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Warren E. Watson, to be postmaster at Mancelona, in the county ment of appropriation and expenditures, was referred to the Com­ of Antrim and State of Michigan. mittee on Interstate Commerce, and ordered to be printed. _ Adolph F. Greenbaum, to be postmaster at Waverly, in the ENROLLED BILLS SIGNED. county of Pike and State of Ohio. A message from the House of Representatives, by Mr. W. J. Edgar L. Cory, to be postmaster at Degraff, in the county of BROWNING, its Chief Clerk, announced that the Speaker of the Logan and State of Ohio. House had signed the following em·olled bill and joint resolution; Charles Edgar Brown, to be postmaster at Cincinnati, in the and they were thereupon signed by the Vice-President: county of Hamilton and State of Ohio. A bill (H. R. 803) to amend section 2601 of the Revised Statutes D. Lane Conover, to be postmaster at Atlantic Highlands, in relative to ports of entry; and the county of Monmouth and State of New.Jers~y. A joint resolution (H. Res. 26) to paytheofficers and employees Patrick Burns, to be postmaster at Raritan, m the county of of the Senate and House of Representatives their respective sal­ Somerset and State of . aries for the month of December, 1895, on the 20th day of said John C. Hutchins, to be postmaster at Cleveland, in the county month. of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio. PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS. Joseph E. Haynes, to be postm.aster at Newark, in the county of Mr. PEFFER presented the petition of J. G. Wait and sundry Essex and State of New Jersey. other citizens of Sturgis, Mich., praying for the adoption of an J. Elwood Harvey, to be postmaster at Little Silver, in the amendment to the Constitution of the providing county of Monmouth and State of New Jersey. . . that the election of President, Vice-President, Senators, and judges Milton Cowperthwaite, to be postmaster at Riverton, m the of the be made by a direct vote of the people; which county of Burlington and State of New Jersey. . . was referred to the Committee on Privileges and Elections. James R. Pitcher, to be postmaster at Short Hills, m the county Mr. QUAY presented a petition of the Manufacturers' Club of of Essex and State of New Jersey. Philadelphia, Pa., praying for th~ reenactment of Schedule K of Edward O'Farrell, to be postmaster at Bayonne, in the county the tariff act of 1890, relating to duties on wools and woolens; · of Hudson and State of New Jersey. which was refen·ed to the Committee on Finance. Alfred Jarvis, to be postmaster at Tenafly, in the county of Mr. MITCHELL of Wisconsin presented a petition of the pa-stor Bergen and State of New Jersey. and cong1·egation of the Emanuel Presbyterian Church of Mil­ Stephen Van Order, to be postmaster at Caldwell, in the county waukee, Wis., praying for prompt action by the Government of of Essex and State of New Jersey. the United States to prevent further outrages in Armenia; which Mary A. Van Cleve, to be postmaster at Irvington, in the county was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. of Essex and State of New Jersey. . Mr. WARREN presented petitions of the Central Wyoming Benjamin F. Sweeten, to be postmaster at Glassboro, m the Wool Growers' Association; of the Manufacturers' Club of Phila­ county of Gloucester and State of New Jersey. delphia, Pa.,; of the wool merchants of Philadelphia, Pa., and of Frank Reed, to be postmaster at Bismarck, in the county of the Philadelphia (Pa.) Wool Merchants' Association, praying for Burleigh and State of North Dakota. . . . . the reenactment of that portion of the tariff law of 1890 known as William Ray, to be postmaster at Dicki..nson, m the county of Schedule K, relating to wools and woolens; which were referred Stark and State of North Dakota. . to the Comnnttee on Finance. H enry Stowell, to be postmaster at Seneca Falls, in the county Mr. HAWLEY presented the petition of the regent and mem­ of Seneca. and State of New York. bers of the Roger Sherman Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, of New Milford, Conn.; the petition of the regent and members of the Elizabeth Clark Hull Chapter, Daughters of the SENATE. American Revolution, of Ansonia, Conn.; the petition of the regent FRIDAY, December 20, 1895. and members of Abigail Phelps Chapter, Daughters of the Ameri­ can Revolution, of Simsbury, Conn.; the petition of Miss Susan Rev. W. H. MILBURN, D. D., the Chaplain to the Senate, offered Billings Meech and 91 other citizens of Groton, Conn.; the petition the following prayer: of William Price and 102 other citizens of Connecticut; the peti­ 0, Thou who art the King of kings. and Lord of lords, as the tion of Addie Avery Thomas and 35 other citizens of Connecticut; time draws nigh the birth of Christ inaugurated by the angel song, the petition of Harriet E. Noyes and 12 other citizens of Stoning­ Glory to God in the highest, on earth peace, good will to men, we ton, Conn.; the petition of Frank B. Carver and 119 other citizens pray that the spil·it.of the season may enter ii!-tO our hearts an_d of Connecticut, and the petition of the regent and members of the minds and keep us m the knowledge and love of God and of His Anna Warner Bailey Chapter, Daughters of the American .Revo­ Son Jesus Christ, our Saviour. lution, of Connecticut, praying that the United States purchase Forbid that the two foremost nations of the world which bear certain lots adjoining old Fort Griswold, in the town of Groton, the name of Christ, with one language, one faith, one baptism, one Conn.; which were referred to the Committee on Military Affairs . . Lord, should be embroiled in war in all its horrors an~ barb~risms. Mr. MITCHELL of Oreaon presented the petition of J. G. & Grant, we beseech Thee, that we may be saved from rmbrumg our I. N. Day, of Washington, D. C., contractors for the construction hands in each other's blood. Endow our rulers, the rulers of both of the canal and locks at the Cascades of the Columbia River, nations, and the kindred people of the two lands, with such wis­ Oregon, praying that compensation be granted them by reason of dom and the spirit of justice and magnanimity that all differences expenses occasioned by the extraordinary high water of 1894 in and difficulties may be amicably and righteously settled, and that that river; which was referred to the Committee on Claims. God's name may be glorified in the establishment of concord, He also presented a petition of sundry citizens of Vancouver, amity brotherly kindness. So may this become an augu~ and Wash., praying that an increase of pension be granted James memo~able Christmas in the history of the English-speaking world McCormick, a resident of that vicinity; which was referred to the and of the whole earth; so let health, prosperity, brotherly kind­ Committee on Pensions. ness, and charity pervade all our land and our motherland, and Mr. COCKRELL presented a petition of the Merchants'~­ God be glorified, and the reign of Jesus Christ, our Saviour, estab­ change of St. Louis, Mo., and of the Board of Trade of Ardmore, lished. We humbly pray in His sacred name. Amen. Ind. T., praying for the enactment of a town-site law at the pres­ The Journal of yesterday's proceedings was read. ent session of Congress in the interest of various towns in the In­ Mr. MITCHELL of Oregon. I askurianim.ons consent that the dian Territory; which was referred to the Committee on Indian invocation of our Chaplain this morning. may be spread at length Affairs. in the RECORD. CORTHELL'S LECTURE ON ISTHMIAN ROUTES. The VICE-PRESIDENT. Without objection, it is so ordered. Mr. COCKRELL. I have a copy of a lecture delivered by Mr. The Journal stands approved. Elmer L. Corthell, a distinguished and eminent civil engineer, THE BO.A.RD OF IRRIGATION. upon the Isthmian routes. It contains valuable data, statistical The VICE-PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a communication and geographical. It is not very long, and I ask that it may be from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to a printed as a miscellaneous document. There are some plates that r esolution of the 17th instant, the report of the Board of Irriga­ will be furnished to the Public Printer, so that there will be no tion, relative to its organization, the existing legislation relative expense, except simply the typesetting of the lecture. t o irrigation, a list of official publications on irrigation, etc.; The VICE-PRESIDENT. Is there objection totherequestof the which, on motion of Mr. KYLE, was referred to the Committee on Senator from Missouri? The Chair hears none, and it is so ordered. liTigation and Reclamation of Arid Lands, and ordered to be . REPORTS OF A COMMITTEE. printed. Mr. HAWLEY, from the Committee on Pensions, to whom was REPORT OF THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE COM!IISSION. referred the bill (S. 345) granting a pension to Catherine R. Jar­ The VICE-PRESIDENT laid before theSenate acommunication dine, widow of Brig. Gen. Edward Jardine, reported it with an from the chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission, trans­ amendment, and submitted a report thereon. mitting, in accorda.nce with the provisions of the act to regulate He also, from the same committee, to whom was referred the commerce, the ninth annual report of the Interstate Commerce bill (S. 344) g1·anting a pension to Mary A. Hall, reported it with­ Commission; which, with the accompanying report and a state- out amendment, and submitted a report thereon. 252 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. DECEMBER- 20,-I

REPRINT-OF DOCUMENT ON THE VENEZUELAN BOUNDARY. He also introduced a bill (S.1116) to grant a pension to Martha Mr. GORMAN, from the Committee on Printing, reported the Noble Brainerd; which was read twice by its title, and referred to following concurrent resolution; which was read: the Committee on Pensions. Resolveci. by. the Senate (the House of Representatives concu1-ring), That 6,1XX) Mr. WARREN introduced a bill (S.1117) granting a pension to extra copies of Senate Document No. 226, first session Fiftieth Con~ess, re­ Corn~lia De Peyster Black; which was read twice by its title, and lating to the Venezuela boundary, be printed in paper covers, of wh1ch num­ referred to the Committee on Pensions. ber 2,1XX) shall be for the use of the Senate and 4,000 for the use of the House of Representatives. Mr. NELSON introduced a bill (S.1118) for the relief of home. stead and preemption settlers on even-numbered sections within Mr. GORMAN. Some days since the Senator from Maine [Mr. the limits of railroad grants; which was read twice by its title, HALE] offered a resolution which was adopted by unanimous con­ and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. sent, authorizing a reprint of this document, and a similar resolu­ He also introduced a bill (S.1119) granting an increase of pen­ tion was passed in a coordinate branch. Under the printing law sion to Peter Daly; which was read twice by its title, and referred the Public Printer is ·unable to execute the order of the Senate to the Committee on Pensions. because the cost exceeds $500, and therefore this concurrent reso­ Mr. MITCHELL of Oregon introduced a bill (S.1120) for the lution is necessa1·y,' I ask unanimous consent for its present con­ relief of John W. Lewis; which was read twice by its title: and sideration. referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. The concurrent resolution was considered by unanimous consent, He also introduced a bill (S.1121) for the relief of J. G. and I. and agreed to. N. Day; which was read twice by its title, and referred to the BILLS INTRODUCED. Committee on Claims. Mr. SHERMAN introduced a bill (S.1098) to provide for the He also introduced a bill (S. 1122) for the relief of Sally Hard­ erection of a monument to the memory of Gen. George Rogers mond; which was read twice by its title, and referred to the Com­ Clark; which was read twice by its title, and referred to the Com­ mittee on Claims. mittee on the Library. Mr. BURROWS introduced a bill (S. 1123) for the relief of He also introduced a bill (S. 1099) granting a pension to Elijah Mirilla Sherman; which.was read twice by its title, and referred Drake; which was read twice by its title, and, with the accom­ to the Committee on Pensions. panying paper, referred to the Committee on Pensions. He also introduced a bill (S. 1124) granting an increase of pen­ He also introduced a bill (S.1100) granting a pension to Russel sion to Alfred B. Simpson; which was read twice by its title, and N. Reynolds; which was read twice by its title, and referred to referred to the Committee on Pensions. the Committee on Pensions. He also introduced a bill (S. 1125) granting an increase of pen­ He also introduced a bill (S.1101) granting an increase of pen­ sion to Isaiah H. Mitchell; which was read twice by its title, and sion to Manon Van Gordon; which was 1·ead twice its by title, and refen·ed to the Committee on Pensions. referred to the Committee on Pensions. ' He also introduced a bill (S. 1126) granting an increase of pen­ He also introduced a bill (S. 1102) for the relief of Lorenzo sion to Leonard Tigchon; which was read twice by its title, and Thomas, jr.; which was read twice by its title, and referred to the referred to the Committee on Pensions. Committee on Military Affairs. He also introduced a bill (S. 1127) granting an increase of pen­ Mr. MITCHELL of Wisconsin introduced a bill (S.1103) to sion to Russell R. King; which was read twice by its title, and amend an act entitled "An act .to provide for the protection of referred to the Committee on Pensions. the salmon fisheries of Alaska;" which was read twice by its title, He also introduced a bill (S. 1128) granting a pension to Isabella and referred to the Committee on Fisheries. Morrow; which was read twice by its title, and referred to the Mr.VESTintroducedabill (S.1104) for the reliefof the estates of ' Committee on Pensions. Hugh McDonald, deceased, and Elijah Moseley, deceased; which He also introduced a bill (S. 1129) for the relief of Joel N. San­ wasread twicebyitstitle,and referred totheCommitteeonClaims. ford; which was read twice by its title, and referred to the Com- . Mr: PROCTOR introduced a bill (S.1105) granting a pension mittee on Military Affairs. · · to Mary E. Sessions; which was read twice by its title, andre­ He also introduced a bill (S.1130) for the relief.of B. J. Van ferred to the Committee on Pensions. Vleck, administrator of Henry Van Vleck, deceased; which was . He also introduced a bill (S.1106) to place Lieut. Col. and Bvt. read twice by its title, and referred to the Committee on Claims. Maj. Gen. Alexander Stewart Webb on the retired list of the Mr. MORGAN. I introduce a bill, prepared in the office of the ; which was read twice by its title, andre­ Attorney-General, which has been sent here. It relates to a sub­ fened to the Committee on Military Affairs. ject of very great public importance, and I should like to have it Mr. GALLINGER (by request) introduced a bill (S.1107) for read at length, in. order that it may go into the RECORD. the relief of acting assistant surgeons; which was read twice by The bill (S.1131) relating to the jurisdiction of the court of ap­ its title, and referred to the Committee on Pensions. peals of the District of Columbia was read the first time by its Mr. CULLOM introduced a bill (S. 1108) granting a pension to title, and the second time at length, as follows: the widow of Gen. John Newton; which was read twice by its Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States title, ·and referred to the Committee on Pensions. of .America in Congress assembled, That the court of ap~alsof theDistrictof Columbia is hereby given jurisdiction over any and all suits that may be Mr. GEAR introduced a bill (S. 1109) granting a pension to brought by the United States to enforce or obtain other r elief upon any lien or Jennie Leninhen; which was read twice by its title, and referred liens on any railway or railways, or on any property belonging to one or more to the Committee on Pensions. railway corporations, wherever such prov.erty may be situated. SEc. 2. Separate liens upon different railways or railway properties may be He also introduced a bill (S.1110) fixing the times for holding the enforced by the United States in the same suit when such railways constitute circuit and district courts of the northern district of Iowa and of or were intended to constitute together a through line, or a part of or con­ the southern district of Iowa; which was read twice by its title. nected with a through line or general system of railways. The court shall have power to make such orders concernin~ the sale of said property as may Mr. GEAR. I wish to say in explanation of this bill that its be just and proper for the protection of the mterests of all parties concerned. provisions have been agreed upon by the Federal judges in the SEC. 3. Said court shall have power to issue process, mesne and final, which State of Iowa, and they would like early action upon it. I move shall run into any district and be served as other like process by the marshal of such district, and to enter all proper orders, decrees, and mandates, in­ that the bill be referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and I cluding orders, decrees, and mandates for the papnent to the United States request the committee to 1·eport it back as soon as possible. of any deficiency arising upon a sale under such lien. The motion was agreed to. SEc. 4. Holders of liens on any such railways or property may be made par­ ties to such suit~. or may intervene if not made parties, and said court may Mr. QUAY (by request) introduced a bill (S. 1111) to purchase order an'f and au proceedings by any party or parties in other courts having a bust of Gen. Philip H. Sheridan; which was read twice by its jurisdictiOn of part only of the property involved to be discontinued or stayed title, and referred to the Committee on the Library. until the termmation of such suit by the United States. He also introduced a bill (S.1112) for the relief of J. F. Bailey Mr. MORGAN. I move that the bill be referred to the Com­ & Co., and for other purposes; which was read twice by its title, mittee on Pacific Railroads. and referred to the Committee on Claims. The motion was agreed to. Mr. TURP1E introduced a bill (S.1113) appropriating money Mr. KYLE introduced a bill (S.1132) to establish a national uni­ for the payment of the claim of the Western Paving and Supply versity; which was read twice by its title, and referred to theSe­ Company for paving with asphalt streets adja-cent to United lect Committee to Establish the University of the United States. States court-house and post-office building in the city of Indian­ He also introduced a bill (S.1133) to establish postal savings apolis, Ind.; which was read twice by its title, and referred to the banks and to encourage the saving of money in small amounts; Committee on Claims. which was read twice by its title, and referred to the Committee He also introduced a bill (S. 1114) appropriating $4,323.15 in on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. payment of claim of A. Brewer, of Indianapolis, for constructing Mr. PETTIGREW introduced a bill (S. 1134) to establish an sewer adjacent to the lands of the United States in city of Indian­ assay office in the city of Deadwood, in the State of South Dakota; apolis, Ind.; which was read twice by its title, and referred to the which was raad twice by its title, and referred to the Committee on Committee on Claims. Finance. Mr. McMILLAN introduced a bill (S.1115) granting a pension Mr. PUGH. I have received two bills from the Attorney-General to Sarah Potter, dependent daughter of Andrew Potter, deceased; embodying the recommendation made in his annual report. I in­ which was read twice by its title, and referred to the Committee troduce the bills, and ask that they be referred to the Judiciary on Pensions. Committee. 1895; CON-GRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 253

The bill (8.1135) to amend the act creating the circuit courts of deposited like standards in other custom-houses of the United States when they may be needed. · appeals, and for other purposes, was read twice by its title, and re­ Whenever wools of class 3 shall have been improved by the admixture of ferred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Merino or English blood from their present character as represented by The bill (8. 1136) in relation to suits against railroad corpora­ the standard samples now or hereafter to be deposited in the principal cus­ tions in Federal courts was read the first time by its title. tom-houses of the United States, such improved wools shall be classified for duty either as class 1 or as class 2, as the ca.<;;e may- be. Mr. ALLEN. Let the bill be read at length. · · The duty on wools of the first class which shall be imported washed shall The bill was read the second time at length, and referred to the be twice the amount of the duty to which they would be subjected if im­ Committee on the Judiciary, as follows: ported unwashed; and the duty on wools of the first and second classes which shall be imported scoured shall be three times the duty to which they would Be it enacted, etc., That no suit to foreclose a lien upon property of any rail be subjected if imported unwashed. road corporation shall hereafter be brought in any Federal court except in Unwashed wools shall be considered such as shall have been shorn from the district in which the principal operating offices of such corporation are the sheep without any cleansing; that is, in their natural condition. Washed located: Provided, That a. lien upon property wholly located in an,y one dis­ wools shall be considered such as have been washed with water on the sheep's trict may be foreclosed by suit in that district. back. Wool washed in an{ other manner than on the sheep's back shall be Second. That no receiver of the property of any railroad corporation shall considered as scoured woo . hereafter be appointed by any Federal court except in the district in which The duty upon wool of the sheep or hair of the camel, goat, alpaca, and other the principal operating offices of such corporation are located; and a receiver­ like animals which shall be imported in any other than ordinary condition, or ship so constituted shall extend without further order, except so far as the which shall be changed in its character or condition for the purpose of evad­ appointing court may direct-to the contrary, to all property of such corpora­ ing the

have secretly entered into an agreement to frame a joint traffic association; mediate demand for it, and it occurred to me at the time that the and if so, . Second. What companies have joined said agreement or have included their President of the United States, having lost the confidence of the traffic therein, and by what individuals said agreement is signed, and what people of this country to some extent during his Administration is the amount of the capitalization of each and all of said companies and the of the last two years and nine months, sought to restore himself . milea-ge thereof. Third. Whether said agreement binds each company to make and enforce and his party to the confidence of the people, and by that means such rates or fares and freights as may be prescribed by a board of officers induce them to forget their grievances and .the prostrate condition representi11g all the comparues joining the compact. of the country. Fourth. Whether the agreement provides for collecting from every com­ The honorable Senator from New York [Mr. HILLl, laboring p~ny a money penalty of $5,000in each case of violation of such stipulation to make and enforce rates, or a money penalt¥ equal to the gross receipts of the no doubt under a sense of great obligation to the President for his transaction constituting such violation, which moneypena.Ityis to be applied splendid services in the campaigns in New York in 1894: and 1895, for the benefit and to the UBes of all the companies except the one offending. Fifth. Whether said agreement constitutes a. combination in restraint of and perhaps actuated somewhat by the splendid services of the President in the campaign in Maryland in 1895, and the magnifi­ ~~d!t:r~t~t!:::e~~T!;~e existing laws of Congress, or is a violation of, cent services of the President and his Secretary of the Treasury Sixth. Whether the Interstate Commerce Commission has the power, of in the campaign in Kentucky this year, felt as though it was per­ their own motion• to investigate such agreement, and whether or not the same, if unlawful, is suoject to arrest by process for temporary injunction, or how fectly proper for him to introduce a bill here for the release of all otherwise the signers thereof may be proceeded against. of the ex-Confederates from the disabilities under which they Seventh. What action, if any, has been taken by the Commission or bv any labor, and make them eligible for the position of officers of the otht>r tribunal or officer of the Government with respect to said agreement. And in addition the Commission will transmit to the Senate all correspond­ Army and the Navy. As they may assist the President in case of ence, comJ?laints, and other documents in possession of the Commission con­ war, I have no objection to the Senator's doing so. I am perfectly cerning Bald agreement, and the action of the Commission in relation thereto. willing that that bill shall pass and that these men shall be re­ :Mr. PEFFER. I move that the resolution be amended in the stored to their former rights. This seems to be the Democratic fifth line by striking out the word " secretly" arid inserting the case in brief. The President threw out this message to the country word "1·ecently;" so as to read, "have recently entered into an as though it announced something new, as though he was de!iver­ agreement," etc. ing to the people something they never knew before, and }!e was The amendment was agreed to. reenforced by the splendid efforts of my distinguished friend from The resolution as amended was agreed to. New York. Then comes the Republican case, Mr. President. The honor­ PROPOSED FINANCIAL LEGISLATION, able Senator from New Hampshire rMr. GALLL~GER] introduced The VICE-PRESIDENT. The Chair lays before the Senate a a resolution here proposing to take tlie old Constitution and revive resolution submitted by the Senator from Nebraska, coming over and repair her for service. The other honorable Senator from from a previous day, which will be read. New Hampshire 11\fr. CHANDLER] wants an appropriationforthe The Secretary read the following resolution submitted by Mr. purchase of t,ooo;ooo stand of small arms and 5,000 cannon for .ALLEN December 19, 1895; and the Senate proceeded to its con­ immediate use-or at lea-st to strengthen the military arm of the sideration: Government. I will read the bill he introduced: Whereas by the President's message to Congress of December 17, A. D. Be it enacted, etc.h That the President be, and he is hereby, authorized and 1895, regarding the boundary line between Venezuela and British GUJ.ana it directed to strengt en the military armament by adding thereto, equipped is made to appear that the contingency of war between the British Emp1re1 for use, 1,000,000 infantry rifles, 1,000 guns for field artillery, and not exceed­ and the United States of America may suddenly arise; and ing 5,000 heavy guns for fortifications; to be procured by manufacture in the Whereas money is the first essential in times of war, and in such an event arsenals, or by contract for manufacture or by direct purchase in this coun­ the Government uses gold, silver, and paper money indiscriminately until try or elsewhere, according to the discretion of the President, who shall con­ the two former disappear and thereafter relies solely on paper money: form, when practicable without unwise delay, to the methods prescribed for Therefore, . making contracts and purchases by existing laws. Resolved, That the Committee on Finance be, and they are hereby, directed SEc. 2. That the sum of $100,000,000 is hereby appropriated to carry into and instructed to inquire and report, by bill or otherwise, w.Qether it would effect the provisions of this act. not be expedient and proper for the Government of the United States of America at this time to open its mints to the free and unlimited coinage of The honorable Senator from Minnesota [Mr. DAVIS], no doubt gold and silver at the ratio of 1 to 16, and in addition thereto issue an ade­ believing that it is good _policy to kill two birds with one stone quate volume of full legal-tender Treasury notes in the same manner such and fight out two controversies in one war, offered a resolution to notes have heretofore been issued, and, in the interest of national safety, with­ the effect that we should inquire immediately into the status of draw the issue power of national banks and retire all bank currency. the boundary line between the British and the American posses­ Mr. PLATT. I move the reference of the resolution to the Com­ sions in Alaska, and especially whether Great Britain is invading mittee on Finance. our territory in that country by the establishment of post-offices Mr. .ALLEN. Mr. President, I think that this resolution ought and post-roads. The honorable Senator from Maine [Mr. HALE] to be adopted by the Senate without being sent to the Finance on yesterday introduced a bill for the appropriation of a large Committee, becau;e it is in the nature of an instruction to the sum-Ido not now recall the amount-for the purpose of increas­ Finance Committee; and therefore the Senate ought to express its ing. our Navy. views with reference to the matters contained in the resolution - So we have the President of the United States and distinguished before the Finance Committee receives it. in this Chamber urging the Monroe doctrine and urg­ A few days ago we received from the President of the United ing that the country be put upon a war basis, and we have Re­ States a message regarding the controverted boundary line be­ publicans upon the other side equally anxious for large appropri­ tween British Guiana and the Republic of Venezuela. In that ations for the purchase of ru.·ms and the equipment of the country message the President of the United States said to us: for any emergency that may arise. Assunl.ing~ however, that the attitude of Venezuela will remain unchanged, the dispute nas reached such a stage as to make it now incumbent upon the Mr. President, it has become necessary for the Populist party to United States to take measures to determine with sufficient certainty fo1· its take a stand here. It will not do to permit the President of the justification what is the true divisional line between the Republic of Vene­ United States and his distinguished associates here to carry off all zuela and British Guiana. The inquiry to that end should of course be con­ ducted carefully and judicially, anddueweightshould be given to all available the glory and honor; it will not do to permit the Democratic party evidence, records, and facts in support of the claims of both parties. and the Republican party in this Chamber to takeaway all the glory In order that such an examination should be prosecuted in a thorough and honor incident to a discussion of the Monroe doctrine. It is and satisfactory manner, I suggest that the Congress make an adequate ap­ necessary that the Populist party shall have a standing here. Re­ propriation for the expenses of a commission, to be appointed by the Execu­ tive, who shall make the necessary investigation, and report upon the matte1· alizing, as we did and do, that the President of the United States with the least possible delay. When such report is made and accepted it will, and his party, aided by the Republican party, can not wage a war in my opinion, be the duty of the United States to resist, by every means in without money; realizing, as we do, that in consequence of a fool­ its power, as a willful aggression upon :its rights and interests, the appropria­ tion by Great Britain of any lands or the exercise of governmental Jurisdic­ ish financial policy which has been pursued by both these parties tion over any territory which, after investigation, we have determined of the Government of the United States is to-day practically bank­ right belongs to Venezuela. ~ rupt, we have concluded that the first and most essential thing in This, Mr. President, is no more nor less than a revamp of what war is money. Therefore this resolution was introduced express­ is known as the Monroe doctrine, expressed in no better language ing itasthesenseof the Senatethat itwasessentialfortheFinance than it was expressed by President Monroe. It is a doctrine that Committee to inquire into and determine whether it would not be is as old as nations themselves. It seems to me that it is impossible good policy, in view of this great emergency, to open the mints of to conceive of the existence of a nation without at the same time the United States to the free coinage of silver, and to issue addi­ conceiving of the right of that nation to protect its life and its tional Treasury notes. autonomy. It is a law of nature. It is a doctrine that is coex­ I think this resolution ought to be adopted by the Senate. I do istent with the oldest nation upon the face of the earth; it is a not want to treat lightly this great doctrine; I do notwanttoput doctrine that is found in nature everywhere. ·It is the same char­ the Senate in the attitude of trifling with a question of this mag­ acteristic that is found in the individual; it is the doctrine of the nitude; but if it be essential for the Government of the United right to preserve one's self; the doctrine of the right of a nation States to appoint a commission to visit the disputed territory be­ to preserve itself.- It is not a new doctrine, and ought not to be tween Venezuela and the British possessions, if it be essential for misunderstood. us to create a navy and to raise and equip an army, then, sir, tha I can conceive of no particular cause for the delivery of this first step in that direction is the issuance and the coinage of money message to Congress. There does not seem to have been any im- and the repletion of our already depleted Treasury. 1895. CONGRESSIONAL ·RECORD-SENATE. 255

The financial policy pursued for the last twenty years in this with the Se'Q.ator from lllinois [Mr. PALMER], and therefore with­ country has brought about the results we witness to-day. The hold my vote. people of this country have appealed from time to time to the Mr. MITCHELL of Oregon (when Mr. McBRIDE's name was President of the United States and to Congress for relief, and they called). My colleague fMr. McBRIDE] is detained from the Sen­ have appealed to the Republican party when it was in power for ate this morning by indisposition. He is paired with the senior relief, and their appeals have fallen upon deaf ears. When Mr. Senator from Mississippi [Mr. GEORGE]. Cleveland came into power in 1892, with a splendidly eq:tipped Mr. MITCHELL of Oregon (when his name was called). I am party, the people were told that relief would be brought to them. paired with the senior Senator from Wisconsin [Mr. VILAs]. I Mr. President, from that time to this moment prices have fallen, do not know how he would vote if he were here. If I were at enforced idleness has occurred, until universal distress exists liberty to vote, I should vote ''nay." throughout the length and breadth of this country to-day. In­ :Mr. PUGH (when his name was called). I am paired with the stead of taking hold of the financial problem wisely and as a senior Senator from Massachusetts [Mr. HoAR]. If he were here, statesman should, with a determination to administer the affairs I should vote," nay.'' of this country in the interest of all the people and not a few, the Mr. SHOUP [when his namewascalled]. I am paired with the policy of this Administration has beeri to reduce the money in our Senator from California [l\Ir. WHITE]. I do not see him present, Treasury and create a vacancy for the issuance of interest-bearing but I will ask his colleague [Mr. P ERKINS] if he knows how he obligations. would vote on this question? Can it be possible, Mr. President, that this agitation goes deeper Mr. PERKINS. I have had no chance to consult with my col­ than the average mind supposes? Can it be that it is simply lay­ league on this question, and therefore can not answer. ing the foundation for greater expenditures in this country and Mr. SHOUP. Then I withhold my vote. If the Senator from the issuance of millions, if not billions, of governmental obliga­ California were present, I should vote "nay." tions bearing interest, to rest as a great mortgage, a great debt, Mr. SQUIRE (when his name was called). I am paired with upon the industries of the peoplefor generations yet to come? the senior Senator from Virginia [Mr. DANIEL]. I do not know If the President is sincere in his message, if Democrats upon how he would vote if present, and therefore I withhold my vote. this side who have intToduced resolutions and bills are sincere, if The roll call was concluded. the upon the other side are sincere in the bills and Mr. WALTHALL. I am requested to state that the Senator from resolutions they have introduced on this subject, then, I say to South Carolina [Mr. IRBY] is paired with the Senator from Rhode you, the history of this country proves to us that we must have Island rMr. ALDRICH]. more money, that we can not erect coast defenses, we can not :Mr. BRICE. I am paired with the Senator from Colorado [Mr. provide an army and a navy and put ourselves in' an attitude of WoLCOTT]. Not knowing how he would vote if present, I with­ aggressive or defensive warfare without additional money. This hold my vote. resolution, or some a-ction in the line indicated in this resolution, Mr. l\HTCHELL of Oregon. I suggest to the Senator from is the first essential in this great undertaking that should receive Ohio, inasmuch as he is paired with the junior Senator from Colo­ the consideration of the Senate. rado f.Mr. WoLCOTT], and I am pah·ed with the senior Senator The VICE-PRESIDENT. The question is on the motion of the from Wisconsin fMr. VILAS], that we transfer our pairs and vote. Senator from Connecticut [Mr. PLATT]. Mr. BRICE. 'l'hat is satisfactory to me. I vote "yea." Mr. HARRIS. I did not hear the motion. Mr. MITCHELL, of Oregon. I vote" nay." The VICE-PRESIDENT. Will the Senator from Connecticut The result was announced-yeas 24, nays 36; as follows: please repeat his motion? YEAS-24-. Mr. PLATT. That the resolution be referred to the Committee .Alli.son, Gallinger, l'liartin, Quay, on Finance. Brice, Gorman, :Mills, Sewell, The VICE-PRESIDENT. The question is on that motion. Burrows, Hale. Mitchell, Wis. Sherman, :Mr. ALLEN and Mr. STEWART called for the yeas and nays. Caffery, Hawley, Morrill, Smith, Cameron, LodJiha. Platt, Thurston, Mr. KYLE. I ask that the resolution may be again read. Chandler, Me n, Proctor, Wetmore. The VICE-PRESIDENT. The resolution will be read. The Secretary again read the resolution. NAY8-36. .Allen, Chilton, Mantle Roach, Mr. ALLEN. I withdraw, for the time being, the demand I Bacon, Clark, Mitchell, Oreg. Stewart, ;made for the yeas and nays. Baker, Cockrell, Morgan, Teller, The VICE-PRESIDENT. The question is on agreeing to the Bate, Dubois, · :Nelson, Tillman, Berry, Gibson, P asco, .. Vest, · motion of the Senator from Connecticut [Mr. PLATT] to refer the Blackburn, Harris, Peffer, Voorhees, resolution to the Committee on Finance. Butler, Jones, Ark. Perkins, Walthall, Mr. STEWART. I call for the yeas and nays. Call, Jones, Nev. Pettigrew, War1·en, The yeas and nays were ordered. Carter, Kyle, !"ritchard, Wilson. The VICE-PRESIDENT. The Secretary will call the roll. NOT VOTING-25. The Secretary called the name of Mr. ALDRICH. Aldrich, Frye, Hoar, Squire, Mr. HARRIS. This is simply a resolution asking the Commit­ Blanchard, Gear, Irby, Tm·pie, Cullom, George, McBride, tee on Finance to inquire as to certain matters, and report as it Daniel, Gordon, Murphy. ~~. may decide. It is perfectly innocent. Ordinarily I should vote Davi'>, Gray Palmer, to refer such a resolution, but as this simply invokes an inquiry Elkins, Hansbrough, Pugh, and a report of the Committee on Finance, I see no objection ~'aulkner, Hill, Shoup, to it. So the Senate refused to refer the resolution. Mr. PLATT. Mr. President- The VICE-PRESIDENT. The question recurs upon agreeing The VICE-PRESIDENT. Debate is not in order. to the resolution. Mr. LODGE. I make the point of order that debate is not in The resolution was agreed to. order, the roll call having begun. . Mr. PLATT. I move to strike out the preamble. Mr. PLATT and Mr. HARRIS. No response has been made. Mr. BACON and Mr. VEST. Let it be read. The VICE-PRESIDENT. The Chair recognizes the Senator The VICE-PRESIDENT. The Secretary will read the preamble. from Connecticut [Mr. PLATT]. The Secretary read the preamble. Mr. PLATT. I think the practice of passing resolutions which Mr. ALLEN. If the Senator from Connecticut will withd.raw make certain assertions is very bad. I think, also, that the practice his motion, I will withdraw the preamble and agree to its going of directing a committee of this body to inquire and report upon out. The preamble ll}ay go out. a subject is bad, unless the Senate believe in the doctrine laid Mr. PLATT. All right; I withdraw the motion. down in the resolution. Therefore I move to refer it to th& Com­ Mr. VOORHEES. Now let the resolution be read without the mittee on Finance. preamble. The VICE-PRESIDENT. The Secretary will continue the call­ Mr. FAULKNER. Let the Secretary read the resolution. ing of the roll. The VICE-PRESIDENT. The Senator from Nebraska with­ 'fhe Secretary resumed the calling of the roll. draws the preamble of the resolution. Mr. CULLOM (when his name was called). I have a general Mr. ALLEN. I withdraw the preamble. There is now a call pair with the senior Senator from Delaware [Mr. GRAY]. If he for the reading of the resolution itself without the preamble. were present, I should vote ''yea." The VICE-PRESIDENT. The resolution will be read as it has Mr. FAULKNER (when his name was called). I am paired been agreed to. · with my colleague [Mr. ELKINs]. I do not see him in the Cham­ The resolution was read.- ber, and therefore I withhold my vote. 1\fr. GEAR (when his name was called). I am paired with the VENEZUELAN BOUNDARY CONTROVERSY, Senator from Georgia (Mr. GoRDON]. If he were present, I should The VICE-PRESIDENT. The Chair lays before the Senate a vote ''yea." bill from the House of Representatives which has had its first Mr. HANSBROUGH (whenhisnamewascalled). 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· The bill (H. R. 2173) making an appropriation for the expenses the House bill-that we had better pass it ac; it came from the of a commission to investigate and report on the true divisional House-and in this I understand the chairman of the committee line between the Republic of Venezuela and British Guiana was concurs. read the second time by its title. Mr. MORGAN. I concur in that. Mr. CALL. Mr. President- Mr. PLATT. Therefore, what I am expressing may be in oppo­ Mr. MORGAN. I ask unanimous consent that the Senate pro- sition to the wishes and opinions of some who sit upon this side of ceed to the consideration of the bill. - the Chamber, although iu the consideration of a matter like this The VICE-PRESIDENT. The Senator from Florida has the there ought to be no aisle of division in the Senate. floor. It is useless to deny that this is a very great and important sub­ Mr. CALL. I ask the Senator from Alabama to allow me to ject, and it ought to be treated as such. We ought not to talk have a vote on the resolution which has been before the Senate about war in the consideration of such a subject. We do not in­ heretofore. vite it. We deprecate it. There is no reason at present to sup­ Mr. MORGAN. We will get through with the House bill in a pose that war is to be precipitated upon us. The American people very short time. The Senator's resolution is on the Calendar. I will not shun it if it becomes inevitable. I think we all agree in can not consent. the main with the President in the message which he has sent here. The VICE-PRESIDENT. The Senator from Alabama asks There may be some things in the message which perhaps we would unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the immediate have preferred otherwise, but as to his statement of the position consideration of the bilL Is there objection? and the determination of the American people upon a great sub­ There being no objection, the Senate, as in Committee of the ject there is no difference of opinion. It is no m,fl.tter whether or Whole, proceeded to consider the bill. not we call it a doctrine or a canon of· international law. There Mr. MORGAN. Mr. President-- is an American policy, and a determination to sustain that policy, Mr. ALLEN. This is the House bill which was laid before the which has now been in existence for seventy years at least and Senate yesterday? upon which there is no division of American sentiment, and that Mr. MORGAN. It is. is, if I understand it, that no foreign power is to establish sover­ Mr. ALLEN. I desire to offer an amendment to the bill unless eignty and dominion upon the Western Hemisphere or unfairly to the Committee on Foreign Relations have some amendments to extend its sovereignty and dominion upon that hemisphere. present. The question arises in the Venezuelan case whether GreatBritain Mr. MORGfi--.N. I propose tooffersomeamendments on behalf is attempting unfairly to extend her sovereignty and authority in of the committee. Venezuela. The message of the President states the policy of the Ml'. ·ALLEN. AU right. Then I will wait. American people on this subject very clearly and very vigorously. Mr. MORGAN. The Committee on Foreign Relations have It admits that we are not in full possession of the facts, and the had the measure under consideration, anticipating that it would President asks of Congress an appropriation to pay the expenses be acted upon this morning or to-morrow, and have directed me of a commission to be appointed by him to ' ' make the necessary to report certain amendments thereto, which I by their direction investigation and report upon the matter with the least possible have embodied in one proposition, which will constitute an amend­ delay." What is the "matter" referred to? The President dis­ ment in the nature of a substitute for the House bill. tinctly states it in his message: I wish to state, Mr. President, that there was a difference of Assuming, however, that the attitude of Venezuela will remain unchanged, opinion in the committee in regard to tl1e propriety or necessity the dispute has reached such a stage as to make it now incumbent upon the of amending the House bill in any respect, and I, as a member of United States to take measure.s to determine with sufficient certainty for its justification what is the true divisional line between the :B.epublic of Vene­ the committee, do not wiBh to be committed to the amendments, zuela and British Guiana. although if the bill is to be amended I think that the form the committee have adopted for amendment is perhaps as safe and as Then he suggests that we give him- good as any other that could be selected.' I have not given my An adequate appropriation for the expenses of a commission, to b e appointed consent personally, I am allowed to say, I believe, to any amend­ by the Executive, who shall make the n ecessary investigation and report upon ment to the House bill, thinking that the best and wisest course to the matter with the least possible delay. . pursue and the one that comports most entirely with the present I understand, Mr. President, that it is suggested that we amend attitude of the question here and abroad would perhaps require of the bill which comes from the other House in two or three par­ us that we should proceed with the bill as passed by the other ticulars that may seem unimportant, but which in my judgment House, unless we find some very material objection to it, and are exceedingly important. I desire to remark that any amend­ pass it. · ment made in the Senate will be construed in England as a hesi­ I will now send to the desk the amendments of the committee tation on the part of the Senate to sustain the President in the as a whole. position he has taken. Unless it becomes absolutely necessary, Mr. SHERMAN. As a substitute. then, to make amendments I should refrain from making them in Mr. PLATT. Is it proposed to strike out all after the enacting order that our attitude may not be misunderstood in England. clause and i11Be1·t? There seems to be an opinion on the other side of the water that Mr. MORGAN. Yes. the assertion of American rights and of the American determina­ The VICE-PRESIDENT. The amendment will be stated. tion to sustain those rights is a campaigning idea, and is put forth The SECRETARY. Strike out all after the enacting clause and at this time for political effect. England must be disabused of insert: any such opinion or belief. The American people were never That the sum of $100,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and more in earnest from the breaking out of the Revolution to this the sa me is h ere by, appropriated for the expenses of a commission, to consist day than in their determination to assert and maintain what they of three members, to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice believe is essential to the safety of the Republic of the United and consent of the Senate, to investigate and r eport to him the facts in regard to the divisional line between the Republic of Venezuela and British States, namely, that no foreign power shall establish governmental Guiana: Provided, That section 2 of the act approved July 31, 189f, making ap· institutions upon this continent, or unfairly or unrighteously ex­ propriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Gov­ tend such institutions now existing upon this continent. We must ernment, and for other purposes, shall not apply to any commissioners ap­ be careful, then, to do nothing here which will give plausibility pointed under this act. to the already prevalent idea in England that the United States Mr. MORGAN. I desire to explain the proviso. In the event are not united and in earnest upon this matter. If it became es­ that the House bill should pass the Senate as it came to us the sential to change the bill which the House has sent us I should proviso would be unnecessary; at least that is my opinion. The pro­ not hesitate to do it, but to my mind it is of no importance. The viso is intended to exempt the three commissioners who are sug­ bill now contains all that the President asks of us, and it is the gested in the substitute from the operation of an act passed in President of the United States who asks this of Congress. It is 1894, the general legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation not as an individual who occupies the Executive chair that he has act of that year, which in section 2 prescribes that any officer addressed us, but he speaks in an officiaJ capacity as the President receiving $2,500 a year salary shall not be permitted, under that of the country, and in this matter what he says should be treated act, to receive any addition to his salary, although he may be as the utterance of the President of the United States. . appointed to some additional duties or to some other or different Now, several amendments are proposed. The first one is that office. In the event that we provide for the three commissioners, the bill shall fix the number of the commission; that it shall con­ it is suggested by the Secretary of State, in a note to the com­ sist of three members. Why is it necessary that the Senate should mittee, that we ought to exempt them from the operation of that insist on naming the number of whiph the commission shall con­ statute. That is the object of the committee in putting the pro­ sist? Can we not trust the President for that? Is he likely to make viso in the substitute. If we do not amend the House bill, of the number toolarge? I thinkitisentirelyunnecessary, and that course it is irrelevant and unnecessary. the matter may well be left to him. Mr. PLATT. Mr. President, I differ from the conclusions of The next proposed amendment is really to strike out the words the majority of the Foreign Relations Committee with great dif­ "to investigate and report upon the true divisional line between fidence, and I rise to speak briefly under a good deal of embarrass­ the Republic of Venezuela and British Guiana," and make the ment, for my opinion is very decided that we had bett-er not amend commission report to the President "the facts in regard to the divi- 1895. . CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 257

sionalline between Venezuela and British Guiana." It seems to Venezuela and Great Britain. The alleged aggressions of Great me that tjlis amendment is not only not essential, but that there Britain cover a period of from ten to twenty or thirty years. It is is nothing more in it than a change of language. ,The bill is in only recently that the subject has been even noted by the people the language which the President suggested-' 'a commission, to be of the United States; but ten or fifteen years ago Great Britain appointed by the Executive, who shall make the necessary investi­ asserted a claim to a line which she now says she will not submit gation and report upon the matter with the least possible delay." to arbitration. The '' matter "is '' to determine with sufficient certainty for its [the The message of the President of the United States invites no country's] justification what is the true divisional line." So the haste. He simply asks us for certain authority, and that we pro­ bill as it comes from the House of Representatives follows the lan­ pose to give him. The terms of that grant of power are contained guage of the President and provides for arriving at the fact which in the bill sent to us from the House of Representatives. "\Vhy the President asks to arrive at; that is, the true divisional line. should there be any excitement about that? Why should there be If anything less than that is intended by the language which is any eagerness to seize upon it in order to create a probability of employed in the amendment, then it will be construed as receding war with Great Britain and to arouse the patriotism of the A mer~ from what the President asks us to do. The President asks us to ican people? The American people need no such excitement, if authorize the appointment of a commission which shall determine they have to fare this matter. Besides, the views of the President what is the true divisionalline. If the proposed amendment means of the United States have been sanctioned by both Houses of Con­ anything less than that, it will be regarded all over Great Britain gress, and unanimously by both Houses of Congress: He has ex­ as not coming quite up to the request the President made of Con­ pressed the opinion of- the American people as to the importance gress. If to report '' the facts in regard to the divisional line be­ of enforcing the Mom·oe doctrine. He has explained in the clear­ tween the Republic of Venezuela and British Guiana" means est possible language the nature and character of that doctrine, anything less than the ascertaining of the true divisional line, it the assertion of the people of the United States that they will not will be understood, and rightly understood, that the Senate of the allow the various countries of South or North America to be en­ United States is not ready to go to the length which the President croached upon by European powers. asks it to go, namely, to ascertain the true divisional line with ref­ - This doctrine, though often stated since the time of Mr. Mon­ erence to the justification of the future action of this Government. roe, has never been applied specially in any particular case. We Those are two of the amendments proposed. did not regard the doctrine when we invaded Mexico. After The third amendment is that the nominations of the commis­ Texas had been ceded to us we occupied great portions of Mexican sioners shall be consented to and confirmed by the Senate. I re­ territory, including California. We ought to have thought of it gard it as entirely unimportant and unwise to do that merely then. But still we have insisted upon our right to protect the because it is supposed that there is some shadowy prerogative American nations from European encroachment, and I believe in which gives us a right to claim that when the President appoints it as heartily as any. persons charged with a duty such as it is proposed to confer upon But because a bill is sent to us from the House of Representa­ them in the pending bill, we shall be ·consulted and shall confirm tives in compliance with the request of the President that we them or not, as we choose. I do not think that we ought to em­ should grant him certain money in order to enable him to prose­ barrass a great question like this-with that claim of prerogative. cute and ascertain as near as possible the real boundary line be­ Nor do I understand that there is any claim that persons to be tween Venezuela and British Guiana, why this hurry and excite­ appointed, charged with duties like these, should, under the Con­ ment? Why can not we amend the bill like any other? We can stitution, be confirmed by the Senate; that it would be an encroach­ not even refer the bill. We must pass it without inquiry or con­ m0nt by the Executive power to appoint them without sending sideration. Why? Is England engaged in a fresh aggression? their names to the Senate. If that be so, the very authority pro­ On the contrary, England is taking very seriously under consid­ posed to be given by the bill to the President to appoint these per­ eration the situation here. England wants and needs no excite­ sons to these duties would, by inference at least, certainly answer ment on this side to compel her to a careful examination of this the claim of prerogative. whole subject-matter. I firmly believe that this matter will be But I do not understand that it has ever been seriously claimed settled by some arrangement between Great Britain and Vene­ upon this side of the Chamber that the Executive is not at liberty zuela, and I have not the slightest idea that a single drop of Ameri­ to appoint agents to ascertain facts to the end that the Executive can blood will be shed in this contest. It will be settled. may know what action he should take in matters arising between Now, this bill comes to us. The Committee on Foreign Rela­ this and foreign countries. What we all complained of in the tions were called upon to take it up and see whether the particular Blount case was that the President went further than that; that he proposition of the House of Representatives ought to be taken appointed an officer of the United States Government and com­ just as it was without crossing a" t" or dotting an "i." What missioned him to a foreign power without confirmation by the occasion is there for that feeling? There is no difference of opin­ Senate. But there is no necessity of raising that controversy ion; the House and Senate agree as to what we ought to do; and again. I do not think we have ever claimed-! have never now it is proposed by the Senate committee to make some slight claimed-that the Executive can not appoint persons, whether he modification of the House proposition and then to support it calls them commissioners or agents, or whatever name might be thoroughly. bestowed upon them, who should ascertain facts and report to Let us see what those modifications are. First, we say that him for his information as to what he as the Executive ought to when we appoint a commission it ought to be composed of a definite do with reference to matters springing up between this and an­ number. What that number is it is for us to say. We are to other country. And if we do not insist upon the right to confirm authorize this commission. The President ask~ for pay for them, the commissioners, I understand that the further amendment sug- and we are called upon, therefore, to state the number of the com­ gested here is unnecessary. · mission. Does the Senate know of any case where a commission Mr. President, I have very plainly and very frankly, and, as I or a committee has been appointed without fixing the number? said, with a good deal of diffidence, expressed my opinion upon We concluded on the whole that three would be better than five this subject. I think the amendments are unnecessary. I think or seven; that a larger number would only make probable a divi­ the bill as it came from the other House meets the President's sion of opinion, while three able men, confessedly so, from all parts request. I think to amenditat allwillbemisconstruedinEngland of the United States, could be selected to do what? Not to fix the into the belief and will strengthen the belief already prevalent disputed line: not to say which was the line that ought to be there that the Senate hesitates to sustain· the President of the adopted, but to give the President information as to the nature United States in the ground taken in his message. and character and as to the facts and conditions of the gradual .Mr. CAFFERY. BeforetheSenatorfrom Connecticutsitsdown, aggressions of Great Britain. The question as to what title Vene­ I ask him which amendment he has discussed. I have heard of zuela has to that land, as to what title Great Britain has to that but one, the amendment of the Senator from Massa~husetts [Mr. land, as to the proper boundary between them, can not be trans­ LODGEl. ferred to these three commissioners. The proposition of the House Mr. PLATT. The Senator from Louisiana could not have of Representatives required them to point out the true line be­ been in. tween these two countries. They are not authorized to do that. Mr. CAFFERY. My hearing is not very acute, and I did not The President of the United States must take that responsibility hear exactly the extent of the Senator's remarks. upon himself. Mr. PLATT. The chairman of the committee, although he said Mr. COCKRELL. Will the Senator from Ohio permit me just he did not personally agree to the amendment, reported an amend­ to read how the House bill stands? It reads: ment, as a substitute, which differs from the original bill in the For the expenses of acommission, to be ap:pointed by the President, to inves­ particulars which I have alluded to in the few remarks which I tigate and report upon the true divisional line. have made, and only in those particulars. Not to determine it, but to report upon it; to give the facts in Mr. SHERMAN. Mr. President, the first observation I have to connection with it. make in regard to this matter is that I can not see for the life of Mr. SHERMAN. But the House bill confines them to a true me the necessity of haste in considering the proposition before us. divisional line. That is not the point. The President has got to The contFoversy which is the foundation of·these papers is an determine that. Therefore this language was simply changed to ancient one; it is one that has existed-for many years between prescribe the exact purpose and desire of Co11gress that these per- XXVIII-17 '258 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. DECEl\ffiER 20,

sons should inform themselves and should inform the President of tor from Nebraska. It may or it may not be possible that the the surrounding facts and of all the matters necessary for his dEr people of the United States might have more money in their pock­ termination. ets if the mints were thrown open. It may or it may not be pos­ But, sir, the President, as we all know, does not transfer or sible that it would be better off if the printing presses were to evade any responsibility put upon him;. and the responsibility by start and p1int more Treasury notes. But the question for the the Constitution is upon him and afterwards upon the Senate of people and the Government to consider, when about to embark in the United States, in ratifying any treaty that may grow out of war with confessedly the first nation of the globe on the ocean, is, this controversy. Therefore it was thought proper to modify this where are the revenues to be obtained to come into the pockets of measure. the Government? How are we to get money enough to carry on So also as to the confirmation of the commi.qgionersbythe Senate. this war, and carry it on successfully? This commission, created by law, is something more than a Blount It will be no child's play, Mr. President, when we engage in a messenger sent to the Hawaiian Islands. This is a commission conflict with Great Britain. Let us not commit the great mis­ recognized by law, created by this act, and properly created by it. take of underrating our enemy. It may be true, as Senators say, Under those circumstances thesetlu·ee persons are to be designated that there will be no war. I agree with the distinguished Senator by the President of the United States. from Ohio [Mr. SHERMAN]. My voice is for peace if peace can be There is no question of his power to do it; but according to all obtained honorably and consistently with the safety and dignity the established usages of the Government. according to the plain of the people of the- United States. But the President of the provisions of the Constitution of the United States, their names United States, and the Government of the United States through should be sent tQ the Senate and confirmed. Why not? There is our Executive, and the Government of Great Britain have ar­ no controversy between the Senate and the President. It is but rived at the point, after a long discussion, where both say they right that this body should have a voice in their selection. It passes will not yield, and the President says that we ought to resist with upon the merits of every postmaster and small officeholder in o~ all the means in our power the establishment as proposed by broad land, whose names are sent to us because the President Great Britain. Surely we are- standing face to face on the very alone ought not to control all the vast appointments. We are called edge of battle, and prudence and safety demand that we shall look upon to confirm or to reject them. Is it not, therefore, proper for to_our Treasury box and see where we are to obtain the moneys the Senate of the United States, possessing under the Constitution to carry on this great struggle. this power, to require that its approbation at least shall be given Mr. President, during the great civil conflict in the United States as to the.se particular persons? I do not suppose there- will be any the Government was not burdened with vast e_xpenditures as it is controversy about it, but the right ought always to be reserved. to-day. We did not have from $140-,.000,000 to 150,000,000 of an­ It can not be said that these are unimportant officers. This act nual pensions to meet. We did not have from $30,000,000 to creates them officers. It prescribes their duties. Therefore they $40,000,000 of annual revenues to be expended in the payment of are as much officers as any other officeJ:S of the Government of interest on the public debt. We hadanincometaxunquestioned. the United States. Unde_r these circumstances it does seem to me We had a tax on domestic manufactures that brought in on,e year that it is a. small matter to refuse to the Senate of the United $127,000,000. The income tax brought to the coffers of the Gov­ States the po:wer to pass u.pon these officers and their fitness and ernment one year $72,000,000. All this, sir, is gone. The Consti­ ability, although I do not believe there will be any controversy, tution declares that you shall not tax. real estate except in pro­ and so I have no doubt the House of R epresentatives. will feel. I portion to population. The Supreme Court has stretched the have reason to believe that these amendments which have been authority of the Constitution and declared that you shall not tax suggested will be approved by the House of Representatives, al­ personal property except in proportion to population. The tax though, as a matter of course, no one ca;n speak fot that body you have got to-day on whisky and on beer and on tobacco is a. definitely. tax declared unconstitutional by the highest court in the land. The limitation as to time wa.s a matter discllSsed. It was pro­ It is a tax that exists simply by sufferance. posed in the Committee on Foreign Relations that the time should Then, what are we to depend upon for revenues to carry on this be limited for these officers to make their report, say to the 1st of gigantic struggle? Duties on imports? Where are your imports April or the 1st of May. On the whole, the committee, after full to come from when you are in a death grapple with the greatest consideration, thought it was best to leave it open and leave this naval power in the world? When privateers are swarming out matter under the control and management of the President of the from all the ports of all Christendom on both sides, making the United States, placing the $100~000 at his command and limiting heavens lurid with the flames of burning cargoes in every direc­ the number of commissioners. This will no doubt be approved by tion, as they did in 1812, how much imports are going to come the President, because more than that number on an inquiry of into the United States to get you revenues? The amount even this kind would be unreasonable. to-day is less than $200,000,000 a year. Your annual expenditures I say that these amendments would not only improve the lan­ require 500,000,000 a year to-day without any war-. guage and form of the bill, but I have no doubt they would be Mr. President and Senators, the first duty as we stand on the promptly agreed to by the House of Representatives and by the edge of this conflict is to strike the manacles off this Government President of the United States. and give it power to tax the real and personal estate according to Mr. President, I do not want to be forced to take any meas­ its value all over the Union. We are rich in m en, rich in courage, ure upon excitement, especiallywhen theexcitementis notfounded rich in all the elements necessary to carry on a great war; but it upon real danger or real importance. It seems to me that we is a giant manacled by the Constitution and by the decrees of the should have treated this question as an ordinary matter of legisla­ Supreme Court. I, as an American citizen, animated by the same tion. We have postponed until next month and perhaps until fire and devotion to the flag that. :represents the sovereignty of this next session many important subjects-matter. We have been nation as the proudest of you, demand that before we are plunged here three weeks, and have not deemed it necessaryt6take up any into this conflict the hands of the nation shall be untied, and that single measure which the people of the United States expect us to we shall not be compelled after a conflict to make a dishonorable pass during this Congress. peace, disgraceful to the nation, because it had not the means to Now we a:re called upon pellmell, as if we were under excite­ prosecute a successful war. ment or on a battlefield, to wave aside all our forms of legisla­ Before we adjourn for the holidays we ought to submit an amend­ tion and refuse to make-amendments to a bill sent to us under the ment to the Constitution giving Congress the power to levy and present circumstances. It seems to me all this is too hasty; it is collect taxes on both real and personal estate all over the country too eagerlypressed. There is n(}occasionforit. The Venezuelan in accordance with its value and not in p-roportion to population. controversy will probably be settled before these gentlemen are The American people will never submit to a. tax of that kind, un­ appointed or before they progress far in their investigation. We just, wicked, nefarious, as. it is, if a large amount is drawn from ought not to show a sign of timidity and anxious desire about a their pockets in such an unequal proportion, but the Ame.Dican fear that does not exist~ The Senate- of the United States is the people will submit to any taxation that is just and fair when it is last body in the world that ought to be moved by fea:r or danger. levied for the purpose of vindicating the honor, the safety, and the Let us take our time to deliberate-. If these amendments are not good name of the Republic. They will be lavish in both money important vote them down, but certainly we should not base our and blood. action on this bill upon any ground that there is a necessity to The o~ a number of States will be in session in a few take precisely what the- other House hurriedly sent to us and days. We, without distinction of party, in both branches of Con­ when the other House would no doubt a-ccept from the Senate gress, ought by a unanimous vote to submit to the legislatures an these amendments as a proper modification of their bill. amendment to the Constitution giving to the N a.tional Govern­ Mr. MILLS. Mr. President, it ·occurs to me that one of the ment the power to reach the pockets of all the $70,000,000,000 of most important considerations connected with this whole subject wealth in this country, so as tO' enable the Government to cai:.ry. has been utterly overlooked in both Houses. The Senator from on the war which it may wage, and to carry it on in accordance Nebraska (Mr. ALLEN] well said a few moments ago that money with the interests and the honor of the American people. is one of the most essential elements in the prosecution of war. I The VICE-PRESIDENT. The hollr'of 2 o'clock having arrived, fail to see, however, how the Government of the United States the Chair lays before the Senate the unfinished business. would be any better off by the proposition submitted by the Sena.:- The SECRETARY. A bill (S .. 23fi) to provide for proper dispos.k 1895. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE·. 259 tion of the remains of deceased members of the Senate and Honse bec.ause of Venezuela alone, but if there is a feeling of indignation of Representatives who die at the capital during the se~sions of in the United States against Great Britain it is- her fault. It is Congress. her aggression, her arrogance, and her disposition to trample tlpon 1\Ir. MORGAN. I ask unanimous consent that that bill be the rights of the Americ-an people which has aroused this feeling.. passed over temporarily, not losing its place. It is said on the other side of the Atlantic by, I think, a ma­ The VICE-PRESIDENT. Is there objection? The Chair hears jority of the people in England, France, and Germany that this Presid€~t none. 1 is a mere electioneering dodge. They assume that the 1\fr. LODGE. I understand the House bill is still before the is actuated by the ordinary motives which have actuated mon­ Senate. archs and despots and presidents from the beginning of govern­ The VICE-PRESIDENT. It is. ments to get up a controversy with a foreign power whenever Mr. LODGE. Mr. President, I yesterday gave notice of an politics were desperate at home. That is the old thing to do, and amendment to the House bill appointing this commission. I desire they assume that it is what the Presid~mt is doillg. It is said he now to withdraw the amendment, or, rather, to state that I shall is doing it for political purposes. We can see very well how he not press it. might gain by it politically. We can see very well how this thing My first reason for doing so is that I think it is of the utmost might be dragged along and that Great BTitain might settle with importance that there should be absolutely no divi!;ion whatever Venezuelar and then our task would be done. If Great Britain in the Senate on any question involving the support of the Presi­ should disclaim what she has done the President's friends would dent in the position he ha.s taken, and there might be a division say that he brought it about by his firmness. I can see how there on this amendment if pressed to a vote. might be political gain in it; but gain or no gain, it is a declara­ My second reason is that on reflection it seems to me that plac­ tion in favor of the Mon:roe doctrine; it is a declaration opposed ing a limit upon the time within which the commission shall re­ to the usurpation of Great Britain; it is an American declru.·ation, port is needless, because the President has stated in his message and I am in favor of sustaining it. that they are to report with the least possible del.ay. The date I . ~he Presid~nt having ina.u~urat~d this, he ~aving the ~e~I?onsi­ fixed is unnecessarily distant, and it is better that no date should billty, I am m favor of g1vmg him the entue responSibility of be fixed. I desire to give the President all that he asks and the ascertaining the facts, and I am in favor of the House bill as it utmost latitude. Where the fullest discretion is given there the came to us. That bill provides just exactly what he asks for, and responsibility will lie, and there it ought to lie~ the responsibility if he is not in good faith, if he does not execute this supreme· duty both to the An:lerican people and to the vast interests which are according to the spirit and the demand of the American people, involved. the American people will know the reason why. Re has put him­ But, Mr. President, I desire to say that for the same reason I self in the breach, and declared for the American doctrine of self­ should hope that on this bill would be placed the amendment defense and noninterference of any European power with the allowing the Senate to advise and consent to the appointment of Governments or tetritories of any country in all the Americas~he the commission, not for the purpose of asserting the prerogative of has put himself squarely there. Give him the money and let him the Senate, but because I think it would strengthen that commis­ make the investigation. sion and strengthen the hands of the President to have it under­ I do not believe there is danger of war. I do not believe Great stood that those commissioners enter on their work not only as Britain will insist upon an unjust demand against Venezuela when his appointees, but with the unanimous approbation of the Senate. she knows that it involves war with the United States. Great The one object, it seems to me, that we should aim at in all this Britain can put an end to this thing in a day by being honest and grave business is not haste or excitement, but entire firmness, and reasonable. There would be no trouble about that. She is the that we should show to the world that we are absolutely united aggressor, but if she is going to pursue a policy of aggression upon in the position that has been taken. It is freely charged that this this continent, as she does in every other part of the globe, the is mere electioneering business. I want to see that idea done away sooner we know it the better·. with. I want to make it understood by every means in our power As to raising the nece..<~sary revenue and amending the Consti­ that there is no division of sentiment among the American people, tution so that revenile can be raised, that is too unimportant to and I want the action of the Senate to say plainly to those people discuss. We have been through wa-rs before· this time, and ample in London who are undertaking to make a scare in this country power was found in this Government to raise revenue. When the by selling stocks and calling loans in the American market,. that people of the United States are called upon to defend the princi­ the American peopleareunitedon this question, that they propose ples which they cherish as most sacred and to defend their rights to stand by the Monroe doctrine, and that the attempt to create a against any country, and particularly against Great Britain, there panic in , to call loans and drain our gold, is not the will be no lack of money. Seventy million people can furnish all road to an honoTable and a peaceful settlement. the money necessary to vindicate their honor. There can be noth­ For this reason, :Mr. Presidentj I desiJ:e, for my own part, to put ing more injurious to the American people than to submit to the no obstacle in the way of the unanimous adoption of the amend­ arrogance of Great Britain. It breeds toadyism; it b1·eeds de­ ments proposed by the committee or of the bill itself. I desire pendence; it destroys American manhood; it destroys the pride of that we shall proceed with deliberation and dignity, but with the being an American citizen. . most entire firmness, and that we shall settle with this qu-estion War under any circumstances is to be avoided if possible. War and pass this bill before we adjourn. is a great calamity; but it is nothing to the sacrifice of honor. Mr. STEWART. .M:r. President, there is no doubt that the There are other things worse than war. We have had twenty­ sentiment in this country in favor of what is popularly known as five years of abundant harvests and profound peace, and there is the Monroe doctrine is p1·actically unanimous. Within a few mo:re suffering to-day in the country than ever before in its. his­ years past many things have happened which have excited the tory, I am not sure but the people of this country would welcome indignation of the American people. They. have felt, and had the change, if it was from peace to war, in view of the general dis- reason to feel, that Great Britain assumed a domineering attitude tress which prevails. . toward the United States-that she was unwilling to recognize I want American manhood asserted. and inasmuch as the Pres­ the rights of our people or our country. ident has announced a doc1a·ine in which we all concur, let us give Among the irritating causes we might mention the destruction him the power to vindicate it, and the country will hold him re­ of the seals in Alaska. Undoubtedly Great Britain is to blame for sponsible. He is willing to take the responsibility. Let the House it, and that is the opinion of the American people. We can also bill as it came to us be passed; let it proceed in order; let it pro­ mention the fa-ct that she is setting up a claim to a portion of the ceed now, so that it will be known on both sides of the Atlantic Territory of Alaska which has been recognized by. all as ours, and what the American people mean and what they will do in defense which has been in the peaceable possession of our grantors and of of whattheyknowtG be their rights~ [Applause in the galleries.] • ourselves for three-quarters of a century. It is asserted by the The VICE-PRESIDENT. The Chair must remind the galleries agents of Great Britain or Canada that instead of the shore line that it is in violation of the rules of the Senate to show approba­ being the shore line that has been recognized for three-quarters of tion of o:r dissent from what is said on the floor of this body. A a century, the shore line from which the measurement must be repetition of the offense will call for an enforcement of the rule taken is in the ocean beyond the islands. The mere statement of of the Senate. such a claim outrages our sense of justice and has created much Mr. WHITE. Mr, President, I can not bring myself to believe feeling. that there is in the present situation !3UCh serious menare to the · Again, in Nicaragua last spring, we find Great Britain proceed­ peace of the world as may be implied from remarks made here ing to take military possession of a portion of Nicaragua on a and. from utterances elsewhere. I concur in everything that·has claim so flimsy as not to bear examination for one hour among been said with reference to the necessity of fumly1 rigidly, and at honest men. Her proceedings in that direction were manifestly all times enforcing the Monroe doctrine. I indorse the views of for the purpose of thwarting the scheme of the United States to the President of the United States in affirmation of the principles build an interoceanic canal. We find Great Britain the lion in upon which we understand that doctrine is grounded; but I do the path. not think that any occasion will arise as the result of the Vene­ Then, again, we find her changing her boundary from time to zuelan dispute to require the assertion of the full powers of this time in Venezuela because Venezuela is a weak power. It is not Government in maintenance of that doctrine. I am persuaded 260 CONGRESSIONAL .RECORD-SENATE. DECE1\1BER 20,

that if upon that careful, that judicial investigation which the Mr. MITCHELL of Oregon. May I ask the honorable Senator President suggests, facts at present but little known and imper­ from California a question? fectly appreciated are made patent, there will be no grave obsta­ Mr. WHITE. Certainly. _ cle to an honorable solution. I can not understand that there is Mr. MITCHELL of Oregon. The question I propose to ask is any immediate reason to apprehend momentousdifficultyor cause for the purpose of testing the construction which the Senator from for intense excitement. The war cloud does not seem to me to be California places upon the Monroe doctrine. Suppose we give the so large. I am unwilling to entertain the thought that as to such President this commission, that they meet and attend to the duties a question, important though it may be, any conclusion will be imposed upon them, that they report back their sentiments, and reached which does not comport with the universal desire of all the President and the Congress of the United States decide upon Christian people for peace. the facts reported as to the precise location of the line between :Mr. President, what is the condition of this controversy? What British Guiana and Ve.nezuela; then suppose after that the Gov­ is it concerning which we are now in contention as far as Great ernment of Venezuela, either throu~h fear of becoming involved Britain is concerned? We lay no claim to one foot of the territory in war with Great Britain, or for any other cause, should consent of Venezuela. We merely assert that Great Britain must not take by treaty stipulation to transfer a portion of the territory which from Venezuela territory which is palpably hers. We do not pro­ we have decided belongs to Venezuela. What I wish to know is, pose, I imagine, to solve a bona fide boundary dispute upon any would that be such a settlement as the United States could agree narrow or technical ground, nor to engage in conflict without the to and still be held to be a vindication of the Monroe doctrine on establishment of a clear case justifying such action; but we are · our part? assuming, if we talk in a belligerent manner, that England is Mr. WHITE. Mr. President, the interrogatory submitted by about to absorb territory which of right plainly pertains to Vene­ the Senator from Oregon is broad. It involves the consideration zuela. Is England attempting so to do? This is the vital question of an extended subject. I do not tliink that the topic to which he upon which our right to act depends. The President of the United refers is embraced in this controversy. I am firm in the convic­ States informs us that it is not clearly known to him; that he has tion that there might be attempted cessions of territory by some not the information to give us upon which he or we can base a of the States of this continent, to which cessions it would be the final judgment to the effect that England is about to perpetrate duty of the United States to object. Intimations of that charac­ this usurpation, this violation of the Monroe doctrine. In order ter have already been 9fficially given with reference to Cuba. But to ascertain whether there is really a just cause for complaint, I am unwilling to lay down a rule in the absence of a subject for whether the generally existing sentiment here against English its application, or to define the Monroe doctrine in complete and conduct in this case is or is not well founded, he proposes to ap­ entirely comprehensive terms, or to apply it or attempt to apply point a commissionl and upon the report of that commission to it to a contingency which has not yet arisen. I do not pretend to fully and fairly consider the case, and if there is proof that Euro­ be able upon the spur of the moment, or perhaps at any time, to pean territorial acquisition is contemplated, then the whole mat­ state our national duty in every case where an American nation ter will be submitted to Congress with a recommendation for may desire to cede land to a European Government. Such an affirmative action. effort upon my part might result in a statement upon which I It may be, and from the statements made by those who ought would be unwilling to rest in every possible controversy. There to know much more about it than I do it is probable, that there is a case before us. I am addressing myself to that case, and I am bas been aggression, but we are not in a condition to announce not seeking to enlighten upon a condition which may or may not this as a fact. We have not the evidence upon which we can so hereafter transpire. Actual issues I am prepared to decide. The find. We must know that we are right before we act. The only message of the President contemplates the possibility of the tak­ question, as I understand it, before the Senate is whether we will ing of territory by force. It treats of the occupancy of Venezuelan concur in enacting a statute giving to the President the means to soil by the British Government against the will of Venezuela. It enable him to carry out the laudable desh·e which he expresses, is with that hypothesis, and that alone, that I am dealing. and which we all wish may eventuate in a final clear and con­ Mr. MITCHELL of Oregon. Will the Senator allow me on that vincing report and recommendation. So far as the means of point? accomplishing this end are concerned, if I had my way about it I The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. HARRIS in the chair). Does would rather appropriate $100,000 for the purpose of enabling the the Senator from California yield to the Senator from Oregon? Presjdent to take such action in this matter as may comport with Mr. WHITE. Certainly. his views of his executive duty. I would rather omit the word Mr. MITCHELL of Oregon. I simply desire to say, in order to "commission" from the bill, and merely give the President the place myself right, that I shall answer my own question by say­ money to enable him to obtain the essential facts, by commission ing that that would be a settlement the Government of the United or otherwise, and report the same to Congress, and, failing in this, States could not consent to and at the same time vindicate the I prefer the House bill, without amendment. When the President integrity of the Monroe doctrine, because I believe the true con­ does act, it will be for Cong1·ess to determine what to do. struction of the Monroe doctrine to be that no European power There can be no declaration of war save through Congress. shall, without our consent, be permitted, either by force or by Anything the commission may do, any suggestion it may offer treaty stipulation, to acquire one foot of soil they do not now own will be advisory; it will not be conclusive upon us or upon the or control on this hemisphere. Executive. The recommendation made by the President will not Mr. WHITE. !wish to add, with reference to the remark of the bind Cong1·ess. Such expression will be valuable and presumably Senator from Oregon, that while I am glad to have his views upon correct, but, after all, we must act under our constitutional pre­ the subject-for I have a g1·eatrespect for him andfor his views­ rogative; upon our own responsibility and judgment in the final nevertheless, I do not care to adopt his conclusions at present. We determination as to whether there is or is not a cause for hostili­ will confer about that later when an issue in which the matter is ties. I do not agree that we should insist upon any power, actual material is pending. or assumed, to confirm the commission. . But, concluding, I will say that I do not propose to offer any I prefer that the President be allowed to select his own commis­ amendment whatever to the bill. I have simply expressed my sion absolutely unfettered by the wishes of the Senate. Then when judgment, to the effect that it would be preferable, after making the report reaches us it will be the report of the President of the ample appropliation, to leave this feature of the Venezuelan ques­ United States announcing his opinion as to the duty of Cong1·ess tion wholly with the Executive and Ioncemoreindorsethe Presi­ upon the submission made by the commission. Congress then dential definition of duty, and while entertaining the opinions will take such action with relation thereto as it may deem best. already given relating to the formal part of om· proceedings, I am I consider it proper, before concluding, to call attention to the ready to support the bill in such form as the Senate may deem • fact that at the last session of the late Congress the Senate adopted desirable. a resolution reported, by the Senator from Indiana [Mr. TURPIE], Mr. CAFFERY. Mr. President, I think the 1·elations between from the Committee on Foreign Relations, with regard to Hawaii, the United States and Great Britain at this moment are of a very which clearly and tersely announced our rule in these words: critical character, and it is because I think war is imminent be­ Resolved, That of right it belongs wholly to the people of the Hawaiian tween these two great powers should the pretensions of either or Islands to establish and maintain their own form of government and domes­ both sides be stubbornly maintained that I heartily concur in the tic policy; that the United States ought in no wise to interfere therewith; opinion of the Senator from Ohio [Mr. SHERMAN] in favor of a and that any intervention in the political affairs of these islands by any other conserva~ve and temperate course of action. Government will be regarded as an act unfriendly to the United States. Should war ensue between the United States and Great Britain Here we extended our jurisdiction beyond the American Conti­ out of this Venezuelan controversy, upon the Senate of the United nent; we disregaTded 2,000miles of intervening ocean, and we there States and the coordinate branch of Congress will rest the respon­ said with reference to those islands that we should regard any in­ sibility. We are the war-making power. The President of the tervention there as an act unfliendly to the United States, and this United States may precipitate war, but these two bodies have the declaration has been and will be respected. There is, therefore, exclusive power for the authoritative declaration of war. It is manifestly no impropriety in the insistence upon the same time­ precisely for this reason that I contend that the Senate of the honored principle with reference to the contineTJ.t upon which we United States have the undoubted privilege, and it is their duty sustain our nationality. in this instance to exercise it, to supervise the appointment of the 1895. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-· SENATE. 261 commissioners provided for in the bill that passed thE\ House of that separation from politics which always should prevail among Representatives. political parties on questions of foreign policy. Mr. Presid.ent, in the inten·ogatory of the Senator from Ohio, :Mr. President, I am told that stocks have gone down-that Wall what need is there of haste? Is our honor suffering? Is our fron­ street is agitated and Btate street is agitated-because a Demo­ tier inva.ded? Are not our ships permitted to plow the ocean un­ cratic President, sustained by a Republica.n Congress, proposes to molested? In what particular are we assailed so that we can not defend the national honor. If stocks have gone down materially, wait for a dispassionate investigation into the merits of this con­ I undertake to say that they are st.ocks which ought to go down, troversy between Venezuela and Great Britain? It occurs to me irrespective of national complications. No stock of any real value that the very appointment of the commission is a warlike step. It in the American or English markets will be seriously affected be­ occurs to me that it is a very extreme application of the Monroe cause the American honor is to be preserved in this crisis of our doctrine to undertake to settle a boundary question in dispute be­ fortunes.· For one I do not p1·opose, and I do not believe any mem­ tween European powers and Governments in South America. But, ber of the Senate or of the House or any American citizen pro~ sir, even that step, which in my opinion is a forecast of war, may poses, to be intimidated in this emergency by the declarations of not lead to the dire conclusion of war if temperate and wise coun­ foreign capitalists, by any conspiracy of foreign bankers, to de­ sels are followed as to it. stroy the credit of this country or the value of American stocks in I can not contemplate war with the tranquillity that some seem the markets of the world in order to prevent the Congress of the to do; I know something of its horrors; I know something of its United States from appropriating money to enable President Cleve­ devastation. But if the occasion demanded war, if the honor or land to do exactly what he thinks he ought to do in this decisive the interests of the United States were so insulted or infringed hour in our affairs. upon as to make a call to arms necessary, I should not hesitate on I read a cable dispatch to the New York Sun of to-day: ·account of the financial condition of the United States to enter LONDON, D ecember 19. into war. I believe our people would respond to the call of patri­ A grave but inevitable consequence of President Cleveland's messaaeupon otism; I believe they have the resources in their own midst; I be­ the British-Venezuelan dispute has arisen perhaps sooner than might have lieve that bonds of the United States would be taken by our own been expected. A meeting of prominent financial leaders who have important population, and afford all the resources necessary to carry on war interests in the United States was held in a London banking office to-day- with the greatest power upon earth. Mr. COCKRELL. I wish the Senator would read that again. But, sir, it occurs to me, knowing the terror, knowing the suf­ l'Ylr. CHA-.~DLER. Very well. A meeting of prominent financial leaders who have important interests ferings, knowing the upheaval itself that will follow from the con­ in the United States was held in a London banking offi.ca to-day for the pur· tention between these two vast powers, we ought not to be precipi­ pose of considering the advisability of united action- tate or hasty. Let us give a breathing time. The people of the United action- United States are excited. I do not feel that I am saying too much in callin~ in their American credits. It is undoubtedly within the power of in saying that the members of Congress are excited on this ques­ En~lish capitalists by such a combined moveme.nt to deal America a blow tion. All the facts surrounding it, every circumstance connected which would, temporarily, be terribly embarrassing and disastrous. It would, however, prove, to a certain ext-ent. a boomerang, and this view had with it, ought to be diligently inquired into and temperately con­ its influence upon the majority of those who attended to-day's meeting. The sidered before we launch upon this tremendous scheme of battle. conference was private, and it was not intended even that the fact that it Senators say that there is no danger of war. I do not share took place should be allowed to be made public. I am permitted to cable with them in that opinion. I hope they are correct; I pray that only the general trend of the discussion and the result. they are correct. Feeling the deep responsibility entailed upon The article proceeds: me as a member of this Senate and a part of the war-making power A strong sentiment of resentment against President Cleveland, and a spirit of this Government, while I do not take counsel of any fear in my of retaliation were expressed at the outset of the consultation by several gen­ tlemen. In fact, personal feeling, instead of financial astuteness, seemed to breast, it behooves me to take counsel of my prudence; and in control two or three of those present until cooler counsels prevailed. The taking counsel of that prudence I consider it wise, and proper, point chiefly debated was the question how far the exigenCies of domestic and just.that the bill which has passed the House of Representa­ politica influenced the President's action, and to what extent his position was tives be amended as suggested by the Senator from Ohio. supported by the real public sentiment of the country. Mr. CHANDLER. Mr: President, yesterday I thought that per­ :Mr. President, I hope a voice may go out from the Senate to-day haps it would be wise to amend this bill as other bills from the which will pronounce the opinion of the American Senate that the House of Representatives are amended. To-day I do not think so. exigencies of domestic politics did not ~nfluence the President or I believe that it is of the highest national importance that this bill the Secretary of State in the action which they have taken, but should to-day pf!.ss the Senate exactly as it came from the House that they were guided in this instance, at least, solely by a regard of Representatives. . for the public interest and the public welfare. The amendmentproposedisnotmaterial. We should, of course, There were no defenders of the President among those present. consent to the appointment bythePresidentof any commissioners Alas, Mr. President, has it come to this! rLaughter.] I ask whose names he might send to the Senate for confirmation, and I the Senators upon the other side of the Chamber to contemplate am in favor ofleaving, as the Senator from Nevada [Mr. STEW ART] the fact that their President, who has done more for England than has well said, the whole responsibility of present action upon the any President that ever sat in the White House, has now fallen so President. He has ail the power in the world necessary for the low that there are none to do him reverence, and that when the present crisis except money. He can not touch a dollar of money great financiers of Great Britain assembled and made a determi­ in the Treasury except with the consent of Congress, and we nation and quietly allowed what they had done to leak out so that should freely and ungrudgingly give him that money to use as he it might go to Wall street and to State street, "there were no pleases. defenders of the President among those present." [Laughter.] The President of the United States in this emergency has risen On the contrary, he was denounced unsparingly, and his conduct was de· above party. He has shown himself to be patriotic and wholly scribed by several as insane. American. Inspired by the spirit of Massachusetts, which now Mr. President, what is to be your answer to that assault upon pervades and prevails in the State Department, he has taken your President? What is to be the an.c;;wer of Senators upon the American ground, from which the United States will never recede. other side to that attack upon their Chief Magistrate? What is to I am in favor of meeting the President upon that ground. Is there be the answer of Republicans upon this side of the Chamber? Do a Democrat here who is in favor of doing any more than ought to we propose to sit here when the President has adopted a course be done, hoping thereby to promote the interests of hjs party? 1 and announced a policy that is approved by everyone of us and do not believe there is. Is there a Republican here in favor of hear him called insane upon the other side of the ocean-while we doing less than ought to be done, thinking thereby to promote the debate the petty question whether we should or not insist upon interests of his party? I do not believe there is; and if the Presi­ our right to confirm or reject the commissioners whom he may dent, whether he be himself a candidate for reelection next year appoint? or whether some other distinguished member of his party shall be Mr. ALLEN. Mr. President- a candidate for election as President next year, has done his ut­ The PRESIDING OFFICER. Does the Senator from New most in the sight of the whole world to remove this question of Hampshire yield to the Senator from Nebraska? foreign affairs from the disputes of American politics, shall not Mr. CHANDLER. When I finish this sentence. Are we te the people ail over the counti-y, without distinction of party, re­ hesitate whether we had not better insist upon acting upon his spond to his efforts and sustain his hands in every direction and nominees, and whether we had not better insist-! do not even in every particular? remember what the other amendments are- If when we enter the Presidential canvass of next year there Mr. ALLEN. Mr. President-- shall be no question of foreign policies involved, and our politics Mr. CHANDLER. I will yield in a moment, as I always do, to stop at the water's edge, as Senator LoDGE has reminded us Mr. the Senator from Nebraska. Are we to hesitate about such mat­ Webster said they onght to stop, and we decide the question who ters when what is needed is a unanimous expression by the Senate shall be President solely 1lpon the consideration of American in­ sustaining the action of the President? What does the Senator terests and domestic policies, we ought to thank God that Presi­ from Nebraska desire to say? dent Cleveland at this time and in this emergency led the way to Mr. ALLEN. I did not notice in the account which the Senator 262 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-. SENATE. DEOEMBER. 20,

read of the meeting in' London whether Rothschild was present Mr. TILLMAN. They are those which I learned fromJefferson or not. I should like to ask the Senator whether Rothschild was and Calhoun and Lincoln. My politics are American. The Sena­ there. tor from New Hampshire does not answer the question, however. :Mr. CHANDLER. Mr. President, the Senator's inquiry is ap­ Mr. CHANDLER. I will say to the Senator from South Caro­ propriate. It is the old game that is being practiced upon us. lina first that we are all of that politics now. There are no names mentioned. It was a conference purely for Mr. TILLMAN. Would the Senator from New Hampshire effect on this side of the water. They pretended that it was a pri­ still vote for the bill if he knew that the gold reserve would dis· vate affair, but they intended that it should be public, and it has appear; that Wall street would swallow it up? · had its influence to-day in Wall street and State street, and tele­ MI-. CHANDLER. I will answex the Senator from South grams are being sent in here now by the score; warning the Sen­ Carolina by saying that I will vote for any sacrifice, even for the ate not to protect the honor of the United States for fea1· stocks resolution of the Senator from Nebraska [Mr. ALLEN], which is may go down a little. the concrete absurdity of all his schemes for financial blundering. Mr. ALLEN. With respect to applying the Monroe doctrine so [Laughter.] I will vote for that if it is necessary to defend the as to keep the British out of possession of territory that may men­ national honor. ace our mainland, does not the Senator believe that more danger Mr. TILLMAN. We join hands. [Laughter.] comes to the United States and to the Government of the United Mr. TURPIE. Mr. President, I hopei may say in behalf of the States through British capital invested in this country in stocks, committee that none of the proposed amendments have been of­ mortgages, and bonds? fered merely for the sake of amending the bill of the House of Mr. CHANDLER. What is the question? Representatives. We think they have substantial merits, which Mr. ALLEN. I should like to ask the Senator whether he does present themselves as a modification of the original proposition. not think there is more danger from that source than from any In the first pla.ce, there is an overture here to create a commis­ other som·ce, and whether it would not be wise to pursue such a sion without numbering the persons who shall compose it. That, policy as would cause the withdrawal of English capital from this we think, is a precedent with a ~ood deal of mischief in it; more country and the transaction of business upon our own money. than may now be seen. We think it is much safer to name the Then there would never be occasion for any Englishman or any number, as we have, by inserting the word" three." congregation of Englishmen to say that they believe the President Again, as these commissioners are agents of the President and of the United States is insane. the Government and the people of the United States, in the dis­ Mr. CHANDLER. I am willing, with the Senator from Ne­ charge of a very important trust and investigation, it would add braska, to try to accomplish American financial independence of something to the dignity of their official station as well as some­ England and our industrial and commercial independence of what of importance to the examination which they are to under· England. But let us take one thing at a time. I dislike very take, to make them subject to the confirmation of the Senate, with­ much the disnosition of the Senator from Nebraska and the Sena­ out any reference to Senatorial prerogatives. We did it purely tor from N evad& (Mr. STEW ART], if he will allow me to refer to for the purpose of making the protest against foreign aggression him, to mix together different questions. in one of the South American Republics more effective and more Now, we are dealing with only one thing, the question of na­ forcible. tional honor-in reference to the Venezuelan controversy. I say In the next place, what I regard as the most material amend~ this is a deliberately concocted scheme of English financiers to ment is the insertion of the word "facts" and striking out the frighten the United States. They believe the pocket nerve is sen­ word "true." In the bill of the House of Representatives it was sitive; that the conservative property-holding and bond-holding said that the commission should report upon the true divisional people of the United States will check those insane persons who line, evidently grantin~ to the commission judicial powers, giving are trying to precipitate war between the two countries, one of them the authority to Clecide, giving them the authority to deter­ whom-our own country-ought to remain perpetually in com­ mine a mixed question of law and fact-a true divisional line. mercial and financial dependence upon the other. All that the President alludes to in his message, and all that we So, Mr. President, not only was I called insane when a few weeks think ought to be comprised in the act of Congress passed in ago !calmly announced that I thought the grave questions between answer to it, is an investigation of the documents, evidence, and us and England would have to be settled by war some time within facts relating to the disputed divisional line between the Republic twenty years, but now behold President Cleveland, but lately the of Venezuela and the colony of British Guiana. We do not want great apostle of English principles of American tariff reform and the opinion of the commission as to the law. I think it would be the idol of the British aristocracy, the British manufacturers, and a derogation of both Houses of Congress and a derogation of the British financiers, is to-day, in a conference of British bankers in executive department of the Government to ask a commission to London, pronounced insane. If no one will further interrupt me be created charged with the duty of determining the international I will finish this article: law of this case or of any other. The bill with the amendments Most of those present refused to believe that the Ama..-ican people seriously proposed by the committee clearly confines the commission to a indorse his action. finding and report of facts. It clearly carries out the request of Mr. President, I propose that the Senate of the United States the President, the inquiry of the President for the best and latest to-day give an emphatic utterance of indorsement of his action. and most authentic information with respect to the boundary line I say that any hesitation whatever, any failure to pass the bill now, between those two countries. . will be an indorsement of the insult to the President and the attack I am at a loss to understand, sir, some expressions I have heard upon the national credit which the moneylenders and the bankers even here and elsewhere to the effect that the commission is to of Great Britain have made, feeling themselves able, by threats make the discovery whether the Monroe doctrine is applicable to and bullying, to frighten the people of the United States. the Venezuelan boundary-line case. I do not think that that is Mr. TILLMAN. Will the Senator from New Hampshire allow the duty of the commission. When we pass the bill we decide that me to ask him a question? question. When we pass the bill the Congress of the United States The PRESIDING OFFICER. Does the Senator from New says, the President in his app1·oval of it says, "The boundary line Hampshire yield to the Senator from South Carolina? between those two countries is our affair. This is not an unlaw­ Mr. CHANDLER. I yield the floor to the Senator from South ful interference. This is not an unlawful intervention either Carolina. under the law of nations or any American policy." But we say, Mr. TILLMAN. I merely desire to ask the Senator from New "What shall be the line between these two countries is our con­ Hampshire a question. cern; it is an affair of the United States." When we decide that Mr. CHANDLER. I yield the floor to the Senator from South the Monroe doctrine is applicable, the only office of the commis­ Carolina, who I hope will speak fuUy on this question. sion is to gathe1· facts which shall enable us to determine whether Mr. TILLMAN. No, sir; I merely wish to ask a question. there may be necessity for its enforcement in this case-whether The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from South Caro­ there has been any or is likely to be any violation of it. lina wishes to interrogate the Senator from New Hampshire. There are some streams which constitute, or may constitute, a Mr. CHANDLER. I am very happy to be interrogated by the part of the divisional line. There is the Essequibo, and there are Senator from South Carolina. other rivers. Whatever other rivers there maybe within the dis­ Mr. TILLMAN. I desire to ask the Senator from New Hamp­ puted territory, wecross one when we pass the bill. We cross the shire whether he would vote for the bill if he knew the result Rubicon, and we can never recede with honor until these differ.. would be that the gold reserve would disappear and we should get ences be settled upon a fair and just basis. For example, if the to a silver basis, as is threatened? British Government should accede to our views with respect to Mr. CHANDL.ER. There is the same tendency of our Populist the true line-that is, the views of the President after information friends to mix up questions. [Laughter.] of the facts, and the views of Congress after the same information­ Mr. TILLMAN. I beg the Senator's pardon. I thought the then there is no occasion for the enforcement of the Mom·oe drc- Senator understood that I am not a Populist. If I am not a Demo­ trine. · crat there are no Democrats here. And there are other contingencies which might do away with Mr. CHANDLER. I did not hear the Senator. What are the the necessity of enforcing it, but in passing the bill we do apply · Senator's politics, may I ask? it. \-Vhether we shall enforce it or not depend!l 11pon subsequent 1895. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-8ENATE. 263

contingencies. I believe that it will be enforced, fully enforced the other republics upon· this hemisphere. We can not avoid it. with plenary power, with all the military and naval resources of We can not evade it. It belongs to that class of duties indicated the United States should Great Britain not accede to what we in private life by the maxim'' Noblesse oblige." We are bo1md by think, after full information, is the just and true line of demarca- this condition to maintain that supremacy, and, as master of the tion between the territory of the two Governments. situation, as leader in the line of liberty, to repel every assault, I was very glad to hear the learned and honorable Senator from from whatever quarter, which shall interfere with governments California [Mr: WHITE] decline to make any definition of the by the people established on this continent. Monroe doctrine. I think we ought very seriously to meditate It is a guardianship, sir, that must continue as long as the pres­ upon this matter. The Monroe doctrine has been enforced over ent condition of those republics obtains. I do not think it will seventy years. No legislative definition of it has eve1· been made. last very long. Before the middle of ·the next century Mexico, There is no reason why it should be. All Americans understand with the lesser republics between her southern line and the lath­ what it is. What is meant by it? Like many cases in the· courts mus, will constitute a confederacy, a union; delegates from these that concern specific performance, those concerning the quieting re-publics will meet in full accord, and will at a certain predes­ of titles, the courts refuse to define, to make any definition, but tined time and place, in imitation of our glorious ancestors, form at the same time they do not hesitate to apply the doctrine when- a more perfect union and establish a firmer form of government ever a proper case is presented. We have had various applica- than that which now prevails among them. We shall have the tions of the Monroe doctrine. The last, I think, one of the sim- United States of Central America. plest and clearest applications of the Monroe doctrine, was made I think further, sir, that south of the Isthmus those smaller re­ by this body in its resolution upon the subject of Hawaii, already publics-! speak not in disparagement-in wealth and population referred to by the Senator from California, who preceded me. will find a similar path to unity, to power, to increased prestige, Sil:, there is an exact place and room for the exercise of the doc- and that there are some even in this audience who may live to trine as the President has requested. We are not bound to wait witness the United States of South America. Then, when we for ari. actual aggression. We are not bo1md to wait an attack. have three confedera-Cies of free, independent States in the North, So say all the writers upon international law, and especially Mr. in Central America, and in the South, each will have those larger Vattel, theBlackstone of that branch of jurisprudence, who has a means and resources of defense which will enable it to repel the chapter upon this subject. attacks of Great Britain or any other European power, and will How appearances of danger give the right to make war. prevent even the menace of injury by any such power. I believe A nation that has a neighbor at once powerful and ambitious has her a.ll at also this example of free government will be still further glorified st.ake. and some of those older countries will follow the example, the We have such a neighbor. I know it is a very common thing very recent example, of France, that toward the close of the to refer to the 3,000 miles of ocean waste between us; but recollect next century mankind may welcome the United States of Europe that our neighborhood with Great Britain is not bounded by that, to complete the constellation of free republics within the civilized but by a mere imaginary line on terra firma, the southern line of regions of the globe. the Dominion of Canada. Mr. CALL. M.r. President, this question appears to me to pre- .As men are under a necessitf of regulating their conduct in most cases by sent itself to every Senator in this light: The President of the l'robabilities, those probabilities claim their attention in proportion to the United States has informed Congress that the Government of unporta.nceof the subject, and their first right toobviateadangerisin a com- G t B •ta• 1 · 1 t' f th te •t f t,_ R pound ratio of the degree of probability and the danger threatened. * * * rea ri m C aims a arge por lOll o e TI'l ory 0 11.e epub- lf appearances are so easily credited, it is the fault of that neighbor who has lie of Venezuela without foundation of right, and appeals to the betrayed his ambition by several indications. Government of the United States to enforce in aid of Venezuela That is a quotation from one of the oldest authorities, that a what is known a.s the Monroe doctrine, with the declaration that threatened danger constitutes a just casus belli. It seems to me the territory of the American Republics shall not by force be taken as if the institutions of government have a sort of geographical from them by any European Government and its policy and form distribution. There is the oldest grand division of the globe, Asia, of government established over it. The President has informed and the largest, which never had a republic within its limits. Great Britain that this country desiTes an arbitration between the To-day it is governed by imperialism, by despotism, and by a modi- Venezuelan Government and the Government of Great Britain. fication, in British India, of the same character of government, Great Britain has declined that arbitration, and proposes to insist for where a small minority rules a very large majority by virtue upon her claim of right as determined by herself in opposition to of the sword, though tempered bylaw, by justice, by Christianity~ the action of the Government of Venezuela. The President has the republic is yet barred. None has yet appeared in Asia. There declared that the policy of this Government, proclaimed in the is no prospect of any. Europe has had a divided history. A great Monroe·doctrine, will forbid us from assenting to that action on many republics have appeared there, but, looking to the present the part of England and will demand of us that we shall use all status of governments ~day, it would seem there are only two the resources of this country to prevent it. republics in that quarter of the globe. Therefore the great weight Now, we are all in accord to sustain the President of the United and force of public tradition and, as far as it goes, of public opin- States upon this proposition. ·The question is, how shall we do it? ion seem to be against the republican system in that part of the A bill is brought here from the House of Representatives to ap­ world. At least this is the present apparent condition. point commissioners who shall have the authority to do what? Our hemisphere hashappilyhadadifferenthistory. Veryearly What are they to do, Mr. President? They. can not decide this the United States vindicated the doctrine of self-government. ' question of the boundary. If they do decide it, will the Congress That sublime example has been followed until every nationality of the United States respect that opinion? And, should they re­ from the southern line of the Dominion to Cape Horn has now a spect it, is it not an abrogation of the functions of this body? government republican in form. The British colony of Guiana Are they merely to collect information? Is there, then, no estab­ is not a nationality, and there are one or two little other specks lished method by which that can be done? Why shall we appoint of colonial possessionst. but with that exception the whole of this commissioners to get documents from abroad, to examine -vvit­ hemisphere south of tne Canadian line is dedicated to the cause nesses? Is it not within the competency of this body and the . and policy of the government of the people, for and by the peo- other House.to obtain any documents that may be required, and ple. It is consecrated to that cause and policy, and that principle will not the action of Congress be embarrassed if these gentle­ is as dear to every American as his own State· and his own conn- men, either three or more, shall declare that Great Britain is right try. The cause is dear; the cause is precious; the cause is well and that the boundary line named by her is the proper boundary worth maintaining that here on this hemisphere men shall govern line? . themselves, and no arm.ed strangers, with whatever force, with The Senator from Indiana [Mr. TURPIEJ says that it is not de­ whatever violence, shall prevent the feeblest people upon the sired to have the opinion of these commissioners upon the law, Western Hemisphere from regulating their own institutions to but simply as to the facts. Suppose they say that the facts of the suit themselves. case are that the boundary line is as claimed by Great Britain, Now, Mr. President, it may be asked and has often been asked, what is to be the action of Congress? Are we to adopt that report will the Government of the United States then assume the guard- or not; and if we are not to adopt it, will it not be an embarrass­ ianship over all the republics of the American Continent? No, ment to the Congress of the United States in ascertaining the Mr. President, we do not assume any such guardianship. The proposition laid down by the Senator from Indiana that we declare guardianship has been cast upon us. It has come to us by the that it is our concern what is the boundary line and what is not force of political gravitation, and by reason of our primacy among when we appoint a commission to report facts here, and that re­ the republics of the American hemisphere and among the govern- port is not to be binding upon the Congress of the United States? ments of the world. Our primacy is determined first by the I am desirous and willing to do whatever may be thought proper great victory of the American Revolution, the seniority of this to support the President of the United States. It seems to me the Government to all other exiSting republics except one; next, by suggestion made by the Senator from California [Mr. WHITE] is the wealth, the resources, and the territorial extent of the United entirely right. Let us declare that the boundary linB between States; third, by her accredited and proven naval and military Venezuela and British Guiana is a concern of ours, that we shall strength. It is this which has drawn to us the guardianship of maintain it and appropriate the money necessary or asked for by 264 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. DECEMBER 20, the President for any investigation he may see fit to make for his we will maintain this with all the power of the Republic, and that information in recommending to Congress such action as may be this is not an idle menace. necessary and proper in the case. This is my view of the situation. The President has done his Now, Mr. President, it seems to me that there is too much dispo­ duty. He has recommended that the traditional policy of this sition on the part of Congress to abrogate its functions and invest country to protect all people who establish governments of their them in persons outside of this body. I do not see what these com­ choice against forcible intervention by European powers, under missioners are to do, except to obtain documentary information whatever pretense, whether by claiming fictitious boundaries and upon facts which are well known now in the State Department. enforcing their claim, or by any other means, and that we will be All the evidence that is necessary to the determination of this ques­ the judge of this, but that we are r eady to submit the facts to the tion is ma-de public already. It is a matter of history how this judgment of a fair arbitration. It is sufficient for us to sustain claim of boundary has been extended from one point to another this declaration and for us to provide the means of obtaining the until now it embmces a large portion of the territory of Venezuela. information necessary for an intelligent judgment on the question. We should, I think, sustain the President in his declaration that It will suffice for the able statesman who represents the Gov­ it is our concern where that boundary line is and where we are to ernment of Great Britain to know and to inform his Government decide it, and if that information is needed appropriate the maney that the people of the United States are united in the determina­ to obtain the information. tion to maintain and defend this policy with all their power, and I should vote for any amendment proposed by the Senator from a peaceable settlement of the question will be made. California to leave the President to his constitutional responsibility Mr. TELLER. Mr. President, I regret that the President of the of recommending to Congress instead of referring to a commission United States did not settle this question for himself through tbe of three or any other number of men the question which it is in­ regular channel of the State Department. It seems to me that that cumbent upon Congress to decide, for they can have nothing to do was the appropriate and proper method of arriving at the facts. but to obtain documentary evidence which can now be obtained But the President has asked us to appropriate money and appoint by the Committee on Foreign Relations or by the State Depart- acommission. What the number of the commission should be, ment. • it seems to me, if the e-ommission is to be appointed, ought to be Now, Mr. President, as to all this talk about war, in my opinion left to the President. I fail to see any advantage that can accrue there is no possibility of war. There can be, and ought to be, no to the President, to us, to the country, or to the world in the con­ possibility of it. The enlightened sentiment of the nations of the firmation of these appointees. They are not to be 'officers in the world would forbid that there should be a war between this coun­ proper sense of the term. They are not to perform any official try and England upon this question. Nevertheless, it would be functions, legislative, judicial, or otherwise, although the Presi­ the,duty of this country to maintain by force of arms the propo­ dent refers to their finding as a judicial finding. They are simply sition that there shall be no forcible establishment of Em·opean commissioners for the purpose of enlightening the President of institutions and European Governments over any portion of this the United States as to the facts in the premises. The power of territory. Who can entertain the idea that war can be made with the President to appoint a commission for this purpose has never Great Britain, and that the people of the British Empire will per:. been questioned or doubted. It is like a commissioner in a court mit that Government to engage in war upon a question of bound­ of chancery; he gathers the facts for the information of the chan­ aries which is not sustained by the facts of the case, but a mere cellor, and that is all there is of it. aggression, and that tht' peace of mankind shall be disturbed by it? That being the fact, the President of the United States is en­ The Kingdom of Great Britain is composed of a people of the titled to select that commission. Suppose he sends to the Senate same blood as the greater part of our own people. They have three names which we think are not such as he might have sent, contributed the larger part to the civilization which has been de­ are we to say through what channel he iB to get the facts upon veloped by the Christian religion. Her ambassadors to this which he will base his judgment? A very awkward condition country have been men of the same blood with ourselves, and have would arise if he should send to us names that we did not care to been and are a part of our own race and types of our civilization. approve, and a still more awkward condition would arise if we Her present ambassador is a man of learning and ability~ and should reject them, and the President should then feel that we while true to the policy of his Government, has been fair and just had deprived him of the proper agent or agencies that he wanted in his treatment of the contentions between his own Government to secure the facts for him. · and ours. . It seems to me it is better to leave this matter where the Presi­ I agree with the Senator from Ohio [Mr. SHERMAN] that there dent evidently intended we should leave it when he simply asked is no necessity for haste in this action, and that it comports better us for the commission and an appropriation to carry out the pur­ with the dignity of Congress for the Senate of the United States poses of the commission. I think it would have been better if the and the House of Representatives to declare that this Government House of Representatives had sent-us a bill simply making an ap­ will firmly maintain, as a definite proposition, that Venezuela propriation, leaving the President to select a commission in any shall not be forced to cede any portion of her territory to Great manner he saw fit and composed of any number he chose, and to Britain or to recognize a boundary line which is not based upon call it whatever he saw fit. It would have been none the less a the facts of history and upon clear and ascertained proof. It commission whether we named it or not. seems to me, Mr. President, that all this discussion about war Mr. President, we are to have no responsibility in this matter. should not have place here, but that we should make a bold and I am free to say that I prefer to leave this matter with the Presi­ independent and firm declaration as to the proper policy of this dent. I do not care, so far as I am concerned, to assume any Government, and vote the President of the United States the responsibility in arriving at a question of fact. I should think it money necessary, in his judgment, to carryoutthatdeclarationso very unpleasant if we should assume any right to determine the far as obtaining information which may be desired. facts in advance of the President's action. It appears to me it As to the appointment of three commissioners, or any number would be very embarrassing if we should arrive at one conclusion of them, to do that which it is the duty of the Congress of the and the President should arrive at another. It seems to me we United States to do-not t.o express an opinion, not to decide this must leave to the President both the number of commissioners -question-but to gather information. What kind of information? and the character of the commission that he is to appoint. Information already obtainable, documentary information, facts I assume, and I have the right to assume, that in a question of of history to be obtained in different portions of the world. What such momentous importance, one upon which we are to make our necessity is there for it? What will we derive from the opinion declaration to the world, the finding of which is to be our moral and judgment of these gentlemen, however eminent they may be,· support, the President of the United States will select the most that the boundary line is at this place or the other place or that competent men within the boundaries of this country of ours. I the facts relating to it are of this character or the other? TheSen­ do not believe that he will select a mere politician. I believe ate of the United States and the House of Representatives speak every Senator here, if there are to be three commissioners, would with an authority, in conjunction with the President, which no look most certainly to the same three men in the United States who commission can do, and I fail to see the practical necessity of it. ought to be appointed on the commission. I should think that Nevertheless, if it is the pleasure of the Senate to vote these com­ the President ought to appoint five on the commission, and I missioners, I think that their appointment ought to be approved should have no difficulty whatever myself in finding five men in by the Senate of the United States. this country so far removed from the plane of partisan politics The possibility that war between these two nations will be the that everybody in this country would believe when their judgment result of our defending the right of Venezuela to the integrity of was rendered that it was the judgment not only of honest men, her territory against its forced app1·opriation by England should but intelligent and able men. The President of the United States not be entertained. can not afford to appoint any other men. He can not afford to These two nations, the United States and Great Britain, are the appoint any second-rate men; and he will not do so. On this main pillars of the civilization of the world, neither can afford to great occasion, where so much is at stake, he will see to it that the demand of the other anything that is wrong or any injustice to men will have the confidence of this body and of the American the other. people; and if he does not, let the responsibility be on him. Great Britain recognizes the supremacy of the United States-in Mr. President, there is a provision in this proposed amendment the 'Western Hemisphere, and it is sufficient for them to know that to which I also object. It is a provision which releases the Presi· . . 1895. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 265 dent from the inhibition we put on him in 1894 against the appoint­ years to maintain the integrity of this nation. In my judgment, ment for such purposes of men holding official position. I think the people of the United States, whenever they know the facts, that was a wise provision of law. I do not wiEh to restrict it here, whenever they are satisfied there is a violation of the Monroe because, in my judgment, the men who ought to be appointed doctrine, whenever they are satisfied that Great Britain, under upon this commission, the men most fit to be appointed on this the pretense of fixing a boundary line, is endeavoring to despoil a commission, the men that the American people will believe the Republic in South America, will be prepared to take the conse­ most capable and whose judgment will carry the most weight, are quences of the vindication of that doctrine. I do not myself be­ not in public life to-day, and there is no necessity of removing lieve that there will be any trouble of the kind; I do not think that inhibition. The President does not need to go through the there ought to be. I think there ought to be some way to compose public officials to find members of this commission, whether the this difficulty, and I believe there will be. I do not care myself number be three, five, or seven. of talking so much about war. I regret that anybody in this I was in favor yesterday of some delay, and I still believe a Chamber has introduced any bill which looks as if we needed great question of this character should have been treated with now to make some special preparations. I should not be making more consideration; but it seems to be the sentiment of the Senate any preparations now that I would not have been making thirty that we shall proceed to dispose of it now. I do not .believe that or sixty days or six months ago. . it is at all necessary that we should be in haste to convince Great The best thing we can do, in my judgment, is not to adopt the Britain that the American people stand back of the President in amendment of the committee, but take the bill as it came from the his enunciation of the Monroe doctrine. The public press every­ other House, and leave the responsibility with the President, so where in this country with one accord, with perhaps two or three that he will be untrammeled by anything we may do, and when exceptions in the city of New York; where certain influences a decision is arrived at, whatever it may be, if it be that the Brit­ which are more English than in England even may be felt, have ish have not attempted to despoil Venezuela, we shall accept it; been a unit in favor of supporting the President of the United if, on the other hand, it be that they have been intending to de­ States. I will venture to say that there is not a chamber of com­ spoil Venezuela of her territory, and England still insists upon merce or a board of trade anywhere outside of New York that that spoliation, then the American people will know exactly what would not be a unit in favor of suppoi·ting him. The public senti­ to do, and Great Britain will know long before that time exactly ment of all the distinguished governors of this country now in what our determination is, and what it will cost her to continue office and very many who are out of office, and of very many ex­ the unrighteous attempt of the spoliation of this our sister Re­ public officials, including the most noted and distinguished divines public. in this country, declare that the Monroe doctrine is an American Mr. CHANDLER. I hope the Senator from Alabama, the chair­ doctrine; that the doctrine is one to be defended and maintain~d man of the Committee on Foreign Relations, will. forgive me if I at all hazards. move, as I do now, to lay the amendment proposed by the com­ Mr. President, we are not going to war, we are not preparing mittee on the table. for war, and I do not think that the suggestions of the Senator Mr. MORGAN. TheSenatorfromNewHampshirehasmyfree from Texas [Mr.MIJ,Ls] areparticularlypertinentatthistime. It pardon in advance upon this subject, because it is not my report, is true that our financial affairs are not in the best condition; it is and I am going to vote with him upon that motion. true that the opinion of the Supreme Court, when it struck out of The PRESIDING OFFICER. Does the Senator make that the method of raising revenue the income tax, was a blow at this motion? country which I think can only be retrieved by a different opinion Mr. CHANDLER. I make that motion. from that court or by an amendment of the Constitution. I do The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from New Hamp­ not care now to discuss that question. At some other time I pro­ shire moves that the amendment proposed by the Senator from po3e to discuss it, but not now. I do not want to mix, as the Sena­ Alabama [Mr. MoRGAN] be laid upon the table. The question is tor from New Hampshire [Mi·. CHANDLER] said, any other question on that motion, which is not debatable. with this question. I do not care about mixing the financial ques­ The motion was agreed to. tion with it. It is sufficient to say that if the American people The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered feel that their honor requiTes them to go to war they will find the to a third reading, and read the third time. sinews of war, and nobody need be alarmed for fear that, for the The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Shall the bill want of means, we shall not be able to conduct it to a successful pass? issue.· Mr. CAFFERY. Is the bill subject to amendment? I am not frightened by the little disturbance in London, nor am The PRESIDING OFFICER. The bill has passed the amend­ I frightened at the disturbance which is said to exist in the city of ment stage. The question is, Shall the bill pass? New York. Suppose stocks do fall; what of it? That is not a mat­ The bill was passed. · ter that the American people as a nation care very much about. EXECUTIVE SESSION. I am told railroad stocks went off 4 points to-day inNew York. I do not care if they did. I do not suppose that will affect the price Mr. BATE. I move that the Senate proceed to the considera­ of wheat or of corn or of cotton; it will not affect the country gen­ tion of executive business. erally, but only a few speculators; and if the English capitalists The motion was agreed to; and the Senate proceeded to the who hold our securities conclude that they want to return them consideration of executive business. After thirteen minutes spent to this country, let them return them. We shall not suffer by in executive session the Senate resumed its legislative session. that. They will return them here to be put upon our markets HOLIDAY RECESS. and sold, and if they fall 20 points or 40 points or 50 points we Mr. COCKRELL. I ask the Chair to lay before the Senate the need not be disturbed about it. We shall find plenty of money in concurrent resolution of the House of Representatives providing this country to take them up at those redueed values. Those se­ for a holiday recess. curities will not be sent back to this country. That is "a bluff" The PRESIDING OFFICER laid the resolution before the Sen­ on their part. The Senator from New Hampshire read of their ate, and it was read~ as follows: meeting, but he did not read it all. I want to read a word or two: Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That when Most of those present refused to believe that the American people would the two Houses adjourn on Friday, the 20th day of December, they stand seriously indorse his action. 'fhey opposed any suggestion of fii:J.ancial retali­ adjourned untill2 o'clock meridian on Friday, January 3, 1896. ation against American interests on the magnanimous grOlmd that it would Mr. COCKRELL. I wish to suggest as an amendment that be unfair to punish the whole nation on account of the conduct of its deluded instead of Friday, the 20th, we fix Saturday, the 21st instant, and Chief Magistrate. No one believes that any actual danger of war is included in the present situation. instead of Friday, January 3, we fix Monday, January 6, so as to The meeting finally r esolved, with practical unanimity, to postpone any ac­ read," That when the two Houses adjourn on Saturday, the 21st tion until it became clear to what extent the President's course represented instant, they stand adjourned until 12 o'clock meridian on Mon­ the will of the American people. day, January 6." Everyone knows that if we adjourn to meet Mr. President, when they have gone to the American press and on Friday, January 3, there will be nobody here and nothing will listened to the voice of the American people, if their sending back be done, and we had just as well put the time over to the 6th. I their securities depends upon the support we shall give to the suggest those amendments. President, they will send back those securities en masse; but they Mr. CHANDLER. The resolution nowprovides for adjourning will not come back and they will know that the President has the from to-day until the 3d of January. The Senator from Missouri hearty support of the American people. I know, as the Senator proposes that the two Houses shall adjourn from to-morrow until from New Hampshire has said, telegrams are being sent here that the 6th of January. I am opposed to adjourning to-morrow. It we must be careful, that our action may affect trade. No consid­ will be the first time in the history of the Senate, I think, when eration of that kind is going to induce the American people to the Senate has adjourned a fortnight over the holidays with a abandon a doctrine which they cherish. No mere question of hundred vacancies on its committees. There has been a great money is going to prevent the people of the United States from deal said within the last few days about the importance of the maintaining what they think to be the right and the dignity and crisis that is now upon the country, and we have had a good deal the honor of this nation. of talk about foreign questions. What will be said of the Senate We sacrificed one-half of the accumulations of two hundred if, for the first time in its history' we adjourn for a fortnight and 266 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE~ DECEMBER 20r have not any committees, or have committees that are halt, lame, Mr. MITCHELL of Oregon. Mr. President, I will simply state blind, so to speak, with all due deference to the Senators who are that when the list of the majority portion of the committees was upon the committees and with all due respect to the Senators who handed over to the Democrats, in order that they might :fill up the are not upon the committees? minority places, I said to them that it was the hope on the part of The new Senators who are in this body were elected mainly last our side that they would be able to finish their work by to-day­ J anuary. They have had ten months to get ready to come here on Friday. The chairman of their committee, representing them, and do business, and the old Senators have had eight months in stated that they would go to work at once and call their commit­ which to get ready to come here and do business; and here we are. tee together the next morning and proceed. He thought that was We have been here three weeks. There never was a time when a very short time, but if it was possible to get ready they would the committees were more in need of organization and of meeting do it. The matter went on until yesterday, and again to-day, for action than now, and it is gravely proposed by Senators upon when I have been informed by their committee that it is impossi­ the other sid.e of the Chamber that we shall abandon our posts ble, they think, for them to get ready this week. I then said to and go home. them, "Is it not possible that you might be able to complete your I regret, Mr. President, that the members of the Committee on work by next Tuesday, and, if you are willing to saythat you can Appropriations upon the other side of the Chamber felt compelled complete your work by that time, I am sure we will remain here, to take advantage of a temporary party majority to overrule by a so far as Senators on this side of the Chamber are concerned." I vote all the Republican members of the committee and undertook was then given to understand that it would be impossible to do it to set the example to the country which is being set, of running by next week. That is about the state of the case as I under­ away for a fortnight from our post of duty. I certainlyexpected stand it. more forbearance from the Senator from 1\Iissonri and the Senator Mr. CHANDLER. May I ask the Senator when he was so in­ from Maryland, who I see has already taken the floor to reply to formed? what I have said. Mr. .MITCHELL of Oregon. I was informed yesterday by some Mr. GORMAN. No, I have not. of the committee, and again to-day, within the last hour. Mr. CHANDLER. I thought the Senator was meditating a :M:r. CHANDLER. That it would be impossible for the other speech. side to be ready by Tuesday? · .Mr. GORMAN. Not at all. Mr. MITCHELL of Oregon. That it would be impossible for Mr. CHANDLER. I certainly thought that there would not the other side to complete their work by next Tuesday. be any attempt to divide parties on this question of adjournment. Mr. COCKRELL. The Senator from Oregon has stated the It seems to me that we should stay here until next Tuesday; that facts. We stated to him on the very day that we were furnished between now and Tuesday we should fill up the committees, as har­ with a copy of the committees that we would do the very best we moniously as we always have filled them up, and then adjourn could; that it was doubtful in the condition we were in whether until the 3d day of January. it would be possible to finish it to-day or to-morrow or even Tues­ Mr. LODGE. Until the 6th. day, but that we would do the best we could; and we notified him Mr. CHANDLER. No; until the 3d day of January. That yesterday, and again to-day, that we saw no probability of it. would be more than a week. Can it be possible that the Senator Mr. CHANDLER. This is the first time when I have been in­ from Massachusetts is already getting tired of his work at this formed that the other side would find it impossible to complete session of Congress? No, let us adjourn until the 3d of January. .their propositions as to committee membership by Tuesday next. I propose that we shall stay here until Tuesday; that on Tuesday I have always understood the contrary. we shall fill up the committees, and then take a week's holiday Mr. MITCHELL of Oregon. If the Senator will allow me, I will adjournment. ·I deprecate very much the attempt on the patt of state that is the fact and it would have been known to everybody, themajoritymembersof the Committee on Appropriations to force but I had no opportunity to communicate the matter generally an unbecoming and an unseemly adjournment of the Senate. because we had no caucus. However, I told quite a number near­ Mr. DUBOIS. Mr. President, I regret very much that I can est to me and everyone who inquired concerning the matter. not agree with my distinguished friend from New Hampshire. Mr. CHANDLER. I also knew the fact that there was a party On the other hand, I believe that the gentlemen on the other side division in the committee of which the Senator from Missouri is of the Chamber have treated us with great consideration. They chairman on the question of adjournment for the holidays; and I have allowed us to organize the Senate, so far as they are con­ generally stand by my party until I am satisfied that it is wrong. cerned. They have inilerposed no objection at all, notwithstand­ Mr. COCKRELL. That is right. ing the fact, which everybody knows, that we are not in the ma­ Mr. GORMAN. Mr. President, I am somewhat surprised at the jority in the Senate. We have taken three weeks or more to statement of the Senator from New Hampshire and his criticism frame our committees, at any rate since the beginning of the ses­ of this side in regard to delay in the organization of the commit­ sion. Now we ask them in two days or three days to do what it tees. When it was understood that in all probability there would took us that long to accomplish. They are confronted with diffi­ not be a clear majority in this body between the two great parties, culties; I do not care whether they are serious or not; it is for the Democratic and the Republican parties, both sides, after con­ them to decide that. They say to us that they can not complete ference at the last session, agreed to pass a resolution, for the sec­ the committees properly in this short time. I say, in view of the ond time in the history of the Senate, continuing all the commit­ courtesy with which we have been treated on this side, we have tees until otherwise ordered by the Senate, so as to prevent the no right to question that statement at all. If we undertake on possibility of any delay in important public matters. In that con­ this side of the Chamber to stay here next week and force the dition the Senate stands to-day. other side to organize, we shall make ourselves ridiculous in the Those of us on this side are perfectly well aware of the fact that eyes of the country. It is absurd-- there are only 39 Democrats. There were only 42 gentlemen Mr. CHANDLER. Will the Senator from Idaho allow me to elected as Republicans on the other side of the Chamber. You make an inquiry? are powerless, as we supposed at the last session you would be, Mr. DUBOIS. Certainly. with your own numbers to organize the Senate. We have, how­ Mr. CHANDLER. The Senator says that the other side of the ever, a less number of votes than yon have, and, therefore, when Chamber have informed us that they can not be ready. The Sen­ you desired to assume the 1·esponsibility of taking cha1·ge of the ator may have relations with Senators upon the other side of the committees of this body we were content that you should do it in Chamberthatlmyself donotnowposse&s, butihaveheardnostate­ your own way and by your own combination. Three weeks, as ment of that kind made as yet. I have hea-rd no statement made was well said by the distinguished Senator in front of me, you that- have consumed in trying to make an arrangement of committees :Mr. DUBOIS. If the Senator from New Hampshire will allow satisfactory to yourselves-three weeks of time w4en there was me, I will answer that question. I presume it is fair to state what nothing pTessing in the Senate, when all day was at the disposal was done in our caucus. I hope I am not out of order in stating of your committee and your caucus to make your adjustment. that om· caucus gave plenary powers to the chairman of our cau­ On Wednesday evening last, late in the afternoon, I was informed cus committee to confer with the chairman on the other side in by the distinguished Senator from Oregon of the result of your regard to these details, and they have stated to him (which any deliberations. It was not possible to call our committee together Senator could have known if he desired) t.hat they can not get until the next day at 12 o'clock; members could not be reached. these committees together in that time; and the chairman of our Mr. CHANDLER. Was it on Tuesday or Wednesday? caucus stated that to us in our caucus. Mr. GORMAN. It was on Wednesday. From that time this Mr. CHANDLER. The Senator is, I think, mistaken. gTeat question, which affects not only the honor of the Senate, but Mr. DUBOIS. Perhaps I am, but the chairman certainly made of the country, has been pressing here, and we have been contin­ that statement. It has been stated to me, and to any others who uously in session yesterday and to-day until a very late hour, have taken an interest in the matter; and it is apparent on the face making it impossible for UB to confer. I will say to Senators on of it that if we undertake to stay here we shall find ourselves with­ the other side that we postponed any minor matter of the mere out a quorum next Monday. I think we had better adjourn. If assignment on committees of vacant places or the reorganization there has been any fault, it is not due to any action on the other to the public good, and now, as with those on the other side, side of the Chamber in delaying the creation of the committees. there are other questions to be adjusted; there are family matters 1895. OONGRESSIONAL RECORD-, SENATE: 267 requiring attention. Never in my experience in the Senate be- Mr. CHANDLER. That being the case, if it is stated by Sen· fore have the minority been taken to task because of a d,elay of ators on the other side of the Chamber not merely that they can three or four days in the formation of committees. When we not be ready to-day or to-morrow, but that they can not be ready were in the majority, all the time that was necessary in your even on Tuesday next, I am content. judgment was accorded you without any public criticism. Mr. WHITE. That is the statement made. Mr. VOORHEES. Let me ask the Senator from Maryland a Mr. COCKRELL. Now, I hope the resolution will be amended question. To-day is Friday. Do I understand him to say that and agreed to. day before yesterday he got the notice and that only yesterday he The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Secretary will read the called the committee together? amendments of the Senator from Missouri. Mr. GORMAN. Day before yesterday. The SECRETA.RY. In line 2 strike out the words "Friday, the Mr. MITCHELL of Oregon. The list of committees on the part 20th," and insert" Saturday, the 21st;" in the last line strike out of the majority was delivered to the Senator Tuesday night, about "Friday" and insert "lt

Charles-H. Holt, to be postmaster at Buena Vista, in the county Van Buren and State of Michigan, in the place of May F. Nichol­ of Chaffee and State of Colorado, in the place of Aaron H. Wade, son, whose commission expired December 16, 1895. whose commission expired December 16, 1895. Frank P. Bogardus, to be postmaster at Ypsilanti, in the county H. S. McDowell, to be postmaster at Highlands, in the county of Washtenaw and State of Michigan, in the place of P. W. Car­ of ATapahoe and State of Colorado, in the place of Frank P. Man­ penter, whose commission will expire January 6, 1896. nix, whose commission expired December 16,1895. William Keough, to be postmaster at Jonesville, in the county Frank P. Furlong, to be postmaster at Hartford, in the county of Hillsdale and State of Michigan, in the place of Seth D. Mc­ of Hartford and State of Connecticut, in the place of Ed ward B. Neal, whose commission will expire December 23, 1895. Bennett, whose commission expired December 17, 1895. A. B. M. Thompson, to be postmaster at Webster Groves, in the A. Hewett Hill, to be postmaster at Eustis, in the county of Lake county of St. Louis and State of Missouri, in the place of Sallie H. and State of Florida, in the place of Charles B. Hill, deceased. Haley, whose commission will expire December 23, 1895. John Clark, to be postmaster at Morrison, in the colmty of Joseph D. Baker, to be postmaster at Edgar, in the county of Whiteside and State of Illinois, in the place of John Grierson, Clay and State of Nebraska, in t.he place of William J. Garvin, whose commission will expire December 16, 1895. whose commission expired December 16, 1895. Eben S. Clemens, to be postmaster at Chester, in the county of Willis F. Hardy, to be postmaster at Ashland, in the county of Randolph and State of Illinois, in the place of George B. Allison, Grafton and State of New Hampshire, in the place of George B. whose commission expires December 23, 1895. Gordon, whose commission expired December 16, 1895. Harriet S. Coffeen, to be postmaster at Homer, in the county of Waldo H. Jones, to be postmaster at Lakeport, in the county of Champaign and State of illinois, in the place of Charles F. Core, Belknap and State of New Hampshire, in the place of Wallace E. whose commission will expire December 22, 1895. Woodworth, whose commission will expire December 23, 1895. John A. Dufield, to be postmaster at Woodstock, in the county JohnS. Ellen, to be postmaster at Willoughby, in the county of of McHenry and State of Illinois, in the place of Simon Brink, Lake and State of Ohio, in the place of George H. Sharpe, whose whose commission expired December 16, 1895. commission expired December 17, 1895. Nettie Flack, to be postmaster at Milford, in the county of Iro­ Mary J. Huntington, to be postmaster at Delta, in the co1mty of quois and State of Illinois, in the place of Eliza Brown, whose Fulton and State of Ohio, her commission having expired Decem­ commission expired December 16, 1895. · ber 17, 1895. William B. Fleming, to be postmaster at Bement, in the county Mahlon Purdin, to be postmaster at Medford, in the county of of Piatt and State of Illinoia, in the place of Francis A. Jones, Jackson and State of Oregon, in the place of James S. Howard, whose commission expired December 16, 1895. whose commission expired December 17, 1895. Michael Maloney, to be postmaster at Dixon, in the county of James Carnes, to be postmaster at Sharon~ in the county of 1\Ier­ Lee and State of Illinois, in the place of Benjamin F. Shaw: whose cer and State of Pennsylvania, in the place of James D. Caldwell, commission will expire December 23, 1895. whose commission expired December 17, 1895. John D. Martin, to be postmaster at Carmi, in the county of . Frank Strang, to be postmaster at Westfield, in the county of White and State of Illinois, in the place of William H. Phipps, Tioga and State of Pennsylvania, in the place of William N. Hurl­ whose commission will expire December 23, 1895. but, whose commission expired December 17, 1895. David A. Frayser, to be postmaster at Vinita, in the county of Clayton E. Williamson, to be postma-ster at Jersey Shore, in the Cherokee Nation, Ind. T., in the place of Harrison A. Galloway, county of Lycoming and State of Pennsylvania, in the place of whose commission expired December 16, 1895. Edward K. Fiester, whose commission will expire December 23, J. J. Eichar, to be postmaster at Clarksville, in the county of 1895. Butler and State of Iowa, in the place of Charles B. Nelson, whose HambletonP. Wilson, to be postmaster at Altoona, in the county commission expired December 16, 1895. of Blair and State of Pennsylvania, in the place of Albert P. Edward McCoy, to be postmaster at Rock Rapids, in the county McDonald, deceased. of Lyon and State of Iowa, in the place of Anson Tolman, whose FrankL. Hanley, to be postmaster at Olneyville, in the county commission expired December 16, 1895. of Providence and State of Rhode Island, in the place of James H. Pet.er Stephany, to be postmaster at Manning, in the county of Walch, whose commission expired December 17, 1895. Carroll and State of Iowa, in the place of Edward L. Ives, whose Joshua Downing, to be postmaster at Brookings, in the county commission expired December 16, 1895. · of Brookings and Btate of South Dakota, in the place of William W. G. Marlin, to be postmaster at Florence, in the county of H. Skinner, whose commission expired December 17, 1895. Marion and State of Kansas, in the place of David C. Battey, Augustus Huntemer, to be postmaster at Dell Rapids, in the whose commission expired December 17, 1895. county of Minnehaha and State of South Dakota, in the place of David A. Adams, to be postmaster at Georgetown, in the county William C. Nisbet, whose commission expired December 17,1895. of Scott and State of Kentucky, in the place of Edward C. Barlow, John F. Anderson, to be postmaster at Lockhart, in the county whose commission expired December 16, 1895. of Caldwell and State of Texas, in the pla-ce of William Kelly, Zelinda Ashton, to be postmaster at Flemingsburg, in the county whose commission expirell December 17, 1895. of Fleming and State of Kentucky, in the place of Horace' C. Eugene A. Ayers, to be postmaster at Swanton, in the county Ashton, removed. of Franklin and State of Vermont, in the place of George G. Herbert M. Bates, to be postmaster at Calais, in the county of Blake, whose commission expired December 17, 1895. Washington and State of Maine, in the place of William R. Ker, Charles N. Brady, to be postmaster at Newport, in the county resigned. of Orleans and State of Vermont, in the place of Thomas C. Gale, George W. Beal, to be postmaster at FaUs, in the county whose commission expired December 17, 1895. of Androscoggin and State of Maine, in the place of George Plum­ Oscar McGregor, to be postmaster at Richford, in the county of mer, whose coiillilission expired December 16, 1895. Franklin and State of Vermont, in the place of Herbert M. Goff, Edward B. Burr, to be postmaster at Brewer, in the county of deceased. Penobscot and State of Maine.. in the place of William Spurling, Daniel C. Spaulding, to be postmaster at Monisville, in the whose commission expired December 16, 1895. county of Lamoille and State of Vermont, in the place of George John L. Cummings, to be postmaster at Livermore Falls, in the F. Earle, whose commission expired December 17, 1895. county of Androscoggin and State of Maine, in the place of Jon­ Felix C. Bennett, to be postmaster at Monroe, in the county of athan F. Jefferds, whose commission expired December 16, 1895 .. Green and State of Wisconsin, in the pla.ce of Robert A. Etter, George L. Beals, to be postma-ster at Florence, in the county of whose commission will expire January 14, 1896. Hampshire and State of :Massachusetts, in the place of William Hugh J. Mulholland, to be postmaster at South Kaukauna, in M. Smith, whose commission expired December 16, 1895. the county of Outagamie and State of Wisconsin, in the place of Frederick H. Fowler, to be postmaster at Walpole, in the county John Hoberg, resigned. of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, in the pla-ce of Nathan W. Edward F. Rakow, to be postmaster at Burlington, in the Fisher, whose commission expired December 16, 1895. county of Racine and State of Wisconsin, in the place of William HenryS. Moore, to be postmaster at Hudson, in the county of A. Colby, whose commission expired December 17, 1895. Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, in the place of W. E. C. Worcester, deceased. George H. Morgan, to be postmaster at Newton, in the county CONFffiMATIONS. of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, in the pla.ce of George H. Morgan, whose commission expired December 16, 1895. Executive nominations confirmed by the Senate December 20, 1895. Charles N. Perley, to be postmaster at Danvers, in the county CHIEF OF BUREAU OF ACCOUNTS. of Essex and State of Massachusetts, in the place of Gertrude S. Kenney, whose commission expired December 16, 1895. Frank A. Branagan, of Ohio, to be Chief of the Bureau of Ac­ Samuel E. Walker, to be postmaster at East Northfield, in the counts in the Department of State of the United States. county of Franklin and State of Massachusetts, in the place of PROMOTIONS L~ THE NAVY. Samuel E. Walker, whose cGmmissionexpired December 16,1895. Randolph H. Miner, late a lieutenant, junior grade, to be a lieu· Edward Arnold, to be postmaster at Decatur, in the county of tenant. 270 CONGRESSIONAL.- RECORD-· HOUSE.- DEOEl\IBER 20,.

Maurice B. Peugnet, a graduate of the Naval Academy, to be (S. Res: 13) granting the State of Pennsylvania permission to use an assistant engineer. the Umted States court-houses at Scranton, Pa., and. at Williams­ POSTMASTERS. port, Pa. Clayton L. Shimer, to be postmaster at Bethlehem, in the county ENROLLED BILL SIGNED. of Northampton and State of Pennsylvaniav The bill (H. R. 803) to amend section 2601 of the Re-vised Stat­ James L. White, to be postmaster at Hope, in the State of Ar­ utes, relative to ports of entry, having been duly enrolled was kansas. signed. by the Speaker. ' John R. Matthews, to be postmaste:r at Los .Angeles, in the State UNITED STATES COURTS, lOWA. of California. Mr. UPDEGRAFF. .Mr. Speaker, I desire to ask unanimous consent for the consideration of the bill I send to the desk. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. The SPEAKER. The bill will be read, after which the Chair will ask if there be objection. FRIDAY, JJecernber 20, 1895. The bill was read, as follows: The House met at 12 o'clock m. Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. A bill (H. R. 22M) ~ t~e timeS' for holding the circuit and district courts HENRY M. CoUDEN. for the northern distr1ct of Iowa.. and for the southern: district of Iowa. B_e it enacted, etc., That hereafter terms of circuit and district courts of the The Journal of the proceedings of Wednesday last was read and Umted States shall be held in tho several divisions of the northern district of approved. Iowa as follows: EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS. In the Cedar Ra.Jlids division, at Cedar Ra..pids, on the first Tuesday in April and on the second Tuesday in September. Under Rule XXIV~ ~lause 2, tbe following executive communi­ In the eastern division, at Dubuque, on the fourth Tuesday in April and the cations were taken from the SI>eakers table and referred by the first Tuesday in December. In the western division, at Sioux City,.on the fourth Ta:esda.y in May and Speaker, as follows: . the first Tuesday in October. A letter from the Assistant Secretary of the Interior, transmit­ . In the central divif!ion, at Fort Dodge, on the second Tuesday in June and ting a communication from the- Commissioner of Indian Affairs, the second Tuesday m November. with accompanying statements· of disbursements for the Indian SEC. 2- Tha..t herea.fte:r terms of the circuit and district coo:rts of tr.e United Department for the year ended June 30, 1895, and of salaries and ~~~1ro~;? be held in the several divisions of the southern district of Iowa. incidental expenses of each agency; which was referred to the Com­ In the western division, at Council Bluffs, on the second Tu.esday in MaTch and the third Tne~,a.y in September. mittee on Indian .Affairs, and ordered to be printed. In the eastern diVlSlon, at Keokuk, on the second Tu-esday in April and the A letter from the chairman of the· Interstate Commerce Com­ third Tuesday in October. mission, transmitting the- ninth annual report of the said Commis­ In the central division, at Des Moines-, on the second Tuesday in May and the third Tuesday in November. sion, together with appendixes thereto:. which was referred to the SEC. 3. That no action, suit, proceeding, information, indictment recogni­ Committee on Interstate and ForeigJI Commerce, and ordered to zance, bail bond, 01' othe:t: process in any of sa.id courts shall abate or ba ren­ be printed. de_red invalid by reason of the change of time in the holding of the terms of A letter from the Assistant Secretary of War, transmitting a sa1d courtS', but the same shall be deemed to be returnable to and pending letter from the Judge-Advocate-General of the United States and triable at the terms provided for in this act.. Army submitting the draft of a bill to establish criminal juris­ Mr~ UPDEGRAFF. I would like to make a brief statement diction over places ceded to the United States: for certain purposes; Mr. Speaker, before- the request for unanimous consent is .pre: which was referred to the Committee on the-Judiciary, and ordered sented. to be printed. Thisr bill simply changes the time of holding the circuit and dis­ A letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting trict courts of the United States in the district of Iowa, and the a communication from the Attorney-General amending his esti­ change is made at the request of both judges and at the request mates for support of the United States penitentiary at Leaven­ of the members of the bar, so far as they have been consulted. worth, Kans.; which was referred to the Committe-e on Appropri­ The p1·oposed. change..has been fully discussed in the State of Iowa ations, and ordered to be printed. by the bar and .notices inserted in the newspapers to all parties A letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an interested, and all concur in the desiraeility of the change. estimate and recommendation for an additional appropriation for Mr. TERRYr Does this impose any additional expense orr the the enlargement, etc., of the United States court-house and post­ Government? offic.e at Little Rock, Ark.; which was referred to the Committee Mr. UPDEGRAFF. Not a dollar. on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Mr. HENDERSON. I desire to say that I brought this matter A letter from the assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, trans­ to the attention of the gentleman from Texas [Mr·. BAILEY], who mitting a copy of the findings of fact in the case of Mary 0. was a member of the Judiciary Committee of the House, and he Planche against the United States; which was referred to the is cognizant of the provisions of the bill. It is purely a local mat­ Committee on War Claims, and ordered to be printed. ter to our State, changing the terms of the courts. The members A letter from the Se-cretary of War, transmitting a copy of a of the bar, the judges, and the entire delegation in Congress are letter from the Chief of Engineers, together with a draft of a pro­ unl.ted in- asking the change .. posed act to regulate the use of the public parks and improved Mr. McMILLIN. Mr. Speaker, I desire to ask the gentleman reservations in the District of Columbia; which was referred to in charge of the bill whether the courts are already held at the the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to points which are designated in this bill? be printed. Mr. UPDEGRAFF. At all of them. A letter from the Public Printer, relating to the reprinting of Mr. DOLLIVER. Does the bill affect anything except the time Senate Document No. 226, first session Fiftieth Congress (Venezue­ of holding the courts? lan bounda1·y); which was referred to the Committee on PTinting. Mr. UPDEGRAFF. Nothing at all except the time of holding Also, letters from the Secretary of War, transmitting report of the- courts. Chief of Engineers with examination and survey of the following The SPEAKER. Is the:te objection to the present considera­ river and harbor improvements; which were severally referred to tion of the bill? the Committee on Rivers and Harbors, and ordered to be printed, There was no objection. • namely: The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time; and Stonington Harbor, Connecticut; Rockland Harbor, Maine; being engrossed~ it was accordingly read the third time, and passed. Rock Island Harbor, Rhode Island. On motion of Mr. UPDEGRAFF, a motion to reconsider the last vote was laid on the table. · MESSAGE FROM. THE SENATE. ROPOSED ELECTION CONTEST, FIRS'r DISTRICT OF VmGINIA. • A message from the Senate, by Mr. PLATT, one of its clerks, Mr. THOMAS. }fr. Speaker, I offer a privileged resolution announced that the Senate had passed, without amendmen~ joint which I send to the Clerk's desk. ' resolutions of the following titles: The resolution was read. It proposes that J. J. McDonald be Joint 1·esolution (H. Res. 26) to pay the officers and employees allowed to contest the right to the seat of W. A. Jones, from the of the Senate and House of Representatives their respective sala­ First Congressional disti·ict of Virginia., and that he be allowed ries for the month of December, 1895, on the 20th day of said thirty days from and after the passage of the resolution in which month. to serve notice of contest. Joint resolution (H. Res. 27) ratifying the use of appropriation :Mr. CRISP. Mr. Speaker-- for material and miscellaneous expenses for Bureau of Engraving The SPEAKER. For what purpose does the gentleman rise? and Printing for fiscal year 1896 for purchase of articles provided 1\[r. CRISP. To make the point that I think this resolution for in appropriation for miscellaneous expenses of Treasury De­ should go to the Committee on Elections. All questions relating partment, and authorizing the continued use of same for remain­ to the right of a member to his seat and to the election of mem­ ing portion of fiscal year 1896. bers should go to the Committee on Elections. The message also announced that the Senate had agreed to the Mr. DALZELL. If the gentleman will permit me, I think there amendment of the House of Representatives to joint resolution is no objection to U.s going to the Coinmittee on Elections, but the 1895. OONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. ------.------~------~------1 gentleman from Michigan [Mr. THOMAS] has a petition t}lat ought To Mt. MILLER, of West Virginia, on account of important to accompany the resolution. business. The SPEAKER. The Chair understands that the gentleman To Mr. BULL, on account of important business. from Michigan desires it to go to the Committee on Elections. To Mr. DAYTON, on account of important business. Mr. THOMAS. I will say to the gentleman from Georgia [Mr. To Mr. HARRISON, on account of sich.'"Iless in his family. CRISP] that the only objection to the passage of this resolution To l\{r. CLARK of Iowa, until January ~. 1896, on account of would be the competency of the reasons why the notice of contest important business. _ was not given within the specified time, and to accompany ~he To Mr. HALL, indefinitely, on account of sickness in his family. resolution and as a part of my remarks I send up the followmg To Mr. KuLP, for this day, on account of important business. statement. To Mr. OTJEN, for this day, on account of important business. Mr. CRISP. But, Mr. Speaker, I make the point that this DECEMBER SALARIES OF HOUSE AND SENATE EMPLOYEES. should be referred without debate, under the rules, to the Com­ The SPEAKER laid before the House the enrolled joint resolu­ mittee on Elections. There are a great many of these cases, as the tion (H. Res. 26) to pay the officers and employees of the Senate gentle:J?an ~_om Michigan knows. There ~re thirty-two.cases just and House of .Representatives their respective salaries for the like this waiting for reference to the Commrttees on Elections when month -of December, 1895, on the 20th day of said month; when they are appointed, and, as I understand it, this is a new case. the Speaker sjgned the same. Mr. THOM...t\.S. I am perfectly ~illing that i~ should got

By Mr. NEILL: A bill (H. R. 2279) to amend section· 2455 of Also, a bill (H. R. 2304) to amend the act of Congress relating the Revised Statutes of the United Stat-es as amended by" An to patents, trade-marks, and copyrights-to the Committee on act to amend section 2455 of the Revised Statutes of the United Patents. States," approved February 26, 1895-to the Committee on the By Mr. HARRIS: A joint resolution (H. Res. 41) to provide for Public Lands. · a commission to. ascertain the b01mdary between Canada and the By Mr. SHAFROTH: A bill (H. R. 2280) to open the forest United States in the Northern Lakes-to the Committee on For­ reservations of the State of Colorado for the location of mining eign Affairs. claims-to the Committee on the Public Lands. By Mr. McCALL of Tennessee: A joint resolution (H. Res. 42) Also, a bill (H. R. 2281) providing for the purchase of a site and providing for the publication of 75,000 copies of the Special Re­ the erection of a public building thereon at Leadville, Colo.-to port on the Diseases of the Horse-to the Committee on Printing. the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. By Mr. CUMMINGS: A joint resolution (H. Res. 43) to author­ By Mr. McCORMICK: A bill (H. R. 2282) to provide for tele­ ize the purchase of the painting by Victor N ehlig representing graphic communication between the United States of America, Pocahontas saving the life of Capt. John Smith-to the Commit­ the Hawaiian Islands, and Japan, and to promote commerce-to tee on the Library. . the Committee on Commerce. · By Mr. JENKlL~S: A joint resolution (H. Res. 44) amending By .Mr. YOAKUM: A bill (H. R. 2283) to create a national cur­ the Constitution of the United States-to the Committee on tlie rency based upon gold and silver, of approximately equal value- Judiciary. · • to the Committee on Banking and Currency. By Mr. BINGHAM: A joint resolution (H. Res. 45) to provide By Mr. MERCER: A bill (H. R. 2284) to establish postal sav­ for the presentation of medals of honor to the militia and volun­ ings banks, and to encourage smaJl savings-to the Committee on teer troops of the several States who volunteered their services the Post-Office and Post-Roads. for the defense of the States of Maryland and Pennsylvania in the By Mr. TARSNEY: A bill (H. R. 2285) to amend an act entitled year 1863 prior to and after the battle of Gettysburg, Pa.-to the "An act to authorize the Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf Rail­ Committee on Military Affairs. road Company to construct and operate a railroad, telegraph, and By Mr. PICKLER: A joint resolution (H. Res. 46) providing telephone line through the Indian Territory, and for other pur­ for the publication of 100,000 copies of the Special Report on the poses," approved February 27, 1893-to the Committee on Indian Diseases of the Horse-to the Committee on Printing. Affairs. By Mr. BINGHAM(byrequest): A joint resolution (H. Res. 47) By Mr. WELLINGTON: A bill (H. R. 2286) to redeem out­ recognizing the Republic of Cuba by the United States Govern­ standing certificates issued by the board of audit and the board ment-to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. of public works of the District of Columbia-to the Committee on Also, a resolution calling on the Department of State for. copies the District of Columbia. · of all correspondence with Spain in relation to warfare which is By Mr. COOK of Wisconsin: A bill (H. R. 2287) for the erec­ and has been taking place in the Island of Cuba between its inhabit­ tion of a public building at Fond duLac, Wis.___:_tothe Committee ants and thoseofSpain, andforall information, of the Department on Public Buildings and Grounds. concerning the formation of the Republic of Cuba on September 16 By Mr. WILLIS: A bill (H. R. 2288) for the improvement of last-to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. various rivers and harbors in the State of Delaware-to the Com­ By Mr. RUSSELL of Connecticut: A resolution to authorize the mittee on Rivers and Haxbors. Doorkeeper of the House to appoint two overseers of pages and By Mr. CUMMINGS: A bill (H. R. 2289) to amend "An act pro­ eight additional session pages, to be paid out.of the contingent viding for the public printing and binding and the distribution of fund until otherwise provided for-to the Committee on Accounts. public documents "-to the Committee on Printing. By Mr. CANNON of Utah: A resolution requesting the Secre­ By Mr. GAMBLE: A bill (H. R. 2290) to provide for the time tary of the Interior to furnish certain information in regard to the and place of holding the terms of the United States circuit and Uncompahgre Indian Reservation and commissioners appointed district courts in the State of South Dakota-to the Committee on relative thereto-to the Committee on Indian Affairs. the Judiciary. By Mr. DOOLITTLE: A bill (H. R. 2291) to donate four old cannons and cannon shot to the Soldiers' Home at Orting, Wash.­ PRIVATE BILLS, ETC. to the Committee on Military Affairs. AJso, a bill (H. R. 2292) providing for a naval training station Under clause lof Rule XXII, private bills of the following titles on Puget Sound, in the State of Washington, and for other pur­ were presented and referred as follows: · - poses-to the Committee on Naval Affairs. By Mr. ACHESON: A bill (H. R. 2305) to correct the military Also, a bill (H. R. 2293) to aid the State of Washington to sup­ record of Kyrhan Morrissey, of Uniontown, Fayette County, port a school of mines-to the Committee on the Public Lands. Pa.-to the Committee on Military Affairs. By Mr. CURTIS of Iowa: A bill (H. R. 2294) for the organizing By Mr. ARNOLD of Pennsylvania: A bill (H. R. 2306) granting and disciplining of the militia of the several States-to the Com­ a pension to Jonas J. Boai-to· the Committee on Invalid Pensions. mittee on the Militia. By Mr. BINGHAM: A bill (H. R.-2307) for' the relief of the Po- By Mr. HADLEY: A bill (H. R. 2295) for the erection of a pub­ tomac Steamboat Company-to the Committee on Claims. · lic building at the city of Alton,lll.-to the Committee on Public By Mr. BROMWELL: A bill (H. R. 2308) fortherelief of John Buildings and Grounds. L. Jeffries, late a captain in the One hundred and tenth Regiment By Mr. MEIKLEJOHN: A bill (H.R.2296) extending relief to Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry-to the Committee on Military Indian citizens, and for other purposes-to the Committee on In- Affairs. dian Affairs. - By Mr. BURTON of Miss~uri: A bill (H. R. 2309) to pension By Mr. PICKLER: A bill (H. R. 2297) to provide for the pur­ William. H. Fry-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. chase of a site and the erection of a public building thereon at By Mr. BROWN: A bill (H. R. 2310) for the relief of Francis Deadwood, in the State of South Dakota-to the Committee on M. McKinney and Porter McKinney, of McMinn County, Tenn.- -Public Buildings,and Grounds. to the Committee on Militaxy Affairs. . By Mr. FLYNN: A bill (H. R. 2298) legalizing the assessment Also, a bill (H. R. 2311) to complete the military record of Dan­ and levy of taxes on personal property on the various Indian res­ iel Cook, deceased, and for an honorable discharge-to the Com­ ervations in Oklahoma, and for other purposes-to the Committee mittee on Militaxy Affairs. on Indian Affairs. By Mr. BURRELL: A bill (H. R. 2312) to grant a pension to By Mr. SKINNER: A bill (H. R. 2299) to provide for the exam­ Da..niel Bryant-to the Committee on Pensions. ination and survey of Core Sound and Cape Lookout Harbor of Also, a bill (H.R.2313) to grant a pension to Sarah A. Nelson­ Refuge, in North Carolina-to the Committee on Rivers and Har­ to the Committee on Pensions. bors. Also, a bill (H. R. 2314) to remove charge of desertion 'from By Mr. RICHARDSON: A bill (H. R. 2300) to incorporate the the record of RobertMoore-totheCommitteeonMilitary Affairs. Supreme Council of the Thirty-third Degree of Scottish Rite Ma­ Also, a bill (H. R. 2315) for the relief of Fannie Pemberton-to sonry for the Southern jurisdiction of the United States-to the the Committee on War Claims. Committee on the Judiciary. Also, a bill (H. R. 2316) for the relief of William Mixon-to the By Mr. SKINNER: A bill (H. R. 2301) to provide for the exam­ Committee on War Claims. ination and survey of that branch of the Pasquotank River known Also, a bill (H. R. 2317) to increase the pension of Levi T. E. as the Turners Cut, inNorth Carolina-to the Committee on Rivers Johnson-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. and Harbors. Also, a bill (H. R. 2318) to grant a pension to William Samuel By Mr. JENKINS: A bill (H. R. 2302) for the erection of an Marion Hopper-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. equestrian statu.e of ex-President Zachary Taylor-to the Com- Also, a bill (H. R. 2319) for relief of Elias Cleveland-to the mittee on the Library. · Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. BENNETT: A bill (H. R. 2303) to incorporate the Pro­ Also, a bill (H. R. 2320) for the relief of Samuel Burrell-to the . fessional Woman's League-to the Committee on Labor. Committee on Military Affairs• 1895. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 273

Also, a bill (H. R.2321) to increase pension of John J. Cross-to Also, a bill (H. R. 2360) granting a pension to Mary Ryan, of the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Louisville, Ky.-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 2322) to reimburse Jacob J. Tolbert for per­ By Mr. FAIRCHILD: A bill (H. R. 2361) to grant an honor­ sonal property taken during the late war-to the Committee on able discharge and to remove charge of desertion against the name WarClaims. · of Edward P. Kain-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 2323) to free Elias J. Brown from charge of Also, a bill (H. R. 2362) for the relief of Miss Eliza A. White­ of desertion-to the Committee on Military Affairs. to the Committee on Claims. Also, a bill (H . .R. 2324) to grant a pension to Ninian Young-to Also, a bill (H. R. 2363) to grant increase pension to Louis H, the Committee on Pensions. Gein, Company F , Fifty-fifth New York Volunteers-to the Com­ By Mr. CROWTHER: A bill (H. . R. 2325) granting an honor­ mittee on Invalid Pensions. able discharge to William Miers, late of Company F, Ninth Min­ By Mr. FARIS: A bill (H. R. 2364) for the relief of Joseph H. nesota Volunteer Infantry-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Johnson-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 2326) granting a pension to Thomas Holaday­ Also, a bill (H. R. 2365) to increase the pension of James F. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Dickey-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 2327) for the relief of John H. Steele-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 2366) to increase the pension of John A. Ander­ Committee on Military Affairs. son-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 2328) for the relief of Patrick Rainey-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 2367) granting an increase of pension to Mer­ Committee on Military Affairs. rick Y. Buck-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. CRUMP: A bill (H. R. 2329) for the relief of Mrs. Also, a bill (H. R. 2368) to correct the military record of John Matilda G. Higbee-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. H. Stearns-to the Committee on Military Affairs. By Mr. CLARDY: A bill (H. R. 2330) for the relief of John H. Also, a bill (H. R. 2369) granting a pension to Mrs. Aletha D. J;tmes-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Plank-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. CUMMINGS: A bill (H. R. 2331) for the relief of Pay Also, a bill (H. R. 2370) to correct the military record of Syl­ Inspector John H. Stevenson-to the Committee on Naval Affairs. vester Weaver-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 2332) for the relief of James H. Cl·omwell-to Also, a bill (H. R. 2371) to correct the milltary record of William the Committee on War Claims. S. Dewyer-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 2333) for the relief of J. Floyd Johnston, ad­ Also, a bill (H. R. 2372) to correct the military record of Hiram ministrator of John Floyd Johnston, deceased, and for other pur­ A. Benefiel-to the Committee on Military Affairs. . poses-to the Committee on War Claims. . Also, a bill (H. R. 2373) granting a pension to Elvin Brown-to By Mr. CURTIS of Iowa: A bill (H. R. 2334) for the relief of the Committee on Pensions. B. F. Moody & Co., or their legal representatives-to the Com­ Also, a bill (H. R. 2374) to correct military record of James mittee on War Claims. Bates-to the Committee on Military Affairs. By Mr. CROWLEY: A bill (H. R. 2335) for the relief of Wil­ Also, a bill (H. R. 2375) to pension Patrick W. Halloran-to liam Ludgate-to the Committee on Military Affairs. the Committee on Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 2336) to grant a pension to Theresa Bonna­ Also, a bill (H. R. 2376) for the relief of Capt. Robert E. Bry­ veau-to the Committee on Pensions. ant-to the Committee on War Claims. By Mr. CROWTHER: A bill (H. R. 2337) for the relief of the Also, a bill (H. R. 2377) granting a pension to John E. Kirk­ heirs of William T. Hundley-to the Committee on War Claims. bam-to the Committee on Pensions. By Mr. CURTIS of Kansas: A bill (H. R. 2338) granting a pen­ Also, a bill (H. R. 2378) for the relief of Elizabeth A. Bamford- sion to Mrs. NancyR. Parker, of Parkerville, Kans.-to the Com­ to the Committee on Claims. · mittee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 2379) to increase the pension of John Camp- Also, a bill (H. R. 2339) granting a pension to Susan M. Finch­ bell-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. • to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also-, a bill (H. R. 2380) for the relief of Frederick Hutton-to Also, a bill (H. R. 2340) granting a pension to Caroline Parker­ the Committee on Invalid Pensions. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 2381) for the purpose of correcting the mili­ Also, a bill (H. R. 2341) granting a pension to D. W. Mercer­ tary record of Jonas M. Blankenship, alias Charles M. Smith, to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Company K, Third Kentucky Volunteer Infantry-to the Com­ Also, a bill (H. R. 2342) for the relief of John Gibson-to the mittee on Military Affairs. Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 2382) to correct the military record of Elijah Also, a bill (H. R. 2343) for the relief of Miss Lou Jahn-to the Watts, CompanyK, One hundred and twenty-eighth Indiana Vol­ Committee on Military Affairs. unteer Infantry-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 2344) granting a pension to Roeanea McMul­ Also, a bill (H. R. 2383) to correct the military record of theWar len-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Department relating to one Charles Condon, Company A, Sixty­ Also, a bill (H. R. 2345) for the relief of Mattie Munson-to the ninth Ohio Volunteers-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 2384) to restore Keziah Howard to the pension Also, a bill (H. R. 2346) granting a pension to Mary A. White, roll-to the Committee on Pensions. of Cottonwood Falls, Kans.-t.o the Committee on Invalid Pen­ By Mr. GILLETT of Massachusetts: A bill (H. R. 2385) grant­ sions. ing increase of pension to John P. Bambush-to the Committee on Also, a bill (H. R. 2347) granting a pension to Martin Seller­ Invalid Pensions. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. HARDY: A bill (H. R. 2386) to correct the military re~ Also, a bill (H. R. 2348) granting a pension to Matilda Taylor, ord of John W. Canary-to the Committee on Military Affairs. of Yates Center, Kans.-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. HUBBARD: A bill (H. R. 2387) for the relief of Benja­ Also, a bill (H. .R. 2349) granting a pension to David Roche-to min Peter Bailey, treasurer of the :Missouri State lunatic asylum­ the Committee on Pensions. to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 2350) granting a pension to Joseph W. Dol­ By Mr. HILBORN: A bill (H. R. 2388) for the relief of William man-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. R. Wheaton and Charles H. Chamberlain, of Californiar-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 2351) granting a pension to Henry O'Brien­ Committee on Claims. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. A1so, a bill (H. R. 2389) for the relief of the widow and minor Also, a bill (H . .R. 2352) for the relief of Attie Lewis-to the Com­ children of John W. Geering, of Vallejo, Cal.-to the Committee mittee on Invalid Pensions. on Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 2353) for the relief of Cora I. Dexter-to the By Mr. HENRY of Connecticut: A bill (H. R. 2390) granting a Committee on Invalid Pensions. pension to Mrs. Marietta Hayes-to the Committee on Invalid Also, a bill (H. R. 2354) granting a pension to Robert Jaeschke­ Pensions. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By 1\Ir. HULICK: A bill (H. R. 2391) for the relief of Sarah A. Also, a bill (H. R. 2355) granting a pension to Phebe A. For­ M.oler-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. num-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bili (H. R. 2392) for the relief of Ruth Marshall-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 2356) granting a pension to William Murphy, Committee on Invalid Pensions. of Topeka, Kans.-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 2393) to remove the charge of desertion from By Mr. DOWNING: A bill (H. R. 2357) for the relief of William the military record of Henry Beason, late private of Company E, B. Payne-to the Committee on War Claims. First Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry-to the Committee on By Mr. DANFORD: A bill (H. R. 2358) for the relief of .A:rminda Military Affairs. White, widow of Israel White-to the Committee on Invalid Also, a bill (H. R. 2394) to remove the charge of desertion from Pensions. the military record of John Board, late a member of the Twenty­ By Mr. EVANS: A bill (H. R. 2359) granting a pension to fourth Independent Battery Ohio Light .Artillery-to the Com­ Katherine Zeigenheim, of Louisville, Ky.-to the Committee on mittee-on Military Affairs. Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 2395) granting a pension to Benjamin F. XXVIII-18 /

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.Young, late private of Company G, First Regiment Ohio Vol· Also, a bill (H. R. 2432) for the relief of James M. Cornelison­ unteer Cavalry~to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. to the Committee on War Claims. . Also, a bill (H. R. 2396) granting a pension to Isaac Holbrook, .Also, a bill (H. R. 2433) for the relief of G~ W. Rogers~to the late private in Company G, One hundred and twenty-first Regi­ Committee on War Claillli!. ment Ohio Volunteer Infantry-to the Committee o.n Invalid Pen· - Also, a bill (H. R. 2434) for the relief of B. Dudley Miller-to the . sious. Committee on War Claims. By Mr. HENDRICK: A bill (H. R. 2397) fortherelief of George By Mr. MADDOX: A bill (H. R. 2435) appropriating $2,500 to . P. Prentiss and Maggie H. Stephens-to the Committee o.n War pay for the destruction of a brick church, corner of Fifth avenue Claims. - and East Second street, Rome, Ga.-to the Committee on War Also, a bill (H. R. 2398) for relief of M. G. Gilbert-to the Com· Claims. mittee on War Clainis. Also, a bill (H. R.2436) for the relief of James W. Hill, of Gor­ Also, a bill (H. R. 2399) for the relief of S. R. Lowry-to the don County, Ga.-to the Committee on Claims. Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 2437) for the relief of C. M. Hall, of v;alker Also, a bill (H. R. 2400) for the relief of Nathan Joiner-to the County, Ga.-to the Comrnittee on War Claims. . Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 2438) for relief of estate of Charles Coulter­ Also, a bill (H. R. 2401) for the relief of W. H. Vaughn-to the to the Committee on War Claims. . Committee on· War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 2439) to pension Allen Philpot-to the Com· By Mr. JOHNSON of Indiana: A bill (H. R. 2402) to remove mittee on Pensions. the charge of desertion from the military record of S.amuelBrown­ Also, a bill (H. R. 2440) for the relief of the heirs at law of W. to the Committee on Military Affairs. L. Barnes, of Cobb County, Ga.-to the Committee on War Claims. . By Mr. LONG: A bill (H. R. 2403) granting a pension to Jack­ Also, a bill (H. R. 2441) for the relief of James B. Bone, of Chulio, son Osborn-to the Committee on InvaJid Pensions. Floyd County, Ga.-to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 2404) for the relief of Frederick W. Baker­ Also, a bill (H. R. 2442) for the relief of James M. Lowry,·of to the Committee on War Claims. Floyd County, Ga.-to -the Committee on Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 2405) granting a pension to Maria Gibbons­ Also, a bill (H. R. 2443) for the relief of Elisha Lowry-to the to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 2406) granting a pension to Frederick Bott­ Also, a bill (H. R. 2444) for the relief of Pleasant Grove Church, jer-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Catoosa County, Ga.-to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 2407) gr.anting a pension to Jesse L. Bartoq­ Also, a bill (H. R. 2445) for the relief of J. 8. McLain, of Whit­ to the Committee on Invalid Pension.s. field County, Ga.-to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 2408) granting a poosio.n to John W. Oraig­ Also, a bill (H. R. 2446) for the relief of William B. Quinn, of to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Whitfield County, Ga.-to the Committee on War Claims. By Mr. LOUDENSLAGER: A bill (H.R.2409) granting a pen­ Also, a bill (H. R. 2447) for the relief of the estate of Martin sion to Harriet E. Williams-to the Committee on Inv.alid Pen­ Fraliex, deceased, late of Walker County, Ga.~to the Committee sions. on War Cl!J.ims. By Mr. LACEY: A bill (H. R. 2410) to amend an act increasing Also, a bill (H. R. 2448) for the relief of George W. Hendricks, the pension of Marcus D. Box-to the Committee on Pensions. administrator of John Weitinger, deceased, late of Bartow County, By Mr. LEIGHTY: A bill (H. RA 24:11) to pension .Amanda F. Ga., as found due by the Court of Claims under the act of March . Walter-to the Committee Qn N_aval Affairs. 3, 188~to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 2412) to remove the charge of desertion now .Also, a bill (H. R. '244:9) for the relief of Joel Cross, of Dade . standing against George Alcott on rolls of the War Department­ County, Ga.-to the Committee on War Claims. to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 2450) for the relief of the First Baptist Church Also, a bill (H. R. 2413) for the relief of Eli Rinehart, of Angola, of Cartersville, Ga.-to the Comrnittee on War Claims. Steuben County, Ind.-to the Committ~..o.n Invalid .Pensions. By Mr. POOLE: A bill (H. R. 2451) to correct the records of Also, a bill (H. R. 2414) granting a "pensiou to Emily E. Denni­ the War Department in the case of CaptA Henry S. Pratt-to the son, of J>eabody, Whitley County, .Ind.-to the Committee on m­ -committee on Military Affairs. 'Valid Pensions. By Mr. PUGH: A bill (H. R. 2452) for the relief of William T. By Mr. McCALL of Massachusetts: A bill (H. R. 2415) grant. Moore-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. ing a pem;ion to Nora McLain, mother of Alexander Mc~ain-to Also, a bill (H. R. 2453) for the relief of George Cobrun-to the the Committee on Invalid PensionsA Committee on Military Affairs. ·By Mr. McDEARMON: A bill (H.R.2416) for the J."elief of Also, a bill (H. R. 2454) for the relief of Allen Maze-to the Com· Joseph B. Somerville-to the Committee on War Claims. mittee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 2417) for tho -relief of A. W . .Stepnenson-to By Mr. PATTERSON: ,A bill (H. R. 2455) for the relief of Wil- the Committee on ·war Clauns. 1iam Johnson, administrator of Thomas I. Johnson, deceased, of Also, a bill (H. R. 2418) for the relief of J. M. Sanders, of Gib­ Fayette County, Tenn., as found due by the Court of Claimi! under son County, Tenn.-to the Committee on War Clai.m.s. the act of March 3, 1883-to the Committee on War Claims. . Also, a bill (H.R.2419) for the relief of John E. Lewis, of Also, a bill (H. R. 2456) for relief of W. B. Pannell, of Mem­ Crockett County, ·Tenn.~to the Committee on War Claims. phis, Tenn.-to the Committee on War Claims. By Mr. MEREDITH: A bill (H. R. 2420) for the relief of Na. Also, a bill (H. R. 2457) for the relief of the Little Rock and thaniel G. Sanford-totheCommitteo on War Claims. · Memphis Railroad Company-to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 2421) for the relief of the Metnodist Episco­ By Mr. ROYSE: A bill (H. R. 2458) for the relief of Nathan C. pal Church of Arlington, .Ale~andria County, Va.-to the Com­ Welch, of Company F, Sixty-sixth Regiment Ohio Infantry-to mittee on War Claims. the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. MEIKLEJOHN: A bill (H. R. 2422) to relieve Isaac G. .Also, a bill (H. R.-2459) for the relief of Mrs. Mary E. Cole­ Biglow of the .charge -of desertion-to the Committee on Military to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Affairs. - Also, a bill (H. R. 2460) for the relief of Daniel Morrissey, late of By Mr. MERCER: A bill (H. R. 2423) to remove the charge of Company F, Twenty-fourth Regiment .New Yorklnfantry~to the desertion from the military record of William Ca1p.eron, alias Sam­ Committee on Invalid Pensions. uel C. Cole-to the Committee on Military Affairs. By Mr. MOODY: A bill (H. R. 2424) granting a pension to Har­ By Mr. ROBINSON of Pennsylvania: A bill (H.R.2461) to ap· riet F. Herrick-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. point Commodore Edward E. Potter} United States Navy, now on By Mr. MAGUIRE: A bill (H. R. 2425) granting a pension to the retired list, to the rank and pay of rear-admiral, r!3tired-to Edmund P. Tierney-to the Committee on Pensions. the Committee on Naval Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 2426) granting a pension to Carrie F . .Ander­ By Mr. STRONG: A bill (H. R. 2462) granting increase of pen­ son-to the Committee on Pensions. sion to James H. Showalter-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. - Also, a bill (H. R. 2427) to carry into effect the findings of the By Mr. CHARLES W. STONE: A bill (H. R. 2463) to remove Court of Claims in the cases of Ed ward N. Fish and others for the charge of desertion standing against Michael F. Newell-to .supplies furnished the Indian ~el'vice~to · the Committee on War the ColllPl.ittee on MUitary Mairs. Claims. - By Mr. STEWART of New Jersey: A pill Ca. R. 2464) to remove Also, a bill (H. R. 2428) for the relief of William J. Bryan-to the charge of desertion against the name of .Tohn Hanna, deceased, the Committee on War Claims. late of Company K, First Maryland Cavalry, also known as More­ By Mr. McCREARY of Kentuck-y: A bill (H. R. 2429) for the head's Cavalry, Pennsylvania Volunteers-to the Committee on relief of S. P. Martin~to the Committee on War Claims. Military Affairs. .Also, a bill (H. R. 2430) for th.e relief of Lucy .A. Steinberger­ By Mr. SHUFORD: A bill (H.R.2465) restoring Capt. E. W • to the Committee on War Claims. Ward to active service-to the Cotnmittee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. . .2431) for the relief oiA. Ca~oit~to the Com­ By Mr. SULZER: A bill (H. R. 2466) for the relief of John-Car­ mittee on War Claims. ney-to the Committee on War Claims. 1895. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 275

By Mr. SKINNER: A bill (H. R. 2467) for the relief of 0. F. Also, a bill (H. R.2505) for the relief of RobertS. McGaha, of Adams-to the Committee on War Claims. Madison County, Ala.-to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 2468) for the relief of the Primitive Baptist Also, a bill (H. R. 2506) for the relief of Robert S. Norris, of Church at Newport, N. C.-to the Committee on War Claims. Madison County, Ala.-to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 2469) for the relief of the Methodist Church Also, a bill (H. R. 2507) to refer the claim against the United of Morehead City, at Morehead City, Carteret County, N. C.-to States of Mahala H. Portlock to the Court of Claims~ to the Com- the Committee on War Claims. mittee on War Claims. - Also, a bill (H. R. 2470) for the relief of William E. Bond-to Also, a bill (H. R. 2508) for the relief of William S. Webb, of the Committee on Cl.aims. Lauderdale County, Ala.-to the Committee on War Claims. By Mr. SHANNON: A bill (H.R.2471) for the relief of the suf­ Also, a bill (H. R. 2509) for the relief of Dr. Green P. McAfee­ ferers by the capture and destruction of the Hawaiian whaling to the Committee on War Claims. vessel Ha1'Vest-to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 2510) for the relief of Samuel Washington, of Also, a bill (H. R. 2472) for the relief of the legal representa­ Madison County, Ala.-to the Committee on War Claims. tives or a-ssigns of E. D. Morgan & Co., and other persons-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 2511) for the relief of the estate of William Committee on Claims. P. Tanner, deceased, late of Limestone County, Ala.-to the Com­ By Mr. SHAFROTH: A bill (H. R. 2473) for the relief of M. D. mittee on War Claims. Crow-to the Committee on Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 2512) for the relief of Emily Sharp, widow of Also, a bill (H. R. 2474) granting an increase of pension to Joseph Sharp, of Lauderdale County, Ala.~to the Committee on Samantha Barnes-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 2475) for the relief of Mrs. Emma D. Larsh­ Also, a bill (H. R. 2513) for the relief of the estate of John T. to the Committee on Claims, Yeatman, late of Madison County, Ala.-to the Committee on Also, a bill (H. R. 2476) granting a pension to George W. Eve­ War Claims. leth-to the Committee on Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 2514) for the relief of Cassa Simpson, of Lim­ Also, a bill (H. R. 2477) for the relief of Mrs. Ellen Sexton-to derdale County, Ala.-to the Committee on War Claims. the Committee on Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 2515) for the relief of the estate of Haywood Also, a bill (H. R. 2478) for the relief of Charles M. Larsh-to Peeden-to the Committee on War Claims. the Committee on Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 2516) for the relief of Mary N. Westmore­ Also, a bill (H. R. 2479) for the relief of the First Colorado land, of Obion County, Tenn., formerly of Lauderdale County, Mounted Militia-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Ala.-to the Committee on War Claims. By Mr. TRACY: A bill (H. R. 2480) for the relief of David C. Also, a bill (H. R. 2517) for the relief of W. H. Rice, of Flor­ Allen-to the Committee on War Claims. ence, Lauilerdale County, Ala.-to the Committee on War By Mr. TAWNEY: A bill (H. R. 2481) for the relief of James Claims. Healy-to the Committee on Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 2518) for the relief of Mrs. Levina Wesson, Also, a bill (H. R. 2482) for the relief of Thomas J. Kelly-to widow of John Wesson, of Lauderdale County, Ala.-to the Com­ the Committee on Military Affairs. mittee on War Claims. By Mr. WELLINGTON: A bill (H. R. 2483}' for the relief of Also, a bill (H. R. 2519) for the relief of A. A. Greenhow, of Mrs. Mary B. Hulin~-to the Committee on Invalid P-ensions. Limestone County, Ala.-to the Committee on War Claims. By Mr. WHEELE1:t: A bill (H. R. 2484) to place Francis W. Also, a bill (H. R. 2520) for the relief of R. B. Ha.usserd, ad­ Seeley on the retired list of the Army-to the Committee on Mili­ ministrator of William R. Hausserd, deceased, late of Elkton, tary Affairs. Ala.-to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 2485) to refer the claim of Hamlin Caldwell Also, a bill (H. R. 2521) for relief of Thomas H. Streeter, of to the Court of Claims-to the Committee on War Claims. Leighton, Ala.-to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 2486) to increase the pension of Phebe Sib­ Also, a bill (H. R. 2522) for relief of the estate of Daniel J. ley-to the Committee on Pensions. Ray, deceased, late of Rogersville, Ala.-to the Committee on Also, a bill (H. R. 2487) for the relief of the heirs of William War Claims. Fai"'D.er and Jeremiah Farmer-to the Cotnmittee on Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 2523) for the relief of Robert H. Cook, heir of Also, a bill (H. R. 2488) for the relief of the trustees of the Robert Cook, deceased, late of Spring Valley, Ala.-to the Com­ Primitive Baptist Church of Huntsville, Madison County, Ala.­ mittee on War Claims. to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 2524) for the relief of David H. Walker; of ' Also, a bill (H. R. 2489) for the relief of William Moseley, jr., Spring Valley, Ala.-to the Committee on Wa.r Claims. . ' administrator of the estate of Mrs. Temperance Moseley-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 2525) for the relief of J. E. Wright, of Col­ Committee on War Claims. bert County, Ala.-to the. Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 2490) for the relief of Rice A. Coffey, admin-· Also, a bill (H. R. 2526) for relief of Ann E. Steenson~ heir of istrator of A. J. Peacock, of Ja-ckson County, Ala.-to the Com­ Arthur J. Turner, deceased, late of Colbert County, Ala.-to the mittee on War Claims. Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 2491) for the relief of the estate of F. 0. Also, a bill (H. R. 2527) for the relief of Mrs. M. E. Hall, ad· Darly, of Vermilion Parish, La.-to the Committee on War Claims. ministratrix of John W. Hall, deceased, late of Lawrence County, Also, a bill (H. R. 2492) for the relief of Samuel Green, of Madi­ Ala.-to the Committee on War Claims. son County, Ala.-to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 2528) for the relief of Mollie Hurley, heir of Also, a bill (H. R. 2493) for the relief of Matthew N. Grimmett, William D. Hurley, deceased, late of Lawrence County, Ala.-to of Madison County, Ala.-to the Committee on War Claims. the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 2494) for the relief of Daniel Hindman, of Also, a bill (H. R. 2529) for the relief of William C. Williams, Lauderdale County, Ala.-to the Committee on War Claims. of Center Store, Lauderdale County, Ala.-to the Committee on Also, a bill (H. R. 2495) for the relief of James A. Heard, of War Claims. Florence, Ala.-to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 2530) for the relief of Juley A. Gargis, of Also, a bill (H. R. 2496) for the relief of the estate of James L. Lawren-ce County, Ala.-to the Committee on War Claims. Holland, deceased, of Lauderdale County, Ala.-to the Committee Also, a bill (H. R. 2531) for the relief of R. H. Bledsoe, of Riv­ on War Claims. erton, Ala.-to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 2497) for the relief of John Jones, of Lauder­ .Also, a bill {H. R. 2532) for relief of Mrs. Clara Word, of c:l..ale County, Ala.-to the Committee on War Claims. Florence, Ala.-to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 2498) for the relief of John R. Jones, of Lau­ ·Also, a bill (H. R. 2533) for relief of George HoweU, executor derdale County, Ala.-to the Committee on War Claims. of George W. Howell, deceased, late of Lauderdale County,Ala.­ Also, a bill (H. R. 2499) for the relief of the estate of Mills Jen­ to the Committee on War Claims. kins, deceased, late of Mad.ison County, Ala.-to the Committee Also, a bill (H. R. 2534) for relief of heirs of John Moore, de-­ on War Claims. ceased, late of Lauderdale County, Ala.-to the Committee on Also, a bill (H. R. 2500) for the relief of Zachariah Jones, of War Claims. · Madison County, Ala.-to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 2535) for relief of H. J. Burns, heir of Robert Also, a bill (H. R. 2501) for the relief of Julius B. Litten, of Wilkinson, deceased, late of Lauderdale County, Ala.~to the Lauderdale County, Ala.-to the Committee on War Claims. Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 2592) for the relief of the estate of Alexander Also, a bill (H. R. 2536) for the relief of Eleuder Harvey, of Lau­ Johnson, deceased, late of Madison County,Ala.-to the Commit­ derdale County, Ala.-to the Committee on War Claims. tee on War Claims. .Also, a bill (H. R. 2537) for the relief of the estate of Vincent Also, a bill (H. R. 2503) for the relief of Jane W. Locke-to the Armistead, deceased-to t:Q.e Committee on Wat Claims. Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 2538) for the relief of Ebenezer Cunningham, Also, a bi1l (H. R. 2504) for the relief of the Masonic lodg~ of of Cherokee County, Ala.-to the Committee on War Claims. Tuscumbia, Colbert County, Ala.-to the Committee on War Also, a bill (H. R. 2539) for relief of estate of Thornton Cox--to Claims. the Committee on War Claims. . 276 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. DECEMBER 21,

Also, a bill (H. R. 2540) for the relief of William R. Beckham, Also, petition for a pension for John A. Hipkins-to the Com· of Lauderdale County, Ala.-to the Committee on War Claims. mittee on Pensions. _ . Also, a bill (H. R. 2541) for the relief of Thomas Brown-to the By Mr. TOWNE: Petition of F. W. Johnson, John Ojanpera, · Committee on War Claims. August Flood, and 365 others, of Wright County, Minn., praying ' Also, a bill (H. R. 2542) for the relief of Giles W. Bass-to the that Congress take no action to restore the greenbacks, and against Committee on War Claims. any legislation giving banks greater privileges than they now en­ Also, a bill (H. R. 2543) for the relief of Susan K. Bennett (for­ joy, and for the coinage of silver bullion now in the Treasury­ merly Phipps), of Madison County, Ala.-to the Committee on to the Committee on Banking and Currency. Claims. . By Mr. THOMAS: Petition of James J. McDonald tothe House ·Also, a bill (H. R. 2544) for the relief of William Baugh, of of Representatives of the United States, praying that he be ad­ Lauderdale County, Ala.-to the Committee on War Claims. mitted as a contestant for the seat now held byW. A. JONES, First Also, a bill (H. R. 2545) for the relief of John R. Caldwell, of ilistrict of Virginia-to the Committee on Elections. Jackson County, Ala.-to the Committee on War Claims. By Mr. WATSON of Indiana: Resolution adopted by ~uffalo Also, a bill (H. R. 2546) for the relief of the La Grange College, Tribe, No. 109, Improved Order of Red Men, indorsing the Presi­ of Colbert County, Ala.-to the Committee on War Claims. dent's message on the Venezuelan matter-to the Committee on Also, a bill (H. R. 2547) for the relief of John C. Carpenter, of Foreign Affairs. Madison County, Ala.-to the Committee·on War Claims. By Mr. WHEELER: Petition of C. McDoJ!ald, executor, of Also, a bill (H. R. 2548) for the relief of Walter 0. Carpenter, Madison County, State of Alabama, praying that the Committee of Madison County, Ala.-to the Committee on War Claims. on War Claims refer his claim, together with all papers and proofs Also, a bill (H. R. 2549) for the relief of the estate of Marins B. relating thereto which were submitted to the Southern Claims Cawthon, deceased, late of Madison County, Ala.-to the Com­ Commission, to the Court of Claims under act of March 3, 1883~ mittee on War Claims. to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 2550) for the relief of William A. Watkins, of St. Florian, Ala.-to the Committee on War Claims.

PETITIONS, ETC. SENATE. Under clause 1 of Ru1e XXII, the following petitions and papers SATURDAY, .December 21, 1895. were laid on the Clerk's desk and referred as follows: Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. W. H. MILBURN, D. D. By Mr. ADAMS: Resolutions of the Manufacturers' Club of Phil­ The Journal of yesterday's proceedings was read and approved. adelphia relating to the tariff-:-tothe Committee on Manufactures. By Mr. CROWTHER: Petition of citizens of Missouri, praying CONGRATULATION OF . for an honorable discharge for William Miers, late private, Com­ The VICE-PRESIDENT laid before the Senate the following pany F, Ninth Minnesota Volunteer Infantry-to the Committee communication from the Secretary of State; which was read, re­ on Military Affairs. ferred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be Also, petition of Patrick Rainey, late of Company K, Fifty­ printed: second Ohio Volunteer Infantry-to the Committee on Military DEPARTMENT 01!' STATE, Washington, December 21, 1895. Affairs. Srn: The Brazilian minister at this capital, acting under instructions of By Mr. DINSMORE: Petition to remove the charge of desertion his Government, informs me that on yesterday both houses of Congress of the United States of passed unanimously a motion of congratulation against Greer Smith-to the Committee on Military Affairs. on the subject of the message of President Cleveland of the 17th instant, and Also, petition to remove the charge of desertion against John D. that the Federal Senate of Brazil asks that its motion be transmitted through Culp-to the Committee on Military Affairs. the usual diplomatic channel to the Senate of the United States of America. ·By 1\Ir. DOOLITTLE: Resolution of Board of Trade of Whit­ I have, therefore, to ask that the motion of the Federal Senate of Brazil, which is in the terms following: "The Federal Senate of the United States com, State of Washington, relative to cultivation of flax fiber in of Brazil sends its greeting to the Senate of the United States of America certain counties in said State-to the Committee on Agriculture. upon the worthy message of President Cleveland, who so strenuously guards ByMr.HENDERSON: ResolutionsbytheCommanderyofiowa, the dignity, the sovereignty, and the freedom of the American nations," be laid before the Senate. Military Order of the Loyal Legion, favoring the establishment of Very respectfully, RICHARD OLNEY. a national military park at Vicksburg, Miss.-to the Committee Bon. ADLAI E. STEVENSON, on Military Affairs. Vice-President of the United States, . By Mr. HICKS: Petition of H. L. Africa, James Pritchard, Erne REPORT OF THE COLUMBIA RAILWAY COMPANY. D. Mock, A. C. Reefsnyder,E. E. Kendig, J. L. Barchus, Alex. N. Hast, and 950 other citizens of Blair, Cambria, Bedford, and Som­ The VICE-PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a communication erset counties, of the State of Pennsylvania, praying for the enact­ from the Secretary of the Interior; transmitting the report of the mentofalaw (the WilliamA. Stone billoftheFifty-thirdCongress) Columbia Railway Company of Washington, D. C., for the fiscal restricting foreign immigration-to the Committee on Immigra­ year ended June 28, 1895, together with an abstract of receipts tion and Naturalization. and disbursem12nts of the corporation from its organization, Sep­ Also, petition of Alma Lodge, No. 523, I. 0. 0. F., of Johnstown, tember 1, 1871, to March 1, 1895; which, with the accompanying Pa., praying for passage of House bill granting relief to Odd Fel­ report, was referred to theoCommittee on the District of Columbia, lows' Hall Association of New Orleans, La.-to the Committee on and ordered to be printed. Military Affairs. PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS. By :.1\fr. KIEFER: Resolution passed by the Chamber of Com­ The VICE-PRESIDENT presented a petition, in the form of . merce of St. Paul, Minn., requesting Congress to grant the people resolutions adopted at the fifteenth annual convention of the of Cuba belligerent rights-to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. American of Labor, praying for a speedy recognition By Mr. LACEY: Petition of Marcus D. Box, of Davis County, as belligerents of the Cuban patriots in their struggle for freedom; Iowa, for increase of pension-to the Committee on Invalid Pen­ which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. sions. Mr. LODGE presented the petition of Benjamin J. Ben·y, presi­ By Mr. MAGUIRE: Petition and affidavit of Edmund P. Tier­ dent of the Massachusetts Ship Canal Company, praying that ney, in support of his application for a pension by special act of reasonable aid be afforded oy the Government in the construction Congress-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions-. of a ship canal from Massachusetts Bay to Nantucket Sound, By Mr. PUGH: Petition of sundry citizens of the town of Russell, across Cape Cod, at Bass River, Massachusetts; which was re- Greenup County, Ky., for relief concerning an alleged interfer­ ferred to the Committee on Commerce. · ence with the channel of the Ohio River by furnaces on the Ohio He also presented a memorial of 374legal voters and citizens of shore, near said point-to the Committee on Rivers. and Harbors. Lancaster County, S.C., remonstrating against the abridgment By Mr. REYBURN: Petition asking for an act to reclassify the of the rights of citizenship in the State of South Carolina; which railway mail clerks-to the Committee on the Post-Office and was referred to the Committee on Privileges and Elections. Post-Roads. Mr. PASCO presented a petition of the Board of Trade of Eufaula, By Mr. RUSSELL of Connecticut: Petition of Connecticut gen­ Ala., and a petition of the Board of Trade of Apalachicola, Fla., eral assembly for investigation of the case of Dorence Atwater­ praying that an appropriation of $300,000 be made for improving to the Committee on Military Affairs. and deepening the harbor of Apalachicola, Fla.; which were re- By Mr. SMITH of Illinois: Petition to reclassify and prescribe ferred to the Committee on Commerce. · salaries of railway postal clerks-to the Committee on the Post- Mr. TELLER presented a petition of citizens of Pueblo, Colo., Office and Post-Roads. • praying for the ~eedy recognition as belligerents of the Cuban By Mr. SPERRY: Petition of citizens of New Haven, Conn., patriots in their struggle for freedom; which was referred to the asking Congress to ta-ke such action as shall result in the speedy Committee on Foreign Relations. recognition as belligerents of the Cuban patriots in their strug­ · Mr. COCKRELL._ I present a communication from the secre­ gle for freedom-to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. tary of the board of directors of the Merchants' Exchange of St.