Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-07-13
WASHINGTON.
Acts OF Congress Approved by the Press
ident-The River and HarbOr
BiIl-The MOney-Pack.
age Robbery.
The Delegates to the Israelltish COnVen.
ton and President Grant-COn-
greSsmen Succumbing to
the HEATH

ACTS APPROVED BY THE PREsIDENT.
WASHINGTON, JuIy le-Tbe Presi-
! dent acS approved the following acts o!
cor gfess: "a act relative to the fedemp-
ton OF unused Stamps; an act to
sg...avc,Zs the commits. Toner of Indian
affairs to purchase supplies for the In
| dian turesr in open market; an act to
| amend sections 1898 aud 1894 of the re-
vised statutes, providing penalty for
mailing obscene books and other mat
| tiers therein con famed, and prohibiting
| lottery circulars passing through the
mails; en- act mailing appropriations for
The postoffice department for the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1877, and for other
purposes; an act to amend section 5846
Of the revised statutes of the United
States, providing for the imprisonment
and transfer OF United States prisoners;
an act to exempt vessels navigating the
Mississippi river aud its tributaries
shove the port OF New Orleans from en-
frances and clesraDces; an act to aathor-
ize the Northwestern improvement COM
pany to enter the Menominee Indian
reservation and improve the Oceanic
river, its branches and it's tributaries.
THE RIVER AND HARBoR BILL.
The senate committee on sppropIia.
lions amended the rivsr and harbor bill
as follows: Appropriations for the fol-
lowing improvements have been stricken
from the bill: For the harbor of Frank.
fort, Pentwater and White river, Michi-
gan; Menominee, Wisconsin; CIinah
river, Hiswassee river, Powell river
aud Cumberland river, below Nashville,
Tennessee; Saugatuek, Michigan; Usage
river, Missouri; bsrbor at Racine, Wis
consin. The following items have been
added: To repair the eSst pier, Cleve-
land, $4,000; or the removal of beaver
and harbor, $1,000; for the Improvement
of the Missouri river above the mouth OF
Yellowstone, $35 900; for the improve
ment of Big Sandy river in Kentucky
and West Vsrginia, $4,000; for the
repair Of the piers at the mouth Of Black
river, Ohio, $4,000; for the RENT al of
bar in the Mississippi river opposite
Dubuque, Iowa, SlS, 900. The following
appropriations have been increased: For
the harbor at Buffalo from $75 600 to
500, 600; for removing Instructions ia
East river and He'll Gate, New York,
from $780, COO to 1925, 600; barber at
Green Bay, Wisconsin, from $4,000 to
1000; Ouachita river, Arkansas, fIom
Dor, Michigan, from S1l 600 to SIS 900;
Fox and Wisconsin rivers, $3.50, 600.
THE OTTOMAN MONEY.PACKAGE ROB.
Berry.
The case OF Ottoman, for alleged COM
plicity in the robbery OF money-pack-
age from the United States treasury,
came up to-day before Judge Hum
phreys on motion OF the government
for an order to sell the defendants prop
erty. The defendant made g motion
to quash the attachment on the ground
that the government had not could
give bond, such as is required from in
dividuals. Judge Humphreys granted
the latter motion, saying that, when
the United States comes into the civil
courts, it comes in just as an individual,
sutj9ct to the same rules. There is a
rule requiring in such case SO this that
the plaintiff shall give bond, but the
government has not fled suoh a bond.
IsRAELITEs AT TEE WBITEROUsE.
The delegates to the Israeiite cenven-
ton, accompanied by many ladies, WIS.,
tied President Grant at the Whitehouse.
Mr.. Simeon Wolf introduced them rs
citizens of the United States engaged ia
the good cause Of educatiOn-s Cause in
which the President WAS known 10 take
great interest. The President made a
few appropriate remarks in reply, COM
plimenting them on the convention
held, and wishing them success in their
undertaking. This afternoon the men,
bers of the convention left for visit to
Mt. Vernon.
THE sUNDRY CIVIL APPROPRIATION
BILL.
The committee OF conference on the
sundry civil appropriation bill had
meeting to-day, aud will hold another
to. morrow. There were two hundred
and forty-fOur points Of difference, and
all have been settled excepting twenty
one.
MEMBERS OF CONGRESS FRUSTRATED
BY HEAT.
An unusually large number Of mem.
bers of congress are sick, several Of them
owing to the effects of the
heat.