Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1883 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

The Legislature of Colorado elec.ted Thomas M. Bowen Senator for the full term aid IL A. W. Tabor tb fill the Teller vacancy, ending March 4, 1883. The fate of the proposed constitutional amendments in favor of prohibition and ioman suffrage, which have been quite a disturbing element in Indiana politics for two years past, wasvrettled in the State Senate on the 29th ult, which voted that they were not legally pending before this Legislature, and could not be considered. The reason for this action Is the faot that the resolutions incorporating the amendments which passed last session are not set out in full in the House and Senate Journals, os provided by the constitution. The Senatorial dead lock in the Nebraska Legislature was broken % the nomination by the Republican canons of Gen. Charles F. Manderson, of Omaha, whose election by the two houses speedily followed. The Ohio Senate passed, by a vote of 20 to 8, a resolution submitting the liquor question to a vote of th; people The balloting for Senator by the Michigan Legislature on the 31st nit showed little change in the relative strength of the ►contestants. Ferry and Stout had each 49 votes on the first ballot, and 48 on the

' ll - ■■ "7"’ """ 1 1 * didate were taken in the Republican caucus at St Paul In the latest Sabin had 29 votes, Windom falling to 88, and Wilson to Bft At a protectionist gathering in N«tr York city speeches were made by Peter Cooper and William M Evarts, andrewdutions adopted asking Congress to pass the Tariff Commission's bill I). M. Savin was elected United States Senator from Minnesota on the twen-ty-ninth ballot and by the help of Democratic votes Mr. Babin is a wealthy manufacturer and State Prison contractor and fas served in the State Legislature He was born in Connecticut 39 years age