Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-01-09

Patterson, OF South Carolina, died of
heart disease this morning.
There viii probably be another call of
three per cents made this week.
The President nominated Chief-Engi-
neer Charles II. Loring, chief of the Bu-
reau OF Steam Engineering of the Navy
Department.
D. P. Bailey, OF Missouri, was made
clerk of the Coinage, Weights and Meas
ures Committee. Bland, chairman OF the
committee, thinks no bill viii be reported
for two or three weeks.
At meeting OF the House Committee
on Postoffices and Postroads, Rogers,
Ward, Taylor, Bingham and Wakefield
were appointed members of a sub-commit-
tee on postal telegraph.
The Secretary of the Interior has or
dered a sale at public auction, on Febru-
ary 9th, of 300 acres OF land at Hot
Springs, for the 0io Caliente Indian reser-
vation, New Mexico. No bids less than
$1,000 viii be entertained.
A Democratic member OF the Ways and
Means Committee says the action of the
protective Democrats in the House is still
a matter Of doubt, but the action OF the
Democrats on the committee isIcxlcf Jafed
to unite the party in favor of tasif nlorm. |
oCh. AttOtOk. btCltt.fl ct {iS pSlidtG. I
has advised Col. G. G. Morrow 3Ie j. szsd
Maj. Jere Williams, {0.l, that they viii
be retained in their positions. These
gentleman ara DemscTsts ard eA-Gnion
soldiers, and have filled tifeir positions ef-
fciently for several years.
Among the postmasters confirmed to-
day were Walter w. Shaw, Texarkana,
Ark. Ada Z. Remmell, Newport, Ark;
Alois Smith, Van Buren,, Ark; Walter w.
Brashear, Russellville, Ark; f. M. Hum
phries, Hope, Ark. Kate Brown, Gaines
vile, Tex; VIM. G. Bailey, Hearne, Tex;
Adclph Wemmohs, Flatonia, Tex.
All interstate commerce bills before the
Committee on Commerce will be con-
sidered by the whole committee, and have
precedence over all other business. The
chairman OF the committee was instructed
to report back to the House at any time for
reference to the Committee on Rivers and
Harbors all river and harbor appropria-
tion bills and papers.
The House Committee on Military At
| fairs win report favorably the bill relative
to the date of mastering in certain officers.
The object OF the measure is to pay these
| officers for all the time served. The MEM
bers Of the committee are of the opinion
that nearly every regiment in the late war
| had. .one or two officers who will be
affected by the bill, who, in some in
stances, served year or more before
| being mustered in.
James Stevenson, of the geographical
survey, reported to Maj. Powell, as one of
the results OF last seasons field operations,
the discovery of several more ruined
cave and cliff cities, differing in some re-
! spects from any before examined, the
| most remarkable of which was a village
under ground. The dwellings are situated
near the summit of the volcanic hills of
the San Francisco mountains, in the San
Juan region, Arizona.
Secretary Chandler is making arrange
ments to have the bodies of Lieut..
! Commander De Long and his companions
appropriately received on their arrival at
| New York. He will direct a committee of
naval officers to receive the bodies, and they
will be accompanied by the relatives and
friends of the deceased. Upon reaching
! New York, their bodies will be taken to
| porary vault will be erected, in which
they will remain till finally inferred in ac-
cordance with the wishes OF their friends.
A prominent member of the House APP
| preparations Committee said to-day that
he was very certain that money would not
| be appropriated for any additional vessels
for the navy at this session OF Congress.
at is probable, +" said he, ''that money will
be appropriated judiciously for completing
work already begun, but the committee is
decidedly against appropriating money to
build ships so long as Chandler is at the
head OF the Navy Department. We all be-
lieve that we ought to have more of a navy,
but Chandler is not the man to disburse
the money"
Representatives OF the tobacco-growing
interests of the United States waited on
Secretary Folger to-day and asked for a re-
consideration of the departments ruling
in regard to recent importation of ten
bales OF Sumatra tobacco. on which duty
of only thirty-five cents pound was as
sessed. They desire that the duty on i'm
portations be left to be estimated by the
percentage of the entire consignment fit
for wrappers instead of by the percentage
of the tobacco fit for wrapping in each
package. The Secretary promised to con-
| slider the matter