The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-01-12
ANDERsONvILLE AND ELmERA.
BLAINE COMPLETELY ROUTED
THE POLICY THE REPUBLICANS
WILL PURSUE.
The Freedmen's Bureau and the
National Convention.
;, &C.,
&C..
Especial telegram to the Dispatch


WASHINGTON, D. G., January 1l.-The
discussion which has commenced on the
pending amnesty question gives promise
OF producing d very bitter feeling in the
House of Representatives, as the RepubIi-
cans will generally follow the lead Of Blaine
in holding up series of bloody-shirt tactics
to which Morton's clnnot be compared.
1t is evident that the policy of the Radicals
is to 60 into the presidential campaign With
direct appeals to the prejudces and passions
Of the people, and they are striving to obtain
during the pending debate attacks by south.
ern men upon the North as a section. In
this they are certain 10 be foled, as the south
ern members will not adopt any such pro.
gramme.
The speech Of Mr.. Hill, of Georgil, to day
indicated this. In the strength Of his argu.
ment ne completely routed Blaine, and the
effort is regarded with much satisfaction by
the Democrats.
Mr. Garfield will enter the lists tomorrow.
and will he followed on Thursday by John
Randolph Tucker, of Virginia.
The special committee of which Mojor B.
B. Douglass, of Virginia, is chairman, which
has been appointed to Investigate the opera
tons of the Freedmen's Bureau, will pro.
coed at once to thorough and searching in
vestigation.
Several delegations have arrived here from
western cities, including Cincinnati, CIeYe-
land, and Chicago, to urge the claims of
their respective cities to consideration by the
Republican Executive Committee, which
meets in this city on Thursday to determine
where the National Convention shall be held.
At Republican senatorial caucus to-day
the sergeant.at.arms OF the Senate read a
communication from the sergeant alarms OF
the House asking that he tie allowed his pro.
portion of appointmens on the Capitol police
force but the caucus declined to take any
action on the proposition. TIaoN.
xLvTH CONGRESS-First Session.
WASHINGTON. January II, 1876.
SENATE.
Mr.. Merrimon introduced bill to pay
North Carolina certain moneys.
By Mr.. Bogy: To establish branch mint
at St. Louis.
By Mr.. Dorsey: To bridge the Mississippi
river at Memphis: also, to amend supple
meutary act to acts incorporating the Texas
| Pacific road.
Mr. Johnston, of Virginia, presented the
petition Of William Bushlcy asking for COM
pensatiop for services rendered military pr-
soners in Alexandria, Va. Referred 10 the
Committee on Military Affairs. '--
Mr.. Withers, Of Virginia, presented the
credentials of Hon. j. ". Johnston, rejected
United States senator from that State for six
years from March 4, 1877. Read and laid
on the table.
Messrs. Cooper, Morton, McCreery, Pad.
dock, Bogy, JONES, Blyard, and Key de.
livered euogies on the life and character Of
Andrew johnson. Appropriate resolutions
were passed; after which the Senate adj.
journed. ~.-,
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Mr.. Morrison introduced 4 bill as prepars.
tory to the redemption Of United States
notes and the resum pion Of specie. payments.
L. proposes to retain gold in the Treasury to
the amount Of thirty per cent. OF the out
standing legal-tenders requires national
banks to retain the gold paid for their interest
Oh bonds deposited to secure their currency
till they have thirty per cent. of their out
standing notes; and repeats that portion Of
the resumption act compelling Specle.re-
sumption 10 1879. Referred.
A bill was introduced reducing the clerks
of committees from thirty five 10 twenty. 1--WE,
Snd reducing the pay in several instances to
four dollars per day.
The House then proceeded to the discus
sion of the amnesty bill. Mr.. Hill, OF Geor-
gia, having the floor.
MFR. Hill spoke two hours in the most e.,
fectiye style, being frequently applauded by
the House and galleries. In opening he dis
claimed all desire on the part of himself and
his associates from the South to reopen Ill.
feeling between the sections. Ihe country
had already suffered enough from teuds. lie
and his associates bad come here with the pa
triotic idea to remember nothing Dut TIE
country, and the whole country, and turalng
their backs upon all the horrors of the past,
TO look with all earnestne:s to IND gtorles
for the future.
The gentleman (B!aine) who was the ac'
knowledred leader OF the Republican party
in the House, and was the aspiring ieaoer u
the Republican party of the country, hau'
however, willed otherwise, ana scenleC ue-
termiued that the wounds which were neal
ing should be re0Pened, and the passions
which were husbcd should be reInfllmed.
He (HllD wished the House TO understand
that be and bis associates did not reciproeate
either the purpose or the manifest uesiie VI
the gentleman, and while they lelt II sucii
| imperative duty TO vindlcate the truth oi us.
tory as regards their section, they aia not
intend to say anything calculated 10 alo lhe
gentleman in the work Of crmlnaIlon anu
recrimination, ard of keeping up the war D!
the war shall end.
The gentleman from Maine had made two
points in bis speech: the magnanlmlty ana
grace of the Republican party, ana the oru'
taity Of those whom he pleased tn term
rebels, AS to the first question he did not
propose 10 weary the House to-day; because
with the history of the last fifteen years yet
fresh in the mind Of the world 1t was useless
| to sneak of the grace and maguanmity OF
| The Republican party. With the master
enslayed: with intelligent DISTINGUISHED !;
with society disordered; with States sub
! verted. and with legislatures dispersed, he
could not afford to talk Of grace anu magma
nimitv. Ii that were grace and magnanimi
| ty he prayed God to save the country 10 the
| lture from such virtues.
The gentleman from Maine had made the
crave Indictment against Mr. Davis that be
Was guilty of the murders and crimes at An
dersonyile, and the gentleman (Blaine)
stood before the country with his very lame
IN peril if. after making such charge, be
| failed to prove It,. He (HiO would take up
the gentIemsn's propositions in order. lie
hoped that no one would imagine that ne
| -, hora "a noss any eJ,lnpy on Mr. Davis.