Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1887 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

The Committee on Bailroads of the Nebraska House have recommended the passage of the bill repealing the Railway Commission act. The resolution for the submission to popular vote of a prohibition amendment to the State Constitution, which was adopted by both houses of the Michigan Legislature, has been signed by the Governor, and will be voted on in April next. A bill is now before the Indiana Legislature the provisions of which are of so extraordinary a character as to make tlio proposed law of general interest. The bill simply provides that in case of willful homicide in which the slayer is tlio father, brother or husband of a seduced girl or woman, and the slain is proven to have been the seducer, action for murder or manslaughter shall not lio. Under such circumstances the offense of slaying is reduced to a misdemeanor, punishable only by fine, without imprisonment This is the first instance of an attempt to enact a law which would, under any circumstances, make the willful taking of human life a simple misdemeanor. It is understood that a similar bill is to be introducod in the Illinois Legislature. The Tennessee Senate lias passed on its final reading the prohibition amendment to the constitution, the vote being—yeas, 31; nays, 2. A bill prohibiting marriages between white and colored persons has been introduced in the Illinois t enate. A bill empowering women to vote at municipal elections passed the Kansas Senate —25 to 13. A nephew states that it is not the Presidency Blaine wants, but that he wants someone elected friendly to him, who would make him Secretary of State, where he left a great deal of work he desires to complete.