The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-03-17

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completed both volumes. He wrote
the whole OF it, aud the stories that
he had assistance on this part of the
work are not true.
INVALID NOTES.
The House Committee on Invalid
Pensions held long session I )-hight,
at which Il, considered the the bill OF
Mr.. Stephenson 10 increase the rate Of
pension for the less Of q leg or an arm (;
to increase the rate Of pension for the
loss of an eye, and the'Ells berry bill 70
pension all honoTably discharged sol
diers incApacitsted from performing
manual labor. The latter bill was so
amended as to provide that honoiably
discharged soldiers who served nine
DAYS during the war and who
are or may become disabled
from performing manual labor, unless
such disability was occasioned by their
own gross carelessness or vicious
habitF, shall be entitled t. pension,
and in that form was ordered to be
reported to the House. The bill to
increase the rate of pension for the
loss { ( an eye was also ordered to be
reported favorsbly. The other two
measures were laid over for farther
consideration.
SENATORIAL DINNER.
The President gave a dining To-
night, to which half Of the members
Of the Senate were invited. At the
table Senator Salisbury sat on the
right OF the President and Senator
Logan on his left. The o'hsr Senators
present were McMillin, Ginson, All
son, Cockrell, Dawes, Conger, Cam
den, Mcpherson, Evsit', HemptoR,
Harrison, Wal hall. Blackburn, Fair,
Aldrich, Payne, Msxey. CameIou,
Beck, Voorhees,, Teller, Butler, Plumb,
Co'qu itt, Dolph, Chsce, Sabin, Kenna,
Miller, Call, Henderson, Gray, Jones
Of Arkansas, Sawyer, Brown, Hale
and Ransom.
NOMINATIONS.
The President sent the following
nominations to the Senate: VIM. j..
Trenholm of South Carolina, now a
Civil Service Commissioner, to be
Comptroller of the Currency in the
place of Henry w. Cannon, resigned;
John II. 0berly of Illinois, to be a
Civil Service Commissioner in the
place of William /. Trenholm, NOM
mated to be Comptroller of the Cur
rency; Charles Lyman of Connecticut,
now Chief Examiner of the Civil Ser
vice Commission, to be Civil Service
Commissioner in the place OF Dorman
b. Eaton, resigned.
The President said that the three
men named were selected without
recommendations, and solely on his
own personal knowledge OF their char
acter and capacity. All of them now
are in the public service, and all have
by their performance of duty at
attracted his attention and furnished
him personal evidence of their emf
nent fitness for the duties of the
offices for which they are named, and
what he regarded as all important,
their appreciation of the needs of the
public service.
IMPORTANT LAND DECISION.
The Secretary of the Interior has
rendered decision in the case OF Jas.
Brittin, reversing the decision of the
Commissioner of the General Land
Office OF November II, 1885, which
held that, as under section 226l, Re-
vised Statutes, person was entitled
to but one presumption RIGHT, he could
not, after perfecting one pre-emption
right, be permitted to commute
homestead entry into a cash entry,
under section 230l, Revised Statutes,
as this would be equivalent to a second
exercise of the same right. In re-
spect to the interests involved this de-
cision is regarded by the Land Office
officials as the most important public
lands decision made by the Interior
Department in many years.
REPRESENTATIVE HAHN's FUNERAL.
The Rev. Mr.. Milburn, chaplain of
the House, conducted a brief funeral
service over the remains Of Repreeen-
tative Hahn of Louisiana this after
noon, after which the remains were
placed on the 5;30 o'clock train for
New Orleans, where the funeral ser.
vices will be held. They we're ac-
,ompsnied by a special committee Of
Senators and Representatives, in
charge of Sergeant-at- Arms Leedom.