The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-03-15
AT THE CAPITAL.
GEN. DEvENs CONGRATULATED
For the Good Work He Has Done-seuatOr
Ben. Hills RemesIs-Rrs. Lockwood
Determined TO See Il 0ut-Dem.
ocratlc Senatorial Caucus
The Exodus lnyes.
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Af;roRNEY.oEvERA1 CONGRATULATED.

ATToRNEY.oESERAI CONGRATULATED. q
WASHINGTON, March 1S-The Attorney
General has received large number o.
congratulations from prominentpoliticians
in New England and the middle States
and from Virginia and other States Of the
South, upon his successful arguments be-
fore the U. S. Supreme Court in the cases
involving the constitutionality Of the
Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Amendments and the Election Laws,
These cases were all sprung upon the
Government during the past summer, and
were required to be argued at the ensuing
term OF Court in October last. The Presi'
dent and other members Of the Cabinet
urged the Attorney.General to employ
counsel to assist in the preparation ol
these cases for the Government, but the
Attorney General declined to call in any
assistance, and stated that he would forego
his usual summer vacation to remain in
Washington and prepare the cases him
self.
When the Court assembled in October
he was ready to 60 on with the cases, and
they were taken up in their order on the
docket and argued to the close. The at
tention OF General Devens was called by
prominent judicial officers OF the Govern
ment to the gratifying fact that a compare
son between his arguments and the decis-
ions OF the Court showed that they had
followed the line Of his argument very
closely.
The Attorney General to-day received a
letter from Wendell Phillips, also congrat-
ulating him upon his success in these
cases, and stating that he had done great
service to free institutions.
The incontrovertible position assumed
by the Attorney General and sustained
by the Court causes considerable perplex-
ity to the Democrats, and they are eYi-
IDENTIFY at q loss how TO meet 1t.
Several conferences have been held by
Democratic Senators and Representatives
with view to making some demonslra-
ton in States now under Democratic con-
troll. The State OF Virginia, however, is
the only one that has attempted to present
a formal complaint and urge upon Con-
gress TO take some action that will secure
the Southern States in their, old States
rights doctrine
DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS.
The Democratic Caucus Committee, con-
sisting OF Senators Thurman, Bayard,
Garland, Cockrell, Johnston and Morgan
held long session to-day upon the SUBJ
ject OF providing some method OF counting
the Electoral vote. The whole matter was
very generally discussed, and the com.
mittee will come 10 some conclusion next
week. Some OF the committee are in favor
OF allowing the matterSof counting the
electoral vote remain just as 1t is now.
MRS. LOCKWOOD AND BEN. HILL.
The female lawyer, Mrs. Lockwood, is
after Ben. Hills scalpia and is causing the
Senator great deal OF annoyance, as well
as giving the gossips food for converse
ton. She publicly accuses him lin let
ter published in the Commercial Saturday,
OF having ruined sixteen-year.old girl in
this city, and then, to compensate the
family, got the father a position in the
Postoftice Department, the young brother
a place as page in the Senate, and the sis
ter place in the Census Office, In brief,
that Senator Hill, after accomplishing the
ruin OF one member of1a family, got all
the rest positions at the public crib as com.
pensation. /"
Mrs. Lockwood said to-day that this was
all true aud she could prove 1t, and she in:
yited the Senator 10 60 into the courts II
he disputed 1t. She acknowledged that
Miss Raymond has failed to sustain her
charges against Hill, having cleared out
and let the matter drop. But Mrs, Lock-
wood does not propose TO let him escape
again so easily. She makes very damaging
charges. and then dares him into court to
clear his skirts.
Senator Hill, in conversation to-day,
pronounces the letter and charges Of Mrs.
Lockwood TO be utterly and entirely false.
"It is q miserable, desperate LIBEL" he
said, "and the woman must be crazy 70
write such letter. It is outrageous to
refer to persons in the general way she
does, and attempt to scandalize whole
families. I have never put but one person
in any position here outside OF the Capitol.
I did not get the Public Printer to give an
old Whig friend OF mine, an old Journalist,
place IN tha Government printing office.
| | have not enopghinauenGe with this Ad-
ministration to oRget Offices for persons.
Now, ! don't know why this woman Lock
wood pursues me in the way she does,
unless it Is because ] opposed her bill
when II was before the Senate. Inot only
voted against II, but refused to see her
upon several occasions when she sent her
card to me, and one day when Twas
passing through the corridor or lobby she
undertook TO stop me to talk about her
bill. I refused to stop or hold any con-
yersation with her, and I did hear about
that time that she was threatening to gel
even with all the Senators who opposed
her bill. This, ! suppose, Is her grudge
against me. In that very letter she ad'
mits, in effect, that she has failed to sub,
gtantiate her first attempt against me, and
therefore she makes new allegations
This ID his story, In substance somt
of his friends, however, think that Y
should not stop at this; that he should
haul Mrs. Lockwood before the courts anC
make her substantiate her charges. Their
are persons employed In several OF the de
partments who had their reeommenda
lions signed by Senator Hill, but itcan no
be learned that he has used his influence
to eet three members Of one family int
Government places.
| EXODUS TESTIMONY.
Before the Exodus Committee to-day
the colored man Henry Adams testiie,
that in 1866 and 1865, in. Desoto parish
La, he was shot at twice by bands c
white men, the reason given for the al
saults being that he was trying to get ne
groes to leave the parish. Witness ha
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