Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1886 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

Enough bills have already been introluced in ' the House of Representatives t< :eep that body hard at work till the dogays of August, says a Washington dis itch. Yet about only one-fourth of th< ills that will be introduced have alread; een presented. The present Congres remises to be more prolific in bills tha: ae last. Already about 3,500 bill are been presented. The grea lass of these bills go to twi ommittees —one on war. claims 'Em he other on claims. The former ha barge of all claims that grew out of the war i which the United States has been engage< nd the latter of all other claims. It ha -een frequently suggested that Congress b -lieved of the work of considering thes ’.aims. As it is at present, Congress pay -ry little attention to them, and no ne in a hundred is considered. Letimate claimants have no redress, bu Kemei-s are more likely to fare bet •r. Mr. Springer, who is at the hea< >f the Committee on Claims, suggests to th ommittee that a bill be presented to th louse creating a court of claims, to whicl laimants hereafter could go for relief in tend of bringing their claims to the atten -on of Congress. Mr. McKenna, who iIso a member of the committee, is in favo f this plan, and it is possible that such i ill will be presented at an early day. Tlilenate has already accomplished a grea ■eal in the way of legislation. Besides ; umber of uniinportont measures, it has assed the Presidential succession bill am ae Mormon bill. A preacher named Frazer eloped fron Detroit, Minn., with the 13-year-old daugh--r of John L. Krauser. The pair wer aptured at Wadena, the exhorter narrow! scaping with his life... .Letters of admin - stration were refused Mrs. Mark Nortoi t Minneapolis, Minn., because of her us< >f opium, the statute prohibiting the issuinf if letters testamentary to persons addicte< o the use at that Krug.... Th vndicate which has been holdin; ,000,000 bushels of wheat at Minneapolis linn., dropped its holdings last week, hav ig already lost on a declining market be ween $50,000 and $60,000... .Nearly fiv housand persons assembled in the armors Battery D, at Chicago, to witness ai thletie contest between Frank Glover art! Villiam Bradburn for the championship O' lliuois. In the fifth round, in which Brad nm was receiving severe punishment, th oliee interfered, and the referee decided i Undraw. Since New Year’s Day, at Dranesville Id., a town of 200 inhabitants, five wome ave been brought £p bed, one giving birtl o triplets, and the other four presentin. heir husbands with twins. John B. Foraker was inaugurated Gov rnor of Ohio on the 11th inst. The pro ession comprised militia companies am olitical clubs aggregating 2,500 men. The bill to admit Dakota and organize tin erritory of Lincoln was favorably reported t ne Senate, by Mr. Harrison, on the 11th inst. I iscussmg the Beck silver question, Mr. Pugl toted his belief that three-fourths of "thouthern people were opposed to the sns ension of silver coinage. Mr. Blair urgei ne passage of. his bill for the erectioi f monuments to Lincoln and Grant at thrational Capital. Bills were introduced to pei ait the Dakota Central Railway to bridge th tissouri River at Pierre ; to pay from the Gc wa award the sum of $20,000 to William H Yhiting for physical injuries sustained by im risonment on the Confederate cruiser Alabama nd to appropriate $420,000 for- river improve icnts in Oregon. In the House of Reprrintatives, bills were introduced for th isue of small silver certificates for cii Hating medium, for large certificates o eposited silver bullion, for fractional paper enr -ncy, and to pay out all except $50,000,000 of thi 'reasury surplus fn redemption of bonds. Also i ill to divide Dakota and create the Territory o nncoln, to prohibit aliens from acquiring title t mde, to appropriates3,ooo,ooß for a steam cruiser o donate the Creve Gauir lakes to the city of S' jouis, and to enable the people to name thei ’ostmasters. Mr. Weaver, of lowa, flung in .• neasure to appropriate $300,000,000 to pay veterusoldiers and sailors tho difference between gob •oiu and the depreciated paper they took from thmyinastera. The call of States-brought forwan 50 new measures, making the total nearly 4,000. icarly 500 nominations were reported from committees to the Senate sittiii" in executive sesion. When tho case ofl Dorman B. Eaton aine up Mr. Logan objected, to his confirmation s Civil Service Commissioner on tho ground hat lie was a “mugwump” and that the law re mired the-appointinent of a Republican. Mr iaton was, however, confirmed.