Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Telegraphic Briefs. May 15. Three thousand people attended the interstate drill at Memphis yes? terday. There were three contests. The twenty-fifth bi-ennial session of the Order of Railway Conductors opened in Atlanta yesterday, with more than two thousand delegates present. The proceedings were pre? liminary only. The Navy Department has given ont a statement about the case of Admiral Meade, whom the President designed to hold to account for an interview in the New York Tribune, criticising the department The statement contains nothing of impor? tance, except that the department finds itself unable to get evidence against Meade. It is announced that the free eil vea Democrats of Illinois, controlling the party machinery, purpose to read out of the party every man who does not subscribe to their views. The mana? gers intend, if possible, to send ? solid free-silver delegation to the na? tional convention. The Carnegie Steel Company of Pittsburg, Pa., has announced an ad? vance of 10 per cent in wages, com? mencing Jane 1. The derailment of a train on the St Louis and Hannibal railroad yester? day morning caused the death of one person and tbe injury of twenty-three others. The committed on arrangements for the "Spund Currency" meeting in Memphis give a list of forty-seven cities that will be represented. It includes Colombia and Charleston. Captais Genera! Martinez Campos ! arrived at Havana from Santiago De Coba at 1.30 o'clock yesterday after? noon. Tbe mountains of Upper Georgia j and this State were covered with snow yesterday morning. Bichar? Lowry, a negro convict on W. 0. Hammond's farm in Anderson County, was killed yesterday while attempting to escape. -i Eight dwelling bouses and stores were burned in Taraville last night. Loss $25,000. Dr. Samuel P. Schwing, who killed Dr. Emile Hirart on Sunday, May 5, for intimacy with Mrs. Schwing, was discharged by tbe city recorder yes? terday. Maj 16. The property of the Pennsylvania Steel Company was sold for $2,000, 000 yesterday. The torpedo boat Cashing left Washington for Key West yesterday. An attempt will be made to make the passage by the inland route ; that is by way of the sounds and islets that skirt the Atlantic coast. A dispatch from St. Petersburg says that Russia will occupy certain ports in Corea until the conditions she has imposed upon Japan shall have been satisfied. Tbe New York police reorganiza? tion bill was lost in the Senate yes? terday by a vote of ayes ?6, nays 16. A motion to reconsider failed on a like vote, and the bill was killed. The Sed Men of Georgia laid the corner stone of an orphan's home at Anstel! yesterday. Connecticut has appropriated $7, 000 for an exhibit at the Atlanta Ex? position. The reduction of the capital stock of the Southern Cotton Oil Company to ?2,000,000 will soon be effected. A dividend is expected in June. The Pope has forbidden Catholics taking part in the Italian election. After enumerating his reasons for the prohibition, His Holiness concludes by reminding the faithful that he is still kept a prisoner in the Vatican by the Italian government. A movement is on foot in Virginia to call a Constitutional Convention. Mr. Louis Dornock and Miss Mar? garet Gore, an eloping couple of Quincy, Fla., interrupted the coro? ner while holding an inquest, and were married. The inquest then proceeded. The Legislature of Florida has passed a modified Australian ballot law to take the place of the eight ballot box measure which has hereto? fore obtained in that State. The bill only requires the signature of Gov. Mitchell tc become a law. The House passed a measure to prevent fraud at party primaries. May 17. The bill now before the Florida Legislature imposing a special tax on i bicycles is arousing great indignation among Florida wheelmen. The Japanese legation has received a brief telegram which states that the complications with the European powers have been so adjusted a3 to leave no reason to doubt that a furtber conflict in the East will be avoided. There was another heavy frost tb-ougbout the western portion of Michigan Wednesday night Io Kent and Ottawa counties, early straw? berries and grapes are ruined and other small fruits damaged. Grand Traverse county reports all small fruits wiped out. In Muskegoo county strawberries and cherries are badly damaged and 800 acres of peppermint in Moorland township are ruined. The fruit crop io Genessee county is completely destroy? ed and Hillsdale county fruit is badly damaged. Secretary Herbert says that wheo Admiral Meade's request fur detach? ment from the North Atlantic equidron was received Uft wet-k. ii was coupled with a request to be be retired Juue 20. and for permission to go abroad. The entire request was promptly grant ed. When, however, the interview with Admiral Meade appeared in the newspapers and the department had a? ked Admiral Meade whether it was authorized and had received his non? committal reply, it was decided on Saturday that subsequent proceedings might render his presence in this coun? try necessary and the permission ex tended to bim to go abroad was re? voked. Beyond that nothing has been done to date. State Senators Coggeshall, Robert? son and Raines, of New York, who were charged with bribery have been exonerated. It was stated in the German Reich? stag yesterday that the Baltic-North sea Cana) would be completed to its full depth by July 1st. The American Iron Works, of Pittsburg, Pa., haye advauced the wages of skilled workmen 10 per cent. More than 400 men are bene fitted. Tbe General Assembly, of the Southern Presbyterian Church met at ll o'clock yesterday, in Dallas, Texas. Dr. Chas. R. BemphiU, of Louisville, Ky., was elected moderator. Suit has been commenced in the U. .g Circuit Court of Northern Georgia for the foreclosure of the second mor? tage bonds of the Georgia Pacific Rail? road. Trouble has again broken out be? tween tba white and colored longshore? men to New Orleans. ? fight between Superintendent of Education Shea tes ?nd State Senator Reeves, occurred in the Florida State House yesterday? Russia is preparing to build railways to connect with the Great Indian Rail? way so that it will be possible to throw large bodies of troops into lodi? on short notice. The directors of the Atlanta Exposi? tion have decided to have a live 6took show during the Exposition. Only registered stock will be admitted. Fifteen suits have been entered against the City of Chicago by indi? viduals and railroads for damages sus? tained daring the strike of the Ameri? can Railway Union. The Southern Railway Passenger Station at Charlotte, N. C., was burned yesterday. Albert E, Simpson, a white mao was tried for murder at the recent term of oourt io Georgetowo aod fouod not guilty. The homicide was committed thirteen years ago. May 18. I Cliff Baxter and Andrew Campbell ! were killed by an explosion of a blast j in a mine at Docktowo, Teon. The Wilmington, N. C., produce escbango, yesterday adopted r?solu? tions favoring sound money, and de? cided to send delegates to the Memphis Convention. Dwyer and Croker have dissolved their co-partnership for racing pur? poses. A report has been sent out from Key i West that a filibustering expedition left that place for Cuba. A Louisville, Ky., dispatch says : The grand jory has finally decided to investigate the killing of Aroh Dixon Brown and Mrs. Gordon by her hus? band, Fulton Gordon. To-day the jory ordered all the witnesses who figured io the case duriog the examina? tion io the city court to be summoned to appear in thc jury room next Friday morning. It was generally believed aboot the courts this afternoon that there would not be ?oy indictment. Gov. Evans aod Adjutant General Watts are at Wrights vi i le Sound, N. C. Henry Bier, a well known New Orleans broker bas been convicted of perjury. May 20. AD eighty thousand dollar fire occur? red in Gate City, a suburb of Birming? ham, Ala . yesterday morning. An unknown man was burned to death. William Goodman fatally shot Nicho? las Cottorin Augusta, Ga., yesterday. An earthquake, more violent than any that have visited the city since 1445, occcorred in Florence, Italy, OB Satur? day night. Three thousand houses were damaged, four persons killed out? right and many wounded. A few days ago, Henry Cooley of ! Middle8boro, Ky., eloped with Sallie ! Daios, the two crossing over into West ! Virginia, where they were married, j Miss Dains' brothers had long opposed I the suit of Cooley, and when they learn? ed of the elopement, they declared their intention of killing their sister's hus? band. Marshall Cooley, a brother of Henry, intercepted the newly married couple at Pound Gap. five miles from Middlesboro and warned them of the fate in store for them. While they were deliberating the best course tn pursue, the Daios brothers came up and a fi^bt instantly ensued. Marshall Cooley and George Daios were killed outright. Henry and his brother es? caped injujy. Ed. Bates, a white man got drunk and went to sJeep on the railroad track near Spartanbarg, with the usual re? sult. The Japanese Army is being with? drawn from Corea and Manchuria A drummer who travels for one of the largest whiskey houses io the South, has ?aid that wheo he returoed home he was going to advine hi1* boase to make claims painui th*? ex;<re*? cotii pany and railioads for ail the whihk-:y they have lost io their band? since toe dispensary law went into effect, and if the claims were not. paid the beat legal talent in the State would be em? ployed and suit for damages would be instituted. Three negroes were lynched io La Fayette County, Fla., last week. The coal miners are still giving trou? ble in the Pocahontas region. Fifteen thousand persons were ren? dered homeless by an extensive fire in Briest-Litovesky, Russia. Mr. W. G. Childs, of Columbia, accideotly shot himself through the left arm on Friday night, while attempting to catch a burglar, who bad entered the house. ? son of Supt. Neal of the Peni? tentiary bad two fingers blown off by the explosion of a dynamite cartridge with which he was playing. Miss Mila Morrison, of Gainsville. Fla., aged 18 years, is dying of Hydrophobia. The Income Tax litigation has cost the United States $100,000. The Presbyterian General Assem? bly spent yesterday transacting ron* tine business. William Austin was shot through the heart and instantly killed by Isaac Bently, near Penders {distil? lery, just over the Pickens line and . few miles above Greenville,'late Satur? day evening. Austin was accused of having reported a blockade still to the revenue officers. Bentley wai under tbe influence of whiskey when be did the shooting and is supposed to have been interested in the block? ade still. Both men are young farmers. Austin leaves a wife and several children. The unveiling ceremonies of the Confederate monument erected by the Ladies Memorial Association of Raleigh, N. C., yesterday brought together the largest crowd that ever assembled in North Carolina on any occasion. The lowest estimate was 45,000. Speeches were made by Col. Samuel A. Ashe, Col. Alfred M. Waddell, ex-Gov. Thomas M. Holt, Col. W. H. Check, Gen. Bradley, T. Johnson, and Judge A. C. Avery. Admiral Meade BetirecL WASHINGTON, May 20.-Rear Ad? miral Meade was placed on the retired list of the navy to-day. Secretary Herbert recommended the retirement aod the President endorsed theron aa follows : Executive Mansion, May 20, 1895. "The within recommendation is ap? proved and Rear Admiral Richard W. Meade is hereby retired from active service, pursuant to section 1,443 of the revised statutes. 4'The President regrets exceedingly that the long active service of this offi? cer, so brilliant in its early stages and so marked by honorable incidents, should, at its close, be tarnished by conduct at variance with a commend? able career and inconsistent with the example which an oficer of his high rank should furnish of subordination and submission to the restraints of wholesome discipline and manifest pro? priety. GROVER CLEVELAND." Before the Supreme Court. WASHINGTON, May 10.-After the Supreme Court had finally disposed of the income tax, it occupied an hour in the announcement of decisions in other cases, and the consideration of miscellaneous business presented to it. THE CASE OF CONSTABLE BEACH. Attorney General William A. Bar? ber, of South Carolina, made his ex? pected motion for leave to file a pe? tition for a writ of habeas corpus for the release of E C Beach, a con? stable of that State, who is in the custody of United States Marshal Hunter for contempt of Judge Simon ton's order, in seizing a shipment of whiskey made to J. G. Byrd, a resi? dent of Charleston, for his own use and consumption, in violation of Judge Simonton'8 injunction. Chief Justice Fuller informed Mr. Barber that the court could not under? take, at this advanced period of the term, to hear oral argument. The Attorney General responded that he understood that, and believed that briefs in the case would be filed within a week. Wheelmen ia Charlotte. CHARLOTTE, N. C., May 20.- This was distinctly a Stearns day as that wheel won three firsts, three ! seconds and three thirds out of a! : possible five. Geo. Adams, of Jack? sonville. Fla., won the Southern I championship in 2:37. Against the urgent advice of his physician, W. T. Mixson, of Colum- ! bia, entered the <{tiarter-mi!e and lost the race by only a foot Had his physical condition been all right re-1 suits would have been different. ': With a small handicap lie held his own in the five mile handicap, win? ning second time prize and running the fast Washington racer, Schade, off his feet, lt must be remembered ! that he did thus well as a sick mau i and one unfit really for auch a severe j strain. Income Tax Killed. Personal Property no More Subject than Heal Estate. WASHINGTON, May 21.-The Uoited States Supreme Court to-day decided the income tax to be unconstitutional, the court dividing as follows: Against the law-Chief Justice Fuller, Justices Field, Gray, Brewer and Shiras; for the law-Justices Harlan, BrowD, Jackson and White. Chief Justice Fuller read the opinion of the court. The interest attaching to all pro? ceedings connected with the inoome tax case was again manifested this morn ? ing, when the Supreme Court room was crowded under the belief that the final judgment of the court ia the income tax cases would be announced. This interest was heightened by a know? ledge of the fact, circulated just a few moments before the court convened, that Associate Justice Jackson had re? turned to Washington and would sit on the bench while the opinion was be? ing delivered. This was altogether a surprise; and his coming had been so skillfully concealed that his appear? ance was necessary to convince some people of its truth. He did not go home, as stated, but spent the week in Philadelphia in consultation with a physician. In delivering the opinion in the in? come tax cases, Chief Justice Fuller said : ??Whenever this court is required t > pass upon the validity of an act of Congress, as tested by the fundamental law enacted by the people, the duty imposed demands in its discharge the utmost deliberation and eare, and in? vokes the deepest sense of responsibil? ity. And this ie especially so wheo the question involves the exercise of a great governmental power, and brings into consideration, as vitally affected by the decision, that complex system of goternmeut so sagaciously framed to secure and perpetuate ' 'an indestruct? ible Union, composed of indestructible States." "We have, therefore, with an anxious desire to omit nothing which might in any degree tend to elucidate the ques? tions submitted, and aided by further able arguments embodying the fruits of elaborate research, carefully re-exam? ined these cases with the result, that, while our form sr con cl usions remain unchanged, their scope must be en? larged by the acceptance of their logi? cal consequences. "As heretofore stated, the Constitu? tion divided Federal taxation into two great classes, the class of direct taxes and the class of duties, imposts and ex? cise?, and prescribed two rules which qualified the grant of power to each class. Tba power to lay direct taxes apportioned amoiog the several States in proportion to their representation in the popular branch of Congress, a rep? resentation based on population as as? certained by the census, was plenary and absolute; but to lay direct taxes without apportionment was forbidden. The power to lay duties, imposts and excises was subject to the qualification that the imposition must be uniform throughout the United States. "Oar previous decision was confined to the consideration of the validity of the tax on the inoome from real estate and on the income from municipal bonds. The question, thus limited, was wbethether such taxation was direct or not, in the meaning of the Constitution and the court went no further, as to tbe tax on the income from real estate, than to hold that it fell within the same class as the source whence the income was derived-that is, tbat a tax .upon the realty aod a tax upon the receipts therefrom were alike di? rect, while as to the income from mu? nicipal hoods, that could not be taxed, becaseo of waot of power to tax the source, and no reference was made to the nature of the tax as being direct or indirect. "We are now permitted to broaden tbe field of inquiry and to determine to which of the two great classes a tax upon a person's entire income, whether derived from rents or products, or otherwise, of real estate or from bonds, stocks or other forms of personal prop? erty belongs;; and we are unable to conclude that the enforced subtraction from the yield of all the owner's real or personal property, in the manner described, is so different from a tax upon the property itself that it is not a direct, but an indireot tax, in the meaning of the Constitution. "The Constitution prohibits any direct tax, unless in proportion to numbers as ascertained by the census; and in the light of the circumstances to which we have referred, is it not an evasion of ! that prohibition to hold that a general unapportioned tax imposed upon all property owners as a body for or in re? spect of their property is not direct in the meaning of the Constitution, but confined to the income therel'orm. "We find it impossible to bold that a fundamental requisition, deemed so im- ' portant as to be enforced by two pro? visions, one afirmativo and one nega? tive, can be refined away by forced dis? tinctions net ween that which gives value to property and the property it? self. "Nor can wc perceive any ground why the Famo reasoning does not npply to capital iu personalty held for the purpose of income, ordinarily yielding income, and to the income therefrom, j All the real estate of the oountry and j all ita invested personal property are ; cpen to the direct, operation of tne tax? ing power, if an apportionment be made according to the Constitution. The Con- ' dilution does Dot say that no direct 'az ebal! be laid by apportionment on aoy utber property than land Oi? the contrary, it forbids all uoapponiooed direct taxes; and we know of no war? rant for excepting personal poperty from the exercise of tbe power, ur any reason why an apportioned direct tax cannot be laid and assessed, as Mr. Gallatin said in his report when Secre? tary of the Treasury in 1812, 'npon the same objects of taxation OD which the direct taxes levied ander the authority of the State are laid and assessed.' "The stress of the argument is thrown, however, oo the assertion that an incone tax is not a property tax at all, that it is not a real estate tax, or a orop tax, or bond tax ; that it is an assessment upon the taxpayer on ac? count of his money-spending power as shown by his revenue for the year pre? ceding the assessment ; that rents re? ceived, crops harvested, interest col? lected, have lost all conneootion with their origin, and, although once not taxable, have become transmuted in their new form, into taxable subject matter ; in other words, that income is taxable, irrespective of the source from whence it is derived. "if it were not for the fact that there bad been no income tax law such as this at the time the Constitution was framed and adopted, it would not be of controlling importance. A direct tax cannot be taken out of the constitu? tional nile because the particular tax did not exist at tbe time the rule was prescribed. "We are not here concerned with the question whether an income tax be cr be not desirable, nor whether such a tax would enable the government to di? minish taxes on consumption and duties on imports and to enter upon what may be believed to be a reform of its fiscal and commercial system. Questions of that character belong to the controver? sies of political parties, and cannot be settled by judicial decision. In these eases, our province is to determine whether this income tax on the revenue from property does or doss not belong to the das? of direot taxes. "According to tba censos, the true valuation of real and personal property in the United States in 1890 was $65, 037,091,197, of which real estate with improvements thereon made up $39, 544,544,333. Of course from the lat? ter must be deducted in applying these sections, all unproductive property and ali property whose net yield does not exceed $4,000, but even with such deductions, it is evident that the income from realty formed a vital part of the scheme for taxation embodied therein. If that be stricken out, and also the in? come from all invested personal pro? perty, bonds, stocks, in vestments of ali kinds, it is obvious that by far the larg? est part of the anticipated revenue would be eliminated and this would leave the burden of the tax to be borne by professions, trades, employments, or vocations and in that way what was in? tended as a tax on eapital *?onld remain in substance a tax on occupations and labor. We cannot believe that such was the intention of Congress. "Oar conclusions may, therefore, be cammed up as follows : *'First-We adhere to the opinion already announced, that taxes on real estate being indisputably direct taxes, taxes on the rents or income of teal es? tate are equally direct taxes. "Second-We are of opinion that taxes on personal property or on the income of personal property are likewise direct faxes. "Third-The tax imposed by sec? tions 27 to 37, ioclnsive, of the act of 1894, so far as it falls on ?he income of real estate and of personal property, being a direct tax within the meaning of the Constitution, and therefore un? constitutional and void because not ap? portioned according to representation, although constipating one entire scheme of taxation, are necessarily invalid. "The decrees hereinbefore eotered in this court will be vacated; the decrees below will be reversed and the cases remaoded, with instructions to grant the relief prayed." Separate opinions were read by each of the dissenting justices, beginning with Justice Harlan. Justice Jackson was tbe second to read bia dissent. He concluded at 2:30 p. m., and went immediately to his hotel, feeling quite exhausted from bis long stay in the court room. He left Washington this afternoon, presumably for Philadelphia for farther treatment by Dr. Pepper. Justice Jackson was followed by Jus? tice Brown Justice White read the last opinion in the case, stating nineteen different points upon which he rested his adher? ence to the views hitherto expressed by him in opposition to the judgment of the court. Liverpool Cotton Figures. LIVERPOOL, May 17.-The follow-j ing are the weekly cotton statistics ; Total sales of the week 4S,000, j American 47,000 ; trade takings,! including forwarded from ships' side 58,000 ; actual export 7,000 ; total import 06,000. American 57,000 ; total stock 1,681,000. American 1,570,000 ; total afloat 104,000, American 88,000 ; speculators took j 700 ; exporters took 2.400 Pulmonary consumption, in its early stapes may be checked t?y the use of Ajer's Cherry Pectoral. It stops the distressing cough, soothes irritation of 'he throat and luo??, aud induces much-needni repose. Hundreds have testified to the remarkable virtues of this preparation. Typswriter supplies at H. G. O?teen k Co's , Liberty street. Confederate Encampment. HOUSTON, TEX , May 20 -Tbe en? campment feature preced?:;? f'<e Con? federate Ke?uuion opened tu.e morning. The twenty companies of Texas volun? teer guards in camp aggregate 1,000 troops. A grand military street pa? rade intended for 10 o'clock this morn? ing was postponed till the afternoon by a heavy rain. Gov. Culberson and staff arrived last night. Other dis? tinguished visitors now present are Gen? eral Stewart, commander of the Mary? land division of veterans, Major Gen? eral Ed Reedy? Oklahoma division and General Lae of Mississippi, Governor Torney of Tennessee, Major General Schofield. General Gordon and Miss Winnie Davis are expected Wednesday when the re-onion will formally open. ? large detachment of United States troops are also in camp. About 5,000 visitors, inoluding veterans and military have so far been located. The city is elaborately decorated and the streets are thronged with strangers, despite the rain. A contingent of Tex? as editors here from the ancoal meeting at Waco was entertained at a banquet this afternoon, presided over by Con? gressman Hatcheson. The drilling of the State troops commences this eve? ning at Camp Culberson, elaborate programmes having been prepared for each day at the campground and entertainments at the Auditorium at night. Cure For Headache. As a re ci; dy for all forms of Headache Electric Bitters bas proved to be the very best. It effects a permanent core and the most dreaded habitual sick headaches yield to its influence. 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