Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-03-05
WsshlHaton Items.

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WASHINGTON, March 4.-The Com
mfttee on Banking aud Currency, to-
day, had an interchange Of views on
instructions of the House TO feEOTt a
bill increasing the volume of curren-
cy S3U, 700, 900. The Committee is at a
loss to know whether the intended
increase should be in greeubacks or
in National bank notes, and therefore,
the character OF the biiI Il IS yet IN
determined. 1t IS probable that in
this connection they will report plan
for funding the national debt.
The following nominations were
sent in TO the Senate today:
r. Z. Meigs, of Tennessee, Consul
at MOnteyideo; Jas. ". MssOn, of
Arkansas, Minister Resident and Con-
sui General to Liberia.
The President has determined to
sustain General Root, Collector Of In
ternal Revenue Of Buffalo, District OF
New York, and therefore has with
drawn from before the Senate the
name Of GIr. kibbe, nominated as
Collector Roots successor.
Official statistics shGw imports into
the United States for ten months end
ing October 81, 1860, amounted to
about S400, 000, ,OO0, against $3.50, ,0gQ, 900
same time in 1868. Exports same
time 1866, 900, 600, against 1850, 900, 600.
OF imports SZ76, 900, and of exports
$245, 000, 600, were ia foreign vessels,
A letter received to-day by the UOm-
missioner Of Indian Affairs from Gen
eral D. 5. Stanley, commanding at
Fort Sully, urges the government to
fllh!l the promises made to the Sioux
Indians by the treaty made at Fort
Rice, and says the friendly Sioux have
done everything they could to INDUCE
the hostile Sioux TO bury the hatchet,
but constantly complain that horses,
cattle, etc, were promised but have
not been given them; and this con-
slant cause of QiscOntSGt, As the
friendly Sioux number about eight
thousand, it would be advisable, the
General believes, to lose no time in
procuring for them settlements OF
lands and means to cultivate them.
Jos. w. Mason was to-day nomi-
natad as Minister resident and Consul
General at Liberia. He is mulatto,
and native resident Of ChicOt county,
Arkansas, where he Is largely engaged
ia planting.
Isaac n. Dawley has been appointed
special Postof1ice Department Agent
for Colorado, New Mexico and Ari-
zona, vice n. d. Dufield, removed.
In the House to-day a bill was
passed giving to a colored man living
iu the District of Colum bia, who lost
both feet at second Bull Run, q pen
sion commencing from 1862. 1t ap-
pears that this man, being a teaLnstey,
and employed in the quartermaster's
department, his name was not on the
muster roll. His case was uniaVOT-
ably reported on in the present and
preceding Congress. In opposition to
his claim it was urged that its passage
would be a precedent requiring the
expenditure Of two or three million
dollars every year to meet similar ex-
ceptiOnai cases for which provision
would have TO be made, in addition
to the expenditure of thirty-three or
thirty-hve millions per annuln for
pensions.
The President has accepted an invi-
tatiOn from citizens of eastern Connec-
ticut, to attend a proposed grand mass
meeting in Woodstock, on July 4th,
in honor Of the day, and particularly
in honor Ofthe passage Ofthe Fifteenth
Amendment. Ben. Butler will adj
dress the meeting. Grant, in accept
ing the invitation, which he did with
out qualification, said he hoped Con-
gress would adjourn early SO he could
20 to Long Branch in June.
The expenditures from the Treasury
Department for February were: Civil
and miscellaneous, $5,712, ALI War
Department, $3, ,882, ,757; Navy Depart
ment, 81, $40, ,063; pensions, So, ,250, 900;
Indian Department, S2O3,22 Total,
Sl6. .298. .48s. The above does not in
clude the expenditures on account of
the principal and interest of the public
debt Custom receipts last week, s4,-
s79,7e7,