The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-12-22

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staff officer of the President that ne was
expected to attack Mr.. Sumner on his
course on the San Domingo question and:
his attitude toward the President. This
Mr.. Forney positively refused to do on the
ground that MIR. Sumner had always been!
one Of his warm personal friends, and this
decision withdrew the Presidential favor
from Col. Forney, and, 1t Is even said,
closed the doors Of the White House against
him. e.. -. u. s. 49,, .sst
It was the President, also, who set in
motion the effort to displace Mr. Sumner
from the Craftsmanship Of Foreign Affairs,
| or to so reconstruct the committee as to-
neutralize MIR. Summers influence. =.
: Especial Dispatch 10 the Baltimore SUM-
MINISTER scHENcK-FINANCIAL MATTERS IN
Observation-Disclosures CLAIMS. +, !, - ..,' y
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.- Gen. Schenck TO-
day took formal leave as chairman of the
Ways and Means Committee, preparatory
to leaving Congress to accept the duties Of
Minister to ENGLAND. He will probably sail
on the 18th of January. Mr.. Hooper, Of
Massachusetts,, who was second on the COM
mittee, viii act as chairman during the re-
! mainder of the session. Mr.. Scbenck viii
pay his last official visit to Congress to-mor-
row.. He will sail for England with sealed
instructions. 3; :,
FINANCIAL MEASURES.
The Senate Finance Committee, at its
meeting to-day, decided adversely on nearly
every financial project before it. The nota-
Bile exception was bill to comply with the
| wishes Of the Secretary Of the Treasury for
| the. issue Of three hundred millions Of five
per cent. gold bonds, interest payable quar-
| terly, and to authorize quarterly interest on
the two hundred millions in the act of July
last, making total of five hundred millions
OF fyesper cent. bonds into which to refund
the public debt. It is substantially the
same bill pending in the Ways and Means,
Committee.
"a SOUTHERN WAR CLAIMS.
The southern members Of Congress in
tend to support q proposition, to be made
after the holidays, for the appointment of
three commissioners to examine all claims
| for losses and damages arising out of the
war, and report to Congress at each session
till the labor Is ended, which must be within
two years. 1tis to be expressly stipulated
that no claims shall be made for losses OF
slaves. q t,.,. !. .zs.z,S er~:s -. !
OCEAN TELEGRAPH CABLES.
The House Committee on Foreign AZ
fairs to day completed their ocean telegraph
bill, and authorized Hon. Fernando Wood,
one Of their members, to report it. The
bill is genera. in it's terms, and authorizes
| the laying of cables from any port of the
world to the United States by any parties
under certain conditions and restrictions.
| The rights of the states in the premises as
to the shore ends of the cables are left in
abeyance. It interferes with nobody's
rights, and puts all cables on the same terms
| to avoid monopoly. There are penalties for
| interfering with the cables, and restrictions
| for proper and legitimate telegraphing.
| This, blu will avoid action by Congress on
| simple applications, as telegraph parties,
under the general provisions, can seyerally
| file their applications with the Department
| of State, and complying with the require
| ments, commence business.
NEW PATENTS. ~
Repeating cannon, James 81. Hedrick,
Wythe county, Virginia liniment for the
cure Of rheumatism, Archibald A. Riddick,
Franklin, Virginia; beehive, Robertson
Arnold, Suffolk, Virginia.
GENERAL AMNESTY The PRESIDENTS
/ VIEws-WHY THE SUBJECT WAS OMITTED IN
THE MESSAGE Washington, Dec. IT,
The President said yesterday that the omis.
sion to make any reference to the subject OF
amnesty in his annual message was acct
dental. He intended to have stated his
viewsfr freely upon the question, but in the
I
/ to send it to Congress, he omitted to do so.
His purpose was to call attention, in the
first place, to the general pprehension
| prevalent in the country that q large num-
Der of people are disfranchised in the South
/ by the fourteenth amendment and by the
Legislation Of Congress. This belief, which
| has been fostered by the Democratic news
papers, lis wholly an error for, in fact, no
man has been deprived of the right to vote
| by the action of Congress or by the force OF
a constitutional amendment. All disfran-
chisement has been by virtue of laws en-
acted by the southern States themselves,
Through their Legislatures, for which Con-
gress is in no way responsible. Ihls TACT,
| The President thinks, ought to be more
generally understood. .l
He proposed, in the second place, to have
discussed the propriety of removing the
disqualification s from holding Office imposed
| bv the fourteenth amendment: His view OF
| the matter is that the people OF the South
ought first to accept the fourteenth ana nt-
teenth amendments, and give evidence that
thew fully acknowledge their validity, be-
| fore asking for amnesty under the proyls-
| ions of the first Of these amendments. The
only power Congress has to grant amnesty
il Nv virtue of the authority conferred by
the fourteenth amendment, !: and so long as
the Democrats at sthe South resist that
amendment and deny its validity, It Is mani
| testify 5incon sistent for them to ask for re-
moyal of disqualifi ions, under its psovis-
ions, Until these amendments are achoW-
fledged and respected as binding, the Presi-
dent thinks the public sentiment of the
country.Will be averse to granting amnesty;
but when the attitude Of the late rebels
changes in this respect, he believes that
gweeping amnesty should be promptly ac-
corded by Congress. The President ex-
presses his regret that he omitted to set
forth these views In his message, as ut was
his full intention to have done.-.--Neso FORK
Tribune. u.s. II,
i RS. PoIIAaD BRINGS FoUs SUITS
AeAINsr JACOB LYoN--She CLAIMS s23, QUO
EEDamnges,-Messrs., Drew and Bradley
have ior Mrs. Marie A.. n. Pollard entered
four suits against Jacob Lyon, owner OF tue
/ s. Cloud Hotel In one she charges That
Ian the 25th OF Eeptemher last detendsnf
salsesv and mali ciousIy said, spoke and
nubIished Of the plaintiff the words follow
tnp: (which words are given and. sue
claims for this SO ,0O damages. ia another
she CHARGES that defendant, on the 25tn o.
senfanber. assaulted her, and 80 TERMED !
and alarmed her that she became siek, and
while corfinad tel her room be admaafssereq
M, III caused tsSbe administ stored 10 heI SET,
tain drugs, wliich atlectea her reason, ana
Ers s Her Incapable Of thin king Tor her;
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