People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1895 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

Republicans of the tenth Illinois district will hold a convention at Galva Feb. 26 to nominate a candidate for congress. Republican members of the Illinois legislature will caucus to decide on a policy regarding appropriations and civil service reform. A bill aimed at the St. Louis Bridge company, which is accused of extortion, was presented in the Illinois senate Monday. In the Illinois legislature a bill has been introduced to force the Illinois Central railroad to sell 150,000 acres of land. It is believed the Michigan legislature will pass a measure restoring the death penalty for murder. The bill to laze the Detroit health board out of Mayor Pingree s hands failed to pass the Michigan senate, owing to the absence of several of its supporters. Resolutions censuring the President for his course toward silver caused a row at the meeting of the Democratic editorial association of Indiana. They were finally withdrawn. Revenue committees of both houses of the Illinois legislature have appointed a joint subcommittee to draft a new tax law. Attempts to effect a compromise between the advocates at Springfield of the civil service reform bill and the police bill were defeated by Speaker Meyer. A resolution to require state institutions to purchase their supplies at home was offered in the Minnesota legislature.