Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1886 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

Judge Ayers, at Indianapolis, refused an injunction in the case affecting the legality of the election of Lieutenant Governor. The case has been appealed to the State Supreme Court for final settlement. .... A New York special to a Western newspaper says: - “The statement may be made upon the authority of representative members of both organizations that the union between Tammany and the County Democracy, cemented by the election of Mr. Hewitt as Mayor, has been made to involve their joint support for President Cleveland’s renoiuinatiou and-r .‘-election. By the terms of the compact Tammany is to send delegates to the State and National convention on an understanding that it will be bound by the unit rule. Its orators are to bow in submission, and to work zealously for the ticket when it is placed in domination. There will be no bolting, trading, or underhand work of any kind. In short, it is well settled th it Mr. Cleveland is to receive the full support, of the city and State of New York in the next Democratic National Convention in so far as Tammany and the County Democracy’ can have influence to that end. Whether Tammany is to get any anything for quietly submitting to the inevitable dpes not appear. When, where, and how the bargain is to be bound has not been made known.” The Anderson bill for the adjustment of the Kansas Railroad land grants is well up att he head -of tire Sena to calendar, bu tt he Public Lands Committee has so changed the original that it is hardly recognizable. .... The friends of the National Divorce Reform League are about to press again upon Congress the necessity for the passage of the measure providing for the collection of statistics relative to marriage and divorce in nil the Slates and Territories. The United States Circuit Court at St. Louis decided the case of the St. Louis, Kans is City and Colorado Road against the Wabash, permitting the former to enter the Union Depot over the Wabash tracks on the payment of a certain rental and other charges.

Ma. Ecstis introduced a bill in the Senate on the 13th inst. directing tho Secretary of the Treasury to pay :o tho respective owners of lands, houses, and tenements in the States lately in insurrecti n the sums of money received from leases or occupation ot such prop.-rty by a.euey of tho United Statrs and paid into the Treasury under the provisions of the a tof July 2, 1864. Mr. Wilson introduced a T>i IT almostTdeiitTi al with the one vetoefl by the Pres dent, to se tie titles to the Des Mo nps River Jan.is, and another to permit tho Silnta Fe Road to brjilgir the Mississippi betwo m Keokuk and Fort Merits n: Mr. Blown presented a measure providing a new basis for uatiofinl bank circulation Mr. Dawes, speaking to Mr. Morrill’s rcsolut on declaring the promise of making a proper revision of the tariff at t,lie present session obviously hopeless -und impracticable, said the advanced position of tho Secretary of the Treasury on the subject of the tariff caused apprehension and alarm in nil the great industries of the land. The industries of the country looked to tho Senate Finance Committee to formulate a method of bringing tbo receipts ot the Government down to tho lines of its expenditures: without impairing the development or prosperity of those industries or diminishing the compensat on of that labor. It was for that purpose that ho (Dawes) had introduced his resolution to that effect. Mr. Mcl’horson, replying to Mr. Dawes, said that there were hut two ways of disposing of tbo surplus rev< uue. One was extravagant appropriations and tho other was by a reduction of taxation. For himself he was in favor of the second alternative. He was in favor of a revision of the tariff which would not permit tlie accumulation of an annual surplus of 5103,000,000. He would imply to every industry tho same priiici] lo that lias been applied to the i’aterson (N. J.) silk-miinufacturing industry whose raw material was admitted free of duty, and who competed with the Lyons (France) manufacturers in their own city.- Why was not the same principle applied to the hatters of New York? If those 10.0 D operatives had their raw material free they would Hood the worth with cheap hats. That was the Democratic policy, the American p liev the policy which he wanted to see ingrafted in the next tariff bill, Ho_ was opposed to the starving of these lo,'>oo bat operatives .in New York in order to support fifty muskrat trappers on tbo shores of the Hackensack River. In tho House of Representatives bills wore introduced for the free coinage ot silver, for the leasing of unoccupied Indian lands, to enable the people to mime their own postmasters,to admit to the Uni >n the Territories of Dakota. Montana, Washington, and New Mexico, to prohibit tho appointment, of Congressional committees for funerals, to pension ruilvvAy' postal clerks incapacitated ui the service, opm/ to grant the franking privilege to inmates Of’ soldiers' homes. Mr. Lawler presented a resolution for the expenditure of a large proportion of the Treasury surplus in building war vessels and sea-coast defenses.