Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-12-19
Special to the Register.


tol. Congress will take a long recess this
year, the Senate having adopted the
House resolution TO adjourn from Decem-
Der p to January .. BY common consent
all matters Of Importance are being post
poned until after the play spell; and the
chances are that then most of them Will
be side-tracked TO make way for the APP
preparation bills. Whatever else goes by
the board it is pretty certain that The bill
introduced this week by Hon. Charles j.
BOatner, of Louisiana, TO increase the
pay of Congressman TO 5000 "a year Is
pretty likely to be considered. 1t should
be understood that the father of this
little william" will not himself profit by
it. for if the bill is passed it cannot 20
into effect until next Congress. Ii fixes
the salaries as follows Speaker, $4,000
year; Senators. Representatives and Del
egates 5000 a year. Mr. BOaEer's stock
is just now high among his colleagues,
who insist that he has more good sense
and independence OF character than voX
popuh has hitherto credited him with. BY
the way. it was me who encountered Sec
Il
administration came in. and gave that
most digniAed and punctillous man in
Washington regular oid-fashioned
Southern "cussin Tor alleged unkind-
ness in dsmissng an empioye.
REPRESENTATIVE BARRETT
of Massachusetts, has succeeded already
in getting himself enrolled high among
the freak legislators by his recent bill
providing that members of the cabinet be
taken from the Senate and House of Rep
resentatiVes, and that while serving in
the cabinet they shall stin hold their seats
in Congress and in order that these dou-
bie-bareued guns so TO say, do not
get rich too fast, the bill also provides
that they shall receive only the salaries
OF cabinet officials. and render Congress
sional service gratis Nobody, probably
not even Mr.. Barrett himself. imaI.nes
Tor a moment that it will become a law.
Mr. Geo. W. Ray, Of New York, is pro-
pretor Of the latest idea TO prevent sui
cides. Ills bill, which has been introduced
i'm the House and referred TO the Com-
mittee on Judiciary. forbids the citcu-
lauon through the mails of any newspa-
per which contains any picture of sui
youd the simple statement of death by
suicide giving name, date and place. The
bill allows medical journals TO publish
90 rthcr particulars i'm the interest of
science" but everybody else must Keep
mum. so far as print is concerned. under
penalty OF a fine not less than S25 or im-
prisonment for not more than 80 days
So far the most exciting bit of lesisla-
ton has been the passage of the Morse
bill TO Danish intoNicants from the capitol.
The same. or something akin, has popped
up many times before, and. like Baujuos's
ghost. refused to he permanently laid.
or course. the bin was passed. No
member dared oppose it, with the eagle
eyes and ready pens OF the W. C. T. u.
fraternity upou them. 1t was looked upon
as
SOMETHING OF a JOKE
when tho Solid South stood up as one
man to DE counted on the side o. prCaihi-
ton. and only objections came from men
who are known to be total abs1ainers.
Mr. Rowland Fluenerhassett Mahany, OF
Buffalo. who never INDUCES in so much as
Christmas "nogg." was one Of the soil
tary seven VINO urged objections to the
bin on the ground of personal liberty i'm
the great and glorious republic and every
mans inaleuable right to the pursuit of
/ happiness" as guaranteed by the consu-
tuition. Representative Footo. whose
strongest tipple is glass of beer on
hot summers day. explained that he OPP
posed he bill. not for his own convenience,
but because he knew there We're many
men I'm Congress- who We're accustomed 10
taking something with their meals, who
took al least one meal al day i'm the Clpi-
tai restaurant and who ought not to be
restricted TO tea or ice water if wine
ayreed with them better
4 Senator from a far Western State said
to-day that he had been in Washington
lust two weeks. and had spent all that
time debating replies to letters from Of
flee seekers Hundreds of letters pour
ing i'm unon him by every mail are from
men who want places under the next adj
ministration. Says he: Almost every let-
ter begins with Thank God. the country
is saved and the writer
GETS DOWN TO BUSINESS.
have already had ffty-seven applications
for district attorney and the first one that
came was from a IL IN who. when / was
running FOR the Senate wrote me that he
guessed I was honest but he couldn't con-
scientiously support me- a New England
! Senator whose applications are so nu-
merous that ne has to record them In
pondcrous ledger. says his correspondents
invariably BEGIN with; II congratulate you
upon your noble work i'm the late glorious
2 cawrai.-n." That shows which side OF the
political fence he is on. for the voice of
/ congratulation is painfully silent on the
| other.
Hints are aAoat that the Presidential
! ducking trtp which follows fast on the an
1 nouncement of eX-Queen Liioukulan
proposed visit to Washington, was not
made for ducks alone However he cam
not remain long in seclusion, and If Mrs.
/ Dominis has made up hey mind TO stop
1 with her great and good friend in the
White House. there is little doubt but
\ that she will do it, We may take it for
granted that her coming has no political
significance 1t is not within the power Of
B the administration TO give her aid. and If
( il were. Congress would look out for that.
+ She is in no sense the nations guest, and
unless the President chooses to regard her
/ as his she will be ike any other traveller
and soiourner in Washington. 1t will be
| hoped that she will be entertained in the
white House as becomes her station. and
made to feel that though her crown is now
an idle relic the flowers Of human SYM
pathy yet shed their fragrance on the
thirsty world.
CASTC RIA.
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