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1NCRFASE OF PENSIONS. \ The house Bill Appropriates $200,000 ^ For The Veterans. SENATE. Twenty-fifth Day?Although a good number of Senators were absent yesterday a gond d -al of business was .ransaeted in the Senate. Senator Maishail's child labar b II which had been made the sptcial order was postponed until next ween at th. request of the author. The reason for this was the absence cf so many senators. Twenty-sixth Day.?The Senate was in session just halt an hour. All that was dona was to pass second and thi.d reading bills upon which there was no contest. Senators Ilcleciion and Talbird objected to the third reading of the hill to cede to the city of Charleston, certain marsh lands for a naval station, and It went over. Twenty-seventh Day.?The senate was in session more than seven hours ?four hours in the morning and three hours at night?and a good deal of important work was transac;ed. There werese veral interesting debates. Mr. Graydon's ill to domesticatbe railroad corporations pa-sed i s third reading, as did Mr. Henderson's bill to make cotton mill stocks taxable as realty. Mr. Dean's insurance bill. Mr Brantley's bill amending the Ix>rd Campbell act. the bill to cede to the $ity of Charleston certain marsh land-? for a naval station, Mr. Brown's bill to provide for a State geologist, and several other measures. At night, after a long debate, the bill to exempt the students of the Chq^f$con Medical college from standing examinations before the State board passed its second reading after the motion to strike out the enacting words bad been lost by a vote of 16 to 14. The bill to repeal the anti-free pass law was killed. Twenty-eighth Day.?At the day session of the Senate the members talked and talked and talked, and at the night session there was more talk. The altua! results were confined ti; killing the wide tire bill and the bill to provide for a State pardoning board. FY)ur little local bills passed thir l reading, and several unimportant bills were introduced. The senaite, by a vote of 20 to 17. refused to continue Col. Marshall's child labor bill until the next se-s'.on of tbe General Ast\embly. and it was taken up last night. The debate ou it was nor concluded. Twenty-ninth Day.?Thi9 was another day of speech-making in the senate. Time was found between the speeches for the rat'ficaticn of a number of act?, the bill looking to the sale of the State farms was postponed until the next session and several new bills were introduced. All of the morning s?ssion was taken up discussing the bill to appoint a commission to adjudicate the claim cf the receivers of the old State bank as to certain lost bonds. These are what are known as the lost Lord bonds, and ^ the matter has been before the legislature off and on for several years. The feature of yesterday's discussion was the vehement language of Senator Ragsdale, who characterized the bill as little less than an attempt at a steal. The debate on the bill was not finished. Thirtieth Day.?After debating on it for three nights in succession, the sen 1 *-? loivrvT. ViUl tn i?s aie passvu 'mo tuuu mWi *,... . third reading. It wa? not the Marshall bill that passed, but the substitute bill offered by Senators Mavfield, Glenn and Caughman. The bill to appoint a commission to adjudicate the claim of the receiver of the old State bank as to certain lost bonds was killed, as it has been killed 6everal times before. The bill to fix the salaries of the various county officers was postponed until the next session. Thirty-first Day.?'T1>f*nato fpent the day working on its calendar, which has been greatly neglected for several days past. A number of uncontested second reading and third reading bills were advanced and there was an executive session for the purpose of confirming the governor's appointments a^ to county officers. HOUSE. Twenty-fifth Day?The appropriation b'll was introduced by Mr. J. Ila1vey Wilson, chairman of the ways and means committee. The committee nr.l its able chairman have ('one unusually nnink work on th's bill. The supple bill will bo presented os soon as tV county delegations send in their ovulates. Mr. Henderson's bilt to nr.ke cotton mill stock- taxable as realty p-s e j its third rending in the Senate yes'erday and was sent to the House. Mr. Baert? A bill to rmond section i"1 of the code of civil procedure of th's State relating to the jurisdiction cf the supreme court. Mr. Living-ten's bill regulating the duties of the cole commissioner also iwssed its third reading. The following bills also passed third reading: Mr. Livingston, by request?A bill to provide for a State bacteriologist. The House at 1:13 p. m.. on motion of Mr. Weston, adjourned in honor cf Queen Victoria, whose funeral exercises wee the*1, being conducted. ti? ? *.. r>?? -ru? v. 4 wciiijr-sc % cum isay .? i likj nuucc representatives decided to double th fund approprir'cd for the assistance of needy Confederate soldiers and their widows. The rppro^rlHion when first made was $50,090. Later it was increased to $100,000. Yes'e-day Col. J. H. Brooks' bill to incrra e the fund to 1150,000 was taken up. but Instead rf passing it cfi that ar.:ount, the house. on motion of Mr. Rucker. decided to increase the pen-ion appropriation o $200,000. In years past Confederate veterans who were members of the house have had to plead for the pension appropriation. Yesterday, however, the gallant old "Rebs" were called upon merely to thank the sons of veterans for passing the bill. The bill passed second reading wi bout serious trouble. The house killed Mr. Juo. P. Thomas' 1 ill to repeal the income tax law. and also Mr. Thomas" bill to create the offiee of county solicitor. Twenty-eighth Day.?.Mr. .1. Harvey W:!-on. chairman of the ways and means committer, called up the appropriation hill to p ovide for the exp'nse cf conduct leg tlm State government for iroi. There was very little quibble over the Fvtions relating to the pay of Stai1 officials in ;he executive and judicial departments. the bill being taken up :.rd acted upon section by section. Tne appropriations for the offices of iue governor, the se retary o* sitate; the at;orn?> general, the state treasurer and tho adjutant and inspector general were granted without quibble. There was little change in the above deinrtmonts except thai the governor is given a stenographer at a salary of |400. The house attacked two items in tlie section relating to the office of Stain superintendent of education. The bill provided a salary of $9<)0 for the clerK. Mr. McMas.er moved to increase this to $1,350. Mr. Rutle" moved to tab!" the amendment, and this latter motion prevailed. There was an item of $1,319 for printing, stationery for use of pubis: schools. Mr. Gaston inquired whet '.his was for. Mr. Prince said Mr. McMahan had had printing done in compliance with ree[uiremcn:s of the law, but that he had not had funds enough to pay for this printing. The appropriation to the South Carolina College was fixed at $35,000. t?i? - e 1^:11 ??n I i!t? SfVlIUUS U1 lilt? UUII rtAiuyiCU u^; to the hour of recess made the following appropriations: STATE HOUSE EXPENSES. Salary of governor $3,000. private secretary $1,350, messenger $400, contingent fund $5,000, stationery $300. stenographer $400. Salary of secretary of state $1,900. clerk $1,350, contingent fund $150. stationery $500. extra clerk hire $400. for books, blanks, etc., $300. Comptroller general's salary $1,900, three clerks $1,400 each.' contingent fund $200. printing $500. stationery $300. traveling expense* $500. State treasurer $1,900, chief clerk $1,300, two bookkeepers $1,350 each: contingent fund $200, printing of bonds and stocks $2,000. stationery $200. Superintendent of education $1,900, clerk $900, contingent fund $200, printing, books, etc.. $1,319. Stats board expenses $300. stationery $300. stencgranher $400, traveling expenses $300. Adjutant general $1,500. assistant adjutant general $1,200, state armorer $350, traveling expenses $550. contingent fund $500, stationery $150. repairing arsenal at Beaufort $500, for the miliJa $S.000. Attorney general $1,900, assistant $1,350, ron.ingent fund $130. stationery $100. litigation expenses $1,500, for emergency $500. if necessary. Railroad commissioners' salaries $.700, secretary $1,200. contingent fund $1,200. State librarian $800. contingent fund $175, stationery $300. other expenses $100. Two watchmen State house $900, janitor $160. engineer $75. for seven months and $23 for five months, two firemen at $35 per month for the months; keeper's contingent fund $200. Supreme court. Chief Justice Mclver $2,S30, Justice Gary $2,850. Justio0 Jones $2,850, Justice Pope $2,830. clerk $S00, librarian $800. reporter $900. attendant $200. messenger $200. contin gent fund $500, books for library $i>uu, lrtt) copies of 59 .h and GCtli reports. $1,$200. For each of the eight circuit judges $3,000. solicitors $11,050, stenographers $l0,00tifl. Bosfrd of Health?For* quaran^r.o purposes $15,000; for State boapn |2,200, Charleston quarantine st^rnon'$_',630, St. Helena's $350, Pofrt Hpyul $1,275, Georgetown $675. Lazarecte $300, clerk hire for State neard $300. Salaries of county auditors $25,500, printing for county auditors $2,500. Twenty-ninth Day.?The house of representatives vote to give $100,900 .o the public schools in addition to the c.T.tr funds which they receie. The South Carolina college will get the full appropriation of $26,107 asked for. The house recently cut this appropriation iO $25,000. Quite a number of members yesterday changed their .ww, in mf/ironvs tn thp annronr.a tion bill, and the measure was not half disposed of when the session took recess. NIGHT SESSION. The house at the evening session disposed of the appropriation bill. In aud.tion to the app:cpria'iicns made lor 'the executive and judicial departments as printed in The State cf Thursday, the following appropriations have been made: STATE COLLEGES. South Carclina college. $28,107, and $11,000 fcr steward's hall. VVinthiop college, $43,000; for scholarships, $5,456; lor new dormitory, $20,940. The Citadel, $25,000; repairs, $750; laundry, $1,500; laboratory* $750; library, $2, 00. State colored college, $8,000. For the public school. $100,000. PENAL AND CHARITABLE. Cedar Springs deaf, dumb and blind ^ asylum. $20,000, and $20,000 for the erec'tion of a new buildhig. Salaries of State peffnentiary officials. $5,400. Catawba Indians, $S00 and $200 for school. The State hospital for the insane is to get: For running expenses. $100.000; building purposes. $10,000: Walnrnnct11,! ilo'Wt S.t 1 *>0 pain TV Ci' iUVC J^I UJJVJ V?\ U? , V <.<?V , ?. ^ superintendent $3,000; board of regents. $1,200. debts, interest, etc. For the completion of the State capitol. $15,000. Charleston exposition. $50,000. The largest single tern is $285,045.45 to meet, the interest on the public debt, in the same connection i> $20,000 for the payment of past due interest liable to accrue on old bonds and stocks liable to be founded under the laws of this State. For the pensions $100,000; $000 for clerk and $120 for postage, etc. MISCELLANEOUS. Public printing, $12,000: claims, $3.000; governor's mansion repairs. $25<>: water, $2,000; lights, $0,000; fuel. $1,200; phosphate inspector, $1,500. A number of improvements on the State house are contemplated, among them $2,.000 for rewiring. The amount for repairs to roof is $250. Phosphate inspector s salary, $1,200. For legislative examining committees on penal and charitable institutions $403. Salary cf code commissioner, $400. Expenses of committee to examine tooks of State officials, $500.50. Expenses of militia in Georgetown and Florence troubles, S2.336.10. Unpaid accounts, stationery o? housft. $284.44. Expenses J. B. Watson, witness, $16.20. Rent of office for State superintendent of education. $400. Salary L. M. Ragan. cierk. State Iroard of canvassers. $x0. Gas used in session of 1890 .$169.21. Unpaid salary of adjutant general for 1900. $300. Insurance cn South Carolina college buildings, $3,000. For attcmey general's office to aid in prosecuting fertilizer companies said to be in the trust, $2,500. Relic room in Confederate museum at Richmond $100. Thirtieth Day.?THe house shortly after 10 o'clock, discharged all the places on the calendar. Bills were inspecial orders, returning them to G^eir olacas on the calendar. Bills were tnhp taken up as tney were reacred. At and after 1 o'clock no matters provoking | discussion were taken up. I In this way the entire calendar was' run through and a great many local bills, which otherwi.-e wculd have died on the calendar, were passed. There are yet nearly a hundred bills which will go over until next session. Thirty-first Day.?In the house of representatives Mr. John McMastcr, of Columbia, offered a resoluaion condemning the c ourse of John L. McLaurin in the rnlted States Senate. Mr. McMaster asked for its immediate consideration, but 10 members, the required number, objected and the resolution went over until today. Among those who objected to its consideration was Air. A.-hley. who remarked that there was no us? wasting thde time of the house condemning a 1 ?.1 ~ U..,l fr\V\4 man wnom uie peuyir u-u u..n.~ .j ...... demned. LABOR WORLD; Mdlders at Ashland, Toun , will form a union. Iu the Transvaal in 1S07 1,2^0,000 ions of coal were dug. Anthracite coal miners have planned another great strike next April There are 754.&12 people employed in the factories, bakeries and mines of New York State. I In the South ihe Italians are foun,l to be good cotton pickers. They at* quick and have nimble fingers. A general strike of the Madrid, faceres and Portugal Railroad, involving 1(500 employes, has taken place. Ail tlic furnace workers iu the Masoning Valley, of Ohio, have accepted a reduction from ?l.:;o to $i.su per day in wages. Three-fourths of the zinc mines in the Missouri-Kansas district will shut down for four weeks, liopiug to raise the price of ore. Salmon canuers of the Frazer and other lirilish Columbia rivers have begun to organize against the Salmon Canuers' unions. Striking mill and smelter men of the Unior Cole Extracting Company, Florence. Col., won their light for an eight-hour day and better wages. ? President .1 C. Osgood, of the Colorado Ftu 1 and Iron Company, declares his company will close every mine hefore it will submit to dictation from the United Mine Workers. The American Window Class Company and the Independent Manufacturers." Association, at Hartford City, I ml., have agreed to close their factories on Aptil 1 instead of June J. throwing oui ."10.000 workers. The .'Journeymen Carpenters" and Joiners' Union, of Camden, X. J., lias Mnfiiti.it t Im contractors and builders iliat oit and at'iit May 1. next, an eight-hour day, with a wage rate of . <-50 per day. will "do required. The wages at present paid are from $2 to ?2.70 for a nine hour day. While Now York State leads all others in point of population, it is seventh in railroad mileage. Illinois, the third commonwealth in population, is the greatest railroad state, with nearly 11,000 miles of track. Pennsylvania is second, both in population and in railI road mileage * I ARMY APPROPRIATION BILL , . i And the War Tax Reduction Bill Both Passed. SENATE. Forty-fourth Day.?The ship subsi.Iy ; bill was laid aside informally by the Senate to permit consideration ofthe appropriation bills. This aeiion \va3 ' taken late in the day on Mr. Allison's request that the District of Columbia j , appropriation bill be taken up. Mr. ; Five, in charge of the shipping bill, i who had said he would not give way to appropriation bills without a vote | ' of the Senate, was net in the chamber at the time, but Mr. Aldrich, Mr. Hanna and others interested in t^o measure wore present and joined in the ' general assent given to Mr. Allison's request. The shipping bill holds Its place, and as the unfinished business 1 can be taken up when the appropra- ' tion bills are not occupying attention. 1 Forty-fifth Day?Two important J measures were disposed of by the Sen- j ate. the Military Academy appropria- , tion bill and the war revenue reduction measure. The former was under consideration ies? than an hour. The , only change in it was the strengthen- ^ ing of the provision against hazing at West Point. Dniring the remainder of the afternoon session the war revenue reduction bill was before the Senate. A de- J terminer* but unsuccessful effort was 1 marie to reduce the tax on bank checks \ and to provide that telegraph and ex- j press companies should bear the burden of the tax on message and pack- j ages sent. The finance committee's J amendment, levying a tax an transac- , tions in so-called "bucket shops." modifying the tax upon cigars and cigarettes. and providing for a rebate on , unbroken packages of tobacco, in addition to several others of a minor character, were adopted. An amendment substituting an income tax for the war revenue measure offerad by ' Mr. Morgan, of Alabama, was rejected ' by 3. party vote, 21 to 38. At the night session a partisan dis- , oussion of tho shipping bill was precipitated. in which a number of Senators participated. Forty-Sixth Day?The Sen_te passed the Distiei of Columbia appropriation bill, and partially considered the bill 1 making appropriations for the support ' of the West Point Mu..cary Academy, i i TK/%. rkin KJ1I nroo fArmollv IjHlf aside and sirperseded as the unfinished business. Forty-seventh Day?The Senate had both day and night sessions. The < pension appropriation bill, appro- ^ priating $145,000,000. was passed after . a few minutes' consideration. The ship J subsidy bill wag then taken up and * Mt. McLaurin announced his intention < to support the bill and Mr. Morgan op- t posed it. in vigorous language. Mr. Mc- j I.aurin, of South Carolina, presented 1 the certificate of re-election of Hon. B. , R. Tillman as a United States Senator, j Forty-eighth ' Day?An ineffectual ? effort was made in the Senate to secure , an agreement upon a time for a final vote upon the shipping bill. Vigorous pretests were made by opponents of the measure against any such agree- , mnt, even for a date in the indefinite fut.ure. Mr. Pritchard, of North Carolina, spoke tc-day in support of the i shipping bill and then the naval at)-, c prcpriatfon bill was considered the I ' rest cf the day. the shipping bill being laid aside informally. The naval bill " had not been acted on when the Sen. : ate adjourned. 1 ? HOUSE. I Forty-Fourth Day?The House passed t the Senate bill to create a commission to adjudicate the claim ofUnlted States citizens against Spain, which the government of the United States assumed by the treaty of Paris, after having 1 amended the bill so as to refer the s claims to the Court of Claims. This ac- i tion conforms to the action of the . House at the last session, when the , bill was recommitted with instructions j to report back such an amendment as . was adopted. J Forty-fifth Day?Debate on the post- , onnrrnrlq rtnn hi!l consumed ! ui'"-" -x another day in the House. Chairman c Loud, cf the postoffice committee, who k was a member of the postal commissidn, disru.-std the subjects investigated by it. The remainder of the time was occupied in debate upon tiio throe subjects?pneumatic tube service, special mail facilities and railway ? mail pay. r Forty-Sixth Day?'The day in the < House was devoted to the cor.tinuat.on 1 cif the discussion of controverted qites- ( tions in connection with the postal t service. Mr. Criers, of Georgia, spoke j against the organization of postal em- ' ploycs for forcing legisation. Mr. Moody, of Massachusetts, discussed the question of railroad mail pay from the ? standpoint of a member cf the joint ' postal commission. Mr. Bromwell, cf Ohio, aseailed the appropriations for special mail facilities from New Ycri. to New Orleans, declaring that tie Postmaster General repeatedly had said ' that he did not desire the appropria- j tions, and only had used them because j Congress made them. Mr. Catchings, \ of Mississippi, and Mr. Meyer, of Iyouisiana, defended these appropriations t as nece 6ary for the expenitlon of the ( soumem mmi. ivn. vxaiuc^, vi | see, also opposed this appropriation. , Forty-seventh Day.?The post- t office appropriation bill, debate which , has consumed almost an entire week , in the house, was finally passed. The ? debate hovered about three topics, railway mall pay, pneumatic tube service and special fast mall ficilitips, 1 but it bore no fruit The amendment to reduce the rate of railway mail pay ' was ruled out on a point of OTder, tl<3 t f * - ; lmencfmeat to continue the pneumatic tube service in New York, Beaton, and Philadelphia was abandoned with the purpose o<{ making the tight in the Senate and the motion to strike out the appropriations for special mail facilities were defeated. Forty-eighth Day.-^ThLs was probably the last day to be devoted to private pension legislation by the House of Representatives in this Congress. The high water mark, made In the Fifty-first Congress, wr * almost reach- * ed today, when 184 bills were passed against 197 pessed at a single session , ^ in the former Congress. In all. the house at this Congress has passed about 900 bills, a number considerably exceeded in the Fifty-first. A ceneral nensiom bill was nass.ed to restore to the pension rolls widows of ?oId-:rs of the civil war who subsequently married and became widows, ar divorced. By the tsrms of the bill, however, its benefits are limited to widows of soldiers who were married before the close of the civil war and who are now dependent upon their 3wn labor for support. A bill was passed to establish a light house and fog signals at No. 1 Point, Chesapeake Bay. Ship and Crew Lost St. Johns. N. F., By Cable.?It is V?of o cnrioita moT^'riA A'cncjfin' lc<ii cm u1qt a> ovi ia/uu u^ui juv has occurred off St. Johns -within the past 48 hours. A quantity of wreckage belonging apparently to a large and wellfound vessel, has drifted a&Qore near Torbay, seveo miles north of St. Johns. It is believed that ship and crew nave per'ebed, and indica- > tk>ns point toward the schooner Challenger, from Cadiz, as the likely viotim. 30,000 Re-Enforcements. Ix>ndon, By Cable.?The following announcement has been Issued by the War Office: "In view of the recent Ecer activity in various directions, the government has decided -in addition to the large forces recently equipped, locally in South Africa, to re-enforce Lord Kitchener by 30,000 mounted troops beyond) those already landed in Cape Colony. Recruiting for the Imperial Yeomanry has proceeded so rapidly that it is anticipated iQ.OOO will ehort'y be available." "A Scandalous Invention." London, By Ca2>le.?Prof. Sir Felix 3e.moo, physician for diseases of the :broat to the National Hospital for Epilepsy and Paralysis and president ?f the La ryn go logical Society, of London, etc., asks the Associated Press to >ay there is positively no word of, :ruth in the story published in the United States that King Edwartf ia ?? suffering from cancer of the throat, sir Felix Semen wishes it to be called i scandalous invention and ridiculous :epoit. Youtsey Imprison d For Life. Georgetown, Ky? Spedal.?Henry E. k'outsey, stenographer to Governor raylor during his incumbency, and rho was tried as & principal in the shooting of Governor William Goebel, ind found guilty, was arraigned before fudge Can trill late Tuesday nlternoon md sentenced to life imprisonment. iVhen sentence was pronounced YoutrP-V 4,T am t V<avn >een convicted by ta^e and infamous subornations of perjury.' $200,000 i or Pensions. Columbia, S. C., Special.?By a deiisive majority the House op Repreentatives has p-assed a bill a;?ropriatng $209,000 for Confederate pensions. rh)s is double the amount heretofore ippcpriated for this purpose and the ucrease is regarded as \ery significant, rhe author of the bill is Capt. J Hamp 3Broolis, of Greensboro, younger v.otner of Preston S. Brooks, who ;anei Chas. Sumner in ?,ne United Jutes Senate before the civil war. Another Cashier Goes Wrong. Barton. Special.?George Foste-r, for ...no. /-*f thA Snuth Tianver's Iir,i taouiui W4. ? national Eank, of Peabody, was arcs, td charged with embezzling $3,CO from that institution. The arrest vas tl.e outcome of the appointment ;f a receiver for the bank. It is unIcrstood that the entire capital of 1150,000 together with the surplus has Ilsappeared. Mr. Foster pleaded not tuilty before a United States commls ioner. ' ' J * Registration Notice. The office of the Supervisor of Regstration Will be opened on the first Monday in every month for the pnr)ose of the - registering of any person vhois qualified as follows": \VJ?rt aVuli Iiuva a resident of ho State for two years, and of the :ounty one year and of the polling jreeint in which the elector offers to rote four mouths hefoie theday oieleoon.and shall have paid,.six months beore any poll tax thou dne ami payable, iud who can ootb mid and write any ection of ibe Constitution of 1895 aom:ttM to him by the supervisors, >f registration, or can show that be iwm, and has paid uli t xcs collectable luring the present year on property in his Stato assessed at three hundred lollar* or more. J. J. EADDY, Cletk of Board. t. f sj 'M 4 ' . . ,-v;' *