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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-09
Our stock of Gold.

1t is not known, of course, how much
gold we have in this country. On Jan.
l, there was $ss,27s,S92 in the treasury,
and it was estimated that there was in
circulation $4s472S.547. OF this latter
amount about half is in the banks and
other financial institutions. II is not known
with any degree of certainty wheth-
of the people is as large as it is estimated
to be. The chances are it is not In the
Senate on Tuesday Senator Vest ridiculed
the idea that there is any considerable
amount of gold boarded in stockings, or
hid away in old chests or buried. He Is
of the opinion that nearly the whole of
our stock Of gold is held by the banks
and other financial institutions. There
may be some rich men, like Russell
Sage, who have gold in their strong boxes,
but few people of small means, in Sena-
to Vests opinion, have any gold.
Assuming that such is the case, the
bonds now offered to the public will not
be distributed to any great extent among
people who have but little wealth. They
can get better returns for their money
from other kinds of investments, and they
havnt gold with which to buy bonds.
y question in connection with the bonds
is this: VIII any great amount of the
gold to pay for them be drawn from the
treasury? If there should be the treasury
would not get much additional gold from
the bond issue, and it would not be
issue of bonds would become necessary.
1t will soon be known. however whether
gold with which to purchase bonds win
be drawn from the treasury. There is
nothing to prevent gold from being OBJ
tanned from that source.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-09
All Can Bid.


There is a disposition TO criticise the ad-
ministration's popular loan scheme. be-
cause the bonds are not offered for sale al
national and other banks and at postof-
fees. There seems also 10 be a grievance
against the administration because the
bond syndicate that was recently formed
in New York is alleged 10 have control of
most Of the gold. outside OF the treasury.
that IS in the country.
The administration cannot be held res
ponsibie for the acts Of the syndicate. II
is not known whether the syndicate has
cornered the bulk OF gold or not Mr.
Morgan. the head Of the syndicate, says il
has not. But. assuming il has. the admin
istration could not have prevented il from
doing so. The syndicate certainly has not
cornered any Of the gold supposed to be
boarded by the people. The people. there
fore. have no ground for complaint
What ground is there for criucising the
administration for not Offering the bonds
az banks and postofices? As far as we can
see. there isn't any. II the banks were 10
handle the bonds the government would
have to pay them commission on all
the bonds they sold. II wouldn't have to
pay any commission to have bonds handled
by postofices. but it would likely cost a
good deal to have them so handled, and
the handling Of them might be attended
with considerable loss.
All who want TO bid for the bonds can
do so under the existing arrangement. Per-
sons can either send their bids directly to
the sub-treasuries or they can make them
through the banks. Most of the banks
doubtless would assist any one desiring to
bid for bonds TO do so. Those who want
to bid for the bonds will have no trouble
in doing so.
The suggestion has been thrown out that
the administration would be gratifed If
the popular loan scheme should not be a
success. We believe that the suggestion
does the administration injustice It would
be glad to have the bonds taken by the
people.
The Washington correspondent of a New
York paper that is one of the bitterest
opponents of the President says that the
administration has desired all along to
sell the bonds to the people, but having
twice tried, unsuccessfully, the plan of
offering bonds at public sale it did not care
to repeat the experiment. The same cor
respondent says that there has never been
any written contract with the Morgan, or
any other, syndicate. but that there is an
understanding between the administration
and some Of the New York banks to take
some portion of the bonds not subscribed
for by the public.
There is no doubt that it has been the
desire all along. and is the desire now,
of the administration, to do the very best
that can be done for the public welfare.
The stories that appear in the public
prints that are calculated to give a con-
trary impression are the result of igno-
rance or desire to injure the adminstra-
ton.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-09
If Congress. Were Patriotic,
From the Washington Post Qnd).

If this congress is capable of an act
of craftsmanship; if it possesses enough
patriotism to rise above mean partisan
motives and address itself to the task of
relieving the nations difficulties: ii seems
to us that the time for a demonstration
in that direction is almost more than
ripe. Whether the administration be act
ing wisely or unwisely; whether or not q
better eXpedient be within its reach; the
fact remains that congress has both the
duty and the authority to deal with the
problem and that every obstacle now con-
fronting the government is due to its
delinquency. Congress could. now, by
prompt and patriotic and intelligent ac-
ton, apply a successful and conclusive
remedy to our financial troubles and con-
to do so.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-09
Emperor wIIIIam.. Me..ase.

The message OF Emperor William Of
Germany 10 President Kruger OF the
Transvaal republic aroused the fighting
spirit OF the people OF England 10 far
greater extent than did the venezuela
message Of President Cleveland. What is
going to be the outcome OF that message
cannot be foreseen. Just now II looks as
II it would be war. The British govern
ment has ordered troops 10 Cape Colony
and warshiDs are being put in commits
sion 1t is evident from these prepare
tons that the English government does
not regard war as improbable. Indeed.
the English papers are talking about
taking up the guage" thrown down by
the German Emperor and Of getting
ready"
The message OF the German emperor
meant a great deal more than an express
sion OF pleasure that President Kruger
had succeeded in defeating the enemies
Of the Transvaal republic u was, in
fact a recognition of the absolute indie
pendence Of that republic. That at least
is the Interpretation put upon it. and the
German emperor has not denied that that
is the Interpretation he intended it should
bear.
If il is the purpose OF Germany to rec
ognize the absolute independence Of the
Transvaal republic-a republic over which
England claims the rights of suzerainty
lit will be a difficult matter to prevent
a conflict OF arms between Great Britain
and Germany. In addi-c7 TO the insult
conveyed in the message the absolute in
dependence of the Transvaal republic
would interfere greatly with Great Bril-
tain's plans in South Africa.
While it is true that the British govern
ment has disavowed the act of DR.. Jane
son and his flibusters. it is clear that it
is responsible for that act. With DIR.
jameson were troops of the Chartered
Company British institution, and there
is little or no room for doubt that it was
the ultimate purpose of that company to
overthrow the government of the Trans
vaal republic and make the republic
British province. 1t is understood that
Cecil Rhodes. until a few days ago the
PRIME minister OF cape colony, was the
chief mover in this scheme For a long
time he has INDUCED in the dream Of
creating great South African state,
which should have about the relation to
England that Canada or Australia has.
Although he has resigned his office his
successor is his creature, and it may be
accepted as certain that he has not
abandoned his purpose. If what is said
of him is true the defeat of the jane
son raid will only make him more determ-
ined to accomplish the object he has in
view.
1t may be that the German emperor
was fully aware of this scheme, and that
his aggressive message was intended as
an announcement that Germany would
not permit it to be carried into effect. If
there is to be an understanding as to the
exact status of the Transvaal republic be-
fore the Jameson incident is closed it is
probable that other European nations
win insist upon having a voice in the
matter.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-09

A Florida contemporary reports that in
fits state the number Of men who are re-
fusing to serve on juries at murder trials
because they are opposed to capital pun
ishment is growing larger and larger every
year In that case it is our contempora-
rvs duty to try to change the current of
thought with regard to capital punish
ment Capital punishment is now too in
frequently visited upon murderers and
others who commit capital crimes. That
this is true is proved by the frequency
with which lynchings occur. If courts and
juries would promptly convict such GRIM
inals and see them hung, there would be
fewer appeals to Judge Lynch Public SEN
timent is not yet prepared for the abolition
of the death penalty by courts Of law, and
so long as the courts fail to punish prompt
~ with the death penalty, until there is
a revolution of public sentiment there viii
be lynchings. We have not yet reached an
deal state Of civilization.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-09
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

Meetings-Zerubbabel Lodge No. IS, F.
and A. NJ; Stockholders Savannah Cotton
Mills.
Special Notices-Old Fashioned Rye
Whisky, F. II. Jachens; Original Budweis-
er Beer Henry Solomon & Son; Notice of
Dissolution, Charles c. Gatmann; Stop
Dissolution, Charles c. Gattman; Stop
one Moment and Consider. DR. n. Schwab
g. Son; Blue Point oysters. CLANS, Etc,
at Sullivan's Restaurant: Fixtures, Etc,
for Bar, Etc, for Sale, Garrard, Meldrim
e. Newman; Magnolia Hams. Etc, WIZ
liam G. Cooper; oysters and Imported
Coburger, at Beckmann's Cafe; Notice as
to withdrawal Of Steamer Alpha. c. Il.
Medlock. Agent; There is Nothing Small
About Us Except our Prices, John 7.
Evans & Co: Spring 1t Now, Planting
Season Soon Here. SolomOns & Co.
Railroad Schedule-Plant System.
We Have Set the Pace in Golf Suits and
Golf Stockings for Savannah Wheelmen-
Falk Clothing Company.
The Nearest Friend Man HASH. II.
Levy & Bro.
Medical DIR. Charcot's Kola Nervine
Tablets; Pura Blood: Worlds Dispensary
Preparations.
New Pubncations-Ladies' Home Jour
nal; Comfort.
Steamship Observation-Disclosures Steam
ship Company; American Line.
Didn't They Go?-Appel & Schaul
Auction Sale-Parlor Suits, Wardrobe,
Etc, A. X. Wilson. Auctioneer.
Cheap Column Advertisements Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-09
Pensions.
FrOm the Philadelphla RECORD nemA

The decline of 100000 in the annual
appropriations for pensions shows that
the ranks of the veterans of the war are
rapidly thinning out. In 1894 the expendi-
ture for pensions amounted to S1l IN 234
and the House bill for pensions for the
next year win cary $127 ,090,0Oo The APP
propriation for pensions constitutes more
than one-third of the entire ordinary ex-
penditure of the government In the
course of nature this expenditure must
undergo heavy decline in a few years:
but instead of recognizing so obvious
a consideration, the tax-mongers in con-
gress insist that more revenues must be
provided, Notwithstanding the fact that
the treasury receipts are already over
taking the expenditures
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-09
The First Foot.
From Harper,s Bazaar.

From Harper's Bazaar.
The first foot over the threshold
In the new years dawning gray
Means woe or veal TO the households
So the wise old people say.
Now who to my door is coming
Stranger, or kith and kin?
Pray God it be no foe of the clan
To bring the i'll luck in.
am fain for the step of the baby.
The little foot that sways
Like a wind-tosSed flower in the sunshine,
In the grace of early days;
Or the step of the dear grandmother
Who has walked with God so long
That thoughts of heaven within her
Like the echoes of angels throng.
But, Lord of our generations,
Keep off the furtive tread
OF the evil and the alien,
The step our chilled hearts dread.
Let the first foot over our threshold,
In the dawn of the glad new year,
Bring us much to hold and to chirsh,
And nothing to hate and fear.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-09

Public opinion in England respecting
the Venezuelan boundary dispute is I'M
dergoing a change. The English papers
are gradually admitting that Great Brit
ain hasn't such strong case as they
were led to believe by the refusal of
Lord Salisbury to submit the boundary
matter to arbitration.
The English papers would have con-
tinued to insist, in all probability, that
the schomburgk line is the true boundary
between British Guiana and Venezuela,
and that President Cleveland's Venezuela
message was only a campaign docu-
ment intended to restore the popularity
of the democratic party, if one of the most
enterprising of them, the Chronicle. had
not sent one of its editors to Washing
ton to find out what the feeling in this
country about the boundary matter is
and upon what foundation the case of
Venezuela rests. This representative of
the London Chronicle has rendered his
paper and the people of England excel
lent service.
He has shown them that there is no
authority for the Schomburgk line except
the occupation by British subjects of ter
ritory that Venezuela has never ceased to
claim. He quotes from documents of I'M
questionable authority that make it clear
that more than one British minister had
repudiated the Schomburgk boundary, and
at least one had agreed 10 arbitrate the
boundary dispute.
But the feature of the work of the
Chronicles representative that has done
the most, good is that by which he i'm
pressed upon the British mind the fact
that the Presidents Venezuelan message
was not a hasy utterance intended for
political effect but that it voiced the
sentiments of the American people. Until
he called attention to it the fact seemed
to be overlooked that a resolution was
passed by both the House and Senate last
February, in which a strong desire was
expressed to have the boundary question
settled by arbitration and that it was in
accordance with this resolution that note
was addressed 30 the British government
asking if it would submit the matter
in dispute to arbitration When Lord
Saisbury's reply was received, refusing
TO arbitrate the matter in dispute. the
President could hardly have done other
wise than to send a strong message to
congress declaring that this country would
be compelled to uphold the Monroe doc
trine. Had he not done so he would have
been very generally condemned, because
the people are very much in earnest
about the Monroe doctrine, and they in
tend it shall be respected.
The English people don't want war with
this country, and when Lord Salisbury
finds out that the English people regard
arbitration as means of settling the dis
pute with Venezuela with favor he may
use his diplomatic talents to discover
some way of avoiding a rupture of the
friendly relations between this country
and Great Britain.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-09

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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-09

Coxey has been to Atlanta again. He
was there during the exposition. and had
talks with some of the politicians. incIud-
ing Tom Watson. Watson, it seems, treat
ed the general somewhat CURLY, accord
ing to CoXey's paper, hence it is hardly to
be supposed that the great leader of the
hoboes went back TO the capital to see the
grand panjandrum of the Georgia popu-
lists. But if he did not so to see Watson,
who was it that he was after? Coxey is
the owner of presidential boom. Is he
looking around Atlanta for a wet nurse
for it?
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-09

There are rumors to the effect that New
York will soon witness a big newspaper
deal and consolidation. 1t is said that
the Times viii absorb the Recorder, and
that the consolidated papers win come
out under a hyphenated title. The Times
is a democratic paper and the Recorder
is republican. The new issue, it is said.
will be Independent in politics, but as
the editor of the Times is to remain in
control of the policy of the establish
ment it is certain that the administration
of President Cleveland will be support
ed. The Times is the paper that smash
ed the old Tweed ring.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-09
silver Ups and Downs for a Year.

The beauty of unstable money and the
condition in which American business
would be were we to slump to a silver
basis is aptly crystailized in the story
of silver for the fiscal year about to be
officially reported. Nothing known to hui
man ingenuity can make a silver dollar
intrinsically worth more than its bullion
value, although the government pays out
gold and boards silver in an effort to
an impossible end. The average bullion
value of the silver dollar was for last
year 40. The ratio of gold to silver for
the fiscal year was / to $3.50
Should the free silver interests have
an opportunity (which they will never
have) to try their monetary theory upon
American business, the chief occupa-
ton day by day of the American bust
ness man would not be buying or selling
other commodities upon q known and sta
BILE monetary basis but weighing his sill
yer and finding out by telegraph, overland
and submarine, how much his money was
worth. Business men who fancy this sort
of occupation would be profitable, after
few months trial would help to in
crease the population of asylums for ex-
hausted intellects and bankrupt pockets.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-09
Cleveland the Country's BuIvark.
From the Philadelphia Ledger Qnd).

1t is remarkable phase of the politics
Of to-day that the country is threatened
with a population and currency debase-
ment measure by the republican party
In congress, it being the party that here
toiore mas determinedly stood up for the
financial integrity of the government nm
der all circumstances, and that the coun-
try should now be obliged to depend upon
q democratic executive to save it from
the threatened ruinous consequences of
republican folly or crime, schemed against
the welfare of the people. Yet that is the
situation at this time
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-09
The BOND Call.
From the Macon Telegraph Dem).

In offering a popular loan instead of
dealing with the syndicate, the Presi-
dent shows. apparently, that he is not
insensible to the harsh criticism to which
he was subjected because of the manner
in which the latest sales of bonds was
made, If the present attempt to float a
loan by public subscription is not sue
eessful, the treasury may be injured
somewhat, but the President will enjoy
a triumph over his critics
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-09

Some military authority has predicted
that Great Britain will fight her next
war in the English channel To judge
from the war clouds floating about the
horizon just about this time, it would
seem to be pertinent to begin to discuss
what warships this government has avail
able to send to the English channel for
the protection of American interests
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-09

1t seems that the Navajo Indians of
Arizona and New Mexico are on the war
path, as well as the Apaches. The Nava-
Joes claim that white cowboys have been
stealing their ponies. and say they cannot
get justice from the authorities 1t is
just possible that this complaint is well
grounded When the latter-day Indian
troubles come to be investigated it is gen
orally found that there are some mean
white men at the bottom of them.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-09
CURRENT COMMENT.
just hiring Up the Gold.
From the Nashville American Dem)

From the Nashville American Dem)
There are plenty of men in Tennessee,
who, in the absence of savings banks.
have no way to invest their small saw
ings. The new bond issue gives to them
the opportunity to invest their fifty. one
hundred or two hundred dollars in abso-
lutely safe securities bearing interest
and which are not taxed
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-09

If there were no greenbacks there would
be no need for a bond issue.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-09

1t is of no use to urge the Senate to
make haste. or TO do one thing or an
other. There are several new silverite
senators this session. They have now an
opportunity to make themselves heard
in silver speeches, and they are going to
make those speeches or bust" 1t doesn't
matter to them that their efforts will
be of no avail. They want some printed
campaign matter, with the government
printing Offices imprint upon it, and they
are going to have it, by jingo!
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-09

DIR. jameson, who is now so much in
evidence in the Transvaal affair, was the
leader of the British expedition which
overthrow Lobengula. He made a bril-
liant campaign. But the effulgence of
his glory has been destroyed by the Beers.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-09

The Cuban insurgents may be able to
force the city of Havana TO terms by
powerful means outside of the storming
of the city. The water supply of the
city is brought from distance. What
that means suggests itself at once. If
the insurgents capture and cut off the
water supply they win deliver a blow
heavier than a DAVIS cannonadlng.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-09

Old Mrs Mobiles, who is confined in the
Macon jail under sentence of death for
the murder of her husband, says she pre-
fers death to life Imprisonment. II gifts
so lonesome in jail; I'd ruther die and git
done with it, is the pathetic way in
which she expresses her hopeless condi-
ton.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-12-17


No grass has been allowed to grow
on the Inauguration preparations.
On Monday Chairman Hanna ap-
pointed Mr.. G. j. Bell chairman of
the committee. and today the COM
mittce ~ established in it's headquart-
ers (Which, by tho way is in the same
building Al which rooms have been
secured f.: the permanent headquart-
ers of the Republican National Com
m't'ee,) all the chairlnen of the sub
committees have been named, and
the ma 81 inery put in motion that is
going 10 Jesuit in our greatest inau-
gurat,or. There is so much opposi-
ton IN Congress to having the inau-
gura' bali in the new Library build
ing that The idea will probably be
abandoned and the ball be held in
the Pension building.