The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-02-08

1 day further considered the river and fiar.
Dor bill. There was nothing done OF int.
rest to Virginians.
| a prominent Republican to-day said be
knew personally that Hayes wants to get
rid OF Sherman, and there are those who
say they will bet be win not be in office the
1stoY March. si,
The subj Committee on Ways and Means
|on Internal Revenue say that the snuh-men
have made a very strong case in favor OF re-
duction.
5 III ex-Delegate Mahood and hiSassistant,
General Lorlax, would open a bookstore
and work as hard as they do in the stationery
department Of the House they would soon
make fortune.
The weatheris lovely enough for Florida,
and the avenue is crowded with elegantly.
dressed beauty and fashion.
General Imboden was pressed, it. Is said,
by Commissioner Nee ormick, as pay-eom-
missioner from Virginia to the Paris Expo
sition.
+ Men representing every Interest embraced
in the tarif.bill besiege leading members
and desire to be heard on their peculiar
matters. OF course they cannot be accom-
modated. ijs
The Pension Committees of both Houses
have agreed to restore tothe pension-list all
stricken thereirom on account OF alleged
disloyalty.
Judge Harris viii vote against the pro-
posed Sixteenth amendment, giving women
suffrage, when it comes again before the
Judiciary Committee.
1t looks as if the House Banking Commit
tee will report bill cancellins all national
bank circulation.
Associated Press Reports by telegraph to the Dis
patch.I
THE TEXAs.PACIFJC RAILROAD.
The Senate Committee on Railroads heard
this morning, on behalf Of the TeNas-Paciic
railway, Colonel Sc,tt,sEho presented the
broad grounds on which the Government
was asked to aid the enterprise. These
briefly were that the southern line must
he competing line, free from all control
bvsother corporations, and with the regula-
ton of its rates reserved to Congress; that
toinsure low rates the line must be built at
the lowest cost; that the natural advantages
of the 32d parallel were now supplemented
by the lowest prices ever known for labor
and material; and that while the Govern
ment and the public would thus secure the
benefits of q line costing fifty millions, in
stead of the two hundred and twenty-siX
millions Of dollars OF the present line, the
relief to the oppressed industries and idle
labor OF the country from its construction
would be very great.
He claimed that the Government would
directly save three millions a year il it paid
every dollar of interest which it guaran-
teed, while the rich stream OF Oriental
commerce would not traverse our continent
except 4 cheap trans-continental road, I'M
INSTRUCTED by snow, were provided; that
Chicago and other northern cities would
have 4 shorter route to the Pacific over
this line, while all the southern ports
and centres would be Immediately
benefited. He claimed that it was
contrary to human nature to suppose that
the Central Pacific would build 4 road to
compete with themselves, and that they
would evade any promise they might give
by crippling the facilities on their end of
the southern line, or building under their
territorial charter, which allowed them to
charge 10 to Is per cent. per mile.
Mr.. Scott showed that neither he nor 9TH
crs interested in the TeXas-Pacifc could
reap one dollar of profit under the bill out
OF the building OF the road, and that his
present investment was amply protected by
the earnings of the completed line.
The committee having decided to hear
three alternate speeches from each side, the
Texas and Pacific TO close, Mr. Storrs OPEN
ed for the Southern Pacific, Of California,
recitiDg its powers under the acts Of Con-
gress and Of California.
The committee adjourned to meet at 1890
tomorrow.
THE PROPOSED SIXTEENTH AMENDMENT-DIs-
LOYAL PENSIONERS RESTORED.
The Star says: "Judge Harris, Of Vir-
ginia, q member Of the House Judiciary
Committee, says he will vote against the
proposed sixteenth amendment, to give wo-
man the ballot. This will break the tie in
the committee and secure report against
the proposed amendment"
Both the Senate and House Committees
on Pensions have now concurred in recon-
mending that the names of all pensioners
stricken from the rolls on account of alleged
disloyalty during the late war shall he re-
stored.
APPROVED BILLS.
The President has approved the joint re-
solution extending the thanks of Congress
to Henry NJ. Stanley and an act for the re-
moyal of Instructions from the Mississippi,
Missouri, Arkansas, and Red rivers, and for
the preservation OF the public property.
PUBLIC LANDS FOR EDUCATION.
The Committee on Education and Labor
OF the House have agreed to report bill for
the distribution OF public lands among the
States for educational purposes.
xLVTH CONGRESS- Second Session.
WASHINGTON, February 7, 1878.
SENATE.
In the Senate to-day, in discussing the
silver-bill, Mr.. Johnston, of Virginia, said
the discussion on the bill had been so pro-
tracted that he did not expect to say any
thing which had not already been said, but
the subject was one of great importance to
the people Of the whole country, and he
| felt it incumbent on him to state briefly
why he supported the bill. It could not
have escaped the attention of any one that
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