The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-03-16
BELvA AND BEN,

Postmaster General Key says that 1t Is
not true, as charged by Mrs. Lockwood,
that Ben Hill got q man appointed in the
Department.. Key says Hill never has
secured the appointment of single per-
son in the Postoffice Department, nor has
has he Of late years made an effort to do
so. It's learnedfro other sources, how
ever, that the person referred to by Mrs.
Lockwood is employed in the Postottice
Department, but Ben Hill had nothing
whatever to do with his appointment.
There are many circumstances which
seem 10 sustain Mrs. lockwood IN ner
charges, and Hill can hardly avoid giving
more attention to them. Hill also denies
that he has ever had q page appointed in
the Senate, and brings the certificate oi
the Sergeant.at-Arms TO corroborate his
statement, but It Is nevertheless the fact
that brother OF the girl Hill, Is charged
with seducing is page in the Senate. :.
Within O month he has been charged
by responsible person with having se-
duced two women, and, he merely con-
tents himself with a. denial, and claim
that the accusation Ia made for the .pur-
pose OF blackmail., Some of his fellow
Senators think he ought to make an ex-
ample Of Mrs. Lockwood, the female law
yer here, who makes these charges, II her
motive Is blackmail, as under the laws OF
the District she may be sent 10 the Peni.
tentiary for attempting to extort money,
under such circumstances, but he has
taken no steps in this direction. The res
olutions offered by Senator Kellogg for an
investigation OF the charge that he brought
the woman Raymond here to embarrass
Hill. will come up in the Senate tomorrow
for action, and Hill will have an excellent
opportunity to clear up his reputation by
having the double scandal investigated.
EXODUS INVESTIGATION.
Ex-senator Busch, OF Louisiana, before
the, Exodus. Committee to-day, said that
the efforts last winter by the Democrats
to pass the chain.gang law and the IN
certainty Of the status of the oolored peo.
pie under Democratic rule prevented
many from making the usual contracts in
January and February this year, and the
result is already observable in the large
number OF colored people who have
moved from the planting districts into. the
cities and towns on the banks Of the rivers
40 as to take advantage OF the opportuni-
ties for transportation to the west.
He grouped the causes ot the exodus
under fiye heads, viz: Fear on the part OF
the colored people OF class legislation
against them by the Democratic legisla.
tors. the fear Of the interference with
their educational privilege the uncertain
ty OF obtaining homes and the insecurity
In retaining them; the interference with
ibeir religious and personal rights, and
the fear Of Acknowledgement. He thought
Il not improbable that the protection Of
his people in all their rights would pro.
dnce an effect upon them Il has produced
In the cases Of the Irish, German and
English emigrants. he believed that IN
right and justice the experiment, should
be tried. 1t would OF least stop the exo-
dus OF bis race. So great is the change IN
the political. complexion OF the voters IN
some Of the parishes within thu past lew
years, as shown by the election returns,
he instancsd 0uichita parish, where IN
1875 from ], 200 TO l,500 Republican and
400 or 500 Democratic votes were cast,
while at the last election the leading
Democratic candidate polled 1915 and the
Republican candidate only received II
votes. This aud similar changes, he said,
were accomplished by Democratic re-
turning boards. Prom'fye to seyen po'
lice jurors-were formerly elected in each
parish as Supervisors Of Election. subse'
auently the Democrats passed law au'
thorizing Governor Nichols to appoint
The additional police jurors appointed
we're all Democrats, and this gives the
i Democrats majority Of the Police Jurors
4 or County Returning Boards as the witness
called them. In every parish ip the State
A with one exception, aud In, this ercep
tional parish, Republican maloriheI
were driven away by. armed Democrats
He thought It was not necessary for thl
Il Democrats to use torce now TO carry thl
elections, as the legal machinery the!
have devised enables them to count ou
any one they choose.
. The witness was then asked by. MI
4 voorhees, to explain how 1t is that In 3
many parishes where the eolored Reput