The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-04-01
!. By TEL EG'Rl, A PHI. :.
THE DIS ED SECRETARY.
RELKHAP's HOUR HAS ARRIVED.
THE EVIDENCE AGAINST HIM.
THE INTEREST THAT RAHE8CK AMI
THE PRESIDENT HAD fN
THE MATTER.
Bells Testimony Pronounced False
j The News from oaher auaraevs.

Boiler Explosious-Incendiary Fires
ALawful Marriage-The Bill Subsfn-
tuting Silver for fractional Currency
Passed the House-It Now Goes to
the Senate to Meet its Death Fifty
} Thousand Dollars Recovered from
the Wrecked Steamship Schiller
I Losses BY the Dam; Disaster at wor-
'cesterl.Three Persons Missing. &C.,
y dc.s':>' =. ..,.a-s....g q e % s''3I
xLvTH coNGREsSFirst Session.
: III ~ W AsHlNeTos, March 81, 1876
X,tE., M l-si.5J SENATE. si,i'HRs i, sioI
Various petitions, we're presented against
. change 10. the tariff, 'f5af,,s va al
= The Mississippi investigation resolutions
were resumed non; = ~ -, - go,
.aMr., Key, Of Tennessee, was The only
Democrat who voted for the resolutions. he
said be was, glad The late ,war was fought
and wasaoyer.4 with.o The:1South1 was not
wholly to bisne in the var TIE cause, ex-
listed many years ago. and was protected by
the Constitution: He spoke highly of the
colored people and their fidelity tothe whites
during the war, and thought the peoplesof
bis State were willing to protect them saDd
aid them. Ths,Souih was poor and weak
aud wanted peace 1t was time to forget that
there was South. or NORTH. The war was
over, and the eonquerors hada right toeBjoy
the results OF their victory. He was willing
to admit that the terms granted by the yictOrs
were much more liberal and maguapimous
than be expected. He was anxious to have
the South acquiesce 10 the. result and accept
the situation. Gould not the North, he asked,
bear with them and help; them to overcome
their past difficulties and make this q
land ldof peace ard prosperity DE
should vote for the resolutions, even thong b
| be should be the only member Of bis party
to do 30. If this state of affairs existed the
parties ought to be punished, and be did not
wish TO have IL said that he was in favor oil
projecting them, but he did not think the
reports were true yet he was willing to
have the subject investigated: ~ = '..,..
, The speech throughout was highly concil.
iatory and dispassionate. t.' ~: -: ny
| ! After further debate, Mr.. Cbristiancy's
substitute for a committee Of Investigation
was adopted-ayes, 81; noes, 10. 80, ~.
.;ai HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. = !.
"a The Committee on Ways and Means. re-
ported,a bill for the separate entry OF expfes:
packages, contained In one importation
Passed. =. :, aas is>a,,ai ta:ar. j., -. (
The same committee reported q bill to de
| fine the tax on fermeuted and malt liquors
Passed. -----.'--
Also, bill directing the Commissioners o
Internal Revenue to fix the places where col
lectors and supervisors Of the revenue shal
hold their Offices. Passed. ,;rlgg <gg
Senate bill making, the 14th OF April hoi
day in the District was passed.
The bill appropriatisg Sl63, 900 for print.
ing and engraving, with amendments substi
tuting silver for fractional currency, wa
passed-yeas, 1927. nays, 100, Il directs the
lSecretary OF; the Treasury 10. issue silver coil
for, the redemption of fractional currency
Coins of one dollar. shall be legal tender fol
ffy dollars. Smaller coin sball be ilega
lreoder Tor sums less than;twenty'f five dollars
The Judiciary Conmittee reported on At
torney. General Pierreponts letter, and pro
posed the following resolution: y !. { .,''
Rcsoloed, That in the opinion OF Ethi
House the lopg-estabished rule relatin!
to testimony OF accomplices in crimiua
actions is necessary to prevent combination
for, criminal purposes, and greatly aids IL
the disclosure of conspiracies to COMM
Ecrlmes, and that the letter Of the Attorney
General to the district: attorneys OF th
United States residing in ST. Louis, Chicago
and Milwaukee, dated the GOSH of January
1876, stating the determination of the AT
loruey General that no person. ,confessinl
himself guilty should escape punis
in contrapention of such rule, and that th
Attorney General should imme dlately re
woke the instructions covered and implied
BY the announcement OF. such determination
The night session gave WAY TO the Demo
cratic caucus Tonight. -.-.., -,