The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-04-16
Washington.

Washington.
TALk ABOUT THE DEADLOCK-THr APPROACH
ING CENTENNiAL-TuE VIRGINIA CoNsERyA.
TIVE CONVENTION GOVERNOR BROWN on
viRGINiA's DEBr-PERsoSAL AND GENERAL.
lFrom Our Regular 60, responden,l
WASHINGTON, April i5.-Tbe sea looks
very calm and innocent after a storm, and
the quiet OF the deserted Senate chamber
to-day was so complete that IL was hard 6
believe that it had been recently the theatre
Of excited and rancorous debate. Captain
Basseit, who has served the Senate as man
and boy for half century, and few pages,
who would rather heaven should be land
Of strawberry Short-cake than milk and
honey, were on hand, but only here and
there a senator put in an appearance. These
could not help talking, however, about the
deadlock, and one OF them "a DEMOCRACY
said he would stay here until "the dark
Plutonian waters" were covered with ice
forty feet thick before he would yield a
hairs breadth; and he is not more stawaIt
than his brethren.
LETTER FROM ATTORNEY. GENERAL FIELD.
Attorney General Field has written Sena-
tor Beck a complimentary and encouraging
letter. and another 10 Senator Johnston. In
the latter he SAYS 81 congratulate the
Democrats OF the Senate upon the noble
stand they are making 10 resist the corrup.
ton and Generalization Of the politics OF
our State
SOMETHING ABOUT HE YORKTOWN cENTEN-
NAL.
Secretary Tucker will tomorrow send in
yitati0nS TO the Governors of all the States
to attend the Yorktown celebration. He
will also request them 10 communicate the
number OF soldier, that will come from
their States, and what provision their Lee
gi>latures have made for defrGying their
expenses. This, when furnished, will give
Colonel Craighil the necessary data for lay
log out The ground. for the encampment.
THE CONSERVATIVE STATE CONVENTION.
For days | baye heard the time for the
meeting of the Virginia Conservative Con-
vention discussed by leading Nirginians
located here and visiting here, and the uni.
yerSal opinion is that August is too late. /
Valley last night what date he proposed,
and he replied, " Some day during the first
week in July" Senator Johnston agreed
with him. The most sagacOus Richmond
politician know said TO me this afternoon,
"Our Convention ought to meet thirty DAYS
earlier than the date fixed by the State Com.
mittee."
THE THREAT OF REVOLUTIONARY MEASURES.
The Boston Transcript (Repubican)
warns Massachusetts, senators that their
State will not uphold revolutionary pro-
ceedings such as are threatened by those
who declare that the majority must over
ride Senate rules, &C., II necessary to &C.
comphsh the election OF Messrs. Gorham.
Rddleberger 4 Co. No one about Washing
ton looks upon this threat as at all serious.
and Democrats seem amused at The despera.
ton that prompts it.
HOW LONG VII THE DEADLOCK LAST?
This question is asked every hour in the
day, but no one can answer it. Neyerthe-
less, it is as clear as day that the Democrats
have no idea whatever Of surrender or com.
promise; but whether their opponents will
surrender outright or let the session drift
on until there is no quorum, no one can now
safely predict. 1t is certain that il is with
them alone TO say whether 1t shall last until
December. You at a distance who suppose
the opposing senators are all personally hos
tile would discover your mistake by looking
into the Senate any afternoon while the de-
bate is proceeding, for you would likely find
Don Cameron sitting by Butler, Dawes talk.
ing II Johnston, Conklng to COckrell, or
Burnside to Hampton, and apparently as FAR
from fighting as the cat and mouse in Bar
NUNS happy family.
ALARMED FOR THE GEORGIA SENATORS.
While Governor Brown was having red
hot running debate with Senator IIoar last
evening Mr.. Beck got up and moved to adj
journ, declaring that he did 30 10 prevent
The two Georgia senators from being
killed. This caused much merriment. a
senator said, commenting on it, " Brown has
more strong sense and judgment than any
one in the Senate, and any man VINO tackles
him expecting to get the best of the contest
shows lack OF discreton.'
WHAT GOVERNOR BROWN SAYS ABOUT TIE
VIRGINIA STATE DEBT.
Governor Brown says the Republicans
propose to turn Virginia over to the negroes,
the Readjusters, and the few white Repub-
licans found there, and the point may be
reached when the supremacy OF education,
intelligence, virtue, and property, for the
preservation of society, may become more
important to the Virginia Democracy than
the payment OF her debt TO northern capt.
talists. 1t may be necessary" be added,
"to throw over the entire debt rather than
that ruin be brought upon the State by put
ting her under the control OF people large
Number Of whom would not be allowed to
vote in Massachusetts,"
Personal NEWS ITEMS.
Robert W. Burke left FOR Staunion this !
morning / heard a judge who has been |
regarded as half Republican say to-day that
Morgan's speech was the finest he ever read.
IL is rs much compiimented as any yet de-
llyered. A fourteen-year.Od Virginia boy |
writes from Fairfax to senator as follows:
81 heard father talk heap about your
speech, and thought | would write TO ask |
you to send me an agricultural report" lie |
got it. DR.. J. f. Mason, OF Virginia, is at
the Metropolitan. 1t being Good Friday Mrs.
Garfield did not receive visitors this eye-
ming. The Secretary OF the Navy will re.
turn from New York tomorrow. Mr.. Bate