The Rodney telegraph. (Rodney, Miss.) 1838-1840, 1839-02-09

ienvln1 them To the action Ot this House, II
This is all have done. l say this in ju 81
ticc TO myself, and in justice to this Hous i
do not wish 10 incur the odium Of unncccI
sarily consuming the time Of this House. 3
have not done so. shall not do so. thin v
do hut justice tn those who have cnntile| f
in me in presenting sin.lv the pc tiiions scI1 r
to me from men who have thus voluniariI n
confided in me an important trust. 4
MIR. A. then stated what were his motives d
in presenting the resolutions connected with I
Andrew Stevenson. He vindicated his
own motives, and said he had no other ,b. j,
jcct in view Than the honor of the country
Correspondence Of the ". o. Bulletin.
WASHINGTON, Jan. "a, 1893.
PUBLIC LANDS-PROCEEDINGS IN
CONGRESS, &c.
We arc in the mids, of the eighth week of
the session, and ST. far rs the making of laws
is concerned. Congress has done nothing,
positively nothing, beyond the passage ola
law made at the commencement of the ses-
sion, for giving the members their mileage
and per diem, which with a majority of Con
gressmen this season seems to be the chief
desdera,um. All the appropriation bills for
the support of the different branches of the
general government, lie buried among the
rubbish of the committee of the whole
Some of The navy bills were last week ia
ken from this general receptacle Of the dy
ing and the dead. Apropos. of navy bills
There is some prospect OF getting an apprO-
priation for dry dock at Pensacola The
southern members will 90 for it en- masse,
and enough of the northern members will 20
NJ the measure to carry it through the
Muse, if good case is made out by the
friends Of the measure The amendment
will be proposed in the House, as soon as the
bill making the appropriation for the dry
dock at Brooklyn comes up for final action
The prominent land measures before
Congress, You may have seen before this.
are all probably disposed of. The bin for
reducing the price CT public lands, which
passed the Senate after hard battle of six
weeks, ''sleeps the sleep that knows no wa
king" upon the table of the House. You
might as well raise one from the dead, as to
attempt TO take the bill from its burial place
That project of reduction cannot be passec
until the new States are represented, unde,
new census. MIR CLAWS distribution pla,
which was badly defeated the other day ha
no chance in the Senate, although i, cou!t
easily pass the House. Every thing, there
fore connected with Ire public lands, wi r,
main in statu quo, at least the next Coz
gress.
Mr. Clay of KY, Il day or two since, cal
ed upon the Secretary of the Treasury 70
some important inform,lio connected will
the public lands. He asked the Secre;ar
through a resolution Of the Senate, VIA
would have been the arnoint of receipt
from the proceeds nfthe sales IF public llud
under his distribution land bill, had that hi
not been vetoed by the President The AT
swer is, that up to the 30h of Sept Last; tl
nett proceeds divided am,ng MI the state
would have been S57,227,52O! OF til
~sum, the new states would have receive
about $3.50, 900 under Mr. Claws provi
ion TO give them l24 per cent. Oftiis fund
! Louisiana would have received 24s3l9 an
of the full proceeds $3.50. $40! Mississnp
would have received of the l2A per ce
on the net proceeds, 8! ,20l, 1913, and wi
the full p,opnrtiodate division of the am ~,
of sales, Sl,672,29l. | have compile
these items from official documents.
In the Senate, MIR TGIm1ge, Of n. Y. h
followed up his proposed amendments to II
Constitu,ion-( the lim!ta ion Of the Pre-.
dents term OF service to four vears-tI
selection of the Secretary of the i'reasu
and the Post Mister General BY Conrre,
8 instead of the Executive, AMI the keeping
members from receiving Off C under 1
General Government for two years aft
they shall have ceased In be CongreSslne,
with set of resolutions allowing so,
important propositions competed with I
safe keeping and dsbursing OF the pub
.money. Tie resolutions declare that soI
specie paying banks ought 10 he select,
under suitable regulations to be prescri
by law, for the safe keeping of the pua
mnuey, That the payment Of the pub
srevenue oush, TO be m .de in gsll and sill
and in the notes OF some specie payi
banks. That such payments ought to
l made from lands & customs, as far as pr
81 ticabie, by depostes in the selected ban
to the credit Of the Treasurer Of the IT, S.
4 sthe certificates of the deposites taken by
collectors and receivers, as evidence of S,
payment. Finally, that the selected bal
"a ought, in consideration Of such depos,tes
erforn without charge the same dutie
ansferrng and disbursing, ~ were
formed by the late u. S. Bank. Th
Y resolutions lay upon the table of
S.y, Il