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LODGES ODIOUS SCHEME.
DIXIE AGAINST IT BUT NOT IN
FAVOR OF A BOYCOTT.

Senator Hoar Spends Another Day
With Johnny Davenport Patching
Up the Revised Bill-Gov. Fleming
Again Interviewed on the Subject
| Augusta's Cotton Exchange Acts.
WASHINGTON, July Ex-senator Boar
went home to Massachusetts tonight, weary
with the delay of the Senate in taking up
the force bill. He spent another afternoon
in the pleasant company of Johnny Daven-
port shut up in his hot committee room
with the substitute bill. trying to change 10
a little more, so as to conciliate few more
republicans, but he did not feel like report
ing it to the Senate before he left. He will
not have to hurry back. The tariff
bill is being very slowly debated,
only three pages having been dis
posed of, and IL will be set aside
| Saturday for the appropriation bills
whenever necessary. Next week will be
given to the river and harbor bill. Perhaps
the tariff talk may run into the next week.
II will be September before the force bill
can get a chance.
AUGUSTA AGAINST A BOYCOTT.
AUGUSTA, GA, July 30.-The Augusta
| Cotton Exchange, representing the business
| in terests of Augusta, to-day adopted the
| nouncing the Lodge election bill and the
proposed boycott:
WHEREAS, The south Is peaceful and prosper
| ous, the relations between the races amicable,
and all our people engaged in developing tho
agricultural, mining and manufacturing re-
sources of this section. cotton crop of $50 goo
bales, the BUILDING af manufactures OF various
| kinds, and its lumber industries constitute the
south's evidence of its peace and good VIII. and
its contribution to the aggregate wealth of the
| nation; therefore be II
hes0iued That the passage of the Lodge cleo
| tion bill now before the Senate will prove dis
| astrous factor in the SOUTH will retard the
peaceful and prosperous material development
| now taking place; will engender bad blood and
bring about conflicts between blacks and
whites; will accomplish no good, but on the
contrary will be fruitful of the most deplorable
results to the peace Of the country and its busi-
ness interests.
| Resolved, While deplorng the evil resul is Of
the Lodge election bill, we condemn as unwise
any move that contemplates interruption of
business relations between the north and the
south. To attempt to boycott the north for
such reasons would be as mpracticable
| as it would be unfortunate We,
| therefore, condemn any effort to dis
| turb or 20 interrupt the business relations
| between the south and north, and appeal TO the
| common SENSE common interests aud patriot
| ism of the north to prevent the enactment OF
| the Lodge election bill
Gov FLEMING INTERVIEWED.
| JACKSONVILLE, FLA, July 30.-The
| Times Union tomorrow will publish an in
terview with Gov. Francis p. Fleming of
Florida on the boycott proposed by the
Atlanta Constitution and the effects Of the
force bill. The governor was interviewed
on the same subject bv the able correspond
ent of the MORNING NEWS at Tallahassee
few days ago. To the Times Union corre-
spondent the governor said: 81 am opposed
to boycotts on general principles, nor does it
appear to me that boycott would accom-
plish such good as would compensate for the
evil Effects
"You would like to see the south inde-
pendent, would you mott"
Certainly would. The south has made
rapid advancement in prosperity within the
past decade, has increased in wealth and
population, new industries are being de-
| veloped, and she presents to-day an inviting
field to capital. / wauld rejoice to see an
increase in our manufactures and the south
self-sustaining, but would regret TO have
! this by the means suggested"
THE BOYCOTT NOT THE WAY.
"Do you regard commercial saperation as
possible in the event of the passage Of the
billF'
"The passage of the force bill, which
would evidence hostility to the south, al
which it is aimed by northern republicansy
would do more to antagonize the sections
than anything since the reconstruction
period, and fear would retard the progress
Of the south by serious political
disturbances. But the suggested boycott
which, if successful, would interrupt the
relations of trade between the sections and
strike a blow at our friends as well as
our enemies, would increase Sec
tional feeling to an extent which
would be unfortunate for the country and
our business relations, and would. in my
opinion, operate injuriously to both sections
II the bill passes we must meet it calmly,
and adopt such means as our best Judgment
dictates to prevent the injuries which it la
intended to perpetrate."