Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-28

The Star route service in the Pacific States
and Territories cost annually under General
Brady, 81 1854 los. Contracts for the same
service have been made at 81 ,125, 149, saw
ing of SI,659,0l6.
scandaIOus Conspiracy Revealed.
Investigation into the opium smuggling
operations recently detected in San Francisco
develops scandalous conspiracy 70 defraud
the government on the part OF certain city
and Federal officers. The conspiracy is re-
yealed through correspondence conducted in
the Chinese language and just introduced as
evidence.
Knows Nothing About IL.
The Peruvian minister, Senior Gilmore, was
questioned respecting the printed copy of the
protocol alleged to have been signed by
Senior Maceda and Prescott. He said he
had heard absolutely nothing, directly or in
directly, through Peruvian or American
sources, to indicate there was such docu-
ment in existence.
The Duty on Hay.
Under a decision of the United States
Court the treasury department declares hay
dutiable only at ten per cent. Gd UlloTenl as a
non-enumerated unmanufactured article.
Since April s, 1868, imported hay has been
classified as mon enumerated manufactured
article, dutiable at a rate of twenty per cent.
dd Uzlorem. The excess duties will be re-
funded to importers.
Pension Points.
The secretary of the interior sent re-
spouse TO the resolution of the House calling
tor an estimate of the amount required to
pay pensions to the survivors of the
Mexican and Indian wars prior to
1916. 1t ia estimated that sos, 1856, 4SO will be
required to pay the Mexican war pensions,
aud SIS, POI, 632 to pay the pensions of the
Indian wars; aggregate, S93,5S2,ll2.
VIII Vote Fun SupDIfes
The secretary of war thinks that Congress
will vote full supplies for the hungry Arap-
ahoes and Cheyennes. The troops in the To-
dian Territory number about 500 men,
200 Of whom are mounted. staff officer
here thinks there is little danger of the
Cheyennes attempting to get north again, as
the practical determination OF the band
which escaped in 1873 has not been for
gotten.
Cheaper 10 Feed Them.
Agent Miles, of the Cheyenne and Arapa-
hoe agency, Indian Territory, writes that the
crops of the Indians last year entirely failed,
and TO be shut up on the reservation, with
less than half ratons, may result in an out
break which will cost the government ten
times the amount necessary to provide for a
full issue of rations as estimated by the In
dian Office, which amount Congress, how
ever, refused to appropriate.
The President has nominated Sterling p.
Rounds, of Illinois, public printer; Lewis
Buckner, collector of internal revenue for
the Fifth district of Kentucky; John X.
Faulkner surveyor of customs. Louisville,
XIV, and Erwin A. Ireland, of Utah, United
States marshal for the Eastern district Of
Utah. Mrs. Virginia c. Thompson is NOM
mated as postmistress of Louisville; u. l..
Wise, receiver of public moneys at Oar
ALL nIr Nj Itrl aSta
at Jacksonville, Ind.
Legal Status of Land Grants.
Before leaving the interior department
Secretary Kirkwood will send in his report
| upon the legal status of all land grants
made to railroads, in response TO the resolu-
ton of Representative Cobb, of Indiana,
passed five weeks ago. Since that time half
| the force of the land Office has been night
and day compiling tables and colating laws.
The records had to be searched from the be-
ginning OF the government, as the resolution
called for information as to all land grants
made to date, which included those made to
national turnpikes canals etc, in the early
days.
Republican Campaign Club.
The Republican Congressional Campaign
| Club was organized to-day. After selecting
Representatives Darrall La I. Bedford TCol.
! and TYLER TNtl to fill vacancies from their
States, a committee elected Representative J.
/ A. Hubbell Mich chairman, and apr ointed
an executive committee OF fifteen to look
after campaign affairs the ensuing year, as
| follows: Senator'S Allison, Hale and Aldrich !;
| Representatives Hscock, Robinson, McKin-
ley, Fisher, Page, Davis [Illl, Houk, Calkins,
! Van Horne, Russell, Washburn Mimi and
| Ryan Kan. The executive committee will
/ appoint a secretary. Five members oil the
executive committee will be quorum.
Capital RrevItIes.
No decision was rendered by the United
| States Supreme Court to-day in the matter of
the petition of Sergeant Mason for writs of
kabeas corpus and eeTtiorari. Bigelow, Mason :