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

iargement of congressional nccommoda.
lions, but no quorum answered. 81 s. Isl
i Tue Murphy movement gains ground, and
the increase Of. blue badges daily is q matter
OF CONNIE emf. s.
The House. galleries are daily filed with
able-bodied men, WHO seek refuge there to
escape the outside cold. .''s.5s:.1
Mrs. Willard is making a hit here in adyo-
eating the temperance cause.
The Senate Committee on Finance agreed
to-day to report in favor OF renting the
tax on insolvent savings banks.
Leading citizens Of The District Of Column
bia will appear tomorrow before the SEN
ate committee in the interest Of District
reforms. -. - 81
The Cabinet was in session to-day for a
considerable time, but did nothing OF special
interest to Virginians.
Associated Press reports by telegraph to the Dis
3 patch.]
THE TExAs-PACIFIC RAILROAD.
WAsH1NGToH, February 1.-Colonel
Thomas A. Scott, before the House Commit
tee on Railroads to-day, made detailed re-
futation OF Mr.. C. P. Huntington's personal
charges. He secuted as ridiculous the
charge as, to his connection with railroad
pools, rings, and Hobbies. These charges,
he said, were known to be false by the COM
mittee, and unworthy to claim their atten-
ton moment. Equally apparent, he con-
ceived, was the object in making them.
The management Of the lines constitu-
ting the Pennsylvania railroad system
was not now in question; nor do these
lines come within the purView Of Congress,
nor touch the issue between the Texas and
Pacific railroad as trans-continental line
and Mr.. Huntington's Southern Pacific
scheme to prevent competition. Every
body knows the splendid condition OF the
Pennsylvania road, said Mr.. Scott. / do
not claim the credit Of so putting it,
although have been connected with it for
twenty-seven years.
In contrast with the running Of his own
lines Colonel Scott called attention to Hunt
ington's railroad operations in Virginia and
Kentucky-on the Chesapeake and Ohio,
Kentucky Central, and The Louisville and
Cincinnati Short Line. Huntington had
charged last year 400 per cent. per ton per
mile for freight and over 200 per cent. per
passenger per mile on the Central and South
ern Pacific ombination-more than was
charged by any road east Of the Mississippi
river.
In the face of such facts is not COM
peting line to the Pacific an imperative
necessity to check the eXtort1onate monop-
oily upon the people, who will have to pay
S25,000,000 more in a year than they ought
to pay il competing lines be not built.
Huntington's pretence of purpose to con-
meet with the Central Pacific if allowed
what he wanted from Congress Scott cha
racterized as palpabIy misleading, for Hun
tington had not authority to make such a
promise either for lis company or for the
State that gave him his charter. Colonel
Scott charged that Huntington would fail
in his future promises as in the past; that he
was already in debt to the Government, and
clearly does not propose to pay. So far as
the TeXas-Pacitic Company was concerned,
the Immigrant was comparatively a small
matter. They wanted and asked Of the
Government aid only that they might effect
q great measure Of public relief, to which
private capital alone was inadequate. AS
part Of the replication of the TeXas-Pacific
Company to Huntington the committee has
permitted to be filed 4 long arraignment by
Major King, vice-president, as to Hunting
toms railroad operations in Virginia and
also citing authorities to estab-
lish his charge Of malpractice, testified to
by members Of the Forty-third Congress,
in the operations OF contract and finance Of
the Central Pacific Company part of
machinery on the Pacific
coast-compare with which the Credit-Mo-
IN
J. MADISON WELLS IN wAsHINGTON-THE RE-
TURNING BOARD DEMANDS PROTECTION, &C.
WASHINGTON, February 1.-Ex-Governor
James Madison Wells, the missing member
OF the Louisiana Returning Board, has ar
rived hero. He demands protection at home
or provision abroad otherwise, &c. What
the otherwise, &C." may mean has not
yet TRANSFERRED.
VARIOUS ITEMS.
1t is learned that the Louisiana Return
ing Board have made an application, through
O special messenger who arrived here last
night, to Justice Bradley, of the Supreme
Court, for writ Of prohibition upon the
Louisiana State courts, now trying the case
Of General Anderson. The legal basis OF
this application is the fact that an applica-
ton to the State courts for the transfer Of
the case to the United States courts must be
followed, as matter OF law, by the refer
ence by the State courts OF tie application
to the United States Circuit Court in New
Orleans, of which Justice Bradley is the
presiding Judge, and that the United States
Court alone, under the statute, is the Judge
of the validity of such applications for trans
fer.
The General Land Office has information
that fifteen persons have been indicted in
Florida for boxing trees ON Government
lands. and other offences connected with the
lumber trade.
The Reinstatement shows decrease, du-
ring January, OF Sl,66S,0T0; coin in the
treasury, S127,000,000; currency. $3,125,-
900.
Marine Disaster.
WASHINGTON, February 1.-The signal
service observer ut Hatteras inlet reports