Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-12-16
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL POINTS.

The raid on the Treasury, which We
prC dicted, has already commenced. VI
/ the 734 bills introduced in the half day
allowed for that purpose, on Tuesday,
when only seventeen States were called,
443 were private bills, and Of these 2OI
were for pensions. The public bills, 2S3
in number, relate to almost every con-
ceiyable subject of legislation, and call
for the expenditure, in the aggregate, OF
nearly one hundred millions of dollars.
When the rest of the States, yet to hear
from have contributed their quo
Ia, which will probably equal,
if it does not exceed those already in
introduced, both in number and the
amounts called for from the pnblic
treasury, We can giye definite idea of
what Is to become of the surplus
cash which Democratic Con-
gress accumulated and so carefully
guarded. With river and harb0r inn
prOvcments, steamship subsidies, inter
oceanic canals and railways, q new
navy, an increase in the army and eX-
penditureS for public buildings, the pros
poets is that a single session of Congress,
with a Republican majority in both
branches and q Republican Executive,
will suffice to squander the savings of
three years of Democratic economy.
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Special Diyp1tch 10 the Register.
WASHINGTON, December 15-West Vir-
ginianS will be glad to know that there is
fair prospect OF Congressman Kenna get
ting back on the House Committee on
Commerce. While there is not majority,
there is u very respectable and active
minority in Congress, who are opposed to
the whole system of river and harbor im
proyementS that comes before this Commit
tee, and while a membership OF the Com
mittee gives a representative no special hd-
vantage in the matter of securing appro-
priatiOns, it puts him in position to see
that claims of this character have fair con-
SideratiOn. Improvements OF West Eir-
ginia streams and harbors are met with the
objection that they only tend to provide
for future trade and commerce. New York
asks tor the same kind OF aid on the ground
that it provides for commerce already exist
ing, and the request meets with Qittle OBJ
lection. And yet the distinction between
lltlllH dil ltlNIuLdIt dlItdul StCNTGu
helping one in still embryOtiC condition,
is more fanCiful than real. With proper
improvement of her streams West Virginia
can furnish the
south and West
with cheap iron, coal and timber for a CEN
tury 10 come. Ii would be monument of
folly, moreover, to abandon the substantial
and systematic beginning already made, on
which more than half Il million dollars
have been expended and which would be
useless and YalueleSs for national purposes
and benefits if fOrSaken now.
The Crowd Of OaieC- eekers
here increases rather than decreases. The
hotel people tell me that never before with
in their recollection have they been as much
pressed for room ut this period of new
Congress and a new administration. And
vet the lobby and the people who come
to spend the season and visit the
capital for pleasure, are. not fully repre-
sented, and will not be until after the boil;
some satisfaction to know that the new
diSpcnSation j. credited at least with an
ability to decide upon requests promptly.
The men who wore out their trOwSerS walt
ing for Mr.. Hayes To make up his mind,
and were fed on wind until their stomachs
and tempers both revoltcd, are still en-
gagged in Cursing Rutherford. from one end
who call ON President Arthur have their
business settled with dispatch, if not with
uCatneSS. When he does not intend TO give
4 man what he asks for, he has COnsdera-
ton enough for him To tell him so. and the
disappointed individual has at least an OPP
rortunitv to 20 home and become reSpec-
table citizen.
Presidential Disability.
The Senate debate on the Presidential
disability, to-day, developed u wide dlSa-
greement among the Senator's, Senator
Garland maintaining that Congress had no
power over the subject, the matter beng
lett by the Constitution to the President
and Vice President alone. Senators Coke
and Jones. Of Florida, also spoke to the
measure.
The Attorney GeneralShip.
The continued withholding of RrewSter's
name is considered significant, here, and
the q,,id I,,,nCs are now prOphesying that he
will not be Attorney General, but that
'Hole-in-the-Sky Boutwell,, Timothy o.
Howe or Phillips, will finally be selected
for the position.
The Navy and Judge Hunt,
The appointment of J. Bancroft Davis
aS Assistant Secretary of State creates
vacancy on the bench of the Court Of
Claims To which, il is said, Secretary Hunt
will be appointed, and the Navy portfolio
thus lei, vacant will be given 10 ex-senator
ChuiIcc.
Personal and Political.
Guitcau has fixed the price Of autographs
NJ twenty-five cents.
At the PoStOiiice Department it is still
insisted that Chauncy |. Filley, otSt. Louis,
will succeed James rs Postmaster General.
The arrival of West Virginia statesmen
still continues to be an every day occur
renee. ROSSler. the Bismarck, got back
yesterday and Postmaster Scott, OF ParEers-
burg. and Col. Bob Blair, of Richie. came
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