The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-05-01

P.Sstamme and return 10 heonly true
RUE OF legislation, which excludes from
appropriation bills all propositions Whose
oplect Is not an appropriation Of money
they may contrive TO live down the dam.
aging effect Of another stupendous blum.
der ahd. another failure.
The Cincinnati Commtrcial.la paper ol
generally conservative tcndencies), in the
course Of q long article upon the veto,
makes tho following significant comments
upon II: '7i IE IN N
1T Is useless to conjecture what course
lnef Democrats OF the Senate and House
Will take. The caucus by whose action
they have been bound may instruct for
aanerence 70 the bill, In the face Of the
rauonal objections Of the President, They
should think twice before obeying such a
mandate. Having managed themselves
INTO predteament by setting up a pre.
tense for their revolutionary proceedings
winch does not exist, there Is only one
road ot safety forthem-thatof OF honorable
retreat II they persist in stopping the
disbursement Of money paid into the
treasury ior the express purpose OF carry.
ing on the Government, because the Pres.
ident will not consent to approve a bill
that denies to the ballot for National Rem.
resentatiyes the protection Of the civil All.
thority Of the nation, they make An issI,e 1
on which they will Be more disastronSlv
beaten before the people than on any
which they have made since 1850"
Not less interesting than these news.
paper expressions are the opihionE ntter.
ed by anumber Of Congressman at Wash.
ington. For instance, Mr.. Morrison, Of
Illinois, q prominent Democrat, is quoted
asfollows: " -9I
my views would not be worth any.
thing. have consulted with nobody, Il
can only speak my own opinion. AS an
original proposition, my Judgment would
have never led meinto this position, but
4! am too obstinate, being in 1t, to ever sur.
render unit, by Constitutional Limitation,
TINS Congress shall expire. l would, In
the'meanime, 90. out and chop wood, II
necessary, to get along without the appro.
priation.N tF'
: but do You think the party, as a whole,
would be OF that opinion?" = FTl
MIR, Morrison-"I can not say. | pre.
sumo the fellows that got up the Electoral
Commission bill will plan some way Of
getting out Of this scrape. Hayes would
never have sent the message in, unless he
knew he would be successful. It Is sim.
Ply question of.votes, and not many OF
them. Hayes was undoubtedly certain
that he could get them. They must have
been promised 10 him. Still It may not be
possible for anybody to deliver the goods;
and as the army and the rest of US won't
begin to be starved out for sixty days,
there wiIllbe along fight before any ad.
iustment is made"
q "Do you think, then, that the Southern
men will ultimately back DOWN."
mo, sir; they must be used as cats
paws and go to the front. It will be the
Northern men, who have factories, and
stocks, and that sort OF thing, and who
fear the effect Of it on the market, who will |
back down."
A Washington dispatch says that 'fhc
feeling among Democrats, as near as can
be ascertained by inquiry among their
leaders, is strongly in favor Of passing the
bill again without any change and send
ing it back for another veto. Then, the
leaders say, the Democrats will have done
their duty, and Congress will adjourn,
leaving the army, courts, and civil service
Of the Government neutrality-suspicious.
to sustain them.". ..-..s4.