Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1885 — LATER NEWS IETMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS IETMS.

A movement has begun in England which, says a cable dispatch, “involves probably the most astounding scheme of political revenge and proscription in the history ol this generation. The movement grew out of a meeting at the National Club of those Liberal members-elect whose majorities have been reduced by the casting of tho Irish vote for the Tories and of those Liberal candidates for Parliamentary seats who had been defeated by the same tactica The result of the meeting was the adoption, by a unanimous vote, of a resolution pledging each gentleman present not to employ Irish labor in the future, and to gradually, but as speedily as possible, discharge all Irish workmen now employed by them. ” The Farmers’Bank at Orrville, Ohio, holding the deposits of several adjacent townships, closed its doors. A count of the grain elevators in the Northwest has been made by a Si Paul paper. The result is a total of 1,513 houses, with a total capacity of 54,000,000 bushels. Excluding those in Minneapolis, St Paul, and Duluth, which are counted in the statement of visible supply, the aggregate capacity is about 33,000,000 bushels. The country elevators are believed to contain not more than ten to twelve million bushels, hut the number of the houses is much larger than had been supposed by parties in the trade.

The President has appointed the following Postmasters: John A. Barry, at Oswego, N. Y.; John G. Randall, at Doylestown, Pa.; George Shoitall, at Norristown, Pa.; M. S. Longaker, at Pottstown, Pa.; John Haviland, at Phoenixville, Pa.; W. B. Colston, at Martinsburg, W. Va.; Daniel J. Sherman, at Ashtabula, Ohio; Thomas Hubbard, at Bellefontaine, Ohio; Ringgold W. Meiley, at Lima, Ohio; R. B. Gordon, Jr., at St. Marys, Ohio; James W. Talbot, at Middleport, Ohio; W. C. Clark, at Paducah, Ky.; Erastus P. McKinney at Laeon, Ill.; Henry E. Wadsworth, at Laporte, Ind.; Joseph Brelsford, at Onarga.lll. ; A., J. Weber, at Albia, Iowa; John D. Smith at Bedford, Iowa; A. C. Hutchinson at Burlington, Iowa; Clara W. Snyder at Racine, Wis.; Ransom Nutting at Decatur, Mich.; Angelo Tower at lonia, Mich.; Charles R. Vaunn at St. Helena, Cal.

Bills to suspend the coinage of the standard silver dollar, to make the postal rate on secondclass matter 1 cent per pound, and for the erection of public buildings at Lafayette, Indiana, and Newport, Kentucky, were introduced in the Senate on the 14th inst. The chair presented a momorial from the Constitutional Convention of Dakota, with a draft of a constitution under which admission to the Union is asked. Mr. Harrison announced that he would at an early date introduce a bill to confer statehood on the territory. A message was receivod from the President transmitting the correspondence between the State Department and the Italian Government in regard to the appointment of A. M. Keiley as Minister to tho latter country, and also the Austrian protests against receiving the would-be diplomat at Vienna. The correspondence with the Italian Government was brief. Objection was made to receiving Mr. Keiley as Minister to Romo on the ground of his utterances in condemnation of the Italian Government fourteen years previous. Mr. Bayard declined to recognize the force of these objections, and the Government refused to cancel" Mr. Keiley's appointment, but the controversy was cut short by his resignation and tho appointment of another Minister. He was then appointed Minister to Austria, whereupon Count Kalnoky protested on the ground that “tho position of a foreign envoy wodded to a Jewess would be untenable and even impossible in Vienna.” Secretary Bayard replied in a vigorous note, in which he declared that this Government could not investigate the religious faith of any citizen, or consider his creed, much less that of his wife, as having any bearing upon his fitness for official station. Count Kalnoky then shifted his position and declined to receive Mr. Koiley on the ground that Italy had objected to him. Secretary Bayard then wrote our Secretary of Legation at the Austrian Court as follows : “From the correspondence two facts appear: First, that the alleged race and religious faith of the wedded wife of an envoy of the United States is held a cause of his rejection; and, further, that objections by a third party— * a friendly power ’ —are necessary to be removed in order to allow a proper reception to be extended. These conditions are simply intolerable, and are, in the case of the United States, not only inhibited by the plain letter and underlying spirit of our constitution of government, but are inconsistent with that decent self-respect which forbids a nation of 60,000,000 of freemen to accept the position of a diplomato dependency of ‘the friendly power,’ whose behests appear to have been acquiesced in and carried out by Austro-Hungary in the present instance.” The session of the House, on the 14th inst., lasted only thirty minutes. The Committee on Ruleß reported the Morrison code, with some amendments. Mr. Randall presented a minority report, which was in the nature of a protest against the action of the majority.