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HICKORY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, AUGUST io, 1893.
NUMBER 32-
THAT MESSAGE.
COMMITTEE ON COINAGE.
STATE XEWS.
CONGRESS, IN SEsSION.
CKlsPPOIt Sl'KAKKK.
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CAI " FOU i:' CONDITIONAL. KI.1PEAL.
OF A HAD LAW. T
Preside"! Cleveland Sends His Message io Con
gress, and it Should Be Followed Bj
Prompt Action.
'uiK: We are greatly disappointed
in not being able. to present the Presi
dent's Menage in full in this issue, but
'give a succinct and accurate summary
of it:
Vahix(;'i ox, August 8. President
Cleveland's message was read this af
ternoon and it excited universal com
ment, and nearly all heard so far be
in tr- favorable.
In opening his message, President
Cleveland said: The existence of the
alarming and extraordidary business
hit nation constrained the call for an
-ira session of Congress to the end
that present .evils might be mitigated
an'! threatening dangers averted.
The present financial plight is not
th" resr.lt of untoward events or con
ditions related to natural resources or
any of 1 he afflictions which frequently
check National prosperity. Crops are
plenteous,' - with abundant promise of
ivinunerative production and manu
tacT nre when suddenly this financial
distress occurs,
"Many moriied institutions, have sus
pended whose abundant assets were
unavailable for immediate demands,
ati 1 values supposed to be fixed became
eoiijeet ural. . -
I believe tlii'se things are principally
chargeable to (Congressional legislation
touching tin coinage . of silver under
the statute of July 14th, 1800, which
va the culmination of the agitation
upon the subject.
The President then recited the opera-
tionof the law, and said we may bejxn-
sidered t wice as advocates of free eoin-
age and asj'pnservatives.
I; j) to July loth silver notes were
isMicd-to the amount of $147,000,000.
Only a small quanity of the bullion
purchaser I remains uncoined, manysilp
ver notes have been paid in gold, fortyj
niue of the 'fifty-four millions of bul
lion purchased have been redeemed in
gold during the year of fourteen
months ending July loth. .
The gold reserve of $100,000,000 has
-consequently-: been encroached upon.
This does not meet' the situation, but
apprehension is groundless. ',
PossU)ly if we had only to undertake
the niaintainanee of a sxecific and
known quantity of silver on a parity
with gold, we might determine our
ability to do so," but to maintain the
parity, with silver increasing fifty mil
lion yearly, with no fixed termination
for the increase, the solution of the
problem is no longer in doubt. 4--
The country is entitled to a sound
currency, and this is a matter far above
politics. It concerns every business,
calling ami household. At seasons
when currency is uncertain the speculators-reap
a harvest when the wage
earner is defenceless.
It is of the utmost importance that
Congress give relief quickly.-.
Every day's delay in removing one
ot the plain and principal causes of the
present situation enlarges the trouble
and increa.-esihe responsibility of the
government for its existence.
Whatever else the people expect of
Congress, they certainly demand legis
lation such jus will condemn the past
three years' disastrous experience, and
remove the statute which caused it.
The President then strongly urged
the representatives of the people to
deal with these questions promptly
and in a legitimate and business-like
manner.
The President continued, and said it
was his purpose to summon Congress
early in September in order to enter
promptly upon, the voik of tariff re
form, for the true interests of the coun
try clearly demand and a hirge major
ity show ed by their snlTerages that the
iKople desire and expect the accom
plishment of tluit reform to which his
administration stands pledged.
The President closed as follows:
While this reform of thetarifT loses
nothing of its permanent importance
and while it must in the near future
engage the attention of Congress, it
seems to me that the financial condi
tion should immediately and before all
others be the subject considered. I,
therefore, earnest lv recommend the
repeal of the statute of July, 0, for the
purchase of silver bullion, and that
other legislative'action be taken to put
Wyond doubt or 'mistake the intention
and ability of the Government to' ful
fill its obligat ions in a money univer
sally recognized by all civilized coun
tries. G rover Cleveland.
Executive mansion Aug. 7, 1893.
If All Depend Cn the Substance of riere
land Message.
Washington Aug. 5. Speaker Crisp
authorizes the statement that there is
no basis whatever for any one of the
many reports which have been circu
lated regarding the appointment of
Chairman of committees. He has not
yet decided upon a single appointment
and will not do so for several days,
certainly not until the caucus shall
have officially designated him as its
candidate for Speaker. lie does not
expect to announce the committees un
til eight or ten days after the organi
zation on Monday. He may make an
exception of the Committee on Coin
age, but has reached no such determi
nation as yet. The Speakers sole aim
is to do onlv that which ' will be of
kgreatest service to the party. To ac
complish that purpose he feels the lie-"
eessity of earnest co-operation with
the Administration, and as he has not
seen either the President or the Seere
of the Treasuay for several weeks, he
will not attempt to reach conclusions
until he has an oportunity to consult
Avith them as well as wit!i the leading
members of the House, upon whom he
must depend for support on the Moor.
The truth is" that all depends upon
the tone of the message. If Mr. Cleve
land shall confine hisu'econmiendation
strictly to repeal, with no hint of sub
sequent legislation in the direction of
bi-metallism, it might be considered
wise to put Cochran against the re
doubtable Bland, in which event
Cochran would leave the Ways and
Means to become Chairman of the
Coinage Committee. If, on the other
hand, the President should deem a
more pacific policy advisable, it might
be considered wise to permit Mr. Bland
to retain his position, if he should care
to do so, despite an opposing majority
in his committee. As the composition
of the Ways 'and Means committee will
be affected by that of the Coinage
Committee, especially with reference
to Cochran, it is easy to see the reas
ons for the statement made above, viz.,
that all depends upon the President's
policy as outlined in his message.
Only one Graver.
Washington Post: All of Washing
ton has been much interested during
the past month in speculation about
what inight be going on and what was
possible to be expected at Gray Gables;
and in connection with this discussion
there has been an interesting bit of
gossip floating about. It seems to
settle one question pretty definitely.
Whatever may occur at G ray Gables,
there will be no second G rover Cleve
land in the world at the end of the
summer. Mrs. Cleveland is quoted by
several of her friends in Washington
as having said to them that she would
never name a child of hers after her
husband. ''There shall be no second
G rover Cleveland." she has said "There
was only one George Washington,
only one Abraham Lincoln. There
shall be onlv one G rover Cleveland.''
The wide-awake Raleigh correspond
ent of the Charlotte Observer says:
"Governor Carr today received an
invitation to attend a great gathering
of people who were born in NorthCar
olina, but whose homes are now in
Missouri. The gathering will be held
August 10th, at Goss' Springs, near
Seymour, Mo. The committee send
ing the invitation urge the Governor
to come, or if he cannot be with them
on that occasion to write a letter to be
read. The latter. the Governor will do.
He will be at Chicago on the date
named." -
Queen Victoria made her will in 1870.
It is engrossed on vellem. quarto size,
and it is bound as a volume, secured
with a private look. Several blank
padres have been left at the end of the
book- for codicils, some of w Inch have
already been added. Tims, when the
Princess Alice died, in 187s". modifica
tions of the bequests were rendered ne
cessary, and in the summer of lbsd, af
ter Duke of Albany's death, further
revisions were imperative. One entry
relates entirely to the disposal of the
Queen's Jubilee gifts, which are not
the property of the nation.
The September Harper's will contain
an account of Mr. Richard Harding
da vis's experience during a political
campaign in England as the compan
ion of a Conservative Candidate for
Parliament. The lively narrative will
be embellished with ten illustrations
bv W. HathercU.
The officers of Craven county refuse
to pay the expenses of the military in
suppressing the James city disturban-
ces last spring.
Mr. Z. VJogers has severed his con
nection with the Waynesville Courier,
leaving Mr. Boone and Mr. Osborne,
two clever young gentlemen, to run it.
He will engage hi the publication of a
weekly religious paper the Baptist
Echo.
Mr. S. F. Houston, in speaking of
the crops, Aug. 1st, said: 'I have just
returned from a trip to the eastern
part of the State. I was in Harnett
and Halifax counties, and I tell you
now that they have, fine 'crop 'pros
pects down there. Indeed, they have
no room to conipk.-n. LCL-iri.te
News.
We understand that a petition will
be presented to the Board of County
Commissioners at their next meeting
asking them to bring suit against the
N. W. X. C. Railroad. The object of
the suit, as we understand it, is to
compel the railroad company to
complete the railroad to Wilkesboro in
accordance with the provisions of the
charter of said company or else forfeit
the bonds voted by Wilkes county.
Wilkesboro Chronicle.
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England Watching America.
London, Aug. 5. The developments
in the financial crisis in the United
States are being watched here with
the keenest anxietv. The fact that
the New York Central and Hudson
River Railroad Company has had to
come to London to borrow 5,000.000
while the Pennsylvania Railroad will
negotiate a six months loan of $2,500,
000 at 5 per cent, is commented upon
as showing how utter is the collapse.of
credit in the United States and how
complete is the lock up of capital.
Administration Leaders. ,
Washington Aug. 7. Bourke
Cochran and Bynum, of Indiana, it is
said, are to be the leaders of the anti
silver forces on the Democratic side of
the floor of the House. It is stated
that the distinguished Tammany
orator, at the suggestion of Mr. Cleve
land himself, has devoted his spare
time during the summer to the study
of the question in all of its phases.
Free froai Prejadice.
It is said that Mr. Carl Schurz is
writting a history of this country
covering the decade betw-een ISoO and
18G0. The work will be valuable. A
learned and discriminating foreigner
can perhaps write a more accurate and
impartial record of that heated period
than a native coukl do.
Willard G. Day, of Baltimore, has
written a letter to John Sherman mak
ing a suggestion that goidojd dollars
be coined with sixty cents worth of sil
ver bullion and forty cents worth of
gold bullion. Sherman replies by say
ing tut when he was secretary of the
treasury the exeriment was tried and
proved a failure, from the fact that
such a small per cant, of gold in the
coin would not change the color, and
they could not be distingushed from
the sillver coins except by an assayist.
The Raleigh chamber of commerce
decided not to adopt the resolutions
sent out by the New York chamber of
commerce, which a.k Congress to re
peal t he Sherman act but -which do
not provide. for any extension of the
currency. Of course the sentiment is
overw helming in faor of the repeal of
the Sherman act, but some thing else
is needed. A committee was appointed
to submit suitable resolutions.
A railroad man named George Hall,
who formerly dived 111 Charlotte, met
with an awful death in the railroad
yard in Atlanta Aug. 1st. He did as
so manv railroad men do stood in the
middle of the track and waited for
the approach of a s witch engine which
he wanted to ride on. -
When the engine pot near enough
Mr, Hall at tern pted to step upon the
front step, but ia::seu his footing, and
fell with his neck a oss the rail. The
engin 1011 not be stopped, and pas
sed over him, cutting his head clear
off his bod v. It is said by railroaders
f who saw tht horrible spectacle that
Hall's head rikd dovn an embank
ment several feet, and his body junip-
! ed up and ran about fifteen feet.
The Two IIour4 Orcu-nixed And Guue
To Iiuinei.
Washington Aug. 7. As many jo
S3G members having responded to their
names, the clerk announced that there
was more than a quorum present and
that the first business in order. was the
election of a Speaker. Mr. Ilolman,
(Democrat) chairman of the Democrat
ic ' caucus, rose and said that he had
the honor to put in nomination for
that high office the Hon. "Jamesr F.
Crisp, of Georgia. The laughter caused
by" this lip of the tongue had hardly
ceased lefore it was renewed wheivthe
clerk fell into the same error and an
nounced fthat "James A." Crisp had
been put in nomination.
Hon. Thos. B. Reed, of Maine, was
placed in nomination by Mr. Hender
son, of Illinois, the chairman of the
Republican caucus. The mention of
Mr. Reed's name was greeted with
Republican cheers.
Then arose Mr. Kem, Populist, of
Nebraska, and amid great laughter,
speaking for the Third party, present
ed the name of Jerry Simpson, of Kan
sas. The nominations were then closed
and the clerk proceeded to call the
roll.
The vote resulted: For Crisp, 214;
for Reed, 122, and for Simpson, 7. The
announcementhvas greeted with loud
applause. ' Messrs. Holman, Reed and
Simpson were appointed a committee
to escort the Speaker to the chair and
as the distinguished gentleman entered
the main door leaning upon the arm
of Mr. Holman, the members broke in
to cheers.
After Mr Crisp assumed the gavel a
sudden hush fell upon the House. In
a clear and moved voice the Sreaker
said: "Representatives, profoundly
grateful for this mark of your confi
dence, I shall try to be in some degree
worthy oMt by an honest effort to dis
charge the duties of the office on which
I am about to enter, with fidelity,with
courtesy 'and with the strictest impar
tiality. '(Applause.) I am now ready
to take the oath of office." '
The oath was then impressively ad
ministered by the father of the House,
Mr. O'Neill, of Pennsylvania.
The work of administering the oath
of office to the members-elect was then
entered upon in groups of two dozen.
THE SENATE.
Washington Aug. 7. The Senate
was called to order at noon by the Sec
retary, Mr. McCook, who read the Pres
idents Proclamation. Those absent at
the. former extra session took the-oath,
also the new Secretary Mr. Cox who
assumed his duties of office. The
death of Senator Lelaud Stanford was
announced and at 12:00 the Senate ad
journed without having received the
Presidents message.
Guld Eor America.
'London, Angnst 2. During the lat
wee;, the rare for long discount lias
been 2; for shoit discount, . The
tendency is steadily upward. It is
understood that $10,000,000 will be
shipped within the next two weeks to
the United States, and the belief is
that several miillions more will be pent
over before the end of the year.
The settlement last week was the
worst one-of recent, years. Of the ten
failures, however, but one was impor
tant. Two-of the failing firms paid
twenty shillings on the pound.
Arhrlt ration Icliou.
Pari?. Aug. 7. IriaMiiuchas.thclSch
ring Sea arbitrators have not asked
the agents of either power to furnish
additional evidence Jre biting to the
question of regulation, it is inferred
that the decision of the court will be
against England, as it had been ar
ranged that if evidence was sought at
all, it would follow a decision on the
question of jurisdiction favorable to
England. -
Pensioners Given 31 ore Time.
Washington, Aug. 7. Judge Loeh-
ren, Pension Commissioner, has ex
tended until October 10. lbtfS, the
period within which pensioners whose
pensions have been suspended may
make proof of their right to receive
them. -
Troable For LJeat. Peary,
St. John's N. F.t Aug. 2. Informa
tion has been received here from La
brador of serious trouble in Lieut.
Peary's expedition.
It is said it is so great that the trip is
likely to prove a failure.
lie Makes a XUn&Suf; riemrtie Speech
Soundly Icmn(-rf ir and Patriotic
IastSaturilay night the Democratic
members of Cong'iess met iif the hall
of the House of Representatives in cau
cus and nominated their candidates for
officers of the House. Judge Charles
Frederick Crisp, of Georgia, was unan
imously re-nominated. ; for Speaker.
Being escorted to the chair by a com
mitteeMessrs. Springer, Hatch and
Wilson he sioke as follows:
. "The extraordinary condition of af
fairs throughout the country has ne
cessitated our meeting in extraordina
ry session. I nsofar as that condition is
attributable to existing law, we are in
no wise responsible therefor. Now, for
the first time in more than thirty years,
vS are in full iower. -.We can repeal
bad laws and we can make good ones.
The ieople have trusted us with that
power, and expect us to exercise it for
their benefit. .
;Our financial system should be re
vised and reformed. The strictest
economy in public expenditures should
be observed and taxation should be
equalized and great lv reduced. To
these purposes are wo thoroughly
committed. We must redeem our
pledges. Let us begin the work at
once. Let us lay aside every other
consideration than the public good,
and endeavor to so discharge the
duties assigned us as to restore confi
dence and promote prosperity, and
advance the general welfare of all
classes of our people.
Sincerely grateful ' for your confi
dence and estcem, I pledge myself to
devote to the discharge of the duties
of the responsible josition you have'
assigned me all the ability I possess.'
The other nominations were Mr.
Kerr, re-nominated for Clerk; ex-Con
gressman, Herman Show,, of Illinois,
for Sergeant-at-arms, beating Yoder
by one vote; L.'Dalton, of Indiana, for
Postmaster of the House, and Rev. S.
W. Hadaway, of Maryland, a Method-.
1st, was nominated for Chaplain, and
Hurt, of Tennessee, for Doorkeeper.
All of these nominees were duly
elected on the convening of the House
at noon Monday.
Action in Cotigre.
Washintton, Aug.va The debate
on the financial question will begin at
once and both sides will be heard from
in lively and discordant style.
Senator David B. Hill of New York
got, in the first whack to-day and he
introduced ' a- bill repealing sections
one three and four of the Sherman sil
ver purchase law.
Senator Stewart, of Colorado, intro
duced a bill authorizing the issue of
forty nine million silver certificates
against the bullion now in the treas
ury and one hundred million legal
tenders to le used in the purchase of
government bonds. -
Senator Vest introduced a bill pro
viding for the free coinageof silver and
fixing the amount of silver to be con-
tained in the silver dollar 404 grains of
pure silver or 51G grains of standard
silver. .--
Senator Cabot Lodge introduced a
resolution directing the Finance Com
mittee to rejort at once to the Senate
a bill for the unconditional repeal of
the purchasing clause of the Sherman'
law, and that a vote be taken August
22 at 2 o'clock, unless it is reached
sdlmer. Senator Lodge asked liuuie
diate. consideration, but there was ob
jection and it goes over till tomorrow.
Tle ISlockade KaUed.
London, Aug. 2. It was announced
in the Commons today that the Siam
ese blockade has been raised. -
France thus recognizes the rights of
British commerce and opens the way
for vessels. This puts a stop to tremb
le or fear of further hostilities.
The Private life, a collection of three
short rtories by Henry James, will be
published by Harper & Brothers about
August 13th. At the same time will
apiear Mr. John Bonner s a childVlds
tory of France, an illustrated edition
ot Walter Besant's Rebel Queen, and
early proe and verse, the third
volume in the "Distaff Series.
The gold dollar contains 23 22 grains
of fine gold and 2..S grains alloy.. It is
worth 100 cents in every market In the
world. It is worth just as inuch as
metal as it is a money coinage and
Tuarket value the same everywhere.