Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1883 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

The Massachusetts Senate has passed a bill paying $1 a ton bounty on beets raised for sugar-making. The official canvass of the Michigan State election, held the first Monday in April to elect two Judges of the Supreme dourt and two Regents of the State University, was made at Lansing last week. The result for Judges was officially declared as follows: John W. Champlin, Fusion Democrat, 127,376; Austin Biair, Republican, 119,870; Thomas R. Sherwood, Fusion Greenback, 124.639; Thoa J. O’Brien, Republican, 122,330; D. P. Sagendorph, Prohibition, 15,950; J. H. Taten, Prohibition, 13,467. The result on Regents was not largely different from the above figures. The Pennsylvania Senate has passed a bill prohibiting the manufacture, sale or use of devices for destroying life or property by explosion or fire. A delegation of Texas Republicans have been visiting Washington, in order to wrest from Tom Ochiltree the monopoly of Federal patronage in Texas, which he has seemingly acquired. The Governor of Connecticut has refused to sign the bill reducing ntilroad taxe 3 in that State. He has hopes that his refusal will cause the next Assembly to adopt some scheme to fairly distribute the burden of taxation.