Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1887 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

Mr. Bo aim?, t after remaining ihfiChicago -sor a week, left last ° week for his Maine

borne, where he will remain until be sails for Europe in June. Hit health is much unproved since his srrival in Chicago..... A bill prohibiting the playing of baae-ball on Sunday was defeated in the Illinois House of Representatives. After three days of trial and argument by six counsel, the Michigan House of Representatives, by a vote of 83 to 11, found Milo H. Dakin. Representative from Saginaw County, guilty of corruptly soliciting money to pass the Saginaw charter bill, intending to convert the money to his own nee and profit. By a unanimous vote they found him guilty of making a list of the members, with figures abowing the amount to be paid to each for seeming the passage of the Saginaw charter bill, and by a unanimous vote he whs expelled. A new liquor law has been presented in the Michigan Legislature, its provisions being very stringent. No distinction is made in the tax for vending malt or alcoholic liqnors. The tax is fixed at $50(1, and saloona are required to close at 9 p. m. It is said the bill will probably pass. Thf. New York Senate has passed a bill providing for high license throughout the State. It was framed to meet the objections of Governor Hill to the bill recently passed. i