Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-20
THE NATIONS PETS.
The Plan Proposed by Secretary Kirk
wood for the Civilization OF
the Indians.
Mrs. NichoIson's Petition-Severe Stric
tures on Justice Hunt-The Ma
tiOnal Board OF Trade.

lures on Justice Hunt-The Ma
. tiOnal Board Of Trade.
TX WASHINGTON, January 19.-Immigrants
ID arrived during the year 1881, as far as re-
ported, seven hundred and sixteen thousand
eight hundred and sixty-eight
viii Have be Modified.
l. The census deficiency BILL which recently
" passed Congress and is now before the Pres
: ident for his signature, il held to be viola
e ton OF section 3477 of the revised statutes,
s and will have to be modified, according to
If the Judgment of Judge Lawrence, SO as to
r provide for the payment of assignees instead
of clerks the latter having assigned their
: Don't Want II Repealed.
The soldiers and sailors OF the National
League this evening condemned the attacks
recently made in Congress and the newspa-
. pers upon the arrears of pension act; ex-
pressed disapproval of ali efforts bringing
about its repeal, and thanked Senators Voor-
D hees and Ingalls, for the defense OF the meas
ure and advocating the interests of the SOL
diers and sailors OF the republic.
The National Board of Trade.
The National Board of Trade resumed its
5 sessions to-day. The committee on bank
ruptcy submitted a report indorsing the
Lowell bill. The discussion of that report
occupied most of the days session. recess
was taken TO allow the members to pay their
respects to the President. The President
received them cordially, and expressed great
satisfaction at meeting the representatives of
the trade and commerce OF the country.
The wOmaA's Suffrage Association.
To-dsy's sessions of the Woman's Suffrage
Association convention were we'll attended.
At the morning session the report of the
executive committee was presented, and a
resolution adopted declaring that that it is
the immediate duty of the Forty-seventh Con-
gress to submit the proposition for a six
teenth amendment to the constitution, which
shall prohibit the several States from dis
franchising United States citizens on the
ground of sex.
Ingalls, to Reply to Beck.
Senator Ingalls, will take the first opportu-
nifty when he can get the floor, to reply to
Senator Beck's speech against the arrears of
| pension act, and to press vote upon his res
olution declaring against the repeal of that
act. He has received a number of letters
| from different sections OF the country thank
ing him for his defense of the pensions act,
| and also engrossed copies OF resolutions
adopted by various posts of the Grand Army
of the Republic, approving the position he
| has taken.
| National Home for Disabled Volunteers.
At meeting of the board of managers of
| the National Home for Disabled Volunteer
| Soldiers to-day estimates of the appropria-
ton for the ensuing fiscal year were agreed
upon, and committee appointed, consisting
OF General Franklin, General Mcmahon and
| Colonel Hafris to wait on the House Com
mittee Appropriations tomorrow in
regard thereto. General Dudley, commits
sioner of pensions, met the board this after |
noon by invitation to confer in regard to a
| bill affecting the pensions of inmates of the |
! different homes.
House Judiciary Committee.
The House Committee on Judiciary heard |
further and final arguments to-day on the |
distribution of the Geneva award fund.
Members of the New York Tariff Conven- |
tion now in the city appeared before the |
House Committee on Ways and Means TO- |
day. John jarrett, of Pittsburg, represent
ing the almagamated iron and steel workers.
addressed the committee in regard 10 the |
condition of the workingmen of this country
as contrasted with those IN European coun-
tries. An address favoring the appointment |
of tariff commission to investigate the |
whole question delivered by Josh Whar-
ton of Philadelphia.
Justice Hunt Severely Criticised.
Senator Bayard in discussing the Davis
bill to retire Judge Hunt of the Supreme
Court criticised Hunt somewhat sharply for
compelling Congress to retire him. Mr..
Bayard said that it was plain that the infu-
sion OF new blood was badly needed in the
Supreme bench, and he would be glad to see
it; that the court was in arrears in its work,
and public business was suffering. He
deeply regretted that the obstruction in the
way Of infusing new life in the court had to
be removed by an act of Congress-
Senator Davis lIll.1 said the bill was not
for Hunts benefit, but for the public good;
that Hunt had right to retain his place on
the bench if he chose.
Senator Hoar protested against this con-
of oh md ind hat
Senator Bayard had said. When a judge
becomes incapacitated from performing his
duty, Hoar thought he had no further right
to his position, and he said that, for himself,
he would saw wood the remainder of his life
before he would permit his father to remain
on the bench if unable to discharge his duties
or to take advantage of enforced retirement.
There has been no criticism in public he reto-
fore because the judge did not resign, and it
has been said that his family were able to
support him. Therefore Senator Hoar's re-
mark is supposed to allude to the apparent
unwillingness of Hunts family to take care
of him.
James NJ. Mason, Robert NJ. T. Hunter,
Thomas L. Clingman Thomas Bragg, James
Chestnut, jr., A. o. p. Nicholson, William
K. Sebastian, Charles B. Mitchell, John
Hemphill and Lewis T. Wigfall were ex-
PEELED from the senate of the United States
on July II, 1851, on the ground that they
were engaged in a conspiracy to destroy the
Union and the government, and that with
full knowledge of such conspiracy they had
failed to advise the government OF its
Nicholson was senator from Tennes-
see, and his term would have ex-
pired ON March 4, 1865. He attended
the extra session of 1861, but did not return
to attend the regular session. His widow,
Caroline A. Nicholson, now petitions Con-
+ l..
Before his expulsion he had served two
years, and had been paid up to March 4,
1861, leaving three months unpaid. He was
pardoned in 1865 and died in 1876. The
petitioner explains as follows her husbands
absense from his seat in July, 1861; ,
The State of Tennessee having decided by a
large majority to withdraw from the Union, he
considered that his seat was thereby vacated. For
this reason he did not return to the Senate, and
he remained quietly at home, taking no part in I
the
1t appears, however, that Mr.. Nicholson
never made any claim for salary in the eleven
years of his life after the close of the war.
The petition has been rejected by the Senate
Committee on Claims. The report says:
ave do not deem it proper after the expira- !
tion of twenty years to pass special act OF
Congress to compensate the senators and
representatives, who seeded in 1861, for
their services in Congress in the early part OF
that year."
The bill prepared by Secretary Kirkwood
for the Improvement of the condition of un-
civilized Indians, and which was submitted
by the President to Congress, provides for
the appointment of commission of three
members, to be known as Is The Commission
on Indian Civilization" and for a secretary c
and interpreters TO the commission. The bill S
provides that the commission, under author J
ity OF the secretary of the interior, shall
visit such tribes as the President may desig- |
nate. and authorizes them after obtaining :
information TO enlighten their judgment
and understanding in the premises, {
to enter into agreements with the In |
dians, with their free consent, for reduction
of reservations in cases where the commits |
sion shall deem such reductions advisable. I
In such cases the bill provides for surveying C
the boundaries of diminished reservations, to
extend the public surveys over the same and !
over ceded lands, and also provides for the
sale of ceded lands for cash, the expenses of ]
the surveys and sale OF lands to be paid from t
the proceeds of such sales, and the balance to /
be placed TO the credit OF the Indians. The L
bill further provides for conveying dimin- t
ished reserves by patents, by the. indians, f
giving permanent ownership, except in allot- i