West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-01-31
News Cuttings.

lie w Oll1dH > EQHtuSS StiiNNhV'cA
adopted resolutions declaring wom-
IN suffrage to mean stable institu-
ions, happy homes, equal wages
md equal parity for men and
women; pronouncing pending re-
forms IN the Civil Service dis
honest pretense, unless women are
graded in the service the same as
men; denouncing "the proposition
to disfranchise the women of Utah
for no crime whatever" as ''cruel
display of power which lies in
might alone;" and asserting that
woman should be given the ballot
to preserve the integrity Of society
and the permanence of American
institutions, in view of the fact
that immigration to this country
now averages 100000 persons per
annum.
CIVIL SERvIoE.-The Pend.eton
Civil Service Bill, which has pass
ed Congress and will become u law
in sixty days from its passage, hav-
ing received the signature OF the
President, provides that can ex-.
aiming commission consisting of
three persons, appointed by the
President, one of whom must be
Democrat, shall hold meetings at
certain times and places, before
which commission all candidates
or applicants for government po-
sitions are to appear and undergo
competitive examinations. Ap-
pointments are to be made wholly
upon merit and competency re-
CARELESS of politics or political IN
fluences."
SENATORIAL BLIzzARD.--The re-
cent Legislative Senatorial storm
has landed the following gentle
men in the U. S. Senate:
Hon. Isham G. Harris, Tonnes
see Hon. NJ. w. Ransom, North
Carolina Hon. A. III. Garland, Ar
kansas Hon. w. p. Frye, Maine;
Hon. Eli Salisbury, Delaware !;
Hon. George f. Hoar, Massachu-
sets; Hon. P. B. Plumb, Kansas !;
Hon. John e. Kenna, of West Vlr-
GINA. Window, OF Minnesota,
and Ferry, of Michigan, were still
: huttering between opposing gusts
/ at last reports.
WHISKY IN CoNGREss.-A Wash
| ington letter to the Chenille Ores
cent says:
"The whisky men do not find
their path one Of unalloyed happii-
! ness. Pitfalls abound, and al
: though the whisky lobby is hope.
full, it is not over confident. The
: representative from the moonshin'
? ing districts do not want to wait
minute, and the shrewdest mem
: bers of the whisky interests exper
> fence great difficulty in REFRESHING
. such school boy exuberance.
DISASTER AT SEA-BETwEAN 3Ot
e AND 400 LOST. Another disaster o
4 terrible magnitude is reported
:, :, from Berlin. The steamship CHM
i bria, of the Hamburg American
re Line. left Hamburg recently TO
,e New York, having 10 officers AT
" crew and $50 passengers
mostly emigrants from East Prus
STA. During thick fog she cam
into collision with the Sultan c
Borkum, and sank in few min
e. utes. Only Sc persons are know
es to have been rescued, and betwee
k 300 and 400 went down with tn
a, ship.
g PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION. III
y Presidential Succession Bill, recen
u ~ ly passed by the U. S, Senate pr
n n yides that, in the event of the deaf
=: =: of the President and Vice-Pres
III dent, the duties Of the Chief Exec
IN tive shall be performed by the Sc
~ retary of State. or, in the event
re his death, by the other members
" the Cabinet, in regular succession
L. until the end of the Presldentl'
- term.
nd DR.. MuDD's DEATH.-Dr. Samu
S. A. Mudd, who dressed W1lk
re- Booths fractured leg when he w
Sc fleeing, after the murder OF Pres
Id dent Lincoln, and who served
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