Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1886 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

A Washington special says that Representatives from New England States are gratified to find that the House Judiciary Committee intends to take up the national bankruptcy bill next week, that it may be reported to the House in time to secure an advantageous position on the calendar. They have high hopes that a bankruptcy bill will pass both houses before the summer arrives. The opposition is expected to come, as it has always come, from the West and South. Only four out of the fifteen members of the committee are from Eastern States, but Chairman Tucker, of Virginia, and some others favor the enactment of a national bankrupt law, and Mr. Tucker thinks the committee will report a bill. A Washington special to a Chicago journal says: “The President has not told any Senator what he Should do about the applications of Senate Committees for information regarding his reasons for making removals and appointments. He does not intend to define his position until some Senate Committee applies directly to him for the desired information. Thus far the Senato Committees have only applied to members of the Cabinet. In several cases the Postmaster General, and in one case the Secretary of the Treasury, has responded with the desired information—or a part of it The President expressed to the members of his Cabinet the wish that they should return to the Senate committees any further applications for information with the statement that the President had not authorized them to explain what his reasons were for making the removals and appointments.Then, if the ‘committees want to pursue the subject, they can address the President himself. He will then, by way of reply, tell the Senate what he understands to be his own perogatives and responsibilities, and what he understands the functions of the Senate to be. In other words, the President is

standing on his dignity, and invitee the Senate to ask him for his reasons if they are wanted, and not waste time trying to get the information at second hand from the members of the Cabinet When he is asked for his reasons he is prepared to explain to the .Senators that, while they have a right to reject his nominations, they are exceeding their prerogative in asking for his motives.” The House of Representatives of the Ohio Legislature adopted a resolution appointing a committee to investigate charges made against four members of the present House to the effect that they accepted bribes to vote for Henry B. Payne for United States .Senator while members of the previous General Assembly. The committee was named, consisting of three Republicans and two Democrats.