Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-06-17

against this bin tha0 any other poruou
Of the country. n one b to Be guided By
some Of the uswspaper editorials but -
long - the senator's from that section
keep 20 quiet Il h better to follow them.
Not mur1nur from General Gordon. or
from Judge George. or from Senators
Lindsay and Blackburn. and Senators
Coke. Berry. McLAurin. Irby. Walsh.
Call. Pasco, Morgan, and Pugh are re-
markably quiet II Il could be true that the
remodelled bill. 90 different from the one
the House sent over, Ii such q diabolical
AFFAIR. That public sentiment OF which
Senator Daniel spoke q few weeks ago
In conversation with the Dispatch cor
respondent IL keeping the Senate bill In
tact evidently, and no matter how much
Senators Mills and Vest may rave. 1t 10
not believed they will be able to disturb
the lovely harmony existing In the Demo-
cratic ranks. The President and Secre-
tary Of the Treasury are reported to De
satisfied with the bill. and as they nave
not done anything to show they are not.
the cry is, stand by the administration"
The practical statesmen want results;
they apparently have become very weary
Of theorists like Messrs. Vest and NILS
who seem anxious to put nearly every
thing on the free list that New England
needs, and are not willing to cut the
duties down low enough on the manu-
featured articles to compensate Virginia
and West Virginia for furnishing free
raw material Of the iron-ore and coal
varieties to those sharp Yankee manu-
facturers.
RANSOM SPECULATION.
Some OF the representatives Of Republic
can newspapers thought they had struck
a great sensation when they found the
name Of Ransom figuring In sugar specu-
lation. 1t was In SO and so dabs. ana II
was surmised that Senator Ransom was
the man. The Senator went before the
special investigating committee to be ex-
amined to-day, and Of course 1t was easily
shown that he had noe been specializing.
1t turned out, however, that his son,
George Ransom. In cahoot with Judge
Arthur Barnes OF North Carolina, had
been taking gentle flyers In sugar Stock
and they went before the committee this
afternoon and admitted the facts. Mr.
Ransom Is Clerk OF the Senate Commerce
Committee. and Judge Barnes hoids
position at the Capitol In the Senate wing.
That's all there Is OF the story, and as
they have right to invest their earnings
in sugar. cotton, corn, dirt, or anything
else. it Is nobody else's business.
The investigating committee got through
examined them all. and Mr.. Mcpherson,
Of New Jersey. Is the only one who got
hit. Things look little shaky for him.
He transferred his shares to his son, and
later a servant by mistake sent tele-
gram for the family, which made con-
siderable money out Of Sugar shares.
The special committee have their meet
ings in tho room of the Committee on
Privileges and Elections. OF which the
late Senator Vance was chairman. The
room Is just across the corridor from
Senator Ransoms committee-room. In
the latter the senator's waited to-day their
turn to be called.
Sensational NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. might
draw on their imaginations and get
great fake II they could have seen
Senator Ransom and Congressman Bum
showing Senator Sherman specimen OF
gold quartz taken from q mine in Ashe
county, ". c. The Ohio statesman was
greatly interested in the specimen, espe-
cially when told that the find SO far
assays 1913 to the ton.
Hon. F. N. Simmons, Collector OF In
ternal Revenue for the Eastern District
of North Carolina, Is In the city.
RICHMOND COLLEGE.
General Hunton to-day introduced In
the Senate a bill to pay to Richmond Col
lege a sum sufficient to repay that insti-
tuition OF learning for damage done the
buildings and grounds by the Union army
during the war.
Among fourth-class postmasters ap-
pointed to-day were:
Virginia-Big Tunnel, Montgomery coun-
ty, Matte W. Camper vice G. w. Jewell,
resigned; Emporia, Greenesville county, Nj.
c. Woodruff vice p. II. Farley, removed;
Richpatch, Allegheny county. Mary n.
Hamlet vice w. G.. Persinger, resigned;
Smith Creek, Washington county. w. Z.
Richie vice S. NJ. Withers, resigned.
North Carolina-Gravel Spring, Chat
ham county. J. T. Buckner vice Metty
Buckner, dead; Hargrove, Granville coun-
ty, r. s. Jones vice Il. l.. Allen. re-
signed; Nance, Rockingham county, r..
b. Gibson vice J. NJ. Montgomery, re-
moved.
Post-offices have been established In
Virginia as follows: Tumbeg. Russell
county, Sarah A. F'ugate postmaster; VIA
Craig county. Hezekiah Paxter postmas-
ter; Wren, Charlotte county, George L.
webb postmaster
Name OF post-office In Virginia ordered
changed by the department-Negro Foot
Hanover county. 10 Negro.