The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-04-08
srAMpa on nANK CHECKS.

nomination. They want him back again.
By Western Associated Press.
STAMPS ON BANK CHECKS.
WASHINGTON, April 1.-THE House Com
mittee on Banking and Currency, to-day,
authorized Mr.. Price to report the bill
repeating that portion Of the internal
revenue laws requiring two cent stamps
on bank checks.
ANOTHER PLACE TO FILL.
The Senate committee on appropriations
to-day took action on the consular and
diplomatic appropriation bill, and author
lied 1t be reported to the Senate with an
amendment appropriating $1,000 to pro-
vide for the appointment OF adiplomatic
agent and consul general at Bucharest,
ROumania.
TIE wRsT POINT OUTRAGE.
The only official information received at
the War Department relative to the mys.
sterious cutting otthe colored cadet Whit
taker, at West Point, was a telegram from
General Schofeld sustaining the facts con-
tanned in the general press dispatch pub.
lished in the morning papers. Secretary
Ramsey has instructed General schofeld
10 employ detectives to work up the case
II he deems 1t necessary.
EXODUS INVESTIGATION.
The Senate Exodus Committee exam
ined, Andrew Currie, Mayor OF shreve.
port, La. Mayor Currie said that, with q
few exceptions, the relations between the
whites and blacks in the vicinity Of shreve-
port were Of the most friendly character.
The colored people, he said, are renewing
the usual spring contracts and settling
down to work, and the exodus SO far from
that section does not amount to one per
cent OF the colored population. Witness
said that the whites and blacks in Cado-
parish enjoy alike the privilege OF voting.
| He knew OF no denial oil political rights
to the blacks, except in some instances
where negroes were turned away from
the polls. on account of mistakes OF their
own in not registering properly. Some
would register under their full names and
attempt TO vote under q nick name, which,
OF course, could not be permitted under
the law. He never knew of any move
ment to drive the negroes away from the
polls, but knew OF one election in 1888
when the whites made an effort to induce
the blacks to vote and failed, because it
was an understood thing with them not to
go to the polls and then claim to have
been kept away by intimidation.
In regard TO the negroes securing JUS
tics before the courts, he said he was a
police magistrate, but had jurisdiction
only over minor otfenses, and had never
Disseminated In favor OF the white or
against the black culprit. As to other and
higher courts, they are all presided over
BY Republican judges, and II there was
any discrimination they were to blame
for 1t.
Referring to school facilities, Currie
said the means for sustaining schools
Throughout the State were very limited.
he asserted that under the Republican
administration OF affairs up to 1876 the
school funds OF the State, or Q great deal
Of It, was stolen by officers who disbursed
| It, and that nearly all the school commits
sioners in the State were accused OF deial-
cation. He said that since 1875 under
the Democratic administration OF affairs,
the colored people had received school
privileges equal to those OF the whites, SO
lar as the limited sum appropriated would
permit, and that very soon, under the op-
Grafton, OF the new State Constitution,
both classes will be afforded better privi-
leges than heretofore.
In regard to the causes oil the exodus
Mayor Currie said there was really no
cause for their leaving except in their i'm
agination. They are very credulous
race, liable 10 believe everything told than
by white Republican leaders. Without
concluding the examination OF the witness
the committee adjourned.
THE LIE PASSED IN THE HOUSE AGAIN.
A scene Of very great excitement took
place in the House, in Committee Of the
Whole, in connection with the amend
ment relating to army surgeons. Mr..
Sparks, who had offered the amendment,
coming from the Committee on Military
Affairs, wanted when the amendment was
defeated in committee TO have a vote upon
| 1t in the House, and desired Mr.. Clymer,
who had charge Of the army appropriation n
bill, to promise that the amendment might
be offered in the House. Mr.. Clymer de-
clined TO make the promise in advance
and denied that there had been any such
application made to him on the part OF the
Military Committee. Mr.. Sparks becamt
yery angry and spoke Of olymer bein
bulldozed and ca toled, and then, leaning
over his desk toward Clymer and shaking
his fat violently, he declared that II Cly
mer insinuated that the amendment Die
not come from the Committee on Military
: fairs he lied. This he repeated more
than once. Clymer's retort was that ht
(Sparks) could not insult him. In the
meantime the Chairman (Springer) en-
deayored to have order restored. Finally
at the suggestion OF Mr.. Conger, the otfen,
: siye words spoken by Sparks were reat
from the reporters manuscript, and tne
question was then discussed whether the
. committee must rise and report the mattei
to.the House.
The committee OF the whole having
risen and the Speaker taken the chair, the
! subject matter was reported.
Mr.. Sparks, in explanation, admitted
! that hs had been laboring under consider
, able excitement at that moment. de had
: however, understood the gentleman
!. IIClymerj 10 intimate that he (Sparks) hae
!, moi the authority Of the committee or
3 military affairs for what he asked. j
8 other words, that he Sparks was tryinI
4 TO deceive the House. II he mtsunder
j stood him, then the. language he Sparks
/ had used was unwarranted, and he woult
/ like to recall IL; but II the gentleman hAl
y meant TO charge him with wrong, no poye
Il under the sun could get him TO VIII
/ draw 1t.
\ Mr.. Clymer dlsayowed any suchidea a
!. the gentleman (Sparks) supposed, and e1
q pressed his contentment with the repara
!. Hon which his friend had made. =,
/. The Speaker regarded the objectionabl
N language as practically withdrawn, an
n suggested that It might even be omitte
"a from the Record.