People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1895 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

California s assembly adapted resolutions favoring Hawaiian annexation and election of senators by direct vote. A. Is. Newson, a member of the Tennessee senate, has resigned, assigning the extravagance of the legislature as a reason. Very few New York republican sen.ors attended the meeting called by i ’ss Platt to administer a rebuue to yor Strong. Wisconsin legislature tea appr'iprla* l t $20,000 to erect monuments to Wis- ' usin troops who fougnt at Uhicaai tgua. Nebraska house passed a special seed bill calculated to furnish relief to the destitute farmers of the state, i Minnesota house has adapted a resolution looking to the remove. 1 of the state capital from St. Paul to Minneapolis. Bill has been introduced in tho Illinois legislature providing pensions for school teachers in cities of KU.uid population. In the Illinois legislature a t ’1 has been introduced to punish train wreck* J ers and robbing by death Annual convention of the American i Protective Association of Wiscoi in ia being held behind closed doors at Milwaukee. Headers in tiie Illinois legislature have succeeded in getting the military and hospital appropriations reduced.