The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-11-29

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| adjourned.
The House, on the Doth, went into com
mittee of the whole, Mr.. Springer in the char.
on the Paris exposition bill. The committee
arose, and the house ordered that all debate
| on the fourth section of the bill should cease.
The house then again went into committee of
| the whole, and the various amendments that
were afterward offered were disposed of
without discussion. Then the bill was
| passed; yeas, 1873; nays, 124. Mr.. ONeill
presented a petition from all but one Of the
Philadelphia national banks, and of certain
Trust and Saving Fund companies, against
the unlimited circulation of silver coin.
Referred. Adjourned.
The House, on the 21st, went into
committee of the whole, Mr.. Wright in the
chsir, on the deficiency appropriation bill.
The committee soon afterwards rose and
| reported the bill and the amendments The
vote on the amendment appThpriating 81 o.
600 for star service in the mail contracts was
ordered to be taken by yeas and nays and
resulted: Yeas 10S, nays 129, so the amend
ment was rejected. There was an effort on
the democratic side of the house to have the
bill finally disposed of this evening, appa-
rently in order to get it cut of the way OF
the snti-resumption bill, but there was no
disposition manifested on the republican
side of the house to aid the democrats in
doing so. Several motions to adjourn were
made and voted on by yeas and nays The
North Carolina and Texas members, who de-
sired a reconsideration of the vote on the
star mail service amendment, were the most
active in their efforts to delay the final action
of the deficiency bills, and eventually the
committee on appropriations had to yield the
point and let the bill go over without final
action. House adjourned.
In the House, on the 22nd, bills were
introduced and referred by Mr.. Mills author
izing the secretary of the treasury to owners
the value of the cotton seized by treasury
officials since May 402, ,855; also for the pay
ment of all debts contracted by the govern
ment in certain states since the close of the
war. By Mr.. Franklin: For the Organiza-
tion of the territory of Okl8hama. By Mr..
Davis: To exempt stcamplOw machinery
from the payment Of duty, By Mr.. Stone:
In creating postal savings banks The house
then resumed the considering the vote yes
terday rejecting the amendment offered by
Mr.. Waddell, and spprUDristing 100000 for
the star service in carrying the mails. The
motion to reconsider was laid on the table.
Yeas, 144; nays, III. The bill was then
passed. The speaker stated that the special
order of the bill to repeal the resumption act
now came up, and that the gentleman from
Ohio (Ewing) was entitled to an hour to close
the debate. At the conclusion of his speech,
which was listened to with the closest stten-
J ton and interest on both sides of the cham
Der, the house adjourned.
In the house on the 23d, Mr.. Fort
proceeded to address the House in advocacy
of his substitute for the bill to repeal the
| regumption act The sneaker announced
that the vote would be on the bill as amend
ed, that is, on Forts substitute for it. Some
ten or twelve pairs were announced, among
/ them Cox of New York with Keefer; Kstch-
am, who would have voted no, with Lynde,
who would have voted aye. There were also
some half-dozen absentees Unpsired, includ-
ing CasweIl, Hazleton, DarralI and Strait, all
of whom would have voted aye. The result
was announced, yeas 132, nays 120, so the
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the bill as passed A bill to repeal all that
part of the act approved January Il, 1875,
known as the resumption act, which author
lied the secretary of the treasury to dispose
of United States bonds, and redeem and
cancel greenback currency. That all that
portion of the act approved January Il,
1875, entitled sn act to provide for the re-
demption of specie payments, which reads as
follows, tO-wit: And whenever and so often
as circulating notes shall be issued to any
such banking association so increasing its
its capital or circulating notes. or so newly
organized as aforesaid IL shall be the duty of
the secretary of the treasury to redeem legal
tender United States notes IN excess only of
$4,000 200 to the amount of so per centum
of the sum of the national bank notes so
issued to any such banking association as
| aforesaid, and to continue such redemption
as such circulating notes are issued, until
there shall be outstanding sum of the $780,
| 100000 of such legal tender United States
notes and no more, and on and sitter the 1st
|, day of January, A. d. 1879, the secretary of
= | the treasury shall redeem IN coin United
States legal tender notes then outstanding,
| on their presentation for redemption at the
| offices of the assistant treasurer of the
United States, in the city of New York in
sums not less than $50, and to enable the
secretary of the treasury to prepare and pro-
vide for the redemption In this act author
lied or required, he be authorized TO use any
surplus revenues from time to time in the
treasury not otherwise appropriated, and to
issue, sell and dispose of at not less than par
in coin, either description of bonds of the
United States described in the act of con-
| gress approved July II, 1870, entitled an act
to authorize the refuDding OF the national
debt with like qualities, privileges and
exemptions, to the extent necessary to carry
this act into full effect, and to use the pro-
ceeds thereof for the purpose aforesaid, be
and the same is hereby repealed. Following
is the vote in detail:
Yeas-Atkins Bakerl Ind }. Banning, ,Bayne, Bell,
Blackburn, Bland, Boong1 BTagg. BEogden, BTTowne'
CaIkins, Cannon, Carlisle Chalmers, Clark CKyD,
Clark a9a DST
Dibbrell, DiokeY, Douglass Durham. Eden, Elan,
ney. Fort, Frsnkiin. Fuller, Gardner, Garth Gid
dngs Glover, Geods, GnnteT Hamiltoa; 5a59S' qi3a
HaTtseII. Haskell, Hatcher, Hayes, Henkle, Henry,
Hunten, Humphr y, Jones a - Jenes o. 3 Kelly
Kenqa. kilIiT Knapp knGtt k ,dg22; aeoENey. ny
NsRon. Mills Morgan. Muidrow, oliver, Phelps,
Riddie. Robbins Roberts. Ro6eTison La: Robin
sgoR Rysn s&BRh smith & sPsr 9fsy
Steele, Thompson, ihrockmort0n. Upton, Io%ns- x
Rseq ToorheeE, S1E waddei walker, walsh White Pa
White Gnd.l, WhitthorBel Williams lAla.l, Wills
Ky Wilson, Wright, Yeates ana Young13.
Says-Aldrich, Bacon. Bagley, Baker q: ", Bal
lou, Banks, Beebet Benedict, Bisbee Bier; Boyd-
Brentano, Brewer, Briggs. BUrChard. Burdick Cain
Camp, Campbell. Crittenden, Cl tnib, CiaTE n. -
CLARK ia D. Cole Cor er. Covert, Cox tO.), CrapO,
Cummings, Cutler, Danford. Davis tCal }, DeeTing,
Denson. Duuneli, Dwight, Eames Elcknon. Ells-
worth Evans PA ,, Foster. freeman, 'ye, TaTneId
Hart, Hendee, Henderson, Hewitt n: IL huDbeH'
Hungerford, 1ttner. James, Jones \. H., JoTsen-
DathTOn. Leonard d, Lindsey L-'ckWood;r H9rl,ng'
! LuttTPll, Mayham. mCCOOk. hctIOWan. mch hinleN,
Metcafe, Mitchell. onroe. Morrison, mo-se' a 1er
horcross, O'Eeal, Overton, Pacheco Page, PatteT-
SON Peddie, Potter, Pound, Powers; Price, Pugh'
| Quinn. Rainey, Randolph, Reed kice N as sss. "
Robinson Mass ). Ross, sampson, Schle cherShsl
| IenberZeT SinnickGOn. StenReTs stewart. stone
lMich.) T. orn6uTgh. Townsend o Malt, warner
Watson, WEIGH, Williams (mich.1 william > } b
Efliiams wis ! Williams OregOn1 Willtts \ y
Wood and ren-l2p
Mr., Butler (Mass.l occupied himself in
looking at a newspaper. aud did Ote at
all. The speaker laid before the house some
fortv applications for leave of absence. Mr..
Wood IN W objected 10 all of them except
to those IN cases Of sickness, and said that
he expected there could be a final adjourn
ment by Tuesday next. Mr. Conger asked
him to have that question fixed at once. Mr..
Wood declined to call up the resolution Tor
6nal adjournment on the ground that the
senate was probably not disposed to an early
adjournment The house adjourned till
Tuesday.
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