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

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Solicitor General John Goode appeared before the Telephone Investigating Committee at Washington to tell what he knew of the circumstances leading up to the institution of the Memphis suit that was subsequently dropped. He had considered, lie said, only what he regarded the points in the matter —first, whether the department had power to order suit; and, second, whether the papers presented made out a prima-facie case. He had not given the application special precedence, nor had ho been requested to do so. The reason for finally bringing the suit at Columbus was that there had been no decision in the court at that place bearing upon telephone suits, while in some form the question had figured in every Eastern court It was thought that in Columbus they could get a perfectly fair and impartial tribunal, and a forum where there was no preconceived opinion in regard to the matter. Attorney General (iarlaud had never mentioned the Bell or Pan-Electric Company to witness until after his return from his vacation in October, when witness introduced the subject to him, having seen it mentioned in tho publie press. Witness did not know that Mr. Garland had any interest in the Pan-Eleetrie or any other telephone company until he saw the newspaper publications. The Right Hon. William E. Forster, who was Chief Secretary for Ireland under the previous Gladstone Ministry, is dead. He had been ill for some time. Mr. Forster was 68 years of age. When Mr. Gladstone retired from the leadership of the opposition in 1875, Mr. Forster declined to become the-leader of the Liberal party, and the Marquis of Hartington was chosen. Nov. 13, 1875, Mr. Forster was elected Lord Rector of the University of Aberdeen. He married in 1850 the eldest daughter of the late Rev. Thomas Arnold, D. D., head master of Rugby School. Two Western railroads report the following earnings for the month of March: Chicago A Northwestern, $1,988,900, an increase over the same month last year of $2,400; Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis A Omaha, $517,000, an increase of $57,800. The Supreme Court of the United States has decided that the tax on tobacco intended for export is constitutional. Senator Logan's army bill was again discussed in the Senate on the sth inst. Mr. Cockrell spoke in opposition to the hill. There was, he said, ample power to protect our institutions without a single regular soldier. Our foreign wavs had been fought by volunteers ; our civil war—tho greatest war iu history—had been fought by volunteers. Tlio people of this re public could successfully resist tbe combined nations of the earth. Mr. Logan spoke at considerable le>ngth in further explanation of the details of the hill, and in reply to criticisms made against it. He believed fully in relying on tbe citizens iu time of trouble, and whenever a large army was wanted, but said citizens to bo effective had to be organized. Mr. George reported in the Senate, unfavorably, a bill from the Committee on Territories to enable the Northwest Trading Company to purchase certain lands in Alaska, Indefinite postponement was recommended. The President sent to the Senate • the following nominations : Caleb \Y. West, of Kentucky, to be Governor of Utah; Edward R. Fogg, to be Receiver of Public Moneys at Beatrice, Neb. Coil uls—Louis D. Brilaud, of Pennsj lvania, at Kingston, Jamaica; L. J. Dupre, of Alabama, at San Salvador; J. Cecil Legare, of Louisiana, 1 1 Tampico; H. Sawyer, of Connecticut, at Trinidad. Postmaster's—M. Weismantel, at Naperville, Ill.; Herndon C. Travers, Rockdale. Tex. ; J. H. Woodman. Northville, Mich ; Clayton F. Collins, Homer, Mich.; John H. Saxton, De Witt, Iowa; Shannon Clements, Bucvrus, O.; John W. Davis, New Richmond, Ohio; Eugene C. Wilson, Clay Center, Kan.; George W. Clark, Lyons, Kan.; W. H. L. Peperill, Concordia, Kan.; Henry C. Hunt, Delavan, Wis.; Samuel Chamberlain, Waupun, Wis.; Wesley E. Hughes, Fresno City, Cal.; James Tyson, Placerville, Cal.; John McCann, Martinez, Cal.; G. J. Evans, Hastings, Neb.; Frank Abt, Lead City, Dakota. Tbe Senate confirmed William T. Trenholm us Comptroller of the Currency. Tho House of Representatives passed the Mexican Pension Bill by 158 to 68, as also bills for public buildings at Duluth and San Antonio, Tex. Mr. O’Hara, the colored member from North Carolina, intoduced. a resolution for an investigation of the massacre of negroes at Carrollton, Miss. Among the new bills introduced in the House was one providing for the reduction of letter postage to one and a half cents per ounce. Representative Herbert introduced a resolution to appropriate $309,1)00, to be immediately available, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War in the purchase and distribution of subsistence stores and other necessary articles to aid in the relief or destitute persons in the overflowed districts of Alabama.