The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-06-08
LATEST FROM WASHINGTON.
Special telegram to the Dispatch.
WASHINGTON, june 7, 1870.

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Special telegram to the Dispatch.
WASHINGTON, juno 7, 1870.
PERSONAL.
Secretary Robson attended the conf
mencement at the Naval Academy to-day.
The Board of Visitors will be relieved from
duty there as soon as the premiums are dis
tributed. 7't
Secretary Belknap has gone to West
Point.
1t is understood that General Sherman
and Vice-Admiral Porter will visit West
Point before returning here.
The President has for the present given
up his contemplated excursion to the Penn
sylvania Valley. -i <..'..
Decay Of American Tonnage.
The Select Committee on the Decay of
American Tonnage will meet tomorrow
and prepare Il bill including in slightly
modified form the first two sections of the
bill offered by Senator Chanler Il few days
since, and limited in application to ships
in foreign trade only. The third section,
granting American register to ioreign-built
vessels, will probably be defeated. Promi-
nent western members have declared their
desire to do something for the ocean carry
ing interests. s..'s-.
Seizure OF Tobacco.
Supervisor Fulton yesterday seized lot
Of tobacco which had been shipped from
North Carolina and Virginia to Baltimore,
and found that the siNty-pound stamp had
been photographed and the ruling across it
had been made by a pen Or stencil and then
marked with similar ink. Mr.. Fulton also
reports that his officers to-day discovered 4
lot of tobacco with counterfeit twenty and
Foreground stamps.
Telegraph Cables.
Several persons were before the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee to-day rIrgin2
subsidy for telegraph cable from the Uni
ted States to the Azore Islands and thencetC
Lisbon. The same committee discussed the
propriety of allowing the Belgian cable tc
land on the New Jersey coast, and will pro-
badly report favorably.
Naturalization Treaty.
The committee directed MIR. Sumner to
report for ratification the naturalization OF
citizenship treaty negotiated by Minister
Motley and to report in favor Of abrogating
the slave trade treaty with Great Britain in
1862.
Artificial Limbs.
| The conference committee on the disa.
greeting votes of the two Houses on the bill
to furnish artificial limbs to soldiers to-day
reached an agreement, the Senate receding
from its disagreement. Soldiers will here
after be allowed artificial limbs, or their
equivalent in money, every five years.
Internal Tax and Tariff BilA.
The Senate Finance Committee to-day
beran the consideration of the internal tax
and tariff bill passed by the House. yester.
day. They will make but few changes, and
Senator Sherman intends to report the mat.
ter to the Senate as speedily as possible.
,s-@ WALLACE.
Associated Press kilograms. 80
Congressional.
WASHINGTON, June 7.-House.-The bill
regulating election contests was tabled. .
fhe currency bill was considered.
The bill authorizing increased mall 1aclll'
ties between Cedar Keys ana Havana "as
referred to the Post Office Committee.
The Reconstruction Committee added .
proyiso to the Georgia bill that nothing
therein contained should interfere with cleo
tons this fall, as provided for by the State
constitution. Also resolution that nc
action regarding Tennessee should be taken
this session.
Mr.. Harris introduced bill granting the
right of way to the Arkansas ana Deita
railroad. .lt.w ssss- ~.
The Committee Of Commerce will con
slider business on Tuesday.
"A bill was passed allowing deputy mar r
shals about fifty per cent. Increased pay. Il
now goes to the President. '.., =, =
The currency bill elected long, depate,
The House is in session tonight.
fSenote.-After. debate on rules the IN
dian appropriation bill was taken up. 4 .
i Washington Municipal Election.
WASHINGTON, June 7.-Emery's majority
lis over 5000. The. vote; reached Witnin
thousand Of registration. Many negroe
voted and electioneered openly for Elmer!
withoilt molestation from their coloret
fellows. The rejoicing throughout the cit!
~ almost universal. The Bowen men hay,
aniv two members of che upper and tVe o
the lower Board. Three colored member
are elected to the Council on EMefS,'
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