Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-01-21
WASHINGTON.

peal all IaudQlAu laws cENluE al y
| fishing ground for the exclusive use
of Canadian fishermen. Canada, OF
course, expects some important con-
, sideratiOn from this Government. 1t
is thought the United States could
afford to pay whatever reasonable
sum may be demanded for full set
| tlement Of the veXatiOus question.
| Commissioner PleasantOn's recon-
! mendation in favor of a repeal Of the
income tax was made with the knOWl-
edge and approval of the President.
| This viii probably serve to bring the
! question fairly before Congress this
session. The Commissioner is also
very confident of the adoption OF a
system permitting the export OF
whisky, in lieu of the present prOhib-
ftory drawback. Requirements may
be Instituted which can be successfully
enforced, and relieve the existing stag
nation in the distilling business. He
/ suggests the authorization and use Of
| export stamps, similar to the tax
| stamps now in use, Of denominations
| sufficient to lower the expense, per
| barrel, Of handling, storing, guaging,
etc. By prohibiting the withdrawal
| of whisky from once entered and
| stamped for export, it is believed that
/ fraud would be prevented. These
suggestions are likely to be put into
formal shape, Tor action.
The HsralPs Washington dispatch
/ states this morning that President
| Grant intends to remove Murphy and
| appoint Stewart l.. WOOdfOrd. The
President wants to harmonic the Re-
! publican factions in New York.
1t is claimed that the MOrmOns will
! accept the prohibition of pOlygamy,
! provided for in Mr.. Sargent'5 bill, if
| they can be allowed to live undis-
! turbed in their domestic relations al
! ready contracted.
The Illinois members Of Congress
! are informed that no special election
will be held to fill the vacancy Occa-
/ stoned by General LOgan's election to
| the Senate. His successor will be
chosen at the regular State election
/ next fall. The Governor thinks the
State will be better off to have one
! Representative less than its quota
during the short first session OF the
/ FOrty-secOnd Congress than to pay
the expenses of holding a special cleo
ton.
The scheme for plunderlng the Gov
eminent Of 500 acres of the PresidiO
reservation Of land, in San Francisco,
| is supported by lobbyists in the House,
and has been put in shape in the bill
| introduced by Mr.. AXtell, of Cali
/ fornia. The Government has I'M
doubted title to the land, which is
worth g., 900, 600, and has occupied il
since the acquisition of California. 1t
/ is now proposed that the Government
shall relinquish it without pay, in
order that it may be seized by a ring
of spectators who endeavOred to
squat upon it some years ago, but
were driven of by the military au-
thOrities. AXtel's bill gives 800 acres
of the reservation TO the city Of San
Francisco for park, 500 acres to land
grabbers and allows the United States
/ to keep 80 acres for its forts and bar
racks.
The following nominations were
sent to the Senate today: B. NJ.
Barclay, Pension Agent, Louisville;
Leroy c. Dyer, Agent Grand Eronde,
Oregon; Joel Palmer, Indian Agent,
SIOuA Agency. Oregon
The Senate Committee on Public
Lands this morning agreed to report
favOrably on the nomination Of Willis
DrummOnd to succeed Joseph 5. VIII
son, Commissioner of the General
Land Office.
OUR BUTLER.
The trial Of Hon. r. r. Butler, for
alleged forgery in certain pension
cases, has been fixed for Wednesday
next.
BY NAIL.
BEN. WADE AND SAN DOMINGO.
WAsHTNGTON, January I6.-The
wits about town seem disposed to
make themselves merry over the
"San Domingo" Commission, now
that it is pretty well known that San
nexation0 IS a thing in the misty and
uncertain far future, 1t IS admitted
on all hands that if the administra-
ton had gone over the whole OF this
vast country, from DC. to &c, with a
drag-net, it could not have hauled up
a more suitable chairman than the
gentleman selected. This Is by no
means the first time Mr.. Wade has
been sent on a mission Of discovery,
and exploration, and scientific in
quiry. 1t will be recOllected that he
made the only thorough and phllO-
sOphical report Of the condition OF
the Pacific railroad" after its nomi-
nal completion, ever presented 70 IneT
Highmightinesses of Congress, and no
wonder. He went practically to work.
Sitting fiat apOn the hindmOst plat
form of the hindmOst car, with
his legs dangling below, he eyed,
with his own eyes, every foot OF the
road, at the rate of twenty miles an
hour, from the Mississippi river to the
"brOad Pacific" This is the way TO
do business. " IIear-say is good, but
eye-sight is better" said the old
woman; and uDOn this theory Mr..
Wade works out assuredly the most
difficult problems. learn, therefore,
that he has repudiated the programme
Of Fabens as to the mode and route OF
ssinyestigati0n, and insists upon be-
ING conducted, first and foremost, to
the highest summit (siX thousand feet
above the level of the sea) Of the
chain of mountains running east and
west, and about equally dividing
Grants "cursed island" called the
50 CibOa mountains" from which he
proposes to personally examine every
part Of San Domingo, from Dan to
Bersheba, by means Of the national
eyeglasses" !" as he calls the improved
instruments by which minute objects
may be seen a great way OF.
1t was principally on account OF the
Obstinacy Of Mr.. Wade upon this
point (which he was careful not to be-
tray prematurely) that the addition
Of a corps Of photographers was made
to the enormous human cargo OF the
Tennessee. He insisted upon hav-
ing everything in black and white"
the whole scenery Of the island, and
even the portraits of the distinguished
gentlemen he may meet after taking
q general surrey. His report will ex-
eeed anything In the pictorial line,
and will be worth reading and seeing.
1t may well be imagined that the
erudite Chairman" was on a high
horse q mean nothing invidiOus, as
Mr.. Wade, ia the ordinary accep-
tance EOf. the term, is perfectly tenn
perate) on the day of his departure.
81 know more Of the island now"
(said he, on Friday evening, at the
| Washington House, in this city,
ethan any man on Gods fOOtstOol. l
studied It's history when mastering
Euclid by the light of pine knots, and
/ / intend TO tell the American people
where it stands, how 1t stands now,
and how it stood in the days Of Co
lumbus. Sumner with all his learning,
is q fool about this business. There's
no such an island as San Domingo at
alI-there's a town called that.
The right name Of the island Is Hay
ti.' which means only mountainous
Columbus cbristened it Hispaniola,
meaning Little Spain. There is an is
land called Dominica but that amt
the place I am going, by great odds.