The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1882-03-25
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.

CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
MIR. GARLAND's bill for the improvement
OF the Mississippi came up in the Senate, on
the 10Th, and was referred to Committee on
the pl ana tributaries The bill directs
the mississippi River Commission 10 cause to
pc constructed or repaired and kept in order
such levees along the banks of the Mississippi
as they shall deem to be of the greatest i'm
portance TO the preservation Of the river
enamel, the prevention of devastation from
breaks and overnows and the trade and pos
Ual service, under the rules of the War De-
partment An appropriation of $1,000 600 Is
made for this purpose. ANY expenditure or
liability ia beyond this sum is prohibited. and
the same is approved by the Secre-
tary of War. The Post-of1lce appropriation
bill gave rise to protracted discussion was
amended, and went over as unfinished bust
ness. The tariff commission bill was reached
and Mr. Allison submitted the report of the
COMMITTEES on Appropriations, with testtmo.
py taken in what is known as the Treasury
contingent fund Investigation. Report and
testimony tabled temporarily. .....In the
pay claims already allowed. A resolution in.
quiring into the legality of Sergt. Mason's
convlcuon was referred. The flood relief bill
passed, appropriating Sl50,00o. The Chinese
Dll was taken up and the remainder of the
session was mainly occupied with n personal
atercation between the Chair and Mr. Money,
OF Mississippi.
THE House amendment to the flood relief
resolution, increasing the appropriation $780,
600, was agreed to by the Senate, March 16th
put the amendment directing the use of mon.
ey for hire of laborers on the levee was not
concurred in. The Logan bill to devote to
educational purposes the entire proceeds of
the liquor tax was referred. Consideration
OF the Post Office appropriation bill was re-
surneu ana various items were adopted; an
amendment reviving the old ranking privi-
lege carried by vote of 40 to 3D.. In the
House the parliamentary wrangie over
Speaker Refers rulings of the previous dav
was resumed. Mr.. McLane took the floor
with view to pressing the point that the
He had brush with the Speaker and then
yielded to Mr.. Kenna, who offered a resolu-
ton that the Speaker had no right to repr.
mand member and that the attempt to ex-
erctse such power WAS a breach of the privi-
leges of the House. Mr.. Keifer replied that
he had used the word reprimand only in the
sense to "repress" a member who was out of
order. The Chinese bill was taken up and
Mr.. Taylor, of Ohio, spoke against it: A res
olution by Mr.. Belmont, directing Shipherd to
show all his correspondence bearing on the
Peruvian claims, was agreed to.
THE bill appropriating 500, 900 for work
on the Davis Island dam, in the Ohio River,
and the Post Office appropriation bill passed
the Senate on the 18th. The tariff commission
briefly discussed the subject He spoke
OF the vastness of the interests with
which our tariff laws have to deal
and the difficulty of so adjusting
them as to do no injustice to our Multitude
nous interests. Without entering into details
he would say he regarded it as vexa-
IL,
ferred not to specify the change he Thought
ought to be made until the bill on the subject
came up. Adjourned until the goth. In
the House, bills were passed authorizing a
bridge across the Missouri within five miles of
st. Charles and extending the northern boun-
GARY of Nebraska. The amendatory liquor
tax bill was reported, with recommendation
that the section reducing the tax be stricken
out. The Chinese bill went over for one day.
THE Chinese bill occupied the whole ses-
sion of the House of Representatives, March
is. Mr.. Moore, of Tennessee, made a strong
speech in opposition to the measure, and Mr.
Brumm claimed that every Chinaman in the
country kept out an honest German or Irish
man.
THE tariff commission bill was discussed
in the Senate, March 20, Mr.. Beck replying to
Morrill,, and going literally into the labor
features of the present tariff effects. The bill
was laid over. protest against the passage
of any free leaf tobacco bill was presented
In the House message from the President
was received and referred announcing
that troops were sent to Omaha on au I.
thority of the Governors application in order
to protect the state from domestic violence
The Senate bill making further appropria-
tons for flood relief was reported with rec
ommendation that the House recede from
amendment authorizing use of part of the
money to strengthen levees agreed to. In the
evening there was a resultless struggle to set
day for the consideration of the Geneva
award bill. small minority refused to vote,
thus breaking the quorum.