The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, January 17, 1896, Image 7
LATEST NEWS
IN BRIEF.
OLEANINfiS FROM MANY POINTS.
Important Happening*. Both Home
and Foreign, Briefly Told.
Newsy Southern Notes.
Tlio Populists of Louisiaua have
nominated A. A. Booth, of Now Orleans,
for governor.
Ex-Govornor Burnett Oibbs, of Texas,
who lias been a Democrat, ha <gone
oi-ot* fit 4lk<*
V ?u& wu iuu *
Sixteen vessels of various nationalities
are loading at Mobile, A In., the
Jurgost number in her history.
Ex-Senator Butler of South Carolina,
has been ongaged by the Cramps,
ship-builders, as their uttorney.
The Chattanooga. Tonn., Press has
suspended publication. Its withdrawal
from the Held of journalism leaves
but one ltepublican afternoon daily
sopth of the Ohio River.
Tho Carthage, N. C., Blade tells of
a Moore county hog so big it could
not bo weighed. That is almost as
big ns those recently published by tinCharleston,
B. C., News and Courier.
Mrs. Cornelia Seibeles, of Augusta,
Ga., has been found wandering about
the streets of Loudon insane, with
$1,000 in her possession. She want to
Germany last November with tho hope
of recovering $50,000,000 as an heir of
the great Seibeles estate.
Tho Maryland House of Delogates
passed a resolution strongly endorsing
the Monroe Doctrino and expressing I
gratification nt the "appointment of
two of our most highly respected citizens
us members of the recently appointed
Venezuelan commission."
Two white boys, James Kelly and
Will Roach, were arrested near Ringold,
Ga., Friday for the murderous
attempt to wreck the Washington ves- 1
tibuled train on the Southern Railway
last December at Cleveland, Teuu.
The youths hail been reading stories
of train robberies.
The grand jury at Chattanooga,
Tenn., have returned an indictment
against David L. Snodgrass, chief justice
of Tennessee, for felonious assaidt.
The return is the outcome of the
judge's assault in Congressman
Brown's oflice on attorney John R.
Beaslev, who is still confined to his
room with a fractured arm.
Gen. J. B.Gordon, commanding the
Union Confederate Veterans Association,
has designated Friday, May 1,
as Memorial Festival day. The day
is set ajmrt for the use of the women
of the Houth in raising funds for the
battle abbey towards the construction
of which Mr. Charles Broadway Rouss
has contributed $100,000. Mr. Rouss
Contributed the amount with the protean
tl?III. .11. 410rt OHO ,1.1
lit* ruined by t Lie Confederate Veterans'
A ssociation.
Northern Newt* Notes.
A niece of Thomas A. Hendricks has
been licensed to practice law.
Now York city has raised $40,000 to
secure the holding of the next national
Democratic convention there.
Rev. Dr. Charles II. Purkhurst says
he is in favor of opening respectable
saloons during certain hours on Sunday.
Robbers blew open the safe of the
Dank of Fayette at Fayette, O., Tuesday
night. They got between $H,000
and $15,000.
Sinee a board of pardons wns established
in Ohio, the number of pardons
grauted has been reduced from D per
cent, to It percent.
Pat Calhoun recently netted $100,000
by consolidating the Pittsburg
street railways. Here's Southern
brains imported to Pennsylvania.
It is reported that the Pullman company
has yielded to pressure to some
extent, ami concluded to make a 2">
per cent, reduction in the price of upper
berths.
Martha Myers, former keeper of a
disreputable house in Philadelphia,
testified before the,Senate Investigating
Committee that she had paid money to
policemen lor protection.
Mr. Partridg" an ex-minister to
Venezuela and trusted agent of the
State Department, will probably be
clerk to the Venezulan commission. He
is u nephew of Senator I'roetor, a lid n
I'cptiblic.iu.
Secretary Herbert delivered au address
in New York at the Celebration
<>f Jackson Day, the ISth anniversary
of the battle of New Orleans, by the
Business Men's Democratic Associati
>11 of that city.
At New York on Thursday United
r States District Attorney McBarlane
filed a bill of complaint in the United
States Circuit Court in the name of the
United States against the thirty-two
railroad companies e instituting the
foiut Tariff Association and has given
notice that they will, on January 17th,
n ake a motion to restrain them from
operating under their agreement.
I-***Washington.
In accordance with the joint resold
tion of Congress, Secretary Herbert
on Thursday, immediately upon his
return from New* York, accepted the
rani Katalulin in behalf of the government.
At the close of business on Wednesday
the National Treasury gidd reserve
' htood at S57,H2d,22 I. The withdrawals
at New York amounted to $120,000 of
which $20,000 was in bars and $100,000
in coin.
Approximate estimates of the gold
and Silver output of the United States
for 1805 have been reported to the
Director of the Mint. The total is
$56,041,000 of gold and01,000,000 line
1
ounces of silver. The Director of the
Mint thinks this a little high.
The general pension bill for the year
emliug .Tune ."10, 1807, as reported to
the House Thursday by Mr. Blue, of
Kansns, curries au appropriation of
$141,825,820, being $58,750 below the
estimate aud $"5,750 less tkau the appropriation
for the current fiscal year
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Foreign.
The English Evangelical All&nce
opeuod a weuk'n session of pru'Or for
peace ia Louden on Weducday in
concert with the United Evangelical
Alliance.
THE STRlifH
0.[ COTTON.
?
GRGATKR NOW THAN IT HAS
KKE.V S1NCK 181KJ.
(teniarkeOlc Statistical Position of the 1
Staple as Set F'orth in a Circular
uf Cat ham. Alexander & Co.
I
The following circular wasfuruishod
j the News and Courier for publication;
New York, Jau. 4, 18(J(?.
Dear Sir;?We have the pleasure
to submit for your iuformution the
following comparative position of coti
ton and prices on January 3 for the
i past two years:
1396. 1895.
I Total visible supply iu
United 8tat?^, Europe
and at sea 1.093,920 4,872.522
I Cotton marketed to date 5,004,471 7,098,637
Total exports 2.233,615 3,003,610
Htook iu United States
ports 1,100,641 1,304,503
Stock in Liverpool (all
kinds 1.059,000 1.211,000
Afloat for Eurone (American)
! 499,000 813.000
Middling uplands in New
York 8 5-160 5 11-16
Middling uplands in Liverpool
i;>< 1 3 l-32d
From this statement the total visible
supply of cotton iu the world is
778,602 hales less than last year, 521,242
hales less than in 1894 and 319,207
hales less than in 1893.
The amount of cotton that has been
marketed of this year's crop is 2,094,100
bales less than last year, 570,045
bales less than iu 1894 and 145,263
bales more than iu 1893.
The exports this year are 1,370,091
bales less than last year, 583,083 bales
less than in 1894, and 139,756 bales
less than in 1893.
The stock iu United States ports is
203,859 bales Ichs than last year, 196,
182 bales loss than in 1894 and 85,085
bales less than iu 1893.
The following was the price of cotton
for future delivery iu New York,
bales middling, on January 3 of each
year :
1896. 1395. 1894. 1892.
January deliverv 7.98 5.46 7.7s 9.52
February delivery 8.03 5.47 7.84 9.64
March delivery 8.10 5.51 7.93 9.75
April delivery 8.15 5.58 8.02 9.85
May delivery" 8.20 5.61 8.10 9.94
Juno delivery 8.24 5.65 8.18 10.02
July delivery .8.27 5.70 8.25 10.07
August delivery 8.23 f>.75 8.30 10.10
The once of cotton is now 2.59
! cent* dearer than lust year. 0.17 cents
clearer than in 1894, and 1.05 cents
cheaper than in 1893 lor March contracts.
The amount of cotton that has been
marketed from September 1st to JanI
nary 1 (four months) for the cotton
! years mentioned below was as follows :
, 1890, 1,931,870 bales; 1895, 0,994,073
' bales; 1891, 5,100,092 bales; 1893, 4,790,455
bales. The amount, therefore,
that has eonie into sight this
year to January 1st is 2,002,803 bales
less than last year, 531,222 hales less
i than in 1891 and 111,115 bales more
j than in 1893.
I The average percentage f the total
I crop marketed by January i for the
I past ten years lias been *5. 12 per cent.
! and it the t,931.87<? bales that has
eomo into sight to January 1 should
prove to he 72. 12 per cent, of this
crop the actual total crop lor 1895-'90
would be 0,810,093 bales.
Our advices from all the Southern
States continue to report rapid shipment
of cotton to market, and that
the amount remaining in the hands of
planters, is less than for many years at
like date.
Since November 30, the date of our
Inst circular letter, the price of cotton
has declined about 00 points, nearly
half of which has been recovered.
In fact of the apprehension of war
with England, which caused a panic
| iitut nenvy depreciation iit securities of
j all kinds, and other adverse iullncuccs,
v. e think the price of cotton held up
remarkably well. Nothing but n
widespread opinion that cotton was
cheap at current prices and the inherent
strength of its statistical position
could have supported it. against
the violent disturbances in the monetary
world. Holiday receipts were
unexpectedly large and thai alone
I might haw induced more than half of
I the decline that occurred.
The holders of cotton have cause to
| eoiigratulafti themselves on the way it
has stood the storm, and now that
: Americans far and wide have voiced
i their endorsement of the President's
: patriotic and dignified message, und
! the recent scare in speculative uiul
| financial circles seems to have been
' without any adequate cause, the iudiI
cations are that prices for cotton and
business generally wiil improve materially
with the new year.
Latham, Alexander & Co.
(tone in for Repairs.
The battleship Texas has been sent to
Norfolk, Va., where sho will bo examined bv
a board of survey to ascertain the extent and
cost of the icve. airy repairs to put her in
t?on<l condition lor service. She will tlivn bo
pi t 'oil out oi eotnmission, Icr ollb'ers and
if -.v a- i ri.' d to other vessels and tli" reI
pairs begun.
rtali, including ihe improvements
made by the Movmons, is worth S'.'J,-;
775.U79. . 1
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THK FIF"*" FOURTH ?:OMi?KSS.,
A Synor43 ?'tlie I'roceodiogs of Both
Hnusne.
THK HXXATE.
was a fair attendance of Senator* on
iptvA(lay, nud the (jailories were well lihed.
rse Him.so bond Mil was reported, with ?
ubatitute. A joint resolution was introduced
authorising (ion. Casey ;iii charge of
the new library building) to contra t r.?r
work yet to bo done, eo its to bave the won:
com ply toil within a year from thin time aud .
witbiu the appropriation made forth* purpose.
A r".solution was also offered nud referred
to the library committee lor the purchase,
at $250, of a portrait of the iato Allen
O. Thurtuan, now hanging >u the room of the
Senate judiciary com in it too. At tlio request
of Mr. Eikins. his resolution requiring United
States bonds to bo issued after public
advertisement was referred to the 11nnnco
committee. Mr. Chandler introduced n
popular loan bill and proceeded to explain it.
Sir. Allen, Populist, of Nebraska, offered a
resolution for tuo appointment of a committee
of live Senators to inquire whether thenis
and has Ihjoii for the last two and a half
years, a republican form of government in
the SUite of Alabama; whether there was
fraud, force, intimidation orother unfairness
iu the elections of members of the Legislature
and of members of Congress. The resolution
offered by Mr. Sherman, on December
31st, declaring that the use of the gold reserve
to supply deficiencies is of doubtful
legality and greatly injurious to the public
credit, and that a sum of not loss than ?100,000,000
in gold coin or bullion should be r"
stored to the Treasury and segregated from
all other funds, was taken up, and Mr. Vest.
Democrat, of Missouri, addressed the Senate
upon it. lie made a vehement argument
egaiust the gold standard au?l national banks.
Vest's speech consumed the remainder of the
time of the session.
The session of the Senate Wednesday occupied
loss than an hour's time?the rest of
the afternoon belug given up to the caucus
of llopublican Senators to ngreo upon a lino
of action on the House tariff I>111. The culy
incident of note during the fifteen minutes
of the session were these: The swearing in of
Senator Woloott, Kepublio.au, of Colorado,
for his new term; the reporting of nu important
bill from tho committee on naval affairs
lor me eniisimcm 01 uuumonni men ior mo
Divvy, and the notice of Mr. Butler, Populist,
of North Carolina, of amendments to the
House bond bill, with the free coinage substitute.
The amendments propose to prohibit
any issue of United States bonds without
the authority of Congress and to require
the payment of greenbacks, Treasury notes
and the interest and principal of bonds in
either gold or silver, but in the cheaper of
those metals.
Henator Pritchard introdu ;ed a bill in the
Senate Thursday to have Levi Jones, late
l'.rst lieutenant of Company 1J, Second North
Carolina Mounted Infantry, receive pay and
allowance from the 1st ol October, 1HGM. to
tlie 1st of May, 18G4: also a bill for the relief
of Matthew N. and John N. Loary, simular to
Itopresentativo Settle's. He presented the
petition of Arthur Green to 1m; allowed
arrears of pension. Senator Tillman presented
the same resolutions from various
Charleston bodies in favor of the coast defence
bill as were presented by Representative
Elliott ia the House on Wednesday.
After a short executive session the Senate
adjourned for the day.
After the transaction of some routino
m oft ling busiuass Friday, Mr. Pritchard. of
North Carolina, nddrossed the Senate in advocacy
of an amendment intended to be
offered by him to the emergency tariff bill.
The amendment is to impose or iucroose
duties on clays >r earths, lime, marble and
stone and their muuufaeturcs, chromic ore,
iron ore, timber and lumber, leaf tobacco,
live animals and agricultural products. Mr.
Hill replied to Sir. Pritchard's speech, although
he did not, he said, intend to open
up a tariff discussion. It was somewhat
difficult for this Congress to gratify the people
of North Carolina. That State had sent
recently t > the Senate two distinguished gen
tleimm elected, substantially, at the same
time. I>y tho sumo body, and !>y the satno
combination. One of thotn, Mr. lJiitler, in
his speech tho other day lmd arraigned the
Democratic party for' being false to its
pledges on tarilT reform, and had given that
as liis reason for leaving the Democratic
party and joiuiug the Populists. Now came
the other end of the combination, and said
the people of North Carolina were extreme
high protectionists and wanted the reenactiueut
of the MoKinley law. lie ^Mt\
lliil) did not know how both of these Senators
could be gratified. |Laughter.| Mr.
White, of California, addressed the Si mate in
advocacy of his own and Senator Hill's resolutions
to amend the rules so as to establish
the cloture system. Tho House
bond bill, with its free silver .substitute
was then taken up and discussed,
hut no action was taken. Mr. Morgan.
a member of the committee on foreign
relations offered the following conei:rrcut
resoultion and had it referred to that committee.
-Resolved by tho Senate, the House
of ltepr '.sciitatives concurring. That the
| people of the United States of America.
! through their ropresentati.es in Congress
. assembled, convey to tho President ami
| people of the Republic of Transvaal, their
j earnest congratulations upon their mi I
'os.- m establishing free reprt seniative
! government, republican in form an 1 in
i their opposition to any for dgn power that
d"tiies to them the full enjoyment of thi.se
| rightful liberties. Tho people of America
having realised, through the favor of the
(iod of nations, the blessings of government
based upon tho consent of the governed,
entertain wit h confidence the leasing hope
and belief that the principles of self-government
will be securely established through
the influeneo of the republic of Prance, in
Colonies, and of the Republic of Liberia and
the Transvaal, founded by the people in
Africa, and that those republicans will foster
and give firm support to the peaceful progress
of Christian civilization in the new ami
vast field now being opened to tlio eommereo
and institutions of all the nations of the earth
throughout that groat continent; ami that
the President of the Cnited States is requested
to communicate this action to the Pr-siilent
of tho Republic of Trail <vai?l." The
I Senate then adjourned until Men Inc.
:
TUK HOUSE.
Tho House on Monday adopted a ,,.int
re-o. ..ion <i|.niji; on;. I, n i.son, <?I \t .
Va.. i u:"!nher of the ! ??:?n! of rodents of the
Smithsonian Institute ia pi ire of Henry
Coppe, deceased.
Tim prill' ipal f ..tar r ' lit" pror"e lintfs of
tho House Tuesday was a hre"/y liehnte over
tli * appointnii'i t of -i'" i.il I'lnphy e. rce >mmended
hy tin- nnm i: on a 'omits. Tim
; . o; t submitted I y Mr. Ahlri h. Ifcpuhlicait.
oi Illinois, chairman. provided for tho ap??
infill -lit two now p'.oyos i:. li. .! > .ri;o,.p,t|j
vi.-ioji, one of win an Inn! I?r"n dis
'iiai'K1' I aflor a M'rvii'" >; noarly a score of
yenr.-. This roport li'inl t a lively debate,
nil it was adopted. I'pon ' li nv.iinmcndutioa
of th" tl; rl"i'ks nrovid
oil tor in tli" legislative anpr ipriation till! lor
tho riirri'iit year ivi'iv apportioned to tin'
following i oniinitti'i'.i Hanking ami eurreii
y, coinage, weights ami nr'n.-nii's-. riluratnm.
enrolled hills, invalid pen.don.- (additional),
inning! ation and naturalization. irrigation
of nriil lands, labor, library, militia,
mini's and mining, 1 "m-i(l<* railroads, patents,
pensions. private land claim1, printing. railI
ways and am.Is, reform in tho eh ii serve-.'
ami territories. An additional clerk was alio
authorized lor em li of tin* committee's on
' military affairs. naval affairs and inter-State
| anil foreign commerce. t'pon the iinaiiitnotia
j report of tho eominittee on the jndieiary that
there was no douht of tin* eleetion of Mr. Alien
us a ri'presi nthtive from the Statu ol
Utah, that gent Ionian was sworn in. Several
resolutions of hiipiiry were agreed to, one of
them asking the Attorney (!uii"itil what had
h 'l'ii done hy him towards enforcing th" anti-trusl
law of lH'.iO, and what additiomil legislation.
il any, is de-irablo a,nl necessary to
I roteet the people Irom tin* operations of
trade, trnsl- and conspiracies. Iloiisi* adjourned,
niter a .statement i.y M r. Henderson,
Iowa, that t ho eoinmilti'i* on rules would
he ready to renort W'ednosilny.
tin Wednesday in the House hy unanimous
consent a joint resolution offered by Mr.i
I
Spalding, Republican, of Michigan, woe read
and referred to the committee on foreign
affairs. It provides for the erection into the ,
State of Hawaii of the territory commonly
known as tbo Sandwich Islands, with the
consent of the people thereof. It carries an
appropriation of * 100,000 to pay the expenses
of the negotiations preliminary to the constitution
of the State. Tho committee on
rules uot being ready to report, tho House
adjourned for the day.
For some reason, not apparent on the surface,
the House eauetn on rules did not
Thursday report the el a iges it proposed to
make in tho <-odo of the Fifty-first Congress
uudor which the Houso has so far been
operating, althi ug i thoir work is completed
aud is in print, oir. Henderson, Republican,
of Illinois, gave notice that he would make
tha mnnrf *T- til... 11 l.ll ...
vmv ?\|/viv A- i *U(?J t illi Aii UUj lkUJ'UUUUUi, KJk
Kansas, reported tho general pension appropriation
bill for tho your ending Juno 30th,
1807. and gave notico that ho would call It up
after tho report of tho committee ou rules
had been disposed of. The following concurrent
resolution was offered by Sir. Livingston,
of Georgia, and referred to tho committee
on forelgu affairs : "That the President
of the United States is hereby requested
to forthwith ascertain whether Great Britain
is advancing her outposts ou the territory in
dispute between her Colony of British Guiana
and the republic of Venezuela, or is re-iuforciug
posts heretofore established, with
troops, police or ordinance, and should the
President bocomo cognizant of the fact that
a British military or police force is advancing
to invade or ro-lnforce, or since tho 17th day
of December hist, has invaded, orre-infor
posts formerly occupied within said disputed
territory, he demand the immediate withdrawal
of said soldiers and the reduction of
the police force in said territory to uot a
greater number than occupied the British '
outposts on the aforesaid 17th day of December,
181)5."
On Friday, Mr. Henderson. Bepubnean, of
Iowa, reported the changes in the rules recommended
by tiie committee on rules and
the House pto 'ceded to consider them seriatim.
The session was quite a lively one.
Mr. Crisp was the champion of the Democrats.
No other business was transacted In
the House, as tho body did uot finish the
consideration of the report of tho coinmiLco
on rules.
In the House on Saturday the discussion of
the report of the committee on rules was
continued. Mr. Curtis wanted to substitute
written resolutions for the usual memorial
services, hut tin* He-use voteddown his proposition.
CLEVELAND^
TO CAFFERY.
rillO I'KKSIDKXT WRITES ON THE
BOND ISSUE.
The Highly Honorable Motives Actuation
the A ministration in Ncgot
:?>g t i?e Sale of
lionds.
*
Si'uator t'a.V?ry, )* Lousiaua, lias inado
public a letter ->f the President to him, which,
had opportunity presented since Monday, ho
would have incorporated in remarks which
he intended to make in tho Senate on the
bond bill. It rca-.ls:
Exk<ttivk Mansion*. 1
Washington, IX C., >
Jan. 5ih 181)6. )
My Dear Senator: 1 have read today in
the Congressional Record the debate in
tho Senate on Friday concerning the liuuneial
situation and bond is.-ties. T am amazed
at tho intolerance that leads even oxeited
partisanship t<> adopt, as a basis of attack,
rh unfeuud"d ;c,<,usaiii.us and assertions of
a maliciously mendacious and sensational
newspaper. No banker or lluuncicr nor any
other human being has been invited to visit
Washington for the purpose of arranging in
any way or manner for t!i" disposition of
bo.els iu meet the present or future needs of
the gold res -rve. No arrangement of any
kind has hcea made for the disposition of
.- te-ii bonds to any syndicate or inrough any
ageney or any syndicate. No assurance of
such a disposal of bonds has been directly or
indirectly givn t?> any person. In point of
fact a decided leaning towards a popular
loan and advertising lor bids has been plainly
exhibited on the part of the administration
at all times when the subject was under
discussion.
Those charged with the responsibility of
maintaining our gold reserve, so far as exchange
renders it possible, hnvo anxiously
conferred with each other, and, as occasion
permitted, with those having Knowledge of
ilnnm-inl a (fairs aud present monetary eou?lit
ions, to tha bust and most favorable
iik'uii.s ol soiling bonds for .gold. Tho unusual
importance of a successful result, if the
attempt is again mad", ought to bo apparent
to every A:neri"iin citizen who bestows upon
t!ie -ubjeet a ntomeut's pntriotie thought.
1'he Hoe rotary of the Treasury, from tho
l!r?l moment that the necessity of another
sale of l.'.adsseemed to bo appronehiug, destred
to oli'er them, if issued to the people, by
puolj ud vertisoment if they could in us bo
sue.-e.-siull}' disposed of. Afler full consideration
lie eauio to the conclusion, with
which 1 billy agree, that tho amount of gold
in tho reserve, being now 000,000 more
tliau it was m February last, when a sale ol
bonds was made to a syndicate, and other
conditions differing from those then existing,
justily us in offering tho bonds now about to
lie i.-sued lor sale by popular subscription.
This is the entire matter; and all these
particulars could have been easily obtained
by any member of the senate by simply inquiring.
li air. Morgan, or any one olse, reasoning
troin his own standpoint, brought himself
to the belief that that tho government
wot !d at length bo constrained to again sell
bonds to a syndicate, f suppose ho would
have a per!'- right, if ho otiose, to tako such
steps as soem-'d to him to put himself in condition
to negotiate.
f expect an issue of bonds will bo advertised
(or sale to-morrow, and that bids will
be invited not only for those now allowed by
law but lor such other ami different bonds as
t' ingress may nuthorrvduringthe pendency
i l the advertiscnvnt.
.\>'t luiMiig had an ore er! ..nit to ennfe
with you i:. person i!i- | recent session |
?i ongross began. and notion.g your par
.. ipatiou in the dei.a; ., ; !; -tl'n i ay, I have
thought u not ami"- t.? p ,t you in possession
? ! . a* fuels information 1. -r 'in contained.
Your.-; very truly,
ilm vi.u i
"'ii >n. I>i :ia!d-on ( utl'erv. i:?:m ri?- ;
X. NY."
TIIK WIDOW liKIS IT.
Mrs. llell Nominated for librarian
Over All lln> b'alr Misses.
'flu' tlftli. six, seventh unci eighth ballots
f(?r Librnsian were tak ui in tlu> Mississippi
Legislature on I'riil?\ night, most of the fair
candidates withdrawing aft >r t!i? first three
of tho ballots. Pandemonium reigned supreme.
The eighth ballot resulted: Mrs.
llell t'O, Miss I'iunkett si. Mrs. IJell is a
widow with four little children ard has been
an employe of the p<v-t<d11ce at > -'> per month
the past two years. She is a sister-in-law of
Captain Cha-. A. I.yerlv, a wealthy riti/.m: of
Chattanooga, Tenn.
Trolley Mail Car*.
Mail wagons are to disappear f* :n Now
York City after March 1, the tro.lyy care
doing the service.
SOUTHERN
PLANTERS
0
n
PRESIDENT LANK CALLS THEM t
TOGETHER. c
rj
Ho Saya That By Reducing tlia N
Cotton Production Thoy Can .
Raise the Price 25 Per
Cent. fi
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President Hector D. Lane, of tho American 1
Cotton a rowers' Protoctivo Association, has ^
i-jsued a circular to tho cotton growers and
handlers throughout tho South asking goneral
attendance at u meeting at Memphis on
January 21. Tho mooting is to take action ^
regarding tho acreage of tho crop for tho ^
present year. Mr. Lano'sassociation helped
the cotton planters last year by bringing
about a considerable reduction of acreage ^
and a consequent increoso in tho price of the
staple. As is indicated in his letter Mr. Lane c
believes that similar coucerted action this n
yoar will result in similar benefit to tho ^
growers. The following is tho text of Mr.
Lano's letter: i
mu. lane's addiiess. ,
Aiietlme has arrived when next year's 1
acreage in cotton should receive your most J
serious consideration. Our enemies, the ^
cottou "bears," are anticipating matters by
industriously circulating roports-that it is the ?
intention of the cotton growers to enormously I
increase the cotton acreage and double tho t
uso of commercial fertilizers tho coming sea- j
son, which will result in tho production of a
crop of from ten to twelve million bales. '
Information comes from Texas that Now r
Orleans " I oars" are reporting that Texas will (]
plant lo four million bales. Those reports
are circulated to induce tho Southern people
to sell tho balance of this small crop at pres- I
ent low llgures. t
According to official data America has ex- j
ported to Europe one million three hundred
and twenty-three thousand balei less than I
last year. The Northern mills have taken a
four hundred and fifty thousand bales less g
than last year.
Stocks of cotton at American ports and in- f
terior towns are about the same us last year, ^
but as tho season progresses the stocks at the e
ports will daily grow less as compared with t
last year. .
On tho other hand, the mills of England, 1
Americu and the continent are running full *
time, und if they keep up tho present con- f
sumption until next Septomber they will need ,
all of our cotton; they cannot wait for tho
next crop. 1
What then prevents your obtaining re- 6
munerntive prices for the remaining portion i
of this eropV
This is easily answered. The speculative
"bears" of New Orleans, Now York and Liv- I
erpool. They are thoroughly indifferent to i
your cordition, and reckon littlo of your (
welfare. They would be giad to see cotton .
selling at four cents, and would contribute '
their aid in pressing it down to the lowest I
point, regardless of the destitution and sor- 1
row that would ensue throughout the South
under such conditions.
IN THE POWF.B OF DE3?OT3.
The Southern planter lias the power to do- '
nose these reckless despots and wholesale '
despoilers of our prosperity. Destroy the i
annual surplus, their able coadjutor, by u
judicious decrease of acreage, and these gentlemen
will be out of a job. Plant only a
moderate crop and you will be better off
with a seven to a seven and a half million
bale crop, selling at ten to eleven cents, than
a ten million bale crop selling ac live to six
cents.
Do not bo led into the error that you can
deceive the great firm that buys your product.
They have their agents in every town
and village; they ure ever scrutinizing your
actions and know more in regard to" the
general acreage than you can possibly llnd
out yourselves. (
Conceiving this to be a matter of paramount
importance t') the material interests
of the South and being impressed that this 1
! question in its most comprehensive form (
should bo considered gravely, 1 therefore
deem it advisable that the cotton growers
meet in convention, that we may formulate
and adopt sonic intelligent rule of action i
through which we muv be enabled to combat (
theso agencies whoso pernicious methods are
so destructive to our prosperity.
ALL COTTON MEN INVITED. <
On account of its general accessibility, I
dereby name Memphis as the place and I
Tuesday, January the 21st, as the time of 1
meeting. ,
I earnestly invito all classes of our citizens
that aro directly interested in protecting the 1
values of our main commodity, cotton, to ]
join with us in our deliberations. The iuvi- (
tntion is extended to all ngiioulturnl so- ,
cieties, Alliances, Granges, Cotton Exchanges,
commission merchants, factors, associations, 1
etc. <
The movement is strictly non-political, hut 1
essentially industrial; therefore uo man
should say us uay on account of political
afllliatious.
I respectfully invoke (ho aid of the press,
lieeognizing the demand for heroic action
and the disaster that is to follow without it,
I appeal to all patriotic people to join in this
atriiotrlo #,? onin n.'i twit,, nnr nn<?.l.. <V, .?> n
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bondage that is us oppressive) anil ignominious
ns was over Inflicted by the Czar upon a
serfdom.
No longer can wo llvo prosperously and
happily under so tyrnnnieal a system. The
demand of the occasion is for lionest, earnest
men, who liavo the intelligence to appreciate
prevailing conditions anil the courage
to take up arms against a sea of troubles,
and by opposing them end them.
I romuin, sincerely yours,
Hr.croR D. Lank,
President American Cotton Growers' Protective
Association.
Semite Confirmations.
The Senate in executive session Thursday
continued the following nominations
Emery ! ". i'.-s!, <<f Georgia, t ? be First
Commissioner of tlio General Land Olllee;
Joseph Outbuaite. <.f Ohio Uicniber of tlie
Je.ard of (>r.i111:111< and l'ortili< ati ius.
< o i.-til- s. 'J', t, of T< vas, at ?I.irtini'iue.
Owen M -<iarr, of Tciiimsscc, at
< leliflU go -; Sllliue. j(. Itogrr-. colli elor f
Interna I r< \ < i.o , . ,t !i di.-t ri.-t of Nor! Ii Carolina.
Collector of customs s. It. Iliugin,
.-1 r:i ?! .,!ri'-t ?> Maryland Surveyor ? (
eiis'emis d. il. :il Nii.-livilli", *!*<*!:ii.
ll'i'i'ivi'r of |?iil?li<- moneys f. s. I>i.\on,
Nat liitorlifIjoiii-i.inii. l'o.-t master, Lontsi.in::,
Lou S? Fourtenev, Fusion.
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Great Itrltaln W HI Not Yield.
Tli i London Times in an editorial warns I
again (ho raited States ' that whether we
have trow I des in Kuropo or Afri a, or not,
we will not vienl on the Venezuela ipiestion.
We lin\e in-ioll 'd notioily, lull if we ate eom|h
lleii to light we ,-dinil l>e ready to guard i
what i' worth lighting lor."
Itiisps I>11 nraven.
Tin* St. .TMiles Gazette referring to the I
hurried departure ?>f Ford L?unraven from
the tailed Slat s, -avs: ' Lord llunraveii, |
instead of 1 aviiig. -in.:,Id hav i faced tlio '
judgement of tie1 e w 1i ; \a -lit Glim lil;e j
an English at! ; i New Yort?, wh?wn j
alone in i"i: eete In'ii iralile from either
party roitld m'> >|i;ai- . i made.'
'11; St ariis! ant'; rilie . la Gu'iYiv nj>?
tiipnl a woiin l".l > . e;:- t ! ?y. an I
sen epeed hi: ; by e.i ;;-. ciai'liai to Lie iir.prisouuienl
in ivaua
V
THE POLIi TAX AND SCHOOLS. I
L Decision of General Interest
Throughout the State.
Below is a synopsis of the. decision
>f the State Supreme Oourt in the
aatter of the poll tax school fnnd <j*esion
raised by the school distriot of tho
city of Columbia through John P.
rhomas, Jr., Esq> The matter involves
a considerable amount of money in
3ichknd county, and no doubt in a
food many others, for tho oustom ?f
he tax department hns been knocked
nto a cocked hat, and the money will
io longer go into the ordinary county
and.
Th? miirt anvi in RiilmtflnnA'.
WW? ? ?- ? ?WW?WW.
Thin was aa act of tho board of
chool commissioners of the city of
Columbia vs. L. B. Folk, county treasirer,
praying for a writ of mandamus
equiring tho treasurer to hold certain
noney received by him as poll taxos to
he credit of tho school district of tho
ity of Columbia and report tho same
is a collection of poll taxes to tho board
>f commissioners of the school district
>f Columbia and that ho shall pay out
ho sumo upon tho warrant of tho said
>ourd of school commissioners.
Tho facts out of which tho controversy
arises do not seem to bo disputed
ind aro as follows : On tho 31st of
December, 1894, tho timo limited for
ho payment of taxes without penalty,
evied for the fiscal year 1893-'94,
hero were a large number of persons
esidiug within tho limits ot tho school
listrict of tho city of Columbia who
uado default in the payment of their
>oll taxos. Thoreupon tho county
reasurcr made lists of such defaulting
ax-payers, adding tho penalty of 15
>er cent, on the poll tax duo by each,
is proscribed by law and placed tho
amo in tho hands of the two trial I
ustices for tho city of Columbia? '
L'radowell and Troy?together with
ittidavits that tho persons therein
inmed had rnado default in payment of
heir poll taxes. In a few instances
varrants were issued against tho deaulting
tax-payers, charging them
vith misdemeanor under the provis
ons of Section 377 of tho criminal
.tatutcs as revised in 1893. In those
stances where the parties wero tried,
convicted and lined, the lines wero
>uid over to tho county treasurer as
required by Section 890 of the revised
itatutes, for county purposes. For
;ho lines thus paid over tho county
;reasurcr, tho relators mako no claim,,
jecause at that timo the act of 1894,
ippr opiating such linos to school purposes
had not been x>as&od, end hcnco
mder tho law as it stood tho county
treasurer was justiliod in holding tho
same for county purposes generally.
But in a large majority of instances
tho defaulting tax-payers pnid their
poll taxes with the penalty added to
the trial justices without having been
tried or convicted and without being
lined for the misdemeanor in failiug to
pay their poll taxes, and the controversy
is as to tho moneys thus collected
by the trial justices aud paid over to
the county treasurer, that ofliccrclaiming
that such moneys are applicable to
county purposes generally. whilo tho
relators claim that such moneys being
the poll tuxes voluntarily paid by the
defaulting tux-payers exclusively for
school purposes and should bo so held
by the county treasurer. Inasmuch,
as one of the conceded facts in tho
case is that when a-defaulting taxpayer
made tho payment to tho trial
justice, ho wus given a receipt on a
blank prepared by tho comptroller
general and delivered to tho county
treasurer and by him delivered to tho
trial justices, specifying that tho
money paid was for a poll tax with tho
penalty added, wo do not seo how it
can bo questioned that such money
was the proceeds of the j>oll tax, and
as such by tho express terms of tho
Constitution as well as by the terms of
the statutes under which such tax was
levied, exclusively applicable to school
purposes. This money certainly did
not arise from lines imposed by tho
trial justices for tho parties paying it,
never arrested, tried or convicted for a
misdemeanor for not paying their poll
tax, and therefore wero not and could
not have been fines.
It is contended, however, that after
the expiration of tho time nllotcd for
tho paymout of tho j>oll tax, the county
treasurer has no authority to collect
tho same, and can only prosecute tho
defendant for a misdemenor, and if tho
treasurer cunnot collect it himself,
neither a trial justice nor any other
person could act as his agent in tho
a - J. ^
VUliVVUUU VI it. T? u t'UllUUl Ul'Cl'pi
this view. The object of nil tax laws
is to securo the colletion of the tuxes
imposed by lawful authority?nutl if
such luwa coutaiu provisions for enforcing
the payment of taxes it by no
means follows that the collecting
ollieer is forbidden to receive the taxes
ami penalties thereon after the tiut )
limited for their payment without
r sorting to the stringent remedies
provided for enforcing the pas meet of
taxes. Such a view would sueritico
s distance to mere form. Tito end desired
is the collection of tuxes and if
a defaulting taxpuyer defaults voluntarily
to oomo forward and pay his
taxes with all penalties ami legitimate
costs ad led beforo the strinpnt remedies
provided to enforce payment
si all be put into operation, v.o m e n >
reason why the same may not lie re
ctivcd by the officer charged w 11! 1 th >
collection thereof. Hut bo this us it
inuv, the fact remains in tin*, can- th"t
here is ft sum of money in the hands
of the county treasurer arising frcni
poll taxes j>ai<l by defaulting t .x payers
and for which they I10J.1 receipts:
and there can bo no quest u> i under
the constitution as well as i it >
tliat such inoney is oxelu*.o o n; picable
to school purposes an the.- i
purposes it must be ni>plic<i
'i'ho judgment of tlio eon i - t h .t a
writ of mandamus do issue prayed
for in tho petition.