Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-04-29

and was formerly Judge of
tho Supreme Court Of that State.
The trustee had decided to change
the location Of the investment to
Washington city. The transaction
has been effected through ID. g. AM
bier, president Of the National Bank Of
the State Of Florida at Jacksonville,
and j. j. Daniels, prominent lawyer
in that State. That was probably the
transaction, Mr.. Call said, which had
been used as an apparent basis for the
slanderous statements.
The Senate passed another lot OF
bridge bills, only one Of which affected
the South, being a bill authorizing the
erection Of bridge across the Tennes-
see river, in Perry and Decatur coun-
ties, at such point as may be selected
by the Nashville, jackson and Mem
pbis Railroad Company for the location
Of its line.
The post-ofi'ce appropriation bill was
taken up. Some debate arose on the
amendment proposed by the Senate
committee appropriating 100000 for
carrying the South and Central Ameri-
can, Chinese and Australian mails, and
authorizing the Postmaster-General to
make, after due advertisement, con-
tracts for five years with American
steamships, at rate not to exceed for
each outward trip one dollar per
nautical mile Of distance by the most
| direct and feasible course between the
terminal points. Mr.. Plumb explained
the purpose Of the amendment. 1t
was similar in character. he said, to the
provision Of last years bill, to which
the Postmaster General had not given
effect. Mr.. Plumb, in set speech of
considerable length, advocated the
amendment ; argued to show the neglect
Of our opportunities for extending our
commercial relations, and concluded
with an appeal to senators to aid in
doing something that would lift
American commerce to its proper
plane, and urged that this great work
would be impossible so long as the in
sular feeling continued-a feeling of
isolation that seemed to have taken
possession of our people.
Mr.. Frye supported the amendment
in long speech, in which he discussed
the tariff and labor question and argued
that mail facilities lay at the root Of
commercial activity, making many cita-
tons from commercial statistics to
show the popularity Of American goods
in South America. He said that one
half the English goods sold to South
America were fraudulently marked
American manufacture" so as to
secure more ready acceptance among
the people.
Executive session. Adjourned.
House OF Representatives.
Mr.. Hatch, ofMissouri, from the Com
mittee on Agriculture, reported bill de-
iining butter and imposing a tax upon and
regulating the manufacture, sale, ex-
portation and importation of oleomarga-
rine. Referred to the Committee Of
the Whole. The bill is very long, CON-
prehensive and stringent. 1t proposes
an internal-reyenue tax Of ten cents per
pound upon artificial substitutes for
butter, regulates the manufacture Of
such substitutes, and prescribes severe
penalties for the imposition upon the
public Of such substitutes as the genu-
inc product of the COW.
The -and-harbor bill was again
taken up in Committee of the Whole.
Mr.. McAdoo, of New Jersey, moved |
TO strike out the appropriation for the |
improvement Of Gasconade river, in
Missouri. 1t was stream, he said,
that was simply an obscure creek,
which should be macadamized and
good country road made of it. The
motion was lost.
The paragraph making an appropria-
ton for the improvement OF the yell
lowstone river having been reached,
Mr.. Beach, Of New York, said that
three years ago he had tried to catch
fish in that river and his efforts had
been as fruitless as this appropriation
would be to improve its navigation.
The Yellowstone was beautiful river.
Its waters were like those of the broad
Juniata, and as they leaped tumultu-
ously over the gravelled bed they
cleaned in the sunshine with silvery
CLEAN which attracted and fascinated
the eye laughter and applausel but
the course Of the stream was crooked,
and the swift current threw up shoals.
Here he was again greeted with APP
plause, which lasted so long that he
was compelled to yield the floor and
obtain leave to print his remarks in the
Record
Mr.. Hepburn, Of Iowa, offered an
amendment TO the Missouri-river Sec
ton providing for the expenditure of the
appropriation by the Secretary Of War
without the Intervention of the Missouri
River Commission. He attacked the
commission, charging that their sala-
RES, amounting to $685. per annam,
were more than one third Of the entire
appropriation made in the section under
consideration.
The House got no farther than this
with the bill. The discussion upon Mr..
lIepburn's amendment used up the re-
mainder of the days session. Pending
a vote upon the amendment the COM
mittec rose and the House adjourned.
Secretary Manning's Condition.
GBy telegraph TO the Dispatch.l
WASHINGTON, April 2S.-Secre-
tary Manning has so far progressed on
the road to complete recovery that he
was able to-day to take a long drive
about the city without fatigue. lie is
visited by and enjoys daily the CONVEX
sation of some OF his intimate friends,