The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-12-10
WASHINGTON news.
An UneyeutfuI Day in Both
Houses Of Congress.
RESOLUTIONS PRESENTED.
The Elections BIll In the Scnnte...Nt
Change In tho Interstate Com.
mcrcc Commission Likcly-.Thc
i. Far West Must Wait.

WASHINGTON, D. G., Dec. Com
municationB were presented to the Sen
ate from tho Attorney General in re-
sponse 10 resolutions OF the Senate call
Ing for information as to voting places
and rs 10 election supervisors. The At
torney General states that his depart
mept has not the means OF supplying
the information asked.
There was also presented (by Mr.
Cocktell) petition from the Wage
Workers Political Alliance OF Washing
ton, D. G., osking that no national bank
slockholder shall be continued as mem.
Der OF the Committee on Finance.
The Farmers Alliance sub-Treasury
bills. which we're last session referred to
the Committee on Agriculture, were, at
the request Of the committee, transfer
red to the Committee on Finance as be.
ing more properly within tho jurisdic-
tion Of the latter committee.
The Senate bill appropriating 10000
for the erection in the Smithsonian
grounds spf a statue 10 Robert Dale
Owen, OF Indiana, Gs the member OF
Congress who introduced the bill for
the organization OF the Smithsonian in
stitution, aud who was chairman OF its
first regents, was reported from the
Library Committee and passed.
0Ir. Plumb introduced bill to reduce
the amount OF United States bonds to be
required OF National Banks and to re-.
place their notes and to provide for the
{ free coinage Of silver. 1t was referred
to the Finance Committee.
He also offered an amendment to a
bill now on the calendar so that the mat.
ter can be brought before the Senate in
dependently OF any report from the
Finance Committee. In doing so he gave
notice thatifthe elections billwCre not dis.
posed OF at an early day he should move
10 lay it aside for the time being, in Or
der that the bill just introduced by him
and all other measures relating to the
fnancialsCondition ofthe country should
be considered.
Something, he said, ought 10 be done.
Congress had on it responsibility
which, in his judgment, i. could not
avoid for any great period Of time with
out letting 60 by very great opportun-
ity for helping tho country and one
which, in his judgment, would not occur
again in very great many years. If
something is not done within the next
two or three weeks it might as well be
postponed indefinitely.
Mr.. Mcpherson offered resolution
which was agreed to, calling on the Sec.
retary OF Treasury for certified copy of
the accounts OF John I. Davenport,
Chief Supervisor OF Elections for the
Southern district Of New York, for the
elections OF 1854, 1856, and 1855, together
with reports, correspondence, etc.
The resolution heretofore offered by
Mr.. Jones, Of Arkansas, calling on the
Attorney General for q statement on
monies pGid or called for by the Super
visor Of the First and Second Congress
ional districts OF Arkansas, in connec.
! ton with the late election, then was
taken up and agreed to, after statement
by Mr.. Jones that he had seen para.
graph in Little Rock newspaper to the
effect that Mr.. John Mcclure, the Su.
pervisor, had presented an account for
s6,OS6.
The election bill wGs then taken up,
and 6tr. Berry addressed the Senate in
Opposition to it. He said this bill was
! brought forward TO disturb harmony
and to inilict IN injury on business rela-
tlons. He cited ca instance OF the bad
effects of ch.measures,l attacked John
Mcclure, Chief Supervisors Of Elections
in Arkansas, and said that in the elec.
ton OF 1872, the votes OF whole counties
were thrown out and hundreds OF names
erased from the registration books with
out notice to the voters. 1twss known
and not denied, that John Mcclure had
planned every one Of the frauds.H