The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-12-23

closed with acontinuance Of the active bust
ness at bank counters previously noted.
SenntOF Henry As Rn Agricultural.
Asig well known, the special weakness
o,onr senior Senator is figures. This has
always been his weakness. Before the
var It's said that no man better under.
stood "sldition, subtraction and silence''
than tho statesman from Deer Park.
Sncn is his passion for figures that, like
Archimedes, he is only seeking proper
mIcrum for his lead pencil, In order to
heaye the U. S. Treasury bottom.side up.
watla, and show that it is full ofemptiness
and nothing else, and that the book.keep.
ag Of the Treasury is simply a magnih.
cent fraud. He has been figuring on the
reports Of the Government for two years
past with all tue intelligent assiduity
Of Master Dick on the British
Constitution, and has had special com.
mi,lee Of investigation, got up like Ba.
.A,with three tails, himself as the head
aud three experts rs the tails, armed with
powrr to send for persons and papers,
and to sit all the year round at big pay,
and yet nothing has come ot II all except
4report on the part Of the experts that
they found everything straight to cent.
senator Henry, who was of in Europe
when the experts were at work, was OF
course much put out with their report,
aud like BIlaS with BLla2m, he has had
notion Of organizing them for another
scent, in tho hope that he can finally in.
due, them to see something that Is back.
ed like u whale.
Meantime Senator Henry is giving his
attention to agriculture. He is heavy on
agriculture. His idea OF agriculture takes
the shape of figures. In Holland they
cook everything with garlic, and SO Senator
Henry cooks all his remarks with tables OF
figures in the Congressional GlObs, as wit.
ness that speech on Agriculture in the
senate on the 18th OF January last.
We perceive that he returned to his
agricultural mutton the other day, the oc.
casion being the introduction OF the fol.
lowing resolution in the Senate;
Rtsolrol by Tie Senate. (the House of Repre-.
Ratliires coacurring,) That the Committee
on Agriculture OF the respective Houses
be, and they are hereby, instructed to
consider generally the subject OF agricul.
ture, and report, by bill or otherwise,
what can or ought to be done by the Gen.
eral Government to better advance, en-
courage, and foster agricultural interests;
aud that said committees shall have the
power to send for rpersons and papers.
Senator Hoar, OF Massachusetts, for
some reason ventured to suggest that this
resolution should go over for day or two.
The suggestion brought our Senator to his
feet, who said:
"let me remind the Senator from Mass.
Gchusetts that half the people of this
cOnntry are interested in agriculture, and
that it is no small interest. 1t is a matter
that should receive careful and proper at
tenti0n from Congress. | think it very
queer that anything that would foster or
aid pursuit in which hall the people OF
hscOuntry are interested and from which
the Senator and myself get our bread. and
without which we could not live long,
should be objected to by any Senator.
It seems that tho Massachusetts Senator
MAS not III n humor to be lectured by our
Senator, and got in his work on him rather
iartly by way OF reply. He said:
The honorable Senator's reproof l &C.
cept with some surprise when / remember
that, after long training in the service OF
tho Committee on Agriculture, and having
studied that subject very deeply, and set
iorth the importance OF it SO eloquently,
having his choice whether he should have
the charge OF that great interest aud de-
vote his public life to its advancement, or
tho petty and inconsiderable interest OF
appropriations, the mere spending OF pub.
lie money, he selected the latter, and
abandoned this vast agricultural field al.
together. Therefore, it hardly becomes
That Senator to lecture the rest OF us for
want OF devotion to this great interest.
l!seens from this thattho Massachusetts
senator has the same suspicion that is en-
teFtaiued by good many of Senator Hen
rY'sconsti;uents, that he is greatly given TO
Ouncombe in his speeches, and vefy de-
Sirons 10 impress the dear people with the
idea that hc is their guardian angel in the
Senate. We observe, in Henry's reply to
Senator Hoar, that he still claims to be q
member Of the Committee on Agriculture,
butthe point OF that Senator was that while
our man is making tremendous fuss
about agriculture, and when he could
have had charge Of that great interest
and devoted his life to It's advancement"
tie chose rather to have Lnger in that
more savory pic known as the Committee
on Appropriations.
Information FOr such Statesmen as Col.
Ben.