Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1890 — SIX OTHER THINGS [ARTICLE]

SIX OTHER THINGS

Almost as Important as the Other Reforms More Talked about. The Republican per.ty promised the people in 1888 that it would proceed rapidly'toward the rebuilding of the navy 'and the construction, of works for the protection of our harbors and great cities. r Important steps haye been taken in the redemption of this pledge. Among the naval appropriations passed by this Congress is one providing $23,000,000 for the construction of three large battle-ships, one large cruiser, one small cruiser, and ; one torpedo boat, adding six fine ships to the new navy. The sum of $4,232,935 has been (appropriated for harbor defenses and 'fortifications, for the purchase of .torpedos, marine guns, mortar batteries and armaments, for the establishment of an American gun factory, J and for the building and repairing of iimprovement fortifications. , Pending in the House, having already passed the Senate, are the two Important measures known as the 'shipping biljs. Of their final passage Iby the House, probably at this session, icertainly in the next, there can be no .doubt. Their effect in the revival of ithe American merchant marine, in the' establishment of new lines of travel between our ports and those of South America, will assuredly be to build up >a large and important trade that has too long been neglect® 1. The acts relieving the Supreme Court fronr the congestion which has almost paralyzed it by the establishment of an intermediate court is one of the most useful features of Republican legislation. The difficulties unjder which the Supreme Court has labored have amounted to a denial of [justice. It is now able to proceed iwith its business in a rapid and orderly way. - Important,' too, for the honor not (less than the welfare of the country, ;is the anti-lottery bill, which successjully take the United States postoffice out of the service of that infamous in-, stitution known as the Louisiana State Dottery, Left by the decision of the' Supreme Court with the duty of restoring to the States the right to enforce laws prohibiting or regulating the sale of liquor, introduced therein through interstate commerce, Congress has passed what ia known as" tfie Package bill. The Supreme 'Court’s decision practically rendered nugatory all State laws dealing adversely with the liquor traffic, provided such liquors were brought into one State from another. The authority of/the State is, by Republican legislation, rendered effective!