Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-03-13
SELECT COMMITTEES.

0Oruon.
SELECT COMMITTEES.
Revision of Rules-Ferry (Miehigan)
chairman; Hamlln and Mtrcimon.
10 Audit and Control the Contingent
Expenses of the Senate Carpenter
| chairman; Jones and Salisbury.
Pfinting-Anthony, chairman; Howe
and Casserly.
Library-Howe, chairman; Allison
and Edmunds.
Appropriations - Morrill, (Maine),
chairman; Sprague, Window, West,
Ames, Sargent, Allison, Stevenson and
Davis
Commerce - Chandler, chairman
Spencer, Conkling, Buckingham, Mitch
ell, Gordon and Dennis.
Manufactures-RObertson, Chairman
Sprague, Gilbert, Johnston and Fenton.
Agriculture = Frelinghuysen, chair
man Robertson, Lewis, Dennis and Me-
Creary.
Military Affairs-Logan, chairman
Cameron, Spencer, Clayton, Wadleigh,
Kelly and Ransom.
Engrossed Bills Casserly, chairman; +;
Clayton and Cooper.
Enrolled Bills - Ames, chairman; I;
Lewis, and vacancy.
Leyees Of the Mississippi River-Al-
corn, chairman; Clayton, West, Schurz,
and Gordon.
! Transportation Routes to Seaboard-
Window, chairman; sherman, Conk-
ling, Ames, COnnOver, Casserly, and
| Norwood.
| The committees on appropriations,
privileges and elections, public lands,
| postofflces and postroads, are made to
/ consist of V7ff1a
! OF seven as heretofore, but vacancy is
| left temporarily in the committees on
| privileges and elections, and public
lands. The committee on the Pacific
/ railroad is abolished, and a committee
on railroads substituted therefor. The
/ standing committee on investigation
and retrenchment, and the select COM
mittees on alleged outrages in southern
States and on political disabilities, are
abolished.
The President Besieged with Beseeeh-
ers.
| WASHINGTON, March I2-The num-
Der OF callers at the executive mansion
to-day was very great, including many
ladies. The President cannot see one
| third of them.
About seventeen hundred of the three
thousand depOsitOrs drew deposits yes
terday from the Washington city saw
ings bank.
Small Draft on that s44, 900, 600 Re.
serve.
WASHINGTON, March 12.-The secre-
tary OF the treasury states that theuse by
the department of legal-tender reserves
VIII exceed three millions, and it was
hardly expected to be much over two mill
lions. The amount drawn from the re-
serve fund is for the convenience of the
department alone, and has no relation
Whatever to the money market
and Is not contracted at any one place,
but distributed in the paying of war
rants to parties all over the country.
There is no intention at the department
to permanently expand the currency,
and in his views upon this subject AS
sistant-Secretary Richardson fully ac-
cords Secretary Boutwell,. The treasury
statement to-day shows legal tenders
outstanding to be 1857 ,O59, ,45O, being
81, ,O59, ,450 in advance of the amount
shown in the last debt statement.
Congressional Baek-Pay.
WASHINGTON, March I2.-Congress-
man William Roberts, of this city, in
communication addressed to the secre-
tary OF the treasury, SAYS that he directs
his back-pay as member of the forty-sec-
ond congress to be paid into the treasury
Of the United States. 1t Is stated that
Senator Merrick, of Maryland, also re-
fused his extra pay, and that Senator
Hoar, Of Massachusetts,, accepted his,
but afterWard turned it over to charities.
Boutwell, and the Treasury Department.
WAsHINGToN, March 12.-Judge
Richardson will tomorrow assume the
charge of the treasury department as
acting secretary, Boutwell, having this
afternoon mads his last official sigma
ture. He, however, has not yet written
his letter of resignation, and will not
until his credentials arrive, which will
be tomorrow night. Senator Summer
called on b1r. Boutwell, this afternoon
and congratulated him in these words:
II congratulate the country, 1 congratu-
late the State, and l congratulate myself
In having you as my colleague"