Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-02-25

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THE JOINT HIGH COMMISSION.
The Joint High Commission will
begin its labOr5 next week. All the
British members and all thS Ameri-
can members except eX-AttOrney
General HOar are in Washington. 1t
seems likely that under the loose
working agreement the Canadian
claims for damages by Fenian raids
will come before the Commission.
The Earl of Kimberly's letter to the
Governor General of Canada, in
which he urges that the claims arising
out OF the Fenian invasion be present
ed to this Government for settlement
at this time, has caused quite little
sensation in administration quarters,
and is subject to comment among the
members of the Cabinet. Secretary
Fish takes a different view of the
subject.
BLAIR AND BAYARD ON THE ELEC-
TION LAW.
The Senate yesterday took up the
House bill to guard the purity of cleo
tiORs. The discussion was kent up by
the Democratic minority for hours on
the threatened control of elections by
Federal authority. Republican Sena-
tors manifested apparent indifference
to the debate and a determination to
sit all night, and Democratic members
seemed disposed to test the physical
endurance of the majority. Thurman,
Bayard and Casserly regularly
succeeded each other in Offering and
advocating amendments and deliver
ing lengthy arguments on the revOlu-
tiOnary and mOnstrOus character of
the measures, while the rest of their
associates prepared to continue the
ments were rejected.
Mr.. Bayard, in the course Of his
speech, asserted that the introduction
Of soldiers into Delaware prior to the
elections last fall, was only prevented
by his emphatic protest to the Presi-
dent, Notwithstanding his State
was invaded, under the leader
ship of the United States Mar
shal, by a horde of jail-birds from
the neighbOrhOOd of Philadelphia,
disguised as Deputy MarshaIs, but
these fellows did not dare carry out
their designs in interfering with the
elections, or they would have received
the punishment they deserved.
Mr.. Blair said the election of Grant
by the aid of an army in the South
ern States was identical with the coup
detdt by which Louis Napoleon
acquired power, ,And Grant would
yet use the bayOnet in New York
as relentlessly as he had used it in
Mississippi. The purpose of the bill
was, in his opinion, to enable the
Republican to re-elect himself by
driving voters in the Democratic
interest away from the voting polls
in New York at the point of the bay
Onet. He went on to speak of the
election to high offices Of military
commanders, one of whom was now
in the Senate by the use Of the soldiers
under his command.
Mr.. Cas5erly predicted that the bill
would prove either the death warrant
of the Republican party or the liber
ties of the country.
A vote was finally reached, and the
bill passed by party vote, as follows:
Yeas, 80; nays, 10.
Mr.. Nickers moved to amend the
title so as to read, San act to prevent
the free and Intelligent voters of the
United States from exercising the
rights of suffrage" Lost.
The Senate then adjourned.
APPROPRIATIONS FOR CIVIL EX-
PENsEs.
WASHINGTON, February 24.-The
House took up the bill making apprO-
priatiOns for sundry civil expenses of
the Government, usually designated
as the omnibus bill, apprOpriating
$33, $50, ,992. Among the items are
the following For the State Depart
ment, $l14, 600; Treasury Department,
$3.50, 600; revenue cutter service,
S105, 200; construction of revenue cut
ters; 5000, 600; marine hospitals, $780,
900; Matt Onal currency and detecting
and furnishing counterfeiters, 5000, 600;
to pay amount found due for coast |
defense, $3.50, 600; for expenses of the
United States Court, 1000, 900; land
offices, $43, 900; expenses for collecting
revenue from public lands, $432, 600;
Metropolitan Police, District of Co
lumbia, $2l7, 900; government hOspi
tails for the insane, $l53, 600; deaf
and dumb institutions, SAG, 900; |
Columbia wOman's hospital and other
charities, 81, 600; Smithsonian Institu-
tiOn, $50 900; Capitol extension work, |
100000; extension of Government |
printing office, $45, 1000; surveying of
public lands, $4,000; territorial
boundary lines and surveys, $3.50, 600;
expenses for taking the ninth census,
81 ,259, 900; public buildings and
grounds in Washington, 1920, 900;
Washington aqueduct, S124 600; Rock |
Island bridge, Illinois, $500, 900; Rock |
Island arsenal and armory, $688. 600; |
all other armories and arsenals $220,- |
900; Freedmen's Bureau, 1886, 600;
signal officers, 100000; settlements
of accounts for army and disbursing
officers, $275, coo; military convicts to |
penitentiaries, $780, 600; indemnity for
States war expenses, $500, 000; pay
horses and other property lost in milf
tary service, $3.50, 600; lighthouses ex-
penses, 81, ,565, 900; coast survey, $685.
900; navy yards, 81 ,435, 900; pOstoffices
and other Government buildings,
S5,074,OO0; this includes $50, 900
for Charleston, South Carolina
$40, 900 for Knoxville, Tenn. 500, 1000
Portland, Oregon; So, 900 st. Paul,
Mimi; 81 1895, 600 New York; $942.-
600 Boston; $500,O00 San Francis.
co mint; sl50,000 New Orleans
custom-house: $4,000 Trenton.
N. j.; 100000 purchase lot in st.
Louis; S2l2,00O appraisers stores,
San francisco; 5000 printing Of
fee Of Treasury Department; $3.50, loco
for Hartford, Conn.,; 500, 900 for
Albany. N. Y; 100000 Nashville.
Tenn; SIS, ,000 Grand Rapids, Mich.
100000 Port HuEon; $4,000 La