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ROBERTS IS T
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Utah flan Denied Seai
Yote of 2
ADOPT MAJORITY REPORT
Fifty Members Were Willing to
Admit and Then Expel?Seat
Is Now Vacant.
Th9 ease of Brigham H. Roberts,
tbe Mormon representative-elect from
Utah, which had occupied so much of
the attention of the house since the
assembling of congress, was decided
Thursday by the adoptionof a resolution
to exclude him by a vote of 268 to 50.
The euct language of the. resolution
was as follows:
"That under the facts and cir- 1
cumstances of the case Brigham
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H. liODCrtS, repreecuu?ii*o-^icv?
from the state of Utah, ought not
to have or hold a seat iu the house
of representatives, and that the
seat to which he was elected is
hereby declared vacant."
The amendment to expel Mr. Roberts
without seating him offered by
Mr. Laoey was ruled out on a point of
order, and the house only voted upon
the resolution of the majority and
minority of the committee. The latter,
- to seat and then expel Mr. Roberts,
was defeated 81 to 244.
An analysis of this vote shows that
170 Republicans, 72 Democrats and 2
Populists voted against it and 71 Democrats,
6 Republicans, 2 Populists and
2 silver Republicans voted for it.
The majority resolution?to exclude
Mr. Roberts and declare the seat vacant?were
adopted, 268 to 50. The
affirmative vote was divided as follows:
Republicaup, 168; Democrats,
96; Populists, 4, while the negative
vote was: Democrats, 47; silver Republicans,
2; Populists, 1. There
were a score of speakers during the
* day. Mr. Roberts was present throughout
the session, and only left after
the result of the last vote had been
announced. As he did so he gave out
a statement justifying his retention of
his plural wives on the ground that
his moral obligation was more binding
upon his conscience than the technical
obedience to statutory law, and saying
that there was little excuse for the
extraordinary efforts to crush a system
already abandoned and practically
dead.
He says he was a martyr to a spasm
of prejudice. He wouid not, he said,
attempt to run for congress again, ah
though he would go back home with
a light heart confident of the future.
Mr. Talbert-, of South Carolina, said
that in a case of such abnor&al and defiant
immorality technicalities should
not weigh. Representing the constituency
he did, he said, he should vote
against Roberts, first, last and all the
time.
Mr. Adams, of Georgia, said violation
of the strive against unlawful
cohabitation entitled the offender to
membership in the penitentiary rather
than the house of representative.
Mr. Grosvenor, of Ohio, supported
the views of the majority in favor of
exclusion.
Mr. Morris, of Minnesota, a member
of the special committve which investigated
the Roberts case, and who
signed the majority report, advocated
its adoption in an hour's speech. If
the constitutional qualifications oould
not be added to, s?ia he, the house
would be compelled to admit a driveling
idiot, a base traitor or a redhanded
murderer. The supreme court
had held that polygamy was not a religious
tenet.
Mr. DeArmond, of Missouri, closed
the debate on behalf of the minority J
committee with a forty-minute speech.
The argument of the majority that the
method of turning Mr. Roberts out
mattered not was the argument of
Judge Lynch, he said. When he decided
that a man should be hung, he
also said it was immaterial how he
hung. Mr. LeArmond scored those
who had unnecessarily abused Mr.
Roberts. He would scorn as beneath
him and beneath contempt an effort to
evoke applause by denunciation.
"But let it be not understood by
some carping critic that I favor
polygamy. I oppose it; I scorn it,"
BOER POSITION TAKEN,
General Warren's Loss Is Tho'ocht to Be
Heavy at Spionkop.
The war office at London has issued
the following dispatch from Spearman's
camp, dated January 25th:
"General Warren's troops last night
occupied Spionkop, surprising the
small garrison, who fled. It has been
held by us all day, though we were
heavily attacked, especially by a very
annoying shell fire. 14fear our casualties
are considerable and' I have to
inform you with regret that General
Woodgate was dangerously wounded.
General Warren is of the opinion that
he has rendered the enemy's position i
untenable. The men are splendid." j
Resolution Condemning Congress.
In the house of the Texas legislature
Friday a resolution was introduced
condemning congress for its course in
the Brigbam H. Robert's ease. It was
referred to a committee to be reported
on as soon as possible.
Plague Spreads In Honolulu.
The steamer Miowera, which arrived
at Victoria, B. C., Friday from Australia,
reports that thii ty-nine deaths have
thus far occurred at Honolulu from
bubonic plague.
War Veteran Dead.
CoIodoI W, L. Doss, a veteran of
the Mexican and civil wars, died at
West Point, Miss., Thursday, after an
ill of many weeks, from complicated
stomach troubles. He was widely
known throughout the south.
Separate Car Bill Passed.
The bill providing for separate cars
for whites and negroes on the railways
in Virginia passed the Virginia senate
Thursday afternoou without a dissentiog
vote and as it came from the house.
The governor will approve it
URNED DOWN
t In the House By a
;68 to 50.
said ho, "but I do not feel it necessary
in order to show how good I am,
how I love mbtherhood aud chastity to
lend myself to cheap abuse which requires
neither ability nor courage."
This utterance drew forth a round
of applause.
Mr. Lanham, of Texas, closed the
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aeoaie in Deuau 01 me majurnj icw
lations. Ho said we aro not here to
impose moral or religious tests. We
are cheerful to accord to the people of
Utah all the privileges and immunities
of citizens of sovereign states. They
may elect whomsoever they will. Mormon
or Gentile, but he must not be a
polygamist.
The final vote was then taken and
the announcement of the result was
greeted with cheers.
' QUAKER DEMOCRATS
Agree On Bryan In Advance For
Presidential Candidate In
Coming Campaign.
The Pennsylvania state Democratic
committee, at a>meetiug at Harrisburg
Thursday, agreed to makeW. J. Bryan
its choiee for the presidency in 1900.
This action was taken by the committee
while Colonel Bryan was on his way to
Harrisburg from New York to attend
the meeting and confer with the party
leaders.
This is probably the first time in the
party's history that the Democrats of
Pennsylvania have indicated their
choice for president in advance of the
state convention. There was a large
attendance of Democrats from all over
the state to meet Bryan and hear him
/liannaa +Via iacnaa r?r? whir?h the pnm
ing campaign will be waged.
The etate convention will be held in
Harrisburg on April 5th, and will
adopt a platform along the lines laid
down by the Nebraskan in his speech
Thursday night before 5,000 people
at Kelker street hall. The platform
will indorse the Chicago declaration
of principles, denounce the trusts and
imperialism, advocate ballot reform
and pure elections and condemn machine
politicians. The convention will
also nominate candidates for auditor
general, congressman at large, the
presidential electors and elect eight
delegates to the national convention.
BEITZ AS A POET.
He Geti Off a Parody on Kipling's "Recessional."
F. W. Eeitz, the Transvaal state
secretary, has written a parody upon
Mr. Kipling's "Recessional." It is
entitled "Progressional," and is dedicated
to "Madyard Pipling." The
first stanza follows:
"Gods of the jingo, Brass and Gold,
Lords of the world, by right divine,
Under whose baneful sway they hold
Dominion over mine and thine?
Such Lords as these have made them rotten.
They have forgotten. They have forgotten."
TO MEET IN LINCOLN.
Populist Committee Will Hold Conference
In Bryan's State.
Senator Butler, chairman of the
national executive committee of the
People's party, has issued a call for a
meeting of that committee to be held
in Lincoln, Neb., Monday, the 17th of
February. The meeting will be held
for the pnrpose of naming a time and
place for holding the national convention
of that party. The executive
committee consists of three members
from each state.
SCHWAN ROUTS FILIPINOS.
Fly? Hundred Are Driven From Entrenchments
at San Diego.
Advices frcm Manila state that a
part of General Schawn's column, consisting
of six companies with some
artillery, drove a force of 500 insurgents
from their entrenchments at San
Diego, near San Pablo, on Sunday.
The enemy officially reported that they
lost 67 killed and many wounded. Oar
casualties were one killed and fourteen
wounded, the injuries in most
instances being slight.
NEW COTTON MILL
To Be Erected Near Atlanta, Ga , By
Scott Investment Company.
Atlanta men and Atlanta capital are
behind a new cotton mill shortly to bo
erected near the Georgia capital.
Final arrangements have been made
whereby the erection of the factory is
assured, and the work of construction
will begin almost at once. It is expected
that it will be in ope^tion by
October 1st.
The factory will be erected by the
George W. Scott Investment Company
at Ingleside near Decatur, Ga.
The place will be known as the Scottdale
mills and will be owned entirely
by the Scott company.
CHINA HAS NEW EMPEROR.
New Ruler Is Only Fouiteen?Dowager
Will Continue In Power.
An imperial edict issued at Peking,
China, announces that Pu Chun, fourteen
years old, son of Prince Tnan, is
appointed heir to the present emperor,
Kwang Su, whose ill health makes his
abdication necessary. The new emperor,
it is said, will ascend the throne
January 31st. The dowager will continue
her strong power and no change
in Chinese policy is in view.
Conger Advises Washington.
Secretary Hay was advised Friday
by United States Minister Conger, at
Peking, of the result of the convocation
of Chinese notables there, his
statement being that Pu Chun, fourteen
years of age, had been appointee
heir apparent.
Struck For More Pay.
Six hundred operatives of the Amer
ican Hide and Leather Company's tani
neries at Lowell, Mass., struck Thurs
day and the place was closed. Th<
men are holding out for a general ad
vance.
MR. MASON ANGERED
British Consul at New Orleans
Criticised American Officers,
THE FACT IS AIRED IN THE SENATE
Foreign Relations Committee Roasted.
Tillman Makes Speech On Philippine
Policy.
After some routine business in the
RAnatA. Mnnrlav "\fr Mason. of Till
nois, rising to a question of personal
privilege, hal read an interview purporting
to have been held with the
British consul at New Orleans, in
which the Illinois senator was criticised
for his speech in sympathy with
the Boers. Mr. Mason severely criticised
the British government, not the
people, saying that not one-tenth of
the English people favored the present
war in South Africa and that 95
per cont of the people of this country
sympathized with the Boers,
He said that it was not the first
time British diplomats had. interfered
in Americau politics, and he desired to
have attention called to this matter
now before it conld iujure the present
administration as it had injured Mr.
Cleveland.
Mr. Lodgo said he did not think the
diplomatic or consular officer of any
government had the right to criticise
a senator or a representative or any officer
of the government. Mr. Xodge
said the gallant fight the Boers were
making stirred the heart of every man.
Mr. Mason criticised the foreign relations
committee for taking no action
upon the resolution of sympathy.
Mr. Mason then resumed his criticism
of England. He said England
had made the war for the purpose of
getting the rich mines of South Africa.
Mr. Piatt, of Connecticut, said at
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me ciose 01 iur. iuutuu a tsueecu tuai
he wished to enter his protest against
"the abuse of free speech on the floor
of the senate."
Mr. Pottigrew, speaking on a resolution
relating to contraband of war,
said that the doctrine that a beligerent
might seize foodstuffs even if it paid
for them, would mean that in case of
war between our two best customers,
our trade with both would be destroyed.
At 1:45 p. ra. Mr. Tillman, of South
Caroliua, took the floor and made a
speech on the Philippine question. It
was a . vigorous denunciation of the
administration's Philippine policy.
He denied that the blood of the soldiers
in the Philippines was upon
those who favored imperialism. The
president of the United States, by negotiating
the treaty of peace and
"buying the Filipinos." and those
senators who assisted in ratification of
the trea'y were responsible for the
present war. Mr. Tillman said that
the United States cannot govern any
territory that does not belong to the
United States, and where our flag
floats the constitution and the principles
of the declaration of independence
must be in force.
"BLUE LAWS" REVIVED.
Policemen In Baltimore Make Cones
Against Violator* of Ancient Edict.
Nine hundred Baltimore policemen
were busy from midnight Saturday until
12 o'clock Sunday night securing
the. names of violators of the ancient
"blue laws," together with their aiders
and abettors. The edict sent out by
the police department last week, in cooperation
with the grand jury, proscribed
traffic in every article except
milk and ice, druggists being permitted
io compound and sell prescriptions
only. The evidence thus collected
will be referred to the grand jurors,
who will investigate each case and present
violators of the law for indictment
and prosecution.
Vrt orrcefu TV AT A mfl.de. hut the
names of all workers, koown to be
such, were takes~and will be referred
to the grand jurorsT" ^ke^e included
editors, reporters, compositcxrt^TfrBSa^
men and carriers of the Sunday papers,
messenger boys, barbers, bootblacks,
laundrymen and ownerR of sweat shops
and their employes. Quite a number
of storekeepers were also caught
"red-handed" and will have-to answer
to the charge of selling cigars, cigarettes,
stationery, newspapers, confectioneries,
proprietary articles or
groceries.
BRIDGES WILL RETURN.
Convicted Ex-County School Commissioner
Will Serve a Term.
W. M. Bridges, who was convicted
of appropriating $5,475.15 of the
school funds of Floyd county, Ga.,
when he was school commissioner, and
Sentenced to five years' imprisonment
in the penitentiary by the superior
court of that county, which decision
was affirmed by the supreme court,
will surrender himself to the officers
and serve the sentence imposed by the
courts.
Bridges is under a $4,000 bond,
signed by the brothers of his wifeK
and has been in business in a small
town in Texas for the past year.
GIFT FROM MISS GOULD.
Kentucky College Receives a Donation
From the Heiress.
At the twenty-seventh private meeting
of the Alumni Club of Union The
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ologicai seminary at xu? xma.,
day, the Rev. William Goodell Frost,
president of Berea college, Kentucky,
, announced that Miss Helen M. Gould
has contributed $5,000 toward the
fund of $500,000 which he is raising
for the college, and that half the fund
has already been subscribed.
WHEELER SAILS FOR HOME.
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Alnbnmtan Sailed From Manila On the
j Transport Warren.
The war department received a caI
blegram from General Otis Mondaj
stating that General Wheeler would
sail from Manila Wednesday on the
transport Warren for the United Statee
- by way Guam and Honolulu.
Cost of Collecting Customs.
3 Secretary Gage has sent to congress
an estin^te of $7,872,000 as the cosl
of collecting the customs during th(
, next fiscal year.
BOERS AGAIN j
Fifteen Hundred Dead
About Sp
WARREN IS FORCED BACK
Intrepid Burghers Could Not Be
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British Builets.
A London dispatch under date of
Sunday says: General Duller reports
that Warren's troops have retreated
south of tho Tugela river. The Boers
say that the British loss is 1,500 killed.
It is believed that this includes
the wounded. The Boers also claim
that 150 of the English troops surrendered
at Spion kop.
General Buller further states that
Spion Kop was abandoned on account
of lack of water, inability to bring
artillery there and the heavy Boer
fire. General Buller gives no list of
casualties. His whole force withdrew
south of the Tugela river with the evident
intention of reaching Ladysmith
by another route. Following is the
text of General Bnlk s dispatch,dated
Spearman's camp, Saturday, January
27th, 6:10 p. m.
"On January 20th Warren drove
back the euemy and obtained possession
of the southern crests of the high
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tableland extending irom me nu? uj
Acton Homes and Hongers poort to
the western Ladysmith hills. From
then to Jannary 25th he remained in
close contact with the enemy.
"The enemy held a strong position
on a range of small kopjes stretching
from northwest to southeast across
the plateau from Aeon Homes,
through Spion kop to the left bank of
the Tugela.
"The actual position held was perperfectly
tenable, but did not lend itself
to an advance, as tho southern
slopes were so eteep that Warren
could not get effective artillery posisition,
and water supply was a difficulty.
"On January 23d I assented to his
attacking Spion kop, a large hill, indeed
a mountain, which was evidently
the key to the position, but was far
more accessible from the north than
from the south.
"On the night of January 23d he
attacked Spion kop, but found it very
difficult to hold, as its perimeter was
too large and water, which he had
been led to believe existed in this extraordinary
dry season, was found
very deficient.
"The crests were he]d all that day
against the severe attacks and a heavy
shell fire. Our men fought with great
gallantry. I would especially mention
the conduct of the Second Cameronians
and the Third KiDg's Rifles, who
supported tho attack on the mountains
from the steepest side and, in each
case, fought their way to the top, and
the Second Lancashire Fusilliers and
Second Middlesex, who magnificently
maintained the best traditions of the
British army throughout the trying
day of January 24th, and Thorncroft's
mounted infantry who fought through
the day equally well along side of
them.
Cxeneral \Yoocigate, wnowas id command
at the snmmit, having keen
wounded, the officer who succeeded
him decided on the night of January
24ih to abandon the position and did
so before dawn January 25th.
FROH BOER HEADQUARTERS.
The following was sent out from
Boer headquarters, Modder Spruit,
under date of Thursday, Jan. 25:
Some Vryheid burghers from the outposts
from the highest hills of the
Spion kop group rushed into the laager
saying that the kop was lost and
n it. Re-enforcements'noth
ing could be done' ilQv*/lhe time, the- hill
being enveloped in thick mist.
At dawn the Heidelberg and Carolina
contingents, supplemented from
other commandoes, began the assent
of the hill. Three spurs, precipitions
projections, faced the Boer positions.
Up these the advance was made. The
NAME IS PORTO RICO.
Senate Commit te Decide* That Island
Shall Be So Knowo.
The senate committee on Porto Rico
has decided so far as it can decide,
that the island shall be known as Porto
Rico and not as Puerto Rico, as
fixed by a recent executive order. At
a meeting of the committee Saturday
in connection with the Foraker bill,
providing a form of government for
the island, the spelling of the name
was unanimously decided upon.
The committee went over the bill in
detail, deciding upon many changes
in phraseology and some alterations in
the general provision of the measure.
WARSHIPS FOR CHLNA.
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Auitria win senu ?iui? .?
Protect Her Interests.
A serious view is taken in diplomatic
circles in Vienna of the situation
in China. The Neue Freie Presse
thinks that other powers will follow
the example of France and send warships
to protect their subjects. The
Austro-Hungarian cruiser Zonta will
arrive at Hong Koug in a few days and
will be at the disposal of the AustroHuDgarian
minister.
SENDING! THE DONSHOME.
I tori* Furnishes Transportation For Over a
Thousand Spaniards.
The progress of the movement in>
augurated about three months ago in
| regard to the return to Spain of the
? prisoners released by the Filipinos is
i reported by General Otis in the following
telegram received at the war
department:
'Manila, January 26.?Released
, Spanish prisoners, 71 officers, 1,000
I enlisted men, 22 civilian officials, 21
j wives and 35 children, were furnished
transportion to Spain yesterday."
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Left On Battle Field
ion Kop,
horses were left under the first terraces
of rocks.
Scaling the steep hill the Boers
found that the British had improved
the opportunity and intrenched heavily.
Between the lines of trenches was
an open veldt, which had to be rushed
under a heavy fire not only from rifles,
but from lyddite and shrapnel from
field gun8. Three forces ascended the
three spurs, co-ordinately under cover
of fire from the Free State Xrupps,
a Creusot and a big Maxim.
The English tried to rush the Boers
with the bayonet, but their infantry
went down before the Boer rifle fire
as before a scythe.
The Boer investing party advanced
step by step until 2 o'clock in the afternoon
when a white flag went up and
150 men in the front trenches surrendered,
being sent as prisoners to the
head laager.
The Boer advance continued on the
two kopjes east of Spion kop. Many
Boers were shot, but so numerous
were the burghers that the Raps filled
automatically. Toward twilight they
reached the snmmit of the second
kopje, but did not get further.
Ihe British Maxims belched flame,
but a wall of fire from the Mausers
held the English back. Their center
uuder this pressure gradually gave
way and broke, abandoning the posi- j
tion.
Firing continued for some time and
the Fusiliers and the Light Horse
serving as infantry, tbrew up th.'er
arms and rushed ont of the trenches.
The British dead left on the battlefield
number 1,500.
The effect of the abandonement of
Spion kop by the English can hardly
be gauged as yet, but it must prove to
be immense.
GOVERNMENT CRITICISED.
All nilifnvialo in T.nn/1nn nnnorQ
ASA luc CUAlViiaio AU uvuvkVM > ,
of Sunday morning breathed the calm
of determination. No one will allow
that one reverse could deter the couu- j
try from the object it has set itself to
attain, whatever the sacrifices which
may be involved.
Very frank criticisms of the government,
however, is beginning to be
heard even in quarters that have bith- j
erto refrained. The Daily Mail bodily
throws all the blame upon Sir Michael
Hicks-Beach, Lord Lansdowne and
Lord Wolseley.
DADY~TURfe~DOWN.
Judge Speer Refuses Injunction
Sought Against Georgia and
Alabama Road.
At Macon, Ga., Saturday, Judge
Speer, in the case of Dady against the
Georgia and Alabama railway, refused
the injunction sought to prevent the
consolidation of the Seaboard Air-Line j
system. He referred to the fact that
causes substantially similar were pending
in the federal jurisdiction of Virginia
and North Garolina, holding that
the court which first took cognizance
the case should carry it to its termination.
He farther held that only a majority
vote of stockholders was necessary for
such consolidation in Georgia and that
it was not properly maintainable, that
because the defendants, John Skeltou
Williams, occupied the position of a
member of the voting trust, president
of the Georgia and Alabama and of
the Florida Central and Peninsular,
that the merger or consolidation
brought about through his instrumentality
should be enjoined.
An interesting part of the decision
is that which bears upon the competi
tive character of the two roaas. 1 racing
their general trend and calling attention
to the fact that after leaving
Savannah they are in nowisee
connected save through the intermediary
of one or two shallow rivers on
small steamboats occasionally
ply and intervening the two lines
are powertm competitive systems, he
says: "It is not difficult -hvp^p^ve
that the contemplated system of tEe^
Seaboard Air-Line, instead of tending
to defeat competition, must invariably
tend to preserve it."
WILL LAST LONG TIME.
Transvaal Agent Declares the End of Hot*
tllitles Is Not In Sight.
The Deutsche Teges Zeitung (Berlin)
publishes an interview with Dr.
Leyds which represents him as hav ng
mid: "The war will certainly last a
^ery long time. The Transvaal will
decidedly not be the first to seek
peace, and will refuse any proposals
cu the basis of the status quo."
Roland Reed Recovering.
Roland Reed, the actor, who has
b*en ill in St. Luke's hospital in New
Y}rk for several weeks, is reported to
bi resting easily. His physicians say
ht is on the road to recovery.
NEW ALABAMA ROADS.
Something Like Five Hundred lilies Are
In Coarse of Construction.
A Montgomery dispatch says: Alabuna
is enjoying an nprecedentod degee
of prosperity in the way of railrtad
development. Something like 500
miles of new road are now in course
o; construction, some of it being alnost
completed and some of it just
bjing commenced on. This means ao
nf ahnnt 15 oer cent in the I
ailroad mileage of the state.
GOMPERS TISITS M'KIXLEY.
febor Leader* Confer With President On
Eight-Hoar Law.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
imerican Federation of Labor, and
Cher representatives of labor interests
lad a conference with the president
laturday to urge upon him the advoacy
of an eight-hour law for *11 govrnment
work; a law to prohibit the
products of convict labor from being
ransferred from one state to another,
ind a law to restrict the authority of
'ederal conrts in the issuauce of injunctions
in labor troubles. I
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2 SOUTH CAROLINA \
\ STATE NEWS ITEMS, j
Child Labor Hill Defeated.
Almost every South Carolina sena
tor in the legislature had his say ou
the proposition to strike the enacting
words of a bill prohibiting the em
ployment in factories of children under
twelve years of age. The arguments
in favor of killing the bill wer<
that mothers were the best judges
that if young children were excluded,
many families, where the mother wat
a widow, would suffer and tnat wnere
there were no city graded schools convenient
to the mills, most mills provided
free schools ten months in the
year. Those in favor of the bill contended
that the working of infants in
mills was making the girls physical
and moral wrecks. Some of the man*
ufacturers opposed the bill, bnt the
chief opposition seemed to be from the
the factory people. It was killed by
the decisive vote of twenty-nine to
eight.
Want Charter Repealed.
A hill has been introduced in the
legislature having for its object the
repeal of the charter of the South Carolina
and Georgia Railroad. The bill
will be pushed by Representative N.
G. Evans. Mr. Evans claims the acquiring
of the South Carolina and
Georgia road was illegal as from Columbia
to Augusta, and from Edgefield
to Angusta they are competing lines,
and since the South Carolina and
Georgia has been leased or purchased
rates from the competing points have
advanced. The South Carolina and
Georgia has abont 265 miles of main
track.
Diapeggary Profit*.
The total net profits of the state dispensary
since it opened for business
July 1, 1893, have been $1,705,704.
For the first time the state board has
compiled the figures for the public.
It shows that during the nineteen
months of the Tillman-Traxler administration,
when Tillman was chairman
and Trailer commissioner, the profits
were $125,323.
Duriog the fourteen months oi
Evans-Mixon administration the nel
profits were $313,974. For the
thirty-three months of administration
of the state board of control up to December
31, 1893, the profits amounted
to $853,219.
The past year, under the managemet
of the state board, the profits were
$414,203. It is calculated that the
stock on hand and paid for is'worth
$514,379.
*%
Our Cotton Mill Baoin.
There has been some speculation recently
jis to the cause of the rapid
strides made by South Carolina in the
manufacture of cotton. While there
were some mills established in Spartanbnrg
and Greenville counties in
the seventies and early eighties, the
real mill building that has given the
Palmetto state the lead over her southern
sisters has been in the last tec
years, and chiefly in the last five years
North Carolina was far in the van in
in both the number of mills
and quantity of produce before the
manufacture in this state became an
industry of importance.. So, also, waa
Georgia. Now, in capital invested,
number of looms and spindles and
consumption of cotton, soutl} Carolina
has the decided advantage. North
Carolina is building more mills, but
1 on;ni11aa ai>A KflJnff niii
LLIUTC lUUIliO OUU o^iuuivw H4 v W-?Q
into those constructed in this state,
and it is calculated that in anothei
twelve months, when the mills now
under construction and projected are
in operation, the Palmetto State will
take place alongside the Bay State,
the second in cotton manufacturing of
the union.
Those interested in the subject maj
not have knowledge of the extent oi
the mill building now in progresi
here, so not to be burdensome witi
figures I will only give a few of them:
Last year, for charters for new mills
a*hd extensions to old ones, $5,900,00C
capital came into sight, while commissions
for other mills with capital
aggregating $2,200,900 were granted.
Several of these have, been chartered
already this month, while in twentyeight
days of the new year commissions,
Is with capita* aggregat
Sq# $1,500,00 -1 been
Building of these ^comarflsioiied"
mills, or most of them, will be begun
inside of ninety days. In Columbia
the capital invested was $2,010,000.
Last year South Carolina mills spue
437,000 bales of South Carolina cotton.
This year they will probably use
525,000 bales.
The argument has been advanced,
and reasonably, by some in other
states, that South Carolina is due hex
pre-eminence in cotton manufacture tc
special laws granting those engaged in
this industry special privileges, sucl
as immunity from taxation for a certain
number of years. While this maj
have some effect indirectly, it oertainlj
has not been the chief cause. As will
be shown later, the great majority ol
the big mills have been constructed
without the enjoyment of those special
privileges.
A. snmmary, then, shows that while
South Carolina really went beyond the
bounds of her constitution, as ia now
generally held, to aid and enconrnge
factories, the direct results, if any,
were insignificent. Last year when
' Cl- nv aalrad mnw
no Deneuta hcic uucuou v>
capital was invested than in the thirteen
years when state county and city
taxes were refunded.
Unquestionably, results depend
chiefly on local confidence and enterprise.
There is probably no courthouse
town in Sonth Carolina where
from $50,000 to 8100,000 has not or
cannot be raised for a cotton factory.
In cities like Columbia, Spartanburg
and Greenville the same meu may be
found interested in from two to half a
dozen mills. They have tasted of the
fruit.?Columbia Correspondence in
Atlanta Constitution.
m
* *
Convict Labor on Boadt.
The following editorial, taken from
the New York Evening Post, shows
what systematic use of convict labor
can do in bettering pablic highways:
Effective use of convict labor in
road-making is reported from Columbia,
S. C., where an average of eighty
J prisoners has been employed in this
' work for the past two years. Last year
| tLirty-one miles of road, radiating
' from the city, were remade, graded,
| ditched, laid with sand or clay, or clay
' on sand, and converted into smooth
J and satisfactory highways, capable,
with timely and systematic care, of indefinite
maintenance in good condi'
tion. During the preceding year fully
1 ten miles had been remade, so that
' now there are over forty miles of these
permanent roads leading oat or <Uo*
lnmbia.
"With the levy asked for, the mile'
age can be doubled this year, the work
> on each road being taken up at its
* present terminus from five to seven
1 miles from the city, and carried an
? equal distance beyond. By following
' this plan every main road in the coun'
try can be remade in from three to four
> years more. 'Columbia is now far more
* accessible by highway than it has ever
i been,' oomments the State of that eity,
i 'a fact daily evidenced by the number
' of wagons and carts coming and going
' from the city, the traffic on certain
> roads at certain hours assuming pro'
oessional proportions'"
Legislative Notes.
This is the first session of the legislature
of this state where the duration
1 of the sitting is limited. Under the
1 constitution adopted in 1895, the legislature
was given nnlimited time until
this year, when from now on the
session8 cannot extend over forty
days ? that is, the members can
1 only draw forty days' pay. Half of
! the allotted time has been consumed,
1 but really very little baa been accom.
plished. *"
In the house the bill providing for
1 an extension of their limits by cities
1 was killed. Columbia was chiefly in^
terested in this measure. The town
1 is only two miles square and there are
6,090 people in the immediate vicinity
of her boundaries that she wanted to
take iD, but the legislature was not
williug. There was considerable lob
' bying done against it The anti-cigarette
bill, tbe bill reducing the rate of
passenger fare to 2$ and 3 cents and
the measure providing that state officials
now entitled to mileage shall
have free transportation from railroads
were killed.
1 A very important bill, in which
. Charleston, Columbia, Bock Hill,
' Greenville and a number of other
towns are interested in?or rather
' deeply concerned in, is pending in
1 the house. It is to permit a vote at
the next election on a constitutional
amendment allowing cities that'have
f already reached the limit of their
' bonded indebtedness to incnr more
* indebtedness in order to make pnblic
' improvements. Columbia is anxious
1 to spend $500,000 for waterworks,
sewerage and pavements aud Charleston
about $800,000 for waterworks,
but nnder the present laws they are
I helpless.
Among tbe other important bills introduced
in the house and pending is
1 the trust bill; providing for the sale ol
the two big state farms; providing fox
( establishing a fertiliser factory at the
penitentiary; providing for leasing
convicts to counties for use on state
roads and prohibiting oonvicts being
leased to private parties.
?*
1 Oeorfetawn Itmllroad Sold.
It is reported in Florence from a re'
liable source that the Georgetown and
1 Western Bailroad, running from
1 Lane's, on the Atlantic Coast Line
system, to Georgetown, S. C., a distance
of forty miles, has been sold to
1 the Atlantic Coast Lumber Company,
1 of Georgetown, S. C., a company
which has already purchased and built
' up large band saw mills at George(
town. The employes of the Georgetown
and Western Bailroad Company
were notified by oircular letter of the
' change of ownership. The price paid
1 for the road could not be ascertained.
r
A New Fnrnitiye Factory.
t The Gaston ^filling and Mannfacurt
ing Company, of Colombia,' has been
organized by election of M. R. Coop1
am nrAdidAnt: F. 8. Earle. vice nresi
\ dent, and John T. Gaston, superintendent
and general manager. The
| company is to manufacture furniture,
GEORGIANS ENTHUSIASTIC.
Oyer Proposition to Establish MUItarj
| Park at Atlanta. '
A Washington dispatch says: The
Georgia members of congress are enthusiast
over the propffgiffc'rtoestabf
lish a national military park in Atlanta
i and the delegation will assist Messrs.
Clay and Livingston before the house
and senate committees.
Is Without Foundation.
1 The Franklin oonnty, Ky., grand
' jury filed a report declaring that the
' report of further attempts at bribery
of Kentucky legislators is without
i foundation.
NUNEZ IX FULL CONTROL.
>
i Wood's Order Gives Civil Governor of
Havana Tall Power.
The leading Havana newspapers
, says the order of Governor General
. Wood instructing military comman1
ders not to interfere in the functions
t of civil authorities except in extreme
[ eases, virtually gives General Emillo
I Nunez, the civil governor of Havana,
and not General Ludlow, the military
, governor, power on the matter of
, budaret
, BRYAN IN RHODE ISLAND.
Making Tour of the State In ths Interest
of Democracy.
Monday meriting W. J. Bryan be*
| gan a week's tour of New England for
tbe purpose of discussing the ques>
tions of the day, speaking three times,
Pawtucket and Woonsocket, R. L, in
the Afternoon and Providence in the
evening. The state is just now
| on the eve of a gubernatorial canvpalgu,
which will close with an elec,
tioo in April.
TWESTT-KISE DEATHS.
I J
Babonlo PltfQE Finds Many Victims In
HnwBllnn Islands.
. New? from Honolulu, per steamer
Miowera, sajs: The total number of
deaths up to the time the Miowera
sailed for this port, was 29 out of 39
cases. Two were whites and another
was a half-caste. The other deaths
were about equally divided between
Hawaiian natives and the Orientals.
Six other whites who caught the dis,
ease were belieted to be convalescent
.
BRITISH ADMIT
BAD DEFEAT
They Now Staid Before World m
Disgraced aid Beaten.
TflE GOVERNMENT IS CRITiaZED l
It Is Reported That Lord Roberts
Advises the Surrender
of Ladysmith. ?
A special cablegram from London \;:,C
to The New York Evening World,
"It is learned from a reliable
source that Field Marshal Lord
Roberts has advised the abandon- ;^^
ment of Ladysmith. At the war
office, the dispatch adds, no confirmation
could be obtained of the -y&m
advices said to have been given by .
There is muoh comment in London ^ '
on the discrepancy between the Boer^g
account of the recapture of Spion Kop .
and that sent by General Buller; Yhflfjl ::
latter says not a word about the Boefu|| "
scaling the hill and attacking the Brit" %
ish trenches and captturing 150 men ~
who had hoisted the white flag, as at ;
Majuba hill. Instead, he spoke of the ? J
maintenance of "the best traditions of ;
the British army." There is not much | 3
doubt that the Boer account is ooneofffljjaB
It is by no means boastful. * || r ?
It is believed that the war office v.
has further dispatohes which ,
withholding. Great anxiety has beea^|
removed by the announcement
Lord Dnndonald's cavalry
which it was feared were isolated^ among
the hills in the neighborhood# ;1
of Acton Homes, are safe on the south
bank of the Tugela river. For dajfk;| JS
nothing had been beard 'from LoBd'J
Dnnolald and his mounted brigade* ^
The London military critics ba*0|l'm
given up hope of saving Ladysmith^ . ^
which is undoubtedly short of
and ammunition. The garrison west ^
on short rations Deoember 2d. ;||
The Morning Leader askst 'v'wJBll
i " Will Ladysmith fall in consequence
of Bnller's retirement or in conse^J \ H
i quence of another night attack by^99
victorious Boers? ' ||
"The city ha9 already held out ftg|| #8
full time. Its last communication*^
m r_ .tt -:*
across me mgeia omwwisq uum ujw , A
electric or sun flashing wasonHo*Mft?? 'M
ber 2d, last. It was then believed ta^
have enough provisions and ammniu^f |?
tion for three months. The three ? : J|
months are up. IP
>4,There has been no chance during^ r |
these months to throw into the eitymi $
pound of food or a pound of cofdite.*^ ':M
It is frankly acknowledged that tfce|l jib
most serious effort of the present ^
has dismally failed. ' ~
There is no sign of a "wish
part of the leaders of public ojnro|H^||
to disguise the ugly facts, but, on thap? ^
contrary, there is every dispoeitioa^Sj ^
face the fnll difficulties and disoovin
the best way cut. In short, the pofiqj^* ^
voiced everywhere is the gatheringflM .-t-f
of forces for more effective^ blo^H ^
Ail hopes of the speedy religl^H ^:;^
Ladysmith have been abandoned sijM :JM
the concensus of expert opinion
the immediate shifting of the tbai&Y
of war from the rocky kopjes of V;|
to the open veldt of the Free Stat*|p f
One thing certain?another MvP '||
pause is inevitable unless the BoscsdS^^
same the offensive, because, in ShB ^
event of General Buller farther
tempting to reach Ladysmith; t&?||
planning of a new move will
sarily occupy time. j
The afternoon newspapers aredraaj^y
ing attention to the closeness of
parallel between the federal attack
General Lee at Fredericksburg sad " 3|
i the operations on the upper Togebu
Curiously enough there is visible,
especially in military circles, aa;^^s| ;
dercurrent of relief at the news ttka^vj
. the British are safely south of the f- ^
Togela, for the rumors of SfttitnMfa ./'J
. d no visions of an immense ^
General Bailer's operation has oos%>\^
912 men so far officially reported ;
within ten days. ' M
Applying to the 205 Spion Kop can-'":4 j
nalties jnst reported the role of pr?-;j
portion, the losses of officers indicate -M
500 casualties yet to oome, The tofa^
casualties of the war, compiled front?|
official reports are 9,523, nearly a V/fS
division. Of these 2,486 are killed,
4,811 wounded and the rest are prisonThe
aggregate British home UuupaB .
in South Africa number 116,000 thrift f
Natalians 7,158 and Cape Colonials Jjl
Y) ruing the trial in London Monday , | ' of
a news vender for crying false news
?he had shouted, "Horrible British
Slaughter"?an impertinent bystander,
on hearing the prisoner sentenced g?
to seven days in jail said: "Why not i
bring the war office into oonrt."
Establish Free Fight Schools. |
The Cigar Makers' union it Key ' j ^
West, Fla., has established free night <" I
schools, where both English and:
Spanish are taught. Apprenticea nn?#^ :
attend, and in fntnre no boy wOTho^
permitted to learn cigar making unleash
he can read and write. ja
Depew's Opera Hons* Burned. ||
The Depew opera house in Peeks- i
kill, N. Y.f owned by United States
a.?TVf T)atmv. was dailr^is j
stroyed by fire Monday. N
SAFE BLOWERS KILLED. 1|S t
???? 7-.'r* JsSm
Pollee Officers Hare Bviuilnf Fight With $
Desperate Crooks. ,; s
Quincy, Illinois, polioe officers Safe- _ y
arday killed two dkpert safe blowers,
supposed to be from Chicago, and
wounded another badly. The tragedy
included a running fight through a
hotel, in wbioh the armed burglars V t
were pursued by the officers. The men
are believed to be those who recently ||
operated in Galesburg. Kreeport and >j|
other Illinois cities, making a specialty :
of cracking safes in building and lotn |?^ffl