Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1883 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

The Minnesota House indefinitely postponed the bill proposing a prohibitory amendment to the State constitution, prohibiting the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors. Gen. Hazen requests Secretary Lincoln to cause an investigation of his administration of the signal office by a committee of the Senate. Caucuses of all the different parties in the Michigan Legislature were held Feb. 15, and the Senatorial question was discussed at length. The Ferry caucus formally absolved its members from any further obligations tq support the Senator. Ex-Gov. Powell Clayton ha§ been elected Chairman of the Republican State Executive Committee of Arkansas.