The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-05-26
THE TARIFF PROBLEM.
GOSSIP ABOUT THE COMMISSION,
Plenty Of Run,ors, bat Nothing Authentic From
President Arthur Gloomy Picture Ffom the
Cumberland Coal Fields sam Randall and '@
.t@a Ills First Lieutenant KennA-Aotss.
Special Dispatch to The ln,elllscncer.

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Special Dispatch to the lntclliycncer. @
| WASHINGTON, May 2j.-It is understood
which ~ tho fayorite way OF Introducing
rumor in Washington, that tho Prcsiden
has agreed upon five Mt least Of tho nint
members who arc 10 compose the 'Taril
Commission" and their names are giyet
but no great reliance Is to be placed on til,
information. So fur rs your correspondent
is advised Mr.. Arthur may have made Ger
tain selections; lie has certainly not given
my Of them TO the public. Those mon
toned as decided on arc cx.Vice presi
dent Wheeler, Alexander Mitchell, the
Wisconsin railroad magnatc, Mr.. John
L. Hayes, Of Massachusetts,, formerly
president OF the National woolen associa
ton, Henry Oliver, IT,, the Pittsburgh iron
man, and Porter, late Of the statistical bu
reau OF tho census office. It is known that
Senator Don Cameron is pressing Olive,
and that all the others have strong backing
but while 1t is probable that some Of them
possibly all, may be appointed, Mr.. Arthur
has not yet 80 given 1t out. It 1tisre,narked
as somewhat peculiar that amonga all the
gentlemen SO far named, the name OF nc
one prominently identified with the agri
cultural interests q the country anywhere
appears; on tho contrary, willie TWAS an.
nounced some days ngo that the President
would not undertake to have the various
industries represented on the commission
by experts, the majority OF those suggested
MS likely to be appointed are really special.
lists in the sense that they conspicuously
represent special railway or manufacturing
interests. It need not surprise any one il
the slates which have been published
prove to be considerably broken when the
appointments ate announced. n
In the Senate to-day Mr.. Davis, OF West
Virginia, introduced bill providing that
Martinsburs be nude one Of the towns in
which regular terms OF the United States
district court for the district Of West Vir.
ginia shall be held.
The latest adyices from Cumberland rep.
resent q gloomy condition OF affairs in that
town owing TO the long continued strike Of
coal miners; that nearly every kind Of bus.
mess is 4. stand.still, while the terms oi q
compromise between the strikers and the
companies seem apparently US remote as
ever. =.h-2}
Senator lVindo,n's wlisk y.ring investi
cation will begin next Monday. This com.
mittee is good one: Window, Harrison,
Haw!ey, Cockrcll aud Push. 1t is Sale
however, to predict TINT nothing will ever
come out OF it but a tedious waste OF time
and not much political capital to the Min.
nesota Senator. Whatever objections there
may be to the bonded spirits bill it is hard
to fiud anybody who believes that the
friends OF the measure bought its way
through the House or have undertaken to
tamper with the Senate. ,ls- {.
The bill for the relief OF tho officers and
crew OF the famous Monitor. which passed
the Senate on Wednesday, appropriatin:
about 5000 900 for that purpose ia looked
upon By many Democrats and not 4 few
Republicans as job ihat ought to have
been discouutenanced. Had the twenty
nine absentecs been present its story woulJ
certainly not have gone through. The Dem
ocra,s who voted for It were Bayard,
Brown, Farley and Mcpherson. The Re.
publcaps who voted achajnst It were Lo.
gan. Platt and Davis, Of Illinois
A new thing in the iuterminable Chris
tiancy divorce casc,apnears,in the ey;denc,
TODAY in the shape of n letter written by
the ex-senator 10 his iatler.in.law. Mr.
Luccnbcel, as long ago as 1878 in which, he
recites his domestic grievances in yer,
feeling manner and wants to know what
under the circumstances, he had better do
Tie letter is calculated to help the olt
mans case considerably, as showing that
though old enough to know better, he hat
allowed himself to be esregiously imposed
upon in his latest matrimonial venture.
Mr.. Kenna appears to be making him
self particularly conspicuous rs Sam Ran
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