Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-02-28
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Four Per Cent TransactiOns-The Pat
ent-OfIice Variations Accounted For
Nominations by the President
and Combinations by
the Senate.
Numerous Changes Proposed In the River
and HarbOr Appropriation Bill
Sudden Death Of Prominent
Scientist-The Teller
Report, Etc.

| WASHINGTON, February q .-Subscriptions
to the four per cent loan since yesterday,
81, 985, 900.
| NOMINATED.
The President has nominated James Hills
| for collector of internal revenue for the dis
trict of Mississippi. and George K. Keith for
| postmaster at Minneapolis Minnesota.
THE PATENT OFFICE VARIATIONS"
Frank Burr, who was until last fall man
ager of the Patent Office Ga=ette and Official
mittee on expenditures in the interior de-
partment, and made a statement showing
the cause of the variation in cost of main
tanning that branch Of the department. He
stated that many persons were carried on
the payroll of the Gazette who rendered lit
cited one particular case where no duty was
performed by party drawing salary from
that bureau.
RIVER AND HARBoR APPROPRIATIONS.
The senate committee on commerce re-
ported the river and harbor appropriation bill
| to the senate this afternoon, with amend
| ments proposing numerous changes. The
committee recommend the following addi-
tional items or increased appropriations for
the improvement of the rivers and harbOrs
named: L'Anguille, Arkansas, $40, 900; Ar
kansas river, $4,000: Vicksburg, 1913 000
Usage river, $4,000; Missouri river, at Fort
| Leavenworth, $4,000; White river, $500;
Missouri river, above the Yellowstone, $780,
600; Missouri river, at Nebraska City, $4,000;
survey of Missouri river, $4,000; Yellowstone
| river, $50 900; Missouri river, at Vermillion,
Dakota, $4,000; Missouri river, at Omaha
and Council Bluffs, SO, 900; Mississippi river,
at Dubuque, $4,000; Mississippi river, sur
veys for reservoirs, S13 600; Fox river, Wis
consln, $4,000; st. Croix river, $4,000; Red
river of the North, $4,000: Duluth, $4,000;
Saugatuck, Michigan, $4,000; Muskegon,
| Michigan, $4500; Michigan City, Indiana,
$4,000; Allegheny river, at French creek,
$4,000; Quincy, Illinois, $40 600; Toledo,
gum ice-harbor. $50, 1000. The committee
strike out the following amounts which were
granted by the house: Urbana, Ohio, $4,000;
| New river, West Virginia, $12, 600; Hiawas-
see river, Tennessee, $4,000. The net total
added TO the bill by the senate committee Is
| about 81 100000.
| COMBINATIONS.
The senate confirmed the following nomi-
nations: Robert NJ. Douglas, United States
| Carolina; D. s. Wade, chief-justice of the
suprame court Of Montana Territory; Henry
Ruggles. consul at Malta. Collectors of Gus
toms-David G. Carr, Petersburg, Virginia;
| Ephraim ii 'Murtrie, district of Minnesota.
| Surveyors of Customs-W VIM. j. Smith, Mem
phis; Adam Wolf, Nashville; Deloss f.
| Lyon, Dubuque; George Erazee, Burlington,
| Iowa. ostmasters-Illinois-W Douglass,
Joliet; Indiana-John n. Benyan, Warsaw;
| John w. Bell, Knightston; Orviile Carver.
| Angola; Luman S. Gilker, Rockport Kan
sas-Samuel B. Hickman, Coffeeyille; Chas.
H. Phillips, Watervile; H: e. Ashburg, New
ton; Josiah Pillsbury, Manhattan. Missouri
Samuel Hayes, ST. Louis. Wisconsin-Abner
| l.. Harris, Reedsburg. John q. Chapman,
| United States marshal for the district OF
Iowa; James HILL, collector OF internal rev.
enue for the district of Mississippi; Alexan-
der L. Russell, of Pennsylvania, consul to
Monteviedo; Sigimund Davis, sur
of the land-ofice-James B. Mcdowell,
| Lincoln, Nebraska; Daniel H. Freeman, st.
Cloud, Minnesota. Receivers of Public Mon
eys-Alfred A. Tufts, Camden, Arkansas;
| John Ulrich, Lacrosse, Wisconsin. Indian
Agents-Oliver Goode, Of Ohio, Quintilla
| agency, Oregon; Wyman n Lincoln, of Wis
consIn, Gras Fentres, Montana; Laban l.
| Miles, of Iowa, Usage, Indian Territory;
| Thos z. Ellis, of New York, Fort Berthold,
Dakota; James A. Stephens. of Indiana,
Standing r ok, Dakota; Henry Il. Mallory,
| of New York, Colorado river, in Arizona.
The senate rejected the nominations of r.
P. Stone for collector Of customs at Bangor,
Maine, and L. P. Stratton, of College Point,
Long Island, to be supervising Inspector Of
steam vessels for the second district.
REPORT OK THE
The report of the Teller committee made to
the senate to day reviews the testimony Of
| ninety-one witnesses In louisiana and one
| hundred and seven In South Carolina. 1t
states that the frauds in South Carolina by
the use of tissue tickets extended to every
county in that State but one, and that between
thirty and forty murders were committed in
Louisiana. The committee, in drawing their
conclusion, say there appears to be a wide
spread determination in these States to 4e-
strict freedom of speech as to political ques-
tons, upon the claim that the discussion of
the relations of labor to capital employers to
employees, and other kindred subjects, is
calculated to array the colored people against
the whites, aud thus endanger the safety of
the people. This determination is not au-
thorized by State enactments, but by the Dem
ocrats, who attend the political meetings not
only OF their own party, but also Of the oppo-
sitioa, and are n the habit of refusing to
allow the speakers to dlEcUss these questions
in their various forms. ANY reference to the
condition of the colored people before the
war, and the causes that led to the war, are
condemned as being of an incendiary charac
ter. 1t will be readily seen that il it Is allowed
the attendants at public meetings to de-
termine what is and what is not Incendiary
and inaammatorY material, and there
fore Objectionable ana not TO be
permitted, there will be an end of
all political discussion unless the speakers
consent to discuss questions IN accordance
with the views of majority that may be in
| attendance. Great liberty must be allowed
in the discussion of all political questions. 1t
will never do to permit crowd of heated
| partisars az public meeting to determine
/ what is and what is rot an incendiary speech
and what is not proper to be said On such &C.
casions. All the attacks which have been
made on the cOlored people have been at
| tempted to be justified or excused on the
ground that the colored people have made
threats against the whites. However false
, | and destitute CT foundation these reports
may have been, they have been made the
excuse Of the most unheard-ot atrocities
against these people. AS this pretended tear
| of negro insure ction is made the excuse for
outrages OF the eosoyed people, it may not be
aGlIss to say that the democratic whites,
wren Intercepted on that point, all agreed
that the negro was peaceful and unreyenge-
Jul, and that with all the reports of the up
rising Of this class Of people to muir
der and outrage the whites, there was
no instance in America, within their
, knowledge, w4en this had been
1 done, and all admitted that il
would require great deal of provocation to
, induce the colored people toresort to violence
5 against the whites. Their respect for author
ity. obedience to law and attachment to PEI
| sons and things, S-e notable characteristics
| Of the colpred race. No prosecutions have
been instituted by the State of South Caro-
. lima against the vioators of her laws. and nc
/ effort made to punish the men VINO have thus
f wantonIy outraged her citizens, and when
United States courts have been resorted t.
for the purpose of Furnishing outrages On the
ballot box, the complainant has Ia many
, instances been arrested clearly in violation o
"a the law by the State authorities on charges
q of perjury, and committed to jail, unless b
gave bail Citizens are threatened that l
they attempt to punish offenders in tn
United States courts, witnesses will be pun
4, ished in the State courts, and thus the Stat
g. not only declines to punish these crlmi
! mails, but refuses to allow it to be don