Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-02-17
Draws a Number Of Congrsssmen
From tho Capital.
Prospects Of the Morrison Tariff
Bill in Each House.
Supt. Butcher at the National Ed
ucationaI Convention.
b ains Rapidly Coming to tho Front
In Ohio.
SpccinI % The R1lister.

NASA IHGToS, February l6.-Quite q
number of Congressman took advantage OF
to.aayTs ecess to attend the Booth mat
ines at b fillmore.
Senator Camden expressed the belle
this e7enin that Secretary Lincoln would
Il grant any n asonable request for special re-
I lief from the authorities OF towns inun.
\ dated.
General Ka'fer's plss for time in the
Boynton, inveA igatiou is construed here a,
evidence of the E1-Spesser'S weakness.
Congressmar Horr, Of Michigan, who
hss made q car. full examination OF the
Morrison tariff bill, says that he thinks il
will pass the House. He says that not
more than three and probably only one
Republican will vote tor the bill
and not more than twenty-five
Democrats will vote against
it. He said i seems that tie representa-
lives Of the different intereets affected by
the bill have ceciSed that the cut is
p,,neral and effects al alike. I would not
be consistent to form = combination upon
any particular article, and consequently
mo- 1e but the extreme protecsonists will
op, rose the bill. careful sounding OF
the Senate gives stronger evidence that the
mea sure cannot possibly pass that body.
Josa nh Wharton of Philadelphia, Who is
larg, ly interest in the manufacturing
of 8 teel rails, and 6. II. Erly, President
of Il 70 Northwestern Mining ASSOCIATION,
made arguments before the House Com
Mite on Ways and Means to-day in oppo.
s:,:o ha ra1nptinn lf the tar.
metal !. Mr. Wharton said the reelection
OF tari If on steel rals provided for in Nor
risons bill. would prove disastrous to
those i ateres d in: this country. A lively
tilt occ urred between the witness and Mr.
Hewitt who asked il the reduction on raw
materis would not compensate Ter the
reducti IN on the rails.
Ex-Sh eriff George Tingle, OF Montana, Is
register ed at the National.
The Nm, tional Educational Assocfstsoo
closed highly successful three days ses-
sion her, on Thursday last and the promi.
nent pa t taken in its proceedings by
West Viz ginia educators was exceedingly
creditabl, TO a State whose sChoo! system
is scaYcel out OF its teens. Beside State
Supeyipte ndent Butcher, who presided
over the q deliberations of the convention,
Prof. Sipe, OF the Fairmont Normal School,
Prof. Bra ckett, of Slower College, and
County S, aperintendent A. L. Wade, OF
Monen gali I, were smong the West Nirginis
whose gra duating system ior country
schools las been commended to
the after ition of the country
by Connise ioners andIeoomWendedt tothAs
attention of State Superintendents by the
National Ed ICstional Association hereto
fore saV9cat, d both county school super
vision and the eIte nsisn.of the graduating
IL q. hall 10
convention, urging tnat tie country
schools ought not to be- an exception TO
we'll established laws OF business; that
they ought ought to be IA harmony with
all higher schools. and that the graduating
system for country schools, which simply
takes the primary branches as q course OF
study for graduation /, and msses applica-
ton Of ak the plans ana appliances oil the
best academies and colleges TO the common
schools Of the count " seems TO De the re-
form now needed. The fact that this sys-
TEN will not work without thorough su.
pprviso3 proves thi It 1t. has the ring oil
business about it. ] his system IN being
tested in several States and bids sair TO be-
come universal.
My venerable but sprahtly Tread, Cot.
Chsrles James Faulkner was here this
week taking counsel. with other statesmen
as to
The Best, Means of F.reservt0e sfss
Repn bIbs.
He represents the Rsstsrn' Panhandle Is
being in blaze N Indignation over
Governor Jake's instr uct.ons which have
encouraged assessors 10 list appiebut.er
snd peach preserves fo:' taIatien, and |
would not be surprised II he found hi,nself
compelIei 10 start out or. another guoeT'
: alto! ial cam psign of his cwn IN defence OF
tie tiresides, the psntries and abe
i'm POTS OF that section. He
,Icposes as soon as he can
,IIsuge matters 10 90 down TO ldohmOod
,rd srI,nd TO the business which the
/ Governor considered necessary, viz: ssst
Il oppossns "Erralic JiIn MHsoO' in his
uild career Of collecting afteen millions Of
Virginia deferred cirtii Gates from West
Virginia and there Is no doubt but that
when JA,nes receives the noble old pain
cisn az pproachipg him Ola the lett E.nk
with a look OF determination and dat
club. be will retire 10 the bosom Of his
fsmily in bad order.
senator Van Meter, o. Hard, sent me
message recently TO the effect that he was
mot a short horn candidate. for Governor
and Is:ti no clsim TO the title % the Horace
Greeley OF Hardy county. Las.