The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-04-16
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Qnixotic movement.
REPUBLICAN, SENATORS AND THE HEHo OF TWO
WARS.
| In the Senate to-day Mr.. Sargent reported
a substitute from the Committee on Military
Affairs for the House resolution placing
General Shields on the retired list OF the
army. The substitute proposed to place
over thirty other generals on the same list.
These included Grant, Dix, Ben. Butler,
Banks, Schenck, Pleasanton, DeYens, Gar.
| field, Jacob, Cox, Ewing, Fitzpatrick, Ed.
McCook, Mcclellan. Burnside, Logan,
Dodge, Smith of New York, Hawley,
John A. McClernaD, and others. Mr..
Sargent said that most Of theseranked Gem
eral Shields, and that some of them were
wounded, others had lost limbs, and that
some were gallant soldiers of The Mexican
war as well as the last war. The amend
ment was recommitted, as Mr.. Davis, OF
West Virginia, wanted General Kelly add
ed, and Mr.. ingalls, two Kansas generals
Sargent went over to Conkling after the per-
formanee was over and thetHo laughed over
its smartness.
THE DISTRICT BILL.
The House from O'Clock until recess
were engaged considering the District-of-
Columbia bill, and Messrs. Blackburn and
Hunton, members OF the committee, took
part in the debate. Dir. Hunton showed
that the Government owned half OF the
property, and it was not taxed. He there
fore concluded the Government ought to
bear hall the expense of the District. At
five minutes to there were cries Of !" Vote,
Vote" "Question, Question !" 1t was then
agreed to limit all further debate on the bill
to one minute. A motion was then made
to take recess until u O'Clock; which was
lost. a noisy tilibustering scene ensued,
but the majority were determined to pro-
eeed with the bill. Party lines were not
drawn during the contest.
BRIEF ITEMS.
The electoral bill agreed upon By the Sem
ate committees very nearly the proposition
in full some time ago.
Mr.. VOORHEES, says the National party in
Indiana will take as many votes from the
Republicans as from the Democrats.
Mr.. O'Neill, of Philadelphia, says the
Blair resolutions are an insult to the House.
Senator Lewis was not reached in execu-
tive committee Of the Senate this afternoon.
General Field appointed to-day j. c..
Knight, OF Wisconsin. first assistant door
keeper in place OF S. X. Donovan, Folks
chief deputy.
Leading New York merchants, through
Mr.. Conkling, petitioned against the repeal
of the bankrupt law to-day.
The temperance organizations had large
meetings yesterday.
Among the horses entered for the Bright
wood races, near Washington, are the fol-
lowing trotters of Mr. o. J. Schoolcraft, of
Richmond: hey West, Mary, Lady H.,
Dewitt Clay, Nellie Rutherford, and Cap
tain West. On May 9th Key West will trot
against Z. Taylor's Tornado for one thou
sand dollars, best three In five, mile heats.
Thirty-six colored people were baptized
in the Potomac yesterday. Three thousand
persons witnessed the baptizing OF nineteen
other colored persons in the Eastern branch.
The accounts from Potomac fisheries are
not encouraging.
Colonel Elisha Barksdale, OF Halifax,
who is here, never rides unless the hack
driver addresses him as senator.
The Metropolitan Presbyterian church, on
Capitol Hill, held iubilee-meeting yester-
day because it has gotten out of debt.
ASSOCIATED Press Reports by telegraph to the Dis
patch.I
RAILROAD TELEGRAPH LINES.
WASHINGTON, April 15.-The bill intro
duced to-day by Senator Jones, Of Florida,
in regard to railroad telegraph lines,iis de-
signed in its main features to embody the
principle recently laid down by the United
States Supreme Court in the case of the
Western Union Telegraph Company rs.
The Pensacola Telegraph Company. 1t pro-
vides that any railroad company now or
hereafter organized under the laws OF any
State shall have the right construct, main
tain, and operate for general business, lines
OF telegraph along, over, or under any line
OF railroad which it owns or controls. The
bill also authorizes railroad companies to
lease or consolidate such telegraph lines in
whole or in part, and to appoint agents or
lessees TO operate them for the transaction
Of general Geographic business. It is fur
ther provided that before any railroad COM
pany shall exercise any Of these powers
or privileges it shall file with the Postmas-
ter General written acceptance Of the re-
strictions and obligations substantially as
follows: First. United States Government
| messages shall in all cases have priority,
and be sent at rates to be annually fixed
by the Postmaster-Gen Second. The
| United States shall have the right at any
time after FIVE years from the enactment Of
this bill to purchase all the Geographic
lines, property, and effects OF any or all OF
said companies at an appraised value, to be
ascertained by five disinterested persons
two chosen by the PostmaSter-G General, two
by the company interested, and the fifth by
| these four.
NOMINATIONS, &C.
T. s. Blodgett, as consul at Prescott.
| There were some other equally as unimpor-
tant combinations. In the case Of John W.
Farley, nominated to be Chief of the Bureau
OF Construction and Repairs and Chief Con-
| structor in the Navy, with the relative rank
of commodore, the nomination had been re-
ported adversely from the Committee ON
| Naval Affairs, but the Senate confirmed it
| by vote of 81 to II. The adverse report
was upon the ground that the promotion
| OF Mr.. Farley had not been made in accord
ance with the order Of superiority.
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