Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-01-29
WASHINGTON.
The EuStis-Pinehback Contest - Nor
toms Movement for the Recognition
of the kellogg Government.
The Centennial Appropriation in the
Senate-Deafh of Representative
SiarkWeaiher-The President
and Utah-PubIic Build
ings.

WASHINGTON, January zS.-The cen
ate committee on privileges and elec-
ton, this morning, after prolonged dis
eussion, decided to report back to the
senate the papers purporting to be the
credentials of the election Of J. B. Eus-
tis as senator from Louisiana, with the
recommendation that they lie on the
table without further action, because the
committee find that at the time OF his
alleged election there ives no vacancy.
This report was determined on by the
vote of Morton, Logan, Mitchell and
M'Millsn, against Salisbury, MeTrimon
and Cooper; Wadleigh and Cameron
Wisconsin, were absent. The infer
ence intended by the majority to be
drawn from this report is that the Kel-
logggovernment was the dc. .jIre govern
ment, and that PinchbAck was legally
elected.
Democratic Caucus.
A Democratic caucus was announced
for tomorrow evening.
The Centennial Appropriation.
The senate committee on appTopria-
tions, in their consideration of the mill
lion-aGd-a-half Centennial appropria-
ton bill to-day, deemed it unnecess aFy
to rectify q clerical error in the presm-
ble, as this does not affect the body OF
the bill, and might delay the passage OF
the measure by returning it to the house
for concurrence. They therefore report
ed the bill precisely as it came from the
house.
Death of Representative SfarkWeather.
Henry II. Stsrkweather, representa-,
tive in congress from Connecticut, died
here this morning. Mr.. Starkweather
was conscious to the last, and conversed
with Mrs. Starkweather, who arrived
this morning at six o'clock, two hours
before her husbands death.
Public Buildings.
The house committee on public build
ings will make no recommendation Of
expenditures on public buildings, except
such as may be actually necessary for
the pubIic interests. The construction
of buildings already commenced will be
continued, but no new ones begun. A
sum necessary to keep the buildings in
repair will not be withheld.
The President Receives a Utah DeIegR-
The President was visited to-day by a
delegation from Utah, consisting of Oil
yer A. Patton, register of the land office,
Salt Lake City; General Maxwell,
United States marshal for Utah, and
other prominent GENTLE citizens of the
Territory. The delegation desired par
ticularly to obtain some means by which
the crime Of polygamy may be reached
in the courts, and to this end propose q
revision of the jury law by which the
polygamists shsll be excluded as jurors,
as under the present law, with Mormon
polygamists in the jury-box, it is impOs-
sibIe to obtain convictions. The inter-
view also related to the suffrage gues-
tiOn in Utsh, the delegation cOnteRding
that the church leaders entirely control
the ballot among the Mormons, many
of whom would vote with the Gentiles
if allowed. The President expressed
his sympathy with any movement tend
ing to alleviate the present condition Of
matters in Utah aud the evils 81 oxen Of
by the delegation, and assured them of
his persistent aid in all laws passed TO
that end. 1t is understood that Colonel
Patton is to be appointed United States
district attorney for Utah.
The AIeOrn Plot.
New Orleans Times.l
WASHINGTON, January 26.-The Re-
publican programme for 1875 was un-
masked in their caucus yesterday. Al
corn is to sustain Morton and again to
lead the negroes in Mississippi. He is
to have the patronage and all the troops
he wants for the canvass. The negro
Ireland, his pet, is to succeed Pesse at
VicksbuTg. The enforcement act is to
be rigidly executed, beginning with
Louisiana, for whom 3 judge is to bo
provided in Billings. Pinchback is to
be seated, and the south is to be filled
with troops during the canvass. All
this is grist for Grants mill. who will
receive, beyond doubt, the Cincinnati