Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-07-13
COMPULSORY PlLOTAGE.
A Vote on the Bill ia House Committee
Next Friday.
special telegram to the Dispatch.l


W,sulxGroN. July 12.-The House Com
mittee on Foreign and Interstate Com
merce. of which Hon. George ID. Wise is
chairman, will on Friday next take vote
on the bill which has already passed the
Senate proposing TO do away with com
unlsorv pilotage. IL will be remembered
that Mr. FRYE put the measure through the
Senate. 1t Is a matter on whch
sentiment in Virginia Is very much
divided. The Richmond Chamber
Of Commerce passed some time az" strong
resolutions in favor of doing away with
the present system of compulsory pilot
aye. and IN Difference to the sentiment IN
his own city Mr. Wise will vote III COM
mittee IN favor Of the pending measure.
The committee have given num-
Der OF hearings. and some fine ar
cuments have been made on botn
sides. The commercial bodies OF Norfolk,
Petersburg, Newport News. Portsmouth,
aud other cities III Virginia have memo
rialized Congress 20 defeat the bill. SO
great Is the interest IN the matter II has
been decided TO permit members 0f the
Commerce COMMITTEES who cannot be
present TO file with the clerk of the COM
mittee their votes. There are seventeen
members OK this committee, and the lndl-
cations are that the vote will be very close:
IL IL possible that tie vote VIII
ne the result, because Mr.. Geary IS
IN California and hs has not been
communicated with The chances are he
will not be heard from IN time. II the
vote Is a tie, why of course no action can
be taken on Friday; and should Mr. Gearv
not send III his vote, or should he not re-
turn here this session, everything would be
blocked unless one OF the members should
change his position.
NO TRACEY FORCE FILL.
Representative Alexander has received a
number of letters from North Carolina
asking him to send copies OF the force bill
introduced in the House by General
Tracey, the member of Congress from the
Albany district of New York. Ihis has
worried General Tracey very much. 1t
seems that story is current all over North
Carolina that he has introduced bill of
this character, but il is "A mistake. lie has
done nothing OF the kind, but men like
MIR. Sellers, of Columbus county, have
that impression. and he is one Of the cor
respondents of Mr. Alexander seeking the
information.
General Tracey has beon very active IN
opposing the free coinage OF SILVER, ana 1t
is thought that this Is the basis for the er-
roneous impression prevailing IN the North
Carolina alliances that ne introduced last
spring force bill. IL is saiG that III nearly
all the alliances of the State the belief Is
that he had taken this position, and as they
are so ardent in their demands Tor free
silver they do not take kindly TO the
Albany member. Justice TO General Tracey
demands that he should be set right. He
Is a good Democrat, even If he is 50 much
opposed to free silver. and would never
directly or indirectly countenanco any
legislation aimed at the rights and liber-
ties OF the southern people.
POPULAR ELECTION OF SENATOR'S.
In the discussion to-day IN the House
Mr. DUNCAN. of Ohio, was one OF the
members who opposed the bill to elect
United States senators by direct vote OF
the people. He thinks the present system
Is a good enough one, and cited as an
illustration the election OF the late Hon.
John S. Barbour, Of Virginia. The peoples
will was thoroughly carried out In that N
stance. So was il carried out IN the elec-
tion of Mr.. Mills, IN Texas. The people
had their way in both cases.
Most OF the speakers to-day favored the
bill.
THIRD-PARTYIsM IN NORTH CAROLINA.
Considerable talks heard here regard
ing the Ihird-party movement IN Nofth
Carolina. Representative Bum thinks it
would be very formidable If the election
were TO be held now. but before November
he believes the movement wall be checked
aud the tide stemmed.
Representative Henderson says be thin ks
the people of the State will look at the
situation in the proper light, and If there
are three tickets in the field he is confident
the Democrats will win. II the Repubh-
cans were to decline 10. run a ticket and
should endorse the People e's-party ticket,
then there would be danger. But this IS
not likely TO happen. The old-line Demo-
Gratis will not throw their votes away. nor
will they oonntenence anything that will
help the Republicans to capture the cleo
toral vote.
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.
Judee Holman. of Indiana, says Mr.
Henderson put through the post-ofiice ap-
propriation bill in the House ABOUT as
cIeverly as anything of the kind has been
done in that body since he has been q
member OF 1t.
Representative Epes, Of Virginia, is very
busy al present helping along the cause OF
free silver. He Is member OF the Com
ACE Committee and has taken a prominent
part this session in all matters coming be-
fore il. Mr. Epes not only is a strong ad-
yocafe OF free coinage, but his constitu-
ents demand the passage of the pending
bill, and It will not be hisfault IT the mea-
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