The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-01-21
Washington.


JAMES-ElvER INPROvENENT-RAN. TUCKER
wELI-BLAINE AND ARTHUR-PERsONAL.-
From Our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, January 20.-Therc was no
session Of the Senate to>day, and il was
priyatc-bil day in the House, with not a
matter called UP OF interest to Nirginians.
The occupants OF the House gallery must
have remained solely to rest and warm, as
some OF the colored visitors TO your legis-
latiye galleries did before the smallpox
panic closed the doors against them.
A TARIFF DELEGATION AT TIE CAPITOL.
\ large delegation OF the Tariff Associa-
ton had a conference with Judge Kelly,
chairman of Ways and Means, at the rooms
OF his committee. The Judge gave them
his views at some length, and rs he Is an
ultra-protcctionist the line Of his re-
marks can be easily Surmised. My iudg-
ment still is that nothing will be done TO
materially change the present tariff, and
that it is a. much out OF politics practi-
cally rs the question as to the right OF
State TO secedc. Why, heard a Nirginan
to-day, whose irec-trade theories have
been known to everybody in your section,
and who years ago could moi speak anywhere
without denouncing the Morrill, tariff,
say that he believed the present tariff was
/ fixed fact and that he was for discussing
practical issues. He added "Nirginia Is
becoming a manufacturing State, and her
iron interest is every day increasing in inn
portance. Look at Georgia. said he,
"with her vast cotton factories, which pay
immense dividends" | was surprised at
the change in his views. but | remembered
that theories all give way when they come
in conflict with practical Interests.
TIE WOMEN SUFFRAGIsTs HAVE \ HEARING.
Senator Lapham's Womsn's Suffrage
Committee met this morning in the room
Of the Committee on Patents, and very
large delegation OF members OF the Wo-
mans Convention now in session here
were present. Susan Il. Anthony stated
that il had been said that the same old faces
continually appeared at the Capitol in be-
half of woman's rights, but that she had
brought to-day new set. II seemed so,
and the remark was general that never
before on such mission had 30 many
good-lOoking ladies appeared before Sem
ate committee. | could not help recalling
the remark Of a popular minister who re-
Gently said that Woman's beauty Is her
power. and that If Cleopatra's nose had
been less turned up she would have turned
the world upside down, and that she came
near doing il anyhow. Mrs. Searle and
Mrs. Cougar gave an account OF the pro-
a,ress Of the cause in Indiana, and informed
the committee that one Legislature OF their
state had already passed m amendment to
the Constitution giving woman the ballot,
but that it has to be ratified by another Le-
gi,lature and then submitted to 4 vote OF
the electors. Mrs. Saxon. OF Louisiana,
denied that the southern women take no
interest in woman's suffrage, and gave the
names of some who are strong in the faith.
Mrs. Robinson, OF Massachusetts,, took the
Golden Rule as her text, and said it origi-
mated i'm book older than the Bible. She
told Of a capable female postmaster at Nal
den, Mass. who had recently to give way
to an inexperienced Young man because he
had vote and she had none. Among the
other speakers were Mrs. Colby, OF Ne
braska, and Mrs. IIaddock, OF Massachu-
sets. Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and
Phoebe Cousins will be heard by the COM
mittee tomorrow.
TIE IMPROVEMENT OF JAMES RIVER, &C.
Hon. George u. Wise has arranged for
an early hearing before the Commerce
Committee Of the House in behalf OF lib
era appropriation to James river. lie
wants. and ought to have, the fullest data
on the subject that the commercial people
Of Richmond can furnish. Virginia now
has no member on this committee, and Mr..
Kcnna. of West Virginia, who was always
ready TO help our representative when tie
Improvement Of James river came up, was
left of by Speaker Keller. This renders
the work Of Mr.. Wise more difficult, ana
increases the necessity for arming him with
all the facts and figures in the ease. Mr..
.Jorccnscn informs me that ne will seek an
early hearing in behalf OF the Appomat-
toX and Roanoke rivers.
PERSONAL NEWS ITEMS.
Hon. John Randolph Tucker was in his
seat i'm the House to-day. James Barron
Hope will repeat his superb Centennial
poem at Lincoln Hall, in this city, Tuesday
/ evening. Mr.. Dczendorf has gone to Nor
/ folk, and Hon. George ID. Wise will spend
/ Sunday in Richmond. Mr.. Dibrell, Of
/ Tennessee, has Il bill before the Ways and
| Means Committee to remove the internal
revenue tax upon tobacco in the hands OF
producers. and upon matches, bank-checks,
and deposits i'm banks. Mr.. Barbour has
/ introduced a bill to pay the Mount Vernon
Manufacturing Company for the seizure
and occupation OF it, buildings by the Gov
eminent in 1864 and 1868. \ court-marlial
will meet ut the Washington navy-yard to-
morrow to try Paymaster Denison liurl-
/ burt for taking more liquor than he could
carry. Report is that eX-Attorney-General
/ Taft will be Minister to Germany. Oscar
/ Wilde was at the Capitol to-day. Captain
Arthur, OF the British Legation, sails for
/ England next week. EX-Attorney-General
Pierrepont is in the city. The President
would not see the Maryland Republicans
to-day. They ire too frequent. There is
fight over the Cincinnati post
Office. The Cincinnati congressman can
not agree. Mr.. Randall wants the Military