Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1887 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

A high-license bill, intended to cover tbe objections raised by Gov. Hill to the Crosby bill, has been introduced in the New York Legislature. It divides all saloons into two classes, the first comprising places where all kinds of liquors are sold, and the second where malt liquors, wines, and cider only are sold. The rates established j are as follows: New York and Brooklyn, ; first class SSOO, second class sloo*. fluff*- j 10, first class S3OO, second class S6O; all 1 other portions of the Slate, first class SIOO, i second class S3O. Tiie West Virginia Legislature met in | extra session last week. May 3is the dav J set apart to begin balloting for United j States Senator... .The President has made tbe following appointments:, Samuel F. Bigelow, of New Jersey, to be United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey; Henry F. Merritt, of Illinois, to be United States Consul at Chemnitz. Col. Lamont and other prominent Democrats, who can speak semi-officially for Mr. Cleveland, deny that the President ; has declined a renomination. The Colonel i sayß that the President has never said that he would or would not refuse a renomination. The President, Col. Lamont says, denies emphatically that he made the statement attribnted to him or that he had even given any thought to the matter of a second term. Smith M. Weed, of Plattsbnrg, a prominent Democrat and an intimate personal friend of the President, says, however, that Mr. Cleveland will not again be a candidate, and that Hill will be the stand-ard-bearer of the party in 1888.