Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1888 — WASHINGTON NOTES. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NOTES.

The Senate will vote on the tariff bill January 21. Both houses adjourned from December 21 until January 2. Senator Stanford, of California, presented each of the fourteen pages in the United States. Senate with a crisp, new fivedollarbiil. A Washington special gives Democratic authority for the statement that Coy and Bemhamer, the Marion county tally sheet fdrgers,will ribt be pardoned. Bemhamer’s time expires Jan. 2. The information asked irom the Department of Justice respecting certain criticisms made upon Leon O. Bailey, recently nominated to be United States Attorney for the District of Indiana, has neen placed in the possession of the Senate Judiciary Committee. It is understood that an adverse report will be made upon the nomination in a few days. The White House officials say that they have no record of an application for the pardon of Coy and Bernhamer, but it is said that such a document was presented to the Attorney General some time ago and he at once refused to indorse it. Besides this it is known that influential Indiana Democrats have from time to time made appeals in person and urged that clemency be granted immediately ofter the election. Indiana politics were dicussed in the House Tuesday afternoon while the civil service appropriation bill was pending. A Tammany member charged that W. W. Dudley was a fugitive from justice. Congressman Browne, of Indiana, retorted that it was the District Attorney who was a fugitive from justice. Mr. Bynum took exception to this statement and said Mr. Bailey, had been appointed because of bis ability and determination to prosecute Dudley- Mr. Steele created a laugh by asking how long Mr. Bynum had had such confidence in Mr. Bailey.

The President Friday pardoned Benjamin Hopkins, the Fidelity Bank, Cincinnati, official, for the following reason, which he requests the press to use in full: “The condition of this convict’s health is such, as appears from an examination which I have set on foot, that the question is presented whether he shall die in prison or at home. On this presentation I am willing he shall spend his few lemaining days 4 among his friends. Regardless of any other consideration connected with the case and on this ground alone his pardon is granted.” In the Senate, Thursday, Mr. Gibson offered a resolution, which was laid on the table and ordered printed, for the appointment of a select committee of thirteen Senators to inquire into the state of suffrage throughout the United States, and especially to investigate the election of State officers at the State elections held in November last in Rhdde Island and Louisiana and the Presidential election in the States of New York and Indiana, and to report all the facts, showing whether any unproper, undue and unlawful influences and practices were employed through conspiracies, trades, combinations, intimidation. corrupt use of money, purchase of votes or voters, false registering, false voting, stuffing ballot-boxes and bribery.