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TILLMAN'S ADDRESS.
Senior Senator Gives His Reasons
for Resigning to Oppose
McLaurin.
CALLS UPON DEMOCRATS TO
VINDICATE HIS ACTION.
Special to The State.
Trenton, S. C., May 28.-Senator
Tillman famished the press the follow?
ing address this afternoon :
To the Democratic Voters of the
State.
Feilow-Citizens : An extraordinary
and unparalleled situation has unex?
pectedly arisen in the State, and as I
am mainly responsible for this, I feel
that a proper respect for you, requires
an explanation of my actions and mo?
tives.
Eleven years ago by a very large vote
you elected me governor of the State,
and two years afterwards I was reelect?
ed by an overwhelming majority. In
'94 I was sent as your representative
in the congress of the United States as
one of the senators from South Car?
olina. After six years service in that
body I was last year chosen without
opposition to be my own successor. I
was sworn in on March 4th, last
for the six years' term ending in
1907. The ink has hardly become
dry upon my oath of office and
yet I have tendered my resign?
ation to take effect September
15th next. My colleague has also ten?
dered his resignation to take effect the
same date, and thus there will be
two vacancies to be filled Syy appoint?
ment of the governor until the legis?
lature can elect our successors in Jan?
uary next. I desire to announce my
candidacy to succeed myself and ask
you to vindicate my action by your
votes in the priman*, which will be
ordered by the State Democratic com?
mittee. This is an off year in politics
and but for the conditions which had
come about my action in precipitating
a political campaign, and primary
election would be inexcusable. A
brief review of recent political events
will be necessary to give that explana?
tion. My colleague. Jno. L. McLau?
rin, was elected to the senate at a pri?
mary held in *97 to succeed the la?
mented Earle. He was elected as a
Democart standing- on the Chicago
platform of 1896. Early in '99 Sena?
tor McLaurin parted company with his
Democratic colleagues in the senate,
and has since voted for and advocated
everything that the Republican party
now stands for, and has persistently
antagonized his own party in all of his
public utterances and acts. Notwith?
standing that a new State convention
last May laid down the principles and
policies of the party, and a new na?
tional convention at Kansas City in
July announced the principles of Dem?
ocracy as now understood throughout
the union, your junior senator has
acted as though he were entirely inde?
pendent of the people who elected him
and has felt under no obligations to
obey their wishes or do their will
as their representative. When the
C mgress adjourned last March he and
his sympathizers in the State began
at once an active propaganda of his
new doctrines, which he claimed were
Democratic, but which all true Demo*
crats must know are only Republican?
ism in disguise and very thinly dis?
guised at that. He made a speech at
Charlotte. April 16th. in which the
Democratic party is sneered at and as?
sailed. He made another speech at
Greenville last week filling out and
developing his new theories, and took
pains to indicate his perfect accord
with Mr. McKinley in all his poli?
cies. He had appointments already
arranged tb make speeches at at least
three other places-Gaffney, Vorkville
and Spartanburg-and had begun an
active canvass for reelection, fifteen
months before the regular campaign,
which would choose his successor, in
the Democratic primary of 1902 would
open. It was natural that these gen?
tlemen who proposed to contest for his
seat should be unwilling to premature?
ly announce their candidacy and take
the field against him. He had the dis?
pensing of federal patronage placed at
his disposal by the Republican presi?
dent, and he had unlimited money
furnished by his Republican allies, or
McKinley Democratic followers in
South Carolina and his purpose was
to go up and down the State unoppos?
ed and unanswered to organize his
new political machine. This was the
situation up to the Gaffney meeting
and I was confronted with the ques?
tion of what was my duty under the
circumstances. Recollect that I am a
member of the national Democratic
committee, as your representative: I
was on the committee on platform in
both of the last national conrventions
and helped frame the declarations of
principle and policy upon which we
went to battle, and I was chairman of
the committee, on platform in your
last State convention. Remember too
that both at Charlotte and Greenville,
dicrectly and indirectly, I had been
assailed by Mr. McLaurn and you will
understand why I was anxious to
meet my colleague at Gaffney, and
when invited by a large number of
citizens of Cherokee county I willing
ly accepted. The reslult of that meet?
ing is now well known. Mr. McLaurin
was unexpectedly brought face to face
with the'question of resignation and
appeal to the people whose confidence
he had abused and whose trust he had
betrayed. He tried to dodge the
thrust, by charging that I was at?
tempting to dictate and boss the peo?
ple and interfere in a race with which
j ? had no concern and was safely eseon
ed in my seat for six years, and had
nothingto lose, but could weil afford
to lay down a code of moral ethics,
for another which I was unwilling to
follow myself. I saw the opportunity
to precipitate a battle at once rather
than wait fifteen months and I offered
to resign if he would, and the result
you know. I acted from impulse it is
true, but I have always acted upon
impulse and as a public man I can
affirm with the sacredness of an oath
that all of my impulses have been to
serve the best interest of the people
vrho have honored me. I had every
opportunity to weigh the consequences
of my action and to get out of it with?
out discredit, but I felt then and still
feel that my duty was to force the
fighting and" rid the party of all trait?
ors. The situation as I understand it,
is this. The people who are interested
in having two senators at Washington
to do their will and stand by their
principles will have an opportunity of
being honestly and honorably repre?
sented. This has not been the case dur?
ing the last two years, and as long as
McLaurin remains in the senate it
could not be the case.
As to the burdens of the contest.
The citizens of a given county will
lose but two days, to bring about this
much desired result, one day to at?
tend the campaign meeting and the
other to go to the primary. While I
willi have the fatigue and expense of
a State canvass which I could easily
have avoided.
The contest between the Democracy
and the man who seeks to betray it
will be fought without any local com?
plications whatever. Voters will not
be influenced in this'contest by the de?
sire to elect local favorites and thus
swapping will be prevented. The is?
sues will be clear cut. The organiza?
tion of the " Commercial Democra?
cy," another name for McKinley De?
rne racy, will have to be consummated
in much shorter time and under much
less favorable conditions. Our party
J?as the opportmity to rebuke and pun?
ish treachery at once as a warnig to
those who may be wavering. Many
good men will be prevnted from be?
coming Republicans in fact, though
not in name by having the issues
explained before they have aligned
themselves under the new banner.
The democatic uniform will be struck
o;ff of those who have proven unworthy
to wear it and they will be made to
understand the difference between
honorable and dishonorable dis?
charges. Civil virtue, the sacred rela?
tions which should exist between the
representative and his constituency,
will be more clearly understood and
all true democrats must rejoice at the
result. For myself and the sacrifice [
have made I will say nothing. I pre?
fer to let the people of the State con?
sider the matter for themselves and
pass upon my conduct as they may
determine, whether it was right and
proper or rash and quixotic. I have
served them to the best of my ability
with zeal and honesty since I have
been their servant aud shall continue
to do so, if they continue to honor
and trust me. When I cannot truth?
fully say that I represent the majority
of the people of South Carolina and
vote and speak as they desire, I be?
come "as sounding brass and a tink?
ling cymbal." And prefer the retire?
ment of private life to the degraded
elevation of a high position obtained
by deceit and held against the wishes
of the people. I put my case in your
hands and will explain and vindicate
my case more fully in the coming pri?
mary canvass.
B. R. Tillman.
Cuban Convention Yields.
Havana. May 28-The Platt amend?
ment was accepted by the Cuban Con?
stitutional Convention today by a vote
of 15 to 14. The actual vote was on
accepting the majority report of the
committee on relations, which embod?
ied the amendment with explanations
of certain clauses.
The Radicals made a hard fight at
the last moment . and Se?ores Portn
ondo. Gomez and Tamayo bitterly ar?
raigned the Conservatives Senor
Tamayo was particulrly vindictive and
declared that everybody who voted in
favor of the Platt amendment was a
traitor to his country. Thc Conven?
tion compelled him to retract this
statement. On several occasions per?
sonal encounters seemed imminent.
Senor Gomez spoke for more than an
hour, and his speech undoubtedly won
over Se?ores ('astro. Roban and'Man
dnley. lie appealed to the patriotism
of the delegates and rehearsed the long
fight for independence, denouncing as
perjurers all who favored the Platt
amendment, on the ground that they
had sworn to draw up a Constitution
for an independent republic.
Several Conservatives rose and asked
Senor Gomez to retract, but he abso?
lutely refused.
The following delegates voted
against the majority report : Gomez,
Gener, La Cret. Portuondo, Manduley,
Cisneros. Ferrer, Foortun, Roban. E.
Tamayo. Silvia, Castro, Zayas and
Alem?n.
Se?ores Rivera and Bravo were ab?
sent.
The Convention will continue its
sessions, which will be devoted to
drawing up the election law.
La Discussion in an extra this even?
ing exclaims: ''Now will come imme?
diate independence.*'
Washington, May 29. Secretary
Koot has decided that all of the second
lieutenants of the cavalry, who were
such on February 2 last, and ali o? the
second lieutenants of infantay, who
were such at the date of the organiza?
tion of the volunteer army in 189?", are
to be at once promoted to the rank of
first lieutenants.
Senator IMauriiTs Address,
Statements Made Necessary by
Tillman's Malicious Falsehoods.
An Appeal to the People to Help
Defeat Tillman.
Bennettsville, May 30.-Senator Mc?
Laurin today issued the following ad?
dress :
To My Fellow Citizens: The ad?
dress of Senator Tillman to you ren?
dered it necessary that I should say
something in explanation of my mo?
tives and actions. I sincerely regret
that you are to be subjected to the ex?
pense and excitement of a senatorial
primary this year, but I feel that I
am not responsible. Had it not been
for Senator Tillman's intrusion upon
the Gaffney meeting there would have
been no necessity for it. A joint de?
bate was precipitated by him contrary
to my wishes and of the gentlemen
who invited me. He forced himself
upon the meeting by his own admis?
sion. No other honorable course was
left to me hut to accept his propo?
sition or lay myself open to ihe
charge of cowardice. It is too late
now to consider whether it was wise
or unwise, and the people must judge
between us. I desire to announce my
candidacy in opposition to the senior
senator for the unexpired long term
and will discuss with him in a fair
and reputable manner the national is?
sues of the day and leave it to you to
judge who can the more "honestly and
honorably'' represent you in the Uni?
ted States senate. In 1897 I was elect?
ed to the senate as a Democrat and I
am still a Democrat.
In everything I have said and done
I have had the good of my people at
heart, to them I am ready to render
an account of my stewardship, but not
to the senior senator: perhaps in this
lies my chief sin.
In my recent speech at Greenville I
gave the people the reason for my offi?
cial action since 1899. It is useless for
me to reiterate what I said in that
speech as it has been extensively pub?
lished and I presume generally read.
Were it not for charges made in the ad?
dress of the senior senator, it would
be unnecessary for me to say more.
But I cannot allow him to assail me
and my Democracy without saying
something in my vindication. He
charges that, after the adjournment
of congress in March last, with the
aid of my friends, I commenced in the
State ari active propaganda of my new
doctrines, /'which are claimed to be
Democratic but are nothing but Re?
publicanism in disguise." He arro?
gates to himself the power to decide
for the people as to the righteousness
of my course and views, and is not
willing for them to hear and judge
for themselves. His indecent intru?
sion upon the Gaffney meeting illus?
trates his methods of "bossism" and
his desire toorale or ruin." After
my return home in April last I receiv?
ed invitations from citizens of Green?
ville. York, Cherokee. Newberry and
Spartanburg counties to address the
people on the national issues of the
day. As their public servant. I could
not disregard their imperative calls,
and I accepted the invitations.
Had I not done so, my xjolitical
opponent? would have charged that
I could not meet my constitutents
face to face and explain my poli?
tical action. It was not my pur?
pose in accepting these invitations to
inaugurate my campaign for reelection
more than a year in advance of the
primary, but to attempt to enlighten
the people and remove false impres?
sions produced upon the public mind
by the senior senator and his sympa?
thizers. I had been persistently ma?
ligned and misrepresented and the
only means afforded me for my vindi?
cation was to get the ear of the people.
This was my only object in making
speeches where I was invited to go,
and had it not been for these invita?
tions I should have remained silent.
Have we reached the point where a
number of private citizens cannot in?
vite one of their representatives to
' address them, without including the
senior senator or first obtaining his
permission? The senior senator," it
seems, willed that I should not1 be
heard at that time and determined
that I should wait for his bidding to
go. before the people. The senator
also charges that I am a Republican1
and was organizing a Republican par?
ty here. If he he le i ved this charge,
why did he consent to run with me
in a Democratic primary? I denounce
the charge as an infamous falsehood
and the senior senator knows what he
says is untrue. In his recklessness,
the senior senator further charges that
tlie dispensing of the public patronage
has been placed at my disposal and
** unlimited money"* is furnished me by
the Republicans to aid in the scheme
of the organization of a new party. I
denounce this as a malicious false?
hood. In my Greenville speech I ex?
plained why I had ; been consulted
about the federal patronage and at
Gaffney I denounced, in his presence,
both of these charges as wilfully false,
i and yet?he reiterates them in his ad
! dress. His purpose in repeating what
he knows to be slanders must be evi?
dent to all.
The senior senator undertakes in his
address to throw the whole responsi?
bility of the present situation in the
State upon me. After defining my
Democracy and branding me as a
: traitor to the party, he meekly says
that he and his Democracy were assail?
ed by me. and it was incumbent upon
; him to crush me and my influence in
this State. -The senior senator has
undertaken a herculean task, for
."truth crushed to earth will rise
again." The senator forgets that he
insidiously and maliciously assailed
' me last summer, when I was unable
; to defend myself, and after my Char
: lotte speech, in an interview, made
! false and slanderous charges against
i me. I did in my Charlotte and Green
i ville speeches criticise his Populistic
I Democracy, and I have nothing to re
j tract. He impugns the motives of
others, but when a reply is made he
cries out that he has been attacked in
an unjustifiable manner. The people
; shall judge of our Democracy and not
the senior senator. It is evident that
the senior senator fears that he cannot
defeat me on a fair field with no fa?
vors. Else why is he assailing me in
his address and threatening to -put out
other candidates? What was said on
the stand at Gaffney and the corres?
pondence between us will convince any
fair-minded man that our resignation
was with the understanding that the
race was to be between us only and the
campaign was not to take place until
the fall.
The senior senator said on the stand
that he would unite with me in a let?
ter to Gov. McSweeney requesting
him to withhold action until a decis?
ion by the primary. The address is
characteristical of the man and his
political methods. He is addicted to
making reckless and false charges
against others which he never sub?
stantiates. An honest man is always
chajy in charging others with dishon?
esty. The thief often cries "Stop
thief." He is an ambitious boss and
habitual disturber of the poliiical
peace and harmony of South Carolina.
Last summer for the sake of peace he
was given no opposition, and as soon
as the doors were closed and all en?
tries barred, he made a slanderous at?
tack upon the Bible and the ministry
of this State. Fellow Citizens, there
will never be anything like unity or
quietude among our people until he is
relegated to private life. His incen?
diary appeals to class hatred and pre?
judice, such as he made at Gaffney to
the factory operatives, and his dicta?
torial spirit and utterances, will keep
up dissensions, divisions and discord
in the State. With the aid of the peo?
ple I will make a heroic effort during
this campaign to break down "boss?
ism" with its train of political evils
and invite all good citizens to assist
me to inaugurate an era of free
thought, free speech and independence
of action on the part of the people of
South Carolina. The senior senator,
in the quietude of a farmer's life in
Edgefield county, could be viewed as
a pitchforkless pigmy and a blessing
to the State.
(Signed)
John Lowndes McLaurin.
READY TOTROP MCLAURIN.
Special to the Xews and Curier.
Washington, May 30.-President
McKinley's return to Washington
gives ren?wed interest here to the
Tillman-McLaurin controversy. There
are several Republican missionaries
here from South Carolina endeavoring
to ascertain how much substantial in?
fluence McLaurin has with the present
Administration, and also how far the
President and his party associates pro?
pose to assist McLaurin in his combat
with Tillman. Several Democrats,
who are inclined to wear the Republi?
can collar in return for offices that
pay, are also here taking an inventory
of McLaurin's supposed pull with the
Administration.
There is no doubt that the Adminis?
tration is friendly disposed towards
McLaurin. All of the prominent Re?
publican bureau officers appear to have
taken their cue from the Administra?
tion organs, which have been exploit?
ing McLaurin so freely of late. They
express great interest in his political
welfare and exprss the hope that he
has not made a mistake in under-esti?
mating Tillman's power and influence
in South Caroilna.
From an eminently reliable source I
am informed that the President and
his friends do not intend to become
involved in the South Carolina senato?
rial struggle. It is claimed that the
administration is under no further
personal or political obligation to Mc?
Laurin. The latter was offered a place
in the Philippine commission last
winter, but he declined it. It is fur?
ther said here that McLaurin blunder?
ed seriously in resigning his seat in
the Senate. If there has been any po?
litical dealing between McLaurin and
the administration in the considera?
tion for the support he has given the
Republican measures in the senate, he
became valueless for further dealing
without his senatorial toga. His
friends and his foes confess that he
has little or no chance of supplanting
Tillman, and many of the administra?
tion officials concede this.
It is claimed that more importance
is attached to the appointment of Mr.
Capers as district attorney than the
conditions warrant. South Carolini?
ans of every shade of political faith
concur in the opinion that while Mr.
Capers may l>e a capable man for the
position lie has no political following
in South Carolina and has not
strengthened McLaurin's almost im?
perceptible lines in the slightest de?
gree.
With the administration declaring
its hands off, McLaurin's prospects at
this end of the line are apparently
languishing. R. M. L.
The White House For McLaurin.
The Tillman-McLaurin episode in
South Carolina has also caused a great
deal of comment upon the President's
train. The sympathies of the Admin?
istration are very strongly with Sena?
tor McLaurin. whose support of the
President during the last 12 months
is fully appreciated. It is doubtful,
however, whether this sympathetic
feeling will take any outward or prac?
tical form, in view of the fact that a
public effort to assist Mr. McLaurin
would probably injure him. The fight
in South Carolina, which promises to
be a memorable contest, will, how
! ever, be nowhere watched more close
! ly than in the White House. H. L.
i West, in the Washington Post.
London, May 30. A sensation has
been caused at Birmingham by the
discovery of the bodies of 31 infants
; in a cellar beneath an undertaker's I
? establishment The bodies were in
j various stages of decomposition and
; huddled together in soap boxes. The
j establishment was conducted by a
I widow who today was charged with
! causing the infanis' deaths. The
prisoner was remanded.
Ho Summer Canvass Wauled.
SENATOR fvioL??R?N WHITES CHAIR?
MAN JONES.
He Wants to Fight Tillman Sin?
gle Handed.
Columbia, May 28-Chairman Wilie
Jones of the Stale Executive Commit?
tee received today the following letter
from Senator McLaurin :
Dear Colonel Jones : I note in to?
day's paper that you speak of the cam?
paign between myself and Senator
Tillman beginning about August 1st.
This is entirely ont of the question so
far as I am concerned. I made it a
point to date the resignation Septem?
ber loth, because I knew that it was
absolutely impossible for me to can?
vass the State until the weather be?
came cooler. I resigned in good faith
to submit the question to the voters
of South Carolina. I want fair treat?
ment,and an opportunity to present
my case to the people. Senator Till?
man intruded himself into this fight.
I am ready to fight to a finish, but
want no ''draw"' or "fouling."' My
suggestion would be, as congress does
not meet until December 4th, that the
committee request Gov. McSweeney to
withhold action until the result of the
primary is announced, and then ap?
point the man receiving the highest
number of votes. Let the legislature
elect my successor as it is ouly a short
time, or let you gentlemen who desire
to contest arrange your canvass en?
tirely apart from mine and Tillman's.
I would also suggest that you per?
mit he and I to arrange the schedule
.for our meetings. It is my desire to
conduct a clean, decent canvass, free
from personalities, if permitted to do
so: but I am ready to take what
comes. I wish it distinctly under?
stood, however, that I cannot enter?
tain the idea of canvassing in August,
and that one man at a time is all I
care to fight. I had enough of the
four to one business in 1897. I appeal
to you as man and chairman' of the
party for fair play.
The reason I suggest withholding
action on our resignations until after
the priman- is that there are many
postoffices and other matters of inter?
est to the State, among which I might
mention the Charleston Exposition,
which demand the attention of a sena?
tor. To take away from the State this
protection for even six weeks may
cause trouble. I do not care personal?
ly, however, what is done about this,
but think it my duty to mention it.
Yours respectfully,
John L. McLaurin.
Go!. Jones Replies to McLaurin.
Columbia May. 30.-Col. Wilie
Jones, chairman of the State Demo?
cratic Executive committee, yesterday
addressed the following to Senator
McLaurin in reply to the latter's
protest against a canvass of the State
in the month of August.
Dear Sir: Upon my return home
yesterday from Chickamauga I read
your open letter addressed to me in
The Evening Record and I will now
aswer it.
I simply stated that I thought that
the canvass would commence in Au?
gust next because at that time the
crops are laid by and the farmers are
at leisure, and the merchants
have little to do, and I thought that
it was the best time for the people to
hear public speaking. It has always
been customary since we have had the
primaries to have the canvass during
August. This is a matter entirely for
the committee to decide. I really
have no authority in this matter ex?
cept to call the committee together.
This I will do in a short time.
You can rest assured of one thing,
and that is that the State Democratic
Executive committee will be abso?
lutely fair in all that it has to do. I
have never been associated in my life
with a body of men who desired to
act more fairly, and did act fairer,
than this comimttee has always done.
It is compoesed of some of the best
men of our State, and they will give
everybody absolute justice.
ALABAMA'S CONSTITUTION.
Several Ordinances Introduced in
Convention Thursday.
Montgomery. Ala., May 30.- The
features of todays constitutional con?
vention, wen' ordinances introduced,
providing for electing the railroad
commission by a vote of the people,
paying them out of the State treasury
and rendering them inelligible for
reelection: fixing their term of office
at four years and giving them plenary
power to fix rates: to require the legis?
lature to stop lobbying by making it a
penal offense.
~. Mr. Sanders wanted the "grand fa?
ther clause" to be a part of any reform
adopted, and introduced a resolution
to that effect. Mr. Ashcroft intro?
duced the following:
To organize the whites and blacks
into separate school districts without
regard to each other, with separate
territory and officers. Also for special
local taxation divided among the races
in proportion to what each pays. The
taxation on corporate proparty is to
be divided among the races proportion
to color of stockholders.
Makes the food more d<
ROYAL BAKING FD
Manipulation of Legislation.
Some of the Combinations Republi?
cans are Making to Shape
Laws as They Wish.
Washington, May 30.-So anxious is
the administration to force its canal
surrender to Great Britain upon the
country that in order to carry out its
purpose, it is willing . to block all
efforts to make effective the interstate
commerce law.
At first blush the connection between
the two matters may not be seen, but
it exists just the same. The fate of
th? canal depends on the selection of
a chairman for the Foreign Relations
Commitee of the Senate. When Sena-1
tor Davis of fMinnesota, who was'
chairman of that committee died, the
three Senators next in order were
Frye of Maine, Cullom of Illinois,
and Lodge of Massachusetts. Senator
Frye is chairman of the Committe on
Commerce, and as such, is committed
to the ship subsidy bill, and is unwil?
ling to change his post until this is
disposed of.
In default of him, Senator Cullom
will succeed to the chairmanship, but
it has been understood that he prefer?
red to remain at the head of Interstate
Commerce, where a splendid chance is
offered to do effective work-the first
chance that has offered for years. If
he refused the chairmanship, Mr.
Lodge would come to the head-*'of
Foreign Relations and for a time it
was believed that this would happen.
But the administration became
alarmed. Mr. Lodge let it be under
j stood that he should at once introduce
j a resolution to abrogate the Clayton
j Bulwer Treaty for the purpose of
j sharply defining the issue between
! the United States and Great Britain
j on the canal question, as well as to
uncover the domestic influences that
are arrayed against the canal enter
! prise and that employ the old Clayton
I Bulwer convention as the shield of
j their real motives. Such a resolution,
j popular as it would be with the people
of the country, would be destructive
to Secretary Hay's Anglomanical
treaties.
This brings the situation down to
the fact that any sudden disavowing
of the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty, such
as is advocated openly by Senator
Lodge, is not likely to pass unless he
is chairman of the Foreign Committee,
and hence it follows that on the result
of this peculiar Senatorial complica?
tion defends the whole canal question,
and this fact now is said to have been
reported officially to the foreign office
by Lord Pauncefote, the British Am?
bassador. Accordingly the fiat has
come forth that either Cullom or Frye
must take the chairmanship and keep
Lodge out.
As Frye is needed to jam through
the shipping steal, the sacrifice de?
volves on Cullom, even though his
surrender of the head of the Interstate
Commerce Committee will bring Mr.
Eklins, a strong railway man, to its
head and stop for the next decade all
chance of much needed reforms.
For years the committee has been
hampered by the open enmity of Sena?
tors Chandler and Wolcott to all re
! form measures, and by the tacit oppo
! sition of Mr. Elkins to anything that
j hampered the railways. Now that
! both Chandler and Wolcott are out,
! Elkins will be nearly powerless un
i less he is made all-powerful by Sena
j tor Cullom-s surrender of the chair
I manship into his hands.
These changes are inevitable, de?
pending on Senate precedent. If Mr.
Cullom leaves the committee there is
no way of preventing Mr. Elkins from
succeeding to its headship.
The Privilege Tax.
The privilege tax receipts this year
' show that more guano was washed into
! the sea by the May freshet than in any
I year since the State has been exacting
I this royalty for the inspection of fertig
I lizers.
This tax is 25 cents a ton, avowedly
I to pay for the chemical examination c f
the fertilizers to protect the farmeis
from adulterated fertilizers. By this
means is ^accumulated a sum which
very nearly pays the running expenses
of Clemson Colige where the stuff is
analyzed.
Tlie total amount received from this
source since the first of the year is
877,528.43: against ?75,214 fer the
whole of hist year and.$65,497 for 1S98.
The receipts for the remainder of thc
rear will be very small, yet the fig?
ures show that the sales this year will
be very nearly 10.(XX) tons in excess cf
last year.
Havana, May 29.-Bids for tie
sewering and paving of Havana were
opened today- Only one bid was r< -
ceived and this was from Onderdonl.
McClellan & Dady, of New York. Tl e
amount specified was 813.855,574 10.
The idea prevails that "sky-sera]. -
ers" are of modern American origir,
but Prof. Lanciana declares that ii:
ancient Rome, as early as the time ci
Augustus, buildings ten or twehe
stories high were common. Later the?
are believed to have been much higl -
er, rivalling our most modern apart?
ment building in size and height, it
is well-known that at Constantinople
the Emperor Constantine found his
view of the water cut off by the sk} -
scrapers erected between his palace
and the water front, though he ha..*
placed his palace on high ground.
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