Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-07-04

/ no trouble about it.
Another fruitful source of gossip has
\ been the fact that the President has nOt taken
his usual evening drive during the past ten
DAYS OF two weeks. He used to go out
every evening, when the evening was fair,
| for drive of from one TO two hours. For
the first time the President appeared on the
streets the other day with Mrs. Cleveland.
When they went down Pennsylvania Az
enue, the leading thOrOughiare of the city,
the people recognized the debut OF the
| Chief Magistrate and his mistress by sd
| luting them everywhere. The President
very soberly responded by lifting his hat
and bowling gracefully. Mrs. Cleveland
was accompanied by Miss Gregg, of Butfa-
/ 10. who is her guest. Both ladies wore
! light summer suits and straw hats. Miss
/ Gregg sat with her back to the driver and
facing the President and his wife. Mrs.
Cleveland carried a white parasol and the
President wore common straw hat The
party seemed to he in very good humorand
attracted widespread attention.
1t is said that MIS- Cleveland will not
profit near SO largely by the death of her
uncle as was reported some time ago.
/ Instead OfS5O, 000O or $40, 600 us the latest
approximates put it, she will get only $40, =
! 900 and that may come in real estate
| Col. FolsOm's fortune seems to dwindle
very rapidly rs efforts are put forth to re-
duce it to cash. The President, however,
/ is biding his time for a second term and
saving a good deal of money, and If he fails
to be continued in his Office will not be in
danger of want,
~
1t has been observed for sometime that
when nominations by the President
reached the Senate the first to get out of
their seats and approach the desk
of the Vice President to read the
names are the Southern Senators. Ere
uuently a number of them will rise as
soon rs the Presidents Secretary reaches
the Senate to deliver nominations, and
flock about him to prevent their announce
ment for some months | inquired oil 4
Northern Senator the other day why this
was, and he said
1.-THE South is more interested at this
time in nominations of army and navy Otfi-
GERS and officials in the Consular and diplo-
matte service, than any other section OF the
country. never imagined that such keen
interest would be felt, but it is true and |
observe it especially in the consideration OF
| these nominations i'll committees and IN
| secret sessions of the Senate"
''Why do you think this is true?' |
asked.
I'm the first place" replied the Senator,
Southern people have a very inflated idea
of the importance of the army and
navy and of our representatives abroad.
Secondly, they are just now looking ahead
| To a continuation of the administration,
and they believe these officers have great
power in keeping in existence any admin
/ istration. You remember the South made
a great disturbance over the alleged inter
/ ference of the army at the polls a number
| of wears ago, and then it was taught to
reverence and fear it. Ever since that
| time there has been growth of respect for
| at least the army, and is but natural that
! the diplomatic affairs should be regarded
highly since they have much to do at
times in maintaining peace or bringing
about war. The South is the most aggres-
sive, if not the most enterprising part of
our country, and anything in the line OF
chivalry or diplomacy interests that Sec
ton intensely"
~
During the past fortnight the columns
of the Eastern press, especially the news
papers of New England, have teemed with
! inflammatory dispatches and paragraphs
from Dakota about an imaginary revolu'
ton in preparation there. 1t has been
openly aud sOlemnly declared, in what
purpOrted to be telegraphic specials from
the Northwest, that leading citizens Of
Dakota were moving in the direction of 8
civil war, and that the people were being
quietly but securely armed for the purpose
of establishing an independent State gov
eminent, and resisting Federal interior
ence Republicans diScreG.ted these stories
rs they read them here, but Democrats
who have not looked into the matter very
seriously were prone to believe that some
thing was in the statements. Your CORE
SpOndent has communicated with some OF
the leading citizens of Dakota Territory
during the past week and is prepared to say
that there is not the slightest truth
in any of these statements. The ,aen most
interested in securing admission to state
hood of the southern portion of Dakota are
undoubtedly those who have been elected
to Congressional and State offices. All OF
these men have declared that they have no
intention whatever to antagonize the will
of Congress, and that it is not their pur-
pose to try and set upan Independent State
government. or force Congress to act with
any greater rapidity than it is inclined to
do. OF course they will use all the
arguments in their power to Sc
cure statehood, but it is
simply absurd and idiotic to talk about the
people revOlutiOnizing up there. 1t would
be no more trouble for the Federal Gov
eminent to suppress any revolution Dakota
might set up than it would be for the POI
lice Court of New York to quell a saloon
fight This, these men in Dakota say,
they fully realize, and that it would only
injure their standing with the country to
talk about n revolution. The stories
which have been circulated about an indie
pendent movement in that Territory have
been circulated for the purpose of injuring
the movement for the statehood
80
Whether anything comes of the agitation
for open sessions for executive business in
the Senate, one thing viii result shortly,
and that is, the lines will he drawn more
taught between the advocates of the propO-
sitiOn and the opponents of it. Since Sen
ators have began to say openly that they
were in favor Of eoIsideringexecutive bust
ness with open doors and permitting the
country TO know what they have to say
about men and measures and are
opposed to playing the sneak,
the oppOsers have been exerting themselves
/ TO make more mysterious and secret what
is really done in the line of executive work.
The result is that just at this time there is
greater secretiyeness about Senator'S than
has been observed for many years. Every
one opposing open consideration of execu-
tive business has taken fiendish delight
in frightening and browbeating those who
would be frank and open and honest, and
are driving them against the wall so COM
pletely that it is almost impossible to OBJ
tain even the most plain and what should
be public action.
During the consideration Of Che charges