Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1883 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

Hon. Emory Spoor, an Independent Democrat who represents the Fifth district of Georgia in Congress, votes mainly with the Republicans, and expects to be appointed United States Attorney for the Atlanta district. Both branches of the Kansas Legislature have adopted a joint resolution calling upon the Attorney General to bring apifri against the Union and Kansas Pacific railroads to rupture their consolidation. Gov. Pattdson, of Pennsylvania, baa sent to the Legislature a message asking for the abolition of many State and city offices; the of laws for the government of employers and wage-workers, the annulment of charters which have been taken out esoecially for purposes of barter and sale; the prohibition of railway or canal discrimination, andthe enforcement of the constitution with the view of giving equal rights to all At a convention of the lowa Prohibitionists, held at Des Moines, resolutions were adopted asking the State Executive to convene the Legislature In extra session, with a view of re-enacting the Prohibitory law. The Massachusetts House —107 to 80 rejected the bill for making election day a legal holiday. The proposition to submit a prohibition amendment to the constitution of West Virginia to a vote of the people was defeated in the State Senate. A bill has been introduced in the Pennsylvania Legislature to limit the day’s labor of street-car drivers and conductors to twelve hours The State jof Maine classes cider with rum and whisky, and determines that applejuice is an Intoxicant to be prohibited by constitutional amendment. The House of Representatives, by a vbte of 104 to 37, ordered the prohibitory amendment engrossed, and a proposition to except cider from its provisions was rejected—yeas, 56; nays, 80,