The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-01-23
CONGRESSIONAL.

In the senate, on the 7th, petitions
were presented asking the appointment of
commissioners to inquire into the sale and
manufacture of alcoholic liquors, and that
congress enact necessary laws to prevent the
traffic for the incitatiOn of children. The
consideration of the bill to repeal the act of
March g. including salaries, was then resumed
and the question referred on Pratt's amend
ment, which provides that the pay of this con-
gress shall be such an amount as to make the
total, with that already received, $40, 0G0-
So, OOO for each year. Reiected-43 to IA Mr.
Pratt submitted another amendment, provid-
ing that the amount of compensation Of sena-
tors, members and delegates, for the year end
ing March 8, 1874, shall be 81, 500, and for the
year ending March 8, 1875, 81, 500, exclusive of
mileage and allowances.
In the house. on the 7th, the bill to
establish an educational fund, and to apply
the proceeds of Gales of public lands to edu-
cate the people, went over to Tuesday. The
house then went into committee of the whole
on the naval appropriation bill, which appropri-
ates SIC, 5O5 856. The house committee on
appropriations has co rpleted the fortifcation
appropriation BILL cutting down the estimates
from some 81, 900, 900 to about 81 ,000, 600. The
house military committee to-day heard Adju-
tant- General Townsend on the proposed reduc-
tion of the army, which he strongly opposed
by statistics and arguments. Adjourned
In the senate, on the 9th, the bill for
the relief of aged or infirm pre-e mption set
tiers on public lsndw was passed. The senate then
resumed the consideration of the salary bill
An amendment was adopted to strike ont in
the house bill the words ''actual individual ex-
penses of each senator, representative and
delegate" F" and insert the words mileage al
lowed by law prior to the passage OF the
act of March 8, 1873" Pending the discus
sion on the salary bill the senate went into ex-
ecutive session, and soon after adjourned
until Monday.
In the house, on the 9th, no impor-
tant proceedings were had, and the same is
true of Saturdays session.
In the senate, on the 18th, sundry
petitions were presented, including one
from Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. An
thony and others, asking that women be al
lowed to vote, or that the same right be ex-
tended them as colored men. The morning
hour having expired. the consideration OF the
salary bill was resumed Various amendments
were proposed, and finally substitute for the
house bill was passed-5O to S-as follows
THAT so much OF the act OF March ) 1873
entitled act for appropriations Tor the leSls-
lative, executive aud judicial expenses OF the
government, for the year ending June 80, Isf4
as provides for an increase OF compensation OF
public officers and employees, whether mem
bers Of congress- delegates or others, except
the president of the United States and Justices
| of the supreme court, be and the same Is here
| by repealed and the salaries, compensation
and allowances of said persons except as afore-
said, shall be fixed by the law in force at tue
| time of the passage of said act provided that
| mileage shall be allowed for the first session
OF the forty-third congress; that all moneys
/ appropriated as compensation of members of
| the forty-third congress in excess OF the mile
| age and allowances fixed by law at the COM
| mencement OF said Congress and which shall
| hot nave been drawn by the members of said
congress respectively, or which having been
| drawn have been returned in any form to the
| United States, are hereby covered into the