Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-12-19

Mr.. COnkling, who would not be dis
posed TO laud his enemy even in the
grave, we have no better word monSer
or more brilliant rhetOrician than the
eX-Secretary.
1t is understood i'm Washington that
the development already made in the
investigation of the expenditures OF the
Contingent fund have been of d charac-
ter to place Mr.. Sherman i'll very un-
pleasant position. OF course, just what
those developments are have not yet
been announced, but there is little doubt,
if the committee do their work thor
oughIy and impartially, as seems now
probable, they will unearth frauds sutii-
cient to keep the ex-Secretary busy ex-
planning for some time to come.
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Special Dispatch 10 The Register.
GarfieId's Memorial.
WASHINGTON. December 1S.-Thc Joint
House and Senate Committee on the Gar
field Memorial did sensible thing yester-
day. when they decided to invite Secretary
Blaine to deliver the eulOgy before both
branches OF Congress in the Hall Of the
House. on some day to be hereafter fixed.
Senator Sherman wanted to have other
speeches to preeede and follow Blaine's
address but the balance of the committee
thought the Maine statesman sufficient.
There was some talk OF Bob IngersOll, who
contributed no little to Gartield's social
enjoyments by his rollicking fun during
the Presidents lifetime, acting as
the orator after death in place
of Blaine, but the ehurch-going people
would have risen in their wrath il the
great Pagan had been given any very
rominent place in the Obsequies, and the
proposition was withdrawn.
have Just been informed, however, that
Mr.. Blaine will positively decline to deliver
the grafton, it is supposed for the reason
| that he would be compelled 10 reopen the
breach between the two wings OF the party,
| which would tend to the injury OF his
friends, who are not prepared to breake
| with the administration.
Ingersoll has pleasant house here
nearly opposite the Arlington hotel, and
cultivated, hospitable family, who are said
10 share his agnoStic opinions One OF the
dauehtcrs was reported recently to have
ioined the Presbyterian church, but the
report. as the Associated Press would say,
! lacks conformation.
The Mutual Union.
Speaking OF the Associated Press, went
| into the main Washington Office OF the
| new Mutual Telegraph Company here, the
| g, Tho Ynnnla IlSnpSnn IN
| belieye that the new concern, instead OF
| being eaten up like its predecessors by the
Western Union. would eat up everything
| that ran in opposition 10 1t. The
! Western Union cannot afford to buy us out
! if we could sell" said Manager LaRue,
| who has control of this division. 1T has
| about rs much as it can do to take care oil
| its present stock without adding on any
| further burden. Beside the stock OF the
new concern has been placed in blocks
| along its present and contemplated lines.
| with people who are interested in having
! and are Bound to have an opposition line.
| However, this may be, the new concern can
! hardly fail to be good thing as long rs 1t
| lasts. Ii opened offices in Columbus, w.
| Ia,r week and announced that ii was ready
| for busincss i'm st. Louis about the same
| time. Connected with the office here II
proposes to have bureau OF
TeIegraphic Correspondence.
| and furnish specials as well as regular tel
| graphic service to the press. do not know
| how the duplicate specials will answer, aS
| nearly every paper who uses specials from
| washington has its own idea OF what such
| specials Shall treat, but if it works as the
| patent medicine correspondence plan II
will be a bonanza tcShe management. The
| patent medicine correspondent has aOOuI
/ captured the county press, and Is making
\ considerable inroad upon country journals,
! His letter is pretty much made up of be-
| ginning and ending, and in the middle
| where the news ought 10 be there is inject
! ed an advertisement which looks like an
| uudigested rabbit i'm the stomach OF boa
| constructor, but il doesn't I cost the editor .
| cent. except the price of composition, aho
| the man who stops his paper hardly ever
| takes the trouble To mention that the
Washington letter gave him the vertigo.
The Guiteau Trial
| ,oes on SO slowly that it is becoming bur
| den to everybody connected with H.
| Guitcau seems to have rung all the changes
| of which he is capable and his interrnp'
| tions. i'm which the same cpithets and Ian
| guage appear and reappear, are becoming
| mOnotOnOuS. Part of the feeling when
| prevails among those who have attended
] fine iFlIl regularly NGN OAH1SocCN ~ NA.N
/ man who said if the Court could not do
| ANYTHING else with Guiteau he hoped 1t
would fine him for carrying concealed
] weDpcns. Certainly itwCuldaffect the souls
! rf The peOplc who have watched him since
/ since the trial began t. see him hauied oul
| "a an aSylum for temporary confinement III
/ lis close. There is natural feeling of sym
/ p:thv foF man in peril of his life, no mat
/ ter with what crimes he stands charged ou!
| Guiteau's grinning assurance ana lnsolen'
| efrrontery in Court and manifest cowardice
| Oltsidc keep all kindly consideration from
! him. Corkhill says the case will be ready
! for argument by Christmas, and that the
| gIrumpnt will consume = week or ten days
! but others in the case fix its termination
! not earlier than January 18th.
The Contingent Fund Investigation.
: j. the opinien OF Government Officials
I that tie contingent fund investigation VIII
( show up considerable loOSencSS and irregu,
Z Iarity. but that Pi;ney ana LamPhere Will
Z be able to show that they were acting under
authority.
That Investigation.
Ii is nov understood that Sherman VIII
[ get black eye from the Treasury lnyeStl'
/ cation which is now progressing. IL is re
! ported that even Frye and Logan, the Re
/ publican members of the committee, are
I aStOunded at the developments, anu say
| they will have no part in any attempt &c
: cover them up. The fact is, that be tore
/ the investigation is concluded there viii
he rattling among the dry bones oil Re
| publican officials such rs has not happened
/ for many year.
The Committees
The announcement of the House Com
mittees are promised for tomorrow, and
| unless changes are made tonight, the
ehairmanships will go as heretofore tele-
| graphed you.
W., p. a G. n. r.
G. W. Thomson left, tonight, with Major
I Wharton and the second party OF engin,
GERS for the Wheeling Parkersburg and
Charleston railroad. They win begin work
at Parkersburg. McConnelrs party are al
/ New AIartinsyille and report favorable
uhe Assazsin.
wsrsien crockcr has indsced Gaiteau tt
have his face shaved in order thai q cast oi