Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-04-05
CONGRESSIONAL.
HOUSE.
WAauIN0Ts

The House met this morning (Carlile
in the Chair for debate only and inn
mediately went into Committee OF the
Whole on the State OF the Union.
Covert addressed the committee on the
subject Of the revision OF the tariff. He
argued especially in favor OF the re,
duction Of duty on steel rails and in
favor OF placing chrome ore on the free
list. Mr. Joyce spoke in support OF the
bill providing for the appointment OF a
committee on the subject OF alcoholic
LIQUOR traffic. He said the use ol in
toxicating drink cost the people in
two years more than enough to pay the
VIII ole public debt.
Mr.. Willis advocated the appropria-
ton for the public building at Louis.
vile.
Mr.. Taylor addressed the committee
in support OF the bill TO pension the
Mexican veterans
Mr.. Davis, OF Missouri, advocated the.
passage of the bill TO open up a mail
service and direct trade between the
States OF the Mississippi Valley and
Brazil.
Mr.. Berry argued in support OF the
bill regulating the immigration OF the
Chinese.
Mr.. Page endorsed the speech OF his
colleague.
Mr.. Sparks spoke in relation to the
question OF inter State commerce, argu-
ing that il was in the power OF Congress
To fix the tariff OF rates to be charged by
interstate railroads for the carriage OF
freight. He expressed his disap'
proyal of the bill reported by
a majority Of the Committee on Com
merce, but stated that the Reagan sub
stitnte seemed 10 be eminently satisiac-
tory, though II was not AZ comprehen-
siye or broad as in his opinion it should
be.
Mr.. Houck replied to the speech made
some time ago by MIR. House, in which
that gentleman had opened the TildeD
campaign and reiterated the cry oi
fraud. lie denied that the gentleman
had expressed the sentiments OF the
people in Tennessee II he had ex-
pressed that OF his party his speech
would stand as a lasting monument to n
vitiated taste and malignant hate OF
that party. The country was told
there had been no loyalty in the South
during the war, and IL had been told
that by copper heads Of the North, the
most yenomous serpents In the world.
He asserted that there had been many
loyal men in the South, and that the
section had furnished the Federal army
with nearly half million men. IL
seemed that this service was to be for
gotten and the Tilden campaign prose
cuted in the policy that friendship 10 the
| Union was TO be regarded IA badge OF
political infamy and social dishonor.
His colleague (House) had attacked the
President. He would not attempt to
defend the President, for that officer
needed no defence. For his colleague 10
assert that President Hayes had been in
augurated by fraud was equivalent
To making an admission that the Demo-
cratic party had been brave enough in
| 1861 10 force the war without cause, but
too cowardly to do 80 in 1877, when II
said the President had been counted in
by uncomfortable fraud. How had the
mighty fallen! What had come over the
spirit Of the chivalrous Democracy OF
the South. lie then turned his atten-
ton to the political assessment bill, re-
calling the present civil service system,
and referring in the course OF his re-
marks to George William Curtis as the
prince of political humbugs, and 10 Sec.
retary Schurz as the king OF the civil
service reform.
Mr. Lowe spoke in opposition 10 the
funding bill. He had always had Dem.
ocratic sympathies, but he declared
here and now that of the two old fac
tions, the high tariff and hard money
Democrats were not to be preferred to
the hard money and high tariff Republi-
cans.
The committee then rose and the
House adjourned.