Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-01-07
TAYLOR VS.. WARNER.
They Have a TIT Over the Pension
Appropriation Bill
NOBODY WOUNDED OR DEAD.
Some of the Reasons Why Arthur Should
Not Expect Further Official
Recognition
FROM THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
Special % Me Register


WASHINGTON, January 6.-The with
drawal of President Arthurs name from the
Senatorial fight at Albany was received by
his friends and his opponents with mingled
sentiments Of satisfaction and regret
While the President enjoys as general a
popularity as that of any man who has
filed the Office since the time of Washing
ton, it would be an exaggeraton to say that
he is without personal and political enmities
here. He is too active and energetic
partisan and too thoroughly identified with
faction to escape such enmides. And the
men who hate him would have been glad to
have him enter a struggle in which success
would have been problematical, to say
the least, and loss of dignity would
have been certain. His trends on the
other hand do not hesitate to say that IN so
far as any man can deserve an Office OF trust
or profit General Chester A. Arthur does
deserve all that the State Of New York can
bestow upon him. But they are glad that
he has taken his present position and freely
assert that his chances for the Presidential
nomination in 1888 are better than thse OF
any other living man. 1t is not going too
far to say that politicians in every wing OF
the Republican party have been settling
down 10 belief that Levi P. Morton, OF
New York City, will be the next Senator
from his State in the place Of E. &. Lap
hsm.
The feeling of the close friends Of Mr..
Blaine on the Presidents withdrawal is
neither gagged by that of the latter's enc
mics nor by that of his friends. They
would, most of them, concur in the senti
ment expressed by Tom" Reed, Of Maine,
last night in conversation with personal
friend. He said: 81 have nothing against
President Arthur. He is perfect gentle
man, and has made an excellsut Chief Ex-
Executive. But don't believe he can ex-
pect any further recognition from the Re
publican party, for the reason that he has
recently deserted the ground on which the
party stands, with reference to the
only political issue now before
the American people. He can not divorce
his own position from that taken in the re.
port of his latest Cabinet appointee and If
he is in favor of a revenue tariff he can eX-
pect nothing from party so unequiv ocally
IN favor OF protective system as the he
publican party is. Of course the President
is entitled to his own views on this, as well
as on every other subject. But don't
think the State OF New York or the Legis-
lature Of the State of New York agrees
with him or wants a revenue tariff man In
the United States Senate to represent the
heavy manufacturing interests Of that State
in the councils of the nation.
No act of legislation before Congress for
its consideration during the present session
has created so much discussion as the bill
of Frank Hiscock to take all Internal rev.
enue taxes off tobacco and to also exempt
from taxation all spirits used in the acts.
1t is, however. one in pursuance OF the
recon meudation Of the Secretary Of the
Treasury and has not even the merit of or
iginality. 1t was defeated by vote Of 81
to IS, and the defeat is regarded as vic
tory for the free traders in the lower house.
There is great deal of talk about the
possible retirement from the Supreme Court
of Justice Bradley, the fifteenth member of
the Electoral Commission Of 1877. 1t is
said that if Brady will retire before the end
of the present administration, Secretary
Frelinghuysen will be Immediately appoint
ed in his place. They are both from the
same State of New Jersey and are personal,
" on the best of terms. 1t is regarded as
| probable that such an arrangement can be
made, although it would be a most pecu-
liar one for member Of the Supreme Court
TO participate in. j. A.