The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-03-05
,Prom Our Regular Correspondent. !


tariff. and yet combining whenever blow
Is 10 he given Radicalism. ThoSe at the
House to-day could discern nothing OF an
alliance between Mr.. Randall and the fol.
lowers Of Mr.. keifcr, nor did he and Mr..
Morrison look at all hostile. They viii
settle their revenue differences I'm legiti.
mate way when the tariff bill comes up.
and support the Democratic presidential
ticket with equal zeal. There will be
disaeTccments IN the Democratic Ma.
tional Convention as To men and plat
form, hut let the candidates and the plat
form b. once agreed upon and there all
differences will cease. This is the judg-
mcnt ~ sensible Democrats at Washing
ton. and few months will prove that they
are right. Democratic representatives from
Pennsylvania complain bitterly OF the in
Justice sought 10 be done Mr.. Randall by
recent publications.
THE VIRGINIA C0NTESTED-ELECTIoN CASES.
Judge o'Fcrrall thinks his will be the
6rst virginia c0nteSted-electlou case re-
ported 10 the House, and the indications
are that he is right about II. The clerk OF
the Elections Committee expects to get
through with indcXiug the record in the
WiSe-MaSScy case by tomorrow, and then
notice win he given the contestant TO file
his brici. Mr.. N lsScy has twenty days
under tie law 10 do this, but he will
hardly avail himself of so much time. Mr..
Wise will have fifteen days TO reply. The
subcommittee on the GlrriSon-Mayo ease
VII agree urOn n report by the last OF the
week. N:rginians here are getting very
impatient about these cases.
TIKI pANyIILE INvESTIGATIoN-JOHNS 5. Ex-
PLAINS.
Hon. John :. Wise was on the stand to-
day TO explain his revision of his testi-
monv. Mr. sherman was disposed to make
things as pleasant as possible for the wit
ness. When Governor Vance asked him,
in substance. whether his original state
meut. rs reported about the cOlored legis-
lators and The kitchen, was true, or the
amended statement what he intended TO
saw. he said he declined 10 make an issue
with the official stenographer. \ Repub-
hcan correspondent here SAID that eXplana-
tion is IN. G." The fact is, that the wit
ness went on the stand the other day with
daos fying, and with 4 determination OF
getting the better Of Governor Vance.
Nobody i'm or out of the Senate
had ever done this, but that made
il more worthy of his ambition.
Well, he went on for time Swimmingly,
but IN an evil hour be got off his kitchen
testimony. and that ruined all. His hits
were forgotten by everybody, and only
this Jumbo mistake remembered. For a
day he did not feel it, but then the realiza-
tou Of toe magnitude Of his slip-up came
upon him with crushing effect. From
that hour to this he has neither known
peace nor satisfaction, nor does he after
his explanation to-day feel any better.
IMPORTANT POINTS IN Mr.. DUGGER's TEsTI-
MONY.
Mr.. Digger, a white witness from Dan
vile, pleased the prosecution very much
in his testimony in chief, but in his cross
examination by Governor Vance he adj
miited that he believed the riot at DanviIle
WAS not premeditated, and that the speech
of Colonel sims was outrageous. IL he
(SIms) had denounced HIM as he did the
Signers oi the circular, whom he called
liars and periured scOundrels, witness
would have held him to personal ac-
count. The prosecution have endeavOred all
along to show especially by the negro wit
n4sses that the riot was the result OF con-
spiracy on the part OF the whites, and that
SimS's speech was an ordinary political
effort not calculated to inflame the negroes
against the whites. Mr.. Digger, their
own witness, however, to-day was so strong
on these points that the prosecutors were
evidently very much set back. MI. Dug
ger was n witness in the Hurt-Sims case.
THE MORRISON REVISED TARIFF BlLL-THE
FREE LIST.
The WAYS and Means Committee to-day
took I'D the revised tariff bill OF Mr.. Nor
rlson and considered it. Mr.. Russell, OF
Massachusetts,. moved to strike out the
section reducing the duty on cotton and
cotton goods, but il was elected by party
vote. Mr.. Mckinley, of Ohio, then moved
10 strike out the section reducing the duty
on wool and woollens. but that was lost by
a like vote. Messrs. Reed and BOutelle, OF
Maine. appeared before the committee and
argued against placing lumber on the
free list. In the revised bill now I'M
der consideration salt in bags, sacks,
barrels. or other packages, or in bulk, Is
on the free list, and 70 is coal, slack or
culm: coal, bituminOus or Shale. The lum-
Der section OF the free list comprises timber
hewn and sawed, and timber used for spars
and building wharyes; timber, squared or
sided. not specially enumerated or provided
for in this act; sawed boards, planks, deals,
and other lumber Of hemlock, wildwood,
sycamore. and Eastwood, and all other ar
teles Of sawed lumber. Hubs for wheels,
posts, last blocks, wagon blocks, oar
blocks. Gun blocks, heading blocks,
and all like blocks or sticks, rough hewn
or sawed only. Slaves OF wood OF all KINDS
pickets and palingS, laths, shingles, pine
clapboards, spruce clapboards, Wood I'M
manufactured not specially enumerated or
provided for in this act IL Will be seen
that ores and sumac have been stricken
from The original free list. The revised
bill reduces the duty on tin-plates, fax, |
and linseed 20 per cent. without regard 10 |
the Morrill, tmiff. In this it differs from
the original bill. An iron delegation from
Pennsylvania will have hearing before
WAYS and Means tomorrow.
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS.
Mr.. HoItOn. OF MARYLAND, wants free
ship-csnal 10 connect the waters OF the To- |
tonac at Washington with those of the
Chesapeake.
The House Committee on Pensions |
agreed to-day to give the widow OF Gene |
raj +. =. Blair $4,000 and pension OF 800 |
per month.
The appropriation bills are in good or
der, says a member OF the committee, ana
VIII come in promptly. ~,
Nr. Mutchler, OF Pennsylvania, says the
Ohio tariff plank will be adopted by the
National Democratic Convention.
Government receipts to-day: Customs,
S3i7,065 internal revenue, $l97,973.
lI3y Associated Press.J
AN ADVERSE REPORT.
WASHINGTON, March 4.-The Senate
Committee ON Military Affairs to-day de-