Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-04-12

Otner n0taDleS oil tne senate. Don
you see that handsome Senator with
light curly hair2-well, that is Roscoe
Conkling, and the gray headed, bright
looking man near him is Blaine. That
large Senator Is judge Davis, OF Illinois,
and over there is Gen. John b. Gordon
talking to Lamar. Don't you see that
bald headed man" pointing to Senator
Edmunds, "well that is Butler, OF SOuth
Carolina" The eyes OF our Yankee
friend were lighted up with indignation
as he replied: "Yes, | could have pick
ed him out OF thousand" adding a
good deal that was not complimentary
TO the distinguished Vermonter.
The other day, Senator Edmunds
came over on the Democratic side, when
Mr.. Vest said: "Edmunds, Hampton
has a good Joke on YOU" and the gall
liant Carolnian was forced TO tell the
whole story. Senator Edmunds laughed
heartily and remarked that il was COM
pliment TO be taken for 80 handsome a
man as General Butler.
Industrial Training Schools for Indians
Treaties were made by the United
States in 1858 with Indian tribes, num-
bering II 900 people and having 1900
youths ready for education, by which 1t
was stipulated that teachers and school
houses should be provided, so that
the young Indians might be
educated. II seems, however, that
less than 1000 have. been educated up
to date. The House Committee on In
dian Affairs, however. have reported q
bill for the utilization OF vacant mili
tarY posts for Indian school houses and
the employment Of officers of the army
from the active and retired lists as teach
ers. The committee cites the success OF
the experiment made at the Hampton,
Va, Normal Institute TO prove the aptl-
tude and capacity OF the rudest savages
of the plains for mechanical, scientific,
industrial and moral education. There
are now sixty-six Indian boys and girls
from eight nomadic tribes at Hampton.
The tribes with whom the treaty OF
1868 was made included the Cheyennes,
AraphOes, COmanches, Crows, Sioux,
Utes, Navagoes and kiowas.
An international Sanitary Conference.
The Committee on Epidemic Dis
eases, in reporting favorably to the
IlOubC lOAuN IOCOAutAOh
the President TO call an international
sanitary conference, says that two of the
most destructive epidemics with which
this country has been from time to time
visited are supposed TO have been Of
foreign origin, for they have ordinarily
made their appearance in other cOun-
tries previous TO being developed here.
Cholera is supposed TO be a disease of
eastern origin, and it's ravages in eastern
countries have almost invariably pre-
ceded its appearance in our own. Vel
low fever is supposed to be a disease
originating in tropical latitudes, and the
theory is generally accepted that 1t
never originates spontaneously in
any locality in the United States, but
that it is always imported from some
southern latitude. In order to ascer-
tain something of the causes and origin
of these diseases, the means by which
they find their way to this country, an
international conference OF sanitarlans
is an important dsSidSrdt,m.
Hoop Iron In the Ways and Means Com
mittee.
The Ways and Means Committee has
had warm discussion over hoop iron,
and has not yet determined in regard to
it. Mr.. Garfield proposed to let in the
iron in controversy :or those who have
made bona fde contracts at 35 per cent
AL valorem, but 10 so construe the law
as to make the duty on the same here.
after equivalent 10 about 20 per cent ad
yalorem. Mr.. Tucker wants the same
arrangement made as to those who have
made contracts, but is unwilling, by
legislative construction, as Gen. Gar
field proposes, to increase the duty SO as
to make it prohibitory. He says that
under Mr.. Sherman's construction, only
$4,000 revenue was received last year
from this source, and he is for a tariff
that will protect and yet bring in rev.