The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-04-29

mtftee OF the House Election Committee
had agreed to report IN favor OF Bisbee. sit.
ting Republican member from Florida, but
it now looks that IL the Florida confessions
do no other practical good they will result
In seating Finley (Democrat), and sending
Bisbee back to the Archer precinct.
APPROPRIATIONS BILLS.
The House to-day passed the Indian ap-
preparation BILL, aggregating within frac-
tion OF s5,0OO,0Oo. The Legislative, ex-
ecutiye, and judicial appropriation bill was
then taken up aud discussed until haIf-past
4, when the House adjourned.
GOOD WEEKS WORK.
The House this week has passed the fol-
lowing important measures: The Thurman
funding bill, the bill repeating the bank
rupt law, and the postal and Indian appro-
priation bills. =
THE C0LoRED PEOPLE OF WASHINGTON.
The coIored people here are holding meet
ings in favor OF cotored emigration to the
West. There are now i'll the District forty
five Thousand, and the number is increasing.
One Of their speakers says if twenty thou
sand would go West it would relieve the
streets OF beggars and give an opportunity
to those remaining to earn bread.
BRIEF ITEMS.
The Secretary Of the Navy has returned
from Indiana.
The Pennsylyanians say Woods tariff bill
will be defeated by twenty-one votes, and
Fernando says it will be carried by at least
that majority. He is wrong.
One million two hundred thousand in sill
yer dollars is to be divided among Govern
mens repositories in various parts Of the
country, to be paid out for current obliga-
tons. This has nothing to do with the reg
ular exchange of silver dollars for gold.
Your correspondent to-day heard num-
Der Of compliments paid those who took
part in the Lee Monument concert last
night.
There are more speculations in regard to
the Florida confessions tonight, and they
will enliyen Sundays gossip.
Associated Press reports by telegraph to the Dis
patch.1
WASHINGTON. April 27.-Mr. George OPP
dixie, OF New York, was before the House
Committee on Banking and Currency this
morning. His views in reference to the
practicablity OF maintaining resumption
coincide in the main with that OF all the
other representatives OF the banking-houses
OF New York, although he admitted that il
the tables Of estimates OF the gold in the
country now and in 1857 and III 1861 were
correct, which he did not admit, for he
thought they were gross eXaggerattons, the
attempt Mt res umption might be hazardous.
The rs.-Rutherford-B.-Ha Temper
ance Society at meeting last night dis
carded the name OF the organization, on the
ground that, although she discountenanced
wine at the Duke AleXis's and other dinners
ut the Executive mansion, she countenanced
the use OF claret punch at dinner on board
the excursion steamer in Delaware Bay du-
ring the recent presidential trip.
XLVTH CONGRESS--Second Session.
WASHINGTON, April 81, 1878.
SENATE.
The Senate was not in session to-day.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
The House passed the bill removing the
political disabilities OF George S. Shayack,
of Missouri; also the Indian appropriation
bill, involving over S4,000,000. The House
then went into Committee OF the Whole on
the legislative, executive, and judicial ap-
propriations-all without action.