The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-06-19
Washington.


ARMY BILL-WILL THE JUDICIAL BILL BE
ACCEPTABLE TO THE PRESIDENT ?--oTBER
ITEMS.
lFrom Our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON. June 1S.-Thc Democrats
OF the Senate bad a slim caucus to-day, and
adjourned without coming to any conclu.
sion in regard to the Warner silver bill or
the resignation OF Senator Bayard, and the
result is that the Warner bill goes over I'M
til the regular session, and the distinguished
Delaware Senator will remain ut the head of
the Finance Committee.
THE QUESTION OF ADJOURNMENT.
encountered a brave Louisiana bliga-
dier to-day, and asked him what would be
done. and when Congress would adjourn.
-..---orrroa, zess..-,--->su The men who
led me up to the stonc-waIl have all gone
home.'' Senator Beck, however, tonight
says that to morrow the Senate Committee on
Appropriations will report a resolution for
an adjournment next Tuesday. The House
with aIacrity will agree to it, but it remains
to be seen what the President will do il
Congress refuses 10 pass any other judicial
bill after he has vetoed that which has now
passed both houses. There is a rumor to-
night that enough Democrats will vote with
the Republicans eventually TO pass Judi.
cial bill without the political section. More
members have left today, and an adjourn
ment Tuesday Will be almost necessity.
ten Gull URG IN THE PETERSBURG DISTRICT.
Mr.. Jorgensen has secured from the Com
m issioner of Agriculture enough tea plants
to. cultivate an acre in each county in bis
district, and has written to the clerks Of
courts for the names Of agriculturists who
will give the ex peri2ent fair trial. The
plants are two years old, and will yield a
crop the first year they are transplanted.
He drank cup OF tea made from that grown
at the Agricultural Department, and pro-
nounces 1t first.rate.
,., VIRGINIA NEWS ITEMS. ~
Colonel John r. Popham, Colonel W. w.
Forbes, and United States DiStrict-Attor
ney l.. L. Lewis have been to see Secretary
Schurz, and urged strongly the appoint
ment Ct B. W. Hoxey as supervisor OF CEN
sns for Virginia. The National Board OF
Health having decided in favor Of the re-
frgerating ship Of Professor Gamgee, it re-
mains to be seen il Mr.. Sherman will con-
cur. AS already stated, Professor Gamgee
proposes to build the ship at Norfolk. IL /
bad on Monday played my usual game Of
billiards with the Secretary OF War would
have known that he bad given permission
for the Richmond Blues to drill within Fort
Monroe in July, and had issued an order
that six sergeants be detailed to drill them.
FALLING OFF IN THE EXPORT OF DOMESTIC
PROVISIONS.
During May, 1878. there was exported
from New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and
Baltimore, domestic provisions and tallow
OF the value Of sS,s19,561, and for the same
month in 1879, 1885, 72S-a falling of Of
S933,S33. Included in domestic provisions
are butter, bacon, pork, cheese, lard, &c.
THE APPROPRIATION BlLLs-THEIR STATUS.
The two houses to-day agreed to the con-
ference report on the legislative and eXecu-
tive appropriation bill, and it goes imme-
diately to the President, who will promptly
approve it. While the aggregate amount
appropriated by it exceeds the bill or last
year $685., GOO, S130,O00 Of this amount has
heretofore been included in the sun dry-ciyil
bill, and $150,00O is to pay the gaugers and
storekecpers connected with the large num-
Der Of new distillcries erectedi in the South,
principally during the last three months.
The real increase, therefore, is only about
$4,000. The little judicial bill, as it is
called, will reach tue President tomorrow.
THE DEBATE ON THE ARMY BILL IN TIE
SENATE. 80
The Senate resumed the consideration OF
the army bill, the debate being on the po-
litical section. Mr.. Beck read from the re-
port made to the Kentucky Legislature
showing Wanton and illegal interference
by Federal troops in the elections in that
Stat in 1865, citing large number Of cases
in every county. He was followed by Mr..
Blaine, who read from a book Just pub
lished and received at the Congressional
Library, called GA Handbook OF Classical
Reading for Southern Students" He said all
OF the contributors are southerners of re-
cent date, and the subjects treated are OF
the date of the late war. This got him
into lively squabble with Governor Vance,
during which be read an extract OF very
fiorid rhetoric from the writings OF the
North Carolina Senator. Governor Vance,
however, created roar CT laughter by de-
clariug that although he had never seen or
heard OF the book before, he was prepared
to endorse it, because the author had shown
his good sense in quoting something he had
written. The Maine Senator read something
from this book attributed to Mr.. VOORHEES,,
and the Indiana Senator, to use an express
siye phrase. went for him, telling him that
it was bis habit to 90 down into the sewers
to drag forth something putrid he thought
would bring discredit on a brother
senator, and that he was giving
prominence by his senatorial notice
to the shift of an anonymous author.
He then nit Blaine a very hard lick
about fighting his country's battles by q
substitute, and showed up in thrilling Ian
guage New EnSland's unpatrlotic conduct
during the Mexican war. The extract
quoted by Blaine from the book, and at
tributed to Voorhees,, contained an allusion
10 the Indiana regiment that didn't stand at
Buena Vista. This was the provocation for
the eloquent attack on Maine and her sister
States. He paid splendid tribute to the
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