The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-01-31
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WASHiyGToS. Jonuorv IN 1874

y lnemorial was sent TO Congress to-day |
by Governor Shepherd, in response to the
statement recently presented by Senator
Thurman on behalf Of prominent citizens
of the District, in which the Governor, speak,
ing for himself and associates in Office, de-
clares that they have not sought, and do not
now seek, to eyade the fullest and faircst
investigation into the affairs of the District,
yet insists that unless probable cause is
shown for the existence Of the evils hereto
fore and now complained of, and which have
been disproved before Congress, they ought
not TO be subjected to further investigation.
In the memorial the Governor alludes to
the citizens who signed the petition pre-
sented By Dir. Thurman as pretended tax
payers.
At the conclusion of its reading Mr.. Thur
man said at the proper time he should ask
the indulgence Of the Senate to make some
remarks upon the very extraordinary paper.
1t was very extraordinary paper in styling
the persons who signed the memorial making
the charges us pretended ax-payers-eXtra-
ordinary in expressing willingness for an
investigation and then making long argu-
mcnt against tigation-extraordina in
saying that the charges had been investigated
By the courts when many of the charges had
never been before the courts-and extraor-
dinary in many other respects, to which he
would hereafter call attention.
Death of Pnysician.
DR.. George N. Dove, one of the leading
physicians of Washington, died this morn
ing of paralysis.
LOuisiana-Carpente Thnnder5olt.
This was somewhat of feld-day in the
Senate. Carpenter, resuming bis speech OF
yesterday on the Kellogg usurpation in Lou.
isiana, having relieved himself from the
mass of testimony he thought necessary to
fortliy his position, launched out upon the
broad denial of every right claimed by the
usurpers In that State. He advocated earn.
estly new ,election bill, which he will in.
troduce on Monday, and startled his Radical
colleagues and associates by the scathiuc
manner in which he denounced the frauds
that exist in Louisiana by reason of the couu.
tenance of the President and the non-action
Of Congress.
The speech is spoken of in the hotels and
public places as one Of very great ability
and it is certain to make strong fmpres
sion throughout the country adverse to the
partisan malignity which insists upon sus
tanning, in the face of all justice and law,
tyrannical usurpation in Louisiana. Th'
Radicals of that State who are here bitterly
deplore what they are pleased to term tht
unreasonable attitude of Carpenter, ant
have chosen Morton as their champion
who, in addition to feeble though saDgui
| nary response to the formers sledge-ham
| mer legal arguments, will make anothe
speech on Monday. Carpenter has hur
the cause very severely, and if he does no
| look well to his former laurelS as q consiStcn
ultra Radical he will be in danger of beins
resd out of the party.
Morton, even at this early stage of the de
| bate, being thoroughly used up by Carpen
! ter, who condemned the Indiana senator by
his own argument on the Pinchback cas-
given few days ago, resorted to the old gamt
| of applying the party lash to Carpenter. ]
| was very evident that the Kellogg champion
| had been entirely annihilated, and had NJ
legal grounds upon which to base his reply.
The general verdict tonight is that the
manly course of Carpenter in rising above
party prejudices and characterizns th'
Presidents proclamation in Louisiana a,
| without authority places him in all attitude
deserving the respect OF the country. Hi:
argument as legal effort was equal il MOI
superior to any delivered in the Senate in tue
Dast two or three years. While it is eviden
| that the party whip Of Morton will com
| mand the votes Of the carpet-bag senators
from the South, the brains of the Senate
| with one or two exceptions, are very deeply
IMPRESSED with the argument that was deli
lvered to-day and yesterday by Carpenter
indicating as 1t did thorough conversancs
| with the history of political affairs in Louisi
ana and the corruptions which have tar
nished the fair fame of that State.
Freedman's-Bureau Howard.
The friends of General Howard, under tht
lead of Representative Frye, made jealous
and successful effort to-day to secure the adop
tion of proviso to the resolution reported
from the Military Committee for court OF
INQUIRY, giving to the accused the right to
challenge for cause. Although this right i
not spccifed in tie regulations, it is held by
| military writers to exist as n general prln
ciple-a view taken by Mr.. Robbins, o
North Carolina, in the debate which followed
The course taken by the personal frlend
| of General Howard has not strengthened
the confidence Of the community in th'
| sincerity Of the expressions Of that officer
desire to have an investigation of the full
est and most searching character made. /
| was noticeable that among the spectators il
the galleries were very large proportion o.
the teachers and pupils Of the Howard Uni.
versity, an oflshoot Of the late Freedmen:
Bureau, and an impression was created that
while the movement made by Mr.. Frye hat
not been intimated to the Military Commit
fee il was generally anticipated by those per
soonallv interested in the affairs of the late
Commissioner.
Compos;tion-Day.
r. ,, ,,o,ar,lIv orticinata1 that after the