The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-02-11
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Whole on the army bill. The fourth section
OF the bill requires that all claims for stores
or supplies taken or furnished during the
rebellion for the use of the army, including
oil such claims now pending and .unde-
termined in any department of the Govern
! ment, shall be presented before the 1st of
November, 1874, to the Southern Claims
Commissioners, who shall have exclusive
Jurisdiction to pass and determine them. All
claims not presented before that day are 10
De barred. The transfer of the claims
from the Quartermaster's Department is 10
be considered as presentation of the claims.
This section gave rise to long discussion,
and many amendments were offered to it.
T5c most important amendments that
were adopted were offered by Mr.. Young,
OF Georgia, extending the time from No
vember 1874 to November 1875, and one
offered by X. Z. Hoar, of Massachusetts, for
the appointment of two additional commits
sioners. An amendment offered by Mr..
Speer, Of Pennsylvania, was also adopted
after long struggle, transferring to the
commissioners all the evidence now on file
with the Quartermaster. General and Com
missaEy. General.
Mr. Beck offered the following resoiu-
tion which was adopted:
Whereas the First National Bank of the
city Of Washington recently became insol-
Vent and is now in the hands Of receiver,
Id consequence, as is alleged, of lending to
or pllcing in the control Of single firm
the whole of its capital stock as we'll as a
large part of the money of its depositors,
! which is in palpable violation of the national-
banking act; and whereas The circumstances
attending the failure Of said bank, and the
character of the management under which
so gross violation Of law could have taken
place, demand an investigation, to the end
that remedies may be applied to guard
against like frauds in the future therefore
"Resolred, That the Committee ON Bank
ing and Currency be Instructed to examine
into the condition of said bank at the time OF
its failure, and into its prior transactions and
general management, with power to send
for persons and papers,"
The Bankrupt Bill.
The Senate to-day, after weeks discus
sion, passed the bankrupt bill, Senator Ed.
munds, who had charge Of it, having per-
sistently pressed it upon the Senate, and re.
| fused to allow any measure to be introduced
which might set it aside for any time what
| ever.
| The bill is very much more lenient to the
DEBTOR class than the old law, one of its
principal features being that debtor who
suspends the payment Of his paper cannot
be forced into bankruptcy under forty DAYS.
! An amendment offered by Senator John.
ston, ofVirginia, to-day, requiring assignees
to make public notice in newspapers hay-
ing the largest circulation, of sales to be
made, was agreed to.
The bill further reduces the fees of bank
rupt officers to one-half Of that which they re-
ceived under the old law, and provides that
any arrangement for settlement between
a bankrupt and bis creditors shall be signed
by at least one-half Of the creditors, repre-
sentiug ole-half of the indebtedness.
Suits to recover all sums under five hun
dred dollars may be brought in Stat,
court under an order from a Federal judgt
| having charge Of the estate.
The bankrupt officers are required Il
make full report Of all facts in connection
with cases coming before them to the Dis
trict Court, and the clerks of district court
are to report to the Attorney-Genera ever.
year.
The Atlantic and Great Western Canal
| Senator GordoI's bill granting aid to tn
| Atlantic and Great Western canal direct
| the Controller of the Currency to issue t
the Atlantic and Great Western Canal Com
! rany currency notes to the extent Of eighty
thousand dollars per mile for each section o
ten miles of the canal that shall be con
structcd, provided the company's first mort
gage forty year bonds to an equal amoun
Shall have been previously deposited will
him as security for the Government. Tn,
currency so issued is to be redeemed by th,
company paying annually into the United
States Treasury sum not less than six pei
cent. OF the total amount issued.
Coinage Of Twenty.Cent Silver Pieces
Mr.. Jones's bill authorizing the coinage
OF twenty-cent silver pieces proposes t
make them legaLtender at their nomina
value for amounts not exceeding five dollar:
in any one payment, and applies to the new
coin all existing laws relating to the coinage
abasement, or counterfeitipg of all other
coins,
Bonded Warehouses for Rice.
Mir. Scott, from the Finance Committee,
reported, with amendments, House bill re-
latinr to bonded warehouses for rice. AS
amended, the bill authorizes the Secretary
of the Treasury to establish at any port oil
entry bonded warehouses, to be used for
the stowage and cleansing OF imported un
claimed rice and paddy intended for ex
portation to foreign countries.
Items.
Brief Cabinet session. All present. SeYe
ral witnesses were examined in the BUSTED
impeachment case. Busteed is personally
conducting his defence.
Nomination: Mrs. E. G. Bainbridge, post
master at Old Point Comfort, Va. :.
The argument before the House committee
in the case of Sloan Us. Rawls, from tht
First Georgia district, closed to-day, Rawls
the sitting member, concluded his speech
which he commenced yesterday.
The Committee on Railroads and Canals
of the House will hear Colonel B. W. Tro
bel on BelPs billion Friday next.
The commissioners for the improvement
of the navigation of the Ohio river are hold
ing its sessions here.
William J. McCabb has been appointed O
eauger for the Second Virginia district.
Georgia Races.
SAVANNAH, February 10.-The last day
races of the Savannah Jockey Club drew
| az I,rroet orcud coon on the tUrf for wears