Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-07-02
POLITICAL.


mote the best interests of the community in
which he lives; in the present crisis he should
exert his influence in behalf Of temperance, and
vote only for men of pure habits, correct
principles and opposed to the liquor traffic.
Among the bills before Congress which go
over till the next session are the following:
For the relief of owners and purchasers of land
sold for direct taxes in insurrectionary States.
Amending the section of the act approved July
- concerning deposits in savings banks.
Granting to railways in the Territories the
right of way through public lands of the United
States
10 enable the Central branch of the Union
Pacific Railway Company to submit its claim
against the United States under the existing laws
TO decision of the Supreme Court.
To establish and maintain a national savings
depository a branch of the Postotfice.
TO incorporate the Southern Trans Continental
Railway Company.
To provide for the more efficient administration
of laws relating to public land
Amcndatory of the Civil Rights law.
To authorize the organization of national banks
without circulation.
To establish the Territory of Pembina, and pro-
vide a government therefor
Providing for n postal telegraph.
Providing for the resumption of specie payment
and for free banking.
Amendatory of the Tariff and Internal Revenue
laws.
For admission of New Mexico and Colorado as
States
Repeating the Presumption and amendatory of
the Homestead laws
To protect the navigablc waters of the United
States from injury and obstruction
House bill for the reorganization Of the army.
House bill to equaize bountics.
The bill granting pensions to all soldiers OF
the war of 1912 and their widows and children.
For the construction and repairs of the Missls-
The McCrary bill regulating charges for railway
transportation.
House bill smendatory of the Steamboat law
Senate bills for the abolition OF compulsory
plotage, and to authorize the organization OF ma
tiona banks without circulation.
All land grant bills, and many hundred bills for
the relief of individuals.
The Maine Democratic State Convention ut
Portland, on the 23d, nominated Joseph A.
Titcomb for Governpr by acclamation. Reso-
buttons were adoIrla favoring the early re-
sumption of spcci{ payments; declaring Tor
free trade; condemlhng the recent course of
the Republican ma iority 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 eXcmpting 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 us to the constitutions
atty of the Potter law.
A Prohibition Convention was held at
Auburn, y. Y, on the 23d. Myron 5. 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. resolution
was adopted mailing the uprising of the women
Of the country to put away the liquor trafllc,
and promising when able to do so to put the
ballot into the hands of women, thus en-
aiding them to vote as well as pray against
the giant curse Of the world
The convention of the Anti Monopolsts of
Iowa assembled at Des Moines on the Path
and organized by the election of DR.. Guilhert,
of Dubuque, as permanent Chairman. The
following persons were nominated for State
officers Secretary of State, David Morgan, of
Mahaska; State Auditor, }. w. King, of Du-
buquc; State Treasurer, j. W. Barnes, OF Des
Mones; Acknowledgement, j. L. keatlcy, of
Pottawatomie: Clerk of the Sup. enc Court,
Geo ". Ball, of Polk; Supreme Court Re
porter, j. NJ Weart, of Buchanan; Register OF
the State Land Office, NJ. Rodarmel, of Story.
Resolutions were opted---indorsing the doc
trine Of the inyiolability Of State
and individual rights and dcnouncing
the Administration in that it had in
tcrfcred in certain States with matters
with which it had no proper concern; con
dcmuing the extravaganza ana waste OF the
Government as now administered, and its
total incapacity to meet the vital questions OF
the dav; 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 suhserviont to
the public good, aud demanding such legisla-
ion as will secure the industrial and produc-
mo interests of the country against all forms
Of corporate monopoly and cXtortion; dep
rccating any action calculated to rctard erail-
road enterprises or work injustice to
those invaluable auXiliarics to com
merce and civilization; fayorug the
limitation Of the Presidency to a single
term and the election Of President, Vice -Presi-
dent and senators 10y direct popular vote, de-