The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-06-05
CONGRESSIONAL.

In the senate, on the 25th, the bill to
incorporate the Texas Pacific railroad com
pany, and to al in the construction of the
road was called up and passed. The object
of the bill is to enable the company to execute
a mortgage upon the completed portion of the
road A Joint resolution was introduced and
referred. proposing the following an amend
ment to the constitution: If any state shall
fail to maintain a common school system un-
der which all LeTsons between the ages of five
and eighteen years, not lncapacItated Tor the
same, shall receive, free of charge, such ele-
mentary education as congress may prescribe,
congress shall have power to establish there
in such system, and cause the same to be
maintained at the expense OF such state"
4 bill was offered, directing the secretary OF
war to cause to be executed a survey of the
Susquehanna river, from Chesapeake Bay to
the New York state line, and from that line
through Seneca lake to the New York canal
and to Lake Ontario, with a Wow to ascertain
the practicabiIity of steamboat navigation be-
tween those points by dams, locks and canals.
80. Consideration was resumed of the hnaDce
bill, and after some discussion thereon the
senate adjourned to attend the funeral or Mr..
Aellish, late member of the house.
In the house, on the 25th, bills were
introduced: Providing that residence of
three years shall be sufficient to enable an
alien, free white person, to become citizen,
declaration to be made one year before admis-
sion; for the examination of Rome, Georgia,
as q site for manufacturing arsenal; to re-
fund the cotton tax; to repeal the law which
suspended payment to loyal masters for slaves
drafted and received as volunteers in military
service; declaring all corporations doing bust
ness in the state subject to the jurisdiction OF
the state courts of that state; TO eStaOlSn
Atlanta, Ca. as a port of delivery; restoring
to the pension roll pensioners of the Mexican
war struck off for dislOyalty. Senate bill to
facilitate the execution of, and to protect Ger
tain public works of improvement at the mouth
of the Mississippi river. was passed. The
death of David B. Mellish was announced.
Rem rks appropriate 20 the occasion were
made, and the house adjourned to attend the
funeral tomorrow.
In the senate, on the 26th, house
amendments to the bill donating condemned
cannon to certain parties of the grand army Of
the republic were cOncurred in. House bill
to provide for the better protection of frontier
settlements in Texas against Indian depreda-
tions was passed. ... A bill was passed to pro-
vide for the payment of postage on printed
matter and other purposes. 1t Is a copy Of
/ the bill recently reported from the house COM
mittee on postoffices and post roads. The
/ senate resumed the consideration of the def
cheney appropriation bill, which was further
( amended and passed. The centennial bill
/ was passed-20 to 17-with prOvisO that the
| United States shall not be liable, directly or
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/ position, or by reason of the same, and the
senate adjourned.
In the house, on the 26th, the time
was taken up in considering the report on the
Sanborn contract, and the bill to amend the
customs and internal revenue laws.
/ In the senate, on the 9th, bills were
/ passed: To extend time to prs-emPtiors on
/ public land in Minnesota to make final pay
ment to prevent hazing at the military acad-
1 envy; amendatory Of the act to reduce the
/ duties on imports, and TO reduce internal tax
/ alton. q. The Alabama contested election was
/ taken up, and a resolution offered declaring
/ Spencer not entitled to a seat, and that it be
/ awarded to Sykes. Pending discussion there
/ on the senate adjourned.
In the house, on the 9th, an amend
ment to the report on the SanboTn contracts,
/ prohibiting any member of congress from act
/ ing as agent or attorney for any person in con
nection with the customs or revenue laws, was
adopted, and the bill repeating the law on
which the SauboTn contracts were based was
passed . The bill removing the disabilities
of Raphael Semmes, of Alabama, was passed.
"A bill was passed-l4O to 61-provldlng
that all colored persons residing within the
limits Of the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations
at the time when the 18th amendment to the
constitution took effect, and the children, are
declared part of these nations, with al rights
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public schools, and with all other rights and
privileges now enjoyed by those Indians, and
providing that denial of such rights to coiored
persons shall be misdemeanor-. A select
committee was appointed, under resolution, to
ascertain the facts in relation to the disturbed
condition of government affairs IN Arkansas-
... Committees reported adversely on bills to
abolish capital punishment, and to dehne a
legal days work in certain cases.
In the senate, on the 28th, the bill to
confirm the purchase of portion of the site
of Fort Hudson, at Nashville, Tennessee, and
to provide for the donation OF the same to
Fisk university, for educational purposes, was
passed The Alabama contested election
case OF Sykes VS.. Spencer came up, the ques-
ton being on the resolution to award the seat
to Mr.. Sykes, which was rejected-1 10 S3-
and the committee was discharged from fur
ther consideration of the subject. so that AIr.
spencer. the present incumbent, retains his
seat The bill to establish the territory Of
femblna gave rise to a lively discussion on an
amendment to extend suffrage to women.
mo amendment WAS rejected-1s TO 27-aud
the bill shared the same fate.
In the house, on the 2Sth. senate
] amendment to the bill to Iegalize and establish