Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1880 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL. XLVlth Vongrtm*. Senate. —A number of petitions were p ret Died oa the Mtt mUm a reduet too at duty on chemical* used b> the manufacture of paper.... Mr. Booth, from the Committee on Public Land*, reported, with an amendment, the Senate bill to reduce the price of Bbbc land* wlthia railroad limit*... Mr. But- ; from the Committee on Cirtl Serrice an J Betreochment. to whom traa referred the memorial mlatlni to aliened violation* of tae law and Civil Service rule* In connect ten with the Providence Custom-House. reported a Mil prohibiting officer* aad employe* of. ami claimant! against, or corporation* created or- aided by, the United States, end contractor* under the United State*, from contributing money for any .political purpose*. Mr. Butler alao announced that there would be a minority report on the matter Tbe Houae resolution in reward to the memory of the hue A. M. Lay was received, and eulogies were prooounced by Messrs. Cock roll, Kirkwood and Vest. House.—Mr. Springer, Chairman of the Committee on Elections, submitted a majority report of that Committee relative to the Pennsylvania contested election ease of Curtin Vs. Yofcum. dot-tarnnx the election null and void, and remli ting the question to the p -opie of tb«h district. The minority report. submitted by Mr. Calkins, dedans Yokum entitled to the seat ...Mr. Blount, from the Appropriations Committee, report- . ed tne " Star Serrice” Deficiency bin. which was ordered printed and recommitted.... A message was received from the President transmuting a communication from the At-torney-(lencral relative to the appropriation for United State* Marshals. In the communication Mr. 1 »eveia calls attention to the fact that the Marshals and their deputies had served -Ince la-4 July without compensation, and (tad advanced sums n •ceesary to he e«pooded in order that processes of oour s should not fall. He had been Informed, however uat they had reached the limit of their capacity to thus conduct their offloes, and ex-press,--1 t e hojq tmu Congress would, as soon “» possible, show them that tneir confidence ban n-t been ml-•placed.... The quest I>n of the revision of the rules was funher considered In Committee of the Whole. . Senate.—On the 25th the bill to remove the disabilities of James Monroe HeiskelL, of Baltimore, was. by unanimous consent. taken up. Mr. HeUkeil served la the Confederate army when a boy, and, under Section 1.318 of the Revised Statutes, Is ineligible to appointment in tbe army. An amendment waa offered byMr. Gsriand repealing aectlcn L3IS of tbe Revised Statutes, which amendment was agreed to, and, the questicr being on the third reading of the bill. It waa determined In the affirmative—»to 23 a strict party vote, the Democrats voting yea and the Republicans nay. Tbe quest 100 then being on the passage of the bill, a lively debate ensued, Messrs. Edmunds and Logan speaking against, and Messrs. Thurman and Beck in favor of, the measure.... The Pive-per-oent. Mil waa taken up and Indefinitely postponed—3B to Sl—a motion to reconsider the vote being made by Mr. Edmunds. House.—Mr. Bicknell, Chairman of the Committee pn Presidential Election, reported back the joint resolution amending the Constitution as to the election of President and Vice-President A resolution was adopted calling on the President for copies of such dispatches ns bad been recently received from the Consul-General at Shanghai on the subject of slavery, and that portion of the pent I code which forbids expatriation. ....Mr. Beale, of Virginia, from the Committee on Manufactures, reported a Mil to prevent the adulteration of articles of food and drink... .M -. Blount, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported back the .‘"Star Service” Deficiency bill, and it was referred to. and debated In, the Commute of the Whole.

Senate.—The Senate bill to authorize a refunding Jo postmaster* of funds or valuable letters lost or stolen was reported •fn>nr the Committee on Post-offices and Post-ir-sds or the 28th. with an amendment A resolution was adopted directing the Secretary of the Navy to transmit to the Senate snr information in the possession of the Department in relation to the present condition of affairs in Alaska. ..Eulogies on the late Senator Houston, of Alabama, were delivered •by Messrs’. Morgan, Hamlin, Thurman, Davis (111 i. Haulsbury. Pendleton and Pryor, after which the customary resolutions were adopted. * . . V’ House.— Mr. Warner introduced a joint resolution rc-affirmlng the Monroe dootrine, and declaring that tbe control of any mtei oceanic canal acr-es the Isthmus of Durlcn. while open to the United States and •l| Nations equally, must, in the interest of ourselves and the word, be kept under the special protection of the United States....Mr. Reagan, Chat man of the Committee on Com me: or-, reported bills relating, to the regulation of Inter-State commerce..... Tbe “Star Service” Deficiency bill was further considered and amended in Oom-irl-tee of tbe Whole, rep-rted to the House and passed. The bill as finally passed is in tbe nature of asiib-uitutc for the original bill reported, and appr priates |ti?J,ooUto meet the expenses of the inland mail transportation for I he reminder of the fl-oal year at the different contract prices as they existed February 1, 18NJ, with the provision that upon any route * here there baa been an increase of the original contract price for expediting the mall at a rale of more than $2,500 per annum the compensation for the expedition shall be reduced to the terms of the original contract after Ma ch ln.-xi: but the number of trips shall temain the same during the remalndcrof the p. eaent fiscal > car. ' Senate. —Tbe joint resolution of the Wisconsin Legislature, deprecating any financial legislation as likfely to endanger the prosperity of the country, was presented on the 27th uit....Mr. Walker, from the Committee on Public Building* and Ground*, reported a' sub-tltuie for tbe House bill for the establishment of titles in Hot Springs, and for other porp ses-....0n motion of Mr. Voorhees, tho bill admitting free of duty clothing and other charitable contributions from abroad for the relief of colored emigrants In Kansas wns taken up and passed.... Mr. Edmund's motion to rec insider the vote by which tbe Five-per-cent, bill was indefinitely postponed was bikeu up, and, after debate, the motion to reconsider was itself postponed until the second Monday in December next.... Propped amendments to the >tar Route l>efie.eney Appropriation bill were introduced by Messrs, Rax ay. Teller, BaunderAnd Garland, and referred to the Committee on Appropriations ...Adjourned to the Ist, House.— A bill was passed amending Section XBSJ of the Revised Statutes, so its to proyMeNhat where cans manufactured wholly or in put of imported material, filled with products grown or produced in the United States, and exported for the benefit of the drawback granted by section AOia, the same shall in all esses be entitled to the drawback provided for in that section, when .the imported material used in the manufacture of such cans shall equal aev- • enty percent, of all the material used in the manufacture thereof. ...1 he detailed consideration of the proposed new rules was finished • in Committee < f toe Whole, and they were reP "ted, ns amended In committee, to the House, when Mr. Blackburn gave notice that - be would ask final action upon them oa the Ed.... Adjourned to the Ist.

* From "Washington. On the 24th the Democratic National Executive Committee met In Washington ami issued s call for the National Convention to mevt in Cln -lnnati on the 23d of Jane. On the 25th the Postmaster-General issued an order denying the privileges of the registered mail aod money-order system - to B. H. Martin A Co., 'No. 128 Clark, street, Chicago, alleged to be engaged in obtaining money under false and fraudulent pretenses. Under date of February 18 General Sherman wr.te* to the Secretary of War,, cofnm nding the opinion by the President in the Boyuton-Sbennan controversy, that the civil oiurts afforded Mr. Boynton every facility for righting his grievances, and reiterates in effect the offensive remarks complained of by the latter. In a communication to the Secretary of War, dated February 26, Mr. Boynton- says-“his attempted proceeding, . recognised by both Judge Advocate General and General Sherman himself as legal, was for the military offense of ‘conduct onbe- . coming an officer and a gentleman,’ an offense not known to the civil Courts. Bv the President’s decision no military officer will hereafter injure his armv standing, at least daring the tdrm of this Administration, by denouncing any citizen through the public press in language of >he foulest abuse, even though be repeat this language to the President in official form.” Mr. Boytton then enters his protest against the President’* decision, and ax-pre.-ses the opinion chat “the high sente of honor which alwaji actuate the great body of the army officers renders it certain that " the President’* indulgence uHI be raralys ts

ever, needed by any officer below it* General” It «u estimated by Treasury officials on the 86th that tbe entire receipt* of tbe Government from customs, Internal revenue and Other sources for tbe year ending June 80 would be about 1800,000,000, aad that the total expenditures for tbs name time, including tbs Making fond and interest on the public debt, would amount to about 8875,000,000, having a profit to the Government of about 886,000,000. On the 27th nit. the President sent to tbs Senate tbe nomination of P. B 8- Pinchback to be Naval Officer at New Orleans. According to a Washington telegram of tbe 27th nit. tbe Senate Committee on Indian Attain was unanimous In favor of tbs confirmation of ex-Congresaman Troa - bridge aa Commissioner of Indian Affair*. Over 180,000,000 postal cards were disposed of daring tbe first seven months of the current fiscal year. On the 27th nit. the Postmaster-Gen-eral suspended his order prohibiting the payment at money order* to tbe lottery agents, who have appealed to tbe Supreme Court of the United States, until the case is decided by that tribunal. The Secretary of the Treasury on the 27th alt directed the suspension or the order of November S, 1879, prohibiting the importation of cattle from the Dominion of Canada.

Tbe East. On the 24th M. de Lease pa. the distinguished French civil engineer and builder of the Sues Canal, reach d'New Turk from Panama, where he had been engaged in the preliminary surveys of a ship canal across the Isthmus, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Tbe canal will coat, according to his estimates, about 8150,000,000, and the time required for its completion will be eight year*. M. de Lesseps will remain in the United States about two months, visiting Chicago and Bsn Francisco before taking his leave. The late Superintendent of the Shepherd’s Fold in New York City, who was sentenced to Imprisonment for maltreating and starving the children in his charge, sought his release by writ of habeas corpus on the 24th, but Judge Donahne dismissed the proceedings on hearing, and reminded Mr. Cowley to the custody of the Sheriff. A large part of the business portion of the Tillage of Brewsters’, N. T, was burned on the night of the 23d. Loss, 8160,000. The United States Assistant Treasurer at New York opened proposals on the 36 b for the sole to the Government of $1,000,000 of 1880-81 bonds. The offerings aggregated $6,886,450, and the Secretary accepted $2,000,000, all six per cents. In State Convention at Montpelier on the 25th the Vermont Republicans elected John Gregory Smith, Frederick Billings, J. W. Stewart and George VV. Hooker as delegates-! t-large .to tbe Republican National Convention, and adopted a platform. A resolution was also adopted presenting George F. Edmunds as a suitable person to be made the candidate of the Republican party for next President* On the 25th, Rev. A. W. Paige, of New Haven, Conn., pleaded guilty to tbe charge of sending obscene letters through the mail and was fined S2OO and costs. The New York State Republican Convention convened at Utica on the 25th, and organised by the choice of Hon. Charles E. Smith as Cffkirmsn. There was a quarrel over the admission of delegates from Oneida County, but it was settled by admitting the delegation .headed by Senator Conkling. Resolutions pledging the Electoral vote of the State to ex-President Grant; declaring that tbe New York Republicana reposed absolute trust in bis honesty, his fidelity, his serene judgment and solid intelligence; insisting that the objection to a third Presidential term applied only to a third consecutive term, and instructing the delegates to the National Convention to use their most earnest and united effort! to secure the nomination of Ex-President U. 8. Grant, were adopted amid considerable qonfusion. A motion to strike out the name of General Grant and substitute that of James G. Blaine was defeated,, by a vote of yeas, 180; nays, 217. A motion instructing the delegates to vote for Blaine If General Grant were not nominated waa tabled on motion of Senator Conkling. The deiegstes-at-larga were elected as follows! Roscoe Conkling, A. B. Cornell, C. A. Arthur and James D. Warren. Presidential Electors and a State Central Committee were also appointed. One thousand employes of the Harmony mills at Cohoes, N. Y. r struck tor an advance of ten per cent. In tbelr wages and one hoar Instead of thirty mlnntes for dinner, on the 38th.' . * The Rhode Inland Republican State Convention for the nomination of Btate officers and the appointment Of delegates to ti e Chicago Convention has been called to meet at Providence on the 18th of March. The Woman's Suffrage Association of New York recently held a congratulatory meeting over the enactment of the law allowing women to vote for school officers.

West and South. A Petersburg (Va.) dispatch of the evening of the 24th announces the arrival of a large number of colored people, mostly women and children, M route for Indiana, They reported that hundreds of others would follow. Jesse James, the outlaw whom a detective named Bhepherd claimed to have killed near Kansas City some months ago, was in St. Lotus on the 34th. • Four cattle-thieves were recently hang in the vicinity of Deadwood by the vigilantes. * The Michigan Greenback State Convention, to choose delegates to the National Convention in Chicago, will meet at Jackson on the 17th of March. The Illinois Republican State Convention will meet at Springfield on the 19th of May. The following were elected as members of the Indiana Republican State Central Committee by twelve of the District Conventions held on the 36th: First District, H. 8. Bennett, Vsnderbnrg; Second, Robert Evans, Knox; Third, W. M. Hurley, Floyd; Fifth, J. 8. Jordan, Morgan; Sixth, Isaac Jenkinsoo, Wayne; Seventh, John C. New, Marion; Eighth, H. H. Boudinot, Vigo; Ninth, A. L. Kumler, Tippecanoe ;UTeath, M. W. Tomlinson, Ocas; Eleventh, Xlemnder W. De Long, Huntington; Twelfth. Robert Stratton, Allen; Thirteenth, WrC. Graves, Kosciusko. John C. New was Chairman. The lowa Democratic State Convention to select delegates to the Democratic National Convention has been called to meet at Buriingtos on-the 7th <ft April On the 25th district delegates to the Republican National Convention were chosen is Insane. Four districts favored Blaine and one Sberman; in the others no instructions were given. - Announcement was made on the 27th that the Joint Executive Committee of the Eastern and Western lines bad met in Chicago the day before, and decided to reduce rates on grain between Chicago and the sea-board five cents per hundred pounds, to take effect on March L A corresponding reduction bn other articles was agreed to, to take effect on March 8. On the 26th General Adams arrived at Fort Leavenworth, with Chief Douglass, the Die, and, tearing the savage there a proceeded oo his way to Washington.

The Texas Republican State Convention to appoint delegates to the National Convention has been called to meet at Galveston on the Btth of March. The Louisiana Senate adopted on the 26th a resolution suspending several Senators because they signed a memorial to tbe United States Senate favoring Senator Kellogg. Tbe Sergeaatat-Arms was alao directed to keep them In custody until further orders. About two hundred emigrants from California passed through Omaha, Neb., on the 27th alt., on their way to the East. Among them Mere forty Chinamen bound for New York City. A judge of election in Cumberland County, 111., has been sentenced, in the United States District Court at Springfield, to lire months’ Imprisonment and to pay a fine of 8500, for violating the United States Election law. His offense waa the substitution of ballots. t

Foreign Intelligence. \ A Berlin telegram of the 24th says the announcement of the revival of trade in the United States had caused a very sensible increase of emigration to the latter countryLiberia has annexed the Kingdom of Medina, which lies on its Interior frontier. A Dublin dispatch of the 25th says that, at Pontadoan, in County Armagh, Ireland, a tenant-right meeting had been attacked by a mob composed of Orangemen armed with bludgeons, who stormed the platform and swept from It tbe speakers and officers of tbe meeting, and afterward assailed the tenant-rightdVs. A number of the latter were seriously wounded. On the 25th a Greek was arrested at Constantinople for having in his possession on “ infernal machine” designed to annihilate tbe Sultan. According to a Lahore (India) telegram of the 25th another battle bad been fought at Herat between the Cabul and Herat troops, in which the former were worsted. On the 26th the Dublin Freeman's Journal, which had been silent regarding Parnell’s course in America, published a leader denouncing that agitator in the most stinging terms. Ihe Journal denies Parnell’s statement concerning the Duchess of Marlborough’s Committee, and characterises his attack upon the Mansion House Committee oa an outrage on decency and a gross and shameless libel on an assembly of gentlemen. The Journal further states that the Mansion House had secured $400,000 for relief, the Duchess of Marlborough 8350,001, and Parnell only 870,000. Tbe article further states that Parnell hod estranged every respectable sympathiser from his cause, and that there would be a formidable row when he returned. A Vienna dispatch of the 26th say • rising of the Mussulman population had occurred in the Kirdualy district in Roumelia. On the evening of the 26th an Imperial ukase was published at 8t Petersburg decreeing the establishment of a Supreme Executive Commission to preserve order and social tranquillity, under the Presidency of General Mellkoff, who is to appoint other members of the commission, with the Czar’s approval. Tbe commission is to have supreme authority in all matters throughout Russia, and is empowered to punish any disregard of its orders, which con only be abro-i gated by Imperial decree. A Paris telegram of the 26th says the students of the University of St. Petersburg were generally held responsible by citizens of that capital for the crimes recently committed there. Threats had been made that if any violence occurs on the anniversary of tbe Czar’s coronation every student would be lynched and the university burned to tbe ground. In consequeuce of the bitterness of the populace the Government had been compelled to take measures for the protection of tbe school. The bark Stratnaira, bound to Melbourne, from London, has been sunk by a collision. Sixteen persons were drowned. Greece has recognized the independence of Roumania. The Pope is said to have sent instructions to Catholic Bishops in Russia, calling upon them to urge the clergy not to mix in political agitations. A lf.tter from anOroomiah missionary was received on the 27th alt, stating that tbe famine in Persia had assumed frightful proportions. The people were said to be parting with everything portable to procure food and shelter, and many, despairing of outside aid, had sought surcease of suffering by committing snicide. Vera Sassulitch, the Russian female Nihilist. who attempted tbe assassination of the Prefect of Bt. Petersburg In 1878, and who was acquitted by a jury, much to the amazementof the authorities, has been re-ar-rested. r

Later. General Melieoff, the ncwly-ap-polnted Governor-General of St. Petersburg, issued a proclamation to the people on the evening of the 37th ult. In this manifesto he says that he can not and will not hesitate to take most severe and far-reaching and stringent measures for the punishment of criminals who are now threatening social order throughout the Capital and In other sections of the Empire, “ I well know how,” he says, “ not only to trace these miscreants to their lurking place, but to Inflict upon them exemplary and condign punishment when they are brought before me. No plea of mitigation on the part of these criminals will avail with me. They have already been treated with too much indulgence, and they now are to be stamped out as enemies alike of God and man, as well as beasts for whom extermination is the only treatment,” General MellkolTs proclamation was published in the newspapers and placarded on the walls of the city. Two members of the Russian Legation in Constantinople were fired on in the streets of that city on the 39th alt. One was wounded. Their assailants effected their escape. The increase of the National Bank circulation daring the year ending March 1, 1880, was (17,631,617, and the increase In the legal-tender notes deposited daring the same period was *6,068,445. Postmaster-General Key issued an order on the 28th alt. twthe effect that, In consideration of the action of the House in appropriating *1,070,000 for the continuance of the “star service,” and pending the action of the Senate, farther action under his order of the 30th directing that, on and after the Ist of March, the mail service on “star routes” should be reduced to one trip per week, etc., should be suspended until farther notice. A Washington dispatch of the 28th nit. says the United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs had agreed to report a bill providing for the localisation of Indiana by allotting to them lands In severalty, Inalienable for twenty-five years, the extension of the civil and criminal codes over the Indians, and the extension to them by the Government of such assistance as will facilitate their advance in civilisation. A young man died in New fork State on the 49th alt. from the effects of stimulants administered daring a twenty-seven boars’ walking match. At the sand-lota in San Francisco on the 29th ult. Kearney and other speakers denied that violence had ever been contemplated, and asserted that If the peace were threatened the workingmen themselves would serve as a Sheriff’s posse. Five barges, containing 250,000 bushels of corn, left St- Louis recently for New Orleans, where the cargo will be transferred to vessels bound for Europe,