The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1884-06-12
NEWS AND NOTES.
4 summary Of Important Events.
cosonrssroNAL PROCEEDINGS.

Tpv Senate was not in session on the
re- Tho House had but short session
bii ,vas passed restoring the law of 1887 in
M matter of appeals from Circuit Courts to
~ IInited States Supreme Court In habeas
eoyn,,s snv eases. Bills were also passed grant
;net The right OF way through the Indian Ter
yitory TO the Gulf, Colorado y santa re, ana
i ibe Southern Kansas Railway Companies.
IN the Senate on the ID a memorial ask
Inc for an appropriation of $4,000 in aid Of
me Cincinnati Industrial Exposition was pre-
sented. The House bill relating TO second.
class mail matter sent by persons other than
The publishers was passed; also Dill relating
n tbe opium trade Between China and the
limited States. A concurrent resolution from
MN Houses of the Louisiana Legislature was
read thanking the Senate for passing
,Se Blar educational bill and urging mem
bers of Congress from that State to work
far It's passage in the House. In the House
resoiut Oh was introduced calling on the
Secretaries of the War and Interior De-
nsrtments TO furnish the names of all par
lbs having contracts for supplies for In
diaus and the army. A resolution fixing
june % as the date for adjournment was re-
ferred; also memorial asking an appropri-
alton in behalf of the Louisville Exposition,
The amendment exempting all distillerles
which mash ten bushels daily or less, with the
exception of payment of the tax, was adopt
ed The bill to abolish internal revenue from
tobacco and brandy distilled from fruits was
taken up, but motion to adjourn prevented
any action.
In the Senate on the 81 sixty-two bills
we're pas ell. Among the most important were
the following: Granting annual leave with
raw, to letter-carriers; right of way through
the Fort Selden military reservation to the
Rio Grande ~ Pacific Railway; authorizing
Inc Sale of a portion of the Fort Hays mill
lary reservation in Kansas; providing for the
sale Of the Kickapoo diminished reservation,
in the same State !. In the House the Oregon
Central land grant forie.t .ture bill was passed.
Further proceedings were interrupted for tho
want Of a quorum.
THE Senate was not in session on the 4th,
and but little was accomplished in the House,
for the want of quorum. The Oregon land
grant forfeiture bill was passed. The Com
mttee on Public Buildings made report to
the effect that they could discover no fraud in
the matter of letting contracts for the build :
ing at Brooklyn, N. Y. After considerable
discussion, it was decided to recommit the
case and give the citizens of Brooklyn q
chance to be heard on the question, the meet
ings to be held with open doors.
The Senate was not in session on the 5th.
The House held short session, but the re-
ports from the Chicago Convention alb
sorbed too much attention to allow legisla-
ton to proceed to any great extent.
Among the bills passed were the California
and Oregon land-grant forfeiture bill; the
Iron Mountain railway forfeiture of land
between Pilot Knob, Mo-, and Helena,
Ark, and Il bill authorizing the con.
land River ut Nashville, Tenn, and the
Missouri River Mt IeaVenWOrth Kaa