The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-03-09
CONGRESSIONAL
SENATE.

/ Items are inserted of sixty-eight hundred
/ dollars FOR additional pay of professors for
! length of service; ten thousand dollars for
! pay of assistant professors, instructors and
assistant instructors; for adjutants in addi-
ton to their pay as first or second Iieutenauts
/ fifteen hundred dollars; and for clerk to. ad-
jutant, fifteen hundred dollars. Senator Al
| corn introduced bill to amend the fifth
/ section of an act making appropriation to
supply deficiencies IN the appropriation for
/ service of the government for the fiscal year
/ ending June 30, 1872, and for former years
| and for other purposes, approved May 1S
( 1872, and to extend time for the presentation
/ of claims for cotton seized after the thirtieth
| day of June. Referred. Adjourned
In the senate, on the 23d, Mr. Logan
presented petition of disabled soldiers ask
/ ing that provisions of the act Of June 1S,
! 1874, be extended so as to include all who
lost an arm below the elbow, or a leg below
/ the knee, and that they be allowed pension
of twenty-fOur dollars per month. Referred.
( Mr.. Morton presented a petition signed by
! over $1,000 women of Indiana and nearly
/ $4,000 voters of that state on the subject of
| temperance, asking congress to appoint a
! commission to investigate and report as to
the effect of the alcoholic liquor traffic, and
/ secondly to prohibit the importation of alcO-
/ hOlIc liquors from foreign countries Re
/ ferred. Mr. Morton also presented petition
/ OF Robert Small, of Charleston, asking com
penSatiOn for the capture of the steamer
/ Planter at Charleston in MAY, 1862 Re
/ ferred. Mr.. Morton also presented the peti-
! ton of 1000 citizens of Indiana and Ken
! lucky in favor of aid to the Texas aud Pacific
/ railroad. Bills were introduced and referred
as follows: To regulate elections and elective
Z franchise in the territory of Utah to repeal
/ so much of the act of December Il, 1872, as
/ provides for pivot draw in any bridge
across the Ohio river, between COvingtOn
and Cincinnati. Mr.. Wright, from the com
/ mittee on claims, reported adversely on the
! petition of Mississippi asking that the time
! be extended for the presentation of claims
before the southern claims commission. Mr.
! COnOver introduced a bill to authorize the
secretary of the navy to dispose of unservice-
able material, and for other purposes. The
/ main feature OF Senator ChrIstianCy'S bill
regarding elections in Utah, is a restriction
of the elective franchise of male citizens of
/ the age of twenty-One years and upward, who
! have not violated the law of the United
/ States of July /, 1862, by commencing the
practice of pOlygamy subsequent to that
date. The senate then resumed the cOnsid-
Grafton of unfinished business, being the bill
comforting exclusive Jurisdiction over Indian
reservations upon United States courts, and
/ for the punishment of crimes committed by
and against Indians, the pending amend
ment being that providing that the second
/ section shall not be construed to prevent the
cutting of timber or grass, or the use of stone,
/ on any Indian reservation, as may be neces-
sary for the army or the use of several agen-
! Cies located On such reservation, and it was
/ agreed to- A long discussion ensued, in
volving questions of Indian civilization,
4 opening up the Black Hills to miners, the
/ treaty obligation, etc. Pending the discus
/ sion, Mr.. Edwards, from the Judiciary com
mittee, reported fayOrably on a bill to change
the time for holding the terms of the district
court for tue district of West Virginia.
Passed, and the senate adjourned
/ In the senate, on the oath, house bill
to reorganize the judiciary of the United
States was read by lis title and referred to
the committee judiciary. The following
/ bills were introduced and referred: To
/ grant certain rights to the Central Texas and
/ FL PasO railroad company, and to provide
! for continuous through line of railroad b,-
| tween the cities of the lower Mississippi
| river and Gulf of Mexico and Pacific ocean !;
/ to provide for means of cheap transportation
/ upon interior waters, and to restore ocean
/ carrying trade of the United States, and for
| other purposes. Mr.. Withers called up SEN
/ ate bill to amend the act of February IL
! 1871, granting pensions to certain soldiers
and sailors of the war of 1872 and to wild
| Ows of deceased soldiers, and to restore to
/ the pension rolls those persons whose names
were stricken therefrOm in consequence of
dislOyalty. Pending discussion the morning
/ hour expired, and the bill was laid over
I The senate then resumed the cOnsider alton
/ of the unfinished business, being Il motion
OF Mr. WadIeigh to reconsider the vote by
which the report of the committee of con-
/ ference on joint resolution to pay interest on
/ 500 District of Columbia bonds was passed.
Pending the question to lay the motion to
reconsider on the table, it was agreed to
33 to 2S. Mr.. Sargent submitted an amend
ment to a bill under consideration during
/ the morning hour III regard to the TeStOra-
ton OF certain persons to the pension rolls,
so as to provide that no person shall be re-
stored to the pension rolls under this act un-
less the commissioner of pensions be salts
I fed as to the identity of such persons. Or
/ dered to be printed. The senate took up
/ the bill COnferring exclusive jurisdiction
/ over Indian reservations upon the United
/ States courts, and for the punishment of
I crimes committed by and against Indians.
/ Mr.. Window moved that the bill be referred
4 to the committee on Indian affairs. After
/ further discussion, the motion of Mr.. Win
dom to refer the bill was agreed toll to 13-
I 4 message from the house of representa-
! tives was received, announcing the action of
/ that body in respect to the memory Of the
! late w. Fl. StarkweatheT Mr.. English sub
mitted a resolution that the business of the
1 senate be suspended, that the friends of the
/ deceased might pay fitting tribute to his
| public and private virtues Agreed TO- and
the senate adjourned. sF
In the senate, on the 25th, after some
ment, the bills reported by the finance COM
mittee on Wednesday, to amend acts of July
. ii, 1870, and January 20, 1871, to authorize
refunding of the national debt. The bill, as
passed, amends the acts named So as to pro-
vide that the amount of bonds bearing four
and one-half per cent. interest authorized
/ to be issued, be increased to S5OO,O00gO0, ana
! that they be payable at the pleasure of the
United States after thirty years from the
/ 10, Of hair of aft
years It also provides that the act shall not
1 be construed to authorize any increase of the
j total amount of bonds provided for by the
acts named, nor to authorize any increase
whatever of the bonded debt of the United
States. Mr.. MOrrIf OF Vermont from the
committee of revolutionary war claims, re-
ported adversely on the bill 20 provide for
the settlement Ol claims of officers Of the
revolutionary army, and the widows and
children of those who died IN the service,
and it was indefinitely postponed. Mr.. Ere
+ linghuysen, from the committee on agricul-
7 ture reported fayOrably on the house resOiU-
tion to print extra copies Of the report of the
commissioner of agriculture for the year
1878. Passed. Mr.. Allison called up house
bill making appropriations for the support OF
the military academy for the fiscal year end
ing June Is, 1877. First amendment re-
ported by the committee on appropriations
was for additional pay of professors for
length of service St, 500. Pending discussion,
{ the senate went INTO executive session. ana
J soon after adjourned un'il Monday.
HOUSE
In the house, on the 21st, Mr. Whit
i thome introduced a resolution to authorize
the mixed commission to inquire and report
as to the future naval policy of the United
States. The house then proceeded to vote on
the bill to organize the Judiciary, and it was
passed-14S To 1872. Mr.. Ellis offered a reso-
luton for the appointment of a asub-cenimittee
10 visit and take testimony in regard to the
Mississippi river and the region subject to
overflow, in order to obtain such data and
practical information as to make the neces-
sary amount of appropriation; provided. that