The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1894-07-27
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
FIFTY-THlR0 CONGRESS-.


is the the senate, on the nth, the agricultural
Dill being under consideration, almost the en-
tire session was taken up in the discussion Of
an amendment apprOpriating 81 100000 to be
used in the determination OF the Russian cac-
tus or thistle. which was finally carried By a
vote OF q TO "A, and the bill was then passed
after which the Indian appropriation bill was
taken In the house after the transae-
tiOn OF some unimportant business, bill au-
thoriztng the appointment of a third circuit
judge in the Eighth judicial circuit, and one
making all railroad corporations for the pur-
poses Of jurisdiction, citizens of any state into
which their tracks or leased lines may run or
in which they do any business and in which the
cause OF action may occur, were passed.
IN the senate, on the 18th, the Indian appro-
priation bill occupied almost the entire ses-
sion, going over finally without action. The
conference report on the naval appropriation
bill was agreed to. Several bills we're passed
including one TO encourage the reclamation of
arid lands and their cultivation and sale in
small tracts to actual settlers. In the house.
after an animated coloquy between Messrs
Reed Terry and Richardson and Speaker
Crisp as to the different methods in vogue for
counting q quorum in this and the fifty-first
congress, several bills OF no general interest
were passed, and the agricultural appropria-
tion bill was sent to conference.
IN the senate, on the 10th. the Indian appro-
priation bill was finally passed The confer
ence report on the diplomatic and consular bill
was agreed to- At 3 D. m. a message from the
house asking further conference on the tariff
bill was laid before the senate, followed by an
oral report from Mr.. Voorhees,, chairman of the
| finance committee, to the effect that the con-
ferees had been unable to agree ...... In the
house Mr.. Wilson, chairman of the committee
| on ways and means, reported the failure Of the
| conferees on the tariff bill to agree, and moved
| that the house insist upon it's disagreement to
| the senate amendments. The conference re-
ports on the naval and diplomatic and consul
lar appropriation bills were reported and
| agreed to-
IN the senate. on the Goth, the entire days
session was taken up by speeches provoked by
| the presentation of a message from the house
asking for a further conference on the tariff
bill. Mr.. Hill, who was the leading speaker,
| declared that democratic senators would have
/ to rally around the president or else they
would go to the wall. No vote was taken on
| any of the propositions submitted. .... In the
| house eight bills from the committee on the
| judiciary were passed. one of them providing
| for the inspection of immigrants coming to the
| United States at the port Of departure, and one
| to prevent the interference by United States
/ courts with the collection of state taxes levied
| against railroad corporations, Notwithstanding
| their being operated by receivers appointed by
| United States courts.
| THE senate was not in session on the 21st....
/ In the house, for the second time, a joint reso-
/ luton providing for the election of United
States senators by the people was passed by a
vote of more than two-thirds of the members
present. The rest of the session was occupied
in discussing the bill directing the restoration,
as fast as vacancies occur, Of railway postal
/ clerks who were dismissed from the service
/ between March 10 and May /, 1889. No conclu-
/ sive action was taken on the bill.