Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-08-10
The Pacific Mail Subsidy-The Printing
Of the Report ON the Mississippi
Election n-Hooker's Answer
to HOar.
The House COnferrees on the Question Of
Executive and Legislative Salary
Authorized to Recede from
their Position. a
The House and Senate after Hearing Re-
ports Appoint the old CODferrees
Patterson, of South Caro-
lima, in the "BlOOdy. i--
Shirt Business.
HOUSE.

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| WASHINGTON, August 9-The ma
jority and minority reports of the post
office committee on the Investigation
| into straw bids, etc., made by Mr.. Clark,
| of Missouri, chairman, and Mr.. Cannon,
were ordered printed and laid on the
! table.
Mr.. Bsgby, from the committee on
invalid pensions, reported bill giving
a pension of thirty dollsrs pei month to
the widow of Captain Yates, OF the Sey.
enth cavalry, killed at the battle of Lit
tie Big Horn. Passed.
Mr. Lynde.. from the Judiciary com.
..,rVyee, mads q report In. the cae of
Messrss Schumacher and King, as con.
nected With the Tacinc Hail subsidy,
and Mr.. Llrd, of New York, made .
minority report. They were ordered
printed in the Record, with the intima-
ton that they would be soon called up
for discussion. The majority report
! recommends that the house leaves the
charges against these members where
they are noW-in the courts. The mi
nority report, signed by Messrs. Lord,
Lawrence, Hosr and Caulfield, is that
the house has jurisdiction, and that the
committee on civil service reform
should ascertain and report the facts.
Mr.. M'Crsry signs sn additional paper
expr s5ing the opinion that the house
may properly take Jurisdiction Of the
charge,
Mr.. Springer desired to make a report
of the committee on foreign affairs In the
Venezuelan mixed commission, but it
wss excluded Under rule agreed on the
other day because forty-eight ht us had
not yet baen given to the NJ inority.
Mr.. Vance [Ohiob chairman of the
COMMITTEES on printing, reported back
with amendment, the senate con-
current resolution for printing the re.
part of the Mississippi investigation.
The senate resolution provides for four
thousand copies for its own use; the
anne dment provides for the same num-
Der, but distributes them, fifteen hun
dred to the senate, and twenty-five hun
dred to the house. After brief discus
sion, the amendment was agreed to by
party vote, the Republicans opposing
it, and the resolution was adopted.
MIR. Crounse, from the COM
mittee on public lands, reported back
the bill appropriating seventy. five hum
dred dollars for publishing the his .ory
of the surveys and expeditions by the
United States during the present centu-
ry. Passed.
The house then discussed political
subj scts, and was addressed by Mr..
Hoar, who commented on Mr.. Lamar's
speech, which, he said, was in full &C.
cord WITH the uniform tone of the Dsm-
ocratic press moth and south, and in
full accord with the uniform current OF
speech that prevailed among that gen.
Gleman's colleagues When questions re-
latiDg to the position of tine south had
arisen. That speech was bitter iDvec-
tiveagainst the government under which
the gentleman lived, aud OF whose mag
nanimity that gentleman was con-
spicuous instance. He trusted that the
people of the north would read that
speech, and would judge by it Of the expe-
diency Of committing the government
to the Democratic party. He Hcarl
took issue with Mr.. Lamsr's claim thai
there was prevalent corruption or NAL.
administration in public affairs, and he
declared it as his belief that for the period
of sixteen years in which the ReL ubli-
can party mad held power it was ireer
from corruption and maladministration
than during the period Of sixteen years
which followed the Inauguration of Gen.
eral Washington. In proof of public
corruption during the administrations Of
Washington, John Adams and Jeffer-
son, he cited the case Of a distinguished
general OF the revolutionary war, who,
while quartermaster general of the
army, was in part lership with firm who
had supply Of army stores, and was
corresponding with that finn secretly
and in cipher; also the case Of Wash |
ington's friend who, while secretary |
Of state, was detected receiving money |
from France as bribe to thWart the |
foreign policy OF the administration OF |
which he was member. The case Of |
another of Washington's cabinet off, |
GERS HamiltoD] who, being charged |
with corrupt relations with a person |
whom he had put in the treasury depart |
ment, defended himself by ecknowledg |
ing, over his own signature, his pTef1i- |
gate relation to the wife of that persOn; |
and the case of another officer of Wash |
ington who wrote letter acknowledge |
ing an act of virtual dishonor un6 qualed |
by that Of General Belknap. The differ
encs between the two generations was |
the drummoDd light which the press of |
the present day turned on all pubic |
Transactions. ...r. /
Mr.. Hooker replied to,,MI HOaT, and
commented on his allusiOn to the COR
rupiion of public men in The early his
tory Of the government as ghoul.like
digging into the grave OF the past, and
as fifty coming from party which in
this age had eliminated in those excel
lent qualities which distinguished that
party. He proceeded to criticise and dis
cnss the reconstruction measures, par
ticulsrly as bearing on the State Of Mis-
sissippi, and he asserted that every |
northern State which had manumitted
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