The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-03-16

I members Of the committee did not concu
Ia the majority report.
| Mr.. Gordon presented petition Of ex
Confederate officers concerning the preser
vatien OF the records Of the battle OF Get
| tysburg.
Mr.. Mcdonald submitted 'be views OF tn,
minority on the bill 10 reiaiburse severa
States for interest paid on war.loai 3. which
was recently reported Adversely from the
judiciary Committee.
| The Senate resumed the coIsideration oil
| the star-route deficiency appropriation Bi
| as reported from the Senate Appropriations
Committee, the preamble reciting that The
| deficiency results from violation OF law by
| the Post. Office Department. The bin then
iapproprlates Sl,100,0e0 for the expenses OF
mail service on star routes for the remain
der OF the fiscal year--no further increase
OF tips or expedition OF time to be made
| and appropriates 100000 for placing new
service-no contract to be increased more
| than 30 per cent.
Dir. Wallace explained the changes IN the
bill, saying the business interests OF the
| country demand that the service shall be
| Kept up to the existing standard. and that
| contracts made III good faith shall not be
abrogated and contractors ruined because
OF the errors OF the Department. When the
| authors OF the errors are discovered they
VIII he punished; meanwhile the committee
think the service should not be crippled.
Mr.. MaXey supported the committees
bill, but thought the preamble unnecessary
and unjust. The Postmaster-General had
full discretion under the existing law, and
| had done what he thought best, and the re-
| suit had justified his action.
Mr.. Beck supported the preamble, declar-
| ing that the Postmaster General had violated
| the law by expanding so much OF the ap-
preparation in the first part Of the year as TO
make the deficiency inevitable.
Pending the debate the Senate adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
Under call OF the States the following
bills were introduced and referred:
| By Mr.. Singleton, OF Illinois: In relation
| to telegraph communications. Ut provides
that all telegraph messages delivered for
transmission TO any telegraph company
awaiting itself OF the provisions Of title IS OF
| the Revised Statutes, and copies thereof
made by such company at the place of DIES.
tinati0n, or any intermediate point, shall be
deemed to be, and shall be, protected from
unreasonable search aud seizure, or from
gislative proceedings TO the same extent as
communications sent by the United States
mail.
BY Mr.. Willis, Of Kentucky: Resou-
tions OF the Kentucky Legislature APPROX
ing the address of the Mississippi-river
commission. Also, for the relief OF SOL
dlers of the late war.
BY Mr.. o. Turner, OF Kentucky: Reso-
lutons Of the Kentucky Legislature asking
| for reduction OF the Presidents salary to
SD, 900.
BY Mr.. Ellis, OF Louisiana (by requesD
| To revive the act Of June Sd, 1856, and TO
make a grant Of land to MOrgan's Louisiana
and Texas Railroad and Steamboat Com
| pany.
| BY Mr.. Acklen, of Louisiana: Proposing
q constitutional amendment. [It recites the
fact that the evidently growing tendency in
the United States TO Capitalization of power
| in the Federal Government has awakened
throughout the country Il just fear that in
the near future the perpetuation OF this
Union may again be imperiled by internal
commotion, thereby wreckins the peace and
prosperity OF this Republic and breaking
down those doctrines OF perpetual union OF
the States, finally and fully settled by the
war, as well as infringing upon the home
rule OF the States, guaranteed by the Con-
stitution; and proposes constitutional
amendment declaring that the Union OF the
United States shall be perpetual. and that
all acts or attempts to separate or destroy
this Union shall be treason against the Fed
eral Government, and shall be punished as
such. State lines and boundaries shall be
inviolate, provided that new States may be
formed with the consent OF the States from
which they are formed and the right OF q
State 10 make, execute, and enforce its local
laws, by or through its chosen representa-
lives or officials, shall never be interfered
with by the Federal Government
| BY Mr.. Buckner, OF Missouri: For the
adjournment OF Congress on the oath OF
May.
Mr.. Tucker. OF Virginia, introduced q
bill appropriating $500 for the relief OF
the daughter and granddaughter OF Zacha-
riai Taylor.
Mr.. Cox was recognized by the Speaker
to move to suspend the rules and pass the
bill for the relief Of the suffering Irish, but
was cut off by motion to adjourn. He,
however, obtained leave to have the report
Of the Committee on Foreign Affairs on the
| bill printed.
Adjourned.