The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-02-24

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branch Of the service.
Pay Of Naval Officers.
The House committee to-day appointed q
subcommittee, composed of Messrs. Soho.
field, Stevens, and Archer, to prepare bill
fixing the pay of the officers of the navy in
the same manner as Is provided in General
Logan's army bill. They have addressed
q letter to the Secretary of the Navy re,
qucsting him to furnish the number Of
officers required in the different grades Of
the new bill which they are maturing
giving position instead of assimilated rank
The Georgia Question.
The senc . Judiciary Committee to-day
had a le':gthy discussion on the Georgia
question. The committee are divided, and
there are good many difficult questions tc
be disposed of, growing out of the action Of
the Legislature of year ago as well as the
action of the present Legislature. There
are two sets of senators asking admission
both claiming to have been legally elected
The committee thus far, however, have
been unable to determine the question.
The Death Of Arson Burlingame.
The announcement at an early hour this
morning of the death of Arson Burlingame
created quite mournful feeling in the va
rious Departments. The President received
the news with evident grief.
Congressional Proceedings. .
The proceedings in both branches of Con-
gress were of an interesting character to-
day, and attracted an extraordinarily large
number of spectators. The subject under
discussion in the Senate had in it little of
the personal and none of the relishable
elements that furnish food for gossip that
were found in the House proceedings, and
therefore the Senate audience was only
made up of those who failed to get into
the House, whilst the galleries, halls,
and doors of the latter were literally
crammed with eager persons, about half
of these females. All these were present
to witness the expulsion of member Of the
House, which, it seemed to be taken for
granted, would occur to-day at the hour set
for hearing Mr.. Whittemore's reasons, if
any, why he should not be expelled for i'm
properly disposing of naval and military
cadetships. At 2 o'clock, the appointed
time, Mr.. Whittemore had not appeared in
his seat, but came in shortly after General
Logan had opened the case.
Mr.. Poland, of Vermont, wanted the
matter postponed until there could be q
better understanding of the merits of the
case, but there were cries of "No, no, don't
yield" from members on both sides of the
hall. 1t was but short time after the
proceedings commenced that it was plainly
manifested as the sense Of large majority
that there should be postponement in
order to give Mr.. Whittemore ON oppor-
tunity to cross-examine witnesses, ae
prayed for in his statement sworn to-
and which had just been read by the
clerk and probably had the House taken
action Immediately upon the reading
of Mr.. Whittemore's affidavit postpone
mcnt and recommitta! to the committee
would have been the result. But General
Butler, after various unsuccessful attempts,
| finally got the floor as the advocate of the
accused, and made speech which aroused
general opposition, and, being followed by
General Logan's conclusive arguments and
damaging array Of facts against White
more, completely turned the tide against
the accused, and settled the question Of
postponement by vote of five to one
against it.
Butler staggered and pulled and at
tempted to bully Immediately after Genera
Logan opened the case, but he failed utterly
and his only success to-day was when hi
excited laugh at two or three of his char
acteristically coarse witticisms; and it wai
mentioned with qualification, in private con
verBation among members, that this was
good test of Buffers boosted influence over
the House, the proof in this instance being
that his own party are getting tired of his
domineering and driving, his Indifference
to truth, and utter selhshness. Logan took
him down handsomely upon several occa'
sions, to the evident delight of the House
To the Massachusetts members impudent
remarks, thrust in as Interruptions, Logan
sarcastically replied that he trusted Butler
would Mt length be decent in behavior, ant
he wanted to know how the Massachusetts
member came to have rights there that die
not belong to other members. This throt
Ting of the blusterer created buzz of ap
prevail all over the house, and Logan after.
wards got the laugh upon Butler on several
occasions, to the latter's evident dis
comft. The Speaker, too, ruled against
Butler when the latter asserted his right t
appear us counsel for Whittemore, the
ruling being that he appeared there only al
member of the House, no matter what
Butler chose to denominate himself. Lo
gan also got Butler at great disadvantage
by showing that he was the bully-botton
of the House. He wanted to play all the
parts of the members of Congress, and
hire jurymen and counsel for accused
and would even take the part of the accused
for consideration.
General Logan ironically alluded to the
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