Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-06-18

MOONSHINERS IN ALABAMA.
The commissioner of internal revenue has
| telegraphed the collector at Montgomery,
| Alabama, authorizing him to employ sixteen
| men for fifteen days for the purpose of ar
| resting Illicit distillers who have refugeed at
Wardsville, Cleburne county. The commits
| sioner says; "The leniency extended was
| would cease. | now desire that the law shall
take its course against all offenders.
sUNDRI CIVIL APPROPRIATIONS.
The senate committee on appropriations
have completed the consideration of the sun
dry civil appropriation bills There are about
two hundred amendments, increasing its to-
tai from SIC, S47, us, as. granted by the house,
to nearly S2l 900, 900. The additional amount
Is made up chiefly of items aggregating 3D.
$1,000 for deficiencies In the appropriations
OF former years, and of an increase of about
81 $50, 900 in amendments voted by the house
for continuing work on public buildings
throughout the country. Among the amend
ments are the following amounts for public
buildings in addition to the sums voted by
the house: For expenditure at Chicago, st.
Louis and Cincinnati, 800, 900 each; Topeka,
Kansas, $50, 1000; Evansville, Indiana, $685.,
O00; to commence the north wing to the par
tally completed building for the state, war
and navy departments, 100000; for the
purchase of the Freedmen's bank building,
Washington, to accommodate the depart
ment of Justice and the court of claims,
$275, 900; to erect building for the bureau
of printing and engraving, 1897, 800; de-
fciencies in the postofEce department and
compensation OF postmasters, $3.50, 600; other
deficiencies, $50, 900; expenses of the United
States courts, $250,000; Chickasaw interest
claim, 1922, 600; to continue the Hot Springs
commission, 1926, 900; to reimburse State ex-
penditures in equipping and transporting vol
unteers during the war of the rebellion,
$3.50, 900; cost of United States building at
the Paris exposition, $4,000.
A GENERAL REDUCTION IN SALARIES
AGREED ON.
The third committee of conference on the
Legislative, executive and judicial appropria-
ton bill has reached an agreement. 1t pro-
vldes that the house shall recede from the
proposed abolition of the offices of the fourth
and fifth auditor of the treasury, and from
the reduction of the pay of senate empl yes.
The senate is to recede from Its disagreement
to the house provisions reducing the grades
and pay of clerks In the executive depart
ments so far as they affect about one half the
clerks. The grades and number of others are
to be left unchanged.
THE SOUTH CAROLINA CONTESTED SENATOR
SHIP.
The senate committee on privileges and
elections to day postponed till the next ses-
sion of congress the consideration of the
claim of D. T. Corbin to the seat now occupied
by M. C. Butler. Senator Cameron Wis ],
of the subcommittee to examine the subject,
submitted a report in writing, to the effect
that Corbin is entitled to the seat. Senator
Hill, the other member of the subcommittee,
stated that he had arrived at an exactly OPP
posite conclusion, but was not ready to submit
a written report.
JUDGE HAMMoNDs' APPOINTMENT CON-
FIRMED.
The senate to-day confirmed E. S. Ham
mond United States district judge for the
western district of Tennessee.
DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS.