The News and Observer
VOL. XXXVIII. NO. 35
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SILVER THE SLOGAN
MR. II ITCII NA VS THE DEVIO
CR ITS WILL NO.nl VATE A
Fit EE SILVER Vt NN.
SILVER SENTIMENT GROWING.
He Thinks That the Tariff is Relega
tea to the Background, and the
Money Question Must Be the Sole
Issue Mr Bailey, of Texas, Holds
a Different Vieiv and Refuses to
Stgu Bryan's Call—St.nator Ran
som’* Npi> utment to Mexico.
Washing ton, D. C., March 4
“The next Democratic convention,”
said Representative Hatch, of Missouri,
yesterday “will nominate a candidate
standing on a free silverplattorm, pledg
ed to the free and unlimited coinage of
silver.”
“Suppose the candidate should not
hold these vie vs and should decline to
stand upon such a platform, vrnat then?'
“I would not vote for him. I would
not support any candidate who did not
represent t his sentiment ”
“You thrnk, then, that the money
question will be the overshadowing issue
in the next Campaign.’’
“1 do; there will be no other issue. I
don’t care what other views our candi
date may hold upon any economic ques
tion. so long as he faithfully represents
the free silver sentiment. The tariff has
been relegated to the background. I care
not what our candidate’s position may be
upon the tariff question. It is an im
portant question, but it has been settled
for next few years, and it must now
be held in abeyance. The money ques
tion must be the sole is-ile.’'
“Will the silver men dominate the
next Democratic convention ?”
“The opposition to free silver in the
next convention,” replied Mr. Hatch
with a significant gesture “will be im
material. It will be in a hopeless mi
nority.”
“Is the silver senfiment growing ?”
“Every day. It is growing faster in
the East than in any other part of the
country. Its growth is especially notice
able in Pennsylvania, New York, and
New England.” i
“Do you tnink these States will send
delegates favorable to the nomination of
a free stiver man co the next Democratic j
convention ?"
“I think that the three Eastern Demo
crat ie States, New York, Connecticut,
and New Jersey will have a fair repre
sentation in their delegations of free
coinage men. It doesn’t matter so much
how the delegates from the safe Repub
lican States stand, for we have no nope ‘
of securing their electoral vote. But
you can’t state it too strongly; the next ;
Democratic candidate for the Presidency I
will be a man pledged to the free and .
unlimited use of silver.”
* * *
Representative Bailey, of Texas, is as
good a silver man as Representative Bry
an, of Nebraska, but he declines to
sigu the letter addressed to the pub j
lie, which Mr. Bryan is circulating
among Democratic members, and he
gives his rea ons for declining as fol
lows; “Bryan’s idea leans more to
what is expedient and further from
what is Democratic than I want to
go. It is his desire to pronounce
solely for free silver sixteen to one
and stop. Not a word of tariff, noth
ing of State banks. No announce
ment of any further principles of
government which should guide a
party. A party cannot succeed with
naught but silver. Man cannot live
by bread alone. Bryan’s idea is
practically only for a day. He be
lieves in using all the silver forces; Bern
oeratic, Republican and Populist. Ibe
lieve in being a Democrat and in having
a party of Democrats. If Populists and
Repulicans aiming at free silver can act
with us, I would be among the first to
welcome them. But I can’t surrender
my party’s faith to gain temporary aid.
It might do lor the present, but would
waste the paity and wreck the count v
in the future. ’ I look on Populism as an
equal public threat with Republicanism.
Carry Republican doctrines to their ulti
ma’ working out, and a few men would
own all the property of the country, and
the rest would be beggars. Carry Popu -
lism to i 1 s utmost expression and nobody
would have any property at all I'm
again both.’’
* * *
Saturday’s New York Sun says: “The
appointment of Matthew W. Ransom,
United States Senator from North Caro
lina, as American Minister to Mexico,
has not only givei great satisfaction to
h’s associates in the Senate, with whom
he is very popular, but it has also been
satisfactory to Southern Democrats
generally, who greet with pleasure the
selection of a foreign minister from their
ranks. The South is now represented in
the diplomatic service of the United
States by Mr. Eustis of Louisiana, Am
bassador to France; by Thomas F.
Bayard, of Delaware, Ambassador
to Great Britain; by Mr. Me
Kenzie of Kentucky, minister to
Peru; by ex-Congressman Breckinridge,
of Arkansas, minister to Russia; by Mr.
Taylor, of Alabama, minister to Spain;
by'Mr. Terrell, of Texas, minister to
Turkey; by Mr. Alexander, of North Car
olina. minister to Greece; by Mr. Young,
of Georgia, minister to Guatemala and
Honduras; by Mr. Smythe, of Virginia,
minister to Hayti; by Mr. McDonald, also
of Virginia, minister to Persia; by Mr.
Carutli, of Arkansas, minister to Por n
gal, and last, but by no means least, by
Mr. Willis, of Kentucky, minister to
Hawaii
“this list does not- take into account
Paramount Blount of Georgia, the
cracker-dust diplomatist, who represent
ed Mr. Cleveland in Hawaii.”
* * *
It is not now' possible to give any idea
of the committees on which the North
j Carolina members will be placed in the
l next Congress.
Mr. Settle and Mr. Skinner are the
| only probabilities for chairmanships.
! Mr. Skinner’s chances are very weak, but
| Mr. Settle will be given a committee of
! some prominence. I spoke to him of the
Committee on Claims, but he says he
wants something better.
As for Stroud, Shuford, Linney and
Pearson there is not a glimpse of a
chance, and the pen of the next Speaker
wit run over their names in as great
haste as it will pass over Woodard’s,
Shaw's and Lockhart’s.
It is not a bad prediction, however,
that while running over the committees
Mr. Settle's name may come first on that
easy going committee on lieu-on of
the Laws.
* * *
Romulus Z. Linney, of Tayloisville,
Congressman elect for the 54 th Congress,
was here yesterday and filed his creden
tials Ho left last night for Greens
boro.
* * *
Hon. Thomas Settle left last night for
Greensboro. He was called there by a
telegram, bearing the sad news of the
death of his mother. Much sympathy is
expressed for him to his bereavements.
*• * *
Mr. Graham Woodard, son of Con
gressman F. A. Woodard, of Wilson,
who has been quite sick, is much bet
ter.
* * *
Senator Ransom left to night for his
home in North Carolina. He will re
turn here before going to Mexico. It is
thought he will leave for Mexico about
the 20th inst.
W * *
All of the delegation were on the floor
last night and to-day at adjournment.
They all expect to be here several days
before returning to their respective
homes. Mr. Bunn will probably leave
tomojDw and will be accompanied by
Hon. James A Richards, Democratic
member from New Philadelphia, Ohio.
* * *
Mr. John Lamb, who has for the past
year been assistant clerk to the Commit
tee on Commerce of which Senator Ran
som is chairman, leaves to-morrow for
North Carolina Mr. Lamb has made
many friends while in his position and it
is with regret that they part with him.
NAVAL APPROPRIATION BILL.
Two Four Million Dollar Sea-Going
Battle-Ship-to be Constructed.
Washington, D. C., March 4.—The;
Naval Appropriation bill, which was j
early this morning, disposed of by the
House agreeing to all the amendments j
imposed by the Senate, authorizes the
Secretary of the Navy to elder into con
tracts for thr. construction of two sea
going eoast line battle-ships of about 10,-
000 tons displacement, to cost, exclusive
of armament, not exceeding four million
dollars each—-one of then to be built on
the Pacific coast.
It also au - homes the construction of
six light draft composite gun boats, of
about 1,000 tons displacement, and fixes
a limit of $230,000 for each—not more
than two to be built at one yard; and
three torpedo boats, to cost not exceed
ing $175,000 each—one to be built on
the Pacific coast, one on the Mississippi
river and on the Gnlf of Mexico.
A proviso directs the President, if he
finds that these ships cannot be built at
a fair prise, at the places mentioned, he
may authorize their construction else
where in the United States.
The bill carries an appropriation about
$2,000,000 less than when it passed the
House.
SHOT I ROM AMBUSII.
A Desperate Young Miner Kills the
Officer Who Arrested Illm.
Chattanooga. Tenn., March 4.—Con
stable Eugene Lynch was shot near Sod
dy, this county, this morning, from am
bush, by John Lemons, a desperate
young miner, who was living with a no
torious woman named Mossie Skyles.
The man and woman were tried before
a mat-is rate Saturday for assaulting
Lemon's own father and bound over to
court. The constable and his brother
Tom arrested :he pair yesterday but
Lemons escaped from the latter’s custody
and as the former was crossing a high
trestle this morning on the Cincinnati
Southern road with the woman, Lemons
poured a volky of buck-shot into his
breast from the bushes and was seen
later runnheg away with the Skyles wo
man
The officer is mortally wounded and a
prggo of citizens are scouring the coun
try. A heavy reward is offered for bis
capture, and the officers and blood
hounds have been sent from here vriih
the purpose of taking the murderer,
dtud or alive.
liit) ui 'i. man wuaaremarsably brave
officer ai.d leaves a Urge tanirlj.
COMING TO CAROLINA.
The President, With u Few Friends,
W ill Leave Washington To day.
Washington, D. C., March 4.—The
President will leave Washington for
North Carolina on the light-house tender
Violet, with Secretary Carlisle and a few
friends, nrobably to morrow. He has
no announcement of his departure,
but the Violet Lias reached the wharf
here, but Congress, with the exception
of a few members, is away.
No one would be surprised if he was
down the river to Florida, as the Viol* t
is coaled and provisioned, and the-duck
ing s vis >n has almost reached its end.
RALEIGH, N. C., TUESDAY. MARCH 5. 1895.
PASSED INTO HISTORY
THE FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS
HAS COMPLETED ITS WORK
AND ADJOURNED.
SPEAKER CRISP’S VALEDICTORY.
the Closing Scene in Both Houses
Marked by the Usual interesting In
cidents and Many Sad Good-Byes
are Said—The Galleries Filled With
Spectators and all the Corridors
Thronged V»ith People—'Vice-Presi
dent Stevenson’s Farewell Address.
Washington, D. C., March 4.—The
Fifty third Congress came to an end to
day with the usual interesting incidents.
In* the Senate the closing scene was
marked with the dignity which charac
terizes that body on formal occasions of
State, in the presence of as,mauy specta
tors as could possibly crowd into the gul
led* s. Hundreds and hundreds of others
were disappointed in their endeavors to
witness the end, and were obliged to
content themselves with standing in line
outside the entrance to the galleries.
That the House is actually as well as
constitutionally the popular branch of
the Legislature, was amply proved by
the flattering attendance of spectators, j
Those who failed to find seats there wan
dered over to the Senate, only to be
again disappointed, and the philosophic
ones contented them-elves with attend
ing the session of the Supreme Court.
A hearty cheer from a hundred mem
bers marked the closing scene in the
House as Speaker Crisp, with a sharp
rap of his gravel, declared the 53rd Con !
gress at an end The strain of the past
tow days was over, and the tired mem
b, '-celebrated their release from official
duty with hands, feet and lungs. It w s
an interesting scene, and the hundreds
of people in the crowded galleries en
joyed it to the fullest.
A theatrical management would have
been flattered at the attendance. As
early as 7 o'clock spectators began toap
pear, and it is worthy of remark that the
first comers were women. By 9 o'clock
galleries were comfortably filled; at 10
the la:l saat had been taken, flffid fifteen
minutes later people were throng ng the
corridors outside the gallery doors in the
hope that they might have the oppor
tunity of seeing the Dem eratio House
pass into history.
The members on the floor made merry
as the clock hands moved on rapidly .
towards the hour of adjournment. The)
great majority who were not coming
back to the sessions of the 54th Con-,
gress, passed among their fortunate and
unfortunate colleagues, saying good bye.
Little groups gathered here and there
and expressed their reto f that the agony ’
was over in tolling stories and explain-I
ing what the. intend* d to do as private
c tizens. U was a noisy, good p-itured
throng.
In The House.
The House adjourned at neon to day
in the presence of crowded galleries. It
had tak*n a recess this morning after
disposing of the Naval Appropriation
Bill. At 8 o'clock the House reassem
bled.
a Senate bill amending the River and '
Harbor Act of 1894 to widen the harbor I
at Brunswic , Ga., and appropriating
$301,000 tor *ac’i hundred fee’ of width
until it shall be 500 toet wide, was
passed
The poiut ui no quorum was made by
Mr. Simpsou against a bill called up by i
Mr. Livingston for the relief of Elias ;
May, of Atlanta. It was then 10 o’clock
and the galleries were crowded.
Mr. Dockery appealed to Mr. Simpson
to withdraw his poiut of order, but the
latter refused to do so.
While the House was waiting for a
quorum Mr. Springer asked consent to
allow members to print remarks on the
monetary proposi iou, but Mr. Hatch ob
jected.
Speaker Crisp announced Messrs.
Caterings, Outhwaite and Reed a com
mittee to inform the President it was
ready to adjourn.
At 11.15, the House took a recess for
fifteen minutes Upon assembling, at
11:30, Mr. Hatch asked unanimous con
sent to admit ladies on the floor. Mr. j
Crisp r. fused to put the question.
Mr Simpson spoke for the Populists,
expressing their appreciation of Mr.
Crisp’s fairness end kindness.
Mr. Crisp’s Valedictory.
The Speaker; “Representatives: 1 know |
you will pardon me if before perform
ing my last official act I give some ex
pression to what I feel, not only in re- j
g ird to the resolution which you hat e j
just so kindly adopted, but in respect to
the uniform kindness, courtesy and con
sideration with which I have been treated
by every member of this body. Persons
who are unacquainted wiih the methods
of proceedure here have but little con
eeption of the trials, the troubles and
the difficulties of legislation in so large
a body as this.
“This is the largest Congress that ever
assembled in the United States, consist
ing of 355 members besides the delegates.
These gentlemen are representative men.
They represent afl the shades of thought
and opinion in all p,r sos the grandest
cwintry under the sun (Applause).
Naturally, and indeed necessarily, under
such conditions, at times there is great
strife and contest upon the floor for the
maintenance o the particular views of
individuals and an earnest effort for the
consideration of particular measures.
“The difficulties of the presiding officer
arise largely from this,that whereas there
are perhaps 14,000 or 15,000 bill intro
duced in a congress, in the nature of
things but a small part of them can
have consideration. If all the masures
introduced could be considered and acted
upon by the House, then the duties of
the presiding 'officer aud of the members
would be rendered much less difficult,
I but where only a small portion of the
measures introduced can be consid
| ered, there is necessarily a strug
‘ gle to determine what these
; particular measures shall be, and from
! year to year this difficulty increases. The
; present occupant of the chair—and lie
; feels that in making this expression he
' but echoes the experience of everyone
! or his predecessors—had no conception
j of the diffieu’ties in* ident to the office of
I speaker. That be has been enabled in
any measure to discharge the duties of
this office to your satisfaction, is most
largely due to your kindness, to your
consideration, to your constant help.
| We are now about to go to our re
spective hom s. This is the third
session of this Congress. We have
been in se.-:sion continuously longer p v
haps than any Congress in the h.story
of the government. We h. ve been sur
rounded by difficulties and trials, but 1
am sure I can say not only for thi- b •*!>
in the aggregate, but for each member
of it, that however wo may have failed,
whatever <.ue shortcoming may be, we
have, acc ruing u> cur earnest e nvie
tions, endeavored to do that which was
for the best interests of thewhole Amer
ican people. (Applause).
“Again I thank you; and when I say
that I but feebly express my feelings.
Never in my life, no matter what may
be its future, can I expect to attain to to
high an office as that which I owe to
your kindness, to your consideration, to |
your partiality, lu laying down that
office—the greatest gratification that
could be afforded me is the evidence in
this resolution that I have discharged the i
duties of the place, in some degree, at
least, to the satisfaction of those gentle j
men to whom I owe the office and to
those gentlemen on the other si le wl o
have always extended to me the ut- |
most courtesy and kindness. And to
each and every member of the House, as !
he is now about to return to his home, I
exteud my heartfelt thanks, and express ■
the hope that he may be re-united with
his family and his friends in peace and :
happiness.”
When the clock marked the hour of
noon, Speaker Crisp announced that the j
53rd Congress was adjourned.
The correspondents in the press gal !
lery , r.ng :he d* xology. and were loudly j
applauded.
TIIE D U IN THE SEN ATE.
Nothing Don.: But the Signing ol Rills
by the Vice-President,
Washington, D. C., March 4.—The
last message which the President sent tc '
Congress, through the joint committee ;
which waited upon him to ask whether 1
he had any fur her communication to |
make to it, was a tendering of congratu- I
latton to Congress at. the conclusion of
its labors. Senator Voorheca, in deliver- i
lug that message, did so in a spirit of
humorous gravity w hich led, irresistibly,
to an outburst of laughter and applause
in the Senate chamber and iu the galler
ies packed with spectators.
In the farewell words of the Vice-
President testimony was borne to ihe
magnPuie of the questions determined
by the Senate during the Congress just
expiring and to the ability with which
they had been discussed. With the fall
of the gavel, he said, the great debates
and the important lcg ; slation of the
Fifty third Congress would pass into the
domain of history.
The Senate took a recess at 4:15 this j
morning, until 9 o’clock. When
business was resumed at the lat
ter hour six Senators were present j
—two on the Democratic side and j
four on the Republican—and there was 1
appareutly no business to be attended i
t >.
Another recess for a qr after of an
hour was ordt red, and matters drifted
along in that way until half past nine,
when Mr. Towle, chief clerk of the House
appeared, and announced that the
Speaker had signed the Naval bill (the
last but ohe of the appropriation bills)
and he delivered it to the Senate for the
signature of the vice President.
In another momeut the Vice Presi
dent announced that he had signed it,
ami it was immediattly returned to the
House, apd was by the House enrolling
committee carried to the White House
for the signature of the President.
The winding up scenes were enlivened
by a discussion between Senators Mor
gan and Gray upon the Bering Sea seal
fisheries question, and by a highly
amusing one between Senator Call and
Senators Gorman. Aldrich aud Wolcott
in reference to Mr. Call's resolution for
a special committee to investigate the
doings of the Louisiana or Honduras
Lottery Company.
In his indignation at the failure of his
proposition, Mr. Call did not hesitate at
declaring that the religious and moral
people of the country would supply the
expenses for the investigation which Mr.
Gonnan “desired to suppress.” And
when Mr. Aldrich intimated that Mr.
Call’s purpose was to affect politics in
Florida and not to promote morality, the
Florida Senator pronounced Mr. Ald
rich’s statement as untrue and
without, any warrant, oxc pt that
Senators “Desire to promote lotteries
in the United States. Mr • olcoti’s op
position was met with the assertion that
the Senator never tailed to speak in the
interest of a foreign corporation.
Mr. Call was in the full tide of pas
sionate declamation against those Sena
tors who opposed his resolution when the
vice-I’resident, rose and delivered his
farewell speech, and declared the Senate
adjourned without day.
His closing speech was loudly ap- ;
j plauded. “For the courtesy uniformly
j extended me for the resolution just
| adopted, my gratitude cannot be ex
pressed in words. 1 would do violence
to my feelings if I would express my
feelings for the gratitude for the way the
Senators have done their duty.”
As he uttered these words the Vice
| President let the gavel fall and the ses
-1 sion closed. The Senators whose terms
I expire to-day are: Messrs. Butler, Cam
! den, Carey, Coke of Texas, Dixon, Dolph,
j Higgins. Hinton, McPherson, Mandcr
j son, Martin, Power, Ransom, Shoup.
| Walsh, 'Washburn and Wilson.
The legislature-’of Delewaie and Idaho
i have not yet chi sen successors to Senn
! tois Shoup and Higgins.
V CAT \ N l» DOG FIGHT.
Fu ( and Complete Proceedings ol La t
Night's Caucuses.
Last night, the joint Republican caucus
was held in the House < nd, and the joint
Populist canons " •*. ’ - U in the s mate
end of the Capitol * >ne of the first
things done iu the Republican caucus
whs a motion by Peace, (colored), of
Vance, to appoint a committee to keep
the Nrws and Odserveu from get? ing
the proceedings of the caucus tor this
morning’s paper. Messrs. White, of
Bladen, and Duncan wc e appointed a
committee, but were slothful in spirit,
not serving the Lord; for they did not
not do their duty. But to the
proceedings: Moody made a motion that
the Republicans demand the Railroad
Commission; voted down. French, Rice
and Williams, of Craven, called the at
tention of Moody to the fact. that, he had
on Saturday night, before the joint com
mittee conceded the Railroad Com miss
si* nor to the Populists and demanded the
two Code Commissioners,and that now he
roust stick by it. French made a motion
to demand the two Commissioners which
was carried, and was quite willing to give
up the Riilroad Commissioner (which,
for quite a fimehas been considered con
ceded to the Populisms) in return for the j
passage of the new Wilmington Criminal !
Circuit yesserJay, which decision was ;
reached by the Populists on Saturday ;
night last. The other officvs were left
undisturbed, the list as printed iu Sun- ]
day’s News and Observeb remaing good.
The next question raised a rumpus: it
had been agreed by Senator Grant, Moody
and the Governor that the Governor
should appoint throe persons ea. h from
the Pops aud Pubs to fill vacancies on ;
the asylums at. Raleigh, Goldsboro and
Vo 'ganton. It was proposed yest rday j
afte’;*r'u : n committee and reiterated
last night in caucus that there should be j
six more appointed for each asylum so as j
to givethe Fusionists control. Moody said j
that the agreement was in good faith j
aud it should “go.” but the caucus said ;
“no,"onemanmaiutaiiiingihathehadll - :
teen others wqo w* u’d stand by him fer !
the six additional, and Moody was re? j
minded that he and Grant did not repre- J
sent the whole party. Moody flew into a !
rage and left the hall,mad all over, saying
“You won’t get the Code commission.” i
Dr. Abbott called attention to the chief i
of the Shell commis-ion whose moat the |
Populists wanted the first of next August;
when the term was out.
The committee was going backwards, j
and fortvards, and the Populists had j
been notified that the Republicans j
claimed the two Code commissioners and
were raising Cain over it. McGaskey
and Hamrick were disposed to
yield, McGaskey making a mot on
to that effect, but Fowler, Hoover, Forbes |
Paddison and others stood up for the j
Code Commissioners (Whitaker and ;
Guthrie having been agreed upon as the |
cake-takers). The Republican slate was 1
R. M. Douglass and Spencer Blackburn, j
or Holton. As an amendment to Me- !
Caskey’s motion, Mitchell offered a reso- |
lution to instruct the Populist com ;
mittee to go back and tell the 1
Republicans the Populists would yield !
only the clerk to the Code Commission, !
then Fleming offered a substitute for
the whole, which was carried with a rush
only two voting agaist it. It was this : i
A demand for an equal division ol ofti
cers iu dollars aud cents including all
offices from the beginning counting in
the Congressmen, Senators and Judges. 1
Up to now it was said the Republicans I
had the advantage by $121,000,
aud givirg them the two judge
ships and patronage (Cook being
the uiau for the Wilmington Circuit
the Populists taking all the res? would
put the Populists behind some $25,000,
some estimating it as high ass6o,ooo.
At the close, touching McGaskev’s mo
turn to surrender the Code Commis
sioners, Fowler and Forbes said they
would bolt the caucus rather than give
up the point and a hullaballoo was
created.
McGaskey said that the Republicans had
made this proposition, that whoever was
he d of the Penitentiary or Agricultural
Department should appoint subordinates
of the same party so that one party
might be responsible for the manage
mi nr. Kitchin, the arch-renegade, said
the Populist p -trl y would be held respou
sible for all blunders of this Legislature
and the Republican party kr ew that and
therefore the Republicans wanted the
spoils knowing the responsibility would
be upon the Populists—that the Popu
lis's ought to uo slowly. Kitehin’s
speech was heartily endorsed by the
caucus. It was resolved to draw a bill
to take charge of the penitentiary at
once, and Russell, Skiuner and Guth
rie were appointed to draw it
while on the Republican side it was
said that, the failure of the Insurance
Commissioner bill yesterday counted for
nothing as its defeat was desired to
make way for another which was pve
paring and which would be passed. 8 rue
other things happened more interesting
than important which are omitted here
for lack of space aud time.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
TIIE GORMAN CASE.
Mrs. Gorman's Statement Concerning
the Ti on file With Iter Ilnshand.
A reporter of the News av jserveb
; called at the residence of Mr. Maxwell
Gorman last evening and obtained from
Mr and Mrs. Gorman the following
; statements regarding the recent charges
against Mr. Gorman of beating his wife
and his little child who has since died.-
Mrs. Gorman was very emphatic in
| stating that Mr. Gorman uevt r struck or
in any way whatever hurt his young
child, while intoxicated; that he was de
votedly attached to him. As to the term
“wife beater,” applied to her Ir sband,
she was very indignant aud slated that
| he had never, at any time even at
tempted to chastise her; that they lived
very happily togetlmr and that not even
| a cross ward pass d between them ex
j cept when Mr. G- rman was so in toxica
j ted that he did rot know what he was
j doing; that at Mich times be sometimes
had .acted a little roughly towards her,
bug as to his ever having premeditated!}
j attempted to “beat” or “whip” her—
that was something he had never done.
she further stated that neither she nor
the child were taken to the hospital, and
that the baby had been sick over tw<?
weeks with ec/e La and milk crust, aorif
for over a week its life had been de
spaired of.
Mrs. Gorman further states that dur
ing the child’s illness Mr. Gorman had
been iu the habit of sitting up and nurs
ing it part of each night. Thursday
night he returned home iu au intoxi
cated condition aud Airs. Gorman, fear
ing that he might, in that condition, at
tempt to nurse the child and uninten
tionally hurt it in handliug it, sent a
telephone message to the station house
about 12 o'clock aud asked that an offi
cer be sent to take Mr. Gorman to the
station house and detain him until he
sobered up. Two officers shortly after
arrived at the house and Mr. Gorman
accompanied them to the station-house*
where he was kept until Saturday after
terni*on. Mrs. Gorman said she desired
him to be allowed to return home as
soon as sober and had no idea that the
Mayor could inflict such a severe penalty
on him.
Saturday afternoon, at 3 o’clock, their
baby was evidently dying and she sent
the Mayor word to that effect and asked
that Mr. Gorman be alio we*? to return
home. After considering the matter
some time and after many of Mr. Gor
man's friends had interceded with him.
the Mayor consented, upon payment of
costs to reverse the judgment. At 5
o'clock Saturday, about three Lours af
ter having been turned over to the sher
iff, he was released and got home in time
to see his little boy, their only child, die.
This is the version of it given by Gor
man’s friends. There is a very different
opinion, however, held by many, and an
olii< iai investigation into the case wiilbe
held a once and Gorman will probably
be indicted upon the charge of murder
ing his own child.
A HOT TILT THIS.
Warm Words Between President NVin*-
ston and Dr. Durham,
The Committee on Education consid
ered Senator Fortune’s bill to abolish the
appropriations to all State educational
institutions, and incidentally to wipe
out the State Geological Survey, and sat
down upon it in the most unanimous
mauner.
Quite a crowd of persons interested its
the matter before the committee heard
several interesting speeches and lively
tilts.
President Winston first made a strong
statement of the case from the stand
point of the university, aud he was fol
lowed by Congressman Harry Skinner in
au able defence of the Vniversify and
State education. Senator Moody then
made an eloquent appeal for these insti
tutions, aud at the end of his speech Mr.
Ewart moved that the bill be report fa
vorably. There was an almost unani
mous vote in favor of the motion, there
t»eing only two “nays.”
Senator Fortune spoke in defense of
his bill saying that he did not believe in
discriminating between educational in
stitutions, ami he either wanted to make
an appropriation to all of them or to
none.
The special committee that visited the
State Normal School recommended a
special appropriation of SIO,OOO a year
for two j ears for repairs and improve
ments. Dr. C. I). Mclver by special re
quest spoke to the committee on the
seh-»ol of which he is the haad.
W. N. Jones spoke against State aid to
the University. lie was frequently ques
tioned by Ewart, White and others. Dr.
Winston interrupted him saying: “1
want to correct a misapprehension. I
desire to deny these charges that the of
ficials of the University liave been run
nirg all over the State taking away
pupils from other institutions. These
charges are absolutely aud unqualifiedly
false.”
Dr. Columbus Durham, the leader of
the fight interrupted with; “Thecharges
are true. Will Dr. Winston deny writ
ing letters to students of other colleges
with a view to securing them for the
University?'’
I)r. Winston: “1 do. I presume that
some of theto letters have been written
to entrap me into some expression. But
I 1 ave been guarded in these replies.”
Then ensued a hot tilt between I)r.
Winston and Dr. Durham that ended
only when the committee adjourned.
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