Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1886 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

AN E 1 Paso (Texas) dispatch states that “a mass meeting 6f 1,000 people adopted resolutions indorsing the action: of Governor Ireland and denouncing “ Mexico. Great excitement prevails. The secret trial of Cutting has been concluded, but instead of being sentenced he was informed that a public trial would be held later, and that Medina would translate the laws of Texas regarding libel and slander for use in the trial. Americans are insulted and abused daily by the Mexicans, even going so far as to beat a horse which a small American boy was driving, causing him to run away.” An Austin special states that Gov. Ireland “has directed the Adjutant General to order Capt. Jones’ company of rangers, now in Uvalde County, to proceed at once to Eagle Pass. The Governor continues to receive applications both by wire and mail to raise troops. Gen. Henry E. McCulloch, an old Indian fighter and General in the Confederate army, has offered his services. Col. Smith, of Cleburne, offers a brigade of ten regiments.”... .An Eagle Pass dispatch says that by order of Gov. Ireland, County Judge Hoffstetter, Sheriff Oglesby, and Deputy Sheriff Diaz have been arrested, charged with being concerned in the illegal capture and delivery of Francisco Arresures to the police of Piedras Negras. They were released on SI,OOO bail each. The bondsmen of AlmOn B. Thompson, the defaulting cashier of St. $50,000 to the receiver to compromise all claims, with the consent of the court, and were given the bogus collateral containing the evidence of his guilt.,. .Medals presented to Indians by Washington and Jackson have been brought to light in Wabash, Ind. The Miami tribe are possessed of some very valuable relics.

In response to a resolution of the Senate asking for information concerning the alleged illegal detention of A. K. Cutting by the Mexican authorities at El Paso del Norte, the President transmitted to the Senate, on the 2d inst., the report of the Secretary of State, together with a voluminous mass of correspondence relative to the case. Secretary Bayard explains that he has no reason for making twice a demand for Cutting’s release, because if his offense was committed in the United States Mexico has no jurisdiction, and Mr. Bayard, after pointing out that he has done everything within his power, says that he turns over not only the papers but the ease to Congress. It is an open invitation to Congress to take some action—to back him up in something more substantial than demands. The Senate passed bills to tax fractional parts of a' gallon of distilled spirits, and to provide for the in- - spection of tobacco, cigars.aud snuff. The Senate in executive session rejected the nomination of Richmond S. Demont to be Surveyor General of Utah. The nomination of E. H. Kinman to be postmaster at Jacksonville, Hl., was also rejected Fitz John Porter was confirmed without debate. The House of Representatives, by a vote of 167 to 51, passed the Senate bill increasing the pension of soldiers who lost an arm or a leg in the service. The House concurred in the Senate amendments to the naval establishment bill. An agreement was reached by the conferrees on the river and harbor bill providing for a survey of the Hennepin Canal route by a board of Government engineers and striking out tho appropriation for construction. President Cleveland sent a message to the House of Representatives stating that he had signed the oleomargarine bill, and giving his reasons for approving it. The President says that many communications have been addressed to him for the purpose of influencing his action thereon, the greater number being influenced by local or personal considerations. The bill, upon its face, and in its main features, he says, *is a revenue bill, and while he might doubt the present need of increased taxation, he defers to the judgment of Congress. He believes the selection of an additional subject of taxation, so well able to bear it. may be consistently followed by relieving the country of some other unnecessary revenue burden. In regard to the argument that the purpose of the bill was to destroy, one industry for the protection of aiiother, the President says: “If this article has the merit which itsfriends claim for it. and if the people of the land, with full knowledge of its real character, desire to purchase and use it, the taxes enacted by this bill will permit a fair profit to both manufacturer and dealer. If the existence and profits of the commodity depend upon disposing of it to the people for something else, which it deceitfully imitates, the entire enterprise is a fraud and not an industry; and if it cannot endure the exhibition of its real character, which will be effected by the inspection, supervision, and stamping which this bill directs, the sooner it is destroyed the better, in the interest of fair dealing. ” Mr. Cleveland notes several changes that would improve the bill, and suggests that it is not too late for them to be acted upon. There is danger, he says, of the fourteenth and fifteenth sections being construed as interfering with the police powers gs the States.