The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-02-28
Especial telegram to the Dispatch.l +
WAsHJNGToH. Fehruary OF 1874
What Sumner Thinks OF the Centen.
NAL ExD0Hifsou.


the penitentiai bench and hear George the
Third arraigned as a, tyrant; and kings,
queens, emperors, and potentates would be
invited, and this Republic would be eN-
pected to welcome them; and this he did
nor think was consistent with our. own self
respect. go. ...,, As...,,.s,
Mr.. Scott, of Pennsylvania, on the other
hand, favored giving it q national character.
He said the Government was bound to sup
port it, and Congress ought to appropriate
three, FIVE, or even eight millions of dollars
if necessary to make it success.
The Louisiana Question
will be reopened in the Senate again on
Monday, when Carpenter will call up bis
bill for new election, and, it Is expected,
will make another strong speech in its sup
port. The advocates OF the bill claim that it
will pass, but the delegations Of Louisiana
office-holders now in Washington will ex-
haust their most extensive lobby resources to
preyeptit. u..4; u
The or-CommtssIOn Bali
is likely to become prominent feature OF
senatorial discussion owing to the fact That
its opponents, who number some of the best
legal talent in the Senate, regard its passage
as direct invasion upon matters which
should be regulated exclusively by State law.
The bill only occupies the attention of the
Senate in the morning hour. Senators Thur
man and Ferry both opposed the bill to-day,
thinking it would be a very bad precedent
for Congress to establish. .s,.44
The Long Agony about Simmons
Is over. He has won the fight, and what
the Radicals of lower grade in Boston call
the aristocracy of their party may be
seen tonight in the corridors of the Wash
ipgton hotels lamenting the circumstance
that Butler runs the White House,
and that their power Is at last
on the waDe in the Bay State.
Simmons and his friends are just in the mood
that might be expected of them, and there
are sounds of reyelry tonight. A more
disappointed set than the anti-Simmonites
have not been seen in Washington for
many years. They say they intend to read
Butler out of the party. The Democrats
are very complacent. La the language of
a prominent Cabinet officer during the re-
cent financial crisis, it is none of their
funeral. r.
There were some .....
Personal Explanations i'm the Senate
to-day, not among the least interesting
of which was the denial Of Senator Sher-
man that he ever carried lack Chand-
Ter out Of the Senate chamter in a tcastly
state OF intoxication, as was stated in Rad
ca newspaper published in Chandler's own
State.
CCrscicnce-st
An anonymous and penitent New Yorker
sent $500 to the Treasury to-day on behalf
of his conscience to atone for raid on the
custom service to that amount.
pensioned.
The House to day was on private bllls en-
tirely. The only point of general interest
was the giving of pensions of fifty dollars a
month each to the widows of the late Gene
rails Meade and Candy, and the mother of
General Mcpherson. TIHoN.
Associated Press telegrams.l
WASHINGTON, February q, 1874.
Congressional.
Sendte.-A resolution was adopted in
structing the Secretlry of the Treasury to
inform Congress what further legislation is
necessary to prevent public officials having
charge of internal revenue stamps from
becoming defauters, and if such officials
should not give bonds.
The consideration of the centennial bill
and that regarding the liquor traffic occupied
the day.
MIR. Carpenter said that on Monday next,
after the pending bill should be disposed OF,
he would ask the Senate TO take up ior re-
ference bis bill in regard to the new election
in Louisiana, and would ask the indulgence
of the Senate to enable him to submit some
remarks thereon.
Mfr. West said that as q member of the
Appropriations Committee, having charge OF
the army appropriation bill, ne would askto
have that considered as soon as the pending
bill should be disposed Of to the exclusion
of everything else. The Senate went into
executive session. 4 large number OF prl-
yate bills were passed. The motion to re-
consider the vote rejecting the franking-pr-
yilege bill was not called up.
House.-A motion was made this morning
to reconsider the vote by which the franklng
bill was defeated yesterday.
The Committee on Commerce this morn
ing heard arguments in favor OF the bill to
prevent the obstruction of the commerce OF
the Mississippi river by the alleged tow-boat
monopoly OF New Orleans.
simmons Confirmed.
In the Senate executive session the nomi-
nation OF William 0. Simmons as collector
of Boston was opposed by Boutwell, and
Sumner and favored by Conkling and Car
penter, and carried By 27 ayes to II noes,
the Democrats present voting in the affirma.
tive, Simmons's friends tonight visited
Butler to exchange fluctuations on the sue
cess Of his advocacy Of their friends claims.
Louisiana Affairs. -
In the contest for representative at large
for Louisiana Judge Shelbarger closed bis
argument in favor Of Pinchb9ck on Tues
day, General Sheridan closes his argument
in behalf of the people OF Louisiana and his
own on Monday. gstF @.t YE
Private dispatches from New Orleans give
the following as the corporation approp opria.-
tions made, Including schools: For 1874,
81 500 600; lists, IS, 10000; 1871, $780,
600. These appropriations Weremade by the
LouisIana tLegis'ature. Governor Kellogg
claims that these figures show wonderful
reform in the management OF the States
,fimnces. a ~ 4a5 iifI :sa94 Il ~
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