The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-03-02
CONGRESSMAN HUGHES TO MAKE
HIS POSITION KNOWN In FEW DAYS

OF amalgamation. This was stated
AZ b Congressional Committee
Headquarters OF that party when the
news came from Monongafia county
several days ago. hat the parties had
some together In q common cause IN
that county. and IL was reiterated
when the reports OF the steps taken
at Charleston arrived. The Repub-
Lear here are hot fearful OF these
threats. and are feeling mighty good
and sanguine over the party outlook
In West Virginia. They hold the view
that the sentiment for amzlgamation
n so great in West Virginia that n
cannot be headed on nor diverted.
win Be Swept Aside.
They claim that IL will sweep
everything before II. and that N a
few men try to stem IL they will be
swept aside. and their efforts TO frus-
trate the plain plan OF the Republi-
car voters to get together this year
and stand together will have such
scant support as 20 render them neg
ligible. The fac that the ~so-called
Progressive wing in West Virginia Is
headed by n Democrat. and hat II
Is being helped by the faction now IN
control of the Democratic party ma
chinery in that state. is another i'm
portant factor which will serve to
Nv btAuttl atlt f1uEAAt W
foist a third party ticket on the pub
lie under the name and emblem of
the Progressive party. All In all. Re
publican spirits have risen here since
the Monongalia movement and the
Charleston coalition. Once more they
are facing the future with the old
time confidence. A mighty change
publicans from the home state who
are located here. They are a chip
per and cheerful lot compared to how
they felt and looked a month or more
ago.
All Nationals In.
There are approximately go banks
operating in West Virginia. Every
one OF the national banks has signihed
I nsw intention OF complying with the
nave a year TO decide whether or not
they want to come in" under the
new law. n apparently they are go
ing 10 take the time allowed and see
how the new system works out.
Congressman Sutherland has set be.
lore the committee on location for the
regional reserve banks a statistical
table which shows exactly the senti
ment or the bankers of West Virginia.
on the question of the location of the
regional banks and on the question
whether West Virginia should be al
~ WV vi Nut "
serve bank in that region. On this lat
ter question 81 favored the division OF
the state and 81 opposed a division.
First, second and third choice on tho
location OF the regional bank in the
West Virginia section was voted on by
254 banks. Pittsburgh lead as first
choice with los banks voting for IL
M Cincinnati came next with 81
votes. Baltimore came third with 4q
votes. Richmond fourth with %. Wash.
ington next with q. then Fairmont
Wheeling and New York city with i
vote each. The same cities led in
second choice. but on third choice Gin.
cinnati took first place. Baltimore sec.
and Pittsburgh dropped TO third.
The tabulation OF this vote was
made up by j. Byron Nickerson, sec.
rotary to Congressman Sutherland
ana II was so neatly done, and so ef.
iective an idea. that the Committed
immediately recognized that il was a
good thing and set 10 work at once
forty clerks to handle the other state
n the same way. When the lob Is
completed the committee will have he.
lore II a report, from which IL can be
Told at a glance. just what the view
OF the bankers of the country are as
TO where the regional banks should he
permanently located.