Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-01-14


was that they were not tho class which
the Confedcracy had the right to de-
mand. They consisted Of State and
county officers and old men and young
boys.
Senator Hawley said that, a. an
original Secessionist, the Senator ought
not to evade the precise issues. lie re-
tanned troops to resist the usurpation OF
the power BY the Confederate authori-
ties, and so gave those authorities to un-
derstand.
Senator Brown repeated that he stood
upon the record made in the correspond
ence. and declined to reopen the old
controversy.
The resolution was then passed-52
to 10.
The nays were Messrs. Brown, Col
quit, Hampton, Harris, Kenna, Maxey,
Morgan, Salisbury, Slater, and Vest.
The consideration Of the Interstate
commerce bill was then resumed, the
pending question being on Mr.. Browns
amendment to the amendment of MIR.
Vance. Mr.. Vance's amendment was
that no railroad company be allowed to
charge higher proportionate rate for
the carriage Of small than large parcels,
and Mr.. Browns amendment proposed
to extend this principle to all mercantile
business. and SO forbid merchants from
charging proportionately more for retail
parcels than for wholesale.
Mr. Vance said he would have thought
Mr.. Browns amendment q joke if ne
had not known that Mr.. Brown had
never perpetrated successful joke in
his life. [Laughter.l
Mr.. Browns amendment was not
agreed to.
Mr.. Bayard opposed Mr.. vance's
amendment. as did also Messrs. Shelf
field and Sewell. Mr.. Vance defended
it. The amendment was not agreed to.
Mr.. Slater proposed an amendment
making all rebates unlawful, but it was
not agreed to.
A message was received from the
President recommending provision for
compensating special electoral messen-
gers. 1t was referred to the Committee
on Appropriations.
A message was also received from the
Government engineer in charge Of the
Yorktown monument reporting its COM
pletion.
The Senate then, at AGO p. NJ, on
motion Of Mr.. Sherman, went into
executive session, aud when at 4:4O
o'clock the doors were re0pened adj
journed.
House OF Representatives.
Mr.. Stockslager, of Indiana, rising to
a question of personal privilege, sent to
the Clerks desk and had read an article
in Yesterdays New York San charging
the Committee on Public Buildings with
log-rolling to pass bills for the erection
of public buildings involving SIS, 000,-
600, and giving Mr.. Randall great credit
for fighting and exposing the job. The
statements in the article, said Mr..
Stockslager. were reckless, but consid-
ering that statements almost as reck-
less had been made on this floor and in
interviews especially by the gentleman
from Ohio (Mr. Warner), it was not
strange that newspaper reporters should
repeat them. The amount involved in
the bills was not sl5,000,00O, but
| sc, 900. The assertion that there
was any combination or any binding to-
gether Of these bills, so far as it referred
TO him or to his committee, was wholly
gratuitous, entirely uncalled for, and
utterly false. lie defended the order
under which the public-building mea-
sures were to be considered.
Mr.. Randall, of Pennsylvania, said
he had never known of the article in the
lSua until it was shown to him yester-
day. The material point in the cOntro-
versy between the gentleman from In
diana and himself was land he proposed
to take the bull by the horns) whether
there was a combination. He did not
now. and never had, charged that
gentlemen were guilty of forming
improper combination, but he did say
now that the very effect of the resOlu-
ton is combination. and naturally so,
necessarily 80. Since he had presented
his objections to the consideration OF
these bills be had been appealed to on
all sides to withdraw that opposition.
He had stated that if the Committee on
Public Buildings would select a dozen
or fifteen meritorious bills which should
be passed, the House could proceed un-
dcrstandingly. The answer was that
the moment a dozen or fifteen bills
were picked out the gentlemen interest
cd in bills not selected would oppose
the proposition. lie was willing that
the country should judge whether there
was a combination or not. The order
for the consideration of public-buidlng
bills was an extraordinary one, and If
executed would consume three or four
weeks of the time of the House. The
matter was then dropped.
The Speaker laid before the House a
communication from the Secretary of
the Navy in response to House resolu-
ton calling for information as to the
cause Of the death Of Cadet Strang.
The communication states that Cadet
Strang died from peritonitis, and that
there is no reason to believe that he
died from cruelty.
Bills were passed removing the po-
litical disabilities of a. B. Montgomery
and William Gardner, Of Georgia, and
j. Pembroke Jones, of Virginia /; au-
thorizing the terms of the United States
Circuit Court for the Eastern district OF
North Carolina at Wilmington, n. C.
Mr.. Breune. of Indiana, arising,
said: perform the sad duty of an
nouncing to the House the death OF
Schuyler Colfax, at one time Speaker of
this House. and late Vice-President of
the United States. A telegram was re-
ceived through the Associated Press
this afternoon at about 2 o'clock an
nouncing this sad event. offer the
following resolution:
Whereas intelligence has just reached
this House that Schuyler Colfax, for