New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-06-02
WASHINGTON.
Alabama Editors Mt tho Capitol.

Alabama Editors Mt tho Capitol.
WASHINGTON, June 1.-The Alabama
editors called on the President to-day.
Captain Screws, of the Montgomery Ad-
rertiser, made a neat little speech to the
President, to which the President replied
in his usual style.
The Alabamians have been Hospitality
entertained since their arrival by Messrs
Sloss, Sheats, Caldwell, Hays and Stokes.
Bristow Appointed Secretary Of the
Treasury-Richardson Judge Of Court
of Claims.
The President sent to the Senate to-day
the following nomination.: Benjamln
Bristow, of Kentucky, to be Secretary OF
the Treasury; William A; Richardson to De
judge of the Court of Claims, and Peter
Negley as assistant treasurer at baltl-
more.
The debt statement, issued to-day, shows
a reduction during May of s., 4,456,S3S.
Cash in the treasury-Coin, $8,15S, ,979;
currency, $ll, III ,703; special deposits held
for the redemption of certificates Of de-
posits, $50, 6,O50,00O.
The President Conc to New York.
The President will leave this city to-
night for New York, whittier he goes to lay
the corner stone of the Museum of Natural
History in Central Park.
Cabinet.
The Cabinet session which was to have
been held tomorrow was, therefore, held
to- day. Before the session OF the Cabinet
General Bristow, who has been nominated
to succeed Judge Richardson, had an in
terview with the President.
Banfeld Resigned.
Solicitor Banfeld has on record his resig-
An Impost Decision.
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 they are
brought into a port Of the United States
with the intent to be there discharged; and
that an act of Congress increasing in gen
eral terms the duties on impOrtatiOns does
not apply to goods then in warehouse.
Half a Million Dollars for the Over
flowed.
The House Committee on Appropriations
agreed to an appropriation OF $500. 900 fol
the relief of the sufferers by the flood in
Louisiana. Arkansas and Mississippi, and
| on the TOmbigbee and Black Warrior
rivers.
It is understood 100000 will go to Lou
| isiana.
The delegations from those States wer'
present, and explained that $l9l, 900 were
| to be appropriated for public buildings il
New Orleans.
| Proposed Election of Senators by th'
People.
| A joint resolution was introduced in tn
Senate to-day which provides an amend
| ment to the constitution that United State
Senators shall be chosen every sixth yea
| by the people of the several States for tn
term of six years.
| The Louisiana Delegation Before tn
| House Committee ON Appropriations.
| Senator West and Representatives Smitl
and Darrall, of Louisiana, appeared befOr
the House Appropriation Com mmittee to-da.
| and presented statistics and made argu
ments showing the necessity of the appro
priation of $750,O00 for relief and thre
months subsistence of the sufferers BY
overflow of the Mississippi river.
The application was referred to the sub
committee, consisting of Hale, of Maine
Wheeler, of New York, and Marshall, o
Illinois. Indications are said to be favOra
BILE for granting it.
Bills Presented by Congressman Smith
In the House tonight the following bill
were introduced by Mr.. Smith, of Louis
lana: A bill making an appropriation TO
the improvement of Cane river, Natchi
tOches parish, Louisiana; a bill making al
| appropriation for the improvement of tn
navigation of Red river below Shreveport
Louisiana, by closing the mouth of Tone
bayou, and by Strengthening the channel o
said river by means of sundry cutOffs; bill
making an appropriation for the repair o
the levees Of the Mississippi river and it
tributaries in the States of Louisiana, Misssi
! sippi and Arkansas, amounting to 5000, 600
bill tol restore to the school and other trus
funds of the State of Louisiana the bond
and other property belonging to those fund
turned over to the United States militar,
authorities during and subsequent to tn
} war and now deposited in the vaults O
I the Treasury Department in Washington.
| General Humphreys Letter on the Fad
| Fraud.
General Humphrey. of the engineer CORPS
has addressed a letter to the chairman o
the House committee having in charge tn
bill authorizing Mr.. Eads to construct Jet
ties at the mouth of the Mississippi river
The following is the closing paragraph:
1t is probably entirely unnecessary TO
me to say here that the statements whicl
Mr. Eads has made in the pamphlets b.
has published concerning the condition!
existing in the Mississippi river and at it
mouths are the mere revival of old assump
tions, which experimental investigation
has long since shown to be utterly Nm
founded. In fact, General Humphreys
letter is regarded as on the whole unfavOr
able to the Eads project.