The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-01-16
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CONGRESSIONAL.
The senate met at noon, on the 9TH,
and the chairman laid before the senate the
report of the secretary of the senate, in reply
to a resolution of December II, calling for in
| formation as to the amount of compensation
received by senators since the organization OF
| the government, which was laid on the table.
House bill to repeal the bankrupt law was re-
ported back with sundry amendments, and its
passage recommended by the committee. A res
olution was introduced, instructing the COM
mttee on civil service and retrenchment to in
making a reduction OF ten per cent. OF COM
pensa ion of all officers for the government
whose salaries exceed one thou aud dollars
per annurn, five dollars per day. Laid over.
House bill to establish the compensation of
senators, representatives and delegates was
taken up, together with amendments reporte
by the senate committee on civil service and
retrenchment, striking out the first and third
sections aud substituting therefor sections re-
pealing the act of March 3, 1873, and fixing
the salary it was prior to the passage of
that act, and further providing that compen-
sation of the several he ads of departments be
eight thousand dollars per annum. bill was
introduced and referred, to regulate and
facilitate commerce across navigable rivers
forming the boundary of states. 1t provides
that all railroad bridges across sucn rivers
shall be declared Pubic nlShWayS, ana snail De
equally open to the use OF every railroad hay-
ing terminus at or near such bI id ses, upC n
payment to the owner OF such bridges or ap-
proaches thereto of reasonable compensation,
under limita ions and conditions which the bill
in detail prescribes. The consideration of the
salary bill was resumed. An amendment was
offered, that the senators, representatives ard
delegates of the foity-third congress, who
March 4, 1873, at the rate of 81, 500 per an
num- shall hereafter be paid in such monthly
instalments as will make the aggregate for
the whole congress rate at $4,000 per annum.
Some discussion was had the reon, and without
reaching vote the senate adjourned.
The house also convened at noon, on the
5th The following bills were introduced and
referred: For the appointment of committee
of three persons on the subject of wages and
hours of labor, and division of profits be-
tween labor and capital in the United States,
and the social educate nal and sanitary con-
solidation of the laboring classes, and how the
same are affected by existing laws regulating
commerce, finance and currency; for a uniform
system of railroad transportation in the
United States: to provide q uniform currency,
and for the retirement of the national bank
notes and substitution OF 34-65-100 bonds !;
to repeal all acts imposing taxation on state
banks and bankers to encourage mechanical
industry. A resolution was passed, instructing
the committee m ltary affairs to in Iuire
into the expediency of diminishing the regular
army, and of discontinuing in whole, or in part
the work of construction and preservation
and epair OF Notifications, and all other works
of defense, with leave to send for persons aud
papers, Also, directing the surgeon-geneTa
of the army to visit towns where the cholera
prevailed during 1873, or such of them as the
surgeon general may deem necessary, and
confer with the health authorities and resident
physicians of such towns, and eel ect all facts
of Importance with reference to such epidem-
ics and to make a detailed report on or before
a. too IN
appropriations reported an army appropriation
bill appropriating $28 449, 916, which was made
the special order for Tuesday next. The house
then resumed the consideration or the supple
mentary civil rights bill. Mr.. Stephens, of
| Georgia, said that bis opposition to the bill
did not spring from predjudice against any
| one on account ofrace, color, or previous cOndi-
| ton OF serYitude. He believed that all men
were created equal, but he was opposed to
| this measure or to any one kindred to it. be-
/ cause of want of necessary power ON the
| part of congress under the constitution. He
assumed that every member would admit that
| the powers of congress were specified and linn
tied, and that all legislative powers which con-
! gress could rightfuly exercise, held by dele
| gation from the people of the several states,
| and he contended that no new power had been
| conferred on congress by either the fourteent
| or fifteenth amendment to the constitution.
The proper remedy was III the Judgment of the
court ;, to be rendered in such a way as con-
/ zsress may provide, declaring any state action
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/ and of no effect. He opposed the bill further
because of it's inexpediency. Even if the pow
/ er were unquestioned in congress to pass this
I law, he thought it would be injudiclous and III
| wise to exercise it. 1t would be better to
| leave all such matters to the states. He did
not believe in point of fact the cOlored people
| OF Georgia desired 1t. Their religious and
/ church organizations, except in case of the
4 Catholics, were distinct from those of the
whites, and they had their own schools, even
/ to a college for colored youths. They die
not desire to have mixed schools. Mr.. Rob
eson, a colored member, followed in
| written speech in support of ths bill, cor
| tending that there was no practical freedom
| in the southern states for colored people, anc
would not be so long as the matter was left
| to the discretion of the several states. The
| further discussion of the bill was closed by
/ motion to adjourn.
In the senate, on the 9th, the bill fol
| free banking was taken from the table and re
! ferred to the finance committee. The bill Il
repeal the act of March 3, 1878, increasing
| salaries. WAS taken up. General amendment,
were offered, and lengthy discussion ensued
| Adjourned.
| In the house, on the 9Th, bill wa!
introduced for the construction Of ship canals
around the Niagara and the mouth of tn,
| Mississippi Also. an amendment to the con
stitution in relation to the election and appoint
| ment of officers; also in relation to the SUI
| fering in certain localities in the south, OWING
| to failure of the crops, and directing the sec
retary of war TO issue army TatiOns lin sucl
quantities as may be required. debate tool
place on the supplementary civil rights bill, ans
notice was given of amendment providing
that the law shall not be so construed as TO re
quire hotel-keepers to put whites and bla"6l
into the same rooms or beds or to feed then
at the same table, or to require that whites
and blacks shall be put into the same room
and class at school, or in the same boxes ant
seats in tn theaters, or in the same berths OF
steamboats, or other vessels, or in the sam
lots in cemeteries. The regular navy appro
priation bib, which appropTiates SIC, 500, S56
was made the special order for Thursday.
DIVORCES are hardly known in Spain
for the reason that the husband can fin,
some one to shoot his wife for 25 cent
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