Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-12-06
WASHINGTON.
Suspended HIPS Successor Appointed
Considerable Talk about ApprO-
priatiOns-A COlored Preachers
Prayer for Congress.
lutiOn-The Author will Have to
Hear the Story from Massachu-
sets as well as the South.

WASHINGTON, December 5.-The secre-
tary of the treasury has designated John
Frazier as superintendent of construction of
the new building for the bureau of engr9v-
| ing and printing, and to temporarily dis
| charge the duties of supervising architect in
place of Hill, suspended.
HILLS TRIAL POSTPONED.
Supervising Architect Hill to-day received
letter from the secretary of the treasury
stating that, In view of his indictment in the
United States circuit court at Chicago, he is
| suspension is made by direction of the Presi-
| dent.
APPROPRIATIONS.
The naval appropriation bill provides for
the appointment of visitors to the naval acad-
envy as a matter of law, instead of custom
and usage, as heretofore. Its total is about
one hundred and twenty-five thousand dol
lars less than that of the appropriation for the
| current fiscal year.
| bill, as reported from the committee, Is an ex-
act copy of last session bill as it first passed
| the house. The changes from the existing
| law again proposed by the committee consist
| mainly of reductions in the salaries of the
higher grades of foreign ministers and the
discontinuance of sundry small consulates.
The total saving proposed is about forty-one
thousand dollars.
The house committee on appropriations
have agreed to turn over to special senate
committee the report which Chairman Atkins
some weeks ago received from the secret SER
| vice division of the treasury concerning the
omission of the Hot Springs clause from the
sundry civil appropriation bill OF last year.
| THE CONSULAR AND DIPLOMATIC APPRoPRI.
ALTON BILL.
The consular and diplomatic appropriation
L "A L
duce the salaries of our ministers to Great
Britain, France, Germany and Russia, from
| seventeen thousand five hundred to fifteen
thousand dollars per annum; those Of the
ministers to Spain, Austria, Italy, Brazil,
Mexico, Japan and China, from twelve to ten
thousand dollars, and those of our ministers
to Chill and Peru, from ten to eight thou
sand dollars per annum. The bill omits any
provision for United States ministers resident
at Belgium or the Netherlands, or for charges
d'dfdires to Denmark and Switzerland.
The bills introduced to terminate the Ban
croft treaty with the North German confed-
Grafton, were referred to Subcommittee,
consisting of Messrs. Cox N. VI, Schlei-
cher and Williams Ark. ].
MISCELLANEOUS.
The President sent to the senate the fol-
lowing nominations: Robert NJ. Douglass,
marshal of the western district of North Car
DINA; Joshua B. Hall, marshal of the east
ern district of North Carolina; Green G.
Chandler, attorney of the northern district
of Mississippi; G. G. Moody, associate justice
of the supreme court of Dakota, and num-
Der of minor nominations.
Secretary EVarts has sent TO the house COM
mittee on foreign affairs communication
recommending the restoration of the appro-
prlation of five thousand dollars for the sala-
ry of charge d 'G1direS for Greece.
A bill was introduced IN the house to-day
by Mr. Finley proposing to prohibit the U nion
Pacific railroad company, under penalty of
heavy fines, for charging any additional sum
for the transportation of freight and passen-
gers over the bridge at Omaha, in excess of
the amount now allowed by law for similar
transportation over any other portion of the
road.
The Potter committee held no session to-
day, and will probably pot assemble for bust.
ness before next Tuesday.
PAST PRAYING FOR.
The Washington correspondent of the Gin
cinnati Enquirer telegraphs under date of
the third: One of the coIored preachers of
this city offered prayer for congress on Sun
day, In the course of which he said; 80 Lord,
Thou seest all these congressman aocking to
this city like fishes to the apostles net. o
Lord, have mercy on these poor sinners and
preserve them from. Cancellation with the
devil, for the good Lords sake"
JIM BLAINE's ELECTION RESOLUTION
to stir up the southern monkey got the Dem
ocrats into King Caucus to-day For once in
long time the Democrats acted with sa-
gacity and reason, and Mr.. Blaine will prob
ably have his tall-feathers plucked If he in
vites a sectional controversy. It was decided
to vote for the resolution, but with an amend
ment which the Republicans cannot decline
that is, to extend the inquiry to the north also
IN probing for election frauds. Some say that
this is really what Blaine wants. He still owes
agrudge to Massachusetts FORTS treatment ex-
tended to hun at the Cincinnati convention and
even after the eIcoriation he gave the State
last winter he IS not ready to call quits. 1t
is gossip that yesterday Jeems went to Sher-
man and asked him why he insisted that his
(Blaine's) resolution to investigate the recent
election frauds should go over for a day.
Sherman intimated that he thought the reso-
luton of the senator id nonsense. "You
misunderstood the object CT my resolution"
said Blaine. ~ don't care about investigat-
ing the elections in South Carolina and
Louisiana, but my friend Ben Butler has said
that there was intimidation in Massachusetts,;
that the factory owners prevented their oper-
atlves from voting for the peoples can
didate. II that is so l want to find it out
The purity of the ballot box in Massa-
chuseits must and shall be preserved"
After all. it is not improbable that the res
olutlOn may provoke a bad blooded debate.
Blaine said to-day that he had no set speech
prepared on the southern question, but
what he:lcourts is a defense of the south by
some of its champanions, and then indulge
in mean fIngs. The Democrats say they will
pass his resolution without debate on their
part, and that if Blaine wants to rant, let
him beat the thin air until he is exhausted or
sunstruck. If they adhere to this determina-
ton, any bile he lets off will fall fat, and in
The end work to his own discontinue. The
chances are, though, that they won't The
republicans also held caucus, and unani-
lously decided to vote for the Blaine reso-
lQti0n.
AS TO RESUMPTION.
The banking and currency committee Of
Che house OF representatives, at a meeting
held to-day, directed Chairman Buckner