The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-07-01
POLITICAL.

The Governor of Louisiana has APP
proved of a bill for the better observance Of
Sunday. 1t will take effect at the commence
ment of 1851.
The Democrats of the Seventeenth
Illinois District in session at Hilsboro, NOM
mated Judge Edward Lane for Congress on the
fifty-second ballot defeating Hon. John r.
Eden the present incumbent
The State Temperance Convention of
Delaware met at Dover, 100 delegates being in
attendance James r. Hoffecker, of Middle
town, was nominated for Governor, and Rich
ard NJ. Cooper, of Morton, for Congress.
A New Orleans dispatch says "the
Louisiana House of Representatives, by vote
Of SO to 80, defeated the high liquor license
bill, which it was generally thought would be
passed The bill fixed the highest license for
the sale of liquor at $4,000 and the lowest at
$500. 1t was advocated by the temperance
people and many others, and until the last mo-
ment seemed certain of passage, but the liquor
men united, made strong fight, and through
the influence Of the New Orleans delegation,
carried the day The licenses on the sale of
liquor remain unchanged There is a strong
and growing temperance movement in Louis
lana which, having carried through the Sun
day law was emboldened to try the high
license"
Meadville pa. dispatch: The Green
back Convention in session here nominated
John Hull for Congress-
The Alabama Republican State Con-
vention convened at Montgomery Speeches
were made favoring the nomination of State
ticket All the utterances were for a pro-
tective tariff and the Blair educational bill
The convention declined to nominate a ticket
leaving it with the Executive Committee to put
out one or not, as it may think best
The Democrats of the Twelfth Hi
nois District nominated George A. Anderson
for Congress, defeating Hon. Scott Wike,
present incumbent
At the Democratic Convention for the
Sixteenth Ohio District the Hon. Beriah VIII
kins was nominated for Congress
The Republicans of the Twelfth In
diana District nominated Tor Congress Captain
James B. White, merchant of Fort Wayne
The Rev. I. M. Browder was nomi-
mated for Congress by a convention of Thir-
tenth Illinois District PROM bitonsts
The Illinois Prohibitionists in State
Convention at Springfield nominated Henry
W. Austin, of Cook County, for State Treas
urer, and Prof. U. z. Gilman, of Adams
County, for Superintendent of Public Instruc-
ton. A State Central Committee was chosen,
which elected John w. Hart, of Rockford, as
Chairman, and Chicago was elected as head
quarters campaign fund of $1,000 was
raised of which Mr. Austin gave $40.
The committee appointed by the last
convention of the Knights of Labor to watch
legislation at Congress has written 10 Messrs
Carlisle, Randall and Morrison asking for the
passage by Congress of bills repeating timber
culture, presumption and desert land acts, adj
justing railroad and other land grants, forfeit
ing all railroad land grants the condi-
tons of which have not been strictly
complied with, organizing the Territory Of
Oklahoma, opening a portion of the great Sioux
reservation TO settlement prohibiting aliens
from holding land in the United States making
Presidential and Congressional election days
holidays, furnishing bribery, directing the dis
bursement of at least s2oo, OO1, 600 Treasury
surplus, and substituting Treasury notes for
bank notes retired.
The Republican State Executive
Committee of Kentucky has decided to NOM
mate candidates in every Congressional dis
trict
The Senate Election Committee has
decided to vote adversely 10 any investigation
of the charges of bribery in connection with
the election of Senator Payne of Ohio.
Following is the vote, as recorded
in the Senate, on the passage of the Htz-John
Porter bill: