The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-02-10
Conversational.

resolution calling for information regarding
The treaty affairs was discussed all the morn
ing, and finally went over oil Il motion to lay
OH the table.
Amnesty was resumed. The clause affect
ing naturalization, in Summers amendment: !:
discussing the treaty with China and for
bidding the naturalization of Chinese, is the
stumbling block in Summers path.
Finally Summers amendment was adopted
by the casting vote of Vice-Presid dent CollaX,
and the amnesty bill thus amended failed to
plss for want of the necessary two-tllrdS
vote.
The members voting nay were Messrs.
Blair, Boreman, Davis, Goldthwaite, Hill,
Johnson, Kelly, Logan, Morrill, of Maine,
Norwood, Salisbury, Stewart, Stockton,
Thurman, Upton, TrUmbull, Vickcrs, and
Wn-ht-19. Thirty-three members voted
in the affirmative. Adjourned till Monday.
House.-Scveral bills extending New Eng
land patents, but none of direct interest
South, were passed.
A bill authorizing thGabatement of the tax
on certain tobacco burned in Louisiana and
Missouri was passed.
The Election Committees report ousting
Edwards and seating Bowles from Arkan-
,as was adopted. BoWles was seated and
2Sit Edwards.
The House then took up the bill reported
last Friday to pay to William and Mary Col
leee. in Virginia, $4,000 for the destruction
of its buildings and other property destroyed
without authority by Union soldiers during
the late rebellion. The bill was considered
in committee of the whole, Mr.. L. Myers III
the chair.
The report of the Committee Oh Educa-
ton was read giving the history of the
college and its destruction. The buildings
were originally designed by the famous
architect Sir Christopher Wren, and were
completed in 1928, but they were totally des-
troycd by fire in February, 1869. They were
rebuilt in a year thereafter, and the college
when restored was in better condition thin
before the fire. Williamsburg, the site OF the
college, was the key of the military position
of the peninsula, and terrific battles We're
fought for its possession. Upon It's cTacts-
ton by force of rebel cavalry on tie 9TH OF
september. 1862, the college was fired by a
party of drunken, disorderly, and insubor'
linate stragglers from the United States
force. and the building was destroyed with
the library, apparatus, furniture, and Other
property. The memoralists admitted they
udu no !lWltliCtllll aiililSL IllC oitSu |tIileS
hut appealed to the justice and generosity o
the Government.
Mr.. Pcrcc, chairman of the Committee or
Education and Labor, recapitulated the facts
| in the case, and advocated the passage Of tht
| bill.
Mr.. IIoar, member of that committee
| also spoke in favor OF the bill. He mentioned
| the interesting facts that during the opera
| tions against Yorktown, during the reyolrl
| tionary war, the college was occupied an(
respected by the British troops, and tha
| having been subsequently occupied by
French troops, the buildings were injured il
much the same way Us they were by tht
| American troops during the rebellion; ant
| that Lewis XVI, when he heard of it, re
| paired the damages out of his own private
| purse. Without action the House adjourned
General Items.
WASHINGTON, February 9.-There was ;
full cabinet meeting to-day, but only routine
business was transacted.
John n. Ehle is held in SIC, 900 bail for de
| frauding the Government.
The Jury in the trial of eX-Congressmar
Stokes, of Tennessee, not agreeing, were dis
charged. They stood nine for conviction
and three for acquittal.
Rear Admiral Thornton A. Jenkins has
been assigned to the Asiatic squadron.