The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-10-15
GhpQntelIiqetreer.
Meeting OF Congress.

Congress meets In extra session to-day
A, noon, There will be no delay In the
organization, inasmuch as the Democrats
have completed their nominations in eau.
cu, and these nominations will be
promptly ratified in open session. We
confess to being grntifed at the numina.
lion Of Randall for Speaker, on account
of the signal service which he rendered
to the cause Of law and order at the close
of the ll,t session, during the Electoral
count lie saved the country from an
archy. \ portion Of the Democracy tried
t..sy.diaIe their Electoral contract, but
Randall would not allow them to succeed,
sui Tor thi4 he deserves a denomination,
although, as the Democrats say about
HAYES, he did nothing but his duty. Still,
iti.a hiI thing these days to find man
who will caCn approximately, ID his
du'y.
As regards the financial legislation Of
Congress, il Is hard to say just what sig.
uiicancc attaches to Randalls nomina.
ton. lie comes iaom the conservative
city Of Philadelphia, and represents u
people who are opposed to imitation, TO
subsidies, to free trade, and to nearly all
the slogans Of the Democracy in the Ohio
clmpaign. And yet he has had the
alrOitncss to combine men OF the North,
South and West in hi, support. Even
the New York Democracy, who were said
to look upon him rs the bstrsyer Of Til.
den, support him, as also do Alex. II,
Stephens and many leading southern
members.
The coming contest in Congress is no!
oae Of politics but Of spoiIs in the shape
Of subllies. There will be no polite,
over Hayes policy. The Democrats can
not make an issue with him and the sore.
heaied Republicans dare not. The real
Interest, therefore, will attach to schemes
like the Southern and Northern Pacii,
railroads, and the improvement OF the
Mississippi river from St. Paul to tue
EId3 Jetlies. Thcss big schemes will
embrace hundred smaller ones, such as
the Monongahela, the Kauawha, the Elk,
and every other alllnent OF the Ohio and
Mississippi rivers.
The first business will OF cousse BE- the
Army appropriation. That nppropria-
ton fell through on the last uigh. oil the
last session because the bill was SO amend.
ell in the House as to prevent the use Of
the army in the interest of either con.
tending party or faction in Louisiana and
South Carolina. That difficulty Is no
longer in the way, owing to the Presi.
dents policy, and Of course the apprO.
Priatioa will go through without diff.
Guilty. The only stumbling block will be
over tho increase Of the army to say 30
900 men. At present it does not number
over $4,000 effective soldiers, If that, and
there are those who, with the New York
San, Alvocate it's reduction to 10000
As for the money question, it is not
problble that anything OF importance will
be accomplished. Silver will likely be re.
stored to itsI place al it stood in 1873,
to which, we presume, no strenuous
objection will be made, but we do not
believe, after all the talk that has been
heard on the subject, that the Resump.
tion ac! Of January l4ih, 1915, will be
repealed, We are too near hard pan for
that. The repeal might easily enough
pass the House, but it would be difficult
to force it through the Senate, and II it
passed both bodies the President could
not fail, with his we'll known views, to
"take no steps backward" to vetolt. We
rejoice TO believe that the question Of
resumption is settling itself In a
way that, il left to itself, will
ere long give US Il solid foundation
whereon to build anew the fabric Of
national prosperity. The result OF tho
Ohio election does not mean more green
backs. If it did the Eastern Democracy
would be up in arms against it in Con-
greS' The people OF Ohio are too sol.
vent and too well satisfied with their
soIvencS to plunge again into the green
back abyss. They are within three points
oil being out Of ths! pit and they will
never consent to sink back again.
Oi course there are members Of Con.
gFess who will introduce bills looking to
ASeneral upsettinE Of monetary matters
"theynow stand. We may say OF such
statesmen, in borrowed language, that
the photographers OF history will catch
mem IN tho act and place them in the
gallery Of immortal idiots, where they
can be laughed at forever" We are Too
lar along on the road to sobriely after a
great historic saturnalia Of paper money
dissipation to turn about and enter on
another ot the same sort. The head aches
and heart.aches, and terrible anxieties,
pang', and distressing scenes, incident to
Agreat financial collapse, have been too
numerous to make the ioolishnes, Of 20.
Ing on another paper money spree popu-
'A' among sensible people.
\ Proposed innovation In the
Episcopal Church.
EosroS October l2.-The Convention