The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-01-10
AT THE CAPITAL.
Conference of the Greenback- Labor
Party.
Call for a National Convention al
Chicago.



WASHINGTON, January 9.-The Green
back Conference fixed June 10th as tn,
time, and Chicago the place, for holding
their National Convention. The follow
ing is the preamble and call adopted:
We have reached crisis in eur coun
try's history and an epoch in human al
fairs when our government, which was
designed for the political veal OF man
kind, has passed under the control o.
bankers, stock jobbers, land grabbers and
professional politicians, to the exclusion
OF those whose labor produces It's wealth
and pays its taxes. The constitutional
rights Of tho people are denied
or usurped by money power. The
fruits OF their productive enterprise are
grasped by corporate monopolies. The
large share OF accumulated wealth and
uRdeveloped resources Of the Nation are
concentrated In the hands OF asmall class,
and all the property interest in the sta
bility OF our institutions on the part OF q
large majority OF the voters is dissipated,
usurious interest and enforced idleness,
have filed the land with pauperism, crime
and misery and ominous with muir
mers Of discomfort. Thevery foundations
OF the popular government are question
ed and assailed, and the Republic itself
is In imminent peril. The people OF the
District OF Columbia, containing 100000
souls, have been by an act OF Congress,
wholly disiranchsed, and laws have been
enacted in various States, to curtail this
sacred right OF suffrage, the very corner
stone Of our Republic. Deeply impressed
by the gravity Of this crisis, we cheerfully
sacrifice all minoEditferences, and unite for
the purpose Of restoring the control OF the
Governmental the whole people through
the representatives chosen by them, and
uninauenced by the bribery OF intimida-
ton or sectional hate, recovering their
complete sovereignty over their elections,
currency, lands and lines OF internal com.
munication, and finally to embody in the
law and enforce the right OF each laborer
to result his toll. That the Convention OF
the National Greenback Labor party be
held atChicago, ILL.,, Wednesday June 10,
1880, and that the basis Of the represents
ton shall be from each State, four dele
gates and four alternates at large, and two
delegates and two alternates from each
Congressional District, and two delegates
and two alternates from each Territory
and District Of Columbia.
[Signed.l THOMPSON H. MuRcH.
Chairman Conference and Chairman Of
Congressional Committee.
E. P. DEwEEs,
Chairman OF National Committee.
This report was adopted without debate
by unanimous rising vote.
"A resolution was offered and adopted
endorsing Hendrick B. Wright's home.
stead land bill and Gen. Weayer's bill for
the equalization Of soldiers pay and boun-
ties, but Immediately after Its adoption
Gen. Weaver himself put in an appear
ance, and said this was neither the time
nor the place to pass such a resolution,
and he hoped the Conference would re-
consider its action and allow the resolu.
ton TO be Withdrawn.
A motion to reconsider was adopted
and the resolution was withdrawn.
The Conference adjourned sine die.
GREENDAcK-LABoR PRESS ASSOCIATION.
The Greenback editors in attendance
upon the National Greenback. Labor Con-
ference organized an association to be
known as the Greenback-Labor Press AS.
sociation, and elected Col. S. +. Norton,
OF Chicago, President, and ]. Fl. Randall,
Clyde, Ohio, Secretary.
TOO RXTRAvAGAST. ..'
Major VIM. L. Sweet, Chief of the In.
ternal Revenue Division in the office Of
the First Comptroller OF tho Treasury De.
partment, has been dismissed for extrava.
giant expenditures made while travelling
on government account.
THE INDIAN BUREAU.
The Board OF Indian Commissioners
called on the President and after discuss
ing the Indian question with him, recon-
mended that religious bodies be permitted
to select agents for the Indians. Later
conference was held between members OF
the board and Secretary SchurZ. The
charges OF mismanagement preferred
against Indian Commissioner Hayt were
considered and a commission appointed
TO investigate the charges and report TO
the Board tomorrow.