The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-05-07
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS TO
NATIONAL CEMETERIES.
A Bill for the Collection of War
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
ern Postal Changes.
IsrEoIAL 10 TEE APPEAL.l /


WASHINGTON, May 6.-Congressman
Zach Taylor introduced yesterday q
petition OF the Merchants Exchange
OF Memphis, asking for the abolition
OF tax on trave ing statesmen.
ROADS TO NATIONAL CEMETERIES.
At its evening session las! night, the
House passed the bill authorizing the
construction of a road to the National
Cemetery at Knoxville; also, a simi-
lar bill for a road from the city OF Nat
chez, Miss, to the National Cemetery
near that city.
SENATOR EUsTIs
has introduced a bill in the Senate to
extend for one year from the passage
of the act, the right OF action in the
court of claims, under the provisions
of the captured and abandoned prop
erty acts, including all cases ofseizures
made either before or after June 80,
1866, without regard to any statute of
limitation, and where documentary
proof has been presented in cases and
the witnesses are dead or cannot be
found, such evidence shall be used.
In the trial of the cases no person
shall be excluded as a witness because
he is a party to or interesed in the
case.
CHARLES 5. WHITMAN
of the Washington bar, one of the
governments counsel in the suits to
test the validity of the Bell telephone
patents, has been here taking from
the dockets OF the Circuit Court the
records of all suits brought by or
against the Bell Company here. He
said that the government suit in
Columbus would not come to a hear
ing for several months yet. 0He be-
lieved that the Bell Company would
file demurrer, and ask that the case
be transferred from Ohio to Ma sa-
chusetts.
DOC OWENS,
formerly clerk in the Surgeon
Generals Office, and who graduated
from the National Law School here OF
the class Of 1884, has received the Re-
publican nomination for Attorney
General from the Third Judicial Cir
cult OF Tennessee.
FOR THE RELIEF OF W. j. SMITH.
A favorable report has been made
on the bill to credit W. ]. Smith, late
Collector of Customs at Memphis, on
the books of the accounting officials
of the Treasury Department with
S2500 for the embezzlement OF that
sum by his chief deputy, N. D.
Smith.
FAvoRABLY REPORTED,
The bill for the repair and preserva-
ton OF the road leading from Vic9s-
burg, Miss, to the National Cemetery,
and sppropriating $4,000 for that pur'
pose, has been iavorsbly repoted from
the House Committee on Military
Affairs.
SOUTHERN POSTAL CHANGES.
New postmastsrs and Offices; John
Gayler, Arthur, Conway county,
Ark; L. Eaton McLain, Welcome,
Clark county, Ark; pcetoffice at Rig.
gins, Montgomery county, Tenn,
TO point one mile south.
Star service changes: Tennessee
to PekiD, from May 17tb,
to embrace Capling, between Dowell-
town aud Temperance Hall, increas-
ing the distance one mile; Brsdyville
to Murfreesboro, from May II, increase
service to three times week.
Mail messenger s. rvics establish el
Alabama University, Tuscaloosa Coun-
ty, from Tuscaloosa for all service re-
quired from May 10.h.
Special service discontinued: Ala
bsma University, Tuscaloosa, i,om
Tuscaloosa from May 9th, supplied by
mail messenger sesvice. Arkarsa7--
Pi2got, Clay county, from November
22d, supplied by mail messenger SER
vice Teonessse-Capling, DtKalb
county, from May 18th.
Fourtn class postmasters commits
stoned: Richard +. Hightower, York
Station, Ala: John S. Cooper, An.
tome, Ark; Gelrge II. GAmmil, G r
net, Ark Zlchariah Collins, Palmyra,
Ark. Baker W. Harris. Bellwood,
Tenn. Henry D. Ford, Piney, Tenn.