The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-03-19
,ErrERsrRoM WASHINGTON.
corr.,pondeueo ., the Richmond Dispatch.


,- Correspondence Of the Richmond Dispatch.
.oro Sc.aiou on the Supplementary Recon-
x,rpc,ion Ril-Divcrsity of Opinion There
ooA Halt on Impcachment-Co lIector
Smy,he's Case-His Removal TO nc susSes'-
"A stevens FLYING of on New Tangent
Ne wants 10 Head Batter, etc etc.
WASHINGTON, March IL, 1867.
r, occupied long session Of the Senate
nofnre the different members Of that body
onu,a come to any sort OF agreement on
a supplemcnt to the reconstruction phi
ara nnless the desire for adjournment in
tie House is powerful enough 10 pre.eh.
i, 1t is very probable that the diversity o'
opinion among the representatives VIII ere
ate q long discussion there. Inc at'empt
will be made TO put the Senate substitute
for the House supplementary bill through
the lower branch tomorrow and 1t GER
tainly ought to be satisfactory to all the
members, as enough time was spent
upon it, and sufficiency Of amend
ments adopted and rejected in the
Senate to make it the proper thing.
However, we shall know when tomorrow
comes. The bill passed at so late an hour
last night, and to-day was so disagreeable,
that none Of those official parties who are
to manipulate the substitute presented
themselves to give their opinions. Many
Of the members and senator's express
themselves anxious and ready to take their
departure for home when the additional
guarantee is put among the statutes at
large but there are others who are averse
to going away just then. They think that
there ia other public business claiming at
tept;op. and want TO remain and have IL at
tended TO. Some of this business-the
;mneachment business, for instance-it is
found difficult to get exactly in the proper
shane. The radical Radicals have one
view Of it, and the conservative Radl-
Gals another. All through the past week
they have been endeavoring to har-
monte, but have signally failed, and
in the mean time not word has been
heard in Congress about impeaching the
President, and in lieu thereof an agreea-
BILE substitute has been under considera-
ton. in investigating the official conduct of
the collector of the port Of New York.
This gentleman has been the subject of
much discussion, the burden Of bis offence
seemingly consisting in the fact that he is
imagined by several of the members Of
Congress to be Democrat. This, how
ever, the Democrats in the House assert is
not the case; and it is remembered very
we'll that at the time Mr.. Smythe was ap-
pointed it was loudly protested that his
appointment was not made on considera-
tions Of a political character, but simply be-
cause the Chamber of Commerce OF New
York and the merchants generally were
favorable to it. At that time there was
much excitement over the vacant position,
and numerous were the applicants for it.
And after the nomination was sent in, there
were doubts for long time of its contirma-
ton. 1t is now on the tapiS that the House
will pass a resolution requesting his re-
moval, or else proceed to measures look
ing to his impeachment.
As an evidence that the halt in the pro-
gress to radicalism is very distateful to
some of its members, ii is asserted that
the leader of the House-Stevens, not
Butler-is preparing speech in favor of
wholesale contiscation of property in the
South. This is in conjunction with the
idea of Sumner that the freed people
ought all to have homesteads parcelled out
to them from the estates of their late
masters-a proposition which failed to get
the assent of any in the Senate with the
exception of the select few who rally to
the assistance of the Massachusetts, sena-
tor whenever he plants himself upon new
and unheard-of political grounds. But
Stevens, in making a speech of this cha
racter, is in all probability actuatcd by
the desire to get in Buffers path, as the
latter is running him hard for the leader
ship. Should the topic reach scale of
prominence, the latter would not be found
wanting, as he will certainly go the entire
length that any one else does in advoca-
ting extreme measures. He has already
put Ashley in the shade on impeachment,
and if he can get the better of Stephens in
his specialties, he will be sure to do so.
The question as to what will be the re-
suit Of the bill to appropriate money out
of the Treasury for the destitute in the
South is very problematical one. Some
are of the opinion that the speeches Of But
Ter and Logan, in violent opposition thereto,
will be its death blow. They certainly
prevented it from coming up the next day.
Applicants for Office continue to arrive
here. The ante-rooms at the executive
mansion are daily crowded to the extent
that they were last summer, when changes
in official positions were being made
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