Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1886 — AĎITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

AĎITIONAL NEWS.

A meeting of “starving mechanics” was held at the Nelson Monument, in Trafalgar Square, London, on the afternoon of the Bth inst., Bums, the defeated socialist candidate for Parliament, being the chief speaker. He attempted to address the crowd from the pedestdl of the column, and when the police attempted to displace him, a conflict with the mob, which had at this time swelled to many thousands, was the result. The police were badly used, and Bums finished his speech and was about to present a series of resolutions, when the police again made an attack, this time routing the gathering, which divided in its flight and took different directions. The mob began wrecking stores and residences, 200 shops and club-houses being damaged and pillaged, and hundreds of people maltreated. Ladies in carriages were compelled to alight, and in some cases the vehicles were reduced to splinters. The Devonshire Club, Twig Club, Hatchet’s Hotel, and Arnold Morley’s residence were among the structures wrecked arid gutted. A fierce faction fight among the socialists also occurred, in which several men were injured. It is said that 50,000 persons engaged in the rioting, and the wonder is that so little blood was shed. Chicago elevators contain 14,491,490 bushels of wheat, 2,678,726 bushels of corn, 303,413 bushels of oats, 304,063 bushels of rye, and 154,358 bushels of barley; total, 17,932,050 bushels of all kinds of grain, against 17,136,107 bushels a year ago. .... The extensive furniture manufacturing firm of N. W. Jansen & Sons, Quincy, 111., with a branch house in Chicago, have made an assignment. Liabilities, $137,000. A nice silver debate was running along peacefully in the Senate on the Bth inst.,with Senator John Sherman on the floor pointing out the mistakes that had been made in the Treasury Department in failing to follow his example, when some accidental remark was made about the inquiries the was making of the Secretary of the Treasury in regard to silver, and the Senator from Ohio at once branched off into a discussion of the great question of the hour —the relations of the Executive and the Senate.’ Mr. Edmunds was absent, and Mr. Sherman had a chance to come to the front as the Republican spokesman. For half an hour the debate between Mr. Sherman On one Bide and Messrs. Satilsoury and Pugh on the other was decidedly interesting. Mr. Sherman’s position was that the Senate had no right to question the President as to his reasons, but it lid a right to any information that exists in the departments. The doctrine; he declared, had always been recognized till the present administration cume in. In the adjaiuistrations of-Fierce and Buchanan committees of Congress had a cabinet minister before them, and overhauled papers in the departments, and it was never even suggested that the two houses of Congress were not entitled to see everything on tile in the departments. When he was Secretary of the Treasury he was summoned before committes of both houses, and questioned about exeqntive acts both in regard to appointments and removals and in regard to financial policy, and he answered all questions blit one, and that was as to what he was going to do. The Senate agreed to a resolution offered by Mr. Ingalls, which directs the Finance Committee to inquire into the propriety of making such an amendment to the Revised Statutes as may be necessary to require the issue of United States notes at the denominations of SI and S'2. In the House of Representatives, Mr. Blanchard introduced a resolution calling upon the Secretary of the Troasury for a statement of all moneys seized or collected in the Department of the Gulf by Generals Butler and Banks. Mr. Springer introduced a bifl to enable the people of Dakota east of the Missouri River to form a Constitution and State Government, and there is strong reason to believe that it will be the measure which the House will oppose against the Harrison bill which passed the Senate. The bill provides for admitting the east half of Dakota, which contains about 420,000 inhabitants, with two members of Congress and two United States Courts. This will leave only about 30,000 inhabitants west of the river to be organized into the Terri tory of Lincoln. Bismarck iB left out of the new State, and will become the capital of the new Territory. The bill provides that Congress may hereafter, when the Indian reservation titles are extinguished, annex the Territory of Lincoln, and Dakota is required to,consent to this in her constitution. Mr. Weaver addressed the House upon the coinage question. In the course of his remarks Mr. Weaver attacked the national banking system. There were four things, he said, relating to finance which this Congress must enact. First, it must provide for unrestricted coinage of American silver. Second, a law must be passed for the issue of, Treasury notes to take the place of bank noteß. Third, the largest portion of the surplus in the Treasury must be paid out in liquidation of the interest-bearing public debt Fourth, it must forbid by law any further discrimination ugulnst silver coin.