Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1896-01-03
POLITICAL NOTES.

In the present House of Representatives
paper men, 10 merchants, Is manufaotur.
ers, railroad men, 5 college professors, {
bankers, lumbermen, 2 clergymen,
brokers, 8 doctors, 2 ship owners, miners
school teacher, l druggist, l theatrica
manager, and is who have no other bust
ness than politics. In the Senate there are
60 lawyers, merchants, 8 newspaper men
farmers, railroad men, 2 clergymen, !
doctor, manufacturer, miners, l bank.
er, ship owner. and who have no other
business than politics.
The reorganization of the Senate COM
mittses by the Republicans was adopted
Monday by vote Of 80 Republican ayes to
Is Democratic hayes, the Populist Senators,
with whom the Republicans had made a
bargain, except MI. Kyle Of South Dakota.
the Republicans made every Populist Sen
ator chairman OF a committee. In the
membership of the committees Daniel goes
on the Judiciary. Public Buildings and
Grounds, Foreign Relations, and Revision
of Laws committees, and Martin goes on
the District of Columbia, Claims, Mica
ragua Canal, and Indian Depredations
committees.
The hotel keepers of st. Louis, have de-
termined to make hay while the National
Republican convention shines. The mana
gers Of one Presidential candidate will pay
$500 day Tor a large parlor. to be used "a
a headquarters. The Mckinley and the
Reed management will each have topay not
less than $4,000 for the accommodation of
their boomers. The parlors to be used for
Reed and Mckinley headquarters will be
paid for at the rate of from $3.50 to $500 a
day, Sleeping rooms will be fitted up with
from six TO ten cots, and they will be
charged for at the tate of from IS to So a
day each.
Chairman Lamb of the Virginia State
republican committee will not only attend
the State convention of his party, but
every district convention. A meeting of
the State committee Will be called toward
The last of this or the first Of the succeed
ing month for the purpose of fixing the
basis of representation in the next State
and the time thereof. The
place, Stanton, has already been deter
mined.
The Louisiana State Republican com
nittee on Saturday elected as it's chairman
Tom Cage, Negro, well known leader OF the
\ egro element of the party, over VIM. B. !
W imberly. white leader, by vote of to
J. The Cage element of the party are for
rom Reed.
State Senator Little against W. A. Jones;
;. E. Boykin of Isle of Wight, against D.
Gardner Tyler; Delegate Saunders and
enator Withers against Claude A. Swan
on, and Speaker Ryan and Eppa Hunton,
r., against Meredith. are some of the
named for the Virginia Dem
cratic congressional nominations next
all.
In the House Of Representatives last
eek, though the time for contest had ex-
ired, MI. Thomas Of Michigan, presented
le petition of j. j. Mcdonald contesting
lie seat of W. A. Jones, the Virginia Dem
cratic member of the LIST district. Nc ,
onald claims that he was elected over
ones by 1000 majority. j
1t is said that eX~Attorney General 6
ufus A. Ayers will be the competitor of
,aj. J. Hoge Tyler for the influence Of the
'uthwehtern counties in the Democratic .
convention for Governor, l.
Congressman Walker, of Virginia. has a
pointed G. W. Goodell, a young lawyer p
Marion, smyth comfy. in his district, 4
the clelkship to which he and all other
ngressmen are entitled. =
A Richmond dispatch states that Mr.. J.
'sil B. Gordon has resigned as member =, :.
the democratic national committee from \
irginia. 1t is thought Chairman J. Tayfor
Tyson, Of the State Committee, will be :,
J successor, -
ExceI ;asst Buchanan no man was :
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