The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-03-03
Washington.

SrANTlALLY As 1T CANE PROM Tut SENATE
TUE NEW CABINET-PERSoNAL AND IYACG.
URATION ITEMS, ETC.
fFrom our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, March 2.-The Speaker Of
the House has agreed to recognize Mr.
Richmond, OF Virginia, so that be can call
up the expor,-'oblcco bill. This gives it
bare show Of passing at this session.
NEW MEMBERS OF THE SENATE.
The Senate will on the 4,h Of March con-
tain fifteen new memberS-viz., Mc>srs.
Jackson, Congcr, Miller, George, Sawycrs,
H2wley, Hale, Sewell, Fair. Mitchell, Ma.
hone, and German. Four OF the above
McS>rs. Conger, Sawyer, Mitchell, and
HaWlcy-are now members OF the House.
Secretary sherman returns after an absence
OF four years in the Cabinet. The following
are their own successors: Mc.srS. Bayard,
Burnside, Cockrell, Dawes, Edmunds,
Jones Of Florida, Mcmillan, and MaXey.
JUDGMENTS OF THE UNITED STATES COURTS.
The House judiciary Committee to-day
unanimously directed Mr.. Herbert, Of Ala
bama, 20 report fayOrably the bill offered NV
Mr.. Richmond, OF Virginia, placing iudg-
mcniS Of The courts NJ the United State, OBJ
tanned under section 1920 Of the Revised
Statute, en- the footing Of judgment, OF the
Court Of Claims as TO their audit and pay
mcnt. Thi> report ought to have been
made earlier. because the change proposed
IN the law relieves the judgments referred
to OF any rcvis0ry power on the part OF the
executive officer, aud does away with a
hardship on the part OF claimants long COM
planned Of. Mr.. Richmond did well in
bringing it to the attention OF the House
judiciary Committee.
RELIEF FOR \ RICHMOND FILM.
TIE Ways aud Means Committee directed
Mr.. FELTON,. ii Georgia, TO report fayorably
the bin for the relief OF X. +. Williams. OF
Richmond, from the duties on cargo OF
salt discharged during the great fresbet Of
1870.
THE CROWD AT THE CAPITOL TO DAY.
There was an Immense crowd OF people
At the Capitol to-day, and ii already looks as
# the Inauguration throng had arrived.
do not hear OF trouble about quarters as
yet, but the hOtellobbeS tonight remind
me OF Richmond when the Agricultural
Fair is going on. hear OF good many
leading Tirginians who are coming, and
they will enjoy it, in spite Of the
fact that General Hancock is not TO
be naugurated. The military display will
be very tine, and Secretary Tucker, OF the
Yorktown Centennial Committee, will hold
out inducements TO northern volunteer
companies now here to attend the Centen-
Mai in October next. 1t will help in this
respect, that southern companies OF the
prominence and reputation OF the Gov
errors Guard, OF Richmond, will be in the
line on inau ;uration-day. 1t will be most
agreeable to these that General Field will
command them and Colonel OrdWay place
them in position. A Confederate and a
Federal officer 50 well known in Virginia
can be counted on to secure southern COM
panies a proper position in the parade.
An IMPORTANT CONFERENCE.
The report is that Mr.. HAYES really did
not want to call the executive session OF the
Senate until the 18th or 18th, but that after
Mr.. Garfield conferred with Mr.. Blaine AID
others of his prospective constitutional adj
v>ers he determined that the right thing TO
90 vas to have the call for the 4th.
Personal NEWS ITEMS.
Senator Edmunds was not at The Senate
to-day, but his friends say he will be well
enough to attend on the 4th. Mr.. Blaine
has not vet resigned, and there are a core
Of candidates for the Wisconsin senator
ship. Major Charles Stringfellow, Of Pc
tersburg, and Mr.. J. VI. Booker, promi-
nent citizen Of Lynchburg, were at the
Capitol to.diy. Major Bob Glass, the Viz
ginia journalist, is in the city. A son OF
Senator Vance, the city editor of the Char
lotte (N. ca Observer, was Il close observer Of
the congressional proceedings to-day. Peo-
PIE are arriving tonight by thousands, and
clearinghouse people are happy. You can
hear more about Virginia politics here than
at Richmond, and among the current
rumors tonight is that Mr.. Frank Blair Of
Wythe. is a candidate for Governor. lion.
John Blair Hoge, OF West Virginia, was at
the Capitol to-day. A handsome bouquet
was placed on the desk Of Senator Lamar.
Judge Cockeril, of Fairfax, was at the
Capitol this morning.
PASSAGE OF THE FUNDING BILL.
The Republicans this morning iibustered
in the House on the funding bill, but their
opposition was not Us determined as yester-
dav, and one OF them remarked TO your cor
respondent that he did not see why his
party could afford to put Itself on record
a, against it. Said be, " Ii we defeat it the
Democrats will claim that they tried to SUBJ
sttute 3 per cent. bouds for is and 6's, and
thereby save to The tax payers OF the United
States millions annually" "Suppose," re-
marked another Republican, ''the bill passes,
have Won any assurance that 3 per cent bonds
can be put upon The market - "Thcre Is
the rub replied The first speaker; " for ii
the bill fails by reason OF our oppOsi-
ton the Democrats will claim that
the bonds could have been sold at par"
At hali-past , the situation had changed in
the House, and an agreement reached by
which brief debate on the bill could be
had-Mr. Tucker dividing out the time on
the Democratic side. aud Mr. Frye on the
Republican side. By half-past 3 the report
was that the bill would pass before night as
it came from the Senate, and this caused a
Stir among financial correspondents. The
assertion last night that Mr.. Hayes would
veto the bill has not been repeated with rs
much emphasis tonight. Nevertheless,