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i ; ' ?H PEACE ON EARTH AND GOOD WILL TO MEN. it -1 J : VOL.111 WADESBORO, N. C, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1897. NO. 25. mm- .. 'J :. - -v. i- i ' ' . . . ' " ' ' " ' ' " . ' " " " " " ' " ' " '" - . . i.. 1..- . -- .. - -- II I I. ... I 1.1 I .1 I. - HIIH .'"ft 111 FIFTY FOURTH 1158 Work of 'the National-Assembfy Told In Brief. ABOLISHING DEATH PENALTY. -Not C'oiilm t!iK the War in Cuba in ., Arcordancc Vitii Civilized Usage. '.ftxi-l tiding 'Sample Copies, ' Ktv. SENATE. ' ! TrrsD.w. t Congress reassembled ftf "ter tJi lioliiays und for -two .mouths ""TtTiow the lVnsine.Hs of the United States vwill ie attended to with neatness and .dispatch, . The Herniate committee on ; finance inet but transacted no business, , rpn'aeeount of the absence of a quorum. V i)iu:in the course of the desultory talk vj around the table some one nentioned ! the fact that the nomination, of Hecre- taVy " Ernncis had not yet. been acted rfiupon, jjud the report that it would have S'i0 ?;wait juilti l a quorum was obtaihedi w M:tjLS presented. ;;; .TTie Hehate passed the House bill -j alKilifdiiutliO death penalty in a large Jiumlier of cases, The measure is in : the Ifne of recent State laws abolishing IJcapital i punishment and-applies the eamo ainei)tij-to Federal offenses, al uitliough the change is not extended to a :total abolition of the death penalty. V; Mr. Hale submitted and had printed i as. a document, a memorandum prepared ; by the litpartment of State on the .'ihetliod of the ''recognition of foreign gqyernments and foreign States by the government of the United States from vV 187i to tyT" tending to show the -ac- curacy of Secretary Olney's contention ' ' that the recognition of foreign govern ments was exclusively an executive function, in which Conga-ess had no imrt lie precedents cited were nu ' "merous. r. . A message from the President was feceiyjed, transmitting the report of the v Becretary of State Concerning the death p f Charles (Jcvvii in Cuba. It was in reBponse to the resplution offered by. IjMr: (-all reciting that Govin was a I' United States citizen who had been ". killed by the Spanish authorities in ji Cuba. The . message was brief and ' formal in transmitting the report. . WbNCSDAY. The Cuban question ; w as under consideration in the Senate ' ill the form of the two resolutions of- fered Tuesday by Jlr. Call, Democrat, of Elorida, the one a simple resolution & C'aUiugjOjU the Secretary of State "for copies of the corresponttence in the ;rnkker pf'.IiiHftSanguillV', an American citi5cen' comlemned by the Spanish, an-" thol;itie3 t& life imprisonment in chains; 'i.fnnff' the Tt!ier- r joint resolution in- bMietlng the President to demand San is guiUy's- immediate release. The first I ;;; W!iis agreed to; and the second was rb- ; f erred to the committee on foreign re lat,iOiS.i - Kv; 'Til a long speech on the subject of .these JOi-ol ut hm s, the case of Charles .(ipviu wixs liseussed quite as much as j thatof Sanguilly. . : p.: The : Senate bill tovamend the act re- pealhig the timber culture law was S ;? imssedl also the House bill for the ao- pointnicnt by brevet of active or retirpd 'oflicers of the arm v. IV . iThe Senate joint resolution reque'st- mg thego ernment of (Jreat Britain to 1 k-iiufdoii .jl'rs. rlorence iMavbrick. which ;W.iisveiHjHed adversely, last session, ;vyns" takpii frotii the ealendar and indef- ;r; TilLUWi)AVi Several memorials were prese.Htett by Ir. ('ullom (Hep.), of II liiuu, iih; favor t the recognition of . Cuban independence, and one from the : Comnierciali Club of Chicago, endors- ing4lie l'Hcv of the Administration regarding CuT)a'. -'ff Tliis was followed by the introduc : tion. of ; a joint resolution by , .M'l' Mills IDem , of .Texas', declaring xthat.'The expedienc' of recognizing the independence of a foreign tnivern X inen ;'belong to, Congress, and when Lngrlvss'shiall sb determine, the Exec- ; titive -sliall act! in harmonM with the ii degislative depart nient of tle govern- R ment. . : ? Second: That the independence of 'the republic of Cuba ought to be and .here.by is recognized; and the sum of , lO.O.UO is hereby '.appropriated for sal- ,.ary. and expenses of a minister to that government whenever such minister 1 shall be appointed ;vby the President. IjlLs will make his Cuban speech Monday.. -; - The homestead laws to all the lands acquired from 1 ndian tribes was. opposed by Mrr Piatt (Hep ), of Connecticut. It was advocated by INIr. Stewart .(Poti.), of Nevada. The bill went over without action. ' . The Loud bill, in reference to second class, mail matter, was, received from the House and was referred to the post office; committee. ' Seiiate bill to' provide for a district '. attorney and a marshal for the western luaiciai district oi.ftoutn Carolina was taken from the calendar and passed. -;i '". ' HOUSE. . - i utsi?AY Only about half the mem T)ers.o7 tho House were in their seats today .when that' body was called , to or der after the holiday recess, to'enter upon the bulk of the work of the last hesion. A resolution introduced by I lr.r Hrjaderick,. Republican, of Kansas, L ' : I vasfgreed to, calling upon the Secre tary pf'tiie Itntenor to report to tne lloiisre the reason why patents for lands in Kansas, granted to the old Kansas Pac-i he l ail way Company, had net been issued to the company, and why liome stead'entries up'on the lands in question werft being permitted to be made by the ofiicers of the Topeka land district. By the terms of the order adopted Decem ber 10, the House resolved itself into committee of the whole to consider the Xoud bill. to amend the postal laws, by I excluding 'samples" and serial novel I publications from the second-class mail matter, which held the floor for the rest of the day. ' Representative Sulzer, of New Xork, 1 introduced a joint resolution stating 'that the Kinirdom of Spain is not con ducting -the war in Cuba in accordance with .civilized usage, and notifying j Spain that if "the barbarous manner in ' which the war has been conducted does iiiot cease within thirty days, tha.t the I United. States will recognize the inde- jpeneiice of Cuba, and maintain it by i force of -arms." Wbdusday. After two debates the !Honl'ebv l44to'105. cassed the bill in- trodica by Mr. L'pud chairman of the committee on PoMofilces to amend; tlife law relating to second-class mail friat ter. The principal features of the; bill were those denying to the mails as second-class matter, sample copies of news papers and serial novel publications and w ithdrawing from news agents the privilege of returning to :theiri princi pals at the pound tate unsold copies, of periodicals. ! Thcksoay. The debate upon i the proposition to refund the indebtedness of the Pacific Bailroad Company- to the goverr.ment was begun in theHquse, under the order adopted lastmontri. It took -up the time of the House and judg ing from the attendance and attention cif members, and sbectators, was neither deep nor extensive. The final otA will be Monday. .Commercial Trftvclers' Banquet. The Seaboard Air Line willj onj ac count of the Commercial Traveiers' Banquet, which is to be held ail South ern Pines, N. C, Jan. 12th, self tickets from all points on their lines' at j one faro for the round trip, beginning on the 11th and 1 ah, good to return until the loth. Eor further information! ap ply to Geo. McP. rBatte, Charlotte, N. C. ; H. S. Leard, Baleigh, N. C. ; trav elinQr nassencrer agents or T. D. iMeares. Wilmington, N. C. ; H. M fjoysin, Richmond. Va. , general agents E. bT. John, Vice-Pres. and Geri. M'gr. TAKES TIIK OATH. Prltcliard ays He Will Support Free Silver. The North Carolina Populist legisla P tors favorable to the re-election of cen ator Pritchard caucused last Tuesday evening in Raleigh., Harry Skimmer read the following letter from periator Pritchard: 'T appreciate your posi tion on the Senatorial question. It is in keeping with your reputation of j- be ing square and keeping faith. I dq not attempt to influence you. You know that I am a staunch friend of all re forms contemplated in the Populist movement, and. you may assure such members of the Legislaturs as are in clined to vote for me that I will vote for silver by international agreement or independent action, 1C to 1, and! will take pleasure in voting to amend tne national banking act so as to permit farmers to. borrow money upon land and staple crops. Any statement that I have been or am now a single gold standard man is without foundation It is proper that I should be frank; and Say I would not vote for free silver , oi anytning eise wnein, pimply introduced as a rider or obstruction to the pasSsage of any protective tariff or other rerae dial legislation bill. " j i i. Our Industrial P?r rcss!, The Chicago JournaLfif CQmmerce in a recent issue publishes a table hoying the phenomenal growth of manufactur ing industries ini tiie United Sfates since 18o0. ! From, this table thejf olio wiry figures are obtained: I No of . ; ' Yrs estblshmts CaJ)ital 1850 123,125 8 033,245,351 tlkurds 811.146 18G0 140,403 1,009,S.55,71 1870 252,148 2,118,208, 2,0,996 1880 . 253,852 2,790,272; 32,595 1800 355,401 0.524. 475. 305 4,711,432 The figures convey ,ome idea oi the industrial and commercial importance which the United States has assumed within the last forty years. Corn a Jjcgal Tender. The following notice has been p&o lished conspicuously in several) Kdnsas county; newspapers and referred toj edi torially: "Corn is legal tender. We have a large amount due on subscrip tions. We will allow 20 cents a bvjshel for corn on both old and new subscrip tions. Bring on your corn. " jOnfe pa pei in northern Kansas has beep forced to build several cribs as a result of this, notice. V j Bob Taylor's Injection Contested. At ' a meeting of the Tenne ssee P-e- publican State Executive Committee and Repullican leaders, held last week jt was decided to contest the election of Robert L. Tajdor, j Democrat, a resolu tion to that effect was unanimdiusly adopted. G. N. Tillman, Republican candidate for Governor, claimed; the election by a fair majority. Nominations of Postmasters j The President has sent to the Senate the following nominations: Postmast ers-1- J. C. Jones, fTitusville, Fla. I B. O. Cresap, Lelahd, Fla. ; Dixon, West Point, Ga. ; E. cox, Rocky Mount, N. 0. Maryl P. W. IWil- 'Another Cashier Suicides. Christian Schauer, Jr. , cast ier and treasurer of the National Bank for Sav ings, Allegheny, Pa., commit1 ed J sui cide by hanging himself in a closet at the Allegheny Gyinnasium. j Given Up By Ifis Physicians! The.Hoholulu Correspondent of j the Southern Associated Press, writing Uhited under date of Dec; 28, ays tha States Minister Willis, suffering jfrom pneumonia, has been given up1 bjr his physicians. j . - I Denied By the Governmenti Thereport that J"uan Fernandez, jjBob inson Crusoe's Island, has disa ppearod, is denied by the Chilean goveriimebt. England Rives employ nent to 33 OOOj-persons in her bicycle factories, j Tha mi-nber of wbeals made last yer a nouots to 2a9,O0Q, au t the capital iave4te.l ia tbis iikduitry Is 85.Q00,0Ol). I I Ttiovnin bsll3 to be attached to the end p the pedal pin are new. They pfjrmif the riAr m rinv his belt without reinovinsr his i,nn.! frnm ihe han iles or l9ave one Ihand free for carrying anyftiins?. j tkl. vatt Rnnrd oi Baltimore has prbnib tod the use by cyjiors of bils laij-erj than three inuhes in diameter. The s4ppositiojn had evidently been raised that the bells wer in danse.- of swelling out to the size ofa fire en.qine gong. I j ' I A unique arransement for riding oi tha ice was seen in an E tstern city tbe jther.iay. The rider had fitted 8Rts od the front jwheel of tho machine, and had fastened sjine;Sinall a"iin3 lite crepew, 'ma te the wbet capabla of verv high sDead. Tae arrangement was roughanl only ta:iitorzry, but the 14ea ia eood aud might easily hi soiderablir lm 'proved upon. . " j ' WEEKLY NEWS BUDGET, Southern Pencil Pointers. The franchises and proiertie8 of the Electric Railway Company of Savannah were sold at public auction last week under decree of the United States Court. They were bid in by Herman Meyers, of Savannah, for 211,000 repre senting the stockholders. At Norfolk, Va. , William Downing and Charles Williams expiated their cximea on the same gaHows. The Southern Baseball League met in Montgomery, Ala. j and decided to continue in business. Th'e 18'JG pen ant was awarded to the New Orleans club. At Augusta, Ga., L. Warner, a Jew ish merchant, while' throwing water out of a third-story ' window, .lost his bal ance and fell to the ground, breaking his neck.' - At Forsyth, Ga. , Jqhn Hickerman, a young farmer, shot his, wife and then shot himself. Polly Brannum, possibly ths oldest woman in Tennessee, is dead. Aged 109. The 50th General Assembly of Ten nessee is in session. The most import ant work to come before that body the first week is the consideration of the contest filed by G. N. Tillman, Re publican candidate for governor. Floyd Estill, of Winchester, Tenn., has been appointed circuit judge of the 'Fourth circuit by Governor Turney to nil out the, unexpired term of .John A. Moon, elected to Congress from the Third district. Nine car-loads of Italians, direct from Italy, passed through Charlotte, N. C, last week enroute to Arkansas. In the next thirty days there will be held in Florida three conventions Harbor Defense, Tobacco Growers' and National Good Roads Congress. Nashville Tenn., has recently exper ienced a StiOO.OOO fire. Insurance about half. ! . Among the 48 fourth-class post offices to be advanced to" Presidential on January 1st, are Laurihburg and Warrenton, N. C. - Hereafter the steamers of the Clyde Line will discontinue calling at Wil mington, N, C. , on trips south and will make Charleston and Jacksonville their ports of entry. - Governor Bradley, Kentucky, bias is sued a proclamation offering 8250 for the arrest and conviction. of each, any or all of the Owensboro mob that lynch ed the negro Holt. The Commercial Bank, Of Se'ina,Ala., has failed. The Commercial was es tablished in 1880 , and has a paid up capitol of 800,000, Undivided 'profits of Sol), 000. Geof A. Wifkins, the vice president, has committed suif de. At Los Angeles, CaU'sorra weeks ago the police and sheriff received no tice to look out for J. P. Folk.'json of a prominent South Carolina farmer, who is jwanted in Abilene Texas, for alleged forgery.. The police got track of the young fellow at North Pomona, follow ed, him to India, and lodged him in jail there. - - . All About the North. The convention of the Order of Rail way Telegraphers has been called to be held in Peoria on May 17th. It is currently reported that the lead ing Prohibitionists and temperance workers of Kansas have decided to ask the Legislature this winter to uass a law establishing a State liquor dis pensary in Kansas. This January 20, the birthday of Kansas, will be. made a State holiday, The hard times have closed up about 1,000 saloons at Chicago. Of 276 members of the Connecticut Legislature, which will convene nexfr month, one hundred are farmers. The lawyers number only twenty-three. They are having a toll-gate war in Clinton county, Ind., and forty-four prominent farmers have been arrested for chopping down the gates. The at tacks on the gates were made openly, during the day. The warm weather will prevent the usual ice palace carnival at St. I Paul, Minn. , this winter. ' It is said that farmers in Northern Indiana rather than bear the expense of feeding hor e through the winter have killed them and. disposed of iheir car casses to fertilizing factories. Frank S. Black, the new Republican Governo-i of New York, has been inau gurated at Albany. The Ohio Miners, in State Conven tion, declare that they will not ac cept less than 70 cents, per ton for 1897. -' At Sully, Iowa, a small town near Newton, robbers looted the State Bank. It is reported the robbers entered the bank, blew the safe and carried away an amount of cash estimated at from $5,000 to. 20, 000. At Lancaster, Penn. , Abe Henson, one of the members of the gang" of thieves and outlaws who reside on the Welsh Mountains was shot and killed' by his . step-brother, Jerry Green, who is also a noted criminal and member of the same gang. Sliscellaneous. ' Senator Sherman . has written" to President-elect McKinley .that he has decided ;to remain in the Senate in preference to accepting a cabinet posi tion. i - Bob Fitzsimmons is matched to fight Jim Corbett for a purse of 15,000 and a side bet of $5,000 St. Patrick's Day, March l?th. . There are fifty-twa penitentia ries and over 17,000 jails in the United States, It cost $500,000,000 to build them. Over 900,000. persons were incarcerated in the year 1892. The criminal expense to the country is not less than $100,000,000 annually. . t Col. J. Courtney Hixson, United States Consul at Foo-Chow, China, is enjoying a brief vacation in "Washing ton, the first since his appointment, three years ago. The directors of the American To bacco Company have declared dividends of j 2 per cen. on the preferred stock and 3 per cent; on the common stock. A STATEMENT U ECKELS. - i "j""- Banks That Have Failed Have Been Due to Local Conditions, WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS. The Banking South Blade Institutions of the Remarkable Good Showing During the Panic of 18U3. The Atlanw -iriial, J under ; dati& of Jan." 2, prints W j following .-6igued ' i . ' 1 - . . i. .11 ' . . ii r . Btatemeni irom ijcmpixoiier oi ue rency Eckels: 'l-fi ' ; WASHiSGTOir, Jan. 2. lanla Journal The bank To the A failures which have occurrei -have been entirely due to Kcal conditions and in almost every instance to defects pecu liar to the institutions failing. This is strikingly so in thecase of the National Bank at Rcnoke,Ya.r and as much so in thet failed Bank inrTexas some weeks since.1 The same may , be said of all national banks failing sirice November 1, and I imagine the same , thing will hold good in theState and private banking houses which have ceased to do business. . j The banking-; institutions : of tht South made, with aere and there an ex ception, a remarkable good showing during the panic pi 1893 and the finan cial distress th,r; jwas general and acute. No su6h condition now exists nor will occur, Mpon the one hand, while on tbk? other) during the year since then liquidation has gone on, bad paper has been v.eeded out, and. the banks are ' stronger ; in cash means. There is no basis for any exception that either now or in the future the South or any other section cf the country will suffer from j more than the ordinary number of bank failures incident to the accumulation of slow assets and bad methods of banking. I certainly do not apprehiUiTny .; difficulty beyond that dne to vp?Jises 1 kaye stated. If the attenWMof the country could be directed towards attending to busi ness affairs in a business way, undis turbed by ' 'wars and, rumors of wars" and promises of renewed and continued agitations, the country would enter upon an era of prosperity which in the largest measure would fall to the, lot of the people of the South. The south today offers a marveously ncn nem ior lnvet imenx ana me capi tal is at hand to be invested, but it will not g'j there or el ".ewiiere, when dis quieting rumjSrs ave ir.vwhe to be met vOith antiffcerfuinty as tyalhlng! a return for it 3onf rots the i'jQfetor. Theopportunity rtEentei S Ameri cans to became rich, prospei-oiifl and happy by confining themselves srictly to the immediate needs of theif own country was never s6 great as a. this present moment. (Signed) Jas. H. Eckels. Comptroller of the Currency. Cleveland's New Year's Reception. Friday 7,000 people visited the White House for periods varying from one to six hours. But -patience had its reward in every case, for the President and Mrs. Cleveland shook hands with every one of them. The closing New Year's reception of the present administration was the most brilliant of Mr. Cleve land's whole eight years in office, and old Arthur Simmons, the President's famous colored messenger, whose' -service in the White House dates back thirty years, shook his head as he viewed the far-reaching crowd from an apper window, and declared it "de greatest inception since de wah." Meeting of Blmetallists. Senator Wolcott sailed on the Cam pania from New York Saturday as the envoy of bimetallism. Before the end of this month an international confer ence in the interest of bimetallism will be held in London. The representative of five governments will be nvfisent The conference will be informal, but those who will meet are accredited rep resentatives of their governments and out of this meeting will grow a formal conierence. "Commodore' Goes Down. The steamer Commodore, which cleared from Jacksonville, Fla., with a cargo of arms and ammunition found ered off Cape Smyrna. Twenty-eight men were onboam of the steamer and so far as learned only twelve were sav ed. One boat was washed ashore emp ty and another one landed with the twelve men. ; The Commodore carried two Other boats, but those have not been heard from. The steamer is re ported to have sunk i twenty miles out to sea. Treasury Statistics. The recent report of the Secretary of the Treasury shows customs receipts at North Carolina port4 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1896, were as follows, oy districts: Albemarle, $35.71; Beau fort, $5.94; Pamlico,! $367. 22; Wilming ton, $3,953.49, total, $4,362.36. 'Th receipts in the Charleston district in South Carolina were $27,639.36. If, however, South Carolina is rather short in her customs contributions to the Treasury, she makes up for it in her in ternal revenue collections, which were for the same periods From the fourth district, $1,070,502.70; from the fifth district, 81,671,421.56; total, $2,741, 924.26. The revenne receipts from South Carolina were! $103,389.77 for tha same period; from j Tennessee, $954 -973.44; from Georgia, $475,671.58. Killed Husband and Wife. Two unknown men went to the house of William' Whaley, a farmer living two miles from Sevierville, Sevier county, Tennessee, and without speaking a word br jke down the door, walked in, and 6hot and killed . Whaley and his wife. Miss Liz2le McMahon, sister oi Mrs. Whaley, was present, but ras un hurt. She! had an j infant of WhaJey's in her arns when the men entered. It is thought that they are the two men whom Wlialey prosecuted before t!i grand ituy for committing jaurde;'. NORTH CAROLINA LAW-MA KECKS Both Houses of the State Legislature Convened Wednesday. Wednesday the State Legislature con vened in Raleigh. The body is com posed of Democrats, Populists and Re publicans. It is useless to say that the entire State, as well as the whole country, has been waiting and watch ing anxiously for the convening of this body of law-makers, as there is to he a United States Senator elected. From the present outlook it seems that every thing has beon cut and dried in favor of Pritchard, since he took the oath of 16tol. At the caucus held Tuesday night three Kenublicans failed to stand up whten a motion. for a rising vote en dorsing him jras rmtrat it is said the defection of -these cannot defeat him. Congressman Harry Skinner said in an , interview; ..- ; . j "Twenty-seven Populist-, members announced Themselves .in," favor of Pritchard, and said. thTej" would vote for him in the caucus. "Seventeen will vote for him, no matter what the caucus does." It is said that Senator Butler does not concede Pritchard's election and that he will undoubtedly control the Populist caucus.. He is working hard to keep a sufficient number of Populists to elect him from bolting the caucus. The conference of . Democrats ex pressed their sentiments for the sup port of some goodi Populist, probably Maj. Guthrie. : 1 The latest concerning the Senatorial scramble i3 that Pritchard will un doubtedly succeed himself. . SENATE. . Wednesday. Lieutenant Governor Doughtoh called the Senate to order. Senators then came forward; beginning with the First district, and were ali sworn in. It took just one hour. The President declared the Senate duly or ganized and stated the first business was the election of a principal clerk, which resulted in the election of Hill E. King. For doorkeeper, T. N. Hal liburton and N. L. WagstaffVere nom inated. The vote stood:- Wagstaff 6. Hallyburton 40, and the latter was de clared elected. For assistant door keeper S. D. McCarthy and L'. E. Howerton were nominated. v The vote stood McCarthy 40, Howerton, 7. Mc Carthy was declared elected. For read ing clerk J. W. WTatson and J. C. Brown were nominated. The vote was Brown 8, Watson 88, and Watson was declared elected. For engrossing clerk J. Buchanan ond D. S. Lovelace were nominated. The vote was Lovelace 7, Buchanan 40, and Buchanan was de clared elected. The President then asked the officers elected to come forward and qualify, which they proceeded to do. Senator MeCaskey ther. introduced ft resolution that a committee of three on the part of -the Senate, to act with a House committee, notify the Governor that the Legislature was organ ized and ready to receive his message; also that a message be sent notifying the House that the Senate was organ ized. . Senator Smathers presented a new gavel which President Doughton re ceived on the part of the Senate. A large crowd was present. Thursday. The i-'enate was called to. order at 12 o cloc-K, Lieutenant Govern or Doughton presiding. Praverr by Rev. Ashby, of the henate. Ihe Jour nal of Wednesday was read and approv ed. Senator McCasky reported from the enmmittee which waited on the Governor, that his excellency would, as soon as practicable, send in his mes sage. Leave of absence was granted Sena tors Maultvv and Odom on account of sickness. r-r i Ail The message irom tne uovernor was at noon received and read by Col. S. F. Telfair, the Governor's private sec retary, assisted by the reading clerk. Senator McCasky introduced a reso lutlon that 1,500 copies be printed. This was adopted and sent to the House for concurrence. HOUSE. Wednesday. Chief Clerk Satterfield called the House of Representatives to order. The members were sworn in and A. iii. mieman, oi I aoarrus, was elected Speaker. The Democrats voted for Col. John S. Cunningham, of Per son. Rev. Dr. Levi Branson offered the opening prayer. He praved thatr laws to prevent intemperance might be enacted. Reading Clerk John D. Stan ford, of the House, called the roll of members and these came forward in "blocks of live, " and were sworn in by Associate Justice 'Walter A. Montgom ery. Each took a double oath to sup port the Constitution of the State and the United States. Nelson, Harris, of Hyde, and Black burn were appointed tellers. Other officers elected are: Principal clerk, E. O. Masten; reading clerk, F., B. Benbow; doorkeeper, D. T.- House; assistant, Abe Middleton, colored; en grossing clerk, D. F. Scarborough. Governor Carr was notified that the House had organized and was ready for business. Iklksday The House w-as opened with prayer by Rev. C. J. Woodson. At noon Private Secretary Telfair de livered the Governor's message. Mr. . Schulken announced that the Senate and House committees had called on the Governor and notified him that or ganization was-complete. Mr. Sutton moved that the reading of the message be dispensed with and that 250 copies be printed. Mr. Lusk said it was always the custom to read the message and . that he hoped Mr. Sut ton's motion would not prevail. Speak er Hileman said it was the rule always to read the message. Mr. Sutton then withdrew his motion. The reading oc-. cupied two hours. Mr. Sutton's reso lution was adopted and 250 copies were ordered printed. Some leaves of ab sence were granted. The Speaker announced the following committees: Privileges of Elections: Cook, Black burn, Sutton, of New Hanover; Peace, Bryan, of Chatham; Brown, Person, of Wayne; Cunningham and Gallop. . Banking and Currency; Bryan, of Chatham; Hanser, Crumpler, Ormsly, Cox, Adams and McKenzie. Rules: Sutton, of Cumberland Brower, Bryarr, of Chatham, Schulken and Nelson. Judiciary: Lusk, Sutton, of Cumber land; Cook, Young, Schulken, Price, Craven, Scales and Cunningham. iiiriMT ii ' 1miru lifin nn I VI Hill M M y I r f k J 111 I II I At lllini 111 I1II1LL 1 1 II ILL uu. r r- An Early Tariff Revision On Moder- ; n m. x i I axe rroieciion Linesi TRUSTS NOT JO BE FOSTERED. Reciprocity and BI-MetallismNo Bond Issues to Take Up Greenbacks w Expresses Himself Frankly. A dispatch from E. V. Sralley to the New York Evening Post, from Canton, O. , outlines some of the features of the incoming McKinley administration. It 6ays: "The President-elect has clear and positive views on all questions of national finance and he expresses them frankly to callers who bring up the sub ject. It must be a relief to him to re ceive a caller now and then who wants to discuss measures instead of men. At all events he seems to be if possible a trifle more cordial toward such callers than toward the self-seeking majority. 'The views of Major AIcKinley on financial questions will no doubt be shared by all the members vi his cabi net- -Ihere will thus be a definite and positive administration polio v. which will be recommended to"; Congress, known to express the opinions of the new President and his constitutional advisers. This policy miirht be formal y istated as follows : 1. An immediate revision of the tar iff on moderate nrotectirrn lines. No exiremely high duties that riiight foster i trusts or defeat the purpose of obtain ing adequate revenue to pay the ex cuses of the government. '2. The restoration of the reciprocity creaties of the Harrison administra-, ion. '3. The maintenanee of all kinds of money at a parity with gold. 4. Lflorts toward international bi metallism, in fulfilment of the pledge of the St. Louis platform. i. Gradual retirement of the green backs, as soon as the government has t. surplus of revenue to appiy to this pur- I pose ana some other torm of currencv. bank or metallic, can be substituted for them. No new issue of bonds will be avored for tha purpose of taking up the greenbacks. Possibly some plan may be suggested for a virtual retirement of a consjderablepart of the greenbacks and Treasury liotes by their use as a part oi the naK reserves; this with a view of strengthening the gold basis of the currenc 3. An enlargement of th national banking system to enable independent UiUiUS OI Oraches of o.ltu 2t.nL-w tn ia carried on ih all towiis. This might "&t rate in the country tnd to lessen the present lower the ill districts an centripetal t dency of money towards the large citi ?'7. Lconoi y in government expen- ditures to col fespond with the econo- mi,es enforced ln all other lines ot busi- ness by the rndition of the times. U,pl(lemic)r Suicides Last Year. rri t ?i -! iuere waa quite an epidemic oi sui cides last year, the total nunber being G,20, as compared -with 5,759 in 181)5, 4,912 in 1894, 4,436 in 1893, 3.8G0 in 18:2, 3,531 in 1891 and 2,040 in 1890. The total shows a steady increase in the unfortunate crime of self-murder. Of this number 5,087 were males and 1,442 females, the proportion of about four to one being steadily maintained year by year.. Among professional men, physi cians still lead the mournful list, forty seVen having taken their lives, as com pared with fifty-nine in 1895 and forty five in 1894. ! President Emeritus for Life. Gen. G. W. C. Lee, son of Gen. Robert E. Lee, President of Washing toll and Lee University, Lexington, Va , since his father's death, in 1870, Ins resigned that position to take ef fect July 1. Continued ill health has torced him to take the step He has been appointed president emeritus for life, and will give as much of his time to(. the University's interest as his health will permit. Slashing Wages. The employes of the Illinois Steel Company at Chicago have been notified that their wages would be cut Feb. 1. The amount of reductions has not as yet been agreed upno, but it is general ly) believed that it will be about 20 per cent. President Gales says it is the result of poor business. A Traitor on Board. The latest about the ill-fated fillibus terer "Commodore," jvhich went down off the coast of Florida, is that one of trie crew was killed and fifteen were lost in attempting to reach land. It is claimed that a traitor was on board and that he scuttled her and then tam pered with the pumps. Getting Ready for 1900. iThe Progressive Democratic Club of New York, has decided to work for the nomination of William J. Bryan for President for 1900. The club has is stied invitations to all Democratic or ganizations in the North to attend a convention to be held this month. Ten Thousand Applicants. It is estimated that the extension of the civil service rules leaveo at th2 President's disposal only 1,700 places ih the departments and only 53 consu lates. There are already at least 10.000 applicants for these places, with the 4th of March yet a great way off. How are you getting along with the bicycle?" asked Miss Cayenne. "Better than I expected," replied Willie Wash ington. "So you have at last attempted to ride?" "No; I haven't gone quite that far. But I don't believe I'm quite as much afraid of it as 1 used to be." Washington Star. The leather trust Is forcing prices ekyward again. But don't kick you can't afford to wear out your shoes that way, LAST YEAR'S BUS1NKSS Reviewed by. Messrs. R. o. Dun & Co. It. O. Dun & Co. says: "Tliera ave been more commercial failures ir than in any previous year excei't any- previous year exeej 1SI3, about 14,800 against lii, IDT lur year, with liabilities of about f22."i, 00-.-UOO against $173,19?, 000 last year, an in crease in number of about 12 per qcn , and in liabilities-of. 2y per cent. 'Y3 holidays make it impossible to give ex act figures, but the monthly returns heretofore prepared show that $30,00 v- 000 of the excess over last year was ia two months. August and September; fn which manufacturing liabilities we v fl5,C00,000 larger than last year, try ing $10,000,000 and brokers iJ other commercial $10,800,000 larger. Of the latter clas SU.o'.t. HQ out of about $18,(500,000. were i.i those two months; of tho manufactur ing class, $24,910,350 out of about -SMO.OOO in the whole yeru- were in tho: two months, and of tho trailing cla-- 21,8;n,8$0 out of about $ 108.00, 000 i'-i the whole year. The ratio. oi defaulted liabilities to clearing house exchanges p." as ?f4.37 per $1,000 against 2-' lust year and $G.o9 in 1893. The ayerage of defaulted liabilities per firm in busi ness was $190.57 against $145 lat year and $2;0.05 in '93. For tho first time detailed monthly statements are also published for the last quarter of tho panic year 1893, showing liabilities amounting to $04, 000, 0t . "The year closes with an epidemic of failures, mainly at the West and it banks, loan and trust companies, or concerns deiendent on them. The ac tion -of clearing houses in various places indicates no want of confidence and several banks which have failed wil4 be enabled to pay in full, but the. widlv k cnsclosure of unsoundness in a tew ubwn; institutions in the ab normal state of popular deling after an exciting contest on the monetary l.-sue has caused distrust and suspicion where it is frequently undeserved. There has been no monetary pressure to cause trouble, nor have important Western products declined in value. There bus evidently been too liberal assistance given by . some fiduciary concerns to speculative operations. STo drains on Fastern funds has resulted sine the first alarm at two large failures rik tiro mrinov llitoi Kent Imu 11 vtn rn.T Failures Often grow more frequent ii annual settlements approach. "Wheat has- risen to the highest point siuce Juno, 18 2, because Western, receipts in five weeks have boet; but l;v28J,oOO bushels, against , 22,bU'o,iW7 last year. ' "Atlantic exports, flour included, have been ih five weeks 9,90 ,0v) hi It els, against 10,413,24'J last year. The exports from New York, in December were 5 per cent, larger and imporin l' per cent, smaller than last year." BUSINESS OLFTL.OOK. KOIC l&lfT. Five Hundred Leading Men Kxprosi . Confidence in the Futiire. About 500 leading Northern and Western manufacturers and railroad Dfficials, including Presidents Cowen; Df the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, and ngalls, of the Chesapeake & Ohio; Vice Presidents Finley, of the South- 2rn Railroad, and St. John, of tho Seaboard Air Line; President (lutes, ;I the Illinois Steel Company ; A brum S. Hewitt and others, contribute to the Manufacturers' Recordtheir views upon the business outlook for 18;7. Almost without exception they take a very favorable view of the situation and general summary of their letter, shows confidence in a gradual but sure return of business activity and pros perity. The expectation of man' people that there would be a quick "revival after the election is pointed out as without reas on, and the" position taken that the election only served to make possible a beginning of better times. . Educational Associations Officers. Following are the offices elected bj the Southern Educational A ssociatn n, Ln session at Mobile, Ala. : George .J. Ramsey, president of the Silliman Col lege Clinton. La. president: T. i'4 McHeath, principal of the Jacksonville public schools of Jacksonville, fla , vice-president; ' George P. Cook, i Hot Springs, superintendent of th Hot Springs public schools, re-ele-ttx secretary; Job n I). Yerby, of Mobili' superintendent of public -education ir Mobile county, treasurer. How It Was Done. The official canvass of the vote o Maryland for President on Novembej J has been c6mpleted, this -being tV last State. The total vote in the Tii ferent States was 13,880,503. Mckin ley (Rep.) received 7,101,401; Bryan (Dem ), 6,470,050; Palmer (Gold Stan dard), 135,956; Levering (Pro.), 130, .v;o. Bentley; (National), 14,392; Matchetti Socialist), 33,538. McKinley's plural tty is 630,745; and his majority over all. 310,399. ) More Bank Failures. At St. Paul, Minn., three banks, namely the Germania, the Albemania and the West Side, closed their doors last week, owing to a run being made upon them by their depositors. . Died From Fright. The Wyoming State general hospital at Rock Springs, Wyo., has been burn ed to tho ground. All the patients were removed, but one woman di(d from fright. Gomez May Surrender. Private telegrams received in Madrid, Spain, from. Havana, say that it is pos sible that Maximo Gomez and other in fluential Cubans will surrender to Span ish authorities. Gen. Francis A. Walker Dead. Gen. Francis A. Walker, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech nology, and widely known, died at Boston last Tuesday. The hvy snow storm which pre vailed out West last week will cause great suffering among cattle. ' 1 ! " The postofflcedeficit for the year i Is $8,127,088, notwithstanding the fact that most of the poets send stamps for the retiirnofrejected manuscripts. .K 4
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