The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1878-04-24
WASHINGTON.
The Report OF kidnapping aud Selling
In slavery or Louisiana and
Florida Negroes In Cuba
Reasserted With Great
POslllyeness.
Noisy and Tumultuous Scenes In the
House Over the Irregular Manner
In Which the River and Har.
Dor Bill Was Passed.

bert Leonard or Eitnh ftnkstOn Will
he Appointed Collector OF the Port
of New OrIeans"--Good,
WASHINGTON, April 23.-The house
Is wrangling over the irregular man
ner In which the river and harbor bill
was passed.
The cabinet to-day was devoted TO
the discussion OF pardons,
The presidential party leaves to'mor-
row morning for Philadelphia
Combinations Colburn, consul gen.
eral, City OF Mexico Hubbs, postmaf-
ter, Newbern, North Carolina.
Nominations-rhos, A. Henry, col-
lector customs, Pimlico, North Carols
ma; Dyckle, postmaster, Thomasville,
Georgia.
The finance committee OF the senate
took no action to press action on its
substitute for the resumption repeal
bill OF the house.
Special agents OF the government
report with great positiveness that the
Louisiana and Florida negroes have
been kidnapped and are in slavery In
Cuba, and 1t is slyly intimated that
persons Ia this interest put the spider
n Le0nard's soup.
1 The president has decided not to
send Smiths name to the senate as
collector of port ut New Orleans.
There has been much lying on this
subject, but the truth Is reached at
last. Either Albert Leonard or Eliza
Pinkston will have the place II the
senate advises and consents.
House-The protest which Mr.. Cox,
of New York, presented on Monday
against the passage Of the river and
harbor appropriation bill under sus.
pension of the rules, occupied the
whole of the days session, and gave
rise to one of the noisiest and most tu-
multuous scenes that the house has
ever witnessed. There was no ill-feel.
ing manifested on the part OF any one,
but the proceedings were very disor"
derby.
Mr.. Reagan, OF Texas, chairman Of
the committee on commerce, defended
the action of that committee in the
course which it had pursued in refere
ence to the bill, and showed that every
river and harbor appropriation bill
that had been passed In the house In
the last sixteen or eighteen years had
been passed under suspension of the
rules. He denied that there had been
any log.rolling resorted to, and as.
serted that many of those who had
signed the protest had done so because
the committee had not recommended
for their own districts as large amounts
as they had demanded.
A call was made on him for the
names, but he declined to give them.
Mr.. Ellis, of Louisiana, however, an
nounced himself as one of the mem
beers alluded to, but denied that in his
opposition to the bill he was actuated
by any such motive. AS an instance
of the reckless manner in which the
bill provided for internal improve
ments, he referred to two rivers In
Pennsylvania, 80 uncomfortable that
the speaker, a native OF the state, had
never heard of them.
That allusion brought out Mr.. White,
OF Pennsylvania, on whose suggestion
these rivers had been put in the bill,
and who described the rivers as inn
portant links in the navigation OF the
Allegheny and Ohio, and on the other
side, Messrs. Wright and Bridges, OF
Pennsylvania, ridiculed them as trout
streams in the Allegheny mountains.
The speaker did not wish to be placed
in the position in which Mr.. Ellis re-
mark might have placed him In the
estimation OF the people of West Vir'
ginia, and so he corrected Mr.. Ellis,
and said that his remark had been that
the streams were not navigable.
Mr.. Cox, of New York, spoke of a
Kentucky river provided for in the bill
as one which could only be made a
thoroughfare by being macadamized,
and alluded to other rivers as streams
that would not afford a dam by mill
site. and could not afford mill by o
dam sight.
Finally, after five hours session, the
house, by a vote of one hundred and
fifty to sixty, refused to entertain thu
protest as question ofprivilege.
The house, on motion of Hunton, o
Virginia, passed the bill removing thu
political disabilities Of Thos. Moore, o
Virginia.
MFR. Durham, of Kentucky, reported
that the conference committee on thu
deficiency bill for additional clerks II
the treasury department had agree'
upon a compromise, and the repor
was accepted.
Indications.
South Atlantic and Gulf states an
southern portion of middle states,-
Ealing. followed by rising barometer