The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-04-08
Washington.

Washington.
. ELL. TO SECURE THE GOVERNMENT AGAINST
loss IN PRoDIGAL AID TO THE UNION PACIFIC
EOAp-THE INDIANS AND HAMPTON NORMAL
sCHeOI-PERS0NAL-A ROM MR..
RoRsT'S NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. FOR THE
CONGRESSIONAL CANyASs-BRIEF ITEMS, &C.
from Oar Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, April 6.-For years Mr..
Thurman and others have endeavorcd to
get through Congress 3 bill to secure the
Government against loss in the prodisal aid
il gave the Central and Union Pacific rail-
roads at time when the country was con-
yulsed with civil strife, but Cntil now they.
have failed to accomplish the desired object.
The lobbyists and the agents OF these great
monopoIies have been too strong for states
manship, and even now they besiege every
approach to the Senate chamber, and sue
coed in winning over by their plausible re-
presentations some senators who mean to
do right. They are smart, make show OF
lavish means, and are most liberal in eNpeE-
dituyes, and this renders the fight which
siessrs. Thurman, Bayard, Edmunds, Beck,
the more difficult to win. Mr.. Thurman
may probably try to force vote
on Monday, bat I do not think one
can be reached before Wednesday night.
because the opposition to the sinkinS-fund
bill. as reported by the Judiciary Commit
tee, want delay, and will resort to any par
liamentarv device to gaiaH time. OF the
southern Democratic senator's, Gordon, Hill,
Lamar. Jones Of Florida, and Ransom are
claimed by the railroads; but Mr.. Ransom,
AN assured by his colleague and Senator
Johnston. is for the judiciary bill. Sena-
tor Hereford, who is for the bill, thinks 1t
will get 80 votes, and Senator Thurman at
least IL votes. Senator Merrimon adheres
to his calculation that It will get more than
~ votes. Your correspondent nearly q
week ago gave the names OF fl votes for
The bill. Its friends all think that it will
pass, but they give full credit to the energy
and unlimited resources Of its opponents.
Senators to-day are praising the sensible
speech made by Senator Johnston yestcr-
day.
General Armstrong, of the Hampton
(yirginia) Normal School, is here, and is
comforting with the War Department and
Indian Bureau in regard to the experiment
he is about to make in educating Indians at
his ex celent institution. 1t seems that
some Indian prisoners taken on the plains
were sent to St. Augustine, and among
these are some promising youths. Ten of
these some private individuals OF wealth
have determined TO send to Hampton to be
educated by General Armstrong, as his in
stitution is the best industrial establishment
they have been able to find. This will he
nh experiment. and these young men will
soon demonstrate whether they can profit
by the labor feature, and whether they will
be able to get along with the colored race.
Ii it succeeds great good may be done for
the Indians by this and like institutions,
and the authorities here, who have to deal
with the Indians, are greatly interested in
the experiment, and will aid i'll having it
made under the most favorable circum-
stances. The Indian pupils will come to
HAMPTON in steamer in May.
GENERAL c. w. FIELD.
The nomination OF General Charles W.
Field. we'll known in Richmond, for door
keeper Of the House, gives great Satisfac-
ton to all Democrats here who were not to
profit Dv the nomination Of somebody else.
lie was supported by the entire Virginia
delegation, and has the dignity, intelligence,
irmness, and executive ability, necessary
to this position. The fact is, man must be
every inch Il man to be q successful door.
keeper Of the House OF Representatives.
General Field and General Dabney Maury
married sisters. The election will come Of
Monday.
Mt. BCEsT'S RAILROAD.
They commenced work with Governor
Handolph's characterization to-day on Mr.
Borst's railroad, and he thinks with it he
will have the road to Falls Church (seyeu
and q hall miles, graded by the end OF thirty
days. he is in fine spirits, and expects tc
astonisll Others than Firginians by the
rapidity with which he will push the work
ahead.
Dir. Hereford informs your correspondent!
that he win on Tuesday or "Wednesday cal
up in the Senate his resolution instructing
the Committee on Finance to report the
House bill repeating the resumption act.
Mr.. VOORHEES,, now at home, will then be
In his seat, and aid Mr. Hereford in en-.
deavoring TO pass the resolution. Resump.
tion is now an interesting question, and
everything affecting ii is industriously dis.
cussed.
THE ROMANCE OF A RADICAL. CONGRESSMAN.
MIR. Omar Conger, member OF Congress
from Michigan, aged sixty, is the bitterest
OF Radicals, and he hates the South worse
than Mohammedan does Russian. There
isa satanic whine about his voice that repels
good men, and his Anticipated swallow.
tailed coat is in keeping with bis general
appearance. Mrs. Conger Is sensible,
healthy woman Of 100 pounds avoirdupois,
and looks as if she likes roast beef better
than poetry. And yet, there is romance
aboutthis couple. Itseems that years aso they
had a loves young dream, quarrelled, and
parted, and each married. But after many
years his wife died, aud her better-half also
shuffled OF the mortal coil. Omar was in
Congress, for it was just two years, and
she, widow, beheid him from the gallery
making one OF his mutitudinous speeches.