The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-03-11

ITALY-THE CLAIM or THE NORTH CAROLINA
RAILROAD FOR TRANSPORTING TR00Ps-PRR-
soNAL-THE INDIAN PETITION LIQUOR, TO.
BACCo, AND CIGARS-vARloUS MINOR ITEMS,
&C., &C.
fFrom Our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, March 10.-To.day the TO-
bacco petition OF the Board OF Trade OF
Nashville and other similar petitions were,
by order Of the Senate, taken from the
Finance Committee and referred to the
Committee on Foreign Relations. IL will
be remembered that they ask that steps may
be taken by the Government TO induce
Spain, Austria. Italy, and France TO do
away with their governmental tobacco
monopoly. l had a talk with sena-
tor Bailey, OF Tennessee, who, like
the Virginia senators, takes great inter
est in the matter. He thinks, however,
that ii will take time 10 work Congress up
to full appreciation Of this question OF so
much moment to the tobacco States. There
Is another trouble-viz., that the northern
people who control the Administration do
not think anything affecting the South is OF
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they do not realize that the South Is part
OF the Union, nor will they do so until
there is q Democratic Administration.
Hence it would not strike them as an enor-
nous crime to throw out the votes OF
southern States in presidential contest, II
such thing were to become necessary Ii
order to count in defeated Republican
candidate.
WANTS THE GOVERNMENT TO SETTLE WITH THE
NORTH CAROLINA RAILROAD.
Senator Ransom to-day introduced a bill
directing the Secretary OF War and Attor-
ney. General of the United States to reopen,
adjust. and settle the account between the
United States Government and the North
Carolina railroad for the transportation OF
troops, freedmen, military supplies, &c,
from 1865 to 1871, inclusive. They are to
follow in said settlement the rules adopted
in the case between the Western Atllntic
road, Of Georgia. and the Government,
where similar services were performed and
paid for. This bill went to the Railroad
Committee, OF which Senator Ransom Is
chairman.
PERSONAL.
General w. II. Payne was at the Sapi-
fol this evening. There are number OF
members OF the Legislature in the city.
Senators Lamar ard Beck were at the
White House to-day. J. Milton Turner
(colored Republican and cX-Minister to Ill
beria) has prepared paper against the ne
gro exodus, which he will submit to the
Senate Committee. Moncure ID. Conway
has been ordered from England to Italy
for his health, so letters received here say.
| He is native OF Falmouth, Stafford county,
Senator Hill expects to have the report In
the Kellogg case ready by next week.
ACoNTEsT OVER THE INDIAN PETITION.
During the morning hour to-day in the
Senate there was spirited debate between
Messrs. VOORHEES,, Vest, and Garland, on
one side. and Messrs. ConkliDg, Edmunds,
and Thurman, on the other, as to whether
The pe,ition Of the Indian delegations should
90 TO The Indian Committee or to the Judi
ciary. The last three senators named con-
tended that as the bill authorized the estab-
lishment of a court it ought TO go TO the
Judiciary Committee. Mr.. Voorhees, grew
indignant that the Judiciary Committee,
which. he asserted, has legal questions
sleeping on their docket OF great moment
TO the American people, and which ought
TO be attended to, should now want to usurp
the powers OF the Indian Committee. MIR.
Conking, in reply, declared that II ques-
ton OF purely a legal character comes before
the Senate the Indiana Senator wants it to
90 10 the Finance Committee just because
he is member OF 1t. The debate was wax
ing warmer and more personal every mo-
ment. when the expiration OF the morning
hour put an end to it and the matter wenl
over.
THE plsrIILERs BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF
WAYS AND MEANS.
Internal-Reyenue- Commissioner Raum
was heard before the sub Commiitee OF
Ways and Means to.day-Mr. Carlisle, o.
Kentucky, presiding the bill pre-
pared by the National Di>tillers' Associa
ton and Wholesale Liquor-Dealers' Asso'
tciation proposing certain changes in the
internal-revenue regulations affecting the
louor traffic. A number OF diStilleIs were
nresent. and from time TO time took part II
the proceedings. The Commissioner AS
scented TO reduction of distll,ers' bonds
a. provided in the first three sections
OF the bill, and to the right to export
in quantities as low as ten gallons
re also agreed TO other regulations anC
changes, with some verbal alterations
the most important of which is the allow
ance OF accidental loss OF spirits before
wsrebousing. Relief from the charge fol
warehouse, export, rectiiers', and whole
sale dealers stamp he neither recommended
nor refused. Allowance for leakage OF
bonded goods and interest now charged h'
leaves 10 the judgment of Congress, Stains
that revenues from the three sources is nov
81. SOC, 900. He favored the repeal OF sec
| ton OF the act Of March /, 1869, relating
TO recti6ers' bonds. lie recommended tina
the books OF rectiiers and wholesale dealer
. be gotten up in manifold, so that one ehtr!
, will answer for original and copy. He SAT-
he believed the
REVENUE THIS YEAR FROM LIQUOR, TOBACCO
CIGARS, AND BEER
, will be about $120,000,000. He also salt
distillers are making money, and all ID
registered distilleries paying the Govern
meut their full taxes. He watches the QUO
tations. and from these ascertains this fact