The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-03-13
AT THE CAPITAL.
Bond Purchases to be Hereafter
7 ,z Made.
The Negro Exodus luyestiaatlOu-Whai
Caused The aeuroto Flee the South
The Hoop iron Question -
Tariff on Paper.

Caused The Neuroto Flee the South
The Hoop iron Question -
, Tariff on Paper.
REDUCTION OF THE DEBT.
wAsHiSsroS, D. c., March 18th
Secretary Of the Treasury says that he in
tends every week to invest all revenues
less actual expenditures and a proportion
ate share Of the accruing interest OF tn
public debt, in the purchase Of FIVE and si'
per cent bonds on public offers in New
York.
SCARCITY OF COIN.
There is scarcity OF fractional silve
coin, caused by its presentation for re
denption under recent law. There arr
twenty.o one million dollars Of such coin ii
the Treasury, which will be exchanged a
all sub.treasuries for United States notes
When appropriation is made for THU
purpose by Congress it will be sent free o
cost in sums OF five hundred dollars and
upwards to any part Of the country.
PAPER TARIFF MATTERS.
George Jones OF the New York "Times'
and Erastus Brooks of the Express
made arguments to-day before the Ways
and Means Committee, for the removal oi
the duty OF 20 per cent imposed on wood
pulp. They claimed that it was owing tc
the advance from 25 to so per cent in the
price Of pulp and the combination Of pa
per manufacturers, chiefly in the West
that the price OF paper had advanced from
81 to cents per pound (price last year
to 9I 10 10 cents now charged. 1t was also
claimed that 1t was a combination OF paper
makers that forced the price OF paper to
90 and 2S cents per pound during the war.
That 1t had now caused an advance OF
about so per cent, and II no restrictions
were placed upon them, they might force
the price even to war figures. The manu-
iacturers present, denied the existence oi
a combination 10 enhance prices, and
claimed the advance was entirely regulat.
ed by the law ofsupply and demand.
TIE HOOP IRON QUESTION.
At meeting Of the Cabinet to-day,
Secretary Sherman read communication
which he had addressed to the Speaker ol
the House Of Representatives, containing
full statement OF the facts connected
with the hoop iron case, and giving the
conclusions arrived at by the Attorney
General, which are to the effect that the
present decision, so tar as it effects the
cut hoops, however well founded it may
be technically, is clearly contradictory to
the general principles OF discrimination
adopted by an act OF 1864 and that the ver-
dict in the New York case, Is not salts.
factory for the purpose OF establishing the
principle.
The Secretary states his concurrence
in this opinion, believing the distinction
between cut hoops and hoop iron is dis
tinction without difference, and that the
admission Of these cut hoops at adval-
orem duty OF 35 per cent, Is q violation
Of the true interest OF the law, but that
considering the fact that the present de-
cision OF the department, has been in force
for over year, and that purchases OF
these cut hoops have been made in large
quantities for shipment to the United
States, based upon the faith Of this decision.
he deems it proper to submit q full state
ment OF the facts TO Congress, with sug-
gestion that the. case is one calling for
further legislation, but should Congress
fail to take any action on the subject by
the lst OF April next, he shall then deem
it his duty to enforce the former ruling of
the department, which charges specific
duty imposed by law on hoop iron on
these cut hoops.
NEGRO EXODUS INVESTIGATION.
The Senate Exodus Committee to-day
examined Henry Adams, (colored) OF
Louisiana. He swore that the coloniza'
ton council was secret organization, the
object Of which was to better the condition
Of the colored people. This plan OF action
was first, to appeal to the President to en-
force the laws and protect their rights,
then appeal to Congress to set apart q
Territory for them, or 10 appropriate
money to aid them to emigrate to Liberia;
and finally, II they failed in both, then,
witness said, aour object was TO appeal TO
another government outside Of the United
States to help US away from this country
to 90 there and live under their hag:",
lie said the negroes did not lose all hope
OF bettering their condition till 1877, and
only then because they saw that the South
errl State Governments would pass under
the control OF, and into the hands Of the
very men who had owned them as slaves.
The feeling prevaleptamong the negroes,
he said, was "to 20 away anywhere IN
Gods world to get away from these men,"
The reason, be said, that 80 many oil our
people are going away is because a large
majority OF the whits people who held
slaves treat our people so badly. Ip many
parts ofthe country our people might as
well be slaves as free. Hethought over
Ave thousand had already emigrated from
Louisiana and that the movement was on
the increase. The fear was prevalent IN ms
section ofthe State that 9 Democratic
President would be elected and then the
condition OF colored people would be stu
worse than at present, and II would also
be more difficult for them to emigrate'
The feeling, he thought, was stimulating
and fastening the exodus now.
An interesting Decision.
onIoAoo, March l2.-Judge Blodgett
rendered an interesting decision to-day ir
the nature Of advice to United States
Commissioner on an election pointat {
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