Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1886 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

The Democratic Congressional Committee at Chilton, Wis., nominated Thomas It Hudd on the fifty-first ballot to succeed the late Joseph Rankin. The President has nominated Stephen A Walker to succeed Mr. Dorsheimer as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Mr. Walker is now President of the Board of Education of New York City. Touching the attitude of the Republican Senators toward the President, the Chicago Inter Ocean's (Rep.) Washington correspondent telegraphs that journal as follows: There is considerable feeling upon the Republican side of the Senate, growing out of the action of some of the committees in reporting nominations to succeed suspended officials, which is claimed to be a violation of the programme adopted at a recent caucus, when it was decided to suspend action upon all such cases until the points at issue between the Pres< ident and the Senate were decided. It if, the policy of Edmunds and other leaders to hold in abeyance all of such nominations until the President or the members of the Cabinet send in the papers called for im suspended cases, to either finally reject them or to hang them up unconfirmed until the end of the ses-, siou. Mr. Edmunds advances the proposition that the Senate cannot act intelligently upon r, nomination until it knows why the vacancy it) is to fill was made by the President, and if the latter refuses to furnish such information thq Senate ought to punish him by refusing to coni firm the nomination.