The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-12-09
HORRISON'S TAgIFF BILL
TO BE PUSHED TO A COyCLU-
SIONs
Pension BIZ introduced by Zach
Taylor hs xiv and HarbOr
COMMITTEE Silver Coin
IsrEoIAL TO rHs ArPEAL.I


lsPEcIAL TO THB APPEAL.l
WAsHINdToN, December 8.--Rspre-
sentative Taylor today introduced
three Petitions for pensions from Wild
oWs residing st SCOTS Hill, Hender-
son county, Tenn. The grounds on
which the pensions have been Tefus I'd
by the Pension Office are the came in
each case. The soldiers were never
mustered into service. The bills are
for the relief OF Harriet 4 Jonee, re
the widow of VIM. T. Presley; Nancy
r. Price, widow OF Stephen L Price
these two men died in Anders 1nville
PRISON., and Margaret + Price, widow
Of Robert O. Price.
A bill was also introduced for the
claim Of E. j. Timbetlane, admins
TRAITOR OF the estate of p. r. Small, of
$4449 for stores taken during the wsr.
The Committee on the liver AID hsr-
b1r bill has been prevented from
going to work a. once on account OF
the delay OF the chief engineer in fur
nishing the necessary estimates. 1t
was decided, however, to mske re-
duction OF from twenty-five to thirty
per cent in the bill over that Of les
season. This action has BEEN naGessi-
tated by the strenuous oppos ton
AND the shortnees of the session.
Tbs committee prefer 10 carry through
a small appropriation for the rivers
and harbors rather than fail to psss
q bi ! which should appropriate de-
cent sum accordingly. The work on
tho Mississip i and Missouri rivers
will be considerably curtailed next
year. The Tennessee delegation is all
here now with the exception of Mr..
Ballantiue, who will arrive here on
Monday, having been detained by
private business and the illness of his
daughter.
MoNTANA's APPLICATION.
D .lsgate Toole, OF Montana, sp.
peared before the House Committee
on Territories today and made an ar
gum mt in favor OF the admission to
the Union of that Territory as state.
A coMMUNICATIoN FROM GEN. DUANE,
Chief OF Engineers, Transmitted to the
House today by the Secretary of War,
shows that tne balances on hand No
vember 1st last OF thu appropriations
for rivers and harbors were, in the
Treasury, SIS, 439,94 in the hands Of
officers d in transit, ST., 1876, AIS; to-
tai, $l6,636,S 62.
MRS. CLEVELAND
returned to Washington this morning
from Nsw York
The President has accepted section
OF forty miles OF the Cascade branch
Of the Northern Pacific railroad, in
Washington Territory, from the l24 h
10 the 165th mile west from Oolu mbia
river.
THE COMMISSIONER OF THE GENERAL
LAND OFFICE
has recommended that proceedings be
commenced to compel the removal Of
fences unlawfully iuclosing public
lands in Colfax county, New Mexico,
amounting to about 1876, 900 acres, OF
which the Western Cattle Company "a
said to have inclossd about $4,000
acres, the Palo Blanco Cattle Company
1000 acres, Stephen W. Dorsey 1892
acres, the Portsmouth Gait Company
1900 acres, Prairie Cattle Company ID,
500 acres, and James Temple 700 acres,
The Commissioner also recommends
that the fences, incloslng about $4,000
acres in the pub ic lands strip solth of
Kansas, said to have been built by the
Western Cattle Comp any, be removed
by the military.
THK BILL INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTA-
TIVE PRTERs,
Of Kansas, to provide for the deposit
OF gold or silver coin or bullion as
security for national bank circulation,
authorizes the banks to deposit coin
to the par value of u nited States
bonds now deposited as the basis of
their circulate n, or to deposit bullion,
81 fhCient in value at current prices,
10 be determined by thu Secretary OF
the treasury, as shall eq1al the par
value of their bonds, and the Secretary
is empowered 10 surrender the bonds
to the banks when coin or bullion is
30 deposited.
REPRESENTATIVES, MILLER, OF TEX AS,
introduced bill to amend the ma
tionsl bank act OF July IL, 1882, 80 as
to provide that national banks having
q capita OF So 1000 or less shall not
be required to keep on deposit at the
Treasury UHited States bonds in ex-
cess Of 10000 as security OF circulation;
that banks having capital Of not
IN ore than &250,00 and not less than
$4,000, shall keep on deposit $4,000,
ana banks having capital Of $780,
0O0 or more, shall not be required to
keep on deposit more than $4,000.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FAIRcHILD TODAY
GAVE A HEARING
to representatives OF domestic iron In
terests in regard to the manner OF de-
termining the dutiabe value of i'm
ported iron ore. Under the tar fl act
duty OF 70 cents per ton is imposed on
iron ore. The Treasury Department
recently ruled that duty shall be as
sessed on the ore alter 1t shall have
been subjected to temperature Of 2l2
degrees Fahrenheit. This ruling was
based on Information that such WAS
the commercial significance Of iron
ore. Domestic mine owners have pro-
tested Rgainst this III ing as unjust to
domestic interests. Argument in sup.
poit W bhoh Vldlh luhl uTiou lIOu ore
is not the commercial Specification OF
iron ore were made at the hearing to-
day by M ssrs. Weed and Witherbee
OF New York, Ely and Hsnna OF Oleve-
land, Curry OF Michigan, Imboden
and Bowling of Virginis, Swauk of
PhilSdelphs. Weeks OF Pittsburg and
others. ExS)licitor General Phillips
represented the interests OF the i'm.
porters and made an argument in favor
Of the recent ruling Of the department.
RIVER AND HARBoR IMPROVEMENT.
The river and harbor bill this SEES
sion seems likely to be rather slen-
der one. The appropriation of last SEES
sion 10 only just getting fairly into use,
and the engineers seem to have been
struck with a remarkable spasm OF