The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-06-12
CONGRESSIONAL.

In the senate, June LIST, a resolution
of the national agricultural convention, re-
Gently in session at Atlanta Georgia, in favor
Of an appropriation for increased water COM
munication from the interior to the seaboard,
was referred. "A bill was passed, granting a
pension of $50 per month to Louisa A. CANDY.
widow OF General E. R. s. Candy. The COM
mlttee on patents reported favorably on the
bill to amend the laws relating to patents,
trade marks and copyrights, and it passed. 1t
provides that no person shall maintain an ac-
ton for infringement Of copyright, unless
every book or article copyrighted shall bear
NOTIFICATION Of copyright, together with the
yoar q entry took out the copyright.
The bill also provides that no engravings, cuts
or prints shall be copyrighted unless they are
practical illustrations or works connected with
hne arts, but that prints or labor designed to
be used for any other kind of manufacture,
may be registered in the patent Office ON pay
ment OF the fee Of 50, which shall cover the
expense OF furnishing copy of the records
In the house, June LIST, bill was in
trcduced to amend the constitution so as to
provide for the election Of senators by the
people. =. The bin to amend the existing Gus
toms and internal revenue laws was passed
1T to 70. TIE fourteenth and last sections
of the bill have reference to internal revenue
matters. One of them allows any farmer or
planter to sell at the place of production of
tobacco, OF his own growth and raising, at re-
tail directly to consumers to an amount not
exceeding 800 annually A bill was passed
relieving savings banks that have q capital
stock from the payment Of tax on deRosits,
as In case of savings banks having no capital
stock. A motion was made to take up the
senate civil rights bill, but it was not ordered.
In the senate, on the ID, the commit
tee on appropriations reported the pension
bill with an amendment. The amendment
proposes that the pension agents fee of 80
cents be reduced to IS cents, instead of 20
cents, as provided by the house. e. The com
mittee on finance reported back the bill to
amend the customs revenue laws and to re-
peal moieties, with number of additional
amendments. The Indian appropriation bill
was passed, and the senate went into execu-
tive session and soon after adjourned.
In the house, on the ID, the bill in
relation to courts and judicial officers in Utah
came up, and an amendment requiring lists to
be made up Of male citizens without regard
to their religion. politics. or social positions
was debated at length and finally rejected.
he bill WAS then passed-159 to 55 The
remainder of the days session was given to
the business Of the committee public
buildings and grounds.
In the senate, on the Sd, house bill
to amend the charter of the Freedmen's bank
was passed. The bill authorizes the appoint
ment of three commissioners by the comp
troller Of the currency to wind up the affairs
of the company. The committee on finance
reported favorably on house bill explanatory
of the act Of June 80, on saving banks, with
an amendment, which agreed to- and the
bill passed. 1t eXempta from taxation all de-
posts in institutions which do business only
as savings banks, the same as deposits in saw
ings institutions having no capital, and as
though they have capital stock or bonds for adj
ditional security of their depositors, and pay
dividends thereon; "and no tax shall be as
sessed on the deposits made in such institu-
tons, or collected of them on said deposits,
otherwise than as herein provided; that all
profits of such savings banks less the afore-
mentioned dividends ON stock not exceeding
the rate of eight per centum per annum, are
divided among the depositors, and that the
stock is invested in the same class of securi-
ties as Is issued for invested deposits that
the interest, at q rate of not less than AZ per
cent, shall be paid, in all cases. to their depos-
itors, to be made good, if necessary, from the
capital stock" The pension bill was passed.
Itappropriates 500, 8s0, 900, decrease of $780,
900, as compared with the bill of last year .
The resolution to promote cheap transporta-
ton was taken up and debated until the close
OF the session.
In the house, on the Sd, senate amend
ments to the army appropriation bill were con-
sidered, and some of them being non
concurred in a committee of conference
was ordered. A bill extending to the Sd of
March, 1875, the time for presenting petitions
for allowance of claims to commissioners of
claims, in all cases where sufficient reason is
shown for their Misrepresentation within the
time prescribed by Jaw, was recommitted.
The bill for the Improvement of the mouth of
the Mississippi river, being the Eads' project,
was under discussion when the house ad-
Jouned.
In the senate, on the 4th, bills to re-
lieve the legal and political disabilities of Fitz
Hugh Lee and Van r. Morgan, of Virginia,
were passed. e. The remainder Of the session
was devoted to discussion of the resolution on
cheap transportation.
In the house, on the 4th, bills were
passed for the further security of navigation
on the Mississippi, and to authorize the build
ing of bridge across that river at La Crosse
Wis. "A bill for deepening the channel al
the mouth of the Mississippi passed without
discussion. The bill proposes to have the worl
done by contract, proposals to specify rates
for securi lg twenty feet of depth and not lesi
than two hundred feet in width through the
channel OF one or the passes or outlets of the
Mississippi river into the gulf of Mexico, al
ordinary flood tide also price per month OF
maintaining such depth for five years also
rates for every additional foot in depth mp tC
and including twenty-seven feet. The score
tary is to contract with the lowest responsible
bidder, the amount not to exceed $3.50, 900 fol
twenty feet, or more than 81, 500 per month
for maintaining that depth, or more than So
600 per month for each additional foot.
Senate amendments to the military academy
bill were concurred in. A bill was intro
duced to increase the tax on fermented liquori
TO 80 barrel. The house then resumed con
sideration of the bill for the improvement Of
the mouth of the Mississippi, on what il
known as the Eads plan. It comes up agar
tomorrow.
In the senate, on the 9TH, the bill fol
the relief of certain settlers on public lands IL
Minnesota and Iowa was passed. e. "A resolu
ton to pay Francis A. Sykes, late contestan
for seat in the senate from Alabama, thu
salary OF senator from March 4th, 1873, t,
May I'd, 1874, and one mileage each way
amounting in tina aggregate to So, S74, was laiC
over. The bill to provide for the distribu
ton of public documents was debated, and tn,
senate adjourned.
In the house, on the 9Th, bill wa
passed to admit articles for the centennial ex
hbition free of duty. =. The bill for the con
struction of the Fort St. Phillips canal wal
adopted-140 to %. elsewhere Will be found
the full text of tho bill
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