Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1884 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

The Senate of lowa has passed a bill prohibiting bucket-shops and option trading in agricultural products. The Indiana Democratic State Convention will be held at Indianapolis, June 25. S. M. Weaver, a disabled member of the lowa House, was taken to the Clerk’s desk in a reclining chair and wrapped in a buffalo overcoat, in order to record his vote on the prohibitory liquor bill. The Copiah Investigating Committee adjourned sine die at New Orleans on the 27th ult,, after examining 152 witnesses. The Republican Editorial Association of Indiana, at its meeting at Indianapolis, deprecated making prohibition an issue in the coming campaign. Gov. Stonemanlbas resolved to call

an extra session of the Legislature of California to take measures to force tbe Central Pacific Road to pay its back taxes, aggregating $1,000,000. The Ohio Republican Convention will meet at Columbus on the 23d of April. The Rhode Island Republican Convention will be hold at Providence, March 20. President Arthur last week submitted to Congress the first report of the Civil Service Commission. The members of that body declare the law a successful and satisfactory act of legislation, and state that they have, in every stage of thpir work, bad the constant support of the Chief Executive. The election to fill the vacancy caused by the death of D. C. Haskell in the Second Congressional District of Kansas, came off od the Ist inst., and E. H. Funston, of Carlisle, Kan., the Republican nominee, is elected by about 4.000 majority over Samuel A. Riggs, Fuslonlst, of Lawrence. The vote was the heaviest for years. The prohibition bill passed the lowa House by a vote of 52 to 41—all the Repub. Means and one Democrat voting for the measure. There being a prohibition major Ity of twenty-four in the Senate, Its passage in that body is certain.