Omaha daily bee., 1883-04-25
POLITICAL T

OF the log members Of the Texas Legis.
lature only twelve are natives Of the state.
II Is probable that the Connecticut Leg
~islature will be able to adjourn next week.
Brady and both Of the Dorseys have
testified, and still we don't know the exact
amounts the government stole from them.
Massachusetts and Rhode Island are
now the only states which indulge in the
luxury Of electing q governor e'ery year.
Sunset Cox insists that his candidacy
for speaker is no Joke. The Joke will
appear when the list Of his supporters Is
read.
Senator Blair, Of New Hampshire, re
peats hi, belief that David Davis is the
man for the republicans to nominate for
president.
Gen. s. b. Buckner has written o letter
announcing that he is O candidate for the
democratic nomination for governor Of
Kentucky.
John S. Treat, the new mayor Of Ports.
mouth, N. H., was q Confederate soldier
Alabama artillery company.
A Mississippi G~reenbacker nau ed Hull
was recently given q federal office in that
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back Independent newspaper.
Mr.. Stephens, the democratic Mayor.
| elect of Cincinnati, never was "a bobbin-
boy in q factory" but he served his term
as q cabin-boy on an Ohio steamer.
Gresham Is much praised. They say he
will be his own postmaster-general. This
more about Gresham after b, has been In
o while.
The Missouri Legislature adjourns with
nothing done toward regulating railroads.
A bill mu5h like the Illinois law was got
through the house by farmers in that body,
but the senate killed it.
Observation-Disclosures are happy in the
belief that the new high .license law will
prove a dead letter, and q Q already plann.
ing to attack the next legislature with o
fresh prohibitory amendment scheme.
| Ex.Judge Longworth, of Ohio, who re-
Gently resigned his seat Oh the supreme
bench of that state, il spoken of as q prob
able candidate for governor. He ia very
popular, and hisfathsr is one of the wealth.
isat men in Cincinnati. '
The Boston Journal (Rep.) notes the
fact that there hos not been u time since
1856 when there was less booming done
for prominent republican a~spirants O year
before the holding ofsthe national conven-
tion than there is at the present time"
Ex.President Hayes explodes the rumors
about his candidacy for governor of Ohio
In q private letter written to O friend In
w ashin ston, in which he says: "All re-
ports of my intention of returning t, pub.
lie life are ~unfounded. Under no con.
alteration would I become q candidate.
Wisconsin newspapers are going to have
o fine time collecting election returns in
case o bill now before the state senate
should become Q law. 1t provides that in
all elections the polls shall be kept open
until o'c ock in the evening. Such o
provision would prove a senseless incon.
venience.
Don Cameron is recovering his health,
will soon go to Europe, and there Is re-
newed gossip about his giving up the sen.
ate at the close of the term. 1t Is said
that he has suffered heavily in pocket by
devotion to politics, and that with Henry
Oliver in his place he could at once main.
tain real political power and give neces.
sary attention to private business.
Congressman Kasson, Of Iowa, to an in.
terviewer on the subject of future national
politics, SAID: $50 ar as l can Judge, the
issues are all uniformed, and the probable
candidates of both parties are still not to
be guessed. There never has been an ap.
preaching campaign where so little can he
discerned as the next. The president-ma.
kers are evidently watching each other
closely, M well as the situation. and the
objsct il more to conceal probabilities thar
to reveal them"
A newspaper correspondent writes that
o movement ia now on loot to harmonic
the republican party in Pennsylvania. He
says: ANY movement in favor of har'
mony will receive the support of Genera.
Beaver, Senator Mitchell, Governor Hovt
State Senators Lee aud Stewart, Charles
l.. Wolfe, the Times, Press, and Tele
y graph, of Philadelphia, the Lancaster Elk
press and Pittsburgh Dispatch, and is 81
likely to be successful that it is highl,
probable that McManes, Leeds, anC
Everett will fail in their efforts to inlu
ence Senator Cameron to take q stand hos
. tile to republican unity"
Southern Dakota has q convention Gale,
{ at Huron, june 10th, to see about creating
q state constitution. Several of the olde
: states organized In that way before ad
. mission, and Vermont went on with tn
whole machinery Of state government TO
b years, but not much reason appears to
0 adopting the plan in this case except tina
1t might end the division question and pu
l things in definite shape for congress to &C
J. upon. Utah adopted q state constitutio
last year, 1t may be remembered, but {
o course IL fell fat to the ground.