Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-06-10
WASHINGTON NEWS.
The Appropriation Bill Awaits the
Presidents Signature Con-
ference Committee In Ses-
sion Yesterday.
A Visit by the India a Delegation to the
Observation-Disclosures OF Con-
delence- -COlfax's Reply,

ana await Ile BEeSident'S signature,
namely: Making appropriations for for
tIficatiOns and rivers and harbOrs, and
| the sundEy civil appropriation bills.
The Conference Committee on dfsngree-
! ing in votes, immrr lately after the ap-
pointment last ni ght held a brief meet
ingand resumed their business to-day.
They have agreed on the report as to al
amendments, with the exception Of that
amendatOTy Of Election Enforcement
Act, 28th February, 1871, which is the
only one that endangers the bill. Re-
port will first be made to the Senate,
to be acted on there befOrt it is sent to
4 the House. According ID present ad-
vices, the Iast-named amendment will
lie presented separately 20 the Senate,
and two or three members of the COM
mittee on the part Of that body, Cole
and Stevenson, viii recommend that
I the Senate recede from it, If the Senate
shall do 80, that amendment viii not
again come before the House, ana there
will then be no further obstruction to the
passage Of the bill: otherwise there viii
be renewal of trouble.
( President Grant was at the capitol for
some time last night, engaged in con-
sultatiOn with Senators and signing the
bills passed during the day. He will
also visit the capitol Tomorrow in COM
pany with cabinet officers on public
| business.
A number of Indiana delegates to the
National Republican Convention, with
several Indiana Republican Congress-
men, called atthe Vice-President's room
at the capitol, yesterday, and Judge
d, Danny, of Evansville, addressed Colfax
in their behalf, as follows:
"MR. VtCE-PREsIDBNT-ThOse of the
Indiana delegates now In the city on
their way home, with others of your
personal and political friends, are unwil-
/ ling to leave without making this call
and expressing their high appreciation
EOf the Invaluable service rendered by
you to the Republican party and to the
/ country; and while we, as Indlanians,
regret your defeat at the late Republican
! Convention, where we earnestly labored
| for your nomination as a candidate tor
| the officeOf Vice-President Of the United
! States, we at the same time feel proud
| of your patriotic conduct in joining with
US in a hearty and cordial Endorsement
of the ticket there nominated, and we
heartily approve the sentiments con-
tanned in your telegram to Colonel Fos-
ter. We feel assured that we have a
strong ticket which bears the names of
men whose respective private and pub
lie characters are so pure and high that
the country must seal them at the ballot
box in November. Before closing this
interview we cannot refrain from eX-
pressing also our high appreciation of
the honorable manner In which YOU saw
fit to conduct yourself during the earnest
canvass made by the Indiana delegation
at the convention to insure your renOm-
ination. While we cannot resist the
impression that if you had consented to
make personal efforts in your own be-
half such as all candidates are per
mitted to make without loss Of eharac-
ter or manhood, success might have
crowned your efforts, we are at the same
time constrained to admit that the dig
nified course which you chose TO adopt
deserves greater honor than could be
conferred by any Office within the gift Of
the American people. We beg leave to
reassure you of cur gratitude for the pa
triotic services you have rendered the
country, and Of our personal esteem and
confidence"
Vice-President Colfax replied that he
was proud to be the recipient of such
warm and earnest friendship as that ex-
hibited by the delegation from Indiana,
and other States, and so kindly express
ed in Judge Dennis's cordial remarks.
He bowed TO the decision of the con-
ventiOn, without a murinur or regret,
and should prove hereafter as faithful to
/ the Republican creed in private life as
when he had been the standard-bearer
of the cause. He rejoiced that, after
eighteen years Of public life, with all of
his acts Like the open pages Of a book
before the people, the worst that was
said Of him at Philadelphia was that he
had written letter stating his willing
ness and desire to retire from official pO-
sition, and had afterward consented to
accept the nomination if the party
deemed 1t best. This charge, he
said, he could not deny; but he
had never written or said anything
broader than Is found in the ex-
pressions of that much-quoted letter.
SO much has been said about itthat now
the convention is over, ne felt he had
right TO tell his home friends what his
lips had been sealed ON heretofore,
namely, that il was not written or in
tended for publication. He had expect
Ell 10 submit TO the desire which he felt,
and which was expressed in it, to lead
ing Republicans from his own State and
for their advice; but, he said, he must
add, in justice to the valued friend to
whom he wrote, that the letter was not
marked confidential, and being from a
public man, on a public question, that
friend had the unquestionable right to
infer that it was not private, and
therefore he justified him fully in
publishing it. When he decided last
November, at the appeal of many active
Republicans from Indiana and other
sections Of the Union, that his renoni-
nation or his retiracy was a question
which they should decide rather than
himself He felt it would be improper
TO electioneer with anyone on the sub
ject, and be did not do it. On the con-
trary, he told every delegate he saw that
his name ought not to be presented if
another could insure greater unity and
certainty OF victory to thecause he loved
iiar better than political hOnors. The
kepubllcan organization records, of
whose great deeds for liberty, humans
", justice and nationality during past
decade are unapproached by any pOliti-
cal party IN any age, yet they have adj
Vanclng steps OF progress and reform to
take before disbandment or furlOugh
nom duty. While going himself, there
fore, to the retired list, without the
slightest unkind feeling toward any. one
VINO desired a change in the Vice-Presi-
dency, and wishing them decisive vic
tory in October in our closely contested
State, he should join with them in No
vember in cordially supporting Ulysses
;. Grant and Henry Wilson for Presi-
dent and Vice-President of the United
States.