Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1886 — POLITCAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITCAL.

In the Ohio Senate, on the 22d of January, (general Kennedy, the President, ruled that the four members from Hamilton County, whose seats are in dispute, were not entitled to vote, thereby .placing the

Senate in control of the Republicans, who, after a noisy debate, caused an adjournment under the President’s ruling. The Democrats remained in . the hall,' and passed a motion of adjournment until Monday evening. The questions affecting the contested seats will now. be decided in open Senate. Senator Payne wrote to Chairman Cowgill, of the House Committee on Elections, saying that he was ready for an investigation of the bribery matter, and tendering his account books and private papers for the use of the committee.-... Colonel Knight, of Wisconsin, a prominent Democratic politician, states that a combination to drive Postmaster General Vilas from the Cabinet has been formed by the owners of the Central. Southern and Union Pacific Roads, the Bell Telephone and Western Union Telegraph Companies, the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, and the New York -Tribune, all of which are, he claims, controlled by substantially the same persons.

In an interview with the Cominittee on Labor of the House of Representatives, on the eight-hour law, the President said he believed the law' a sound one and should be enforced to the letter. He promised to see that its abuse should be remedied, as the Government can not afford to set the example of non-enforcement of its own enactments Civil- Service Commissioner Dorman B. Eaton has sent his resignation to the President, to take effect March 9. President Cleveland has decided to instruct Cabinet officers to furnish no information as to suspensions from office. He regards the power of absolute removal as a Presidential prerogative.