was suspended a bucket containing RfwY gallons of water. The bucket crashed down the 500-foot shaft, at the bottom of which the men were working. Wounded Negro Was Hanged. At Collins, Miss., Rant Seymour, & negro paralyzed, was lifted from hia cot Monday and carried to the gal lows to be hanged. Seymour had es caped Jail. He was tracked by blood hounds who tore and mutilated him. He was charged with the murder of William T^vwsrv and W T John*. ♦♦■*♦■■ Killed Three Laborers. At Evansville, Ind^ Afctt Jen Beh- ren, 23 years old, sMtof dt fruperln- tendent of a wood-working plant owned by his ftUhsr, B. F. Von Beh— ren, shot and killed three negro la borers Saturday. He Mdd they hndf threatened to kill him. Von Beh ran was arrested.