Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1887 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

A resolution has passed the Rhode Island House providing for a constitutional convention every ten years, beginning in April, 1889 The New Jersey House unanimously passed the bill giving women the right to vote for school trustees... .The New York Assembly has passed the Crosby high-license hilt. The Democrats of Chicago have nominated Carter H. Harrison for Mayor, John H. McAvoy for Treasurer, C. F. M. Allen for Attorney, and Henry Stuckert for Clerk. Senator Sherman, on the invitation of the Republican members of the Legislature of Tennessee, delivered a political address at Nashville. . . .The State officers pf Indiana rejected a proposition by a New York hou6e to loan $300,000 at per cent. ... .The Wisconsin Assembly passed a bill prohibiting municipal subscriptions to railroad stocks.... The Democrats of Cincinnati have made the following nominations: For Mayor, teaac B. Matson; Judge of the Superior Court, J. R. Saylor; Judge of the Police Court, J. AY. Fitzgerald; City Treasurer,,, Yaleutine Nicholas; City Solicitor, Alfred M. Cohen. A bill has been introduced in the New York Assembly to charter an aqueduct, company, with a capital of $00,000,000, to furnish water from the Adirondack region to the Hudson River valley and New York city. ■?. H. C. Parsons, the most prominent Blaine Republican in -Virginia,' and the intimate associate of Stephen B. Elkins and William Walter Phelps, says that Blaine alone can answer whether he will lead the next campaign. If he should consent the contest was over, for it was impossible, with the present temper, to convene a representative body of Republicans which would not nominate him... .Senator Sherman visited the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce and made a brief speech, dwelling on the marvelous development of the resources of the Soffth.