The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-02-26

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cal denial, and offered resolution. which
was adopted. directing the Committee
rost.Onces and Post-Roads 10 inyestigaf,
tne charges rejecting upon him In connec
tion with the star-route frauds.
Mr. Clements, OF Georgia, from the Goa,
mi,tee on Foreign Affairs. reported reso
luton requesting the President TO transmit
| to the House all communications between
tue United States aud Russia with regart
10 the condition and treatment OF the He
prews In Russia, and especially In relation
to Hebrew citizens OF the United States
Adopted.
Under the call Of States bill. were intro
duced and referred as follows:
BY Mr.. Oates, OF Alabama: To prohibi
aliens and foreigners from acquiring It'll,
TO. or owning land within the United
States.
by Mr.. Dowd, Of North Carolina: APP
propriating $4,000 for the relief OF suffer
ers 0y the ale cyclones In North Carolina
The House at 2:30 O'Clock went into
Committee OF the Whole on the pleuro
pneumonia bill.
MIR. Hatch, OF Missouri. made a short bu
vigorous speech In favor OF the bill, aftel
winch II was read by sections for amend
ments.
MI. Hatch offered an amendment limiting
the number OF persons to be employed I'M
der the Bureau Of Animal Industry tC
twenty at any one time. Adopted.
Mr.. Cox, Of New York, in speech TO q
formal amendment, replied TO some re-
marks made few days since by Mr.. John
;. Wise, OF Virginia. He had not bad the
remotest idea that Mr.. Wise was going TO
make such speech. He had come 10 him
(Mr. Cox indicating that he had line OF
thought somewhat jocular and personal.
and asked whether he objected. He re-
piled that he did not, and the gentleman
had Immediately made speech referring
to him a. a pillar OF brass by day and a
pillar OF gas by night. He had examined
the Record, and found that he had not
spoken as much this session as had
the young callow fledgling from Vir-
GINA. The gentleman had said that
West Virginia was the bastard offspring
of q political rape committed on poor old
Virginia by the Federal Government, and
then turned his philippe on him (CoX),
who bad stood here fighting against this
untimely ripping OF West Virginia from
the womb OF old Virginia. He had been
waiting for the gentleman all day in a
friendly way, but he had not come. Prob
ably he was over in the Senate doing some
work. No gentleman had spoken to him
about that speech who had not said
that it was untimely. He would
not say that it was in bad taste,
for he respected the gentleman's IA
Their, il he could not in all respects
honor the son. Where did Mr.. Wise
get his wisdom in bis quotation about
the pillar OF brass! II must have been
from this Testament producing Bible).
The House knew who it was that followed
Moses out Of Egypt, and that the Lord
went before as pillar OF cloud by day and
pillar of fire by night One thing he
knew, that when Moses led the Hebrews
they did not get overwhelmed like the Re-
adjusters OF Virginia by the Red Sea II
that peculiar Commonwealth. He did MT
wish TO say more in the absence OF the gem
tleman from Virginia, particularly as that
gentleman had begged his pardon before
he had made his speech. [Laughter.l
Mr.. Gibson, OF West Virginia, also re-
piled to that portion OF Mr.. Wise's speech
in which he referred to West Virginia as Il
bastard State. When the gentleman had
assaied in coarse terms the action OF the
Republican party, that party had sunk so
low as to applaud him for it. The gentle
man talked about West Virginia beng bas-
tard State, when he himself, as Readjust-
er and Coalitionist, was the result OF po-
litical rape by the Federal Government
upon the State Of Virginia. But for the
interference OF Federal power the gentle
man, even with his fathers prestige and
his own talents, would never have sue
ceeded in representing the people of Vir-
ginia on this floor. In conclusion, he drew
contrast between the prosperity OF bis
State and the misfortune OF Virginia in
having to fight Malone and Mahoneism.
Mr.. Mayo. Of Virginia, said that he could
not allow to 60 unanswered the taunts
flung against Virginia by the representa-
tive Of the bastard child OF Virginia. The
gentleman had spoken OF vile coalitions.
He could not say yet, IN the words OF
Daniel Webster, that it was murdered
coalition. Thank God, 1t was yet alive.
and it meant to pluck old Virginia out OF
the hands OF the Bourbon faction which
was now putting down all law and order
in that State.
Mr.. j. S. Wise, OF Virginia, who had
Just entered the hall, said that he had little
expected that the gentleman from West
Virginia (Mr. Gibson) would have taken
the floor to reply to what he mad said while
he was away on important business. He
had not wanted TO hear what the gentleman
from New York (Mr. Cox would say. be-
cause he knew that Whatever he said would
be kindly, would be manly, would be more
than good. Whatever expression he had
used respecting that gentleman had been
kindly meant, and if he had been little
impudent he knew the gentleman would
excuse him. He was glad he had given
the gentleman an occasion to look in that
long-neglected book the Bible. The gem
tleman was right in regard to the name Of
the sea which had overwhelmed the
Coalition party. The only sea which
had ever overwhelmed il was the
Red sea Of blood. Applause on the
Republican side.] He did not want TO
wander from the debate, but TO point out a
single fact that instead OF arguing mat
tiers on their merits there was always some
body--some strict cOnstructionists-w
wasted the valuable time OF Congress in
catching the feas OF strict construction.
The Supreme Court OF the United States
had done more to maintain State rights
than all shriekers about strict construction
that ever occupied this hall.
The committee then, without action, rose,
and the House adjourned.
Validity Of Slave Marriages.
(By telegraph to the Dispatch.l
TOLEDO, ONO, February pa pecll-
liar case has been decided in the Common
Pleas Court involving the validity OF slave
MARRIAGES A colored man named Ander-