The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-04-17
LATEST FROM wAsHINGTOy.

AsHINGToN, April 15.-The Senate post
pohea the proceedings of the day, prelim-
mary TO considering House amnesty hin.
me actlon as considered was unfayorahIe
to the bill. -, 0"'"' 'i"oie
Inc house postponed the consideration
o. one Suklux bill as amended by the Sen.
ate, ana took up the deficiency bill.
Inc senate amendment to the deficiency
Dill as amended by the House, authorizinp
the reprinting of the national bank h;IIss
and assessing the bank for the expenses
nays. 80 ~
The kuklux bill was taken I'D. The Sen.
ate amendment extending the right of the
President to suspend the habeds corpus to
the end of the next regular session Of Con
gress was rejected by a vote of Sc yeas, 90
nays. ..--''...
The amendment requiring the iron.clad
oath from jurors in the Federal courts was
rejected without division.
The amendment known as the Sherman
amendment, telegraphed in full last night,
was rejected-yeas,, 40; nays, 131.
This is the amendment assessing damages
of them in,material, were concurred in, and
a committee of conference ordered. MeSsrs.
Shellabarger, Schoield, and Kerr were ap-
pointed on the part Of the House.
Adjourned.
The Amnesty Bill.
WASHINGTON, April 15.-The following is
a synopsis of the Senate proceedings on the
amnesty BILL,
Senator Robertson moved to take up his
amendment to the order of business SO as
to allow the House amnesty bill to be con-
sidered at the presenr session.
corofor (,nDE1ipp remarked that This
being Saturday the Senate was very thin,
a number of Senators having left the city
with the understanding that only EXecu-
tive business would be considered. He
hoped the motion would be deferred until
next week.
Senator Robertson replied that he had
given five days previous notice Of the mo-
ton, and insisted upon vote.
Senator Trumbuu did not think the
Senate 80 thin as represented. It was the
fullest Senate he had ever known for q
Saturday. He hoped no friend of amnesty
would allow the subject to be postponed in
that way.
Senator Wilson thought the time had
come to act upon the subject, and he would
SO vote.
Senator Chandler moved an Executive
session.
The motion was lost BY vote of 16 yeas
to % nays.
Senator Morrill,. of Vermont, submitted
proposition withdrawing objection to
Senator Robertson's motion on condition
that final vote on the amnesty bill should
not be taken until the kukluX bill had
passed both Houses.
Senator Robertson acquicsced, but seye-
raj Senator's declined to be bound by any
such arrangement. ....
Senator Sawyer was of opinion that after
the bill which passed yesterday, no more
opportune moment than the present could
be found for passing the amnesty bill. His
own belief had been that there was an I'M
Outstanding that the subject should be con-
sidered to-day. ..-. ...
Senators Cameron and Frelinghuysen
urged that vote be deferred upon the
pending motion.
During further discussion, Senator Trum-
bull charged that the efforts of the oppo-
nents of the bill for delay were purposely
designed to defeat action on the measure,
and warned its friends that It would be next
to impossible to have it acted upon if they
now allowed it to 60 over. ..s"
Senator FreYling huysen then renewed the
motion for an Executive session, upon which
Senator Thurman demanded the yeas and
nays. The motion was carried-yeas, 81
nays, "a.
Nominations Confirmed.
WASHINGTON, April 15.-The Senate has
confirmed the nominations of Messrs
Cowan as assistant secretary of the int
rior Rapier, assessor for the I'd district: Of
Alabama Smith, assessor Of the 9th Viz.
glnia Snead, collector of the 1st district Of
Virginia. =.
General News.
WASHINGTON, April 15.-Major BelSel
was fully restored to his position in the
army.
Hon. Mr.. Schlozer, the new Minister O
the German Empire, has arrived.
The Republican Senators will hold 6
caucus on Monday to consider the amnesty
question. g.
WAsH1NGToN, April 15.-The Parliament
of the Dominican Canada has been pro-
rogued. The Governor-GeneraPs speech
is hopeful with good results from the Hiaf
Commission.
George Wendlikcn, alias Dutch George
the famous counterteiter arrested in New
York, was committed to Jail in default o.
$50, 900 bail.
The work on the Southern Pacific rail
road is being pushed vigorously from & IL
roy, CAL, southwark. ."',