Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1887 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Archbishop Taschereau, of Quebec, has issued the following circular letter bearing on the Knights of Labor question: In September, 1834, the Holy See was consulted by me on the society of the Knights of Labor, condemned it under pain of grievous sin, and charged the BishoDS to deter ttieir diocesans therefrom, as I did In my circular letter of the 2d of February, T 835. After tbe representations made by their Lordships, the Bishops of the United States, the Holy See has suspended until further orders the effect of that sentence. In consequence, I authorize tno confessors of the diocese to absolve Knights of Labor on the following conditions, which it is your bounden duty to explain to them and make them observe: 1. That they confess and sincerely repent the grievous sin which tney committed by not obeying tha decree of September, 1884. 2 That they be ready to abandon this society as soon as the Holy See shall ordain it. 3. That they sincerely and explicitly promise absolutely to avoid all that may either favor Masonic or other condemned societies, or violate the laws either of justice, charity, or of the state. 4. That they abstain from every promise and from every oath by which they would bind themselves either to obey blindly all orders of the directors of the society, or keen a v solute secrecy. even toward the lawful authorities. (See “Discipline,” p. 217.) The anti-coercion meeting in London on the 11th instant was the largest ever held in that city. Mrs. Gladstone, watching the procession from a window in Piccadilly, received an ovation from the men in line. A motion protesting against the coercion bill was offered simultaneously from fourteen platforms, and was enthusiastically carried. The greatest throng gathered at the platform from which Lord Mayor Sullivan of Dublin and Messrs. Conybeare and 'William Redmond, members of Parliament, spoke. Lord Mayor Sullivan, in the course of a most effective speech, asked: “Is it the wish of the workmen of London that the honest, hardworking tenantry of Ireland should be forever crushed down?” A tremendous responsive “No!” resounded throughout the park. The mention of the Queen as about to celebrate her jubilee by signing away the liberties of the people of Ireland brought forth a torrent of hisses, and the mention of Mr. Chamberlain’s name aroused a tempest of groans and hisses, with cries of “Traitor.” Michael Davitt was one of the speakers. H$ said that on the day on which the crime* act should become a law they would either ha re to give up tho struggle that had beeu waged for centuries and lie down as slaves, or rendor the system impossible of duration. They would follow the manlier course. The classes had in the past built a bridge of hate across the Irish sea; the people would pull it down and ertet a bridge- of love between the toilers of belaud and the honest workers of England. The “Sweney law”—an lowa statute passed by the last General Assembly, which compels all foreign corporations doing business in that State to reincorporate there, and thus be subject to State laws and State courts —has bc-ea declared unconstitutional by tie United States Supreme Court. Judge Heady, in the United States Circuit Court, rendered an important decision at Portland, Ore., as to the scope of the interstate commerce act, which virtually nullifies the long and short-haul clause so far as it affects roads competing with water route?. The 0 udge rules that the interstate commerce act does not apply to all carriers engaged in interstate commerce, but only such as use railway or railway and water craft under common control for continuous carriage or shipment of property from one State to another. Tho case in point was that of the Oregon and California Road, and the Judge rules that as its carriage of certain goods is performed wholly within the State of Oregon, it is, therefore, specially exempted by tho terms of tlio act from tho operation of tho law. The lostmaster General and the Superintendent of the railway mail service left Washington on the 12th insh on a tour of inspection. They will inquire into tlio feasibility of establishing at Cliiea ;o, St Louis and Atlanta depots for the distribution of postal cards and stamped envelopes. Thousands of Washington children rolled Easter eggs in the White House grounds on the 10.li inst, in accordance with an ancient custom, and shook hands with tho President