The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-01-24
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STATE OF BUSINESS m CONGRESS.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 90

WASHINGTON, Jan. 90.
{ There are only thirty.six working days
counting Saturdays as such, LEFT for the
present Congress, during which to act up.
on the great number Of bills, &c, now
upon the calendars. The Senate general
orders show that total Of $40 bills and
resolutions arc waiting action, some Of
which have been hanging ever since the
first session in 1860, Of general orders 1Gs,
private and personal bills, such as pen
sions, relieving accounting officers, claims,
&C., and there are sixteen railroad land
grant bills, and seven for grants in aid Of
canals and irrigation bitches, and five
other bills, railroad interpretations or
extensions, nine relate to postal or ocean
telegraph projects, and ten bills for steam.
ship subsidies, and besides these q score Of
other measures, asking interpretations for
various projects, nominally belonging in
this district, or as In the case Of one bill
the Tehuanleptic railroad and ship canal
10 carry out the project In foreign terri.
tory. Besides these 325 bills and resolu.
tons, there are halt dozen special or.
ders, and fourteen resolutions reported
from committees.
THE NEW AProRTIoNMENT.
Tho apportionment bill will be the oc.
casion OF q very sharp fight in the House.
The western members have determined TO
press the amendment authorizing the
election Of additional Representatives
next fall in the States which now have
less than the number they will be entitled
10 by thenew apportionment They say
that II they consent to tho increase In the
number oi members Of the House, so that
the Eastern States shall not be deprived
Of any part Of their present Representa-
tion, members from those States ought TO
be willing TO agree to the demand Of the
Western States for the representation their
population entities them 10. The question
has a more important bearing than upon
the 42d Congress, for 1.-THE apportion-
ment docs not 60 into effect until 1873,
after the Presidential election, the Elec-
toral College will be chosen under the
present apportionment, while the States
arc represented in the college according
to their present population the result Of
tue election might not be the same, SO
that the peoples will in the choice OF o
President might be defeated by the re,
lusal Of Congress to make the new appor-
tlonment operatiyeat once. 80.
noRRmLE ouTRAGE IN GEoRoiG. fQ-
4 The Washington special TO the ,7fi5,ne
SAYS Accounts were received on Saturday
giving tie particulars Of q terrible Ki-
Klux outrage at Louisville, Jefferson
county, Georgia, on the 18th Inst. A par.
" Of masked mRrauders rode up TO the
jail, btpko IL open, md took thcFeffum
nine cblorcd prisoners, Ave Of whom had
recently been convicted Of offcnses and
were serving their terms Of imprisonment,
and the other four wero awaiting their
trial. Tho victims were taken d short
distance from the town, ,lnd numerically
whipped, From soyen ol thGtn tho Tut.
fans c1toll one car, and from tho eighth
the both wcro taken; whilst the ninth
was brought back Into the town and there
shot, receiving nine wounds, which prov.
cd fatal. Theolhers were turned loose.
So far as heard from none oil tho murder.
ers have been arrested,
THE NEW FIVE PER CENT.
The plates for tho bonds authorized I'M.
der the recent funding act Of Congress
arc In part prepared ior printing, In q
few days tho Treasury Department will
be rCady to supply alldCmandS.
INTERNAL REvESuR MATTERs.
Tho Commissioned Of Internal Revenue
In q letter 10 the Chairman Of tho Com
mittee on Ways and Means, states that