The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-02-04

FESDs MS POIIcY-PRovIsI0S or THE
FUNDING BILL--YmOINIA i1EMs-PERS0N-
AIS, &C.
Iron Our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, February 3.-Senator Tel
Ter. from the Committee on Pensions, to-
day reported fayorably bill. which will
pass Congress at this session and become a
law. giving Mrs. Garfield, Mrs. james h.
Polk, and Mrs. John Tyler pensions OF
5000 a year each from the 18th OF Septem-
Der. lSSI-thc day on which President
Garfield died. The bill provides that Mrs.
john Tyler shall be paid $1,000 in full
liquidation of the pension she now receives.
In this connection il is painful 10 have to
chronicle the fact that the body-seryant OF
James X. Polk, who has been for years q
faithful employG in the House stationery
room. was removed Yesterday by the Re-
publicans 10 make q place for one Of their
importmate ofice-soekcrs from Pennsyl-
vania.
BILLS PASSED TODAY.
General Malone today. from the Com
mittee on Agriculture, reported House bill
appropriating $1,000 TO pay the expenses Of
transporting from Atlanta TO Washington
articles donated the United States Govern
ment by exhibitors. The bin passed with
out opposition. The Senate also passed
the bill appropriating $4,000 for the pur-
chase Of pure vaccine matter. TO be sold at
cost 10 the people. This will pass the
House at an eariy day. gave the proyi-
sions Of the bin the other day.
FORFEITED LANDS TO BE APPLIED TO EDUcA-
ton.
Senator George, Of Mississippi, to-day in
troducad a bill 20 enforce the forfeiture 10
the United states Of lands heretofore grant
ed to railroad corporations. and TO apply
the same TO education. II provides orpro-
ceeding against all persons now occupying
these forfeited lands as il they were tres
passers on the public lands Of the United
States. and sets apart a. an educational
fund the net proceeds Of the sales Of said
lands. The fund thus procured is TO be
divided among the States, &C., in such man.
ner as may be provided by law, and until
this is done il is TO be invested in bonds Of
the United States.
COMMITTEE MATTERS N CONGRESS.
The House Committee on Foreign Affairs
to-day agreed upon q report in the case Of
the brig Armstrong. This has teen before
Congress a great many years, and was made
famous by Daniel Webster's great speech
on it. The House Committee on Banking
and Currency bad a meeting to-day, and
agreed to vote next Tuesday on Mr.. Grapes
bin TO extend the charters Of the national
banks. The Senate Committee on Terri
tories heard the Dakota delegation. They
are much stirred up Ly the New York
HeralFS article, which calls the movement
for the admission Of Dakota a conspiracy
in favor Of another rotten borough. There
are a good many Federal oflice-holders in
the delegation.
TRIVATE-HIII DAY ~ TIE HOUSE.
It was private-bill day in the House, but
there was lively fight over the Philadel-
phia and Reading railroad bill. This COM
pany when hard pressed issued labor Ger
tifcates, and asks TO be relieved Of the Fed
eral tax on them. The amount involved Is
nearly s4jO,OOo Judge Kelly was the
chief supporter Of the bin, and Messrs.
Hammond. Of Georgia, and Springer, Of
Illinois; Tucker, Of Virginia; Mclean, OF
Maryland, and others opposed it. The
speech Of the Georgia member wa, splen-
did legal argument.
THE PASSAGE or THE SHERMAN REfrNDlNG
BILL.
The senate to-day, after voting down
Senate Morgan's amendment FORGETTING the
charters of al national banks that give no.
tice that they mean to withdraw their
bonds from the Treasury and fail 10 do it,
passed the bill-ayes. IS; noes, Is. Among
those voting in the negative were the fol-
lowing Democrats Bayard, Coke, Fair,
Garland. Groome, Hampton, Johnston,
Pugh, Salisbury, Slater, Vest, and
VOORHEES,. Senator Johnston would have
voted for the bill with the Plumt
amendment, limiting the surplus il
the Treasury 10 one hundred millions
The defeat Of this and the provision thai
the per cent. bonds are TO remain out
standing until all other bonds bearing ;
higher rate Of interest are redeemed mad,
the bill, in his judgment, more objections
bic than the present arrangement. There
are now nearly two hundred millions il
the Treasury, aud lac wanted half OF il Il
I be used right away to pay oil portion o
the national debt. Senator Plumb, il
course Of the debate to-day. sald that tn
national debt, which has been unwisel
and wickedly increased, is Il stumbling
block in the way Of our progress, and b
believed that this debate has made the PEG
pie more nearly unanimous than ever be
fore to pay it of as rapidly as possible.
4 SENATOR WINDOW DEFENDS HIS POLICY.
Senator Window declared his measur
better for the Government than the 3 pc
cent bill vetoed by Nj. Hayes. He SAT-
that in connection with il two other bill
were % have been passed-one appropri
ating one fourth per cent. to pay the eX
pense Of funding, and the other abolishin
the tex on bank deposits and check,
These, he commended, would have cost PEI
manently, in the aggregate, five and ha
millions more per anaum than the q pc
cent. arrangement. Mr. Plumb, in reply
said while he approved what the Senator a
Secretary Of the Treasury did, he was sorr
TO see him weaken his position by such al
gumcnt. The fact was these bills h.
nothing to do with the per cent. bill
They were independent measures, stand