The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-06-01
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Special kilograms to the Dispatch.

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consideration of this measure, but the chair.
man does not intend to antagonize it with
the tax or appropriation bills. .....-.
-. The Funding Bill.
AS soon as the tax bill is disposed of, the
Ways and Means Committee will proceed
Mt once to the consideration of the funding
bill. 1t can be reported in very short
time, as the various features have been
fully discussed, and only require the vote of
the committee on each proposition.
Our Paper Circulation.
The amount of United States legal-tender
and demand notes in circulation to-day is
! $356, TO-, 112.50, and of fractional currency
$39, 37I ,057.39, making total Of $780,, 4S2,-
1888; and to this may be added $500, 600, :
600 national bank notes, which comprise
| the paper currency of our country.
The Fen1ans.
Secretary Fish has received a congratu-
latory note from Mr.. Thornton, the British
Minister, in reference to the strict mainte-
nance Of the neutrality by this Govern
| ment. .t q. .,l
Acknowledgement Hoar says the rigor of
the law will be meted out to O'Neil and the
| other captured Fenian leaders, but the Adj
ministration is disposed to be lenient to-
wards the priyates, who are considered
dupes. ... H..
Items Of Interest. >..t
General Sherman Is visiting his home, in
Ohio, and will return here in about a week.
Il l. A.
napolis. -fa I.s..' ..
Commissioner Parkerreeeived Il tele gram
to-day stating that Red Cloud and his war;
riors will be here tomorrow evening or
Thursday morning. T., u.-a.. ~.
BY order of Secretary Boutwell,, parties
are to he allowed to transfer to San Fran
cisco custom-house the furs of animals kill
cd by them last season in the Alaska coun-
try, there to await the action of Congress.
1t is understood the public debt statement
| Of tomorrow will show reduction of be-
tween eight and ten millions dollars this
month.
The President to-day announced his in
| tention to be present at the examination OF
| the naval cadets at Annapolis on Thursday
next. He has not yet decided to visit
Senator Cameron, in Pennsylvania, and to
participate in Il fishing excursion.
The total receipts Of internal revenue for
May are 81, 12O,2lS.94.
The Cabinet was in session over three
hours to-day, and in the mean time there
were numerous communications between
the President and the Senate, in executive
session, relative to the Sandwich Islands
treaty, which was under consideration.
The Second Comptroller decides that
guardians Of minors applying for bounty
money or other claims must live in the State
where power Of guardianship is given, but
the Government may pay the claim on the
first authority given the guardian, the re-
ceipt being considered valid. 1853
Secretary Boutwell, has appointed John
Callahan inspector at the Norfolk custom
| house. rt.. WALLACE.
| Associated Press kilograms. ..'...r..
Congressional.
WAsHINGToN, May 31.-House. The
House this morning commenced voting on
the bill (and amendments for rcviving
American commerce. The ayes and noes
We're called on nearly every proposition.
The previous question was ordered on the
bill to revive American commerce, and the
House refused to order the bill to be en-
crossed and ordered to its third reading by
a vote Of ayes, 80 nays, 100.
The bill was finally recommitted to the
Select Committee.
The bill to reduce internal taxes was con-
sidered to the sixteenth section without
adopting any important amendments.
Adjourned.
Senatc.-The Pacific telegraph cable bill
was taken up and considered. - E4+
| The Senate went into executive session at
l O'Clock and considered the reciprocity
treaty with the Sandwich Islands. The
Senate is in legislative session tonight.
Various Items.
| WASHINGTON, May 31.-A supplemental
treaty for the acquisition of San Domingo,
extending the time for the ratification of the
treaty to July next, will be sent to the
Senate.
Letters from the Darien canal. surveying
party received here indicate a failure to find
u practicable route for canal.
The President has signed the bill en-
forcing the provisions of the fifteenth
amendment.
The President leaves on Wednesday next
for weeks recreation in Pennsylvania.
| William N. Douglass has been nominated
/ by the President for assessor of the first
| Virginia district and j. j. Bossier for re-
ceiVer of public moneys at Natchitoches,
Louisiana.
A verdict has been rendered against the
parties in Arkansas who brought manufac-
| tured tobacco from the Indian country and
! sold it without paying tax. -.
The President to-day transmitted to the
Senate a brief message on the San Domingo
treaty, enclosing an additional article TO
| the treaty extending the time for its ratlfi-
| cation to July LIST. He suggests certain
| amendments which he deems desirable to
lie incorporated by the Senate into the
treaty. In these amendments it is proposed
that the paragraph giving the United States
a lien upon the public lands Of the Republic
rs security for its underlined debts be strick-
| en- out, and that the sum proposed to be
paid for the island Zone million and halt,
| Shall be absolutely the entire amount to be
/ paid by this Government. 1t is also pro.
posed that two commissioners shall be ar.
/ pointed, one by the Dominican Government
and one by the United States Government
| to receive this money and apply it to the ex.
| tinguishment of the Dominican debt II, Che
following order: First, TO the payment Of
| foreign Governments who may hRve eiairds
i against the Republic SECOND, tc the pay,
4 ment of Individual creditors who may moi
be citizens of the Repuh1ci third, and
last, totthe exti1gu ishmsnt og the 9omestts
i debt. Beyond this payment OF % yD00,
this Government Is not 70 be Aahls gn any
manner. This wonA leave the Dpminicans
at liberty to do ss they please with theh
| they express great confidence that this sun
will s,nf mic enable them tn in,if5ssEa al