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RALEIGH, N. 0.. SATURDAY, JULY 17, 1897-
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VOL. IX.
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Hill OF SENATOR HARRIS
His Career Began Earlier Than That
of Any Member of Either House.
WENT TO CONGRESS IN 1849.
Was Elected Governor of Tennessee
Three Times lie Served on the
Stalls of Noted Southern Generals.
Sonator Isham G. Harris, of Ten
nessee, died at his residence in Wash
ington, on the 8th, a few minutes be
fore 5 o'clock. Senator Harris was last
in the Senate chamber about ten days
" ago, but he was unable to stay for any
length "of time, and had, to be taken
homo in a carriage. During the past
six months the Senator has been able to
attend to his duties only at intervals,
having been away from the city sev
eral times endeavoring to recuperate.
; T'robably no man in public life had
been identified with more of the his
tory of the country than had Senator
Harris. He had almost completed hia
' 79th year, having been born in Febru
ary, 1818, and first became a member
of Congress in 1849. His congressional
career thus began earlier than that of
any member of either House, antedat
ing Senators Morrill and Sherman by
several years, and Hon. Galusha A.
Grow, now a member of the House from
Pennsylvania, by one year. Mr. Har
ris, when he was elected to the national
House of Representatives, had already
become a man of State reputation in
Tennessee, having the year previously
served as special elector on the Demo
cratic ticket.
Senator Harris represented the ninth
Tennessee district in Congress for the
two terms ending in 1853, when he de
clined a renomination. He then, moved
to Memphis, where he has since resid
ed. He was engaged in the practice of
law until 1837, with the interruption
necessary to allow him to become a
presidential elector in 1830. He was three
times in success;on before the war elect
ed Governor of his State, and was
serving in that capacity when the war
broke out. He took a pronounced
stand for the Southern Confederacy,
and was known as one of the Southern
war Governors. The vicissitudes of
conflict rendered a frequent change of
residence necessary, and he was
often with the army in the field. ,
He attached himself at different times
to the stall's of General Albei t Sidney
Johnston, Joseph E. Johnston, Beaur
egard and Bragg. Albert S. Johnston
fell from Jus horse into Senator Harris'
arms, when he received his death
wound.
After Lee's surrender Mr. Harris
was one of a small party of political
refugees who escaped to Mexico, going
across country on horseback. Parson
Brownlow, who had become the mili
tary Governor of Tennessee, offered a
large reward in a characteristically
worded poster, for the capture of his
predecessor, but the latter remained
absent from the country until his re
turn was safe. He remained in Mexico
for several months, going thence to
England, where he resided until 18t'7,
when he returned to Memphis and re
sumed his practice of law. Mr. Harris
was allowed to follow the pursuits of
the private citizen until 1877, when he
was elected to the United States Sen
ate, defeating Hon. L. L. Hawkins, Re
publican. Ho remained a member of
the Senate ever since, and would have
completed his 2Cth consecutive year in
that body on the 4th of next March, if
he had lived to that date. He had been
four time3 elected to the Senate, the
last time in 181)3, and his term would
not have expired until 1901. He had re
ceived almost all the honors the Senate
could bestow. He was the President
pro tern, during the 53d Congress, a
leading member of the committees on
finance and rules,' and also of the
Democratic advisory, or steering com
mittee. He has long been awarded by
common consent the front place on
both sides oi the chamber in parlia
mentary question, and in recent years
he had been more frequently heard in
expounding these questions than in the
elucidation of other subjects. He was
possessed of a very positive manner,
and never failed to throw' into his
statements concerning parliamentary
practice the fullest force of which he
was capable.
Senator Harris wfs especially active
in the Senate in the passage of the Wilson-Gorman
tariff act in 1894. He was
one of the Democratic Senators intrust
ed with the arduous duty of putting the
bill in shape in committee, and to him
was delegated the control of the par
liamentary work of getting the bill
through the Senate. Although then a
man of advanced years, his energies
never seemed to flag. He was at his
post of duty day and night.
Senator Harris was a native of Ten
nessee. His father was a planter, who
- had emigrated to the State from North
Carolina. He was admitted to the bar
in 1841.
His remains were taken to Memphis,
Tenn. , for burial.
SALE OF TURNPIKE CHARTER.
Famous Cumberland Turnpike Over
Which Andrew Jackson Traveled.
The charter of the once famouse
Cumberland (Tenn.) turnpike has been
sold to Cumberjand county, at Cross
ville, for $75. This was one of the first
roads bnilt in Tennessee and over it
emigrants came from North Carolina
and Virginia when it was but a trail.
When stage coaches were in vogue the
mail from Knoxville to Nashville was
carried over this road, and over it pass
ed "Old Hickory" on his pilgrimage
from the "Hermitage" to Washington
to take the oath cf office as President
of the United States. v
Farm for Raising Cats.
A company has purchased a farm in
Illinois, where cat farming will be car
,ried on for the skins, which sell for
from 10 to 15 cents each. Maltese and
black cats will be reared, and the "cat
tish" collection is expected to number
10,0 JO in one year and 100,000 in two
years.
Against Sunday Funerals.
The clergymen, of Alexandria, Va.,
have organized a movement against
Sunday funeral. .
STRIKE WILL. NOT LAST LONG..
The Cotton M1118 Have a Steadily and
Increasing Trade.
JMessrs. II. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly
Review of Trade, ending Saturday,
10th, says: The strike of the bitumin
ous coal miners has taken 75,000 men or
more from work and threatens to re
strict supplies of fuel in some quarters,
though the West Virginia and some
other mines which declined to take
part, claim to be able to meet the East
ern demand for some months. At the
West the strike is by no means united
ly sustained, and the impression pre
vails that it will not last long. The tin
plate works have settlocl the wage
question, and aro again busy, and
show a production of 4,500,000 boxes
yearly, with a capacity of 6,250,000
boxes. The bar mills have more trou
ble, but a general settlement of iron,
and steel wagres is expected without
-much delay. -New , orjkrs are era all
since the - annual vacation began, but
yet are large enough, everything con
sidered, to afford some encouragement.
The cotton mills have a Ht jady and
increasing demand, and the quotations
of middling upland have been advanced
a - sixteenth, added by speculative
etreneth on receipts of crop damage, es
pecially in Texas and Arkansas.
The woolen mills are getting decided
ly more orders for fall wants and begin
ning hopefully on spring goods, bnt are
cautious in contracts for future deliv
ery. Some have made large purchases
of wool, by far the greater part of the
sales, which amounted to 14,120,500
pounds at three chief markets for the
week, have been of a speculative char
acter. Western prices are held much
above those of seaboard markets, Mon
tana scoured being sold, according to
reports, at the equivalent of 42 cents at
be Last, against 38 at Boston and 40 at
Philadelphia. There is a better demand
or domestic wool in expectation" of
higher prices.
While the most cautious estimates of
wheat yield have been advanced, that
of the Grange Judd Farmer to 575,000,
000, prices have lifted nearly 3 cents,
although Atlanta exports, flour includ
ed, were for the week 1,503,952 bushels,
against 1,418,33(5 last year. Western
receipts are small, only '1,393,632 busb-
eis, against '2, 9 8, 400 last year, and the
disposition of the farmers to hold for
higher figures is strengthened by many
foreign reports. It seems to be the fact
that crops in other countries are less
promising than usual, and the demand
for American wheat is supplemented,
even at this season, by exports of 2,
605,584 bushels of corn, against 530,610
bushels for the same week last year.
Each week raises the estimates of the
estimates of the wheat yield, however,
and if the weather continues favorable,
the crop may prove a most important
factor in the future national and inter
national business. The prospect as to
corn is growing more cheerful each
week, and an immenso crop is now an
ticipated. " Failures for the week have been 206
in the United States, against 215 last
vear.
RECORD OF THE HOT WAVE.
Chicago Appears to Have Suffered
3Iore Severely Than Any Other Sec
tion. The fierce heat under which the
greater portion of the country has
sweltered since the first of July has
moderated in many localities. The
record of prostrations and deaths re
sulting from the long heated term ap
proaches in magnitude that of a general
epidemic. Reports from all sections of
the country show prostrations number
ing in the neighborhood of 5,000 with
fatalities close to 350. In addition to
this, there were scores of deaths result
ing indirectly from the terrible heat.
The death rate in many of the large
cities shows a fearful increase over pre
vious years. The Central States have
suffered more than the other States.
In the number of fatalities, Chicago
heads the list with 87 death, Cincinnati
and suburban points reporting 65, and
St. Louis 42. Throughout the South
the heat was intense, but the death
rate was much lower than in the North:
A DISPENSARY KNOCK-OUT.
The Original t'ackage Injunction
Made Permanent.
In the United States Circuit Court at
Charleston, S. C, Judge Simon ton
handed down a decision which renders
perpetual the injunction recently grant
ed, prohibiting State dispensary con
stables from interfering with the origi
nal package store of W. G. Moore, of
New York.
It is decided that all sales of liquor
made in such establishments must be
conducted under the restrictions of
time, quantity and persons made in the
dispensary law of South Carolina. This
puts the original package men as near
as may be on a footing with the State
dispensaries.
The Conditions of Cotton.
The July returns for cotton to the
Department of Agriculture, indicates
average condition of 86.0, as compared
with 83.5 in June,' an increase of 2.5
points. The average condition July 1,
18D6, was 92.5. The averages of the
States are as follows: Virginia, 87;
North Carolina, 90; South Carolina, 86;
Georgia, 85; Florida, 80; Alabama, 85;
Louisiana, 89; Texas, 88; Arkansas, 88;
.Tennessee, 80; Missouri, 9o; Oklahoma,
82; Mississippi, 81; Indian Territory,
93. .
A Mysterious Murder."
Parties hunting near . Quitman, Ga.,
find a barrel in the swamps, in which
are the remains of a woman eut into
pieces; there is-no clue to the identity
of the victim. .
McKInley's Summer Vacation.
President McKinley will spend most
of his summer vacation on the shores
of Lake Champlain, Plattsburg, N. Y.
His party will consist of the members
of the presidential family, of Vice-Pres-dent
and Mrs. Hobart, Secretary Alger
and family, Secretary and Mrs. Porter,
and probably several other members of
official families of Washington. The
president will nv.ke quite a prolonged
stay, lasting several weeks at least.
HE PENSION APPLICATIONS.
Kn Address to the Friends of Public
Education,
WILMINGTON'S TREAS. EMPTY.
rramps Are Being Arrestcd--Polson-ed
By Ice Gream Dispensary Law
In Full Swing at Fayettevllle.
The North Carolina Teachers' Ar.
sembly at Morehead City, appointed a
sentral executive committee of the cam
paign for local taxation consisting of
the following gentlemen:..,
Hon. C. H. Mehai. Superintendent
Public Instrurtion,chaifman';'Prbf. It.'
L. Flowers, of Trinity " College; Presi
dent E. A. Alderman, of the University
President C. D. Mclver, of the State
Normal and Industrial College; Presi
dent C. E. Taylor, of Wake Forest Col
lege; President L. L. Hobbs, of Guil
ford College; Prof. J. O. Atkinson, of
Elon College; Prof. H. L. Smith, of
Davidson College; President John C.
Scarborough, of Chowan Baptist Fe
male Institute; Superintendent Alex
ander Graham, of Charlotte; Superin
tendent L. D. Howell, of Raleigh; J.
Bailey, of the Biblical Recorder; Jose
phus. Daniels, of the News and Obser
ver; Prof. Hugh Morison, of Raleigh
Male Academy; Prof. D. H. Hill, of
the Agricultural and mechanical Col
lege, and W. H. Ragsdale, county ex
aminer of Pitt.
A large committee has been selected
and their names will be announced
within a few days. Many of the leaders
Df public thought in North Carolina
have consented to serve on this commit
tee. -
The central executive committee,real
izing the necessity for an active, vigor
3ua campaign between now and the 10th
of August, when the election is to be
held, and realizing that it is necessary
to send literature and public speakers
among the people, desires to raise a
campaign fund large enough to enable
it to do this work. The teachers them
selves while at Morehead City began"to
raise a fund for this purpose, and the
central committee appointed the under
signed sub-committee to appeal to the
friends of public education throughout
the State for contributions. .
The teachers at their recent meeting
at Morehead City were united in their
support of the local taxation to be voted
upon in August, and the editors at their
meeting passed unanimous resolutions
offering support and sympathy to the
teaching profession and the people of
the State in the movement for better
public school facilities.
Many men live in cities and commu
nities which have already voted a spe
cial local tax to supplement the State
school tax, and are enjoying tho bless
ings of good public schools. None of
these communities will participate in
the election in August, nor will
their taxes be affected however the
election goes. The general interest of
the State, however, will be affected and
we believe than many of these men,
knowing the desirability of a special
local tax for schools in every township
in North Carolina will cheerfully make
sontributions to carry on the campaign
to- induce others to do, what they have
been doing for several years with ad
van tatre to themselves' aud to their com
munities.
a he tax upon which we are to vote is
small, being generally only 10 cents on
the $100 worth of property, or $1 on the
$1000, and 30 cents on each poll. If the
tax should be yoted, a man assessed
$5,000 would pay only S3. 30 special
school tax. Probably three-fourths of
the citizens of the State would pay less
than $1. "
Yet it is estimated that this small
tax would increase the public school
facilities in North Carolina from 40 to
100 per cent, depending upon the con
ditions peculiar to the various town
ships. Let all.who will, send their contribu
tions immediatelv. or their subscrip
tions payable July 15th. Let all check's
be made payable to Hon. H. C. Me-
bane, chairman of the State central ex
ecutive committee.
It may be more convenient for some
to contribute through their local news
papers and it is hoped that some of
these will open a column for subscrip
tions and receipt for the same by pub
lishing the names of the contributors.
In no way could the interest and earn
estness in this great campaign be bet
ter shown than by a large number of
contributors to the cause.
Very respectfully,
Chas. D. McIver,
Chairman,
Edwin A. Alderman,
R. L. .Flowers,
Alexander Graham.
A dispatch from Wilmington says the'
cnyjrjsasury is empty and the current
expenses or tne city exceed" $6,000 a
month, while the income, less than
$1,500 a month, is all the revenue col
lectable until October.
Tramps are being freely arrested
along the railways in the Piedmont
section and are being sent to the roads
to work. The Southern railway is par
ticularly active in its enorts to capture
all tramps on its line.
Pension applications are fairly pour
ing in upon the State Auditor, and the
latter declares the number will be
greater than ever before. -
Fourteen persons were poisoned a
Kaieign Dy eating ice cream. All save
two were made extremely sick.
The dispensary law is in full sowing at
Fayetteville and sales of. liquor "are
heavy.
A new allumni building is soon to be
erected at the University at a cost o;
$2a,000. It is to be paid for by the
alumni of the University ar.d not by
- .
ine .Liabor Commissioner rAnnrt.a
that he finds no less than eighteen new
cotton mills are in course of construe
tion in this State. That is a surprisingly
large uuinuer.
NEWS ITEMS.
Southern Pencil Pointers.
Steps are being taken in Columbia,
C to build a Jewish synagogue.
S.
A section of Debs' Socialist party baa
been organized at Atlanta, Go.
It is rumored that G . o. W, Vander
bilt will build a $100,000 hospital at
ABheville, N. C - ;
Dr. A. N. Taller, a distinguished
physician, scholar and citizen,
in Columbia, S. C, of. cancer
died
of the
stomach. - .
The Socialists of Virginia have nomi
nated J. J. Quanta for Governor and
R. T. Maycauber for, Lieutenant-Governor.
. .; v, ' ;
A faithful negro f tv:iuC? of Memphis,
"Tenn., has been Si fortune by his
dead employer. . . ; '
Between three Tdur thousand
stenographers will visit the Terlne ssee
Centennial in August. -
The Georgia Ear Association at its
annual meeting favored legislation cor
recting faults in criminal law.
At Charlotte, N. C, Abram .Davis,
colored, while drunk, got into an alter
cation with an unknown white man.
He threw a stone at the latter, who shot
him in the head causing instantaneous
death.
Augusta, Ga., has for for the last few
months been suffering from a brick
famine and an ice famine, and now she
is in the throes of a cotton famine. Not
withstanding she has received 100,000
bales of cotton more than her last year's
receipts, she has nt)w a stock cf only
2,000 bales against 6,000 at tfce same pe
riod last year. . j
W. A. Allen, James Allen, Lindsey
Allen. Mock Tunstill. . Asa Barr and
Porter Averill were instantly killed by
boiler explosion on tbe farm o
W. A. Allen, near Hartsville, Tenn.
A dispatch from Kansas City, Mo.,
says farm labor is scarce, and at many
of the railroad stations farmers await
incoming trains, hoping to find men.
Tramps are refusing offers of $1.50 a
day and even $2 to work in the fields.
West Robinson and John Dreshler,
two enthusiastic wheelmen, have
reached Atlanta, Ga., after having rid
den from Orange, N. J,, on a tandem.
They made the distance of about 1,000
miles in ten days, averaging about 100
miles a day.
At a meeting of the Southern Laun
drv Association at Asheville. N. C
John A. Nicholas, of that city, was re
elected president; A. A. Brubaker, of
Spartanburg, vice president; k . JL.
Lethco, of Charlotte, secretary and
treasurer. The next meeting will be
held in Spartanburg.
A petition is being circulated in Char-
lottee, N. C. , for the pardon of J. R.
Holland, who was sentenced in 1895 to
ths Albany, N. Y., penitentiary for em
bozzlement of the funds of the Mer
chants' and Farmers' National Bank,
of the above city. Hrjvew sentenced
for seven years and has already served
two.
At Lexington, Ky.. while a gang of
workmen were excavating on the line of
the street railway, one of them struck
what appeared to be a piece of pipe,
but which proved to be a sixty-four
pound dynamite cartridge.
A fearful
explosion followed, and five
negroes in the gang were
atoms.
of the six
blown to
All About the North.
The International Gold Mining con
vention, which met at Denver, Col.,
has adjourned and will meet next at
Salt Lake City, Utah.
The Merchants' Association of New
York has drawn" 2,000 new Western
merchants to New York, who formerly
traded in Chicago.
At Cleveland, O., Judge Ong, of the
Common Pleas Court, has handed
down a decision declaring that the law
under which members of the Cleve
land baseball club were arrested
for playing on Stfhday is unconstitu
tional. A dispatch from Terre Haute, Ind,,
says ivelly and westvuie companies
of "the Danville district have posted no
tices of an increase of 10 cents a ton in
the wages for mining coal. The object
of this is to keep their men at work and
thus break the backbone of the strike.
An electric car went through an open,
draw at Bay City, Mich. A woman and
three children were drowned.
At Chicago, Pittsburg and other
Northern cities many deaths and pros
trations are reported from the intense
heat.
Several thousand excursionists were
panic-stricken by a storm which swept
over a grove near Huron, O., and many
injured.
. . .
Fourteen people were killed in a
cloudburst and. cyclone near Dnlnth,
Minn. The damage to railroads and
crops is over $1,000,000.
Congressman Edward 'Dean Coke,
of Chicago, was found dead in his room
at the Cochran Hotel, Washington,
from a clot on the heart
The Grand Lodge of the Benevolent
and Protective Order of Elks met in
Minneapolis. The report shows 'the
present membership 'Jo be 35,000, an
increase of 7,000 in one year.
Miscellaneous.
Experiments in shipping butter f rem
New York to Australia have proven
successful.
A special from Managua, Nicarauga,
via Galveston, Tex. , -says the recent
heavy rains have excavated a deep
canyon through the town of Mu vagal pa,
at the foot of . the volcano, Gmetepe,
destroying a number of houses.
On a wager Frank Burton started
from New York for a trip around the
world, withoutr a cent and returned
with $3,000 which he earned on hi3
journey.
Extensive floods is reported from
France. Considerable damage to prop
erty, and it is believed that many lives
have been lost. The town of. Auch is
practically inundated.
A dispatch to the London Daily Mail
from Bombay, India, says that a plague
of locusts in North India threatens to
aggravate greatly the sufferings from
famine.
II
PASSED
Result Was 38 for the Bill and 28
Against.
HAD A MAJORITY OF TEN.
The Wilson Anti-Trust Section Is Re-
Enacted,, and tho Stamp Tax
Bonds Added to the Bill.
on
Washington, July 7. (Special.) By
the decisive vote of 33 to 28, the tanfl
bill was passed in the Senate shortly
before 5 o'clock today". Tho culmina
tion of the long and arduous struggle
had excited 'the'-keenest interest, and
the floor andgalieries of the Senate
chambers were crowded by those anx
ious to . witness the closing scenes.
Speaker Reed, Chairman Dingley and
many of the members of the House of
Representatives were in the rear area,
while every 6eat in the galleries save
those reserved for foreign representa
tives was occupied.
The early part of the day was spent on
amendments of comparatively minor
importance, the debate branching into
financial aDd anti-trust channels. By 4
o'clock Senators began manifesting
their impatience by calls of "vote" ana
soon thereafter the last amendment
was disposed of and the final vote began.
There were many interruptions as pairs
were arranged, and then at 4 :55 the Vice
President arose and announced the pas
sage of the bill, yeas 38, nays 28. There
was no demonstration, bnt a few scat
tered hand clappings were given as the
crowds dispersed. The vote in detail
follows:
Yeas Allison, Baker, Burrows, Car
ter, Clark, Cullom, Davis, Deboe, El
kins, Fairbanks, Foraker, Gallinger,
Hale, Hanna, Hawley, Jones of Ne
vada, Lodge, McBride, McEnery, Mc
Millan, Mantle, Mason, Morrill, !s ebon,
Penrose, Perkins, Piatt of Connecticut,
Piatt of New York, Pritchard, Proctor,
Quav, Sewall, Shoup, Spooner, War-
renton, Wellington, Vetmore and Wil
son 88.
Nays Bacon. Bate, Berry, Caflery,
Cannon, Chilton, Clay, Cockrell,
Faulkner, Gray, Harris of Kansas,
Jones of Arkansas, Kennedy, Lindsay,
Mallory, Martin. Mills, Mitchell. Mor
gan, Pasco, Fettus, Rawlings, Roach,
Turner, Tar pie, Vest, Walthall and
WhiU-28.
The following pairs were announced,
the first named would have voted for
the bill and the last named aratnst it:
Aldrich and Murphy, Chandler. and
McLaurin, Fryeand Gorman, C ear and
Smith, Hansbrough and Daniel. Hoar
and Harris of Tennessee, Thurston and
Tillman, Wolcott and George.
An analysis of the final vote shows
the affirmative was cast by 85 Republi
cans, 2 silver Republicans, Jones of Ne
vada, and Mantle, and one Democrat,
McEnery; total, 38. The negative vote
was cast by 23 Democrats, two Popu
lists, Harris of Kansas, and Turner,
and one silver Republicai, Cannon;
total, 28.
Eight Republicans were paired for
the bill and eight Democrats against it.
The Senators present and not voting
were: I'opulists, ft; Alien, isntler,
Heitfeld, Kyle and Stewart; silver Re
publicans, 2, viz., Teller and Petti
grew. Following the pa-sing of the bill a
resolution was agreed to asking the
House for a conference, and Senators
Allison, Aldrich, Piatt, of Connecticut;
Burrows, Jones, of Nevada; Vest,
Jones, of Arkansas, and White- were
named as conferees on tho part of the
Senate.
The tariff debate begun on May 25,
on which day Mr. Aldrich, in behalf of
the finance committee, made the open
ing statement on the bill. The actual
consideration of the bill began the
next day, May 26, when schedule A,
relating to chemicals, was taken up.
The debate has been continuous since
then, covering six weeks, and one day.
It has been notable in some respects,
although it has lacked many of the
dramatic and erratic features marking
past debates. From the outset the ad
vocates of the bill refrained from Bet
speeches, and the discussion was nar
rowed to a consideration of rates and
schedules rather than general debates.
Mr. Aldrich's illness took him from the
chamber after the first day, and since
then the bill has been in immediate
charge of Mr. Allison. The opposition
has been directed in the main by Mr.
Jones of Arkansas, and Mr. est of
Missouri, while Senators White, Caf
fery, Gray and Allen have frequently
figured in the debate. The bill, as it
goes back to the House, re-enacts the
anti-trust section of the Wilson act,
while the reciprocity and retaliatory
provisions are substitutes for those of
the House. One of the most important
provisions added by the Senate is that
placing a stamp tax on bonds, debent
ures and certificates of stock. Aside
from these more important changes,
the bill, as it goes back to the House,
has 874 amendments of various degrees
of importance which must be reconcil
ed by the two branches of Congress.
The tariff bill was then taken up and
Mr. Allison proceeded to perfect its
phraseology.
Now came the final vote which has
been so eagerly awaited. The keenest
interest was manifested throughout tho
crowded chamber. It was 4:37 p. in.
when the Vice-President announced
that the bill was on its final passage,
and the roll call began. At 4:55 p. m.
tho Vice-President announced:
"Senators.on this vote the yeas are 38,
the nays 28, and the bill is passed..
It was arranged that the bill as passed
should be printed with the sections and
paragraphs renumbered.
Will Force Payment From Spain.
The United States Senate committee
on foreign relations have through Sen
ator Lodge, reported a resolution au
thorizing the President to "take such
measures as he may deem necessary
to obtain the indemnity from the Span
ish government for tho wrongs and in
iuries suffered by August Bolton and
Gustave Richlieu, two naturlized
American citizens, by reason of their
wrongful arrest by Spanish author
ities at Santiago de Cuba, in the year
1895."
FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
Report of tho Proceedings from Day
to Day.
SENATE.
JnLT 5th. In some respects the
Senate made good progress, disposing
of two important amendments that
placing a stamp tax being agreed to.
with little or no opposition, and with
out the formality of a vote, while th
Spooner amendment, proposing ft tariff
investigation, was withdrawn after a
protracted struggle. Late in tho day
several new amendments from individ
ual members were voted on. An amend
ment to admit books freo was defeated.
July 6th. In tho Senate it was de
cided to limit the speeches on the tariff
to the five-minute rule, and that the
final vote on the bill shall be taken bo
fore adjournment on the 7th. During
the day the anti-trust question was de
bated at length, and Pettus' amendment
on the subject was defeated, 26 to 33.
Allen, of Nebraska, again offered the
amendment for a 1 cent boiiuty on beet
sugar. - It led to livelj-and tiomewhat
personal speeches from the two Ne
braska Senators, after which the Allen
amendment was tabled, 57 to I).
July. 7th. By a decisive vote of 88
to 28, the tariff bill was passed in the
Senate. One Democrat voted with the
Republicans, while two Populists and
one Silver Republicans voted with the
Democrats. Nearly a thousand amend
ments is carried back to the House and
yet to be reconsidered by both branches
of Congress.
JciiT 8th. The Eession of the Senate
was uneventful. An invitation was
accepted for the United States to par
ticipate in the Paris 'Exposition, and a
special commission is to be appointed.
The deficiency appropriation bill carry
ing $9,811,465 was considered.througn
out the day. A new committee amend
ment was agreed to, appropriating $6,
00'J in full indemnity to the heirs of the
Italians lynched in New Orleans, in
185)6. Butler, of North Carolina, of
fered an amendment limiting the cost
of armor plate for new battleships to
$300 per ton, and providing for a gov
ernment armor plant, if private bids
were not within $300. The amendment
went over.
Jt'LY 9th. The Senate met under the
distressing influences of the death of
Senator Harris, of Tennessee. Senator
Bate paid a high tribute to the memory
of the distinguished dead, and then
resolutions weie adopted for a public
funeral funeral in the Senate chamber,
to be held on the 10th, to which the
President, Cabinet, Supreme Court and
diplomatic corps were invited, after
which, as a further mark of respect to
the memory of the deceased, the Senate
adjourned.
JutiT 10th. The conferees on the
tariff bill suspended their labors long
enough to attend the funeral ceremon
ies conducted over the remains of the
lato Senator Harris, but resolved before
dispersing for this purpose to reassem
ble immediately after the conclusion of
the obsequies, and to continue their
work not only tonight, but all day.
The decision to sit on Sunday was not
reached without some hesitation, but
was decided upon as necessary to ex
pedite the reporting of the bill.
HOUSE.
Jcly 5th. In the House the blind
chaplain in his invocation referred to
the spirit of Independence Day, which
he said, gave to us the immortal Declar
ation of Independence that led to the
formation of a republic which has been
the inspiration of, the whole world, for
a larger liberty and higher civilization,
after which followed immediately a pa
triotic motion to adjourn, which pre
vailed, after a slight hitch, until the
7th.
July 7th. Tho House met at noon,
after arecens taken on the 5th, in antici
pation of the possibility that the Sen
ate might pass the tariff bill. McMil
lan (Dem.), of Tennessee, endeavored
to suspend the rules and have the Sen
ate Cuban beligerency resolution pass
ed, but a motion to adjonrn prevailed
by a vote of 134 to 104.
July 8th. The House sent the tariff
bill to conference. Chairman Dingley,
Payne, of New York; Dalzell. of Penn
sylvania; Hopkins, of Illinois, and
Grosvenor, of Ohio, Republicans, and
Bailey, of Texas; McMillan, of Ten
nessee, and Wheeler, of Alabama,
Democrats, were appointed coi.feicea.
The proceedings were in nowise sensa
tional. Bailey's allusion to Cuba was
warmly applauded by tho Democrats,
who renewed their demonstration wjieu
he said that the President had found
time to send a special ambassador 3,000
miles to attend the festivities in honor
of a European monarch, but none to
send even a message of sympathy to
the people struggling for freedom at
our very doors. Most of the afternoon
was spent in eulogies on the life and
pursuits of the memory of Wm. S. Hl
tnan, of Indiana.
TIIK RUIZ CLA13I.
The United States Makes a Demand
Upon Spain for $150,000.
The State Department officials a
Washington, after weeks of hard work,
have completed the preparation of our
case in the prosecution of the Ruiz
claim, and after receiving the approval
of the President, it will be turned over
to Minister WoodforcL for presentation
to the Madrid foreign office. He sails
from New York on the 28th inst In the
preparation of this case, Mr. Calhoun,
the United States special commissioner.
has tabled the principal part, but the
law officers of the State Department
have done much to present the facts col
lected bv him in the strongest light.
and ta establish a good basis for the
claim of indemnity, fixed at Si 50. 000.
which is to be urged against the S panish
government.
Foreigner Tears up the Flar.
AtMt. Vernon, N. Y., much indig
nation was occasioned because of the
destruction of a flag by Antonio Larono,
Charles H. Phillips, a patriotic Ameri
can living in Fulton avenue, placed i
small American flag on his front fence,
Larone took it from the fence and tore
it to pieces. Phillips, who happened to
see the incident, gave him a severe
thrashing. Phillips did not let up until
the man begged for. mercy and prom
ised never again to insult the Star
Spangled Banner.
1118'
Slit.
The Great Struggle is Now on in
Earnest.
MINERS ARE STILL -AT WORK
And the Operators Pay They Car. Run.
To Prevent Unlawful Interference,
Etc.
The strike order of the national ex
ecutive board of the United Mine
Workers tnmca has been obeyed
by from 1. ot the 21,000
minors of theTTNNf-triet. Tho
great struggle is nowsJin earnest,
and the developments of the next few
days will determine tb -oucsa at fail
ure of the fight for a uniform mining
rate.
While it is estimated that at least
two-thirds of the miners have thrown
down their picks, enough men are still
at work, however, to seriously impair
the chances, unless they can ultimately
be brought out This, tho president
says with conndence, win uo uuuo.
The operatos, on the other hand, (state
that they cannot continue to run.
UNITED BTATF.H I'llOTF.CTION.
A very important step has been taen
at Cincinnati in .connection with the
local coal miners' ntnke, which puts
the power of the United States against
all violence or unlawful acts in at least
a portion of the territory in Ohio. An
order of the Unijed States Circuit
Court for the southern district of Ohio,
eastern division, was made by 'Judge
Taft, on a showing made by M. T. Her
rick and Robert Blickensderfer, re
receivers of the Wheeling & Lake Erie
Railroad Company, and of the heel
ing & Pittsburg Coal Company, where
by the United States marshal is direct
ed to protect their miners at work, and
to prevent unlawful interference with
the operation of their railroad.
GOVKRN'MKNT CROP REPORT.
Conditions In tho Southern Slates
Not so Favorable on Account of
Heat.
The United States Weather Bureau,
in its report of crop conditions for tho
week ended July f,th Bays: In tho
States of the Central Valley, Lake
region and New England, the week
ending July 5th has been very favora
ble to crops, the higher temperature
being especially favorable to corn. In
the Southern States the conditions liavo
been less favorable, the excessive heat
and absence of rainfall proving injuri
ous to most crops. On tho Pari no
coast the week has been very favorable.
In the principal corn States for the
central valleys corn has made rapid
prowth, but in tho Southern States it is
suffering for rain, in b'onie heclions se
riously. Excessive rains in Missouri
have retarded cultivation, and the crop
is still backward in Minnesota. In
Texas, while the late plant is suffering
from drought, taken all in all, it is
doing very well.
Cotton is needing rain over the great
er part of the cotton belt, moro par
ticularly the Southern iortion. 'Iho
crop is generally clean and fruiting
well. A marked improvment is repotred
from Mississippi, North Carolina and
parts of Florida. .
The bulk of the winr wheat crop in
now harvested south ot the fortieth par
allel, about the latitude of the central
portions of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois.
Excessive rains have retarded harvest
ing in Missouri, and caused further
damage to grain in nhock. Good prog
ress in harvesting has been made in
Nebraska and northern Indiana, and
harvesting will soon begin in Nebraska.
The crop is maturing on the North"
Pacific coast and in v;ainornm, wuert
harvesting is progressing rapidly. The
grain is shrunken less than was antici
pated. .... , ,
Spring wheat continues to mane ia-
vorable progress and is now heading
well over the southern portions of the
spring wheat region. Jn Oregon the
best crop for years is promised.
Tobacco has contiued to improve gen
erally, but is still in poor condition in
JventucKy. A njarKca improvement i
reported from Ohio, and the crop is do
ing well in Missouri, Pennsylvania and
Maryland. Transplanting has been
completed in New England and Now
York, and cutting is in progress in the
Carolinas.
BIG TROLLEY DF.AL tS AFRICA
Americans Granted Large Conccs-
, sions In Johnnnncftburg.
At Oakland, Cal., Henry A. Butters
has received word that his syndicato
had been declared a concession cover
ing the entire electrio street railways
of Johnannesburg, which throw the
entire electrio street railway system of
South Africa into the hands of the But
ters syndicate.
Americans heavily interested are: J.
K. Waterman, formerly general freight
manager of the Colorado Midland Rail
way of Denver; JohK flays Hammond,
of the Jamefion raid conspiracy: Henry
Butters and his brother, Charles But
ters. Against Any Sort of Futdon.x
At Nashville, Tenn., the National
conference of the middle-of-the-road
Populists met Tuesday, several hund
red delegates being in attendance. Tho
conference was called to order by Mil
ton Parks, of Texas, and is strongly
against any sort of fusion.
KILLKD IN A C1IURCII PANIC.
Lightning Strikes an Altar, Stun tho
Priest and Caimen a Panic.
While high mass was being cele
brated in the Catholio church at Jon
quieres, in the Lake St. John district,
Quebec, lightniDg struck the altar, up
setting it and stunning the priest. In
the ensuing panic one person was killed
and a score injured. The edifice wal
destroyed by fixe.