The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-03-28
CONGREGATIONAL

WASHINGTON, March 81 House.-Sev-
eral bills were referred to committees when
they shall be appointed.
Senate.-Mr. Sumner commenced bis
twelve-column speech Immediately upon
the assembling of the Senate. The crowd
in the Senate is like that that used to fill the
hall and galleries in impeachment times.
MIR. Sumner occupied all day. He summed
as follows: Thus stands the case. Inter-
national law has been violated in two of It's
commanding ruleS-one securing the equal
ity OF nations, and the other providing
against belligerent intervention-While O
distinctive fundamental principle of the
Constitution by which the President is de-
prived of asking prerogative is disresard-
ed, and this very knely prerogatiye Is
plest statement. Looking still further at
the facts we see that all this great diSobe-
dience has for its object the acquisition. Of
an outlying tropical island with large prom
Use of wealth, and that in carrying out this
scheme our Republic has forcibly maintain
ed an usurper in power that he might sell bis
country, and has dealt blow at the indie
pendence of the black Republic of Hayti,
which, besides being wrong to that Repuh-
lie, was an insult to the African race and all
this has been done by prerogative alone,
without the authority of an act of Con-
gress. If such transaction, many headed
in wrong, can escape judgment, 1t is diff
cult to see what securities remain? What
other sacred rule of international law may
not be violated? What other foreign ma
ton may not be struck at? What other
belligerent menaces may not be hurled !?
What other kingly prerogative may not be
seized?
In the course of his speech, enlarging
upon the declaration that the President
had placed himself at the head of more
powerful and costly kuklux than those OF
the South, he proceeded: Had the Presi-
dent been so inspired as 10 bestow on the
southern Unionists, white and black, one
halt of the time in zeal, will, personal at
tention, effort, and personal intercession,
which he has bestowed upon his attempt to
obtain half an island in the caribbean sea,
our southern kukluX would have existed
only in name, while tranquility would have
reigned everywhere within our borders"
General applause in the galleries and
hisses.]
The Vice-President: The Chair cannot
consent that there shall be manifestations of
applause or disapproval In the galleries, and
he rcprehends one as promptly as the other.
If they are repeated, the Chair must enforce
the order of the Senate. ...
Mr. Sumner proceeded: CHOW, as de-
sire the suppression of the kukluX wherever
it shows itself, and the elevation of the At
rican race, i insist that the Presidential
scheme which installs the kukluX on the
coast OF st. Domingo, and which at the same
time insults the African race in the black
republic, shall be represented. speak now
of that kukluX of which the President is
the declared head, and speak for the Atri-
can race whom the President has trampled
down. Is there any Senator in earnest
against the kukluX! Let him arrest it on
the coast of st. Domingo. Is there any
Senator ready at all times to seek the eleyu-
ton of the African race, here is the occa-
sion for his best efforts.
Increase of Farms at the South.
WASHINGTON, March 27.-The census re-
turns show the following per cent. Increase
in the number of farms Virginia, Is; Ala
bama, % Arkansas, Florida, so; Geor-
gia. 9 Kentucky, %; Louisiana, %; Mis-
Sis>ippi, 40; Missouri, So; North Carolina,
81; and Tennessee, 43. Massachusetts
shows a loss of % per cent, and New Hamp-
shire per cent. Texas and South Carolina
returns are not made up. The per cent.
Increase in establishments of productive in
dustry is /: Virginia, 40 !; Alabama, 43; Ar
kansas, IS; Florida, 1853; Georgia, 81 !;
Louisiana, 142; Mississippi, Al Missouri,
242: North Carolina, / Tennessee, 106.
Texas and South Carolina not made up.
Notes for the Purchase OF isIaves.
WASHINGTON, March 27.-In the Supreme
Court to-day, in the case of Giniers VS..
Campbell, up from the Circuit Court OF
Louisiana, the Supreme Court affirmed the
decree OF the court below, and sustained
the contract OF prommissory note OF
which the consideration was the price oil
slaves purchased before the war.
The Weather Report.
WASHINGTON, March I.-Otice Signal
Bureau, 1885 p. M-Synopsis weather re-
port for the past twenty.four hours:
The area of lowest pressure, which was
Sunday evening in Kentucky, is now over
Massachusetts. 1t has in its progress been
preceded by rain and snow and brisk north
east and northwest winds. Cloudy and
falling weather have prevailed to-day on
the lower lakes and In tine eastern States.
Clear AMI partially cloudy weather, with a
rising barometer, have prevailed from Ohio
to the Atlantic. The pressure has remain
ed stationary from the southern and Gull
States to the Ohio river. A falling bar0me.
ter. with. increasing temperature and Light
southeast winds with clear weather, are
reported from the Mississippi Valley and
westward.
.Probnbiiities.--It Is probable the storm
now prevailing in the eastern States Will
clear away on Tuesday, with brisk north
west winds on that coast. Fresh and gentle
winds, with partially cloudy weather, VIII