Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1887 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

A Santa Fr. iN. MTJ telegram says that “A. Gusdorf, Democratic member of the Legislature for Taos County, was unseated, and I’edrp Sanchez (liep. ) given his seat, on a committee report chnrghig Gusdorf with obtaining au election by means of intimidation and fraud. The Democratic j Senators left the House in a body, leaving i the Republicans without a quorum.' The | Sergeant-at-Arms. however, brought back Senator Romero, and Sanchez was then ! sworn in by the President of the Senate, | the Secretary of the Territory refusing to I administer the oath.” The Democrats of Philadelphia have nominated Charles H. Barnes for Mayor. ... .The bill repealing the law giving women the right to vote at school elections was killed in the Wisconsin Assembly | The Michigan Senate passed the House ■joint resolution to submit a p ohibitory i amendment at the spring election. The Ohio House rejected the township loeal- - option bi 11.... The Comm ttee on Railroads of the Nebraska House have recommended the passage of the bill repealing the Railway Commission act. A kill is now before the Indiana Legislature the provisions of which are of so extraordinary a character as to make the pro; used law of general interest. The bill simply provides that in case of. willful homicide in which the slayer is the father, > brother, or husband of a seduced girl or ‘ woman, aud the slain is proven to have ■ been her seducer, action for murder or manslaughter shall not lie. Under such I circumstances the offense of slaying is re- ! duced to a misdemeanor, puuishable only by a tine, without imprisonment. This is i the first instance of an attempt to enact a j law which would under any circumstances, make the willful hiking of human life a - simple misdemeanor. It is understood that a similar bill is to be introduced in the Illinois Legislature.... The resolution for the submission to popu- ; lar vote of a prohibition amendment to the ! State Constitution, which was adopted by,! ; both houses of the Michigan Legislature, i j has been signed by the Governor, and will jby voted on in April next. .. The Tenrres- ‘ see-Senate has-passed on its final reading I the prohibition amendment to the consti- ; tutution, the vote being—yeas, 31; nays, j 2... .A bill prohibiting marriages between white and colored persons has been .intro-j duced in (lie Illinois Senate. . . . A bill cm- j powering women to vote at municipal elections passed the Kansas Senate— 25 to 13