Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1886 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The Hoose Committee on Territories has agreed to report favorably a bill to provide for the organization of Indian Territory and the Public-Land Strip into the Territory of Oklahoma. The bill provides that nothing in it shall be so construed as to disturb the existing property or treaty rights of the Indians, and that the Public-Land Strip shall be opened to settlement under the provisions of the homestead laws only. The President is authorized to appoint a commission to deal with the Indians. Jay Gould states that H. M. Hoxie has full powers touching the trouble on the Southwest system, and that he will enter into no further negotiations for the settlement of a strike which, he says, is now a thing of the past. The Central Labor Union at New York adopted a preamble calling Jay Gould “an arch-enemy of the republic,” and saying that “it is the intention and purpose of the great enemy of the American people to destroy all labor organizations.” They adopted, also, resolutions denouncing Jay Gould and his minions for their refusal to treat with the representatives of the workingmen of the Missouri Pacific, and holding him and his representatives responsible for every act of violence. A committee was appointed for executing a general boycott upon Jay Gould. At the regular weekly meeting of the Methodist clergymen of Chicago, where ths eighthour question was discussed with much spirit, Bishop Bowman said be should like to see Jay Gould kicked through the streets of New York. At the inquest on the victims of the East St. Louis emeute, evidence was given to the effect that no attack had been made on the deputies when they began firing. The deputies who did the shooting were released at St. Louis under writs of habeas corpus, but were rearrested and held to await requisitions from the Governor of Illinois. Numbers of coal miners in St. Clair and Mailison Counties, Illinois, have abandoned their work, and say they will not resume operations until the railway strike is settled. Sir Thaddeus Fairbanks, inventor of the Fairbanks scale, died at St Johnsbury, Vt., in his 90th year. Mr. Fairbanks was born in Dedham, Mass., and emigrated to St Johnsbury, Vt, when 15 years old. After working in a saw and grist mill he started an iron foundry in 1823, making newly invented styles of cooking stoves and cast-iron plows, the first iron plowshares ever made. He invented, in succession, a heinp-dresscr, a steam-heating apparatus, an arrangement of refrigerators which has everywhere been adopted, and finally the famous scale. For the last invention ho was made a Knight of the Imperial Order of Francis Joseph by the Emperor of Austria in 1873.

The Indian appropriation bill, including an item of $20,000 for schools in Alrska, passed the Senate on tho 12th inst. Mr. Sherman offered an arbitration bill in the shape of an amendment to the House bill pending in the Senate. Mr. Chace reported adversely from the Committee on Postoffices a bill to increase the rate of postage ou fourth-class matter to two cents an ounce. A resolution offered by Mr, Beck was agreed to appoint Mr. Gibson,’of Louisiana, to the membership of the Senate Committee on Commerce in place of Mr. Jones of. Florida, during the absence of the latter from the Senate. The President sent the following ncminations to tho Senate: Howell E. Jackson of Tennessee, to bo Circuit Judge of tho United States for the Sixth Judicial Circuit, vice John Baxter, deceased ; Frank H. Dyer, to bo Marshal of the United Statss for the Territory of Utah. The President withdrew the nomiuatio.r of Orlando W. Powers of Michigan as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Utah. Republican Senators and Representatives at a joint caucus in tho evening adopted resolutions authorizing each State delegation to select a representative on the Congressional Campaign Committee. In the House of Representatives Mr. Morrison, of Illinois, from the Committee on Rules, reported a resolution for the appointment by the Speaker of a select committee of seven members to investigate the causes and extent of the disturbed conditions now existing in tho relations between railroad corporations and their employes. The committee shall have power to send for persons and papers, to sit during tho sessions of the House, and to visit such places as may be necessary in order to facilitate the investigation. It shall report during the present session, with such recommendations as it may deem proper to make. The resolution was adopted without division. The Morrison-Hewitt tariff bill was reported to the House with majority and minority reports.