The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-02-26

Iasientiy It was dsc artaitied that Tie Chinese
paid 100 much, and it Is now sought 10 re-
fund The baisnce on hard TO TINT Govern.
ment.
THE vIcE.PaEsIDEST PRO TEN.
Vice-president Wheeler will leave OF, q
weeks visit to his home. and tomorrow the
senate VIII elect Vice-P President pro tenn.
The Democratic senators, attn caucus held
| this evening, nominated Afr. Thurman, OF
Ohio, for The position. The Republicans
will support Mr.. Ferry, OF Michigan.
MR.. GOODIES spssssssiTi o., THE MExicAs.wAR
BILL.
Mr.. Goode, Of Virginia, made an eio-
quenE and telling reply to Mr. Joyce, OF
Vermont, pending the consideration in tile
Committee Of the Whole this afternoon of
the bill granting pensions to The veterans OF
the Mexican war.
Dir. Joyce had objected to the bill because
it provided for Confederates, and Mr.
Goodies reply was enthusiastically applaud
ed. He appealed to Republicans TO do JUS
tice to these brave men.
Mr.. Singleton, OF Mississippi, received q
letter from Jefferson Davis to-day, in which
he requests his friends to have him excepted
from the, benefits OF the bill, as he thinks
this will aid its passage. Although wound
ed in the Mexican war he never permitted
his name to go on the invalid pension list.
The letter is a lengthy one. The Mexican
pension bill is being considered in Com
mittee of the Whole.
THE SILVER BILL.
At fifteen minutes to this afternoon Mr..
Kenna, Of West Virginia, delivered the sill
yer bill to the President. A Cabinet min
lister to-day said, so it is reported, that he
will veto the bill, but retain it two or three
days in order to prepare a veto message.
He further said that it would pass over bis
veto. Early in December Mr.. Sherman told
a Democratic senator that if the Govern
ment could get the profit on the coinage he
would not object much to the bill.
Mr.. Foster, OF the House, and Stanley
Matt hews, Of the Senate, the Presidents
most intimate friends, say there will be
veto, and a leading Republican congress
man who went to see two distinguished
members of the Cabinet to urge that there
be no veto, but that the President should let
the silver bill become a law without his sig
nature, reports tonight that they said in
reply that would never do. They added
that the veto message will be temperate in
tone. Mr.. Evarls this evening expressed
himself as strongly for a veto, and showed
q letter from London sustaining his posi-
ton. MIR. Thurman, after an interview
with Sherman, thin ks there will be a veto.
-. BRIEF ITEMS.
The Ways and Means Committee hope to
get through with the tariff bill this week.
Garfield goes to New Hampshire next
week to make political speeches.
Mr.. Knott, OF Kentucky, introduced a
bill to-day for the free coinage OF the silver
dollar and for the issue of certificates upon
bullion deposited.
The sudden death OF R. W. Taylor, first
comptroller Of the currency, from paraly-
sis, was great shock to the community.
The Star says that the Glover committee
will investigate the compulsory appoint
ment OF Colonel Ralston as chief deputy to
Marshal Gray.
Bishop Whittle is here.
Not little commotion was occasioned
when it was announced to-day at the Capt..
toll that the Senate sub. Committee on Elec-
tons had declared Corbin entitled to Gene
raj Buffers seat as senator from South Caro-
lima.
DR.. Newman yesterday preached his fare
we'll sermon at Metropolitan church. He
becomes presiding elder.
The final decision Of the District Court
to-day completely vindicated General Bur-
ton from the charges brought against him in
the case OF McNlanus Us. Bristow and others.
Associated Press Reports by telegraph 10 the Dis
Datch.l
THE ADMINISTRATION AND ANDERsoN's SEN
TENCE.
WASHINGTON, February 25.-There is no
foundation for any semi-otticial statement
as to the views OF the Administration upon
the sentence Of General Anderson. No Of
fetal dispatch has reached the Government
on that matter thus far. Cabinet officers
and other supporters of the Administration
are averse to making any statement Of their
sentiments on the subject; but it is evil
dent that there is strong feeling on the
part of the Administration that the prose
cution should now cease. 1t is in
timated by prominent parties here that
unless Anderson is pardoned the. pro-
ceedings will ultimately reach the United
States Supreme Court. High legal cir
Giles outside OF the Administration find no
machinery in common law, or the statutes,
or the Code Napoleon that can intervene.
The members Of the Returning Board, they
say, must rely on the mercy of the people Of
Louisiana and the clemency Of Governor
Nichols.
VARIOUS ITEMS.
Representative Scales, of North Carolina,
chairman OF the House Committee on In
dian Affairs, has reported in favor of trans
ferring the Indian Bureau from the Interior
to the War Department. His argument is
elaborate, showing the change is in the in
terest of economy and humanity.
Mr.. Willis, Of Kentucky, from the Com
mittee on Education and Labor, has made
q lengthy report on the Chinese question,
recommending treaty revision with Eng
land and China with the view OF restricting
Chinese immigration.
XLvTH CONGRESS--second Session.
WASHINGTON, February %, 1878.
SENATE.
Mr.. Wallace presented bill prepared by
the executive committee Of the National
Export Convention, recently in session III
Washington, to provide for carrying ocean
r,o;l, on American shin3 Mr. Wallace Said