Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-01-11

On motion Of Mr.. Wilson (Indiana),
Select Committee No. 2 on the Credit
Mobilier matter was permitted to sit
during the session Of the House and en-
ploy clerk.
The House went into Committee of
the Whole on the legislative, executive
and Judicial appropriation bills.
An amendment to increase the appro-
priatiOn for the Bureau Of Education was
discussed at some length by Messrs. Cox,
Sheliabarger, Beck, Townsend Penn
sylvania), Burchard, FarnswOrth, Bing-
ham and Others.
Mr.. Beck denounced the principles Of
the Bureau as a part Of the scheme Of
Capitalization and consolidation by
which already One-third Of the States
were controlled by Federal authority,
and by which Senators and Representa-
tives, so called, occupied their positions.
1t was part of the general scheme which
looked to the absorption by the Govern
ment Of che railroads and telegraph and
express lines of the country, and which
would make the President Of the United
States as thorough an autocrat as the
Emperor of Austria or the Car of
Russia. He argued that this was
no time to engage in sGcn va
enterprises, and that Congress ought
rather to be endeavoring to reduce taxa
ton, tighten burdens and enforce ecOnO-
my and honest administration. He
showed that in seven years, from 1865
70 1872, the Government had collected,
from customs and internal revenue,
nearly three thousand million dollars,
and had realized, from the sale of stores,
one hundred and thirty-fve million
dollars. During the same time the
POstoffice Department had collected
one hundred and twenty-five million
dollars, and the Patentoffice Depart
ment four million five hundred thou
sand dollars. The total amount received
into the treasury during that period be
stated to be three billion four hundred
and two million five hundred and thirty
six thousand four hundred and fifty-twO
dollars, out of which debt had been re-
duced by payment four hundred and
twenty-seven million three hundred
and ninety-siX thousand five hundred
and foTty-one dollars, leaving the sum
of two billion nine hundred and seven
ty-tive million one hundred and thirty
nine thousand nine hundred and eleven
dollars to be accounted for, being at the
rate Of four hundred and twenty-five
million nineteen thousand nine hundred
and eighty seven dollars a year;
and yet, he said, the gentlemen
talked about economy, reduction of ex-
penditures, and honest administration.
The debate was further continued by
Kerr, Stevenson, Storm, Perce, May
nard, Hoar, Hawley Connecticut,
and Garfield. Finally vote was taken
and the amendment rejected-yeas "A,
nays IS.
After the usual struggle over the ap-
preparation for the Agricultural Bureau,
which resulted in an increase of the
item for the purchase and distribution
of seeds from fifty thousand dollars to
seyenty-five thousand dollars, there was
no question until the item was reached
appropriating four hundred thousand
dollars to pay the judgments of the
Court of Claims.
Mr.. Smith New York; offered an
amendment to that item, providing
that no part of 1t shall be applied
70 judgments for proceeds of captured
or abandoned property, seized before
the thirtieth Of June, 1865, and that no
such judgment be paid, except under
special appointment by Congress.
MIR. Smith explained the object of
and reason for the proposition. He said
he casually looked over the record of
the judgments of the court claims, and
his eye rested on one item of over four
thousand dollars for one man, |
in Georgia, who had not only not been
loyal to the Government, but had been !
one of the commission to negotiate a |
loan Of fifteen million dollars for the |
Confederate Government He also
found on the docket of the court |
a claim for one million and sixty-five |
thousand dollars in the name of g. B. |
Lamar, of Savannah, a man who was /
celebrated, if not notorious, as the most /
daring and intrepid blOckade-runner /
during the rebellion.
Mr.. Young (GeOrgia) explained that /
the notorious blOckade-runner referred /
to was son of this claimant, and had
been killed in the last battle of the war
Mr.. Smith repeated that he had relia-
ole information that the claimant had /
been partner in that notorious block
ade-running firm.
Mr.. Shellabarger suggested that the
object by the Administration was pro-
Tided for under an existing law.
Mr.. Smith admitted that, but stated
hat, nevertheless, that of these
had been paid and supposed
here was a defect IN the law.
Without disposing of the question,
he committee rose and the House ad-
Ourned.