The News and Observe.*.
VOL. XXXVIII. NO. 27.
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THE MONEY QUESTION
BLAND SAYS IT WILL UK TIIK
ONLY iS-.HK IN THE NEAT
CAMPAIGN.
FREE SILVER IVIEN MAY BOLT.
Mr. llland Declare* Thai They Will
Snppori no Candidate who i* not a
Pronounced I'.ee Silver Man---He
Relieve* * hat a Free Silver Platform
and a flood Candidate Would Sweep
the Country-—The Fred Dousla-s
Matter Mu h Di-enssed.
Washington, I) C., Feb. 22.
Senator Bland is talking in a very
plain and inlependant manner. Speak
ing of the contest in 1890, he said yes
terday :
“There will be anew alignment of par
ties n the next Presidential campaign,”
said Representative Bland, of Missouri,
yesterday -‘The free silver men intend
to get togethor and nominate a man who
reflects ih*ir sentiments.”
“Suppose,” it was suggested, “that
after a contest at the next Democratic
convention, a candidate should be se
leeted who is opposed to free silver,
what would you and other gentlemen
who enteitain views on this subject siuu
lar to your*, do in that cast 3 t”
“We would not support him.”
“But suppose ho was the party nomi
nee ?”
“There is nothing,” replied Mr Bland,
“to prevent as rn «nv tickets being put
in the iielil as is desired; and the free sil
ver men would have theirs.”
“Suppose oue party nominated a gold
monometal'sts, and the other acuidi
date who was inclined to be friendly to
free silver, but who did not stand square
ly on such ap at form. What then V
“We want no half-way candidate. We
want a free coinage man or nobody.”
“You thi> k, then, that the money
question will be the overshadowing issue
in the next ctampagn ?”
“It will lx? the only issue. It ought to
have been the principal issue two years
ago, hut wo were then just emerging
from the shadow of sectionalism and the
force bill, and it was no time to divide
on financial questions. But that time
has now arrived, and the next contest
will be waged between the free coinage
men and these who oppose that prop ) i
tion. Party linos will be obliterated,
and this will be the one thing which will
divide the voters ot the country.”
* * *
The death of Fred. Douglass has
brought forth many expressions of the
value of his services to the race, Until
he married a white wife, he was univer
sally esteemed here. That marriage lost
him the friendship < f many of his own
race and most white men. He made no
secret ot his belief in inter marriage, so
cial equality, and miscegenation. He
carried this idea so far that he directed
that his body be carried to Rochoster,
N. Y., for interment because there is no
distinction made in that cemetery on ac
count of race or color.
* * *
All the talk here is about tin adjourn
ment of the North Carolina Legist dure
I in honor of Fred Douglass yesterday.
I Harry Skinner, in answer to question,
I “Why did you and Butler leave at this
Itimef” said: “We did not know Doug
■a*s was going to die.” Butler said: “1
■think there must be a mistake ”
I* * *
Indications now point to the selection
of Senator liausom, of North Carolina,
for the Mexican mission, says to-day’s
Post.
A prominent Southern Senator who
was at the White House yesterday morn
ing, reported to some of his colleagues
upon his arrival at the capitol that the
President had expressed his preference
for the North Carolina Senator in con
nection with the vacant, mission. This
information was received with universal
expressions of p'easure and oommeuda
tion. Other Senators added cotifirma- i
tion to the report, although not in such
definite fashion.
* * *
To day’s Post says: Two Senators elect
from adj titling States were on the floor
of the S uato yesterday Marion Butler,
of North Caroliuia, and Gov. Tillman,
of South Carolina The la* ter was under
the escort of Senator Irby, but the for
mer drifted by himself, lie fell at once,
almost literally into the hauds of the
Populists, among whom his presence
caused great rejoicing.
Mr. Butter is a young man, with a !
heavy shock of ha r, and with a black
beard tpunned to a poiuf. He has a
meek and placid countenance, like a Y
M. C. A young man, and his voice- is a
good dial smoother than moonshine
whisk* y. As soon ns he appeared on
the floor and his name became known,
tl ' Populist Senators ll eked around
him with words of welcome. Mr. Allen,
of Nebraska, Mr. Stewa r s, of Nevada,
and Mr. Pefifer, of Kansas, were j
stuck to him like flies to a sugar barrel,
for new Populist Senators are uot gath
emi in large crojvs, and wheu one
falls to the ground in the political i
orchard, he is a rare pri/.\ It was Mr.
Peffer, however, who was mast persist
ent in his attentions, lie inducted Mr.
Butler into the mysteries of the cloak
rooms, then carried him in triumph
down stairs to lunch, and Anally made i
a circuit of the Senate Chamber, intro j
ducing him to all of his future col- j
leagues.
r It may U\ perhaps, interesting to
note tho Yr Butler will sit upon the
Republican sale. The Republicans
showed him a great deal of attention j
yesterday, for his vote may be needed
by them in the n* xt Senate.
Washington's greatest morning daily,
• The Post, has ju>t added to its already
j magnificent equipment a new three
! decked Sjoll press. This is the latest
1 and most perfect press made. It has a
I capacity of 24,000 teu-paee papers, or
! 16.000 twenty page papers per hour. All
j of which come from the press folded and
ready to be bundled for the mails. To
one not familiar with the fast presses,
this great printing machine is an almost
| inconceivable thing. At one end
i the white paper is unwound from
! a huge roll, and at the other the
printed and folded papers are passed out
lat the rate of 400 per minute. It takes
a small fortune to own such a Dress, as
the cost of same was about #40,000 This
great investment was made necessary by
the exigencies of increasing business in
j both the daily and weekly editions of the
Post. Iu these times, when all sorts of
business are so immediately affected by
national legislation, people all over the
country are awakening to the necessity
of taking a newspaper printed at the
! Capital, and containing the fullest legis
j lativenews.
♦ * *
Representative Livingston, ol Georgia,
who is also a strong advocate of the free
coinage of silver, agrees with Mr Bland
I that the silver question will be the ques
! tion of prime importance before the
country next year. He insists that the
silver men will nominate a candidate of
their own, but he does not believe that
this will be doue until after a Democrat
ic convention shall have nominated a
Candida* e opposed to free silver.
“*f we went into the Democratic con
vention,” he continued, “we would have
to be bout.d by the convention’s action.
Our presence there would commit us to
such a result, and we could uot afford to
bolt. For that reason 1 thmk the free
silver men will nominate independently
of the two old parties.”
“Do you think you can elect a candi
date standing on such a platform if his
opponent lx* drametrieally opposed to
such views?”
“1 do; and I believe he would sweep
the country. Such a candidate would
cany New York State. I'll bo? a thou
sand dollars on it.”
* * *
Miss Easdale Shaw, of Rockingham,
who has been here for two months, tak
ine lessons in art, returned home to
day.
WORK or TUB FIRE FIEND.
Time Women Hu mod and SIOO,OOO
ot Property Swept Away.
Hot Springs, Ark., Feb 22.— Fire
broke out in the Ledgerwood Bakery, on
Ouachita Avenue, at 4 a m.
It is in the southern part of the city,
where the boarding houses abouud, and
in an hour three women had been burn
ed to death, six boarding houses, several
stores and fifteen cottages, all worth
SIOO,OOO, had been swept away. The
dead are: Mrs. Laura Scammon, Mrs
Henry J. McLeod, Austino Stivetto, col
ored.
Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Browson, of
Macon, Mo, Mrs. Peacock, and others
wereinjure'% none dang* rm-ly.
A strong wind fanned the flames, but
prevented them fiom moving in the
direction of the big hotels and bath
houses. The streets coveted by the lire
were Guachita Avenue, where it origi
nated, Scaly, Malvern, Woodbine and
Orange.
The Ledgeerwood bakery was a frame
j building on the second story of which
Mrs. Gammon had furnished apartments.
Charles ledgerwood first saw th« flames
and in his efforts to extinguish them
i neglected to warn people in the neigh
i borhood.
Nothing was heard of Mrs. Scammon
until the tire was over, w hen her bones
were found in the ashes of her house
Mrs. McLeod was a guest of the La Clede
boarding house. She was aroused and
with her husband started out of the house,
but before reaching the do« -r remembered
; some jewelry, and returned for it,
against the advice of her husband.
When she started back she found her
way blocked by the flames. Her husband
tried to reach her, and almost lost his
life in the effort. She endeavored to
rush through the fl imes but fell down in
the midst and perished.
The remains of the colored woman
were found in a partly burned room in
the same house.
Mr. and Mrs Brownson, of Missouri,
had a thrilling escape. They lived on
the third floor of the Ouohita boarding
house and when aroused found the house
wrapped in flames. Escape by the stair i
way was cut off. They rushed to the |
windows and cried to the people below
for help, but none could be given I
them. Mrs. Brow nson tied several sheets i
and blankets together, making a rope j
long enough to reach down to the window |
below. She went dowm first, entered the j
second floor window and escaped by a
back stairway. When her husband !
reached the second floor the stairway w.is
blocked bv flames and he had to jump i
He received severe bruises and the wo j
man was badly lacerated in sliding down ;
the rope.
Twenty eight buildings were burned,
including fifteen cottages of an aggro
gate value of $25 000 The boarding
houses destroyed are the Ouachita, llii
uois. Laclede, Missouri and Blooming
ton. Each of these were worth $5,000
with contend. The other losses are the
E. Randolph, residence, $0,000; the
Tennessee stables, the West House, j
worth #5.00 ; E Joplins, grocery, #5,- ;
000; It. L. Williams, store and building i
$13,000; H. M. Hudgins, residence, #lO,- j
000
Three hundred meu, women and ehil- :
dreu were driven to oth* r quarters for
lodgiug and most of them lost all their
clothing.
RALEIGH, N. C., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1895.
THE DAY IN CONGRESS
LITTLE OF INTEREST DONE IN
EITHER THE HOUSE OR
THE SENATE.
APPROPRIATION BILL CONSIDERED
Many Small Matter* Hurried Through
In Order to Complete Consideration
of Appropriation Rills Before Ad
journment —The Deficiency Appro
priation II II Discussed iu the ilou-e
and the Indian Appropriation lilll
in the Senate.
Washington, D. 0., Feb, 22.—The
House of Representatives observed
Washington’s birthday by meeting an
hour earlier than usual.
At 11 o’clock when Chaplaiu Bagby
invoked divine blessing there were about
a score of members present, but this at
tendance was rapidly increased, and
while business was being considered
under requests for unanmous consent,
probably 100 were iu their seats.
The Senate concurrent resolution ex
pressing the gratification of Congress at
the high honois paid the late Mimstsr
Gray by the government of Mexico was
laid before the House and agreed to.
Martin (Democrat, of lud.), asked
unanimous consent that the rule ad
journing the Friday night pension ses
sions at 10;30 be so modified for 1o
night as to fix the hour at 13 o’clock.
He said there w ere a large number of ;
Senate bills on the calendar that had not j
been acted on, and wanted the extension
of time in which to consider them Mr j
Jones (Democrat, of Virginia) objected
The House in Committee of the Whole, j
resumed consideration of the general de
ficiency appropriation bill for the cur
rent j ear.
The bill had not been disposed of at 5 ;
o'clock when, under the rule, a recess
was taken until 8 p. m
There were two matters which gave
rise to extended debate. The first was
i the paragraph appropriation of $140,000
| to bo paid by the At torney General for
, j expenses in enforcing the orders of Uni
I ted States Courts for the protection of
- i property in tho hands of receivers during
i-the railroad strikes of last summer.
This was antagoniz 'd by Livingston
and Boatner, and criticized by Mr.
j Breckinridge, in charge of the bill, and
t advoca'ed by Mr. Cannon, Republican,
of Illinois; Mr Henderson, Republican,
of lowa, and Mr. Sayers.
An amendment was agreed to on mo
tion by Mr. Baker, Republican, of New
Hampshire, directing the Attorney Gen
eral to report in detail to Congress the
disbursements under the appropriation,
and in that form the item remained in
the bill.
The other matter whs a proposition to
p:-y Mr. Jasper Blackburn salary as a
representative for a Louisiana district
from March 4, 1867, to April 16, 1868.
! This led to a long discussion on a point
i of order as to whether or not a vacancy
j existed iu the district for that period,
j inasmuch as the State was not given
| representation in Congress under the
reconstruction acts, until tho latter
date. The ora3- Ament was ruled cut.
There was considerable discussion in
the eo rse o: the session aUo regarding
the policy of paying certain emph yts
of the Home for exit a and special set
vices ov\r and alove the aviaries fixed.
Mr. Cannon (Rep.), of 11 icois, took
the ground that if it were necessary or
desirable to make these appropriations
in order to equalize the salaries of th*se
employes of the House, who. he said,
i were the best paid meu in the govern
ment employ , except the employes of the
Seuate, tho House ,-h uld take a day or
i two and re arrange the whole Ist.
B ‘fore taking she recess at 5 o’clock,
the Hou.-e passed the Senate bill post
poning, at the request of Great Britain,
the enforcement of the international reg
ulations of August, 1830, to prevent coi
lidons at sea.
At 8 o’clock tho House r<»-.isseuibled
j for a session of two :*nd one half hours,
i to bo devoted to the consideration ot
j private pc? giou bills
Aboir s \ty members were pres* nt at
the eVening session of the House and a
dozen private pension bills were dis
posed < i.
I Colorado Senator* Fight Viciously. j
Denver Colorado, Feb. 22 A dis
i graceful row occurred it) th* Stare Sen- i
; ate to-day. Senator Mills, in the course I
: of debate called Senator Peace a liar. !
I Mills then threw a paper weight at Peace j
and the Senators clinched and fought!
viciously. The result was four black
eyes and a lively flow- of blood. The con
testants were finally separated. Tee I
Seuate ordered an investigation of ttie !
fracas and adjourned.
Died In Older to Free His Wife.
St Joseph, Mo., Feb 22 -B. J. Mil
hou-e, a stock raiser, living near here,
yesterday had his wife arrested on a
charge of bigamy. To-day he committed
suicide, leaving a letter in which he de
dared that Le took his own life in order
that his w ife might l>e free to live w ith
the man she had married in violation of !
the ’aw.
Dover, Ik I , Feb. 22. -D*+ pile the
fact that to day was a holiday, the
General Assembly remained in session
and took oue vote on the senatorial
question. There was no change except
the slight changes made by absent mem
bers. The vote was:
Higgins, 7; Addicks, 6; Massey, 3; I
Wolcott, 7; Martin, 2; Tunnel!. 1; Bav
ard, X. Absent. 8.
THE DAY IN THE SEN ATE.
A Further Consideration of the Indian
A ppropiiation Hill.
Washington, D. C , Feb. 22.—Was V
; ingtou's birthday furnished the staple of
the chaplains opening pryer in the inn
ate to-day. His petition was that the
: influence of that noble character should
; transmute the life and character of every
' American boy and rain in ibis and all
future times.
Mr. Gorman made auother proposition
I that there should be a night session on
; Tuesday for the oonsideraiton of bills on
; the calendar not objected to each Sen
i ator to have an opportunity to call up
| one bill. It was also acceded to.
The Senate then proceeded with the
! consideration of the Indian Appropria
j tion Bill and the remainder of the day’s
j session was taken up almost exclusively
| with the consideration of that bill.
When the Senate adjourned at 5.35
: the appropriation bill (after time days
being devoted to it) was tar from tin
i ished, and a proposition that the final
vote be taken upon it before adjourn
ment to morrow (requiring unanimous
consent) was promptly negatived with
an objection from Mr. Chandler.
A prior preparation that the vote
should bo taken at 3 p. m. tomorrow has
been defeated by simultaneous objection
from Mr. Peffer, and from Mr. Petti
grew.
The latter spoke of an attempt that
was to bo made at that hour to get up
the railroad pooling bill and to sit it out
—holding sessions tomorrow and Sun
day. He gave notice that as soon as the
Indian Appropriation bill was disposed
of legitimately he would interpose delay
in every way possible, and that the pool
ing bill would not become a law at this
session of Congress if he could prevent
it. much less would it be considered on
Sunday.
With business matters in this very un
satisfactory position, and notwithstand
ing a warning from Mr. Call-in charge
of the Indian Appropriation bill-that if
that bill was not passed to-night or to
morrow, some of the great appropriation j
bills would fail, the Senate quietly pro
ceeded to the consideration of executive
business and at 5:35 adjourned.
The Senate to day confirmed the nom- j
iuations of Erskine M. Ross, of Cali for
ilia, to be United States Circuit Judge j
for the Ninth judicial circuit, and Gideon
D. Buifz, Associate Justice of the Su
preme Court of New Mexico.
TROUBLE AMONG THE I»DI\S.
A I ight Hrewius in their Press Asso-
elation now in Session.
j Kansas Citv, Mo., Feb, 22.—What
. j was probably the first gun in the inevita
. ; ble battle between the New Third Party
being formed in Washington and the
i straigiitout Populists, was fired here to
day when the fourth annual meeting of
> the National Reform Pres* Association
[ began in the Centropolis Hotel.
The association is formed of the edi
j tors of the Populist papers in the United
j States. Representatives of 1,500 papers
j are at the meeting. A dozen of them
are women.
i The trouble start-d when Mr. Clai
> borne, of Kansas, in a brief speech upon
• “How can we get reliable telegraphic
news iudencLdeni; o! the monopolistic,
plutoeraHr? pn r- nsAoc'.’tiun,” reflected
upon the honesty of H. !’ IVrbeneek,
chairman <‘f the National i’ Com
mittee. The speaker w. t! : applauded.
This presages the fight which is sure to
come before the meeting adjourns be
■ tween the friends and enemies of Tau
beneck.
Some of the leaders of the Populist
party, among them Dr S M. McLatbn,
iditorof to T« peka Advocate, accuse
Taubeneck of chaining to betray the
Populist party into tho bands of anew
third par y called the silver party. Tan
be-nock is also accused of w anting to
j side-track the old Omaha platform, on
j which the Populist party has fought.
| and substitute a ilvor platform
The association decided to establish a
new daily paper in this city, to be the
nations' organ of Populism. The paper
wi l be under the editorial management
of Paul J. Dixon, of the Missouri Wot Id,
of Chi lieothe, Mo., and the plate service
| and syndicate letters of the association
| under the charge of S. W. V organ, of!
i Hardy, Ark., will also bo issued from
; here.
It is also intended to continue the puV
i lication of the National Reformer, now
| the organ of the association, and Mor-
I gun’s bu.-z-saw. in this city. The c«»n
--i vectic.u w 11 undoubtedly pass a resolu-
I tion calling for the removal of the ns- !
j fiuiirtl committee headquarters fr in
| Washington to some Western city. This
; was decided at a caucus of the executive
I committee and leaders of the association
j this morning.
Kansas City, Omaha, Topeka and St. j
i Joseph are candidates.
A bureau of press information will be
established in Washington. The chief
! point of discussion is the position in
| which the silver question should be j
placed iu the platform next year. Many
are iu favor of making silver the only
issue of the. party in the next campaign.
The association, however, will probably
insist upon the entire Omaha platform.
Taubeneck, Weaver and others are in
favor of confining the i-s t 's tothes.lver
on-position in defence f>» the proposed
silver party, now hieing f «r.n> d among
Washington Senators aid representa
tives and claim to in- assured of the.
abandonment of the old parties by over
150 representatives and Senators in eon- j
gr«-ss
Denison, Texas, Feb. 23 —Hunt, the
murderer who was to have Iweu hanged j
here to day, escaped the gallows at the j
last moment, the Governor having com
muted his sentence to life imprisonment. '
COTTON CROP REPORT
CAUSES FOR EXISTING DEPRES
SION AND REMEDIES TO
BE APPLIED.
BAD CONDITION OF THE FARMERS.
Overproduction Conceded to l«> the
Proximate Cause of the Present l.ow
Price-Want of the Consumer Fixes
the tmountof Raw Material Used—
Two-third* of Cotton Crop Exported
Effect of Futures and Gold Export*
on the Price.
Washington, D. C., Feb. 22. Sena-
I tor George, Chairman of the Senate Com
mittee on Agriculture, has made are
port to the Senate on the condition of
it lie cotton crop, the causes for existing
depression and the remedies that should
be applied. The investigation was made
under authority of a Senate resolution
jof April 19, 1892. Ihe cotton report is
divided into five parts, the first part
being devo ed to the financial condition
of the producers of cotton, from which
it appears, first, that generally the
j financial condition of farmers is * bad.
a very large pereoutage insolv
ent, and that very few indeed
are substantially increasing in the
possession of property. Second, that
with the prices prevailing in the years
18i»t 1(2 93 in nearly every part of the
j cotton producing region the cost of pro
duction equaled, if it did not exceed, the
value of the cotton. The result has been
| to produce wide-spread discontent among
e >iton producers and a disposition tod s
credit their old time conservative meth
j ods and to induce a to »ready acceptance
of plausible theories for relief
With regard to the cans*s of the low
prices the report says: “It is conceded
I that the obvious, apparent and
proximate cause is overproduction.
Since, in the main, with deviations
produced by abnormal conditions, price
is regulated by supply and demand—a full
supply with relatively diminished supply
bringing low prices, and a great ami ac
tive d* mind with relatively diminish! d
supply bringing higher prices—wh-ue
th re is an annual it creasing supply there
ought also to be, to maintain prices, an
j annual iucrea-iug demand of which
j statistics are produced to overthrow the
j the theory of overproduction being the
j the cause of the low price, the surplus ]
j in America and Europe being less thau !
|in 1800. Concluding this part of tho re
port, tie committee says:
“It is the effective wants of the uLi
i mate consumer which fix*s the amount
l o' the demand for the raw' cotton. If
there w r as not a cotton factory in the
i United States, and foreign cotton nrinu
facturers were admitted free of duty and
I S"M at a <o-t no higher than is* now
I charged for cotton go ds, there would
| mu, t*?.one pound less consumed in the
i United States than at present. If such
goods w* re admitted at a lower j rice
consumption would bo advanced.
So that the real < fleetivc home
I market for the raw cotton, wherevt r |
manufactured, is in the consumptive
power of the people. Who ver takes j
the cotton from the farmers and gives ■
it in a manufactured state to the consu j
! mers at the lowest added eos% is a bene I
! filial agent, boih to the consumer and j
: producer, by increasing consumption and |
! preventing a surplus. Whoever and '
; what' ver increases this additional inter i
mediate charge reduces consumption and !
it jurcs both producer and consumer.”
“Futures’* auil Low Prices.
The curious extent to which dealing !
in “futuies” has attained in Into years {
is also set as another cause contributing j
to low prices. Much testimony on this I
! s'Jbji et was taken by the committee. An :
j elaborate argument is made to show the
power of Congress to deal w ith tin's sub j
jeet and control or suppress if. Having j
establish* d this fact to its own satisfae |
f ion, the committee’s report continues:!
“It would seem to require no argu
ment to show the propriety of th.* exer
cise power if only the result would be to
restore to the public at. large the free I
and untrammelled right of buying and
selling, and thus destroy an illegal
monopoly (cotton exchange) confined to !
the members of two corporations and to
tbe membership of which only a few can
be admitted, and these oily by tbe seiec I
tion of the corporation* themselves.
“Two-thirds of the cotton crop is ex J
potted. These exportatio 4pins a most
important part in the regulation of our
foreign exchanges aval contributes very
largely to the maintenance of our finan
cial system of securing to us favorable
exchanges The higher, therefore, the
price of the export the greater the value
of our foreign trade iu bringing larger
wealth to our country. In this view it
is the manifest iuttnst of the whole
country that all arrangements, customs
of trade, which depress tho price of cot
ton, should be abolished. Cotton raising
is the principal business of at least nine
States, the people of which are. in the
main, from many causes, unable to
eh >uge to other business for many years
to come. To these people specially,
shown by the evidence we report, to be in
bad financial plight, as we have de
scribe, it is a high duty of the common
government of the whole country, that
it shall use its power to prevent depres
sion iu the price of their great staple by
the tricks, devtoes and artifle s of gam
biers in human labor, as we have shown
these dealers to be.”
The committee concludes this part of
its report by stating its conviction to be
that whilst these dealings ia futures can
not. for any long period control absolute
ly the priev of cotton independent of the
supply and demand, yet they clearly
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
«unetimes abnormally produce too low
| rices, as well as high prices, as is ad
mitted by then advocates, for a tettijxir
»ry period But generally they depress
to a considerable extent prices, and that
Congress not only has the power to abol
ish them, but it is in duty bound to do so
The Export of Gold.
Under part four the demonetisation of
silver is discussed, this being a cause for
the low price of cot tour in the estimation
of the committee, as more potent than
any. There are many printed pages of
arguments in favor of the rehabilitation
of silver and the prevention thereby of
falling prices by the opposition of gold.
The committee also finds that the im
portation of gold from Europe other than
by the regular commercial methods tends
to depress the price of cotton as it les
sens the amount of money in the market
which fixes the price of cotton.
The report concludes with a division
devoted to remedial legislation The
conclusions reached by Mr. George,
•chairman of the committee, are non
con cum d in by his Republican associ
ates His treat, remedy is the rcmonetix
atom of silver, but he admits there is no
immediate prospect for its realisation.
Other remedies suggested by the re
port are the re|xvil iff the duty
on cotton manufacturing machinery,
especially spinning machinery, the ne
eomplishment of which, the report
admits, is unlikely. After viewing all
sides of the question the report says that
it will be found impossible to forecast
with certainty the future iu all phases
of the cotton problem, but it seems that,
the following may be received with some
confidence.
First—Considering soil and climate,
j industry and skill of the pc* pic, the
I American cotton raiser has the advant-
I age over all others, and in the sharp
j competition in the future he will be tho
: most successful.
Second, that as the old high prices are
j not to be expected, the American cotton
raisers may so generally diversify their
crops with others suited to the soil and
climate as to supply most of their wants,
and to that extent secure to themselves
immunity from the evils of low prices.
Third, such diversification would tend
to the prosperity of cotton farmers in
that it will facilitate the elnngc now
absolutely m ces-ary from tho expensive
system of crer it w hereby supplies pur
chased will be cheaper, and the pressure
coming from debt to s* 11 on a low mar
ket will be !«ss< ned
Fourth, that if general prices shall
i continue low after the change to low
I prices shall become permanent, and after
the distress coming from falling prices
shall in a measure pass away, those who
have escap-d ruin or who shall he re
lieved by a settlement of their old debt,
may adjust themselves to those condi
tions and have a new r prosperity.
JOHN L ON~TsPRKE.
ll** .WakesTitiiitfH Lively in Florida and
hi* Company Goes to Piece*.
Jacksonville, Fli., Feb 23. - John I.
Sullivan play* d here last night in “A
True American,” and the box office re
c ipts w ere about SI,OOO.
After the performance he took in tho
to < n and proceed* d to celebrate in tbe
style peculiar to himself. Ilis ty mpany
was bwtked for Mason tonight and
should have left here at 11 o’clock last
night, but the Boston boy was having
too good a time and flatly refused to go
and said he would go this morning. It
was the same thing over again when the
early train left to-day, and John f. spent
the day taking in tho different saloons
in a carriage and making the streets
lively generally.
Members of his company this morn
ing decided that they have had enough
of the ex-slugger’s continuous and darn
aging sprees, and are now hustling
around trying to get back to New York
at reduced rates. Bobby Mark, tbe
eouudian, stated to day that this thing
has ls**-n done all along tho route, and
that Sullivan has corralled the receipts
and squandered them in riotous living,
leaving the company practically unpaid
for the past six weeks.
lie says they positively will not go
further with him, and will get to New
York from this point the best way they
can. W. J Wright, of the I’hmnix
Browning Company. Pittsburg, Sulli
van’s backer, Mated to-day that he will
take John 1,, with him to Cuba, and
afterwards to Spain, and next spring
will re organize tin* theatrical company
in Ne v York.
TflK SO! TIIEUVS E*I*LOVI.X.
j The Committee of Chief* Wailiiiu to
Confer with Vlee-Pres’t Baldwin.
! Washington, D. C., Feb. 33 —Tho
! committee of chiefs of railway labor
unions composing the board of federa
tion for the settlement of th*? wage dis
pute between the Southern Railway Com
pany and its employes, hold a meeting
to day.
It was decided to await the return
to Washington of Mr. Baldwin, third
vice-president of the compauy, before
making any further overtures Mr.
Baldwin has bad the war dispute in
charge, and as he is thoroughly familiar
with it, the committee desires to treat
with him Tho time of Mr. Baldwin’s
j return is uncertain.
Printing th** New llond*.
Washington, D. C., Feb. 33.—The
■ Bureau of Engraving and Priuting
, finished yesterday the plates for the
new bonds and at once began the print
ing if them. A force worked all last
night and to-day, although a public holi
day, a uew force is at work printing tbe
new bonds. Only about fifteen people
can be employed on this work at one
time. The force will work night and day
until the ta-k is completed.