Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-02-07

tested Election case III the House.
The Horrors Of the Situation in
Cuba Well Set Forth in a Letter
from Consul Barker
Washington News.
Washington, February 6.-The at
tention of the senate this week will in
all probability be divided between the
Hawaiian annexation treaty, appro-
priation bills and the right of Hon. II.
W Corbett to seat in the Senate from
Oregon.
The treaty will probably occupy the
greater share of attention on Monday,
but after that time the Committee on
Appropriations will claim the time of
the Senate for the Indian appropria-
ton bill, which it is expected will be
reported early in tie week. This bill
Will provoke considerable debate, and
by the time it is disposed of the Com
mittee on Appropriations hope to have
the fertilization bill before the Senate.
Senator Hoar will at the same time
press the Corbett matter upon the at
tention of the Senate as matter Of
the highest privilege, and several
speeches will be made upon it. 1t
does not appear probable, however,
that vote will be reached during the
week on the Corbett resolution.
IN THE HOUSE
1t is probable that the programme OF
the House, which has been confined
almost exclusively this session to the
consideration of appropriation bills,
will be varied this week with the con-
sideration of a contested election case.
1t is the purpose of the House leaders
to keep the appropriation bills to the
front in order to obtain an early final
adjournment, or, as the alternative, 10
throw the responsibility for the delay
ton bill is disposed of only one other
appropriation bill is on the calendar
for the present-military academy
and it should not consume more than
a few hours. 1t is the intention of the
leaders therefore to fill the hiatus this
week with the consideration of the
Aldrich- Plowman contested case from
the Fourth Alabama district. The
Elections Committee have been divid
ed in this case on party lines, and the
indications are, therefore, that the
TT i L. o,,l Nv
Plowman
WILL BE UNSEATED.
Members of both sides have been
using the latitude allowed in debate
on appropriation bills to make the
campaign speeches to be used more or
less exclusively in the impending con-
gressional campaign this fall, and
these are likely to continue indefinite
ly. All the members are keenly alive
to opportunities to make political cap
ital for themselves or their party, and
this fact may at any time upset pre-
arranged programmes by plunging the
House into rancorous and acrimonious
political discussions. The Democrats
and Populists seem to be directing
their assaults principally against the
Republican claim that prosperity has
returned to the country, SO that all ev-
idence on this point, pro and con, is
likely to find it's way sooner or later
into the Congressional Record for dis
tribution this fall.
THE CUBAN HORROR.
Hon Charles w. Russell, assistant
United States attorney in the depart
ment of justice, has just received the
following letter, acknowledging the re-
ceipt of New York draft mailed to
United States Consul Walker, at Sagua
la Grande, Cuba, whose district of Las
Villas embraces Santa Clara, the cap
ital of the province of that name; San
Domingo, Remedies and another city
in the same province in the eastern
part of the island.
In explanation of his estimate of the
number Of deaths from starvation up
to the time of his recent visit, viz,
100000, Mr.. Russell says that he got
that number from the common talk in
Cuba. For instance, he asked Gu
ban what the insurgents said about
accepting the offer of autonomy and
the answer was Spain had put 100000
eorpses between her and them, refer
ging evidently to the recentradoes.
1he letter follows:
lit is with unfeigned pleasure, as
yell as in inexpressible gratitude of
gour valued favor of the 10Th inst,
transmitting S6S United States cur
rency as a donation to the dispensarfo,
q charitable institution to care for the
destitute and sick children of this city
contributed, as you say, by certain
employees of your department
81 must tell you and the other good
gouls contributing that the remittance
was most timely: as their exchequer
was empty and as one remarked when
this relief was made known we had
God, and only God to look to, in order
that our treasury be replenished. To