The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-03-01

Mr.. HENRY thought the S u.a.s
done right. and had fnade Q great nal1ie aliu
MI lfr. BERNARD. 81 Petersburg q readiust.
erl, followed Mr. Henry In q speesn1o:
moderation and conciii ation. hls YleY sfas
that we should make some oaer 2la The Gre
ditors-with the cred tora you'd rest the
responsibility OF accepting or rel Getting IL.
He was afraid OF cpatinned agitation OF tnls|
question pending q CANVASS 1or delegates 70
q conyentioD. He was apprenensiYe tnat
the people might do something which mignt
make Us blush. For that reason o.. ne was
here o. a readiuster;; for that reason no de,
sired to effect lower rate OIL interest,", anu
q final and satisfactory settlement. de APP
pealed to his feliow-readj usters to: stand py
him and insist upon the consideration OF
this new funding bill at once.
3 Speaker ALLEN said that Mr.. HEskf 5 NAG
INDUCED in styleof speed peecn VIII
ont argument that seemed to call upon MIN
for some response, Us it was made in reply
to him 1.-THE Speakerl. He expressed his abb
horrence Of that style OF denunciation, and
quoted John C. Calhoun as saying that 1t
was the last resort of weak cause. He could
not believe that the man who stood here In
defence Of crushed and oppressed people
would, as Mr.. HENRY said, go down to pos
terity in infamy in preference to those who
stood here rs the representatives OF the
money changers. [Applause.l at any rate,
he would rather for bis name to be coupled
with great cause like this than for bis ng-
ure to occupy pedestal upon yonder mon
umentii put there by the y-changers.
frApplause5 He would tell Mr.. HENRY no
communistic blood ran in his (the Speakers
veins. The tax-oppressed people, he de-
clared, mean to stand together for what they
conceive to be right, Notwithstanding oil
the denunciation OF pulpit, press, and
bar. [Applause and raps from Speakers
| gavel.1
Mr.. MCCABE also replied to Mr.. HENRY,
and said that he represented no commlln1s-
tic constituency, but as noble people rs
any on earth. He denounced the money
changers and the funding bill. He declared
that Mr.. HENRY knew no more about the
sufFerings OF the people Of Virginia than
| do the Turks. The remark OF the Cover
nor in his yeto-message about the public
] free schools excited Mr.. MCCABE's wrath,
and he said that the public free schools
were as firmly fixed in the hearts Of the
people as our own blue hills upon their
| foundations, aud il any man dared oppose
them he would go down before the popular
storm He had felt since the 9th day of
August that the people had no hope from
Colonel Holiday. He was afraid that he
was bound by sentiment from helping the
people to obtain the relief they expected
and demanded.
General ECHoLs feared the House was
| losing sight OF the question before it. Said
he; Let us pause. / have been amazed at
some exhibition of feeling here to-day.
When the gentlemen, some OF them on my
side, talked about the gentlemen OF the
other, 1 remembered that on that side had
many dear rriends-many more, indeed,
than on the side with which l am now
acting.
General ECHoLs addressed himself, and
very successfully, too, TO soothing the irri-
tation OF the readiusters. He spoke very
kindly and complimentary OF the SOUTH
western members. He yet believed that
measure could be adopted which would be
accountable to all and bring peace to this dis
| tracted land. He held that there was no
reason why members should not address
themselves to another effort. He regarded
it as the duty of the General Assembly to
make an offer OF compromise; if creditors
reject it, it will not do us harm. But it. can be
SO made that they will not reject it; and il
they accept, how glorious will be the con-
summation
General ECHoLs reiterated: believe that
this House can agree upon proposition
which the great majority OF creditors will
accept.
Dir. HARvIE: Will my friend lei us know
what that proposition is?
General ECHoLs: Very much this bill,
with notifications.
Mr.. HARyIE: Name the notifications, if
you please?
swer the last question when again inter-
rupted.
Speaker ALLEN: I would like to ask
question. Didn't the gentleman denounce
this bill as the most monstrous proposition
that ever emanated from committee.
General ECHoLs admitted that at first he
had done so; but he had better opinion
of the bill upon closer examination, and
thought it could be greatly improved by
amendments.
Mr.. FRAZIER: Will the gentleman take
off the war and reconstruction INTEREST,"
Mr.. ECHOLs: The House will perceive
that il am TO answer all these questions it
will require two or three times ten minutes.
But after conference with my friend Of
Rockbridge Pye no doubt we could frame
the bill in satisfactory way, and get quite
as good terms as be suggests.
MIR. FRAZIER, who next got the floor, said
no wonder MIR. henry abhorred repudia-
ton, as the gentleman's own political
friends had repudiatea what he had said
here to-day.
MIR. FRAZIER was for reputation If it
meant to prevent the bondhoders from
stealing away the peoples rights. MIR. FRA
zIER said that his friend General ECHoLs)
bad been trying to catch his southwestern
friends with sugar. He would warn the
gentleman that the southwesterners had
been used to maple sugar, which was much
sweeter than any he could offer. Laughter
Now, said Mr.. FRAZIER, the gentleman
from Augusta says that he and can frame
a bill that will be satisfactory to the credit
ors. hope the House will appoint us q
committee to so out and try, and Mr.. FRA
zIER would assure them that il he could
agree to it all readiusters could vote forit
laughter.
Mr.. HENRY next made some explanation
OF language used by him in the debate.
He had only retorted upon the gentlemen
who claimed that il not settled now the next
Legislature would repudiate the debt by
saying that then these gentlemen could
not be in that Legislature, for they all
denied being regulators. He had, too.
warned those who hoped to arouse popu-
lar storm that, like the Girondists, they
might be the trst victims OF the revolution.
AS to the point made by Mr.. HARvIE that
there is no money in the Treasury, and we
are forced to 60 10 the banks to borrow, Mr..
HENRY contended that was the fault Of the
law which offered to treasurers premium
for not collecting promptly, and that if that
were altered we could still get along pretty
we'll as we had done for some wears DaSt.