Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1893 — THE ABSORBING TOPIC. [ARTICLE]

THE ABSORBING TOPIC.

Th* Financial mtwstioa aad the- Metre .‘Mlon of CongreM. New York bankers, Wednesday, reported an easier condition of Mte narket. There was much talk tn Wall -tr.-ft.-i-; to the reasons which prevented the President calling Congress together immediately. Owe of the reports was to the effect that the President hi conversation with a leading member of the House had said that while there was no reasonable doubt about there being a majority in the House favorable to the repedt Of the Sherman law, it was by no means certain that a like result would* follow in rhe Senate, and that this uncertainty of the Senate was the principal factor against the calling of an extra session earlier than September. An intimate friend of Secretary Carlisle is authority for the statement that a canvass made in Mr. Cleveland’s behalf has disclosed the fact that while there is a majority of the House favorable to the repeal -of -thelaw there is a majority of twenty in the Senate the other wav. A general belief prevails, however, that an extra session of Congress will be called very soon. Bankers and many prominent business men are besieging Secretary Carlisle, and urging that Congress be convened at once. The talk of the silver men since they have got :>ver the shock of the news from India to defiant and they declare that they are more than ever determined to maintain the white metal as a money standard. Ex-President Harrison will spend July and August in his cottage at Cape May. For a few days in September he will entertain the Grand Army guests, and after that he will be about ready to start for California to deliver his course of lectures it Stanford University. —— - Edmund Law Rogers, of Baltimore, recently exhibited before an I issembly of dentists a complete set [ >f false teeth that had been worn by ' George Washington. The base plates ' were of lead and perfectly flat. Some rs the teeth weTeof ivory and others had been extracted from a living person. , At the Paris Academy of Inscriptions M. Haureau has announced the: liscovery of a new manuscript of Abelard's poem addressed to his son. It contains 1,040 verses, of which jnly 461 were hitherto known. It. contains some of the heretical views 1 attributed to him. It mentions Heloise, and versifies a passage from jne of her letters. M. Hureau will publish the poem.