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.ESTABLISR~ED 1865. NEWPBERRY, S. C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEBR1 83 A 4 ~A4LhAA. * ~ - ewernjEAR THE SENATE AS IT IS. Etesgant Surroundings of the Famperec Body That Defies Public Opinion. [From the New York Sun.1 WASHINGTON, October 20.-A Sena tor was showing the President's roon to a little group of backwoods' constit nents to-day just as the reporter of the Scn was being taken in to look at it An old negro flunkey stepped in the doorway and barred the reporter's pro gre. "You can't go in there," said he "there's a Senator in there." "Well, hang the Senator," said thi guide of the New York man. "I won't bother him. I want.to show the roon to my friend." "You can't do it, sir," said the olk servant, "I'm very sorry, but it's a new rule, and I-cannot break it. Afte thisano one will be allowed to intrudi * where a Senator is." That little incident serves aptly t< Tead an account of what Senatorial dig nity and traditions have developed into. This is not an era of distress wit: the United States Senate, whatever it may be to the country at large. Else where business may be' paralyzed, in dustry may be crippled, money may be tied up and out of circulation, bui these conditions do not prevail in the north wing of the Capitol at Washing ton. In view of what is public and patent with regard to the Senate, the weakness of that body is- amazing. It is bold as well as foolish for such an as sembly to defy public opinion or to ob. struet the popular :will, for it would never dare to xinvite scrutiny of its methods or surroundings. - The senate chamber itself is pecu liar and difficult to describe. It is really a building in a building. Its own walls support the galleries, which rise back ward to other walls of a much largel chamber. None of its doors or en trances reaches the outer air, for the whole great chamber and its galleries are surrounded by corridors and cloak rooms. The floor of the chamber is usually heavily carpeted. It has a green carpet one year and a red carpet the next, but for this extra session a a matting was put down. The floor is made in steps, so that each semi-circle of Senators sits higher than the others as the distance from the chair in creases. The desks are the only plain and simple thisLgs in the room, for the walls-are oruamented with a succes sion of gold panels and of gold pillars. The only extraneous ornament upon them is the famous gold and blue clock, whose hands the Senate sets backward or forward when it pleases. At the top of the walls the galleries begin, and they reach to othcr walls equally lav ishly strewn with gold. The ceiling represents a roof of massive gilt tim hers, panelled with stained glass. Patrick Henry and John Adams and Webster are often- mentioned.as spirite that hover in the sacred presence of the Senators. But none of the great pa. triots of ante-t-ellum times ever saw this - ~ splendid chamber. It was not finished and used until 1859. The truly great Senators of our history knew no sucll -magnificence. They sat either in the simple chamber where the Supreme Court now holds its sessions, or ov'er in the ancient disttict prison building, now turned into the residence of Mr, - Justice Field. The reveread fathers o1 the republio did not know the palatial temple of the filibusters and- the neil human windmills, who for near three months have failed to do a stroke o1 legislation while legislation was zmosi needed. Neither did they know the affluence, the lordly repose, the palaial elegance, the lavish use of the people's a -money, or the mock royalist notions os caste and place which now obtain in -7 all the chambers surreunding it. All this the great gilded hail, which theJ never saw,-may truly be said to typify, A now common symbol of speech de. dtares that all eyes are on the Senate, Let us interpret the statement literally, and tell the public what it sees there. It has been said that the chamber ih surrounded by other apartments. Tb~ first of these are the cloak rooms, whicLa fully enclose the great assembly haill These cloak rooms, though they 'are the property of the public, are held asered, and no one is admitted to them. ~' They.are splendid saloons, each one set with soft-padded sofas of leather, with great mirrors, with open fires, Cwith beautifut c!olden chandeliers, and Bwith earpe4t in which the Senatotial Cofeet sink luxuriously. Just lately, while there have been night sessions, bili~ Ilght luncheons have been keptin these E~Cloak rooms, ready at the- call of any r (,hungry Sen;ator. ueg Both of the Houses of Congress main rouhin restaurants. The one belonging "Thedthe Representatives is called a res atogrant. The one belonging to the sly 4Me has the word "Refectory" let. ,i 21ld over the doorway. Ap. pu 1~jthe Senators are too great tc bWa rest aurant. Their "refectory' thr the large and busy room in t, bu- the clerks and the public are was dto eat. It is a florid and retaLpartment, accessible througl hb jom, for the Senators will d, hwere the people do. Thit tic r refectory of theirs might be a bit of Versailles.- Indeed, SMaintenon's rooms scarcely aP, much elaborate and gorgpone er t. Every inch is ornate fronu ed tiled floor to the splendid in - In this palatial sanctum oj nie Senators find especial food ~'donly for them, and di.fferenl ~~t which is served to theii f~iud the public. They ha.va bet. r.n They have superior bread, ikfrom thinner glasses and better china. The dishes oj each day are such as they particularly favor. The prices arelower than those which the public has to pay. It is a great thing to be a Senator. The dis tress of the people and the anxiety and dread that are paralyzing business all over the country are evils that are not shared by these favored msgnates so long as they are in Washington and dependent on the public crib. It will surprise many who are aware of the princely elegance of our pam pered Senators to'know that their ele gance and luxury is based upon ne larger salary than thatof thetmembere of the lower House. Five thouBand a year is what both the Senators and the members' receive. One of the things that makes a difference between the two is that in the House the mem bers get little else than their salaries, The Senators fare better. They have a most luxurious barber shop, one that is smaller than the famous one of the Palmer House, Chicago, and yet that famous-one is- a poor, -pale thing beside it. Shaving costs nothing to a Senator, and no Senator ever gets shaved any. where else while he is in Washington, -or is likely to submit himself to any thing less than.the full possibilities of the shop, beginning with a shampoc and ending with the operation of singe ing in the latest London style. The barbers are paid by the public and rank as skilled. laborers, at sixty dollars a mont.. In.connection withtheir shop s a . ore than modern series of bath raoms, that are -not,exell'ed for ele gancein any first class hotel. Indeed the tubs are said to be cut out-of solid marble, and the fixtures imitate solid silver. The delicate perfumed water which some of the sprays emit were introduced by Roscoe Conkling. What wonder that the. Senators- come from the most distant parts of Washington to-be shaven and shorn and washed, or that a recent arrival -from- the West should have tried to introduce his wife to some of the privileges of this luxuri ous annex! What wonder that some of the Senators stay in Washington nearly the whole year round, enjoying these and other luxuries and necessa ries, which cost them nothing! In the House of Representatives the only clerks that the members have been able to use have been the com mittee clerks, and their services were from time far distant only available to the Chairman of committees. In the way of a burst of what the House con siders luxury, that body this year voted a clerk to each member, at pay not to exceed $100 a month. This is a scan daI-and an outrage, but the mischief of it is remedied by a provision. that each clerk mnst work, and that each one may be paid only as he works, upon sworn vouchers of the Congressmen. Over in the gold-plated Senate wing every patrician of the upper Hddse en joys a clerk at $1,200 a year, and these clerks get that money even: if they never come to Washington. Several of the Senators have had their sons ap pointed clerks, and, in some cases their wives, their sisters, their daughters, and whatsoever members of their fam ilies could be rung in to contribute pub lic money to the family pot. One of these salaried sons of a Sena tor is a student at Harvard, gn4 never comes to Washington except upon holidays. The sister of the wife of. an other Senator has one of the~se plums. 2SeatorPele:has had his son ap roirited'a doodde'eper. Ex-Senator Rea ga'n, of Texas. who--.-recently returned to the simplicity of a private life, car ried-his wife on his,private pay.noll at $6 a day. The Senators' aint to keep this pay roll secret iot it is wslknown that~ the bulk of the names uon -it are those of close relatives of the Senators. These great men manage their 'pay rola in such a way that each Chairman who has been for- a long-:while ;in. the -Senate keeps -anywhere 4rom:three -to four personal attendants on the roll. They are so recorded that it would be difficult for an outsider to tell who or what they are. Theyrmay be salaried as messengers, as doorkeepers, as labor ers. The list of Senatorial-relatives is known to be as long as the list of the Senators themselves. Senator Morgan, of Alabama, must realize the truth of what is here re ported, for when the Republicans were in control he- said on 'the floor of the Senate that things had got to that point where there was :so many em ployees that a Senator fell over them while making his way through the corridors. At about-- the same time Senator Plumb, also speaking on the Senate floor, and animadverting on the -extravagance of his fellows, said he could goto Kansas andget mento run the Senate post office for $600 a year, though the apostoffice then cost the nation the interest on a rich man's fortune, and yet there were so many clerks employed in it that they could scarcely get at .the boxes. The Senators have had their entire wing of. the Capitol wired to abet and enhance their luxurious comufort. The wires are electric, and enable the Sen ators to leave their bua-.ness whenever they choose, and to srynd their time entertai-ning their friends in their gol den committee room, or to read novels and smoke and drink in their private apartments. The wires are connected with hells and these notify the petted legislators of every-urgent demand for their oflicial servioe. These bells ring according to a code. One ring signi fies a-call for a-yea and nay vote. Two rings mean a call of the Senate. Three announce an executive session. -Four proclaim an adjournment, and five strokes of the hells give notice of an open session after an executive sesion. The madness of this straining for un republican luxury and dishonorable waste has been humored until to-day small for the greedy demands of the Senate. The Senate has absorbed all the rooms in its wing and encroached on every bit of space there, till it has crowded out or cramped the working clerks, though no Senator has allowed his committee room'or:his private par lor to be narrowed or trespassed upon. At last, the Senators have gone to the extreme of buying the celebrated Malt by building, a great brick pile, al most like one of our down-town office buildings. It stands just beyond the grounds north of the Capitol. The Senators paid $138,000 for the building every Senator has a private lounging room, a personal parlor equipped with servants. The enormous Capito!, never designed for such extravagant demands upon its space, I-as proved far too alone. It will illustrate the extent of their defiance of decency to make it known that there is not a committee room in that building. The whole of the great structure Is made up of pri vate rooms for the Senators. The mem bers of the minority all have such par lors now, though when the luxurious wedge was first inserted only the mem bers of the majority were so pampered. The Maltby building is managed like a great club house. It has its retinue of doorkeepers, messengers, and ser vants, its system of telephones and call bells, its elevator, and, in short, the equipment of a great social club. This disregard of republican sim plicity is seen not alone in great things. It extends to the very littlest things; for. instance, the Senators keep a car penter shop, and a part of its business is to make for each Senator what are calling packing boxes for moving their lares and penates from place to place. The theory is that those are pine wood crates, but the Senators have a way of going without pine boxes until they are credited with the cost of fine cedar ones, in which their wives after ward keep their lace and linen and defy the moths. And in the summer time, when the Senators go away, not a few of these great men have Senate attendants to take care of their houses, to air the rooms, to water the lawns, and to preserve and guard their property. In at least one case a Senator had the public servants bring the Senate wagons to cart his household goods to the Capitol and store them in its base ment. There are plenty of men about the Capitol who will swear that they have seen a dozen baby carriages in the storeroom at one time. The Senate keeps a stable and a lot of wagons. ostensibly for carrying the mails to the Senators' houses. Those Senators who stay in Washington all summer, when there.is no session, have their mail carried to their houses in these wagons, and the drivers do not fail to execute any other commissions which the Senators oask of them. In the winter, during the social season, visitors will often find the Senatorial attaches act ing as butlers, "bottons," ushers and in such other capacities as men are required for ia the Senators' houses at dinners, dances and receptions. In spite of the usurpation of all the room above ground and under ground, and-far out under the terraces that look so park-like and beautiful to an observer, the Senators have left their gaudily printed corridors and golder lobbies free and clear, to give an air of roominess to their surroundings. These little arcades of stone and marble and. gilt are among the celebrated sights of America. Over on the House of Representatives side of the Capitol all is hustle. and bustle. The rush and liaste sum thein selves up into a confusion like. that which one notices at the stock ex changes of the world's great cities. The very air is instinct with business. The Representatives rush about like men .who have not time enough for their work. The little pages, sharp and typical ehild.ren of the people, rush through the halls with the rapidity of kingbirds or of the mes sengers that brokers employ. One gets into a very different atmos phere who crosses . the building and enters the Senate wing. There never is any bustle there. No l'oys propel themselves like bullets through the slow-moving crowds. There is no con fusion. The spirit of every scene is one of calm repose and elegant leisure. Over in the House of Representatives the clerks and attaches are respectful to the members, but in the Senate no man caon stay a day without seeing that the employees almost prostrate them selves to the Senators. They bend and bow and kowtow to the great men like a lot of East Indian fan bearers in the presence of a rajah. Many Sena tors demand this, others are used to it, and all of them get it. The spirit of tbese employees is offensive to an American. It leads to such absured orders and such preposterous incidents as that which led to a refusal to allow The Sun correspondent to.enter a pub lic room because a Senator happened to be in there. Someting of this is due to the South ern Senators. They are probably never the leaders in wasteful extrava gance, hut they are the great sticklers for the deference to the strained no tions of official importance which they hold and cherish. No matter whether a Senator's shoes are shined, or his collar is clean, or his clothes are such as a man should wear in public, Senatorial dignity covers up all de ficiencies in their opinion. A Senator may even drink too much or harangue a crowd in a drinking saloon, but his rank excuses everything in the opin icn of those who resent any effort to modernize the old shell-grown hulk called Senatorial dignity. The South era Senators hna we11 nigh filled1 the important subordinate places with Southerners. Any one may tell them by their liquid brogue, their soft hats,' and by their incessant and exemplary politeness. One reason for their numbers is that since the Southerners have come to be the senior Democrats they dominate the situation. They have been here since they became of age, and it is the good custom of the South to keep its men here till they die. That is what makes the South so politically strong in Washington. Its representatives are old and experienced. Whoever enters the calm of the Sen ate side of the Capitol notices it at once. It is a sort of pro-silver doldrum just now. It the visitor is seeking a Senator, he is bidden to go to the so-called re ception room. This is flue enough to be part of a European capital. Its floor is a masterpiece of art, made of colored tiles. Its walls are frescoed like the night time belles of upper Broadway. Its ornate ceiling seems to have its pattern carved out of gold, and its panels bear beautiful paintings. Around the room are soft sofas of padded leath er, beautiful bronzes, costly clocks, screens of Japanese silk embroidered with gold. and, in short, a sum of magnificence fit to prepare a private citizen for a meeting with a Senator. Even, from this room no man or woman may send in his or her card until after 2 o'clock in the afternoon, because of a rock-ribbed old piece of folderol to the effect that Senators are busy until that hour. If the time is fit and the Sena tor is condescending, the visitor is sent into the marble room, and into that the Senator lounges like a prince. The marble room is a long saloon, all of marble and reac'- :ng from the Vice President's to the President's room.. Its length is artfully exaggerated by tower ing mirrors at either end. They multi ply the gold candelabra and the carved pillars Indefinitely. About the room are leather -sofas, thick rugs, bronzes, pieces of marble statuary, and all the rest that is needed to contribute to the assumed greatness of these political pillars. There have been so many rich Sena tors.within recent years that the public fancies that these men form a great rich men's club. This is not the case. A great many are poor. While there are men to whom a Senator's salary is a bagatelle, who have given their sal aries to their clerks, and who have spent one-fifth as much upon a single dinner, yet the body is still Democratic enough to contain men-who not only live upon their salaries, but save money out of them. These men live in a see ond-class boarding house, as President Harrison used to do when he was in the Senate. At least one of them lives within a thousand dollars a year, and one is known to have borrowed a bed room in his boarding house and rented it oat for a dollar a night during a festival that brought crowds to the capital. These are not the men of wealth who give gay dinner parties in the commit tee rooms, gathering beautiful women in the splendid chambers and calling upon the waiters who -stagger through the halls bearing champagne and ices. But no matter what the degree of poli tics of -most of these poor Fenators, they are punctilious In demanding re spect for their rank, and, though they may go about as shabbily clad as they please, .their wives reign as social queens, even in the humble boarding houses. Death of Judge Bond. Judge Hugh L. Bond of the United States Circuit Court.died in Baltimore on October 24th. His death was .due to heart failure. Judge Bond lived the early part of his life in New York, and graduated from the University of the City of New York in 1848. His father, the Rev. Thomas Emerson Bond, was then editor of the Christian Advocate, and was celebrated in medicine as well as newspa'per work. In 1860 Judge Bond was appointed Judge of the Criminal Court of Balti more, which office he held for eight years. President Grant, in 1870, ap pointed him United States Circuit Judge for the Fourth Judicial Circuit. He presided in the famous Ku Klux trials in the Carolinas, and decided the famous South Carolina Presidential Electoral Board case in 1876. At the time of his death Judge Bond was Chief Judge of the United States Cir cuit Court. WORK OF A MISCREANT. Attewnpt to Wreck a Cost Line Fast hail . Train. [Special to News and Courier.1 FLORENCE, October 27.--A success ful attempt was made to wreck train No 35, Coast Line fast mail, at~ Salem, on the Northeastern Road, at 4 o'clock this morning. The switch lock was broken off and the switch set for the ide track. The weather was very foggy and the engineer did not see till he turned into the switch. The train was running at full speed, about flifty eight miles an hour. The engine ran into two flat cars of lumber, which stripped off the to p of the engine. Engineer Joseph J. Jennings stuck to his post, and was bruised about the head and scalded on the leg. Fireman General Burnett, colored, was bruised about the body. A. Garfunkle, of 305 King Street, Charleston, a passenger, was slightly bruised on the head and body. No others were hurt. The coaches were badly damaged. Capt. John Gaillard was conductor. It was a diabolical attempt, and no clue has been discovered to the perpetrators. Engineer Jennings was brought to his house here, and is resting well at present. Trainmaster Lynch took a special train down to the wreck, transferred the passengers and sent them on aifter a short delay. The whole train went Into the side track, consequently the main line was not blocked. ARP STAYED AT BOME. He Did Not See the Great Columbian Ex position Because His Bank Account Was Smal. [Atlacta Constitution.1 It wasa great show, the greatest show on earth, I reckon. I wanted to go and. see it, but I didn't go. I tried to get in on the ground floor for myself and my wife, butI couldent, and as I dident have money enough for two I concluded to stay at home. That's loyalty-con jugal loyalty. Tnere was another rea son. I heard a man talking about an other man and he said: "Yes, dogon him, he can go to Chicago and take his wife, but he can't pay me that grocery bill he's been owing me for six months." I owe a few of these darn little just debts myself, and I dident want to be talked about, so it's all right. It's an awful time to be sending the money out of the country anyhow and getting nothing back but pleasure. It's well enough to celebrate Columbus and make a great display, but the times are unfortunate and the great United States Senate won't do anything but draw their pay, and everything is demora ized. I wish now we had let Mr. Columbus alone. "Lead us not into temptation," is a good prayer. If there had been no fair nobody would have wanted to go and our money would have been kept at home. Columbus wasent such a wonderful man no how. He dident mean to discover America, and he dident know he had discovered a new continent when he landed. He was on the make. He stole Indians and carried them away and sold them. History does not make him a great man nor a good man, but he was an enterprising navigator and was a suc cess, that's all. I would rather have been Galileo than Columbus. He dis covered a far bigger thing and did it on purpose. It was not an accident. He discovered the universe, the solar sys tem and declared it to mankind. My admiration for him is profound, and I wish the schoolboys and girls to read about him and think about him. It was just 300 years ago this month that he convinced himself that the sun did not go around the earth, but the earth went around the sun. What a stupen dous assertion for any man to make: Just think of it! For thousands of years everybo'dy had seen the sun to rise and set and rise again every twenty-four hours, and nobody doubted or suspected but what it went around the earth and that the earth was stationary. It does look that way, doesent it? No wonder everybody believed it. Joshua iselieved It when he commanded the sun to stand still on Gideon. Solomon believed it, and so did all the astronomers of Egypt and of Greece and Rome. So did Shakespeare and Bacon and the wise men of England. How could any man dare to say that the earth iwent around the sun, making a circuit of 200,000,000 miles in-a year and get back to the same identical spot from whence it started? Columbus dident do any thing or know anything to be compared to it. Galileo upset and destroyed the theory of ages and he challenged tbe astronomers and the mathematicians of the world to listen to him and to come and examine his proofs. That was only 300 years ago. Just think how long the world had slept in utter igno rance of the grandest thing the human mind can contemplate--the solar sys tem. We ought to have celebrated Gali leo in some way this very year. Colum bus discovered a continent, but didn't~ know it. Galileo discovered a universe and did know it. Copernicus had in a timid way declared the same solar sys tem some fifty years before, but he died without converts, and his theory died with him. Even Galileo kept it a se cret for seven years. He was afraid of the pope, and atfter he did announce it lhe was put in prison and kept in a dungeon until his health broke down and his wife did like Job's wife. She begged him to recant and say he had lied and.he did it. It was a memorable sight, the scene of that recantation. The great philosopher down on his knees before the pope and in the pre sence of cardinals and priests and learned men, swearing with uplifted hands that tihe earth did not go around the sun, but the sun went around the earth every day. But as he rose up and retired from the pope's presence he whispered to a friend, "I have recanted and abjured only to save my life. The earth does revolve on its axis and around the sun." Then for seven years he had to go before the priest three times a week and recite the seven penitential psalms as an atonement for his heresy. The pope and the priest hood declared his new theory to be heresy because it contradicted the Bible. Galileo bad made him a telescope, the first one ever made. He made the tube out of an old organ pipe and got a spectacle maker togrind him a concave glass for one end and a convex glass for the other,.and then to his surprise and delight he saw stars, more stars, new stars. .He improved the telescope until it magnified thirty times and he saw the moons of Jupiter. When he announced his discoveries, wise men said he was a crank, a fanatic, a fool. They said that any star or planet that could not be seen with the naked eye was not intended to be seen and it was sacrilige to pry into the mysteries of God. They said there couldn't be but seven planets for there were but seven days in the week and seven metals and seven holes in a man's head. They kept that poor man under watch and persecuted him to such an extent that he lost his sight and when John Milton came to visit him there were two blind men together conver sing earnestly and scretly ahnnu. the universe, the solar system and the wonderful works of the creator. There was a scene for a painter Milton and Galileo-each soaring in realms of thought far above the concep tion of mankind ani comforting each other in their afflictions. But in his last days Galileo triumphed over all his ene mies and established his wonderful dis coveries. He lived to reap some re wards and although blind and deaf, he was visited by the most noted men of the civilized world. Just think what martyrdom the truth has to suffer be fore it is established. "And the kingsaid unto his servants, What honor and dignity bath been done unto Mordecai for this? And they said, Nothing has been done." That is the way of the world still. The benefactors of mankind are soon forgotten. Morse and Cyrus Field and Maury and Crawford Long and Elias Howe are passing out of mind and men tion. The great heroes of war, the men of blood, get fame and a name, but those men who have done most for mankind in the arts of peace get but a small record in the annals of history. Let our boys and girls read more bio graphy of the great and good men who have passed away. It is as interesting as a romance. It beats baseball and bicycles. I asked a young lady not long ago who composed that beautiful music she was playing and she said "Beethoven." "Who was he," aaid I. "V hat nationality?': I was sorry that I asked the question, for she didn't know. The children should be encour aged to read about somebody every day or night. Fill the mind with useful knowledge and it will be a comfort when old age comes. BILL ARP. METROPOLITAN POLICE. Governor Tillman Gives His Ideas on the Proposed New System-Charleston Es pecially Aimed At. [Special to Atlanta Constitution.] COLUMBIA, S. C., October 26.-The opposition of the of icials and people of the cities nad towns in this State to the dispensary law and their lukewarm ness in enforcing its provisions, even when violations are known to them and to everybody else, has led Governor Tillman to determine to try and take the police appointing power out of the hands of the municipalities and place it in the hands of the State authorities. His scheme has been widely discussed in the State for some time, and is meet ing with violent opposition on the part of citizens of the towns. It cannot be denied that in the country the dispen sary has the support of the g-eater part of the population. The Governor's position is that where the local authorities not only decline to enforce the law, but permit and even encourage the violation, then it be comes necessary to have officials who will enforce the law and over whom State will have control. He says he would prefer the cities and towns en forcing the law and maintaining peace and order if they would, without State interference. He believes that they have not done that, and that in Charleston the people are apparently in rebellion against the State authorities in connection with the dispensary law. He says that he at one time asked Mayor Ficken, of Char leston, to have the chief of police en force the- law, which he claims the chief could have done more efficiently than the State constables. The mayor refused to comply' with the re quest. Governor Tillmnan claims that practically the same thing occurred in Sumter and other cities of the State. As the dispensary system depends for its succes solely upon its being a monopoly, Governor Tillman is deter mined to do everything in his power.to have the law strictly enforced. His plan is to have the police ap pointed by a commission to be chosen by himself or by the legislature. This commission shall be instructed with the appointment of the police, and the police shall be am.enable to the com mission for the proper performance of all their duties~ whether in connee tioni with the dispensary law or not. Under the commis-sion it is to be so that these policemen can be removed at any time for refusal to.' do their duty or for neglect or inefficiency. The police so appointed are to be treated and paid by the city just'the same is if they were appointed by the city councils. The above is a general outline of the Governor's ideas on the subject, but the details of the plan must be ar ranged by the legislature. Many people in South Carolina look upon the scheme with alarm, and view it as an evidence of further encroach ment upon their liberties. It is a notable fact that some of the Tillman papers are as much opposed to the plan as the conservative journals are. Neverthless, Governor Tiliman, in an interview to-day reiterated his belief, in the system, and there can be little doubt that he will exert his vast in fiuene:e with the legislature in having the bill passed. A hard fight will be made against it, but with what result cannot be foretold, for the Governor bas a large majority of the members with him. e Are You Nervous, Are you all tired out, do you have that tired feeling or sick headache? You ean be relieved of all these symptoms by taking Hood's Sarsaparilla, which gives nerve, mental and bodily strength and thoroughly purifies the blood. It also creates a good appetite, cures indi gestion, heartburn and dyspepsia. HOOD's PILLs are easy to take, easy in action and sure in efl'ect. 2.5 cents a bon. FORTUNES MADE AT THE FAIR. Enormous Fortunes Realized by the Con cessionaires. CHICAGO, October 23.-With only one full week left of the official Expo sition season a close estimate can be given of the profits made by the hun dreds of concessionaires in Jackson Park and Midway. Chief Clerk Black man, of the administrations and col lections department, figures that the profits of the concessionaires will ag gregate $4,000,000 after deducting the percentage to the Exposition. This represents about 20 per cent. of the gross receipts. Most of the concession aires have made money after paying from 25 tc 50 per cent. into the Expo sition treasury. The Ferris Wheel Company will pay a profit of $260,000, after deducting $300,000 for cost and 50 per cent. -:f the receipts paid to the 1<air after that amount was taken-in. When the Dockery Congressional committee was in Chicago investigat ing the finances of the Exposition and its estimates of revenue while the $5."00,000 loan bill was before Congress, as little as $1,000,000 was estimated as the income from concessions. Big res taurants in the park, particularly those of the Wellington Catering Company, have found-their concessions the most profitable. The electric launch, soda water, popcorn and souvenir conces sions come next on the profit side of the ledger. But the men who will have the World's Fair with fortunes in their pockets areCol.Cody and bis colleagues, who were told by President Higin botham when they opened negotia tions to put the Wild West Show on the grounds that it was not refined enough. They leased -a big tract of land just outside the Fair gates and reaped a golden harvest. 20,00,000 HALF DOLLARS. CHICAGO, October, 24.-The 20,000, 000 mark of paid admissions to the Fair was reached and passed to-day. The first wedding in the Ferris wheel was celebrated in the top car to.day at noon. The bride is Miss Lottie Zickler and the groom James D. Hutchinson, both of Waukegan, Ill. The Rev. 'E. E. Hartley, pastor of the Waukegan Christian church, performed the cere mony. There were eight in the wed ding party. The Ferris wheel will not be moved to Coney Island or elsewhere. It will remain in the Midway Plaisance. This conclusion has been reached by the ex ecutive officers of the company who have the right to its present position until May 1. 1894, and there it will re main. Before the expiration of that time arrangements will probably be made for a contract between the Park Commissioners and the company for the right to.the position. MA Y OF T ESHoWS OF MIDWAY WILL KEEP OPEN AFTER THE FAIR CLoSs. [From the New York Sun.] CHICAGO, October 24.-The Midway will be a lively place after the Fair is over. It has been said many times that the foreigners are anxious to leave the International street and that they would return to their homes as soon as possible after the close of the Fair. Good business and much money, how ever, have mnduced. many of them to decide to remain after the close of the Exposition season. For at least four weeks after the close the street will have plenty of amusements an d will probably be a popular place. Hagenbeck's show is to remain. It has dates for December, but it will continue performances until November 16, and if business warrants it will remain until the 1st of the fol lowing month. If the weather keeps pleasant Cairo street will be open until November 15. It will remain open after the 1st, but will be likely to close at any time. The Java village may remain open. The directors have not yet decided. The Irish villages will combine their busi ness. The managers of Blarney Castle have leased a store down-town, and until it is opened they will continue to be a part of the Miidway. The Beauty Show will keep it beauties on exhibi tion until November 15, and perhaps longer. Old Vienna and the German village are to close on Monday. The decision was reached some time ago, when the musical organizations in both places made dates for November. The band in the former place will close its en gagement on next Tuesday and open immediately in Madison Square Garden, New York. The bands in the German village have engagements that will make their last day in the village next Monday. Manager Levy will close the Turkish village then. A Due West Residence Burned. [Speceial to The State.] 1)CE WEST, S. (C. Oct, 26.-Last night at 12 o'clock the large two story residence of Dr. J. 0. Lindsay, an emi nent divine of the Presbyterian church, was consumed by fire. The burning originated in the ceiling of the second story, and was beyond control of human agencies before discovered. Mr. WV. P. Lindsay who occupied a room on the second floor made a narrow escape. Some of the furniture was saved, but badly damaged. No insurance was carried. Miss Daisy Garland Emls Herself. WASnGTcON, October 27.-Miss Daisy Garland, daughter of Ex-United States Attorney General Garland, com mitted suicide at her home in this city by shooting herself this morning. She was 34 years old and was thought to have been insane at the time, IRBY ON HIS METTLE. He Has Some Hot Words With Senator Harris of Tennesee About the Late Compromise of Sliver Repeal. [From the New York Sun.] WASHINGTON, October 25.-There is one other Senator who did not sign the compromise agreement,who takesgreat satisfaction. in :the present situation. This is Senator Irby of South Carolinr, who would not sign because he thought the compromise much less acceptable to his people than :unconditional ie peal. It is now a matter of specula tion among the Senators whether Mr. Irby will not stand in a much better light with the President of the United States than Senator Butler. Mr. Irby, in his silver speech, de nounced the President officially and personally and slandered him in every way possible withont violating parlia mentary decorum. He -refused to go into the compromise, however, and held out for free silver coinage. Mr. Butler, on the other han~d,in his speeceb, handled the President with soft gloves, - - and joined the compromise movement because he is a candidate for re-elec tion and bidding for Populist support. The attitude of the South Carolina Senators toward the Administration cause in the Senate becomes unusually interesting from the fact that the Fed eral patronage of South Carolina has not yet been distributed, and it re mains to be seen now whether Butler, the compromiser, or Irby, the straight out opponent of repeal, will receive the Presidential favor. Senators who have been close observ ers of all that has taken place in the cloak rooms and committee rooms of the Senate during the long fighton the silver question feel relieved that the. strain is over, for more reasons than one. The Democrats breathe more freely, because they feel that they have narrowly escaped a serious split in the party that would have.: handicapped them for several years to come, and some of them are pleased for another, reason. This is that the personal relations be tween Senators have become so strain ed of late that it has been feared that personal altercations would have fol lowed a continuance of the long fight. The very bitter speeches that have been made from time to time on the floor of the Senate are mild in com parison with some of the things said to each other by Senators in the priva cy of the cloak rooms, and it has been only by the most tactful diplomacy, that serious rows have been avoided. -. There was much indignation in the Senate last week when Senator Morgan of Alabama made his insulting and en tirely uncalled for attack upon Senator Washburn, and his ungentlemanly and unsenatorial behavior toward Sen. ator Hill also'gave rise to much just complaint. Senators, however, are protected .for what they say in debate j on the floor, but in the committee'( room altercations each man is respon sible for what he says. One of the numerous bursts of,iill feeling occurred -yesterday afternoon just after the compromise was declared off. Senator Harris, the President pro tem. of the Senate, who had just been declaring it to be his intention to fili buster until the last horn blew, took Senator Irby to task for declining to sign the compronulse./ The Tennessee Senator proceeded to read Mr. Irby and the others who pro tested against the compromise out of the party and to announce that he would never more recognize them as Democrats. 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