The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-03-14
FROM WASHLNGTOM.

AID inslracting him to watch for the arrival
OF the Aglania.
From WASHLNGTON
Tie Senate adi5urneI without passing
House hin allowing farmers to retail leaf to-
bacc3. This bill, in the estimation of the
Commissioner, would have caused loss to
the Treasury Of 50, OOO 600, and deprived man
ufacturers Of the sale of %, 600 600 pounds of
! tlieir manufacturing products.
President Grant promoted Levi P. Luckey
of Illinois, his private Secretary. and G. d.
Proden. Executive Clerk. These promotions
! are in accordance with the principles of civil
! service reform.
The only immediate change III the Cabi-
net viii be in the Secretary of the Treasury.
should the incumbent be elected to the Senate
of the United States.
Senator Hamlin stated in the Senate last
week in a semi-oficial sort of way. that the
President would send but few appointments
to the Senate this session. This statement
gives strength to the impression that the
President is prepared to make but few changes
among the Federal office-hOlders during his
second term.
The Postmaster-General has appointed
James z. Stewart, of Iowa, and John B. Mi
nor, of Tennessee, special agents of the Post
Office Department, with salaries of 81, 500 per
annum, and 93 per diem expenses.
1t is reported that certain Congressman
| arc Offering their quota of public documents
at fifty cents a volume
Both Houses passed the bill donating
| lightweight condemned cannOns for the erec-
ton of an equestrian statue in Washington to
/ II - ,e fHa,,o.,I TIO,,,og Tho
! is to be erected under the direction of the Soa
| ciety Of the Army of the Cumberland
! The Comptroller of currency notifies Ma
| tional banks to report their condition at the
close of business, February % last.
! Assistant Secretary Richardson says no
action has been taken relative to the forty
four million dollars bill. The matter remains
precisely as it did before, the Secretary still
claiming the right to issue the whole amount
whenever necessary,
It is stated the Postmaster General per-
sists in collecting double unpaid rates of
| postage ON newspapers, holding that as the
Acknowledgement did not pass upon that ques-
ton. his late decision refers only to letters
1t is stated in official quarters as an an
swer to inquiries that it is not the intention
of the Secretary of the Treasury to initiate the
currency by keeping out permanentls any
part of the S44, OOO, 600 of legal tender re-
serve, but if, in the langarge of the law the
exigencies, of the public interest shall require
he will not hesitate to act in accordance with
his own conviction that he has the right to
make use of the reserve for temporary pur-
poses in such contingency.
Joseph 3. Stewart has brought suit against
the Speaker and Sargeant-at-ArIns of the
House of Representatives for one hundred
thousand dollars each being sued separately
for false imprisonment. The suit is not aimed
against the Speaker and Sargeant-at-Arms per-
sonalIy. though so stated on the records. but
is designed to test the power of either House
to imprison a citizen for matter not invOlv-
ing question of privilege. The case will be
heard before the United States District
Court.
-Adiutant-G General Vincent has replied to
Gen. Howard's recent letters defending the
operations of the late Freedmen's Bureau,
in a sharp and severe communication, in
which he reviews Howard's defense, and sus-
ta;us the assertions of his previous report
concerning the irregular and confused condi-
ton OF the records and accounts of the bureau
Gen Vicent repeats his statements, and also
by way Of explanation. says that the eleven
! clerks employed in the Office, eight were stu
dents of Howard University, working on half
time, at $50 per month. The retained bounty
fund. amounting to S112 900, is by no means
satisfactorily accounted for by the late dis
bursting officer, Gen. Balloch, and other irreg-
ularities and deficits have been brought to
light by the late examination of the Adiutant-
General. Gea. Vincent is specific and definite
in all his statements and furnishes by far the
most exact and exhaustive dissection the
affairs OF the Freedmen's Bureau have ever
received. Letters from other officers accom-
pany the document which undoubtedly
lead to action by the War Department
The perversity of the Postmaster General
in regard to the collection of double postage
on mail matter that has been iusuficiently
prepared. is almost without parallel in the his
| tory of executive rulings. Having been ad-
monished by the House postal Committe, and
not sustained by the Attorney-General, he
went tosCongress and attempted to have the
obnoxious rule made law Defeated there,
he still persists not to collect the double post
age on letters, but upon other matter.