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but he had not pressed that motion nor
voted for IL himself. - to Mr.. Platts
reference to newspaper articles lauding
him (Mr. HID, he said that he would
ike to have seen some of those compli-
mentary notices, as he saw very few such
IN print nowadays. Naughter.
After further discussion a vote was
taken on Mr.. Sherman's motion to refer
the bill and the result was: Yeas, S.;
nays, S0-less than a quorum.
a subsequent roll call showed the pres
ence OF fOrty-seVen senators-Over a quo
rum-and then Mr.. Sherman withdrew
the motion to refer and the bill was
passed.
Mr. Vest modified his silver coinage res
olution OF last week by making il joint
resolution and changing IL in some other
particulars so that IL now directs the
Secretary Of the Treasury to coin as rap
idly as possible the silver bullion in the
treasury purchased under the act of July
IA, 1880, into standard silver dollars, and
with such dollars to redeem the treasury
notes issued for the purchase Of the bul-
Hon. when offered for redemption,
such notes to be destroyed
as soon as they are redeemed" !"
IL also directs the Secretary of the
Treasury to redeem the treasury notes,
sentcd for redemption, i'm standard silver
dollars, or both, as the condition OF the
treasury may reQuire-the greenhacks so
redeemed TO be reissued, as provided by
the act of May 81, 1878.
Mr.. Hin indicated a purpose OF discus
sing the resolutions, but questioned the
prOpriety of beginning the debate to-day.
ton 10 the finance committee, but before
calling for a vote on that motion he moved
an adjournment and the Senate at d.
m, adjourned until Friday next
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win be laid before the fun committee at
II CLOCK tomorrow. When the commit
tee adJourns the democratic members will
hold secret session, at which they will
decide upon the policy to be pursued bv
them when the two measures are called
up in the House.
Both bills, as has been previously re-
ported, viii be presented to the House on
Thursday. The committee on rules will
report and pass through the House a res
oluuon setting aside Thursday for cOnsid-
Grafton OF the tariff bill and Friday for
the bond measure. 1t may be said in
70 nave the approval of Secretary Car
Isle and Of the President as we'll This
encourages the republican leaders to be-
neVe that II may pass the Senate, not
MlthSJanoing the prepOnderance of free
silver sentiment in that body With the
PRESIDENT favorable to the proposition it
Is believed that the whole power of the ad-
mlnlstrat1on will be exerted upon certain
OF lhe democratic senators of the south.
with a possibility that a sufficient humber
may pc secured TO join the sound money
reDubheans and pass the measure.
The bond bill is simple in its details.
II PROVIDES for the ssuance of bonds. in
terest ana principal payable in coin and re-
deemable at the option of the government
at the end of five years. 1t changes the
rate OF interest provided in the act of 1875.
under which bonds are now issued, to 8
per cent? which is also the rate of interest
that the S50,000000 coupon certificates of
Indebtedness which will be used only to
bear
No provision is made in the bond bin
regarding the legal tender notes. The bin
by simply separating the redemption fund
from the general assets of the treasury,
put II IN the power of the Secretary OF
the Treasury temporarily to isloate the
legal tenders when redeemed. The two
bills will go into effect upon their passage
anu remain IN operation until Aug. !, 1898.
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FIXING UP THE FINANCES.
VIEW YORK BANKERS CONFER
WITH THE PRESIDENT.

secretary Carlisle Also Present at
the Interview-The Bankers Also
Discuss the Situation With Several
senator's and Members of the
House-Mnny Wild Reports Grow
Ont of the Conferences.
washington, Dec. 24-The air here has
been heavily charged all day with ru-
mors of financial schemes that were sup
posed to be Matching at the white house.
at the treasury department and in the
wavs and means committee room at the
oapitol. The presence in Washington to-
dav of Pierrepont Morgan, the manager
and director of the latest gold bond trans
action. together with Francis L. Stetson,
the Presidents law partner, who drew
ND the bond contract last spring, and
Robert Bacon, who represents large finan-
cial institutions in New York and London,
caused no end of gossip.
These gentlemen saw the President and
the Secretary of the Treasury, and they
also visited the capitol and conversed
on the question of finances with their
friends in the House and Senate. 1t was
reported that a conference was held dur
ing the day at which the Senate was rep
resented by Senators Allison and Aid
rich, the House by Speaker Reed and
Chairman Dingley of the ways and means
committee. Messrs. Morgan and Brayton
Ives and the administration was repre-
sented by Secretary Carlisle and Secre-
tary Lamont
Some of the reports went 50 far as to
state that the New YORK
bankers were present at the
"a hinat meeting. Inc substance
of all these wild rumors was to the effect
that an agreement had been reached by
which the House and Senate promlsed
10 frame a financial measure that Will
maintain the public credit and meet the
present and any future denclI IN
the public revenues. 1t IS SAID
that the plan proposed was 70
ize the issue of per cent. bonds. to run
thirty years, to be payable in gold or sli-
yer, at the option of the holder Such
was the scheme said to have been patcheu
out at the alleged conference.
Several of the gentlemen who We're SAID
to have been participants in the reported
conference tonight, deny most empnat-
ical1y that any such conference was held.
The representatives of the administration
deny it and the representatives or the
Senate and House also denounce the story
as a fabrication. The republican leaders
in the House insist that they have not
changed their plans as to the tarin rails
ing bill. 1t will be presented to the full
committee tomorrow ana Thursday II
will be reported to the House. The meet
ing of the ways and means committee
on Christmas day seriously interferes with
the enjoyment Of Representatives Crisp
and Turner, for all the members of the
Georgia delegation have been invited "a
dine with Representative Lester. Tonight
Senator Bacon is entertaining the del
egation at an old-time Christmas eve
bowl of eggnog with trimmings.
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A TREsTLE GIVES WAY.
Two Men, Killed ana One Badly In-
jured at Charleston.

Charleston. s. c.. Dec. 2L-Engine No.
SO of the South Carolina and Georgia
railroad pitched into the Ashley river
this morning through a West Shore ter
minal trestle, about two miles west of
this city.
Engineer George Baxter and Brakeman
Clarence Turner were buried under the
wreck and met terrible deaths. while
Fireman William Boyle was seriously and
perhaps fatally injured.
Conductor M. Il. Dounar was also on
the engine, but he escaped unhurt. The
engine had carried a train of cars from
the yards to the West Shore wharves
and was backing out 10 the yards again.
Suddenly one side Of the trestlng sank
and the engine plunged into the river.
about twelve feet below Baxter was
buried under II and his body has not yet
been recovered. Turner'S body was cut
into pieces against the timbers and Boyle
was fearfully bruised and crushed. No
explanation OF the accident can be given.
Engineer Baxter had been with the road
for years, and he Is said to have been
the oldest engineer in the state in point
of service. His home was at Ridgeville,
S. c., and he leaves several children. Tur-
ner was from Shelby, N. c. He was n
years OF age and unmarried. Boyle lives
in this city and has a wife.
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PEACE URGED by LORD pLAYFAIa
The Great English Speaking Nations
RenIIy Friends,

London, Dec. 2l.-The Times tomorrow
viii publish letter written by Lord Play
fair, recalling instances of mutual ex-
pressions OF brotherly sympathy by Great
Britain and the United States. He pro-
duces President Cleveland's noble words
in reply to him when he introduced the
arbitration deputatlon % the President
in 1887. Lord Playfair dwells upon the
celebration of the centenary Of American
independence in Philadelphia and the en-
thusiasm displayed at a banquet there to
the toast, THE Mother Country" to which
he had the privilege Of replying. He says
he refuses, after what he has witnessed,
TO believe that the heart of the best peo-
pie in the United States does not enter,
tain an equal affection for Engllshmen az
the latter do for them. He refers to his
spending eighteen successive autumns in
the United States, thereby gaining knoWi-
edge of many OF the leading men there.
He adds that the late James G. Blaine
once assured him that nothing would in
England, and authorized him to express
this opinion TO Lord Salisbury who was
then, as now, prime minister, which he
did.
Lord Playfair concludes by urging the
adoption of Mr.. Gladstone's Common
sense" advice, and declaring that the
two nations admire and love each other.
All the papers will tomorrow publish
editorials which are virtually long SER
Good VIII TO Men," with special references
to the United States and Great Britain.
They reaffirm their belief that the peace
will not be broken.
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REPUBLICANS AND THE REVENUE
They Deny That Their Bill is an At
tempt at Tariff Revision.

Washington, Dec. 24-"Let the country
understand" said a leading republican
member of the ways and means committee
to-day, that the bill we shall present to
the House on Thursday is a pure revenue
measure, hurriedly prepared to meet the
exigency in our national finances and in
response to the Presidents plea that some
measure for relief must be afforded by
congress. There has been no attempt at
tariff revision. Our measure is purely a
revenue measure
The correctness of this declaration was
shown by the action of the committee to-
day in declining to hear Judge William
Lawrence of Ohio, president or Jhe Ma
tional Wool Growers Association VINO
desired to be heard in support OF higher
rate on wool than that previously agreed
upon. Repeated applications have been
made to the committee. in its. collective
and individual capacity from eastern
manufacturers, who have deprecated
hasty action in the preparation OF the
bill, that a postponement in It's prepara-
ton be had until their arguments could
be presented. To all these applications,
the committee have turned. deaf ear
and the bill will have the unusual dis
tinction of being presented TO the House
as the sole result of the committees Ia
bors, uninfiuenced by outside considera-
tiOns.
AT this afternoons session of the re-
publican members of the commlttee' sew
eral changes were maze IN the rates
agreed upon yesterday.
When an adjournment was had at 3
o'clock the frame work OF the Dill mao
been completed. and nothing remained
but to put it in proper form. At yester-
days meeting it was decided that farm
products, including live stock, shouiu en-
4 Joy a 25 per cent horizontal increase over
the present law, because of the ruinous
competition which the granger element
along the northern frontier CLAIMED 70
& suffer from their Canadian neighbors
4 across the line. This led some OF the
eastern members to-day to ask a CORE
spending increase on manufactures or
q iron and steel. This precipitated spir-
q tied discussion, in which the committee
a divided practically on geographical INES,
the western men strongly opposing a
q higher rate than Is per cent. After some
a debate, an agreement was reached that
the agricultural schedule should be placed
8 in the same category as the other sched-
& ules-namely, at a Is per cent. horizontal
4 increase. This was the only serious diff
fernec of the day, and it was speedily
Il settled
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STOCKS CLIMBING THE STAIRS.
PRICES AGAIN ADVANCE AND THE
SCARE OVER.

Purchases Made on "A Large Scale for
Both the Long and short Accounts.
Prices score Gains Ranging From
1 to 3 Per Cent.-MOney Easy at :
Per Cent. and Lower.
New York, Dec. 2t-Stocks ruled high
er again to-day and feeling OF confidenee
prevailed in financial circles. Purchases
on large scale were made both for the
long and short account, under which
prices scored gains ranging from i to s
per cent. This further gain was due to the
belief that Mr. Morgan's visit 10 Wash
ington is for the purpose Of consulting
with the powers that be In case. by any
chance, measures for the relief OF the
treasury should fail to meet with con-
gresslonal approval. Another important
influence at work was the comparative
ease OF money, stock exchange borrow
ers having experienced no difficulty in
supplying their wants at per cent. and
even below this rate. No demand was
made on the clearing house loan COM
mittee for certificates and none Is look
ed for unless the unexpected happens.
An important factor which made I'M
proNement easier was the comparatively
light engagements of gold for shIpment
were engaged. IL Is to be said however.
that the difficulty in securing greenbacks
hampered certain shippers. Features OF
the trading were the purchases OF small
lots for investment account and buying
by brokers who lost their heads In the
panic last week and closed out their GUS
toners accounts. There was also a dis
position to view the Venezuelan bounds
airy dispute from a more pacific stand-
point, and this led to more or less buying
OF securities. The result was an
advance in prices, ranging anywhere
from rs 20 az per cent. Rock Island sold
up AZ; Consolidated Gas, AZ: Sugar, 3h;
Southern, "a Big Four. 3M Chicago Gas.
3h; Northwestern, 2M; st. Paul, 81; Dell
aware and Hudson, 4; Iowa Central pre-
ferred, 3lk; Lake Erie and Western pre-
and Nashville, 2A; Manhattan. 2lk; Min
nesota and st. Louis, second preferred,
3k; Kansas and Texas preferred, "a; Mis-
souri, Pacific, ~; Lead preferred, ~ Pull
man, p Southern Railway preferred, 2k;
Omaha, 2, and Omaha preferred, 4ai. In
the final transactions there was some dis
position to realize profits and reaction
OF y to "a per cent. followed. Union Pa
cihc and Reading were heavy and fell AZ
and 55s respectively. Speculation closed
firm. Net changes show gains of iSeIi
per cent, Delaware and Hudson, the
Changers and Industrials leading The
total sales were 339,174 shares, including
1880 Sugar, &,7O0 st. Paul, 1890 Chicago
Gas, and $500 Tobacco. The bond market
was firm. The demand was good. The
sales footed up &, ,SS5OOO. The sales to-day
or listed stocks aggregated 27,5l8 shares,
and Of unlisted, 6i.656 shares.
London. Dec. 2i-The stock exchange
market opened quiet, but firm, The set
American railroads were firm and the
dealings nominal Other stocks recovered
by noon, when all railroads were better
ana the general aspect was quieter.
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TRADE WITH GREAT BRITAIN.
The Exports and Imports During the
Past Five Years,

Washington. Dec. A.-In response to
a Senate resolution the Secretary of the
Treasury this morning sent to the Sem
ate a statement showing during each of
the last five years, and for the whole
period, .the gross amount of the imports
from ports of Great Britain and her
colonies and dependencies, together with
the amount of the exports to such ports.
The totals for the whole period of five
years are as follows: United Kingdom
imports $500 $40, $50, exports 81, ,0i8 634;
Bermuda, imports 1929, 46S, exports 49,
065, 1853; Canada, including Nova Scotia,
New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, British
Columbia, ETC., imports S179, ,1S4, $50, ex-
ports 2S7, ,760, 1853; New Foundland and Lab
rador, imports 81, l0S,6 ,627, exports 81, ,492 Asa;
British West Indies, imports S67, 556, $50,
exports S42, ,230, A35 British Guiana, i'm
ports s21,O21,2 ,262; exports $9,91S,O57; Brit
ish India and East Indies, imports $110,-
194, 324, exports SIS, ,410,214; Hong Kong, inn
ports $3,S73,e6S. exports $22, Si2,255; British
Australia, imports $50, ,635, ,9S8, exports $49,-
All PA; British Africa, imports 1919, SIS,
exoprts S19, ,4S2S S24; all other British. in
Guiding Alden, Falkland islands, Malta,
etc., imports So, ,3l9,5S2, exports 2,S04,060
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TARIFF DUTIES on SUGAR.
The Existing Rates Not Apt to De
Changed by Congress.

W
Washington, Dec. A.-Representative
Meyer of Louisiana this morning received
Ia telegram from J. c. Murphy, the presi-
dent Of the Louisiana Sugar Exchange at
New Orleans, inquiring as to the action
.of the ways and means committee, with
Preference to an increased duty on sugar.
Mr.. Meyer replied that the committee had
not as yet considered that schedule, but
.lnat he would inform him officially when
IA Conclusion was reached. A member OF
me committee stated this morning that,
iA MS opinion, the sugar schedule would
De passed over without action.
The sugar schedule alone is excepted
rom change. IL was deemed ineNpedient
u include sugar IN the horizontal Increase,
9Eing 10 the embarrassments Whicn
Alsht arise from increasing the dlneren-
~ duty on refined sugars.
he most important change made az to-
lay 3 session was lhat relating 20 carpet
pYiai which ia the new bill VIII De re-
cred 70 the Mckinley rate. on an
.aef woods the duty VIII De 90 per cent
me Nc klnley law, with the compensa-
dufY on the manufactured products
y ~ per cent ~ the previous lazy. Tile
en az grades 0f lumber VIII De
ea a. ~ Per cent ~ che Mckinley
tte bond blil was completed and viii
~ tp-nifht ~ fhe Rogernmenf Drut-
once Seih if and tae revenue lI
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ENGLISH AUTHORS WANT PEACE
An Address TO BE Issued 10 the Liter
nrY Men of America.

airy Men of America.
London, Dec. 2i.--An address from Brit
ish to American literary men relative
to the Anglo-American crisis has been
compiled by an author of distinction
whose name is not made public and is be-
ing numerously signed. Among those
who sign the address will probably be
John Ruskin, William Lecky. Walter Be
sant. Richard Blackmore. Thomas Hardy,
William Black, Rider Haggard, John
Morley and others equally prominent. Az
ter PREDATORY remarks, the address con-
tinues
leads, we know not whittier, but in the
end through war with all its aocompani-
ments OF carnage, unspeakable suffering,
limltless destruction and hideous desola-
tion, to its inevitable sequel hatred, Bit
terness and the disruption Of our race.
II Is this path that we ask you 10 Join
US in an effort 10 make impossible.
The address expresses the pride felt by
the British for the United States, and
says: Nothing In history has earned us
continent BY the Anglo-Saxon race When
our pride Is humbled by the report of
things that you do better than ourselves,
{ Is also lifted up ny & tns e9%nhseiousshess %h ss
anti-American feeling among English
men; II is impossible that there can be any
anti-Engltsh feeling among Americans :
The address then dwells on the strength
OF the tie Of literature, which, IL says,
win continue to live after the fever OF any
political strife shall have passed away.
If war should occur English literature
would be dishonored and dshgured for
q century TO come by patriotic songs, his
tories Of victories and defeats, records OF
humiliation and disgrace, and stories OF
burning wrong and unavenged insults.
These would be branded deep In the hearts
Of Dur people, who would so express them
selves In poems and novels as to make IL
impossible for any of those who had lived
through such a fratricidal war to resume
their former love and friendship.
In conclusion, the address says: Poets
and creators, scholars and philosophers,
men and women of imagination and Wis
ion, we call upon you in the exercise of
your far-reaching influence to save our
literature from dishonor and our race
from lasting injury"
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A TRAMP SHOT AND KILLED.
lie Attempted to Assault the Daush-
ter Of "A Constable.

St. Louis. No. Dec 24.-Henry Larson.
a tramp, entered the house OF Constable
Hanson, at Pine Lawn, a suburb, last
night and ATTEMPTED TO assault Little
Bessie Hanson during the absence Of
her parents, Constable Hanson return
ed Just in nme 10 save his child and ar
rest the brute. At the station, while
awaiting a train for the city, Larson
knocked the constable down and started
10 run Hanson recovered quickly and
fired two shots. one entering Larson
brain. He died Al the city hospital this
morning.
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sILvERTIEs SATISFIED.
The Separation of the Tariff and FL
nanciaI Bills PIeases Them.

Washington, Dec. A.-The purpose of the
ways and means committee to report two
bills instead of coupling the tariff and
financial measures which they have un-
der consideration in one bill, gives great
satisfaction to the free silver republicans,
who would otherwise have been compelled
to antagonize their own party, since few,
If any, favor a bond issue. Before pro-
ceeding to this extremity, they would
have urged on the floor of the House the
separation of the two measures. A hasty
canvass yesterday developed the fact that
their proposed protest would have been
warmly supported by many of the anti
silver republicans, on the ground that it
would be manifestly unfair to place them
in an attitude of hostility to their party
when no necessity existed for it.
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SPAIN AND THE DISPUTE.
Access to the Archives at Madrid to
Be Granted.

London, Dec. 24.-The Standard will to-
morrow publish a dispatch from Madrid
saying it is understood the government
win not object to the United States send
ing a commission to Madrid to seek in
formation from the Spanish archives re-
garding the boundaries of Venezuela and
British Guiana. and Brazil and French
Guiana, but viii previously intimate that
allowing access to the archives is an act
Of courtesy, and does not imply in the
slightest degree that Spain admits the
soundness of the Monroe doctrine. 1t is
an open decree in diplomatic and political
circles that the Spanish government will
adopt the attitude OF all the European
countries whose opinions on the subject
Spanish diplomats have recently ascer-
tainer We're adverse TO the Monroe doc
trine The dispatch adds that IN view Of
the unanimous protests against President
Cleveland message IN the press and by
the public, Senior CanOVas Del Castillo,
the prime minister, cannot afford 10 play
into the hands Of the United States, how
ever much he may cesire 70 avert fresh
developments concerning Cuba.
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FIGHT ON A RAILROAD CHARTER.
The Farmers Alliance of North Caro-
lima Objects TO "a Lease.

lima objects TO a Lease.
Raleigh. N. c., Dec. A.-some montha
ago the directors Of the North Carolina
railway. which had been leased to the
Richmond and Danville railroad for thir-
ty years, leased 1t to the Southern rail-
way for 80 years. Seven years OF the
former lease were expired. Yesterday
there was an argument before the at
torney general by attorneys representing
the North Carolina Farmers Alliance to
induce the attorney general to bring suit
to annul the lease to the Southern railway
and to revoke the charter Of the North
Carolina railroad on the ground that the
directors had forfeited it's charter by
making a lease which was virtually equiv
alent to sale. Attorney General Os-
borne this afternoon decided TO make
application to the supreme court for a
leave to prosecute. He says that while
he is of the opinion that the lease is valid.
yet he considers il his duty to institute
this proceeding.
The supreme court to-day gave Attor-
ney General Osborne leave to institute
suit to test the legality of the lease. No
order Is issued him. to institute suit, but
in conformity with the law he is given
leave. The matter is yet within his dis
cretiOn.