The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-02-05
CAPITAL NOTES.

OF the Wife of Secretary BayRrd--A Second
AmictiOn Within Two Weeks--A Pro-
position for Plan of Settlement of Dis
putes Between Labor and Capitalism
other Revolution Threatened at Panama.
CONGRESSIONAL FORECAST.
WASHINGTON, Feb. I.-Business in
either branch of Congress is insuhlcientIy
crystallized to insure a very high degree
of accuracy in a forecast.
The House to-day, after the call of the
States and committees for the introduc-
ton of bills and the suspension of rules,
will resume consideration of the bill m
creasing the pension of widows and de-
pendent relatives of deceased soldiers
from S8 to $I2 a month, which is unfin-
ished business. Tuesday is to be devoted
to eulogies on the late Mr. Hendricks.
and one of the DAYS later in the week to
the bin now on slfe calendar feSfsrfua
Fitz-John Porter to the rolls of the army.
The committee on expenditure in the
War Department will to-day report a
resolution calling upon the Secretary Of
War for information relating to the ac-
counts Of the chief Signal officer; also,
authorizing the committee to conduct
an investigation into the accounts, and
empowering it to send for persons and
papers, etc.
There seems to be a conflict pending
between messrs. HOar and Harrison in
the Senate over consideration of their re-
spective measures. Mr.. Hoar asks very
earnestly that his bill fixing the day for
the meeting of the electors
of President and Vice-President,
and to provide for and regulate
the counting of the electoral vote, which
is unfinished business for to-day, be taken
up in its order, while Mr.. Harrison, who
yielded the floor a number of times dur
ing the past two or three weeks, realizes
the necessity of continuing the discussion
of his bill providing for the admission of
Dakota, which is also unfinished bust
ness. It is generally believed that the
latter measure will be taken up, and
that it will occupy the Senate
after two O'Clock each afternoon for
several days. If it comes up to-day Mr..
Logan will speak first upon it. and he
will be followed by Mr.. Harrison, and
probably Senators Blackburn, Morgan,
VOORHEES, and others.
The investigation of the charges made
in the last annual report of the Commits
sioner of Pensions will be begun during
the week, if the Commissioner is ready
for it.
DEATH OF MRS. SECRETARY BAYARD.
WASHINGTON, Feb. Mrs. Louisa
Lee Bayard, the wife of Secretary Bayard,
died at her residence at half past eight
O'Clock yesterday morning of congestion
of the brain. This is the second time
within the brief space of two weeks that
death has visited the household Of the
Secretary. Mrs. Bayard has been in
feeble health for several years, and the
death of her daughter, two weeks ago,
completely prostrated her, from which
prostratiOn she never rallied. Late Sat
urday night her physician said her death
was imminent, and the public here were
in a measure prepared for the sad news.
Mrs. Bayard's remains viii be taken
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noon. There viii be no funeral services
in Washington. The interment will take
place at the old Swedish Church,
where Miss Bayard was buried two
weeks ago. Several members of the
Cabinet are expected to 60 to Whining
ton and attend the funeral. Express
sions of coincidence are heard on all sides
for the Secretary in his great afIliction
Mrs. Bayard was born in Baltimore in
1885. Her father, Josiah Lee, was one
of the leading business men of that city
thirty-five years ago. She met the Secre-
tary while his father was Senator from
1855. There were twelve children born
to them, seven of whom still live. Up to
seven or eight years ago Mrs. Bayard
was a leader in society at the National
capital
OFFICIAL LABOR ARBITRATION PROPOSED
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-The members
of the labor committee of the House bav,
had a proposition presented to them in
inf iob &c of
the committee and has not been fOrmulat-
ed into bill, but is likely to prove the
germ of future legislation. The idea has
been suggested to different members of
the committee of providing for board of
arbitration to settle differences between
employers and their employees. The
plan proposed is to make
board of three members, one to be
selected by the employer, one to he
named by some one of the officially recOg-
nized labor unions, and the third to be
the judge of the United States district
court in which the case arises. To make
the plan practicable the great labor or
CARNATIONS, such as Knights of Labor
and the Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers, would be given National
charters, and these would be
made forfcitable on failure to carry out
the decision OF the board OF arbitration.
AS the employer always has tangible prop
erty there would be no trouble in making
him observe the finding of the board.
The scheme is as yet in an inchOate form,
but when the members of the labor COM
mittee have been carefully sounded it is
probable bin will be presented to the
House.
ANOTHER REVOLUTION THREATENED.
WAsHINGTON, Feb. 1.-The Secretary
of the Navy has received information
from the Pacific Mail Steamship com
Tany, to the effect that another revolu-
ton is threatened on the Isthmus of Pan
ANA. Rear-Admiral Jouett, command
ing the North Atlantic station, has been
directed by telegraph 10 remain at Aspin-
wall with the Tennessee for
the present. 1t is possible that
the Tennessee sailed from AspinWaH for
Key West prior to the receipt of these
instructions, in which event she viii be
ordered back in case the situation de-
mands it, and other vessels win also be
ordered to his assistance. Not much inn
portance, however, is attached to the
present reports of damage.
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A Terrible Crime.
CLEVELAND, o., Feb. lone Of the
bloodiest tragedies ever perpetrated in
this city, horrible in detail, encompassing
the death of two women and probably
no cufri1a If SHa loY.s dfea1xv-