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itfl (fffhrt - w ' i i i 1 1 u i i i 1. 1 it i 0 Jly VOL, I. K 0.22." PlITSBOllO, M. C., FRIDAY APKIL25,1902 STOCKS WENT WILD Southern Railway Securities Brought Fancy Figures MORGAN BROKERS LEAD BUYING Shares Representing One-Fourth the r Capital Changed Hand in Forty Minutes of Trailing. Washington, Special to the Charlotte Observer. -WC i tyins of Southern Railway stocks was begua Tuesday as soon as the stock t-xekar.s- was called to order iu New Tor's. The fact that the Maraa braketa- - wore pnimiuent in. buying was Interpreted to mean thai Morgan & Co. had taken" Louis ville fir NashvlHe off John W. Gates' hands at' ills twa Ptiee and that he hid 4cm this with the consent of the sliathm-hVAK: ' 1 Mere than 259.000 shares of Southern . IiS way, common and .preferred, were traJed in iu tU first 40 minutes, amid scenes of rre.it excitement. These shares rrprcsetjted about one-fourth of the ej.pltl stock of the road. More roan ji',,i.w,w. aa aa luvoi-ieu iu tfifclr purcha4. Tin price-of the com iuon stock rose under this baying from 3412 to 37 1-2. the highest, price at which Southern Hallway has ever sold, The preferred alo made a new high record, rising treat the closing- price of S3 to 5& 1-2 under enormous traas.se tiocs. At the sirae time Louisville &, Nasjvllle. was ho-ggfct quietly in very lirge blocks. The street beiieres that the buying new is merely to strengtb'-n the centre! c-t ttje Morgan party ia the Soahera territory. It la said that S. 'P., Morgan, in .LonSoa, and. Ge-crge W. Perkins, la New York, spent ail Mon day night !ti cable conversation regard in r I.oui8vllle. Guricerair.g this deal ao afternoon edition ot The Now York Journal says: "It a$ learri' d frim very high author ty that Mr.' Morgan at Brut refused to Kcgatiate ,wkh the Gates party, fear- Ins Usplea'Kiir of the Rothschilds. Cenferftnet-s with Rothschild in Lon don. however 'resulted In an agree- ' ment wtcrrby ther gave their -consent . . c. Nashville by Mr. Morgan. It is under stood that Rothschilds' control cost un der ffff a share, and that they have dis posed of Jt af enormous prcEts. The Itothschilds" willingness to let the read go is said to be duo to their belief that the. wave cf prosperity in America has reached almost the top and that they can get back control if they should ever desire it at much lower figures. Mr. Slorgan. by buying only with their consent, has diverted from himself the "proverbial wrath of this family and has centered it on the leod of John V. Gates, who henceforth is a marked man. Infirnate friends of the-;-Roths-ch'ilda said that no matter how many iMUms John W. Gates might ace:t mnSaie for the time being, he was ruin ed from the day hn antagonized the. Rothschilds; that it is the rule of the family never to forgive the man who outwits them." Details 'Meager. Washington, .Bpecial. -The Navy Department has received but meagre details of the reported murder or kill ing of Aj;n.s William, a water tender aboard the Cniied States steamship Lancaster, by Janus PiWne, a black vmlth,. whilj the ship was lying at Charleston. The court-martial, hoadtd by Admiral CKtfterirw hleh ha-: trying Bui-eon Marsteller, at Port Royal, will be held there until addi. tlonsl Tletaila-Tif'the Paine caso-Taii f enable the law officers Of the Depart ment to prepare charges and Bpeeifb rations Word was received ut the Navy Department that Marsteller court has been concluded, though the finding of the court, as Is customary, was not given. ' Insurance Suspended. Vicksburg, Miss., Special.-The spe cial agents of firo Insurance com panies doing business here met Tues day and later all local fire agents re ported that they, had suspended busi ness. It Is hoped that a second con ference of tho special agents, the board- of trade, coUbn exchange and bankers may caus a re-consfdoratlon of this action., Tho trouble grows out of tho failure of the city to reorganise the 'fire deliartmcnl," which it ia tlalmed. is incompetent. The com panies demand a new fire chief and a uc-neral reorganization. Killed Man Who Ran Over His Dog. Newport News, Speclal.-Joe llautz, ft dairyman, was shot and killed by Thomas Cox, a Warwick! county farm er, in the public road near Cox's farm Tuesday afternoon. Hautz accidental ly drove over Cox's ftog. killing it. The farmer who was intoxicated, fired upon the 'dairyman, fatally wounding .Mm. Cox was artttiU-d and ioUgttd iu jail, hero. " SOUTHERN INDUSTRIAL For Practical Education.' At the annual meeting of the Texaa Cottoa Manufacturers' Association last w'i at Dallas . resolutions wore adopted calling for a legislative appro priation sufficient to establish and op erate a textile school. The adoption of these resolutions followed an address by President K. A- Du Bos, w'ba called attention to the necessity, w heuever a new cotton mill I organized in the State, . tcr Superintendents, overseers, engineers, machinists- and electricians, and the present custom of sending out Bide T-f the State for such labor. He in sisted that the greatest cotton growing State in the union ought to provide the means for equipping and qualifying natives cf the State for those lucrative; pccitkuis. especially as the time is not far dlwlant whoa the South will he tncnufaduring finer fabrics. Thus the eampatgo for practical education in the Scuih widens- lt'i?, natural that it should have its Inspiration in the tex- i tile ladastry. Buf it bbould. not stop Id extend Into all lints there. I: eho in which .the rising generation of the South may learn to labor coufiifnily. Appalachian Park. The "bill for the establishment of a natkmal forest rcaerVe la the Southern Appalachians has ten rejwrted favor ably ta Ccngrenv Nothing should to permitted to prevent its lcn.-niag an a r mithnriYM fh ' iurchae of t.iO.Wl.OiW acres of Jand in t'he moun tain region extending from Southern Virginia and West Virginia to North ern Alabama ani Georgia, touching I gouth Carolina and Tenaeesee'ettd con-, taining hot' only the greatest variety of timber in the country, but what St of eq"ial importance, the heal sprinys of more than a dozen important rivers en! plying intrr the Af!antic ocean, the C-.ilf "of jfesico and the Mississippi and i Ohio rivers. The passage cf the bill is i of prime Importance to secure condi 1 tlcns whereby the value of these j str a::; for transportation and irriga j ti. and aa sources cf lBdutrial and j eotumercial power, may be maintained, j if not Increased, nrd t pl v practical j encouragement to the dftrelopmeiit cf isrk-nti.1"! forestry, the -peceswlty ' for which is becoming every year more recognised. i From NVadetboro to V Inston. ncD'tscntatives of the Winston- rccemiy pieare wwie nn-iiu iujp mittes and a number of members of the j mcrce advocating the construction of I the., propased Wadesboro & Winston i Railroad, which would- esve a direct j rouxe iroui uaii sli.u j lur nuautti ! Coast Line or the Norfolk & Western . . ..1 ..!.. ... ..I. . V. .. 1 tlanti.. railroad to coal lands in Virginia and Wevt .Virginia... It was stated tftat the financial plan of the proposed con struction was well advanced. The dis tance from Wadesboro to Winston Salem ln a direct line ia about seventy five miles, and i line so constructed would run through Anson, Stanly, Davidson and Forsyth counties, in North Carolina. It might also touch Rowan county. Rig Oil Contract. It la announ'-ed that the United Gas Improvement Co. has awarded to the lxne Star & Crescent Oil Co. a con tract for the delivery of 1.500.000 bar rels of crude Texas oil per annum for five years. The o" is to be used in the manufacture of illuminating gas," and is expected to .insure a saving in ex penses of sbodt. $7.10.000 a year. This contract, involving an expenditure. of more thnn $2.000. W0, becomes effective at onc The oil will be sent from the Lone Star ft Crescent gushers In the Beaumont field by pipe, line to Sabine Pans, and thence by steamers, to New York and Philadelphia. To Irr.'gnte Rice Lands. Charter has been filed by the Cal casieu & Mermentou Cnnl Co., With capital stock of $25,000 for the con struction of an Irrigation canal. The canal will '.connect the Calcasieu r.nl tuiatQw-jluerAr-aad-liy taking-ail vantage of, natural water-eon rsca Its length'. will be reduced to ten-' miles. This esnal will reclim - thusahds oi acres oi.overnovveij lanes anil enaoie the 'rice-growers to send their products to market at cheaner rts. I Kauf man is president;. J. A. Hell, vice-petal-dent; II. U. Mlltlgan'. .aeiiretnry, and; II. C. Drew, treasurer, all of Lake Charles, U. ; ' , , t Heavy Damage Awarded. J New York, Special. Mrs, Lottie iO. Dlmon, widow of Henry G. Dlmon. tio was killed in the Park Ayenue Tunnel accident on the New' York Central Railroad several months ago, . was awarded $0.0,000 damages against the railroad company by a Jury In White Plains, N. V.. Friday. Seaboard Air Line a Bidder, New York, Special John V. Gates and August llclmont. were In confer ence with Morgan represeiitntlves Fri day. It was understood that several large , lota of Loulsvlllo & Nashville were deposited with Morgan & Co., in. accordance with the Belmont-Gates agreement, A report .thAt.thq, Galea faction had sold a large' amount of Loulsvlllo & Nashville stock to Morgan & CoM at llS.r'ould not be confirmed and was generally discredited. Anoth er report to the effect" that the Sea board Air Line had "bid" 130 cash for tho Gates' holdings in Louisville & Nashville was bo discredited. DEFEAT FOR LEADERS Ruling of the Chair Overthrown By Aid of Republicans. PASSAGE OF UCIPROCITY BILL The Alleged Bargain of tha Republi i. cans to Sacrifice the Crumpacker Uesolutlon. ... Washington, Special. The Demo crats and Republican Insurgents, rode roughshod over the House leaders Fri day when the voting began on the Cu ban reciprocity bill. They overthrew the ruling of the t-hr.tr ia committee of the whole on the germaneness of an amendment to remove the differ- tial from refined suar during the cuHare. vi xne -reciprocity a ;rtv- .incut provided 'for in WiU The vote to overrule the decision of the ! ehaif, made by Mr. Sherman, of New S York, was 171 to 15 ). Republicans to jtfce number of 37 joining , with a solid ! democratic vote to accomplish . this A rwult. .Haying won this preliminary 1 victory, the. amendment was adopt tn committee. 1G4 to 111, andvlater ia j the House hy a still larger majority. jl95t to 103. "Oa this occasion 64 He- publicans voted with the Democrats I for the amendment. The bill was then j passed by aa overwhelming majority, i to 52. - j j An analysis oi ti.e voir i'uua lul i ; 141 J . . . 1 W . , t 14 Ii ..... . ....... ; r . , . t -u , ! voted tor the amended bill, and 42 Republican and 10 Democrats against it. .Mr. Grosvenor, of Ohio, was one of those who voted against the bill. The voting on the bill was the culmina- tion of a long struggle which began almost with the inception of this ses- sion of Congress, ami after two weeks cf continuous debate, during which much bitterness was aroused. Tee day's debate . was of an exceedingly iivfcly character, the feature, being the echoes of la.-t night's Democratic caucus. 1 o that caucus the defeat,, or the Republican leaders who spught to po,-s the bill without-amendment was attributable. Previous to the holding of the chair, the Democrats were di vided and the opposition 'of the beet susar irn-n showed feigns of disin tegrating. To-day when it. became ap- parent mat the Democrats wouhl act ! Cincinnati, O., for public libraries. j together, the test sugar ''men decided,! Brpw worUers ln four eBtabU8U. i at a meeting attended by il to takejmenU at nartford Conn( went ou j the bit in their teeth and overrule j HtrfItA the chair. As soon aa this combine- I!... . fr.....i v. u ...... i (era realised that they would be de- 1 feated. s far as the removal of the l differential was concerned, and Mri PavTifl 1Yia Tpniihlii.n lpnrtf.r mil- tentel himself with warning bis beet j s suyar ollcaucs that in removing the ! differential they were taking off a bit i of protection placed in the Dlngley j I ii! especially for the benefit of the i beet ''sugar producers. Mr. Richardson, of Tennessee, the Democratic leader, was the first speaker. He stated frankly that he doubled whether the enactment of the ; bill would do much to bring about the reciprocal trade relations between Cuba and the United States which was earnestly to be desired, but. he had voted for it in the hope that he mleht accomplish somethlne. It would at least reduce by 20 per cent. ! the outrageously high rates ot the Diugiey lavr so far as Cuba was con-1 cerned. Those 'high rates could not stand and lie said that Mr. Gros- venor's speech a few days ago was i a warning of the coming storm. He ) thought the time for a revision cf the j tari2 was at hand and the fact that ! nation of Assistant Immigration Com the pending bill was so in a modest j missloner McSweeney, of New York. ardaon called attention to the district I junn doged ,ast nIg!lt imhfi,,eiy -bcock of V sconsln. . n-, DBCau8e cf hlgll freiRnt rBt,,a and -dnreing t'io latter's hll to remove the atcUM ,n tae demaail for flour. 1 duties, from steel, and amid Demo- . . ... , . c-atlc applause said that the -Demo- T.h?lb"urjrat haa crata proposed to give Mr. Rabcock j 8nt H0.000 to Cincinnati, O., for tn opportunity later on to vote fr j -rt,D purposes. . the 'bill 'his constituents had enj The breweries of . Boston, Mass., horsed. . I started to break the strike by ad Just before Mr. Richardson tooi his ! vertislng for new men. seat, Mr. Dromwell, of Ohio,1 asked !. Rather than make a daily "detailed htnrTHTff question: ''Does-the-gentteH inan from Tennessee know anything of a reported bargain between the t leaders on this side and the Demo Irrata on that by which the Crum- packer -resolution .Is-to be smothered .in oruer 10 am me passage oi me pending bill?" "Absolutely nothing," replied Mr, Richardson. ' Strike Settled. Roanoke, Va., Special. The differ ences between the machinists of the Norfolk & Western Railway shops at Blueflelds and the officials of that road have, been amicably settled. It is not known what' concessions were made on either sldo, but it-has been given out that Ihere will be no strike, tho com mittee which came here', from Blue Tielda to confer, with the Norfolk & Western fcfllcluls having reached that conclusion. V The Cotton Crop. New. Orleans, " Special.-rSefiretary Hester's statement of tho world's visi ble supply of cotton. Issued Friday shows the total visible to bo 3.880,517 hales, against 3,903,320 last week nud 8.3s:)S78 -'last year. Of this the total American cotton is 2,740,510 bales ngalpsr2.8('.l,338 last, week and 2.777, 87S last -year; and of all other kinds, including Kgypt, Brazil, India, etc, LllO.OtJO, against 1,132,000 last week, and 1,052,000 last-yeanl Of the world's visible supply of cotton .there is now afloat and held in Great Britain and continental Europe 2,109,000 bales, ajjulnst 1,899.000 last year; ln Kgypt iMl.iwn, ngalnst 533,000 last year, and In the United States OSO.000, against l,221,u0tflast year. live items of news. Many Matters General Interest la Short airgraphs. TheSijnoy South. North Carolli Day was celebrated at the Charleston Exposition last week. , . .. j A " mon ument J to the Conf ed erate General Polk fas unveiled at At lanta. Ga. ! For killing deputy Marshal Frank j Taylor, at bakeddm. Tenn., Tots j Iilanchard, a larmer. was lynched. I Eight hundred square miles of j prairie land iu T;rry County, Texas, j was swept by fire, hundreds of cattle being burse. ; ; j Five mew&k a Sheriff's posse are ! said to ha?e been ' killed at Jones- oro, . lenvu... while arresting JinM i wrigot. wanua ror -saunter. i ! A heated argument resulted in the j ! fatal stabbin? on A. T. Sharpe. travel- j ; ing salesman, -by an unknown man,) at. Memphis, Tenn., late Saturday. j j . The upsetting of a. teat near Quit. ? man Mjss.,1 caused the drowning cf j Mrs. W. T. Hayu's, her two da ugh--i ters and Charles Fleming, who tried j to rescue them. s With his skull crushed W. J. Polk. an insurance man of Decatur," Ala., . was found dead. - j One man was killed and three hurt by a collision on the Illinois -Central ; :cear Memphis. Tenn. ' i .. .. . , . . . ,, - ; .SJ?a"I??x as discovered in the jail ! at Norfolk, a. . j ror a iu per cent, wage . increase j 800 cotton sinners at Augusta, Ga., j went on strike. j j - ' i 1 ,.. 1 ' A tide .-National Capital. j ' Minister" to Chile, Henry L. Wilson. i reached New York for a vacation. ; j Secretary of War Root conferred for; several hours Thursday with General 1 Schoneld, retired. , Count Albert Freiherr von Westen holz, of Germany, was presented j President Roosevelt. At The North. Andrew- Carneeia eave 818.000 tc i strike. President Draper, of the University I "hn'8' ?l r' ?"i!yUt"'u,t for a run- ! a w ixj aviuvru. ouiiuujt-. - da' brought in 4.102 immigrants. From a beating given him by strile- ! ers Thomas. W. Smith died Saturday, j at Chicago, 111. Circulating counterfeit money' isJ charged against Genero Agone, under j arrest it New York. - ( j A dust 6torm that Obscured the stfri j and dldl considerable damage swept j souther Minnesota Saturday ,rh J-1llnn. rnmn.nr , nav ton, O., aVpart ot th Everett-Moore syndicate, as been sojd for $90,000. Lieutenant Governor Stone,- ot Wis- i"ouEi. i:i x vnicago, hi., was worso Thursday, f, The Dtik of Newcastle 'was the Bi't yesterday of the Bnjversity Club, ilostoni, Mass. ' i Hurglars secured $1,000 cash from D, P. Latham's private bank, at Dear horn. Mich. Secretary Shaw has asked the resiir- statement of --t heir-work, 4.000 -en-4 pioyes of the American Can Company in New York, went on strike. Fifty thousand dollars Is left 'to John A. Dowio, head of the Zionists, by the will of Frederick Sutton pro bated ut Chicago, III. 'A quarrel over -money caused Karl Garman to kill his father at Glen- wood, Iowa, From Across The Sea. . The British budget', Introduced In the Housa of Commons, shows a deficit of $225,000,000. to make up which it is proposed to tax grain,, meat and other articles. Peace negotiations continue at Lon flon and Pretoria and, li Is said, Impor tant concessions will be made to the Boers. '' jjora Kucncner reports sever nett ing In South Africa Jam' week, in which the British and Boers divided honors..'-. King Edward bad a box especially constructed In the pit of iVury Lane Theatre so that he could get a gcud view of the chariot raceiu "Ben-Hur." Tho .general sli iko order took rffjot lu Belgium and thousands are idle in all the cities. In a battle at Soacha, Colombia, the Government troops won, 400 men be ing killed. - - - Colombian revolutionists are threat ening Bocas del Toro. ' Miscellaneous Matters. Illinois capitalists have bought 57. 000 acres of land for $b00,0U0 in Cuba for a muli) farm. - . MALVA SURRENDERS Insurgent Commander Tires of Fight ing Orr Soldiers ' HIS FORCES LAY DOWN THEIR ARMS The Insurgent Leader Also Ordered the Complete Surrender of All His Men to the Nearest Force. "TV . Manila, By Cable General Malvar has unconditionally surrendered to Brigadier General J. Franklin Bell, at Lipa, Batangas province, with the en-, tirp inrurgent force cf the provinces ot Laguna and .Batangas. General Bell 6ays his U-'ell's) rnflaencc" is sufflcic-nt to queil the insurrectionary movements in Tayatas and Cavite provinces a:i,l capture all these in the field who have not yt surrendered, but Malvar ha? ordered the complete -sufrentier of ev ery insurgent to the nearest force, i General Wheaton.' rtptting to the' divislin hcsdcjuarters. says that all re f is rn- - in his department has ended and that lb surrenders just announced mean that the portS will be opened and that the Filipinos in . the detention camps can be allowed to return to their home in time to plant the crops. CvrLcril V." s ,T ' iv'ii ail.- ft'Q. ed with General Bell's care of the na tives confined in the camps. The offi cers in charge are held personally re sponsible for the Quality and quantity of the feed served out and for the gen eral welfare" of the occupants, of the camps. After securing the mountain passes General Bell employed volunteer bolomen for protection against ladron Ism. Numbers of Filipinos volunteered and expressed the liveliest satisfaction at the treatment 'accorded . to them selves and to their families who were in the concentration camps. ! General Wheaton gives General Bell great credit for his indcfatignbility in conducting the carrpaign..: He was in the fl-ild an horseback day and night personally superintending the arrange ments. The people cf Manila are de lighted at the prospect of a resumption of trade with . the pacified provinces and are anxious to show Generals Chaffee, Wheaton and Bell their appre elation or the fact that the insurrection is really over. About 3,300 rifles have been received by the American officers Jn Batangas and Laguna provinces during the past four months. Genera Malvar personally requested an interview with General Bell in or der to make his complete submission, nassacre of Soldlc-s. Washington. Special. The following cablegram from General Chaffee, dated at Manila, was made public at the War Department: "With reference to' my telegram of23rd ultimo, reporting attack by Morps, reconnaissance under ' Forsyth. March .liith, soldier of Twenty-seventh Regiment. United States In fantry, murdered by Morou in the vici nity of Parang. March 3oth tWo sol diers of the Twenty-seventh Regiment, United States Infantry, having one gun were approached with , semblance of friendship by six Mores, near Mala bang. The rifle was seized, one sol dier was killed, and other severely wounded but est aped. The murder, was without provocation or Justification In any way. The murderers are known and demand has been made for sur render. Thus far dattos have refused to deliver-them. ' Have been to Mala bang and tried to confer with them. Waited three days. Dattos refused to come irv. Expedition of LiftO'men un der Colonel Frank' D. Baldwin, cavalry and artillery, before formed, leaving for Lake I-nio about April 27th, pur pose to arrest the murderers and pun ish the dattos. Every care to ho tak en not to bring general war with Moron about the lake, absolutely important. Scouts say reported by these that sov ereignty United States fully acknowl edged. Have addressed letter to this effect dattors at the same time inform - , ing them of friendly disposition of gov ernment -to -pun Ish on ly L-t hose gl vin g offense; that government claims right explore country betweenllamar Bay and Uantla, and that the purpose Is to do-so now and at any other time. Ac complishment this object necessary; retain battalion 17th two months long er. By belief present time is that a large majority of the dattos would sup port those implicated In the murders." Cannot Be Merged. . .. Knoxville, Tenn.", Special. In regard to State interference In case of , a merger of the Southern Railway and the Louisville & Nashville Railroad lines ln the State of Tennessee, It has been learned that the Tennessee 'law ahsolutly forbids the. acquisition by OBy one road of parallel and compet ing lines of railways. According to this law t would be impossible for the Southern road to- seeuro possession of the Louisville & Nashville and operates It as a part of Its system. It ViuM only be operated as- a separate and dis tinct road. . Americans Want Bonds. New York. Special. It was an nounced ln Wall street that J. P. Mor gan & Co. and Baring, Magouah & Co., of New York; Drexel & Co.. of Phila delphia, and Kidder, Pea body & Co.. Of Boston, had been authorized to.torward. applications for allotments to the is sue ot A,32,0-K.nO' British consols of which l,0(O,0(H) have already been Placed. Tho price of Issue was fixed by the British Treasury at 931-2. IN CONGRESS. Detailed Doings of Our National Law makers. HOUSE. . Ninety-fifth Day With the rlos of the Cuban reciprocity debate p.n the House, the leaders anaouneed that all danger of the bill'being weighed down with undesirable amendments was over and that they felt assured that the bill would pass in th shape which it came lo it It was announced that the entire Republican delegations from MichigJinf and California', who constitute the head and front of the opposition, had agreed not to vote to override the rul ing of the chair Mr. Wilson, of Indi ana, who is acting as the whip for the, majority, dots not believe ov?r a daz-.a F-cpubiict-as at the outside1 v.-il- j.-,n triR IVrrrti'rsia linnn tha tiY..--.. i -i ::1 H I would require more than 20 Republican votes to place upon the bill t!:- amend-... ment which might-endangrr its ultimate passage, as several Democrats'." ' It""' la said, have also dedaredtheir irtjntiou to stand by the chair. An. unsuccessful effort was made , again, today by Mr. -Payne to secure an agreement to post j a limit upon tho general debate. When the House adjourned : today there re ! piained 33- members who desired to j (speak. ., 1 ,:. ; ; The debate was without particular ! interest. The speakers Wre Messrs. 1 Swanson. of Virginia: fqr the bill, and . Smith, of Michigan; Dayton, of West j Virginia; Burgess, of Texas; Meyer, of i Louisiana, and Southerland,- of Utah, Mr. Swanson argued that the bill j was in line with the Democratic policy i of tariff reform, That statement made j him a target for the questions of some J of his Dcmocratiii colleagues who dif- . fered with him, and he ! clashes with Mr. Bartlett, ! Mr. Wheeler, of Kentucky, ' Cooper, of Texas. Mr. Tawi ; nesota. asked Mr. Swans bad shatp of GeorglaV and Mr A. ley, of Min-V on whether 1 the proposed legislation would not force Sikr ; Cuba to enact our immigration laws. ! In reply Mr. Swanson declared that thf question showed the inconsistency of the opponents of the bill who on the one hand claimed that this biJi would dragoon poor, distressed Cuba into ac cepting something she did not want and ou the ojher hand insisted thatw" ' Cuba was prosperous and did not need the contemnlated relief. Mr. Swanson argued that with 20 per cent, preferen tial duties in our favor we should be able to monopolize the Cuban markets. He declared that the American people would tolerate no ptrson or patty which asserted that we owed nothing to Cuba and that our trade relations with her should be no closer than thusd of other countries. Personally, he said, he would hail the day when Cuba be- . came a part of the I'nited States. "Have you begun your propaganda for free trade with the Republican ma jority?" asked Mr. Littlefield, of Maine. 'JVC have," replied Mr. Swanson. "Ve hive infused the majority with 20 per cent of our views and. wo are encouraged." (Laughter.) . .. Mr. Meyer laid stress upon the hard ships which the ruin of the sugar in dustry would entail upqq tho'blaek la- borers of Louisiana, who, he continued, w-ould be entitled to as much consid eration as the laboring men of Cuba. ' . SENATE. Ninety-fifth Day The debate on the Chinese exclusion bill was practically concluded ln the Senate and voting on i1 the bill and amendments will begin at 1 o'clock tomorrow. By general consei..V a vote wan taken today on two amend- ments offered by Mr. Fairbanks, of In diana, striking out the definition as te. Chines students and Teachers, and -they were agreed to without discus- Bion. These changes were made with a ,. view to reconciling some of the oppo sition to the measure, which has been directed against the rigid restriction on students and teachers, and the un necessary convenie.r)';;'-1 " would im pose on the educated Chi nVs-t te mt j coming to this country. The debate to-. day was participated in by ' Senators lieitfeld, of Idaho; Penrose, of Penn j sylvanla, and Turner, of Washington, j In favor of 'the bill, and Senators Triwhard, of North Carolina, an J -Spooner, of Wisconsin, in .oprr.sltlon. Mr? Turner made tho assertion that politics had crept into the discussion and that most of the members of the majority were opposed to the bill. Thia bt-ought out a sharp rejoinder from Mr. Spooner, who maintained that pol itics had not figured in the diseusskon hand that tho opposition to the present bill was due entirely to its conflict With " the treaty and not because of any op position 'to Chinese exclusion, which was an established doctrine of the gov ernment. Mr.. Prltchard -opposed tho bill mainly on account of the injury it would cause the South tn reducing the cotton exports to China. Mr. Mallory, pf Florida, expressed surprise at the amendment proposing to strike otfij sef.men's clause Bo-called. He said tai was one of the most salutary feature and should be retained. Women attack Escaping Prisoners. KokomVlnd,, Spo.:laL-A wholesale daylight jail delivery was frustrated b scrub women here. In the absece ol the sheriff, the prisoners sawed tht bars and escaped through them. When the women opened tho dcors to scrnt the floors of the corridor, the prison ers made a ilnah for liberty, but we ciubed back by the women, who tn work w ith the brooms and mops. Attei Ihe. prisoners were repulsed and driven back. Turnkey Applegate came to th assistance of the women. p, . , The first city Incorporated In thtj . country with a charter and privilege. was New York, which was granted i;a naoers ln 1C04. J iM- "V
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