The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-08-11
WHITE SULPHUR BALL.
DISPATCH FROM GENERAL CROOK
SHERMAN AND, GRANT.
A QUEER STORY CIRCULATED.
WAR In THE EAST DYING OUT.
XLIvTH CONGRESS--First Season.
WASHINGTON, August 10, 1916.
SENATE.

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The Senate committee has amended
Bline's educational amendment to the
Constitution as not to exclude the Bible
from the public schools. Roll-calls show n
quorum present.
The river Improvement bill was presented
by the Committee on Conference. Passed
Sc to 10. s-.,.., s." .s- at
The political debate was resumed. Mr..
Mcdonald, of Indiana, said that he would
support the resolution OF his colleague be-
cause he desired the people Of the country
to have light on the subject. 1t is true that
the documents were eJ parte in their charao-
ter, but with all that they were much more
fair and less partisan than the comments on
that affair by partisan press OF the country
and by senators on this floor. lie de-
nounccd the lawless outrage committed in
South Carolina or anywhere else. He then
quoted from documents bearing upon the
case, and the man Merriwcather was killed
before the negroes were hurt; but this Cir
cllmstance had been studiously kept down
in the discussion. a.. .F
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES:
Mr.. Scott Lord, Of New York, offered a
resolution rcciting that the right OF SUI
frage prescribed by the Constitution Of the
several States is subject to the fifteenth
amendment, and that the exercise Of said
right should be faithfully maintained and
observed by the United States; and that it
is asserted that the exercise OF said right Is
in some States, Notwithstanding the efforts
OF good citizens, was controlled by fraud,
intimidation, and violence, 80 that the OBJ
icct OF the fifteenth amendment is defeated;
and that all citizens, without distinc-
ton of race or color, are entitled to
the rights conferred by said amendment,
and declaring that all attempts by fire,
fraud, terror, intimidation, or otherwise, to
prevent free exercise OF the right Of suf-
frage, should meet with certain condign and
etfectual punishments and that in any case
which has heretofore occurred or may here
after occur in which violence or murder has
been or shall be committed by one race or
class upon another, prompt punishment OF
the criminal or criminals is imperatlVely
demanded, whether the crime be one pun
ishable by fine or Imprisonment, or one de-
manding the punishment OF death.
The question was divided and the decla-
ration or resolution was carried by LA yeas
to . nays. The preamble by 121 yeas to 81
nays. ,.,-rs.-.
The Committee on Naval Expenditures
reported the following: 49,.
Resolued, That Isaiah Hanscom, Chief OF
the Bureau OF Construction and Repairs OF
the Navy Department, is unworthy and in
competent to hold that position, and that
the interest of the Bureau, the Department,
and the Government require his removal.
Resolued, That by reason of the negli-
rcnce OF George NJ. Robson, Secretary OF
the Navy, and his order to pay the firm of
TiIton, Whcelwright d Co. the claim pre-
sented by them in January, 1874, the Gov
ernment of the United States was defraud-
ed by said Tilton, Wheelwright d Co. OF the
sum SO paid-to wit, $4,000:
Resolved, That copy of the annexed
testimony, together with the, reports q the
majority and minority of the committee,
and OF these resolutions, with notice OF the
action of the House herein, be laid before
the President Of the United States by the
clerk of the House. .r..,a .''s.e.s BE-.
Adopted a'. - ~ ~, ....,. ~,..,
The river and harbor bill was repor ted
and adopted by a vote of l04 ayes to %
noes. -,
Adjourned. ......-