The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-01-31
MOVE Of
Va. IS BLUFF
RESIDENTS IN WASHINGTON SAY
ACTION WAS TAKEN TO M-
PRESS LEGISLATURE
Falls to Throw Scare Into West Viz
STANDARDIZATION Bill Beau
tiful Dream.

Special Dispatch to tho InlellScncer.
WASHINGTON. D. Ca. Jan .%p.-Thc
action ut attorneys for the Virginia dent
certificate holders in asking the Cnttrd
States Supreme Court permission 10
urge mard;ttnus proceedings against
West Virginia. which was taken Mon
dry, was so timed. it is an opinion free
" expressed here. 10 impress the lcglS-
laturc at Charleston. The court. upon
another occasion. declined TO Issue any
progress 10 enforce its Judgment until
the West Virginia legislature had been
gwen The opportunity 10 make some
move toward liquidation. This is, the
first. time the legislature has met since
West NirginianS here have synn-
nymn for lhr mandamus proceedings or
Monday which is the tritc little slang
little word Of bluff" They are wond-
cIing now the latest proceedings will
lu.prrss itself upon the West Virginia
Lawmakers now in session. The Nir.
gini:L side to the litigation arc hopeful
hat ii Will force some definite action
looking III the general direction of II
settlement. Tho Eirgina bond syndi-
cutr, and their lawyers especially, are |
said TO b" impatient NJ this time. and
want their money it they can find way
t. secure It,.
In connection with the debt question,
the members OF Congress from the stutr
are discussing that part of Governor
Fla fields message which advises that
the legislature "Inemorializc" the dele
CATION In Congress to get behind SEMI
s"E chd iI'G5,o TorthwESi territory
been slumhcring in II Senate committee
for several years They dcducc the
implication from The message that they
have been remiss in their duties. and
that If tho Chiffon scheme had any
merit the wonder is that Governor Hat
Held. who has been apparently So closely
IN touch with the debt suit, was so late
In discovering it.
The View that has been held OF the
Chiffon bill here all along is the same
which has been held by private citizens
and publicisIs in West Virginia. That
is. that 1t was a highly colbred and sem
sitized dream Of the lridscent kind.
which was ConturCd up and eXpatiatcd
upon for political purposes mainly, Said
purpose to be 10 raise an issue which
might prove sufficiently potent to re-
elect Senator Chiffon. The bill has never
been reported out of committee. ii is
said. although persistent effort was
made TO create that impression In West
Virginia What was done was that four
or live Democratic members, upon the
urgent request of Senator Chiffon. gave
, the bill 4 half-heartcd private" en-
dnrscment. tho same being published in
such manner as to give the impression
that l. Senate committee had favorably
passed on the bill That transaction
politics.. Senator Chillon's Democratic
colleagues appeared to be not only Will
ling, but anxious. to do anything for
which would tend TO strengthen him for
reelection.
Connection Remote.
Ii is pointed out by some Of the con-
srcssmen that the bill has but the re-
hottest connection with the debt qucs-
ton. and that the only definite action
with reference to that was bill in
troduccd in the House by the late Repre-
sentative Moss, shortly after the courts
final judgment in the debt suit, author
iZing the government to pay the judy
ment OH the grounds that West Virginia
was "A war measure" That bill stu
languishcs in committee. They also
point In the fact that the Chiffon bill
has not only never reached the House.
but has never Yet arrived before the
Senate. and how they could help il. II
| they We're so disposed. is beyond their
ken.
Frankly and briefly designated. the
Republican members OF the House dele
cation. at least characterize the Chiffon
bill rs pure and unalloyed political
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