The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1895-02-21
GOOD BY WORLD!
HOWD'YE HE'LL!
Mr.. Hatch Lets Loose Language
Suited to the Times--Facts Be-
ing Admitted.
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
With All Modern improvements Predict
ed For Thi. Csuntry--A Big Piutoeras
Who Saw the Hand W ritinx on the w all
Left when There State Rooms.

ed for This Csuntry--A Big Piutoeras
Who Saw the Hand W ritinx on the w all
Left when There State Rooms.
WAsHINGroS, Feb. li.-Th. third at
tempt of the admistration. nj this .es-
sion. Ia secnre legislation looking To
the relief of the treasury. failed in
the House to-day. First the CarlisI.
bill for the reform Of the currency
went down: next, the bill for the issue
Of $500, ,0o0,Uoo of gold bonds and the re-
tirement of the legal tenders RECON-
mended in the Presidents special mes
sage, was defeated last Thursday by a
majority nf -. and to-day the House.
by majority even larger than IL,
REFUSED To ORDER
third reading of the resolution by
which il was proposed 10 authorize the
issue OF s65.oOON1 OF three per cent.
gold bonds. 10 substitute for the four
per cent. thirty years coin bonds. sold
by Secretary Carlisle under the con-
tract with the Rothschilds- Morgan
syndicate. The action of the House
today was th.
ELIMINATION OF THE FXCITING EVENTS
which have occurred since the Fresi-
dent sent his special message To Cong
ress, which resulted in the report from
| the ways and means committee last
night, of the resolution to authorize
the issue of the gold bonds. 4 special
order was brought in as soon "a the
| House met this morning. to bring the
resolution toa vote at u o'clock to-
night. The debate upon the resolu-
| ton, which lasted over five hours, was
of an interesting and at times
INFLAMABE CHARACTER.
The galleries were packed and there
was much excitement and confusion
on the floor. but the interest centered
| in the course which the Republicans
| would pursue, il being conceded that
| the fate of the resolution rested with
| them. There was much manoeuvering
among their leaders. The Republican.
west of the Alleghanys, lea nv Hopkins
and Cannon, of Illinois, started oil
with
IMPETUS -IsrEECHEs AGAINST COLL
that would discriminate against the
bonds already issued. Mr.. Reed and
his Eastern friends sought, in private
conference, to rally all To united ac-
tion. His plan was to allow the reso-
luton to go to a third reading, and
then move to recommit il with instruc-
tions to report back hill similar To
that which he offered as substitute
for the gold bond bill last week. provid-
ing for
| THREE PER CENT COIN BONDS
For time il seemed possible that
this arrangement would be- agreed Ia.
After the stirring speech of Mr.. Hep
burn, of Iowa, the middle and western
Republicans broke away, determined
to defeat the third reading Of the reso-
luton, lest by some chance II might
carry if il passed the parliamentary
stage. The eastern Republicans then
decided to support it. The speeches oi
Messrs. Wilson, Reed, Hopkins and
Bryan were the features OF the de-
bate.
Mr.. Hatch (Dem. Mo-, in five
minute speech. aroused the opponents
of the resolution To great enthusiasm.
\ He had but little time, he said. To ex-
plain why he was To he pall-bearer at
this financial funeral. In "A word, il
was because the passage of this resolu-
tion would make every debtor in the
United States
PAY HIS DEBT IN GOLD.
He read amid much demonstration a
letter addressed by eX-Gov. Proctor
Knott, of Kentucky, to Senator Black
burn, OF Kentucky, i'm which Mr.. Knott
characterized the pending proposition
as the last insolent demand OF the
goldites." "They don't seem to wan,
to leave us a hereafter. Whenever tn.
| fn .vntI sil,-.,
is doomed for all eternity. As id
Judge Forbes said to Johnny Moore
Good bye world, howd'ye hell
? daughter and ap,lause.)
The letter continued: Great God
how rapidly this long suffering peopl,
are being driven to the dreadful altern
ative of
SLAVERY, OF INTERNECINE STRIFE,
to determine whether they will tamel,
hold out their hands and have tn,
shackles of remOrseless plutocrac,
rivtted upon their wrists or fight.
Now mark what | say =: if he mex
Orable law of cause and effect has no
been eXpunged from the statute bOol
of the Almighty, unless halt is calle,
L. ID. e., you may expect to see the
| HORRORS OF THE FRENCH RvoLUTIo.
put on the American stage with al
the modern improvements and tina
within the next decade. / remembe
was suspected by some of my friend
: of political lunacy in 1860, because
|. predicted that in the event Of Mr.. Lin
coins election there would be a wa
between the States. They could no
see why it ought to be so. Neithe
could but knew the causes whic
:. were at work and which would in tn
long run produce that result. and re
l garded his election simply as tn
!. spark which
al WOULD EXPLonE THE NINE
SO when the fiery cloud appeared i
: less than one short year, which de-
|. uged the country in blood for nearly
d lustrum, some Of those who ha
thought me crOaker, a mere dyspeI
tic pessimlst, began to regard me q
Byron did JeftrIes-as a ID di.
: corning fellow. tell you senators, j
all seriousness, see far more reason I
= anprehend the
= SPEEDY APPROACH OF A TERRIBLE
Is REVOLUTION
in this country than Lord Chesterfield
N saw in France when ne wrote his hi,
i toTlC pEfulCtlOHs from farls. Nor u
| alone. That gentleman Astor, VII
went to England sometime ago. bougl
o. him place on the Island and becan
: British subject, saw what is comm
-, as plainly as i do: so he took time b
the forelock and skipped out whe
- there was not such a
r RUSH FOR STATE ROOMS
as there will be after a while. He kne
very we'll that if things should keep {
as you and have seen them for son
u years past, the time was not far G
of when there should be such crowd
d. his class of people hurrying aboal
ad every outgoing steamer, he might
e. showed off the stage plank"
An analysis of the vote shows tn
EIGHTY-NINE DEMOCRATS
ID. and thirty-One Republicans 12O in a