Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-01-14

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ment of Rowan. This was a new
| view Of the case, and it was discussed
/ by the best lawyers in the Senate. i
was shown very clear that the affirm
ative side Of the question is right, a;
! Rowan has been nominated for Vice
Admiral, and If confirmed to Porter,
old position before the case Of Porter
| is acted upon, and Porter is subse
0uentiy rejected, the latter could not
! resume his former rank, which ha,
been cOnstitutiOnally filed by Rowan
and Porter would thus be out of the
service. 1t is not unusual for the Sen.
ate to lay aside one nomination and
take up another lower down on the
calendar. This view of the case viii
operate in POrter's favor, as the Sen.
ate is not disposed to legislate him
out of Office. But for this he would
be rejected by a large vote. When
the subject had been discussed tOI
some time, P0rter's friends suggested
an adjournment, but his opponents
refused until a vote was taken, and
his friends, by a small majority, car.
ried their point. II is understood
that a vote will be taken to-day, and
the opinion Is general that he viii be
confirmed by a small majority.
GRANT AND THE NORTH CAROLINA
TROUBLES.
WASHINGTON, January l3.-At the
close of the executive session to-day,
the Vice President laid before the
Senate a message from the President,
in reply to a resolution passed by the
Senate, December 1G, 1870, requesting
to be furnished with information rela-
tive to the organization of dislOyal
persons i'm North Carolina, which
has in view resistance to the
United States laws aud the denial of
protection ana employment. The
President transmitted abstracts, re-
ports and other papers on file in the
War Department, relative to Outrages
in North Carolina, and also those rel
8tive TO Outrages committed in other
Southern States, but says the original
reports and papers are too volumini-
Gus to be copied in season to be used
by the present Congress, but are easily
accessible for reference, and copies Of
such papers can be furnished rs the
Senate deem necessary,
ADMIRAL PORTER AND THE LAND
OFFICE BUSINESS.
The Senate was in executive ses-
sion for four hours this afternoon on
the nomination of Vice Admiral POT-
ter to be Admiral, and confirmed it
by a vote of thirty to ten. The Sen
ate also confirmed the following NOM
nations: Mortimer d. Legget, Of
Ohio, Commissioner Of Patents; and
John H. knight, Register in the
Lend Office at Bayfield,, Wis.
The House Judiciary Committee
subp@naed the following persons to
give testimony on Monday: Joseph
5. Wilson. Commissioner of the Cen
eral Land Office; Martin Buel, former
~ Acting Recorder; and VIM. II.
Lowry, formerly Clerk in the Land
Office and now of the counsel for the
New Idra Company.
The Eenate Committee on Public
Lands postponed action on the nOm-
inatiUn of Mr.. DrunmOud to be Com
missioner Of the Land Office, and
agreed 10 report favOrably on the
of Mr.. Hardenburg as
Surveyor General Of California.
BEN. BUTLER AND WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
WASHINGTON, January l3.-Mr.
LOughridge made a lengthy report on
the memorial of Mrs. Victoria Q.
Woodruff, accompanied by a res0lu-
ton declaring that women have the
right of suffrage under the l4th and
18th amendments, but was voted
down by the committee, General
Butler and Mr.. LOughTidge being the
only two who voted in its favor.
sCHENCK.
WARRINGTON, January l3.-Minis-
ter SchenCk was seTenaded this even.
ing at his residence by the marine
band under auspicies Of the Ohio
Republican Association.
BY NAIL
From the Baltimore Gazstte.7
WAsHINGTON, January 10.-There
is nothing talked Of to-day, in or out
side Of the nails Of Congress, bat the
great triumph of the GRANTEES upon
his grand San Domingo job. The
public had been so sUrfeited with
plausible yarns about the efficacy Of a
certain Conservative wing of Re
public8ns in the National Legisla-
lure, F." that some honest men on the
Democratic side began, bit shOrt
time ago, TO anticipate serious divi-
siOns in both branches Of Congress be-
tween them. Messrs. Bingham and
FarnswOrth-especially the latter
havegiven signs enough Of discomfort,
but their grievances are purely per-
sOnal, as il now turns Out.
EATING THE LEEK.
General Butler some time ago,
when violently assaulted by Farms
worth, said in his seat (sOttO UOce)
that he would yet make his colleague
on the Reconstruction Committee
seat the leek." He has been as good
as mis- word. 1t was Butler that con-
cOcted the 'jOint resolution scheme
for the annexation Of San Domingo
and wrote the passage in the ''annu-
al" Of General Grant upon that point
the only cunning and grammatical
paragraph in il. lie caught all his
personal enemies, in the House and
Senate, in this wholesale drag-net,
and efiectually put them upon the
same level with himself as 10 spOOzSy
When the voting was about to be
commenced yesterday afternoon in
the House, Bntler, who appreciates
malicious ioke-none Other-deliber-
ateIv opened a volume Of Shakespeare,
and a little before the name OF Farms
worth was called, in fact, at the com
meucement Of roll celi-sO that Blng-
ham might not escape-began 70
read in an audible tone to ms
admirers from
TIE FIFTH ACT OF HENRY V.
Fhlellen-I beseech yGu heartily
scurvy, lowsy knave, at my desires
and my requests, and my petitions, 70
eat. look you, this Ieek-because, look
YOU. YOU do not love It, nor your alice
lions, and your appetitess and your
digpstions, does not agree with II, 4
would desire you TO eat itl
PistOl-Must I bite2
FEuellen-Yes. certainly; and out Of
doubt, and out Of question, too, and
ambiguitiesl
/ am sorry to add that upon swal-
lowing the whole Of Buffers leek, the
honorable member from Illinois, pro
ceeded instanter to the White House
to acquaint his Excellency Of his own
subseFYiency and that Of his mercena-