Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-11
WORTHYOFGUITEAU
Contemplate IffOrt to Smirch the Mem
Ory Of the Late President Garfield
Senator HIPS Condition..
The Chili-Peruvian InTestigation-The
Supreme Judgeship Still at the
Command of Edmunds.

b09,UoO; underline lUbth cali, Sl' 800, I0Oi un-
der the 10th call, g, 1855, $50.
still Has the Call.
1t ia stated positively tonight that Senator
Ednunds still has the associate judgeship OF
the Supreme Court at his command. The
President has requested him to consider his
refusal, and there Is some prospect that he
will accept.
Senator HIPS COndition.
Senator Hills friends say. there is no
change for thelesorse in his addition, and
even If it is true that the cancer in his throat
has not been eradicated, there is no immedi-
ate danger Of a fatal result. He is assured
by DR.. Gross, of Philadelphia, that at the
worst he has several years of life yet before
him.
The Enreka Spring Case.
The secretary of the interior decides in
the Eureka Spring case, Arkansas, that the
property is agricultural land, subject to en-
try as such, reversing the decision of the
commissioner of the general land office. The
question of precedence between the agricul-
tural and town site claimants must be passed
on hereafter.
Accomplished without Difficulty.
The confirm alton of General Rufus Ingalls,
as quartermaster-generaI was accomplished
without serious opposition Senator Beck
made speech directed against the policy of
appointing officers to a higher rank merely
to retire them. 1t ID believed that General
Ingalls, will at once make assignments of
chief quartermasters to the great military
divisions.
Reducing the Revenue.
1t is understood that the sub Committee
of the House Committee on Ways ard
Means have virtually agreed upon the bill
reducing the internal revenue tax on whisky
and tobacco and removing the tax entirely
from a number of articles embraced in
schedule A. The total amount of The re-
duction in the internal revenue to be effected
by the bill is about 81 600 900.
Ehe ChristIancy Scandal.
In the Christiancy divorce suit, to-day,
reporter testified that he visited Mrs. Chris
tiaDcy on the morning OF January 4, 1881,
after the letters put in evidence by Eli
Giro were published. She said she had an
object in writing in the style she did, and she
was giving him (Giro) "taffy." At another
interview Mrs. Christiancy denied the au-
thorship of some Of the letters and declared
them forgeries.
Senate Con OHfirmaIiOas.
Colonel Rufus Ingalls,, quartermaster. gem
eral; Walter H. johnson, collector 81 cond
district of Georgia; Butler B. Strong, Penn
sylvania, United States marshal, Dakota;
Sullivan McCutchen, United States attorney
for the district of Michigan; Frederick Salo-
mon, Missouri, surveyor-general OF Utah;
John NJ. Wilson, Ohio, United States consul
at Bremen. Postmas,ers--J. w. Orr, at Knox,
Pa, and NJ. q. Vinegar, at Gibson, KS.
CObb's War ON the Railroads.
Representative Cobb, of Indiana, whose
various measures relative to public land
grants to various railroads, which require
that when their terms of original grant have
not been complied with the land shall revert
back to the government, proposes to continue
the war against them. For this purpose he
will formulate another resolution, more thor
ough and searching in its nature, which he
will offer in a few days touching this
matter.
Friendly Advice.
A delegate from the Society OF Friends
had an interview with Indian Commissioner
Rice, and Mr.. Haskell and Senator Davis,
chairmen of the House and Senate Commit
tees on Indian Affsirs, in advocacy of the
bill now before Congress granting the right
of Indians to hold lands in severalty. They
were informed that a general bill for that
purpose would not pass, and suggestions were
made that individual bills having in effect
the same result would probably receive
favorable consideration.
James Gordon Bennett Again Heard
From
Secretary Hunt has received the following
cable message from james Gordon Bennett,
at Paris: "My correspondent intends to leave
Irkoutsk at once for the mouth of the Lena,
and telegrsphs that it will be OF the greatest
advantage in following up the search if
Noros, one of Lieutenant Dlnenhower's crew.
could be ordered to accompany him. He
says Harder will get there too late to reach
the Lena delta on sleds- Will you kindly
send the necessary permission for Noros?"
shipherd TO Testify.
Shipherd, the celebrated Peruvian claim
ant, is here, in answer to a subpoena duces
tecun,, issued by the House Committee on
Foreign Affairs, directing him to appear be-
fore that committee with all papers, corre-
spondence, etc, relative to the subject matter;
and it is aiso understood that he has been
subpenaed by the Senate committee having
under consideration the same subject. The
committees will begin their investigation
next week. Shipherd has been notified to
appear before the House committee to-
morrow, with his books and papers.
A Dirty Piece of work.
The Post publishes this morning a COM
munication bitterly attacking and denouuc-
ing the late President Garfield. The Post
editorially says that the commune alton was
written by a prominent Republican and
delegate to the Chicago convention. The
communication denounces Garfield as
treacherous, hypocritical and professional
office-seeker The Post announces that it has
U
the friends of the late president if they de-
sire it. The Pot tomorrow will contain
several replies to the attacks made upon the
memory of the late president by recent pub
locations.
The star-Routers.
Cabell and Miner this morning gave bail
of $4,000 each in the Star-route cases.
Colonel Ingersoll came into court with his
client, ex Senator S w Dorsey Bliss,
he I'D flo4t h
bail for the appearance of 5. w. Dorsey and
john W. Dorsey be fixed at $4,000 in each
case, and in the case OF Rindell the govern
ment would ask for $4,000 surety. Ex-sena-
tor Dorsey then offered ]. w. Humphrey as
his bondsmen and he was accepted. Ga the
name of John W. Dorsey being called Colonel
Ingersoll told the court that Dorsey was on
his wsy here from New Mexico to furnish
bail. The court granted delay of bail in
the case of Rindell then fixed at $1,000. Ex-
Assistant Postmsster-General Thomas J.
Brady offered n. W. Fitzgerald as surety
and Fitzgerald justified it in the sum OF
$4,000 as bondsman for the appearance of
Brady.
The Missing ID Documents.
The Committee on Foreign Affairs, charged
with the investigation OF the ili-Peruvian
with a view to fixing the re-
sponsibility for the abstraction of certain
State papers from the files of the state de-
partment, and also to determine whether any
diplomatic representatives of the United |
States have involved themselves in certain |
schemes the success OF which depended upon |
the Intervention of the United States, con.
sists of Representatives Williams Wis, |
ch airman; Orth lind ], Kasson [Ia.1 J. Rice |
Mass 7, Dunnell CMlnn. Lord Mich. l. |
Walker Pa. Blount [Ga. ], Wilson [ w Va. J. |
Deuster Wis. and Belmont \. Y. In the |
to-day Francis o. ST. Clair, |
chief of the consular bureau of the |
state department, testified that he would |
the right OF the chief clerk |
Or secretary to withdraw any papers |
from hit custody, but no other person. Some I
time after the witness was made chief of the |
oureau a call was made for certain letters OF |
the Shipherd correspondence. made a |
search for a certain letter Indexed In my |
hand writing and asked Walker Blaine il the /
secretary had it. He said he did not know,
but would see il 1t was at his house. After 1
his did not hear any more about 1t. Was /
under the impression that either Trescott or /
Secretary Blaine called for the letters. Iu 4
August the discovery was made that /
several letters were missing. / failed /
10 find any OF them. l never said /
anything to the secretary on the subject,
and never heard anything further on the /
ubiect from Walker Blaine Trescott fire. |
Iuently called for papers, and We used to !
ct him have them without an order from !
he secretary. / understood he (Trescott) |
as in the employ of the department as