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HICKORY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1893.
HUMBERT.
CONGRESSIONAL DOINGS.
) S( lS OF SKCKKT NEGOTIATIONS
1 ' IN THE SENATE.
Locking to a Compromise-The Federal Election
B;ilSanking and Currency-The Tariff-
Mrs. Cleveland.
WA.nixGTON, Oct., 2, 1893. The
kev t ii.it will -open the dead-lock in
lb; , :.ate is being made, but the
locksmiths are not working in public.
It evident that something of great
importance is going on under the sur
faCe in tlic Senate. The talk for and
jwainst the Voorhees repeal bill still
takes up the regulated amount of time
each ilay, and will probably continue
to lo. so" until some time next week,
but Senators representing all sides of
the ti'lver question are holding consul
tatKii in private and it is confidently
tspctt d that the result will be a com-promi-'
between the conflicting de
ioariu; that, vvhile it will not be pre-
eist-Iv what is desired by either Presi
aertVk'velnnd or the Senators, who
favor the free coinage of silver, will be
of H-h a nature that it will be accept
ed l.-y the five coinage men as the best
th. v can got and signed. by President
Cleveland as the only measure that
can parsed by the Senate. The
exact uiitnro of the compromise can
not I..- given, because it has not yet
bct ri (Veined upon, but that it will
jirovi.i '? for the continued coinage of
sihvy by the government and for the
iu,.' ,,f bonds to strengthen the Treas
ury gold reserve is regarded as certain,
u.-5 t!u y are the two things contended
for by the s-ilver men and the uncon
ditional repeal men respectively. Pres
ide! it (.'lowland has taken and will
take no part in this compromise, lie
has. ! uje liis recommendation in the
regular v. ay and will have nothing
more in say until Congress sends him
thebiil. While he-believed that the
prop; r thing to do is to pass the Yoor
kees bi'.l without amendment, leaving
other financial matters to follow in a
separate bill, it is thought that he will
-ign the proposed compromise.
Should the expectation of disposing
of the siher. question by the loth of
this li .fi.tirbe realized it is probable
that oni: ivss will take a recess of sev
enil weeks, A recess can easily be ta
ken v, iiliout tvtardjng legislation, as
the liiiiix) will next week pass the bill
for the' repeal of the Federal election
law :o:l no other imnortant bill will
he reported for a while. The commit
tees will,. , of course, continue their
work during the recess, if one be taken,
and so oa after Congress comes togeth
er aain it h hoped that the new tariff
hill will be ready to be reported tothe
House.
The Hepublicans in the House have
up to this time shown a fear of the bill
for the repeal of the Federal election
laws that is in some respects remarka
ble. The attempts that they have
made to delend those laws have been
so weak that they practically amount
to an acknowledgement that the laws
are bad and vicious in their tendency
and ouht to be repealed.
"Little Hilly' Chandler made one of
hi usual exhibitions ot himself in the
Senate Saturday afternoon,- while
-peaking in favor of a resolution re.
tvi.tly t iTered by him, calling on the
Seeniary of the Treasury for the au
thority under which he appointed the
Taiivhild commission, which is investi
gating Republican crookedness in the
ofhee of the Appraiser of the ''port of
New York. He started out with a lot
rr.it about the Senate being ignored
hy lit,, unconstitutional and illegal ap
pointment tt the commission and
w tm I up by admitting that Congress
had giwn the Secretary of the Treas
ury explicit authority to expend not
uiojo than 10O,0vX) a year for the de
tection and prevention of fraud ion
the customs revenue, precisely the
duty upon 'which the Fail child ecm-luis-ion's
engaged.
The House committee 'on banking
and currency is engaged in hearing
arguments from members' of the House
m favor of the various financial bills,
including several for the repeal of the
tax on state bank currency, which
havt Ut-n referred -to it, and later out-?
balers may be lieard ' both for and
ficahist these measures.
Neither chairman Wilson nor an y
1h1v ejse can stop the flood of -outright
lies that are being sent out from
"A ushington concerning the new tariff
hdl. Mr. Wilson savs of the latest,
charging that the Democrat on the
ays and Means committee were hesi
tating about making an attack on the
McKinley atrocity, and that the com
mittee had agreed that the new tariff
should not go into effect . until Jan
uary 1, 1895: "As to hesitation, the
J Democrats of the committee are now
1,, , .'
"virion tut; new UUI, W111CI1
we propose to report to the House as
soon as we can get it ready. We ap
preciate the importance of our task,
and the pledges which the Democratic
party has made to the people and
there will be no shirking of duty or of
responsibility. Any suggestion to the
contrary is unworthy of consideration.
The date upon which the new tariff
bill will go into effect has not beo
determined.
Mrs. Cleveland was out Saturday
afternoon for the first time since the
birth of baby Esther. Accompanied
by the President she took a carriage
drive. Beyond being a little paler
than she usually looks she appeared
to be in excellent health and certainly
in a jolly good humor.
Sena' : V Voorhees and the Rankers of
New York.
"Washington correspondence Chicago
Times.
"My full and complete opinion,"
said Senator Voorhees, "of that com
bine of impertinent robbers and
thieves, the banks of New York, it
would not bo politic for you to prini.
You couldn't get the telegraph compa
ny to handle the message. My views
of .the 'New. York banks and their
methods and attitudes in this present
debate in the Senate are that they add
insolence to robbery and slanderous
lying to high wayism.
"I have been in Congress thirty-two
years. Call it success or what you
please, its corner stone, at least, was
what is my present opinion of these
New York banks. I have ever found
them plundering, marauding, and
stealing the goods and hopes of the
people, like so many cattle-lifting high
land caterans. There is not an honest
hair in all their heads, not a broad or
patriotic motive in all their bosoms.
They are narrow, selfish, utterly mean
and dishonest. No honest man takes
his eyes off them for a moment; they
would pick his pocket if he-did.
"If you turn your back they use the
assassin's knife upon you like so many
lurking, skulking, cowartlly Corsicans
of money. Go to your Bibles and read
what the Saviour said of the NewYork
banks and every member of their tribe.
He described them as whited sepul
chers fdled with dead men's bones, as
the robber of the widow and the de
vourer of the orphan, as willing to
barter God for money or negotiate a
mortgage on their hopes of heaven, al
low a foreclosure and stay away from
'the sale, aud all for money.
"It is not the first time these thieves
have traveled the same road with hon
est men. So far as I am personally
concerned they cut no more figure in
my future than in my past. The yelp
ing of any other pack of wolves would
le as potential in my destinies. I come
from the Wabash, not from the Hud
son; from Indiana, not from NewYork.
It is not necessary that 1 be cheek by
jowl with the' wolves of Wall street. I
return when I leave here to my own
people, not these pirates of the New
York banks, and the fact that I do not
suit in icy leadership the larcenous,
thievish tastes of that robbers roost,
will gain me the warmest welcome in
Indiana which a man can rt ceivo.1
Voorhees was hot. When' the Sen
ate opened he . 'aid his n spects to
those who had vilified him in New
York. lie said, too, that' they had
done the caue of the Sherman law re
pe il in the Senate incalculable harm.
"If the tight is lost,' i'.-iid Mr. Voor
hees, "the New York bank's can charge
themselves with the responsibility
for it."
Murphy ami Hill.
- W A s ! 1 1 N u TO X , Scpf. 2 There is a
good deal of feeling. r.gain?t Mr. Van
Alen and a bitter -tight will I- made
when his name comes up for eom'rma
tion, as Ambassador to HaV.
Senalor Hill will op rv e Van Ale:
confirmation, and has been I.xkii)g in
to his record pretty thoroughly. The
senior Senator from New York, has in
formation to lay before the Senate
which he will argue w:"l be sufficient
to warrant a refusal to confirm Van
Alen.
The case i likely to make trouble
between the New York Senators. Sen
ator Murphy will -'support' Mr. Van
Alen.
STATE NEWS.
One of the finest exhibits of gold and
silver in the hall of mines and mining
at the World "s Fair is from Davidson
county N. 4C.
It is said that the Duke branch of
the American Tobacco Company "hr
sold and shipped to Japan twelve mil
lion cigarettes.
Twenty cotton mills in Alamance,
which were closed some weeks ago by
the stringency of the money market,
have resumed operations.
North Carolna's crop of cotton this
year is estimated at not less than 3.0,
000 bales and the advance in the price
it is claimed will put $1,500,000 or 1,
750,000 more into the pockets of the
people of the State.
Our Newbern Contemporary, The
Journal, says that a whale was recent
ly seen off the capes twelve miles from
Beauford, and a "Mr. John Rives, was
at one time in less than a quarter of a
mile of him." That's no beat at all.
Stories today must be first-class or
they are not appreciated. Why, we
have slept with them.
Tha Durham Sun says: An editor
can please part of the people part of
the time, but when he tries to please
all the people all the time, he makes a
dismal failure of it. It is something
no man has ever yet succeeded in doing,
and we gave it up long ago. For that
reason, the maVi who swears about re
porters and editors is liable to attract
about as much attention as he would if
he wasn't on earth at all.
Of our daily papers, the Wilmington
Star and the Charlotte Observer are
the only ones which own the buildings
they occupy. The former is the oldest
paper of its class in the State, having
already entered upon its twenty-seventh
year, and has owned the building
in which it is doing business nearly
eighteen years. We agree with the
Baltimore Sun in the statement that
the Star is 'one of the best papers
published south of the Potomac.' "
The Danbury Reporter says, "that a
man named Eads was lodged in Stokes'
jail recently, charged Avith stealing a
horse near Mt. Airy. He afterwards
broke into a-'store and stole $15 in
money, went to 'a man's houe and
stole his horse and buggy, then stole a
fellow's wife, but had gone only a short
distance when arrested and placed in
jail. He, however escaped by the man,
whose wife he had stolen, going on his
bond on the single condition that he
would take the woman, go west, and
grow up with the country."' That
"chap" will get to Congress yet.
Vance on Cleveland's Letter.
Washington ' or. Atlanta Constitution.
Senator Vance, of North Carolina,
who is never afraid to express his opin
ion on any subject, said: "Mr. Cleve
land's letter removes any boubt about
his position. It is an explicit declara
tion that he will do nothing for silver
except as it may suit him. When he
says he wants all kinds of dollars to be
of equal purchasing power, not only
at home but abroad, he can only be
for a gold standard for he knows with
silver coinage stopped all over the
world, no action of ours can make the
silver dollar as good -as a gold dollar
abroad. He very truly says within
these limits he is a friend to silver; that
is to say that he is a friend to silver on
impossible conditions. 'When he says
thai he Indie ves its proper place in our
currency can only be fjxe I by a read
justment of -our' currency legislation
and the inauguration of a consistent
Land conio.v'.iensive fm.ujeuil serene.
It is simply the use 'of many and big
wort! - to say -he is inravorofa gold
standard -md to say that such a finan
cial scheme can only " entered upon
profitably and hop"fuly after the re-je-d
of the only law which bind" us to
th use of silver, he 'display an ac
o,r;:ntnno with the possiblliti and
my-teries of the future which is "e-
I yoad th? common sense of mankind.
Why Ir cannot be entered upon right
I wi.v Is a mystery known only to the
esoteric fw. How the position a--sutaed
hi that letier can be maneileJ
with th Chicago platform is srllf
greater mysfry.
1 do not doubt that lie is astonished
by the .Hsition of the Senate, but
strange as it may apiear, there are
some Senators left who venture to
think for themselves and who are re
sponsible only to their own States.
THK GREAT CITY OF PERRY.
A Population or 20,000 Within Few
Honr.
In the rush for lots at Peny the
newspaper portion of the mixed popu
lation were as usual in the front rank.
Within three hours after the opening
of the Strip, the Perry Daily Times
made its appearance on the town i!te
of Perry. It is a six column folio,
with the name of Bert R. Greer as its
editor and manager. Six thousand cop
ies were sold in but a short time, the
people buying them as mementos of
the occasion. The paper continues to
appear daily.
The only other paper wnich has lo
cated in-the town up to'this time is the
Cherokee Sentinel, a six column folio,
weekly and democratic in politics.
Thus the progressive party of the
country is ably represented in the new
domain create", from the Cherokee
Strip. Lon Wharton is the editor, of
the Sentinel. These are tho two pion
eer newspapers of Perry. In time
other newspapers may enter the field
here for the-patronage of the people,
but at present the enterprising editors
are well qualified to keep pace with
the advancement of their town. The
town will have faithful friends in them.
Before finally locating at Perry the
two papers had their full share of the
trials and tribulations. For a time their
printing outfits stood on the open
prairie in full sweep of the wind and
dust. Type cases were filled with dust
and fine sand penetrated to all parts of
the running gear of their presses, but
the editors never lost heart; They
were in dead earnest and are in Perry
to stay. Within four hours after the
opening of the Strip the first bank
was opened in Perry. On the start it
opened for business in a tent, but it
has now been moved to more comfort
able quarters in a small frame building.
It has been incorporated under the
name of Bank of Perry, with a capital
stock of $50,000. F." K. Robinson is
president and F. W. Farrar cashier.
The second bank in the town was
started by T. M. Richardson & Son.
Lawyers are probably better repre
sented than any other profession.
Among the attorneys who were early
on the ground at Perry is Fred Beall,
of Washington, D. C. Every firm of
attorneys advertises "I mtl cases a
speciality." They hear of hundreds of
contests and slap their knees in 'glee.
And well they might. The picking
will be of the best and most lucrative
character. Physicians and surgeons
are numerous. They sit in groups
waiting for a fight to occur between
town siters, in hope that they may be
called to attend the wounded in case
the marksmanship of the fighters is so
poor that all the combatants are not
killed. Signs of civih engineers are
plentiful throughout the town. So
far ten hotels are open for business.
All of them are turning away hundreds
daily, notwithstanding they charge
the highest of boom prices. A num
ber of lumber yards have been estab
lished and are doing a rushing business.
Dimension lumber sells for :J0 per M.;
finishing lumber, $40. Several we'd
digging outfits are in the town, aud
have more than they can do. Hun
dreds of carjenters Hocked to the town
from all parts of the country. Many
of them could not stand the dust and
left, but those who remained -are at
work transforming the town from a
tented-city into a city of substantial
buildings. A Brewery of Kansas City
has established a branch here. This is
a dry country and it would take sev
eral breweries, running day and night,
to quench the thirst of thj Strip
boomers. . '
Since Perry va established one
m xn iaiJ another d" for a lot which
ii w prove? io l on the government
acre. Scores of cat-s of this kind are
rep rt-i. and many usn are in Von-v-quence
ihi tn-nauiy e ubarressed and
still Landless. .
During tli Ihst night at Perry thous
ainls of ieop!e weiit to towns jnst of?
the Strip for tlwr night. Two thous
and wrntto G-uthrie n!nt-. And yet
the ground for many acres in extent
was covered with the bodies of the
tdeeping thousand. The I'o.-t Oflice
lias now !.vn move I to good quart
en very good, considering the new
ness of the town and the long distance
building material had to le hauled by
railroad. Postmaster Drae?, although
but newly appointed, is giving good
fcatUfaet'on to the thousands who get
their ukm! at the Perry post office.
GENERAL NEWS.
The yellow fever is still raging in
Brunswick.
The Texa cotton crop is hort by
one-third.
The cholera plague still continues ft
Hamburg and other places in Europe.
The terms of the convention between
France ami Siam wen signed at Bans
kok last Saturday, and now peace i
assureu xor me present.
Champion J as. J.Corbett is itv train
ing near Asbury Park, N. Y, for a
fight at Coney Island with tin Ehg:
lishman Mitchell, who is also in traiur
ing neairNew York City.
There is a general strike on theChesr
apeake &: Ohio railroad. The strike
Nashville is about at an end.
The Brazilian insurgents bombarded
the forts defending Rio Janeiro again
on the 2nd inst. The insurgent squad
ron, under command of Admiral Mel
los, is still in the bay of Rio Janeiro,
with its fighting elements weakened.
Many of the members of the erew of
the rebel war ships are desert ingdailyv
During the recent engagements be
tween the land forces and the fleet,
the shore artillery damaged some of
the rebel vessels.
HORKlltLK 3IINE DISASTER.
Tho 3Iichiau)iue Kiver Run Into a Cot
ler Mine in Michigan.
Escanaba, Mich., Sept. 20. The
Mansfield mine, one of the richest
mining properties in this region, f Itn-
ated ninety miles west of here and sev
en miles north of Crystal Falls, Mich. r
the county seat of iron County, caved
in under the Michigamme river about
0 o'clock last night. The entire cur
cent of. the river entered the mine, fil
ling it with water in a few minutes.
The mine at the time contained about
sixty miners,' and only fifteen reached
the surface. -
Iron Mountain, Mich., Sept. 20
The latest information from tho' - scene
of the mine disaster at Mansfield states
that the accident occurred during tho
night, and when tho waterof the Mich
igamme river came rushing into tho
mine the men at work were entrapped
like a lot of rats. It is not iossible
that any eseaied.
Internal Keyeuue . Ahue. '
WAsiiiNCiTON, Sept. GO. Mr. 11 P.
Baldwin, First Auditor of the Treas
ury, warmly indorses the bill intro
duced in the Senaie by Mr. Harris, of
Tennessee, to correct the long-standing'
abuses in the matter of arrests for al
leged violations of internal revenue
laws and excessive fees of United
States Marshals and Commissioners.
There is no section of the Southern
country where the United States Com
misioner is not a familiar official and
especially in the "Moonshine' moun
tain districts where illicit itill are con
ducted. The present fee system, frays
Mr. Baldwin, has been repca ted ly con
demned by every administration for
the past sixty years and the measure
pro'iosed would result in a great saving
to the Government and a cessation of
much annoyance to the peoje who
are now subject to malicious prosecu
tion for no other purpose than to in
crease fees.
Sicction 47 of the Revised Statute,
which now prescri! s the fee, i to
vague and indefinite that a constant
conflict results and the time of the
clerks in the Auditor's office i taken
up in disallowing claims nmdebyCom-mivdonei-H.
Precedents established by
one ofiieial are &et aide by hh f-ucce-lor
and the who! buin'?s is g r.t-ra!-
iv at sixes ni.a yeveii. Une or tne
mot teriouj objections to the present
law is the provision allowing a jer
diem of for th liiing of eaH-s,.
the nu;uler of the dues a Cotn tuition
er may eluirge in a -;?. A ryKcm of
cumulative fee and bearing are ar
nuigcl w:t!i a v.ew of piling up tlie.
biggest bill. '
GrTtiaiK. it. Tu Sejtt. 2$. A .' paral
rle fire ha been riging ia the i xtremo
western jrt of th: Qjcrokc-e :r:"p fur
the iat two day. John Ilakcr, Hen
ry Thoisiw and family, two children
named Harrison and Mrs. Thomxm
anl two cliiidren perished hi the
fianie. Five or six othen wcw fo
badly burned that t!a?y t;.ay tlie