Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-12-17
Straps aud faets.

many WRECKS are reported i He pdlh'
Edmund Phinney from Savannah to
New York with load Of railroad ties,
had a desperate time Of it off Sandy
Hook The vessel grounded and the
crew was lashed and buffeted for sew
en- hours, before the life savers who
were doing all they could in the mean
time, could reach them. Railroad traf-
fic suffered much delay in the north
east, and New York city was almost
shut off from telegraphic and telephon-
ic communication.
Washington, December IA: 1t can
be stated on the highest authority that
If the subcommittee of the house on
banking and currency now dealing with
the subject can have its way, no effort
will be spared by the present congress
to adopt legislation remedial to the
present financial situation. All the
energies of that committee will be di-
rected towards the framing and pas
sage Of laws more general in charac-
ter, and which will be intended to pre-
clude shrinkage of the circulation en-
failing widespread financial distress.
The subcommittee held a four hour
conference today with its chairman,
Representative Fowler of New Jersey,
at which the bill which the sub-com-
mittce has undertaken to draft was
earnestly discussed, but no decision as
to its precise character and scope was
reached. 1t Is not likely the subcom-
mittee will be ready to report on the
hill until after the holidays. Then the
main committee will spend considera-
BILE time examining the bill, perhaps TO
revise or amend 1t. Men high In the
world of finance will be given an op-
portunity to appear before the COM
mittee to present their views on the
proposed measure. Much time Will be
spent in both house and senate in con-
sidering the bill when reported.
Charlotte Chronicle: 1t seems that
there are three bills pending in con-
gress for the relief of southern peo-
pie for the seized cotton and for the
cotton tax that was wrung from them.
Some Of the seized cotton was owned
in Charlotte, and each time that con-
gress meets the hopes Of the owners
are aroused afresh. The New Or
leans Picayune, Of last Wednesday,
gave a full history of the matter and
urges that justice be done to the south.
The wrong done the southern people
by seizing and using their property
without making any return for 1t has
been so manifest that bills providing
for the return of all to which private
ownership can be established, were
produced in every congress commenc-
ing with the Fifty-second, sixteen
years ago, to the Sixtieth, which has
lust opened it's session, but without
results. Restoration payments have
been made to supposed loyal claim
ants. but under the head of captured
cotton there still remains in the treas
ury the sum of $4,992,S49. But that Is
not all. To this must be added the
amount Of an illegal tax on cotton COL
lected by the national government
during the years 1S63-1S6S, inclusive,
and amounting to $6S,O12,3SS, inclu-
sive, and making a grand aggregate OF
more than seventy-three million dol
lars. This is one Of the scars that
has never been healed, as 1t represents
just so much of the property of the
southern people taken from them
when they were in state Of complete
impoverishment, and placed in the
Golfers of the national government.
The northern patriots are always loud
ly proclaiming that the war is over
until it comes to the money ques-
ton. The injustice Of holding this
money from the south has long been
admitted, but admitting it, the gov
ernment continues to hold fast to 1t
under the operations Of convenient
system Of red tape.
Washington special Of December
IA, to News and Courier: A shrewd
effort on the part Of the Cortelyou
presidential boomers to secure help for
their chief and to influence the south
ern delegates to the Chicago convention
has Just been discovered. Senators
Bacon and Clay of Georgia, were re-
Gently notified by many women post
masters in that state that they were
soon to be displaced by men. AT first
they paid little attention to the mat
ter. The complaints then became so
frequent that they decided to make an
investigation. They soon found the
"nigger in the wood pile" to be that
there was a we'll defined plan, 1t Is
said, by Mr.. Cortelyou and his chief
aid, F. H. Hitchcock, Of the postot1ce
department, to displace women by men
in as many offices in the south as pos
sible between this time and June 16,
when the Republican convention
meets, so that more active missionary
work might be done by the latter.
Both the Georgia senators called on
the president today in reference to the
matter and while it cannot be learned
what, if any, relief was promised, 1t Is
thought that orders will .be issued at
once forbidding such work to continue.
Although Mr. Cortelyou has not been
ment for several months, he has con-
tinued since his retirement from that
position to exercise a tremendous po-
ntical influence through Mr.. Hitch
cock. 1t is not believed that John G,
Capers, South Carolina's adviser with
the administration, has altogether ap-
proved Of the plan of dismissing the
women and filling their places by men.
The plan originated in Georgia and is
credited to Harry Stillwell Edwards
postmaster at Macon, and one of the
administrations right-hand men. The
plot to turn out the women and put
in men for their influence was a
shrewd move, and shows at least one
phase of the political game as it Is
being played here now.
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