Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-12-16
WASHINGTON.
The President Busy with The Hawaiian
King aad The Maybe Indians
Nominations Confirmed.
Patching Up the Civil Rights Bill
BristSw on Banking and Currency
--POsimasteTs' Salaries.
C0Hkilng's Bill In Relation 10 the Dis
triet OF COIEmbIa-COngFesslOnsl
Interesting Reading.

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DOISGs OF OUR DIsTfEGUTsRED GUESTS
, / WASHINGTON, December l5-Th
Z delegation Of Navajo Indians Ia takinl
leave OF the President to-day, preaeutes
him with a rich and variegatsd blanket
Hswiian king was fornierally presen
ted to the President this afternoon.
/ NOMINATIONS CONFIRMED.
The senate to-day confirmed the foI
lowing nominations; Marshall Jew.
ell, pOstmaster-general; Charles +. Co
nants secretary of The treasury; Ben.
lsmin Moran, minister resident L
Portugal; David Thompson, Of Ohio
Interpreter to legation in Japan; Thoma,
hnl0ousei assistant treasurer st New
York; collector Of revenue, Phillip
WsdsWorth, iirst district Of Illinois.
I SECRETARY Rs1sIOw ON RANKING AND
CURRENCY.
Secretary BristOw was to-day before
! the house committee on banking snd
currency, repeating substantially the
views in his late annual report concern
ing the printing Of currency bonds and
other securities Of the government.
There was an informal conversation
among the members, when he was re-
quested 20 present his views in writing
and more in detsil.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA AFFAIRs.
Mr.. Conkling's bin in relation to the
District Of Columbia, introduced ia the
senate to-day, directs the secretary of
the treasury to issue foUc per cent. tbir-
ty-year bonds OF the United States to
amount not exceeding eighteen million
dollars, and exchange them within one
Yesr for ,nds and stocks Of the District
OF Columbia, and the cities Of Washing
ton and Georgetown, dollar for dollar.
the difference Ia interest Of either to be
adjusted by him. The total amounts Of
these various securities are set forth in
detail, and Including eight million dol
lars OF the three-sixty-five bonds and
the board OF aCdit's certificates author
led aud guaranteed by aet Of Congress
last June, aggregate seventeen million
seven hundred aud forty-tvo Thousand
eight hundred dollars. The difference
between what the United states have to
pay Ia interest On eighteen million dol.
lars OF four Per cent. bonds and the
amount they are entitled to receive On
depss taken by them Ia exchange there
Tor, Is said to be two huDdred thousand
Collars per Rnnum, and this amount is
70 be pledged sud invested ss a sin king
fund for the principal. The bill Is ac-
compRnied by preamble, which cites
the constitution, and report made by
the house judiciary committee last ses-
sion to show that the United States are
liable for these debts contracted through
their delegated representative.
A LITTLE PATCHwORK.
The sub-iudieiary committee -Messrs.
Butler, Poland and White reported to
The full committee to-day in favor oil
the civil rights bill SO as to
omit the mixed school provision, and
require merely that equal v good educa-
Ional facilities shsll be provided for
both Faces, and th=t the penalty Of i've
hundred dollars nne be omitted, leaving
The PecunisTy punishment for violation
IT any provision Of the bill to consist in !
liabilities In five hundred dollars dam
ages st the suit Of any individual denied I
equality OF accommodation. There was
3 general discussi0n OF the subject, but
no DO dehui.e sctioD, there being a wide
tilleIe4ce oI views.
SALARIES OF POsTNAsTERs.
The house committee on postoffice
and postToads to-day, agreed 20 recon-
mend the passage OF q bill introduced
last February providing thAtOn the first
Of January next the annual salaries OF
tne various pOstnasters shall be, New
YORK eight thousand dollars; Chicago,
Dl,.H,E,n-ks-
sand each; Cincinnati, Brooklyn, Bal
tlm0re and San Francisco, I've thousand
each, provided the salaries shall be paid
Eom the money reserved st the post
Office OF said city from box rents, sales
Of postage stamps and from other !
sources in excess Of expenditures al |
Owed and made there for rent, or fire !
iuel, lights, furniture, stationery, print |
ng and necessary incidentals.
THE ROYAL RECEPTION.
King Kalakua wss formally presented |
10 the President this afternoon. The |
members Of the cabinet, Colonel Grant, |
General BSbcoca and Mr.. Lucky, pri- |
FRte secrets-y, were assemble in full |
lrtss to receive the king. On the ap- /
Drosch OF his msjesty's carriage, the /
President advanced from the threshold /
II the executive mansion, when the Sec
etary Of state and Colonel Grant.
he latter personally representing
lis father, went to the carriage, and re-
'eived the king as he alighted, and Rc-
him on either side, crossed |
be platform to the entrance OF the
HhitehOuse, where the President cor
tally extended his hand, aud received
nd welcomed the king. The other
members of the cabinet, who wele stand
ng behind the President up to the time
hat he turned with the king, then en~
cred the room. The secretary OF state
hen introduced the President to Cover
or Dominic and Governor kspena.
lie then presented the king to the
members Of the cabinet, General BRb-
Ock, Colonel Grant, and Mr.. Luckey.
he President and the king shortly af-
srwaid seated tbemselvess on a sofa !
nd the other gentlemen moved at plesS-
re aOOut the room and entered into
with one another, gradually
dvancing TO where the President and
ing were seated A general eonversa-
ion then ensued. After about twenty
minutes the king arose and the Presi
ent accompanied him to the door, the
Of state and Colonel Grant
landed him to his carriage and the cere-
nony was ended.