The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-04-12
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence Of Richmond Dispatch.
No Anril 10. 1871.

Especial Correspondence Of Richmond Dispatch.1
WASHINGTON, April 10, 1871.
AS the telegraph has Of course informed
the Dispatch, the House has passed the
general amnesty bill offered to-day by MIR.
Hale, and which It was understood was to
have been offered by Butler. The vote was
even larger than had been expected !; aud
although in the Senate it will be much
closer, yet it is generally regarded certain
that it will pass that body with very little
delay. The exceptions are, in comparison
with other bills which have been from time
time under consideration, few, and 1t is
certain that no other bill could have got
through the House. Those who have
| worked laboriously and necessarily ever
| since the beginning Of the last session OF
| Congress for this measure deserve the
| thanks of all benefited by the bill. 1t has
! been an object with them never ont OF
| mind, and it does not seem probable that
| the success which has rewarded them in
| the lower House Of Congress can be vitiated
| by a refusal to concu by the Senate.
1t is thought that Congress can finish up
/! all the work that is before 1t now and adj
ljourn either Saturday or Monday next.
This question Is, however, fraught with
uncertainties. The experiences OF the ses.
| sion thus far teaches that it is unsafe just at
| present to -fr a day for adjournment.
There is much comment in political quar-
| ters over the speech of Senator Morton,
| delivered Saturday night from the balcony
of the National Hotel in this city. There
are some in the Radical camp who are not
| inclined to concur with the theory of re-
nominating Grant twelve months in adj
vance of the convention which shall per-
form that office. The fiat has gone forth,
however, and the leading Administrator
Senator has given vent to sentiments wn tSa
| stamp the certainty that a portion OF the
| party is pledged to that contamination. IL
| will be a new thing In political history if
| the whipping-in process which has charac-
teriZed much of the Radical legislation
| should develop its limits to the broader
ground of demanding from those who con-
troll the destinies of the organization I'M
equivocal endorsements of the policy now
on foot to renominate the present ENecu-
tive.
The Democrats are 10y. no means non
plussed by the speech of Mr.. NORTON ime
fact is, it might be used as a campaign docu-
ment among the masses with q very con-
trary effect TO that intended by IT'S author.
IF there be any who imagine that the Demo-
| Gratis will rush wildly into the business OF
| thr next campaign, they have decidedly In
| correct impressions. That wisdom and
moderation will be the guide OF the party
! becomes daily more evident: mat organ"
| ization is by no means on the defensive IN
the political field; The facts WINCH n ths de pilS
| here constantly show that 1t IS the Radical
narty which, aggressive in its legislation
and offensive in attacking the constitutional
ALLEGATIONS of the Government, Is standing
ut bav in an attempt to prevent the pro-
gressiye strides Of Conservatism.
There will certainly be q called session of
the Senate to attend to the business result
ing from the forthcoming report OF the
High Joint Commissioners,
Winter gave way to summer without the
man, at The signal Office is making predic-
lions from the atmospheric and other phe-
nomena attendant upon such a condition
of affairs which BODIES no sign of it's con-
tir,,ance. TIMoN.