The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-11-11
r.. Meeting Of Congress.


mia now only three weeks until Con-
,,s'. meets, and consequently public al
.'0,ion s Is turning earnestly and anxiously
~ Washington to ascertain II possible
~ w,,, will bc attempted on behalf Of the
country in the present crisis. One Of the
',Saen,ial SI members OF the House Of Rep
,r.suts,iyes has indicated in advance
whs! bis programme will be with reier'
eDce TO q future financial policy. we
publish his views on this head at length
III, morning and have no doubt that
our readers generally will peruse them
9TH great deal OF interest. Judge KEEL
,EY Is SO prominent a member Of Con
s,ess, and has been so often elected from
fPblsdelphis, that we may consider what
bsssrs as 10 no small degree representative
of,be manufacturing and commercial sen.
,inept OF his influential constituency
Thrre IA no doubt that the voice o! Penn.
.yIv,nis will be in the direction he has In
jic,,ed, Pittsburgh no less than Philadel-
mia Is likely to favor his views. Indeed Il
IOOks as II the manufacturing interests o.
,be whole country will be on that side.
Now England, heretofore so conservative
in her views on this subject, feels the pres
en-, depression in buciness very sensibly
and in the nsture Of things cannot help
.ympl.hisiug with any project that
promises speedy work for her suffering
people. Mr.. BOUTWELL, and Gen. But
tER have both declared themselves
sssiust specie payments at this time, and
their position Is likely to be generally fol.
lowed by the New England delegates in
Congress.
II will bc strange enough indeed II
Notwithstanding all that has been said
,bOu, the bloated bondholders and cap
l,slIs,s Of the East, who were supposed to
be anxiously waiting for an opportunity
like the present to buy up the balance Of
the country cheap for cash, they turn out
,Obe the ones who OF all others are most OPP
posed to specie payments at this time and
In favor Of such q programme as is laid
down by Judge KELLEY this morning
And stranger still is the possibility that
The hitherto heretical West, supected OF a
great sympathy with the greenback
theory Of PENDLEroN & Co. may become
pss excellence Of the conservative element
our national finances. Just at this time
she Is in receipt Of large amounts oi Brit
tlsh gold and her banks are in better con-
di,ion than those of the East. To Ger
,sin extent she has all at once changed
places with the East by reason OF her good
crops and the demand for them in Eu-
rope. This gold pays her debts and leaves
her comparatively easy, while the Eastern
and Middle manufacturing States are
caught, like the sPRAauEs, very much
spread out.
As TO whether these views Of Judge
KRLLgY can be put into practical work
Ing shape SO as to save US from an evil
day sooner or later, we very much doubt.
Of course it will be easy to start on the
road he points out That process Is
always easy enough. 1t Is getting back
10 where we start from that hurts so
many people. But still his views will be
popular. There is and always has been a
lesire to find Northwest passage"
o financial matters, just as there
.Sed to be to find q new route to the
geal,h Of the Indies. There are those
vho contend that 1t Is not necessary to
:ume to specie payments through tribula.
ion, but that It can be reached In q
natural, gradual and profitable way. That
is, that we can grow 10 1t by developing
our resources, or we can put out sail and
lake in sail, expand and contract, shit
and tack, according to circumstances, and
sOavOld both scylla and Charybdis. As
to whether we can do this or not is the
great problem Of the day and the one
which the wisdom OF Congress must now
attempt to solve to the satisfaction Of an