The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-02-24
The Senate Passes the Bill Placing
Gen. Grant on ihe Retired List
by an Almost Strictly
Party Vote.
Measures for the Relief of Sufferers
by the Floods introduced Into
Both Houses.
Nilsson's Husband, Driven Insane by
Pecuniary EmbarrasSmentS, Dies
in an Asylum.
Fluctuations of FutureS..-The New
York Stock Market.
The Virginia Readjusters Finally Elect
Their Nominees.
Other Domestic and Foreign News.
Forty-Seventh Congress.



from the appropriation committee reported,
with amendments, the deficiency bill, and |
gave notice that he would call up the same
at ll:SO a. m. tomorrow.
Mr.. Harris presented the memorial and |
report of the Memphis Cotton Exchange
upon the danger to the river front |
of Memphis from the enCroachments of the |
Mississippi
Mr.. George presented Joint resolution
authorizing the secretary of war 10 issue |
rations for the relief of the laboring classes
in the district overtlowed by the Mississippi
river, which was read; as, also, telegram
from Governor Lowrey, of Mississippi, urg-
ing immediate measures of relief, represent
ing the destruction of property and stock
as immense and starvation imminent: the
overilowed country comprises the best
portion of Mississippi, and whites and
blacks are suffering alike.
Mr.. George, as explanatory of the magni-
tude of the disaster said the district inun-
dated embraced all the Mississippi delta be-
tween Eminence and Nicksburg, about $50
miles in length and 40 in breadth. This en-
tire area was now either under water or
would be in short time. Four-tiiths of its
population is composed of colored laborers,
who have not the means of support Dur.
ing the period of this overflow labor will be
seriously interrupted.
Mr.. lHgalls inquired as to the estimated
number of laborers rendered destitute.
Mr.. George thought it would range from
$1,000 to 1900. He added that overilows
in that section of the Mississippi river gen.
orally continued from four to six weeks,
and pending the subsistence of the water
! there is q total suspension of labor, He
/ had confined his remarks to the destitution
! in Mississippi. The contiguous districts on
the western banks of the river In Arkansas.
were also suffering.
! Mr.. Garland spoke of the widespread
destruction in Arkansas by overflow as alb
solutely appalling and Unprecedented. 1t
had swept away barns, grainaries and stocks
OF farmers. lie urged prompt action in ex-
tending relief though he was not prepared
to say what form the measures of relief
| should take.
Mr.. Hampton said that part of the valley
under water was most productive
one, fthe finest cotton-growing counties in
Mississippi. At that point the water ex-
tended from the Iazoo hills on one side
and Arkansas bluffs on the other, and if the
river was as high as the dispatches repre-
sented, there would hardly be any land
within strip of l50 miles in width above
overflow. The destruction not only of stock,
but OF oncoming crops, would be so great,
in his opinion, that he had no hesitation in
saying that the dispatch from the governor
of Mississippi gave but faint idea of the
destitution and starvation that would fol-
low.
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