Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-06-26
WASHINGTON.
TIRE PRESIDENT SENDS IN ANOTHER
BATCH OF vET0Es.
The vireinia.pebt Question Riddleber.
gers .Resolntion-Personal Notes
and Briefs Postal Notes.
,r,ou our Regular Correspondent. !

thirty veto messages from the Presi-
dent, in which the looseness with which
pension bills are passed was duly
shown up. The Republicans endea-
yored 10 tx days for the consideration
Of the individual cases in which the
President refused to concur with Con.
gress in the granting Of pensions. After
sslight attemptat flibustering these tao
tics we're abandoned, and the messages
and bills were referred TO the Committee
on Pensions, where they will die a
natural death. The messages disposed
OF, number Of committees submitted
reports, and the House went into Com.
mi,tee Of the Whole on the sundry-
civil appropriation bill.
In the Democratic caucus last night
be leaders Of the party agreed that the
appropriation bills could be disposed
of by July %, but that there were
several other measures which would
have to be passed in order to give the
party prestige before the people, which
would prolong the session until the
18Th. The Blair educational bill was
suggested IS one Of these measures, but
il was decided that that could not
under any pretext DO made party
issue; that il was not so considered
in the Senate, and that in
The House both parties were ire
concilsbly divided on its merits.
While IT had passed the Republican
Senate. it did so with Republican and
Democratic votes; in the House both
leaders on the Republican side Of the
chamber, Messrs. Reed and Hiscock,
stood ready TO bring all thoir influence
TO bear to secure its defeat, while their
following was split up and controlled
by local interests /; thus Pennsylvania
congressman whose constituencies
would have to contribute 10000, 900 to
the educational fund, and draw out
s2,000,000, would oppose the Blair bill
regardless of party utilization that they
would be controlled by their own in
terests, and that the same was true Of
the other State delegations.
Three Virginia bondholders appeared
before the subcommittee of the House
Judiciary Committee this morning.
They were Messrs. f. b. Wesley, w.
S. Williams, and John Hume, all OF
New York. The latter gentleman bore
the brunt of the argument, while the
others Clipped in suggestions from time
to time. The leading points made by
Mr. Hume were that the Government
OF the United States, having by its ac-
tion in forcing partition of the State
OF Virginia, mutilated, and to certain
extent destroyed, the security Of the
bondholders, the United States were in
equity required to restore the security
by itself assuming responsibility.
Again That by the exigencies Of war
the State had been reduced to condi-
ton in which she found herself unable
TO pay the bonds that while the bond
holders had been loyal to the United
States, the latter had, as a military
measure outside Of the Constitution,
inflicted injury on its loyal bondhold-
ers by destroying their security. Mr..
Hume did not deny the right Of
the Government to take his pro-
perry, or even his personal services, but
1t was laid down as a constitutional
provision that the Government must
compensate him. Mr.. Tucker swept
this argument aside by declaring that
the war had been operative in the de-
struction Of private property, and not
the property of the State that whilst
il had taken from him his slaves, the
negroes were still in the State, and
represented the same amount Of bone
and muscle as freemen that they did
as slaves. The meeting to-day was very
informal, it being expected by
the New Workers that Virginians
would be here to make the
arguments. Another meeting will be
held tomorrow morning, beginning at
$50. The subcommittee having the
matter in charge consists Of Chairman
j. Il. Tucker, P. A. Collins, and L.
j. Taylor.
The Senate Committee on Elections
this mornipg-by a vote Of : to Pre-
fused 10 90 into an investigation Of the
election Of Senator Payne by the Ohio
Legislature.
Senator Riddleberger introduced a
bundle of bills in the Senate to-day by
request. lie led off with resolution
as follows
That the Secretary Of Treasury be
directed to ascertain and make public
The following information as soon as
possible;
(l) The present face value of mort
cages in the United States.
(2) The Indebtedness OF municipal
ties, parishes, counties, States, and of
the United States.
(SJ The annual interest liability on
the above.
a. The capital and net profits Of all
banks, BY whatever name known, with
in the jurisdiction of the United States,
by years, and, if possible, from Jauu-
airy /, 1868, TO January /, 1886, to the
intent that all possible and proper in
formation may be obtained, classified,
tabulated, aggregated, and disgrama-
tized so that debt and usury in every
phase may be seen as it is felt in every
hamlet in the land.
Then follows bills to reduce letter
postage to cent ; directing the Secre-
tary Of the Treasury to pay all balances
held in the United States Treasury to
their Just and true owners or heirs
amending the misunderstanding act by |
adding an additional section creating
q department Of transportation, and |
making its head Cabinet officer; to
protect certain mining and agricultural
industries in the United States; re-
lating to the manufacture Of the money |
Of the United States to destroy bank
ing and usury by private banks within
the United States by creating certain
banking duties Of the Treasury Depart
ment.
The House Committee on Public
and Grounds held meeting
to-day, and agreed to report fayorably |
the bill appropriating sl50,0O0 for
public building at Norfolk.