The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-04-16
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Louisiana Afsasrs-The Dascussioaa, 4
the Senate Yesterday. ~

t"eic, aau Ciatuftng tDht heilogg received q
majority OF the legal votes cast. There was
quite ,%a
SHARP coLLooUy
when West had nearly completed his speech.
growing out Of questions put to him by
Messrs. Carpenter, Hamilton, and others. as
to whether the kellogg Legislature did not
enact ON the last day Of the session the cleo
ton bill, which they profess to have repeal.
cd. and which bill clothed Kellogg with I'm.
limited power to WELD the vast machinery
of the election in his own interest.
Mr.. Bsyard, Of Delaware, charged that the
Legislature had repealed the repeating act,
and to this end several ether pertinent ques-
tons.
AIR: Vests only reply was that he had no
knowledge on the subject, though he had
communicated with parties in New Orleans,
who announced that the facts regarding
which he was Intercepted had been pre-.
Sented.
Mr. Bayard said there was want of can.
dor on the part OF the Louisiana senator, and
West then made
AN USEQUIvoCAL DENIAL.
Mr.. Bayard, retortipg, said that this denial
showed ignorance. ..
Mr.. Morton will speak tomorrow on the
same view as Mr.. West. The discussion,
however. will decide nothing, and the bill
will be laid aside as soon as any important
appropriation bill comes from the House.
The House having agreed to the Senate
finance bill without amendment, it came
back this morning to the Senate with that
| announcement, and will
GO TO THE PRESIDENT TOMORROW
for Executive action. No one can say at
present what he will do, though many claim
| it will be vetoed. Others are of the opinion
! that he will let it become law by pocket
ing it, while on the other hand many promi-
nent persons express their conviction that it
will receive the Executive signature without
delay.
| THR WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE
this morning examined Assistant Secretary
Sawyer, of the Treasury Department, in re-
ference to the Sanborn contract. He read a
statement denying any pecuniary interest,
| directly or indirectly, in the passage of the
law under which the Sanborn and other con-
tracts of a similar character were made, or in
any of the contracts, asserting that the Soil.
citor Of the Treasury is the legal adviser OF
the Secretary. and that the former is mainly
responsible for any errors of judgment made
in the items of the contract. TlAoS.
| Associated Press TeleGrams.l
Congressional.
| WASHINGTON, April 15.-Senate.-The bill
appropria.ing $4,000 to pay school teachers
lin the District of Columbia was taken upanC
discussed.
The bill was passed. IttayeS the personal
property of citizens of the States who are
here under public employment and educate
Their children at the expense Of the Dis
trct. .
Mr.. West made an able effort in behalf Of
the Kellogg government in Louisiana.
Mr.. Hamilton, Of Maryland, as member Of
the Committee on Privileges and Elections
spoke at some length on Louisiana affairs
generally; but before concluding his argu
lment be yielded for motion for an eXecu
tive session; which was agreed to.
House.-A bill was reported abolishinS
mileage to members of Congress.
The legislative appropriation bill occu
pied the day.
BY personal appeal Congressman Wad
dell secured IN advance in the salary of seye
raj of his constituents under employ of The
Government --..
i. The South Carolina Troubles.
, WASHINGTON, April IA final hearing or
the South Carolina troubles before the sub
Judiciary Committee of the House was haC
this morning. Mr. Cardozo spoke for the
counter. memorialists, and Mr.. Thomas Y
Simmons closed for the memorialiStS in ar
: exhaustive address, in which he showed ur
lin detail the many frauds and outrages per-
petrated since reconstruction. under the
, form of law, and carrying their preparation
: home upon those in power there the last slA
years. -,
Is matter of mere conjecture. 1t Is be-
ilieyed they will find, no matter however de
sjrous to do so, no fair ground for recon
} mendatiou to Congress looking to an inves
!, tigation, though the matter will doubtless bt
made subject for congressional discussion
Court OF CIaiIns-Restrainin Order
1 Rescinded.
WASHINGTON, April 15.-Mr. Lamar, o
New Ork, recently OUtal9tu euc JuuSlaeH
of the. Court of Claims for S579, 900 for s
cotton claim. Mr.. Cheever, as administrator
of his deceased brother, who, it Was claimed
had an interest in the claim, filed a bill in the
Equity Court of this District to prevent the
money from being paid out of the Treasury
Judge Wylie to-day said if the court attempt
ed to restrain the payment OF the money by
the Treasury it would have little else to do
lit was only where the service could be made
personally, or against the real or personal
estate of the party, that the court could act
He rescipded the restraining order, the
claimant being resident OF New York, and
therefore action cannot lie in this District
Weather Probabilities -
WASHINGTON, April 15.-On Thursday,
over New England, the Middle States, and
the lower lake region, clear or partly cloudy
: weather: lower temperature will prevail,
with north and northwest winds over the
former, but winds veering to northwest and
northeast over the latter.
A rain-storm will probably advance east
ward over the Southern States.
Washington Items.
WASHINGTON, April 15.--Jamcs Cochrane
has been confirmed as postmaster at Gull
pepper, Va.
The President has recognized Joseph Au.
pust Poiteyen vice-conSul for France at Pen
sacola. and Charles Pillishady the same at
Mobile. -.
The question of the hour is whether the
| pnfo tho finance bill. TlG