The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-04-12
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TO THE DAILY 1NTE111aE1oER
DOMESTIC NEWS.
The House Standing Committees
West Virginia Gets One Chairman
ship.
The Democrats In the Senate win
Not Allow the Army Bill
to be Amended.
The Cabinet Discusses Sitting Bulls
Designs and Indian Affairs
Generally.
The Widow divers PIalntlve Plea.
The Widow divers PIalntive Plea.
WASHINGTON.

NOMINATED CONSUL AT MOSCOW.
The President has nominated Robert P.
Wilson, OF Pennsylvania, as Copsul at
Moscow.
HEALTH MEASURES
The select committee appointed to in
vestigate and report the best means OF
preventing the introduction and spread OF
epidemic diseases, to-day adopted q bill
for presentation to Congress. 1t gives to
tho National Board OF Health plenary
powers, and appropriates $3.50, 900 to carry
out its provisions
POSTMASTER GENERAL KEY ON DIsCRIITHA-
TIoNs IN MAILS.
Postmaster General Key, in answer to
a resolution OF the Senate inquiring why
papers published hero were Disseminated
againstin the mails as advertising sheets,
says that while the Senate has the right
to call for any information required to
facilitate legislation, It has no right to di.
rect him to give his reasons for comply
ing with law which 1t Is his duty to
execute. He says he has no objection 10
saying, however, that the enforcement OF
the law in question devolves on local post
masters, and that the rights OF papers
have been referred to the Attorney Gen.
eral for decision.
TIE CABINET DISCUSSES INDIAN AFFAIRS.
The Indian question came up for con.
sideration at the Cabinet meeting to-day.
The discussion took wide range, cover.
ing the relations of the Canadian govern.
ment to our own in the event OF a hostile
movement southwark by Sitting Bull and
his band; the habedS corpus case OF Stand
ing Bear, now in custody OF Gen. Crook,
and, incident thereto, the policy OF keep:
ing Northern Indians in Southern lati-
tudes against their wish il they were dis.
posed to be peaceful at the North. Secre.
tary Schurz took the ground that to pro.
mote the best interests OF both the whites
and Indians it was necessary that the In
dians should be kept upon their reserva.
tions and ont Of the way Of bad white
men, who would incite or provoke them
to acts Of violence. No definite conclu-
sion in relation to any branch Of the sub
jeCt was reached.
Judge Key ON the Kansas Movement.
WASHINGTON, April 10. = Postmaster
General Key thinks the Kansas movement
Of blacks from Mississippi and Louisiana
is not bad thing. He feels quite sure
that good will come from it to both races.
The tendency will be to reduce the numeri.
cal strength Of the blacks in those States
until they no longer outnumber the whites,
which is desirable. Besides, II the blacks
do well in Kansas, it will make the race
more Independent in the Cotton States,
for they can at all times threaten to leave,
II not well, or at least fairly treated.
Judge Key thinks 1t is disastrous
for the blacks to outnumber the
whites in any State, for reasons which
are obvious TO any one acquainted with
human nature, or certainly with human
nature as developed in the South. Let
fifth OF the blacks remove from each OF the
Cotton States, and those remaining would
undoubtedly get better wages and tairer
treatment. There is too much cotton
raised, which makes the price so low that
planters find it impossible to pay the
blacks what we would ordinarily consider
fair living wages. II there was one-third
less cotton raised the planters would get
about as many dollars for their crop as
now, for the price would advance.
Judge Key estimates that the colored
population Is now about ten per cent Of
the white, taking the country over. II
this population was more evenly distrib-
uted in all the States he thinks both races
and the country would be benefited; say
fifty per cent in the cotton States, twenty
five per cent in the border States, and the
rest in the Northern and Western States.
We would then have less negro question
than now,--at least it would not be sec
tional.
Judge Key says he shall watch the work
ings ot this problem In Kansas with great
interest, and hopes a little moving about
OF that sort will be Of advantage to both
races,