Atlanta Constitution, The (Newspaper) - February 17, 1894, Atlanta, Georgia THE ATLANTA VOL. SATURDAY MOBBING 17, 1B94. PRICE FIVE TURNED HIM nomination Is Re- by tta The New Yorker Is Defeated Worse Than Hornblower SENATOR COLQUITT DID NOT VOTE Ha tho Chamber Before the Vets Was Senator Gordon Mr. Js I February nee f of was tho t -J ivon by a v i iO to 1 v 1 to confirm f r did not n h- He till not r F- ho nut ant vote him unless his vile wn the or 5.esi itor -i of 5-ri chair and thereby at He had re- of 1'rorn on b TTO them AJanta parts of MO i o while one by rim for in oi and ed Of tne Carolina ators fT 1'ec'iham and Irby tor j. and tne new against v if was pa J and sorn 1 of anJ of Arkansas i L for a i Ji anu of against of the today ly uy is t3 p than a -y This is Use i Cleveland has i f which the lur that in the attitude of J uf Hiil it is probable taat i would hAVe Thera senators vote i today who did it triat he would be re- lla I there was any chance his several senators who i i voted no. The oi tae senate today the w. the tne The prudent has by this learn he must nominate a man whose political is The will not to the vacancy be- for the of it is uei thai Cleveland lias that by t me that he will now nominate a straight democrat for the If hs coos the senate im- whoever he may Mr. Im Very Senator Gray is talked of. anJ so u Secretary The president stated a. week ago that was he would not nominate Yurk but who will nominate une to He lie received tne news the had been re- and said to have en vent to enji -e in on the And 3Ir. Hill Is Senator happy and looks it j. lor party tion It a victory for action does not mean thaf t with 1, it i mean that tlie senate is i to run firm no man whose is subject is a jn the senate this morning to 1 in tho case at the est possible The contending ers on ground and there to little change in the personnel Of ihe opposing Mr. of who was classed with the was said to have yone to the but the opponents of say they have not counted him as one of their At o'clock of the senate were an 1 the battie of day was able and it was nui i that sot the and his in favor of the doors closed he occupied a great letters and it was formed groundwork of his Mr. Hoar was similarly occupied with purposes the of Mr. Mr. Speaks for The first half hour of the executive sion wis spend in routine when Mr. Vilas took the floor and began a speech which lasted for more than an hour and was in defense of the right of the president to appoint whom pleased for this or any other qualifications alone to be He then entered into a Ions discussion of the merits of the case and read ous letters from distinguished attorneys going to show that was in every way fitted for the exalted place to which he had been Mr. Vilas also sought to show that the tion and were not as had been but that on the contrary he was thoroughly equipped for the duties of a Mr. also explained the transaction in which was said to have telegraphed Judge Caldwell in re- gard to a recent decision of his in a Mr. one of the republican bers of the followed a brief in which he said he had examined all of iho a and had reached the conclusion that there was nothing in thorn that in any way interfered with the discharge of his duty as a member of the supremo For that reason he believed it proper that he should be Mr. a member of the it be the confirmation of consumed the time allotted to him in explaining why he now endorsed Mr. His reason was that the charges in the two cases were entirely and that in case they had been It was the intention of the opponents of to do no but when Mr. George had Mr. of and Mr. of Con- spoke perhaps three minuses stating why they could not assist in confirming The men discovered early in the afternoon what they claimed was an effort on the part of the administration leaders to consume the time in debate and force a postponement of the vote until A hasty conference resulted and a number of democrats that would not countenance such a When it was then found that the vote was to be reached during this the opponents of sought to force the vote after each The vote was finally taken as before given and after some time spent in straightening out the the at adjourned until The The vote was as For Hun ol and ot of populists Total 32. Against of Arkansas of Al 41, This shows twenty-three three republicans and one voting for and four republicans and two populists voting The pairs wers as McMillan for with Morgan for with tor with Goraon for Wolcott tor witn of and both to were absent and not senate now consists oi eighty-five members and this vote accounts lor all out twelve of that Mr. for The president was informed the de- feat of the nomination within a few minutes after H had bten A prominent senator sent a telegram to Mr. Cleveland over the wire running from the senate to white During the inet meeting which lasted from o'clock until the president and cabinet officers present waited for some news from the senate and it is said that the meeting was prolonged in the tation that something would be re- Senator Hill refuses to discuss the to The most pressure has been brought to bear by the patronage influences from every part of the United States in ing 10 force through the Particularly heavy was it this and it develops that a systematic plan of campaign has been directed from the ing federal appointees here who have been in touch with thousands of other appointees ether parts of the through whom tney have had telegrams sent to stating that their people were overwhelmingly m favor of the con- of A queer feature of this plan of campaign conies from the As a rule the ern democratic who were to put a premium on have been opposed to Peckham's They have been greatly during the past few at re- a number of telegrams from ent parts of their respective asking ior his and strange to most every telegram came from the of some appointee to a fat federal or if it did not come from that im- neighborhood .in every there could be found some identity of inter- est between the sender and some prominent government The senators have laughed over the matter among have considerable interest over some the telegrams An Strangely true was this of and not until yesterday was it supposed that there was any about Senator Col- quitt's Everybody here of that Senator Gordon would vote for from the very beginning of the all of the senatorial cuckoos were counted on the But Senator ing against was counted as being against until it was rumored yesterday that he was The report that he was wavering was in- stantly taken up by the It is said that Senator Gordon has been of late pleading with him for Mr. notwithstanding the fact that he was a Then the patronage here high in power went to work creating a private public sentiment in to bring to bear indirectly on ator Colquitt the influence which they knew they not exert personal their plan worked and the cousins and the uncles and the partners of federal from Georgia begun their work on Senator From Dan to Bersheba they communicated with trying to convince him that every man and child in Georgia was desperately Interested in Peckham's This little game was and the news of it soon reached upon Senator Colquitt received a mass of telegrams from different parts of the urging him to stand firm against Peckham's The distinguished senator was in doubt to the and while he proved his unwillingness to vote for and manifested his tion of the confirmation by refusing to tain the he refrained from ing on record against though he would no doubt have done so had it been sary to defeat it. All Hard nt Yesterday and today have holidays for the heads of the rior Secretary Smith and his able assistants have been hard at work Ing to get Mr. through the So it has been almost all of the other leading government The p. en- sure was first brought to bear on the net and they were given to under- stand that they were expected to work like wheelhorses in behalf of the tion of the New York who has been devoting his time most energetically since 18S8 to the effort to make a republican state out of New The old-fashioned democrats of Washington are enthusiastic and nothing has happened since the tration has been in power to create such democratic enthusiasm as the rejection of Mr. It has fired the democratic heart and ail of the old timers here are in splendid humor over it. Are Wheeler Peckham's defeat carries grief to the heart of the mugwump and the keenest joy to every faithful has been the most unrelenting enemy that Tammany has ever been called upon to all apostates he has the intense hatred for the to which he once and trom which he seceded for some cied grievance or imaginary He has been a satellite of Cleveland irom the day Grover's star began to move from the eastern horizon to Revolving around Mr. Cleveland it was perhaps j al for the devoted Packham to see In David B. Hill a possible rival for the So fought 11.11 at every turn and with bitterest A Hill ticket was to as a red flag to a In the of he voted for Warner the against Mr. His consistency in that Cleveland tiid and and in de- nouncing Hill have been at- to earn for him the title u Cleveland's most sincere friend and bitter He has i any misinterpretation of i or Hill since the senior senator opposed the renomination of Cleveland in and his antipathy has increased with each He has bolted every cratic ticket nominated since that time in the making of Hill had a ly supporting Hill's opponent when the Elmira statesman ran tor In a like manner Mr. has opposed Tammany and every other faction of the party favorable to Hill in the Framed He was one of the organizers of the J People's League during the two years and sonally drafted the resolutions denouncing Hill in most scathing manner tor liis in- in nominating a for the court was publicly branded as a crimin il for bringing about the overthrow u lican majority in Three years No hidebound j ed harder to defeat I than Mr. He made in favor of the republican j F. and denounced both Ms. I and Maynard in the most vigorous I As of the New York Bar Association he appealed to every lawyer in state to oppose and when the republican candidate by a. majority of he exhibited every of excessive Senator Hill denounced him roundly for ship in contributing to the overthrow of to which replied in the most caustic manner On the day that Hill succeeded in defeating the confirmation of Mr. made this can get no decent politics until that man Hill is made an end Senator Hill certainly has quaffed n sweet j draught of revenge this clay and has celled a long score which he had against his K. u. THE IX I General Rejoicing Over the Rejection of When the news came that had been turned his picture had been i turned to the wall as it there was general rejoicing all over the It is no exaggeration to say that there has not been so great interest felt in any one single event during the present as was felt in the over the And it is a notable fact that a. vast majority of the people have hoped that the senate would reject Hence the During the morning the telephone wires in the newspaper offices were kept hot with inquiries concerning the fight before the It was of when the senate went into executive session and it late when the news came of his A few minutes before 3 o'clock a private dispatch told of the vote and its The news was quickly trans- mitted to the hundreds of inquirers and on the streets and in the hotel corridors ing else was talked of. At the at the city at the courthouse and everywhere that ians gather the senate's action was the sole topic of serves him was the universal That meant that the people re- sented the president's use of his official sition to gratify personal as one democrat very prominent in the affairs of the state put it. action in j simply and solely to spite Hill and Murphy was enough to damn j him in the eyes of every sensible j said who was discussing j question at the it may j teach him to nominate democrats for the offices of this It is a lesson that ought to have been taught him eight i years If it had the democratic party i would have been in far better shape than it And said another high official of will demonstrate to Mr. that j the president does not constitute the en- j That is one thing which El has never yet The fact is that ami a man totally for n for which he was appointed and HANGED IN A Insult to Hon. J. Sterling BY HIS They Hre Incensed at His ment of a THE SECRETARY'S SIDE NOT HEARD His Son States That It His Pa's Democratic Opponents to Because He's Under No Nebraska February Early this effigies were found hanging at a prominent place in this city of the Hon. J. Sterling tary of and his Carl bearing the of the Democratic Marching It is not known who the The deed is the culmination of on the part of many prominent democrats on count of the Nebraska appointments made by Secretary whose home is and particularly the appointment of liam Pflaeging to a lucrative position in the packing house Pflaeging is dent of the republican club here and was given the place over a hard democrat who was endorsed by all the leading democrats Many democratic politicians came out in interviews condemning the appointment and declaring it meant the less of many democratic Carl Morton care who Father is under obligations to few people in this All citizens unite in declaring the effigy hanging an even though some think the provocation was IS Da Gama's Won mis oto Unable to the Rio de February February 1894 by the United insurgent at on February 9th, was notable for of Admiral de Gama himself led the He shot Tasso of the ment mounted officer's horse and rode His caused wild enthusiasm among his Six obtained horses in a similar manner and galloped after Behind these seven horsemen the insurgents rushed to the There their force was divided and attacked by an overwhelming number infantry and The insurgents were pushed slowly without giving any signs of. Admiral de who was to em- was wounded in the arm and wound is severe and there is no doubt of his Kvery officer of the insurgent was injun d in the The total loss of thf insurgents was 270. The government loss was little short of 6CC. To make the attack the insurgents col- every available man who could be spared from his They landed 600 men and consequently had left but eighty men to guard Cobras island and but twelve to hold Fort The government at the t me 10.OX troops and hundreds of boats at its A determined attack on either island not have failed Yet no attempt was made to capture either Cobras is never defended by more than 200 men and Admiral de Gama all fewer than men at his Admiral Mello is sulking at General insurgent army in the of numbers only and is held in check by the forces which command the na row passe The fears ing from this Nevertheless the ident seems unable to end the Admirai de Gama has decided not to surrender to Reac Admiral Benham merely because he dared not desert those who were ing the insurgents with These men now hold Brazil by tlie throat in order thai they may save the money that they have invested Barracks are being built at three race tracks outside the Poor people will be housed in them during the tremendous conflict which Is expected to rage when President 1200J) men shall be ready to turn their hilltop batteries on Admiral de Gama's force of 300. Dr. Alfonso the civilian governor of Minas has been nominated for the presidency in opposition to Dr. dente de of the These two nominations of civilian dates entirely destroys the theory that President Peixoto has had the intention of the presidential Yellow fever is epidemic in the merchant and the naval fleet is in such serious danger that it ought at once move to an anchorage outside the The daily number ashore is above As this dispatch leaves General cindo Saraiva is reported to be returning south through having abandoned his intension to march on the be- cause General with government is northward from Rio Grande do Admiral de Gama's wounds are said to become unexpectedly troublesome and to be causing his friends considerable Since landing at and ing upon the insurgents have been MEV KILLED has been failing perceptibly and his many friends have noticed his general He up to this been making daily trips down to the business portion of the city in his but his old-time visits to the newspapers and the burg National bank have been The friends of the general hope that he will pull and bis wonderful con- justifies the CHARGED WITH Trial of A. M. at Tex. A Heavy February M. well known in Fort Worth and throughout the especially in the Pan Handle as a cattle man and eral is now in the custody of United States Marshal Britton was a brother-in-law of W. S. cashier of the First National bank of who committed suicide by shooting himself about four months The indictment on which Britton was arrested charges him with embezzling from the First tional bank of making false entries and giving false reports to the United States bank He was arraigned before Judge Rector and given a preliminary His bond was fixed at His attorneys in all swear out a writ of habeas A great deal of testimony was taken in the T. J. Wood case all of which was strongly against The case will run a. week SETTLING IT Engineers Are with dent Thomas February The representatives of the En- met President J. W. of the Chattanooga and St. Louis today and had conference that lasted several The abrogation of the contract of 1891 after February 2Sth leaves the men without any kind of a con- tract or agreement and the purpose of the conference was to arrange for a new The men realized that the road was not in a position to restore in full wages that had been reduced 10 per cent last De- cember and drew up a new which it is understood the men and the road split the difference and agree on that The agreement was not discussed but will be finished eral Chairman there will be no strike and no but that the difference will be arranged without serious difficulty by each side conceding President says there will be no The committees representing the switchmen and firemen are still here awaiting the action of the They will confer with President Thomas when the engineers have WHISKY RAIDERS They Seise a Safe bnt Cannot Get In- of It. S. February The whisky constabulary have been very active here during the last five or six I having raided and looted a half dozen mostly grocery they developed an entirely new phase in the modus of They called at a grocery store kept by C. And after the premises very including a man's in a burglar safe was Schultz refused to open or tell tbv fourteen of the con- stables sat down on the premises and sent one of their number out to a They failed to a locksmith in the city who would consent to the Then they put a seal the lock and left it. During the night burglars entered the premises and removed the seal but made no attempt to open the Today Schultz sent to the chief of the constabulary and notified him that the seal on the safe had been and requested him to attend as he intended to open it. The constables de- to attend and there the matter It has been reported to Governor it is will again order out the TOO MUCH FOR THE BEARS ON A By the Explosion of the Boiler of a February boiler explosion curred today on the cruiser fatal results to the and damage to the New boilers had been put in the vessel and steam was gotten up day to test The refuse to aive details of the but it is learned that forty-one men were instantly killed and nine others fatally Among tne dead three chief who were on to report on the work of the and several other The vessel was but signals of dis- tress brought assistance and she was towed back to ACCIDENT TO GENERAL was an insult to the senate to appoint iim fn view of some of The para- on Fourth Column Second I lie Slipped and Fell Down Step's at February Jubal Karly slipped and fell down the stone steps of the yesterday and sprained his He was badly stunned and at first was supposed to be seriously but after being ried home he rallied and Dr. hfs states this that he is not badly hurt and will be out In a few For some months past tttt TOT fcp Anarchists Visit Henry's Rooms and Destroy February anarchists of a upon hearing of the arrest of the bomb thrower of the Hotel raided his lodgings at Belleville the same burned ail his papers and de- taking with it is one or more which the anarchist is posed to have had in his The search of his lodgings seems only to have been an If they had acted more promptly it is possible that they might have made some important ies and As it they found in Henry's lodgings some chlorate tric acid and some copper evidently intended for use in the manufacture of bombs similar to those by Vaillant and by Henry At the anarchist's lodgings the people of the house said that they recognized the of Henry as that of a man whom they knew as TENNESSEE'S BONDS Six Hundred Thousand Dollars Are Taken at Par in New New February Alexander fiscal agents for the state of concluded today one of the most important financial operations that has been made in behalf of any ern state for a long They sold to Blair of per cent Tennessee bonds at par and accrued inter- est. These bonds were authorized by the last legislature of Tennessee for the pose of building the state This negotiation insures the calling in of all outstanding and 6 per cent bonds of the state of Tennessee without and the refunding of the same in a new bond bearing a lower rate of Right of S. February Governor Tiliman asked tne ion of Attorney General v Buchanan as to power and authority of to seize contraband liquors a The attorney general has replied that only searches and seizures out warrant are prohibited by the and that whatever powers are by the legislature are not but and Con- he provisions of the dispensary act are but application ot old well settled principles of it does not on the of the The power to do whatever he wants to do unrestrained was it is license and means Individual action so far by law means erty and tae conservation of law ami a Medical in February Nearly two hundred of the principal citizens Charlotte accepted the invitation of the medical society of the city to the banquet at the Central hotel tonight to the medical editors who are visiting the south as the guests of the Seaboard Dr W C of is of the who will be at Athens and Wilmington and other south ern cities will be- Many Records for Low Prices Were Broken This iy WHEAT AND Af AY In the Pace of This There Are If o Bad IRON A SLIGHT RECOVERY Trade Has Been Temporarily in j toe bat in This Section It Continues Fort S. February Clemson college opened today with an en- of old There are now about 4W here and the tions are that within the ten New February G. Dun weekly review of trade tomorrow This has been a week of In in in some of iron and in and in well known cotton and woolen the lowest prices ever known have been and it is gratifying that failures of tance have not The great fall in wheat had a perceptible influence upon the tone of business and there was less confidence in Wall less ment in manufactures and a greater de- crease in the volume of through clearing wnich were 24.4 per cent less than a year outside of and 44.7 per cent less than a year ago notwithstanding unusual transactions in While action especially affecting ness was taken at Washington the continued discussion of revenue and tary measures and the uncertainty ing them have a constant favorable and in different markets have caused sudden fluctuations in Wheat at is lower by than it was for a single day last and lower by than it had ever been in the previous seventy-seven A ible supply of over ry 10th, with sales and receipts from farms continuing has completely destroyed faith in the official reports of the yield last year and caused enormous Some trust companies have arranged to ad- vance money against wheat as collateral but with results not as yet Cotton declined an eighth with increasing distrust of short crop Receipts from plantations this week have been larger than a year and at no time small enough to support the idea that the crop of 1893 was but which would mean that less than bales have yet to come into sight in over six months The slight in prices cr iron ducts has not been Bessemer pig has declined at Pittsburg to 11065 anu gray forge to and steel billets are sold below while at Philadelphia products are lower than ever The decline is the more noteworthy be- cause an increase in the demand is re- both in eastern and western especially in structural forms at the west and where several large ings are The demand for wire nai s and fence continues remarkably large and sustains but rails are Connellsville coke seils at the lowest price ever and while the output increased for the week only 51 per cent of the overs are in Heavy reductions in the price of lake ore are reported with large contracts at Cleveland Minor metals are with restricted Shipments of boots snoes nora the east are 19 per cent less than a year with cheaper grades predominating in orders and in manufacture and not many factories fully Textile tries do not seem to have gamed within the past ior as many works nave closed as have resumed and in and cotton ratner There has been a snarp in print cloths to 2f4 home of the best Known nave been put at tne lowest prices made and there is more of general closing of Some woolen mi Us of large importance have one because a reduction of wages was and in works reductions have been more numerous ana larger than m previous The demand ior woolen goods does not improve and sales of wool decreased sharply after the activity two weeks being only pounds for the against last Though some grades are scarce and prices relatively higher west than the kets do not Exports of about 000 smaller far the week than last year and for six weeks the increase has been only or 7V> per but imports last week were little more than half as large as last for the year thus far the decrease is about 42 per cent. There is no change of importance in the money Failures for the week have been 323 in the United States against 197 last and in- Canada against thirty-six last Bradstreet's tomorrow will Tele- graphic advices from leading trade centers make it plain that the volume of general business since the beginning of the month shows a decrease as compared with a cor- responding portion of January this and it is of to determine at this writing how much it is due to a ural temporary recession of the wave of the incoming There is a to continue disposing of stock and buy for immediate wants until after the tariff question is disposed of. This evidently is having some travelers for dry and other houses in a number of instances are on their way home cr have arrived and report many ot those dependent on the passage 01 wise of the tariff Snow and storms have temporarily ed business many lines blocked and country reacts im- though northwestern advices art that the snow is of value to tne winter The greatest activity in cial lines is in dry ana southern plantation ooi ib witn man aide v. on ders and buying as Tuese m shaded At more important ern dry centers is very prints cut cents and print cloths with stocks Rice is m good and Sugar is from to 14c higher ana mer pig iron at Pittsburg holes its 75 cents although I ears are or a uow that makers vitL to produce lower recent expansion ot manufactured iron and steel though checked by action on the tariff by The recent government on marketer trom plantations indicate a. crop of Mercantile throughout the try week number against last week and 205 in the week a year is no improvement m lines at the gam noted at Philadelphia is in demand for ime capacity for iron and steel production there far exceeds the The anticipated irade revival at Baltimore has not and commercial travelers report change is reported at Charleston or the feature at the former being fair demand ior fertilizers and General trade at Nashville is smaller in opening weeks of but at Memphis the TRIAL OF THE The Lawyers from ROM to the Young February connected with the trial of the four Skelton boys at for of Banker the alleged aucer of their Annie the case the most interesting and tional that has come up lhe Alabama courts for It is rich is The defense opened today by reading the letters from fourteen ten to Skelton while she was vising Mrs. S. V. at Little They were full of the endearing terms and extravagant promises and created amusement as well as After their rearing Dave Skelton was pnt the He stated that October Skelton left Scottsboro ostensibly to so to Little The she left for Memphis ROSS left for He returned to Scottsboro about days and she arrived in Little about eight days The interval had been at the world's this was not discovered unvil Skelton remained in Little wlin hor being received in the best A boat December Kirby opened a letter from Ross by Its contents aroused her and she broke open her trunk and got the entire ber Ross had They were sent to her brothers at The boys a conference and agreed to get their sister home if they Accordingly they sent a telegram that her was and to at She started from Little Rock to but Ross had heard of the telegram asd met her in Undoubtedly he persuaded her to go for she ed in He but was warned to which he ing to His wife was ill a few weeks after and he had to return to He arrived there January 31st. On February 4th. started away secretly by driving to but was followed by the four ton boys and there shot and killed as de- tailed in the dispatches at the In the detectives were looking for Miss She was found the Wednesday after the killine at the Gibson in S. V. Kirby saw her She was a complete In fact she was He took her there to a private in This was the story defense brought out Tomorrow be from Miss showing that Ross was not her and naming as the man a gentleman high ia government vice residence Ala. FIRE IS A and February discovered this morning issuing from thd third story of the wholesale drug house of Williams Nos. 02 and Woodward Owing to huge snow drifts in the street and the large number of telegraph and trolley wires the firp de- was seriously delayed in getting to work and the flames gained great way and rapidly spread to the entire five At S o'clock the fire was under con- The drug firm estimates its loss on stock at which is insured for about Loss on insurance DOUBLE IX Two Strong tp Their Victim Said to Be February afternoon wnile Mrs. Jessie Rucker was at her near a little about forty from two negroes entered her home and assaulted The two were caught carried near the scene of the swung to a tree and riddled with Later re- ports are that the unfortunate lady ia MEX It Is Presumed Tnat They Have Been Robbed and Perhaps February Davis and of the insane home rugae for town ana have never Tney were last seen at about S They had just been paid off and it is posed that they were robbeS The country being scoured but no trace has been Better Times in February The General Electric Company start up their tories here next Monday on full This means a fifty-six schedule and the employment of some The com- pany has received several large orders The shoe business is picking up among who daily fff 4V the arrival of fresh orders from all points of the At the headquarters of the it is learned that buv luy men are at Ba iron edge and Pom gr of n February The side-wheel steamer Ida was burned to the and tne hull filled with water The Ida has for several years between this port and points on the Lay tn passenger and freight She had been docked at Locust or The loss is about The Buried February two resiling work in the Gaylord to find the thirteen entombed are making slow Rock and coal continues to and on more than cue occasion they were obliged to flee from the work in order to is safe to say tonight that It will take fully ti month the rescue parties can the men whero they are supposed to Killed tiy a February Mr. William of South near ras accidentally killed on He lefi his house to take a. walk around his Xot next day his family became went ic search of him and found him A of a tree had striking him on tht killing is An Sleeping February bcr ten was burned clr o'clock tonight at the of He had narrow gauge or caldrons of n As the engine r at the bottom of one stream of mon the moment of
