Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-06-19

hours this afternoon, and large number OF
bills were signed after examination by the
the heads of the respective departments, but
they left soon after an extension of the ses-
sior was ordered.
NOMINATIONS.
The President has nominated Sumner ].
Kumball, of Maine, general superintendent
of the life-saving service.
CONTRIBUTIONS.
The senate confirmed Jesse E. Wheeler, of
| Minnesota, register of the land Office at Far
| go, Dakota; VIM. ID: ID. WATSON, OF ILLINOIS,
l Indian agent for the Flandrean agency,
l Dakota; Asa D. Baker, of New York, for
4 Red Lake agency, Minnesota; and S. S. Law
I son, of Illinois, for Mission agency, Colorado;
4 George Eyester, postmaster and United States
] assistant-treasurer at Philadelphia; Theodore
| G. Hacker, postmaster at Brownsville, Ne
/ braska. Among the nominations rejected
/ were two colored men nominated tor justices
| Of the peace for the District of Columbia, and
| Edward W. Arnold, register of the land office
at Grand Island, Nebraska; Sumner }. Kim
| ball, of Maine, general superintendent OF the
| life-saving service; Z. Jeffords, United States
| district-attorney for the southern district OF
| Mississippi; and William Hayden Edwards,
of the District of Columbia, onsul-general at
st. Petersburg.
BUFFERS REASONS FOR DISSENTING FROM
THE PARTRIDGE RESOLUTIONS.
General Butler, as an individual member
of the Judiciary committee, to-day sub4ssltted
at great length, to the house of rep reseata-
tives, his reasons for dissenting from the resS-
| luton and report of the majority In regard
to the inviolability of the Presidents tltle
He thinks it remarkable that, In the face M
the sixth section of the act establishing the
electoral commission, the committee should
have come to the conclusion that the pro-
ceedlngs of the commission, or OF congress
subsequent thereto. constitute an immovable
fnality, when the law itself declares the con-
trary, and the country was emphaGcally as
sured by the house of representatives that
instead of constituting hnality those pro-
oeedings were, on their face, and in express
terms, merely a temporary expedIency or de-
Visee 10 avoid the contingency of lapsed
electiaa. fer which the constitution had
made no provision. Congress, he says, by
the express words of the law, declared that
its object and effect were provisional only
The President entered upon his Office with
the express notice that his tenure was ques-
tionable in character, OF doubtful validity,
and not made absolute by the inter position
of an extra constitutional commission, but to
be examined and adjudicated upon by the
courts. He agrees with the committee that
congress has no power under the constitu- |
ton to confer upon the supreme court of the |
United States the original jurisdiction sought |
for it In the Blair kimmell BILL but he says |
the question at issue is whether the actual |
President of the United States has Just and |
legal title to the office. condensation upon !
that question, were it possible to be had, be- |
fore a court would make case which may
we'll enough be defined to be controversy I
between contending parties under the forms
of law before a court.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
Subscriptions to the four per cent loan to-
day were one hundred and twenty five thou
sand dollars.
Minister Noyes called at the Executive
Mansion this morning, and was for short
time in consultation with the President.
The army appropriation bill and the river
and harbor appropriation bill were signed
by the President to-day.
Captain Lion and Captain J. Reese, of Ohio,
are here to make arrangements for the re-
lnion of the soldiers and sailors of the late
war, at Newark, on the twenty second of :
July, the anniversary of the death of Gen I
,ral M 'Pherson, Representative Keifer will
,e the orator. President Hayes and Minister
Moves will be present