Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1886 — LATER NEWS IETMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS IETMS.

Over 15,000 men, representing the “starving mechanics of London,” met around Nelson Monument in Trafalgar Square, on the afternoon of the Bth inst The gathering was managed by Socialists, conspicuous among the leaders being a man named Burns, who was a candidate for Parliament from Nottingham at tho recent election. Interference by the police precipitated trouble, which culminated in a serious riot The residence of Arnold Morley, the new Patronage Secretary, was totally wrecked despite the frantic appeals of the tenant for aid. Besides smashing the windows and doors of a large number of private houses, the vast and maddened throng sacked Hatchett’s Hotel in Picadilly and carried off everything eatable and drinkable. Lord Cremome was met and badly beaten. The Carlton, Devonshire, and Turf Clubs suffered severely. Every person met who looked like a foreigner was stoned or maltreated, and shops of all kinds were burglarized. At midnight the mob, which early in the evening consisted of 50,000 men, melted away, and quiet reigned once more.

A cablegram from Borne announces the death of Prince Alexander Torlonia, who carried out many extensive public works in Italy. According to the report of the New York Produce Exchange, the visible supply of grain on Feb. 6 was: Wheat, 54,197,045 bushels; com, 7,251,352 bushels; oats, 1,824,398 bushels; barley, 1,750,207 bushels; rye, 715,067 bushels. Near Graham Station, Kentucky, Mrs. Slater and her nurse and babe were drowned by the ice giving way beneath their sleigh.

A nice silver debate was running along peacefully in the Senate on the Bth inst., with Senator John Sherman on the floor pointing out the mistakes that had been made in the Treasury Department In failing to follow his example," when some accidental remark was made about the inquiries tho Senate was making of the Secretary of the Treasury in regard to Bilver, and the Senator from Ohio at once branched off into a discussion of the great question of the hour—the relations of the Executive and the Senate. Mr. Edmunds was absent, and Mr, Sherman had a chance to come to the front as the Republican spokesman. For half an hour the debate between Mr. Sherman on one side and Messrs. Saulsbury and Pugh on the other was decidedly interesting. Mr. Sherman’s position was that the Senate had no right to question the President as to his reasons, but it had a right to any information that exists in the departments. Tho doctrine, he declared, had always been recognized till the present administration came in. In the administrations of Pierce and Buchanan committees of Congress had a cabinet minister before them, and overhauled papers in the departments, and it was never even suggested that the two houses of Congress were not entitled to see everything on file in the departments. When ho was Secretary of the Treasury he was summoned before committes of both houses, and questioned about executive acts both in regard to appointments and removals and in regard to financial policy, and he answered all questions but one, and that was as to what he was going to do. The Senate agreed to a resolution offered by Mr. Ingalls, which directs the Finance Committee to inquire into the propriety of making such an amendment to the Revised Statutes as may be necessary to require tbe issue of United States notes of the denominations of $1 and $2. In the House of Representatives, Mr. Blanchard introduced a rt solution calling upon the Secretary of tho Treasury for a statement of all moneys seized or collected in the Department of the Gulf by Generals Butler and Banks. Mr. Springer introduced a bill to enable the people of Dakota east of the Missouri River to form a Constitution and State Government, and there is strong reason to believe that it will be tbe measure which the House will oppose against the Harrison bill which passed the Senate. The bill provides for admitting tho east half of Dakota, which contains about 420,000 inhabitants, with two members of Congress and two United States Courts. This will leave only about 30,000 inhabitants west of the river to bo organized into the Territory of Lincoln. Bismarck is left out of the new State, and will become tbe cap>itnl of tho new Territory. The bill provides that Congress may hereafter, when the Indian reservation titles are extinguished, annex the Territory of Lincoln, and Dakota is required to consent to this in her constitution. Mr. Weaver addressed the House upon tho coinage question. In the course of his remarks Mr. Weaver attacked the national bunking system. There were four things, lie said, relating to finance which this Congress must enact. First, it must provide for unrestricted coinage of American silver. Second, a law must be passed for the issue of Treasury notes to take the place of bank notes. Third, the largest portion of the surplus in the Treasury musz be paid out in liquidation of the interest-bearing piublic debt. Fourth, it must forbid by law any further discrimination against Bilver coin.