Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-02-02
WASHINGTON.
Paddock and Sargent and the interior De-
partment-kenna's 8ill-Scoyille's
Scheme-SheSmaa and the
Funding Bill-Sale Of the
Republican.
POINTS, PERSONAL AND POLITICAL
lSp~,ial D,spotch 10 the Reoiaer.

WASHINGTON. February THE Nebraska
delegation called on the President. to-day,
and urged the appointment OF ex-senator
Paddock as Secretary of the Interior, but
while there was nothing definite said on
the subject, it is understood that ex-Sena-
tor Sargent is booked for the place.
The Treasury Investigation
Is to clese this week, and an interesting
exhibit is promised. The feature which
tends most to discredit the latter promise.
is that the testimony has been so well
kept Statements OF engrossing interest
made before the Congressional committees
usually leak out. Its the common place
that keeps.
Tariff Tattle.
Prospects OF tariff commission do not
improve. The Ways and Means Commit
tee apparently considers itself as compe-
tent 10 furnish information on the subject
as any commission likely to he organized,
and there is growing feeling, apparently,
that the report OF any commission would
not tend 10 greater uuanimity on the sub
ject in Congress.
Senator Sherman says he will abandon
the three per cent funding bill rather than
have IL become law with the Plumb
amendment attached. and the result OF the
struggle will probably be the defeat of the
bill.
Minor Matters.
Interstate Commerce railroad grants
and charges, the liquor question. polyga-
my Drsyantipn opI rl,;naso ;,,o,;~-,.;o,
are some of the matters which begin to filter
through the committees, and are apt to
come TO the front at any time in the
House. The latter subject has been made
a special order for the eth inst.
The discovery Of a Revolutionary claim
holder, who has been in attendance on
Congress every session for forty years. is
noted as q matter OF interest.
The resignation OF Public Printer Defrees.
which takes effect next April, is now
thought will result in the promotion OF
Chief Clerk Childs to the head OF the de
partment.
In the House, to-day, Representative
Kenna, OF your State, introduced q bill
providing for the payment by the govern
ment, of the claims OF Federal soldiers
serving in West Virginia regiments. The
practice has been for the States tOpay such
claims and be reimbursed by the general
government, and the present bill provides
that such payment shall b. made direct to
the persons so serving.
ScOville admits writing the letter nego-
tiating for the exhibition of Guiteau's re-
mains, and says ii buried the body
snatchers would get it, and the proceeds OF
the exhibition will help to pay Guiteau's
debts. The proceedings for new trial are
still looked upon as hopeless.
The railroad land grants, which the Rob-
iuson resolution cOntemplates forfeiting,
are said to aggregate Il ,0OO,OoO acres.
The granger demand for copies of the
interstate commerce bills is so great that
reprint of the pending bills has been or
dered. They will be again before the Com
merce Committee Sept. 81.
The New EOSk malsters, OF New York,
have arranged to be heard before the Ways
and Means Committee tomorrow in adyo-
cacy CT their bill to apply the principle of
the Mckinley iron and steel bill To inn
ported malt and barley.
The subcommittee of Ways and Means
agreed to report to the full committee in
favor of taking the.duty oil tobacco forex-
port.
Before the Naval Committee, to-day, Mr..
Jas. Park. Jr., OF Pittsburgh, made an arsu-
ment to show how protection had deyel-
oped the steel industry in this country, and
the committee became greatly interestedin
his views.
Ii is rumOred the daily ReP"6iican of this
CITY, has been sold to Geo. W. Bliss, the
government attorney in the Star Route
cases, and Others.
Col. J. j. Whitman, agricultural writer
of the REaIsrER passed through here
to the meeting of the American Agricul-
tural Association, in New York.
Col. A. K. Boteler. of Jefferson county, Is
registered at the Metropolitan.
The West Virginia arrivals, to-day, are:
Col. James. and Doctor John Dickey, OF
Wheeling. and James NJ. Mason, OF Jefer-
son county. LAM