The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-01-27
Warrington.


APPROPRIATION S-COMNITTEE MAT
TERs-Tug ALCoHoLIC-LIoUOR COMMIs
SI0N-TBE SUGAR WAR, AGAIN, &C.
from our Regular Correspondent
WAsHINGToN, January 26.-The decisions
Of the Supreme Court on the Virginia ant
other cases Involving the coustituiionality o
the reconstruction acts will be rendered The
first Monday after the court meets after th,
February recess.
The opinion continues 10 prevail that thu
court stands four four. Mr. Thurman has
appointed n Subcommittee, consisting o
Senators Mcdonald, Carpenter, and Gar
land. 70 consider Judge Robertson's bill
giving the Supreme Court power TO grant
writs Of prohibition in certain cases-sucl
as the Rives cases, for example.
TOBACCO MATTERS BEFORE CONGRESS-.
The subcommittee OF the Ways and
Means Committee will take up the export
tobacco bill just rs soon as General Randall
Gibson returns this week to Washington
Mr.. Tucker advised delay until then, and
Mr.. Carlisle, the chairman of the .sub-com-
mittee, was Of the same way OF think
ing. or the Committee OF Ways and Means,
Messrs. Tucker, Carlisle, Gibson, Phelps,
Fenton, and Mills are for the bill, and
Mcssrs. Wood, Garfield, and COnger against
it, with Judge Kelley, Of Pennsy lyania,
doubtful. THIS will secure favorable re
port. Messrs. David Tenant, Dunlop's adj
minlstrator, Watson & Magill, and Mrs. j.
TayIor, administrators. all OF Petersburg,
are interested in the lIiawatha tobacco
cases, on which the Senate Judiciary Com
mittee to-day reported adversely, and asked
to be discharged from the further cOnsidera-
ton Of the same. This was done by the
Senate.
CLAIMS OF AMERICANS AGAINST SPAIN.
The American claims against Spain, grow
ing out OF the Cuban revolution, are before
Hon. Joseph Segar, OF Virginia, represent
ing the United States, and Podesta, on the
part OF Spain. Baron Blanc. OF the Italian
Legation, is umpire. The American claim.
ants contend that they are entitled TO 49,
600, 900, and complain that the representa-
tive OF Spain refuses 10 certify points OF diff
ference between himself and Mr.. Segar, so
that the arbitrator may decide the points
involved. Mr.. EvartS, it is stated, sustains
Mr.. Segar, but he is so busy with the politi-
cal status OF New York and heavy diplo-
matte matters that he has not time TO give
attention to these claims against Spain. One
OF these claims grows out Of the fact that
the Spanish military took possession OF a
palaiial residence owned by u New Yorker
and converted il into a stable.
COLONEL JOHN A. PARKER AND THE KANSAS
NEBRASKA BILL.
met Colonel John A. Parker at the Cap
itol to-day, and he was full Of the Virginia
war claim OF 1912, which he expects to come
up in the House on Thursday. He says the
agents of all the States interested are here,
and in conference daily. He also informed
me that he has ready for the press, and will
publish in the North american Revie,o and
in pamphlet form, the secret history Of the
Kansas Nebraska bill, which he says "led
directly to the late war;" His pamphlet
will also contain a review of the slavery
agitation from 1919 to 1861. Mr.. Parker
states that he is the only person now living,
except one, familiar with the repeal of the
Missouri Compromise.
Personal NEWS ITEMS.
Mr.. John Il. Laidly, the Democratic SUI
peryisor of the census for West Virginia,
rs here Mr.. Scott Darlington, OF the Ex-
change, was at the Capitol to-day. Mr..
Hayes tonight is entertaining a large num-
Der of New England excursiOnists. A
West Virginian to-day told me that Senator
Hereford will be opposed next fall by Gov
ernOr Mathews, and MessrS. johnson n.
Camden and jonathan NJ. Bennett and
others, and that the State-capital question
will enter largely into the contest. The
President has appointed Mr.. Edward
Daniels, formely editor OF the Richmond
State Journal, one Of the special assay
to test the weight and fine
ness OF coins struck at the several minis du-
ing 1879 On Wednesday the Senate will lis
en- TO eulogieS on the late Zachariah Chand-
er. Senator Bayard will make his financial
peech tomorrow. Governor Pitkin, OF
dorado, is here about the Utes. The
Mayor of Dublin acknowledges the receipt
II $4,000 donated by Washington to the
IRISH relief fund. Mrs. Christiancy went
O Pennsylvania with her husband, but has
and is now in Maryland with her
mother. A lady was assaulted and robbed
" negro In the Agricultural Grounds TO.
lay. She was the widow of Captain McCau-
ey, OF the army.
THE APPROPRIATION BILLS.
The House Committee on ApprOp riations
xpect to have all of the appropriation bills
ut of the House and ready for the Senate
y the 18th OF March. No trouble is anti
ipated In regard to any of the bills except
hat which provides for the pay OF United
tates marshals and their deputies, as they
ill be substantially transcripts OF those
assed by Congress and signed by the Pres |
lent at the extra session. The Senate APP |
OPERATIONS Committee will act on them as
81 as received with customary prompti-
40 The Committee on Rules will get |
NJ the report on rules this week, and
N tie Appropriations Committee will
We an appropriation bill ready for the ac-
n OF thu House.
HOSE COMMITTEE MATTERS.
rbe Wave and Means will vote on the
e Of interest and the time mentioned in
rnando Wood. refunding bill on next
nday. The Com merce Committee will
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