Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1889 — A LEGISLATIVE BRAWL. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A LEGISLATIVE BRAWL.

Thanks to Senator Turpie for bound volume of the Congressional Record. See Miss Rittie Frank*in*as the Yenkee Girl, at the Opera House, Tuesday nigh'. Our neighboring towns, Kentland and Monon, have been visited by the fire-fiend during the past week. It is believed that within the next ten days Indiana will have an election law that will disband the “floaters” organization. Their occupation will be gone. Moore and Sullivan, the Indian - apolii defaulters are a set-off, politically. Moore was a republican and Sullivan a Democrat. They are desirous of transferring their citizenship to some country hav : ng no extradition treaty with the United States. See ‘Ten Mights in a Bar Room,’ Tuesday night, at the Opera House. Carpenter, republican senator from Shelby aid Decatur, has been unseated for bribery, and i also under indictment in the Fed eral court on the same charge. As should be expected, our neigh - bor of the Republican mourneth, and refuseth to be comforted. See Lester Franklin in his great delirium scene in ‘Ten Mights in a Bar Room,’ Tuesday night.

Republican Congressman Butter worth, of Ohio, ’ecently in a speech declared: “If organized labor is to dictate affairs in this eountry, I favor revolution and bloodshed.” Mr. Butterworth, of course, prefers that monopolists shall “ILtate affairs in this country.”

When it Comes to opp is i tig bor measures, or fighting, the republicans in the State Senste are united, but when boodle enters the question they light among themselvs. K scene of this kind occurred m the senate Friday of last week on receiving the r port of a bill to confirm the title of claimants to lands known as the bed of Bearer Lake, in Newton county. The übiquitous Henry U. Johnson, of Wayne county? known us the fighting republican senator, who made a reputation at the last session for slapping a union soldier in the tace, sprang to his feet and denounced the Beaver Lake bill ps a gigantic scheme to rob the grate, and accused Mr. Thompson, the republican senator from Benton, Newton and Jasp-r, of being the paid attorney to put this big job through the legislature. Mr. Thom son quickly rose to his feet, denied the soft impeachment, shook his fist at Johnson and said: “I hurl the in_ sinuation back to the teat i of the Senator from Wayne.” This almost provided a collision among the representative? of the “troo T v loil” g. o. p. De'Mof' - Porter, e ' his desk vigorously and entered himself as a friend of ou? Simon. He declared, in effect, tha- if there was jobbery on hand the senator from Wayne would be the first one to know something about i ! . The senator gave nbtice that he would fight the job. 1