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INDEPENDENCE- IN ALL TMINOS. vol. vn COLUMBUS, N. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1902. NO.47. SEVERELY CENSURED Tillman and McLaurin Sharply Raked By the Senate. ; : ALL HANDS NOW SEEM SATISFIED. Mr. Tillman Still Showed a Disposl f tlon to Protest the Method of Pro ! cedure. Washington, Special. Senators Mc- Lanurin and Tillman, of boutn vxiro- lina, Friday w ere severely censured by the United States Senate. The admin istration of ilis censure grew out of the sensations! personal encounter be-, ween the two Senators on the floor of -h.n Fpns.ie last Saturday during the lonsideration of th Sill. The adoption i Pliilippine tariff of the resolution of censure probably closes the incident, so far as official action of the Senate is concerned. , Immediately after the Senate conven ed Mr. Burrows, chairman of the com inittee on privileges and elections, to j which the McLaurin-Tlllman contro fversy had been referred, reported the f resolution of censure framed by a ma jorit of ;the committee. Accompany I ing toe resolution was a report narra- I tin? events which lea up to me I fight between the two Senators and set-. , I 1 ting out the conclusions of the majori l ty. A brief statement!-was presented J "by Senators Bailey, Blackburn, Pettus, 1 M. J. Foster and Dubois, Democratic members of the committee, dissenting lirom some conclusions of the majority. I They agree, however, to the resolution I offered. A minority report was pre f sented by Senators McComas, Bevec I idge and Pritchard, Republicans, Who maintained that the adoption of a reso- r 1 1J M X n . . ill .Z rtM , luuon oi censure was uux uiuuiem. : debate on the resolution, although Mr. Gallinger and Mr. Piatt, of Connecti cut, made it evident in brief statements - J-1 J.' 11 1 i. J i. -I i inai me resuiuuun was aut quite saua factorv to them. The resolution was i i - i j e r When Mr. Tinman s name was canea he added new sensation to the pro Jceedings by rising and saying with ill . concealed emotion: "Among gentlemen an apology for an offense committed under heat of blood is usually consid . . eired sufficient.' i Exposition Mar a ers Act. Charleston, Special At the meeting of the board of directors of the Exposi : tion Company, Colonel J. H. Tillman's : message to President Roosevelt , was f fully discussed and the following reso- lutions unanimously adopted: S I "Resolved, That the president of the Exposition Company be, and he is here by requested to' communicate as once with His Excellency, Theodore Roose- ; velt, the President of the United States I and extend to him the cordial greeting I iand good wishes of this board of direc l tors, with assurances that we look for ward to his promised visit to the expo- f .sition' with the greatest pleasure and that he- will ecefve from our people the warmest welcome. . "Resolved, further, That the Presi dent be informed that the board of di rectors deny any responsibility for, the recent communication made by Col. J. H. Tillman to President Roosevelt, and express their utter lack of sympathy A committee was appointed by the I board of directors to convey this action to President Roosevelt.' The city coun cil will hold a special meeting to take raction in this matter. Colonel Tillman was interviewed at Jignt oy my conduct of. having been ..... - X- - . . 1 . the cause of President Roosevelts de cision not to attend the Charleston Ex " position. I am in no way connected with the exposition, officially or other wise." The Cotton Supply. New Orleans, ; Special. Secretary. 4K?Ster's stateEPent af tne world's vis ible supply of cotton, issued Saturday,. snows the total visible to be ; 4,437,989 "against 4,493,841 last week and ,020J22 last year. Of this the total of -American cotton is 6,390,989 bales, gainst 3,484,841 last week and 3,039, 722 lost year, and of all other kindSr in cluding Egypt, Brajeil, India, etc.; 1, ' W.OOO against 1,009,000 and 8SL000. Of the world's visible supply there is now afloat and held in Great Britain and continental Europe 2,322,000 against 1, "89,000 last year; In Egypt 252,000 .fgainst 186,000; in India 542,000 against ' 502,000 and in the United States, .122, ' C00 against 1.541,000. , . nia Vi nw. a X M j ri T i . I .r:: "V1 corresponu- Thanking you for V ews and Uourier and saia: in the matter, I am. i "'I do not propose to bft nlaoed in the : . ' -tlt Vi TILLMAN SPEAKS TO IRISH Speaks About Our Wars and Other Y flatters. New York, Special. Under the aus pices of the Clan-Na-Cteal, the one hundred and twenty-fourth anniver sary of the birth of Robert Emmet was celebrated Sunday night at the Academy of Music. A large crowd was In attendance. State Senator Victor J. Dowling presided. United States Sen ator Benjamin R. Tillman,-of South Carolina, delivered the oration. Reso lutions were adopted condemning England's colonial policy, deprecating entangling alliances by the United States with other nations, sympathiz ing with the Boers, protesting against the United States Government allow ing England to use tho United States ports for the fitting out of vessels in which to ship her horses and mules, and pledging the people of Ireland hearty support ; in their struggle for freedom. Senator Tillman was receiv ed with great applause. He said: "I am.no orator and if I have any claim to it, it is because I speak the truth and fight the devil with fire." "Well,'' came a voice from the audi ence, "If you're not an orator, you're a good fighter." A little later ho said: - "I was afraid 1 would have to postpone my visit be cause of an incident you all probably recently read about, that occurred to me in Washington, but one of your committee came to Washington and with' his- Irish, eloquence made mo promise to be on hand unless T was in jail. Nowhere I am, so take a good look at me, for I am going to talk nininiv The. Senator launched into an at tack upon England for trampling un der the ( Irish. "For long centuries the Irish have been trampled upon and murdered by the English," said he, "and it may not be amiss to here state that bickerings and petty squabbles among Ireland's own sons have been responsible for her condi tions today. They make grand soldiers for her awayfrom home, but fail to show their qualities in her own be half." Turning from this subject, he said in strenuous tones: "If being a flunkey and aping nobility and , estab lishing a system that is akin to Eng land's policy is making Tories of us,' then I think we are there at last, or at least the Government at Washing ton has "got there . England," con tinued the Senator, "can squint " and shake its thumbs at us and say 'Your work in the' Philippine is as bad as ours in the Transvaal.' Why have we eot such a Government? There is the rub. Why do you pass resolutions such as you have tonight and on other oc caslons, and then go out and vote for thofee who are stifling liberty at Wash in on? We are losing our love for our institutions and if we continue thus we will go the way of lies.'' - other repub- Senator Tillman then said the American people were slaves to party iRTn and nould zet alone without a hoRs" -who. he nredicted. in time would betray the people. flaj. Jenkins Declines Warrenton, Va.; Special. Major Micah'J. Jenkins has declined to ac cept the sword which it was proposed i . . . . j. t i a. a ' to present - to him at Charleston, a . f! when the resident visited that place Major Jenkins, who is a mem ber of the faculty of Bethel military academy here, has sent the following , telegram to Lieutenant, Governor Till man, of South Carolina: . "Lieutenant Governor James H. Tillman floltimbia. S. C. You - are represented in the press as , having ronnost of Rubscribers to the RVTorA recently offered ine through Vrvn rfinnestine him : to ; withdraw : ac. npntAricfi to . nresent same. If this Is oA t miiBf HeoHna under - these cir- rnmfitances to accent : tne r swora. personal Kinaneas truly yours. r i T Y7"VT TT'TXT C3 M . i . :. AIA . w - . ' - i ; rij m rv i I'm izi . Strike at Norfolk. -Morfoiir Rnedftl: The street car at4Vo hprft continues to be a strike. The strikers gather in ;.the vicinity of the Norfolk Railway and Ligm torn pany's barn to see - that no move. The 3 officials have been conference with the sheriff and TTiiHtia to devise a plan to cars in the pre- vent a disturbance when an attempt is made to move the- cars. Pottery Plant Burned. 7nnAsviii O.. SDecial. The large nlant of the J. B. Owens Pottery Company was destroyed toy nre faun-, day, causing a loss of $300,000 with insurance about one-half .Many valu able designs, the, accumulation of years, were destroyed ; Four - hundred employes are out of work. The works will be rebuilt at cace L : -. FLOODS IN SOUTH. Gulf States Suffer From Excessive Rainfall. MANY PLACES ARE DELUGED. The Dome of the Capitol of Georgia Injured Flood Warnings Issued by Weather Bureau. : Atlanta. Special. The southeastern Gulf States were deluged by rain Thursday night land Friday. : The pre cipitation" was very heavy and at Co lumbus, Go., a bridge was swept away at 5 o'clock. Thfc rainfall was almost va cloudburst, the Chattahoochee river rising at the rate of two feet an hour. Several washouts were reported on a number of roads and trains out of Co lumbus were annulled. There has been no loss of life. The Columbus bridge broke in two about a hundred feet from down stream at a frightful pace. Just four and a half blocks below it is the other bridge which crosses to Girard, Ala., and it also would have been car ried away had not the fall over . the Eagle and Phoenix, dam demolished the floating bridge bef ore it reached it. The electric, light and telephone wires run ning over to Phoenix City and Girard went across on the bridge and . they were snapped like -threads.; The water ; pipes which supplied the city with water were also on the bridge and they, too, . were broken? like sticks and car- Tied,, away lenz ing the cixy- -without water for a. time. The water company has an old submerged main across the river and this was placed into commis sion saving the city from a water famine. The rain has been falling In torrents all day. No trains except the Central of Georgia from Macon have, reached Columbus since noon. A; washout, near Seale,' Ala., holds the Mobile and Girard passenger train due this morning. The departing of trains was annulled There art several washouts on the Sea board; Air Line. Washouts are also re-v ported on the Southern Railway be tween here and Shiloh. Tonight the Associated Press wire is the "only one in , operation toward the North. After an intermittent rain of 20 days Bir mingham was deluged early this morn ing. The rain flooded the streets . and many street crossings were torn away. All streams are swollen and ranidly rising, i The total rainfall in Montgomery Ala., up to 7 p. m., was 4.50 inches and' a heavy downpour is reported in other parts of Alabama. The barometer re corded '29.23, the lowest reading on re cord in the city. The excessive rainfall has caused a rapid rise in the Coosa and Alabama rivers. The director 'of the weather bureau 'has issued warn- i . . . 5 -. mgs Tor points below ,Wetumpeka, and advised that stock be. removed from lands subject to a high stage of water. At West Point the mehchants are busy removing goods from stores to places of safety. The .unprecedented rainfall there has rendered the recent improve ments1 along, the .river utterly useless. Fancy; pries - are being paid for. all kinds of labor. A patrol for all-night duty along the river was established .In Atlanta rain fell in torrents all day; The wind damaged the ventilators to the dome of the apitol and blew in several panes of glass. The water dam aged many of the- offices. The telegraph companies were severely handicapped by the rain and lightning- which was at times incessant. The rainfall up to 8 o'clock at night was 3.36 inches. ' ..The barometer was the lowest on Tecord.- The Atlanta Weather' bureau sent flood warnings to all points in Alabama and Georgia reached, by the Chattahoocha and Alabama rivers. 5 s ' : ; v In, the southwestern section of this State the rain and wind storm almost attained the proportions of a cyclone andf it is feared considerable damage will result. In Americus trees- and fences have been blown down by the gales. Trust Buys Pig Iron Cheap. Pittsburg, Special. One hundred and three thousand tons of , Bessemer pig firon was bought. for the mills of the United States Steel Corporation. ?hls purchase, although calling for delivery In the third quarter of the year by the merchants' furnace interests of the Mahoning and Shenago valleys, made at a remarkable low price, $16 a ton at the valley furnace. IN CONGRESS. Detailed Doings oA Our National Law makers. V HOUSE. Fifty-second Day The House passed the diplomatic and consular apropria tion bill. It was the fifth of the reg ular annual supply measures to be sent to the Senate at this ; session. No amendments X of Importance were adopted. The feature -of the day was the speech of Mr., Richardsonr of Ala bama in reply to Mr. " Corliss -speech a few days ago "in favor of the -construction of a Pacific cable by the gov ernment. The question of reforming the consular service was, debated at some length, but; no amendments upon that subject were offered, ;s j i Mr. Richardson protested against Mr. Corlis's' course in delivering what he termed his ; "well-prepared and widely-disseminated speeches"" before the subject had come before the House for consideration and said it; looked like an effort to forestall the judgment of .the House. ; He warned the mem bers -Of the House not to. decide the question until the facts on both sides had been regularly and finally ; presen ted. ; -, Representative' Champ Clark j of Mis souri, made aw characteristic I speech, urging - that instead of criticising the present' consular system, definite plans tor .bettering the system should be retary: of the British Iron Trade Asso presented. For himself, he did not fa- .of. . . , vor the so-called merit system When ciaVon who1 s convinced by a-closeob- the Republicans carried the election he believed they had a right to the offices; when the Democrats carried the elec-. tion he believed they had a 'right to the "offices. Mr. Clark caused much laughter by referring to the Democra tic success in the election of Mr. Cleve land as "the greatest, calamity that has befallen the -human mco since the fall of Adam." - . r Mr. Dlnsinore mkde a strong speech against permanent consular service.. . Cs The House then adjourned; ' 'V Fifty-Third DayThe House sent the -Philippine" tariff bill to j confer ence, non-concurring in the Senate amendments. The Democrats sought to adopt the amendments by reducing the rates of duty and declaring the United States should relinquish all claim to the archipelago, but all prop ositions were defeated.. SENATE. Fifty-second Day Quite unexpected ly the Senate adjourned within 15 min utes after it convened. An hour before the body convened the galleries began to fill with spectators, all expecting a sequel to the great debate of yesterday, On the right of the Senators from South Carolina to cast their votes while under the ban of contempt of the Senate. ' Several Democratic Senators had books upon their desks and it was evi dent that they;Were preparing to con tinue, the contest of Monday. This was made the more evident immediately af ter j the Senate convened. .When the clerk began the reading of the journal ctf "Mnn ri n v'a TvmpoorHnfrtt tTi a nonal ra. auest that the readihz be susnended was made by Mr. Stewart, Republican, of Nevada. ; v -i!.;.-;.: "i object." interjected Mr. Turner, Democrat , of Washington, and Mr. Du- bois, of Idaho, in unison, and the read- hoo;vuuuuudu. i tuutiuajuu the .announcement was made to the Senate of the death of Mr. Crumpack- er, w imcuigau, itesuiuuous were pre- sented of sorrow of the Senate at the announcement. ' These were adopted, and then the Senate, as an additional mark of respect, adjourned.; The Democratic Senators were evi dently surprised but offered ho objec tions. "-'';, Fifty-Third Day Again V the gal leries of. the. Senate were filled with spectators. All were . anticipating a re- opening of the discussion of the con- troversy respecting the right of Sen ators McLaurin and Tillman, of South Carolina, to participate in -the pro ceedings of the body while under - the ban1, of t. contempt. .Immediately after the jihapjain . had prpnounced the in vocation Mr. Foraker,iof Ohio, was recognized. He said that onj account of the McKInley memorial exercises, which were 'to be held in the hall of the -House of Representatives at or about 12 V o'clock Thursday, he moved that when the Senate adjourn, it be until .11:45 a. m. The motion was agreed to. . ;.' "- j .:::r' Biggest Cargo of Cotton , Savannah, Ga., Special. The man steamship Drychenf olz, Ger- Capt., Linitlz, sailed for Bremen and Ham. burg with the largest cargo of cotton ever cleared from a South -Atlantic port. She carried; according to the of ficial way of i estimating 'the total by counting round bales, two for one, 19,332 bales, valued- at $804,397. Tn addition' to the cotton the Drychen fplz also took 2,100 barrels of rosin, 3,404 sacks of - cotton seed r meal and 2,491 tons of phosphate rQck, The tion. irreverent receive no reyela- SOUTHERN INDUSTRIAL New Enterprises That Are Enriching Our Favored Section. The Future of the South. Baltimore Special. A striking f ea- ture of last week's issue' of the Manu facturers' Record, its twentieth anni versary number, is the unanimity of the views expressed in it by authorities in diverse fields as to the wonderful fu turp of the South. These contributors include,officials of the scientific depart ments of the United States government men of national standing as experts in. finance and transportation, others who have made prolonged study of South ern condition and others who have long; been prophets of Southern development and have participated therein by actual investment, or through publicity in. the undertakings which have made the South today. Their views must have a world-wide influence in strengthenings the upward movement of the South's material interests; Prominent among these contributors is Mr. Stephen Jeans, of London sec bvduon oi southern endeavor that he knows of no section in the United States, "with its cup of blessings fresh from nature's hands, so overflowing- as the Southern States." Figures tracing the wonderful prog ress in Southern railroads during, the past .20 years are re-enforced bv the opinion of Mr. M. E. Ingalls, president Of the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago" & St. Louis. . " Col. Alfred E. Shepperson, the noted cotton statistician of New York, quotes the expert opinion of Mr. Thomas El- lison, of Liverpool, that "it looks as if the South will very shortly consume more cotton than the North," and adds' himself: "I heartily agree' with him that itls only a matter Of time when ' the Southern mills will undoubtedly ( use more cotton than " those of the Northern StteR." Tn lution wrought in the cotton mill in dustry, based upon the long establish ed Southern . staple, Secretary James Wilson, of the United States Depart ment of Agriculture, does , not think that the South will be much longer known and thought of primarily as the land of cotton. He says: "With the great industrial progress of the South- ern States and the development of their wonderful mineral and manufacturing resources comes the best of all markets " for the farmer the great home mar- Aeu 1Ylore ana more 1 nope to see the agriculture of the South diversified as - zais great nome market expands. Let . the cotton crop continue to increase in total production, but let its growth be I rather by higher average per acre than; . i o. very large exiensiou oi tne area under this croD. Let' Southern farmers keep the plant food at home, and send the oroducts of thA farm marVot f V the form of manufactured articles (manufactured on the farm by nature's procession) rather than in the form of raw material. Let them grade up their flocks and herds, and keep many more of all kinds of domestic animals. Let them renovate the soil by the use of legumes, and save all , the fertilizing material that the farm itself produces. Then will the agriculture of the South show In the census to be taken In 1910 advances greater by far-than even the great progress made In the last 20 years of her history. ' Mr. O. P. Austin, chief of the bu reau o( statistics of the United States Treasury Department shows that the growth of foreign commerce at South ern ports has more than kept pace with the phenomenal development of 1 our national commerce. : A fit climax to the expressions of hopefulness - Js the statement of that practical minded prophet of". Southern greatness, Hon. Abram S.- Hewitt, of New York: "There is t no correspond ing region On this habitable globe South, all available by natural or ar tificial communications, and capable of more" economical operations than ltt any other part of the country." . . Textile Notes. Ouachita Mills of Monroe, La, -men tioned , last week, states that its full complement is 5,000 spindles and .150 looms (not 10,000 spindles, as slveii" previously); mit it will start with 2.50O spindles and seventy-five looms. About seventy people will be 'employed, and the production will be 20 to 25 yams and four-yard ; sheeting, 36 inches, 5S inches by 60 laches. ;