Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1886 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

Judge Rogers, of Chicago, in charg. ing the Grand Jury authorized to take charge of the cases of the murderous Anarchists, told them that no public speaker had a right to advise murder or arson, and that one could bp held responsible for the result of incendiary language. Said he: * * * I refer to these (it ndltutionol rights because some men who are s > inconsistent us to soy that there should be no law and no such rights as that, yet claim the protection of that right in its broadest sense—and, indeed, interpret to suit their own mini—that a man may get up in a public speech and advise murder, arson, the destruction of property, and the injury of people and their lives. That is a wild license that the Constitution of this country has never recognized, any more than it has been recognized in the worst desjiotisins of old Imonarchicr.l Europe, end I hope and you hope never will recognize. A man must be held responsible for his acts, and he must, as well beheld responsible for his speech. Another of the wounded police officers has died at Chicago, making the sixth policeman murdered by the bomb on the 4th of May. ■ The boot and shoe manufacturers of Chicago have decided to return to the tenhour system,.. .The planing mill owners of Chicago rejected the proposition of the fatfiking, -box makers to return to work at eight hours per day for eight hours’ pay.... Ajnong the industries most seriously injured by the labor strikes is the building trade, both at the East and West. In Boston, it is said that, of $3,000,000 awaiting investment this year in building operations during the coming .summer, more than $1,500,000 has been withdrawn, owing to the timidity of investors, in consequence of a prospective prolongation of the Jabor troubles. In New York, as ~Tfie mechanics and laborers made settlements with the builders in advance, no strike has occurred, and consequently the depression in the trade there is not nearly so great as in other cities. In Chicago,the builders, previous to the strikes, generally refused to enter into large contracts until they could fully determine what would be the outcome of the then anticipated labor troubles, including the eighthour movement. The result has been that a very large amount of capital which would have been invested in building has been held back, and, as a consequence, both the general trade and labor markets have been most seriously injured, with no material corresponding benefit. The cod-fishing schooner Ellen M. Doughty, Of Portland, Me., was seized at Englishtown, St. Ann’s, C. 8., for buying bait on a permit from the Portland Custom House. The firm at once notified Secretary Bayard and Senator Frye. There is tremendous excitement at Portland over this second seizure, and everybody is eager for retaliation.. The fishing schooner David J. Adams was pounced upon by the Britishers only a few days before the seizure of the Doughty... .The visible supply of wheat and coin is, respectively, 39,590,730 and 9,817,861 bushels. Since last report wheat decreased 2,356,801 bushels. and com has been reduced 805,042 bushels.

Under directions of the Ways and Means Committee Mr. Mdrrison will call up the tariff bill in the House as soon as the legislative and executive appropriation bill is disposed of, so reports a Washington correspondent, who assumes to speak by the card. In a fight at Martinsville, Va., J. K. Terry was killed, and the latter’s brothers, Colonel P. D. Spencer, three other white men, and two negroes probably mortally wounded)" Senator Frye’s bill authorizing retaliation for the recent’ action of the Dominion of Canada in excluding United States vessels from certain privileges in Canadian ports passed the Senate ou the 17th inst. The Senate confirmed the nomination of Mrs. Thompson, Postmistress at Louisville. Ky., after debating over it for on hour. Senator Blackburn made a long speech against confirmation, but secured only five negative votes besides his own. The House passed the urgent deficiency appropriation bill, and by a vote of-203 to 8 the Senate bill providing for the study of the nature of alcoholic drinks and narcotics, and of their effects upon the human system, by the pupils in the public schools of the Territories and of the District of Columbia, anil in the Military and Naval Academies and Indian and colored schools - in the Territories'of the United States. Mr. Boutelle introduced in the House a bill appropriating $50,000 for the erection in Washington of a bronze monument to the late Edwin M. Stanton. - ~ ~ ; -