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

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. FORTY-NINTH CONGRESa Hr. Kiddelerrger, *A Virginia, offem-i a resolution in the Senate, on the 2d inst.,-tV.at the President is not restricted by law in rer.wiving officials, and that the Senate has no right to require a statement of his reasons for suspensions. Mr. Pugh submitted a substitute, declaring the President responsible to the people for rowovals or suspensions from office. The matter went over. The electoral-eount bill, with *ll the amendments proposed, was recommitted. Mr. Chace introduced a hilt to prevent Congressmen from recommending appointments to office, and Mr. Harris a measure approjiriating $75,00;) to establish a bureau of public health. The Secretary of the Treasury answered a resolution of inquiry by stating that no assistant treasurer has been instructed to rofuse to issue certificates on deposits of silver dollars. The House of Representative devoted the day to eulogies of Vice President Hendricks by leading members. Mr. Bynum, of Indiana, was the first speaker to bear testimony to tho true Worth of the dead statesman. He traced tin life of Mr. Hendricks through childhood, youth, and j manhood, showing that in every stage ho had j manifested that ability and talent which had j made his name familiar to every household in j tho lend. Mr. Hewitt said that tho nomination ! of Mr. Hendricks in 18S4 secured tho success of I the Democratic ticket. It prevented an issue ! addressed to tho conscience of the people, I said in New York especially was so acceptable to a portion of tho party otherwise dissatisfied that pirsor.al grievances wore to a largo extent swallowed up and postponed to the largo duty of justice to tho man in whose person tho will of tho people had once been defeated. But for tho existence if this feeling the accession of independent voters would not have materially changed the strong current of feeling among a portion of tiie Democratic voters for tho candidates of the other party. Mr. Hendricks, he said, was a partisan, out this partisanship was never exerted at tho expense of his patriotism. There was no reason for apology or explanation so far as Mr. Hendricks' vii tvs on the matter of appointment to public office were concerned. These views were given in his letter of acreptom e of the nomination for Vico Presitb nt in JH7(i, and coincided with the views of Washington and .Jefferson. Mr. Randall expressed admiration for tho dead statesman, whose life had been the emboA•ment of that old Latin saying, “mild in manner and resolute in conviction." His ways were gentle and kind, but in a matter of right or wrong he was iixed and immovable. As he was greater than others he was also stronger than any political organization to which he was attached. He believed that, our liberties were sacrod only when all tendencies toward centralization well) to be resisted and destroyed. He dfocras ho lived, calmly and serenely. Like a shadow thrown softly and sweetly from a passing cloud, death fell upon him. Thf. Chair placed before tho Senate, on the3d inst., the resolution as submitted by Mr: Riddleberger and tho substitute tor it submitted by Mr. Pugh, relating to tho relations between the President and the Senate in regard to information and papers affecting Government officers suspended or appointed. Mr. Edmunds said that practically but four months of the session were left for business. Tho resolution offored embodied no practical question —only mooted—questions—and it would be timo enough to debato tho question When it should become a practical question. Ho moved to lay the resolutions on the table. Tho motion to lay on the table was then agreed to, only one voico being heard in the negative. At a subsequent stage of tho Senate proceedings, Mr. Riddieberger again called up his resolution and criticised tho course of the “Senator (Edmunds) whose voico is too repressed to bo heard except by himself, who first makes a speech ahd then IVAvfA an undebatablo motion. “I don’t mind being run over by a railroad train,” continued Mr. Riddleborger, “but I don’t like being mashed by a wheelbarrow,” [Great laughter. I On motion of Mr. Morrill tho resolution was then, without debato, referred to tho Committee on Privileges and Elections. Tho Dakota bill was placed beforo the Senate, and Mr. Logan took tho floor in favor of the admission of that Territory as a Stato. Mr. Morgan opposed tho admission of Dakota under the present conditions. He thought tho Senate was asked to admit the new Stato merely for tho purpose of admitting the officeholders that had been sent here. Tho patriotism that had been so much referred to had in it a strong flavor of self-interest. The House of Representatives adopted a resolution, offered by Mr. Bland, requesting information from the Secretarv of the Treasury whether an arrangement was made with the New York Clearing-Houso to prevent the circulation of silver, and asking for a statement of Silver dojjarg arid certificates on hand and alloat. A letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, stating that since 1827 the conscience fund has developed to $220,747, was read in the Senate on the 4th inst. A memorial from the Legis’ature of New Jersey protested against the granting to the Baltimore and Ohio Road the rydit to build a bridge from the Jersey shore to Staten Island. Mr. Plumb introduced a bill to appropriate $150,000 more for a public building at Fort Scott, and Mr. Dolph a measure to extend the limits of Portland, Ore., to include the east bank of tho Willamette. Mr. Cameron called up the bill providing for an assistant Secretary of the Navy in the Senate, and a debate of the merits of tho bill was entered upon which soon took the character of a polit'cal discussion anil ended in a fight over the action taken by Secretary Whitney in tho Dolphin matter. Mr. Cockrell defended the actions of Secretary Whitney. In the House the day was devoted to the discussion of the Dakota bill. Mr. Harrison declared that the real animus of the objections to tbe bill was that another Presidential election should pass before tho people of Dakota wero to be permitted to participate in such elections. Mr. Morgan said that Mr. Harrison, who was evidently a candidato for the Presidency, might not have a chance at the votes of Dakota, for he (Mr. Morgan) did not think that he would ripen in four years. Mr. Harrison replied that if ne over should bo a candiiiate, although he would not be sure but that he might justly claim the electoral vote of Alabama, he never would expect to have it counted for Riio. Übou tho reading of Mr. Harrison of papers In contraction of those read by Democratic Senators to show the feeling prevalent in Dakota with regard to the question of admission, one Senator brought down the House and Senate by quoting Falstaff’s exclamation: “Oh, Lord, how this world is given to lying!” When, at another time, Mr. Harrison asked amid laughter whether Mr. Butler would have entitled the constitution of Dakota “The Constitution of tho State of Dakota, by tho grace of God and the Senator from South Carolina," Mr. Butler turned the laugh against his opponent by replying: No; I should have simply said: “By the grace of tho Senator from Indiana.

This feonato closed its long and wrangling debate over the admission of South Dakota into the Union as a State on tho sth iust., by passing the bill of the Committee on Territories. A Vote was first taken on tho Butler substitute, which was an act to enable the people of Dakota to frame a State constitution, etc., and it was rejected by a vote of —yeas 22, nays 3'?. A vote was then taken’ on the bill itself, which resulted in—yeas 32, nays 22. The negative vote was wholly Democratic. The affirmative vote was made up of thirty-one Republicans and one Democrat— Mr. Voorhees. Tho bill as it was passed divides the Territory of Dakota on the lino of the 4titli parallel of latitude ; provides for the admission of the southern portion as a State under the title of Dakota, and the organization of the northern portion into a separate Territory under the name of Lincoln. The Frye bill for the appointment of a commission to investigate the alcoholic-liquor taiffic was reported favorably to the Senate. It provides for {be appointment by the President of five peraons to investigate the alcoholic-liquor traffic,

-fw relations to revenue and taxation, and its ,general economic, criminal, moral, and scienytitle aspects in connection with pauperism, .crime, social evil, the public health, and general welfare of the people; to inquire and take 1 testimony as to the practical results of license and prohibitory legislation for the prevention of ■intemperance in the several State*, and to report tut result of their investigations to the President, to be by bim transmitted to Congress, fc appropriates 810,000 for the expenses of the investigation. The Senate passed Mr. Sewell’s bill .providing for an annual appropriation. of SOOO,OOO to buy anas and ordnance .fclores, quartermasters’ stores, and camp equipage for the militia of the several States and Territories. No State is to reeeive a share of the appropriation unless its militia force numbers at least one hundred men for each Senator <uid Representative to which it is entitled in Congress. The Senate also passed a bill providing iw the sale of the old site of Fort Brady, in Michigan, andfortho purchase of anew ite and tbe erection of a suitable building thereon. The House of Representatives passed the Senate bill to pay to Joseph W. Parish, of Peoria, $58,341.85 for ice contracted for army hospitals in 1863. Mr. Itandall reported to the House the pension bill from tbe Appropriation Committee, and it was referred to the committee of the whole. The bill as reported apjiropriates ¥75,754,200, an increase of about $15,000,000 over last year. It is made tip as follows; For army and navy pensions, $75,000,000; for tees and "expenses of examining surgeons, $500,000: for salaries of eighteen pension agents, $72,000; for miscellaneous expenses, including clerk hire, rents, etc., $182,200.