Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-07-02

The bill granting pensions to all soldiers of
| the war of 1872 and their widows and children.
| For the construction and repairs Of the Missis-
| sippi River levees.
The McCrary bill regulating charges for railway
| transportation.
House bill amendatory of the Steamboat law.
| Senate bills for the abolition OF compulsory
pilotage and to authorize the organization OF ma
| tiOnal banks without circulation.
All Immigrant bills, and many hundred bills Tor
| the relief Of individuals.
| The Maine Democratic State Convention at
| Portland on the 23d, nominated Joseph A
| Titcomb for Governor by reclamation. Reso-
| buttons were adopted favoring the early re-
| sumption of specie payments; declaring for
| free trade; cOndemning the recent course of
the Republican majority of the United States
| Senate in attempting to establish a censor
| ship of the press of the country at the Ma
| tional capital; denouncing the Republican
party for interference with the government of
| the several States, and the course Of the Re
publican Congress on the subject of civil
| service reform.
| A decision has been recently rendered by
| the Supreme Court of Wisconsin which
recognizes the fact that the Legislature had
the right to repeal a clause of the charter of
the West Wisconsin Railway exempting GER
tain lands from taxation. The friends of re-
cent Wisconsin railway legislation claim that
an application of the principles enumerated
! in that decision will end all doubts that may
| have been entertained as to the constitution
atty of the Potter law.
| A Prohibition Convention was held at
Auburn n Y, on the sd. Myron S. Clark
was nominated for Governor, Horace V. How
| land for Judge of the Court of Appeals, Daniel
| Walford for Canal Commissioner, and Ira
| Bell for State Prison Inspector. A resolution
was adopted hailing the uprising of the women
of the country to put away the liquor traffic,
and promising when able to do so to put the
ballot into the hands Of women, thus en-
abling them to vote as well as pray against
| the giant curse of the world"
| The convention of the Anti Monopolists of
| Iowa assembled at Des Moines on the 24th
and organized by the election of DR.. GuiIbert,
of Dubuque, as permanent Chairman. The
following persons were nominated for State
officers: Secretary Of State, David Morgan, of
Mahaska State Auditor, J. w. King, of Du-
buque; State Treasurer, J. w. Barnes, of Des
Moines; Acknowledgement, j. T. Keatlev, of
PottaWatOmie; Clerk Of the Supreme Court,
Geo. W. Ball, Of Polk; Supreme Court Re-
porter, j. NJ. Weart, of Buchanan; Register of
the State Land Office NJ. Rod armel, of Story
Resolutions were pted---indorsing the doc
trine of the inviolability of State
and individual rights and denouncing
the Administration in that it had in
terfered in certain States with matters
demning the extravaganza and waste of the
Government as now administered, and its
total incapacity to meet the vital questions of
the day; declaring that the faith and
credit of the nation must be maintained in
violate; that the public debt, of whatever kind,
should be paid in strict accordance with the
law under which it was contracted; insisting
that tariffs should be imposed for revenue
only; that railroads should be subservient to
the public good, and demanding such legisla-
ton as will secure the industrial and produc-
ing interests of the country against all forms
of corporate monopoly and eXtortion; dep
recating any action calculated to retard rail
road enterprises or work injustice to
those invaluable auxiliaries to com
merce and civilization; favoring the
limitation of the Presidency to a single
term and the election of President, Vice-PrLsi-
>'SiAu OCliSIlOl0 ny NIICIG pOpuldl NOIC' uC-
handing modification of the Patent laws;
insisting that the personal liberty and social
rights of the citizens should not be abridged
or controlled by legislative enactment, ex-
cept so far as may be necessary to promote
the peace and welfare of society; favoring the
equalization Of bounties to soldiers and sail
ors, and advocating such legislation as shall
grant to each one of them or to his widow and
children homestead of 100 acres of land.
The Rhode Island Legislature has adjourned
till January without choosing United States
Senator. The last ballot resulted as follows
Burnside, ~; Dixon, &c; Barstow, 10; scatter
ing 16.
The Vermont Democratic State Convention,
held at Montpelier on the 25th, nominated for
Governor, Hon. w H. H. Bingham: Lieuten-
ant-GOyernor, Henry Chase; Treasurer, Otis
Chamberlin Resolutions were adopted re-
newing devotion to the Democratic party; ia
voring the repeal of the prohibitory law and
adoption of a stringent license law, and hail
ing with joy the prospect of the early COM
pletion of the Caughnawaga Canal, as .bene-
fetal alike to the farmer, manufacturer, pro-
Queer and consumer.
The following is the official vote of Oregon
for the officers named: Congressman-Ladow,
Democrat, 9,642; Williams, Republican, $40;
Davenport, Independent, $3.50.