Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1885 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

The Kansas Prohibitionists have received a set-back by a decision of the State Supreme Court that the law granting unusual powers to the County Attorney is unconstitutional. The President has appointed Col. John M. Wilson, of the corps of engineers, to be Commissioner of Public Buildings and Grounds for the District of Columbia. Col. Wilson relieves Col. A. F. Bockwell. The President has appointed the following Presidential postmasters: Harvey T. Snively, at Hawlins, Wy. T., vice James France, resigned; Albert C. Snyder, at Cheyenne City, Wy. T., vice John W. Jones, resigned; George W. Evans, at Ocean Grove, N. J., vice Henry Beagle, resigned; Henry Kingsley, at Schoharie, N. Y., vice P. S. Clark, resigned; W. H. Collingsworth, at Richmond, Va., vice G. K. Gilmore, commission expired; Daniel Liddcl, at Gadsden, Ala., vice W. J. Ewing, commission expired; Jacob G. Van Riper, at Rutherford, N. J., vice W, H. Stevens, commission expired; Charles Kitten, at Hackettstown, N. J., vice Robert Rushing, Jr., commission expired. The President has made the following appointments: Thomas H. Simms, to be Collector of Internal Revenue for the District of Arkansas, vice Henry M. Cooper, suspended; Charles B. Staples, to be Collector of internal Revenue for the Twelfth District of Pennsylvania, vice Edward H. Chase, suspended; Richard F. Dodge, to be Collector of Customs for the District of Salem and Beverly, Mass.; Richard T. Rundlett, to be Collector of Customs for the District of Wiscassett, Me. A delegation from New York called upon Hon. 8. 8. Cox to urge him to retain his seat in Congress, where he could be of the greatest service to his constituents. Mr. Cox reminded the gentlemen that he had been ap-

pointed Minister to Turkey without solicitation, and could not decline the honor. When the delegation went to the Executive Mansion, the President said he could not release the witty Congressman, as he needed him at Constantinople. Public Printer Rounds, says a Washington dispatch, is informed by high Democratic authority that he will be undisturbed until the end of his term, one year henoe, and even then he may be retained. Amid great excitement the Illinois Legislature, on Thursday, May 14, voted ten times for a successor to Gen. Logan as United States Senator. After, on two successive ballots, receiving the entire support of his party, Col. Morrison, the Democratic caucus nominee, withdrew, and Judge Lambert Tree became the favorite. He received 101 votes, and lacked only one vote of an election.