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By Mr. J. R. WILLIAMS: A bill (H. R. 3794) granting a pension to SENATE. Thomas Ridenour-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 3795) for the relief of William Wood-to the Com- MONDAY, January 6, 1890. mittee on Yaval Affairs. · Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. G. BUTLER, D. D. By Mr. YODER: A bill (H. R. 3796) granting a pension to Abraham J. The Journal of the proceedings of Saturday, December 21, 1889, was Zimmerman-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. read and al,)proved. By Mr. FORNEY: A bill (H. R. 3797) making an appropriation for the improvement of the Coosa River, in Alabama and Georgia-to the EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS. Committee on Rivers and Harbors. The VICE-PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a communication from By Mr. GHOSVENOR: A bill (H. R. 3798) granting a pension to the Secretary of State, transmitting, in accordance with the provisions ..... I Jane M. Cram-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. of the act of June 12, 1887, the report of Commissioner McCoppin and Also, a bill (H.R.3799) granting a pension to Mrs. Amanda A. Riley a detailed statement of Lieut. A. Marix, of the Navy, in regard to the the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Centennial International Exhibition held at Melbourne, Australia, in By Mr. MONTGOMERY: A bill (H. R. 3800) for the relief of the es 1888; which, on motion of Mr. SHERM.AN, was, with the accompanying tate of Anthony McElroy and others-to the Committee on War Claims. papers, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to By Mr. MORROW: A bill (H. R. 3801) for the reliefofthe Western be printed. · Beet Sugar Company of California-to the Committee on Ways and He also laid before the Senate a communication from the Secretary Means. of the Treasury, transmitting, in response to a re::solution of December By Mr. J. D. TAYLOR: A bill (H. R. 3802) granting a pension to 21, 1889, a list of the judicial officers who have been retired on pay George E. Littleton-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. since the 31st of March, 1888, etc.; which, with the accompanying papers, was, on motion of Mr. RE.AG.AN, ordered to lie on the table and be printed. He also laid before the Senate a communication from the Secretary PETITIONS, ETC. of the Interior, transmitting, in response to a resolution of December The following petitions and papers were laid on the Clerk's desk, 19, 1889, certain information relative to the local status of the Indians under the rule, and referred as follows: and lands located in the Indian Territory; which was referred to the By Mr. T. H.B. BROWNE: Petition of John R. Johnson, of Ac Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. comac Connty, Virginia, that his claim be referred to the Court of NEBRASKA. BOUND.A.RY LINE. Claims-to the Committee on War Claims. By Mr. CATE (by request): Petition of Charles S. Bonner, that his The VICE-PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a communication claim be referred to the Court of Claims-to the Committee on War from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to a reso Claims. lution of December 5, 1889, certain information in relation to the bound By Mr. CHIPMAN: Petition of Mrs. Rose Goodwill, for pension ary line between the States of Iowa and Nebraska. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. The Chief Clerk proceeded to read the communication. By Mr. CHEADLE: Petition of David G. Murphy and 19 others, citi Mr. ¥ANDERSON. The communication which is being read is one zens of Stockwell, Ind., for the passage of a service and disability in response to a Senate resolution that I see uns into considerable pension law-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. length. I ask that it may simply be printed in the RECORD and lie By Mr. HALL: Petition of P. Cudmore and 313 others, citizens of on the table. Minnesota, praying forthe purchase of Cuba-to the Committee on For There being no objection, the communication was ordered to lie on eign Affairs. the table and be printed in the RECORD, as follows: '. By Mr. HEARD: Petition of Jesse W. Barclay, for estate of Alexan DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, . !,, .. der Barclay, for reference of claim to the Court of Claims-to the Com 1Vashington, December 19, 1889. mittee on War Claims. SIR: In answer to the resolution of the Senate passed December 5 1889 in the following words, viz: ' ' By Mr. D. B. HENDERSON: Memorial of deaf soldiers, sailors, and "Whereas by the act approved April I!>, 1864 (13 Stats. at L., p. 47), entitled marines, for pension-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 'An act to enable the people of Nebraska to form·a constitution and State gov By Mr. MORGAN: Petitions of Rufns M. Verner and J.C. Mend ernment, and for the admission of such State into the Union on an equal foot-. ing with the original States.' such action was thereafter and 'thereunder had a.tJ len, administrator of estate of M. J. Parks, La Fayette County, Missis that Nebraska. was admitted into the Union by an act approved February 9 1867 · sippi, for reference of claims to the Conrt of Claims-to the Committee (14 Sta.ts. at L., p. 391), and under section 2 of the aforesaid act of Aoril 19. is64, on War Claims. the eastern boundary of Nebraska, constitutmg in great part the western bound ary of Iowa, was fixed and determined to be as follows, viz: Down the chan By Mr. OSBORNE: Memorial of the National Grange, Patrons of Hus nel of the Keya Paka. River, with its meanderings, to its junction with the Nio bandry, to prohibit adulteration of foods, etc.-to the Committee on brara River; thence down the middle of the channel of said Niobrara River ' Agriculture. and following the meanderings thereof, to itsjunction with the Missouri River! , thence down the middle of the cha.nnel of said Missouri River. and following l By Mr. PICKLER: Petitions of veterans of the late war, now citizens the meanderings thereof, to a. point formed by the intersection of the western of South Dakota, and of 136 soldiers, citizens of South Dakota, for boundary of the State of Missouri with the fortieth degree of north latitude· and further pension legislation-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. "Whereas at various points on the eastern boundary of Nebraska the middle ' of the channel of the Missouri River has so mat.erially changed from natural Also, memorial of Highland Alliance, of Canton, S. Dak., that sta causes as to leave lands originally within Nebraska., according to the provisions tistics relative to farm mortgages be collected for the Eleventh Census of said law, east of the present middle of the main channel of said river and lands to the Committee on the Eleventh Census. originally in Iowa west of said middle of the main channel of said river caus ...- ing serious d!sp~tes.co~ct;rning tJ:ie .ownership of such lands and threatening Also, memorial of the Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church the defeat of Justice m civil and cr1mmal cases on account of questions of juris of South Dakota, for an increase in army chaplains-to the Committee diction : Therefore, on Military Affairs. . "Resolved, That the Secretm·y of the Interior be, and be is hereby, directed to mfoi:m th~ Senate as soon as practicable what information, if any, be bas con By Mr. ROGERS: Petition of the heirs of Lazarus Williams, of Pu cermng said matter, not ~nly as to such questions ?f o~nership and jurisdiction, laski County, ArkanS38, for reference of claim to the Court of Claims-to but as to lands of the Umted States affected by said rwer movement with such the Committee on War Claims. suggestions as he may desire to make concerning the settlement c/i questions of jurisdiction and ownership arising from said change of channel an
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DEPART11IENT OF THE INTERIOR, GENERAL LAND OFFICE, mended by the pension committee of the Grand Army of the Republie; Washington, D. O., December 14, 1889. which was referred to the Committee on Pensions. SIR: I have the honor t-0acknowledge the receipt, by reference from the De· partment for report, of a. resolution of the United States Senate, dated Decem He also presented a petition of the Ohio Baptist Convention, repre ber 5, 18~9. senting 470 ministers, 614 churches, and 54,000 members, praying for The preamble of said resolution l-efer.:i to the a.ct approved April 19, 1864 {13 an increase in the number of chaplains in the Army; which was re Stats., p. 47 ), entitled "An act to ena.ble the people of Nebraska to form a. con· stitution and State government, and for the admission of such State into the ferred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Union on an equal footing with the original States," the second section of which He also presented a petition of 30 ex-soldiers qf Ohio, praying fo.r the ad defines the ea.stern boundary of Nebraska., and to the act of February 9, repeal of the limit.ation on the time for granting arrears of pension; 1867 (14 Stats., p. 391), admitting Nebraska. into the Union, and cites the fact that material changes. from n&tura.l causes, have tnken pl&ce in the middle which was referred to the Committee on Pensions. of the channel of the Missouri River, which midchannel, by the terms of said He also presented the petition of Typographical Union No. 5, of act of April 19, 1864, forms the boundary between the States of Iowa and Columbus, Ohio, praying that 'rages in the Government Printing Of Nebraska, thns leaving lands originally in Nebraska., a.ccording to the provis ions of law, east of the present middle of the channel of the river, and lands fice be restored to the scale existing prior to 1877; which was referred originally in Iowa we t of the said middle of the main channel. and leading to to the Committee on Printing. serious disputes concerning the ownership of such lands, and threatening the Mr. BUTLER presented a petition of members of the bar of Green defeat of justice in civil and criminal cases on account of questions of jurisdic ville, S. C., and a letter from the district judge at that place, praying tion. The resolution directs the Secretary of the Interior to inform the Senate what for the passage of the bill to regulate the sittings of the courts of the information. if any, he has concerning said matter as to question of ownership United States within the aistrict of South Carolina; which were re and jurisdiction, the effect of such chanires in the channel upon the lands of t,he United States, with such suggestions as he may desire to make concerning the ferred to the Committee on the Judiciary. sett!ement of questions of jurisdiction and ownership&rising from said cba.nge Mr. STEWART presented the petition of C. A. Power, secret.ary of ,· of channel, 11Dd to report for the consideration of the Senate a boundary line the Indiana Pension .Asoociation and corresponding secretary of the between the States of Iowa. and Nebraska that shall be fixed, detennined, and National Service Pension Association, suggesting ways and means to untluctuating. • ...... - In response to the direction of the Department to report in the matters referred settle the pension question on principles of equity and justice, and to f-0 in said resolution, I have to state that l have ca.used an examination to be provide means to pay all soldiers service and disability pensions, includ made of the official plats of surveys along the Missouri River in the States of Iowa and Nebraska.and find that the surveys of the townships in Iowa adjoining ing arrears of pension, under a general law; which was referred to the tiLe river were made at various dates from 1845 to 1858. In townships 78, 79, and Committee on Pensions. 80 north, range 45 west fifth principal meridian, Iowa (origina.llv surveyed in Mr. CULLOM presented a petition of ex-soldiers of Illinois, praying 1851, 1852, and 1853), addition&l surveys were made along the river in 1858, which for the-passage of what is known as the Indiana-Kansas service-pension indicate a considerable change in the course of the river in said townships be tween the dates of the two surveys, the area em braced in the additional survey disability bill; which was referred to the Committee on Pensions. being 4,7J2.81 acres. These additional surveys were made, however, six years He also presented a resolution of the Board of Trade of Peoria, ID., before the Nebraaka. enabling act was passed. The onJy survey upon the Iowa favoring encouragement and aid by Congress to the merchant marine, side of the river made since l!S58 WM that ofa tract (1,141.03 acres) in township 82 north, ranges 45 .and 46 west of the fifth principal meridian. which was inad and the promotion and ex.tension of commerce; which was referred to vertently omitted in the original survey of 1S53, the first survey having been the Committee on Commerce. closed upon a sloul{h which wa.s designated by the deputy surveyor as the river He also presented a resolution of Hicks Post, Grand Army of the proµer, but it was shown to the satisfaction of the Department that said tract sho uJd have been em bra,ced in the original township survey upon the Iowa. side. Republic, of Kinmundy, Ill., favoring the passage of the Grand Army In the State of Nebraska. the surveys of the public lands adjoining the river of the Republic per diem service-pension bill; which was referred to were made from 1855 to 18i>B, the greater portion being ma.de during the year the Committee on Pensions. 1856. Within the Omaha and Winnebago Indian reservations, bounded on the east by the river, the surveys were made in1the y~ar 1867, and further surveys in He also presented resolutions of Bloomington Typographical Union, the same townships were made in 1875 for purposes of allotment to the Indian'!; ~o. 12!, favoring the passage of the bill prohibiting the printing by the but the plat!'l of the two surveys show no material change in the course of the Government of return requests on envelopes; which were referred to rive1· in this locality between the dates 1867 and 1B75. This office is in pos eliSion of no o:ffi.cial data regarding tbe changes in the the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. course of the river which hn,ve ta.ken place since the date of the Nebraskn, en Mr. REAGAN presented a petition of merchants and business men abling act, and is unabletocommunicateanyrelia.bleinformationa.stothe effect of El Paso, Tex., praying for relief against the Zona Libre of Mexico; of such changes upon the ownership and jurisdiction, or to state in what man ner or degree the ia.nds of the United States have been affected by the movement. which was referred to the Committee on Commerce. · In regard to the establishment of a boundary between said States which shall He also presented a petition of the National Farmers' Alliance, pray ·. be fixed, determined, and uniluctuating, two methods occur to me, as follows: ing that the Superintendent of the Census be empowered to ascertain 1. That the middle of the main channel o ·· the Missouri River as it existed at the date of the Nebraska enabling act be adhered to {both States consenting) as what portion of the people own their own homes, what portion are the Ii ne defining the jurisdictions of the States, respectively, the position of said tenants, and to what extent the homes of the people are mortgaged; midchanuellineatthatdate to be ascertained by a.ctual survey upon the ground, which was referred to the Committee on the Census. aide -. ._ .•... . f .· ( . ',.. ~ 1890. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 383 He also presented the memorial of H. L. Wilson, John T. Robinson, of the late Rear-Admiral Donaldson, praying to be allowed an increased Charles Morgan, Peter Seide,.. and 217 other citizens of Davenport and pension; which was referred to the Committee on Pensions. vicinity, State of Washington, remonstrating against the pnssage by He also presented the petition of Julia St.irzel, of Baltimore, Md., .· CongreS.s of anyactregardingtheobservanceoftheSabbath; which was praying to be allowed a widow's pension; which was referred to the referred to the Committee on Education and Labor. Committee on Pensions. He also presented the petition of E. B. Williams, W. E. Marsh, H. He also presented. the petition of James Hooper, of Baltimore, Md., S. McClure, and 54 other citizens of the State of Washington, praying praying to be allowed compensation for the vafoe of the bark General Congress to enact laws t.o prevent the depression of the value of farm Berry, destroyed by the Confederate cruiser Florida in 1864; which was products by imposing taxes on those engaged in selling promises for the referred to the .Committee on Claims. future delivery of such products sufficient t.o prevent them from en- Mr. BECK presented a petition of the Kentucky Baptist State Con gaging in such employment; which was referred to the Committee on v~ntion, praying for the passage of a bill to enlar_ge and improve the Agriculture and Forestry. army chaplaincy; which was referred to the Committee on Military Mr. WILSON, of Iowa, presented a petition of 46 citizens of Iowa; Affairs. a petition of 44 citizens of Deloit, Crawford County, Iowa, and a peti- l\!r. INGALLS presented a petition of 201 members of Post No. 40, tion of 31 citizens of Creston, Iowa, praying for the passage of an act Grand Army of the Republic, of Bald win, Kans., and a petition of 125 prohibiting speculation in raw and manufactured farm products; which members of the Union Soldiers' Association, of McPherson, Kans., were referred to the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. praying for the passage of what is known as the Indiana-Kansas service- He also presented a petition of 91 citizens of Fairfield, Iowa, praying pension bill; which were referred to the Committee on Pensions. for the passage of an act granting a pension to Cynthia A. Gudgett; He also presented a petition of M. B. Williamson and 25 other citi- which was referred to the Committee on Pensions. zens of Bronson, Kans., praying for the passage of the pension bill rec- -- He also presented a petition of 19 citizens of Jefferson County, Iowa, ommended by the Grand Army of the Republic; which was referred praying for the passage of an act granting a pension to Dr. S. W. Tay- to the Committee on Pensions. lor; which was referred i;o the Committee on Pensions. He also presented the petition of Mrs. Mary Quandt, of Herman, He also presented a petitionof60 citiz.ensof Jefferson County, Iowa, Mo., praying to be allowed a pension; which was referred to the Com prayiug for the passage of an act granting a pension to Mrs. Catharine mittee on Pensions. Baitinger; which was referred to the Committee on Pensions. He also presented a petition of the mayor and council of Topeka, Mr. STOCKBRIDGE presented a petition of farmers of Eaton County, Kans., urging the selection of Chicago as the location of the world's Michigan; a petition of farmers of Lebanon, Mich.,; a petition of farm- fair; which was referred to the Select Committee on the Quadro-Cen ers of Holly, Mich.; a petition of farmers of Cooper, Mich.; a petition tennia1. of farmers of Comstock, Mich.; a petition of farmers of Brady, Mich.; Mr. PADDOCK presented resolutions adopted by the Omaha (Nebr.) a pet ition of farmers of Carson, Mich.; a petition of farmers of Cedar Board of Trade, favoring a reduction of letter-postage; which were re Springs, Mich.; a petition of farmers of Alamo, 1\ficb.; a petition of ferred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. farmers of Gun Plains, Mich.; a petition of farmers of Cheshire, Mich., He also presented a resolution adopted by the Omaha (Nebr.) Board " and a petition of farmers of Trowbridge, Mich., praying for the passage of Trade, in favor of the enactment of a uniform bankrupt law; which of a law to prohibit speculation in farm products; which were referred was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. to the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. He also presented resolutions of the Nebraska Veterans' Association, Mr. CASEY presented the petition of Abercrombie Post, Grand Army in favor of the repeal of the limitation in the arrearages of pensions act, of the Republic, of Lisbon, N. Dak., praying for the enactment of a and for other pension legislation; which were referred to the Commit law granting arrears of pensions and placing all pensioners on an tee on Pensions. eq uu.li ty; also praying for the passage of the proposed service-pension He also presented resolutions adopted by Sedgwick Post, No. 1, Grand bill; which was referred to the Committee on Pensions. Army of the Republic, of Kearney, Mich., in fuvor of the abolition of Mr. McMILLAN presented the petition of George Romph and 49 discriminations in the pension laws; which were referred to the Com. other farmers of Michigan; the petition of William Shrader, G. C. Pot- j mittee on Pensions. ter, Charles Osborn, and 107 other farmers of Michigan; the petition Mr. MANDERSON presented a petition of the Baptist State Conven of Wesley Collins, David E. Thurber, and 52 other farmers of Michl- tion of Nebraska, praying for legislation in the matter of army cbap :.. gan; the petition of Sherman Sherrard and 20 other farmers of Michi-' lains; which was referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. gan; the petition of A. H. Finn and 21 other farmers of Michigan; the He also presented a petition of veterans of the fate war, citizens petition of T. B. Goodrich and 45 other farmers of Ovid, Mich.; the of 0' Neill, Holt County, Nebraska; a petition of veterans of the late petition of Horace Winans and 29 other farmers of Michigan; the peti- war, citizens of Milford, Seward County, Nebraska, and a petition of tion of Lewis Ferry and 29 other farmers of Howard City, Mich.; and veteraus of the late war, citizens of Keith County, Nebraska, praying the petition of F. ff. Barthy, August Slensling, and 64 other farmers for pension legislation before there is any reduction of the revenue; : . of Michigan, praying for legislation to prevent dealing in options on which were referred to the Committee on Pensions. farm produce; which were referred to the Committee on Agriculture He also presented a petition of the Board of Trade of Omaha, Nebr., and Forestry. praying for the reduction of letter-posta_ge to 1 cent per ounce; which .He also presented a petition of Phil. Kearney Post, Union Veterans' was referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. Union, of Tustin, Mich., and also a petition of the Union Veterans' He also presented a petition of the Board of Trade of Omaha, Nebr., Union, of Ypsilanti, Mich., praying for legislation in favor of a per praying for the passage of what is known as the Torry bankrupt bill; diem pension; which were referred to the Committee on Pensions. which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. !\fr. CHANDLER presented the petition of A. E. Albert and 10 other Mr. STANFORD presented a petition of the Chamber of Commerce citizens of New Orleans, La., praying for the passage oftbe Blair edu- of San Francisco, Cal., praying for the continuation of the branch cational bill; which was ordered to lie on the table. hydrographic office at that place; which was referred to the Commit . He also presented the petition of Henry E. Rhoades, an assistant en- tee on Naval Affairs. , gineer (retired) of the United States Navy, praying to be transferred He also presented a petition of the Board of Forestry of California, from the 50 per cent. to the 75 per cent. class of his grade on the re- praying for certain legislation in relation to for08try; which was re- , tired-list of the Navy; which was referred to the Committee on Naval ferred to the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. Affairs. He also presented a petition of the fruit-growers of California, pray- He alsopresented the petition of Jd'hnH. Spalter, heir of Lieut. Mos& ing for the irrigation of arid Janos; which was referred to the Select Child, deceased, praying compensation for services rendered by 1\Ioses Committee on Irrigation and. Reclamation of Arid Lands. Child in the Revolutionary war; which was referred to the Committee He also presented a petition of the Chamber of Commerce of San on Revolutionary CJaims. Francisco, Cal., praying for certain legislation relative to the time Mr. CALL. I present a communication from the Knights of Labor allowed for the discharge of cargoes from foreign ports; which was , of Jacksonville, Fla., stating that at a recent meeting of Local Assem- referred to the Committee on Commerce. I bly No. 3578, Knights of Labor, of Jacksonville, Fla., the following He also presented a resolution of the Chamber of Commerce of San resolution was unanimously passed: Francisco, Cal., favoring f.he establishment of a new cable from Tatoosh Resolved, That this assembly respectfully repre&ents to the Congress of the Island, St~te of Washington, to the main land; which was referred to United States that it is the belief of the members of this assembly that a good the Comm1ttee on Commerce. I purpose would b~ sei;v~d in compiling :with the next census reports an official He also presented a petition of the Board of Trade of Oakland, Cal., statement of the md1V1dual. ~ortgage md.ebtedness of the countJ:y; ai;id also prayjng for the deepening of the harbor channel at that place· which that a. statement of the mumc1pal, township, county, and State bonded rndebt- ! . . 1 edness would go far to show the producing classes the extent to which they are was referred to the Committee on Com.mere. paying tribute. to ~dle capital, which, s~rving as a great sp?nge, or dev_il-fish, is He also presented a petition of fruit-growers of California., praying •/ constantly absorbmg the results of their labor an.d enterprise . .And.this asse!'.Il- that an appropriation be made to import parasites for scale-insects· bly respectfully requests the Congress of the Umted States to reqmre such rn- . . . . ' formation to be incorporated in the census report soon to be made. which was referred to the Comfillttee on Agriculture and Forestry. Mr. BLAIR. I present three petitions of prominent citizens of Chi- I move the reference of the petition to the Committee on the Census. cago, ill., a petition of citizens of Indianapolis, Ind., and four peti The motion was agreed to. tions of citizens of Minneapolis, Minn., and other parts of the coun Mr. GORMAN presented the petition ofHarrietE. Donaldson, widow try, ttll praying for a statistical investigation of the industrial and _, ., . , .. ~ ·.. ' ' 384 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. JANUARY 6, technical schools. I move the reference of the petitions to the Com order is reached, I shall introduce a bill relating to the same subject. mittee on Education and Labor. I move that the petition be referred to the Committee on Commerce. The motion was agreed to. The motion was agreed to. Mr. BLAIR presented a petition of the Baptist State convention of Mr. EDMUNDS presented the petition of Adeline Marston of Tun- · New Hampshire,.o:fficially signed, praying for favorable action on the bridge, Vt., praying for restoration to the pension-roll; which was re reorganization or improvement of the chaplaincy of the Army; which ferred to the Committee on Pensions. was referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Mr. VEST. I present a petition signed by a large number of citi He also presented a petition of the Woman's Christian Temperance zens of Springfield, Mo., in regard to the location of the public build Union of Fallston, Md., praying for the passage of a Sunday-rest law; ing at that place. I move its reference to the Committee on Public which was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor. Buildings and Grounds. He also presented a petition of 20 citizens of Somerville and Bos The motion was agreed to. ton, in Massachusetts, praying for a constitutional amendment to be Mr. MANDERSON. I present certain papers to accompany Senate submitted to the States which shall prevent the interference of any re bill 1103, to pension Robert H. Stewart, heretofore introduced. I move ligious sect with the common-school system; which was referred to tbe that the papers be reforred to the Committee on Pensions. Committee on Education and Labor. The motion was agreed to. He also presented a petition of the president, dean, and members of Mr. MANDERSON. On the 12th day of December, 1889, the Sena the faculty of the State University, of Louisville, Ky., and of other tor from Indiana [Mr. VOORHEES] not now in his seat presented a . citizens of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Texas, praying for the passage of petition signed by citizens of Thurston County, in the State of Nebraska the educational bill; which ·was ordered to lie on the table. charging improper interference with the election held at the India~ He also presented resolutions adopted by the board of directors of agency of which Indian Agent Ashley is the agent. I now present affi the Boston (Mass.) Chamber of Commerce, favoringthe passage of the davits and papers bearing upon that subject, and move the reference educational bill; which were ordered to lie on the table and to be of the papers to the Committee on Indian Affairs, as the petition went printed in the RECORD, as follows: to that committee. Resolutions adopted by the board of direct.ors of the Boston Chamber of Com The motion was agreed to. merce, December 31, 1889. Mr. PLD.l\!B. I present a petition, numerously signed by citizens of Whereas education is the well-spring of intelligence, and intelligepce the first Kansas, praying for the enactment of a law prohibiting speculation in 1 and indispensable requisite of true citizenship and that enlightenment which farm products. I move that the petition be referred to the Committee is essential and vita.I in the proper exercise of the rights, duties, and responsibili ties of every citizen under our republican form of government; and on Agriculture and Forestry. ·whereas education is the base of constitutional liberty and prosperity, and The motion was agreed to. vastly more important and essential where every citizen is a part of the elective and the governing forces of our country; and IDAHO CONSTITUTION. \Vherea.s there exists in many of the States of our Union a very large num ber of our inhabitants, both white and black, who have been and are still de Mr. PLATT. I present a certified copy of a constitution for the prived of the means and opportunities of obtaining even the elements of a com mon-school education: Therefore, proposed State of Idaho, framed and adopted by the constitutional con .Re.•olved, That we urge upon Congress, now in session, to promptly adopt such vention which wasconvene ', ,' ... .' -. ' . . . ..- .· , ..."'{, ,., .. , - 1890. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 385 BILLS INTRODUCED. Betsy E. Cole; which was read twice by its title, and referred to the Committee on Pensions. · .Mr. MORRILL introduced a bill (S. 1617) for the relief of George He also introduced a bill (S. 1640) granting a pension to Helen A. W. Saulpaw; which was read twice by its title, and rnferred to the Beebe; which was read twice by its title, and referred to the Commit Committee on Claims. tee on Pensions. Mr .. VANCE introduced a bill (S. 1618) for the relief of Margaret Mr. HAMPTON introduced a bill (S. 1641) to empower Robert Adger Kennedy; which was read twice b,r its title, a?d, with the accompa- and others to bring suit in the Court of Claims for rent alleged to be nying papers, referred to the Committee on Claims. . . . due them; which was read twice by its title, and referred to the Com Mr. BATE introduced a bill (S. 1619) for the relief of St. Cecilia's mittee on Claims. Academy; which was read twice by its title, ano referred to the Com Mr. REAGAN introduced a bill (S. 1642) to prevent the transporta mittee on Claims. tion of merchandise in bond through the ports and territory of the He also introduced a. bill (S. 1620) for the relief of J. Kropp, admin United States into the Republic of Mexico, and to restore that privi istrator of Christian Kropp, deceased; which was read twice by its title, lege whenever the Zo~a Libre ~long the boun~ary be.twe~n the two and referred to the Committee on Claims. countries shall be abolished; which was read twice by its title: and re He also introduced a bill (S. 1621) for the relief of Elisha M. Shad ferred to the Committee on Commerce. den; which was read twice by its title, and referred to the Committee He also introduced a bill (S. 1643) to amend section 9 of the act of on Claims. Congress of February 4, 1887, entitled "An act to regulate commerce;" He also mtroduced a bill (S. 1622) for the relief of Maggie B. C~ap which was read twice by its title, and referred to tbe Committee on man; which was read twice by its title, and referred to the Committee Interstate Commerce. .. on Military Affairs. He also introduced a bill (S. 1644) concerning the irrigation of arid Mr. CALL introduced a bill (S. 1623) for the rnlief of the heirs of lands in the valley of the Rio Grande River, the construction of a dam John S. Sammis, a citizen of Florida; which was read twice by its across said river at or near El Paso, Tex., for the storage of its waste title and referred to the Committee on Claims. waters, and for other purposes; which was read twice by its title, and fu. W ALTHA.LL introduced a bill (S. 1624) for the relief of Amos referred to the Select Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation of Arid L. Moody, administrator of Argy L. Garner,. deceased; '!hich was read Lands. twice by its title, and referred to the Committee on Claims. He also introduced a bill (S. 1645) to provide for the sale of the site Mr. PUGH introduced a bill (S. 1625) to divide the State of Alabama of Fort Bliss, Tex., the sale or removal of the improvements thereof, into two judicial districts, which shall be called the southern and and for a new site and the construction of suitable buildings thereon; northern districts of Alabama, an~ to divide the said southern district which was read twice by its title, and referred to the Committee on into two divisions and to prescribe the times and places of holding Military Affairs. courts in said southern district, and for other purposes; which was Mr. CULLOM introduced a bill (S. 1646) to amend the military record read twice by its title, and referred to the Committee O'f! the ,Judiciary. of John W. Runyon; which was read twice by its title, and referred to Mr. HARRIS introduced a bill (S. 1626) for the relief of Theodore the Committee on Military Affairs. A. Kendig; which was reacl twice by its title, and referred to the Com He also introduced a bill (S. 1647) granting a pension t-0 Samh•A. mittee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. Hanger; which was read twice by its title, and referred to the Commit Mr. FRYE introduced a bill (S. 1627) to provide for ocean mail serv tee on Pensions. ice between the United States and foreign ports, and to promote com He also introduced a bill (S. 1648) to remove the charge of desertion merce; which was read twice by its title, and referred to the Commit against Norman Mann; which was read twice by its title, and, with tee on Commerce. the accompanying papers, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. He also introduced a bill (S. 1628) for the encouragement of com He also introduced a bill (S. 1649) for the erection of a public build merce, the protection of ~avigation, a':ld the improve~ent of t~e ~er ing at the city of Dixon, Ill.; which was read twice by its title, and chant marine in the foreign trade; which was read twice by its title referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. and referred to the Committee on Commerce. He also introduced a bill (S. 1650) to repeal so much of section-:3915 -- He also introduced a bill (S. 1629) to amend section4414, TitleLII, of the Revised States of the United States as permits the Postmaster of the Revised Statues of the United States, "Regulation of steam-ves General to have return requests printed-On envelopes; which was read sels ·" which was read twice by its title, and, with the accompanying twice by its title, and referred 1.o the Committee on Post-Offices and pap~rs, referred to the 0Montana, and Washington to form con service by the governor under the proclamation of the President of stitutions and State governments, and to be admitted into the Union June 15, 1863; which was read twice by its title, and referred to the on an equal footing with the original States, and to make donations Commit~ee on Military Affairs. of public lands to such States," approved February 22, 1889; which Mr. DOLPH introduced a bill (S. 1635) to extend the time for filing was read twice by its title, and referred to the Committee on Territo certain claims for compensation for horses and other property lost in ries. the military service of the United States; which wa.s read twice by its He also introduced a bill (S. 1657) to ratify and confiqn an agree title, and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. ment with the Indians in Fort Berthold agency, in North Dakota; Mr. QUAY introduced a bill (S. 1636) for the relief of certain offi which was read twice by its title, and referred to the Committee on In cers on the retired-list of the Army; which was read twice by its title, dian Affairs. and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. He also introduced a bill (S. 1658) establishing a customs-collection He also introduced a bill (S. 1637) for the relief of John Armstrong; district to consist of the States of North Dakota and South Dakota, and which was read twice by its title, and referred to the Committee on for other purposes; which was read twice by its title, and referred to Claims. the Committee on Commerce. He nlso introduced a. bill (S. 1638) to provide for the erection of a He also introduced a bill (S. 1659) providing for the entry of the pub· public building for the use of the post-office and Government offices in lie lands in the State of North Dakota under the homestead and pre the borough of Beaver Falls, Pa.; which was read twice by its title, emption laws; which was read twice by its title, and referred to the and referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. Committee on Public Lands. Mr. McMILLAN introduced a bill (S. 1639) granting a pension to Mr. COKE introduced a bill (S. 1660) providing for the erection of XXI--25 ,• • ...... ' ... > • _ I I •• 1 386 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. JANUARY 6, a public building at P.aris, Tex.; wbich was read twice by its title, zel; which was read twice by its title, and referred to the Committee and referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. on Pensions. l\Ir. ALLEN introduced a bill (S. 1661) for the relief of George A. Mr. MORGAN introduced a bill (S. 1685) to increase the pension of Barnes; which was read twice by its title, and referred to the Commit Zo S. Cook; which was read twice by its title, and, with the accom tee on Claims. panying papers, referred to the Committee on Pensions. He also (by request) introduced a bill'(S.1662) to authorize the con 1'.Ir. McPHERSON introduced a bill (S. 1686) j?ranting a pension to struction of bridges across the Columbia River and its tributaries by Richard H. Francis, late private Company I, One hundred and eighty the Oregon Railway Extensions Company; which was read twice by third Regiment, Pennsylvania. Volunteers; which was read twice by its title, and referred to the Commi.,ttee on Commerce. its title, and, with the accompanying papers, referred to the Com Mr. SHERMAN introduced a bill (S. 1663) to secure for the District mittee on Pensions. of Columbia a complete revision and consolidation of the laws relating He also introduced a bill (S. 1687) respecting maritime contracts· to municipal affaira in force therein on the 1st day of December, 1889; which was read twice by its title, and, with the accompanying papers: which was read twice by its title, and referred to the Committee on referred to the Committee on Commerce. the District of Columbia. Mr. VEST introduced a bill (S. 1688) for the relief of Jacob Kern; He also introduced a bill (S. 1664) granting a. pension to James Kil which was read twice by its title, and, with the accompanying papers, patrick; which was read twice by its title, and, with the accompany referred to the Committee on Claims. .. ing papers, referred to the Committee on Pensions. 1\fr. H.Al\f PTON introduced a bill (S. 1689) for the relief of George He also introduced a bill (S. 1665) granting a restoration of pension M. Wheeler; which was read twice by its title, and referred to the to Sarah A. Woodbridge; which was read twice by its title, and re Committee on Military Affairs. ferred to the Committee on Pensions. Mr. STEWART introduced a bill (S. 1690) to place General Patrick He also introduced a bill (S. 1666) for the relief of John H. Jones E. Connor on the retired-list of the Army; which was read twice by and Thomas D. Harris; which was read twice by its title, and, with its title, and referred to the Committ~e on l\Iilitary Affairs. the accompanying papers, referred to the Committee on Claims. He also introduced a bill (S. 1691) for the relief of Mrs. G. H. Brewer He also introduced a bill (S. 1667) granting a pension Jacob Smith; to which was read twice by its title, and, with the accompanvin!J'0 papers' which was read twice by its title, and referred to the Committee on referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. w ' Pensions. l\!r. INGALLS (by request) introduced a bill (S.1692) to amend sec He also introduced a bill (S. 1668) granting a pension to Henry Pol tion 4699 and to repeal sect.ions 4695 and 4696 of the Revised Statutes· ing; which was read twice by ibl title, and referred to the Committee which was read twice by its title, and referredi:o the Committee o~ on Pensions. Pensions. He also introduced a bill (S. 1669) granting a pension to Samuel He also (by request) introduced a bill (S. 1693) establishing a uni Grone; which was read twice by its title, and referred to the Commit form rate of pensions for aged pensioned volunteer officers who served tee on Pensions. in the late war of the rebellion, gtanting such pensioners the same He also introduced a bill (S. 1670) granting a pension to Seth W. pecuniary consideration allowed officers of the Army whose names are Sullenberger; which wa.<1 read twice by its title, and referred to the on the retired-list; which was read twice by its title, and referred to Committee on Pensions. the Committee on Pensions. He also introduced a bill (S. 1671) granting a pension to Noah Lohr; He also (by request) introduced a bill (S. 1694) to increase the rate which was read twice by its title, and referred to the Committee on of pensions for loss of arm or leg; which was read twice by its title Pensions. and referred to the Committee on Pensions. ' He also (by request) introduced a bill (S. 1695) for the xelief of Lo He also introduced a bill (S. 1672) granting a pension to Joseph In renzo Thomas, jr.; which was read twice by its title, and referred to boden; which was read twice by its title, and referred to the Committee the Committee on Military Affairs. on Pensions. He also (by request) introduced a bill (S. 1696) for the relief of Asher He also introduced a bill (S. 1673) granting a pension to Louisa M. W. Foster; which was read twice by its title, and referred to the Com Sholl; which was read twice by its title, and referred to the 9ommittee mittee on Pensions. on Pensions. He also {by request) introduced a bill (S. 1G97) granting an increase He also introduced a bill (S. 1674) granting a pension to Lucy A. of pension to Joseph D. Tate; which was twice read by its title, and r~ Sain; which was read twice py its title, and referred to the Committee ferred to the Committee on Pensions. on Pensions. He also (by request) introduced a bill (S. 169 ) authorizing the He also introduced a bill (S.1675) increasing the pension of Jacob President to appoint the officers in the revenue-cutter sernce to be Pitner, late private Company K, One hundred and ninety-second Reg officers of the Navy in the grades corresponding to their present rela iment Ohio Volunteers; which was read twice hyits title, and referred tive rank; which was read twice by its title, and referred to the Com to the Committee on Pensions. mittee on Naval Affairs. He also introduced a bill (S. 1676) granting a pension to Margaret Mr. HALE introduced a hill (S. 1699) authorizing the President to .· Buehler, widow of Godfried Buehler, late private of Company G, One appoint and retire John C. Fremont as a major-general in the United hundred and sixth Regiment Ohio Volunteers~ which was read twice States Army; which was i·ead twice by its title. by its title, and referred to the Committee on Pensions. Mr. HALE. This is the same bill that was reported by the Com He also introduced a bill (S. 1677) granting a pension to John Speech, mittee on :Military Affairs in the last Congress and which passed the late private Company B, One hundred and twenty-first United States Senate. I hope it will receive the early attention of the committee. Colored Infantry; which was read twice by its title, and referred to the The VICE-PRESIDENT. The bill will be referred to the Commit Committee on Pensions. tee on Military Affairs. He also introduced a bill (S. 1678) to restore John S. Hawley to the l\Ir. CHANDLER introduced a bill (S. 1700) providing for the re pension-rolls; which was read twice by its title, and referred to the moval of Pier Rock from the Piscataqna River at Portsmouth, N. If.· Committee on Pensions. which was read twice by its title, and referred to the Committe~ o~ He also introduced a bill (S. 1679) granting a pension to John Bauer, Commerce. late private Company E, Forty-first New York Volunteers; which was l\!r. SPOONER introduced a bill (S. 1701) making an appropriation read twice by its title, and referred to the Committee on Pensions. for the removal of a dangerous obstruction to the entrance of the harbor He also introduced a bill (S. 1680) granting a pension to Catherine at Milw:mkee, Wis.; which was read twice by its title, and referred to Kennedy, widow of Bryan Kennedy, late private Company D, Tenth the Committee on Commerce. Regi.ment Ohio Volunteers; which was read twice by its title, and re He also introduced a bill (S. 1702) granting a pension to Rozalia ferred to the Committee on Pensions. Junk; which was read twice by its title, and referred to the Committee Ile also introduced a bill (S. 1681) granting a pensioll"to John Brid on Pensions. en back, late private Company L, Fourth Regiment Ohio Volunteer He also introduced a bill (S. 1703) granting a. pension to Betsey Mans Ca>alry; which was re.ad twice by its title, and referred to the Com- field; which was read twice by its title, and referred to the Committee mittee on Pensions. · on Pensions. · Mr. COKE introduced a bill (S. 1682) to amend an act entitled "An He also introduced a bill (S. l701) granting a pension to Louisa act .to authorize the Denison and Washita Valley Railway Company to Chaurette, guardian of the minor children of Nelson Fountaine; which construct and operate a railway throu~h the Indian Territory, and for was read twice by its title, and referred to the Committee on Pensions. other purposes," approved July 1, 1886; which was read twice by its He also introduced a bill (S. 1705) granting a pension to Im Manley· title, and, with the accompanying papers, referred t.o the Committee which was read twice by its title, and referred to the Committee o~ on Indian .Affairs. Pensions. Mr. GORMAN introduced a bill (S. 1683} to reimbUl'se .James He also introduced a bill (S. 1706) granting a pension to John Mor Hooper, of Baltimore City, in the State of Maryland, for the loss of gan; which was read twice by its tit.le, and referred to the Committee the bark General Berry, destroyed by the Confederate cruiser Florida on Pensions. in 1864; which was read twice by its title, and referred to the Com He also introduced a bill (S. 1707) granting a pension to .Amelia mittee on Claims. Erdmann; whicli was read twice by its title, and referred to the Com He also introduced a. bill (S. 1684) granting a pension to Julia Stir- mittee on Pensions. .. . I • • : \ ... ·.. .· .. • I • ... _. .· 1890. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SEN.ATE. 387 ~e also introduced a bill (S. 1708) for the relief of Mary Ann Harry; Mr. BLAIR introduced a bill (S. 1736) granting a pension to Mary which was read twice by its title, and referred to the Committee on Ann Dougherty; which was read twice by its title, and referred to the Pensions. Committee on Pensions. He also introduced a bill (S. 1709) for the relief of John Lang; which l\Ir. :MANDERSON introduced a bill (S.1737) providing that notices was read twice by its title, ~d referred to the Committee on Pen of sale of real estate under order, judgment, or decree of United States sions. courts shall be published in the county where the realty is situate, and He also introduced a bill (S. 1710) granting a pension to Frances for other purposes; which was read twice by its title, and referred to Johnson; which :was read twice by its title, and referred to the Com the Committee on the Judiciary. · mittee on Pemuons. He also (by request) introduced a bill (S. 1738) to authorize the con l\Ir. BUTLER introduced a bill (S. 1711) for the relief of Henry struction of a railroad bridge across the Missouri River in l\Ionona. Brown, a master in the service of the United States Light-House Es County, Iowa, and Thurston and Burt Counties, Nebraska; which was tablishment; which was read twice by its title, and, with the accom read twice by its title, and referred to the Committee on Commerce. ,• panying papers, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. He also introduced a bill (S. 1739) providing for a steam->essel for Mr. WILSON, of Iowa, introduced a bill (S. 1712) granting a pen the use of the civil government in Alaska; which was read twice by its .·; sion to Cynthia A. Gudgell; which was read twice by its title, and, title, and, with the accompanying papers, referred to the Collk'llittee on with the accompanying papers, referred to the Committee on Pensions. Territories. He atso introduced a bill (S. 1713) granting a pension to S. W. Tay He also introduced a bill (S. 1740) to pension Mary J. Welch, an ;. lor; which was read twice by its title, and, with the accompanying army nurse during the late war; which was read twice by its title, papers, referred to the Committee on Pensions. and, with the accompanying papers, referred to the Committee on Pen He also introduced a bill (S. 1714) granting a pension to Mrs. Cath sions. arine Baitinger; which was read twice by its title, and, with the ac Ile also introduced a bill (S. 1741) to increase the pension of James companying papers, referred to the Committee on Pensions. H. Showalter; which was read twice by its title, and, with the accom Mr. PLUMB introduced a bill (S. 1715) increasing pensions; which panying papers, referred to the Committee on Pensions. was read twice by its title, and referred to the Committee on Pensions. He also introduced a bill (S, 1742) authorizing and directing theSec He also introduced a bill (S. 1716) to grant to registers and receivers retary of War to issue a certificate of honorable discharge to Daniel S. oflocal land offices power to take testimony and employ stenographers; Miller; which was read t\vice by its title, and, with the accompanying which was read twice by its title, and, with the accompanying papers, papers, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. referred to the Committee on Public Lands. Mr. PADDOCK introduced a bill (S. 1743) to provide for the dis He also introduced a bill (S. 1717) granting a pension to Mrs. Harriet posal of Fort Hartanff, Fort Sheridan, and Fort McPherson military Dada Emens, formerly Miss Hattie A.. Dada; which was read twice by reservations in the State of Nebraska. to actual settlers under the its title, and referred to the Committee on Pensions. homestead laws; which was read twice by its titlet and referred to the He also introduced a bill (S. 1718) for the relief of Meyer B. Haas; Committee on Public Lands. which was read twice by its title, and referred to the C-0mmittee on Ur. STOCKBRIDGE introduced a bill (S. 1744) for the relief of Claims. Marcia. M. Thompson, administratrix of the estate of Abel Thompson, He also introduced a bill (8. 1719) for the relief of John W. John deceased; which was read twice by its title, and referred to the Com mitteeou Patents. ston; which was read twice by its title, and, with the accompanying / paper3, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. l\Ir. JONES, of Arkansas, introduced a bill (S. 1745) for the relief ,.-. . He also introduced a bill (S. 1720) to remove the charge of desertion of John T. Jones; which was read twice by its title, and referred to aJ!ainst Daniel Van Wicklin; which was read twice by its title, and with the Committee on Claims. ', the accompanying papers, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Ur. PASCO introduced a bill (S. 1746) for the relief of William P. He also introduced a bill (S. 1721) for the relief of John H. McAtee; Head, of Plant City, Fla.; which was read twice by its title, and, with which was read twice by its title, and, with the accompanying papers, the accompanyfog papers, referred !;o the Committee on Epideru ic Di - referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. eases. He also introduced a bill (S. 1722) for the relief of the widows and Mr. GEORGE introduced a bill (S. 1747) to provide for the erection orphans caused by the explosion of the steamer Sultana; which was of a public building in the city of Meridian, Miss.; which was read read twice by its tiUe, and referred to the Committee on Military twice by its title, aucl referred to the Committee on Public Buildings Affairs. and Grounds. ~ He also introduced a bill (S. 1723) for the relief of William W. Bur Mr. CHANDLER introduced a joint resolution (S. R. 35) proposing ritt; which was read twice by its title, and, with the accompanying an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which, when papers, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. ratified by the Legislatures of three-fourths of the several States, shall He also introduced a bill (S. 1724) granting a pension to Catherine be Talid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution· whic11 Stenger; which was read twice by its title, and, with the accompanying ~as read twi~e by its title, and referred to the Committee on the Ju papers, referred io the Committee on Pensions. rlici::ny. He also introduced a bill (S. 1725) granting a pension toAnna Teal; SOLDIEns' HOSPITAL AT IlOT SPRIKGS. I• which was read twice by its title, and, with the accompanying papers, Mr. PLUMB submitted the following re.solution; which was con referred to the Committee on Pensions. sidered by unanimous consent, and agreed to: He also introduced a bill (S. 1726) granting a pension to Rebecca. Eesoh:ed, Tbat the Board of Managers of Natioual Soldiers' Homes be directed Lemmons; which was read twice by its title, and, with the accom to consider t~e a -· I '. } . ·- 388 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. JANUARY 6, ISLAND OF CUBA. ASSISTANT CLERK OF JUDICIARY COMMITTEE. Mr. CA.LL submitted the following resolutions; which were read: Mr. EDMUNDS submitted the following resolution; which was i·e 'Vhereas there is reason to believe that the debt of the Island of Cuba, such ferred to the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses as consolidated by the decree of Her :r.Iajesty the Queen Regent of Spain, dated of the Senate: May 10, 1886, amounting to 8124,000,000, bearing an interest of 6 per cent. per Resolved, That the Committee on the Judiciary be, and it hereby is, authorized annum, and payable within the maximum time of fifty years, is now wholly to employ an assistant clerk for the residue of this session of the Senate only, at ancl exclusively, by the action of the Government of Spain, in the hands of a salary not exceeding 38 per day, and that the Secretary of the Senate be, and German bankers ancl subject to the control, more or less actual and direct·, of he hereby is, authorized and directed to pay the said salary out of the appro the Government of the German Empire: and priation for miscellaneous items of the contingent fund of the Senate. 1Vhereas, under a subsequent decree of the same sovereign, or acting sover eign, of Spain, dated November 19, 1886, the said debt was converted into a new EMIGRATION OF COLORED PERSONS. one bearing a lesser interest but for a larger amount, and subject to the same conditions and guaranties a.'I the former one; and Mr. MORGAN. In consequence of the fact that I shall be compelled Whereas under article second of the same decree of May 10, 1886, the pay to be absent from Washington after Thursday, I derfre to ask the in ment of the aforesaid debt and of the bonds which represent it, and are called dulgence of the Senate that I may call up to-morrow, after the morn in the Spani. h language "billetes hipotecarios" or" mortgage bonds." is secured by "especial mortgage of f he custorrs revenue of the Island of Cuba and also ing hour, Senate bill No. 1121, now lying upon the table, introdaced of the stamp revenue of the same island and of all the taxes, whether direct or by the Senator from South Carolina [Mr. BUTLER], to provide for the indir,ect, already levied or hereafter to be levied on real or personal property emigration of persons of color from the Southern States. in the same island," to a.11 of which the _guaranty of the Government of Spain a shall be added· and Mr. SHERMAN. We can not hear word. Whereas under the ordinary course of events and the financial condition Mr. HA.LE. We can not hear the Senator from Alabama. which exists both in Ouba and in Spa.in it is more than probable that neither Mr. CULLOM. It is not the fault of the Senator of Alabama; it is Cuba nor Spain will be able to meet at the proper time their obligations in this the fault of the Senate. respect and pay either the principal or the interest when they become due; and Whereas under these circumstances and for all practical purposes the politi Mr. MORGAN. I desire to call up af~r the morning hour to-mor cal as well as the financial control of the Island of Cuba has been transferred, row, with a view of submitting some remarks upon it, the bill intro by the action of Spain, to the Government of the German Empire; and Whereas the immediate consequence of such a state of affairs is an a.Ilia.nee duced by the Senator from South Carolina [Mr. BUTLER] to provide between Spain and Germany, not less binding and powerful because of its be for the emigration of persons of color·from the Southern States. I do ing unwritten, whereby the German Government becomes interested in assist that because I have to leave on Thursday. ing Spain to perpetuate her sovereignty in the Island of Cuba, thus interfering with the historic laws and principles which must rule in the American hemi ENROLLED BILLS SIGNED. sphere; and A. message from the House of Representatives, by Mr. McPHERSON, Whereas it has been often declared by the Government of the United St.ates that it is obvious there would be danger for the United States if a great naval its Clerk, announced that the Speaker of the Honse had figned the power were to possess the key of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, following enrolled joint resolutions; and they were thereupon signed and thatthe United States could not, with safety to herself, permit foreign powers by the Vice-President: to interfere to sustain Spanish rule in 'the Island of Cuba, or to have such rela tions with Spain as would give such powers the right and opportunity to inter A joint resolution (H. Res. 19) donating fixtures, furniture, etc., to fere in our affairs, and also generally in the affairs of the North American Con the States of Washington and Montana; and tinent; and A joint resolution (S. R. 32) to authorize the expenditure for rent 'Vhereas it has been the declared policy of the United States, whatever politi calpartyhashappened t-0 be in power, as was forcibly expressed by John Quincy of a portion of the appropriation for the.irrigation survey for the pres Adams as far back as in 1823, that" no countenance or approval, whether direct ent fiscal year. or indirect, expressed or implied, can be given by the Government of the United CENSUS SUPERVISORS. States, under any circumstances, to pledges of the Spanish Goyernment to be redeemed thereafter, for which the Island of. Cuba rua.y be both the only in Mr. HA.LE. If the morning: business is completed, I ask the Chair demnity which Spain can give and the most satisfactory which any European to lay before the Senate the unfinished business, being the census bill power can receive; " and 'Vhereas the condition of things above described is not only contrary lo the that went over at the time of the adjournment of the Senate before the traditional policy of the United States and to its most cherished tenets, but holidavs. I do not think that the unfinished business will take much constitutes a menace to the best interests of the United States, as well as to the time of the Senate. I hope we may dispose of it speedily. interests of the whole sisterhood of American republics, while, on the other band, it increases considerably the burden to be borne by the inhabitants of The VICE-PRESIDENT. The Chair will lay the unfinished business the Island of Cuba, among whom there is a large number of American citizens: before the Senate. Be it resolved by the Senate, That in the sense of the 8enate everything done, or The Senate, as in Committee of the Whole, resumed the considera attempted, in the Island of Cuba, tending in any way whatever to transfer the financial and political control of that island to any European powe1· is contrary tion of the bill (S. 1417) to amend an a'!t entitled "An act to provide to the policy and the best interests of the United States, and must be discoun for taking the eleventh and sub~equent censuses," approved March 1, tenanced and protested against. 1889. . And be it further resolved, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, requested to furnish to the Senate such information as may be found l\Ir_ STEWART. l\1r. President, when this bill was last under con in the possession of the State Department in regard to this matter, so as to enable sideration some suggestions were made. in regard to ascertaining the Ute Senate, in its executive capacity or otherwise, to take such action as may facts in relation to the public indebtedness, and believing that investi be deemed proper under the circumstances. gation of more importance than almost any other, I desire to maka a :Mr. CA.LL. I ask for the present consideration of the resolutions. few remarks upon that subject. The VICE-PRESIDENT. Is there objection to the present consid THE CREDIT SYSTEJII eration of the resolutions? which has come into operation within the last few years is a radical :M:r. SHERMAN. I certainly would object to their present consid departure from the principles of political economy heretofore accepted. eration unless the Senator from Florida desires to refer them to the It is undoubtedly an important factor in the rapid development of Committee on Foreign Relations, to which I have no objections. material resources. Industrial enterprises, particularly in the United Mr. CA.LL. I have no objection to the resolutions being referred to States, for the last twenty-five yeara have been largely conducted with tbat committee. borrowed money. The advocates of the modern system of pledging Mr. SHERl\I.A.N. I should like to have them printed and referred. the proceeds of the future for the benefits of the present point to the Mr. CALL. Very well. wonderful industrial development now taking place as a result of the The VICE-PRESIDENT. The resolutions will be printed and re- new departure. Others, who are more conservative, recall to mind such ferred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. · unfortunate-experiments of unlimited credit as the gigantic trading POSTAL TELEGRAPH SYSTEM. company of John Law and the assignats of France, and predict similar results in the near future. The enemies of the system overlook the - Mr. ll.A. WES submitted the following resolution; which was consid fact that a large percent.age of the money borrowed, after deducting ered by unanimous consent, and agreed to: commissions and unearned profits absorbed by middle-men, is actually Resolved, That the Postmaster-General be directed to furnish the Senate with used in developing material resources and creating property. such information as is in the possession of the Department upon the probable This was not the case with the South Sea bubble and the various other cost of connecting the free-delivery post-offices of the count-ry with the Western credit bubbles. They were mere speculations, created no property, Union or some other telegraph company, and the opinion of the Department upon the feasibility and desirability and cost of making such connection; also, and exploded as soon as their real character was discovered. It would such information as is in the possession of the Department, and the conclusion be impossible, if it were desirable, to stop or even to materially check of the Department thereon, upon the probable cost of the erection by the Gov the extension of credit. It must go on. The question is, how will it ernment ofa.n independent telegraph line connecting such offices between the cities of St. Louis, Chicago, Philadelphia, and New York. end- IN Bil'"KRUPTCY, AN.All.CHY, AND LOSS OF LIBERTY, 1\IELBOURNE INTERN ATIO:N A.L EXHIBITION REPORTS. or continued development and prosperity? Which of these results ia Ur. 1\f.A.NDERSON submitted the following concurrent resolution; to follow this unparalleled extension of credit depends upon the sup which was referred to the Committee on Printing: ply of stanCiard money upon which it is based. Before considering the question of an adequate supply of money at Resolved by the S l}nate (the D<>use of R epresenta!ives concurring), That the Secre tary of State be, and he is hereby, authorized to have the reports of the United tention is called to the rapid growth of debts. It is impossible to col States commissioners to the centennial international exhibition at Melbourne, lect accurate information as to the volume of private indebtedness. 1888, or such of them as may be accepted by him for publication, printed and bound a.t the Congressional Printing Office, and that, in addition to the usual THE NATIONAL DEBTS OF THE CIVILIZED WOBLD ARE OF R ECORD, number, there shall be --extra copies for the use of the Senate, --for the and have been tabulated by Professor A.dams in his learned work on use of the House of Representatives, and 1,200 for the use of the Department of ~tAte, Public Debts. The following, with an addition from the American •f ·' ,. ·... '·· ··' '. - I • 1890. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 389 Almanac for 1889, is Mr. Adams's table showing the growth of national is not value. No objects are more useful and desirabie than atmospheric air, the light of day, the heat of the sun; yet these have no value. They will ex debts for stated periods: change for nothing, because any one may have all he wishes without effort. (Wal According to Mr. Adams: Capital sums owed. ker's The Science of 'Vea.Ith, page 8.J 1714 ...... ••••....• Sl, 500, ooo, ooo 1793 ...... • 2, 500, 000, 000 The value of a given quantity of money at any particular time is 1820 ...... •.... 7, 750, 000, 000 the amount of property which it will command according to the exist 1848...... • ...... • .. . . .• .. .• •.• • . •...... • .• ••• ...... • •...... 8, 650, 000, 000 1862 ...... 13, 750, 000, 000 ing range of prices. It is not what it will buy of any particular com 1872...... 23, 025, 000, 000 modity, because that will depend upon the supply and demand of the 1882 ...... • ...... •...... •• ...... •.... •• .• . •• .... •• . •• .••• ...... • 26, 970, 000, 000 article in question, but how much it will buy of an article the price of According to American Almanac: 1889 ...... ••..•..•• ...... 3'2, 317, 336, 421 which is according to the general rauge of the price of commodities. In other words, The public debt of the United States is $1,608,595,583.23. The debt of the several States is $238,270,978.56. The debt of the coun THE VALUE OF MONEY DEPENDS UPO:Y THE Q.U.L~Y OF PROPERTY ties and municipalities is $822, 000, 000. The debt of the railroads is or services the owner can obtain for it, taking into consideration the $4, 481,625, 187. Loans by national banks amount t-0 $1,805, 729, 738. 94. market price of property and services generally. The exchan~e power or value of money must rise or fall as the vol Loans by savings banks, which arereported, equal$865,088,672. Loans • • I by State banks, private banks, and savings banks not reported will ume of money expands or contracts. John Stuart Mill tells us that- probably exceed a thousand millions. Insurance companies and pri The value or purchasing power of money depends, in the first instanoe, on demand and supply. * "' * '.rhe supply of money, in short, is all the money ,• vate capitalists loan vast sums of money, probably more than the banks. m circulation at the time. * * * The demand for money, again, consists of A vast amount of debt is also created by the purchase of real and per all the goods offered for sale. But in considering the relation between goods and money, it is with the ca.uses that operate upon all goods what-ever that we sonal property on credit. are especially concerned. We are comparing goods of all sorts on one sicle, with A.."'l ESTIMATE OF EIGHT THOUS..U.'D lllILLIOXS money on the other side, as things to be exchanged against each other. x * * If the whole money in circulation was doubled, prices would be doubled. If it for these unknown debts may not be unrea~onable. The above facts Wll.il only increased one-fourth, price:; would rise one-fourth. There would be and estimates are summarized as follows: one-fourth more money, all of which would be used to purchase goods of some description. 'Vhen there had been time for the incren.sed supply of money to Kationa.l debt ...... $1, 603, 595, 583. 23 reach all markets, or (aocording to the conventional metaphor) to permeate all State debts ...... 238, 270, 978. 56 the channels of circulation, all prices would have risen one-fourth. But the County and municipal debts ...... 822, 000, 000. 00 general rise of price is independent of thi<1 diffusing and equalizing process. Debts of railroads ...... 4, 481, 62.'l, 187. 00 Even if some prices were raised more and others less, the average rise would Debts to national banks ...... 1, 805, 729, 738. 94 be olle-fourth. This is a necessary consequence of the fact that a fourth more Debts to other banks ...... 1, 865, 088, 672. 00 money would have been given for only the same quantity of goods. General 8, 000, 000, 000. 00 Debts to insurance companies, c.apitalists, and others...... prices, therefore, would in any case be a. fourth higher. * * .. Tha~ an in· crease of the quantity of money raises pri:Jes and a diminution lowers them is Total...... 18, 821, 310, 159. 73 the most elementary proposition in the theory of currency, and without it we Of course the last two items are a mere conjecture. They are, how should have no key to any of the others. ever, probably no exaggeration. All writers on political economy substantially agree with Mr. Mill Dr. Denslow quotes, in a note on page 448 of his work on Political as to the effect of an increase or diminution of the volume of money '. Economy, an estimate of the entire indebtedness ill the United States, upon the general range of price, however much they may differ in a published in the Iron Age. The aggrngate of debts, public and private, given case as to whether the rise or fall of price was due to the volume contained in this estimate is $27,969,247,048. This may be an ex of money or the cost of'production. agp:eration. But, however that may be, the debts of the people of the Mr. David A.· Wells and others who advocate adherence to the single, • I United States are simply enormous. gold standard contend that the decline of prices, amounting to about The assessed valuation of property in the United States, for the pur 30 per cent. in the last sixteen years, is mainly due tQ cheaper and more poses of taxation, was, according to the census of 1880, $16,902,993,- abundant production; that modern inventions and superior skill in 543. In 1888, according to the American Almanac, the assessed workmanship have greatly reduced the cost and increased the supply value of the property of the thirty-eight States then in the Union was of commodities. This, they claim, has produced most of . ..: $22,637,383,298. Whether or not the debts ofthepeopleofthe United THE DECLINE OF PRICES States which Soetbeer, Pixley, and other statisticians inform us has taken EQUAL OR EXCEED THE ASSESSED VALUE OF THEIR PROPERTY place. is immaterial for the purposes of this argument. But it is undoubtedly I maintain that the annual supply of money metal from the mines, true that the agp;regate of debts very nearly approximates in amount of about two hundred millions, consisting of gold and silver, was re the assessed valuation of the real and personal property of the United duced more than one-half by the demonetization of silver, and that such States. This enormous indebtedness indicates great activity and en reduction of the supply increased the demand for money, raised its terprise in the development of the vast resources of the country. The value, and reduced the price of commodities. This was substantially productive power of the people is probably sufficient to pay it with in the conclusion arrived at by the British Royal Commission appointed terest, if nothing more is required. to investigate this very question. It is true the commission regarded Mr. BLAIR May I ask the Senator whether there is anything to increased production as an element tending to reduce prices, but found show what amount or what proportion of this indebtedness of the people that the demonetization of silver was the principal factor. If it be of the United States is owing to people in the United States? true-and the general proposition has not baen questioned-that, Mr. STEWART. It is impossible to ascertain at present what that other things being equal, an increased suppl.Y of money will increase proportion is. Those are some of the facts we want investigated, if we prices and a diminished supply will reduce them, then a reduction ot can, by the census. one-half of the supply by the rejection of silver must necessarily have It is quite possible, however, had a marked effect. TO SO ENHANCE THESE VAST OBLIGATIONS BY LEGISLATION In view of the vast extension of credit to which I have alluded, and administration as to force the country into bankruptcy. Both taken in connection with the continued decline of prices, it is evident that the creditor has been largely benefited while the debtor has been debtor and creditor are interested in avoiding such a calamity. If these injured by this decline. The debtor is compelled to exchange from 30 debts are to be paid, the creditors must be willing to accept in payment to 50 per cent. more property to procurn money with which to pay his money of the same value, with interest, as the money they loaned. The debt than the creditor expended in obtaining the money which he people can pay no more. loaned. In other words: the creditor, by reason of this decline of prices, It is necessary, for a correct understanding of the just obligation of a contract to pay money, to bear in mind that the value of money de RECEIVES IN PAYMENT MORE VALUABLE MONEY THAN HE LOAl\"ED, pends upon the law of supply and demand. While money measures in addition to the interest stipulated in the contract, because the value all things and fixes the price of property, the aggregate of property of money hn.s advanced and the value of property has declined. -:- ' measures the value of money. When property is dear, money is cheap; John Stuart Mill tells ns that-- and when money is dear, property is cheap. When one person lends to another, as well as when he pays wages or rent The creditor is entitled to the same value of money which he loaned, to another, what he transfers is not tbe mere money, but a right to a certain value of the produce of the country. to be selected at pleasure, the lender having together with interest, and nothing more. Most authors on political first bought this right by giving for it a portion of his capital. What he really economy are confused as to the meaning of the term "value." They lends is so much capital; the money is the mere instrument of transfer. confound it with "utility." Dr. Amasa Walker is one of the few authors who has accurately defined value and adhered to his definition The capital which is borrowed is a right to select at pleasure from the throughout his entire work. He says: produce of the country certain articles the price of which equals the value of the money at the time the loan was made. An equitable ad What, then, is value? When does an article or commodity posse...~ >alue? When it is an object of man's desire and can be obtained only by man's efforts. justment of the contract at the time of payment would seem to be an Anything upon which these two conditions unite will have value; that is, a amount of money sufficient to buy the same quantity of property which power in exchange. Value is the exchange power which one commodity or E -. •. . i . ,, : , .... , 390 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. JANUARY 6, at>iy entitled to is his capital with interest. He ought not to suffer circulation in the civilized world is paper. As long as it is necessary .~ a loss or make a gain of capital beyond the interest stipulated to be to use paper to make up the deficiency of metallic money the suggea paid. A creditor will not be justified in conniving with other credit tion that there is too much gold or silver has no foundation in fact. ors after the loan is made to diminish the supply of money for the pur The United States should lose no time in securing all the gold and pose of obtaining from his debtor a greater value for the principal of siher possible as a basis for its circulating medium. his debt than he loaned. - THERE IS NO DANGER IN GETTING TOO MUCH SILVER. INTEREST IS SUFFICilill"T COlll'ENSATIO::S- FOR TIIE USE OF MONEY. There is no accumulation of silver bullion anywhere in the world. Our It must be admitted that a willful change of the contract by legisla net export of silver last year was only twelve millions. This export tion is dishonest and ought to subject the offender to punishment. should be stopped and all the silver that can be obtained should be This is the view entertained by the producing classes of the clandes imported. tine acts which demonetized silver. They are unable to distinguish The United States has four hundred and twenty-six millions of paper them from any other pooling or cinching process invented by the money in circulation in excess of its metallic reserves of gold and silver. kna>es of stock boards to swindle the unwary. Silver will be on a par with gold long before that amount can be secured. Mr. "f.T ells tells us, as before stated, that the demonetization of silver Besides, the present decline of prices must be stopped. blore money is not tlle only cause of decline of prices; that improvements in ma must be furnished to secure an honest adjustment of contracts between chinery and skill in prodm'!tion have increased the supply and thereby the debtor and creditor if existing debts are to be paid. I . diminished the price. If this be so, who should have the benefit of If the United States could procure fifteen hundred or two thousand such increased supply-the producers who invented and perfected the mi1lions of gold and silver as a basis of circulation there need be no improvements in machinery and applied to production their superior more falling prices. If this conld be done the security of the creditor skill, or the non-producers who loaned money upon condition that would be safe and the debtor would not be destroyed. The senseless their original capital should be returned with interest? How are the cry that the remonetization of silver would drive gold out of the country producers benefited by their skilJ, energy, and enterprise, if the non is most illogical. If gold is exported because it has a greater value producersare to reap all the advantages of increased production? This elsewhere, the people of the United States will receive the premium. becomes an important question in view of the fact that If siher is remonetized and a greater demand created for its use, its THE NON-PRODUCERS IN THE Ul!<'ITED STATES HAVE A MORTGAGE, price will ad>ance and the United States will have the benefit of such advance. In other words, by restoring ~ilver to its place as a money so to speak, upon the production of the country which is supposed to metal the United States will make money in disposing of its gold and about equal the assessed value of all the property of the people. How also in the enhanced price of silver, besides furnishing a sufficient ·- will this vast indebtedness be paid if prices continue to decline? The volume of circulation to revive business, secure the creditor, and relieve nominal amount of debts will not diminish with the decline of prices. the debtor. That, unfortunately, is fixed in the contract. The vast income paid It is manifest that the remonetization of silver is a paramount ne annually in interest to the non-producers will be reinvested in new cessity. Without it the use of gold as a standard money is a delusion loans so long as there js any security left in the country for such invest and a fraud. A sufficient supply of that metal is impossible. Its use ments. How long this will last, with the rapid growth of debts and can never become universal. If the world is to have a metallic basis contraction of standard money, can not be definitely predicted. for standard money, both metals must be used. The unlimited use of If gold is adhered to as the only material out of which standard both metals must be restored. The progress of civilization must not money can be made, the end will soon come. A decline of prices of be destroyed for the want of money. If silver is rejected as a money over 30 per cent. in sixteen years is alarming_ The supply of gold as metal, it is idle to adhere to the use of gold. Both metals must be compared with the demand bas decreased and will continue to decrease. used or neither. If the creditor class, The world to-day on a gold standard is bankrupt. There is not in ex istence four thousand millions of gold coin. There is more silver WHICH COJ'."TROLS THE L EGISLATIO::S- OF THE W ESTERY WORLD, money in circulation than gold, and more paper than silver. If we insists upon gold alone, with its inevitable consequences of contraction, assume that the gold, silver, and paper money are each equal to the bankruptcy, revolution, or abject slavery, it is the duty of the people other and that each amounts to four thousand millions-which is not of the United States to demand the remonetization of silver, or, failing much of an exaggeration-gold will be one-third and the silver and in that, to insist that gold shall also be demonetized and that some other papkr two-thirds of the entire circulation. If gold is made the only material be used as money out of which a sufficient amount of circulating standard money, the medium can be manufactured to secure an honest adjustment of con SIL'1IB. AND PAPER DECO::u:E SnrPLY CREDIT l\IO:'>""EY, tracts and prevent the absorption of the property of the producers by the crafty and unscrupulous devices of the possessors of accumulated depending for their value upon a promise of redemption in gold. capital. · Is four thousand millions of standard money a sufficient basis for Mr. MITCHELL. I desire to ask the Senator from Nevada if in bis eight thousand millions of credit money? If not, how will the advo judgment the remonetization of silver at this time would or would not cates of a single standard remedy the evil? Do they propose to retire in a short period increase the value of silver bullion to such a point the silver and paper and use gold only? That would increase the ob that fifteen pounds of silver would be equal to one of gold. ligation of every contract threefold, destroy all the security of the Ur. STEWART. It would do that at once, provided the United world, lead to revolution or to a transfer of all property to the creditor States would take all the silver she needs; and she might do a great c]a.ss. If the advocates of the gold standard are willing to continue deal more, take all that was offered. No one would be foolish enough ·. , the present volume of paper and silver in circulation as credit money to sell it for less than be could get for it in the United States. and take the chances of bringing on a collapse, how will they provide l\Ir. MITCHELL. Then this talk of which we hear so much, about arrainst further contraction on account of a shrinking supply of gold? the depreciation of the standard, amounts to nothing. The larger proportion of the gold already produced came from the great Mr. STEWART. Certainly not; and much of this talk, of course, placer fields of Eastern Asia, Northern Africa, Southern Europe, Cali as everybody understands, is like the old cry of "stop thief," to cover fornia, and Australia, all of which are now exhausted. A very large up rasca1ity on the other side. portion of the supply now comes from silver mines in combination If in the exigencies of a war for self-preservation, forced upon the with silver. If silver mining is stopped, as it would be if silver were toiling masses by the avarice of the money loaners, injustice is done, no longer used as money, probably more than one-half of the supply and honest debts am paid in depreciated paper money, the rich who of g:old would be cut off. have the control and the responsibility of legislation will have no right The advocates of the single gold standard had better cease their in to complain. The history.of the struggles of the people of the United consequential discussions as to which metal is the more convenient for States for freedom and individual rights ought to satisfy the avaricious money-silver or gold-and turn their attention to the question of and unscrupulous that there is danger in their attempt to establish how a sufficient amount of money can be obtained to save the world from bankruptcy and supply the demand for a circulating medium. UXIVERSAL PEONAGE OF WHITES .Al\""D BLACKS ALIKE It is money, not any particular kind of money, that the people must in a country which bas made such enormous sacrifices to abolish chattel have to maintain civilization. No one can enjoy the fruits of civilizu- slavery. tion unless he can command the services of others in exchange for his The people were educated to regard gold and silver as the only ma own. terials out of which standard money could be made, ana they would MA_- L"'\' ISOLATIOS Th 11- TIIE CO).J)lTIOX OF A SAVAGE. have allowed them to continue as the basis of a circulating medium if An interchange of commodities is an absolute necessity to civilization. the avarice of the rich bad not demonetized silver. Commodities can not be exchanged without the use of money. Money The attack on siher, which for the purposes of money was more is as essential to civilization as Uie circulation of the blood is to animal highly prized and in more general use than gold, was unfortunate for life. the stability of accumulated capital. The speculators in money and '1:.he plain remedy for the existing and threatened evils caused by in debts are now demonstrating that there is nothing sacred in eitbe1· contraction is a return to the money of th~ fathers. The use of all the gold or silver, and that metallic money is as much subject to the caprice gold and silver obtainable to enlarge the l1asis of standard money is the of legislation as paper or :fiat money. If the volume of the circulating only available remedy. It is absurd to say that there is too much of medium ran be contracted and expanded at the pleasure of legislators either gold er silver so long as more than one-third of the money in as well when the precious metals are used as money as when they are ' - ,. , ...... ~, ' \ -~ ~ . •. -·' .·. r·: 1890. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 391. not, what reason is there for their use as money? If legislators can in circulation and relieve his burdens? Let the rich and avaricious say when and how much of either metal shall be used, why should take warning. They had better restore the money of the people and thev not say when and how much paper shall be in circulation? stop agitation, if possible, before it is too late. _, . T11e lesson that the designing and unscrupulous few are teaching to Mr. TELLER. I should like to submit, for the benefit of the Sena the many may be usen to avenge the outrage of demonetizing silver. tor from New Hampshire, a statement I find in to-day's New York It is just po~sible, if this agitation continues, that the producing classes Tribune's report of the pricee of the regular markets: may al.so im'oke legislation to enhance the price of labor and property The wheat market advanced a. shade, and corn declined~ cent last week pork products heing weakt:r, and coffee, tin, and copper a. little stronger. Suga1" and reduce the rnlue of standard money, and thereby relieve themselves was advanced t for crude_and t for granulated. Oil was i stronger, and iron of the unjust and ruinous obligations forced upon them hy the destruc warrants were put up to 7., cents. tion of half the supply of the precious metals. The bondholders have I call the attention of the Senator from New Hampshire to the par shown the people how to make money scarce and dear; they may in ticular item that follows. Nobody gainsays that a farmer who owes turn a 1arge amount of money would pay if he could sell his product at a fiIIOW TIJE BONDHOLDERS now TO MAKE llIO!s"""EY PLE].-rY Al\""D CHEAP. fair price, and pay a fair interest. I suppose I need not say that the The conspiracy to rob the masses by manipulating the volume of year 1889 bas been unexampled in prosperity so far as the production currency is a great educator. Good may come out of this apparently of farm crops is concerned everywhere. unmitigated evil. This cruel ann wicked contraction of the currency Ilog packi~g at the W~st goes on rapidly, the number packed sinre No,·em to m!tke the rich richer and the poor poorer may be followed by infla ber 1 exceeding the prev10us year's record by 19 per cent. Considering the low price of hogs, the farmers profit less than usual. If the year's hoer crop were tion. It would be amusing to bear the grasping few, whose sense of sold at New York January prices- "' justice is not shocked by robbery of the masses, bowl in despair if the That is, the prices of last year- standard money of the world were doubled. Imagine the cries of re Iastyear's larger crop would bring$39,000,000less money than the smaller number pudiation, dishonesty, and fraud if such a suggestion were made, and of 1888. Prices of beef being about the same, the large increase of cattle mar compare it with the sanctimonious, self-righteous cant which justifies keted, if reckoned at New York prices, would mean an increase of ..;76,000,000. the destruction of one-half of the money metal of the world for the But the larger oat crop would bri.ng ,000,000 less money and the larger corn crop $107,000,000 less mo'?ey, wlnle the larger wheat crop would bring but benefit of the rich. S2,UOO,OCO more and the rncrease of 500,000 bale:i of cotton would bring but Mr. BLAH~. May I ask the Senator a question? $!3,000,000 more money. Mr. STEWART. Yes, sir. This is larger; so is the corn crop. Mr. BLAIJ~. I should like his opinion as to whether doubling the If reckoned at New York prices, the greater yield of all these crops in 1889 money of the world would dimi.Dish its indebtedness in the course of woi:ld be worth ss.000,000 less lh!-111 the smalle1· yield in 1888, a comparison which suggests that the expectat10n of large demands for merchandise from I • • ten years? farming regions may be in part disappointing. Mr. STEWART. It would diminish Hs indebtedness one-half now. Mr. BLAIR. The point is, whether such an inflation would dimin- I should like to suggest to the Senator from New Hampshire that ish the indebtedness? · the farmers of this country are selling their produce at very much less Mr. STEWART. It would raise prices of products and enable the money this year than they did before, and that the only increase of debtors to pay their debts. their ex~hequer will come from the fact that they are selling at the Mr. BLAIR. My question is not whether debt.ors could pay their same price of last year a sufficient number of the accumulated cattle debts, but whether in the Senator's opinion, such an inflation would in the country to realize seventy-six millions more, which simply result in the diminution of the indebtedness of the world? means that the cattle industry is being greatly depressed. If the Sena Mr. STEWART. It is not the debts I am complaining of; but when tor can not see any advantage in the man who has a mortgage on his a debt is contracted, I complain of changing the contract and making farm realizing·a good price on his corn and his wheat and his bog prod debtors pay more than they agree to pay. This system, if it is honestly ucts, it is simply because be bas never been in that condition. conducted, may be the very best; I can not say as to that; and if it Mr. BLAIR. Mr. President-- >_ coulcl be honestly carried out, I do not say that there would be much 1\Ir. HALE. I do not wish to interfere with the .Senator from New objection to it. What I am objecting to is the contraction of the cur Hampshire, but I wish Senators would let me have my little bill passed, rency so as to change the contract afrer it has been made, after the and then they can continue this novel and most intere.sting discussion debtors have got into debt. afterwards. A Senator asks me what is the bill about.. . I do not won It Mr. BLAU~. I do not know but that the Senator may be quite der at that question. is in relation to the supervisors of the census right about that, but any process which contracts the currency and which went over in the early part of the session with the understand~ practically increases the debt is one thing; but my question was, ing that it should be taken up and passed to-day, and it is important whether in the Senator's opinion, as a matter of fact, doubling the cur that it should reach the other branch at once. If we can have a vote rency, inflating the currency, making a dollar worth fifty C(:lnts com upon it, then we shall listen with pleasure to the Senator from New pared to what it is now, would in its practical effect diminish the in Hampshire and others. debtedness of the world in the course of the next ten years? Mr. BLAIR. If the Senator from Maine bad interposed with his :Mr. STEWA.RT. It would raise the price of property; I should suggestion before the Senator from Colorado and tbe Senator from not advise that. That would be unjust to the creditor. I want a suf Nevada had spoken, I do not know but that it might have been readily ficient supply of money to keep an even range. acceeded to by myself. Mr. BLAIR. I was simply asking for information. Mr: HALE. Wben they rose I thought they were going to speak on Mr. STEWART. How that may be I can not tell. I do not know the bill. what may happen. Mr. BLAIR. I supposed they were speaking on something before Mr. BLAIR. · I suppose, Mr. President, that the lessons of history the Senate or I would not have interjected the interrogations which I industrial history, economical history, are to be guides for our instruc: did. When the Senator from Nevada advanced the idea that if we tion, and the Senator is better infonned on such matters than almost doubled th.e money in th~ world we should pay our debts at half-price, any of us. Does he not think that my question is relevant? I thought it .was a good time to find out whether that process, in view :Mr. STEW ART. It is very relevant. I can not tell whether men of the expenence of mankind, would result in relieving us from our will go on increasing their debts or not. indebtedness. I ~- Mr. BLAIR. I do not wish to press the question if the Senator does I bad always understood the result of inflation to be to encourafJ'e not desire to answer it. credits, so that those already in debt would be still more inclined to Mr. STEWART. All I wish is that men shall be honest in paying contract additional indebtedness. And not knowing much about this what they contract to pay. Nobody has a right to change the contract matter and feeling that the Senator from Nevada and the Senatorfrom between the debtor and creditor either now or hereafter. - What I Colorado know all that is known about it, and that they have told us complain of is what bas been done in the past, the cruelty done by ~great d~l upo1:1 the s~bject already, but occasionally have le{t a point which every obligation is increased 35 per cent. in property and ~erv m doubt 1? my own_.mmd, .I thought I would get a little light upon ice by the contraction of the st:.l.Ildard money of the world. that question, what m the view of human experince would be the result Mr. BL.AJR. Would the Senator then insist upon this inflation of ot inflating the currency 100 per cent., doubling the amount at once? the currency so as to reduce the volume of the existing debt? Would it relieve us from this indebtedness or would it be likely to en Mr. STEWA.RT. If the conspiracy against silver teaches the peo courage a period of mad speculation, such periods as have been known in ple how to defend themselves against legislative manipulation devised the history of this country and of all civilized countries? I simply by the possessors of .fixed capital, the world will be wiser and better. asked for information; and when the Senator from Nevada told me he Adversity has come. Let the bitter lesson bebeeded. Let it be dem could not answer the question, I wa8 prepared to subside quietly. onstrated that the people of the United States have a capacity to learn. . The Senator from Co~orado, however, rises in his seat and insists upon If manipuating the money standards is legitimate for the rich, it that I must be assailed some way and pounded a little by these sta tistics from the New York Tribune, and I am put in the attitude of TlIE POOR OF AMEFJCA C.A:S PLAY AT THE SAME GAME. t~ying to prev~nt the farmer from getting a good price for his hogs, and Why should not the debtor resist contmetion by inflation if need be hIB corn, and his wheat, and the like. Now, lam in favor of the farmer to save himself and his family from robbery, starvation and min? If getting the highest possible price, and perhaps next year be will get it is honest for the creditor to destroy one-half of the ~orld's money good deal higher prices for his corn and other provisions than be did why should it be dishonest for the debtor to double the standard money last year; and if he should happen to do so, if next year's prices should -· .' ·. .. ,, . . ! 392 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SEN.ATE. JANUARY 6, be very much higher than they are this year, what is to become of the and the report is incorrect in that it refers to the wrong date of the law. unfortunate creditor who advances him the money and makes his loan I have sent for the act of 1874, which is the foundation of this, but I this year. Next year he has got to take a single hog when he advanced have not got it yet. money that would buy two this year. What is to become of him the Mr. QUAY. I think the date of the law is not incorporated in the year afterwards, when perhaps three hogs will sell for the price of two present bill. It does not occur in the text of the proposed law. the present year? Nobody can tell about these fluctuations, and they Mr. SPOONER. Let the bill be again read. are the necessary results of our credit system. The VICE-PRESIDENT. The bill will again be read. As I suggested to the Senator from Ne>ada, if this inflation is tio take The Chief Clerk read the bill. place and is to operate justly, would it not be well to require a liqui Mr. QUAY. The only error is in the report and not in the bill. dation of the existing indebtedness at the time when the means of its That can not affect the legislation. liq uida.tion are furnished? It seems to me that would be necessary in Ur. COCKRELL. Has the Senator now before him that section of order to relieve the injustice of which he complains. A great many the Revised Statutes which is referred to in this bill? ,• economists object to the credit system altogether; and if there could be 1\fr. QUAY. I have not; but meantime I will ask the Secretary to something contriYed to enable human society to exist and develop with read the recommendation of the Commissioner of Pensions in his an 1890. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. ·. 393 Blanc~ in!1ica.te tha.t the bonds were destroyed to a.void ~etection. They were Iover without objection. He is still absent and is sic~ to-day as I under- ca.lled mm due course by the Treasury Department prior to July l, 1881, but t d Le · b d · b '· · ' neither bonds nor coupons have been presented. l\Irs. Gilmore applied to the S an · t it e passe over wit o~t losIDg its place on the Calendar. Treasury Department for relief under existing la.won or about June, 1880, and The VICE-PRESIDENT. The bill will be passed over. established to the satisfaction- of the Comptroller her ownership of the honds and their loss. The Comptroller adds: PUBLIC LANDS IN .A.LAB.AM.A.. "It does not sufficiently appear that these bonds, or any of them, are destroyed. Under the provisions of the Revised Statutes, sections 3702, 3703, and 3704, no The next bill on the Calendar was the bill (S. 370) to further provide relief in the present condition of the case can be granted to l\irs. Gi.lmore. Whenever the bonds have been outstanding a sufficient length of time it is for the disposal of certain public lands in the State of Alabama. ·' probable that she may obtain relief from Congress." Mr. EDM:UNDS. If we want to go on with cases that are not open · l\Iore than four years haying elapsed since the date of the Comptroller's re to debate, that everybody agrees about, this bill might as well be port, and it appearing that neilher bonds nor coupons ha.Ye been presented for payment, and it be ing clearly established that the claimant has a right to the passed over to save time, because it involves very serious considerations. bonds and the proceeds, your committee is of the opinion that she is entitled Mr. SHERMAN. Let it go over under Rule IX. to relief by the payment of the amount of the bonds and the coupons maturing Mr. EDMUNDS. Rule VIII has gone by because we have passed the to the date of the call, upon her furnishing to the Treasury Department a bond of indemnity in tne usual form. hour for it, and Rule IX entitles my friend from Alabama to insist on Your committee therefore recommends the vassage of the bill with an amend having a vote of the Senate, either to postpone this ~oill or do some ment in the nature of a substitute more accurately describing the bonds. thing with it; but I suggest to him, as it involves a broad public question, and gentlemen wish to get up little matters of private con siderations, to let it be passed by. TREASURY D EPART:llENT, OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, Mr. MORGAN. This bill was passed over the other day when it Washington , D. 0., December 16, 1889. was called, in order that the Senator from Vermont [Mr. EDMUNDS] Sm: I l1ave the honor to inform you, in reply to your letter of the 11th in stant, that the United States coupon bonds described in the bill for the relief of and the Senat-Or from Connecticut [Mr. HAWLEY J might look into Bessie S. Gilmore (S. 5, Fifty-first Congress, first session) are still outstanding, the question. I have seen the Senator from Connecticut, and I find, I unpaid, and that no interest has been paid thereon since the dates mentioned think, that he has no objection to the passage of the bill, at least no in the bi1l. Respectfully, yours, specific objection to it, he informed.me, and I would like very much GEO. E. BATCHELLER, to get the Senate to consider it. But if the Senator from Vermont Acting Secret<~ ry. thinks be wants time to examine it, of course I shall agree to let him Hon. JUSTIN S. MORRILL, Chairman Committee on Finance, U11iled Stales Senate. take time. . While it is not a bill of very general public interest to the people of Mr. EDMUNDS. The committee's report says more than four vears th~ United States elsewhere than in Alabama, I suppose it is a bill of bave elapsed since the date of the Comptroller's report. ~ public interest there, a bill ofimportance, and my only desire about it is Mr. SHERMAN. The report was made four years ago, and nine thi.'3: I am compelled to go away on Thursday to be gone some little years have elapsed since the date of the Comptroller's report. time-I do not know precisely bow Jong-and I should like very much Mr. EDMUNDS. That probably .accounts for it. The report speaks to get the consideration of this bill, if I can do so, before I go. - of an amendment, but there does not appear to be any to this bill. Mr. SHERMAN. My suggestion a moment ago was that we should . .- Mr. SHERMAN. The committee adopted the old report, and ought proceed under Rule VIII, subject to objection, with the bills on the to have corrected the "four years" and made it "nine years." Calendar, in their order. As a matter of course, Rule VIII, by its Mr. EDMUNDS. I think tha.t is sufficient. That describes it. terms, expires after two hoU:rs from the meeting of the Senate, and the By unanimous consent, the Senate, as in Committee of the Whole, time has passed; but we might go on now by unanimous consent under proceeded to consider the bill. Rule VIII, taking up bills subject to objection. The only modification The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to of Rule VIII'would be that the two hours' limit would not apply to be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. this call, and I would make that motion because I think in the regular order we could after two hours go on with unobjected cases. What I \. OR.DER OF :BUSINESS. propose ·now is that we shall proceed to dispose of those bills to which Mr. CALL. I ask leave to call up Order of Business No. 4, being there is no objection, under Rule VIII. the bill (S. 7) granting the use of certain lands to the city of St. Au Mr. MORGAN. I should like to say to the Senator from Vermont gustine, Fla., for a public park, and for other purposes. that this bill bas been twice considered in the Committee on Public Mr. TELLER. I ask the Senate to take up the Calendar and go on. Lands and reported unanimously twice. with it. That is the only fair way. . There is realJy no other way to dispose of these lands in Alabama that Mr. CALL. I hope the Senator from Colorado will allow me to have I can hear of or think of except this, unless we put them up at public this little bill considered. auction, as the law now provides, and when that is done we are always Mr. TELLER. We shall come to that in a short time. Let us go met with allegations of conspiracies and combinations to keep people on with the Calendar. That is the fair way to all. out of the market so as to get the lands at the minimum price of a Mr. CALL. I withdraw my request, but I hope the rule will be ad dollar and a quarter an acre. hered to. There is a fragment of land left in Alabama-mineral land-- Mr. SHERMAN. If it is the pleasure of the Senate to take up the Mr. EDMUNDS. About how many acres are there altogether? Calendar, I want it to be done under the ordinary rule, adopted for a Mr. MORGAN. The report shows. I will get it in a moment. I number of sessions, that bills taken up and not objected to shall be do not recall the exact number of acres. There is a little calculation considered; and if objection is made they shall go over under what is about it. Mr. COCKRELL. Three hundred thousand acres. called the Anthony rule. The older Senators know what I mean. ~. Mr. COCKRELL. Iri other words, that there shall be hereafter two Mr. MORGAN. Not so much as that. Calendars; that is, all cases will be arranged under different headings Mr. COCKRELL. That is what the report says. and a case objected to goes over. ' Mr. MORGAN. Less than 300,000 acres that remain in p~ession Mr. SHERMAN. It goes over. It does not lose its place, but re of the United States. I think it is about 240,000 acres. That is my mains on the Calendar. recollection. Mr. COCKRELL. It remains on the Calendar and not to be called Mr. EDMUNDS. I was under the impression that it was a great again except under the regular call, not to be called with the unob deal more. ' . jected cases. Mr. MORGAN. These lands were left there in Alabama after the Mr. SHERMAN. Yes. mineral lands in that section were relegated to the character of agri Mr. HARRIS. The whole question is regulated by the standing cultural lands, as had been done in various other States. Then a uni rul~ of the Senate. We go to the Calendar aft.er the regular morning versity grant was made of some forty-odd thousand acres, probably busmess, under Rule VIII, up to 2 o'clock, and after 2 o'clock, if there 46,000 acres of land. Then there were about 32,000 or 33,000 acres be no unfinished business, we go to the Calendar under Rule IX. It taken up out of those mineral lands and applied to the deficient six is regulated by the standing rules of the Senate. teenth sections in that State. They were segregated from those so Mr. EDMUNDS. Yes; but the Senator from Ohio asks that, for the that it reduces now the amount remaining to a little over 200 000 ac~es. purpose of getting on with matters to which everybody agrees instead That is in little 40-acre patches and 80-acre patches scat~red about of sticking by Rule IX just as it is, when a majority of th~ Senate through a number of counties in that whole belt. Nobody can tell may insist upon going on, a single o'Qjection shall require a case to be whether the lands have got coal on them or whether they have not got passed over for the time being. - coal on them until they are worked out, but they lie intermingled in l\fr. HARRIS. Make it a caee for Rule IX, instead of remaining un the midst of large holdings, and the probability is that after a while der Rule VIII. There can be no objection to that, so far as I can see. some of them will acquire very considerable value, but we do not know The VICE-PRESIDENT. The title of the first bill on the Calendar as to that. · will be stated. Inasmuch as that is essentiaUy a very poor country, and agricultur THO:U.A.S GUINEAN. ally ~tis not worth anything of any consequence, for it ha1:1 poorridg~ and IS very badly broken up, and inasmuch as that is the sort of coun The SECRET.A.RY. A bill (S. 71) for the·relief of Thomas Guinean. try it is, and it must be filled up by a poor mining population I pro Mr. '.TELLER. That bill was brought up the other day by the Sen pose that these lands shall be given to the State of Alabama fu. trust, ator from Arkansas [Mr. BERRY], who is not present, and it was laid to apply them to a school or schools, of the sort that the Legislature ' •.,,. ' . .. , . I • -- ·- .. • 394 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. JANUARY 6, may adopt, strictly and honestly t.o-tbe purpose of educating the youth Ipre-emption rights that may arise. I do not know that there are any of that country in mining engineering and in mining and metallurgy existing rights there, and I want the United States to settle those and geology, and whatever else pertains to the development of the iron questions. If any question of that sort arises at all I think it is proper and coal interests of that region. I think it would be a great benefac- to lay the jurisdiction here for that reason, and when the sale takes tion to them. place it will be after an examination of the land by the authorities of The bill contains a provision that the State of Alabama may lease the State of Alabama, and upon the request of the State the title will these lands instead of selling them and get a royalty out of them for pass to the purchaser. But this bill gives to the State the privilege to the maintenance of this school of instruction in these branches of tech- designate lands which shall not be sold, at least for the present, and in nology. the mean time they may be leased upon royalty. .Mr. FRYE. Have you such a. school already established there? Mr. SPOONER. By the State? Mr. MORGAN. We have a school at Birmingham-transferred Mr. MORGAN. By the State for the benefit of the school. I want there-and that is a very good school indeed. Of course there are a them to have that advantage and that privilege, instead of passing th' number of other schools. This bill does not provide for any particular title out of the State into the hands of private owners, and also instead school. It puts it in reach of the Legislature of Alabama to select and of having the lands in such situation that the State will be compelled determine as to what institution they will give it, but it must be de- to work them. I prefer to leave the title in the hands of the State until voted to this purpose. I do not know of any better purpo~e that it can it requests the Government of the United States to make the sale, and, be applied to. in the mean time, to make leases, and to allow the royalty upon the If you put up the land and sell it, you may get more than the value land to go in for the support of the school. I do not know of any ob or far less; you can not tell anything about that. But the little modi- jection to it really. It seems to me that it is a wise and prudent cum of money that goes into the Treasury of the United States for measure. these fragmentary pieces ofland will not amount to anything, whereas Mr. ED~IDNDS. Mr. President, this bill, the motive for which I if you allow the State of Alabama to have the control of it I have not fully sympathize with, provides- any doubt it will result in the education of many a boy in that section 'Ihat the proceeds of the sales of the public lands in the State of Alabama who otherwise would never have any facilities for education. which are now subject to sale and are required to be sold under the provi ions i.. ht · th• b"ll ft nfi · •th b f' tl of ''An act to exclude the public lands in Alabama from the operation of the I >Jroug lll lS I a er CO errmg WI a num er O gen emen laws relating to mineral lands," approved March 3, 1&13, and any rents, issues, who are educators in the State of Alabama. They are all very earnestly and profits that. may accrue therefrom under the provisions of this act are here· in favor of it and desire it very much. They believe that a school can by set apart to the State of Alabama be established in that region of country upon the basis of this little for the purposes named, etc. Then the second section provides that grant, which will do like that great school in Colorado has done, of the State shall be the administrator of these lands, and the United which the Senator is so well aware, the School of Mines, which we States shall as a dry trustee (paying the expen es of the trust, of course) have reported a bill to facilitate by giving enough of the proceeds of administer them according to the wishes of the State of Alabama. the i:;a1es of mineral lands in Colorado not to exceed $12,000a.year, the Now let us look at the act of 1883 and see whether there would be State of Colorado giving a similar amount for the support of a school of any public lands le.ft in Aln.brunaatall thatare not thus turned over to mines in Colorado right at the mouth of the mine. the State. If there are not, that presents one question, and that is . The Senator from Colorado will inform the Senate and the Commit- the absolute transfer to the State of Alabama of all the public lands tee on Public Lands that that is the best mining school ju the United of the United States to her for such uses as her authorities may desig States and will speak intelli/]:entlyand know what be is talking about. nn.te within the scope of this bill, for educational purpo es, and so on, It is established there where they have object lessons, and where they just as it might be for every other State in the Union where there are can teach mining, and art and science are connected by i·eference public lands; and if somebody were to propose that thing to get rid of to illustrations upon the ground. And yet that school must, of course, the enormous difficulties and troubles about the public lands as between develop a great amount of ability. It has already done it, and has the United States and the States, and so to give to every single State, turned out many a boy and many a young man, as I am informed, once for all, all the public lands of the United States that are in it, and who is a valuable acquisition to the mining industries of that country, abolish all the United States land offices and all of the expenses attend which are a source of extraordinary wealth; and so it will be if we es- ant upon them, it would be worthy of great consideration; but I sup tablish a school of this kind at Birmingham or in the vicinity of Birm- pose nobody means to do that at this present moment of time. ingham. The children of the poor men who go there ::md .manufacture We owe something to the settlers, as they are called, who go from the iron and coke and produce it will become educated in the particu- all the States, and the United States policy bas been-and I think a Jar industry that their fathers have been reared in, and these men will wise one-to preserve the public lanils under the dominion of the be the source of supply of the talent and energy and industry that will United States for the benefit of such citizens or settlers or people as, ·. do, I think, a very remarkable work for that part of the world. under the laws of the nited States, may get free homes, or cheap We can not take these little scraps and parcels of land and do any- homes, ond build themselves up as citizens of the whole country and thing better than that with them. We can let them come into the maw the State or the Territory where they happen to be. of the speculators and big corporations, if we want to do it. If this Now, when I look at the act of .l\!nrch 3, 18'33, to which this bill re Congress wants t.o do it for the sake of getting a few dollars into the fers (volume 22 of the Statutes at Large, page 487), I am unable to see Treasury of the United States, we can allow these lands tQ.get intothe bow there can be any public land in the State of Alabama that would handsofminingcompaniesandcorporationsdown there, butthatwould not come within the scope of the bill that my honorable friend now not be just. There is no use of increasing the wec'llth of those parties. presents. I am not saying that it is not a good thing at this present They have managed to acquire lands at from 25 cents to $50 an acre in moment of time; I only want to find out what it means. This is the that region of country that have made them very enormous fortunes act of 1883: already, and in spite of all Congress can do they can arrange to get That within the State of Alabama all public lands, whether mineral or other- these lands at their own price, because there is hardly anybody else wise, shall be subject to disposal only as agricultural lands. going to bid for them. I take it everybody would agree, if I stopped there, that this bill now What does a man want with 40 or 80 acres of land in a great mining in band, referring to this statute and describing the lands as those men country of that sort, unless it happens to be located so peculiarly that tiouedin this statute, would cover every possible public title to all lands by holding it back he can compel some corporation to buy it from him in the State of Alabama. Then follows a proviso: at a very large price? He can not mine it. No man would think Prwidecl, Tbat all lands which have heretofore been reported to"the General about .sinking a shaft upon an 80-acre coal field. By the time he got Land Office as containing coal and iron shall first be offered at public sale. his shaft to where the coal is, all he got of it would not pay for the Not that they are reserved, but only a modus disponendi. work of getting down to it. It requires large areas ofland in the coal And provided further1 That any bona fide entry under the provisions of the fields to enable men to work successfully in such an enterprise a.q that. homestead law of lanas within said State heretofore made may be pat-ented He can not get along with little parcels of land. But if you will put without reference to an act approved May 10, 1872- these l:;.nds in the hands of the State of Alabama. where these men Giving its title- . know that there is a Government watching their interests, we shall in cases where the persons making application for such patents have in all have very great benefit for the youth of that section of the world. I other respects complied with the homestead law relating thereto. feel very much interested that they should have it. That is all the Now, it does appear to me, with the limited knowledge of law, and interest I have got in it. land law in particular, that I have, that if it is possible to put any !\Ir. SPOONER. Will the Senator allow me to ask him a question? other construction upon ihe act of 1883 than that it applies to every M.r. MORGAN. Yes, sir. species of public land in the State of Alabama, I am unable to nnder ... Mr. SPOONER. In glancing over this bill I see that, while the pro-· stand it. The bill now proposed takes np all the lands mentioned in ceeds of the sales of the lands are set apart for the use of the State, these that act and operated upon by it, and provides in short and in sub lands are still to be sold in tracts designated by the State authorities. stance-the phraseology may be all perfectly right-- Why not make the grant to the State for this pm-pose of technical indns- Mr. MORGAN. The Senator is mistaken in that. trial education, instead of leaving the title in the United States and Mr. EDMUNDS. Well, let us see. allowing the State to administer it? l\Ir. MORGAN. If be will read the text of the bill that I propose Mr. MORGAN. We leave it in the possession of the United States to pass now he will find that this bill relates to the public lands in tho because there are certain questions in regard to homestead rjghts and State of Alabama which are now subject to sale under the act of 1883• . ' -· 1890. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 395 Mr. EDMUNDS. Exactly. 1\Ir. MORGAN. The act of 1883 takes away the right of the soldiers, Mr. MORGAN. Subject to sale. the right of homestead entry, the right of pre-emption entry, and every Mr. EDUUNDS. That is precisely what I am trying to show in other right of entry, private sale or what not, and exposes it to public my bumble way. sale to the highest bidder for cash, not less than one dollar and a quarter Mr. MORGAN. Subject to sale; not to be subject to sale by home an acre. stead or pre-emption. 1\Ir. EDMUNDS. That is exactly what I thought until about two Mr. EDMUNDS. Now I read the bill: minutes ago my friend said, when he was trying to impress on the Senate That the proceeds of the sales of the public lands in the State of Alabama the idea that these lands were all for sale, that I was mistaken. Now which are now subject to sale and are required to be sold under the provisions I take it the other way and he says I am mistaken again. of "An act- Mr. MORGAN. Not the agricultural lands. It does leave the min I will not read the title, so as to save time- eral lands. and ::my rents, issues, and profits that may accrue therefrom under the provis Mr. EDUUNDS. Yes, but the statute says agricultural as well as ions of this act are hereby set apart to the State of Alabama. mineral. Now let us turn back to the act of 1883: Mr. MORGAN. Not for sale. That within the State of Alabama all public lands, whether mineral or other .Mr. EDMUNDS. Oh, well, the upshot of the business is, Mr. Pres wise, shall be subject to disposal only as agricultural lands. ident, to look the thing right in the face-perhaps we are all for it, 'Then comes the proviso that those which have been reported to the but there is no use of our deluding ourse1ves-that the United Rtates Land Office as containing coal and iron shall first be offered for sale, is asked to turn over t.o the State of Alabama whatever lands are cov and then, secondly, those that are purely agriculturnl, and there we ered by the act of 1883, which says in terms of the public lands to leave it. be di<>posed of by her or by the United States under her direction from. Ur. MORGAN. No; not secondly, at all. There is no difficulty time to time for the objects that she thinks it fit to devote them to about that. I would say to the Senator from Vermont that he can put within the range of conditions and lin\itations that the act makes. If in any words be pleases to guard against it, but I think he never will that is good for Alabama, why is it not good for MissiEsippi, for Loui improve the text of this bill to make it apply any more. specifically to siana, for Florida, for Colorado, for California, and for every other State a particular description of these lands-that is to say, the lands au in which there are public lands of the United States? thorized to be sold by the act of 1883. I am sure there is nothing special in the cond"ition of Alabama which Mr. ED.l\lUNDS. What are those lands? should justify us in making a peculiar rule for the public lands in that Mr. MORGAN. Simply 200,000 acres of mineral lands which are State that would not be applied to the public lands in any other State, designated on the map in the files of the General Land Office, made by for Alabama is a prosperous State, is prosperous in her way and degree; Mr. Winter, who was called a geologist and sent there for exploring and so it really opens the broad question, practically, of gh"ing to the these lands, and under whose investigation these lands were segregated State of Alabama what appears to me to be all the public land there from the public domain as lands open to private entry or homestead is there to be disposed of in some way or other. My friend thinks entry or pre-emption entry, entirely separated frum that body of lands, it does not give all, but only gives the mineral lands; but suppose you and it is as easy to ascertain under the law as it is here what those call it that, it opens the question, and the bill therefore ought to be lands are as it is to find the position of the Senator in this Chamber. expanded to embrace e>ery State in which there are mineral lands. Mr. EDMUNDS. Yes, but, Mr. President, the act of 1883 again Mr. MOHGAN. Well, Mr. President, if any Senator here desires to says in language which it 8eems to me, with great respect, is incapa include his State within the puniew of this bill, I have no objection; ble of being: misunderstood: but I ~uppose that it bas not occurred to any Senator to do that, be 'That within the State of Alabama all public lands, wbetherlminernl or other cause the coal lands, as far as I know anything about them in the wise, shall be subject to disposal only as agricultural lands. United States now, are in States-very few of them in Territories at Then it has some provisos which we need not take up time about. all-but in States where they ha>e been disposed of. The State of Now, let us see where we are. The mineral lands were, therefore, Alabama held a rather peculiar attitude towards these lands, or rather ·taken out of the mineral category of the statute and should be sub the Government held rather a peculiar attitude towards these lands in ject to sale as agricultural lands, and there are several statutes, I be- · that State. First of all, no lands are suQject to private entry at a dol lie>e, about Alabama on that subject. lar and a quarter an acre until they have been exposed to sale, and that Mr. MORGAN. Not subject to sale, but subject to "disposal." is the law of the United States. All the lands in Alabama were ex Mr. EDMUNDS. The statute says" subject to sale," and I can not posed to sale, and therefore all the lands in Alabama were su llject to private entry. The price for the private entry of lands ranged for be mistaken as to the statute. There may be a Mr. Winter, or a Mr. ·i Summer, or a Mr. Anybody Else, who has made a report, but this is years from a dollar and a quarter an acre down to 15 cents. what the ac:t of 1883 says. I have read it three times, which I believe We kept putting down the minimum prices of the right of entry in courts of justice is sufficient. of lands until we got it down to 15 cents. These lands were passed l\lr. MORGAN. Tb"' word "sale" the Senator has not read yet, over and nobody took them up; this great coal field in Alabama. was because it is not there. all passed over iµ that way, nobody took them up; at least not many Mr. EDMUNDS. No! Let us see. people took up many of those lands. Then when Mr. Schurz was Shall be subject to disposal. Secretary of the Interior, seeing that there was growing up a very great value to some of those lands, to say the least of it, he issuedanorder Mr. MORGAN. Yes. Wbatisdisposal underthelawsofthe United tbe right to issue which I never did believe in, but at the 3ametime it States? became the law of action for the Interior Department and the General Mr. EDMUNDS. It is pre-emption, homestead, soldiers' bounty Land Office-and under that order he sent what be called a geologist, land warrants, and sale. It covers sale as well as all the others. Mr. Winter, from Pennsylvania, who was a very competent man, to go Mr. MORGAN. Not public sales, for these lands were never subject into that section of country and mark out those parts of the undis to private entry until they had been offered at public sale, and could posed-of public lands which he considered to be valuable for minerals, not be by the law. iron or coal. Mr. EDMUNDS. Very well. Then we come to the substance of Mr. Winter did that. Mr. Schurz's object was to bring that area of what my friend thinks it to be, and that is that these mineral lands, lands within reach of the two acts of Congress, which provided for the being put in the category of agricultural lands, are subject to all the sale of all the coal lands of the United States to companies and indi laws relating to agricultural lands. They a.re subject to homestead; viduals in small quantities at the price of $10 an acre wbete they were they are subject to soldiers' rights; they are subject to all that category more than 10 miles from a railway and $20 an acre where they were of the effo1ts that Congress has been making to provide for private cit within 10 miles of a rail way. izens of the United States who went of themselves to try to build up This thing operated very seriously and very unjustly upon the peo homes. ple of the Birmingham region in Alabama. I came before the Senate :Mr. MORGAN. Except the part required to be sold by the act of ancl presented the facts to the Senate and they very readily passed a. 1883-. bill, which became a law, the act of 1883, under which all the public Mr. EDMUNDS. Yes; but that is not provided to be sold, except lands in Alabama that were not classed as mineral lands were to be .. ' as agricultural land, to be disposed of in that way. classed as agricultural lands and disposed of accordingly. That was a Mr. MORGAN. It does not makeanydifferencehowitisdesignated. sweeping provision for the purpose of enabling the agriculturists, the , Mr. EDMUNDS. Very well. They are in the category of agricult homesteaders, to go there and take up those lands in their own way, ural lands. The Senator propo!5es according to his interpretation of or, at least, under the laws of the United States. this bill that we shall take whatever it may be, more or less, whatever Then the question arose what should be done with the residuum of is covered by the act of 1883, away from the homestead, away from these lands that were mineral lands; and the act of 18~3 provided trot ,_ the soldiers' rights, away from pre-emption, away from everything, they should be offered for sale at public outcry-they had once been and turn it over to the State of Alabama for the purpose of her employ offered for sale and not sold-at the minimum price of a dollar and a ing it for the purposes of technical education. quarter an acre, that being the general law of the United States upon Mr. MORGAN. I know the Senator from Vermont wants to be en that subject. tirely fair about this. The Secretary of the Interior advertised these lands, I think, the Mr. EDMUNDS. Certainly. third time, and every time they were advertiserl. complaints came up .· .. ~.. . ·. ·, . ' ,' . \,,.' . .·' 39~ OONGRESSIONAL REOORD-SENATE. JANUARY 6, from the mineral men of Alabama that conspiracies were being formed pelling them hereafter to buy him out at a large advance price. That by one person and another for the purpose of buying the whole of these is an illustration of the way that this thing will operate in that country. lands at the lowest possible price, a dollar and a quarter an acre, and We can not tell, nobody can tell anything about the value of these thereby excluding men of smaller means, who could not compete with lands until they are operated by some great company that bas sent them. A great deal was said about that anda great deal of complaint down shafts and is working ihe seams in the direction of these little -. was made, and the Secretary of the Interior from time to time postponed tracts that the Government of the United States continues now to hold. I the sales and recalled the advertisements until the third one was re can see that we mightgetverydecidedadvanlages by holding on to them called. Thereupon I saw, or I thought I saw at least, that unless Con in that way. The Government of the United States, if it needed the gress interfered and provided for some disposition to be made of these money, onght not to sell these grants. Except at a very large increased lands, the result after all would be that the lands would be gobbled price above the minimum of a dollar and a quarter an acre it ought up by some large corporation in that part of the country. It then oc never to offer them for sale. It had better keep them and lease them curred to me that there could be nobody who was more interested in out and take the money that would come from the royalty. Any pri ( . these coal lands, or whatever of them were coal lands, than the chil vate owner would do that. Any gentleman who would be able to hold dren of the miners living upon the soil, who might derive from the these little pieces of land scattered about in those coal fields would lands that were yet undisposed of the moons of a technical education naturally say to himself, "Why, I prefer to hold this until the neces in regard to their own industry or their own business; so I brought sity of some great coal company may require them to take hold of it." .- this bill forward . It is that difficulty that I am trying to obviate, and to get the benefit This bill is very specific and I am surprised that the Senator from of it for a school of technology in that part of the State. Vermont has misunderstood it. The Committee on Public Lands have I think these things ought to be encouraged as far as we hav e the scrutinized it very thoroughly and have not a doubt of its applicability power to encourage them. l think it is a good thing to encourage to these particular lands. It provides- them, to make a man who will grow up in this school of technology, That the proceeds of the sales of the public lands in the State of Alabama if one is established there and supported by these means, anrl. who will which are now subject to sale and are required fo be sold under the provisions make money for himself and make wealth for his country while learn of "An act to exclude the public lands in Alabama from the operation of the laws relating to m.inera.l landsi" approved March 3, 1883, and any rents, issues, ing in a scientific way the geology and all else that belongs to the and profits that mny accrue therefrom under the provisions of this act are mining of coal, converting iL into coke, and the production of iron out hereby set a.part to the Sta-te of Alabama as a. fund to be employed exclusively of this fuel. in promoting technical education, etc. I hope the Senate will pass the bill. If the Senator from Vermont What are the lands that are now subject to sale and are required to has any amendment that he desires to offer to it he ce!.'tainly can put be sold under the provisions of that act? Here they are: it in a shape that we shall not run over. There is no intention on my All lands which have heretofore been reported to the General Land Office as part to get any land except the spec1fic land mentioned in the act of containing coal and iron shall first be offered at public sale. 1883. ·- That is, the land heretofore reported to the General Land Office as Mr. EDMUNDS. That I am quite sure of. My friend need not containing coal and iron. That is Mr. Winter's report. There is but have put in a protest against being suspected even of wishing to get any one report there. The records of the General Land Office show it as undue advantage. But the act of 1883, as I nnderstand it, will, I be distinctly as they do upon any tract-book in that office. lieve, cover all the public lands in that State. That may be an objec Then it goes on to make a provision in favor ofcertain bona fide settlers tion and it may not; but what we ought to know is from the Commis who are occupants of these mineral lands, to save to them the home sioner of the Land Office or the Secretary of ibe Interior on their steads or whatever they had up ro the date of the passage of that act, construction (because they represent the people who will have to con thereby providing for the people who live upon the lands, who never strue it), first, bow many acres of land and what kinds ofland will be otherwise could have gotten homesteads, valuable tracts, and in some co>ered by the operation of this bill; second, as to this method of dis -- instances very valuable tracts of these lands, so that some of those position and how it can be administered in the Land Office for the ben men became very well off. I have received many a letter of grateful efit of the State of Alabama; and then, very likely, it might occur to thanks from those people for having secured to them their rights under them to inquire, as it does to me at this moment, in the best possible I • hat act of 1883, and I think it was a very good thing to do. spirit and good wishes, whether we did not a great many years ago give There is a little balance of about 200, 000 or 240, 000 acres scattered, to the State of Alabama a large amount of public lands for educational as I have stated, in little fragmentary patches over this vast area, purposes, which, for some cause or another, did not go tothe uses of which comprises five largeconnties in Alabama. These lands can be education. made available by the State of Alabama for some good use. If they Mr. MORGAN. I never beard of that. go under privat.e ownership by the execution of the provisions of this Mr. EDMUNDS. I think there is an ancient grant for a university law, they will simply disappear into the hands of large corporations, in Alabama that in some way or other got strayed off into another line large land-holders, and I think no good will come to the people from of disposal. that. Mr. MORGAN. The Senator is very much mistaken about that. Mr. PLATT. Will the Senator permit me to ask a question for in He is very much mistaken. formation? l\Ir. EDMUNDS. I hope I am. Mr. MORGAN. Certainly. Mr. MORGAN. I assure the Senator that he is mistaken; and when Mr. PLATT. He anticipates that if sold under the act of 1883 he makes an accusation of that sort against the State of Alabama he there will be combinations among purchasers, so that the lands will ought to be prepared to sustain it. not b1ing more than $1.25 an acre. How will that be obviated if they Mr. ED~IUNDS. I have not made any accusation against the State are sold under the provisions of this bill ? of Alabama. · Mr. MORGAN. The State of Alabama will first send an agent in the Mr. MORGAN. No lands have strayed off in that country at all. field to examine and ascertain which of these lands are really of any Mr. EDMUNDS. She may have done the best she could, as a great value. Now, I will take the Pratt Coal Mining Company as an illustra many other States have, to take care of the public lands that were tion. I do not mean that they have any of this land in the bosom of their granted to them, and yet they have slipped away for half what they large holdings, and I do not believe they have it, but I 'vill give it for were worth. an illustration. I will suppose that in the enormous holdings of that Mr. MORGAN. Not at all. If the Senator will allow me to inter company you would find an 80-acre piece of land that came within the rupt him just a moment on that point, I will state that the University provisions of the act of 1883, and was required to be sold. There is no of Alabama was founded almost exclusively upon the land grant of the man in the United States who wouJ.d go and undertake to buy that ex United States. Thirty sections were granted for that purpose. They cept on tlle mere chances of speculation upon that compmiy; for, as I were sold and closed out by the State of Alabama for large prices, the said awhile ago, no man would be so foolish as to undertake to run money collected and paid into the treasury of the State, and that is down a shaft for coal upon that piece of land, there being only 80 acres the fund upon which the university is now supported, and the Stat.e that he could work out. of Alabama pays every year 8 per cent. It is ofnovaluein the world to any person except a merely specula Mr. EDMUNDS. I am very glad indeed to hear it, and I will try tive value that attaches to it because it has a certain location within to look it up between now and to-morrow. reach of a cert.ain field of coal operations. Suppose the State of Ala Mr. HAWLEY. I should like to ask the Senator whether the 46,000 bama, however, owns that land or is the trustee for the benefit of this oores that were disposed of by grant to the State of Alabama for the school. The Pratt Coal Mining Company would say to the State of use of the University of Alabama were the lands he has just been speak Alabama, "We will extend our mining beneath this 80-acre tract of ing of. land and we will pay to this school a royalty upon it. We have got Mr. MORGAN. No, sir; they are taken out of this tract. down to it; we can work it out without any trouble; we can make a Mr. HAWLEY. I say those are the lands which created the funds profit out of it. for the school and also for ourselves; we will work the now existing? land under a royalty." In that way there would be some advantage Mr. MORGAN. Oh, no. coming to this school from this coal mine. Otherwise there is no per Mr. HAWLEY. The report of the committee says that 46,000 acres son in the world who cangetanyadvantagefromitexcept a mere spec of these lands have been disposed of by grant to the State of Alabama ulator who would make up his mind that he would put more money already. into it than the Pratt Company chose to put in, for the purpose of com- Mr. MORGAN. The first grant of 30 sections of land to the State . \ .. . . • • I _. ..I • \ . _. ': ·. , .. ' ' 1890. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 397 of Alabama was a reservation made in the ordinance by which the tlers, natives, black or white, of whatever religion, or whoever, who State was admitted into the Union. could comply with the homestead laws and the pre-emption laws, etc., Mr. EDMUNDS. There is'a later one than that. not only had the opportunity under that law, but exercised it of mak Mr. MORGAN. I will come to that. The first grant was 46,080 ing themselves little homes. Now, whether we ought to cut all that acres of land. That was sold, and that constitutes a fund upon which off and turn this over to the State of Alabama for a special purpose, tlie State of Alabama pays annually to the university 8 per cent. in however noble and great, as undoubtedly it is (all education is noble terest. and great as I believe), would be a very grave question indeed. 1\Ir. HAWLEY. That was part of these lands? Mr. MORGAN. That was cut off by the act of 1883. Mr. MORGAN. No. Tben we added to it- Mr. EDMUNDS. But it does not appear to have been cut off. On Mr. HAWLEY. 'l'he report says so. page 285 of Executive Document No. 1, part 5, Fiftieth Congress, sec l\Ir. MORGAN. Then we added to it, some four years ago, in order ond session, under the heading of ''Statement of business at local land to make the State of Alabama the equal of Kansas and other new offices during :fiscal year ended June 30, 1888," five years after the pas States, 46,080 acres of land. So we have got 90,000 acres and a rise sage of the act of 1883, it is stated as to Alabama, first at the land office as a university fund. Forty-six thousand acres have not been disposed at Huntsville, that of" sales of lands subject to private entry" there 01: very few acres of it, and very fortunately that 46,000 acres was were 98 in number, covering 11,000 acres of land. I leave off the odd . \,,. .. located chiefly upon this very belt of mineral land. For that reason hundreds merely to save time. ''Sales of land subject to pre-emption that 46, 000 acres is deducted from the lands now remaining in the Gov entry," 44 in number, 6,000 acres, leaving off the odd hundreds again ernment of the United States which they have already patented to the to save time. ''Excess payments on homestead, timber-culture,'' etc., State of Alabama for the benefit of that university. 345, covering 3, 720 acres. "Homestead entries commuted to cash un· l\Ir. EDMUNDS. Stating in the humblest possible way my apology, der section 2301 of the Revised Statutes,'' 58, covering 7, 000 acres, giv or whatever it may be called, to my friend in his supposing me to ing the round numbers as before. "Homestead entries commuted to ,_. imply any disrespect to his S~ate about any former disposition of lands, cash under section 2, act of June 15, 1880," 19, covering 1,361 acres. I perhaps can get him to excuse me better by reading a paragraph from "Total cash sales," 564 in number, covering 17,000 acres ofland, and his own report on this bill: . covering $32,000 in money, leaving off the odd numbers. "Original For some reasons it might be deemed preferable to give these lands directly homestead entries," which is the poor firstsettler, 1,302,covering160,000 to the Sta.te- acres of land. ''Final homestead entries,'' 662, covering 79, 000 acres And I should say so, too, for all reasons, if you are to do it at all of land. Then "lands selected under grants to railroads," which !do for the use of the school or schools contemplated by the bill, but they might not care anything about; the less the better. "Pre-emption declara become a bone of contention in the Legislature, and under possible conditions tory statements, 220.'' might be misapplied or dissipated- That is Huntsville. Now I come to Montgomery, the southern dis Which is a very capital word- trict. "Sales of land subject to private entry," 781 different sales, if made entirely eubject to State control. covering 165, 000 acres. "Sales ofland subject to pre-emption entry," Now, I submit to my friend that if in what I have said by way of 10, covering a thousand acres. " Excess payments on homestead, inquiry as to the previous history of the State in regard to the public timber-culture, and other entries," 460 cases, covering only 440 acres lands devoted by Congress by grant to her to special purposes, merely of ]and. "Homestead entries commuted to cash under section 2301 for information, there is any implication at all, there is a much stronger of the Revised Statutes," 165, covering 19,000 acres. "Homestead one here in what my friend so properly says in his application of entries commuted to ca.sh under section 2 of the act of June 15, 1880," the idea that Congress should be at the expense of holding the control 4.9, covering 4,000 acres. "Total cash sales," under that head, 1,465, .· and disposition of these lands as to administration according to the re covering 166, 000 acres of land, and bringing to the Treasury $237, 000. quests of the State instead of giving it to the State absolutely. "Original homestead entries" in this southern district, 1,583, cove1- I do not think that it is any disrespect to a State, whatever a State ing 187,000 acres of land. "Final homestead entries," 886, covering may be, because nobody lives more than one hundred years, I suppose, 112,000 acres. Military bounty-land warrants, 8, covering 761 acres. even in Alabama, or in Vermont, or anywhere, to say that in old times Private land-scrip, which is of no account, 1,361 acres. Supreme court in Massachuset!B somebody crucified people on the ground of witch scrip, which I need not take up time about. State University selec craft. That is no imputation against the State of :Massachusetts now; tions, 6, covering 1,000 acres; and so on. The ''total of all classes of whatever the community of men, the old times have long gone by. entries and amount received therefrom" in this southern district was And it is no imputation against the State of Alabama as at present 4,026, covering 357,000 acres, amounting to $260,000. constituted to say, if it were true, as I am very much afraid it is, that Now, I submit to my friend from Alabama, and to everybody else forty, or fifty, or sixty years ago, after she was admitted Congress gave who cares anything about the homestead settler, and all the other ber a grant of land for one purpose or another that was, as stated in small people who move from State to State (as I am glad they do, be· the language of my friend in his report, "dissipated" under the ad cause intercommunication makes civilization, and good fellowship, ministration of the State. and good feeling), whether it is a wise thing, even for the great and Mr. MORGAN. No; there bas not been any dissipation of that sort noble purpose that my friend bas in view, to take all these lands out in Alabama. of the category of private settlement under the present laws of the Mr. EDMUNDS. It may be so. I was in hopes that the report of United States, administered after the act of 1883, and to say that the the Commissioner of the General Land Office would show, as it has in Legislature of the State' of Alabama, or of any other State (because that . some former years, perhaps long ago, just all about the lands granted is just as good as any State, I have no doubt), shall have the disposal to the various States. of them for a particular pnrpoee. But now, to come back to my point; first, I do submit to my friend My friend's answer to that would be, "Why, this does not cover all from .Alabama, as we disagree about the construction of this bill and these lands." To me it appears to do it, as the bill now stands; and how much it covers, that we might have time possibly to send to the before I could vote for the bill under any circumstances I should wish Secretary of the Interior and ascertain on the bill as it now stands to know whether the legal effect of it as it is administered in the Land what lands are covered and how many and what kinds. Office and in the courts is going to be to stop all this homestead and Mr. UORGAN. I did not understand that the Senator made that other entry business, and to cover everything. If it is only a mere frag proposition. I did not comprehend it. ment of a few mineral lands that are clearly so stated to be, so that Mr. EDMUNDS. I have only suggested it at the present moment. there can be no misunderstanding about it, of course, in one aspect of l\Ir. MORGAN. I will say to the Senator that I have sent and got it, in degree, it would be a different question. So I hope my friend will the information, but I have it not with me at this moment of time. I not press the bill to a final consideration at this time. have sent for the information, but if there is any Senator on this floor : , . who doubts about this business I do not want to press the bill now. EXECUTIVE SESSION. Mr. EDMUNDS. I understand the perfect honor of my9friend; he Mr. SHERMAN. I move that the Senate proceed to the considera need not spend any time about that. Then I wish to call attention to tion of executive business. another thing. The motion was agreed to; and the Senate proceeded to the consid The act of 1883 has been in existence now for six years, and it did eration of executive busine.ss. After 15 minutes spent in executive subject whatever it covers (and it says all the public lands; but no mat session the doors were reopened, and (at 3 o'clock and 40 minutes ter about that; whatever it does cover, be it all or not all) to the opera p. m.) the Senate adjourned until to-morrow, Tuesday, January 7, tion of that act; and yet I find that the people of the United States, by 1890, at 12 o'clock meridian. the last year's report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office -I have not got the one of this year; I do not know that it is in print yet- NOI\-IINATIONS. Mr. COCKRELL. Yes; it is in print in pamphlet form. Executive nominations received by the Senate the 6th day of Janum·y, 1890. Mr. EDMUNDS. But the last year will answer for the purpose of illustration just as well, because the act of 1883 was in operation. It UNITED ST.A.TES DISTRICT JUDGE. shows that there were private entries, homestead entries, bounty-land Hiram Knowles, of Montana, to be United States district judge for warrant entries, and all the other kinds of entries to a large extent, so the district of Montana, as provided by section 21, dUlpter 180, volume that the rights of private citizens of the United States, emigrants, set- 25, Laws 1889, United States Statutes at Large. I.· ... 398 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. JANUARY 6, UNITED STATES ATTORNEYS. Lincoln and State of Kentucky, in the place of Thomas Richards, whose Maurice D. O'Connell, of Iowa, t-0 be att.orney of the United States commission expires January 21, 1890. for the northern district of Iowa, vice '£. P. Murphy, resigned. James S. Van Natta, to be postmaster at Shelbyville, in the county Theodore F. Shepard, of Michigan, to be attorney of the United States of Shelby and State of Kentucky, in the place of Joseph N. Bell, whose for the eastern district of blicbigan, 11,ice C. P. Black, resigned. commission expires January 13, 1 90. .· Elbert D. Weed, of Montana, to be attorney of the United States for Sanford D. Van Pelt, to be postmaster at Danville, in the county of the district of 1\Iontaua, as provided by section 21, chapter 180, volume Boyle and State of Kentucky, in the place of James R. Marrs, whose 25, Laws 1889, United States Statufes at Large. commission expires January 12, 1890. Isaac N. Alexander, of Ohio, to be attorney of the United States for Charles C. Watkins, to be postmaster at Owensborough, in the county the northern district of Ohio, 'l'ice Robert S. Shields, resigned. of Daviess and State of Kentucky, in the place of James Kennady, Franklin P. Mays, of Oregon, to be attorney of the United States for whose commission expires January 12, 1890. the district of Oregon, vice Lewis L. UcArthur, resigned, to take effect William F. Watkins, to be postmaster at Williamsburgh, in the February 1, 1890. county of Whitley and State of Kentucky, in the place of Jerry D. U1'"'TTED ST.A.TES 1\IARSHAL. Adkins, removed. lfobert H. Paul, of Arizona, to be marshal of the United Sta.tes for Thornton E. Jacobs, to be postmaster at Shreveport, in the county the Territory of.Arizona, vice William K. Meade, to be removed. ofCaddo and State of Louisiana, in the place of James C. Soape, re -. moved. REGISTERS OF LAND OFFICES. Warden R. Chapell, to be postmaster at Corunna, in the county of James C. Noell, of Perryville, Mo., to be register of the land office Shiawassee and State of Michigan, in the place of Lewis H. Wilcox, at Ironton, Mo., vice Jaco.b T. Ake, to be removed. removed. W. H. S-eamans, of Los Angeles, Cal., to be register of the land office Townsend A. Ely, to be postmaster at Alma, in the county of Gra at Los Angeles, Cal., 'l'ice Henry W. Patton, to be removed. tiot and State of Michigan, in the place of Derwin Ely, removed. George 1". Blanchard, of Rushville, Nebr., to be register of the land William Humphrey, to be postmaster at Adrian, in the county of office at Sidney, Nebr., vice John bL Adams, to be removed. Lenawee and State of Michigan, in the place of Willard Stearns, re signed. RECEIVER OF PUBLIC MONEYS. Frank l\foElroy, to be postmaster at Marine City, in the county of J. Lee Knight, of Topeka., Kans., to be receiver of public moneys at St. Clair and State of Michigan, in the place of John F. Wedow, re Topeka, Kans., vice Charles Spalding, resigned. signed. PENSION AGENT AT LOUISVILLE. Dwight Warren, to be postmaster at Three Oaks, in the county of Claiborne J. Walton, of Munfordville, Ky., to be pension agent at Berrien and State of Michigan, in the place of D. F. Bommerscheim, Louisville, Ky., vice Don Carlos Buell, whose term of office will expire removed. J anuaMy 12, 1890. John A. Mabon, to be postmaster at Holly Springs, in the county of L~DIAN AGENT. :Uarshall and State of Mississippi, in the place of John S. Finley, de ceased. David J.M. Wood, of Pawnee, Iud. T., who was commissioned dur ing the recess of the Senate, to be agent for the Indians of the Ponca, Thomas Richardson, to be postmaster at Port Gibson, in the county Pawnee, Otoe, and Oakland agency, in the Indian Territory, vice Elihu of Claiborne and State of Mississippi, in the place of Mrs. 0. A. Hast ings, whose commission expires January 12, 1890. C. Osborne, removed. Appointed July 18, 1889. H. S. Glaze, to be postmaster at l'ilacon City, in the county of Macon ' . POSTMASTERS. and State of Missouri, in the place of Frank A. Dessert, resigned. Charles W. Buckley, t.o be postmaster at Montgomery, in the county Frank Knickerbocker, to be postmaster at Savannah, in the county of Montgomery and State of AlabaUJa, in the place of George C. Clisby, of Andrew and State of Missouri: in the place of Otho J. Hurley, re- who:> e commission expires January 12, 1890. moved. William A. Harwood, to be postmaster at Tombstone, in the county William Landsdown, to be postmaster at Louisiana, in the county of Cochise and Territory of Arizona, in the place of C. S. Clark, whose of Pike and State of Missouri, in the place of Thomas W. Lock, re- commission expires January 13, 1890. signed. Horace H. Dubendorff, to be postmaster at Alamosa, in the county William A. Beckford, to be postmaster at Bristol, in the county of of Conejos and State of Colorado, in the place of Julian V. Gault, re- Grafton and State of New Hampshire, in the place of Herbert H. Fol- moved. lansbee, removed. Sigel Heilman, to be postmaster at Monte Vista, in the county of A. E. Ballard, to be postmaster at Ocean Grove, in the county of Rio Grande and State of Colorado, in the place of John B. Heilman, Monmouth and State of New Jersey, in the place of George W. Evans resigned. whose commission expires January 12, 18UO. ' C. F. Hilgenhaus, to be postma.Pter at Telluride, in the county of Charles N. Canton, to be postmaster at Cohoes, in the county of San Miguel and State of Colorado, in the place of John B. ·Frasher, Albany and State of New York, in the place of J. H. Larkin, removed. resigned. Fayette A. Milliken, to be postmaster at Holley, in the county of David E. ~Iuir, to be postmaster at Walsenburgh, in the county of Orleans and State of New York, in the place of Peter A. Albert, whose Huerfano and State of Colorado; the appointment of a po~tmas te r for term ex pires .January 19, 1890. the said office having, by Jaw, become vested in the President on and Theodore T. Woodward, to be postmaster at West Troy, in the after Jannary 1, 1890. · ~onnty of Albany and State of New York, in the place of Patrick RHey, J obn E. Duncan, to be postmaster at Ames, in the county of Story removed. and State of Iowa, in the place of Parley Sheldon, whose commission Eli R. Alderman, to be postmaster at Marietta, in the county of expires January 13, 1890. Washfogton and State of Ohio, in the place of Dudley S. Nye, re- George W. Dunham, to be postmaster at l\1anchester, in the county signed. of Delaware and State of Iowa, in the place of Charles E. Bronson, whose William T. Thoma.s, to be postmaster at North Baltimore, in the comr.:;j53fon expires January 13, 1890. county of Wood and State of Ohio; the ~ppointment of a postmaster John L. Grubb, to be postmaster at Columbus Junction, in the for the said office having, by law, become vested iri the President on county of Louisa and State of Iowa; the appointment of a postmaster and after January 1, 1890. for the said office having, by law, become vested in the President on William H. Tripp, to be postmaster at Carrollton, in the county of and after January 1, 1890. Carroll and State of Ohio; the appointment of a postmaster for the said Marshall W. Herrick, to be postmaster at Monticello, in the county office having, by law, become vested in the President on and after of Jones and State of Iowa, in the place of L. T. Alexander, removed. January 1, 1889; the nomination of Joseph V. Lawler, sent to the Sen- Richard .A. Smith, t.o be postmaster at Lake City, in the county of ate January 11, 1889, not having been confirmed. Calhoun and State of Iowa; the appointment of a po tm:ister for the Isaac N. Zearing, to be postmaster at Bellefontaine, in the county said office having, by law, become vested in the Pre ideuton and after of Logan and State of Ohio, in the place of Thomas Hubbard, whose January 1, 1890. commission expires January 25, 1890. Edward A. Wood, to be postmaster at Avoca, in the county of Pot- J. D. Carothers, to be postmaster at Wilkinsburgh, in the county of t.awattamie and State of Iowa, in the place of A. P. Cramer, who e .Allegheny and State of Penn.'?ylvania, in the place of David Maxwell, commission expires January 13, 1890. removed. Robert Henderson. to be postmaster at Junction City, in the county Theodore M. Ford, to be postmaster at Sharpsville, in the county of of Geary and State of Kansas, in the pla.ce of Richard E. Lawrenson, Mercer and State of Pennsylvania, in place of Willis W. Kitch, re- whose commission expires January 13, 1890. moved. Joseph Lucas, to be postmaster at Cherokee, in the county of Craw- Albert Glenn, to be postmaster at Sandy Lake, in the county of ford and State of Kansas, in the place of George W. Brown, resigned. 11Iercer and State of Pennsylvania, in the place of W. T. McBurney, William C. Osgood, to be postmaster at Meade, in the county of i·emoved. Meade and State of Kansas, in the place of George S. Selvidge, re- William T. Havens, to be postmaster at Webster, in the county of -- moved. IDay and State of South Dakota, in the place of John B. Prendergast, Mrs. Polkie T. Courts, to be postmaster at Stanford, in the county of removed. -...... ·. .. .· 1890. CONGRESSIONAL' RECORD-HOUSE. 399 William H. Race! to be postmaster at Faulkton, in the county of The Clerk read as foilows: Faulk and State of South Dakota, in the place of Frank P. Smith, re Whereas Samuel :J. Randall, a. Representative for the State of Pennsylvania. signed. from the Third district thereof, David \Vilber, a. Representative far the State of H. F. Attaway, to be postmaster at Hillsborough, in the county of New York from the Twenty-fourth district thereof, and W. C. Whitthorne, a Representative for the State ofTennessee from the Seventh district thereof, have Hill and State of Texas, in the place of J. G. H. Buck, removed. been unable from sickness to appear in person to be sworn as members of the Hiram Clark, to be postmaster at Victoria, in the county of Victoria House, and there bei11g no contest or question as to their election, Therefore, aud St:lte of Texas, in the pla-ce of Thomas R. Cocke, whose commission Resolved, That the Speaker be authorized to administer the oath of office to said Samuel .J. Randall at his residence in Washington, D. C.; 11nd that the expires January 12, 1890. said David Wilber and \V. C. Whitthorne be authorized to take the oath of John F. Gordon, _to be postmaster at Seguin, in the county of Guada office before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths; and that said lupe and State of Texas; the appointment of a postmaster for the said oaths, when administered as herein authorized, shall be accepted and received by the House as the oaths of office respectively of said Samuel :J. Randall, office having, bylaw, becomevested in the President on and after Jan- David Wilber, and W. C. \Vhittborne. uary 1, 1890. • R esolved, That the oaths of office administered to the said David Wilber John H. Hudson, to be postmaster at Marshall, in the county of and W. C. Whitthorne shall be certified to the House of Representatives by the officers administering the same, authenticated by their official signatures . ' Harrison and State of Texas, in place of R. L. Jennings, whose com and seals. ' . . mission expires January 13, 1890. W. R. Kimmins, to be pO!'ltmaster at Bonham, in the county of Fan The resolution was adopted. nin and State of Texas, in the place of John W. Duncan, whose com Mr. CARLISLE moved to reconsider the vote by which the resolution mission expires January 13, 1890. was adopted; and also moved that the motion to reconsider be laid on M. W. Phillips, to be postmaster at Sherman, in the county of Gray the table. son and State of Texas, in the place of Mrs. L. S. McPherson, whose The latter motion was agreed to. commission expires January 13, 1890. REPORT :MELBOURNE EXPOSITION COMMISSIO:X. William B. Tompkins, to be postmaster at Hempstead, in the county The SPEAKER laid before the House a letter from the Secretary of of Waller and State of Texas, in the place of John R. Young, deceased. State, transmitting reports of the United States commissioners to tbe John R. Decker, to be postmaster at Columbus, in the county of International Exposition at Melbourne; which was referred to the Com Columbia and State of Wisconsin, in the place of Harvey M. Brown, mittee on Foreign Affairs. . .; whose commission expires January 13, 1890. · SALARY SUPERINTEXDEXT OF THE PHILADELPHIA UINT. Robert A. Scott, to-be postmaster at Lai Crosse, in the county of La Crosse and State of Wisconsin, in the place of Charles H. Burroughs, The SPEAKER also laid before the House a letter from the Director removed. of the Mint, recommending that an increase be" made in the salary of WITHDRAWAL. the Superintendent of the Mint at Philadelphia; which was referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Executive nominat~on witltdrawn by the President Janrta1'y 6, 1890. COAST AXD GEODETIC SURVEY. INDIAN AGENT. The SPEAKER also laid before the House a letter from the Secretary Wi11iam P. McClure, to be agent for the Indians of the Pueblo of the Treasury, transmitting a statement of expenditures on account .. ·, agency, in New Mexico. of the Coast and Geodetic Survey for the fiscal year ended J nne 30, 1889; which was refened to the Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department, and ordered to be printed. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. CED.AR BAYOU, GALVESTON BAY, TEXAS. The SPEAKER also laid before the House a lett.er from the Secretary ..., l\IOND.A.Y, January 6, 1890. of War, transmitting reports upon the survey and pre~inary exami The House met at 12 o'clock m. Prayer by Rev. Dr. CUTHBERT, of nation for the remo Mr. S.lnTH appeared at the bar of the House and was duly qualified OW ANDA AND WANDA RIVERS, SOUTH CAROLL~ A. by taking the oath prescribed by law. The SPEAKER also laid before the House a letter from the Secretary PRIVATE BILLS, ETC. of War, transmitting reports upon the survey and preliminary exami The SPEAKER.. The Chair is informed that a number of bills have nation ofOwand::rnnd Wanda Rfren;and other waters connecting Bull's been delivered to the Clerk without indorsement on the part of mem Bay with Charleston Harbor, South Carolina.; which was referred to the bers, and also certain resolutions, delivered in the same manner, which Committee on Rivers and Harbors, and ordered tC> be printed. should have been presented in open House. These bills and resol ntions ONANCOCK HARBOR, VIRGINIA. will be printed in the RECORD for identification, and will, on applica tiou, be returned to the members by w horn they were prepared, in order The SPEAKER also laid before the House a letter from the Secretary that they may be properly indorsed and presented in regular form. of War, transmitting reports upon the survey and preliminary exami nation of Onancock Harbor, Virginia; which was referred to the Com The bills, etc., are as follows: - ,:~ mittee on Rivers and Harbors, and ordered to be printed. .- ... A bill granting a pension to Ann Elisa Lake. ~ A bill granting a pension to William Downey: MANISTEE RIVER, MICHIGAN. A bill granting a pension to Emma Matilda Selfridge. The SPEAKER also laid before the House a letter from the Secretary A bill granting a. pension to Charles H. Perry and-Philip Smith. of War, transmitting reports upon the proposed improvement of the A bill granting an increased pension to Jasper H. Keys. harbor at the mouth of Manistee River, Michigan; which was referred A bill for the relief of Mary A. Ripley. to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors, and ordered to be printed~ A bill for the relief of William Thompson. A bill for the relief of Thomas Nelson. BEJ,FAST HARBOR, MAINE. '.- A bill for the relief of Snowdon & Mason. The SPEAKER also laid before the Honse a letter from the Secretary A bill for the relief of George F. De Freitas. of War, transmitting reports upon thesnrvey and preliminary exami A bill for the relief of Richard Oulahan. nation of Belfast Harbor, Maine; which was referred to the Committee A bill for the relief of William F. Rogers. on Rivers and Harbors, and ordered to be printed. A bill granting an honorable discharge to Bennett Dorsey. A bill to amend the final discharge of Ed ward D. Cook. LOW ER CUMBERLAND RIVER, TENNESSEE. A bill for the payment of Daniel T. Hedges and Edward B. Spald The SPEAKER also laid before the House a letter from the Secretary -. ing. of War, transmitting reports upon the preliminary examination and A bill to incorporate the East Washington Street Railway Company. snrvey of the Lower Cumberland River from Nashville, '1'enn., to its .. A bill to incorporate the Washington and Hilands Street Railway mouth; which was referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors, Company of the District of Columbia. and ordered to be printed. :.. SWEARING IN OF ABSENT SICK l\IE).IBERS. NATIONAL CEMETERY, HAMPTON, VA. Mr. CARLISLE. Mr. Speaker, there arc three members of the The SPEAKER also laid before the House a. letter from the Secretary House who by reason of sickness have not been able to attend and take of War, transmitting a petition praying for the extension of the na the oath of office. I therefore offer the following resolution, and ask tional cemet-ery at Hampton, Va.; w_hich was referred to the Commit •, it.a immediate adoption. tee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. t . ;' ·. - .• .. .,·' -=- :• ,, 400 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. JANUARY 6, EMPLOYEs OF WAR DEPARTMENT. everybody concerned in our domestic wool-manufacturing and wool-growing industries. The present depression in the wool-manufacturing industry is due The SPEAKER also laid before the House a letter from the Secretary largely to the fact· that the percentage of duties on the manufacture of wool is of War, transmitting a list of the employes in the War Department less, in many instances, than upon the wool itself, thus giving theforei~n man ufacturer a distinct advantage in entering the American market; and we ask and st:-.ting that their services are indispensable; which was referred that a single ad valorem duty on all classes of wool may be sub!ltituted there to the Committee on Expenditures in the War Department, and ordered for. The values of foreign wools are a matter of common notoriety at every to be printed. auction sale in the world, and quotations are made every week by all the lead ing dealers. and can always be determined with exactness by experts; and t.he ANNUAL REPORT OF TIIE INTERSTATE COIDfERCE COl\fl\IISSION. undervaluations arising from an ad valorem duty on wool would be less fre 'Ihe SPEAKER also laid before the House a letter from the chairman quent even than those arising from defective classification under the present specific rates. of the Interstate Commerce Commission, transmitting its third annual Under the present specific rate of duty we are precluded from purchasing repJrt; which was referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered manv desirable lots of foreign wools on account of their condition, and such to be printed. wools consequently go to foreign manufacturers at a Peduced price and to the great injury of the domestic manufacturer and wool-grower. . i LIST OF THE CONTESTS FOR SEATS IN THE FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS . A. D. JUILLIARD & CO., New York. GEORGE CAMPBELL & CO., Pht1adelphia. The SPEAKER also laid before the House a letter from the late Clerk THOMAS LEE & CO., Philadelphia. of the House, transmitting a list of the contests for seats in the Fifty fust Congress; which was referred to the Committee on Elections, and The petition wa.s referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. ordered to be printed. STATISTICS OF FARM l\IORTGAGES. The SPEAKER. The Chair will suggest that the letter be printed Mr. DOCKERY. I ask unanimous consent to offer the following int.be RECORD, and also in the Journal. Withontobjection the Chair resolution for reference to the Committee on the Eleventh Census. I will so order. ask that it be read. There was no objection, and it was so ordered. The Clerk read as follows: Tho letter is as follows: Whereas the agricultural wealth of the natiou is steadily declining, and farm CLERK'S OFFICE, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES UNITED STATES, ing is no longer profitable, as is manifest in the fact of abandoned farms in some TVashingtcni, D. C., December 2, 1889. of the New England States and mortgaged farms of the West and South; and ;. Sm: I lmve the honor to lay before the House of Representatives a list of con Whereas it is of vital importance in the study of economic questions, us they tests for seats in the House of Representath·es for the Fifty-first Uongress of the relate to the farming industry, to know the extent of the morlgaf!re indebtedness United States, notices of which have been filed in the office of the Clerk, to wit, of the farms: and as follows: Whereas section 17 of the net authorizing the eleventh census directs the Su G. Y.{. Atkinson against John 0. Pendleton, from the First Congressional dis perintendent of the Census, under authority of the Secretary of the Interior, to trict of West Virginia. ascertain the recorded indebtedness of private corporations and individuals; and Henry Bowen f!.gainst John A. Buchanan, from the Ninth Congressional dis 'Vherens said Superintendent, under date December 3, 1889, has stated that trict of the State of West Virginia. these stati.stics can not be got from records, thus indicating bis view of the im James R. Chalmers against J.B. Morgan, from the Second Congressional dis practicability of enforcing the law: Therefore, be it trict of the State of Mississippi. Resolved, That the SP-cretary of the Interior be. and is hereby, requested to in L.B. Eaton against James Phelan, from the Tenth Congressional district of form the House why it is not possible.to ascertain the recorded indebtedness of the State of Tennessee. - private corporations and individuals; to the end that Congress may, if it be L. P. Featherstone against W. H. Cate, from the First Congressional district of found necessary, enact such legislation as will enable the Superintendent of the -the State of .Arkansas. Census to ascertain the number of homes and farms of the people that are mort Fred L. Goorlrich against Robert Bullo.ck, from the Second Congressional dis gaged and the percentage of the value so mortgaged. trict of the State of Florida.. JnweR II ill against T. C. Catchinf!rs, from the Third Congressional dfatrict of The SPEAKER. Does the gentleman desire to have the resolution the State of Mississippi. printed in the RECORD? Henry Kernaghan against Charles C. Hooker, from the Seventh Congressional :Mr. DOCKERY. I do. district of the State of Mississippi. John M. Langst<>nagainstEdwardC. Venable, from the Fourth Congressional The SPEAKER. Without objection it will be e:o ordered, and the district oft he State of Virginia. resolution will be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. J. V. l\IcDuffie against Lewis Turpin, from the Fourth Congressional district Mr. DOCKERY. I would suggest, Mr. Speaker, that it should go of the State of Alabama. . J. H. l\IcGinois against J. D. Alderson, from the Third Congressional district to the Committee on the Eleventh Census. of the State of"\Vest Virginia.. The SPEAKER. The correction will be made, and it will be referred Thomas E. l\Iille1· against \Villiam Elliott, from the Seventh Congressional to the Committee on the Eleventh Census. district of the State of South Carolina.. · Sidney E. 1\fudd against Barnes Compton, from the Fifth Congressional dis ORDER OF BUSINESS. trict of the State of Maryland. Francis B. Posey against William F. Parrett, from the First Congressional dis Mr. l\IcKINLEY offered the following resolution: trict of the State of Indiana. Resolved, That the Speaker shall now proceed to call all the States and Terri Charles B. Smith against James l\I. Jackson, from the Fourth Congressional tories, in alphabetical order, for public bills and joint resolutions, for printing district of the State of West Virginia. and reference, without debate, in the manner and terms provided by the rules Frank H. Threet against Richard H. Clarke, from the First C',,ongressional dis of the last House. l\lembers having petitions or memorials or bills of a private trict of the State of Alabama.. nature to present may deliver them to the Clerk under the terms provided by Edmund "\Vaddill against George D. Wise, from the Third Congressional dis Rule XXII of the last House. trict of the State of Virginia. In compliance with the act approved 1\farch 2, 1887, entitled " An act relating The resolution was adopted. to contested elections," such portions of the testimony in the above cases as the parties in 'interest agreed upon, or as seemed proper to the Clerk, after COMPENSATION OF GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE El\IPLOYES. giving the requisite notice, have been printed and indexed, together with no tices of contest and answers thereto, and such portions of the testimony as Mr. BANKHEAD introduced a bill (H. R. 3803) to increase the were not printed, with all the original papers, have been sealed up and are compensation of ~he employes of the Government Printing Office to ready to be laid b:ifore the Committee on Elections. that paid prior to March 3, 1877; which was read a :first and second Two copies of the printed testimony in each case have been mailed to the conlestant and the same number to the contestee, and the law in reference to time, referred to the Committee on Printing, and ordered to be printed. the briefs ~f both the contestee and contestaBt in each case has been complied COMPENSATION TO THE CREEKS. with, as fully and promptly as possible, when the briefs have been received by the Clerk, and all briefs and indexes that have been tiled with the Clerk are Mr. PEEL introduced a bill (H. R. 3804) to appropriate $400,000 ready for transmission to the Committee on Elections. to the Creek Nati on of Indians, as per the third article of the treaty of Very respectfully, JNO. B. CLARK, CltrT•. 1866; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Commit To Hon. THOMAS B. REED, Speaker. tee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. SOLDIERS' HOMES. THE ELEVENTH CE~Sl:JS. Mr. CANNON. I desire to submit a letter from the manager of the :Mr. PEEL also introduced a bill (H. R. 3805) to amend the law ot Soldiera' Homes touching certain estimates, which I ask to have printed the Eleventh Census; which was read a first and second time, referred anc.l referred to the Committee on Appropriations. to the Select Committee on the Eleventh Census, and ordered to be The Clerk read the title, as follows: p1inted. A letter from the president of the Board of .Managers of National Homes for REGULATION OF EXPRESS CHARGES. Disab·ed Volunteer Soldiers, transmitting a deficiency estimate of $44,272.39 in the appropriations for the fiscal year 1889 for expenses of disabled soldiers and Mr. PEEL also introduced a bill (H. R. 3806) to regulate and limit !. sailor:sin said homes. the charges of express companies, and for other purposes; which was 'Ihe letter was referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and read a :fir.st and second time, referred to the Committee on Commerce, ordered to be printed. and ordered to be printed. DUTY ON WOOL. BRIDGE .A.T FORT S::UITII, .A.IlK. Mr. LODGE. I ask unanimous consent to present a petition which Mr. ROGERS introduced a bill (H. R. 3807) to amend an· act en I lrnve been requested to offer, and to ask, also by request, that the titled "An act to authorize the building of a. railroad bridge at Fort prayer may be read and printed in the RECORD. The prayer is verY, brief. Smith, Ark;" which was read a first and second time, referred to the The SPEAKER. Is there objection to printing the prayer of the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. petition in the RECORD? The Chair hears none. The prayer of the petition was read, as follows: ADDITIONAL COURTS, INDIA.~ TERRITORY. To lhe honarab1e Senate and How;e of Representatives of the Mr. ROGERS also introduced a bill (H. R. 3808) to create additional Uni~d Slates of America in Congress assembled: courts in the Indian Territory) and for other pw·poses; which was read The undersigned, being each ~d all of us engaged either in manufacturing a first and second time, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, or dee.ling in wool and woolen goods, respectfully represent that the present rates and form of duty upon wool are burdensome and injurious to us and to and ordered to be printed. '1 ,, .-:,, . . , · .. -, ·. ,~ .,. 1890. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-- HOUSE.· 401' RANCHO PUNTA. DE LA LAGUNA.. PER:MANE...~T .AND INDEFINITE APPROPRIATIONS. . ' Mr. V .A.NDEVER introduced a bill tH. R. 3809) relative to the lfr. CANNON introduced a bill (H. R. 3823) to repeal certain laws Rancho Punta de la Laguna; which was read a first and second time, relating to permanent and indefinite :;t.ppropriatioDB; which was reacf referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims, and ordered to be a first and second time, referred to the Committee on .A.ppropriatioDB, printed. and ordered to be printed. MEXICAN WAR PENSIONS. ROAD TO l\IILIT.ARY CEMETERY, MOUND CITY, ILL. Mr. BIGGS introduced a bill (H. R. 3810) amendatory of and sup Mr. SMITH, of Illinois, introduc~d a bill (H. R. 3824) making. an plementary to an act entitled ''An act granting pensions to soldiers and appropriation of $~0, 000, or·so much thereof as may be necessary, for sailors of the Mexican war, and for other purposes,'' approved January the construction of a graveled road and the necessary bridges from the 29, 1887; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Com termination of the graveled road on the sou~h side of Cache River, in mittee on Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Alexander County, Illinois, to the national military cemetery near FORT SEDGWICK MILITARY RESERVATION. Monnd City, in Pulaski County, Illinois, and for other purposes; Mr. TOWNSEND, of Colorado, introduced a bill (H. R. 3811) to pro which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on vide for the sale of the Fort Sedgwick military reservation int.he States Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. of Colorado and Nebraska to actual settlers; which was read a first and PORT OF DELIVERY .AT CAIRO, ILL. second time, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered Mr. SMITH, of illinois, also introduced a bill (H. R. 3825) to provide to be printed. for the establishment of a port of delivery at Cairo, in the county of • PA.TENTS, TRADE-MARKS, ETC. Alexander, in the State of Illinois, and for other purposes; which was Mr. SIMONDS introduced a bill (H. R. 3812) relating to patents, read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Commerce, trade-marks, and copyrights; which was read a first and second time, and ordered to be printed. referred to the Committee on Patents, and ordered to be printed. ELEV.ATOR IN PUBLIC BUILDING .AT CAIRO, ILL. LAND WARRANTS FOR SERVICES IN SEMINOLE INDI.AN WAR. Mr. SMITH, of Illinois, also introduced a bill (H. R. 3826) making • Mr. D.A. VIDSON introduced a bill (H. R. 3813) granting iand war a special appropriation of$10,000, or so much thereof as may be neces rants to soldiers and sailors in the United States service in the'Seminole sary, for the construction of an elevator in the custom-house at Cairo, in lndian war of 1856, their widows and orphans; which was read a fu-st Alexander County, in the State of Illinois, and for other purposes; and second time, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and which was read a first and second time, referred to the Com.mi ttee on ordered to be printed. Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. MA.RINE HOSPITAL .AT PENSACOLA, FLA. BUILDING FOR UNITED ST.A.TES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. Mr. D.A. VIDSON also introduced a bill (H. R. 3814) making an ap Mr. POST introduced a bill (H. R. 3827) for the erection of a pub propriation for the erection of a marine hospital at Pensacola, Fla.; lic building for the use and accommodation of the United States Geo which was read a :first and second time, referred to the Committee on logical Survey, upon the Government reservation in the city of Wash Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. ington, D. C.; which was read a first and second time, referred to the .AME.NDMENT OF EXTRADITION LA. WS. Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. STEW.A.RT, of Georgia, introduced a resolution requesting the CLAIM OF SAMUEL STRONG. executive department to so amend the extradition laws with Great Britain that persons charged with grand larceny, embezzlement, and Mr. POST also introduced a joint resolution (H. Res. 52) to arbi other crimes may be extradited from the Dominion of Canada; which trate and settle the questions at issue between the District of Columbia was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. and Samuel Strong; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia, and ordered to be PUBLIC BUILDING .AT BRUNSWICK, GA. printed. Mr. LESTER, of Georgia, introduced a bill (H. R. 3815) for the PROCEDURE IN CONTESTED-ELECTION CASES. erection of a custom-house and post-office building at Brunswick, Ga.; Mr. ROWELL introduced a bill (H. R. 3828) to regulate the method which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on of procedure in contested-election cases; which was read a first and Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. second time, referred to the Select Committee on Election of President, PENSIONS. Vice-President, and Representatives in Congress, and ordered to be Mr. LANE introduced a bill (H. R. 3816) to increase pensions in prmted. certain cases; which -was read a first and second time, referred to the ADJUSTMENT OF .ACCOUNTS UNDER EIGHT-HOUR LAW. Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. GEST introduced a bill (H. R. 3829) providing for the adjust CONTRACTION OF THE CURRENCY. ment of accounts of laborers, workmen, and mechanics arising under l\Ir. LANE also introduced a bill (H. R. 3817) to prevent a contrac the eight-hour Jaw; which was read a first and second time, referred to tion of the currency; which was read a first and second t;me, referred the Committee on Labor, and ordered to be printed. to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and ordered to be printed. .AD:MJSSION OF ARIZON.A, IDAHO, NEW MEXICO, .AND WYOMING, ETC. INCOME TAX. Mr. SPRINGER also introduced a bill (H. R. 3830) to enable the Mr. LANE also introduced a bill (H. R. 3818) to lay a graduated in people of Arizona, Idaho, New Mexico, and Wyoming to form constitu come tax and to provide for the manner of collecting the same, and for tions and State governments, and to be admitted into the Union on an other purposes; which was read a first and second time, referred to the equal footing with the original States, and to make donations of public Committee on Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. lands to such States; which was read a first and second time, referred REGULATION OF TRUSTS. to the Committee on the Territories, and ordered to be printed. Mr. LANE also introduced a bill tH. R. 3819) to define and tax AMENDMENT TO CONSTITUTION. trusts, and to authorize the free importation of articles covered by Mr. SPRINGERalsointroduced ajointresolution (H. Res. 53) propos them, and for other purposes; which was read a first and second time, ing an amendment to the Constitution in reference to the election of Presi referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and ordered to be dent and Vice-President of the United States and of Representatives in printed. Congress; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Select POST-OFFICE BUILDINGS. Committee on the Election of President, Vice-President, and Represent- . Mr. LANE also introduced a bill (H. R. 3820) to provide for post atives in Congress, and ordered to be printed. office buildings in all places where the gross receipts of any post-office PRIVATE CL.Arns .AGAINST THE UNITED ST.A.TES. for two or more years shall have exceeded $3,000 per annum; which Mr. SPRINGER also introduced a bill (H. R. 3831) relating to pri was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on the vate claims or demands against the United States; which was read a Post-Office and Post-Roads, and ordered to be printed. first and second time, referred to the Committee on Claims, and ordered . .. MORTGAGE INDEBTEDNESS. to be printed. Mr. LANE also introduced a bill (H. R. 3821) to ascertain the ENLARGEMENT OF THE EASTERN END OF THE MA.LL. amount of the mortgaged indebtedness of the farmers of the United Mr. SPRINGER also introduced a bill (H. R. 3832) to enlarge the States, and the percentage of farmers who are tenants; which was read eastern end of the mall, to lay out an avenue through said mall, and a first and second time, referred to the Select Committee on the Eleventh for other purposes; which was read a ·:first and second time, referred to Census, and ordered to be printed. the Committee on the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. CRIMIN AL JURISDICTION ON THE GREAT LAKES. OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE DEPARTMENTS. Mr. AD.A.MS introduced a bill (H. R. 3822) extending the criminal Mr. SPRINGER a]so introduced a bill (H. R. 3833) concerning offi jurisdiction of the circuit and district courts to the Great Lakes and cial correspondence with the departments of the Government; which their connecting waters; which was read a first and second time, re was read a. first and second time, referred to. the Committee on the ferred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Post-Office and Post-Roads, and ordered to be printed. XXI-26 I' ·.. I ... -· . ... 402 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. JANUARY 6, ·- . AMENDMENT TO CONSTITUTION. I PUBLIC BUILDING, PARSONS, KJ\NS • • . Mr. SPRINGER also introduc~d aJoint resolu_ti~:m. (H. Re~. 54) propos- . Mr. PERK~S. intr~dured a bill (H. R. 3841) to provide for the erec rng an amendment to the Constitution to prohibit m certain cases the tion of a pubhc buildrng at Parsons, Kans., and for other purposes; passage of private or special Jaws; which was read a first and second which was read a first and second time, refened to the Committee on time, referred to t.he Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. printed. JUDICIAL DISTRlCTS, KANSAS. SPECIAL COl\IMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE CHARGES AGAINST SIDLEY N. 1\fr. PERKINS also introdur,ed a bill (H. R. 3842) to divide the State CHAMBERS vs. 1:NITED STATES DISTRICT A~ORNEY, ETC. • of Kansas into two judicial districts, and for other purposes; which was Mr. BYNUM submitted a preamble and resolution for the appomt- read a first and second time referred to the Committee on the Judi ment of a special committee to investigate certain charges against ciary and ordered to be print~d. Smiley N. Chambers vs. United States district attorney for the dis- ' trict of Indiana, and his predecessors in office, relatiye to their acts and FREE COINAGE OF GOLD AND SILVER. conduct in connection with certK'1in prosecutions for the violation of the l\Ir. PERKINS also introduced a bill (H. R. 3843) to provide for the Federal election laws in the district of Indiana in the year 1888, and free coinage of both gold and silver. and issuance of coin certificates to moved their reference to the Committee on the Judiciary. circulate as money; which was read a first and second time, referred to The SPEAKER. The resolution is for the appointment of a special the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures, and ordered to be committee, and it should go to the Committee on Rules. printed. The preamble and resolution were reforred to the Committee on Rules. TRUSTS. FORT BROWN RESERVATION, TEX. .1?t1r. PERKINS also introduced a bill (H. R. 3844) to prohibit the for mation of trusts and trust companies, and to provide for their puni3h l\Ir. HOLM.AN submitted the following resolution; which was re ment; which was read a first and second time, refo.rred to the Com ferred to the Committee on Military Affairs: . mittee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Whereas it appears by an act passed March 3, 1885, the sum of $160,000 was ap propriated to enable the Secretary of War to acquire a good and valid title for SERVICE PENSIONS. the United States to the Fort Brown reservation, Tex., and to pay and ex tinguish all claims for the use and occupation of said reservation, provided Mr. PERKINS also introduced a bill (H. R. 3845) granting service ·. that no pa.rt of this sum should be paid until a complete title be Yested in the and disability pensions to officers, soldiers, sailors, and marines in the United States; and Army and Navy of the United States of the war of the rebellion, 1 61 \Vbereas it is alleged that disputes have arisen between claimants as to their respecti>e shares of this appropriation, and that the Secretary of War has not to 1865, their widows and orphans, and forotber purposes; which was paid any part of said amount; and read a. first and second time, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pen Whereas by an act of Congress passed in 1875 the sum of ..,25,000 was appro sions, and ordered to be printed. priated for the purchase of the grounds and payment of rent of the said Fort Brown, and in the reportofGenera.lSherman $25,000 was considered as sufficient; BUREAU OF CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. and 'Vhereas from documentary evidence on file in the War Department, the Mr. PERKINS also introduced a biU (H. R. 3846) to establish an Quartermaster-General's Office, and from the testimony of army officers and office of Congressional correspondence and departmental business; which civilians it is alleged that the payment of the sum of $160,000 would be a fraud was read a first and second time, refened to the Committee on Rules, on the Government: Resolved, That th<;i Committee on 1\Iilitary Affairs be instructed to investigate and ordered to be printed. the subject-matter herein named; also to inquire into and report as to what ne POSTMASTER, GUTHRIE, IND. T. cessity exist.~. if any, for a military post at said point and the cost to the United States of said post since 1865, and to report by bill or otherwise. 1\Ir. PETERS introduced a bill (H. R. 3847) to rnadjust the salary Resolved, That the Secretary of War be requested to withhold the payment of and allowances of the postmaster at Guthrie, Ind. 'l'.; which was read any part of said sum of $160,000 for the grounds nnd i·ents of the said Fort Brown reservation. a first and second time, referred to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, and ordered to be printed. , MARION BRANCH OF NATIONAL HOlIE. Mr. MARTIN, of Indiana, introduced a bill (H. R. 3834) to appro Al'!IEND"l!ENT OF PENSION LAWS. priate $40,000forthe maintenance of the Marion branch of the National Mr. PETERS also (by requ~t) introduced a bill (H. R. 3848) to Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers for the year ending June 30, 1890; amend section 4699 of the Revised Statutes, and to repeal sections 4695 which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on and 4G96 of.the Revised Statutes; which was read a first aud !'lecond Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. time, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. SE&VICE A~LJ DISABILITY PENSIO~S. ARREARS OF PENSIONS. l\fr. STRUBLE (by request) introduced a bill (H. R. 3835) granting service and disability pensions to officers, soldiers, sailors, and marines Mr. PETERS also (by request) introduced a bill (H. R. 3849) to re .. , in the .Army and Navy of the United States of the \Yar of the rebellion, move the limitation on the payment of arrears of pf\nsions; which was and for other purposes; w bi ch was read a first and second time, referred read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Invalid to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Pensions, and ordered to be printed. ADJUSTMENT OF ACCOUNTS UNDER EIGHT-HOUR LAW. THREE MONTHS' SERVICE PENSIONS. Mr. CONGER introdnced a bill (H. R. 3836) providing for the ad .Mr. PETERS also (by request) introduced a bill (H. R. 3850) granting justment of accounts of laborers, workmen, and mechanics, arising a pension to all disabled soldiers and sailors serving more than three nnder the eight-hour law; which was read a first and second time, re months in the war of the rebellion; which was read a first and second ferred to the Committee on Labor, and ordered to be printed. time, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to IMPROVEMENT_ OF rowA RIVER. be printed. Mr. GEAR introduced a bill (H. R. 3837) to declare the Iowa River .AMENDMENT OF PENSION LAWS. unnavigable below Wapello, Iowa; which was read a first and second Mr. PETERS also (by request) introduced a bill (H. R. 3851) to time, referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors, and ordered amend the pension laws by increasing the pension of soldiers who have to be printed. lost an arm or leg in the service and to exchange the place of rating EVIDENCE IN PENSION CLAIMS. away from the joints; which was read a first and second time, referred Mr. L.AC'EY introduced ~ bill (H. R. 3838) to amend the pension to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. laws as to evidence; which was read a .first and second time, referred AID TO PRil\IARY EDUCATION. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. l\Ir. KELLEY, of Kansas, introduced a. bill (H. R. 3852) to provide for SHARPSHOOTER AND OTHER MEDA.LISTS. national aid to primary education in the several States and Territories; Mr. LACEY also introduced a joint resolution (H. Res. 55) directing which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on that names of sharpshooters and Military Service Institution medalists Education, and ordered to be printed. shall be inserted in the Army Hegister, andauthorizingthe wearing of • COPYRIGHTS. their decorations by such medalists; which was read a first and second l\Ir. BRECKINRIDGE , of Kentucky, introduced a bill (H. R 3853) time, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be to amend title 60, chapter 3, of the Revised Sta.tutes of the United printed. State.~, relating to copyrights; which was rean a first and second time, PROTECTION OF MINERS IN THE TERRITORIES. referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. LACEY also introduced a bill (H. R. 3839) for the protection of Mr. SIMONDS. l\lr. Speaker, I rise to a point of order. the lives of miners in the Territories; which was read a first and second The SPEAKER. The gentleman will state it. time, referred to the Committee on Mines and Mining, and ordered to l\fr. SIMONDS. My point of order is that under the roles adopted be printed. by this House on December 9 the bill just offered is required to go AMENDMENT OF PENSION LAWS. to the Committee on Patents. The language of the rule is mandatory, Mr. HENDERSON, of Iowa, introduced a biJl (H. R. ~840) to amend and I ask for it<> enforcement. section 4700 of the Revised Statutes of the United States; which was Mr. BRECKINRIDGE, of Kentucky. I diu not hear the obserrn read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on invalid Pen tion of the gentleman. sions, and ordered to be printed. The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Connecticut suggests that -. ·r -. - -: 6 -· • ... .· I ,, 1890. CONGRESSIONAL · REOOR~HO _USE. 403 under the rules the bill presented by the gentleman from. Kentucky and second time, referr~d to the Committee on Military Affairs, and should go to the Committee on Patents. ordered to be printed. Mr. BRECKINRIDGE, of Kentucky. I was not clear bnt that the gent1eman is correct, and I therefore move that the bill be referred to REORGANIZATION OF THE ARTILLERY. the Committee on the Judiciary. Mr. CUTCHEON also introduced a bilt (H. R. 3865) to provide for The SPEAKER. The Chair would state to the gentleman from the reorganization of the artillery force of the Army; ~hich was read Kentucky that this bill has been considered and report.ed on by the a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, Committee on the Judiciary in several Congresses. and ordered to be printed. Mr. BRECKINRIDGE, of Kentucky. It has been referred to the SIGNAL CORPS OF THE ARMY. Committee on the Judiciary in several Congresses-.- The SPEAKER. The question must be determined without debate. Mr. CUTCHEON also introduced a bill (H. R. 3866) to increase the The question is upon the reference of this bill to the Committee on the efficiency and reduce the expenses of the Signal Corps ofthe Army; Judiciary. which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on The motion was agreed to, and the" bill was referred to the Committee Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. on the Judiciary. SE.ACOAS'F RES.ER.VE. ~,-ORCED LABOR ON SUND.A. Y. Mr. CUTCHEON also introduced a. bill (H. R. 3867) to establish Mr. BRECKINRIDGE, of Kentucky, also introduced a bill (H. R. and define the Unit-ed States seacoast reserve; which was read n. first 385-1) to prevent persons from being forced to labor on Sunday; which and second time, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and was read a. fust and second time, referred to the Committee on Labor, ordered to be printed. and ordered. to be printed. ARl'tIY CHAPLAINS. Mr. BRECKINRIDGE, of Kentucky. Ur. Speaker, I expect that bill ought to go to the Committee on the District of Columbia; it is JI.Ir. CUTCHEON also introduced a bill (H. R. 3868) to create the altogether confined to the District of Columbia. corps of chaplains in the Army, and to define their duties; which WaJ The SPEAKER. The correction will be made, and the bill referred read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Military to the Committee on the District of Columbia. Affairs, and ordered to be printed. REDUCTION OF TAXATION. BOARD OF MANAGERS .A.T NATIONAL SOLDIERS' Hmm. Mr. FINLEY introduced a bill (H. R. 3855) to reduce taxation and Mr. CUTCHEON also introduced a joint resolution (H. Res. 56) to to cripple rings and monopolies by reducing the tax on distilled spirits appoint a member of the Board of Managers of the National Home for and shortening the bonded period; which was read a first and second Disabled Volunteer Soldiers; which was read a first and second time, time, referred to the Committee on Ways ~d Means, and ordered to referred to the qommittee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. be printed. RESTORING PUBLIC LANDS TO LOUISIANA. SERVICE AND DEPENDENT PENSIONS. Mr. ROBERTSON introduced a bill (H. R. 3856) restoring to the Ur. CUTCHEON also introduced a bill (H. R. 3869) granting pen Florida. pari 'hes of the State of Louisiana certain public lands as com sions to certain soldiers and sailors of the United States in the late war, pensation to the people thereof for lands clispo ed of by the United who have attained the age of sixty-two years, or who are disabled from States Government at the Montpelier and Greenshurgh land offices in gaining a livelihood, or who are dependent, and for other purposes; said State; which was read a first and second time, referred to the which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Invalid Pensions, and ordered lo be printed. MILITARY RESERV.A.TIO~ A'F BATON ROUGE, LA. STEAM-TENDER FOR LIGHT-HOUSE DISTRICTS. Mr. ROBERTSON also introduced a bill (H. R. 3'357} to provide for 1i1r. CUTCHEON also introduced a bill (H. R. 3870) to authorize the the disposal of a portion of the United States military reservation at construction of a steam-tender for use of the Engineer Department.in Baton Rou~e, La.; which was read a first and second time, referred to the ninth and eleventh light-house districts; which wasreadatirstand the Committee on .Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. second time, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to · I:'.'ifPORT.A.TIO~ OF FOREIGN 1UERCH.A.NDISE. be printed. · l\Ir. CANDLER, of Massachusefts, introduced a bill (H. R. 3858) to STE.A.JU FOG-SIGNAL AT LUDINGTON, 1.HICH. regulate the importation of foreign merchandise, and to secure uniform ML CUTCHEON also introduced a bill {H. R. 3871) for the estab ity in the classification and val nation, and for other purposes; which lishment ofa. steam fog-signal at Ludington light-station, Michigan; was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Ways which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on and Means, and ordered to be printed. Commerce, and ordered ·to be printed. DUTY O~ RAW WOOL. SECTION !?ii997 REVISED ST.A'!'UTES. Mr. ANDREW. I desire to :present a. petition, wbich I send to the Mr. CUTCHEON also introduced a bill {H. R. 3872) to amend section Clerk's desk, and would like to ask unanimous consent that the prayer 2599 of the Revised Statutes of the Uniteu States, designating ports of be read and printed in the RECORD. delivery in the district of Michigan; which was read a first and second The SPEAKER. The gentleman will retain the petition for the time, referred to the Committee on Commerce, arnl ordered to be printed. present, and afler this call is over it can then be presented. LAND LAWS FOR .A.LASKA. SOLDIERS' HO:\IES. Mr. CUTCHEON also introduced a bill (H. R. 3873) to extend the 1:{r. LODGE introduced a bill (H. R. 3859) to amend an act granting general land laws of the nited States over the Territory of Alaska, aid to soldiers' homes; whieh was read a.first and second time, referred and for other purposes; which was read a first and second time, re to the Committee on Military Affairs, anil ordered to be printed. ferred to the Committee on the Public L:mds, and ordered to be printed. POSTAL SAVINGS-BANKS. APPROPB.IATION OF LANDS- IN AL.A.SK.A.. Mr. LODGE also introduced a bill (H. R. 3860) to esta.blislr postal savings-banks; which was read a first and second time, relerred to the Mr. CUTC.EIEON also introduced a bill {H. R. 3874) to set apart certain lands in southeastern Alaska for·tbe temporary use of certain Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, and ordered to be printed. native people; which was read a .first and second time, referred to the Committee on tbe Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. PUBLIC BUILDING AT BATTLE CREEK, MICH. ]')fr. O'DONNELL introduced a bill (H. R. 3861) providing for the A.MENDING AN .A.CT ESTABLISHIKG POST-ROADS. erection of a public building at the city of Battle Creek, Mich.;. which Mr. CUTCHEON also introduced a bill (H. R. 3875) to amend sec was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Public tion 72 of an act entitled ''An act est·ablishing post-roads, and for other Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. purposes, n approved March 3, 1877; which was read a first and secon11. TESTING THE BELDUKE COl\IBIN.A.TION PROPELLER. time, referred to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, Mr. CHIPMAN introduced a bill (H. R. 3862) for testing the Belduke and ordered to be printed. combination propeller; which was read a first and second time, referred BRIDGE .A.CROSS RED RIVER OF THE NORTH. to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. CO:\llSTOCK introduced a bill (H. R. 3876) authorizing the con TO INCREASE THE PAY OF LETTER-CARRIERS. struction of a bridge across the Red River of the North; which was Mr. CHIPMAN also introcluced a bill {H. R. 3863) to increase the read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Commerce, pay of letter-carriers; which was read a first and second time, referred and ordered to be printed. to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, and ordered to PUBLIC BUILDING, RED WING, MINN. be printed. Mr. HALL introduced a bill {H. R. 3877) for the erection of a public E...~COUR.AGING RE-ENLISTMENT .A.ND P1UWRNTING DESERTION. building at Red Wing, Minn.; which was read a first and second time. Mr. CUTCREON" introduced a bill (H. R. 3864) to encourage re-en referred to the Committee on Pa.bile Buildin~ and Grounds, and listments int.he Army and to prevent desertions; which was read a first ordered to be printed. ·. < . . • I . I 404 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. JANUARY 6, PENSION LAWS AND INCOME TAX. The bill was then referred to the Committee on Printing, and ordered ' Mr. BLAND offered the following resolution: to be printed. TIME FOR MEJJ,"TING OF CONGRESS. Resolved, That, pending the consideration ofaoy general pension bill, it shall be in order to move as an amendment thereto a provision authorizing an in Mr. BUCHANAN, of New Jersey, also (by request) introduced a bill come tax sufficient to meet all demands arising under the pe~ion laws of the (H. R. 3885) to provide for the assembling of Congress on the 4th day or GO\'ernment. March, instead of on the first Monday of December; which was read a. The resolution was referred to the Committee on Rules. first and second time, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and FREE COIN AGE OF SIL VER. ordered to be printed. Mr. BLAND also introduced a bill (H. R. 3878) for the free coinage BRIDGE ..A.CROSS HUDSON RIVER AT NEW YORK CITY. of silver, and for other purposes; which was read a :first and second Mr. McADOO introduced a bill (H. R. 3886) to authorize the con time, referred to the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures, struction of a bridge and approaches at New York City across the Hud and ordered to be printed. son River, to regulate commerce in and over such bridge in the States THE THREE-CENT PIECE. of New York and New Jersey, and to establish such bridge a military ~. .. t ' Mr. BLAND also introduced a bill (H. R. 3879) to discontinue the and post road; which was read a first and second time, referred to the I coinage of the three-cent piece; which was read a first and second time, Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. referred to the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures, and MONUMENT AT FORT GREEN, BROOKLYN. ordered to be printed. Mr. CAMPBELL introduced a bill (H. R. 3887) for the erection and COINAGE OF DOUBLE-EAGLES. completion of a monument to the memory of the victims of prison ships '· at Fort Green, Brooklyn; which was read a first and second time, re 1\fr. DOCKERY introduced a bill (H. R. 3880) limiting the coinage ferred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. of double-eagles, and discontinuing the coinage of certain other United States coins; which was read a first and second time, referred to the PUBLIC BUILDING AT ROME, N. Y. Committee on Coinage, Weights, and :Measures, and ordered to be Mr. SHERMAN introduced a bill (H. R. 3888) for the erection of a printed. pub1ic building at Rome, N. Y.; which was read a first and second SILVER COINAGE AND NATIONAL-BANK NOTES. time, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and .' . Mr. DOCKERY also introduced a bill (H. R. 3881) for the farther ordered to be printed • coinage of silver and for the redemption of national-bank notes, and for SALE OF CONVICT-MADE GOODS. other purposes; which was read a first and second time, referred to Mr. SHERMAN also introduced a bill (H. R. 3889) to restrict the the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures, and ordered to be sale of convict-made goods;. which was read a first and second time, printed. referred to the Committee .on Labor, and ordered to be printed. MEXICAN WAR CLAIMS. AMENDMENT OF REVISED STATUTES. Mr. HEARD introduced a bill (H. R. 3882) amendatory and sup Mr. WALLACE, of New York, introduced a bill (H. R. 3890) to plementary to an act ,granting pensions to soldiers and sailors of the amend section 2931 of the Revised Statutes; which was read a first and Mexican war, and for other purposes; which was read a first and second second time, referred to the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fish time, referred to the Committee on Pensions, an -- .. • I · - ·,...... ··- _. ' ... _ .. ...' ·. 1890. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 405 PORTRAIT OF GENERAL GEORGE Ji. THOMAS. OFFICERS OF THE .ARMY-RETIRED·LIST. Mr. GROSVENO:U introduced a bill (H. R. 3899) providing for the Mr. BINGHAM also introduced a bill (H. R. 3911) for the relief of ...... ~ purchase of the portrait of General George H. Thomas, painted by certain officers on the retired-list of the .Army; which was read a first General S. W. Price; which was read a first and second time, referred and second time,. referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and to the Committee on the Library, and ordered to be printed. ordered to be printed. MUNICIPAL LAWS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUl\IBIA. VETERINARY CORPS OF THE UNITED STATES .ARMY. Mr. McKINLEY (by request) introduced a biil (H. R. 3900) for the Mr. BINGHAM: also introduced a bill {H. ·R. 3912) to provide for revision and consolidation of the laws relating to municipal affairs in the organization and rate of pay of a veterinary corps of the United the District of Columbia; which was read a first and second time, re States A.rmy; which was read a first and second time, referred to the ferred to the Committee on the ,District of Columbia, and ordered to Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. ... be printed. J. F. BAILEY & • CO. .AND OTHERS. BRIDGE .ACROSS YOUNG'S BAY. Mr. BINGHAM also introduced a bill (H. R. 3913) granting juris Mr. HERMANN introduced a bill (H. R. 8901) to repeal an act en diction to the Court of Claims, notwithstanding any statut-Ory bar, of titled ''An act granting to the Astoria and South Coast Railway Com the claim of J. F. Bailey & Co. and others; which was read a first pau, the right to construct a bringe across Young's Bay, a navigable and second time, referred to the Committee on Claims, and ordered to stream in the county of Clatsop and State of Oregon;" which was be printed. read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Commerce, ' COPYRIGHTS. and ordered to be printed. Mr. BUTTERWORTH introduced a biJI (H. R. 3914) to amend Ti PENSIONS. tle LX, chapter 3, of the Revised Statutes of the United States re M!-. HERMANN also introduced a bill (H. R. 3902) to amend an act lating to copyrights; which was rea-d a first and second time, reforred entitled "An act for the relief of certain volunteer and regular soldiers to the Committee on Patents, and ordered to be printed. of the late war and the war with Mexico," approved March 2, 1889; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on PUBLIC BUILDING, ABERDEEN, S. DAK. Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. PICKLER introduced a bill (H. R. 3915) to provide for the erec LIFE-SAVING STATION, LANE COUNTY, OREGON. tion of a public building at Aberdeen, S. Dak.; which was read a first Mr. HERMANN also introduced a bill (H. R. 3903) tO provide for and second time, referred to the Committee on Public Bti.ildings and the establishment of a life-saving station at mouth of Siuslaw River in Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Lane County, Oregon, and for a crew thereat; which was read a first SURVEY OF CERTAIN PORTIONS OF SOUTH DAKOTA. and second time, referred t-0 the Committee on Commerce, and ordered Mr. PICKLER also introduced a bill (H. R. 3916) providing that to be printed. the Secretary of the Interior cause the Director of the Geological Sur LIMITATIONS OF TIME FOR COMPLETION OF TITLE TO CERT.A.IN LANDS. vey to make survey of cartain portions of South Dakota for purposes Mr. HERMANN also introduced a bill (H. R. 3904) prescribing lim of irrigation, and providing that the Secretary of the Interior make itations of time for completion of title t-0 certain lands disposed of un estimates for necessary appropriation for prosecution of same; which der the act of Congress approved September 27, 1850, and the act-s was read a first and second time, referred to the Selt'ct Committee on amendat-Ory and supplemental thereto, and commonly known as the Irrigation of Arid Lands in the United States, and ordered to be printed. "Donation act," and for the protection of purchasers and occupants on OWNERS .OF HALF-BREED SIOUX SCRIP, SOUTH DAKOTA. said lands; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Com Mr. GIFFORD (by request) introduced a bill (H. R. 3917) to au mittee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. thorize original owners of half-breed Sioux scrip to locate same upon SIUSL.AW AND EASTERN RAILWAY AND NAVIGATION COMP.ANY. the lands opened to settlement in the State of South Dakota under an Mr. HERMANN also introduced a bill (H. R. 3905) granting to the act of Congress approved March 2, 1889; which was read a first and Sinslaw and Eastern Railway and Navigation Company the right of second time, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and way along its lines over the public lands in Oregon, Idaho, and Utah, ordered to be printed. from Siuslaw Bay, in Oregon, to Boise City, in Idaho, and Ogden, in ENROLLMENT OF N .AV AL MILITIA. Utah, with station privileges, etc.; which was read a first and second Mr. McMILLIN. I introduce a. bill (H. R. 3918) to provide for the time, referred to the Com mi tte~ on the Public Lands, and ordered to enrollment of a· naval militia and the organization of naval reserv.e be printed. forces. This bill is introduced at the request of my honorable col SECTIONS 2262 .AND 2301 REVISED STATUTES. 1 league, General Whitthorne, who introduced a similar bill during the .- Mr. HERMANN also introduced a bill (H. R. 3906) to amend an last Congress and has written requesting me to do it for him, and I act entitled "An act to amend sections 2262 and 2301, Revised Statutes wish the record to show that fact. of the United States," and providing that final proof in all cla.sSes of The bill was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee entries of agricultural land may be taken before the judge, or in his on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. absence the clerk of any court of ·record of the county or State or dis trict or Territory where said laJlds may be, and transmitted to registers SURVIVORS OF FLORID.A .AND INDIAN W .ARS. and receivers of United States land offices; which was read a fust and Mr. McMILLIN also introduced a bill (H. R 3919) granting pen second time, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and or sions to the survivors of the Florida and Indian wars; which was read .. dered to be printed. a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Pensions, and or PUBLIC BUILDING, NEW CASTLE, P.A. dered to be printed. Mr. TOWNSEND, of Pennsylvania, introduced a. bill (H. R. 3907) EN:&OLLED JOINT RESOLUTION. for the erection of a public building at New Castle, Pa.; which was read Mr. KENNEDY, from the Committee on Enrolled Bills, reported a first. and second time, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings that they had examined and found truly enrolled a joint resolution of and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. the following title; when the Speaker signed the same: EXPENSES INCIDENT TO NOMINATION AND ELECTION, ETC., OF SENA Joint resolution (S. R. 32) to authorize the expenditure for rent of a TORS AND REPRESENTATIVES. portion of the appropriation for the irrigation survey for the present Mr. OSBORNE introduced a bill (H. R. 3908) to define the neces fiscal year. sary and proper expenses incident to the noinination and election or NATIONAL CEMETERY, MEMPHIS, TENN. appointment of Senators and Representatives in the Congress of the Mr. PHELAN ·introduced a bill (H. R. 3920) to provide for the con United States, and to authorize the payment thereof; which was read struction of a macadamized road from the city of ~Iemphis, in the a fi.ist and second time, referred to the Select Committee on the Election State of Tennessee, to the national cemetery nea.r said city;, which was of President, Vice-President, .and Representatives in Congress, and or read a first and second time, reforred to the Committee on Military Af. dered to be printed. fairs, and ordered to be printed. IMMIGRATION. BOARD OF YELLOW-FEVER CO:\IMISSIONERS. Mr. KERR, of Pennsylvania, introduced a bill (H. R. 3909) to regu Mr. PHELAN also introduced a bill (H. R. 3921) to provide for the late immigration; which was read a first and second time, referrej to appointment of a board of yellow.fever commissioners to investigate the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization, and ordered to be the sanitary condition of foreign infected places, and to provide for the printed. co-operation of Spain and Mexico; which was read a first and se ·ond MINT .AT PHIL.ADELPHI.A, PA. time, reforred to the Committee on Commerce, an 406 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOU~E. bensh'e undeNtanding of the workings of the so-called Confederate govern WATER RESOURCES OF ARIZONA. ment: Therefore, Resolved, That tbe Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secre Mr. SMITH, of Arizona, also introduced a. bill (H. R. 3935) to develop tary of the Interior, the Seur etary of the Navy, and the Attorney-Genera.I of the the water resources of Arizona, and to provide for tbe reclamation of United States be requested to furnish to Congress a. list of documents, written and printed, bearing upon the civil history of the Confederate government now the desert lands therein, and for other purposes; which was read a first ln the Department of ea.ch; also, an account of the present condition thereof. and second time, referred to the Select Committee on Irrigation of Arid PORT OF MEMPHIS, TENN. Lands in the United States, and or~ered to be printed. l'rfr. PHELAN also introduced a bill (H. R. 3922) to extend the limit.a APPROPRIATION FOR EXPENSES OF INDIAN DEPARTMENT. of the port of Memphis, Tenn.; which was read a first. and second time, Mr. Sl\UTH, of Arizona, also introduced a bill (H. R. 3936) to amend referred to- the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. section 9 of "An act making appropriations for expenses of the Indian FORT BLISS, TEX. Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes for the year ending J un.e 30, 1886, and for other other purposes,'' Mr. LANHilf introduced a bill (H. R. 3923) provide for thesale to approved March 3, 1885; which was read a ·first and second time re of the site of Fort Bliss, Tex., the sale or the removal of the improve ments thereof, and for a new site and the construction of suitable build ferred to the Committee on the Judici~ry, and ordered to be printed. ings tbereon; which was read a first and second time, referred to the RELIEF OF SETTLERS ON UNSURVEYED GOVERNMENT LANDS. Comruittee on Military Aftairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. SMITH, of Arizona, also introduced a bill (H. R. 3937) for the IRRIGATION. relief of settlers on unsurveyed Governmen'j lands lying within certain railroad land grants; which was read a first and second time, referred Mr. LA.NHAM also introduced a bill (H. R. 3924) concerning their to the Committee on Private Land Clai~, and ordered to be printed. rigation of arid lands in the valley of the Rio Grande River, the con struction of a dam across said river at or near El Paso, Tex., fur the APPROPRIATION FOR INDIAN DEPREDATION CLAIMS. storage of its waste waters, and for other pnrpose8; which was read a Mr. SMITH, of Arizona, also introduced a bill (H. R. 3938) making · first and second time, referred to the Select Committee on Irrigation of an appropriation for the purpose of paying Indian depredation claims Arid Lands in the United States, and ordered to be printed. which have been audited and approved by the Secretary of thP Interior .· TRUSTS • and reported to Congress; which was read a first and second tirue, re ferred to the Select Committee on Indian Depredation Claims, and or l\Ir. ABBOTT introduced a bill (H. R. 3925) for the prevention of dered to be printed. trusts; which wa.s read a first and second time, referred to the Com mittee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed.' INDIAN DEPREDATIONS. Mr. SMITH, of Arizona, also introduced a bill (H. R. 3939) in rela COTTON BAGGING. tion to Indian depredations; which was read a :first and second time, Ir. STEWART, of Texas, introduced a bill (H. R. 3926) exempting referred to the Select Committee on Indian Depredation Claims and bag~ing for cotton, and all material of which bagging for cotton is ordered to be printed. ' made rrom the payment of any duty; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Ways and .Means, and ordered to be FEES OF CERTAIN OFFICERS IN NEW MEXICO A.ND ARIZONA. printed. Mr. JOSEPH introduced a bill (H. R. 3940) to amend an act en RAILWAY CAB COUPLINGS. title'd "An act to extend the fees of certain officers over the Territories of New Mexico and Arizona;" which was read a first and second time. Mr. STEWART, of Texas, also introduced a bill (H. R. 3927) requir refeTred to the Committee on the Territories, and ordered to be printed: ing the Commissioner of Labor to make, or cause to be made, an exam iuation of the appliances and machinery used in coupling and uncoup TULAROSA IRRIGATION cmIPANY OF NEW MEXICO. ling railway cars, and to report to Congress the comparative safety of Mr. JOSEPH also introduced a bill (H. R. 3941) to aid the Tnla the same to brakemen and other employ es of rail way companies; which rosa Irrigation Company of New Mexico in the construction of re:~ cr· was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Com voirs to store water for the purpose of irrigating, reclaiming, and settling merce, and ordered to be printed. desert lands in Dona Ana County, New Mexicoj which was read a first El\IPLOY.MENT OF CONVIC'l;' LABOR. and second time, referred to the Select Committee on Irrigation of Arid Lands in the United States, and ordered to be printed. Mr. STEWART, of Texas, also introduced a bill (H. R. 3928) to pre vent the employment of convict labor upon the construction or repair The SPEAKER. The Chair would announce that the call.has.. been of any building, house, or other structure belonging to the United completed; if any gentleman now desires to introduce a bill, the Chair States; whit-h was read a :first and second time, reforred to the Com will recognize him. mittee on Labor, and ordered to be printed. NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE, WASHINGTON, D. C. EIGHT-HOUR LA.W. Mr. FORNEY (by request) introduced a bill (H. R. 3942) to incor l\fr. STEWART, of Texas, also introduced a bill (H. R. 3929) for porate the trustees of the National Industrial Institute in Washington, the enforcement of the eight-hour la.won Goveirnment premises; which D. C.; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Commit was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Labor, tee on the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. and ordered to be printed. Mr. FORNEY. I would like.that bill to go to the Committee on Education. RETffiEl\IENT OF JUDGE C. B. SABIN. The SPEAKER. It is for the District of Columbia, is it not? :Mr. CRAIN introduced a bill (H. R. 3930) to -authorize C. B. Sabin, Mr. FORNEY. Yes; it is also general. judi;?;e of the district court of the United States in ·and for the eastern The SPEAKER. The bill will be referred to the Committee on Ed- district of Texas, to retire on full pay; which was read a first and sec ucation. ond time, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to NOAH N. HALLEY. be printed. Mr. CHEADLE submitted a resolution authorizing and directing the CLAIMS AGAINST THE UNITED STATES. Clerk of the House to pay to Noah N. Halley $938; which was read, :Mr. GROUT introduced a bill (H. R. 3931) to provide for the settle and referred to the Committee on Accounts. ment of disputed c]aims for funds in the pos ession of the United .JOHN "B. CLARK. States, or its officers, or for money admitted to be owing and due from the United States; which was read a first and second time, referred to Mr. ROWELL submitted a resolution to give extra compensation to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. John B. Clark, Clerk of the H ouse of Representatives, for preparing for the printer and indexing testimony in contested-election cases; WASHINGTON AND MOUNT VERNON RAILROAD. which was referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Mr. WILSON, of West Virginia (by request), introduced a bill (H. CONVERSION OF WYANDOTTE A.ND N .1.NTUCKET INTO FLOATING IlAT R. 3032) to incorporate the Washington and Mount Vernon Railroad TERIES. Company; which was ~ead a fin;:t and second time, referred to the Com mittee on the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. O'NEIL, of Massachusetts, introduced a bill (H. R. 3943) au thorizing the Pneumatic Gun Carriage and Power Company to convert ST.A.TE GOVERNMENT OF .A.RIZO:N"A. the single-turreted monitors Wyandotte and Nantucket into floating Mr. SMITH, of Arizona, introduced a bill (H. R. 3933) to enable the batteries; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Com people of Arizona to form a constitution and State government, and to mittee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. be admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on P UBLIC BUILDING AT .JACKSONVILLE, FLA. the Territories, and ordered to be printed. l\1r. BULLOCK introduced a bill (H. R. 3944) to change the limit of 111.ARICOP A COUNTY, .A.RIZON A. appropriation for the public building at Jacksonville, Fla.; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Public Mr. SMITH, of Arizona, also in trod need a bill (H. R. 3934) to author Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. ize the board of supervisors of Maricopa Count.Y, Arizona, to issue cer tain bonds in aid of the construction of a certain railroad; which was SUNDRY CIVIL .ACT. re:ll1 a first and second time. referred to the Committee on the Ter .Mr. GEST introduced a bill (H. R. 3945) to repeal a certain proviso ritories, and ordered to be printed. in the sundry civil act approved March 2, 18t!9; which was read a first .· • I ,·. 1890. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 407 /and second time, referred to the Committee on .Appropriations, and The resolution was agreed to. . ordered to be printed, l\fr. HENDERSON, of Illinois, moved to reconsider the vote by which INTERSTATE COMMERCE. the resolution was agreed to; and also moved that the motion to recon Mr. BRECKINRIDGE, of Arkansas (by request), introduced a bill sider be laid on the table. (H. Il. 3946) regulating certain features of interstate commerce, and The latter motion was agreed to. 'for other purposes; whieh was read a first and second time, referred to 1 ROOM FOR CO)Il[ITTEE ON IRRIGATION. the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. VANDEVER offered the following resolution; which was read, -· FOREIGN CUSTOMS LAWS. and referred to the Committee on Accounts: Mr. BRECKINRIDGE, of .Arkansas, also submitted a resolution re Resolved, That the Clerk of the House be authorized and instructed to procure questing certain information of the Secretary of State respecting foreign nnd furnish a suitable room or rooms for the use of the Committee on Irriga tion of A.rid Lands, and to rent the s::i.me for the said committee, provided no ' customs laws; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. suitable unoccupied room is obtainable in the Capitol building, and that the ex AME!n)111ENT OF THE RULES. pense for the same shall be paid out of the contingent fund of the House. Mr. BRECKINRIDGE, of .Arkansas, also submitted a resolution to ROOl\IS FOR OTIIER COMMITTEES. -" amend the rules so as to admit the Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries Mr. HERMANN offered _the following resolution and asked for its 'to the Hali of the House; which was referred to the Committee on Rules. immediate consideration: DUTY ON RAW WOOL. Resolved, That the Clerk of the House be directed to rent rooms, convenient and accessible to the Capitol, for the use of tbe Committee on the Eleventh t en Mr. .ANDREW. I am requested to present this petition, and I ask sus, t·he Committee on Indian Depredation Claims, 3ild the Committee on Ven that the prayer be read and printed in the -RECORD. tilation and Acoustics, and to furnish the same if required, and that the same The SPEAKER. The Clerk will read the title of the petition. be paid f?r out of the contingent fund of the House. The Clerk read as follows: l\Ir. CANNON. Mr. Speaker, I think the Committee on .Accounts Petition of Jesse Metcalf and 529 others, to remove the duty on raw wool. had better make inquiry touching all these matters and cover them ,· The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman with a general report and recommendation. from Massachusetts that the prayer be printed in the RECORD? [After The resolution was referred to the Committee on .Accounts. a pause.] The Chair hears none, and it will be so ordered. APPROACHES TO NEW BRIDGE, EASTERN BRANCH. It is as follows: To the honorable Senate and House of Representatives in Congress a.ssembled: Mr. COMPTON introduced the following resolution and asked for its The undersigned, being each and all of us engaged in growing. manufacturing, immediate consideration: or dealing in wool, respectfully petition tbat the duties on raw wool may now Resolved, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. a.re hereby di· . '• ... be removed or greatly reduced for the benefit of our domestic wool-growe.rs and rected to report to this House the reasons for the delay in constructing the ap woolen manufacturers alike. At a recent meeting of woolen manufacturers in pl'Oaches to the new bridge over tile Eastern Branch of the Potomac Ri-ver, Boston it was correctly stated "that the wholesale introduction into the United being the extension of Pennsylvania. avenne to said bridge; the appropriation States of foreign wools in the form of finished fabrics, thereby displacing Amer for the same having been available since the first of July last. ican wool, which would otherwise be consumed in American mills, is due to the unjust and illogical arrangement of the tariff. While the imports of clothing The resolution was adopted. and combing wools have not materially increased, and American production is CHANGE OF R.EFERENCE. materially decreHsing of late years, :iotw1ths1anding the rapid g~owth in our .. population and the increasing per capita. consnmption of wool by this increas On I!lotion of Mr. DALZELL, the Committee on Public Buildings and ing population, the quantity of foreign wool introduced into this country in the Grounds was discharged from the further consideration of the bill ( H. shape of goods and yarn has increased to the enormous total of 141,474,144 pounds in 1883, equaling 44 per cent. of our total home production of wools of all descrip R. 752) grantiug the use of certain real estate to the city of Pittsburgh, tions. The wholesale market value of our annual importation of manufactured Pa., for a public park, and it was referred to the Committee on the wool exceeds by nearly 50 per cent. the value of our annual wool clip." Public Lands. As the only civilized country in the world, so far as we are informed, which levies a duty on raw wool. we ask that American indm;try may be relieved of RIGHT OF WAY ACROSS PA.PAGO L~DIAN RESERVATION. this unnatural burden, and that our domestic wool interests may now be put upon the same wholesome basis as the cotton manufacturing industry, with free l\lr. 8MITH, of Arizona, introduced a bill (H. R. 3949) granting right raw material. of way to Arizona Improvement Company across Papago Indian reserva ,' RELATING TO CONTESTED ELECTIONS. tion in .Arizona; which was read a first ancl second time, referred to ·. Mr. HAUGEN introduced a bill (H. R. 3947) relating to contested the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. elections and to define the duties of the Clerk of the House of Repre sentatives; which was read a first and second time, and referred to the PRINTING FOR THE Co:'.\IMITTEE O.N RULES. ·8elect Committee on the Election of President, Vice-President, and Rep Mr. McKINLEY offered the following resolution: resentatives in Congre s. ResolvP.d, That the Committee on Rules be authorized to have printed for it." use during the present Congress such papers and documents touching propo S. F. TOLS:\fA. sitions pending before it as it may deem necessary. Mr. CHIPMAN submitted a resolution relat.ive to the claim of S. F. Tolsma; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign .Affairs. The resolution was adopted. SEAL FISHERIES OF ALASKA. CERTIFICATES OF ELECTION OF CERTAIN MEMBERS. Mr. CHIPMAN also submitted a resolution relative to close sea in The SPEAKER. The Chair desires to lay before the House com r.A.laska; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. munications containing the certificates of e1ection of members who have ORDER OF BUSINESS. already been admitted on local certificates. They are the certificates 1 of the e ectionof Messrs . .A.Mos J. CU1\lliINGS1 SERENO E. PAYNE, and Mr. STRUBLE. I ask present consideration of the resolution which CHARLES H. TURNER, respectively, as members from the State of New ., I send to the Clerk's desk. York. The Chair suggests that these certificates be printed in the Mr. BRECKINRIDGE, of Kentucky. . Will the gentleman allow me REconn, and if there be no objection it will be so ordered. t.o introduce a bill for reference? There was no objection. Mr. ST.RUBLE. I yield to the gentleman for that purpose. The certificates are as follows: .. MONUMENT TO ZACHARY TAYLOR. UNTTED STATES OF A.MERICA, STATE OB' NEW YORK. Mr. BRECKINRIDGE, of Kentucky, introduced a bill (H. R. 3948) By Frederick Cook, secretary of state and custodian of the great seal thereof. to erect a monument to Zachary Taylor; which was read a first and It is h-ereby certified that Frederick Cook was, on the da.y of the date of the second time, reforred to the Committee on the Library, and ordered to a.nuexed certificale and attestation, secretary of state of tue State of New York: and duly authorized to make the same; that such St'Cretary of state is the proper be printed. officer to ma.ke such certificate and attestation and that the same are iu due PRINTING l<'OR COl\11\IITTEE ON THE TERRITORIES. fo1·m; that the seal affixed to said certificate is the seal of office of the secretary of state of the State of New York; that the signature thereto of the said secre Mr. STRUBLE offered the following resvlution and asked for its tary of state is in his·own proper handwriting and is genuine; and further, that immediate consideration: the secretary of state is the custodian of the record of certificate so certified and Ruolved, That the Committee on the Territories are authorized to have attested, and custodian of the great seal of said State hereto affixed, and that -. printed all documents for use of said committee that they may deem necessary full faith and credit may and ought to be g;ven to his official acts. in connection with the subjects referred to that committee. In testimony whereof the grnat seal of the State is hereunto affixed. ,,Vitness my hand at the city of Albany, the 20th day of December, in the year The resolution was agreed to. of our Lord 1889. Mr. STRUBLE moved to reconsider the vote bv which the resolu [SEAL.l FREDERICK COOK, Secretary of State. tion was agreed to; and also moved that the motfon to reconsider be STATE OF NEW YORK, ss: laid on the table. We, the secretary of state, comptrol1er, treasurer, and attorney-general of The latter motion was agreed to. said State, having formed a board of State canvassers, and having canvru;sed and estimated the whole number of votes given for Representatives in the Fifly PRINTING FOR THE COJIMITTEE ON RIVERS AND HARBORS. first Congress, to fill vacancies, nt the general election held in said State on the Mr. HENDERSON, of Illinois, offered the following resolution: 5th day of November, 1889, according to the certified statements of the said votes recei...-ed by the secretary of state in the wanner directed by law, do hereby de Resolved, That the Committee on Rfrers and Harbors be authorized to have termine, declare, and certif.Y. that the following persons, respectively. by the printed nnd bound such papers and documents for the use of said committee greatest numbel'.' of "roles given at the said election in the Ninth and Twenty as may be necessary ir! couection with subjects considered by the committee seventh Congressional districts of the ::ita.te, respectively, were duly and regu during the present Congress. larly elected, in accordance with the laws of said State, Representatives of the .~ { .. : ) ...... : . . .., ' . \ / . 408 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. JANUARY 6, State of New York to fill vacancJes in the Fifty-first Congress of the United DIRECTORS OF COLUMBIA INSTITUTION FOR DEAF ARD DUMB. States for the term expiring March 4, 1891, to wit: Ninth district, Amos J. Cummings. The SPEAKER also announced the appointment of l\fr. ROBERT R. Twenty-seventh district, Sereno E. Payne. HITT, of Illinois, and Mr. JOHN J. HEl\lPHILL, of South Carolina, as Given under our hands at the office of the secretary of state of said State, in the city of Albany, the 18.th day of December, in the year of our Lord 1889. members of the board of directors of the Columbia Institution for the FREDERIOK COOK, Secretary of State~ Deaf and Dumb. EDWARD WEMPLE, Comptroller. TOWN-SITE ENTRIES IN OKLAHOMA. LAWRENCE J. FITZGERALD, 11reas-urer. CHAS. F. TABOR, .Attorney-General. Mr. PERKINS, from the Committee on the Territories, reported STATE OF NEW YORK, back, with amendments, the bill (H. R. 1015) to provide for town-site Offi~ of the Secretary of State, ss: entries of lands in what is known as Oklahoma, and for . o~ber purposes; I certify that I have comps.red the foregoing with an original certificate filed in this office, and that the same is a correct transcript therefrom and of the which, with the accompanying report, was ordered to · be, p.rinted and whole of such originaL recommitted. · Given under my band and seal of office at the city of Albany, this 18th day of December, 1889. ASSISTANT CLERK FOR COMMITTEE ON C,LAIMS. (SEAL.] FREDERICK COOK, Secretary of State. Mr. LAIDLAW submitted the following resbli:ition; which was re ferred to the Committee on Accounts: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, STATE OF NEW YORK. Resolved, That the Committee on Claims be authorized during the session, By Frederick Cook, secretary of state and custodian of the great seal thereof. until further order by the House, to employ an assistant clerk, to be paid out of It is hereby certified that Frederick Cook wi.s, on the day of the date of the the contingent fund of the House, at the rate of $6 per day. annexed certificate and alf&station, secretary of state of the State of New York, and duly authorized to make the same; that such secretary of state is the Mr. McKINLEY. I moye that-the Honse do now adjourn. The motion was agreed to; and accordingly (at 2 o'clock and 15 '· proper officer to make such certiticate and attestation and that the same are in due form; that the seal affixed to said certificate is the seal of office of these~ minutes p. m.) the House adjourned~ retary of state of the State of New York ; that the signat.ure thereto of the said secretary of state is in bis own proper handwrit.ing, and is genuine; and fur- ther that the se•·retary of state is the custodian of the record of certificate, so certified and attested, and custodian of the great seal of said State hereto af- PRIVATE BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTION INTRODUCED AND REFERRED. fixed , and that fullfai.th and credit may and ought to be given to his official acts. . Under the rule, private bills and joint resolution of the followin!? In testimony whereof the great seal of the State is hereunto affixed. ~ Witness my band at the city of Albany the 20th day of December, in the year titles were introduced and refnred as indicated below: of our Lord 1889. By Mr. ALDERSON: A bill (H. R. 3952) for the relief of Hemy A. [sEAL.] FREDE~CK COOfs:m King-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. STATE oF NEW YoRK, -ss: m·~ary 0 te. By· ~fr. C. L. ANDERSON: A bil.l (H. R. 3953~ granting a pension to 'Ve, t.be secretary of state, comptroller, treasurer, and attorney-general of said Sarah McClenachan-to_ the Commi~tee on P~ns10ns: State, having formed a board of State ca.nvassers, and having canvassed and es- I By Mr. BAKER: A bill ( H. H. 39;J4 ) grantmg an mcrease of pension timated the whole ~umber of votes giv.en for ~epftlsen~tive in ~he Fifty-first I to General Horace Boughton-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. ('ongress of the Umted States, at a special election held m the Sixth Congres- b" l (H R - ) · , . · sional district of said State, on the 30th day of November,1889 (pursuant to a Also, a il . · · 3 ~v 5 grantmg a pens on _to Ann Fo1d, widow of proelamation of the governor of 11a!d State, date~ November 9, 1889),according John Ford, late of Company F, Fourteenth Regiment New York Heavy !O the certified s~tement of the satd votes rece1v!ld by the secretary o_f state, Artillery-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. rn the manner directed by law, do hereby determme,declare, and certify that I b"ll (H R 3 - ) t" · Ell Sb · Charles H. Turner was, by the greatest number of votes given in that portion A so, a 1 • · 9v 6 gran ~~g a pension to en ears, widow of New York County comprising said Congressional district, duly and regularly of George A. Shears, late of the Eighteenth New York Battery Vol un elected, in ac.-cordance with tht: laws of_said State, Representative o~ the State teers~to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. of New York, to.fi.11 a vacancy m the Fifty-first Congress of the Umted States B 11..r "DANKHEAD· A bill (H R 3957) fi th 1· f' f 'I J for the term expumg March 4, 1891. Y_ JJJ.r. " . · . · · or e re Ie o J.1 ary • Given under our hands at the office of the secretary of state of said State, Eddms-to the Committee (lD Claims. in the city of Albany, the 18th day of Decembe_!iin theyearofour Lord 1889. By Mr. BAYNE: A bill (H. R. 3958) granting pension to Sarah L. FREDERICK. COOK, Secretary of State. J W h C · · EDWARD WEMPLE, Compf!roue1•• Patterson and ane . Patterson-to t e ommittee on Invalid Pen- L"AWKENCE J. FITZGERALD, Treasurer. sion.s. CHAS. F. TABOR, Altorney-General. By Mr. BERGEN: A bill (H. R. 3959) granting a pen. ion to Enoch STATE OF NEW Yomt, T. Abrams-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Offi~ of the Sec-retary of State, ss: Also, a bill (H. R. 3960) for the relief of Joseph Curriden-to .the I certify that I have compared the foregoing with an original certificate filed in this office, and that the same is a correct transcript therefrom and of the Committee on War Claims. whole of such ori&inal. By Mr. BIGGS: A bill (H. R. 3861) to increase the pension of ·' Given under my hand and St".al of office, at the city of Albany, this 18th day of Stephen Cooper-to the Committee on Pensions. December, 1889. (SEAL.) "FREDERICK COOK. Also, a bill (H. R. 3962) to increase the pension of ~amuel Adams Secretarv of State. to the Committee on Pensions. LEA VE OF ABSENCE. By Mr. BINGHAM: A bill (H. R. 2963) to correct the record of :By unanimous consent, leave of absence was granted as follows: Capt. John P. Story, United States Army-to the Committee on Mili- To Mr. THOMPSON, of Ohio, indefiniteJy, on a '.~ ~. ' I ·- ' ... . ' \ • ..... "# ... ~·' · l .·_ .• • I . - ' , - ·. ' ·- 1890. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 409 By Mr. BLOUNT: A bill (H. R. 3978) for the relief of Matthew R. ALc:o, a bill (H. R. 4017) for the relief of J. Schriber & Co.-to tho Bell-to the Committee on Claims. Committee on Claims. - Also, a bill (H. R. 3979) for the relief of the heir.3or legal repre5ent- By Mr. BUTTERWORTH (by request): A bill (H. R. 4018) for the ..... : ath1 es of Jame.3 Jackson, deceased-to the Committee on ·war Claims. relief of William B. Burnet-to the Committee on the Judiciary. :. Also, a. bill (H. R. :::980) for the relief of the heirs of R. W. Jemison, Also (by request), a bill (H. R. 4019) 1or ~therelief of FrankArnim- decease I I '. ' ... - /' . •' .· .. t .. . ~ ... '1 410 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. JANUARY 6, .Also, a bill (H. R. 4058) for the relief of J. B. Elder-to the Com- Also (by request), a bill (H. R. 41_01) for the relief of T. A. Kendig mittee on War Claims. · to the Committee on Claims. Also, a bm (H. R. 4059) for the relief of Jesse Cook-to the Com By Mr. FAH.QUHAR: A bill (H. R. 4102) granting a pension to mittee on War Claims. Elizabeth Heckler-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 4060) for the relief of Robert C. Speed-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 4103) for the relief of George W. Quintard and Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. George E. Weed-to the Committee on Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 4061) for the relief of George W. Smith-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 4104) for the relief of Franklin Lee and Charles Committee on War Claims. F. Dunbar-to the Committee on Claims. Also, a hill (H. R. 4062) for the relief of John W • .Alves-to the Com .Also, a bill (H. R. 4105) for the relief of Jesse H. Strickland- to the mittee on War Claims. Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 4063) for the relief of Ben Harrison-to the Com By .Mr. FINLEY: A bill (H. R. 4106) granting a pension to Thomas mittee on War Claims. 0. Holt-to the Committee on Invalid Pen:'rions. Also, a bill (H. R. 4064) for the relief of Martin Webb's heirs-to Also, a. bill (H. R. 4107) removing charge of desertion against John the Committee on War Claims. C. Miller-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 4065) for the relief of James C. Rash-to the Com Also, a bill (H. R. 4108) removing charge of de. ertion against Jonathan mittee on Claims. C. Huffman-to the Committee on Milita·ry Affairs. Also, a hill (H. R. 4066) for the relief of W. M. Able-to the Com Also, a bill (H. R. 4109) removing the charge of desertion against mittee on War Claims. Rufus M. Kinser-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 4067) for the relief of Dr. George W. Noel-to the Also, a bill (H.. .R. 4110) increasing the pension of Martha Hays Committee on War Claims. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill ( H. R. 4068) for the relief of the heirs of Paschal Rouse Also, a bill ( H. R. 4111) for the relief of the officers, enli ted men, and to the Committee on War Claims. others, of the South Cumberland Batt.a.Lion of Kentucky State Troops Also, a bill ( H. R. 4069) for the relief of George :M. Priest's heirs to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. to the Committ.ee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 4112) for the relief of Huston Nunn-to the Com Also, a bill ( H. R. 4070) for the relief of J. W. Givens-to the Com mittee on Invalid Pensions. mittee on War Claims. .Also. a. bill· (H. R. 4113) for the relief of W. H. Cowherd-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 4071) for the relief of Frank L. Hall-to the Com Committee on War Claims. mittee on War Claims. Also. a bill (H. R. 4114) for the relief of John J. Frazier-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 4072) for the relief of W. A. Easten-to the Committee on War Claims. . Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (R. R. 4115) for the relief of Lemiel Higgins-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 4073) for the relief of T. W. Crabtree-to the Committee on War Claims. • Committee on War Claims. By Mr. FITCH: A bill (H. R. 4116) for the relief of George Conway #Also, a bill (H. R. 4074) for the relief of B. P. Howard, administra- to the Committee<>n War Claims. tor-to the Committee on War Claims. · Also, a bill (R. H. 4117) to determine the rights of John J. Schil . Also, a bill (H. R. 4075) for the relief of Francis M:illet--to the Com ·nnger and his a<;si~nees-to the Committ• e on Patents. mittee on War Claims. By Mr. WILSON, of West Virginia: A bm (H. H. 4118) provifling for Also, a bill (H. R. 4076) for the relief of .John G. :Bailey-to the the payment of the amonnts due the employes in, and the contractors Committee on War Claims. who furnished castings to, the Udtc>d tates armory at Harper's .Ferry, Also, a bill (H. R. 4077) for the relief of James J. Lipscomb-to the Va., from January 1, 1861, to April 19, l&H, inclusive-to the Com Committeeon WarClaims. mittee on War Claims. Also, a bill ( H. R. 4078) for the relief of Lafayette Elder-to the By Mr FLOWER: A bill (H. R. 4119) to remove the charge of deser Committee on War Claims. tion against AJfred Carlen-to the Committee on .Military Affairs. Al o, a bill (H. R. 4079) for the reliefof James M. Chandler-to the By Mr. FUNSTON: A bill (H. H. 4120) to remove the cl.large of Committee on War Claims. desertion against Henry H. Bone-to the Committeeon Military Affairs. Also, a bill ( H. R. 4080) for the relief of John Anderson-to the Com Also, a bill ( H. R.. 4121) to pay amount found due by the Qourt of mittee on War Claims. Claims to Sarah A. Bishard-to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 4081) for the relief of Francis M. Nisbet-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 4122) to place the name of John Gerot on the Committee on War Claims. pen~ion-roll-to the Committee on Jn valid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 4082) for the relief of the Christian church of Also, a bill (H. R. 4123) for the relief of Robert Young-to the Com Henderson, Ky.-to the Committee on War Claims. mittee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 40R3) for the relief of the heirs of James W. Wil By Mr. GEAL{ (by requ.est): A hill (H. R. 4124) for the relief of kin:, deceased-to the Committee on War Claims. George E. W. Sharretts-to the Committee on Appropriations. Also, a. bill (H. R. 4UH4) for the relief of the heirs of Philip Prather, Also, a bill (H. R. 4125) granting a. pension to Adda D. Fleming deceased-to the Committee on War Claims. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. - Also, a bill (H. R. 40 5) for the relief of Simon Oberdorfer-to the .Also, a bill (H. R. 4126) granting a pension toll. G. Church-to the Committee on War Claims. Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 4086) for the relief of George W. Riddle-to the Also, a bill (H. R 4127) granting a pension to Roda Williams-to Committee on War Claims. the Committee on Invalid Pen.-ions. Also, a bill ( H. R. 4087) for the relief of 'Clara Potts's heirs-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 412H) granting an increase of pension to Samuel Committee on War Claims. Chandler-to the Committee on Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 40 8) for the relief of 0. S. Parker-to the Com By Mr. GEST: .A bi.11 (H. R. 4129) granting a pension to Daniel J. mittee on Invalid Pensions. Cox-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. .Also, a bill (H. R. 40~!1) for the relief of .J. C. Rudd-to the Com By Mr. GIFFORD: A bill (H. R. 4130)to autho1izetbe construction mittee on War Claims. of a bridge across the Missouri RiYer at the -city of Pierre, in Stmth - Also, a bill (H. R. 4090) granting a pension to Johanna Statton-to Dakota-to the Committee on Commerce. the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. GRIMES: A bill (H. R. 41~H) for the relief of Harrison T. . Also, a bill (H. R. 4091) granting a pension to Charles R. Clark-to Martin-to the Committee on War Claims. the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. GlWUT: A bill ( H. H.. 4132) granting a pension to Esther Also, a bill { H. R. 4092) granting a pension to Robert Ray-to the G.· Bryant-to the Committee on Invalid Pensjons. Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also. a bill (H. R. 4133) granting a pension to Argalus R. Rugg-to Also, a bill (II. R. 4093) granting a. pension to Christopher H. the Comttlittee on Invalid Pensions. Mathewson-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Ir. HARM.EU: A bill ( 1-f. R. 4134) granting a pension to ~Iar Alm, .a bill (H. R. 4094) granting a pension to James M. McKin garet Stewart-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. ney-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill ( H. R. 4135) for the relief of Henry B. Seely-t-0 the Com A I. o, a bill ( H. R. 4095) granting an increase of pension to Jam es H. mittee on Naval .Affairs. Husk-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill ( H. R. 4136) for the reliefof Jabez Burchard-to the Com Also, a bill (H. R. 4096) granting an increaseof pension to John W. mittee on Claims. 1\IcClanahan-to the Committee on In valid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 4137) reinstating and placing on the retired-list ' \ Also, a bill ( H. R. 4097) to remove the charge of desertion against George \V. Omensetter, late gunner United States N:wy-to the Com William Ra!ferty-:-to tbe Committee on Military Affairs. mittee on Naval Atlair. Also, a bill (H. R. 40!:!8) to remove the charge of desertion against By Mr. SPINOLA: A bill (H. R. 4138) for the reliefof'Richard Onla Bedford Po1ts-to the Committee on Military Affairs. · han-to the Committee on i\1ilitary Affairs. :By Mr. EVANS (by request): .A bill (H. R. 40!:19) for the i·elief of .By Mr. HEA.RD: A bill{H. R. 4139) granting a pens~on to C. C. B1an· William Allen-to tne Committee on War Claims. ton-to the Committee on Invalid Pt-nsions. · .Also (by request), a bill (H. R. 4100) for the relief of JohnMasoner Also (by request), a bill ( 1-f. R. 4140) for the relief of Alonzo Lewis to the Committee on War Claims. to the Committee on Pensions. --1111!111------'!'------~~------~--".""'------~-··-~-~~~·--~~~-~- ... ------... .. "' .:.. -. •. 1890. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. - -- 411 ·. Also, a bill (H. R. 4141) for the relief of William England-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 4182) for the relief of Nancy L. Bond-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Comr•ittee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 4142) for the relief of Joseph Mackentosh-to the By l\lr. LAWS: A bill (H. R. 4183) for the relief of Samuel Teeters Committee on Military Affairs. and James B. Teeters-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 4143} for the relief of the estate of Robert King, By Mr. MAISH: A bill (H. R. 4184) to amend the military record deceased-to the Committee on Claims. of William M. Porter, alias William S. bfackay-to the Committee on Also, a bill (H. R. 4144) for the relief of W. G. Wear-to the Com l\Iili tary Affairs. mittee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 4185) to increase the pension of Mrs. Antonia B. ·Al"o, a bill (H. R. 4145) for the relief of James D. Card-to the Com Lynch-to the Committee on Pensions. mittee on War Claims. By Mr. MANSUR: A. bill (H. R. 4186) granting a pension to Will Also, a bill (H. R. 4146) granting a pension to Robert C. Thomas iam C. C. Wallace-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. to the Committee on Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 4187) for the correction of the army record o! Also, a bill (H. H. 4147) to pay amounts found due by Court of Claims William P. Hall, United States .Army-to the Committee on Military to Joseph M:. Pilkington-to the Committee on War Claims. Affairs. B.v Mr. T. J. HENDERSON: A bill (H. R. 4148) for the relief of By Mr. A. N. MARTIN: A bill (H. R. 4188) granting a pension to John Faller-to the Committee on War Claims. Perry Kennard-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 4149) for the relief of Dennis Pride-to the Com Also, a bill (H. R. 4189) granting a pension to Abraham Moore-to ' mittee on War Claims. the Committee on Invalid Pen.o;ions. Also, a bill (H. R. 4150) for the relief of the heirs of Levi Hill, de Also, o. bill (H. R. 4190) granting a pension to Mrs. Susan Clark ceased-to the Committee on War Claims. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 4151) for the relief of E. R. Swain-tu the Com Also, a bill (H. R. 4191) to correct the military record of Charles A. mittee on War Claims. Larkin-to the Committee on Military Affairs. By Mr. D. B. HENDERSON: A bill (H. R. 4152) granting an in Also, a bill (H. R. 4192) to correct the military record of Calvin creaseofpension toAlbertMabb-totheCommitteeon Invalid Pensions. Daniel, deceased-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill ( H. R. 4153) for the relief of William Thompson-to the Also, a bill ( H. R. 4193) for the relief of Samuel Nunemaker-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Committee on Military Affairs. By l\Ir. H El~MANN: A bill l H. R. 4154) granting a pension to George Also, a bill ( H. R. 4194) for the relief of Lewis Deems-to the Com.. Kyniston-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. mittee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill ( H. R. 4155) for the relief of P. B. Sinnott-to the Com Also, a bill (H. R. 4195) to increase the pension of Mrs. Emma A. mittee on Inrlian Affairs. Hart-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill ( H. R. 4156) for the relief of Michael Riley-to the Select By Mr. McADOO: A bill {H. R. 4196) for the relief of the Washina·0 Committee on Indian Depredation Claims. ton Iron Works-to the Committee on War Claims. Also. a bill (H. R. 4157) for the relief of George Engle-to the Select By Mr. McKINLEY: A billtH. R. 4197) to repeal thelimit::i.tinnto the Committee on Indian Depredation Claims. payment of arrears of pension-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. H. 415 l for the relief of R. B. Bishop-to the Select Also, a bill (H. R. 4198) for the relief of John B. Nessle-to the Committee on Indian Depredation Claims. Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. H. 4159) for thereliefofVitz Schutz-to the Select Also, a bill (H. R. 4199j granting a pension to Sarah Reese-to the Committee on Inrlian Depredation Claims. Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a hill (H. R. 41fi0) for the relief of J.B. Nichols-to the Select By Mr. McRAE: A bill (H. R. 4200) for the permanent improve . :. Committee on Indian Depredation Claims. ment of the Ouachita River in the States of Arkansas and Louisiana- Also, a bill ( H. R. 41 Gl) to pay Green Arnold, of La Grande, Oregon, to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. · $7,596.80-to the Select Committee on Indian Depredation Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 4201) to pension Mary E. Greening, widow of } .By l\Ir. HITT: A bill (H. R. 4162) granting a pension to L. H. Na Orlanrlo A. Greening, who served in the Indian war-to the Committee ron, known as Chickasaw the Scout-to the Committee on Invalid Pen on Pensions. sions. Also, a bill (H. R. 4202) to pension Henry S. Morgan for servic~ in By Mr. GEST: A resolution, (H. Res. 57) providing for the settle the Indian war-to the Committee on Pensions. ment of a claim against the Antietam National Cemetery-to the Com Also (by request), a bill (H. R. 4203) for the relief of the legal rep mlttee on .Military Affairs. resentatives of Mary J. Conway, deceased-to the Committee on \Y:u lly Mr. HITT: A bill (H. R. 4163) to increase the pension of Sophia Claims. . , Beeler-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. MOREY: A bill (H. R. 4204) granting a pension to W. R. Al.30, a bill (H. R. 4164) to relieve Joseph 8. Hurst from the charge Stuart-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. of desertion-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Ry Mr. MORRILL: A bill (H. R. 4205) granting a pension to Isa Ry Mr. HILL: A bill (H. R. 41~5) for the relief of Jacob A, Henry bella B. Stimple-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. to the Committee on Claims. By Mr. MORROW: A bill (H. R. 4206) to restore Chaplain C. M. I. By l\Ir. HOLMAN: A bill (H. R. 4166) grantin~ a pension to Esther Blake, United States Army, to rank and pay-to the Committee ou Todd-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Military Affairs. . · Al ~ o. a bill ( H. H. 4167) granting a. pension to Lorenzo D. Whiteford Also, a bill ( H. R. 4'207) to increase the pension of W. C. Guirey to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. HOUK: A bill (H. R. 416 ) for the relief of William Comp Also, a bill (H. R. 4208) for the relief of the Sierra Lumber Com- ton-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. pany-to the Committee on the .Judiciary. . 'Also, a bill ( H. R. 41G9) for the relief of Daniel Connor-to the Com By Mr. OUTHW AITE: A bill (H. R. 4209) granting a pension to ' . . ' . mittee on Claims. Oliver P. Martin-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 4170) for the relief of Malvin J. Childres-to the Alo, a bill (H. R. 4210) to increase the pension of John H. Grove- Committee on War Claims. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 4171) for the relief of Patrick J . Griffin-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 4211) to pay the amount found due by the Court Committee on Military Affairs. of Claims to Capt. Charles F. King-to the Committee on War Claims. ' .. Abo, a bill ( H. R. 411'2) for the relief of Charles G. Lundborg-to the By Mr. P A.mrnTT: A bill (H. R. 4212) for the reliefof Henry Ayres Committee on Claims. to the Committee on Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 4173) for the relief of Wa.rham Easley-to the Also, a bill (H. K 4213) for the reliefofHenry Gumberts, sr.-to the Committee on War Claims. Committee on Claims. .Hy Mr. HARRISO:N KELLEY: A bill (H. R. 4174) for the relief of Al o, a bill (H. R. 4214) granting a pension to Matilda Gomes-t.o D.· W. Boutwell-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 4175) to pension Mrs. Charlotte Stenger-to the By l\Ir. PAYNTER: A bill (H. R. 4215) for the relief of W. H. C. Committee on Invalid Pensions. McKinster-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 417f:i) granting a pension to George Wolfe-to the Also, a bill (II. R. 4216) for the relief of William T. :Moblev-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Committee on Wa.r Claims. . • By Mr. LACEY: A bill (H. R. 4177) granting a. pension to Mary E. Also (by request), a bill (H. R. 4217) for the relief of Samuel Berry-· Bromfield-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. to the Committee on War Claims. .·- Also, a bill (H. R. 4171') granting a peHsion to RobertD. Biizzard Also, a bill (1-f. -R. 4218) for the relief of John S. May-to the Com- to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. mittee on War Claims. · ·. AJso, a bill (H. R. 4179) granting a pension to Nancy J. Dorlos-to .Also, a bill (H. R. 4219) for the relief of Lilburn E. Taber-to the the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. LANE: A bill (H. H. 4180) granting a pension to Mary C. Also, a. bill (H. R. 4220) Jor the relief of Thomas H. Bruce-to the Upton-to the Committee on In>alid Pensions. Cemmittee on Invalid Pensions. Also. a bill (H. R. 4181) granting a pension to Daniel Doty-to the Al o, a. bill ( H. H. 4221) granting a pension to Samuel Giles -to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Committee on Pensions. .. ~- .. •.. - . ' -. '''I: .. , \ ,··.:. .. ,. .. \ · 1- ;~ ;. .. : ,; •,, . . ' .. .:. . " ' 412 - _ CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. " JANUARY 6, ·. . . .. Also, .a bill {H. R. 4222) granting a pension to Lavina J. Hyatt-to By Mr. SAWYER: A bill (H. R. 4264) for the relief of Catherine the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Child-to the Committee on War Claims. Aiso, ·a bill (H. R. 4223) granting a pension to Thomas Conner-to By Mr. SCULL: A bill ( H. R. 4265) granting a pension to John Mc the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Donnell-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 'Also, a bill (H. R. 4224) to remove the charge of desertion against Also, a bill (H. R. 4266} to increase the pension of James Snyder James Littleton-to the Committee on Military Affairs. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Hy Mr. PAYSON (by request): A. bill (H. R. 4225) for the relief of .Also, a bill (H. R. 4267) for the relief of Benjamin F. Jamison-to Margaret Kennedy-to the Committee on War Claims. the Committee on Claims. ' By Mr. PEEL: A bill (ff. R. 4226) for the relief of E. J. Wolem Also, a bill (H. R. 4268) for the relief of Terrence Delozier-to the • .. .,. I to the Committee on War Claims. Committee on Claims. · I •• e Also, a bill (H. R. 4227) for the relief of the Stockbridge tribe of Also, a bill (H. R. 4269) for the relief of John W. Gummo-to the Indians-to the Committee on Indian Affairs. Committee on War Claims. Also, U1. bill (H. R. 42:28) for the relief of Benjamin E. Gambdll-to Also, a bill (H. R. 4270) for the relief of Andrew Shoenfelt-to the the Committee on War Claims. Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R 4229) for the relief of 8. C. Stirling, H. R. Stir Also, a bill (H. R. 4271) for the relief of Peter Knepp-to the Com ling, J. Anna Stirling-to the Commit.tee on War Claims. mittee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 4230) grantiqg a pension to Richard Standridge By Mr. SWENEY: A bill (H. R. 4272) for the relief of Robert Mc to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Farland-to the Committee on Milltary Affairs. By Mr. PENDLETON: A bill (H. R. 4231) for the relief of Abra By Mr. SHIVELY: A bill (H. R. 4273) for the relief of William H. ham Shriver-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Fritz-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill ( H. R. 4232) for the relief of Henry P. McMaster-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 4274) granting a pension to James McLain-to Committee on Invalid Pensions. the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 4233) for the relief of William Dillon-to the By Mr. M.A. SMITH: A bill tH. R. 4275) for the relief of Frederick Committee on War Claims. Holbnng-to the Committee on Claims.- Also, a. :bill (H. R. 4234) for the relief of Alexander Shock-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 4276) for the relief of P. C. Davis-to the Select Committee on War Claims. Committee on Indian Depredation Claims. Also. a bill (H. R. 42:{5) for the relief of John R. Botsford-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 4277) for the relief of G. R. Montgomery-to the Commitiee on War Claims. Committee on Claims. By Mr. PETERS: A bill {H. R. 4236) pensioning John George-to Also, a bill (H. R. 42i8) for the relief of William M. Rudd-to the the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 4 37) pensioning Henry J. Dodson-to the Com Also, a bill (H. R. 4279) for the relief of J. H. Taggart-to the Com mittee on Invalid Pensions. mittee on Claims. Also, A bill (H. R. 4238) pensioning Maria T. Lee-to the Committee Also, a bill (H. R. 4280) for the relief of A. E. De Corse and J. H. on Invalid Pensions. Taggart-to the Committee on Claims. ., .!.lso, a bill (H. R. 4239) increasing the pension of Harvey Smith-to B.Y Mr. SPRINGER: A bill (H. R. 4281) for there1iefofL. S. Ensel to the Committee on Claims. ,. the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. PHELAN: A bill ( H. R. 4240) for the relief of Maggie B. Also, a bill (H. R. 4282) for the relief of William Gray-to the Com- Chapman-to the Committee on Wa,r Claims. mittee on Claims. . Also, _a bill (H. R. 4241) for the relief of Mrs. Sarah C. McLemore Also, a bill (H. R. 4283) for the relief of Lorenzo Durham-to the to the Committee on War Claims. Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 4242) for the relief of Pearson C. Montgomery Also, a bill (H. R. 4284) for the relief of Smith & Savage-to the to the Committee on War Claims. Select Committee on Indian Depredation Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 4243) for the relief of N. C. Perkins-to the Com By Mr. CHARLES STEWART: A hill (H. R. 4285) for the relief of mittee on War Claims. Lemuel Grissum-to the Committee on War Claims. -_, Also, & bill (H. R. 4244) for the relief of the La Grange Synodical By Mr. STOCKBRIDGE: A bill (H. R. 4286) for the relief of Mrs. College-to the Committee on War Claims. Sarah H. Wood-to the Committee on War Claims. By Mr. POSl': A bill (H. R. 4245) granting ~ pension to John W. By Mr. STRUBLE, .(by request): A bill (H. R. 4287) for the relief Shields-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. of the heirs of John W. West-to the Committee on Indian Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 4246) granting a pension to Bridget Lyrich-to By Mr. A. A. TAYLOR: A bill ( H. R. 4288) for the relief of L. H. the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Goodwin-to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 4247) granting a pension to Mrs. Jane Potts-to By Mr. HOSEA TOWNSEND: A bill (H. R. 4289) for the relief of the Committee on Invalid Pensions. James Brown-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. RAY: A bill (H. R. 4248} for the relief of William B. Mor Also, a bill (H. R. 4290) for the relief of E. W. Chapman-to the gan-to the Committee on Appropriations. Committee on War Claims. By Mr. J. R. REED: A bill (H. R. 4249) granting a pension to James By Mr. C. C. TOWNSEND (by request): A bill (H. R. 4291) grant .. B. Hazleton-to the Committt.> e on Invalid Pensions. ing a pension to John M. Hutchison-to the Committee on Invalid . ·' Al!'o, a bill (H. R. 4250) granting a pension to Joseph S. Hender Pensions. son-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. HOSEA TOWNSEND: A bill (H. R. 4292} to remove the """ Also, a bill {H. R. 4251) granting a pension to William Davidson charge of desertion against Charles Roden-to the Committee on Mili to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. tary Affairs. Al-o, a bill (H. R. 4252) granting a pension to John B. Heiron- By Mr. VAN SCHAICK: A bill (H. R. 4293) granting a pension to I ymus-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. · Thomas V. Twomey-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. .. -: Also, a bill (H. R.· 4253) granting a pension to Angelina C. Greene By Mr. W. C. WALLA.CE (by request): A bill (H. R. 4294) for the to Committee on Invalid Pensions. relief of Patrick H. Jones and Thomas L. James-to the Commit.tee Also, a bill (H. R. 4254) granting a pension to John Lindt-to the on Claims. Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 4295) for the relief of the late firm of Butler & ~ .J..lso, a bill (H. R. 4255) granting a pension to Esther White-to the Pitkin-to the Committee on Claims. Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 4296) granting a pension to John De Witt Clark Afoo, a bill (H. R. 4256) granting a pension to Jacob Johnson-to to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. ": the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By-Mr. WASHINGTON: A bill (H. R. 4297) increasing the pension Also, a bill (H. R. 4257) increasing the pension of Lewis C. Murphy of Mrs. Dorothea·D. Yates-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 4298) for the relief of St. Cecelia's Academy-to ·~ Also, a bill (H. R. 4258) increasing the pension of Francis Gilman the Committee on War Claims. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 4299) for the relief of Elisha M. Shadden-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 4259) for the relief of E. J. Aldrich-to the Com Committee on War Claims. mittee on War Claims. By Mr. JOSEPH WHEELER (by request): A bill (H. R. 4300) for Also, a bill (H. R. 4260) for the relief of Daniel-J. Ockerson-to the the relief of George M. Wheeler-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Committee on War Claims. By Mr. WIKE: A bill (H. R. 4301) granting a pension to Mary I , By Mr. REILLY: A bill (H. R. 4261) to remove the charge of deser Brown-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. tion against John McCormick.--to the Committee on :Military Affairs. By Mr. WILLCOX: A bill (H. R 4302) to remove the charge of de By Mr. ROGERS: A bill (H. R. 4262) to pay the amount found due sertion against Patrick L. Dunn-t-0 the Committee on Military Affairs. by the Court of Claims to Elizabeth Smith, administratrix-to the Com Also, a bill (H. R. 4303) for the relief of Dwight Hall-to the Com mittee on War Claims. mittee on Claims. Also, a bill (H. · R. 4263) for the relief ofCharles E. Littleton-tOthe By Mr. WILKINSON: A bill (H. R. 4304) for the relief of John Committee on War Claims. · Rhodes-to the Committee on War Claims. ., , ,I .• ... .. ~ .. , I , . ,\ . ... , I 1890. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-' HOUSE. 413 By Mr. J. R. WILLIA.MS: A bill (H. R. 4305) granting a pension By Mr. CUTCHEON: Petition of farmers of Oceana County, Michi to Nancy A. Neff-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. gan, to prohibit option dealing in grain, etc.-to the Committee on Also, a. bill (H. R. 4306) granlin~ a pension to Rebecca Bolerjack Agriculture. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Afao, .memorial of farmers of Muskegon County, Michigan, asking Also, a bill IH. R. 4307) for the relief of John McClain-to the Com for bounty on fl.our shipped in American vessels-to the Committee on mittee on Military Affairs. Agriculture. • Also, a bill (H. R. 4308) for the relief of Jame:i A. McFarland-to By Mr. DARLINGTON: Petition of 86 citizens of Oxford, Chester the Committee on Military Affairs. County, Pennsylvania, that pension be granted Mrs. Mary Bailey-to Also, a bill (H. R. 4309) for the relief of Wesley Phillips-to the the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. DE LANO: PetitionofBainettGrange, No. 77, and Waverly I ' By Mr. R. P. C. WILSON: A bill (H. R. 4310) for the relief ofFielding Assembly, No. 4966, Knights of Labor, asking for statistics relative to "Burnes-to the Select Committee on Indian Depredation Claims. farm mortgages-to the Select Committee on the Eleventh Census. Also, a bill (H. R. 4311) in relation to J. C. Irwin & Co.-to the By Mr. DOCKERY: Pet.itionofcitizensof Allendale, WorthCoanty, Committee on Claims. • Missouri, asking that a pension be granted to Calvary M. Hatfield-to By Mr. W. L. WILSON: A bill (H. R. 4312) for the relief of J. G. the Committee on Invalid Pensions. - ··· Fellers-ro the Committee on War Claims. Also, citizens of Gentry County, Missouri, to repeal special limita-= Also, a bill (H. R. 4313) for the relief of Elizabeth Yoke-to the tion on pension claims of State militiamen-to the Committee on In Committee on War Claims. valid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 4314) for the relief of sureties of Dennis 1iinr By Mr. DOLLIVER: Petitions of Andrew Mills Post, Grand Army phy-to the Committee on War Claims. of the Republic, No. 357, and of IraScrantonand20others, ex-soldiers, R. for further pension legislation-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill ( H. 4315) for the relief of George W. Graham-to the "' Committee on Claims. Also, R. L. Smith and 36 citizens of Carroll County, Iowa, to pro ' Also, a bill (H. R. 4316) for the relief of C. M. Shaffer-to the Com hibit or tax option sales-to the Committee on Agriculture. mittee on War Claims. Also, R. L. Smith and 75 citizens of Carroll County, Iowa, to pro Also, a bill (H. R. 4317) for the relief of the trustees of the German hibit speculation in options, etc.-to the Committee on Agriculture. Evangelical ChurchofMartinsburgh, W. Va-to the Committee on War By Mr. DORSEY: Petition of farmers of the Third district of Ne Claims. braska, asking for bounty on fl.our exported in American vessels-to the By Mr.VANSCHAICK: A bill (H. R. 4318) to remove the charge Committee on Ways and Means. of desertion against John Hughes-to the Committee on Naval Affairs. Also, memorial of Board of Trade of Omaha, Nebr., for bankrupt law-to the Committee on Banking and Currency. Also, ILemorial of ex-soldiers and sailors of Nebraska, for further PETITIONS, ETC. pension legislation-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. The following papers and petitions were laid on the Clerk's desk, Also, memorial of Board of Trade of Omaha, Nebr.. for reduction in under the rule, and referred as follows: Jett.er postage-to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. By Mr. C. L. ANDERSON: Petitions ofE. A. Anderson and of John Also, memorfal of Sedgwick Post., No. 1, Department of Nebraska, F. Green, for reference of claims to Court of Claims-to the Committee Grand Army of the Republic, for further pension legislation-to the on War Claims. Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. BAKER: Petition of veterans, for passage of the Grand Army By Mr. FINLEY: Petition of soldiers, etc., asking further pension of the Republic pension bill-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. legislation-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. BREWER: Petition of Charles S. Gillettand 205others, cit .Also, memorialof soldiers of Mexican war, for further pension legis izens of Michigan, toprohibitoptiondealingingrain, etc.-totheCom lation-to the Committee on Pensions. mittee on Agriculture. By Mr. FORNEY: Petition of Benjamin E. Moody, for reference of By Mr. BLISS: Petition of Homer B. Gibson and others, that pension claim to Court of Claims-to the Committee on War Claims. be granted Seth M. Walter-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. FUNSTON: Petition of John Davis, relative to chaplains in Also, petition of278 citizens of Michigan, to prohibit option dealing the Army-to the Committee on Military Affairs. in farm products-to the Committee on Agriculture. Also, memorial of Farmers' Mutual Benefit Association of Ossawato By Mr. C. R. BRECKINRIDGE: Petitions of W. A. and J. P. Col mie, Kans., asking for sundry legislation-to the Committee on Agri lins and others, asking for the repeal of special limitation on pension culture. claims of 1\.fissonri State militiamen-to the Committee on Invalid Also, memorial of citizens of Porterville, Kans., for passage of serv Pensions. ice-pension bill-ro the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, petitions of Nancy Jane Bond, Mary Crow, Benjamin Y. Trot Also, petition of E. H. Topping, for passage of law giving arrearages ter, C. T. Cunningham, administrator, and Leonora J. Kennedy, that of pension to widow-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. claims be referred to Court of Claims-to the Committee on War Claims. Also, petition of citizens of Humboldt, Kans., old soldiers of Bour By Mr. JAMES BUCHANAN: Petition of Columbus (N. J.) Grange, bon County, Kansas, and of Kansas City, Kans., for passage of service Patrons of Husbandry, asking that bounty be paid on :flour exported pension bill-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. in American vessels-to the Committee on Ways and Means. - By Mr. GEAR: Petition of Theodore Holliday, of Keokuk, Iowa, Also, memorial of Oklahoma City Board of Trade, asking for legisla for pension-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. tion-to the Committee on the Territories. Also, petition of B. B. Burris, of Abingdon, Iowa, for pension-to Also, memorial of citizens of New Jersey, asking that pension be the Committee on Invalid Pensions. granted Mrs. Ellen E. Truex, widow of Bvt. Brig. Gen._ William S. Also, memorial of Thomas Laughlin and 30 citizens, to prohibit op Truex-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. tion dealing-to the Committee on Agriculture. By Mr. J.W. CANDLER: MemorialofBostonChamberofCommerce By Mr. GIFFORD: Petition of Sarah A. Baker, of White Lake, S. in favor of Sault Ste. Marie Canal, in favor of the Blair educational Dak., for pension-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. bill, and on distribution of bills from the Boston subtreasury-to the Also, memorial of Commercial Club, Sioux Falls, S. Dak., for im Committee on Rivers and Harbors. proveD?-ent of the Sault Ste. Marie Canal-to the Committee on Rivers By Mr. CANNON: Petition for the relief of the estate of Sylvanus and Harbors. Sandford-to the Commi1!tee on War Claims. Also, memorial of Board of Trade, Rapid City, S. Dak., for the Also, petition of William G. Tackabury for relief-to the Commit construction of public buildings-to the Committee on Public Build tee on Military Affairs. ings and Grounds. Also, memorial of Coles County (Illinois) Pomona Grange, Patrous By 1\Ir. HANSBROUGH: Petition of citizens of North Dakota, for of Husbandry, for passage of bill to loan farmers any money in United irrigation of arid lands-to the Select Committee on Irrigation of Arid States Treasury not otherwise appropriated, at 2 per cent. per annum Lands in the United States. to the Committee on Agriculture. Also, petition of postal clerks, asking passage of bills regulating their By Mr. CHIPMAN: Petition of members of the Twenty-fourth compensation-to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. Michigan Volunteer Infantry for pension for the widow of Capt. John Also, petition of Abercrombie Post, Grand Army of the Republic, Wither.spoon-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. ·of Lisbon, N. Dak., asking for passage of service-pension bill-to the By Mr. COMPTON: Petition of Mary Ann Flower, asking for ref Committee on Invalid Pensions. erence of claim to Court of Claims-to the Committee on War Claims. By l\1r. HA.RM:ER: Petition of North Philadelphia Baptist Associa By Mr. COMSTOCK: Memorial of Chamber of Commerce of Duluth, tion to increasenumberofchaplainsin the Army-to the Committee on Minn., for the improvement of St. Mary Falls Canal-to the Committee Military Affairs. on Rivers and Harbors. Also, petition of Capt. H. B. Seely, asking that sentence of cJurt By Mr. CRAIN: Petition of citizens of Texas, asking for the retire- martial be set aside-to the Committee on Naval Affairs. ment of Judge C. B. Sabin-to the Committee on the Judiciary. · By Ur. HAUGEN: :Memorial of State Wool Grower~' Association By Mr. D. B: CULBERSON: Petition of Board of Trade of Paris, of Wisconsin, relative to tariff on wool-to the Committee on Vvays Lamar County, Texas, for the improvement of waterway between Jef and Means. ferson and Shreveport-to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. By Mr. D. B. HENDERSON: Eetition of Typographical Union No. ' . . .. -...... ,. _, ·'. \ . .• .. ·. . . ,•. '. . ' 414 OONGRESSION.AL RECORD-HOUSE. JANUARY 6,. 22, Du hnque, Iowa, against reduction of wages in Government Print- Ladd, Ransom Hester, et al., for reference of claims to Court of Claims- ing OffiC'e-to the .c'ommHtee on Printing. to the Committee on War Claims. By Mr. HERMANN: Memorial of Legislature of Oregon, asking the Also, petition or" And. J. Brooks and others, for repeal of ~peciaI Iimi- forfeitnre of the land grant of the Northern Pacific Railway-to the tation on pension claims of State militiamen-to the Committee on In- Coll)mittee on the Puhlic Lands. valid Pen ions. By Mr. HILL: Petition of sundry citizens, of Seneca, Ill., for farther By Mr. PERKINS: Petition of F. W. Peck and 116 others, l\I. Mc- pension 1e!ris1ation-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Monkey and 59others, Capt. Thomas O'Hara and 91 others, S. D. Lane By Mr. HOLMAN: Petition of Stacy Mattock, for relief-to the and 7 others, William Baker and 9 others, S. Riplogh and 204 others, Committee on Indian Affairs. George P. Hall and 59 others, Bennett Pugh and 31 others, James By l\Ir. HARRISON KELLEY: Petition of Providence Farmers' Al- Bateman and 48 others, I. C. Bodine and 49 others, J. W. Stow and 100 liance No. 7, Kansas, for legislation relative to statistic.a concerning otheT8, Bennett Pugh and 198 others, for further pension legislation- farm mortgages-to the Select Committee on th_e Eleventh Census. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, petition of 88 members of the Grand Army of the Republic Also, petition of W. F. Ryder and 25 ot]lers, J. J. Adams and and 130 citizens of Augusta, Kans., for service-pension law-to the 142 others, Daniel ·wells and 57 others, S. B. Reed and 236 others, Committee on Invalid Pensions. that United States commis.5ioners in the Indian Territory be given the Also, memorial of C. A. Powers, suggesting ways and means t-0 settle jurisdiction of justices of the peace, etc.-to the Committee on the the pension question-to the Committee on InvaJid Pensions. Judiciary. By Mr. DANIEL KERR: Pe~ition of farmers of Linn County, Iowa, Alno, petition of I. M. Larimer and 180 others, asking for legislation against option dealing, etc.-to the Committee on Agriculture. against option dealing-to the Committee on Agriculture. By Mr. LACEY: Petition of William Butcher and 23 others, of Deep Also, petition of John Webb and 87 others in No Man's Land, asking River, Iowa, against option dealing-to the Committee on Agricu1ture. for legislation-to the Committee on the Territories. By Mr. LA.NHAl\1: Petition of citizens of El Paso, Tex., relating to Also, petition ofShiloh Post, Grand Army ofthe Republic, of Cherokee, the Free Zone and imports therein-to the Committee on Ways and Kans., asking for the donation of the Fort Hays reservation for a sol- Means. diers' home-to the Committee on Military Affairs. By Ur. LEE: Petition of James G. Field, administrator, printed Also, petition Board of Trade of Parsons Kans., for public build- co_py of findings of Court of Claims-to the Committee on War Claims. in~-to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. .Also, petition of James W. 'Valsh et al., for relief-to the Commit- By Mr. PHELAN: Petitions of Isaac M. Gaas, Rebecca P. Davis, and tee on the District of Columbia. Thomas R. Banks, that their cJaims be referred to the Court of Claims- By Mr. R. E. LESTER (by request): Petitions of Francis E. Sech- to the Committee on War Claims. inger, George L. Zittrous, and John Rutherford, that claims be referred I By Mr. PIERCE: Petition of William B. Reed and J. J. James, ad to Court of Claims--to the Committee on War Claims. ministrators of Clayton Abernathy, for reference of claims to the Court of By Mr. McKil"'fLEY: PetitionofcitizensofCentrnl Kentucky against Claims-to the Committee on War Claims. the placing of hemp, etc., on the free-list-to the Committee on Wa.ys By Mr. PUGSLEY: Petition of 101 members of McKell Post, Grand and Means. Army of the Republic, Bainbridge, Ohio, for service pension-to the Also, petition of Levi H. Schoonover for relief-to the Committee on Committee on Invalid Pensions. Military Affairs. By l\Ir. RAY: Petition of citizens of Washington County, Pennsyl- By Mr. .Mcl\HLLIN: Petitions of L. W. Gilliam and Nathan Smith, vania, that pension be granted Daniel l\IcCann-to the Committee on executor of Green Harper, that claims be referred to Court of Claims- Invalid Pensions. to the Committee on War Claims. By Mr. J. R. REED: Petition of ex-soldiers and ex-sailors of Guthrie Al:o, petition of Mary l\I. Garrett for pension-to the CQlllmittee on County, Iowa, for pension legislation-to the Committee on Invalid Inrnlid Pensions. Pensions. By Mr. IANSUR (by request) : Petition of W. C. Woods and 23 Al ·o, petition of 72farmers of Harrison County, Iowa, for prohibition others, that limitations of pension laws relating to State militiamen be of option dealing-to the Committee on Agriculture. repealed-to the Cornmittee on Invalid P~sions. By Mr. ROBERTSO~: Petition of R. Cole, that claim be referred to .Gy Mr. MILLIKEN: Petition of citizens, asking pension for l\Irs. Court of Claims-to the Committee on War Claim ~ . Hannah l\I. Foss-to the Committee on Inva1id Pensions. By Mr. SHIVELY: Petition of William H. Fritz, for relief-to the Dy Mr. MOREY: Letter of Col. Henry C. Corbin, relative to pension Committee on Military Affairs. of John E. Cook-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. G. W. S~IITH: Petition of Vienna. Post, No. 221, Grand Hy Mr. MOR HILL: Petition of Matthew M. Swim, for correction of Army of the Republic, for additional pension legislation-to the Com- . military record-to the Committee on Military Affairs. ~mittee on Invalid Pensions. · Also, petition of Kansas Rtate Convention of Baptists, asking for leg- · By Ir. M. A. SMITH: Memorial of Chamber of Commerce of Phre islation in relation to army chaplains-to the Committee on Military nix, .Maricopa County, Arizona, for admission as a Siate-to the Com- Affairs. mittee on the Territories. By Mr. MORROW: Petition of fruit-growers of California, for legis- By Mr. CHARLES STEWART: Petition of citizens of Cairo; Jas- lation to preserve the forests of the country-to the Select Committee per County; Jasper; Tyler County; Hardin County; Hyatt; Sabine on Irrigation of Arid Lands in the United States. Pass; Jefferson County; Nona, Hardin County, and of Olive, Hardin Also, petition of W. C. Gurney for increase of pension-to the Com- County, all in Texas, asking for the improvement of Neches River, mittee on Invalid Pensions. Texas-to the Committee on Rfrers aud Harbors. By Mr. MOR 'E: Memorial of Mas achusetts Legislature, relative Also, petition of Samuel Grissero, that claim be referred to the Court to the enactment of a national bankrupt law-to the Committee on of Claims-to the Committee on War Claims. the Judiciary. By Mr. TARSNEY: Memmfal in behalf of Frederick Choteau-to Dy Mr. CHARLES O'NEILL: Finding of Court of Claims in case of the Committee on Indian Affairs. Deering Donnell et al.-to the Committee on Claims. By Mr. HOSEA. TOWNSEND: Memorial relative to the removal of B.v Mr. OSBORNE: Memorial of Oklahoma Board of Trade, asking the Southern Ute Indians-to the Committee on Indian Affairs. le~islation relative to Oklahoma-to the Committee on the Territories. By Mr. VAN SCHAICK: Petition of 8tate Wool Growers' Associa- lly l\fr. OUTHWAITE: Petition of Mary J. McLaughlin, for relief- tion of Wisconsin, relative to the tariff on woo], etc.-to the Commit- to the ·Committee on War Claims. tee on Ways and Means. Also, memorial of Local Assemblies Nos. 120 and 6172, Knights of Also, petition of letter-carriers for an increase of salaries-to the Labor, of New Straitsville, Ohio, asking for statistics relative to farm Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. mortgages-to the Select Committee on the Eleventh Cens11s. Also, memorial National Naval Veteran Association, for the estab- .Also, memorial of Typographical Union No. 5, of Columbus, Ohio, lisbment of naval school-ships at various points-to the Committee on against reduction of wages in Government Printing Office-to the Com- Naval Affairs. mittee on Printing. Also, memorial of Merchants' Association of Milwaukee, for removal By Mr. PARRETT: Petition of W. C. Lindsay and others, asking of obstntction to harbor of that city-to the Committee on :Rivers and for statistics relative to farm mortgages-to the Select Committee o-n . Harbors. the Eleventh Census. By Mr. J. H. WALKER: Petition of Samuel R. Barton, for relief- By Mr. PAYNE: Petition of sundry soldiers, for additional pension to the Committee on War Claims. legislation-to the Committee on In valid Pensions. By Mr. WASHINGTON: l\Iemorial of mayor and city council, Nasb- By Mr. PAYNTER: Petition of James Edens and others, for addi- ville, Tenn., relative to navy-yard at New Orleans, La.-to the Com- tional pension legislation-to the Committee on Invalid Pen..•dons. mittee on Naval Affairs. Also, petition of Elizabeth Parish, for removal of charge of desertion By Mr. R. P. C. WILSON: Petition of A.mos .Jackson, that bis claim against Madison Pari.;;h-to the Committee on Military Affairs. be referred to Court of Claims-to the Committee on War Claims. By Mr. PEEL: Petition of P. K. Milan, for reversal of sentence of Also, two petitions of citizens of Andrew County, against option dea.1- court-martial-to the Committee on Military Affairs. ing in farm prod nee-to the Committee on Agricnltme. Also, petition of And. J. Tolby, for pension-to the Committee on By Mr. W. L. WILSON: Petitions of Dennis M. Daniels, Elizabeth Pensions. Yoke, Joseph Tucker, C. P. Thompson, and James H. Robinson, that Also, petitions of M. W. l\Iarrs,George W. :U. Reed, Wi'lh m W. claimsbereferredtoCourtofClaims-totheCommitteeonWarClaims• . '· ·