Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-02-03
HEBETUDINOSITT
In the Halls of the American
Congress.
NO EXTRA SESSION THIS YEAR,
For Which Patient and Long
Suffering People Return
Thanks.
TWO CONGRESSIONAL "cHUMPs." !"

Specia! 10 hs Register.
WASHINGTON, February 2.-Pery Bel
mont who is Irishman enough to enjoy
stirring up q fight in which other men are
to do the heavy hitting, is enjoying, with
that relish which only such men are capable
Of, the avidity with which two or three Of
his Democratic colleagues have taken upthe
theme Of his Congo Resolution and are en-
deavoring to assist him in making it hot tor
President Arthur. The President has ex'
planned fully and frankly the position taken
by the United States on the subject Of the
Congo conference. He has clarified the
demonstration of the proposition that the
United States Is not in any way
bound by its participation IN
that Conference, that the wayfaring man,
though fool, need not err therein. Prob
ably not doubt is still resting on the mind
of any one of 800 out of the 325 members
of the lower House, as to the absolute pro
priety of the position taken BY President
Arthur and Secretary Frelinghuysen, from
a diplomatic standpoint. 1t is not matter
into which party politics can enter in any
way, but by the merest chance it does hap
pen that Perry is a Democrat. Such men
are to be found in both parties. For ex.
ample White, of kentucky, the member OF
Congress who wanted to abolish the Internal
Revenue system 80 as to get even
with Commissioner Evans was Republican
of Republicans, and when Blackburn and
Carlisle laughed at his wild absurdity
White insisted that he ought not to be
snubbed because he was Republican Ken
tuckian. White and Belmont balance one
another on the point of hebetudinosity, but
fortunately for the Republican party White
is not coming back to the next Congress,
while the Democratic phalanx will have to
struggle with New Yorks youthful million
aire for some time to come, owing to the
melancholy fact that his pockets are full
and that Long Island City constitutes
part of his Congressional district.
Herbert, NJ. c. of Alabama, is one OF
the two or three Democrats who par
ticipated in the Belmont Congo Idiosyncrasy
or idiocY. He is one of the most tiresome
of takers in the House and nobody ever
thinks of listening to him, but he has sue
ceeded in getting himself interviewed BY a
Sunday local paper, to the extent OF
column and quarter on the Congo con-
ference and has an innocent hallucination
that people read the matter because 1t is
printed in an old line Democratic free
trade organ.
The gossips are talking about the mo-
mentous question whether Grover Cleve-
land will have wine on the White House
table or whether he win fol-
low the puritanic lead OF
Rutherford B. Hayes, or more properly
of Mr.. Rutherford. To New Yorker who
knows anything about the companionable
characteristics of the new President and his
decidedly convivial habits of life the query
is most absurd one. Nobody ever charged
Cleveland with penuriousness or lack Of
hospitable spirit whatever his failings may
have been in other directions.
Indications grow stronger every day that
the Democratic party is likely to show itself
as favorable to heavy appropriations
for necessary internal improve
ments for the navy and for the
United States army as the Republican or
ganization was in its most prosperous days
The theoratical opposition of Democrats TO
strong government is not likely to stand
in the way of such appropriations when the
money is to be spent by Democrats under
Democratic supervision.
Jas. q. Haling is still in Washington.
He insists, however, that his trip has no
political significance and that he is not
looking for any government office. j. A.