The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-04-27

| The house went into committee OF the whole
/ on the bill to carry the Hawaiian treaty into
operation, and it was addressed by Mr.
| Banks in advocacy of the measure. Ad'
| oUrned.
| In the house, on the 1Ith, Mr.. KehI
reported bill to authorize the construction
| of bridge across the Missouri river at OF
I near Sioux City, Iowa. After explanation
| the bill passed. Mr.. Wells, from the com.
mittee on appropriations, reported the def
cheney bill and said he would try and get
action on it tomorrow. The bill apprOpriates
| 1862, ,486 The house then proceeded to the
consideration, as special order, of the bill
reported by Mr. Reagan concerning com
merce and navigation and regulation of steam
vessels. The bill was amended in various
respects and passed. The senate bill apprO-
priating $25, 900 for improvement of the cap
itol grounds was amended by reducing the
amount to $25, 900, and passed. The evening
session was given to the consideration of the
| legislative appropriation bill. Discussion and
action on the legislative bill were confined
to the reduction of special treasury agents,
limited to ten to a proposition of Mr. White
to relieve small private distillers from tax
alton, which was voted down, and to a yari.
ETY. of minor matters connected with officials
OF the internal revenue, their numbers and
compensation. After little progress with the
bill, the house adjourned.
III LA4C AADNACCJ OlA GlAC AGlly MI 1AOdl
offered a resolution instructing the judiciary
committee to inquire what steps have been
taken for properly representing the interests
of the United States in the suit instituted
against the Credit Mobifier and others under
the provisions of the act of Sd of March, 1873,
and also whether the Union Pacific railroad
company has not forfeited its charter, and
whether the same should net be repealed
because the company resisted the recovery
in its behalf of its capital stock, wrongfully
withdrawn by means of fictitious construction
contracts or unlawful dividends. Adopted.
Mr.. Harris, from the election committee,
made a report on the Minnesota election case,
that Sterret, the sitting member, is entitled
! to the seat. Ordered to be printed. The
house then took up the deficiency bill, and
Mr.. Wells made explanations as to the bill.
The bill was amended in various minor par
ticulars and passed. The house then went
into committee Of the whole on the bill to
transfer the Indian bureau to the war de-
partment, and was addressed BY Mr.. Cook in
support of the bill. Without making any
further progress on the bill the house ad-
jOurned.
In the house, on the 18th, Mr. Walling
reported back the bill 10 authorize claimants
on even numbered sections of land within
twenty mile limits of the Northern Pacific
railroad to make proof and payment for their
CIdlIu dl q ullIlllluLl IdIG Ol one uuuOTeu ana
twenty-five dollars per acre. Passed. The
bill for the restoration to market of the
Uintah Indian reservation, Utah, passed !;
also the bill respecting limits of reservation
for town sites on the public domain. Mr..
Sayler reported senate bill to confirm the
pre-emptiOn and homestead entries of public
lands within the limits of railroad granting
cases, where such entries have been made
under the regulations of the land depart
ment. Passed. The morning hour having
expired, Mr.. Scales moved to go into COM
mittee of the whole on the bill to transfer
the Indian bureau to the war department.
Agreed to. The house thereupOn went into
committee of the whole, and Mr.. Cook con-
clUded his speech of yesterday in favor of
the transfer to the war department Mr..
Seelye spoke against the bill. Mr.. Hooker
advocated it. At the evening session vari-
GUS amendments to the bill were offered and
rejected; and after progressing as far as page
81, the committee rose ana the house ad-
iOurned to Saturday.
In the house, on the 18th, Mr.. White
offered a resolution instructing the judiciary
committee to inquire into that Mr. Smith,
journal clerk of the house, offered to prose-
cute additional bounty claims for a commits
sion. Mr.. Douglas reported bill to amend
the charter of the Freedman's bank. Made
special order for Saturday next. Mr. Knott
administration of Oaths in impeachment
trials. Passed. Mr.. Hurd reported a resO-
luton in the habeas corpus case of Hallet
KilbOurne, the reCGsant witness in the real
estate pool investigation, directing the ser
geant-at-arms to make careful return to the
writ, setting out the causes of detention of
KiibOurne, and retain custody of his body
and not to produce it before the Judge or
court without further order of the house. He
intimated that the testimony of KilbOume
might impliCate high officials, and that all
efforts in the direction of investigation would
be thwarted if he were taken out of the power
of the house. Mr. Lynde offered, on behalf
of the minority, a substitute for the resOlu-
ton, directing the sergeant-at arms to make
a careful return to the writ of habeas corpus
that the prisoner is duly held by authority of
the house IN proceedings against him for
contempt, and to take with him the body of
KiibOurne before the court when making
such return. Mr.. KassOn hoped that the
time was long distant when American
citizen whose property or liberty was in
vOlved was to find his final court in the house
OF representatives. Mr.. Kelly argued against
the resolution offered by Mr.. Hurd. He be-
| lieyed that the commitment of kilbOurne
was a grave mistake, which no court has
made, and which the house would not have
made if it had heard KIlbOurne through his
counsel Mr.. HOar said this was a question
| before the house. Was the extent of rights
! of this house limited by the discretion and
! by tie judgment of single judge of the
| supreme court of the District of Columbia?
| If so, then that court has a right to do the
same next week to the senate. Mr.. Garfield
| quoted from Mays parliamentary law, to the
! effect that habeas corpus law in binding on
| all persons whatever, and that it is therefore
! competent for judges to have before them
persons committed by houses of parliament
for contempt. Mr.. Hurd stated that he had
| lust been informed by the sergeant-at-arms
| that he had appeared before the judge this
! morning, and that hearing of the case had
| been postponed until next Tuesday. lie
| therefore gave notice that he would call the
previous question Monday at three O'Clock.
! Adjourned.