Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1887 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

Ix the Wisconsin Senate the bill making the maximum passenger fare in the State 2$ cents per mile was killed... A resolution protesting against England's proposed coercive legislation for Ireland was adopted Tuesday in the Illinois House—ltt;i to i. ....The resolution appointing a committee to confer with foreign --bond-holders on the question of the State debt has passed the Virginia Legislature .. Ellis B. Usher, of La Crosse, has 5*3 B elected Chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee of Wisconsin.... Both houses of the Nebraska Legislature unanimously passed resolutions denouncing the Irish policy of Lord Salistmry and his Cabinet as unjust and inhuman, and extending sympathy and encouragement to Messrs. Gladstone and Parnell and their co-labor-ers in their gallant struggle. A BESOiCTioir protesting against JBritish coercive legislation Tor Ireland was adopted by the Pennsylvania House.... Charles G. Hubbard has been appointed Collector of Cnstomsat Hartford, Ct., and Albert H. Mowiy Postmaster at Charleston, 5- C .... Hon. James G. Blaine visited the Merchants’ Exchange, at St. Louis, and for ■an hour received in the Directors’ room,, shaking hands with several hundred men. He was escorted to the floor of the Exchange and introduced to the audience of

IK' ■ . nearly two thousand people who crowded tne immense room. He was greeted with j great applause, and made a five-minute speech.,iu which he alluded favorably to ! the Mississippi ltiver ns n means of trane- ; portAtjon, the magnitude and great com- . mercial importance of the Louisiana pur* ' chase by Thom as Jefferson, and said the j merchants ought to erect a statue in St. Louis of that great statesman. Mr. ltlaino \>as then escorted to his hotel. T > James G. Blaine was'called from his private car by several hundred citizens of Terre Haute, to whom he briefly expressed ! his thanks. He also appeared on the platform at Effingham, 11)., and shook the hands of all uho came forward The New York Nun is authority for the statej meut that Mr. Blaine will sail in June for n year's tour abroad.