Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-12-16
ODDS AND ENDS
Picked Up BY Our Washington Cor
respondent.
INTERVIEW WITH W. L. WILSON.
Some Very Pertinent and heaty Remarks
From the Member From the Sec
ond District.
OTHER INTERESTING CAPITAL NOTES.
Specidi 70 ne Register.

man Snyder, of West Virginia, at his rooms
on Twelfth street, where-he is very pleas
antly situated. He said:
Il shall vote for the Reagan substitute,
but it is not by any means what would
ike to see enacted. | believe the country
wants such legislation, but that there is
great danger Of rushing into mistakes in
making too hssty attacks on monopoly
strongholds. The difficulty with such a
law is the fact that it is exceedingly hard to
enforce it without the right to make CON-
plete examination off railroad corporation
books, which involves an inquisitorial pro-
cess hardly likely to be submitted to.
At the same time the system OF
rebates or freights ought to
be gotten rid of if possible. think the
Reagan bill is better than that of the COM
mission for the reason that it bears the re-
dress of the citizen to the Federal and State
Courts. instead of appointing commission.
II You appoint commission for such q pur-
pose that commission is sure to be in the
hands of the railroads shortly after it is ap-
pointed. The right to bring suit in a
State Court is also of the greatest import
ance, but to maintain it intact there must
be some way Of preventing the removal OF
the suit on petition OF Council tor
the roads to a Federal Court.
That has been done to q
very large extent in the past for the rea-
SON that the railroads are afraid of a Jury
of the peerage." | do not see any prospect
OF passing the Reagan bill through the
Senate. but suppose Mr.. Reagan will feel
that he has done his whole duty if he gets
it through the House. BY the way, Reagan
is a man of great deal Of ability, but he
has take2 a very wise course in stopping
the gossip about Cleveland's possible tender
of a cabinet position to himself. don t
believe it was ever intended but would
have been very impolitic thing Tor the
Presidenteleet TO do"
Speaking of West Virginia matters l
asked one Congressman what he thought OF
the appointment of Gibbons as Postmaster
at Charleston. lie said in answer to my
question::
Il only know that the Republicans have
a very bitter fight among themselves in
Charleston and that Gibbons and borother'
in-law of Atkinson the leaders OF one of the
fact ons. Cocerning what forces were behind
the appointment here at Washington l know
rothipg. suppose the late postmaster re-
signed to take the Sherifalty Of Kanawha
county, to which he was elected In Hoyem'
Der. ] told my friends in Charleston to
make no fight for the postmastership, al
though / have no doubt hat other men
would be more satisfactory to the citizens
of that place. The probability is that
the postmaster at Charleston
will not hold his position very
long after President Cleveland takes
his seat 1t is true that do not look for
so clean sweep of all the offices as some
people appear to expect, but think that
Custom House collectors, postmasters and
I internal revenue collectors at the head Of
important Offices will be generally
replaced with men who are in
/ accord with the incoming administration,
/ whatever may be done with their subord
/ mates and that, believe is as it should
( be, because President Cleveland cannot be
: held responsible for the whole admiuistra
/ ton OF the Federal government unless he
/ has men who are in sympathy with him, al
the head of every office Of Gny Importance
am inclined to believe that even the Re
publicans can find no fault with that posi-
tion, and that there will be no trouble
about the confirmation of CleNelands ap
poitees by Republican Senate"
| find that on this last point Congressman
SNYDER voices the sentiment Of most of th'
Democrats in Washington. The mug
wumps" are not held to have any gooc
ground for the belief that Republican ras
Gals will be left in positions Of trust t
CRAFTY those civil service rtformers WHIT
voted for Cleveland and sdministrativ,
purity.
The inactivity of the>grcst railroad com
panies who have done nothing as yet to pre-
vent the passage of the Reagan bill, is va
riously interpreted There are supporter
of the bill who pretend TO believe that tn
companies have seen the futiity of all or
position and will quietly let it pass. Blu
such Arcadian simplicity Of reasoning
not common in Congress. The genera
opinion is varied by the expression OF on
OF the Oldest newspaper men here, who sal
to me last night: What do you suppos
Vanderbilt, for example, cares about Coz
gressP He has got money enoughsto bu
them all up if he chose to do so, but he fRd
it very much cheaper TO control the Senate
of which thirty-eig ht votes form majori,,
And if the bill, as reported By the douS
committee, is passed with the claus
providing for commission, 10 have u
jurisdiction he will control the commission
In any case he could defeat even the bill a
drawn by Mr.. Reagan by litigation if h
legislation failed in stopping ii, By keepin
suits in the courts for one hundred and fiji
years. Until we pay our Congressman f
teen or twenty thousand dollars year an
, vet men of legal capacity equal to that (
the lawyers whom the railroads can affor
to employ, We shall never get the better I
the monopolis:s.
1t is said among Democratic Senator
that after President Cleveland comes i
there will be an effort, and probably 50,
|: cessfui one, to revive the system of appoint
ments resting on the courtesy Of the Sci
: ate" which was the recognized plan undo
General Grant, and for which Senator Conf
ling made such q gallsut fight when Ii
two successive attempts were made BY Pre-
ident Hayes to remove General Arthr
from the position of thr Collector Of the Pc
, of New York, and'urder which the Senate
or Senators from any State in politica! syn
I pathy with the administration, were prsct
c cally.,allowed to dictate appointments
their own State 1t is believed that, at lea!
msjority Of the Republican Senators vi
stand by this theory. and that the Dem
cratic Senator'S will be practically united O
D it. In thst'case there would be little doul
. of the early appointment Of Major Alderso
4 as Internal Revenue Collector for We
Virginia. as he is understood to have Il
pledged support Of Senators Camden an
4 Kenna.
The Spoils of once.