The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-03
TILLNAN NAY Be SENATOR.
A Movement 10 Send The Governor to
Washington.

A Popular Vote on the Question Con-
templated by Those Back of the
Scheme-A Messenger Gets Tired of
His Place in Two Weeks-The Treas
ury's Supply of Gold.
Washington, May 2.-W. r. Bullock,
clerk of the superior court for Abbcville
county, South Carolina, is here to-day
He is Tillmanite and an ardent cham
plon of what he calls the new regime in
his state. He denounces the so-called
conservatives as the radicals of Carolina
politics, and declares that their opDosi-
tion to Gov. Tillman serves to endear him
to the common people. Clerk Bullock is
determined, and he says the people
of the state, or a majority of the
state, are determined to send the
governor to the Senate in place of Mr..
Butler, whose term expires March 1, 1898.
The plan, he says, is to elect Gov Till
man by direct vote of the people, by
which it can be demonstrated that he is
overwhelmingly the choice of the people
This direct vote plan, he admits, will be
an innovation in South Carolina politics,
but it is demanded by public sentiment.
Altogether Mr. Bullock is d free talker
and genuine exponent of his peculiar
style of democracy.
A MESSENGER RESIGNS.
Sidney Lawson of Atlanta very re-
Gently appointed to a messengers place
in the navy department, has thrown mp
his job after two weeks trial and has ac-
cepted position with the Singer Sewing
Machine Company, with an agency at
Jacksonville, Fla.
John Baird, formerly the adjutant gen
eral of Georgia, has been appointed to a
position in the census office.
Mai. J. II. Kelner of Atlanta, recently
appointed a special agent of the census
Office, has been assigned to duty in Con
necticut to collect statistics about -four
ing mills and milling interests generally,
j. b. Randall OF Sanford, Fla, has filed
an application for the Office of superin-
tendcnt of construction of the public
building at Jacksonville.
W. w. WOOlsey of Aiken, S. c., has pc
titiOned to be made collector Of customs
at Charleston.
THE GOLD RESERVE.
When Secretary Carlisle returns to his
desk tomorrow morning he will find
very material Improvement in the cOndi-
tiOn of the national finances. When he
left for New York to witness the naval
review the gold reserve fund was, in the
language of the paddock, about $1,000 600
to the bad There is now about 81, 900 600
of free gold in the treasury. The yellow
metal is steadily filing up from day to
day and the fact that there were no with
drawals for shipment from New York on
Saturday and that the steamers
which left New York to-day will
bear no American gold makes the
situation comparatively easy. The low
rate of exchange would seem to Indicate
that there will be very light shipments of
gold by Saturdays steamers, if, indeed,
there are any at all. There is consider
able speculation as to whether Secretary
Carlisle has made a deal with the Chi
cago bankers. The weight of opinion is
that he has and it is expected that the
aid thus furnished will dispel the un-
easiness which has been felt throughout
the country since the beginning of the
scare.
A compilation of the gold and gold GER
tificates held by the national banks in the
ten sub-treasury cities on March shows
an aggregate of SOB 800, 720, of which New
York held $57, ,l70, ,602 and Chicago $40, SO
620, showing that New York alone held
more than the other nine cities The total
for all the national banks in the country
in gold and gold certificates was S1G9, 900
600, of which New York held more than
One-third.