North Carolina Newspapers

THE- - 3: GKAJiTHAii & PiTTiiAF,. l'roprietcra. "PROVE ALL TFJNG3 AND HOLD FAST TO THAT WHICH IS GOOD." 1.00 Per jYearln Advaate. VOL, VI. DUNN, ,N. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1896 NO.l mm i t - i ORTH STATE f CULLINGS. OCCURRENCES WORTH NOTINCJ 3TC03! ALL-OYEH THE STATE. Sale of Bessemer City Property. Messrs. E. T: Carriugton and E. A. Cocley, of -Bay City, Mich., and J. S. Carr and W. A. Gulhiie attended the f;la of the Bessemer City mining .property on Monday. A. largo number of ton lota were first sold and the bidding v,&3 lively and they brought a good price. The mining plant was bid off by Mr. E. A. Cooley for $20, 000. The property was sold pursuant to an-order of the court by J. S. Carr -mulE. T. Carrington, receivers. Mr. Carrlngton represents largo interests in Michigan. Mr. Cooley is a son of the 'distinguished. Michigan jurist, Judge Cooley, and has an extensive prat-rice in his State. Car Wheels Made in Raleigh. The car wheel works in llaleigh have made 1,000 wheels for the Seaboard Air Line, as many for the Southern, 100 for the Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley and also filled orders for all the other lines in tho State, Vavo tho Atlantio Coast Lino and the Norfolk & Western. The iron comes from Alabama mainly and the moulding sand from near Gib f oa Station. Charcord iron is used for wheels. Most of tho other castings of the Seaboard Air Line are made a these works, under contract. ;- Given a Chance. James D. Morgan, ex-treasurer of the State colored grand lodge of Ma eon?, who embezzled S53A of its funds, fled the State, was found at Asbury Park, N. J., and brought back on requisition last. autumn, pleaded guilty -oi tho crime in the Superior Court at llaleigh on Thursday. lie w&s, upon motion-of tho -solicitor and at the re quest of Grund Muster Whits and Grand Secretary Stevens, who "were here as witnesses, given an oppor tunity to reimburse the grand lodge for" the shortage, and if ho does this end pays the costs, judgment is to be euspended. Twentieth Annual State Convention. The twentieth annual State Conven tion of the Young Men's Christian As sociations of North Carolina, will be held March lfJ to 22, at Charlotte. An interesting program is being prepared. Some btrong speakers have already agreed to be present. Every associa tion in the State should be represented by as many delegates as possible. STATE NEW S DOTS. - Gus Shook was found near Newton j Sunday evening frozen to death. The wagon factory at lialeigh made ; last vear 1,500 wagons aW sold them all.-" " President Cleveland has nominated ; S. A. Freeman" for Postmaster at Bur- lington. It is baid that the recent "Wake For ; est tiro had it: origin with a boy and r cigarette. ; Newberno is making grand prepara- Hons for the fair to bo held there on j Feb. 21th to 20th inclusive. A Coast Line shifting engine ran ! .over and killed a black man ou a street : crossing in Uoldsboro Tuesday after i noon. . j- An effort is being made to organize i a company for tho manufacture of ;- Peanut oil and Food Products in I Raleigh. I '.. : t f The directors of the llaleigh Gas i Company and the Caraleigh Cotton i Mills have declared 3 per cent. -semi -I annual dividends. Josephus Daniels has gone to Wash i in'gtoa to appear in a suit against the News and Observer Publishing Com j r any for $10,000. Tho Davidson Dispatch learns that Dr. II. L. Payne, who recently moved from Lexington to Norfolk, Va., has I been appointed railroad surgeon at a salary of $2,000 a year. A letter from the State University : says the number of students dismissed : for gambling and hazing was 12. -Their parents were notified that their boys must not be sent back. In the Superior Court at Raleigh on Thursday, Mrs. Pattie D. B. Arring ton was found guilty of criminal libel. She had said soaio things about Law r ver. Spier Whittaker she ought not to have said. - Gastoni is agitating for waterworks and it is learned from the Gazette that an election is to be held on-the 10th of February to test the popular will on the question. It is estimated that the ; system will cost from 810,000 to $30, 000. - Thursday Rev. Joseph Potts, teller in the State Treasury, who is a Quaker, felt called to resume his work of preaching in Guilford county and so . resigned. His successor is Stephen L. Crowder, of Bidgeway, -who had for several months been one of the two c xaminers of State banks. A Suit to Annul the Charter of the Linseed Oil Trust. At Chicago III; in the Circuit Co -rt Attor ney General Moloney began proceedings to annul the charter of the National Linseed Oil Company, on the ground that it is a trust, operating in violation of the anti-trust laws oi ine&iate. xne company, wnicn controls the liasecd oil business in tho United States. comprises 16 corporations, representing an aggregate capacity of 18,000,000. Leave to begin the suit was granted by judge Gibbons, no opposition being offered by Y7. W. Gurleyr who appeared as counsel for the defendant I'ompany. - ; ' r COMMISSIONER LACY'S REPORT. He Recommends an 11-Hour Day In Factories. The annual report of the State Bureau of Labor statistics has been' issued, and covers cotton and woolen mills, farm labor and fisheries. The Commissioner recommends that a law bo passed fixing 11 hours as a day's labor in factories, and prohibiting tho employment of children under 12 years of age, and not allowing those between 12 and 14 to work unless they have a certificate bbowiug that they "attend school at least 12 weeks during the year end giving the Commissioner power to enforce these laws. There are now 1,558 children under fourteen years of age employed. His report says the average monthly wages of farm laborers are S3. 75 for men, $Jf75 for women and 2.90 for children. There has been a decrease in wages for two years. It costs 5 cents per pound to produce cotton In North Carolina; 60 cents to produce a bushel of wheat, 4.0 cents a bushel of corn, and30 cents a bushel of oats. Many letters from farmers are pub lished. Almost all of these call for mor money and a majority lay great stretson education. Farmers are in better condition than in yearB past, and are very largely raising their own supplies. The report says 30,000,000 pounds of cotton will be required this year in excees of 124,000,000 pounds consumed by factories last year; that ail factories aro running on full time and that there is no check in their progress Measels Epidemic In Union. There is an epidemic of measels raging in Union, the like of which has never been known there. It broke out in the Clifford Seminary and all the young ladies in the seminary who could have the measds took it and it spread to the graded school. Thence it was taken to the homes of tho chil dren, until it seemed that tho very air was impregnated with raeaseb. The disease spread so rapidly on Factory Hill that the mill was forced to sus pend operations awhile. So many of the pupils of the graded school have the measels that Principal "Waller gave two weeks' vacation. Very often whole families are down with the dis ease at once. From town it has spread to the country. When this is over there surely will have to be a new generation before the mensels can again get a foothold in Union.' Fortu nately this has proven to be a very mild type of measel3, and out of possibly five or six hundred caees there have only been two fatal cases that your correspondent has heard of. Chicken pox and whooping cough is also quite prevalent among the small children, but the whooping cough having gono the rounds a year ago, has not got the material to work on that the measels has. This is the first epidemic of measels in Union in a number of years. NO BUCKET SHOPS IN WINSTON. Mayor Gray Will Enforce the Anti Speculation Law. Mayor Gray, of Winston, has de clined to issue a license to a New York representative to open a depot in that city for speculation in stocks and fut ures, with telegraphic communications with Wall street. The mayor says there aro State laws which forbid deal ing in cotton, corn, tobacco, etc., when it is not intended that the arti cles sold shall be actually delivered. The law further declares that parties to such a contract aro guilty of misde meanor and punishable by fine of not less than 100 nor nioro than $500, with imprisonment at discretion of'tho court. It is understood that a simi lar establishment is being operated in Greensboro, Raleigh and other towns in the State. The law forbidding it is, of course, equally applicable to those places. The Biblical Ueeorder Sold. Edwards & Broughtor ,of Baleig, have bought the Biblical ilecorder, tho organ of the North Carolina Baptists, from Mrs. Mary L. Bailey, widow of Bev. C. T. Bailey. The latter was for twenty years its editor and was suc ceeded by his son, "J. Wm. Bailey, who will continue in that position under the new proprietorship. The Biblical Recorder was established in 1833, and is widely known among Southern Baptists. NEGRO E3IIGRANTS TO LIBERIA. The Laurada AVI11 Take a Load of Them. The International Migration Society, of Birnaiughani. Ala., has chartered the steamer Laurada to carry 400 colored people from Savannah to Tvlonrovia, Liberia. The Lau rada will leave Philadelphia for Sannah with a general cargo of about 800 tons and will, at Savannah, take on board the negroes and sail on February 27th for Monrovia. Mean time a special train will start from Memphis and run'throughout the States of Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia to pick up the colored people who desire to go to Liberia to live. Men, women and children will be taken, but the so?iety will endeavo,r to select men who have had experience in farming Bhoemaking,. carpentering and other mechanical trades. Landing at Monrovia the meni will be obliged to declare their intention to become citizens of the republic, after which declara tion each family will be given 25 acres of land. A temporary home in Monrovia will be provided for the Immigrants until they are enabled to start ia with their various pursuits. Tue United States minister to Liberia in forms the society that the 200 negroes taken there on the steamer Horsa in March last are dcing well and that there is a demand for neeroes of mechanical genius and ., thrifty habits. Depart ;aent Appointments. C. W. Gray, of Georgia, has been appoint ed receiving clerk of the General Land Office, Interior Department, at 51,800; Albert Wiggleswortn, of New York, fourth assist ant examiner of the Patent Office. K. B. "Wilton, of New York, has resigned as fourth assistant examiner in the Patent Office. LATEST HEWS IN BRIEF. GLEANINGS FR03I MANY PO tNTS. Important Happenings, Both - flome and Foreign, Briefly Told. j Ncyvsy Soutnern Notes. The Populists of Louisiana have nominated i- A. Booth, of Now Or leans, for governor. Ex-Governor Barnett Gibbs- of Tex as, who has been a Democrat, lxai gone over to tho Populists. . - - Sixteen vessels of various nationali ties aro loading at Mobile, Ala., the largest number in her history Ex-Senator Butler of South Caroli na, ha3 been engaged by the Cramps, ship-builders, as their attorney. The Chattanooga, Tenn., Press has suspended publication. Its withdraw al from tho field of journalism leaves but one Bepublican afternoon daily south of the Ohio River. Tho Carthage, N. C, Blade tells of a Mooro oouuty hog so big- it could not be weighed. That is almost asJ big as those recently published by the Charleston, S. C, News and Courier. Mrs. Cornelia Seibeles, of Augusta, Ga., has been found wandering about tho streets of London insane, with $1,000 in her possession. She went to Germany last November with the hope of recovering $50,000,000 as an heir of the great Seibeles estate. Tho Maryland House of Delegates passed a resolution strongly endorsing the Monroe Doctrine and expressing gratification at tho "appointment of two of our most highly respected cit izens as members of tho reaently ap pointed Venezuelan commission." "Two whito boysi James Kelly and Will Koacb, were arrested near Rin gold, Ga., Friday or the murderous attempt to wreck tho Washington ves-! tibuled train on tho Southern Railway! last December at Cleveland, Tenn.' The youths had been reading stories of train robberies. Tho grand jury at Chattanooga, Tenn., have returned an indictment against David L. Snodgrass, chief jus tice of Tennessee, for felonious assault. The return is the outcome of the judge's , assault in Congressman Brown's office on attorney John R. Beasley, who is still confined to his room with a fractured arm. Gen. J. B. Gordon, commanding the Un ion Confederate Veterans Associa-! tion, has designated Friday, May 1,: as Memorial Festival day. The day is set apart for the uso of the women of the South, in raising funds for tho battle abboy towards the construction of which Mr. Charles Broadway Rouss has contributed $100,000. Mr. Rouss; contributed tho amount with the pro viso that an additional $100,000 should be raised by the. Confederate Veterans'; Association. Northern News Notes. A nieco of Thomas A. Hendricks has been licensed to practice law. New York city has raiaed $40,000 to' securo the holding of the next national; Democratio convention there. Rev. Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst says' he is in favor "of opening respectable1 sakons during certain hours on Sun-j dav. Robbers blew open th safe of thei Bank of Fayette at..Fayette, O., Tues-j day night. They got between $3,0001 and 15,000. Since a board of pardons was estab-; hshed in Ohio, the number of pardons, granted has been reduced from 4 J per1 cent, to lj percent. , Pad Calhoun recently netted $100,-; 000 by consolidating the Pittsburg! street railways. Here'B Southernj brains imported to Pennsylvania. It is reported that the Piillman com pany has yielded to pressure to some extent, and concluded to make a 25 per cent, reduction in the price of up per berths. Martha Myers, former keeper of a disreputable houso in Philadelphia, testified before the Senate Investigating Committee that she had paid money to policemen for protection. Mr. Partridge an ex-minister to Venezuela and trusted agent of the State Department, will probably be clerk to the Venezulan commission. He is a nephew of Senator Proctor, and a Republican. Secretary Herbert delivered an ad dress in New York at the Celebration Lof Jackson Day, the 18th anniversary of the battle of New Orleans, by the Business Men's Democratic Associa tion of that city. At New York on Thursday United States District Attorney McFarlane filed a bill of complaint in the United States Circuit Court in the name of the United States against the thirty-two railroad companies constituting the Joint Tariff Association and has given notice that they will, on January 17th; make a motion to restrain them from operating under their agreement. Washington. In accordance with the joint resolu tion of Congress, Secretary Herbert on Thursday, immediately upon his, return from New York, accepted the ram Katahdin in behalf of the govern ment. - At the close of business on Wednes day the National Treasury gold reserved stood at So 7, 826,24. The withdrawals at New York amounted to $420,000 of which $20,000 was in bars and $400, 000 in coin. Approximate estimates -of the gold and Silver output of the United States for 1895 have been reported to the Director of the Mint. The total is $56,641,000 of gold and 51,000,000 fine ounces of silver. Tho Director of the Mint thinks thie a little high. The general pension bill for the year ending Juno 30, 1897, as reported lo the Houso Thursday by Mr. Blue, f Kansas, carries an appropriation bf $141,325,820, being $58,750 below tae estimate and $55,750 lesa than the ap propriation for the current fiscal year. - , . Foreign. J The English Evangelical Alliance opened a week's cession of prayer far peac8 in London on Wednesday in concert with the United Evangelical Alliance. i TELEGRAPHIC TICKS. Gen. Goxneas writes -froui Cuba tp Senor Palma, at Washington, that the patriots are very successful in - their modo ofitwarfare, and aro enthusiastic. Sir Mackenzie Bowell has decided not to resign as Premier of the Canad ian government, it seems, and suc ceeded in reorganizing a temporary cabinet ' . At Raleigh, N. C, on Saturday, $. P. SatterfieAd, principal clerk of the House of Representatives, was convict ed of fraud in connection with the acft to regulate assignments. General Francis Channing Barlovf, the former Attorney General of Nefr York State and a widely known lawyei, died at his homo in New York diry Saturday in his 61st year. At, Chicago, Ills., the factory of E. W. Gillet & Co., manufacturers Of baking powders and, flavoring extracts, was almost totally destroyed by fir. Loss $175,000, fully covered by insu rance. At St. Louis, Mo., lire destroyed the five story building operated by Seigel, Hilman fcCo., dealers in dry goods and notions. The building and contends were a total loss, estimaiod at $236,000 and covered by insurance. j Tho Louisiana Supreme Court at New Orleans has rendered a decision in the matter of a writ of habes corpus ap plied for" in behalf of the convicted councilman, Dudoussat. The writ is denied and ho must serve his sentence in the penitentiary. I Spanish Minister Do Lome, at Washington, says the burning of the Cuban cano fields by the insurgents will only deprive the Spanish govern ment of Cuba of less than half a niillioh dollars. , " CLEVELAND TO CAFFERYI THE PRESIDENT WRITES ON THE BOND ISSUE. The Highly Honorable Motives Aetu- gotiatiug the Sale of Bonds. . Senator Caffery, of Lousiana, has mad! public a letter of tho President to him, which, had opportunity presented since Monday, h would have incorporated in remarks which he intended to make in the Senate on the bond bill. It reads: "ExEcuTiv,: Mansio ) Wasui:, jto', D. C . , Jan. 5thlS96. ) My Deas Sexatoii: I have read today li me congressional iiecora too aeoate iq the Senato on Fnday concerning tho fluan ciai situation ana bond is; ues. 1 am amazed at the intoiemnee that leads eveu excited partisanship to adopt, as a basis of attack! the unfounded accusations and assertions of a maliciously mendacious and sensational newspaper. No banker or financier nor an other human being has been invited to visii; Washington for tho purpose of arranging in) any way or manner ior the disposition oi bonds to meet the present or future needs of Ihe gold reserve. No arrangement of ans kind has been made for the disposition of such bonds lo any syndicate or tnrough anj? agency of any syndicate. No assurance of such a disposal vi bonds has been directly oi indirectly, giTse to any person. In point oi fact a decided loaning towards a popuiai. loan and advertising ior bids has been plain! ly exhibited on the part of the admlnistra tion at all times when the subject was undef discussion. .- "Those charged with the responsibility of maintaining oiu-gold reserve, so lar as ex change renders it possible, have anxiousij. conferred wittf cacn other, and, U3 occasion permitted, with those having knowledge o Unancial ailairs and present monetary con4 anions, as to the otibt aud most lavorauid means ol selling bonds lor gold. The una sual importance of a successful result, if thd attempt is again made, ougnt to bo apparent to every American citizen who bestows upon; the subject a moment's patriotic thought.- "The Secretary of the Treasury, from th first moment that tne necessity of another: 6aie of bonds seemed to be approaching, de4 sired to offer them, if issued to the people, byl public advertisement if they couia tnus boi sujeesoiuiiy aisposed of. After fuil consid4 eration he eauid to the conclusion, with which I fully agree, that the amount of gold in tho reserve, i.eiu!f now $20,000,000 mot than it was in i'ebruary last, wiita a eale o bonds was mado to a byudicate, and other! conditions diffeiiiig from those then existing, justity us in oifenug the bonds now about id be issued for saie by popular suuscription. 'This is thS entire matter; and ail thesaj particulars could have been easily obtained by any member of thu senate by bimpiy in-s quiring. it -ur. Morgan, or any one else, reason-i ing from his own ttandpeiut. brought him-f eeif to the belief that mat the government! would at length be constrained to again eell bonds to a syndicate, I suppose hy would have a perfect right, if he c...se, to take such Bteps as seemed to nun to put Liuiself In con-l dition to negotiate. , J "I expect aa issue of bonds will be adver4 tised for sale to-morrow, and that bids will' be invited not only f.r those now allowed by!, law but for such other and din'erent bonds as CoDress may authorize during th pendency cf the advertisement. "Not having had an opportunity to conferf with you in jerscn since'the present session! of Congress began, and noticing your par- icipation in tho debate of last Friday, I have? thought it not amies to jvt yu hi possession! of the facts and information herein eon-f ained. Yours very tru;y. f "GKOViU CLEVELAND, i 'Hen. Donaldson C.uTerv, lSSi 19th Street K. W." - ' 1 ' New Race of African White Men. I - A strange story comes from the Gold CoastI of a race of white men, with light hair and: blue eyes, dwelling in cave3 to the northeast; of the Koranza couutry, through which thet Ashantee expedition is to march. - 1 - - . THE Fl FT V-FOURTH CONGRESS. A Synopsis of tho Proceedings of Both Houses. THE SE3TATE. There was a fair attendance of Senators on Tuesday, and the galleries were well filled. Tho House bond bill was reported, with a substitute. A joint resolution was Intro duced authorizing Gen. Casey (ta charge of tho new library building) to contract for work yet to be done, so as to have tho work completed wit bin a year from this time and within the appropriation made for the pur pose. A resolution was also offered and re ferred to the library committee for tho pur chase, at $250, of a portrait of the late Allen G. Thurman, now hanging ia the room of the Senate judiciary, committee. At the reauest of Mr. Eikins, his resolution requiring United States bends to te issued after public advertisement was referred to the " fi nance committee. Mr. Chandler introduced a popular loan hill and proceeded to explain tt. i-It. Alien, PopnUil, oi.Xebrr.oka, offered a resolution for the appointment of a commit tee of five Senators to Inquire whether there is and has been for the last two and a half years, a republican form of government in the State of Alabama; whether there was fraud, foree? intimidation or other unfairness ia the elections of members of the Legisla ture and of members of CoDgress. The reso lution offered by Mr. Sherman, on Deoember 31st, declaring that the use of the gold re serve to supply deflciencies is of doubtful legality and greatly injurious to the public credit, and that a sum of not less than $100, 000,000 in gold coin or bullion should be re stored to the Treasury and segregated from all other funds, was taken up, and Mr. Vest. Democrat, of Missouri, add res3ed the Senate upon it. lie made a vehement argument against the gold standard aad national banks. Vest's speech consumed the remainder of the time of the session. - The session of the Senate Wednesday oc cupied less than an hour's time the rest of tho afternoon being given up to the caucus of Republican Senators to agree upon a line of action on the House tariff bill. The only incident of note during the fifteen minutes of the session were these: The swearing in of Senator Wolcott, Republican, of Colorado, for his new term; the reporting of an impor tant biii from the committee on naval affairs for tho enlistment of additional men for the navy, and the notice of Mr. Butler, Populist, of North Carolina, of amendments to the Ilouse bond bill, with the free coinage sub stitute. The amendments propose to pro hibit any issue of United States bond3 with out the authority of Congress and to require the payment of greenbacks. Treasury notes and the interest and principal of bonds in either gold or silver, but in the cheaper of those metals. Senator Pritchard introduced a bill in the Senato Thursday to have Levi Jones, late first lieutenant of Company B, Second North Carolina Mounted Infantry, receive pay and allowance from the 1st of October, 13S3. to the 1st of May, 18Ci; also a bill for the relief of Matthew N. and John S. Leary, simular to Representative Settle's. lie presented the petition of Arthur Green to be allowed arrears of pension. Senator Tillman pre sented the same resolutions from ' various Charleston bodies in favor of the coast de fence bill as were presented by Representa tive Elliott in the House on Wednesday. After a short executive session the Senate adjourned for the day. After tho transaction of some routine morning business Friday, Mr. Pritchard, of North Carolina, addressed the Senate in ad vocacy of an amendment intended to be offered by him to the emergency tariff bill. The amendment Is to impose or increase duties on clays or earths, lime, marble and stone and their manufactures, chromlo ore, iron ore, timber and lumber, leaf tobacco, live animals and agricultural products. Mr. Hill replied to Mr. Pritchard's speech, al though he did not, he said, intend to open up a tariff discussion. It .was somewhat difficult for this Congress to gratify the peo ple of North Carolina. That State had sent recently t the Senate two distinguished gen tlf men elected, substantially, at the same time, by the same body, and by tho same combination. One of them, Mr. Butler, in his speech the other day had arraigned the Democratio party for being false to its pledges on tariff reform, and had given that as his reason for leaving tho Democratio party and joining the Populists. Now came the other end of the combination, and said the people of North Carolina were extreme high protectionists and wanted the re enactment of the McKinley law. Ho (Mr. Hill) did not know how both of these Sena tors could be gratified. Laughter. Mr. White, of California, addressed the Senate in advocacy of his own and Senator Hill's reso lutions to amend the rules so as to establish the cloture system . The House bond bill, with its free silver sub stitute was then taken up and dis cussed, but no action wa3 taken. Mr. Mor gan, a member of tho committee on foreign relations offered the following concurrent resouition and had it referred to that com mittee: ' "Resolved by the Senate, the House of Representatives concurring, That tho people of the United States of America, through their representati es in Congress assembled, convey to the President and people of the Republic of Transvaal, their earnest congratulations upon their suc cess in establishing free representative government, republican in form and in their opposition to any foreign power that denies to them the full enjoyment of those rightful liberties. The people of America, having realized, through the favor of the God of nations, the blessings of government based upon the consent of the governed, entertain with confidence the pleasing hope and belief that tho principles of self-government will be securely established through the influence of the republio of France, in Colonies, and of the Republic of Liberia and the Transvaal, founded by the people in Africa, and that those republicans will foster and give firm support to the peaceful pro gress of Christian civilization in the new and vast field now being opened lo the commerce and institutions of all the nations of the earth throughout that great continent; aud that tho President of the United States i3 request ed to communicate this action to the Presi dent of the Republic of Transvaal." Tho Senate then adjourned until Monday. THE HOUSE. The House on Monday adopted a joint resolution appointing Wm. L. Wilson, of W. Va., a member of the boardof regents cf the Smithsonian Institute in place of Henry Coppe, deceased. Th"e principal feature of the proceedings of the House Tuesday was a breezy debate over the appointment of special employes recom mended by tho committee on accounts. The ro ort submitted by Mr. Aldricb, Republican, oMUinois, chairman, provided for the ap pointment of two , new employes in the door keeper's division, one of whom had been dis charged after a service of nearly a score of years. This report lead to a lively debate, out it was adopted. Upon the recommenda tion of the same committe the clerk3 provid ed for in tho legislative appropriation bill for the current year were "apportioned to the following committee:?: Banking and curren cy, coinage, weights and measures; educa tion, enrolled bills, invalid pensions (addi tional), immigiation and naturalization, ir rigation of arid lands, labor, library; miiitia, mines and mining, Pacific railroads, patents, pensions, private land claims, printing, rail ways and canals, reform in the civil service and territories. An additional clerk was al so authorized for each of the committees on military affair, naval affairs and inter-State and foreign commerce. Upon the unanimous report of the committee on thejudiciary that there was no doubt of the election of Mr. Al len as a repre.nenthtivo from the State oi Utah, that gentleman was sworn in. Several resolutions of inquiry were agreed to, one of them asking the Attorney General what had been done by him towards enforcing the anti-trust law of 1830, and what additional leg islation, if any, is desirable and necessary to protect the people from the operations ol trade, trusts and conspiracies. House ad journed, alter a statement by Mr. Headerson, of Iowa, that the committee on rules would be ready to report Wednesday. . On Wednesday in the House by unanimous consent a joint resolution offered by Mr, '" mi i I. " , rjti.'i'l n i III Spalding, Republican, of Michigan, was rea and referred to the committee on foreign affairs. It piovides for the erection into tha State of Hawaii of the territory commonly known as tha Sandwich Inlands, with tha consent of the people thereof. It carries an appropriation of 100,000 to paythe expenses of tho negotiations preliminary to the con stitution of the Stata. The committee on rules not being ready to report, the House adjourned for the day. (. For some reason, not apparent on the sur face, the House caucus on rules did not Thursday report tho cl a igcs it prorosd to make in the code of the Fifty-nrst Congress under which the House has so far been operating, alth ug i their work is completed and is in print mC. Henderson, Republican, of Illinois, gave notice that he would make the report Friday. Mr. Blae, Republican, ot ni.nigu me f-uvta jjeusiou appro priation bill for tho year ending Juno 30th 18S7, and gave notice that he would call it up after the report of the committee on jrules had been disposed of. The : oil owing concur rent resolution was offered by Mr. Living ston, of Georgia, and referred to the icom mittee on foreign affairs : That the Presi dent of the United States is hereby requested to forthwith ascertain whether Great Bfitaln is advancing her outposts on the territory in dispute between her Colony of British Gijuiana and tho republio of Venezuela, or is reth forcing posts heretofore established, Iwith troops, police or ordinance, and should the President become cognizant of the fact; that a British military or police force is advancing to invade or re-inforce, or since the 17th day of December last, has invaded, or re-inf Qrced post3 formerly occupied within said disputed territory, he demand the immediate with drawal of said soldiers and the reduction oi the police force in said territory to not a greater number than occupied the British outposts on tho aforesaid l th day of Decern Der, 1835." On Friday, Mr. Henderson. Republican, ol xowa, reportea tne cnanges in tne rules ommended by the committee on rules! rec and the House proceeded to consider them atim. The session was qnite a lively Mr. Crisp was the champion of the Demo. crate. No other business was transacted in the House, as the body did not finish the consideration of the report of the committee on rules. In the House on Saturday the discussion of the report or the committee on rules! was continued. Mr. Curtis wanted to substitute written resolutions for the usual memorial services, but the House voted down his propo sition. . WEEKLY REVIEW OF TRACE. Tho Bond Issue Keeps Confidence -From Failing. R. G. Dun & Co.. of New York, in ;heir weekly review of trade for past week, say: . Liabilities in failures for the first two days of January amounted to 69 8,795, of which 8240,407 were of manufacturing; $678,833 trading concerns. Failures for the week have been 431 in the United States against 420 last year and 53 in Canada against 54 last year. The now year begins with such uncertainty that business is somewhat retarded. The proposed sale of bonds offers ground for confidence in the future, but no one Is able to determine what its earliest effects may be in the money market and for the time dt ig a 'tiise of hesitation rather than hopeful ness. peculation in products has not been ac tive. Cotton is unchanged, although the re ceipts for the week have not been very large, hut some slackening appears in the foreign demand. , Wheat is about 1 cent higher,! and com tho -Tie. without distinct reason in either cafe. j The inaustrial situation has not materially changed. There Is much hesitation inj the iron business, with some advance in Besse mer pig because of the expectation that fcon nellsville coke and Lake ore will both be dearer, and yet finished products of iron; and' steel are on the whole quoted a little ldwer, and the nail association i3 still in. session to determine whether it will abandon the effort to maintain a fixed price. That branch of business i3 extremely slow. Nothing ii do ing in railp, and while there i3 a rather better demand for sheets and plates, and several good orders are reported for structural works, angles are quoted a shade lower. Everything turns on tho contracts for orj which are still unsettled, but the great! ex cess in production bf pig iron over the pres ent demand is no longer denied, and itts ex pected that quite a number of the furnaces will presently discontinue production.. Low er prices for Al ibama iron renew competi tion with Eastern furnaces. j Tho cotton mill3 are generally running, thoutih net all with full force, and some are piling up goods without regard to the iihme diate demand, which is comparatively slack, as they apparently believe that the thort supply of cotton this year will ensure jthem profits in tho end, as It has during the past half year. Nevertheless goods have decidedly weakened in price, quite a number of chinges having been recorded during the past week. The volume of domestio trade indicated by payments through the principal cle&ring houses, chows the usual large increase of 14.G per cent, over last year, but in compari son with the same week in 1893 shows ia de crease of 13.1 per cent. Part of this differ ence must ba attribu ed to the shrinkage in pners, out mere is aiso, wunout count, a considerable decrease in the distribution of goods to final consumers. I Post It Up. The Treasury gold reserve at the close oi business Saturday stood at $56,029,536. withdrawals at New York amounted to 0C0. ' . The 655,- Tho Treasury has completed sending out to postmasters Secretary Carlisle's circular inviting bids for bonds. On the top. signed by Postmaster General Wm. L. Wilson, is printed this notice: . j 'The Postmaster 13 hereby directed tp post this circular in a conspicuous place ia bis office." j As there are over 73.000 postoffices in the United States, the printing and distribution of this numter was no small matter. A Non-Suit. At Vancouver, B. C, a non-suit was Grant ed the defense in the case of J. Cranston, an American citizen and one cf the Hawaiian exiles, who sued the Canadian-Australian Steamship Company for 450,000 damages in fAnnw1inn with hl rtPnnrtfttirtn hv tVi TTst- judge held that the steamship merely acted as an aeent cf the Hawaiian governinent, whose deportation of Cranston was an act ol state and therefore the steamship officials could net be held liable for damage suits. Gen. Lee's Birthday. j The Daughters of the Confederacy in Charleston, S. C, resolved to commemorate Gen. Lee's birthday, January 16, by appro priate ceremonies regularly hereafter. The Confederate Veterans and Sons of Veterans i i a f-rarr. nlrv or unite With them in a common celebration, and thesame rule should obtain in every community throughout the South. To Be Eularged. Rpnator Chandler has introduced a bill In the Senate, which will probably pass. It provides that the Interstate Commerce Com mission shall be enlarged to a number tqual to the States of the Union; and one member from each State s iall be appointed and; held hi office as now provided by law for" the ex isting members of the commission. Philadelphia men trie! to get Hp corner In Christmas trees, but failed, j WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE An Interesting Letter from tne Nation al Capital. Spanish dold Doing Its Work. There is no exaltation among the silver men ia Congress over the reporting ot a bill for the free coinage of silver to ihe Senate as a substitute for tho House bond. bill. This may be because it was well knowi . fromTthe first that such j action would be i aken, or it may be becanso of the general knowledge that the substitute cannot possible becema a law; at any rate, it is true. It wl 1 pass jthe Senate by a decisive majority, notwithstand ing the shrewd move of Senator Chandler, who ba3 posed as a special friend ot silver, in introducing a bill providing fo a popular loan by the sale of interest bearing postal notes at all money order postoffloea, which he has given notice of hlsintention td offer as a substitute for the free coinage bill! Bat there are silver men! who regard it as a mere waste of timo to put! the bill through the Senate. They say that Speaker Reed would not give the bill a chance to get through, the House, even if two-thirds of that body wanted to vot for 14, and, of course, all the1 world' knows that President Cleveland wuld take' especial pleasure la vetoing a free ooinage bill, should it by any possibility ever succeed' in reaching him. The m ambers of the Venezuelan, Boundary Commission are engaged in the preliminary, work of their investigation. TheJ headquar ters of the commission will be in Washington,' and it may be that its work can all be done without leaving the city, but cirdumstaaces' will decide that. Regardless of the person al convenience of its members the Commls-' sion will endeaver to render a decision which' will forever settle what has been ja trouble-'' some question ior more than half a century. So far the attitude of everybody j concerned I seems to be to aid the commission In Its: search after the corrict boundary line be tween British Guiana and Venezuela. In a spsech strongly attacking the Supreme Couit decision against the income lax, which! he declared was a "matter of surprise of , surprise to every intelligent lawter la the country, and especially to those of us in Congress, who were engaged in formulating the legislation!," Senator Vest used some strong language against the domination of, thegold kings, and in favor of the free coin age of silver. He ridiculed the kdea that there is enough gold outside of what is held by the banks to take up the $100,000,000 bond issue which has been advertised by Secreta ry Carlisle, and concluded by saying : "The conflict is irrepressible. If we are to have the gold standard and the domination of the national banks go to the people and have them rivet the chain. But I believe the peo-1 pie will respond against wiping out one-half of the money cf the world, and id favor of striking down the financial despotism that Is upon u." j Ssveral representatives of free . Cuba are here Irving to get the belligerency of the I They have documentary evidence (in plenty showing the strength of the Cubans, and the) little news that has come from jCuba this' week has been 'greatly in their favor, but thev are not making the progress1 they exj pected. They get all the individual assur-, ances of sympathy they want, but offlclally the administration and Congress are dumb: on the subject, j It is now certain that unless! the Cubans force things sooner by driving' the Spaniards ut of Havana, the administra tion isn't goin to recognize them, unless directed by a joint Congressional resolution to do so. There is no doubt thatr such a resolution would be adopted with a whirl 1C a chance was given, but Speaker Reed has' positively declined to recognize anybody to; offer any such! resolution, unless it comes as5 a report "from the committee on Foreign At-' fairs. There are some very ugly rumors floating around Washington, to. the effect that a powerful lobby well supplied with' Spanish gold is working on members of the administration! and of Congress :Jo prevent' recognition of the Cuba s as long as possi ble, in order to give the Spaniards more time In which-to try to put down the revolt.. It wouldn t be the 11 ret time apanisn money had been spent In Y ashlngton to influence official opinions. 1 . COTTON SEED SCARCE. The Supply But 50 Per CentJ of Last Year's, j Mills to Close Early. The Manufacturers' Record thisfweek pub lishes reports from nearly all the cotton seed oil mills throughout the South, showing that the decrease in the supply of has been much larger than is generally understood, and that owing to this scarcity I nearly all mills will close down for the siason very math earlier than usual. These Reports ia dicate with very general uniformity that the a;ed supply has been lrom 40 to CO per cent. le3S than last I year, and that a jnumber of Texas mills make the shortage even greater. In the first place these lo ters, it is said, covering every section of the cotum-growing region of the South, seems to ipneJusively prove that the' cotton crop musOJe fully, as short as government reports have indicated, and secondly, jthat the supply of oil and . of cotton seed products will fall farbort of the average, indicating the possibility of better values when these facts become more gener ally understood. It is, however, noted : that a number of oil producers stato that owing to the abundance of corn and bogs and the low prices ruling for them, they do not look for any material advance m cotton seed pro ducts unless there should first come higher prices for cotton and hogs. Gone in fur Repairs The battleship Texas has sent to Norfolk, Va., where she will be examined by a board of survey to ascertain the extent and cost of the necessary repairs to good condition for service. 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