The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-01-19

their acts were legal and binding, including
the election Of the United States sena-
tors. The act lately passed by Congress,
and under which we are now acting,
is simply amendatory Of the recon-
struction Laws, 60 far as Georgia iB
concerned, and the duty of General
Terry is simply to carry out these amenda-
tory acts. In my opinion, all the Legisla-
ture can do is to commence to do right Just
where they left off and went to doing wrong.
All the laws they passed previous to that
time hold good unless repealed in the regu-
lar way; and as for the United States
senators, clearly their election cannot be
annuiied. In word, the present senators
hold good, as do oil the laws, as have be-
fore said.
General Terry is after no Office. He
will do his duty promptly and fair,v and
my instructions to him are to study tho
law and act upon its literal sense as near
as possible.
General Terry will not have anything
to do with the partisan squabbles there, and
he has 80 informed numerous parties who
have tried to enlist him on their particular
side.
"If the Legislature have quorum they
can go on and pass the fifteenth amend
ment and be soon admitted into the union
of States.
GAS soon as we discover an officer of the
army mixing in politics, or running for
political Office, or using his influence for
that purpose, we expect him to resign"
He cited an instance of an officer running
for a position in Virginia, and who, he
said, was attended to at once, and re-
marked: off General Ames is candidate
for senator in Mississippi am not officially
aware of it, and will certainly attend to
the matter when I am in possession of the
proper facts"
He then declared with some degree OF
warmth that be was proud of the officers of
the army who had the responsible, trying,
and delicate duties to perform in the South
under the reconstruction acts, and claimed
that there was not one of them as yet who
had not shown great degree of satisfac-
ton when they were ordered to turn over
the control of the States to the civil authori-
ties, and thus surrender the all-powerful
sceptre, as it were, that the reconstruction
acts had placed in their hands.
He said "The only fear is that when
the military power is withdrawn the civil
juries will not do their duty honestly but
it is not according to the genus Of our
country that we should have continual
military government over any State, and
hence the desirability of giving them all o
chance. The troops, however, will not be
withdrawn from the southern States for
several years to come. They will be ne
cessary, perhaps, to aid United States mar
shals and the revenue officers"
The Gold Speculation-Fisk end
Gould not Heard From.
The Banking and Currency Committee
to-day resumed the investigation into the
gold speculation. They have not heard
from Fisk and Gould. The Seargeant-at-
Arms, who was sent there with q number
of assistants, reports that he has been on
the alert for these parties, but OF latest &C.
counts had not succeeded in serving the
summons. The committee examined Mr.
Ellis, of the firm of Haiti & Co., and
Mr.. Sout, of the Tenth National Bank
The former seemed to know very little Of
the operations of Fisk, Gould & Co. The
latter explained the transactions of his
bank and the immense amount of business
done during the panic days. He was un'
able to inform the committee of the opera
tons Of Gould, Fisk, and others, concern
ing the gold ring. He admitted that hi
had heard great deal about the matter il
Wall street, but had no knowledge as to thu
parties who were concerned except what
came by report. A very large amount Of
money passed through their bank, in which
Fisk and Gould we're more or less int
rested, as well as many other operators in
Wall street. s....
A Funding Bill.
Secretary Boutwell, was in conference
with the Senate Finance Committee again
to-day concerning o funding bill. The
committee talked over with him the various
measures before them, but the Secretary
was clearly of the opinion that none Of
them would be as satisfactory and as easily
carried out as the one he had prepared fol
the committee. Without coming to any
conclusion the subject was postponed until
the next meeting, when measure will be
agreed upon and reported.
The San Domingo Treaty.
The Senate Foreign Affairs Committee
to-day considered the San Domingo treaty
The committee do not seem to look with
much favor upon the scheme for the an
nexation of that island, and they are moi
going to be in any hurry in passing upo,
it. They want more information on th'
subject before they give their assent to thu
scheme.
The Duty On Sugars.
The action of the Committee Of Ways ant
Means in fixing the rate Of duty on sugar
at two cents per pound for raw, three cent
for crystalized, and four cents for refne'
sugars, has aroused those who make bust
ness of manufacturing sugar from molasses
They demand corresponding reduction o
imported molasses. WALLACE.
Associated Press telegramE..
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