The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-02-05
PROM WASHINGTON.

Five Of the eleven members of the
house committee on elections are opposed to
the resolution of the majority to exclude Mr.
Cannon, the delegate from Utah, from his
seat on account of poIygamy.
The senate committee on naval affairs
have agreed to the report of the sub-commit-
tee, recommending that the navy yards at
Washington, Philadelphis and New London be
abolished.
An examination of the cellar of the
navy Department. building shows that arrange
ments had been made to burn the building.
Trains of rope and waste paper were laid
about the floor, connecting with piles of chips,
shavings and broken up kindling wood. 1t is
believed the fire Monday was the act OF an
incendiary Detectives are at work trying to
ferret out the incendiary,
The senate committee on privileges
and elections have decided that the Kellogg
administration shan be recognized as the legal
government Of Louisiana. Tho vote stood
ayes-Messrs. Morton, Logan, Anthony, and
Mitchell NOes-Messrs. Alcorn, Hamilton
and Salisbury. Absent-Messra. Carpenter
and Wadleigh. Mr.. Alcorn stated in commit
tee that IL this resolution was adopted, he
should vote in the senate to admit Pinchback.
The house committee on Indian af-
fairs have before it an act of the Cherokee
legislature authorizing the Cherokee delega-
tion to negotiate with the government loan
OF $500, 900, to be refunded from the proceeds
OF the Cherokee lands west Of Arkansas river
and south Of Kansas. It is represented that
this loan is necessary to keep the Cherokee
people from suffering the present winter in
consequence OF destruction OF their crops by
chinch- bugs and grssshoppers.
The secretary Of the treasury has no.
titled the Encouragement that the central
branch of Union Pacific, Sioux City and Pa
cific, Union Pacific, Kansas Pacific and Central
Pacific railroad companies have failed to COM
ply with the demands made by the treasury
department for FIVE per cent. ON their net
earnings after sixty days notice. The attor-
ney-generai has commenced preparations for
bringing suit against these companies, but not
yet decided upon the places whore proceedings
viii be commenced.
In the matter of the arrest of White
law Reid, it has been discovered that the su-
preme court Of this district have unanimously
decided that witness in attendance upon a
congressional committee is exempted from
arrest while going to, in attendance upon, and
returning from Washington. The decision re-
fers to both civil and criminal suits, but there
is limitation on the civil suits, that service OF
process may be had. The court said that a
witness has IN this respect exactly She same
privileges as q congressman. According to
this precedent the criminal action against
Reid must fail, but the civil suit msy be pros
ecuted. Either suit could have been brought
in New York in the United States courts.
The secretary Of the treasury has sent
the ways and means committee tabulated
statement showing tho increased amounts OF
revenue that could be provided by re-enactine
the import duty on tea and coffee, by repeal
ing the ten per cent. horizontal reduction on
sundry articles by the taria act, and by imPos'