Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-01-23
LANs BUDGET
Matters General and Political at the
Federal Capital.
The Garfield ChTch--Apportioameut
verse Views ofWest Va Statesmen-
Beach "AI Righf'-Nste Goff
thsAppOinting Power
Wall or THE WEST WRGIalAss
Special % ne Re1tSr.
The GArGfeid Church.


The GarGieId Church.
WARRINGTON, d. C., January n-It was
announced today that the building Of the
. new Church here, with which enterprise
! President Garfeld's name was SO closely
connected, will be commenced within the
next two or three months. Mr.. Power, the
present Chaplin Of the House and the pas
tor of the congregation in Washington with
which Garfield worshipped, says that
! $4,000 has been subscribed for the new
building, and there are excellent prospects Of
| furthereontributioAs. As TO theplan OF the
church II. Power read letter from Garfield
| written more than a year since and ex-
p' 'eSsed the opinion that the views contain
ed in il would be adhered to as closely Is
| possible. The letter, which illustrates in a
marked way, the plain and simple tastes Of
the ex-President reads IS follows:
MENTOR, Ohio, November Is. 1880.
DeT Friend.
In regard To the new church building in
4 Washington 1 am glad to hear that the
! work is 20 be undertaken, ard in answer
/ 10 your inquiry beg leave 70 offer but one
| suggestion that is that our brethren do not
| undertake TO build too large house. Let
| US keep within our means and also avoid
! anything like OStentation, either in size or
| decoration. Let it be a neat, modest church
\ Of under size rather than over size.
! With kind regards for you and yours in
( which my own join, i am, very truly yours,
! JAMES \. GARFIELD.
| Urgent Busjness-
Now that the contest over rules and other
/ matters connected with organizing and get
| ting the two houses under way have been
temporarily settled, there is some prospect
that both will get down to steady work.
Saying nothing of the general assortment
Of bills, public and private, before the COM
mittees, which stretch out like Banquo's
kings already, and would Of themselves
furnish steady employment until midsum-
| mer, there are numerous matters like the
| apportionment bill, for instance, that are
! becoming urgent The legislatures OF
every important State in the Union are in
session, and those OF them specially inter
ested in the change OF Congressional rep
resentation which the last census must
/ effect, are anxiously waiting for the details
which Congress must perfect before they
can safely take action. 1t IS matter oil no
Z little moment to rec0nyene State leSisll-
turs, and the people, who are economical
and who have q very indifferent opinion of
their legislatures, as q a'rule, anyhow, would
not look upon their coming together twice
in one yea- with much complacency, yet
this is Just what is going 10 happen IN
about half the States of the Union unless
Congress passes some kind of an appor-
tiOnment Gill within reasonable time, or
the legislatures above referred 10 choose 70
PrUt-GCl their present sessions.
MnrtIn and Kenna-
sent you the other day some views OF
ex-Congressman Martin, in which he sug'
gested that any serious difficulty in the
case of West Virginia might be avoided, no
matter how long Congress delayed action,
simply by letting her three present Con
gresSional Districts remaia IS they
are and eleCting Congressman al
large % fill the place OF the anticipated
/ fourth representative which the new sp.
! portionment will doubtless give you. His
/ idea was that the expense of reCOnyening
the Legislature would thus be avoided
| that the State would at least retain heI
! three representatives beyond a peradven'
| tura and as TO the chances Of the repreSen
tatiye at large being chosen in this way
being admitted, he thought he would be
willingt to take the chances Others here
however, are Hoc so confident as TO the
safety Of this plan. Both Congressman
! Wilson ard henna are opposed 10 il, and
I Judge Unse doubts as To its result. Sup
! pose" said kenna 10 your correspondent z
lew days since. the West Virginia Legis-
lature, tired Of waiting for Congress to act
in this matter, ShOuld so to worS and pro-
vide for the election OF three Congressman
from her present districts and one at large.
| Then suppose that Congress should pass All
apportionment Law, directing that West Vir'
ginia should have four Representatives, elec'
tel from districts to IS sthereafter laid out by
such State. Don't you think the admission
| Os Representative CaOeen under the prOyl
sion made previously, instead Of thereafter
would depend entirely upon the way the
dominant party feel about it when they
came up with their cen lidates? The as
| CendanCy OF one party or the other in Con
gresS might depend on our fourth man, and
yet We would not only risk his admission
but also that of The three others
ApportIonment Prospects.
Renna went TO Wheeling on Thursday
and will d)ub.les, impress his views ~
length upon members OF the two Houses
now in session there. Meantime, there is
still the prospect OF an early way out o.
the predicament through the taking up o.
the former apportionment, known as the
three-nineteen bill, and passing il under
suspension of the rules. II this seems pos,
sible il may be attempted tn-mOrrw, Or g,
any other time when 1t is thought the re-
! QuiSite vote can be secured. There will 90
some objection 10 il from Democrats like
! Blackburn, of kcntuckv and Others who
believe in getting what they consider the
are entitled 10, or taking nothing. and who
oppose this bill because they think 1t per
petUates inequalities in favor OF the Re-
| IubliCars; hut the probabilities are that q
majority Of the Democrats will support il
for the reason that they are not likely now
TO get any thing else as free from objection.
Beach "An Right"
From the visiting statesmen who left for
West Virginia yesterday, learn that the
contest for the position Of surveyor of the
port Of Wheeling is approaching decision.
The friends Of General Beach have inter
viewed everybody here connected with the
Treasury Department. except Secretary Fol-
| ger, who has heen absent in New York all
| week, and viii not return until to-nsorrow,
and in response to vigorous requests that
! GilChTist DC catapultized have answered
"all right" Whether all right' in this
case means that they want Gilchrist fired
! out AZ the department or whether tits the
! ordinary ShIbboleth made use Of in official
! circles for getting rid of persistent impor-
] tuners or vhethecit means anything in the
| mouths ot Subordinates will be determined
| when the Secretary gets home. II, as re-
/ ports have it, Folger Is to be transferred to
I the Supreme Court bench, he may not feel
| inclined to make any changes on the eve OF
retirement, and the matter may go over to
his successor