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THE CAUCAOIAN PUBLISH CD EVERY TKUR8DJY. RT TUB CACOAHIAM rVWUHIa OK anion HirrucR, rrMt AL ATM. - - MiMllK SUBSCRIPTION RATES. we Yi-n i:.u BIX MONTHS THKEK MONTHS KnterwJ In the Port Offlr at Kaleich, N. C. m ftorood (1m Matter. 2 One dollar will get five ropiea of The Caccamu: three months. S Two dollars will get twelve cp- a iea three montba. Now, of all S timea ia the timn to circulate re- a) z form papers. Von ean help. L.......................: OHlCKVATIOHft ! MIMB Of MIC. PKAKftOM'll HKMAKKN. Congreaaman Pearson haa been talking, and here ia what he ia re ported aa laying: If h (Hotter) takes the courts outlined in the circular aa printed, be will commit an act of perfidy and dishonor, of overt treason to Sena tor Pritchard, without a parallel in North Carolina politica an act that will attaint Marion Batter's blood for all time and make his name a by-word and all his political honors valueless. One thing is sure, if he breaks his pledge and betray I'ritch ard he oannot induce the great body of the People's Tarty to join in the aet of infamy. But it is not fair to denounce until we know certainly the facts. If he takes such a course after his public pledge in the hall of Representatives at Raleigh, the honest men in his own party will do mand that he resign the oflice he ob tained by falne pretenHes. It must be apparent to any one that the effect of such a courxe, which every Republican would ridicule and repu diate, would be to defeat All candi dates for Congress, including Messrs. Hkinner, Htrowdand Shuford, whose election depends upon a joint fight against the Democrats. The "ifs" and "and" in this ut terance do not, in our opinion, con stitute a qualification of its unreas onable harshness, nor do we believe it was inspired by a proper spirit. We think it an open bid for noto rietysomething which its author has signally failed to achieve as a member of Congress either at home or abroad. And not being able to attraet any notice by virtue of any thing he can no, ho fceeks "fame" by virtue of a limber, bitter tongue. Desiring that the last effort of a man shall not be wholly unsuccess ful, we will aid him in his efforts to achieve notice, and we think The Caucasian is the only paper, except the one that printed his delivery, that he can, ft,nd to thank for such assistance. Mr. Pearson's expression of "per fidy and dishonor" is borrowed from a man named Cleveland- a man for whom Mr. Pearson is said to have voted, once at least, for President of the United States; and the utterance indicates that Mr. Pearson has been keeping more Democratic company recently than he did in the year he voted for Cleveland. lie seems to have thoroughly learned their bil lingsgate methods of expressing an opinion. It is said that a cannon ought to be one hundred times heavier than its shot; but Mr. Pearson's shot is a hundred ti mes heavier than he is in North Carolina politics, and like n. heavy ball fired from a light gun, it goes nowhere in particular while the gun is rolled over from the "kick." Under the head of Political Pot Pouri wefauote Senator Butler in words which effectually dispose of Mi. Pearson's imaginary "pledge in the Hall of the House of Rerrsn- tatives." There is not nor has there ver been an agreement or pledge, to which Senator Butler is a party, for co-operation unless the princi ples on which co-operation was had last year should be the basis of any future eo-operation. And if there had been, Senator Butler would hav had no more power to "induce the great body of the People's Party to join in the act of infamy" than he would have, in Mr. Peaison's opin ion, if he "breaks his pledgo and be trays Pritchard !" Senator Pritchard declaied for free silver at the time of his election to the U. S. Senate and before, and has voted for it Bince his election; and it was only when he expressed an intention (by action) of repudiat ing bis principles, if his party re quired it, that there was any sug gestion of his possibly havicg a suc cessor who would fctand Srmly in his placo. The way is clear for Senator Pritchard to continue to receive the support of the People's Party. He has only to choose that way if he wants the support. He has the op tion of choosing between Populist upport in North Carolina and gold bug support from Wall street. Let him choose this day whom he will serve. If Senator Pritchard will remain true to the principles he professed when he was elected to the Senate, Mr. Pearson will have no cause to eomplaiu of his being "betrayed," and Mr. Pritchard himself cannot U accused ef betraying any cause. Men who prefer their party to their I rinciples will call adhering to prin clplea betrayal of party, and men who prefer their principles to their party (if the party should violate them) will call adhering to party, right or wrong, a betrayal of prin ciple. Mr. Pearson seems to abhor a man who repudiates his political asso ciates more than he abhors one who betrays bis principles. There will be no "perfidy" in repudiating both Mr. Pritchard and 31 r. Pearson if tLey betray the cause of the people of North Carolina, which cause they promised their constituents to sup port and maintain. If adhering to its principles de feats the People's Party, even though Mr. Pearson is carried down in the crash, he mutt remember that "truth crushed to earth will rise again," and he may have another chain e. But if Mr. Pearson gains hia election for the next Congress by repudiating and causing others to repudiate their oft professed prin ciple, he will "attaint his blood for all lime to corno and make his name a by-word and all his political honors valuelesa." But whether in the future Mr. Pearson adheres to principle, or to party at the sacrifice of principle, one thing he must learn; and that is ho must abandon the billingsgate methods he seems to have learned when he was in or partly in the Democratic party. ritr.K mail UKLIVKKY COUNTV run tub If the House agrees to the Senate amendments to the post-office appro priation bill, the country will be pri mal ily indebted to Senator Butler for a plan that will be of incalcula ble convenience and benefit to the people of the rural districts. As is shown by our Congressional report, he offered and secured the adoption of an amendment appropriating sev enty thousand dollars to be expend ed in devising a plan for establish ing a system of free mail delivery for the people living away from rail road post-offices. The idea is to make experiments in the matter of having mail carriers deliver mail di rect to a resident in the country, just as the mail carriers in cities deliver mail at the door of city residents. This has not been undertaken be fore because former Postmaster-Gen erals did not think the amount an propriated by former Congresses suf ficent to make a fair trial of the sys tem said amount beinc two sa. rate appropriations often thousand dollars each. Senator Rntlfir'a amendment provides fifty thousand dollars in addition to these two amounts, making a total of seventy thousand dollars, and this will be sufficient to make the experiment in both thickly settled and sparsely set tled sections. There has never been any objec tion to this system. On the contrary it has been advocated by high post office officials, including Postmaster Generals, but has never been at tempted for want of means. Per haps Senator Butler's remarks on the matter will fully explain his motives in offering tho amendment. He said: The scheme is practicable, be cause there are a number of coun tries doing it to-day. It has been done by the people in a number of localities on their own arrangement. The people to-day in a number of neighborhoods arrange to have a free delivery system and pay for it themselves. But the main point is that the Government appropriates money for special delivery in cities where men live within ten minutes' five minutes' and two minutes' walk of the post-office, where it would not take ten minutes of a man's time to go and get his mail; but the man who has not these facilities, though he is taxed to support the Govern ment, is the man who has to take his horse from the plow and ride five miles or three miles to get his pa pers or his letters. It would be bet ter for the farmei to be taxed a special tax to pay for this free de livery than for the 35,000,000 farm ers of this country to have to stop their work in a busy season and go to their post-offices for their mails. The people of this country are en titled to a fair test to know whether the system can be operated econom ically, and satisfactorily to the peo ple and to the government. ED1TOBIAI, COMMENT. We would like to commend the temper and spirit of the communica tions in this issue to the study of some of our talking Kepublican friends es pecially to Chairman Ilolton, the man who talked about putting bis "livery" on Populists, etc. If Chairman Holton is ever forced to the alternative of try ing to twist the tail of a comet or put ting his -livery" on a genuine Pop, we advise him to take the former contract as the more feasible of the two. wTHe- Xew York World, says the Washington Post, has undertaken the task of nominating McKinley for th Republicans and Cleveland for the Democrats. The way the World cusd out the McKinley bill sometimaao and the way it recently jumWon Cleveland about the bond deake this new ellort of the World illuXlte the possibilities of acrobats iXiTi ment among goldbugs. aa?; ,uuu;Te We learn from the Atlanta Constitn tion (silver Dem.) thati Uol t wSl Smith (gold Dem.,) has utterly Sia his effort to espjain ?! "ISSS n. M?,nd'anl tbe Atlanta Jour rial (gold Dem.,) assures us that Hon. Charles F. Crisp- (silver Dem) been thorousrhlv flni..i h, cut logic of the Secretarv XI V1 rior.-VVashinjrton vt ' "ulc- Oh. thaw! v ,'n ... . . this issue a report fVom Oregon whicl, 8SVS that tha Tlomn cuu WHICH declared ffr .2' inose i emocrats were either learnin e something or becoming honest And now comes nr,u. fn 9 savs t he w,e Great Scott ! ! weiemti If thia kind f tm -.---- " cuiiikuioi iota of thanks from the printers.The immeo se amount of "stuff' that nm-TTr 5e itors are printing about taVpopniU ti - j lueiib. The Charlotte Observer is trying to revive the "pooh : pooh : r mhica was once used to silence tb man who said that Wall street, plutocrat and money power boaaed the Democratic party. w. flaw. f'miAmtl lr aniif iln Vrffl the lawyers and merchant know thia ia o now. Why, God blew your soul. there are even some Democratic edi tor who know It. It can't be possible that you. are four years behind ! Talk about nerve! The Charlotte Observer has aaaumed a contract to prove that Jefferson and Jackson were goldbaga. Well, in 1893 a large num ber of Iemocrata tried to prove that Cleveland waa a tilrer man. There if about aa much of aenae and truth in one of these undertakings aa in the other The Ht. Louis Globe-Democrat, a pa per which falsities 1ta name to the ex tent or being a Kepublican paper aaya : "The Ponulist party ia the only party that shouts for free stiver. It is the only party that would bring free coin age if it had the power." Poor Demy papers and scribbler. They cant understand why on earth the 1'opa are standing for principle. They don't know what such a stand meana. Not being able to make a cor rect analyais of such a stand, they try to get even by abusing the Pops and lying about them at long range. Mai. C. Dowd. of Charlotte, is col lecting data and material for writing a biograpb of the late Senator ance. Read our Congressional report this week if you want to see some account of big "grab" games. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Under our special offer to send five snbscriptions three months for $1.00 or twelve subscriptions three months for 2.00, we have received the fol lowing: (Can we double this next week?) O m a :3a- By whom sent. e Amos, James, Henderson 1 Asbury, 8. M., Gastonia 1 Kerry, W. T., Swan (Juartr 1 Boas, Nathan, Black Creek 1 Burney, L. B., Coxville 2 Brown, J. W., Oxford 1 Ballance. J. W., Kenly 1 Brown, Jno. F., lied Springs.... 1 Brown, Levi, Winston 2 Brinkley, Kobt., Terrapin 1 5 5 5 21 10 5 5 12 7 1G Burney. i,. a., and n,r;ii 8hade Chapman, f "ille Bason, W. H., Swepsonville.. Brooks, C. H.,Bath Bryson, T. C, Franklin Brown, Jno. A., Bed Springs. - ..1 1 1 1 1 i 12 5 7 5 5 13 5 6 16 5 lirown, j. u., uouisDoro Cannady, Nerveson, Oxford 1 Clark, Jno. 3., Beaumont 1 Candler, J. M., Dillsboro 1 Costner, Oeo. J., Sunbury 1 Cooper, J. L., Gum Neck 2 Wanton, W. 8., Charlotte 1 Chappell, H. K., New Light 1 Cameron, Norman, Vass 1 Copeland, J. T., Lanndale 1 5 5 5 fi 5 6 6 7 8 12 5 5 5 5 5 0 32 Crabtree, W. W Blaughtersville, Ky 1 Dixon, C. 8.. Sr., Arapahoe, Darden, A. M., Mapleton.. Dixon.C.S., Arapahoe.... Duke, It. A., Chapel Hill... Dupree, J. T., Old Bparta Early, J. M., Anlander ElHott, J. B., Clay Kverett, J. L., Leinon Springs Elliott. J. B.. Clay 1 1 1 Fleming, W. B , Ridgeway 1 Uainey, J. A., Sherwood l Green. J. 8.. Warrenton 1 GradyLewis, Kinston 5 Gurkin.Dr.Chas. R., ) T-m.ii, andMoore.W. P. f Jamvillel Griffin, W. T., Woodland 2 Gilliam, J. F., Tempting 1 Gregory. A. H., Stovall 1 Gore, J. K., Pireway 1 Hall, D. M., Blanchard Harper, Leroy, Maribel 1 Haywood, J. F., Onward 1 Jfeanant, K. C Eureka 1 Hemdon, J. F., King's Mt 1 Holt, E. A.. New Hill 1 Hamrick, B. H., Shelby 1 Hall, D. M... Blanchard. 1 Hinnant, K. C, Eureka 1 Jones, T. L., Columbia .....1 Johnson, Joseph, Kadar 1 Johnson, W. A., Williamston...l Jordan. J. J., Rand's Mill 1 King, H. E., Peanut 1 King, C E., Raleigh 1 Kinsey, R. B.t LaG range 1 Lassiter, J. W.. Wake Forest... . . 1 Lowry, J. A., Oak Ridge 1 Liles, T. G., Pee Dee 1 Lipe; D. M., Concord 1 Lewis, J. I., St. Lewis 2 Leigh, W. G. W., Conetoe 1 Lee, Marshall, McKoy. 1 Malpass, L. H., Applewhite 1 Murray, J. W., Haw River 1 Massey, J. W., MilesviUe 1 McCain, D., Newport 1 Minor, R. W., Washington 1 Mercer, Wm. 8., Mayock l' Meads, Thos., Weeksville 1 McLean, Jos. F., Mooresville 1 McCorquedale, J. F., Kinnon 1 Mclver, David, Pine Hurst 1 Odum, J., Lowe.... l Patterson, D. A., Stewart 1 Parker, W. J., Eagletown 1 Powell, Kedar J., Kadar 1 Pate, J. L., Newbern l Patterson, D. A., Stewart 1 Parker, W. J., Eagletown 1 Query, Leander, Query's 1 Robeson, E. N , Tar Heel 1 Sadler, Simon, Hobucken 1 Sherrill, Jas. H., Catawba 1 Satterwhite, J. R., Coakley 2 Summerell, E. L., Garysburg. ..1 Sherrill, R. L., Lenoir 1 Scott, Winfield, Grantsboro 1 Sossoman, J. P., Charlotte 1 Slott, Jas. H., Connor l ' Smith, Chas. J., Redalia 1 Skinner. Joshua, Hertford 1 Sadler, Simon, Hobucken l 8pencer, B. A., Haywood 1 Trollinger. J. H., Catawba 1 - Teel, W. J., Bethel l Taylor, I. W., Dunn i Thompson, F W., Lufty 1 29 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 9 6 6 7 5 5 6 12 5 6 6 10 17 5 5 8 5 5 5 15 5 5 6 13 5 14 5 7 5 14 5 12 15 5 5 18 6 5 12 5 7 5 5 5 12 12 5 12 5 13 7 5 5 C 5 10 7 5 5 6 5 7 23 uuey, ur. is. a.. Holly Springs..! Veazey, M. W. B., Knap of Reedsl " miaiua, iaviu, uenionsvuie. . . i 1 Waters, J. H., Dardens .l Williams. B. E., Croatan 1 White, W. J., Archdale 1 Wilkerson, J. O., Durham 2 Wagstaff, A. A., Gastonia 1 Whitley, Daniel, Stantonsburg-.l Wynne. R. N., Lemay ....i Watson, L. W., Maywood 1 York, W. B., Mebane l Yarbroueh, C. J Locust Hill. . . . 1 ! Zimmerman, J. 8., Morgan ten. .a WAKE COUNTY ALLIA'iCEv Lecturer To Ba Employed, And A County Baalneas AganeT To Be I Xatabllaned. The Wake Connty Far jier's Alliance met witb the I- L. Polk Alliance, at the A. & M. College on Apr ii 9th. The Connty Executive committee were, authorized to em ploy an able Al natM lecturer and or ganize and have hi hold meetings at nineteen or more ipoifits in the coun tv. Thos am tn begin as soon as arr angements, now in progress, can no completed. The same committee was alsc authorized to ap point a connty business agent, and start a bnsiness agency as soon as ap propriate arrangements can be make. "State Business Agent Ivey was present and SDokeenthusiasticallv&nd at some length on the business agency. tha c K.n . i x i . being established ahead of the shoe ractory. He created amazement when he exhibited, some fine sample s of the neaviest leather tanned in tiin days, and other fin.e samples tanned .in three hours, by a new patent process , which is now controlled by the State A. Uiance. Just think. You can get your small hides tanned while you wait am I look around the factory. Green Candle. rp. yi . . xjl Caucasian nas received, an announcement of the marriage of Mr. John Zebnlon Green to 31 iss Ella Caudle, at 7.45 p. m.. Am il atn, in the Methodist church c ' Peachland, N. C. Mr. Green is tin talented and energetic editor oi Oar Home.". Th Caucasian ex tends its congratulations. W. K. Henry to Speak. Hon. Walter K. Henry will address the people of Gastonia connty. N. C. on Saturday, May 9. 1896. on thl l great issnes of the day at Gastonia. THE NATIONAL CONGRESS. Some Record of What the Peo ple1 Eepresentatirei Are Trying to Do. SUBSIDY GRABBERS WIH. IatraaUng tMacaaataat aa Oannant rtal ijtB It U CacaaaUtaUaaai Ta Opcrata It By rrlvata Carporatlaa Sanatar Dattar Sacaraa 7O.O00 far "raa Mall Delivery Kaparlmaala la Tha Ceaatry. VOXDAY, APU1L 6TB SKXaTK. Kigbt pension bills were introduced. Mr. Pkitchabd presented the memo rial of Marcus Mason and Sundry oth er citizens of Beaufort, X. C, remon strating against the enactment of leg islation abolishing compulsory pilot age; which was referred to the Com mittee on Commerce. This is the day on which the concur rent resolutions recognizing Cuba were passed. Mr. Bt'TLKK. I ak unanimous con sent for the consideration at this time of the joint resolution donating a concerned cannon and some shells to the Guilford Battle Ground Company, near Greensboro, X. C. The joint resolution was reported to the Senate withont amendment, or dered to be engrossed for a third read ing, read the third time and passed. A number of pension bills were passed. House. Fourteen pension bills were intro duced. The Cuban resolutions were passed Dy a vote oi 2it to 27. . At the request of Mr. Hill the fol lowing letter was read : United States Department of Agriculube, Office of the Secretary. Washinaton, IK C..Airil 6. '97, Sir: Complying with your request, anu wnac seems to te the almost unan imouedesire!of the House of Represent atives, I have telegraphed I.andreth KT sons tnat their proposition to put the seeds into packages of 5 instead of 15 packets (making 2,025,000 packages in sieau oi u. o.uuu) ior ?.),(hhj extra com pensation has been accepted, and the seeds will so be done up. ltespectf ully, yours, J. Sterling Morton, Secretary. IIon. J. W. Wadsworth, Chairman Committee on Agriculture nouse oi Kepresntatives. Mr. Shuford offered a bill to ore- vent discrimination between various kinds of legal-tender money. 1 he river and harbor appropriation bill was warmly discussed for a short while and passed by a vote of 20G to 40, The bill amounts, including liabilities ana appropriations to f 02,000,000. Items appropriated to Xorth Caro lina are as follows : . Improving harbor at Beaufort, $4,- uou. Improving inland waterway between Beaufort Harbor and New River; con tinuing improvement, $i,uuu. Improving Cape Fear River, above w ummgeon ; continuing improve menu, ?4,uuu. Improving Cape Fear River, at and i i iir r i - . . . . oeiow mimingion; continuing im provement, $100,000. Improving Xeuse River; continuing improvement, $5,000. Improving Pamlico and Tar rivers; continuing improvement and main taining, $2,500. Improving Trent River; continuing improvement, $2,000. improving Black River; for main tenance, $1,000. The Secretary of W ar is instructed to make preliminary examinations of the following locations in this State : Cape Lookout harbor or refuge. For a jetty near Bogue Inlet, to re move sand bar. TUESDAY, APRIL 7 SENATE. Six pension bills introduced. Mr. Pritchard presented the peti tion of W. H. Chadbourn and other members of the Chamber of Commerce of Wilmington, N. C, praying for the establishment of an army post adja cent to that city. Mr. Butler. I introduce a joint res olution and ask that it be read at length for information. The resolution was read as follows : Resolved by the Senate, etc., That the following amendment to the Constitu tion of the United States be proposed to the legislatures of the several States, which, when, ratified by three-fourths of said legislatures, shall become and be a part of the Constitution, and shall be known as the sixteenth amend ment : That every bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate shall, before it becomes a law, be presented to the President of the United States. If he approves, he shall sign it ; but if not he shall return it with his objection to the House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the objections at large on their Journal and proceed to reconsider it. If, after such reconsideration, a majority of that House shall agree to pass the bill, it shall be sent together with the objections, to the other House, by which it shall likewise be reconsid ered, and if approved by a majority of that House it shall become a law. Every order, resolution, or vote, to which the concurrence of the House of Kepresentatives and Senate may be necessary (except on a question of ad journment) snail be presented to the President of the United States, and be fore the same shall take elfect shall be approved by him; or being disapprov ed by him, may be repassed by a ma jority of the Senate and House of Rep resentatives according to the rules and limitations prescribed in the case of a bill. Mr. Butler. Mr. President, I should like to be permitted to exnlain the i omt resolution in a few words. -i ms amenamenc keeps the wording of the Constitution and the machinery mm reiereuce io me veto power iust as it is now. It will be noticed that the only cnange it makes in the Con sticuGion is Dy tnanging the words "two-thirds" to "a majority." Nearly every evil that this Govern ment is suffering from to-day has come about not from defects in the Constitution, .Mr. President, but, if I may say it, by a disregard or deliber ate misinterpretation or an interpret ing away of the Constitution as it was written and intended by our fore fathers. Take the decision of the Su preme Court with reference to the in come tax cases and hundreds of other cases which might be cited, where we know, or feel that we know, that the intent oi me constitution has been V j r.' i. uuBugeu. j. ue eviis come noc Irom a defective Constitution as a rnle, but from a disregard of th Constitution. But this veto power is one provision wnere ine onsiuuuon, we might gay is, ueieuute. lii ia one relic oi naoii- arcny. wnen our forefathers framed this .Constitution they lacked just this much of being weaned from Eng lish ideas. They could not foresee the tremendous patronage that won id p- into the hands of the President in ad dition to mis veto power. They could not ioresee and did not intend that me veto power snooid be used to kill any dui mat tne irresident did not mmseir like, in fact, the veto power was intended to be used sparingly, "u jiariugijf anu we nave me t, timony of a number of the framers oi ' the Constitution to that effect, it j9 an English idea, but in England tbt ' orown to-day does not dare to vet 3 a bill passed by Parliament. It baa fallen Into dUaae In a amgdosa. ia a monarchy, bat ber ia tbis coun try it 8oribee and ia used more fre quently each year. The people sere elect their repreeeatalivee for both Hoaar of Conrrrs directed to enact the will of tb people into law; yet one man not even a lefialator baa the monstrous authority and power to nullify any art of Cocgreaa. A bill ia pasted after the moat careful and de- i be rate consideration by the repre sentative of tne people; jet it can be vetoed and nullified by a atroke of a pen in the band of one man. Tnv u a dangeroua power, v uen we eonaiaer to-day toe iremenaoua patronage that the President baa with wbtcn be can influence leruiauon. in addition to the veto power to kill what ia paaaed, it makes bim almost an au tocrat. It gives hkn more power than any crowned bead of Kngland or, we might aay, than any monarcn in r.u- rope baa. e aaw bere in me taai Congreaa bow the power and the pat ronage of the Preaident were uaed to change the opiniona of Congreaa and to defeat the will of the people, me saw in the same Congreaa bow the veto power was used to strike down a bill tbat was passed Dy coiigrnu lumm the seigbiurage. Nearly erry aaiuininlration aince the civil war ban ued ibe vrio pwer and the patronage ol the o-rnuient the same way. '1 lie atur and dagger grows greater each year. THAT I-USTOrriCK AI'I'KOI'KlaTlOJi HI1.1- The post-office appropriation bili came up and was discussed. eiiaior Butler ollered an amendment as 101- lows : "Provided, That .V),000 be used to defray the expenses of experiments in rural free delivery under the direction of the PostmasteMieneral, and that the amount heretofore appropriated for this purpose and still unexpended be available for said experiments." The "amount heretofore appropri ated" referred to in this amendment is $20,000 this much having been appro priated by a previous Congress. It had never been expended because the amount was not sufficient, in the opin ion of the Postmaster-ueneral,tomake a fair test oi a free mail delivery sys tem in the country districts. This $20,000 is included in Senator Butler's amendment, making a total appropria tion for this purpose of s, 0,000. l lie amendment was adopted. mo Hl'HSIDIKS. We said Iat week that the corpora tions would get the bi nubsidies I hey were after. Tho Oceanic Steamship Company which carries ihr mail from San Francisco to New Zealand and gets a contract price for it, asked the gov ernment to give it an additional sub sidy of $80,000 a year. The company will not run any more ships, nor will the ships make better time, but the Senate voted to give that company this $80,000 annually, just as we said it would do last week. Senator Butler voted against it. Senator Pritchard voted for it. The railroads came in for a big sub sidy too. They carry the mails at con tract prices, but they waul more than this from (he government. They had their "frieims" in the Simile to pui this clause in the bill : "Fur ueceatiury and special facilities on trunk lines from Boston. Man., by way of New York and Washington, to Atlanta and New Orleanu, $ly,14 22 : Provided, That no part of the appro priation made by this paragraph shall be expended unless the Postmaster General shall deem such expenditure necessary in order to promote the in terest of the postal service." Senator lias moved to strike out this clause. Senator Butler spoke against it and said : "I wish to say that in my opinion that subsidy should be stricken from the bill. It is a clear subsidy of $1!G,- 000 given as a free gift you can not call it anything else to one railroad company, now the Southern Railroad. The Atlantic Coast Line and the Southern Railroad Company are both anxious to get the contract from the government to carry this mail. They both have fast mail facilities now. Either one would take it under the contract price. By adding the $196,000 tne government does not get a service one particle better for the money. Besides, as the Postmaster-General has said in his report every year, it is a discrimination against the other railroads in the country which simply get the contract price for carrying the mails. Of course, if any railroad is going to get it, I should like to see one running down through my State get it; but 1 oppose it simply because it is wrong. If the government wants to go to making free gifts to railroad companies or individuals it is all right, but this is an appropriation of $196,000 without one single cent's service in return to the government or for the improvement of the postal service." ine railroads won the tight and they will manage in some way to get tbat money, $196,000-and the people will pay it. This item was kept in the bill by a vote of 33 to 19. Senator Butler voted against it. Senator Pritchard voted for it. House. Sixteen pension bills were introdu ced. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8. SENATE. Nine pension bills introduced. rsi a. a? . . . . . me inuian appropriation bill was discussed during the day. House. Eleven pension bills were in trod 11 ced. THURSDAY, APRIL 9. SENATE. Five pension bills introduced. Senator Butler called up the bill to establish a government postal tele graph system, and offered the follow ing amendment : "iVot'tcfec.That the Postmaster-Gen eral shall establish a telephone instead of a telegraph instrument in every post-oflice at which, in his judgment, a teiepnone can render aunicient ser vice, and elfect a saving of expense to ine uepartmeut. wtiereas long-dis lance messages may De sent from or destined for a postotlice at which a tel ephone is used, the Postmaster-Gen era! shall prescribe regulations desig nating me po6t-oince using telegraph instruments to which the telephone messages in any case may be sent to be iorwarded by telegraph." Amend the title of the bill to read as follows: "A bill to establish a postal a I t. . teiegrapn ana teiepnone system, and to enlarge the postal facilities of the people of the United States." Senator Butler spoke to bis amend DYSPEPSIA CURED Vf TT x w:n: -r ii A ""f" f-a. "a., jrra per.enu uo noc nesitate to recommend it to all who sutler with Dyspepsia or Indigestion in any form. The purchase of one i a goo Tv,;. 1 .f ii i , . -..j v.i uuuuicuo wuiun we nave. A snecial IMf lof toehStai,.M.ella..laWlrwktelliB7 .U bot , StSLSSS terms for rent and sale, free for the aaHno- w,.; ' Electric Building, at and la the coerae ef bit remarks aid: -BJIU similar to tbis one bae been before nearly etery Coogreaa sine If. In all more than 70 bills have been introduced to provide for rqnip piec the postal aervic with the mod ern fari!iUe of electric naila by the sac of the telephone and the telegraph. Committee of the House and the fen- ate have made 1 report on tbcae a rioua bllla. of tbe.l report, only two bae been ad vera , while 1 d them bat e strongly favored t be prt- viaiona of a poetal telegraph." He tben took up the coottitutienai pbaac of thia qoeation, and bowed tbat be had given it much intealiga tion and atudy. lie cited at some length the bigbeat authorities to abow iuii hit wilt ruwiiiuuvuw. lr unconstitutional for t oncresa not to provide for the use of the telegraph and leiepnone aa agencies of our pnaiai poet-otnee department. In doing thia be quoted (rom Con. r . n k raruini i nrf law 1 1 r Johnu, (who was Potniater-tenrr- al uu-lt-r Jit h. 1 ol ),ex-Potmater- Ci.iirra1 UniiiniiLt-r. Atuu-iil Jut. au i various ntherr. Among the cita .... - - - - - - - - . - - - - -. tion which will be of interest to North arolina M-ilr la au expression ol Jtidgf Walter t'lark of the N. C Su preme court, w Inch la as follows : -llon kIui ailmir tli rnt iilnnt. age, nay, the necesaity of the tele graph and the telephone being opera ted aa a part of the pootal syoteui are deterred by the inquiry. "-Ia it conati tutiooaiy In truth it is unconstitu- biuuAi iur tuts rssruiiai urauvu vi titc- postal system to be oiK-rated by a pri- i-ita ntAnAniilv hp In an .kt liaip miiinP u u mj aav x v a ai aaa v aa constitution piaceu ine post-omces in the hands of the government it confer red its exclusive operation upon the ujrcrauuK lb in tn ursi au auiagr. ' I B-t A iviiatvmal a v a I a a inr attiil uubj lis vjrvri aio fUBtBviui.ca a itu with it beyond question the exclusive riirht and duty to use all the agencies mail Muuiu iiiaKC me iuubi hlirhlv aa ft I l An r j aunh aa n as aael aattl time to time, should be improved or invented. On this principle the first telegraph line was built by a Congres sional appropriation under an admin- its history, had become a strict-ron- atructive administration (Tyler's), and the telegraph belonged to and was op erated by the government from 1MI to isio, in Polk's administration. Mr. Boti.kr further said: "Judge " " " " " I'"' v " " " ' J clear, yet short and concise statement .larir in ami 1 1 t in nmm nAnaA.i . as to the constitutionality of a pos tal teiegrapn, snowing it uncon stitutional for the Government not to take charge of the telegraph and tele phone as instruments of the postal AAm i .... nwrnnii. lMuif-ii w iiiinii hiivii in ! American Law Review a few months a v j i t.i.i . rii inn .t i r . i k r - irji I'.... th. ni. An i am n f h a J a a a auu rBjit-ciauj wie voiuiiuiiee on 1 osi- . i . ..." . uuices anu I'ost-itoads, in considering this hill. I auk that it h nlarwil in tliu same Senate document with the sum mary of the hearings of the committee by Professorl'arsons." I he day was a carnival day in the l..lwi..n l.iuSn.iua 2 m it... aj a E. seventy-live pension bills were passed in sixty minutes, ajnongtbem the fol lowing: increasmgio sou inoiilliiy tbe pen sions to the widows of Lieut. Com mander Rhodes, of the navy: Col. a a t I- 11 . rklMf'K mm. liPfl II t- I nrrfroir an1 Mai. Bernard (of the Mexican war). - - j - wfce - v-batiii auu Chief Engineer George Sewell, 1". S. A., and Lieut. , Col. Slocum; granting $75 ner month tr l.fn O l Cnmiinir now an inmate oi St. Elizabeth's In- .ii.li. .mviii..i u 1 1 i . i in 1 1 v. . . . a. a. $75 to the widow of Mai. Gen. Stone- , n -" - - , - ., w.. v uu,iuucaaiug tne pension yi juaj. Gen. Julius Stahl to S100: i a.A Z a.l m a - a - i -----e w-a aoa vaa vu a j t fhn frwlAnr f Paa AH m ieal !. W vaa v T IVV TV Ua IkAI ilUlllliai MT Jf 1 Tj oi $100 montmy. House. Fifteen pension bills introduced. FRIDAY, APRIL 10tU SENATK. Nine pension bills introduced. Appropriation bills were discussed. during the day. liouae. r ii Lee ii nension mn.s iniroiiureii and T P i ... ...... - SATCEDAT, APHIL llTU. ravi C a. . a . ine oenaiewas not in session. Twelve pension bills introduced in the House. WILMINGTON SELECTED Aa The Place For The Meeting For Tlie State Presa Association. The committee appointed by the Press Convention at its last annual meeting in ureensDoro to select a place for the meeting this summer has selected Wilmington. The committee met in Raleigh last week at the Park Hotel. The members present were, Mr. Chas. U Stevens, of the Southport Leader, President of the Press Association and chairman Ex Ofllcioof the Committee; T. R. Man ning, or the Henderson Gold Leaf ; II. A. London, of the Chatham Record, and J. A. Thomas, of the Louisburg i iiues. The invitation which was extended by the Chamber of Commerce of Wil mington was accepted. The conven tion meets July 25th. Odd. New York Journal. A blind man is on trial for murder inthiscity. An armless woman is un der indictment for thert of a pocket book alleged to have been commit ted with her teeth. In "freak" circles excitement reigns because the "Turtle Boy" George, legless and brainless, has eloped with a pretty girl or she with him. In short, New York is the home of romance in real life, the true Midway Plaisance of the nation. New Industry In North Carolina. A new industry of considerable pro portions in connection with the great fisheries in Albemarle Sound, N. C, has rprung up lately in the shipment of sturgeon roes to Germany and Russia. The last report of the State Labor Commissioner of North Carolina shows that one hundred boats and two hundred and fifty fishermen are now engaged in this branch of the fishery industry in those waters. . . . . m a recent letter writes : "After two -, ... - " . . i iUi - - Atlanta, Ga. 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