Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1885 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

Prof. Kasmus B. Anderson, of Madison, Wis., is being: urged bf Scandinavians in the Northwest for appointment by President Cleveland as Embassador to Stockholm. A bill to inflict corporal punishment on wife-beaters passed the Pennsylvania Senate. A resolution denouncing the London dynamiters received favorable consideration in the Texas House. A bill was introduced in the Michigan Legislature securing to women the right to vote in school, city, town, and other municipal elections. A resolution was passed by the New York Legislature requesting New York Senators and Representatives in Congress to vote for the bill appropriating $300,000 for the Hennepin Canal. The Kansas House, by resolution, requested their Senators and Bepresentatives in Congress to secure the passage of a law for opening so much of the Indian Territory as is not needed by the Indians. A bill introduced in the Ohio Legislature is aimed at the suppression of the professional criminal. It provides that a person who is sentencod to the penitentiary three times shall be liable on the third occasion to a life term. After a dead-lock lasting twenty-two days, the lower house of the Illinois Legislature finally effected an organization by the election of E. M. Haines, Democrat, to the Speakership. Gov. Sherman gave a reception to the people last week, at Des Moines, lowa. He was assisted by six ex-Governors. Washington telegram to the Chicago Tribune: “Mr. Evarts’ election as Senator has set the Democratic leaders seriously to considering whether they can spare Garland and Bayard from the Senate. Both

were considered booked—the one for Attorney General, the other for Secretary of State. Curiously, though both were originally conceded as eminently fit appointments there is now fierce opposition to both. The opposition to Garland is chiefly on the ground that he is a Hamiltonian, a federalist in his construction of the Constitution.” •Tames K. Jones has been elected United States Senator from Arkansas, the dead-lock being broken on the thirty-first ballot, after a protracted struggle of eleven days. Mr. Jones is a native of Mississippi, but was raised in Arkansas. He resides at Washington, Hempstead County, is 45 years old, and is now serving his third term in Congress. Washington dispatch to Chicago Tribune: “Senator Gar and is the only man that the Democrats here feel certain is going into the Cabinet. They were certain for a time of Bayard, but now it is settled that he does not care to leave the Senate. On account of the certainty of Garland’s selection a number of ancients have begun a paper warfare upon him. The pelting of these pellets will not change the situation. The chargo that Mr. Garland was once a Federalist is nothing that belongs to the present time. There has been nothing brought out by any one that affects his character or standing in any way. He is very much liked by Mr. Cleveland, and without doubt will have a great deal of Influence with him in thenextadministration.’ The election of Mr Evarts as Senator is said to have completely changed the whole Cabinet situation, and it Is gravely doubted by tho Democrats whether Bayard or Garland can be spared from the Senate.