The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-04-02

entitled TO for twenty years to come. These
included 10000 Springfield rifles. and were
distributed among negroes, aeyer TO no re-.
turned TO The State armory. The Senate
Military Committee has agretd to Senator
Buffers bin wiplng ont this unjust arrange.
mcnt.
The House Railroad Committee to-day
by unanighous vote declared forfeited the
land-graat to the Louisiana Backbone road.
General sherman left for Chicago to-
night, and Senator Thurman has entirely
recovered.
The California senators say there was no
political significance In the San Francisco
election, as the Democrats and Republicans
voted together.
The House Judiciary Committee have
agreed to amend the treaty so that none OF
the Utes shall be settled outside OF Colorado.
Senator Morgan presented petition from
the public printers, who wanted their pay
to go on on public holidays.
Dnring March there was SJ,il2 900 gold
and S2,350 500 silver coined at the minis OF
the United states.
Bids for steamboat mail-seryice In the
South were opened to-day. They were not
numerous. The result will be known soon.
Wyatt Stone, the negro wife.murderer,
will be hanged tomorrow. II he does not
announce that he is going TO Heaven 1t Will
be unusual.
The weather to-day was beautiful and the
I visitors TO the Capitol numerous.
Associated Press Reports by telegraph to the Dis
| patch.l
THE SYSTEM OF PACIFIC RAILWAYS.
WASHINGTON, April 1.-General Chal-
mers, of Mississippi. to-day under instruc-
tons from the Committee on Pacific Rail-
WAYS, submitted TO the House q substitute
for the bill introduced by him in April,
1879. TO complete the system OF Pacific rail-
roads, together with an elaborate report
upon The entire subject, both OF which
were ordered 10 be printed and recon-
milted.
The bill entitled " An act to complete
the Pacific railway system and for other
purposes proposes radical departure
from all former methods OF railroad egisa-
ton, and aims to complete the roads men,
toned. and aid other projects Of public i'm
provement, without entaiing any tax upon
the people or involving the Government by
the endorsement of railroad bonds. 1t pro-
noses to restore to the Government 1867
500. 900 acres OF public lands, heretofore
granted to railroad corporotionS, and from
their sale, nj an average price OF -
Der acre, 10 realize S2l3,QO0000; this 10
be a public improvement fund from which
loans are to be made 10 railroads Ipon GER
tain prescribed conditions, the Government
securing itself by tirst-mortgage bonds OF
railroads ayailing themselves OF the proyi-
sious OF the act. Provision Is made by the
bill not to interfere with the homestead en-
try. and at the same time to deal with justice
and equity with those corporations VINO
lost their legal claims TO Immigrants during
great financial crisis.
Ii provides that land-grants made 10 the
Southern Pacific, the Atantic aud Pacihc.
and the Northern Pacific, shall be forfeited
to the United States aud sold, the proceeds
to be covered into The Treasury and set
apart as a public Improvement iund; that
when either of the above roads shall nave
completed ten miles of It's road rhe Secretary
OF the Treasury shall make a loan equal TO
four fjfths OF the actual cash cost If con-
sriuc,ion, and take frst-morgage bona
payable one thind IL ten years. one thrd
i'm twenty years, aud one third in thirty
wears after date at s. per cent. interest, pay
able semi.anDualy.
The bill further provides that the total
amount OF such first mortgage Oonus so
issued shall not exceed the total cash cost OF
building and equipping such road; that
moneys accommodating III said improvement
fund shall only be appropriated By Congress
for the purpose OF aiding IN the c0nslfuc-
ton Of railroads and other public works,
and as loan, to be so paid with interest,".
Iii "A Cor hQ
three commissioners by the President to
examine the railroad or other property
authorized to be constructed, who shall GER
tjfy that it has been completed IN ac-
cordauce with The terms OF the act OF Con-
eress, as condition precedent to the grant
ing OF loan.
The bill also provides that forfeiture
shall not be effective as to the land-granls
70 the TcXas-Paciic road until March 3,
1882. unless that company shall conser'
thereto by accepting the provisions OF the
act.
THE TEXAS-PACIFIC BILL.
WASHINGTON. Al ril 1.-The Senate Com
mittee on Railroads gave hearing To-Day
; 10 Ex-Governor Joseph +. Brown, OF Zen
, nessee, vice presideUt OF the Texas ana fa'
, cific Railroad Company, in advocacy OF me
pendug bill to extend the time for the
lcOmDiStlOu VI llS iOdu' nv INV
j committee that the Texas and Pacific
c Company has built 444 miles Of railroad
+ at a cost CT S27, 100000, and has con-
. tracted for the completion OF its
line to Ell Paso, an additional dis
: lance OF 600 miles, by the 1st OF January,
a 1883: that upon completion TO HI Paso the
{ company will have constructed So miles OF
, it's main line, and will be operating total
of 1,O44 miles, for which 1t will not nave
received an acre OF land or dollar OF mo-
ney from the Government, although the
r Government enjoys the same privileges
, over IFS line as over those OF the Union
Pacific and Central Pacific, which were
literally aided from the start. lie
pointed out that the remainder OF
The line from III Paso 10 San Diego Is the
only portion to which the land-grant APP
niles. and that before reaching Ell Paso the
company will have expended S50.OOO,O0O OF
, private contributions, aud 1t only suspend
ed operaiions 1873, owing to the panic ana
It's attendant consequences. the Govern
, ment should in all fairness extend the time
fixed by Congress for its completion.
THE CoLORED PEOPLE DISSATISFIED.
WASHINGTON, April IA delegation OF
colored men from It. Louis called on the
President to-day and represented the DIS
satisfaction Of the people OF their race al
not having their services to the party recog-
| nized. The President said he favored
. doing all he could for the colored people,