Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-05-01
WASHINGTON.
TIE BrooDY.sHIRr coHoRKssxEH GET
TING READY TO SHREK.
How the Democrats Will Treat Thsm-An
Enthusiastic Militiaman-Rivers
and Harbors-Personals.
From Our Regular Correspondent

WASHINGTON, ID. O., April 3O.--
The demonstration ct Montgomery,
Ala, has thrown the House into aut.
ter of expectancy. The Republicans
are preparing to make it the text for
wild and tumultuous haranguss to be
used in the approaching campaign.
Mr. Boutelle, of Maine, one Of the bit.
terest pntisaps on the floor Of the
House, is already at work upon q speech
calculated to FIRE the northern heart,
which he will deliver at the earlies!
possible moment. lie will be followed
by others in the same strain until
enough literature of the kind is made
to food the North. The Democrats
will, it is claimed, treat these silly va
porjngs with silent contempt, on the
ground that the people ca masse are
sufficiently intelligent to discover for
themselves the demasogy that inspires
such appeals to passions and prejudices.
MILITIA BILL.
General Viele, of New York, is en-
gagged in drafting an elaborate militia
bill, which he will presen. to the House
next Monday or the first bill-day there.
after. The measure contemplates the
division of the country into military
districts on basis of militia organiza.
ton instead of by arbitrary geographi-
cal lines, as at present. These divisions
are to be placed in command of officers
of the regular army, who shall have
brevet title outranking the militia
officers of the States. Each district is
to have a regiment Of regular artillery
quartered at some place therein to
make The grand division Of citizen
soldiery complete, such regiment
being too expensive to be maintained
on q militia basis. The bill will fur
tier provide an annual appropriation Of
900, 100000 for each military dis.
trict to defray the expense OF
an annual muster to be subject to
general order Of the commanding
general, the United States to pitch the
tents and issue the rations for that pur-
pose. General Yiele is preparing his
bill with view to placing 100000 mi
litIamen in each division. lie has thus
divided the country up so that the New
England States will be Division No. |;
New York, No. 2; Pennsylvania and
New Jersey, No. 3; Delaware, Mary
land, Virginia. West Virginia, North
Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia,
No. 4, and so on through the list Of
States. The General is enthusiastic
over his scheme. 1--WE could put
three million men in the field en- twen-
ty.four hours notice." he said, "to
cap .urc Canada or Mexico, and have
one hsg and one country on the west
elm hemisphere from the Pole to Pan
ana"
1t is expected that Hon. Roger A.
Pryor will address the Virginia Demo
cratic Association this evening.
DEsERTIONs.
There have been $50 bills to remove
charges of desertion from soldiers re-
cords referred to the Committee on
Military Affairs this session, rot more
than one in fifty having any meiit. The
object is, Of course, to prepare the way
for a pension. The Gaze Of Edward
Kincade is a fair sample of the lot.
The petitioner, according to the record,
enlisted for the Mexican war in an
Ohio regiment May "a, l847 "con-
tracted rheumatic and diarrhGa" from
ore nights experience with Ohio-river
water, and on the following day he
sought and obtained leave Of absence,
from which he failed to return. Thirty
nine years after, while the present Con-
gress was sitting, this Buckeye patriot
discovered that oae night in camp bad
given birth to the pension twins
"rheumatiz and diarrhGa," and, bar
ring the interposition of deseItion
charge, he might be enjoying COM
petence in arrearages, etc.
RIVER AND HARBOR.
The House to-day resolved to do
away with the private calendar, and
continue to discuss the knotty problems
presented by the river.and-harbor bill.
A desperate effort was made in vain by
the managers Of the bill to reach vote
on its passage to-day. twill now have
TO 60 over under the rules until Tues-
day. The committee has successfully
overcome all amendments offered in the
House, but the impre sion is that those
members who have failed to tack on
their favorite schemes will carry them
over to the Senate, where they expect to
achieve success. Should they do so,
and the bill return to the House loaded
down with amendments, it is said the
River.and-H arbor Committee will fight
them tooth aud nail, even to the extent
of defeating the bill.
SCIENTIFIC BUREAUS.
The joint commission appointed by
the Forty. eighth Congress to investi-
gate the scientific bureaus will meet to-
morrow and agree to report. The
testimony taken by the commission has
already been printed. The report will
undoubtedly make sweeping recon-
mendations. In reply to questions sub.
mitted to him by Hon. II. A. Herbert,
of the commission, Professor A. Agas-
siz declares in substance that all the
scientific publications put forth by the
Government do not contain an original
thought or new fact. 1.-The methods
of publication" continues the Profess
sor, adopted by the various bureaus,
the mode Of distribution, the size of the
editions, are wasteful and extravagant.
Editions running into the thousands
ana tens of thousands are often pub
lished, and there are not 500 people
or institutions whom they will do any
good, or to whom such purely scientific
publications csn be OF any service"
The Museum Of Comparative Zoology
at Cambridge, Mass" says the Pre-.
fessor, published large number Of il
Illustrated volumes of material collected
byitsagents With the coast. survey steam
ers at cost Of 100000, which if done
by the Government bureaus would
have cost five or six times that
amount" ~ "There are," continues
the Professor, Railways in the different
universities plenty Of people who will
be only too thankful to prepare works
on paleontology for the sake Of doing