The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1890-02-07
|CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
FIFTY-FIRsT CONGRESS.

IN tho Senate, on the 9th, the resolution
concerning the maltreament of Henry J..
Fsunce, at Aberdeen, Miss, the roofer who
cut down the effigy of Secretary Proctor and
was beaten and driven out of town for so
doing, was taken up, and Mr.. Walthall de-
iivered speech in opposition to its adop-
tion; being followed by Senators Chandler,
Ingalls, and Hoar, In favor of the resolution
-. In the House bills were introduced ap-
propriating 81 900, 900 for a post-oflice at Chi
cago; repeating the cotton tax; to pension
widows and orphans of persons killed for
political reasons since the close OF the war;
and resolution congratulating the people
Of Brazil on the assumption of self govern
ment. A bill amepdin ing the Tariff act -of
1888 was passed. The bill appropriating ST.
10000 for the erection OF three u nited States
prisons was passed.
In the Senate, on the 2sth, the bill to re-
lieve the treasurer of the United States of
the amount now charged to him and deposit
ted with the several States, was passed, as
was, also, the Direct Tax bill. The remain
der of the open session was consumed in a
heated discussion of the resolution regard
ing the late Aberdeen MISSY outrage. In
the House the bill granting certain public
lands to the city of St. Augustine, Fla, for a
park, was passed. One two other bills
were passed, and the House devoted itself to
a discussion of bill reported from the COM
mittee on banking and currency to provide
for the issue of circulating notes to National
banking associations.
In the Senate, on the 18th, the report or
the "policy board" on the needs and require
ments of the navy was transmitted. res
olution calling on the Secretary of the
Treasury for information as to amounts due
by Southern States on Indian Trust funds
and the direct tax of 1861 was adopted, and
Mr. Mitchell proceeded to address the SEN
ate on the bill for free coinage of silver.
In the House a scene of tumult and riot un-
eQualed since the days of reconstruction
was precipitated by the Speaker making a
note of members present and not voting on
the Smith-Jackson (W. Va-) election case,
and calling their names for record. The ap-
peal from the decision of the Speaker had
not been decided when the House adjourned.
IN the senate, on the 5Orn, the Dill appro-
priating 100000 to enable the superntend-
eDt of census to prepare statistics of farms,
owners, renters, mortgages, interest, rents,
etc, was passed. The "Silk Ribbon bill
was also passed MIR. Vance then addressed
the Senate on the Negro Emigration bill, fol-
lowed by Mr.. Hampton on the same subject.
In the House the battle over the ruling
of the Speaker declaring quorum present
but not voting was renewed before full gall
leries, Messrs. Carlisle, Springer, Breckin-
ridge and Bland championing the cause of
the minority; while Messrs. Mckinley and
Butterworth defended the Speaker. The
ruling of the Speaker was sustained.
THE Senate was not in session on the 3lst
49,. In the House the contest over the Speak
er's ruling that members present but not
voting should be counted in ascertaining
the presence of a quorum was promptly re-
newed, several of the speakers for the oppo-
sition working themselves into a frenzy of
passion and denouncing the Speaker in Ian
guage forcible il inelegant- Speaker Reed
held his position and his temper, and car
ried his points on former occasions.
When quiet had been partially secured, Mr.
Dalzell took the floor and began to present
the views of the majority of the elections
committee on the contested election case OF
Smith against Jackson.