Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1902-06-21

existing bankruptcy law. Ihe minority
made a vigorous effort to re-assert the
present law in toto, but were over
whelmingly defeated, 65 to 137. The
bill passed amends the law in Is par
ticulars to meet defects which expert
snce has proven. The most important
is one to define preference to meet the
supreme court decision in the case OF
Pirie VS.. the Chicago Title and Trust
company. Four additional grounds
for refusing a discharge in bankruptcy
also are added: First, obtaining prop
erty on credit on materially false
statements; second, making fraud
ulent transfer of property; third, hav-
ing been granted or denied dis
charge in bankruptcy within six years;
fourth, having refused to obey the or
der Of the court or refusal to answer
material questions. Messrs. Clayton, OF
Alabama, and DeArmond, Of Missouri,
opposed the bill, the former declaring
the present bankruptcy law drastic
and oppressive measure.
Reading, CAL, special to Baltimore
Sun: More than 100 mining claims
have been staked within four days and
scores Of miners are hurrying to the
district as a result Of the finding of
what promises to be a great gold ledge
at the western base Of the Shasta di-
vide, ten miles this side Of French
Gulch. Not less remarkable than the
ledge itself is the manner in which 1t
came to be discovered A man told Of
the supposed ledge as a joke and a
miner proved the joke a reality. One
night last week, in a French Gulch
store, a crowd Of miners and others
were spinning yarns. Martin Foster,
who is not q miner, told Of a ledge
which he knew must exist beside the
county road at the base Of the Shasta
divide, because he had picked up bit
of quartz there IL years ago which
sparkled with gold. He meant the sto-
ry for a joke. William Ellis, a miner,
heard the story and set out early next
morning for the spot which Foster had
described. He located the little gulch
without difficulty, and before night he
had located a ledge which cropped out
at the surface. He returned next day
greatly elated and opened up the vein.
The pay streak is more than two feet
wide and assays from $100 to $500 per
ton. It has been opened up for about
10 feet and gives no sign Of pinching
out.
Several years ago, when Senator
McComas, Of Maryland, first entered
congress, says a Washington dispatch
his attention was directed to claim
of s1O4,O which the city of Baltimore
had against the United States govern
ment. He secured the passage of bill
to pay the claim in the senate, but
failed in the house. This. year the SEN
ator secured it's passage in both houses
The sequel to the story Is this: N. M
ting at breakfast one morning when he
noticed in the newspaper a paragraph
to the effect that Baltimore was finally
to receive the 100000 it had advanced
the government during the civil war.
AS he munched his biscuits he reread
the paragraph and 1t recalled fond
memories to his mind. Leaving the
table he took from his desk a neatly
tied package Of papers, yellow with
age. and went to Washington. Here he
laid before the treasury officials a con-
tract with the city Of Baltimore by
l. a. ho TIVE n
this claim and under which he was to
receive 25 per cent. If it was ever COL
lected. His credentials were in proper
form, although executed some twenty
five years ago. and he got warrant
for 100000. Returning to Baltimore he
presented the warrant to the mayor
and received in return a city check for
$4,000, accompanied by the most pro-
fuse thanks for his efforts in behalf OF
the claim. Senator McComas's aston
ishment when he, in turn, read in his
morning newspaper at his breakfast
table in Washington, that Mr.. Taylor
had received both the cash and the
credit of passing the bill was great
though he says Taylor never saw him
about the matter.
Secretary Root has assumed full
responsibility for the payment of mon
ey to Gen. Gomez by Gen. Wood during
the American occupation of Cuba, and
If congress asks for an explanation of
the matter he stands ready to furnish
what he regards as the most convinc-
ing proofs that the payments were die
tated by the wisest craftsmanship. The
argument advanced at the department
is along the following lines. THE con-
ditions in Cuba two years ago were
precarious. Not a Cuban believed that
the United States government ever
would withdraw from Cuba, and the
half-famished veterans of the Cuban
army were in dangerous mood and
clamoring for their pay. Gen. Gomez
was the head and front of the army,
and had served the revolutionary cause
as its principal leader without having
received a cent of pay. Gen. Wood
thought. and Secretary Root thought
afterward. that Gen. Gomez was enti-
tied to consideration; to a home, which
was supplied him, and in which he en-
tertained his comrades, and to an in
come, which last might be set down as
small offset to the money due Gomez
from the Cuban Republic. That the
Cubans themselves regarded the mat
ter in the same light was shown by the
passage by the present Cuban con-
gress. among the very first of it's acts,
of q bill nrnYidine q liberal pension for