Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1886 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

The Governor of Ohio has sustained the charges mado against the Police Commissioners of Cincinnati, but they absolutely refuse to vacate their offices. A favorable report on the Hennepin Canal bill is considered as assured from committee having it in charge. W. M. Campbell, of Litchfield, Minn., has been appointed Marshal for Minnesota. In regard to the fight for the admission of Dakota into tho Union, the Washington correspondent of the Chicago Times telegraphs that journal as follows:

Although Senator Harrison got his Dakota bill through tho Senate, it was only by sacrificing what Judges Edgerton and Moody and a few [other residents of the soi-disant State deem the most important of all the features of his bill —namely, the sanction of the acts already performed in anticipation of admission to the Union. Tho preliminary organization of the State government and tho election of two Senators all go for nothing, and tho Territory of Dakota will have it all to do over again. It really doos not matter much. There is extremely little reason to believe that the House will pass the Senate bill. The House is probably willing to pass a bill admitting Dakota as a whole, or making a division on a north and south line, but there will not be two Republican Statos in the new Territory of Dakota within tho next few years. Really what most of the Democrats are fighting for is delay, and that would be accomplished by the passrgs in the House of almost auy kind of a bill different from the Senato bill. The passage of two bills by the two houses would leave the thing hung up until next year, and all that the Democrats are at all sure of accomplishing is to keep Dakota out of the Union until after the Electoral College of 1888 has met and performed its duty.