Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1886 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

At the Democratic Convention for the Sixteenth Ohio District the Hon. Beriah Wilkins was nominated for Congress. The Bepnblicans of the Twelfth Indiana District nominated for Congress Captain James B. White, a merchant of Fort Wayne. The Bev. TJ. M. Browder was nominated for Congress by a convention of Thirteenth Illinois District Prohibitionists. The Illinois Prohibitionists in State Convention at Springfield nominated Henry W. Austin, of Cook County, for Stato Treasurer, and Prof. U. Z. Gilman, of Adams County, for Superintendent of Public Instruction. A State Central Committee was chosen, which elected JohnW. Hart, of Rockford, as Chairman, and Chicago was elected as headquarters. A campaign fund of SI,OOO was raised, of which Mr. Austin gave $4lO.

The committee appointed by the last convention of the Knights of Labor to watch legislation at Congress lias written to Messrs. Carlisle, Randall and Morrison asking for the passage by Congress of bilts repealing timber culture, pre-emption and desert land acts, adjusting railroad and other land grants, forfeiting all railroad land grants the conditions of which have not been strictly complied with, organizing tho Territory of Oklahoma, opening a portion of the great Sioux reservation to settlement, prohibiting aliens from holding land in the United States, making Presidential and Congressional election days holidays, punishing bribery, directing the disbursement of at least $200,000,000 Treasury surplus, and substituting Treasury notes for bank notes retired. The Republican State Executive Committee of Kentucky has decided to nominate candidates in evory Congressional district. The Senate Election Committee has decided to vote adversely to any investigation of the charges of bribery in connection with the election of Senator Payne of Ohio. Following is the vote, as recorded in the Senate, on the passage of the Fitz-John Porter bill: YEAS. Beck, George, Pugh, Berry, Gibson, Ransom, Blackburn, Gorman, liiddleberger, Brown, Gray, Sewell, Butler, Hoar, Vance, Call, Jones (Ark.), Vest, Cameron. Jones (Nev.), Voorhees, Cockrell, McPherson, Walthall, Coke, Maxey, Whitthome, Colquitt, Mitchell (Ore.), Wilson(Md.)—3o NAYS. Aldrich, Hale, Palmer, A l lison, Harrison, Sawyer, Conger. Hawley, Spooner, Cullom, Ingalls. Teller, Hearts, Logan. Wilson (Io.)—17. Fnje. Manclerson. [Recapitulation : Republicans in italics, Democrats in roman. Yeas—Republicans, 6; Democrats, 24. Nays— Republicans, 17; Democrats, o.] At the Allegheny (Pa.) County Prohibition Convention held in Pittsburgh William B. Brickel was nominated for Congress, Second District, and Thomas H. Rabe for the Twenty-third District.