The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1882-02-11
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.

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CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
WHEN the three-per- cent. bond bill was
reached in the Senate, Feb LIST, Mr. Morgan
advocated, as an additional section, an
amendment rs follows; That the agreement
made with the holders OF bonds of the United
States since the adjournment of the Forty.
sixth Congress by which the rate of interest
on such bonds is reduced to 81 per-
centum per annum is hereby fully ratified
and confirmed according 10 the terms and I'm
tent of said agreement The amendment was
modified and adopted without vote as also
the provision offered by Mr. Davis of West
Virginia, declaring that nothing in the act
shall be so construed as to authorize the in
reported from Committee of the Whole.
and the question being upon agree
ing to the amendments as whole,
MIR. sherman asked for separate vote
upon MFR. Plufnb's amendment applying the
surplus revenue over 500 900 TO the reduc-
ton OF the public debt He said If the propo-
sition was not stricken out he and others who
had acted with him would be compelled to
vote against the bill. House concurrent res
olution fixing the 9th of February as the day
for the Garfield memorial services was con.
Cured in. 1.-The P0st-office approximation
bill occupied the House, but no action was
FURTHER discussion OF Mr.. Plumb,s
amendment to the three per cent bond bill in
the Senate, Feb. 3 resulted in its rejection
yeas %, nays p. Debate followed on
the amsndment proposed by Mr.. IN
guns hOuliCl ny MI lObr, WHICH
was adopted-43 to 10. 1t inserts
the words which are hereby declared
valid in the first section, making the section
read that the Secretary of the Treasury is
hereby authorized to receive at the Treasury
and at the office of any Assistant Treasurer of
the United States, and at any postal money
order office, lawful money of the United States
TO the amount OF $50, or any multiple of that
sum, on any bonds of the United states bear
ing 3H per cent. interest, which are hereby
declared valid, and TO issue in exchange
therefor an equal amount of registered or
coupon bonds. In the House, Mr.. Bling
ham (Pa.) advocated an amendment to the
Post Office bill increasing by 100000 the APP
preparation for expenses of the free delivery
system, urging its extension and an increase
OF salary to letter carriers.
FEB. 3, the Senate took action on the
Saunders bin to extend the northern boun-
Diary of the State of Nebraska. Mr. Edmunds
thought the act should be subject to all the
limitations pertaining. to the original act
Union. The only point that now occurred to
him was in reference to the free navigation
of the Missouri River. He offered an amend.
ment putting his suggestion into effect.
Adopted. The bill then passed. Mr.. Hawley's
amend nent to the funding bill, limiting with
drawals of bank circulation, under the fourth
section OF the act of 1874, to 100000 per
month, and requiring thirty days previous
notice thereof, was adopted, and
OF IS S to was is psTTSse e bii appro HS1e
atng 100000 for a site for War Department
building, as amended in committee, was also
passed. Adjourned till Monday, 9Th. The
bill releasing the Philadelphia & Reading
Railway Company from the tax assessed on
wages certificates heretofore issued was re-
ported back unfavorably and tabled-lO9 to
80. motion to adjourn till Monday was re-
jected-yeas l0i, nays los.
THE Post office appropriation bill excited
sharp debate in the House on the 4th, but no
action was taken on any of the pending
amendments.
FEB. 6, the Senate resumed consideration
of Mr.. Ingalls's resolution declaring that the
Pension Arrears law ought not to be repealed.
Mr. Ingalls, moved to modify the amendment
declaring in favor of pensions to soldiers
OF the American war to limit il
to needy or disabled ones. He said Senators
were not aware of the proportions which the
casualty list reached during the war. The
grand total of pensionable cases on the rolls
OF the War Department was 620545. Since
1861, 3S0,364 pensions had been granted by
reason of death or disabilities, so there were
still 233,SSl pensionable cases on which
no applications at all had ever been
made. This was conclusive an
swer to the charges that the pension list had
been swollen by fraud, and we may hereafter
look for very large accessions to the rolls
without any presumption of fraud as to the
aggregate of the cases placed there. Without
action the resolution was laid aside for exec
utive session. Representative Burrows
and pass bill defining the quaifica
cation of Territorial delegates in the House o
Representatives. 1t provides that no person
guilty of bigamy or polygamy shall be eligi
BILE to a seat in Congress as delegate from
Territory. The House was in a very inatten
tive mood, and when the Speaker put TIT
question there were few responses. He, how
ever. declared the motion carried and til,
bill passed. A burst of laughter only thel
apprised many members of the measure
which had been adopted. A motion for tn,
appointment of a commission on the subiec
of alcoholic liquor traffic failed to receive tn
necessary two thirds.