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THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
Hampton Memorial Services to
be Held?Bills Introduced.
Columbia, Jan. 14.?The house of
representatives finished the election of
officers.- The. representatives were
: assigned to their respective seats and
the work of the session progressed so
well that three new bills were intro
duced. Speaker Smith has not an
nounced the names of the honse ap
pointees, nor has he made public the
committee assignments.
Mr. Moses offered a resolntion that
a new committee be added to the list
of the standing committees, this to
be known as the committee on the dis
pensary. This was adopted.
. The first bill of the session is one
proposed by Mr. E. M. Lofton of the
Charleston delegation. It is a bill
which seeks to give McCleilanville an
inland waterway to Charleston. The
. people of the first named place have
no railway facilities and the trip to
Charleston throngh Bull's Bay is said
to be very dangerous. Congress has
appropriated $50,000 for the purpose of
deepening and straightening the in
land waterway between the two places.
Mr. Lofton's bill cedes to the federal
government the State's right and title
to a strip of marsh land 200 feet wide
on each side of the channel. This pro
posed channel means a great deal for
McCleilanville. Lumber and farm pro
ducts can then be sent to Charleston
with little trouble. It is proposed to
continue the channel beyond McClel
lan vilie to Georgetown. Boats of iour
fcot draught can rnn np the 60-foot j
ehsnnnel at low tide when the ob
structions are removed.
Mr. Biehards introduced a bill to
increase the amount of each scholar
ship at Winthrop from $44 to $100.
There is one scholarship for each
member of the general assembly or 165
T for the entire State.
Mr. Toole of Aiken introduced the
first dispensary bill of the session.
The bill seeks to have the stock at the
Siste dispensary reduced to $300,000
. .asd the balance " put into the school
fend. The bill also requires purchases
of liquor to be made on the steps of
the State capitol the first Monday of
each month, and also that the directors
i of the dispensary shall not receive or
ribate free samples of liquor upon
penalty of forfeiture of office.
THE SENATE'.
The following sepcial message was
received and read from the governor:
Gentlemen of the General Assembly:
On the 11th day of April, 1902,
? Carolina was called upon to
mourn the death of one of her most dis
inguished sons. While it is true that
Gen. Wade Hampton was a private
citizen at the time of his death, yet I
have thcught it proper, in vi ew of his
distinguished service to his State in
times cf war and of peace, that the
general assembly, as representatives of
? the people, should pay proper tribute
to his memory, and I recommend that
you fix'some time in the early part of
* your session at which suitable
memorial services may be held.
He was one of the heroes of this
generation. In a republican form of
government like ours, it is well for
stability of our institutions that
the virtues of our great men shonld be
held up as models for the young. It
' inspires a love of country and acts as
an incentive to high .endeavor. ? It has
been truly said: "Republics Test on
the virtues of their public men.
Other forms of governmtggitsjnay live,
and often live more surely,, without
the love of country, but wstn repub
lics, patriotism is life." Everything,
therefore, that encourages and gives
life to this virtue should be the con-:
cera of all good citizens. There are
many things in the life and labors of
L tids distinguished Carolinian in which
may be held up to the young of this
day as incentives to a greater love of
country and a more faithful service
for the good of humanity.
. He was a leader in war and in peace,
always cool and conservative and hold
ing the welfare of his State above any
appearance or suspicion of self-promo
tion or self-aggrandizement. He was
* a brave Confederate soldier, a leader i
of men, and in the trying days from
IS6I to 1865 defended the southern
cause with a heroism and a fortitude
a as only the true patriot can corn
end. He sacrificed his all, as many
other true sons of Carolina did, on
the altar ef his State, and when the
arbitrament of arms was decreed
against the cause for which he fought,
* ae took up again the battle of life with
out complaining. In the dark days of
1S76 he was called from the quietude
of his plantation life to lead his people
from bondage which held them stron
ger than the shackles of slavery. His
wise counsel and his prudent judg
ment were relied upon and trustee*, and
the State was redeemed from the alien
and the scalawag and the government
once again placed in the hands of its
righful owners. As governor, and in
the halis of the senate of the United
States, he was honored and trusted by
his people and respected by his ene
mies.
In order that some one familiar with
* his history and his work might deliv
er an address on his life and his service
and have time for preparation, I have
taken the liberty to invite Gen. M.
C. Butler to deliv-u' said address at
such time as you may fix, and I ask
that this action be confirmed and that
you designate some date in the early
part of your session at which suitable
vservices may be held, and that a com
mittee be appointed from the senate
and house to arrange for such ceremo
nies as may be fitting. Gen. Butler
has accepted. He is eminently fitted
for this duty, having served in the
same branch of the army with Gen.
Hampton and having been intimately
associated with him in the redemption
of the State in 1876, and also having
served for a long term of years with
him in the senate of the United States.
Respectfully submitted,
M. B. MScweeney,
Governor.
Mr. Marshall introduced the follow
ing conenrent resolution:
Resolved, By the senate, the honse
"ol^repre^jntatives concurring, that the
governor's special message recom
mending that a day be set apart by the
general assembly to do honor to the
memory of Wade Hampton, South
Carolina's great soldier, statesman
and patriot, be referred to a special
committee, consisting of two members
bgf the senate, to be appointed by the
president of the senate, and three
members of the house, to be appointed
by the speaker of the honse who. shall
make such arrangements as will appro
priately carry out the governor's ree
ommendations.
The resolution was adopted and the
president on behalf of the senate ap
pointed.Messrs. Marshall and Aldrich.
Another message was received from
the governor vetoing "the joint resolu
tion to authorize and require the State
treasurer to write off the books in his
office certain bonds entered in said
books as old bonds not; fundable, act
of 1896, Blue Ridge Railroads $37,000"
with the reasons for his objections.
A number of bills were introduced,
the most important being a child la
bor bill by Senator Marshall, and a
compulsory education bill by Senator
Raysor.
Columbia, Jan. 15.?The most im
portant matter in the House today was
the announcement of the committee
appointments by Speaker Smith. He
took care of his friends and they re
ceived the best of the places.
The members from Sumter county
were assigned to the following com
mittees :
Altamont Moses, chairman ways and
means, and member of Legislature
library and rules committees.
T. B. Fr?ser, judiciary, public
schools, incorporation and rules com
mittees.
J. H. Clifton, railroads, State
House ana grounds.
Geo. M. Stuckey of Lee county was
assigned to the following committees,
ways and means, enrolled acts.
The vote for governor and Lieut.
Governor will be tabulated tomorrow.
Mr. Hugh Sinkler, of Charleston,
obtained the passage of the first con
current resolution of the year. It is
an expression of protest from the Rep
resentatives of the sovereign State
against the appointment of Collector
W. D. Crum. It was unanimously
adopted as the expression of the people
of South Carolina.
There was no business ready for the
Senate and the session was short.
The Plague in Mexico.
Laredo, Texas, Jan. 15.?A Mexico
City special says that Dr. Favela,
who is investigating the epidemic dis
ease which made its appearance at
Ahome, states that he has not deter
mined that the malady is the bubonic
plague. The symptoms differ in
material particulars from those of the
plague. The disease at Ahome appears
to .be sporadic.
The Cosmos Steamship Line, oper
ating ships between points on the west
coast;, has issued rigid quarantine or
ders against its own craft that touch
at any of the northern ports. All
steamers must be; disinfected before
attempting to touch at southern ports.
The merchants and foreigners at
Guayamas have addressed a petition to
the Governor of the State, asking that
a rigid quarantine be established at
Guayamas against all persons coming
from Mazatlan. The petition has been
referred byt he Governor to President
Dias and the superior board of health.
ZOLA'S EARLY TRIALS.
Ti:::cs When t'cv Dcil<lixi;x Author
V.'i:x PisiigeU In Tills ery?
Vow:^ Zola had kicket] his heels for
sever: i years in ministerial anterooms,
but ail ;o no effect Garnbetta, to pre
vent Zola perishing of want gave him
the subprefocture of Castle Sarrasin.
Bet for want of money he had to stop
on the way, and for so long a time
j that M. de Freycinet slipped into the
place. Zola during the period dealt
with in ''La Debacle" was in the south
of France. How he then lived I can
not imagine. After things settled down
in Paris in 1S71 he had fallen into the
blackest misery, and with a beautiful
young wife. Her mother was no lon
ger able to share her domicile and
board, such as they were, with them.
Zola sometimes had to take the wool
out of the mattress of his bed and sell
it He escaped from death by famine
owing to a letter of introduction from
a doctor who attended his mother to
Hachette, the great publisher. The
latter employed him at a salary of 60
francs a month to tie up books in par
cels and address them. But he rather
liked Zola and, divining in him first
rate stuff, engaged him to write for the
papers these puffs known as reclames
for books the firm had brought out
Noticing his punctuality and his re
serve with other young men, Hachette
promoted Zola still higher by making
him his private secretary. He was
then an uncouth, shy. ill dressed, man
nerless, squat little fellow, but he evi
dently had a tidy wife. who paid great
attention to the furbishing up of his
clothes and to his shirts. ? London
Truth.
His Wonderful Dream.
"Say." said the newspaper man
thoughtfully. "I had a great dream last
night Thought i was making a mint
of money."
"How?" asked his friend.
"Why, I dreamed I was a space rate
reporter on a Russian paper."
,4I can't see how there was so much
money in that."
**But that isn't ail of it I dreamed
that J was assigned to get the names
at a court baiL"
'"Tough job!"
"Of course it was a tough job. but
just think of the money. Why. every
name was a yard long and had a string
of titles to It besides. Oh, I was just
coining money when I woke up."?
P>rooklyn Eagle.
lie Surprised Her.
Kidder?Skinner played a mean crick
on his wife. lie told her if she learned
hew to cook he'd give her a surprise
Slimkins?Did she learn to cook?
Kidder?Yes. and then hi surprised
ner by discharging the cook.-Detroit
"?'ree Press.
A Ring on EI? Eland*.
"is Harkins worrying over The fact
that Miss de Riehe jilted him?*'
"No, but it annoys him exceedingly
to think that the ring she gave back
was purchased at her father's store
and paid for, too, by Jove!"?Harper's
Bazar.
The man who cannot blush and who
';*?'? no feeling of fear has reached the
a<'m\l of Impudence.?Menander.
i SENATOR TILLMAN ON THE TRUSTS.
A Very Lively Day in The Senate
Chamber.
Washington, Jan. 16.?In the Senate
I yesterday Senator Tillman continued
his arraignment of trusts and monopo
lies and again charged the Attorney
General as being primarily responsible
for lack of action with regard thereto.
Senator Tillman declared that the
railroads are absolutely in the saddle
on the coal question. They mine and
market coal and fix the price, he
charged, without regard to a solitary
independent operator. He said it was
an infamy the way the press of the
country was prostituted and lending
itself to befuddle the minds of the peo
ple and deceive them into the idea
that the railroads are willing and
anxious to relieve the distress occa
sioned by the coal famine, but that
somebody, somewhere, called an inde
pendent operator, is responsible for
the present condition of affairs.
The President deserves no credit,
said he, except for his attempt to
effect a settlement of the question,
"but the actual fact is," he added,
"that J. Pierpcnt Morgan gaye or
ders to his co-conspirators or servants
to attempt the arrangement between
monopoly and strikers." The At
torney General has been, he said,
derelict and criminal, and he is the
man to whom the people can point and
say, "You have murdered all those
who have frozen to death. You are
the man who deserves the opprobrium,
and hate of the poor and oppressed of
this land.''
In the course of his remarks Senator
Tillman stated, after being closely
questioned by Senator Spooner, that
W. R. Hearst had charged that the
United States district attorney of New
York and received orders from the
Attorney General not to submit his
report of his investigation regarding
trusts.
To his mind, he said, a case had
been made and the evidence and facts
had been unanswered. The law, he
said, was too plain for anyone to dis
pute it.
Senator Beveridge, of Indina, took
exception to a statement by Senator
Tillman, which he thought impugned
the motive of Judge Woods in issuing
his injunction in the Debs case.
Replying Senator Tillman said Judge
Woods went far beyond anything ever
contemplated by any American Judge.
"Why," he inquired, "are J. Pier- j
pont Morgan or his co-conspirators any j
more immune from the proceedings of j
our Courts of justice than Eugene
Debs?"
"Mr. Morgan," he said, "had such
a sanctity thrown around him on ac
count of his vast wealth that to im- j
prison him would cause the stars to ,
get out of their course or the sun to i
stand still. "He had," he said, j
"brought in the President's name, be
cause he is the 'boss' of Knox. and if
Mr. Knox is responsible he either has
misled the President or somebody else \
nas misled him, but primarily Mr.
Knox is responsible for lack of action
in regard to trusts.
The Delineator, The Designer, at
Osteen's Book Store.
Elite Styles, Toilettes, Bon Ton,
L'Art de 'la Mode. H. G. Osteen & Co.
Dun's Weekly Review of Trade.
New York, Jan. 16.?R. G. Dun &
Company's weekly review of trade
tomorrow will say:
Fuel shortage is still the one seri
ously disturbing element in the in
dustrial situation. Transporting
facilities have been diverted from
other merchandise to the disadvantage
J of shippers, yet iron furnaces are un
j able to seen re sufficient supplies of coke,
! and many other manufacturing plants
reclosed because of inadequate coal
deliveries. Mines are more fully
operated, but there is no prospect of
normal conditions until spring. Ex
tremely low temperature during the
past week stimulated distribution of
heavy clothing and other seasonable
goods. Retail trade was accelerated by
the customary clearance sales, especial
ly in dry goods and kindred branches.
Traveling men are sending large
orders for spring goods, the volume
of advance business surpassing the
customary amount for this time of
year.
Quiet conditions in the iron and
steel markets do not mean dullness or
diminishing consumption, but merely
the oversold condiiton of furnaces and
mills, together with great uncertainty
about keeping plants active on a day
to day supply of fuel. Inquiries are
numerous, especially in structural
lines, but makers are not ready to ac
cept bids until the future appears
more definite.
Dry goods trading has increased in
volume buyers arriving in great num
bers, and the prospect favors still
more activity in the latter half of the
month. There is- little disposition to
anticipate wants in the cotton goods
division, but immediate needs have
evidently grown more depressing.
Failures numbered 267 in the Uni
ted States, against 334 last year.
A Supposition.
"Yes," said the wise guy, "I am thor
oughly convinced that honesty is the
best policy."
"I suppose you have reached that
conclusion after having tried both,"
murmured the simple mug?Philadel
phia Record.
Desperation.
Customer (wildly)?I want some sooth
ing sirup, quick!
Druggist?What size bottle?
. Customer?Bottle! I want a keg! It's
twins!?Illustrated Bits.
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So Tired
It maybe from overwork, but
the chances are its from an in
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With a weli conducted LIVER
one can do mountains of labor
without fatigue.
It adds ahundred per cent to
ones earning capacity.
it can be kept in healthful action
by, and only by
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