Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1891 — Tariff Pictures. [ARTICLE]

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'■ Gen. Reub Wiliams in his paper, the Warsaw Indianian Republican, tinder the head Of ‘‘private views” pays the following compliment to our Congressman, We never think of the subject that we do not regret—most deeply, too — the defeat of W. D. Owen, the Republican member of Congress from the Logansport district. • Mr. Owen is a young man of great ability. His services in Congress were just beginning to be of value not on 15' to his own constituents but to the people of both the State and Nation,

This is the way the new protection is transferring the worsted market from English to American worsteds: In November, 1889, Great Britain exported to the United States 4,613500 yards of worsted fabrics. In November 1890 she exported to us only 2,147,600 yards, and yet worsted coatings are no higher in price, because America’sjiroductive capacity is equal to the demand. —New York Press. Owing to the blundering of the vast but incompetent gang of alleged clerks, employed by the State Legislature two years ago, it lias been discovered that the proposed amendments to the state constitution, adopted at that session, are entirely void. The amendments provide for increasing the terms of the county and state officers to four years, and -to prohibit two successive terms; making all able bodied men members of the militia; making a year’s residence in the State necessary to a vote; increasing the number of Supreme Court judges from five to nine, and increasing the length of terms to eight years; paying members of the Legislature fixed salaries, and removing the limit of length of sessions, and putting the regulation of law practice into the liands of the Legislature.