Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-03-17

MATTERS ANDTHINGS AT WASH
INGTON.

No Customhouse Appropriations
| for the Present-District Attorney.
ship-Personalittes. etc.. etc.
From parties who have just returned
| from Washington and who have spent some
time in thaacity of magnificent distances.
1 and whose opportunities and discrimina-
| ton have afforded clear peeps behind the
| scenes. We are enabled to furnish some de-
tails of events not given by our dispatches,
| and which may be of interest to our read
ers. In our interviews with these gentle
men we obtained come information upon
points of general public interest. We will
| first refer to the
TENNESSEE DELEGATION.
Our Representatives elect to the Forty
second Congress are in Washington, and
| at their posts. Their admission was con-
ceded from the first to be a foregone con-
clusion, and though some formality and
| investigation of papers, etc, may be had,
all that their opponents expect is the usual
contingent in the way of allowance, etc.,
In such cases.
ADJOURNMENT, ETC
1t is generally thought that no adjourn
ment will be had until the return of the
st. Domingo Commissioners, and some
action be taken with reference to the an
nexation of that Island. The Grant-Sum-
ner embroylio RACES at fever heat and is
greatly deplored by leading Radicals and
wire workers as likely to split the party,
causing great detection and damaging eff
fects in the Presidential campaign of 1872.
TIE CoLLECToRsHP.
The authorities and powers that be are
highly pleased with the Revenue collec-
tons from Tennessee, and especially APP
prove of the management of affairs in this
District by Collector Peabody, his col
lections, Notwithstanding the sources of
revenue have been trimmed by recent
notifications of the law, being more than
the average of Districts of the same popu-
lation and wealth. 1t is possible that the
perquisites of the office at this place may
be increased, it appearing that the remu-
neration is not commensurate with the re-
sponsibilities Of, and expenses attached to
the same. This, however, it is presumed
will be somewhat contingent upon collec-
tions.
THE CUsToMHoUsE.
The failure to make the appropriation
for the Oustomhouse, already located on
the corner of Vine and Broad street, was
quite damper to the Tennessee members,
to the friends Of the building, and to the
Architect, Mr.. Mullet, who had made his
calculation to come right on and put the
JOB under contract at once. Expecting
| that the appropriation would be made and
that the building would be commenced
Immediately, energetic and responsible
parties went on to contract for furnishing
the material, etc. The appropriation not
being made, these calculations are knocked
for the present into pi Hon. Henry
Cooper has announced his intention of
bringing up the bill in the Senate at an
| early day, and making an effort to secure
the appropriation. 1t is very doubtful,
however, whether it will be made, as all
appropriations of this character will be
watched with great scrutiny till after the
Presidential election. So the Custom
statu quO with prospects for its early
| commencement rather fiat.
DISTRICT ATToRNEYsHIP.
Hon. Horace II. Harrison is in Washing
ton, with view, as we learn, to his ap-
pointment as United States District Attor-
ney for this District, in the place of R. Nc
Phail Smith, the present incumbent. The
subject of the appointment was being con-
| sidered by the appointing powers; the re-
suit is mere conjecture, though the proba-
bilities are that no change will be made till
after the April term of the Federal Court,
| if at ALL
COMMISSIONER STONE.
This gentleman, whose courts we all re-
member, and who was at the head of the
old Metropolitan Police Force in our city,
| is at the head of department in the Cen
sus Bureau, and has about twenty clerks
| under him. He has been very i'll and con-
fined for some time with acute rheuma-
tism, that has prevented personal super
vision of his Office. With the return of
spring weather, however, he is recovering
BALD EAGLE OF THE MOUNTAINS.
Hon. W. B. Stokes, the mountain ''Bald
Eagle, is in Washington, where he will
likely locate. His political career having
it is thought wound to close, and no
| hopes existing of preferment by his un-
grateful Radical friends, he has, in con-
| junction with a partner, gone into bust
ness as prosecutor and collector of claims
against the Government The firm name
| is Stokes & Strohmier.
CAPTAIN HEYDT.
We all remember the redoubtable Gap
| tain Heydt, who used to figure about the
| Capitol, and Brownlow's and the Secretary
| of States offices. Throug hBrownlow's in
fuerce he was made door-keeper of the
Senate at Washington, position which he
still holds and likely while W. G. B. is q
member of that body. With the restora-
| ton of popular rule IN our State Heydt
left rs and found refuge in the Radical
Congress, thinking likely it was better to
"door-keeper in the house of his God than
q dweller in the tents of wickedness."
| THE CENSUS.
The census returns from the various
States are pouring in upon the Bureau,
and hundreds of assistants, clerks, ETC.,
are busily engaged in preparing them for
| yoluminous publication. The census vol
ume will be one of unusual interest, en-
bodyin g a vast amount of useful facts and
statistics.
Washington is in its general aspects
quite dali, the season of pleasure, recep-
tons, etc., being well over.
THE SOLDIERS OF 1912.