Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-02-08
WASHINGTON.
Several Appointments and Noni-
nations.

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President sent the following nomina.
tions to the Senate to o-day: Col.
Daniel ii. Rucker, assistant quarters
master-general, vice General Melgs,
retired Maj. VIM. B. Rochester,.
paymaster, to be paymaster-generaI,
vice General Brown, retired.
The Senate confirmed Fred. A.
Tritle, of Nevada, to be Governor of
Arizona and the following postmas
ters VIM. NJ. Hancock, Meridian,
Miss Gustave Baudreau, Thebos
deaux, La; Chas. DeCain, New Iberia,
La; Jas. f. Peels, Palestine, Tex.
The claim of d. r. Dillen, of New
York, formerly of Savannah, Ga, in
connection with the steamer Amer
zon, was again revived in Congress
by the introduction of a bill by Mr..
Black, of Georgia, to authorize the
Court Of Claims to adjudicate the
claim of Mr.. Dillen for a compensa-
ton for the use of said steamer by
the Government, from March 3, 1865,
to June "a, 1865.
Mr.. King, of Louisiana, introduced
bill to-day appropriating $4,000 to
be expended by the Department of
Agriculture, in investigating the orr
gin and spread of charoon in ami
mails.
Senator Plumb, from the Commit
lee on Public Lands, reported favor
ably to day on the bill recently intro
duced by Senator Call, of Florida,
granting the right Of way, two hun
dred feet wide, through public lands
to Palatka and Indian River Railroad
Company, of the State OF Florida.
The bill provides that in case the
road is not completed within five
years the lands shall revert to the
United States.
The bill reported by Senator Nor
gan, from the Senate committee on
the Gulf and Chicago Air Line
Railroad Company" proposes to grant
to the State of Alabama for road
to be constructed by that cooperation
the right of way through the public
lands in Alabama, together with sec
ton of public land to the mile,
along the line of railroad, provided
that SO many unapproprlated sec
ions shall be found within Is miles
on and from the line of road on either
side, the lands thus grar ted to the
State are to be sold by it TO said rail
way company, or to such other rail-
way company as the Legislature may
designate prior to January 1st, 1888,
at tie price of S1.25 per acre for coal
lands, and in other cases at not more
than 25 cents per acre, and the pro-.
ceeds are to be deseteef-to common
school purposes. It is also provided
that actual settlers within the limits
Of the land grant shall be entitled to
enter l6O acres, upon payment of
$3.50 per acre for coal lands. and 81
per acre for other lands upon which
they reside.
An Alabama delegation headed by
ex-Representative Lane had a short
interview with the President to-day.
Coils. Granville o. Hallor, of the
23rd Infantry, and Pinkney Lugen-
beal, of the 9Th Infantry, were placed
on the retired list to-day. 1-
The question of the retirement of
Surgeon-G General Barnes has been
postponed for the present, in anticis
patton that Congress will pass bill
retiring him with advanced rank.
The Z. S. Court of Claims decid>
ed two interesting cases to-day. The
first was suit by John Huffman On
account of mail service performed by
him in Kentucky in 1861. The suit
arose under an act of Congress of
March B, 1877, appropriating $37,-
500 of claims for mail service in
Southern and border States. None
of this appropriation was distributed
by the Treasury Department, Secre-
tary Sherman having ruled that all
claims must be presented and proved
before any of them could be paid
Consequently, the appropriation
lapsed into the Treasury with
out any payments being made
from it enjoining the iudg-
ment to-day. The Court held, first,
that the lapse of the appropriation
does not destroy the claims, and that
claimants under that appropriation
have q remedy in the Court of
Claims; second, that while in all
cases of mail contracts arising in the
States the claimant is required to
prove that he never received pay
ment from the Confederate governs
ment. No such proofs are required
in claims arising in the loyal States
OF Kentucky, Missouri and West
Virginia. Judgment was accord>
ingIy rendered in favor of the claim
ant in this case for Sl4444, that
being the amont of arrears due him
on his contract The case of Tim
othy Ford & Co. was also decided
to-day. This was a suit hrough
for extra work done on the Muscl,
Shoals Canal in Alabama, consisting
| of raising the embankment of th
canal, excavating rock below th
, grade, and raising rock to a create
height than provided in the specif
( cations. The claim was for $20,00C
The court gave Judgment for S11
9 65453.
The Secretary of The Treasury Wi
j Tomorrow issue the l,08Sth call 70
/. the redemption OF continued 5 pc
? cent. bonds to an amount not to ex
o ceed sae, 100000, the principal an
L accrued interest on which will b
:; made payable about the 1st of Apr
1 next.
: ATURFM AN CONVERTED.
. . Gen. Abe Buford Joins the Chri
,. tian Church.
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