The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-07-26
HUGE NAVAL FRAUDS.
REPORT OF COMMITTEE
Deaths from Storm
W HE LER AIMS.
BLOODSHED IN EAST.

W III e e L e r ExPL AIMS
BLOODSHED IN EAST.
SEVERE BATTLES FOUGHT.
Firing Along the Lines.
XLIvTH CoNGRESs-FIrst Session.
WASHINGTON, July %, 1876.
SENATE
Mr.. Gordon introduced a bill to establish
competent and non-partisan revenue
corps. Referred to the Civil Service Com
mittee.
Mr.. Hamlin called up House bill to amend
certain sections of the post-office appropri-
alton bill Of June %, 1874, and section 1854
of the Revised Statutes, in regard to straw
bids. Passed.
The impeachment trial was resumed, and
Mr.. Carpenter commenced his argument in
behalf OF the accused. He was by unani-
nous consent allowed to stand at the desk
occupied by him when a senator; that he
might be better heard. He will continue
his argument tomorrow.
Legislative business was resumed. Mr..
Wright moved to take up the bill to pay the
awards of the Southern Claims commission,
but yielded to the river and harbor bill.
Before reaching q vote the Senate adj
journed.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
The bill reported last Thursday by Mr.
Bland, Of Missouri, from the Committee on
Mines and Mining, to utilize the product Of
gold and silver mines, came up for consid-
Grafton in the morning hour.
Mr.. kasson, Of Iowa, made the point OF
order that the bill must first be considered
in Committee of the Whole.
The discussion OF the point OF order was
continued through the morning hour, that
beng one way OF defeating the bill.
| The bill was the one originally intro
lowing the issue of coin notes to be paid by
the several minis and assay Offices for the
net value OF gold and silver bullion therein
| deposited; such notes to be receivable for
all dues to the United States, and to be a
I legal tender for all debts, public and pri-
Vate.
The Speaker pro tenn. (NIr. Saylor, Of
Ohio,) overruled the point OF order, stating
that he could not see in what possible sense
the bill could be regarded rs either making
an appropriation or requiring an appropria
ton to be made, or as being proposition
for tax on the people. The mere fact that
the bill might involve expense to the Gov
eminent, or that in some way expense
would be necessarily incurred in carrying
our its provisions, could bring it within the
rule requiring bills to be considered in Com
mittee OF the Whole. ~
Mr.. Kasson appealed from the decision
but the ruling was sustained by vote Of
15S to "a. The morning hour having eN
pired, however, the bill went over.
The Naval Committee report was made tht
special order for Friday, with six hours de
bate, equally divided.
The case Of Plat as. Goode, from Virginia
was taken up, and without action the fioo1
was yielded to Mr.. Lamar, OF Mississippi
who rose to personal explanation.
Mr.. Lamar quoted from communication
in the Washington Republican, charging
him with having made speeches ut Aberdeen
and Scoba totally at variance with the speech
which he had made at Jackson. The com
munication stated that he had in thos
speeches spoken in a laudatory manner. o
the white-line policy. He appealed to nj
colleague (Nlr. Singleton, who had heard hi
speech at Scoba. as to what was the tom
OF it.
Mr.. Singleton, OF Mississippi, bore testi
mony to the fact that the speech made b.
Mr.. Lamar at Jackson was directly agains
what was termed the white-line policy, ant
that there was nothing in it which tended t.
encourage ill feeling between the races. Th
article, therefore, did him great injustice.
Mr.. Lamar expressed his thanks to Nlr
Singleton, and went on to say that hi:
speech at Aberdeen was also in favor OF the
coordination Of races and against the SUI
premacy or subordination of any race. HI
fortified his position on that point by tele
grams and letters from W. W. Troop, and
Reuben Davis, formerly a representative
from Mississippi, as to the allegation thai
he had in speech made by him after hi!
election to the Senate apOlogiZed for Iii
eulogy on Charles Sumner. He denied that
there was any truth in it. Never in TIT
slightest instance, nor in the least particu
lar, had he swerved from the sentiment:
which he had uttered in that speech. HI
called upon his Republican colleague (Mr
Wells) to speak as to the character OF hi!
speeches during the canvass.
| Mr.. Wells, OF Mississippi, said that h
lhad heard Mr.. Lanar's speech at Holly
Springs, in which speech he invoked thu
people to throw aside all prejudices Of race
and to seize the Government jointly and adj
minister it in the interest Of the public wei
fare.
Mr.. Lamar, in conclusion, apologized t.
the House, and said he would not have
brought the matter to its attention on hi!
own account, and had only done so on &C
count of the interests that were struck a
through him.
Mr.. Hale, of Maine, intimated that ht
! shared somewhat in the general suspicion
that the utterance Of such sentiments as Mr.
Lamar had proclaimed in the House was
safer here than elsewhere, and he called hi:
attention to the characterization OF his Alb
erdeen speech by his friend the editor o.
the Vicksburg Herald as an eloquent Demo
cratic speech, in which he had declared in
manly and ringing tones that the contest IN.
volved the supremacy Of the tlnconquereo
and unconquerable Saxon race.
Mr.. Lamar explained the sense and phrase:
and said that the editor Of the Vicksbure
Herald had entirely misunderstood his
meaning. AS to the gentleman's Mr.
Hale) other suggestion, he said that there
was nothing in their character or relations
which justified that gentleman's interposi.
tion in the matter. Applause on the Demo
cratic side.] .,s,i3
The discussion of the contested election
case was then resumed, but was not fin
ished.
MIR. Hurlburt, Of Illinois, from the Com
mittee on Military Affairs, reported back
the resolution directing the Secretary OF
War not to issue to the Northwestern In
dams the special patent cartridges, which
are required for the arms used by them.
Adopted.