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THE NBW MEASURES REOUI/ATINO TRUSTS One Prohibits Combinations and the Other Provides Means to Secure Testimony in Alleged Violations. Tho L.egiulaturo bad before il a num ber of measures proposing to regulate tbo " trusts." Hut two of tbeso meas ures got through, and one of them was almost emasculated by the Senate. This was tho W. J. Johnson bill, a copy of the Hogg anti-trust law on the Texas staluto books. Tho Senato passed il after eliminating the aflklavit required of corporations. This allhla vit is said to have been the ono feature of tho bill most objectionable to cor notations. Tho other measure which got through tho Legislature was a bill introduced by Mr. Dell uhl, and is a measure soekiug to give the attorney general full power under which to proceed against tho trusts. Two years ago the Legislature iuslructed the attorney general to proceed to investigate the operations of ccrtaiu corporations. As no appropriation for expenses was made, tho attorney general was,unablo to accomplish anything. List year the Legislature made an appropriation for this purpose, and tho attorney general uiado an investigation which led to the suit ngatust tho Virginia-Carolina Che meal compauy. In order that tho attorney general might havo no stumbling block put in his way in futuro investigations, Mr. DoBruhl introduced the bill, (which has become a law with the Governor's signature,) 14 providing a procedure to enable the attorney general to secure testimony in relation to the violation of acts prohibiting trusts and combina tions aud violations of law by corpora tions." The act declares: Section 1. That wheuever thejUlor ney general has determined to com mence an action or proceeding, under the act entitled " an act to prohibit trusts and combinations aud to provide pouallies," or any acts amendatory thereto, or any acts now or hereafter of force, relating to the prohibition or prevention of trusts, combinations or monopolies, or against corporations, foreigu or domestic, for any violation of any acts now or hereafter of force of this State, he may present to any justice of the supreme court, or any circuit judge, cithor before or aftei beginning such action or proceeding, an application in writing, for an order directing the persons mentioned in tho application to appear boforo a justice of tho supremo court, a circuit judge or a referee designated in such order, and answer such quoetions as may be put to them or to auy of them, and produce such papers, documents and books concerning any alleged illegal contract, arrangement, agreement, trust, monopoly, or combination or corporate actB iu violation of law; and it shall be the duty of the justice of the Buprcme court, or the circuit judge, to whom tuet? application for tho order is made, to grant such application. The application upon the proper show ing for tho necessity for such order made by tho attorney general, must show upon information or belief, or otherwise, that the testimony of such person or persons is material and necessary. Tho order shall be granted by the justice of tho supreme court, or the circuit judge, to whom the applica tion has been made, with such preli minary injunction or stay as may ap pear to such justice or circuit judge to be proper aud expedieut, and shall specify tho time when, and place where the witnesses are required to appear, and such examination shall be held either iu the city of Colum bia or in the judical district in which the witness resides, or in which the principal ofllec, within this State, of tho corporation affected, is located. The justice, judge or ref eree may adjourn such ' examination from time to time, and witnesses must attend accordingly. The testimony of each witness must bo subscribed by him, except in case tho testimony be taken and subscribed by a sworn stenog rapher, and all such testimony must be filed in the otlice of llio clerk of the county in which such order for exami nation is filed. Sec. 2. The order for such examina tion must bo signed by the justice or judge making it, aud the service of a copy thereof, with an endorsement by the attorney genoral, signed by him, to tho eiiect that the person named therein is required to appear and he ex amined at the time and placo, aud be fore the justice, circuit judgo or ref eree specitied in sii'.h endorsement, shall be sufliciont nottco for the atten dance of the witnesses. Such endorse ment may contai i a clause requiring such person to produco on such ex amination all books, papers and docu ments in his possession, oi under his control, relatiug to iho subject of such examination. The order shall he serv ed upon tho person named iu the en dorsement aforesaid, by showing him the origiual order, and delivering to and leaving with him, at tho same lime, a copy thereof endorsed as above provided, and by paying or tendering to hi in the fee allowed by law to wit nesses subpoenaed to attend trials of civil actions in a court of rocotd in this Stalo. Sec. 3. No porson shall bo excused from answering any questions that may be put t > nun, or frum producing any books, papers or documents on the ?round that tho testimony or evidence, ocumentary or otherwise, required of him may tend to iucriminute him, hut no peison shell ho prosecuted in any criminal action or proceedings, or sub jected to any pcnnlly or forfotturo for or on account of any transaction, mat ter or thing concerning which ho may testify, or produce evidence, documen tary or otherwise, before said justice, judge or referee appointed in tho order for bis examination, or in obodience to the subpoona of tho court, or refoiee acting under such order, or either of them, or in any such case or proceed log. Sec. 4. A rofereo appointed an pro vided" in this act possesses all tho pow ers and is subject to all tho duties of a referee appointed under the code of civil procedure, so far as practicable, and may punish for conte npt a wit ness duly served as prescribed in this act for non-attendance or refusal to be sworn or to testify, or to produce books, papers and documents accord ing to tho direction of the endorsement aforesaid, in the samo manner ami to tho samo oxtent as a referee appointed to hoar, try and dotornuuo an ispuo of fact or law. Sec. 5. This act shall tako effect im mediately upon its approval, and shall bo dcomod and taken as cumulalivo of all statutes of this State. TO PROHIBIT TRUSTS. Following is tho full text of Iho act to prohibit pools, trusts, monopolies and conspiracies to control business and prices of articles, to prevent tho forma tion or corporation of pools, trusts, monopolies and (combinations of char ters of corporations that violate terms of this act, and to nuthori/.o tho ln? sititulion of prosecutions and suits therefor. Section 1. Any corporation organiz ed under tho laws of this or any other Stato or country, nnd transacting or conducting nny kind of business in this Stato, or any partnership or individual, or ?iiher association of persons what soever, who shall crcato, enter into, be come a member of or a party to any pool, trust, agreement, combination, confederation or understanding with any othor corporation, partnership, in dividual or ouy other person v,' associa tion of persons, to regulate or 11 x tho price ot any articlo of manufacture, mechanism, merchandise, commodity, convenience, repair, any product of mining, of any article or thing what soever, or to maintain said price when so regulated or Hxed, or shall cuter into, become a member of or a party to any pool, agreement, combination, con tract, association or confederation to lix or limit the amount or quantity of any articlo of manufacture, mechan ism, merchandise, commodity, conve nience, repair, any product of mining, or any articlo or thing whatsoever, or the price or premium to he paid for in suring property against loss or damage by lire, lightning, storm, cyclone, tor nado, or any other kind of policy is sued by any corporation, partnership, individual, or association of porsous aforesaid, shall bo deemed and ad judged guilty of a conspiracy to de fraud, and to bo subject to the penal ties as provided by this act. Sec. 2. A " monopoly" is any union, or combination, or consolida tion, or olllliation of capital, credit, property, assets, trado, customs, skill or nets, or any otbor valuable thing or possession, by or between persons. Arms or corporations, or association of persons, firms or corporations, where by any ono of tho purposes or objects mentioned in this act is accomplished, or sought to be accomplished, or whoreby auy one or more of said pur poses are promoted, or attempted to bo executed or carried out, or wheic by the soveral results describod are reasonably calculated to bo produced; and a '?monopoly" as thus defined and contemplate I, includes not mere ly such combinations by and between iwo or more persons, Qrms or corpora tions acting for themselves, but is espe cially defined at i intendo? to include all aggregations, amalgamations, atlili ation8, consolidations fir lticorp a lions of capital, skill, credit, ass .j, property, customs, trade, or other valu able thing or possession, whether ef fected by the ordinary methods of part nership or by actual union under the legal form jof a ^corporation, or an in corporated bodj resulting from tho union of ono or more distinct firms or corporations, or by tho purchase, ac quisition oi control of shares or certifi cates of stock or bonds, or other cor porate property or franchises, and all corporations or partnerships that have been or may bo created by tho consol idation or amalgamation of tho sepa rate capital, stock, bonds, assets, credit, properties, custom, trado or corporate or firm beloDgings of two or more firms or corporations or companies, are especially declared to constitute mo nopolies, within tho. meaning of this act, if so created or entered into for any one or more of the purposos named in this act; and a ?* monopoly," as defined iu this section, is hereby de clared to bo unlawful and against pub lic policy; and any and all persons, firms, corporations or associations of persons engaged therein shall bo deemed and udjudged guilty of a con spiracy to defraud, and shall bo sub ject to the penalties proscribed in this act. " . Sec. 3. If any person, person3, com pany, partnership, association or cor poration engaged in tho manufacture or salo Of aoy articlo of commerce or consumption from tho rave material with the intent or purpose of driving produced or mined in this Stato, shall, out competition, or for the purpose of financially injuring competitors, sell at less than the co t of manufatcure, or give away their manufactured pro ducts, for tho purpose of driving out competition or financially injuring competitors engaged in the manufac tuie and rctlnining of raw material in this State, said person, persons, com pany, partnership, association or cor poration resorting to this method of securing a monopoly in tho manufac ture, refining and sale of the finished product produced or mined in this State, shall be deemed guilty of a con spiracy to form or secure a trust or monopoly iu lestraipt of trado, and, on conviction, shall be subject to the penalties of this act. Sec. 4, Any poraon, partnership firm or association, or any representa tive or agent thereof, or any corpora tion or company, or any offlcor, repre sentative or ngont thereof, violating nny of tho provisions of this act,' sbail forfeit not less than two hundred dol lars, nor more than live thousand dol lars, for overy such offence, and each day such per on, corporation, partner ship or association shall continuo to do bo, shall bo a separate offence, tho ponaltios in such cases to bo recovered by an action in the name of tho State, at thejrelatlon of the Attorney General or tho Solicitor of the Judicial Circuit within which the offence was commiU ted; the moneys thus collected to go into the Stato Treasury, and to become a part of the general fund except as hereinbeforo provided. The amount of the forfeit to bo fixed by tho judge before whom the case is triad in each case, within the aforesaid limits; tho collection of which penalty shall be enforced as the collection of linos against defendants upon conviction of a misdemeanor. Sec. 5. If auy two or moro persons or corporation, who are engaged in buying or selling any article of com merce, manufacture, mechanism, mer chandise, commodity, convenience, re pair, auy product of miuing or any ar ticlo or thing whatsoever, shall enter iuto auy pool, trust, agreement, combi nation, confederation, association or understanding to control or limit tho trade in any such article or thing; or to limit competition in such trado by ro. fusing to buy from or soil to auy per son or corporation any such article, or thing nfoiesaid, for the reason that such other person or corporation is not a member of or a party to such pool, trust, agreement, combination, con federation, association or understand ing; or shall boycott or threaten any per8 l or corporation, for buying from or selling to any other person or cor poration who is not a number of or a party to such *?ool, trust, agreement, combination, nfederation, associa tion or understanding, any such atlicle or thing aforesaid, it shall bo a viola tion of this act; and any person, firm, corporation or association of p rsons, committing such violation shall be deemed and adjudged guilty of a con. spiracy to defraud, and shall bo sub ject to the ooualties proscribed in this act. Sec. (J. Any corporation created cr organized by or under tho laws of this Stale which shall violate any of the provisions of tho preceding sections of this act shall hereby forfeit its corpo rate rights and Iranchiaes; and its cor porate existence shall, upon the proper proofs being mado thereof in any court t?f competent jurisdiction in tho State, be by tho court declared forfeited, void and of none effect, and shall thereupon cease and determine; and any corpora tion created or organized by or under tho law of any other Stato or country which shall vtolato any of the provi sions of the preceding sections of this act, shall thereby forfeit its right and privilege thereafter to do any business in this State; and upon proper proof being mado thereof in any court of competent jurisdiction in this Stntc, its rights ami privileges to do business in this Slat, wall bo declared forfeited; and in all proceedings to have such forfeiture declared, proof that any per son who has been acting as agcut of such foreign corporation in transact ing its business in this Stato has been, whil3 acting as such agent and in the name, behalf or interest of such for eign corporation, violating any pro visions of the preceding sections of this act, t-hall bo received as prima facie proof oi tho act of the corpora tion itself; ami it shall be tho duty of the clork of said court to certify the de cree thereof to the Secretary of State. Sec. 7. It shall bo tho duty of the Attorney General and the prosecuting attorney of each circuit where the of feuso i3 committed, respectively, to en force tho provisions of this act. Tho prosecuting attorney or solicitor shall Instituto nnd conduct all suits begun in the circuit courts, and upon appeal tho Attorney General shall prosecute said suits in tho supreme court. Sec. 8. Tho provisions of tho fore going sections, and tho pains and pen alties provided for violations of this act shall be held and construed to be cumulative to nil laws now iu forco iu this State: And provided,That the pro visions of this act shall not exempt from punishment or forfeiture any persons, tlrm, association of persons or corporations, who may have violated or offended against any law now in existence that may bo or may be con strued to bo repealed by Ibis act or in conflict herewith: And provided, fur ther, That nothing in this act shall be dcomcd or construed to effect any suits or prosecutions now pending or horc aftor to be instituted upon any course of action, forfeiture or penalty accru ing or to accrue prior to the dato of the taking effect of this act, but all such rights to maintain, institute or prose cute all such causes of action aro here by reserved to tho State in the same manner and with tho same effect as if this law had not been passed. TU IC STORY OF "OLD HOCK." Bill Arp Writes About a Good Old Englishman in the Confed erate Army. Atlanta Constitution. Of courso?of course it was Tom Moon:. How camo I to say that Hums wrote that pretty ballad beginning M And I know by tho smoke that so gracefully curled?" I know bettor and tho editor ehould havo corrected it, for ho know bettor, too. What is an editor for if he docs not correct a ?< lapsus pennao" like that? flat I am glad I mado tbo mistake for it has brought mo three letters and a postal kindly cor recting mo, and proves that the people who road the old-timo authors aro not all dead. Tho last lino of that verse always reminds mo of a good old man, a comrade, Captain John Hockenhull, an Englishman by birth, but a Georgia rebol who used to rccita poetry for us around tho camp iires in 1802 and 1803. Wo called him "Old Hock" und every body loved him, for he was a cockney and dropped tho h's whore he should not, and vico vorsa. There is always a charm in broken English and to mur der tho King's English is no groat of fense. ?* Old Hock" knew a good deal of Tom Moore and Jhims and Hood and Campboll, and It was a treat to hoar him say: ? Tho 'cart that is 'umblo might 'opo for it 'ere." Ho knew that olhor swoot ballad of Anne Crawford: " Kathloen Mavournoon, tho gray dawn is breaking, Tho horn of tho huntor is hoard on tho hill." And ho always said " Tho 'orn of tho 'unter is 'oard on the 'ill." The "Exile of Erin," which he called the 44 Iloxile of Horin," was another of his favoritleB He learnod theso poems from his sweet* heart while ho was an apprentice in London?an orphan boy bound for seven years to a hard muster, a brewer, and his daily service was to carry the jars of malt from the cellar up a (light of atono steps to the floor above, lie [never bad a kind word from his master. I and one day he tripped and fell and Don't Compl?in about poor health if you won't spend one dollar to secure a full quart of that panacea for all the usual ills? ofpit$toi?'s Quart Bottles, It has been used for thirty years in the cure of Scrofula, Rh e lima tis m, Indigestion, Nervousness, Neuralgia, Catarrh, Anemia, Female Troubles, Eruptions, Insomnia, Salt Rheum, and Similar Complaints. Sold by all druggists at one dollar for a full quart bottle. Take no substitute. MADE ONLY BY THE MICHIGAN DRUG CO., Detroit, Mich. broke a. jar and was bitterly abused for it, ami told that bo bad forfeited the .IJ-20 that bo waa to get when his term was out. lie was then eighteen and had yet three years to toil at his hard, monotonous work. That night ho poured out ins heart to tho girl he loved and declared ho would run away and go to America on tho first sail vessel that left the port. That ho would make some money hero and send it to hor if she would promise to come to hitn, and then they would marry and bo so happy?and she promised. Within a week the opportunity came. He told one of the sailors his sail story and the sailor told the male, and they took him aboard by night and hid him down in the hold of tho vest el until the good ship had weighed anchor and was far out to sea. ?* Old Hock" told it all to us one cold night at Mannssas and how sad and sweet was his last k i ?, his last embrnco, his last good bye. He choked up sometimes and the tears glistened in bis eyes, but it was a pretty story and Dickens could have built upon it and made a teudcr ro mance. This was away back in the forties when our Slate was building tho Western .and Atlantic railroad and wanted laborers and had sent a man to New York to hire immigrants as they landed at Castle Garden; " Old Hock " did not have to wait a day, but was hired and shipped to At lanta and from there to Allntoona, whero ho did his firat work, lie said ho did not feel sufe upon the ocean voyage or in Now York harbor, for he f car. d ho might in some way bo caught as n tugilive and tnkeu back, but when ho got to Allatoona and saw the woods all around him and the high hills and deep ravines and mingled with good kind-hearted men and women, he felt safe ami free. " I never knew w'at freedom was boforo, and you Hamori cans 'avo no hideaw'at a blessing it is. The good woman w'ore I boarded and hor daughter were so kind and gentle to mo that I would 'avo 'ugged them if I dared, but 1 thought all of tho timo of the girl I had loft bohind me and it nerved mo to good 'onest work and tho contractor soon raised my wages, and in six months I 'ad a 'undrod dollars in bank and got a good man to send it to another good man in New York, and he found the same captain I camo hover with and bo took it to ray sweetheart, and sho camo back with him, and while I waa every day looking for a letter sho look mo by surpiso ono morning nud brought tho letter with her, und wo just fell in to beach hothor's harms like? like?like?major hexcuso mo now, I must go nud look haftor ray 'oss." He had mimed his lino mare Emma, so that he could call her 11 cm i mi, I reckon. Hut wo ''mado him finish tho Rtory afterwards and tell how onogood friend volunteered to go after the license, and another aflur tho proacher, aud his landlady and her daughter baked somo enko and got up a hextra supper and they wore married that night at hor 'ouse, and all ho lemombers about what the preacher said was: " Whom God 'alh joined together, let no man put hasundor." ?? Old Hock " was a patriot, a good, honest and true man. His neighbors at his homo in Dawson Oounty all loved and honored him, and there was not a man in his regi moot (tho Elovonth Georgia) more be loved by the mon that ho fod, for he was choson their commissary early in tho war, and you know it is so natural to lovo those who food you woll. When lations woro short ho would travel all night to secure supplies and the boys knew that if " Old Hock " couldu't got what they wanted nobody could. But in course of tiino the old man got sick and wanted to go homo. Olhor ollicers had got fui loughs, but he had never asked for one. He went to bed and sent for me, ami told mo he was sick and if ho didn't get a furlough ho behoved he would get sicker ami per haps die away from 'ome. I suspected that lie was homesick, but he looked sick and I sent up his application. The army had been for some days swelter ing in the hot summer's sun not far from Richmond: The application was referred to headquarters at Richmond, and I took it in to tho proper ? llicial, who glanced at it and said: " Impor tant movements are daily expected, and all furloughs logo home arc strict ly prohibited. The best I can do Is to send the captain toFnrmvillc for thirty days." There was an army hospital at Farm villo, which was only thirty miles south of Richmond, where sick oflicers were sent to rest and bo treated for their ailments. And so he indorsed upon it Farraville, and in the next blank said thirty days. Suddenly a thought came over mo that 1 could not resist. I knew that14 Old Hock's " postofllce in Georgia was named Farraville, I stepped into tho hotel and took a pen and quickly added " Ga." to tho word. I knew thnt it was risky and rascally, but I did it, and took it to "Old Hock" and told him to got ready to leave next morning. How quickly ho brightened up and how thankful ho waa to me. Ho went home on that pass and came back in due timo, renewed and re covered. He said the conductor looked 'ard at him and at tho pass, but let him go by tho hospital and then ho felt safe. I knew if I had told him what I had done ho couldn't face the music and toll a lie. After the war his peoplo sent him to tho Legislature and my people sent me there, too, and wo rejoiced to get together again every night and rehearse tho soul-stirring times that we had in old Virginia. BILL Aitr. THE SENATOR8 CENSURED. No Distinction Drawn Between Tilltnan and Mcl*anrin as to Their Offence, The United .States Senate has vindi cated its honor and dignity by passing a resolution of censure upon tho Sena tors from South Carolina for their dis orderly conduct on the floor of the Sonnte during the consideration of the Philippine tariff bill on tho 22lid of February. When the Senate was called to order a notably largo attendance of Senators was on the floor and tho galleries wore thronged. Both Senators McLaurin and Tillftian, of South Carolina, were in their scats. Great interest was manifested by Senators on the floor and by spectators in tho galleries in tho readiDg of tho journal which con tained the protest of Mr. Tillman against not boing pormitled to voti whilo under the ban of tho Sonate'r order of contempt. Mr. Burrow*, of Michigan, chairman of tho con mittoo on privileges and olo tions, pruat med tho following re solution which had bcon formulated by that committee: " That it is tho judgment of tho Sen ate that the Senators from South Caio OA0TORXA. Bmm the The Kind You Hare Always Bought Btgnattttt tf Una, Benjamin U. Tinman and John L. Molitiurin, for disorderly behavior ann llagraut violation of the rules of th Senate during the open hession of tho Senato on tho 22nd day of Feb ruary, inst., deserve the censure of tho Senate and they are hereby cousured for (heir breach of thu privileges an<l dignity of ibis body; and from ami after the adoption of this resolution tho order adjudging them in contempt of tho Senato shall bo no longer in force and effect." Mr. Burrows presented the request of tho majoiity of tho committee which was road. REPORT OF TUE MAJORITY. The report recited the history of the allcrcaliou in the Senate and quoted the language then used h'' the offen ders. All agreed to this statement. The report theu continued as fol lows: "Tho majority of the committee uro of opinion that the legal effect of ad judging thcHo Senators in contempt of tho Senate was to suspond theit func tions as Senators nud that such punish ment for disorderly behavior is clearly within the power of the Senalo but the conclusion they havo reached makes it unnecessary to discuns this question. Tho offenses committed by the two Senators were not, in the opinion of a majority of the committee, of equal gravity. "Mr. McLauiin did not commence tho encounter but only stood in hi,; place at bis desk, where he was speak ing and resisted the attack that was made upon him. In other words his offense was confined to tho use of un parliamentary language, for which ho had unusual provocation. Neverthe less, his offense was a violation of the rules of tho Senate of so serious a char acter that in the opinion of the com* miller it should be condemned. " In the case of Mr. Tillman, the record shows that tho altercation was commenced by tho charge he made against Mr. McLaurin. .Such a charge is inexcusable, except in connection with a resolution to investigate. Air. Tillman not only made the charge without any avowal of a purpose to in vestigate, but also disclaiming knowl edge of evidence to establish tho of fense and this he said after the charge had becu specifically and unqualifiedly denied by Mr. McLaurin. " Such u charge, under any circum stances, would be res' ntcd by any man worthy to be a Senator; but, made as it was in this instance, its off? nsivencss was greatly intensified. This featuro uf his ofTentc, coupled with the facl that he also commenced the encounter by quitting his seat some distance away from Mr. McLauriu, and, rush ing violently upon him, struck him in the face, makes tho cause one of Buch exceptional misbehavior that a majority of the committee arc of the opinion that his ofTemo was of much greater gravity than that of Mr. McLauriu. "The penalty of a censure by tho Sonato in tho nature of things must vary in actual severity in proportion to the public sense of the gravity of the . ITensc of which tho offender has been adjudged guilty. Therefore, notwith standing tho fact that in the opinion of a majority of the commitlco there is a difference in the gravity of the of fenses under consideration, your com mittee are of the opinion that public good and the dignity of tho Senate will be alik'c best promoted and protected, so far as this particular case is con cerned, by imposing upon each Senator by formal vote tho censure of the Son ale for the offense by him committed and therefore, recommend the adop tion of tho resolution." At tho conclusion of the reading of the majority report Mr. llailey, of Texas, offered the following statement as representing the views of himself and four other Senators : " Wo dissent from so much of tho report of tho committee as asserts the power of the Senate to suspend a Sen ator and thus deprive a State of its vote, ami so much as describes tho I offenses of the Senators as of different I gravity; but wo approve ihe resolution I repotted." HRrOUT OF TIIK MINORITY. Tho report of iho minority of the commit ice then wns read. In this statement, the Senators sign ing it say that while they accept the statement of the case as made in tho principal rcpo t they do not agree with the majority of the committee as to the punishment proposed by the ma jority. They then say : "The junior Senator from South Car olina is guilty of unparliamentary lan guage. The senior Senator from South Carolina is guilty of physical violence. Neither in the statutes of any Slate or in the common opinion of mankind nro thcRO two olVenses the same. The slight, est form of punishment id a reprimand or censure. It is the latter which the majority proposes to inflict for two oiTenscs dtlTciiug in character and gravity. Tho minority of the commit* ico are of the opinion that this punish,* mcut is adequate, and to Iguore the difference between tho offenses is tin. just. Tho minority of the committee , is of tho opinion that suspension of the two offending Senators from their Son atoiitd privileges borotoforo indieted should now be formally adjudged and continued for different periods of time." Tho roport concludes by recommend ing that Senator McLaurin bo sus pended from his functions as a Senator for live days and that Senator Tilbnan bo suspended for twenty days. Mr. l'ritchnrd'e adoption to tho abovo statement is in tho following langungo : " I concur in all tho forogoiug views The Wo.T s Greatest Cure for malaria X ?W?v..?. For all form ef*\?f Malarial poleon .ng take Johntun'* Chill and Pevei' Tonic. A taint of Malnrlnl polson /'-ajln your blood nieane misery and failure. Itlood medioinoecan'tcury Malarial i>oinonlnK. The antidote for it ia JOHNSON'S TONIC Get a bottle to-day. Cut! 50 Cent. If It Com. ~ Absolutely Pure Makes the food more delicious and wholesome _WOYAl OAKINO POWDER CO., HEW YORK._ exopt as to the punishmcut of the. junior Senator from South Carolina. It is my opinion that the punishment he has already sufforcd is adequato to his olTcnse. I make no recommenda tion as to the punisluneut to be impos ed on tho senior Senator from South Carolina. Mr. Bacon called attention to what ho considered an important omission in the narrative of ihn majority as to the oecureuce.s of last Saturday. There was no ollicial record of the proceedings in the secret legislative se sion, he said, but some of the salient facts ought to be brought out. lie said that tho senior Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Tillnia)n had expressed bis desire thmugh the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. lilackhurn) to make public ac knowledgment of bis error and to apologize to tho Senate. The junior Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Me liiurin) hnd expressed the same desire through him (Mr. liacoo) Ho deemed it important that these facts should be made a part of the. record. When the name of Mr. McLaurin, of Mississippi, was reached in the roll call, be said: " Being related by kinship to one of the Senators involved, I ask to bo ex cused from voting." The rennest was <?ri\ntp<t. Mr, MoLauriu, of .South Carolina, one of the offending Senators, said in response to his name, which had been restored to tho roll: " I re frail from voting for obvious reasons." When Mr. Tillman's name was called ho rose deliberately. Kvery eye in the chamber was Qxcd upon him. Iiis face was stern and set and ho was as pale as a sheet. Evidently he was laboring under great emotion. "Among gentlemen," said he, slow ly, and his words were heard distinctly in the uttermost parts of the chamber, " an apology for an offense committed under the heat of blood is usually con sidered sulllcient." Then ho resumed his seat amid gasps of astonishment among Senators and spectators. Mr. Burrows hastened to the desk of the official stenographers and di rected that Mr. Tillman's words be written out at once. At the conclusion of the roll call, but before the announcement of the vole, Mr. Kaan, of Mew Jersey, who had voted for the resolution, addresssing the president pro lern, changed his vote in the following statement: 41 Having hoard the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Tillman) again in sult tho Sonate, I change my voto from aye to no." The resolution was adopted,."?! to 12, tho detailed vote being as follows: Yeas?Aldrich, Allison, Bacon, Bai ley, Bard, Bate, Berry, Blackburn, Burrows, Carmack, Clark, of Montana, Clay, Cockroll, Culberson, Cullom, Depcw, Dillingham, DdlHver, Dubois, Kins. Fait banks, Foraker, Foster, of Louisiana, Fryc, Gallinger, Gibson, HansborOUgh, Harris, ILiwlcy, Hoar, Kcarus, Lodge, McCumbor, McEnory, McMillan, Mallory, Martin, Mitchell, Money, Nelson, Patterson, L'orklns, l'ettus, Platt, of Connecticut, (Queries, Hawlins, Sirmons, Stewart, Taliaferro, Teller, Turner, Vest, Warren, Wet morc --64.. Nays?Beveridge, ('lark, of Wyora ing, Dcboe, Dietrich, Foster, of Wash ington, Kenn, Kitt ridge, McComas, Mi)lard, Pritchard, Proctor, Scott.?12 As soon as the voto was announced Mr. Burrows demanded that the state ment of Mr. Tillman made during the roll call he read to the Senate. Scarce ly had tho clerk concluded the reading when Mr. Tillman. addrcssinn the president, said : "The words utlorod by me were not intended to be offensive, and if they were so considered I very gladly with draw them." As Mr. Hurrows was about to ad dress the Senate Mr. Teller said: 44 Tho Senator from Routll Carolina was not called to order by anybody. 1 think we had better piocced." Mr. Hurrows explained that be bad bad no opportunity during the roll call to direct the Senate's attention to Mr. Till man's words. The chair (Mr. I Prye) said: 44 The Senator has withdrawn the re marks. Is there objection on tho part ?of the Senate to their withdrawal?" I object, Mr. President," insisted Mr. Dietrich, (Ite.p.) of Nebraska. The effect ot the objection is to in corporate Mr. Tillman's statement in the record of the proceedings. Carnegie University, to be establish ed at Washington, will be open to all who meet lho entrance regulations. "Sex wdl have nothing to do with ad mission to tho new university," says President Oilman. Almost all Mr. Carnegie's gilts have been such as could be enjoyed by women as well as men, and most of them also by chil dren. Prof. Sydney It, Covey, principal ol ono of the public schools of Utica, New York, who drank nothing but sterili zed water for several years, 1* dead with typhoid fever, and an investiga tion shows that the well used by the concoru which lurnishcd tho sterilized water is Idled with typhoid germs. Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., are both instructors in tho Sunda) I school of the ?Fifth Avenue Baptist church, New York City. Mr. Iiockoftl lor is the leader of tho Bil 1 > class, and Mrs. Rockefi Her has a class of little boys. Tho making of highways in England snl Wales steadfastly increased from 1070, when Charles I began tho mak ing of roads, to tho introduction ol railroads in tho flrst quarter of this century, after which it declined. OASTOniA. WH AT A VIRGINIAN HAS SEEN Au Editor From the Slur Valley la Chnrlesto Col. T. C. Morton, editor tho Staunton (Va.) Spectator, who, with Mrs. Morton, has becu in Charleston for several weeks, has written to his paper a very appreciative description of Charleston and The Exposition. Ho says : " This is a beautiful cily, ? this Charleston by tho sea,' as the Staun? tonians who wore here at the great Con federate reunion two years ago will bear mo witness. Nowboro clso is there such a seaside walk as '* the Bat tery," with its line, smooth drive, tho grim, blaok-moulhod cannon adding to the picturesque, the fine monuments and handsome residences of the wealthy Southerners, With their th?*ee-storied balconies looking out on the forts and the islands iu the oceau. There is hut nno Fort Sumler, associated as it 18 with the defense so gallant that history may be searched in vain for a parallel. Then there are Fort Moultrie and Castle Pinckuey, Battery Jasper, Morris Island and Sullivan's Island, tri with a history that still lives and will live, and many of those brave (J00 Con federate officers still live, too, who, placed under the (he of their own bat teries on Morris Island, by a retaliatory policy of Gen. Grant, laid there patient ly for months as their own shells burst and shrieked above them, and then, too, the more recently improved Isle of Palms, with its magnificent beach and grand ocean view, pavilion and big Ferris wheel. 44 Only toilny I took a sail with a congenial party around the harbor and took all this in, then on out to old ocean, through the famous jetties, where the United Stales government lias spent millions of dollars in bringing thousands upon thousands of tous of stone and dropping them in two con verging lines sc? ? ral miles long reach mg out to the i , till they pile away up above Iho su . co of the water, and a channel Lwcutt -eight feet deep has been washed uul, making an easy en trance for the largest ships to a magni ficent harbor. 44 The city h .. features of its own which attract It) visitor. Most of the residences nlo:._- 'ic streets have their gables to the street and the entrance in the end, the long porticos looking out upon a side instea 1 of a front yard and all facing to the south or southwest. This, it is said, is to catch the south breeze from the sea, and the peo ple spend much of their time on these piazzas. They are sitting out tonight, or with their doors wide open, enjoy ing the breeze, while you people of the Valley are with closed doors enjoying your fues inside. The long and orna mental iron fences, too, inclosing the houses, and the handsome cut: and large grounds in the mid* city are other characteristics place, and the earthquake rci are peculiarly distinctive. Lou; re gular cracks, lilled up, and svly painted over, may be seen here and there, and the circular or S-shaped ends of iron braces which have buou run through weakened walls, ami twisted monuments and tombstones, still tell something of the dreadful I night in 1SS(>, when a part of the city drods driven to the country for safety, llut, in courtesy to strangers and hos pitality to their guests, the people of this good old city .yield to none, not even to my own State, Virginia, so long famous for its'hospitality." many killed, and bun Sixty degrees below zero is the fright fully cold atmosphere in which Alas kan gold hunters must often work They make fireplaces of snow in that desolate region. The snow is pressed into blocks like bricks and a lirc-placo two feet or three feet square is built with them. When the lire is lighted the snow, of course, melts on tho sur face; but when tho lire is out this freezes so hard that the next lire causes it to become only damp. A snow lire-place used only for cooking purposes will last for an entire winter. Miss Ellen Stone, the American missionary, who with Mine. Tellka was captured by brigands in the district of Salonica, has been released and arrived at Strumit/.a, Macedonia, Sun day morning. Nobody was at Stru mitza to meet Miss Stono, as the brigands had given no indication where they intended to release the prisoners. A monster belt press recently built for a rubber manufactory weighs, ac cording to tho India Rubber Woild, l.'IO ton.-, ?r three times as much as a locomotive. Its total length is thirty feet and its width fifty inches. The capacity of tho press is eight tons of rubber belting in ten hours, or twelve miles of two-inch belting a day. The drapery on President McKiu ley's pew in tli First Methodist Epis copal church 01 Canton, Ohio, was re moved the ( '^'i r day. Although all pews in tho chinch aro free, tho Mc Kinley pew has not been Occupied by any one since funeral. It is to be permanently ma" ked by a plato. A portrait of .John liunyan, painted by Thomas Sadler in 1085, and the on ly authentic likeness known, with tho exception of a pencil drawing in tho, British Museum, has been acquired by tho National portrait gallory. It came from tho Dowager Countess of Covan, whoso family had possessed the picture s'neo Bunyan's timo. Kjteg UMN 52 Mi NN (M|jL ?inufJg 'VXIXOiLBVO