The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-03-14
WASHINGTON NEWS.

w&sHrssToN NEWS.
e. T,ov1Seo-SUMNER SYMPATHy.-l
rrnsh,notoa, March l2.--The San Domingo
commissioners are expected IN Washington
nv the 18th instant, but it is very evident
that Congress does not desire to continue
the session to await their arrival, though II
is not Improbable that the President VIII
ask The Senate to remain in session to ac'
on treaty, provided the commissioner
have negotiated one. The statement IN
prominent administration paper that Sns
annexation project is considered yea"
does not find much approval III EN-
ecutive quarters, where ITS success
regarded as even more probaole .hai'
was the removal week ago OF MT: sun
ner from the chairmanship OF the roIe.Sn
Relations Committee. The trlends o! .hc
scheme boast with great confluence .'iat ~. smt
commission will be unanimous, anu ena'
they will be sustained by nearly every pe.-
Tins securing outside Ct those officials.
fair and impartial endorsement. The prln-
cinall opnositiou is expected from Messrs.
Schnrz and Summer, who are arming them
selves constantly with facts and figures. AS
heretofore frequently stated, the policy Of
annexation by Joint resolution was long
since abandoned, as 1t Is manifest it could
not pass the House. A treaty, therefore,
which requires two-thirds OF the Senate to
ratify will be the process. ------,-r--,-~-.--
Mir. Sumner Is in the receipt OF large
number of sympathetic letters and ,tele-
grams from leading Republicans every
where. All the Republican papers in New
England which have come to hand de-
nounce his removal as O great wrong and
without proper reason. The Boston Jour
nal, the largest circulated Republican daily
in that section, propounces it an outrage.
The western Republican papers, with sim
gle exception. call the movement the worst
political change Of the times. In fact,
so general is the feeling throughout the
country, and so unexpected was its devel-
opment by those most active in displacing
Mir. Sumner, that two Senator's who were
quite conspicuous in it yesterday expressed
their great regret that the nl-adyiSed step
had ever been taken. If there is reason.
able opportunity, Mr.. Sumner will pay bis
respects to the President before the session
ends, and will come out boldly and declare
that the evidence is sufficient in this SaI
Domingo scheme to warrant his impeach
ment. He has stated TO a member of thu
House that the sins for which Andrew
johnson was fmpeached were white as snow
compared with those which Grant has com
mitted.-Zeta, in Baltimore Sun.
TIE PRESIDENTS VIEWS ON MIR. SUMNER
The Washington correspondent OF the Bos
tom Advertiser saws that on Thursday morn
ing prior to the assembling of the Senate
rial caucus General Butler went to Presi
dent Grant to see if some compromise coulC
not be made regarding Mr.. Sumner. There
upon the President explicitly said that MIR
Sumner could not be retained as chairman
of the Foreign Committee unless agains
the earnest wishes Of both himself and thu
Secretary Of State. Among the importan
matters which the Administration would
have to submit to thut committee, ant
which required the sympathy Of It's chair
man, were the report of the San Domingo
Commissioners and the Joint High Com
mission on the Alabama claims and the fish
ery question. Mr.. Summers views on these
questions were both very pronounced ant
Very hostile, and his removal was thus alb
solutely necessary. This closed the confer
ence, and General Butler returned and re
ported what the President had said. The
caucus was then held. and the removal o
Mr., Sumner carried for the second time.
A SENSATION ExPLoDED.-There is au.
thority for denying the truth Of the alleged
disclosures teleeraphed from this city yes.
terday, purporting to represent the British
Minister as having expressed to the Secre.
tary of State opinions adverse to the reten.
tion of MIR. Sumner in the Committee on
Foreign Relations. No conversation on OIL
alusion to the subject has ever passed be.
tween Sir Edward Thornton, or either OF
the members Of the British commission.
and the Secretary Of State. Neither OF them
has ever intimated to the Secretary Of State
any desire for a change in any of the com.
mittees, or any anxiety or apprehension IA
to Mr.. Summers course or position on or OF
of any committee Washington telegram.
The last story is that Sumner was de.
posed because Grant had promised the
British Minister to have new chairman OF
the Committee on Foreign Relations ap.
pointed.
Hon. S. S. Cox, Of New York, goes to
South Carolina in few days for the benefit
of bis health,
John Critcher, Of Virginia, has been put
upon the Central Democratic National
Committee at Washington.
DRUGS. MEDICINES. &c.