Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-12-21
Bill for the Relief of Cherokee Settlers
Its Features-C Chesapeake and
Ohio Railroad - A Nominal
ton not Confirmed.
Two Witnesses Testify that Brooks did
not Own Credit MObilier Stock,
Mr.. MeCOmb's Statement to
the Contrary NOtWith-
standing.
wAsHrSerOS, December 20, 1872.

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way.
The President, his son Jesse and Mar.
shall Thorpe left this forenoon for Gov
ineton, Kentucky, to visit the Presi
dents father. The President will return
next Tuesday. In consequence of hi:
absence the usual Cabinet session will
not be held to-day.
FROM THE ST. LOUIS REPUBLICAN SPE'
CIAI, 18TH.
A new civil rights bill, with a gen.
eraI amnesty bill tackled on, has beer
introduced by Representative Morley, o.
\ Louisiana. 1t provides penalties for the
exception of any citizen, by reason Of
race or color, from the full and equal en-
ioyment of the advantages and privi-
IIeges furnished by inn-keepers, common
carriers, theaters, common schools and
other institutions of learning supported
bv general taxation, and from Territories
! Incorporated by national or State au-
! thority. Private schools, colleges and
cemeteries established exclusively fol
white or colored people and maintained
| bv voluntary contributions are not to be
| interfered with. Provision is made for
/ the annulling of laws and ordinances
making determinations against any cit
/ izen by the use of the word ''white"
The amnesty section completely re-
/ moves all political disabilities, and 1t
would relieve Congress from numerous
/ applications for special relief bills for
/ the benefit of persons, whose claims may
/ be disallOwed. The decision of the
/ Supreme Court would be accepted as a
| finality, while that of a commission, or
a department official, would not.
Representative Merriam, of New
York, an ardent advocate of free banks,
/ has bill pending in the House Banking
I Committee, opening the privileges of
/ the National banking system to all
| banking associations depOsiting five per
cent. bonds as security for their circula-
ton, and complying with the law in
other respects. His bill, as originally
drawn, permitted the banks to hold the
amount of One-half their resources in
bonds bearing three and siXty-five
hundredths per cent. interest, in cOnsid-
Grafton for their redeeming their notes in
New York. The Western members
strongly oppose any provision requiring
the redemption of notes in New York,
and Merriam has omitted this provision
in order to strengthen the bill.
There is so much opposition TO free
banking law on the part of the banks,
and these institutions are so powerful
and so influential in shaping legislation
that there is no reason to expect that
Merriam's bill, nor any measures in
tended to accomplish the same purpose,
will pass this session. 1t is stated that
eighty members of the House own Ma
tiOnal Bank stock. il would not, how
ever, be Just to suppose that all of those
mn l.ar-e rr-orr1A no fFHinannaI NV t1,s
ownership of this stock so as as to vote
against free banking. Some are known
to be in favor of such bill as Merri-
ANS.
The Senate, although arresting pro-
gress therein to-day, seems disposed to
pass the bill for the relief of the settlers
on the Cherokee neutral lands, dispOs-
sessed by reason of the Joy railroad
grant, as it refused to cut down the al
lOwance of lands provided for each set
tier by vote of two to one. The pro-
posed relief is an old subject, and re-
ceived a favorable report at the hands of
the Committee on Public Lands last
session.
The present bill was introduced by
Senator Pomeroy, and provides that all
those persons who made settlement on
the Cherokee neutral lands with a view
of acquiring title under the homestead
act, and who were obliged to abandon
them on account of subsequent railroad
complications, be entitled to enter on
any other public lands belonging to the
United States under the usual conditions
governing homestead settlements, and
that the time of their residence on the
neutral lands be allowed to count on the
lands with a view to more speedily ac-
quiring of a patent.
a bill similar to this has also been ia
yorably considered by the House Com
mittee on Public Lands. and it will I'M
doubleday become a law the present ses-
sion.
1t seems to be generally conceded that
the Judiciary Committee will report adj
versely upon the cOnstitutionality of the
Boston relief bill, although the report
will not be forthcoming until after the
holidays. 1t is now contemplated in
such an event to ask for the usual appro-
priatiOn for the purposes of relief, such
as was proposed by the substitute to the
Chicago relief bill.
Only twenty miles of the Chesapeake
and Ohio railroad, claimed to be the
shortest route by eighty miles between
the Atlantic coast and the Mississippi
valley, remain to be completed. The
termini Of the road are Hampton Roads,
Virginia, and Huntington, on the Ohio
river.
The Committee on Claims of the
House, at their session this morning,
disposed of the claim of Richard H.
Garret, for compensation for the de-
structiOn Of his barn and its contents in
the capture of J. Wilkes Booth. The
claim has been vigorously pressed, but
the view that the destruction of the
barn and property was the lawful act of
soldiers prevailed, and the claim was re-
jected by an almost unanimous vote.
A few days ago the President sent to
the Senate batch of nominations, ia
cluded in which was the name of Mr..
Cobb, a brother of one of the represent
atives from North Carolina, to be Super
visor Of Internal Revenue for the district
embracing Tennessee, Mississippi, etc.
The Senate has confirmed all of these
nominations, except that of Mr.. Cobb,
which was referred to the Finance Com
mittee, certain charges against him of
damaging character being in existence.
1t is alleged that while Assessor of one |
Of the Virginia districts, year or two
ago, Cobb was guilty of several very
improper acts, among which that of
allowing whisky to he drawn by outside
parties from a number of barrels which
had been seized, and We're at the time
under his protection. Affidavits have
been made by at least three of the elev-
en- Assistant Assessors, who were en-
gagged under him that upon enter
ing his service they were given
to understand that the proper dis
charge Of their legitimate duties should
be subordinate to their endeavors to
pack the nominating convention in
order TO secure the choice of Cobb as
candidate for Congress. In the latter
he signallly failed. Out of thirty-two
votes in the convention, he received
only one, the remaining thirty-one
having been cast for Mr.. Plat, the then
representative Of the district, against
whom CObb's scheming was especially
directed.