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VOL. XLIX. NO. 5. UNION. SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8. IS99. *1.00 A YEAR
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Ml Bill IB PASSED
MEASURE WAS THE SUBJECT OF
MICII DISCUSSION.
TOM PLATT SPEAKS FOR TREATY.
New Yorker I'trm It* Katiflratton and
Drrpml* tlip Kxpnualon
Policy.
Peculiar iuteresi was manifested in
the senate Friday in a brief speech delivered
by Senator T. C. Piatt, of New
York, on the general subject of expansion.
Mr. Piatt took for his text the
nnti-an nexationist resolution offered
by Mr. Vest, of Missouri, but in the
course of his speech merely touched
upon the constitutional question involved
in the proposed declaration.
lie spoke in n clear resonant voice,
and not only because this was the
tirst speech he had delivered in the
senate since his return to that body,
but also because the address was a
thoughtful and well considered statement
ho was accorded the undivided
attention of his colleagues on the floor
and a large audience in the gulleries.
Mr. Piatt took strong grounds for i
the ratification of tho treaty, holding i
there was nothing in the constitution
to prevent the United States from acquiring
foreign territory.
* Pension lllll ('miiiilftnl.
Under tho arraugement concluded
Thursday evening, consideration of
the pension appropriation bill was resumed,
Mr. Gorman, of Maryland, desiring
to submit some remarks on it.
After callinir attention to the larore
amount carried by the measure ?about
$145,000,000? Mr. Gorman said that
notwithstanding tlie fact that 17 per
Tit of our soldiers who had been and
are still engaged in the war with Spain
in tropical countries were suffering '
from illness that would make them j
proper applicants for pensions, no
provision had been made in the pend- j
ing measure for this increase in the
pension roll. At this point Mr. Gorman
was interrupted by Mr. Hale, of
Maine, who said that he had heeu in- >
formed by a prominent officer of tlie'T
army that if our troops were not re- !
called from Cuba before June or July i
at the latest the entire army on the j
island would be down with illness.
Continuing. Mr. Gorman said that '
the war with Spain would swell the I
pension loll by at least 50,0(H) names 1
if the troops were not recalled from
the tropical clime by the first of next J
September.
"Within three years of this date," j
said Mr. Gorman in conclusion, "the I
pension roll will amount to $1(15,000,- I
OHM a v.,...- If ,-/.n ..1.1 It. I
of maintain in# your army (a thousand j
dollars a man), the American public '
will, in the year li)()0, expend more for I
its army and pensioners than Riiy j
other nation on the face of the earth.
That is a fact which the American peo- I
will have to face, anil they ought to J
know in advance what is coming to,
them if the schemes and projects that j
are being forced upon us are carried j
put."
After a short debate the bill was j
passed, and at 'J:07 o'clock the senate
went into executive session and continued
the consideration of the peace
treaty.
At 4:-*?0 o'clock p. m. the senate resumed
business in legislative session,
the order of business being eulogies i
of the late Representative Cooke, of j
Illinois.
KATKN IIY CANXIHALS.
Horrililp Kale ??f Slilpwreekeil Sailor* In
New 4 ill III PH.
A dispatch from Vancouver, B.
says: After escaping death by drowning,
eleven of the crew of the ship
Manbare were captured and eaten by
cannibals of New Guinea. The M?n
bare was bound for Sydney Australia,
when it was caught in the t vrible gale
of December. Near Cape Nelson it
began to sink. The crew, eig) ;enn all
told, left the vessel in two boats and
soou became separated.
One boat, containing twelve men,
was finally thrown ashore ten mHes
from the cape. The sailors were
seized by natives from the interior and
hurried otl'to the villuge of the chiefs.
The sailors were stripped and bound
and killed, one each day.
One man, dames (ireene, escaped,
and was afterwards rescued by a pass
ing vessel.
( ANAL 110AT SINKS.
Coal Conoort Went Itown Willi Her unit
I Ivp I'po|>Ip llrown
A dispatch from South Xorwalk,
Conn., savs: Disabled by an acci
lent, to her steering gear (luringa trip
up tlic sound Thursday night, the
stenni canal luwt .1. ('. Austin, of New
York, ran on the rocks oft' Not walk
early Friday and Mink,
Accompanying her was the consort
David B. Fisk loaded with coal consigned
to Went port. Five of the persona
nhoard Ihe two vessels lost their
lives.
BRYAN ANI) HOAR
Would Bo tt Ticket. Favorable to No*
Knirlwnd Aiitl-Kqpannlnnlatft.
A Washington dispatch says: Tin
war with Spain produced surprises
but none greater than a report whiel
comes from Now England to the effeo
that tho democrats can carry Massa
chusets if tllCV r?lao? r?n tlioir
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with Bryan the unme of Henator Hoar
This proportion, astounding as i
seems at tirst, is not based 011 men
idle political gossip, but is put fortl
with sincerity aud earnestness by tin
friends of the venerable senator fron
Massachusetts.
However far their chambers maj
have been separated in the paRt. Senator
Hoar aud Colonel Byrau are now
occupying the same political bod. Id
fact, the senator has taken most of the
cover inasmuch as ho does not advise
the ratification of the treaty, which
Mr. Bryan does. Senator Hoar ha?
declared that the questian of expansion
is the most important which ha?
appeared in the history of this country
since the declaration of independence
and equal, in his opinion, to
that act. Mr. Bryan has uttered almost
the identical expression, but at
the same time he has withdrawn nothing
that he has uttered in the past
nbllllf fron nili-n.' '?1 - '*
....tti, an inn iit? mis reit*
j erntud h*.s convictions on thnt subject,
j New England, or more accurately
I Massachusetts, is in full sympathy, it
is said, with its senior senator ou the
subject of expansion and hns learned
to he more tolerant of Mr. Hryan since
the latter ngress with him. Those
friends of the venerable senator see
their only hope of defeating expansion
or more rightly the policy of imperialism,
in joining issues with Bryan and
shattering party lines on this issue.
L'h?y realize thnt wiih tho senate
composed as it will bo for the next six
years, there is no danger of any f,-P0
silver legislation, especially with Senator
Hoar occupying the president's
chair in the senate. With the fangs
of free silver drawn these New England
men propose and predict thnt nil
anti-imperialists can unite on Hoar
and Bryau and make the question of
imperialism the paramount issue of
the campaign.
T1IE SAMOAN TROUBLE
Will lie S|?ee<lll.v Settled, Says Our A in liNHHilor
To Germany.
A cable dispatch from Berlin, Ger
many, states that public opinion was
focused on the Snmoan question the
past week. The United States ambassador.
Andrew D.White, has informed
the correspondent of the Associated
Press in Berlin that lie hns had several
meetings with the minister of foreign
affairs, Baron von Bulow, and
that nssiiiances were given on both
sides of a nature calculated to promote
a speedy a?d successful solution of
the question. Baron von Billow's
whole attitude tended to show that
the German government means to do
its full share in settling the matter
fairly and amicably.
The preliminary negotiations thus
far have not gone beyond mutual
assurance of a desire for a friendly
ami equitable arrangement, and the
negotiations will not take a more
tangible shnpe until full, detailed
mail reports are received from the
agents of the three powers at Samoa.
This will involve a dolnv of a month
in tl.o ?.?- -*
... % ??.'V XWB \ 11:1 IIJUII T , UIUII^II inr:
reports will reach the United States
and (ireat Britain earlier. Until then
no decisive steps or negotiations can
l>e undertaken.
KKST1.KSS PORTO HI CANS.
I itiiibltiinlH of Inland Ave All Anilou. For
h Civil Government.
An Associated Press dispatch from
San Juan says: While the Porto Ricans
do not offer the least resistance to
the military administration, thej* make
no secret of the laet that they do not
desire its continuance. It is not that
they object to the Americanization of
the island, hut they merely wish a
civil government in some reasonable
and practical form.
WYO.MINU PUTS IN BIO.
1'iirtf of 20,000 In Offered for the Sharkey
and Fltxntinmonn Mill.
The Fremont Hot Springs Company,
of Alcova, Wyo., have forwarded
an offer to the managers of both Sharkey
and Fitzsimmons of a purse of
$20,000 for a tight *to take place any
time in June, July or August.
The only condition to the offer is
the training shall he done at Aleova,
i. ? i 1,1 ?. !
nimu in ? uvuiiii rvMiri 111 Wyoming.
VAHAN PAPERS IN TRANSIT.
Kccoril of I lie Court mart IhI Now Inllnml.
Of IikIKC Advocate (J.II.I KI
Tin* record of the court martini in
the case of Coininissary General Kngnn
was placed in the hand:* of Judge Advocate
General I.ieher Monday for review.
Secretary Alger discussed the mat
tor with the president and the papers
came to the judge advocate gtneral
through the usual routine channels.
General I dehor eolihl not say how
long it will take him to eomph te the
review. When tie has concluded with
the papers he will send them along to
the adjutant geverul.
. sixn Miliums hie
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j ABSURD C LAIMS OF THE SO-CALL
t ED CUBAN ARM*."
t
1 G9MEZ REFUSES THREE MILLIONS
i
i
j I'uhnii M?nrml llrrlnrra II? Will Nut UU
! I>ittid ' Army" . 1'ntII Demand la
( ranted.
A special of Tueaday to The Nev
York Tribune from Washington says
, Maximo Gomez, the Cuban com
) manding general, has demanded near
1 Iv 800.000,000 from the United Statei
1 and refuses to disband his "army" un
til the money is paid. He lias repudi
ated the arrangement made by Oalixtc
(lareia, who came to Washington with
authority from dome/, to provide foi
the return of the Cubans to theii
peaceful pursuits, and whose work was
barely accomplished before his sudden
death on December lltli. Tt was then
agreed that the United States, in order
to secure the prompt resumption
of labor on the plantations of the
islands, with a view to promoting the
speedy revival of prosperity and settled
conditions, should distribute
about 8:t.000,tM)0 among the 00,000
men said to be still under arms, in the
ratio of 8100 a man. the officers in
proportion to their rank to receive a
greater amount, the ordinary enlisted
men to be discharged with sums less
than 8100, depending on the length of
service and other considerations.
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t lie army lias been making ready to
carry out this arrangement.
Acumoi,! liHts of the Cuban soldiers
entitled to oompcnSHM., |0 j)e
prepared and other formalities gone
through. It was intended that the
Cubans at the proper time should
apply at established American garrisons
in the various provinces, where,
mi throwing down their arms and presenting
the proper credentials they
were to receive their quota of the
allotment from the pay officers at the
stations. In the meantime General
Rro.ike ami his chief subordinates
have been endeavoring to give employment,
mostly of a permanent character.
to large numbers of Cubans, in
order to reduce the number requiring
a bounty.
Goiio /. has come out against this
scheme, which was operating satisfactorily
to most Cubans and has
struck for greater stakes.
It is officially known here tbat he is
endeavoring to dissuade Cubans from
accepting offices under the American
occupation and is urging all the natives
of every grade to stay with him
in the Held until the United States is
compelled to accede to his "terms of
dishnudmcnt."
Gouie/. alleges that his army consists
of 40,000 men, and he insists
that most of them shall he paid for
three years' service at the rates which
prevail in the United States army. He
lives the dote of the Cuhan declaration
of independence Februny '24, 1895, as
the beginning of the period for which
himself and his forces are to he remunerated
and for himself, with the
rank of Lieutenant General, he will he
satisfied with SI 1,000 annually, the
American rate for that tirade.
Gome/ also has ahout twenty major
generals, for each of whom' he wants
ST.5tt0 annually and his "ai-my" is
equipped with nearly '2(10 brigadier
generals, each rated according to the
1'nited States army pay table at $5,500
annually. His aggregate amounts to
the little sum of $d,78.'l,000 for generals
alone; then there are colonels, lieutenant
colonels and majors whose
numbers run into the thousands. The
privates do not amount to much, for
they are comparatively few, but each
of them will require $048 and the
army pay masters who figured out the
total have reported that over $57,000,000
will be required to gratify all the
demands Gome/ has made, which i*
an average of $1,4*25 a man.
It is to meet these demands and to
show (tome/ their absurdity that Gonzalo
(Jucsada, who for the last three
veins Ims been the representative of
the Cubans in Washington, started
for Cuba Inst week, after reaching a
thorough understanding with the war
department authorities. Hubert P.
Porter went along with .Mr. Quesada
as the oftieiul representative of tlie
I'uited States in the matter.
IIKimiMl 'I'llK TI1KATV.
Si-imlc'K Kx-rnllvr Semlmi Oecii|i)?mI
Ity lirH.v nail Money.
Senators Gray and Money oeenpied
the entire executive session of the
senate Tuesday on the speeches of the
peace treaty, Senator (irav advocating
ratification and .Money opposing it.
Senator Gray was the third of the
Paris enininissioiiei s to speak. He
admitted that in the beginning of the
negot iations lie bad been opposed to the
aeipiisition of the Philippine nrehipelugo
and said that he bad freely and
frankly advised the president and bis
fellow commissioners of bis belief that
it would be hum ise to attempt to shape
its destiny.
WAR STAMP DECISIONS.
a
" They Are Not Neoeoaery According to
North Camilla'* Attorney General.
The attorney general of North Carolina
has given the following opinion
to a clerk of the snperior court:
"It is nojt necessary for you to place
a documentary, internal revenue stamp
on a report made to thia office. The
state has the right to conduct its own
business through its own ageucies
without interference, directly or in- <
directly, from the national government.
Aetata is bnt a corporation
and cannot act except through its own agencies..
The federal government
cannot require revenue stamps to be
r placed on the official bonds of state
or county municipalities, though I
notice iA commissioner of internal
revenue JJas made a different ruling. '
The poprArr to take involves the power
* to destroy. Congress has no power j
to make tax deeds issued by the state
void .for the want of a stamp, nor can
> congress forbid the recording of an
unmui^vu lUDuuuieui nuuer inu state
' law."
Judge Hughes, of the Adrian couni
ty, Mqu, circuit ccurt, has decided a
i teat cne in reference to the war tax
i i law, declaring it was not the intentioo
of congress to require a stamp .
i upon certificates of a judicial character, ^
i or if it was so intended, by the revenue 5
> act, then the law is unconstitutional.
In the formation of the federal constitution,
according to Judge Hughes,
the states did not delegate to the federal
government the power of taxation
over officers or courts or any other
machinery necessary for the support i
and maintenance of the local state gov- j
ernipent.
4 VERDICT IS MADE UP.
Conrt marttmt Brought to a 1
' Olo*?? In XVuBhlncton.
JL ^ aliiugtorr {
miof Commissary General Charles
tfPfeagan, charged with conduct unbe- I
doming an officer and gentleman and |
with oonduct tending to the prejudice
of gofid order and military discipline,
is now iu the hands of the courtinar- |
tial appointed to try him.
The^taking of testimony was closed
Fridaw and arguments of counsels
submitted. The trial had lasted three
dayH $nd consumed less than eight
houraftf actual sitting. A session behind
> (Hosed doors of an hour or
so sufficed for the court to reach a
i"nnHfrdO" and embody it in a report. .
*" Thevefdict reached is altogether a > *
matter of speculation and officially at | /
least will not be made public by the j J
trial board, military regulations re- |
quiring that its findings shall go j
through prescribed channels and be
kept secret until action he had and |
promulgated by the proper reviewing i
authorities.
The testimony at the closing session
of the court w.?n directed largely to establishing
the fact that the general had
lost his mental balance as a result of
the charges made against him by (Jen- [
eral Miles. His daughter and her
husband told of the general's changed
condition and intimated that they had
great fears that he might at any time
! kill ahis censer.
FOR FA UK OF GRAVES
I
Hrnitlnr I'ritrlmnl IntroilnceH Amendment
to the,A|>|>ro?>rlntloii 111)1.
1 A Washington special says: Senator
' intrntlnooil in tlin gAnntn
Friday his amendment to the appropriation
bill which is designed to he
the first step toward carrying out the 1
suggestions of the president for the
care of the confederate graves. This 1
amendment provides for an appropri- t
ation for the preliminary work. It is j,
as follows:
"To enable the secretary of war to g
make a thorough examination and report
to congress as to the number of
confederate cemeteries in the United *
States and the location thereof, and ^
the number of confederate soldiers
buried in other than confederate cein- j
eteries and the location of such cemeteries,
with the view to ascertaining
the best method of caring for the con- \
federate cepaeteries, and also for the ^
removal, where practical or desirable,
of confederate dead from private cemeteries
to such confederate cemeteries,
the sum of $10,000." As
the amendment explains on its .
face, it provides simply for paving the *
way for tlie work. Tiiis is probably e
all that will be done by the congress,
but after tho information bus been ascertained
it is fully expected that the
work will go on and tliut the graves
especially in distinctively confederate
!>Amol(>rii>v will be cnrnil for
PROSPECTORS LOSE THEIR LIVES
Mil Known To ft* l>?>n<1. While Ot Iters Art*
Hndly Kroien.
A Seattle, Wash., dispatch says: The
steamer Cottage City, from Alaska. a
y brings news that. a number of Copper I (
river prospectors perished in Valdez I *
glacier. The following are known to | have
been lost:
I harles Khron, New York city:
! P. Smith, Chicago; Ole Evjen, Italdwin.Wis.;
Henderson, Wisconsin;
(leorge Sweezey, New York.
There are six men at Yaicloz anfTer>
ing from frozen feet ami hands and
face. A hospital has heen established r
> at Twelve Mile cainp, on the other
aide of the glacier.
8 r|.
Wm. A. Nicholsoi
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