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. PROHIBITION CONVENTION. No Stute Ticket to be Nomi nated. ONK HUND11EI) DELEGATES PRES ENT. All Cnmlltaton to bo Aakedl llotv Tltey Hluml Upon the Prohibition in- "M Ii? Ii Polities llliOOtOtl Into tho OIhcumiIoiih?An ICfl'ort to in- MiuIo to Nccuro Enforcement, ol' tlto Present Prohibit ion Law. COLUMBIA, S. C, Juno 7.?Tbo State Prohibition Convention was oalled to order at 0 o'olook tbla afternoon by L. I). Childs, ehairmun of tlio oxeoutivo coininltteo, who road tho eall uodur whieb it was hold. Atter roudlng the eall, Chairman Childs Haid that boforo asking for a temporary ?rganl/.ation, lio would like to thank those present for their attend ance. He know that many bad eomo at great saoriiloe of titno and business. Ho congratulated thorn on the favor* ablo condith ns under which thoy mot. Two years ago thoy met on tho ovo of a groat political battle and hud to fight for their dotnunds between two politi cal hosts arrayed against each other. Two yours ago tho liquor power was Kreut, tho liquor Interests wero banded togothor and over 700 barrooms were open. To-day there is not a single le galized barroom. All liquor that is Hold is sold by an outlaw, a sneaking fugitivo from ? stier, and ovory man who buys a d of liquor aids that outlaw in viol .ng the law. Let us take tho Btainh.88 banner of prohibi tion to higher heights. Our defeats aro but ineentives to greater efforts and nobler victories. Wo uro undor some disadvantages. Wo have no aotual prohibition law, only a decision of the Supremo Court that no license eau he issued for tho aalo of liquor. Mut no sane man be lieves that U8 much liquor can be sold without the State's suotlon as with it. There is groat mlsapprohenslon as to what is meant I)/ prohibition. Some seem to think that prohibition must wlpo out all the liquor at once, but it will not do this any more than any other law wipes out the evil it is meaut to punish. Lot us put aside our political foot ings. If the prohibition movement can brine; tbo political factions of tho State together, outsido of tho prohibitive benefits, what great good will bo done tho State. He made a strong appeal for harmo ny of action. There wore many points on which there could he compromise of action, but there eould be no compro mising upon the point of outlawing tho sale and manufacture of liquor as a b?Y?rftge In South Carolina. Such a compromise would bo a destruction of the vury fabric of prohibition. He siiid success would eomo because the prohibition ?a?io was right and God wits back of it. lie appealed to tho prohibitionists not to roly upon their-own strength but to trust all to God. He introduced Rev. Mr. Pitts, who led the convention in prayer. Ho bet-ought God to aid the convention in its otTorts to suppress tho liquor traf fic. Mr. Whitmiro, of Greenville, nomi nated Col. Jas. A. Hoyt, of Groonvillo, as temporary ehairman, and ho was unanimously elected. Messrs. Whitmiro, Herbert and Pitts wero appoint ed n committee to conduct Colonot Hoyt to tho oha'r. Mr. Childs said no introduction of Colonel Hoyt was necessary, as nearly every man, woman and child in South Carolina knew him. Colonel Hoyt thanked the convention for electing him Its temporary presid ing ollleor. lie reminded the conven tion of the importance of tho work be fore it. He hoped whatever was de termined upon, tho convention would agree finally us one man, no matter what might he the dilYcrcnco of opin ion at tho start. Kov. Mr. Herbert, of Laurens, was elected temporary secretary. After a roll of the delegates had been prepared, the temporary organi zation was made permanent. Colonel Hoyt said he would make no further remarks us the convention had met for business. Mr. T. .1. LaMotto was elected assist ant secretary. Twenty-four counties woro repre sented. The total membership of the convention was 100. On motion of Mr. D. C. Roper, thoso who wero not delegates wero requested to take seats outside the bar, in order to facilitate business. A committee of five on resolutions was provided for. all resolutions to bo referred to it, after being read by tbo convention. Chairman Hoyt appointed Messrs. K. O. Watson. Jeremiah Smith, 1). C. Roper, I). J. KnottS and Z. T. Smith the committee on resolutions. Mr. Miller moved that all present in sympathy with tho object of tho eon hvontion be allowed to sit as delegates, tho number in no case to exccetl the number alloted to each county-?twice that county's representation in tho Gonoral Assembly. This motion was tabled. Mr. Hugh Wilson, of Abbovillo, said as ho was not in entire sympathy with tho objects of the convention and was not elected a delegate, it would bo well to erase bis namo from tho roll. Mr. Brunson moved the appointmont of a committoo to prepare a platform for tho convention. Tho committee was to consist of ono from ouch county. Kaeh delegation nominated its own member of tho committee on plat form. Tho convention took a recoss until 8:40 p. m. At tho reconvening of the conven tion, Chairman Hoyt appointed tbo following committee on finance, in ac cordance with a resolution adopted before tho rooess: W. L. Gray, Jos. Sprott, Jr., C. 1'. Wray, P. II. Hyatt and J. ti. Harloy. Mr. K. D. Smith submitted a resolu tion providing for the appointmont of an oxooutivo committee consisting of ono montbor from each county in the state, whoso duty it shall 1k> to appoint a chairman for each county who shall organize prohibition clubs, otc. It was roforrod to the cotrimitteo on ro se! utionn. Mr. W. L. Gray of Laurens sub mitted a resolution providing for tho nomination of prohibition candidates, by tho convention, subject to tho ac tion of tho Democratic primaries pro vided the state Domooatlc Kxcoutlve Committoo gives tbo Prohibition fac tion equal representation upon tho election boards, oto. Referred to tho committee'on resolutions. Mr- Gray'? resolution was as fol lows : Whereas our Stato and county ofllcora wero nominated by a system of conventions from 1880 to 1800. and whereas said system of nominations became unpopular and was conaidorod by many 01 our public men as un-Do mocrutic. und wheroas tho convontion assembled in tho city of Columbia in tho year 1800 did ordor that all oan ?itlatt s for public offlco should In-fore becoming tho nominees of tho Demo cratic party of our State go before tho white Democratic voters of our State in primary elections, and whereas parties who should receivo a majority of tho votes cast in said primary election wero to be declared tho nomineos of tho Democratic party for tbo soveral positions to bo filled in tho State, and whereas this was de manded as one of tho reforms to be brought about by tho farmors ruove -mont of our Stato, and whoreas tho present loadors of tho suid farmors movomont aro now attempting to ln friugo upon this fundamental principle of reform by culling a convention to moot In tho city of Columbia prior to tho ditto of tho Democratic primary election and upon caudidutes to bo voted for in tho Democratic primary election to tho exclusion of ull other a .pirunt?? for said Stato olflcors : thoro foro, bo it Resolved, That it is tho bouso of this convention that wo, tbo Prohibi tionists of South Carolina, In order to bring clearly, impartially and justly boforo tbo Democratic voters of our Stato tho real issue of prohibition, buliovo it our duty to nominate n State ticket to go boforo tho Democratic voters of our Stato upon tho issue of prohibition puro and simplo in tbo Democratic primary. That wo respectfully ask tho oxeou tivo committoo to give us as Prohibi tionists equal representation upon all olcetlon committees and boards of in tnagors provided for in tho rules of tho Democratic party, with any other faction now composing suid party, and should tne Democratic Kxeoutivo Com mittee iiccede to this request, Resolved, That wo as Prohibitionists will submit to tho result of said pri mary and wo shall support whoever may receivo tue majority of said votes in tlio primary election as tho standard bearer of tho Democratic party. Mr. Watson presented tho following report: Your committee on resolutions hav ing carefully considered a paper, " an appeal to the ministry of tho State," finding that said paper is not, in our Opinion, suitable for this body to pass upon hog permission to report tho same unfavorably. Tho report was adopted. Mr. Smith's resolution was reported on and is as follows : Resolved, That this convention elect an executive committee, composed of One person from each county in tbo State, represented in tho convention to bo nominated by tho delegation from said county. They will elect their own chairman, and make all rules necessary for their government, j Tho OXOOUtiVO committee shall ap point a chairman for each county, who will bo charged with the organization Of leagues in each township under tho ! rules prescribed by tho oxeeutivo com initteo. Mr. Roper submitted tho following : report upon the above resolution : Your committee on resolutions hav ing under consideration a resolution regarding the election of an executive committee, etc., bog leave to report said resolution favorably, with tho following proviso: Provided, that tbo committoo, bo ; elected, shall have power to appoint a member of the executive committee In euch county not represented in this convention ; provided that organiza tions already in existence shall not bo disturbed by this resolution. The report was adopted. Mr. E, D. Smith introduced tho fol lowing : Whereas we believe tho best interest of prohibition will bo best advanced by the election of membors of tho Leg islature pledged to support of prohibi tion rather than tho nomination of a State ticket; therefore bo it Resolved, That wo pledge our sup port to tboso candidates who will pledge themselves for prohibition. Referred to the committee on resolu- ' tio'.s. Mr. Mercer introduced tho follow- | ing : Whereas thoro has been given ub unexpectedly and as it were by ac cident a law prohibiting tho sale of intoxicating liquors in our State, and whereas our people throughout tho State do not seem as yet to realize tho i full value of this great boon given us, and whereas it is needful to arouse at onco and fully evory good citizen to the gravity of tho situation and tho necessity of immediate and earnest action if wo would bold to and im prove tho blossing now in our hands ; therefore, Resolved, 1. That this convention recommend to delegates that im mediately upon their return homo they proceed to organize permanent county prohibition associations accord ing to tho plan already agreed upon by resolutions adopted inviting to , active membership in said associations all friends of prohibition. 2. That said county associations make it their immediate business to institute a general campaign of educa tion as to tho value of prohibition, in voking their aid for this purpose tho voieo and Infiuonee of tho ministry and of the presS, making uso also of public mass meetings and such other agencies as shall commend thomsolves to their judgment. Whereas it is commonly roportod and bei loved that liquor is being illegally sold in many communities and localities throughout our State, thus violating the present laws on that subject. And whereas It is right and proper that tho parties ongaged in such illegal traffic should DO brought to justice and properly punished as out laws ; and whereas wo, as tho prohibi tionists, aro looked to by tbo peoplo to load in this ; thcreforo, Resolved, That wo rccommond to all county or local prohibition associa tions that they tako all tho moral and legal Stops that aro within their power to have such violators of the present prohibition law detected, prosoeutcd and punished. Referred to committoo on resolu tions. Chairman Branson presented tho following as tho report of tho com mittoo on platform: Wo tho representatives of prohibi tion sontiinont of South Carolina in convention assembled, thanking God for His morcios and praying Uis bloss ing upon our oftorts in Iiis cause, issue for tho following : I. Wo boliovo tho uso of alcoholic liquors to result in enormous incroaso of tho death rate Of our country, add um about ono hundred thousand annually to tho death roll. II. Wo boliovo alcoholic liquors used as a bovorago to bo ono of tho most potent agancios in tho ruin of moral character. III. Wo boliovo at loast three-fourths of tho crime committod in our lund to bo tracoablo to alcohol in liquors. IV. We boliovo tho liquor traffic to Ikj one groat curso of tho fearful finan cial doprossion now gonorally folt In our country, sinco it annually drains about nlnu hundrod millions dollars from tho pockets of tho masses and instead of giving valuo In return paralyzes pro ductive enorgy of an equal amount (W0,O00,0OO), thus making un annual loss of nearly two billion dollars to tho legitimate trade. 1 v;\Ve boliovo traftlo la that whioh is against tbo peace, good health, safe ty, commercial prosperity and moral character of a community, State or na tion, to bo in violation of the real rights of the mon, and therefore In herently wrong. VI. We bellevo all forms of license of tbo sale of liquor us a bevorage to be morally wrong, and In violation of tbo highest purposo for which govern ment exists. VII. We bellovo the Stato should prohibit absolutely the sale of liquor as a bevorage and should provide for Its sulo only for medicinal, mcchanlenl and sacramental purposes with sueh rog/ilatlonsj-'provislons for enforcomont ana ponultios for violation as may bo oxpeetod to prove otllciont. v 111. Wo boliovo that to make any prohibitory law olTootlvo the oxeeutivo and other ofllgors of tho law should bo iu full sympathy thorowith. Tho report was signod by tho ontiro committoo, and was unanimously adop ted by a rising vote of tho convention. Tho committco on resolutions re ported us follows upon Mr. Gruy's re solution : Your committoo on resolutions hav ing carefully conuidorod tho resolution Hiibmitted by Mr. W. L. Gary to tho convention und reforred to tho com mittee, thut while they belicvoa Stato Prohibition ticket should ho nominated they do npt approve of said resolution, us a whole, but report tho following as u suhstituto: Resolved, That this convention tako steps towards nominating a full Stute ticket. Mr. Gray stated that he offered his resolution for the purpose of testing the sense of tho convention on that subject. It was his pleasure to bo a member of tbo convention which mot here in 1S.!K>, sent by the so-called Re formers. As a representative of tho people bo favored u primary instead of tho convention system which provuiled iu South Carolina. Ho offered a re solution to that effect, which was seconded and supported by Governor Til I man with his usual eloquence. There bad been no tlmo boforo 181(0 when ho had not been proud of South Carolina; since then ho and many others had had many heartaches ovor the division I of the people of South Carollnu. Ho praised Tillmun's uttor unees at tho laying of tho cornor-stono of Winthrop College, especially that deprecating tho strife among tho peo ple of the Stute and hoping for peace. Tho convention was for peace, not for ubuso of Tilltnau and the Dispen sary, not to keep up strifes fomented by politicians, but to offer such u plat form as could bo stood upon by all the people of South Carolina. He then de precated tho ovils of tho liquor traffic. Ho said ho bad been told that tho Democratic committee was going to start tho campaign on Juno 18. They would not lot Prohibitionists come into thut. Ho urged nominations and tho advocacy of the prohibition cuuso in the Democratic campaign and primary. Oneo tbo street cars in Columbia only boro two signs?'"Comotery " und j " Asylum." If the convention did not make nominations ho hoped those signs would bo restored and all tho members of tho convention given a ride to one ; or tho other places, for thoy would bo the places to which they should go. Mr. W. D. Evans stated that ho was oleeted while lie was uwuy from homo, but with the understanding that ho would not support nominations. Ho saw that the convention was drifting j into nominations und ho was not in ' sympathy with it. Every vote bo hud j east in the General Assembly had been against prohibition, and every voto ho would ovor east would bo prohibition. ! As an honorable man, if bo remained through u ballot on tbo question of nominations, he would be bound to sup port a tieket put out. Ho asked to huvojiis namo be withdrawn from tho roll, which was dono. Mr. Waddv C. Thompson of Lancas ter asked if tho Greenville dologution hud not como instructed against nomi nations. Being answered in the ?ff rm atlvo, ho asked if adoption of tbo re port would not deprive the convention of its chairman ? Ho was again an swered in the affirmative. He ex pressed his opposition to nominations. Mr. T. Y. Williams oxpressed op position to tho making of nominations by tho convention. Mr. Gray stated that his resolution tied the Prohibitionists to tho Demo cratic party, while the report of tbo committoo out tho Prohibitionists looso and tied thorn to nothing. Mr. Williams said bo was opposed to nominations either in or outside of tho Domoeratie party. A State tieket could not bo oleeted. What votes wero obtained must come from tho Reform party. Tue larger citlos take no in terest in tho prohibition cause. In them cither meetings wero not held or Were slimly attended. Tbo Reformers will not voto for prohibition candi dates if in order to do so they had to go back on Etc form or Reform nomi nees. A Prohibition ticket would bo buried deep. Mr. L. B. Haynes Paid tho Prohibi tionists bad gotten overything they had ovor asked for and they only need ed to got the Stato otlleers and could huvo them for tbo usking. Ho was in favor of nominating Stato olllcors. The Reformers never won until they hud a tiekot upon thoir platform, and thoy never could have won without that. Even if tbo Prohibitionists did not win, they would do a work of education. Mr. R. B. Watson oponod his speech with tho statement that ho had never I taken a drop of liquor as a bovorago . and had novor failed to do all he could | to put it down. Ho bolievod it would bo tho supromest folly to nominuto a 1 tiekot. What did tho peoplo see ? In an hour after tbo Dispensary law was declared unconstitutional over 200 bar rooms wero oponod in Charleston and i hoy hud boon onon all along. Mr. Gray : Vv hero are thoy ? Thoy uro hidden. Mr. Watson : No, sir; thoy are open. He thon wont on to show that educa tion is nocossury to bring about sup pression of the liquor tratlie. Ho showed how juries in Charleston had acquitted mon who had said thoy wore guilty. Ho thon showed tho progross in tho direction of tbateducation which would suppress tho liquor trulllc. Ho said a man must ho ignorant of tbo history of South Carolina if ho bolioved tho Tillmanltos would dosort tho Re form causo or tho Conservatives thoir oauso and elect a now establishment. A prohibition tiekot would bo knocked oown nud no causo would bo helped by do font. Mr. Joromlah Smith said that for twolvo yonrs ho had boon a mombor of tho South Carolina Gonurai Assembly, and in all that tlmo ho had novor failod to voto to nut down liquor. Mr. Smith said tho Conservatives formed tbo strength of tho prohibition voto in his county two yoars ago. Ho said tho assortion that tho Reformors hud furnished tho bulk of tho prohibi tion vote was a mistake. In tho last oloction the prohibitionists asked to bo allowod to express thoir sentiments In tho ballot box. The nrohlbltlonists car ried tho Stato by 10,000 majority and now we have got tho biggest sort of a whiskey monopoly, whloh has forcod liquor upon oountios whloh bad been dry. His county, Horry, had prohibi tion under popular sentiment for twenty years. Tho Dispensary would have gotten into Horry but for tbo de cision of tbo Supremo Court. Ho fl red hot shot at the Dispensary. He ad vocated tho establishment of a soparato prohibition party. He said tho adoption of the platform mado tho prohibitionists a party. He said seeds of discord had boon sown In tho convention since it had assembl ed, because It was necossary to tbo carry lug out of schemes of sotno pooplo in South Carolina. Ho was opposod to submitting to the oxeoutlve committee und begging them for representation. Thoy would lot Populists into vote, butoxcludod all who had not endorsed tho Reform administration. Mr. H. B. Bujstsnid the speeches had poured oil upon tho wutor but Mr. Jorry Smith had set his oil on firo. If that was prohibition, Uod save him from prohibition. He then teent on to show bow much good had been accompllshod by the Disponsary law. Mr. John Lako proposod tho follow ing as a substituto to tho report of the committee on resolutions upon Mr. Cray's resolution, whioh was undor dis cussion : Kosolved, That tho Stato Prohibi tion Exccutivo Committoo bo authoriz ed und instructed to formuluto ques tions to bo put to candidutos for Stato oflicos and for tho Logislaturo and Sonato in accordanco with tho platform adopted by this convention as to their position upou tho same in order that the friends of prohibition throughout tho State may voto Intelligently in tho primary. , A motion to tablo Mr. Lake's sub stitute was lost by a voto of 27 to 45. Mr. S. A. Nettles said it had boon charged that tho Legislature had gouo back on tho primary pledge Ho had the honor ot presenting tho resolution in tho Democratic Exoeutivo Com mittoo whioh providod a box in tbo last primary for a voto on prohibition. TboHouso, of which ho was a mom bor, hud passed an ironclad prohibi tion law and bad boon true to its pledges. Tho Houso was not responsi ble for tho action of tho Senate. There wus talk of putting up u Stato ticket pledged to prohibition. Governor Tillman said in bis inaugural address that ho was not in favor of prohibition, but would enforce any law on tbo subject put on tho statuto books. Ho has nobly carried out that plcdgo. (Applause und hisses.) Mr. Nettles mado a btrong rebuke of those who hissed him. Mr. Scott of Nowborry said that the trouble was there was too much Tlll manism and anti-Tillmanism, and too littlo prohibition in tbo convention. Ho said ho had voted for prohibition and then denounced tho Disponsary. Ho had voted for Tillman every ti.no ho had run. Ho advocated a Stato tiekot. Ho did not see what tho con vention was for if it was not to nomi nate a ticket. Nomination of a ticket did not bind people to voto against Tillman for tho Sonate, nor to fail to givo support to tbo institutions broil flit by tho Reform movomout. Mr. Galphin said there had been lot of blow and dust in the convention aud nothing else. Ho spoke against the airing of their sentiments by members of the factions serving in tho conven tion. Ho called for tho question. Mr. Wrotou said Barn well County had instructed her delegates to oppose no \iinntions and if they wero to be mado bo would have to leave tho con vention. Mr. Ridgoll wanted to know whore tho prohibitionists would bo if Mr. Lake' sbsutituto woro adoptoC and tho candidates wero asked if they were for prohibition and thoy should t)ay they wero not. Mr. Stackhouso submitted tho fol lowing substitute for Mr. Lake's sul. stituto : Resolved, That tho Stato Executive Committoo shall call a prohibition con tention not later than August 15th, should tho interests of the cuuso ro quiro It, such convention to decide upon the question of nominating a State tiekot. t By a voto of 4<>to 15 Mr. Stackhonso's BUbftltUte was tabled. Mr. Moroer moved as a substituto a resolution stating that it was the sense of the convention that it was not ex pedient to make nominations. Mr. Gray raised a point that Mr. Mercer's substituto was out of order. Chairman Hoyt ruled tho point not well taken. Mr. Stanley moved to tablo Mr. Mi*r cor's substituto. Lost by a voto of 45 to 31. Mr. Lako acccptod Mr. Mercer's resolution as an addition to his sub stitute for tho report of tho committee on resolutions upon Mr. Gray's resolu tion. Mr. Mercer spoko against nomina \ .ons and thought that the prohibition ists could do more by prosorving their organization intact and striving to ob tain what thoy wanted by using thom solves as tho balance of power. Mr. L. B. IIayues said if tho conven tion didn't nominato a ticket it might as well adopt tho Disponsary and go homo. T. W. Scruggs said tbo adoption of tho resolution does not prevent any man running for ofllce. Circumstances, ho declared woro against tho prohibi tionists. Tho convention adopted Mr. Lako's substituto for tho report of the com mittoo on resolutions upon Mr. Gray's resolutions by a nearly unanimous vote. Mr. Watson stated that his commit too still had some further resolutions to offor. Ho offered tho following, which was adopted : Your committoo having carefully considored resolutions regarding tho necessity of electing members of tho Logislaturo in favor of prohibition, favor amending said resolutions by striking out tho accompanying pream ble, and with such amendment they recommend tho pussage of the resolu tions. Tho preamble and resolutions woro as follows: Whereas wo boliovo that tho causo of prohibition will bo host advanced at tliis time by the election of members of tbo Logislaturo, who aro pledged to tho enactment of a prohibitory lasv, rather than by tho nomination of a Stato ticket thoreforo, Resolved. That It bo tho policy of the Prohibitionists of South Carolina in tho doming campaign to uso every effort to socuro tbo olection of members of the Logislaturo who will make pro hibition paramount to every other issuo boforo tbo pooplo. K 'nelved, 2. That each candidato bo required to pledgo hlmsolf for prohibltio '?iforo ho rocolvo our votos. Mr. Watson movod that tho conven tion go into tho olootion of the oxoou tivooommltto nrovldod for by a resolu tion already adopted. Mr. Watson's motion was adopted and tho following committoo soleotod: Abbovlllo, P. L. Hturkoy.i Alkon, Rov. J. G. Brown Andorson,-. Harnwell, B, L- Wroton. Borkoloy, Peter Klintworth. Beaufort,-. Clarendon, Jos. ?prott, Jr. Charleston, A. S. Thomas. Darlington. Rev. G. T. Groshaui. Edgelleld, John Lake. Fulrfleld, R. H. Jennings. Florence.-. Groonvilio, Col. J. A. Hoyt. Hampton,-. Horry,-. Lancaster, Waddy C. Thompson. Laurons, Rev. J. W. Shell. Hampton, Loxlngton, J. J. Fox. Marion, W. J. Montgomery. Marlboro, J. P. Gibson. Nowberrv, A. H. Kohn. Oooneo, R. E. Mason. Riehland, Cant. L. D. Childs. Orangoburg, It. P. Galphin. Piokons,-. Sum'er, E. B. Smith. Spurtanburg, J. L. Silly. Union,-. Williamsburg,-. - York,-. Mr. Watson introduced a favorable report upon M. Mereor's second resolu tion regarding suppression of the liquor traUlc. Adopted. Tho convention, then at 2 a. rn., ad journed. ANOTHKit UliliDGlO KI JHATI .!>. Tho lO per cent. Tax on Hinio Ranks l>oleate<l?70 Democrats Vote With tho Itepublteans? KM <>(* Our Con* ;; i i s 111 (? 11 Voto for t lie Kcpoul. WASHINGTON, Juno ti.?Tho House proceeded to tho consideration of tbo bill tf> repeal tho Stato bank tux under tho arrangement agreed to yosterduy. Turner (Dem.) spoko in favor of re peal.- Ho contrasted favorably to tho lirst the availability und desirability of State bank and national bank issues of currency. What was more vital to the best interests of the country, in his opinion, however, was tho passage of tho turitf hill, and bo pictured a band impatient to put in motion tho ma chinery thut would produce an era of prosperity of the country. Moiklojohn (Rep.) speaking of tho probable conditions under which State bank issues would bo made, in ease tbo system wero rebabibilitated, called at tention to a bank law passed by tho Georgia Legislature last December in expoctation of tho repeal of tho Stato bunk tax. That law, lie said, authoriz ed a bank with one-quarter of its capi tal in national bonds, one-quarter in Stute, county or municipal bonds of tho Stuto, und one-half in currency, to issue, upon the deposit of the bonds with tho State Treasury, notes to tho amount of three times tho security. Tbo subject was furthordiscussed by Bingham (Rep.), Hall (Dem.), Robin son (Rop.) and Cockran (Dem.). Tho latter denounced tho national bunk currency us tho worst thut could bo conceived und ought not to bo allowod to stand. But as long as it did exist Cockran said he did not believe in at tempting to mako a tributary system. Believing in tho platform's demand for a repeal of tho Stato bank tax ho did not i>"iieve in doing so haphazard. Fre60nt conditions would have to bo changed before it could be dono safely. Tho dobato closod at 2:10 o'clock and a voto was taken on tho Cox amend ment to repeal tho 10 per cent, tux outright. Tho voto was unnounced us yeas 102; nays 170. The announce ment was rocoivod with slight ap plause. tV DUTY I'l'T ON SUGAR. Legislating for the Benefit of tho Kufcur Trust?All Consumers Con tribute i o i lie KnormoiiN Profit oi'i lift Sharks. Special to the Atlanta Const tution. Washington, Juno 6.?Tho sugar schedule bus sufoly run tho guuntlet of the Semite, not finally, so fur us that body is concernod, for by u par liamentary tietion tho Senate did not today act except us a committee of the whole. Soi,tho entire schedule will have to bo voted on again formally in ; the Senuto. Tho result of tho votes takon today, however, practically set tles the matter. Thoy mean that the tariff bill us amended by the finance committee V ill pass the Sonnte and go to the House and to conference. Tbo riddle of tho tariff sphinx was road today. Senator Hill voted against , Iiis party when be voted at all. His defection was made up by the votes of ' Allen and Kyle, the Nebraska and South Dakota Populists. Puffer voted I steadily with the Republicans. The talk is revived that an attempt Will o made when the bill comes into tho ifouso to induce that body to ue- ' cept the Senate amendments and so prevent tho delay and inevitable changes that will result from a con ference This attempt can only suc ceed by unamloUS consent, and that will not be accorded. There will be a conference on tho bill and It is im possible at this time to form anything like a corieet idea of what tho outcome of tho conference will be. It is be lieved in well informed eirelos, how over, that tho bill will be substantially as it passes tho Senate. Tho faet is tho Senuto has hud more to do with tho form and substance of tariff acts than the House for many yours. This was tho case with the tariff of 188:1 and with tho McKinley law. There was a sharp closing debuto this morning in whloh crimination and recrimination were banded about as freely between the two sides of tho chamber us they uro in the Congres sional campaign now waging in the Lexington District. Chandler declared, in his rasping tones, t bat. ho hud not the slightest doubt thut some Senators hud been speculating in sugar certificates Aid* rich taunted tbo finance committoo With having given tho sugar trust all it wanted. * . Bryeo entered the arena and asked his eollouguo if bo knew how much tho sugar trust was stocked at in the halcyon days when the Republicans wero wt uving about the neck of Ameri can trade and commerce tho burden known as tbo MeKinley law. Sherman said ho did not. Bryeo enlightened him by saying it was 160,000,000, and added thut tho price of sugar eor ill cutos rose from May to October, 18!(0, the period whoa tho McKinley bill was before tho senuto and in confer* oneo, from 05 to 03. That settled that phase of tho diseussion, for ovt rybody knows Uryeo Is a Wall street sharper and of course has such figures at bis tongue's end. Then Vest rubbed a little popper iu tho raw places of tho Republicans by declaring that tho sugar trust had dictated tho 00 per cent, protection of sugar in the MeKinley bill. For Aid rich's benefit ho pointod out that that Senator bad said in tho debate at tho tlmo that ho (Abtrieb) could no resist tho argumonts of the Philadelphia sugar refiners, und that this admission was embalmed in the printed pages of Tbo Congressional Rocord of tbo Fifty First Congress. In tbo midst of these porsonalltlos and pleasantries tho hour for taking tho voto arrived und cut them short. A groat deal Is boingsald of tho on ormous profit tho sugar trust will roall; e from tho sugar schedule as np nroved in the Senuto today. Tho dato for tbo sohodules gulng into offeot is set at January 1st next, tho dato boing Diced upon to onablo tho sugar planters to profit by tho bounty on this year's crop. Tho sugar trust, of course, will be on tbo free list uutil that time which it will refine and soil at the pricos that will prevail after the duty goes Into effect. Tho prospective profits aro c.dimat od all tho way from $20,000,000 to $50, 000,000, whioh is an object oven to the sugar trust. The Republicans uro making a great todo over this stato of affairs. Yet if they bad planued to bring about this result, thoy could not have done anothing elso hulf'so certain to bring it about as what thoy did do in tho McKinlev bill. ? They knew that tho bounty system would not bo long tolorated ; that It Is uu-Araorican and intolerable, and would not be permitted to remain in existence a groat length of time. They knew that tho probabilities, when the bounty eamo to bo abolished, wero that the duty on sugar would bo rostorcd aud that in tho transition f"om ono systom to tho other tho sugur trust would wring millions from the American pooplo. Perhaps thoy did not deliberately plan this result, but had they been scheming in tho pecuni ary in! crest, of the trust thoy would havo done exactly what they did. Thoy coidd not havo devised a better scheme for enriching the trust and rob bing the pooplo than tho ono adopted, ingenious us it must be admitted thoy aro in devising such schemes. With tho sugar schedule out of tho way, rapid progress should ho mado with tho other features of the bill. SWIFTER THAN THE WIND. Passengers to lie Taken from New York lo Chicago in Six Hours. Tho Elevated Suspension Elevated Railway Company bus been Organized to build a railway on an air lino be tween Chicago and Now York. The distance is 750 miles, and Inventor Johnston says it can bo covered in six hours. A double track road is propos ed*' Tho rails will bo in tho upper part of an elevated steel structure, aud tho ears will be suspended from tho trucks and have no support beneath them. The Qangos on the outside in stead of tho inside of t he rails as on ordinary railways. Inventor Johnston says : " Tho speed to bo obtained with light trains on tho system is practically un limited, and depends altogether on tho sizo of the wheel used. Sixty miles per hour could easily bo obtained with safoty on a fifteen inch wheel, aud 120 to 150 miles per hour with a thirty to thirty-three ineb wheel on long runs of straight track. " Tho ears aro about six feet in width by twenty foot in length, with a seat ing capacity of thirty persons. Tho weight of tho car proper is 1,800 pounds, of the trucks and motor, which aro above and upon the rails, 4.200 pounds, and of the passengers 5,000 pounds, making the strains upon a 150 loot span, with a loaded train of two cars upon it, nineteen and one-half tons when tho train is at rest. "Tho cost of construction for this systom does not exeeed 20 per cent, of tho cost of Bteam elevated roads under ordinary circumstances, while the crossing of streams and tho overcom ing of obstacles to buildings can be accomplished by tho uso of longer spans without a material increase in expense. About $80,000 per ihilo fully covers tho cost of construction of a four-track road and $10,000 per mile its equipment, while a two-track road can bo bulb) and equipped under$00,000 per mile. "There being no solid structure to act as a sounding board, the noiso is less than that of any other system. Tho flexibility of this system gives an agreeable motion In riding, and re lieves of all jolting and noiso of tho rigic structure. There is perfect free dom from dust, smoke, steam and cin ders, and In matter of speed, it is be yond comparison." A FATAL SHOOTING. Henry T. Brenden Shoots J. I). Moore, His lirother-in-LjaW?Whiskey tho Cause?Moon: Will Die. Special to The State.\ BENNETTSVILLE; June <>.?Our usu ally quiet and orderly town has been shocked by a tragedy uuiparalled in sadness. Last night about 9:30 o'clock a horseman, with lightning speed, rushed up town to notify physicians and relatives that Mr. J. Douglas Moore had been shot down with a double-barrel Shotgun at tho residence of Mr. Henry T. Breeden, by Mr. ] Broedcn himself. They aro both residents of this town and aro brothers-in-law, Mr. Breeden having married Mr. Moore's sister. They aro young men, representatives of the very best and most prominent families in Marlboro county, and had I been fast friends. Your correspondent Immediately so- j cured a buggy and drove to tho place j of tho sad affair. 1 found three phy- i sicians and ahoi) i ono dozen citizens > present. Mr. Moore, was stretched on a mattress on the floor of 000 of the porohea near whore ho was shot and fell. Your correspondent obtained tho fol lowing facts : Both men wero under the Influence of liquor they drank .to gether in Brendens house : hot words passed in reference to family matters. Breeden got his gun, but Moore in duced him to put it up ; they then drank together. Mooro started home and was on tho porch near the steps when shot. The, load entered just be low tho naval. The wound bled pro fusely, and tho unfortunate man suf fered much pain. Moore told your cor respondent that ho was leaving for home, and was shot without provoca tion. Mrs. Adams, proprietress of tho Adams House, is tho mother of Mr Moore, and she, with her daughter Miss Moore, wero sent for. When they art'lvod I witnessed t he mort touching and heartrending scene of my life. Early this morning the wounded man was removed to his uiot!i r's. His two uncles and cousin arrived from tho country. His ante mortem statement was taken by Tidal Justice E.itorling Tiie contents of the statement havo not been in i le public. Dr. O. Kollook. of Choraw, assisted by local physicians, by Investigation discovered that tho bladder had been shot to pieces, and they at OUC0 pro nounced his case hopeless. He can live but a few hours. Mooro stated that ho entertained no ill will toward Breeden an I that ho freoly forgave him. Whiskey caused the trouble. No arrests havo been mado this evening. ?" You aro doing nicely,'' said tho dootor encouragingly to an old darkey patient. "I will call again tomorrow, and will loavo you this proscription now, t ? save you from pi n in the in terim." Then he wont out. " DVs er 'scriptum da', de doot.ih l?T," Hill?) the patient feebly to his wife, "an' I want yo'tor go to do drug stO an'get it tilled. Toll do drug sto' man <lut it's fo' my Interim) an bo sho an' six him of 1'so tor take iteternally, or joss rub It on the outside, an' of so whar ', TILLMAX AND TEKPiJBANuE. TUE D18 r I N S A It Y SYSTEM EX PJLA.INED, The Govornor Telia Prohibitionists Tlioy t'aiuiot Sucowd-Ho Thinks tbo Dispensary Ik tho True Solution of I lie Liquor Problem? Tho International Tetnperaneo Con gress was iu session lust week on Stuten Island, New York, and two notublo figures were upon tho platform to gether. Genera! Neal Dow, of Maine, tbo father of prohibition, was greeted with great enthusiasm by ten thous und admirers. Ho occupied un arm ebair at the right of tbo presiding ofllcor during tho morning, ufternoon und evening sessions, and showed by his quick uppreeintion of tho points of tho speakers that bis mind is undim med by tho ninety years that have passed. A formal addross was read to Goti. Dow, sighed by tho heads of the pro hibition and temperance organizations in this country und Canada. Ho wus given tho Chatauquu salute when he roso to reply. During tho first two or three sentences his voiee trembled with emotion, then it grew steadier and was elear and emphatic when he dwelt on whut bad been accomplished since ho took up the temperance work. He said, in substance : "I don't feel that I have accomplish ed anything that entitled mo to the honor which is done mo today. No words can express tho gratitude I feel for what has been said and dono bore. But perhaps It wero best that I should tell of some of the work that has b3on done and tho Importance of tbo work yet to be done. There is no question before the people of this country or of any country so grout as the liquor question; yet strange as it may seem, there are many prominent mo-., many men of enlightenment, education and understanding who know nothing about the work of prohibition. I was oneo huf.ded a slip from a newspaper which announced that Goldwin Smith had said that prohibition was a failure in Maine. My reply to that was that 1 hoped Goluwln Smith did not make such a itateincut, for the reason that it is not true. "So fur from being a failure in Maine, prohibition has been a very great success. At one time, we bad a great many breweries ami distilleries in Maine. There is not one now, and there has not been one in many years. In Portland alone, there wore soven distilleries. There is none now. At one timo cargoes of Jamaica ruin were imported into tho State. Tboro Is nono now. It is true that liquor, in small quantities, is smuggled over tbo boundaries. Hut liquor is not openly sold, and there is not one-hundredth part as much consumed iu the Stato as before the law was passed. A remedy for consumption that will cur*! ninety nine cases in a hundred cannot be call ed u failure. (Applause.) An entire generation h -s grown up among three quarters of our people and has not seen a grog shop or a drunken man." Governor Tillman, of South Carolina, presented bis Stato agency plan bli the solution of tho liquor question to an audience of '2.000 prohibitionists at the evening's session of the Interna tional Temperance Congress, ''"he Governor's hearers did not agree with him as to tho plan. but. thoy listened olosoly to the end, an I found some points which they could applaud with out doing violence to their consciences. At other times they loudly expressed their disapproval. Before tue arrival of Governor Till man the electric lights went out and tho auditorium was in darkness. A score of lanterns wore brought iu and tbo guest from South Carolina was led forward in semi-darkness. He was in troduced by the Rev. Dr. H. L. Wuy land. of Philadelphia. Govornor Till* man began by saying that he wished th >re was more light, so thut he could look the T?iS?^fiC in yo and have them look him in the* eye and tell whether ho was telling tho truth. Con tinning, he said : "I have come a long ways and left my ofhbtul duties in tho interest of the truth and the right. 1 have heard a great deal at tho sessions I have at tended of 'sand' and 'haokbono.1 It has been said that I possess those qualities. I will say that i will show hero tonight that I am willing to ad vance my convictions in my audience, and I am going to controvert your (b ar est ideas and firmest, beliefs 1 am probably the only politician present, l have been elected governor of a Stato and I am a candidate for tho United States Senate and expect to be elected. The Governor then went on to say that bo was not exactly a politician, in the ordinary acceptance of the term. He said that he always spoke his con victions and that was not characteris tic of politicians. He said he was a farmer: that his gubernatorial position was his first office. He announced that he proposed to have bis say, and if any one in tho audience wanted to throw rocks at him, ho would throw rooks hack. Thon drawing himself to his full height lie said, in tones that made the rafters ring : "I am here tonight to tell you that prohibition don't prohibit, and never will prohibit. Wo have got a plan in South Carolina that completely wipes out saloons, and we have done more than you have. Now. I am a temper ance num. (Applause) Inovordrank live gallons of whiskey all told in tny life. (Laughter.) 1 sometimes take a social glass with my friends, but 1 don't like the stulT." The Governor then produced a bottle of whiskey with the South Carolina label on it. He waved it like a (Ire brand in the faces of tbo total abstain ers, and desoribod tbo Stato dispensary plan. He said that prior to the do clslon by the Supromo Court of the Suite there were sixty-six dispensaries In operation, and the state had paid out *.'t7!>.DUO for liquor. $57,000 for Lit tles and $37,000 for labels and other ex penses. Prom the total outlay of ?475,000 and with $iM,O00 worlll of liquor on hand. $5(17.000 wortli had been sold and a not profit of $100,000 to tho State and $84,000 to tho counties had boon realized. He said that iho quality of the whiskey was chemically pure, so that the pooplo quit having a hcidaoho when they got drunk on it. Ho siiid a moment later that m> ono got drunk on dispensary liquor: thoy got. drunk oa blind tieer whiskey, which ho said they hid in holes In the ground or toted in their bootlegs, lie stirred up the audience by declaring that prohibition would never be estab lished by votes. "Give us a chance," said a man in front. This brought a volley of applause, when the Governor shouted : " You are not ready to remove the govern ment tax on whiskey." " Yes we are," caino Irom all parts Of the hall. " Then you are blin let t han I thought yon wore." said tho Govornor. A moment lator ho alludod to "pro* hlbltlon narrow-mind idooss " and com plained that tho audience would only go half way with him. Then he said : " Before you aro a dozen yoars oldor youwill 8oo half tho States In tho Union toi owln? tho cxaU.pl? O. So>J Carolina." " Novor," shouted a wi gato. "If you can't pet prohibition take tho disp.msary V" asked. ?1 ornor. Thero wore a hundred noes a| man in tbo back of the* "yes." " That Is encouraging," said tho Gl ernor. Ho suid that iu all tbo ooul ties of South Carolina, and nearly a' the towns, public sentiment is in fuVOT* of tho disponsary law and It will bo carried out eventually. Ho went on : " So far as backbone is concerned I have as much as any man, hut when you tackle the liquor trade entrenched behind its hundreds of millions, you, need to have tho backbone of tho Statue of liberty." (inv. Tlllmuii Di?l Capture th? Prohi bitionists on Staien Isluiul. Xo -v York Times ??Governor Tillman's declarations wore constantly grcctod with a storm of dissenting voices and applause. When he closed his speech he asked all who wanted prohibition or nothing to raise their hands, and then ho asked those to VOtO who wou'd favor u Stato Dispensary law if thoy could not havo prohibition. It was 'A to 1 fora Dispen sary law. and with a parting 'On, l have got you. tho Governor-lorft tiio -i platform." * * * "Governor Tillman had several times, when stopped by dissenting cries, declared that ho would win the au dience for tho Disponsary law, und when, at the close of his speech, ho polled tho audience, as already do scribed, it was with him by an over whelming majority." CO-OPERATIVE COTTON MILLS. How to itlako tho South a Mnmimc turtug Centre lor tho World. Mr. D. A. Tompkins, of Charlotte, N. C, one of tho most successful cotton manufacturers In that section, bus an Interesting article In tho Manufactu rer's Record on co-operation in build ing cotton mills. Mr. Tompkins shows how companies can be organized and the money raised ' by weekly payments for buIldrBg 0Ofa? ton mills in such u way as lo make the organization of 8U0h companies feasi hlein hundreds of towns whoro It would ho Impossible to secure large subscrip tions. In the South we havo few sav ings banks compared with those In the North, and we need enterprises that will encourage the habit of saving and investing a portion of the weekly earn ings of the average citizen. Building and loan associations supply this want to some extent, but we need eo-operu tive companies to push industrial en terprises with the capital that can Cosily be furnished in small weekly in stallments from tllOUSundH of our poo pie. The success of this plan In Cliarlotto speaks for itself. Mills havo been built near Charlotte by subscriptions payable week'y in small sums for one, two, four and oight years, hut tbo favorite* plan is that of paying 50 cents per week on a share for four years. At this rate 1.000 shares would make a capital of $100,000, a sum suMoleiit to ? build a cotton mill of about 5,000 spindles, with looms enough to woave their product. Mr. Tompkins gives the following estimate for such a mill : Employes, men and hoys, .'ID; women and girls, 150 ; roll per wook, about $.150. In North Carolina tho products of the difforont mills vary greatly. At Charlotte one mill makes warp yarns, another skein yarns doubled and twist ed, another makes both warps and skeins, another white cloth, another ginghams, another eountorpanos anil -. towels, another stockings and knit goods. TllOSt mills which make col ored goods must havo dye works. If tho subscriptions to the stock of an installment mill are- made payable ,at tho rate of 50 cents per wpk ' *r share, and the capital sr.'oserib TT~~~^ $10U.(li)il, then in {Tie urst yeuT^tlTo^ amount paid In to the company's treas ury would be about $25,000. With this money the buildings coil hi bo built and paid for, leaving a surplus in the treas ury. The buildings would be a inain building, engine room, boiler room and houses or cottages for tho hands to live in. In some special oases, whoro the factory was to he built in a city, these houses might not be built, as, tho hands could find hoard or houses to rent near by the factory in the city. Generally speaking, however, it is boat80 put A factory one to four miles away from a city, and let the company build and own the houses t he employes live in. In Charlotte no house rent is oharg ed. the factories furnishing houses freo of rent. In some other places rent is ehaiged at the rate of $1 per room. Considering that subscriptions wero being paid regularly, and that the. buildings were all completed and paid for at the end of about one year, and that tin-company's income was about $2,000 per month from regular m>'ail ment payments on subscriptions, then under these conditions aDOUt 2,500 spindles and appertaining machinery could he bought for a good cash pay ment, aud the remainder payablo$l ,000 to $2.000 per month. In about sixteen to eighteen months from the time tho llrst payments were made the mill Could he started up on about one-third to one-half its capacity : then the re mainder of the machinery could bo ad ded and started tip from time t:i timo as the money continued to come in by installments. DISMISSED. TIlO Supreme Court Dismisses the In junction ItrOtlgllt at the Instance of* i: M. Hi-nylon Against Certain Su pervisions of I legist rat ion. Specilli to tllU News and 1 ouricf : Columbia, Juno 0.?Tho Supromo Court today again set, aside t he mot ion for an injunction against tho super visor of registration. It will bo re membered that last. Monday tlierOOttflr dismissed the injunction proceedings on the grounds that no primu facio showing bad boon made out. The. at torneys testing tho registration lo?ws Immediately had one of toe parties named t > make a formal application f.if a certiIn*.tie, and although he bad been a re id ut of the State for forty years and failed to get tho certificate i i I8H2. it was tb uled. With an affi davit from Mr. Litim/don thy attorneys returned to the Court with an ante lid* < d rder. and this the Court dismissed today. Tho Court held that it always re quires, ami therefore nssum08| that such applications are made upon primu facie showings. The Court has rare fti 1 ly considered the petition of the ftp? plloant and has OOHClt'dod that no such prlmn facie showing has been made, even admitting all the allegations therein .stated. The relief asked for is j not an appropriate remedy for tho grievance complained of. Tho (\> rt accordingly dismissed the motion and at tho same time look occasion to an nounce that t be mot Ion -v.n hoard yos* torday, which was not regular motion day, as a matter of Indulgence and was uot to bo looked upon as a precedent*