The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-02-06

no. QlsrSGaTuing the sacred figsltS 0t tue pc
Hilton. THIS petition catne rom Just ovel
the river--Jjust outside the DistrictAl he
feared that IL 1t was mot allowed to be read
| that the sacred ris!its OF the citizens would
| lie bleeding. laughter. 81
Mr.. Thurman said this petition had al.
ready been treated with too much respect In
| allowing so much Of It to be read, as IL was
| based on a claim to recognition Of the bogus
government set up at Alexandria by two or
| three hundred suffers. [Laughter.l
Mr.. Conkling repeated that IL certainly
| was not proper to stifle the sacred right OF
petition in such manner. TRenewed laugh
teri
Mr.. Hamlin asked ii that was not the
same gentleman who, for part OF the time
that he wished to receive compensation us n
| senator, had sat In the other house and
received payment as member OF that body :!
Mr.. Lewis said be did not know about
that, rs he was cut off from Washington at
the time.
Dir. Anthony said he did not think the
senator from Ohio should call petition n
thing.
Mr.. Thurman: Why, the senator from
| Rhode Island is u thing; I am thing, and
| VIC are all things. [Laughter.l
The notion Of Mr.. Thurman TO refer to
the Committee on Privileges and Elections
was then put.
The Chair (Mr. Carpenter) decided that
the motion was lost, and directed the clerk
70 proceed with The reading Of the petition.
MIR. Conkling: Certainly. We must pro-
tcct the right of petition. Laughter
| Mr.. Foreman said that now, after the
lapse of time, it might do to laugh down
this thing and the Government was very
| clad in the hour of its distress to have the
assistance of the Virginia lovaliSts. The Go
yernmcnt had recognized the Alexandria
government, and in his opinion this claim
Of Mr.. Scgal's was Il valid claim, and should
| be paid.
The reading of the petition was then con-
cudcd. and it was referred to the Committee
! on Privileges and Elections.
| HouSe.-The House spent most OF the
DAYS session on the army appropriation bill,
| but did not finish it.
The bill extending the time to complete the
r,;lroad in Louisiana from the Texas State
line to the Mississippi river opposite Vlcks'
burg was reported by Morey, from the Com
mittce on Pacific Lands, and sent 10 the
Committee Of the Whole.
Investigation OF the Charge aSnIns,
Judge Eusteed.
A subcommittee Of the House Judiciary
| committee lU-uiy IuS
ton Of the charge made against Judge Bus
tecd, OF Alabama. Governor Smith ant
Colonel Reynolds, Of Alabama, were boil
heard, and were principally corroborative Of
the various official misdeeds charged agalns
the Judge. They also proved that he die
not reside in Alabama, but in New YORK
md on several occasions had failed to holt
court on the days assigned by law.
l Of Ent rnn "
II Gushing.
? In the injunction case OF Mrs. MTra Clarl
| Gaines rs. Caleb Gushing the latter to-da.
g filed counter bill in answer TO her charges
( in which lie gives an account of their busl
ness relations He alleges that she ha
2 wholly failed TO comply with her contract il
, not paying him his fees as her lawyer i
2 various important suits in which larg
amounts were recovered. He asks that SD
may be decreed to pay such sums as may b
2 dine