Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-01-12
WASHINGTON.
General News and Gossip at the
Federal Capital.
Temperance-SenatOr Vest on Finances
0th's ReyOlt-The Guiteau Case
Sherman on the Stand.
PETERSON AND THE COLLEcToRSHlp.
Special DispCtch 10 the Register.
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Special Dispatch 10 ue Register.
WASHINGTON, January IL.
Temperance.
The movement ofthe Christian Womens
Temperance Union, in the Senate, to-day,
created considerable interest. First one
Senator and then another offered one, untll
an had placed one or more before the body.
When the avalanche commenced. there was
a disposition to laugh the matter out but
Il soon became a serious matter. They |
we're all finally laid on the table to await
the appointment of special committee TO
W HON it is proposed to have them referred.
senator Vests
Speech on the Sherman. funding bill was |
listened to with earnest attention. lie IN
sisted that the present was inferior 10 that
I,aSsed by the last Congress, which, II II had |
been adopted, would have saved the coun-
try SIS. .OOO, 600 in interest alone, and would
have taken out Of the hands Of the,National
banks their power IT, enlarge or contract
the currency OF the couGtry as suited tnelr
schemes He declared that the coming
question would b. the demands OF organ
lied capital on the one hand, and rights OF
the people on the other, and said he pro-
posed to be on the side OF the latter.
Orth's Revolt.
Ortb's resolution relative to the con-
struCtiOn of the House committees was
practically buried, to-day. He desired to
have il referred 10 the Committee on Civil
Service Reform, but the Speaker ruled that
as il proposed 10 change the standing rules
Of the House,it should go to the Committee
on rules. 1T was finally, after division
and roll call, so referred by vote OF l39 to
So. 1t will probably sleep there.
Judge HOGe-
who recently decided that the duties OF
serving on the Committee on Accounts was
too onerous, and the intellectual strain too
great for him to bear, has finally been per
>uadcd TO accept of the position, the retire
ment OF so many others rendering such
course necessary.
General GOSSip-
Senator PendletOn'S speech on Civil Ser
vice Reform has been Stereotyped IS part
OF his campaign literature in his Presiden-
tial canvass.
Senator sherman was before the Iuvesti-
eating Committee for several hours, to-day.
but no indications of what was adduced
can be obtained.
It is now proposed that Internal Revenue
Collectors shall be appointed for four
years, that the terms OF all who have con.
tinucd four wears or more in Office, shall
expire on the 3Oth OF June next; and all
other Collectors terms to expire when the
four years service has been completed.
1t is thought here the Flipper's cOnvic-
ton and sentence of dismissal will be ap-
proved.
The Yorktown Celebration Committee
wants $1,000 70 make the deficiency in
their accounts.
Considerable activity is manifested among
census supervisors to have additional conf
penSa,iCn voted themselves.
Deirees. the public printer, remarked,
this morning. that his Office would be
again offered him. but that his failing
health would probably neceSsi;aEc his re-
tircmCnC.
now notifies "alI the world and the rest Of
mankind" that he never was q candidate
for the Surveyorship Of the Port of Wheel
ing, and he only took theoretical interest
in inguiriug into the income and duties OF
tie office, and will hold personally re-
spOnsible," any man who mentions his
name i'm connection with the matter further.
Hence these remarks.
Personal.
Among the West Virginia arrivals are:
K. \. Shepherd. Of Shcphe-dSt0wn; Col
Greene Of Berkely Springs {. {. kemble,
of Charleston. Ian.
AssDci0tcd Press.
Navy Promotions
WASHINGTON. January ll.-Undcr the adj
vice Of the Attorney General, the Secretary
of the Navy has issued an order stating
that in the future promotions are, by law,
required 10 be made BY appointment from
. aSSfStopf Srrpan-S according
10 seniority, and not according 10 compet-
etive examination.
Delegation Calls.
A delegation of KentucEiaUS called upon
the President in the interest OF Gen. Bdr-
bridge for Foreign Mission.
\ delegation fry.I Louisiana w2atel cX-
Governor FnChback appointed Collector
Of the porte OF New Orleans.
Repeating n Railroad Grant.
The bill introduced by Senator voorhees,
To repeal the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad
COmpany's land grant, proposes to repeal
the grant To that road, except 50 far aS the
road was completed July 4th, 1919, and re-
store to the government the lands hitherto
reserved along the uncn nmpleted portions.
Another CaU for Bonds.
There will be another call OF bonds, ey.
tended 6S, in few days, probably to-mOC-
row. The amount and date sf payment is
not definitely determined upon yet.
still After Them,
WASHINGTON, January 1.-the bill in
trOduced in the House by Representative
RObesOn. provides that grants of public
lands made 20 certain railroad companies
and States, to aid in the construction of
roads and railroads for the benefit OF GER
tain corporations, so far as the same have
not been earned by the fulillment of the
conditions of the grants, be forfeited and
revert 10 the United States, and be open to
and that entries therefor be
received at the land offices in the district
in which the lands are located on the terms
and conditions prescribed by law.
window Glass Manufacturers.
WASHINGTON, January 1.-THE American
Association of Window Glass Manufactur-
ers held their semi-annual meeting to-day,
and representatives Of nearly all the firms
in the country were present. The princi-
pal new business was the passing of a reSO-
luton agreeing not TO make any
glass during July and August
next. The product OF the past
year has been large, amounting to nearly
:, 81, 600 boxes valued at S6OOO,OOO. The
demand, however, has taken
all, and il is thought the opening OF the
spring trade Will Justify an advance IN
prices. which declined more than 10 per
cent since the beginning of 1850. Appre-
hension of over-production and high rates
Of labor greatly restricted profits last year.
Brown Not the Man.
WASHINGTON, January ia leading lib
eral Democrat, of Georgia, said, to-day,
that the report to the effect that Senator
Joseph f. Brown was to be the Liberal
candidate for Governor of his State, was
without foundation. He said that If an
movement Of that kind was in
either Emory Spear or William
II. FELTON, would be the gubernatorial candi-
date.
Grant and the Nicaragua Canal.
WASHINGTON, January 1l.-Gen Grant
has written 10 Senator Miller, of New York
10 withdraw his name as one of the incor-
poratOrs Of the Nicaragua Canal, on the
ground that De LeSseps and Captain Eads
have each scheme under way, and the
will not warrant three
routes He thinks it better, therefore, to
Iwait the result of projects under way.