Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1890 — NATIONAL CONGRESS. [ARTICLE]

NATIONAL CONGRESS.

A bill was [.introduced in the Senate, Wednesday, to erect a monument to Abraham Lincoln on athe Gettysburg battlefield, Mitchell delivered a speech on the bill for the free coinage of silver. Tne Senate on the 30th passed the bill instructing the Superintendent of Census to collect information about farm mortgages. The House bill as to the duties on silk ribbons was also passed. Mr. Vance addressed the Senate on the Butler negro emigration bill. He argued in opposition to the views expressed by Mr. Ingalls. He admitted that the negro could not keep pace with the white man, but thought that he could be civilized and that the best thing to do was to keep hands off. He was not in favor of the Butler bill. Mr. Hampton followed in a brief speech taking similar grounds to Mr. Vance. The House on the 30th resumed its turmoil of the day previous (recorded in another column.) The Democrats protested with all their energy to the course pursued by the Republicans, but Speaker Reed, following the course mapped out, overruled all Democratic objections and protests. The House on the 31st continued to wrangle, Springer, Bland, Bynuin and Crisp taking turns at protesting againt the Speaker’s action. The Speaker was arraigned in unmeasured terms. Finally the Republicans proceeded with the election contest, which the fUlibustering was in tended to prev»nt, the Democrats yielding %n unwilling obedience.

Dudley Murphy, a prominent business man Of Coldwater, Kan., was, Monday, shot in the back by Dr. Strawn.with a gun loaded with buckshot. Strawn reloaded uid fired a second charge' into Murphy’s prostrate form, then drew a revblver and fired three additional shots at his victim who was riddled with bullets. i. = , uvtW'iWßf—HjMfPiWM Who kills all the dead lettersP Mist Direction.