Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1892 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

The House has organized to investigate the Homestead riot. Representative Culbertson, of Texas, expresses the opinion that the Senate made-a fatal oversight in the passage of theifree coinage bill, in that it failed to preserve, in the repeal of the det of 1890. the legal tender quality of the coin notes issued under the authority of the Secre tary of the Treasury to redeem them. The effect of the Senate bill, he says, will be to demonetize,more than $80.0)0 COO of coin notes. Bind postpone redemption until ■'Congress'itirehcnizes’ it. The - H&use-wHl-be compelled to amend the bill, and thus distress may be prolonged. The riot at Homestead came up for dis mission the Senate Thursday. Mr. Palmer, Mr. Voorhees, Mr. Stewart and Mr. Hale spoke, the resolution being for an investigation of the affair. Mr. Voorhees treated the tragical occurrences at Homestead as a practical commentary on Mr. Hale's resolution as to the effects of the two policies of “protection” and “tariff for revenue only.” Labor riots, he said, were hbt the offspring of the Democratic policy. They come under the Republican policy of protection. Those poor peopld* at Homestead who had laid down their lives had been led to believe that the tariff was protecting them, but there never had .been a greater lie worked and wovei)4nto the legislation of a country. The Republican party had said that the great manufacturing barons had to be protected against foreign competition so that they might bet able to pay higher wages. Had they done so? Mr. Carnegie had got a protection of 55 per cent, on iron and more than 70 per cent, on steel, and instead of paying his workmen higher wages he had notified them of a reduction of from 12 to 40 per cent. The beneficiary of the tariff system had responded with the employment of an armed mob—for the Plnkertod men were a mob. They were among the meanest mercenaries on earth. The Pinkertons had taken their lives in their hands, and those of them who were killed had been killed by the workmeh in self-defense. His only regret was that Carnegie himself had not been at the head of that squad, instead of skulking in his castle in Scotland. Mr. Hale replied to Mr. Voorhees, denying that the Republican party was responsible for tie trouble at Homestead and claiming that the credit of building up such industries as those at Homestead and Bethlehem was due to that party. There was one other thing, he said, which the Republican party was not responsible for,« and that waS'the employment of the Pinker tons. The mercenary had no lodgment in the heart of the American people except in detestation. He characterized the attack made on the Republican party by the Senator from I ndiana as inopportune and intrusive, r..

James Sutton and Christopher Sutton brothers, while on a Fourth-of-July spree at Grandview, got to fighting, and James threw a club, striking Christopher on the back of the head, causing instant death. James was arrested Tuesday and lodged in jail. No one saw the fatal occurrence, but a great deal of suspicion is entertained as to foul play.