The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-11-20
Waseling Register,
The West Virginia C0mmissione rs-
A Card.
STATE OF VIRGINIA, J
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
R,CuNnyD Nox le 1877

RICHMOND, Nov. l6, 1871.
To The Editors Of the Richmond. Dis.
patch: ... III
GENTLEMEN My attention has been
called to the communication which an,
peared in this mornings edition of your
paper from the Commissioners OF West
Virginia, in which my name is used in
connection with their recital of what
TRANSFERRED in one Of the offices of the
Executive Department on the 10th in
slant. AS the general tenor of the
communication of these gentlemen ap-
pears to be an effort to make an i'm 9.
preston that they did not receive the
courtesy due to them on the occasion
alluded to, deem it proper to make a
statement Of the facts as | understand
them. On Friday last tour or FIVE
strangers came into the Executive
Chamber, and one Of them informed me
that the Commissioners from West Vir-
ginia had called to pay their respects to
the Governor. | told them that the
Governor was not in his office, but
would be in short time, and invited
them to be seated One of them
whom afterwards learned was General
Jackson-replied, "No; we will not
wait" and Immediately left the room,
followed by the others who had accom-
panied him. No cards were left, nor
did they intimate any intention of call
ing again. And not knowing that they
remained in the capitol, l did not in
form the Governor of their visit. They
did not inquire of me whether the
Governor could assign to them some
room in the capitol where they could
meet and examine such public docu-
ments as would aid them in the object
of their mission
| neither saw nor heard any more Of
them until some time during that day
or the next Colonel Mcdonald, the
Secretary of the Commonwealth, came
in and informed me that the Commits
soners from West Virginia were in his
office, and desired to know if they could
he accommodated with a room in the
capitol. | went Immediately to the
Governor, who was then busily engaged
10 official duties in the Executive man
sion, and made known to him what had
been communicated to me by the Secre-
tary OF the Commonwealth. His re-
plv and Colonel McDonald's report to
the Commissioners are given in the
statement Of that gentleman accompa-
nying this. II the gentlemen were
treated with any discourtesy whatever
| alone am responsible for it; and am
perfectly willing that the public shall
decide where the failure OF proper Ell
ouette existed. The item in the Dis
patch of the 18th instant which elected
the aforesaid card was probably sug,
gested by a conversation l had with
one of the reporters Of that paper, who
frequently visits my office for the pur-
pose of obtaining information OF apub-
lie character, in which | expressed my
surprise at the conduct OF at least two
of the Commissioners, who, to my
knowledge, had evidently been seeking
to create the impression that they had
been officially snubbed by his Excel
lency Governor Walker, when l knew,
and thought they ought to know, the
contrary to be the fact. | know that
Governor Walker has been, and still Is,
ready to extend to these gentlemen
every courtesy in his power whenever
they make known to him In proper
manner the object Of their visit.
Il. F. Owens,
Colonel and A. D. G.