Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-06-24
WASHINGTON.
Grant Nominates Boss Shepherd
as a District Commissioners.
The Senate Rejects Him After q
Two Hours Struggle.
A Court Appointed to Hear Ala
bama Claimants.
All tie Appropriation Bills Get
Through.
Nashville Gets $375,OO0 for p
CustOm-hOuse.
Committee Report ON the District
Burglary.


this evening sent 10 the f5eiihtO thS haAhN'
OF Alexander r. Shepherd, late Governor
of the District of Columbia, William A.
Denison, of Ohio, Ex-Postmastet 9enersl,
and Henry T. Blow, of Maine, formerly
member of Congress and afterward Minis
ter to Brazil, as the Commissioners 10
govern the District until a new form oi
Government shall have been prepared and
adopted. The Senate was in session
about two hours and half on these nomi-
nations, the debate being altogether con
fined to that Of Mr.. Shepherd, the Senators
freely and strongly expressing themselves
against il, while there were but few defend
eTs. Finally the nomination was laid on
the table by a vote Of So against q. Tie
other two nominations were confirmed
without a division.
After the recess of the Senate the Presi-
dent TO complete the number sent in the
name of a. q. Catell, eX-United States
Senator from New jersey, who was soon
thereafter confirmed. This gentleman is
the only one of the three commissioners
who has real estate interests in this city;
but all are non-residents.
The Alabama Claims Commission.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., June 23.-The
President to-day having approved of the
bill for the distribution of the Geneva
award, nominated to the Senate the follow
ing gentlemen to be Judges of the Court of
Commissioners of Alabama claims: Heze-
kiah g. Wells, of Michigan, Martin Rier-
son, of New Jersey, Kenneth RaynOr, of
Mississippi, George Woodward, of PennSyl-
vania, and Caleb Baldwin, Of Iowa. also,
John Davis, of Massachusetts, to be clerk
of the court.
LATER-The President withdrew the
name of George Woodward as one Of the
Court Commissioners of the Alabama
Claims, and nominated in his place VIM.
4. Porter, of Pennsylvania, who, with the
other nominees, including John Davis as
CLERK, were confirmed.
Comparative Statement.
Al the regular appropriation bills were
finally acted on. In the House today Mr..
Garfield gave the following comparative
statement cf appropriations of lastyear and
this:
1874. 1873.
Navy. So, ,250,O0O Si6,750,OOO
AImy...,.....,r 3I,79O,0O0 27,7J0,O00
Legislative .... 20,5O0,0O $3.50, 900
FoTtifications. ... 100000 1,SS9,OO0
indians ......... 5.5O0,000 j,j00,0O0
Military Academy. $4,000 1900
Deficiency. 100000 n,2TSOO0
The Consular and Diplomatic bill was
about the same both years, except that the
billthis isyearcOntaineda an item Of 81, 100000
TO pay the claim of the British mixed com
mission. The pension bill this year was
about $4,000 less than last year. but he
thought it likely that there would be a
deficiencytO that amount, The Civil Appro-
priation last year was So, lS6, 900. This year
It was S26,GoS, ,OO0and contained the unusual
item of 100000 for sufferers from the
overflow. The river and harbOr bill last
year was S6,lI2,0OO. this year $, ,24S,O0O.
The aggregate of these bills showed
diminutiOn below last years apprOpria-
tions of S27,763,1S7. His statement Of
course did not include private bills, but his
own opinion was that while more private
bills than usual were passed at this session,
the amounts appropriated in them were
less than usual.
The Suudry Appropriations.
The miscellaneous appropriation bill as
passed, advances 81 100000 to the District
of Columbia for the payment Of the July
interest on the bonded debt.
The law under which the Civil Service
Committee exists is not repealed, but no
appropriation is made for continuing its
work or paying its expenses
Of the SG0O,00J appropriated last year
for replacing worn out national bank
notes, etc, the uneNpended balance
IS still available The amount fCf
he relief of Southern sufferers by overflow
is reduced to $4,000. $4,000 is given for
the National Association for the relief of
colored women and children in the Dis
trictof Columbia. The meXpended dbalance
for public building at Nashville, Tenn,
is retained with an increase Of the amount
to $4,000.
The provisO extending jurisdiction of
the lighthouse board over the Mississippi,
Missouri and Ohio rivers has become law.
A FOrked Report.
The House Committee on Post Offices
and Post Roads made a report to-day on
charges relative to certain post route trans
actions in California. The committee say
they do not find evidence of fraud, but are
satisfied that on many, if not all the
routes mentioned, straw bids were made.
The District Safe Burglary.
The joint select committee on the affairs
Of the District Of Columbia, instructed to
inauire into the sO-called safe burglary, re
port that they have examined a number of
witnesses and have learned the names of
other witnesses who ought to be examined,
but whose attendance they have not been
able. up to this time, to secure. The teSti-
mony taken is conflicting and ir-
reconcilable and in some import
ant particulars the contradictions
cannot be accounted for on any theory of
mistake or want of memory. The COM
mittee suggest that an expression Of opin-
ion by them that any particular person or
persons are guilty might be unwise If not i'm
proper, for reasons that will readily be dis
covered in reading the testimony. The
Committee think it should be brought TO
the notice of the Secretary Of the Treasury
and the Attorney General, and in this con
nection call especial attention 10 kilograms
which were sent from Michael Hays an dH.
c. Whitley to Nettleship.
The letters and telegrams show that both
Col. Whitley and his chief assistant, Net
tleship. were concerned in a conspiracy to
falsely implicate Columbus Alexander, one
of the leading memOrialists.
The Closing HOurs-The Bills that
Failed.
The President was at the Capitol with
the members of the ".,bimet about eight
hours to-day. lie remained till Congress
adjourned. He signed all the bills pre-
sented to him with the exception of two OF
small Importance.
The passage of the bill to reorganize
certain army stats is considered a creat
victory by the friends of the army.
A clerk of the Senate reached the House
with bills for the reduction of army pay
masters from go to 80, and to authorize
the coinage of 20 cent silver pieces, just as
the House adjourned, and therefore these
bills failed.
Among the bills which 20 over until next
session are the following: For the relief OF
owners of purchased land sold for direct
taxes in insuTectionary States; the bill
amendatOry of the civil rights law; the bill
for construction and repairs of the Missis.
sippi river iegees, and the McCrary bill
regulating charges for railroad Transports
tion.
There Is an uneNpended balance o
about $4,000 for civil service reform still
in the Treasury from last years arpropria
tion. which may be drawn against up 10 Is
Of July next.
Steamer Burned at Evansville.
EVANSVILLE, IND, June 23.-Th'