Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1884 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

The Kansas Legislature met in special session March 18* and heard the message of Gov. Glick on the foot-and-mouth disease, of which 5,000 copies were ordered printed. Bills on the subject and for confining' the, work of the Legislature to the question for which it wap convened were introduced and referred. 1 A special election to fill the vacancy in the Seventh Congressional District of South Carolina, caused by the death of E. W. M. Mackey, resulted in the election of Robert Smalls, colored. There was no opposition. President Arthur has nominated Sumner Howard, of Michigan, to be Chief Justice of Arizona; Case Broderick, of Kansas, as Associate Justice of- the Supreme Court of Idaho; and Jacob B. Blair, of Wyoming, to bo Associate Justice for that Territory. The North Carolina Republican State Convention will be held at Raleigh May 1. The Connecticut Republicans will hold their State Convention at Hartford on the 23d of April. It is confidently predicted in Washington that the President will veto the Fitz John Porter bill. It is reported that the friends of Gen. Logan will urge the selection of ex-Senator, David Davis, of Bloomington, as one of the delegates-at-large from Illinois to the Nar tlonal Republican Convention. The Democrats of Rhode Island nominated George H. Corliss for Governor, but he promptly declined the honor. Thomas W. Segar was then nominated. The Ohio Legislature has enacted a law declaring “future” deals in stocks, oils, •or provision gambling, making the buyer or seller guilty alike, and imposing a fine on the owner of the premises where the deals are carried on. The penalties for “margin” or “future” transactions are SSO to SI,OOO and thirty to ninety days’ imprisonment. Gov. Bourn and all the other Rhode Island State offisers have been nominated for re-election by the Republicans. The delegates to the National Democratic Convention, selected by the Rhode Island Democratic State Convention last week, declare themsolves for the “old ticket," if Tilden will accept. Senator’Sabin, the new Chairman of the National Republican Executive Committee, in an interview at Chicago, declared'that political assessments on government clerks would not be made hereafter. In its present form, says a Washington dispatch, the Morrison tariff bill wJU be

opposed by about forty Democrats, including the Pennsylvania and West Virginia delegations and all the Ohio Representatives except Frank H. Hurd.