The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-10-29
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WHEELING REGISTER.
Associated Press Report. by Western
Union Line, Office Northwest cor.
Of Main and 18th Sts.
DOMESTIC NEWS.
Meeting OF the Bar 10 Consider the
Naturalization Cases.

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Meeting OF the Bar 10 Consider the
Naturalization Cases.
NEW ORLEANS, October 28.-A large
meeting of the members of the Bar took
place to-day in the Sixth District Court
room. The committee to which was re-
ferred the duty of preparing resolutions
expressive of the opinion of the bar of
New Orleans as to the power Of the
Second District Court to naturalize aliens
under acts Of Congress, reported, first,
that the Second District Court of New
Orleans is a district court and entitled
under section of act Of Congress of 1902,
to nsturalize foreigners. Second, That
the Second District Court of New Orleans
is Court of Record with seal and clerk
and that it has common law jurisdiction
in that it is court which entertains suits
for money demands and all personal
actions against SUGGESTIONS, minors and
interdicted persons, and as such has
jurisdiction to naturalize aliens. Over
one hundred members Of the bar We're
present who approved of the above report
and signed it.
Drinking saloons 10 be closed. OH
Election Day.
New ORLEANS, October 28.-Mayor
Wcltz ISSUES proclamation requesting
the closing of all kinds of drinking sa-
looms on election day, and calling upon
all good citizens to use every effort To
preserve the peace,
Negro Votes Registered.
Between five and SIX thousand fraud
ulent registrations of negroes in this city
have been discovered, but the authorities
don't strike them from the lists. The
Central Church Committee of fifty Re-
publicans, colored, issued an address
stating that they constitute nine-tcnths
of the Republican voters Of the State and
ask for an equal distribution of public
patronage, and demand that the colOrcd
men shall be consulted upon all ques
tions involving the Interests which they
represent and the welfare of the Who'll"
people of the State. They don't propose
to be blindly led as they have been in
the past.
The fraudulent registered negroes in
clude Democratic negroes, many Of
whom, it is alleged has from five to ten
registration certificates eaen. The Re
publicans claim that there are as many
falsely registered whites a. negroes. 1t.
is evident if the laws are enforced, the
State prison will soon be filled with
political rascals who are now at large.
Attorney General Fields Opinion
Reversed.
NEW ORLEANS, October 2S.-Thc
Conservatives decline to acccde to the
proposition of Kellogg to have two bal
lot boxes, one set apart for the reception
of voters naturalized by the Second Dis
trict court. The opinion of w. X.
Whitaker, which was requested by At
tornev General Field as to the legality
of naturalization before the Second Dis
trict Court, has been given, and is the
reverse of that of the Attorney General.
Mr.. Whitaker is of the opinion the court
has jurisdiction.
The FraudulentIy Registered Per-
son. to be Prosecuted.
NEW ORLEANS, October 2S--H is un-
derstood that 800 persons charged with
having been fraudulently registered,
are before the Grand Jury, and 1000
more remain to be prosecuted. ....
Joseph Milbrough and Mary johnson,
were before the United States Conmls-
sioner T.. d. Craig, charged with vio-
lating Sec. 6 of the enforcement act, III
breaking up II meetingo Of colored Demo-
Gratis.
The report that General Emory is to BE-
succeeded IN command here by General
DeTrobrand is untrue.
Indignation Against Louisiana
knOw.NOthinsism.
At a mass meeting of foreign born
citizens tonight resolutions were passed
denouncing the attempt now being made
by the State officials to deprive them "i
the right of suffrage, call upon their
brethren throughout America to hold I"
strict accountability the political party
which thus disfranchiscs them, and stat
that they intend to cast their ballots on
the second day of November in the same
box MS other American citizens. The
meeting was largely attended, quiet ana
orderly.
b. l.. Lynch, Judge of the Fourth Dis
trict Court, was naturalized in the Second
District Court since 1861.
Kellogg having decided that the bal
lot boxes for the city shall contain n
compar,ment for the ballots of the voters
nat,lraiizcd by the Second District Court
and said naturalized citizens having de-
cided tonight to deposit their ballots III
the same box with the other American
citizens. conflict ON election day seems
probsble unless the authorities yieId 70
the DIT sponderance Of the legal opinion
against them.
KelIogg's Prisoners.
M,xpor La, October 2S.-CommlS-
s;nper ,Jewe,t, after reading lengthy
opinion, quoting from the EVIDENCE OF
Scott Rains, colored prosecuting witness
held Judge Scott, Recorder Ramsey ana
Mavor Richardson, in bonds OF Sl,oW
each. ,.,,
Messrs. Huev, Mayfeld and Phillips, OF
Lincoln. were admitted by Jewett I"
hail in the sum of 5000 each. Hu"y,
| af,er his release. was re-arrested by Mar
shal Selev, catching Huey by the goatete,
ON a second warrant, for violation OF the
enforcement act Huey asked for the
Nsrshars authority, when the Mar.
shall caught Huey by the arm and carried
him off. Huey gave second oohu'
! The bands of Trenton and Monroe
serensded the released prisoners, and
| large number, Of citizens were IN a''eh-
dance. Mn. n
The telegraph business west Of Vienna.
mentioned last night is confirmed. Inc
the order given to cut the wires, 'ahd
Jobn Townsend and two colered men
witnessed the cutting. Townsend sweafs
Ia saw tho cutting and was halted while