Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-01-20
WASHINGTON.
Matters General and Political at the
Federal Capital.
"reminiscences ofchicagO-What Might Have
Been-The Wheeling SUyeyOrship-
Discomfort in the House
Robson as Leader.
RETIREMENT OF JUSTICE HUNT.
WEST VIRGINIA MATTERS.

"Reminiscences OF Chicago-That His
torieaI Pieture-what Might Have
Been-The suryeyorshiP-Mails on
the ID, a. d.
Special Dispatch 20 the Register.
WASHINGTON, January 19.-There is quite
delegation of Republican politicians from
your State here now Mason and McCor-
mick, of Grafton, and Rossler, of Kanawha
suggest "reminiscences Of Chicago, and look
rs though they had been freshly cut from
Joe Faris' historical canvass, for which we
all paid 4 dollar apiece, and which was pSes
scented to-my tiistIng6ished friend, Mr..
Campbell by Col. PollaCk and other orators
in white duck vests while the boys in the
gallery cheerSd and the band played
When this old (SOvereignty) hat was
new" | wonder where that picture is
now? Not that any of the politicians who
figured in il or its presentation would care
about its being made extra prominent, for
somehow the painting and the orators are
not
Exactly i'm Harmony
with the present political surroundings.
As my friend Mr. Thomas Smith, of the
county of Wood once remarked, when in
troduced to two visiting statesmen from
the upper end OF the State. those names
may DO for the town of Wheeling, but they
will not do for the city of Parkersburg;'
and while the music and the speeches and
the picture sounded and looked all right
when Garfield was alive, they don't exact
ly harmonic with the present administra-
tion. Of course, where 4 great moral act
is Commemorated these subsequent incon-
gruities ought not 10 be considered, and
yet they sometimes prove very unhandy.
Suppose, for instance, one Of the actors in
that
Dramatic Episode
should come up for recognition by this ad-
ministration, and his connection with the
transactions referred to should be estab-
hshed? 1t seems TO me they would make
him hustle around longer than Tom
Moore's Peri before they would let him in
to Paradise.
After all there is good deal of chance
in these things. For instance, if Garfield
COnkling would have had the recalCitrantS
OF the West Virginia delegation out on the
pavement, and instead OF being handed
down 10 pOsterity on canvas, looking as
heroic rs aCOllcCtiOU Of IriShmen with their
Sunday clothes on, they would have only
occupied 4 paragraph in the official report
Of the Convention and been indexed under
the head Of
.'Fired Out.
Again, suppose Garfield hal lived how dill
fCrcnt might have been the fate of the
prime ugoyCrs in this eventful side-ShOH.
&Wpbell might, ere this have been Prime
Minister at the court of Dom Pedo Sancho,
with Gus Pollock Us Secretary OF the Lcga-
tiOn and CbTgr n .ltGires. Mason might
have been on the Supreme Bench, and
Mccormick have been made District AttOr-
ney, while ROSler-wcll, come 10 think of
il, RoSler did not cut much OF figure III
that picture, and the current impression is
that when il was taken John was out taking
4 drink and laying pipe for the
'Oid Commander
But find that am straying oil into the
boUndless realm of speculative imagina-
tiOn, instead of holding myself down to the
limited territory of solemn and frigid facts.
Mason and Mccormick say they don't want
anything. except 10 see the Guiteau trial
miniStratiOn cannot keep us out of the
court rOom-and RoSlcr wants to help
Grandfather Howe
run the Post Office Department Yves.
Atkinson is here but he is provided for and
has an office at last which enables him To
see his wife and babies once in awhile, and
gives him deputies like Haggerty and Glib
bOns To serve as reasonable targets for
moOnshiners, instead of compelling him to
offer his own 1.-the and willOwy carcass
further aS an aggrayatiOn to the enemy.
The eSureyOrship.
I understand there will be additional
delegations here during the present week
to assist the treasury department. in coming
TO some conclusion concerning the vexed
question of the SurveyOrship of your port.
There seems to be some difficulty in getting
= representative Republican to stand
against old WaXworks,' as the other side
prOfanely term my political and scientific
friend. Surveyor 6ilChriSt, and the OppOSi-
ton is now concentrated, so tospeak, under
the solitary banner of General Beach. Both
the PetersOns, | am informed, pulled off
early in the hght-W. +. because an inspec-
ton of the office receipts did not prove
satisfactory. and Walker because of an
apathetic condition of some portions of the
EeUubliCanS concerning his candidacy.
of the office seems to have been exaggera-
ted. and il is now claimed it will not eG-
ceed nine hundred dollars year, although
it could be made good deal more If the
importers of your city could be induced to
have their foreign goods brought to the
Wheeling Custom House. instead of taking
them out at New York, Philadelphia etc.
Both the hardware and the dry gOOds por-
tiun OF your mercantile community are
considerable importers, saying nothing of
other traders. and the manufacturing eS-
adjustments.
Postal Agent Hooten, of Grafton. is here,
arranging for one of the periodical weigh
ings of mail matter on the Il. 4 .. railroad.
The mails are weighed for sixty consecu-
tive days, and an average is struck on which
compensation to the road is based Mr.
HoOten says the new arrangement under
which distributing agents are put on the
early train out of Wheeling works a1mira-
bly, for the newspapers, and readers of the
REGISTEn can now get their morning issue
promptly through the mail, both on the
mail line and the ParkerSburg branch as
well IS aI connecting points. Ian.