The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-12-23
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4 Especial Dispatch 20 The baltimore Sun,
SENATOR suMNER AND rHE rarsrpssr,

SENATOR GUNNER AND THE pRESIDEkr, IS
WAsHYNGFoN, Dec. 21.--The political gps-
sip OF the day has been the Development OF
the fact and the Eailure Of negotiations for q
reconcilt ation OF the differences between
Senator Suniner and the President. The
ventilation of the matter In the Senate by
Mir. Sumner to-day Is now the absorbing
topic, though it's understood The President
denies that he made the conditional threat
that If he were not President he would cah
Mr.. Sumner to personal account, DC. ].
MIR. Summer did r st deny the story of
negotiations for peace, and the peace
makers say that the President still believes
that DIR: Sumner has spoken of him disre-
spectfnlly. and are inclined to think rom
what they can learn that he derived his In.
formation from one whom they call a s. well.
KNOWN misunderstanding member OF Com
gress from Massachusetts" Both narties
are annoyed thatthe fact of the negotiations
should get into the newspapers, and it is
among the amusing features of the gossip
that the friends of the President charge to-
mgns that Mr. Sumner has been the cause
OF TINS by having had telegraphed to Bos-
Ton republican paper a bare narrative of
the facts, which were subsequently gar
nisneo by the same source In an account to
NJ the columns Of the Democratic daily here,
to which account MIR. Sumner called public
attention In his place In the Senate.
Mr. summer only added fuel to the flame
by making in the Senate this afternoon one
OF the boldest and most vigorous assaults
on the San Domingo scheme, the Presi-
dents part tD 1t, the conduct Of his agent
l9ieneral Babcock) in it, and the full nego-
tiattons which were contaminated. These
extraordinary statements, for which mir.
sumner said ne was fortified by official
lactS, caused positive sensation on the
senate noor and in the well-filled galleries.
Administration that there is no prospect of
producing harmony between the President
| and Senators Sumner and Schurz and their
Republican followers. Some of the leading
politicians Of the party In Congress shake
their heads and warn Messrs. Sumner and
Schurz Of the terrible consequences they
| are inviting.
HOMEMADE CHAMPAGNE.
Deputy Commissioner Given, who has
Just returned from visit of inspection
among the champagne manufacturers of
New York, with view to ascertaining
whether their wines were imitation of i'm
ported champagne or were made from do.
| mestlc-grown grapes, has prepared report,
IN which ne sustains previous ruling Of
the Department by which they were placed
in the former category and subjected, like
| all imported champagnes, to duty Of fifty
cents per quart. Under existing rules ma
tsve.made champagnes have escaped all
tax" --.>-.--.-. - :
GENERAL BuTLER's bill to amend the bank
rupt act provides that nothing in the act
establishing uniform system Of bankrupt
ey, or any act amendatory thereof, shall be
held to divest the wife Of any bankrupt of
her right of dover in her husbands estate.
Gen. Butler thinks such legislation neces-
sary on account of the recent decision of O
court in Pennsylvania, which put an OPP
posite Interpretation upon the law. The
second section of the bin provides that the
words cuisines and trading corporations,
wherever they occur in said act. shall be
construed and held to include all railroad
corporations. In two States decisions have
been made by the courts that railroads can
be put into bankruptcy the same as other
corporations, but in three other States the
courts have put directly opposite con-
struction upon the law; hence the neces-
sity for legislation to declare explicitly the
meaning Of the statute.