Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1886 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

Hon. A. P. Gorman has been re-elect-ed United States Senator by the Maryland Legislature. In the Ohio Senate, on the 22d of January, General Kennedy, the President, ruled that the four members from Hamilton County, whose seats are in dispute, were not entitled to vote, thereby placing the Senate in control of the Republicans, who, after a noisy debate, caused an adjournment under the President’s ruling. The Democrats remained in the hall, and passed a motion of adjournment until Monday evening. The questions affecting the contested seats will now be decided in open Senate. Senator Payne wrote to Chairman Cowgill, of the House Committee on Elections, saying that he was ready for an investigation of the bribery matter, and tendering his account books and private papers for tho use of the committee. Col. Knight, of Wisconsin, a prominent Democratic politician, states that a combination to drive Postmaster General Vilas from the Cabinet has been formed by the owners of the Central, Southern, and Union Pacific Roads, the Bell Telephone and Western Union Telegraph Companies, the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, and tho New York Tribune, all of which, he claims, are controlled by substantially the samo persons. In an interview with the Committee on Labor of tho House of Representatives, on tho eight-hour law, tho President said he believed the law a sound one and should be enforced to the letter. He promised to see that its abuse should be remedied, as tho Government can not afford to set the example of nonenforcement of its own enactments. Civil-Service Commissioner Dorman B. Eaton has sent his resignation to tho President, to tako effect March 9. President Cleveland gives it as his opinion that tho Senate has no right to request tho information upon which he had suspended officials.