Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-12-18
IN THE HOUSE.

On motion of Mr. Banks, the bill to
fix the compensation of claimants under
the Geneva award was referred to the
judiciary Committee.
The bill appointing commissioners to
investigate the depredations on the
Texas frontier was referred to the Com
mittee on Appropriations.
The bill providing for determining the
boundary line through Haro channel,
as decided by the Emperor of Germany,
passed.
The bill apprOpriating one hundred
thousand dollars for American exhibit
Ors at Vienna was discussed, and went
over till tomorrow.
Mr.. Brooks New Ork rose to a ques-
ton of personal privilege connected
with the statements in the New York
Herald and World, that II. S. McCOmb
had testified, before the Credit MObilier
Investigating Committee, that he
Brooks had received certain shares of
stock in order to influence him, and,
through him, the Democratic side of the
House, in legislation beneficial to the
Union Pacific Railroad Company. He
utterly denied the statement, and ridi-
culed the idea of his attempting to in
fiuence the Democratic members for a
bride of fifty shares of Credit MObilier
stock, representing five thousand dol
lars. He did not recOllect that he
had ever spoken to a Democratic
member on the subject of the
Union Pacific road. McComb was q
man of no character-a mere reckless.
audaciOus adventurer, who was shown.
by the record of the Military Commits
sion now on file in the War Department,
to be a robber and a bandit, and
who was also shown, by the House In
vestgating Committee into Louisiana
Affairs, which held its inquiry last
summer, to have been engaged
in bribing, in order TO get hold of the
New Orleans and Jackson railroad. He
Brooks had never owned, directly or
Indirectly, single share of Credit Mo-
bilier stock, despite the testimony of the
perjurer, McCOmb. The whole thing
was fictiOn-a Pigment of McCOmb's
villainOus imagination. His son-fn-law,
he understood, had bought fifty shares
of Credit MObilier, paying for it five
thousand three hundred and thirty-three
dollars, and it was out of that Pigment,
perhaps, that McCOmb made up the
whole story about fifty shares being
given him Brooks to buy up the whole
Democratic side of the House. In con-
clusion, he appealed to the Committee
of Investigation TO search his conduct
from the beginning to the end, and to
riddle him from top to bottom, and if
they found any fault in him, to report it
to the House and disgrace him.
CURRENT NEWS.
Boutwell, and Jay Cooke were before
the WAYS and Means Committee to-
day, concerning negotiations for the new
loan.
The Committee on Foreign Affairs,
from a consideration of the bill provid-
ing for the disposal or distribution of
the Geneva award, referred the subject
to the Committee on judiciary.
The Senate Committee on ApprOpria-
tons to-day considered the rec0mmen-
dation made by the Secretary of the In
terror, and urged by the Wisconsin dele
cation in Congress, to appropriate fifty
thousand dollars for the removal of the
Winnebago Indians from Wisconsin to
the Indian Territory, but the proposition
failed to receive the Committees sane
ton. 1t is understood that it will be
urged in the Senate by the Wisconsin
Senators, as an amendment to the IN
dian Appropriation Bill. A number of
other proposed amendments to the bill
were rejected by the Committee.
The Supreme Court will adjourn from
the twentieth instant to the sixth Of
January.
The House Committee on Postof-
fees and Postroads to-day agreed upon
their report on the bill declaring the true
intent and meaning of sections one hum
bred and fifty, one hundred and fifty
one and one hundred and fifty-two of
the POstOffice Act passed last session.
The committee report that where one
full rate of postage has been paid on
mail matter, it shall be forwarded to its
destination, charged with the unpaid
rate, to be collected on delivery, and
that no dOuble-rate postage shall be col
lected where such postal prepayment
has been made previous to distribution.
Thirty-four million dollars of the Ma
tional Bank notes, provided by the law
of National Banks, in few instances
were authorized in the Eastei and Mid
die States, and the currency, issued
upon condition that circulating notes of
banks, which have closed business,
should first be returned to the Treasury
Department for destruction. The whole
of the National Bank currency having
INV DCEh AocuCNf lllC NDlAA JtAgSACA vi lDG
Currency will hereafter decline to Or
ganize banks in States which are in eX-
cess, thus giving to States, which are
deficient in the distribution of currency,
the privilege of returning the notes of
banks which have closed business for
the purpose of organizing banks in ac-
cordance with the spirit of the law.
Arrangements have been made be-
tween the Postoffice and War Depart
ments, by which one or more of the daily
weather reports issued by the Signal
office, viii be furnished daily TO all post
offices that can be reached from the sew
eral points of distribution daily by mail.
AS these reports are designed for the
benefit of the agricultural as well as
interests of the country, the
Postmaster General instructs all post
receiving them to post them
Immediately in frames supplied for the
purpose by the signal officers.
The British and American Mixed
Commission, disallowed the claim of
Barron, Forbes q Co., an English COM
mercial firm doing business in Mexico,
who asked a compensation of twenty
three million dollars, for quicksilver
mines taken possession of by the Uni |
ted States Government in 1876. The |
adjourned until the sixth of |
January.
A desultory discussion took place rela-
tive to charging the scope of the inves- |
and as to sitting with open |
doors, but no action was taken.
The House Committee on Postoffices |
and POstroads have agreed to recon- |
mend the establishment of the letter. |
carrier system in all cities of twenty /
thousand population.
The House Committee on Commerce /
heard the argument on the question OF
the Atlantic and Great Western canal |
TO unite the Mississippi river with the
Atlantic ocean. The committee will re-
port the bill very soon.
The Cabinet session was attended by |
all the members, excepting Secretaries
and DelanO. General Cowan |
represented the Interior Department. |
The session did not last more than two |
hours, and nothing unusual transpired. |
Abused his wife and Killed her brother
CINCINNATI, December IA special
to the Gazette from Upper Sandusly |
saws that John Gibson last night shot |
with q rifle and killed Bruce Hussev. /
his brother-in-law. The perpetratOr has
been arrested. Hussey had come home, |
abused his wife, and then followed her
when she went with her four children to |
the house of Gibson, her brother. The |
killing was done in a quarrel inside Of
Gibson's house.