Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-02-17
WASHINGTON:
INTERESTING POINTS FROM IHt
LAW SHOP.
Goff On an Inspecting Tour-west Vlr-
ginians Attending to Their Duties
Our River Appropriations
Solid The Green
hackers Hope.
WEST WRGINlANS IN THE SERVICE
or THE GOVERNMENT.
WASHINGTON.

River and Hsrbor Bill Makes Slow Pro
gress-Goff, Hereford and Davis In Fneii
Various Csllings.
Special Dispatch 10 the Register.
WASHINGTON, February 10th.
The House tonight is dragging along
slowly with the River and Harbor Ap'
preparation bill. The enemies OF the
bill are making all kinds Of amendments
and demanding tedious roll call votes
upon them. The principal opponents
OF the bill are Messrs. Cox of New York
AMI Updegraff, of Iowa. Through the
vigilance and untiring energy oil Wilson
and Kenna, the appropriations for the
West Virginia rivers, as heretofore pub
lished in the REGIsTRR, have been al
lowed to stand and will undoubtedly
pass the House. Cox and kenna had
quite lively passage this morning over
one Of the appropriations for West
Virginia river.
Secretary OF luo oSAs
accompanied by Commodore Earl Eng
lish, Chief OF the Bureau Of Equipments
and Recruiting, visited the Navy Yard
this afternoon and inspected the me-
chanical departments OF the yard and
the training ship Portsmouth" The
on,rpntices of the vessel went through
the various evolutions OF seamanship,
small arms and howitzer drill. The
Secretary's salute OF nineteen guns was
fired in honor OF his visit.
Senator Hereford
will tomorrow introduce bill to pre-
vide that all the money due from the
Pacific railroad, under Acts OF Congress
for their conrtruction to the United
States shall be distributed as fast as paid
into the various States, Territories and
District OF Columbia in proportion to
the population OF each and be applied by
each to the purposes of general educa-
ton without regard to race or color.
Senator DAVIS
expects TO morrow to get up his appro-
priation bills in the Senate, which his
committee has been working so labor
iously upon since the holidays.
J. F. B.
Thurman and Matthews.
WASHINGTON, February l6.-lt hav-
ing been intimated that possibly Sena-
tor Thurman's opposition to the con-
firmation of Stanley Matthews may
have been inspired with the hope that he
would himself be appointed to the Su-
preme Bench, friend Of the Senator is
authority for the statement that he de-
clared today that he would not accept 4
Supreme Court Judgeship ifit was offer
ed him by either President Hayes or
General Garfield, and he was anxious to
retire from and be relieved OF the cares
and burdens Of public life.
The Greenback Grab.
The Greenbackers are working indus
triously with the view OF preventing a
compact front in the next House, and
there holding the balance OF power.
Weaver and Ciillet, whose terms expire
with this Congress, will devote their en-
ergies to keeping their party organized.
They insist that every Greenbacker
elected 10 the next Congress will vote
together; that not one will vote with the
Republicans or Democrats; that the Re-
publicans lack one OF the number neces-
sary to organize the House, and that the
Greenbackers will force the Democrats
to Join them to beat the Republicans.