Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-02-01
WASHINGTON.
The Funding Bill Gets a Blown the
Senate.
Mrs. lincOln's PessiOn-Fenian Day IN the
HOuse-Sufrage for the District
The. McKinT Bill--congres-
sional Library, Etc.
POINTS PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Special Dispatch % The Reai,tsr.

WASHINGTON, January 31.-The President
has signed the bill increasing the pension
OF Mrs. Lincoln to 5000 per year, and pay :
ing her $4,000 as arrearage, which will end
the matter, at least for the present.
In the Senate, to-day, Vests amendment
to Sherman's three per cent. Funding Bill,
was defeated, the two Senators from West
Virginia and Senator Bronze being the on
ly Democratic votes against it, although
Senator Bayard would have voted the same
way had he not have been paired on the
question. - - -- on
Piumbs amendment to the same bill
was then agreed to, by a vote OF 80 to %. 1t
provides that the Secretary OF the Treasury
shall use all of the funds now held in the
Treasury in excess Of S1O0. 1000 in the
redemption of the bonds OF the United
States, and that said redemption shall be
made in not less than three installments,
and that the said sum of 100000, 900, SO
left in the Treasury, shall not be increased
or diminished, except by the redemption
OF United States notes.
Richeliu Robinson recited his great speech
in defiance of the British Lion. Robinson,
when he gets thoroughly warmed up with
his subject is better than a circus. His
white hair floats in the breeze; his tobacco
flows after the the manner OF young
Niagara; his face becomes fiery red, and he
literally tears n subject all TO tatters. To-
day he was in his element, and his speech,
notwithstanding the cold water thrown on
it by Orth, was greeted with continuous
applause, and the resolution asking the
President for list of Americans impris-
Oned in English bastiles was adopted.
Ex-Public Printer Clapp. who is a resi-
dent here, and in connection with the Re-
publican Central Committee, has memor-
allied Congress on the subject of restoring
suffrage to the District of Columbia.
The Ways and Means Committee had a
lively session to-day. II was agreed to
hold over the Mckinley bill until Thurs
day. Discussion was on the question of
incorporating the subject OF internal taxa
tion with the Tariff Commission bill, and
was kept up until the House met, when
the committee adjourned without action.
New York alyiceS were scanned with
eager interest this afternoon at the Wash
ington Bureaus of the various papers
threatened by the conhagration, and mach
relief was felt when il was aScertained that
the Times and other papers had escaped.
With the end of this month, between
! three and four hundred census clerks will
/ be discharged and about half of them will
have money enough to reach home. The
rest will become hangers on around the
Department, waiting, like Micawber, for
something to turn up.
The Congressional Library Bailding bill
was reported fayorably by the House, to,
! day. 1t is the same bill introduced by
| Voorhees, in the Senate, and provides for 9
( separate building in the Government res
eryation opposite the east front OF the
Capitol, to cost one million dollars.
The Dakota delegation have stimulated
interest in the bills for the admission OF
that territory as we'll a. Idaho and Arizona.
Considerable interest is manifested over
the bill introduced by Congressman Hyatt
smith. of Brooklyn. reducing the tax in
/ the District Of Columbia on commercial
agents and merchandise brokers. The lat
ter say that the tax of 500 keeps them out
Of the territory which is the common prop
| erty OF the whole country.
The West Virginia arrivals, to-day, were
W. NJ. RAIDER, Col. Bob Blair and J. D..
Whitman. the Granger Editor Of the REG-
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