Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-01-28
ALL HONORABLE MEN
Who Voted for the Senate Resolu'
tiOn of Sympathy
FOR ENGLAND IN HER TRIALS
A Strong Bill That Is Intended TO
Undo the Trade Dollar
lniquty,
ITS MAIN PROV SlONS



WASHINGTON, ID. c., January 26.-The
GriStocratic tendencies which almost justify
Frank liurds analogy between the United
States Senate and the British House OF
Lore were never more strikingly manifest.
ed than on Yesterday morning when Mr..
Bayard brought up his resolution OF sym
pathy with the English people on account
of the outrages committed by dyuamiters
on Saturday. Mr.. Bayard is an honorable
man. So are they all most honorable men.
But why should sympathy be expressed by
the United States Senate for the mere
human beings who suffered from these
explosions? If Dukes and Earis and
Barons or one Of royal blood had
been injured there would have been sing.
ular propriety in the action taken. As it is
the Senate has most decidedly lowered its
dignity. Riddleberger, Of Virginia by the
way, vas the only man TO allude TO the
wrongs perpetrated by England which are
at the bottom of the whole agitation. lie
dsc'aimed, as any sensible man would have
done, the imputation that he was ready to
excuse the methods adopted. But at the
same time he asserted most emphatically
that 80 far as the natural degradation OF
slavery went the LrlshMen in Ireland were
As Thoroughly Enslavod.
as ever were the negroes at the South and
it is not related that England ever cx.
pressed through her Parliament anv sympa
thy Tor the masters who would have ,IiI-
:rrtd from the John Brown raid If it had
sUccc, ded or even palliaed in any way the
wro; ~ rerpetuated by the master classes
on rhis side of the Atlantic. II the Ameri
can Govern ment had lent as much more
I'D 10 the unfortunate lrishmen as the Eng
n Government did to the unfortunate ne
.ro,s Leland would have been much better
q 4 20 Gmy The Senate resolution OF sym
pathy with these plebeian sufferers was
baSS,d by vote almost unanimous. In fact
every senator wEo had occupied his place
lorr enough to 5scumc sensational with the
o.ixir o! >enatoriai dignity gave it his vote.
In Justice to The whole hOGv il ought to be
s'arcu that most Of i'S members looked up
IN lluse WHO were acirally injured by the
.Xri,.iOns as merely vicarIous sacrifices and
thought that Shey were taking the best pos
sble method. to condole with their fellow
arstocrats who bask in the equally benign
and royal favor Of Vic. Regina.
a Little Sensation
was created by the House resolution of Mr..
White, o. kentucky, who wanted to abolish
the whole system Of Internal Revenue. lie
read it himself fearing that the clerk would
not do fall Justice TO the main rhetorical tca
,uros NJ White announced with a gcnd
deal of emphasis that tbs was intended as
n blow at the Internal Revenue Commit
tee. James BackbusA slyly suggested 5hat
the committee ard the superintendent
would survive the blow and the resolution
was appropriately pigeon.holed,
Assistant Secretary McAdee was seen by
YOUR correspondent at the State Depart
ment this morning and was asked 20 state
from diplomatic standpoint the bearings
Of the dynamite Developments. He said
that there was no action TO be taken by the
department in any way. There was no
,yiCeucc TO impicate American citizens in
the affair at all. 1t having been shown
that the work Of
O'DOnoNam EGSsa
smoun',d to noihing bIt'alk There had
noI ben one cent Of tia money collected
hv L.m. so far as any one knows,
cxl eau,L fer dynami'e. l'nder our
system. Of laws uo.AjnG could be done
20 vrev 1T Ros,a's 4olica,ion Of the United
Irisanau aivocu'ing in the future the
.ane vi,,,s advocated IN the pas. The
E!muris Inv was calculated in McAder' 5
opiricl to supply a recognized dciicienc,
in The federal legal syste'I.
l. isr.t lelieycd tha. the ratification
ofrhc Nicaragua freely is possibility in
his session. OF Congress,
Mc-.rs. Chas. l. Caldwell. ". \. Ne
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