The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-06-15
WASHINGTON NEWS.
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch

WASHINGTON, June ID, 1870.
President Grant rushed home from his
trouting excursion as fast as steam could
bring him, and fired the hottest shot into
Congress this afternoon which has been sent
out Of the Administration "peaee-maker !"
since ii came into power. This was the
message OIL Cuban affairs, and related solely
to that subject. Everything that Grant has
done from the announcement of his Cabinet
to the present hour. in the way Of official
actions, has brought CONSERVATION to the
ranks Of the party which elected him as
well as surprise to every one else, and Gre
ates rs much comment tonight as dlt, tho
first veto message of Andrew johnson OF the
bill organizing the Freedmen's Bureau-the
messages differing in the fact that johnson
took direct issue with Congress, or, as the
Radical members were pleased to say, de-
fed its authority, while Grant attempts to
drive the Legislative branch of the Govern
ment into the support of his foreign policy,
which is not only different from the majori-
ties of the foreign committees in each House,
but from the majority of Congress also.
Even Republican members who have
been loudest in their praises of the Admit
nistration complain that Grant has taken
an unfair advantage of the Committee on
Foreign Affairs, whose report, previously
submitted, was set for discussion to-mor-
row.
The Democrats in both Houses were also
astounded ut the appearance of document
so uncalled for, and, consequently, so tho
said it was the most impudent message ever
sent to Congress, while Senator Thurman
denounceS it as proclamation to the Cuban
people to lay down their arms.
1t is well, however, to await for the de-
yeloDmentS which will spring up from the
discussion this remarkable document will
receive. Considered in its effect upon the
party organization, it may safely be assert
cd that it will hurt it. The people of the
| country seem almost everywhere favorable
to the patriotic people of Cuba, whose Ell
forts to relieve themselves from the weight
of Spanish tyranny can receive no encou-
fragment from the Administration.
| The President cannot hope to aid his st.
| Domingo hobby by declaring against the re-
cognitiOn of the Cuban bclligerents.
The case of Pat Woods comes up to-mor-
row. Congress is making Of him a more
important individual, by immolating him
upon the altar of Porter's revenge, than the
humble policeman might perhaps have ever
attained. AS it is, he is getting to be very
much of a white elephant on the hands Of
his captors, the majority of whom evidently
| think that there is no glory in his incarce-
ration either to Porter or Congress. "Why
didn't Porter whip him, and make no more
fuss about it?" says one. "Because he
was afraid !" says another. And here re-
suits case claiming the attention of Con-
gress and the country which might have
been settled by the exhibition of little Sc
cond-rate "spunk" on the part of men,
Der of Congress.
The efforts to get an appropriation for
cleaning out the AppomattoX river failed
to get i'll the river and harbor bill; but ap-
preparations were made for surveying the
james, Rappahannock, and AppomattoX.
Now that the President has returned to
Washington, he will not leave again before
the adjournment of Congress. TIMON.