Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-01-24
THE EMPEROR OF GERMANY TO TH
EMPRESS.
WASHINGTON.
THE WORK THAT REMAINS FOR THE
4lST CONGRESS.

THE WORK THAT REMAINS FOR THE
4lsT CONGRESS.
WASHINGTON, January 23.-Only
| thirty-siX working days, counting
! Saturdays, are LETT for the present
/ Congress during which to act upon
| the great number of bills, etc,
] now upon the calendar. The Senate
! general orders show a total of 342 bills
! and resolutions now awaiting action,
some ever since the first session; 162
| are private aud personal bills, such az
pensions, relieving accounting officers,
claims, ETC.; Is railroad ilud grant
/ bills; 7 for grants AID aid i canals,
| irri CATION, ditcheS, etc, and her bills
! of railroad interpretations or extern
siOns; 9 relate TO postal or ocean tele-
graph projects; 10 bills for steamship
| subsidies. Besides these scores of other
measures asking the incorporation OF
various projects nOmiuaily belonging
to this District or the territories, as in
the case of the Tehuantepic railroad
and ship canal, to carry out the pro-
ject in foreign territory. Also half
a dozen special orders and fourteen
/ resolutions reported from the commit
tees.
THE NEW WAPPORTIONBIENT BILL.
The apportionment bill viii be
occasion Tor a very sharp fight in the
House. The Western members are
determined to press an amendment
authorizing the election of additional
representatives next fall in States that
now have less than the number they
will be entitled TO by new appOrtiOn-
ments. They say that If they consent
TO an increase Of the number of mem
bers of the House, the Eastern States
shall not be deprived OF any part
of their present representation. Mem
beTs from these States ought to be
willing TO agree to the demands of the
Western States for the representation
their population entities them to.
The question has a very important
bearing, for il theapp0rtiOnment does
not 60 into effect until 1873, after the
Presidential election, the electoral
college will be chosen under the pres
ent ppOrtiOnment; while, if States
are represented in the college accord
ing to the present population, the re-
suit of the election might not be the
same; so the peoples viii, in choosing
a President, might be defeated by the
refusal of Congress to make the new
appOrtiOnment operative at once.
THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE ASSISTING
TOWARD RECONSTRUCTION.
The Washington special to the Tfi-
bliRe says the accounts received on
Saturday give the particulars Of the
terrible ku-kluX OUtrages at Louis
vile, Jefferson county, Ga, on the
l4th inst A party of masked marau-
Gers rode to the Jail, hTOke it open
and took thereirOm nine cOlOred pris-
Oners, five of whom had recently been
convicted Of Oftenses and were serv-
ing their terms of punishment, the
other four awaiting their trial. The
victims were taken q short distance
from town and seven of them unmer-
cifully whipped. The ruffians cut off
an ear of the eighth and ninth and
brought them back into town and
shot them, inflicting nine wounds,
either Of which will prove fatal. The
Others were turned loose. So far as
heard from none Of the murderers
have been arrested.
NEW UNITED STATES BONDS.
The plates for bonds under the re-
cent funding act Of Congress are in
part prepared for prl1ting, and In
few days the Treasury Department
will be ready to supply all demands.
ANOTHER JOB.
The Com missioner of Internal
Revenue, In a letter to the Chairman
OF the Committee on Ways and
Means, states that since the passage
of various laws authorizing the Com
missioner to abate the taxes, about
ten million dollars has been abated
in consequence of the insolvency or
abscOnding Of parties. The assets pay
but small per centage. These taxes
have been collected after the abate-
ment. He believes the Collector of
Internal Revenue should be allowed |
special per CeDtage to examine and |
collect taxes abated A large per
centage Of some would now be col.
leCted in consequence. Parties against
whom taxes were assessed having
since become solvent, he recommends |
the passage of an act authorizing
the allowance to the commissioners !
not to exceed twenty-five per cent. !
for this purpose,