Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-02-02
Treasury Investigations

special correspondence Of the Register,
WAsHINGrOS, January 81.
The committee consisting OF Senator
DAVIS, of Wcst Virginia, chairman, and
Messrs. White, Beck, Dawes AMI Ingalls,,
were aain at the Treasury Department
to-day, invests. ating the discrepancy in
the statements Of different officers i'm re-
gard to the public debt. The task is
most labOr.Ous one for there are really
millions in il, but your senator brings
all OF his usual energy and good sense 10
the management OF this investigation.
The commit, do not diyulse the pro-
gress they are making, but ! know they
are working most industriously. Those
at distance who think that the dutiesol
Senator are light ought Ia follow Senator
Davis for week and they would see
that while the work on the appropria-
ton committee Of which he il the head
is a big Job, he has enough other
work besides to keep him busy. |
hearl the runner lur the public printing
office say the ether night that he had t.
have the proof ol an important bill at
his rooms at II Pm,
An Exhibition OF the Bloody shirt.
Those who think the bloody shIrt has
been washed or that il will not be- way
el in the next canvass are mistaken.
The exhibition made by Conger of
Michigan proves this and his conduct
and that Of h.s immeiiat' followers has
been a goo deal commented ON. Many
of the REGIsrER's realcrs remember
Gen. VIM. h. TaIiot,u, who command
ell at Charlestown when John Brown
was executed, and whose gallant conduct
I'm the Mexican war and ln the late civil
war ispart Oithe eCOuntry'S history Well,
he applied 10 have his disabilities Te-
moved, aud because h. said In his most
respectful petition that he served in the
war between the United States and the
Southern States, COnger. Of whining
voice and perennial swallow tail, OPP
posed the bill on the ground that he
was not penltent enough. lie found,
too. thirty-tive Radicals, all oI small
eahbre hut bitter instincts, la vote with
him. Messrs Garfield, Hawley, Robe
s1n, and l.onug. however, and
the heavier guns voted with
the lien Ocrats and Greenbackers.
Among those voting with COngrr were
Updegraff and Keifer of Ohio, and
Errett oi Pennsylvania. A member Of
the House asked Glen. Joseph G.. John
stOn what he thought Of the conduct Of
COnger 4 Co. in the matter, and he
quietly replied that nothing short Oi the
most abiect humiliation viii satisfy
them. A North Carolina member re-
marked "Why, these Michigan stalwarts
could not even make funeral speeches
over Chandler without saving how he
set back Mcclellan, and yet II Little
Mac had not been 50 promptly and 81
efficiently on hand at SharpsbuTg, Lee
could have gotten into Washington
The Negro Exodus Investigation Grows
Lively.
The Senate Exodus Committee Was ln
session again to-day and Il ~ brought
out more and more clearly az every meet
ing that the scheme a. cOlOnlze Indiana
with negroes was 10 make that State Re
publican in 1880. This is the testimony
OF Oley, an educated colOred man from
North Carolina, aud the sheriff of Put
nam county, Indiana, ~ we'll rs OF other
witnesses OF character from both States.
Mr.. Window is disappointed at the lie
VelOpments In regard Ia his pet scheme,
and has lost his temper. Ills efforts To
make Oley contradict himself have not
succeeded well, nor made him more
pleasant Mr.. Blaine also shows eNl-
dent signs OF his disappointment,
while Mr., Voorhees, and the Democrats
on the committee wear a satisfied air, as
II they ielt there is no more damaging
testimony in reserve.
The ingalls, aud kellogg Cases
These cases are still before the Senate
Election Committee, and your CORES
pondent, who has watched the progress
OF them, is OF the opinion that Mr.. In |
gals VIII retain his seat and that the
seat OF Mr., kellogg will be declared va
cant. In the Ingalls, case the witnesses,
IN nearly every instance, have iailed %
prove what they were expected to estab- |
hsh, and some Of them seemed 10 have |
gotten themselves summoned only i'm
order TO enjoy a trip 20 Washington at
government expense. In the |
kellogg matter MIR. SpOffori's
counsel, Judge Merrick, says he IS bound |
% succeed because the Packard Iesis- |
lature MAS never rrCognizel to do any
thing beyond giving KELLOGG the color OF |
. ntle 10 a seat m the senate. as TIE
Nichols legislature vas recognized
Immediately by the government ior all
the purposes Oi legislation. The TACT
that whenever witness has proven a
damaging and conclusive charge against
kellosg he has been able to find men
IN louisiana To swear they would not
believe the witness on oath. is re,u.r,isi
rs not at all singular The kact. however.
that when kellogg's men have become
oosarePerOus and Tcsorted 10 afidayits
OF exposure they have been
appointed to good lat plaees
has not helped Kell0xg. asked a lesd-
ing politician 10 day who Is up in Loui.
slanA politics, II the Committee xonld