Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-06-23
ing the completion OF the foundation OF
the Washington monument passed.
Adjourned.
HOUSE.

Mr.. Cobb, rising 70 question OF per-
sOnal privilege, sent 10 the Clerks desk,
and had read, an extract from the In
dianapolis Journal, of the 18th instant,
charging him with having repeated a
threadbare lie about the Massachusetts
regiment interfering with voters in In
dianapolis in October, 1864. He also
had read extracts from other papers and
letters read in corroboration OF the state
ment which he had made in his speech,
and again reiterated the charge that the
election referred TO had been interfered
with by the Massachusetts regiment.
Mr.. Warner, who had been stationed
at Indianapolis in October, 1864, stated
that it had officially come to his knowl-
edge that there had been interference at
the election.
Mr.. Browne denied the truth OF the
statement by his colleague. The reason
why the Massachusetts regiment had
been quartered at Indianapolis was that
a conspiracy had been unearthed, hav-
ing as its object the subversion Of the
State government and turning it over to
the Confederacy. He did not charge
that it was 4 Democratic conspiracy, but
all persons who had been tried and con-
victed had been Democrats, and not
single Republican had been implicated
in it,
Mr.. Cobb asserted that Republicans
had been connected with that con-
spiracy.
Mr.. Baker also denied Mr.. Cobb's
statement, and alluded to the connec-
tion of the Democratic party with the
Knights of the Golden Circle. He re-
gretted to see that his friend from Ohio
Warner had so forgotten the lofty in
spirations with which he had been in
stgated in 1864 that now, in order TO
get himself on terms OF good fellowship
with those whom he had fought against,
had got to hurl his darts over his shoul-
der at the men whom he then COM
manded.
Mr.. De La Matyr entered his earnest
protest against uncovering the dead.
He had given three years TO the war
three earnest years-and he had been
fighting ghost ever since. He despised
and loathed this fighting of a ghost
[Anplanse on the Democratic side.
Mr.. Warner, after great deal of noise
aud confusion, obtained the floor in
order TO reply to the remarks of Mr..
Baker. lie repudiated the statement
that he stood on different ground now
from that on which he stood in 1864.
Mr.. Baker thought the gentleman
from Ohio was in the condition of po-
litical Rip Van Winkle, who had gone
to sleep on the vanguard of liberty in
the ranks of the Republican party and
had walked on the other side. Cheers
on the Democratic side.
The matter was then dropped.
Mr.. Kenna, from the Committee on
Enrolled Bills, reported the army APP
preparation bill, and it was signed by
the Speaker.
The House then resumed in the
morning hour consideration OF the bill
prohibiting political assessments.
Mr.. Hostettor withdrew his demand
for the previous question, and moved
to refer the bill to the Committee OF the
Whole, and on that motion demanded
the previous question.
The Republicans then, notwithstand-
ing the intimatiOn from Mr.. Springer
that the bill would not be taken up for
consideration at the present session, re-
Trained from voting, thus leaving the
House without quorum.
During one OF the roll calls q message
was received from the President an
nouncing his approval of the legislative
bill. The announcement was greeted
with applause on the Republican side,
and Mr.. Garfield remarked: We have
provided for ourselves, now let us pro-
vide for the rest Of the Government.
The supplementary judicial bill as en-
rolled was signed by the Speaker and
sent to the Senate for the signature OF
the presiding officer OF that body.
The morning hour expired without
action, and the political assessment bill
went over until the next morning hour.
During the DAYS session there was an
utter apathy shown. 1t was almost i'm
possible to obtain quorum on any
vote, although on one OF the roll calls
1S9 members answered. The bill to es-
tablish postroads in certain States passed
the Senate. The amendments TO the
House bill for the appointment OF the
Mississippi River Commission, after a
debate, i'm which Mr.. Baker opposed the
bill as the introduction OF a gigantic
scheme that would cost one hundred
million dollars, and in which Garfield
sustained it as a great work in which
men from the North and from the South
could clasp hands together, the amend
ments were cOncurred in by lG6 to IL.
The principal amendment is to make the
number Of commissioners seven, and 1t
was announced by Mr.. Hooker that
Prof. Hillgard is TO be an additional
commissioner.