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LAURENS, S. C, TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1896. PHATE8. Ml TUB Interrat ?las Kii istry. f 1894*. the Stutu have ipplod con huvo puaa ,)alrod their ot improved the drprus tbe clluaux. boon curr-tod urlng the past mined being il?h the State ,((&?.2pi In his ?ir-.ys: jlness 's gloomy >s havo sunk to cached, und the nt provalls both I Florida. It is Ouropo nov/ oven , unit; the prices o f)Jr ponce. At lug royally, and cable ratet? of ompanies uro un rtii $2 per ton for km nut euablo thorn oi.t. economy is bo res uro being ro es uro being udopt f m'ulng lies been alraufhi But even there is an impnovo rket, the phoyphato top. INING COMPANY. ort that this sterling .?nting a large amount itul, has suspended ?llnttely. All hands harged. Its enlciont Brother hood, (the iiul stockholder in the . resigned, und his ro tih beuu ueeepted. Tho .1 up permanently, and no ?.are-taker is at the rxten hithorto so busily employ is .no prospect of an early .1 of work by this company, bother it shall resume or not tely indeiltiitii and undotor Tho reie rn for this stoppago use the company, although ex. g uvory possible economy, Could Jt for Its rock what it uest to and put It on tho market at the nt prices. This means to the thoi loss of the. ontiro royalty .oforcieuruod by this large and ac company. It is an objeet lesson Ing more pertinently than any i can express the terrible de ed condition of tlx* phosphate in e other companies aro.mining, /1th reduced force. Tlio Consuw any, tho largest o* them all, laid up two or throe dredges, i tilg boats, and suspended their -picking department. The other ianies have reduced tholr work )ico to a minimum, tn the reasuus for tho doprossed ">n of trado, tho Iuspcctor says : ?'"t hard to tlnd. In tlie Under those circumstances I do not ! hesitate to ex proas the opinion that I tho intorcbt of the Ii ate will be best subserved by reducing tue royalty to 25 cents a ton until such time as the market shall lmprore a'nd a higher royalty could be paid. At present it is Impossible to prodiot how long tho companies now mining will be able to continue their operation. It wfnild bo tho wise policy on tho part of too 8tato to make this reduction acd onablo them to continue. It is a matter of great regret that no brighter report cau be made tban that which has boon submitted, but tho facts must bo stated as they are, and these are the facts. The depressed condition of tho phosphate trade has been kn jvru for Bcveral years ; It seems now to havo roaoh a climax. Ruauectfully submitted, A. W. Jones, Phosphate Inspector. ATTACKS THK BOND BILL. Congressman MeLuurln Fxposos (ho Heul Object <>t the Measure. Hon. John L. McLaurin, of South Carolina, was allowed ton minutes in the discussion of tho bond bill proposed by the Republicans, and ho tpoko as follows. Mr. Spoakor, I am opposed to tho passage of this bill, because its pro visions will not only burden an al ready dobt-rlddon pooplo, but will legalize a long series of usurpations by different secretaries of tho treas ury. Tho caption declares this a bill "to proteot tho eoin redemption fund," whilo at the name timo thoro Is not a single line of law upon the statute book authorizing or providing any such fund. Judging from past ex perience, without doubt this language would bo construed by tho Secretary for tho purpose of sequestering in tho Treasury this vast Hum of $100.000,000, which Should bo in tho channels of business, giving lifo and vigor to our commercial transactions. This un authorized fund ha9 been main tained in absolute idleness for over twenty yours, and at simple interest has cost the people mo"o than $80, 000,000* This is a covert attempt to legalize an unwarranted assumption, which alouo should provont tho pass ago of tho bill. Mr. Speaker, instead of this being a bill to protect tho coin rodomption fund, it is, more properly speaking, in my judgment, an act to provide for a deficiency in our reve nues. The President has already is suod over $100,000,000 of interest bear ing bonds for tho alleged purpose of strengthening this reserve fund. In my opinionwo might with profit Inquire as to what has has become of tho pro ceeds of the sabs of these bonds. Mr. Speaker, la It not truo that tho one hundred and alxty million- of gold received from the salo of these bonds was drawn outof the Treasury through tho redemption ,)f United States notes or green backs? Is it uot also truo that these one hundred and sixty millions of Unltod States notes or groonhaoks havo boon paid ;ut by tho Secretary of tho Treasury in tho ordi nary expanse of tho government? I ?? neat, has it not boon tho custom r?' ^P ? the Currency- it 1b learned that not over ene hundred aud fifty millions is held by the banks, leaving three hun dred and twonty-livo millions among the people. If the Secretary of the Treasury would expend as muoh energy in exchanging with the pooplo green backs for this gold that he docs in ex changing gold for , groenbaoks with alien financiers, I ain of the opinion that the e/igenolos of tho Treasury might be relieved without a further Issue of bonds. The geutlerauo from Maine (Mr. DlngleyT advanced tho proposition to soouro this gold by au issue of interest bearing certificates of indebtedness. In my Judgment the object might be attained at far loss expense by ex changing greenbacks which come Into the Treasury for this gold among tho people. in order to moot tho temporary de ficiency in the Treasury, instead of intorest-boaring obligations to becomo a burden upon tho people, I would sug gest certificate* be issued against ev ery idle ounco of sliver loft In tho Treasury. This would givo Instanta neous relief and would put. into circu lation among tho pnople, without tho burden of Interest, a kind of currency that nouo would refuse and all be glad to got. These. In brief, are my ob jections to tho bill. I bollevo they are valid. I can 80o no good roason why tho taxpayers, the producors and toilers of this country, should bo forced to pay an interest trlbuto extending to generations yot unborn when the sim ple application of justlco anil common sense would obviate the necessity of it all. (Loud applause on tho Democratic side.) THIO LIGHTS TURNED OI'l<\ Final Scones ol' tho Atlanta Exposi tion. Tho final day of tho Atlanta Bxposi* tion opened with a clear sky During the early morning the temporuturo was very low, but after the sun rose the weather moderated rapidly and the Oars to the exposition wcro all filled. The grouuds were filled wich people. In tho buildings many of tho exhibitor* bad a small harvust in the sale of souvenirs, while tho Chinese village auctioned off its bric-a-brac. Tho ex hibits were all in good shupo and were not disturbed until after dark. During the afternoon, the camels and donkoys of Cairo stroot were driven out, but most of tho places on tho Midway wero wide open aud doing a good business. Although the crowd was ouo of tho largest during December, there was no ceremonial. There had boou so much of ceremony heretofore that it was determined to let tho last day bo -?. a free and easy atfair, so that tho visi tors might make tho best of their timo in soeing tho exhibits. A3 dark came on the beautiful Illu mination was given and tho electric fountain for tho last timo displayed its charms. Although there was a largo crowd, tho best of order prevail ed and everybody seemed to be in a good humor. The director ' >'rl a meotlr"? "* ? THE VENEZUELAN OOMMISION. AN EQUAL DIVIDE AS TO PARTIES. Tho Commissioners aro Hen of High Character and Splendid Abilities - Will Command ltespoot at Home in <l Abroad. President Cleveland on the let inst. anuounced the appointment of the Venezuelan boundary commission, which consist of Uve members, as fol lows : David J. Brewer, of Kansas, As sociate Justice of tho Supreme Court of the Uaited States; Richard H. Alvey of Maryland, chief justice of the court of appeals for the District of Colum bia ; Andrew D. White, of New York; Frederic R. Coudert, of New York; Daniel C. Gllman of Maryland, presi dent of tho John Hopkins University. Ti,e commission is regarded in Washington among thoso who hud un opportunity to see tho list of names after i he\> wcro made publlo as a very satisfactory one, whose- opinions and conclusions will be reeeivod by the American public with that confldenoo whieh tho standing of the members of tho commission in the publlo eyo in spires. Justice Brewer is a Republican in {?oiitior. and about 58 years of ago. Ho s a graduate of Yale and has spent considerable time in tho practioo of his profession In Kansas, whero he Ullod a number of judicial ottlccs. In l^Sl ho was uppoiuuod Circuit Court Judge of tho United States for tho Eighth District and was appointed Associate Justice of tho Supreme Court in December, 1881), by Presideut Har rison. Richard U. Alvoy is a Domoorat in politics and a muu of m .irked Legal ability. It was the groat reputation ho gained as Judge In tho Mvryland couri^ .', hicii led President Clevelaud, in the absence of political influence on Judge Alvoy's part, to appoint him to the position of Chiof Justice of the Court of Appeals of this District. He is about HO years of age. Audrew D. White is a Republican In polities. Ho is ono of tho best known men of letters in this couufy and perhaps in tho world, is an author aud historian and has been tho pre sident of Cornoll University. Mr. White was appointed Miuistor to Russia by President Harrison, and this position ho hold through Harri son's administration and for a year or more during Mr. Cleveland's adminis tration. Frederick R. Coudort Is a Demo crat in politics and is ono of tho host .tnown members of tho bar in Now York. Mr. Coudert was ono of the counsel for tho United States on tho Bering Sea commission, and in that capacity be m ido ono of tho most eloquent and ellectivo spoeches de livered In behalf of tho American con tentions. Tho la9t namod member of tho com ! mission, Daniel O, Gllman, president > of John Hopkins University, is woll I known as an authority on intorna | tloual law. Ho was at ono time prosi ' dent of tho University of California 1 '??8 later called to take up tho ^ orgf"''"?f,on of tho univer l,ead. Ono the as Spate is oonoerned. The Spanish archives are a treasury of information, nek only as to Venezuela but a* to all the South and Central American coun tries, the merit ef them having been Spanish dependencies. As a result of thli, Spain la frequently asked to ar bitrate boundary disputes between these countries. At the present time Spala has on hand one of these arbi trations itp" '.vin;;- the boundary of Ecuador. BILL ARP TALKS PEACE. HIS exposition EXPERIENCE. A Squealer Unloaded Homo Exposi tion Handkerchiefs on Ulm?Don't Believe Tnero Will bo Any War With Eujrlaud They told me of various things they, would llko to havo for Christinas" presents for friends and posterity, tlioy wanted Bovonteen I think. ?f course I listened in a subdued manner, but au elephant had trod on my pocket ! book and it was so flat I couldn't see through this business. My wife said j thut handkerchiefs were a good thing ? nice handkerohiefs wore always In i order. Sho had some In her trunk to send to the boys. There aro various tilings in that trunk. It is a sort of subtreasury, a caeho, but It won't hold enough things for tho grandchildreu. Dolls and baby carriages and jumping jacks and picture books had to bo bought and some nice linen hand ker chiefs. Woll, as I was turning tho Noreross corner I heurd u squealer squcaliug handkerchiefs. There was a stack of them on a box and a crowd around und he was passing handkor ehlefs along for examination. "Genu ine lined, pure Irish ?lou, all guaran teed, only 5 cents a piece. Examine them, gentlemen. These afe*^oxPosi tion .-s.imIh tout we are obliged to sell out, for we are going home. Home, swuet home," etc Never h?'ard a man .-qua! more sweotiy. l win shy at lirst but took hold of tho haudkoi chief. It wus good size and nicely bordered aud looked liko liuon and felt like linen, and I heard a man say " This 1? linen, shore." So I thought I had found the very thing my wife wanted and 1 told him I would take ten. "Thank you, sir," ho said polltoly, and he took them off the folded pilo and wrapped them up aud I put them in my littlo grip and handed him a dollar?a silver dol ? iar. He didn't hand bacx the change, , but leaned up close to mo and whis pered, You aro a family mau, I reckon." Yes," said I. "Well, I I will givo you twenty more for the ; othor half dollar," said ho. So I took , thorn and put them all in my satchel, i (Jood gracious ! Thirty linon hand ? kerchiefs for ono dollar. Enough to i koep all tho grandchildren's noses cloau aud loavo some for mo. I wub proud. When my wlfo opened tho packages sho was horrified. " Why they are all cotton and the vorlest, thinnost, sla ziost cotton at that. You havo been cheated again as usual." That rascally squealer had handed round a nice liueu handkerchief as asamplo and wrapped up poor thin cotton ones so quick wo didn't suspect any tiling wrong. But they will do for tho noses, I reckon, [n fact, 1 rather like them for my grip, two all the time--one for Ii lib left, all told, and uot more thau one-fourth of CbetU would DO pension- j era. Our boys havo beon dying for j thirty years, but somehow or other | theira don't dio, but keep on multiply ing. There is another thing about it. That resolution was too abort and too j stingy of language. It ought to have had a preamble and some words that indicated regret for the long delay, lu fact, they should.havo apologizeu and bogged our pardon and done tho clean thing whllo thoy wore at it. My fear now is that if tho war bio ., s over the ? Grand Army will raise an mpus about that resolution and havo it rescinded, just like thoy did tho ordor for tho're st oration of the rebel Hags. Thoy havo had all tho offices and all tho pensions .so long, thoy don't want us to havo anything. But we'll got ovon with them In tho long run. Sool f wo don't. I.otsJ of their bust people uro movingtlown South am iu a few years will become as clever ,'Qutlotnen and Christians and'patriots as wo are and can ruise their children in a moral at mosphere. Our climate and our so oioty has a wonderful eifeet on North ern mon. Well, j)f course, about half of this is a jokey and 1 don't want to make anybody mad this Christmas, but the other naif is In efcr? :st. The best thing General Grant ever said was: "Let us havo peace," and ho wouldn't havo said it if ho hadn't boeu a gentle man. 1 havo had a bard time of it to-day. i My wife said that I must put in that pane of glass upstairs boioro the ohil dron came Jessie was coming home to stay awhilo and, of course, would bring bor baby, and 1 reckon her hus band v ould bo apt to follow along Well, of course, the pane must be put in, for if there is any bad -i- u ah ml. a house it is a broken pane wit.i u bag or some rags stuck In the hole. It is a sign that too man of the house ain't much aee? lint. 1''.- a* bad as a front gate that .vo i't op u or snut easy <>r a front dOOl' with a knob otr. This pane wa< out iu tho upper sash a.d 1 never realized what a critical job it was until 1 got at it. i came very near fa! ing out of the two-story window, for the work had to be done from the outside. I had to hold on with ono hnnd aud work with tho other and at last bad to give it up. So I got the step ladder-and took out all tiio stops aud pmied the sash inside tho room hauging by. the cords, ami my wife she helped me and t ho ladder cracked aud creaked amazingly, but wo tinally got tho glass in and taoked and puttied all right, and the sash put back, aud tho stops replaced, aud 1 thought I was done, but she wanted the old siiades taken down and some new ones put up, and I had to mount tho old step laddor again. She never lets me know a'l that she wants me to do for fear of alarming mo, aud that's why she kept tho now shades hid out until I had put lb tho window pane. But I got through safely at last and received sevoral benighuut smiles. By this time 1 was so nervous that when 1 tried to write I couldn't hardly hold tho pen and that's what Is the matter with this manuscript. I cun't read it myself aud will excuse any mistakes your typo makes. Oh, these women who uro always fixing up something. They make me so tired. Hut I gave ? >i nice work basket for Christ mas, .' sent to her E?EI'S THE MONBOE DOOTBINeJ *- i A LUCID EXPLANATION OP THE. VENEZUELA QUESTION. Senator Lodge Makes a Strong His torical Argument tn Defbnco of Our Position. Hon. Hoary Cabot Lodge, (Rep.) ?Senator, from Massachusetts, ad tlrvs-ied tho Senate on the subject of too Moniou ductrlne. Ho snid it was not --is inloutlou to speak until the joint rosolutiou introduced by him giving U the declaration made by Mr. Monroe in his mc&sago of Dooombor, 1823, tho formal sanction of Congress had received the consideration of tho Committee on Foreign Relations. But siuco thon the President had sent in his message on the Venezuelan difficulty and Congress without a dis senting voice had authorized tho com mission whloh the Prosldent request ed. This action had led to muoh wild talk aud Rides moro vocal thau numer ous from those who bollovo wo should never do auythlng to clash with Eng land's interests. This outory coupled with London's attempt to frighten Congress by producing a stock panic had tended to confuse tho ie>suo. He, therefore, thought a littlocool explana tion would not be out of placo. Two cardinal principles, ho said, had 11 ways governed the United States in l heir rotations with foreign nations, i'ho first was Washington's neutrality doctrico as laid down in tho farewell address. Tho socond was tho Monroe doctrine, the history of which he traced iu detail. Tno only attompt hereto fore mado by outside powers to break through that doctriuo was Hie joint in tervention of England. France and Spain in Mexico in 1801. A second ease has now arisen, und tho main tenance of the,Monroe doctrine, isugain threatened us it was by the French in I8(>2. This second attack upon the principles of the Mouroe doctriuo cotues from Great Britian and is made under cover of a boundary dispute wnh Venezuela. In order to show the Importance of this controversy which bud now reached a crisii atl'eetlng most gravely the honor, tho interest*, the rights, and the woll-sottlod policy of the United Statos, he sketched "briily," us lie said, but with elaborate detuils, tho history of tho dispute between Great B'itain and Venezuela and of the negotiations between the two coun ti ies. Ho continued as follows : " It will bo observed from this brief outline of tho dispute, that no new rights have come to England or to Venezuela since 1814, i. e.; since the declaration of President Monroe. Thoy have the rights of Spain and Holland, respec tively, nothing more, und nothing less, and are entitled to exactly what those inherited rights give them. In 103t> a British minister acknowledged that Point Barium belonged to Venezuela and asked the Venezuela govormnent to erect a light house there. In 1840, a British court in Honiara declared the territory of the Morooo, far to tho east of tho Orinoco, to he Venezuelan territory. In 1841 an English engineer laid out a perfectly arbitrary line running from tho mouth of the Orinoco iu a southerly direction until it reached the southern boundary of British Guiana. Lord Aberdeen dis avowed this line and proposed another starting ut tho River Morooo and ?" further Into the interior; Lord ?r>' ?',<)|. r -'?hing attempt to colleot it cost ain her North Aaiorioi The American people b< iust as tlrmly in the prln Monroe Doctrine. The essential to their honor, ami their Interests as a ua1 are prepared to defend assailed. " Mr. President, who 1 for the unhappily strai betwoen England and States V As I have pot have not been the uggres the points now in dispute, Alaska or Venezuela. "What thou, has stralnod 01 lions? Tho peremptory refusi bitrato this question of boS\ Who gave that refusal V Great aln. We havo appointed a.u not to abritrato between Great and Venezuela, but to inform caroful investigation, what ?. divisional lino, in their opinion,j be. Who has drawn unarbitrfi of bouudury uud declared thaj should not arbitrato t'o the eus Not tho United States, but"1 Britain. Ultimatums are what relations, and they havo uol Great Britian and not from us Hove that this question will bo" fully settled by the good tense representatives of England United States, but I am verj tbat sMe.ii settlement can ouT readied by action on thb parf Congress and of tho Frcsiden* shall boas tomperatu as it which shall malntuir Doctrine whorevi r it That doctrine is as imp. tho balauce of powo" is ti those who maintain the not attempt to break down, pie which guards the integrity of Americans uud protects them from t interference of foreign power, In the eouroO of Mr. Lodge's histor cal review of the Venezuelan boundar question, ho was usked by Mr. Ui whether Venezuela had ever, at an time, refused arbitration. " Never," Mr. Lodge replied. "1 refer to that," Mr. Hill explain* ed, "on account of a published inter view v ith Mr. Lincoln, in a Chicago newspaper, in which it was stated that Venezuela had refused arbitration." "1 never met,'' Mr. Ltd go said, "with any instance in which Vene zuela refused arbitration. So far as I am aware, she has sought arbitration eonstautly. She has rejected ono or two of the compromises offered by Great Britain. She rejected one of them because Great Britain insisted upon the free navigation of the Ori noco. 1 uii not think that Venezuela has evor rejected arbitration. On tho contrary, she has always sought it." ST AT 10 MOWS IN r.K) KK. Interesting Notes li oiu Various Sour ces. ?James H. Irby, senior brothorof Senator Irby, died at Iiis home in Lau rens, Dec. 21. Ho was a planter aniL; tii) years of age. ? Eighteen carloads of white people have gone from Wayne, Dublin and Ponder Counties, N. C, to work in the cotton mills at Pelzer, S. ?. TiV were in two special trains. Nom them have ever worked in COttor ?The Supreme Court of States holds that a cont piece is still a common oarrle