Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1880 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL. AYlth Confrett. * Senate—A resolution was adopted oe the M taatrncttn* the JodtcUry Committee to inquire sod report “whether *O7 American citizen* hare been arrested or ini' prisoned ter the exercise of their Constitutional rights to petition this body concerning a matter of great public interest, namely: the title to a seat in this bod/ of a Senator from the State of which they are ctti*ens.”....Mr. Logan spoke in opposition to the Mil for the relief of fitx J ohn Porter, claiming that Congress had no power to set aside a sentence by a courtmartial; the only way that General Porter oouid be restored to the army was by Executive pardon. House. — The morning hour was dispensed with, and the report of the Committee of the Whole on the re vision of the rules was considered. The revised rule* were Anally adopted—m to M, nearly a party vote—and a resolution, offered by Mr. Garfleid, that the new rules should go into effect on the Bth was -adopted. Sewatx. —-On the Sd Mr- Logan continued his remarks in opposition to the bill for the relief of General Porter... A communication was received from the Secretary of War giving the number, age, rank, etc., of officer* retired from the army since the act of June la, 1879.... Mr. Thurman, from the Judiciary Committee, reported adversely on the House bill for the removal of poiMcai disabilities Of individuals. House. — The Senate resolutions relative to the iate Senator Houston, of Alabama, were taken up, and eulogies were pronounced by Meears. Wright, Fernando Wood, Cox, Forney, Lowe, Williams. Herbert, Herndon, Lewis, Samford, Shelley, House, Atkins and Harris, when, as a further mark of respect, the House adjourned. 1 < Sexatx.—A bill was introduced on the 4th, by Mr. Blair, to provide for the payment of pensions to widows and minor children upon the death of pensioners totally disabled from wounds in the service . Mr. Morgan offered a Joint resolution, which was referred to the Judiciary Committee, declaring that Indians born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are “ persons" within the meaning of the Constitution where It says. In the Fourteenth Amendment, that "ail persons born or naturalized in the United Btatee, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside,” and that such Indians are therefore citizens of the United States, and of the States rein they reside, and are subject to the jurisdiction of the Government of the United States.... The House bill making additional appropriations of $135,000 for the support of certain Indian tribes for the year ending June SO, 1860, was passed ...Mr. Logan continued his remarks in opposition to the bill for the relief of Fits John Porter. Hffusc. —The bill regulating the removal of causes from State to Federal Courts was amended and passed—l6o to 75.... A motion to takq up tbe bill prohibiting the assessment of ottu ■ -hi i lersfor political purposes was defeated, all of the Republicans and eighteen Democrats voting against it. Senate.—Mr. Garland introduced a Joint resolution on the sth, extending until April 15 the time allowed the Secretary of the Interior to instruct the United States Land Officer at Little Rock in relation to the Hot Springs Reservation..!.Mr. Baldwin, fmm the Committee on Commerce, reported adversely on the House bill to amend the statutes relative to the importation of neat cattle ...Mr. Logan concluded his remarks in opposition to the bill for the relief of Geueral Porter. House.—A resolution, offered by Mr. De La Matyr, was adopted, directing the Census Committee to inquire into the advisability of taking the census in Alaska.. .The Senate amendments to the House bill for the relief of certain settlers on the Osage trust and diminished reserve lands in Kansas were concurred 1n.... Mr. McMahon, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported a bill to supply certain deficiencies in the approbations for the service of the Government for the current fiscal year. The total amount appropriated by the bill is *682,5110, of which spin $400,000 is for public printing ...Messrs. Ha/leton and Warner engaged in a personal controversy, growing out of the fact that the latter had, the day before, made a speech resecting on a certain class of pensioners and stigmatizing them by an opprobrious title, to which speech the former gentleman hud replied. He now charge-1 that the Record had been changed by Warner, so that the remarks attacked by him (Hazleton) were omitted. The colloquy between the two gentlemen developed Into an anirry controversy, Hazleton making light of "imfr'i military services and sufferings, and the latter accusing the former of cowardice and falsehood .... Adjourned to the Bth.

From 'Washington. , Thb coinage during February at the United States mints amounted to a total of $8,100,90), of which sum $2,300,400 were in standard silver dollars. . The National Bank taxation cases were decided by the- United States Supreme Court on the 3d, the Coart holding that the laws of New York and Ohio virtually discriminate against bank stock in favor of other moneyed capital, and are in conflict with Federal acts bearing on the subject The Commissioner of Agriculture, in a recent letter to Representative Le Fever,' says of the Agricultural Department are many and urgent. A suitable building is needed for the accommodation of employes, for the storage and of seeds, and for the continuous exhibition of the agricultural produce of.this great Nation. Commissioner Le Due urgently recommends the addition of divisions of forestry, meteorology • and a veterinary division, and, hr summing up their needs, in a single phrase, says “the Department needs opportunity.” * A conference was held in Washington on the 3d between Secretary Bchura and the Ute chieftains.. The Indians virtually agreed to accept the terms of the Government and cede their reservation. It was thought the White River Utes would be removed to the Uintah Reservation in Utah, and that Ouray and the Uncompahgres would be settled id severalty on Grand River, Utah. At a previous interview the Southern Ute delegation consented to give up their present reservation. They would probably be located on the strip of land bordered on the La Plata River in New Mexico, and near the Navajo Reservation. -- President Hates has withdrawn from the Senate the nomination of P. B. 8. Pinch back to be Naval Officer at New Orleans. , Commodore Isaiah Hanscom, Chief of the bureau of Construction and Repair, died at Washington a few days ago. According to a Washington telegram of the sth $45,' 00,000 worth of gold bullion waa then in the New York Assay Office ready to be transported to the Philadelphia Mint for coinage. The appropriation made for this purpose for the present fiscal year was but $5,000, which was already exhausted. The Director of the Mint had 'made application for an additional appropriation of $26,000. Application had also been made to Congress for rfh additional appropriation for transporting gold and silver bullion between the Assistant United States Treasurers. A dangerous counterfeit SIOO note on the Pittsburgh National Bank of Commerce, Pittsburgh. Pa., has been recently detected at the Nationsl Bank Redemption Agency In Washington. It purports to be of the series of 1875, and is printed on an imitation of fiber paper, and is said to be the first counterfeit which had yet appeared on this series of National Bank notea

The East -Edward Cowley, ex-Superintendent of the Shepherd'’i_ Fold in New York City, has been incarcerated in the Penitentiary, of which institution he waa once the chaplain The following delegates to the National Convention at- Chicago were chosen by the Republican members of the Maine Legislature on the evening of the 3d: Eugene Hide, Joseph R. Bodwell, E- T. GUI and Alraoa A. Strout. The resolutions adopted reaffirm the principles of the party aad urge the nomination of Senator Blaine for the Presidency. At the Sab-Treasury in New York on the 3d bonds to the value of $2^16,000

were purchased on sinking-fund account. The amount offered was $12,120,600. A boy named Waring Schooley, aged fourteen yearij was found near Pitt*too, Pa., a few days ago, In an nnconsdoos condition, having been shot and probably fatally wounded by some one unknown. The mother of the boy dropped dead when he was carried into the house. A few days ago the New York Batter and Cheese Exchange caused the arrest of a Brooklyn grocer for selling oleomargarine for butter. In his answer the prisoner claimed that the act of the Legislature under which be was arrested ia unconstitutional and void; that the Legislature has no power to compel the manufacturer of any food product to stamp, brand, mark or label such food product when such 1 tamping, etc., Is only Intended to restrict and prevent Its sale In th* open markets of the world; that oleomargarine is not a substance in the semblance of butter, but butter itself, and more healthful than dairy butter, because It is free from the animal matter which causes dairy batter to decompose and become rancid, and that the act of the Legislature violates the right of lawful private contract, and the right of private property. Tbe defendant gave bail to await the actiota of the Grand Jury. Royal B. Con ant, the Boston embezzler. has been sentenced to the State Prison for seven years. Count Litta, Secretary of the Italian Legation at Washington, died a few days ago In a New York bospitaL

, West and South. The snow blockade on the line of the Northern Pacific Railroad the past winter was the worst ever known in that section. Traffic was suspended between Bismarck and Fargo from the 15th *of February to the first week In March. A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Wisconsin State Constitution prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors as a beverage, except native wines and beer, was lost in the Assembly on the Ist—ayes, 44; noes, 33—a majority of all the members-elect not voting in the affirmative. The new Railroad Commission of Georgia has fixed the maximum tariff for passengers in that State at four cents per mile, a reduction on rates heretofore charged. The Republican State Convention of lowa, for the selection of delegates to the National Convention, is to be held at Dee Moines on tbe 14th of ApriL A car-load qf exodus negroes arrived at Bloomington, IIL, on the 3d. An act making the manufacture and sale of oleomargarine as butter punishable by fine and Imprisonment has been passed by the lowa Legislature. The Kansas Republican State Convention is to be held at Topeka on the 20th of May. Chief Douglass, one of the Ute prisoners confined in Fort Leavenworth, jumped from a second-story window of the guard-house on the 4th and attempted to escape, but he was pursued for half a mile, and recaptured after a desperate struggle. The State Senate of Wisconsin has concurred in a joint resolution passed by the Hpuse in favor of a Constitutional amendment providing for biennial sessions of the Legislature. The Union Greenback Labor National Convention assembled at 8t Louis on the 4th, twenty States being represented by about 250 delegates. Ralph E. Hoyt, of Indiana, was chosen permanent President, and George W. Brewster, of lowa, Secretary. A platform was adopted, and Stephen B. Dtllaye, of New Hampshire, was nominated for President, and B. J. Chambers, of Texas, for Vice-President. A resolution was adopted that the Convention should adjourn to meet at Chicago on the 9th of June, and a Special Committee of one from each State was appointed to meet there at the same time. Two assessors were recently arrested at Wilmington, Del., by a United States Marshal, charged with refusing to assess Republicans who desired to pay their taxes and qualify as voters. The Indiana. Republican State Central Committee met at Indianapolis on the 4th and elected four Delegates- at-Large to the National Convention. Three of the delegates are said to favor Senator Blaine’s nomination, and one General Grant’s. The recent Greenback Convention of the Seventh Indiana Congreaalonal District renominated Rev. De La Matvr, by acclamation. * An effort to restore capital punishment has failed In the Wisconsin State Legislature. A severe storm of wind visited Indianapolis on the night of the 4th. , About 200 houses were more or leu damaged, and a number of trees, fences and outbuildings destroyed. The pecuniary loss was estimated at sloo,uoo. The same storm visited the neighborhood ,of Toledo, 0., and, among other damage, leveled a large brewery- Three men were buried in the ruins, of whom only one escaped alive. At Cleveland the roof of the Cleveland Rolling Mill was uplifted and one end of the walls blown in, killing one man and severely injuring several others.

At the recent National Convention at St. Louis of the Union Greenback-Labor party the following Natlonal.Executive Committee was appointed: C. M. Beckwith, Colorado; Charles Davidson, Georgia; C. H. Jackson, Iowa; R. E. Hoyt, Indiana; J. P. Knapp, Illinois; J. O. McKee, Kansas; H. Nelson, Mississippi; Ira 8. Haseltine, Missouri; G. W. Brewster, Nebraska; Dr. 8. Cbesley, New Hampshire; Hugo Preyor, Ohio; M. Browumiller, Pennsylvania; Sam. Hill Rhode Island; Dr. A. Young, Texas; J. F. Connolly, Virginia, and T. F. Smith, West Virginia. M. M. Pomeroy waa placed on the committee as member-at-large. ’ Cincinnati packed 89,025 leas hogs the past winter than during the preceding packing season. The amount of hog-products decreased in a like ratio. The Democratic State Convention of Tennessee, to nominate delegates to the Cincinnati Convention, will meet at Nashville on the Bth of June. A recent poll of the State Committee showed nine for Bayard, two for Seymour and one for TUden. The Ohio Prohibition State Convention met at Columbus on the sth and nominated: For Secretary of State, William H. Doan, of Cleveland; Supreme Judge, William Mungen, of Finlay; Bchool Commissioner, James-A. Brush, of Mount Union; Member of the Board of Public Works, J. H. Larimer, of Bpringfield; Clerk of the Supreme Court, George Calderwood, of Greenville; Presidential Elec to rs-at-Large. Jay Odell, of Cleveland; Mahlm Pickerell, of Logan County. The resolutions sdopted recommend local option; tender thanks to Mrs. President Hsyes for her moral courage in excluding wines from public banquets; urge separation from all other political associations; condemn the action of General Grant for fostering the liqnor traffic for revenue, and denounce the action of the General Assembly in deferring action upon temperance until after the Presidential election, A State Executive Committee was appointed, A few days ago a crowd of determined women and children compelled a force of forty men, who undertook to lay s railroad track in a Toledo (Ohio) street, to beat an Ignominious retreat. The females sat on the nail-kegs and rails, and soma of the more muscular threw the track-layers’ tools into the canal. James Moo rehead, aSt Louis commercial traveler, was recently shot and tn-

stantly killed at Los Vegas, New Mexico, because he insisted upon having eggs for breakt fast. ! A young man residing in Marysville, Mo, recently succeeded in preventing the abuse of his mother by his father, by shootlog tbe hitter detd. Tax amiable savages of the Sioux nation have driven off the surveyors of tbe Chicago A Northwestern Railroad who were locating a line along the Bad River valley. Tax Union Pacific Railroad Company baa agreed to pay the Pacific Mail Steamship Company a subsidy of SIIO,OOO a month In consideration of the right to fix rates for California passengers and freight.

Foreign intelligence. At St. Petersburg on the 2d the twenty-fifth anniversary of the coronation of the Czar of Russia was celebrated. Notwithstanding serious trouble was apprehended, or had been threatened, the city wea exceptionally quiet, and there wu absolutely no disturbance. Decrees were published in the official newspapers pardoning prisoners, remitting taxes and conferring orders. A St. Petersburg dispatch of the 2d denies the report of tbe arrest of Vera 8a»sulitch. It wu believed that the rumor of her presence in that city wu circulated to mislead tbe authorities. A grand review of the troops stationed in the City of Mexico wu given on the 2d, In honor of. Generals Grant and Sheridan, who stood on a balcony of the Embassadors’ flail, at the Palace, u they marched past. The Palace Square and adjoining streets were thronged with people. It was stated on the 2d that the idea of a Persian expedition to Herat had been abandoned, because of the political complications likely to result therefrom. At St. Petersburg on the Sd General Melikoff, President of the Supreme Executive Commission, was fired upon by a crazy Nihilist. The assailant stood within a few feet of his intended victim, but, ulde from perforating the military cloak that General Melikoff wore, bis bullet did no damage whatever. He made no effort to escape, and wu arrested and taken before the Commission of Supreme Control, Melikoff himself presiding. After a brief and unsatisfactory examination he was committed to prison. A Paris telegram of the 3d says France bad entered into negotiations with England and the United States with a view to terminating the war between Chill and Peru. On the 3d Grissel, the Londoner who had previously declared his ability to buy up a committee of the British Parliament, was committed to Newgate Prison. The would-be assassin of General Melikoff wu tried by court-martial at St. Petersburg on the 4th, and sentenced to be hanged at daylight on the morning of the stb. His demeanor before the judges was very defiant, and he absolutely refused to give the names of his accomplices. On leaving the court-room he declared that, sooner or later, the tyrants who were oppressing Russia would fall by the hands of the organization to which be belonged. As if to give emphuis to this declaration, General Melikoff received an anonymous note on the evening of the 4th summoning him, in the name of the Revolutionary Committee, to abandon his post within a week. Queenstown, Ireland, according to recent reports, is crowded with people preparing to emigrate to the United States. According to a Berlin dispatch of the sth a movement for independence had been started in Finland. The Nihilist, Melodetsky, who attempted the usasslnation of General Melikoff, wu duly hanged in St. Petersburg on the morning of the sth, in the presence of a vast concourse of people. A Russian revolutionary manifesto, published in Paris on the sth, asserts that the agitation had been forced on Russia by the Government's repression of Intellectual development, and that the struggle must continue until the Czar abdicates or grants a Constitution. t In the French Senate on the sth Minister Ferry, in his remarks on his Educational bill, declared that the Society of Jesuits wu a permanent conspiracy against the State. Hannay, the inventor of artificial diamonds, assures the London dealers in precious stones that his discovery will not affect their business, tbe new proceu being a mere laboratory experiment, and very expensive. The Parnell Land League Relief and Political Fund aggregated $101,124 on the lat of March.

LATER, A London telegram of the 7th says the Duchess of Marlborough had written to the Lord Mayor of London that the distress In Ireland was rapidly becoming general. A St. Petersburg telegram, received in London on ’he 7th, says at least 6,000 persons had been arrested in that city for complicity in the Winter-Palace explosion. Hartmann, the Nihilist whom Russia asked France to extradite, has left Paris for London. Negotiations with the Utes at Washington were concluded on the oth. The awards in the regular annual mail-lettings were completed on the 6th. The service is reported to be from fifteen to thirty per cent, greater and the cost from five to fifteen per cent, less than last year. Three candidates for the office of Census Supervisor and one for that of Postmaster were rejected by the Senate on the 6th. General Howard was before the Senate Select Committee on the Freedmen’s Bank on the 6th, and explained his personal account with the bank. He attributed Its failure to the high rate of Interest paid, the investment in real-estate securities instead of Government securities, and the failure of Jay Cooke ft Co., which rendered otherwise good securities almost worthless. Dangerous counterfeit SIOO bills on Boston, Pittsfield, New Bedford, Wllkesbarre and Pittsburgh banks are In circulation. Judge Hayes, of the United States Court for the District of Kentucky, died suddenly at Louisville on the evening of the 7th, of heart disease. A boy eighteen years of age, of Columbus, 0., has become Insane from the bite of a dog received over a year ago. ▲ man died in Chicago on the 6th in consequence of the bite of a dog received about two months before. The Timm says the circumstances of Ids death indicated that he died, not from hydrophobia, bat from the belief that he had it. The wholesale dry goods establishment of Auerbach, Finch, Culbertson A Co., at St. Paul, Minn., was destroyed by fire on the evening of the 7th. Loss $600,000. In the United States Senate on the 6th Mr. Teller introduced a bill to enable town sites to be entered on public lands. The bill to amend Bec- 2,447, Revised Statutes, in relation to the issue of patents for private land claims confirmed by Act of Congress, wss passed. Mr. Carpenter spoke in opposi tion to the bill for the relief of General Porter, arguing that the bill was In the direction of unconstitutionally enhancing the powers of Congress, sad claiming that it encroached on the President’s power of nomination and the Senate’s right of rejection. The House was not in session.