The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-01-08
WaShington.

THE HOUSE ENTERTAINED. BY MIR. ACKI,BN, OF
n LouISiANA-THE TOBACCO, TAX TO BE con-
SlDERED AGAIN NEXT wEEK-THE RIVER
AND HARB0R BILL-THE TEXAS-PAC1FIC
BuL-SgNATuR coNKLISG AND THE, NEW
YORK NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. fERMA-
SsAT PUBLIC. HEAI.Tu .coMMIssIoN-TfE
LATE HON. BID. DouGI.As-PERsoNaL, &C..
Iron Our. Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, January IA dull OPEN
ing OF the House to-day was prevented by
vounc Mr.. Acklell, of Louisiana, who Of
tered resolution that committee OF three
be appointed to investigate the charge that
he seduced Miss Paifrey, now deceased.
He wore stylish black clothes-his coat be-
inc an elongated Prince Albert, while bis
hair was. dressed like the lovers in The
play. The ladies in the galleries looked ut
him with evident interest, but made no de-
monstrations, hostile or otherwise. he had
sundrv papers read by the clerk to snow
that he had been all the while anxious fol
the completest investigation, and while TINS
was being done attitudiniZed In the aisle to
great advantage.
Judge Reagan, OF Texas, objected TO the
consideration OF the resolution, because it
referred to charge with which the House
had nothing to do. The Judges lett eye
was heavily bandaged with a white hand
kerchief, and he did not look near as hand
some as the young Louisianian, who now,
IN reply, with considerable excitement de-
c.ared that he was charged with q crime,
and, and If guilty, had no right to sit as
member Of Congress. When he alluded to
the right Of Congress to judge Of the quail
iica.ions Of It's members there was consld-
cradle laughter on the floor. He said ne
was as stainless as snow OF the charge, and
| wanted the branding iron applied where it
belonged.
The Speaker cited the fact that Speaker
BOYD decided, when Thomas H. Bailey, OF
Virginia. offered resolution instructing
the committee Of which Mir. Letcher was
chairman to report TO the House in regard to
personal charges against him, that l. had
nothing to do with them, because they did
not concern his official standing. The Speak
err, however, asked the House to determine
for itself whether 1t would consider Mr..
Acklen's resolution, and, by decided vote,
| it declined to do so. --
THE TOBACCO QUESTION IN THE SENATE.
The Senate Finance Committee had no
quorum to-day, but Mr.. Morrill, promises
| to Gail q meeting this week, when the to-
bacco question will be further considered.
There is no ground whatever for supposing
that any OF the committee are for gradu-
ated scale OF reduction. The representa-
tive OF the Lorilards, when asked what he
thought OF this proposition, said it was like
cutting off the dogs tail by inches. Sena.
tor Withers to-day laid before the Senate a
petition signed by about thousand citizens
Of Prince Edward, Mecklenburg, Charlotte
Cumberland, and other Southside counties,
praying Congress to reduce the tax on tobac.
CO. He also presented the proceedings OF
large meeting in Cumberland. at which reso,
lutions were adopted favoring the abolition
of the tobacco tax or its reduction as pro-
posed in the House bill. Messrs. Bayard
and Herman still talk OF 4 reduction to
twenty. cents instead of sixteen. as fixed by
the House bill. All the friends OF the re-
duction, however, now want is to get the
subject fairly before the Senate. Delay is
what they most dread. "a. .....
THE RIVER AND HARBoR BILI.-THE NOBLE
49,. i.'.. III: JAMES. -..t.! .'
MeSsrs, Reagan, Kenna, and Hubhell
have been appointed subcommittee to
draft the river. and harbor bin, and after
the return Of Mr.. Hubbell from New York
(Friday) they will work daily on it until
completed. DIr. Kenna is a warm friend OF
Richmond, and will look out for our river.
L. Q. Washington is clerk Of the commit
tee. " ..I..,l <-s.s.
TIE TEXAs-PAcIFIC RAILROAD BILL.
The House Committee on Roads has
agreed to ask the House to FIX a day for the
consideration of the Texas-Pacific and
Northern Pacific bills, and it Is expected
that this will be done. The friends Of the
TeXas-Pacifc cannot make any move in the
Senate until its friends, Messrs. Garland,
Bailey, Lamar, Eustis, and others, return
from the South. ~.!Ej- a n =
LORD ROSCoE-THE ADMINISTRATION AND TIE
NEW YORK APPOINTMENTS. -
The prevailing opinion here is that Conk-
ling means to fight the New York appoint
ments to the bitter end; and yet it is not at
all certain that he can carry his committee
against them, as he did last winter, because
then he appealed to senator's to sustain him
on the ground that the President had ap-
pointed men because they were his. per-
sonal enemies. Now>he has no such plea.
The Democratic senators have learned that
they made sad mistake IN standing by him
then, instead OF Mr.. Hayes, because in! so
doing they gayc,a new lease Of power to the
ablest and Ditterest enemy the South has in
the Senate. In the meanwhile the friends OF
Mr.. Hayes claim. that be , has the backbone
and the will to- fight Lord Roscoe to his
hearts, content. They Furthermore repeat
the declaration that unless these and other
appointments are conhrmed he will call an
extra session of..the Senate. The Demo:
Gratis have nothing to leoseit they,WilbonIiyy'
act will, reasonable common SENSE. 4
THE, War ,BETwEENltTHE SUGAR MEN-Ac11VE
t. ,-Rt5Hd HosTILITIEs TOMORROW. -. -,
The Ways and Means CSmmittee forltbe
three mornings commencing with to-rnoI'
row will hear the sugar men Of the eeoun-
try in regard totbe proposed changes in the
laws regulating the duty on sugar, and the
,manneH of collecting the same.