The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-05-06
WASHINGTON NEWS.
r,csnouGcnce of the Richmond Dispatch.

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,,r-csnouGcnce of the Richmond Dispatch.
WASHINGTON, May 3. 1870.
Yesterday the House Of Representatives
.1.cd resolution making the 30th in
i',,t,-s day which has been fixed upon for
~" dicrnration Of the graves of Union SOL
I 4;lry--a holiday foreucr. To-day 1t was
rr.,uc,t IN in the Senate, and Mr.. Drake
u'.ni i universally regarded as cmbodying
',,,ro venom in his composition than the
n,, n the senate combincd-madc an effort
:, have the same resolution passed imme.
',,..c,y through the Senate; but both Sum-
49, and sherman insisted upon the resolu-
AN Icing referred TO the Committee on
W,i',arv Affairs; which was done. 1t will
.'r%hallv pass. however. For the sake of
'1:rr. in the burial Of oil party feeling, 1t
,,.,hl sell be permitted - remain III tile
,.rlmil:cc. or else let INC general un,te.-
.'aI;np he that those who have lost their
''' ,;.hSd ones in the late struggle all unite
- decorating their rcSting-placcS on the
-" day, The time has arrived for the
> "''T1;tcyr,tion al PARTY feeling. The nation
,N',,ld. while ohscrvinga day for decorating
fine graves Of its lost soldiers, remember az
I,,r allen sous, and strcw with flowers ana
,srrsTecnS the graves OF all. :,
II hc"ins 70 be very @cncrallE pclit'eo
,t.',, The tariff bill is doomed to be Killed.
81, re- are 50 mary conflicting and local IN
..,..fs Involved that il will he found very
,a,s,run TO agree upon lis passage. The
,'.,tcrss i, 80 very slow that ii all the
',,.r,s of the bin receive the same length Of
,4..1r.~iou ~ those which have alcady been
.,.>rl over have had. the ideS OF September
.,,;, NOT witness the final debate on the m"a-
There j. no knowing yet what will be
,,,,,.. with the san Domingo treaty. but GER
,.,,llv ;h.. chances for lis ratiiira'i3n appear
-, more favorable than they have at any
Since The Senate Committee refused to
-, mmcnd II.
Tn" Georgia bin also hangs fire yet. and
ro,riur j expected to be done until Butler
Germs. in whose absence tn" ultra Radicals
lag - max" any move.
The Radicals. who heretofore have been
:-.r,,in. that President Grant will lie the
=, = Republican nominee Tor the frcsl-
,ury. are less confident Of late of that con-
ammunition in the future. BoutwclfS
nance, are looming up for the noniina-
ion: and although it looks futile to think
,l the nomination so soon, II cannot Dut DC
l.,u.ycd that events are certainly being
.harcd 10 bring about that result. TIAoN.
DIsAgllIrIEs.-In the United States Sem
arr Tuesday Mr.. Johnston presented the
r.,;tions Of George X. TAYLOR, Of Hanover !;
,r.hn 7. smith, OF >taunton John G. Full
fu,I. Augusta {. Is. Hood. tu!pepcr: Al
len y. Krad", Gloucester; William i. jar
MAN, Nelson; q. G. Clark, Campbell; " IL
liam II. Hamlet, Campbell; William L.
.I.ac.. Norfolk county John b. Allen. Bo-
e.: art Richard Ii. Blythe, southampton :
,l,,,.f ham NJ t11
V. Parker. southampton William ;.
lr;cr>iurg; W. :. Thornton, Sussex !:
Nib /. Powell, Isle of Wight; \. NJ.
!.~uru. City Point; b. K. Lewis. Dim
viLH": Peterson Wells. Dinwiddie W.
7. nui;r, DinWiidie : John ". Temple.
i'rurr Gcorgr; v iliium [. Temple, Prince
,,o,r-c; iIcnry l.. Leath, Prince George /;
". :. Pond. southampton Thomas d.
H.I-trr. southampton John Prince. Sus-
sex: William Briggs, Sussex; Carter K.
Bishop. Petersburg; Lewis l.. Mason,
Gfrcnsyillc: William Hardaway, MOTTO
say: Robert II. Jones, Petersburg; J. II
'r.rkmorc, Norfolk; John /. Sntncr-
head. UinNiddie: praying the removal OF
'h,lr political disabilities.
Ar. IirkcrS presented the petition OF
Thomas J. lludginS. Of Matthews county,
VIRGINIA, praying for the removal OF his po-
.:.rsl disabilities.
Ill # which were referred to the Select
Committee on the Removal Of Political
Disabilities.
In The United States Senate "Wednesday
~. Johnston presented the petitions OF
jonathan ". Wright, John Il. Wright,
pNlI Filler, Noah Counts, William Suth-
,rAnA, Jacob Dccl, James II. pccl, John
t;.yia:rr. Matthew Stiltinncr, George W.
Hug, S"louon Row, Joseph Looney, Jr.,
l.. ". Compton, Benjamin StaDy, David
Act lannhan, John s. Rallipp, John NJ.
RNlIilp, T. Vance, Joseph Kelley, Joseph
LooMcy, ST., John A. Compton, Drewny
Racket, John W. Chldress, Ill OF Buchanan
county \. W. Graves, Madison; Daniel
Brown, Andrew Patterson, and Joseph
Walker, kockbrid@c; Edmund Winston,
Hanover; stephen +. Dut, Washington
John sanders. Wythe and William l..
si"H", Montgomery county, Nirgini!, pray
~. ipr the removal Of their political dis;l-
h:ii!rs which were all referred to the Select
Committee on the Removal Of Political
Disabilities.
The name chiefly objected to in the pend
H2 senate disability bill WAS Mr.. Patrick
ienrv Aylett, who. by the recent calamity
ii l;chnOnd, las been placed far beyond
'hr reach of any malice.-BGlhmore Sam
Gfcoursc the objection was not Of a per
-onal nature, bat had reference to oilicia
l.o>,ions which had been held by Mr.. Ay.
hit
\ GRAND REPUBLICAN CAUCUS Washing
ton, May "a document looking to the
future political purposes of the Republican
pG.ty has been drawn up ny prominent
western senator, and has been signed by
every Republican in the Senate. To-day il
WAS circulated among the Republican mem
br.- Of the House, and signed SO far rs pre-
scented. The object is to convene q grand
":tU.uS of all the Republicans in Congress
tacrc bcin. over TWO huudrcd-lor the pur
pose OF devising ways and means and set.
ting forth the issues which the party viii
pi">cut to the country in the coming TAI
elections for members OF the House OF tie
Forty second Congress. 1t is intended tc
constitute Il grand campaign committee tC
furnish documents, ETC., and especially TO
look after the condition Of the Radical party
Ill the southern States, where the contest Is
represented rs likely TO be close, with fair
pto> poets Of Conservative results. This
crGyus will be held probably next week,
and ii will DC more important than an ordi-
nary caucus from the fact that 1t will make
1t declaration of principles.
ARBITRARY ARRESTS IN GEORGIA. Wash
iayl0n, May 4.-The fact that General Terry,
COMMANDING in Georgia. had virtually sus-
l"ndcd the writ Of haGeas corpus aud insll-
lut,d Il military commission to try civil
offenders while the civil courts were III ses-
si"n was not generally known here till TO-
day. Dir. Beck, of Kentucky, attempted to
-ri 2 rrsolutinn thronuh the IIouSe calling