LABOR STATISTICAL BCBEAUS. - ,
,. lTftct Stated In the House L&bor Com
mtMee'v Keport.
The report on the bill. to create
labor commission tha received f.i
Torable aciion by the House tiii
mittev on labT las' wk has bet n
published. The report favors the
passage of the bill for reasons which
.are f nlly eet forth
The report says, among other
things:
"Labor statistical bureaus are of
recent origin, and were first estab
lished in the United States thefirst
ona in ilasaeliUattU in 18(19 They
have since betn established in thirty-two
- of our states. The first
commissioner of labor, Mr. Carroll
ID. Wright, was appointed under tbe
general government iti 1885. The
Englisn royal labor commission was
-appointed by royal warrant dated
Ajril 21, 1891, and is composed of
twenty-seven ' members. The fifth
and final report of this commistion
cwas made to both houses of parlia
ment in June, 1S04 The German
commission of labor statistics was
appointed in 1891, nd it consists of
fourteen members, 168 civil ser
Tants, arid chtv four asiisJants.
The higher council of Mvr was es
tablished in Fr. nee in 1891. It
consists of fifty members, chosen
from among manufacturers, work
in gmeri and persons well informed
upon economic and social questions.
The Belgian higher council of la
bor was appointed in 1892. It con
sists of forty-eight members, chosen
in (qual numbers from workingmeu,
employers and specialists in econom
ic science.
"Both these latter are authorized
to examine into and recommend leg
islation. These foreign commis
sions iire cited s precedents and to
jshow that civilized nations are pro
gressing along the line of our de
clared principles of equality which
are recalled by this bill. We do not
consider the commission too large to
represent a continent such as ours,
with its vast and varied industries.
The difference in climate, the differ
ence between ; lain and mountain,
the difference between north and
south, e:s,st and west, give rise to
great industries in one section that
are not well understood in another;
all of which should have represen
tative men serve on the commission.
Even the number provided for will
not represent all, but it s believed
that it will have reasonable knowl
edge of all the great pursuits of our
country, and will be in full sympa
thy with ail, so as to hear and re
commend for the greatest good of
the greatest numctr.
"We think the appropriation re
quired by this bill not too large to
secure and compensate such repre
sentative men as it requires. While
the government is appropriating
millions of dollars for internal im
provements, for material develop-
menu, ior aerense on lana ana sa, i
it should not hesitate to grant such
a comparatively small sum to inves
tigate the industrial qutstions and
recommend some remedial legisla
tion for its indiiatiial classes to pre
vent viol- t disturbances which
cau - :-..-i V mi l uti dollars of loss
to the people. We beg leave to call
attention of tbe members of Con
gress to the general wish of the
people, especially in the laboring
and farming interests of our coun
try, as witnessed by letters, resolu
tions and petitions addressed to the
labor committee of the last Congress
favoring the passage of this bill,
and which was favorably recom
mended by that committee We
also call attention to similar com
munications : ldressed to our com
mittee of the present Congress fa
Toring the passage of the bill.
Accompanying the report are
communications from a number of
labor organizations .ud leaders in-
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NATCKE OF ROENTGEN KAYS.
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The Scientific Study of Thein l Hardly
". . '.- Yet Begnn. " , '
' Wonderful as are the . results al
ready obtained, it may be said
that the 'scientific study of the
Roentgen waves has. not yet com
menced certainly nof in this coun
try. The purely scientific work has
yet to be done, and until then we
must remain in the dark as to the
nature of the phenomena which we
have thus far been dabbling with in
tbe most amateurish manner.
- We do not yet know whether the
new waves are longitudinal or trans
verse. There are many reasons for
supposing the cathode rays to be
longitudinal. The Roentgen waves
are not cathode rays at least, they
are not cathode rays in the sense in
which the latter have been previous
ly known and described, but they
seem to emanate from the glass
where the latter has been made
florescent by the impact of the
cathode rays, and the same reasons
that seem to give color to the belief
that cathode rays are longitudiual
lend probability to the fact that
Roentgen rays are also logitudinal.
We do not yet know whether these
waves are. long or horr. ivr hiv
we any knowledge as yet as ?to the
velocity of preparation. There
seem to be a number of reasons for
believing that 'he rate of propaga
tion is not that of light that it is
enormously greater. Maxwell's the
ory does not give to the ether the
property of longitudinal vibration or
of propagation at greater rate than
186,000 miles per second. In both
of these points the Mawellian
ether failed to account for gravita
tion. It is not certain that by giv
ing to either the property of propa
gation of energy by Jong'tv inal vi
brations would throw a "V more light
upon the action of gravity than we
now have, although some leading
physicians , have thought that it
would.
AT TEMPrED SUJCIOE FAILS.
Dr. Eugene Grlfom, Now of Denver, Los
ing His Mind.
A dispatch from Penver, Col.,
dated 14 th, says: D-r. Eugene Gris
som, who has "been acting strangely
of late, mounted a bootblack's stand
about half past ten o'clock this
morning, and while the negro was
shining his shoe swallowed about an
ounce of chloroform. He will re
cover. Dr. Grissom has been in failing
health for several years, but after
recent treatment in a Cincinnati
asylum he returned home with all
his faculties available. In the North
Carolina Insane Asylum he acquired
a national reputation as an expert on
mental diseases, but after a quarter
of a century in that place he was
forced to retire. He achieved an
equal reputation in Colorado.
When the corner stone of the Cap
ital was laid he officiated as one of
threa oklest Masons in t!-e United
w'j-. . , i r . . i c i-
i oiiues. xie was a meiiiicr l uic
Supreme Council of Masonry for
several years, and was Inspector
General of North Carolina a oue
time.
It has been evident to his f iends
for several weeks that Irs m was
failing. Steps will by taken io 'tave
him sent to the State Insane A 4um.
dorsiuof the
"Another Lie Nailed."
It is not often that we notice whi t
a little snollygoster, nose rig of a
newspaper says, but our attention
has recently been called to the fact
that such a little sheet, published not
a thousand miles from Monroe, has
such a bare-faced lie in its col urns
that we are forced to notice it, for it
was a lie maliciously made and told
for down-right deviltry The false
hood is that our Representative, Mr.
R. L. Stevens, has leanings toward
the Populists aud will eventually
ally himself with that party. Furth
er comment is unnecessary. The
people of Union county know Mr.
Stevens. They know him to be an
unswerving Democrat and they know
the statement that he is leaning to
ward the Populists to be a lie out of
the whole. cloth and was made with
out the least shadow of foundation.
-Monroe E
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Defective Hot Air Pipes Caused It.
Baltimore, Feb. 24. The Coro
ner's jury in tHe case of the fatal
fire at the Armiger home yesterday,
by which seven lives were lost, ren
dered a verdict that the fire was
caused by badly constructed hot air
pipes. They eulogized the fire de
ling especial credit to
2, who rescued Mrs.
Last Year's Accidents. .
According to the Hail road Gazette,
the total railroad accidents in the
United States during the --ar 1895
were 1,487, agains: 1,5 GO in 1894
and 2,307 in 1893. Of the total ac
cidents recorded, 602 were from col
lisions, 95 from derailments, 177
from defects of equipment,- 91 from
negligence in operating, 154 from
untoreseen obstruction and 75 with
out collision or derailment. The
total number of persons killed dur
ing the year was 415, of which 38
were passengers, 302 were employes
and 7 other than passengers and
emp o.cd fhe number of persons
injured "'as ,,535, of which 701 were
passengcic, 739 employes and 95
other than passengers and employes.
The number of passengers killed
in 1895 was the smallest since 1881.
The year 1894 showed .a marked im
provement over all previous years
(1893 being, in fact, one of the worst
ever experienced, when 178 were
killed), but previous to that every
year showed from three to five times
as many fatalities to passengers as
were recorded during last year.
' AIX1SON AND MOBTON. , , , .
Tli e Ticket Whlcli Some New Yorkers Are
o Predicting, .
The latest piece of political news
from New York comes under the
head of being very important, if
true. This is to the effect that Mr.
Allison is the second choice of the
Morton mn for President, and in
case of the failure of the Morton
campaign at St Louis may be ex
pected to benefit more by the break
up than either Mr. Eeed of Mr. Mc
Kinley. It has teen supposed that Mr. Al
lison would be weak in New York,
and, indeed, throughout the east,
because of his environment. The
northwestern States were for a time
the theater of ' some very extreme
granger agitation, and several of
them, Iowa among the number,
wrote legislation on their books that
bore severely on corporations, and
especially railroad corporations.
Matters were carried so far, indeed,
that the east threatened to' retaliate
by withdrawing local investments
and otherwise impeding progress
there. If capital was to be treated
as-an enemy, eastern capital would
seek lodgment el-e'v Ice. If grangr
ideas were to prevail in the conduct
i or p'ublic affairs, then there should
be a return to the ox cart as a means
of rapid transit and cheap lates.
Silver was at tbe same time very
strong throughout the section. Both
parties coddled the white metal.
Both bid high in their platforms for
silver support. This also alarmed
the east, and caused her to sharply
scrutinize the men and measure?
representative of the sentirneut of
the northwest.
But Mr Allison, it is said, has
never come under this ban New
Yoik has always separated him frorn
his section and appraised him ac
cording to his individual record.
That record she pronounces good.
Under heavy pressure to take a con
trary course, the Iowa Senator has
consistently supported all sound
money measures, all protection meas
ures, and in a matters relating to
irausportation and interstate com
merce has shown himself to be a
broad and liberal man, superior to
the narrowness aud demagogy of
mere local agitation. New York, it
is aiserttd, therefore, likes him, and
will support him in case she finds
that the St. Louis convention cannot
be brought to accept Mr. Morton.
If Mr. Allison is nominated, could
the convention do a wiser or safer
thing, the New Yorkers ask, than
put Mr. Morton on the ticket with
him ? The second place in that
case will go to the east, aud where
in all the east, the Morton men ask.
could a better, if so good, a man be
found for it? He possesses the full
confidence of his section as Mr. Alii
son does of his, and stands, they
contend, for the same order of con
servatism, sagacity, uprightness and
experience. Both have been a long
time in the shafts, and they would
work admirably together.
It this JSew York story is true,
among Mr. Allison's prospective
supporters are Mr. Depew and War
ner Miller, both of whom were ac
counted Harrison men until the ex
President removed his nam i from
the Jists. Will Mr. Allison inherit
the Harrison strength as he is likely
to do the Morton stivngth? It is
recalled that when, last fall, John
( New, in an interview given out at
Indianapolis, stated that General
Harrison would not again be a can
didate for the Presidency, he also
stated that if it were left to him,
Harrison, to name the candidate it
would be neither Keed nor McKin
ley, but Allison. No aocount was
taken of the deliverance after Mr.
New subsequently explained that in
making the statement he had only
expreised his own opinion But, as
a matter of fact, was that opinion
based on something he had heard
General Harrison say?
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Charlotte, N. C, Jan. 7, 1898
TO OUR MANY FRIENDS AND CUS i OMERS:
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good will and patronage, and heartily thank you for past favors.
Having large resources we are able to be- headquarters , in all
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About Alamance farm.
The race horses, all, of the Ala
mance Farm, were sold in New York
last Friday. Jno. K. Gentry was bid
off at $7,600, and, 4-1 head "brought
over $39,000.
Mr. Holt will raise other than
trotting horses, having put in a lot
of Shetland ponie3, and the latest is
that Mr. Jas. P.. P. Kerr, of River
side Farm, has accepted a position
with Mr. Holt and will take charge
of the dairy department.
Mr. Jno. W. Sharpe has the poul
try department in fine condition now,
and it is a show in itself to see the
fowls in his charge. Burlington
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