Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-02-07


The secretary Of the treasury tomorrow
Issues the 108th call for the redemption oi
continued five per cent. bonds to an amount
not to exceed $20, ,000, 900, principal and ac-
crued interest, which will be made payable
about the LIST Of April.
They Are ali I'm Favor of IL.
Representative Muldrow is in constant re-
ceipt OF letters and petitions from agricul-
turalists and agricultural associations in
support of his bill 10 elevate the agricultural
department and its chief to be cabinet off
Ger. The bill came within three votes of
passing, nnder suspension Of the rules, last
Congress, ami MuldroW thinks il will become
Law the present Copgress.
Bright Has the Adyas,iase
The Democratic sergeant at arms Of the
Senate recently discharged TO make room for
another man an employe appointed az the M
stance of Barnum, OF the Democratic na-
tional committee. Bsrnum is very indig-
nant, and will ii is said, get even with
Sergeant at Arms Bright whenever be hrs an
opportunity, but Bright occupies the want ge
ground. Ii ;he Democrats turn him out
they cannot elect his successor, and hence he
does as he pleases.
Court of Claims
The Court OF Claims decides that lapse Of
appropriation does not destroy claims. and
that claimants under that appropriation
have a remedy in the Court of Claims
Again, thai while in all cases OF mail cor
tracts arising in seeded States the claimant
ia required to prove that he never received
payment from the Confederate government,
no such proof is required in claims arising
10 the loyal States of Kentucky, Missouri
and West Virginia. The decision was given
in the suit of John Hoffman,, ON account of
mail service in Kentucky in 1861.
Aust Pay FuII Postage.
Under exiting tr saties matter printed iu
Canada comes into this country for about
one-cent pound, while the same class of
matter mailed in the United States pays one
cent postage on every two ounces. Many
publishers complain at this condition of
affairs, and the United States postal au;hori-
ties propose in effect that any second cl ass
mail matter, mailed in Canada, and purport-
ing to be printed in the United States, or cir
culated in behalf of any persons or firms
doing business in the United States, shall
pay full nitedStates postage rate. Canada
now consents to adopt any regulation calcu-
lated to remedy the evil.
Confirmed by the Senate.
Senate confrmations: VIM. II. Armstrong,
OF Pennsylvania, commissioner of railroads;
Fred A. Tutle, OF Nevada, governor of Ari-
zona. United States Attorney-Henry NJ
Lewis, for the western district of Wisconsin;
j. +. Wilson, for Oregon; John A. RusseIls,
for Iowa. Collectors of Internal Revenue
Frank b. Castel, twenty-second district OF
Pennsylvania; George p. Denham, sixth
district of Ohio. Postmasters-T. G. Davis,
Gallon, Ohio; Alfred Dickey, Charlottesville,
Indiana; Perry NJ. Moore, Arcola, Illinois;
Charles F. Martin, Sycamore, Illinois; Fem
wick Y. Headly. Bunker Hills, Illinois; Geo.
F. Brant, Madison, Wisconsin; H. J. Whit
more, Wabasha, Minnesota.
Senator Morgan's Railroad BiII.
aud Chicago Airline Railway Company |
proposes to grant to the State Of Alabama |
tor road to be constructed by 4 corporation |
the right Of way through the public lands In
Alabama, together with fifteen sections of |
public lands to the mile along the line of
lands sold by it to said railway company or |
such other railway company as the legisla-
ture may designate prior to ] anuary !, 1888, |
at 81 % per acre Tor coal lands; in other
cases not more than twenty five cents per |
acre, the proceeds TO be devoted to common |
school purposes; also provided, that actual |
settlers within the limits of the land grant be |
entitled to one hundred and sixty acres each !
upon payment OF 81 30 per acre for coal |
lands or ST. per acre for other lands.
In the Committee Rooms.
The Senate Finance Committee will, at its
meeting tomorrow, take up Senator Becks
bill to punish the unlawful certifcation Of |
checks by officers OF national banks. 1t is
alleged that the law is being continuously |
with bank transactions in stock speculations. |
Senator Beck and the supporters of the bill |
hope to obtain favorable action in the COM
mittee and report the bill in time to bring it
before the session this week. The friends of
the bill are confident it will become a law.
The House Committee on Public Build
ings and Grounds authorized favorable re.
norta IN ha ada on the r0s pdino hills MO-
viding for the construction of public build
ings, as follows: Denver Colorado, 5000, 900,
reduced from $500, 200, and Peoria, Illinois,
$3.50, 900, reduced from 100000.
slippery shepherd.
Several members OF Congress besides Bel
mont had prepared resolutions calling upon
the President for the Shepherd letters, and
for all the names on file in the state depart
ment relating to-. or alleged to
Company. Report says that Shepherd
Ised the names of prominent men without
any authority. A member Of Congress and
EDITOR of daily paper says he has been in
ormed that Shepherd included his name
among others. He says: 81 never had
he remotest idea of taking any interest
IN his schemes. From its very nature
knew it would have to come before Cen
,ress, and therefore it possessed no tempta-
ion for me-" The report that Shepherds
list contains the names of many of the most
stalwarts is repeated.
Robes0n's Mail Staar,ship BiIl.
Robeson's mail steamship bill authorizes
he postm aster-general to contract for and
,stablish weekly mail steamship service
,etweet Fort Pond Bay, Long Island, and
Milford Haven, Wales, by means Of line of
irst-class steamships, and provides that the
7essels be OF iron or steel, apable OF making
.ighteen miles per hour and wholly of Amer
can construction. They shall be allowed to
AIRY passengerq and theis baggage il add.
ion to the mails, and do an ordinary express
business, but shall not engage in freight
raffic. The government shall have the
light, in case of war, to take for the use of
he United States any or all of the vesselB
mployed in the line on paying compensa-
lon MOI TO efcesd the original Cost. 4he
ON pensatien for the mail service is $12 800
or each outward bound trip made within six
lays, $4,000 for each trip made within seven
lays; $1,000 for each trip made within seven
nd half days, $4,000 for each occupying |
aoTe than seven dFys,
Tne Jeannetse.
Secretary Hunt received the following
rom James Gordon Bennett, at Paris, this ,
aorningl "Your dispatch received. Since :
GU have decided to send officers l defer 10 !
our judgment. Will you kindly let me
]
0 Danenhower in rank, by what steamer
hey sailed and when they will arrive in :
Paris, as L may be of some service to them
n forwarding them to their destination? /
he steamer Lena, which by Siberiakoff's +.
indness has been rendered me, is, of course, !
I their disposal. Ny correspondent, who is
lmost at lrkptsk, will know that the expe-
ition IS to be in charge of officers of the
jnited States navT and will go simply as the 7
Il rad correspondent i
Secretary Hunt also received the follow
1g cable dispatch nom Acting Minister :
IoHiman, at St. Petersburg, this morning: ).
acknowledges orders. VIII ! !
roceed" The latter is in reply to dis I
atch ordering Danenhower to proceed home !;
-ith the invalids. u
EEtnoF aenttoa.
The bill giving to the city Of Fort Smith,
.Fkansas, the abandoned Fort Smith mill S
NY reservation, was reported favorably By il
le House CoMmittes, 4
The Womanis National Christian Temper Z
nee Union opened its annual conference to s
ay. Addresses were made by Mrs. Wood P
ridge, Of Ohio, and others. p
Tie grand jury ID now inquiring into the
o-cslled straw-bond cases in the postothce ?