Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1887 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

The Virginia General Assembly met in extra session last week. The debt question will be the prominent subject for legislation. A Washington special to the Chicago Daily News rays: The President is disappointed at the failure of prominent men in the country to assist him in the enforcement of the interstate commerce act. At least a dozen of those who have been asked have declined, and he will be compelled to take the best timber be can get. He has written and urged and even implored those whom he believed wore best fitted for the duty to accept positions on the commission, and their refusal to do so has caused the dolay in making the appointments. The President considers this commission the most powerful political en r ;ino that has ever been creuted in this country. At least in the control of bad men he believes it could be mude so. To keep the commission out of politics and to prevent any interference with political movements he thinks is necessary, and to accomplish that purpose he must select men who are above partisan influences. When a candidate is recommended to him on strong political grounds he at once chocks him off the list as one not wanted. In the Wisconsin House of Representatives a bill prohibiting the leasing of convict labor was killed by a vote of (H to 23. A Senate joint resolution for an amendment to tlio Constitution on the same subject met a similar fate. The Republican State Convention of Rliodo Island nominated by acclamation all tho present incumbents of the State offices from tho Governor down for the party candidates. The Hon. George P. Wetmoro is the present Governor. The anti-discrimination railroad bill passed in the Pennsylvania Legislature by a vote of 3 J to 4. D. Lynch Pringle, of South Carolina, lias been commissioned by the President to be Consul General of the United States at Constantinople. The Missouri Senate defeated the bill for the regul ition of railroads which had been passed by the House. The special committee of the Nebraska Assembly appointed to investigate the charges preferred by Edward Rosewater, editor of the Omaha Bee , against several members of that body has reported that the charges were unfounded. The report was sustained, and resolutions were adopted censuring Rosewater and excluding him from the privileges of the floor during the remainder of the session.