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i n of mm. Review of the Legislation of the Session Just Closed. TOUR APPROPRIATION BILLS. New Provisions Added of Interest and Importance?Cost of Armor Plate? The Arbitration Treuty Defeated. The extraordinary session ?f Conpress just closod was called by President McKiuley two days after he took the oath of ofHce on the steps of the Capitol. It wet in pursuance to his proclamation at noon March 15. The j spocial message transmitted by him to j both Houses on the opening day was i brief. It explained the deficiencies in the revenues, reviewed the bond issues i _ . A 1 - - - ' oi mu lasi administration ana urged Congress promptly to correct the existing condition by passing a tariff bill that would supply ample revenues for the support of the government and the liquidation of the public debt. No other subject of legislation was mentioned in the message and the tariff bill was the all-absorbing feature of the session. The Republican members of the waj*s and menus committee of the preoeding liouso had beon at work throughout the short session, which ended March 4, giving hearings and preparing the bill which was to be submitted at the extra session. Three days after the session opened the tariff bill was reported to the II01130 by the ways and means committee, and thirteen days ! later, on Maroh 81,it passed the House, i It went to the Senate, was referred to j the committee on finance, and the Republican members of that committee spout a month and three days in its consideration and in preparing its amendments, which were submitted to thq Senate on May 4. Its consideration wnB begun in the Senate on May 7, and exactly two months later, July 7, it passed tho Senate with 872 amendments. The bill then went to conference, where, after a ten days' struggle, on July 17 a complete agreement was reached by which the Senato proceeded from 118 amandniflnt# anil !??* U<>n#? ? >> 511. Tha others (24:1 in number) were compromised. The conference report was adopted by the House July 10 at the conclusion of twelve hours of continuous debate. The report was taken up to the Senate July 20 and adopted on Saturday, the 24tU. Congress did uot devote its attention entirely to the tariff though it did subordinate everything else to this one measure. The four appropriation bills which failed on March 4th last in themselves would have compelled President MoKiuley to call Oongross in extra session, even if the necessity of a revision of the tariff'had not existed. Those appropriation bills ware the sundry civil, the agricultural, the Indiau and the general deficiency. These bills were introduced and passed by the House iu the identical form in which they existed at tho time of their failure of enactment into law at tho preening Congress, but they were aiasmtV-1 . i. ??... o \Jy tne Senate, and when tlioy finally became laws contained more or loss new legislation of interest and importance. general deficiency carried a provision accepting the invitation to take part in the Paris exposition in lltrto, an i appropriated 8-13,OUU to defray nrelimiuar\ expenses and appropriated 8b":",000 for a new immigrant station at New York to replace the one destroyed by 1>.. e_.. .1 . - inu. i>.v mi xue iuobi important piece of new legislation iu the bill, however, wftB that limiting the cost of armorplate for the throe new battleships to &10U per ton. In case the Secretary of the Navy should 11ml it impossible to make contracts for armor within the price lixed, ho was authorized by this provision to take steps to establish a government armor factory of sullicieut capacity to mako tho armor. In executing this authority ho must propare a description and plans and speci ti cations of the laud, buildings and machinery suitable for the factory, advev tise for proposals and report to Congress at its next session. In the Indian bill, after a severe struggle in both Houses, tho question of sectarian schools was settled by the following declaration of the policy of , the government: ' " I hat the Secretary of tho Interior may make contracts with contract ' schools, apportioning as near as maybe tho amount so contracted for among schools of various denominations, for ( the education of Indian pupils during the fiscal year 18l?8, but shall only make | such contracts at places where noli- ' sectarian schools canuot be provided for 1 such Indian children and to an amount J not exceeding 40 per centum of tho amount so used for the tlscal year 180 ).'' Tho question of opening to entry tho rich gilsouite deposit in tho Uncompahgro reservation in Utah was also compromised by opening such agricul- " tural Iftinls us have not been allotted to the Uneompahgro Indians on April 1, ' ! Hps, to entry, but reserving to the ' United States title iu all lands contain- 4 .rile. ...i.. ?i? in-- ?? 1 .<?H "?C| no|<ui?ii VI Ulllfl I1HU HUU' 1 stances. in tli?! sundry civil bill tho most na- 1 portant now provision was that suspending the order of President Cleveland sotting aside ahout 21,000,000 as i forest reservations. The law also in- > eludes a general scheme of legislation , for the government and protection of , the lorest reservations of tho country. ' Tho Republican leaders of the llotiso . decided at theopeningof the session to pursue a policy of inaction in order to throw tho responsibility for delaying ' the tarilF bill upon the Honato, aud therefore, the committees were not announced until the close of tho session, and onlv lucent matters were consid ered. Fifty thousand dollars were appropriated for the relief of American citizens in Cuba at the solicitation of the President; #200,000 was appropri ated for the relief of the Mississippi flood sufferers; u resolution was passed authoring tho Secretary of tho Navy to transport supplies contributed for the relief of the poor and farnishiug in [udia, and #50,000 were appiopriated for the entertainment and expenses of the delegates to the universal postal convention, who met in this city. Tlio only extensive pieces of general , legislation enacted by this Congress, J except the tariff bill, were the laws to prevent collisions at sea and to place in force regulations to preveut collisions upyn certain harbors^ rivers and inland Wat? rs of the United States, and the 8 bill authorizing the President to sus- f pend discriminating duties on foreign I vessels and commerce. ? The Senate, not being confined as to the scope of its legislation, dealt with 1 a number of important subjects both in * and out of executive session. One of ' theso, which attracted world-wide at 1 tention, was tho genera) arbitra- " Hon treaty negotiated by President J Cleveland with Crest Britain. After V exhaustive consideration, despite the great pressure brought to bear upon the ,, E v. i: j j-i C i jy iuii^hhi# nuu uuuiLuerciiii i bodies throughout the oonntry, the , Senate rojocted the treaty. The Hawaiian treaty of anuejatiott negotiated . by President MeRinley, was still qd- : acted upon when Congr?s3 adjourned. J In open session, after muoh debate, the Senate passed the Cuban beliiger- " enov reaolutiou, a bankruptcy bill, in- ? eluding both voluntary and involunta- t ry features, and the "free homos" bill. ? But none of these important question? recoived consideration in the House. J " i IM'KUNAIi ;UKVKM'K RECEIPTS. r Iteport of the Commissioner Shows?, ? Decrease From the Previous Year. v The preliminary report of the Com- j missioner of Internal Revenue for the t year eudod .Tune 30, 1897, shows that * the total receipts during the period were $140,019,508, a decrease as com- t pared with the previous year of $211,- I 100. The receipts for the several sources of revenue, with the increaso ' or decrease, as compared with the fiscal j-ear 1890, are stated as fol- 1 lows: 8 pints $83,008,558, an in- 8 ereaae of $1,038,48?; tobacco $3,710,297; a decrease of $1,881; fermented liquors $32,472,10'.}, a decrease of $1,812,078; oleomargarine $1,034,120, a decrease of 1 $18.*>,802; filled cheese $18,992 (law not in force iu 1890); miscellaneous $357,2>3, a decreaso of $09,829. Ranks and r bankers $85, a decrease of $49. The amount of withdrawals for consumption during the last year is given as t follows: Fruit brandy !. 140,181 gallons, r a decreaso of 294,079; whiskey 08,833,245 gallons, au increase of 1,793,835; beer, porter aud all 24,423,094 barrels,a " decrease of 1,4<>0,004. Number of cigars and oheroots | weighing over 3 pounds per 1,000, 4,083,109,097; number of cigarettes, J 4,153.252,470, an increase of 109,453,723, } tobacco, chewing and muokiinj,^ ) 784,812 pouuds, nu increase of 7,087,- . 007; oleomargarine, 42,584,550 pouuds, ^ a deorenso of 5,0H9,2t4. Tlio Stutes from which the larger col- ' lections were made during the year are given as follows: Illinois, $82, 1 1?,922; New York, $18,42<>,7i>0; Kentucky, $15,057,957; Ohio, $12,748,888; I'onnsvlva- 1 nia, $11,440,817; Indiana, $8,504,803; ? Missouri, $7,804,002; Maryland, $o,- | 454,795, M| Will Moot In Omaha tn 181)8. The United States League of Build- ' ing and Loan Associations' convention j was held at Detroit, Mich. A number i of papers wore road, and the following oiricvs were elected and then adjourned I to meet, jn IWU ffl.8: President, ,.hno8au(>orn, of Gulesburg, Ills.: tlrst l vice-president, Win. Blummer, of Buffalo, X. Y.; second vice-president, Timothy It. Foster, of Yicksburg, ?diss.; third vice-president, Thomas T. f Fitzmorris, of Omaha, Neb. ; troasurer, c Win. Sheppard, of (irand Bapids, t Mich.; secretary, Herman t'ellorins, of Cinoinnati; nssistaut secretary, Q. F. f Kosmayer, of New Orleans. 1 The Population of Greece. j The United States minister to Greece 1 has supplied the State I >epartment at J Washington with some advance figures l of the Greek census, taken last October, t They show a total population for the t country of 2,48;t,.Sua, m against the t total of 2,187,SOS in the year 1889. 1 There were 1,2 ;tl,si<; males, uml 1,10ft,- j 990 females. There were twelve towns i with a population in excels of 10,000. a At Waco, Tex., two brothers named i Kivett were ki 111><i in u stock brokeruge t office by n nmu named l.umden. 1 ho North Carolina katlroa<l Ca ne> At Salisbury, N. C., on tho 27th testimony' was taken in the North Carolina railroad lease ease before 1 special Master C'raige in accordance i with a decree of Judge Simonton to j iscertain whether or not there was j fraud in the making of the lease of the y North Carolina railroad to the Southern , 1 hero was a good deal of irrelevant t testimony, ami tho testimony so far j introduced seeuis too importont to lay , 9veil tho idightost foundation for the barge of fraud. 'J ho ease was postlamed to Tuesday, August 17th, foi the next hearing, and the court id jonrnod to that (late when it will con- \ veno in the court house at Salisbury. ?*oa? Swept Away In a Sudden l-'lood. J At I'rattsburg, Steuben county, N. e l\, a cloudburst flooded the village and r mused damage to tho amount of.: ;n,hiO. firidgos and buildings were washid away iu largo numbers, uud many !>eople were imperiled. tVarned Not to Start Itefore Spring The Colonial office in T.otulon has varned intended gold seekers that it will be useless to start for ;be Klonlike before spring, as the journey is 1 ossibloonlv in the summ.-r imum - ------- | Kemccies tor trie My kcst. ( Tim leaves of tin* (MillVi1 lint tree, often called Kentucky eolt'ee tree, it ^ nmceratetl while fresh and sweetened, make a dead shot poison for house Mies. The juice of the j?>*een leaves o| the elder hush sainbiieus canadensisi will instantly expel the larvae inn^^ols of any Mow lly Iroin a sore on any animal. Work animals tlint may receive a wound penetrating heneatli the skin in warm weather are liable to j ho "llv blowed;" and ii the maggots *j are not m oved they will kill the ani * nial or render it unlit for service. The t juice of ! ?-en t hh r leiivt v. ill instant- ) ly rem e ? i very it '( n< iios. At 1 lantii < 'enstit ution. j HRAR1NU AT FLAT RUCK. ludge Slmoaton Will Decide In n Few Day* What Constitutes an "Original Package." The Columbia (S. 0.) Register of the 8th says the hearing in the original taokage oases was held yesterday at Flaf Jock, N. C., before Judge Simontonf >ut no decision was rendered nor was he least intimation given as to what it rould be. Attorney-General Barber ras present, representing the State; dr. P. H. Nelson, of Columbia, repreenting Meetz as agent of the Portner brewing Company and Pfeifer; Mr. Ihuman, of Greenville, representing 5ayue, of that city; Messrs. B. A. Hobrood, of Charleston, and P. A. Wilcox, >f Florence, representing Staokley, ol hat City, as agent for Gugenhoimer A Jo. The main and practically only quesion before the judge, was what constiutes au orignal package. The various attorneys practically had the same case, md contended that the bottles in a >ackage shipped into the State were the 'original package." In the case of >tacfcley, ol 1 loreuce, it appears that he stuff was shipped to him in bottles moked in a car and it was contended hat eaoh one was plainly an orignal package. To both of ihese tuitions, the attorney general took xception, contending that the )ox in which the bottles wore shipped vas the original package, and not the >ottle. lie oontended, further, that in he Gugenheimcr shipment all the botles in the car substituted the package md must be sold as such. Very volumuouh authorities were quoted oy all of he attorneys, and the judge seemed to >e deeply interested. Mr. ljarber opened aud was followed >y Messrs. Hngood aud Wilcox aud dr. Nelson closed. The attorneys reurnod from llat Hock last night aud dl expect a docisiou within a few days. TO n AO CO MKN SQUKAL. Phe Moisture In Their Leaf Will Have to De Paid For. A dispatch from Now York says the lew tariff bill lius caused a panic among obacco importers, aud they declare bat one short paragraph in tho now law neans a loss to thorn of thousands of lollars every year. The paragraph is i part of section i!3 of the act which tompels importers to pay duty on to>acoo at the weight at which it goes iuo tho bonded warehouse. This takes rem the tobacco men a privilege that las for many years been accorded to hem by the tariff laws. Under the iV llson not and previous, inn orters mve bad their tobacco reweighed at the inio of its withdrawal from bonded varebouses, and on this weight duties vero collected. The weight of tobacco s greatly reduced during the bonded >eriod by evaporation. Experts estiliate that the importers save 32o to ?4!] k bale on Sumatra, and some times as ligh as $70 a bale on Havanna leaf, by laving on the dried-out tobacco. Iiulorters will now gain nothing by deay, but must pay duties at 31.8 ? per loitad for the weight at the time of its irrival. They ORtimate the lose to importers in New York alone will be >00 a year. TAbK ore A CLOTH rouniNE. \n Experiment That Will Likely 15c Tried In the East. A dispatch from Fall River, Mass., lays when the cloth business is dull, ind the prospects for dividends poor, he stockholders feel privileged to make mggestions, which explains why there las been more or less talk of late con eruiug a cloth trust. The proposition ias boon advanced to pool issues in nauaging the mills, reducing expenses egulating the supply according to demind, and the introduction of other iuiqvatlona. ^ ueorly as can. bo ascet; ninetT, it is nof the" idea to group all lie factories under or.ohead at the outlet, but to experiment with four or Ivo companies. One agent would dispose of the output, and the services of niddlemen in the shane of brokers vould be dispensed with. It is claimed commissions take too much out of the nills, and that the drain i.i unnecesiary. _ Had Carried Out ltd At a dinner at Boston, given to Hocetary Gage, he makes a speech on tarft'and the money question; he says the idministration has carried out its dedges as to tho former and "the neeze of prosperity brings comfort and estoratiou" and that the admiuistraion can ho relied on to carry out its dedsres as to tho money question, that t will not bo idlo in this respect. The Virginia I'rohlhlt ionists. W. T. Kundick. Htate chairman of the Virginia Prohibition party, has issued i call for a Htato convention of the >arty to moot in Lynchburg on August !Oth, to nominate candidates for (Jov>rnor, Lieutenant-Governor and Attorley-General. All Virginia I'rohibiionists will have a voice in the proleedings. Tarlfl IlttTprliited. The first copies of the tariff act for simulation have been received at the locument rooms of the Senato and louse at Washington.The bill makes a lamphlet of seventy pages. There will ie tifty-thousand copies in all to he circulated by Congress. stands Shaken l>y an Karthqiiake. Tho islands of Antiguo, St. Kitts and iuadelonpe, .Tumaica, of tho Leeward jroup, experienced a severo shock of larthquake at noon on tho 28th. Now Civil Service Population. President McKinley haspromulgated in amendment to tho civil service rules >roviding that there slia'l ho no re uovals from positions subject to com lotitive examination except for just auso in writing, to which the accuaed ias had opportunity to inako defence 1'hia also includes all within classified iervice and all employees of tho cusoins house office, one employee in each eternal revenue district to act as casher or chief deputy or assistant collec or, all subject to competitive examina ion. ?IS fill! WELL. I t TheWeather Bureau Says That Conditions^ Favorable Generally. A GOOD REPORT OF CROPS. Corn Hu Continued to Make Rapid Growth?General Outlook For Tobacco It Encouraging. The 17. S. Weather Bureau, in its f report of crop conditions for the week ending July 26, says: The week has been very favorable to agricultural in teresta on the Pacifio coast, and generally in the States of the Central Valleys, East Qulf, South and Middle Atlantio i coasts. In New England, New York, ! the Bed Biver of the North and other portions of the Ohio Valley, there has been too much rain, while drought prevails over the greater part of Texas and in portions of Arkansas, Missouri and Kansas. In the last named State, hot winds have proved , injurious. Excessive rains have caused damage^ grain in shock in portions of , the Jliddft^Atlantic States, and severe and damaging local storms ooourrod in portions of New England, New York i and New Jersey. * Corn has continued to make rapid growth in the States of the Central Vali leys, Lake region, New England aud Middle Atlantic coast. In Iowa, the early crop corn has reached the earing stage, and there is ample moisture for present needs. In Nebraska it continues late and is generally in oxcelleut condition. In central and southern Kansas corn has been seriously injured by hot wiuds and drought, but over the remainder of the State it is in good condition. Drought is also causing serious injury to late corn in Texas and portions of Louisiana. ' Cottou has generally made favorable progress, and Is fruiting well over the i northern, central and eastern portions of the cotton belt, although some complaints of rust and shedding are received from portions of the eastern i section. In southern Texas drought is L causing bolls to open rapidly, some prematurely, and the plants have stopped growing; but over northern Texas, , except somo shedding, the crop is growing and fruiting well. Hpnug wheat has been injured by exi cessive rains in northern Dakota, exi cept in lowlands, and in South Drkota, . the outlook is promising. In Washington and Oregon tho crop is now , nearing maturity in excellent condition. I Except in Kentucky and portions oi Tennessee, where the crop continued i in good condition, the general outlook , for tobacco is encouraging. The crop has sustained damage' by cut worms in Ohio. M'KINLRY'S DKPARTURK. He Leaves Washington to Be Absent Until In September. President MoKinley and party loft Washington at noonWednesday forLake C'hamplain. It is tho President's inton, tion to romain at Lake C'hamplain until August 2;lrd, when he will go to the Orand Army of the llepublio encampment at Buffalo. From Buffalo he will go to Ohio, where he has promised tc attend the re-union of his old regi1 mcut and also to be present at the wedi ding of the daughter of ex-Presiden1 Hayes, 011 September 2. Unless thert should be an urgent demand for hit presence in Washington he will return 1 to Buffalo and there go aboard Henatoi Hanna's yacht, for a few days cruise or the lakes. During the President's ab once from Washington, all executiv* business will be done here. A CONSUL COM MITTS SUICIDE. Did Not Walt for Ills Successor to Kc Ileve Klin of the Office. United States Minister Baker haf cabled the State Department at Wash ington that United States Consul Muuchmeyer, of San Salvador, lias committed suioidc. Mr. Baker says that ho will appoint a vice-consul tc take charere of the office. Munchmeyei was appointed from West Virginia ir 1895, first to tho vico consulate a Acajutlar^and later and in the same year, to San Salvador, to fill the va cancy caused by tho death of his father 1 A fow days ago Mr. Jenkins, o Nebraska, was nominated for the placi 1 held by Munchine.. or. THEY AKK AT ODDS. 11 anna and McKlnley Aro Out foi ( the First Time. A Washington dispatch says: Foi i tho first time since tho inauguration, President McKinley and Senator Marl Manna aro at vanauoe. Senator Hannt is enraged because the President in sisted 011 Bending liia currency messagi to Congress Against the instructions o Senator ilanun, who vouched the infor niation that it would he of no avail and would thuR CAst a stigma upon tho lie publican party which would bo blamoc for inactivity in currency reform, whicl the message plainly pointed out wai vitally necessary. Challenged to Fight a Duel. Mayor MoCown, of Durham, N. C., has been challenged to fight a duel bj Farmer Joseph M. Shields, a relative on account of a quarrel growing out o ii iu?nutt. Under tho New Tariff" Law. The Secretary of the Troasury hold i that tlie new tariff act was in effect a tin* beginning of the day on which il i. ! * ? the approval of the 1'rosidoi ni. ! i .c:efore became operative afto nii< n ;:b u Friday, July 2itd. Aasis taut ccii-...:y :.eht the follow intr telojjrum to collectors of customs: "The 1 >ci?nrtinont holds thnt the no\ tariff law covers and includes all ens toins business of July 21th. " The Atlan'a (Constitution has hue > i t nuod its ( urolina midnight edition. BUYING COTTON IN NEW YORK. Cotton Sent tta* South Being Shipped Baokto Southron Mills. Mr. A. P. Rhyne, So ^ Holly (N0.) cotton manufacturer, whs ^ Oharlotto last week and in an intarviatr ^ a News reporter said his mill i* working ootton that was shipped from Geof- ( gia to New York, and is now shipped >< from New York baok to North Carolina. A great many of the North Carolina mills are now haying their ootton in the 1 New York market, and the Goldsboro (N. C.) mill last week had shipped to them from New York cotton that was jast fall sold on the Goldsboro market; it still had the Goldsboro tag on it after traveling to New York and back. It costs now onlv ten cents to ship I from Galveston to New York and ten cents from New York to Norfolk. The rate war between the ocean steamship lines has so demoralized rates that one can ship from Galveston to New York via Norfolk to Charlotte for less than half the oost of shipping from Galveston to Charlotte direot. THE VIRGINIA POPULISTS. Ouo Nomination Made?Five Men to Fix Up the Balance of the Ticket. At the Populist State convention assembled at Roanake, Va., Major Gaines withdrew from the race for the nomination of Lieutenant Governor, and Capl Edmund R. Cooke was nominated by acclamation. Capt. Cocke accepted the honor and thanked the convention for conferring it upon him. It decided to make no further nominations for the other two places on the State tioket, but to expedite matters a committeo, consisting of General James G. Shield, of Fauquier, chairman; J. Haskin Hobson, Dr. T. W. Evans, of Campbell; Senator W. H. Hale, of Franklin, and W. 11. Graverly, of Henry, was appointed with full power to add or to take from as deemed best. In short their duties are to look after the interests of the party, in case the Democratic convention decides to endorse their candidate. There was a hot speech by General Field. The convention adjeurnea sine die. AMERICANS IN CUBAN PRISONS. Consul General L?e Gives State Department Their Nnmes. Consul General Leo has informed the Stato Department at Washington that in the event of the release of the Amer ican, Liouis nmelian, now connneu in jail at Havana, there will remain of ' American citizens imprisoned in Cuba in addition to the five Competitor prisoners, cnlv the following: Manuel Feenandez, confined in Fort Cabanas; Hafacl Fernandez Y. Diaz, at Sagua La Giamle; Julio Thomas Sainz i and Frank Agramont, at Santiago, i All of these prisoners are charged with rebellion with arms in hand and are held subject to tho ordinary military jurisdiction. The United States consul at Manzanido has oabled the secretary of State a contradiction of the story that Albert Slusser. an Amerloan, has been captured by Spanish troops | aud taken to that plafte. I TRADE AS VIK WED BY JOBBERS. > 27 States Indicate an Inorease in the Volume of Duslness. Tho Wholesale Grocer, of Chicago. ' 111., published answers from jobh i-h all over the country, to questions ret garding trade. The replies were from jobbers in twenty-seven States and fifty per cent, show an increase in the volume of business for the first half of 1807, as compared with the same period last year; 510 per cent, report the volume about tho same, and 20 per cent, {pite a decrease. The uuestion of rtolinlte Improvement In conditions was answered afiirmatively bv 10 per cont. Sectionally, 04 per cent, of the jobbers in tho Southern Ststes, Gf> in the Eastern, 70 from tho Western, and 1)5 per ' cent, from the Central States, said "ves"to the auentinn I A PRKACIIKR'S PROPllKOY. West Virginia Minister Says GodSent Prosperity Is Coining. Rev. Chas. Ghiselin, a Presbyterian minister at Shepardstown, W. Va., has published an open lottor to the farmers of this country prophesying that wheat is soon to go to SI a bushel, and urges them to form a combination among themselves, liolping to tide each other over until this propesy is realized. Ho says prosperity has come as a gift from (tod, and not from any political party r or measure. He bases his prediction on the 75,. 000,000 bushels supply and the apparent Pastern demand. He figures a profit to the United States of $900,000,1 000 on the crop. THK COM 1 NO ISSUF.. 3 f Senator liutler Says It Is Government i Ownership of Monopolies. I A special to the Wilmington, N. C., | Messenger from Raleigh: Populist j National Chairman Marion Rutler says j in a signed editorial: "Public ownership of national monopolies is tho coming issue. Conditions aro daily creut itig stronger public sentiment in overy i i quarter of the countrv for thin solution j f of the gravest problem heforo tho J . American people. The neatest issue j f of modern times is nowsquarely drawn. ' This and tho money question will be I the two overshadowing issues in the { campaign of ItiOU." (iiiiIk't Oets a Con#ulahlp. H Hev. Ki Oudger, of Asheville, N. C., I f lias b?en appointed consul goneral to j t | Panama. It was believed, when Congress adjourned that "Ki would not : r get his commission until tho President should return from his summer vara- I tiou. That was the information he re- ! s oei-yv^diii Senator Pritchard prior to 1 leaving Washington for his North Carolina home. "Ki" will return to Washington in a few days, receive his instructions and journey to l'nnama. ?i of ?." McKinley Recommends the Appointment of a Currency Commission, o 8 sa;;speopledemandachange p 0 m B Urge. Thai Promised In HI. In- ^ auguratlon g^oh to Glv* 8ome o Kellef. v ^ \ _ The President on the 34tb ^cnt th* ( following message to Congress1? - y To the Congress of the United fiftette*. ? In my message convening the Cost- v gress in extraordinary session, I oalled attention to a siuglo object: That a ** measure providing revenue adequate to meet the reasonable and proper ex- ^ pensea of the government was neces- p' sary. I believed that to be the most V( pressing subject for settlement then. A ei bill to provide the necessary revenues 11 for the government has already passed tl the Houso of Representatives and the ft Senate and awaits the exeoutive action, b Another question of very great im- b portance is that of the establishment of b our currency and banking system on a u better basis, which I commented on ii in my inaugural address in the following words: ^ "Our financial system needs some re- Cl vision; our money is all good now, but B( its value must not be further threatened. It should all be put on an enduring basis, not subject to easy attack nor its r< stability to doubt or dispute. The sev- T eral forms of our paper money offer, in a mv judgment, a constant embarrass- s; meat to the Government aud imperil o a safe balance in the treasury." si Nothing was settled more clearly at ^ the late election than the deteruiinanation upon the part of the people to c keep their ourroncy stable in value and equal to that of the most advanced na- (>) tions of the world. The soundness of w our currency is nowhere questioned. No loss cau occur to its holder. It is tlio system which should be simplified tl and strengthened, keeping our money *1 just as good as it is now with losse*- C pense to tho Uovornment and the people. tl The sentiment of the country is strongly in favor of oarly action by a Congress in this direction, to revise a our currency laws and remove them from partisan contention. A notable assembly of business men with dele- (' gates from twenty-nine Htates and tor- a ritories was held at Indianapolis in Jan- a nary of this year. The financial situa- o tiou commanded their earnest attention uud after a two days' session the con- p veution recommended to Congress the 4 appointment of a monetary commission. 1 commend this report to the considera- f lion of Congress. The authors of the q report recommend a commission to .. make a thorough investigation of the monetary affairs and needs of the coun- . try in all relations and aspects, and to j make proper suggestions as to any evils * found to exist and the remedies therefor. 8 This subject should roccive the attention of Congress at its special sossion. i It ought not to be postponed until the I regular oe.-sion. I therefore urgently s recommend that a special commission c he created, non-pnrtisan in its character, to bo composed of well informed citizens of different parties who will c command the coutldence of Congress e and the country because of their special 8 fitness for the work, whoso duty it shall bo to make recommendations of ? whatever changos in our present c baukiu" and currency laws as mnv he 8 ' I ?I M |jy netting Denounced. The recent outbreak of lynching in Georgia has aroused tho ministers of i Atlanta. Last Sunday several sermons > were preacliod against lynchings and at their regular weekly mooting* appoint- < ed committees to draw Huital>le resolu- 1 t ions expressing their viows of the ministry of Atlanta in denunciation of t lynching. < In the Circuit Court at .Tonenville, \ Ya , Chan. Mullins was sentenced to ? in e years in the penitentiary for hold- j , mg up Col. B. Prioe and relieving him ] of a quart of whiskey and a pistol. ' (omul necessary and expedient and c lo report thoir conclusion on or be- 'J tore the lirst day of November next, in t order that the same maybe transmitted by mo to congress for its consideration f at its first regular session, ft is to be f hoped that the report thus made will { ho so comprehensive and sound as to receive the support of all parties aud the favorable action of congross. At ' all events, such a report cannot fail to ( be of value to the executive branch of government rs well as to those charged t with pnhlic legislation and greatly as- i sist in the establishment of an improved system of finance, wlijtjiam MeKLNLRY. * Executive Mansion, July 24, 1897. HANNA AND l'HB STRIKERS. ' He Favors Any IManThut. Will Better f the Condition of Men. Kanfttnr ITfinn* wrm in PittnVinrrr Pa., lust week. In speaking of tho efforts to sottle the strike by arbitration, bo said: "I am in favor of any plan that will better the condition of the mou, tbe main point. That tboir condition needs betterment overybody knows, and L will give my hearty support and oo-oporation to any movement looking toward that end. Uniformity is lacking, and thut is something I have always advocated." At Charleston, W. Va , tho indications are that the coal miners' strikes in tho southern part of the State are practically over. Tho strike organizers have abandoned these three coal fields aud are leaving for other parts. Commissioners Conner aud Terhune, who were appointed by (lovernor Mount to visit the Indiana coal fields and report on tho condition of the miners, havo submitted their conclusions. They find that about 8,000 miners and families will need assistance, if tbe present condition continues. The Governor has decided to issue an appeal, sugges ting some kind of a reasonable relief for tlio striking miners aud their families. Heavy shipments of iron were made from the South during tho past six ! months. - a wawHp NEWS ITEMS. Poutben P??cU Polnten. I In oourt it Winohester, Va., two law* |H era had a dispute and one struok the MM ther with an inkstand inflioting a danerous wound. Albert H. Heitz, a well-known phos- ^M hate miner at Charleston, aooidentally hot and killed himself. H The national association of Dental MM Cxaminers and representatives of the ^M hief dental oolleges met at Old Point, ^M ^M Before the Tennessee Bar Assooia- ^M ion Justioe Walter Clark, of North ^M Carolina, delivered an address; he ad- ^M iaaaia.1 ik. hi UIOIUW lllBUjr UUHUKUB 1U VUt) lCUOl KI onstitution, which he says is now unlemocratic. \ .^'dton mdl at Natchez, Miss., susShtf# for want of raw cotton. At St*fk?. iria ? Henry Crosby killed imself witfi f>b*J,on? ^ wife also took rison, but her Ufa wa8 Bav?d. In Charlotte, N. d, during thepast ear 240 nev? building , have been rected, and there are now built 12. Besides this, two oottonleCtori??;? le Lonise mill and the webi>*AR ictory of Mr. A. C- Summerville have een built, the fine n$w courthouse has een completed, and * large number of usiness buildings have' been rejnotieled ntil they are praotically' new btiihL?gs.?Tne NewB. 1 Operators in the Middlesboro, Xenn.,. ' istrict have given a raise of 10 perant. per ton to miners who have real ved not to join the strike. Governor Atkinson, of Georgia, has afused to interfere in thecase of John yler Cooper, former Mayor of Atlanta, ? nd later olerk of the county commiB- a ioners, corfrioted of embezzling funds f the countv. and Cooper will have to Brve three mouth's imprisonment, po hick ho was sentenced by the court. | A syndicate is about to close the purhase'of most of the coal mines of East. 'enneHsee; the price is about $5,000,- jl 00, and if successful over 8,000 miners rill be f;iven employment. There is a rumor in Laurens, 8. C., bat Ex-8enator Irby is''to draw out of * be Congressional race and help Exlovernor Evans. ! The Virginia Pppulists may tenderbe nomination of Governor to Tyler. Prof. P. H. Patterson, an educated nd influential negrd, was murdered in church in Montgomery, Ala. The banister Baptist Association colored) in session at Houston, Va., dopts resolutions denouh^iQg criminal ssaults on white women, ahwlhe class f negroes who commit thenT. j* The attendance at the Tennesee Ceuennial Exposition last week numbered 5,8?a * ^ | Governor's Guards, of Austin, won; fa he interstate drill at 8an Antonio, 'ex. Neeley Zouaves won the ZouaTO irize. Dr. Scott, brother-in-law of Governor- x Iradley, superintendent of the Eastern Kentucky Lunatic Asylum, has been leolored" unfit for the place by the rrand jury, and his removal demanded. An insurance company has withdrawn ts business from Greenville, N. C., >itt county, because it did not desm it afe to continue its business in a tawu ontrolled by negroes. General Lafayette McLaws, the old->Bt surviving Confederate major gen-iral, died Sunday at Savannah, Ga., iged ?(i years. Tho stewarts in the Methodist church it Albertsville, Ala., finding their ihtirch revenue insufllcient, hove levied in annual tax of $10 on each tobaccoihewing member of the congregation, rhe plan is said to work admirably and o bring in a goodly revenue. n is reported mat r lorma win got lome rolief from the hated water hyicintli. A red spider in said to be rapdly destroying the plants. President McKinley has appointed a legro Collector of Internal Revenue for ieorgia. Nashville, Tenn., is soon to be in olephonio connection with the entire ioutli. The Young Business Men's Associition, of Richmond, Va., have resolved o invite tho Grand Army of the Repubio to hold its encampment in the above iity iu 1809. The erection of a twenty-ton cotton teed oil mill will be commenced at Lmr r'oniu, Ga., at once. g All About the North. | In tho 10 to 1 saloon, at Toxarkana, \rk., J. W. Foster shot and initantly killed Riley Balthrop, a mer:hant. The Democrats of Maryland held leld their State convention; harmony prevailed and everything went as Gornan dictated; it deolared for bimetalism without specifying any ratio. ^t Yonkers. N. Y., fire destroys a actory in which were working 000 men ind girls; there were no casualties. William R. Valentine, a well-known Brooklyn newspaper man, who claimed m be the author of ' 'Casey at the Bat," lied at Oyster Bay, h. I., aged 85 f fears, of abscess of the brain. The Brooklyn Jockey Club announces the Junior Champion Stako of $10,000 'or 2-year-olds, to bo run in '98. A lodging house that will cost $800,\AA 1 S - - wu, wnere wonting people can tln<l comfortable homes at cheap rates will loon be completed in New York. At Topeka, Kan., A. Hubbard, who *as convicted of embezzling $8,000 as eceiver of the Hamilson Printing Company, has been sentenced to three years n the penitentiary, by Jndge Hanson. Miscellaneous. Forty steamers have been chartered n Atlantic ports to load grain for En ope. Missionaries in the Tien-Tain district )f China fear an uprising of natives and possible massacree of Christians. The partial eolipse of the sun, which was visible in this part of the United ^tates, on the 29tb, is the last solar idlipse that will be visible in this part intll May 27, 1900. Two coaches of an excursion train vent through atrestlo near Marietta,O. * *o one was killed. ^ K \>;J