Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1887 — FOR THIRTY DAYS! [ARTICLE]

FOR THIRTY DAYS!

Two first class new, improved light running Sewing Machines for sale, at $25 and S3O. This offer is only open for thirty days. For particulars call at this office. Jan. 7. 1887.

The dependent pension bill failed to pass over the President’s veto. The action or the Supreme C >u t does not affect the validity of the election oi Senator-elect Turpie. The concurring op’nion of the Judges that a joint convention has the right to select its presiding officer does away with one of the points raised by the Republicans.

The action of' the Supreme Court did not determine the validity of Robertson’s claim to the office of L eutenant Governor, but so persistent was he in hi i demands for the place that President Smith found it necessary to direct his removal from the Senate chamber.

If the Supreme Court had waived a mere technicality and accepted its jurisdiction over the constitutional proposition of the validity of the election of Lieutenant Governor the disgraceful scene which occurred in the Senate the other day would not have happened.