1 1 1; i f 1 '1 4- - t S 1 I I : ' r. ' 'i ' i T K TO 2j VOL. XXVI. RALEIGH N. C, TUESDAY MORNING j APRIL 27. 1886. NO. 139a . - " I I r-. 1 ; 1 1 f aaS! j aaaS? aWaaU ".? 'i t . -.; - -i. -? r H . si: "t V! It t- . L r Observer. News AMD 1 . Abcolu fan powder never varies. , A marvel of jnHty, strength and wholeeomezteas. Mora ' leonomical than ordinary kinds ami cannot bo old In competition with the multitude of low teat, abort weight, alum or phosphate powders. Sold only in cans. Rotai. Baktxv) Powiw Co., 108 Wall Street, New York. Sold byW( C 4 A B Stronaco, Oeorge T Btronacn aaa ts, t errau uo. ; .5 TIRED OUT! AtUri. iminn Muh ot7 w BMd. tow mm ortotaaidL IRON itara hit aiBartavnyptir Motes' madriptiaa for Umm wba aMd.im&diiic IHB 0E5T10IIIC r Weaki 'at". BMoUeia Uut It HAS HU ud la It KilVtM th InlmntM CkM aywt amir ea ayyeute, imi myeati . It do mat blA or tojnath tmh, ltd aeaorprdiMnatlptiia jtktr Jnm mnUeimm it ' Da. Q. H, Boibxr, a luttm phjriotaa el Bprtaat Brararaa"kiMan Is a tttoroocUy food bmoS ha. iMktaarimlieSMdbdliMiaiw riBaiBr of Im, Imminii, or.Wwooa. mpmtUm ity. tt to 1 thM ii eiunMd far7r Da. W. W. WaTBM, m Thirtr-Moond Stmt; ' ttMTbnte of to lfotbtec Utter, ft nwtM 1 ' appetne, givw Knarta apdoaprewt oUfaitiaa." 1 ti.i.Tiaao ItekaadoraandTCdHaai -Tafca tier. UmOmorbrl: Mum mm oKKMiiOAJ. oaw kaxitumu. mjV : E i"i-i. 7 l?r Bargain House of I'i-. Raleigh, f Kot by favor, but by merit alone, will 'we- maintain and increase our unrivalled reputa- tion. Bigpricea will not do these times, when; everybody atanda in need of every dollar and every penny. Among our arrivals this week we shall place, before our people some LANDSLIDES 'I which are beyond comparison auJ monopoly ' - ' '.'!! : x prices, that will teach you to buy us soon as . t! . : you tee "the goods. Who can tell the waste of BMney when you get your goods from houses ' ; S 'S ; iiat buy and ttell on long time 1 Just opening, some Great Bargain! taught from thetkiughter. pens in New York, auch as Cottonadex, Catyco, Bhoea, Laoes and Ilamburgs, Dress Notion of all descriptions ; good bargains in "1 :1 ' -S ' . Hen's and Boya' btraw UaU. Come at once, ' '1 ' ' before these goods are nicked over. : We have ' ' ' 1 ko opened one of the finest stocks of SllUinery Goods ever' brought to this city, and will sell !'' ower than such goods were ever before offered; The ladies' running this departuient are first- laas and of great experience. We particu- larly invite ladies wishing suck goods to' call before purchasing. -i VOLNBY PUBSELL A CO. lUleigh, N. O. rate STOR CONGRESSIONAL. THE fttYATK niscrsAEM qiJEsriojrs OF IN Tt-R-WT ATE COMMERCE. Soma mmbra Clflm tht fa Ballatr I t Ut Caaiaott bo Rs:lat4 by s VovoraaaoMt. Wasumoton, April 26. Sbnat In the Sjecate today Mr;1 Harris present ed creditials of WaehiDgton C. Whit- thorne, iappointed by the Governor of lennessee to oe umtea isiateB renaior from tha8tate to fill the vacancy caused bf the reeignatioQ of Senator Jackson. The credentials having been read, Mr. Whitthorne was escorted to the desk by Mj." ilanru: and the oath of office ad ministered in due form y the president pro tern of ' the Senate. . Mr. Whit thorne then took a seal on the Demo- cratio side of the chamber on the ex treme right of the chair and received (jhe congratulations of 'many Senators. VV hen the new senator had tagen nis Seat, Mr. Hoar called attention to the ijbrm of :his credentials, not having de sired to say: anything which might seem liko objection to theswearing-inof Whit thorne. vThe form off credentials Mr. Hoax thought defective, inasmuch as the certificate stated that the appoint- in cut was for Senator Jackson's unex- termj ; It should read "until- the next "meeting of the legislature." The point: was of no great consequence at present, but. in case of a close party division In i the! Senate the question, Mr; ;Hoar I thought, might become one of great importance, and public attention ought to be: directed toiit in order that the difficulty might, as far as . possible, be avoided. : Mr. Harris remarked that Mr; WhiCtiiprne's credentials in using the word-: term" made reference to a termi "as fixed bv lawl" He thoueht this qualifying phrase coverd the point. ' J.ne credentials were. nied. : I Mrv Hoari reported from the commit tee on jodioiary the bill extending the time for the comnletion of the records of the clerk of the commissioners of Ala bama claims. ' Passed.. ;Mr. Morrill, from the committee on finance, reported with 'amendments the House bill j relating to the bonds of brewers. : The bill as it came from the House modifies section! 3,336 of the Re vised Statutes so as to require new bonds to be filed by the: brewers, not on the 8t of May m heretofore, but whenever tb,e collector of internal revenue hall require thein to do bo. The Senate committee amended the bill so as to re quire in addition thatat least once in out years the bonds shall in any event be renewed, whether; the collector re quests it.! or &o After some debate the Senate intendment f was agreed to, and the bill as amended was passed. A bill reported by alt. Harris, an: appropriation to complete the publie building a Jackson, Tenn., on j JAti i Harris's ; request at onoe passed. ; Mr. jYan Wck desired to take up the bill taxing? railroad lands, bat' yielded to "Mr." Blair, who. accord ing ?io previous notice, then addressed thej Senate on his i proposed constitu tional amendment prohibiting the manu facture or sale of alcoholic liquors. : At the I conclusiOii of Mr. Blair s speeoh the in ter-StaJte commerce bill was taken up and far. van wyck addressed the Senate on ; it. Through rates from .thelWest j Mr. Vahf Wyck said, now nearly amounted to confiscation.: , An other rise would be : prohibition. : Last - :' 1 M t 'M . .'.1 . t ' year ne naa saia uxatwe people in some sections" of Nebraska were compelled to burn corn for iuel; and that it required bushels of corn to purchase one ton of hard coal. : This Condition did not apply to the 'entire State, yet last win ter more tnan hail tne people were again compelled : to burn corn for fuel because of the excessive rates of transportation. The basis of the charges was 'V All that the; traffic will bear We were in the midst of depression; yet All must be laid under contribution so that full dividends: may be declared by the railroad companies on Watered stock and fraudulent bonds. Grain, beef and pdrk might be reduced one-half in price, yet there fcould be no abatement in freight charges. As to the commission feature of the bill, the people, Mr- Van Wvck said. were, not demandinjr the obmmission, but, the-: corporations were becoming earnest advocates of it. Kail- load and .'telegraph;' rates west of the Missouri river were about four tunes greater thin the rates east of Ohio. For years capital had Seen organized, un scrupulous and rapacious, moving, as Gould had moved. according to his Sworn testimony, aid as Huntington, aocording to bis on written history, had moved, on the Sute legisla tures, courtfl and Congress, un- biushintrlv Durchssintr judges and leaislators; but a 'crisis was coming There was an irrepressible .conflict be tween right and wrong. Could the na tion be made to believe that $4,000, 000,000 f of watered stock and bonds were honfest property deserving protec tion front courts orf legislatures, or that $300,000,000 claimed! by Vapderbilt and $UO;00O,0UU claimed byutmid were honestly obtained r lne owners of these Sams should accord decent treatment to "the remainder; of mankind,, from' whom they expected to wrest divedends knd interest. The Senate committee failed at ; the precise point .where the monster evikshould be grasped by law. If industries were, only required to pay fair dividends on the real cost of rail roads the nation would be prosperous. ;.: Mr. Stanford, of California, address ed tie Senate on the bill. It purported, he said, to be an act to -regulate com merce between the States. He had read it with a' good deal of care, but did not find anything in it that regulated com merce. ivervtnmg in ,11 was as to carriers" only;; fCommeroe" had 'frill defined meaning. It meant trade, barter, interchange of commodities; mat ters with which a carrier in the transac tion of his : legitimate bfisinesi had no concern whatever. . The title of the bill ought to be 'changed to express its true W a a ij ;aa meaning. msreaa 01 pemg called a "IJill to regulate cOfamerce," it should be a " Bill to regulate car riers." If it wereiia bill to regulate shippers and owners whose material the carrier j moved the title would be more appropriate. He might be told, perhaps, that there were judicial decisions to the effect that the regulation; of a carrier was the regula tion of commerce, but when legislation was proposed it was entirely legitimate to discuss the question as to the original matter and to determine it upon the principles which seemed to be involved. There was a. great difference between the; possession of power and its exercise, of course. t The constitution plainly gave Congress the right to regulate com merce between the States.; - But as a carrier had nettling to do with the con trol of the shipment of goods, wares and; merchandise or their, ultimate dis posal; or destination, the; regulation of him or determining the price he ; jf should : receive ' for; his ser vices could have no relation to de termining commerce between the States as a national question. Why should the price; fixed for carrying freights acroro a nonphysical line between States be different from what was, charged: for the same service on either side of that line? Would it not be making our State lines more or less obstacles to free intercourse. Would it not be converting our State lines into something very nearly akin to a frontier? W hat did our;, mend say whO had been always so anxious to claim that we were of right one great family, with,.free business, and ; what did our States! rights friend say to the general government lntefemng and controll ing il their : local institutions?: Mr. Stanford said that admitting the powlr of Congress it was pertinent to inquire the wisdom of this kind of leg islation. If investment in railroads was so beneficial to the public! why should not the investors be permitted to reap some1; full rewards of the wisdom of their investment,' their industry! -and their management and direction thereof, as though the ; same capital, wisdom and industry had been engaged in a busi ness iless important to the interests of the1 if State and: in whose; I behalf the State could .not, if solicited, exercise the tight of eminent domain. In dis cussing the question of ;the right to regu3atetralroad fares and freights in a manner which would neoeessarily un- " . 'J ..... . i : pair a ; the , ; earning ; eapacity of these ' roads,; we should not forget : thai investments, :were ; made by individuals. If railroads were, so pmportant i& the public -iurely these 1 maiyiauai investors ougnt, not: to oe 1 discouraged by the apprehension that the value of their investments might be tessenea Dy aaverse xegisiauon. ; xn au these efforts at regulation Mr. btanford found no protection to railroad com panies, ho guarantee against impairment Of income. ; If legislation interfered to decrease income the value of property was affected to the extent of the dimT- nntion ef income. This :H was taking property withoutrcompensation. i It was confiscation j Practically this bill denied to the various railroad, companies the ;' i right : of competition. It precluded j shippers from reaping their rightful advantage : of com petition ana : causea w uem ana tne railroad companies aosoiute; loss. . u a low: rate for a longer distance meant a reduction for the shorter r;carriers must submit to loss from the usual rates on short distances, of else ; abandon busi ness t competing po!ints f; M. Plmnb, from the appropriations committee, reported; the postomce ap propriation 1 bill with amendments. It was placed on the calendar,? Mr. Plumb saying he would call it npl Wednesday ' -a 1 tit morning. The questions of ; detail in-1 volyed in Mr. Camden s pending amend- ment to the inter-State eommercO bill as to lOng and short hauls were then taken up and discussed by Messrs. vamden, Harris, Platte Brown, Wilson, of Iowa, and Cullonu. , Mt. Brown :: said that under ; the , provisions ; of; Mr. Camden s ; proposed i amendment it would . be impossible for the railroads to transact the business of the crountrv. If they attempted it; either they would be driven into bankruptcy; or else the products of the West would be driven from 1 the- markets of the East 'and of -course also from foreign markets. In other word$,the railroads would have to put their local freights so 10 w that they could not not: pay fixed expenses, or put such hijgh rates on through freights as. to prohibit all shipments of produce for a longer distance than 500 or 600 miles. No railroad could continue run ning unless it could pay its fixed ex pensesj and it. limited to ;nxed expenses it could pay no dividends, neither could it bav anv interest on canital invested As to watering stock Mr, JtJrown utterly condemned; it, but he could not see how the railroad could keeD out of the hands of receiver or maintain their track and rolling stock in proper or j safe oonditon if they were not allowed to make reason able charges.; 'If a rule were established bv eovernment, limiting the roads to a charge that ; would pay! the fixed ex penses only, it would pe a practical confiscation of railroad capital for public use without compensations HOUSB. The House committee railroads today adopted on the Pacific a bill formu- lated by a sub-committee providing for an extension of seventy years of the bonded debt, of the Pacific railroad to the government. The bill will be re ported to the House this afternoon if an opriortnnitv presents itself. : Mr. Dunn, of Arkansas asked leave to offer a resolution setting apart the 12th of May for the eonsideration of measures reported from the committee on railroads. ; In response to a question, Mr. Dunn stated that the measures which would probably be called up would be the bill requiring the Northern Pacific, to pay the cost of surveying its lands; the res olution' providing for a general investi gation of the accounts of the Pacific railroads, and the bill providing for the' payment of the debts of those roads. i MrV Warner, of Ohio,; inquired whether the order would include the Pacific railroad funding bill, and upon receiving an affirmative answer.objected to the present consideration of the res olution. ' 'j i. : Mr. Dunn explained that the bill pro vided for the payment of $41,000 of the debt before it became due under the existing law. It did not postpone; it anticipated the debt. He asked that the resolution be referred, but Mr. Cbwles, of North Carolina,1 objected. ,and the resolution WMot recrved. ; Under the call of States bills were in troduced and referred as follows : By Mr. Springer, of Illinois, for the admission of the whole of Dakota into the Union; also to establish a depart ment of labor and to create a board for the arbitration of controversies between labor and capital. (The general duties of the department provided for by the bill are to acquire and diffuse among the people useful information on subjects connected with labor in the most gen eral and comprehensive sense of that word, and especially upon its relation to capital; the hours of labor; the earn ings of laboring men and women and the means of promoting their material, so cial, intellectual and moral' prosperity. In the department there si all be estab lished a commission of labor, consisting of three members, who shall be charged with the consideration and t settlement. by means of arbitration when possible, of all controversies between labor and capital. The commissioner in charge of the department shall receive a salary of $4,Q00 and he and two assistant commissioners, to be ap pointed by the President, shall constitute a commission of labor. The commission of labor shall have power to investigate the causes of all contro versies and disputes between labor and capital, whether such controversies and disputes are submitted fori arbitration or not, and to reoort thereon to the President, who shall transmit their re ports to Congress. In all controversies or disturbances which may interfere with transit and commerce between the States, it shall be the duty of the com mission of labor to act as a board of ar bitration for the peaceful settlement of such controversies whenever the concil iatory offices of said commission may be invoked by parties thereto, and in all controversies between laboring men employers, the con- and their sequences of whieh may ' threaten intervention of domestic violence, the such commission may be tendered by the President for the purpose of settling such controversies by arbitration, on application by. the legislature of such State or of the executive when the leg islature cannot be convened.; All ques tions submitted for arbitration shall be in writing and signed by the parties re spectively, and a decision or award shall have such effect only aS is provided in the articles of submission. All awards shall be entered on a record and a copy furnished to each of the parties and one copy shall be transmitted to any 00 art which may be authorised to take action thereon. The proceedings of the com mission shall be public, except when the commissioners are in consultation. Machinery is provided to I enable the commissioners to' perform : their duties. ISy Mr. McUomas, of Maryland, au thorizing the select committee: investi gating the labor troubles to investigate the disputes between mine-owners and miners in the bituminous regions of Pennsylvania and West Virginia. ; By Mr. O'Neil, of Missouri, sympa- thuing with Mr. Gladstone in his efforts to secure a free parliament for Ireland iiy Mr. Warner, Of Uhio, to regulate in ter-Stae commerce and provide for boards of arbitration. In the moraine hour, on motion of Mr. Oates, of Alabama, a bill waspassed providing for the appointment of a dis trict judtre for the southern district of Alabama. The House again went into committee of the whole on the river and harbor bill. Tba Awful Wark. fTrala Wrtektn. j Atchtsos, Kansas, April 26i A tram on the .Northern jfaoino railroad was ditched near Wyandotte, Kansas, last evening. Spikes were pulled out of the ties and the angle-plates, were taken off the rails. Fireman Horton and brake man Carlisle were instantly killed, and engineer . Fowler severely; injured. Hoxie has offere'd a reward of $2,500 for the arrest and conviction of the Wreckers Craaca ( DlaartnaA. London. April 26. The statement that the. Greek army would be disarmed is confirmed. The Greek chamber of de Suties has been convoxea. lne com ined fleet of the powers, which had 1 s 1 1 " . MM assembled to coerce Greece, has departed The sudden termination of the probability Of war is received by tne yrreek people with consternation. Tata Wlllla EdaeaMaaal Bill. tux ooMirrrrss on labor kxithsb ap PBOVIS NOS DI8APPROVS8 IT. Washwoton, April 26. In the House committee on labor today, ; after a ful and lengthy discussion, a vote was taken On motion to report Dir. w uiis edu National bill without recommendation The motion was carried, but a motion to reconsider was made, and pending action thereon tne nonr or ,IA arrived sad the committee took a recess. RICHMOND MOIsT. THE STATE tY CAPITAL OF TTBttlXIA ; COM FOR THE WET TICK KT. Tlia VuU Cxpet4lljr Haavy Ctltrtd Volt MM ftr Aatl- Prohibition, RicHMoiw, Va., April 26. Prohibi tion met with an overwhelming defeat here today, the election -resulting in 8,941 votes being east for the "wet" ticket and 3,260 for the "dry" ticket, a majority of 5,681 in favor of licensing the sale of liqors. The vote in Manchester was "wet" 974, dry" ticket 348; anti prohibition majority 626. Lynchburg goes for the "wet" ticket. The vote in both this oity and Manchester was nearly as large as in the Presidential election. The unexpected heavy majority against prohibition in this city will doubtless kill any future agitation of tho subject here. Under the law it cannot be renewed for, two years. The colored vote was almost unanimous for anti-prohibition A SEW STEP. IaHttetaaanta Fannd Aftlatt tba Em p Ira Niw York, April 26. Before the grand jury adjourned for the day their or em an banded a bundle of indictments to recorder Smyth. Among them was voluminous document which the re corder examined 'carefully. He ad journed the court and retired to his pri vate chamber. 1 he paper was an in dictment found upon affidavits made by the Third avenue. railroad officials. It charges several persons with conspiracy. While the names of the parties could not be ascertained, it is generally be- ieved that it is against the committee of the Empire protective association. whose names were affixed to the order for a general "tie-up" of the surface roads of this city last week. i A VEST OHOSS OViRAeC Cretan oil I7aal to Sllanca a Ravlvallat. St. Louis, April 26. A special from Benton, Mo., states that Bev. Benjamin Deering, of St. Louis, had been for some days past holding a series of tem perance revival meetings which have been' wonderfully successful. -Last night . a . . a a . some one, as yet unknown, placed m pitcher of water which the revivalist had placed upon the speaker's desk a aage quantity of croton oil. Several persons drank of the water before the service began and became deathly sick. but7 not knowing the cause of their ill ness failed to warn Deering not to drink from the pitcher. The latter during his discourse drank a glass of water and was immediately taken sick. All who tasted the water are today in a preca rious condition. Two saloon keepers have been arrested on suspicion, and it is thought they poisoned the water in order to end the services, which were baying inch a depresssng effect upon their business. tl TUS tOWAKDlT fTAUAH !' . , i AGAIN CBKS BIS DXADI.T KNOT. Jcbskt Crrr, N. J., April 26. Late ast night in a crowded street-car James Forrester, an engineer on one of the Anchor line steamers, and a companion rose to give their seats to a lady carry- aa a.-a w. '.a mg a child, when two Italians, took pos session of the vacant places. Explana tion and protest had no effect open the talians, when- Forrester took one of them by the collar to lift him from the seat. .. The Italian plunged a knife into Forrester's back. A police captain was close by and captured the Italian with thO bloody knife in his hand. The knife was a clasp-knife with a blade nearly a foot long. The affair created a panic in the car, and in the rush sev eral passengers were knocked down and trampled upon. Forrester will proba bly die. ; i - i ! - ' ii -oasfjai a .atyja 1 " Ait Attaaapt ta AatacoaUaa Ctaau WssHicoTON, April 26: A motion to reconsider the vote by which Boseorans nomination as register of the treasury was confirmed was made by a member of the. senate nnanoe committee. The nomination was favorably reported bv the committee long ago, but before it was acted upon by the Senate some question as to bis qualifications for the office of register of the treasury arose and delayed action, and finally charges are said to have been filed, to the effect that he was in some way connected with . a a a a ' . the public land frauds m California The frauds : consisted in procuring the- entry? 01 claims oy homesteaders and -- a .a a preemptprsand the immediate transfer of claims to other parties. : What his al leged; connection with the matter is can' not be learned. An. attempt will prob ably' be made to have the matter further looked into by the committee before the nomination is returned ; to tne Jrresi dent. ; . ; i In Utmarr ar tba Daad. Acocsta, Ga., April 26. Decoration day was observed here today by a sus pension Of business. Uol. G. U. Jones, Jr., delivered an address at noon be fore the Confederate survivors' associa tion and resolutions were adopted ex pressing profound regret of the death of ;the 'poet priest" of the South, Bev. UL. S. Ryan. There was a parade of the military this afternoon, an oration at the; cemetery and decoration oi the soldiers graves. 1 A Jury Equally Divided. BaI-timors, April 26.! The jury in the ease of the car strikers who assaulted the nw. drivers who retired on Satur day, came into, court' today unable to agree and was discharged, the jury being equally divided. The same parties are to be tried for assaulting the nolice and another trial will be had in the case of the ear drivers. j ; ! ' m m ' ; : The; next event of interest is the cat tlt abow Ms 0. Ill H - j :V " . I : ii 8 .. &! .; - i - ; :. BTartb Carolina In Cowsraaa. April 22d; in the House, pending the consideration of the river and harbor bill, the immediate matter before the Houso being the clause of the bill pro viding for continuing the improvement of the Cape Fear river; $125,000, of which sum $15,000 are to be expended above Wilmington, Mr. Bennett moved an amendment, which was adopted, pro viding that the bulk of the appropria tion shall be expended "below and op posite the city of Wilmington, includ ing as much of its northeast branch as lies in front of Wilmington' within the city limits." When the clause providing for the 'improvement of the Neuse river; con tinuing imprSvement, $10,000," was read, Mr. Green referred to the impor ance of an inland line ; of navigation along the coast of the two Carolinas, Georgia and Florida, not: only for com mercial but for military and strategic purposes. He dwelt upon the faet that various engineers have reported that by dredging the sounds could be rendered available for heavier tonnage and thus in course of time a continuous line could be established from the Virginia capes almost all the way down to cape Sable and showed that the population contig uous to the stretch of water within the banks is dependent almost entirely upon this mode of getting its produce to mar ket.. : !.;! Mr. Skinner ably sustained the claim of eastern Carolina to the; consideration of Congress. He made the point that the river around Swansborough, White Oak river, runs . through ;a body of the finest timber lands in the United States, and that in the same section there are 40,000 acres of the best oyster lands in the world, which, with the declining and disappearing supply of 'oysters, ought to be cultivated and brought into the market. "Every man," he said, wbo loves the delicious bivalve ought to feel bound to aid that section in the development of those lands." Mr. McAdoo (of JNew Jerseys. Let me ask the gentleman from North Caro lina if -you shake the oyster trees On that land? Laughter.! Mr. Skinner. Oh, yea I We gather them from September to May; every month that has an "r" in it will do to gather oysters in, and very frequently when we get a little hungry we spell May with an V and August with an r- .: - i : ' Mr. Green's amendment was rejected. The clerk read as follows : "Improving Black river, . North Car olina: Continuing improvement,; $3. 000. Provided, That all claims Of pri vate parties to the navigation . of the aaa a a. . 1, . TT a , a river -shall be ceded to 'the umtea States, free of charge, before th5 com' mencement 01 saia improvement. ; The committee recommended the adop tion of the following amendment : l ' 'Strike out, m lines 578 and 1 579, the words 'continuing improvement.' " Mr. Green offered : an; amendment. Strike out all after "improvement." in line 579 to line 583, and insert : "That all claims of private parties to the ex clusive navigation of said river shall be ceded to the United States upon the payment of $2,000, whiqh amount is hereby appropriated therefor, before the commencement of raid improvement." The amendment proposed , by the com mittee was agreed to. Mr. Green then said : "Mr. Ghair- man, I do not propose to increase tne appropriation recommended by the. com mittee, for I know that that is virtually an impossibility, but I do wish to make the small amount recommended by them available for use, and therefore I send up the proviso just read as a substitute for the other. Captain Bixby, the en gineer in charge of the eastern rivers of our State, recommends in his report that at least $10,000 shall be appropriated for- the improvement of Black river. The, committee has seen fit to cut .down this amount to less than one-third, and to saddle it with a proviso that would render even this small amount entirely nugatory and of no avail. Permit me to explain. ; , "The legislature of North Carolina, in its session of 1876-77, granted' a char ter to certain parties extending through fifty years, for the exclusive navigation of this stream, in consideration of ser vices tb be rendered in cleaning it ' out and putting at in navigable shape. Whether they have complied with the full requirement of the act Or not is not far me to say. . At all events they en joy the prima facie right to hold exclu sively, and hence would not be likely to surrender it without an equivalent un less their claim is declared invalid by judicial decision. It is to cover this contingency that the small appropriation recommended to quiet their claim is submitted, so that the other may be utilized. - ' j "In my opinion there is not a more de serving clause in the bill under consid eration." .'.. Mr. Willis (of Kentucky). I desire briefly to say that the committee did not feel authorized to make this appropria tion without the proviso for the reason that by the statute law of the State of North Carolina the Black; river naviga tion company is given exclusive control of this river. It was represented to the: committee that this charter was worth less, and in order to test the matter we re commend this appropriation with the desire. to improve the river-if that were the fact. We hav8 allowed not a large appropriation, but as large ; as could be given within the limits of the bill, and with a proviso that this ; matter should be' tested before the commencement Of the improvement, and that the franchise should be declared void before the got' ernment undertakes to ' spend, any money.'-' :) The question being taken ; oh i the amendment of Mr. Green, it was reject ed. ; '''! J -iH Mr. Hepburn (of Indiana.) 1 1 o oaU tne attentios of the chalri desire nan of j the committee on rivers and harbors to the language of this proviso : Provided, That all claims of private parties to the navigation of the river shall be ceded to the United 8tates, free of charge, before the commence ment of said improvement. It seems to mc that by the use of this language the committee has provided that no improvements shall be made un til everybody has surrendered the (right to use the river. Mr. Willis. That is rather abroad conetruction. Laughter. Mr. Hepburn. The proviso does not stipulate that the right to collect tolls shall be relinquished, but the right to navigate the river. i Mr. Willis. II have great confidence in the ability of the . other branch of Congress to, correct any imperfection there may be in this language ; and I believe I will stand by it. , The clerk read as follows: ! Improving Roanoke river, North Car olina : Continuing improvement, $10,- 000.. - ; ; Mr. O'Hara. I move to amend by in serting after the paragraph just read the following : , Two thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary of the aforesaid $10.00Q, shall be used for the purpose of removing obstruction in the Thoroughfare and Cohoke croek. Mr. Willis. :There is no objection to that. The worst throat ar lung troubles yield to the healing power of Red Star Cough Cure. No opiates. Frice twenty. five cents. j All accounts agree that ex-President Arthur's illness is of the most seri ous character. 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