The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-05-03

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OF the Legislature OF that Territory caused
the Senate to pass unanimously to-day a
Dill repeating all territorial laws giving
them Jurisdiction in matters concerning
this road. It appears the Pacific Railroad
Company dony that the parties have any
valid claim, and If they are to be interfered
with by every party whe can trump up a
claim in the Territories through which the
road passes they will be compelled to sus.
pend operations.
Removal.
Mr.. George Parker, for some years past
IN charge of the abandoned property and
cotton division Of the treasury, was to-day
relieved from duty and the division turned
over to the Solicitors Office. MIR. Banfeld
has assigned Mr.. Burr, of his Office, to the
charge of the division.
Gin Mills.
Deputy Commissioner Given has return
ed from his tour of inspection Of the gin
mills. He has travelled through Massachu-
sets and Connecticut, examined into the
mode of making gin, and prescribed rules
for determining the capacity of mills or
stamps adapted to the mode of dish in use.
Mr.. Given reports that there are six gin
mills i'll this country-four of these are in
the first district of Connecticut and two in
the tenth district of Massachusetts,.
st. Domingo Protest against An.
nexation.
a formidable protest against the annexa-
ton of st. Domingo to the United States,
bearing the signatures Of several thousand
of the most intelligent and leading men
of that country, and formally addressed to
the Senate Of the United States, has been
forwarded by General Jose lie Cobral, the
chief of the Revolutionary Government, to
clinton Rice, Esq, the special agent and
Consul of the St. Dominican patriots in the
United States, and by whom the same will
be presented, with other important docu-
ments, to the Senate forthwith.
Senator Wilson'S Army Blu.
Senator Wilson expects the Senate will
reach the House bill reducing the army on
Tomorrow or next day. He will offer his
bill SIS q substitute, and the probabilities are
that it will be accepted and passed without
debate. WALLACE.
Associated Press kilograms.
Congressional.
WASHINGTON, May .-Housc.-The regu-
lar Mondays call was made.
The bill giving pension of 50, 600 per an
mum to Mrs. Lincoln was passed.
A bill was offered to amend al act decla-
ring the railroad bridges of the New Or
leans, Mobile, and Chattanooga Railroad
Company post roads.
A bill allowing $4,000 to the widow of
President Lincoln was passed-yeas, u ;
nays, 50.
A resolution declaring it the sentiment OF
the American people that immediate repa-
ration should be made by England for YES
sells destroyed by the Alabama, and request
ing the President to press the Alabama
claims to al Immediate settlement, were re-
fcrred to the Committee on Foreign At
fairs.
\ joint resolution was passed that the
3Oth day of May shall he perpetual public
holiday, and be 50 observed by the people OF
the United States in decorating the graves
Of the Union soldiers.
The tariff bill was taken up, and pro.
crossed rs far as the eighteenth page. The
bill contains fifty pages.
SenGtc.-Numerous petitions for the re-
lief of political disabilities were presented.
Nil. sawyer introduced a bill to enable the
claimants in cases not connected with the
reb .Ilion to 90 into the Court Of Claims with.
out proof of loyalty. Referred to the Judi
ciary Committee.
B Ills were introduced to enable claimants
not connected with the rebellion to enter
the Court of Claims without prior proof as
to loyalty, and to enforce the fourteenth
| amendment, prohibiting any coercion or III.
tim idation by refusing TO employ, or dis.
cha r@ing from employment, or otherwise
injuung, any citizen with intent to restrain
! him from the exercise Of the rights meant
to be secured by the fourteenth amend
mcnt, or because of his having exercised
| the same.
The bill makes such offences punishable
| by fine not exceeding $40, 900 and imprison
ment not exceeding ten years. 1t empow-
crs the President to employ the land an[
naval forces to enforce its provisions and tx
disband all opposing combinations.
A bill to pay the loyal citizens in the late
rebel States for taking the United States cen
slls III 1860 was passed with an amendment tt
require proof Of loyalty Of the person whc
from the party if living.
| The House bill extending the time within
which persons electedto office in Texas may
take the oath prescribed by the act admit
ting that State was passed.
Various Items.
! WASHINGTON, May 2.-In the San Do
mingo annexation question the votes are
| 900 for and only 10 against.
At the October term of the United State:
Supreme Court the case Of Knox Us. Lee
will come up for argument. 1t is question
of sequestration under the Confederate law
under the decision of Judge Davis, oil
Texas. lie charged the jury that payment
can be made in legal-tender notes Of thu
United States. The difficulty was upon THU
instruction, and the argument has been or
/ dered because it opens up the whole ques
tion Of the constitutionality of the legal
tender act.
The United States Naval Court convened
at Yokohama found that the Bombay vic
lated all rules of steamship navigation
in the Oneida disaster.
The Committee on Territories Of the
Senate have submitted report on the bill
organizing the Territory Of Oklahoma, con
soldating the Indian tribes, in conformity
with treaties with the Choctaw, ChickasaEf
Creek, Seminole, and Cherokee Indians.
The Committee on Credentials Of tn
American Medical Society Of the Unite
States, which assemblies here to-morr ow
has ruled out the credentials Of aljou
twenty-five delegates from medical soci etie
and colleges Of this District on the grDun
that they had consulted with colored phys
Cians A minority and q minority reDor1