The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-01-22
FROM WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, January 10.
THE ELECTORAL BILL.

WASHINGTON, January 10.
THE ELECTORAL BILL.
There Is a reasonable safety in the assur-
ance that the bill reported from the Joint
Electoral Committee will pass both houses.
This end will not be attained because OF
| the fact that it will meet the views OF
great number who will vote for it, but
| because expediency and the public veal
! demand that some conclusion must De
reached which will pacify the business ln-
| terests OF the country and remove the
menace OF civil war. Hence it will for
expediency's sake be passed, and be pro-
tested against by the very ones who support
it as matter Of principle. :,
There are a great many Democrats and
Republicans who will vote for the bill
against their honest convictions. There IS
the apprehension that possibly no plan can
be suggested which will please all parties to
the dispute better than the one reported.
They realize that something must be done.
Telegrams innumerable are pouring in upon
members to determine some plan speedily
TO settle the question which will command
the confidence Of the country that civil war
is certainly averted. This the business in
terests demand.
Governor Walker makes an aprop6s reflex
| OF sentiment concerning the compromise by
saving that he does not believe that the pro-
position on it's merits would receive forty
votes if the people from all sections OF the
country could be restrained from telegraph
ing their representatives that it ought to
pass.
A partial canvass Of the views Of senators
and representatives leads to the impression
that the bill will pass both houses by very
respectable majority, but there will unques-
tionably be good deal OF opposition to 1t
on the part OF both Democrats and Repub-
licans. The most determined opposition
will come from the western Democrats.
| They are especially bitter toward Mr.. HeW-
tit, a member OF the joint committee, for
agreeing to the report, and some OF them
don't hesitate to assert that he has sacrificed
his principles and his party to his money
bags and his bonds. The contest will there
fore be lively between the eastern and west
ern Democrats.-Speciat to Baltimore A'1e-
ricQn. ... go. .- -..
THE sENATOR-ELECT FROM MASSACHUSETTS.
The election of Mr.. George F. Hoar as a
United States senator is regarded by many
of the friends of the bill as verdict OF the
Massachusetts Legislature in its favor. Mr..
Hoar is a member of the Joint committee
which reported the bill, and is, Of course,
in favor Of it, while his principal competi-
itor, Mr.. Boutwell,, is an exponent OF its
opposition. While it is probable that Mr..
Hoar would have been elected anyhow,
there is a disposition to use the fact as an
evidence OF the feeling OF the Massachu-
sets Republicans On the questiOn.-I6.
KENTUCKY RETURNING TO REASON.
LOUISVILLE, KY, January 19.-The fol-
lowing petition, signed by prominent cti-
zens and businessmen generally, irrespec-
tive of party, including General S. b.
Buckner and eX-Secretary Bristow, will be
sent to Washington:
LOUISVILLE, KY, January Is.
Hon. Henry PATTERSON and others, Repre-
Sentatiues and Senators in Congress from
Kentucky:
Dear Sirs,-The undersigned see with sat-
isfaction the probable agreement between
the two houses in the settlement Of the
vexed question. The plan as agreed upon
by the joint committee Of the two houses,
as we understand it, while not all we could
desire as partisans, is patriotic and satisfac-
tory, under the circumstances, and we urge
its immediate adoption as the means Of set
tling dangerous question, quieting excite
ment throughout the country, and Fastening
a return to that confidence SO much needed
by all material interests of the land.
CONNECTICUT APPROVES IT.
HARTFORD, CONN.,, January 19.-The Sem
ate to-day passed resolution endorsing the
plan proposed by the congressional COM
lnittee for settling the presidential question,
and requesting Connecticut senator's and
representatives to support the plan in Con-
gress. The House tabled the resolution,
and made it the special order for January
"a. ,1.,
THE IOWA DEMOCRATS FAVOR THE PLAN.
DEs MONIES, Iowa., January 19.-The
Democratic State Central Committee met
this morning and endorsed the compromise
bill reported in Congress yesterday, and
expressed the hope that all the people Of
Iowa would support the Joint committee.
THE VOICE OF KANSAS.
ATcHIsoN, KANSAS, January IA tele-
gram was sent to Senator ingalls, to-day
urging him to support the report OF the
Joint Committee on Counting the Electoral
Vote. It was signed by large number OF
prominent citizens, irrespective OF party,
and there is general expression OF gratih-.
cation In this section over the harmonious
settlement of the disputed questions con-
nected with the presidential election,
WILL IT PASS s?--CONsInERATIoNs THAT ARE
LIKELY TO CARRY IT THROUGH.
WAsHINGToN, D. c., January 19.-The
plan OF the joint committee for the deter
mination Of the presidential question con-
tinues to be the prominent theme OF con-
versation in ali quarters, and the subject of
many anxious inquiries as to the proba-
bility Of the passage OF the bill for the pur-
pose mentioned. Apart from the gentlemen 4
comprising the committee, the plan is not
enthusiastically received, though number
OF members say they win vote for 1t as a
seeming necessity, while Others do not
seem to have made up their minds upon the
subject, wishing 10 give yit further consid-
Grafton. Some members think the bill
ought to be amended, but others say that
amendments will destroy the prospect OF its
passage, and therefore Ii would be better to
vote upon it as reported from the commit
tee; Some members tonight express the
opini0p that it Will become d law, as many