Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-02-01

!Connittoe oa Appropriations rhsVins
the bill in charge, fepOrtsd TO the 'fuii
.committee to-day the Legislative, E1'
ecutive and Judicial Appropriation bill.
The committee will meet on Wednes.
day, when the bill win be agreed 70 and
reported to the House. The HousS
Committee. On Comnerce continued It's
work uponthe
aRiver ana H.rbor Bill
to day and agreed upons 3 several
small items of appropriations Tor the
upper tributaries s of the Mississippi,
THE amount sarsed upon for the Inn
proyemeh t,of the Mississippi river d il
now stands in The bills n,5090 600 tfer
the Mississippi from Cairo to its mouth
and 500 600 from Cairo to its headquar..
tiers. IL is by no means. settled, how
ever, that these amounts will not be
subject to revision. before the bill is
finally adopted by the committee.
=. The Commissioner Of Patents
to-day submitted to Congress his an
nual report ofthe operations OF the pat
ent office during the year ended Decem-
Der 81, 1880. From detailed state
ment Of the receipts and expenditures
submitted it appears that there was re-
ceived during the year for patents, copies
OF records or drawings, and from other
sources, an aggregate OF S749, ,6Sl. Total
expenditures during the year $685., ,s65,
leaving balance OF S2l0,S20. On Janu-
airy /, 1889, there remained 81 APO, 500 to
the credit of the patent fund, which
added to the surplus OF 1880, makes the
amount to the credit Of the patent fund,
January /, 1881, 81 ,6Sl ,626.
Determined Democrats.
WASHINGTON, January a.-Upon the
Senate's adjournment this afternoon,
the Democratic Senators assembled in
caucus for the purpose OF determining
what course should be pursued in regard
to making arrangements for the count
OF the electoral votes next week. After
some discussion it was unanimously
decided in the first place that
the dominant majority in the Senate will
not consent TO the establishment OF the
precedent proposed by Mr.. Ingalls, res
olution, or OF any similar regulations
deviating from the long established
practice of counting the electoral vote,
in the Joint convention OF the two
branches of Congress, in the hall OF the
House OF Representatives.
Second-That the resolution now on
the table OF the Senate, declaring that
the Vice President has no Constitution
al authority to count the electoral
vote, shall be called up at
an early day, probably tomorrow, and
pressed to passage at q continuous SEES
sion running through the night, II nee
essary.
Third-That the select committee on
this subject shall report and the major
lty in the Senate pass as soon as practic-
able Ia substitute for Ingalls, resolution)
q concurrent resolution, providing in
substance that the two Houses shall as
semble in the hall Of the House
Of Representatives on the ninth
that the lists of the
electoral votes shall be made by two or
more tellers on the part of the House
and one or more on the part OF the
Senate; that the total for each presiden-
lial and vice psesidential candidate lex
Georgia seven DAYS sat after T the fst time pre-!
,cribed by the federal law shall be hand-
ed to the President OF the
Senate, and that he as presiding
officer OF the joint convention shall an
nounce the results in the same way in
which the results were announced under
similar circumstances in the years 1919,
1857, and 1869 when the electoral votes
Df the States OF Missouri, Wisconsin,
and Michigan, were found to have been
east on the DAYS other than those fixed
by law. The announcement according
10 this proposed arrangement, would be
A hypothetical declaration as
10 what would be cast for
each candidate "if the votes OF Georgia
be counted" and "if the votes OF Geor-
pia be not counted" but it is to be pro-
yided i'm the concurrent resolution that
this hypothetical declaration shall he
by the announcement by
the presiding officer that ''in any event
James A. Garfield and Chester A.
Arthur have received a Constitutional
majority OF all the electoral votes and
are duly elected President and Vice
President"
Some Wealth for West Virginia,
WASHINGTON, January 81. - The
House Committee on War Claims
agreed to day to report fayorably TO the
House the bill providing for the allow
ance of certain claims favorrbly passed
on and reported by the Accounting Offi.
Ger of the Treasury Department. Nine
hundred and twenty-six claimants are
in the bill, the majority OF
them from the States of Kentucky,
Tennessee and West Virginia. The
claims vary in amount from $500 TO ST.
900 and aggregate between 500, 900 and
SsOO,0 900.
Action Taken by Supreme Court in Honor
of Justice Swayne.
WASHINGTON, January Sl-A meet
inc of the members OF the bar OF the
Supreme Court of the United States,
held in the court room ut the Capitol,
this morning, to take action on the re-
tirement OF Justice Swayne from the
bench. Hon. Samuel Shellabarger was
elected chairman and JAS. II. Mckinney,
clerk of the Court, secretary.
The Committee on Resolutions re-
ported the following, which were
adopted:
Resolred, That the members OF the bar
have learned with deep regret that in
the opinion Justice Swayne the time
has arrived when he should retire from
the labors and duties Of the bench
which he has so long adorned.
Rssolred, That at the conclusion OF his
long and honorable career, the bar deem
il alike their duty and their privilege,
10 express their sentiments in sincere
respect for Justice Swayne, which have
been inspired by large capacity. The
full and accurate learning OF the
patient and persistent investigation
of the anxious desire to do justice,
the genial and benevolent courtesy he
has uniformly accorded II the members
OF the bar which have distinguished him
throughout the long period Of his ser
vice on the bench OF the Supreme Court:
Rssolrsd, That the Attorney General
be requested to present these resolu-
tions TO the Court and ask that they be
entered on its minutes and communi-
Gated to Justice Swayne.