The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-05-15

4ub InUtluH was CHFTleu Dy vote Dy tell
ers. Yeas 100, nays 97, and the Hous
adjourned.
WASHINGTON.
A SEPARATE POST OFFICE FOR WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON, May 1.-THE Senate ant
House Committees on Public BuildingsRnC
Grounds to-day adopted the following res
olution, offered by MIR. Murch:
ResOlred, That the Postmaster Genera
and Chairman OF tho Senate and House
Committees on Buildings and Ground.
are hereby constituted committee with
authority to lease such bnilling
in this city, for the purpose of The
city post office, as in their judgment the
good Of the public service may require
providing said lease shall be for a term o.
not less than three nor exceeding Eve
years, and at an annual rental not 10 ex
ceed 5000.
SUBSCRIPTION 10 FOUR PER CENTS.
The subscriptions to the four per cent
funding certificates since yesterdays re
port amount to $50G,55O.
TIE PoNcA INDIANS.
Secretary McCrary, in conformity with
the decision Of Judge Dundy in the Ponca
habeas corpus case, has directed that the
Indians be cleared.
GAIT. EADs WANTS MORE MONEY.
Capt. Eads has made application ioran
additional payment OF S50O,0O0, claiming
that he has obtained q channel ut the
mouth of the Mississippi 25 feet deep and
200 feet wide.
THE INGALLS, BRIBERY.
L. E. Eggles and F. s. Stambaugh, ol
Kansas, had a hearing to-day before the
Senate Committee on Privileges and
Elections in regard to the allegations Of the
memorial signed by them and others
charging that the election OF Senator In.
gals was procured by bribery.
A HEAVY blow TO THE INDIAN SYSTEM OF
THE GOVERNMENT.
The decision OF Judge Dundy, at Omaha
in the Standing Bear hdbedS corpus case, in
which he virtually declares Indians cit.
izens with right TO go where they please
regardless Of treaty stipulations, is regard
ed by the Government as heavy blow
to the present Indian system; that II sus'
tanned will prove dangerous alike IA
whites and Indians. If the power OF the
Government to hold the Indians upon
their reservation or to return them when
they escape is denied, the Indians will be.
come body OF tramps, moving without
restraint wherever they please, and ex.
posed TO the attacks of frontiermen with,
out redress from the Government. The
District Attorney at Omaha has been in.
structed to take the necessary steps to
carry the question to higher court.
QUESTION OF ADJOURNMENT.
WASHINGTON, May 13.-The Committee
on Ways and Means, 10 which was re.
ferred the resolution OF Fernando Wood,
that Congress adjourn sine die on the
day Of May, and who are required to fix
the day, had thesam under consideration
this morning, and an hours discussion de.
veloped nothing but an amusing difference
Of opinion. No three members agreed. A
majority thoughtit it would be impossible
underline existing condition OF thing to get
away this month, but when asked to sug.
gest date they confessed themselves lost
In maze OF uncertainty. The Demo.
Gratis are so entirely at sea as TO their future
course that none OF them can fix date oi
adjournment with reasonable certainty oI
living up to it.
PUZZLED TO FIND A PROPER CAMPAIGN ISSUE.
Democratic managers are still puzzling
over their situation. The problem which
they are trying to solve is to devise way
in which they can put the pending contest
before the people as the main issue in the
fall campaign. Very few OF them seem to
think that TO meet as they did, under the
threat to withhold supplies unless the
President signed their bill, to repeat the
threats when the bills went 10 the Presi.
dent, and to then yield everything, pass
both disputed appropriation bills, and
then go home, would put any very clear
issue before the people. The plan which is
most talked about for saving the remnants
Of their honor is to pass, the Legislative
bill and allow the army bill to fail. Most
OF them seem ready TO admit that to refuse
to pass the legislative bill, which would
suspend all governments salaries in every
part Of the country and cripple the public
service for every community, would raise
an issue for the campaign, but not exact
ly the kind they are looking for. But they
think they can not only risk their plan on
the army bill, but that they can save ap.
pearances by taking firm stand in that
matter, and can thus raise the issue Of
military interference at the polls. This
part of the plan, however, received a bad
blow as the moderate Democrats admit,
in both veto messages, and especially in
the last one, where the President not only
shows for the second time that troops can
not be used at the polls, as the laws now
stand, but that he will sign bill which
does no more than prohibit their presence
at the polls. These utterances OF the
President, as many Democrats admit, de.
prive the contemplated Democratic issue
OF several Of its points.
THE SITUATION.
There have been no steps taken toward
mapping out a new Democratic pro.
gramme, except several informal confer.
ences, which, however, fail TO set the pegs
for the next heat. The difference OF opin.
ion is as wide as the poles, and the more
the question is talked over the more radi.
cal seem the existing differences among
Democrats. Both have determined "a
have no general caucus until the Legisla.
tive and Executive Appropriation Bill
passes and is vetoed. Then a high Joint
caucus will be held to take in the whole
situation.
Meantime the caucus subcommittee will
try their hands at drafting a bill regarding
troops at the polls, which will meet Ex.
ecutive favor. They are exceedingly anx.
ious to concoct some kind OF document
that the President will sign, so as to afford
them q loop.hole for escape, II theirthird
bill should be vetoed, the majority OF the
Democrats will llfavoran adjournment with.
out providing for the army. Many o.
them openly advocate the letting OF the
army perish, without attempting another
modified bill.
All threats that the Executive, Legisla
tive and judicial Appropriation Bill viii
be allowed TO fail have ceased. No Demo