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

LATER NEWS IETMS.

At Adrian, Mich., Thomas Campsie and his wife were found insensible from coal gas, the woman dying, while Air. Campsie is beyond recovery. Glanders prevail to a dangerous excent in the neighborhood of Lisbon, HL An explosion in Short & Cooley’s rendering establishment, at Creston, lowa, killed two persons and wounded four others, one of whom cannot recover. Grades laid by .the Northwestern Road at Yankton, D. T., have been tom up by employes of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul, and trouble is threatened. Five members of a family at Tarentum, I’a., have diel of tricliiniasis, and three others are beyond recovery. The steamer Modoc exploded her boilers at Pittsburgh, scattering fragments for five hundred yards. Joseph Davis, the pilot, was killed, and Captain Evans and Fireman Higgins were badly hurt A dispatch from Newport, R. 1., announces the death of Mrs. Greene, whose husband was the son of Nathaniel Greene, the Revolutionary General. She had passed the age of 102 years, and until recently retained her fine literary tastes. The President, in conversation with a Republican Senator, said, the other day: “I am led to believe that the majority of your body intend to insist that I shall give my reasons for suspending an officeholder at the time I nominate his successor. I must inform you that I shall do nothing of the kind. “Nominations are made by and with the consent of the Senate. ’ It is fitting in such cases that tho Senate should have all the information they desire regarding the man whose nomination they are asked to confirm, but when they insist upon my reasons for making removals they are usurping a privilege that belongs to the Executive alone, and their request will in every case be denied. That is the position I propose to take, and I am ready to abide tho consequences. ”

The judicial salary bill, giving United States Judges $5,000 a year, and prohibiting them from appointing their relatives to office in their courts, passed the Senate Jan. 18. Mr. Cullom submitted a bill regulating interstate commerce, which provides for the appointment of five commissioners. Mr. Frye offered a resolution to provide for a commission to settle the fisheries question. This led to a sharp debate, in the course of which Messrs. Frye, Edmunds, Hoar, and Dawes attacked President Cleveland for extending the Canadian fisheries treaty. Mr. Morgan defended the President. Mr. Ingalls presented a resolution asking the Secretary of the Treasury to state what proportion of the bonds lately called in is held by national banks as a basis for circulation. Mr. Eustia addressed the Senate on the silver question. The President, he said, had told Congress that there was not enough silver now in circulation to cause any uneasiness ; that the whole amount now coined might, after a time, be absorbed by the people without apprehension, but that it was the “ceaseless stream that threatened to overflow,” etc. From this it was to be understood that the silver dollar is an honest dollar when absorbed by the people, but dishonest when offered to the bondholders. The results of the Congressional policy of coinage had never been fullv tested according to its true intent and spirit because the executive department had, in its practice, manifested an unfriendliness to that policy, and, by partiality and discrimination, had retarded it. If that department had not discriminated in favor of the bondholders as against the people, its representations as to finance would have been entitled to more respect. In conclusion Mr. Eustis said: “If this disloyal practice of ineivism by the executive department in declaring war against silver coin, which is a coin of the Government, in belittling its usefulness, in depreciating its existence, and in inviting others to believe that it is a deformed offspring of legislative imbecility, is to continue, than some of the evils that have been predicted may come to pass; but those evils will not be attributable to any vice in our financial system, but to the practice and assertions of the executive department in dishonoring and discrediting the coin \ which' it is their duty to sustain by all the influence and power of their official in the House of Representatives, hills were introduced for the resurvey of the Bay of San Francisco, to provide for the inspection of live stock and hog products, to abolish the Fort Wallace military reservation in Kansas, to pension the only surviving granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson, to confer on Lieut. Green the rank of colonel, for the admission of Montana as a State, and for the erection of an Indian school building at Carson, Nevada. Mr. Wadsworth offered a resolution declaring that President Cleveland has faithfully endeavored to maintain the equality of gold, silver, and paper dollars.