The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-02-23
NEWS IN BRIEF,
Compiled from Various Sources.
CONGRESSIONAL pRoCEEDINqs


CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
TBg bill authorizing the sale Of lands ui
the Miami Indians in Kansas was passed by
the Senate on the 18th. Mr. Dawes. by special
agreement. spoke in favor of civil service re
form. The subject was disposed OF bv tbf
reference of the bill to the Committee or
NlVil service. Mir. Plumb, from Committee
son Public Lands, reported favora6Iv !
Dill 70 provide for the payment ol
of public lands in States in regar5
TO lhnd entered within their limits by military
scrip ana land warrants. .....The UoI,aSS
passed the supplemental census bin, u1akins
aNailable an appropriation tor the pavlnenl
BY Mr.. Ellis (La.J ITO authorize the Ol1sfruc.
ii0n OF ship canal to connect Lake Ponchar.
train and the Mississippi River; by Mr. Plumt
(hans.) ITO regulate promotions in tho arTov
and increase its efficiency; by MIR CeTncSs
ky)-To amend the laws relating to Inter.
gallon distiliee by Mr.. Warner Tenn 9-Tc
repeal the law chartering national banks
Mr.. SLATER addressed the Senate rnon
theimportnnce to she commerce of the North.
west Of tho Improvement or the CoIumbia
River, Feb. Il. Mr.. Vance made n st,eg,l, ,,r
Ihe tailH, IN which he deplored the burdens nj
nlkn rolective policy, which fell with fhe
did more TO retartl the growthsand impair' tbe
weaiih OF the south than any other cause
MI morgan offered n re solution which vac
referred, r14nesting the President to bring ~
tAe attehtkgn OF the Government az Mica, asy1 4
Che necessity of arranging bv conventfcy q ft6a
limt@ settlement of all unadjusted claims ey-
listing between the United states and Mica
Tagua and OF citizens of either of said govern
lnenIs against the other government 80 In
the House Mr.. Orth, from COmrnittee on
Fofelgn Affairs, reported adversely the reso-
iutlon originally offered by Mr.. Robinson
OF New York, calling on tho AttornevI
General for his opinion as to wheth
Gr, Joseph Warren Keifer Alone
B. Cornell, or Charles Carroll should bS -
rested IN the British empire without h IN
mcnt, by suspending the writ of ha1 80 81 -
pus, could lawfully detain him z !, 51dsev{t
the United states to demand ,oIeoas - - Ss
Robinson desired to debate ~, aIat aS1J', m M
the speaker held that the nendinS motin5 ~ ~
Jay on the table was no 6ebntabiS Tbe re
olution was tabled. ions IL 1nxs i0l i' i09
THE Anti-polv gamy bin came up in the
, ~ ~ si'o 9th, and the amendments pro-
80 pos', ~, ~ - >mmittee judiciary were read
aTtho7 cd toup to the fifth section which
,,@es -iZes the President to grant am
T. ~ 70 classes OF offenders guilty be-
ere the passage of tho act OF
ftation, on such conditions as he NAV think
proper. Mr. HOar suggested the query wheth-
err under his exercise of the pardoning power
Wnlcn was limited to pardons and reprieves
IN individual cases, tho President could, con
sututtOnally, pardon whole classes of offend
dittons as he may prescribe. Mr. Edmunds
slud tho the committee had been in doubt
whether any PROVISION or point was
cd it only because the question
was an open one. The object of
it was to enable the Government to say to the
great body OF the Utah people: " If you stop
this practice and sin no more you shall not
be prosecuted for what you have already
done" The section, as amended and the re
manning committee amendments to the Sth
section, were adopted......Th House man
aged to spend the day over the ApDOrtion-
mcnt bin without voting.
AFTER n short executive session, on the
10th, the Senate proceeded with the Anti
polygamy BILL the question being upon the
eighth section, as repo ted from the Judicia-
Ty Committee. MIR. Morgan asked whether
inc Dli would NOS exclude from his seat in
the House the delegate from Utah, who was
represented to he pOygamist. Mr.. Ed
munds said, in reply, that an inquiry would
mittee which reported the bill. Mr. Vest
denounced the bill as in its every fea-
ture u bill Of attainder dnnicting punish
ment without judicial trial), which was pro-
u bited by the Constitution. Mr. Pendleton
objected TO several features of the bill, partfc-
suarIy to the one excluding from the jury box
known polyg0mt-tS in trials for polygamy,
etc. The remaining committees amendments
ana several sections of the bill were finally
ate as from the committees of the whole NJ
Brown then renewed his amendment requir-
ing that not more than tn ee members of the
board of commissioners shall be members of
party Vote-yeas, 26; nays, "a. MIR. Davis, of
Illinois, voted yea with the Democrats, and
Mr.. Malone was absent. Several amend
Nuents were proposed and defeated by deci-
siVe votes, and after reari Hngement of its
sections the bill finally passed by "a vive voce
vote. The Dill granting n pension of s. 900
a year to Mrs Garfield passed the House. Mr..
ANDERSON 8 HlHenulnent TO the ADnOrt1OnmGut
bill, fixing the number of representatives at
f25, was agreed to by 1852 20 lO4. All the Re
pubhcHns except two, Darrau of Lou
isiana and White If kentucky voted
for 325. The Democratic members from
South Carolina and Texas, beside a
few from Louisiana and Maryland, voted with
the Republicans The remainder of the Dem
ocrats voted solidly against the proposition.
A motion by Mr.. Springer of Illinois. to re-
consider the vote by which the House had re-
1cctedthe amendment offered by Mr.. ColericlI,
was the signal for a scene of great noise and
confusion. a motion to table the motion to
reconsider was immediately made on the Re
publican side, and the Democrats demanded
the yeas and nRys-l3i to 4. No quorum,
Democrats relratnmg from voting.