The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-06-12


WASHINGTON, June 11.-Yesterday the
feeling was that Congress would adjourn
by Tuesday, but it looks to-day as If it
would not get away before the last OF next
week. The Senate Appropriations Com
mittee did not get through with the legisla-
tive bin in time to-day to report it so that
the Senate could act upon it. Then the
committee will have to graphic with the iu-
dicial and army appropriation bills after
they have finished the consideration OF the
legislative bill, and on the haste with which
the Senate disposes Of these depends the
question OF adjournment.
THE SILVER BILL-wHAT REPUBLICAN sENA-
TORS WILL DO.
Tomorrow the Senate will, according to
the present programme, take up the motion
to reconsider the vote by which it Yesterday
rejected the Coke resolution. There is very
little chance OF any Republican senator,
however pronounced silver-man he may
be, voting with the Democrats for this reso.
luton, because they say If the bill is passed
the President will veto it, and therefore
there is 10 use OF acting on it now. They
say, further, that the Democrats know this,
and only want veto TO help them in the Ohio
election this fall, and that Republicans have
nothing to gain by assisting them to get a
veto for any such purpose. A leading
Democrat of the House, who voted for the
bill, remarked to me to-day that il is very
crude, and needs amending. He added ::
" You may take two OF the best lawyers in
the House, both Silver-men, and let them,
after careful examination, write out their
ideas Of its provisions, and they will be
wide apart in their conclusions" Mr..
Bayard, hear, is very much put out about
the vote Of the Democrats on the Coke reso-
luton, and talks Of resigning the chairman
ship OF the Finance Committee.
The latest tonight is that the silver-mcn
will not make move in the Senate in be-
half OF the Warner bill until Friday, if
then; and have little hope Of success.
They say Senator Edmunds sailed for
Europe to-day in disgust.
COX GIVES KEIFER ANOTHER SEVERE BLOW.
Noticed yesterday how Cox exposed the
misrepresentation Of Keifer, stalwart, OF
Ohio, in regard to the vote Of Judge Abb
bolt. Democrat, in the Electoral Commits
sion. but keifer, in order to lessen the ef-
feet OF the exposure, doctored his remarks
T in the Record. The qnick-witted New
Yorker, however, to-day showed from the
official report how Keifer had changed the
language of the charges made SO as to rob
his reply OF all lis point. The member
from Ohio indicated by bis stammering at
tempt at an explanation how keenly he felt
this second exposure.
Personal NEWS ITEMS.
Senator Withers returned to-day from
| Nanscmond, and will on the cath attend the
grand Masonic celebration at Danyille. A
letter from Mr.. Tucker says bis eyes are get
| ting on frst-ratc. Mr.. Proctor Knott to-
| day made Il report on the veto message,
which was ordered TO be printed. Conger
who said it is Democratic campaign docu
mcnt, was right, and it will prove telling
one at that. General Lilly, Of Virginia, was
at the Capitol to-day. Mr.. Morrill,, in hi:
own peculiarly dreary way, "vindcatet
the truth Of history" to-day in the Senate
The galleries thinned when he arose tc
speak. St. Jerome Edmnnds is going home
early next week anyhow, and that will ia
ciitate business in the Senate.
THE ARMY BILL IN THE HOUSE.
Mr.. Clymer to-day reported the army
bill, and briefly explained its provisions
He said that it increased the appropriation
for the support OF the army, because las
year the House framed bill for an army O.
10000, and the Senate increased the mum
Der TO $4,000, but did not increase the ap
preparation. The present bill appropriate;
S26, 797 800. while that OF last year appro
priated So, 500, asa. The estimates this yeal
were S31, $685. While the bill was being
considered and members perspiring ant
speaking, outsiders could not help asking
this evening why the Democrats did no
pass the bill Monday when the Republicans
offered to vote for it without debate?
AN AFRICAN IN THE w00D-pILE.
General Manning supported an amend
ment to the army bill to give the Nationa
AQUARIUM Company control OF about three
miles OF Government land on Sandy Hook
\ The grant was recommended by Genera
Mcclellan and the members 81 the New
York and New Jersey Legislatures; bu
General Hawley said there was Il large sized
! African in the wood.ple, for while TIL:
company professed to want to quarter rel
whales there, they would erect hotels, like
those on Coney Island, on the Government
land and realize for themselves vast profits
The amendment was lost.
GENERAL JOHNSTON AND PROMOTIONS.
In the 9th section OF the army bill as re.
ported it was provided that there should be
no promotions above the rank Of captain
except in the Engineer corps, and this Gen
eral Johnston moved to strike out. Suisse
quently Mr.. Clymer moved to strike out
the entire section, and it prevailed.
THE POLITICAL SECTION DISCUSSED.
AT quarter TO O'Clock the political Sec
ton was taken up, and, by agreement, dis,
cussed for an hour, each side having thirty
minutes. Mr.. Baker (Republican), while
opposing the section, said be would vote
for the bill whether 1t was stricken out or
| not. General Hawley and Parsoa Garfield
consumed the rest OF the half hour; after
which Mr.. Cox and others spoke on the
Democratic side. The bill passed.
AS there were only thirty-one votes
| against it, it will certainly be signed by The
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