Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-04-22
AT THE CAPITAL.

YAsHIEelos, April2l
All the general appropriation bills, ex-
ceptipg the fOrti1eation and sundry
civil expense pills, kaFe been acted
upon by the House.
The American and English Commits
sion will adjourn this week, until the
latter part of June. Right Honorable
Russell Glrney viii leave this country
for England on the twenty-sixth instant,
and is not expected to return before
September.
1t Is grobable that resolution viii be
introduced into the House tomorrow
fixing the twenty.nlnth Of May for the
final adjournment. 1t is stated that
nineteen Democrats have promised to
vote With the Republican members who
favor the adjOdFnment at the time
stated.
A London telegram says a special has
been received III that city, from the
Rome Daily Neaos, stating that it is the
opinion of the Italian government that
the Board of Arbitrators at Geneva ought
not to take into account the claims sub
mitted by the American government
for indirect damages,
A resolution from the North Carolina
Republican State Convention, indorsing
the claim of General Abbott to 9 seat
in the Senate of the United States, will
be presented TO the Senate by Senator
Pool tomorrow. Appended TO the reso-
luton is certificate from Hon. s. +.
Phillips, that it was unanimously
adopted by the convention,
There Is no prospect Of congress at the
present session acting upon the n1ernO-
rial of the Utah Convention for the ad-
mission of the State district into the
Union. The Commissioners on Terri
tories have the subject under considera-
ton, and have heard representations
from Fitch, Fuller and Connor, of Utah,
who have the matter in charge,
The number of emigrants arrived at
Port Huron, Michigan, during the quar-
ter ending March Last, was S433, of
whom 1000 were from Canada, and the
Others from England, Scotland, and
Ireland. Their destination being Mich
igan, Wisconsin, lowe, Illinois, Mime
sofa, Kansas and Ohio. Their Occupa-
tons include eleven hundred farmers.
Ihe numbers above given embrace the
women and children.
AT recent meeting of the represent
atives of the boat clubs of tine District
Of Columbia it was resolved to have a
grand national regatta, on the Potomac,
IN June o. July, They propose, by Of
Ierlng handsome and suitable pFisss, to
bring together the most skillful and ac-
compllshed oarsmen of the country,
embracing professional IS well as am
ateur crews, and expect TO have pies
ent and participating in the regatta the
most eeisbTatad crews from the British
provinces.
1t has been estimated that a vast
number of claims for pensions growing
out of the rebellion, probably one-fourth,
are fraudulent. A plan has been sug-
gested 70 tia Commissioner Of Pensions
and to the Congressional Coraraittes on
Pensions, by which that system Of fraud
could be destroyed and which would
LEAD 20 the dstection Of the fraudulent
claims heretofoTe granted. It Is to pub
lish ia each county an alphabetical list
OF ali persons to whom pensions have
been or shall be granted, giving the
residence, etc, OF each pensioner, and
70 Iurntsn COPY thereof 10 each Federal
ana state officer Of the county. This,
u Is believed, would result In the saving
OF millions OF dollars annually To the
government, and In bringing TO justice
all persons concerned in these frauds,
and would enable the Commissioner of
Pensions to modify the requirements Of
his once 20 as 70 render II possible for
all honest claimants TO comply with
them.