The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-06-17
POLITICAL POINTS,

The eighth ballot for Senators at AL
bany resulted: Short term-Jacobs So; Conk-
ling, 81; Wheeler, 81; Rogers, Is; Cornell, 49,;
scattering, Is. Long term Herman, 81; Platt
29; Depew, 81; Cornell, TO- scattering, IA.
The Ohio Republican Convention
renominated Charles Foster for Governor
| by reclamation. State Treasurer Turney and
Atty Gen. Nash were also renominated. J. G.
Richards, of Jefferson county, was nominated
fer Lieutenant Governor, and Nicholas Long
worth for Supreme Judge, and George Poul
for member Of the Board of Public Works. A
resolution indorsing the administration OF
President Garfield was unanimously adopted.
The ninth ballot for Senators at AL
bany gave Herman 80 votes, Patt 90 Depew So
and Cornell s. For the short term Conkling
received "a votes, Jacobs 49, Wheeler %, Cor
nell 16 and Rogers IA. In the Assembly. Mr..
Bradley rose to a question of privilege and
stated that he had received Sc, 500 to pay him
| if he would vote for Chauncey Nj. Depew in
stead of Platt, which sum he had handed over
| to the Speaker, and he asked for committee of
investigation. The Speaker corrohorated the
statement, and said he had the money The
motion for an investigating committee was
unanimously adopted. In the evening Assem-
blyman Bradley appeared before the commit
tee, and, under oath, reiterated his story, say
ing that the money was paid him by Senator
Sessions. The latter admitted having labored
hard to convert Bradley, but pointedly denied
the money part of the story. Assemblyman
Sisson testified that last January hewas offered
money to vote for Depew.
The Republicans of the Second dis
trict of South Carolina refrained from voting
at the special Congressional election to fill the
vacant seat of Mr.. O'Connor, claiming that
quence Samuel Dilable, Democrat, was chosen
without opposition.
1t is understood at Washington that
Malone will have the active support of the adj
ministration in his attempt to break up the
Democratic party in Virginia.
The New York Legislature balloted
twice for Senators on the 10th inst, with
about the same result as the two preceding
days. Gen. Spinola rose in the House and
proposed that the $4,000 bride money be
devoted to the support of impecunious members
kept in involuntary servitude at the capital.
The Bribery Investigating Committee exam
ined Speaker Sharpe. He testified to receiving
the $4,000 from Bradley and he handed the
sum to the Chairman of the committee. Arm
strong, of Oneida county, testified that he had
been offered money by Edwards, a lobbyist, to
vote against Conkllng.
1t is denied by prominent Virginia
Republicans that the President has Endorsed
Mahoneism. He is awaiting the Republican
| Convention before he decides on any indorse-
ment.
There were only 104 members of the
Legislature in the joint convention at Albany
on the 18th inst, and the ballot for Senators
showed no changes of candidates worthy of
note. Assembyman Trinble, New York law
yer, testified before the Bribery Committee that
he had been offered money by lobbyist named
Edwards to change his vote from Plat to
sDepew.
The balloting at Albany on the 18th
inst. was of about the same monotonous nature
as of the preceding days, and gave no indica-
ton Of an early break of the deadlock The
Bribery Investigating Committee examined and
cross-examined Assemblyman Bradley at great