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4wKl PROTECTION ! INDUSTRY ! ENTERPRISE ! PROSPERITY I "I.IIMR 29. HICKORY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1897. KUHBEB 14 ffthr if A Jj -fir rff tTtT'tTY''rV nAisniiiuJU liJKTTEK. From oar Kesralar Corrsjondnt. 1 Washington, April 5 r&97 The I Dingley tariff bill, having lat week passed the House, receiving every re- publican vote, five democratic votes and one populist vote, is now in the hands of the Senate Commltt n Finance. Every statement made con-1 cerning changes in the hill hv rhr Committee i a guess. Senators Alli son, Aldrich, and Piatt, of Conn., who have been going over the bill as a sub committee, are not the kind of men to announce their conclusions, even when they have definitely ar rived at them, to the public, before making their report to their col leagues on rhe Committee. When the CommitJe decides upon the amend ments to the bill will be time enough to prait-e or to criticize its work. Un til then your guess is as good as any bodys, if you must have a guess. The honor of being the first fourth class postmaster appointed by Presi dent McKinley fell to Mr. John P. Kelly, of White Cloud, Kansas. The delay in making appointments of this class was owing to the change in the office of Fourth Assistant Postmaster General. Mr. Bristow is now occupy ing that positidn and will proceed as rapidly as possible to fill the 2,500 va cancies which have accumulated since the new administration came in. There will probably be an average of about 50 appointments a day made until the work gets up to date. Senator Elkihs has for a long time been studying the question . of bow best to restore the old time prestige of I American shipping. As a result of that study, he made a very strong speech in the Senate in favor of his bill providing for the7 imposing of du ties upon imports in a manner that will discriminate in favor of American ships. President McKinley seldom makes promises in connection with appoint ments, but he has made one that will please every patriotic American, that is, to appoint young -f nil nenaan a cadet to West Point as soon as he reaches the age of eligibility, which will be sometime next year. Representative Grosvenor, . of Ohio, is a good lawyer, and the following opinion from him on the decision of the Supreme Court which so many 1 persons, especially democrats, profess I to think is opposed by the amendment j to the tariff bill making the duties im posed by that bill go into effect April, and upon the right of Congress to pass such an amendment, is both timely and interesting. After citing other misunderstandings, Mr. Gros venor says: "Simply and solely what the Supreme Court did hold was that the Wilson law, which went into ef fect on the 23th day of August, did not repeal the McKinley law until the day when it was passed, and how any body could have had a doubt about that is a mystery to me, but the Su preme Court did not hold that the long line of retrospective legislation in the Wilson law was not approved. That law bristles with retrospective legislation. Whiskey in bond and not in bond that had been manufactured and deposited in the bonded ware house or was on that day deposited at a tax of ninety cents, was immediately raised to $1.10. New bonds were re quired, the whole system remodeled, but no law5er in the U. S. ever dis puted the power of Congress to pass just such an enactment. The best" evidence of the popular estimate of this retroactive amendment is fo ind in the fact that the vast body of im porters who presumably have the very best legal advice at their com mand, have all accepted as conclusive that Congress has that power." Presideut McKinley's appointments have been uuiformly good, and even his bitterest political opponent have found it extremelv difficult to mticise any of them, and his appointment ot Maj. Benj. Butterworth to be Com missioner of Patents is commeuded by everybody, including democrats and populists. Thi is just as it should be. for Maj. Butterworth to be Com missioner of Patents is surely the right man in the right place. He is an able lawyer and statesman of wide experience, and having been Commis sioner of Patents once before, and had service ou the House Committee on Patents, is thoroughly familiar wit'i the important duties of the position. He is quite large enough for a Cabinet 1(7 LIS W m T r v position, or for that matter for the highest position in the Country. But tnere are few public places in which a man of MaJ- Butterworth's equipment can do 80 Iuuch good as in the Patent umce - ine practice in, and especially oat of that offic i8 desperately in need or reform Hon H Clay Evans tne new Com- nnssioner of Pensions is now in charge 01 mat omce. lie says his policy win m a. k. a. fln v a be to justly administer the pension laws, and his record is such that his old comrades have every confidence in his doing so ANTHONY COMSTOCK DENOUNCED. Richmond's Lawyers Scores Him Hard In the "Triumph of Death" Case. It was announced yesterday that the case against Oeorere H. Richmond growing out of the condemnation and seizure or Oabnel lrAnnuzzios "Triumph of Death," which va pub lished by the firm of Richmond & Co., would be decided to-morrow in Special Sessions Court, where the Justices will render their decision ihen a to the character of the book. Portions of the brief that Mr. Fisk, who appears for Richmond, handed in to the Justices on Wednesday, bacame public yesterday.' It recites that the book has received fayorable criticism from leading critics all over the country, and that it has been translated into twelve languages as a masterpiece. The respectability of the firm of Rich mond & Co.. is also dwelt upon. Other portions of the brief are directed at Anthony Comstock, who wai the leadin? sDirit of the raid aud seizure of the books. "The book," says the brief, "was freely advertised in ' journals and magazines of the highest respectability not once, but often. These advertise ments would not have been accepted had the book been of an objectionable nature. The only man ho could find in his imagination anything of a prurient or objectionable character therein was that arbitrary censor of the American press and of books, Coin L stock, a man who pretends to find a few passages therein which might excite, as to him, impure imaginations and a capability, as to him, of sug- gesting impure thoughts and impure desires. If he is to be the sole arbiter in the first instance of what might excite impure imaginations or suggest impure thoughts or desires, then on the same reasoning he might arrest any female whose dress might to his mind sucrcrest to any one having a prurient imagination such impure de sires or lusttui tnougnts. io sucn rule or reason exists or can exist." The brief then recites that no other outcry against the book has been made. The book was printed on the recommendation of Prof. Peck of Columbia University, and was trans lated by Prof. Arthur Hornblow. "Under these circumstances,"1 it con tinues "it was an arbitrary and des potic act, without judgment or reason publicly to arrest the defendants on the charge made and subject them to the odium which follows. It does seem as if the course pursued was in tended to injure the defendants, repu tation and business." The brief ends by declaring that this case is similar to that in which the Supreme Court decided that "The Arabian Nights," "Tom Jones," "Ra belais," and "The Decameron" were not obscene. New York Sun April 4. THE PRESIDE rs VACATION. It is settled That He Will Take a Short Trip in the Dispatch Beat Dolphin. Washington, April 3 The details of the President's little jaunt next week have nor all been arranged, but it appears to be definitely settle! that he will go on the United States des patch boat Dolphin. He intends to be absent between the Cabinet meetings of Tuesday and Friday, and may start on Tuesdav af ternoou. No destination ha been agreed on. lies between Norfolk. Virginia Beach, and' Annapolis, and in the event the lat named place is selected th- arly will probably return to Washington by rail. The Presideut an I Mr. iic Km ley. Mrs. Satoii. II r. and Mrs. John Addison Porter, and a physician will couiiKse the party. The Presi dent expects to be at the Cabinet meeting of Friday. NEWSPAPER CUPPtNQS. Great Orewth ot the Me That Cease to the rtaa Who Started the First Bereea. This idea with million in it came to a man who faced in hit next week a disagreeable potentiality of hunger. The notentia.lt iv would become a eer- tainty unless before he exhausted the remains ot his last coin, just broken, he had hit upon something whereby to earn other coins'. It was in Paris, just about the timo of the Salon's opening. The man in hard luck sat eating frugally, in a restaurant. He dawdled a bit over his food, watching between mouthful the stream of breakfast rs, who ate briskly, with the air of men who knew what they meant to do afterward. The man watching wished himself in like case. Naturally his mind was alert. He noted every detail this one's walk and that one's nod, the set of another's coat, and the scowl which went along with the tip of still an other. That is how it happened that the man and the minute met to evolve the idea. Less alert he would not have noticed that a certain artist. after he had eaten, walked up to the dame du comptoir aud received from her a handful of papers of the day be fore, each containing a reference to the artist's picture in the Salon. The artist paid for them liberally at least ten times the original cost, and mur mured thanks besides to madame for her thought and trouble In the mat ter. Then he went away. The idea, though, remained. A new business had been born into a busy world. "This man has paid for a handful of papers that mention him. There are other papers other men, too. Per haps they will do likewise. At any rate it Is worth trying." the man in search of a vocation said to himself. Then he paid for his breakfast, adding a tip "for luck," and scurried off to make the round of the studios. It U needless to particularize farther. The aawusvos? w as cat eiwuiai luituvii V vis? cnppl0B. bureau, had IM, bo.n. in just this haphazard fashion. ' The schema took liter wildfire. Boon the man had a complete establishment in Paris, another in London, and a third in New York. As he could not protect it by letters patent, of coarse the bure&s Increased and multiplied. Now the whole world is their parish- even outlying regions like Cape Town, in South Africa, and Melbourne, Aus- tralia, can boast them in plenty. As for Europe, India, and these United States, they are blotched and spat tered with them. Nor is that the whole extent of the idea's growth. The railways and express companies have taken it home to themselves. Once they were among the steadiest and best paying patrons of the regu lar bureaus. Now they have learned r trick worth two of that. It is to collect, preserve, and classify clippings for themselves. Their agents all over the country have orders to preserve and send to headquarters everything touching their own line, or railway matters in general, which ap(ears in ! the local paiers. The clippiugs are tabulated and put into books, duly indexed at the city offices, where other clerks are kept busy collating and run ning down railway items in the big city sheets. Often the scrap books have proved of great value in damage cases. With the express com panies it is much the same. Outside this great branch is now computed that the business of furu ishing newspaper clipping employes a capital aggregating fifteen million dollars, and gives employment to souietiiiug like tniriy mousauu peo ple. Pretty substantial fruit that for an insubstantial idea. Nor is it, as a cynic might declare, wholly a liarvest ot vauit v. It trivetf one a new and vivid comprehension of the enormous rettcli aud tre-ueodou range of the prri to glauce over the book cf latest orders iu a well established bureau. Here a man wants everything about the X-ra. IWtow him a financier is down .or Nicaragua hu1 Panama but the choieerr"5"111 ,u' !er- u lne next column l.ut's reports of divorce case et-i here, and right underneath an . n luous persou is eager for South t-r it outrar-r- Matter on r-piriluah.i.u ! niiuther order, the North Pole an fher. aud eiectr.i- invention a third. Seial (H-ople want South African c'lipioukTo h-rt art Cntyn orders, tioC t l.iiur a iLirll v' M.tf UOU ill D ititi er i.f religion ipM-. Tms, w t.oll ade fr lu lhe eronal touch which gave the bureaus their flnt success. Still a large part of their business come from those who would please the public, actors, artist, the makers of books, particularly poets. as the shadow of a great rock in a lnd. so is the obituary habit to l" men of clippiugs. Thence come some of their fattest job. About any man of moderate prominence they are reasonably sure Of gathering from five hundred to a thousand clipping. There 1 a sort of correlation among certain of the bureaus, which enable them to get whatevrr in print! any where on the got within a very brief space. Prominent men are uear ly always among clipping bureau subscribers. II they are not, either the grief, or the joy cf those they leave behind suffice to insure a mar ket for the. mortuary harvest. Per flate the biggest collection of such things ever begun was that relating to the late Jay Gould. His heirs or dered "everything," but withdrew the order when, within the pace of three weeks, the enterprising bureau man had corralled eleven thousand odd. Even that number was exceeded In the CA9e oi George W. Child, whose widow gave a clipping man a similar order. The end of the clippings was a set of scrap books. Each bit of print, great or small, was pasted ac curately in the middle of a gre.t square of grayish Bristol board, and then the boards were bound into big volumes, covered In black morocco. and lettered in gold upon the backs. "In Memory of George W. Childs." There was a shelfful of the volumes. lhe cost 01 making them went away up in the thousands. Social struggles are another fruitful field. People on the fringe, or the fringe of the fringe, fsel their footing ever so much mors secure when they are mentioned tn cold print even if the mention Is a bare "also present.' Farther liberal patrons are schools. colleges, and institutions of every sort. - The, th.r. ar. Uwn who want tb. probate of wills everywhere, lists of heirs, and notices of eeidentv New I York Sun. , BETTER KEEP OUT OP CUBa. If he Ooes 8 SpeJn May Kill tllsa Wta oat Cere see ay flar I at peri I the Lives ef Other. Washington, April 3. Secretary I Sherman made a statement to-day of I importance to Americans, who are ac- tive in Cuban matters. When asked about the reported Intention of Julio Sanguilly, who bail arrived at Jack sonville, with aides to go to Cuba, be replied: "I don't believe he will go. If he should be so foolish he would have to take his life in his own hands. We hould never interfere in his be half again but would have to let things take their course.- I have his writen pledge not to take active part in the insurrection in any way. So has Spain and they could kill him without cere mony. No. I think he would not l such a fool." The pledge referred to was madeb Sanguilly in January, ju-t lefor- In pardon by the Ijtieeii Regent, of SjMiin and was signed voluntarily in Spamh and Knglish, and handed to oiimj! tieneral lee. The Spanish copy ent to the S(anith authorities, and thr on in Euglifh now on Secret ary.Shrtunn desk, is as follow: Affirmation of Julio Sanguilly: I, Julio Sanguilly, an American cut zeu. confined at Cabana Portree. Ha vaua, do hereby sacredly affirm to U--United States and to Spain, that it 1 am released by pardou of thr latter government, 1 will leave and miiaui away from Cuba, and will ur a d di reel I y or indirectly the pre-nt iuur rectiou against the Government of Spam, and I hereby prouih-e that should 1 dosOrttau) time, I will not cla;m the protrclion of the United States Irovt-rtiiueitl. 1 certify that t his pledire is ictvn of my own frw will, attd withou compulsion on the part of any one. Forf r-M 'almn. H.vii. Jami.try 21. ix:. JUU s. Nit l ILLY If Siic"illy make any attempt to c-nry out hi reM,rtr-d intention f t--ltig for Cutsa. the United Stat-a Mill re jwerleee to stop him unl-s be irwiihan armed eifwdition; but C .e inr are riirrmj ai me riaie Dr-pari mem than he departure of San u'Uilly ml this tiiue might sal the fate j of other American liijpriorvn' in Cuba !.- pnlors by the (jiiirti rUirent natter situilar condition t now being sougnt. BAD IJUEAK IX THE LEVEE, C4USE3 HEAVY LOSS OP CATTLE. A aether Break Tea nile Seat e4 tie lea. Ark.. Threat Pert lea at Taat Cltj Wltat laaaistlsa. TfMCA. Miss.. April 4. At 8 o'clock thi morning the Flower Lake levee. where it crosses Yellow Bayou, gave way under the tremendous pressure of water. The crevasse widened rapidly. and ie now 130 yards wide, through hich the water is rushing with a deafeuing sound. The levee was 20 feet high at tbs point where it broke to day. The -ople not only 011 the farms near the break, but upon those some distance from the levee back of it. have lost large numbers of cattle. So rapidly did the crevasse widen that the water rushing through it was sufficient to reach the lake parallel to the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Rail road at Bushby Station, which Is five miles east of ti e break. In a remarka bly short space of time, and within an hour had raised the lake eight feet. The water will no doubt be run ning over the railroad between Bash by and Carnesville before morning. The country affected by this break is on of the finest in the Delta. It will cause, the submergence of the en tire southwestern and south central part of Tunica Coanty. The flood will pass into Coahoma Coanty. over flowing Lula and the region around Moon Lake, broadening as It goes. A portion of the current will travel to Cold Water River, through the Yazoo Pass, while much of It will travel southward. Inundalatiog soma of the fairest fields In Coahoma Coan ty. Thence It will travel down Cass id y Bayou and Sunflower River, finally reaching the Yazoo, traversing almost the entire length of the Yazoo and Iwtfttft A A t 1 gj thus causing tnach Injury to the peo ple of this Uvea district than a break at 'almost any other point in tbs levee. rt ANNA OH THE TARIFF tm I Says It will Brie Preee rtt y Pre lei tea atf Mr. rtaaaa's Frleaa. Clkvkland, April 4. Senator Han- ns spent a quiet Sunday at home, re ceiving only a few Intimata friends. This is the first time Mr. Hanna has been in Cleveland since he left for Washington to attend the inaugura tion and take hi oath of office as 'ac cessor to Sherman in ths Senate. To the corrKndent of The New York Thut-s who called on him Mr. Hanna talked about the tariff. "The propoaed tariff," he said. will I llieve give a great incentive to tha industries of Cleveland, and do tha same ail over the county. It will briug tha return of prosperity. I can not say when the bill will h passed by the Senate, but ou may rest assured it will lw hurried through as soon as !oaih Mr. Hanna declined to ei press an opinion as to the constitutionality of of the retroactive claue of the tariff bill, but a close friend of Mr. Hanna "s said to uighU -The question of the constitutionality of the retroactive section of ths Ding- ley bill might as well be dropped, as the section will not te in the tariff bill that beeo.uf a U. Upon uhsI re liable authority it Is stated that Sena tor A I1 rich, the tariff expert among Republican Senators, is opposed to it and S-rta tor Allison looks a pon it as buncombe. 'The truth of the matter it that the Republican leaders are determined to eogineer a gigantic 'bluff' through to the end. They will kep the section In the bill until the last. Then they will drop it and lh new law will go Into effect upon its passage Senator Hanna eiprewi-d ths opinko that the arbitration treaty would ap proved by the Senate b a clow vote. When he askeal if he thought Con gressional artkm on the Cuban es tion probable at tin session. Mr. Han na replie-l : I dou't know. You can't teH a boat that A spark luL'tit drop iu there at any tiu, aiJ p'wipjta' oa. At this time loever. I cutdcr Con gressional action ou tle Cuban ques tion Improbable "
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