The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1890-05-30
POLITICAL BREVITIEs.


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A BILL has passed the United
States Senate appropriatiDg $500
600 for n statue of General Grant
-.
THE Governors objections not
withstanding, the Legislature has
passed the bill reducing the rat,
OF State taxation.
THE Republicans have found il
necessary to unseat more Demo.
Gratis in the House in order to
pass a Federal election law.
THE Legislature has done itself
credit by passing the law continu.
ing the Geological Survey. There
is no one thing now more impor.
tant to the prosperity Of the State
than the pushing of the survey TO-
completion.
The Democrats carried the ethyl
election IN st. Louis by 1000 ma.
jority out of a total vote of 22,.
600, while the Republicans we're
claiming an easy victory. Demo
crazy is on the gain everywhere.
Illinois and Kansas will fall into
| line next fall. ]
THE people all over the Judicial
District want Commonwealth At. .
tOrney Sam Grassland to run for /
Circuit Judge the next race, aud
will elect him. Sam is a good .
lawyer aud would make as fine .
Judge as there is ia the State
Murray Ledger. |
The debate on the Mills bill ran
from April IL to July 81 The de.
bate on the Mckinley bill began
May and ended Nav 81. Tie
Democrats were willing TO have
their bill discussed; the Republt
cans wanted as little said about
their bill as possible. Il
THE democrats have carried
nearly every important eleciioa
since Harrison became president
while the republicans have sue.
ceeded only in defeating the viii
OF the people by stealing two seats
in the United States senate aid
several seats IN the lower house
of congress.-South PitIsburg
Press.
MR.. BUTTERwoRrH, in hi,
speech on the Mckinley bill, nllud
Ell 10 a protected industry thai
had realized s6O,OO0,OOO on q ear. J
tai of sl.250,0O0. Mr.. Butter !
worth probably alluded TO the
Calumet and Hecla Cor.
rer Mines, which stock has been
increased, besides paying the div.
iends, TO s2,500,O0O, and g. s
shares are selling for 1900.
THE proposed federal election !
law could not be brought to hurt {
The south very materially, but for {
The fact that IL would give repub. {
lean supervisors the power TO ,
connt and certify votes whether i
hey we're pOlled or not. But !
even this would be no worse than G
! republican congress il now do. /
ng, in turning ont congressmen
elected by the people to strength. &
IN its majority. !
MR.. BuTrEKwORrH remarked I
he other day that he could count (
IN his fingers men who had made l
hundred million dollars out Of g
he tariff. Mr.. Hopkins, another d
republican, said that there was a
n the gallery while he was speak. n
ng one nan who would be enrich. 7
III a million dollars by the imposi.
ION OF a tax of one.and.a.half il
tents a pound on lead in silver G
IRE. Even Republicans are begin. I
ing to confess that the real bene. b
lclaries of the high tariff are the q
not the laborers. p
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A dispatch from San Francisco D
tates that conspiracy to take u
'ossessiou of Lower CALIFORNIA; 10y ~
iilbusters and form an independ. ~
mt republic, which is afterward q
o be annexed TO the Uuiied q
states, has been published. The Il
cheme is said to be backed by X
Wealthy capitalists, and cOntem. 81
dated sending large numbers Of le
evolutiOnists under the guise of I'll
abroad labOrers into the country. Of
he seizure of Ensenado, the can.
ure of the Mexican man.Ofwar
nd founding provisional govern. AZ
nent. A wealthy resident Of Min. u
eapolis is said to be heavily 10. "
crested in the affair. u
THE Bill In the Kentucky Leg. Q,
Stature enforcing circuses TO n,
how everything that they adver. "
se, p assed last week, aud will nj
Don become a law in that State. n,
What will the show people do In el
he way of advertising. They will nj
ave little use for bulletin boards a,
that State, that is il the show OF
the future are like those of the In
asst. Just think, that the small OF
Oys aud negro will he deprived of in
Inch pleasure gazing upon the 81
ashy pictorials that formerly dec. ly
rated the walls of boards, built m
'r that purpose. An eight sheet ia
oster will he abOut all that will d,
displayed by the average circus
GREATER in Kentucky, aud will
Q plenty large to serve their ar