Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1886 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

The New York Senate Railroad Committee lias reported favorably the lull to repeal the Broadway Surface Railroad franchise. At a caucus of Republican Senators in Washington, n majority expressed themselves in favor of open executive sessions. At this caucus, says a Washington dispatch, “more than a dozen Senators said frankly they would vote for every nomination <?n its merits, regardless of whether it was made in the place of a suspended ex-soldier or not, or whether the Executive had given his reasons for making tho suspension or not. Among these Senators were Morrill, Platt, Plumb, Van Week, Hale, Dolph, Mitchell (Oregon), and Don Cameron.”

to take back all tho strikers. Tho address is as follows: To the Public: as showing the sincerity of tho railroad managers in their treatment of tho Enigma of Labor, *<• ri-Hj ectfully state teat pursuant to the order of our general executive board »e this day sent a committee to the managers of the several railroads, offering to return the men to work, and in no instance would they bo received or treated with, each official in turn e thet refusing them a hearing or evading them with specious. subterfuges for direct answers, or refusing them employment Mr. Hoxiehas agreed to receive u committee of employes to adjust any grievances which may exist. He refuses personally and through his subordinates to recognize any of us as employes and refuses to receive any but such us he calls employee. In short, after himself aud Mr. Gould have conveyed the impression to tho world that they are willing to settle, they refuse to settle. Now we appeal t) a cauoid and suffering public, on whom is falling all the weight of thgreat'conflict. if we have not been deceived enoughV How much is long-suffering labor tv bear This great strike never would have been bad Mr. Hoxie condescended months ago to hear our complaints. Wo do not claim to bo more than human. It should not be expected of us to be more than human. In this country position makes no man king or slave, and imperious refusal on the part of one citizen to confer with other citizens with whom he may have business connections, when such refusal begets great business and social revolution, is not only a mistake but a crime against the public. Mr. Gould is invoking tho law against little criminals who are mode desperate by his policy of duplicity and oppression, and yet a terrorized public does not invoke tho law against the arch-criminal of tho land. If wo cannot be allowed to return to work the strike must go on. Telegrams to Bradstreet's report a less satisfactory condition of geuoral trade, duo in large part to the continuation of strikes at various centers, as well as to tho interruption of railway traffic in the Southwest Floods in the Central, Southern and Western States have helped depress trade through tlio destruction of bridges and overflowing of country roads. At large Eastern cities the volume of merchandise moving is of only moderate proportions. At Western centers the demands are quite as much for near-by wants as they were a week ago. In general, it may be stated that the progress made thus far during 1880 has been disappointing. There was a gradual falling off iu the number of failures. Mrs. Nathan Griffith, of Westminster, Ontario, whose reason was shattered by religious excitement, cut her husband’s throat as he lay sleeping. The Pacific Mail Line has raised the passenger rates for Chinese from $25 to SSO per head for the purpose of stopping the exodus now in progress. Prof. Foster, meteorologist of lowa, makes the following predictions: Great storms will pass over the United States in rapid succes sion during the last ten days of April, and all shipping interests, especially iu the Northern States, should prepare to protect their property from heavy rains, high winds, floods, sleet, snow, and extreme changes of the weather on land, and from dangerous gales on the lakes and Atlantic coast The heaviest of these storms will bo over tho Mississippi basin, about April 25 or 20; west of that earlier, and cast later.