The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-06-27

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saee interview, returned to the Executive
hAhslon. WALLACE
Associated Press kilograms.
Congressional.
| WASHINGTON, June 25.-Senate.-Ma-
lority reports were submitted recommend
ing the indefinite postponement of Hatch's
case.
The Cuban resolutions were taken up and
discussed.
Mr.. Abbott, Of North Carolina, intro
duced bill authorizing the consolidation
Of the Western North Carolina railroad,
wilmington, Charlotte and Rutherford
railroad, and Spartansburg and Union rail-
road, under the name of the Western North
Carolina Extension railroad, for the purpose
OIL constructing a railroad to Cleveland,
tennessee, and establishing a continuous
! railway communication between the ATTAIN
tic ports of North Carolina and South Caro-
lima and the Pacific ocean by way of the
contemplated Southern Trans-C Continental
railroad.
The conference committees report on the
| bankrupt bill was concurred in.
| The naturalization laws were taken I'D
and discussed at length.
| House.-The conference committee report
on the bankrupt bill was adopted.
The report Of the Judiciary Committee,
with accompanying documents, embracing
a resolution for the imprisonment of Pat
| Woods (Who assailed Porter three months,
| was recommitted, ordered to be printed,
and made the special order of the day for
Thursday next.
The House went into Committee of the
| Whole on the miscellaneous appropriation
bill. The sum of $4,000 was appropriated
| to repair the custonl-house at Petersburg,
Va.
| Il conference committee was demanded
on the copyright bill, when the death of
MIR. Heaton, of North Carolina, was an
nounced, and the House adjourned.
The Pat Woods Case-Report of the
COMMITTEE.
| WASHINGTON, June 25.-Mr. Bingham,
from the Judiciary Committee, made the
| following report in the House to-day in the
case of the assault on Mr.. Porter, of Vir-
ginia
Whereas Patrick Woods, on the 3Oth
day of May last past, at Richmond, Va,
did make a violent, unprovoked, and felo-
Nous assault On Hon. Charles Fl. Porter,
then being member of the House of Re-
representatives. on his way returning thereto
from leave of absence, and did cut, and
| bruiSe, and disable said Porter, being then
Il member of the House, from attending to
! his duties therein-Woods we'll knowing
: that he Porter was then Il member of Con-
gress and on his way to Washington, and
making such assault because of that knowl-
edge; and whereas the said Woods, being
! brought to the bar Of the House, and being
fully heard in his defence by counsel and
witnesses before the Committee of the Ju-
dietary, all the facts before reciteu APP
peared therefore
! Rcsolred, That Patrick Woods, now
held ut the bar of the House TO answer for il
breach of the privileges of the House, for
his offence, be and is hereby ordered to be
punished by Imprisonment in the Jail ofthe
district Of Columbia, as other criminals
are, for three months, and that warrant
; in due form, under the hand ofthe Speaker,
! be issued to the Scrgeant-at-Arm directing
the execution of this order"
| The report was ordered to be printed, to-
gethcr with the views Of the minority, and
Mr.. Bingham gave notice that he would
call the matter up for action.
| Various Items.
| WAsHIscTos, June z3.-The Senate has
| adopted an amendment to the copyright
law taking jurisdiction from the district
courts and placing it in the Congressional
| Librarian.
The revenue recei pts to-day were $S11 900.
The President to-day nominated AlonZO
| B. Cornell Assistant Treasurer at New
York, and A. P. French postmaster at De-
mo ,Jolis.
The Conference Committee OH Currency
was in session all day, but with no positive
result, though the South and West will
! have increased banking facilities to the OK
| tent of 5,000, 600 Of three per cent. certi-
ticates, and S25, 600 900 taken from the East.
The gold banks will probably be authorized
to issue adhbtun.
Mr.. Eclton, tie member of Congress
from North Carolina, is dead.
-Four of the seven members Of the Senate
select committee on subject involving the
San Domingo treaty made report to-day,
in which they eXhonorate General Babcock,
the special agentsent to that Republic by
the President, from the charge made by
Davis Hatch, al American citizen, that
Babcock did not interfere for his release
from prison, where he was placed by the
keeping him there for fear that if at liberty
he would oppose the making of 4 treaty for
anneXine San Domingo to this country.
The committee declare that there is nothing
to show there was anything wrong, or
which, in the least degree ,attaints the treaty.
They also hold that Hatch joined the revo-
lutionists against the de .facto government,
and in the punishment awarded him there,
| there is no redress, rs 4 sojourner in for
| elgn country Is a1enaDle 10 the laWS he mas
violated. Three Of the members disagreed
with the majority OH Il single point, holding
that Babcock had been Indifferent to Hatch,
if he did not connive at his continued i'm
prisonment. They deny the insinuation of
the majority that the investigation was or.
dered to affect The treaty, and assert that
Hatch Is entitled to damages for his impris-
onment, Now, that the report has been
made, the Senate will resume the considera.
ton of the San Domingo treaty on Monday.