The News and Observer.
VOL. XXXIX. NO. !08.
TSH3E tJKEST OMUtTiN OF « NMTI 01111111 DILI
MORGAN IS SARCASTIC
ALA.B SENATOR FAYS HIS
RESPECTS TO ENGLAND’S
AMBASSADOR.
BERING SEA WfUJNALS AWARD
i He Disca'sed the Liability of the
United States for Seizures of British
Ships in Bering Sea in 1890 and Crit
icised the Settlement of the President
•••Indulges in borne Plain Talk
About Sir Julian Panncefote and the
English People.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.—The feature
of the Senate to-day was a speech by
Senator Morgan, of Alabama, chairman
of the committee on foreign relations,
and a member of the Bering Sea trib
unal, upon a resolution offered by him
last week instructing the foreign rela
tions committee to investigate, the
question of the liability of the United
States for the seizures of British ships
in Bering Sea in 1890.
Mr. Morgan took the position in the
last Congress that the settlement of
the President, was neither wise nor
proper. His remarks on that occasion
were the subject of some sarcastic
comment from the British ambassador
here in the latter's official correspond
ence with LordflKimberly. That corre
spondence was printed recently from
the British Blue Book, and most of Mr.
Morgan’s speech to-day was devoted to
paying his respects to Sir Julian
Pauncefote. He quoted from Sir Ju
lian's report to Lord Kimberly that
Republicans, Populists and forty-four
Democrats had voted against the appro
priation and his comment attributing
the action of the House to the “neces
sity of party expediency.” Mr. Mor
gan declared eomtcmptuously that it
was getting to be the fashion abroad
to attribute everything that did not
please them to the “influence of party
politics.” He characterized Sir Ju
lian’s comments as “unjust"’ and “of
fensive” in the case of the House.
“But. not content with these reflec
tions on the House.” said Mr. Morgan,
“he refers to Senators by name in a
gratuitous and insulting manner. He
does this under the cover of the British
flag.”
After quoting Sir Julian’s comment
on his (Morgan.s) characterization of
some of the alleged British claimants
as “recalcitrant and rascally Ameri
cans,” he declared that the British am
bassador’s strictures were based on the
mistaken notion that the British navi
gation laws shoidd cover violations of
United States statutes.
Crimes against the decalogue could
not, he sai<Ll>e found in the Koran. He
denounced the action of the American
marauders in Bering Sea who had
placed themselves under the protec
tion of the British flag as guilty of sur
reptitious piracy, lie did not object
to the English Ambassador criticising
his course, either as Senator or as a
member of the Paris tribunal in his
private communications to his gov
ernment, but he emphatically protest
ed that he had no right to give his
criticism to the American papers in a
pamphlet and thus forestall reply.
Mr. Morgan was exceedingly ironical
in his reference to the indiscriminate
nature of the claims England had
bundled together and asked us tosettle
for a “ lump sum.”
The proposition to pay a “lump sum.
he said, ought to be too revolting to
lie on the Christian stomach of the
English Ambassador.
The correspondence laid before the
House. Mr. Morgan said, demonstrated
that there was no negotiation over the
alleged claims and evidently little in
vestigation. England had simply
jumped at the “lump sum” proposition
made by Secretary Gresham for the
settlement of claims that had neither
justice nor morality beyond the asser
tion set up. but palpably false, that
the award of the Paris tribunal made
it obligatory upon the United States to
satisfy any claims for damages which
Great Britain might make.
Mr. Morgan insisted that it was the
clear duty of the Senate to construe
the action of the President in an at
tempt to ride down the power of the
Senate in negotiating for the settle
ment of an international controversy
without its advice or consent.
At the conclusion of his speech,whieh
occupied two hours, Mr. Morgan asked
a vote on the adoption of his resolution
instructing the foreign affairs com
mittee to examine into and report the
liability of the United States to Great
Britain for the seizures. The resolu
tion was then read and is as follow s:
“Resolved, That the message of the
President, received by the Senate on
February 13, 1895, and his message read
in the Senate to-day (meaning Decem
ber 3), relating to the payment by the
United States of the claims of Great
Britain arising out of the Bering Sea
controversy, be referred to the Com
mitte on Foreign Relations, with in
structions that said committee exam
ine into the question of such liability
to Great Britain and the amount of, if
any liability on the part of Great
Britain or Canada arising out
of said controversy, and that said com*
mittte shall have authority to report
by bill or otherwise.”
The resolution was adopted without
a dissenting voice, and tin* Senate went
into executive session, and confirmed
the nomination of Rufus 11. Peckhain,
of New York, to Ik* associate justice
of the Supreme Court of the United
States; also W. E. Faison, of North
Carolina, to be solicitor of the State
Department. The Judiciary Commit
tee has agreed to report favorable the
nomination of judges Springer, Kil
gore. and Stuart.
Among the bills introduced in the
Senate to-day was one by Mr. Voor
liees (Indiana) granting a pension of
S2OO per month to the widow of the
late Secretary of State, General \V. Q.
Gresham.
Mr. Baker (Rep., Kansas) offered a
resolution which was agreed to, call
ing upon the President, if not. incom
patible with the public interest to
transmit to the Senate all documents
and correspondence at the State De
partment relating to the case of ex-
Consul John L. Waller, now under ar
rest in France.
By Senator Barr, to provide a terri
torial form of government, for Indian
Territory, with the usual staff of terri
torial officers, the territory to take the
name of Tndianola.
By Senator l’almer, giving a uniform
pension of SSO per month to all who
lost a hand or foot in the late war and
S6O to those who lost an entire limb.
By Senator Allen, disfranehisin any
citizen of the United States who shall
solicit or accept a title, patent of nobil
ity or degree of honor from a foreign
nation and to punish this act as a
crime by both fine and imprisonment.
At 3:57 p. m. the Senate adjourned.
THE DAY IN THE HOUSE.
WASHINGTON. Dee. 9. -The House
held another short session to-day,
and devoted most of its time to dis
cussing the appointment of House
officers.
Resolutions were presented by tin*
Republicans calling for the cor
respondence in the Waller ease, for
lists of pensioners who have been
stricken from the rolls since March 4,
1893, or reduced, and for Secretary
Smith’s reason for an order affecting
the action of the Land Office in con
nection with the perfecting of titles to
Pacific Railroad grant lands in Utah
and Nebraska, but all were objected to
by Democrats. An effort to have
.printed in the Record the memorial of
the National Wool Growers’ Associa
tion for higher rates met the same
fate.
ANOTHER BOND ISSUE LIKELY.
Heavy (told Withdrawals Expected
During the Next Two Months.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9. The state
ment is made by persons who are
among those best qualified to judge,
that in the absence of legislation to re
lieve the financial situation another
bond issue is altogether probable
within the next few months at the
furtherest. The present condition of
the exchange market and the commer
cial situation generally, it is said,point
unmistakably to further large with
drawals of gold, and unless something
is done to prevent the usual heavy ex
ports during January and February,
which, for the last two years, have
forced the issue of bonds to recoup the
depleted gold reserve, a similar situa
tion will confront the treasury before
the new year is far advanced.
The available cash balance in the
treasury to-day, including the reserve,
is approximately $175,500,000, and as
the government has realized from its
three* bond issues about $180,000,000, it
appears that but for these issues the
government, would now be without-one
dollar in the treasury and in addition
would have outstanding obligations
amounting to about $6,000.00. In the
meantime tie* excess of expenditures
over receipts amount t<» alniut $130,-
000,000.
The exports of gold during the last
four months have been as follows:
August, $16,007,000; September, $17,-
424,000; October, $2,105,000; Novem
ber, $16,000,000; so far during Decem
ber. $3,540,000; making a total of $55,-
796,000. Ho far this calendar year the
exports of gold amount to about $95,-
000,000. 11l 1*94, the exports amounted
to $101,819,924. From the best informa
tion obtainable ii is believed that the
present month will show a surplus of
at least $1,000,000, which will leave the
deficit of the fiscal year to January 1,
about $ 15,000,000.
It is expected that this amount will
not Ik* materially increased during the
remaining months of the fiscal year.
FIGII r IOK fHE INCOME TLX
lin Friends Now Rely «>n an Amend
ment to the Constitution.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9. Represen
tative Hall, of Missouri, w ho was one
of the most active advocates of the in
come-tax feature of the Wilson tariff
bill, is determined not to abandon the
fight for an income tax law. As a re
sult of a careful inquiry into the sub
ject, an amendment to the ( onstitution
has been prepared and introduced in
the House by Mr. Hail. It is to be
known as the sixteenth amendment,
and is as follows:
“All taxes, as well as duties, imposts
and excises, shall be uniform through
out the United States; provided that
all capitation taxes shall, and any other
tax may, be apportioned among the
several States according to their re
spective numbers, counting the whole
number of persons in each State, ex
cluding Indians not taxed.”
Such an amendment would remove
from clause 2 of section 2 and clause 4
of section 9 of article 1 of the Constitu
tion the inhibition against the imposi
tion of “direct taxes” unless levied ac
cording to the population in the re
spective States, the Supreme Court
having held that the income tax was a
direct tax.
“This amentment,” says Mr. Hall,
“leaves the construction of the uni
formity clause of the Constitution still
ojk*ii for consideration, but after con
sultation with some of the most emi
nent lawyers connected with the ad
ministration, T do not believe there w ill
be any difficulty in regard to that in
the future, and it seems unwise to at
tempt anything more than to get rid
of the antiquated and impolitic direct
tax clause upon which the Supreme
Court hung its decision.”
RALEIGH. N. C.. TUESDAY, DEC. 10, 1895.
DEMOCRATS ALREADY AT WAR.
And Tlieir Diflerence* on the Moaejr
Question Camel It.
WASHINGTON, I). C., Dec. 9. (Spe
cial.) —Mr. J. S. Cohen, who has been
the popular private secretary to Hoke
Smith, is shortly to be married to Miss
Iza Glenn, one of the loveliest young
women in Atlanta. He is one of the
cleverest newspaper men in Washing
ton-sensible, popular, capable.
* * *
The “old man” is in North Carolina
a-fishing, and Mrs. Cleveland gave her
first reception of the season Saturday
when she entertained the cabinet la
dies at lunch. The table was deco
rated with white camellias and white
chrysanthemums. A silver vase of
white camellias occupied the centre of
the table, and at each plate a chrysan
themum was laid. All the ladies of the
cabinet circle, except Miss Herbert,
were present at the luncheon. They
were Mrs. Gluey, Mrs. Carlisle, Mrs.
Lamont, Mrs. Hannon, Mrs. Wilson,
Mrs. lloke Smith and Miss Morton.
An open rupture lias already broken
out between some of the extreme free
silver men and the supporters of Presi
dent Cleveland’s financial policy.
Mr. Bailey, of Texas, went so far as
to go to Speaker Reed and enter a for
mal protest against the appointment
of Mr. Hatchings, of Mississippi, as one
of the minority members on the House
Committee on Rules. lie based his
protest on the ground that he could
not endorse the views to which Mr.
Catchings would like to commit the
Democratic party, and did not, there
fore, consider him a proper man to be
placed before the country as a leader
of the Democratic minority.
In this action Mr. Bailey had tin* sup
port of quite a number of Democratic
representatives, some of them men of
considerable prominence. Mr. Catch
ings declines to discuss the matter. He
has not asked Mr. Reed for a place on
the Committee on Rules or on any
other committee.
it is ascertained that the caucus com
mittee on committee assignments lias
selected Senator Frye, of Maine, for
the chairmanship of tin* committee on
commerce; Senator Morrill, of Ver
mont, for finance; Allison, of lowa, for
appropriations; Cullom, of Illinois, for
inter-State commerce; Quay, of Penn
sylvania. for public buildings and
grounds; McMillan, of Michigan, for
District of Columbia: Aldrich, of
Rhode Island, for rules; Hawley, of
Connecticut, for military affairs, and
Sherman, of Ohio, for foreign rela
tions. The Western Senators will he
assigned important chairmanships.
Dubois, o* Idaho, is to have public
lands; Pettigrew , of South Dakota, In
dian affairs, and Squire, of Washing
ton, coast defenses.
* * *
The following postmasters in North
Carolina were appointed to-day: Den
mark, Samuel Jeffrey, vice J. 11. Reed
resigned; Hiwassh?, T. C. Kilpatrick,
vice J. C. Green resigned, and Tom
Creek. M. V. Lackey, vice J. M. Hicks
resigned. *
* * *
Mr. Low, of New 1 York, introduced in
the House to-day a resolution direc
ting the Secretary of War to appoint a
board of engineers to examine and re
port as to the feasibility of a harbor of
refuge at Ca;ie Lookout or at some
point near Cape Hatteras.
* * *
Senator Don Cameron, of Pennsyl
sylvania, to-day announced formally
that he would be a candidate under
any circumstances for election. The
announcement took the form of a let
ter to Hon. J. S. McCarrel, of Har
risburg.
* * *
It was stated at the Treasury Depart-
Department to-day that Secretary Car
lisle was still at work on his annual
report, and that it would not likely be
ready to send to Congress before Wed
nesday or Thursday.
WORLD’* GREATEST AUCTION.
It Will Occur This Morning in lo*
l>eka« Kama*
TOPEKA, Kan., Dec. 9.—At 10 o’clock
to-morrow morning at Topeka will oc
cur the greatest auction the world has
ever known. At that hour J. B. John
son, special master in chancery, will
offer to the highest bidder for eash in
hand the entire system of the Atchi
son, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.
Nothing will he reserved of its 10,000
miles of track, its 2,000 locomotives, its
thousands upon thousands of cars, its
buildings, rights and franchises,
which, considered together, reach the
imperial value of $350,000,000.
Special Master Johnson will act as
auctioneer, and, as preliminary to re
ceiving bids, he will read the order of
sale, judgment of the court and other
legal documents, which will consume
something more than an hour. No one
will be allowed to bid unless he has
first deposited $500,000 in cash with
the special master as an evidence of
good faith.
Judge Henry (’. Caldwell will eome
to Topeka for the purpose of confirm
ing this sale
A SYM PATHETIC STRIKE.
Li vidol tin* llousesmiihs’unit Bridge
■nen’H Union.
NEW YORK, Dec. 9. Sympathetic
strikes, in aid of the Housesmiths’ and
Bridgemen’s Union in its contest with
the Iron League, were ordered out to
day, which took out 450 men employ
ed by the Jackson Architectural Iron
Works company, sub-contractors for
J. B. and J. M. Cornell. The buildings
involved include the Lexington avenue
Cable Railway power house, in 240th
street and Lexington avenue.
Yesterday was Michigan Day at the
Atlanta Exposition.
IS IT & BIG GAMBLE?
MV-'T r Rfoi K DROP IN AMERI
CAN TOR vrt’O COMPA
NY’S STOCK.
SufiiEBGDY CLEARED BIG MONEY
Commix u Stock X esterday Scored Ai
other Decline el 4 1-8 Per Cent,
Making the e' Drop Since ( riday’
Clo-iog 10 Per Cent— I he Preferred
Stock Went ( II a* Much a* Iti 7 8
Per Cent Since Friday--The Cutup*
nj’s Sint iiicui us to liiv « ruii«*.
NEW YORK,Dec. 9 The general
opinion in Wall street to-day was that
it is exceedingly fortunate for the
holders of the American Tobacco
other industrial stocks that the sensa
tional movement in the first named
came of a half holiday and not of a full
business day. As it was the drop in
the common of 11% per cent on Sat
urday as compared with the final
price of the previous day caused the
throwing over of large amounts of
investment stock in addition to im
mense lines of speculative held
stock.
To-day the common scored an addi
tional decline of 4% per cent, making
the net drop since Friday’s closing 16
per cent. The preferred ' stock
slumped 8% points to-day, making the
net loss since Friday 10% per cent.
The management claims that its
action in advertising the passage of
the dividend on the common stock w as
based upon conservatism, and that the
payment of a dividend out of borrowed
money would have rightly brought
censure upon the directors.
What the street says is that the im
portant decision of the bonid was com
municated to the security holders in a
maimer unprecedented in the memory
of the financial community. It does
not impute speculative motives on tin*
part of the management, but insists
that a brilliant speculative opportun
ity was afforded on account of the ex
tremely sudden news at a moment
when there was no chance to attempt
to relieve the inevitable heavy loss.
’The two Stock Exchange houses
which issued a call to the stockholders
to take action to displace the manage
ment, or, at any rate, to acquire a
voice in the Board, are Rolston A
Bass, and J. S. Bat*he & Co. In a cir
cular which they issued they say:
“To the Stockholders of the American
Tobacco Company;—-
“The recent remarkable develop
ments in the affairs of our company,
coupled with the persistent decline in
the price of your securities, leads us to
regard the present as an opportune
moment for the assertion of the rights
of the security holders. We believe
that a majority of the stock is to-day
in the hands of the general public,
and not represented on the Board of
Directors as at present constituted.
“We therefore ask the co-operation
of our fellow stock 1 * lders. with a view
to secure greater publicity and detail
in the company’s reports, and to en
force adequate representation on the
Board, Stockholders are requested to
communicate with either of ’ # un
dersigned, stating the amount of their
holdings and tlieir addresses.”
The circular giving reasons for pass
ing the dividend on the common
stock says:
“On account of the increasing volume
of the company's business and the ac
quisition during the year of new
plants and businesses, the company
requires more eash working capital
than heretofore.
“Therefore, in the judgment of its
management, it is to ihe interest of
the stockholders and proper for the
prudent prosecution of its growing
business that the sum necessary to
pay further dividends on its common
stock for this year be retained and ap
plied to working capital.”
Since its incorporation in 1890 the
American Tobacco Company had main
tained until the present time, 12 per
cent, annual dividends on $17,900,000 of
common and 8 per cent annual divi
dends on $11,935,000 of preferred
stock. 'The company has earned very
large profits almost uninterruptedly
and its latest balance sheet showed a
surplus. It has not been claimed, how
ever, that this surplus w as in eash. The
management has unquestionably
taken a step, that however pitiable to
the security holders will help immeas
urably in tiie fight with the outside to
hacco nin n nfaeturers.
The selling of the preferred stock
since Saturday morning has been due
partly to apprehension that the man
agement might, if necessary, for its
successful maintenance of the contest
with the outside plug tobacco people,
reduce or even suspend dividends on
that stock also. 'The interest that has
started a combination movement, of
the security holders against the pres
ent, management are still reticent be
yond asserting that strong protective
committee will be formed.
’The highest price touched by the
preferred stock this year was 116, on
August 16th. and the common sold at,
117 on May 27th. The low points
reached to-day, 90 for preferred and 63
for the common, are the lowest of the
year.
The payments on the trust’s common
stock the past five years has been:
Year ending
Dec. 31, 1890, 10 per cent $1,500,000
Dec. 31, 1891, 12 per cent 2,148,000
Dec. 31, 1892, 12 per cent 2,168,000
Dec. 31, 1893, 12 per cent 2,152,500
Dec. 31, 1894 12 per cent 2,148,000
Dec. 31, 1895, 12 per cent 2,148,000
'Total in six years $12,264,500
At the end of 1894 the balance sheet
stood:
ASSETS.
tures, manufacturedst mfvvy emfwy
Real estate, machinery, fixtures, leaf
tobacco, manufactured stock, operat
ing supply, patents, trade-marks,
etc $35 ; 255.295
Cash - 1,909,553
Bills receivable 1,535,716
'Total assets $38,700,395
LIABILITIES.
Preference dividend, due Pel).
6. 1895 $ 335.700
Common div idend, due Feb. 6.
1895 537.000
Accounts payable .’os,4tS
Accrued commissions 272,103
Advertisement fund 279,694
For income tax 101,388
Total $ 1,667,305
Capital preferred 11,935,000
Capital Common 17,900.000
Total liabilities $31,502,305
Surplus $ 7,198.290
A 3 per cent quarterly dividend on
$18,000,000 would have been $540,000.
The shares are SSO each, hence the drop
in the market netted the insiders near
ly $700,000 or more than the dividend
which is to be passed.
IS IHKKY HAYWARD ?
Ili* Coiinsel Ask* it e (tore nor io -iiii
Hi* Execution
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.,Dee. 9. John
Day Smith, who was associate counsel
for Harry Hayward in the trial, has
forwarded to Governor Clough this
morning a last appeal. The attorney
asserts strongly his belief that Hay
ward is insane, and that it would be
a crime to hang him. He asks the
governor to stay the execution until
he can appoint a commisssion to look
into the prisoner’s condition. 'There
is little likelihood that the request
will he granted.
Hayward passed a wiid night of it.
He is either rapidly becoming insane
•»r is feigning such a condition. About
3 o’clock this morning he got from his
pallet and shouted to his death-watch
that Jesus Christ was in one corner of
his cell and satan in the other. lie
raved frightfully and declared that he
was afraid of neither. Then he began
to throw imaginary intruders out of
his cell. It was daylight before he
quieted down. This morning he de
clared that fie would write a history
of the past ten years of his life, telling
everything without reserve. His cou
sin, Ernest Coodseil, would arrive to
day from Chicago, he said, to take
charge of the publication. lie would
dictate the matter to some one to-mor
row.
The carpenters are hard at work on
the gallows, and the clatter of the
hammers easily penetrate to ITarry,s
cell. At the first sound he said to ids
watch, with that horrid, mirthless
laugh of his. “'They are off.”
MORE i KUO PH FOR CUBA.
Fi steamers Bring Reinforcements
From Spain.
BAN ANA. Dee. 9--Strong reinforce
ments of Spanish troops arrived here
to-day on board the steamers Colon,
Ciudad, Cadiz, Maria Cristina, and
Santiago. Also on hoard were Gener
als Sabas Marin, Luis Pando, Pedro
Pin, Adolfo Castellanos, Domingo
Basin, and /aver Obegon, The troops
consisted of the Bnibastro, Cecilia
Castilla, San Quintal Navarro and
Heredia battallion. The reinforce
ments were met on board the steamers
by Gen. Arderius, the chief of the
staff, and committees from the differ
ent municipal bodies of Cuba. When
the troops landed they were greeted
in most enthusiastic manner and were
reviewed by Captain General Martinez
<le Campos, 'from the balcony of the
palace, having by his side all the newly
arrive*, generals, who were loudly
cheered by the populace.
KILLE’I BY \ l*R? KE* MAN
Two Counle.if. iu r« Brought U icl<
From »• ne»*eo.
ASHEVILLE, N. (’., Dec. 9.-(Spe
cial.) Jim Payne deliberately shot
and killed Sarah Anderson yesterday
near Parnard. Payne was supposed to
be drinking, and was forbidden to en
ter the house. Enraged at this, he
drew his revolver and fired, striking
the woman in the left arm, penetrating
the heart and killing her instantly.
Payne is still at large.
Chuck Ramsey and Samuel Effler,
Yancey county men, charged with
counterfeiting, were arrested in Ten
nessee and brought here yesterday and
taken before United States Commis
sioner Sumrney. ’The men were com
mitted to jail in default of bond of one
thousand dollars each.
Five negro prisoners escaped from
the city jail last night by prizing off a
staple of the cell door.
IIAVK t’tlAMifl) THEIR MINDS.
Populist* M ill 4id Republicans iu
Reorganizing the Senate.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9. —The Popu
list Senators have changed their for
mer decision concerning the organiza
tion of the Senate and have now agreed
among themselves to interpose no ob
jections to the Republicans taking con
trol. They w ill act together, but will
withdraw as a body and allow the Re
publicans to elect their candidates for
the Senate offices. They may possibly
nominate a candidate for president
pro tempore hut they will not press his
claims nor continue his candidacy so
for*as to materially delay organiza
tion.
L’ANSE, Mich., Dec. 9.—The tug I*.
B. Campbell with her crew was lost
about twenty miles off Huron Island ;
Saturday morning.
PRICE FiVE CENTS.
THE REPUB I 'AN CONVENTION.
The National Committed Mill 1 o-tbty
Selec' the Time and Place.
WASHINGTON, Dee.* *>. The Na
tional Republican committee will meet
tomorrow at the Arlington Hotel to
select the time and place, for holding
the National convention next year. As
to the time the roniinfftee scouts to be
pretty well agreed that it should Ik*
held sometime in June, althbugh there
are some advocates of a very late con
vention and a short, sharp campaign.
The place at whieh the convention
will be held is the .subject of a hard,
but good nut need struggle. Each rival
city has taken headquarters hi the
hotel and is being boomed with great
diligence. Each offers to pay off the
debts of the National committee and
besides offers a separate and superior
set. of qualifications and advantages,
sentimental, material and gefigraphi
eal.The question of candidates does not
appear to enter into the. ■ question of
the choice of tin* convention city and
the Republican politicians who swarm
about the corridors sax that the com
mittee will content itself with select
ing the place for the convention and
allow the convention to select the can
didate. Among those present are
some of the most distinguished and
powerful leaders oT the Republican
party.
An attempt was made to give the
cilies a hearing to-day, but ma<;y of
the committeemen were absent and it
was decided finally to postpone the
hearing until to-morrow morning at
10 o’clock, when each candidate will
be given an hour to present her
claims. The question of the basis of
representation which will eome Invfore
the committee w ill Ik* referred proba
bly to the convention for settlement.
The leaders, ns a rule, claim lhat it
would be folly to discourage the S :th
ern Republicans by reducing their ba
sis of representation just ns they are
beginning to vindicate tlieir predVuou
that the solid South will tear away
from her old allegiance and the Demo
cratic party.
Committeeman R. (’. Kerans said to
night that his hope that St. Louis
would secure the convention had
grown into absolute confidence. 'The
other cities seeking the convention are
Chicago, Pittsburg, New Y ork and San
Francisco. r
An effort Was made t > secure a meet
ing of the executive committee to
night, but a quorum was not secured.
'They decided to take up no business
beyond the framing of a telegram to
Governor-elect Bradley, of Kentucky,
congratulating him upon liis election,
and to present it to the full committee
to-morrow.
DOUGIITUN FOR GOVERNOR.
Chairmen Helton Rff arils Iliiu as
Now in the Lead.
WINSTON, N. C„ Dec. 9—(Special)—
Interviewed to-day, Chairman Holton
of the State Republican Executive
Committtee, predicted that the next
legislature would be composed of the
strongest and best, men of any general
assembly since the war. He says
Democrats, Republicans, and Populists
will put up only their best material.
He thinks Lieut. Governor Doughton
is in the lead for tin* Democratic nomi
nation for governor. He regards Col.
J. S. Carr as not in it. Mr. Holton
would not venture a prediction as to
who his party would nominate.
When asked if his name was not being
mentioned as a possible candidate for
State Chairman, he replied, smiling:
“Oil, I will take nothing.” “Not even
water?” asked the interviewer. “I
don’t know about that —I might have
to,” answered Mr. Holton.
William A. White, an aged Mason and
.popular citizen, died at Lewisville
yesterday. **
Mike Foust, colored, aged fifteen
years, dropped dead in the court room
while court was iu session to-day. Heart
disease caused his sudden demise.
Dave Koontz, colored, who received
a painful wound during Winston’s
recent riot, was tried to-day, and sent
to the county roads for six months
for participating in the riot. Cases
against four other rioters were con
tinued.
The slump in American Tobacco
Company’s stock is an all absorbing
topic among tobacceo men here. Pre
dictions as to the trust’s future are
varied and numerous.
HE H*. I> TDD MA> Y WiV 18.
A Aealiay Richmond Beauty Mar*
tie* a Man fi d Man.
TORONTO, Out., Dec. 9.—About a
month ago Rosalie Gottlieb, of Rich
mond, Y’a., and George S. Maxwell, a
physician and electrician of Louisville,
Ky., were married at Washington and
came to Toronto on their wedding
tour. While here a report reached Mrs.
Maxwell that her husband had an
other wife living. Maxwell, on being
questioned by his wife No. 2, admitted
the truth of the report. This decided
Mrs. Maxwell to return to Richmond,
Ya., which she did this afternoon. Miss
Gottlieb is a typical Southern beauty
and her parents are wealthy. Max
wells father is a prominent physician
of Louisville.
TOO WET FOR DI CK SHOOTING.
NORFOLK, Y’a., Dec. 9.—The heavy
down pour of rain which set In shortly
after the President and his party were
settled in their blinds in Cape Hatteras
channel prevented their enjoying
much sport, to-day.
BERLIN. Dec. 9. 'The gale is caus
ing immense damage in this vicinity.
Trees have been uprooted, hay racks
destroyed, houses unroofed ami ruined.
The damage will amount to hundreds
of thousands of marks