Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1880 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL. XLVltli Congress. i Semat*.—The President’s message on the Interoceenic 'Ganal wu reed and rtfcm.d on the 9th.... A bill was Introduced by Mr. Ke: nan, girtn< to all reunions denominations equal riybta and privtleres in Indian resKT\'Htfoaa....Mr. Bailer subtn it ted a prearab e and resolution, redtmr that it had been a Bounced tn the public press that a contract had been entered into between the Pacittc Railroad and the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, by which the former agreed to pay the latter 5110,00) per month on condition that it will permit the land lines to fix rates for freight and passengers; decltring that the effect of such contract is directly prejudicial to the public interest and contrary to the public policy that controlled Congress .in chartering the Union Pacific Railroad Company and in granting to both railway companies largo subsidic < In money and lands, and instructing the Judiciary Committee to investigate and report whether such contract had teen made, and what legislation is necessary to prevent the executlou of the same and protect the public lat«reJt....Mr. McDonald spoke In support of tbe Fitz John Porter bill. House—The bill to establish a Department of Agriculture was referred, together with the minority report of the Committee on Agriculture, to the Committee of the Wh de....Several other bill* wee reported from cotnmi tees and referred to the Committee o.'the ’*'hok.-....'rhe Political Assessment bill was taken up, and Mr. House spoke in favor of its passage. , Senate.—A message was received and referred on the 10th from the President, transmitting the agreement between the Secretary of the Interior and the Ute Indians, and recommending ha ratification. ..Mr. Bayard, from the Committee on Judiciary, reported favorably the House bill to define the terms of oflke of the Chief Supervisors of Elections.... Mr. MeDoni.fr! oom hided hh remarks iff support of the Fita John Porter bill, and Mr. Logan replied to what be thought misinterpretations of the evidence on the part of the supporters of the bill, after which Mr. Garland introduced a resolution providing that the bill, witball accompanying paphrs. be referred to the Committee on Judiciary for examination and report by bill or otherwise. House.—Several pension bills were passed, and the following bills were placed on the calendar: Appropriating 1300,000 for the relief of the poor of Ireland; to restrict ChiEcseimmlmitk>n;to prevent the tomoval of Indians from States into the Indian Territory; to prevent the withholding of pensions from Sensioners under the act of IMI, and aHo uner the act of 187A..;Mr. Ren.-an obtained leave to have printed a resolution relative to the proposed Intcrocegnic Canal, declaring that, as the United States would have a great local as well as general interest In the work in common with the other commercial Powers of the earth, and as the political control of such line of communication would be vitally necessary to her commercial interests and to the preservation of her territorial integrity and political independence, she will insist, whenever and by whomsoever such project shall be commenced, on such political control of it as will give security to our commercial and political interest sHt-jars. Young and Butterworth debated the Political Assessment bill. Senate.—The bill for the reclamatl<sf» of arid and waste lands was passed on the 11th.... Mr. Sharon, in the course of a speech in favor of the removal of the duty on print paper, said there hud been comment upon his kutg absence from the Senate. This absence, he said, had been caused by the fact that after bls election the operations of a friend had involved him to the extent of millions of dollars, and his duty to the large interests depending on him demanded his attention. He wculd be obliged, for the same reason, to be absent for the next three or four weeks, and asked the Indulgence of the Senate on that account ... After remarks by Mr. Jones (Fla.* in support of the bill for the relief of Fitz John P-wter. a motion, by Mr. Davis (W. Va.l, to lay the bill on the table was agreed to by aviva voce rote. House. Tlie Political Assessment bill was further considered, and Mr. Upson submitted an amendment prohibiting any persons from asking, demanding or soliciting from any olerk or employe of the Government any contributions for political purposes. A motion to fay the bill on the table was defeat- ' cd—ll2 to Izl—a strict party vote, with the exception of Aiken. Felton, Morse and Wclte, who voted with the Republicans in the affirm*-, tire.

Senate. —Mr. Gordon’s resolution for a apodal committee on the Intel oceanic Canal was withdrawn on the 12th, au-i a resolution offered by Mr. Platt, reque«tin( the President to communicate to foreign Governments the desire of this Government to secure the neutrality of anv transit route across the isthmus, was referred to the Committee ou Foreign Relation, .. The Fortification Appropriation -MH was passed, after teinx amended bv fncrea*fW« the Housu appropriation for the. re--pair >-f wtHjcs of defense from fJIOS.OiO to n»d arm.imt nt of the sca-eoast fprtiHestiotJ*,. including the conversion of rmwotb b.qe akniton into rities, from >215,000 to »wa,aw.. .AujoLuie i:. xhc Jith. House. —The Duficier.ey . Appropriation bill was reported, the eppr pi liter reeotnjncudlng n >nwua s ppropriaring >600,101 for the prfj moat ge'fee* Rfut' 1 expenses to United Ststirs Mprsnrik .wu thehr' general deputies for ir e pteet.-ri tiuttl thus ntnkinz the total a-xmntsppmitaKdßF-rl the hill th? btlftra<referrc i considered in. Comntittde of the 'YtptwFy Covert IntroHUccd irbil I for the op pleun>pn ■ Hrubniain ncataettiCi' to the 15 th. . From The message Of y Hayes, which was setiUib the Btb,rc)a-J-transgat J>qr«-^|rtWfasort of the R®“2drmortaQt]c;i!i<ier trith'tho c>;pi.-s since ttaf *Bte jF V.'Sry dr Us diplomatic Jf* ttirttic-Zcoinplirtiico wi.h the rc~£4fflon of -Jjprgenate. I deem it proper toybriefly opinion as to she policy 46e United i IWates with respect to tne of an Intorneeanic Canal by au^wmitC--across the American isthmus. The policy of this country is a.C inal under .Anrerican control. The United States cannot consent to surrender this control to any European Power, or to any e.imbination of European Powers. If tne exfXting treaties between tho United State* and other Nation*, or if the rights of sovereignty or property of other Nations, stand in the way of this policy—a contingency which is not apprehended—suitable steps should be taken by just and liberal negotiations to promote and establish the American policy on this subject consistently with the rights of nations to , be affected by it. The capital invested by , corporations or citizens of other countries in i such an enterprise must, tn a great degree, look for protection to one Or more of the great Powers of the world. No European Power can intervene for such protection without adopting measures on this Continent which the United States would deem whoUy Inadtnissible. If the protection of the United States ia relied upon, the United States must exerc-so such control as win enable this country to protect it* National Interest* and maintain the rights of those whose private capital hctniKirked in the work. An lutcroccanic Canal across Jhe American isthmus will essentially change the geozrapbical relations between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States, and between the United states and the rest of the world. It will bn the great ocean thoroughfare between our Atlantic and our Pacific shores, and virtually a part of the coast line of the United States. Our merely commercial interest tn it M greater than that of all other countries, while its relations to our power and’proe■petity as a Nation, to our means of defense, our unity, peace and safety, arc matters of paramount consideration ’to the people of the United States. No other great Power would, under similar circtimstanccs, tall to a-sert rightful control over a work so closely and vitally affecting its Interest and ■welfare. Without urging further grounds of my opinion, I repeat, in conelusion, that it it the right and duty of the United states to - assert and maintain such supervision and authority over any iatcrooennic t'anal across the isthmus that connects North and South America as wilt protect our National interests. This,! am unite sure, will be found not only compatll4*i with, bat promotiwe ot, the widest and meet permanent advantage to com j’.erce atid cfvilizati jn. * ' RuTiiXHrtißn B, Havis. A Washington dispatch of the 9th ays it was reported that De Lcssepe had exprc«etl himself as being satisfied with the President’s message on the subject of the Interoceanie Canal, ■“ because it would certainly be advantageous to hare tho- protection of the United States during the work, and after the opening of the canaL” He had tail messsge to his son at Paris, saying the President’s message assured the safety of the canaL By tho terms of the act creating it th* Southern Utahns Commission expired on UwlMb Ita UM rtpon to Ucagtata ibewed

that sines the organ Ization of the eom missloa, in 1871, M,WB claims, amounting to over •00,000,000, had been filed, of which aB but about one-tWelfth had been rejected. On the 10th a Louisiana colored man testified before the Voorhees Exodus Committee that about 8,000 colored people had left that State for Kawaa. The United States Senate has rejected the nomination of William *. Brown as Census Supervisor for the Eighth District of Illinois, by a party vote, on ths ground. U Is said, that at least, one ot the eight Illinois Supervisors should have been selected from the Democracy. The Post-office Department lias ooncluded a contract for the “star” mail service for four years In Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama and Mississippi. The total amount of ths awards is about 9885,001 Among those receiving the largest contracts are Sawyers & Wyatt, Kentucky; J. H, Wilson, Kentucky, and J. D. Coleg rove, Missouri. Secretary Sherman has written a letter, dated March 10, to M. L. Scudder, of Chicago, in which he explicitly states that he is a candidate for the Presidency, with the purpose neither to press any one to support him nor to dedine such friendly aid aa la offered him. He does not think It necessary for him to belittle or arraign General Grant, Senator Blaine, or any one else, and says he will not use his official position to promote his candidacy.

The East. The body of Dr. Hahn, late a New York physician, was successfully cremated In the Le Moyne crematory at Washington, Pa., on the night of the 9th. On the 9th five women were elected members of the Board of Education at Middletown, N. Y., their opponents being men. Over one hundred women voted. During the month of February last nearly 148,100 emigrants arrived at the port of New York, against 82,000 in the same month In 1879. ■> E. J. Petroff was found guilty by a Harrisburg (Pa.) jury on the 11th of having bribed members of the Legislature to vote for the appropriation of money to pay for alleged losses and damages by the railroad riots of 1870. On the preceding day W. H. Kemble and three indicted for a like offense, pleaded guilty. Mr. Parnell sailed for Europe on the lltb. Hon. D. N. Skillings, of Boston, for the past two years the unsuccessful candidate for State Treasurer on the Butler, Faneuil Hall and Prohibition State tickets, died a few days since. On the same day J. O- B. Minot, one of Boston's oldest and most distinguished merchants, also died. P. A. Sawyer, late Fusion Deputy Secretary of State of Maine, who refused to testify before the Legislative Committee as to the whereabouts of the State seal on the llth, and was remanded to custody until farther orders of the House, or until he should purge himself of contempt, concluded to testify on the following day and was released from custody. Another counterfeit 8100 bill on the Pittsburgh National Bank of Commerce was discovered at the New York Sub-Treasury on the 12th, It having passed through several banks without detection. Rev. Dr. R. L. Dashiel, well known throughout the Methodist Episcopal Church in Amer ca, and who, it was generally believed, would soon be chosen Bishop, died at Newark, N. J., a few days ago, from a cancerous affection.

West and South. The Louisiana Democratic State Convention for the selection of delegates to the Cincinnati Convention has been called to meet on the 12th of April. The Directors report that the surplus earnings of the Union Pacific Railway during 1879 were $7,725,5'4. Mayor Kalloch, of San Francisco, issued a proclamation on the 10th declaring that there wu no danger of trouble from tbpworking cluses of that city, and that, excitement caused by the organization add certain* Jrecautious wu the wg(k - at 10th, his uffM-i'. jras en of just in k HU!- A reco^- in a c*-' aot f 2,/TnERB Waukee ■during 1- 163.JifKWvfous season. ,Z Jr Annapolts, Md., 43,000 worth of Republican State Conto delegates to the National invention hu been called to Tne6t at-Befma on the 20th of May. The Wisconsin Democratic State Convention to choose delegates to the Cincinnati Convention will meet at Madison on the 12th of May. The Virginia Conservatives have called a State Convention to meet at Richmond on the 19th of May to select delegates to the Democratic National Convention. Little Rock has been selected as the place and June 2d u the time for holding the Arkansu Democratic State Convention to choose delegatee to the Cincinnati Convention. •’ . The South Carolina State Democratic Convention for the selection of delegates to the National Convention will meet at Columbia on the Ist of June. At the recent municipal election in Sacramento, Cat, the Republican candidates, except Chief of Police, were elected by majorities ranging from 800 to 500. The Workingmen and Democrats elected the Chief of Police. On the 11th the Trade and Labor Union ot Chicago received a communication from 8L Louts, inviting its members to join the workingmen of the latter city in a big strike In April. Denis Kearnby was arrested at San Francisco on the 11th, on charges cA misdemeanor based ou remarks made by him in an incendiary speech delivered the night previous. On the morning of the 11th Lehman <& Co.’a flax mills at Frankfort, Ind., were destroyed by the explosion of the steam boQers. Ten men were killed. On the 12th General Miles reported that Sitting Buff wu then south of the international boundary line, near Round Buttes, on Milk River. Announcement was made on the 12th that, after two weeks’ tabor, the snow and ice blockade on the Dakota division of the Northern Pacific Railroad had been removed. Two bnndred men and seventeen locomotives had been employed in clearing the track, which In some places wu so completely embedded in ice tiiat the strongest snow-plows made no impression upon it. The put winter is said to have been unprecedented in severity in the far Northwest. The Missouri State Republican Convention to ehooM delegates to the Chicago National Convention win be held In Sedalia on the Sth <4 April. The Ohio Republican State Con ven* ttea wUI meet la Gelurtu m the BMh of

April to select delegates to the Republican National Convention. According to Cincinnati dispatches of the 12th the exodus fever was affecting the colored people of Kentucky. Several parties had already left for Kansas and other Western States, and more were expected to follow. • _ Foreign Intelligence. The Vistula River, on the AustroRusaian frontier, has broken down 1U dike, near Dzikow, and flooded thirty villages. Thousands of persons are said to be without food or shelter and numerous lives have been lost. - According to a Paris telegram of the 10th Hartmann, the Nihilist whom the French Government refused to extradite on the demand of Russia had concluded to emigrate to America. On the 9th twenty-four persons were burned to death and twenty-nine others seriously injured at a fire in Moscow. The Bt~ Petersburg Nihilists have threatened to destroy and plunder the Bank of St. Petersburg. According to Candahar dispatches received on the 41th the strength of Mahomed Jana, the rebel Afghan leader, was rapidly increasing. He bad sent out messengers in all directions, and was securing the support of moat of the native tribes. • The British Chancelor of the Exchequer presented the budget to the House of Commons on the 11th, showing a deficit of £8,3&6,0M. On the 11th United States Minister Lowell presented bis credentials to the Queen of Great Britain. Several of the leading London Clubs have resolved to admit Americans aa honorary members for three month* According to a St Petersburg telegram of the 13th General Mellkoff was saved by a chain shirt at the time of his recent attempted assassination. On the 12th the gas-works attached to an iron foundry in St Petersburg exploded, and the foundry and three large '•fijacent buildings were destroyed. It was reported at Shanghai (China) on the 12th that Chung How, late Ambassador to Russia, and who negotiated the Kuldja treaty, had been beheaded, and that a rebellion had broken out in Pekin in consequence. , - , A Spanish Government Post-office official has been discovered tampering with mails from India and Malta an route to England. It has been proved that he stole large numbers of registered packages, and destroyed other letters in large quantitiesThe British authorities have presented Shore All, Governor of Caudata** with a battery of six-pounders and tWR» thousand smooth-bore Enfield rifles, in.' recognition ot his friendship. • Four Mussulman villages in Humelia have recently been put to flames b j’ of a Russian officer, commander of 'hllitia, who declared himself a Slavophile *hd; bound to destroy the Turks.

lateh. A Madrid telegram M the 14th says most of the European Pikers and the United States had accepted •'he Invitatioll 6f the Spanish Government to • conferVhce, to be held tn Madrid next June, to determine arid fix the conditions Of the exercised by foreign powers ove> li»e subjects of the Sultan of Morocco. /Ju / j “Lord Derby,”heretofore considered a Conservative, publi'-'JW 'a letter to, the British public on the- . gnnoutieijtg that he would thereafter the Libefinls. A resolution* k of * Inhibitory Liquor law been v< '.vd dgo n in the Wisconsin n*t&. The Ark*Us;u> Republic Convention for the selecting fit Jelegatos to the National Convention wml/rotet at Little Rock on the of Aprih/ - Th« SuprenurCo'ut of Texas has decllSlr llic law constltuY., on the 13th Mrs. IWld * cousin of Senator Conkling, 6 ** c Jfr e her burning house, 'wnlctU’Le set on fire by the explosion of a lamp. y/j3r. Petersburg dispatch of the General Mellkoff had received Jnother note from the Revolutionary ComQhittee, stating that the Nihilists did not authorise the recent attack ou him, because they were not ready to kill him just yet, but warning him that when ,tbe proper time arrived an assassin with a v good weapon and means of escape would be provided. Early on the morning of the 13th the steamer Montana, « f the Williams & Guion line, riln ashore on the Welsh coast during a dense fog. The passengers and mails were saved, but it was thought on the 14th that the steamer would prove a total loss. C. C. Taylor, city editor of the Philadelphia Tunes, shot and killed himself on the morning of the 14th. He was in poor health, and business and professional cares resulted, as is supposed, in temporary mental aberration. The Ohio Temperance Convention was held at Alliance on the 13th. Three hundred and twenty-three delegates were present Resolutions were adopted to sustain principles rather than party; recommending no sejiarate Prohibition party, but to labor in caucuses and at the polls to secure sober men for officials; indorsing legal suasion as the proper means for the suppression of the beverage traffic in intoxicants, and protection from evils arising therefrom; protesting against the present permissive statutes which sanction the sale of ale, beer and domestic wines, and praying for a Local Option Anti-Liquor law, with clauses allowing sale on payment of taxes therefor, but allowing the voice of women, by petition or ballot, to be equal to that of man on tire enforcement of such law.