Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-05-16
WASHINGTON.
General NJ. T. Williamson Confirmed as
Marshal of the Western District OF
Tennessee-Other Nominations
COnfirmed-WOrk of the
Committees.
General Ord's General Orders Concerning
the Raiders-Republican Members of
the House in Caucus on the Pot
ter MOvement-ResOlu-
lions Adopted.

WASHINGTON, May Is In the senate ex-
ecutive session, objection was made by Sena-
tor Salisbury to the confirmation of Ex-Gov-
ernor Packard as consul to Liverpool, and by
Senator Thurman to George A. Sheridan. as
recorder of deeds for the Distlict of Colun-
bia. These nominations consC Iently went
over.
THE WEST TENNESSEE MARsHALsHIP SET
TIED.
The senate confirmed VIM. H. Hunt, of
New Orleans, judge of court of claims, in
place of Judge Peck resigned; Milton T..
Williamson, United States marshal for the
a0estern district Of Tennessee; Pay Director
George F. Cutler, chief of bureau of pro-
visions and clothing, and paymaster- general
IN the navy.
SHOW UP.
Alexander Ward, an employee in the office
of Paymaster Eldridge, at the Brooklyn navy
yard, alleges that he has been discharged
from his position for giving testimony in this
case before the committee rejecting upon
some of his superior officers. The committee
on naval affairs has been instructed to inquire
into all the circumstances connected with
Wards dismissal, with power to send for
persons and papers and administer this.
IN THE COMMITTEE ROOMS.
The house committee on expenditures in
the department of state have agreed to re-
port, with the request that it be referred to
the committee Of the Judiciary. resolution
sustaining the charges against Bradford, the
consular clerk to Shanghai,
The house committee on Indian affairs
agreed to report for printing and re-
commital the bill commencing reference to
the United States court of claims all claims
arising from Indian depredations.
The house committee on appropriations de-
cided to recommend Inconvenience on
all the senate amendments to Indian and
pension appropriation bills.
Secretary Evarts and Rogers, the Presi-
dents private secretary, before the senate
committee on appropriations to-day, claimed
that the house made inadequate provision for
the necessary expenditures of their depart
ments.
GENERAL ORD AFTER THE RAIDERS.
The war department is informed that Cen
eral Ord has, in a general order reissued the
existing orders about Mexican raiders, and
district commanders are instructed that they
must adhere to them strictly while there Is
an acknowledged government IN the exercise
of power in the territory in which the raiders
take refuge, but that if such territory is al
ternately held by rival factions at war with
each other, and there is no responsible gov
eminent in control, pursuing parties can take
the shortest routes to the places of refuge of
raiding or invading bands, and treat the pop
raiders. Similar instructions were issued by
General Ord during the revolution of 1876,
as necessary to protect Americans from the
plundering bands that infested the whole
opposite bank of the river.
Subscriptions TO the four per cent loan to-
day amount to one hundred and twenty
eight thousand Zine hundrediand fifty dollars.
THE REPUBLICAN CAUCUS.
The Republican members Of the house held
caucus this afternoon Immediately after
the adjournment to take action concerning
the resolution introduced by Representative
Potter to investigate the alleged Florida and
Louisiana Presidential election frauds. Mr..
Hale presided, and Mr.. Conger acted as Sec
rotary The caucus was addressed by Messrs.
Banks, Garfield. Hale, Conger, Fort, Brown,
Butler, Ittner, Hazelton, Blair, Thompson,
Williams wis. and others, all agreeing
that the resolutions offered from the Demo-
cratic side have the hidden and deep purpose
to overthrow the present administration,
while the result might lead to revolution in
the country. The only question of difference
was how far the Republican members should
resist the passage of the resolutions, should
the amendment now in the hands of
of Representative Hale proposing to include
Oregon, Mississippi and certain matters
connected with Louisiana and Florida, In the
investigation, be excluded; and as to whether
they should by such resistance take the re-
sponsibility of delaying legislation for an
indefinite period in order to prevent what
they deemed not only wrong but dangerous.
It was generally held that the intent of the
resolution was OF sufficient gravity to justify
resistance to the end. Representative Brown
submitted a resolution, which was agreed to,
providing for a committee of nine to prepare
resolutions expressive of the sense of the
caucus, and the following named gentlemen
were appointed as such committee: Repre-
sentatives Brown, Garfield, Reed, Phillips,
Cannon, Oliver, CIafln, Dunnell and Mitch
ell They reported the following resolutions:
Resolped, That the resolution now pending
in the house is an attempt, in a form unjusti
fable and illegal, to reopen the question of
the Presidential title, a question solemnly
settled by the action of the forty-fourth con-
gress, which alone had jurisdiction, and is
therefore revolutionary and destructive of
good order, business prosperity and the peace
of the country.
ResolUed, That the effort of the Democratic
majority to force upon the house, without an
opportunity for amendment or debate, a
measure of such a revolutionary character,
which has not been recommended or consid-
cred by any of the committees. but has been
devised by individuals for private or party
ends, should be resisted by all the means
which are authorized by the rules of the
house.
The first resolution passed unanimously.
The second passed with only few members
of the caucus dissenting.