The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-06-24

FIXING the salaries OF the Assistant secretaries OF
the Treasury Solicitor OF the Treasury and Com
missioner OF Customs at $4,000 each per annum
apprOprtatlng $3l2,SO4 Tor establishing new hle-
United States, as auth 'rzed BY law OF the pres
ent Congress; authorizing the employment OF th,r-
Currency, the cost to be reimbursed hy the ma.
tionai banksi providing SIC 600 Tor the destruction
o. retired notes oy the maceraton process; ap-
iran statue u Nathaniel Greene Tor the pur-
chase OF works or art for the CapiOl 500 600 for
United states Treasurer SIS 900 for observing the
transit OF Venus; $4,000 0r the collection OF in
for the Board OF Health OF the District OF Columbia;
100000 for surveying public lands in oregon, being
an increase Of $4,000; 100000 FOR the improve.
ment OF the Capitol grounds, according to the
tne basement q the POST Office DEPARTMENT. s a.
building; $4,000 Tor the building Of the Women's
Christian Associations $25 600 for the Little Sisters
q tine for Lighthouse a.
strait Chesapeake Bay; reapproprla,inR the un-
expended balance Of the appropriation for light
csI; approDriasns $1,000 for on eu,Idi Hn9in;
relief ligntship Tor general service;. 5000
for WITH S Sfeec Ss dnc
near Red Cloud and Wnisstone agencies; $4,000
that they reinquish their treaty rights to hunt in
Nebraska; $4,000 Tor the National Association for
District OF Columbia; $4,000 for Continuing the
work on the new jail in the District OF Columbia;
$4,000 for plans Tor library Accommodations;
building at San Francisco: $S4,5O0 Tor fitting up
the refinery IN the same place. $50, 600 for repair
Sub-Treasury and other government offlces;
$40 900 Tor wages aud expenses OF the Carson City
" ne New %ssa S' oSa aso
reappr0priating the unexpended balances for re-
pairs on the iron-clad Milan Onomah at Mare Island
Navy Yard, California, and other irOn-clads else
where; Tor q public building at Covington, KY;
for public building at Nashville Tenn, with an
Post once to Zoo, 900 and OF the Cincinnati puotc
building to 81, ooo. The appropriations as fixed
$3.50. 900 and 100000 respectively, are retained.
The Senate recedes from It's action pro.
Sr ae OF 70 @
Of customs acting as supenntendents OF lights,
the proviso extending the jurisdiction Of the
Missouri Rivers, and she pr0vs0 that all tolls on
vessels entering or leaving Thunder Bay River,
Michigan, shall be abolished after the lighthouse Is
completed. The three foregoing items therefore,
become law.
Tho Once Of Assistant Secretary OF the
Treasury Declined by Congressman
Bass.
Lyman X. Bass, who has been confirmed as As
sistant Secretary OF the Treasury, has informed
the President that he will not accept the offlce.
He received kilograms to-day from friends In
Buffalo urging MIN TO CONTINUE as MEMBER OF
Congress. Besides personal reasons. the question
would have been raised whether he could enter
upon the duties or the once, as the salary was
increased while he was member OF Congress.
The Court OF Commissioners OF the
Geneva Award Appointed.
The President to-day approved Of the Dill for the
distribution OF the Geneva award, and nominated
the following gentlemen to be Judges Of the Court
Of Commissioners OF the Alabama claims: -Heze-
kiah q. Wells, OF Michigan; Martin RyersOn, OF New
Jersey; Kenneth Raynor, Of Mississippi; George
W. Woodward, OF Pennsylvania, and Caleb Bald
win, Of Ohio. Also John Davis, OF Massachusetts
to be Clerk OF the Court OF Commissioners. The
President afterwards Withdrew the name OF
George w. Woodward, and nominated in his place
william A. Porter, OF Pennsylvania. The latter,
and the other nominees to be Commissioners,
together with John Davis to be Clerk OF the court
were subsequently confirmed.
Bills Signed by the President.
The President ana members OF the Cabinet were
ct the Capitol several hours this morning and also
President for his approval. He signed large
number OF them, including two or three general
appropriation bills and those for the payment Of
over 5000, 900 in satisfaction OF awards from the
Southern Claims Commission, for the repeal Of the
Sanborn contracts and the Anti-Moiety bill.
Measures Loft Over for Action mt the
Next Session.
the bills for the reduction OF army paYmasters