The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-01-08
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Congressional.
= WASHINGTON, January 7.-Senate.-Mr.
Morton gave notice that when the salary bill
should be disposed Of he would ask the SEN
ate to take up and dispose Of the Louisiana
case.
Mr.. Stevenson gave notice that when the
Louisiana case was taken up he would move
to refer the whole matter back to the Com
mittee on Privileges and Elections with au.
thority to take proof as to the validity of
the election.
Mr.. Sumner presented petition of thirty
five citizens Of Ohio against the proposed
theological amendment to the Constitution.
A tedious debate over the salary bill ex-
hausted the day. There was no Executive
session.
House.-Mr. Butler moved to recommit
the supplementary civil.rights bill. His
apology to the House was that he wished to
prune it of absurd amendments, over which
the House could vote two or three days.
He continued his speech, which mainly con-
sisted Of a resume Of his exploits during the
war.
The bill was then recommtted.
a resolution was adopted calling for the
names of the paymasiers in the late war
whose accounts are unsettled.
Mr.. Crutchfeld, of Tennessee, asked leave
to offer an amendment to the supplementary
civil-rights bill providing penalty against
any woman who refuses an offer of marriage
on account Of race, color, or previous con-
dition of servi!udc. [Laughter.]
Mr.. Butler, OF massachusetts, objected. In
the course Ct his speech Butler said if he
might be allowed TO speak for the Republi-
can party lie would em5ody the doctrine in
a sentence not that all men were equal, but
that every man had right to be the equal Of
every other man if he could. All constitu-
tions, all laws, all enactments, all prejudices,
oil caste, all customs, sl thought against
that, 10 contrayention Of that, were unjust,
wicked, unchristian, and certainly must be
brought to nought. This bill only removed
all ilnpediments to every man to be the equal
of every other man If God had given him
the power to be the equal.
Mr.. Monroe, of Ohio, from the Commit
tee on Education and Labor, reported back
adversely the resolution offered yesterday
BIZ Mr.. Sypher, OF Louisiana, directing army
rations to be used for the relief of the starv-
ing poor in the southern States. He said
the committee had talked over the matter
fully and freely, and the result arrived at
was that The committee did not regard it as
the proper sphere Of Congress to enter into
q general system Of providing for pauperism
in the States. If this precedent were estab-
lished, it would soon be found that Congress
had entered on the whole business Of taking
charge of pauperism generally throughout
the States. The report was adopted, and
the committee was discharged from the
further consideration Of the subject.
Proposed Settlement Of Georgia Dis
tiIIery Cases.
WASHINGTON, January 7.-District Attor-
ney Farrow, of Georgia, with the endorse.
ment of all the representative men from thai
State cognizant of the facts, has secured the
acceptance by the Commissioner Of Inter nal
Revenue of the proposition of ex-Representa'
tive Price in the matter of Illicit aistillerie;
in North Georgia.
The proposition involves liberal settle.
ment approximating to general, amnesty fol
past irregularities, and looks to the pardon
of those in prison. The latter class, how
ever, must depend upon Executive clemency
There are about 35 in jail, and over 800 cases
upadiusted. There are also about 800 dis
tillers, against whom no proceedings have
been instituted, who desire to avail them
selves of the settlement proposed.
Various Items. ~
WASHINGTON, January THE McEnery
Legislature, through committee, have tele-
grabbed the presiding officers of the Senate
and House at great length. The communi.
cation is in the form Of petition for relief
and recognition. The dispatch is signed by
Messrs. Booth, Worral Lobdell, Foster, and
Zacharie.
Il NAV be stated with absolute certainty
that Williams will withdraw tomorrow.
His letter Of withdrawal Is written. :.
General Ames with his family leaves for
Jackson tonight to take possession OF the
Gubernatorial chair and mansion. MRS.
General Ames is a daughter OF General 3.
F. Butler.
There was 70 Executive business to-day
affecting the South except e.theft OF about
81 600 worth Of drafts for refunded taxes,
mostly belonging to the people Of that sec
ton. These drafts were in a tin box in the
refundiDg division Of the Internal Revenue
Department.
A supplemental report to the House from
the Secretary Of War shows that the Freed
mems Bureau swindle was carried on by
false reports OF money deposited In United
States repositories and OF amounts covered
in the Treasury. & I;