Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1889 — WASHINGTON AFFAIRS. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON AFFAIRS.

A federal election bill, introduced by Senator Chandler Tuesday, provides that whenever, in any congressional district, ten voters from each county, or ten voters from each voting precinct where the congressional district is one county or less, snail make affidavit that they believe the election will be unfair if held by the state officers, and shall petition the U. 8. circuit judge to have the registration of voters and the election conducted by U. S. officials, the court shall be opened, as now provideu by the law, for the appointment of U. S. supervisors of elections, and the court shall appoint all necessary officers to carry out the prayers of the petitioners Publication shall be made for four weeks of the fact that the congressional election is to by held by U. S. officials and one comaissioner from each political party shall ir appointed oh the recommendation oi the candidates for Congress, the court, however, to have power to require that another person .shall be recommend ed in place of any person deemed unsuitable. The commissioners shall take out registration books of the voters in each precinct and each of them shall also recommend to the court for appointment one inspector or judge of election and one clerk for each voting precinct. The in specters and clerks may select two bailiffs to keep the peace, both not to be of the same political party, and they shall also hold ths election, publicly announce the result, and make a return thereof, before

- ——— - . rvy ■ h - any adjournment, to the commissioners of election, and the commissioners shall canvass the returns, declare the result, and make a consolidated return to the clerk of the circuit court.' In casq the State law prescribed no educational qualification for voters, voters who cannot read or write may call on the inspector to assist them in voting. In no case shall there be any re moval of the ballot box or adjournment until the votes are counted and the returns certified. The clerk of the court shall publicly canvass the returns within thirty days after election, and, when the result is ascertained, two certificates shall be made out and signed by the judge and at tested by the clerk—one to be given to the person elected and the other sent to the House of Representatives. Congressman Mills advises Democratic Congressmen not to vote themselves the money lost by the Silcott defalcation, but to sustain the losses themselves. He says it would cost the part thirty or forty members of Congress. Congressman Brown proposes to reduce the tax on sugar from 78 to 25 per cent, ad valorem, and to allow a bounty of ono cent per pound on home made sugar. A number of Sioux chiefs are in Wash) ington to close the treaty ceding their territory in Dakota to the government. Senator Butler introduced a bill to pro vide for the emigration of persons of color from the Southern Stete® °f the United States. It provides that the head of any family, or for himself if not married, may make application to the nearest U. S. Commissioner under oath, setting forth* the fact that he-desires to emigrate to a foreign country for permanent residence and citizenship, and that he is too poor to pay the cost of transportation; a certificate of this statement shall be forwarded by the Commissioner to the Quartermaster-Gen, oral of the Army, who Shall thereupon furnish to said applicant the necessary transportation by the cheapest route. Fori this purpose the bill appropriates the sum of $5,000,000.