The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-01-15
FROM WASHINGTON.

MEASURES "To LEGALIZE REPEATING -
PROPOSED REPEAL OF STATE ELECTION LAWS
BY CONGRESS- Washington, January r.
The House Judiciary Committee have agreed
to report two bills, framed by MIR. White, of
Alabama, which have become known here as
acts to legalize repeating. One Of them sets
aside the registration acts of the States by
recurring that the inspectors OF election shall
admit the vote OF any person who has not
registered upon bis sole affidavit that he was
prevented from registering. Italso Furnishes
by fine and Imprisonment any one who ap-
pears near the polls on election.day with arms,
open or concealed. If the bill becomes a
law Marshall Packard will not, at any rate,
be able to send United States troops to
the polls in Louisiana on election-day. The
other bill Is intended, it seems, to nulify a
constitutional regulation in Georgia and
other southern States by which the payment
of school-tax of 81 is made prert qrHa
to voting. This tax was generally evaded
by the colored men, and those who failed
thus to support the schools were rejected at
the DOLLS. The school poll.tix was incorpc.
rated into the Constitution Of Georgia by an
amendment, and the real question which Mr..
Whites bill raises is whether Congress can
prevent State from amending its Constitu.
ton so long as 1t does not in amendment dis
criminate unequal!y between citizens. The
two bills will be reported by General Butler.
NeU York Herald.
The Freedmen's Bank.
WASHINGTON, January 13.-The Banking
and Currency Committee have agreed on an
important bill, to be reported at once, in
relation to the Freedmen's Bank. 1t pro-
videS for the appointment OF one commits
soner to wind up the affairs instead OF three,
as ut present. The salary of the commits.
soner is to be $1,000. aud he is to be ap-
pointed by the Secretary of the Treasury,
and to be directly responsible to that officer.
He will have the power to sell property and
to compound Indebtedness when in bis judg.
ment it is for the interest of the depositors.
He will also be empowered to bring suit
against derelict and dishonest officers Of the
bank. The committee have further decided
to recommend the purchase by the Go
vernment of the bank building in this city
for the use of the Department Of Justice ,
which now occupies portion of 1t. The
price paid by the Government for the build
ing, with the amount now in hand, will, 1t
is thought, be sufficient to pay dividend of
81 per cent. to the depostors.
The Kentucky Election Case.
WASHINGTON, January 13.-The case OF the
United States against Reese and Lunshe,
from Kentucky, known as the Kentucky cleo
on.case-involving the constitutionalty Of
the fifteenth amendment, SO far as it seeks
to protect the rights of citizens to Yote-was
argued before the Supreme Court to-day.
1t is maintained that the right to vote at
State elections, under State laws, for NUM-
cipal officers, is not right within the author
ity of Congress to enforce in case it is denied
by State officers.
Postal.
A post-oflce is reestablished at Buffalo
Gap, Augusta county, Va, at the end of the
route from Bath Alum Springs, with Henry
Rippetoe as postmaster.