Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-12-17
WASHINGTON.
BILLS PREPARED BY WEST VIRGINIA
c0kGRESSkEN.
River and Rzrbor lmproyements-hsscou
nouse-Pension and War claims-Seo-
vile and the euiteau Case-Gam5-
ling Clerks.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL POINTS.

/ ling Clerks
! PERSONAL AND POLITICAL POINTS.
In our special dispatches will be found
! list of the bills prepared by the men,
| bers of Congress from this State, which
/ would have been presented yesterday
/ had not the call of the States been in
| terrupted before reaching West Vir-
| ginia, together with statement of their
most important features.
80
The announcement of the appoint
| ment of Mr.. Brewster, as Attorney
General, confirms the impression that
! the Cabinet will be made Stalwart, as
rapidly as occasion offers. Hunt will
be the next to go, and it is now proba-
| bic that Lincoln and KirkwoOd Will re-
main for the present; but in that event
they will be pOwerless, even II so DIS
posed, to interfere with the wishes OF
the President.
From present Indications Senator and
eN-Secretary Sherman VIII get ail the
investigation he desires. The sub-conl-
| the work of ascertaining what has be-
come of the contingent fund, are mani
| testing q disposition to find out, which
is both unusual and alarming to those
who have heretofore done as they
pleased with those funds.
Special Dispatch TO the Register.
Col. wilson's Bills.
WASHINGTON, December 16.-To-day l
was permitted to examine large number
of bills prepared by the West Virginia dele
CATION for introduction on the call Of States.
Three of Col. Wilson's bills, to provide
public building at Clarksburg, to furnish
two icebreakers at Parkersburg, and to i'm
prove the Ohio river, apprOpriating $4,000,
$1,000 and $4,000 respectively for such
purposes, have already been introduced in
the Senate by Senator Camden, with view
OF securing early consideration. OF the re-
mainder, one TO improve the Little Kan
awha appropriates $4,000; one for the re-
lief of witnesses and juors at the spring
term of the United States District Court of
West Virginia, in 1851, provides fees and
mileage for which no provision was made;
one amending the steamboat inspection
laws reduces the license fee on
pleasure boats to $500; one relating
to pensions to soldiers of 1912 takes away
the limitation of time OF service; one re-
lating to the disposal of the Chinese In
demnity Fund, provides for the distribu-
ton or return of the money deposited years
since by that government with the L. S.
Treasury to cover alleged damages to the
United States during the Ward troubles;
| one increases the salary OF the Judge Of the
L. S. District Court for West Virginia from
$, 800 to 5000; two relate to printing sig
nal service reports and compiling the laws
governing the printing for members at the
Government printing office; one has refer
enCe TO our treaty with Mexico and the
others having reference to
Pension and War Claims
are for the relief Of James w. Ramsburg,
George W. Peter, Mary Mcnamara. Thomas
SiSda ciSf az n Ne Nelson, Mahala Morrow
Helms, TnUmaS wctleu, Aercfrn
Beerbower, Margaret Meyers,
Henry Harper, John Honchi3. Asa
| smith. James A. Roby, Casa Ann Cottrill'
Jobn NJ. Debrular, John Folger, Jennie n.
Sonre Snr A p Mcclure, Charles II. Coen.
JoLn Burns, NJ l.. Church, South, OF
| CIarksburg, Patrick Terney, James Gather
| JOhn ID. Grim, Elijah NJ. Hart and Louisa
The only notable bill among these pri-
yate claims is that of Ramsburg Tor 80 Zoi.2o'
| for lumber furnished to federal troops dur
ing the last war. Pat iierney 5 claim Is ior
4 SI3 worth of whisky furnished to soldiers
/ and Gathers is 81 900, for a temperance
hall destroyed by troops.
| Judge Hoge's List
included bill for the improvement oil the
Wononoabela river; one providing for hold
| mo regular terms of the U. ). District
Court OF West Virginia at Martinsburg' on
tbe first of June and the 18th OF November
~ each wear, and bills for the relief OF John
Iyon. Harper's Ferry Board of Education
| Florence w. Kirwan, A. H. Herr, German
Evan. Luth. Church of Martinsburg, ana
Martha +. Stribling. The latter, VINO re-
sides at MartinSburg, is the widow OF rear
Admiral Stribling, L. 5. n, ana tue ld Diii o lor
her relief proposes a pension o' ~ per
month.
provided for the improvement OF pretty
much all the streams in his district OF
which will furnish an account hereafter
Poor scoyille
talks of trying another lecture to help make
mn the expense incurred by him in ndefence
OF his ungtateful brother-in-law. He IS
still pounding along doing the best he can
alone. for the wretch who has not another
hand to hold the rope from his neck lot q
| little season, and receives in return for ms
Kindness a liberal dose of abuse daily from
his foul-mouthed kinsmtn. An lnciemeh'
evening kept some away from his last iec'
ture, and the manifest dwlndilnS OF ihler'
est in the trial kept away more.
Personal and Political.
Inotice that the Clerk of the National
BOARD of Health in this city states that
typhoid fever has been declared an cpl
demic by the Health Officer at Wheeling.
Gambling in lottery tickets has become
so prevalent among the department CLERK.
here, that ii is proposed to use strlhgeI'
measures to prevent their sale IN the Dis
triCt.
The case of Whitaker, the colored cadet
who gnawed his own ears of, is likely tC
be re opened, the judgment dlsmlsSlne
him from the Academy at West Point nav
ing, it is said, been revised.
Ex-senator Thurman is a frequent Wis
itor, nowadays, at the Capitol, and hls Ia"
practice in the Supreme Court Is sald 10 o.
growing rapidly.
Bob Ingersoll is being pushed forward a
one of the orators the Garfield Aenorla
service proposed by Congress,
Mr.. Roberts, who proposes 10 upset th'
last Mississippi elections and reinagEurat'
the provisional government plan stht
AID oi the present administration, receive
about the same consideration here accorded
10 acknowledged crsnks.
is proposed to ease of the oatgoinfs
House employees with i months extra sal
sry. Colonel Bill Patton, who leaves tol