The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-01-31
A VASSAL OR A PEER. .
WELLS HAS COME ON TO SEE
WHICH.
Anderson on Trial az New Or.
leans - silver Brtekz and
Golden IngotS-ButleR
and the Bible.

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The arrest OF the Louisiana Returning
Board purjurers, is the town talk. Old
Wells is believed to have arrived in this
city to claim the protection of Hayes.
Rich developments are expected. The
country should not permit itself to be
thrown into fever of alarm. by the treat
ment which the Louisiana Returning
Board is undergoing at the hands
of the local courts. The Returning
Board committed crime under
the laws of Louisiana, and it will
have to suffer the consequences. The
Federal Government has nothing to do
with the matter beyond, perhaps, the ex-
preston of profound sympathy, and if
everything works smoothly, the MEM
bers of the infamous Board, who are now
in the clutches of the law, will be In the
penitentlary inside of twenty days.
Just what confessions and revelations
may grow out of the prosecution of these
knsves, we are not prepared to say, but
we have reason to know that some per-
sons IN Washington are quite uneasy.
The new tariff bill is voluminous
affair. It will be reported BY the sub.
Committee tomorrow to Mr.. WOODS
full committee, but may not be reported
to the II ouse for some days. 1t has been
most carefully considered.
silver Bricks and Golden InKots-
ButIer and the BibIe-Anti-subsidy
BuncOmbe ResoIutions-WestV Vir-
ginia's Vote Wilson and the u. b
Courts. &C., &c.
Correspondence of the Register.
WASHINGTON, January 30.
In the House yesterday, Ben Butler
created a sensation. He asked unani-
m GUS consent to have petition read.
The petition was from the Conference
of the Unitarian Churches in Msssachu.
s.tts, against the silver bill, and COM
menced by saying that "the Conference
believed honesty to be the best policy
AS Ben was to speak on it, crowd gath
cred around him. He brought the
House and galleries to roar of laughter
by asking the Speaker to send him his
Bible. l judge from the uproar that it
was prevailing impression that Butler
had gotten hold of brick, with the use
of which he was not familiar. He sent to
the Clerks desk to be read, that passage
in the I'd chapter of the Gospel of st
John where il relates how Jesus scourged
the money-chsngers. Butler only added
II have no further word to say" Ben
is determined to get back his old reputs.
ton, and begins his dramatic season
with q good deal of ecLat. Old Ben is
used TO prosecutions, and has skin as
impervious TO newspaper attacks as the
rhinocerous. On dit: that the only things
he fears are Nsst and the looking glass.
The New York Press will certainly try
to scourge him. They have no mercy
for the silver men, and it will net be
the FAULT of their teaching and their lash
ing, il at the end of the session the gold
en- image is not still standing III Wall
street, and the decree yet extent "and
whose fslleth not down and worshippeth
shall the same hour be cast into the
midst of burning fiery furnace"
Indeed, the persecution of tho "silver"
men, by the press of New York and of
the East is scarcely less than that decreed
against Shadrsch, Mesheck, and Abed-
nego. In Congress, too, no epithet, from
"highwsy robbers to ''repudiators" has
been too vilityiug and slsnderous to be
used. But happily the days of the King
dom of the East are numbered. The
beck and nod Of Wall Street is no longer
to control the vast Interests of the coun-
try. If anyone doubts this, he should
have seen how Stanley Matthews reso-
luton went through the House on
Monday. Garfield tried to s,ave it of, for
a while, but he soon gave it up, and,
without a word of debate, it was
carried, by vote largely over the re-
quired two-thirds.
Mr.. Baker, Of Indiana, created q stir
in the House by introducing sn snti-sub-
sldy resolution. The Texas and Pacific
and the other interests which expect
Government aid, made but slight resist
snce to 1t. Indeed, these anti subsidy
resolutions are the purest buncombe
and demsgoguery that are known to leg
islation. At each Congress, one has al
ways been passed, almost unanimously,
and every man who voted for it has de-
llberstely voted for every scheme of inter-
nal improvement and every subsidy that
benefited his section. The trainers OF
these ingenious catch pennies
always contrive TO leave in the resolution
some ambiguous phrase, which serves as
8 loop-hole for any one who desires 10