The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-01-16
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WASHINGTON, January 15.-The sub
scriptions to the four per cent loan to-day
amounted to ST, ,245, 900.
PURCHASE OF SILVER.
The Treasury Department to-day made
the usual weekly purchase OF 4O0,OO(
ounces OF silver.
DEMOCRATS IN CAUCUS ON EDNuNDs' RRsoLu
TIoN.
The Democratic Senators held caucus
this morning to consider the course to be
pursued on the resolutions recently sub,
mitted by Mr.. Elmunds, declaring the
last three constitutional amendments duly
ratified; that the laws already enacted for
their enforcement should be faithfully ex.
ecuted, and that Congress should further
provide for their enforcement BY addi-
tional legislation. After some discussion,
the subject was referred 10 committee oi
seven, consisting OF Senators Thurman,
Eaton, Mcdonald, Gordon, Salisbury,
Morgan and Harris, to report to future
caucus. A committee OF three, with Sen.
ator Morgan as chairman, was appointed
10 report what further action, Il any
should be taken to secure the repeal oi
both sections OF the revised statutes which
prescribe test oaths for jurors in United
States Courts.
THE NEW YORK APPOINTMENTS.
A Communication was laid before the
Senate in the executive session TO-DAY
from Secretary Sherman, on the subject Of
the New York Custom House appoint.
ments, designed 10 show that the removal
OF Collector 4 rthur and Naval officer Cor.
nell, were made for sufficient cause, and
that therefore the confirmation OF the
present nominees should not be resisted
on the ground that injustice was done
to their predecessors The coinmunica-
ton embodied sundry reports made
to Secretary Sherman, and other ex.
tracts from the confidential recorlsof the
Treasury Department asserting or indi.
eating that Arthur and Cornell failed to
administer their offices with a degree oi
efficiency considered requisite by the De.
partment. Their failure to take action in
regard to extensive smuggling in silk
goods and under valuation OF kid gloves
&c., is commented on and placed in con.
trast with measures inaugurated and
pushed to issue satisfactorily to the Coy.
ernment by the successors in office. y
AL the conclusion OF the reading OF Sec
retarySherman's communication, Senator
conkling made an earnest tspeech, defend
ing Mcssrs. Arthur and Cornell from the
charges OF inefficiency, and denouncing
the charges as pretensesand after thoughts
put forth blythe administration in the eff
lortto justify the action which was wholly
unwarranted on civil service grounds
and prompted merely by personalor parti-
san considerations. 49,.
Senator Thurman made some serni.joct
lar remarks, evidently calculated to widen
the breach between the President and 9
majority Of the Republican members O
The Senate. n Senator ,Edmunds also spoke
briefly, without, however, definitely indi
eating his position on tho subject in con
troveEsy. f.,--.4 -ly-- 81,
The communications and accompanying
papers were then, on motion OF Mr.. Conk
ling, referred to the. Committee on Com
merce, and the Senate adjourned.
tits the general impression tonight tina
the pending nominations will be rejected
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