The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-03-31

T, sious from the bill OF last session.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE PErIrioSrNG FOR.
Just now petitions are being sent to Con-
gress daily to prohibit the manufacture and
sale Of oIeomargerine; to establish an apri-
cultural department; to enact general
bankrupt Law; to pass an equalization
bounty bill, DC.
iNTERocgANIc CANAL-TuE INDIAN TREATY.
The President OF Nicaragua writes that
his Government aud people are anxiously
looking for capitalists from the United
States who will undertake TO build the inter-
oceanic canal, and are ready TO make the
most liberal concessions to responsible par
ties.
The House Indian Committee has deter
mined that II has right to modify the
treaty made by Secretary Schurz with the
Utes, and will proceed to do so.
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS.
After April lst Assistant. Secretary
French will have charge Of the work OF the
divisions of Life~Saving Service and the
Revenue Marine, and misunderstanding
Upton will have supervision. by order Of
Secretary Sherman, OF the division OF War
rants, Estimates, &c.
And now "Charlie," the popular clerk
at the White House, has been dismissed for
moral crookedness.
The report on the Freedmen's Bank
swindle puts the loss OF depositors at
100000. The expenses OF winding up
the bank during the last four years has
amounted TO 1895, 1904. How the Radicals
love the colored people!
The star-service appropriation bill. with
Senate amendments, will be called up ia the
House tomorrow.
The Government fishing steamer will
soon commence its work on the coast OF
North Carolina. It's hatching apparatus Is
most complete.
Ex-senator Yulee, OF Florida, is in the
city.
The Secretary Of War is in New York
with the President and Mrs. Hayes.
The investigation Of the District Commits
sioners was continued to-day.
There are over fifty candidates for the va.
cant Kentucky Federal judgeship.
The Senate to-day passed the House bill
for the protection OF herring, &C., in the
Potomac river.
The weather to-day was beautiful, and
there was a large number of visitors at the
Capitol.
The sub-Commercc Committee Senator
Hereford chairmap) to-day heard an argu-
ment in favor OF retaining the present pilot
Jaws.
Associated Press Reports by telegraph 10 the Dis.
pach.I
THE ARMY BILL.
WASHINGTON. March 90.-The House Com
mittee on Appropriations to-day unani-
mouslv agreed upon the army appropria-
ton bill for the year ending June. 1881. 1t
appropriates an aggregate Of 500 425,S00,
which Is q reduction from the estimates sub
mitted Of Sl,201G7j. Representative ely
mrr was instructed TO report the bill to the
House to-day.
CONFIRMATION.
WASHINGTON, March 30.-The Senate in
executive session to-day confirmed the nOmi-
nation Of Agar NJ. Wheeler as postmaster
at Daaville, Va.
MINOR MATTERS.
WASHINGTON, March 30.-The House
Ways and Means Committee to-day. BY a
vote OF 10 3, decided to place on the free
list all manufactured paper from pulp, iute,
manufactured fix. straw, and all other fibre
and fibrous plants fit for use in the manu-
facture OF paper. They also decided. by a
vote OF to 8, to fix the duty at 40 per cent.
on fannels. blankets, hats OF wool, knit
goods, balmorals, woolen and wor>. e |
yarns, all manufactures Of every Gescrip-
ton composed wholly or In part OF worsted,
the hair Of the alpaca goat and other like
animals, except such as are composed in
part OF wool not otherwise provided for.
The House Committee on Commerce to-
day ordered favorable report to the House
on the resolution authorizing The Richmond
and Southwestern Railway Company to
build bridges across the Pamunkey and
Mattaponi rivers.
Secretary Sherman left for Ohio TO night.
and will be absent several days.
The Signal-SeIvice station ut Cape HAT
teras reports the schooner Waehful, X. y.
Gill master, from Newberne, \. c., for
Philadelphia, sunk on the swash inside Of
IIa,teras Inlet. Wrecking are at
hand.