POLITICAL,
The Tammany Hall General Commit
r b a« endorsed the conduct of Mayor
If Lever, denounced the Credit Mobil
baud's. deprecated the election frauds
,e ;i past, and advocated the purity of i
bal.ol box in the future.
T be AUo,ma Radical nominates Hon.
< g Blair for the Republican nomination
for Supreme Judge. ,
a meeting of the Huntingdon Re
„ County Committee last week,
pJ \ L Guss, editor of the Globe, was
LL Representative, and Dr. J. W.
L*iddie Senatorial delegate to the
v Republican State Convehtion.
° ,Tbe sealing of a Republican in place
, Democrat leaves the Senate of Ala-
La a tie, the presiding officer, a Repnb
having the casting vote. There is
0 indication of immediate action con
the'United Stales Senatorsblp.
_Hon W. W. Ketcbura, of Luzerne
V lin :y- wasin Harrisburg on Saturday,
LV*id a visit to the Executive Cham
ber
-ytie elections for Chief Justice and
of the Supreme Court of
M ,vico were held Sunday.
-Virtuous Caldwell declines to be put
K 1 A Warnlue:.—lf yo*i are afilicied witha courq ;
agnation, to take eff« March, o. | * » a? wlll g ,„
And it submitted to the Legislature Mon | ggpeedslya || permanently as will Dr. J.Maginnis’ :
day. The election of his successor lakes j eombination Expectorant, now for sale by GUli- 1
n ace on the 18th. i Und & Kerr. New Brighton, Dr. Hendric* Co., I
1 ‘ Beaver Falls, and druggist’s generally. Price j
—Washington advices report that |
Speaker Blaine will be unquestionably |
re-elected in the event of Congress as- ■
scmbling on March. 4tb, as there is no |
candidate mentioned who could command
anything like respectable support in op- ,
position to Mr. Blaine. j
—The Senatorial Bribery Committee at
Jefferson City made a report to the House
lo day, in which they exoh»rate Senator
bogy of any attempt at bribery in the
Senatorial election. They find, however,
ihsi General Dorris did try to bribe two
members, but it had no bearing on the
cast All the Committee signed the
r, t , >ri except Headly, a Republican mem
Ur, who will make a minority report on
Wednesday next. «.
-The following is tbchbill, suppfemen* i
V(i i to ihe Local Option, introduced in'
U,t Senate by Senator Rutan and passed
Thursday of last week : *
A Sr-PLEMKST to "Au act to permit voters of this -
omm^uwealth to vote every three years on the
of granting.licenses to sell intoxicating
'x'-orf." approved 27th March, 1872
W hereas. Under the provisions of the first sec
vol <' I.'- act approved March 27th, 1872, there is,
or mav fe e , -ome doubt* as to the time of holding
tl : i-D-on m.'question of license or no license*
c c-nsw a::e~ or boroughs wherein the mnnici- I
pa; r-f-nors heretofore by law fixed do not occur I
npoc :r.o days as in the townships of the i
xnccfy wherein said cities or boroughs ore located.
Section 1. Be it enacted , dc-c.. That now it is
hereby declared to be the true intent and meaning
of sa d act that the election under provisions of
first section thereof, should be held in all the
election districts and precincts of any county,inclad
mg the cities and boroughs therein situated, upon
•,tc same day. and whenever by law the municipal
elections in any city or borough occur at a different
dme from the municipal elections in the townships
of the county in which the said city or borough or
boronehs may be, the election upon the question
oi license in said city or borough or boroughs may
and shall be held upon the day now fixed by law
for holding township elections in such county, and
by the proper officers thereof, under the provis
ions oi the first section of the act to wuichthis
if a supplement
Sec 2 Whenever, upon the passage of this sup
plemental act, the day' of township elections in any
county may have passed, in which county there
were any city, borough, or boroughs in which the
annual municipal elections have not been held,
the qualified voters in said city, borough, or bor
ough? in any such ebunty may vote upon the
qcestiou of license upon the day of the annual
municipal election for such city, borough, or
boroughs for the year 1573, when such annual mu
tictpsi election occurs on or before third Friday
ol March, and triennially thereafter; but when
such municipal election in any such city, borough,
or boroughs, do not occur on or before the third
Friday of March, then, in any such case, the elec
tion upon the question of license shall be held on
said third Friday of March, and not later. The
totesfqrr or against license in any snch borough or
boroughs sha.l be added to and counted with the
'otee tor and strains* license polled in the town
ip oi the county in which said borough or bor
oughs may be located, the same as if cast on the
day as the township elections, and the votes
for or attains* license in any city shall be counted
'and certified to the court, or Board of License
tlommissioners, as the case may bel separate from
'.hr vote of the townships and boroughs in any
eoucty wherein said city may he located; and if a
mscoruy vote of such city is against license, then \
uu ' cense shall be granted for such city, but if a ;
ar.jor.ty vote of suph ,city is for license, then li- i
cehse may be grunted for such city. !
br- 3 Tne proper election officers of each elec- i
t on district in any each city, borough, or bor" I
onghs are hereby authorized and required to hold
and conduct an election upon the day or days
mention ;d in the law to which this is a supplement,
Qr m tbis supplemental act; and the election ot-*
firsts stall he entitled to pay therefore as for like
-erviceg in holding other elections: provided, the
election occurs on a different day from the manic-
it>aJ election.
Sec. 4. if an election in any city or borough Lag
been already bolden under the act to which this is
1 Bcppiement, wherein the question of license or
no license hat been voted upon, though not upon
the day ofany municipal election in such city