Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1885 — POIITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POIITICAL.

It is reported that Representative Mills,, of Texas, has been engaged during the entire summer in the preparation of a tariff bill, wh ch he proposes introducing in the House soon after Congress meets. The measure wiH' provide for the reduction of the revenue to such a slm as is neeessary to cover the Government- expenses merely. It is proposed (hat this revenue shall bo derived in the main from that class of taxable articles known as luxuries, and that the duties on necessities of life shall be made as low as" possible. .., President Cleveland has appointed Rensselaer ,Stone to be -Collector of Internal Revenue for the First District of Illinois, embracing Chicago, in place of Joel D. Harvey, suspended... .Thomas J. Lathrop, of Taunton, has been nominated for Governor of Massachusetts by the Prohibit.onists of that State. The Congressional election in the Third District of Arkansas resulted in a victory for Thomas C. Mcßea, the Democratic nominee. The President has made the following appointments: Moses A. Hopkins, of North Carolina, to be minister resident and consul general of the United States to Liberia: Irwin Dugan, to be supervising inspector of steam vessels for the Sixth district. To be consuls, of the United States: Henry \V. .Gilbert, of New York, at Trieste; James M. j Rosse, of New York, at Three Rivers, Canada.

A Washington rumor is to the effec that Mr. Blaine will probably be the next Republican nominee for Governor of Maine... Henry Ward Beecher has written a letter advocating the insert on of a highlicense plank in tbe New York Republican platform. . Mb. Cleveland will attend the Iroquois banquet in Chicago Nov. 4if his duties permit....A Washington dispatch says: “Some of the candidates for the Austrian mission have been recently r newing their applications, but none of them have re-, ceived any encouragement from either the Secretary ’of State or the President. In the best informed circles, although is positively known, the idea prevails that the Secretary, believing that the United States Minister to Austria ought to be

! chosen by thAUhlted States Government, and not by the Austrian Government, is in favor of jlekving the mission vacant, and that the President will find another post iu which Mr. Keiley may serve bis country. Certainly nothing has yet beep done toward appointing a successor to Mr. Keiley in the mission which he has resighed."