The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-06-22
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
CONGRESSIONAL PRooEEDINas


CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
THE House Of Representatives, June 10,
rejected several amendments to the legisla-
tSlHe' Sii executive and judicial appropriation
THE House bills to divide Iowa into two
judicial districts and authorizing the Sioux
City Il Pacific Railroad Company to construct
a bridge over the Missouri passed the Senate
on the 18th. The Japanese indemnity bill
came mp as unfinished business, the question
20 pay back in legal coin the exact
sum received from the Japanese
sion the appointment preyailed-23 TO 20. On
motion of Mr.. Logan, the Senate insisted upOn
the amendments to the army appropriation
blll, ana messrs. Logan, Plumb and Ransom
were appointed confcreps.......Mr. Butter
worth, from House Committee on Appropria-
bin with Senate amendments, Recommending
concurrence in some and non concurrence in
others, among the amendments in which
making army retirement compulsory at the
as It passed the House. After debate the
Senate amendment was agreed to-l0l to T5
Other recommendation of the Committee
on appropriations were agreed to without
division.
THE bill to give every officer whose name
is borne on the naval list 35 years, and who
has served full term as Chief of Bureau, the
rank CHAT of Commodore) which he
would have If he were retired
by the Senate. June 1910 to s5. Mr.
Allison reported back from the Finance Com
mttee, with amendments, House bank char
and recommittcd. The Japanese in
taimnity Pm WAS c0nsidGred S,i,, in commit
ordering the destruction of bonds in which
the fund was invested, prevailed-26 to %.
Ihe prize money claim was reduced more
than 100000 by deducting accumulated in
terest- The conclusion of the committee not
TO payJhpan accumulated interest which the
indemnity had earned brought out a vote of
p TO y. The bill finally passed-35 to 13. It
eminent of Japan $4,000 fS In legal lei i'0 coin.
through the United states Minister to Japan.
Section2 directs the Secretary of the Treas
ury 70 pay $4,000 as prize money to the ofli-
GERS and crews of the United states ship wy
oning and the steamer TOlCana.......1n tho
House, joint resolution was adopted appro-
printing S25 600 for n Washington monument
and celebration at Newburgh, n. ". The Dis
trict water supply bin passed. The legislative
appropriation bill was taken up and discussed
without action.
THE Senate, June "A, resumed considera-
tion OF the joint resolution to pay mail con-
tractors in various Southern states amounts
uue them ON their contracts for 1889 1850 and
ls6l, aud renpproDriating 1875, 900 for that pur-
bin was 80 to % MIR. COnger denied any liza
bihty OF tho United states TO make the pay
ment, ~ service was rendered solely to the
Confederate states by dislOyal contractors
Who violated their contracts with the Gov
ernment message was received from the
PRESIDENT, transmitting copies of the full cor
rcspondence of the State Department with
Envoy Prescott and Assistant Secretary
Walker Blaine Ordered printed and referred
TO COunittCe on Foreign Relations. The reg
ular order, House bill TO amend the laws re-
lating TO the entry of distilled spirits in dis
tiHcry and special bonded warehouses; aud
the withdrawal Of same therefrom, was re-
Eumed and the substitute reported by the
Finance Committee read. Mr.. BaYard briefly
urged the necessity of prOlOnHation of the
bonded period from three to five years.
instead OF indennitely......Iu the House the
Legislative appropriation bill was taken M.
Messrs. Whitc aud Kelley had "A spat over the
assertion of the former that it was In testino-
nv in tue whisky Investigation that the Whis-
Ky and tariff men had Joined forces in legts-
lation. Both members were rebuked for
hasty language. The bin pHssed-l25 to 4J.
The river and haIbor bill was then proceeded
with.
THE resolution to appropriate $4,000 to
pay mail lcontrac tors for services in the South
eru states prior 70 the rebellion occupied the
time reserved for the calendar in the Senate,
June ID MIR. MaNey argued that the structures
dt Conger we're unwarranted, as the resolu-
tion prohibited payment by the United States
OF any contractor who had been paid by a
State or by the Confederate States or his
payment beyond a date ut which the mail
Cnrri0ge ceased. The measure went over.
The House bill relating to the bonded period
upon distilled spirits came up as unfinished
business. Several amendments were rejected
aud the matter was postponed indefinitely
~ 70 O......Ihe House went into committee
on the river and harbor appropriation bill,
and Mr. Page explained its provisions. At
the close OF general debate the first two para
graphs OF the bin were read, and without ac-
tiOn tho committee