The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-03-12
LATEST FROM WASHINGTON.
Special kilograms TO the Dispatch.
WASHINGTON, March IL, 1870.
Spain and the United States-The
Policy of the Administration.

'' 'ao Hut tuIlIplleu Win lie
pledges and promises made to our Admins
tration MS to Cuban policy. The Spanish
authorities have promised to free the slaves
throughout the island and do all in their
power to suppress the slave trade.
Correspondence is progressing between
the Secretary of State and the Spanish
Minister here, General Sickles and the
Spanish Ministry at Madrid, and it is I'M
our Government has assumed a
positive and determined tone, and the Presi-
dent and Cabinet are in unison upon the
new policy, which is to demand instant re-
dress for outrages upon American citizens
in Cuba, and n renewal of our demand in
emphatic terms for the fulflmcnt of the
promises made nearly n year ago that
emancipation be declared throughout Cuba.
The Georgia Controversy.
The proposed caucus of Republican SEN
ators that was to have been held this morn
ing to settle tho Georgia controversy aud
determine whether or not the Bingham
amendment to the House bill should be
sustained was abandoned.
1t was discovered that q number of SEN
ators would not consent that their action
should be controlled by II decision of the
caucus.
Negro Soldiers T'ardoned.
To-day tho President pardoned Thomas
and Alfred Brown, two colored soldiers,
sentenced in 1865 by court.martial to i'm
prisonmcnt and hard labor for life. They
had murdered q fellow-soldier. The order
was sent to the penitcntiary at Concord, n.
H., to release them.
Sam Domingo.
At a special meeting of the Senate For
eirn Relations Committee to-day General
Babcock, of the Presidents staff, md Adj
miral Porter we're examined. General
Bahcock was one of the ENJOYS who nego-
tiated the San Domingo treaties, and he
rave the committee Il history of the ncgo-
t~iations so far as they came within his
knowledge. 1t appears he made several
trips to the island. and conferred frequently
with Baez and other officials, and upon his
return reported to the President.
Admiral Porter gave a statement OF Of
fairs in the island. He once resided there.
and he was sent there to examine the state
of affairs and write its history. which ht
did. and the document is on file i'll the State
Department.
The hearing of these gentlemen consumed
the entire session Of the committee.
Ttae Redistribution OF Currency.
!. majority Of the Banking and Currency
Committee appear to favor the Senate bill
10 rc-distribu,c forty-tivc million ,!olla;'
u national bank circulation, but have not
taken definite action thereon.
Appropriations Cat Down.
The House Committee on Appropriation
has finished the naval appropriation bill
cutting down the estimate by the Navy
Department OF so 900 900 to about SIG,
600, 900.
The Senate Appropriation Committee hal
cut down the House Legislative and cxecu'
tive appropriation bill over seventeen hun
Gred thousand dollars.
The EEtcrnal Revenue Coupon Book
Some days ago Representative Beck, o.
Kentucky, reported 4 resolution directing
the Commissioner Of Internal Revenue Il
suspend the further use of the internal re,
venue coupon book. 1t was alleged tina
there was a big job in this thing and /
wasteful expenditure Of money connected
with it.
Mr.. Beck has made q thorough examina,
tiou OF the matter. and to-day Commits
sioncr De!ano was before the Appropriation
Committee, and explained why this book
had been adopted.
The committee are satisfied that the facts
have been greatly exaggerated. and thai
the copyright has made very little out of il
MIR. Beck, after hearing the testimony
proposed that if the owner would give III
the owner of the copyright the resolution
suspcnd!ng the use of the book should be
withdrawn.
a Dinner Party.
General and Mrs. Sherman to-day issued
cards for II dinner party and evening levee
ii their house on the 18th instant.
Clerk Hire.
The House Appropriation Committee
would not report the section allowing the
internal revenue lapse fund to be used fol
extra clerk hire. The Commissioner has
therefore, asked the Senate committee tc
give the Bureau forty THOUSAND dollars ex-
ira, or else about eighty of his needed
clerks, male and female, will have to BIZ
dismissed.
An Indian Cadet to be Sent TO West
Point.
Not to be outdone by m~agnanin,ity, an
as m offset to General Buffers appoint
ment of u colored boy to a cadetship, and
Mr.. Prosser's proposed appointment Of
another colored boy, to be selected by the
colored men of Nashville, the Hon. Richard
c.. Mccormick, delegate from Arizona, hai
sirnifed his determination to appoint ar
Indian boy to be a cadet at West Point, anc
he is now searching for q lively papoose tt
place in the Academy, and whose lot i,
NAV be to lead our armies against the
troublesome men of his own race.
The Funding Bill Passed I'm the
Senate.
The Senate had q laborious session to-day
Of eight and n half hours upon the funding
bill, which finally passed by 81 to 10.
At one time it seemed that MIR. Wilson's
amendment would pass, the sentiment ap'
p~earing to be general in favor Of the long
time features of that amendment. Very
little Of thorough study and practical judg'
ment as to the theory of long and short
bonds was evinced by those who took part
in the discussion! Senator Wilson came
nearest to stating the reasons that govern
capitalists in preferring long bonds, but
even he failed to give the main considera.
ton that determines investments in long
bonds.
1t is known that the tendency Of the rate
of interest in q solid and well-established
Government is downward, and upon THU
theory, thirty years hence say, a bond Of
the present day drawing five or four and
a-half per cent. would probably be most
desirable property, as three per cent. viii
then possibly be the highest rate for good
investments in this country.
The bill now goes to the House, and viii
there be discussed ever more at length than
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