Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1886 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

The President, in conversation, with a Republican Senator, said, the other day : “I am led to believe that the majority of your body intend to insist that I shall give my reasons for suspending an officeholder at the time I nominate his successor. I must iflfbrm you that I shall do nothing of the kind. ‘Nominations are made by and with the consent of the Senate.’ It is fitting in such cases that the Senate should have all the information they desire regarding thy man whosenojniphtion they are asked to Confirm, but- wlieii they insist upon, my reasons for making; removals they are usurping a privilege that belongs to the Executive alone, and their request will in every case be denied. That is the position I propose to take, and I am ready to abide the consequences.” Reports from Illinois, Ohio, Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia are to the effect that the winter wheajt plant is well protected by snow, and that the recent blizzard has not, ns far as known, affected the crop... .The Bank of Devil’s Lake, Dakota, suspended, ■attachments aggregating §B,OOO having been filed against the concern. The deposits are placed at $25,000.... Glanders in a malignant form prevails among the horses in the neighborhood of Lisbon, 111. Four animals were killed by order of the assistant State Veterinarian. The wages trouble at the Edgar Thomas Steel Works at Braddocks, Pa., has been settled, and work in all departments resumed. ... At Buffalo, W. C. Brown, a bucket-shop broker, opened mail belonging to J. C. Allen, a customer, abstracted drafts and checks amounting to $4,000, and skipped to Canada... .The steam-tug Modoc .exploded at Pittsburgh, Pa. Pilot Davies was killed, and two other persons were fatally injured... .The safe in the County Treasurer’s office at Newcastle, Pa,, was blown open, the burglars securing S2OO in money, $lO,000 in notes, and $4,500 in warrants.... Mrs. Anna Maria Greene, daughter-in-law of Gen. Nathaniel Greene, of Revolutionary fame, died at Middleton, R. 1., aged 102 years 2 months and 9 days!

The judicial salary bill, giving Unitod States Judges $5,000 a year, and prohibiting them from appointing their relatives to office in their courts, passed the Senate Jon. 18. Mr. Cullom submitted a bill regulating interstate commerce, whiOh provides for the appointment of five commissioners. Mr. Frye offered a resolution to provide for a commission to settle the fisheries question. This led to a sharp debate, in the course of which Messrs. Frye, Edmunds, Hoar, arid Dawes attacked President Cleveland for extending ..the Canadian fisheries treaty. Mr. Morgan defended the President. Mr. Ingalls presented a resolution asking the Secretary of the Treasury to state what proportion of the bonds lately called in is held by national banks as a basis for circulation. Mr. Eustis addressed the Senate on the silver question. The President, he said, had told Cons gress that there was not enough silver now in circulation to.. cause any uneasinessthat the. whole amount now coined might, after a time, be absorbed by the people without apprehension, but that it was' the "ceaseless stream "that threatened to overflow,” etc. From this it was to be understood that the silver dollar is an honest dollar When absorbed by the people, but disSpnest when offered to the bondholders. The results of the Congressional policy of coinagy had never been fully tested according to iff, true intent and spirit because the executive department had, in its practice, unfriendliness to that policy, aijfr, by partiality and discrimination, f (ad retarded ‘it. If that department IJ/d not discrimmated in favor of the llondhold ers as against, the people,-its reprqsTiitations as to finance would havo been entitled to. more respect. In conclusion Mr. Eustis amd: "If this disloyal practice of inciyisni.by Re executive department in declaring War againrt silver coin, which is a coin of the Government!in belittling its usefulness, in depreciating its existence, and in inviting others to believe that jit is a deformed offspring of legislative imbecility, - is to continue, than some of thy evils that hare been predicted may come to pass ;.but (those evils will not be attributable to any vise in our financial system, but to th: practice aipd assertions of the executive department in dishonoring and discrediting the coin wfliich it is their duty to sustain by all the inflnienee and power of their official authority.” .In the House of Representatives, bills wore introduced for the resurvey of the Bay of San Francisco, to providefor the inspection of live snock and hog products, to abolish the Fort! Wallace military reservation in Kansas, to peiision the only surviving granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson, to confer on Lieut. Green the rank of colonel, for ttfo admission of Montana up a State, and for the erection of an Indian school building at Carson, Nevada. Mr. Wadsworth/offered a resolution declaring that President'Cleveland has faithfully endeavored to maintain the equality of gold, silyer, and paper dollars. f = .== l==: