The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-03-23
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
CONGRESSIONAL PRooEEDrNas.

OONNT kEAs39AONfAA4 ANO1h
CONSIDERATION of the tariff commission
bin was resumed by the Senate on the 18th
and Mr.. Slater advocated free trade.
..... In the House the petition for suspension
Of action on Utah affairs was referred The
bili for q bridge across the MISSISSIPPI below
the mouth of the Chippewa, passed. The
Army bill, appropriating $50 ,293,3sO, was
reported and referred to committee
bin was reported favorably. The senate biz
70 punish polygamy was taken mp and a long
bill must first be considered in COMMITTEES of
the whole. because it provided for the ap-
p0intment Of salal1ed officers. The point was
overruled and the bin went over.
A JOINT resolution appropriating another
100000 for food sufferers was adopted by the
Senate, March 18th. Mr.. Calls Chilli Peru in
ternational congress was briefly discussed,
ana the postal appropriation bill came
up long debate ensued on amend
ments relating to the sub letting OF
tracts NO acton was taken ON the
bill. l......In the House, discussion of the
Anti-polygamy bill was resumed, the Repub-
Hcans pressing for n vote on secOnding the
demand for the previous question and the
Democ1 ats seeking opportunity to offer
out change. The nate Chinese bill was
taken up, Mr.. Calkins of Indiana making a
speech In its favor.
Mr.. GARLAND's bill for the improvement
Of the Mississippi came up in the Senate, on
the 18th, and was referred to Committee on
Mississippi and Tributaries. The bill directs
the Mississippi River Commission 10 cause to
such ieNces along the banlso OF the Mississippi
= as they shall deem to be of tile greatest i'm
portancc TO the preservation of the river
enamel, the prevention Of devastation from
breaks and overffows. and the trade and pos.
tai service, under the rules of the War Dc
parJment, Ap appropriation of %,O0O,OOO Is
made for this purpose. ANY expenditure or
liability beyond this sum is prohibited, and
no money Is to be paid for levee work until
the same is approved by the Secre-
tary of War. Tho Post Office appropriation
bill gave rise to "a protracted discussion, was
dIlGnuGQ, ana went over as untlui@lG0 bust
ness. The tariff commission bill was reached
and Mr. Allison Submitted the report of the
Committee on Appropriations, with testmo-
ny taken In what is known as the Treasury
contingent fund investitfgatfOn ReDort and
testimony tabled temporarily. the
House, n bill passed apprOpriating 1921 200, to
quiring into the legality Of Sergt Mason's
conviction was referred. The food relief bill
passed, appropriating Sl5O,0Oo. The Chinese
session was mainly occupied with personal
alteration between the Chair and Mr. Money,
OF Mississippi.
THE House amendment to the food relief
resolution, increasing the appropriation $50
600, was agreed to by the Senate, March 18th,
but the amendment directing the use of mon
ey Tor hire OF laborers on the lcvee was not
incurred IN. The Logan bill to devote to
educational purposes the entire proceeds of
the liquor tax was referred. Consideration
oi the Post office appropriation bin was re-
sumed and various items were adopted; an
amendment reviving the old franking privi-
lege carried by vote of 90 to l58.....In the
House the parliamentary wrangle over
Sp aker keifCr's rulings of the previous day
was resumed Mr.. McLane took the floor
with a view to pressing the point that the
CHAIR had invaded the privileges of the House.
lie bad brush with the Speaker and then
yielded TO Mr. kenna, who offered a resOlu-
ton that the Speaker had no right to repri-
mand member ana that the attempt to eN-
crcise such power n breach OF the priVi-
leges OF the House. Mr.. keifcr replied that
he had used the word reprimaud only in the
sense TO "repress' member who was out of
order. The Chinese bin was taken up and
Mr.. Taylor. of ohio, spoke against it, 4 res
olutton by MIR. Belmont, directing Shipherd to
show all his correspondence bearing on the
Peruvian claims, was agreed TO.