The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-03-24
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER
ADDITIONAL APPROPRIATIONS
FOR PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
The Amount Involved in the Fourth
Of July Claims-Claimants In
Tennessee.
IooRREsPoSDKxcE or TIE APPEAL

mlLfcb on ~ DllC DuNulDRb, III ItDpil
favorable to an additional app.opria-
ton for the completion of the public
bu loin z at Jackson, gives the foil jwing
explanation:
The total amount appropriated for
site and construction Of the building
at JGcRfon is $4,000, of which sum
there was expended no to January
last $45, 1857 81, leaving a balance IN
expended Of 1892 50.
Tue estimated cost OF work to com
plete the building, which includes
plastering, ioiners' work. plumbing,
painting, etc, is si4 0s2 90, o EaearlY
$4,000 IN excess OF tho remaining
balance.
There was appropriated by the act
of March 3, 1885,, for approaches to
this building, $4,000 of which sum,
after the approaches are completed,
there remsins an unexpended balance
81 S2,525 %.
The purpoee Of the committee is to
approprists $1,000 additional ard to
make available the unsxpended
balance for the spprc aches for the
completion of the building.
Through the effjrts of Mr.. Richard
son the bill to appropriate the money
for the Payment Of claims allowed I'M
der the act OF July 4, 1884, has been
reported to the House from the Com
mi tee on War Claims. This measure
has an essential interest for Tennessee,
because the greater number OF the
benefciaIits therein named are Iesi-
dents of the State. 1t occupies nine
four printed pages, as it lie, of course,
impossible 10 give the name OF each
claimant recognized. Sixty Of these
pages are used by Tennessee claimants
alone.
The total number OF claims ia 1922
and the amount involved is $685.
200 GA. 1t is apparent, therefore, ID at
the vast majority OF the claims are
small in amount. Under the act Of
1864 the government determined to
pay for certain quartermssters end
Commisfary stores used by the armies
of the United States.
The following are the claimants res
iden's in the Tenth Congressional al Dis
trict: L. P. Cooper, Shelby county,
administrator of William Battle, $500 (;
! j. Ii. Baskin, admins rator OF Andrew
j. Baskin, Upton county, 1926; Thos.
S. Galloway, administrator of william
Baw, Fsyette county, $500 John h,
Caldwell, Hardeman county, SIP so;
g. L Cheek, administrator OF Andrew
]. Cheek, Upton, $l10; Spencer Davis,
Shelby, $500; John A. Davis, admins
traitor of Alexander Davis, Shelby,
$40; Robert +. Duke, Shelby, s2S7
Carolina Eckels, widow of Joseph T.
Eckels, Shelby, $75 rs; Emma Mil
Ter, Administrative of VIM. Elliott,
Shelby, $l36; Eliza p. Forbes, admin.
tratrix Of William Forbes, Hardemsn,
SIG; John ]. Hszlegrove, admins
traitor of W. r. Hszlegrove, Harde.
man, $50; John League, administra-
tor Of VIM. Hack, Shelby, $3l5; Lo.
renda P. Hart, widow of james
A. Hart, Shelby, $75; Mrs. Martha
M. Forgey, as devicee Of William
r. Herring, SIS; Ann Maria Stewart,
nee Herring, SIS; Sallie p. Herring
S75, heirs OF Michael Herring OF Shell
by county, in all 1925; George W
Humphrey, Shelby, $50 80; William
NJ. Harris on, Shelby, $500; John W
Koen, jr., administrator of John W
Koen, Shelby, $l317; Richard Massey
Fayette, S242 so; Emma F. Mebane
administrative OF William G. Mebane
Shelby, $3.50; II. P, Hobson admins
TRAITOR Of George w, Morris, Shelby
1910; Amer q. Nelens, Hardeman
500; Eliza U. Marshall, surviving ad
ministratrix OF Sallie Nj. Parrish, Fay
cite, S3402 so; William T. Randle
Shelby, $240; John r. Ray, admins
traitor Of James M. Ray, Hsrdeman
! $40; heirs at law Of James A. Sims
Shelby, s1oS So; T. L. Somervell, sd
ministrator of Robert P. Somervell
Upton, 1925; J. M. Jackson, admins
traitor Of John O. Time, Hardeman
$l08; II. T. Ballard, administrator Q
Edmund Taylor, Fayette, $1050; c
: w. Thomas, administrator of Jane
, w. Thomas, Fayette, $l04S; America
V. War;, executor of James War
+ Fayette, 1880 IA; George w. Waltor
Upton, $l40; q. L. Myers, adm nil
traitor Of George Walk, Upton, $225
> ]. A. Yaroro, administrator OF Edwar
,, Yarbro, Tip on, $685..
-. In the Committee on the Judiciar
there is measure prepared by Nj
. Van Eaton to divide the State of Nil
sissippi into two judicial distiic
provides that the Northern DistriC
sh, II comprise the counties of Alcon
Tippah, Benton. Marshall, DesotC
Tunics, Tate, Prentiss, TishomingC
= Union, Panola, Lafayette, Pontot1t
= Itawamba, Monroe, :Chickasaw, Ca
/. houn, Yalobusha, Quitmsn, Talli
hstchie, BOLIVIA, Grenada, Sunhowei
: LehoIe, Montgomery, Carroll, Wei
ster, Ohoctow, 0ktlbbeha, Lowndei
Noxubee, Winston and Clay. Tn
z balance OF the State is 10 be include
) in the Southern District. The preser
. Judge Of the Mississippi District is
s serve in the Northern District, with
= new appointment for the Souther
! District. In the Southern DistriC
s courts are to be held at Meridian
Mississippi City and Jackson.
There is pending in the Committe
ON War Claims very important meas
4 uFe to the South-'to authorize th
+ auditing and allowance Of claims 70
use and occupation or destruction c
: buildings during the late war whicl
( were used alone for educational aut
religious purposes" In some in
; stanees during the war, as Is we
, known, such buildings were used, oC
, Cupied and in some instances who'll,
, destroyed, by the United States army
This measure, which has been pr