Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1895 — The Political Pot. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Political Pot.

The bribery investigation in the Arkansas Legislature ended in a complete whitewash. The Walton election law of Virginia was declared unconstitutional by the Court of Appeals. Bills for the election of State Railroad Commissioners and to repeal the antiscalpers law were killed by the Minnesota Senate. The Oregon Democratic Central Committee has sent a protest to President Cleveland against the retention in office of Republicans. The Tennessee House adopted by a vote of 43 to 30 the Senate resolution declaring in favor of the free coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 to 1. The Michigan Attorney General has decided a village .council under the new law has the authority to prohibit the sale of liquor within the village limits. Chairman Adams, of the Alabama Populist State Executive Committee, publishes a manifesto warning Populists against the new silver party in Alabama. State Treasurer Henry M. Phillips, of Massachusetts, sept in his resignation to the Governor to take effect on the election of his successor by the Legislature. The Michigan House passed a stringent liquor law providing for a uniform license of SSOO. The Senate passed a bill providing for a general charter for the fiftythree cities in the State of the fourth class. Col. J. W. F. Hughes, the colonel of the militia who was removed by Gov. Lewelling of Kansas and court martialed for not driving the Republican House from the legislative halls two years ago, has been appointed major general of th* Kansas militia.