Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-04-19

! Senate Postoffice Committee this morning
agreed to report the postal telegraph bill
with amendments.
Systematic LOOseness.
In the Senate Arms Committee, Jas. II.
SavilIe, chief clerk in the Treasury Depart
meut testified as 20 the practice of that De-
partment. Disbursing officers have long
been allowed for convenience to expend for
one purpose money appropriated for another
It was a dangerous power, though finally
the accounts are adjusted under the proper
head of expenditures. The gross expendi-
lures of the War Department for the last
fiscal year were forty-four millions, while
the eight millions received from the sale OF
/ arms were not drawn, but remain to the
credit of the Ordnance Department.
Adjourned.
Fish's Revenge.
Authentic information has been received
in Washington from st. Petersburg to the
effect that Catacazy's justification of himself
has been considered carefully in the Coun-
Gil of the Empire. BE is utterly disgraced,
and has left St. Petersburg for Paris with
pension of 5000 rubles per annum. This
pension is so settled that it will be with
drawn if Catacazy makes any publication or
Fish's Folly,
Fernando Wood this morning in the
Committee on Foreign Affairs called up the
report of Mr.. Peters resolution, which de-
clares that claims on the part Of our Gov
ernment for indirect damages should be
waived before the tribunal of arbitration at
Geneva, and on Mr.. Woods motion, the
chairman, Gen. Banks, was requested to
communicate with Secretary Fish on the
subject and to report to the committee at a
meeting Tuesday next. There were some
incidental reparks which drew out the
opinion that the presentation OF the claim
for indirect damages was calculated to pre-
vent an amicable adjustment Of the differ
ences between the United States and Great
Britain, and something was said as to the
propriety of reporting Peters resolution to
the House with a view of obtaining Con-
gressional opinion on the subject.
Steamboat Bill.
Senate Committee on Commerce this morn
ing heard large delegation of steamboat
owners and also delegation of boiler-plate
manufacturers, in regard to the House steam
boat bill which the delegations desire to have
amended in various particulars. The criti-
cisms of the steamboat men related gener-
ally to matters of detail. The plate manu-
facturers oppose certain sections, which
they contend impose undue liabilities and
penalties on them.
ShOrt-sighted Malice,
A report having been circulated that
Senator Schurz was in default to the Trea-
sury $4,000 on account of his mission to
Spain he called upon the Fifth Auditor to-
day and ascertained that his account, like
many others, was kept open because the last
six months of bis salary had not been re-
cepted for and a small item of contigent
expenses had not been certified by the lega-
ton in the usual form, and that instead of
Senator Schurz being in default to the Gov
ernment balance is still due him from the
Government.
The South Carolina Commune.
The following was received at the War
Department.
Charleston, S. c., April II, 1S7l.-On
Friday last Minor Pays, indicted for Ku-
Klux murder, was shot and killed by
troops acting as a posse Of the United
States Marshal, while escaping from
the efforts of the Marshal to
arrest him on a bench warrant of the Cir
cult Court.