Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1886 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Governor Martin, of Kansas, in his campaign for re-election will encounter the opposition of the Republican Prohibitionists, led by St John, and the Democrats will probably place in the field Colonel Thomas Moonlight At a Republican caucus of both houses of the Legislature of California, A. P. Williams, a prominent merchant of San Francisco and Chairman of the Republican State Central Committee, was nominated for United States Senator. Returns from the Kentucky State election indicate the election of J. H. Bowden, Joseph Barbour, and John Q. Ward, all Democrats, for Superior Judges. Alabama held an election for State officers on the 2d inst The returns indicate the election of the entire Democratic ticket A London dispatch says the following appointments under the new government are officially announced: Charles Thompson Ritchie, President of the Local Government Board; CoL W. H. Walroud and Sidney Herbert, Junior Lords of the Treasury; the Duchess of Buccleuch, Mistress of the Robes; Baron Henry de Worms, Secretary to the Board of Trade, with the management of the affairs of that department in the House of Commons; Sir J. Ferguson, Under Foreign Secretary; Sir J. E. Gorst, Under Secretary for India; Earl of Dunraven, Under Colonial Secretary; H. S. Northcote, Financial Secretary to tho War Office; W r . L. Jackson, Financial Secretary to the Treasury; Mr. Brodrick, Surveyor of Ordnance. The brick-layers of Cincinnati have struck against the employment of non-union hodcarriera, and work lias been suspended on every building on which such carriers have been working.

In response to a resolution of tho Senate asking for information concerning the alleged illegal detention of A. K. Cutting by the Mexican authorities at El Paso del Norte, the President transmitted to the Senate, on the 2d inst., the report of the Secretary of State, together with a voluminous mass of correspondence relative to the case. Secretary Bayard explains that he has no reason for making twice a demand for Cuttiug’B release, because if his offense was committed in the United States Mexico has no jurisdiction, and Mr. Bayard, after pointing out that he has done everything within his power, says that he turns over not only the papers but the case to Congress. It is an open invitation to Congress to take some action—to hack him up in something more substantial than demands. The Senate passed bills to tax fractional parts of a gallon of distilled spirits, and to provide for the inspection of tobacco, cigars, and snuff. The Senate in executive session rejected the nomination of Richmond S. Dement to be Surveyor General of Utah. The nomination of E. H. Kinwan to be postmaster at Jacksonville, HI., was also rejected Fits John Porter was confirmed without debate. The House of Representatives, by a vote of 167 to 51, passed the Senate bill increasing the pension of soldiers who lost an arm or a leg in the service. The House concurred in the Senate amendments to tho naval establishment hill. An agreement was reached by the conferrees on the river and harbor bill providing for a survey of the Hennepin Canal route by a board of Government engineers and striking out the appropriation for construction. President Cleveland sent a message to the House of Representatives stating that he had signed the oleomargarine bill, and giving his reasons for approving it. The President says that many communications have been addressed to him for the purpose of influencing his action thereon, the greater number being influenced by local or personal ionsiderations. The bill, upon its face, and in Its main features, he says, is a revenue bill, and while he might doubt the present need of increased taxation, he defers to the judgment of Congress. He believes the selection of an additional subject of taxation, so well able to hear it, may be consistently followed by relieving the country of some other unnecessary revenue burden. In regard to the argument that the purpose of the bill was to destroy one industry for the protection of another, the President says: “If this article has the merit which its friends claim for it. and if the people of the land, with full knowledge of its real character, desire to purchase and use it, the taxes enacted by this bill will permit a fair profit to both manufacturer and dealer. If the existence and profits of the commodity depend upon disposing of it to the people for something else, which it deceitfully imitates, the entire enterprise is a fraud and not an industry; and if it cannot endure the exhibition of Its real character, which will be effected by the inspection, supervision, and stamping which this bill directs, the sooner it is destroyed the better, in the interest of fair dealing." Mr. Cleveland notes several changes that would improve the hill, aud suggests that it is not too late for them to he acted upon. There is danger, he says, of the fourteenth and fifteenth sections being construed as interfering with the police powers of the States.