Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-02-05

WASHINGTON, February 4.-The House
Committee on Elections voted in the con-
tested election case of Garrison rs. Mayo,
Virginia, to give the seat to Mayo on the
| primd fdcid evidence.
Resigned.
Second Assistant Postmaster-G General
| Elmer resigned to 90 into business in New
York. Henry d. Lyman, his successor,
was Elmer's chief clerk
Not Opposed 30 Emancipation.
Justice Harlan, of the Supreme Court
| publishes a statement to the effect that he
! did not resign his commission in the
Union army because he was opposed to
| the principles of emancipation, but from
purely personal reasons.
Public Buildings.
Favorable reports were made on the
bills for public buildings at Carson City,
New, Waco and San Antonio, and on Mr.
| Springer's bill for the purchase OF addi-
| tional ground adjoining the public build
| ing at Springfield, Ill.,, at n cost of S27, ,000
| Nominations.
Henry d. Lyman, Ohio, second assist
ant Postmaster General; VIM. II. Dick
I son, Utah, attorney for the United States
/ for Utah. Postmasters: II. +. Farris,
| Columbia, Tenn; Jos. G. Oggle, Lampasas,
| Tex; A. @. Tompkins, Hampstead, Tex.
II
| In the Supreme Court the case of the
Spring Valley Water Company rs. the
Board OF Supervisors of San Francisco, an
appeal from the Supreme Court OF Califor-
MIA denying the application of plaintiffs
| for writ of mandamus to compel the
| Board of Supervisors of San Francisco TO
i appoint commissioner to fill the vacancy
I on the Board of Commissioners whose
! duty it is to fix all rates to be charged by
1 the company for water supplied the con-
sumers, Judgment of the lower court was
affirmed, Chief Justice Waite delivering
| the opinion, and Justice Field dissenting.
| international Copy right.
! Mr.. Dorsheimers bill granting copy
| rights 30 foreign authors on condition OF
| reciprocal grants by foreign governments
will be reported to the House for favor
able action tomorrow by a unanimous
vote by the Judiciary Committee. The
object of the bill is to defend property
rights of American authors from unfair
competition at home and opens for our
| writers new market abroad. 1t does not
f. affect the protection given American book
manufacturers by the tariff.
Missouri River ComisissiOn.
The bill introduced by Representative
| Graves relative TO Missouri river COM
mission provides that the commission shall
| be composed oil hve memOerS-one engln'
eer from the corps of the army, one from
the coast and geodetic survey, and three
from civil life, one of which shall be a
civil engineer. The work of the commits.
sion will be to prepare plans and estimates
Tor permanently deepening and locating
the channel and protecting the banks o
the Missouri river from the mouth to the
head. An appropriation O. Sl0cO00 /:
provided for.
The Union Pacific.
Senator Van Wyck introduced resolu
ton in the Senate, which was agreed to
providing that no dividends shall here
after be made by the Union Pacific Rail
road Company, but from the actual ne
earnings thereof, and no new stock be is
sued, or mortgages or pledges made oil
the property or net earnings of the com
pany without leave of Congress, exCep
for the purpose OF funding and securing
the debts now existing, or the Tenewa