Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1887 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

The Connecticut Legislature has passed a ten-hour law lor women aud children. Mr. Blaine will sail for Europe in June, tor m tin abroad one year. The Illinois Senate has passed a bill to indemni y owners of property for (lam,,gee caused by mobs. The Senate of Wisconsin passed a bill appropriating s;j per wees lor each inmate of the Soldiers' l-lome to be erected by the Grand Army of ihe Republic. Mr. Blaine visited the Merchants’ Cxchange in St. Louis and made a fivo-mmute speech. In the Pennsylvania House resolutions protesting against the coercion of Ireland were adopted. The New York Senate passed the high license liquor bill, which had previously been passed by the Assembly. The Nebraska Legislature has adjourned sine die, after a session of sixty-one days, the longest ever held in that btate. The general appropriation bills exceed those of two years ago by nearly 12,000,000.

A bill prohibiting the marriage of first cousias has passed the 111 mow jeuate. The Wisconsin Legislature has passed a bill to pnnish employers for blacklisting any employes. Anent the report that Secretary Whitney was about to leave the Cabinet, a New York special says: Secretary Whitney has been here for two days, as well as Colonel Dan Lamont, the President’s private secretary. It has leaked out during their stay that Mr. Whitney has determined to resign the Secretaryship of the Navy, ft has been known among his intimate friends here for some tiino that he has been dissatisfied with his position in Washington. and his conversations with his old associates in the South Pennsylvania hail road deal and other business enterprises have been repeated frequently enough to reach the public ear. Mr. Whitney’s chief complaint has been that ho had no patronage to dispense or power to wield outside a narrow circle in the Navy Department, where he could not benefit his friends. His ambition was to be made Secretary of the Treasury when Mr. Cleveland came into office. Tho President was inclined to give him that place, uatil William L. Scott, Smith M. Weed. Mr. Bayard, and other leading Democrats mode ft push for the appointment of Mr. Manning. The latter’s enforced retirement on account of his health gave Mr. Whitney new hope, but it is not to be met, and ho became so thoroughly disgusted that he has announced to his friends his positive determination to leave the Cabinet.