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The age-herald., 1899-12-27
ONLY DallY HEWspApsa IN ALABAMA
Senator Morqan's Reply.

The reply of Senator Morgan was delayed a few days, but the delay has served to render it very full and very explicit. The call for it was made in the first instance in newspapers, and the reply very properly adopts a like route. The demand and reply should be printed together as public and semi-official matter, constituting one of the liveliest chapters in Alabama politics
 The call demanded the verihcation of report and the production of a credible wit ness. Senator Morgan furnishes both. He shows that the American Coal and Coke company was absorbed into a New Jersey corporation and that the governor of the state had large interest in the absorbed corporation. This very effectually disposes of that branch of the subject
 But Senator Morgan once called out is apt to remain on the warpath, and he is very full of ginger. He proceeds to discuss the various features of the senatorial can yass, and his keen satire is especially use ful in characterizing in their true light the various demagogic appeals that have ap- peared in the course of it. Such appeals are an insult to the intelligence to the state, and men on both sides should write in de- nouncing all efforts directed to the igno- rant instead of the intelligent. canvass based on ignorance and prejudice is can vass discreditable to the state and if Sen ator Morgan's reply has no other good ef- feet it will prove useful in uncovering some of these demagogic appeals. A sena- torlal canvass on a high plane, in which questions of moment are discussed, would be a valuable educational means, but d canvass on a low plane is both valueless and discreditable.
 Senator Morgan's reply should be put in pamphlet form. It is keen and severe, but we fail to see wherein it is unjust or un- warranted, or unsubstantiated.
The age-herald., 1899-12-27
The Tail and the Hide.

"Don't lease any lands in tow5ihtp 16, range IT thus said the governor to Land Commissioner Fitts over the wire. This dispatch is unintelligible except when a good map of the Walker county coal lands is at hand, and then its meaning at once becomes apparent.
 Flowing diagonally across section 1 in township Is is seen a representation of Bakers creek, a stream that has deep bed. worn by the erosion of tine ages The dip of the coal seams is towards Bakers creek and the two upper seams in shat neighborhood, including the Pratt seam, can be worked from opening on Baker s creek without expense of pumping for they would De self drawing. The haulage of the loaded cars would be down lniN
 There are S2O acres of university. lands on Bakers creek in sections 1 and F, Of township 16-320 acres in ala. The remain der of the university lands lie back from and the lands formerly belonging to John ston and Rucker The 320 acres afford the proper locati for openings in the two upper coal seams in that neig7lborhood These acres ife where four townships meet on Bakers creek, and these townships are fuM of coal.
 In a word, the 32O acres are a key, a necessity, to the economical working of the surrounding coal lands Take that acreage away, and the surrounding lands cannot be readily worked without involv- the S2O acres were selected by the uni yersfty for the purpose of gaining an out let on Bakers creek. These acres are about two miles from the spur track that has been built from the Southern railroad to the American lands, and they are about two miles-from the Warrior river, into which Bakers creek fows
 When the governor of the state took these acres out of the proposed DeBar- deleben lease, he took away the key of the situation. He left the other lands men Bakers creek. He destroyed the lease project at one blow, because Commissioner Fitts did not see fit to disregard the order of the governor of the state, unauthorized and illegal and irregular as it was. MT. DeBardeleben may have considered the op- ton upon the Montevallo lands as a con solation purse. At any rate he acquiesced in the act that struck the 320 acres out the lease went down of it's own weight and the lands were sold in due time to the Sloss-sheffield company the tail going this time with the hide
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Conqress in Workinu Order.

The election of MT Gayle in the Seventh Kentucky district completes the house of the Fifty-slxth congress. There will now be. seated 1S5 republicans, 164 democrats and "scattering." who are emostly populists This gives the republicans maority over all of 13. So small majority renders full attendance in the republican ranks unusual ly important, and as the session is progress ed Leader Payne will no doubt encounter no little difficulty in having on hand a majority of the house. He has already met minori- ty that was for the moment majority.
 In the senate the seating of MT. Allen of Nebraska raises the total number of sena- tors to S6 Four seats are vacant, and these seats will remain vacant until the crucial case of MT. Quay is decided. If Mir Quay sould be seated as a recess senator the governors of Delaware, Utah and California will at once fill similar vacan- cies. and in that way the senate would be raised to 90 votes, but of the four additional votes two would be republican and two democratic. Nothing of a political nature ds therefore involved in the Quay case, un- less the personality of MT. Quay is to be taken into account.
 Assuming that the senate is to stand at S6, as it does at present, the strafghout repub- licans number 46, or three more than majority, and then there are Wolcott of Colorado, Shoup of Idaho, Carter of Mon tana. Stewart of Nevada, Kyle of South Dakota, and Pritchard of North Carolina, to draw from, so that the republican vote on most questions will rise to twelve or even hfteen votes. Relatively speaking the re- publicans are stronger in the senate than they are in the house.
The age-herald., 1899-12-27
Rivers and Harbors Bill.

Chairman Burton of the rivers and haf- bor committee, evidently acting under or ders from Mir. Hanna as campaign mana ger. has decided to do all he can do to prevent the presentation of rivers and harbor bill at this sesion of congress. For the sake of a little campaign thunder the works on various rivers and harbors are to be checked and interrupted. The cam paign orators will then claim they have reduced appropriations, when, as matter of fact they will have rendered necessary work more expensive. Continuing con- tracts will either have to be sneaked into the sundry civil bill, or be interrupted al- together if no rivers and harbor bill is in- troduced at this session.
 It is certain that MT. Bankhead of the rivers and harbors committee will oppose the Burtonian policy, and it is to be hoped that MT. Bankhead will have the support of every member of the Alabama delega- tion. The works that congress has put its approval upon should not be interrupted. They are needed, the quicker the better. and interruptions serve to increase the ul- innate costs of such improvements. The
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linson, arrived in the city last night and are the guests of Mir. and Mrs. Tomhnson, on the South Highlands. MT. Thomas Tom linson Is the proprietor of the world-fam- ous Tate Springs
 Former Representative w M. Coleman, of Marshall county, was in the city.
 State Senator Stevens, of Tallapoosa county, was in Birmingham yesterday. Editor F. o. Hooten. of the Alexander City Outlook, one of the best newspaper men in the state and one of the best fel- lows between the seas, is in Birmingham. D.H. Riddle, a notable attorney of Good water, is in the city.
 
 II. B. canty. of Atlanta, is at the Morris Charles Talbott, brother of Albert Tal- bott, of Talbott and Palmer, arrived from Richmond last night for tae purpose of making Birmingham his home. He will be connected with the firm of which his brother is the head
The age-herald., 1899-12-27
ALEC YNAroN,s SON

By Thomas Bailey Aldrich. Tine wind it wailed, the wind it moaned, And the white caps fiecked the sea; An | would to God the skipper groaned, T mad not my boy with mel" Snar in tne stern-sheets. laetle John Laughed as the scud swept by But tine shippers supburnt cheek grew wan As he watched the wicked sky. 'eWould he were at his mothers side! And the shippers eyes grew dim; "Good Lord, in heaven, if ill oetide,
 What would become of him? 'sFor me-my muscles are as steel,
 For me let hap what may; I might make shift upon the keel
 Until the break Q day. 'But he, he is so weak and small, So young-scarce learned to stand Oh. pitying F'atIaer of us all,
 trust him in Thy hand! s'For Thou, who rnarkest from on high A sparrow's faM-each one Surely, oh, Lord, Thou'l have an eye
 On Alec Yeaton's son. Then, steady, helml Right straight he sailed Towards the headland light; The wind it moaned, the wind 1t walled, And black, black fell the night.  Then burst a storm to make one quail, Though housed from winds and waves They Who could tell about that gale
 Must rise from watery graves! Sudden it came, as sudden went;
 Ere half the night was sped, The winds were hushed, the waves were spent
 And the stars shone overhead.  Now, as tine morning mist grew thin,
 The folk on Gloucester shore Saw sibtle figure floating in
 Secure on a broken oafi Up rose the cry: "A wreck! wrecki Pull, mates, and waste no breath!' They knew it, though twas Dut a speck
 Upon the edge of death! Long did they marvel in the town
 At God, His strange decree. That let the stalwart skipper drown
 And the little child go free
The age-herald., 1899-12-27

Warrior river improvement is very good case in point. It Is emphatieally a nation al measure. because it's opening is closely connected with the country's export trade. It is needed beyond the power of words to express. On account of this improvement alone-and there are a hundred more-a rivers and harbors bill should be prepared, and The Age-Herald appeals to the mem .bers of the committee to bring in one, and it particularly appeals to every member of the Alabama delegation to promote such a result. Afessrs. Underwood and Bank head, upon whom the responsibility chief ly falls, need the active support of their colleaeues
The age-herald., 1899-12-27
Boe7 Kesolution Laid Over

New York, December 26-A resolution ex- pressing sympathy with the Boers in their war with Great Britain incidental with the resolution which was adopted by the board of aldermen last Friday was today offered in the city council President Guggen- helmer ruled that the resolution was out of order and it was laid over.
 The council adopted 8 resolution express- ing regret for the death of General Lawton, who was killed in the Philippines, and ex- pressed sympathy for his family. (
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II. B. canty. of Atlanta. is at the AIorri
MIR. CAGES CHRISTMAS PRESENT

From the New York World.
 The National City bank is the most pow erful financial institution in the country. It has the largest capital stock, increased on December from S1,00O,OO0 to S10,00O GOO. It has the largest deposits-an average of mere than S100,00O,0OO It has the most inn posing directory, including William Rock efeller. representing the Standard Oil in- terests; IT. Walter Webb and William Douglas Sloane, representing the Wander bilt interests; Robert Bacon, of J. Pierpont Morgan x Co.,. H. O. Havemeyer, of the Sugar trust; Jacob II. Schiff, representing such vast interests as those back of the great Union Pacific syndicate; John A. Me- Call, of the New York Life Insurance com panY.
 It is bank of railway kings and trust barons and all manner of great interests that have direct concern in national finan- cial and commercial legislation.
 The secretary of the treasury, Mir. Gage, has selected this bank as the beneficiary of a colossal financial favor. He has or dered that the internal revenue receipts of the government shall be paid over to it to use or distribute.
 These receipts amount to close upon a
 
 million dollars each week day-upward of $25O, ,OO0 GOO a year.
 For this favor the National City bank will pay not one single penny to the gov ernment Out of this favor it will make enormous sums, for it will put the money out at interest. And interest in Wall street ranges from to 100 per cent.
 The law forbids the secretary of the treasury to use the customs receipts of the United States to enrich persons and inter- ests friendly to the administration. But it leaves him free to be benevolent and E raprGeciative with the internal revenue re- ceipts. Therefore you are contributing to the wealth and the happiness of the Me Kinley-Hanna syndicates pet bond syndi- cators and railway kings and trust barons whenever you draw a check, or smoke a cigar or a cigarteete or sleep in Pullman car, or send a telegram, or give promis- sorry note, or send package by express, or drink a glass of beer.
 Has Secretary Gage ever heard of a United States bank issue which made and upmade presidents half a century ago?
The age-herald., 1899-12-27

From the Mobile Register.
 The governor recited for the edihcauon of Mr. Sterling A. Wood that number Of lies told about him that had died and been gathered to their fathers. So far so good' Then the governor indulged in prophecy. That is an unsafe business. People rarely guess right. especially when they Pioeeeu upon the basis of general average ne governor thought it well to say that the university land sale ''ie' would follow the route taken by the other lies, but there ne sljnped up. It stuck and he's stuck
The age-herald., 1899-12-27
One Days Business.

That the merchants of Birmingham are prosperous was demonstrated by the bank deposits yesterday The total cash deposits in the seven banks of Birmingham yester- day summed up ooO. More ethan three- fourths of this came from the merchants of Birmingham and was the result ot their cash sales on Saturday. Four firms in town made cash sales on that day exceeding five thousand dollars. The cash sales of one firm alone were in the neighborhood of ten thousand dollars One clothing house took in six thousand dollars on Saturday andra score of firms each sold three thousand dol lars worth of goods for cash Of course, there were thousands of credit sales,
 Probably no other city of double the size of Birmingham in the south did such tre- mendouss cash business on the day before Christmas. And these sales were but for one day.
 During last week the cash pay-rolls for labor on the part of corporations in the dis tr.ct amounted to one million dollars in round numbers.
 New York may be hard up financially, but the Birmingham merchants. the Birm- ingham banks and the citizens of Birming- ham are in better financial condition than was ever known in the history of this city.
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From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
 The more sensible woman Is the more she hates to have man give her sensible presents.
 woman may keep from telling a man a secret but she can never keep from tell ing him that she has got one that she won't tell him.
 A man is said to make a woman a good husband when he gives her for Christmas a lot of things that she has told him she needs around the house.
 A woman can carry around more things in one huff that she has to put her hands in, too than a man can in all his fourteen pockets, counting his hip pockets and both coatails.
 Every Christmas lot Of men, have to ex- plain to their little children that Santa Claus is always so busy earning money to buy folk presents that he can't afford to have a wife.
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Senator John T. Morgan to Governor Jos epIi F. Jshnston-"You, doubtless, feel very strong in your supposed ability to rule the state by the machinery in your hands; but very recent lessons should admonish you that you are, also, subject to the power of the laws, state and federal, and you cannot press our defiant contempt of the rights of the state and the people to complete success"
The age-herald., 1899-12-27
Kefusal Caused a Panic

Caracas. Venezuela, December 26-The re- fusal of the Bank of Venezuela to allow the official bank inspector, Senor Fabricco Condo, to inspect the books of the institu- tion, caused panic in financial circles yes- terday Today however the bank agreed to recieve him and the panic ceased. In the financial world here the concession for a new American bank is generally regard- ed as abortive.
The age-herald., 1899-12-27

Senator John T. Morgan to Governor Jos eph F. Johnston-"When you threaten the university, which is part of the state, with your vengeance because the alumni and the trustees would not submit to robbery to en- rich foreign corporation that you hssisted in promoting, you will find that the old and noble strain of blood that has given honor to Alabama will not curdle in the veins of this generation for fear of your impotent wrath"
The age-herald., 1899-12-27
Transuort Meade at Singapore

Washington, December 26-Word was re- ceived at the war department that the transport Meade, with Colonel Murray and the Forty-third volunteers infantry, arrived at Singapore yesterday on her way to Ma nila Colonel Murray reports the death of Corporal Kerrigan, of Company B, or the 18th inst. of alcoholic poisoning.
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Senator John T. Morgan to Governor Jos eph F. Johnston ssYou will also find that the addressed to their sup. osed want of wisdom and seIf-respect, will convince you that your contempt for their constitutional rights and the laws of the state, and for their intelli- gence and sense of propriety, is fully under stood and deerly resented by them."
The age-herald., 1899-12-27
AMERICAN FUKsITUse IN EUROPE

From the Washington Times.
 An American furniture manufacturing company is now shipping from its factoIies American furniture in the rough. Being in parts and tightly packed, 1t occupies little space, and consequently the freight is low. It is put together in London and Glasgow workshops, and the statesmen place the furniture in the hands of deal- CTS in England and Scotland.
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No one in this part of the world is holding tax-eater Is the very one who should have gone to South Africa on the first troop ship.
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In the Roman numeral line MCM. will look little queer next week, but in the following week the letters will be thorough 1y acclimated. .s.,.-u.--,.
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Timeliness Is everything in national movements This Is exemraihed in the ease with which $5O,O0o will be secured for Gen eral Lawtons widow.
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General Otis again rises to remark-no, to cable at high rate per word-that the re- belhon in the Philippines is about to be suppressed.
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 ] Timeliness Is everything in national movements. This Is exemrlifed in the ease with which $5o,o0o will be secured for Gen eral Lawton's widow.
 -- General Otis again rises to remark-no, 10 cable at high rate per word-that the re- belhon in the Philippines is about to be suppressed. It is now conceded in all circles, even around the throne itself, that the deed au thorized at the September meeting was 'ir- regular"
 The late MT. Moody is credited with this remark "one thing know. and that is humanity is not disposed to be bad, as rule
 The only sufferer from the Wall street furry is the New Jersey octopus, and it has no friends in the world of business.
  Colonel June Gayle is the full name, title included, of Kentuclsy's latest breezy addi- tion to the congressional collection. Ex-Banker Gage very naturally turns to bankers. instead of the people. He is help ing the former squeeze the latter. The discussion over the beginning of the tweteth century chiefly belongs to the science of impure mathematics. Marriage by wire has precedents and is all right, but marriage by the wireless method is wholly unauthorized. The New York swells are following the British peers onto the stage, for the pur- pose, of course, of elevating it. The congress of deaf mutes at<Paris will have attractions for many that the average convention does not present.
  The ups and downs of Wal1 street do not bother factories that have booked orders six months ahead.
 Senator William Mason did not put that resignation in the country's Christmas stocking.
 One New York bank and the government are in partnership on the buM side of the market.
 There is no holding back town whose cash bank deposits for one day run up to $69O eco.
 Senator Morgan's Christmas gift for the gubernator.al stocking was at least alive
  A boy consul at Pretoria is the result or "sor. interest in administration circles
 
 The globe trotters at Amaih got rather more than they bargained for. The deposits in one Birmingham bank yesterday were $236,000.
 It is now lese maeste to write 1t ,'Porto
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The only sufferer from the Wall street furry is the New Jersey octopus and it has no friends in the world of business.
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It is now conceded in all circles, even around the throne itself. that the deed au- thorized at the September meeting was Fir regular"
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The late MT Moody is credited with this remark: "ohe thing I know, and that is humanity is not disposed to be bad, as rule
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The globe trotters at Amalfi got rather more than they bargained for.
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A boy consul at Pretoria is the result Of 'son', interest in administration circles
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The deposits in one Birmingham bank yesterday were $236 900.
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Colonel June Gayle is the full name, title included, of Kentuely's latest breezy addi- tion to the congressional collection.
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Banker Gage very naturally turns to bankers, instead of the people. He is help ing the former squeeze the latter.
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The discussion over the beginning of the twetieth century chiefly belongs to the science of impure mathematics
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Senator Morgan's Christmas gift for the | gubernator.al stocking was at least alive.
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IT STUCK

It is now lese maeste to write it Porto Rico"
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The New York swells are following the British peers onto the stage, for the pur- pose, of course, of elevating it.
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There Is no holding back a town whose cash bank deposits for one day run up 10 S690,O00.
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Marriage by wire has precedents and is all right, but marriage by the wireless method is wholly unauthorized.
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The congress of deaf mutes at Paris will have attractions for many that the average convention does not present.
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The ups and downs of Wall street do not bother factories that have booked orders six months ahead
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Senator William Mason did not put that resignation in the countrys Christmas stocking.
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One New York bank and the government are in partnership on the buM side or the market.
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colleagues.