The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-02-20

human nature in yielding up integrity
manhood. character for party, and Of the
same time screen q man whom they
knew TO be guilty Of the charges pre-.
teTed against him.
In,this speech u must call II SUCH
Mr.. Walker proves by the hands in his
employees that he is a public benetactor ;
that he did the printing economically;
that he did not In scarcely any case
charge as much as the law allowed him
TO charge, and that instead of his having
oVeFcharged the sum Of near $4,000
as the previous Committee of 1nvestigG'
ton reported, there Is Justly due him
from the State the sum Of $9,616 IA, and
the State owes him this little balance,
and he would like to have 1t. Again l
must ask permission to call this thing
Joke It certainly cannot be possible that
after having paid Mr.. Walker over
$4,000 90 for one years printing, that 1t
still owes him $4,000 more, when
$4,000 is the most ever paid to any
one Of his predecessors IN any one year,
and that too when the code was being
printed. This certainly must be Joke,
I insist upon, 1t that Messs. Ferguson,
Bridges and Robinson (Roblnson, Is from
your county were Joking when they sent
this OF page speechof Walkers into the
House and called 1t their report. a
The report Of the minority Is substan.
TALLY this: They claim that after the
former Investigating Committee report.
ed, the case ought 10 have been referred
to the courts, and that the majority re.
port was wholly egparte, and unfair.
The reports stand two against three. But
II you please, look on these men and then
upon those, and then decide which re.
pert ought to be regarded as fair and
just
A call OF the House was made to-day,
and over halt Of the members were alb
sent, including MIR. Hornor, the Sergeant
at Arms. Speaker Miller deputized Mr..
Wetzell, one Of the Committee clerks, as
Sergeant at Arms, pro t6D., and directed
the arrest of all tho absent members.
Wetzell pstclsea in, and In about an hour,
he had twenty members under arrest,
Jackie Horno:, the Sergeant, among the
number. There was ali alarming amount
ofswcaring and crashing Of teeth, with
emphatic indications oil q flow of blood,
No blood poured, however, aud tho mem
bers tried to reconcilethemselVes to the
situation. Peace would have been i'm.
mediately restored had all the members
been duh sober, but alasl they were not
In the language of Col. Foley, a leading
Democrat of the House, There is too
much whisky in this thing" That was
what's the matter. A debate at once
arose whether this scene above referred to
should 90 upon the Journal. We have read
of the battles OF the Gods on Mt. Olympus,
and the fights between angels IN the ar,
and Mich9els engagement with his Sa
tanic Majesty behind the embellishments
oil Heaven, but this little skirmish eclipseu
them all. The first scene was sometning
like the following, oil on the floor at the
same time, MIR. Speaker l say, NIT.
Speaker! Mr.. Speaker! Haloo! MIR,
Speaker! Sab! Mr.. Speaker had the
floor firstl No, was up firstl i rise To
q pint Of order! The gentleman mas
pint too much no~ The gentleman Is
not out of order himself Mr.. Speaker,
QC6lEe-! .OEuGI1 SLuSA' wa
tho gentleman responsible. That SUITS
me. That's my game! I've got the
floor! Order! Order! No you haint got
the floor either! Order! Order! ordef!
Order! .,,,
After about two hous fillibustering,
and before the matter was settled, me
House adjourned, at o temperature Of 100
Fahrenheit The little G. Q. D. who was
very active in the fight, put in the balance
of the afternoon in going among and get
ting the members 10 pledge themselves
to let the matter drop and keep the farce
Of the records. So the thing stands at
this writing, but it may break out new
again on Monday. We hope It may. i
It has been raining here for several
days; streets are very muddy. Mails are
quite regular. There are q number Of
small slips along tho y. s. 0. Railroad,
produced by tho wet weather. No more
Ice; summer is coming. No prospect Of
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