Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-12-15

Sole desire mas Oteh uOtniuS cl>o OHou
Just such a deal as the IlteuigeRcer pro-
poses.
Our neighbor should read up on
West virginia's connection with the
Virginia debt question. 1t should get
on the side Of the State, not on the side
Of the spectators, who for many years
have been trying to get their fingers
into West Virginia's treasury.
HERE is personal" from the Pitts
burg Commercial Gazette, the peculiarly
conglomerate nature of which makes it
somewhat interesting:
Senator Nelson Whitaker, OF Wheeling,
was at the Hotel Duquesne last evening.
Senator Whitaker. speaking of the COM
ing guOernatorial fight in West Virginia,
said; 1.-THE Republican nominee will al.
most certainly be Archibald Campbell, Of
the Wheeling REGISTER. There will be
quite a struggle for the Democratic nomi-
nation, but / reckon Col. Robert White, OF
Wheeling, viii carry of the honor. Gen.
Nathan Cot has come out formally as a
candidate for the Vice Presidency"
FOSTER AND PENSION PAYMENTS.
Administration organs are delighted
to find that "the disbursements of LAST
month, on account Of pensions, were
but little over half those Of November
asst year." and that the payments on
this account for the first five months OF
the current fiscal year were S4S, POI, 900,
against SEQ, 34S, 600 for the same time
last year. This not only delighted the
organs, but goes to explain how Secre-
tary FOSTER was able to figure out a
surplus ut the end of the fiscal year.
The Billion Dollar Congress passed the
disability pensions act, which very large
ly increased the pension charge. Appli-
cations under that act poured in by the
cart load, reaching many hundreds of
thousands. The commissioner of pen
sions boosted that his office was passing
upon these applications at railroad speed.
Congress assumed that the pension
charge would be greatly increased and
appropriated s135,OOO,OOO for the cur
rent fiscal year.
Now, how is it that under law calling
for larger disbursements the diSburSe-
ments are smaller?
Fhe answer is that Secretary FOSTER
feeling it incumbent upon him for the
sake Of his party to figure surplus
ont Of bankrupt treasury, held back
payments wherever possible.
THE father aud mother Of Speaker Crisp
were actors in the Old Drury Theatre in
Pittsburg, years ago, when Crisp himself
was an Infant. It is an interesting specu-
latiou now 70 wonder if Crisp himself re-
tains any theatrical predictions, and
whether he viii carry the parlance Of the
stage into parliamentary practice. For in
stance, Mr.. Crisp himself would be Stage
Manager. Re might appoint Roger Quarles
Mills as Star, with William ". Springer
as Leading Lady Or it might &c that
Mills would make the best William out of
the available material, though II must be
admitted that the supply of possible Viii
lians is unusually large this year Holman,
of course, will be the Heavy Tragedian.
while no better Low Comedian could be
found than William L. Wilson. of West
Nirginia.-PittsbUrg Chroniclc Telegraph.
II is pity the editor of the Chronicle
Telegraph is not member OF the Fifty
second Congress. Mr.. CRISP could not
find more suitable material for Bottom.
THU first move of the Democratic
Congress was to adopt, temporarily, the
rules Of the Fifueth Congress - not
those Of the infamous Fifty-frst, over
which REED presided like Gar. The
House should be Amerieanized as soon
as possible, and the best revenge the
DemOcrates can take on REED for his
wrong-dOing is to do right.
A WASHINGTON dispatch says that
Mr.. Mills is laid up with the grip,
which newspaper photographers will
take notice is entirely probable, since
he certainly hasn't lost it, despite re-
cent events.
SIX train robbers held Gp an express
messenger in California the other day
aud. secured only SIS. Train robbers
should 90 to NJ -KiYLrY and form a
trust. There IS evidently too much con-
petition in this industry.