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PETITIONS, ETC. dealers in Albany, New York, of similar import, to the same com- The following memorials, petitions, and other papers wore pre niittee. · Bented at the Clerk's desk, under the rule, and referred as stated: By 1\Ir. PARKER of Missouri : The petition of·Mrs. M. L. Connelly, By 1.1r. ARMSTRONG: Memorial of the Legisl:;ttur.e of Dakota, of Saint Joseph, ::Missouri, administr~trix of 'l:'homa.s Connelly, de praying for the division of Dakota and the orgamzat10n o~ a new ceased for relief to the Committee on War Cla1ms. Territory from the northern portion thereof, to the Committee on By ~Ir. PHILLIPS: Resolutions of the. Legislature of Kansas, me the Ten·itories. morializing Congress to grant the Atchison, T~peka and Santa . F6 Also, memorial of the Legislature of Dakota Territory, for an a~ Railroad right of way through the ~dian T~rntory to Fort SIDith, ditional appropriation for the miJitary wagon-road froD?- t?e Big in Arkansas, to the Committee on Indtan Affatrs. . Sioux River to Fort Randall, to the Committee on Appropnat10ns.. By Mr. ROBBINS: The petition of citizens of Yadkin and Forsyth By Mr. BRADLEY: Petitions of citizens of .A~ Sable, East Sagi Counties, North Carolina, for a post-route from East Bend to Betha naw and Bay City Michigan, for an appropnatJOn to construct a nia to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. harbor of refuge at Au Sable, in the State of Michigan, to the Com . By Mr. ROBINSON, of Ohio: The petition of citize?s of MoU?t mittee on Commerce. Gilead, Ohio, for the repeal of the 10 per cent. reductwn of _duties By Mr. BUTLER of Massachusetts: The petition of cit izens of made in 1872 and against a duty on tea and coffee and reVIval of Gloucester Massachusetts, for the donation of six bronzEYfield-guns internal taxes to the Committee on Ways and Means. for monum'ental purposes, to the Committee on Mili~ary Affa ir~. By ~1r. S~HTH, of North Carolina: Resolutio~s of ~he Legislature Also the petition of Caleb Tompkins, of Cartersville, Georgia, for of North Carolina concernin(J' the Freedman s Savmgs and Trust relief, to the Committee on W a1· Claims. · Company, to the C~mmittee mfBanking and Currenc_y. . Also, re'solutio~ls Legisl~ture Carolm~ By Mr. CAIN: The pe.tition of depositors in the Fr~edman's Sav of the of North concernmg ings-Bank at Norfolk, Virginia, for relief, to the Committee on Bank pensions to surVIvors of the Mexwan war, to the Committee on Inva- ing and Currency. lid Pensions. . . By MJ.·. COBB, of Kansas: Resolutions of tl?-e Legislature of Kan Also resolutions of the Legislature of North Carolma, con~ernmg tax le~ed and collected on spirits of turpentine, to the Committee on sas1' memorializin(J' Con(J'ress to grant the Atchison, Topeka and Sa.nta F6 Railroad right of w""ay through the Ind.ian.Territory s~ a.s to c~>n Ways and ~leans. . . nect with Fort Smith, Arkansas, to the Committee on Indtan Affairs. Also, resolutions of the Legislatu_re of Nort~ Carolma, concernmg the New River Canal, to the CoiDIDlttee on RailwaY_s and Canals. By Mr. COBURN: _The petition of. citizens ?~New Je:sey, for Also resolutions of the Legislature of North Carolina, for an appro equalization of bounties, to the ComiDittee on M~litary Affarr~. . By Mr. CRITTENDEN: Resolutions of the Legislature of MlS oun, priatidn to improve the Neuse River, to the Commit~ee on Commerce. protesting against the further increase of the tax upon tobacco, to Also resolutious of the Le(J'islature of North Carolina, for an appro the Committee on Ways and Means. priatidn to improve Edentont->Harbor, to the same committee. By Mr. DARRALL: Papers relating to the claim of Edmond A. By Mr. STARKWEATHER: The petition of citizens of .LeJyard, Guilbeau, of La Fayette Parish, Louisiana, to the Committee on War Connecticut for a donation of condemned cannon for a soldiers mon Claims. ument, to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also papers relating to the claim of Andre Broussard, of La Fa By Mr. STONE: Resolutions of the Genera~ Assembly of the State yette Parish, Louisiana, to the same committee. of Missouri, protesting against the further mcrease of the tax on By Mr. FORT: The petition of M. H. Peters and Zl ot~ers, of Wat tobacco, to the Committee on Ways and Means. . seka illinois, for an appropriation to complete the Washington mon Also, the petition of the l)nion ~erchants' Excha;nge of t~e mty _of to the Select Committee on the Washington National Monu- Saint Louis Missouri for the locatiOn of a branch Dllnt at Samt Loms, ume~t, to the Comkittee on'Coinage, Weights, and Measures. m~~ . By Mr. FRYE : The pe!Jition of c~tiz~ns of Kingfield, Fra~klin By Mr. SWANN: Remonstrance o~ wholesal.e liquor d_E'.aJers and rec County, Maine, for a p~ns10n to BenJamm C. Webst.er, late pnva~e tifiers of Baltimore Maryland, agalllSt any mcrease m the tax on Company F, Eighth Marne Volunteers, to the Comm1ttee on Invalid whisky on hand to the Committee on Ways and Means. . Pensions. By Mr. TAYLOR: The petit ion of Frederick Hoch,for a pensiOn, to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. HANCOCK: :rhe memorial of Eug~ne Armend.iaz a~d others, praying for the n~ht to construct a bn~ge across the R10 By Mr. THOMAS, of :Virginia;: The. re~«;mstran~e of to~acco man Grancle River at Brownsville; Texas, to the CoiDIDittee on Commerce. ufacturers and dealers m DanVIlle, Vll'gmta, agalllSt an mcrease of By Mr. HAZELTON, of New Jersey: The petition of citizens of the tax upon tobacco, to the Committee on Ways and l\feans. Bridgeton, New Jersey, for the repeal of the 10 per cent. reduction of By ~1r. THOMPSON: Petitions of citizens of Freeport, Armstrong duties ma
CREDENTIALS. and the appointment of a postma ter at that place; which were re Mr. IDTCHCOCK presented the credentials of Hon. Algernon S. ferred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. · Paddock, chosen by the Legi latnre of Nebraska a Senator from that M.r. CAMERON presented two petitions of citizens of Columbia, State for the term beginning March 4, 1875; which were read and Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and a petition of citizen of Mont /ordered to be filed. gomery County, Pennsylvania, and a petition of citizens of Schuylkill MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE. County, Pennsylvania, and a petition of citizens of Philadelphia, pray ing that in consequence of the prevailing prostration of all branches A message from the House of Representatives, by Mr. McPHERSO:N, 4 of business and the increasing distress throughout the country a bill ts Clerk, announced that the House had passed the following bills; be passed in aid of the speedy completion of the Texas Pacific Rail in which it requested the concmTence of the Senate: road now pending before. Congress; which were referred to the Com A bill (H. R. No. 4001) to provide for the redemption of overdue mittee on Railroads. bonds of the United Sta.tes known as Texas indemnity bonds; and Mr. HITCHCOCK presented a memorial of the Legislature of the A bill (H. R. No. 4727) explanatory of the act pa~sed June20, 1874. State of Nebraska, in favor of the passage of the bill disposing of the The message also announced that the House had concurred in the Fort Kearney military reservation in that State; which was referred amendments of the Senate to the bill (H. R. No. 2102) to incorporate to the Committee on .Mill tary. Affairs. . the Capitol, North 0 Street and South Washington Railway Com pany. REPORTS OF COMliiTTEES. Pl!:TITIONS Al\"D MEMORIALS. Mr. WINDOM, from the Committee on Appropriations, to whom Mr. McCREERY presented a petition of physicians of Kentucky, wa.s referred the bill (H. R. No. 3821) making appropriations for the in behalf of the Medical Corps of the Army, praying for such legis current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and for lation as will the better promote the efficiency of that corps; which fulfilling trea.ty stipulations with varioul:i Indi~ tribes, for the year ·.was referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. ending J nne 30, 1876, and for other purposes, reported it with amend Mr. DENNIS presented a memorial of 291 business men of Wash ments. ington, District of Columbia, and ~ memorial of 197 citizens of the 1\lr. SHERMAN, from the Committee on Finance, to whom wa.s re District of Columbia, respectfully protesting against the passage of ferred the hill (S. No. 1240) to extend the time within which the that part of the Morrill bill which refers to a municipa.l court, and board of audit for the District of Columbia may receive, audit, and chapter 13, sections 79 to 92, which provides for the abolition of jus allow certain cL'l:ims that have never been presented to e.aid hoard, tfces of the peace in the District; which were ordered to lie on the reported it with an amendment. table. He also, from t he same committee, to whom was refeiTed the bill He also presented a memorial of W. H. Schieffelin & Co. and 8 (H. R. No. 2'279) for the relief of Richard Hawley & Sons, reported other manufacturers, importers, and retail dealers in drugs, perfum acl versely thereon. ery, &c., in the city of New York, praying for the repeal of certain 1\lr. EDMUNDS, from the Committee on the Judiciary, to whom stamp tax on drugs and perfumery contained in Schedule C; which was referred the petition of Belva A. Lockwood, pmying that any was refeiTed to the Committee on Finance. woman otherwise qualified shall he permitted to practice law in any ·Mr. HAMILTON, of .Maryland, presented a memorial of Moses United States court, asked to be discharged from its further consid Whitson and others, citizens of Washington County: Maryland, re eration; which was agreed to. monstrating against the restoration of the duty on tea and coffee and Mr. MORRILL, of Maine, from the Committee on Appropriations, praying for the repeal of the law which reduced the duties on certain to whom wa-s refeiTed the bill (H. R. No. 4441) making appropria foreign goods 10 per cent.; which was referred to the Committee on tions for the support of the Military Acarlemy for the year ending Finance. June 30, 1&76, reported it with amendments. Mr. BOGY presented a memorial of druggists, manufacturers, and Mr. FERRY, of Michigan, from the Committee on Finance, to importers of drugs of the city of New York, praying for the repeat whom was referred the petition of Henry Greenbaum, president of of certain stamp tax on drugs and perfumery contained in Sch~dule the German· Savings Ba.nk of Chicago, Illinois, praying that a cer C; which wa-s referred to the Committee on Finance. tain amount of taxes alleged to have been improperly collected on Mr. STEVENSON presented a memorial of D. Hillman, John Mor deposits may be refunded, submitted an adverse 1·eport thereon; rison, and divers other cit izens of Trigg County, Kentucky, remon which was ordered to be printed, and the committee wa discharged strating against the restoration of the duty on tea and coffee, the from the further consideration of the petition. revival of internal taxes, and asking the repeal of the act of 1872 He also, from the same committee, to whom was referred the bill reducing the duties on certain imports 10 per cent.; which was (H. R. No. 2073) restricting the refunding of custom duties and pre referred to the Committee on Finance. scribing certain. regulations of the Treasury Department, reported it Mr. SHERMAN presented a memorial of a number of dealers in with an amendment. tobacco, of Cincinnati, Ohio, remonstrating against any advance in Mr. WRIGHT, from the Committee on Finance, to whom was re the existing rate of tax on tobacco; which was referred to the Com ferred the petition of Hilben & Co., pra.ying to be refunded taxes mittee on Finance. twice paid, asked to be discharged from its further consideration; l\f.r. PRATT. I present a petition of sundry manufacturers of and which was agreed to. wholesale and retail dealers in drugs, perfumery, proprietary medi Mr. SPENCER, from the Committee on Military Affairs, to whom cines, and fancy goods, asking Congress to repeal that part of the wa-s referred a concurrent resolution of the Legislature of the State internal-revenue laws known as Schedule C, by which a tax payable of Michigan, asking Congress to pass a bill granting. one hundred in stamps is imposed up·on these articles. They say in conclusion and sixty acres of Government land to soldiers and sailors of the late that the law by which this tax is imposed is unjust 3lld vexatious ill war without regard to occupation, asked to lfe discharged from. its execution, unclear in its provisions, and arbitrary in its interpreta further consideration, and that it be referred to the Committee on tion, an obstacle to trade and a stumbling-block to the dealer, and a Public Lands; which was agreed to. cause of wide spread and constantly increasing discontent and nn He also, from the same committee, to whom was referred the bill populari ty. I move the reference of this petition to the Committee (H. R. No. 3923) authorizing the Secretary of War to deliver certain on Finance. - condemned ordnance to the Joseph Warren Monument Association of The motion was agreed to. Boston, Massachusetts, for mon,umental pm-poses, reported it with Mr. INGALLS. I pre ent a memorial signed by J. L. Abnrnethy, an amendment. of the city of Leavenworth, and varions other citizens of that town, Mr. THURMAN, from the Committee on the Judiciary, to whom asking for the passage of the bill (H. R. No. 3656) incorporating the was referred the bill (H. R. No. 2!H1) to adjust costs, fees, a.nd allow Eastern and Western Transportation Company. This memorial re ances in Federal courts, reported adversely thereon; and it was post cites that" the importance of this enterprise is at once apparent to poned indefinitely. all who realize the prostrate condition of the agricultural interests Mr. INGALLS, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom of the West·and South, and the cause is mainly to be ascribed to the was referred the petition of Pottawatomie Inq.ians, praying for pay . reckless and extravagant manner of transporting the staple crops of ment of the award of commissioners under the treaty of August 7, the country t o market, and the ab ence of creditable local govern 1863, asked to be discharged from its further consideration; which ments in several of our most productive States." I cannot allow, was a~reed to. . Mr. President, an expression so unjust as that to pa-ss unchallenged, Mr. DORSEY, from the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads, to even by my silence in the matter. I know of nd State, produ ctiv~ or whom was recommitted the bill (S. No. 1201) to establish cert.ain otherwise, that is distinguished by the "absence of a creditable local telegraphic lines in the several States and Territories as post·roads, government." I m~>Ve that the memorial be referred to the Select and to regulate the transmission of commercial and other intelligence Committee on Transportation Routes to the Sea-board. by telegraph from one State to another, reported it without amend The mot.ion was agreed to. ment. Mr. WRIGHT presented three petitions of citizens of Iowa; pray Mr. KELLY, from the Committee on Military Affairs, to whom in.g for the establishment of a mail-route from the town of Boone, in was referred the bill (H. R. No. 31H2) for the relief of the heirs of Boone County, to Webster, in Hamilton County, in that State; which James Barnett, decea ·ed, asked to be discharged from its further con were referred to the Committee on Post-Offices antl Post-Roads. sideration and that it be referred to the Committee on Revolutionary He also presented two petitions of citizens of Story County, Iowa, Claims ; which was a.greed to. praying for the establishment of a mail-route from Nevada, in that He also, from the same committee, to whom was referred the peti county, to the center of Lincoln Township, in that county, the estab tion of Nathaniel J. Beachley, praying for pay as Unit.ed State sur lishment of a post-office at or nea.r the cent.er of Lincoln Towm!hip, geon and for repayment of moneys expended in Government service in ; 1875. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. 1303
1864, asked to be discharged from its further consideration ; which prov-isions of that section, which has been the law of the land for more than eighty was agreed to. . years~ They are simple and clear. . . . He also, from the same committ.ee, to whom was referred the peti Fit t. The cnme or offtmse upon which tht.> section a{)ts must be one agamst the tion of G. H. Bernhardt, praying compensation for subsh>i.ence and United tatcs. lutlging furnished to recruits for'' Scott's Nine Hnndi:e d" cavalry and Second. The offender can only be arrested upon the waiTant of a court or judge reimhw·sementfor money expended in recruiting men for the United of the State or district where he may be found. No court or judge can issue a war rant t-{) arrest the offender in any other State or district. States Army, asked to be discharged from ita further consideration ; Third. If the offender be thus arrested for an offdnRe against the United StatC's, 'Vhich was agreed to. and be brought before the court or Jmlge of the tlistrict whore he was arre.sted, he Mr. HO\VE, from the Committee on Printing, t.o whom wa8 referred may be held for trial before such c01ut of the United States as, by the act of Sep a motion to print the memorial of \V. C. Kibbe upon the importance tember 24, 1789, had cognizance of the o.tl'ense. Fourth. The only courts having cognizance of any offense or case by that act of constructing a double-track freight-railway, under Government are: auspices and control, from tide-water on the Atlantic to the Missouri 1. The Supreme Court of the United States. River, as proposljd by Houso bill No. 1H>4, as amended, reported in 2. The circuit comts of the United St.ate::~ cstahli
The Committee on Finance proposed to amend the bill by inserting Mr. DORSEY asked, and by unanimous consent obtained, leave to after t~e word" board," in line 7, the words" confirmed by a vote of introduce a bill (S. No. 13H:l) to regulate the transmission of ores two-thirds of the stockholders;" so as to read: metals, ap.d othe1· articles of merchandise by mail; which was read Shall accl\pt the new name blf resolution of the board Confirmed by a vote of two twice by its title, referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post thirds of the stockholders. Roads, and ordered to be printed.
The amendment was agreed to. AMEl\"'D~IE~TT TO APPROPRIATION BILL. The bill was reported to the Senate as amended, and the amend- Mr. ALLISON, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, submitted ment was concurred in. · amendments intended to be proposed to the bill (H. R. No. 3821) mak The amendment was ordered to be engrossed and the bill to be ing appropriations for . the current and contingent expenses of the read a third time. Indian Depru·tment, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with vari The bill was read the third time, and passed. ous Indian tribes, for the year ending June 30, 1876, and for other pur TO-DAY'S SESSION. poses; which were referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and Mr. MORTON. I desire to make an inquiry whether under the ordered to be printed. order adopted last night in regard to the funeral services, it is ex COURTS IN" TEXAS. pected that the Senate is to proceed in a body to the House of Repre Mr. FLANAGAN. I now ask to call up the motion to reconsider sentatives Y. the vote by which the bill (S. No. 736) to change the botmdaries of The PRESIDENT pro tempore. It will. the eastern and western judicial districts of the State of Texas, and Mr. MORTON. And at the conclusion of the services there return to fix the times and places of holding courts in the same, was pas ed. to this Chamber f The resolution reads: Mr. HAMILTON, of Texas. I object to taking up the bill this Resolved That the Senate will attend the f uneral ceremony in the Hall of the morning. I am not ready to reconsider it. House of Representatives to-morrow at two o'clock in the afternoon. l\1r. FLANAGAN. It is a motion to reconsider entered by my col My inquiry is as to what will be the order at the termination of league some weeks ago. the funeral services in the House; whether the Senate will then The PRESIDENT 1n·o ternpm·e. ~ It cannot be taken up until the return to this Chamber. morning business is concluded. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Such has been the custom of the Mr. FLANAGAN. I thought it was concluded. I gave way for Senate on similar occasions. that purpose. The PRESIDENT pro ternpore. Resolutions are in order. BILLS INTRODUCED. 1\Ir. SPRAGUE. I a k for the consideration of a billreportedfrom Mr. EDMUNDS. The Committee on the Judiciary yesterday re the Committee on Public Lands-- ported a House bill with o~e. or tw? amen~e-?-ts, to provid~ for ~he 1\fr. FLANAGAN. I object to passing the bill. That is not in order. selection of grand and petit Jurors m the DistriCt of Columb1a, bemg The PRESIDENT pro tempore. If there e no further morning House bill No. 4669. I stated yesterday that it wa-s essential to the business, the remainder of the morning hour belongs to the Commit purposes of justice to individuals, one or more, as well as tQ the tee on Education and Labor. United States, that the bill should pass immediately. I then asked Mr. FLANAGAN. Well, sir, having no bills to report from that unanimous consent, but my friend from California [Mr. SARGENT] committee, [laughter,] I ask to present this. desired it to lie over. I now ask unanimous consent that the bill l\1r. EDMUNDS. Then the next committee must be called. shaH be taken up a.nd considered. _ Mr. FLANAGAN. In lieu of bills from the Committee on Educa The PRESIDENT JYI'O tempore. The Senator from Vermont asks tion and Labor, I ask to take up the motion to reconsider the bill to unanimous consent to consider the bill indicated by him. Is there which I have referred, and I think we shall be very well educated objection 7 on it before we get through. I hope not, however. I will hold back Mr. FLANAGAN. I object, although I dislike to do so very everything else and aak that this motion be taken up. much. Mr. HAMILTON, of Texas. I object to the consideration of it. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Objection is made. Mr. FLANAGAN. I move to proceed to the consideration of the .Mr. FLANAGAN. If I have the floor, I ask to take up th motion motion. to reconsider the bill that passed the Senate some two or three weeks The PRESIDENr pro tempore. Under the order of the Senate, it ago to change the bounds of the eastern and western judicial districts becomes the duty of the Chair to call the next committee if the Com of the State of Texas, and fixing times for holding courts in the mittee on Education and Labor have no business to present. same. Mr. FLANAGAN. Well, I ask this as a favor, Mr. President, and I The PRESIDENT pro tempore. That requires unanimous consent do hope the Senate will extend it to me, for really I have not been until the morning business is disposed of. The introduction of bills very troublesome to them, as I know they will bear me out in saying; is now in order. and this is a matter of great importance to me, and I ask for its con Mr. MITCHELL asked, and by unanimous consent obtained, leave sideration. to introduce a bill (S. No. 1310) providing for the extension of the Mr. MORRILL, of Maine. I hope the Senator will have permission. time for completing the survey and location of the Portland, Dalles 1\Ir. CAMERON. I hope we shall all give way to the Senator from and Salt Lake Railroad; which was read twice by its title, referred Texas. He occupies very little time. to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. FLANAGAN. I have not been troublesome. He also asked and by unanimous consent obtained, leave to intro 1\lr. CAMERON. Let us agree to what he asks by common consent. duce a bill (S. No. 1311) proricling for the compensation to be paid Mr. FLANAGAN. I ask that themotion to reconsider betaken up. for the transportation of the mails on railroad routes; which was The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Texas asks unani- read twice by its title, referred to the Committee on Transportation mous consent to proceed to the consideration of the motion indicated Routes to the Sea-board, and ordered to be printed. by him. Is there objection Y He also asked, and by unanimous consent obtained, leave to intro Mr. HAMILTON, of Texas. I expect petitions enough from Texas duce a bill (S. No. 1312) for the payment of certain Indian war bonds here to bury that bill so that it will never be heard of again; and I of the State of California; which was read twice by its title, referred shall object to its consideration until I get those petitions. . to the Committee on Claims, and ordered to be printed. 1\fr. FLANAGAN. Does one objection carry it over f Mr. WRIGHT asked, and by unanimous consent obtained, leave to The PRESIDENT pro ternpo1!e. One objection carries it over. · introduce a bill (S. No. 1313) to license, tax, and regulate the sale of Mr. FLANAGAN. Then I ask a vote of the Senate. I want the intoxicating liquors in the District of Columbia, and for other pur question if I can get to it in any way. poses; which was read twice by its title, referred to the Committee The PRESIDENT pro tempm·e. The motion :cannot be entertained on the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. except by unanimous consent. Mr. JONES asked, and by unanimous consent obtained, leave to 1\lr. FLANAGAN. This motion to reconsider was made some weeks introduce a bill (S. No.1314)for the relief of Messrs. Gelatt & Moore; since. Of course my colleague never will call it up, and perhaps which was read twice by its title, referred to the Committee on Post this is about the last opportunity I shall be indulged in even to make Offices and Post-Roads, and ordered to be printed. the effort. The motion has already been made, and now I ask to Mr. TIPTON asked, and by unanimous consent obtained, leave to have it taken up. introduce a bill (S. No. 1315) authorizing the Brownville, Fort Kear The PRESIDENT p1·o tempore. The Chair cannot entertain the ney and Pacific Railroad Company to construct a ponton railway motion except by unanimous consent ; ancl t.he Chair understands bridge across the Missouri River at Brownville, in Nemaha County, the colleague of the Senator to object. Nebraska; which wa-s read twice by its title, referred to the Com- mittee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. . J URIES IN DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Mr. INGALLS (by request) asked, and by unanimous consent ob 1\Ir. EDMUNDS. Now that my friend from Texa-s has finished his tained, l~ave to introduce a bill (S. No. 1316) for _the benefit of ~he business I hope he will not object to my taking up a.nd passing the loyal Creek Indians, and for other purposes; which was read twice jury bill. · by its title, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered Mr. FLANAGAN. I think I shall be in a good condition now to to be printed. . object to anything under heaven. l\1r. CLAYTON asked, and by unanimous consent obtained, leave to Mr. EDMUNDS. I did not object to my friend's taking up his bill. introduce a bill (S. No. 1317) for the preservation of game in tho Dis I ao·ain ask unanimous consent to put this important bill which re / trict of Columbia; which was read twice by ita title, 1-eferred to the lat~s to the a{imi.ni.stration of justice on its passage; it will not t ake Committee on the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. a moment. . · 1875. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. 1305
The PRESIDENT pro tempm·c. Is there objection to the reque t of pre s an amendment which will hazard the passage of the bill. I the Senator from Vermont Y The Chair hears none. cannot dilate upon the question as the hour is about out. The bill (H. R. No. 4669) to provide for the selection of grand and The PRESIDENT p1·o tC'm.pore. The question is on the amendment petit juries in the District of Columbia was considered as in Com of the Senator from California. mjttee of the Whole. The amendment was rejected. The Committee on the Judiciary ·reported the bill with amend The bill was reported to the Senate as amended, and the amend- ments. ments were concurred in. . The first amendment reported by the committee was in section 2, The amendments were ordered to be engrossed and the bill to be to strike out in lines 9 and 10 the words ''shall be able to read and read a third time. · write in the English language." _ The bill was read the third time, and passed. The amendment was agreed to. SWAMP LANDS IN MISSOURI. The next amendment was to strike out in section 3 the following clause: Mr. SPRAGUE. I ask now the consideration of the Senate to a The court shall examine-each person summoned as a grand juror under oath small bill that has been read once. The object of it is to give prior touching his qualifications ; and no indictment shall be quashed, nor shall any ver entry of swamp lands in Missouri to settlers. It will be remembered dict be set aside or new trial granted or judgment be arrested in any ca-se, civil or by the Senate that Congress by a law donated swamp lands to the criminal, because of the want of qualification of any juror, unless such juror, after State and the State gave them to the cotmties and the counties to having been interrogated, shall have falsely answered in relation to his qualifica tions. individuals in tracts of eighty acres each; the individuals have re sided on them ; and the object of this bill is simply i.o enable those The amendment was agreed to. who have resided on them and paid 100 to have prior entry. That The next amendment was to insert in section 4, after the word isill . "compensation," in line 10, the words "not exceeding five dollars a There being no objection, the bill (H. R. No. 4676) for the relief of day for the time necessarily employed;" so as to make the clause act11al settlers on lands claimed to be swamp and overflowed lands - read- in the State of Missouri was considered as in Committee of the Said commissioners shall be allowed by the court reasonable compensation, not Whole. It provides that in all cases in the State of Missouii where exceedin~ five dollars a day for the time neces arily employed, for their services, lands have heretofore been selected and claimed as swamp and over to be pain by the marshal out of moneys in his hand for the payment of the ex flowed lands by the State and the various counties therein, by virtue penses of sru.d court. of any act of Congress, and the lands have been withheld from mar The amendment was agreed to. ket in consequence thereof by the General Government, and the Mr. SARGENT. I offer the following as an additional section: State and counties have sold such lands to actual settlers, and set SEC. -. That no person shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor under section tlers have improved the same to the value of $100, the settlers, their 102, chapter 7, title 2, of the Revised Statutes, who shall, during the session of heirs, assigns, and legal representatives, who have continued to reside Congress at which he was sum'!noned as a witness, by the authority of either House thereon, shall have priority of right to pre-empt ·or homestead all of Congress, make proper answer to all questions pertinent to the question under such lands as may be rejected by the United States as not being in inquiry, althougll for a time he may have failed tQ testify as required by law. fact swamp and overflowed lands. Mr. President, the adoption of this amendment may make it neces Mr. INGALLS. Is there any report accompanying the bill f sary to change the title of the bill by adding the words " and for other Mr. SPRAGUE. The bill itself states all the facts of the case. purposes;': but for the purposes of the bill as explained in the other These are lands which are not swamp lands that are under existing House it is entirely germane. I suppose the Committee on the Judici law retired from the market, that have been settled on by settlers in ary would say that the object Of most of the provisions of this bill is Missouri; and the only object of this bill, as I stated, is that those to enable the grand jury to pass upon the question whether a prom who have settled and paid their hundred dollars for tracts of eighty inent defaulting witness before the other House shall be indicted acres shall have a prior right of entry over other parties who may before the statute of limitations shall touch the offense he has here come in on ascertaining that they are not swamp lands, and are not tofore coiilllritted. I sympathize entirely with the object of the bill within the law granting swamp lands. . . and do not 'vis.!! to delay it for a single moment; but one or two cases Mr. BOGY. There can be no objection to the bill. have transpired recently which require that at the earliest oppor The bill_was reported to the Senate, ordered to a. third reading, tunity something shall be done to make the law plain with regard to read the third time, and passed. the question whet.her witnesses who, having once been summoned CA'n:ARAUGUS AND ALLEGANY RESERVATIONS. before either House and failed to answer, afterward come in and "make a clean breast of it" and answer all questions,that can be pos The PRESIDING OFFICER. The unfinished business is the reso sibly propounded and make acknowledgment of their failure to lution of the Senator from Indiana, [Mr. MoRTON,] on whlch the answer theretofore, shall still be liable to the penalties of misdemeanor. Senator from California [Mr. SARGENT] is entitled to the floor. I refer to the case of :Mr. Wetmore, a newspaper correspondent, who :Mr. SARGENT. I think I can conclude my remarks in the h our failed to answer one da.y and the next day made a speech to the that is left. _ House; I refer also to the case of Mr. Irwin, who refused for a con Mr. FENTON. I ask the Senator from California to yield one mo siderable time and was imprisoned, but subsequently came in and has ment that a vote may be taken upon a conference report which is on since, as I understand, made full and •;omplete answers, or if be has the Clerk's table. The report was read and went over yesterday not done so, is ready to do so at the service of the committee. In the under objection. Mr. SARGENT. If I yield, I suppose I must give up any hope of proceeclings in the habeaa 001-ptuJ case of l'tlr. I rwin it was stated in court by the prosecuting attorney that the misdemeanor was already concluding my remarks within the hour. complete in his case. If the misdemeanor was complete then, be was The PRESIDING OF:FICER. Does the Senator decline to yield f liable to punishment and is still liable; and without such an explan Mr. SARGENT. If it will only take a moment I will yield. atory statute as that which I have proposed, even if he afterward The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the came in and made all the amends possible and was discharged by the report of the committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the House of Representatives, his answers being perfectly satisfactory. two Houses on the bill {H. R. No. 3080) to authorize the Seneca Nat ion I think that point ought to be cleared up and these persons ought of N('.w York Indians to lease lands within the Cattaraugus and not to be subject to the pains of misdemeanor for this public rea on: Allegany reservations, aud to confirm existing leases. that if you take away the inducement of these persons to come in The report was concurred in, being as follows: and make answer after they have once refused you never will get an The committee of conference on the disa!!Teeing votes of the two Houses on tho answer from them. - amendments of the Senate to the bill (H. R~o. 3080) toaut.horizethe Seneca Nation of Tow York Indians to lease lands within the Cattaraugus and Allegany reserva I will not elaborate upon this matter, but I make the statement. tions, and to confirm eristing leases, having met, aftE'.r a full and free conference I think the object of this bill as avowed in the House- and the chair have agreed t-o recommencl. and do recommend, to their respectiv Houses, as fol man himself will admit that is the object- is to meet cases of this lows: That the Senate recede from its amendments, and that the fourth seotion of the kind; and hence this hasty assembling of the grand jury ought to be bill be stricken out and tho following be inserted: "All leases of land situate accompanied with thls explanation. within the limits of said >illages when established as hereinbefore provided, except Mr. EDMUNDS. I can say to the Senator from California in the those provided for in the second section of this act, in which Indians of said Seneca single minu.te or two that I have left that this bill has no application Nation, or persons claiming under them, arc les.sors, shall be valirl and binding upon the parties thereto, and upon said Seneca Nation, for a period of five years from and to the cases to which he bas referred at all. If the persons to whom afte.r the passage of this act except such as by their terms may expire at an earlier he ha referrecl as having refused to testify and then having testified date; and at ttie end of said period, or at the expiration of such leases&':! t erminate afterward are liable to prosecution, they are liable to prosecution at within that time, said nation, through its councilors, shall be entitled to the posses any time within two years from the date they refused to testify ; so sion of the said lands, and shall have the power to lease the same : Provided, how e-ver, That at the expiration of said period, or the termination of said leases, s that this bill has no application to them at all. It has application her einbefore provided, said leases shall be renewable for periods not exceeding to a different case, whlch the Senator may not have in his mind. It twelve years, and the persons who may be at such timo the owner or owners of im has application to that case only fi·om the fact that it provides the provements erected UJ?On such lands shall be entitled to such renewed lea-ses, and machinery for assembling the grand jury to do justice to that man, to continue in possess1on of such lands, on such conditions as may be a,greed upon bY. him or them and such councilors ; and in caso they cannot a o-ree upon the con as I shoulcl wish it to do justice to me if I were exactly in his posi ditions of such leases or the amount of annual r ents to bo paid, tlien the said coun- tion, by giving him an opportunity to vindicate himself instead of its 0 0 0 0 being sa1d "The statute of limitations has run on so that now there ~~~~ s:~~~~~~ift~ ~ld~~~~m~~ ~: ~~:l~[~~~~ Y!~!~e.~g~~e ~~ oS:a t:l:~: is no chance for me to vindicate myself at all." It does not touch nnal rent to be yaill ; nnd if tbe t-»o so appointed and chosen cannot agree, they shall choose a th1r owning said improvements ~hall be eptitled to a ~ ease of said land and to. occupy He testifies further to the same effect, but this I detnil to show that ami improve the same accordmg to the t.erms of sa1d award, he or they paymg rent nml otherwise complvin,.,. with the said lease or said award; and whenever any a white resident from boyhood in that country, ~:~imply for being a \cnso shall expire afti u· its renewal as aforesaid, it ma.v, at the option of the lessee, republican, is harassed and t.hreate.ued with murder to deter him his heirs ancl assigns, be renewed in the manner hereinbefore provided." from ordinary politi<;al action. But I ask why is. there this general And the House a~ee to the same. denunciation of northern men in the South f Have not our people a, The committee of conference- further recommend for the consideration of the two Houses that the first section of the bill be stricken out, and the first two lines right to move from State to Statef Have they not a right to carry of the second section be stricken out, and that the followin~ be inserted: their political principles¥ The Seuator from Georgia [.Mr. GORDON] " That all leases of land within the Cattaraugus and Aue~any reservations in denies that there is contempt and ostra-cisni of northern republica,ns th State of New York her etofore made by or with the autuority of the Seneca in Georgia, and as a, proof he cites ~ telegram from a man who says Nation of New York Indians." JOHN J. INGALLS, he is treated better than he deserves. A true northern gentleman W. B. ALLISOX, would not be likely to use such an expression. It sounds like those LEWIS V. BOGY, who- Man.auers em the part of the Se:n.ate. Crook the :pregnant hinges of the knee, B. W. HARRIS, Where thrift may follow fawning. W . L. SESSIONS, A. COMINGO, But by a mode or trick of expression t.he Senator betrayedj:.be ac Mananers on the part of tlw House. customed contempt of northern men entertained in his region by men of his political principles by speaking in his rema,rks of "a northern MESSAGE FRO:M THE HOUSE. man but a gentleman/' To his telegrams I cite a speech of his col A message from the House of Represent,atives, by ~r. McPHER lea~ue [Mr. NORWOOD] last summer in the theater at Savannah, SOY1 its Clerk, announced that the House.hacl co!lcurred Iil the report which is said to have" excited the admiration and sympathy of his of the committee of conference on the d1sagreerng votes of the two a,udience." The Senator before that appreciative audience delivered Honses on the bill (H. R. No. 31325) to a,mend the national-bank act, himself of sentiments like these: _ and fixing the cornp,ensation of national-bank exa,miners. . When driven by the frigidity of social ostradsm from the North, he flies with The message further announced that the House had concurred m marvelous instinct to the torrid and unctuous embrace of his African mates :mel the report of the committee of conference on the disa:?reeing votes of peers amonbt the swamps of our southern shore. As the crane fills his craw, so thls the two Houses on the bill (H. R. No. 3G2:3) to a,mend tue twent.y-thirtl creature fills his bag for the ilight; and as the crane, when the days grow hot, flaps his win~s, and, Rcreaming t hrough the air, returns to the North; so this ill pa,rao-raph of section 3 of an act entitled ''An act to regulate tl1e fees omened bipea, when times become warm in the South- and ~osts to be allowed to clerks, marshals, and attorneys of the cir cuit and district courts of the United States, and for other purposes,'; But, sir, his colleague says times do not become warm in the South approved February 26, 1863. . for these northern men, these republicans, these carpet-baggers The message also announced that the House had passed the follow when times become warm in the South, gathers up his le.,.s and flying with screams and shrieks away, perches on the wooden head of tho figure of justice, ing bills; in which it requested the concnrrence of the Senate: commonly known as the Attorney·General, and drowns the air with croakings A bill (H. R. No. 633) for the relief of Ran.da,ll Brown, of Nashville, about so,!lthern out_;age. Tennessee ; . A bill (H. R. No. 1283) for the relief of Thoma.s Day, of India,na; His shibboleth is "the republican party." A bill (H. R ..No. 2689) for the relief 'of Emilie Lapage, surviving 0 no I there is no ostracism of republicans I · partner of the firm of Lapage Brothers ; From that party he sprang as natnrally as maggots from putrefaction. His re A bill (H. R. No. 2688) for the relief of Albert F. Yerby, adminis lation to that party is that of pimp to a. bawd, for his meretricious service is re trator of Addison 0. Yerby, deceased, or whom it may concern; warded in proportion to tho number of innocent negro victims he inYeigles to gratify its lust for power. Like Wa.mba and Gerth, he never travels without wearin~ I.Jis A bill (H. R. No. 2690) for the relief of Mark Davis; aml master 's collar; and he is equally content whether turned loose to cJuise like a A bill (H. R. No. 2691) for the relief of Mrs. Flora A. Darling, of sleuth·hound the monarch of southern soil, or called by a snap of the fingers to eat New Hampshire. the garbage of his party. His c.ollar is his passport to roam at large- SENATOR FROl\f LOUISIANA. That is the collar of republicanism- The Senate resumed the consideration of the followin~ resolution and it matters not with what persist.ence he may break into a southern gentle reported from the Committee on Privileges and Elections by .i\Ir. man's clo e, his master will not permit him to be muzzled, for he is "the ox that tr~adethout the corn" as well as " the ass that knoweth his master's crib." MORTON on the 8th instant : . Mr. NORWOOD rose. Resolved, That P. B. S. Pinchback he admitted as a. Senator from the State of Louisiana for the term of sh years, beginning on the 4th of March, 1873. Mr. SARGENT. I will yield for a question, not for a speech. 1\Ir. NORWOOD. A request, not a qnestion. Mr. SARGENT. Mr. President, at the concln~:~ion of my remarks Mr. SARGENT~ Well, sir, wha,t is itY yesterday I was endeavming to show tho vindictiveness of the 'Vhite Mr. NORWOOD. It is this : that the honorable Sena,tor will not Leagues and their cruel operations in Louisiana. I desire to show that garble, but give the whole. that vindictiveness is against republicans, white as well as colored, Mr. SARGENT. I ha.ve read two long extracts from tl1is speech, and native as well as northern ; and to this point I cite the testimony and wha,t I have selected is a fair expression of the spirit of the whole ; of E. L . Pierson, who before the Honse committee testified to intim and probably the man 'vas in the audience who tele::,>Taphed to the idation, murders, &c., in ills parish, during which he recount.ed the colleague of the Senator that he was treated in the South better thau attempt upon his life, first stating that he lived inNa,tchitochcs since he deserved, because wha.t he deserved I presume he got from the boyhood and that formerly his politics were democratic, but prior to teachings of the Senator from Georgia whom I address, from whom the last election he was a republican; that for his change of senti be learned that opprobrium, that witty, I confess, but stinging in ment he was ostracized even by a resolution adopted at a public meet sult is poured upon the heads of northern men without discriruina. ing; that he c~me there ; was appointed by Kellogg judge of the par tion. The Senator by.reading it now all the wa,y through will find no ish and returned, and was met "'ithin sixteen miles of his own horne line drawn; he can find not one word drawing a distinction between and told not to go home; he did go, and a number ofhisf1·iendsthere the gentleman who tele~:aphed to his colleague and any gentleman told him not to attempt to discharge the fnnctions of his office, that who might have sat by his side in that audience or any other north his life was in danger because of his being a republican. On going to ern man residing at the South. his office next day he learned that his life would be attempted, and Mr. NORWOOD. What do you referto! received a note from his wife asking him to come home; then his wife ?t!r. SARGENT. The gentleman's colleague cited a telegram of a came, and he went; that ills sister told him two armed men were northern man, who he said was a republicap, to prove thatthere was lurking about the place, as she guessed, to take his life; that forty no social ostracism of republicans in Georgia, and this telegram said armed men were in town, aod that she heard these two swear that he was t reated better than he deserved- a remark that I sa.y a north they ca,me there to kill him, and that he should not sit as judge; soon ern gentleman would not be likely to use. There is this bitterness, after that the ~ornmittee of seventy held a meeting and sent a com which is appreciated in such ancliences as that assembled in Savannah, mittee to his house t.o demand of him that he sign a written a~ree created by the speech of my friend from Georgia. There is this con rnen t not to take part in the corning ca,mpaign, which he decline Is there not t.his right of intercommunication through travel and lat.ed to mislead the people of his State. The speech was intendecl residence and the right of political opinion f In tho old slavery for circulat ion in Georgia rather than the ear of the Senate, as was days a northern man who went there and was not a democrat, and a evident by the large number of extra-cts which the Senator said he pro-slavery one at that, was called a.n abolitionist, and he wa-s ignored, wonld not ask to be rea~ but have pnt in his speech. If it was in m~tracized by polite society, persecuted and stoned by the rabble. tended to influen ce the Senate, they should all have been read in the That has pa-ssed away with slavery, and the man who goes there bearing of the Senate; but pages were put in without any other now is a carpet-bagger who is subjected to these insults, these abuses, effect except to figure in the RECORD and go to his own people. these injuries. · There have been no evidences of hate here. I myself yesterday, The Senator from Georgia [Mr. Gmmo~] talks of the "vials of although speaking of grave matters and speaking with earnestness, hate poured out in this debate." It is untrue. spoke kindly in every instance, and I desire to do so. But he holds up Mr. NORWOOD. I want to make one remark; with the Senator's to the Senate of the United States the repul..Jlicans here in an unfa permission. vorable and nntrne light when he talks about our pouring out the . Mr. SARGENT. Well. vials of hate on the Senator or any of his colleagues. We have pic M.r. NORWOOD. 'l'he .remarks there apply to oortain classes of tured the injustice in the South and the barbarism there, and asked for men who are described in a· previous part of the remarks I made. justice, peace, and order. But I ask Senators to see how the ha.te of They do not apply and were not intended to apply to gentlemen like that audience at Savannah wa.s stirred up inuiscriminately against Mr. Morrill who is not a democratic carpet-ba~ger, but is a repub northern repul..Jlicans going to the South. The Senator from Georgia lican. That was the reason that I asked that the former portion of [Mr. GORDON] assumes that because some one speaks of the kindness these remarks should be read, as they explain what follows. of the republican party during the past years and now in amnesty Mr. SARGENT. I have no objection to this whole thing going into mea-sures, a reproach is cast on the rebels. The debate bas been free my speech; lm~ I do not see fit to take up my time by reading it. I from such reproaches; but it is well not to open that sul..Jject. will accommodate the Senator, .who seems to be somewhat pleased The Senator justifies those who embarked in the rebellion on the with his effort at the Savannah theater, and for which I compliment ground that they thought they were right. I presqme they so him, by reading the further part of it to which he refers as explana thought, but that. does not prove that they were right or lesself the tory, and it may then be seen that in every line of the part he refers magnanimity of the Government in forgiving them. The high priests to, not merely in that which I have quoted, though I quoted a fair who procured the crucifixion of Christ and the people who a ked the specimen, but that in every line of it there breathes a spirit of relea e of Barabbas probably thought they were right. Those who hatred aud contempt of northern men and northern republicans. tolled the bell of Saint Bartholomew and those who answered its You may disguise it as you choose; you may say republicans have no call; the authors of the Sicilian vespers; those who drenched Savoy business to run for office, or they come down there and try to or with blood; Torquemarla wat-ching the victims of the Iuquisition on ganize the blacks in behalf of republican principles and therefore the rack, probably all thought they were right. Scroggs and Jeffreys you despise them. I say they have a right to do those very things, may have thought they were right at the bloody assizes. The authors and I going from California have as much right to go to Georgia of the massacre of Glencoe may have thought they were right. The ;tnd live there a year and rllll for office or to associate together men assassin of William the Silent may as much have thought he was of my political opinions, or make speeches on the stump, or publish right as did Wilkes Booth when be assassinated President Lincoln. newspapers and not have them thrown into the river, and not be But the enlightened judgment of mankind condemns them; and it almsed in my own person or my property destroyed or I insult.ed in pri will not do for those who rebelled agains~ the best Government on vate or before public audiences in the manner in which northern earth _to extend slavery, who drew the death line at And&sonville, men without distinction, uuless they are democrats, are insulted by who starved Umon soldiers at Belle Isle and Salisbury and assassin that speech made hy the Senator in Savannah. The Senator insists ated a President of the United States, the noblest and most loving that the introductory remarks made by him at Savannah will ex heart of the ages, to recall these deeds in other than a son:owful spirit. plain his meaning more fully than the extracts I have read. I will But I am digressing. I was speaking of the condition of Louisi read the part of his speech entire that precedes the first extract I ana and of the events that in panoramic succession led up to the quoted from it. It is as follows: seizure of the Honse of Representatives by a faction on the 4th of The reconstruction acts have wrought immeasurable evils, but perl1aps the January. A little over a year ago an unprovoked m.assacre of negroes trreatest of all is the production of the carpet-bagger. I have great admiration for took place in Grant Palish, where eighty . to one hundred negroes the genius who first used that word, carpet-bagger. Wbat can be more expressiYe f were killed in cold blood by a man with McEnery's commission in llis like the world bas never seen, from the days of Cain, or of the forty thieves in his pocket. Go back still further. In 1006 a peaceable convention the fabled time of .Ali Baba. Like tho wind he blows, and we hear the sound thereof, but no man knoweth whence he cometh or whither he goeth. · asseml..Jied at New Orleans for the purpose of proposing amendments Natural historians will be in doubt how to class him. Ornitiiologist.'i will claim to the constitution of the State, were prevented from doing l..Jusiness him, because in many respects he is a bir(l of prey. He lives only on corruption by force, and some two hlllldred men were killed and wotmued in an and takes his flight as soon aa the carcass is picked. In other particula.ts be resem hour. Within sixt.y days of the presidential election of 18&; some bles the migratory crane. two thousand men were killeu. for their political opinions. Such What such speeches mean, and bow they operate, is in evidence scenes as these-and I give but samples- led up to the Penn insur from many sources. The Zion's Herald is the organ of the Metho(list rection; so that the seizure of the legislative hall wa but an incident Church of New England, a non-partisan, moderate paper: and its re to be plead with a continuando. Under these circumstances, with lation of the experience of the "carpet-bag" ministers of its church these surroundings, the President did right to employ the military to is warthy of citation. It recently said : discharge his high constitutional obligation, and the action of the While southern politicians, ministers, and laymen can express their sentiments, military was legal _and commendable. however obnoxious they are to the convictions of nort.bern men, wit.h the utmost free Democratic Senators say that the root of all the troubles in Louisi dom, in the pulpit, in the railroad car, in the hotel, on the corners of the street, with ana is t.be presence of the military and the proper impatience of the ~reat demonstrations of earnestness and violent denunciations EWen of others hold mgdifferentviews, the most guarded utterances made by northern men at the South, people against the Kellogg government. Let us see. It may arise tl1at.can be distorted into opposition to prevailing sentiments, are met with imperti from the mercurial and intolerant character of the white men there. nent RDeers or social ostracisms; and every form of personal and business opposition Such scenes long antedate the war or the presence of carpet;.. baggers. i.'! put into requisition to drive away anyone daring thus to utter, in aperfectly g;en Intimidation and bloodshed at the polls in Louisiana are no new tlemanly way, an honest conviction. 'rhe eminent southern ministers that visited the northern camp-meeting last summer were shown every possible attention, and things. Charles Gayarre is entitled to eminence as a histori:m of allotted every honorable opportunity to address our largest audiences. They were Louisiana. On page 679 of his work he puulishes the following facts frank in the expression of their own sentiments, courteous indeed, but still not under date of 18S6 : ~uarding severely their speech in social intercourse. No one thought of criticising In January the official r elations of Governor Hebert with the State terminated. tho freei:lom of those eloquent guests. Ha.s one of them, however, in southern In his >n.ledictory message he r eferred with de.ep mortification to the scenes of in prints attempted to secure a like return of courtesy for our eminent northern min timidation, violence, and t>lootlshed which had marked the late general elections in Ist ers who may providentially visit the South, or suggested that the pastors of the New Orleans- Methodist Episcopal Church South should pay the respect to their northern brethren dne to their office, their character, and the fraternal attentions they have vouchsafeu There were no republicans there then,-no carpet-baggers, none of .to visitors from the South 1 Our most cultivated men, hif!hin office, renowned for tal these birds and bea-sts which the Senator from Georgia talked so ent, accomplished scholars, men marked for their gentle address, ent~r cities and spitefully about the people of Savannah- large towns where several southetn ministers have churches, but not a man of them, to altl:iou~h the faet is publicly known of their presence, offers a nod of reco,!plition He said that the repetition of such outrages would tarnish our character and sink or proffers the slightest Chnstian courtesy. What is the si~cance of thls l And us to the leYel of the anarchical ~?YerJ?Dlents of Spanish .Am ari~; that ?efore this is not true simply of individual ministers who havel>een outspoken in the-ir the occurrence of those " ·~eat public crm1es," the huleouH deform1ty of wh10h he 'l.'i.nws upon sou thorn sentim~nts, but of our most conservative, fraternal, and peace could not describe, and which were committed with impunity in midday light, and seekin~ men. There are no conspicuous instances recorded where this unfraternal in the pres~:nce of hundreds of persons, no one could have admitted eYen the possi policy nas been even temporarily interrupted. There have been no Round Lake bility that a bloodthirsty mob could ha.ve contemplated to overawe any ~rtion of camp-meetings in the Southern States. the people of this State in the exercise of their most valuable rights, ' but tha.t The most smgular fact is the apparent unconsciousness of the existence of this what would then have been denied even as a. possibility is now a historical fact." hateful, unmanly, and unchristian temper ou the part of southern men, and the Gayarre is talking about matters that occurred in 1856, not about evident feeling of.abnse which they manifest when northern persons infer and state that there is ally lack of true courtesy or manly generosity among the better scenes that occurred in 1872-'74- but how very close the parallel portion of the southern communities. There is no doubt that exagrrerated and and he quotes from a governor of the State and an executive message. false statements have been made; and there is also no doubt that one:balf of the Governor Wickliffe, succeeding Governor Hebert, after lamenting personal and pecuniary injury to northern business nien, tho social and most offen the mismanagement and recklessness of administration, in his message sive ostracism and positive viOlence and brutal abuse in portions of tlte South and Southwestern States ha.s never been told. to the Legislature in 1t357 he commented on this mob violence. He said: . The Senat.or's colleague [Mr. GORDOX] talked about "vials of hate It is well known that at the two last ~eneral elections many of the streets 1Uld1 poured out" by us in this debate. It is entirely untrue, and _calcu- approaches to the polls were completely in the hands of orgauized ruffians- 1308 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. FEBRUARY 16, How much that sounds like" banditti":- exercised toward the blacks by capital, reducing them to a condition who committed :wts of violence on multitudes of our naturalized fellow-citizens who of slavery little better than that from which we had redeemed them. dared venture to exercise the right of suffrage. Thus nearl.v one-third of the reg But in Arkansa..s recently, under their reconstructed constitution and istered voters of New Orleans have been deterred from exercising their highest and Legislature, they are passing just such laws again. Capital, which it most sa~red prerogative. is said we interfere . with, dominating in Arkansas, ay, and in Are we not to be believed when we say that by similar scenes re North Carolina, too, is passing these very vagrant laws whereby men cently occurring one-third of the people of New Orleans and Louisi can be sold for not fulfilling a contract for labor, whereby they can ana are deprived of their rights and twenty thousand men kept away be arrested on various pretenses when they are not enga~ed in reg from the polls f ular employment, whereby traps are continually set for the1r feet, the The expression of such elections is an open and palpable fraud on the people, penalty being all the time to transfer the possession of their persons and I recommend you to adopt such measures as shall effectually prevent the true to white men who will buy them for that purpose. Furthermore, will of the majority from being totally silenced. they are passing laws that the stealing of two dollars shall be grand And it is for the results of just such frauds, more recently en larceny, punishable as a felony, and are making all. the county jails acted, that the democratic party are contending. They must have branch State prisons, because felony disfranchises the person who is the fruits; what matters it if men were kept away from the polls by guilty of it unless he is pardoned; and by these means they can suc bloody crimes like those stigmatized by Governor Wickliffe, the work ceed step by step until they have totally disfranchised the colored of "organized ruffians," they claim to be allowed to pack a Legis men in the South. The "second sober thought" of the South, now lature by such means 'I Wickliffe is not more explicit than Major that they are getting the power into their own hands again, is in ac Merrill in his recent testimony before the congressional committee: cordance with that which they had at first when they emerged from I have been stationed in Louisiana since October, part of the time in New Or the rebellion. · leans· have been in Shreveport; the Red River country is in a deplorable condi Mr. RANSOM rose. tion ~nd without the presence of troops there is no telling what would happen; :Mr. SARGENT. The Senator shaij. hear enough about North Caro colo~ed men are terrified and are constantly in fear of vi_olence; w~te re:publicans lina if he will allow me to proceed. I have not done with it. are ostracized that I know of; there was no free expressiOn of political VIew~~d the control was in the hands of a few war leaders of the conservative or w nite The democratic Legislature recently assembled and now: in session Lea"'ue party; they would like to overthrow the State government; there is an in North Carolina passed a new charter for the city of Wilmington, ta,.o'ksm to equal rights; an impartial election could not have been held in that in which they divided the city into three wards, and gerrymandered co;IDtry· several massacres have had the effect to intimidate the colored men; . it a..s follows: One ward, containin~ :two hundred and fifty voters, elects weeks aiJ.d weeks after the Coushatta massacre colored men did not dare to remain at their homes at night, and I think that no free or fair el<'.ction could have been two aldermen; one ward, contamin~ three hundred voters, elects held in Louisiana~white republicans are severely ostr:wized; I have no personal three aldermen; and the rest of the City, containing thirty-one hun knowledge of the voushatta murders; when I visited Shreveport there was but dred voters, elects three aldermen. By great ingenuity in running little seniblance of law; tllere was a volunteer police, but I had no authority to lines in the blocks the two wards containing two hundred and fifty act· it would not be safe for a. stranger to travel through the Red River country and declare himdelf a. republican; an office was vacant in that section, and two gen and three hundred voters, respectively, elect six aldermen, while the tlemen who· conversed with me about it stated they would not dare accept a thirty-one hundred voters only elect three. The democratic member commission; I think t.ha.t the people generally consider that if a man is a republi from that district published a letter in the Republican recently de can he can have no integrity; it would make no difference how honest republican fending this action on the ground that it gavo a better representation o:fficia.ls might be, they would not be respected in office or out; I am engaged in makin"' a report of all the ma. / I 1875. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. 1309 is adopted, the new constitution will conform in all re pects to the Ay, sir, when the republican party shall fail- Constitution of the United States, and sacredly and tenderly respect whenever that party shall go down, as go down it will a.t some timo not long in the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments. the future, that will be the end of the political power of the negro among whito men on this continent. Men in the frenzy of political passions may shut their Mr. SARGENT. I trust the Senator is not mistaken in that. If, eyes to this fact now, but it will eome at any time when the negro shall cea e to be however, under the same influences and the same class of people, it a party ne<;.essity in the politics of this country. should happen to turn out as the constitution of Arkansas, and be changed in the same way as it was in Arkansas, by fraud and "rio That is what the republican party accuse the democracy of.. They lence, subverting the rights of the people instead of protecting them, say that is the very tendency Of your measures; that you keep that I should not be at all surprised. end steadily in view to destroy the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth Mr. RANSOM. I protest against any such apprehensions being amendments of the Constitution; that yon design to re-enslave the expressed by the Senator from California in reference to North Caro African; that you design that all the fruits of the war shall pa~s lina. away; and I cha,rge it here on the floor of the Senate that that is the Mr. SARGENT. Patrick Henry once said that he had no light for design of the democratic party; tha,t it is evinced by their reports on his feet · except the lamp of experience. I have no opportunity to the condition of the South that they intend to overthrow all the judge of southern affairs except by that which I see transpiring be fruits of the war; that the results of the long strug~le which cost foro my eyes every day. I see these things going on. I see constitu hundreds of thousands of lives and hundreds of millions of dollars tions overthrown, Sta,te governments subverted, sometimes by vio shall go for naught; that the blacks shall again be enslaved; that lence and force and fraud, as in Louisiana., sometimes by trick, by this blacl.: blot shall be again upon the American escutcheon and an violation of the State constitution, and by force also, as in Arkansas. American citizen can no longer hold up a fair front to heaven and These things are occuning in these very reconstructed States; and before the nations itnd say, "Within our broad boundaries there treads although I have a very high respect for the Sei;ta,tor, I need some not the foot of a slave." That is democratic policy; and there are thing stronger than his guarantee to believe that these things now the signatures of those Senators and members of the House in a. grave occuning are not likely to be repeated, and in his own State. publin document stating these views openly and fully. · Horace Greeley was the nominee for President of the democratic Will not the country arouse to these tendencies! Is it p_ossible party at tho last presidep.tial election, and I should like to show the that the country can sleep when these dang&s impend! What dif Senator from North Carolina how well he understood the people of ference does it m:Lke about the petty speeches of little stump orators his section. I suppose I am quoting from democratic authority; at in localities, when before the Congress of the United States in a doc any rate he was indorsed by tlie Senator's party. He said in 1!:l71, ument of that gravity so plainly is put forth the avowed design of not long before his nomination: the party to overthrow the rights which have been secured by the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments to the Constitution , It (the democratic party) would come into power wit.h the chagrin, the wrath, of the United States! the mortification of ten bitter years to impel and ~uide its steps. It would devote itself to taking off or reducing tax after ta.'\: until the Treasury was deprived of These opemtions at the Sout~ are all in pursuance of the plan out tho means of paying interest on the national debt, and would hail the tidings of lined by this congressional committee. They design to take State national bankruptcy with unalloyed gladness and unconcealed exultation. What. by State. Where they cannot grab a whole State at once as in the over chastisement ruay be deserved by our national sins, wo must hope that this dis grace and humiliation will be spared us. The democratic party of to-day is simply case of Louisiana and Arkansas, they intend to take a section of it the rebellion seeking t{) achieve its essential purposes within and through the as at Vjcksburgh in Mississippi, and to hold it by force and violei).cc. Union. A victory which dol'.s not enable it to put its feet on the necks of the black They intend to subvert the State constitutions, to eliminate from raco seems to the bulk of its adherents not worth having. Its h eart is just where them every vestige of right, of freedom of thought and action of it was when it regarded slavery and Constitution a.s two names for one thing. It hates the ge-nerals who led the Union armies to victory, and rarely misses a chance to colored men, or of anything except pure, unadulterated, old pro disparage them- slavery democra-cy. That is their deliberate purpose; and all these Ay, they are not fit to "breathe the air of Heaven" or "the free operations, all these plans tend to that very thing. I donut not that air of a republic," as has been said on this floor- that is well understood and is abetted by northern democratic lead ers. If it were not so, why should we see such documents as this which It clings to that exaggerated notion of State rights which makes them the shield I have read, where the result is pointed at but with a lack of hope of all mannet· of wrongs and abuses. It takes counsel of its hates even more than of it.':! aspirations, and will be satisfied with no triumph8 that do not result in the expul· fulness not customary to that party they do not think it can be sion of all active, earnest republicans from tJte Soutlt. accomplished until the republican party is entirely banished from power. They have started even before the republican party is en That which your candidate for President believed in 1811, I have tirely banished from power to- work these nefarious ends, and they seen evidence day after day down to the time I now speak to believe. hope to complete them when they get supreme control. The Senator from Georgia [Mr. GoRDO~] dwelt on the necessity to I believe that these things are well understood and encouraged by the South of a correct public opinion at the North, and appealed to the leaders of the northern democra-cy, and any further ulterior pur public opinion to exonerate him and his section from censure for the poses that there may be on the part of the .southern agitators in re thin~s to which I have referred. Public opinion is a two-edged sword, gard to the destruction of the Union of these States, because I find and ne has more to fear from it than those who denounce this sys by the history of the rebellion and the circumstances which accom tem of slavery and the atrocities that lead up to it. There are other panied its opening that leading democratic politicians and statesmen appeals coming from the South t.o public opinion. I have here one were in clo e communion with the rebellious leaders at that time a,nd in the New Orleans Bulletin published on the 6th of February where encouraged them to retire from the Union. I might quote the letter they appeal as follows : of Franklin Pierce, a former democratic P resident of the United Patriots of the North, let the voice of Grant's victims in Louisiana warn you in States, written on the 6th of January, 1860, nine months before the time. Arm yourselves without delay; band yourselves together in military array; organize b;y States, and have your worthy and trusty leaders cho en. Let those first State seceded. I might quote also from the language of Keitt who love liberty know each other, and get used to concerted action. Put aside in the South Carolina convention where he said they had a right funds, munitions, and stores enough for a prolonged campaign. Be ready when from the a surances which were given by th(' northern democrats to duty demands it to take the field in such numbers a-s t{) crush out tyrannv before expect assistance, and that they had been disappointed, and that the it becomes supreme. You can depend upon most of the old soldiers of the armies who fought for tho Government and Union if you organize and prepare in due northern democrats had gone back upon their pledges through a, cow season. Your country, your threatened liberties, and thepalpableencroachments, ardly fear for their own safety if they had dared themselves to stand plain intentions of your enemies, call for active preparation. In the name of lib· up in the face of the Government and t.he p~ople of the North. I erty we conjure you to heed this warning and be ready. have here an unpublished essay written by a gentleman of Louisi The public opinion of the North is appealed to f.or another rebel ana in which, to do him justice, he belabors all parties right lustily. lion, to engage with the South in overthrowing the constituted After making a remark which would have fitted very well into some authorities of the Government; but, as I say, this public opinion is thing that I said yesterday and which I will first quote, he goes on a two-edged sword, and the men who fought down the former rebel to spe:Lk of this matter. Speaking of the democratic party, he says: lion can be relied upon, they and their sollil, to put down another! , Measured by its own arrogant boasts, it was the sole fitting expounder and only But these things are the natural out~owth of democratic poljcy faithful defender of ~he Constitution in its primitive purity. There were some, however, who, even m palmy days, conten1led that by actual measurement it was avowed in grave public documents. The Senator from Delaware, but a juggling charlatan, " stickling for the letter of the Constitution with the [ Mr. BA~ARD,] in a oongressionalreport, amplified and enlarged upon affectation of a llrude, and abandoning its principles with the effrontery of a the necessity of excluding colored men from political power. The prostitute." Whether the boast or the sneer contain the most truth, it is not now report is made by Frank P. Blair, T. F. BAYARD, S. S. Cox, JAMES B. pertinent to inquire. In 1860 the maxims of state-craft it had cherished through the long years of its BECK, P. Van Trump, A.M. WADDELL, J . C. Rom.~.~soN, and J. M. jealous rule were repudiated. by the popular voice, the reins of goveinment it had Hanks. I will not read at length on acCOlJ.D.t of my desire to close. grasped in lineal and almost unbroken succession, from Jefferson to Buchanan, After going on to state that the phrase used long prior to the war were decisively wrested from it and placed in the hands of a. party rel?resenting that no government could exist half slavery and half free should be n ew ideas. Whatever its virtues, (and it must have been endowed Wlth many, else how would it have retained its bold npou the popular heart so long,) patience un· paraphrased, and it was a proposition equally true that no govern der ostracism from the control of public affairs does not appear to have had a place in ment could exist half black and half white, and saying that the the catalogue. The southern leaders, maddened by defeat, proclaimed the t·ight minds of thinking men are coming to this conclusion, they say : of secession, and fiew to arms to vindicate it. It was generally bolieved at the Such a state of things- time that large promises of material aid had been given by tho northern portion of the democratic brotherhood. If ever given, those promises were redeemed very This half black and half white political equality, this voting power much after the fashion of Monsieur Parrolles when ho so valiantlv undertook to recover the captured That is even better than Keitt's speech or Pierce's letter. These 1\fr. MORTON. I move that the Senate take a recess until half things are understood at the North by northern democratic leaders, past seven o'clock this evening. and I think so from many circumstances. :Marr headed the mob who Mr. CONKLINH. I suggest to the Senator from Indiana to change .demanded the abdication of the State government of Louisiana on his motion, and make it that when the Senate adjourns now it be to the 14th of September. From that bloudy field he went to the Man meet at half past seven this evening. hattan Club, on December 29, at New York, and there made a speech. Mr. MO,RTON. I have no objection to that form. · Why be should have gQne there and then retnrned to take part in the The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The motion is modified accord subsequent proceedings, why he found there the sympathizing frienus ingly. which his operations required, may perhaps be explained by some one, Mr. BAYARD. I move that the Senate do now adjourn until to but I can only draw inferences. In this speech he said: morrow morning. I am astonished that the thunders of public indignation were not heard, aud that The PRESIDENT pro tempore. That motion takes precedence. the President was not told "Thus far shalt thou go aud uo farther." Mr. BAYARD. I wish to say in explanation ·of the motion that for the purpose of continuing the memorial services of to-day it is . Observe this was in reference to the Penn insurrection to overthrow proper that an adjournment should take pla-ce from this time until the State government, not what took place afterward in the Legislar to-morrow morning, a-ccording to what I believe to have been the ture. Yet the tele!ITamS from Washington announce that it is the determination of the uniform custom of the Senate. - President to :leal with Louisiana with a rough baud; for friends have said be The PRESIDENT p1·o tempore. The Senator from Delaware moves patient; wait a little longer. Well, we ba.ve beeu patient; we have waited, and that the Senate do now adjourn. wo have been inj ureu beyond comprehension, except from actual experience. We The question being put, it was declared that the ayes appeared to mean to preserve the public pe.'tce as br as it is possible for us to Jo so. I mean no menace, uo threat, wheu I say it is the fixed determillation of the people of prevail. Louisiana to sweep these men from power. 1\Ir. MORTON. I a.sk for a division. Mr. BAYARD. I ask for the yeas and nays. And by what means they are going to do it we know by his par The yeas and nays were ordered. ticipation in the massacre of the 14th of September. Not sweep Mr. HAMLIN. I think the condition of the Senate is an unpleasant them from power, according to the American sense of the term, by a one. I beg the Senator from Indiana to withdraw his motion. peaceable election, by allO\ving the will of the people to be expressed 1\Ir. MORTON. I withdraw the motion on that appeal. through the ballot-box. 0 no, sir; but by mobs, by muskets, and 1\Ir. HAMLIN. The motion to adjourn then is in order. bullets. The PRESIDENT P'l'O tempore. The motion to take a recess is with And they will do it, unless they are prevented by the-diroot interposition of the drawn. Are the yeas and nays insisted upon on the motion to ad- Fcderalsoldiers. [Applause.] · journ' Yes, sir, they meant by violence to subvert the State government. Mr. BAYARD and ot.bers.· No. This was on December 29, only a very few days before the event The PRESIDENT pro ten~pore. It is moved that the Senate do now happened in the Legislature on the 4th of Janna:t:y, showing their adjourn. purpose to overthrow the State government by violence unless the . The motion was agreed to; and at (two o'clock and forty-two · Federal troops interfered to prevent. And then shall it be said that minutes p.m.) the Senate adjourned. there wa1:1 no necessity for the use of the Federal troops; that the con- stitutionu,l guarantee could not properly be called into exercise when this vaunt was made by this man l\1arr who beaded the just 11revious insunection and bore his complaints and made his promises to the bosom of llis friends of the Manhattan Club ! HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. I say these are but parts of a concerted plan to conquer State after State. Look at Arkansas. In defiance of the provi~:~ion of the State TUESD.AY, Febr·uary 16, 187 5. constitution the government of that State has been overthrown by The House met at eleven o'clock a. m. Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. an illega.l convention, officers elected for four years ousted, anll the J. G. BUTLER, D. D. rights of the people prostrated. The Legislature wa~:~ emptied of. The Journal of yesterday was rea-d an~ approved. republican mel!ll>ers by the illegal action of tho governor, and his own emissaries put in as preliminary to this work. Thousands of men ORDE~ OF BUSINESS. were disfranchised to elect a new Legislature, and that Legislature Several members asked for unanimous consent. is passing bills as atrocious as those to wllich I have referred. Ter Mr. RANDALL. I demand the regular order of business, as that rm·ism there suppresses the least ruurmur of discontent. Baxter will give everybody a fair chance. found a contest to his right to act as governor before the Legisln. tru·e. He emptied of his own motion the Legislature of republican PRIVATE BILLS PASSED. members, thirty-three in the house and several senators, by pretended The SPEAKER. The regul:n order is the unfinished business com appointments to office; and when these appointments were made he ing over from Friday last-bills reported from the Committee of the declared the seats vacant and ordered a new election. Not remitting Whole House on the Private Calendar, and now upon their engross the question to the respective hou~:~es to ascertain if there were vacan ment and third reading. cies, as was required Ly the laws of the State, he himself decided that The followipg bills reported from the Committee of the 'Whole there were vacancie~:~, in violation of law, and ordered an election. He House on the Private Calendar, with the recommendation that they thereby divested the Legislature of the constitutional right to pass do pass without amendment, were sevel'ally ordered to be engrossed upon the qualifications of its own members. He turned out the for a third rea-ding ; and being engrossed, they were accordingly read registrars appointed in 1872 for two years by and with the advice the third time, and passed: . and consent of the senate, and put in his own creatures. These A bill (H. R. No. 2688) for the relief of Albert F. Yerby, adminis registrars conducted the election for vacancies, and he called ·an trator of Addison 0. Yerby, deceased; extra session_, held elsewhere than in the State-house, surrounded the A bill (H. R. No. 2689) for the relief of Emilie Lepage, surviving building with troops, and a.clmitted no one except on a military order. part.ner of the :firm of Lepage Brothers ; and There was no quorum present, and yet this illegal assembly admitted A bill (H. R. No. 26~1) for the relief of Mrs. Flora A. Darling. the governor's creatnres in order to make up a quorum, and then The bill (H. R. No. 633) for the relief of Randall Brown, of Nash they proceeded to pass a law calling a convention of the people, ville, Tennessee, was reported from the Committee of the Whole although there was no provision in the State constitution of Arkan House on the Private Calen .Mr. RANDALL. I object. Mr. DAWES. There is a great deal of general business pressing Mr. D.A. WES. I move to suspend the rules to go into Committee upon the House, a-nd I would not urge this unless I felt that I was of the Whole on the tariff bill. performing a public duty. Nothing is so unpleasant to me as to in SU.NDRY CIVIL APPROPRIATION BILL. terfere with other gentlemen bringing before the House measures of Mr. GARFIELD. I rise to report from the Committoo on Appro which they have char~e. priations a bill which I have the right to report at any time. I am MESSAGE FR0::\1 THE SE.t~ATE. instructed by the Committee on Appropriations to report a bill (H. A message from the Senate, by Mr. STIIPSO~, one of their clerks, com R. No. 4729) making appropriations for the sundry civil expenses of municated to the House of Representatives the resolutions of tho the Government for t.he tiecal year ending June 30, 1876, and for Senate on the announcement of the death of Hon. S.AJ.'IUEL HOOPEU, other purposes ; and move that the same be printed and I'eferred to late a member of the House of Representatives from the State of the Committee of the 'Vhole on the state of the Union, a.ml made Massachusetts. the special order for to-morrow after the reading of the Journal. THE LATE HON. SA.tiUEL HOOPER . .Mr. RANDALL. I reserve all points of order on the bill. The SPEAKER. The Clerk will read the resolutions of the Senate. The bill was received, read a tirst and second t.ime, referred to the The Clerk read as follows: Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, ordered to be IX THE SENATE, February 15, 1875. print.ed, and made the special order for to-morrow after the reading Resolved, Tha.t the Senate-bas received with sincere regret the announcement of of the J omnal. the Mr. DAWES. I wish to say that I do not want to be pressing the Mr. BRADLEY. Does that bill make an appropriation t revenue bill on the House unseasonably, and if the House does not want The SPEAKER. It does. to pass that bill I wish they would save themselyes trouble and save :Mr. BRADLEY. Then I raise the point of order that it must re- . me the pain of putting myself in the position of pressing it at every ceive its first .consideration in Committee of the ·whole. chance I can get. I do not do it from any personal motive, but I am Mr. LAWRENCE. The Committee on War Claimswas authorized acting under the instructions of the Committee on Wayf3 and Means, to report this bill at any time. and under a sense of pressing duty; but of course the House can take The SPEAKER. Yes 1but not for consideration in the Honse. The the responsibility off our shoulders if it declines to go on with the con Committee on Appropnations is authorized to report bills at any sideration of that bill. time, bot only for reference. This bill must go to the Committee of Mr. KELLOGG. I want to say this to the House, that I hope that the ·whole on the state of the Union. to-day it will not go into Committee of the Whole on the state of the Mr. LAWRENCE. I then move that the Honse resolve itself into Union. There is the southern claims bill, involvin?: a large amount, Committee of the Whole on this bill. which can be passed between now and twelve o clock ; and then The SPEAKER. That motion is not now in order. "there is a special order at twelve o'clock, the bill for the reorganization Mr. LAWRENCE. Then I ask that the bill be printed. of the Treasury Department, which, if the Honse will let me, I can There was no objection, and it was so ordered. :finish in less than two hours and before the honr fixed for the funeral ORDER OF BUSINESS. ceremonies. I think it better, therefore, that, instead of resolving our selves into a debating society upon the tariff question, we should The SPEAKER. The gentleman from :Minnesota [Mr. AVERILL] consider that bill. My friend from Massachusetts knows that the is entitled to a certain period allotted to him to submit reports from bill was prepared in part in consequence of his appeal t:o the House the Committe on Indian Affairs. The Chair thinks that to·day that for retrenchment in the management of the Departments of the Gov right could not be enforced, because the rules were suspended .so as ernment. If that bill can be allowecl to be taken up I will agree to to bring before the House for consideration to-day the bill for there put it through within the time remaining without talking about it, organization of the Treasury Department. The order in relation to for I have no desire to make a speech upon it. the Committee on Indian Affairs does not hold good against a spe Mr. LAWRENCE. I hope the gentleman from Massachusetts [Mr. cific order made under a suspension of the rules. DAWES] will allow the bill to be passedforthe claimsallowed by the E:M:PLOYES OF THE HOUSE. commissioners of claims. · Mr. GARFIELD. I aak unanimous consent to report from the Mr. DAWES. I have only one word to say, and then I leave the Committee on Appropriations a bill to give compensatiOn to c:r:ippled respon~ibility to the Honse. I shall feel that I have discharged my doorkeepers and other emoloyes of the House who have not been duty by bringing this matter before the House, and the House anti paid since the beginning of the session. . the country will see, if my motioJ}. be defeated, how much easier it is Mr. RANDALL. Let the bill be read. to get money out of the Treasury than it is to get money into it. If The bill was read, making appropriations to enable the Clerk of we do not address ourselves persistently to the effort to pass some the House of Representatives to pay fourteen disabled soldiers in the such bill as the one which I ask the House now to consider, the service of the House from December 7, 1874, to April1, 1875, $6,000; Treasury will fail to meet the demands upon it, and we shall force five pages from December 7, 1874, to April1, 1875, $1,450 '; six folders an extra session. . from July 1, 1874, to December 1, 1874, $3,400; and six colored Mr. ALBRIGHT. How much debate does- the gentleman from laborers from December 7, 1874, to April1, 1875, $1,400; the several Massachusetts a-sk upon this bill 'f amounts to be disbursed under the direction of the Committee on Mr. DAWES. I have moved that gener debate be limited to Accounts of the House of Representatives. three hours. No objection being made, the bill (H. R. No. 4730) wa-s received, Mr. ALBRIGHT. Then I move to amend ·that motion so as to and read a first and second time. limit it to one and a half hours. Mr. GARFIELD. I sought to introduce this bill a few mornings Mariy MEl\IBERS. Vote ! Vote! since, and objection was made to it that three or four persons who Mr. WARD, of lllinois. I want to say a word in reference to this had served during the whole term and had not been paid were not tariff bill. I do not want that members who are interested in this included in the bill. question shall be deprived of an opportunity to be heard at all. Mr. RANDALL. I ask the gentlema,n to add four pages who are Mr. FIELD. Three hours is short enough time. in a like condition. The question was taken on the amendment of Mr. ALBRIGHT; and 1ffr. GARFIELD. There are five pages included in the bill. The it was not agreed to. bill was referred to the Committee on Accounts, and the chairman of The question recurred on the motion of Mr. DAWES that general that committee [Mr. BUFFINTON] went over it carefully anu put in debate on the tariff bill be closecl in three hours. all that should be included. The following letter from the clerk of Mr. SAYLER, of Ohio. I rise to a parliamentary inquiry. In case the House of Representatives will explain the necessity for the bill : the general debate be limited to three hours, will it be a debate be CLERK'S OFFICE, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES UNITED STATES, tween the members of the Committee on Ways and Means, or will Washington, D. 0., Januar-y 12, 1875. other representatives of interests that are to be affected by this bill DEAR Sm: In reply to your inquiry of yesterday, I have the honor to state that be heard¥ . the following amounts will be required to pay the employes of the House named: The SPEAKER. The Chair knows nothing about the debate in For fourteen crippled soldiers from December 7, 1874, to March 5, 1875. . 1, 267 20 Committee of the Whole. . For four pages from December 7, 1874, to March 4, 1875...... 880 00 For one page from J':muary 1 to March 4, 1875...... 157 50 . Mr. SAYLER, of Ohio. There are some of us who want an oppor For six colored la).lorers from December 7, 1874, to March 4, 1875 ..•... _.. 1, 04!) 46 tunity to present the interest~:~ of our constituents to the House. Very respectfully, Mr. DAWES. I will state wh:tt I know about the disposition to CLINTO"N LLOYD, debat~. The gentleman from lllinois [Mr. BURCHARD] has the floor. Ohief Ole-rk House of Representatives. R. J". STEVENS, Esq., · I underst.and that he does not intend to occupy a full hour. I under Olerk Committee o-n Appropriations. stand that the gentleman from Indiana, [Mr. NmLACK,] a member of the Committee on Ways and Means, wants an hour, which he pro The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third tiUle; and poses to distribute among his friends on the other side of the House. being engrossed, it was accordingly read 'the third time, and passed. To the gentleman from Kentucky [Mr. BECK] I have promised half of Mr. GARFIELD moved to reconsider the vote by which the bill the last honr, and the gentleman from Iowa [Mr. KASSON] desires a was passed ; and also moved that the motion to reconsider be laid on few minutes. That is all I know about the disposition to debate the the table. bill. The latter motion was agreed to. Mr. WARD, of lllinois. Well, that would leave no time for gen CLAil\IS. tlemen who are interested in the bill who are not on the committee to Mr. LAWRENCE. I ask unanimous consent to have printed and discuss it at all. referred to the Committee on· W a.r Claims a bill making appropria The question wa-s taken on the motion of Mr. DAWES to close tions for the payment of claims reported to Congress, under section 2 debate; and it was not agreed to. of the act of Congress approved June 16, 1874, by tha Secretar_y of The question recurred on the motion of Mr. DAWES to go into Com the Treasury, and for other purposes. mittee of the Whole on the state of the Union on the tariff bill; and Mr. RANDALL. Not to 'Come back on a motion to reconsider. on a division there were-ayes 56, noes 69. The SPEAKER. Under the rules that could not be done. Mr. DAWES. I feel it my duty to call for tellers ·on this question. No objection being made, the bill (H. R. No. 4731) was received, The SPEAKER. No quorum· having voted, the Chair will order read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on War Claims, tellers; and appoints the gentleman from Massachusetts [Mr. DAWES] and ordered to be printed. arnd the gentleman from Ohio, [Mr. LAWRENCE.] The House divided; and the tellers 1·eported-ayes 60, noes 96. ENGRAVllj"G AND PRINTING OF NATIONAL-BANK NOTES, ETC. So the motion of Mr. DAWES wa-s uot agreed to. Mr. PHELPS. I ask consent to report from the Committee on Banking and Currency a bill to provido for the engraving and print SOUTHERN CLAI.l.'ffi. ing of the national-bank notes and United States notes, and other 1\.fr. LAWRENCE. I now call up the bill (H. R. No. 4692) making securities of the United States, to be printed and recommitted. appropriations for the payment of. claims. reported allowed by the Mr. RANDALL. I will not object, upon the understanding that commissioners of claims under the act of Congress of March 3, 1871, the bill is not to be brought back by a motion to reconsider, and that reported from the Committee on 'Var Claims. the minority shaU have a right to submit their views. 1875. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. 1313 No objection being made, t.he bill (H. R. No. 4732) was received, on Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed in the RECORD. They read a first and second time, with the accompanying report ordered to aJ:e as follows: be printed, and recommitt.ed to the Committee on Banking and Cur- . CmcrN~ATI, FebntanJ 13, 1875. rency. To Ron. M!LTO:R SAYLER and Ron. H. B. BAxxum: JAPANESE Th'DEll-lNITY F~'D . The followinlfo unanimous action was taken to-day by the chamber of commerce on the whisky-mx bill. Mr. MYERS, by unanimous consent, introduced a bill (H. R. No. C. M . HALLOWAY, 4733) to return to the government of Japan one-half of the in<}eiiDJity President . Ohamber of Oom11lorce. fund paid by that government t o the United States under the con Wbereas a proposition has been made in the Congress of the United St.ates to materially increase tho internal t::txes on the production of distilled ~irits · anu vention of October 22, 1864, and to. dispose of the balance of that whereas this city's interests are seriously involved in this movement, this chainuer fund; which wa.s read a Jhst and second t.ime, referred to the Com of commerce would respectfully present to the members of the present Congress mittee on F oreign Affairs, and ordered to be printed. the following facts a.s justifying the earnest protest which we hereby make against proposed changes : POST- ROUTE BILL. The n.ovement of whisky at Cincinnati for the year ending September 1, 1874 accordin~ to the statist.ics of this chamber, reached 674,315 barrels; the value of M:r. P ACKER. I am instructed by the Committee on the Post which movement in and out of this city wa,s $37,776,375. The production of spirits Office and Post-Roads to report a bill to establish certain post-routes. for the year in the three citi s of Cincinnati, Covington, and Newport was 8 510 589 There is no le~islation whatever iu the bill, and I a.skthat it may be gallons, the article in it.<> various forms contributing to the· revenue of the Gov~rn considered anu pa sed now. ment in round numbers$6,000,000. This amount, ~.:37 ; '776,375, represents financial anrl ind~strial interests too se1~ous to be lightly ~turbed, whether a.q to local consid No objection being ma{}e, t he bill (H. R . No. 4734) was received, erations or as to the collection of tho revenue 1tself. The amount of tax paid into r ead three time , and passed. the Treasury of the United Sta.tes by the first district of Oll:io is over $5,000,000 Mr. PACKER moved to reconsider the vote by which the bill was annually; but when the whisky from other districts seeking~' market here, as is shown by the foregoing statement, is taken int{) consideration, it will be seen that passed ; and also moved that the motion t o reconsi AARON A. TUR~"'ER. In the office of tho Second Comptroller: The Second Comptroller 63,000; ueputy comptroller, ..,2,800; four chiefs of di vi l\fr. FIELD, by unanimous consent, introduced a bill (H.R.No.4738) sion, 2, 400 P.ach; eight clerks of cln.'lS four; seventeen clerks of class threo; for the relief of Aaron A. Turner, of Trenton, :Uichigan, for dutie eighteen clerl;:s of class two; twelve clerks of class one; ten clerks, at $900 oach; illegally collected on ship p1ank imported by him; which was rea{} one me enger; and three laborers. a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, In the office of the Commissioner of Customs : The Commissioner of Customs, $4,500; deputy commissioner, $2,500; three clerks and ordered to be priD;ted. of class four; seven clerks of class three; ten clerks of class two; nine clerks of ANDREW ~OUDERBACK. class one; one messenger; and ono laborer. Mr. BUNDY, by unanimous consent, introduced by a bill (H. R. No. In the office of the First Auditor: The First Auilitor of the Treasury, $4,000 ; deputy auditor, 2.500; four chlofs of 4739) granting a pension to Andrew Louderback, ]ate of Company D, division, at $2,100 each; two clerks of class four; se'fen clerks of class throe; oigbt Thirty-sixth Ohio Vohmteer Infantry i. which was read a first and clerks of class two; thirteen clerks of class one; one messenger; and two laborers. second time, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and or In the office of the econd Auditor: dered to be printed. TheSe ·onil Auuitor of the 1'rea ury, $4,000; deputy auditor, $2,500; five chiefs of division, at 2,100 each; six: clerks of cia s four; thirty-five clerks of class three; JAMES J. WARING, SAVAl\TNAH, GEORGIA. seventy clerks of class two; forty-five clerks of clU8s one; one messenger; anti Mr. WALDRON, from the Committee on Ways and Means, reported twelve laborers. back a bill (H. R. No. 4246) for the relief of James J. Waring, Savan In the office of the Third Auditor: nah, Georgia., with the recommendation that it do pass; which was The Thiru Anuitor of the Treasw·.v, $4,000; them from the "slush fund" in the Treasury Department. Then we and it more than compensates for the increase of salaries, which is to gave it to them in the salary bill which passed last Congress; and do justice to the heads of divisions in the Comptrollers' and Audi las li year for the first time for a considerable period they have received. t ors' offices and some of the ot her offices as well as to the Auditors but 63,000-the same salary as was :fixed in 1799 and in 1817 when the of the Treasury Department; and the result of our bill is that it offices were create(l. makes the amount of expense nearly 20,000 less than we have al- That is all there is in the way of raising salaries, with a few excep- rea{.'ly appropriated this session for the Treasury Department. tions, and with the exception of those of the divisions in the Comp- I have before me a table showing the number of clerks and trollers', Auditors', and other offices, which are made to equalize them employes and the amount of expense()£ the Department December to a certain extent with the several other branches and Bureaus of 31, 1873, when we began our investigation, and also the number and the Department. During last session we raised the salaries of the amounts appropriated the last session and this session for each of the assistaut secretaries, the Solicitor of the Treasury, and the Commis- Bureaus of the Department. There were a year ago in that Depart sioner of Customs to $4,500. We have put in this bill the Supervising ment 2,675 employes, with an annual compensation of $3,361,753.75. Architect of the Treasury, at $4,500, and he ought to have $5,000, but Last year the appropriation bill reduced the amount to $2,951,853.50, we have made it the same as the increase last year. He received $5,000 after we hau prepared om original bill in our committee for the for a considerable period until last year; last year he received$4,000. reduction ,of the expenses of that Department. By our bill, as we As far as the Secretary's office is concerned, the bill is drawn for pre- originally reported it last session, we reduced the expenses of the cisely the same sums as contained in the appropriation bill that has Treasury Department over $400,000 ; and the substitute now reported pas ed both Houses, only we have recognized by law the ·divisions is a reduction of the expense of the Department of more than $500,000, that have long. existed in fact-the same sums precisely as are appro- notwithstanding the increase of a few salaries where justice seemed priated in the legislat.ive bill this session. And so in most of the to demand it. Bureaus of the Department we have not increased the amount. This session the appropriation bill for next year gives 2,323employes, We have reduced the number of clerks in the Second Comptroller's with an appropriation of 2,871,133.50. The bill now before the Office, which we found we could do, with the reduction that had House :rn.akes the number of employes 2,291, '\ovith an aggregate com been made iu the Second Auditor's Office. We have reduced :in the pensation of $2,F.l54,153.50, or nearly $20,000 less than that :fixed iu l:;econd Auditor's office the same number as in the approprL."Ltion bill; tho appropriation bill which has ah·eady passed both Houses and is and we have made a still further reduction in the Third Auditor's in committee of conference. There is an increase of $200 above the and the Fifth Auditor's Office; and also in the Internal Revenue table for the stenographer in the office of the Comptroller of the Bureau we have made a reduction of five male and five female clerks Currency. I will have this table and also a table showing the rates and three laborers. The committee were periectly satisfied that this I of salaries of different officers, and the rates of increase at different reduction could be made without prejudice to the public service; times, printed as a part of my remarks. Officers and employes in Officers and employ~s in Officers and em1loy~s pro- Officers and employ6s pro- the Trea.sury Depart- the Treasury D epart- vided for by egislative vided for by Mr. Kel- ment, December 31, 187:t ::~n1 ~~e 12J~ szi7rdor iff.r~S~ation bill H. R. ~~~~- ~~~dment to H. Offices. 0 Number. Compensation. Number. Compensatio~. Number. Compensation. Number. Compensation. ------~~------l------l------~~~ l------l ------1------1------Secretary . __ • _•...•• _ , •.....•••...•.•• . _...... _. . 392 $395, 800 00 357 $346,500 00 357 $346.500 00 357 $346,500 00 .Architect ...... _. _ ...... ---.. 14 29, 240 00 18 32,040 00 13 :i2, 040 00 18 32,540 00 49 72,600 00 49 72,600 00 49 75,800 00 rer~~~c~£~~~~~- :: ::~~::: :: ::::::·.::::::: ::::::::::: ~~ 1~: ~~ gg 78 111,400 00 78 111,400 00 75 110,600 00 Commissioner or Customs ...... ----·-...... 33 48,960 00 33 49,460 00 33 49, 460 00 33 49, 960 00 First Auditor . _. _...... _...... - ...... _.. 41 59, 280 00 39 55,480 00 39 5;), 480 00 39 58,780 00 Second Auditor ...... ----...... --· -· ...... 284 3R5, 480 00 200 27"2, 080 00 176 240, 800 00 176 245,280 00 Third Auditor_ ...... •...... •... ---·...... 213 290,480 00 184 249,720 00 184 249,720 00 173 237,000 00 Fourth .Auditor------·····-- ...... ----·--...... 59 83, 820 00 56 78,600 00 56 78, 1l00 00 56 81,000 00 Fifth Auditor ---- ...... ---·--·· ------...... 45 60,900 00 39 52,400 00 39 52, 400 00 35 50,280 00 Sixth Auditor ...... ·------...... ------.... 209 282,620 00 224 299,620 00 23-i 309, ()20 00 233 313, 320 00 Register . ___ ..... ------__ . --- ... --- ..... ------...... 61 85, 520 00 55 76,720 00 55 76,720 00 55 77,720 00 Treasurer ..... ----· ... --- __ ... --- .. ·----·--.... -----... 153 197, 9i!O 00 138 180,460 00 138 180,460 00 138 180,460 00 Comptroller of the Currency ...•.•...... -----·.--· 96 121, 880 00 95 121;680 00 95 121,600 00 !15 123,580 00 rn~.ernal Revenue------....•.. ------·-··------·------265 354, 140 00 253 343, 540 00 253 343,540 00 240 :n9,820 oo 10 13,860 00 10 13,860 00 10 14,360 00 ~;:~;~~~------_-_._-_-_._._-_-.-_-.-:_·:.:::::·:::.:::::::::::::::: !~ ~~:~~ gg 41 59,440 00 ...... Employed on loans: 127 134,933 50 127 134, 933 50 127 135,833 50 ~~~t~~;u~~~::::::::: ·_-_:::: -_::: -_: ::::::::: :: : :::::: ·· · - ·· .. 6oi- -· · · · 63o; 233-95- 12 18, ()()0 00 12 18, 600 00 12 18,1)()0 00 R egister . -- ..•...... __ ...... __ ...... __ ...... __ ...... 153 lli7, 940 00 15.1 1()7, 940 00 153 167,940 00 217 214,780 00 217 214,7130 00 Treasurer .. -· ------...... ·-···· ...... ---217 -----214,780 00 TotaL .. _._.··------·--···-······------··-··· .... 2, 675 3, 361, 753 95 2,378 2, 951, 853 50 2, 323 1 2, 871, 133 J() 2, 231 2, 854, 153 50 Table sho-wing the C(J?npensation m· sala'ries at ·vm'ious periods p er annu.m of ojjicers and clerks of th e .Executive Depa1·tnwnts. 8 g ~ 0 ~~o; !:::; ~~ of ~- g oi ,0 0 - ~ M ~ 1>:~ Cl p., ~ ~ &5 01 ::! ~ s Officers and Clerks. w .... of ~- ...< ..,:ri ~ o; ~ ...... , . ..., 00 .0 Q 6 - .c ~- ...... o@ &- ar of a;~ "'"' C')- S...., ..:::1 'S ~ oi ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ p., p., p-, c:l .... &~ '@ .s ~ ~ ------__;_------1! --~-.o- ~ .!__!_ ~~ ~ I ~__!___!__ ~ ~ J_ _L -~--- 1 ---~-- 1 Secretaryof State------·------$3,500 ...... $5, 000 ...... $6, 000 ...... ·--··--- · ··----- ···-··-- --····-- ···----- · ····--- 3, 000 Secr etary of theTreasury ______3,500 5,000 ...... 6,000 ·----·------...... ------...... · ------...... q,ooo . s. 000 8, 000 !~j~1i!Eiaf.r_~~:~~::~·:~::~:::::::::::: --~::~- :::::::: i:~g :::::::: :::::::: g : ~g :::::::: :::::::: :::::::: :::::::: :::::::::::::::: :~:6~: 8, 000 Po tma.st.er-General. .... _.... _...... _.•.. _.. . 2, 000 . .. • . . . . 3, 000 ...... 4, 000 ...... • ...... _... _.. 6, 000 8, 000 . Sept.ll. t tg:~~t!e_c~~~r-~-~~~~~~·:::.-::::::::::: ~~~ ·S2;4oo· ··a:5oo· :::::::::::::::::::::::: :::::::::::::::::::::::: :::::::: :::::::: . ~·-~~~- :::::::::::::::::::: March:l ~~~:ls~fo~~;r:pg~~~~::::::::::::::::::: :::::·:: :::::::: :::::::: - ~·.~~- :::::::: :~:::::: :::::::: :::::::: :::::::: :::::::: :::::::: ··a:ooo· :::::::: :::::::::::: FirstAurliter ...... 1,500 1,900 3, 000 ------· ------...... ·--·-·····-· Second, Thinl, Fourth, Fifth Auditors, (each)...... 3, 000 . __ ...... •.•.. . •...•.. . __ ...... •..••. _ ...... _. _ • _. _•• Sixth Auditor ...... ------$3,000 ...... ------...... ···-·····-·· R egistor ...... ______··------· 1, 250 1, 750 2, 400 3, 000 ..• : . .. • . · ------...... ------...... ···-··-- ...... ------·------T rea.surer ------...... 2, 000 2, 400 3, 000 ...... __ ...... ····--- ...... ------.. ------·-···· Solicitor ..... _..... __ ...... __ .. __ .. __ ...... ••. __ ...... _.. __ ...... 3, 500 . ____ ...... __ ...... _••.. __ ... _••••••• _ Commissioner of P ensions...... ------· ...... ···-··-- ···----- · ------...... $2,500 .,.,'3,000 ------· ·------·--·-·· Commissioner of Indian Affairs...... $3,000 ·------...... --···-- ··------...... -----· , ____ : Commissioner of the General Land Office ____ --·-----·------...... 3,000 ...... ------.... : . ------. . April22 , ~ A ss1stant Postmaster-GeneraL ...... ------·------...... -----·--·------· 2, 500 ------· · ·--·--· ...... : .... 3,000 ~~¥ffii\t~f~~::~~;:: ::~~: 5p:7: :~ ~:: ~ I :~ :::: J~! :~: :~: ~:::~~ :~~ ::: :::.:: .~~ \ :~:::: ~ ~:: \ ~ ~ :~ ~: I ... }~, 1316 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. FEBRUARY 16, Table showing the compensation or salaries at ·varums pm·iocls per annum of ojjicers and clerks of the Execu-tive Department-s-Continued . ci ..;. <0 co 0 $3, 500 to $0, 000...... • . . . . $8, 000 21 years ago. 5 ~~ {_ ..... ~~~~~:i ~ .i~!!!!i!!!i __ ii :--_i iii i~~;- :! :-:--:: :!~: :; :~ii: :: i ~~iii! :U ~ 4, 500 5 July 16. Mar. 3, 1SG5. Assistant Secretary Treasury ...... \H, 000 ...... $3, 500 ...... 1, 500 ...... 4,500 ...... 3,000 Comptroller.: ...... $5,000 ...... ,500 ...... ··· ·· 5,000 5 years ago ... 1, 500 May 18, '72. $3,000 ...... 5,000 2 years ago ... 2, 000 ~=~~:~~Pcmti>~~~:::::::::::::::::: :::::::::::::::: :: :::::::::: :::::::: :.... ~:~. Crc'l.ted in 1849, at $3, 000 ... . 4, 500 ...... First Auditor...... ~.000 ...... 3,000 75 years ago ... None .. 1, 000 Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth Auditors (each) ...... $3,000 ...... 3, 000 57 years ago ... None .. 1,000 Sixth Auditor., ...... Created in 1836, at .,.3, 000: .. . 3,000 :l8 years ago ... None .. 1, ()()() MayS, 1872. Register ...... · 4, 000 $3, Oil()...... ·····------···· · 4,000 2 years ago ... 1, 000 ...... July2J. $3,000 ...... 6, 500 8 years ago ... 3, 500 ...... ~&r:;r_._· :::::::::: ,·:::::::::::::::::::::: .: --~·-~- :::::::: ---~--~·-~~~- :::::::: :::::::::::: Created in 18!l0, at $3,500 . .. . 4,500 ...... Commi~:~sioner of Pensions...... Created in 1843, at 2,500 .. . 3,000 .26 ·y;w.~ -~-g~:: _· 500 ...... Commissioner of Indian A.ffairs ...... Created in 11'.12, at ~3,000 ... . 3,000 42 years ago ... None ...... Commis;;ioner of the General Land Office ...... Created in 1836, at $3,000 ... . 3,000 38 years ago ... None .. July 1,1865. Assistant Postmaster-General...... 3, 500 ...... Created in 1836, at 2,500 .. .. 3, 500 9 years ago ... 1, 000 ...... Comptroller of Currency...... 85. 000 ...... Created in 1864, at $5,000 ... . 5,000 10 ye:us ago ...... July 1. July 13. Commissioner of Internal Revenue...... 4, 000 6, 000 ...... Created in 186~, at ~.ooo ... . 6, 000 10 years ago ... 2, 000 Chief clerks of Departments...... $2,000 ...... 2, 200 2L years ago ... 200 800 { 800 to g~~:~ ~~:~~g~ ~~df:~-~~~:::::::::::::::::: :::::::: :::::: :: :::::::::::: :::::::: :::::::::: J 1, 700 ...... 2,000 21 years ago ... 300 1, 000 $1,400 ...... 1,800 400 $1,150 ...... 1, GOO 450 All othoi clerks (each not excooding)-- • • · • · · · • • • • • • · ·: • • · · • · · • • • • • • • • • • · · • · _- · • • · · • • • • • · • • • { $1,000 ...... 1, 400 }·· ,~.,.,...... 400 esoo ...... 1,200 { 400 By act o~March 2, 1799, the h~s of Departments were a:ut.borized to vary th~ I Mr. KELLOGG. The salaries we have changed are those of the compenl":ttion t-heretofore established for clerks, and a s~ecific sum was app1·opn- Auditors aud their chief clerks whom we have made deputies the ated f01: 11ach Department as the aggregate of the clerk biTe therefor; the average . . . . ' . . ' of ea~b clerk not to exceed $500. This syst-em continued for many ,;rears; Con- chiefs of div11nons, and a few others, and we have ra1sed mstead of grca, however, increased this compensation by voting, yearly, an addition thereto reducing them; and we have reduced the fore& in the office of the of 15 per cent. . . . Second Comptroller and other places, where we were satisfied that we By the act of April20, 1818, tho salar1es of clerks were established as follows: could do it without inJ"nry to the public service more than enough ·Per annum. . . ' Chief clerks of Departments...... $2,000 to counter-balance this l.Dcrease-- Cbief clerks of Bureaus...... 1,700 :Mr. MERRIAM. The gentleman has not answered my question. 1,400 What I wish to know is the aggregate reduction of salaries by the U~der clerks...... { ~ :~J ac~~~ ~~rfo~VJ: I have already stated the aggregate reduction as By act of March 3, 1853, the clerks of the Departments were cla-ssified, and their n_early_ $20,000. The exa~t figures of. reduc~ion below the appropria- salaries fixed as follows: tiou btU we have already passed thiS se swn are $16,980, and more . Per annum. than $500,000 below what it wa-s before last year-- · Cb~ef clerks of Departments...... $2,200 .Mr. MERRIAM. Let me ask the gentleman another question. Clue£ of Bureaus...... 2•000 This bill as I understand it ro oses to make these chano-es take Fourthc~erks class clerks...... 1,800 ' . ' P P o Thlrd-class clerks...... 1,600 effect on the 1st of July. Does not that confiict with the provisions S~~ond-class clc:ks...... 1,400 of t h e appropriat-ion bill which has passed the two Houses' Fust-cla.ss clerks ...... 1•200 Mr. KELLOGG. I will say in reply to the gentleman that if this This is their present compenan.tion. bill · d h th ti b ~ ,, · The salary of Treasurer, originally ~000, was raised to $3,000 in 1804 ; to ss,ooo lB passe soon enoug. • e necessary ~onec on may e mli!Ue 1u in 1 62; and to $6,500 in 1866. the appropriation bill. · Tbo only salru·ies that have remained sta.tionary are those of the First, Second, Mr. TYNER. The appropriation bill is now before the conference Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Auditors. committee, and there are amendments before the committee in con- It will be noteu that whenever new Bureaus have been created, since 1861, the t " "th hi h h h th t l t 1. salaries of their respectivtl beads have been fixed at rates much above, and in one nee lOll Wl W C C anges suo as e gen eman sugges s can ue insta.uce more than double, those of the heads of accouutin" Bureaus. made. Chiefs of divisions have been authorizeu uy law in the 'futernal Revenue Bu- Mr. KELLOGG. That is. true. But if too late for that bill, we reau at a compensation of 2,500 per auunm, in the Treasurer's Office at $2,700 per can add a clause to any ·appropriation bill before we get through, aunum and in the Register's Office at 2,500 per annum. It is now proposed to "d' h ffi · f t h t · d h 11 r·•cognize chiefs of divit~ions in t-he several Bureaus of the Department at a com- provl mgt at a su Cient sumo e amou.n appropnate s a be pen ation o! from $2,100 to 2,400 each. used in paying the amounts specified in this bill. lvVe have endeavored to make the different Auditor's Bureaus con~ Mr. TYNER. But the gentleman was mistaken in saying- that the form to other Bureaus in the recognition of divisions, and also the saving woulcl be 20,000. I find from the figures that it:""is only offices of the Comptrollers. There they have had chiefs of divisions 16,980. for years, with only eighteeu-hnndred-dollar clerks, men of experience, .Mr. KELLOGG. I gave t.he exact figures, 16,980; but I said it who have been there ten, fift.een and twenty years. We :fixed thesala- was nearly ·20,000. I did not of course mean to deceive the Hou e. ries of the chiefs of division in the offices of the Comptrollers at 2,400, I send up to the Clerk's desk and ask to have read a letter from the the same as the assistant chiefs of ui vi-sions in the Secretary's office; Secretary of the Treasury in relation to this matter. a,nd in the offices of the Auditors at 2,100, which i cer tainly not too The Clerk read as follows: large for competent men. .A.s the law now stands, you ·have chiefs !.rREASURY DEPARTMEXT, of divisions in the Trea urer' office, at $'2,700; in t.IJ.o internal-reve Washington D. 0., Januaty 13, 1875. nue branch, $2,500 ; five of thorn in the Register'l.i office, at 2,500 a Sm: I have carefully examined the amendment in the nature of a substitute pro year each. .A.ud in that same Register's office they are unc~er a chief posed to be submitted by Mr. KELLOGG, from the Committee on Reform in the Civil Service, to the bill (il. R. To. 2lJ78) to provide for the reorganization of tlHI Treasury clerk or deputy register, whose salaq is only $2,000. \Ve have Department of tho United States, and for other pnrpo e., a.nd fully appro\"e of the raised that to $2,500, making his salary equal to the salaries of those same. five men who are under him. We have endeavoreu to remove the In now of the fact tbatmany of the offices and clerkshipsof the Departn;IPnt are a.utborizetl from year to year by the annual appropriation bills, I deem it highly im jnequalities now existing between the differeu~ branches of t he De port-ant. that they should be provideu for in the form of permanent statut . no roor }l~rtments so far as we could do it. We have given the subject a ~ Mr. ALBRIGHT. What provision is there in this bill in regard to ought to receive '2,400 each, and we have reported in favor of giving the steamboat inspectors' clivi'livn '¥ Does it provide that there that sum. But the whole hill, with all these increases, involves the shall be a chief deputy, as there is in other divisions of the Treasury expenditure of about $17,000 less t-han we have already appropriated Department T for this Department by the a.ppropriMion bill, which is now in com 1\fr. KELLOGG. That is provided for already by law or by a,n ap mittee of conference. That is to sa,y, we have reduceu the force, and propriation bill, as I understand it, and this bill does not affect it at we have so arranged it as to provide for having more work done. all,.for it makes no reference to it. Mr. \VILLARD, of Vermont. How many clerks and employes Mr. ALBRIGHT. I understand that there is no such provision, have yon cut off'f · . and I understood that the Secretary of the Treasury had wri~ten to Mr. KELLOGG. We took out three from the Second Comptroller's the gentleman from Connecticut, advising that such a provision office, three below what we appropriated for this session, and several should· be incorporated in this bill. more below what we appropriated for last year. Then we took out Mr. KELLOGG. If the gentleman wishes to make an amendment eleven from the Third Auditor's office, four from the Fifth Auditor's of that kind I shall not object to his offering it. . · office, one from the Sixth Audit{)r's office, and thirteen from the In Mr. ALBRIGHT. Tha,t Department of the Goven;unent has charge ternal Revenue Burean. of five thousand vessels, and inspects them, and has a revenue of Mr. WILLARD, of Vermont. That makes thirty-two in all $.100,000 ; and no provision is made in this bill for any chief clerk or Mr. KELLOGG. That makes thirty-two. deputy. I understand that it is the desire of the Secretary of the Mr. WILLARD, of Vermont. I understand, then, that the increase Treasury that some such provision should be made. of salaries as pTovided for in this bill is more than compensated by Mr. ;KELLOGG. I was assured by Mr. Conant, the Assistant Sec the reduction in the numlJer of clerks and employes, leaving 3 bal retary of the Treasury, that it was a proper thing to do, and I have ance to the credit of the Government of nearly $17,000_. no objection that such a provision be placed in this bill. The bill we Mr. KELLOGG. Yes. have prepared relates to those officers who are provided for in the Mr. WILLARD, of Vermont. Now, if we could be entirely sure regula,r legislative and executive appropria,tion bill. that this reduction of clerks would be maintained hereafter, that Mr. WILLARD, of Vermont. I desire, with the permission of the they would not be put back again, as we at this session have had an gentleman, to call attention to two or three a-spect.s of this bill. Quite effort made to put back some th::tt we had dispensed with in other a number of salaries are raised by this bill, and I call attention to it, Departments by law, .then this might be a very proper bill to pass. that the House may come to a better understa-nding of the bill whfln That doubt, however, is one worthy-of consideration. However much they know precisely what salaries a.re raised. I understand that in we m3.y try to reduce the force in any Department, it seems abso the office of the First Comptroller there is a deputy comptroller pro lutely impossible to keep it down. We tried last year by reorfaniz vided for, when now there is only a chief clerk, and at an increased ing the War Department to reduce the force there. The bil that salary, a salary of $2,800, whereas the present clerk receives only was brought in here for that purpose was accompanied by a state $2,000. That is a larger salary than is now paid. ment, which on the face of it was true, that it would reduce the ex Mr. KELLOGG. We made that provision in order to remedy what penuitures of theWa,r Department $200,000. But I believe the Senate would be an injustice, there being a deputy or assistant iu the Treas this year have put on the legislativ~ appropriation bill the very force urer's office, and one in the Internal Revenue office, and one iu the which we by that bill took out of the War Department. office of the Comptroller of the Currency; and we give $:~,800 to the Mr. KELLOGG. On1y a part of it, in connection with the Surgeon deputy comptrollers, a,ml $2,500 to the deputy auditors. We make General's Office and Adjutant-General's Office, where it is found by it correspond with the legisl:1tion of late years iu other Bnreans. experience that there was too great a reuuction. . Mr. WILLARD, of Vermont. I only desire that the Honse ma;y Mr. WILLARD, of Vermont. But the most mischievous part of it; understand the bill and the details to which it applies. I understand a provision that enlisted men might be employed as clerks, which that it applies, in the office of the Comptroller, to the deputy comp means that you ma,y enlist men as clerks. troller, whose salary is fixed at 2,800, and to the chiefs of division, Mr. KELLOGG. That was the old law; not so now. So far as this whose salaries are fixed a.t $2,400, and who are now only fourth-class bill is concerned I pledge myself to the House that if it goes to a com clerks, receiving a salary of $1,tl00. The deputy comptroller is now mittee of conference and I happen to be on it I will not agree to any represented by the chief clerk, who has a salary of $2,000. appropriation beyond what we have already appropriated t.his session Now, if the gentleman will :tllow me further: In t.he office of the in the legislative bill, and I think we can hold it there; we can keep Commissioner of Customs, the salary of the chief clerk, w bo is m:1de it within the limits of the appropriation bills heretofore passed by the a deputy, is increased to $2,500. The same is the case in the o'ffices of House. the Second, Third, and Fourth AuditorR, and aJso in tile office of the Mr. FORT. Is this bill now open to amendment f Auditor of the Treasury for the Post-Office Department. In the office Mr. KELLOGG. If the gentleman has any particular amendment of the Register there is provided a deputy register and an assistant to offet, I will hear it. . register, at '2,500 a year ea and the Comptroller of the Currency; and $2,100 beads of divisions chief clerk. At pre ent by law these chief clerks are in some instances to the Auditor's office. I can give the gentleman the exact number recognized; but wherever, during the lnst fifteen or twenty years if lae wishes. Congress has created a Bureau-for instance, the Bureau of the Cur Mr. HALE, of Maine. That may be all extremely interesting and rency or the Bureau of Internal Reveune-we have invariably pro valuable for reflection; bnt I do not know (for I have not yet had vided for a deputy instead of a chief clerk. For instance, the assist time to examine the matt~r) how many chiefs of divisions in all with ant register acts as Register in the ab ence of the Register, and we inQreased salaries of $2,500 or $2,800 are created by this bill. provide for a deputy instead of ~chief clerk in the Bureau . In this Mr. KELLOGG. Not over eight at $2,400 in the two Comptrollers' reorganization we have simply applied to the o her Bureaus of the offices,· and none at 2,500 or .2,!:300. Treasury Dep:1rtment the same principle that has been adopted bv Mr. HALE, of Maine. Not over six or eight heads of divisions in Congress in its legislation of the last twenty years. We have omitted all the Bureaus Y the office of chief clerk and put in a deputy instead. Mr. KELLOGG. Not over eight in the two Com1ltrollers' offices; Mr. HALE, of Maine. Perhaps I can aid the gentleman in his com and no heads of divisions created by this bill are to receive $2,500 or prehension of my question. In certain cases this bill abolishes the $2, 00. That was th~ gentleman's question. . office of chief clerk and establishes heads of division, and I would . Mr. HALE, of Maine. How many heads of divisions in all are cre like to know what becomes of the chief clerk when his office is ated by this bill, whatever may be their salaries Y abolished. Is he not out of office Y What becomes of the new posi Mr. KE.LLOGG. Th~re are eight in the two Comptrollers' offices tion of head of division if it is uot to be filled Y who are to receive 2,400; there are also several in the Auditors' 1\Ir. KELLOGG. The chief of division has nothing to do with the office who are to receive $2,100 each. The gentleman can count as chief clerk. It is the deputy who takes the place of the chief clerk; well as I can. that is, instead of being called chief clerk, as now, he is hereafter Mr. HALE, of Maine. I have not studied this bill as the gentle t.o be called deputy; in other words, the chief clerk is to be called man from Connecticut has done. deputy, and there is no nAw position to be· filled. Mr. KELLOGG. The gentleman has had plenty of time to study it. .Mr. HALE, of Maine. But you do here in this bill make a chief of Mr. HALE, of Maine. I would like to ask the gentleman bow division. many salaries in all are raised by this bill 'I He ought to know more Mr. KELLOGG. If yon will examine the Comptrollers' and Audi about it than I or anybody else in the House. He ba..s been working tors' Offices you will see that I have taken from the number of the at this mat.ter for two years; and he always· improves his time, as higher class of clerks, that is, clerks receiving 1,800 a year, so as to the Honse knows. make the number in the aggregate conform to the appropriation Mr. KELLOGG. There are somewhere about thirty-five or forty bill we have pas ed. So, then, in making these chiefs of division by in all that are increased. Some in the Aurlitor's office are increased the transfer of the e eighteen-hundl·ed-dollar clerks the gentleman to $2,100. I have not t.he honor to be an old member, like my friend must notice that there is only the sarua number of men you have from Maine, or I might have had additional tables for his benefit. already appropriated for. Mr. HALE, of Maine. The gentleman is just as old a member as Mr. HALE, of Maine. I do not make any qneRtion in reference to I~m. . the transfer of the eighteen-hundred-dollar clerks, but the gentleman Mr. KELLOGG. I do not happen at any mte to be on the Appro does not yet see the point I am seeking to hring to his attention. It priation Committee; and Rome men grow old a great deal faster than is a fact, I believe, that this legislatim1, according to the gentleman's others on this floor. O.f these thirty-five or forty increased salaries own statement, will open up some thirty or forty places with in some twenty or more are in the Auditor's office, their salaries being creased salaries, into every one of which a new man may be put and fixed at $2,100-anincreaseof just 300overthe present salary, which the old clerks, good men, who have discharged the duties at lower was fixed long before the war-in 1tl53, when everything was on a rates and who still retain their places, may be left out ent.i.rely. I do gold basis. We now propose to iucrea e those salaries of $1,800 to not know that it will be done, but I have been trying to get the gen 2,100. Does my friend from Maine think the latter figure too high T tleman to tell us whether this bill does give us the power to do it. Mr. HALE, of Maine. I am afraid the gentleman will be a great Mr. KELLOGG. The Secretary will have the same power under deal oluer than he is before I get an answer to my question. Can this bill that he has now to remove a clerk who gets a salary of 1, 0 the gentleman tell me the whole number of salaries raised anywhere a year or any other salary. He has the same ngbt to turn out any · in this bill-theexactnumberf oneof theseeighteen-hnndred-dollar clerks and to put in a new man, Mr. KELLOGG. I lmve already told the gentleman as nearly as I and under this bill he has no more power and no less. It leaves him could without st-opping to count them. entirely with the same power which he now possesses. Mr. HALE, of Maine. How many f Mr. HALE, of :Maine. The Secretary might hesitate, I ca.n very Mr. KELLOGG. I told the gentleman between thirty-five and well understand, to remove a clerk who now receives 1,800; but forty. Now, Mr. Speaker, I do not wish to delay the House, as there when you abolish one office and establish another and higher office, is other business pressinO'-- what I wish to know from the gentleman is whether new men will Mr. CESSNA. I woula like to ask the gentleman from Connecti not be put into these higher offices established by this bill T cut one question before he closes. Mr. KELLOGG. There the gentleman is mistaken if be thinks Mr. HALE, of Maine. There are two or three further questions the present Secretary would be likely to do such a thing. We have that I wish to ask. This is an important bill, and the gentleman is• not by this bill abolished the office, but in every instance, as I have pushing it through very rapidly. The House ought certainly to already stated, in every Bureau where we have made divisions, we understand it. have only provided fur the promotion where it is deserved of the Mr. KELLOGG. Certainly; and I think the House does under- present officers. My friend will remember we reduced the nnmb r stand it. · from sixty or seventy to thirty-two; that we fixed thirty-odd heat1s Mr. HALE, of Maine. Does not this bil' of the gentleman, which of divisions, but we have taken out of this bill so .many eighteen provides increased salaries, provide also in many cases for new offi hundred-dollar clerks. cei-s-new desi~~ations by which officers shall be known f Mr. HALE, of 1\Iaine. Does the gentleman believe from his ex Mr. KELLOuu. It does. amination into these Departments that it is a good practice to di Mr. HAI,E, of Maine. That being the case, when the bill passes vide and subdivide these small Bureaus, and to make so many heads will there not be these new offices to be filled by somebody 7 of division T I can say for one, although I have uot given so much Mr. KELLOGG. Not at aU. time as the gentleman has to the inve t.igat.ion of this whole subject, Mr. HALE, of Maine. I wish the gentleman would explain why, that from my experience and observation in every small Bureau of if the bill creates new offices, there will not be new offices to be every Department of the Government which starts simply as a Bureau filled if .the bill should pass. it not only seeks to aggrandize in the number of offices, but in a little Mr. KELLOGG. If the gentleman, before asking his question, had while seeks to subdivide; and over three, four, or five meu will be looked at the last three or four lines of the bill, he would have found some one man who wishes to be called chief of divisiou. I found this provision: find in this bill in some Bureaus where the number of clerks is not That the duties heretofore prescribed by law and performed by the chief clerks more than thirty or forty, there will be three, four, or five subdivis- in the several Bureaus D3illled shall here:ifter devolve upon, and be performed by, ions, with heads of divisions, at 2,000 or $2,500. My experience the several deputy comptrollers, deputy auditors, deputy register, and deputy differs from that of the gentleman in this regard. I do not believe commissioner herein n3illled. there is any neces ity for dividing twenty-five, thirty, or forty clerks Mr. HALE, of Maine. That does not cover any particular person. and putting three or four men over the subdivisions as heads of Of course the duties performed by chief clerks and clerks, at salaries divisions, when a good clerk, with 1,800 or 2,000 a year, if you of $1,600 and $1,800, are to be performed by the persons who if this chose, is man enou~h to take care and see that the men under him bill should ever pass will be known as heads of divisions. But the properly discharge tneir duties. bill legislates nothing with reference to persons, and as I understand Mr. KELLOGG. I believe I have yielded to the gentleman from there is nothing to prevent every one of these thirty-five clerks now Maine long enough. If he will turn to his Congressional Directory, getting 1,600 and '1,800 a year from being displaced, so as to put in pages 94 and 95, instead of saying that he does not believe in cre new men as heads of divisions. I ask the gentleman whether there ating new divisions, he will find tnat I have reduced them in most is anything in this bill to prevent that T cases from one-third to one-half in the number now existing in prac ltfr. KELLOGG. Certainly; and I will tell the gentleman why. It tice. At the close of Johnson's administration there were tweuty will be observed that wherever we have provid~dfor heads of divisions, three divisions, which we reduced to twelve. tbenumberof eighteen-hundred-dollarclerkshas been reduced. Wher lli. HALE, of 1\Iaine. That wa.s long ago. e>er we have provided for a deputy we have made no provision for a Mr. KELLOGG. They were reduced to twelve last year. The bill 1875. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. 1319 reduces them to eight. If the gentleman from Maine will turn to Mr. KELLOGG. Does the gentleman offer an amendment I page 95 of the Congressi.onn,l Directory he will see that the Second think the Register never had $5,000. Comptroller who now has eight is reduced to four, while the Commis Mr. CESSNA. I will offer an amendment very readily if the gen sioner of Customs who now bas five is reduced to four. tleman will help me to carry it. . Mr. HALE, of Maine. The genMeman from Connecticut sa.ys tbat Mr. KELLOGG. I will yield for the gentleman's amendment, if he the Commissioner of Customs who now has five is reduced to- four. desires to offer it, before I call tllo previons question. While the other Bureaus have chiefs of divisions, I do not find tlle Mr. COBURN. I de'ire to offer an amendment. office of Commissioner of Customs, one of the oldest in the Gov Mr. YOUNG, of Georgia. I also desire to offer an amendment. ernment, one of the most important-! find the gentleman has not Mr. CESSNA. I offer the following amendment: given that very important office a. single chief of division. I am In line 117 strike out "$4,000" and insert "$5,000 ;" so that it will read., "The glad the gentleman has referred to that, for I might have forgotten Register of tho Treasury, 55,000." itJ so brief has been the scrutiny I have been able to give to this bil1. Mr. KELLOGG. I will admit that amendment that the House Mr. KELLOGG. I find I spoke of t.he wrong Bureau. I was re may act on it. ferring to the Comptroller of the Currency. The Commissioner of Mr. CESSNA. Now, I desire to say right there-- Customs did not require chiefs of division, and none were given him. Mr. KELLOGG.. How many amendments are in order Y There are none given to him by this bill. It was the Comptroller of The SPEAKER. 'l'he Chair will have each amendment voted on the Currency whom I had in my mind when I said Commissioner of as in Committee of the \Vhole. The question is on the amendment Customs. 'Ne have not given divisions here except where they were of the gent.leman from Pennsylvania, [Mr. CESSNA.] actually called for, or existing in fact by usage. If the gentleman 1\fr. SPEER. That amendment should not prevail unless the law will take the Congressional Directory, where these divisi.ons are classi under which previous Registers of the Treasury received an extra fied, he will find I have reduced the number of divisions from one $1,000 for signing bonds is repealed ; because if a less conscientious third to one-half in all these Bureaus. On the other hand, there are incumbent occupied that office hereafter, he might construe the law some of the most important meri in the Department whose salaries differently and get the $1,000 in addition to this increased salary. were fixed fifty-odd years ago and which ought to be increased, the Mr. CESSNA. I will accept an amendment that this may be repealed justice of which has been recognized by every Committee on .Appro at ::tny time. ' priations. I have endeavorell to do justice by all the Bureaus and Mr. . SPEER. It should be provided in the amendment that this branches. addition should not be made t-o the increased salary. Mr. CESSNA. I desire to ask the gentleman a question. Mr. CESSNA. That is all the Register will receive, and all he has Mr. HALE, of Maine. Let the gentleman answer me one question, received, while the Treasurer of the United States gets 6,000, and an<\ I think I will stop then. Why is it that the gentleman has the Commissioner of Internal Revenue 6,000, the Comptro-ller of the found it necessary in some of these Bureaus with just about th~ same Currency 5,000, and the First and Second Comptrollers each 51000. force as in the office of the Commissioner of Customs to give three The question was taken on the amendment offered by Mr. CESSNA, and four sub-ill visions with heads of division, whilA in the office of and it was not agreed to. the Commissioner of Customs with twenty-nine clerks he does not 1\fr. COBURN. I offer the following amendment: To insert after give a single sub-division or a single chief of division f the word "dollax:s" in Line 150, in the clause relating to the Internal Mr. KELLOGG. None wa~ called for there, and my friend knows Revenue Bureau, "deputy commissioner, $3,000." that there is not such a variety of matters before the Commissioner I will state the object of tliat amendment. Under the present law of Customs as there is in some of the other Bureaus. His work is all there are two deputy commissioners, but this bill proposes to abolish confined to the customs. But take for example the Third .Auditor's one of them. The deputy commissioner whose office it is proposed Office, which has to deal with pensions, war claims, quartermasters' to abolish has charge principally of the banking department of the a.ccounts, and a great variety of other accounts. These divisions are Internal Revenue Bnreau. I send to the Clerk's desk the report of necessary. We have simply tried to do justice to the best men in the Commissioner of Internal Revenue and ask to have read the pas tho various Bureaus. sage which I have marked, showing that this officer has saved to the Mr. HALE, of Maine. When the gentleman says that he did not Government millions of dollars. It is an important branch of the do this in this particular Bureau because it was not called for, does service, and I desire the Clerk to read the ·statement. ho mean that hedid not do it because the head of the Bureau did not The Clerk mad as follows: insist before the committee that it should be done. Of the tax against banks and bankers, which remained unchanged by law, there Mr. KELLOGG. Not at all. was collected during the fiscal year ending June 30, 187~ Mr. HALE. of Maine. Or does he mean to intimate that these heads Capital...... $736, 950 05 of divisions have been created where there was most importunity f :Mr. KELLOGG. Not at all. We took the divisions where we found g~;~tg~~ ·::::::::::::::::::::: ~:~::::::::::::~:::::: 1, ~~: ~~~ ~ ----- $2, 597, 721 96 them existing and said to the heads of the Bureaus," Can you con Fiscal year ending June 30, 1874: solidate the divisions'" We inquired if it conlcl be done, a,nd in the Second Comptroller's Office we consolidated them into four; perhaps 2tf;~ti~~ :: :::::::::: :·:::::::::_·::::.-.::::: ::::::::::: 9 ~~: ~~ ~~ too small a number; and so in the office of the Third .Auditor and Deposits ...•.....•.•..•.•..•.••...... •• ; ... _...... 2, 067, 118 77 elsewhere we consolidated the divisions, making them one-half or 3, 000, 735 18 two-thirds the number they were before. Showing an increase of ....•.• -.-- . . . . . • ...... 403, 013 2-2 Mr. CESSNA. Now I want to ask the gentleman some very brief It is believed that this increase may, in a. great dregree, be fairly attributed to questions. The first question I desire to submit to him is what be the new system of assessment, as the period in which the increase occurs includes bas done or proposed to do with reference to the Bureau of Statistics f tho full of 1873, memorable for the great financial disasters which occurred at that Mr. KELLOGG. The Bureau of Statistics has been left out of time. This opinion is further sustained from the circumstance that during this year more than seventy banks have been for the first time assessed, although doing this bill in deference to the Committee on .Appropriations of this business and liable to be assessed during previous years. House for them to determine whether they would keep the oltl Bureau or create a new one to be called tho Bureau of Statistics and Commerce. Mr. COBURN. 'l'he House will perceive that the Commissioner Mr. ELDREDGE. The gentleman from Connecticut seems to be himself attributes a large increase in the receipts from this branch of umlergoincr a civil-service examination. taxation to the efforts of this deputy who has it in charge. I hold :Mr. KELLOGG. That is so; .and I propo e to pass it the best I in my haml a letter from the Commission~ of Internal Revenue can, but would like to get through with it soon. which I will ask the Clerk to read. Mr. CESSNA. .As I understand, the Committee on .Appropriations, The Clerk roacl as follows : which hitherto has made a provision for that Bmeau, has at this TlillASURY DEPARTMIDH, OFFICE OF INTERNAL REVENUE, time omitted it entirely. It is omitted in this bill, and is left to de Washington, Febr-uary 15, 1875. pend on some future action by the Committee on .Appropriations. lJEAR Sm: In reply to your letter of the 13th iustant inquiring whether the in· terests of the internal-revenue flervice will admit of the retlnction of tho force l)f Mr. KELLOGG. The law will stand as it is now if there be no this Bureau propose Mr. COBURN. The House will perceive from the reading of that missioner of internal revenue at a salary of $3,000, in addition to the letter that the Commissioner of Internal Revenue regards the system one provided for by the bill at $3,500. that has been adopted by this officer as of the very best character, The question was taken upon agreeing to the amendment of 1\fr. and reo-ards the services o:f this officer as of the highest importance. COBURN; and upon a division there were-ayes 3J, noes 54; no quo I haveo only to indorse what has been t>aid by the Commissi?n~r. rum voting. There is no more able, efficient, or better officer to be found Within TeUers were ordered; and Mr. COBURN and Mr. KELLOGG were the entire r:mo-e o:f those employed in the Treasury Department. It appoint-ed. strikes me th~ it would be a public disaster i:f he should bo removed The House divided ; and the tellers reported that there were or that his position should be a;bolished. A l!lrge amount o~ labor ayes 32, noes not counted. and attention is constantly reqmred to superVJ.se the operatiOns of So the amendment wa-s not adopted. the bank commissioners, and that letter which I sent to the Clerk's The q oestion recurred on the amendment of :Mr. YOUNG, of Georgia, desk and had read states that this officer is employed sometimes long to add to the bill the following : after sundown and :far into the night in the discharge of his duties. Provided, That on :md after January 1, 1876, the patronage of this Department Mr. KELLOGG. Mr. Speaker, I have no fault to find with the shall be so arranged as to be equally distributecluetween tho several States of the service performed by the gentleman to whom the gentleJ?an from United States and tho District of Columui.a., according to popuL'ttion. • Indiana referst and I shall allow that amendrue~t t? be !?ending. But 1\Ir. WILLARD, of Verm~mt. What does the gentleman from Geor I wish to say that we formerly had three deputies m th1s office at the gia mean by "patronage 7'' rate of $3,000 a year each for two of them an~ one at 3,500.· At the Mr. FORT. I suggest to the gentleman to use the word "ap- suggestion and upon the report of our comffilttee one of t~ese offic_~ pointments" instead of "patronage." was abolisheu lm;t session and $3,000 saved ; and I am entrrely satis Mr. YOUNG, of Georgia. I will do that. fied from inquiries I have made that we now need only one deputy 1\fr. WILSON, of Indiana. And also to include the Territories. commissioner, and can ~ave another 3,~g. I therefore reported a :Mr. YOUNG, of Georgia. I will do that too. This amendment, if bill providing for only one deputy commlSSloner, at a salary of 3,500 adopted, will give the Secretary of the Treasury one year to provide a year. I left out two deputies because I thought that one deputy for carrying-it into effect. commissioner was enough, and I think th~ Secretary o:f the Treasur:y, The amendment was agreed to. though I do not quote him on that pomt, would say that one IS Mr. FIELD. I move to amend the paragraph in relation to the enough. Nevertheless I will allow the ~endment. to be considered Comptroller of the Currency by reducing the salary of the Comptrol a-s pending, and I must now call the preVJ.ous question. ler of the Currency from $5,000 to $4,000, the same as the Auditors Mr. YOUNG, of Georbria. I desire to offer an amendment. receive. Mr. KELLOGG. l withdraw the call for the previous question for Mr. KELLOGG. His salary was fixed at 5,000 when the office that purpose. was created, and it is too responsible a position to be cut down in Mr. YOUNG, of Georgia. I offer the following amendment: salary. His bond is 100,000. . Provided That on and after .r anuary 1, 1876, the patronage of t.his Department ~fr. FIELD. The Comptroller of the Currency has not one-half shall be so arra.naed as to be equally distributed between the several States of the responsibility that one of the Auditors has, and I do not think the United States~according to population. . he should have more pay. Mr. KELLOGG. That would be a difficult p1·oposition to carry The amendment of Mr. FIELD was not agreed to; upon a divis out, but I will admit it. · ion there were ayes,g8, noes not counted. Mr. HUBBELL. I would ask the gentleman from Connecticut i:f Mr. KELLOGG. I now call the previous question upon t:P.e bill this bill does not create-new offices which are to be filled by the Sec and the substitute as amended. retary of the Treasury ' ~fr. TYNER. Would a motion be in order to strike out the enact .Mr. KELLOGG. They are all so filled now. . ing clause of the bill f Mr. HUBBELL. Is it not a proposition for the Secretary of the 1\fr. KELLOGG. We are not in Committee of the Whole. Secretary of the Treasury to remove men of long tanding and good The SPEAKER. The House is considering the bill as in Commit- service in the Department and supply their places with new men f tee of the Whole. :Mr. KELLOGG. If my- friend from Michigan thinks the pre ent Mr. TYNER. If the motion is in order, I will make it. Secretary of the Trea-sury would do that, he does not know him; but ?r-Ir. KELLOGG. Let us have a square vote on this bill. the object of this bill is for the vary purpose of providing that men Mr. TYNER. That is p.recisely what I want to do. I move to of lono- standing in the service and valuable in their place shall be strike out the enacting clause of this bill. Is that motion debatable T properiy compensated for their services. The SPEAKER. It is not debatable. Mr. HUBBELL. Is not a bill allowie~ the Secretary ~uch po~~r The motion of ~fr. Tn.TER was not agreed to; upon a division there as that a good bill to come from a Committee on Reform m the C1v1l were ayes 15, noes not counted. Service¥ The question recurred upon seconding the call for the previous ques .Mr. KELLOGG. It is just the right kind of reform. tion ; and being taken, the previous question was seconded and the Mr. YOUNG, of Georgia. I desire to explain my amendment. I main question was ordered. . . find on referrincr to the Blue Book that the appointments and other The sn stitute, as amended, wa-s adopted; and the b11l, 'ts amended, patronao-e of Department are almost entirely absorbed by Mas th~ was then ordered to be .engross~d and r~ad a_ third time; and being sachusetts and three or four of the other States. I believe this is not engrossed, it was accordingly read the third tnne. only ~ery unjust, but very ungenerous, and calculated to produce The question was upon the passage of the bill. great injury to the public service. The benefits of the Federal Govern Mr. TYNER. Upon that question I call for the yeas and nays. ment should be conferred equally upon all the States of the Union, The question wastakenupononleringthe yeas and nays; and upon as the responsibilities are shared by all .. I for one sballneyer be sat a. division there were-ayes 32, noes 92. isfied until I see my State fully, according to her population, repre So (one-fifth voting in favor thereof) the yeas and nays woce ordered. sented in the Army, the Navy, and in every Department and branch The question wa-s taken; and there were-yea-s 178, nays 30, not o:f the Govel'D.liJ.ent. I shall hope to see the provisions of this amend voting 79; as follows: ment prevail in all oi the Departments, and in the short~e in hich YEAS-Messrs. Adams, Albert, Albright, Archer, Ashe, A.tkius, A..verill, Tia.r. I have to remain in this Rouse I shall lose JlO opportnruty to have ber, Barnum, Bass, Begole, Bell, Biery, Bland. Bowen, Bright, Broru berg Brown, such a provision placed upon every appropriation bill that comes be Buckner, Buffinton, Burleigh, Burrows, Roderick R. Butler, Cain, Caldwell, Can fore the House. The manner in which the public patronage is now non, Cason, Caulfield, Cessna, Amos Clark, .ir., John B. Clark, jr., Freeman Clarke, distributed is in my opinion calculated to produce great dis~at. isfac Clayton, Clements, Clymer, Clinton L. Uobb, Comingo, Conger, Corwin, Cox:, Crossland, Danford, Darrall, Davis, Dobbins, Donnan, Duell, Dunnell, Durham, tion and discontent throughout the country. There are certam States Eames, Farwell, Field, Fine_§ Fort, Fost-er, Freeman, Frye, Gidding", Glo>cr, of this Union whose names are rarely to be seen on the rolls of the Gunter, Hamilton, Hancock, ..1:1.armer, Henry R. Harris, .Toh.D. T. Harris, IIaJ.Tison, Army and the Navy, and in fact all of the branchesof the public serv Hatcher, Havens, .John B. Hawley, Joseph R. Hawley, Hays, John W. Hazelton, Hendee, Herndon, Hodges, Hoskins, Hunter, Hunton, Hurlbut, IIyde, Hyne. , Kol. ice. My State is one of them. Sir, these offices and places belon~ to lo"g, Lamport, Lansing, Lawson, Lea{lh, Lofland, Loughridge, Lowndes, Luttrell, the people of all the States, and I trust the day is nea1·at hand wnen LYnch, Ma.aee, Martin, McCrary, Alexander S. McDill, .Tames W. McDill, Mac Congress will take hold and regulate this matter. I hope the amend Dougall, i?"cKee, McLean, McN'ulta., Merriam, Milliken, Mills, Monroe, Moore, ment which I have offered will receive the sanction of the House. M:vers, Neal, Negley, Nesmith, Nunn, O'Neill, Orr, Packard, Packer, Par on , Pel Mr. TYNER. Will the gentleman yield to me for a moment Y • !!.ain~ Pike, .Tames H. Platt, .jr., Thomas C. Platt, Potter, Pratt, Ranrlall, Rapier, .H.eaCl, Richmond, Robbins Ros , Sawyer, Milton Sayler, Schell, John G. Schu Mr. KELLOGG. Let there be a vote on the amendments wh1ch maker, Henry .r. Scudder, l;aa{l W. Scudder, Sessions, Shanks, Sheats, Sholdon, are now pending. Sherwood, Lazarus D. Shoemaker, Sloan, Smart A. Herr Smith, H. Boardman 1\fr. FORT. I would suggest to the gentleman from Georgia [:Mr. Smith .r. Ambler Smith, John Q. Smith, Snyder, Southard, Stanard, Starkweather, St. .To~, Stone, Storm, Stra.wbridge~ypher, Christopher Y. Thomas, Thompson, YoUNG] that he should make some provision in his amendmen~ in Thornbnrgh, Todd. Tremain, Vance, waddell, Waldron, Wallac.': .Ta.sperD. Ward, regard to the District o~ Columbia. It now h~sa large representation Whitehead, Whitehouse, Whiteley, Whitthorne, Charles W. Willard,1 George Wil· in the Departments, as 1t should have. I believe the State of Massa lard, Charles G. Williams, William Williams, .Tames Wilson, .JeremiahM. Wilson, chusetts has more persons appointed in the Treasury Department Wood, Wooclworth, John D. Young, anclPierce M. B. Youn"'-178. NAYS-Messrs. Ba.JTere, Berry, Bradley, Burchard, Step'ben A. Cobb, Coburn, than any other three States of the Union . . I have no objection t-o Cook. Crounse Crntchfiehl, Curtis, Eldreclge, Eugene Hale, Hathorn, Gerry W. that. · - Hazelton, Hubbell, Lawrence, Morrison, O'Brien, Hosea. W. Parker, James C. Mr. YOUNG, of Georgia. I will include the District of Colnm.bia P.,obin.son, .Tames W. r...obinson, Henry B. Sayler, Sener, Small, William A. Smith, in my amendment. Sprague, Strait, Tyner, Walls, and William B. Willia.ms-30. NOT VOT.IN(}...:...Messr. Arthur, Banning, Barry, Book, Blount, Bundy, Benja The SPEAKER. The first question is upon the amendment of the min F. Butler, Carpenter, Chittenden, Cotton, Creamer, Crittenden, Crooke, Dawe , gentleman from Indiana [Mr. CoBURN} to provide for a deputy com- DeWitt, Eden, Garfield, Gooch, Gunckol, Hagans, RobertS. Hale, Benjamin W. 1875. CONGRESSIONAL RECOR,D. 1321 Harris, Her"'ford, E. Rockwood Hoar, Geor~ F. Hoar, Holman, Houghton, Howe, Mr. SENER. I desire to ask the gent.leman from New York [Mr. Ka . on, Kclluy, Kendall, Killinger, Knapp, Lamar, Lamison, Leffis, Lowe, 1\.Iar shall, 1\.Iaynard, Mitchell, Morey, Nibla<:k, Niles, Ortb, Page, Isaac C. Parker, SESSIONS] whether tbis is the same report that was r<:~committed in Pendleton, Perry, Phelps, Phillips, Pierce, Poland, R.ainey, R.ansier, Ray, Ellis H. the Senate yesterday because it undertook to interfere with legisla Roberta, \Villiam R. Roberta, Rusk, Scofield, Slo s, George L. Smith. Speer,. Standi ti~n that was not in dispute batween the two Houses ford, .Alexanuer H. Stephens, Charles A. Stevens, Stowell, Swann, Taylor, Charles Mr. SESSIONS. That has been corrected by the committee of con R. 'l'hom:tS, 'l'ownsep.d, Marcus L. Ward, Wells, Wheeler, White, Wilber, .John M. S. Williams, Willie, Ephraim K. Wilson, and Wolfe-79. ference, who have unanimously agreed upon this report. The report was agreeu to. So the bill wa-s passed. ' ESAU PICKRELL Al\"'D .OTHERS. During the roll-call, Mr. DURHAM said: My colleage, Mr. ARTHUR, is necessarily Mr. RANDALL, by uua.nimous consent, introd~ced a uill (H. R. No. absent from the House upon the committee of arrangements for the 4741) for the relief of Esau Pickrell and the legal representatives of funeral of Mr. HOOPER. William H. Eades, deceased; which was read a first and second time, The result of the vote was announced as above stated. rofeiTed to the Committee on War Claims, and ordered to be·printed. Mr. KELLOGG moved to reconsider the vote by which the bill DO:NATIO ~ OF CO:NDEMNED CAN ~o:N. was passed ; and also moved that the motion to reconsider ue laid on Mr. COTTON, by unanimous consent, introuucecl a bill (H. R. No· the table. 4742) donating condemned cannon to the county of Muscatine, Iowa, The latter motion was agreed to. for monumental purposes; which' was read a first ·and second time, IlffiSSAGE FROM THE SENATE. referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. A message from the Senate by Mr. SYMPSO:N, one of their clerks, an TOBACCO TAX. nounced that the Senate had agreed to the report of the co~ittee of conference on the uill (H. R. No. 3080) to authorize the Seneca Na Mr. SMITH, of Virginia, by unanimous consent, presented a remon tion of New York Indians to lease lands within the Cattaraugus and strance of manufacturers and dealers in tobacco, of Richmond, Vir Allegany reservations and to confirm existing leases. ginia, against any increase of tax on tobacco; whjch was refeiTed to f -The message also announced that the Senate had passed a bill of the Committee on Ways and Means, a.nd ordered to be printed in the the following title, with amendments, in which the concurrence of REcoRD. It is as follows: the House was requested: To the honorable Senate and House of Representatives in Congress alisembletl: An act (H. R. No. 43~4) to authorize the change of the name of the We, the undersigned, manufacturers and dealers in tobacco of Richmond, Vir Second National Bank of Jamestown, New York. ginia, would very respectfully but earne&tly petition your honorable bodies to make no advance on the existin~ rate of tax upon tobacco, for the following among The message also announced that the Senate had passed without many other reasons whicll coulu be !!i>en: amendments bills of the following titles: First. Tobu,cco, on the avera~e vafue of the entire amount which enters into con An act (H. R. No. 4676) for the relief of actual settlers on lands sumption, is now more heavily taxed than any other article, either of domestic or cla.imed to be swamp and overflowed lands in the State of Missouri; formgu production. Second. The great preponderance of this tax falls upon the laborin.~ portion of and the community, the consumers of cheap tobacco, who not only pay tne tax but An act (H. R. No. 4626) authorizing the Citizens' National Bank of about 50 per cent. additional cau ed by the expense of paclrln~ in accordance with Sanbornton, New Hampshire, to change its-name. the requirement,., of law, and tho interest upon the t.ax: which IS paid in advance. Third. It must be apparent, from the repeated action of the House of ~pre ent RIVER AND HARBOR APPROPRIATION BILL. atives to abolish all tax upon leaf-tobacco for consumption, that under the general reduction of wages which now exists, a lar~e class of consumers severely feel the Mr. SAWYER, by unanimous consent, reported from- the Commit burden of this great tax upon an article of home production and which is indis- tee on Commerce a bill (H. R. No. 4740) making appropriations for the pensable to them. . repair, preservation, and completion of certain public works on rivers Fourth. The revenue now obtained from tobacco far exceeds in amount that and harbors, and for other purposes; which was read a first and sec which was contemplated by Government during the highest days of taxation, when the currency and all business was greatly inflated; and when i' is remembered ond time, referred to the Committee on Approllriations, and ordered that every reduction of this tax resulted m increased revenue, is it not fair to be to be printed. lieve that in view of all these evils and difficulties, an advance of the tax now HEIRS OF JAMES SINCLAIR, DECEASED. would fail to enrich the Treasury. Samuel M. Bailey, 0. P. Gregory & Co., W. B. Grupe! & Co., T. W. Pemberton, On motion of Mr. NESMITH, by unanimous consent, the bill (S. P. H. & A. Gary, Robert W. Oliver, .James Liey & .Jones, Turpin and Brother, No. 940) granting 641.64 acres of land to the widow and heirs of James .John H. Greaner, Walter Kellacher & Co., E. T. Pilkinton & C,o. 1 GeorgeS. Prince, Sinclair, deceased, was taken from t he Speaker's table, read a first W . .J. Yarbrough & Sons, L. H. Frayser & Co., Thos. C. Williams & Co., .James and second time, and referred to the Committee on Private Land Thomas, jr., R . .A. Patterson & Co., ;John K. Childrey, .A. M. Lyon & Co. Claims. ELECTION OF PREBIDE...~T AND VICE-PRESIDENT. SE.NECA NATION OF NEW YORK I:NDIANS. Mr: HARRISO~. I rise 0 present a privileged report. The Com Mr. SESSIONS submitted the following report: mittee on Elections, who were authorized to report at any-.time upon Tho committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the this subject, have directed metoreport back without amendment the amendments of the Senate to the bill (H. R. No. 3080) to authorize the Seneca joint resolution (H. R. No. 116) proposing an amendment of the Con Nation of New York Indiaus to lease lands within the Cattarau!!US and .Allegany stitution in respect of the election of President and Vice-President. reservatious, nnd to confirm existing leases, having met, after a full and froo con Mr. RANDALL. Is that a privileged report 7 ference have agreed to recommend, and do recommend to their respective Houses, a,., follows: 'rhe SPEAKER. They were authorized to report at any time. That the Senate recetle from its amendruenta, and that the fourth section of the Mr. HARRISON. I ·will simply allude to the import.ance of the bill be stricken out and the followino-beinserted: ".Alllea esofland situate within question now brought before the House of Representatives,.and to the limits of said villages when esta.i>lished as hereinbefore provided, except those the necessity there seems to be for some action on the part of Con provided for in the second section of this act, in which Indians of sail:l Seneca Nation, or per ons claiming under them, are lessors, shall be valid and binding upon gress. the parties thereto, and upon said Seneca. N a.tion, for a period of five years from and Mr. RANDALL. Let the joint resolution be read be~ore discussion after the passage of this act except such as by their terms may expire at an earlier begins. date; and at the end of said period, or at the expiration of such leases 3.8 terminate Mr. HARRISON. I yield for that purpose. within that time, said nation, through its councilors, shall be entitled to the posses sion of the said lands, and shall have the power to lease the same: Provided, how The Clerk read as follows: ever, That at the expimtion of said period, or the termination of said leases, as .Joint resolution in respect of the hereinbefore provided, said leases shall be renewable for periods not exceeding pro~~~~~o~f p:~~:f!u1-Jf!g?:l_~:ron tw.olve years, and the persons who may be at such time the owner or owners of im Re$olved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America provements erected u-pon such lands~·shall be entitled to such renewed leases, and in Congress tUJse.mbled, (two-thirds of each House concurring therein,) That the fol to continue in possession of such lanas, on such conditions as may be agreed upon lowing article is hereby proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the by him or thom and such councilors; and in ca;:~e they carmot a~ee upon the con United States, and, when rati.tied by the Legislatures of three-fourths of the several dltious of such leases or the amount of annual rents to be paid, then the said coun- States, shall be valid to all inten~ and purposes as a pan of the Coustitution, to ~t: . . ~~~r:s ~~r!r~t~ ~~ ~:~~~f:: ~~!~r Jf~~c~r fe::~n~h~~ec~!~:n~n:l:~ .ARTICLE --." nual rent to be paid ; and if the two so appointed and chosen cannot agree, they SECTION 1. The President and Vice-President shall be eJected by the direct vote shall choose a third person to act ffith them, the a. ward of whom or the major part of the pecple in the manner following: Each State shall be divided into districts, of whom shall be final and binding upon the parties; and the person or persons equal.. in number to the number of Representa.ti ves to which the State may be en owning said improvements shall be entitled to a. lease of said land and to occupy titled in the Congress, to be composed of contiguous territory, and to be as nearly and improve the same according to the terms of said award, he or they paying rent equal in population as may be; and the person having the highest number of votes and otherwise complying with the said lease or said award; and whenever any in each district for President shall receive the vote of that district, which shall lease shall expire after its renewal a aforesaid, it may, at the option of the lessee, count one Presidential vote; but no voter in any State shall vote for candidates his heirs and assigns, be renewedin the manner herembefore provided." for President and Vice-President who are both citizens in the same State with himself. ~~ !!!fJ!! ~f:-!1e;~~:mfu~ther recommend for the consideration of the SEc.-2. The person having the highest number of votes for President in a State two Houses that the first section of the bill be strikon out, and that the following shall receive two presidential votes from the State at large. be inserted : " That all leases of land within the Cattaraugus and Allegany re er SEc. 3. The per80n having the highest number of presidential votes in the United vations in the State of New York heretofore made by or with the authority of the States shall be President. Seneca Nation of New York Indians." SEc. 4. H two persons have the same nnmber of votes in· any State, it being B. W. HARRIS, . tho highest numl>er, they shall receive each one pr · dentin.l vote from the State at W. L. SESSIO~ S, large; and if more than two persons shall have each the same number of votes in A. COMINGO, a.ny State, it being the highest number, no presidential \'Ote shall be counted from Managers on (he part of the House. the State at lar~e. If more persons than one shall have the same number of votes, .JOHN .J. INGALLS, it being the highest number in any district, no presidential vote shall be counted W. B. ALLISON, from that district. - LEWIS V. BOGY, SEC. 5. The foregoing provisions shall apply to the election of Vice-Presid6llt. Managers on tJt.e part of the Senate. SEc. 6. The Congress shall have power to provide for holding and conducting 1322 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. FEBRUARY 16, the elections of President anll Vice-Presitleut. The retnrnR of such elections shall of 1\lr. PumtAN be stricken from the roll. It is the only notification b m~ule tot~;, Supreme Court of the United States within thirty days after the the House has had of his resignation officially. elect10n. Saul court shall, under such rules as may be p:·escribell by law or by (.ho conrt in the r.bsence of law, <~et~rmi?e any contest in respect of stich return.~, cau UNITED STATES COURTS IN LOUISIANA. va." t ..he aam , _ami declare, ~thm nmety d3:yR af r such lection, by public proc Mr. MOREY. I ask unanimous con ent that the Senate b'ill (S. No. lamatiOn, who lS elected Pres1dent and who 1s elected Vice-President. Sec. 7. Tl1e -.:t:J.tes shall be divided into districts by the Leo'isla.tures thereof but 38) for the better regulation of the United States courts in Louisiana tho Congress may at any time by law make or alter the sam~ ' as reported from the Committee on the Jmliciary shalluo considered to~~;· :iri!oolP:~!i~~~ ~:V~:~hJ~d.:~. of the Supremo Court shall be eligible in the House as in Committee of the Whole. 11fr. SENER. I object. Mr. LAl\IA.R. I rise to inquire of the Chair how this report comes in f FUNF.RAL SERVICES OF MR. HOOPER. The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Tennessee [Mr. HARRISON] makes the report from the Committee on Elections. • At two o'clock the members of the Senate, preceded by the Ser .Mr. LAMAR. Does it come from the committee without any dissent t geant-at-Arms and hea PETITIONS, ETC. 1874, wa.s read twice by its title, and referred to the Uoillm.ittee on The following memorials, petitions; and other papers were pre the District of Columbia. sented at the Clerk's desk, under tho rule, and referred as stated: The bill (H. R. No. 4001) to provide for the redempt-ion of overdue By Mr. BLAINE: Petitions of the MethocUst Episcopal church of bonds of the United States known as Texas indemnity bonds, was North Yarmouth, Maine, and of citizens of :Fairfield, Maine, for a read t\vice by its title. • commission of inquiry concerning the alcoholic liquor traffic, to the The PRESIDENT pro tenlpore. The bill will be refenecl to the Committee on the Judiciary. Committee on Finance. By Mr. CALD\VELL: The remonstrance of Willard Warner and fr. HAMILTON, of Texas. I suggest thatthatbill go to the Com mittee on Claims. It is a. claim of the State of Texas against the \ others, of Ala.bam::t, against the imposition of duties on tea and cof!'ee n:nd revival of internal taxes, to the Committee on Ways and Means. Government of the United States. \ By Mr. COX: Several remonstrances of tobacco manufacturers and · The PRESIDENT p1·o iempm·e. That reference will be ordered. l dealers in the city of New York, against an advance iu the existi11g EXECUTIVE COMMU!\~CATIO~S. ; rate of tax upoR tobacco, to the same committee. By Mr. GARFIELD: 'I he petition of V. D. Stockbridge, for an ap The PRESIDENT pro tempore lai