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r: SUGARTRUSTAND SENATE Tillman in a Fiery Speech Demands an Investaiion. ''' ACCUSATIONS AND DENIALS. The South Carolinian Tell# the Senator# They Cannot Afford to Rest Under Daronint; Charge#? Aldrlch Say# Tillman Tell# Untruth# and Misrepresent* the Circumstances?Matter Referred. Washington, D. C. (Speeinl\?One of the most sensational speeches hear\l in the United States Senate since the Civil War j was made by Senator Tillman, of South j Carolina, when he offered a resolution callj^;g , Ing for a new investigation of the Senate sugar scandal. The resolution quotes the 8enate resolution of Jlav 17. 18?4, authorizing the original inquiry, and then proceeds t as follows: f "Whereas. The committee therein designs nated in the pursuance of its duties examined several witnesses: and. I "Whereas. Several of these witnesses refused point blank to answer the questions put to them; and. "Whereas, One of these witnesses, after three years of legal contest is now in prison under sentence of the court for contempt. said court having declared the questions put to him pertinent; and. "Whereas, Another of these witnesses was yesterday acquitted on a technicality which cannot shield him from the consequences of refusing to answer the quesf tions put to him, if the Senate will renew the inquiry; and, "Whereas, Within the last thirty days sundry newspaper correspondents have openly charged Senators with "speculating In sugar stocks while the sugar schedule is tinder discussion, and also charge that I brokers In New York knew In advance as to | What the Senate Finance Committee would report as to the sugar schedule, all of which Involves a question of the highest privilege,' to wit: The right of the Senate to protect its members from slander and to protect the body as a whole from these open charges of corruption; therefore be it , "Resolved. That a committee of five be Appointed with powers to send for persons , and papers, to employ a stenographer and to administer oaths, to inquire into the truth or falsehood of the charges made In If ay, 1S94. and into. the charges recently made, and the scope of the investigation shall cover everything embraced in the resolution of May 17, 1394, as to the methods pursued by the American Sugar Refining Company,"better known as the Sugar t Trust, in controlling legislation in its favor * at the present time. And especially whether it has in any wise contributed to or controlled the election of a Senator in this body at any time." Mr. Frye promptly ruled that the resolution should go to the .Committee on Contingent expenses. I Bui sir. miman was noi to do sioppea. x He asked consent to make a statement on the resoultion, and this being granted, the South Carolina Senator began a speech which proved to be one of the most sensational the Senate has heard in recent years. Mr. Tillman spoke with bis characteristic vigor of voice, which fairly rang through the chamber and corridors, adding expressf ive gestures to his utterances. "We have arrived at a time," he declared, "when the Senate can no longer afford to rest under the damning accusations made against Senators. "If there are men here debauching the Senate, .then we should be purged of them. If these reports are slanders, then the press galleries should be purged. We cannot afford to lay back on our dignity any longer, and say we will not investigate. ' "Both parties are face to face with this scandal. The former sugar investigation sought to learn whether members of the Finance Committee, then Democrats, were bought and sold like cattle. That investigation invohr^d the President, the Secretary of the Treasury and the Finance vommiuee. "Both parties are involved," exclaimed the Senator, "and one is as deep in the mud as the other is in the mire. Yon know of the reports against certain members of ' the old Finance Committee, and now we have more damning accusations against the present committee." If any man had been influenced in the manner charged, the Senator asserted, he was no better than "the blackleg gambler who had cards up his sleeve." Such a man should be made to hang his head in shame it his colleagues allowed him to remain in the 8enate. li > ^ Mr. Aldrich was at once recognized, and ^JUid: 1 Jm. "I desire to say to the Senate, to the Sen a&r, and to every man in the United * "States, that no person connected with the Sugar Trust, at any time or at any place. Influenced the framing of the sugar schedule or received information as to its character. I desire to make the statement as broad as the English language can make it." "And any man who says 30, or intimates ?0," added"Mr. Aldrich, "deserves to be denounced in a way which would not be parliamentary here." Without further debate the resolution was referred to the Committee on Contingent Expenses. WIDESPREAD EARTHQUAKE. Three State* and Two Canadian Provinces felt the Tremor. Never sincwlhe Charleston earthquake of September, 193, has there been so severe a shaking of any portion of this coantry, and with the exception of that Charleston episode the Atla^ic coast has never known a tremor that r?n over so great an area as the one which was felt in New Hampshire, Vermont, Northern New York and Ontario, on Thursday night. The tremor began in New Hampshire at 10,30 p. in. and was last observed at Watertown, N. Y., at 80. Three States and two Erovinces of the Dominion of Canada are icluded in the territory affected by the disturbance, which Dr. Daniel Draper says was caused by the slipping of strata, due to unequel contraction and expansion. The course of the wave was from east to west, and the lines converged as they neared Lake Ontario. t* r>~ v? tt iii vcgou iu i/waj vuuui^, hoy xiamp hire, and rolled wavelike through Vermont, where it was felt in almost every hamlet. Burlington clocks were stopped by the earth's motion at 10.13 p. m. The duration of the wave is variously reported by observers, who call it from ten seconds to half a minute. At first the motion was like the long sweeping roll of a wave at sea and then there was a vertical shaking motion which caused nausea and broke windows. Two Hanged Together. W. T. Powers and John Lattimore, convicted of murder, were hanged at Chicago, 111., on the same scaffold. The men walked boldly to the scaffold. Having experienced religion some time ago, they were prepared for death. Powers killed Saloon Keeper Murphy, obtaining $225 and two gold watches, while Lattimore stoned a man to death along the drainage canal, robbing his body of $7. Gold in Massachusetts. A rich vein of gold has been discovered on the farm of Charles Hamilton, neajr Pittsfleld, Mass. _ _ ? i 1 1V ?."T if * '] *? . ' -AV' ''Vi i'aii\i ><5y - '-v- ' *" " ' * i [ JAPAN'S CREAT MAN fN NEW YORK. j Marq ul? I to anil Hi* Party Ar? on Thelf I Way to the Queen'* Jubilee. Japan's Grand Old Man arrived in Net* j York City and was received with distinction. He is the Marquis Ito, the Premier who conducted the successful war with China. The Marquis is on his way to the Queen's jubilee in London, where he will attend Prince Takehito, of Arisusrawa Xo Miyo, who is now in Paris and will reprepresent Japan at the ceremonies. ___________ a MABQflS ITO, or JAPAN. " Marquis Ito arrived at the Grand Central Depot at 6.45 o'clock Thursday morning from Montreal, having come across the continent from Vancouver. He is accompanied by the Marquis Kido, two secretaries and two Japanese newspaper reporters. The party went to the Waldorf from the depot, and after breakfast took a drive through Central Park. Ito is the LI Hung Chang of Japan. He came from the common people, the Samuri, and worked himself up to the foremost glace in the land through his own efforts. [e is now an old man, and is revered by his country as its greatest statesman. His life is the history of the development of modern Japan. RAILROAD WRECK IN IDAHO. A Head-End Collision Kills Nine Men and Injures Eight Others Seriously. A head-end collision between a freight and a passenger train at American Falls, Idaho, caused the death of nine men and the serious injury of eight others, two of whom will die. This is the worst wreck that has occurred on the Short Line in many years. The "westbound passenger train was waiting for the freight at American Falls,standing in front of the station building. The freight 'coming east ran away on the hill west of the Falls. It is thought that the air brakes were tampered with. The freight, . running fifty miles an hour, crashed into the passenger train. Two men were on the station platform; one was killed and tne otner rataiiy injurea. The station building was shattered. Both engines were converted into scrap-iron and twenty freight cars piled up in a heap. Several box-car passengers, sheep-shearers and tramps were crushed to death. Those killed are: C. W. Shields, aged thirty-flve, home unknown; D. L. Thompson, Dayton, Wash.; John R. Cooper,' Wellsville, Utah; J. Steffen, Dillon, Montana; five unknown men, all sheepshearers, beating their way. ' HAVEMEYER COES FREE.-" Did Not Refuse to Answer as to Matters Within His Knowledge. Henry O. Havemeyer, President of the (200,000,000 Sugar Trust, was acquitted at Washington of the charge of contempt in refusing to answer questions asked by a committee of the United States Senate. The vindication of Mr. Havemeyer was the result of a three days' struggle. The end of the trial was abrupt. The defence produoed no witnesses. When the Government rested its case the defence moved that the court instruct the jury to order an acquittal on six grounds, the principal one of which was that the committee did not have jurisdiction, and that the question was not pertinent. The District-Attorney made a valiant attempt to Induce the presiding judge to fKa mrtffnn Put tho HnnPt tS W4X *a*V UIVVIVlAi A/u* ?uv ww..., w..w? taking an hour and a half to weigh the arguments sustained the motion. Although the verdlot of "not guilty" was given by the jury, it was a verdict returned ander the Court'9 direction and amounted . practically to the Judge's throwing the ;ase out of court. ASKED TO BE BURIED ALIVE. Over Twenty-four Bodies of the Fanatical Victims Recovered In Knssla. Details have been received from Odessa. Russia, of the self-immolation of a number >f the fanatical followers of Baskolniki. klore than twenty-four bodies of persons who were buried alive have been recovered !rom a series of pits near Tirespol. The ?ect is a survival of the old dissenters who (vere persecuted in Russia for two centuries. The result was that they became lercely fanatical and invented a doctrine >f salvation by martyrdom. They are now practising self-immolation. 8ix bodies were accidentally discovered on the premises of Feodore Kovaleff, who confessed that he had walled up in his cellar nine living persons, including his wife and two young children. He further admitted that he had buried the other six, while they were still alive, in a specially sxcavated pit eight feet deep. Kovalelr declares that all these were voluntarv vic:ims. In an adjoining garden, belonging io Matvei Sukula, four bodies were discovered in a pit. Sukula says that these were buried alive at their own request. A Historic Church Burned. Christ Church, at Savannah, the oldest church in Oeorgia, where John Wesley preached before he promulgated the Methodist faith, has been burned almost to the ground. The building contained all the records of Savannah and practically of Gteorgia prior to 1825, most of which are a total loss. Christ Churcn rarisa was i founded soon after the settlement of Sayan- I nab. The first edifice was begun in 1743, but was not completed until 1750. The founder ot Christ Church was the Rev. Henry Herbert, who came over from England with Oglethorpe. John Wesley was its third rector, and on the site of the present edifice stood the rude chapel i/ip-hlch he ministered as chaplain to the cdwfcsts. Shoots Her Friend. Emma Lutz, of Newcastle, Penn., in a spirit of fun, picked up a shotgun and, not knowing it was loaded, pointed it at her friend, Minnie Leach, who was reclining on a lounge, remarking that she had better be quiet. The gun was discharged, blowing Miss Leach's brains out and wounding another girl seriously. Miss Lutz 1s crazed with grief. No Prohibition In Sonth Dakota. f \ Presiding Justice Corson, of the Supreme Court, has handed down an opinion fully sustaining the legality of the amendment repealing Prohibition in South Dakota. \ \ SALVATIONIST IS GDILTY~ Commander Booth-Tucker Convicted j of Keeping a Disorderly House, i BLOW AT SALVATION ARMY. The Protests of Neighbors of the Headquarters in New York City Prevail, and the Soldiers' Noisy Form of Divine Worship Mast be Stopped?The Sc. ne in Court When the Jury Returned. New Yobk Citt (Special).?Frederio de ta Tour Booth-Tucker, Commander of the American division of the Salvation Array, was convicted by a jury in the General Sessions of maintaining a disorderly house at 126 West Fourteenth street, which is ;he Salvation Army barracks. For three d ivs he had been on trial, and tlio regiment of sleepless boarders who had testified that tne Salvationists conauctea noisy mwu.iKs i at the barracks appeared extremely happy when the foreman or the jury pronounced COMMANDER BOOTH-TCCKEB. (Salvation Arm? leader convicted of keeping a disorderly house.) the verdict of guilty. "Well-dressed men and fashionably attired woman congratulated Assistant District Attorney Welch on winning the battle, while half a hundred privates and officers of the Salvation Army crowded around Booth-Tucker's counsel, ex-Mayor Oakey Hall, who had mobilized the Salvationists for the gre3t struggle. Thus did the neighbors of the Salvationists in Thirteenth street, under the leadership of Phineas Smith, get square with the all-night prayer meetings that kept them from their sleep and filled the hearts of the boarding-house keepers with despair as they saw their boarders, one by one, fleeing from the sound of tambourines, trombones, bass drums and hallelujahs. The jury before whom he was tried returned its verdict at twenty minutes after six o'clock p. m. The jurors had deliberated just Ave hours and Ave minutes. Booth-Tucker may be sentenced to the penitentiary for one year or be compelled to pay a flne of $500, or both, but the opinion prevailed that Judge Newburger would simply Impose a flne. The convic* * *?*? ?Jll In Kn iinlrotiAn lion prouaoiy wiu it?u? .-?.. Army conducting its religious ceremonies with less noise hereafter. Commander Booth-Tucker plainly showed that he was surprised at the result of the trial. He had been standing with his face toward the jurors, and when he heard the verdict he turned and faced Judge Newburger. "If Your Honor please," former Mayor A. Oakey Hall said, "I ask that the discretion of the Court be invoked, that the ball be continued in this ease, and the defendant be permitted to leave the court." "Certainly; certainly, Mr. Hall. Mr. Booth-Tucker may be permitted to go," said the Judge, and the date for imposing sentence was then agreed upon. Clerk Wolf then took Booth-Tucker's pedigree. It ran this way: Age forty-four years; born in Monghyr, India; residence, Lorillard street, Fordham; occupation, Salvation Army officer; married; can read and write; religion, Salvation Army; both parents living; teetotaler. When asked if he was ever convicted before, Booth-Tucker replied: "Yes, and sent to prison for one month for holding rtrvan air mootlnOT In BombaV." "What was the charge?" Mr. Wolf asked. "Well, technically," Booth-Tucker re- 1 plied, "it was for refusing to obey an order | to disperse a crowd." Booth-Tucker Issued a statement protesting that his conviction was an outrage that In the light of future history would be placed on a level with some of the strangest perversions of law ever witnessed. The verdict, he declared, jeopardized religious liberty, and the prosecution was the result of the "relentless vindictiveness of a handful of neighbors who pursued us to its utmost length." He foresees that the indirect consequences of the verdict must be shared by every Salvation Army Captain in the land, over whose head any neighbor "may hold the whip and pose * as 'the people.' " He said that the Salvation Army had helped thousands of New York's poorest citizens, and that the return had been a stigmutiza-, tion of the Army's barracks as a disorderly house. War May be Renewed. The question of the continued occupation of Thessaly by Turkish troops has become a serious menace to the establishment of peace. It is said that Great Britain will not consent, and that Russia is euppcrting Turkey. The Turkish Government is mobilizing additional troops and preparing for the administration of Thessaly. Greece is preparing for a possible renewal or tnu war. The Bradford Manuscript. The Bradford manuscript history of the New Plymouth Colony was formally presented to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts by former Ambassador Bayard, to whose custody it was intrusted by the Consistorial Convention of London. Senator Hoar made on address and Governor Wolcott received the manuscript. American Wheat for Egypt. The Egyptian Government is making large purchases of American wheat, which 1 is to be planted along the valley of the Nile. The British steamer Glendower took the first cargo, of 150,000 bushels, from ' Philadelphia last week. Stamping Oat Hog Cholera, The Secretary of Agriculture has received the necessary authority from the Governors of Iowa and Tennessee to permit him to proceed with experiments for stamping out bog cholera from within those States. ___ ' - V* " TO THE CONFEDERATE DEAD. Dedication of the Monument In Monnt Hope Cemetery. The monument which Charles Broadway Bouse, of New York City, presented to the Confederate Veteran Camp in honor of the dead soldiers of the South, was dedicated at Mount Hope Cemetery. The cemetery is thirteen mile^frora the Harlem River, in Westchester Clunty. "A CONFEDERATE MONCUEXT IX MOUNT BOTE. The monument is a monolith of granite flfty-one feet high. The base lifts the monument nine feet higher. It is erected on the side of the hill and bears two inscriptions: "Sacred to the Memory of the Heroic Dead of the Confederate "Veteran Camp of New York." The plot was donated by the trustees of the cemetery. Mr. Rouse was present during the exercises. William 8. Kelley was his spokesman in the presentation. A. D. Dickprson accepted for the Confederate veterans' camp, aid then ex-PostmasterGeneral William L. Wilson delivered the | oration. There were present, besides the Confederate veterans nnd the Southern Society. delegations from Brooklyn 'posts of the Grand Army of the Republic and from Elizabeth Veteran Zouaves, Alexander Hamilton Post and Farragut Association of Naval Veterans. Victor Herbert's Twenty-second Regiment Band led a mingled procession of veterans from Northern and Southern armies from the depot to the cemetery, and. played as a march a medley of Northern and Southern airs. It was a union of the blue and the gray. A surpliced choir of boys from St. Michael's Church, New York City, sang "Nearer, My God, to Thee" and "America,*' and,the vast audience sang with them, "Camping on the Old Camp Ground." At Lenox Lyceum, New York City, at night Mr. Bouss was cheered, for a great reception was. given in his honor. TOO piOt in Jnuiiut au^c tvumiuD tuv graves of three Confederate veteransWilliam E. Florence, Thomas Jordan and W. W: Tayleure. These graves were decorated and tare wore sounded durlife the ceremony. VICTORY FOR THE UNDERCRADUATES Cambridge Unlveialty Rejects the Proposal to Confer Degree* on Women. Cambridge (England) University, by a vote of 1713 to 662, rejected the proposal to confer degrees upoa women. The Senate House was thronged and there were large crowds,outside the building. Everywhere were posters inscribed, " "Varsity for men; men for 'Varsity. The undergraduates who behaved in, a threatening manner towards the supporters of the proposal to t onfer degrees upon women were greeted ^vith groans and cries oi "Shame!" An effigy of a woman in bloomers on a bicycle was suspended opposite the Senate House, and there was a large banner over the Caius College gateway inscribed: "Get you to Girt an, Beatrice. Get you to Newnham. Here ii no place for maids." Towards the close of the voting tnousands of people congregated outside th<< Senate House and the undergraduates be- . gan letting off fireworks, during which two craokers exploded in the midst of the Senate House. TETUAN BOXED HIS EARS. Spain's Foreign Minister Assaults it Senator. An altercation tcok place in the lobby of the Spanish Cortes at Madrid between tho Duke of IDetuan, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and a Liberal 8enator, Senor Comas, in reference to a statement the Foreign Minister had just made in the Senate regarding the resolution adopted by the American Senate recognizing the (tab&n insurgents as belligerents. The two statesmens used very warm language, and finally the Duke of Tetaan boxed his adversary's ears. This caused, a great commotion in the lobby, and the fact becoming known in the Senate it led to much excitement, amid which the sitting was suspended. FIVE BOYS DROWNED. They Were Thrown From a Raft in the Chicago River. By the overturning of a raft in the south branch of the Chicago River, at Chicago, III., five boys were drowned. Tne dead are: Charles C6ates, aged eleven; James Coates, aged eight, brother of Charles; Frank Qulnn, aged ten; Albert Svlo, aged nine; Charles Svlo, twin brother of Albert. The boys were paddling bdoui in uu.t | portion of tho rivor known as Had Lake, one hundred feet west of the Ashland avenue bridge, and attempted to cross, die stream. There were six ooys on the rnfi, bnt the one who was the cause of the aocldent jumped off before the raft was In deep water and saved himself. Killed Kim in Cell. "Bill" Jones, wliite, charged with hiring Effle Jones, colored, -to murder W. Riley Stewart, of Lindale. Texas, was shot 1.o death In his oell at Tyler, Texas, by a nob from Lindale. Stewart was a farmer and ex-Commissioner of Smith County. He was called from his home by a colored nir.n and clubbed on the head. He died the n e:ct morning. "Bill" Jones had an insurance policy for 87003 cn Stewart's life. The National Came. To date Fmzer, of Louisville, has given | more bases on balls than any other Leasee ' pitcher. New York's outfield is now made up of ( ex-pitchers. Hoi nes, of Louisville, is th.e third man. ( Cleveland's full-blooded Indian base ball ' player, 8ockalexiii, is doing good work or d 1 pleasing the public. There are more really good young pitch- ' ers in the League this season than there 1 havC*been since the Brotherhood year. ' LaChance, of Brooklyn, doesn't seem ':o be smashing the fiphere as savagely as that i other French first baseman, Lajoie, of 11 Phlladelohla. f* " ; ' S * ' ' 'X . ' 1 11 ?." Proceedings of the Editors' Annual Meeting at Newberry. THE ELECTION OF OFFICERS. Resolutions Against the Prevalence of Crime and on the Death of Senator Karle. On Wednesday of last week at Newberry tbe 23d annual session of the State Press Association was called to order in the opera house by President E. H. Aull. The association was welcomed to the city by Mayor H. H. Evans, Col. W. H. Hunt and Prof. Geo. B. Cromer, and responses were made by Vice-President H. (J. Osteen and W. P. Jacobs on behalf of the as sociation. The members who failed to A rive Tuesday missed a treat in theirunseace from the welcome meeting at the opera house. The house was crowded an the audience reminded one of commencement times. Much interest was manifested and the speakers were liberally and warmly applauded. The editors were made to feel that they were at home in Newberry. A Columbia orchestra discoursed excellent music. At the morning session the business of the association was taken up in earnest. Key. A. J. S. Thomas, of the Pai tist Courier, read an able paper on "Ibe Newspaper as an Educator." The remainder of the morning session was taken up in the dispatch of routine business. A number of applications tnr mamliornhin xrata received and there were evidences on all sides that there was more interest than ever taken in the association. The bold stand recently taken by the Episcopal Council of the Diocese of South Carolina against the evils of carrying concealed weapons, homicides, etc., was discussed by the association, and resolutions sustaining the action and urging the press to unite in the cause of the right and fight the wrong, were unanimously and heartily passed. A resolution urging the South Carolina delegation to do all in their power to secure the location of a United States sanitarium at Castle Piockney, Charleston harbor, was adopted. Resolutions of regret at the death of Senator Joseph H. Earle were introduced by Mr. Louis Appelt. The association adopted these resolutions by a rising vote. The annual address was delivered in the opera house by Hon. Patrick Walsh before a large audience. The subject of his address was "The Industrial Scuth." He spoke for an hour, reviewing tha history of the South and showing clearly and forcibly that this section is the richest country in the world agriculturally and the conditions favor the development of the greatest manufacturing centre in the world. Senator Walsh not only sustained his record as a speaker, but demonstrated that he is the apostle of the creed of self help, which will make the Seuth what it should be. The afternoon session was opened with the reading of a paper on the law I of libel as supplied to newspapers, by R. T. Joynes, of the Keowee Courier. This important subject was ably handled, and it was ordered that it be furnished to the secretary for publication. Louis Appelt, editor of the Manning Times, read a strong paper on the rights of newspapers as regards legal advertisements. Ordered that a copy be furnished the secretary for publication in the minutes and that the newspapers be requested to copy the same from the minutes. A resolution was passed that a committee of five be appointed to draft a bill on this subject, to be laid before the Legislature. The privilege of the floor was extended to Mr. Peters, of the Charlotte (N. C.) Register. The privilege of the floor weie accorded Mr. Chartes H. Weed, representing Barnhart Bros. & Spindler, type founders, Chicago. On Thursday consideaable miscellaneous business was transacted and several new members were elected. Officers for the ensuing year were unanimously elected as follows: President, E. H. Anil, Newberry Herald and News; first vice president, H. (L Osteen, Sumter Daily Item; second vice president, Dr. W. P. Jacobs, Our Monthly, Clinton; secretary, C. C. Langston, Anderson ^ltelligepce; treasurer, Maj. F. Melchers, Deutsche Zeitung, Charleston; chaplain, Rev. Sidi H. Browne, Christian Neighbor, Columbia. Executive committee, W. W. Ball, Greenville Daily News; Louis J Appelt, Manning Times: M. B. Mc Sweeney, Hampton uuaruiau. A resolution was adopted looking to the formation of a central borean for handling foreign advertisements separate and distinct from the State Press association. At the bicycle park Hon. G. S. Mower tendered the association a barbecue, an entirely new feature in Stato press entertainments. About 200 persons in all were present Iinpromtn speech making was spontaneous. Lieutenant-Governor McSweeney voiced the sentiments of the fraternity in bestowing prais^upon the whole-souled generosity of Newberry's large hearted citizens, whose quests they were on this special occasion, and also commenting President Aull for his able administration and work for the association, and concluded by presenting an elegant si'ver water servico to Mr Aull on behalf of the editors. This took Mr. Aull entirely by surprise and he could scarcely find words to express his thanks. Editors Knight, Hemphill and Jaynes made spontaneous and happy remarks, appreciative of Newberry's glorious hosDitality, with spec . anfartain. Lai BilUSlUU IV luc uuuij meats afforded the association by Hon. George S. Mower, Mr. Cole L. Blease came to the rescne of President Anil and made a happy response to the splendid sentiments expressed. At night an elegant ball was given the members of the association at the opera honse. Greenville, Spartanburg and Gaffney i were proposed as the place for the next . annual meeting. The vote resulted: Greenville 25, Spartanburg 11 and Gaff J nej 1. The association is promised handsome entertainment in Greenville and on Paris Mountain. Friday tho association finished ap their business and the editors started on the trip to Nashville, Tenn., via Harris Springs and Clinton Orphanage. ffi fi 1 Ml. | McLaurin's Letter of Acceptance Received By Governor Ellerbe. WILL ACCEPT THEIR VERDICT. '|? He Asks That the People Be Given the Opportunity to Express Their Preference. Hon. John McLaurin has formally accepted the United States Senatorship and at the same time expresses the be* . lief that a primary shonld be held and gives his reasons for thinking so. The ijj letter follows: To Ilis Excellency, Hon. William 2T. Ellerbe, Governor of Soulh Carolina, Columbia, S. C.: Dear Sir:?Your notification of my appointment to the Senate of the United States, to fill the vacancy caused by g the sad death of Senator Larle has been received. The pride and pleasure at *.i the receipt of such a distinguished honor is saddened and sobered by the thought that our State has lost one ?2 who, to my mind, was the ideal repre- * sentative of the culture, intelligence . ..3 and refinement of Southern civilization. With a profound consciousness of the responsibilities involved and an honest determination to represe nt as far as I am able the interest of the entire .. people of our beloved State, I -'-da accept your appointment. I desire, however, to say that I believe that United States Senators should be J elected by a vote of the people; and as the constitution debars us that privilege. I sincerely trust that the Uemo9fofa Frwintiva rnmmittM wflL.' :j8i at its convenience,' order a primary, ; t and give every Democrat the ohance of ; having a voice in the selection of one to fill this, the highest office in the gift of the people. If I am not selected, will humbly acquiese in the wishes of a maiority of my fellow citizens. If I am selected, I will have the proud * consciousness of knowing that I am in \ fact, truly the representative of the people?the whole people of the State ' of South Carolina. It is peculiarly 2S gratifying to me to receive this appoint- v i, ment at your handa; bat had not the exigencies of the situation in the Senate demanded the immediate eppointment of one somewhat familiar with the situation, I would have requested yon to hold the matter of ap* < ., pointment in abeyance until a primary election is ordered, which, I hope, the executive committee will see proper to jdo, and other candidates see fit to enter. I shall at eyery meeting insist upon no i" one voting for me merely because I have been appointed to the position. I resign an office bat little inferior in dig- ; nitv and honor. If I am to be continued in the Senate, I want it to be given me in an election where every citizen, / however homble hp may be, can have . an opportunity to say so at the ballotNothing would give me more pleasure ' than to represent South Carolina in tha, . RadiU nhamhar of tha United 8tet0fM? after a free expression from the people 1 themselves. Respectfully, Johjt Ll MnlaTOB. 3, Chairman Tompkins state* that in. his opinion the primary trill be ordered!' v ? about September 15. i Senator McLaurin was in Columbia Saturday and got his commission soul: ^ proceeded at once fa^Washingtoa. | BUTLER JUMPS TILLMAffj }* Charges in Connection With the Ota* s-^j I pensary System. Gen. M. 0. Butler is prodding Sen- , j|j ator Tillman. He has written a letter Ireopening some of the whisky rebate W charges against the Senator in the campaign three years ago. He says he : had reliable information that, by the JR terms of the whiskey trust agreement, every member of the trust was bound to pay a rebate of 7 cents a gallon to all who purchased a thousand gallon# 3 or upward; that the Mill Creek distill- ,'kl ery of Ohio, was a member of the trust, , ) and bound to return this rebate; that as Gov. Tillman, as chairman of the board of control, and the sole responsible * head, had purchased large quantities of .-rd liauor from the Mill Creek T)i?till?rr be ought to have received large rams i from the Mill Creek Distillery, miming . i up into the thousands of doQare. ' 'I have maintained." says Gen. But- i ler, "that there were but two altera*- fi tives?either Gov. Tillman had ool- M (ected the thousands of dollars of re* >ates from the Mill Creek Distillery; ' S? and not accounted for them, or bin been guilty of a grave and censurable \ derelict'on of official duty in not ool* '?$ lecting the rebates and turning then ? into the State Treasury for the benefit of the taxpayers." "Senator Tillman," he says, "has '?| never explained this matter, ex- '<1 oept in an outburst of coarse ri- ^ baldry and unseemly passion. Bus* picion of crookedness," "Gen. Bui* .j ler continued, "has been intensified by a remark which Gov. Evans, his friend and co-laborer in the dispensary busi- Tl ness, is charged with having made to ,3 Mr. Mixson, late chief dispenser, to the effect that 'Ben Tillman had lined his yfj pockets,' and farther by recent wtune- > -jjj tions and suggestions on the same line from some of Senator Tillman a closest ;|j and generally supposed most confidential personal and political friends. THEY D01''T WANT IT. Sillman is quoted in a special from ' Washington as saying, in reply to the above: "It is the same old rotten egg Butler threw at me at Union two years ago. They talk about an investigasion, out that is exactly what they don't want Kean?Isn't your wife afraid to drive ^ < that horse? Steam?Not at alL It*n? li the people she meets who ate scared.?* J Hartford Times.