Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1886 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

Attorney General Garland’s attention was sailed by an interviewer to JEe WW _ V *

widely published statement that the President had asked for his resignation, to which’ he'replied: % STou may say that there Is no trath In the report to tsr as I have been advised, and it occurs to me that I should know. You may further say that the reports that I have received gifts of t)u Fau-Flectric stock or am a donee of trtht company uro uot correct. People seem to have forgotten my letter to the President datod Oct. 5, 1883.” Turning to that letter tho Attorney General read this sentence: “About three years ago I, with six or seven other gentlemen, entered Into an organization known as the Pan-F.lectric Telephono Company, based upon what was called the Rogers invention. We formed that company in good faith and started in its operations. You will see from thief," said the Attorney General, “that I was one of the original incorporators of this oomponv, aud as such entitled to stock.” Tho PresK?biit has safd recently to friends that a request for the r. signation of Mr, Garland was not in couteinillation. President Cleveland has nominated W. W. Sutton as Assistant Treasurer at Cincinnati .... Speaker Tibbs of the lower house of the Connecticut Legislature, created a breeze during debate on a resolution asking tho State’s Congressmen to urge tho transfer of the naval station from Newport back to. New London, Conn., which latter place was abandoned after the expenditure of $300,000 on improvements aud buildings. Mr. Tibbs declared that Rear Admiral Luce was nothing Tut a “Pinafore” Admiral, and that he had secured the change of stations to Newport because he cared more for the social attractions of that wa-tering-place than he did for the interests of the Government and service.