Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1888 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Labor 1 . Commiesioner Carroll J) [ Wright's'*report sjhdws that in the past j year there have been,3,903 strikes and lockouts,involving 2,336 establishments 1 The to*al losses to the strikers are nufidd at $50,948,882. Of the strike si Success Was achieved in 1 047 cases. Senator Sherman’s admission that he does not expect to succeed in defeating Lamar’s nomination, is thought to be based on-his knowledge that Senators Stewart and Sawyer cannot be made to obey the mandates of the Republican caucus. -■■■ - - Senator Palmer, of Michigan, in an interview declares that the Republican party must commit itself to the duty of suppressing the saloon. The Interstate Commission has decidedthat express „ companies operated as branches or bureaus of railway com panics are subject to the provisions of -the interstate commerce law. Congress is asked to fix the status of other companies. ~ ' Mr. H. McArdle, of Mississipi, publishes a card here stating that a speech at Aberdeen, Miss., in 1875, which has been attributed to Mr. Lamar, was made by him Ardle). He adds that if Mr; Lamar’s nomination as Supreme Judge is not confirmed, the South will be solid while the sky has a star or the ocean a tide. The Mexican Mission will be held open, it is said, until after the Senate acts on the Lamar case, so as to give him a bed to fall in if necessary. There is ianother rumor that, in the event of Mr, Lamar’s rejection, Minister Phelps would be nominated for the Supreme Court, and the' Secretary sent to the Court of St. James. General T./M Lrowife is preparing a revenue h p will abolish the and place sugar, lumber and articles on the free list. ‘ dmAh friterview Monday United States Sqnatorjifiwyer, of Wisconsin, referring .to'Lamar’s appointment, said: “Lamar is azplagued sight better for Supreme lifetime than any one else who-could be gotten from that district. I served with -Lernar four years on the raj/road committee, and .know him yell. I have bad many,conversation# with him, and am satisfied -he is a jjuyal man tp the Union. His real son timerite, as.l know them from intifnate association with him, were expressed in the Sumner eulogy and in his the Forty - third Congress On the Louisiana contested election cases. As/to whether I will vote for his cojfflripatioh, Ido not say. I have toidyojTWhat I think of him and that he Js the best man that could be got frop/hi/judicial district. I think he will be qonfirmed, and/fhat most of the Republican Senators think as I . Z