Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-12-29

agitation co=amenced at least 1000 opera
| tises have been thrown out of employment
there. Depu,y-Comtiissioner Rodgers was
asked il he did not think there SHOULD be a
rebate in case OF tax reduction. He replied
in the Affirmative, on unbroEeu packages.
"Bui," he continued, "th9 rebate would open
I'D a chance for Wholesale frauds. By no
system could we pick out goods upon which
there should be a rebate to prevent
cheating if it were attempted. 1 do not say
there would be cheating, bqt that there
could be easily"
an THE SENATE.
THE PoLIf4cAb ASSESSMENT BILL R8ssED--
A IT, -1llaSDEn- zEztEsKf BlEfz
WAsHIsuTox, December 2S-Ssaats.--At
motion Of Senator Edmunds, took up the
bill reported by him from the Committee on
Judiciary, to prevent government officers and
employees collecting from or paying to each !
other money for political purposes.
The bill was debated at some length, all
amendments proposed voted down, ss was
also a substitute offered by Senator Beck,
and the bill as reported by the committee
passed.
On MOTION of Senator Hoar, the bank
ruptcy bill was set down fer consideration
on the 10Th of January.
Senator Shermanthe called up the bonded
whisky bill.
Senator Sewell, however, opposed the con-
sidera,ion of the whisky bill before the Sem
lief of Fiis John Porter, and objections TO
the former bill being made, the Senate pro-
ceeded with the Porter bill.
Senator Logan proposed that its friends
should speak to-day, and said be would oc-
cupy two or three hours tomorrow in oppo-
sition.
Senator Conger protested against any ar
for Anal 1iunosifian nf he hill
until it shall have been first considered by the
full Senate.
The conclusions of the Military Board,
composed of Gems. Schofeld, Terry and Getty
were read.
Senator Sewell then addressed the Senate
in support OF the bills, and at the conclusion
OF bis remarks the Senate held an executive
session and adjourned.
MINOR MENTION.
A number of Western postmasters were
confirmed by the Senate to-day.
The Star says the implicated detectives are
understood to be Myers, McDevitt aud Voss.
The Japanese prince, Arisguara, and suite
left here at $50 o'clock this morning by the
Peunsylvania railroad, en- route for San Fran
cisco.
A near relative of Gen. Sherman says that
the current report to the effect that Sherman
had Joined the Roman Catholic Church was
untrue.
Secretary Teller has suspended all prior
orders in the A. d. Searl placer mining
claim csse from Lsadville, Col, and directed
all parties interested to attend a hearing at
| the District Land Office.
WASHINGTON, December 28.-The pro.
ceeds OF the recent sale of articles accumu-
lated in the dead letter Office amount to
S4497, which sum has been depo.ifed in the
treasury 10 the credit of the Postofice De-
pertinent.
Ii ia thought probable that the tobacco
tax receipts for the past sixty days will show
falling of of nearly S2,5OOyOOO, as COM
pared with the corresponding period last
year. The decrease is owing to the agitation
of the question of taxation.
The finding of the court-matial in the case
of Surgeon Alfred NJ. Owens, United States
Navy, was made public to day. 1t exouer-
ates the surgeon from the charges preferred.
and he was released from arrest and ordered
10 report to his station for duty.
The Critic says: "Society is sgog over the
wbsperings regarding Secretary FoIger's loss
of heart. II is said that the handsome official
will shortly lead to the altar remarkably
hand ONE and fascinating widow, who re-
sides on III street, near Twelfth"
A hegira of politicians from the States is
pect of division and admission is the in
centive TO the imminent catastrophe. Gov.
Ordway and others are hopeful of the passage
of the pending Dakota bill after the holiday
Adjournment.
The statements made by telegraph that
there was a severance of the warm personal
relations between President Arthur and
Billy Malone may be absolutely relied up.
on accurate. There will be no more hsr-
| lafir fha iati ato ~
the part of President Arthur.
The Ways and Means Committee to-day
went back to the schedule Of glass and glass
ware and completed it. Several varieties of
polished cylinder and crown glass; and flint
aud lime bottles were added to the cemmis-
siouer's list, but no material change m sde in
rates. The schedules of cotton and wooden
were passed over, and hemp, jute, and silk
taken up and completed.
Mosby, consul in China, is said to have
written a letter here 10 which he says that
Malone is the most arbitrary and viudictive
of tyrants. Mosby's friends say that Ma
hone cannot remove Mosby for the reason
that he fears him aud considers China a bet
ter place for him, and that Mosby has so
strong friend in Gen. Grant that he cannot
De removed.
Commissioner Raum, who has spent most
of the last six months in Illinois nursing his
ambition, has returned to Washington. He
will not stay here long, however. Next Sat
urday he will HE him to Springfield, and
remsin there until the legislature, which
commences balloting on the l7th of January,
has chosen who is to succeed David Davis.
Raum thinks his chsnces are very good.
Attorney. General Howe is not ouly outside
of the ranks of the Prohibiiionisls but he is
the only member of the Cabinet who remem-
bered at the joyful Christmas tide his lieu
tenants in the department over which he
presides. To each of his assistants, and to
each head of bureau in the Postoffce De-
partment, he sent case of fne old claret,
with the nope that right merrily might they
enjoy the day.
Isasc Bassen, of New Hampshire, the |
white-haired old doorkeeper Of the Senate, |
who was appointed originally as a page by |
Daniel Webster fifty years ago, lies seriously |
i'll at his residence on Capitol Hill. He was |
stricken speechles1 by paralysis of the throat |
in the Senate Chamber Tuesday morning |
He was removed first 10 the presidents room, |
and then TO his home, where he received |
medical attendance.
The Postofice Department expects big |
rush for new supplies of stamped envelopes |
on the part OF postmasters as soon ss the |
new year opens. The postmasters have been |
obliged 10 z, along as best thev could on |
short supplies. The departments new con-
tract Tor the preparation oil stamped en-
velopes next year is seven per cent. cheaper
than this years contract, SO the postm asters
have been exhorted TO wait for the less costly
goods
kkSecretary Teller has formally declined to
approve certain leases of large quantities of
land in the Indian Territory, which had been
secured from The Cherokee Indians by the
Standard Oil Company for grazing purposes.
1t appears that The Standard Oil Company
contemplate making large investments in
embarrassing, and have been seeking 10 OBJ
tain possession of iue grazing lands in the
iudIsn Territory, TO The exclusion OF small
cattle-rsisers.
BY direction of Secretary Teller the fol-
lowing attorneys and land agents have been
disbarred from practice before the Interior
Department and local land offices: George
S. Bidwell, Mitchell; Oak; Orland T. Letch-
er, Mitchell, Oak; E. C. Carpenter, Beloit,
Wis; Dudley ]. Spalding, Black River
talls, Wis; ] ames W. Ayres, Mitchell, OAK.
were made because of the con-
nection OF the parties with the recent Dakota
land frauds
The addition to the City Hall is now
nearly completed. All the heavy work was
finished some time ago, and painters, cabinet-
makers and upholsterers are finishing the
rooms and giving the lsst touches TO the ex-
terror. The addition is in its exterior al
most counterpart of the old building, and