The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-03-02


revenue questions, have been decided in
favor Of the Government.
Commodore Farragut will arrive here to-
morrow.
Notwithstanding rebuffs, the ofice-seek-
ers swarm at General Grants headquar-
| ters.
General Grant will not reign hia gene
ralship, as he considers that it terminates
with his taking the oath Of Office as Presi-
dent.
GENERAL GRANTS ARMY NOMINAL
TIONS - MISSISSIPPI RECONSTRUCT
TON.
WASHINGTON, March Ia dispatch from
this city TO the New York Tribune relating
General Grants interview with Messrs.
Boutwell, and Bingham about Georgia re-
construction says:
o-~sATbs General is also DESTROYS that no
provisions may be made in the army bill
which will prevent him from nominating
Sherman for general, Sheridan for neute-
nant-general, Schoield for major general,
and Sickles and Reynolds for brigadier-
generals.
"The committee of FIVE from Mississippi,
representing the extreme Radicals, are
much discouraged with the course Of events.
They have been here many weeks, working
hard, but the current seems to be strong
against them"
CONGRESSIONAL.
WASHINGTON. March 1.-Senate.-In the
Senate this morning bitter contest &C.
Cured over motion to erase the name Of
General Asa Rogers, Auditor Of Virginia,
from the disability bill.
Mr.. Nye, Of Nevada, said Governor
Wells had decided to sell Virginia's inter-
nal improvements at sacrifice, and Audi
tor Rogers was an obstacle to the job !;
hence the effort to retain Rogers's dissbili-
ties, which would effect his removal.
Mr.. Trumbull said of the Grant and Col
fax club which demonstrated against Ro-
gers's relief that if the Senate is to be
governed by Grant and Colfax clubs then
the Senate had better dissolve.
The discussion was interrupted by the
regular order of the day-the appropriation
bills. ...---
bill for the relief Of certain companies
of scouts and guides in Alabama was
passed.
The army appropriation bill was dis
cussed till recess.
Hoalse.-The House is considering the
right of the Secretary of the Interior to re-
store the Washington relics to General R.
E. Lee.
The resolution iuquiring into the matter
and forbidding the restoration Of the relics
to General Lee was passed-1l9 to 35.
Under the regular Mondays call, the fol-
lowing bills were introduced !: Granting
lands to the Tennessee and Coosa railroad
several bills relieving political disabilities
forbidding spans of bridges over the Ohio
less than 400 feet until Congress, after an
examination and report to it, shall take
further action in the matter.
A bill withholding bonds from the Pa
cifc railroad until frst-class track is
guaranteed was passed.
A joint resolution declaring valid certain
declarations of the Texas Constitutional
Convention incorporating the inter-oceanic
railroad was tabled.
A bill allowing Mrs. Susan Shelby, of
Port Gibson, Miss, 1000 for captured cot
ton was passed.
The House went into committee on mis-
cellaneous appropriations. Three hundred
thousand dollars was appropriated for four
revenue cutters, one of which is for Charles
ton and one for Mobile. Two hundred and
fifty thousand dollars for the Freedmen's
Bureau was erased. An amendment pay
ing Miss Winnie Ream $4,000 on account
for her statue of Lincoln was adopted.
The House took recess.
INTERESTING DEBATE IN THE SEN
ATE-THE CASE OF GENERAL ASA
ROGERS-GRANT AND COLFAX
CLUBS NOT TO DICTATE TO THE
SENATE-THEY WANT THE OFFICES
THEMSELTES-S ERIOUS CHARGE
AGAINST COY. WELLS STATED BY
SENATOR NYE-A SOUTH CAROLINA
SENATOR OPPOSES REPUBLICAN
COMMITTEES OF INQUISITION ON
RECOMMENDATIONS FOR REMOVAL
OF DISABILITIES-FOUR PROOF
LOYALTY FROM NEBRASKA, &c.
WASHINGTON, March LIN the Senate to-
day Mr.. Stewart (Republican), of Nevada,
from the Judiciary Committee, called up
the bill for the removal Of political disa-
bilities.
Mr.. Conness Republican,, of California,
moved to strike out the name Of Asa Rogers,
Of Virginia. -
Mr.. Stewart said there seemed to be
the merits Of Mr.. Rogers, and he would
neither favor nor oppose the motion to
strike out.
Mr.. Trumbull (Republican), of Illinois,
aanosed the motion to strike out, and asked
Mr.. UuAaa his reason for it.
Rogers was an OIL it was because Mr..
the privilege of citizenship unfit to have
MIR. Howard, of Michigan (RepuD--
said the man had been elected Second Au-
ditor of Virginia, and merely sought relief
so as to be enabled to hold the Office without
claiming to be Union man.
Mr.. Trumbull said that each Of the per-
sons named in the bill had made written
application for relief, in which he had ex-
dressed his intention to obey the laws and
sustain the Government. Mr.. Rogers had
done this, and that was not consistent with
the statement of Mr.. Howard.
Mr.. Wiley (Republican), of West Virgil
MIA, was unable to give any information
about Mr.. Rogers's action during the war
and present attitude towards the Govern
ment, but he knew his reputation before
the war to have been that Of a gentleman
of high character and standing in the COM
munity.
Mr.. Howard read letter enclosing reso-
| lutions Of the Grant and Colfax Club OF
Richmond earnestly protesting against the
| removal of the disabilities Of several of the
Office holders in Virginia among them