The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-01-22
LATEST FROM WASHINGTON.
The Five Per Cent. EOan-PrfYatc Fur
chase of San Dominso-The P0staa
TELEGRAPH Bill.
Especial telegram TO the Disratch.l


Especial telegram 10 the Dispatch,
WASHINGTON, January 21.-Thc Committee
Of Ways and Means at their meeting to-day
adopted resolution informing the Secretary
of the Treasury that it is not their intention
to take any action with regard to the regis
tration by him of the five per cent. loan.
Messrs. Beck and Kerr severaIly offered SUBJ
stitutes, which were rejected by party
vote, MIR. Brooks being absent. The Secre-
tary will shortly award the entire amount
three hundred million dollars. 70 one syndi-
cate, who will probably place l0O,000,WlO
on the market at once.
A resolution is being prepared and will be
introduced in the House calling on the Prcsi-
dent for information relative TO tile proposed
private purchase Of San Domingo; and
whether it is made with the advice or at the
suggestion Of The Executive Of the Govern
ment.
The postal-tclcgraph bill! will come up in
the Senate tomorrow, and several Of tho
most distinguished members Of The Senate
are prepared to talk on that topic. TlNoS.
Associated Press tergrams.J
Congressional.
WAsuIHGroS, January 21.-- House. The
Committee on Appropriations were ordered
to inquire into the details of the Geographic
business.
Tnc Elections Committee reported that
Walls was not. hut that Nib!acH was, emit
tied to the Florida scat. No action was had
on account Of WalS's absence.
~ ',l< ,.,If n M Sp(
all day.
Ssnate.-Mr. West presented rinchback's
credentials.
Mr.. Alcorn introduced Il bill farcring. and
addressed the Senate ut great length III be.
half of. the Mississippi levCes.
4 bill was introduced by Senator Wright
authorizing a reference TO the Court Of Claims
OF the cllitns of the book agents Of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South.
Mr. Wilson introduced bill authorizing
the Orange, Alexandria and Manassas rail.
road 10 lay and operate a temporary railway
track through the streets OF Washington be-
tween the Baltimore and Potomac depot and
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad dcr0t.
The civil rights bill EtSsed-two Conserva-
tive Senators voting with the majority.
Nr. Shcrm,n, from the Commute on
Eiancc, rcported-as an amendment to the
hill requiring national banks to restore their
,ap:tel when impaired, and to amend the
national currency act. said bill being til,
original bill reported from the committee on
the 18th nStant,---a proriso permitting saw
Jugs banks. heretofore authorized by Con-
gress, to Use tho word national" in theiI
corporate names, to continue to do so.
Mr.. Morrill,, Of Vermont, reported from
the same committee an original bill authoriz
ing the Secretary Of the Treasury to refund
the diGerenta duties on articles actually on
ship-board in French vessels, destined tol
the United States, on the 9th Of November
1872.
Cabinet Mccting-COHfirmat &c.
WASHINGTON. january 2l.--The Cabinc,
to-day dispatched routine business. Tho
nominations were uninportant. Howe has
been reelected senator from Wisconsin.
George Sylvester Wright, Of South Carolina
lls been rardoncd; he was convicted Of Il
violation of the enforcement act; nlSo &. W.
Landon. convicted Of :, violation of the reye-
nue. laws in Mississippi.
Among the combinations by the Senate
to-day was that OF DR.. G. 5. Mills as Collector
of the port OF Richmond.
General w. L. Mcmillan, senator-elect of
the Louisiana fusion Legislature for KclloSg'>
vacancy, has arrived here. He served us
surgeon in the Russian army during the
Crimean war, and was decorated by the Gar
for distinguished services. lie commanded
regiment of Ohio volunteers during the
civil war, and obtained the rank of Brevet
Maior-Gcncral. After the war he settled in
Carroll parish, Louisiana, rs cotton planter.
aud was elected to the House and Senate OF
Louisiana as a Republican,, to which party
he has persistcntly adhered. He was not
identified with the Liberal Republican party
during the recent canvass. General McMil-
I'm married sister of Governor Dennisop.
of Ohio. General Mcmillan will not present
his credentials until Mr.. Ray, his competi-
tnr, elected by the Pinchback Legislature,
shall arrive, they having agreed that neither
should take advantage of the other by an
earlier arrival here.
WAsHlNGToS, January 2l.--Gencral Nc
MILAN md others have arrived here from
New Orleans.
The weather is extremely wet and dis
agreeable here to-day.