Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-02-03
PRESIDENTS PLAN.
Nv Hundred md ElshU.Tvo Members
q tho HOUSE Oppose It.
rHn GOLD posD FEATURE.
that IL what II objected To, So Far
A Southern Representative Ar.
Ceacernea-wasA,nxte. City Cos
sip Of Interest.

SSPeStaA,--A memper OF the virginia uei-
egaticn has made a careful canvass OF
tho House. and he says he Is positive
that not less than is2 OF the representa-
tives are opposed to the administration
financial plan. The gold-bond feature. he
asserts. Is responsible for the situation.
20 far as opposition among southern
Democrats Is concerned. In making the
estimate the member referred to states
that he has given the advocates of the
Springer bill the benefit OF every doubt.
Representatives Wise. Mallory. and
oeary. OF the Commerce Committee.
have had q conference with Speaker
Crisp and General catchings. OF the
House Committee on Rules, in regard TO
obtaining special rule for taking up the
Nscaragua-canal bill The gentlemen
were promised that at the next meeting
Of the Rules Committee the matter would
Be considered. The hackers of the canal
bin realize that unless they can get
action at an early day the chances OF
passing the measure viii be greatly les
eened.
The financial agitation is a menace TO
getting through a number of measures
that Virginia people are interested In.
ENDOkSEMENI Of' NEsSl.
Senator Vest has been very much sur
prised TO receive nearly hundred letters
from Virginia endorsing his speech dur
ing the early part OF the week on the
financial question. They come from all
parts OF the State, and the Senator says
the writers assure him that the masses
OF the people agree with him In his OPP
position TO the plan presented by the
administration. The Senator also says
he Is getting letters by the hundred from
Missouri on the same line. IL will be
remembered that Mr.. Vest was provoked
TO make his speech on account of set
OF resolutions sent him by the st. Louis
Chamber of Commerce. The Senator
hoped into the city folks and declared
the people out In Missouri were against
the policy recommended by the business
men, and the comments of the country
papers OF his State. he is advised by tele-
graph from q friend, show that in the
towns and counties he is sustained over
whelmingly other senator's report that
quite a general feeling of this sort has
been aroused. and II looks like fight
Of country against city.
Senator Vest seems to appreciate very
much the letters received by him from
Virginia He did not expect any communi-
cations from the Old Dominion.
GooCHLAND WITH GROVER.
Representative Wise is in receipt OF a
letter very remarkable in character
which a citizen Of Goochland county
wrote 20 the President, with a request
that the Congressman present II In per-
son TO Mr.. Cleveland.
The Goochland man endorses the policy
of the President, but expresses some very
original ideas in arriving at conclusions.
Another member OF the Virginia delega-
ton found In his mail to-day a letter in
~
owing TO a misfortune. she is certain
the President of the United States will
be very happy to loan her some money
II the Congressman will only 60 TO the
White House and properly present the
case and the circumstances.
MARsHALLS LECTURE.
The other day Representative Marshall
happened TO joculariy remark TO Fellow
congressman that he thought OF mount
ing the lecture-platform, and that the
title Of his proposed lecture would be: is
Democracy Dissolving View or
Crushed TRUTH" Members have crowded
around him ever since 10 talk over the
thing, and they think that the member
from the Ninth District would become
noted and make oceans OF fun were he TO
rive Congress a characteristic talk on
the lines suggested by the title. Mr.. Mar
shall could ring in his famous sentence
about his ''lily-white hands, which
raused such merriment in Virginia cam
paign.
In the Virginia case OF Goode VS.. Epes.
ls still in the city, and to-day's Post
has a statement from him in which he
claims he was elected and that
The House ought to seat MIN
He visits some of the Repub-
Iicans almost daily, and is doing all in
n Judge
Daniels. of the Elections Committee, says
the minority will try to have the case
called up at the next meeting. but owing
TO the few days of the session remaining
and the large amount Of business TO be
done It is hard to secure quorum at
the meetings Of the committee
PERSONAL AND POSTAL.
CONGRESSMAN Crawford has a bill on
the House calendar providing for PEN
sion to Mrs. Fagg. Of Asheville. widow OF
Colonel Fagg. who was gallant officer
from North Carolina in the Mexican war.
Mr.. Crawford hopes to get the bill
through.
Among fourth-class postmasters ap-
pointed to-day were:
virxinia-W. w. Clark, Ringgold, Pitt
syivania county, vice W. II. Oliver. re-
signed: A. E. Bloxton. Stafford. Stafford
county. vice W. Y. Stevens, removed.
North Carolina--J. c. Pinnex, Marier.
Yadkin county. vice l. J. Mathis. resign
ed
SWANSON SPEAKS.
Representative Swanson got in a hve-
minute speech this afternoon In the
House In opposition TO the Pacific fund
ing bill. He spoke very rapidly. and
crowded a great deal into the limited
time he was granted. The speech was
attentively listened TO. and the young
fnfc ma S>fra
plause by the members who agreed with
him.