The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-12-12


SHAVING indicated the purpose oil
bd.ay addressing the senate to-day on
sous parvslOus senatorial bills and
or,ek pauseeas for real and imaginary
,,y,,vaseeI,, hold in my hand nine SEN
~ bills, which I have been directed by
d. committee on finance to report ad'
y.u.ly, and to ask for their indefinite
r,.tponsnsut. In order that the SEN
I. NAV have some conception Of these
bIll,, I shall AJAX the clerk to read the
M" All the bills were introduced by
s.usior PETER. and provide for the issue
Al treat sums Of grsenbacks for various
purposes, The senator said:
n IA hardly necessary to say that
,b.,s hungry bills, big, bigger and big
80, nine OF them, asking for nine or
a. lines more money than there Is
, Wv In use In the whole world, were
TTnsniuously reported adversely by the
snmmittee ON finance. Nothing moro
soTId have been expected cave brief
po,t mortem obituaries.
with no reasons offered for the intro.
due,ion Of these multitudinous billion
SoIlar bills, a sufficient reason for the
sSrsus report would appear to have
b.sn hat they were all deatn-stricken
lam an overdose OF the legal tender
no,,rum at their birth, administered by
,bs aecoucheur. One OF these bills pro-
no,ed an issue Of legal tender money
toty times greater per capita than any
Va have ever had; another to purchase
iii the silver bullion that may be
offered at one dollar and twenty-nine
ope.hundredths cents per ounce, though
II fetches now in any market only
,i,ty.tWo cents per ounce. Figuratively
making, the bills were oil OF one brood
and Of the same feather, birds OF intia-
lion. none game, none worth charge
Of powder, but legislative dodoes. IN.
likely ever TO be seen on tue earth
Igaiu.
20 like those diseases which atllict no.
BODY but once. Such parties usually
destitute OF constitutional stamina, arc
ephsmeEal, and are soon comnelled to
hoist any flag and set sail for "Cowes
aud market" A recent example Of
such ephemera, advertised with as
much technical veracity as any patent
medicine, as the "Populist," and lead
Ing astray many good men, appears to
have politically pock.marked and dis
credited Two or three OF our sister
states, but the grotesqueness on its face
d likely 10 prove deterrent against its
iurther domination: IL
Some crude aud unhealthy theories
are separate from the bills now adverse
y reported by such thin partitions that
h must seem invidious to give them no
general or particular attention, espec-
tally as their supporters might prefer
like Lord Brougham-to go without
commendation, rather than withontany
notice at all. 80,
Short lived partisans. fertile in the
invention and swift in the repetition oil
derogatory SANDER, aim by It's use to de-
fame and defeat those who happen to be
in possession OF the public confidence.
By this class OF GROWERS tho splenetlc
charge ia made that great wealth has
been wrongly misunderstanding to
ienators--and has created Astounding
plutocrats, or kings OF wealth. although
no entitled wealth under our constltu-
ton is allowed and we have no ladder
here to the upper regions Of riches not
Tree 10 all. Here the children OF the
wealthy, trained not to economy nor to
labor, often exchange places in succeed
ing generations with the children OF the
poor, schooled to industry and frugality,
Thus the tidal ebb and flow OF accumu-
laiion and dissipation goes on forever.
Those who may be at the bottom OF the
wheel Of fortune to-day often rise to the
top tomorrow.
Such wealthy celebrities as were Cap.
tain Clapp, OF Portland; Billy Gray, OF
Boston; Stephen Glrard, Of Philadel-
phia; Garrett, OF Baltimore, and Cor
coran, Of Washington, all reckoned
among the "worthies" OF their day, re.
eelTed few or no political decorations,
and the Astors, Vanderbilts and Goulds,
Of our great commercial metropolis, ap-
pear to be equally neglected., or posi-
bly, equally destitute OF political ambi-
ton. The financial fortunes OF nearly
oil Of our Presidents were limited, and
the fortunes OF those foremost in popu-
lar favor, like Jefferson, Monroe, Jack
son, Lincoln and Grant, were extremely
limited.
Persons Of moderate wealth, living
generously, often have their estates
largely oyer-estimated. From the loud
braying Of long. earned political donkeys
many have supposed that the senate OF
The United States was selected body
OIL mlIlionaires, when, perhaps, not
more than Two or three OF its eighty
odd members have any valid title to
thitmuch.envied epithet ofopprobrium.
Though few we're "born with silver
spoon in the mouth" the most part OF
The members achieved in early yoca'
lions some substantial success, and yet
ms probable that a large majority oil
tas body would be unable to maintain
their familie, in Washington during the
sessions Of Congress but for their sal
aries. They have the blessings OF Agur
neither poverty nor riches.
1t iS also to be feared that we arc
overlooked with amateur cobblers,
eager in every emergency to bring out
from the profound recesses OF their vest
pockets ready-msde constitutional
amendments adapted, when slightly
fabricated. to their own peculiar cir
cnmsiances. Madison, statesman for
al time, never dreamed how aippantly
Inc constitution, made by him and
sgned BY Washington, might be bias.
bhemed or botched and perverted.
Ach in her country's historic fame as
ile old Dominion may be, sne can i'll
Afford to impeach and discard her an
Gent and priceless jewels, "that on the
oq'stretChed iorefngor OF all timo" wero
placed to sparkle forever.
Tho tariff was claimed by those in
power 10 have been excessive on for.