Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-01-28
WASHINGTON.
Printing the Indian Service Details
No More Expenditures on Public
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of the
Alabama "SWsg," Etc.

WASHINGTON, January Ex-senator
Anthony, from the committee on print
ing, submitted report to the senate to-
day on the question of the adVisability
of printing the voluminous accounts re-
ceived from the second auditor of the
treasury, showing in detail last years
disbursements for the Indian service.
The COMMITTEES say there were in 1884
only twelve Indian agencies, and now
there are twelve superint and sew
enty agents, whose condeI ad accounts,
II published, will make large volume,
and give but little insight into the items,
of expenditure. Large SUMS are set
down as having been expended for trav-
cling expenses, contingent expenses,
beneficial objects, ETC., without general
ly speaking of any details showing how
these sums have been expended. To
publ 'sh the accounts giving these items,
the committee say, would cost large
sum for copying them, and they would
fill some twenty-five or thirty large
sized volumes annually. The annual list
Of real or technical defaulters in the In
dian service, required to be transmitted
by the law Of 1884, has not been fur
nished since the year 1866. In conse-
quence, demands are made on the cleri-
cal force of the accounting offices of the
treasury, by work growing out of the
war of the rebellion.
The house committee on appro-
priations to-day perfected the
bill directing the secretary of
the treasury, until otherwise pro-
vided by law, to make no payments
out Of the unexpended balances
OF the appropriations heretofore made
for tho fcff facr ~ 81, y.
ton of public buildings by the supervis-
ing architect of the treasury depart
ment, for the purposes and objects, to-
wit: To pay for any site, or extension of
site, the purchase Of which has not been
executed, or proceedings for condemna-
ton on which have not been completed
to pay for any work or materials for the
erection of any building upon which
work is not already begun or contracted
for; to pay for the sale or
demolition of amy building on
any site where work has not
been commenced until provided for by
law. The secretary shall make no con-
tracts for the purchase of any new site,
nor material or labor on any building
not actually commenced. All sums
heretofore appropriated for buildings,
purchase of sites, etc., which are made
unavoidable by this act, are covered into
the treasury, and the secretary is directed
to suspend work on any building already
commenced, whenever, in his judg-
ment such suspension can be made con-
sistently with the public interests.
The committee on judiciary had
before themto-day the question
of the Alabama distribution, and
and listened to arguments by
David Dudley Field and VIM. NJ.
Evarts. The former argued that six
hundred and thirty-two thousand
dollars of the Alabama in
demnity fund should be paid to the
defunct insurance company which had
paid that amount to insurers under war
risks, and the latter argued in favor of
including in the distribution of the
ward the rights of insurers who have
paid their losses.
Outstanding legal-tenders amount to
three hundred and eighty-one million
nine hundred and ten Thousand seven
hundred and thirty.seven dollars.
The President nominated s. G. Kena-
ga postmaster at Kankakee, Illinois.