Weather To-Day: FAIR; WARMER. von. xlv. 4 no. us. THE (ML BILL PASSED B! THESENATE One Million Stock at SIOO to be Issued. UNCLE SAM GETS 925,000 MARITIME CO. TO CALL IN ALL SHARES ISSUED. EXCEPT NICARAGUA’S AND COSTA RICA'S The Company is Authorized to Contract for Finishing tie Canal in Six Years at a Cost not to fxceed $115,000,000. Washington, Jan. 21. —The Senate to day passed the Nicaragua Canal Bill, de cided to make the Anti-Scalping Bill the unfinished business, and continued with out completing the consideration of the Indian Appropriation Bill. A number of amendments were made to the Nicara gua Canal Bill, and there were innumer able short speeches during the day. There was, however, no opposition to a vote when the time came, and a roll cal! on it developed only six votes in opposi tion to final passage. The six votes against the bill were cast by Senators Bate, Caffery, Cock rell. Mantle, Martin and Smith. The Anti-Scalping Bill was taken up on a vote of 33 to 21, but no effort was then made to continue its consideration. The effect of the vote was to give it the first place on the calendar, but the understanding is that it w/iall nor hu pressed in opposition to the Peace Treaty or the appropriation bills. The House bill to construct a bridge across the Savannah river from the mainland to Hutchinson Island was passed. The Nicaragua Canal Bill as it passed continues the name of the Maritime Canal Company. It provides for the is suance of 1,000.000 shares of stock at SIOO each. The canal company is re quired to call in all the stock issued ex cept that held by Nicaragua and Costa Rican Governments. The company is also required to redeem and cancel all bonds and scrip heretofore issued by the company and to satisfy all cash liab li lies. To enable the company to comply with the requirement treasury warrants to the amount of $5,000,000 are author ized with a proviso to the effect that only so much of the amount shall be paid as shall be required to pay the actual cash value of the rights, privi leges, franchises and property at the time of the payment, the value to be de termined by commissioners to be ap pointed by the President. This being done the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to subscribe for 925,000 shares of the company’s stocks for the Government of the United States. The present members of the board of directors are then to resign and a boon* of seven is to lie appointed in their stead consisting of five on behalf of the United States and one each on behalf of Nica ragua and Costa Rica. The directors on behalf of the United States are to be appointed by the President and confirm ed by the Senate. No two of them are to be residents of any one State and no person who has heretofore been inter ested in the canal company is to be appointed to this office. They are also prohibited from being interested in con tracts on the canal. Each of the direc t6rs except the President is to receive a salary of $5,000 per year and the Pres ident is to have sfi,ooo. All travelling expenses are to be paid. Annual reports are required. There is a provision against declaring a dividend except upon the net earnings. The company is authorized to contract for the completion of the canal within six years. The payments are restricted to $20,000,000 annually. The canal is to be large enough “for the use of the largest sea-going vessels at a cost not to exceed the estimate of the engineers and not to exceed $115,000,000.” This amount is made a permanent ap propriation for the work, to be used as occasion may require. The bill gives the Government a lien upon the proper ty to secure the repayment of the moneys advanced, and the President is empower ed to declare forfeiture of the property to the United States without the neces sity of judicial or other ascertainments. Thereafter full title is to rest in the Government of the United States. The President is authorized to suspend pay ments at any time. The President is also authorized to secure any change in or modification of the terms of the con cession either from the concessionaires or from Nicaragua and Costa Rica. In ease of failure in such negotiation the President is empowered to negotiate for another route across the isthmus. He is .further requested to open negotiations for the abrogation of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty or any other treaty found to be in existence and standing in the way of the construction of the canal. The neutrality of the. canal is guaran teed, but the right to protect it against the interruptions of business between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States is reserved. At 4:30 p. m. the Senate went into executive session and at 4:42 p. m. ad journed. The News and Observer. SLEEPS Ml mm GAROUNA DAILIES 1 lE*S AND CIGULATIDN. DIED OF HEMORRHAGIC FEVER. Gone to New Mexico —Money to Load- Large Peanut Crop. Scotland, N. C., Jan. 21.—(Special.)— Yesterday at the Gray Lumber Co.’s mills near Neal on the Roanoke river, Mr. T. J. Gwaltney, foreman for the company, died of hemorrhagic fever. He was forty years old and leaves a wife and five children. He was the only white man who remained in the swamps all the summer. The others moved away from the river during the summer and so escaped the malaria. This week two of our young men, Messrs. John B. Gray and Victor John son, left New Mexico, where they have gone to try their fortunes amongst strangers. Miss Nellie Pemberton, teacher of music in Vine Hill Female Academy here, was called to her home in Tennes see some days ago by the illness of her father. News lias come from her that her father died about the time she left Scotland Neck. One whose profession puts him in close touch with men who have money, re marked to your correspondent that there is more money to lend in the count \v than he has known before in some t ime. Large quantities of peanuts are being brought to this market now. The pres ent prices make it look like the peanut crop wil be large this year. The tobacco crop will be greatly increased over first year. Most of the comments heard concern ing tile work ofc the Legislature thus far are favorable. STORE BREAKERS AT OXFORD. Oxford. N. C., Jan. 21.—(Special.)— This morning it was discovered that burglars last night entered the store of Paris Bros, by wrenching off the heavy iron bars at the back window and taking SIOO worth of jewelry. They also broke the large plate glass window of the Klondike store and took from there about S2OO worth of clothing and jewelry. They stole a horse and buggy , from Judge Graham and a horse from Mrs. Horner. THE TROUBLE AT SAMOA the; ACUTE STAGE BELIEvED NOW TO HAVE PASSED. , . I t is Understood Germany Wili not Approve Any Act of Her Consul Vio'ative of Trealy of Berlin. Washington, Jan. 21—It can be stated authoritatively that if the published re ports of the events at Ai ia are true that the acts of the Gentian Consul, Rose and of the President of the Muni cipal Council, Raffel, were not the result of instructions from the German Govern ment. and so far as those acts were violative of the treaty of Berlin, it is not believed at .the State Department, that they will receive the approval of the Gcrma n Govern men t. Assuming that the trouble at Apia has passed the acute stage, and that it will be adjudged satisfactorily by such mea sures as are required, there will remain for treatment in the immediate future the treaty relations of the three powers relative to Samoa. The condition pre cedent to any action looking to amend ment of the treaty of Berlin, or its abro gation, is that its provisions must lx? lived up to meanwhile; upou that point our Government is settled, and the Brit ish Government can be reckoned upou to take the same view. As much turns on ‘he accurate state ment of the facts in this case, the fol lowing may be accepted tu-s the official German view of the situation as sen* here from Berlin: “The old Mataafa was overwhelming ly re-elected, the vote being six to one. But the Chief Justice a milled the Ma taafa election and confirmed that of the opposing candidate, Malietoa Taints, a son of Malietoa. (Latter thought to refer to the old King, but the dispatch does not disclose.) Oil January Ist a short fight occurred between the two parties which ended with the rtiglit of Tamis, his party and Tamasese. They went on board a British man-of-war. No foreign property was injured. The three consuls, American. British and German, declared Mataafa's party as the Provisional Government, until the arrival of instructions from the powers. The Chief Justice also took refuge on board the British man-oj-war, which caused the Samoan Government to de clare lilt, functions temporarily suspend ed. His office was closed temporarily by a proclamation.’’ The foregoing, it will be seen, presents important differences to the vi nv so far accepted. In particular ir presents the view that the three consuls—German. American and British—acted together in establishing a Mataafa provisional Government: that the Samoan Govern ment. and not the German Consul, de posed the Chief Justice, and that the office of the Chief Justice was closed by a proclamation from the Samoan Govern ment. It also states that the three Con suls are acting together, pending instruc tions from the powers. At the several large Embassies most directly interested the opinion is quite positively expressed that the situation does not have a warlike aspect. It was pointed on' by one official that the probable course would bo either a repu diation by Germany of tin* action of her Consul, or else a move to have the tripartite agreement changed so as to permit a more expeditious management of Samoan affairs. Charitable —The woman who doesn't put her thoughts of other women into words. RALEIOR, SUiNDAY MORNING, JANUARY ‘JL\ 1899. THE BILL 10 FIX THE GOLD STANDARD Favorable Report Ordered by Strict Party Vote, THE STANDARD OF VALUE ALL CONTRACTS REGULATED BY THE GOLD DOLLAR. THE GREENBACKS WILL BE RETIRED Ten Years Hence they will no Lorg,r be Legal Tender. No Silver Dollars to be Coin ed Save from the Bullion in the Treasury. Washington, Jan. 21.—The House Coinage, Weights and Measures Com mittee today by a strict party vote or dered a favorable report on the substi tute for Representative Hill’s bill to fix the standard of value in the United States and for other purposes. Th bill provides in substance that the standard of value in the United States shall be the gold dollar, that all con tracts existing and in the future shall be computed in reference to that stand ard, that there shall he established in the Treasury a department of issue and redemption, that the greenbacks shall bo retired and upon retirement that gold bills shall be substituted therefor. No silver dollars are to be hereafter coined except from bullion in the treas ury, the Secretary of the Treasury in bis discretion to coin silver into subsi diary coin as public urgency demands and tin- recoinage of old. worn, nnctir reut. subsidiary coin without special ap propriation therefor; such coinage of bul lion to be concurrent with the retirement of treasury notes the,same as if -oined into silveiv «Jo ayyl the crtldag, ,«£ suc h subsidiary coin not to be limited"To $50,000,000. There is to be a separation of treas ury aeouuts between issue and financial transactions; a gold reserve of outstand ing notes and treasury notes is to be' maintained; also five per cent gold re serve of tlie agregate silver dollars: a comon fend for the redemption of all notes. The retirement of the green backs is for the first five years an amount equal to the increase of nation tional bank notes issued subsequent to the taking effect of the act; twenty per cent to be retired amially during the next five years and greenbacks to erase to be legal tender at the ml of 10 yars. Gold and currency certificates to be cancelled as paid and not reissued: no national bank notes under $lO, and no silver certificates over $5 are to be is sued. The tax on national banks is to be changed from the circulation to one tentli of one per cent on capital, surplus and undivided profits. The bill repeals all existing restric tions on the withdrawal and Ksu? r.f national bank notes at will; banks may issue notes to full value of bonds de posited. Nn‘.i >na 1 banks wdU a capital of $25,000 and in cities of 3.000 popula tion may be established: branch banks may be provided under regulations of the comptroller of the currency. CHEMICALS WERE FOUND. The Government Chemist Analyzes the Fluid Left By Dr. Italy. Washington. Jan. 21. —Prof. F. W. Clarke, chemist of the United States Geological Survey, to-day reported to the war investigting commission that his test of the powder furnished by Surgeon Daly as being the residuum from the boiling down of a portion of the con demned beef on the Panama, disclosed the presence of both bone and salicylic acids. Prof. Clarke took tin- witness stand and was closely examined. He said the powder was of a brownish col or.' while pure borax is white, but did not explain the difference. Witness said he could say nothing of the origin of the materials tested, nor could lie Mate the probable amount c.' these chemical agents used that would be extracted in making tea from tin beef without more material and longer time. Large quantities of such chemi cals for preservatives, however, he said would he unnecessary and would be an expensive waste. Tile boric acid, in said. imparts no odor whatever to meat. The salicylic acid also, lie said, was odorless, and he could not say whether it forms any compounds with the flesh of cattle that would product- odor. "Would it not be probable,” he was asked, “that meat kept for a time, vary ing from one to twelve weeks in cold storage, covered by cheese cloth would be affected by the substance in the cheese cloth?” "I should think so.” was the reply. "Is it possible to get both these agents present?” “Yes, sir. We found that in the ma terial submitted purporting to be a meat extract.” “It does not necessarily follow, then,” suggested General Beaver, “that the product you examined came from beef lea ?” “No. 1 think not. 1 did not inquire into its origin.” General Beaver read from Surgeon Daly’s report on the beef on the Pana ma. procured at Ponce, saying some of it “tasted like decompose x boric acid.” “Now.” be asked, “if there is not any perceptible taste in boric acid, would its list- in any quantity in meat impart any such taste?” “I should say not,” answered the wit ness. “Then we have disposed of that?” commented General Beaver. Witness said lie knew of no such thing its decomposed boric acid, and that from a scientific point of view the expression was meaningless: that boric acid in such quantities as likely would be used, would leave no taste in the mouth of an in dividual as had been testified to yester day by Surgeon Daly. “Would the treatment of boric or salicylic acid make any difference in the odor or stench from decayed beef?” in terrupted ex-Governor Woodbury. “That would take actual experiment,” was the reply, “there might be some •slightly different product of putrefac tion.” Asked as to the effect on health of using beef injected with the boric acid, witness said it would be relatively harm less. but that tlie use of salicylic acid would be different, aw was prohibited by most European countries. The use of the boric acid on meat furnished troops in his opinion, would be of very little importance from a health view, but the salicylic acid would be objectionable. The effect of the preservatives, he said, was to make tin* meat keep longer. If the meat were kept twenty-four hours after leaving the refrigerator, the chemi cals might retard putrefaction. "If the boric acid were used in the meat would it impart, as has been testi fied to. a taste so bitter, nauseous and unpalatable as to make it unfit for use?” witness was asked, and he replied: “No. sir.” Paymasters Henry G. Colbert and Thomas 11. Hicks. U. S. N., also testi fied. The former told of large purchases of beef he had made for the navy from the same firm which supplied the army. He said the meat gave general satisfac tion. When asked if there were any evi dences of chemicals being used, he an swered in the negative. BILL FOR AN ARMY POST INTRODUCED BY SENATOR PRITCHARD INTO THE SENATE. PosMo be Within 10 Mites of Raleigh. The Eill Carries SIOO,OOO Appropriation fir Us Fs'ab islvwni. Washington. I>. C.. Jan. 21. —(Special.) —North Carolina items in the River and Harbor Bill, are as. follows: North east (Cape Fear) river. $2,000: Cape Fear river, (above Wilmington) $2,50u; Cape Fear river (at and below Wilming) ton). $150,000. Senator Pritchard today introduced a bill for tin- establishment of a military post at Raleigh. Under its terms not loss than 040 acres, nor more than 2,000 acres, to bo selected within ten miles of Raleigh, the site to be approved by (be Commanding General of the army. The bill carries an appropriation of SIOO,OOO for the purpose. The Senator believes 'here is an ex cellent chance of securing the establish ment of the best. A YOUTHFUL CRIMINAL. Much Cotton Left in the Fields —Sur- veys for New Cotton Mill—New Flour Mill—Siuall-Pox Scare. Weldon. N. C.. Jan. 21.—(Special.)— Dotley Wilkins, colored, was arrested here charged with breaking into the store of A. L. Stain-back and stealing over SIOO worth of jewelry. Wilkins con fessed his guilt, and is now in jail. He also confessed -that lie was ring-leader in various other robberies which have re cently occurred here. He is only about fifteen years old, yet he lias been in jail for stealing before, and Is thoroughly bad. It is surprising to note how much cot ten there is remaining in the field un picked. Many of the fields in this sec tion look as it’ they have not been picked at all. The merchants here are much inter ested in the meeting recently held by Raleigh merchants looking to a repeal of the purchase tax. Surveys are being made for the new cotton mill here, and it is expected that work will begin before February Ist. Tlie new flour mill will be started up here next week. This mill will put up seventy-five barrels per day. The small-pox scare has taken posses sion of some sections of Northampton county. It is thought, however, that tin ease reported there is not a genuine ease of small-pox at all. NEW ENTERPRISE IN TYRRELL. Columbia, N. Jan. 21.—(Special.)— The Bra lining Manufacturing Company has purchased, a six-acre mill site in Columbia and will move one of then large mil is heretofore at Edenton and erect it here. Tlie same company is preparing to enlarge the draws in the county bridges spanning the Scupper nong river to accommodate the increase in traffic occasioned by their extensive operations on the Seuppernong river. This enterprise means a great deal to the business elements of Columbia. Tyrrell county ships tons of fresh pork to the Northern markets every week, and the fresh pork supply of Norfolk and vicinity is derived from the Scup pernong river. There are now four Mormon elders la boring in Tyrrell county. WAB THREATENED AfiAIN IB PHILIPPINES Fortifications at Iloilo Now Completed. OTHER NOW IN PROGRESS VI SAYAN PRESIDENT DEFIES M’KINLEY’S AUTHORITY. FALSE RUMORS OF AT T ACK ON MANILA An Excitable Filipino Lieutenant Almost Precip itates a f onflict with Americans by his Disregard of Pickets. Hostility of Filipino Presi. Manila, Jan. 15th, via Ilong Kong. Jan. 21.—Private advices received here from Iloilo differ materially from the official reports. They say the rebels have completed their fortifications there, and that they are now fortifying Gui naras Island. The American forces are still on board the transports Newport, Arizona and Pennsylvania, wheh are anchored close to Guinaras Island. The rebel authorities at Iloilo, it is added, have granted permission to land unarm ed, parties, not exceeding five in number, if accompanied by a native officer. The offer, however, was declined, but the rebels subsequently permitted officers; to land, furnishing them with an escort. President Lopez, of the Yisavan Fed eration has replied to President Mc- Kinley’s proclamation of the ninth. He claims that the revolutionary Govern ment antedates the Paris treaty by over two years. Me also says he lias never been officially notified of tlie existence of the treaty and that, therefore, he dc dines to recognize American authority and refuses to allow Americans to dis embark in force without express ord r.- frorii the (Government »« Mpiolos. General Miller, the commander of the American expedition replied that the Americans cannot recognize the Presi dent's authority because the Filipino Republic is not recognized by the pow ers. He also expressed regret at the de termination of the Filipinos to resist just claims. The United States gunboat Petrel and the Spanish gunboat El Cano are near Hod . Tlie natives at the fort mistook tln- United States cruiser Baltimore’s meal pennant for a challenge and have hoisted a red rag on the fort thrice daily, lower ing it simultaneously with the Balti more’s pennant. The United States transport Indiana has gone to Iloilo with dispatches to General Miller from General Otis and coal for the expedition. The British second class cruiser Bon aventure and the German second class cruiser Irene have returned here. Both the Iloilo banks have sent their treasure here. The American and Filipino commis sioners are reported to have conferred at the Filipino club with unsatisfactory results. The natives allege that they must have official recognition before dis cussing the question of a protectorate. Another conference is believed to have been arranged for to-morrow night, but the officials here decline to confirm or deny this statement. Coasting steamers which have arrived here report that the natives are fortify ing Falbayog and the Island of Samar, refusing to allow Americans to land there. The garrison consists of a thou sand men armed with spears and holos. They have only six rifles. Owing to persistent rumors of a con templated attack upon Manila on Sat urday and Sunday, the American troops were confined to their quarters, all tin guards were doubled and. as a measure of precaution, foreign flags were dis played on the business and private houses everywhere, as on the day of the entry of the Americans into the city. The Eseolla. the usually busy thorough fare, was deserted on Saturday night. ALMOST A BATTLE. Manila, a.Jn .13. —Via Ilong Ivong, Jan. 21. —The Americans and Filipinos were probably nearer a conflict this af ternoon than at any time since the oc cupation. Fortunately the matter was amicably adjusted. A Filipino Lieuten ant. imagining that his men had been in sulted by some American troops, march ed a company of forty armed natives to the line of the Americans, and the sen tries, forty in number, back of the Mon tana regiment. in obedience to orders were compelled to retire to the outpost in order to avoid trouble. As the Fili pino disobeyed the command to halt, de ployed in the cam-brake and assumed a determined, threatening attitude, Lieu tenant Jansen, who was in command of the post, telegraphed to the brigade headquarters and General Otis person ally investigated the matter. The Fili pino Lieutenant was most excited, ami General Otis insisted upon interviewing his superior officer. Consequently the Filipino Captain was summoned and he was also found to be excited. As a result of the conference, he admitted that the Filipino Lieutenant had exceed ed his authority. His men were drawn in line, saluted. courtesies were ex changed. and the Filipinos retired. Another proclamation, purporting to be issued by an Amt-riean and signed “W. T.” appeared on Friday and appealed in broken English to brother Americans and comrades to let the Filipinos alone and that “if their officers compelled them to fire to please fire in the air pretend to favor annexation,” and alleged This proclamation also appealed to Americans to disregard Filipinos "who pretend to favor annexation,“and alleged that the “American agitation to hold the islands is fostered by a few officers who are making money thereby.” The proclamation concluded with para phrasing the Monroe Doctrine in the words "the Philippines for the Filipi nos.” A native dentist here, named Arovelo. has been arrested. He denies the au thorship of the document but admits connection with it. Other arrests are probable. He was twice imprisoned by the Spaniards for treason. He was formerly an aide to Aguinablo, and bis arrest caused consternation among the- Filipinos. The native paper Independence, which is now published at Malolos was unusu ally vindictive to-day. Commenting upon the situation it says: “The Americans are trying all the time to excite the Filipinos to commence hos tilities. in the meantime, tricking the natives for the purpose of gaining time necessary for bringing out reinforce ments.” The paper adds: “The proclamation which was sup pressed. for which Arvelo was arrested, appears to have hit the nail on the head. The Filipinos need fear nothing. The American soldiers are completely de moralized. They are unwilling to fight a free people who are only demanding their rights.” The idea of possible deception is prob ably more general than the authorities know. A Filipino officer said to the cor respondent that it was ridiculous for the Americans to think that the Filipinos be lieve they are bringing more troops and warships here to establish a protectorate over a country for which $20,000,000 has been paid. The Malolos Government is inflexible, and Aguinablo’s determined stand seems 1o have temporarily welded all factious together. TOBRINGHOMEGUR DEAD THOSE WHO FELL OR DIED OF DISEASE AFOUND SANTIAGO. The Transport Roumanian Wi : l Now go to New York to be Fitted Out for This Purscse. Savannah, Ga., Jan. 21.—Word was received by Colonel Bellinger yesterday that the transport Roumanian would not come back to Savannah from her present trip to Ma.tanzas. Instead she is to go to New York. There she will be equip ped as a transport for the cietfd. Making with her a large force of undertakers and helpers and a large supply of cof fins and other supplies for the dead, the Roumanian will go to Santiago. There the bodies of the American soldiers who died from fever or who fell in the bat iks that preceded the capitulation of the city, will be disinterred and prepared for removal on the transport to their homes in this country. There were many hun dreds who died from disease or wounds or were shot dead in the struggles .be tween the contending forces. The work of removing and preparing the bodies will take some time. The Roumanian is a large vessel and can bring all of the heroic dead back to their country. The vessel, it is understood, will go to New York from Santiago, the bodies being distributed from there to the relatives and friends of the dead throughout the country. Some reception that will indicate tin sentiments of the country toward those who fell in Cuba will, no doubt, be ar ranged for at the port of entry. DEATH ON SUNSET LIMITED. A Fin-man’s Failure to Close Swith Re sults in Two Deaths. New Orleans. La., Jan. 21.—An acci dent to the Southern Pacific’s “Su w-t Limited” fast trans-continental train be tween New Orleans and San Francisco occurred at Laooste, 2(? miles west of Santonin Friday morning, and was caused by the fireman of the light en gine failing to close the switch into which his engine had retired to give* ike main track to the famous train. Tie “ Sunset Limited” had reduced its speed as it neared the meeting point and was moving at a 12-mile rate when it ran in to the open switch, colliding with the light engine on the siding. The latter was almost demolished and exploded, killing its engineer and fatally scalding the fireman of the Limited, besides badly injuring its own fireman. ' t FAMILIES IN HOT BATTLE. It Goes on for Hours and Several are Killed and Wounded. Nashville, Tenn.. Jan. 21. —Yesterday, on the line betweu Lee comity. Va., and Hancock county. Tenn.. a section re mote from the telegraph, a battle oc curred between twenty members of the Eddy family of Virginia and the Ram sey family of Tennessee. The battle lasted several hours, dur ing which a number of men on both sides were killed and wounded. A quar rel of long standing resulted in the tight, particulars of which are not at pres ent obtainable. A apartments have been secured at the Kbitt House for the Eagan court, mar tial, which is expected to begin its see sious there next Wednesday. THIRD EDITION; PRICE FIVE CUNTS. LEST K&SET / iEIR BuBS Os DUG A Record of Them Will be Published, LEGISLATURE SO ORDERS A NORTH CAROLINA HISTORY OF THE WAR. WRITTEN BY [NORTH CAROLINA SOLDIERS The Sketches Have Been Collected and Edited by Walter Clark. 11 quent Speeches in the He us a Yesterday. “Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget, lest we forget.” If was with these words, from Kip ling's Recessional, that Mr. 11. C. Wall, of Richmond county, yesterday closed one of the most eloquent speeches that has been beau) in the House during this session of the General Assembly. He was pleading for the publication, by the State, of a history of North Car olina's soldiers in the Civil War. Straight as an Indian and vigorous as a man of twenty summers, stood this gray-haired veteran of many a hard fought battle—asking a perpetuation of the deeds of his comrades during that terrible four years of civil strife. His words were eloquent, his sentiments were lofty, his argument convincing. Time and again his speech was inter rupted by applause from his fellow members, while fair-faced women smiled approval from the crowded gallery. No less generous was the applause that greeted (’apt. Caraway, of Lenoir, during the delivery of h:s speech—filled as it was with lofty sentiment and pa triotic utterance. The debn'o was brought to a fitting (lose by Mr. Dan Hugh Mi Lend, of Harnett. Though his speech was short— consisting of hardly a dozen sentences— he lias never uttered anything more truly beautiful, more entirely approp riate. He hoped his rising to say a word would not be construed into an appre hension on his part that this bill would not pass. He knew it would pass—with out a word from him, without a word from anybody. “We would dishonor ourselves, dis honor the State, if we failed to pass it. The dead and living soldier in that memorable strife we cannot dishonor. They have glory enough, hewn out with their own hands. It is the perpetuation of this record that is asked by this bill. “The youth of the future will read it with pride. They will find recorded there the dees of their fathers. We need a Southern history of this conflict, for I had rather the stars be blotted from the skies than that any son of a Con federate veteran should Over think his father had worn a traitor's uniform." Referring to Senator Butler’s bill to pension Confederate soldiers by the Unltr.<l States government, Mr. McLean said: “This man does not represent the ge nius and sentiment of the South—the soldier who has written his name in imperishable letters on the scroll of fame. No wonder they have spurned it and trampled it under foot. They ask no alms, they ask only simple jus tice.” The sketches, Air. Wall said, had been written by a survivor of each command and collected and edited by Justice "Wal ter Clark, of North Carolina. He bad secured sketches of about three-fourths of the 70 regiments sent into the war by North Carolina. “It has been a great work, a hard work, but it has been a labor of love, and be will continue to bend his energies to this task until the whole story of North Carolina's devotion to the cause of the South is told. North Carolina is great in peace, but she is greatest in war. Never lias she seemed so great as when she sent her 125.000 soldiers to the front to follow the Stars and Bars. “If you had seen the Fifth North Carolina regiment ns I saw it, dash to the charge of Williamsburg on the memorable stli of April, 1802—if you had seen North Carolina’s soldiers there following the leadership of the gallant Duncan Macßae. his plume waving al- Avays where the tight was the thickest, you, too. would have said the Old North State had cause to lie proud of her boys in gray. "This. sir. is an important bill. It is a measure intended to record forever and preserve to posterity the heroism of their forefathers. “Another Legislature, with no unstint ed band and with commendable generosi ty, has erected yonder monument. Let us erect this monument. Tt takes but a paltry sum to do it, but this record will be more enduring than yonder. “I congratulate my brothers on the re cent utterance of the President that all the country should scatter flowers on tht' grans of the Confederate dead. It is the death blow to sectionalism. For those utterances, I thank President Mc- Kinley. but I beg to be excused. Let us care for our own dead. Let them care for theirs. As f,,r the living, let us be brothers. The idea of asking for pensions, though, is preposterous ami I’m glad to see that the Confederate vet. erans all over the State, and the entire (Continued ou Second Page.) Yesterday.

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