Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1878-11-28
WASHINGTON NOTES.
CONDITION OF THE SENATORIAL CAL
ENDAR.
Queer Case Under the Civil Rights Bill
Labor Statistics Bureau-MasOn's
Dispatches and Don Piatt
Call for Bonds.
The sena,e Calendar of Business.


three special orders, nine resolutions and
lG4 bills coming over from last session,
and if Senators are disposed for busl-
ness they have plenty at hand to 90 to
work on. The most important bills are
in the following conditions: The
original Senate bills, which will nave
to he considered by the House az well
as the Senate are: The bill to provide
ior the survey of an inland water route
from the Mississippi Riverto the Atlantic
Ocean; to authorize and equip an eX-
petition 10 the Arctic Seas; to organize
life saving and coast guard
service; to establish the Territory
oi LiccOln and provide temporary
government therefor; to authorize the
Southern Pacific Railroad Company to
extend its railroad and telegraph line
easterly from its present eastern ter
minus in Arizona to point on the Rio
Grande at or near FL Paso, and to aid in
building the same; to amend the Texas
Pacific railroad act; to repeal all that
part OF the resumption act which au-
th0riZed the Secretary of the Treasury
to dispose OF United States bonds and
redeem and cancel greenback currency;
regulating compensation Tor the trans
portation of mails on railroad routes,
and providing for classification OF mail
matter: to provide for the estab-
lishmcnt OF steamship mail
service between the United States
and Brazil; to provide for and
regulate the counting of votes Tor Presl-
dent and Nicc-President; to regulate
hours of labor: to establish an cduca-
tional fund, and to apply the proceeds
of the sales of public lands to public
education ;authorize railroad companies
10 construct and maintain telegraph
lines for commercial purposes; to pro-
vide for indemnity due to several States
under the Act OF March 3, lS55, relating
To swamp and Ovcrtlowed lands; to
confer upon the Army Boards Of the
United States Army, organized by the
President to review the proceedings of
courtS-martial, authority To compel the
attendance OF witnesses and to send i"r
persons and papers; and to incorporate
the United States Railway Mail Service
Mutual Benefit Association. The fol-
lowing House bills are on the calcn-
dar, with amendments, and will
have to go back to the House Tor
concurrence in said amendments: Bill
for the payment To officers and soldiers
of the Mexican War of three months
extra pay, provided by act OF July 10,
1878; and an act to authorize the pay
ment OF customs dues i'll legal tender
notes. The following House bills are
on the calendar, with adverse reports:
TO relieve certain legal disabilities of
women. and to provide for the enforce
mcnt of an eight hour law. House bills
to provide ior arrears ol pensions and TO
fix the pay Of letter carriers have passed
to the second reading and only require
the concurrence OF the Senate to become
laws, so lar a$ the Legislative Depart
mcnt is concerned. Among the resolu
tions coming over from last session, the
most important are that OF Mr.. Beck,
declaring the imposition OF taxes lor the
purpoSc Of creating Il sinking fund Tor
the cXtinguishmcnt Ol portion oi the
public debt to be unnecessary and mex
pcdient, and that of Mr. Blaine, in rcla-
ton to the tariff.
A Queer Case Under the Civil Rights Bill.
WASHINGTON, November PA novel
ease under the civil rights bill has Just
been decided in Virginia. Two negroes
were indicted for murder Of white boy.
The vcnire for the jury was entirely
composed uf white men. The defend
ants demanded venirr 0t 0nc-third
negroes, which was refused. The me-
yroeS were found guilty. They sent out
Il writ oi habeas corpus from the United
States Court, and the Jury decided that
negro had right To demand to be
tried bv his peers, and that, therefore,
judge Trcadway, Circuit Judge, violated
the law ni the United States i'll refusing
to award summons Tor special venire,
To he composed i'll part, at least, of
negoeS. although there was no proof oil
Tered in either court that white jurymen
were ut all prejudiccl or incompetent.
President Mum on His Message.
WASHINGTON, November 21.-Narious
reported conversations with the Presi-
dent are atioat concerning the views he
will express in his forthcoming message
as to Southern affairs. The reports are
81 contradictory rs To stamp them aS
unworthy of Crcdcncc. The President
has carefully rciraincd from foreshadow-
inc even an outline oi his message To
anyolrc. and all reports ~ Ia what views
he will express are sensational. The
StalwartS. so-called, claim To have the
best evidence that the message will be
! a kcv-notc for Republicans, while more
moderate men claim Ia have information
of an opposite character.
Southern Republican Representation.
NJ. N..,.,,,,l.r D..,., 4
ed the present status is not altered by
contests. the total number of Republi-
| cans elected to the next Congress from
| the Southern States, exclusive OF Mary
land and Missouri, is tive-one from
Florida. Tennessee and Virginia respec-
tivclv. and two from North Carolina.
| Compared with the present Congress,
! this iS loss Of one in Tennessee, one i'll
! Louisiana and three in South Carolina.
| Mason's Dispatches and Dom Piatt.
WASHINGTON, November 26.-Donn
| Piatt announced last sunday that he
would soon print full copy oi the dis
patches of John c. Mason To the State
! Department in 1855, which, during the
| last administration. We're furnished the
/ R,pihicdu here Ia hold over Piatt
| The latter could never obtain copy
until lately. He now has copies of the
dispatches, which. however, were moi
furnished with Mason's, which he
claims fully vindicate,l him from the
charges il was sought to sustain by the
partial version.
Labor Statistics Bureau.
WASHINGTON, November II. - W
Goodwin Moody, Of Boston, called on
the President to-day, with a long peti
ton signed by thousand of the fir.
citizens of Massachusetts. asking Il,
establishments Of Bureau of Industry
under the auspices of the Government
the business ot the Bureau Ia collect sta
tistics ~ Ia the condition oi the labor
classes The President said he woul,
take il into consideration.
The Lee Monument.
RICHMOND. November 27.-The com
missioners from the various States inter
ested in the erection Of the Lee monu
ment, met tonight, and consultation