Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1887 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

Horses on eight different farms in Marshall County, 111., are affected uith glanders. .. The Governor of Ohio, on receiving information that tbe cattle quarantine is evaded by round-about shipments from Chicago, has extended lo the State of Illinois the provisions of the order forbidding importations of live stock,... .The directors of the Merchants’ Excuange. of St. Louis, have §3 pted a resolution recommending William It. Morrison for a place on the Interstate Commerce Commission. The Toledo ■Produce Exchange puts forward llenison B. Smith. .. .1 he Magnolia and Opossum Clubs of St. Paul banqueted Gov. Fitzhugli Lee, of Virginia. Senator-elect Davis anl Gov. McGill were among -he guests. Gov. Lee responded to the toast, “The New South.” Among other things lie said: “We are back once more in the house of our fattiers with a reputation to sustain as a State of the Union. Peisonally I siand midway between the extremes, with a sear from a Texas battlefield and a sc ir from a war where I fought for what I believed light. Quo of my* colored boys is named Jefferson Davis and one Abraham Lincoln. Virginia is proud to take her place by the side off Minnesota in the gli teriug crown that binds the brpw of the American Union.” While the baud played “Columbia,” three cheers for Gen. Lee, proposed on behalf of the old soldiers of Minnesota, were given with a will.

Bills prohibiting the appointment of “Pinkerton men sr as special policeinen r and declaring that they shall not exercise the powers of deputy sheriffs, policemen, or constables, under heavy penalties, have been introduced in the New Mersey House Thomas Phillips, a shoemaker, has been nominated for Mayor of Philadelphia by the’ United Labor party. A lull ticket was put in the field.... A Washington dispatch says the protection Demociats iu Congress have finished the consideration of iheir bill to reduce the surplus revenue. The general features of the bill have already been published. It wipes out the taxon tobacco and weiss beer, anil also tbe license tax on dealers in whisky. The question wheiherthe tax on alcohol used in the arts should be removed or the / tax on whisky should be reduced is left an open one to Be decided by the House. The provisions of the Kandall bill which increased the duties in certain cases are stricken out. Lumber, ergots, fur used in making hats, jute, and jute butts are among the articles placed on the free list. The duty on steeLrails is reduced to sl3. The pi incipal features of the Hewitt customs administrative bill are incorporated, tocetner with some additions adjusted by the Treasury Deportment. It is expected that the total reduction of the revenue made by the bill will be nearly $60,000,000. The First Comptroller of the” Treasury, by another opinion on the accounts of John S. Mosby as Consul at Hong Kong, has disallowed claims for $12,000.

The bill to authorize the President of the United States to protect and defend the rights of American fishing vessels, American fishermen, American trading and other vessels in certain cases, passed the Senate January 24, Riddleberger of Virginia was the only Senator voting in the negative. The bill concerning postoffiees of the third class, providing that they shall not bo changed into postoffiees of the fourth class, where the gross receipts amount to $1,900 a year, or where the box receipts and commissions constituting the postmaster s compensation amount to Sl.Oyo, passed the Senate. Senator Allison introduced the primary bank"feserve bill in. the Senate. A resolution was introduced in the House by Congressman Lawler directing the Committee on Naval Affairs to -itKiuire into the expediency of a bill appropriating ¥50,000,000, to be exi>ended under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy.’ for the "construction, .equipment, aud armament of such new vessels of war as may be deemed necessary. Mr. Springer, of Illinois, introduced a constitutional amendment changing the time for the assembling of Congress to tho first Wednesday iu January of each year. Mr. Thomas, of Illinois, introduced a bill to increase the naval establishment. It authorizes the construction of two steel-cruisers, of about four thousand tons displacement, of the typo of “cruiser No. V- at a cost,'exclusive of arma nent, of not more than ¥1,30 ),00b each; fivo steel gunboats, of tho type of “gunboat No. 1," at a cost, exclusive of armament, of not more than ¥5;0,0 jo each; and six steel torpedo boats, Laving a maximum speed of not less than twen-ty-four knots per hour, to cost, exclusiveof armament, SIOJ ; tWJ each.