Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-07-15
AT THE CAPITAL.
What West yirginia's National Legislators
Are Doing.

What West yfrginia's National Legislator
Are Doing.
speeia, Telegram TO The Sunday Register.
WASHINGTON, D. O., July 14.-There
is very little going on in Washington,
either in or out of Congress, Of interest to
West Virginia, except the tariff discussion
in the House, and the Associated Press re-
port keeps the REGISTER fully posted as TO
the progress made and all that is being
said and done.
Neither Snyder nor Hogg have been
giving much attention to legislative mat
tsrs fer several months. Phil was absent
eight or ten weeks and returned about q
week ago, but has again disappeared.
Hogg has been fitting in and out of town
ever since the leaves began to
spread, and finally disappeared about
a fortnight or more ago and has not been
seen. It is presumed thst he is at home
looking after his denomination, which 1t Is
understood, that he is in some danger OF
losing, si,hough when here, he asa fted
with a show of confidence, that he would
get a denomination without the least diff
Guilty, but he added that BIO would have 10
watch his opponents. He has gone nome
for that purpose.
Snydsr, it is understood, has about
given up the ghost and seemed to be recon-
ciled to the inevitable. Phil has made q
rood Representative and has always worked
hard for his constituents. True, he has
not participated much in the discussions
on the floor of the House, confining his
legislative work to the committees Oh
| which he served. The fact that he refrain
ed from participating in the useless talks
on the floor of the House Is something 70
bis credit. Still COMMITTEES work does not
show off TO the general and uusophisticat-
ed reader. There has been no more cue
cessful committee worker than the young
| Congressman from the Kanawba district
Keuna has gone home, ossensibly to take
his family. Whether he will look after
h~armoniziDg matters or not in his district
is not known. He has always commended
that he was not interfering in the Con
grsssiopal contest n way or the other, Oh
in behalf of any one Of the several aspir.
ants.
Mr.. Wilson seems to think low that he
will be renoIninated practically withou;
oppositiou. He thinks that several cOun-
ties may give complimentary votes for theiI
f~syorite sons and then file in line
and nominate him by reclamation
az they should do. No more prom
nent or ADLER man has been produced in the
Fiftieth Congress than William l.. Wilson,
| of Weet Virginia. 10 fact he has attracted
more attention this Congress than any
other one member. II Mr.. Carlisle was to
retire, or should die, and Mr.. Wilson is re-
turned by his constituents, West Virginia
would be very likely to present q very
popular and formidable candidate for the
Speakership.
Gen. Golf has also been missing from the
House for ten days or so. Where he is or
what he is doing no one seems to know.
He has insisted in the strongest language
at his command that he would not sgain be
q candidate this year. He said that he
had told his Republican friends this and
that they all thoroughly understood it.
Col. Ben. Wilson would like to have the
nomination on the Democratic ticket if he
could get it without making a contest fol
it. The Colonel has q high regard for the
Presidents offensive partisan ORDER
and does not want anything done thai
would embsrrass him in his $posi:
ton, although he would be nightly
| pleased to receive the nomination for Con
gress, if it could be rendered to him with
out bis making any contest for it
If it cam in this shape, it is believed
that be would MAKE the canvass and thst
he would meet with no opposition FROM
the Administration.
Everything introduced in the Senate by
either Messrs. Kenna or Faulkner, of in
terest to West Virginia, has been passed
and sent over to the House for cons!dera'
ton. There is not a bill in which West
Virginia is interested now pending before
the Senate. There is an amendment which
was proposed by Mr.. Faulkner pending
before the Committee or Appropriation
to be inserted in the Sundry Civil bill
sppropriating $27, 500 for repairs on th'
| Wheeling Custom House. This will IN
doubtedly be agreed to, and will clean tb,
Senate platter so far as West Virginia i
concerned.
The trouble with Senator Faulkner dur
ing his recent illness, from which he ha
not yet altogether recovered, is the resul
of overwork. He is q member of two o
the most laborious committees of tn
Senate, viz: the Committee on Pension
and on Olaims. The two committees hav'
thousands Of little bills for private relic
coming before them every week. Mr.
Faulkner has q good many of them refer
/ red To him.