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! CAUCASIAN. Jl ini iPy VOL. XV II. RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MARCH 29. 1900. St NO. 17. f r, 4vWho do 1 1 wm Manhood Suffrage in North Carolina and the Proposed Constitutional Amendment. THE M NDFATHER Ml OF II CLEARLY UHCONSTITUTIONA lie Quote AlMiii.lant uimI Conclusive l.eul Authority to Show That 8e ( tlon o U Not Only Cim-ouM ltutlonl, IJut 1 hat It Will Kul I. Leaving The Kenialudcr of the Amendment to fctrtud. lie DiirusvH ,luly;e Hrowii'a i Proposed Amendment hii1 Shows That the Court Would Vnquestlou- bly Igunrn nny Attempt of the lieg- IMattire to In tr.a t It How to De ride ThM or any Olhpr Question. Ho lirtcnrt the ( linre of Negro Domina tion au8linidor on the Stnte.--Other Feature of tlie Amendment DIs cuMAcd. He Says That the Proposed Amendment l Not Only Unconstitu tional mid Diiugcrom to . he Liber tie or FITiy thousand White Men In North Carolina, Hut That It Is Dishonest In Its .Method nnd Puts the South In a Fal,e Podt'on. (Continued fr&in last week.) A CONFER! ON AND AN ATTEMPT 10 D A V'OI DANCE. The Mipporters of this amendment Irlave recently realized that this is true. They have realized what this great, Kturdy, hon?st dement of illiterate "Whites in iiy State have nude up their minds t -'do. In fart, they have Just ronfessfd that they can not sustain tlals mtasure by argument before the people. I hold in my haul the proof of that confession. On last Thursday .fudge lirown. one of the State circuit court judges of North Carolina, while 'holding court at Wilmington, gave to ithe press an interview in which he not only expressed an opinion about the constitutionality cf the proposed amendment. Out. he went further and ndvbed his political friends to amend tit tn order to avert defeat at the polls. I will met at this time comment upon Itbe impropriety of a Judge expressing an opinion in advance and for political rffect mboiit an important question it h j t is liable to come before his court Tor 'adjudication. I can only say I re igitt 1:. IJut I desire to call the atten tion of til a Senate to the change in this amemlment wh'x-'h he proposes. He advises that when the legislature meets, at an adjourned meeting, before the election In August, that it amend the amendmeint by adding a new sec tion, to ibe known as section 6. The form of the amendment that lie ad vises the legislature to adopt is as fol ilowa: "Section 6. This act shall be con strued and taken as a whole, and if any of its clauses, sections, and pro visions fchall for any reason became or 'be declared inoperative and invalid, ithe whole of this amendment and every part and section thereof shall be come null and void and of no effect 'IT I L C4-..U lis n i .v'tivciy newspaper 'in me ciate iuii T jnnn.nprttnor tha QTn,pn A mn t Co far n.a I have seen, has Indorsed this sugges- Hmon. wntnin me last rew uays ine twlttee has published a carefully pre pared official Interview not only In dorsing the suggestion but claiming that he is the father of it and first sug- .Rested It to the Judge. He "oes fur- '" ther, and, speaking by au' -ity. says that the legislature will ' eet and will amend the amendment by adding such a sectioin. So I take it that It is prop er to discuss this proposed amendment ( ."with thlls proposed section added. v Judge Brown has the reputation of I being a good lawyer, so the Judge must I cktvow that the section that he proposes (Will "e, be considered 'by the court as 1 a pa Ji the amendment, but simply V3 legislative declaration, eveti t'hougli it be Ingrafted Into the amend ment Ifja one nf Its cetlrvnii lift mnif tiacknowTfurther. that the court, if 'it did it We fljot lesent. would t least ignore, such thelHrp-rt on the part of the legislature lift' ' n nK"t the court as tohow itshould Ipimacl'A. lie a statu'te. In this country, ". the legislative and Judicial de jra.rt meats are entirely distinct, nelth- ' r tone i3 ever permitted to intrench Uipc; the authority and domain of the otih A 1 LEGISLATURE CAN NOT IN- STRUCT THE COURTS. 'No court, so far as I know, has ever y&L nerrr.litted jnv legislative hodv in ortjirollna or anywhere else in Ibis m y to thus Instruct them as to 1J W they should construe a statute. The'icourt never looks at the declara tion -'that a legislature makes, (but it 'jlook. at the substance of what it does d -enders Its Judgment accordingly. h4 supreme court of North Carolina, e rase cf Robinaon vs. Rarfleld (2 t'le part of the legislature and e deellon said that the court d allow such declarations attempt- the extci M.I111 II 111 to instruct the judiciary to remain dead letters on the"statu,te books." Do juu , her on In the opinion, Judge Dan- that a II one of the ablest Judges of the , in delivering the opinion, said: County j court can neither nibble at the 4lv Jil atlve c Uof 'J ,trlde 01 J.f ioa8iol doctrl power nor can the legisla- ver the Judicial. ne "was approved in Hoke etff ct ol enderson (1 Dev.) and in 'many Count- J5vate decisions. mil tut; tut live ;mis uieie uaic I think, at least a dozen cases !n Carolina where 4 he courts liave ed that notwK odtng the itive declaration th I had done 'buiVlould look to the Bubstance of jLhey did. I think I could cite at W." 1 - v.. A T 1.1.. 14 iVi or 10 cases, iui x litivts il iu j no lauthoritj to the contrary other State or in the United Reports. I have not had time through all the United Slates on this Qofirit, tout every case found holds as I have stated. In. a of United States vs. Claflln Reports) the court says: ital On a statute that .a former ilwas u pea led or superseded by W4 Ifllf M UBtate iHtoloffl 1 ON 1: ubcquent acts is net conclusive as to junh repeal or suiper&edure. Whether a fatute was repealed is a judicial,' not t lr si'-'.dtiv? question. Whether taction 5 will fall, leaving the remainder of the amendment to ..tand, is a Judicial and not a legisla tive question, and 'it is a piece of im pertinence on t'le part cf the legisla ture to attempt to Instruct the court ns to ho.v it t'hall construe a judicial 1ue-iti!on. Mr. President, nothing is better set tled than that an alternative judgment is veil. N'3'.v, this prepcred section Instructs the court that if it think3 all of tiie sections of the amendment are constitutional, then to let all of them -stand; but, on the other hand, V 'it should find one of the sections uncon stitutional, that then it must declare the Whole , act uneonsMtutional. Such a proposition seems absurd. The courts have uniformly held that when the legislature attempts to create a corporation, that if it fails to confer the essential powers 'necessary to make a corporation in the charter, that then a corporation has not been termed, even tihou&'h. the legislature declare in the same act its intention to create a .. .1 A .1 it. . i L 1 .1 ii if the legislature should confer ;he powers necessary to create a corpora- tion, the court would hold that it was I a corporation even though the legisla I tuie in the same ct should declare that it u:d not intend to create a cor poration. There is a case in the North Carolina Reports, which I have not had time to -put my ihancb on, which declares Hhat where the maker of a deed declared at the end thereof "that t'he above deed was made -without fraud" that the declaration was net only vn'.d and of no effect to make the deed valid, but that the declara- tion was itself a 'badge of fraud. Just so this declaration, if made by the legislature of North Carolina, would not only not be considered by the court in rendering its decision, 'but its only purpose will be to serve to put tihe court on notice that the legisla ture, when it adopted this provision, itself doubted, to say the least, the con stitutionality of section C, and that they passed the provision in spite of this doubt and belief. ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO FOOL THE VOTEiRS. Judge Brown, in this interview, while expressing Che opinion flat the pro posed amendment was constitutional, yet gave as his excuse for advising the legislature to adept this new section that in his opinion the masses of the people could not understand legal argu ment. Therefore I take it that he of fers this new section because he thinks the people -will not be able to see its absurdity and utter futility. If he had less ability as a lawyer, it anight toe supposed that he had fooled himself. But, Mr. President, thi3 section, at tempting to instruct the court how to construe the amendment, will not fool the voters of the State into supporting such a dangerous scheme. They have had intelligence enough to see the dan ger in j&eetlon 5. The same intelli gence will guard tham against this new device. The voters of North Carolina are intelligent enough to know that there i3 not only grave, if not certain, danger to from fifty to sixty thousand white voters in this amendment, but they also know that if this lamcndiment were adopted and section 5 eliimlinated that co way unde beavt'n could restore to these voters their ballot except "by again amending the constitution. These thousands of Illiterate white voters are intelligent enough to know that when once dis franchised they -would have no vote to 'help change the amendment and help wine out the wr ng. They also know that the average politician only fears: the people so long as they have a! vote. This proposed new section will not prevent the court from declaring sec tion 5 invalid and holding that the remainder of the amendment shall stand, and no one knows It better than Judge Brown, and the voters will show at the election next August that they also know better. IT PUTS THE SOUTH IN A FALSE POSITION. Mr. President, this whole scheme is not only fraught with danger, 'but it. is unnecessary. It not only put3 the representation of the South in Con gress and in the electoral college in Jeopardy, but it also puts so many thousands of wihite voters themselves in danger. Section 5 is not only un constitutional, but it is offensive to every principle of democracy; offensive to political honesty and to American Lsm. .Mr. President, it 'puts the South in a false and unenviable position to attempt to deal Witlh suffge in this miserably uncandid manner. It is a position that no Southern State should put 'itself 'to. It is dangerous, it Is un necessary, it i3 not honest. There are constitutionial methods for dealing witih the suffrage question whenever and wherever ' the necessity arises, with mi t reisortinz to such undemo cratic and unconstitutional and absurd subterfuges. ANOTHER ABSURD SUGGESTION. One word more On this subject. I notice tihat in the interview by the Etmocratic State chairman to which I referred a Sew minutes ago that he also advises the legislature when it meets- to do another thing to put sec tions 4 and 5 of this proposed amend ment into one isection, and (he sayfe that will lessen the danger of the courts .knocking out section' 5 and leaving section 4 to stand. That suggestion is aibsurd. There is not an authority in all the books but what holds that the court will knock out not only one sec tlon but even one-half of a dozen, or one sentence of a section and let the otiher half stand, just as quick as they would knock out one section and leave another stand. Every lawyer witm. a tbtaiibie tfull of brains knows that Then why is that suggestion made? Is It made in good faith? No! There can be but owe purpose why a man who knows any law should make such suggestion, and that is with the hope that It would fool some voters who are MOMENT lawyers. It is ibird. It u dema i falsehood, and yet -that La oaa o - iuggestloas for aav&Uher amend ment wihen the legislature meeU. i OTHER VERY SERIOUS OBJEC- j TIOXS. ; Mr. Precident, there are other ?er- ! lous Objections to this proposed amend- i ment, even if section 5 were const itu- ! tl&nal. Let us briefly note a few of them. In tiha first place, what class i of the negro population would be dis- ! frardhised by the amendment? It 1 would be the good old country darkly who was a3 faithful and true as steel to our mothers, wives, and sisters dur ing the late war, and w'ho is a gooJ citizen and a good laborer, who ha never Leen offensive in politics nor in other ways. Now, w-hat class of negroes would be left to vote ? There would be many thousands who would still vote, and this number would Include aii of tiiat, element who have been active "and cf-; fensive in politics, and who, either from innate perversity or for a consid eration, have furnished the capital nec essary to enable the machioe politic ians to raise the negro cry and appeal to race prejudice. In short, the only negroes who have ever made the race issue possible would be those who would not only oe eligible to vote but to hold office under the proposed amendment. The trifling negro dude, who talks loud and takes up all the sidewalk, would be left with full power to vote. This class would he sufficient in number to be the bal ance of power in politics and to furnish an object lesson at any time to help the "negro howling politicians" to raise their old cry. But it is claimed by the supporters of this suffrage amendment that its adoption would remove the race ques tion from the politics cf the State and make it possible for economic govern mental .issues to be discussed on their merits and passed upon by the voters intelligently. Mr. President, if th'.s amendment were constitutional and would stand the test of the courts, it is clear that if would have mo such effect. In the first place, I am constrained to observe that those who are making this claim are those who have been most active and diligent in appealing to race prejudice in every campaign in season and out of season. In the next place, this amendment, if adopted and section 5 should be sustained by ' the court, would still leave about 50,000 negro voters in North Carolina. That is a larger number than there are today in the State of Kentucky. I am in formed that there are only about 40,000 negro votera in that Sta.te. And yet, see the appeals to race prejudice, the turbulence, violence, and appeal to passion and prejudice instead of to rea- son in that State. And the same would De irue in iNort,n Carolina were tn,;s amendment adopted, as long as there were politicians at the head of the par ty with no other purpose or ambition except to have power and qlUce regard less of the economic questions at issue and regardless of the welfare of the State. This will be so as long as there are nien at the head of any party who be lieve in ballot-box stuffing and all kinds of fraud and crime in order to defeat the will of the people and to put themselves is power. This will be so as long as such men are at the head cf any party organization and can find one negro in sight to use as a scare crow with which to appeal to race prej udice and banish reason, common sense and justice. Now, shall we run the risk of disfranchising about 50,000 or 00,000 of as good white men as there are in North Carolina in order to se cure the privilege of Ihaving an that State a repetition of the kind of cam paign that Kentucky had last year? WHITE VOTERS WHO ARE SURE TO BE DISFRANCHISED. There is another great objection to this amendment. It provides that af ter 1908 every white man of voting age who is not then able to read and write any section of the constitution shall be disfranchised. Think of the number of boys in North Carolina today who are twelve years of age who may not be able to get an education 'by the time they are twenty-one years of age ! These boys are sure to be disfran chised and put on a plane lower than the town darkey with his eyeglasses and cocked hat. How many fathers and mothers are there in the State to day, struggling to make both ends meet, who have managed to raise their boys until they are now 10 or 12 years of age, an age at which these boys are just beginning to help them on the, farm or in the factory? In how many cases is such a boy the mainstay of a father and mother who are dependent upon his work to support the family until he is 21 years of age? How many of these boys will reach 21 without being able to get an educa tion? Yet it Is this kind of a noble boy who will be called upon each year to pay taxes, to work the Toad, and to shoulder his musket and do the fighting if bis country needs his services. This Is the boy who will he expected to do the fighting and give ihis life for his country, while many of the politicians who are trying to disfranchise him will no doubt, like Cleveland, hire a substitute. THE POLL-TAX RECEIPT SCHEME. Another objectionable feature is the provision requiring the presentation of the poll tax receipt before voting. Wlhat does this mean? Every man in the State who is on the delinquent tax list or who has not paid his taxes as muoh as six months before the State election and as much as eight months before the national election will be dis franchised. How many good men in the State who are unfortunate or who from any reason can not pay their poll tax before the election, much less pay them six otr eight months before the election? Yet these aTe the men, and every one of their soms who are not more than 21 years old now, whom these politicians are trying to disfranchise under the false and specious cry of "white su premacy." A man may 'have paid his taxes in April, as long as five or eight months before the elections, and yet he is disfranchised in August or Novem ber unless he has paid his poll tax as far back as the 1st day of March pre vious. A SCHEME TO TRICK OR BRIBE VOTERS. There is another provision in the same poll tax section that intended to encourage a man not to pay his taxes, so that (he may he disfranchised there by. Its purpose is to tjry to trick or bribe the voter into not paying his tax before the 1st day of March, so that the machine politicians may get rid of his vote. The result will be not only, to cut off thousands from voting, but also to rob .the State -and the public school fund of tens of thousands of dollars of taxes which the public schools will lose, or which other tax payers will be forced to make up by increased taxation. The evident pur ro3e of this autocratic political ma- jehino la to try to restrict the suffrage J iiie peopie uoITu 10 as sui-iii a ului I ber es ucsi'bie. so that I'lity may tae 'better rcaaipulate elections nd fortify thsir machine in pvwir. Besides, there is a provi-ca in th amendment giving lo the legislature unlimited power to enact general regis tration laws. Under this provision tfc legislature can manufacture a number cf hocus-pocus -schemes to disfranchise cters. white and biick, l-y preventing them from getting on the regi -tra-tion books. This provision, in connection with section 5, is rhe sr ike In the amendment, and will enable a politi cal machine to disfranchise -vhlle vot ers as well as black. Mr. President, these are some of the objections -to -this-undemocratic dis franchising scheme, even if it were constitutional. And these are to my mind sufficient reasons why it Is not safe to adopt such a scheme, if there were no others. But, in the langu&ga of the New Or leans Times-Democrat, this scheme ia not only unconstitutional, but it is also fraught with great clanger to the whitt voter and to the 'State. (Tc be continued in next issue.) THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. The South. The United States government is now sending out its regular distribu tion of seeds, good sized packages of the seed of the Florida velvet bean whose wonderful qualities for restor ing worn out land have been exploited extensively in the press of the country in the last two years. The Port Gibson compress, in which was stored 2.000 hales nf PfiWnn. wis burned Sunday; loss $100,000; fully i covered by insurance. Stove moulders were given a 15 per cent, advance by the Stove Founders' National Association meeting at At lanta, Ga. j Snowstorms and frosts have oeen I general throughout the South and it is t feared fruit has been damaged. ! Ex-Governor William J. Stone, na- i tional committeeman from Missouri, j said in an interview at SL Louis that j a movement is on foot to eliminate free silver as a campaign issue. i General Nelson A. Miles, command- I ing the United States army, -who ar- rived at Charleston, S. C, from Wash ington Sunday night, en route to Sav- j aunah, inspected the harbor defenses ' there. " i The American National Bank of Ma con, Ga.. has decided to increase ita circulation under the new ourrencv law from $45,000 to $130,000. Administration officials are advising General Wheeler to withold his resig tion in order that he and General Lee may be retired with the rank of briga dier general. A skeleton found on a high moun tain near Granberry, Texas, has been identified as that of William Brown, who disappeared a year ago. Charles Humphreys, a negro who late Saturday night entered the room of Miss McCoy, daughter of a white farm living just outside of Phoenix City, Ala., was lynched by a party of white men. The young woman recognized Humphreys and a mob immediately started in pursuit. They came upon the negro about ten miles from Phoe nix City. He confessed the attempt and was shot to death. The North. Two soldiei-s, Arthur Loudon ana Austin H. Milman, were fatally shot by Cicero H. Thompson, a saloonkeep er, at Valentine, Neb., whom they at tacked in his bed room. Commander William Emory has been detached from the membership of the .Inspection Board and ordered on temporary special duty at New York. A panic sticken crowd at the high school building in Kenosha, Wis., was saved Friday night by Louis Ferry, a student, who coolly extinguished the fire that had stampeded the audience in the hall. Andrew Bolter, one of the most no ted entomologists in America, died Sunday. Foreign. It is officially denied that the siege of Mafeking has been raised or the town relieved. Considerable bodies of the Orange Free Staters aTe reported in British dispatches to be ready to surrender. The Princess of Wales opened an Irish industrial exhibition in London. General Otis lias been authorized to permit Filipinos to enlist as members of the regimental bands in the Philip pnes. The Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf Railroad, was sold at public auction at Joplin, Ma, to satisfy a $23,000,000 mortgage with one year's accrued in terest, held by the State Trust Com pany, of New York. Silas W. Pettit, chief counsel of the Philadelphia reor ganization committee, bid $12,500,000, the upset bid. Evans Weed, a wealthy farmer of Newfield, Conn.; will petition the leg islature to change his name to Adam, after which (he will transform his large farm into a duplication, as far as may be, of the Garden of Eden. Then he will advertise for some woman named Eve to be his consort. The Grand Canal, part of the valley of Mexico drainage system, was Inaug urated Saturday with muoh ceremony by President Diaz and his Cabinet. A controlling interest in La Lucha, the Havana newspaper, is likely to be purchased by Michael J. Dady, the Brooklyn politician, who is building sewers in Havana. ' Patent office work this year promis es to beat the record. Miscellaneous. Capt. Carl Reichmann, the United States army officer detailed to observe the conduct of the war from the Boer side, has returned from the Modder river. The $17,000,000 dividend just an nounced by the Standard Oil Company called forth a resolution by Represen ts it ve Fitzgerald, of Massachusetts, dananding thait the attorney general proceed against the company under the Sherman antiturst law. Admiral Dewey submitted the report of this aid on the trial of the submar ine boat Holland. He expressed satis faction that the craft was not in Man ila harbor to oppose him. ARE IN THE DARK. British Know B jt Little About Situ .tion o? Their Armies. GEN. METHILYS PROGRESS SLOW. The British Movements are Slow and Cautious, and the People Have Con fidence In thHr Judgment. London, By Cable. Spencer Wilkin. sen, reviene tlie jltuation at Che seal of war for the Associated Press eays: Two points cf acute interest here Jusl new are Mafekir-g and the Boer col umn treakkjng north from Sailthfleid and Rcuvi!h along the Basuto hor der. About Mafeking we are in th dark. Colonel Plu-iaor has out a hand ti or men and is not strong enough tc attack Commandant Snymaalind raise the siege. Commandant Snyman, -therefore, hag attacked him and Col onel PI timer has prudently retired, ex. pecting no doubt, to return after Com man.da.at Snymon whenever the lattei goes back. .Lord Roberts -never forgets soaal; things while attending to great thing U may be taken as certain that lit knows how and when he rhall lhavt Mafeking relieved, supposing the gar rison can hold out, but he does not dis c'lose ,ilis Plans in advance. General Methuen lhas been nearly t week near Fourteeu Streams, prob'xbl) w-aiting for troops enough. The Boei general, who is hoping to get past Gea era! French up to Kroonstadt, may bi caught and made to fight, but with t few thousand mounted men he ough? to bo able, by temporary disposition to elude the British. If he stands t fight he may be detained for somi time. Lord Roberts has now been mon than ten days at Bloemtontein. Hi seems to wish to settle the country be 'bind him before going on. Probably too, he has extensive preparations U complete. His next campaign will g into the dry season, when the nighb are often very cold and the veldt is drj and bare. Ho will want his men equip ped for this season and his transpor service qualified to foe as near indepen dent as ipossible of grass and water The design no doubt is that Genera Buller, in the next advance, will mov simultaneously with Lord Roberts General Euller, perhaps, Is not ye ready. Lord Roberts will shortly hav the Eighth Division and may also forn of the troops now available a ne Tenth Division. He will then have Ii his o wn hauls 70,000 men and Genera; Buller will have 40,000. The forme force need not necessarily be movin all cn one line, for it would .be as easj to form a third column to cross th Vaal river at Kimberley and turn an Boer defense on that river. Ii view of thesfe figures and the know power of Lord Roberts as a leader, 1 attach little importance to the Boci declarations that they will make a blj fight. If they stand1 'before they an driven into Pretoria, I expect, thej will be enveloped- They may defeni Pretoria, .but that can help them bui little. It will be a question of weeks Lord Roberts may he looked for nortl of the Vaal at the end of April and be fore Pretoria, if the Boers fall back tf that place in the first half of May. Bank Statement. New York, Special. The bank state ment shows the following changes: Surplus reserve increased $3,130,875; loans decreased $12,560,760; specie de crease $1030,737; legal tenders increase $670,000; deposits decreased $13,-966,. 800; circulaton increased $391,300. Th (banks mow hold $5,817,300 in excess oj the legal requirements. Brevities. " The tobacco growers of Virginia j have made a start by the organization j Ol uviecKienuuTg cuumj w c-o-wiicsiaie (with the North Carolina association. Over 9,000,000 pounds of leaf to bacco have been sold at Kinston, N. C, jfor the year 1899-1900, exceeding all jexpectations. The warehouses at that place will close for the season the end of this month To Blow Up Frankfort. Frankfort, Ky., Special. There .a much excitement in Democratic quar ters "over a report that the ' guards in aharge cf the State arsenal had laid a mine in froni: of the State arsenal, con nected with the inside by a wire, so that it could be touched off in case of an attack. V ,e excitement was in creased when another report was cir culated that one of 't&e officers had purchased 100 feet of fuse from a local hardware merchant and it was report ed that ths fuse was to he attached to the mine alleged to be at the arsenal. Million Dollar Mill. Gainesville, Oa., Special. The Paco let Manufacturing Company, of Paco let, S. C, has bought a tract of 850 acres of land two miles from thii3 city, on which -will he erected a $1,000,000 cotton mill. The mill will operate 50,000 epdndles, and an ike standard sheeting for export only. Thirty thou sand bales of cotton a year will he con sumed onct 1,400 (hand's will be em ployed. Boston, architects will pre pare plans -next week, and the construe Hon will begin at once. No News To Report. London, By Cable. Lord Roberts telegraiahs to the "War Office, from Bloenafonteln, under date of (March 23, evening, a3 fellows : 'There is no spe cial news to report. The 'country eouth of thl3 place Is generally set tling down. Numbers of arms Suva been delivered up and the people org beginning to recognize the advantage of bringing in supplies' for sale. The movement of the troops in the west ern district is being attended with APPEAL ISSUED. Stela Board t Charities Calls IpjD the People to It Jp in Insane. Saturday the Stat board of tUn- tlea lasued an appeal to the people of North Carolina In bt&Alf of the inane vho are withcu: hcpiul care in this State, Ii 1 a pamphlet of 20 pages. The board under a sente uf advisory responsibility Impose! i,y ihe consti tution and statues ihereuLier. las be fore the paople the r.tcc!ty of meas ures for the care c: the :a.-an la ad dition to the privlsicn nu- made by the State Hospital at Ralegh. Mor ganton and Goldsbcro. Tn? f.KU to which public attention is tLu directed have been definitely actrt lined acl carefuly considered. In the Morganton Hospital there wertr at tlie last iepo.-i 783 patiercs; the woman's departaieut full; 144 applications i:p to Juzs lt, and only 72 could :e admitted. By .-p-tmoer tae rejected mixy?r 1U. Titcr are 445 patien-.s in the Goldboro Hos pital. It is overcrowded. There an 412 patients in the Raleigh Hospital. The additions to the buildings give room for 440. The supeiintendent of the WeKern Hospital presents reason for believing that at leuu 500 insane are now uneared for ia the western dis trict, 300 ol whom should be in the Hospital. The hoajd of charities has made careful inquiries to ascertain vthe'num iber cf insane, white and colored, ia ea;!h cou'nty home of jail or in private care, also as to epileptics cr idiots w ho j are public tharges 'by reason of their ! dangerous character or want of support i at home. j A frightful showing is -made; 110 j came from that teciion if the ecu white and 56 colored insane In county j live building in which Secretary Po homes; also 64 white and 33 colored t-rs office li located, although no u f'9.3.1;6.61 .re(, Ji- swore that the shots ere from tha uw, nunc ill ja'iis mri e aif 11 nunc and 9 negro insane, 10 white and one negro epileptics, two white and four negro idiots, and in private care 1 IS white and 48 negro insane. 44 white and S negro epileptics. 42 white and 18 negro Idiots; toal mentally insane 527 white, 239 colored, grand total 7C6. The board eays the number reporter In private care is very greatly less than the actual truth. Several large counties Teport no insane under pri vate charge, although it is known that there are such cases. It is &trange that public officials thus fail to do their du ty n making such reports. The 'board urges the building of In expensive cottages at the asylums for "colonies" of nsane. in a mile or two of the present Institutions. Wl ""' vur T uauu lu lu,r The cost of the Raleigh and Morgan- j rf r . ,8 , , , ton Hospitals is about $900 a lied and ! Lf'h '"J. aroen r th titnkrort of the Goldboro Hospital about the ?enUen1tIl.ary- !esl1fit'i h alk1c! Eame. The Average throughout ta S Jt a little ahead of .Senator CHKrlK-l United States is about $1,200 a bed. ! amI .V?".. fir-"il,Kh?1 ,was ,fler;i be The cottages on the colony plan at , RMOnd Odow In the of MArnntor, crt hut i'ou a h,! and !f i fice of tne rttury of Mate a lJght t'he brick made by the management 400 Aon trA f nin Ic V at ulth laadlu fit o wwt '.f $200 to $250 each. ' sf ot 'f 3 evidently from a t ifl. The board says: "We do. not dwell ! he others H-emod to be from pls- ujpoa the possibility of being subjected I o1:' ,. "f'11 .gate Thomiwon to the lash of a brutal Jailor for un- j JeIJ that as tli. crowd waj carry ooneclous offence or of penning up and !nR nator tKebel out of the yard, be feeding like a wild beast as a so-called "I. '"I "TJVZl home, instances or which were laid be- frtr Hr,i,v fci,rlilPM t th re. flection that such things exist ia this State. But the people are entitled to know the whole truth. The darke.-t element is contained In the fact that of 208 single women in the Morganton I Hospital 27 were debauched and many i of these had illegitimate children. J Kww,rn. ,.:,,in, hecoming victims. . . , . . Te ooard urges enlargement at Coldsboro; the addition of lands for a cottage system at Raleigh. The board ' 1 1 c . . -J ...!! uuia uii tlie uutiuor h.jlit; auu juji- i r.i ... i j .., i ihi tji. m. uv iHt?ui s i i M.firi. ' i ' ,1 " 7' J V . , , 4resa and on every good citizen to aid ilhese unfortunate Insane. Th: Vance Monument. rr l .a it 1 r a. t m i I nlilh X7 f. fJl'.?,.1? by private subscription and $5,000 ap propitiated 'by the Legislature will be $7,000. Mr. ElUcott. the sculptor, cays that it will be the ibest standlr? figure he !has ever produced. The height of !5Stue.,T" Wit" T:"!1 pedeal will be 10 feet, and the figure eight. The material will .be gray North Carolina granite. The pose of the stat ue is characteristic of the eSnator's attitude while addressing an audience. News Notes. ! The Piedmont Oil Company, at Shel- j by has closed a contract for all the ma- ! ohlnery for a 50-ton cotton seed oil j mill. The construction of the mill will j be completed this summer. ; The sals of tax tass for fertilizers t have been light during the past seven days. some one aexea ror a ;st oi tne as ue is characteristic of the Senator for State officers. The list up to date appears to be as follows: Governor, Chas. B. Aycock, Theodore F. David son; Lieutenant Governor, John S. CuninsJaam, W". D. Turner; Secretary of State, D. H. .McLean, J. R. Lewel lyn, J. Bryan Grimes; Auditor. J. B. Holman, B. F. Dixon, w. S. Pearson, R. N. Hackett; Treasurer, B. R. La cy. H. A. London.' J. D. Boushall. W. H. S. Burgwyn; Superintendent of Public Instruction, Charles H. Mebane; Attorney General, R. D. Gilmer, F. D. Winston, Charles F. Warren-, T. J. Je rome. An observant gentleman from New York State, talking the other day about North Carolina said it was the quiet est and In a large sense the most for tunate of all the States; that there were no famines or floods, or grasshop per pests, or cyclones or rare riots, or labor riots, or strikes, or great firas, or bloody feuds, or .business failures, etc He said he had arrived at the conclu sion that It was an ideal place of resi dence for a person who liked aquiet life. A judge in this State expresses the ibelief that divorce suits have Increas ed 100 per cent., at 4 art during the past fire years. Trals is . something frigntfuL It is asserted that there were over 400 divorce scuts in the State last year. It is known that re-marriages quickly followed quite a number of the At a epecftal meeiiJig of Che stock holders ctf the Bell TelephCiOie Com pany K was voted to Increase the capi tal stock to $6,000,000. " The tbufbonic plague Is fast lncrea. iag. In- Beargel 4,725 daatths occurred last week. These included 741 ia I Calcutta end 2.044 In Patrwu POWERS ON TRIAL IcfltocK) Court ProccciJiaxs Inter rupted. GREAT EXCITEMENT IN FRAMTORT. A run Drops Hi Pistol. Whkh U Discharged by the I all and a Uusb j 4l,nlull , ltr rorxo !Uo or tt I hil ls Made for the Scene. 5i'p'n Frir.kfort. Ky.. Spw ial Tbe X -j Tturrr of j:lnt.r.. tasi ta lirainary 'xanwnatloa of Svretary l itrnu-pt in Ce Sct:a t!it cor Statt Caleb Powers, chanr! ib abrt- fur r-'U tulninc la the tl cf the ting .he aaas isiualion of William Oo-' , , ... ! UUy Uluro JuJg Mre. , bel. bfgan Pri The court was guarded inid an4 cut wlth militia and scores of depaty l,-r-lffs, armed with Wimfijewter rifl. tu prevent possible Interfere nor fro:u "mountaineers." who were reported ou their way to Frankfort, but thlr prc- enc waa unnecessary, as taa mom;- taineero failed to appar and n.j der occurred. Th Common r alt ir witnesses were callel. nunilxc.ag 40 Golden was not in the list. The wit-m.s-es included Warden Kpa I.lMar.I. Detective Armstrong. Iberia li.nwort!i tf Fayette county, who arr-wd St-cre- tary Powers aud Captain Juha Djv U. ; frying to fln.l tVa a ti m a d aire to and Silas Jones, of Whitby couut y. ' continue the Dingle? tariff, who are now undtr Ujiid. charged with j Seenty-m:nt Day The S- nat ad compile ly la tiit nun der. The t ;:!- j Ttd the conferrm-e rr.ri jo tb mony tended to td;cw that the shots' 'v,rtt lcin relief ,:il. Yy a vote of 5i Secretary's cilice. F. Wharfun Gold en, who Is sa,5d to iave made a conffa son, will be put oa the witness sund later. ProsecutinK Attorney Pola grove said that feufflcieat evidence had alreidy been beard to warrant liMdins ! Powers, but that the cane wonld tx ! much stronger before h aa lhroijt.i. i Former Govorn.tr Drown, fcr the le. fen.-e. says the evideuee no far in de. cidedly weak. It Is probable that all j of the witne.--ca for the prosecution j will be heard by Saturday afternoon. I During the afternoon a soldier in the ' rear court yard dropped bis revolver on ; the stone flagging and k exploded. In j an instant every roan in the crowded j court room was on bis feet, fully a . K ( .! 9 1. ..1.1. . ' t ... . . t ; . ly ral-ed. The o-ber sh Jts. he said, did not come from the sarno place. Tb VC.," ' , n ,f J L'8 an1 Derr' Howard among them. ! Detective Armstrong, of Ixul3vilK said taat Secretary Powers refused anv i information whatever at.the time of the Ehooting as to who was in the building. Captain John F. I lawn, of Bailoiira viille, testified that Powers bad luked him to turn over his ammunition and ! company to IJeutenant G.bson prevl- . , . . , , oua to the t-hooting. Governor Drown , tw, ,, , . I ' " " v . i u L a u:au UUI convicted as an aider of a crime unless some principal is convicted of the i crime. As ihe ac-xual murderer cf Goe .... ... Wl ia" nt r n named, the point med, jerty ' possibly Evolved the liberty of Secre- tary Powers. Judge Moore - - e: It TO ) against the defense. Porto Rlcans Starving. ' R D Ca'e-The situa- I Hon here is now more aerioa chaa at any time before or since the terrible hurricane. In many places the poor are starving. The price of rice, beana k Had ft ii Tl aal lnFa baA fervm fa 4 , 100 cat. IIrK-.?tratlona a(ra;,.f t I the delay of the United State, gorrrn- ment in settling open questions have recently been held at Mayaguez, Yu-, AguacHlla, Fajardo, Juaaa Wax, Guay. am a and othxr towns. Watson and Hay. Indianapolis, Ind.. Special. (Secre tary Walter, of the middle-of-the-road Populists, is said to be elated for na tional chairman. "Tom Watson, of Georgia, can have the nomination for President if be wants it," said Mr. Walter, "and I believe Dr. B. K. Har. I of Minneapolis, will he. j mate." M , bis running Preparing for Convention. Philadelphia, Pa., Special. Serwa I important matters appertaining to the Republican convention, received he at tentlon of the eub-conraatlee of the na tional executive committee Friday. Fourteen thoufand admission tickets for earn d-ay of the convention wet apportioned, arrangeoienta for the dis semination of the proceedings were made an the convention badges. 9,000 la all, were orderei. Serrnnt-at-ann WlswcII will have the appointment of 500 assistant. 300 door-keepers, 250 pages and 1,000 additional empioyea. besides iesuicg permits to the press. mtssenger and telegraph operators. A!out 50.000 tickets will be engraved Frankfort Quiet. tranarort, Ky., Special The de parture of the legislature from the State capitol has given thecity a more quiet appearance than it "has had at any time in the last two months. No new warrants in connection with the Goebel assaeslEation were issued. Ga briel Tail. Breckinridge county sus pect, waa arraigned before Judge Moore, bat was dismissed, there not being Eumdent evidence against him to even nota him as a witnesa English Histories Drepped CfcicagD,' Spedal Hi,rtoriea of Eug tsfid were dropped from the lists of sqppleineofcary readrinc for the publie schools, o4 Che meettaag of tihe board of edncataoa here. For th mooCon Trustees John T. Keating, who is tbe m3anfl president of tha Ancient On fler of Hibernians, has bam. fighting hue use of histories of England, whloh he declared wrre prejudiced in favor of England. ' CONGRESSIONAL H'hat Owr ti maker arc Dutg fri Day to Di. SENATE. Lie IVxto Rico cmornosrat aad Uf,: i:il a fT2m4 n tb SrtuU. Mr. Ihwffaa. UWira. jrerst'.Bf a h Jfl:n Uo cf ttf coastl- tu'Jooal fbaj cf tt tasur. Ha Cunta.bfsl that as lh treaty 4 Tans as tlx tirreo law f tfc 1b1. 1 Scvcfct - tati Dav. l j.a lb nw Nm. ,Uj. t-r- fractal .y lb rfri.w f War. ant lhMeUMM h, 4 mtU tion -f ltxiiry. ruat;r Turner a4 If rub a grant bad !.- a tuaJ It a "a ham. a rrprouh. and a vandal." TL rraotu'.ioa maa stM t,x In fw minute acl mlrVnit lilxWon th additional urgent defi-nry bill ai pa-d rln on or tao tueaurca of lnutft a::c e Seventy-eighth ! lnixt tt en tire inKioa f the Sentte vif i pent ia the d.aru'aion f te rjale.-et. rrpt upon ho Iuetto Hl appr;T atlvn L1I. Ybf !v-rn-ra:lc Senator ruaal fMfd a li.!tin to rrltMme tt re moatloa of the imie proruioa rf- Ir.g futire ctdlectlons of revenue. ro- w u, I'rai-ticiiiy a atfln party eipre- tlon. No iKnicKrit coted t the r Iort. but Mr. Stewart, of Nevada. o' ed with the Reputdicina. The tme of cliscus-l maa ronauai-d prlncl(tIIy by Mr. Tillman. DrnuKrat. of KjutU Carolina. ho made a 8n attack up on the raeauri as agree-i unm Jn cn ference and accuael te Ileiullicj.n Senators and the H-publ!can lartv of lnJirectbn. bMM-rliiy and dirty work." Hla -Teh waa gtr'te charac ter iialr. and waa listened to with ttiler et by his colliagtiei on the flir and .he people ia tLe galleriea. Svcnty-nlntli Iay. For a few tnia. trfen in the tv jate. urprie IxrdeuLC al.'aost on conaternatioa la -nw quar ters, was creaied by a requt of Mr. Foraker that the Porio Itkan aron nteat bill Ix rermmi:t-d to the Ino Hi -an comailtte. The rwiuraA tire-- pitated a lively colloquy. til It lually was developed tliat the bill Mr. lr akcr wanted reonia)itted as tU rlvil itovrmsncnt tnikure. now oa th ca1o2dar and not the unflnlrhed tul neat. Ihiritig Ibe luriiatj of Lis request, however. Mr. Foraker pi a In' y indicated that It was bl punxw ; rat? the. bills and press the Porto Illcan tariff bill to an early vole. Li desire- belLg to have the vote taken cot later than next TLumday. nousn. Seventy-fifth Iay. TLe IIoua re fused to concur In the Senate amend ment a to the Porto Itlco relief bill. The Democrats supported a motion to concur, on the ground that It would avoid further delay in eitendLng relief to the Inhabitants of the laland. but the Republicans ttood firmly behind Chairman Cannon la bis demand that the House) should ImUt upon 1ta orig inal provision to appropriate not only the money collected on Porto lUcia goods up to January 1. but all subse quent moneys collected or it be collec ted. The remainder of the day was de voted to District of Columbia btialnei. The pension appropriation bill was sent to conference. Mm. Harney, of Wisconsin: McCJeary. cf Minneso ta, and Bell, of Colorado, were appoint- wx - ' Reventy-sixih Day. The Houm cc- tered upon the ronawWaton of the Load bill to restrict the character of publi cations entitled to 1 percent, pound rates at second class mail matter. The bill has been before Congre- for aer eral years. Mr. Iud defended the bill In a lengthy ppeech. The other speak ers were H. C. Smith, of Michigan, In favor of the bill, and M'-wars. Little, of Arkansas; Bell, of Colorado; Henry, of Misrisalppl; Stokes, of S-iia Carolina, and Brown of Ohio, in oppotJtion to it. Beventj-Seveotb Lajr-lannj( tb da bate in the Ilou.e uton the Iud bill, relating; to second rlsss mail matter, there was a sharp exchange between Mr. Mcpherson, Republican, cf Iowa, and Mr. Ientt. Democrat of Ohio, over a charge made by tbe former that that the lacter was tn attorney of the low by which is fighting the L1I1. but other be tbe debate was wltaout IncldenL Both sides believe tbe vote tomorrow will be rlcs. Mr. Loud has agreed to accept two amendments, one to in cerwe tbe namber of ei:npl copl?t which newnpapeis caa send out at second claaa rates from 500 to 20)0. and tbe other to limit the provision re quiring newfrpiperi to M-parate their mail to those baring an excess of S. 003 circulation. Tace are all tbe con teselons he will make. Seventy-e.!gb.b Day. After a spirit ed dl-'cueiloa extending over three lays the Iud bill relating to tecond cla- mail matte? wa recommitted by tbe House to the cotarolitee on post oSce. Tbe majority la favor of the motion to reccram'.'i was so decisive that it Is regarded as unlikely that the meaasre will appear again daring the present Congress Mr. Loud said after the vote waF announced that this was tbe third time and out. ei far as he was concerned. Tbe vote on the mo tion was KS to SC. with 1C present and not vcting. eeventy-ninth piy.Atur a briel and spirited debate, tbe House took the last congressional rup fa com letlrg tie Porto Riran relief ,U. agreeinc to the conference report by a Tote cf 125 to 87. The bill turn oer to the PrcCcnt for the use of Porto Rico about $2,000,000 cf eastoms re ceipts collected on Porto Ricas goods op to Jasuary 1st last, aad enca up to January 1st, and ru?a anaoust as may bereaffr accrue until other wise provided by liw. The debate lated tut an hour, bat !a this time tbe whole rarjge cf Porto Rica a legislation was discursed. Mayor Hart, cf Boatea, has dis covered that tbe employes of the Mu nicipal Water Department used fl7, 000 worth of streetcar tickets daring 1699, and has determined to putt stop to such reckless eitravkganee. The higher employe of the Depart ment have not on'y used ths ticket r.heu riding- to and from their resi dences, but have presented them ia payment of tbe fare a of friends, and have freely distnbnteJ them for po litical porpobes. 1 I good results." . - I" To
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