The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-04-20

/ on expenditures in the department of JUS
! tice, reported bill to regulate the employ
ment of special counsel for the government,
/ and authorizing 1t only on the certificate of
| the judge that it IS necessary, and requiring
| the judge also to fix the fees. in his expla-
| nation of the bill, Mr.. Durham instanced the
! whisky trials in the west, where one of the
! special counsel claims a fee of twenty six
| thousand dollars. The bill passed. The
! house then went into committee of the whole
! on the Legislative appropriation bill. With
4 out making much progress the committee
rose, and the house tOek recess. The even
| ing session was consumed in discussion of
| the salary bill. The presidents salary is
fixed at twenty-five thousand dollars, to take
! effect after the fourth of MAJ ch, 1877. Four
teen pages of the bill were disposed of, and
| the house adjourned.
In the house, ON the 9Th, Mr.. Cox
| reported a bill to regulate the winding up of
the national banks. He explained that the
object of the bill was to facilitate liquidation
and that insolvent banks may be perfectly
and speedily closed up in the interest of the
public. Passed. A message was received
from the senate informing the house that the
senate had organized for the trial and i'm
parchment of w. w. Belknap, and was ready
to receive the managers at its bar. Mr.. Hub
bell reported back adversely the bill fixing
legal rate of interest on national money
ing SIX per cent. per annum, and afhXing
penalties for its violation. Pending action
on the bill, the morning hour expired. The
impeachment managers presented themselves
at the bar of the house, and stated that they
proceeded to the bar of the senate and that
the senate had fixed Monday, the seven
teenth, as the day on which they would
make process returnable against W. w. Bel
knap, late secretary of war. The house then
went into committee of the whele, on the bill
to transfer the Indian bureau from the in
terror to the war department. Mr.. Parks
spoke IN favor of the bill Mr.. Cox opposed
the bill, suggesting that the present system
was hell, the Indian was in hell, and the low
est depth was the interior department; the
still lower. depth that was threatening to de-
YOUR him. was to be found in the war depart
ment. tie recommended the Canadian Indian
policy, under which the Indians cost at the
rate of two dollars and thirty-fve cents each,
while under our system the cost some sixty
dollars each. He referred to Gen. Sheri-
dau's campaign against the Indians in 1868,
as an expensive one, and its climax, the
assassination of Black Kettles band of
| Cheyennes, as an outrage that had no par
allel in baTbarity. In conclusion, he declared
that a peaceful policy, such as that which
was the kindest, wisest and best, was the
policy of human advancement. The COM
mittee then rose, and the house took recess.
In the evening session there were discussions
over the restoration of the franking privilege.
the reduction of the clerical force In the
state department, and various items of no
public moment. Only two pages of the bill
were disposed of, when the house adjourned.
In the house, on the 9th, the bill to
provide for the deficiency in the printing
bureau and fer the issue of silver coin in
place of fractional currency is amended by
the senate finance committee by striking out
the third section and providing in lieu of it
that there shall be coined a new silver dol
lar of four and half and eght-tenths grains
of standard silver, and that this new coin
shall be legal-tender to the amount of twenty
dollars in any one payment, except Tor Gus
toms and for interest on the public debt.
Another amendment provides that the trade
dollar shall not hereafter be legai-tendeT
for any amount whatever. Mr.. Holman re-
ported back the senate bill fixing the pTeSi-
dental salary, after March 4, 1877, at S25,0OO.
Passed without discussion. The house then
went into committee of the whole on the
legislative appropriation bill. After Pro
crossing as far the 25th page of the bill,
the committee rose and the house adjourned.
In the house, on the 9TH, Mr.. Whit
thorne reported resolution instructing the
subcommittee to proceed to Philadelphia
and League island navy-yards to inquire into
certain alleged abuses and frauds. Adopted.
The house then went into committee Of the
whole on the private calendar. After the
passage of a number of private bills, bill
for the payment of certain war claims, apply
ing to over two hundred individuals in diff
ferent states and aggregating $4,000, was
reported back from the committee, with the
recommendation that it pass, and after dis
cussiOn it was passed. The house then ad-
iOUTned.