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-A J '0 a VOL. I. CHAPEL HILL. ORANGE MM) I mm WD ' , '; " -. ' ;';'::;:N:b.;:;i.; I.: 4 1 1 - i 3 1 DAILY PROCEEDINGS OF BOTH HOUSE AND SENATE. The Discussion of Important Measures tf Briefly Epitomized. : 4 The house spent the day Monday on Mr. Hatch's anti-option bill. An effort was made by its opponents to prevent its consideration; but they lost, the vote standing 132 to 81. i Tuesday morning, in the absence of Speaker Crisp, Representative Baily Was appointed speaker pro tem of the house. Tho. house proceeded in com mittee of the whole to the further con sideration of the anti-option " bill. Coombs, jof New York, was the first speaker in opposition to the bill. j When the house, at 12:15 Wednes day took tip ' the anti-option bill in committee of the whole,: itwas with the understanding that the debate should close with adjournment Thurs day, and a vote on the bill and pend ing amendment be taken after .the morning hour, Friday. Speaker Crisp was still unable to discharge - his duties in the house Thursday, and Representative Bailey again ! took the chair. Several bills were passed under requests for unani mous consent; At 1 o'clock the house proceeded, in committee of the whole, to further consider the anti-option bill, Mr Grosyenor being the first Rnpntpr. Hr advocated the cassasre of the bill.. THE SENATE. No business of general interest was transacted in the morning half hour in the senate f Monday. At 10:30 the tariff bill was taken up, the pending question being on the' first two para graphs or the silk schedule 298 and 299 which had been reserved on Sat urday. At the request of Mr. Piatt, the' paragraphs went over 'without ac tion until 1 uesdaT . ;- . t-T .r The tariff bill was taken up in the senate at 10:30. o'clock Tuesday, and ; the free list reached at noon. No ac tion was taken on the paragraph as to -when the bill is to. take effect, "that question being left open. The amend ment offered by Senator Jones was agreed to, adding a paragraph putting Ton the free list cattle, horses, sheep, or other domestic animals, that have strayed or been driven for pasturage across the border line between the United States and Mexico. Fifty par: agraphs of the free list, have been gone - over with very little delay or friction, except in the matter of books, and the action of . the finance committee on that, as on all other subjects, hasxpre 1 vailed. . " I The tariff bill was laid before the senate at 10 :30 Wednesday, the pend iDg question being paragraph 608, placing salt on the free list. Mr. Pef fer movejj to strikejout the paragraph and-put salt on the dutiable list at 5 " cents per hundred pounds. ' The vote resulted, yeas 24, nays 33. Mr. Peffer was not sustained by his co-populisms, Allen and Kyle, who voted v. ith the democrats against his motion. So salt remains on the free list. Paragraph 641; "all sugars," having been reached, the amendment of the finance '.commit tee being to strike it out; "Senator M ; drich demanded the yeas and nays, saying" that he wanted to know -who was in favor" of free sugar and who was not. The paragraph was struck out. Yeas 33, nays 22. The senate has fin ished the free list part of the bill. . . In the Senate, Thursday, a bill was . introduced to define the boundaries of ' the three judicial districts in Alabama i and regulate :, the jurisdiction of the ' United States courts thereonl At 1030 the tariff bill was taken up, the pending question being on the income tax sections. Mr.',Eill, of New York, addressed the senate , in opposition to tho tar. Mr.' Hill beeran his remarks by announcing that,'' "we have .now Tpnohnd tho nonsiddration" of one of the most important features of the pending measure; important not only - because the tax which it seeks to im pose, equals in the aggregate about one: "fifteenth of the whole federal taxa tion of the United States, but because of the peculiar nature of the burden as well as the vast and varied interestt which it injuriously affects." j It took , Mr. -Hill two hours and three-quarters to read his speech. It was well under stood, he said, in conclusion, that the senators intended to vote on the income tax sections, not according to theii convictions but according to the decree of the party caucus. He trusted that such a humiliating spectacle would nol be witnessed. . It was. even boasted bj . 1 . some, he said, that the jincome tax. was the best feature of the tariff bill. t 1 that were so, then he could only say. in the emphatic language of the sena tor from New Jersey j (Smith), "Go3 help the' democratic party."; ; : " L ' ' A BIG CONFERENCE HEM IN NEW YORJt IN THE IN- TEREST OF THE SOUTH. A Larffe Attendance The Inss in Brief. Proceed- The parlors of the' Fifth Avenue hotel, New York City, ; were not large enough,to accommodate the southern New Yorkers, and the delegates from the I south proper,' who met there Thursday to discuss and further ma terial development in the southern states. There were representatives pres ent from every southern state, except Mississippi. The meeting was called to order by Mr. D. 13. Dyer. Col. ' Hugh R,1. Gar den j the distinguished looking ex-presjdent pf the Southern . Society, V was , unanimously chosen chairman1 and . Mr. J. C. Bayne-was made secretary. Mr; Garden made a very patriotic, as well as practical, speech of welcome and closed by as suring the heartiest co-operation of all New Yorkers when the southern people united on a sound business prograrri. j i Mr. Garden, of Columbus, Ga.,' in troduced ! a resolution, which 1 was adopted, to appoint; a committee con sisting of eight from . New York : and nine from the south, to find the best method of putting the resources of the south before the country. ' It was de nominated the committee on plan and scope. . i : i MB. SMITH SPEAKS. j i i After the adoption of the resolution there were loud calls for Secretary Smith. He spoke in part as follows: , "If you . can place the resources of tho scruth before all other" portion -of the country and before the foreign countries, great benefits must come to all those who have interest in southern investments. ; T ! i' "I am one of those Xvho believe ' that there is to be found in the south , a force which cannot fail to build uftho section. But when the. true condi tions are appreciated here and abroad, then you will receive an imj)etus from the outside which will place the .south in a few years in a position of greater progress and development than will be found in any other portion of the Union. (Applause.) j f - .Today we have no race problem in the south, but the, white man and the negro work side by, side in peace; today ftie presence of the negro in the south is no obstacle to immigration. It should be understood , that we have millions of acres, but that only one half of them are under cultivation. "It should be known that the bal ance of these lands can be purchased at low rates. j v , ' I 1 : ! i "What an opportunity is offered for home-seekers to find profitable invest ments in the south? The mineral re sources throughout the south are .more numerous than in any other part of the country, but have hardly begun to be developed. They offer honest,! sub stantial returns, not speculative re turns, for we don't want speculation, but good, honest industry." . Then he referred to the southern climate and to the fact that no indus trial armies had appeared in the south. He closed with an eloquent appeal for all to get to work for the southj He was heartily applauded. " .(' Ex-Congressman, riempnill rmade a short talk and the meeting took five minutes recess. At this point Mr. Jack Spaulding introduced resolutions endorsing the Atlanta exposition which passed unanimously. ; I j i After several felicitous speeches in regard to Atlanta's prosperity, the convention adjourned until Friday.f ; FIVE YEARS FOR WIMAN. The Philanthropic Millionaire Goes to i i j- State Prison. I j In the court of oyer and terminer at New York Wednesday morning, Justice Ingraham sentenced .Erastus Wiman, convicted of forgery in the second degree, to imprisonment for five years and six months. Forty-Five Drowned. A dispatch received at Berlin from Samara, the capital o the liussian government of Samari; ' says a ferry boat sank with a party of young peo ple returning from a fete, on the river Jek, and forty-five were drowned. NEWS Olv THE SOUTH BRIEFLY EPITOMIZED IN PUNG ENT PARAGRAPH ; Chronicling est Events of Special Inter- to Our Readers. The republicans of uie Louisville, Tenn., district have, nominated ithe Hon. Walter Evans for congress. Mr. Evans was Internal revenue commis- sioner under ministration President -Arthur's ad- It is stated at Columbia, S. C. $ that the ,. Carolina, Cumberland Gap and Chicago will at once f;xten,d its, line from Edgefield, S. C, to Greenville, S. C, there to connect wim tne ; o.ea- board Air-Line system. I I i i The carefully taken census for the new city directory gives "phattanboga, including her jsuburbs, a population of 46,353. , This is a loss of 3,426 as epint pared; with ;a similar census made; in 1892. Considering the great depres sion in busipess, it is considered a good' showing. ; .' . - , !.;; ' : The boiler of an engineon the Mari etta and Norjth Georgia? railroad ex ploded Wednesday at Hiawasee station, eighty-eighth miles j from Ivnoxville, with" fearful results. One man's head was blown off, two others wee fatally wounded anil! another's life was saved by a miracle, j , A circular has been issued announc ing the consolidation of all the ad- counting officers of the-'several rail- ways composing tne jriani j system. The auditing officers of all these roads will be in Savannah.- after July 1st. I C. ' it - Til . .." J. - ' lL -. T. Morrell has been appointed comp- troller of the system, S S. IMcIver auditor of receipts and H. H. McKee auditor of disbursements. Dr. John Guitera, of Philadelphia, and L Dr. J.' H. . White, of Savannah, surgeons in the marine hospital seryice, are in Florida cbllectiop 4aa" ihg' " to pasi yellow fever epidemics. They hope to be able to locate the cause of such epidemics. They also hope that their researches will 'enable them to foretell the 'coming of anlepi demic, so that steps may be taken to prevent its development. j I Edward S. McCandless, of Atlanta, Ga., will be" given a trial in the United States court! on July j 9th upon two of the four inclictments charging him with aiding and abetting Lewis ' Red wine in the defalcation of $103,000 from the Gate Citv National bank." The other two indictments found against him there having: been foua: in all -were noil prossed by the court sel for the government. " 1 A larerelv attended convention of delegates from all over the state was held at Nashville; Tenn., Tuesday, and the ball w&s started rolliDg for an ex position in 1896, in celebration of the centennial anniversary of the ; admis sion of Tennessee into' the union that will be poinmensurate with trie prog ress of the state. The convention chose directors and officials, and gave instructions that a charter for the Ten nessee Centennial Exposition company be at oncej secured ' I j .-. ' ; A Birmingham, Ala., special 'says: Shortly after 2 o'clock Wednesday morning fire was discovered : in the Mary Lee; mines, about four hundred feet from i the mouth. The alarm was given and jthe work of rescuing the. miners was immediately begun.; j One hundred miners were atr work in the mine at the time the fire was discov ered, and it was difficult to get to the men who were on the other side of the fiVe. All were rescued except three, who died: from suffocation. i l 1 Judge Heard of the Alabama supreme court, decided an interesting case at Montgomery Wednesday. Sylvester Feslorazzi? a Catholic, died in Mobile some years ago andMbequeathed $2,000 to St. Joseph's church, to be expended in masses for his soul. , His heirs con tested the legality of the bequest. : The' chancery court of Mobile ruled against them and they appealed to the supreme court, which reversed the decision" of the lower court, and held that the he quest was void in tjjat there was nti living' beneficiarv of the trust intend ed to be created. L l f A Chattknooga special ' says : It is now fearejl! that the- addition to the Chickamauga National park, known as the Sherman earthworks park, on Mis sionary ridge, will be dropped, as the owners ofj the property and the park commissioners cannot agree about the price to te paid. Two juries: of ap praisement have set a valuation oh the land, the awards of neitner qeing sat isfactory. General H. V. Boynton. of the park commission; stated that; he ! VpliHVfid the i ffovernment would how drop the matter. It was jntehded jto expend $300,000 on the project and ' the park-on the ridge would hke been : a most vaiuaoie auuiuuu ly-Ljuaiia-nooga's historical points. " ' ! 1 A. TRADE NOTES. Business of the Past Vreek as Re ; : viewed by Dun & Co. ; "j. ; B. G. Dun fcCo's review of trade for the past week says : 'The strike pf bi tuminous coal miners will end Monday; wherever the authority and ridvice !of their general organization can end it; and there is little room to doubt that the coal famine will then begin to abate. Some time must elapse, however, before supplies of fuel will enable all works to resume that lave : no other reason for suspending, 'production.- Meanwhile,: the demand "for products is so slack that it seems questionable- whether as many hands will find employment before the end of June as., were employed jin April. ; ; V"f "Further concessions have-not; en larged the demand for cotton goods, and the recent report that 'production has been close tb last year's, is said to be based upon returns from only the more" fortunate mills. That goods are accumulating is evident . -; but sales have been distinctly improved with the weather.; ' i . ' , ' : 'j' ; "Exports of, domestic products ih May showed a decrease in all the jjrin cipal classes excepting proyisions, the aggregate being $37,823,712 against 15,341,443 last year, but more than $5000,000 of the decrease in. value : is found to be due to the, fall in prices! Exports from New York for two weeks of June have been 7 per cent larger i in value than last year, while imports &t New York have been 18 per cent smaller, :' r'.M- "Comparison of exchanges with last year alone are no longer instructive, but the daily payments through the principal clearing -houses. for the first. half of June, have averaged $128,260,- 000; against $162, 700,000 last year, and $171,100,000 for 1892. Owing to the fall in prices about this time last year comparatively little of the difference in the valuej of payments can now be at tributed to j the difference in pricesjof commodities, but it . cannot be judged how much may be, owing to the strikes and their consequences. f "Gold exports have diminished o $2,250,000 for the week, and sales of foreign exchange to mature about the end of July indicate some borrowing from Europe against) products to be exported, i A little more commercial paper from jobbers is also' found by the banks, but the flood of money from the interior has not ceased, though the time for moving crops draws near..; " "While business is narrow, it is comparatively free from losses by fail ure, for the liabilities (reported in fail ures for the first week in June were only $2,507,228, pf which $476,118 were of manufacturing! and $1,872,261 of trading concerns. The aggregato liabilities thus far Teported in failures in May were but $13,514,760, of which $5,146, 025 were of manufacturing and $6,912,302 of tradingl concerns. The number, of failures this week has been 232 in the United, against 316 last year, and 40 in Canada, against 34 last vear A FOURTH PARTY. 1 Alliance, j Knignts of Labor and Rail road Men to Join Forces. A Chicago morning paper prints the; following ; One million men, members" of the Farmers' Alliance, are on the point of allying their forces with - the. Knight of iiabor and the American Railway union. B. McGuire, a member of the general executive board of the Knights heljH a brief conference on this subject with President Debs, of the, American Railway Union., i The tripaf tite agreement soon to be entered into between these three great organizatiens whose united forces will number 1,500,000 citizens of jthe' United States at the end of the current year, has for its primary object j the formation of a party for independent political action. . : 1 i As an indication of this determina tion the general officers, of the Ameri can Railway Union will send repre sentatives to a convention tb be held at the capitol building in Springfield, 111. , July 2, 3 and 4. t A Newspaper Sold Out. ' ?The Memphis Appeal-Avalanche, with all its franchises contracts, name and good will, has been sold under the hammer to satisfy creditors. The Mem phis Commercial was the successful bidder. - The price paid was SQ5, 200. NATIONAL CAPITAL. .1- : j NEWS AND GOSSIP O INGTON CITY. wAsir- Brief Notes Concernins: the Business of Our Government. On the 20th and 21st of July exami nations will ibe f held under the aus pices of the United States civil service commissioners for matrons, and j superintendents jn Hhe schools of the- country. , , teachers Indian ine senate sngarj iuvesngttii"i5 mittee held a' brief session j Thursday afternoon and examined George Ran- ; som, son of iSenator Eansom, of North v Carolina, and Arthur Barnes, Senator '' Eansom's? messenger J "Their evidence ,;. wis entirely 'dorroborative ; of ' that pf Senator Ransom.; . ': ; ' " Ji ' ; u Senator Gordon has introduced the Atlanta . exposition . bill in the senate and it has been referred to the commit- '.'tee on education and labor. Senators Gordon and Walsh will urge the i com- mittee- to act upon it at once and both i. ( are sanguine; that it will be attached ito the sundry civil bill by the senate. ; In the senate Thursday Mr. Gordon, V, of Georgia, offered an ampndment to . the bill in relation to the Atlanta ex- position, which is now before the com-V mittee oh appropriations. The amend-; ment is to add ,to the bill a provision for the appointment' ,by the president of a colored vman as one of the com missioners. The lighthouse tender .Maple, with President Cleveland on board, return ed from her cruise down the lower Chesapeake bay and outside capes Tuesday morning. : The president re mained on. board until the white house carriage and Private Secretary Thur ber arrived, and vyas then driven to the executive mansion!. He has been much' Secretary Herbert has received jrca7 the Joenmngton. announcing thAV one of the refugees on This vessel, having complied with the requirements of the navy department, had landed at -La Libertad. rThe man who has thus given himself up to the, tender mefcies of the victori()us revolutionists, is a na tive, of the United States, named Jef feries, who served as an aid with the title of general to Ezeta in the recent ly terminated conflict in Salvador.' Commodore Matthews, chief of fthe buteau of yards and docks, has re- turnejLto Washington Jfrom a trip to Port Rpyal,i .C, where he went to -inspect the new dry dock now build- ing there. The work was found" to bo , of excellent' quality and progressing' .well, so that the chief felt warranted )in recommending that the time allowed" for the completion of the dock,"which expires the end of this month', be ex tended to :next Septenibef, which rec--ommendatioh has secured the approval of Secretary Herbert." ' ; The treasury gold reserve Thursday at the close of business stood at $64, 127,069, $1,500,000 less than the low water mark reached in the gold reserve ' before it was built up by the $50,000,- 000 bond issue. This reduction has been brought about by the withdrawal within the past! two days for export to Europe"sof $3, 250, 000. It: was'i stated in an unofficial way that New York city banks would. supply gold for the continued; export movement, but so far as the treasury is advised, up to ' the close of business at 4 o'clock but , $400,000 of the $3,(500,000 exported . has been supplied by banks.. , ' v In consequence of .bitter differences of opinion between Mr. . Walker, ofs Massachusetts, and other members of i the house committee on acoustics and ; ventilation, and Edward Clark who has been ithe architect of the capitoK for nearly thirty years, :on the sub- ject of the defective vehtilation of the -house, Mr. Clark's resignation has been asked for by Mr. Shell, of , South Caro lina, ithe chairman and (VTr. Durbur-. row, of Illinois, a member of the com mittee, tand refused. The' matter will be brought j up in the house, with; a . probability df charges being preferred against Architect Clark in. connection with the administration of his office. . 4 ': U ; ' :,- ';; TLe Color Line Here. ; ; , , . Thd American Railway union dele- : gates, in seskion ; at Chicago, defeated the proposition ,to admit negroes to , the organization by a vote of 113 to 102. The discussion of the question lasted nearly two days. ' President . Debo thus inet : defeat in , his; fight acainst the establishment of the color line in the hew constitution of the o der. . - if v i 0, PH 'r-- - ?' . I ' . ... . . J ;).... , ., ' . '' ' r , i. : .i-'J - 1
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