The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-04-17

This once done, the annual cost, ne thinks,
will not exceed s750,000. He asks II
5000, 900 was not too much In 1898, surely
the amount named is not too mach now.
SENATOR BEN. HILL on THE RAYMOND SCAN
DIAL.
The letter written by Senator Hill, OF
Georgia, to one Of his state papers in re-
gard the Raymond scandal, was The topic Of
conversation at th1 Capitol to-day. He
says a conspiracy was formed in Georgia
six months ago , ipiure him ut home, and
the conspirdtors afterwards combined with
party here. The woman Raymond was
employed aAd was made TO believe she
would get from him several thousand
dollars. Some OF the conspirators hold OF.
fees In. the Treasury, he says, and belong TO
the Louisiana gang. He says, having failed
with Raymond, he hears they are going TO
try other means to iniure him. They will
find. however. that the only way to pre-
vent him from doing his duty will be to
kill him. He details efforts made to entrap
him here by the conspiretors, who employ
ed handsome women to aid them In their
! schemes.
MR.. GOODE GETS NUMBER OF NAVAL BILLS
THROUGH THE. HOUSE.
Last night Mr.. Goode, from the Naval
Committee, got through the House the bill
giving navy-yards the private dockage fund
now turned into the Treasury, the bill reg
ulatiHg the purchase OF tobacco for the
navy, the bill retiring naval engineers, and
the bill authorizing the President 10 detail
a naval or marine officer to perform the du-
ties OF solicitor and e-advocate- geAeral.
The comment tonight on his bill, which
val construction fund from the sale Of old
vessels and appropriations by Congress, Is
that 1t will enable the Government to-build
three new war vessels every year and in
crease the work at the navy-yards. The
tobacco bill gives Richmond a fair show
when the contracts are made by the Gov
eminent. 1t was introduced by General
Johnston.
BREIF NEWS ITEMS.
The House Elections Committee heard
the closing argument to-day in behalf Of
Mr.. Yates, contestant 10 the North Carolina
case Martin Us. Yates. Arguments for
Mr.. Martin will begin Monday.
The Presidents family will not go to the
Soldiers Home this summer.
The Tennessee, which sails from Hampton
Roads next Tuesday, will take Minister
Dlckman to Bogots.
Robert G. Winthrop was on the floor Of
the House to-day.
The coored boy Simpson, who attends to
the bathrooms at West Point, was found
here to-day and sent there, the idea being
that lie knows something about the Whit
taker case.
The House to-day passed the Senate bill
removing the disabilities of General Roger
A. Pryor.
The Senate will not meet tomorrow.
The next Eastern Christian Ministerial
Association will be held at Norfolk. To-
day the Rev. Mr. Dearborn said In his all
dress that the denomination numbers be-
tween 100000 and 100000 in the United
States.
The House Committee on War Claims, in
their report on the claim Of james Fl. Shu-
mate, OF Warrenton, Va, for s735, say this
was presented to the claims commissioners
and rejected because the claimant had been
adjudged bankrupt.
d. :. Houn>hel and wife are at the Riggs
House, and Mr.. Hounshell to-day qualified
in the Supreme Court, on motion Of Sem
ator Johnston.
DIR. Ruffner and Colonel w. G. Knight
left here for Richmond this evening.
The Democratic senators on the Electoral
Count Committee will hold meeting to-
morrow.
Mr.. Upton was confirmed this evening as
collector o. customs at Tappahannock.
ASSOCIATED Press Reports by telegraph to the Dis
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SUBSTITUTE FOR THE MONR0E-D0CTRINE REs0-
LUTIONs.
WASHINGTON, April 16.-The House Com
mittee or Foreign Affairs, TO which were
referred the several joint resolutions re-
lating to the Monroe doctrine IN connec-
ton with the proposed iner-oceanic canal,
reported TO the House substitute for those
measures, WDlcu pTONlues tHuI sicps
shall at once be taken to abrogate the treaty
Of 1850 between the United STATES and
Great Britain, commonly known as The
" CIayton.Bulwer treaty." by which the
contracting Powers bound themselves TO
guarantee jointly the safety and freedom OF
any canal which should be constructed
across the Central America isthmus. The
committee reports that TINS treaty Is an OBJ
siacle, and possibly peril, in the way Of a
complete and pacific ASSOCIATION OF sound.
necessary, and vigorous American policy.
COMPUTATIONS.
WASHINGTON, April 16 Among the
nominations confirmed by the Senate TO-DAY
were those Of William l.. Scruggs OF GeOr.
gia to be United States consul at Canton,
and Benjamin Upton, Jr., 10 be collector OF
customs for the district Of Tappahannock,
Va.
Forty-sixth C0ngreSs...SecOndS Session.
WASHINGTON, April 10, 1880.
| SENATE.
Mr.. EdmundS, from the Committee on
Private Land Claims, reported adversely on
the bill to abrogate the power OF executive
officers of the United States in allowing In
demnity TO locations or scrip for confirmed
unsatisfed private land claims under the
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