The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-02-29

wanted 10 sec him on an important matter.
Your congressman told him to bring him
UP. When the visitor entered he informed
Mr. wise that he had come 10 see him about
tnat part OF his testimony IN which he
referred to receiving negro members
OF The Legislature in his kitchen.
bursting out in loud laugh. George ID.
Informed the reporter that be was not the
man. hut lt was the other Wise who gave
the Kitchen ties imony. He said to-day that
ne was ready then and there TO prove by
Dr. McRac. his clerk, who was present,
that ne never offended \ colored member OF
the Legislature or any other colored states
man in his life by receiving him In his
kitchen.
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS.
Government receipts to-day Customs,
S65S,033; internal revenue, S4l7,650.
Members OF the House from North Caro-
lima, Tennessee. Georgia, and Virginia
were before the Ways and Means Commit
tee to-day, and advocated the entire aboli-
ton Of the tobacco-taX. They also want
the tax on liquor so collected as to do away
with the Objectionable features.
The House Education Committee to-day
agreed to resolution looking to The eX-
animation of the way in which the aggri-
cultural colleges are managed.
Peter X. Jones and ex-senator Stevens.
now here, both declare that when in the
Legislature they never went 10 Mr.. Wise's
kitchen.
Madame Nilsson. the opera-singer, Murat
IIalStead, and Henry Watterson are dining
with the President tonight. Colonel 0chil-
tree is not there.
The eight Democratic members OF Ways
and Means to-day held a conference and
agreed 10 report substitute for the Nor
riSon bill. which will differ from that bill
only in limiting the free list 10 salt, coal,
and lumber. No day has been fixed, they
say, for reporting The substitute to the
House.
The Senate will for some days yet con-
tinue the debate on the naval bill.
A SUBSTITUTE FOR THE MORRISON TARIFF BILL.
by Associated Press.I
WASHINGTON, ID. c., February 2S.-At
meeting of eight Democratic members of
the Ways and Means Committee il was
unanimously agreed TO report a substitute
for the Morrison tariff bill. The substitute
is identical with the bin introduced by Mr..
Morrison. except that the free list Is con-
fined to salt, coal, and lumber. Other ar
ticles on the free list rs prepared by Mr..
Morrison will come under the provision
for 90 per cent. horizontal reduction. The
Democratic members Of the committee say
that no time has vet been agreed upon for
reporting the substitute to the House, but
that ii will be presented at an early date.
HON. JOHN 5. WISE OFFERS AN EXPLANATION
WASHINGTON, ID. c., February 2S.-Hon.
John s. Wise has furnished for publica
ton n card explaining his testimony before
Sherman's committee, in which he spoke
OF colorcd legislators being received in bis
kitchen. He says:
That Senator sherman asked whether
the negroes demanded social equality in
Virginia. replied that they neither de-
manded nor expected il; that the colOred
people were, in my opinion, the gcntlest.
most afIectionate, and least obtrusve
race on earth; that the social con-
ditions were well understood and
they were content with them. For
example, said /. n cOIored member
OF the Legislature had come to my house
to see me about politics and gone TO the
kitchen. where / went to see him and
talked with him. The person referred TO
was one whose mother was in my employ.
merely mentioned this to show that the
colored people in such positions were less
exacting of such recognition than white
persons similarly situated would probably