Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1886 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

M.woiuty 553 minority reports of the Payne investigating committee have been submitted to the Ohio House. The majority claim that the testimony adduced is sufficient to have the matter referred to- the Pnited States Senate, while the minority simply present arguments impeaching the most damaging witnesses. , The name of General AY, F. 'Sagers, of Buffalo, is mentioned in connection with the public printing office, as the successor of Sterling P. Bounds,. The Governor of Tennesee has appointed the Hon. ■W. C. AY hi tthome to succeed Senator Howell E. Jackson, recently appointed to a United States Judgeship. A committee of the survivors of the Pennsylvania State Constitutional Convention of 1872 has prephted an address to the people of that State, asking that action lie taken looking to the selection of members of the Legislature at the next general election who will provide regulations for the euforeemeiif'“of the constifutionr among others the provisions intended to limit and restrict corporations, railroads, and canals in the interest of the citizens,