The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-03-09
TRG SOUTH IN CONGRESS-.
MEALS CLEAN SWEEP OF THE
INTERNAL REVENUE.
The Memphis and Pensacola Railroad
The judicial Districts fArkah-
sas-Tennessee Claims.
lsonRrspoxpEscE on THE APPEAL.I


clear out the entire internal revenue
system. The measure, which was
drawn by Mr.. Neal, is now with the
Committee on Ways and Means, and
as II is composed of but three lines,
although so comprehensive in its de-
sign. I give Il in full: "Resolued, That
all laws and parts Of laws now in force
assessing a tax, or providing for the
collection of a tax, known rs the in
ternal revenue laws, be and the same
are hereby repealed"
( The Committee on Public Lands
have under consideration bill grant
ing the right of way over the public
landsto the Memphis and Pensacola
Railroad Company. II provides that
this company shall have the right OF
way through the public lands in Ala
bama for The construction of its rail
way substantially on the line indicated
indicated in and granted TO il by the
State of Alabama. An important
proyiso directs that il any section of
said road shall not be. completed
within five years after the location of
said section, the rights granted shall
be forfeited.
In the Committee on the judiciary
there is a measure awaiting considera-
ton dctaching the counties of How
ard, Little River and Sewer from the
Western District and adding them to
the Eastern Judicial District of Arkan-
sas, all causes TO be tried mt Little
Rock.
The Committee on War Claims has
refused 10 allow the claim of the trus-
tees of the Protestant Orphan Asylum
OF Natchez, Miss, for damages and loss
sustained by their property during the
war The committee says: "While we
deeply sympathize with the claimants,
we are OF opinion that under the laws
of war the government is not RESPONSE
BILE Tor the damage done"
An appropriation of $4,000 is au-
thorized by Mr.. Taylor's bill to estab-
lish such number OF beacon lights
along the Tonnes &c river as may be
necessary for the proper protection OF
the navigation OF the river. There is
a disposition evident on the part OF
the committee to extend this light
system TO such of the important rivers
as may, in the interests OF commerce,
require IT, AS is well known, IL has
proved quite successful on the Missis-
sippi and other rivers, and for the
benefits conferred is comparatively
inexpensive
Tho Senate Committee ON Military
Affairs recommend that the corporate
authorities of Chattanooga he allowed
the right TO use part Of the Govern
ment reservation for street or road
way. At the instance of the War De.
partment it is provided, however, that
the city must construct and keep in
repair road equal to that built 10y the
government connecting the city with
the National Cemetery.
Mississippi cities are also in the road
business, but at the expense of the
government. In the Military Com
mittee of the House there are two
propositions of this kind. Nicksburg
asks an appropriation Of $500 for the
repair and preservation of the road
leading To the National Cemetery, and
Corinth wants $4,000 to construct
macadamized road TO the National
Cemetery near that town.
Although recently gave in this
correspondence the substance of the
House report on the proposed yellow
fever commission, il may not be amiss
TO follow IL up with portion of the
report OF the Senate Committee on
Epidemic Diseases, particularly rs the
report has been prepared by Senator
who represents State which has suf-
fered so greatly from this plague.
Senator Eustis says:
"The creation OF this commission is
recommended because satisfactory ev-
idence has been furnished to the COM
mittee that probably very important
discovery has been made by reason of
experiments which have been cncour-
aged by the governments of Mexico
and Brazil which, il available, would
be OF incalculable benefit to the peo-
pie of the United States, both from a
humanitarian and commercial point
of view. The committee is aware that
this legislation is necessarily expert
mental but believing that it is proba-
bly, productive of such important re-
suits, they feel justified in recommends
ing that the government of the United
States should contribute TO the efforts
being made by other governments in
securing the incstimable benefits of
protection of our people against the
terrible calamity OF yellow-feyer epi-
denies While il is true that
in the later periods of our history
only tie southern sections of our
country have been visited 10y yellow
fever cpidemics, yet there has been a
period when the important cities and
townsof the North have been afflicted
10y this terrible visitation, and
although the preponderance OF medi-
cal opinion attributes the recurrence
OF yellow-icver epidemics TO importa-
ton oi that disease from foreign
countries, vet it cannot be stated as
an absolute and established fact that
any city, North or South, is TO enjoy
that exemption in the future that 1t
has in the past. In this country yell
low-feVcr has appeared lightweight
different times, and has prevailed in
twenty-iour States OF the Union.
"Another alarming fact was devel-
upod i'm the course of the epidemic of
1873, which Prevailed in large sec
ton OF 0ur country. Owing to the in
creased and rapid means OF communi-
cation, that epidemic travelled to the
limits Of the Western States, and it is
the opinion Of high medical authority
that The West escaped invasion only
by reason Of the fact that the cpl
demic commenced so late in New Or
leans that its course was arrested by
the cold weather which then checked
it.n
Last week has gathered quite a large
number of claims from Tennessee peo-
pie, who seek Congressional favor c.
L. Spence OF Decatur county files a
claim for S9sS for property and stock ;
Richard Atkinson, formerly of Nash
Vile. ,liS5 for rent of property; John
NJ. Class Of Greene county, S4l4, value
oi bacon a'en by the :army; n. 6,
Terry al Bedford county, S5,535 for
property seized and assessments erro-
neously made and enforced against him
rs distiller; w. X Ransom, Bedford
county, 3,405, property taken in the
war; J. y. Mason, Jackson, $1,000,
house torn down by army; \. w.
Jones. president of the Memphis Con-