The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-02-18
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Latest News from Washington.
Especial telegram to the Dispatcll.]
WAsHINGToN, February II. 1SI.


ciai Problcm-No Vote taken ON
Either Proposition. a
The Senate is still engaged in the endea-
Yor to solve the financial problem with SEEM
ingly very little hope that it will succeed very
soon. The debate to-day was upon the mo-
ton made yesterday to recommit the whole
subject to the Finance Committee, to which
Senator Merrimon offered an amendment in
structlng the committee TO report in favor Of
increasing the bank currency. so that the
whole volume shall not exceed four hun
dred millions; and Mr.. Scott offered fur.
ther amendment instructins the committee
to report in favor of redeemipg the entire
national bank currency in specie or interest
bearing bonds of the United States.
The lengthy debate which followed was
participated in by all the leading financial
lights of the Senate, Sherman, the chairman
OF the committee, again urging that the
original bill for the equalization of the dis.
tribution Of the currency should bedivested
OF all these propositions and passed, and
that the other general questions could be
acted upon by the committee, and reported
to the Senate separately for future action.
Mr. Morton appealed to his friends from
the South not to support the bill to with
draw twenty-five million dollars from New
England, declaring that no one in this gene.
ration would live to see the day when that
amount could be withdrawn from three or
four States by violence and distributed
among other States. He said the motion to
recommit Twas seductive one, and no good
could come from its adoption.
The whole range of finance was tracked
over in the eight or ten speeches that were
made to-day, and the Senate adjourned again
without vote on any single proposition be-
fore it, TIMoN,
ASSOCIATED Press telegrams.]
Congressional.
WASHINGTON, February 17.-Senate.-Mr.
Fenton presented petition in favor of and
urged the passage Of his bill to reform
abuses in the customs revenue service.
Leading bankers and businessmen have
memorialized for speedy return to specie
payment and against an increase of cur
rency.
Senator Gordon introduced bill to repeal
all laws which deprived widows and children
of old soldiers at the South of pensions be-
cause Of participation in the rebellion. 1t
makes it the duty of the Secretary Of the In-
terror to restore to the pension-rolls the
names Of all who were dropped from the
rolls during the war and to all their rights
under the pension laws.
Bills were passed relieving McMullen, Of
the Teche district Of Louisiana, and detail
ing board of medical officers Of the army
to inquire about the cholera.
The equalization of the currency occupied
the balance of the session. No action was
arrived at.
House.-Reports from the Military Com
mittee were considered.
Five hundred dollars were appropriated
for a special clerk to copy the Buell. court OF
inquiry documents.
\ bill establishing military prison at
Rock island was passed.
The Wiltshire and Gunter contest for seats
from Arkansas occupied the balance of the
day. Wiltshire was seated on pramd Jdclc
evidence. a motion to reconsider and to
table it, to make the action final, provoked
dilatory motions. After much tlibustering,
the House adjourned without final action.
The Monitor Dictator.
The Secretary Of the Navy to-day received
n telegram from Commander Brainc, COM
mandng the United States steamer Junata,
dated Savannah, saying that he parted COM
pany with the monitor Dictator, which the
Juniata had in tow, on the night of the 14th
instant, off Charlsston,-the weather being
thick ut tue time and the sea running heay-
iIy-and that the Dictator had not arrived at
Savannah on the night of the 18th instant.
Commander Braine suggests that she may
have gone on to Key West, but it is
thought at the Navy Department that she
has more likely been 6rifted off shore, and
is waiting better weather to put into port.
The Dictator is known as q good sea boat
one of the best of her class in the service.
The Navy Department has no additional
news regarding the Dictator. They regard
her as one of the most seaworthy OF the
monitor fleet, and thou gh anxious have little
fear of her not reaching port. She made
the tour of tue Island of Cuba without a
convoy.
The State Department has adYices of the
death of LunaliIo, King of the Sandwich
Islands, who died on the Sd instant.
Ile GeLtySDuTS HAS lelt AOA onooeoi3, /,
| whence she will take on board the Inter.
oceanic commissioners to Aspinwall.
Twelve Illicit stills have been destroyed
in East Tennessee. Ten persons were ar
rested. @..a a..f..
There were no nominations or confrma'
| tions to-day. -,
Colonel w. B. Frobel, Of Georgia, deliv-
cred an argument in favor of water trans
portation before the Committee OF the House
on Railways and Canals to-day, which the
committee unanimously ordered to be print
ed. Whitehead, Of Virginia; Thomas, OF
Iowa; and Bell, of Georgia, were present.
| The Select Committee on the Washington
Monument have appointed subcommittee,
consisting of Messrs. Chipman, Maynard,
Ward, Pelham, and Hunton to visit Freder-
icksburg to examine the condition of the
monument to the mother Of Washington.
a change has been made in the assign
ment of officers on the Howard court of In
quiry, Colonel j. j. Reynolds, of. the Third
cavalry, taking the place of General Holt on
the court.
Dispatches from the West show the wo-
mems raid upon the saloons to be spreading.
The numbers are not large, but they CON-
prise very determined class of the fair
sex. The saloons close upon the approach
of the women, and then after they leave
open again.
Weather Probabilities for To-Day.