The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-12-04
POLITICAL POINTS.

Senator Quay will occupy his fine
new mansion on X street, Washington,
about Jan !,
United States Senator McLaurin has
decided to enter the race for governor
of Mississippi.
w. j. Robinson, business manager of
the Erie Dispatch, is slated for message
clerk of the senate
John w. Lovett, of Anderson. is a
candidate for the nomination as United
States senator of Indiana. He is a SON
in-law of Ex-Governor Cumhack.
Representative Ritter, of Philadel-
phia, will introduce a bill at Harris
burg next session to retire the judges
of all counts on full pay after twenty
years actual consecutive service. Re-
tirement, however, is made voluntary.
1t is said that Major McDowelrs
principal competitor for the chief
clerkship of the next national house,
Representative Henderson, of Illinois,
will pull out leaving Mcdowell COM
| paratively clear field. Henderson will
try to be chosen sergeant-at-arms.
Senator Brewer, of Franklin county,
| is still warmly in favor of his bill to
| create a court of intermediate and final
| jurisdiction between the present COM
mon pleas and orphans courts and the
supreme court. He has, it is under
stood, abandoned his original intention
of giving the court final jurisdiction,
| only,in orphans court cases.
A bill will be introduced at Harris
| burg providing for the opening of the
polls on election day at sunrise and
closing them at sunset. This Is the
same plan that Is now followed in New
York. It'is claimed that the new law
would enable all who desired to vote
to do so. At present the polls are open
from to 7. In cases where working
men are employed a long distance from
their polling places they either lose
their votes or half days work.
The Reporter-Journalt thinks the 'rea-
sons why Bradford county should name
the representative in congress to fill the
vacancy occasioned by the death of the
late Hon. Myron b. Wright are so con-
vincing that it may be taken as settled
that only blundering on the part of the
| county itself can defeat her claim. Since
1880, a period of fourteen years, every
| other county has in turn named the
representative, and by either rotation
or plain division of time it Is now Brad
| lOIu lul II. LAllu llllS ltdNtS Oul VI Tue
calculation the fact that Bradford
county Is not only the largest and most
populous county in the district, but, in
the matter of Republican majorities, is
greater than the other three counties
combined. OF the Sill plurality given
at the late election for Congressman
| Wright 4,645 came from this county
and 1926 from Susuqeharna, Wayn;
and Wyoming"
1t is thought in Philadelphia, accord
ing to the Record, that Prospective
Speaker Walton will re-appoint Mr.
Marshall, of Allegheny chairman of the
appropriations committee. George v
Lawrence, of Washington. is proposed
for chairman of ways and means. Will
liam II. Keyser of Philadelphia, will
probably be again chairman of pas
senger railways. his influential backing
calling Mr. Walton's attention, among
other things, to the fact that Mr. Key
sers majority for representative in the
Twentieth ward was 123 greater than
the majority of Hastings there for gov
crnor. Representative 'Peltz, of Phila.
delphia, and Kunkel, of Dauphin, are
the candidates for chairman of Judi.
ciary general. Mr.. Lytle. of Hunting.
don, Is expected to resume his place al
the head of railroads. There will be a
new chairman of municipal corpora.
tions, the former one, Mr.. Lafferty, moi
being reelected