The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-11-22
HOUSE OF REPREsENTATIvE Es.

In the House, on the 18th, the army
bill passed without division. A cOmmuniCa
ton was read from the secretary Of war de
Tending his department from charges made
in Saturdays debate in regard to unautbOr-
lied recruiting. He claims the right on the
part of the president to authorize recruiting
even were there was no appropriation, and
! explains that it was authorized under urgent
circumstances by Gen. Sherman in the Pa
! citic department to carry on the Indian war.
Adjourned.
/ In the House, on Ihe-l3th, bills were
/ introduced and referred by Mr. Banks to eX-
/ tend, facilitate and cheaper land aud water
/ transportation of freight and passengers, aud
/ to promote industry and labor without
! further appropriation of the public debt
+ The house then went into a committee of the
whole, Blackburn (ky.) in the chair, on the
/ deficiency bill. The total amount appropri-
/ ated by the bill is 81, ,25O.665, of which 81 >
/ 446,6SS is for the navy, S3Il ,653 for amount
/ due SeHgman Brothers, London, $4,000 for
/ marine corps bill; also provides for the pay
! ment u s. Judges etc. After considerable
/ discussion, in which Mr.. BlOunt, who had
charge of the bill, promised inquiry into the
/ division of the pay fund, and Mr.. Hale said
J the late secretary might be scrutlnized from
cellar to garret, and there would not be
| found a single dollar of all the millions that
/ had been appropriated to a purpose outside
/ of the maintainauce of the American navy
/ in a proper form, the bill passed without di-
vision. The house then proceeded to the
/ consideration of the bill to repeal the re-
| sumption act At close of discussion the
/ house adjourned.
! The House, on the 14th, resumed the
consideration of the bill for the repeal of the
resumption act. After lengthy debate the
matter went over without action, and the
house adjourned.
In the House, on the 10Th, the follow
/ lowing bills we're introduced and referred
T--A uocI-a1I- Drpvdiuu for no T,ny mi
| of duties on imports in gold, silver and legal
| tender notes. BY Mr. SchleICher: PrOvId
| ing for cheap transportation between tide
! water on the Atlantic and Ohio and Missls
| siPpi valleys. BY Mr. Mills: A memorial oi
/ the state grange OF Texas for the appoint
ment OF a cOmmi issioneF of agriculture a
/ cabinet officer. By Mr.. Sapp: For the con
stTuCtiOn of a railway from New York 70
| Council Bluffs, Iowa. The house then re
| sumed the repeal of the resumption act. Mr.
Kelly read from an article in the North
| American Review, over the signature O1
Hugh McCOllOch, which he said exhibited an
ignorance disereditable to the country whose
secretary of the treasury its author had been
and mendacitY which invoked all the op
DrObriOus epithets that ever had been hurried
from a reporters desk. He went on to say
that congress, in legislsting for the resumP
! t!On OF specie payments was legislstng ar
| impossIbility. The laws of trade could NO
be controlled by the wisest governme mt
| bISSHpaChs h8u beSH ''N' 90 '''
curse of the country, and yet 1t was green
| backs-the " rag bahy'-thst had saved tht
union. When gold had disappeared and haC
left the country, then the Tdg-baby had step
ped forward and had kept armies in the field
and supplied munitions, food and transporta
ton That which had served so well in wal
! was not deserving the contempt which wa
! being heaped upon il in peace that which
gave the nation credit to the amount o
| 8, 700, 600, 600 was certainly enough to sus
tain credit of 8 100000. He pre-
| dicted, in spite Of jeers and SCOTS, that if the
| resumption act was to be maintained, the
suferings OF the past two years, when com
pared with the sufferingB yet 30 come, would
be as light as the chill that slights on tropi.
cal plants when compared with the Arctic
cold that builds up the mountainous iceberg
He asked the house to wine out that ruinous
statute; as it stood It was "a meEace to Goa,
tidence, the steady destroyer Of credit. II