The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-12-28

The Georgia senatorship.

The Georgia Senatorship.
WASHINGTON, December 27.-The
Senate Judiciary committee will meet
on the Saturday preceding the assem-
bling Of Congress to hear the arguments
on the Georgia Senatorship There
ere four applicants for the honor. Hill
and Miller were elected in 1868, and
they claim that the Legislaturewhich
elected them was legally constituted
the negroes not being expelled until
after their election, but the claim is
made against Hill and Miller that the
Legislature by which they were elected
was from the first illegally constituted,
the iron-clad oath never having been
administered and there being number
unable to takeit. Hill, however, claims
that in his. case the votes cast for him
were all legal or SO nearly so as to
leave him still the majority requisite
for his election. In Miller election,
he receiving the Democratic vote, this
was not the case, besides Miller's disa-
bilities have never been removed For
Whitley and Farrow, the Republicans
elect, chosen in 1869, the claim is made
that they were elected by the only
legally constituted Legislature under
the act of 1860, passed by Congress in
consequence of Democratic usurpations
The Frauds In the Indian Bureau.
Mr.. Welsh, Of the Indian Peace
Commission, is here, and has been look
ing over the records in the Indian office
relating to the transactions he recently
exposed in his report to Secretary De-
lano. He claims to have found ample
official evidence to substantiate his
charges The House committee on
Appropriations have sent to the Indian
office for all documentary evidence
bearing on the case, and when this is
furnished the investigation ordered will
proceed rapidly.
The Fishery Question.
The British Minister has, under in
structions from his home, already taken
initiatory steps toward considering the
fishery controversy and is arranging
for settlement of the claims that will
arise from the seizure of our vessels.
Sir Edward Thornton has acknowledged
the substantial correctness Of Mr.. Fish s
position as shown by diplomatic CORE
spondence, just published this morning
from April to November of the present
year. relating to the fishery question.
The Canadian authorities claim that
their refusal to issue licenses to foreign
fishers does not interfere with American
privileges under the treaty Of 1918, and
that there are now no waters embraced
in that treaty under control of the New
Dominion. Mr.. Fish takes opposite
grounds and in Illustration points to that
portion of the coast formerl " known as
Labrador, from Ansable to Magdelin
Island. He also points to discrepancies
in the position taken by him and the
provincial authorities, one being that
the Canadian line is three miles from
shore while the other assumes that it is
three miles from an imaginary line
drawn across the mouth Of all the rivers
and bays Sir Edward Thornton con-
Cured in the general correctness Of Mr..
Fish's position and that will make an
adjustment of all the points compare
tivelv an easy task. 1t is well under
stood by the British Minister that the
regulations made by Canada are ill-ad-
vised and the manner of their eXecu-
ton shows an uniriendly spirit.
Statistics Desired.
Mr.. Moran, Secretary Of the Ameri-
can Legation, at London, has been di-
rected by the State department to tele-
graph, Immediately, the statistics OF
the maritime strength of Great Britain
at the present time, and especially the
increase to her shipping during the past
four years A special message OF the
President to Congress on the subject Of
our merchant marine service, gives oc-
casion both for information and haste
In obtaining IL.
The State Department
Has not yet prepared Minister Schenck' s
instructions on the Alabama claims,
nor will they until Mr. Sehenck returns
from Wash ington. 1t is not yet Off
cially known when the new Minister to
England will depart, but report says
about the middle OF January
Not to be Removed.
The Tribune correspondent telegraphs
that those Senators who decided, after
the speech of Senator Sumner on the
San Domingo resolution, and debate
which followed it, to attempt to remove
the Massachusetts Senator from the
Chairmanship OF the committee on
Foreign Relations, have nearly all come
to the conclusion to abandon the under,
taking,
A great mysterv hangs over the