Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1887 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

The niinoia House of Representatives has passed a bill prohibiting pool-selling in the State. An Anti-Prohibition State Convention will be held at Dallas, Texas, May 4. The Governor of New York has vetoed the Crosby high-license bill. The entire Election Board of a precinct in Jersey City was arrested for tampering with the ballot-boxo3. The Michigan House defeated, by a vote of 52 to 33, the bill conferring suffrage at municipal elections upon women. A joint resolution proposing a woman suffrage constitutional amendment passed the Pennsylvania Senate. A Lansing (Mich.) special says that “a Republican legislative can cm, attended by fifty Legislators, appointed a committee to draw up a bill establishing those liquor license fees: For cities with 10,033 inhabitants and over, $703; tinder 10,003, $500; incorporated village?, $400; townships, $303. No discrimination is proposed between wine aud beer licenses, and no brewer or liquor dealer will be allowed to sign a bond. After some discussion, it was decided that drug stores wishing to sell liquor should pay the same tax as saloons. A proposition to have the new laws enforced by a State constabulary met with favor by a majority of tho members present.” The Delaware Senate has passed a bill prohibiting absolutely tho manufacture and sale of bogus butter. The Wisconsin Legislature, which has just adjourned, made appropriations aggregating about $918,000. The Florida Senate has passed a bill prohibiting the granting of free passes to delegates attending a nominating convention.