Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1887 — FOLITOCAL. [ARTICLE]

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The Missouri Legislature defeated * Hl! to establish and maintain a State militia. ... .The Michigan House refused to repeal the Baker conspiracy law, prevent strikes... .The Missouri House adopted the joint resolution providing that .the question I '< f prohibition be submitted to a vote of the people, ofl the State... .Missouri's Solons have killed the bill prohibiting the acceptance of railway passes by State officials. A resolvtion for., the punishment and prevention of boycotting is pending before the Wisconsin Legislature. The New York Senate has passed a bill granting women : the right to vote at municipal elections, i The Indiana House defeated a motion to suspend the rules and appropriate $200,000 for a soldiers' monument. The Governor of Kansas has approved and signed the bill eon erring municipal suffrage upon women. A bill repealing the black laws and the statute I providing for separate schools for colored children passed the Ohio Senate. Upon defeat in the Minnesota House of Donnelly’s bit! fixing a maximum rate for grfiin freights, the author of the measure*created ■ a sensation by declaring that he had been : informed that members could get $250 for voting against the bill, and $250 more for ' opposing the Emery railroad bill. I’i ui.ic sentiment in Missouri caused the House to reconsider its vote refusing to provide for the maintenance of‘thestate i militia. A country member of the New ; York Assembly has introduced a bill to f prohibit the .custom of treating to drinks in ' saloons. The "Ohio House put through a I measure for the abandonment and sale of ; the Wabash and Erie Canal, but the Sen- ; ate promptly tabled it. Walter and Tur- “ ley. the Democratic members of the New * Jersey Assemblv vyhbse seats were con- ; tested by Republicans. were seated, after i a furious and protracted struggle, by • the elose vote of 30 to 20 in eacb, case,... ! Major W. W. Armstrong, who has just been ! apptnn t edTTistmaster bf CleAeLm d, to sueThomas Jones. Jr., was for years editor of the Cleveland Piiiler..... President Cleveland states that many members of the present Congress have been recommended' to him for places ou the interstate Tommerce commisFion. and there is none of them whom he would so gladly nominate as Colonel Morrison. -- At the Philadelphia municipal election the Republican candidate- received. 1M.1.4D7 votes, the Democratic candidate 32,204, and Henry-George's. candidate 1.304, Both houses of tie Michigan Legislature Friday passed a resolution asking Congress to pass the dependent pension bill over the President's veto. . The Missouri Senate indefinitely postponed consideration of the resolution for the submission of a prohibitory amendment;, .Both iiouses of thejndiana Legislature have passed a bill appro-

prialiiig $200,000 for the erection of a soldiers’ monument in Circle Park, at Indianapolis. ; PriiMt’ Printer Benedict’s nomination has been acted on adversely by the Senate Printing Committee. A Washington special to the Chicago Time* pays: .TUp immediate groqnd. for deciding against him/ is that the law requires that the office should be held by a practical printer,, and Mr. Henedict is not a practical printer. His business is that of a publisher of a country paper. But, aside from this legal objection, he has not made a very good impression here. He went into the office with the idea, which he aired on every possible occasion, that everybody who bal been in the office before him was a rascal, and that ho had come on to institute reform with a capital It. Ho discharged several hundred employee at once, on the ground that .the pay-roll bal been run up far beyond what the appiopiiations warranted, trtit he has since been gradually filling up the office again, until it is said ou good authority that there are m< re people employed,in the office than there over weiy bofor’u. When peoplo have gone to him for'empl lyment and presented letters frtmi Senators ho has intimated with an Indiscreetdegree,of frankness that if they would gettbeir Senatorial friends to confirm him lie w ould roe what li > could do about making places for them. It isn't ixilitical etiquette to talk about swaping influence in this open and undisguised manner, and Senators do not like to be told that they must bustled round and vote for the Public Printer's continuation before tin will treat their letters of recommendation with respect. These letters aro somotiynes given to really needy persons who uro of no possible use to Senators, hilt whim kind-hearted Senators are willing to help to find places where they can, earn a dollar or two a day, aro not exactly in position tn go to Ntnrrtrfrs and rn ike them vote for the Public Printer's eoutirmution.