Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-01-31
REPUBLICAN, ARlsTOCRATS
In the Upper House Of the United
States Congress.
RED TAPE Elm the SENATE.
Mr. Randall and His Recent Visit to
the Presideat Elect AK
Al5asY.
LEGISLATIVE DUDES AND DEEDS.
SpneiaI % Ehs Rnaisser.

Special 10 ne Register.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., January 29.-The
Senate recovered its dignity yesterday. Its
most aristocratic element was delighted
with the query raised by Mr.. Hoar, the tiny
Massachusetts, man, whether or no the Presi-
dent Of the United States had not exceeded
bis prerOgatiSe in sending to Che Senate his
opinion On piece of Legislation which he
had not vetoed. There is to say the least
chance that Gen. Boynton's dream Of the
Senate in 1900 may come to pass or
something very much like it. The
General, who is a sturdy Democrat in the
broader sense Of the term, paints Edmunds
as presiding officer, clad in Consulor robes,
with crown of costly gems upon his brow
and welding handsome scepter, graciously
commanding the executive messenger of
the President to be brought into an ex'
ecutive session of the Upper House. There
upon the doorkeepers lift heavy iron
barred cage, in which the mes
senger is borne up to the chair Of
the President of the Senate,
from which he emerges most humbly and
upon his knees presents the document with
which he has been entrusted. He is then
boxed up again and taken out. The mes
sage is read, and in it the President meekly
asks the consent of the august Senate to
certain contemplated appointments. The
picture is realistic one, and
is strongly suggested by the
Executive session as it exists to-day.
Gen. Slocum, from the Military Com.
mittee of the House, reported back the reso-
luton asking the President to transmit to
that body the papers in connection with the
appeal in the Fitz John Porter matter. In
spite of an effort to lay it on the table the
resolution was adopted The House is
bound TO make it hot for President Arthur
If that is possibility.
No Rest.
Sam Randall is inclined to give Henry
Watterson & Co. no rest 1t is announced
to-day that the ex-Speaker has accepted an
invitation to speak in Charleston, South
Carolina. There is no doubt that he will
be warmly received by the citizens of the
Palmetto State, but it is carrying the war
for protection into Africa with vengeance
for him to. invade Charleston, In
1882 and 1898, it would have
been al that mans hte
was worth for him 70 advocate protective
import duties in this hot bed of the nu'liG-
cation agitation. But the days Of Calhoun
are passed and free trade has ceased to be a
purely local issue in spite of the far-famed
announcement to that effect by the last un-
successful Democratic candidate for the
Presidency. Even the cotton producers
are beginning to recognize the fact that
their infant industries particularly
in the line of cotton manufacture,
could i'll afford to compete
with the established industries OF Europe.
May be Different.
With New England it may be diff.
erent. The manufacturers Of that section
of the country are no longer in their in
fancy; but Alabama with its rich iron ores,
Georgia with its abundant water power,
South Carolina with its unequaled produc.
ton of cotton, inviting the capitalist to put
money into manufactures when raw ma
terial can be most cheaply obtained,
kentucky with its hemp interest and
louisiana with its sugar, can i'll afford to
stand out for the old line doctrines OF free
trade n Ia Calhoun. Randall is a Demo
cat of Democrats. The Sectional issue can
not be voiced against him as it would be
against Northern Republican holding the
same views upon the tariff question. In other
words he is fit apostle to preach the max
inns of progressive Democracy to the people
of South Carolina. Carlisle looks with
some fear upon these Southern trips. He
sees the handwriting upon the wall and
grows glum over his morning cocktail at
the Riggs House. but wisely leaves raving
manifestations Of bitterness to the editor Of
The Courier-Journal.
He knows that certain element in the
Democratic party will stand BY him, but is
not at all confident that the free-traders
will have caucus majority iu the next
Congress, or that he will be its candidate
for Speaker. 1t is said that to his personal
friends he comedies as much as this
and expresses some regret that he did
not accept nomination 1or
the Senatorship from kentucky when that
prize was well within his grasp. As a Sen,
ator from his State, or as q reelected
Speaker of the House, he would have an ex-
cellant chance for Presidential nomina.
ton in 1898. But if he is repudlated by
the next House of Representatives his pros
poets are not at all hatterlng.
On the other hand Randall,
if he gets another election as
speaker, will be on top and will be dan
gerous rival of any aspirant for the Presi-
dency. Such is the prestige for which these
two Congressman are struggling, and the
result viii be controlled by the South, the
old South to which Carlisle has pandered,
or the new progressive South which Ran.
dali is endeavoriug to bring to the support
ola
National Protective Policy.
The details Of arranging for the iuaugu-
ration arches, decorations and illumination
zoe on without ceasing and the show IS
expected to be big one. Several West
Virginia organizations viii be here TO take
part in the ceremonies.
Messrs. +. W. S. Moore aud James ID.
Butt, of West Virginia, are here. Messrs
G.. A. Newton and I. @. FarnsEorth, OF
Buckhanaon, are at the National Hotel.