Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1887 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

The Governor of Tennessee has signed the bill submitting to the people a prohibition amendment to the Constitution. The election will be held next September.... The Reapportionment Committee of the Pennsylvania House has decided to make the six Philadelphia districts Republican, thus shutting out Mr. Samuel J. Randall. ....The Union Labor party of Michigan held a convention at Lansing, and nominated for Supreme Jndges-O’Brien J, Atkinson and J.- C. Blanchard.. A BUT -imposing a nominal fine of $25 for pool-selling has been passed by the New Jersey Legislature.. ..The Illinois Senate adopted a concurrent resolution providing for sine die adjournment on the 12th of May.... The repeal of the capital-punish-ment law has been effected by the Maine Legislature, and imprisonment for life is substituted for death in all cases of murder, in the first degree. Such convicts, however, are to be kept iu close confinement away from all associations,- and no -pardon--ing power is left to the Governor und Council unless the convict is proven innocent. The Massachusetts Secretary of State has issued a report which shows that under the law allowing women to vote nt schoolboard elections, which has been operation for seven years, 1,571 voted iu 1881 and 1.911 in 1886. an increase of 34(1. As the female vote of the State is 340,000, it goes to show that less than six women in a thousand avail themselves of the “God-given right,” after they have had Six years’ opportunity. The Arkansas House passed a bill to forbid the mortgaging of unplanted crops. ... .. .The Michigan Legislature has adopted resolutions for the investigation of graveyard insurance companies... .The Arkansas House of Representatives passed the Senate bill regulating railroads. It conforms to the interstate commerce law concerning long and short hauls and pooling, but does not provide for meeting water competition..... Ex-Governor Robinson, Massachusetts, has twice declined a place on the Tnterstate Commerce Commission. It is said tbatexCongressman B. J. Hall, of lowa, is to be Commissioner of Patents. Joseph Roy, lately Postmaster at Merrillon,. Wig-., has been appointed chief clerk of the Postoffiee Department; , .