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MAYESVILLE NEWS NOTES. Everybody Looking Forward to a Merry Christmas. Mayes vi lie, Dec. 22-The ladies of the Pres byte fian Church will give an entertainment on Friday evening at the High School building. The program will consits of music, vocal and in? strumental, and a farce comedy. A pleasant evening's entertainment is premised to all who attend. Admis? sion, 25 and 10 cents. The holiday business has commenced and a busy week is expected in mer? cantile lines. The sound of the fire? crackers can be heard already and Christmas is in the air. The town council have been great? ly improving ?the streets recently and the appearance of our town is much better as a result. There will be a good many parties and merry-making this week among the young people, and wedding bells will be heard on Christmas night. Miss Ethel Cooper is at home for the hoHdays. Miss Sara I. Grant, of the Darling? ton schools, is home for Christmas. Mr. Lucian Strauss, who is attend? ing the Georgia "Tech,* is at home for a few days. Miss Alice Cooper, who ia teaching at Si Matthew's, arrived on Friday to spend the holidays at home! Mrs. E. Starnberger, of Clio, is visiting at Mr. A. A. Strauss. Miss. Fannie Strauss has returned home from Clio. AU of the teachers and students are expected home this week to spend the holidays. . . Kagoofia News Notes. Magnolia, Dec. 19.-Christmas will soon be here and with it comes joy and happiness, for some, disappointment ana sorrow for others, and many now living will never know how it came, or whether it came at all-such is the uncertainity of life and all that is as? sociated with it. Eev. J. W. Humbert, former pastor of the M. E. Church at this place, left for his new charge, Biege ville, yes? terday morning, and later zn the day Rev. Mr. Dent? oar new pastor, ar? rived here, and is now busy moving into his new home. He preached a series of sermons here last summer, and mads a fine . impression ; so he is not exactly a stranger to us. We cer? tainly wish him a successful year with his new work. There is a great deal of sickness in and around our little town, from differ? ent causes. . Dr. Tarrant has a most busy time, and if a plenty of work pleases him, he certainly ought to be pleased. Dr. E. F. Darby, now pf Columbia, will return soon and resume practice here. With two such physicians as Drs. Darby and Tarrant, this section is to be congratulated. Both are up to-date physicians and very popular in Magnolia and all the surrounding country. Capt D. E. Keels is holding his own -has been ill nearly eight months. He has certainly felt the mighty hand of affliction. CoL J. A. Shame has been on the verge of pneumonia, but is out again. Mr. Geo. W. Stokes has two very ill children, one has typhoid fever, the other pneumonia or suffering from tho result of it. Mr. W. R. Sanders' little boy, Har v ley is very ill-has been confined to his bed nearly five weeks. Mr. James W. Wilson is quite sick, and recovery doubtfuL CoL Rhame, Dr. Tarrant and Mr. D. P. Dennis will occupy their new and handsome residences. The Magnolia Graded School, under the management of Prof. Branson and Misses Clark and Farley, is moving along beautifully. There is not nor has been a ripple in the runnniog gear of this school, and the teachers are all that the most fastidious could wish. There are 112 names enrolled, and as many as 100 pupils , present in the school rooms some days. The average attendance is proof of the successful management of this school, the estab? lishment of which has considerably increased the population of Magnolia Hon. T. G. McLeod will conduct his marchan tile businness in this place next year, instead of Lyhcburg. This is evidence that our little town is moving to the front. Our citizens should now go to work and have the town incorporated, and thereby secure better means of protecting of life and property and bringing the guilty and disorderly to speedy justice. Not being incorporated is a serious draw? back to this place, and just why it is not corporated, is left for some one else to explain. Partridge hunting is now much indulged in by the boys, young and old men, and the birds are rapidly dis? appearing-not killed but frightened oil by a perfect little army of all sorts of dogs. The champion hunters, so to speak, are Messrs. J. F. McIn? tosh, Jr., H. T. Toon, Lee Elilpa trick, Henry Hickson, and old Mr. Frank and Luther McIntosh. Occasicral. 816 FIRE Hi KN0KV1LE. The Loss is Now Estimated at Half Million Dollars. Knoxville, Tenn., Dec. 22.-The scene of this morning's half million dollar ?re is but a mass of debris. Brick walls of five of the six burned structures are standing and here and there groups of firemen are placing streams of water on the smoking ruins. The burned district is triangular in form, the width of five stores on Gay street and three on Commerce avenue, leaving the corner building standing. A lucky shifting of the wind was all that saved the six-story McTeer block, and the collapse of the Brown Hard? ware company building gave the fire? men their chance to stop the progress of the flames westward. First estimates of the loss, placing it in the neigh? borhood of one million, were made when the store of McTeer, Hood & Co., wholesale clothiers; Hayne & Hanson, wholsale boots and shoes: Gillespie, Shields & Co., wholesale hats, seemed doomed. These structures were, however saved. Three hundred people are thrown out of employment temporarily. Jno. D. Rockefeller has just given another million to the Chicago Uni? versity. New look for another raise GOAL STRIKE COMMISSION. Non-Union Men Te!! Stories of Intimidation and Violence. .Scranton, Pa., Dec. 19.-Non-union men, some of their relatives and oth? ers to the number of 30, appeared before the anthracite coal commission today and told their stories of alleged boycotts, intimidations, dynamiting and violence in various forms, during the late strike. Each witness called was a sufferer in one form or another at the hands,* they alleged, of the union men. Four witnesses said at? tempts were made to blow up their houses, many of the witnesses were threatened with bodily harm; several were beaten one was shot in the leg, and every one stoned, boycotted or hanged in effigy. One school teacher testified having lost his position because his father did not strike. One man was asked to resign from a Catholic temperance society and another witness was ex peUed from a local lodge of the Ancient Order of Hibernians because they were classed as unfair workmen. Joseph H. Bogan, the man who was requested to give up his membership in the temperance society, remained at work doing repair work and acting as a watchman, fie wept on the wit? ness stand as he told how they ordered him to leave after many years of pleas? ant associations with its members. He said he had been stoned and other? wise badly treated, and added that a good clubbing would not have hurt half as much as the action of the soci? ety in throwing him out of the organ? ization. Chairman Gray asked the witness if he remained at work so that the pumps could be kept in good repair and thus keep the mine from being destroyed and he said he did. Mr. Darrow ask? ed him how long he worked and ex? amined him in such a way on the sub? ject that brought the statement from Chairman Gray that men will work 15 hours or more to help save a neigh? bor's burning house. James Mitchell was the man who was expelled from the Hibernian society. He said he worked during the strike as a repairman and did not consider it unfair because he did not mine any coal. He had been a member of the society 26 or 28 years, and at a meet? ing one night during the strike the question of his unfairness came up and every member present voted to expel him. A Polander name Max Lasar who did not: quit when the strike was inau? gurated, told of how a man threw a quart bottle of giant powder to which a lighted fuse was attached into the parlor of his home. He extinguished the fuse. The powder was shown to the commission. Thomas Kennedy, aged 15 years, said he worked in a drug store in Car? bondale. Bis father was an engineer in the employ of the Delaware and Hudson company and did not quit work when the strike was started. The manager of the strike drug store, he said was requested by a committee from the union to discharge him, and rather than have the store boycotted, the druggist told the boy to quit. The father corroborated the story, and added that he had to keep his chil? dren from the public schools as they were being abused. An Italian named Frank Fidati, who was a striker but who was hired by a coal operator to watch the home of a non-union man, was shot in the leg by Other strikers because he would not stop protecting the man's house. The non-union men who lived in the house and subsequently quit work, was next called and produced a letter writ? ten by President T. D. Nicholls of district No. 1 in which he stated that the witness had quit work and was a good union man and that, all union men should treat him in a friendly manner "so long as he behaved himself accordingly.' ' John Conlin, a mine boss and presi? dent of the school board of Plains, near Wilkesbarre, testified that a committee of a local union called on him and asked that school teachers whose relatives were working in the mines be not reappointed as teachers. Other witensscs testified to having been hanged in effigy one or more times, that grocers, butchers, milk? men and icemen refused to serve them because they were afraid their busi? ness would be boycotted and that they were severely beaten and socially os? tracized. The commission will meet at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning and will adjourn at- 11.45 o'clock for the holi? days. THE STRIKE INVESTITION. Testimony to Prove That Lawless? ness Prevailed in the Coal Fields. Scranton, Pa., Dec. 20.-The anthra? cite coal strike commission held its last session of the year today and adjourn? ed to meet in Philadelphia on Tuesday, January 9. The attorneys for the non-union men today continued calling witnesses from Lackawanaa and Luzerne coun? ties for the purpose of proving that violence, intimidation and boycotts were resorted to in order to prevent the non-union men from continuing work. John H. Otto says all the merchants in Archibald, Pa., were compelled to boycott him because he worked in the mines. The next witness was a boy who was forced to leave the store be was employed in on account of his father being a non-union man. An? other witness testified that strikers tried to have him forced ont of the volunteer fire company to which he belonged because he continued at work as a mine engineer during the strike. Mrs. Rhoda Snoyder of Wilkesbarre with a baby in her arms, took the stand and, with tears running down her face, told of the burning of her home by strikers. Her husband was in the mines and could not come home because he feared bodily harm. She and her children were so abused that she moved to another part of the city. Her reception in the new section was hostile and she decided to move to ber mother-in-law's home. The same night the house and ali its contents were destroyed by fire. Her goods were not insured. Her father-in-law corroborated her testimony. mine workers' attorneys in rebuttal of evidence given by non-union men. Before adjourning for the holidays at noon Chairman Gray on behalf of the commission requested all parties to make every effort to hand in the wage statements during the recess so that members of the commission could study them. "REIC?I?RIIERS. Seventeen Seamen Saved From the Norwegian Bark Bayard, Which Was Dismasted and Sinking. New York, December 22.-The Prince Line steamer Neapolitan Prince, which arrived today from Naples and other Italian ports, brought 17 ship? wrecked seamen picked up at sea from the Norwegian bark Bayard, bound from Brunswick, Ga, for London, with a full cargo of turpentine and rosin. The Bayard was dismasted and in a sinking condition when the Neapolitan Prince took off her crew on December 17. She had experienced terrific weather from the outset of the voyage, tremendous seas boarding her and straining the vessel so that she sprang a leak. All hands were at the pumps continually until rescued by the Neapolitan Prince. The removal of the Bayard's crew was attended with great difficulty because of the high sea. The wreck was set on fire when it was abandoned. Boston, December 22.- Almost crazed from ther sufferings, frostbitten and helpless, ten men in a boat were pick? ed up by the schooner Manhassett yes? terday, forty-five miles off Highland Light. Then for the first time it was learned that the schooners Frank A. Palmer and Louise B. Crary had been in collision, and that they had been sunk off Thatcher's Island on Wednes? day evening. The survivors were land? ed here today. Of the twenty-one men that made np the two crews six were carried down when the two vessels sank, four died during1 the terrible three days' drift in Massachusetts Bay, and another became insane and jumped overboard. With no food or water, their clothes frozen in solid masses, and their boat being steadily driven before a bitter gale out into the Atlantic, it seems re? markable that so many survived. THE ST?TF8*55tt8! Governor Says There'll be No Extension of Tax Paying Time. The Columbia State published the following interesting and instructing article concerning the State's financial condition : South Carolina's condition is such owing to the slowness of the collection of taxes, that there seems to be ab? solutely no possibility of the extension of the time for their payment. These extensions have been granted year af? ter year continually causing trouble until now the point has been reached when an extension promises serious consequences.. A glance at the status of the State treasury will be interesting in this connection. On Jan. 1, 1902, there was due for money borrowed in 1901 the sum of $50,000; the appropriations for 1902 called for $1,136,000, making" a total expense account for the year of $1.186, ooo. Now the^cash balance in the treas? ury on Jan. 1, 1902, less amount ex? pended on appropriations of 1901, was $30,000; during 1902 about $40,000 has been collected in fees, etc., and ther9 has been collected on the taxes of 1902 about $700,000, leaving a balance due of about $416,000. There will ?e realized from the tax? es of 1902, now in course of collection, about $965,000. If this sum could be paid into the State treasury by the 31st instant it would leave a cash balance of $549,000 with which to begin the year 1903 and to meet the appropriations for the coming year. When it is considered that up to date less than $100,000 has been received by the State treasurer on account of the taxes of 1902 and that the interest on the State debt must be paid on Jan. 1 amounting to over $150,000 and further than the limit of $300,000 borrowed during the year to meet the appropriations must be re- ! paid, one sees at a glance that absolute ! necessity for taxes to be gotten in and ! that the State treasury must be hard., pressed before the taxes of 3902 are collected. Already remedies are being thought of. Some suggest a straight 6 mill levy this year to enable the State to catch up ; another suggests as a cure for the future the opening of the tax book on October 1 and closing them on Decebmer :1 of each year, issuing executions promptly on Dec. 1, thus securing a .prompt settlement of taxes and an early accounting for them by the varins county reasurers. In view cf the above facts, the figures given in round numbers, there is very little chance of the governor and the comptroller extending the time this year. Gov. McSweeney says he has receiv? ed a number of letters from auditors and treasurers suggesting an extension on account of the new act. He says he has written to each of them saying as far as he is concerned he is opposed to any exension and he is satisfied the comptroller holds the same view. He considers it purely a matter of busi? ness, something that must be met squarely. Columbia, Dee. 22.-The question has been raised whether the Court stenographers have to be commission? ed. Heretofore they have not been, while every other officer under Govern? ment, no matter how insignificant his duties may be, has to receive his com? mission from the Governor. The ques? tion was referred to the Attorney Gen* eral, and Mr. Gunter has rendered an opinion that stenographers are sworn officers of the Court, just as the Judge and Solicitor. They are appointed for four years and are re? movable only for cause. All of the pre? sent stenographers will, therefore, have to get their commissions, but it will cost them nothing and add some? what to the work the Governor and Secretary of State have to do in that particular. Both are daily signing a large number of commissions, both fer officers, dispensary boards and THE WORK OF il NEGRO WOMAN. Emma Wilson's institute in Sum? ter County-Taught Herself. Early Struggles in Slavery Days to Learn and Results Through Aid of Her Mas? ters-Establishment of Her School at Mayesville. The following is from the New York Evening Post i The boy'who educates himself, stu? dying his lessons-by firelight after fol? lowing the plough or wielding of the axe all day is a common type of effort Anerica. It is a heroic type, match? ed now and again by a woman who achieves her end over still greater difficulties. One of the most interesting schools in the South is the result of such a self-educated woman's labor. Her story, simple, sober, but admirable, begins in the last years of slavery. Emma Wilson was born in bondage, in Mayesville, South Carolina, about five years before the civil war. Hers was one of the cases where the bonds were lightly worn. Her mother was the family cook and the child played on terms of equality with the white children. The first intimation that ever came to her of the inferiority of her social condition was on the Monday morning when her white playmates were first sent to school. She could not under? stand why she was left behind and the blunt statement that she was black and therefore not entitled to an educa? tion failed to satisfy her. She wept and could not be comforted until her favorite boy playmate ran back and promised that he would teach her everything he learned in school. He kept his word as far as he was able and the girl learned to read easy sentences and to write the alphabet. Newspapers were used as text books and a smooth sand plot and a stick for a blackboard. The tumult of the war interrupted the lessons and after those stormy days were over the young girl found her? self on a small farm with her mother and brothers. There was a school for freedmen's children in the. neighbor? hood and the brothers were permitted to attend it. The mother did not believe in educating girls and in I spite of entreaties the daughter was sent out into the cotton fields. Even this did not stifle the child's ambi? tion. She carried scraps of neswpapers into the field with her and conned them over and over as she worked. It was her fixed determination to spell as many words as the boys who went to school and she often stopped them in the road when they passed by on their way home and challenged them to spell some especially long word which she had mastered. A priceless gift of Webster's blue-backed speller helped her on her career, and when the mother's prejudice was finally overcome and the girl was allowed to go to school she was ready to enter the fourth class. Her teachers took an interest in her from the first day and as her progress advanced they advised her to try to enter a higher school. The Scotia Seminary for Colored Girls at Con? cord, N. C., was recommended. Af? ter several years' hard work the neces? sary money for traveling expenses, books, clothing, etc., was earned, the disapproving but kindly mother paying the entrance fee of $15. : Emma Wilson remained at the semi ! nary three years, a well deserved scholarship paying her later expenses. The desire to help her race came to 1 her in the midst of her studies and first took the form of missionary work in Africa. After her graduation she went home to prepare for this work, but all ambition in this direction left her when she saw the condition of her people in Mayesville. Her work lay nearer home than the African coast. At the first Sunday night service af? ter her arrival she used it to be an? nounced that a school would open the next morning in her mother's cabin. Ten children came. Even this small number was a tight fit for the cabin kitchen and the teacher set out to find a school building. She managed to secure the loan of an unused gin house bare of any furniture without win? dows, and far from clean. Plenty of friendly hands were stretched out to help the new school, white hands as well as black. The owner of the saw mill donated a pile of boards for bench? es and blackboards. The druggists gave lampblack to color the black? boards, and some one else gave a few stick of chalk. The children brought their own text books-any book with English letters in it served. When the gin house was demanded for cotton the school had to move. There were many moves in the next five years. Any vacant building was borrowed, always with the understand? ing that it must be given up when the owner needed it. Very often the children would gather up their books at night with the query. "Where's school goin' to keep tomorrow, Miss Emma?" And often she would be obliged to say: "I don't know yet, children, but somewhere-that's sure." The school did not always open promptly at 9 o'clock, but it never missed a day's session. To raise funds to support a home for boarding pupils, Miss Wilson rented six acres of land and with the help of her pupils raised enough cotton to keep the school going and to buy a little home for herself. In 1895 the school had grown beyond the teacher. Help was needed to ex? tend the work, and, leaving an as I sistant in charge, Miss Wilson came North to find it Since then she has made vearly trips and has raised over 6S, OOO "for her school. It was after her first. Northern journey that Miss Wilson came to the realization that her entire plan of education would have to be altered. The time had gone by when a mero | literary training seemed to her either useful or desirable. She perceived that in educating children beyond their growth, and giving them that which would breed discontent without helping them to better their condi- j tion, she ran a risk of making danger ous citizens. In other words, the in dustrial training advocated by Booker Washington replaced her old ideals of education. The Mayesville school is now a farm ; school, with a superintendent from Tuskegee, four other teachers similar? ly trained, and 400 pupils, a propor institution is co-edncational, and domestic science and agriculture are the principal studies pursued. The boarding pupils pay a tuition of 85 a month, and do the work of the school. The tuition fee is rarely paid in money, but wood, poultry, eggs, butter, etc., are quite as acceptable. Practically all the food-stuff consumed is raised by the pupils. The pupils have also made nearly all the furniture in the scohols. The farm is not stocked as it should be, and the students' tables are with? out milk and almost without butter. This is not the hardship it would be in the North, but the school manage? ment is aware of the dietary value of such food and is making a strong effort to buy cows. Farm equipments of various kinds is greatly needed. One large building and four small ones have been erected, and are owned clear of encumbrance, with the ex? ception of themain building. As soon as the necessary funds are forthcom? ing, the schctol will become an indus tral institution. A carpenter's shop and^furnishings have been promised by a New York woman, and teachers al? ready at the school are prepared to open classes in shoemaking and other trades as soon as the tools can be obtained. The blacksmiths' and wheel? wright's trades are much needed in the neighborhood. ' ' For the little children Miss Wilson is now in the North studying the kind? ergarten system, and basket weaving. The old time industries of the loom and the dye pot are to be revived for the girls, who besides being intsruct ed in housekeeping and needlework wlil be taught to weave homespuns, and rugs of carpet ravelings, and to make rag carpets. There is a good market for such articles. One of the most pressing need is a printing press. The town has not even a small one, and the school would be able to earn a considerable sum with a press, besides saving the cost of its own printing in Sumter. Mayes vi lie, where this colored wo- j man's life has been dedicated to the advancement of a race, is a village in ! Sumter County, S. C. It is the center of a large country population of ne? groes, a number of whom own their little farms of five or six acres, but are very poor. There is no public school of colored children in the village, and the small sum set apart by the county school commission for the education of negroes is given to Miss Wilson's school. This enables her to receive free all children who can not afford to pay the monthly fee of 10 cents asked of day scholars. The eagerness of the children and the ycung men and women of the neighborhood to go to school is pathetic in its intensity. One little tot came through a howling storm and stood in the school door dripping wet, chilled through and weeping bitterly. Being comforted, she sobbed out, "I ain't eryn' 'out bein' col, ' but de rain done wetted my book." The influence which the school ex? ercises over the older people of the settlement is gratefully acknowledged by the white people of the town and neighboring plantations. This influ? ence is strongest with the mothers of the chilrden attending. These ask to be admitted to the cooking and sew? ing classes, and and are entertained very often with mothers' meetings and social afternoons. MYSTERIOUS MURDER AT CAMDEN. W. F. Hudson, Keeper of Wateree Bridge. Found Dead in Bed at the Toll Gates. Camden, Dec. 20.-A horrible tragedy was enacted at the Wateree River bridge, gener?lly known as the iron bridge, last night, and the whole affair is so far shrouded in mystery. Early this morning Mr. W. F. Hudson, the toll keeper, was found dead in his bed in a pool of blood, in his house by the river bridge, on the west bank of the Wateree. A bloody trail le?ding from the great wooden gates of the bridge, which are about 50 feet from the house, to the bed, indicate that the shooting took place at the gates. The large gates are closed every night and locked, and only a small postern is left open. The sup? position is that the person or persons who committed the murder came from the east side of the river as the postern shows marks on it, as if some one had tried to prize it open from that side, while a few feet off, the gate keeper's lantern was found with blood spots on it. The blood trail begins on the right gate, where one spot is visble near the ground, and leads directly to "the 'phone which is to the right of the house door. There is blood on the receiver, and the unfortunate man either endeavored to 'phone or reached for his gun, which hung over the door. A large pool of blood is on the mid? dle of the floor, and young Hudson lies in another one on his bed. His pistol was found on the desk, but it is not supposed that he had it with him when he went to the gate. Who perpetrated the norri be deed is still an unsolved story, and no very definite clues leading up to the detec? tion of the murderer have been found as yet. Robbery was apparently not the motive as nothing was taken out of the house and the to money was not touched. Messs. Craig and John Clyburn, who passed over the bridge between ll and 12 o'clock last night, seem to have been the last persons who saw Hud sou before the murder, state that h* came out and opened the gates to their buggy pass through. Mr. W. F. Hudson was ahput 30 years old, single, and his position was a very responsible one, and the best evidence of the confidence and esteem he enjoyed in this community was his appointment to the sama last year. The coroner's jury brought a verdict to the effect ' that Che deceased had died from a gunshot wound by ?the hands of a person or persons unknown. The gun was evidently held close to the body as the entire load of shot en? tered at the left shoulder blade in one solid mass, and must have passed downward. Thomas W. Pearlstine shot and in? stantly killed William Creech in the home of the latter at Bamberg on Sat? urday nightt. Pearlstine went to Creech's house to collect a debt of eighty cents and when Creech object? ed to his use of profanity in the pres? ence of his family Pearlstine drew a pistol and shot Creech twice through AFFAIRS IN NATIONAL CAPITAL. Political News Gathered by Our Regular Correspondent. Washington, Dec. 22.-The concen? sus of opinion, when Congress ad? journed on Saturday, was that the Venezuelan affair was on the highroad to a peaceful settlement and friends of the administration were loud in their praises of Secretary Hay's diplomacy. It is remarked by democratic states? men, however, that Secretary Hay has been the gainer by fortunate happen? ings, rather than the director of events. The ability of Minister Bowen has contributed very Lirgely to the peaceful outcome now anticipated and the law in the case was clearly stated some years ago by a democratic Secre? tary of State, Mr. Olney, who, in his dispatch of July 20, 1.895, apropos of the Venezuelan boundary dispute, said, "It (the Monroe Doctrine) does not establish any general protectorate by the United States over other Amer? ican states. It does not relieve any American state from its obligations ais fixed by international law nor prevent any European power directly interest? ed from enforcing such obligations or' from inflicting merited punishment for the breach of them." If, therefore, any particular credit ataches to Mr. Hay in the present instance it is because he has, according to persons ia a position to know, restrained the President, rather than because he has established any new precedent or dis? established any new precodent or dis? played exceptional diplomatic ability. While there was little hope on the part of the democrats in Congress that there would be any?effecfcual anti-trust legislation accomplished at this ses? sion, it was not anticipated that the republicans would show their hand this early. That they have done, how? ever, and they are now flattering themselves there is no further occa? sion for antagonizing the corporate interests which have always contribut? ed so largely to republican success. When the legislative appropriation bill was under consideration in the House, an amendment was attached thereto by which $500,000 was appropriated for the use of the Attorney General in prosecuting the trusts under the present law. With this liberal amount to be distributed among the favored attorneys of the party, the republicans are now content. They will, they say, ignore the representations of Mr. Knox, who, at Pittsburg, expressly outlined the deficiencies of the present law. "Give the Attorney General an op? portunity to prove his statements be? fore amending the.law," is the slogan of the republicans now, and they themselves admit that there is very little likelihood of anti-trust legislation at the present session. With a view to barring further anti-trast legisla? tion in the Senate, Senator Hoar has. given notice that he will introduce a/ trust bill, but two days after the notice had been given it was discovered that the venerable Senator had not drafted his bill and was not even sure that he would draw one. His object is "accomplished, however. As Mr.. Hoar is chairman of the Judiciary committee every Senator realizes thai it would, be futile for him to offer a trust measure which would be inevit? ably side tracked by the unborn mea? sure of the chairman. The President has forwarded to the Senate the new Cuban treaty which allows a concession of 25 per cent from the Dingley rates to Cuba in return for concessions from the Cuban tariff varying from 20 to 40 per cent, the scale being so arranged as to give the utmost advantage to the already over protected manufacturers and the least to the agriculturists of the country. It is deemed probable that the treaty will be ratified soon after the holidays and that the House will pe asked to enact such legislation as may be re? quired to make the treaty effective. Secretary Hay is still working on the Colombian treaty but expects that it will be completed when Congress re? convenes. Under the provisions of the convention a lump sum of $10,000,000 will be paid to Colombia to begin with and an annual rental hereafter, the amount of which is still to be deter? mined. This amount constitutes the one stumbling block to the completion of the treaty. Colombia demands a rental of ?500,000 per annum and secre? tary Hay regards the amount as ex? orbitant. Colombia's demand is based on the claim that she now re? ceives $250,000 from the Panama Rail? way and other revenues which bring the total to over $400,000. Ex-Secretary Gage is still enedavor ing to dictate the financial policy o'f the nation and called at the White House recently with Mr. John H. , Rhodes, the New York financier, wir> the purpose of impressing his vie/ on the president. Meanwhile, R<*^~ sentative Fowler is pressing his j^2Jr ed finanial bill for passage *n House, it having been again /iv0.ra"iy reported by Mr. Fowler's '?^mrt^ This bill will greatlv. este?d the power of the banks en?'lin? pepito issue currency to the of cent of their capital -?thont depositing United States bon?s as security *bere for. Face to f>* Wlth the old dem0? eratic content^ that the currency of the country -s restricted and inelastic, the banke^ desire to remedy these de? fects, b?fc *n snca a way tbat tbe5 shall h*ve entire control of the elas? ticity so ^kat ^ ma^ *3e restricted, wb#never it suits their purposes and tvat is the aim of Mr. Fowler's bill, which, it will he remembered, the re? publicans did not dare to pass the last session because they feared the resent? ment of the people would be expressed at the polls. No progress has been made on thc Statehood bill, the whole question having gone over until after the holi? days by mutual consent. Meanwhile Delegate Rodey of New Mexico is do? ing "yeoman work" and has issued to the editors of the conn try an exhaus? tive appeal for support. For some unknown reason the' House Committee on Military Affairs has ignored Secretary Root's recommenda- .. tion that tLe Army Reorganization bill gc 'nto effect only on August 10th next and has reported the bill in such shape that if passed it would legislate General Miles out of office. It is not believed, however, that the Senate will permit such injustice and the friends of the General are looking te the Senate to amend the bill by ad? ding the clause recommended by Mr. Root. Christmas cards, calenders and