The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-01-31
Washington.

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T"h snr or THE REVENUE BILL WHY WEI
SS .r .,yrrrx CENTS; 4 MINORITY kh'oH, ~,
fu" .x.s.rACIrIC--wHirE Sthfhoh .s..
,,-Tus FISHING TREATY -pi go. AN =,
500 STAMPS --SENAToE N,
'',,,vr-yrEpICT IL THE ARLiN"ioN eE''''
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,,,,,xoro>. January 30.-Ihe SENATE
1000 Committee to-day reconsioereo
49,, ', rnor;ce amendment to the tobacco SEC
,;nr If the revenue bill, and thus ie'iesee
.hn friends OF reduction OF the lear thes 'iiae'
~ .,..nrhIe on this score. They allowed Inc
..ran., ,sx. however. to remain mt 2Oc., as
wood ,non the other day. called on MI.
Tnorhoes 4, the Senate chamber to-day ano'
o,,cr informing him how much grat'heo the
,, =, Richmond and Of Virginia were
!. his vote. asked him who Of the committee
~ - I'D atn for 16c., ard be replied
'V, Tnos ~ Nevada and wallace" He also
so;d that they would make minority re-
,ar, which is now being prepared. have
l.ra1lc information that Mr.. Bayard will
80, mike opposition to the minority
.,,.r, when il comes before the Senate.
~ of his tobacco friends IN Congress are
o,oc;nr the question before him IN the
s.ronrc.t light. He was in the House TO-
d,r Your correspondent asked Mr.. foor-
hep. il the opinion OF some senators that
n;s committee would complete the consld-
.-s,ion OF the revenue bill! this week was
we'll founded. and he said, "No: that he
lin not expect the report on it could be
,oode before the last Of next week. Your
correspondent this morning encountered
leading tobacco manufacturers from the
ra.t and West in squads all about the Capt.
fol- Some OF them had just arrived, and all
seemed to be in dead earnest. He informed
Mr. Soldier. OF the firm Of Lorjllard & Co.,
what The committee had done in regard TO
rcorice. and he said, Good; that relieves
II, n a difficulty" Mr.. Scidler added that
he thought we are now all right in the Sen
ate. SO confident, in fact, do leading to-
bacco.men here feel. as to the Senate, that
they now ask the question whether there is
any fear of n presidential veto.
THE TEXAS-PACIFIC ROAD. .y.
The friends OF this great Improvement are
at the Capitol daily, and are evidently work
inc with zeal. In the Senate Mr.. Allison,
OF Iowa, has been designated to fill the place
OF Mr.. Christiancy on the Judiciary Com
mittee, and he is not, hear, in favor OF the
Tcxas-Pacitic bill.
An EFFORT BY A LIVE YIRGINIAN TO BUILD UP
THE WHITE SULPHUR. ...
Mr.. ". 4. Stuart, Of the Salt-W orks, left
mere to-day for New York, where he goes
with special view OF interesting capital
ISIS and especially stockholders OF the
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad, in building
up the Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs
and making them great southern wafer
ingpace Mr. Stuart has by his own eff
forts amassed a fortune, and his friends
here say if he cannot make the White Sui
Dbur success, no one. else can.
HE IMPROVEMENT OF THE RAPPAHANNOCK
RIVER. .-..-.~ -. ..-' 81. =
Messrs. john L. Marye, Z. NJ. Braxton,
Charles Wallace, and James Burwell FIcklen
are here to urge the House Committee on
Commerce to recommend the appropriation
OF $4,000 for the permanent improvement
OF the Rappahannock river. They say the
small annual appropriations heretofore have
done harm instead o. good, and that two
steamers have been wrecked in the riyer,re-
Gently. The committee is a strong one.
PERSONAL NEWS ITEMS.
Senator's Hereford and Davis the other
day received resolutions from the West Fir-
ginia Legislature instructing them TO vote
tor the Tcyas-Pacitic bill, but they had in
formation day that the State Senate had
reconsidered and rejected the resolutions.
and that The House would probably do like
Wise. Messrs. w. II. Prout, editor OF the
Gordonsvile Gazette, and Z. T. Hoxey, as
S:iant United States district attorney, were
at the Capitol to-day. Senator Withers
haS gone 10 Richmond, and Cen
efa' Pndemore, who is called home
oy Illness in his family, left this
evening for Southwestern Virginia. A spe-
cia! Republican messenger from Albany
feached Washington tonight with petit
uoh signed by about fifty Republican mem
'ers OF the New York Legislature asking
+Ae Senate to confirm the New York ap-
continents. Wh!telaw Reid, OF the New
"fk Tribune, who testified before the
fO'ter committee to-day to the eff ct that he
!eceved the cipher dispatches he published
h9m " E. Chandler and anonymous persons,
''1ot only fne-looking, but has scholarly
ar The Democrats asked hin no questions.
y messenger to one OF the Senate commit
ices says before the war he used to take
u'oFes OF horses from the West to Rich
I.oao ana other parts Of Eastern Virginia.
n's opinion Is that IN all his travels Louisa
NV, uoui'uouse III ante-bellnm days was the
A'ei.eSl village on court day he ever stopped
w. l.. a. Bledsoe, cashier OF the National
'""eF Bank, staunton, is here.
'"A @o'EaEST TO DO AWAY WITH THE FISH
-, hAf TREATY WITH GREAT BRITAIN.
n 4he senate resolution which requests the
.'e''uent to inform the British Govern
. Su' 'hat The United States desires to do
-? ~llh that part Of the Washington
SA.y which relates to the fisheries at its
u nrua'ion was to-day considered blythe
TSu committee on Foreign Relations.
si,,. 'Oanmittee amended the Senate propo-
to tn 50 as to request the President to In
Sosa our British cousins that we want this
asst.a sht away, without waiting six years,
TIT =, ae!lon OF the Senate contemplates.
w Just what Blaine, Hale & Co. want.
SAsD RECEPTION 10 SENATOR MATT, CAR