Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-03-19
POLITICAL.

The Commissioner OF Internal Revenue has
written a letter to members of Congress,
showing that the aggregate amount of inter-
nal revenue collected from September, 1862
when the Internal Revenue laws first went into
effect-up to February IS, 1874 CAST month
estimated), is 81, 792, 555, 600. Of this amount
there is due from late Collectors 50, 525, 100,
for the recovery of which suits have been
begun.
The Kansas Legislature has passed bill
authorizing railway companies of the State
to issue preferred stock.
In the California Assembly on the 9TH bill
to make women eligible to educational offices
passed by a vote of thirty eight to thirty-one.
A railroad bill was passed by the lower house
of the Iowa Legislature on the 18th. Underi its
provisions railroads are divided into three
classes-A, B, c.. Roads in class A are al
| lowed to charge three cents per mile for the
| transportation of passengers; in class b, three
and a half cents; C, four cents. Roads in
class A, for freight, 10 per cent. less than the
printed schedule in the bill. In class B, per
| cent more; in class G, 90 per cent more. The
penalties for violation are very severe, and the
State provides $4,000 for the prosecution of
roads, to be drawn subject to the order of the
| Governor An individual may recover five
times the amount of damages sustained.
| What is known as the Potter Railroad bill,
concurrence in which had been reconsidered
and refused by the Wisconsin Assembly,
| came back from the Senate on the 9TH with
! the provision authorizing the Railroad Com
missioners to raise rates in certain cases in
their discretion struck out, and, as thus
amended, was finally concurred in.
In the late local elections throughout Massa-
| chusetts several ladies were chosen members
of Boards of Education.
The New Hamphire State election occurred
on the 10th. Returns received on the morn
| ing of the 18th from lat towns give McCutch-
ms (Rep) 26,345; Weston (Dem) 26,665;
Blackmer (Prohibition) 1,521.
A protective association of Michigan lum-
bermen was formed at Lansing on the 10th.
The pine-land owners present represented
$40, 1000 of capital and 100000 acres of
pine lands.
The Rhode Island Republican State Conven-
ton, in session at Providence on the 18th,
nominated Henry Howard for Governor,
Joshua NJ. Alderman for Secretary of State,
! Willard Sayles for Attorney General, Samuel
| Clark for General Treasurer, and Charles G.
| Van Seandt for Lieutenant Governor. The
candidates are all present incumbents.
According to Concord On. H. dispatch of
| the 18th the returns from the election in that
| State show that Weston had failed, by from
800 to 500 votes, of an election by the people.
Four Republican and four Democratic Sen
ators were elected, with no choice in four dis
tricts. From returns already in, the House
stood: Democrats, 172; Republicans, 1877.
Eight towns to hear from, which last year
elected Democrats, and probably had done so
this year.
The Ohio Constitutional Convention has re-
fused, by vote of 4S for to 80 against, to
submit to a separate vote section allowing
woman suffrage. Fifty-three votes were re-
quired to secure such submission to a sep
arate vote.
The next Democratic State Convention of
Indiana is to be held on the 18th of July.
The Rhode Island House of Representatives
has passed a resolution submitting to the pao-
pie an amendment to the State Constitution
| authorizing woman suffrage. The vote stood
Al to II.
The Republican State Central Committee of
Indiana has called State Convention, to meet
at indianapolis on the 18th of June, to nomi-
nate candidates for State officers, to be voted
for at the October election.
The twenty-sixth session of the Wisconsin
Legislature closed on the 18th. Three hun
dred and forty-nine laws were passed, and
thirteen Joint resolutions were adopted during
| the session.