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Weather To-Day: RAIN; WARMER. VOIi. XLV. NO. 107. WAR IS INEVITABLE Filipinos Declare They Are Not the Aggressors. A STRAINED SITUATION PROTESTS AGAINST AMERICANS LANDING AT ILOILO. THE PRESIDENT HAS RECEIVED THREE They Came from Filipino Committees in Paris, London and Madrid. Declare They Wish our Friendship and Abhor Militarism and Deceit. London, Jan. O.—A representative of the Associated Press learns that the Filipino Junta of Paris, has received a telegram from the Filipino agent at Hong Kong, dated Saturday, and say ing: “Fight 'with. Americans unavoidable. | We are not the aggressors.” A telegram from an English house at Manila to-day, says the situation is very strained, and that there- is much anxiety there. The i dispatch also contained news from Iloilo, the substance of which was that the American troops had not yet landed. The members of the Filipino Junta discredit a statement published in the Globe here this afternoon that the United States Government had ordered .Agoneillo, the representative of Aguin aldo, to leave Washington. They say they would surely have heard the new i if it had been true. Mail advices from the so-called Fili j jpino Government, received here to-day say that Aguinaldo has decided that all foreign trade entering ports under Fili pino control wfll be admitted on the pay ment of a duty of 5 per cent, ad valorem j and that all export trade is liable to a duty of 1 per cent, ad valorem. TJIE FILIPINO'S PROTEST. London. Jan. 9. —The Filipino com mittees in Paris. Madrid and London, telegraphed on Saturday to President McKinley. The Paris dispatch read: “We protest against the disembarka- ; tion of American troops at Iloilo.” The London Telegram said: “Treaty of peace still unratitled. I American claim of sovereignty proma- j ture. Pray, reconsider resolution re- j garding Iloilo. Filipinos wish for the friendship of America and abhor mili tarism and deceit. ” OUR POLICY OF GENTLENESS. Strong Efforts to Convince Filipinos That We Mean Well. Washington, Jan. 9.—There are ex cellent reasons why the officials at the War Department should, at this stage, maintain secrecy as to instructions gov erning the movement of troops in the Philippines. The situation is admitted to be critical, but not hopeless by any means, and it is extremely desirable that the danger of a rupture shall not be increased by inflammatory publications, which powerfully ef fect the excitable Filipinos. it is believed that General Otis is fram ing a plan of campaign which will result in the extension of bis control over the Island of Panay wthout actual hos tilities, or if it must come to warfare, then with the least possible exposure of the American troops. Probably the first step in this campaign has been taken by this time in the establishment of a camp on the Island of Guimaras, lying only a few miles from Iloilo and easily accessible to the warships. This proba bly will be made the base of operations if hostilities become unavoidable. The Government’s instructions sent to General Miller at Iloilo were to land and get in communication with the in surgents. This is as far as his instruc tions go. except Jhat when he has es tablished communication with the in surgent officials and people he is to make public the purposes of the United States. Not a shot is to be fired by the forces of this country unless they are attacked or until further orders are given from here. This programme was agreed upon be tween President McKinley and Secre tary Alger several days ago. Secretary Alger was at the White House four times this afternoon. lie stated in the most emphatic terms that no alarming news has come from General Otis, and that he did not believe a shot had been fired so far. or that one would be fired. He is confident that General Miller will be able to obtain control of Iloilo with out bloodshed. He is of the opinion that the insurgents have been so long im posts! upon that they are naturally sus picious, and fear the worst if they sur render their strongholds into the hands of the United States. The policy to be adopted now is a gentle one. Persuasion will be used be fore powder. That will be the last rt>- sort, and Secretary Alger is optimistic in his views that it will never be neces sary. The President, it is said, also views the situation in a similarly hopeful manner. He believes that the Filipinos will become less auspicious when they understand more fully the intentions of this country. SPURRED ON BY LEADERS. Sin Francisco. Jan. 9. Father Diaz, leader of the Spanish priests from Ma nila. who arc in this city on the way to Panama, says: “The Filipinos are not naturally war like and would not be now opposing the The News and Observer. Laos ill mmu camjna miles in news no oiMLimi United States were it not for the 1 aders who are spurring them on. These leaders are in the wonr solely for personal gain and would prove hard masters for the wvakor portion of the natives should they gain the power. At Iloilo, where I was stationed, there would have been little fighting if it had not been for these mal contents who fairly forced the nativ. s to take up arms. Most of these men who are at the head of the insurgent movement are half breeds. As to Aguinaldo him self. be is a crafty fellow and has a fol lowing among those people who hope to climb by his advancement. Ido not con sider Aguinaldo personally responsible for the brutality shown our friars, yet he could have prevented a good portion of it had he seen fit, to do so.” Father Fernandez, another of the par tv. stated that he considers the natives ol the island a civilized jveoplV. APPROACHING A CLIMAX. Manila, Jan. 9.—The situation is rap idly approaching a climax, and it is just possible that tomorrow will see a peace ful solution. Meanwhile all sorts of alarmist rumors are in circulation. The United States authorities are taking every precaution: the troops in quarters are under arms and the Californians have disembarked from the transports. The natives, it is reported, have been ordered not to work for the Americans and the employes in the commissary de partment have gone on strike. Many naitves are leaving the city. Major I General Otis, however, has the whole sit ! uation thoroughly in hand. A second proclamation by Aguinaldo, bearing the same date as the one which immediately followed the proclamation of Major General Otis based on Presi dent McKinley’s instructions, first ap peared on the streets today, but it is al leged to have been recalled. Its terms are much more vehement than those used in the first proclamation. Aguinaldo threatens to drive, the Americans from the islands, calls the Deity to witness that their blood will be on their heads if it is shed and details at greater length the promises he claims were made by the Americans as to the part of the in . surgonts in the campaign. It is believed that this second prnelnma | tion is the orignal draft, which was not adopted by the Filipino Congress at Ma lolos. HE STOLE AN ENGINE THIEF RAN IT SIViN MILES WHEN STEAM GkVf OUT. ! Engine R-covered by Yard Master. Officers | Looking for Thi f. Leaf Tobacco Fac tory Des'royed by ? be Winston, N. C., Jan. 9.—(Special.)— ' A freight enjine was stolen from the Norfolk and Western Railway yard h re yesterday morning. The thief was a white man. and he pulled the throttle wide open and ran seven miles when the steam became exhausted and the engine stopped. He left the engine with the throttle open. The yard master here took an engine and went after the one stolen. When he reached it, he found that in ten min utes sufficient steam would have gathered to start the engine and he does not know how far it would have run or the dam age that might have (hem done. Officers have bden looking for the thief since yesterday, but they have not been able to get, any trace of him. A leaf tobacco factory filled with over one hundred thousand pounds of leaf and owned by C. J. Shoaf & Co., was destroyed by fire yesterday. The firm had .$5,500 insurance on the tobacco. Owners of building carried $1,500. CRUSHED BY A HUGE DOOR. ' j Death of Henry D. Watts, of Charlotte, Through an Unusual Accident. Charlotte, X. C.. Jan. B.—Harry I). Watts, a prominent young society man of this city, was found dead this morn • ing. He was lying beneath one of the huge doors of the Merchants and Far mers’ Bonded Warehouse, which s is not quite completed. His head was crushed and his hack broken. He had evidently been dead several hours. The door was in place, hut was not hung, and it is , supposed that in going home some time I between 2 o’clock and day lie ran against the door, knocking it down and crushing himself to death, lie was the son of , (.’apt. Harrison Watts, a leading broker, j and was one of the managers of W. A. I Porterfield A Co.’s local offices. His father, after fighting in the Civil War. enlisted in the French army and fought through the Franco-Prnssian war. MR. BROOKS IN JAIL. 1 He Surrendered Himself To Sheriff Wright Yesterday Morning. Rockingham. N. .Tan. 9.—(Special.) Mr. J. R. Brooks, who killed the negro at Hamlet, surrendered himself to Sh r iff Wright this morning and he is now in Rockingham jail. Just before tlie elec , tion it will be remembered that a negro . insulted Mr. Brooks in a store at Ham let. and made an attack upon him. and t Mr. Brooks shot him while he was male ing the attack. There are now five men in Rocking . lnm jail charged with murder. j| NEW PASTOR ARRIVES. , 1 Wake Forest. N. (".. Jail. 9. —(Special.) . i Rev. .1. \V. Lynch arrived on Friday ~ last. A large congregation greeted the new pastor yesterday morning and were j greatly delighted by liis first sermon, j which was on the text, "The greatest of , ’ these is love." . 1 In the evening Mr. Vinton represent ing the “Christian Students’ Federa tion.” lectured before the Missionary So - ciety on that striking movement among e the students of the world. RALEIGH# -N. Cm TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 10, 1891). DEATH TO FREEDOM Hoar’s Reply to Platt’s Pro- Expansion Speech. LESSONS FROM HISTORY DEMOCRACY CANNOT RULE OYER VASSAL STATES. TO IT IS TO INVtTE FUIN The Question of Constitutional Power the Grav est this Country has Ever Known. Ihe i Threat of a Pure, Unlim ited Despotism. Washington, Jan. 9.—This proved to be an interesting day in tin* Senate, the principal subject under discussion being the constitutional right of the United States to carry into effect the policy of expansion. The leading speaker was Mr. Hoar, (Rep. Mass.;, who delivered a speeeii in support of the resolution introduces! by Mr. Vest (Deni., Mo.), declaring it to be in opposition to the Constitution for this country to acquire foreign ter ritory to be governed permanently as colonies. Although Mr. Hoar occupied the time of the Senate for more than two hours, he was accorded the unusual compli ment of close and undivided attention by his colleagues on the floor, and a large audience in the galleries. He confined himself closely to his manuscript, but his address was delivered with all the tiro, earnestness and animation of the orator that he is. llis speech was in answer to that recently delivered by Mr. Platt, (Rep. Conn.), and bad been most carefully prepared. without adverting to the proposed policy of tlie United States entering upon an expansion of its territory, except in a general and indirect manner, Mr. Hoar entered upon a discussion of the consti tutional phases of the question involved in tin- resolution.under consideration. “It, is not my purpose,” he said, “to discuss the general considerations whirl, affect any acquisition of sovereignty by the American people over the Philippine Islands, which has been or may be pro posed. I am speaking to-day only W the theory of constitutional interpretation propounded by the Senator from Con necticut. (Mr. Platt). If at any time hereafter the Senator shall seek to put his theories into practice by reducing to subjection a distant people, (P.voJMng in the tropics, 'aliens in blood, most of them Moslem in faith, unable to speak oT comprehend our language, or to read or to write any language, to whom the traditions and the doctfines of civil lib erty are unknown, it will be time to point out what terrible resul's and pen alties this departure from on * constitu tional principles will bring upon us.” Mr. Hour said that our fathers who framed the Constitution were the wises:, builders of States the woTl has yet seen. They had studied ancient history and had learned that while there is lit tie else that a Democracy cannot no eomplish, it cannot rule over vassal States or subject peoples without bring ing the elements of death into its own constitution. Our fathers, he said learn ed two lessons from the history of Greece—the danger of disunion and do mestic strife and an indulgrti'* * in the greed and lust of empire; and tie hoped we might avert the latter lianaor as we had averted the former. “I hope not to weary rli * jSi-nat * by reiteration,” said Mr. Hour, concluding the preface, “but this is the greatest question, thus question of the power and authority of onr Constitution in this matter, I had almost said, that iutii been discussed among iiianki.nl from -be beginning of time. CetLii.nl v it Is Lie greatest question ever discuss* >d in this Chamber from the beginning of the Government.” Mr. Hoar believed, he said, ties country to be a nation—a sovereign na tion. He believed Congress possessed all the powers Decennary to accomplish the great objects the framers of the Constitution intended should be accom plished. But lie denied that it possessed the “astonishing” and “extravagant” powers under the Constitution which the Senator from Connecticut itMr. Platt) at tributod to it. Mr. Hoar affirmed that every constitu tional power is limited to the one su preme and controlling purpose declared in the Constitution itself: “In order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common de fense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to our selves and to our posterity.” , “When the Senator from Connecticut undertakes to declare,” said Mr. Hoar, “that we may do such things, not for the perfect union, the common defense, the general welfare of the people* of United Stntis, or the securing of liberty to our selves and our children, but for any fancied or real obligation to take care of distant peoples beyond our boundaries, not people of the United States. Then 1 deny his proposition and tell him lie can find nothing in either the text of the Constitution or the exposition of the fathers, or the judgments of courts from that day to this, to warrant or support his doctrine. “We have heard of limited monarchies, constitutional monarchies. despotism tempered by assassination: but the logic of the Senator from Connecticut makes a pure, unlimited, untempered despotism without any relief from assassins.” • Mr. Hoar maintained that the propo sitions advanced by Mr. Platt were not sustained by a single one of his authori ties. He held in the course of .his argu ment that “the powers of the! United States must be affirmatively delegated or they do not exist,” in other words, the “implied powers” referred to by Mr. Platt--the power to govern territory ac quired through war—did not exist; The power which Mr. Platt maintained this Government possessed, was one, Mr. Hoar said, “that our fathers and their descendants have ever loathed and ab horred, and they believed that no sov ereign on earth could rightfully exercise it.” Mr. Hoar was inclined to ridicule those who favor expansion and the ratification of the treaty of Paris, without amend ment. Their arguments, he said, were, “three cheers for tthe flag; who will dare to haul it down? Hold on to everything you can get. America has outgrown Am ericanism.” (Mr. Hoar then entered upon a critical analysis of Mr. Platt’s speech. After summarizing the argument he said: “The constitutional argument for slav ery was ten times as strong as the ar gument of the Senator from Connecticut. The slave master said hi* owned men for their good. The Senator from Connec ticut proposes to own nations for their good.” He sot forth his own constitutional doc trine. which he desired to oppose to that of Mr. Platt. IP* declared that the peo ple of this country had not deposited all sovereignty anywhere, and had author ized no agent of theirs to exercise all sovereignty, unlimited and uncontrolled. He continued: “The power to conquer alien peoples and hold them in subjugation is no where expressly granted. * “The power to conquer alien peoples and hold them in subjugation is nowhere implied as necessary for the accomplish ment of the purposes declared by the Constitution. “It is clearly shown to be one that ought not to be exercised by anybody— one 'that the framers of the Constitution thought ought not to be exercised by any body : “First, because it is immoral and wicked in itself. “Second, because it is expressly de nied in the Declaration of Independence, (Continued on Sixth Page.) DR. JESSE CUNNINGGIM THE FUNERAL SERVICES YESTERDAY AT GREENSBORO. Close of a lov«ble and Saintly Life. IVizny of Hisßrother Preachers from a Dista cn Present. Greensboro, N. (’., Jan. 9.—(Special.)— The funeral services of Rev. Jesse A. Cunninggim, who died suddenly of heart disease Saturday night, took place this afternoon from West Market M. E. church, conducted by Rev. T. N. Ivey. Dr. Cunninggim had been in ill health for several months and ihis death was not a surprise. Saturday night his wife had given him his supper in his room and after a hearty meal, he asked Mrs. Cunninggim to read to him, and while doing so she heav l him make an. unusual noise and at on •■* knew the end was near. Before those on the first floor could get up stairs Mr. Cunninggim was dead. Dr. Cunninggim was one of the most lovable and one of the saintliest char acters I ever knew. For a period of forty years be never failed to answer to roll call at the various conferences, only recently having retired from the active list on account of failing health. The deceased would have been sixty seven years old in a short while. The following came from a distance to at tend his funeral: Rev. X. 11. D. Wil son. Rev. A. McCullen, Rev. AY. L. Cunninggim, a brother of tin* deceased; Rev. Moses Hunter. Mrs. L. Branson, of Raleigh: his sister. Dr. Creasy, Rev. AY. M. Curtis. Rev. J. 11. Shore. J. A. Daily, Dr. John Kilgo, Rev. G. D. Laughton, Rev. J. N. Cole, Rev. I). X. Caviness. Rev. (». AY. Anthony. Short talks were trade at the church by the ministers present. The remains of the deceased were laid to rest in Green Hill cemetery. NEAA'K AND OBSERVER’S AVORIv. Oxford. N. C., Jan. 9.—(Special.)— The News and Observer published a few weeks ago an account of a race riot, which occurred at Virgiiina. As a consequence several negroes who were in the riot were arrested and sent to jail at Houston, A’a. Last week a number of tin* prisoners at this place broke jftil, and among those that escaped was a negro, Tlwfinas Speed. Speed re turned with others of the (‘escaped pri soners to Blue AA'ing neighborhood. An order of arrest was sent to Granville. Ben I’uryear was deputized to arrest tin* prisoners, but they being well armed resisted and the officer in attempting to make the arrest fired and Speed was killed. Mr. Alt’ Ilolgood, the coroner was summoned to the scene of the homi cide, but the verdict has not yet been rendered. Mr. (’has. Taylor, of Boydton, Va., is visiting his brother, Dr. L. Taylor. Mr. T. It. Southerland has almost re covered from his recent attack of pneumonia. ,M R. DING LEA'S CONDITION. AVashiugton. Jan. 9.—(Representative Dingley’s condition tonight is again such as to cause his family much concern. He is simply holding his own, liis system weakened by disease, refusing to re spond to the nourishment and medicine given him. Alaso, former president of the Cuban Revolutionary Government, speaks in tlie I highest terms of the work done by AA'ood at Santiago. HEAD OS COLL!* Thirteen Killed on the Lehigh Valley Road. TWENTY-FIVE INJURED RESULT OF A FRIGHTFUL BLUN DER IN ORDERS. A SCENE OF INDESCRIBABLE HORROR One of 0 e V'orst Co llsionscf Modern Times. One Wreck Leads to Another. Road Blocked with Tangled 2lo:d Stained Masses. New York, Jan. 9. —By a liead-on collis ion between two passenger trains on the Lehigh Valley Railroad at AY st Dunel len, X. J., at 12:47 p. m. today thirteen persons were killed and over twenty-five were injured. AYest Dunellen is three miles from Bound Brook and about thirty miles from New York city. At tne spot where the disaster occurred there is a sharp curve i in the Lehigh A'aliey tracks and a steep cutting; but the accident was due in the first place to some terrible mistake in train orders and in the second place to another accident that occurred at Bound Brook earlier in th day. The scenes which accompanied the collision, the sufferings of the injured and the panic that reigned among the four bun dred passengers were win nigh indescri bable. The blood-stained wreck of tan gled and twisted iron and wood that was still on the railroad tracks tonight bore witness to the truth of the general verdict of railroad m: n that this was one of the worst collisions in recent years. A head-on collision on a double track road was made possible only by a freight wreck which occurred at Bound Brook at t> o’clock this morning, when the axle of a freight car broke and nine ears were piled on top of each other. This com pletely blocked the westbound track, and all through the morning Lehigh Valley trains bound for New York switched from their own track to the westbound track, going over these rails from Bound Creek to New Market, a distance of six miles, and changing at the latter place* back to their right side of tin* To permit this mode of traffic, all westbound trains were held at South Plainfield until their own line was clear of trains going' in the* opposite direction. An excursion train proceeding from New York was almost an hour late. It was moving on the west hound track when the collision occurred. There had been waiting at New Market a local train that plies reg ularly between New York and Bound Brook. Its number on the schedule is No. 71. and it was due in Bound Brook at 11:59. Owing to the traffic all going on one track it was almost an hour late. At last the train dispatcher at South Plainfield gave it permission to go. Just before reaching AA’est Dunellen, Engin eeer Rick slowed his train down, be cause he stops for passengers if there are any. Martin Brennan, the signal man, threw up liis arms and waved them, as if to say there were no passen gers, so the local put on steam and head ed round Ihe curve, going at about 25 miles an hour. There were only four passengers on the local. In the cab of the excursion train was James I‘render gas t, the engineer with liis fireman. George Cheshire. They saw the local as it started on the curve. With shriek ing whistle and brakes grinding sparks from the wheels the excursion train bore down to what seemed certain de struction. The passengers, alarmed at the continued whistle, opened the win dows, mothers snatched their children in their arms, men started from their seats, but before they had time to find out what was the matter they were hurled headlong, knocked senseless and many killed outright. The two engines, from which both crews jumped, came together with an awful crash. The ex cursion train was probably going at about 15 miles an hour. The local en gine. as if tripped in its faster flight, turned a complete somersault and came crashing down beside its now demolish ed obstruction. But its career was not ended before it had jammed the tender of the excursion train almost from one end to (lie other of the first car from Shumokin. The tender stopped a few seats from the rent* door. The ear, or what was left of it. rolled over, carry ing with it the imbedded tender, the fragments of a dozen bodies and the wounded. It was in the first car of the excursion train that ail the deaths and most of the casualties occurred. The other ears, though their occupants were badly shaken, stayed on the track and were in condition to be hauled off. EXCELLENCY OF SPIRIT. Sermon By Rev. J. O. Atkinson at flic University. Chapel Hill. X. C.. Jan.^h —(Special.)— Rev. J. O. Atkinson, chairman of the Faculty of Elon College, preached lie fore tin* Y. M. C. A. in Gbrrurd Hall last evening to a large and attentive au dience. His text was from Daniel <ll li chapter and 3rd verse, and lias subject was “Excellency of Spirit.” The points of the sermon were that this Excellency of Spirit.” is the only abiding thing, the only thing worth studying for. and with in the reach of all. Mr. Atkinson filled tin* pulpit at the Presbyterian church in f the morning. J I WAS BURNED TO DEATH Terrible Fate of Widow of Congressman Phillips. Laurel. Aid.. Jan. 8— Mrs. Annie B. M. Phillips, widow of AA’illiam A. Phil lips, once Congressman from Kansas, was burned to death this evening at her home in Howard county, a mile and a half from Laurel. Airs. Philips lived with her step-daughter. Miss Ruth Phil lips. aged twenty-in a dwelling on the brow of a hill across the Pattuxen A al ley from Laurel, and at 5:30 o’clock this evening she went upstairs with a lighted lamp, which she either dropped or the lamp exploded. John Hopkins, a colored youth em ployed by Mrs. Phillips, attempted to extinguish the flames, which had com municated to 'her clothing, by wrapping her in a comforter. The alarm was given and AA'illiam Nichols, who lives near by, carried Airs. Phillips down stairs and to the home of his mother. She was dead when taken from her own house. Aliss Ruth was severely burned about the arms while aiding her stepmother, and was overcome by hys teria. Lepage Croumiller and others re siding in the neighborhood rendered as sistance iu saving property. The negro, Hopkins, and the two ladies were the only persons about the premises at the time. PRES. ALDERMAN SPEAKS. At the Opening of the Spring Term of the University. Chapel Hill, N. C.. Jan. 9.—(Special.)— President Alderman addressed the stud ent. body to-day at 12:30 in earnest words of welcome for the spring term, and with congratulations foa* the quiet and successful fall term. He set before the students the largeness of the opportuni ties before them, and the responsibilities that they would have to meet in the portentous changes of these terms. He reviewed graphically the events of the past year, and inspired all students with new zeal and energy. President Alderman delivers the ad dress at the anniversary of the Lyceum at Cheraw, S. C., on Thursday night. BAOWRLCKON SOUTHERN FOUR OF THETRAINM r N KILLED AND TWO OTHERS INIURED. Couble- header Freight Crashed into a MixeJ Li cal Passenge* Train on the * Knoxville Division. Knoxville, Tcnn., Jan. 8. —Four dead, two injured, one of these perhaps fatal ly, and the loss of property on the Southern Railroad to the amount of about $25,000, are the results of a wreik this morning on the Knoxville and Ohio branch of the Knoxville division of the Southern Railway, one and one-half miles west of Elk A’aliey. The dead are: Engineer ‘J. D. Maxey. Fireman Frank Reddy, colored. Brakeman Ironze Hoover, colored. Flagman W. A. Dillon. The injured are: Engineer Goff, badly, but not fatally, cut. on the head and bruised. Fireman George Iluskinson, badly burned, and may die. Alaxey. Reddy, Hoover and Dillon were burned to death or killed under neath the ruins of three engines and a number of cars and coaches of the two wrecked trains. The accident occurred at 11:30 o’clock, when a double-header freight train loaded with coal and merchandise, crashed into a mixed local passengei train while both were running at the rate of thirty-five miles an hour. The engines met head-on. the force of impact being terrific. The coming together of the two trains was so sudden that the trainmen were unale to jump and save their lives. The passenger train was running fif teen minutes late*, having waited at Knoxville for connection with a AVestern train, and had the right of way. All the freight trains on the division had been notified that the Imssenger train was on a late run. and tlie only cause for the accident that, can In* given is that Engineer Alaxey, of the freight train, misread his orders. Immediately after the crash Ihe wreck age caught fire. This city was asked for aid. A fire engine left Knoxville at 5 o’clock this evening and soon had the tin* under eontrtf. The passenger train carried about twenty passengers. None of these was injured. J APPROPRIATION RESTORED. House Reverses Committee of the AYhole's Decision ns to Civil Service AA’ashington, Jan. 9. —The House to day reversed the decision of the commit tee of the whole last Friday, when the appropriation for the .support of the civil appropriation hill. In committee, where members do not go on record, tin* appro priation was stricken out by a vote of <57 to (51. To-day when the roll was called the appropriation was restored, the motion to strike out being defeated 119 to 95. The House to-day b.v special order decided to proceed 1 with the con sideration of the naval personnel bill as soon as the bill for the codification of the laws of Alaska was out of tin* way. About seventy additional pages of the latter bill were covered to-day, leaving about 100 pages still undisposed of. The House adjourned at 5 p. m. Owing to the inclement weather, Ka gasta did not visit the Queen Regent yesterday, but there is no doubt that the Sagasta Ministry will resign. THIRD EDITION) PRP *5 FIVE CKNTft# ISAAC H, SMITH MAKES DEFENCE More Sinn’d Against Than Sinning. REFUSES TO BE MUZZLED SAYS HE FAVORS DECENCY IN GOVERNMENT. OENOU'CES SATURDAY NIGHT’S CAUCUS Begs His White Friends Not to Charge Up to the Negro the Mis'alos cf Gcv. Rus s*H. Frocai dings of Souse. Important Bills ’1 he feature of the session of the House yesterday was the speech of Isaac 11. Smith, (colored), the member from (’raven county, who was Saturday night expelled from the Republican caucus. Immediately after the reading of the journal Smith rose to a question of per sonal privilege and said: “Air. Speaker and gentlemen of this General Assembly: I am here as a part and parcel of this grand body, and I am from a county where you find the homes and the graves of good, honorable, virtu ous men. An attack on one member of this body is an attack on the whole Gen eral Assembly. An unwarranted attack lias been made on me by a caucus of peo ple calling themselves Republicans. This malicious and unjust action they have published to the world. They have read me out of my own party, and declared that I can no longer take part iu its councils. "llie very men who have done this charged in the campaign that the Demo crats would disfranchise the negro. And yet before the Democrats have had even, a chance to disfranchise anybody these very fellows go out and disfranchise the only negro in this Legislature who has acted in the true interest of his race. They have denounced the only man of them who has done what he has a right to do under the Constitution —vote as he thinks just and proper. (Applause.) “I have voted as I thought right, and thank God I have the courage to ilo it again. 1 came here saying I was in favor of good government and how else can a man prove that he is in favor of good government except by voting for it. (Applause). “The Speaker is a good citizen and worthy man. I voted Tor him, and they read me out of the party. “AA’hy not read President McKinley out? I am an original McKinley man. I brought him out two years before any body else in North Carolina did, and l spent more money to elect hint than did any other man in North Carolina. And yet he had hardly got well into office before he appointed Air. Stevenson, the Democratic ex-vice president, to a good office. Wouldn’t it be well for this cau cus. while it is at it, to read him out, too? Then there’s Governor Russell. He's appointing Democrats. Why not read him out? The negroes elected him, and ho says, over his own signature, that he has made 11(1 appointments and only 8 of them are negroes. Hadn’t we better be out of politics? And yet all that the Governor does that’s wrong my race is charged up with. God bless your sweet souls, white gentlemen, I hope you won’t do it. (Applause). “And when you adjourn you’ll not he ahlo to go out and say that there is not at least one Republican in here that has tried to do liis whole duty honestly and for the best interest of the State. “And I do hope you will not disfran chise us. 1 pray God that some sweet night you may dream a dream and give us one more chance at the ballot box. “The Lieutenant Governor, who also was elected by negro votis, presided at this caucus, hut I thank God there was one good colored man in this body who would take no part with them. . “Until righteousness and truth kiss each other; until stars and sun refuse to shine; until my right hand shall lose its cunning and my strong arm fall palsied to my side; until m.v tongue shall cleave to the roof of my mouth, I shall claim the privilege of voting ns I please, a right guaranteed to all good citizens, regardless of the party caucus lash.” i Applause.) Petree, a white Republican from Stokes, also rose to a question of per sitmtl privilege and said he introduced the resolution regarding Smith in the caucus, but denied that it was an at tack on good government. He declared that the white Republicans of the West favored white supremacy in North Caro lina, and lie would not censure anyone for favoring decency in government. He added that he would have taken the same stops with regard to any white Re publican who had acted in the same manner j»s did the member from Craven. THE HOUSE PROCEEDINGS. The Only 81l Passed Was That for a Cot ton-Weigher at Dunn. Owing to the fact that many of the members# went to their homes to spend Sunday, the House did uot meet yester day until noon. » After (prayer by Rev. I)r. J. AY. Car ter. pastor of the First Baptist church, the journal of Saturday was read. Before the House got down to work l Continued on Second Page.)
The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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