The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1882-01-28
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.

JAN. 10, Mr.. Brown addressed the Senate
on the currency question. He reviewed the
legislation on the silver question, showing it's
unfIfendly character and contending that
while silver had not been able to withstand
It, gold would not have stnDd IL anv better n
an assault had been made upon that metal
AS 20 the proposed withdrawal OF silver oetifi-
Gates, he argued these furnished bet
which, If he understood the proposi,
lions OF the President and the Score
tary Oh the Treasury, 1t was proposed to sub
certificates the Government avoids some
cumprous machinery and secures the profits
ON circulation alto which, in the other case, are
Guided his address and his resolution went
over without action. The Senate resumed
consideration of the Sherman refundinQ bill
......The House proceeded to consider the
report of the Committee on Rules proposngto
increase in membership certain Committees
the pending question being on Orth's substi-
tute for an appointment board to select com
mittees. Mr. Robeson made point of order
that the substitute was not german to tho
the question was submitted to the House.
and the point of order taken against the sub.
stitute sustained-yeas 1853; nays IA. So
tne substitute was ruled out of order
MIR. King offered an amendment relating to
the COMMITTEES on Improvement of the Mis-.
sissippi River, providing that it shall have the
same privileges in reporting appropriations
Tor the Improvement of that river as are &C
corded to the Appropriation Committee in
bated and laid over for the day.
JAN. 10, Senator Hawley, from Committee
on Railroads, moved to recommit to the COM
mittee thebili ratifying an act of the General
Council OF the Choctaw Nation granting to the
st. Louis San Francisco Railroad Company
right OF way for a telegraph line through that
Nation. Agreed to, with modification restor-
Ing it to its place on the calendar
The The. biz permitting Associate Justice
passed-il to IA. The Sherman Funding bill
was taken mp, and Mr.. Salisbury favored the
bill. when he had concluded, a motion was
made by Mr.. ingalls, to lay the bill on the ia
Bile, in order ~ test the sense of the Senate
upon it. Mr.. Window, having obtained a
temporary withdrawal of Mr.. Ingalls, motion,
opposed 1t as unnecessary. experimental and
likely to involve the Government in loss.
Pending motion for executive session the bill
was laid aside fnformally......I In the House,
Mr.. Randall stated some of the reasons why
he favored part of the report of the Commit
tee on Rules. He did not assent to the prop
Osit1on that small committee was in the
public interest and large committee was not.
He denied that influences were much easier
brought to bear on n member than on more
than one. Mr.. Robson closed the debate.
The report was made, he said, not for the pur-
pose OF conciliating any individual, nor for
the purpose of giving any sop to any com
palmer or spreading any plaster over the
wounds of any sorehead. Mr. Joyce moved
to recommit the, report and all pending
amendments to the Committee on Rules.
Agreed to-yeas l59, nays 49,
THE Senate was not in session, 20th......
The House went into Committee of the Whole
on the private calendar Six unimportant
bills were considered, one of which was for
the relief of soldiers unjustly charged with
desertion during the rebellion. Mr.. Randall
expressed the hope that the Committee on
Military Affairs would mature and report
bill giving to the War Department power to
grant such clemency, and thus relieve Con-
till 23d.
IMMEDIATELY after the reading of the
Journal in the Senate, on the 23d, Mr.. Anthony
submitted resolutions of respect for the mem
DRY of his late colleague, Gen. Burnside, which
were adopted. large number of bills were
introduced in the House, after which public
business was suspended and Burnside was
eulogiZed