Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-02-01
GETTING IMPATIENT
Considerable Impatienee Manifested at
the Delay Of .he President in
Sending In Nominations.
Eads's Ship Canal-War OF Words Be.
tween Senators Sherman and In.
gaIls-The Jeanette.

galls-The Jeanette
" WASHINGTON, January 31.-The Post says
"Defrees, public printer, resigns by com
mand Of his physician, and adds that De
: frees at no time has been asked to tender hii
resignation, but on the contrary was asked
by President Arthur to remain"
Confirmed by the Senate.
The Senate confirmed Leopold Mark Britt
assistant United States treasurer at Cincin.
natl; VIM. Fl. TAFT, collector of internal
revenue for the First district of Ohio; w. ].
Pollock, collector of internal revenue for the
First district Of Pennsylvania; S. A. Whit
field, postmaster at Cincinnati.
Kasson-s Tariff Comm Issfon BiIl.
The sub committee of the House Commit
tee on Ways and Means reported to the full
committee the bill known as the Kasson bill
providing for a commission of nine civilians
to be known as the tariff commission, and
to the House by the full committee as soon
as practicable.
Nominations.
The President to-day sent to the Senate the
following nominations: Postmasters-Chas.
| $. Moss Franklin, Tennessee; Perry NJ
| Moore, Arcadia, Illinois; Fenwick Y. Hedley,
Bunker Hill, Illinois; Alfred Dickey, Craw-
fordsville, Indiana; Edward Brown, Mount
Vernon, Indiana; Henry J. Whitmore. Wa
basha, Minnesota; T. C. Davis, Gallon, Ohio
The siar-Route Trials.
| G. A. Boom testified in the straw-bend
Star-route cases that he had brought the
question Of sureties for mail route bids and
| contracts before Postmaster-General Tyner
in 1877, and that he had ruled that the de-
| partment must receive, when offered, one and
the same surety on different bids and con-
4 1o,,rr 4 taI
his ability to meet any loss resulting from
the contractors inability to perform the
| service stipulated on each particular route.
The Jeannette.
The secretary of the navy received the
| following this morning:
ST PE-EnspvRo, january Oh, 1881.
Secretary Hunt, Washington:
Danenhauer, with nine men, await orders
at Irkutsk. HOFFMAN.
In reply, Secretary Hunt telegraphed for
Danenhauer and party to return to the United
States as soon as practicable, and for Mel
vile and party to continue the search after
DeLong and party as long as there was the
slightest possibility of success.
Getting Impatient.
Some Republican Senators are very much
disappointed because nominations they ex-
pected have not been sent in. Several
Western Senators, who called on the Presi-
dent again to-day in regard to appointments,
were once more told they would have to
wait few days, and they left the White
House in anything but good humor. Impa-
thence at the Presidents delay in this respect
is beginning to manifest itself quite freely.
There is much speculation as to his motive
for delaying nominations, but nobody seems
able TO explain it. 1t is evident the Presi-
dent does not inform Republican Senators
of his reasons for postponiDg nominations
which they think ought to be made at once.
swindIfng Surveyors.
Senator Van Wyck has been collecting evil
dence to substantiate his charge that the
government is being swindled in land sur
veys by ring which includes most of the
surveyors-general. He has obtained a good
many facts and will present them in a speech |
soon he gets the floor. Among other |
things, he will show that the cost of surveys
in the Western States and the receipts for
several years past have been enormously out
of proportion with the sales of land. His
charge was made openly in the Senate and
has stirred up the government land officers
in the West considerably. Benson, who has
been connected with land surveys and trans
actions in the West for several years, is here
and is giving dinners, to which the Western
members of Congress are invited. 1t is as
serted by Senator Van Wyck and those who |
are sustaining him in his effort 10 reform the
abuses which are alleged to exist in the land |
department, that Bsnson is here in the inter-
est of the ring and TO defeat Van WYck if |
possible.
Pages Petty Spite.
Captain Eads says the transcontinental |
roads are endeavoring to defeat his ship |
canal measure in Congress, and that the |
railroads have active agents at work against |
it. He said tonight that when Page [Cal.]
was appointed chairman of the Committee |
on Commerce, he knew the ship canal, which |
had been referred to that committee, would |
not have fair show. Therefore he got |
Buckner to move to discharge the committee |
from the consideration of the bill, and that |
this motion was adopted in the House about |
two weeks ago. Captain Eads states that |
Notwithstanding this Mr.. Page |
has appointed a subcommittee, with |
himself as chairman, to consider the bill, and |
at meeting of this sub committee last night |
an adverse report was adopted. This morn
ing at regular meeting of the Commerce
Committee, MIR. Page proceeded to submit |
his adverse report. Mr.. Buckner interrupted,
and informed the committee that they had
nothing to do with the BILL that it was
neither before them nor the House. and the
committee could not take any action with |
reference to it. "This," said Mr.. Eads, in
conclusion, SHOWS what methods are resorted
to to defeat the bill"
About Ready 10 Take Action.
Among the New Workers here it is be-
whatever action is contemplated by him in
the matter of refilling several OF the Federal
offices at New York City. As to the re-
ported purpose of the President to remove
General Graham, surveyor OF customs, a
New York congressman to-day expressed the
opinion that the report was put into circula-
tion for the purpose of Withdrawing attention
from other parties threatened with official
decapitation. He says Arthur and
Graham have been friends since boyhood,
and when the former was nominated at Chi
cago the latter, being spectator at the con-
vention, not only expressed his qualification
thereat, bat he worked actively to prove to a
the nomination as a mistake that it would be
a powerful one in the Empire State. Besides,
since Graham has been surveyor he has pro-
tected the friends of General Arthur and
Sepator Conkling from the ostracism which
Merritt and his short-sighted followers in
tended to apply to them.
Don't Lose Your Temper, Gentlemen.
During the debate this afternoon on the
three per cent. funding bill, Senators Sherman
and Ingalls, had a passage at arms that at
one time promised to be exciting. Senator
Sherman maintained that there was no fund
kept at the treasury for the specific purpose
of redeeming outstanding legal-tender notes.
Senator Ingalls, replied that S95, 800, 900
worth Of bonds had been sold to raise fund
IOr Lnls very puIpOsey anu yct thS cehdtOI
from Ohio, who was secretary of the treasury ,
when that sale was made, stood up and told
the country there was not dollar OF that
fund in the treasury. Senator Sherman lost
his temper for a moment, and declared
Senator Ingalls, purposely misunderstood
or misrepresented him. He maintained there
was no precise fund set apart for the specific
purpose of redemption. Senator Ingalls,
with perfect self-control and in somewhat
cutting manner. repeated his construction Of
Senator Shermsn's language, and declared
there was no misunderstanding it. He then
read from the report of Secretary Folger to
show it was the policy of the treasury, and
h.d been for years, 10 keep on hand a certain
reserve fund for the redemption of legal
tenders. Senator Ingalls's self-eontFol seemed
to have a cooling effect upon Senator sher-
man, and before replying he had resained his
equanimity. -
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