Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1889 — NATIONAL CONGRESS. [ARTICLE]

NATIONAL CONGRESS.

In the Senate Tuesday, the bill to incorporate national banks of a capital of less than $50,000, was indefinitely postponed. Several bills were introduced. Mr. Turpie addressed the Senate on his resolution as to trusts. He said that trusts were tho gigantic sin of this age and generation. They were an iniquitious system that honey-combed the whole world of domestic commerce with fraud, falsehood, suspicion, distrust and impurity. The trust was a nuisance, open and notorious; but it could not be grappled with and suppressed as. other nuisances. A reform in the printing of useless docu-| meats was discussed by the Senators,! Thursday. Senator Call introduced a joint' resolution authorizing the President to begin negotiations with the Government of Spair for the establishment of a Republic) on the Island of Cuba. In connection with[ tnis, Mr. Call presented a petition ffom; natives of Cuba (now citizens of the United States) and stated that it had been represented to him that nearly all such persons were in favor of the resolution. In the Houses Thursday, Mr. 1 Butterworth offered a series of resolutions providingfor an investigation of the ballot box contract forgery in Ohio. They were adopted. The committee to investigate the Silcot defalcation made their report, Tne report of the Silcott .Select Committee gives a detailed statement of the assets and liabilities of the office on De cember 5. Tne shortage is stated at »70,708.96. It states that the committee has not yet made sufficient investigation of the matter of discounts and notes. Many notes, the committee believe, were forged to cover defalcation already exist ing. It also says that the committee oan not too severely condemn the manner in which the Sergeant-at arms conducted the affairs of his office. Mr, Payson offered a resolution continuing the committee and giving it enlarged powers, In which a long debate sprung up, after which a resolution was adopted extending the powers of the select committee so that it may report to tho House its conclusions as to tne effect of any deficiency of oash in the office of the Sergeant-at arms. Adjourned until Monday,