The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-12-09


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or cmploye; and any person offending
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thereof, be deemed guilty Of misde-
meanor, and shall be punished by d fine
not exceeding $1,000 and Imprisonment
for a term not exceeding ten years, at the
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be paid to any Senator, Representative or
Delegate, or TO any person for his use or
benefit, directly or indirectly, any sum Of
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such services or advice relativo to any OF
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at any time TO bring suit for the
recovery thereof, or its value, in
any Court ol the United States against
such.Senator, Representative or Delegate,
person or persons, who received the same,
or may unite all such persons in the same
suit.
Bills were introduced and referred as
follows
By MIR. Myers-To restore the duty OF
10 per cent on certain manufacturers OF
cotton, wood, iron, paper, glass, leather,
etc.
By Mr.. Crouse-For an additional Rep.
resent8tive from the State of Nebraska,
BY Z. IL. ROberts-PropoSing amend
ments 10 the Constitution providing that
Congress shall not make anything but
gold and silver coin as tender in tho pay
ment OF individual debts, and that Con-
gTess shall pass no law imparing the oh.
legation Of contracts.
BY Mr.. Page-lnstrucling the Commit.
tee on Foreign Affairs to inquire whether
any Legislation or Government action is
necessary to prevent the immigration or
importation Of Coolies under contract
for servile labor, and Of Chinese women
for the purpose OF prostitution.
BY MIR. Hereford, for the improvement
OF the kanawhA river.
BY Mr.. Townsend, to reDcal the acts
requiring stamps on bank checks, &c,
Also, authorizing the President TO cor
respond with foreign nations concerning
the establishment Of system Of Interna.
tional arbitration.
BY Mr.. White, 10 regulate elections in
certain Southern States. Also to amend
the act TO enforce the rights OF citizens to
vote.
BY Mr.. Randall, repeating the increase
Of the Presidents salary.
Mr.. Lawrence offered resolution call.
ing on the Secretaries Of the Treasury and
War for information as TO the claim of
Sugglorth, Of Robinson county, Tenn,
Tor CommiSsary stores, &C., on what eyi-
dence It was allowed, sc. Adopted.
Mr.. Kelley proceeded to address the
House in support OF the bill. He said
that it proposed that when any in.
diVidual had any money lying idle, for
which he had no present use, he might
lend it to the government at the rate of
3.G5 per cent, recalling it as he
mightdo from savings bank when the
time comes for the use Of the money. He
claimed that the government would thus
get about $J00000, 900 at that low rate OF
interest with which to redeem tho gold
bearing bondsI now held abroad for its
foreign debt, and that it would give in.
creased value TO greGnblCks and diminish
the demand Tor gold and thereby remove
the disparity between them and gold. 1t
would quicken every industry and restore
confidence 10 the people
After speaking twenty-five minutes
Kelly yielded to
BuTLEE, OF AssACHUsETTs,
who advocated the bill, and claimed that
1t was in accordance with the position
which he had held on the subject ior
many years. II person wanted money
as a business loan he could not borrow il
on commercial paper at less than Z, s, 8
or 10 per cent. And why? Because II
was understood that Congress and the
Executive were determined to contract
the currency until specie payment was
reached; but specie payment there never
had been, and never would be. 1t was
always a dClusiOn. But specie value they
would come to. ue wanted the Govern.
ment TO come into the market as a bor-
rover at low rate OF interest; then the
next range would be near 10 it, and 80 on
till all the rates of interest came down.
The House then went into Committee
of the Whole on the general calendar,
and after laying aside several bills with
out action, took up the bill OF which Kel.
Icy is the author for tho exchange Of
greenbacks into
3G5 CONVERTIBLE BOND3.
The Republican party is held respon.
sible for the distress that has been brought
on the country. We have become pSr.
ty Of invested capital, party Of bond
holders and monOpoists. The Republi-
can party attracted the true men OF the
country when II started, because 1t started
bringing up labor. II commenced at the
lowest stratum the slave and raised him
to citizenship, but the war and the neccs.
sites Of the Government brought to the
party the capitalists Of the country, and
at last when the war was over VIC had q
party OF the head which were capitalists
and at the loot the negroes with not much
atllislion between them. Laughter on
the part Of the Democrats There is no
occasion Tor your laughter as the Demo-
crat party is in very much the same con-
dition. The old whig party leaders are
tho capitalists Of that party, who would
not come into the Republican party be-
cause they would not go for bringing up
laboring men, and finding nowhere else
to go they went over and became leaders
Of the Democratic party, and so that ia q
party now with old whig bond holders for
It's head and Irishmen for It's tail Laugh.
ter and there is very little afflliauon be.
tween head and tail eithr. We have got
into this abnormal condition ofthings and