Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-15
''OLD JOE'S" HOBBY.
Democratic Senator's Working Earnestly
for Senator Browns Clerk
ship Resolution.
Mr.. COreOran's Generosity The Star
Route Cases-Gariield's Burial
Expenses.

R0ute CaSeS-GarHelds Burial
Expenses.
WASHINGTON, January i4.-Repressnta
tive Oscar Turner introduced in the HoUs,
a joint resolution providing that Congress
shall have no power to pass any &C
| or resolution for the approximation
of any money or the creation Of any deb
exceeding $4,000 at any one time, unles
the same on its final passage shall be voted
for by majority Of all the members ther
elected to each branch, and the yeas anC
nays thereon entered on the journal.
Help the Search.
Secretary Hunt sent the following cable
! gram this afternoon to Lieutenant Dapen-
( hauer and Chief Melville, of the Jeanette
at Irkutsk, through Minister Hoffman, al
! ST Pstersburg;
"Remain on the ground till the remainder
Of the expedition is found. Help the search
| by every means in your power"
send I'm Your Bills.
! The special House committee on the ex-
| penses attending the illness and burial Of
| President Garfield and allowance to his
widow met this morning, and, after discus
sion adopted a resolution offered by Mr..
| Page, OF California, instructing Chairman
VI OuID. 70 give pubic HDl4cc mat ali
persons having claims for services rendered
or materials furnished during the illness and
| burial of the late President Garfield should
present the same 10 The committee for audit
ing on or before the 10th Of February next.
The sessisghaus-FrOst Case.
The subcommittee of the House Commit
tee on Elections, in charge of the Sessing-
haus Frost contested case of Missouri, me t
to-day and agreed to report the following
resolution to the full committee:
Resolved, That this sub committee report
TO the general committee and recommend
that the motion of the contestee be overruled
and the testimony be printed.
The motion Of the contestee referred to
was that certain testimony submitted by the
contestant be thrown out, on the ground that
1t had been tempered with.
Who VIII Get IL:
The Star says: "The nomination Of Ex-
Representative Gilillan. of Penney Ivanis, as
assistant secretary of the treasury was made
out, and would have gone TO the Senate YES
terday il there had been a session of that
body. 1t is now understood, on very good
authority, that Gil6llan will not get the
place, although the Cameron interest is very
strong for HIM. Secretary FsIger did not
favor his appointment. All probability now
points TO Daniel F Shepard, OF Illinois, being
Upton's successor. Shepard was secretary of
the Republican Central Committee of Hi
nois"
Land Grant for Educational Purposes.
Major Thomas, of Illinois, introduced a
bill Thursday, which sets forth that whereas
France made a grant OF a tract OF lan1
amounting to ninety-two thousand one hun
bred and sixty acres, now in the State OF Hi
nois, when it was a part of the dominion of
that country, for the benefit of a seminary
at Quebec, Canada, aud that Bishop Bates, of
Alton, Illinois, has been given power TO adj
minister the grant; that the United States
shall grant to Bishop Bates, for the object
named, scrip to the amount stated, to be To-
Gated on any public lands in the United
States.
The Sfar-RtOute Cases
In the Star-route cases to-day Colonel Bliss
opened the proceedings by offering in evil
dence all the bids and contracts identified by
Notary Webster yesterday as having been
witnessed by him for the defendant CabelJ,
the defense having demanded the identifca-
ton OF all the bids and contracts lover thirty
txo hundred in number) in which Cabtll
il concerned. 1t now appears the trial Of
this Gaze will be indefinitely postponed
An attempt was made by the counsel for the
defense to have Colonel Boone, who has been
subpenaed as a witness in this case, excused
from attendance, but the prosecution re fused
to assent to this arrangement pnless- some
one competent to do so was .-,s.J-~wear
byron - U0an clerk In the contract Office
of the postofiice department, identified
number of bills made by Cabell, on which
contracts had been refused, as belonging 10
files of the department.
Adjourned till Wednesday next
LabOrtng that They May Rest.
The senators who favor Browns resou-
ton for the appointment of private secre-
tary fer each senator who is not chairman OF
81 oil IS e.,
be paid out OF the contingent fund, are la
boring earnestly to get it adopted. The
Democrats generally are willing TO vote for it,
because they do not feel responsible now for
the Senate legislation. They consider the
republicans responsible, because they con-
troll the committees, and this responsibility
makes the Republicans hesitate. Some of
them, however, are supporting the resolu
ton, and its chance of success in the Senate
has visibly improved in the last several days.
But the House may defeat the project 1t is
true the House will not have
an opportunity to vote ON this reso-
luton directly, because it provides
for the payment OF senator's clerks out of
the Senate contingent fund. But to do this
the contingent fund will have to be increased
considerably, and the Honse will have to
vote upon this increase. The theory of the
senators that they have greater need
of a secretary than the represent
atives is not Endorsed by the latter.
The members OF the House insist that their
labors are Just as onerous as1hose Of the sem
ators and that they should adopt Browns
resolution. The House will probably either
defeat il ultimately by yotirR down ia
crease OF the contingent fund or initiate the
Senate by voting money to pay private secre-
taries for representatives.
Mr.. CorcOran's Generosity.
The Star Of last Thursday says: "Our dis
tinguiahed and beloved fellow toWasmaD,
Mr.. w. w. Corcoran, has Just given another
evidence OF the deep and INTELLIGENT interest |
he takes in the prosperity Of this city and |
the welfare of man for Its object. AT meet |
ing of the board of trustees of Columbian |
University, held yesterday, he presented to
that corporation a valuable lot at the south |
west corner of Vermont avenue and / street, |
as the seat of the new university building, |
which is TO be erected there at an early day. |
The new building will be the home of the /
which latter adjunct of the uni |
versity will hereafter fill a conspicuous
place IN the plans of instruction. As this
new donation is an important addition to the |
large benefactions which Mr. Corcoran has
previously made TO the university, it may be |
gratefully accepted, not only by the friends
OF that institution, but by the people of
Improvement in our educational resources.
The university has had it in purpose to
erect a scientific school as a part of its
curriculum since the year 1873. The cor
will now move forward as rapidly
as possible in the fulfllment of these plans,
and the eligible site which has been secured /
for the new university building through the
of Mr.. Coreorap, gives promise
that the institution will be a source of
perennial blessing, not only 20 our city, but
to the whole land"
Minor Topics.
1t is stated that Daniel F. Shepard, OF
Illinois, will be appointed assistant secretary
Of the treasury.
Depredatious upon government timber .
lands in the West have Increased to such an
extent tina: the secretary of the interior has
communication to the attorney
general urging hin to use all TIE means in
his power TO arrest and punish offenders.
The sub committee OF the House Commit
mittee on Ways and Means in charge of
bills in referenc to the duty on hoop-iron.
steel and tinware heard extended argu,
ment by Mr. Weeks, OF Pittsburg, this mora
ing.
ALABAMA ATOMS.