Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1886 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

J. Hanis Rogers testified in the telephone investigation at Washington that he gave SIO,OOO in Pan-Electric stock to Richard Winter Smith. At a meeting at which Senator Harris, Gen. Johnston, Mr. Y'oung and witness were present, Mr. Young said that a number of members of Congress wanted to become interested in the Pan-Electric Company, and had frequently importuned him on the subject It was proposed that members of Congress should give S2O, but Young suggested that that was too much. Witness testified that an effort was made in 1881, or the beginning of 1-884, to have- him appointed Electrician of the House of Representatives, and Senators Harris and Garland had gone to see Architect Clark. Witness expected to take advantage of the engines, dynamos, and other machinery to carry on experiments which would benefit both Isis associates and the Government. General Johnston went to see the Speaker in his behalf. Witness was questioned as to the date of the interview in which Mr. Young stated that Attorney General Garland had promised to bring suit, and fixed the date at some time early in July. In reply to a question put by the Chairman, witness said that Pan-Electnc stock was given to his associates for three reasons —because they held official positions and were widely known, because they wore lawyers, and because he was satisfied that they would do business honorably.

The mining companies in the Menominee iron range have voluntarily advanced the wages of employes. The N. O. Nelson Manufacturing Company of St. Louis offers to divide its profits with its employes, after deducting 7 per cent, interest on the actual capital invested. Five employes of the Union Pacific road at Omaha seized a Missouri Pacific freight train about to start, put tlie engine back in the roundhouse, and blockaded tlie track with boxcars. The Knights of Labor at Akron, Ohio, persuaded the boarding-houses in that city to stop entertaining employes of 8. F. Sieberling’s factories. Ferdinand Schumacher, the oatmeal king, thereupon threw open his two hotels to the homeless workers.

A St. Louis dispatch says: “Not a car of freight has crossed the St. Louis bridge for a week, and there, is every prospect that the strike on the Gould system of railroads in the Southwest will last for some time longer, although the Texas and Pacific is reported to be open from end to end. A switchman who went to work for the Missouri Pacific was assaulted by a number of the strikers and quite seriously injured. A suburban train was side-tracked outside the city limits, and the passengers were obliged to walk four miles before they reached the street-cars. The yardmen and switchmen employed in East St. Louis, to the number of about 1,200, representing more than half a dozen railroads, have demanded an advance of 50 cents a day.”

A number of petitions from local assemblies of Knights of Labor throughout the country, favoring the building of tho Hennejjin Canal, were presented in Ihb Senate on March 15. Also memorials of the Knights of Labor protesting against the denial of the extra pay which had been provided for by law for workingmen in the Government service who worked more than eight hours per day. In presenting one of these memorials, Mr. Ingalls said the complaint was a just one, and the nation had been disgraced by the violation of the law complained of in the memorial. Mr. Ingalls presented a joint resolution proposing a constitutional amendment providing that the 30th of April shall be th? day for the beginning of the successive administrations of the Government hereaft r instead of the 4th of March. The Senate adopted, by a vote of 25 to 22, an amendment of the widows’ pension bill offered by Senator Van Wyck, providing that the pensions of children who are idiotic or insane shall continue during the existence of such idiocy or insanity. A message from the House of Representatives announced to the Senate the death of Represensative Hahn. Mr. Eustis moved the customary resolutions of regret, on the adoption of which the Senate, out of respect to the memory of the deceased, adjourned. Immediately after reading the journal the House adjourned out of respect to the memory of Representative Hahn, jf S ouisiana.