Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1888 — THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. [ARTICLE]

THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

A Washington dispatch says: “The House Committee on Elections unanimously confirmed the decision of the sub-committee in favor of Gen. Post’s title to the seat as Representative of the Tenth District of Illinois. Before beginning the tedious examination of the ninety pages of printed record it was agreed by the sub-committee that their guide upon disputed points of law should be the statutes of Illinois, as construed by the Supreme Court of the State. The disputed votes were taken up one by one, and it was found that irregular and illegal votes had been cast for both parties to the contest, but after giving Mr. Worthington the benefit of all doubts the net result of the sifting was about fiftynine majority for Gen. Post The national legislative, judicial, and executive appropriation bill, as agreed upon in the House committee, appropriates $20,472,394, which is $937,606 less than the estimates and $209 246 less than the current appropriations for the same service.

At Bessemer, Ala., Hardy Posey, colored, was lynched for an attempted criminal assault on a young white girl, and it is reported that the town was at once surrounded by armed negroes, who threatened to burn the houses and kill the citizens to avenge the lynching. A Washington dispatch of Saturday announces the serious illness of Judge Thomas M. Cooley, Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission.