The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-03-03
PHOSE Two RIPE PLUMS''
The Ridiculous B|under Made
by a Newspaper Fakir
IN HIS BOLD ENDEAvoR
To sIisrcprcscnt Mattcrs-A Fab
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WAsuMaToS, March 2.-Thcre hal
not been so much amusement amont
West virgjnianB in Washington for ,
long time as alter reading tho Rtyisier'
special dispatch in last Fridays issue
headed 1.-TWO Ripe piums," and profess
ing to give 4 full account OF the dissa,is
faction aroused among Republicans BY
two postoilice appointments, Parkcrs
burg and Charleston. Somebody hes
sold the cnterprising Register correspon.
dent most abomlnably. There should
be law 10 prevent such cruelties. In
the frat place, Mr.. S. II. Hlrginbotham
was appointed postmaster at Charles.
town, Jefferson county, ts was duly
reported in the .INTELLldENcEn q dav
before the Registers dispatch appeared,
and no. at Charleston, kanawha county,
The statement OF his bitter fight with
Kanawha county gentlemen Is therefore
little shor. OF miraculous. Moreover
Mr.. lligginbotham was the only candi.
date for tho Charlestown office and had
no competition to meet at all. AS pre-.
viously stated in these dispatches the
Charleston c;tse will not be decided
until the present occupants term ex.
pires, which will be in May next.
no Fight. "a
Ia the Parkersburg matter, Captain
Smith announced, and 1t was SO publish.
ed some ten months. ugo, that Captain
Iazsn would be appointed. There
never has been any fight over this ap-
pointment from the first, and no ques-
ton as TO tho appointee since Captain
Smith made the above declaration. No
doubt the "halt dozen candidates for the
Charleston Office were rs much sur
prispd as was Mr.. Hjgginbotham upon
reading this funny special. Itwould be
interesting to know where the materials
for it were obtained.
ANOTHER INSTANCE.
AS au instance OF the kind OF work
which has brought the late Democratic
Representative from the First District
into bad favor with both parties, a pub.
lis'cd extractfrom his late speech in his
own behalf deserves to be noticed: .'As
M evidence OF the fact that the Repub.
licans had prcJudyed his case, he said
that Lacy, OF Iowa, yesterday publicly
declared on the floor that st. Clair was
attorney for pendIeton, when in fact st.
Clair had never had any connection with
his case. THIS point Of Pendleton's con-
fused and embarrassed the Republicans
80 that they did not attempt to make
any reply to it." The cold facts from
which this interesting bit of information
was manufactured are as follows: In
the course Of his speech in behalf OF Mr.,
Atkinson, Judge Lacy had incidentally
mentioned St. Clair as one Of the attor.
neys in this case. Chairman Rowell at
once interrupted him to say that while
st. Clair was an attorney in each Of tho
other two West Virginia contest cases,
he vas not in this one. Judge Lacy In
stantly corrected himself, saying that he
had gotten the attorneys ia the three
cases mixed, and accepted tho correc-
ton. Nobody on either side OF the
House paid the slightest attention to 80
trivial an incident, we'll understood and
appreciated as it was by all. It was with
the greatest surprise, therefore, that the
surrounding members heard Mr.. Pen.
d!eton make use of so bold m iuaccu-
racy, to putit mildly, and for no other
purpose than that Of temporarily influ-
encing the galleries and newspaper men.
lie knew that the Record contained
tho history Of the incident exactly as
given here, and that his "poiut" would
almost instantly be directed against
himself. It is not by such methods that
men gain a favorable hearing or intlu-
ence in the House OF Representatives.
TIE PROGRAMME DEclDED UPON. /
The programme TO be pursued to
test the conatitutionality ofthe transac-
ton Of any business by the House Of
Representatives, without aquorum pres.
ent and voting has been substantially
aagrced upon. 1t is proposed that Mr..
John o. Pendleton, who was unseated
by vote Of less than n quorum, shall
make claim upon the Treasury for the
pay to become due him as a member of
the House OF Representatives from the
First Congressional district of West
Virginia. Upon the disallowing of this
claim BY the accounting officers, he will
proceed to bring suit in the Court OF
Claims and endeavor to have
the case advanced for immediate
trial, aud in caso OF an adverse
decision take m appeal to the Supreme
Court Of the United States, where mo-
ton will also be made TO advance the
case rs one affecting great public in
tereat. g C-l7}1tHII IsffS.fI.
In case the hearing in either the Court
Q! Claims OF the Supreme Court OF the
United States should be very much re-
tarded, another plan has been suggested.
llis TO have Mr.. Pendleton TO- bring II
maNdamus suit 10 compel the auditing
anu payment OF his salary on the ground
that no is still n member Of Congress, as
he could not DO unseated by less than a
constitutional majority, and that the
auditing and payment OF his salary is
apurcly ministerial act.
SOLD Ills SEAT FOR A SPEECH. 'i
ltso happens that the Democrats who
are likely to bc unseated in tho House
occupy some OF the best seats on the
Democratic side. As fully one.third Of
the members On each side oil the House
occupy undesirable seats, a prospective
vacancy in desirable location excites a
great deal Of competition: When it be.
came evident that Mr.. Pendleton would
be unscated, Blanchard, OF Louisiana,
three weeks in advance Of tho con.
summation, received a promise from the
sergeant.at.Arms Of q transfer to the
conspicuous and pleasant seat soon to be
vacated by the West Virginia member
This disposal in advance irritated Mr.
Pendleton and ho resolved to head Of
MIR. blanchard. Accordingly, about Q
4 week before his case was called, MIR
iendleton went to tho Sergeant-at-Arms
and formally exchanged seats with Mr.
Wilson, OF Missouri, the latter gentleman
having drawn n ranr snnt lask Dacemher