Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-03-05

WASHINGTON, March 4.-Subscriptions to
the four per cent loan since yesterdays re-
port, three hundred and twenty nine thou
sand dollars.
FINAL REPORTS FROM THE CENTENNIAL
COMMISSION.
President Hayes tent the following brief
message to congress last evening:
| To the Senate and House OF Representatives:
l have received from the United States
| centennial commission their final report, pre-
senting a full exhibit of the result of the
United States centennial celebration and ex-
hibitlon of 1876, as required by the act of
June l, 1872. In transmitting this report
/ for the consideration of congress ! express, |
believe, the general Judgment of the coun-
| try as well as my own IN assigning this exhi-
/ bition a measure of success gratifying to the
/ pride and patriotism of our people and full
| of promise to the great industrial and COM
mercial interests of the country. The very
ample and generous contributions which
| foreign nations made to the splendOr and
usefulness of the exhibition and the cordiali-
| ty with which their representatives took
part in our national commemoratlon, deserve
/ our profound Acknowledgements at the close
Of the great services rendered by the United
| States centennial commission and the CEN
tennial board of finance. 1t gives me great
pleasure to commend to your attention and
| that OF the people of the whole country the
laborious, faithful and prosperous perform
auce Of the duties which have marked the
administration of their respective trusts.
WASHINGTON. March g. 1879. R. B. HAYES.
| THE NATIONAL" address.
| F. P. Devices, chairman of the national
| committee of the National party, has issued
an address to the people of the United States.
| He says: Separation from the old parties is
necessary" and asserts that this action on
/ Of tho -alppt has in
/ spired the National Greenback party through
/ out the country with renewed courage and
| confidence. The address calls for thorough
/ party organization, and adds, "lf those In
/ accord with the National Greenback princl-
Piles will now earnestly attempt such organiza'
| ton, the party's success in 1880 can be as
sured."
BILLS SIGNED.
All the annual appropriation bills except
the legislative, executive and Judicial bill,
and the army bill, were signed by the Presi-
dent, and have become laws, together with
the bill making the requisite appropriation
to pay arrears of pensions. 1t is understood
that message vetoing the river and harbor
| appropriation bill was prepared, but under
| great pressure the executive signature was
| affixed.
| The President will issue a proclamation
converting the forty. sixth congress In extra
session on the eighteenth of March instant.
| BUTLER SHOWING HIS ARTS.
Notwithstanding the partisan feeling which
possessed both sides of the house during the
night session, there was remarkable absence
of personal passion. On one occasion that Mr.
Springer tried to get in some remarks, Mr.
Butler placed himself squarely IN front of him
and discharged volley of 81 object" each
louder and more emphatic than the other,
and he kept at it until he carried his point
As he walked to his desk he gave as a reason
Il i - ,.aHo
to listen to any abuse of a friend of his. There
was less of tumut and uproar than at almost
any other time. last night, and there was not
the least sign of hilariousness. The attend
ancs of members all through the twenty
two hours Of the sitting was large, and when
the vote indicated the absence of quorum
it was generally because the members re-
Trained from voting. Some of the oldest
members showed the least signs of fatigue
| and after q recess of an hour and three quar-
tiers, they were among the earliest in attend
ance. The speaker was seldom out of hi
chair.
SHERMAN WANTS TO REDEEM MORE OF OUT
BONDS.
The secretary of the treasury called the fol-
lowing 5-20s honda, the principal and interes
to be paid on and after June 4th, next: Cou
pom bonds dated July /, 1867; $50, 30
l00,00l to No. los, 900. both inclusive; 800
No. 1901 to No. 1880, both inclusive
$500, No. 100000 to No. 1O4 900, both IN
elusive; $1,000, No. 176,OOl to No. ls5, GOO
/, both inclusive; total coupon bonds, $77,OOO,
600. Registered bonds, redeemable at pleas
ure, United States, after the first Q
July, 1872: $50, Ne. 3241 to No. $3.50. boil
inclusive; 800, No. 2,621 to No. %, $50
$500, 30. IL ,521 to IL $50, both inclusive
$1,000, No. A. 401 to No. A, 500, both inclu
sive; $4,000, No. 1851 to No. Is, 100. boil
inclusive; $4,000, No. rs, 96i to no. 27,73O
i hofh inclusivn
1 THE PRESIDENTS CALL FOR THE ExTR.
SESSION.
The following is the proclamation of tn
President converting congress IN extra SESSION
on the eighteenth instant:
BY the President of the United States OF America
| Proclamation
WHEREAS, The final adjournment of tn
forty-ifth congress without making the usuG
and necessary appropriations for the legisla
| tive, executive and judicial expenses of tn
| government for the fiscal year ending Jun
80, $780, and without making the usual an
necessary appropriations for the support
, the army for the same fiscal year. presents a.
extraordinary occasion, requiring the Presl
dent to exercise the power vested In hiR. b.
the constitution to convene the houses of con
gress, in anticipation of the day fixed by Law
for their next meeting,
Now, therefore, |, Rutherford B. Hayes
l President Of the United States, do, by Yirtu
of DO wer to this end invested by the constr
} tuition, convene both houses OF congress to re
! | assemble at their respective chan 6ers a
] twelve O'Clock noon, Tuesday, the eighteenth
day of March, then apd there to conslde
l | and determine such measures qs In their WIS
5 DOM, their duty and the welfare OF the pec
d pie may seem to demand. In witness wherec
> have hereunto set my hand and caused tn
/, seal of the United States to be affixed;
4. B. HAYES.
By the President:
VIM. EvARTS. Secretary Ct State.
BUFFERS INDIVIDUAL REPORT ON TIL
g POTTER INVESTIGATION.
: General Buffers individual report on tn
! | Potter investigation makes document O
! some two hundred pages. He maintain
} that the appointment OF judges Of the So
o | preme court upon the commission to decd
4 the late Presidential election has dena NOR
o harm to the cause OF justice, by impsirin
e the reverence the people have always JUST
2 had for the integrity of the decisions of tina
. court, and the experiment ought never b
d tried AGAIN; that the counting In of Haye
!, was obtained by n series OF gross and ur
{ justi6able irregularities and frauds
d | which cannot be TOO ptrongl
l. condemned and reprobated; that if an
title to the governorship of Louisiana resulte
/ from the late election IN that State to an
d one it wRs TO Governor Packard; that the az
e of Hayes in appointing and sending tn
: M'yel0h commission TO Louisiana was an al
wholly unauthorized by the constitution an
. not within the scope of the executive, an
: specially rePrehepsibie IS its purpose an
/. motive was to carry out corrupt politics
;. arrangement and agreement On his par
| made by his friends with his knowledge AZ
consent the fruits of which he is still enjoy
s ing without right and against law.
e 4 SHERMAN CIRCULAR.
:. The secretary Of the treasury has issued tn