People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1895 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

Municipal elections were held in lov/a cities and towns, party lines being drawn in but few eases. Utah's seventh constitutional convention met at Salt Lake City. The republicans have u majority of the delegates. A combination has been effected in the Idaho legislature which ensures the re- ' lection of Senator Shoup. Gov. Matthews of Indiana returned the legislative apportionment bill to the house with his veto. The enrolled anti-winter racing bill was stolen at Indianapolis, but a new one was prepared and signed by the governor. A bill looking to the lincensing of bicycle manufacturers and repairers has been introduced in the Illinois house. In the Illinois legislature a bill has been Introduced calculated to suppress vile and sensational publications. In the South Dakota legislature the divorce bill, a most important measure, was defeated by one vote. Resolutions have been introduced in the Minnesota legislature asking for an investigation of Public Bank Examiner Kenyon. Illinois legislators are considering a proposition to investigate official corruption in the Chicago city council. Wisconsin legislators have agreed to appoint a committee to investigate all of the institutions under state control. Bdth branches of the Michigan legislature passed a bill providing for registration in the City of Detroit. A conference of prohibitionists of Illinois was begun at Springfield, Samuel Dickie of Albion, Mich., delivered an address. George W. Prince of Galesburg was nominated for congress by the republicans of the tenth Ilinois district on the 1,476 th ballot.