Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1899 — The Political Pot [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Political Pot

The Senate of Kansas passed a bfll giving the right of eminent domain to irrigation companies. A Missouri statesman has introduced in the Legislature a bfll requiring saloonkeepers to establish and maintain a home for inebriates. The estimated expenses of the city of Philadelphia for the year 1839 are $31.400,000, the chief item of which la for education, the police expenses being ss.100,000 and the fire department $L««t 000. The youngest member of the next Congress will be Martin HL Glynn, editor of the Albany Times-Unkm, who is 36 years old and sprung from the same m 3 in the town of Kindrrboot, N. Y~_ which produced Martin Vaa Boren and Bwnl J. Tilden. The proposed amendments to the osustitution of North Carolina provide that all persons claiming the right to vote shall be able to read and write any put of the constitution in toe English language. That disfranchises all illiterates. Then it provides that all males who on Jan. L 1867, were entitled to vote, and them descendants, shall be exempt from the tending and writing qualification. And that lets ia all illiterate whites. Tom L. Johnson, toe wealthy street car magnate of Cleveland, Ohio, and New Y ork, who helped to manage the caamugo of Henry George for Mayor of New York, has declared in a public jpcecfc that he has withdrawn from all has basin nm enterprises, has disposed of every cwfirthg interest and of every duty that would interfere with the devotion of his time, his entire energy, his tortune-in tort. Ms life—to the advancement of toe single tax idea. The Alabama Leghdatore has provided for the submission to the voters of that State of a proposition for the holing of a constitutional ronvention intended radically to alter toe present system of voting by toe establishment of an edacatiiaal qualification onto as now exists in South Carolina, Louisiana and Mississippi. The suffrage ia Ala bases is ns m pewrtiraHy free, one year's residence in the Stale, three months ia toe county and thirty days in the voting precinct being ivqniied only. New York now has three resident messhero in the United States Senate—Depew, Platt and Clark of Montana. Senator Clark's palatial home ia New York City is ready tor occupancy. The formal initiation of Senator elect Depew into Washington fife Saturday was the wannest thing be went agninst in forty years. Four hundred nr when of No seats were provided to rest toe leads! even Chauncey was not pusshtsd to to