The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-03-05

J UCUIIyILIGaIIW
| during the next fiscal year, in the improve
| ment of the mouth of the Mississippi river.
and the Improvement Of sundry rivers and
! lakes, including the Tennessee river. Pending
| the discussion, the morning hour expired and
| the resolution was laid over. The unfinished
business being the bill to provide for and reg
ulate the counting of the votes for president
and vice president, and the decision OF ques-
tions arising thereon, was then called up.
Several amendments of a verbal character
| we're agreed to. The discussion of the bill
continued at some length, after which the bill
was read a third time and passed-yess %,
nays 20.
In the House, on the 25th, II M.-At
this hour the house seems no nearer out of its
| difficulty than at midnight. When the ques-
| ton, whether the house shall now consider the
caucus force bill, came to be voted on, the
democrats refrained from voting, and the re-
publicans could not keep in the hall full ma
| jOrity from their own ranks, the vote would
show that quorum was not present, and
] then there would be q call of the house. with
all the tedious proceedings connected. When
these were all over and further proceedings
| under the call were dispensed with, the house
would come back to the real question of the
consideration of the bill, aud again the demo-
Gratis would refrain from voting, and again in
the absence of a quorum, another call Of the
house would be entered OD, and on to the
point OF beginning 3. P. M.-Mr. CoDger
moved an adjournment, stating that he did so
at the request of many members who had
been sitting in the hall over twenty-nine
hours, without sleep and without regular
meals. The motion prevailed. and the house
adjourned.
In the Senate, on the 26tb, Mr.. Nor
rilT of Vermont, from the committee on
finance reported back the tax and tariff bill
which recently passed the house, and stated
that the committee was equally divided upon
the bill Mr.. Scott, from the committee on
finance, reported adversely on the bill to &C.
cure the depOsitOrs in the freedman's savings
and trust company, from ultimate loss. and it
was indefinitely postponed. Mr.. Bayard, from
the same committee, reported favorablv on
the bill to amend section 3342 of the revised
statutes intro 1uced by him on the Sd inst
and it was passed. The bill requires brewers
to affiX upon the spigot-hole on every barrel
containing fermented liquor the proper stamp
when such barrel is sold or removed from the
brewery or warehouse, and also requires the
stamp to be cancelled at the time of affixing
the same, by writing or imprinting thereon
the name OF the manufacturers of the liquor.
MIR. Sherman, from the committee on finance,
called up house bill restricting the refunding
of customs duties, and prescribing certain
regulations OF the treasury department.
Passed. At the expiration of the morning
hour, the consideration of the civil rights bill
was resumed. Mr. Thurman moved to strike
out OF the fourth section IN regard to the
qualification of Jurors the words - or of any
state" so it would read, 90 No citizens DOS
sessing all other qualifications which are or
may be prescribed by law, shall be disqualified
for service as grand or petit jurors in any
court of the United States on account of race,
color pre- ,ious condition Of servitude." The
question being on the amendment of Mr..
Thurman, and no senator desiring to speak
the chair CMr. Csrpenter) was about to
take the vote, when Mr. Bayard raised
the point of order that under the a. rec
ment yest erday, the vote could not be taken
before two o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
The senate then went into executive session.
and at five O'Clock recess was taken till half
past seven. Upon reasssmbling at evening
session, consideration of the civil-rights bill
was resumed, and Mr.. Norwood continued his
speech in regard to Louisiana and the con-
dition of affairs in the south, and soon after
the senate adjourned.
In the House, on the 26th, the HUuse
went into committee of the whole on the sur
dry civil appropriation bill. When the clause
in the bill making an appropriation Of $4,000
for the purchase of Miss Rsnsom's painting OF
Maj. Gen. Thomas and Of S25, GOO for the pur-
chase of Carpenters painting of the emanci-
patton proclamation were reached, Messrs-
CIymer and Frye made the points Of order
that they we're appropriations not authorized
by existing laws. Mr.. Garfield suggested that
the points of order were not well taken, but
the chairman Mr.. Haskins) sustained the OBJ
jectiOns and clauses were stricken out. The
hour of five o'clock having arrived, the COM
mittee at this point having gone through less
than half the bill, rose, and the house took
recess until halt-past seven o'clock, the even
ing session to be for debate on the force bill. !
The house resumed its session in the evening, |
Mr.. Tyner in the chair, and proceeded to dis !
cussiOn on the bill to provide against the in
vasIOn of states and to prevent subversion of |
their authority and to maintain the security |
Of elections. 1t was midnight when Mr. Biery, !
Of Pennsylvania, commenced to speak, and
there were very few members present