Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1886 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Nea’ Dow, the Maine Prohibitionist, celebrated hie eighty-second birthday by a fam ly gathering at Portland. Owing to the loss of the Oregon, the Cunard Company lias abandoned the running of fast weekly steamers between Boston and Liverpool In the e’ection conspiracy cases of Mackin and Gallagher, tried in the Federal Court at Chicago, the Supreme Court of the United States holds that the r crime was an infamous one within the meaning of the Constitution, and that they could only be tried on presentment or indictment by a Grand Jury. The sentence of two years’ imprisonment pronounced against the defendants by Judge Blodgett is therefore void. Mackin has no chance to escape confinement for five years at Joliet on the conviction in the State courts for perjury. The basis of a settlement of the strike on the Missouri Pacific Road, as drawn up by Governor Marmaduke, of Missouri, and Governor Martin, of Kansas, and accepted by Vico President Hoxie, was rejected by the Knights of Labor of St. Louis. The latter adopted resolutions asserting that the corporations of the country are acting in concert to break down the power of labor organizations, and thereby ruin the country; that the refusal of representatives of corporations to treat with the representatives of labor is a silly subterfuge; and calling on all trades assemblies and labor organizations in the land to unite in a demand for recognition of their representatives and their right to negotiate, treat, and deal with individuals or bodies, as the case may be. The Knights issue a statement to the public, closing as follows: But why should we say more? If Mr. Hoxie did not know that he was guilty of gross wrong and injustice why would he refuse to listen to our evidence and hear our appeal for redress? Why would he shelter himself behind subterfuges and technicalities? Why should he refuse to treat with the men he has wronged; and with evasive letters to governors- who cannot possibly ent ir into the merits of the controversy. The ini.h is simply this: Mr. Hoxie wants trouble. He has provoke I it. He is still inciting it, and making an innocent public pay the price of his perfidy. How long will the public consent for Gou d and Hoxie thus to rHe or ruin? We wait to se.?.

A Kansas City dispatch says: “At 9 o’clock this morning (22d)a general sounding of locomotive whistles signaled the inauguration of another strike. At that hour the union switchmen in every railroad yard in the city quit work, and freight business generally was stopped. Business at the stock yards is about suspended, and 0:1 the Board of Trade wheat dropped two cents in at many seconds. At present the cause of the strike cannot be learned. Som ■ of the men sav, •We had orders from the beadquart irs of the Knights of Labor.' The switchmen made a general demand for an advance in wages a week ago of the various roads, and it was granted.”

A resolution that executive sessions referring to nominations, confirmations, or rejections shall hereafter be held w.th open doors, was introduced in the Senate by Mr. Logan on March 22. Messrs. Colquitt, of Georgia, and Jackson, of Tennessee, addressed the Senate in opposition to the Edmunds resolutions. Mr. Harris presented petitions from the corporate authorities of the city < f Memphis and of the Cotton Exchange of the same city praying for necessary appropriations for the protection of the harbor of that city. Among the bills introduced and appropriately referred was one by Mr. Cockrell, at the instance, he said, of the Merchants’ Exchange at St. Louis, authorizing tho construction of a bridge over the Mississippi River at St. Louis. Senator Logan caused to be read in the executive session of the Senate a letter written to the Postmaster General by John H. Oberly last spring, charging Mr. Palme'', the Postmaster at Chicago, with offensive partisanship, and suggesting his immediate removal. The letter was referred to the Committee on Civil-Service Reform. A sensation was produced in the House of Representatives when tile Chaplain devoted his opening prayer to an invocation to Cod to rid the land of gamesters, whether in cards, dice, chips, stock, wheat, bucket-shops, or boards of trade, and to lead the people to know that money-making other than by the sw eat of the face wa' contrary to His laws. The prayer was ordered to be inserted in the Record. The House passed a bill to give to the widow’ of General Hancock a pension of $2,000 per annum. A bill was introduced by Mr. Anderson, of Kansas, to create a commission of arbitration for labor : trikes. Mr. Lawler present d a resolution remitting the Judiciary Committee to report what legislation is neiessary to tl-isn any part < f : lie Chicago .River.