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StftttLibrtryjVT? m -4 VOLUME 29. PROTECTION ! INDUSTRY ! ENTERPRISE ! HICKORY, NORTH CAROLINA, .THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1897. WASHINGTON LETTER; From our fibular Correspondence.) Washington June 21, 1807. The president has no means of knowing to a certainty that the tariff bill will become a law inside of a month, but he feels so confident that it will that he has promised to attend the unveil ing of. the statue of General. John A. Logan, in Lake Front Park, Chicago, n July 22nd, with as many members f the Cabinet as can make it conven ient to accompany him. In order to provide against unexpected contingen cies, President McKinley stipulated that his. promise' should not be con sidered binding if the tariff bill were not disposed of in time for him to reach Chicago on the date specified. Senator Chandler, who made a rec ord as Secretary of the Navy, was ,tked what he thought of the English statement that the annexation of Hawaii would make it necossary for us to largely increase our Navy. He replied: "I do not agree with the opiniou that we must largely increase mr Naval force because we are about t annex Hawaii. The future power o? the United States will not lie in its Navy. We will b(? great because we have unlimited and easily convertible resources. If we want a Navy, we an et one. If a war should come in which Italy, for instance, was not con cerned, we could, buy the whole Ital ian Navy in 24 hours. There will be no larger Naval appropriations coin cident with the ratification of the Hawaiian treaty, but when we want a Navy we can get it."' The ultimate ratification of the treaty for the annexation of Hawaii Is regarded as so certain, notwithstand ing the talk of the handful of Demo cratic Senators who are opposed to it, that no effort will be made to push it to a vote at this session of Congress. The President is perfectly satisfied to have it go over to the regular session, as he regards the sending of the treaty to the Senate as all that was necessary to notify the world of our intention to annex the island. Senator Hanna has grown very tired of denying the story originated by some one in the employ of a New York paper, that the wages of miners in his employ, in Pennsylvania, had been cut to the lowest price ever paid in the Pittsburg district 54 cents a ton. Speaking on the subject, Sen ator Hanna said: "There has been a reduction of wages, but not those of the men employed by any of the com panies in which I am interested. I was asked to join and'refused to do so. My men are still receiving GO cents a ton." Of course it would be expecting entirelv too much to ask that this very positive denial should operate to keep the original lie out of Democratic papers. Senator Hanna and several mem bers of the Ohio delegation . in the House have gone home to attend the state convention. The story that Sen ator Foraker remained in Washington because he was opposed to Senator Hanna was, of course, a Democratic origin. Senator Hanna'e election, and certain that it will be accomplished. He remained in Washington as the re sult of an agreement with Senator Hanna, it being thought best that one of "them should be constantly in his seat in the Senate while the tariff bill ; i . l is unuer.couMuerai.Jou General Stewart L. "Woodford, the new U. S. Minister to Spain, has many admirers among the Republicans who attended the National convention, which nominated Hayes and Wheeler, After Hayes was nominated, General Wheeler heard that the Indiana dele gation had decided' to support him for the Vice-Presidency . According to Col. W. R. Holloway, who was there, and who is now in Washington, this is what Gen. Woodford said to , his Indiana friends: "No, no, gentlemen; dou't think of that, Win. A. Wheeler is a stronger mau in the state of New ork than l am, and l beg that you will give him Indiana's thirty votes. What we need and must have to elect Gov. Hayes, is New York's electoral vote. Don't consider me for one mo ment, but vote for my friend, Wheeler, and assist us to carry the Empire state for the nominees of this 'convention.'' The result is history. While the Republicans enjoyed the accusations and counter accusations hurled by Democratic Senators against each other they would have much pre ferred that the time so wasted had been put in on the tariff bill. Every body knows how wide agart the Dem ocratic Senators are on the tariff and many other things, but the country 19 impatiently waiting for the tariff bill to become a law. r CIVIL .SERVICE INVESTIGATION. MAINE fcOPULlSTS REBEL. I "telle visits the white house. CU11AN SITUATION. THEY REPUDIATE BRYAN AND 3EWALL AND FREE TRADE. Printers Want the Government Printing Of fice Relieved From Civil Service Rules. Washington, June 11). The Sen ate Committee on Civil Service re sumed its inquiry today into the work ings of the classified service. A letter from W . B. Prescort, President of the International Typographical Union, was read in denial of the reported statement that the union favored the continuance of the civil service rules at the Government printing office. "It is not the union's province or purpose to criticise or comment on the civile service system generally," the letter says, 4-but it is of opinion that the system is not suitable for applica tion to great productive concerns like the Government Printing Office. It is not necessary to discharge old and faithful employees in order to main tain a high standard of skill. Such is not the purpose of our organization, but it is imperative that new situa tions and vacancies be filled with the best workmen procurable. They bring to the office fresh ideas as to methods and results, and t ,eir pres ence and work will act as a stimulus, which will be profitable alike to their fellow workmen and the Government. The typographical union, after over a year's experience under civil service rules, and under which 1,000 or 1,200 of its members have been employed, is not of opinion that the people's inter ests are being subserved by their ap plication to the Government Printing Office. Therefore it will use its in fluence to secure their abrogation and have the office placed upon the same basis as the most successful private offices. "Briefly, the union is of opinion that better results would be obtained by making foremen responsible for the quality and quantity of the output Democracy, no more fusion The State Committee Almost UnMlnMiljr Into tbt nUdle-ef-the-Road Camp With Tom Watson and Use Genuine Populism. Auburn, Me., June 19. William Jennings Bryan need cast no hopeful eyes-dn the prospect of populistic sup port and fusion In Maine in 1000, judging from the overwhelming vic tory of the go-it-alone Populists at the meeting of the State Populist . Com mittee here this afternoon. Prof. L. C. Batem&n of this city, erstwhile Populist candidate for Gov ernor of Maine, able politician and re lentless foe of Arthur Bewail and the Bryanite Democrat of Maine, won a great victory and took the Maine Populist party into the "middle of the road,", and, incidental thereto, into the Wharton Barker Presidential boom camp. - When the coming Nashville confer ence was first broached there were abundant signs of a Populist bolt in Maine. Several leading Populists who had supported Bryan and Sewail opposed it and antagonized Bateman. He has downed them all and come out with flying colors. The State Com mittee today went almost unanimous ly for what they term the genuine Watson-Barker-Bateman Populism, as against what Bateman has sarcastic ally termed, the "hypocritical, eapi-"" talistic, Sewallized wing" of the jwrty. Maiue Populism can be said to be "done with silver" and red hot for the old greenback idea. John White of Levant, the richest Populist in Maine, wrote in a letter: "No more silver in mine. Just think of Andrew Jackson on a ticket with a national bank President. What in God's name were our folks thinking of at St. Louis? All we have to do now is to stand firm.' These sentiments fairlv express the overwhelming view of the convention, with the added assertions: "No more These of the respective departments, invest ing them with authority to employ help at will and to discharge em ployees, to decrease the force for com petency, for neglect of duty, for viola tion of office rules, &c." P. Rhodes, an employee of the printing office, testified that the civil service examinations were not practi cal and covered branches foreign to the qualifications of a printer. He said he could take a high school boy, coach him for a week on the proof reading instructions found in the dic tionaries, and the boy could pass the examinations, though he might neyer set a foot in a printing office. Auditor Castle of the Post Office Department said that the civil service svstem had been honestly adminis tered in the Post Offices throughout the country, and it would not be pos sible to maintain the present efficien cy of the service under any other sys tem. As regards the force of the bu reau over which he presided, he was convinced that the administration of the law had been very bad. The em ployees depended too much on politi cal influences and not enough on per sonal efficiency. . The committee adjourned till next Saturday. carried with Col. Carr and Hr. Washington for a Cake Duke Walk The cake walk last night furnished fun for a large number of people and must have proved a financial sutcess to the management. A great many couples fell in line when fun began and inarched to the strains of enliven ing music mere was some graceiul walking and there was much that wouldn't be called graceful: It was soon evident that two couples were far in the lead for the prize and that the ooutest betweeu them would he a very close one. These were Mr. Washincton Duke and Miss Spicer and Col. Julian S. Carr and Mrs. Thos. H. Martin. When the votes were counted the former won by a majority of one, the vote standing fA to r). Durham special, 19tb. to Ral eigh News and Observer. rea-not resolutions were but two dissenting votes: "1. The People's Party State Com mittee, in conference assembled, do hereby declare that the late alliance with the silver Democracy has proven a failure and should no longer be con tinued. "2. We condemn in unqualified terms the brutal treatment accorded by the Democratic party to the Popu lists, and especially to that great nat ional leader, the Hon. Thomas E Watson. "3. That the leaders of the silver Democrats have, by their insincereity and hypocracy, proven that they are unworthy to longer lead the reform forces of this nation, and we therefore demand that there shall be no further fusion with that faction of the Demo cratic party." After scoring the Republican Ad ministration, the resolution conclude 1 "That the delegates selected to at tend the Nashville conference be in structed to ue all honorable means to recall our party to the support of straight Populist principles, ai set forth in the Omaha and St. Louis platforms." The Southern's Reasons for Building the ' Mocksvllle Extension. It is announced by First Vice Presi dent A. B. Andrews that the manage ment of the Southern Railway has decided ubon a simple plan for leliev. ing the great pressure of traffic on the line between Greensboro ami Char lotte, N. C, without going tp the ex pens of the construction of a sm)ud track between the points named, through Salisbury. The Southern now owns the 2'.) miles of the Midland North Carolina Railroad between Wiustou Salem and Mocksville, and will extend the road oiue 'JO miles to MooreaviiJe, where connection will be made with the Atlantic, Tennessee & Ohio division for Charlotte. A large pait of the through freight will 'be ?nt over the proposed new route. He Called Simply to Pay Hi Reseects. but Many Senators Marvelled at Hi Presence. WASHlNti-rox. June 10. Senator Henry M. Teller of Colorado, bent slightly under the weight of 67 years, slowly walked Into the White House this morning with a txuhful air, like a lost sheep returning to the fold. He was dressed in a Pritice Albert coat the Maine style coat, in fact, that he wore on June IT, 1SW. when lie m.vle his dramatic exit from the St. Louis Convention- dark trousers, calfskiu shoes, and plug hat, and carried a canty, it hat been many a long day since Senator Teller entered the White House, and to-day he walked as cau tiously as though be were treading on broken glass or century eggs. Every old attache of the White House rec ognized the Coloiado Senator as he a in bled through the corridor-on his way to the main stairway. At the foot ot the stairs he met several Sena tors who gazed at him in astonish ment and marvelled at his presence in the White House. True, they said. Mr. Teller had the same right to visit the White House as any free born American, but it seemed strange to them to see him in the enemy's camp. It is only two days oyer twelve months that Mr. Teller was on the wnrpath. The occasion Was the meet ing of the Committee on Resolutions of the St. Louis Republican Conven tion. Mr. Teller was a member of the committee. It was well know that he favored the fre? coinage of silver, and. therefore, when he made the following remark it was not surprising: "The time has come when I shall be obliged to leave the Republican party if it declares for the single gold standard." From that day to this Mr. Teller has been a political wanderer on the face of the earth. The Senators who met Mr. Teller at the foot of the White Hour-e stairs to-day were all present at the St. Louis Convention, aud the ac tion of Mr. Teller and his colleagues. Cannon, Dubois, Hartman et al., was fresh in their memories. They pic tured In their mind's eyes the Colorado Senator, with flushed face, grizzly beard, and husky voice, standing on the speaker's rostrum in Convention Hall, appealing in impassioned tones for the adoption for the free coinage clause in the platform. They could see the man who had been conspic uous in Republican counsels for a third of a century slowly descend Into the body of the convention, and, arnid hisses and cat-calls, file down the main aisle and out of the convention, fol lowed by men of his ilk, never to re turn. It is not astonishing, therefore, that the Senators who met Mr. Teller in the White House to-day woudered at his presence. He said he liad left the Re publican party for all time to come, and would never again be caught in the Republican fold. Cut Mr. TelUr went into the White Houm to dv with a clear conscience. He did not come to make war with the President. He limply called to pay hi respect. THE COURSE TO BE FOLLOWED BY THE L' SITED STATES. IO INDICT STOREKEEPEKS. The Rowan Knitting Mill was sold at auction at Salisbury Monday. It was bought by S. H. Wiley as trustee for a compauy of citizens. appointed postmaster at Jonesville, Yadkin county, a few days ago, died Friday of canc-r ol the stomach. Mr. Holton Proposes to Remedy Fraud : Distilleries by Indicting; Storekeepers. j Mr. A. rl Holton. who was in the j city this morning, tell us ot u ue , line of tactics the governiu-n; pro !Kees to adopt in order to break up fraud and irregularities iu dietillenee. It i propoMd that in every iutaiio where (mud i found iu a ditil!ry that the storekeeper and gauicer shall be iudicted with the distiller. This. Mr. Holton thinks, i the only solu tion of irregularities and differences ttetweeu the government and distillers. In view of the fact that Mr. Holton has already been decided upon as dis trict attorney, and that lie has" only recently hid a talk with the commis sioner of internal revenue at Wash ington, this statement is very signifi cant and indicative of the policy the new administration will pursue. Twenty-five bills of indictment were found against storekeepers and gauge: s at the Federal court in Char lotte yesterday, and as they will be tried under Mr. Hoi ton's administra tion he proposal to make it exceed ingly warm for the storekeepers. The government thinks that by this plan it will not only be able to make storekeepers and gangers more alive to their duty but also to. prevent them from countenancing fraud in any J manner, shape or form. It Will Deps4 Upe Answer try the Spaaishi Government te Repreoentatteats Thro ft nialsWr Wood reed That Preoar0ev e4 Pre seat CeedJUea Will Net V Ceateno4. Wasixutox, June 19. It can be stated on the best authority that all publications purporting to outline the Cuban policy of President McKinley that have been made up to the present time have been In disregard cthe fact that the cne of the United State Government has not been made ajv and that even In the discussions of the subject of our relations to Cuba that have taken place In Cabinet circle,, the point has not been reached when it could be said that the Executive bad finally determined upon any cer tain plan of action. At the State De partment an authoritative denial ! given of the statement cabled to Lon don to the effect that Gen. Woodford, the newly ap-Klnted U. S. Minister to Spain, has been Instructed to lutlmate to the Spanish authorities that if Spain refuses to grant freedom to Cuba t-he must be prejiared to yield to force. Mr. Calhoun, who was the Presi dent's special commissioner to Cuba, is still here in dally conference with Assistant Secretary Day upon the subject of our general relations to the Cubau question as well as ujon the Ruiz case in iartieular, aud It Is de sired that General Woodford also be given an opportunity to confer with Mr. Calhoun. Therefore, In the course of the next three days, the minister will cwme again to Washington from New York and begin a serious study of the history of the present Insurrection from its very beginning. Of this Gen eral Woodford at present knows little more than the average close reader of the 'newspapers, and it Is of course highly important that he should hare ' in his possession all the Information that Is In the State Department, be side that which Mr. Calhoun may Ix able to add verbally, before he goes to Spain, as it is the intention of our government that the new minister shall carry with him when he goes th complete case of the United States. This necessarily will consume sora time, and it can be stated positively that there is no exectation that Gen eral Woodford will start for Madrid until the expiration of thirty days period allowed by the State Depart ment to all United States ministers upon their appointment, within which to study their instructions before go ing to their Kjsts. General Wood ford's" Instructions, of course, from the peculiarities of the situation, will be much more complex than are usually given to an American minister. Not only will he be charged with all of the details of the Ruli cae. which in itself promises to present most formidable legal problems, but he will also take with him all the erldence ueceary to estahl.sh the lueses suffered by United States citizens in Cuba from the con tinuance of the war, with other data in support of the snggestiou of our Government that It can scarcely con tinue to countenance a prolongation of present conditions. Ujou the an swer returned by the Spanish Govern ment to these rrpreentationt by Gen eral Woodford will deiend the rourv to be followed by he United State. While jwrfeotly willing to gather ail information j-rtifjnt to this issue arid listen toall proper representation, the administration is firmly determine. not to be nuduly hurried in Its treat ment of the caje. realizing that If it should permit itself to be carried away by temjwrary excitement, mistakes of the gravest characVr might result, that would in t-ie end weaken or position. Judge siuiouton, of tn United Statue Circuit Court, nas reaUSnnc I his dcree in the case of the Farmers rkan arul Trust Com la nT. of New York, against the Caie Fear and Yad kin Valley Railroad Cotapavn j . et aL This decision is that the railroad shall be sold as a whole, not in diversions, jls contended by the plaintiffs. DayUsoa Barroagh.of Stanly coun ty, aged years, was convicted of coo n t erf d ting in the Federal Court In Charlotte last wtek and senteicel 15 months la the ctItentiary. V
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