The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-01-12
WASHING GT0 N.
Conk|ings Defense a Failure
NEW CIVIL SERVICE RULES
Effects of Carpet-Bag Rule
Admiral Lee to Sail for Havana
HalIeck's Command to be
Discontinued.
Appeal in Habeas Corpus Cases.
Special Dispatch to the REGISTER by the
Z. q A. Telegraph Line'l
Inn,,ar,r III
ro,kIins,s Defense u Failure.

L. S a. lSicSiaPh LAS'I
WASHINGTON. January IL.
Conk,inc,s Defense u Failure.
Mr.. Conkling's labored defense OF
the Administration in the Senate TO-
day fell very tame and fiat, while
bis attacks upon the Independent he
publicans were Of such character that
they will not even merit a response to
his speech. At first he was listened to
with attention, but when he finished
he hardly had dozen listeners among
his colleagues. He predicted Grants
denomination and his reelection by an
overwhelming majority.
When it is remembered that Mr..
Conkling is standard candidate for
an appointment to the Supreme bench,
it may he said thet the whole insplra-
ton Of his remarks may readily be seen.
Mr.. Sumner replied to Mr.. Conkling,
but not with his usual force. In
alluding to Mr.. Conklings impeach'
ment of his motives in offering
the one term resolution, Mr.. Sumner
remarked that such insinuations were
too contemplate to even merit notice.
Altogether the days proceedings
were tame and uninteresting, and
failed to rise to the heighth which was
popularity anticipated.
Effects of Carpet Bag Rule.
Representative Beck is preparing a
document, which will be signed by him
self and Senators Bayard and Blair,
going to show the losses sustained by
the South during the reign Of the car
pet-baggers. This document will make
no statements that cannot be sustained
by official proof, and the aggregate
financial cost to the Southern States
through the manipulation OF these
adventurers in over issuing State bonds,
lending State credit and open and un.'
disguised plunder in various other
ways will be found to aggregate hun
dred OF millions OF dollars in the last
five years. The document in ques-
ton will be submitted to Congr ess in
the form of minority report at the
same time that Senator Scott presents
his Ku-Klux report from the majority
of the Southern Investigating COM
mittee.
Judge Thurman,
of Ohio, has been invited by the lit
erarv societies OF the University OF
Virginia, near Charlottesville. to deliver
the usual annual address before them.
Mr.. Thurman has accepted the invita-
ton.
Admiral Lee
will sail next week for Havana, joining
his flagship, the Worcester, at Hampton
Roads. He has been detained here by
the absence of a suitable vessel. The
West Indian squadron is inferior IN
force to the Spanish fleet. 1t is said
that the officers fthe Spanish navy are
eager tor war with the United States.
Right Of Appeal I'm Habeas Corpus
Cases.
The bill introduced in the House, on
Monday, 10y Mr. Kerr, of Indiana, to
give right of appeal in habeas corpus
cases from final judgments Of Circuit
Courts Of the United States to the Su-
preme Court of the United States, is
important, being intended to re-enact the
law which, on March y, 1868, was
repealed in order to keep the McArdle
and like cases out Of the Supreme Court
and for the further purpose OF prevent
ing these Infamous laws from being
tested or condemned by the Supreme
Court. Now no appeal lies to the Su-
preme Court in any case involving ger
sonal liberty.
HalIeck's Command 10 be DiscOn-
linued.
1t IS officially stated that the military
division Of the South, lately commanded
by General Halleck, will not be con-
tinued hereafter. Generals in command
OF military districts in the Southern
States will be required to report directly
TO the War Department.
Democratic Objection to Civil Ser
vice Rules.
Quite a number OF Democrats object
to the new civil service rules on the
ground that they relieve the heads Of
bureaus and departments from all re-
sponsibility on account OF the acts of
their subordinates. 1t is now consid-
cred certain that the new system OF
examination will be pretty effectuslly
rIdiculed out OF existence before the
present Congress adjourps.