The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-10-09

icbitSu 10 lOCNreii. chandler and HRUi6V
referring to the alleged contribution of ten
thousand dollars by the president to the demo-
cratic campaign funds asserted that if such
contribution had been made land they had
never seen any denial of The charged, the con-
clusion then was inevitable that he had com
mitted q crime, punishable by fine and impris-
onment or by both.
MIR Turner on the Republican Tariff.
WASHINGTON, October 4.-TSpecial Mr.
Turner, of Georgia, was the only member of
me ways and means committee in the city
this morning. He has read the senate tariff
bill carefully and does not think it has i'm
proved the republican situation. He saws 1t
Neriiies the declaration of the democrats that
TINS proposition is to reduce the revenue with
out relieving the taxpayers 1t weakens their
position by making their purposes more clear.
Ito thinks it puts them in a worse position
than they were without bill, except that il
may assist them in flying the fat" from the
individuals the bill favors.
The bill, Mr.. Turner says, is distinctly an
assault upon the southern industries Willie
1t only reduces the income from the tariff
about forty million dollars it takes more than
two-thirds of this from two southern indus
tries, sugar and rice, while the northern states,
though they receive the smallest cut, get fifty
times as much benefit from protection as the
south.
Mr.. Turner then went OH to say that notwith-
standing the tagging trust, the bill puts iute
butts in the free list, and yet only reduces the
duty on bagging one-half, while the Mills bill
reduces it three-fourths The duty is now three
cents per yard. The Mills bin reduces it to
OF cent per yard. Cotton ties that are put
on the free list by the Mills bill are taxed more
than hundred per cent by this bill, while tho
present law, made by the republicans tax
them only So per cent, all of which goes to
prove that it is a sectional measure and an
assault upon the south.
When the house convened this morning 1t
was definitely determined that an adjourn
ment resolution should be passed. In fact
Speaker Carlisle, Mr., Turner, General Forney
and other leading members OF the house pres
ent, had consulted with senators who had
given them definite insurance that they were
willing to adjourn. and would accept a reso-
luton for that purpose immediately upon its
reception. The leaders in tho house were
unanimously in favor Of passing such a
resolution. 1t had heen properly
ner, who was to have introduced it before nd
Journment today. but about o'clock the little
man with big head Mr.. Breckenridge, of
Arkansas, rushed into tho house, after an alb
sence of many weeks, having Just returned
from New York, and interposed his objections
to the passage of the resolution i'll the most
vigorous manner to Mr. Turner and others
who had it in charge. OF course the other
members were quite indignant at the offlcious-
ness OF the little fellow with tho
swell head; but as he was the senior
of Mr.. Turner in the ways and means COM
mittee, his opinion was of necessity respected,
and the resolution was not introduced today.
The consultation between Mr.. Breckenridge
and the leading members who had the matter
in charge was held in the cloak room, but it
Don spread upon the floor of the house,
and the Arkansan would not feel complimented
could he hear the opinion of him expressed
by the other members They were truly in
dignant and while they had, according to
precedent, to bow to his will today, it is highly
probable that a caucus will be decided upon
tomorrow. and the little man win be sat upon
in the most effective manner. Tho few MEM
bers of the house now present are
tired OF remaining here to do nothing,
while Mr.. breckenridge and others are
ont i'll the campaign. Realizing that the issue
is now clearly made, with no possibility of the
senate passing their tariff bill before the cleo
ton, and the senators willing to adjourn, the
members of the house see no
favor adjournment. In fact the tide is so
near at flood for Adjournment next week,
that it VIII be almost without the range of
possibilities to now stop it,
JUDGE THURMAN's CONTRIBUTION.
Judge Thurman is reported to have subscrib-
ed $4,000 to the democratic campaign fund In
this he has followed the example of President
Cleveland by giving twenty per cent of his
annual salary in the event of election. The
contribution is said to have been made through
democratic member of the house.
CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER
and family arrived here today. The chief
justice will BIO sworn into office ON Monday.
The president disappeared yesterday after
noon frcm the whitehouse, and as it was inn
possible to find him, the conclusion was jumped
at that he had been kidnapped. * more
searching investigation, however. devel-
oped n clew, and it was discovered
that he and Colonel James Muller,
internal revenue commissioner, had gone fish
ing about twenty miles up the Potomac. They
returned late this afternoon.