Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-12-25

sustaining their suOordinates, thrOug
: thick and thin, right or wrong.
a 80. Attorney-General Williams's ei
> forts to bully judges of the court O
claims into ruling severely against hon
; est creditors OF the government.
' 81. The methods whereby fraudulen
!, claims are passed and paid in the trea
! su1y,
81. The means whereby Ben Butle
2 has come to be counsel fer nearly every
: important claim case.
33. Jay Cooke & Co.'s tricks to pre
vent the building Of the st. Paul anc
Pacific railroad, running Dutch bond.
: holders.
"a. The deposit of public funds in fa
yored "banks" by discussing officers
36. The methods Of taking sureties fol
public money.
81. The treasury habit Of deciding all
questions against the taxpayer, law OF
no law.
SO. Alterations and discrepancies In
the books of the treasury.
3e. Jay Cookies profits on hunting I'D
claimants for unclaimed interests u
kept secret from others.
40. Tricks played on merchants by
officials in revenue cases in district
courts, whereby adverse judgments are
fraudulently procured.
Al. The practical working of the bank.
rupt law, and the destruction of bank
rupt estates through official trickery.
AZ, Pensions; how frauds are put
through and how honest pensioners are
oppressed and defrauded.
43. The effect Of our present currency
system in producing decentralization and
panic.
A. Who profit by selling gold for
gIesnbacks to buy bonds with, instead
of buying bonds direct with gold.
40. The means whereby Barings were
| dropped as United Ststs s financial agents
| in London, and the rotten concerns of
Jay Cooke, M'CuIloch & Co., and CIews,
Hsbicht & Co. substituted.
46. The number of useless officials the
people have to pay.
AZ. The vast expenditure and sharp
practice Of A. B. Mullett in public build.
ings.
49,, The great delay in settling ac.
counts of army officers.
49. Land-grabbing, and how much
valuable public land, if any, is left
50. Last but not least, the oppression
and robbery Of one hundred and fifty
thousand people, disfranchised and mon
archized under the shadow of the can.
itol by the District OF CoIumbis ring.
Committees of three will answer in
most cases.
Democrats of the house! each of these
points covers wrong to be exposed and
checked. The people demand the truth
at your hands. They will sustain you in
unveiling it.
THE soUrH's BIG SHARE.
New York Trlbune.l
The excitement over the appointment
Of the committees and disappointments
OF the members continues quite IN
abated among those who remain in the |
city. An analysis of the list tends |
rather to increase than to abate discon- |
tent. 1t is found that out OF thirty |
three working committees of the house, |
which, in their full cycle, embrace the |
entire business of the country, the SOUTH |
ern or late slave States have twenty-five |
OF their chairmanships, embracing such |
important committees as those on cleo
uons, judiciary, commerce, Pacific rail.
road, postotiice, naval affairs, railways
and canals, foreign affairs, claims, re-
vision of the laws, educatio and labor,
District OF Columbia, patents, and many
Others. New England, with ten Demo-
cratic members, does not receive chair
manship OF any kind whatever, big or
little. New York receives two, those OF
the banking and currency and civil SER
vice committees. New Jersey receives
nothing. Pennsylvania receives those
OF appropriations and invalid pensions,
and yet New England and the
three States just hamed have well
nlgh as large population as the tif-
teen late slave States, with a far
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democratic members. The fact that
about the same population that gets four
ehalrmsnships in the north and east gets |
in the south, puts a great
many teeth on edge among the northern
democracy; and 1t is about as bad for
he west and northwest, where only
even chairmanships in all are given to
)hio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wis
,onslnI Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska,
4 ansas, Nevada, California and Oregon.
indeed, the last named eight States do
lot have single Craftsmanship, over I
I've millions OF people not being repre- I
ented at the head Of any COMMITTEES, ,
me southern States have about one {
bird of the population Of the whole :
ountry to-day and they get two-thirds /
I the chairmanships, and it is very {
ard to make northern and western 3
Democrats contented with such a dispo- q
ltion. General Banks, elected by the q
party as an Independent, is {
rossly slighted. He was for several d
ears chairman of foreign affairs, and C
4 the second session Of the forty-second d
ongress, after he had vigorously sup o
orted Mr.. Greely, Republican o
ouse, by vote, continued him in v
is craftsmanship. Now he is not only d
eposed from his Craftsmanship, but is b
lbordinated on the committee to Chss. ii
ames Faulkner, of West Virginia, of @
nom nothing more need lie said in this Il
Mr.. Chittenden, Of New &
ork, is another Independent who is Z
lost conspicuously snubbsd. Indeed, o
le Independent members, whose course Al
ded the Democracy, are less Kindly o.
eated by that party than they have Al
zen by the Republicans whom they m
lrt. 1t is no exsggeraiicn to say that r
e discomfort with the committee as. IS
gnments is widesIe cad, general and Bit fr
among large class of northern DEM n,
rats. Among Republicans there is at
ny little feeling, as they consider them lie
Ives outsiders, with no rights which in
are disposed to respect. In
neral however, leading Republicans
we been fairly treatsd, though it is
ought that Mr. Kasson has ground for sc
in not being retained on the hi
ay5 and means or the appropriations 81
mmittee, on both of which he has had I'll
any years experience. re
IREE BILLS To BE REPORTED IMME- m n'
DIATELY AFTER RECESS. ca ca
~ York Tribune.l
w WASHINGTON, December 2l.-The on
W house committee on appropriations an
Id its first meeting this morning, and re-,
gan its work for the sessIon. Assign an
snts Of the consular and Diplomatic. | he
Iitary academy, and pension sppro- an
alton bills, were made to sub.com- III
tlees, with q view of having them 10,
ported to the house Immediately after on
: holiday recess. These are the less on
portant annual appropriation bills, of
Z II IS not believed that any very All
at reduction can be made OF them. Int
g sstimste Of the amount needed in o,I
, next fiscal year to pay the expenses he
ioIeign Intercourse, greater portion IN,
which was included in the consular 81,