The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-02-14
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were ineligible aS sucn Wnen they TOteu 10
elect United States senators, &c. The argu-
ment read by Mr.. Gibson was signed BY |
Judge B. Conley, President of the State
Senate; Mr.. E. Tweedy, Speaker pro tenn.
of the House of Delegates and Messrs. j.
r. PARROT, D. B. Harrell, and William Glib
son, Republican members of the House.
Mr.. j. caldwell, who delivered lengthy
argument before the committee several days
since against another election of United
States senators, and against the action of
Governor Bullock, etc., made short reply
to Mr.. Gibson's argument, reiterating his
argument previously made.
Senator Edmunds asked him if the three
members spoken of by Mr.. Gibson had
been thrown out Of the Legislature, and if
the fourteenth amendment had been en-
forced altogether, would it have changed
the election of him and Miller!
Mr.. caldwell answered that it would not
have changed it, as they were both elected
by majority of Republican votes.
Mr.. Gibson sold it would not have effected
the election of Mr.. Hill, but that ex-
Governor Brown would have been elected
by one majority, instead of Miller.
The committee then announced that they
had heard the arguments and views Of oil
the conflicting elements, and that they
would now close the case and proceed to
consider its merits in secret session. The
room was then closed, and the committee
remained in session with closed doors for
nearly two hours. 1t is understood that
they have decided to report bill for the
admission of Georgia without restrictions,
and that majority of the committee deem
the election of Mcssrs. Hill and Miller as
legal, and will so report to the Senate.
Governor Bullock and Mr.. Blodget have
gone home. Messrs. Bryant, Cauldwell,
and the other members of their committee,
made known their intention Of leaving here
tomorrow evening.
General Butler and the President.
General Butler, starting out with the
purpose, quite openly aSowed, Of slaugh-
tering General Grant, after preparing q
pamphlet for that purpose OF some eighty
pages, which were put in type under keep
ing, to prove that Grant was neither states
man nor warrior, but r,ce rersa, has, in
rolling around with the wheel of fortune,
turned up as the especial champion of him
who did most to show that Butler was at
last no warrior.
Facts have not, but things have, changed
materially since that pamphlet was pre-
pared. Then Grant had no official patron
age to dispense now he has it oil at the nib
of his pen. Butler is after the fesh-pots.
1t is understood that Butler now obtains
| more fayors for his friends and relatives
in the Executive Department than any
Radical of them all. Hence he becomes
the especial protector and defender of the
President and his heads of Departments.
He ticks the hand that smote him. His
flesh has become fshifed. To-day, again, in
debate in the House, he rushed in to the de-
fence of the Departments, and demanded
that these filings at members Of the Cabinet
| for extravagant expenses be stopped. He
did not want any more of this expression
of want of confidence in tie heads of De-
partments.
His colleague Dawes responded that the
House and it's members did not desire to be
lectured by one SO unfit for the Office, and
especially from one whose conversion was
80 sudden as that of him who journeyed
from Damascus. AS member of Congress,
he (Dawes) intended to Ecrutinize the ex-
penses. ...
| Butler said he did not want to lecture,
but he had heard about nineteen and half
times the comparison between himself and
Saul Of Tarsus, and he wanted to save the
expenses of the Government by having that
thing set in type and kept standing. AS
to the charge that he had voted for jeff.
Davis, his sudden conversion, &C., he had
only to suggest that in the olden time there
were many who would stand by Judas only
because he was the oldest disciple. This of
course brought down the House in roar Of
laughter, and so Butler gained his point,
for he is satisfied if he gets the laugh on
his opponent, whether there be reason in it
| or not.
Cuban Affairs.
| Letters were received at the Navy De-
partment to-day from Rear Amiral Poor,
dated Key West, in which he gives long
account of his cruise around the island of
Cuba in the Severn, accompanied by the
| iron -clads Dictator and 'sangus. He speaks
of the reception given him by the Spanish
authorities at Matansas, and of their sur
prise at the appearance of the Dictator and
Sangus. Hesays that it was known at Ma
tansas that General Jordan, with an insur-
gent force, had defeated General Pueblo in
a severe battle, and that the latter had lost
many men in killed, wounded, and pri-
soners.
A Dinner Party.
This afternoon Vice-Admiral Porter gave
n dinner at his residence. There were
present General Sherman, Lieutenant-Gen-
eral Sheridan, Senator'S Nye, Drake, Cra-
gin, and Anthony, Generals Negley and
Ketchum, Hon. John w. Forney, Rear Adj
mirals Davis and HoF, Commodores Case