Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1885 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

The Wisconsin Legislature has enacted a high license!liquor law. It .provides a minimum fee of S2OO and a maximum of SSOO in towns of over 500 inhabitants, and a minimum fee of SIOO and a maximum of S4OO in communities of less than 500 population ..,. The Emery Candle Factory at Cincinnati was damaged by fire to the amount of SBO,OOO. How much the introduction of women into politics would purify the political atmosphere, says a "Washington dispatch, is illustrated by the fact that Appointment Clerk Higgins has found that a young lady employed in the Treasury Department has for nearly two years given one-half her monthly salary—so2.so to a lady outside tho department. She was anxious to obtain employment, and offered to give one-half her salary to any one who would secure her a position in the Treasury. A lady possessed of, influence 1 secured her a positiou. The -young lady is an excellent clerk. Mr. Higgins will see that she hereafter g -ts all her pay, even if he has to issue her another appointment in order to relieve her/from the obligation under which she now is to the lady who secured her the position.... Gen. Lawton, of Georgia, desiring to relieve the .adnrnistration of any embarrassment in regard to his case, has requested the President to proceed as if the appointment of Minister to Russia had never been tendered to an ex-Confederate. The President has appointed Robert B Vance, e#f North Carolina, Assistant Commissioner of Patents, vice B. G, Dyrenfurfh, resigned, and William E. McLean, of Terre Hante, Ind., First Deputy Commissioner of Pensions, vice Calvin B. Walker, resigned. The President also appointed Postmasters at the following named Presidential offices: Ezra Ryans, at Westchester, Pa.; George T. Gross, at Allentown, Pa.; James Drury, at Bristol, Pa.; George W. Statler, at Mansfisld, Ohio; David O. Verman, at Marion, Ind ; Nelson Bruett, at Jefferson, Wis.; J. F. Mack ill, at Morehead, Minn.; G M. Houston, at Hartisonvilie, Va.; Benjamin Smith, at Chillicothe, Mo.; Stanley

8. Crittenden, at Greenville, S. C. It is expeteted that the President Will soon direct his ntention to. the Territoiial offices. President Cleveland inj giving audi- ' ence’ to a party of colored men advised them against regarding themselves as a race with special necessities apart from the white people, and cautioned them to beware of selfish leaders. It may be stated .that he intends soon to give offloe to one or more colored men. bnt a white man will be appointed Registrar of the Treasury to succeed ex-Senator Bruce. • - ■ f-f- 1