The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-05-05
Their Contests in the House
Decided Yesterday.
ONE TAKEN, OTHER LEFT
Mr.. Shaw Unanimously Granted
His Seat.
Mr.. LooKHART was uNssATsO
Mr.. Lockhart Has Won Many Friends
at the National Capital and There
is General Regret at His
Retirement.
Metropolitan Hd 81,
News and Observer Bureau,


Washington, ID. g., May 4.
CONGRESSMAN Shaw was to-day imam
mously seated by the Elections com
mittee, and Congressman Lockhart
unanimously unseated. Mr.. LockhafV
has made only friends here, and there
are expressions everywhere OF regret
AT the action of the committee. Be
sides his dignified bearing, Mr.. Lock
harris judicial ability was coming TO
be recognized as of a high order. lie
hears his defeat with utmost compo-
sure, and in the manly way that IS
characteristic of the man.
There was an amendment intro
duced Saturday to the bowman Act
which provides for the claims of the
several States. There is one item in
ii for S747, for Furneyfold Mercer, OF
Jones county, n. G.
Gen. James Longstreet stopped in
this CITY on his way TO Boston, where
he made his speech. He stopped re-
turning. also, but he came and went
like a breath / did not hear him
spoken of; / tried to see him but
could not; had not his name been
upon the hotel register his presence
would have seemed to be almost
mythical rumor. Was it because Fhe
people of the country he served with
such distinction prefer to regard with
pathetic silence his strange untoward
course since the war? Only those who
have remained loyal to their own
country and own people, through
storm and stress, through right and
wrong, win their deep regard.
Il n y
Cen. Fitzhugh Lee is here for two or
three DAYS getting his instructions be-
fore going to his new post in CUBA
| He is as Jolly and off-hand as ever. Jeb
stuart was brusque enough, it is true,
| in a certain way, but brusque with
good Joke under it always. reporter
met him at the station as he ailghted
| from the train yesterday, and asked
| him for an interview. NO! no inter-
view with me-" he said, in a manner
| that somewhat repealed the reporter
but a second later a twinkle came INFO
| his eve as he added: Nobody inter
views me unless he speaks spanish.
Before Collector Simmons returned
home last Saturday he was frank
enough to say that no matter WhaJ
| fine differences were between men and
policies in North Carolina, one thing
was true, and that was, that
if the Republican party got
possession of the State, values
would depreciate fifty per cent.
| Mr.. Simmons herein states what thou
amds of good Tar Heels think, and in
view OF this it is inexplicable why
| every good Democrat cannot, for the
moment,put out of sight his individual,
| unavailable opinions upon questions,
| and Join with the bulk of his people
against the common enemy.
/ Referring to theTillman-Hill debate,
it was noted that Tillman's denucia-
| tfon of Hill as a representative OF bond
holders and Wall street was not eX-
| sctly lust. sFor," said one of the
gentlemen in group, man from
/ New York we'll acquainted with Mr.
/ Hill and his antecedents, Il doubt II
/ Hill had as many early advantages
/ even as Tillman. His father was
| brick-maker in Elmira, and his moth
cir was woman who did chores about
/ the town; and young David kept the
| newsstand at the Elmira railroad sta
sion. The lad had an uphill fight
| there, going TO school and Studying
law by snatches, until finally he was
taken into the law Office OF Judge
| Curtis at a small salary. Dir. Hill, !"
1 the speaker continued, never was
| identified in any way with Wall street,
| j. worth little more now than the
! residence which he bought with q
large law fee, known to all New Yorks
ea,s; is not at all mercenary in his
| instincts; is given to 10 sort of dis
| air1ation, and is wrapt up only in his
work. Had he replied to Mr.. Tillman
| by telling this simple but fearful
STORY of his younger days, it might
have taught the South Carolinian that
he was not the only man living who
had sprung from plain people into
National prominence"
|
/ was told yesterday that Speaker
Reed had at last decided TO give the
| House liberty to go ahead at its own
sweet will: that he would not restrain
them in any direction in which they
might wish to go. Reed has done all