Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1887 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

Public sentiment in Missouri caused the House to reconsider its vote re using to provide for the maintenance of the State militia. A country member of the New York Assembly has introduced a bill to prohibit the custom of treating to drinks in saloons. The Ohio House put through a measure for the abandonment and sale of the Wabash and Erie Canal, but the Senate promptly tabled it Walter and Turley, the Democratic members of the New Jersey Assembly whose, seats were contested by Republicans, were seated, after a furious and pro;racted struggle, by the close vote of 33 to 29 in each case. Major W. W. Armstrong, who has just been appointed Postmaster of Cleveland, to succeed Thomas Jones, Jr., was for years editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. J President Cleveland states that many members of the present Congress have been recommeded to him for places on the interstate commerce commission, and there is none of them whom he would so gladly nom nate as Colonel Morrison.

At the Philadelphia municipal election the Republican candidate received 99,497 votes, the Democratic candidate 62,204, and Henry George's candidate 1,664. Both houses of the Michigan Legislature Friday passed a resolution asking Congress to pass the dependent pension bill over the President’s veto. The Missouri Senate indefinitely postponed consideration-of the resolution for th 3 submission of a prohibitory amem mint Both houses of the Indiana Legislature have passed a bill appropriating $. 800,909 for the erection of a soldiers’ monument in Circle Park, at Indianapolis. Public Printer Benedict’s nomination has been acted on adversely by the Senate Printing Committee. A Washington special to the Chicago Times says: The immediate ground for deciding against him is that the law requires that the "office should be held by a practical printer, and Mr. Benedict is not a practical printer. His business is that of a publisher of a country paper. But. aside from this legal objection, he has not made a very good impression here. He went into tpp office with the idea, which he a red on every -possible occasion, that everybody who had been in the office before him was a rascal, and that he had come on to institute reform with a capital R. Ho discharged several hundred en ployes nt once, on the ground that the pay-roll had been run up far beyond what the appropriations warranted, but he has since been gradually filling up the office again, until it is said on good authority that there are more people employed in the office than there ever were before. When people have gone to him for employment and presented letters from Senators he has intimated with an.indiscreet degree of frankness that if they would get their Senatorial friends to confirm him he would see what hj could do,about making places forthem. It isn’t political etiquette to talk about swaping influence in this open and undisguised (manner, and Senators do pot like to be told that they must bustled round and vote for the Public Printer’s confirmation before he will treat their letters of recommendation with respect. These letters are sometimes given to really needy persons who are of no possible use to

Senators, but whom kind-hearted Senators are willing to help to find places where they can earn a dollar or two a day, are not exactly in position to go to Senators and make them vote for the Public Printer’s confirmation. The legislative committee appointed to investigate tho management of the West Virginia penitentiary, taking into consideration the growing sentiment against contact convict labor, recommends that the State purchase sufficient land near the prison to raise all vegetables.