Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-12-04
WASHINGTON.
BY DEFENDING LOT WRIGHT,
Plh of the Proceedings Of the Third
81 Days Session of the United
States Congress.
APPOINTMENTS CONFIRMED.
Special 10 hs Register.


WASHINGTON, December 3.-The position
taken by Speaker Keiter and other leading
Republicans in defense of the brutalties
which signalized the October election in the
city of Cincinnati, while not entirely unex-
pected is exciting great deal of indigna.
ton among Democrats. The shameless
character Of the man could not chow itself
more fitly than in the open apology made
FOR the appointment of men whose
characters sare conceded to be bad,
to the positions of United States
Deputy Marshals, which was the ground OF
Mr.. Keifers speech. at was necessary"
the ex.Speaker said, "for Mr.. Wright to
appoint men who were physically capable OF
dealing with the roughs of Cincinnati, and
he is therefore excusable for selecting men
whose moral characters were bad The
argument rests, Of course, on a non Sequiter
which bespeskS as clearly the intellectual
calibre of the apologist as the moral tone of
the apology accurately measures his regard
for ethical considerations.
The discussion on Mr.. Follett's resolu-
ton has opened up the whole subjec; Of
Federal election machinery, and 1t is very
likely that the rotteness Of Republican
management in the last great struggle may
be shown up in its proper light as 1t bore
upon the result in other places beside the
ci,y of Cincinnati before the investigation is
through with.
The Utah Commission.
Tie report of the Utah Commission
is in, and is most elaborate and
expansive document The comI;;s'
sioucrs report that the law
declaring polygamous Mormons ineligible to
.fice has been carefully carried out. but
hey explain that this can not help to do
awav with the system OF polygamy so long as
over three families Of the members OF the
Mormon church, not polygsmists them
selves, are nevertheless believers in the sys
tenn and can not be brought to take any
course at variance with their pecu-
liar ideas of religious duty The recent
trial of the son of Bishop for polygamy
is referred to and it is shown that out ofthe
whole panel ofjurors not one Mormon failed
to answer in reply 10 the interrogatories OF
the United States District Attorney, that he
believed in the right of any man to have
more than than one wife if he chose to.
The report holds ont very little hope OF the
immediate or prospective disappearance Of
polygamv in Utah and other territories
in which the Mormons have sue
cceded in proselyting or coloniz'
ing to considerable extent.
w. l.. Wilson.
had q brief talk with Representative
Wilson, Of West Virginia, to-day. He says
he has no measure ready for presentation
that affects his own State in any way. lie
has, however, natural interest in the reSo-
luton looking to the impeachment OF
Wright, which was presented yesterday BY
Mr.. Follett, Of Ohio.
Senator Camden is not here yet, but when
he comes he will stop at a private house op-
posite the Arlington on Fifteenth street,
where he has engaged roome. Senator
Kenna is at the National Hotel, where
Congressman Snyder, who is not here yet,
is expected.
Washington is comparatively dull as yet,
and there is no excitement anywhere ex-
cept in the departments, where the men who
expect to be removed from fat Offices with
good pay and little work, are preparing
themselves for this unlooked-for emergency.
1t is not believed that they fully realized
during the last campaign the possibility OF
Mr.. Blaine's defeat. Had they done so
they would have contributed more literally
to his campaign fund. As it was, they did
no more than was absolutely necessary, and
it was the pc ,petual complaint otthe Blaine
managers that the departments were giving
them no hep. Now, the clerks looking
for somethin to do, outside the number OF
designations during the next few months,
will be very large:
has teiore it two very important bills, the
fate of each of (which is in doubt. The Blair
Educational bill is to be pushed by its ad-
voca,es very warmly, and will possibly 60
through during the present session. About
the Edmunds Postal Telegraph bill there is
more doubt. The Republicans are not
near so anxious about it as they were when
they believed that the increase Of patronage
would accrue TO their own party advantage,
and the Democratic party is traditionally
opposed TO anything looking toward
cen,rslization. At the same time
there is an exceedingly strong
sentiment in various parts Of the country in
favor Of the bill as the only means Of giving
reasonably cheap telegraphy for business
purposes to the people everywhere. For this
reason il is not likely that party lines will
be closely drawn, and the result can not be
forecast at present
The Two C's.
Messr,. Carlisle aud Morrison who are
the recognized leaders of the House so far
as tariff legislation is concerned, say that
there will be no radical measures passed at
the present session. The matter will be
only incidentally brought up in connection
with the adoption Of legislation necessary
to bring into effect the new treaty with
Mexico, and in the Senate BY the
consideration OF matters connected
with the establishment Of new
treaties with Spain, in relation to commerce
with Cuba and Porto Rico. Both the
Speaker fand his righthand man en- the
Hoor of the House express themselves as
thoroughly pleased with the report OF Secre-
tary Mccullough, and say that it goes
farther than any declaration in the Demo
cratic National Platform. in favor OF
revenue tariff. Such q message was thor
ougbly unexpected from q Republican Sec
retary OF the Treasury. IA