The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-11-22
FROM THE CAPITAL.
NOTES OF INTEREST,
Thut Highly Dramatic and Sensational story
About the Contemplated usurpstlon Of the
House or Representatives Authorlia.
fIytIy Dtnlri-Whai krifsr Says.

Z WASHINGTON, November 2l.-A silly
canatd appears In tho Critic this evening;
pnrporting to have been ,ccgmphed from
Cincinnati and to haveappcared originally
In the Cincinnati Enquirer. The story is
In brief that the Democrats, while the
election contests were pending toward the
close OF Inst session, solcmnfy agreed III
caucus TO violate rules OF House and law
OF the land by deposing Speaker Keller
and substituting Representative kenna, Il
u young West Virginia member, in the
the Speakers chair, iorcibly, II need be.
or course such Il programmed could not
luve been carried out without violence.
The Democrats nj 10 time (being in the
minority from the START possessed the
quorum Of members without which no
election OF Speaker Is possible, under the
rules of the House. The only way in
which Il minority can dcpose Speaker is
by force. Tho leaders OF the Democrats In
the House arc not men to resort to such in.
sane measures; therefore, this story il ab.
surd on its iacc. II has excited nothing
but ridiculc from those who read 1t to.
night, including The handful OF Congress.
men who are in town. It Is charitable 10
suppose it was attributed 10 the Enquirer
by mistake. 1t Is almost too nonsensical
even for that ttighty journal. However,
assuming that il did appear in the Eiiquir.
r, and may thus have mislcd somo people
In Cincinnati, 1t may be well to say TINT
the story is untrue. This is slid OIL author.
i,y OF Democrats who were in every Demo.
cratic caucus last session, md particularly
OF Mr.. $. S. Cox and AR. J. b. G. Atkins,
The story is six months old. When 1t
was fresh, which was while tho election
eases were still pending, it was repealed 10
those gentlemen and others tinclud.
ing MIR. kenna himself, by the
way), together with some other sil.
y rimors Of the same sort. II was not
only denied i'll set terms by these gen.
tlemep, but laughed at as'the whimsical
invention Of some tritlins joker. These
gentlemcn and other Democrats of like
standing in the House explicitly denied
then the story telt graphe,l here to day
from Cincinnati. They exhibited its ab
surlity SO eliectuallv that newspaper cor
respondents who conve,sed with them did
not think it worth Willie 10 embody thj.
particular canaH in their budgets OF eur.
rent rumors. The whole story probably
grew out ola suggestion made Mt random b,
Il young Democratic member that possibly
some Of the Republicans might join the
Democrats in The deposition OF Speaker
il he went on in his unreasonable course
respecting the eli ciion contests. kenna was
suggested as Il good man to propose The
resolution Of deposition, il Republicans
did not care to put ono up from thei,
side. 4ftis suggestion dropped almost al
birth. Very slight inquiry sutliced to prove
that no Republicans could be induced to
join i'll such movement, and nothing more
WIS said about it in serions way. 0!
course it is absolutely untrue that q Deu,.
ocratic caucus ever embodied that stl..es.
lion In Il formal resolve. \ eyea: many
foolish things were slid by hot headed
individuals on both sides III those DAYS.
bu. the Democratic caucus took no foolish
action. The only thing il did WIS to
adopt formal protest against Keifcr's rul.
ings which was spread upon the Journal
OF the House. Perhaps the Critic head
liner was not far of wien ho put oyer this
paragraph this epitaph: "a cook and bull
story, which tie Cincinnati Enquire,
swallowed, tail, feathers, horns, hoofs and
ALL" o0