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ttABImE 1t err A ESTABLISH ED 1865. __NEWBERR Y, S. &., TUESL)AY, JANUARY 28, 19i02. TWICE A WEEK.81.5OAYR THE SOLONS IN SESSION Tom WORK OFrTHE LAW M4KERS OF TB*C STATE AMSEUBLED IN VO ,UEBIA. ACadowd .rport of the Proceedings -rken jrm the DIly Papmrs From Day to Day as the Work Proceedi. January 23.-By vote of 66 to 46 tiwhoiuse today passed the McGowan redatrioting bill, after making several &haiges. As the bill now stands, thefollowing compose the districts: gtirst-Charleston, Berkely, Coll eto;, Dorchester. "od-Aiken, Bamberg, Barn , Beaufort, Edgefield, Hampton, a. Ihird-Pickens, Oconee, Ander Abbeville, Greenwood, New berry. gorh-Laurens, Spartanburg, Gr4n*dle, Union. fth-Cherokee, Chester, York, -afdteld, Kershaw, Chesterfield, fiUth-Marlboro, Marion, Horry, Daington, Florence, Williamsburg, G gown. Seveth-Richland, Lexington, -&mter, Orangeburg, Clarendon. When the house convened this morning, the Augusta trip was again I$ np by several members. A -as taken and the house re ailn1M its action of yesterday. Several minor bills were introdneed -i4eregular order of business, and the redistricting matter then came up, aers. Smith, Tatum and oth eras iclo s,ellent speeches, and Weston and Cosgrove en gaged in little pleasantries which Ad the incident of to day. zMr. Ereeman presented his bill as as'si,hitute for~the McGowan bill mi moved to postone action indefin itMly. The motion was lost. r Weston stated that he accepted 1the eovaq bill, with one or two Mr. fird wanted Lexington in the with Richland. This was pdjppand a vote taken. 4'e seane -spent abQut an hour ~&half this morning discussing C~i~etoAppelt introduced another ..regulate the trafic in cotton SRIrDAY'S SESSION. January 24.-On account of the absence of several members, many bills that were on the house calender were passed over. The senate bill, introduced by '~en ator Nayfield, to regulate the traffic U LOtton seed, was rccounimitted. The Tatum bill, to require horse tradersto secure a .license in the Stowns through which they pass, was lBosd; after considerable discnssion. The b>ill t,o authorize Pickens ~iy to borrow money from the a akig fund passed its second read - ifg. The Kibler bi, to make fowls amaennhla to the stock law, caused eo wdeale amusement and brought forth speeches by Ashley and others. 'he bill passed. The house then took up Mr. Mc Giigan,s bill, to increase the penalty ofi4aborers who violate their written or verbal contracts after having re eived supplies. Mr, Ashley,s usual plea for the poor farmer killed the bilL. 1fhe bill providing for the appoint meat of a committee to arrange for for the free transportation of Con federate veterans to the Charleston Exposition was passed over for the Memorial exercises were held in honor of E. B. Ragsdale, of Fairfield, J. B. Bates, of Bsrnwell, and G. J. Redfern,-of Chesterfield, at which appropriate eulogies were delivered. The house then adjourned. -The senate met today, but hardly anything was done. LiAntenant G*ov ernor Tillman had gone to Augusta, sn4l Senator Shepherd, of Edgefield, preiided. The Schley resolution, introduced in the house, was agreed to without -discussion. A favorable report was made on the bill pr ohibiting the shooting of live pigreons in this state, but the bill was passed over for the present, as were nearly all the bills on the cal dar. The benate later mEt with the house and listened to the memorial exer cises. A night session was held, but noth ing of importance was done. The Senate then adjourned until Mon day night. WHIvE HOUSE METHODS. Roosvelt's Bre-zy Ways Continue to Interest ilis Callers. A Washington dispatch to the New ' York Evening Post says: President i Roosevelt continues to interest all his t visitors by the breezy frankness with C which he discusses everything that C comes up. A New England Congress- C man thus describes a recent call at s the White House: "I wanted to see the President C about an important postoffice in my 1 district, I had not bothered him r much up to that time; so I tele- c phoned Mr. Cortelyou, and received t an appointment. I was ushered r into the President's reception room. r Many other people were there; we 'v could hear the President talking r with some one in the Cabinet room, b and, while it would have been im- I possible to follow the conversation, j the tones were strong enough to indi. t cate a vigorous discussion. Pretty t soon the door from the Cabinet room S opened and in came the President. I "I am not going to see any of these t people except Sentor Bard-not any s of them-I am too busy; I can not l1 do it,' said the President to Cortel- F you with considerable emphasis. I Suiting the action to the word, he t took Senator Bard over into the win- v dow and had a considerable talk with 0 him. Mr. Cortelyon beckoned for a me to stay, and the President, as soon 8 as he was through with Mr. Bard, r came over and sat on the sofa beside 3 me. When I mentioned my post- r office, he told me to go down to the t department and fix the matter up c with the Postmaster General, with ii the air of one who was tired about f earing of postoflices. As I got up I to go he looked over to two young 1l men who were still waiting. 'You I are from Alabama, aren't you?' he a asked, and before they had time to r answer, he added: 'You want So and- 8 So appointed ?' The young men re plied that they did, but before they 0 ould explain why, the President bJ told them that he was sick of hearing r of their patronage squabble. 'You V say the other candidate for this office t ught to be in jail, don't you?' Le g went on. 'Yes sir; he ought to be t there,' was the reply- 'Well now,' i said the President, 'his friends assure me that your man ought to be in jail. U I assume that you are both right. I t wish you would go to the Attorney V General and put in writing tLe ~ reasons you have for believing that E the other candidate should be sent to I the penitentiary, and I will have a I similar statement made up in regard S to your candidate, then we'll let the S Attorney General look them both over e and decide what is to be done. Per haps, if you know anything good t about the man you are backing, you s had better put that in writing, too, e and give it to the Attorney General.' t That was all I stayed to hear, buti it struck me as characteristic. t A &IORRIBLE FATE. An Old Confederat.e 8oiler Horned to Death to the Gunard House at Wal baila Where~ he Had Keen Placed for Drinking. [Special to the Greenville News.] WValhalla, S. C. Jan. 21.-Alfred L. Ballew, a Confederate soldier, age 63, met a horrible fate last night by being burned to death in the guard1 house. Late in the afternoon he was locked up and at 11 o'clock the guard house was discovered to be on fire. Help came too late and only the charred form was taken from the debris. It is believed that he set fire to the cell, as the first rescners -found the building burning and the strongest wind blowing, and the coroner's jury so rendered its ver dict. Mr. Bellew came here from Greenville county. He was drink ing when put up. The town buried the remains to ay in West View emetery. SKFTr HtS OF AiMY LIF. SO 11terest:nig Incid.11tS of !he CM i 'V I. Ice - L lated by '-X Con. Fed," A 3lembl -r tofn 'fh!rd S. C. Reginenit. From the East to the West. Dur- tll og the last days of August or first al lays of September, 186-3, Hood's mt ud McClellan's divisions of Long u e5Cc treet's corps were transferred fruu ha irginia to Georgia. The 3d S. C. egiwent was placed on th cars at ar< tichmond for Petersburg. I was an rdered by Col. Nneo to get a guard f two men and keep the rear car 1 acant, except Gen. Law and staff i vere to have a few seats. Before i e train started, as Geu. Law went n another train, I let one half of the ar fill up with our boN s. Some Ia ies also went in ou car. The Sur- Tb Peon of the 7th regiment insisted on th Poing in our car. I told him he ould not go. He insisted I slould At him talk with Col Nance. This I al efused to do. He threatened to run ver me. I had my guard to bring heir bayonets to his breast and be etreated. At Petersburg I came ear getting s'riously hurt.. When re left the train I had forgotten my sa ationL. I went back to get. them ser nd the train started rapidly towards lie ichmond. I took a flying leap and He ot badly bunged up, but bad no Re ones broken. We took another Iat. rain for Wilmington. Here we cor pent several hours. I saw the two irge cannon that had jast come Ke rough the blockade and were all hipped to Charleston. They were to nown as cien. Ribley's pocket qu ieces. They were the largest can Ke on I had ever seen. Lying flat on a c le ground they reached above my olli raist. We left Wilmington about thr ne o'clock p. m. We certainly had in slow train. We ran that evening oat nd night and the next day and ar- dy ived at Sumter just before sun set. mil 'he good people of sumter gave us a )yal welcome. The whole town bi irned out and gave us a magnifi- sat mt supper, and we had a nice time ~deed. I rode on top of the cars om Petersburg to Georgia. In fact net slept at night on the cars. W~e t Sumter in the night and reached Cu ingsville after sun up the next orning. We waited a while for ~tions to be sent us from Columbia, "y< d as none came we took the cars me r Augusta via Branchville. News 1 our coming had reached Orange. Re rg and the people rushed to the dis ilroad with baskets of rations. I as on top of t.he car, and as the i rain slowed up to stop I started to -rre et down.the side of the car, when Li engine started the train off rap. - Ily, and the people tried to throw tre askets of rations on the train. A We uile or two below Orangebuirg the to1 rain was stopped and the engine the 'as surrounded by angry soldiers ret d it was by hard begging that the the gineer got off with whole bones. wvil ut he promised not to pass another rat lace without stopping. We got >mething to eat at nearly every sut tation, and at Blackvtlle we got a olli uare meal. dl Col. Nance issued orders for~ the b)W~ rain to pass through Aiken without :of topping, and of course we let the ugineer off as he had orders to run ab brough. We passed the night ini eh Lugusta and in-the morning took the tic rain for Atlanta. Before leaving Nil Lugusta we went to the engineer and a I .sked him if he would stop the train. OU le said he was a soldier detailed to or n the train, so we knew we were as i right. We got somiethmOg to eat f t all the stations, but at the 72( mrile (tn tation we were treated to as line a Wi inner as a soldier ever got. A few iles above there wats aniother gran tpread. The tram was being slowed ip when (Col. Nance waived f.)r th be rain to go ahead. As we hadl played sweep stake game ont the rationts, L nd as our train was being followed y the Mississippi hoy s. Coul. Nance bhougt it right to let them have a linner. We were fed at Uniion Point.T e reaebed Covington int the ntight nd most of t he b)oy s were aLSlelp. ['his scribe and tw th Alers of (our st 2ompany droppedl off to see if there s~ ere any rations around. A !ady TI nd soldier came along and the lady aid, "let's feed the Rieb,s. Shie -tante tiol the basket. but the .a Aier told her to give the basket to e of the bos awl she handed it to '. I took som of the rations and d the haske(t out to the other boys; Sa N was mib for the basket I it was soon emnllpty. The lady yf)yedl tiw elarge on t be basket very icli. The depot and square around nyers was filled with people; they 1 plenty of baskets too, but were king for the regiment raised mud C,iiyern and we (lid not get ything to eat, but we did a lot of ying and had lots of fun. We [1ired what (,Urgia Iegiment was sed around the next town. We iSed tle next town but did not p. There were hundreds of peo around the depot. We shouted e goes the - Georgia regiment. e people were wild, and did every ng they could to stop the train. We ived at At'anta about midnight I took up eamp. X Con. Fed. THE RAVV OF THE HOISE e-r or s( i i Caraiiina, Taken ?r.;r ska In ter!oping Vqmnn: F-Ilow. 'hie baby member of the House, s the Washington Post, is Repre Uative Lever of South Carolina. is only 27 years old, and looks 20. was private secretary of the late presentative Stokes, and when the er died was voted by a grateful stituency into the vacant seat. J.ery day at 11 :IA o'clock Ber nedy. assistant doorkeeper, warns persons not entitled to the floor vacate, "the rules of the house re ring the same." For three days nnedy saw a small boy sitting at esk and cooly disregarding the ial snmmons to retire. He ew his piping, penetrating voice Ale direction of the lad, but with effect. Oa the third day Kenne told his tronles to Amos Cum i,Ls. 'If that boy don't get out of here ore 12 o'cloek.1'Il throw him out," i Kennedy. 'W hat boy ?" a'.ked Cummings. -itting ov'er there," rep.lied Ken l', point ing-in Lever's direction. 'I wouldn't thow himt out," said momrings. 'Why not ?" inquired Kennedy. 'Because," remarked Cummnings, m might lose your job. He is a mber of the House." kennedy (ddn't say a word, and presentative Lever remaiined un turbed. ENMl IRK sELLs ISL:ANDs TO Us. sty for Purchase Slied in Washington. Kas: ington, January 24.-The stty of the session of the Danish st Indie Islands from Denmark he United States was signed at St ae D)epartmujent today by Sec ary Hay and Constantine B3run, Dauish moniter. The treaty 1 be submitted to the Senate for ificat ion immediately. ollowiug the invariable rule in h eaises, the State D)epartmnent eials declius.- to matke public any ails of the treaty. The price is eved to be in r he neighborhood &9, 00,(000h. [t is known also that D)enmark ~indoned the position, she was in an~d t o occupy)) towardI the conserva n of the pol it ical rights of the sd and leaves thbe United States 'ree hand to deal with them, with a pledge of American citizenship of free trade pirivileges. So it is mmed the status of the Danish st Indai(s, political ly anrd commer .liy, shouhi oihe treaty bre ratified, be similar to that of P'orto) Ilico. y ori 5(o ago,( while Senator Tillman Is busy ai, hiis dek-, Senator Mc oin rncaime uver to~ him an md exten d his ha~ndi. Senator Tillman uv. ed no hi5meyW about accepting and, in fact, gav it a hearty grasp. w' he asked the Senator to be oted, andt the inivitat ion being ac d,he soars 1* ol' with a fnuny r. I re.wai t ly the fr-es of bo0th Gor wvere beaming with smiles. iev satt and ehiatrtd for quite a uIle, Lot hi appT).arantly in the b)est of uinor. Init ,'t one- Tlf urin. of Missis THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM CANNOl' BE PROMULGATED RY A CAU CUs OF CONGRESSMEN. Short but spirited Conteit, at a Cauacti of One Hundred and Thirty nine Leading J)nocratm iI Wa,4hing;ori-The M jt)rity Headed by the House I. aI er, Richardson, Declare that they "HavA no Power or Authority to Promuul gate a Platforin of P1 inciples for on Party. Washington, January 24.--The Democratic members of the House of Representatives met in.caucus in the hall of the House at 8 o'clock this evening, and, after a short, but spir ited contest, adopted resolutions de claring that they were without power to promulgate a platform of princi ples for the party, owing to the bind ing character of the party platform heretofore regularly made at a na tional convention. The caucus was the ontgrowth of animated discussion among Demo cratic m embers ever since the pres. ent session of Congress began, the chief issue being as to the extent to which the Kansas city platform should be reaffirmed or should be superseded by a new declaration of policy. The plan of an entirely new declaratiom took form early in the session in resolutions by Representa tive McClellan, of New York, setting forth numerous planks, but omitting the financial declarations of the Kan sas City platform. Mr. Fitzgerald, of New York, also proposed a reso lution, declaring against interfercnce with the present standard of values. On the other band, Representative Ball, of Texas, proposed a specific reaffirmation of the Kansas City plat form. These and several other reso lutions of policy were referred to a special committee of twelve leading Democratic - members, headed by Representative Richardson, of Ten nessee, the Democratic floor leader. It was to receive the report of this committee that the cancs of tonight was held. The interest taken wras shown in the large attendance, 1839 Democrats out of the total of 153 being present. Representative Hay, of Virginia, oc upied the chair ..nd b~y his rulings edeavore-d to allay the friction which has occurred at times during the discussions. Mr Richardson pre. seted the majority report, concurred in by all of the membeas of the spe ial committee, except Mr. Henry. It recited the work of the committee and closed with the following recom mendation: "We are of opinion that as the re presentatives of our various consti tuencies, and as members of the cau cs, made up of such representatives, we have no power or authority to construct or promulgate a platform of principles for our party; that we cannot increase or minimize the bind ing effect of platforms of the party heretofore regularly made, and adopted by the people in convention assembled for that purpose. "That in the House, of which we are members, we should vigorously and aggressively battle for Demo cratic principles and wit h equial vigor and aggressiveness we should oppose everything contrary, in substance or method, to those principles and should meet each quest ion as it arises with a full conference and a solid and undivided front." The minority report or Mr. Henry, of Texas, proposed the following de claratiou in place of the McClellan and Fit zgerald resolut ions, heretofore referred to. "It is not within the province of a Democratic caucus to promulgate or reverse a Democratic platform, but it is the duty of every Democratic Representative to adhere to the Na tional Democratic platform until the succeeding convention adlopts an other platform." Mr. Henry also proposed that the caucus action should govern every representative when the same ac crded with the declaration of the last national platform. The vote was taken first on Mr. Henry's minority propersitions, and they were defeated by a vote of 17 to 92. The majority declaration was then adopted without dissent. Bore. the vote was taken several short speeches were made on the two propositions. The debate lasted less T, than an hour. The Fitzgerald, McClellan and other resolutions were laid on the ta ble, thus leaving the majority declar ation as the unanimons sense of the m Democratic members of the House. he The cancus also adopted the fol lowing: in " Rosolved, That the Territories of D Arizona, Oklahoma and New Mexico D are entitled to Statehood, ar.d should ba admitted to the Union on equal P6 footing with the balance of the States, is and we pledge the support of the al Democrats in the House of Repre sontatives, to such a bill." th RFSTUICTING ANIRCHY. at Ti Death Penalty for an Attenpt to Kill the Presdent. fro Washington, Jan. 23.-The details m of the bill restricting anarchy and anarchists was practically determined N upou today by the special committee be of members of the house judiciary of committee, appointed to consider this ra subject. The measure will provide the death penalty for an attempt to kill or assault the president or any one in line for succession for the h sa presidency. Any person who eoun- s sls, advises or advocates the assault- of ing or killing .of any officer of the m United States shall be fined or im al prisoned. No alien who advocates al an overthrow of organized govern- a ment or who is affilliated with an tb organization holding such views is to ot be admitted to this country. Pro. m vision also is made for the punish- cl ment of those conspiring in this th contry against a foreign ruler. at bt A MILL FAILURE. M R ,cilver App Ontad for the Gaffney Carpet Conpany. [Special to News and Courier.] Union, January 23--The Gaffney Carpet. Company, owing to financial embarrassment, is now in the hands of a receiver. The mill has not stop. ol ped work and will continue operations pr withb no cessation. Mr. H. D. Wheat, th president of the Gaffney Mianufactur- a[ ing Company, well known as one of ta the ablest mill men of the State, has oc been appointed receiver, and will at si once rec.rganize the company. pi Definate details of the condition of tb the mill's affairs could not be obtained. C It is learned on good authority that fe the company will be speedily reorga- je ~nized, and Ahat the shareholder's 01 losses are very slight. J. E. N. a! st A WEEKLATER. O "Soth (Carolina Day" in Likely to ha Feb- al ruary 4. T [The State, 24th.] ai For several reasons it is claimed it a will suit the management of the Char leston exposition to have South Caro lina (lay on F.ebruary 8th instead ofA February 1st, as announced hereto a~ fore. Tde authorities have comimun- p icated with the governor on the sub- ti ject and doubtless the change will be st made. It is expected that all the members of the general assembly will go to Charleston on that day on T a special train. The arrangements for the trip are already in hand and it is proposed to make South Caro- p lina day one of the- biggest of the S exposition. I 'ULiED OU HFt E AND DIED. f Voan Interpete~c scriptural Iijanctionl With Fatal Effect. Nashville, Tenn., Jan. 23. --Mrs. B3enla Abbey, the wife of a young b merchant near Sparta, Tenn., is dead as a result of pulling out one of her ti eyes in a fanatical and literal inter- c< pretation of the scriptural injunction n which says: "If thine eye offends, o pluck it out andl cast it from thee, for g it is better to go into Heaven having c only one~ eye than to suffer the tor- b ments of the hell fire." She became much excited over religion last autumn and since that 3 time, it is said, she has been noted for b her strange vageries. r Exposition Bi11 Signed.s t Washington, January 22.-The ' President has signed the bill appro-( priating .$90,O00 to meet the expenses ~ of the Giovernment exhibit at the Chrlestn Exposition. SAFE BLOWERS Ar WORK. e P,otvfiee Robbed at DonaldS and Due west. [Special to The State.] Greenwood, Jan. 23.-A telephone assage from Donald's was received re this morning reporting the very ccessful operations of safe blowers the towns of Donalds and Due est. In Donalds the safe of W. R. inn was cracked and $195 and some me money belonging to private ,rsons, the exact amount of which not known. The postoffice at Don is was next visited where the rob rs secured $196. From Donalds ey went to Due West, four miles rough the country. The postoffice this place yielded good returns. iey got $634 90. They next visited e stable of D. H. Winn and took >m him a new buggy and a. brown are about 7 years old and made iod their escape in this turnout. > further trace of the robbers has en found. It is stated that tools the section master on the Southern ilway were secured for their work. ANOTHER ACCOUNT. Due West, Jan. 23.-1 he postoffice re was broken into last night, the fe cracked and money and stamps unknown amounts taken. The iil wasleft undisturbed. At Don Is Mr. Robert Dann's store and safe io the postoffice were visited with like fate, Mr. Dann losing more an one hundred dollars, while the er amounts have not been deter ined. There is not the slightest ie for placing the theft, but it is ought that the same parties were work in both places. Also the top ggy and bay mare belonging to r. Dan Winn at Donalds are mis g. SPENDING PUBLIt; FUNDS. Appropriation of $500,000 to be Ex pended at Manila. Washington, Jan. 22.-Some of the 1 partisan fire was injected into the oceedings of the house today when e item in the urgent deiiciency bill propriating $500,000, for a miii ry post at Manila, which the Dem rats have been using as a text for eeches in opposition to the Philip ne policy of the administration for e last three days was reached. Mr. mnon, in charge of the bill, con ssed that appropriation was sub t to a point of order and it went it. In lieu thereof he offered an aendment to appropriate the same .m for the "shelter and protection' the officers and enlisted men of.the my doing duty in the Philippines. bis the chair held to be in ,order, id it at once became the subject of very spirited debate in which Mr. ichardson, the minority leader, Mr. tilliams, of Mississippi, and Mr. De rmond, of Missouri, were pitted ~ainst the chairman of the appro iation committee. The vote on e adoption of the amendment ood, ayes 127, nays 100. JOHNNY AND ANsE. e Two 8enatora McLaurin Are Often Confused in Public Mind. It is funny, says the Washington ost, ow the t wo McLaurins in the anate get mixed up. One comes om South Carolina and the other 'om Mississippi. At the White :ouse the other night McLaurin of [ississippi, was given the hat of the .her McLaurin, who had to go home ithout any covering for his curly The two Senators do not look in e least alike, but their pictures are mstantly being transposed in the ewspaper offices. When McLaurin ! South Carolina delivers a speech ill of dlevotion to Republican prin ples, McLaurin of Mississippi sees is own picture as an accompaniment, inch to his annoy ance. Sometimes e shoe is on the other foot, as when [cLaurin of South Carolina found imself portrayed as one of the di ctors of the State prison in Missis ippi on the occasion of some recent rouble there. There seems to be no ray to avoid this mixing up of the wo Senators, except when the roll f the Senate is being called, and hen the two McLaurins are always ound on the opposite s'de of the amme question.