The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-03-14

ment of claims reported allowed by the
secretary of the treasury were concurred in.
] The speaker then called on committees for
reports. Mr.. CKapo, from the committee on
| foreign affairs, reported back the bill stp-
| Elementary to the act 10 carry into effect
] convention Between the United States and
| China. COncurreQ in, and to give the court
of claims Jurisdiction in certain cassSSSSs. Ine
| bill authorizing any person or persons haV>
| ing any claims against the balance of fund
| designated as the Chinese indemnity fund
| for losses sustSined by the plundet of the
bark Caldefa III 1854 to c0fnmenee within
| twelve months next after the passage of this
act proceedings in the United States, court OF
claims, Passed.. The committee then
| went into a committee of the whole hfr
| Porter in the chair, on the fortifcation an.
preparation bill. The bill appropriates one
| hundred thousand dollars for the protection
| of Notifications and other works of defense
/ one hundred and twenty-four thousand dol
lars for the armament of fOrtifeations, and
I htty thousand dollars for torpedos and for
| harbOr defense. The bill was read, and, with
| the amendment, laid aside to be reported to
| the house committee. IA. Mr.. Kelley took the
| hOor by unanimous consent, and brbcesded
| to make a speech on the resumption ques-
| ton, The speech was in reply to Mr.. GAR
| held some months ago. He denied Mr..
| Garheld's statement that the year 1868 was
| prosperous one, and quoted from various
authorities to sustain his position. In reply
| to Mr.. Garfeld's assertion that no president
or statesman had favored any money but the
standard of gold and silver, he said that
Jefferson and Madison were exceptions to
that sweeping assertion, and Alexander
Hamilton had favored resort to greenbacks
under the name of treasury notes. He also
contradicted the assertion Of Mr.. Garfield as
| to the hesitation and unWillingness Of sena>
tors and members to pass the legal tender
act, and he quoted Thaddeus Stevens, Hoop
er and Senator ShefIiah in commendation of
tnat measure. He denied Mr., Ciarfeld's
assertion that greenback currency was a
forced loan, and said the forced 1oen is a
debt, and greenbHcks Is the money with
which we pay the debt. If the gehtfelnan's
assertion had been made In 1852 il Would
! nave been denounced &c the kissing of a
Yenomcus copperhead. Coming down to the
question of specie resumption, he said with
sixty-fve million dollars of gold in the treas
ury, with none in the hands of the people
and with seven hundred million dollars to
be redeemed the proposition was q measure
of insanity. 1t was this proposition which
was driving the people to paqpetisrn, to
luhacg, to suicide, and yrs creating a mon
eyed oligarchy whose wealth, compared with
Inc body of the people, would be greater
than that of the moneyed oligarchy of Eng
land......M Mr.. Garfield rose to reply to him,
and is to have an hour for that purpose,
when the house again goes into committee
on the The committee rose and Mr.
patation of fine or standard silver bars of
value of $l0l ,0Ol; deposit the same in the
United States treasury, and issue of certih~
Gates therein. Referred. Adjourned.
In the house, on the. 9Th, at the con-
clusion of the morning hour the speaker
| Laid Before the house a n-essage from the
president, returning, without approval, the
| house bill authorizing a special term Of the
circuit court of the United States for the
| southern district of Mississippi, to be held
at Scranton the second Monday IN March.
The message stated that there was not suffi-
cient time to give notice of the holding of
! the said special term, and the government
could not prepare for the trial at the said
! term, because no funds would be available
| for that purpose. The bill an message
were referred. Adjourned.
The house, on the 9Th, went into com.
mittee of the whole on the deficiency appro-
| priation bili After further discussion on
this point by Messrs. Randall, Foster and
! Cox, tie consideration of the bill was pro-
| ceeded With, and finally the committee rose
| and reported the bill and 1t was passed. It
appropriates six thousand hve hhndred dol
| lafs for temporary clerks in the treasury
/ twenty thousand dollars for clerks to inves-
| tigate fraudulent land entries, etc.; twenty
five thousand dollars for clerks in the gen
! eral land Office to bring into the market
public lands in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mis-
sissippi, Alabama and Florids, and four
pension office. Adjourned.
In the house, on the 8th, the commit
tee on Pacific railroads agreed to recommend
the passage of a bill appropriating twenty
| thousand dollars for the survey of railroad
from Austin, Texas, through Chihuahua and
| Sonora to TOpolovampO harbOr, gulf of Cali
! fornia. The house then went into COM
mittee of the whole, Mr., Price in the chair,
upon the private calendar of unfinished
| business it being the bill for the payment
of certain ante bellum southern mail cons
tractors. Without action on the bill the
house adjourned.
The house, on the 9th, went into com
mittee of the whole on the consular and di-
plomatic appropriation bill, Mr.. Cox, of New
York, IN the chair. The bill appropFiates
$1,036,935, a reduction of $102, ,459 from the
| appropriation of last year, and a reduction
of $177, ,462 from the estimates of the state
department. The salaries of ministers to
LGreat Britain, France, Germany and Russia
is fixed at fifteen thousand dollars each; to
Spainj Austria, Italy, Brazil, Mexico, Japan
and China at ten thousand dollars each; to
Chill and Peru at six thousand dollars each;
to Sweden, Norway, Turkey, Venezuela,
Hawaiian islands, Argentine Republic and
United States of Colombia, seven thousand
five hundred dollars each; to Bolivia, five
thousand dollars to Guatemala, Costa Rica
Honduras, Salvador and Nicaragua, one
minister, ten thousand dollars; to Hayti
! nV6 tnOuSanQ OOttarSS 10 LIBERIA TWO tnOu-
sand five hundred dollars. Mr.. Singleton, 8
member of the committee on appropriations
explained that the committee had reduced
the salaries of the four principal ministers
abroad from seventeen TO fifteen thousand
dollars, an amount amply sufficient, consid
ering the work to be done by them. Ht
referred to the fact that the consul at Lon
don received two dollars a head for eael
American shipped at that port, and ever.
dollar of that large tax on commerce wa
, used at the consulate, and not one covered
! into the treasury. That was what made tn,
position of consul so much sought after ..
: After a speech by Mr., HubbelI in favor o
, the extension of our foreign commerce, tn
committee rose, and the house adjourned.
SENATE
: In the senate, on the 4th, Mr.. Cockrel
! introduced-a a bill to authorize the deposit O
silver bullion or bars, and issue certificate
, therefor, and it was referred to the commit
tee on finance. 1t authorizes persons t,
deposit such bullion or bars, and issue o
certificates therefor by the secretary of tn
treasury IN a sum not less than $50, in tn