The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-03-16
CONGRESSIONAL.
SEN ATE.

Nevada for SIX years, from March i, 1875
| Bills were introduced and referred rs fol-
| lows: To authorize the third auditor of the
treasury to examine the evidence of the pay
ment made by the state of Missouri to state
| troops serving in the Union army, and also
| the evidence as to supplies furnished the
troops, which are yet unpaid, To Compen-
| safe Clark Mills for plaster model Of Gen
| eral Rawlins. Mr.. Sargent presented a pc
| titiOn from the national women's suffrage as
! sOciation, asking that the women of Utah be
protected in exercising the right of the cleo
| tive franchise. Referred. The senate took
| up the house bill to amend act of March ,
| 1875, to enable the people of Colorado to form
| a constitution and state government, and for
/ the admission of SAID state into the Union on
/ equal footing with original states The bill
was read third time and passed. The SEN
| ate then resumed the consideration of IN
| finished business, being bill making appro-
| priations for the support of the military
| academy for the fiscal year ending June 80,
! 1877 The following amendments were agreed
| to: For additional pay of professors for
| length OF service OF S6SOO; for the pay of one
| instructor OF practical military engineering,
| in addition to pay as first lieutenant, of 5000;
| apprOpriating 5000 extra pay for one in
! struCtOr of ordnance; $4,000 for pay of eight
| assistant professors, in addition to their pay
as first heUtenants; $500 for extra pav of
| three instructors of cavalry, artillery and in
| fantry; $1,000 for extra pay of four assistant
| instructors of tactics, and $500 for extra pay
/ of adjutant. A long and somewhat amusing
| debate ensued in reference to West Point
| and marine bands, pending which discussion
| the senate went into executive session and
| soon after adjourned.
In the senate, on the 29th, Mr.. Bayard,
from the committee on finance, reported
| favorably on senate bill extending the time
for the redemption of lands held by the
United States under the several acts 1evying
/ 4 -, i IL
| time for redemption Of such property until
| the lst OF February, 1877. The senate re-
| sumed consideration of the bill making ap-
| prOpriatiOns for support of the military
1 academy for the fiscal year ending June so,
/ 1877, and the following amendments were
| agreed to: For pay of military academy
! band, S14,S $50; to increase the appropriations
| for repairs, improvements, etc, from $4,000
| to S14,5O0; apprOpriating 81 800 for clerk to
! adjutant and the same sum to clerk to treas
| urer; increasing appropriation for the de-
| partment OF natural and experimental phi
| lOsOphy from $500 to 81 600 providing that
| the professor of law may be commissioned in
| the same manner as other professors, and
| increasing the pay of librarians assistant
| from 81 200 to $500; to increase the apprO-
priatiOn for contingencies for superintendent
| of the academy from s., 900 to 81, 800 Amend
| ments made in the committee of the whSIe
were concurred in, and the bill was read the
third time and passed. Adjourned.
In the senate, March 1st, Senator Ere
| Iinghuysen, from the committee on agricul-
ture, reported adversely to the senate bill to
provide for an investigation as to the habits
of the Rocky mountain locust or sO-caIled
! grasshOppeT. He also reported, from the
! same committee, favorably on the senate bill
! for the protection of agriculture against in
| curious insects, with amendments, which was
ordered to be printed and placed on the cal
! endar. bill was introduced and referred
! apprOpriating three million two hundred
/ thousand dollars for the purpose of repair
| ing and i'll part rebuilding the levees of the
! Mississippi river, providing for the expendi-
tUre and for other purposes. Referred. SEN
| atOr Cooper, from the committee public
| buildings and grounds, reported favOrablv
| upon the house bill authorizing the purchase
| of additional ground for the custOm-hOuse at
Nashville. Passed. The senate then pro-
ceeded to consider the resolution for the
| admission of Pinchback as senator from
1 Louisiana. Senator Alcorn urged that the
! credentials OF Pinehback were in due form
| of law, and upon them he should be seated.
! He spoke at length IN favor of Mr.. Pinch
| back. Senator Norwood said that the sena-
tor from Mississippi had, as a member of the
committee on privileges and elections, re-
| ported that the election in Louisiana was an
1 organized fraud, and he Norwood did not
see how an organized fraud could elect a
| United States senator. Other remarks were
made, but no action taken. Senator Bout
well entered a motion to reconsider the vote
| by which the bill apprOpriating seventy-fiye
thousand dollars for the st. Louis custom
house and pOstOffice was passed. The senate
then went into executive session, and soon
adjourned.
In the senate, on the ID, Mr.. Davis
presented the petition of citizens Of West
| Virginia, in favor of aid to the Texas Pacific
| railroad, providing that the iron used in the
| construction of such road be of American
manufacture. At the expiration of the morn
ing hour, the consideration of the resolution
for the admission of Pinchback was resumed.
By request of Mr. Edmunds, who was en-
titled to the floor, the matter was laid over.
| Mr.. Conkling, from the committee on COM
meTce, reported adversely en- the senate bill
| 10 make Chattanooga, Tenn, port of de-
livery. Indefinitely postponed. The Joint
resolution in regard to the centennial cele-
| bratiOn was agreed to. The following bills
| were passed: To reduce the number and in
crease the efficiency of the medical corps of
| the army; to extend the time for filing claims
for additional bounty under the act of May
2S, 1866. Adjourned.
In the senate, on the Sd, the chair
presented the credentials of james B. Beck,
United States senator from Kentucky, for a
period of six years from March 4, 1877. Read
and laid on the table. Bills were introduced
and referred as follows: Fixing the rate OF
| postage on third-class mail matter and for
! other purposes: to restore the franking priv
| ilege The latter bill Provides simply for the
| repeal of the act of January, 81, 1873, which
| abolished it, and for its immediate renewal
| in the form in which 1t existed at the time of
the passage of said act Mr.. Morton pre-
sented a petition from the colored men of
| Texas, representing that the present state
government of Texas denied them ample
school facilities, and asking for such legisla-
ton as will compel the state to maintain a
! system of free schools. Referred. Mr.. Nor
| ton submitted q resolution apprOpriating
| $4,000 out of the contingent fund of the
senate to defray the expenses of investiga-
| ton into the facts attending the election Of
/ Hon. G. Z. Spencer as U. S. senator from
| Alabama, now being made by the committee
on privileges and elections. Agreed to. At
one o'clock a committee of the house Of rep
| resentatives appeared at the bar of the sen
ate and announced the action of the house in
| regard to the impeachment of Senator Bel
| I1nap. Mr.. Edmunds called up the resolu-
tions from the house in regard to the i'm
peachment of the late secretary of war, which
| were read, with a statement of the committee
above mentioned, and referred to a select
/ committee of FIVE, consisting of Messrs. Ed
munds, Con1ling, Frelinghuysen, Thurman
and Stevenson. After executive session the
senate adjourned till Monday.
HOUSE.
In the house, on the 28th, Mr.. Holman
presented memorial signed by nineteen
hundred and sixteen soldiers of Indiana in
the late war, asking for equalization of boun-
ties. The following bills were introduced
and referred: Directing compensation for
the use of property during the late war; to
aid the completion of the Washington monu-
ment; for the protection of agriculture from
| the injuries of insects; declaring the Black
| Hills open to exploration and settlement;
10 reimburse the states for expenses incurred
in the late rebellion. The speaker then
called the states for bills. The following
were introduced: Authorizing the payment
to the executor Of Henry Wilson, late vice