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S?K8RESS MEETS AGAIN. ; Dark Outlook for Republicans? Forecast of Business to Come Up This Week. Washington, Dec, L?It is doubtful if a republican congress has for many years convened under as inauspicious circumstances as those which attended the opening of the second session of the Fifty-seventh Congress today. With ample republican majorities in both chambers and a republican Presi dent in the White Bouse there is the widest difference of opinion as to pros pective legislation, and even the old ^fc time leaders are divided on some of the most important questions. Tariff revision, of course, takes the lead. ^ Senators and Representatives from western states assert that there must be steps taken in that direction in or p der to redeem the pledges on which the repuibican victory in ?lieir states was achieved. The eastern men, on the other hand, say that there shall be no tariff revision now and they expect to prevent the calling of Congress in special session for that purpose. With regard to trust legislation, some senators say that there will be none and others, among them no less influential a man than Senator Frye president of the senate, asserts that the Sherman . law will he amended in accordance with the recommendations of Attorney General Knox. The policy of the re publicans, as outlined for your corres pondent by a well posted democratic senator, will be to pass such legisla tion as Mr. Knox has requested and as the President will urge, at the same time assuring the trusts that so long as they have a republican adr fc- ministration they will have nothing to fear from the Attorney General, but if they permit the democrats t? win there is no knowing to what ex tent a democratic attorney general will go in order to destroy the trusts. In this way, says the senator referred to, the republicans hope to make of the trust law a club with which to extort campaign funds from, the trusts in 1904. As if to emphasize the evil of the trust system, the news has just reach ed Washington to the effect that J. Pierpont Morgan, in connection with the Baring Brothers, of England, have undertaken to float bonds to the amount of ?100,000,000 for the newly organized beef trust. Represen tative Richardson of Tennessee says that the democrats of the House stand.ready to .assist their, opponents in any genuine effort to control the trusts and that they will give the re publicans ho ground to charge them with obstructive proceedings in case the latter make an honest attempt to strengthen the present law or enact a new and more effectual on >. There was an intermingling of con gratulations and condolences in. the Capitol today. Twensy-iive represent atives have failed of reelection and the condolences extended them were as numerous^ as were the congratulations offered to the successful candidates. On the democrats side of che House, two desks stood out prominently. Each was draped with crepe and cover ? ed with flowers in honor of Represent atives de Graffenreid and Sheppard, both of Texas, who have died since Congress adjourned last July. On the republican side one desk was similar ly treated. It was that formerly oc cupied by the late Representative , Russell of Connecticut. Oui; of re spect to the deceased members the House adjourned immediately after being convened. In the Senate one desk -vas draped and piled with floral offerings, that of the late Senator McMillan of Michigan, and as a mark of respect to his memory the Senate adjourned un til * noon tomorrow when the Presi dent's message will be received. There is little prospect of important business in the Senate tomorrow bat on Wed nesday Senator- Beveridge, for the % Committee on Territories, will report the Omnibus Territorial bill and from that on the session promises to be a lively one. There is every prospect that the democrats of the Senate will vote unanimouly to admit to statehood Oklahoma, Ariznoa and New Mexico but the inteonse fear that the two latter may return democratic senators promises to provea serious obstacle to the success of the bill. Senator Be * veridge and several of his colleagues have just_ returned from a junket through the territories named but when seen today the former said it would not be proper for him to fore stall the report of the committee by expressing an opinion. Senator Frye has returned to Wash ington with a grim determination to secure the enactment of the Ship Sub sidy bill. He has given an interview in which he says that the formnation of the Morgan "shipping syndicate pre [ senta a new reason for passing the bill because it will insure the expenditure by the syndicate in this country of not less than $50,000,000 for new ships which will otherwise be bui lt abroad. "While this may be true," says Senator Clay, "Senator Frye deos not state that the bill will cost the United *? States millions of dollars for time without limit It is the old argument of the protectionists that the United States can hoist itself by its own sus penders. It will merely result in transferring a portion of the money which all people are taxed to raise, in to the pockets of a few who wiill benefit by the building and sailing of the * ships." The recent communication of the President, in which he states his posi tion in regard to the appointment of negroes to public offices, is condemned by the members of his own party with out stint. Not that they take issue with the principles voiced by Mr. Roosevelt, but because they regard his letter as a needless and foolish ut terance calculate to do no good and possibly to make enemies for himself and his party. "It is Qnixotic and I suppose it is honest, but it is foolish in the extreme, worthy of a school boy rather than of a politician, " said a prominent republican yesterday. r-> As a result of Secretary Moody's as sertion that the duty on anthracite I co?i? was smuggled into the tariff, a ! number of the "little members" of the House have hastened to introduce bills I repealing it. There isr of course, no i hope that they will be considered for a ? moment but " the members will send ^copies of the printed bills to their con stitutents with the hope that they may gain their support and help to mitigate the effects of the high price ;of coal. - M ? 4 I Smart Set at H. G. Osteen & Co. sealers win guis. Russia Musi Pay Damages For Seizure of American Vessels on the High Seas. The Hague, November 29.?Prof. Asser. the Dutch jurist, who has been I arbitrating, the claims of American sealers for the seizure of their vessels by the Eussian Government about ten years ago, has delivered his award in j favor of the United States. He ap praised the damages in the case of the American schooner C. H. White at $32,444; in the case of the James Hamilton Lewis at $28,588; the Kate and Anna at $1,488 and the Cape Horn Pigeon $38,750. Prof. Asser delivered his judgment in the Arbitration Court in the pre sence of the representatives of the Unit ed States and of Eussia and others, including the foreign minister of the Netherlands, Dr.. Van Lyndena. In giving his reasons for the award Prof. Asser held that the schooner C. H. White was seized outside Eus sian territorial waters, and that the. Eussian contention that a war ship of one nation was entitled to pursue be yond the boundaries of its territorial seas a ship of another nation guilty of illegal action within those waters was untenable. The arbitrator declared +hat the jurisdiction of the State could not extend beyond is territorial waters except by. special treaty. The dispute was the subject of pro tracted negotiations, resulting in an agreement in 1900 between Count Lamsdorff, acting minister of foreign affairs of Eussia, and Herbert H. D. Peirce, United States charged affairs at St. Petersburg, designating Prof. Asser, member of the council of State of the Netherlands, as arbitrator. Prof. Asser decided June 30, 1902, that the average annual catch should form the basis on which damages should be awarded, which was exactly the con tention advanced by Mr. Peirce, who was the advocate for the United States Government. JThe decision carried with it the opinion of the Court that Eussia must pay damages, and oqly left for further argument the sum dne in each case. ? Ee? boeb bold. $650,000 Worth of Gold Bars Said to be Destined For Mr. Kruger and Dr. Leyds. Berlin, November 30.?The British Government is telegraphing to the German ports, making inquiries con cerning Boer gold bars, worth $650,000, which, it is supposed, have been brought to this country from South Africa within the past fortnight. The bars are destined for former President Kruger and Dr. Leyds, and, it is pre sumed, had been concealed in the Northern Transvaal. Great Britain will endeavor to locally attach the gold, if it can be found, on the ground that she is entitled to all the assest of the Transvaal, because she has assumed responsibility- for the debts of that country, including the bonds issued prior to the war. Gen. Botha's reply to Colonial Secretary Chamberlain that the late Boer Government had no assets, was strictly ?ru? as far as he knew, but since receiving Mr. Chamberlain's letter Gen. Botha learned, according to seemingly trustworthy information here, that Mr. Kruger and Dr. Leyds have in their possession $2,500,000. Gen. Botha requested them to turn over this gold for the benefit of the Boer people, but Dr. Leyds refused, averring that the money was to be used in upholding the Boer nationality. Gen. Botha has notified Dr. Leyds that unless the gold is given up legal proceedings will be brought against him. . _ captured after fifteen years. *_ The Negro Murderer of a Sheriff of Union County Arrested in KnoxYille, Tenn. Knoxville, ^.Tenn., November 30.? George McKinham, aged 37, a negro, employed at Lafcllette by the Lafoi lette Coal and Iron Company, as manager of the negre department of the Lafollette cooperative store, was ar rested yesterday in this city, after a desperate fight, on the charge of mur dering the sheriff of Union County, South Carolina, fifteen years ago, when he was 22 years old. The present sheriff of Union County, acompanied by a deputy, made the arrest. They arrived in Lafollete last Tuesday, but McKinham got wind of' their appear ance and had disappeared with about $200 of the company's money. Finally he was trailed to this city, and on the Bowery last night was captured, | after a fight, in which he emptied his revolver twice. The prisoner and the two officers left for South Carolina ! last night on the vestibule. McKinham was very smart and of prepossessing appearance, and it is said that if L-* had not engaged in a shooting scrape with a white man abont two weeks ago in connection with which his appearance was de scribed in the press, ho would not have been detected. Charleston, Nov. 30.?Capt. George L Cunningham, United States marshal of South Carolina, died this morning after an illness of some weeks. His de*th removed a prominent figure in politics of the State and city. Capt. Cunningham came to Charleston in 1853, at the age of 17 years, a cattle drover, and he died worth several hun dred thousand dollars. In accordance with the statutes pro viding for the appointment of a marshal during a session of the court, Judge Brawley appointed Dr. 7. P. Clayton to serve, pending an ap pointment by the president. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure Digests all classes of food, iones and strengthens the stomach <?.ud digestive organs. Cores dyspepsia, indigestion, stomach troubles, auu makes rich red blood, health and strength. Kodol rebuilds wornont tissue.-, pannes, strengthen; and sweetens the sion.nSr,. Got. G. V.VArkin kinson, of W. V?., sai s : 1 have used a number of bottles of Kodol and have found it to be a very effective and. indeed, a powerful remedy for stomach ailments. I recommend it to my friend.*. J. S. Hughson & Go. . GEN. DE WET'S BOOK. He Attributes the Conquest of the Boers to the Disloyalty and Desertion of a Large Number of Burghers. London, November SO.? "Had not so many of our burghers proved false to their own colors, England, as the great Bismarck foretold, would have found her grave in South Africa." That is the kevnote of the Beer Gen. De Wet's book entitled "Three Years War," published by Archibald Con stable & Co., in London, and dedicat ed by the Boer general to "My fellow subjects^of the British Empire." It is perhaps the most remarkable book by the most remarkable leader that any recent war has produced. The concise, simply toldjtale of the extra ordinary campaign is marked through out with the stamp of truth. The baldness of the narrative only serves to bring into striking relief the fiery passages, where a strong man literally blurts out his soul in pathetic regret or bitter denunciation. In thus taking the public into his confidence De Wet loses none of the glamor with which his exploits in the field surround him. In criticising he spares no one; Boer and Briton come equally under the lash. De Wet de clares that, whatever the English peo ple may have to say in discredit of Gen. Bni?er, he had to operate against stronger positions than any other British general. Throughout the work the Boer general has but slight praise for Lord Roberts and little more for Lord Kitchener. Gen.' Knox is almost the only British general who seems to have struck De Wet as a commander with real military genius. Of "Tommy Atkins" he has many kindly words to say, and declares "the British were far from being bad shots. " The comparative immunity of the Boers from harm De Wet constantly and most fervently attributes to the interposi tion of God. "If any reader," he says, "is eager to know how' it was I kept out of the enemy's hands I ca*h only answer, al though I may not be undertsood, that I ascribe it to nothing else than this: It was not God's will that I should fall into their hands. Let those who rejoice at my miraculous escapes give all the praise to God." Nevertheless the book teems with ac counts of military and other strategies by which De Wet outwitted his pur suers. Frequently he recounts cases of de sertion and panic among his own men when his entreaties and "sjambcok ing" were all of no avail. De Wet pays a trbnte to Gen. Cronje for his bravery, but declares he lost at Paardeberg only on account of his fatal obstinacy to leave the laager as he was advised to do by Gen. Botha and by the writer himself. Regarding his own forces, De Wet writes : "It was far easier to fight against the great English army than against treachery among my own people, and an iron will was required to fight against both. Once, if only our orders had been carried out a little more strictly and if only the most elementary rules of strategy had been observed in our efforts to break the British lines of communication Lord Roberts and his thousands of troops would have found themselves shut up in Pretoria where they would have perished of hunger. It was the skill of their com mander-in-chief that saved them. " On the block houses De Wet is frankly contemptuous. "The block house policy," he says, "might equal ly well have been called the policy of the blockhead." The writer emphatically defends the right to blow up railroad lines and trains as the usages of war, and he de clares he never missed an opportunity to do so. The so-called war against women and the misuse of the white flag by the British is denounced by the Boer general, who says : "That such direct and indirect mur der should have been committed against defenceless women and chil dren is a thing I would have staked my head would never have happened in a war waged by the civilized English nation, and yet it happened." His last words is an injucntion to his follow countrymen to be loyal to the new Government. "Loyalty," he says, "pays best in the end, loyalty alone is worthy of a nation which has shed its blood for freedom. " Winter Tourist Rates. Beginning October 15, the Southern Railway will commence sale of winter tourists tickets to principal resorts in the South under the same conditions existing in previous years. For detailed information as to rates, resorts etc., apply to any agent of the Southern Railway. W. H. Tay loe, Assistant General Pass. Agt. Atlanta, Ga. " R. W. Hunt, Division Pass. Agt. Charleston, S. C. J. C. Beam, District Pass. Agent, Atlanta, Ga. If you feel ill and need a pill Why not purchase the best? DeWitt's Early Risers Are little surprisers, Take one?they do the rest. W. H. Howell, Houston, Tex., writes : I have used Little Early Riser Pills in my family for constipation, sick .headache, etc. To their use I am indebted for the health of my family. J S Hughson & Co. BLOCKADE OF THE ORINOCO. United States Called on to Decide Whether the Blockade is Effec tive or Not. Port of Spain, Trinidad November 30.?The United States is confronted ; with the question of announcing its 1 attitude regarding the blockade of the Orinoco River, which has been declared by the Venezuelan Goverment. The British authorities say they have ask ed United States Consul Smith what the intentions of the Washington Gov ernment are regarding the steamer Manzanares, belonging to the Orinoco Steamship Company, which is now here. Some days ago the British au thorities ^announced their willingness to convey the Manzanares up the Orinoco, but withdrew their offer on the arrival of the United States gun boat Nashville, on the ground that the United States now having a warship in port should convey their own mer chantment. Consnl Smith is conferring with Admiral Crowninshield and Ad miral Sumner, it is believed, with regard to the Manzanares. The Nash ville is suited to the purpose of convey ing the Manzanares, but no action is possible until instructions have been received from Washington. The United States are the only na tion which has not taken a decisive stand regarding the blockade, and it is claimed that this situation is embar rassing American commerce, especially the Manzanares, which has been here since last June, her cargo spoiling and the delay involving a great loss to the company. Since the proclamation of the block ade 1,735 ships of all nations, except the United States, principally Venez uelan vessels, have entered and left the Orinoco, and it is insisted that this fact'constitues the best evidence pos sible that the blockade is ineffective. The Venezuelan gunboats have left the Orinoco unattended for periods of two weeks at time, and the guns of the fort, Los Castillos, which were Lhe only means of maintaining the block ade of Ciudad Bolivar, after the withdrawal of the gunboats, have been removed. Mosby and.the Cattlemen. Omaha, Neb, November 30.?Col. Mosby, special land agent for the Government, who is to testify before the Federal grand jury here tomorrow with regard to illegal fencing of public lands in Western Nebraska, denies having severely criticised the Nebraska Senators, as stated in dispatches to Eastern papers. On the day after his arrival here a local paper contradicted the report on Mosby's authority. He also denies saying that the President would use cavalry to tear down the fences. He was asked what would be done if the cattlemen should fail to remove their fences. He replied that Grover Cleveland sent a company of cavalry to pull down fences in Cali fornia, and he supposed the same thing might happen in Nebraska. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature PRICE REDUCED. FROM now until January 1, 1903, I will shoe horses all round for sixty-five cents, former price, 80 cents. This reduced price is for stock that can be managed by one man, and work to be paid for before stock leaves yard. Nov. 29?tf W. T. HALL. .THE ?BONG SUS if your present glasses fail to give you ease and comfort, there's something wrong. Is it your glasses or your eyes ? That's a vita! question with you Either is bad enough and should bring you to us at once. We like to discover unus ual eye defects, the kind that puzzle the average optician. "Glasses Right, Good Sight." E. A. BULTMAN, Jeweler and Optician. Dr. Z. F. Highsmith, Optician, in charge of Optical Department. 17 S. Main Street, Sumter, S. C. Phono 194. MADE AT OU?i KENTUCKY D?STiLLERY FOR 43 YEARS. ! and praised by thousands of consumers as the best g whiskey in the world for the least money. eye: og Bouasoaa .$1.98 4 in!! quarts, 7 year o!d . 4 ? 10 ?? ? . 4 <? '* 12 ? 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The old reliable, that, in its natural state, has been alleviating suffering for over one hundred years is now being made into most delightful drinks. Try it and we know that you will say, as all others have said, that it is "the best." Drinkers of Ginger Ale will be delighted to get this de lightful and refreshing drink, made with Glenn Springs Min eral Water. Experts pronounce it the finest on the market. Try it and you will be convinced. Ask your dealer for it. THE GLENN SPRINGS CO. GLENN SPRINGS, S. C, Sumter, S. C, Nov. 1, 1902. vT Two carloads, SIX HEAD, Just received. Call early and get your pick. 75 Head on hand. AKSLEV D. H AR BY. Sept 17