The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-02-21
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Reyels was Reeeiyed-The Preai.
dent will not sign the Mississippi
Admission Bill for several days.
This morning Senator Elect Revels and
Congressman Elect George E. Harris,
George Mckee, J. L. Morphis, and L. ".
Pierce, of Mississippi, called on President
Grant. They urged upon him to withhold
his signature for few days from the bill
admitting the State Of Mississippi. They
gave as reason that if the State was ad-
mitted before the disability bill was passed
by Congress, under the State Constitution
and the act admitting the State the State
Treasurer and five Republican members Of
the Legislature would be compelled to re-
sign as ineligible. This story is untrue
The President replied that he much regret
ted such was the case, and that he would
withhold his signature from the bill until
Wednesday or Thursday next. The bill has
been received at the White House, and is in
possession of one of the Presidents private
secretaries.
The President kindly received Mr.. Revels,
the colored senator elect, and expressed his
hope that the Senate would admit him to
his seat as soon as the bill was signed.
Mr.. Revels thanked the President for his
kindness, and expressed his conviction that
there would only be faint opposition from
the Democratic side.
The Austrian Navy.
The Secretary of State has received from
the United States consul Mt Trieste on in
teresting detailed account of the size, guns,
condition, etc., of the Austrian navy. The
letter has been transferred to the Navy De-
partment.
At the present time the Austrian navy
consists of seven iron-clads, six screw
frigates and corvettes, thirteen gunboats
and sloops-of-war, first and second rate !;
sixteen paddle-wheel steamers and tug
boats, five sailing corvettes, and q brig.
There are two monitors and eight iron
clads building at Pestb. The officers ore
one admiral, three vice-admirals, six rear
admirals, ffty-one captains, one hundred
and twenty ieutenants, one hundred and
ifty-one ensigns, and one hundred and
fifty -four midshipmen. The Austrian navy
is evidently improving.
The Sale Of Cadetshfps-Interes
Developments.
Several witnesses were before the House
Military Committee to-day, among them E.
P. Brooks (referred to yesterday. From
the testimony it appears that ten or twelve
cadetships we're sold by congressman at
prices ranging from five hundred to two
thousand dollars. Most of these were cases
of members of the last Congress, but four
or five of them were sales by members of
the present Congress.
Mr.. Whittemore, Of South Carolina, was
before the committee to-day to explain his
position. He says he received two thousand
dollars from Mr.. Brooks to be applied to
political and educational purposes, but Mr..
Whittemore fails to name the purposes to
which he applied the funds he received,
although it is admitted that money was paid
to secure an appointment to cadetship.
The testimony also shows that Mr.. Hoge,
South Carolina member, traded for o
cadetship, but the particulars have not been
developed.
Mr.. Devices, of North Carolina, was ap-
preached for fhe sale of cadetship. He
called on tbs late E. NJ. Stanton, ex-Secre-
tary of War, and advised with him about it.,
and Mir. Stanton told him he had better
keep out of the trade; that it was wrong,
and that cadet appointed in that way
would lose his position if the facts became
known.