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If" r ' n r.v a-vl g > before : ii people and th?~n he will have the ? -audidates meet him. and he promised he would keep out :f the Gght and his mi. -'h shm. If y.m elect him I'll take it as niti-e that y. '.i do not want me. If lie is a Democrat 1 am not. Ml the other fellows want is a chance to meet him on the stump. Let him resign and test the situation. He said he would like to talk longer, but wanted to keep to the agreement, and s'opped amidst applause. Then came Senator McLaurin's reply. which was well done. He said he expected great tilings, oik ruounumi* have been In labor and brought forth a mouse. Me rame here with some trepidation. but the speech of Tillman was that of a man who knew he was wring and lias! no h<ort in the work, lie ha 1 tried to make logical speech*s.but li t friend persistently appealed to eiass i* prejudice ami class feeling. I'e kn w . Tilli .:.-i itiid his style of work. 11-; wanted the movement kept up fur others than hi in. If. He did not wa.it to try to stir up strife between fn *o.y operatives and th? presidents and iTieir own He appealed to the operatives at wc!i as to the owners, for lie had tin high regard for them as ever did Tilimar. Tillman had said some very hard things of li.m. J.ast year when he w. 3 chained io a T>*iT of sickne?s,th:s man, my former friend, and a congressman who is a candidate against me mad^ speci h after speech against ma and denounced me as a traitor, and yet they ; blame rue for coming out. He wanted 1 every man who loves truth and justice I to judge him on his speeches, and not i 011 misrepresentation. He did not want i any excitement th s summer. uec.iuo: j his health was no: the best. He kn w ; my sensiiive fet liny and yet he com-?s | here i* harass me. He know it. men. i he knew my condition. He knrw I could ' not stand worry in my pros nt con;!!- j tion. hut I am going to fight this thing oui. Yes. this man tells you he had an invitation ll\ed up so as to com? he e (Jenmen. it :- hard.but I can stand it. j He talks about me and says I sto'e YanDykes sermon. The only cha r<> he has hern a:?le to bring against m > i is tha 1 stole a sermon. Then iurnint around and taking a step or two faci ! to face w:;h T.llnfkn and pointing hi - ! linger at him. h? sa d with freling ard emphasis: "Vou. sir. if charges he* tru-. have stolen things of more intrinsi value* than s rnions." Then bubbling over with feeling he said, referring t> 1 Tillman's invita'i.m "Now my idea of decency, the common decency among genrfciuen. was for Tillman to have, asked me if it were agreeable for me to meet him here. It was a brutal way , he treated me Now I want it und'-r -? ?V?* I o.,, nnt !> Iitlllv nnil l am ' SSIA7VU 111 a l 1 tx ill UX'%, . not going to run. I do not come from running stock on either side I am r.ot afraid of Tillman. He falls hark on hi*?>! time tricks and goes to insinuating and talks about Hanna and his ho >11?. If that be meant to insinuate that any of it is coming to me it is absolutely I false and the insinuation is unworthy j of a senator and a gentleman; if he means to insinuate that I'm a sham 1 want to say I'm not a sham or a demagogue. Now. Tillman knows his il i tricks of slurring and insinuating arid | f has the advantage of me. and he ha* no more mercy or ?> tty than a tig?? j <>?e: his prey when he once gets his ; drop on a man. Hut I fli mly beli v | God is on the side of the right and 1 , will win this tight. Tillman is a bull- i dozer and bushwackor. but 1 want it understood there was no man In Sou h Carolina who could handle hint, and before 1 get through, like a small boy, he will be crying for some one to take I me oil him. I'm not afraid -of him. When you disagree with him he seeks the cheap refuge of the dema.gogno and calls you a traitor and all such stuff, without proving it. and to dec-la: e rhis or that a steal. Instead of answer ing roe he rambled off talking about pensions and all that sort of rot, and his only reply setrnrd to be to sn?er at the mill owners and try to create d'scord and strife between capital and labor. "Tillman talks like I'm a full fledtrd Republican because I do not agree with him. Every one of these questions is entirely now since my race and never entered into the campa:gn here. He never thought any ono would be ?o blind as to oppose America's liberal foreign policy. The Cuban war which led to present conditions was a Democratic making." Mr. McLaurin spoke of how he had been hounded because cf his votes and that at times lie might have said what he did not want to say. He tried to ke"P on good terms with all men. Vrt jt i.<- did not have the g*,.cd w 11 o.' Tillman he could not help it, and did not care. Then McHaurin took up t'.io matter of resignation which is relate.! elsewhere and prodded Tillman about his fori; and the use of it. Tillman !:cpt his month shut as hp promise I to do it would he the lirst time he had \ r done ?'?.an;l then he spoke of h \v Ji" mixed t:;> in the last guhernnti ;r. i! ^a. ra e and h( w he had got into a mess W with the pr achers. Senator Mci^aur.n then elaborated the idea of expansion, pretty much as at Greenville, and took up the Chinese and eastern question, lie gave a graphic picture of the Ohin< se situation; how MeKlnley got into t'no situation and how it now stood, and that the trade in China was just :n its infancy and he could not see why if China's business was worthless.Tillman had said this government should spill blood if necessary to develop and . ncourage trade inChina and maintain the integrity of China. McKinley, whom he sneers at, settled it without the loss of any blood. He spoke of the xpnn^ion sermons of Dr. J. Walter Daniel and Dr. Kilgo. Then Mr. MrI^aurin took up the subsidy proposition I and argued it at length. He dealt I with it from a local standpoint. He ar j guod that Granville ha*] grown to 1*? [ j j tie gi Rat city that it was through sub- I I sidy to railroads, rot ton mills, ope: a house, etc.. and so it was in Gaffnoy and many other places. H > gave fig- . tires to show what money had been ' voted to railroads and what they hid done and argued that the .-.hip subsidy was along tin* same line. The fart of the matter is the people ran t get along without subsidies if they want / to move ahead. MrlAitrin finally urged his rieht to his views and that there was no sense or reason in con / stantly stiring up prejudio? and fee' j ing as it did no one any good. He went j over the situation and was applaud d , in coiK-luding. Senator T'llnian asked for five minutes more which was granted him with th" consent of Mrhauiin. Tillman .-rid c he wanted to reply to the charge hit '? he had been brutal to MoLanrin ami he I reid i'i t'uil the letters l?etw<jen himsf'f ; . and Mr. 0:t.s about his coming here, j' He was no bnite and did not want to be regarded as one. We will soon be ' before the j>eople and there discuss is- 3 sues further. Here he again proposed ; to MeLaurin that thev both resign w "nit h was a ocptod. He produced the 1 volume in which Mcl^aurtn's ope e,ii jf was published and by which he could ! * and would prove that Mol.aurin stoic i parts of that sermon. He had the posi- tive proof and wanted to show it to , any one who wanted to s:e it. lie said. Then he said as to the imperial policy he dhi not want the American flag ' floating over and protecting a lot of \ yellow ilogs in the Philippines. f This closed the speaking and Senator Mcl.aurin announced that he had a lot of his speeches for distribution and he would he glad for all to rend it in 1 the south. The meeting was then ad- t journed and then came th" regofa- 3 tion for the resignation v.h'eli result* ^ od in the mailing of the sensational , document. Thus ended the first nie>-- _ ins: of the unexpectedly etviy seuiu > |rial campaign in South Carolina. i1 AlcSwe.'ncy on Resigned iou> Jones ; Announces his Candidacy. Speaking of the resignations of the i Senators. Governor McSweeney says: I. "The resignations oi Senator Tillman ;, and Mci.aurin as l'nitc-1 St:: ; Sua-' tors, were r<\*e>ivod l>y me it .it" mail ' Sunday morning as 1 was ieiv.ng for ' Chickamarga. the resignations to take : effect September l">. 1 will not take tip j the consideration of the r; sigr.ations , it nil 1 return to my office. At present I have nothing to say and no comnunt . : to make on the fiction of these gentle- 1 men." ! : Co'. Wiley Jon s. State chairman of the Deuio -ratic Executive Committee ', says he will call the committee together about the first of July and that he 1 regards August as the proper month 1 for the campaign Speaking further ;: Colonel Jones said: "You tuny say l iftat I will be in the race for CnUe.l , a 'Stales Senator fioin South Carolina, i . no matter what form the primary elee- | tion therefor may assume." jf . vrnfmnc i hLLUKAPniU A poli tax will be imposed on a'l ; Philippine males over IS years eld. 1 1 Munoz Rivera resigned the Presiden- , ' ry of the Federal party in Porto Rio. l ? > King Edward Vi had a narrow es. I * cape while on the yacht Shamrock 11, ' which, with the Shamrock I. was wrecked while preparing fcr a race off 1 Brambles Buoy. Isle of Wight. i King Victoria Emmanuel was in great danger in the elevator accident f In Rome, but escapod. The Ship-> ard Machinists. Newport News, Va Special.?Presi- ? dent Muleahy. of th? Newport Nev\3 } lodge of the lnternarjonal Association , of Machinists. and Superintendent Post, of the Newport News Ship Bail, ing Company, say that th.-re is ro truth in the story *hat 'he ship-yari j oifirials have been given until Satur- 1 day to arrange the machinists' du- d inands. Both decline to state whether ] any formal demand has been made by i the local union. If ar.v action has been taken by the machinists here the 1 negotiations have been secret and con. ? fldential on both aider. d Additi ;n to For: floultrie. The Secretary of War has promui- j 1 gated a general order announcing that certain lands on Sullivan's i.-dand, in r Charleston harbor, are declared an ad- 3 dition to the military reservation of Fort Moultrie. The Stat" <;' ; th Carolina passed an act last vi: icr granting title to the United h r.:< - and ceding jurisdictiin over this . A p - * tion of the defenses ot Charleston | harbor have bcca crcciii1 on this island. Untitled to Mileage. Washington, I). C.. Speria' The Comptroller of the Treasury has <l:ri- ; : ded that Cnited States Senators 13a e and Tillman, having been sunv.none. 1 to this city as witnesses on behalf cf the United Stales vs. Cullen, are enti- i tied to the usual mileage and witness j fees provided by law, and that the law as to clerks and officers of the Unite I States, which provides that in such t eases they shall not be allowed mi!- j cage does not apply to United State* Senators. - I Sonic of tlie Southern States arc not j content with halfway measures when j [they pa - law- which have to do with he r.-c of intoxicating drinks. An Ar- j kansas state-man proposes an act to ^ limit the | r.rchase ami consumption of | stimulants t<> persons who take out li> reuses, for each of which $5 is to be 1 raid. ? HLTMORE FLOODED. I .ots of Yandeibilt Real Estate Under Water. ISHEVILLE IN TOTAL DARKNESS. \ Small Flood Sweeps the Mountain City Doing Much Damage ?An Unu ual Rainfall. \? r* Ci.'iAinl .n.rt I ASIIfV lljr, i^i. V./., c-pvtiai. r ui in<; lays and niahts a hard rain has been ilmcst incessantly falling in this secion and much damag* has been done o crops, mill, railn ad and other pro;> rty. Hundred:- of Asheville people lavo visited Biltnicn- to see the da::iige done by the Moods in Yanderbilt's deal village. When the millionaire and his advis:rs planned the town a nearby creek vhich has never before been anything mt a small stream, was never for a uoment taken into account. Tuesday his stream made a record for itself hat was both surprising and alarmng. One row of cottages built by Mr, ,'anderbilt was fhooded and the people orced to move their belongings to the tppm- floors and surae of the beautifuly paved streets were covered with ubbish. Small trestles at Biltmor.m both the main ,'ine ox the Southern tnd 0:1 the Asheville & Spartanburg lailrcad were washed away and no rains will be operated on either 1 :n-i or same time. A car on the sidttra k oaded with stone was washed 30 foci. L'h" cl-ctii" plant here is badly dama ;rtl and the r.ty is in darkness. Askeviile, Special.?The heaviest nd most disastrous rain fell Tuesday :i Ashtville and the surrounding ot.ntry that has visited this section a yeavsj Much bottom land is ruined nd the hillsides are yawning gulches, ridges aie gone and many roads arc iiipassabie. The water is up to the oors of many dwellings along the 'renin LsroaU ami Svannanoa rivers nd is rising in some places a foot an our. It has already reached the hignst record point. People are moving ut of their homes and seeking .the igh places for safety. .Many outlouscs and kirns of deor.s a.e oniing with a mad rush down the Tench Broad. The b.vannanoa has iroken its banks and its tributaries are illing the valleys and augmenting the aging torrent. The water is a loot ieep in the big ice factory uud in the iour mills, at the Sjiithe.-ii Jiailway rm-ks are washed out of ulace and wisted into all '-orts of shapes and the treets of Bi It more are seeming nvrs. ilanv thousands of dollars of damage lave already been clone. Washouts are reported on the Mur)hy branch of the Southern, the Sparanburg branch and the main line. No rains have yet come in and they are tow four hours' overdue. The water tas risen to the fires in tho electric ight plant and the city is in darkless, except for a few lights from a imall plant not affected. The street ars are also at a standstill from the ante cause. Four inches > i \>m;u fell a the city Tuesday. Heavy Raima! in ihst Ye Atlanta, Ga.. Special.?A special to The Constitution eay3: "An nnpreco lented rain has fallen in upper oas: Vnnesseo. sweening away bridges and cashing out tracks of railroads, h-ains from North Carolina are blockd. Trains from Chattanooga are also lelayed by washouts at Athens. Th' ast reponts at t> p. m. from points lOrth and east of Knoxv.le state that he streams"aj-e swumcu .. hing over known. All telephone and elegrapb communication in that diection are now broken and the wires re down." ? Damage of llalf a nilllon. Asheville, N. C., Special.?'The damago to the Asheville division of th" Southern Railway by the recent flood , is estimated at $500,0 <>. The Asheville ? Spartanburg bianch of t c So ;tht:n will resume schedules soon but the line to Sol oburv over the it ue itl't'-S 1^ * * II 4 L2 lO \. ..4 I. Jl ?/ W/-W - -' t i'orc.1 i.... J. By Wire ami Cable Maj. Hcnrv C. Corbin, adjutant genpral of the army, v. ill sail for the Philippines on the transport Hancock, which leaves San Francisco June 115. He intends to male a general inspection of the military conditions in the islands. Sir Gilbert Thomas Tarter, K. C. M. G., Governor and C uninander-in Chief of the Bahama I-lands, ar?.v<d it Now York on the steamer Sara'to ?a from Nassau, N. P. Sir Alfred Milner. British High Commissioner to South Africa, arrived in England from Cape Town. It is feared that the lives of many men were lost in a coal mine expio jion a-t Senghenydd, Wales. SOUTH CAROLINA CROPS. Early Cultivation Progressing Nicely ? <ieneral Review. In general the week just past, has been favorable for farm work, and in a minor degree for the growth of crops. The mean temperature was nearly normal, with the exceptions of the 14th, 19th and 20th which were cloudy and below the normal in temperature. The nights have been rather cool and this has checked the growth of vegetation to some extent, tut the midday warmth lias been sufficient to prevent positive injury to crops. Rain occurred in tiie central and east portions on the 14th, in the west on the join, anu quae generally over me | state on the lith to 20th. The storm of the 14th was very severe over several eastern counties, ami the carnage to ail kinds of crops by high winds and hail was considerable; the truck farms in the vicinity of Newborn especially suffered immense loss. 'Hie need of rain was beginning to be felt in the extreme southeast portion and over all of the western district, and the general rains the latter part of the week were very beneficial in those sections. During the middle of the week the normal amount of sunshine prevailed. While crops have remained green and vigorous and have evidently improved somewhat, growth has not been rapid owing to the lack of stimulating high temperature. With the exception of a few days when the ground was too wet, farm work has progressed well. Nearly all of the cotton crop has been seeded; while late, cotton is gen- j orally coming up well, except in the western portion, ard fairly good stands have been secured; chopping is proceeding rapidly; the crop needs much warmer weather for active growth. Much replanting lins secured a hotter . and of corn than previously indicat ""i. though the stand is very irregular still in many counties; the cultivation of corn the first time is underway; bottom lands have not all been planted. Some damage to young corn by crows and lmd-worms has been reported. Planting peanuts is not :inishect, and at present the stand is irregular. A good many tobacco plants have been set out in the eastern portion where this work is nearing completion unrier favorable conditions: tarnsplanting is also progressing fairly well in central and northern portions, except that plants arc slow in attaining proper size. Wheat, oats and rye are flourishing. but need more rain in western districts; wheat and winter oats are in I nil bloom: chinch bugs have appared on wheat In a few localities, and some complairts of heading low have been received. Irish potatoes are doing better than expected. Transplanting sweet potato slips has begun. Gardens lock well, but vegetables are late; shipments of vegetables and strawberries continue to be Heavy. MeliTns are doing well. While apples appear to be short, the prospect^ for other fruit !s still favorable. Minority Report Withdiawn. Havana, By Cable.?At yesterday's session of thoCuban constitutional convention. Senorors Gualberto Gomez and SJlva. withdrew the minority report of the committee on foreign relations and substituted for it the old majority report of the committee, which was drawn up before the commission went to Washington and was signel k,. riiioihArtn Gome?. Silva U J VTOUVJ V.*} _ and Villuendas. but which was never acted upon by the convention, because 1 it was a rejection of the Piatt amend- J ment, particularly in respect of the rigf.it of intervention and the coa'ing 1 stations. TJiis action of Senor Gr.cnez is attriu/ted 'to the bitter attack made 1 upon him yesterday, by the Radicals. 1 for having accepted portions of the Piatt amendment. The convention ad- 1 jovrned without coming to a vote. Passenger Train Wrecked. Columbia, S. C., Special.?It was re- ? ported "that the south-bound passenger j train on the Seaboard Air Line had been wrecked about 50 miles below Co lumbia. Officials here disclaim knowl- j edge of the wreck. It is believed n^ lives were lost. A True Artist. Phil May, who makes humorous sketches, was 37 years old on April 22. Simple as his sketches look, produced with the minimum number of linos, the result is obtained only by hard wn.k and the persistent elimina ticm of each superfluous stroke result is obtuin? .i. Mr. May has ;<een many sides of life. Gov. Alien's First Report. Washington. Special. ? Governor Cha3. H. Allen, o? Ponio Rico, has presented to the President, through the Slate Department, his first annual re- ' part. The Governor expresses the opinion that a scheme of colonial ad ministration, such a3 Is followed In thI'rench, Danish and English West Indies. might be safely instituted, with the \ariations dependent upon the future policy of the home government. The Governor refers to the many sus- 1 gestions offered that the form of terri- i tc/rial government adopted in the i n!- ' ted States be applied in Porto Rieo.but paints out that a standard fdnn of- < such ^government, whko "useful in'th? I 1'nited* States, would not apply sue- 1 eeasfully to this island possession. i ... ' * f* 1 * > f r*i AN ADVERSEIEPORT The Presbytefians Turn Down The Catechism COMMITTEE REPORT IS REJECTED Its Work Will Be Referred to The Various Presbyteries For Final Ac* tion. # Little Rock, Ark., Special.?Tiia Southern Presbyterian Assembly refused to adopt the catecX& on the nature and government of the Church, as reported by the committee appointed one year ago. It was ordered tbax the catechism be sent down to tbe Presbyteries for criticism, with instructions to return it to the ail interim committee by February 1, 1902. The Assembly divided the Synod of Mississippi and lxmisiana on State lines. The Synod of Memphis was divided and the Synod of "Tennessee created. After a lengthy debate the Assembly directed the executive committee on publications to select a field superintendent for Sabbath school work. The Assembly adopted the recommendation of the committee on Bible cause that the collection for the Bible Society, in October, or some other more convenient date, is embraced in the Assembly's scheme of beneficence and should regularly and faithfully be attended to. It was ordered that the following amendments to the Book of the Church be sent to the Presbyteries fr, Vit- orivipn onrt prm?pnt with thft recommendation that it be adopted? provided further, "that in the case of a Synod compose^, of only three Presbyteries, any seven ministers representing any two Presbyterias, together with the ruling elders, shall be a quorum." The standing committee's report on ministerial relief recommended providing a fund for relief of pressing needs Of disabled ministers and their families; that collections be solicited from the churches during July and that an earnest effort be made to raise not less than $20,000, and that all ministers whose names are on the Presbytery's rolls, whether laboring at home or in the foreign field, shall be eligible to the benefits of the fund and that the following executive committee of ministerial relief be elected: Revs. Russell Cecil, D. D., chairman; R. P. Kerr, D. D., Joy Witherspoon, D. D., Calvin Stewart, D. D., Geo. R. Cannon, John S. Munce, C. D. Laws, S. H. Hawes, J. N. Cuttingworth and W. R. Miller, the committee being empow ered to elect a secretary who shall also act as treasurer. In the discussion on the report the need of a change from the present system was accentuated, the daily allowance to disabled ministers at present being only 27 cents. There was some opposition to the creation of a new committee fop the relief work on the ground that the work could be handled by otter com mittees. The question has not yet been finally disposed of. At the night's session of the Southern Presbyterian Assembly, majority and minority reports from the special committee on the "elect infant" clause were submitted. The minority report was rejected and the majority report presented by Rev. Dr. Battle, of Lou* isvilie, was adopted. Natives Dissatisfied. Manila, By Cable.?The discontent among the natives at the appointmeut sf American judges and alleged discriminations in the civil service in favor of Americans, is finding expression, encourage^ by some pf the native judges, who are aware that the reorganization of the judiciary will result in the loss of their positions. Judge Ner, of the Court of First In stance of Tondo, one of tne leaaers ot what Is beginning to be called the radical wing of the Federalists, declared today that if such things continue there will be a second revolution. Some of the prominent Federalists ridicule the prediction. After a conference with General MacArthur, General Trias has under- # taken negotiations at Lucban for the surrender of General Callles, which Is daily expected. fledals i or Sampson's Men. Washington, D. C., Special.?The natal board of awards is understood to have reached a tentative decision upon the design of a medal of honor for those who participated in the battle of Santiago Bay. The members of the beard decline to give any information on the subject, out it .s nrrently un? - iU.i i-Y * dor stood among naval omcers unit ud boaui has followed the precedent o? the .Manila mortal in snowivs the head of th? commander-in-chief, and that this Santiago medal will bear the head of Admiral Sampson. A number of designs have been presented, but the board seems Nto be most favorable tc those made by Mr. Skerritt, a designee belonging to the Department force. Florida C.jlloa O.I company. Chattanooga, Tenn., Special.?A cha* ter was applied for, by the Fiol-ida* Cotton Oil Company. The capital stock' of the concern was given at $100,000; The incorporator^, are G. N. Hanson, <W. F. HutchPson,. \V. D. 'Hiddeir, J. L." * Caldwell, \V. D. Carswell, T. G. Montague and William Cummings. The home office of the company will be iit this jiiy.