Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1883 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

Mr. Flower, who represented the Eleventh district of New York in the last Congress, has covered into the treasury oi the United States $45&80, being the proportion of his salary as Representative that he thinks he is not entitled to by reason of absence from his seat in the House The Tennessee Legislature has passed a bill pensioning all Confederate soldiers who lost an eye or eyes during the late war. One also to Federal soldiers not pensioned by the United States Government The Governor of Tennessee has signed the bill to pay the State debt at 50 cents on the dollar and 3 per cent Interest It Is thought this will be a permanent settlement of a question which has agitated the minds of the people of that State for the last eight or ten years A bill was passed by the Tennessee Legislature abolishing public executions in Tennessee. A law has been enacted by the New York State Legislature requiring that all telegraph and telephone lines in the cities of New York and Brooklyn be laid under ground. Ex-Senator Sprague, recently nominated for Governor by the Rhode Island Independents, is indorsed by the Democrats. The bill in the Michigan Legislature making it a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine or imprisonment, for Judges, State officers or Legislators to accept free railroad passes was defeated. A bill passed both branches of the Missouri Legislature, making homicide committed in the perpetration or attempt to perpetrate arson, rape, robbery, burglary or mayhem murder in the first degree The nomination of Noah A. Plympton for Insurance Commissioner of Massachusetts was rejected by the executive council, by a strict party vote—7 to 1. Immediately after this action had been taken, Gov. Butler again nominated Mr. Plympton for the same office.