The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-11-17
Washington.

- Washing ton.
spEECH-NAKING IN COSGREss-NO VOTE on
EwING's BILL-MosBY IN WASHINGTON
Combines WAR on TIE PRESIDENTS CIVIL
SERVICE POLICY, &c.
From Our Regular Correspondents
WAsHISGToH, November l6.-Speech-
making has been the order again in both
houses OF Congress to-day. Ewins's bill
has been the text OF debate in the House
and the Senate. Davis, OF West Virginia,
has been making an elaborate speech in sup
port OF his joint resolution for committee
of five to investigate the discrepancies in
the accounts OF the Treasury Department
during the stewardship Of Boutwell, and
Richardson. The vote on Ewing's bill VIII
not be taken until tomorrow. Ewing will
close the debate with an elaborate speech OF
an hours length, in which he will review
and answer the arguments that the anti
repealers have been advancing the past
week. Garfield made quite an elaborate
speech against the Ewing bill to-day.
DEFICIENCIES IN THE COURT OF CLAIMS AND
POsT-oFFICE DEPARTMENT.
Mr.. Singleton, OF the Appropriations
Committee, reported the third deficiency
bill to the House to-day, covering the de-
ticieDcies in the Court OF Claims and Post
Office Department. It will be taken up to-
morrow, and will probably be passed inside
OF an hour.
MOsBY Is HERE,
and is in quite a state OF mind over reports
which have been circulated TO the effect
that his influence in the matter OF appoint
m ents was a marketable commodity. He
deni es the charge, and threatens to oval
lon " the man who made it. He was at the
Post-Oftice Department to-day.
THE WAR on THE PRESIDENTS cIyIL-sERyIcE
POLICY.
1t looks as though Conkling had the adj
vantage at present in the war which lie has
declared on the Presidents civil-service
policy. He has certainly laid his plans very
cunninglv, and is working them out with
extra ordinary skill. He kept quite nom
conmittal until after the committee OF Re-
publican senators appointed by the caucus
week ago to wait upon the President and
instruct him how he was to run the civil
service returned with the report that the
President didn't want any instruction ex-
ccDt the Cincinnati platform, and couldn't
be bulldozcd worth Il cent. That report
was made known Wednesday. This same
evening Conkling called together his Com
mittce on Commerce, and explained his lit
tie game. They were to report the unob-
iectionabIc nominations, but not the New
York nominations for collector and naval
officer, which, under the rules OF the Sen
ate, are before the Committee on Commerce,
of which, by singular coincidence, Conk-
ling is the head. Yesterday this committee,
as was stated in these dispatches last night,
instead Of acting upon the New York noml-
nations either iavorably or adversely, sent
rather
"sAssY" NOTE TO THE SECRETARY OF THE
TREASURY
to know if any charges have been preferred
against the present incumbents. Conkline
and his committee know very well that no
charges have been preferred and they
know furthermore that the President, in
the goodness OF his heart, gave all the present
incumbents certificate Of unusually good
character when he appointed their success
sors. Hence the Presiden: is in an awk-
ward Dredicament. Ii Sherman says that
charges have been preferred and sustained
against Conklng's pets, then hc proves the
President to have given certificates OF good
character to zen proven to be bad. II he
sustains the Presidents good opinion OF
them, Conkling has simply to call the Presi-
dents attention to his promise that good
men are not to be dismissed, decline to re-
port on the new appointments on the
ground that it would be violation OF the
Presidents civil-seryice theory to change
the present officers, and he will be master
of the situation, and the President will be
hoisted upon his own petard. It looks as
though this was exactly the programme
Conkling has marked out. --....
Associated Press Reports by telegraph to the Dis
patch.l
THE SILVER BILL.
WAsHISGToN, November l6.-The
Finance Committee discussed the silver
bill as it passed the House, but took no ac-
ton. Herman, Ferry, and Wallace were
absent. ". .....
Ii 49,. yICE-C0NSCL AT CHARLESTON. 90,
The President recognized Thomas Alex
ander Fuller as rice-consul Of her Britain
mic Majesty at Charleston. ...'s..
| CONGRATULATIONS FROM THE SECRETARY OF
TIE TREASURY.
The Secretary OF the Treasury conyratll-
lated Collector Worthington. OF Charleston,
this morning upon the result OF an investi-
CATION into the affairs OF the custom-house
| of that harbor.
Personal.
Major L. Fl. Price, OF Mobile, is here in
the interest OF persons whose property has
| been seized in Mississippi. He reports
senators and representatives from the Gull
States deeply interested in the matter, and
determined to have Government officials re-
strained in these gu estionable seizures.
| VARIOUS ITEMS. 49,.
There was full Cabinet meeting to-day.
The message was considered.
The Committee on Appropriations adj
heres to twenty thousand as the force OF
the army. They concur in the other Senate
amendments to the bill, but destroy the
hope for four full cavalry regiments to guard
the Texas frontier.
Wade has been nominated a. collector for
the Third Georgia district. 'a@
Wood of New York, Gibson OF Louisiana,
Tucker of Virginia, Banks Of Massachu-
sets, and Burchard OF Illinois. have been
amounted q subcommittee of Ways and
| Means II, consider taxation.