The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1878-01-17

Senate--lhe vote on referring Mr.
Matthew's bill TO the judiciary COM
mittee, where it would be pigeon.
holel, is considered an important vote.
La detail it was as follows:
Yeas Anthony, Barnum, Bayard,
Blair, Batter, Conkhng, Dawes, Eaton,
Eimunds, Hamlin, Hoar, Herman,
Mcpherson, Mitchell, Morril, Paddock,
Rollins, Sergeant and Wadleigh-ll.
Nays-Marshall, Armstrong, Beck,
Booth, Cameron, Pennsylvania; Cams
eron, Wisconsin; Cockrell, Coke, Con.
over, Illinois; Dorsey, Ferry, Grover,
Harris, Hereford, Howe, Johnston,
Kirkwood, McCreaIy, Mcmillan, Mat.
thews, MaXy, Merriman, Morgan,
Plumb, Ransom, Salisbury, Saunders,
Spencer, Teller, Voorhees, and With
era-3l.
The balance of the day was consum-
ed in eulogies on the deceased senators.
MOrJOH anu DoBy'
The committee on public buildings
decided TO report u bill for the pur
chase OF the Freedmens' bark bGilaing
for public purposes.
The president has appointed Bronson
Baylis and Thomas Stoub honorary
commissioners from Tennessee to the
Paris exposition.
House--A bill appropriatiDg $4,000
for the removal OF snags and obstruc-
ton in the Mississippi, Missouri and
Arkansas rivers, and ST, 600 for opening
the navigation of the Red river above
Shreveport, was passed,
The president has written a letter to
cOlored men, in which he says: 81
have given some consideration to your
question rs to the emigration of col
ored people from Florida to San Do
miugo. am not well informed rs to
the advantages offered by San Do
mingo to immigration, but my impress
sion Is that your people should not be
hasty in deciding to leaving this coun-
try. The mere difference in climate Is
very serious objection to removal.
The first generation in all such res
movals suffer greatly. II is my opin'
ion, also, that the evils which now
affect you are likely to steadily, and, l
hope, rapidly to diminish. My advice
ia, therefore, against the proposed emf
grafton"
The board of directors of the Ameri-
can Colonization Society met at half
past nine this morning. J. II. b. La
trobe, president, and William Coppin-
ger. secretary. AT eleven o'clock the
board of directors, in body, paid their
RESPECTS to the president, who eX'
pressed warm interest in all efforts
to benefit the colored people OF the
United States. Secretary Thompson,
Commodore Shufeldt, and Rev. DIR. T.
D. Woolsey, were elected additional
vice presidents Of the society. Mr.. D..
II. B. Latrobe was elected president for
the twenty-sixth time.
The committe OF ways and means
have arranged to have Genera! Roum,
commissioner of internal revenue, APP
near before them to morrow at eleven
O'clock, IA M, to give his views on in-
ternul revenue laws and suggested
notifications.
A bill has already been drafted, un'
der direction Of the committee, EN-
bodying many of the recommendation
Of Commissioner Roum, including the
exemption of duty on American alco'
hol used In the manufacture OF per
fumery ard an enactment authorizing
the United States revenue officers t
arrest illicit distillers caught In thu
act without warrant.
The bureau of internal revenue Is IL
possession of bulky mass OF evidence
showing the paralysis Of trade, pro
:. duced by the present agitation 70
a change in the existing rate Of taxa
ton on whisky and tobacco, which !
: evidenced by the large falling off il
. receipts from these sources for the pas
two months. 1t Is understood that th
commissioner will urge decisive actiOl
OH this matter one way or the other s
az TO put an end to the prevailing IN