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risToicntAi'iiH.
Some of the Democratic papers in
Ohio are going for Chairman Brice.
Wo regret to see It announced that
lord Tennyson is again seriously 111.
Preacher htle, of Seventh Bapti-t
Church, Atlanta, ho been dismissed.
.
Twenty thousand copies of -Tennyson's
now volume have been sold within
a week in England.
"Lies upon this Kid-, lies mn tnat. ide. lruth
bv Hie wihff.
Thousand of vote; urownintf his own in a
pon'Mar torn-ut of lie.-s uj-oq litrj.,
'i'cuuj'Hon.
It is not believed by Mr. Samuel J.
HindaH's friends that ho will ever be
able to it in the House again.
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Rev. James T. McKay, of the "Epis
copal Church, at Council Muffs, Iowa,
iys that prohibition in that city Is "a
miserable farce." . '
Hero is a striking couplet from Keats
not in his published volume:
"Uf jiuty tb.it mui-t dif, and Joy
husc nmU Is ever at hi lips.''
They were found in a letter.
Our article, on "Educated farmers"
was copied in one exchange and yester
day wo received a letter from a worthy,
ed uc
ited farmer of Vance county con
conn
Wvi it.
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On lt January three miles from
Chattanooga there was a big Straw
berry festival the berries largo and
lucious. It is very wrong to crowd tho
sear-on in that way.
The Pittsburg Chronicle, Rep., notes
tho fact that in all Republican calcula
"lations as to the next Presidential can
didate Henny. Harrison in never ouce
thought of.
Pence ..Institute, Raleigh, issues a
neat monthly called Voices of Peace. It
is uuhliehcd mx times a year, terras $1.
It contains a sketch of Mrs. M. A. I.ur
i well and a fine portrait of her.
It is worthy of special mention , that
in tho Soulth .Carolina Legislature
there were but nine votes in favor of
; withdrawing tho support of tho State
from Clallin College, for tho negroes.
There were 91) against withdrawing
and all whites at that.
P -Speaking of the important question
of ballot reform the N. Y. Saturday
Ulobe Hays this :
"It lias been made a Democratic issue,
not only by tho platlorms of late Dem
ocratic conventions, but by tho timely
ind aggressive presentation of it by
3x -President Cleveland in his Boston
speech."
The Nashville American replies to a
'ctter of Cable and says:
44 As Mr. Cable has signified hispro
"e re nee for the hocloty of negroes by
accting and mingling with them in a
oeial way, it will hereafter be exp.et
d of him that hoabido the consequence'
A his own choice. In the South a man
aut ct.ooe between white and black,
,nd Mr. i able has. chosen. That is.
11 the 'public resent' them is in tho
a.e.
Magazine editors are well, paid in
ie North. The Century pays Gilder
0,O,M. II, pays Alden about the
; .nu. Buriinhaaio gets a fat salary
from Scribmr. The. editor t,r La'Uts
.-omc Journal receive- $1U,0.HI. . Mot
. At feota. a I i-ge salary from the Fwiun..
10 hus ness iuai;ugeiof Hcrihncr, Ctn
y, 'ytr a ml (W.WfVt receive fremi
000 to jio.omi a year. . j
.larriMMi has done a very mean act
J ai! for spjte. Judge Cresham was
ormidabie opponent for nomination
tvSs. Harrison has ..prescribed all
ham men. The latest was to turn
C" of the i.tlice of Chief of Division of
th Coinpuoller of the Currency in
V.V.ihm-UMi. Maj. Thomas McGrain, a
-ray hair, d Cuion soldier, and an ac
mpiished man. -Hisotlence was be
; tho brother of Mrs. Cresham.
i Harris county, Ala., an outlaw in
Ifopnis crimes was rescued by a
;o body pf maPUed men. H0 is
wh to have committed one mur
and is suspected of many others. It
. most disgraceful procedure. Wal
Sytho fellow rescued, was the head
band that terrerized tho negroes
Summer. It is believed that tho
also killed a negro prisoner whom
took out with them;
IPs war on Cleveland is: provoking
Jat deal of very pointed oriticUm
;ted at the New York Governor.
5 Cleveland (Ohio) , Plain Dealer
for instance: - " " f
he rumors that Gov. Hill is laying
frato blte to Clevtoland's popi?
I impeach his intelligence. If
iroirue Gov. Hill is political
nJa K Cleveland
i hS?a1U8 as he haa tnus fttr
imnn buf PPuly will re
luipregnable. Moreover, New
mil not be the pivotal State in
(THE BAPTIST COLLEGE
THE COMMITTEE ON LOCATION
; LOOKG FOR A SITE.
I Farmer 1 nlltut 31 ore ffro? Colnc
Vrt-FHrm-ri Lotting Their 31 eat
Ualeigh' Sewerage-Few Northerner
at Klttrell Col. I'olW Out Aealn An
other Caie A:aint from and IVblte
Called unl Continued.
Messenger IJcueau, t
Kalkiuii, N. C. Jan. 8, ,18iK). (
Commissioner of Agriculture Robin
son will hold a farmers institute for
Wayne countv, atGtllsboro, on the
30th und ill st instant. He will be as
sisted by Professors Massey and Cham
berlain of tho Agricultural and Me
chanical College.
There is vtry little sickness. The
superlatively line weatier gives the
"grippe" up-hill work to make any
progress. Yet there arc a good many
case-1. None i.re sivere.
The temperature to-day was from 05
to 70 degrees. Fires were not needed.
People led an out door life. The prom
ised cold wave must have again glanced
off. 1
The sheriff of Granville county, Mr.
Bullock, was here to-day and made a
full settlement of his taxes.
A lot of exodusters passed here last
night, bound to Mississippi. Many
more are coming from the Goldsboro
and Selma sections. -
The i'arrish case was the subject of
some interest 'to-day. ' Tho Governor
has had this caso preented to him
scores of times in tho past few days.
, Capt. S. 13. Alexander, of the execu
tive committee of the Farmers' Al
liance, arrived here to-day. That com
mittee, which has three members, at
once began its session, to eiect a new
Secretary.
The fat mers say they are very great
ly concerned about their meat. They
ought to cure it as pickled pork. They
Keep up the old plan of trying to cure
it by smoking. Much joint meat has
been lost this winter. Complaints f
such loss are quite numerous.
As-ociate Justice Davis was hero to
day anu paid his respects to the Gov
ernor. Tho committee on location of the
Baptist college was at Oxford to-day
;irid will visit .Durham to morrow.
Early in February the committee will
report and will make its recommenda
tion as to site.
Moio extensions of tho water mains
are in progress. The making of sower
connections will soon begin actively.
The employees on the sewer system are
now doing the finishing work. The
contractors are very well pleased with
the work and have done very well. In
four months they have not had over
ten da3's of bad weather.
Rev. L. L. Nash is not very sanguine
now as to the speedy resumption of
works on the Central M. E. Church.
Though its exterior aspect leads most
people to think it a .small church, yet
its seating capacity will bo as great as
that of any ehurch in the city.
Mr. Charles W. Raney, of Kittrell,
said to-day that there are very few vis
itors at that well known winter resort.
Tho hotel people as a result are blue.
The Northern people have no need so
far this winter to come south in search
of mild weather. .
Col. L. L. Polk, whoso sickness was
noted Monday, is out again. His de
parture for Washington has been de
layed. More exodusters began to gather
here to-day. Tht y are from the north
ern part of this country. An inventory
of the "plunder" which these people
t 'ke away with them would be a very
curious thing.
Judge Seymour, who has been here
for a day or two, hearing some argu
ments at chambers in cases in tho Fed
eral court, returned to New Berne this
afternoon. Court was adjourned until
February 4th.
Another of the Cross ancr White
cases was called in the Superior court.
It was continued, both meii giving bail
in I0.X0.
The Pullman sleeping car case, in
volving the State's right to tax the
sle eping cars of that company, will be
hejutd in the Federal court, February
4ttL In case the parties are not ready
foij trial it will confe up in March It
wiM bo' remembered that the State
seized the car ''S.iluda," which bv an
undertaking is not to be taken out of
the State until the matter is settled.
Juckaon Day Celabration.
Nashville, Tenn., Jan. 8. Jackson
D;y was celebrated here to-day with a
procession, participated in by the mili
tary of the State and hundreds of citi
zens. After the parade a meeting was
held at the State capitol, and a Na
tional Jackson Club permanently or
ganized. The following officers were
elected: President, A. K. MeCiure, of
Pennsylvania; Vice Presidents. Jerre
Banor of Tennessee, Dewitt C. Cregier
of Illinois, and Joseph F. Johnson of
Alabama; Secretary, L. D. McCord of
Tennessee; Treasurer, Wm. H. Duncan
of Tennessee, and an Executive Com
mittee of tivo.
The club will meet annually at Nash-,
ville. Tne festivities of the day wound
up with an historic costume reception
at the Maxwell House given by the
ladies Herrri-Hfire Association and the
annual ball of the HeriU .age Club. In
the afternoon the first Tennessee regi
ment and many invited guests were
banquetted by Jerre Baxter, colonel of
the reeiment. Covers were laid for
tS!cundred thousand people
witnessed the parade.
Mobile. Jan. 8.-Jackson day wa,
3 ?Sf d,here,to irht by a brilliant
Street display of the Order of Druids.
There were seven floats illustrative of
episodes in the history of our country,
including Indian fighting in New Eng
land, the battle of New Orleans and
the reception of Lafayette in. Mobile.
After the parade, a ball took place in
Princess theatre, . .
THE HILD W 123 TLB-
chance In the Gnlf Stream not the Can
Other i:eaonGlren for It.
Wo LX. ASTON, Mass., Jan. 8. Captain
Henry t Picking, the hydrogrnpber
of the Navy Department at Washing
ton, writing of tho remarkable change
in the climate in reply to a communi
cation from a . resident of Wollaston
summarily disposes of the Gulf Stream
theory. He says : "We have no re
ports of observations to show that the
course of the Gulf Stream has, for a
considerable length of time, differed
greatly from its mean positiou, and we
should have received such reports had
there been such a change. This direct
evidence that the mild weather along
the coast is not caused by a change in
the course of tho Gulf Stream is sup
plemented by the fact that continuous
mild weather has prevailed far in the
interior to the westward of the Alle
ghenies, where the effect on the
weather of even a considerable change
in the course of the Gulf Stream must
be inappreciable.
Washington, Jan. 8. In connection
with the subject of the present mild
winter weather, it may not be out of
place to say that the chief of the signal
service, Gen. Greely, gives a very in
teresting explanation of the peculiar
atmospheric conditions which have
made this winter remarkable over so
great an extent of our country. The
eccentricity of the weather is not du,
he holds, to any permanent change in
the American winter climate, or to
any change in the course of the gulf
stream. Abnormally high temperatu-e
has prevailed all over the country, the
average being about ten degrees.
Coincident with this excess of
heat there has been a marked
decrease in tho rainfall in most parts
of the United States during the past
six weeks. High temperature and
lack of rainfall were, therefore, wide
8pi oid, for which Gen. Greely says
there must be some far-reaching cause.
This cause he discovers in great storms
passing across the continent from west
to east and north of the fortieth para?
l.dof lattitude and beyond the great
lakes. 4The passage of these storms,"
he savs. "in th j direction of th Gulf nf
St. Lawrence -caused a steady current
ofairirom the south and southwest
across tho continent toward tho dis
turbed areas in Canada." He adds:
"The December winds blow usually
from the north and northwest, and are
much colder of couise, than currents
from lower latitndes. The general cir
culation being from parts of the coun
try least affected by rainfall, the winds
were not only warm, but dry, and all
conditions consequently were favorable
to high temperature up as far as the
Canadian border.'
Telegraph ISuilriing Burned.
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 8. Shortly before
7 o'clock this morning firo started in
the basement of! the Western Union
Telegraph building, corner of Oliver
and Third streets. The fire sOon as
cended through the air shaft from the
first to the top floor, and is now burn
ing fiercely. The wir s are a total
wreck. The firemen were greatly hin
dered by the mass of site; laden wires.
It is thought the fire, the origin of
which is at present unkuown, will be
confined to the building.
The building was an old one, and in
addition to the Western Union was oc
cupied by offices of the -Associated
Press, the Darby Printing Company,
Allen & Ginter's Cigarette Company,
the Bradley Printing Scroll Company
and one or two other offices. At 9:30
o'clock the fire was brought under com
plete control, tut the building is gut
ted; all tho Western Union wires were
burned out, but active efforts are being
made to restore communication. They
are receiving messages at East St.
Louis. The fire started in the basement
and spread upward so quickley that all
the inmates of the operating room had
to fly for their lives, and tnauy of them
had narrow escapes.
A net work of wires lead into the
building by way of the roof. The storm
ofyesterday loaded down the telegraph,
and telephone wires' as well, with a
he iv coating of ice. During ysterdav
and last night many beaks occurred
and the service was badly interrupted.
At G o'clock this morning a wire
leading to the basement of the building
came in contact with a broken electric
light wire, and at once the building
was on fire. The basement has but
few people in it, and the trouble being
anticipated from tho wires on the roof,
if at all, little attention was given to
the basement, and the tire had gotten
beyond control when discovered. The
firo department made a hard tight, but
the mass ot wires which almost shut
the light out of the sfcreets, prevented
successful work, and the firemen' would
not risk their lives in cutting them
until the electric light currents were
turned off.
The Associated Press ofKoo on tb
second floor was totally destroyed.
Maryland Democrat.
Annapolis. Md.. Jan. 8. The ripm.;
ocrats of the Legislature held a caucus
nere to-nignt, Dr. Shaw, chairman, on
the nomination for treasurer of Murv-
land and police commissioner of Balti
more city. Treasurer Archer and
Commissioner Gill were unanimously
renominated. The caucus adjourned to
meet to-morrow morninc at in-sn
o'clock. It was decided that the Housa
and Senate meet tomorrow in it Ant
session for the Duroose of electing
Ax;her and Gill. A Dtmof..tin mm.
cus to nominate a Senator will meet
to-morrow. It is said finvprnnr .!-.
son's friends have forced the fight, but
it appears, nevertheless, that Senator
xtT : i in . -
ason win oe nominated.
Killed by the Explosion of an Emery
Wheel.
Atlanta. Jan. 8 Frank nt ir
Tear old white bov. tr&a bin) v. ka
explosion of an emery wheel at the
xeorra range ana etOYe works this
morning. .
I Mr" ' . ...
CONGRESS.
W. W.; DUDLEY AND HISiBLOCKS
. OF FIVE LETTER.
Senator , Voorhf Want to Know Why
Iudley a not IndirtelIfe Addrer
the Senate on th-Subject-l!r U Serere
Upon Senator Ouay ami tho r resident
CJIIU Iieolu,iOQ Amended.
Washington. Jan. 8.-Sinate.
After some routine morning business
Senator Voorhees called up the reso
lution, offered yesterday, in relation to
the charges that .Mr. 'Chambers, the
United States District Attorney at
Indianapolis, had interfered in hboffi
VJtllvi,acit-v 1,1 prevent the arrest of
V. . Dudley on tho charge of felon
iously violating election laws of Indi
ana at the hi,t presidential 'election,
and directing the Attorney General to
report what instructions tho Depart
ment of Justice had issued to Cham
bers on the subject, and to furnUh
copies of the correspondence and pro
ceeded to address tho Senate. He
spoke cf the crime as having inflicted
an indelible stain on that memorable
election and impeached the integrity
of th$ politic I result that followed.
The crime, he said, was open, univer
sally known and practically confessed
by it3 perpetrator and his co-adjutors,
and yet, by constant vigilance in ob
structing the law and in denying and
preventing justice, the crime had thu
tar gone unpunished. The beneficiary
of the polluted ballot box, now in hih
place, Oiad felt compelled to shield the
corrupt, instrument of that success
from Penalties duo to such notorious
guilt. 4 It was high time that tnat most
disgraceful and most alarming episode
in the presidential election should be
fully Understood by the whole people
a id that a proper degree of respo jti
uility should be assigned to the instru
ment, by whom it wrs perpetrated, and
to those who tried to hide the offence.
He should "nothing extenuate, nor
ought set down in malice," but for
baarauce on the subject had long ceased
to be a virtue in the estimation of all
honest people in Indiana, and for those
alone he spoke.
Senator Voorhees sent to the clerk's
desk a-j'd had read the notorious "blocks
ot five"' letter, .and went on to say that
the days and weeks which immediately
followed the pul Ueation of that iollu
u d and polluting campaign document
would always be remembered for the
rapidity, audacity and fecundity with
which the most self-evidem falsehoods
wt-re conceived and put forth by the
Uepubluan press, in order to avert
odium and escape the legal penalties
of an organized attempt at wholesale
bribery.- "This document, emanating
officially from the National Kpublii a i
Committee, and, never disavowed, had
pointedvtt. he siid,, that an ample
CDrrcptiVitnjil Was e klv in hand, aud
gave explicit directions for its use by
agents selected for their skill in rascal
ity. He spok of Dudley as an immediate
personal roprts ntative,in the Nasiot al
Reputl'can committM. of1 Hinrn
Harrison, then a candidate for th
Presidency, aud now fivs uoui. oi t. o
United States. He had been put up n
that committee at the earnest request
of Mr. Harrison, and bown them
there were most confidential, and inti
mate perso-tai relauous. ixioy had
been political Siamese i twins in the
State of Indiana. When, therefore,
the- scheme of bribery and corruption
was exposed on the thirty-first of Oc
tober, was it to be sup p sed that Dud
ley was left without adviee, instruction
and assistance. Senator Q'niy, chaii
raan of th3 Xatioi al Republican Com
mittee and Si n itor from th-i State of
Pennsylvania ai rived at Indianapolis,
and held repeated and protracted con
ferences with those who held fato and
interest of the Republican warty in the
hollow of their hands. It was not for
him, Voorhi es, to presume to det. i
mine the precise character of the men
or sutje t.
Senator Quay "I state to the Sena
tor from Indiana that it is not true
that in Indianapolis I conferred with
those who held the Republican party
in the hollow of their hand or conferred
with anv one in regard to the case of
Dudley."
Senator Voorhees "The hands of
those with whom the Senator consult
ed were rather small, It is true: but to
the extent of their palms, thev did
hold the interest of the Republican
party in their hands. Does the Sena
tor deny that he called on President
elect Harrison in Indi maooli-?"
Senator Quay "I called on President
elect Harrison."
Senator Voorhees "Certainly you
did. The Senator will not blame me
if 1 draw a big inference that he
wanted the prosecution of Dudley
stopped and that he went to Indian
apolis to see him; stnd ih tt he said cer
tain things in the quarter that would
do most, good and with an emphasis
which was not forgotten."
In view of the indignity, injustice
and open outrage inflicted on the peo
ple of In piana, in the name and by the
the authority of tho Republican nation
al committee, aided and abetted by the
action of the Federal court, it would
not seem strange that as a representa
tive of that insulted people, he should
like to know by whose instructions and
by what authority of law a responsible
law officer of the government, in Iu
dianapolis, selected and .appointed by
the administrathm, felt himself .war
ranted a few weeks ago. In ordering a
United States Commissioner not to is
sue a warrant for Dudley's arrest when
he ventured to return to Indianapolis
for the first time in more than a year,
characterizing at tho same time the
Dudley letter as an honorable and pa
triotic public hocument.
In behalf of .the people of Indiana he
desired- the Attorney General ot tho
United Slates to inform the Senate
whether the action of hi official subor
dinate, in interferring with the United.
:,t t Continued on fourth page-1
FROM ABROAD.
Aa Oil Ship on lire-A Klot Ire4-.Th
Dead Em pre A Water po w t Ilaa mt
to Manly.
London, Jan. S. A ship loaded with
petroleum, caught fire at Sunderland
this mornlog. 1 he burning oil escaped
from the ship and, floating llde-wav, t?t
fire to three other vesl. Grvnt
damago was done by the fire. A fire
man fell overboard and wa drowned.
Rr.RNE, Jan. S. The authorities are
fearful that the striking cotnoofeltor
here will endeavor to Incite a dot. Two
companies of military are parading te
streets for the purpose of tupprtsing
any disorderly demonstration th.it the
strikers may make. ,
DKRLTN, Jan. S. At the opening of
the Reichstag this morning the Presi
dent formally announced tho death of
Dowager Empress Augusta, and paid a
high tribute to her memory. The
House adopted a resolution, rtucsting
the President to convey its sympathy
to Emperor William and then ml-
journcd as a mark of respoct. Tho
Emperor his ordered that the Court
go into mourning for three month,
and he has fixed tho period for general
mourn inr at six weeks. Ho ban nli
ordered that the theUres and other
places or amusement bo closed for a
week. Tho body of the Empress will
bo taken to the Schloss at miduiirht to
morrow. It will bo placed on a bier in
toe cnapei. The lunerai will probably
take place Saturday.
Vienna, Jan. 8 OHicial returns
show that not less than oiW.OK) person
in this city and suburbs, amountinc to
42 per cent, of the population, have
suffered from the influenza.
Shanghia, Jan. 8. A waterspout N
reported at Nanking. Hundreds of
people weredrowned. Numerous boats
were destroyed and great damage was
done. ,
Fatal Fall of a Wall.
Long Island City, L. I., Jan. s
The north wall of the old m tchiue
shops in tho yard of the Long Islam
Railroad depot in this city fell with a
loud crash about nine o'clock thi
morning, burying threo men under
several tons of brick. The men were
dad when taken ont, nearly every
tone in their bodies having' been
nrokon. They were Charles Rooman
fengel. of Rockville Centre; Christo
pher Meyers, of Greenpolnt, and Jas
Schufold, of Brooklyn. Roomanfengel
was foreman for Henry Lotz, who pur
chased the building from tho railroad
company and was having it torn down.
Wm. Van Allen, Edward S. Beatty and
Michael Kane were badly wounded
about the legs.
Tho dead bodies were removed to
the morgue, and the coroner will be
ulo an inquiry to-day. It appears that
tho collapsed wall was tho last one
standing, and was 0 feet high and 50
feet long. It is said that tno dead
foreman neglected proper precaution
to prevent the wall from falling.
Coitractor Lotz was arrested on
Coroner Robinson's waraut charging
him with manslaughter and brought
from Rockville Centre. Ho was re
leased on bail, as he is sick with pneu
monia. Lock Wood Pearsall, who represented
Lotz the contractor, says that ho warn
ed the foreman to put stays up, but
that he did not heed the warning. The
men who were killed were pulling the
bricks near tho base of the wall when
it fell. Pear&all has been commitud
to jail.
The Chesapeake and .Ohio Kxtendlngr it
Line.
Richmond, Va., Jan. 8. The follow
ing railroad bills were introduced in
the Legislature to-day : "To incorpo
rate the Potomac and Piedmont Rail
way, and to authorize counties, cities
or towns to aid in the construction of
the road, and for that purj.)o to sub
scribe to its ipital stock and to acquire
its bone's." "To authorize the C. &
O. Railway Company to construct,
struct, or acquire by purchase or other
wise, and to maintain and operate and
mortgage a branch of its railroad
from any point on its lines east of the
Blue idtie mountains to Alexandria
or Qjantico, or any other point on the
Potomac river by such route as the
company may m;lect.
Mr. Iloy is the patron of these bills
the object is to give the Chesapeake
and Ohio its outline to Washington. -
The 3Iontna Legislature.
Minneapolis, Jan. 8The Journal's
Helena, Moo taua, special sa: When
the Senate met this morning none of
the Democratic Senators were presen..
A call of the House was ordered and
the Sergeant-at-Arms sntout in search
of the ahr-ent members. Mr. Parberry
was found, but he refu-ed to com,
stating that th-re was no authority for
taking him. Secretary of State Rot
wilt will not sign the certificates of the
Democratic Senators-elect at aoy
hazard.
Lieut-Governor Richards has ordered
the Sergeant-at-Arms to bring tho
absentee before the bar of the Senate,
even if be has to invoke aid from civil
authorities. The latter is out trying to
enforce the order. Governor Toole
has recognized the organization of the
Senate by sending in bi message. .
A Balldlnc ColLapeee.
LiNOOLNTON, N. C, Jan. 8.
Special, The walls of the racket
vtore fell to day. caused by a gale that
has been blowing all day. The owner,
J. A. Robinson, was preparing to re
pair the building aince the fire, but it
is now a complete wreck and a clear
loori of eight thousand dollars. Tbe
falling of tbe wall much reminded the
people of the earthquakes of 1&37.
Bond Offertnca. ,
WASniNQTOX, Jan. 8 Bond offer
ings to-day aggregated SI 14.600; ac
cepted tS3.5GUfoar at 1,23 and 1,04 to
I for four and halfs.
FROM WASHINGTON.
THE TOOACCO MEN FORM A
TRADE MARK ASSOCIATION.
the Uaya mm. I Vf. CVmmlllr lira
ArcumtaU ty Met. lMret4 t Te
hace, Umk a4 IUeetiterec
MlmtU la l:-sr,t to Um M
elttn FrcKlncllan of Itlr.
WASm.VGTON, San. s -In rvpofee
to a call Imuh1 rm two ur k
reprvoaUlivi. of many .f the Umne
totkicro manuUclurvr of th? rxntntrv
met here to-day and oriMnid TnU
Mark A 'aviation, having foriioht
the proux-tion of iu tih-nU r in tho
u-c of their legitimate tru.!. mark
Gvt. W. GU, of ami At, itaHi-
mrt wa,- chx'trd prehh-nt; P. Iril
Urd, Jr.,pf P. lrill ird .V t o . X.)W
l ork. tr jwsurf r and T!m E Allen of
New York eevrvtary.
An executive ctMnmitU: wa t!etHl
a follows:. Gnv W. CnU. fUhlrnor;
1". i)rll'.ard. Jr. .New York: P. E
Ad am, of the 'Adam To? iiN'x t'orr.
PJiny, MllwauW; Mr. Hopkin of J. .!.
Raglf.v A: Co., iKtroit and Dmiel Tal
lin, ot the Catllu Tohr,-i Lotnjny .
St. LouU. A sorie- of by laws won
f
tiiiopU'il, alter which an adjournment
wa uken, aubjivi to the call of the
President.
Washington. Jan. .Thi wnt
and mean committH? to-day i-ontinued
ueiritig uio U)!)uv) men. A New
York tobacco p icker pnHeUnl against
the advai.tage.i which the cxltin.? law
and treasury rulings give to th- mtnu-
tactureror foreign tohaeoo. Tor thi?,
bo Kiid, then- wrru two n-nili,-;
First, to regulate t le tax m that Vw
utv tin -i m jirMin u)7kih'o Mi.ii;
have no advant:tj;e from the eH.t of
hnvign clgara; lhn hv wouM tlmp
foreign tobacco;.-Second, to rnlw th
tax on all tob.icoo that corner Into com
petition with domestic tobacco.
Mr. Flower; And that U what you
are here for? 'itne Yc tir. The
witness thought the iinjxrted wrapjwr
tobacco ought to pay a duty of fnm
threo to five dollars a pojud. The
duty on tillers, ho thought, houM ro
main.' a at procnt-."o ct-nU jxsr
M)und.
S. G. Hubbard, president of th New
England Tobacco Crowcra AN-iatlon
was next heard. Ho claime) that
thero was no 'adequate prot ction at
present for the toh;icco gro r. IIU
Assx:iatlon hrd for tMivenil years peti
tioned to have tho Internal Revenue
tax on tobacco rejaled.
Joiathun WychofT, reptVM?ntlng the
New York State Tobacco 'Growers A-
sociatlon, r.lhOakcd protection for tho
farmer. He did not tee why the cigar
maker should bo protected thne timcf
as much vs tho producer of toltacco..
At t'io afterpoan ttcimlons, arguriiU
were heard from the wino and prlU
inttircsw. Geo. T. HUgg, of iCentucky,
rtiad a prcmred statement full of sta
tistics, exhibiting tho importance of
the distil lerj intert?u. He said that
the distillers do not ask for tho repeal
of the Internal Itevcnuo law, nn Jt
would, while Incrc.vdng tho buinea
temporarily, result In over production
and consequent depression. They
would like to have tho tax reduced
from nlnetj- to fifty cent a gallon, but
did not care to have it entirely wiped
out, as they recognized the fact that
t.. ... .. . i
should bear its share of taxation.
There were other matters in which
distillers ro'ijht relief, and they wor?
eounect.d with tho nd ministration of
lhs law.
Co.. John Sreven, of Sayannah, Ga.,
appeared in huhalf of the rice industry.
RiH3 growers had Iwcn alarmed by
rtatcmenls reputedly . made that tho
duly on rice wa xe;ive. He pur
KMd to show that thi U not m. nod
that in all fairness the duty should bo
raiwd Ho did not intend to a-k that,
however. becau-'O he did nt pri!utn(j
that a higher duty could 13 secured.
lie desired to contradict the state
ments, which had -been made In the
House of Representative, to the i-ffivt
that twice as much rice was tiroJuvd
in this country as before the war. Tin
reverse of this wan truth, fteforo
the war, with ilave labor, twice a tnu h
rice was produced In this country a . t
present. Wo imported very lltth rice
then and exiortxl jreat qu.antllei.
With slave latxr, our rice gnrct -were
in a position V defy tho world.
They had moit effective labof. !So
tiroU'Ction was ncdcd, and tho duty.
laid then benefitted neither lh Gov
ernment nor the prtxlucer. SInco he
war the situation hd entirely ch ugd,
and protection at now ncv.Ary. Tho
war placed tho Industry in iu Infancy
again.
The changed commercial condition!
wew nlso to the disadvantage of the
American producer and ho now found
Asiatic rice meeting him f n corafWl
tioo, atmoat in his own field. Thn
treasury reports showed that the bulk
of tbe rice sent hero from Chi on was
brought in at les4 .than two cent per
pound, whit the coat to the American
producer was considerably, more than
three cents. The reduction of duty be
asserted, would result in destroying
American rice fields, and giro a mo
nopoly to the foreign producer, which
would be followed by grcaUy enhanced '.
priors, as was shown during the war,
when the value of rice was higher than
ever known before.
r . G. Evlrst, or ew urieans, repre
senting the rica millers, aaked that, in
the new tariff bill, tho definitions, of
the various kinds of rice be made more
exact. Lirge quaotlUes of pntoa or
A 11 I III f - t t
ed as "uncleaoed" rice, at a rata of
duty three-fourths of a cent a pound
not stand any further cut la the duty
on rice. '. . '
LB. BIseell, of Charleston, said
there were considerable qujuitltles of
abandoned land In South - Carolina
whlcn might bo again reclaimed, but
for the constant fear that tho duty
would be taken off.