Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1885 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

The Mormons express great dissatisfaction with the ruling of the Supreme Court that inhabitants of the Territories are under the sovereign control of Congress The Texas Legislature has passed a bill compelling railway and other corporations doing business in the State under penalty of SI,OOO per month, to maintain a general office in the State. The Democracy of Chicago nominated Carter H. Harrison for Mayor, William M. Devine for Treasurer, John G. Neumeister for Clerk, and Peter J. Ellert for Attorney. Contrary to the stipulation that technicalities be waived and speedy trial result, counsel for Gov. Sherman and Cattell dismiss the mandamus Suit against Auditor Brown, at Des Moines... The New York Assembly has passed a bill providing for a reservation around Niagara falls. A Congressional apportionment bill, making nineteen Republican and nine Democratic districts, passed the Pennsylvania Senate... .The Democratic city convention at St Louis, after taking 186 ballots, agreed upon David R. Francis for Mavor. The Republicans have nominated William L. Ewing. The Tennessee Railroad Commission law has been repealed by the Legislature of that State by a vote of 56 to 35.