Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1886 — Page 3

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Speaker Carlisle Finally Submits His Schedule of House Committee Arguments. Morrison Chairman of Ways and MeaijjS, Randall of Appropriations, Bland of Coinage. We print below a full list, of the standing committees of the National House of Representatives, as announced by Speaker Carlisle. The Chairmen of the committees are named first in every case : Ways and Means—Morrison. Illinois; Mills, Texas; Hewitt. New York; McMillin, Tennessee; Harris, Georgia; Breckinridge, Arkansas ; Maybury, Michigan; Breckinridge. Kentucky; Kelley, Pennsylvania; Hiscock. New York; Browne, Indiana; Reed, Maine ; McKinley, Ohio. Appropriations—Randall, Forney, Holman, Townsheud, Bumea, Cabell, He Fevre, AAinis -of New York, Wilson, Cannon, Ryan, Butterworth, Long, McComas, Henderson. Coinage, Weights, and Measures —Bland, Lanham, Seymour, Hemphill, Norwood, Scott, McCreary, Bynum, James, Rookwell, Little, Felton, Fuller, Toole. Rivers and Harbors Willis, Kentucky; Blanchard, Louisiana; Jones, Alabama; Murphy, Iowa; Gibson, West Virginia; Stewart, Texas; Carlton, Michigan; Catchings, Mississippi ; Glover, Missouri; Henderson, Hlinois; Bayne, Pennsylvania; Stone, Massachusetts; Burleigh, Now York; Grosvenor, Ohio; Markham, California. Foreign Affairs—Belmont, New York; Clements, Georgia; Cox, North Carolina; Singleton, Mississippi; Worthington, Hlinois; Daniel, Virginia ; McCreary, Kentucky; Crain, Texas; Rice, Massachusetts; Waite, Connecticut; Ketcham, New York; Phelps, New Jersey; Hitt, Hlinois. Naval Affairs—Herbert, Alabama; Hewitt, New York; Wise, Virginia; Ballentine, Connecticut; McAdoo, New Jersey; Norwood, Georgia; Lore, Delaware; Sayers, Texas; Hornier, Pennsylvania; Thomas, Illinois; Goff, West Virginia; Boutelle, Maine; Buck, Connecticut. Public Lands—Cobb, Missouri; Henley, California.; Van Eaton, Mississippi; Doran, Ohio; Latfoon, Kentuoky; Stevens, Missouri ’lllinois ; Hcßea, Arkansas ; Strait, Minnesota; Anderson, Kansas ; Payson, Illinois; Stephenson, Wisconsin; Jackson, Pennsylvania; Voorhees, Washington Territory. Territories—Hill, Ohio; Springer, Hlinois; Spriggs, New York; Barnes, Georgia; Sadler, Alabama, Boyle, Pennsylvania; Dibble, So-uth Carolina; Dawson, Missouri; Struble, Iowa; Baker, New York; Cooper, Ohio; Herman, Oregon ; Symes, Colorado; Joseph, New Mexico. Mines and Mining—Clardy, Missouri; O’Ferrall, Virginia; Hill, Ohio; Skinner, North Carolina; Jones, Texas ; Neal, Tennessee ; Gay, Louisiana; Barry, Mississippi; White, Minnesota; Woodburn, Nevada; Lindsley, New York; Symes, Colorado; McKenna, California; Bean, Arizona. Pacific Railways Throckmorton, Texas ; Crisp, Georgia; Cabell, Virginia; Dunn, Arkansas ; Bliss, New York; Tillman, South Carolina; •Outhwaite, Ohio; Richardson, Tennessee; Hanhack, Kansas; Holmes, Iowa; Everhart, Pennsylvania ; Hayden, Massachusetts; Weber, New York. Elections—Turner, Georgia; Lowry, Indiana; Robertson, Kentucky; Martin, Alabama; Pettibone, Tennesseo; Halm, Louisiana; Hopkins, Illinois; Dorsey, Nebraska; Boyle, Pennsylvania; Henderson, North Carolina; Green, New .Jersey; Croxton, Virginia; Hall, Iowa; Payne, New York; Ely,.Massachusetts. Commerce—Reagan, Texas ; Clardy, Missouri; Crisp, Georgia; Caldwell, Tennessee; O'Ferrall, Virginia; Tarsnev, Michigan; Pulitzer, New York; Bynum, Indiana; Irion, Louisiana; O’Neill, Pennsylvania; Davis, Massachusetts ; Dunham, Illinois ; Weaver, Nebraska; Johnson, New York; Morrow, California. Judiciary Tucker, Virginia; Hammond, •Georgia; Culberson, Texas; Collins, Massachusetts ; Seney, Ohk>; Oates, Alabama; Eden, Hlinois; Rogers, Arkansas; Bennett, North Carolina; E. B. Taylor, Ohio; Parker, New York; Ramiey, Massachusetts ; Hepburn, Iowa; Stewart, Virginia; Caswell, Wisconsin. Banking and Currency—Curtin, Pennsylvania; Miller, Texas ; Candler, Georgia; Wilkins, Ohio; Amot, New York; Snyder, Virginia; Howard, Indiana; Hutton, Missouri; Dingley, Maine; Brumrn, Pennsylvania; Adams, Illinois; Brady, Virginia; Woodbury, Nevada. Agriculture—Hatch, Missouri ; Aiken, South Carolina; Green, North Carolina; Winans, Michigan; Frederick, Iowa; Davidson, Alabama ; Stahlnecker, New York ; Morgan Mississippi ; Glass, Tennessee; White, Minnesota; Funston, Kansas ; Price, Wisconsin; Hires, New Jersey; Pierce, Rhode Island; Swinburne, New York; Gifford, Dakota. Military Attars—Bragg, Wisconsin; Wheeler, Alabama; Walford, Kentucky; Ermentrout, Pennsylvania; Dargan, South Carolina; Findlay, Maryland; Viele, New York; Anderson, Ohio; Steele, Indiana; Laird, Nebraska; Cutcheon, Michigan; Honk,Tennessee; Negley, Pennsylvania; Carey, Wyoming. Postoffices and Post-Roads —Blount, Georgia; Ward, Indiana; Riggs, Illinois; Taylor, Tennessee ; Jones, Texas ; Dockery, Missouri; Warner, Ohio; M-riiman, New York; Barry, Mississippi ; Bingham, Pennsylvania; Wakefield, Minneejta; Burrows, Michigan; Guenther, Wisconsin; Millard, New York; Peter 3, Kansas; Caine, Utah. Indian Affairs—Wellborn, Texas; Peel, Arkansas ; Skinner, North Carolina; Storms, Pennsylvania ; Felix Campbell, New York; Hale, Missouri; Allen, Mississippi; Ward, Illinois ; Perkins, Kansas; Nelson, Minnesota; La Follette, Wisconsin; Sessions, New York; Allen, Massachusetts; Hailey, Idaho. Railways and Canals—Davidson, Florida; Murphy, ..Iowa; Irion, Louisiana; Ells berry; •Ohio; Henderson, North Carolina; Stone, Kentucky ; Cole, Maryland; Pidcoek, New Jersey; Atkinson, Pennsylvania; Plumb, Hlinois; Web•er, New-York; Van Schaick, Wisconsin; Pierce, Rhode- Island. ■ Manufactures—Wise, Virginia; Swope, Pennsylvania; La Fevre, Ohio; Wilson, West Virginia. ; Catchings, Mississippi; Lawler, Hlinois; Pindar, New York; Campbell, Pennsylvania; West, New Ycrk; Van Schaick, Wisconsin; Hires, New Jersey. Public Buildings and Grounds—Dibble, South Carolina; Reese, Georgia; Snyder, West Virginia; * Henley, California; Wilkins, Ohio; Worthington, Hlinois; Cole, Man-land; John- , -ston, North Carolina; Milliken, Maine; Brown, ' FehnfiyTvania; Rockwell, Massachusetts; Wade, Missouri; Owen, Indiana. Levees and Improvements of the Mississippi River—King, Louisiana; Rankin, Wisconsin; "Van Eaton, Mississippi; Kleiner, Indiana; Dowdney, Now York; Mcßea, Arkansas ; Glass, Tennessee; Dawson, Missouri; Brown, Ohio; . Whijjng, Massachusetts; Morrill, Kansas ; Bunnell, Pennsylvania; Grout, Vermont. Education—Aiken, South Carolina; Candler, 'Georgia; Willis, Kentucky; Curtin, Pennsylvania; Miller, Texas; Maybury, Michigan; Bujnrea, Missouri; Mahoney, New York; Strait, Minnesota; Whiting, Massachusetts; Campbell, Pennsylvania; I. H. Taylor, Ohio; O'Donnell, Michigan. Labor—O’Neill, Missouri; Foran, Ohio; Lovering, Massachusetts; Weaver, Iowa; Lawler, Hlinois-! Daniel, Virginia; Tarsney, Michigan; Crain, Texas; Funston, Kansas; James, New York; Haynes, New Hampshire; Bound, Pennsylvania; Buchanan, New Jersey. Militia —Muller, New York; Forney, Alabama; McAdoo, New Jersey; Peel, Arkansas ; Collins, Massachusetts; Ballentine, Tennessee; Breckinridge, Kentucky; Compton, Maryland; Hopkins, Hlinois; Hayden, Massachusetts : Moffatt, Michigan; Owen, Indiana; Wade, Missouri. Patents—Mitchell, Halsell, Townshend, Martin, Barnes, Morgan, Fisher, Cowles, Atkinson, \ West, Lehlback, Gilfillan and Plumb. I Invalid Pensions—Matson, Indiana; Winans, .Michigan; Lovering, Massachusetts; Neece, Illinois ; Swope, Pennsylvania; Taulbee, Kentucky; JPidcock, New Jersey; Ellsberry, Ohio; Pindar, New York ; Morrill, Kansas ; Haynes, New Hampshire; O'Hara, North Carolina; Sawyer, New York ; Conger, Iowa; Lottitit, California. Pensions Eldridge, Michigan; Woolford. Kentucky; Jones, Alabama; Scott, Pennsylvania; Cowles, North Carolina, Landes, Hlinois ; Mahoney, New York ; Hutton, Missouri ; Struble, Iowa; Taylor, Tennessee; Brady, Virginia; White, Pennsylvania; Thompson Ohio. Claims—Springer, Hlinois ;Muller, New York; iLanham, Texas ; Shaw, Maryland ; Howard, Indiana ; Dougherty, Florida: Trigg,. Virginia; Neal, Tennessee; Bowden, Pennsylvania; McKean a, California; Warner, Missouri; Fleeget,

Pennsylvania; Buchanan- New Jersey; Galllnger. New Hampshire. War Claims—Geddes, Ohio; Kleiner, Indiana; Stone, Kentucky; Tim J. Campbell, New York; Richardson, Tennessee ; Perry, South Carolina; Comstock, Michigan; Reid, North Carolina; Libbey.. Virginia; Smalls, South Carolina; Hiestand, Pennsylvania; Johnston, Indiana; Lyman. lowa. Private Land Claims Halsell, Kentucky; Barksdale. Mississippi; St. Martin, Louisiana; Eldrodge, Michigan ; Sadler, Alabama ; Croxton, Virginia ; Hall, Iowa; Reid, New Jersey : Osborn, Pennsylvania; Ely, Massachusetts;" Thomas. Wisconsin; Dorsey, Nebraska; Thompson, Ohio. District of Columbia Barbour, Virginia; Hemphill. Soutn Carolina; Campbell. Ohio; Dowdney, New York; Compton. Maryland; Gay, Louisiana; Ford, Indiana; Hoard, Missouri: Rowell, Hlinois : Wadsworth, Kentucky : Scranton, Pennsylvania: Davenport, New York: Grout, Vermont. Revision of the Laws —Oates, Alabama: Turner, Georgia: Adams, New York: Outhwaite, Ohio: Ford, Indiana: Laffoon, Kentucky: Dougherty, Florida: Hale, Missouri: Payne, New York : Thomas, niinois: Fuller, Iowa: Gilfillau, Minnesota: White. Pennsylvania. Expenditures in the State Department—Bennett. North Carolina; Tillman, South Carolina; Lore, Deloware; Amot, New York ; Scranton, Pennsylvania; Lyman, Iowa; Louttit, California. Expenditures in the Treasury Department— Lowry, Indiana; Bland, Missouri; Breckinridge, Arkunsas; Shaw, Maryland; Hahn, Louisiana; Bunnell, Pennsylvania; Johnston, Indiana. Expenditures in the War Department— Robertson, Kentucky; Wheeler, Alabama; Viele, New York; Anderson. Ohio; Johnson, New York; Warner, Missouri; Fleeger, Pennsylvania. Expenditures in the Navy Department—Taylor, Tennessee; Sowdon, Pennsylvania; Davidson, Florida; Tim J. Campbell, New York; Rowell, Illinois; Brown- Pennsylvania; Thomas, Wisconsin. Expenditures in the Postoffice DepartnrentReese, Georgia; Warde, Indiana; Warner, Missouri ; Davidson, Alabama; Zochariah Taylcr, Tennessee; Herman, Oregon ; Bound, Pennsylvania. Expenditures in the Department of Justice— Gibson, West Virginia; Hammond, Georgia; Seymour, Connecticut; Werd, Illinois ; Milliken, Maine; Hrnback, Kansas ; Sawyer, New York. Expenditures in Interior Department—Weaver (G.-D.), Iowa; Dargan, South Carolina; Harris, Georgia ; Culberson, Texns ; Brumrn (G.-R.), Pennsylvania; Libbey, Virginia; Davenport, New York. Expenditures on Public Buildings and Grounds —Beach. New York; O'Neill, Missouri; Seney, Ohio; Riggs, Hlinois; Pettibone, Tennessee; O’Hara, North Carolina; Gallinger, New Hampshire. Aocounts—Spriggs, Now York ; Dockery, Missouri ; St. Martin, Louisiana; Gibson, Maryland; Trigg, Virginia; Adams, Hlinois ; Evans, Pennsylvania ; Spooner, Rhode Island; I. H. Taylor, Ohio. Joint Committee on Library—Singleton, Mississippi; Stahlnecker, New York; O’Neill, Pennsylvania. Select Committee on Reform In Civil Servioe —Cox, North Carolina; Clements, Georgia; Storm, Pennsylvania; Blanchard, Louisiana; Findlay, Maryland; Mitchell, Connecticut; Stone, Missouri; Pulitzer, New York; Bayne, Pennsylvania; Spooner, Rhode Island; Little, Ohio; Lehlback, New Jersey; Farquhar, New York, American Shipbuilding and Ship-owning Interest—Dunn, Arkansas; Holman, Indiana;. Mills, Texas; King, Louisiana; Bliss, New York; Rankin, Wisconsin; McMillin, Tennessee; Comstock, Michigan; Dingley, Maine; Wadsworth, Kentucky; Osborn, Pennsylvania; Felton, California; Romeis, Ohio. Committee on Election of President and Vice President—ColdweU, Tennessee ; Eden, Hlinois ; Ermentrout, Pennsylvania; Beach, New York; Dibble, South Carolina; Gibson, Maryland; Heard, Missouri; Johnston, North Carolina; Laird, Nebraska; Baker, New York; Hiestand, Pennsylvania; Cooper, Ohio; Moffitt, Michigan. Ventilation and Acoustics —Green, North Carolina; Stewart, Texas; Tim J. Campbell, New York; Allen, Mississippi; Evans, Pennsylvania; Swinburne, New York ; O’Donnell, Michigan. Select Committee on Alcoholic Liquor Traffic —Campbell, Ohio; Carleton, Michigan ; Frederick, Iowa; Taulbee, Kentuoky; Glover, Missouri ; Merriman, New York; Price, Wisconsin; Everhart, Pennsylvania; Lindsley, New York; Romeis, Ohio. ,

SILVER.

Sentimen's of Foreign Govern manfs Upon the Question—Mantoa Marble’s Mission. President Cleveland, m answer to a resolution adopted by the Senate Dec. 9, last week transmitted copies of documents showing the action taken by him to ascertain the sentiments of foreign Governments in regard to the establishment of an international ratio between gold and silver. The correspondence is accompanied by a letter from Secretary Bayard to the President, in which he says in part; “It has been,tho object of this department and its agents, while avowing our readiness to cooperate, not so much to impress our own opinions and wishes upon others as to obtain wellconsidered aud independent views from the most influential, responsible, and competent sources, in order to lay before Congress; First, the actual status of the metallic currencies in the respective European countries ; and, secondly, the intentions and policies of those Governments in relation to the subject, with details of their action up to the present time. It is believed that the accompanying letters from the Ministers of the United Stati s to Great Britain, France, and Germany, respectively, summarize and convey the true condition of opinion and intentions of the Governments and people to whom they have been severally accredited.” The latter then mentions the designation of Mr. Marble as a confidential agent to obtain information upon tho subject, aud says no separate report by My. Marble has been made because the results of his investigations appear fully in the replies of Messrs. Phelps, McLane, and Pendleton. The correspondence opens with a letter from Secretary Bayard to Manton Marble notifying him of his designation to visit Europe upon the mission above indicated. Letters were also addressed to our Ministers at London, Paris, and Berlin notifying them of Mr. Marble’s visit and asking their co-ojieration. A reply was received from Minister .Phelps, under date of London, Oct. 20; 18S5, In which he gives the result of conferences by himself and Mr. Marble with the leading members of her Majesty’s Government, and says : “From these, as well as other sources, I am, satisfied that, the British Government will inflexibly adhere to their past and present poljcy in respect to coinage; that they will not depart from the gold standard now arid so long established : that they will not become a party to any international arrangement or union for tho creation of a bimetallic standard at a common rartio between gold aud silver for the purpose of making both an unlimited legal tender; nor adopt such double standard in Great Britain. On this point both political parties quite concur, and I believe if either were to attempt to introduce such a departure from tho existing money standard it would be driven out of power by the force of public opinion." A reply from Minister McLano, at Paris, dated Oct. 1, 1885, expresses his opinion that: “While France would gladly receive the intelligence that the Unit- d States would adopt the French ratio of fifteen and one-half of silver to one of gold, no consideratii n of future consequences could induce her to adopt tho American ratio of sixteen to one; still loss would she adopt anv higher ratio to assimilate the present corameri ill or market value of silver with the value of gold, nor would she consent at any rate now to permit an unrestricted or even a limited coinage of silver at her mints. The present purpose of her Government and people is to maintain, if possible, the two metals at their present ratio of fifteen and one-half to one, in aonre-tic circulation and international exchange. ” Mr. McLane says the facts obtained naturally suggest the United States, the greatest gold and silver country iu the world, should suspend its silver coinage in order to utilize it, not only for circulation but as part of its Treasury reserve.

Miss Josephine Jenkins, who is rising into notice as a writer forAhe press of Boston, is a niece of the late Nathaniel Parker Willis. About 500 divorce suits were filed in St. Louis during t’«ie year 1885.

NATIONAL LEGISLATION.

Two Million-Dollar Monuments to Lincoln and Grant Proposed. A Fke-MiHion Dollar University at the National Capital—Other Measures. Washiagton special. Among the bills introduced in the House are two tariff bills by Mr, Maybury, of Michigan. One provides that on and after J uly 1, 1886, no customs duty shall be levied upon lumber—boards, beams, planks, joists, scantling, laths, pickets, shingles, timber, round or sawed, staves, heading, or any other description of timber, whether rough or dressed. The other provides that on and after July 1, 1886, ores of iron, lead, copper, and zinc, bituminous coal, salt, and lumber of all kinds, whether rough or dressed, shaU bo admitted free of duty. Mr. Maybury shows his faith in free trade by placing on the free list the articles In the production of which his State is moßt largely interested. pensions. Senator Blair, of New Hampshire, has introduced a biU to gjve applicants for pensions, whose applications have been rejected by the Secretary of the Interior, on appeal from the Commissioner of Pensions, a hearing before a jury. TWO-MI I, LION-DOLLAR MONUMENTS. Senator Blair has looked with great admiration upon the Washington monument, and he is profoundly impressed with the belief that we need more gigantic obelisks. He has introduced two bills for the erection of monuments to Lincoln and Grant. The former is to bo erected in Lincoln Park, east of the Capitol, where the emancipation statue stands, and the latter at some point north of the Capitol. The Washington monument stands west of the Capitol, so that symmetry will demand the erection of a like monument to Mr. Blair himself south of the Capitol. Mr. Blair proposes to appropriate $160,000 a year for each of those two monuments for ten years, so that each one will cost f 1,000,000. No labor and no materials so far as possible are to be procured by contract. Chinese labor is exoluded by the provision that only American citizens shall be employed in the work. The monuments are to be similar in style to the Washington monument. THE SILVER IDEA. The silver men are not content to remain on the defensive and await the attack of the antisilver men. Senator Morgan has put in a bill to compel the Secretary of the Treasury to replace with silver one-half of the gold in the fund reserved for the redemption of greenbacks, ard one-half of the gold or greenbacks in the n it onal bank redemption fund, and in other i-p cial funds. 1 JUDICIAL RETIREMENT. In the Sena’e ihs following bills, among others, have been introducedBy Mr. Dolph, to amend Sec. 717 cf the Revised Statutes. It provides that judges of United States courts who have held their offices thirty cr who have hold office ten years and have attained the age of 70, may retire upon full salary. By Senator Call, to retire Judges of Circuit or District Courts. It provides that when any Judge of a Circuit or District Court Bhall have become disabled through the excessive or habitual use of intoxicants, or any other cause, he shall be retired with an annual salary of 82,000 a year, unless he shall thereafter bo tried and impeached. This disability is to be determined by the Judgeof the oireuit adjacent to that in which the Judge to be tried has jurisdiction. The Attorney General is authorized to institute proceedings against such Judges on complaint of Senators or Representatives. COMPULSORY EDUCATION OP INDIANS. By Senator Toller, to provide for the compulsory education of Indian children. It authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to take any Indian children between the ages of 8 and 18, who belong to tribes receiving annuities from the United States, and place thorn in Government schools for the education of the Indians, to be kept there for five years. This is not to apply, however, to the five civilized tribes, nor to the Osage Indians of Indian Territory. The Secretary is authorized to withhold rations and annuities from parents who refuse to comply with these provisions. All such schools are to he manual labor schools, and to include teaching of agriculture and stock-raising to boys and housework to girls. A NATIONAL UNIVERSITY. By Senator Ingalls, to Establish a national university in the District of Oqjumbia. The sum of 85,000,000 is granted to the board of regents in a perpetual registered certificate of the United States, to be unassignable, and bearing 6 per cent, interest, the interest to be paid quarterly; so much of the interest as is needed for sites, buildings, etc., may bo used. The treasurer -4* the United States shall bo treasurer of the un’ versity. No chair for instruction in sectarian religion or partisan politios shall be maintained, and no seotarian or partisan test shall be allowed in selecting officers or professors. Chairs or faculties may be endowed by gift, bequest, etc., but no amount less than 8100,000 shall be considered an endowment. Instruction shall be as nearly free as is consistent with the income. No person shall bo admitted for regular study and graduation who has not previously received the degree of Bachelor of Arts, or a degree of equal value, from some recognized institution, fctat.is and Territories shall be entitled to scholarships in the ratio of one for c-a- h Representative or Delegate, and two for each Senator. These scholarships shall secure free instruction for five years. The Governor of each State shall nominate candidates for life scholarships, and each State and Territory shall be emitted to one life scholarship. Two classes of fellowships are established, one open to competition of graduates best qualifying themselves, and the other open to learned men of aU nations who have merited distinction. TRANSPORTATION CHARGES. The resolution offered by Senator Mitchell, of Oregon, and adopted, relating to transportation charges, recites in its preamble that the Columbia and its tributaries drain a grazing and agricultural region of unsurpassed fertility as large as Germany and Franoe; that freight charges on wheat from the Dalles to Portland, eighty miles, are 12 ce'nts a bushel, and for another' distance of 214 miles are 8 eents a bushel. "It declares such charges exorbitant and ruinouato the producer, and instructs the Committee 6n fransportatton'.Routes to inquire intothem and the proper measures of relief, and also as to the importance of the speedy completion of the eanal and locks of the Cascades and of the proper means to be adopted to overcome the obstructions at the Dalles. SUPPRESSING THB INDIANS. Among the notable measures introduced In the House are the following: By Mr. Laird, of Nebraska, a joint resolution authorizing th<j President to call out two volunteer regiments of cavalry In the Territories of New Mexico and Arizona, to be enlisted and officered from citizens of such Territories, for the suppression of Indian hostilities therein. LAND PATENTS, Also, a joint resolution instructing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to pass to patent all pend in ’ homestead and pre-emption claims against v, hieb a specific charge of fraud is not pending or provod, and also calling on such omcor for a statement in detail of the ret.s'm for issuing the order of April 3 suspending the issuance of patents; also, a bill to establish a soldiers’ home in Nebraska, lowa, Wisconsin, or Minnesota. REGULATION OP LABOR. The constit itional amendment introduced by Mr. of Massachusetts, provides that Congress shall have power to limit the hours of labor. SUGAR DUTIES. A bill touching the duty on sugar, introduced by Mr. O'Donnell, of Michigan, provides that the duty on sugar shall c* ase after July 1 next, prohibits importations of sugar from any country imposing an export duty thereexr, provides for the payment of a bounty of one cent a pound on sugar produoed in the United States, and appropriates 7-;--,<»00,000 for that purpo e. CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. A constitutional amendment proposed by Mr. McAdoo, of New Jersey, provides that Presidential electors shall be elected in every State on the third Tuesday in October, and that no ohter officers than Representatives in Congress shall be elected on the same day. POLYGAMY. Mr. McAdoo has also introduced a bill depriving of the right of suffrage all polygamists or persons who are members of organizations that encourage other persons to commit bigamy.

IN HONOR OF JACKSON.

Noted Democra’ic Dignitaries Expound Political Polity at the Binqust at Columbus, Ohio. Speeches of Ex-Senators McDonald and Thurman and Editor Watterson. [Columbus (O.) dispatch.] The Jackson Club, of Columbuß, the leading Democratic organization of Central Ohio, gave their third banquet on the Bth of January. There were threo hundred guests, including a number of Ohio Congressmen, members 01 the Legislature, and State officials. The following telegram was read: Yonkers, N. Y., Jan. B.—l cordially concur with you in the homage which you propose to pay to the memory of the illustrious soldier and statesman on the anniversary of the victory of New Orleans. I regret that Icannot he personally present at your bauquet, S. J. Tilden. Hon. Joseph E. McDonald, of Indiana, responded to the toast “Andrew Jackson," and spoke in substance as follows: “On the roll of distinguished men our country lias furnished few names appear more prominent than Andrew Jackson’s. Starting in life without fortune and self-educated, his rise, even in our country, was phenomenal. He was neither to he a lawmaker nor an expounder of laws. He was to be a loader of men. When New Orleans,with its ’booty and beauty,’was about to fall into the hands of the invader, he came to its rescue, placed it under martial law, thus displaying the democratic quality of his mind, which afterward made him so famous. In maintaining tho right he was over ready to assume all tho responsibility necessary to that end. The campaign closed with the crowning victory of the Bth of January, and when the nows of "this great victory was received no bouuds could be set to tho popular enthusiasm. This achievement placed Jackson in , the front rank of mil t iry heroes, and gave to our country an anniversary that will never he forgotten. Eveuts carried him forward to broader fields. His State returned him to the Un' ed States Senate. In 1824 ho was th ’ p ople's choice for President, but failed to receive a majority in the Houso of Representatives, 1 nil was defeated. In 1828 the triumphant election of Jackson to the Presidency proved the strongtli of that growing popularity v h o’l had attended him from tho beginning of his career. The eight years that he was Chief Magistrate were certainly the most ovontful of his life. No man has ever entered the Presidential office who encountered a more powerful and determined opposition led by the ablest moil of the time. Clay, Webster, anil finally Calhoun formed u triumvirate whom it would lravo seemed impossible to roslst, anil yet Jackson, backed by his personal popularity, provod an overmatch for them, and closod his official lifo without a rival in the affections of thepioplo. Jackson in his first message to Congross expressed hiß opposition to recharterlng the Bank of the United States. Tho tariff question was one more difficult for Jackson to meet. The socalled American system had strong attractions for him. No public man was over more thoroughly American than Jackson. “ ’Equal and exact justice to all men’ had always been his motto. The question which gave President Jackson tho most anxiety, and which canonized him in the hearts of his countrymen for all time, was tho ‘nullification question.’ The manner in which the government of the United States hail been formed left many questions unsettled, especially as to tho limits of the Federal Government and the extent of the reserved rights cf the States. The two sovereignties, Stato and national, could not claim the right to exercise the same power, and where the sovereign powers of the States ended the sovereign powers of the United States began, but who could tell where that point was S’ And in a dispute hotwoeu the United States and a State was there any constitutional power to decide, and whore did that power reside? “On tho 13tli of April, 1830, tho anniversary of Jefferson’s birthday, tho friends of nullification gave a banquet at Washington. Tho leading spirits of this dangerous heresy were present. Jackson was present and was called on for a volunteer toast, and promptly responded, ‘Our Federal Union—lt Must Be Preserved. ’ It fell upon that assembly like u voice from tho sky. and from that time It was known Jackson liud tuken his stand against nullification. "In 1832 South Carolina threw tho gauntlet to tho Fedoral Government upon this momentous question. He took it up, and on the loth of December, 1832, issued a proclamation to the people of his native State, appealing to their patriotism and love of country in a most tinder and touching manner, and closed by telling them that he would enforce tho laws as long as they remuinod on tho statute books with all the power of the Federal Government at his command, lot the consoquences be what they might. The proclamation made him second only to Wasuington in personal popularity. Clay’s compromise act averted the catastrophe, which seemed inevitable, and loft to later times the settlement of tho gri at problem then at issue. We know what It cost in blood and treasure to settle it, but the decision is final. “In conclusion, let mo propose to this club as Its motto, and as an unthun to his memory, the grand sentiment of which he was the author, ’Our Federal Union ; It Must Be Pr served.’ ” Henry Watterson, of the Louisville CourierJoun.al, r< spondoil to “The Democratic Proas," and suit! among other things: “I nut the administration’s personal friend and public partisan. From the President and every member of his Government I have received nothing but courtoßy aud ull the recognition and considered on any Democrat could desire. I think the President hits been seriously misjudged for his alleged tardiness in turning the rascals out. There is forming uj on our political horizon a cloud, which, if not dissipated, will spread over the whole firmament, and out from this cloud there issues a voice, crying ‘Money is king.’ Tho new gospel of mammon has built its shrine In the East. lam afraid tho Presidmt has been misled by natural and preponderating influences. He is a man of the people, and every pulse of his heart boats to old-fashioned Democratic music. “Tbe Democrats havo agreed whenever they get the power to revise the tariff. I have no f anlt to find with what tho President says upon this subject in his niossage. It is what he fails to say that gives me more or concern. I regret that he has no views of his oWn on this subject, leaving it where he found it. We have to meet this question ; it will not down at the bidding of the East. The West and the South have interests and convictions, und if we do not fix our lines of battle in advance of the conllict, and under the leadership of an administration, wo will bd bound to support and defendtho next time wo get into national convention we shall have a Kilkenny fight of it - sure enough. .Then, sir, you shall sea Illinois and Michigan, lowa, and Wisconsin, and I hope' Ohio, with their eighty-two electoral votes, put to shame and rout the timeserving plea that wo must sacrifice every Democratic tradition and promise to make suro of the fifty-one electoral votes of New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey. Parties, like individuals, must take time by the forelock. I think that after the show of hands which was had last winter on the President’s silver leit-r to the New York hankers he was unwise to throw the weight of his m-’ssage so dead against the predilections of such a majority of his ] arty iu Congress. Touching the unlimited coinage of silver, I think he is right. lam willing to stop on any reasonable basis of security for the maintenance in go>d f ilth of the double standard. Where shall we stop? When and where shall gold and silver part company? The weak place in the President’s position Is tho continuation in tho Treasury Department of the policy which the Demo -rat c party has condemned n Republican udmh i itration. Tho refusal to obey the laws of C< in their lotter and spirit, the failuro of the President to reverse R< publican precedents and methods in this regard, h is rais'd in the West and the South a genuine scare und s orm. There is a much-needed parley, on comment ground. I would ereirt) a silver commission, composed of men of nutimil reput tion and standing, wl o lmvo the p rblic confidence. I would iuvcit this cimndssion with all tho prestige in l paraphernalia of un embassy, and ask Congress to suspend the coinage of silver ur.t 1 there representatives oi the Gcv rumerrt and the people would make their report. I would also rigidly carry out the terms of the act of 1878, and give the silver mon the hot end of the poke*."

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—New Albany furnished twenty-two Coroner's inquests for 1885. —At Vancouver, Oregon, Conrad Lennilmn, of Lafayette, was taken for a burglar, and shot dead. - Nineteen persons have been sent to the Hospital for the Insane from Floyd County during the past year. —The last tree of the dense forest that onee tilled Pogue's Creek bottom, at Indianapolis, was cut down a few days ago. —The sixtieth anniversary of the marriage of Itev. Joseph Staats and Sarah Cummins was celebrated by the happy pair at Dana. —At Layfayette, two highwaymen threw John Martin, a farmer, into the river after robbing him of a few dollars. Timely assistance from strangers saved tho man’s life. —Alexander Jameson, an old citizen of Marion County, died last week. He had filled many important local offices. His five children, all well-known citizens, survive him. —Gen. Lew Wallace, in a recent interview, said that this country should, in diplomatic correspondence and in all negotiations, be styled “American,” ns tho United States are never spoken of in Europe. —A special from Little Rock, Ark., states that a peddler named Spalding, from Indiannpolis, had been murdered near Springfield, Mo. He had several hundred dollars in his possession when he left Springfield, and it is supposed that he was murdered for his money. —Dr. Rreese, of this city, says the Jour~ nal, who is a Welch scholar, informs us that the two verses of the Welch poem we alluded to in a recent issue, written by Rev. Davis, would rend in the English language something like this: A Jark load of heavy grief Ron through tlieso United States, Black tho agony eovoring all light, When strong-hearted Grant sucoutnbod to fates. Under the heavy blows of dark death Our hearts grow deep with sorrow o’er: Joy died within our bosom strong, And sorrow reigned from shore to shore. —Adjutant General Koontz’s annual report, which the law requires him to make to the Wur Department, shows that in Indiana there are 371,52*2 able-bodied men from the age of 18 to 45 years, who could be used for military service if necessary. There ore forty-seven military companies in tho State, with an average membership of fifty, divided into four regiments, throe infantry and one artillery. Congress appropriates $200,000 for nrms and ammunition, and Indiana is entitled to $0,565. —“Reflecting Citizen,” in Indiannpolis Journal: “I don’t think I am unduly fastidious, but in passing along the street all appetite I may have for oysters is destroyed by the heaps of dirty oyster shells that restaurants place before their doors to advertise the juicy bivalve. Certainly a display of that kind is far from appetizing, and after such a sight I should think only a stomach wholly without remoras could bo induced to partake. It would be in equally good taste for the restaurateur to advertise Iris beefsteak by displaying at the entrance of his refectory n fresh and bloody bullhide with the horns attached.” Mythical Fortunes. INow York special.] A dispatch from Wabash, Ind., published in a morning paper, says that tho heirs of the Mercer estate, of this city, will hold a meeting at Paris, Ohio, in January; also, that the Rev. E. L. Greene, of Manchester, Ind., haR received intelligence that he is one of the heirs, and will obtain, us his share, $500,000. At the Surrogate's office, Clerk Samuel A. Madge, who has charge of the records, said to-day: “About two months ago a lady called here, making inquiries about it. She claimed to be one of tho heirs. Her story was this: That a Mr. Mercer, who originally owned an immense amount of real estate in this city, leased it all to various individuals for a term of ninetynine years. She said that in another year these leases would run out. She desired to find something for a starting point. Then, she said, she conld easily prove herself to be one of the heirs. We did not obtain from her her own name or any particulars about the original Mercer. We have been so often called upon to hunt up matters pertaining to large estates of that kind that we paid no attention to this one. We think tho Mercer estate is a myth. It is one of those peculiar sort whose heirs need only a link to make a perfect chain of evidence. Rut that one missing link is rarely found. I presume it is so in this case.” The Farmer of Tippecanoe. Oh 1 know yc tho Funnor of Tippecanoe, Tho gallant old Farnror of Tippecanoe? With an-arm that is strong and a heart that is true, Tho man of the people is Tippecanoe.' Away in the West, the fair river beside That waters North Bend in its beauty and pride, And shows in its mirror the summer sky blue, Oh 1 there dwells the Farmer of Tippecanoe. When the clear eastern sky In the morning’s light gleams, And tho hills of Ohio grow warm in its beumH, When the fresh springing grass Ift bent down with tho dew. With his plow in the furrow stands Tippecanoe. Hurrah for tho Fanner of Tippecanoe, The honest old Farmer of Tippecanoe; With an urm that is strong and u heart that Is true, Tho man of the people Is Tippecanoe. And when far in tho West the warm sunlight goes down, And the woods of Ohio look dusky and brown. In his snug, quiet home, he the past will review, And think of his comrades at Tippecanoe. For warm are his feelings, and strong is his mind To the suffering poor man he ever is kind; With a hand that is open, a heart that is true, The poor find a friend In Old Tippeoonoe. Hurrah! for the Farmer of Tippecanoe, The fearless old Farmer rot Tippecanoe; With an arm that is strong ana a hand that is true, The choice of the people is Tippecanoe. —Now Moon.