The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-06-04

DURING the first ten months of the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1886, the collections Of
internal revenue amounted to 500, 800, ,666,
being an increase of S3,I35, 1872 over the
corresponding period during the last fiscal
year.
For the month of May the estimated de-
crease of the public debt is placed at
$500 l,O00 The receipts for the month
were unusually heavy and the disburse-
ments light.
DURING May s., 900 was disbursed by
the Treasury on account of pensions.
IT IS said that terribly poor whisky is
being smuggled into Alaska in various
ways and is being sold at an enormous
profit The matter has been in the hands
of secret Government agent, and some
of the parties implicated will soon be made
aware of the fact.
SPAIN is contemplating spending $45,-
OOO, 900 on her navy.
THE next triennial convention of the
Protestant Episcopal Church of the United
States viii be held in Chicago, beginning
October 6.
For 1886 the total value of the Dominion
fisheries was SIT, ,722, 900, a decrease of S43,-
600 as compared with 1884.
AT Chemnitz, Germany, an epidemic
has broken out arising from eating raw
beef. One hundred and twenty three vic
Tins are reported, and the disease is still
spreading.
On the 30th the Metropolitan African M.
E. Church at Washington, one of the larg-
est colored churches in the United States,
was dedicated. Over 5000 persons were
present. Large numbers went from Ph
adelphia, Baltimore and Richmond.
On the Both crevasse, TIVE nty feet wide
and eight feet deep, occurred below New
Orleans in the levee in front of the Du-
cross plantation, situated on the east bank
of the Mississippi. 1t is likely that the
vegetable crop on the plantation viii be
destroyed.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
IN the Senate on the 2sth a memorial for a
navy yard at New Orleans was presented
| and referred. A bill was reported for an ad-
ditionaI Adiutant General for the army.
! The bill fOrfeiting the Atlantic s Pacific land
| amend the Pension law was taken up, and a
/ lengthy and at times quite animated debate
/ ensued, in which Commissioner Black came
4 in for great deal of abuse.-h the House
/ conference committee on the ship
Ri,e en- hiI S pa1nrebiv ranorted An ad
verse report was made on the Dakota bill.
/ hciency bill was agreed to After some
| wranging as to the order of business the
| Oleomargarine bill was taken up and debat-
/ ed during the rest of the day and evening
I sessions.
| In the senate on the 26th, after considera
/ tion of private pension bills, the Bankrupt.
/ cy bill was taken up, but it was laid aside to
( allow the bill taxing railroad land grants
! be considered. This in turn was crowded
Rside and the Chinese indemnify Din
/ was taken up and debated until the the
days + session E+sa shin biii which was m spe
l ciaI order, was crowded aside by the Oleo-
/ wide range and at times was oecldealy
/ animated. Several amendments were voted
4 down and some adopted, but consideration
/ Of the bill was not concluded.
| IN the Senate on the 27th the bill forfeiting
| portions of the Northern Pacific land grants
was taken up and debated until two o'clooks
/ when it went over, and resolutions were
1 adopted and speeches delivered on the
\ death of Senator Miller......1n the House
bated, the committee report postponing the
matter being finally agreed to. After mum.
| ant measures, the OIeomargarine bill was
/ reached, and the House had a high time
ments, no material progress being made
/ with the bill.
! IN the Senate on the 2sth resolution for
/ an investigation of the Indian post trader
| matter was laid before the Senate and dis
cussed. After it was referred to the COM
mittee on Indian affairs, the bill fOrfeiting
! lands granted the Northern Pacific railroad
T | was taken up. AFTER Q6OaJS Nn6 measure
went over, and Van Wyck's bill taxing
| land grants was debated. ......ln the
| House the Senate resolutions on the
/ death OF Senator Miller were laid before the
! House. Private business was dispensed
| with and the OleomargRriue bill was taken
/ up in committee of the whole. The tactics
| of Thursday were continued, and very little
| progress made with the bill.
THE Senate was not in session on the
| goth. In the House the Speaker submit
! ted communication from the Secretary Of
| State embOdying estimate of $780, 100 for
inaugurating the Baltholdi statue Bed
loe's Island. Referred. The OleOmargarine
| bill was further discussed in committee OF
the whole, in the course of which Mr..
| Hatch (AIO) had n letter read from
/ General Master Workman POwderly of the
| knights of Labor declaring that no one was
| authorized to speak in behalf of the Organt-
| cation either for or against the bill. The de-
/ bate took a wide, and, at times, humorous
! range, and without action the committee
rose, and the House adjourned until June l.