Omaha daily bee., 1883-02-21
POLITICAL #

Eight female clerks are employed IL the
NJ assachusetts Insurance Departir ent, at
SS4C a year each.
A proposal /, before the Rhode Island
Legislature to increase the salary of the
railroad commissioner to Sl,tO0.
General Chalmers, of Misuissippi, has
begun taking testimony prep ratory to
his contest for o seat in the Forty.eighth
congress.
A bill has been introduced in the Kansas
Legislature providing for o board Of text
book commissioner and q uniform system
Of textbooks in the public schools.
The Rhode Island house of Representa-
tivss has passed q bill msking the consent
Of q parent or guardian "A requisite to the
issuing Of u marriage ~liscepce for a minor.
There il to be held in Boston on the 22d
inst a meeting for the purpose of orgsni.
| zing q national citizens league for the sup.
preston Of tbe sale If liquor to minors
and the enforcement of the laws regul sting
the liquor traffic, whatever they may be,in
the several states.
Governor Kinkead, of Nevada. in his
annual message, speaks very earnestl'
against the determinations of the Cent =.
Paciic railroad, aad complains of .h,
fact that the road escapes taxa ~, -,
some Z, 900, 0OO acros Of its land Grant II
that state by delaying to patent. It.
The apportiontnent Of California int,
six congressional dislrints, ss determined
by the democrats, makes two republican
and four democratic districts Oh the basil
Of the presidential vote of 1880, but OF
the basis Of the Stonemsn tidal wave Of
1882 all would be democratic.
The man most'talked about low At Il,
candidate of the repuhn cans of Indisn:
tor the senAt.. in 1896 Is CSnsres mar
, of the Sixth district. Ho is ONT
or the most popular men ia the state, anC
always carries his congressional district BY
q majority ranging from 1000 to 10000.
Ever since the organic alton of Wiscon
sin asa state the public lands have beef
sold at s 25 psr acre, and fortunes hav,
been made in them. A bill to advanc
the price to SO is before the state senate
aud the assembly has adopted q ] tint res
olution withdrawing the lands from sal
until O change in pr,ce is made.
Governor Foster, Of Ohio, advises tn
republicans of his state that in nominatini
candidates for the legislature this yea
they avoid pledging them to vote for AZ,
particular aspirsnt for the United State
senatorship. Name the best men, he says
work earnestly for their election, and the
II the party retains the control Of the leg
i~slature, let the question of who shall (
senator be settled by the free choice of tn
peoples representatives.
!, Senatorial sspirants in New Hampshir
will have to remain in a state of uncer
tainty until June. Meanwhile, however
the canvassing goes on briskly, and tn
prospects of the different candidates al
noted as regularly as the state of tn
r weather. Some nice legal questions abou
the election must be decided, one of whic
is whether the present legislature cannc
fill both Of TIE senstorsnips. Guesses
= to the successful man Or men are Ga likel
to set at the truth as Virgins is in pr,
dieting the weather.
New York has had Is governors in tt
! l0S years of her existence as a free and il
dependent commonwealth. OF this nun
g Der, since tho death Of Edwin d. Morgsl
6 there are about eight survivors. These al
Hamilton Fish, whose t,rm began in 1874
. Horatio Seymour, whose first term begf
= Ia 1858; Myron III. Clark, 1855; Reub,
y E. Feuton, 1865; John T. Hoffm an. 1856
l. Samuel j. Tilden, 1875; Lucius Robinso
1877; and Alonzo b. Cornell, 1880. +,
these, Seymour. Hoffman and Fenton a
the only three who were elected for mo
than one term.