The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, February 15, 1894, Image 1
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.*'
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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
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.......... |/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. |
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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.
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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."
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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.