Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1903 — The political pot [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The political pot

Adjt. Gen. Jumel of Louisiana lias disbanded the First regiment of ( that State because it refused to turn out against strikers in a recent street car strike. The bill providing for a summer instead of a winter session of the Legislature of Georgia was passed by that body over tlie Governor's veto, by a vote of 128 to 27. The New Hampshire constitutional convention voted, 145 to 92, in favor of a woman suffrage, amendment, eliminating the word “male.” Later a motion to reconsider prevailed. President Schnrmon of Cornell in an address at Cooper Union, New York, advocated buying the land of the Philippine friars, and asserted that the Filipinos were as capable of independent selfgovernment ns the Cubans. Secretary of War Boot’s desire to retire from the cabinet ns soon ns certain reforms in the military service have been completed has been known for sonic time and it is now reported that he will resign in April T. Thomas Fortune, the negro commissioner to the Philippine nu«l Hawaiian Islands, in an interview at Honolulu said he believed the importation of negroes formed n natural solution of the difficulty which unavoidably followed the absorption of tropical or semi-tropical countries by the United State*. Following the introduction by Senator Gnilingcr of a resolution to amend the constitution and make n State of the District of Columbia, a muss meeting was held in Washington, demonstrating the popularity of the idea. Many prominent citizens spoke. It was shown tli.it in population nnd general intelligence the district goes far ahead of several of the Stall's. The chief difficulties to be overcome are the large negro vote nnd the jurisdiction involved on account 'if the neutral ceded ground ou which the city i* built. Before the New England Society of Charleston. S. C., Charles Francis Adams. the philanthropist, said that the Civil War was n necessity, and that both sides were right. He claimed that nil of the States joined the Union.with mental reservations, apprehending n centralised government, and that the decision by might was made inevitable by the founders of the nation who |«'rpotrnied a