The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-02-25


be exported as above mentioned. TIaoN.
xLVTH CONGRESS-First Session.
WASHINGTON, February "a, 1876.
SENATE.
House bill to rt6rganize the judiciary was
read, and referred to the judiciary Commit.
tee.
Mr.. Hamilton introduced bill granting
certain rights to the Central, Texas and Ell
Paso railroad, to provide through line be-
tween the cities of the Lower Mississippi, the
Gulf, and the Pacific ocean.
Mr.. Edmunds, fiom the Judiciary Com.
mittee, reported adversely on the petition oil
Stephen D. Lee for the removal Of MS politi.
cal disabilities. Edmunds said Mr.. Lee had
not presented petition signed by himself to
the committee, but only letter addressed to
the President Of the United States, in July,
1865. The committee would act upon his
personal petition when received.
Eulogies on the late Mr.. Starkweather
were delivered.
Adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
The Committee on Pensions reported bill
granting pensions to the soldiers of the MeXi.
can, Florida, and Black Hawk wars. .-
The Committee on Invalid Pensions, in
reporting the bill granting pensions to GER
| tain soldiers and sailors of the Mexican, Flo
rida, and Black Hawk wars, and certain
widows of deceased soldiers and sailors OF
the same, say that the soldiers Of the MeXi.
can war suffered incredible hardships under
tropical sun and in malarious climate, and
by their endurance, vaor, land iDdomtable en-
ergy yanqushed the enemy and crowned our
arms with victory SO glorious as to entitle
them to the gratitude OF the Government ;
and now, in their old age and poverty, the
Government should take care of them and
their widows; and there can be no question
as to the duty of the Government to pension
the aged soldiers of the Florida and the
Black Hawk wars in the light of just legisla-
ton on the subject Of pensions. The PEN
sions are to be at the rate of eight dollars a
month to all only who do not now receive
pensions.
The bill to protect the revenue, and pro-
viding that any officer who shall receive
more than his salary for work done shall be
fined and imprisoned, was passed:
The bill for building cuStom-house at
Memphis was debated. aud 100000 for that
purpose agreed on. Before taking the vote
the death of Mr.. Starkweather was an
nou need and eulogies delivered.
The Committee Of Ways and Means have
appointed subcommittee to examine into
the Treasury regulations requiring brewers
to make barrel Of beer from tive and half
| bushels of malt.
Adjourned.
Weather Probabilities
WASHINGTON, February 24.-For the South
| Atlantic and Gulf States, Tennessee, and the
| Ohio Valley, falling and stationary barom-
eter, wly-rising temperature, winds most
| ~ from southwest TO southeast, except north.
| easterly in Florida, and clear or partly
cloudy weather will prevail, possibly sue
ceeded in the last section and the southwest
by rain areas.
For the Middle States aud New England,
rising, succeeded by falling barometer, north.
westerly winds, shifting to 'southerly or
cas- terly, rising temperature, and partly
cloudy weather, with possibly light snow in
the former and turning into rain.
Various Items.
WASHINGTON, February 24.-Mr. Hubbard
addressed the House Post-office Committee
in favor of excluding merchandise from the
mails.
There were forty.tWo discharges of clerks
from the Pension Office, including twenty
two ladies.
Secretary Bristow was before the Appro.
priations Committee about the deficiency in
the Engraving and Printing Bureau. Early
action is expected, but meanWhilea currency
famine is threatened.
The House Committee on Foreign Rela-
lions have Invited Secretary Fish to appear
before them with all the documents In rela.
ton to the Emma mine. The correspondence
now before the Committee only shows that
Schensk had declared he was director in
the Emma mine, and was not ashamed Of it,
as it was private business; but to please and
be provident he bad resigned his director
ship. There is no confirmation Of Schenck's
reported resignation.
George S. Gideon, who during President
Fimore's administration published the Re.
public, Is dead.
The Postmaster-General has submitted q
letter from the superintendent Of railway
service to the Committee on Post-Ofices
recommending distance-rates on merchan.
disc sent by mail as the only means Of pre-
venting an increase Of the large deficit In this
department. He recommends rates ranging
FROM eight cents TO fifty cents per pound, and
proposes to reduce the rates On transient
newspapers and magazines. .
A member Of the Cabinet authorizes
denial Of an occurrence in that body indica-
ting rupture.