Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-03-28
DIPLOMATIC STROKE.
Adoption by House Of Senate Cuban
Resolutions Thus Regarded.
Wo VIRGINIA MEASURES.
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One 10 Permit n Railroad to Enter
Washingtou-The Other TO Provide
Federal Court Sessions at Roa-
noIse.

Special 1.-The action or the House con-
ferrees In agreeing to the Senate Cuban
resolutions Is said here to be bold
stroke Of diplomacy. They saw clearly
that the Senate conferrees would not
agree to the intervention resolution
passed by the House. and that. If they
disagreed it would play into the hands
of those senators who have been 80 sue
cessfuuy hlibustering; and, II rumor
speaks the truth, also speculatng, on
the bare possibility of hostlities
This closes the discussion OF the Cuban
affair I'm the Senate, and the whole mat
ter will, IT is hoped. be speedily brought
to an end In Congress Mr.. Hitt the
chairman OF the House Committee on
Foreign Affairs, will at the first op-
portunity call up the conference report
in the House. and ask its immediate
consideration. There is no doubt that
the report will be debated, and that an
attempt will be made to amend II, 50 as
10 permit Of further filibustering so
called: but the indications are that
II will be adopted by the House. and this
is concerned. The resolution will then
go to the President In its concurrent
form and II remains with him 10 do as
he thinks proper under the circumstances.
The report in a New YORK paper 10
the effect that England has indirectly
eirniGed 10 this country willingness
/ 40 ala the United States in its efforts to
bring the Cuban struggle to close. by
/ intervention in behalf Of the bellfge rents
is not credited here.
NORFOLK AND WESTERN?
Rerresentative Meredith to-day intro
duced a bill authorizing the Herndon
and Aldee Railroad Company, OF Nir-
ginia. 10 construct a bridge across the
potomac below Great Falls, and TO lay
a. tracks into the District Of Columbia.
| Tbis biu was introduced by Mr.. Mere
| difh by request and he has no know
| ledge where the proposed railroad Is TO
., II is urobably a renewal OF the old
schen,a 10 allow the Norfolk and West
/ ern a right-of-way into the city or per-
! hans II Is the Baltimore and ohio,
/ which wants better facilities in the Dis
trict than II has at present
| Representauye Otey to-day introduced
n bin providing for terms or the JnitCd
/ states District Circuit courts 70 be held
/ in the citv OF Roanoke. on the second
| Trosdavs Of August and February Of
| each wear. The district is a large one.
/ aud the BIZ goes on to say mat business
/ would be greatly accelerated by such
! court terms.
/ Representrtive skinner OF North Caro-
Ina. has introduced a bill which provides
| that all Keepers and assistant keepers of
! lighthouses and fog-signals: all officers
| and crews OF nghtships and light-tenders'
/ and all commissioned employees OF the
! Iiebt-house establishment. and all officers
/ and crews Of the life-saving service, shail
! be entitled 70 retire upon one-haf their
! regular pay after twenty-five or more
wears service in their respective depart
/ rr,euts. or upon reaching the age or
/ g. wears: or n they have served
| twenty years. or more. they shall receive
one half their regular pay, or one third,
/ II they have served fifteen years. The bin
| was referred to the Committee on Inter
! state and Foreign Commerce. and ordered
! to be printed.
PERSONAL AND POSTAL.
Professor Thornton. chairman Of the
| faculty OF the University of Virginia, and
quite a number of college presidents
! are here 70 advocate the passage OF a bill
giving a portion Of the proceeds Of the
! public lands 10 the erection and ma'n-
! terance OF mining schools in the States
and Territories. They have tner head
quarters at the Arlington.
Colonel Pat. II. McCaull. Of Culpeper
who IL is supposed will be the Republican
candidate for Congress in the Eighth
! Virginia District, is in the city, regis
tered at the Hotel Nendome.
Captain r. c. Marshal. Of Portsmouth,
arrived here to-day. having learned that
n committee from Richmond had been
| here Yesterday in advocacy OF the bill
] n .
/ locking over the ground. and is doing all
| in his power for the interest OF the pilots.
Among the fourth-class postmasters APP
! pointed to-day We're the following: G. \.
! Purcell vice d. S. Alderman. resigned, at
| Pureeopolis. Robson county, y. g.. and
| ". ID. Watson vice T. VI. Watson. re-
| moved, Rives Chapel, Chatham county,
y. c.
Joseph Wardin has been commissioned
postmaster at Nevin. n. c.; Carrie r.
| Harper at Patterson, y. c.; Ross VI.
| Swlmley at Clear Brook, Va; Benjamin
r. Crockett at Crabs Neck, Va, and
| Elias Herr at Limeton, Va.
ARRIVALS.
Among the hotel arrivals to-day were
I the following:
Howard House-C. Archer and wife.
Richmond. Va. J. NJ Long. =. II. Smith.
| 4. MDpIes Jlsf u 6iii"'
United States Hotel-E. Simmons and
wife, Fairfax, Va.
Natlonal-C. Wei, Richmond. Va
Metropolltan-H. II. Russell and wife.
Leesburg. Va; \. +. Funkhouser, Har-
risonburg. Va. +. f. Burch. Leesburg,
Va.
st. James-Mrs. Manly, North Caroinai
Dr.. W. 7. Nye. Virginia.
The Raleigh-M. h. Pettyjohn, Lynch
burg. Va: II. W. Miller, Raleigh y. Q.
Professor Boatwrght, OF Richmond Col
lege. who has been here on business. left
for home to-day.
Mr.. Henry Meyer and his bride. for
merly Mrs. Bradshaw OF Prince Edward
and Richmond. are spending portion Of
their honeymoon here, stopping at Miss
Lizzie Cartor's, on c street a favorite
resort OF Virginlans.
President ". r. Trigg, Of the Richmond
Locomotive Works. paid a flying visit here
to-day. returning home BY the evening
| train.
Mrs. Connally F. Trgg and Miss Poca.
hontas Trlag White, who have been visit.
ing IN Norfolk for the past two weeks
returned TO their old quarters. at the
Metropolitan, here. this evening.