Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-06-02
WASHINGTON.
BristOw of Kentucky Nominated
Secretary of the Treasury.
Richardson Nominated Judge of
the Court of Claims.
Solicitor BanfieId Resigns.


WASHINGTON, June IA meeting Of
the Cabinet was held to-day. The Presi-
dent intends to leave Washington this
evening for New York. Previou. 20 The
session Gen. Bristow had ali interview with
the President.
bArER.-The President has sent to the
Senate the nomination Of Benjamin Ii.
Bristow, of Kentucky, TO be Secretary OF
the Treasury, and Of VIM. A. Richardson
to be Judge of the Court Of Claims,
STILL LATER=The Senate referred the
nominations OF Bistow and Richardson to
the Finance and Judiciary Committees re-
spectively, and confirmed large number
Of other nominations.
The name of Gen. Rnstow is fsverablv
received by beth parties In Congress, and
1t Is thought there will be no opposition
whatever to his confirmation.
Mr.. Banfield, the Solicitor of the Trea-
sury has resigned. No one has yet been in
Dictated as his successor.
Mr.. Burdett, of Missouri, to-day took the
oath Of Office as Commissioner General of
the Land Office,
A Poor Showing for Eleven Months.
The total reduction of the debt since
June 30, 1873, is S2,550,275.
Where is the Nashville Custom. honses
The House C0fimittee on Appropriations
to-day agreed to insert in the sundry civil
appropriation bill the following amounts
for public buildings at the places named:
Boston Post-ofice, S352, OPT; Bostow Gus
tom-house, SIS, 000; Chicago, Si5e;OGQ; Gin
cinnati $4,000; Evansville, Ind, $4,000;
Hartford, S150, 900; Memphis. SIS 900; New
Orleans, Sl91 900; New York, Sl,344. 207;
Omaha, $1,000; Philadelphia, S75O,OOO; st.
Louis, $4,000; San Francisco, SlS3. 747;
Knoxville, $4,000; State, War and NAVY
Department buildings, Washington, So
600, Milwaukee, S59,453. There are sey-
eral other appropriations for the South.
About S7,000,000 in all are proposed for
public buildings, and for general repairs
100000.
Important to Ini porfers.
The Attorney General has decided that
the time at which the importation of goods
is accomplished, is not when they are en-
tered for consumption, but when brought
into port of the United States with In
tent to be there discharged, and that an act
Of Congress, increasing in general terms
the duties upon importations does not ap-
ply " zCOAo luCl
Sawyer Gets Int Another Sea OF
Troubles.
The Committee on Banking and Cur
rency to-day resumed consideration of the
Note Printing question. The counsel for
the New York Bank Note Printing Com
panies did not charge fraud against the
Government Printing Bureau, but that the
work had been done at extravagant rates.
The cost of printing in 1873 was stated in
the answer of McCartee at SI,365.OO
while the books of the Treasury showed
S34S,OOO besides, not specifically accounted
for by vouchers as to whom the money had
been paid.
Assistant Secretary Sawyer claimed that
the S34S,00J should be deducted for the
81 ,365.O0O. He said it would require
months 10 copy the vouchers.
Tardy Payment.
To-day the House Committee on Ap-
preparations directed a section to be put
into the miscellaneous appropriation bill
presiding for the payment to the Choctaw
Nation of Indians of S2,332, 900 In Settle
ment for the land coded to the Government
in the State of Mississippi by these Indians
in 1880.
The Fine of Susan Ii. Anthony to be
Refunded.
The House Judiciary Committee reports
on the petition of Susan y. Anthony for
the remission of the fine imposed by Judge
Hunt Of the Northern District of New
York, for alleged illegal voting, saving that
upon the question of withdrawing the case
from the jury, it would seem that the Judge
hit,,sa1f ,-,.flioFal -, TAI L.
permitted evidence to be gone into on both
sides as TO the question of fact, tending TO
show whether the petitioner did or did not
vote knowing that she had no right so to
do; but he Afterwards withdrew the consid-
Grafton of that evidence upon the fact Of
intention or guilty knowledge wholly from
the jury, and ordered verdict to be enter
ed upon his own decision, without allowing
the question either to be argued or submit
ted to the jury, or the jury to pass upon it.
After reeitius long array of precedents to
show that Judge Hunt was in error,
and arguing to the same effect upon consti-
tutiOnal grounds, the report concludes as
follows:
Therefore, because fine has been i'm
posed by court of the United States for
an ofiense triable by jury, without the same
being submitted to a jury, and because the
court assumed to itself the right to enter
verdict without submitting the case to
jury, and in order that the judgment of the
House of Representatives Off it concur with
the judgment Of the committee} may in the
most signal and impressive form make its
determination to sustain in its integrity the
common law right of trial by jury, your
committee recommend that the prayer of
the petitioner be granted, and to this end
report the following bill, with recommen-
datiOn that it be passed.