The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-05-06
NEWS AT THE CAPITAL.
A PrOtsctorats for the Panama
Canal.
The Free List as Recommended by the
Committee on Ways and Msans-Ths
DOnnally.Flnlsy Investigation Draw
Ing !ts Slow Length Along
General Notes and News.

PRoTEcroRATE OVER TIE IsTHAus CANA
WASHINGTON, May 5.-The Committe
on Naval Affairs this morning instructed
Representative Goode, OF Virginia, to re
port back to the House, with fayorabl,
recommendation, the joint resolution re
citing that the maintenance OF all com
munication by land and sea, between tht
Atlantic and Pacific territorials OF the
Union Is material element OF nationa
integrity and sovereignty; that In the
midst Of violent revolutions and wars
which continually agitate the States
through which this communication, in the
event OF the construction OF the Inter
oceanic Ship Canal, must be maintained
the authorities OF these States have shown
themselves unable to afford due protection
TO foreign interests; that 1t is the purpose
and policy OF the United States to exer
else single protectorate over any such
canal, aud authorizing the Secretary
Of the Navy TO take such steps as may be
necessary TO secure adequate coaling sta.
tons and harbors for the use of the naval
force OF the United States at proper
points on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts,
Central America and Of the American
Isthmus.
RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE FREE LIST.
The House Committee on Ways and
Means to-day agreed to that portion oi
fuckers tariff bill which places upon the
free list the following articles: Salt in bags,
packages or bulk; woolen rags, shoddy,
mungo, waste and tiocks; books, period.
icals, pamphlets and all printed matter;
epgraylngs,- bound or unbound; illustrated
books and papers, maps, charts, music and
music. books, shumack, cod liver oil, crude
or refined, and crude petroleum at this
point. Representative Wood moved to in.
sert in the bill, TO be placed upon the free
list, wood pulp and all other pulps used in
the manufacture OF paper. Pending the
discussion upon this proposition, the COM
mittee adjourned till tomorrow, when a
vote will be taken on 1t, and the commit.
tee will proceed with the consideration OF
the bill. Several votes were taken upon
many articles before an agreement was
reached to place them upon the free list.
Nine distinct propositions to fix duty
on salt were voted down before that article
was finally allowed upon the free list.
ELECTION FRAUDS.
The bill reported by Mr.. Wallace, from
the Senate select committee to inquire into
alleged frauds in the late elections, and to
enforce the provisions Of Section two Of
the Fourteenth Amendment TO the Con-
stitution, provides that in the future in
taking an enumeration OF the inhabitants
OF the several cities the Superintendent OF
the Census shall ascertain the number OF
citizens OF the United States twenty.one
years OF age and upwards whose right to
vote at any election named in the Four
teenth Amendment has been denied or in
any way abridged by the Constitution or
laws OF any State, except as authorized by
said amendment.
THE poSSALLY.rISLEY INVESTIGATION.
Representative Manning continued his
statement to-day before the Donnally-
Finley Investigating Committee. He states
that the latter part OF March Springer met
him and said he (springer) was going to
New York and had paired with Calkins;
that he then went on to tell him how the
vote in the committee would be next day,
saving: "You will win on unseating Wash.
burne, but lose on seating Donnally."
That Springer then wrote down on slip
OF paper the names of eight Democrats
who would vote to unseat Washburne,
namely: Springer, Manning, Colerich,
Sawyer, Beltzhoover, Phister and Weaver,
adding: "You will win on that vote" He
then made a mark opposite the names OF
Weaver and Phister, saying: "fou will
lose three votes on the proposition to seat
Donnally," and handed me memoran-
dunn to him (Manningl.
The memorandum was put in evidence,
and Donnally was recalled to establish the
date Of the Democratic caucus, and read
from his diary an entry on the Sd Of
March: "The Democrats Of the committee
hold a caucus tomorrow. Everything ap-
pears to be right" In reply to the ques-
ton, why he preserved the memorandum
in Springer's writing, Manning said: "Be-
cause had received an intimation that
notwithstanding Springer 5 statement to
me to the contrary, he (Springer) intended
to vote against seating Donnally, and l
therefore, suspecting him, preserved the
paper" In the course OF the examination
Manning stated that he had not charged
Springer with corruption, but he had been
guilty OF dupliCity.