The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-03-04
US. COURTSIN WESTERN
PROVISION BYTHEDEPARTMENT
FOR THEIR EXPENSES.
Salaries OF Federal Officers and Care
OF Federal Buildlngs-RiTer
Appropriations.
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matee OF appropriations presented by
the Secretary of the Treasury as nee
essary for the public service during
the coming fiscal year, beginning on
the let day Of July, and will now en-
ter earnestly upon the work Of iormu-
latirg the appropriation bills. AS
these estimates are the basis OF all
money allowances, / give those which
are Of local interest.
Salaries aud expenses OF collecting
the internal revenue in Tennessee
Second District, $4,000; Fifth Dis
trict, S27, SOC total, $43,500. Missis-
sippi, $l6,C00; Arkansas, $l3 800.
Public buildings Chattanooga
courthouse and postoiice, purchase
Of site and completion Of building,
S1O0, 900; Jackson court house, COM
pletion Of building, $1,000; Oxford,
Miss, approaches and completion OF
building, $4,000; Shreveport, La,
completion, $1,000.
In addition to this it is desired that
$4,000 be allowed for a p~ostofice
building a. the Hot Springs, Ark,
and an effort is to be made to in
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Chattanooga building to $25O,OOO.
The following are the estimates for
river improvements in the state now
being considered by the Committee
on Rivers and Harbors.
Big Hatchie river, Sill 900: Caney
Fork, $4,000; Clinch. $4,000; Cum
berland, $450,0O0: Duck, $4,000;
French Broad, 1926 900: Hiawassee,
$4,000; Little Tennessee, $4,000; south
fork Deer river, 5000; Tennessee,
f5Sj $4,000; south fork Of Cumberland,
$4,000.
Mississippi: Warrior and Tombig.
bee, 1852 600; Big Sun1ower, $4,000;
Noxubee, $25, 900; Old Town Greek,
$1,000; Pa oagoula, $1,000; Pearl, $780,
OOO; Steel's Bayou, $4,000; Talla-
hatchie, $4,000; Tchula Lake, $4,000;
Yalobusha, $4,000; VaEoo, $4,000.
Art anaas: BlacS, $4,000: Ouachita,
sac, coo; Arkansas river at Pine Bluff,
$4,000; ST. Francis, $4,000; ArEansap,
$4,000.
The following amounts are required
for the care and preservation OF public
buildings: Memphis Custom.H House,
$1,000; Jackson Court House, $l260;
Jackson, Miss, Court House, $l260;
Knoxville Count House. $2460; Little
Rock Court House, $29i0; Nashville
Court House, $3.50.
A supplemental report from the Sec
Ietary Of War relative to obstructions
to navigation in Tennessee rivers
caused by bridges, says:
"An accident at the GAINESVILLE
bridge, on the Cumberland river, has
moved the pilo's and others interested
in the navigation of that river 10 de-
mand that the space between the
draw.piers be filled in by q solid wall,
so that boats may rub against it with
out damage. and that a pole thirty to
fifty feet high, bearing a red flag by
day and a red lantern by night, so
that pilots may see at a reasonable dis
lance whether the draw is open, be
erected upon the draw epan. This re-
quest seems reasonable, and as the
cost to the company would not be
very great, | would respectfully recon-
mend that 1t be ordered. 1t may be
that cribs Of timbers filed with stone
would answe as we'll as solid slone
masonry, and the cost need not ex-
coed 10000"
The Committee on Commerce have
recommended the passage OF the
measure giving the assent of Congress
to the construction of a bridge by the
Nashyi lie, jackson and Memphis Rail.
road Company owe the Tennessee
river, at O point in the counties oil
Perry and Decatur where 1t is most
practicable. The committee changed
the measure as originally prepared by
Mr.. Taylor. AT first it was intended
to authorize a bridge with spans Of
1874 feet length and "a feet above ex.
IRENE high water mark, but the com
mittee, in view Of the possibilities Of
future commerce, were unwilling 10
prescribe these limits, or to definitely
fix them, 80 they provide that the
spans "shall be Of such width aud
hight above the water as may be
prescribed by the Secretary Of War;
thus leaving the determination Of this
important matter with the army engi.
neers in charge Of the river improve
ment,
The wonderful rspidity with which
official bureaus" grow inlexpense ia
the government has received itE
latest exemplifcation in the case Of
TIE Bureau OF Labor, now little more
than a year old. The amount asked
for the payment of salaries during the
next fiscal year is $52,980, which pre-.
sents a startling contrast to the
amount allowed for the coming fisca'
year-s6000. Then, too, there is asked
for contingent expenses $39,550. Fol
the present year there was allowed fol
contingencies" 49,. 600, but, it should
be explained, out Of this came the sal
airy account aud expenses OF specia
agents, which it is now desired 10 spe
officially appropriate, as indicated
above. The result, as can be seer
from these figures, is that the expense
of q "bureau" which commenced a
S4O,O 600 per annum haa grown in
twelvemonth to $92, $50 This is in
~structive, If we think for a momeht
of other bureaus" the Fish Commits
sion, for example, which began at
cost Of $4,000 a year aud now reaches
we'll up in the hundreds OF thousands
The present Committee on Wa
Claims are making a reputation in thu
determination Of such matters which
bids fair to exceed its predecessors
even that OF the most radical 81;
when the now on sted party used a
its most potent auxiliary the denun
citation OF "rebel" war claims. lie
me give an example. A Mississippi
man, and this is only an illustration
of many decisions Of the committee
petitioned for payment for good
taken by the United States army, bu
he failed TO make application to thu
War Department for a settlement
!, prior to March 8, 1879. The commit
tee say, through the chairman, judy,
| Geddes, that "no explanation is givel
| for the negligence Of the party in no.
seeking payment sooner. He ma.
have been advised that it could no
be allowed under the act OF July
I 1868, for the property was taken dun
4 ing the war, in q state in instruction
. "Manifesily it would be dangerou