Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1886 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

The Kentucky Legislature began its sessions on the 30th ult., at Frankfort. Charles Offutt, of Bourbon County, was elected Speaker of the House. Governor Hill, of New York, was inaugurated for the second time on New Year’s Day, the ceremony being of an imposing character. .. At a Tammany primary election in New York one faction burst the doors, after twenty-seven votes had found their way into the. box, and the inspectors left by way of a window. Thomas Acton, Sub-Treasurer at New York, was ordered to surrender his office to N. C. Jordan. Treasurer of the United States. He at once solicited an opinion froin George Bliss and Elihu Eqqt, who advised him not to turn over his trust to any person not nominated by the President aud confirmed by the Senate. He therefore sent Treasurer Jordan a kindly protest against his assumption of the controPof the office. But Mr. Jordan relieved the bondsmen by breaking the seals and commencing business.