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VOL. VIII. 'I'll 10 HAWAIIAN MUDDIiK. President CIcvvIuihI Nuwtulited by i In' Democrat ic House?The Republicans lie! Aid and Comfort t'roin a Few Democrats. Washington, Fob. 0.?The House took up the consideration of tho resolution front tho committee on foreign affairs, which eonsuros Minister Stevens' I policy in using tlte naval forces of the I i nited States to aid in overthrowing the queen of the Hawaiian Islands unil in setting up u provisional government, declaring that it was contrary to the traditions of our Republic and the spirit of our constitution. The resolution also approves the principle announced by the 1'resident that interference with the domestic affairs of an independent nation is contrary to the spirit of American institutions. Further, that annexation of liawuii or a protectorate is uncalled for and inexpedient and that the people of Hawaii should have freedom to pursue their own line of policy, and that foreign intervention will not be regarded by the United states with indifference. Mi. i iioi...1? * f (1/cui.;, Ul '-OllO, iUldressed tho House. As a preface to his remarks he said lie should have nothing to say against rresident Harrison or Secretary of State Foster, and he had no doubt that Mr. Harrison madeagood President, from a Republican point of view. Hut he did endorse the action of the present President. and also the policy which declared that the islands should not bo allowed to fall into the hands of any foreign government. Senator Culborson (Hem.), of Texas, defended the resolution in a legal argument. Mr. Storer (Rep.), of Ohio, made a strong legal argument against the legality of the appointment of Mr. lilouut as commissioner to Hawaii, while the Senate was in session. Mr. Everett (Dem.), of Massachusetts, spoke, endorsing the course pursued by President Cleveland. He said that he had decided the case on its merits as a judge, as a justice and as a man, but when he found he could not restore the Queen without force, he referred the whole matter to Congress. Mr. Loud (Rep.), of California, who was the next speaker, prefaced his remarks with tlie statement that last spring he hud visited the Hawaiian Islands, and had remained there two months, so that he spoke as one who had information on the subject. As a result of an interruption he said that he had not gone to Hawaii to spy upon Mr. Hlount, but in his own interest, and he thought it was a mistake to trust implicitly to one man, instead of a commission, for no one man was free from the taint of prejudieo. in the course of his remarks he saiil : 44 i went to Hawaii to attain a certain object ; 1 went there untrammelled by niiv ,iu;-w.? f.?.. I?" ?%..J WVJV^V, IUI V1IV pui |IUOU ill UUlllil)' looking at both sides of tho question, that I might the better perform my duties hero as a legislator upon a subject which all knew must come before us for review. So here we parted company, he to t*esumo his star chamber investigation, 1 to go upon the highways and into the byways, in the broad light of day, seeking light." Mr. Loud reviewed the testimony of the Blount renort by the light of his own investigations, and asserted that on that testimony Mr. Blount's conclusions were disproved. He said rf Mr. Stevens had been guilty of tho aets charged, it was tho duty of the Executive to "bring him home in chains," and the laws of the country would luivo punished him. Mr. Loud's conclusion was as to the manner in which the provisional government was organized after a full examination of the testimony, and a personal investigation during April and May at Honolulu. Mr. Loud stated that a government of the people and by the people of intelligence and decency had at last been formed in Hawaii, and without tho assistance, in the slightest degree, of the minister or tho naval forces there. .ur. .turner. t,uom.j, 01 ueorgla, dofonded Mr. Blount from the charges which had boon made against him, and attacked the Provisional Government, lit* was opposed to the policy of territorial extension, and drew a lesson 4irom tho fact that when Borne adopted the policy she began to decline. Mr. Sickles (Dem.), of New York, created a sensation by attacking the President's policy. He was tho first Democrat who had not upheld tho resolution of tho foreign affairs committee. lie hold that one administration should not constitute itself a court of appeal or review of a preceding administration. (Republican applause). The question of a provisional government was a "res adjudieata," and ho had heard no one nropoeo that tho Question should be reviewed. Ho mentioned a number of instances in which it was shown that this country had pursued a policy of annexation. President Polk, in 1*47, had negotiated a protectorate ovor the isthmus of Panamu, and that had stood for many years. Tho same thing was dono In Nicaragua, when it became probable that a route from the ^ Pacific to tho Atlantic would bo built through, thus, giving the residents control there. In referring to tho pending resolution of tho foreign affairs committee ho suid ho could not endorse it. and he would not vote for it. (He publican applause.) He closed his remarks with the prophecy that no matter what might be the action of the House to-day, it could not change the ducree of destiny : that sooner or later the Hawaiian islands would become a part of the United States. (Loud applause on tho Uepublican side). Mr. IX;Forrest, (Dein.), of Connecticut, defended tho foreign affairs resolution while Mr. Nopburn, (Ron.), of Iowa, spoke in opposition. Mr. Hooker, (Hem.), of Mississippi, was the last -speaker and made a long speech, in xhich ho defended tho resolution of tho foreign affairs committee. The amendments offered by Republicans wore voted down, and tho question recurred on tho original resolution offered by Mr. McCroary. The Republicans refrainod from voting, anu the Democrats lacked throe votos of a quorum. Reed began filibustering, and finally a resolution was passed recalling all leavos of abeonoo and ordering tho sorgeant-at-arms to summon absont moinlwrs, after which tho House adjourned. Washington, Fob. 7.?Whon the House met to-day it became a question whether tho majority had boon succossful in tho otfort to secure a quorum. Sorao little time was consumed by u parliamentary wrangle. After this was settled, the House took up the Hawaiian resolution and the ayes and nays were called. The vote stood, yeas 174, nays 4. No quorum. Every effort has boon made to get a Democratic quorum in the Houses to pass the Hawaiian resolutions. Isaac Hill, Democratic u whip," sent telegrams to thirty-three absent members of the House last night and this morning a dozen of those momhoiu woro in their seats. As an indloution of the closeness of the vote this morning, unanimous consent was denied to Adams, of Kentucky, who had voted inadvertently, to withdraw his vote. The first roll call showed five votes only we're needed to make a quorum of Democrats. A half dozen Democrats on the floor refrained from voting. These were Geary, of California ; Sickles, of Now York; Strait, of South Carolina; Swunsou, of Virginia ; Latimer, of South Carolina ; sufVioient to make the 17t? necessary to a quorum. When the vote was announced 171 to 3, Springer raised the point of order that as there woro four vacant seats in the Mouse, 177 instead of 17h should constitute a quorum. After some dehate the point of order was sustained and the resolution passed. Tin: ri:i)i:it.\ii klkction laws. Kcpeul of (lie only Ilcimiant Lett of Keconstruction MruNiiri'H. Washington, Fob. 7.?In the Senate this morning, the House bill to repeal the Federal election laws, was taken up, and Senator lloar addressed the Senate in opposition to it. In reply to the charge, made on the Democratic side, that the law of 1870 was sectional, lie said that that law appliod only to cities of over twenty thousand population ; that when ii was passed there wore fifty-seven such cities in the North and but live in the South, and that of those fifty-seven Northern communities, eleven wore in the commonwealth of Massachusetts. How idlo, therefore, said he, to keep up the claim that the question was a sectional one, as if the bravo and gallant men who presented the cause of the Southern Confederacy had fought and bled and died for the privilege of cheating at elections. Another objection made to the Federal election law was that it took away control from the people of the locality, hut that the sumo thing had been done in several Democratic States within the last ten or fifteen years?in Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Louisiana and other States. The right of managing and ordering elections had been taken from the people who gathered at the polls, and had boon put in the hands of the central power of the State, managed and wielded by the Democratic party leaders. After some colloquy on this point with Senator Iiunton (Dem.), of Virginia, Senator Hoar exclaimed : "The records in tho archives of this Capitol, make of tho history of elections in this country since 18i>">, the blackest and worst history of crimes since tho world was created. Wo can iuily uuui wiiii mat suojoct in silence. When these reports are rend, blackening the fair name of this land, we must walk backward with averted gaze, and hide our heads in shame. This is a question of fraud or no fraud, and there is nothing else to it. It is a question whether the supreme pearl and gem in the crown of Amorican manhood shall have the strongest force on the face of the earth for its protection and dofenco." Senator Gray (Dem.), of Delaware, replied to Senator Iloar, who, he said had misstated or misrepresented the gravomon of the Democratic opposition to the election laws. They wanted to wipe them out not because they protected the weak from the strong: it was because Democrats believed, from a bitter experience, that those laws were not only at war with every tradition of local-self government, not only did they degrade the State of which thoy were citizens, but they buttressed up the very fraud which they woro professedly intended to destroy. From the inherent vice in their structure they had been necessarily an auxiliary to the party machine of the party in power in the Fedoral government, in overy city of twenty thousand inhabitants they had been the ready means by which, during the last twenty years, the Republican party had put its hand into the treasury of the United States in order to defray election charges and operations of the party. There could not be a successful denial of that statement. Senator Allison (Rep.), of Iowa, argued against the bill, stating that so far as he knew, there was no public opinion defending the repeal of the Federal election laws. Senator Daniel (Dem.), of Virginia, was the next speaker. Me admitted that he was mistaken yesterday in his impression that the Democratic party platform called for the repeal of the Federal election laws. It did not do so eo nomine, but it did so inferentially, in a paragraph which he read. The wiping' oui <>i that legislation which was an aftermath of the civil war, hut which had proved itself an irritant and fomentor of strife, was one of the great measures for which the Democratic party came into power, and ho should rejoice when this bill was passed, that at least one of the party missions had been performed. Senator Hate (Dom.), of Tennessee, closed the debate. Ho made an argument in support of the bill. It was suscoptiblo of demonstration, ho said, that the chief object of the reconstruction laws (of which the Federal election laws formed a part) had boon to capture the electoral votes of the Southern States, and to socuro Republican Senators and Representatives. Hut the scheme had gone awry and all the plots had failed. The now allies had deserted tho Republican standard, and the Republican party had ceased to have a local habitation in theso States, from which, for years after tho war, it had all thoir Senators, and all but one of their Representatives. Whether these Federal election laws were or were not constitutional, they were certainly, in the year of grace, 1804, unwiso and unnecessary. They embodied tho samo ideas that dictated reconstruction, and they should now bo repealed. They hud inspired more fraud at elections than thoy nad suppressed. They should lie all repealed, and tho States should be left to regulate elections within their borders?thus giving emphasis to the doctrine of home rule CONWAY, S. C, ' ?the only safety of republican government. At the close of Senator Bate's spoeeh, Senator Chandler withdrew the amend-; inont heretofore ottered by him, and { ottered another, the purport of which | was to make the repeal effective only to the extent of prohibiting the em- j I ploy men t of deputy marshals at elee- ' lions. This amendment was rejected, yeas, 27 : nays, 40. The Populists, 1 Allen, Kyle and Poffer, and one Republican, Stewart, of Nevada, voted i with the Democrats in the nogative. ! Another amendment was offered by I Senator ( handler for the purpose of i oxeluding from the olVoet of the repeal the crimes' sections of the revised statutes, in regard to elections. It was also rejected, yeas 27 ; nays, .'IS. Two other amendments were offered by Senator Chandler, to restrict the scope | oi ine repeal, ami they were rejected hy similar votes. A taunting Inquiry by Senator ('handler, as to whether Senator Stewart would contribute his vote to the repeal ' of the law which had boon one of the noblest acts of his public life, brought i out a short speech from Senator Stewart, to the efleet that the election act of 1870 was passed just after the nation ; had emerged from war, and that now j the nation had entered on another war, that of the legislative against the producing classes. Senator 1 'crkins ( Uep.), of ('alifornia, olTered on amendment, of which he had given notice yesterday, allowing the election laws to remain, but confining the Federal supervision to cities i of 200,000 inhabitants or over, instead! of, as now, 20,000. The amendment was rejected, yeas 28: nays, .'10. Three j amendments were offered by Senator i Chandler, and were rejected, t wo of j them without a division, and the third 1 by.?yeas 27 : nays, 20. The bill was then passed?yeas 20 : nays, 28?a party vote, except that Senator Stewart (I top.), of Nevada, and , Senators Allen, Kyle and 1'offer (I'opu- ; lists), voted with the Democrats in the ' illll IIIIIIUVU. Tho following is the veto in detail : Yens?Alien, Hato, Horry, Hlackburn, j Hrieo, Hutlor, Call'rev, ('all. Cockrell, Coke, Colquitt. Daniel, Faulkner, (lib- ' son, Gordon, Gorman, Gray, Harris. Hill, llunton, Irby, Jones (Ark.), Kyle, | Lindsay, Martin, Si ills, Mitchell (Wis.), Morgan, Palmer, I'aseo, Poller, Pugli, Koach, Smith, Stewart. Vest, Vilas, ' Voorhoes and Whlte(Cal.)?Jib Nays?Aldrieb, Allison, Cameron, I Carey, Chandler, Culloiu, Dixon. ! Dolph, Dubois, Fryo, Gallingor, Hale, llansbrough, Uawley, Higgins, Hoar, ; Lodge, Mitchell (Oregon), Perkins,! Piatt, Proetor, Quay, Sherman, Slump. ' Squire, Teller, Washburn and Wilson j TAltl IP IN TIIK SI IN A fib An Interview with Judge Lindsay, ol' Kentucky?He thinks the Income Tax Will Pass. Special to the Augusta Chronicle. Washington, Fob. <>.?The Wilson bill as it, canin frnm t.hn Umiun ! boforo tho finance committee of the ' Senate, and its career there will he watched with peculiar intorest. Senator Lindsay, of Kentucky, whj will assume an important part in the tariff discussion after it comes from tho j committee, is manifesting already great interest in the fate of the bill, lie represents the conservative element in the Senate, but is one of the strongest advocates in the Upper Chamber for a tariff for revenue only. He thinks the free list will be decidedly modified, and that a slight duty will bo put upon sugar purely for tho sako of raising revenue. He holioves, moreover, that tho income feature will remain in a part of the bill and pass the Senate. As to what changes will he made in the bill, ho says it is impossible to I predict with any exactitude, but his beliefs regarding the ultimate outcome of the light in the Senate are embodied in the following official interview : " It is obviously impracticable to give a satisfactory statement of views ui mo iicuiiis <>i mo larui Dill gent j over from the House. How far the Senate Finaneo Comniitteo may pro- I poso amendments, and how many of j those may be adopted no man can : divine. Hut one thin# I think is cor- I tain?when the hill is perfected it will : pass the Senato. "It is the mission of the Democratic party to reform the tariff in the direction of freer trade and equality of taxation, and to make the hill as nearly as possible a tariff for revenue. Democratic Senators realize the situation. and know what public opinion? tliat is, Democratic public opinion? expects of thorn, and when the vote i comes to he taken I believe every Do-1 moerat will bo found in line. " We have no such overwhelming ! majority in the Senato as in the House, and may lie compelled to recognize local interests that the House could afford to disregard. But no additional subjects of taxation will ho j taken up except whore the effect will ; ho to ralso revenue rather than mere I ly to afford protection. Kentucky ! will ask to have the extension of the bonded period on whiskey, reported hv tho Ways and Means Committee, of the House, restored, and the free list may bo modified in some respects. Tho sugar interests will insist upon being 1 recognized as the propor subject for a rovonuo purpose. "The income tax provisions may ho modified, hut are not likely to ho ' stricken out. I have no doubt that' tho porfectod hill will be open to just criticism from tho standpoint of a Democratic tariff. Hut it will be a virtual repudiation of tho principles of the McKinlcy law. and un important stop in tho direction of a tariff for I revenuo. Wo must get tho best hill possible under existing circumstances. | "It should bo enacted into law at: tho carlist practicable time. I see no j roason why the bill may not bo ro- \ ported from the committee bv the last of March. It can ho disposed of ! within a month or six weeks utter tiiat. time, unless the Republicans chooso to j interpose obstructive measures. I 1 don't believe they will do ho, as the manufacturing interests will demand that the period of uncertainly shall J not he unnecessarily prolonged. '' Wo now have indications of a ro- ; vival of business, but especially with tho manufacturers, and incy know the ' Wilson bill will not interfere with their prosperity half so much as coni tinned uncertainty as to the basis from THURSDAY, FEBKU, which they shall make their contracts for the future. " It is undoubtedly true that we are dealing with a diilicult subject, under an extremely embarrassing condition of business a (Tail's, liut our duty to go on resolutely with the work of tarilT reform is all the more important in the business conditions brought upon us by the Republican system of taxation.*' ?? jw IION. WIIdilAM lj. WIliSON. Something About Ills Domestic Idle ? His Wil'o Cbnts About the Turill* Itcl'oriiicr. Philadelphia Tlines. Congressman Wilson is a slender man, not over live feet, if that, wit.h n pule face, bright blue oyos and a fine head of ranidiy whitening 1 iuit*. Ho j and Mrs. Wilson live in a very quiet and unpretentious way in Washington, occupying rooms in a neighborhood far from fushlonablo and taking their meals at a near-by hoarding house. Mrs. Wilson's room is a sunny one overlooking the streets, and scattered | about are pictures and other souvenirs . of her home and absent children. Her ' manners are very quiet hut are kindly, and she talks about her husband in an entertaining way that plainly shows she is proud of the fame he has won. " Yes, Mr. Wilson is just about broken down," she remarked yesterday morning, when speaking of the measure which had passed the Mouse the day before. 44 lie has been constantly ; at work since October and I have | really seen scarcely anything of him for weeks. All day he is at the Capitol and just as soon as dinner was over he went back to work and toiled on till j midnight. When he llrst began the work his hair was just beginning to turn gray and now I see it is almost white, all the result, I think, of his constant application to his work. In fuel lie is so broken down that next week wo will start on a two weeks' trip j to Mexico and we will not l-otm-n imiii he is entirely rested. Wo will take it. easy, traveling in a private ear, and expect to have a pleasant time. 44 Mr. Wilson is nothing of a pnlitl- I ( inn in the common acceptation of the term?that is, ho is not a wire-puller, j At homo hois as gay and light-hearted : sis a hoy and is up to sill kinds of jokes and pranks. Our home is sit Charlestown, W. Vsi., and last winter he used to come home every Saturday night and stay until Monday, lie is fond of society, loves to see people go about in company, and is one of the most sociable men imaginable, though perfectly devoted to books. 44 We have six children. Willie the oldest boy who is 21, is assistant clerk on the ways and means committee of which his fathor is chairman; Walter, who is 22, is in the chemist's densirtpartment of some steel works in I itlsourg; Allen, 21, is connected with the railroad, and lives in Wi *?<>!> in w?ui Virginia, ami Arthur, my eighteenyear-old boy, is still at college. "My eldest duughter is now at IIollins institute down in Virginia, but my socond daughter is boro with us. Mr. Wilson was born in .Jefferson County, and lived only eight miles from tbo town which is now bis homo. I passed my girlhood hero in Washington, my father being president.of the('olumbian College and Mr. Wilson professor of Latin for the same institution. After we were married be began as a lawyer in bis native State and lias now been in Congress several years. Mr. Wilson and I are both Baptists, and I remember when we hoard of bis nomination for Congress be was at a praycr^moeting. It was an honor bo bad not thought of or expected and was certainly a ease of tbo 'office seeking the man/ "This is my II rat season in Washington, for I have been hero before only mm u iow wccKB ai a time during' Mr. Wilson's term. Of eourso I am used to the easy ways of Virginia life and cannot readily accustom myself to the rigid for ins in vogue at the Capitol. Hut I have mot a good many pleasant people, gone out as inueh as my delicate iiealth would allow and have always enjoyed my afternoons devoted to receiving my friends. There aro sevoral other Wilsons in Congress, and I have been much amused when calling to have myself sometimes introduced as 'Mrs. TurilT Wilson so closely has my husband become identified with his work." Mrs. Wilson is a small woman, probably about. 4f> years of ago, with blue eyes, gray hair and a delicate appearance, as of one whose health is far from strong, and there is no doubt that her husband would not permit her to keep up with the rapid pace of society during " the season." ?? The mother of the Confederate General, Leon id us I'olk, was one of the ....... * ....ii > .......... |/iuuiuvuin III rtviirutlll t'llior- j prise. She j>rojoctC(l the first line of ! railway in North Carolina. It wax a cheap tramway, costing $2,2f?0 per mile, running from the east portico of t he rapitol nt Kalcigh to astonoquarry, hut it was the precursor of greater things, and was called the Experimental railway. Mrs. 1'o'k was one of the principal stockholders, and the soundness of hor judgment was amply vindicated when her profits of the enterprise amounted to .'100 per cent of the original investment. At a banquet given in honor of the first train drawn ; by steam entering into Kaloigh, a special toast was drunk "to the dis-i tmgnished lady who suggested tin? pfinut.iMipt inn tl.o 4 ' ?M 1 V.I?J KAJIUI IlllUllttll l'Jlllway : she well dosorvos a name among ! tho benefactors of the Stutc.'' ?Sir Goorgo Humphrey has invest!- [ gated the 11 f? histories of centenarians ' in Kngland with the view of ascertaining tiie causes and circumstances of ; longevity. As one reads of tho habits ' and life of these men and women who attained tho ago of ltM) years and more, ono is struck by tho fact that they were ' almost invariably loan people, of spare j habit, and of great moderation in eating and drinking. Of thirty-seven three took no animal food, four took . vory little, twenty a littlo, ton a modor-1 ate amount, and only one acknowledged , taking much meat. With rogard to alcohol the returns are much the same, and abstemiousness Is found to 1 be the rule of ltfoos these contonarians. j ^ ?Col. D. A. Dickert has boon appointed chief constable under tho dispensary law for Newberry County. \IIY ,15 1894. i Till: PRT.SIDFAT AM) <'< >.\(i ItlvSS. i Harmony Restore:! in n (ircul Mraxlire?Tlio Hciinlc is Not a lim ited <>l' < >p|uisii ion. j.l.S. Cohen in Athmta-lout'iinl. It can be truthfully stated that the feeling between Mr. Cleveland and many of the Democrats in Congress was not particularly cordial, during his II rat administration, nor lias theru been any improvement until recently in thin one. But that they now both think more kindly of each other, is hi coming more and more apparent each succeeding day. Senator and Congressmen who, in the public estimation, at least, have been unutterably hostile to the executive, and who never went to the White House before exeent to attend the State functions, call early and often and are u There uro nmny pennons given for this change- n different one, in faet, i for eneli man but it probably eomoH from n realization of the fuet that, as Senator Morgan says, " party hnrmony is indispensable." There was a very good feeling existing between the President and the party until the silver light of the extra session. It. has naturally taken some time for the had sears made at that time, to heal. There were things said by hot h Senators and Congressmen in the heat of debate which probably would have been left unsaid upon reflection, but they have been forgotten all around in the honest desire which is now shown by all tbo members of the party to stand together and present a united front to the enemy. There was never a more opportune time for this fooling, which now thoroughly permeates the Democratic side of both chambers. They realize that every Democratic picker, every antl auminislrationist, is an assisant Kopublican. Tlicro is criticism for some things ilonu, and somo tilings left undone i>y this administration, but every Democrat realizes that the party to which he belongs stands or falls by the record which is now being made. The President and the party are in accord?hearty accord?on every issue except that silver, and that is settled so far as this Congress is concerned. A Congressman from' Georgia, one who voted for all the Itland amendments, said to me yesterday : " Frco silver is very popular in (icorgia, but it is not more popular than the Domoeratie party or a Democratic administration. If the tactics oi certain men and certain newspapers in the State are continued, we will not have another Democratic administration in a quarter of a century. If there was anything to bo gained politically by impugning the motives of the President, and the prominent leaders of the party, there might he some excuse, hut its only effect can but he damaging, causing distrust anionc tho masses or the party." This BccniH to ho tho light in which ) all tho public men hero boo tho situution. This is more than true of tho Democratic side of tho Senate, which has always been described as 44 the hot-bed of anti-Clovolandism." Such a staunch advocate of free silver as was, and still is, Senator Morgan, has this to say of the situation : "The Democrats in tho Senate are supporting tho administration and supporting it heartily " Any one of us would go to great lengths and sacrifices 'to do so. Party harmony is not only desirable and necessary, hut absolutely indispensable. Wo must have it." Of course, Senator Morgan's position on tho silver question is well known and the Senator has no regrets or excuses. So far as patronage is concerned, he said : " I have not opposed the administration hut in one instance, and in that I kept quiet." lie said he was not a patronage man. ile made few requests, except those in which Uiic majority ?)t UlO delegation joined, i lie hud no personal requests to make. ' 1 Tominont among t he Southern Semi- 1 tors who opposed the repeal of the ! purchasing clause of the Sherman act, | was Senutor Ishum (i. Harris of Tennessee. In discussing party questions witli him yesterday no said : " I believe that tho Democrats of the ! Senate, in the main, lieartily favor tint tariIT hill as it came from tho House. There is some discussion as to the income tax and other matters, hut it will eventually puss." In regard to the "friction" which i is said to exist between tho adminis- I tration and the Senate, he said : "There is not, that I have been able j to discover, any 'friction' between j tho. Democratic Senators and tho White i House. If tho silver light came up again, I would take the same position, hut I do not think it has caused any ! bitterness or resentment at either end i of the avenue. I am far from having I any prejudice against the President or 1 any of his cabinet officers, and i do not j think there is any felt against mo or ; tho Sonato." Those ni'?? nnlit ?..n. . -' *> ... u ?...j nitMI|/IU WIIKS Ol IIIC hearty desire thocDomocrats have to got together and support the udminis- i trillion. The Democrats, in tho future, who jumps over the traces, will bo very I etToctually squelched. It has taken the party a long while to learn that " in unity there is strength." It is to be hoped that tho lesson will not soon be forgotten. ?At the spring meeting of the State Agricultural and Mechanical Society, held last week in Columbia, Col. 'Gliomas W. Woodward delivered an interesting talk on the subject of "potatoes." lie exhibited specimens of potato meal and broad made from the meal. lie said that the meal could bo used in making broad for people or in making food for cattlo and chickens. His address showed that potatoes oan bo devoted to any purpose in tho food lino. Some of tho bread made from tho potatoes was eaten by members who wore present and was much enjoyed. The potatoes, he said, can be groundin a corn mill. Millions of potatoes are allowed to rot by farmers every year, when, if they were used to mako meal, they would bo saved, as tho meal never skills. ?Tho grand jury of Borkeley County has found indictments against two { arties for violating the dispensary aw. These are the first indictments found in this State uuder the law. | n THK WEI-MOItl) TllAUKIIY. An Oltlclitl Statement from Chief ('niistuble rum lli* Makes It a Clcur Ciiho nrSeU-Drfeiico. Columbia ItvKiHtcr. (Jovornor Tilluuin has received the ollicial account of tho bloody tragedy at Well ford, in Spartanburg County. Ho fore the ollicial statement of t hief Constable Kant is given, it will 1m* interesting to say that on Sunday the | Spartanburg correspondent of several ! papers sent to these papers a story J that there were about fifteen men in i that county who went armed with Winchester cities and other weapons, , and Ismsted that they sold whiskey when they pleased and that none of ! the constables dared to try to arrest I them. This is the same party which J the posse was after when it. had the j shooting with Hallow and Moore, and tho doud man and tho wouiulod man were two of the liftoon who had dotlod arrest und said that thoy would sell whiskey whon thoy pleased. Thin is given us an explanation of tho opening part of Constable Kant's report, which is as follows : ''It had boon reported to mo for tho last two weeks by different parties that a crowd of men from Classy Mountain hud established themselves at a trestle, nine miles from this place, and were selling whiskey to anybody who would buy, openly defying the law, and swearing that they would not he arrested and that any ollleer who attempted it would bito the dust. Having obtained sutlieiont evidence to convict these parties of selling whis- | key, warrants were sworn out against live of thorn and placed in the hands of the SherilT. His deputy summoned mo and my constables as a posse and we went where it was reported the whiskey was being sold, but found no one there. We met a party who informed us that he had just bought from them at a house near by. Ho told us thut the whiskey was not at the house, but if we would tro to the house uikI givo thorn the money, one of the men would take a lantern, go to the swamp and got the whiskey. We got this man and two others to go back to the liouso and make another purchase. Wo secreted ourselves j near the swamp where the whiskey was supposed to he. In a few minutes j a man came toward us with a lamp, I but on the opposite side of tlx; swamp. He disuppcorcd awhile and then | started buck toward the house. We , followed but could not cross the swamp. J Wo then went up the swamp to the railroad above us. Dean, Massoy and Jackson were ahead of me a few naees. I They made a rush at the man. lie ran and 11 red back at the olllcers. Dean and myself returned the lire. The man fell crying for help, and calling for Hallow. Hallow responded: "Yes, , I am coining," and he came firing. There were not less than a half a do/.en firing 011 us before be came. I shot six times with my doublo-barrol shot gun at the Hashes of their guns. After the tiring ceased, we got a lantern at a house near by, and went to look after the man who was wounded at the lirst of the light. We could not lind him hut found his lantern with blood on it, denoting that the man was wounded. Hearing hollering at a house near by, we went up the path toward the noise and saw a man coming toward us with a pistol in each hand. We told him to drop his pistols. Ho lowered them to his side, but kept the iihi/./,i('h wwaru uk and Halted within twelvo feet us. Wo again tohl him to drop his pistols. Ho would not do so hut raised the one in his right hand, and Massoy shot him, killing him instantly. lie foil, holding on to his pistols until Jackson took theui from him." News and Courier. The other side of tho dispensary killing has beon told. I'orry Monro says tliat somo men wore sent to him for whiskey. They pretended to l>e drinking and hogged him for more, lie. let them have some, and after awhile they asked him to show them the way out to the railroad, lie went with them and kindly proposed to help them across tho trestle. They declined this, and al>out that time some one commanded him to halt and surrender. Not knowing what it meant he ran. A shot was tired at him, and while retreating he iirod in return. Then a whole volley was tired at him and he was shot in the leg and dropped m# mo ground. Alter remaining there awhile Ballew cumu out in hit* night clothes to see what wuh the matter. Finding him wounded he carried him on his hack towards the house, hut said that he would be killed if placed in the house, and therefore ho was left in the Hold for safety. The constables then came up to Ballew in the Held and shot him down when lie was making no resistance whatever. According to the statement of Moore and his friends it was a murderous assault, and the constables shot without any provocation whatever. ? TUB AID OF UOOI) CITIKKMS. (Governor Tillman Asks Them to llel|> Suppress Lawlessness. Kvery good and law-abiding citizen, j says the Columbia Register, is looking | forward with serious apprehension to the prospects of more trouble over the violations of the Dispensary law and the attempted punishment of the violators. Nobody dares to predict the outcome, but all hope that something may Is; done to avert further bloodshed. No sane man, however, can exjieet the officers of the State to ! be intimidated into abandoning the law. Hundreds of men who have heretofore shown no sympathy in the enforcement. i?f thu luur ' I T v. VIIV M?1I IHMt u^ivni themselves us compelled to lend their voices und aid to the suppression of the lawless feeling which is every day gaining ground. There seems to l>e a general desire that the Supremo Court shall at onco decide on too constitutionality of the law. If the court regards the law as all right it will receive more gonoral support now. if the law is not good then the quicker the matter is settled the bettor. Many who are now violat-1 ing the law would cease at onco if the I court decided that it was constitu tional. Governor Tillman, in commenting on the situation and the outlook yes* torday, said to tho reporters : " I deprecate, along with all luwabiding men, tho spirit of lawlessness and tho spirit to incite resistance to NO. 31. tho law and magnify and distort all o (Torts to enforce It into act of tyranny and blood-thirstlnoss. The Dispensary law is not on trial as much as all law and oIkmUoiico to the recognized channels through which laws are enforced. " I invoke the moral sunj>ort of all good citizens, whether they are in favor of the Dispensary law or not, to put down this relstllious spirit. I intend to put it down with an iron hand, hut the collision between tho constables, the sheritTs and other officers of the law and tho violators of tho law will bo minimized if those who ought to know, and do know, better would sock to discourage the lawless elements of society in this resistance." ? ??? TilK THADK-MAItK I'ALMKTTO. Tho Commissioner of Patents is Huh tuiiuMl by the Court of Appeals. I Washington Post, Feb 0. Gov. Tillman, of South Carolina, will huvo to prolong his legal fight if ho would still huvo a trudo mark for Pal111 otto whiskey registered in tho Patent Oflleo. Tho Court of Appeals handed down an opinion yesterday by which tho decision of Justice Bradley in tho Circuit Court is reversed, and the right of the Commissioner to refuse registration was uphold. Tho Governor applied for the trade mark July 15, 181)3, on behalf of tho State of South Carolina, which should consist of tho word " Palmetto." After passing through tho various stages of the Patent Ofnco examination the matter was heard before tho Commissioner August 30, 1893. Ho refused the application on the ground thut notwithstanding the acts of tho Governor and tho board of control, tho State, of South Carolina bad no authority to trade in liquors outside its own limits, and was not tho owner of a trade mark sought to l>o registered. i\ petition mr a writ or mandamus was then 111.m1 ami was heard before Judge Hrudley In Circuit Court No. I where it was granted and a peremptory command issued to the Commissioner to register the trade mark as requested. The Commissioner forthwith appealed from the decision, and it was argued before Chief .Justice Alvoy and .Instiees Morris anil Shopard. ' DUTIKS OF TIIK COMMISSIONKR. The opinion which was handed down yesterday was written by Justice Shep1 aril. 11 states that the points on which the ease turns are, first: On the arguments that the duties of the Commissioner of Patents as prescribed by law are not ministerial simply, hut are such | as to call for the exercise of judgment and discretion and that his decision : having boon made in the performance of this discretionary duty it is not sul>! ject to revision by tho courts. The otner argument is to the elToet that the State of South Carolina is not entitled to have this trade-mark registered hccauso she is not and and runnot be lawfully engaged in foreign commerce. As to the writ of mandamus, the court holds thut it will not lio save in a plain case and whore there is no other legal* remedy. Under no circumstances can it be made to operate as a writ of error. It maintains that there is a distinction between otilciul acts and duties thut are ministerial and between those that are judicial. The official act is where the law prescribes plainly and demands the doing of a specific thing. Then lie lias no alternative but obedience, lint in the present case discretion is necessary on the part of the Commissioner and his action ceases to lie ministerial and becomes quasi judiciul. His duties are different than those of a register of deeds, with which ho has boon compared. The court holds also that no appeal will lie in cases which involve the trade-mark act to their jurisdiction, as it does in cases of refusal to grant a patent. The fact that a trade-mark has boon used for years and that it has the quasi character of u trade-mark at common law does not make it such in I me meaning oi uie statute enacted by ! Congress unless it has boon used in eominerco with foreign nations or with Indian trilies. Although there is no provision as to the manner in which he shall Inform himself as to the lawfulness of an application it is still to ho inferred that no is free to choose how he shall obtain this information. The limitation of the elYeot of the Commissioner's decision does not in letter or in spirit show that his action in the promises is to bo without the exorcise of discretion. STATE CONTROL OF THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC. As to the power of the State to engago in foreign trade the court interprets the act of the State of South Carolina, which took effect July 1, 181K1, to be that the State wished to assume police power as far as the sale of j intoxicating liquors was concerned, and that the matter of revenue was entirely incidental. If the supreme question had been the collection of revenue, and the object was the muking of money, the question would arise as to the power of the State to legislate in this manner without express authority in the constitution. If such a question was presented to the court the opinion stutes thai* it would huve no hesitation in declaring that the the State did not havo this power. in conclusion, the court maintains thut it can tind no justification of the right of the State to trade in liquors outside its own limits. The sending of a case to Canada, which nffuxnii an example that the State should trade outside its limits, was not an act of tho State, but of tho officials, and it could not bo designated us lawful foreign commerce. Messrs. J. Edgar Sinitii and J. Altiious .lotmson, who appeared for Gov. Tillman, woro unwilling to state |>o?itlvely whethor tho case would bo carried to the Supromo Court of the United States, but It had been the understanding ever since tho legal contest began that it would not be allowed to rest until the question was decided by tho court of last resort. It' ?William McMurtrey, of Krwin's Si ills, near Ilonea Path, died on the Kth inst. Ho was about eighty years old and was the father-in-law of the late Malcolm Erwln. Ho was formerly of Belfast, Ireland, but has lived in this country for tho last fifteen years. He has crossed the Atlantic ocean eight times.