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THE TARIFF ROBBERY. Bill to Be Passed This Week -No Free Bagging and Ties. Washington, July 18 -The indi? cations to-night are that the tariff bill as agreed to by the Republican con ferees yesterday will probably have passed both house? ef congress and be a law at the end of the present week. Delays and complications, BOW Boaoticipated, might somewhat prolong the final struggle The Re pnb?can conferees have been work? ing hard all day consulting and ar? ranging the details of the report which they now believe they will be able to submit to their Democratic colleagues to morrow morning The bulk of this work has fallen on the shoulders of Senator Allison and Governor Dingley, who are preparing the statements of the effect of the changes made by the conferees which : will be submitted to their respective houses. They v have had a small army of clerks at work throughout the dav in the room of the senate committee on finance preparing the bill for the printer. If this task can be accomplished to-night so that the printed bill can be laid before the Democrats tomorrow, debate wiil begin in the noose to-morrow after? noon. It is not believed there will be any disposition on the part of the Democratic members of the confer? ence to delay the bill in fall commit tee,\but the Democrats have bad no meeting to determine their course on this point. Governor Dingley ex? pressed the opinion to night that an hour would be sufficient in which to explain the changes made by the conferees to their minority colleagues on the committee. One or two of the Democrats are to night inclined to insist upon a day for deliberations on the changes; bet they of course realize that they are helpless if the majority desire to report the bill over their protest, and inasmuch as the Republican leaders of the house decided tb-night to give two full days for the discussion in the house, they probably will acquiese in the decision of the majority to make the report to-morrow. All along ?he Re? publican leaders have been disposed to allow but one day for debate in the house, aad, while they still believe one day would be sufficient, after discussing the question to-night, they decided, more' to disarm the protests the minority would be sure to make and the possible criticism that the repott was to be dragooned through the house, to give two full day s for debate. The report most, of course, be acted apon by the bouse before it -is considered .io the senate , The committee on roles will meet to-morrow morning and prepare a rule which will bring a vote on the report before adjournment on Tues day The rules will be presented and adopted as soon as the conferees cjake their report, probably soon after noon to morrow The debate will immediately follow. The South Carolina dispensary bill will be used to consume time until the report is brought in It is not believed that a single Republican vote in the house will be recorded against the report The program in the senate is much more indefinite on account of the wide latitude allowed for debate and the absence of any parliamen? tary method of bringing the report to a vote. The Democratic senators, it is safe to presume, from their talk to day, intended to assail the compro? mise on sugar to w hich the confer eoce agreed and to make a pretty stiff fight against the restoration to tbe dutiable list of cotton bagging, cotton ties, burlaps, etc , which they succeeded, with the aid of the Popu lists and one or two Republicans, in ?placing on the free Hst. They also will make strong opposition to the restoration of white pine to the house rate of $2 per thousand. Some of tbe Democratic senators to-day dis cussed the possibility of defeating tbe report on the presumption that they might be; able to secure as many votes against the report as they did to place these articles on thc free list. But no one imagines seriously that the reDort is in danser when it comes to a final vote. And, moreover, the prominent Democratic senators freely express the opinion that the fight in the senate, though it may be spirited, will be brief They believe a vote will be reached within three days in the senate. The parliamentary procedure in con ference reports may have an import? ant bearing on the course of the de? bate in the senate. A question has. arisen as to the parliamentary prac? tice. It is the established procedure to consider conference reports as aa entirety, so that no vote can be taken on a separate feature of the report. The report must be accepted or rejected as a whole This practice becomes important in view of the desire among those opposing the bill tof secure a separate vote on sugar, lum ber, cotton ties, cotton bagging and other items which have aroused ex? ceptional interest One of the con? ferees, who is an authority on par? liamentary proceedure. said to-night : "There can be no doubt that the con? ference report must be considered as an entirety. The rulings of Speaker Blaine, Speaker Carlisle and others j bave placed tbat beyond controversy, I and the same mle bas been observed I in the senate. The only question be ? fore the house is : Shall the report be j accepted or rejected as a whole For ! that reasou no motion relating to i sugar, cotton ties, cotton bagging or ! any other item of the report is in j order. The vote will be taken as to the entire report and it is only by defeat? ing the report as a whole that it would be possible to reach any special item. Should the entire re? port be rejected, then a motion would be in order to recommit the bill to the conference with instructions on any particular subject. The strength of the report lies in its entirety." Forced Through the House. Republicans Railroad the Tariff Bili Through Over All Opposition. WORSE THAN THE McKIN LEE BILL. Washington, July 20 -The confer? ence report on the tariff bill was adopted by the house shortly after midnight by a vote of 189 to 115. and at noon to-day the report wilt go to tbe seoate for action there. This eclipses all previous records. The result was accomplished after twelve hours of con tiouous debate. But two speeches were made by the republicans-one by Governor Dingley in opening the de j bate and one by Mr. Payne, of New York, in closing it. The democrats j were thus forced to put forth speaker after speaker, but their bombardment of tbe republican position was unan swered. In ail ten*democratic and one popu? list speeches were made-Messrs Wheeler (Ala ), Swanson (Ya.), Bail (Texas), Lanham (Texas), Kelly (N. D ). Fleming (Ga.), Handy (Del.) McDowell (Ohio), Berry (Ky.). Bailey (Texas) aod McMillio (Tenn.) beieg the speakers. The sugar schedule was j the main point of assault, but the most interesting feature of the debate oc? curred when Mr. Batley and Mr. Mc? Millan, the two rival democratic lead? ers, crossed swords on the question of orthodoxy of the free jay material doc? trine, the former opposing and the Ut ter championing it. The galleries were crowded up to the time the vote was taken, maoy distin? guished people being present. Among them were a number of senators, seve? ral members of the cabinet and a few members of the diplomatic corps. Every republican in the house pres? ent voted for the report The demo? crats, with five exceptions, voted against the report. The exceptions were Messrs. Slayden of Tex*?, BOU?J ! sard, Mercer and Davy of Louisiana i and Kleberg of Texas. The populists j and silverites* did nor. vote solidly, j Shaforth of Colorado, Newlands of Ne j vada. Hartman of Mootana, silverites. did not vote. The populists who voted j against the report were Baker, Barlow, Boik:n, Fowler, Jett, Lewis, Marshall, Martin, Peters, Simpson, Strowd and Vincent. Four did net vote-howard, Kelley, Slade and Southerlin. The other populist were absent. An analysis of the vote shows that 184 republicans and 5.democrats voted for the report and 103 democrats and 12 populists against it. I Will tote For It If My Vote is Needed to Pass the Bill-So Says Mr. Tillman. Special to Tbe State. Washington. July 19.-A poll of the senate to-day indicates that one vote may defeat the tariff conference report. When this phase of the sit? uation was called to Senator Tillman's attention to day he said : "I will vote for the bill if my vote is necessary to pass it " When he made this assertion a day or two ago it was not thought that one vote would decide the fate of the bill, but that was Senator Tillman's impression at the time The effect of one vote is now apparent acd the South Carolina senator's attitude has been the subject to day of much com? ment among Republicans and Demo crate in both houses Governor Taylor of Tennessee has been ap prised of me situation aud urgent telegrams have been sent to him to day, suggesting the immediate ap? pointment of Senator Harris' 6uc ce8Sor. Senator Tillman's policy in voting for the tariff bill is not supported by the South Carolina members of the ! bouse. They deplore his course in ? the matter and express great appre I bension that it may be disastaous to j the Reform movement in the State. It is Senator Tillman's belief that ': the passage of the bill will end in j the disruption cf the Republican j party and the immediate result will 4 be the election of a Democratic cpn i gre88 next year. He is alone in the i entertainment of this opinion and is ! the only Democrat in congress will? ing to risk his political existence by adhering to it. Democrats generally condemn his position. It was pub? licly referred to in the house to-day by Representative Ball of Texas. He denounced ''the efforts of those claiming to be Democrats who sought to add to the enormities of the bili by taxes on products cf their own btate and section. Whatever ? may be their political classification, 5 I they are not Democrats " Senator Tillman heard the Texan's j j observations and was among the first j i to extend his congratulations. i A SELL OUT FOR SOMETHING. The hearing of the Tillman liquor j bill goes over until to morrow, lt is Representative Tawney's opinion that the committee will report a rule for the consideration of the bill iu the j house. Representative Stone of Pennsyl? vania said to day that at Senator Quay's urgent request he had with? drawn his opposition to the extent that he would not object to unani? mous consent for consideration in the house Whatever influences have been invoked the indications to-night are that a vote will be had on the bill in the house to morrow or next day Among the supporters of tjie bill, Dr. Webster figures conspicuously in the lobby to day. He admits that Senator Tillman's vole may be a vital factor in the passage of the tariff bill and he gives a reason for supporting the bill a little less unique than Sen? ator Tillman's reason for supporting the tariff bill There is some merit, he says, in the dispensary system and then, too, he adds, the passage of the bill perpetuates the factions in the Democratic party in the State and therein lies the hope of the Republi? can party. I Carry Its Own Insurance. ---- Commissioner Vaoce of the State dispensary has recommended to the State board of control that the insur? ance on ali dispensaries in the State be carried by the board. His recommen? dation is a? follows : "That you carry your own insur? ance. You are now paying $4,000 per j annum on local dispensaries under 1 the three-fourths clause, the rate per j cent, being fr^m one and a half to j two and a half-say au average of two per cent per annum The averase stock of the local dispensaries is $2,- ! OOO. We have ojnety dispensaries j Cancel all your insurance policies and ! assess each dispeoeary, to be charged up-under the expense account, two per cent, on its 6tock. which would raise an average of $40 from each dis? pensary, a total ?3.600. Put this io the back to be known as the insur? ance fuod and lo be drawn upon only io the event of fire wheo the loss sus? tained could be paid io fall and not upon the three fourth per cent, basis. The amount of premiums paid out have amounted to more than $1,000 per year more than the losses, if you should fortunately escape fire for two or three years, the insurance fund would be so large that the rate per cent, of the assessment for" protection could be safely reduced." ---? I -I - j More Par-Reaching Than Pre? vious Orders. Judge Simonton has had all the facts about the running of the origi? nal store opened by Mr. W. B. Meetze in this city, laid before him, and the manner of breaking open cases of liquor and selling the stuff out by the bottle has been thorough? ly explained to him. And the result is that he has issued a temporary in? junction in two cases-one for the beer company represented by Mr Meetze, and the other for the whis? key company represented by him which is more far-reching than any he has yet issued and under which Mr Meetze is bound to proceed with j the sale of his liquors just as he start? ed out, at least uutil Aug 9 Judge j Simonton has gone eo far in this I latest order as to restrain the State's ! officers from interfering with Mr j Meetze even by injunction in the i State courts, it having been expected ; that such would be the next move on j the part of the State j Yesterday morning, Mr. P. H. i Nelson, representing Mr. Meetze, went to Flat Rock, N C., and ap? peared before Judge Simonton pre ? senting to him a complaint on the j j part of the Robert Portner Brewing company and another on the part of Charles M. Pfeifer & Co.. Mr. i Meetze selling beer for the former as agent and whiskey for the latter. Mr. Nelson explained to ihe judge very fully how Mr. Meetze had re j ceived hie liquor, bow he had open? ed up the boxes and cases and sold the bottles separately. Last night I Mr. Nelson returned with an order of injunction iu each case in his pocket.-The State Stabs in the Back. For the benefit of John T. Duncan, j Johnnie McLaurin and S. G. May I field The News would like to remark that Manning Irby is a great bluffer and bulldozer. If an opponeut will allow Irby to bulldoze him he will surely do it. but, if said opponent gives him to understand al ttie start that he does not intend to be bull? dozed, Irby will then take the hint and behave himself The ex Sena? tor, too, is one of those fellows who comes upon his foe from the rear, and, if the other candidates will only keep their faces towards him they need never have any fear -Darling? ton News. Glenn Springs Water will cure ali stomach troubles aod liver complaints You ctn get it through W. R. Delgar. -_j1_ . March on the Mines. Wionsboro, July IO.-The senatori? al candidates were heard there to-day by an audience of between 300 and 400. Each was accorded an attentive hearing and the meeting passed off without incident. Messrs. Irby and Duncan were absent. They sent no excuser. ga ??iiiptiiM^i^iMwiiLmiw-aramTaBPnanEti L:I:e biliousness, dyspepsia, headache, consti? pation, sour stomach, indigestion are promptly lured by Hood's Pilis. They do their work Pitsburg, July 18 -The events of to day in the Pittsburg coal mining dis? trict indicate that, there is trouble ahead The strike has been on for two weeks, with no cause for aiarcn in any quarter, but to-day the pangs of hunger and ruutterinss of discontent have taken tangible form and before moro 1,000 miner? will have marched oo Can nohflburg, the objetive point beiog the Boone and Allison mioes. A few days ago the opcra'ors of the mines made a requisition on tbe sheriff of Washing? ton county for additional deputies. It is supposed that tbere are at least 30 deputies at each mine, well armed for any friction that may take place. To? day the miners of the Miller's and Tom's Koo district held mas3 meetings. Tbe men employed in the Slope and Bridgeville mines, Essen No. 1 and 2, and Steen's met at Bridgeville. Cecil was the scene of a meetiog of Laurel Hill Nos. 2 and 4, Creedmoor and the diggers employed in the Standard and Ellsworth mioes in Miller's Ruo also held a meeting The gatherings were attended by men, women acd children The women did not lag io tbe ioterest taken. Many of them openly branded their husbands as cowards. They argued that they might as well fight as starve The men said the victory could bc won pro? vided every coal miner emplayed io the sections where the trade is supplied would join in the geceral movement of idleness Plans for bringiog out the miners at work in tbe Boone and Allison mines were discussed. Special committees were sent form one meetiug to the other. The Riesing brass band and the Cecil drum corps were engaged aud the march across the county is on. The procession will be made of three divis- j ton from the different ssotioos. They j will mobilize ai Bridgeville acd take j up the tramp of 12 milos across i the country. A miuer who was very j enthusiastic over tho plan said there I would be at least 1,000 men in line j It was learned late tc-nighr. that tbs ' scheme ban been ia process of formation for several days. It was talked of sev? eral days ago and got to the ears of the operators of the Oannoosburg mines, hence their decision to increase their force of deputies. Whether the mioers will go armed is not koown as yet, but they expect to be at the mines when the offending diggers are ready to go to work and wiii use every influence pos? sible to keep them from going into the mines. Some of the most conservative of the leaders claim that there will be no bloodshed. They say that when the colliers 6ee such a big demonstra? tion io favor of what they term a peace? ful battle for bread, they canDOt enter the mines and retain their manhood. Every effort was made to keep the movement a secret for fear the force of deputies at the mines would be fur? ther iccreased. Ju9t what the result will be, it is dificult at this hour to tell. The men are known to be in a condition of semi insanity on the strike question. They have been goaded on by suffering wives, daughters and sweethearts, and it appears as if it ts the beginning of tbe end of the strike. The negotiation to induce the coal operators of this district to sign a uni? formity agreement are still goiog on. The commissioners baviDg it io charge feel as if they would be able to accom? plish it. Secretary G. F. Schmidt said to-night that the prospects were brighter than tbey bave been sio?e negotiations begao. He Paid tbat within the next few days powerful and potent influences wonid be brought to bear on the operators, and with the strike in the present coodition the indi? cations were for successful consumma tion of the agreement. A8 aD evidence that tbe operators are not counting on arbitration, it was announced to-oight by a prominent operator that if the strike io West Virginia does oot prove successful the Pittsburg operators will make an effort early next week to start tbeir mioes at the 69 cent rafe, the rate now asked by the strikers. They wiii claim that as they are willing to pay the price asked, the law must pro? tect them in the operations of tbeir miDes mmw i t ? mm Quinine and other fe? ver medicines take from S to IO days to cure fever. Johnson's Chili and Fever Tonic cures in ONE DAY. ?asily and thoroughly. Best after dinner pills. 25 cents. Ail druggists. Prepared by C. I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass. The only Pill to take with Hood's Sarsaparilla. Pills The New Eldorado. SERIOUS. MINERS TELL OF ALASKA'S GREAT RICHES. New York Sua. Sao Francisco, July 16.-San Fran cisco*has nos been stirred by aoy min? ing discovery since the opening up of the great bouanzas on the Comstock Lodge in Nevada,, nearly 30 years ago, as it has been for two days by the sto? ries of two-score sun-tanned, and hard featured miners who have just returned j from the new Klondike camp on the j Yukon river in far Alaska. These stories would have excited de? rision were it not that ali these men were able to furnish occular proof with pounds of yellow gold. Not one of the party went into camp last fall with anything more than bis outfit and a few hundred dollars. Not one came out with lees than $5.000, a dozen cleaned up from ?1,000 to ?20.000, while half a dozen averaged from ?20, 000 to $90,000. Scores of them left claims that they valued at $20,000 to $1,000,000, which are now teing worked by their partners or hired la? borers. They are not boasters or boomers In fact, they are careful ?to warn any one about venturing into the Yukon country unless he is young, vigorous and brave, able to bear hard? ships, and bas from ?500 to $1,000 for outfit aod current expenses after reaching the new gold fields. Perhaps it is these very conservative views which have made their talk take such powerful hold on the popular Pagina? tion. Of course, this first keen enthusiasm may fade and next spring may sre few go to the far north, but QO one who has observed the popular feeling here will be surprised to see 5,000 men go from this1 cify, acd perhaps 1,500 or more will start next month. The blood of j the Argonauts flows io the veios of half j of the Californians, and stories of rich ; miuing strikes stir them as a blast of trumpets. Evry one here knows the history of the far northern bonanzas and is prepared to discount the extra enthusiasm of returned raioers, for all ? remember the hard fortunes of the thousands of Californians wno rushed to Cariboo and Fraser Uiver placers i nearly 40 years ago, only to find that there were 50 men for every claim and that the paying district was so small it could not support 5,000 men. Kloodike may be a repetition of Cari? boo, but from what is said by hard? headed old miners with whom The S*a crrepoodent has talked there is gol . bearing country enough around Daw I ?on City ro support a great population, and the only daoger lies in the scarcity of provisions during the long winters, when fresh supplies cannot be brought I io. Should transportation companies I do no better than they have done for the last two years, 3nd should 20,000 or 30,000 men crowd into Klondike, there will be a3tual starvation with ? abundant crime. { All returned miners agree that the i j best way to reach the new gold fields i is by way of Juneau The journey is j mainly by land over a snow-covered j trail, down numerous streams and j across lakes The oniy very danger- i ous place is Chilkot Pass, which is ; dreaded because of the sudden snow- j storms that come up without warning and that have proved fatal to many ad venturous miners. The distance is about 650 miles, acd it takes an aver? age of 25 days to cover it. James j Ladue, one of the miners now in the 1 city, gives an interesting account of the trip, and also of bis experience ! in the great almost unknown region, j Ladue has been in Alatka for 15 years. ? but it was not until the discovery of I gold in Bonanza Creek that be struck j it rich. Incidentally it may ??be;?men I tioo that be is the founder of Dawson I City, though the bonanza fiod wa* j made by Robert Henderson, who had ? been prospecting for years in the j great northwest. Ladue is a hard- j visaged man with a keen eye and heavy drooping mustache. To-day he gave j I this description of his jouroey to the j new camp : j "The most dangerous part cf the j trio is crossing Cbilkot Pass. Even \ i as late as May and June snowstorms ! occur, and woe to the traveller who is J caught. Chilkot Pass is itself 3,800 j feet high, but is the only opening in a ! mountain range whose peaks reach an average altitude of 10,000 feet. The snowstorms at the pass are sudden and furious, and many lives have been lost ; there. People who have been caught ! have saved themselves by crawling j under some overhanging rooks, where i they have been forced to remain two or j three days without food. I "Dawsoo City is not uulike som-: of : the mining towns hers io this State and j elsewhere, with the difference that no ! lawlessness exists The people realize j they ou? depend to a certain extent ; on one another, though the Canadian government bas been a poweiful faster ', keeping down the unruly The bis tory of Dawson City is interesting. I ; built the first house in it ?nd raised the first American flag. The diseovt-ry of iio\<\ in that immediate locality made by Robert Henderson at a placr called Gold Bottom, though George Mc? cormack brought to light the riches of Bonanza creek. As soon as new? of the great find reached Circle City and Forty Mile, meo threw up their claims and hastened to the new fields There was promise of trouble at first because the men were crazed over the prospect, but cooler beads finally pre - tm II lui i II ?J vailed ar:d a meeting W2g De;d oo the bank? of the creek and ground was al? lotted to each man. The eiaitu? were cut from 500 to 100. and there WAS ag:in a threat of trouble until the do? minion surveyor, William Agilve, arrived and resurveyed all claims Under the new ruling each claim ex? tends 500 feet along the bottom of the width being governed by the distance between mouotaics This will average 600 feet, though there are some claims 1,000 feet wide." Dawson City has now a population of nearly 3,000 Ir. is beautifully situat? ed on the banks, of the Yukon near thc mouth of the Klondike, aod 6eems des? tined to become the mining center of the northwest territory Tbe people now live io shanties each built of a few strips of weatherboarding and can? vas Ltdue bas a sawmill in operation day and night, but be cannot supply the demand for its products. Lumber seil? at the mill for $150 per thousand, but when delivered at mioes the price jumps to $400. ALMOST AN ULTIMATUM. Ambassadors Speak Positive? ly to Minister Tewfik, Constantinople, July 18.-At Sat? urday's sitting of the peace confer? ence Tewfik Pasha, the Turkish min? ister of foreign affairs, arrived late. He submitted a plan which was un? acceptable to the powers and the ambassadors informed Tewfik that the conference would adjourn until he brought a written acceptance by his government of the frontier line traced by the military attaches. It was arranged that the Turkish military commission should meet the European millitary attaches at 9 o'clock yesterday morning at To pbane, but the Turks failed to keep the appointment. Tewfik appeared later and explain? ed that the sultan had appointed marshals Zekki -Pasha and Saadedin Pasha as new military delegates to negotiate peace. The ambassadors unanimously and possitively declined to discuss the question at issue with anybody except Tewfik. Although the orders recently is? sued have been countermanded, 15*, 000 troops are still held in readiness to start for the island of Crete at the shortest notice. Will Defy Federal Judges. Greenville, S. C.. July 19.-The court of session opened this morning, Judge R C. Watts presiding. The judge, in bis charge to the grand jury, took strong stares rights grounds when discussing the dispensary entanglement. He called attention to two erroneous views concerning the dispensary situa? tion : first it was thought, that any one bad the right to retail liquor io the state; second, that state courts were bound by tbe decisioos of federal court judges After stating* the points of the deci? sion of Judge Simootoo on the original Dackage contention, he said : "I am not bound by the decision of any fed? eral circuit judge, no more than they are bound by roy decision. I am gov? erned alone by the state and federal constitutions, and after that the state supreme court decisioos and United States supreme court cn all questions appertaining or arising under the con? stitution of the United Stares Now the man who ships ibe liquor may have it protected from seizures by in? junction, but that will not save the seller from the clutches of the state courts, and I intend to attach for con? tempt every one who violates my in? junction or that of any oilier state judge. I don't apprehend any conflict of state and federal authorities, but if it comes I suppose the state will be able to take care of itself.7' The Penitence of Sambo. A Washington man, who suspected a colored mao in his employ of taroper iog wifh bis private stock of whiskey, allowed the demijohn to become empty, and, instead of fillies it again, put the liquor io bottles in a cupboard, and labelled tbero "Poison." One night, as he came home from the theatre, be caught the colored servant io the act. Seizing the bottle in mock terror, he exclaimed : "Great heavens! Do you know what you are doing ? Don't you see what that bottle contains is marked poison ?" The colorad man held ii off and look? ed at it. Then he smelled it, and with a look cf melancholy, replied : ' Tain't poison, sub. Ps done been fooled ag'io." ..How dared you tamper with it, whether you knew it was poison or not?" "Bass, it was dis-a way. F'utn de way yob acted 'beut dat jemtjohn ic de cellar. I dooe thought you had yob s'ptcions ob me. an' it ttade me melan? choly, fob -ho', l's boen tryio' fob mos*" ttvo nrfr-lis r.otr fer commit suicide out'n dat borrie !"-From The Crypt Lamp ?rbades when artistically mat-iecf crept- tissue arc- things of beauty. If you wm:: to liinUe shades to beautify your bo mee H. G. Odttec ? Co. eau eupply the materials A large stock of crepe tissue in ten foot rolls U9t received. Base Balls, Bats and supplies at H. G. O?teen & Co's.