The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, March 15, 1894, Image 1
VOL. VIII.
SILVER IN THE SENATE.
STUAIiiXU A MAIU'Ii ON T1IK OP-j
POS1TION.
Republicans Helping to I'uss the I
lllaiul Hill?lOvrn its Friends art1 |
Surprised that t ha l<!iul is lleaclit'd
So iMislly.
WASUINUTON, March".?In the Senate
to-day Mr. Morgun, from the coinmittoo
on foreign relations, reported a
resolution, requesting the I'resident
to inform the Senate if not inconsistent
with public interest, whether the
4 ' ' 1
h..? < i iniiciii hi vjroai. licit inn hud ever
occupied Bluctields or any other place
on the Mosquito reservation iu Nicarn
gua, with a military force : tostutetho
character and strength of such force,
and the claim of authority on the part
of the British government to so occupy
that country. Lie supposed lie said,
although he did not know, that the
Kearsai'go had been dispatched to
Bluefiolds on account of that occupation.
It was a very delicate and grave
question for the people of the United
States particularly if the military occupation
had taken place on the idea
that Great Britain had reserved to herself,
in any treaty with Nicaragua,
the right to make an intervention of
thisj kind, which, in the estimate of
the American government, violated
the spirit and purpose of the Claytonliulwhr
treaty of 1S5U. The resolution
was agreed to.
Harris called for a veto on his mo
Hon lor a second reading of the seigniorage
bill. Ho stated that his obf
ject yesterday was to bridge the day
over in order that he might consult
with some of his friends on the Democratic
side of the chamber. He had
had such consultation: and now, in
view of what seemed to be the unanimous
views of both sides, and in view
of the fact that after the tariff bill
should be reported, it would have to
remain on the calendar for a number
of days, so as to allow it to be printed
and to allow every Senator an opportunity
to examine itcarefully, he knew
of no better method of occupying the
intermediate time than to take up and
dispose of the seigniorago bill. After
its second reading he would ask unanimous
consent to have it taken up, considered
and disposed of.
The bill had its second reading, and
then the Vice President asked whether
there was any objection to Harris's request
to take it up for consideration.
Sherman said that he would move, if
no one else did, to refer the bill to the
finance committee. He regarded the
bill as one of the most important ones
that had been before the Senate for
years. It proposed the issue of United
States notes to the amount of $00,000,000
for the current expenses of the government.
He regarded it as a grave
revolutionary proceeding. This issue
of $of>,o00,000 would be followed by the.
issue of other millions of paper money,
without any provision behind thorn for
their redemption.
Mr. l'almer (Dem.) of Illinois argued
in favor of its reference to the finance
committee, lie regarded a revenue
tariff, ho said, us essential to the country
; hut the seigniorage bill was one
that could await the .settlement of that
more important one. The discussion
continued until 2 p. 111., when the Vice
President laid before the Senate the
unfinished business, being a bill for the
purchase of a site for the government
printing otlice.
Call moved to lay that bill aside and
to take up the bill to change the boundaries
of the judicial districts of Florida.
This motion was defeated?yeas
122. nays 21.
Harris then moved to proceed to the
consideration of the seigniorage bill.
The motion was agreed to without a
division. The bill was therefore before
the Senate as in committee of the
whole.
Yoorhees, chairman of the finance
committee, said that if ho had supposed
that the taking up of the seigniorage
bill would result in any delay
of the tariff bill he would be opposed
to it, but the bill could be taken up
and disposed of before the discussion
of the tariff question was reached.
The question wus taken on Sherman's
motion to refer to the seigniorage bill
/o the linanco committee, and the 1110
tion was defeated ? yeas 6, nays 50. Tho
affirmative votes were given by Davis
(lien.) of Minnesota, Gallingor (Rep.)
of Now Hampshire, Morrill, (Dom.)of
Vermont, 1'aimer (Dein.) of Illinois,
Sherman (liop.) of Ohio, and Vilas
(Dein.)of Wisconsin.
The bill was read in full, and tho
presiding officor (Faulkner) said the
hill was in committee of the whole and
open to amendment. Then no amendment
being oilered, ho followed with
the announcement that the question
was on tho engrossment and third
reading of tho bill; and, that stage being
rapidly passed, he said tho question
now was, ''Shall the bill pass'/"
All this had been accomplished so
deftly and speedily that tho opponents
of the bill did not seem to realize that
their opportunities had slipped away.
Finally, Hoar inquired what had become
of an amendment which Stewart
had offered oi proposed to offer. lie
was informed that Stewart hud abandoned
the purpose. And, as tho presiding
officer put the question, " Shall
tho bill now pass'/" Hoar interposed a
mot ion to adiourn. lirwl oftllod for tho
yeas and nays. At first it looked as if
the necessary one-fifth to second a call
for the yeas and nays was not forthcoming,
but finally enough Senators
were counted, and the motion to adjourn
was taken by the yeas and nays.
It was defeated yeas 12, nays GO.
Morrill protested against such an important
bill boing passed in what looked
like a freak of a Senate. There had
been no consideration as to what the
clfoet of its passage would be on the
credit of the country, both at home
^ and abroad. It was but recently that
\fp fifty million of bonds hud been sold in
order to reinforce the Treasury with
gold, and to keep gold and silver coin
and United States notes on a parity.
And it was well understood that no
further amount of bonds could bo issued
with the hopo of finding a market.
Palmer inquired whether the bill
was still subject to atnendmont; and
was informed by the presiding olfloer
that it was not.
Allison : lias the bill passed to a
third reading?
The presiding officer: Yes ; and the
Juestion now before the Senate is ou
he passage of the bill.
Allison : Then I move to reconsider
the vote, whereby the bill was engrossed
and read a third time.
Cock re 11 (Dotn.) of Missouri: On that
motion I ask tl>o yeas and nays.
Sherman made a final appeal to the
Senate against hasty action. The
course adopted with this bill was, he
said, in violation of the old established
rules of the Senate. Never sinee the
body was organized had such an important
measure been rushed pell-mell
through it. Tho Senate bad refused
to refer 51. and now it was to be passed
with scarcely any debate. That seem
*.?il .extraordinary. 1 lo begged tho Senate?the
greatest deliberative body in
the world?to pause before hurrying to
its passage a bill which, in his judgment,
contained within it things as indefensible
us ho hud ever known in a
bill, lie intimated that he would like
more time to present his objections to
it. No Senator, he said, had dreamed
that the bill wrs to pass to-day.
"No matter," said Harris, "what
people .may have dreamed or not
dreamed ; if tho Senator desires further
time, he shall have it."
Allison said that he had in his mind
two amendments which he thought
were necessary and he hoped that in
some way the bill might not bo plaeed
beyond the power of amendment.
"That has already been done," said
Vouchees.
" I hope the third reading will be reconsidered
" Allison pleaded. "1 prefer
boingf,frank to being agreeable,"said
Ilaris, "and I shall not consent to its
going back to tho amendment stage."
After some further colloquy tho bill
was allowed to go over till to-morrow,
principally for the accomodation of
Sherman but with no indication that
there would h(5, to-morrow, any abandonment
or yielding of tho parliamentary
advantages which it occupies.
After action on Allison's motion to
reconsider, tho next vote is to be on
the passage of tho hill.
Special to Atlanta Journal.
Washington, 1). C., March 8.?
What looked yesterday morning to be
foolish and dangerous, turned outto bo
one of the wisest political moves of the
present session.
When it was first known that, by
Democratic aid, the Bland bill was to
bo considered prior to tho tariff bill,
Tho Journal correspondent, in common
with all tho afternoon men, believed
that it was a dangerous step, calculated
to delay, if not destroy, tho hopes
of tarill reform.
It transpires, however, that, instead
of the Democrats falling into a Republican
trap, the latter were the victims
of their own machinations.
rhe Bland hill was taken up by practically
a solid vote. It is now ready
for passage and will be passed in a
very few days. There will be few
Democrats voting against it.
Tho discussion on the Bland hill was
commenced immediately after the
morning hour in tho Senate.
Mr. i^herman is speaking against it
to crowded galleries. He is making
the ablest argument thatcould be made
in opposition to tho coinage of tho
seigniorage, but it will do no good.
The bill is sure to pass.
TIIB I'OWKit OF TUB PRESS.
A Strong Protest Against a Newspaper
Crilicisni?Democratic Senators Define
their Position.
YVasiiioton, March (>.?While the
chief clerk was reading tho journal of
yesterday's Senate there was a good
deal of quiot consultation going on botwoon
Senators on both sides of the
chamber, presumably over a supposed
combination between the protectionist
Senators and the Senators from the
silver States, to precipitate a light this
morning over the second reading and
reference of the seigniorage bill. Aldrich
(Kcp.) of lihode Island was noticed
as being remarkably activo in
negotiation with the Senators from the
silver States.
HillotTered the following resolution,
and asked that it be laid on tho table
for tho present:
Whereas, Tho Secretary of the
Treasury has announced a deficit el
$7<>,000,000 for the current fiscal year,
and
Whereas, The House bill, known a*
the Wilson bill, proposes to discard
70,000,000 revenue from tho present
taxes and to meet the double deficiency
by new internal and direct
taxes.
Resolved, That tho Senate finance
committee frame amendments to the
said bill, omitting the said internal
and direct taxes newly proposed, and,
instead thereof, make provisions foi
sufficient revenue by taxing other foreign
imports and otherwise revising
tho tariff, without creating a deficiency.
Harris thereupon moved tho second
reading of the seigniorage bill, which
had had its first reading yesterday,
and said that there was no more earnest
advocate of silver coinage than
himself, but believing, as he did, thai
there was at least one question thai
should take precedence of itsconsidora
tion, without breach of confidence. lu
was able to nt.ato t hai t.h/i
on flnanco was on tho very eve of re
porting the tarilT bill. Ilo thoreforc
objected to further proceedings on tlu
seigniorage bill. Under that objectior
lie claimed that the bill would go t<
the calendar.
Tho chair held Harris' motion to b(
debatable, and Stewart t<x)k the floor
but in a few momenta Horry (I)oin.
of Arkansas rose to a question of per
sonal privilege, lie read the headlinoi
of an article in to-day's Now Yorl
Herald: "Obstructing Commorcia
Prosperity. Some of the Senators Do
mand the Protection of Local Intor
csts. Delay in Reporting tho Tarif
Bill in tho Senate.' lie complainec
that among other names, his nam<
was mentioned. Ho spoke of tho arti
cle as so infamous, so utterly withou
foundation, and so thoroughly unjust
that he could not allow it to pass b;
without notico. He had been to over;
member of tho flnanco committee am
had urged tho roporting of tho Wilsoi
bill jih it had come from tho House
Ho had urged thorn to "dofythemei
who were delaying tho reporting of th
ijill in order to protect local interests.
He had said to every member of th'
committee that he would submit t
the demundx of these men, but woul
report the bill and let thorn takothoi
stand before the face of the country
lie believed in absolute free trado an
that commercial transactions shoul
be unfottered by any tariff laws. N
on* wa? more anxious than he to hav
CONWAY, S. C., Tl
the Wilson bill paseod. Democrats
who undertook to defeat it, for any
purpose (ho cared not what), "ought
to have, and will have, no place inside
the Democratic ranks."
Voorhees and Harris corroborated
Berry's statement of his position on
the bill.
Mr. McLaurin, the new Senator from
Mississippi, whoso name had been
mentioned among the obstructionists,
said that ho hail nnvni> h?,.i...l ..f ......
v>
number of Sonators joining hands for
delaying tho report!lift of the turiff bill
until ho had road something of tho
kind in tho Washington Post. Ho was
conscientiously opposed to the doctrine
of protection, ile was in favor of a
tariff for nothing in the world except
revenue. And he wanted to pronuneo
tho newspaper statement, so far as ho
was concerned, absolutely untrue.
Tho next Senator to rise in the round
of personal explanation was Faulkner
(l)um.) of West Virginia, and his appearance
in that role caused considerable
merriment, particularly on tho
Republican side of the chamber. His
name had been mentioned among tho
obstructionists. Ho had no hesitation
in saying that in relation to some of
the provisions of the Wilson tariff bill,
that bill, as it came from the House,
did not suit his views. He had gone
beforo the finance committee as a Horn- j
ocratic Senator and had suggested cwr- !
tain changes, which he believed to he '
for tho interest of his people aud also
In accordance with the Chicago platform
of his party. Ho believed in a
revenue tariff, and if he had the formulation
of a tariff bill he would not
have any free list at all. hut would put
everything on the dutiable list at a revenue
rate. Ho would not do so for
the sake of protection, but for tho sake
of revenue, and of revenue only. Hut
nt: wuihcu u> say, emphatically, that at |
tho saroo time, that ho had ho expross
od hiniHolf to tho oommittooon finance,
ho had also said: "1 am a Democrat,
and if that bill is brought in as a Democratic
bill, whether an it catno from
tho House or in any form, it will rocoivo
my earnest and cordial support."
Mr. Morgan was tho noxt Senator to
sock tho floor. Ho said: "Mr. President,
it is very clear, clear beyond reasonable
doubt, that the Senator from
West Virginia is not guilty as charged.
(Laughter.) I have to say for myself,
that I have not boon nearly ho abused
as he, and that, therefore, 1 am not
guilty." (And the Senator resumed
his seut amid continued laughter.)
Mr. Call, another of those Senators
referred to as obstructionists, declared
that the statement, so far as he was
concerned, was absolutely false, and
that he believed it to be false in regard
to every other Senator mentioned.
Allison (Kep.) of Iowa, a member of
the finance committee, said, humorously,
that ho desired to vindicate the
Senator from Arkansas. That Senator
had never approached him as a member
of the finance committee. (Laughter.)
Becoming more serious, he said:
"Has it come to this, in tho history of
tariff legislation, that the Senate is
obliged to take a bill as it comes from
the co-ordinate branch, without the
dotting of an "I" or the crossing of a
"t?" Have wo lost, in this chamber,
our power of consideration, or of
amendment, on a tariff bill. A general
tariff bill is the most important subject
that can engage tho attention of
Congress, if it only affects tho revenue,
but it effects every interest and industry
in the United Slnte* Tim II,,,,..-,
of Representatives hafl this bill under
consideration for more than six months
before it sent it to this body, lias it
come to this, that because the finance
committee of the Senate, that is the
Democratic members of it, has considered
it for live weeks, wo, (meaning
the committee,) are to ho gibbeted on
the cross roads of public opinion bemuse
wo do not hurry this bill, pell
moll to tho Senate, without consideration
and without deliberation? Speaking
as Senator and a member of the
finance committee, I intend that I shall
i have due opportunity to consider this
hill in every paragraph and every item,
i I would not discharge my sworn duty
' if I neglected doing so. 1 have waited,
with putienco and with some satisfaction,
for the Senators on tho other side
, of the chamber, who politically have j
tho responsibility for this bill, and who
, are considering it in order to discover i
. whatever defects may be in tho House
, bill, to finish their work, and when
they do, 1 huvo no doubt that the mini
ority on this sido of tho chamber will
t have an opportunity to examine the
t bill and to propose in committee such
amendments as we believe ought to he
adopted. And 1 desire to say that thoso
. who believe that this important bill is
r to bo railroaded through tho Senate
may as well lay that idea aside. It
will bo debated. It will be considor1
ed, and aftor consideration, tho best
i judgment of tho Senate will bo rofloct,
ed in whatever is done."
t
1 PIlOUllHSS IN TUB SOUTH.
t
" Bneouruging Reports fVoin all 8cotlons
of the South?Much Capital
. Being Invested.
Baltimore, March 8.?In its issue
> this week, the Manufacturers' Record
> summarises Southern conditions as foli
lows: The week has been notable for
. tho 1 i -- i 1 i_
, ?/ <.. uumuvi ui |imj)u8uu imuiici |ilVl 1HIprovements
and real estate transfers,
> aside from the list of industrial enter,
prises. Many projects for water works,
) electric light plants, etc., show that
- there is a desire on tho part of the
4 Southern towns to take advantage of
c the low rato of money and mako need1
ed improvements. Tho re-adjustment
- of tho Atlanta Consolidated Railway's
- tinances indicates the faith New bnT
gland's creditors have in tho South.
1 The modified plan of tho Richmond
5 Terminal reorganization has boon ap
proved by most of tho security holders,
t Large land sales in Texas and in tho
,, suburbs of Georgia and South Carolina
y towns indicate much groater activity
Y in tho real cstato market.
J Among the important projects fieri
veloped during the week are the (30i.
mile extension of tho Savannah. Amerin
cus and Montgomery Railroad, to bo
o built at a cost of $00,000; a 41,000,000
" company to build an electric railroad
e between Baltimore and Washington; a
o company to build a telephone lino 1(37
d miles long in Arkansas ; a $100,000 coal
r mining company ; $100,000 factory and
r. a large combination building in Went
d Virginia; a water works plant and u
d zinc furnace in Virginia; a phosphate
o plant, cigar factory and $100,000 rail
e road depot in Florida.
IURSDAY, MARCH 1
PENSIONS TOR THE FEDERALSA
U1TTKH DISCUSSION KNDKI).
One Hundred anil Fltty Millions ul
Dollars Appropriated for Pensions.
Washington, 1). C., March 7.?Mr.
O'Neill (Do.u.) of Massachusetts, roportod
from tho Committee 011 Appropriation!)
Mr. Bingham's resolution
asking tho Secretary of tho Treasury
to inform tho House under what
authority tho Bureau of Engraving
and Printing submitted a bid for printing
postage stamps, with a favorable
recommendation ; and it was pas?cd.
Mr. Henderson (Dem.)of NorthCaro
Una, reported from the Committee on
Cost O dices and Cost Heads Mr. Bingham's
resolution asking the Costmaster
General to give the House all
the information in his department
respecting the bids for printing postage
stamps the award of the contract;
and it was also passed.
At the beginning of the discussion
of pension bills Mr. Waugh (Dem.)of
Indiana, stated that Deputy Commissioner
Bell had wrttien him a letter
denying the truth of the interview
printed in the Indianapolis Sentinel
ahd quoted by him (Waugh) in his
speech, in which Mr. Boll was made
to say that the expenditures for pensions
in the year 1894 would be $2."?,u()0,000
loss than for the current year and
that before the Cleveland administration
closed the unnual expenditures
on account of the pensions would be
reduced to $100,000,000 a year.
Mr. Hudson (Cop.) of Kansas, said
the real reason why the House indulged
in this annual debate was the old
soldier had a vote. The pension question,
he said, should be taken out of
politics.
Mr. Kussoll (Dem.)of Georgia, said
he had received notice that the colored
brother was to be relegated to the rear
and that the Republican party would
tire the Northern heart with their appeals
on this pension question. Referring
to tie- statements that the
Southern States did not pay anything
for pensions, Mr. Russell said the
States should take the nenuinn in
own hands. Tho answer tho country
made to tho charges against President
Cleveland's pension vetoes was to give
him tho largest inujority in 1892 over
given to any eandiduto for tho Presidency
in tho history of tho country.
All that tho Democratic party'dosirod,
he said, was that tho pension laws be
equitably administered.
In tho further course of his remarks
Mr. Kussoll was interrupted by Mr.
Wilson (Hop.) of Ohio, who asked if
Secretary Smith's father served in the
Confederate army.
" I believe not," said Mr. Russell.
" Well, did he have any relations in
tho army V" asked Mr. Wilson.
"One relative ho had," answered
Mr. Kussoll, "whose name stands as
high, probably, as that of any man
who gave his energies and his fortune
to the Confederacy?Gen. lloko, of
North Carolina, whose illustrious name
the Secretary hears."
Mr. Wilson?-"Was the Socrotary
in sympathy with tho Confederacy V"
Mr. Kussoll?" Well, the Secretary
was seven years old at tho time the
war broke out, and in common with
every seven your old child in tho
South, was entirely in sympathy with
tho Confederacy."
Mr. Springer charged that the pension
bureau had heon used by the Republican
party to clTect tho vote in
Ohio and Indiana which were doubtful
States.
Mr. O'Neill (Dom.)of Massachusetts,
in charge of the hill, closed the
general debate. He reviewed the previous
speeches by Republicans and
i replied to their several criticisms of
and charges against the bureau. The
cause of the groat sudden decrease of
the issue of pension certificates, he
said, was a decision made by Assistant
Secretary of Internal Revenue Bussoy,
of the present administration, which
reduced the allowance of a certain
eluss of certificates five percent. On
the question of the value of allowances
made by tho bureau Mr. O'Neill said
that the average monthly payment of
certificates issued in the last years of
Kaum's administration was $9.1)1,
while of those issued in the first ten
months of Rochron's administration
was $10.08. The close of M r. O'NoiU's
speech was an eloquent eulogy upon
the character and sorvices of Gen.
Black, tlio ex-Commissioner; Commissioner
Lochren, Secretary Smith, and
President Clovoland, a presentation of
the hill as a generous expression of tho
Democratic party on tho subject of
pensions.
Tho bill then came up for consideration
under the five minute rule and for
amendment.
Three amendments were rulod out
on points of order. The fourth gave
rise to debate. It was offered by Mr.
Grosvonor (Rep.) of Ohio, to increase
the amount of the bill from $150,000,000
to $l(i.r>,000,000.
Mr. Henderson (Rep.) of Iowa, caused
something of a sensation by referring
to the speech of Mr. Black (Dem.) of
Illinois. He said that the gentleman
had stood hero with a Ixxjuet of
rhetoric in one hand to attract the
votes of soldiers, whilo in his other,
his withored ono, ho hold a dagger to
drive nt. t.heir hmu<t.u
44 What a cantrast ho bore," said
Mr. Hondorson, 44 to that othor distinguished
veteran, (Jen. Sickles, of
New York, who apoko for the old
soldier and who, ho doubted not,
stood discredited with the Democratic
party for tho speech. Honorablo sears
should not be used, said Mr. Henderson
as a cover under which to attack
men as honorablo as ho who bears
them.
441 was determined," said Mr. Henderson,
44 that this debate should not
closo without at least one voico to cry
4shamo' upon him who led a eolumr
in attack upon tho soldiors on the pen
sion roll."
Mr. Hendorson said not a sclntllh
of evidonco had been produced t<
provo tho chargo of fraud against th<
nenMinrt Hat. unrl unf if Ko.i
f ..uv mmm juv v iiou mm11
often und so loudly mado by the Domo
i orats that many poonlo really bollovoc
it to bo a rotton roll. Mr. Hondcrsoi
, appeared to the Democrats to unit"
with tho Republicans in support o
pension appropriations which ou^h
[ not to be considered or treated as i
, partisan question.
k Mr. Enloe (Dom.) of Tennessee, t
> whom Mr. Henderson had referred ii
his roraarlcs, said the gen?.leqa?n fror
Illinois (Blaolc) had been strccbafcful ii
5, 1894.
i !
drawing tho tiro of all tho gentlowen |
on tho other Hide who had not done
military service for tho country and
lust of all ho had boon charged of using
a dagger, if ho had used any such i
weapon it was tho dagger of truth.
| Against that dagger had been raised
on tho other side the shield ?ho would
not say of untruthfulness?but of as- j
; sertion ; and it was painted rod with .
: Biaiiucr. i no gentleman irom lowu
I has admitted a (ire brand into tlio |
j debute. The brund bud evidently not
l)oon lighted at the funeral pyro of
[ truth, for bo brought nothing of truth j
i into the evidence that bad been pro!
dueed to prove tiie allegation respecting
thu pension roll, mid Sir. En loo said lie
would not hco?who shut his eyos and
kept them closed, but he had shown
to the House the proof of fraud from
the records of the bureau itself.
An amendment making the reports
of the local examining boards open to j
claimants and their attorney, offered
by Mr. Pick lor, was udopted.
Mr. Groow (Hep.) of Pennsylvania, !
offered an amendment making the
lowest monthly pension rate four dollars,
to be abolished. If the Government
were to do anything for the old
soldier, he said, it should do something
substantial. Dollars and cents
should not bo weighed in the National j
| scales against the heroic deeds and
I services of defenders of their conn- i
try.
The magnitude of the struggle of
IHtil (>,") and the magnanimity of the '
victors to the vanquished were the subject
of an eloquent live-minute outburst
by tho ex-Speaker. It was his
lirstspeech since re-entering the House
and he was listened to with close attention.
His voice was full, round
I and impressive, and his stirring senti
i meets cvokou a round of applause.
The amendment, howovor, was obnoxious
to the point of order that changed
the existing law.
Th* 'Committoo then rose and the
bill ..as reported to the llouso.
The Plckler amondinent was agroed
to and the hill passed without tho
division, substantially as it was reported
from tho eommittoo.
1 11 r. S ION A no A M ION l?M 10NTS.
Important Changes in the Wilson
Turitl llill.
Washington, 1). (0., March 8.?Tho
Wilson taritT hill, which passed the
House of Representatives February
1st, was laid before tho full membership
of the Senate eommittoo on linance
this morning at 11 o'elook. in tho
amended form upon which tho Democratic
majority of that committee had
finally agreed, after one whole month
of consideration and numerous changes
of front upon all the more important
objects of taxation.
Simultaneously with the presentation
of the hill to the full committee it
was given out for publication through
the press.
The chief features upon which public
interest centered were tho provisions
in regard to the taritTon sugar,
iron ore, lead, wool and and its manufactures,
cotton manufactures and the
internal revenue taxes on whiskey and
tobacco.
The sugar provision is as follows :
All sugars, tank bottoms, syrups of
cane juice or of beet juice, inelada, concentrated
include, concrete and concentrated
molasses testing by poiuriscone
not above eighty degrees, shall pay a
duty of one cent per pound and for
every additional degree or fraction of
a degree above eighty and not above
ninety degrees shown by the polariseope
test, shall pay one one-hundredth
of a cent pur pound additional and
above ninety and not above ninety-six
degrees, for every additional degree or
fraction of a degree shown by the
polariscopo test, shall pay a duty of
two ono-hundredths of a cent per pound
additional, and above ninety-six degrees
by polariscopo test shall pay a
duty of one ami four-tenths cents per
pound ; molasses testing not above fiftysix
degrees by polariscopo shall nay a
duty of two cents per gallon ; ma!asses
testing above fifty-six degrees shall pay
a duty of four cents per gallon.
Iron ore, including mnnguniforous
iron oro, also dross or rusidium from
burnt pyrites, forty cents per ton.
Coal is taken from the free list and
made dutiable also at forty cents a ton '
and coke at fifteen cents.
Lead ore, which in the Wilson bill
was fifteen per cent, ad valorem lead
ore and lead dross three-fourth of one
cent, per pound, provided that silver
ore and all other ores containing lead
shall pay a duty of three-fourths of one
cent, per pound on the lead contained
therein, according to sample and assay
at the reports of entry.
Uaw wool is left on the free list exactly
as in the Wilson bill, the provision
to go into etToet August '2, 1804.
The whiskey tax is raised to one dollar
und ten cents and the bonded
periods extended five years, that is,
from throe to eight years. Cigars $5
a thousand; cigarettes in papers $1
a thousand ; cigarettees in tobacco 50
cents, a thousand.
Lumber remains on the free list.
The income tax provision of two per
cent, remains in the bill, but the tax
on non-residents iH stricken out.
The Woolen schedule shows few
changes, and where it is changed there
is about a fivo per cent, reduction.
There aro no changes in the cotton
schedule. Collars and cufTs aro increased
from ,'15 to 45 per cent, ad
valorem.
The date for the going into effect of
of tho bill is changed from .June 1 to
June .'10, and duty iH levied on articles
imported or withdrawn from consump,
tion.
In fit A infnrnol * ? ?
*< iiivui iii?i lutunuo oo\/uiwu in cv
now provision directing the President
to immediately notify the Hawaiian
' government that the United States
will terminate in twelve months the
treaty with Hawaii made in 1875. No
change is made in the rates fixod by
the Wilson bill on imported tobacco.
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j Special to Atlanta Journal.
> Washington, March 8.?Tho tariff
- bill has boon reported to tho full com1
mitto of tho Senate. It took tho subi
committee tlvo weeks to prepare it but
a their labors do not seem to have boon
f in vain.
t The bill as reported will not give as
a much general satisfaction to tho Democrats
as the original Wilson bill, but
o what is moro to tho point, it is sure of
n passage in its present shape. In a
a measure, the concessions wliich were
a demanded by the protection Democrat!
in the Sonato aro in ado, but only those
concessions wore mado which woro
necessary to soeuro sutliciont votes to
pass tin* bill.
There will doubtless bo little* opposition
in tlio House) and it is quite probablo
tbo bill as reported will bo
dually agreed upon in eonforoneo and
become a law.
Nono of the protection Democrats
get all tliey asked for or as much as
they wanted, but they received enough
to prevent their having a valid exouso
for voting against the bill.
Mr. Gorman and Mr. Hill woro unable
to kill the income tax feature.
II, reilWll MS llll! MIllllO US III Hill IIOUHO
hill. Tho coal and iron men succoodod
in getting a 10 per cent, duty on their
ores, the sugar men one cent, on raw
sugar with tho polariscopic test upplied
to refined. Lend ores were taken
olT the free list and taxed throe-fourths
of one per cent.
Mr. Murphy secured an increase of
10 per cent, in the tax on collars und
cuffs.
Lumber and diamonds wore put on
the free list. These are tho most important
changes, with the exception
of cotton machinery, which was put on
the free list.
Tho hill as presented will greatly
increase tho revenues, and while some
of its increases are to he deprecated
it is a much hotter and braver bill
than was expected, und should and
will he supported by all Domocrata.
TO TIIK COTTON UKOW1CKS.
A Soulliorner on 'CIiuiiko Appeals to
l lie Soul li lo Tliink unci lteusou.
The following article is from Mr.
John T. Roddy, of New York, formerly
a citizen of Rock Hill, S. C. He is in
the cotton business, and his knowledge
of the situation comes from a constant
study of the cotton problem.
To tho Editor of the State :
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i mi conon hii>uation should at present
cause more thought and agitation
than anything else with the thinking
people of the South, ami it does
seem that with ho many shrewd and
progressive Southerners that they
couid control the price of cotton,
winch can only he raised in ten
Southern States of the Union.
The Southern States should he able
to dictate, instead of having the price
dictated to thorn. Why will the
South not organize, and study more
closely the law of supply and demand V
They should command the situation
and control their most protitahle
staple, which atTeets their welfare
more tlian all political questions, to
the discussion of which so much time
is given.
Which is more protitahle, to raise
(>,000,000 Dales at 12 cents, or 0,000,000
at .r> cents V Some argue that the price
of cotton must equal the cost of production.
This is a misleading argument,
because even some of the
Southern State possess special advantages,
so that while at a certain price
Homo communities would get a fair or
small profit, the same price would
mean ruin to others. Some farmers
will Hay : " Well, I make enough of
everything to do me and can ulTord to
plant the balance of my land in cotton."
This extra planting is the cause of the
low price.
The worst trouble in some sections,
it seems, (in my opinion,) is the merchant,
because if a laborer can borrow,
buy, beg or rent a mule, ho can easily
rent his land. ?ml t.lw> >? .......
in its his lion to ho in proportion to tho
amount of land ho has in cotton.
Many farmers promise to pay hi#
prices for corn, provisions and other
necessities, expecting' an enormous
crop of cotton to pay for everything.
The hig crop comes and the prices must
necessarily ho low. Then the debts
cannot he paid, and, of course, general
demoralization is the result.
Why cannot farmers organize some
plan which would permit only so many
acres to he planted in cotton for each
horse and then adhere to tho rule.
Diversify tho crop. Let every family
raise everything at home except what
it weal's. There is no sense in tho
South buying everything it uses, when
| it can be raised in that section, which
I naturally should he the most prosperous
part of the Union ; hut it seems
to send North or West for everything,
because, in my opinion, it
simply desires to plant cotton. Many
farmers seem to know nothing elso,
and care to learn nothing else.
If an organization could bo formed
among Southern farmers to control
tho planting of cotton, instead of discussing
the silver hill and other
political questions, 12 to 15 cents per
pound could easilv ho obtained for
cotton.
Cotton is very different from wheat,
in that the latter can he itrown all
over the world. Supply and demand
must control prices. When it is known
how many acres the South has planted
in cotton, spinners immediately liegin
to liguro how low they can buy your
cotton next year. No, doubt, Manchester
spinners have representatives
in the South now, figuring on how
many acres you will plant, and for how
little they can buy your cotton.
There is one point I wish especially
to emphasize, and that is tho tendency
of the South to send out false reports
in regard to the probable amount of
cotton they will raise. This works
great injury to prices. Why? Experts
go South, look up tho crop, estimate
tho acreage and the amount you
will make. These farmers will say
live balos tho to horso. Tho exports,
having taken in tho situation, know
positively that seven hales of cotton
will be mudo to the horse, or at least
a difference of easily 20 per cent.
Tho reports of the farmers, who
estimate tho crop at only tivo bales to
the horso. are irlvon /,
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mont and many large houses, who
send them out. Then, tho South, with
this false idea, will imagine that tho
crop is exceedingly small, and will
buy cotton. Tho exports give their
opinion, which is usually correct, to
many influential pooplo, who thon soli
you tho cotton at high prices, based
on tho estimate of llvo bales to tho
horse. When tho time comos around
for you to sell your cotton, it is apparent
that tho crop will bo seven
bales to tho horso, and you will got tho
low prico on this basis. So you can
readily seo that hundreds of speculators,
cotton traders and merchants
1 llvo?and comfortably too?on your
, false estimates of the crop.
? I am a nativo Southerner, with
i Southern interests and Southern
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8 v in path lea, and it 1h my deareat wish
that tho South may wuko up, study
closer and bo tho once proud and prosperous
section as in ante-bolluin days.
Hilt uiiIchh they pull together in harmony,
and all work for the individual,
ax well an tho general prosperity, such
will not be tho case.
JNO. T. Roddsy.
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CAROLINA AT T1IK CAPITOL.
Month Carolina Members arc HolUI for
t lie TarifY Kill?The (turllngton Post
< Mlioe Seti I?*?I.
Special to tlir News and Courier.
Wasiiinutos, March 8. ?All of tho
members of tho South Carolina delegation,
except G. Washington Murray,
approve the remodelled tariff hill as
framed by tho Democratic members of
the IInance committee. Why Senator
Sutler should have fought for modifications
to the hill in company with
I trice, Hill, Gorman, White, CulTory,
Smith and Faulkner it is difficult to
comprohotul, as tho revised hill docs
not show any changes in the South
Carolina items. Rico, cotton, cotton
tics and jute are the same as in the
Wilson bill.
There is still somo talk about certain
Democratic Senators voting against the
hill in its present shape. Senator Hill
may vote against it on account of the
income tax. Several other Fas tern
Senators say they are not fully satisfied
with tho hill, but they cannot ho
induced to state that they propose to
vote against iho hill. As a matter of
fact the sugar, coal and iron men are
secretly pleased with the concessions
made to them in the committee's hill.
They will have to keep up their light
whilothe hill is pending in tho Senate,
otherwise they might lose their advantage
when tho bill is thrown into a
committee of conference.
There has been considerable " bluffing
"on the oart of the vr?.e?l l?<l kl f?n.
sorvativo" Senators, and th?*y have
gained numerous concession* that they
hardly expected. Ah before stated In
those dispatches tho Democrats of the
Senate are pledged to pass a taritT reform
measure through the present Congress
and they propose to redeem that
pledge in spite of the contaminating
iniluenee of the Sugar Trust and all
other trusts. Some of the Senators
from semi-protection States huve been
obliged to make a tight for duties on
em-tain articles, but after all they will
walk up and vote with the majority of
their party for taritT reform, all predictions
to tho contrary notwithstanding.
To-day the Senato struck an industrious
gait and rushed through a number
of bills on tho Calendar. While
Senators Butler and Irby were absent
from the chamber the lull to transfer
tho Morris Island live-saving station to
Sullivan's Island was taken up and
passed without objection.
Senator Irby has requested Senator
l'ugh to report favorably tho notninationofMr.
Hunter, who was recently
appointed United States Marshal for
South Carolina. Senator 1'ugh is
chairman of tho judiciary committee,
to which Mr. Hunter's nomination was
referred. There will be no opposition
to Mr. Hunter from any source.
Tho President to day nominated A.
A. Grundy to be post master at Darlington,
S. C. This is supposed to end
one of tho hardest fights over a Federal
appointment that has ever occurred in
South Carolina. Tho appointment
?... !*..? ?
.. muuv ??o kiiu i nn utuutJ Ul lAUprUSeiltativo
McLaurin an a compromise betwoon
Mr. Waddill and those who successfully
opposed the hitter's unexpected
appointment. Mr. McLaurin had a
long consultation with Postmaster General
Bissell this morning in behalf of
Mr. Gandy, and ho was afterwards referred
to the President. To the White
House Mr. McLaurin went, and before
ho left the President signed tho appointment.
It will bo romombored that Mrs. Law
and Mr. J. 1'. Kirven wore the original
applicants. Mrs. Law's friends attacked
the character of Mr. Kirven,
and Mrs. Law was about to receive tho
appointment when Mr. McLaurin withdrew
Mr. Kirven's name and rocommended
Mr. J. M. Waddill. There
was a meeting called by Messrs.
Thompson. Wilcox, Woods "and those
of the town who filed u protest against
the appointmont of Mr. Waddill. The
Law side of tho controversy was hacked
by Bx-Governor Hugh S. Thompson
and Bx-Senator Hampton. Mr. Waddill
by Senator Butler and Mr. McLaurin.
Mr. Waddill's appointment
was Confirmed by the Senate, but tho
commission was held back by tho Postmaster
General. Charges of all kinds
were made pro and con, but as it was
plainly evident that IX) per cent, of the
the people of tha town opposed Waddill.
at the Postmaster General's request
finally Mr. McLaurin recommended
Gandy, and immediately the
same fight was begun against him, with
Henry Thompson, the son of Ex-Govornor
Thompson, as their candidate.
Senator Irby says there will bo no opposition
to Gaudy's confirmation.
Hack to His Old Love.?Three
years ago at Man ice, Indiana, Mrs.
Will inn Fash found a letter in her
husband's pocket, which was a message
of love to a young woman at Hod Key.
Mrs. Fash secured a divorce as a
result. Soon afterwards Fash married
the woman that caused his wife's
actions. Mrs. Fash brought suit asking
$10,000 damages from wife No. 2
for alienating her husband's affections,
but the suit was squelched in a manner
that was a mystery until recently.
Wife No. 2 brought suit for
divorce on identically the same charge
as that made by wifo No. 1. Wife No.
2 had found a love letter of recont date
in her husband's pocket addressed to
his first wifo. The divorce was granted,
and a few days ago William and his
first lovo locked arms and took the
train for Hellofontaine, Ohio, where
tnoy are to t>o reunited as one in the
town of their childhood, and where
they courted over a quarter of a eontury
ago.
?Mr. Robert E. Loo, son of the
Confederate General, who is a planter
residing near Washington, was married
to his distant cousin, Miss Juliette
Garter, on the 8th inst. The house
wedding was very quiet, only the immediate
members of both famllioa
being invitod. Miss Mildred Lee,
the sister of the groom, has been
spending the winter in Washington
for the first time la many years and
attended the weddiag'.