The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, December 15, 1892, Image 1
VOL. VII.
CONGRESS tlM'K AGAIN.
Opening of the National Halls of
Legislature.
The President Message Given on tho
Second Day.
Washington, D. C. -Tho final session
of the Fifty-second Congress opened
nt noon and with probably a brief iutcrmission
for Christmas will imm
its unilncrniptcd course till the 4th ?f
Match, next, wheu a now Congress and a
new administration will come iuto existence
simultaneously.
^ In the Senate chaplain Butler offered
prayer, nud after organizing and acting
upon s?mo minor matters adjourned.
Judge Crisp, in the House presided
over a bustling aud some.what hilarious
crowd. Chaplain MilbUru rendered a
fervent prayer, 221 members answered
to their names, and after a session of one
hour and 40 minutes, adjourned.
THE MESSAGE.
To the Senate and IL . $c of Representatives:
In submitting my annual message to Congress
I havo great satisfaction in being nblo
to say that tho general c m litions affecting
the commercial an I induitrial interests of
the United States arc in tho highest degree
lavorabie. A comparison of tho existing
conditions with thosj of tho most fuvored
period iu the history of tho country will. I
believe, show th it so high a degree of prosperity
and so general a diffusion of the comforts
of iifo were never before enjoyed by
our people.
Tho total wealth of the country in I860
was $16, 169.616,063. in 1S90 it amounted to
102,010,<>00,000, an increaso of 287 per cent.
The total mileage of railways in the
Uuited Stnte3 in 18dJ was 89,620; in 1893 it
was 107,711, an increase of 448 per cent;
and it is estimated that there will be about
4000 miles of trac't added by the close of the
year J892.
CENSUS FIGURES.
The ofilchl returns of the Eleventh Census
an 1 those of the Tenth Census for 75
leading cities furnish the basis for tho following
comparisons:
In 1880 tho capital invested in manufacturing
was $1 232,839,070.
In 1830 the capital invested iu manufacturing
was $2,930,735,884.
In 1833 tho number of employes was
1,301,888.
Iu 1693 tho number of employes was
2,251,131.
In 1880 tho wages earnol were $531,965,
778.
In 1893 the wage3 oarne 1 were f 1,231,170,454.
In 188 > the value of the pro luct was 62,711.650.899.
In 1890 the va'tio ot the product was $4,*
860,'280,837.
1 am informed by the Superintendent ot
the Census that the omission of certain industries
in 1889, which were incluiod in
1899. accounts in part for t.he remarkable
increase thus shown. But, after making
full allowance :or differences of method and
deducting the returns for nil interests not
included in the Census of 188 >, there remain
in the reports from these sevoiity-llve cities
an increase in the cipital employed of
f 1,5:2,14 ">,0)4; in tho vulu ; of the product
nf 12,( 24,230,100; in wages earned of $G?7,943,921),
an 1 in 'ho number of wage-earners
employed of 8 >0,029. Tho wage-earnings
not only show an increased aggregate, but
nn increase p r capita from $330 in L8S0 to
|541 in 1891 or 41.71 per cent.
The new industrial plants established sinoo
October)), 1890, and ii|> to October 92, 1892,
as partially i\ ported in tho American Economist,
number 345, and t >o extension of existing
plants, 18; the new capital invested
amounts to 10,419,05 ), and the mnnbei of
additional employes to 3T,'J35,
Tho Textile World, for July, 1892, states
-t ? - -
> <: iii.-vam iliuiltllliui IIIO prCSrnt
calendar year 135 new factories woro
built, o~ wbic'i 40 are cotton mills, 48 knitting
mi lb", 3* > woolen mills, 15 silk mills,
4 p'.inh tndls and 2 linen mills. Of tlie 40
cotton mills31 Irivo been built iu tbo Southern
States, Mr. A. It. Shepperson, of the New
York Cotton Exchange, estimates the uumI
er of working spindles in the United
States on September 1, 18111, at 15,2)0.000,
bu increase of (JOJ.OCO over tin year 1831.Tbo
consumption of cotton by American
mills in 1331 was 2,33 J,000 bales, ami in 185)2
8,584,000 bales, an in 'ra ise of 183,000 bales.
From the year 1883 to 1803, inclusive,
thero lus been an increase in the consutuplion
ot cotton in Europe of 93 per cent.,
while durine; tlio same period tha increased
consumption in tbo United Ntntes has been
about 15) per cent.
The report of Ira Ay er, special agent of
the Treasury Department, shows that at the
date of Eepte nbor 30, 189), there were
thirty-two companies manufacturing tin
and tome plate in l lie United States and
fourteen companies Lull ling new works for
such manufacture. The estimated invest*
ment in buildings and plants at tbo close of
the lical year, June 3), 1893, if existing conditions
were to lie cintinue I, was 15,000,000,
and the estimated rato of production 200,000,000
pounds per annum. The actual production
for the quarter ending. September
B0, 1802, was 10,0 >2,725 pounds.
Tho report of Dabor Commissioner Pock,
of New Yorlr, shows that during the year
1801, in about six thousnud manufacturing
establishments in that Ntato embracocl
within the spee d inquiry mudeby him, and
?w?i ivcviiiillft V# Ulll Wl VU V 'II.IU31HU9, IUUIU
wnnM not increase over th-> year 18?/ ot'
131,315,13 >08 in tlio va u) of tho product,
nd of <6 37/,931.09 in tlio amount of wagon
[mid. Tho report of (ho co mnissionur of
abor for tuo State of Massachusetts shows
that <H715 industries in that Stato nni I
11*49,4 6,248 in wi^cs during tho ytar 1891,
gainst $126,08 1,3)3 in ISO), an increase of
13,835,945, ami tliat there was an increase
Df #9,233.490 in the timount of capital and of
7340 in the number ot persons employed in
tho same perio I.
During tho last six months of tho year
' I#9l an i the first six months of 1893 tho to|
tal pro.luotion of pig iron was 9,710,819 tons,
' as against 9,303,703 tons in the year 1890,
which was the largest annual produ dion
ever nttamrd. For the same tsvolve months
of 1891- 9*3 the pro iuction of Bessemer ingots
was 3,878,581 tons, an increaso of 189,710
gross tons over the previous unprecedented
yearly production of 3,088,871 gross tons in
1890. Tho production of Bessemor steel
rails for the first h>x months ot 1893 was
172,431 grot's tons, as against 703,030 gross
tons during the last six months of the year
1891.
EXPORTS AND IMPORTS,
The total value of our foreign trade (exfiorts
and imports of merchandise) during
he last fiscal year was % 1,857,980,610 an increase
of #128,383,604 over the provlous flscal
year.
The valuo of our exports during the fiscal
tear lb00 reache 1 the highest figure in the
istopy of the Government, amounting to
U, 03(^278,148, exceeding by #I4">,797,838 the
is. txporte of 1891 and oxejedlog the value of
the imports by #203,875,030.
" COASTWISE AND IN TEKNATj TRADE. I
III our coastwise tra le a mo.st enojuragIng
development is in progress, there having
bo n in tho Inst four yenrs an increase of 16
percent. In internal commerce the statistics
how that no such period of prosperity has
ever be ore ex ste.1. The freight carried in
tho coastwise ir.i le o' tho Great Lakes in
1890 nggregai ^ 28,293,959 ton-!. On the
Mississippi. Missouri and Ohio Rivers and
Irihutu i s in the same year the traffio agfi
erate i '.9,405,04'i tons, and the total vearel
tonnage passing through the Detroit
River during that year was 21,6)4,000 tons.
The vessel tonnage enteral and cleared in
the foreign trade or Lin Ion during 1890
amounted to 18,480,76? tops, and ofXiver-'
pool 1",911,800 tons, a total for these two
great shipping port* of 24,442,563 tons, only
ill
??ri_:?lj jlt r-rrrr,'.'.rm
lightly in excess of the vessel tonnage passing
through the Detroit Uiver.
8WINGS OF TUK PEOPLE.
Another indication of the general pros
perity of tbe country is found iu the fact
that tlie number of depositors in savings
banks increased from 003,870 in 1S6) to 4,853.803
in 1890, an increase of 513 per cent,
and the amount of deposits from *149,877,
504 in 1800 to $1,584,811,5)6 in 1890, au increase
of 911 por cent. In 1891 the amount
of deposits in savings banks was 81,633,079,
749. * It is ostimnted that 93 p?r cent, of
these doposits renreseut the savings of wageearners.
The bank clearances for nioo
months ending 8'epte nber 30, 189X,amouuted
to *41,049,390,808. For the same months iu
1893 they uiuouuted to 845,189,601,947, an excess
for the nine months of $4,140,811,139.
There has never been a time in our history
when work was so abundant or when
wages wt re as high, whether measured by
the currency in which they are paid or by
their power to supply tho necessaries and
comforts of life. It is true that tho market
prices of cotton an 1 wheat have beeu low.
It is onoof the unfavorable incidents of agr.culture
that tho farmer cannot produce
upon orders. Ho must sow and reap in ignorance
o* tho aggregate production of the
year, an I i ; peculiarly subject to the depreciation
which follows overproduction.
VALUE OF FAUM PRODUCTS.
The value of our total farm pro lucts has
increased from 81,303,<140,869 in 1860 to $4,500,(XX),000
in 1891, as estimated by statisticians
nn iiiPi'Piafl nf 210 ner cent. Tim
number of hogs January 1, 1831, was50,6:35,- I
106 nnd their value $210,193,925; on January
1. 1893, the number was 53,398,01'J an I the
Tftluo $241,081,415. On January 1, 1891 the
number of citt'n was 36,875,618 an I tho
value $541,127,908; on January 1, 1893. the
number was 37,651,239 and the value $570,749,155.
If any are discontontel with this state
here; if auv believe that wages or prices,
the returns'for honest toil, are inadequate,
they should not fail to remembsr that there
Is no other country in the world where the
conditions that seem to them hard would
not be accepted as highly prosperous. The
English agriculturist would be gla t to exchange
the returns of his labor for those of
the American farmer, an 1 tho Manchester
workmen their wages for those of
their follows at Pall River.
A WORD FOR rnOTECTIOV.
I believe that the protective system, which
has now for something more th in thirty
years continuously prevailed in our legislation,
has been a mighty instrument for tho
development of our national wealth and a
most powerful agency in protecting tho
homes of our workingmm from the invasion
of want* I have felt a most solicitous
interest to preserve to our working people
rates of wages that would not only give
daily bread but supply a comfortanlo margin
for those homo attractions an I family
comforts an I enjoyments without whicu
lifo is neither hopeful nor sweet.
They are American citizens?a part of the
great people for whom our Constitution and
Government were framed ami instituted?
and it canuot be a perversion of tlmt Constitution
to^so legislate as to preserve iu
their homes tho comfort, indopeudenc?,
loyalty and sense of interest in tho Government
which are essential to good citizenship
in peace, and which will bring this stalwart
thron \ as in 1861, to the defense of tho flag
when it is assailed.
It is not my purpose to renew hore the
argument in favor of a protective tariff.
The re:-ult of the recent election musk be accepted
as having introduce! a now policy.
Wo must assume that the present tariff,
constructed upon tho lines of protection, is
to bo repealed, and that there is to bo substituted
for it a tariff law constructed solely
with roference to revenue; that uo duty is
to be higher because tho increase will keep
open an American mill or keep up the wagos
ot an American workman, but that in every
case such a rate of duty i; to lie imposed as
will bring to the Treasury of tho United
Stiles the largest returns of revenue.
The contention has not been between
schedules, but between principles, and it
would be offensive to suggest that tho prevailing
party will not carry into legislation
the principles advocated by it i.n 1 tho
nln Itynu orivAn tn tliA nftfinlA Tlift tAi'ifl* hilla
passe I by the House of Representatives at
the last session were, as I suppose?even in
the opinion of their proinotors?inadequate,
and justiiioi only by the fact that the Senate
anil House of Representatives wore not in
accord and that a generul revision could
not, therefore, be undertaken.
I recommend that the whole subjeet of
tariff revision be left to the incoming Congress.
It is matter of regret that this work
must be delayoi for at least three month*;
for the throat of groat tariff changes introduces
so much uncertainty that an amount,
not easily estimate!, of businoss inaction
and of diminished reduction will necessarily
result. It is possible also that this uncertainty
may result in decreased revenues
from customs duties, for our merchants will
ma'ko cautious orders for foreign goods in
view of the prospect of tariff reductions ana
the uncertainty a9 to when they will take
effect.
Those who have a ivocntod a protective
turiff can well afford to have their disastrous
forecasts of a change of policy disappointe
I. If a syste n of customs duties can
be framed that will sot the idle wheels and
looms of Europe in motion and crowd our
warehouses with foreign-made goods, and
at the same time keep our own mills busy;
that will give us an increased participation
in the "markets of the world' of greater
value than the homo market we surrender,
that will give increased work to foreign
workmen upon products to be consumed by
our people without diminishing tho amount
of work to be done here; that will
enable the American manufacturer
to pay to his workmen flrom
fifty to a hundred por cent, more in wages
than is paid in the foreign mill and yet to
compote in our inarkot and foreign markets
with tho foreign pro lucer; that will further
reduce tho cost of articles of wear and food
without reducing the wages of those who
{iroduoo thorn; that can bo celebrated, after
ts effects have been realized, as its expecta
tions havOjbeon, in^ European as well as in
American cities, the authors and promoters
of it will be entitled to tho highost praise.
We have had in our history several experiences
of the contrastol effects of a
revenue and that of a protective tariff; hut
this gonoration has not folt theui, and the
exporiouco of one generation is not highly
instructive to the next. The friends of the
protective system, with undiminished confi
lence in the principles they have advocated,
will await the results of the new
experiment.
IjABOH AND TIIK rAnrrr.
The stra no I an l too often disturoad relations
existing between the oinployos and
the employers in our great manufacturing
establishments have not boon favorable to a
calm consideration by the wage earner of
theeffeot upon wazes of tho proteotive system.
The facte that his wages wore the
highest paid In like o.alllugs in the world
and that a maintenance of this rate of
wages, in the absence of proteotive duties
upon the produob of his labor, was
Impossible, were obscured by tho
passion evoked by these contests. He
may now be able to review tho question in
the light of his personal experience under
the operation of a tariff for revenue only. If
that experience shall demonstrate that pros
ent. rates of'wage* are tboroby maintained
or increased, either absolutely or in their
purchasing power, an I that the aggregato
volume of work to be done in this country
is to be increase 1, or even maintained, so
that there are more or as many days' work
in a year at as good or batt;r wage's (or the
American workmen as has been the case
under the protective system, every one will
rejoice. .
A general process of wage re Juctlon can
not be oonteinplated by any patriotiQ citizen
without the gravest apprehension. It may
be, indeed I believe it is, possible for the
Am rican manufacturer to compete suooossfu
ly with his foreign rival in many
branches of production without the defenso
of nroteotive duties, If the pay rolls are
"Be True to Yo>
CONWAY, s.
equalized; but the conflict that stands be*
tween tho producer and that result and tho
distress of our working peoplo when it is nttainod
are not pleasant to contemplate.
The Society of the Unemployed, now holding
its frequsqt an I threaten! ngvparades in
the streets of foreign cities^ should not bo
allowed to acquire au American domicile.
FOnEION RKLATIOSS.
Our relations wituroroiRn nations aro now
undisturbed by any serious controversy.
The complicated and threatening differences
with Uermauy and England relnting to
Sauioan affairs, with England iu relation to
the seal fisheries in the Bering idea, and with
Coile growing out of the Baltiuioro affair,
have beeu adjusted.
There haveneen uogotiatoI and concluded
under sectiou 3 of the tariff la w, comuierciul
agreements relating t.) reciprocal trade
with the following countries: Brazil, Dominican
Rapubllc, Spain for Cuba and
i'uerto Rico, Guatemala, Salvador, the
Gorman Empire. Great Britain for certain
West Indian Colonies an I British Guiana,
Nicaragua, Hon (urasand Austria- Uuugary.
Thenlarmol attention of our European
competitors for tlio South American market
has been attracted to this new Americm
policy and to our acquisition and their lois
of South American trade.
THE BERING SEA TREATY.
A treaty providing for the arbitration of
the dispute Between Groat Britain an I tli United
States as to tlio killing of seals in tinBering
Sea was concluded on the 29th o
February last. This treaty was nccompanio
by an agreement prohibiting pelagic sealitt
pending the arbitration, an I a vigorou
W4Q mode 'Inpinrr i|iic ?ao?A?? (Jpiv?
out nil poaching sealers from the Bering
Sea.Six naval vessels, throe revenue cottars
nn I on i vessel from t'10 Fish C xumission,
nil under tho^ command of Commander
Evans, of the Navy, were sent Into tbo seas,
which was systematically patro'lei. Some
seizures were made, and it is believed that
the catch in the Bering Sea by poachers
amounted to less than 503 seals. " It is true,
however, that in the North Pacific, while
tho seal herds were on their way to the
passes between the Aleutian Islands, a very
lnr.;e number, probably 35.000, were taken.
The existing statutes of the United States
do not re-train our citizens from taking seal-*
in the Pacific Oc an, and perhaps should
not, unless tho prohibition can bo oaten led
to the oitizuis of other nations I rooomin
n I Hint power be given to tho President,
by proclamation, to prohibit the
taking of seals in tho North l'aoilic
by American vessels, in caso either
as tiie result of tho findings of the
tribunal of arbitration, or otherwise, the re
str lints can bo nnpiio 1 to the vessels of
nil countries. The caso of the United State?
for the tribunal of arbitration lias been prepared
with great earn and industry by the
Hon. John \V. Foster, an I the counsel who
represent this Government express eontldenco
that a result substantially establishing
cur claims and preserving this great
industry for the benefit of all nations will
be attntne I.
CANADA AND THE UNITE'.) STATES.
The controversy as to tolls upon the Weilan
1 Canal, which w.u presontol to t'on?
gross at t lie last session I?y special mossigo,
having lailel of a Ijust nonl, I felt eonsir
line 1 to i-xerciso tUo authoritv conferral
by the act of July 2d, 18'Ji, and to prociai n
a suspension of tho free use of St. Marys
Falls'Canal to cargoes in transit to norts in
Canada. The ."Secretary of tho Treasury
established such tolls a* were thought to ha
equivalent to the exnetious unjustly lovio 1
u ><m our commerce in the Canadian canals.
I , as wo must suppose, tho political relation*
of Canada and tho disposition of. the
Canadian Government are to remain unchanged,
a somewhat radical rovision of our
trade relations should. 1 think, bo made.
Our relations must continue to bo intimate,
and they s iould bo friendly. 1 regret to say,
however, tiiat in many of the controversies,
notably those as to the fisheries on tho Atlantic,
tho sealing interests on tbo Pacific,
and tbe canal tolls, our negotiations with
Great Britain have continuously been
thwarted or retarded by unreasonable
and unfrien lly objections and protests from
Canada In tho matter of tho oaual tolls,
our treaty rights Wert) flagrantly disregarded.
It is hardly too much to say that
the Canadian Pacific an l other railway
lines which parallel our northern boundary
are sustained by commerce haviug either its
origin or terminus, or both, in tbo United
8 rates. Canadian railroads compete with
those of the United States for our traffic,
and without the restraints of our interstate
commerce uci. i uen cji? puss uhuvsv wiuuout
detention into and out of our territory
i'hero is no disposition 011 the part of tlio
people or Government of tlio United States
to intopfcre in the smallest degree with the
political relations of Canada. That quistiou
is wholly with her own people. It is time
for u-, however, to consider whether, it the
prosent state of things and trend of things
is to continue, our interchanges upon liues
of land transportation shoul I not Via put upon
a different basis, an I our out re in iopmdence
o ' Canadian canals and of the St.
Lawronce as an outlet to tlio sea secured by
the construction of an American canal
around the Kills of Niagaia and the open*
inn of ship coainninication between the Groit
L ikes and 0111 of our own seaports.
Wo should not hesitate to avail ourselves
of our great natural trade advantages. We
should withdraw the support which is given
to tno railroads an I steamship liues of Canada
by a trafile that properly belougs to us,
and 110 longer furnish the earnings which
lighten the otherwise crushing weight of the
enormous public subsidies that have been
given to thorn. The subject of the power of
the Treasury to deal with this matter without
further legislation lias boon under consideration,
but circumstances have postponed
a conclusion, it is probable that a
consideration of the propriety of a modification
or abrogation of the article of the
Treaty of Washington relating to transit of
goods in bond is involve I in any complete
solution of the question.
TilK CH1LSAN TROUBf.B.
Cougress at the last session was kept advisod
of the progrossof the serious and for a
time threatening differences between the
United States and Chile. It gives ine now
great satisfaction^ report that the Chilean
Govermn jut, in a most friendly and honorable
spirit, has tendoro I an 1 pai l as an indemnity
to the families of the sailors of the
Baltimore who fvere killed and to those who
W;?ra injured in the outbro i'.< in tlio city of
Valparaiso the sum of $73,010. This has been
accepted, not only as an indemnity for a
wrong done, but as a most gratifyiu g evidence
that the Governin nit of Chile rightly
appreciates the disnoiition of this Government
to act in a spirit of the most absolute
fairness and frieii llinisi in our intercouso
with that bravo people. A further a nd conclusive
ovidonoo of the mutuil respect and
confidence now existing is furnish:> i by the
fact that a convention submitting to arbitration
tbe mutual claims of the citizms of tho
respective Governments has boon agree I
upon.
TUB ITALIAN AFKA III.
The friondly act of this Government in
expressing to the Government of Italy its
reprobation nnd abhorrence of the lynching
of Italian subjects in New Orleans, by the
payment of 13>,000 franos, or $M,.'O0.03, was
accepted by tho King of Italy with every
manifestation of gracious appreciation, and
the incident has boon highly promotive of
mutual rospect and good will.
HELP TJ1K NICARAGUA CANAL.
I repeat with great earnestness the recommendation
which I have made in several
previous messages that prompt and adequate
support be given to tho American Company
ongaged in the construction of the Nicaragua
Uliip Canal. It is impossi >Io to overstate toe
value from every standpoint of this groat
enterprise, and 1 hope that there may b.?
time, even in this Congress to give to it an
impetus that will insurotha egilv completion
of tho oanal and secure to the United Htates
Its proper relation to it When complete I.
IIOPKKUL FOR SILVER.
The Congras* has bean already advised
that the invitations o.' thii Govern nont for
the assembling of an intera itional Monetary
ir Word, Your Work and 1
C.? THURSDAY, DEC
Conference to canh I sr the q mtlon of nn
enlarge I use of silver wero necjpfco.l by the
nations to whioh tli <v wore n l li tswl. Tho
conference assemble. I fit Ilru*sjls on tho
V2 I of November an I IriN ontjro I upon tho
coiisi'leratiou of tais groat question. I h?vo
not iloubte I, anil have not taken occasion
to express that bo.iof, as well in the
invitations issue I tor this conference
as in my public message*. that the
free coinage of silver ubou an unreal
international ratio won 11 greitly promote
the interest of our psoplo mi 1 equally those
of other nations. It is too early to prodici
what results may ha accomplish*! oy tin
confereuce. It any temporary check 01
delay intervenes, 1 beliovo that very bood
oomtnercial conditions will compel the now
reluctant Governments to unite with us iu
this movement to secure the enlargement of
of the volutin of coined money needed foi
tlio trnus lotion of the business of the world
TUB TREASURY.
Tho report of the Secretary of the Treasury
will attract especial Interest iu view of
tho many mislon lin? st ite mats that bavo
been made us to the state of 11 s public rev?
onues. Throe preliminary facts should not
only be state I, but o nplvisim I, before looking
into details: First, lb it the public
debt has boon ro lund since March 4,
1889, $959,074,9)4, mi I tin annual
interest charge $11,051,469; second, that
there linve been paid out for pensions
during this administration up tc
November 1, 189?, $469,561,178.70, an excasi
of $114,466,6SO.09 over the sum exoendeo
during the nrrtol Iron March 1, 1885, to
March 1, 18*9, and third, that under the existing
tariff ui) to 1) ;-ember I about $93,O00,000
of re venue, wiiui would have b *en
collected upon import} I sugars it the duty
had been maintained, lias gone into the
pockots of tlio naoplo and not into tho pub
lie treasury, as l>8foro.
If there arc any who still think that tho
surplus should have beim kop t out of circu
lation by hoarding it in tho Treasury, 01
deposited in favored banks without interest
while the Government continued to pay tc
those very banks interest upou tho bon is
deposited as security for tho deposits, or
who think that tho o\ten led pension legislation
was a public robbery, or that th<
duties upon sugar should have boon maintained,
I am content to lowo tho argument
where it now rest-, while wo wait to see
whether theso criticisms >vill take the form
of legislation.
Tho revenues for the liscal year endinj
tune 30, 1893, from all source* were $425,
869,300.33, and the expenditures for all purposes
were 8415,938.806.56. leaving a balance
of 10,914,453.60, There wore paid during
tho year upon the public debt $40,570,467.98.
The surplus in tho Treasury and
the bank redemption fund, pa?so1 by thoaet
of July 14, 1890, to tho general fund, furnished
in largo part tho eish available and
usod for tho payments made noon the public
debt. Comnarod with tho voar 1891, our
receipts from customs duties fell off $42,00
,211.< 8, while our receipts from internal
revenue increase I $9,^94,833.13, leaving the
net loss of revenue' from theso principal
sources $33,7o 1,417.95. Tho not loss of
revenuo from all sources was $33,075,973.81.
Tho revenues, estimated and actual, for
the n-<-ii year ending Juno 80, 1893, are
placed by tho Secretary at $483,334,850.44
an I the expenditures at $461,336,353.44,
shoving a surp'us of receiots over oxpandltures
of $3,0 lO.OO'J. The cash balance in th >
Treasury at tho end of tho liscal year it is
estimated will bo $20,393,377.03.
Tho estimate 1 room its for tho (lsoal year
ending June, 3>, 1891. are $49),121.885,33,
and the estimated appropriations $457,281,835,33,
leaving an estimate i surplus of receipts
over expou Iitares of $32,830,03105.
This does not includo any payment to tho
sinking fun I,
1 no public confidence in tho purpose nu 1
ability of tho Government to maintain the
purit y of all our money issues, whether coin
or paper, must remain unshaken. The deluaiut
for gold in Europe an I the consequent
wills upon us are u a considerable degree
tho result of tho efforts of soino of tuo Europeon
Governments to increase their golil
reserve, and those efforts should bo met by
appropriate legislation on our part. The
con litions that bivo created this drain of
thy Treasury gold uro in an imoortanl degree
political and not commercial. In view
of tho fact that a general revision o" our
revenue laws in then ?ar future seam to be
probable, it would bo better that any changes
should bo a part of that revision rather than
of a temnorary nat ure.
BlLVlin H01TUHT AND COtNliD.
During tho last fiscal year the Secretary
Eurcbased under tho act of July 14, 1893,
4,355.748 ounces of silver, and issuod in
payment therefor >4,100,603 in notes. Tho
total purchases sluoo ilio passage of tho act
h iVo boon 12<),4i9,'?81 ounces, and tho ag,.c
iu^iia i <ti in 7fts no i 'in,,.
avornge pri03 paid for silver curing tho year
was 91 cents pai ounce, the bighost price beitie
S1.0J5X Julyl, 1891, tin I tlio lowest $0.i3
Marclx 01, 1893. In view of the faob that tho
monetary conference is now sitting and that
no conclusion has yet b'on roach jd, I withhoi
I any recommendatloa us to logislatiou
upon this subject,
AHMY TlKOHOA.NlZ\trON DRMAifDKD.
Tlio rep art of tho Sicrotary of War
bring < again to tho attontion of Congrats
soma important suggestions us t.) tho reorganization
of the infantry un 1 artillery
arms of tho sorvice, which his predecessors
have before urgently presents!. Our
army is small, but its organization
should nil th > mora l?e put upju tho most
approved modern basis. Tne coalitions
upon what wo have callod the ''frontier"
have hereto ore require 1 tho maintenance
of many small posts, but now
tho policy of concentration Is obviously th j
right one. The reorganization and enlargement
of tho Bureau of Military Information
wbic i the Secretary ha9 effected is a work
the u-efulnoi-s of which will become cvtiry
?ro ?v more apparent. Tho work of building
leavy guns an I the construction of coast
(lofons 'S has been well begun and should be
carried on without oheck.
CtUMS AOAINdT TUB OOVJCUNMKVr.
Tlio aggrogato of claims [lending against
tho Government in the Court of Claims Is
enormous Claims to the amouat of nearly
$1' O.OOO,' 09 for tiie tiling of or injury to
tlio property ?.f per sons claiming to be I iyal
durin g the war are now beforo that court for
examination. When t> t lose are a Id s 1 111)
In lian depro lotion claims and the French
spoliation claims an aggregate is reac is t
that is indeed startling. In the defense of
all these cisos the Oovarii nant is at great
dine ivantage. Tho claimants have preserved
their evidence, whereas the agents of the
Government are sent into the flold to rummage
for what thoy can find. The difficulty
is peculiarly great where tho fact to be established
is th i disloyalty of the cliimaut during
tho war. If this great threat against
our revenues is to have no other ohec c certainly
Congress shoul 1 supply the Depart ment
of Justioo with appropriations sufficiently
liberal to s.'cure tho host legal tnlortt
in tho defense of theio claims an I to pursue
its vague search for evi lonco effectively.
rosTAh AvrAios.
Tho postal r.jvonu s havn increased during
the lost year nearly $3,008. <X>\ 'iuo deficit
for fclio year on ling J una 3 >. 1S9J, is $343,841
104? than tho <1"fi ;i m j/ of tin preceding
year. The doflctoncy of tin present fiscal
year, it is estimate!, will 1>j reluoai toll,552.423,
which will not only In oxtinguishol
during tho next 11-.o il year, hut a surplus of
nearly ono million dollars should then ba
shown. In the:jo ca'culationa the payments
to be made under tho contracts lor ocoan
mail servicj have not bo n included.
Thero have been a ided 1588 new mall
routes during tho year, witti a mileage of
8563 miles; an I the total number of pew
miles of mail trips added during the year 1?
uearly seventeen millio is. The number of
miles of mail Journeys a lded during the
last four years is uno it savonty-slx rnilliod?,
this addition bung twenty-one millions of
miles more than were in op Gallon in the
whole country in 1861.
The nuaiber of postoffinss has been increased
by 31U) during t ie year; an I mrlht
the past four years an I up to October 28
last the total increase in the number of office*
has been nearly nine thousand. The
rour Country.''
'EMBER 15, 1892.
number of frea-lolivory oIIJjsj hn? bson
nearly double 1 in the fast four ynra, an 1
tho number of tuonay-order utile w mora
than double 1 within that tinn.
For tho throo years ru ling Juno 3). 18)3,
tha postal revenue nmouute i to 319!", 5"11,3 >9.
which was ?" iucroasoof $o.',201,15) over tu )
rovouue for tha throo years ou ling June 30,
1883, the increase during tbolast three year*
being more than throo uu I a half times as
groat as tho incroase durin g tha tureo years
eliding Juno 3J, 1858.
A whoiosoiu > oun;.i of policy an I o n
I ii ? > 111 ^ in vi mi4ua JM uuiiv^, *' ova "M i ?
[ me, was begun by the law of Maroh 3. 18)1.
Undor this law c >u tracts hive boon m i la oy
tho Po3t nastar-Usn hmI l'or olovon mall
routes. Tbo expenditure iuvolved by thesa
oouti'aots for the uoxc IUl'sI yen approximates
$315,183.33. Asouooftbo rosu>ts already
roaenod 10 Am erican steamships ofati
aggregate tonaago of 57,4)3 tons, costing
$7,<03,000, have boen built or contractu! to
bo built in Amorloau sutpynr 1#.
No subj :ct, 1 think, inoro noirly touches
tho prl le, th ? power an I ths pro mint y of
our country than this of tho dov 'lop neat of
our merchant marine u jou theses. If wo
could outer into conference with other o Jinpotitors
an 1 all wou! I agree to withhol I
(iovernmcut al l wo could jtorhaps tako our
chances with all tho rest, but our great oo u<
petitors have osbiblishel nil unlii'tiin i
thoir lines by Government snbiidioi until
they now havo practically ox In ! > I in from
participation. In my o >ini m no ohoice is
left to us but to pursue, mo lorately at loist,
the same linos.
OUU NAVAt PHOOUKSS
The report of tho Secretary of tho Navy
exhibits great progress in til) construction
of our now navy. When tlio prosont Secretary
entoro I upon his duties only tliroo
modern Bteel vessels were in commission.
The vessels since put in commission nn I t >
bo put in commission during tho winter will
mako a total of 10 during his nlministration
of tho Department. During the current
year 10 war vessels n id 3 navy tuys
have boon lauuche I, an l (luring tho four
years 25 vessels will have been laimchol.
I'wo otaer large shipi aula torpedo boat
ore under contract nn I the work upon them
W3II advanced, and tl\) four monitors an
awaiting only tho arrival of thoir armor,
which has boon unoxpoc.odly delay? I, or
thoy would have been before this in 00111luission.
Contracts have beon let during this administration,
un lor the appropriations for
tho iuoroaso of tho N ivy, including new vessels
and their nppurloiimicde, to tho amount
of f3"),000,000, and tboro Ins be n cxpuide l
during tho same perio i for labor at navy
yards upon similar work $3,00),003 without
tho smallest scandal or ohurgo of fraud or
partiality.
It is believod that as tho result of now
processes iu th construction of armor plate
our l iter ships will ho clotho I with defe 1
sivo pl&tos of higher resisting power than
aro I on ml in any war vessels afloat. Wi
wero without torpedoes. Tosts havo boen
made to ascertain tho ro'ativo oftlcionoyo
different constructions, a torpedo has been
adopted, and the work of construction
is now being carried ou sm
cessfully. We were without armoi
piercing shells and without a shop in
btructod and equipped lor the construction
of thorn. We are now making what is bo)loved
to bo a projectile superior to any before
in us". A smokeless powder has boon
develops I and a slow burning powder for
guns of largo calibre. A high explosive,
r? 1141! 1)1:1 llf 11CA ill Ini'ffO ehallrt Ili'n 1 c?n?.
vlco gun-, h is b ;en found, nn I tho manufacture
or u'un cotton has been dovelopo I so
that tlie question of supply is no longer iu
dou t.
tuu naval, Militia.
Tin development ot a naval militia, which
has I con organized ill oight States and
l>r >u;ii; into uoi1 iial an 1 co-onorativo relations
with the Navy, is another hunortamt
achievement. There are now enlisted in
these organizations 1ST) mou, and thoy are
likely to bo greatly oxtondo i. 1 reoem uond
such legislation and appropriations as will
encourage and develop this movement ,
\t*ohK IN amr: iNXBHian dupahtmknt.
Tiio wor e of the interior Department, nlway?
very burdens inio, Ins been larger
ill hi ever before burin * the a Iminlstration
ot Secretary Noble. The disability pension
law, the tak ng of the Eleventh Census, the
otiening of tho vast areas of In linn Inn Is to
settlement, the organization o ' Oklahom i,
and the negotiations tor tho cjsmou of Indian
lands lurnisn so no of the particulars of
the increase i work and too rosn ts nonioved
testify to the ability, fidelity an i industry
of the head of the Department and taiscllicicnt
assistants,
Tho work iu the Indian Buroau, in the o*<>
cutiou of the podcy of rcoent legislation, has
lioen largely Uirocto I to two chief puroosas:
First, tho allotrneut of lands in severalty, to
the Indians an I the cession to the Units 1
States of the surplus lauds; and, secondly, to
the work of educating the Indian for bis own
protection in Ins closer contact with the
while man and for the intelligent ox m-ciso af
his new citizenship. I have several times
boon called upon to remove Indian agents
appointed by me, aud have dono so
promptly noon cvory sustained complaint of
unfitness or misconduct, t be love, however,
that tho ludian servico at theagoncios
has neon improve! and is now administered
on tho wholo with a goal do tree of etfloiency,
If au.y legislation is possible by
which tin selection of Indian agents can be
wholly roiuovoi fro n all partisan suggestions
or cousi icratlons, I am sure it would
bju groat roliof to tho Exunitivo and a
groat oencflt to the service.
THE bUJlJECT OF 1'JCNHIONS.
Tho roport of tho Commissioner of
Pensions, to which extended notioj is givan
by tho .Secretary of the Interior in his
report, will attract groat attention.
Judged by the ag;regato amount o. work
done tho last year has boon th ) greatest in
th ) history of theotllc. I boiievo that tin
organization of the offlcu is efUoiont, and
that the work ims boon dono with fidelity.
The passage of what is known as the disability
bill Ims, as was foreseen, very largely
increased the annual disbursements to
the disabled voterans of tho civil war. Tho
estimate for this fiscal year was $141,05(1,000,
and that amount was appro- '
priated. A deficiency amounting to 510,008,0'1
must ho provide I for ut t his session.
The estimate for pensions for the liscal year
ending June 3', 1801, is fl05,000,i 0J. Tun
Commissioner of Pensions boli ves that if
the present legislation an 1 metbols are
maintained and father additions to tho mansion
laws are not nm"e, tne maximum ext?en
lituro for pensions will bo roaohod Juno
3?. 18H an l will bo at tho highest point
188,0)3.000 por annum,
I adhere to tho viows?xnrossedin previous
messages that tho car* oi the disabled soldiers
of the war of the rebellion is a matter
of national concern an I duty. Perhaps no
omotiou cools sooner than that of gratitu ie,
but I cannot bellove that this process has
yet reached a point with our pooplo that
would sustain tho policy of remitting tho
caraof these disable I votorans to the inado
quote ngonci9-(, provide I by local laws. Tub
parade on the 20th of Bspternber last upon
the streets of this capital of sixty thoimnd of
the surviving Union vatorausof tho war of
the robclliou was a most touching an 1 thrilling
opiso le, and the ric i ftu I gracious web
come cxter.de 1 to tho n by tho District of
Columbia and the applause that greete I
their progress from tons of thousands of pe )
pie from all tho 8tat'*sdil much to revivo
glorious recollections of the grand review,
when these moil aud many thou-an 1 others
now in tlnir graves wore w.dcouiod with
grateful joy as victors in a struggle in which
tho national unity, honor and wealth wjre
ail at i?ue.
aohicubtpnab depaht1cxnt woiik.
T ic report of the Secretary of Agriculture
contains not only a rti al interesting
st^loinent of tho progressive an \ valuable
work dope un ier the ad ninistr itipu o;
Heofetahy llusk, bub many augEditions for
Lhaenfafgtd usafulnesi or this inrnrtuit
D'pYKuenh in the sucq?<m:'u| girort to
break down the reafrictlopi to tho free introduction
of our meat products in t9e
countries of Europe, tue Bejretary has oeen
untiring from tho first, stimulating and aid
[ ing all ot!i?r Uovernm nt oflicjrs, at home
anil abroad, wuos> otll.'ial duties eu&bled
them to partloipnte in too work.
The total trade in hog products with
K nope in May, 18WJ, n> noun to J to 84,090,
tiOJ pounlv, against '00 in tho eatno
mouth of 189!, in Juue, 18543, the eiports
a tgrogate I W,7i)0,00J poua is, against 43,*
500,r.o > pounJs in the srrue mouth of tho
pre v.ous year; iu July there was an increase
of 41 |>er cent, aud in August of 55 oer rout.
| w*m iuuwn w[iuii IIUS ujummui I3w'ii wt?i
4 >,000,u00 pounds of iuspestei porx bare
oc-eu rxoorted since tho law was pit into
operation, and o coinparisou of toe four
ii ontbs of May, June, July nod August,
l$J.\ with the satuo mouths of 1$9l, show an
iuoreaso in tho nu ubor of pounds of our exp
>rt of pork product of 02 per coat., uii'l an
increase in value ot 00', per eout.
he exoorts of drested heat luoroasa 1 from
l37,Ui).?,Q'JO pounds m IHdO to 33),5 >0.000
pounds in IfciD, or about GO per cent. Uurin
* tho past year there have been ex nor to I
til) 1,0 '7 ncad of IIvn cattle us against 303,780
exported in I8S0. 'I'uis increased exportatioli
has been largely promote I by the iuR-irction
nuthqriE ;! by law and the faith ul
efforts of tno decretory an I bis efllciont subor
:m itos to make that inspjetiou thorough
ami to carefully exclu lo iro.n all cargoes
disease I or suspocte I oattl?.
Tho requirement of tho English regulations
that live cattle arriving from tho
Unitcl at itos must lie slaughtered at the
docks had its origin in the claim that pleuropneumonia
oxisted amot>g American cattle,
and that tho oxistmoo of tho disease ooul I
only c>rtninly he determined by a post-mortem
inspection.
Tho Department of A zrioulture has Iahore I
with groat energy and faithfuiuess to oxtirp.ato
this disease; an I, on tho 26th day of
Soptouiber last, a public announce nenfc wai
ma io iiy Mio hSecrotary that the disease no
longer existed any whore within tho United
States. Tho value to tho cattlo industry of
the United states of tnia achievement can
hardly ho ostlmatei. Wo cannot, pirhapc
at once insist that this evidence shall be accepted
as satisfactory by other countrios;
but it tho i>roiont exomocion from the disease
is maintains 1 an I tho inspection of our
cattlo arriving at foreign ports, in which
our own veterinarians participate, confirms
it, wo may justly oxpect that tho reauiromout
that our cattlo shall ho slaughter* 1 at
tho doc \R will bo revoke I, as tho sanitary
rostricciouq upon onr porK praiucts have
been. If our o.ittlo can bo taken alive to
the interior the trade will bo ouormously
increased.
Agricultural products constituted 78,1 por
cent, of our unprecedented oxports for tho
llscal j'.'iir which closed Juno !10. 189*3, tho
totjil o* >orts being f1,030,278,030, and the
value of tho agricultural praiucts $7>?3,717,870,
which oxceo Is by more th in $130,O
kmmX) tho shipment of agricultural products
in any previous year.
Au interesting an I a promising work for
the benotit of the American farmer h?9
been begun through agents of tho Agricultural
liepartineut in Europe, and consists
in efforts to introduce the various
products of Indian oorn as nrticles
of human food. The high price of
rye offered a favorable opportunity
for the experiment, in Germany of
combining corn meal with rye to produce a
choipor bread. A fair logr jo of success has
been attained, and some mills for grinding
corn for food b ivo been intra luce i. The
.Secretary is of tho opinion that this now
use o? tuo pro lucts of ooru ho* nlrea ly
stimulated exportatlous, and that if diligently
Dorsecuted large and I nportant markets
can presently bo opane I for this great
American proluofc,
it may, 1 think, bo said without challcngo
that in uo corresponding period has so much
icon done us during the last tour years for
the benefit of American agriculture.
NKKD CgF NATIONAL Qlf AHAN IINK.
The subject of quaruutlu? regulations, iupcctlon
and control was brought suddenly
to my attention t?y the arrival at our ports
in August Jast ot vos.-<e a inieotod with
cholera. (Quarantine regulations should tw
uniform at all our ports. L/n lor the ConBtitution
they aro plainly within the axelusive
Federal 1urls Motion when and so far
as Congress shall legislate. In iny ooinion
the whole subject should he tairen Into
National control ami adequate power Riven
to the Executive to protect our people
against plague invasions. On the 1st
of September last I approved regulations
establishing a twenty-day quarantine
for all vessels bringing immigrants
Irorn foreign ports. This ordor will he continued
in iorco. Some los? and suffering
have resulted to paasengers, but a due oare
for the homes of the people jus bides In suoh
cas 's the utmost precaution There Is danger
that with tho coming of spring oholora
will again appear, and a liberal nppronrhtion
should be made at this session to enablo
our quarantine an I port oflleers to oxclujo
the oeadly p.ague.
We are peculiarly subject In our great
ports to the spread of infootious diseases by
reason of the faot that unrestricted emigration
brings to us out of European cities, in
the ovcrcrowde 1 steerages of great stoimshins,
n Inrara till tiliai* nC noi'?rtnu
fiiirrouudlngs mtno thom tb * &wv victims
of the plague. This consideration,
ns well as tboso affecting the political,
moral, and Industrial interests of
our country, lead too to roue* the suggestion
tliat admission to our country
and to tho high privileges of its citizmship
should be more restricted and more carofel.
We have, I think, a right and owe a duty to
our own people, and especially to our work*
ing people, not ouly to keop out the violous,
the ignorant, tho ovil disturber, the pauper,
and the contraot laborer, but to check the
too great Qow of Immigration new coining
by lurthor limitations
wgulp's kaiu rtt >GitK?e.
The report of tho Worl i's Columblau Exposition
has not yet been submitted. That
of tho Board of Management of the (Jevern*
meut exhibit lias been receive I aud is herewith
transmitted. The work of construction
an I of pre >arution ?ov the opouing of the
Exposition in May next lias progressed most
satisfactorily and upon a sculo of liberality
an t magnificence that will worthily sustain
tho honor of the Umtod States.
PROTECTION KOH RAILWAY JCMPl.OYEM.
In renewing tho reconimoiidatlon which
| 1 have made In tbrei precjilng annual
messages that C ingress should
legislate for the protection of railroad
employes against the dangers incident to
the old and inadequate inet tods of brak
ing nn 1 coupling which are still in use
upon freight trains, I do so with the hope
that this Congress may take action upon
tbe subject, Wtidistlos furnished by tho fnter.st-ite
Commerce Con mission nhow that
during tho year ending Juno JO, ISO I, there
were 47 different styles of car couplers reported
to be in use. an I that during the same j
period there wore 2050 employes killed and
26,14 ) injured. Nearly 1ft par cont. of the
deaths oecurrc 1 In tiie c vipling rtnd uncoupling
of cars, and ovor JC par cent, of the injuries
had the same origin.
EI.KCTIONH AND APPORTION mknts.
I havo, in eich of tho throe annual messages
which it lias been my duty to submit
to Congress, callel attention to the evils and
dangers connected with our election inetho is {
and practice! asthay are related to thochoici |
or oni '-.To or tne national uover.iment. In j
my last annual message I 011 doavored to in- I
vokosoriou?attention to" the evils of unfair I
apportionments for Con jcros*. I cannot close
this messigo without again calling attention
to thoso gravo and threatening evils. I had
hoped thnt it was possible to secure a nonJiartisan
inquiry, by means o. a commission,
nto evi s the cxistoiic< of wnich is known to
all, and that out ot this might ((row legislation
fronisvhioh all thought of partisan advantage
should be eluuinato t and only the
hlgner thou glit appear of maintaining the
froj loni and purity of the ballot and ^he
equality of the elector, without the guaranty
0 which tho Qtawnment <*>ul 1 never have
1 eon lormed and without the continuance of
which it cannot continue to exist in peaee
and cro-p-rity.
It is time that mutual charges of unfair^
ness ap I frau I betwjju the grdat parties
should cease, and that the sincerity of thoee
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NO. 22.
who profess * dwire Tor pur# and honest
elections should bo brought to the t?st of
their willin (ness to fret our legislation and
our election motho la from everth ng that
tonds to Impair the oublio conll i#ooe in the
announced result. The necessity for an Inquiry.
ao I for legislation by Con cress,
uooo this nfbject is eoiphasfzel by the
fact that the tendency of the legislation
in some States in re??ut years
has in soino important particulars been away
from and not toward froo and fair sleetiont
an i equal apportionments. i* ir not tune
that wo should cine together upoa the h gb
Slaue of patriotism whi<e vre devise metioie
tiat shall e*<*ure the right of every man
qua titled by law toca^t a free ballot an I give
to every such ballot an equal valm iu ohoos
lug our public offlcers an 1 in direcrulg tor
policy of the Government?
AGAINST LY.NCH LAW
Lawlessness is not teas such, but more,
where it usurps the fuuotions of the peace
officer and of the oou ts. The frequent
lynching of colore 1 peo ile aotttsed of crime
is without the excuse which has so netimes
be?n urge 1 by mobs for a failure to pursu*
the appointed methods for the punish uen*
of crluie, that the accusal hivs an
uudue iufluouce over courts aud Juries
Such acts are n reproach to the
community where they occur, au I ?o
far aa they can bo inn i? the subject of
Fo leral Jurisdiction the strongest repressive
legislation is demanded. A puoiio aont
ment that will sustain tho o(Ti -on of the
law in resisting mobs aud in protecting a?>
ou?<e I persons in their ensto ly should be promote
I by overy possible raeaas. i'bj o
fleer who gives his life in the brave discharge
of this duty is worthy of special
honor. No lesson nee Is to bo so urgently
impressed upon our people is this, that no
worthy end or came can be promoted by
lawlessness.
LAST WORDS.
This exhibit of tho work of the Executive
Departments is sub nitto 1 to Congress an I to
the publio in the hoDO that thoro will b*
found in it a due sense of responsibility an 1
an earnest purpose to maintain the national
honor and to promote the happiness an 1
prosperity of ail our people. An i this brief
exhibit of the growth and prosperity of the
country will give us a level iron which to
noto the inorease or dccadenco that new
legislative policies may bring to us. There
is no reason why tho national influence,
power, and prosperity shoul I not obsrrv >
tho same rato of increase that have character
ze I tho past thirty years. VVo carry th *
f;reat impulse ami increase of those years
nto tho future. There is no r.-asju why in
many lines of production we shoal i not surpass
all other nations as w> have alreily
dono in some. Thero are no it ear fronti?r?
to our possible development. Retrogression
would be a crime.
Benjamin HARMSON.
Kxecutive Mansion. D ecember 6. IS03.
A TEMPERANCE SQUALL.
The Buttle in tho Legislature Over
Prohibition Has Opened.
C'oLUMiita, 8. C.?Tho prohibition
stni gis is on. The consideration of llimajority
import r?commending the pa
ugc of the t ldlds hill, a lenghty mo.iuio
providing for tho nppuintinent of
e unity agents to dispense hquor only for
sacramental, iroiieul and scientific put
poses camo up in t ie House.
Mr. Blcaso, of Newberry, moved to
etiiko out all that bill aftcT tho ex ciin:;
words unci insert his bid which in a few
words, prohibits the sale of liquor under
penalty of a fluo of from fiJiJO to #1,0 ?0.
or impi' sonniont in tho poult ntiary from
live to teu years for eaou offence. Th
amendments was tabled by a vote of
ninety o?o to twonty-tive.
Tho debate then continued sovyral
hours. The speech of tho day was made
by Heproiciralive John P. Thomas, < f
Itichlan l, who showed that with a license
law South Cu olint now had fewer num
bcr of tnxed retailed liquor dea ers per
capita 01 population t tin any State in
the Union except A a am a and Arka
aud the pr hibition 8 ate of Vermont has
hirty-three per cent, mom saloon< in
propordou to population than S^u h
Carolina
Argument on the Prohibition bi'l was
resumed nt night with vigor in tho Mouse
of Representatives Lawrence opeued
the tight ag'iinst the measure, and ai?ort<>
I thill. if t.hf> hill \vm*? ivies .1 if
would eutail nu additional tax levy of o e
tni l in Richmond county, and two mills
111 tho-cily of Columbia.
The opponents of the bill hii ceoded iu
impeding acti >u for a time by requiring
tb * reading in full o the veiy voluminous
bill ;iu I the many amendments to U.
a fearful .Worm out west
Wind, Snow. Lightning, Intense Cold
nnd Many Fatalities.
Hr Loth, Mo. -During the evening
there was a drop of 'i~> deg eo? in the
tempera ore in this section, accompanied
by u wind which reached a vel city of
85 miles per hour toward midnight, with
flurries of snow. The galo abated some
what but it grew much colder.
Advices from rill over Arkansas, tlx
Indian Territory and Toxiu report a big
drop in tho mercury, with sovero wind
and electric storms, and several funnel
shaped cyclone'. One at Ibeiiham.
Texas, demolished a do/.eu houses and
injured several persons, though none f-?
tal y. Denis >n, Texas, reports several
houses bl iwn down nnd a bunch of e n
tic killed, and a stock man named John
Wismoro, were ki led by lightning at Big
Prairie. A tornado 8 M)yai Is wide -struck
Pulagould, A'k., about II o'clock >?
te.day and did 8",000 damage i<> birhl
inga, fene. sand sidewalks iu a ts\ iiiklut;,
but fortunately no one was scriouslv "?
jurcd.
A Bridge for the MisstsainDi.
Washington, D. C.?Mr. Vest, Democrat,
of Missouri, from the commit to on
cominr rce, reported favorably a Senate
bill authorizing fho P?nlhorn Bridge and
Railroad Company >1 . > c.? Orleans, to
construct and luuiotaiu a bridge over tlio
Mississippi riv r above New Orleans, of
three unbroken spans, to be at bast 1,000
feet in length nod with but two piers in
the river and the highest to be not less
than 9!) T ct above high water; this bridge
to be constructed under the direction of
the Secretary of War, and to be available
for any of the railroads desiring its use
to cross the Mississippi river, and also for
postroads aud telegraph and other purposes.
The bridge is to be completed
within five years of the passage of the
act. The bill was unanimously passed
Sale of a Historic Plantation.
< tiAiti.ESTON, 8. C. ? "The Oaks"
plantation, a historic plaoo in Berkeley
county and the site of the Mead phos
p'-ato ?orks, was sold at auction for
$40,(100, Q orge W Williams, the ino ?
gagee, being the purchaser. The pro|
erry ha becu tied up iu the courts tot
some time,
.
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