Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-02-26

A BILL has been introduced in the Mis-
souri, Legislature proposing to submit
the question of woman suffrage to vote
of the women themselves.
PRESSURE will be brought on the Pres
ident to veto the per cent funding bill.
Much disgust is expressed at the condi-
ton in which the Senate has passed it.
The conservative Democrat state cen
trail committee at Richmond, Va, in call
ing convention of the Bourbon wing of
the party, insists on the maintenance of
white supremacy in the government,
whatever else is lost.
The following estimate is made of the
total amount of mail matter passing
through the mails during the year 1880:
Number of letters, 512,931 ,224; postal
cards, 163,O4S,912; newspapers, 496, 706.-
1872; pieces of all classes. 1,605,5O2, 1872.
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elected to Congress from one of the
Brooklyn districts as an Independent
candidate. has written to Republican
Congressman to say that he will act with
the Republicans in organizing the next
House, and on political question gener
ally.
PRESIDENT HAYES has withdrawn the
nomination of State Senator Forster to
be United States District Attorney for
New York city and has sent in the name
of Elliott 7. Sheppard for the position.
The latter nomination is said to have
been made upon the suggestion Of Gen.
eral Garfield.
AN attempt was made in the House of
Representatives to take up the Fitz John
Porter bill, but it was defeated by vote
of ia to III, which disposes of it for this
session. The following Democrats voted
with the Republicans in the negative:
Messrs. BlOunt, Bouck, Davidson, of
South Carolina, Dunn. FELTON,, Mills,
Stephens, Stevenson and Witthorne.
THE Monroe doctrine resolution report
ed to the Senate differs from that report
ed in the House, sometime since. 1t not
only declares that the consent of the
United States shall be necessary to the
execution of any interOceanic canal pro-
ject. but it also insists that the United
States shall indicate the rules and regu
latiOns under which other nations may
participate in its use.
]. B. BLOss, of Detroit, and one of the
most prominent of the temperance lead
ers of Michigan, has written a letter in
which he expresses himself as strongly
opposed to disturbing the liquor-tax law
of this state. He says he has studied the
question in all its phases, and has arriv-
ed at the conclusion that stringent
license law is the only means through
which the liquorseller can be effectively
reached.
1T is stated that there are eighteen
thousand families suffering in Kansas
in the counties of Pratt, Ellis Rush.
Philips, Graham, Decatur, Norton, Sheri-
dan, TregO and Osborne, and measures
are being taken to distribute the $4,000
recently appropriated by the state Legis-
lature among them. Kansas is nice
state to emigrate to. If these families
had come to Michigan they would have
escaped such suffering.
The proposition in the Senate to send
an embassy to Mexico to effect settle
ment of the questions at issue between
that country and the United States is
exciting much comment in Washington.
1t is an unusual thing to send on such
mission representatives with the rank
of ambassador. The motive is believed
to be a desire to crafty the vanity of
our sister Republic and stimulate the
friendly feeling now existing.
THE repNt that Mr.. Thomas Hughes
Rugby colony was failure and would
be abandoned is cOntradicted by W. Hast
ings Hughes. Mr.. Hughes publishes
card in the New York papers to say that
there is no truth in the story of failure,
that the settlers are busy preparing for
spring work, and that the church and
school house are nearly finished. This
will gfieve our Canadian neighbors, who
have been in state of mind ever since
Mr.. Hughes located his cOlOney in the
United States instead of in British North
America.
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