Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1886 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

Chicago special: “Mr. Green, the attorney for the plaintiffs in the Mayoralty contest, appeared in Judge PrendergUst’s court yesterday aud secured an order dismissing the case with costs to the plaintiffs. There was no one present to represent Mr. Hamson, his lawyer, Mr. Story, expecting the case to come up to-morrow, as per agreement made last Saturday.” A Washington special says: “The Attorney General and the Secretary of the Treasury will not send to the Senate the papers that were asked for in resolutions adopted in executive session. The Attorney General had fortified the administration aud Democratic Senators with reasons why the President should not discuss with the Senate the cases of removal, but the resolution of Monday, repeated in substance on Wednesday, raised an entirely new question, and to the consideration of that the Attorney General devoted himself yesterday with the result of reaching the conclusion, concurred in to-day by the President and Cabinet, that the Senate could not have the papers.” Columbus (Ohio) dispatches of the 29th ult. reported all quiet. The Senate met and immediately adjourned, pending the conference between the joint committee which had been appointed with a view to learn if some plan could not be agreed upon. The committee was in session all day. The proceedings were had in executive session. In the meantime the representative sides were preparing their programmes of procedure in case a compromise was not reached.

A Columbus dispatch of the 30th ult. says “the conference of Ohio Senators has thus far been nroductive of no results, the Democrats insisting that the rules put in force before Lieut. Gov. Kennedy took his seat shall be ndhered to.” The Democratic Senators met in caucus at "Washington on the ’ 30th ult., and unanimously resolved that “we approve the views and action of the 'President, communicated to the Senate through Attorney General Garland in his letter of Jan. 29, 1886, and that we cordially support the Executive therein.” The Senators also considered the proposition made by Senator Platt to discuss the nominations in dispute in open session, but no definite action was taken in relation thereto.... A Washington correspondent reports President Cleveland as saying that civil-service reform means that office-holders shall be divorced from politics while filling Federal positions, but that party service in the Democratic ranks in the past gives strong equitable claims to office, because such men hate for twenty-five years been discriminated against. f