The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-01-29
FROM WASHINGTON.

The President has sent to the Senate
the nomination Of Thomas Biddle, of Penn
sylvania, to be minister resident to Ecuador.
Mr.. Merriam's bill, limiting tho tax
on bank deposits, etc, provides that drafts
checks, certificates Of deposit and other evi-
dences of Indebtedness when received by
banks for collection, only to accommodate
other banks, shall not be taxed as deposits
but the bank originally forwarding them for
collection shall bo taxed upon the amount as
deposit when collected.
The commission of engineers on the
alluvial basin Of the Mississippi recommends
government aid for the purpose OF reclaiming
these alluvial lands, and suggests the imme-
diate appropriation OF 81, 900, 900 for Louis
lana, and $500, 600 each for Arkansas and Mis-
sissippi, 20 close existing breaks and crevasses.
A permanent system for the reclamation Of
these lands WILL the commission says, require
at loaat sac, 6,OOO.O0O.
The house appropriation committee
have agreed to insert in the sundry civil ap-
preparation bill items OF 1876, coo for signal
service weather reports and S25, 900 for the
improvement OF the capital grounds. The
estimated expenditures OF the district govern
ment for the fiscal year ending June 80, 1876,
are So 100, 500: estimated receipts 81, ,9O9, 927.
This deficiency will have to be provided for by
congressional appropriation,
The president has sent the following
nominations to the senate: Col. Alexander
T. Shicas, assistant commissary general, to be
brgader general and commisssry OF subsist-
ence Lieut. Col. NJ. d. L. Simpson, assistant
commissary general to be colonel and assistant
eomInissary general OF subsistence Mai. VIM.
II. Burns, commissary OF subsisten- @. to be
lieutenant colonel and assistant commissary
general of subsistence; Capt. Jne. F. Haw-
kins, commissaFy OF subsistence, to be major
and oommissary OF subsistence.
Mr.. Edmunds' bill to establish a
court for contested. elections, provides for a
court Of that name, to consist OF the chief
Justice aud associate justices OF the United
States supreme court for the time being, and
to bo convened on the second Wednesday in
February, 1877, and every fourth year there
afse-. and also in eve-y February subsequent
toEay election held to fill vacancy in the
Office OF either president or vice-president OF
the United States. This court is to hear and
adjudge contests concerning the results OF
such election. and report its findings to both
houses OF congress.
The comnitte on appropriations have
voted to Include the following items in the
snndry civil appropriation bills For refund
ing TO the states their expenses in raising vol
unteers, S297, geo, for the construction and
maintenance OF military telegraph lines.
especially IN Texas, New Mexico and Arizona,
$4,000; FOR the publication Of the official
records Of the war Of the rebellion $50, 600;
for the collection OF county prize money and
other claims OF colored soldiers, being the
continuation OF tho work Of tho late freed
mans buyeau, $4,000; for the freedman 5
hospital $4,000
Mr.. Boutweli's bill 10 provide for q
bar Of the two houses Of congress proposes
the appointment, at the commencement of