Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1884 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. I • Several memorials were presented In the Senate, on the 6th Inst., in fsvor of suspending the coinage of the silver dollar. A bill for a free bridge across the J’otomac was passed. Mr. Vance made an argument in support of the freeKhip bill. Mr.-Vest made a favorable report bn a bill to erect a public building at Detroit, limiting the cost of the site to SOOO,OOO. Shortly after the House met. the tariff bill was taken up for the last day’s debate. Mr. Gibson (Dem.>, of Louisiana, led off with a speech in favor of the measure, after which Mr. Randall (Dem.),'of Pennsylvania, took the floor in opposition to the bill. He held that in the nice adjustment of business affairs there was nothing so condncive to success as stability. Judging from the intemperate language of the friends of the bill, those engaged'in industrial pursuits wero robbers and outlaws. As a matter of fact they were nothing of the sort. They were entitled to the protection of the law. He then went on to argue against the policy of unsettling business interests by constant tinkering with the tariff. Mr. Blackburn (Dem.) of Kentucky advocated the bill. He said the time was not far distant when the people would repudiate the political hypocilsy of the protectionists. Protection for the sake ot protection was the battle cry of the Republicans. He asked the Democrats to make taxation for revenue theirs. The advocates of the principles contained in the bill were readv for the fray, armed In a cause which they knew to be just He protested against the current idea that the advocates of the bill desired to exile from the rarty any Democrats who might differ from them. He had no power ot expulsion. It rested with esch man to determine his party affiliation. Let him who would strike down his party, show by his record upon whose hand the blood was to be found. In conclusion, lie hoped that enough enlightenment might soon be brought to the House to repudiate the bigotry which disgraced politics in the shape of protection. Mr. Kasson (Rep.), of lowa, closed the debate in opposition to the bill. He declared that it was impossible to, administer it and it would require a special catechisrf to answer the questions which would be tusked before any goads could.be imported. He then proceeded to detail the benefits the country had derived from protection. Mr. Morrison (Dem.), of Illinois, the author of the bill, made the closing debate in its favor. He mado a rapid review of the objections to the measure. He then sa*d that the Democratic members from lowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, anrd California had been elected on the tariff

platform, and feared that If the bill should bo defeated they would be succeeded by Page and Borrows and Uazelton and “My Dear Habbell." Turning to Randall, Mr. Morrison said: “You have the power to strike cut the enacting clause of the bill. If you have that power, yon have the power to amend this bill and make it what it should be." Mr. Converse (Dem.), of Ohio, moved to strike out the enacting clause of the bill. This was the signal for a volley of hisses and groans from the Democratic side, this demonstration being met by rounds of applause from the Republicans. 'The motion prevailed by-a yote of 15!) yeas to 155 nays. When? the result was announced the victorious combination gave round r'tcr round of cheers. Forty-one Democrats and 118 Republicans voted against the bill, and 4 Republicans and 151 Democrats in favor of it. Of the 41 Democratic votes in favor of killing the bill, Pennsylvania gave 12, New York 6. Ohio 10, California 4, New Jersey 3, and Maryland, Louisiana, Illinois, Virginia, West Virginia, and Connecticut 1 each. The names are as follows: Arnot, Boyle, Budd, Connolly, Converse, Curtin, Duncan, Fafon, Elliott, Ermentrout. Ferrell, Fiedler. Findlay, Finerty, Foran. Geddes, Glascock, Hopkins, Hunt, Hutchins, Jordan, Be Fevre, McAdoo, Muller, Murray, Mutchler, Paige, Patton, Post, Randall, Seney, Snvder, Spriggs, Storm, C. A. Sumner. Tully, Van Alstyne, A. J. Warner, Wemple, Wilkins, G. D. Wise. The four Republican tariff reformers are Ne’son, Strait, Wakefield, and White, all from Minnesota. The shipping bill was again debatod in the 6enate on the 7th irst. An amendment by Senator Vest was adopted in a modified form. As adopted it provides that there shall be np tonnage duties on United States vessels or On the vessels of nations which do not impose duties 1 on the shirs of this country. The “subsidy section" of the bill was attacked by Senators Beck and Maxey. The latter said that free ships and' tantf relorm would be the great political Issues of the future, to be decided by the tribunal of the peop'e. Mr. Edmonds introduced a hill to place the name of U. S. Grant on the retired list of the army, adding that everybody understood the reason. Mr. Blair presented a measure for the adjustment of accounts of laborers and mechanics under the eight-hour law. Mr. Hill addressed the Senate in favor of the forfeiture Of lands granted to the New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Vicksburg Railroad Company. The House of Representatives refused to concur in the Senate amendments to the bill far the relief of Fit* John Porter, which cut off pay and allowances from the date of dismissal and a conference committee was ordered

When the shipping bill came up in the Senate, on the Bth Inst, Mr. McPherson's amendment entting off compensation for return trips of mail vessels was rejected, Mr. Vest’s amendmendment for shipping commissioners was agreed to, and motion to strike out the section for foreign mail pay was lost. The House hill was then taken np, amended as above, and passed without debate. Mr. ? Logan refused to serve on a conference committee on the Fitz John Porter bill, and. Messrs. Sewell, Hawley, and Cockrell were appointed. Mr. Mitchell made a favorable report on the bill granting pensions to soldiers of the Mexican war, with an amendment that only dependent persons can enjoy its benefits. Mr. Dawes secured the passage of a resolution of inquiry as to whether any steps had been taken to prosecute a cowboy na'med Halferino for shooting- an Indian named Back Wolf. The Houss of Representatives passed the bill to appropriate $1,000,000 to the World’s Industrial Exposition, at New Orleans, the amount to be returned from the gate receipts. A communication from the Secretary of the Interior contained an estimate of $272,620 for additional clerical help in the Pebsion. Bureau. _ The Indian appropriation bill was debated In the Senate on the 9th Inst. The committee having the measnre in charge recommended an addition of $767,413 to the amount recommended by the House, which favored an appropriation tot $5,456,389. Mr. Dawes explained that /the increase was mainly in the interest /of increased educational facilities for / the Indiana The greater part of the debate was directed to.an item for the increase ot the appropriation'for the education of llnAlaska Indians. Mr. Dolph introduced a bill for the construction of a harbot of refuge at Port Orford, on the Pacific coast. The House of ,Rci resentatives passed a bill giving the widow of Gen. Frank P. Blair $5,000 for his services in organizing troops, and increasing her pension to S6O per month. A remonstrance from the Louisville Board of Ti-ade against the enactment of a bankruptcy law was S resented. Some hours were consumed in deate on war claims from Henderson, Tenn., growing out of a levy on disloyal citizens to pay for depredations committed by Confederate soldiers. Both houses adjourned to the 12th. I THE EAST. I A New York paper publishes an inter- ' viewwifh Gen. Grant, had before the failure of the Marine National Bank. The ex-« President said he thought the condition of the country outside of Wall street was on whole prosperous. Producers were contented and manufacturers were busy. At the end df the present century he thought the United States would have a population of 100,000,000. New York will become the financial centre of the world, and the Southern States may be the leading manufacturing section, probably in cotton fabrics and r. The prosperity of the United States, thinks, will favorably affect Mexico. Utah should be deprived of its Territorial Government and ruled hy Commissioners, like the District of Columbia ../President Pish, of the burst’ Marine Bank of New York, is reported to have said that Ferdinand Warn betrayed his confidence, and that be (Ward; is a defaulter for $750,000. *•' The failure of the Arm of Grant & Ward, of, New York, is a very bad one, and the Grants, father and sons, have made an assignment for the benefit of their creditors. An enormous amount of unsecured liability of the firm exists, comprising oUtes and simple receipts for money

received for speculation. The liabilities of the house are estimated at $8,000,000. In the Supreme Court of New York Judge Donohue grouted an order requiring the partners iti the house of Grout A Ward to showcati&e why a receiver should not be appointed, ami enjoining them against disposing of their assets. Ward’s career furnishes astonishing proof of the capacity of the young high roller to make a fool of himself. Eight years ago he was a clerk at a salary Of SI,OOO a year. He made money in one way and another, and on the day before Iris bubble burst he had a brown stone palace in Brooklyn and a magnificent country seat at Sheepsliead Bay. He kept a French cook, a French-butler, a French vfllet, and his wife had two French maids. He had twenty-four horses in his stables, a tally-ho coach, two landaus, one English cart, and a pony pliaeton for. his wife, to sav nothing of spider buggies and the like, in which to speed his trotters. From SI,OOO a year in 1876 ho had grown so in alleged wealth that his household expenses alone were SI,OOO a week. Investigation into the conduct of the Marshal’s office of Western Pennsylvania seems to show, it is said, that there is adefnleation of $300,000 extending over a period of nine years. The last Marshal resigned the office because he did not think it profitable. THE WEST. Ham Patterson, a negro, was taken from bed, near Fulton, Mo., and killed by a mob. It appears that Patterson and his brother Julius circulated scandalous reports about nearly all of the women in that neighborhood, which greatly exasperated the men, and some twenty or more reputable citizens took the matter in their own hands with the above result. The condition of wheat" in Ohio at present averoges 85 per cent., and the probable yield, with good weather till harvest, is placed at 34,531,832 bushels ..,Charles Ford, one of the brothers who killed Jesse Jaiiw-s, slew himself with h revolver at Richmond, Mo. He was 26 years of age, and for a long time had shown consumptive tendencies. The Tea Inspector at Chicago recently condemned 100,000 pounds of tea siftings which arrived from Japan. As protest was made, an examining committee was appointed by the Customs Collector-and the importer, in accordance with the statutes, and the stuff was pronounced unfit for use A Wahasli train struck a broken rail near Boody, 111., and three coaches were overturned. J. M. Vincent, a sleeping-car conductor, Was fatally injured, and thirty-five others received wounds more or less serious. A passenger found his little son hanging head down from a hat-rack, uninjured. Most of the unfortunates were taken to Blue Mound and cared for by the railroad company... .James Clark, confidential clerk of Rudolph Hochkotter, Austrian Consul at San Francisco, embezzled $30,000, and lost it in speculation. In the Sharon divorce case at San Francisco, a colored witness, named Martha Wilson, swore that in testifying for the plaintiff she had perjured herself, Mi6s Hill having promised to pay her $5,000 to swear that she saw the marriage contract in 1880. The McCaull Opera Comique Company, in their latest success from the New York Casino, “The Merry War,” constitutes the attraction at McVicker’s Theater, Chicago, this week. The opera embraces some excellent music, and is presented by a superior company of singers.

George Horn’ and - William Gibbons, under sentence, took morphine in the Ashland (Ohio) Jail, but medical aid thwarted their suicidal purpose.... The grand-stand on the Chillicothe (Ohio) base-ball grounds collapsed during a game, twenty persons receiving injuries.... The boiler of a locomotive in the Missouri Pacific shops at Parsons, Kan/, exploded the other day. Two men were instantly killed and four others were seriously hurt. The pecuniary loss is $20,000. The Northwestern Manufacturing and ■Car Company, of Stillwater, Minn., of which United States Senator D. M. Sabin is President, has suspended and a receiver has been appointed. The capital stock of the company is $5,000,000, of which $4,000,000 have been paid in. Nine hundred men, of whom 300 were convicts, were employed by the concern. The cause of the suspension, it is said, was the loss of a large amount in Wall street (New York) speculation. The liabilities of the company are placed at about $1,100,000, while the assets are estimated at $4,000,000. The work of the company will proceed as usual... .Twenty masked men at Quincy, 111., believed to he striking molders, attached a wagon containing nonunion molders, shooting two men through their arms. Another party of non-unionists arrived by a Wabash train and were showered with 6tones and bullets, one of them receiving serious injuries. THE SOUTH. At Winston, N. C., a mob took Henry Swaim, who murdered a woman, from the jail and hanged him. James S. Coleman, colored, was executed at Columbia, S. C., for the murder of Sarah Willis, liis wife’s sister Masked men at Elizabethtown, Ky., took from jail a negro who had committed an outrage on a white woman, and hanged him to a tree outside the city, with a placard ordering no “one to touch the corpse. Near Mt. Sterling, Kj-, while a guard was conveying convicts to prison, one of the latter, on the. plea that his handcuffs fitted too closely, secured the guard's gun and killed him, when three of the prisoners escaped, and five others surrendered themselves. .. .More than half of Madison and Tensas Parishes, in Louisiana, are under water, and cattle are dying in great numbers from starvation and the stings of buffalognats. Dr. A. B. Pitts refused to testify in the case of E. B. Wheeler, indicted for the murder of Prent Matthews at Hazlehurst, Miss., and was committed for contempt of court. He was taken to his home to take leave of his wife. He escaped from custody through the window of his wife’s apartment. It is thought that the deputy who had him in charge .was not sorry... .Four masked robbers entered the Louse of a planter named Kite, near Bed Fork, Ark., fired six charges from a revolver into his body, and escaped with SB4O which they found under the floor.

WASHINGTON. At a meeting of the Senate Finance Committee it was agreed that the trade-dollar Bill should tosreported adversely.' ■ Senator Sherman will write the report Reports of the wheat crop from various parts of Michigan indicate that in the northern counties it will he 87 per cent. of an average and in the southern tier abont 97 per cent Clover is rather backward, and will average 90 per cent Apples will be about the same, peaches will scarcely exceed half of a full crop. Reports from various parte of Dakota and Minnesota regarding the condition of the

- spring wheat crop are very encouraging. I There is an increased acreage, and t from present appearances there will p be n very abundant harvest. The E oat crop in also looking very well, r The Illinois Department or Agriculture • finds the prospects not encouraging for over 84 per cent, of an average yield of winter ! wheat. The crop outlook in lowa is of a > most cheering character. J Returns to thq Department of AgricultI ure for May make the prospect nearly as i favorable as in April. Then the general i average l was within 5 per cent, of the • stapdnrd full condition. The May average is 94. It was 834 in 1883. Barring changes 1 in the future, the winter wheat product will be about 350,000,000 bushels. Thetempera--1 ture in April has been lower than usual, and low lying lands have _been saturated with moisture, retarding the growth of the plant. Well-drained wheat soils nearly everywhere are bearing a vigorous and healthy growth. » live promises fully as well as wheat. The general average is 96. It is several points higher than wheat in the principal States of the West. The geneifd average for barley is 101. It is 100 iji New York, 100 in Pennsylvania, 98 in Michigan, and 103 in California. Meadows and pastures are generally promising, though failing to come up to the standard healthy growth and unimpaired condition.... The statue of Chief Justice Marshall by Storey was unveiled at Washington last week. Chief Justice Waite delivered the formal address on the occasion. I'OUHCAI. Congressman J. D. Long, of Massachusetts, who voted to strike out the enacting clause of the Morrison bill, says he favors; revenue reform, believes that the country demands it, but he could not vote for the Morrison measure because it was crude, imperfect, and incomprehensible.... The Kentucky Democratic §itate Convention declared John G. Carlisle its preference for President. The Massachusetts Prohibition State Convention was held at Boston, the resolutions declaring for the suppression of the liquor traffic by constitutional and statutory measures. The Democratic protectionists talk about introducing a bill in the House during the present session for a revision of the tariff. The bill, it is said, will propose to place a large number of dutiable articles on the free list. The California Legislature having adopted resolutions in favor of the organization of Alaska as a Territory, Gen. Roseerans and the other California members of Congress have decided to urge the passage of the Alaska bill now pending before the House. The well-known Philadelphia editor, M. P. Handy, who lived long in the South, has been interviewing Southern Democrats. He says: “ Carlisle steps to the front with a formal presentation of his name by Kentucky, and he receives favorable consideration by many who never seriously considered it before. It is claimed for him that while a Southern man he was a loyalist; that his character is clean, and his record good, and that, having been made Speaker of the House on the revenue-reform platform, he is already by circumstances- the leader of the regenerated Democracy, and will stand the ordeal of a popular election as well, if not better, than anybody else of his way of thinking.”

GENERAL. It is stated that the Canadian Pacific Boad has agreed to make Port Williams the chief point on Lake Superior, and erect there-a huge elevator. The announcement causes great indignation at the ambitious town of Port Arthur, twelve miles distant. The steamer City of Portland, with seventy passengers, was deceived by a buoy which wiis out of position, and went on a ledge of rocks near Owl’s Head, Maine. A sloop answered the signals of distress, and took off the women and children, and the steamer Bockland soon arrived to rescue the other passengers and their baggage. The vessel and cargo will be a total loss. The American Medical Association met at Washington last week with 600 delegates present. Dr. Austin Flint, the President, delivered the annual address, making pertinent references to the medical code, the overcrowding of the profession, and the granting of diplomas by doubtful institutions. V| .......... The steamers Nevada and Bomano collided when the former was four days out from New York. The Bomano sunk in less than an hour, but all on board were saved. She was valued at $200,000. .. .The Canadian steamer Argyle, hound from Sault Ste. Marie to Port Arthur with a Sos supplies for a Canadian Pacific •ay contractor, iyas lost on Lake Superior during a gale, The crew escaped. The steamship Titania, which arrived at Quebec from Glasgow, had on board twen-ty-four of the crew of the wrecked steamship State of Florida. Out of 167 persons on board the latter, only forty-four were saved: and of sixteen on the bark with which the ’collision occurred, none but the captain and two men were rescued, making the loss of life 135. The State of Florida collided with an unknown bark in mid-ocean. Both vessels were badly stove in, and sunk in a very few minutes.. The American Forestry congress met at the Agricultural Building, in Washington City, with Commissioner Loring in the chair. Senators Miller, pf New York, and Sawyer, of Wisconsin, gave their views on the preservation of our forests, especially the white pine forests of the North. The congress adopted resolutions to the es-i feet that the association has witnessed with great satisfaction the attempt of the Stata of New York to preserve, protect, and regu-j late the sale of lumber in the forests at the! headwaters of the Hudson and Mohawk rivers, and that legislation in this be encouraged in all the ( States of the Union; that the establishment of experimental stations and forestry commissions by the States is earnestly recommended; that the aid of the Federal Government by appropriate legislation for the care and development of forests is earnestly recom-' mended. FOREIGN. ITALY is beginning to assert her right to interfere in the management of Egyptian affairs, and is supported by Austria and Germany, who think Italy should have an equal influence with France in the affairs of tiro land of the Pharaohs...... The offers of fnnds to bribe the natives to secure Gordon’s safety has been refused, ... .The Chinese Cabinet is not disposed to make peace with France, though Premier Chang recommends ft in a communication to the Chinese Emperor. It has been developed in.the preliminary examination of Daly and Egan, the alleged dynamiters, at Birmingham, that they and their friends, considered the parliamentary policy of Parnell and Healy entirely too tame, and' that Daly, who was a fierce revolutionist, in speech at least, was considered

far superior to Parnell as a leader, and was to be set up against him, in the good <or bad) time coming. Daly and Egan were committed for trial. L.. Advices from Tientsin say that a treaty has been signed between France and China, wherein the French proteetdtate over Tonqnin is recognized, and that both parties shall together regulate the customs on the frontier..-. .The Irish Roman Catholic Bishops have been summoned to Rome for a conference in October.... Another/band of filibusters is preparing to leave Florida for Cuba, it is said, under the lead of one Castro.... The Swiss general elections resulted in a Conservative victory.