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Also, a bill (H. R. 1034) granting a pension to William H. Also, petition of lithographers, for protection against foreign Byrum-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. competition-to the Committee on Ways and Means. By Mr. WADSWORTH: A bill (H. R. 1035) for the relief of By Mr. SPALDING: Papers to correct the war record of George Mary McCarthy, mother of John E. McCarthy, Sixth Company, McBride-to the Committee on Military Affairs. First Battalion New York Sharpshooters-to the Committee on By Mr. WARNER: Petition of John T. Taylor and others, pray­ Invalid Pensions. ing for an appropriation to pay judgments rendered by the United Also, a bill (H. R. 1036) for the relief of George J. Campbell- States Court of Claims in favor of mail carriers for wages-to the to the Committee on War Claims. · Committee on Appropriations. Also, a bill (H. R. 1037) to remove the charge of desertion standing against the name of Patrick Dougherty, Com~any A, • Thirteenth New York Volunteer Infantry-to the Comnnttee on SENATE. Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 1038) for the relief of Hannah Howard, step­ FRIDAY, March 19, 1897. mother of Francis W. HowardJ late of Company D, Sixty-fourth Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. W. H. MILBURN, D. D. NewYorkVolunteer Infantry-to the Committee on Invalid Pen­ The Journal of yesterday's proceedings was read and approved. sions. By Mr. WARNER: A bill (H. R. 1039) to grant a pension to SURVEYS IN INDIAN TERRITORY. Samuel L. Busick-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. The VICE-PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a communica­ Also, a bill (H. R. 1040) granting a pension to Mrs. Mae Pear­ tion from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a letter from roan-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. the Director of the Geological Survey, relative to appropriations By Mr. WEYMOUTH: A bill (H. R .. 1041) for tJ;te reli~f of for surveys of the Indian Territory, and recommending early leg­ Susan Elizabeth Laughren-to the Committee on Invalid PenSions. islative action thereon; which, with the accompanying papers, Also, a bill (H. R. 1042) to r~move the charge of d.esertion n?~ was referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to standing against Charles G. Bngha.m-to the Comnnttee on Mili­ be pt·inted. tary Affairs. PETITIONS .AND MEMORIALS. Also, a bill (H. R. 1043) to pension Nancy E. Hardy-to the The VICE-PRESIDENT presented a petition of the National Committee on Invalid Pensions. Arbitration Committee and a petition of the Annual Conference Also, a bill (H. R.10i4) authorizing the Secretary of the Treas­ of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of Philadelphia, Pa., praying ury to issue a duplicate bond to Benjamin March, guardian of for the ratification of the proposed arbitration treaty with Great Ruth March-to the Committee on Ways and Means. Britain; which were ordered to lie on the table. Also, a bill (H. R. 1045) granting a pension to Mary A. Caul- Mr. FRYE presented the petition of F .• A. Wilson and sundry field-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. "" other citizens of Bangor, :Me., praying for the enactment of legis­ By Mr. WHEELER of Alabama: A bill (H. R. 1046) to. correct lation providing irrigation for the nonarable lands of the Indians, the military record of James P. McGee-to the Committee on for the passage of an antiliquor law, and also for the appointment Military Affairs. of a nonpartisan continuous commission on Indian affairs; which By Mr. WRIGHT: A bill (H. R. 1047) restoring Julia L. Rob­ was referred to the Committee on Indian ~JU!airs. erts, late Julia L.'Doty, to the pension roll-to the Committee on He also presented memorials of W. H. Feague and sundry other Pensions. citizens of Lewiston; of Thomas Stone and sundry other citizens Also, a bill (H. R. 1048) to increase the pension of Carlos Bom­ of Biddeford and Saco, and of Local Union, No. 40, Cigar Makers' bard late of CompanyF, Fifth Regiment Vermont Volunteers­ International Union of America, of Biddeford, all in the State of to th~ Committee on Invalid Pensions. Maine, remonstrating against the proposed increase of the duty on Also a bill (H. R. 1049) for the relief of the estates of John Habana filler·tobacco; which were referred to the Committee on Flowe; and Thomas B. Flower, etc.-to the Committee on War Finance. Claims. Mr. SPOONER presented a petition of the legislature of Wis­ Also, a bill (H. R. 1050) for the relief of Bridget Duffy-to the consin, praying for the passage of the Torrey bankruptcy bill; Committee on Invalid Pensions. which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Also, a bill (H. R. 1051) to amend the military record of Edwin Mr. SHOUP presented a petition of the legislature of Idaho, F. Vinton-to the Committee on Military Affairs. praying for the election of United States Senato~s by a direct vot.e Also, a bill (H. R.1052) granting a pension to Susan A. Wood­ of the people; which was referred to the Committee on the Judi­ to the Committee on Pensions. ciary, and ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as follows: Also, a bill (H. R. 1053) for the relief of Helen M. Evans-to the EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, 8ee1·etary's Office, State of Idaho. Committee on Invalid Pensions. I, George J. Lewis, secretary of the State of Idaho, do hereby certify that Also, a bill (H. R.1054) to amend the military record of George the annexed is a full, true, and complete transcript of house joint memorial W. Allen-to the Committee on Military Affairs. No.5, which was filed in this office the 27th day of February, A. D. 1897, and admitted to record. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the great PETITIONS, ETC. seal of the State. Done at Boise City, the capital of Idaho, this 13th day of March, A. D.1897. Under clause 1 of Rule XXII, the following petitions and papers [SEAL.] GEO. J. LEWI8, Secreta111 of State. were laid on the Clerk's desk and referred as follows: By Mr. CONNELL: ~eti.tion of citizens of Scrantot;t, Pa., rec­ House joint memorial No.5. Election of United States Senators. emmending an appropriation for the payment of all Judgments To the honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the United States: of the Court of Claims in favor of letter carriers-to the Commit­ We, your memorialists, the legislature of the State of Idaho, respectfully ... represent that the sentiment of the State of Idaho is strongly in favor of the tee on Appropriations. election of United States Senators by direct vote of the people, and we pefi­ ·Also, resolution from Cigar Makers' Union, No. 295, of Scranton, tion your honorable body to submit to the States an amendment to the Con­ Pa., protesting against a high tariff on leaf tobacco-to the Com­ stitution of the United States which will require the election of United States Senators by a direct vote of the people. mittee on Ways and Means. Passed the house of representatives January 27,1897. By Mr. CRUMPACKER: Resolution of Cigar Makers' Union, A. H. ALFORD, No. 134:, of Laporte, Ind., against increase of tariff on tobacco­ Speake1· of the House. Passed the senate February 10,1897. to the Committee on Ways and Means. GEO. F. MOORE, By Mr. GROW: Paper relating to increase of pension toHaniet P?·esident of tlte Senate. Bache-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Approved February 26,1897. By Mr. LENTZ: Petition of Charles G. Smith and 6 othe_!S, of FRANK STEUNENBERG, Columbus, Ohio, asking for enactment into law of the McMillan­ Governor. Linton bills (S. 3589 and H. R. 10108) regulating fraternal and Filed in the office of the secretary of state February 27, 1897. beneficiary societies, orders, and associations-to the Committee Mr. SHOUP presented a petition of the legislature of Idaho, on the District of Columbia. praying for the enactment of legislation granting relief and pay­ By Mr. McCALL: Petition of John L. Whiting & Son Com­ ment of claims now pending against the United States for Indian pany of Boston, Mass., for passage of a law granting a rebate of depredations by the citizens of Idaho and other Pacific States; the t~x upon alcohol used in the arts and in medicinal and other which was referred to the Committee on Indian Depredations, and compounds-to the Committee on Ways and Means. ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as follows: By Mr. PITNEY: Petition of Robert J. Price and 5 othe~s, of ExEcUTIVE DEPARTMENT, Secretm·y's Office. State of Idaho. Morristown, N.J., asking for the passage of.an urgent defi.CieD?Y I, George J. Lewis, secretary of the State of Idaho, do hereby certify that the annexed is a f~J true, and complete transcript of bouse joint memorial bill providing for the payment of letter earners-to the Comnnt­ No. 10, which was rued in this office the 9th day of March, A. D. 1897, and tee on Appropriations. admitted to record. 1 By Mr. ROBINSON of Indiana: Papers relating to the removal In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the great seal of the State. of the charge of desertion against Charles Sweet-to the Com­ Done at Boise City, the capital of Idaho, this 13th day of March, A. D. 1897. ~ttee on Military Affairs. [SEAL.] GEO. J. LEWIS, Secreta111?f State. 1897. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 65

House joint memorial No. 10. Mr. SHOUP presented a petition of the legislature of Idaho, To the honorable the Senate and the House of Rep1·esentatives praying, in the event of the abandonment of Fort Sherman, in of the United States in Congress assembled: that State, that a national soldiers' home be established on the Your memorialists, the senate and house of representatives of the State of Idaho, would respectfully request the passage of the bill now pending in the site and that the buildings be utilized for the purposes of the same; Congress of the United Stat es granting r elief and payment of claims now which was referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and pending against the United States for "Indian depredations" by the citizens ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as follows: · of tho State of Idaho and other Pacific States; and your memorialists will EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, Secreta11J'8 Office, State of Idaho. evp~§s~1'the house of representatives the Lst day of March, 1897. I, George J. Lewis, secretary of the State of Idaho, do hereby certify that A. H. ALFORD, the annexed is a full, true, and complete transcript of house joint m emorial Speaker of the House of Representatives. No. 13, which was filed iu this office the 9th day of March, A. D. 18!J7, and Passed the senate the 6th day of March, 1897. admitted to record. • GEO. F. MOORE, In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the great President of the Senate. seal of the State. Approved March 8, 1897. Done at Boise City, the capital of Idaho, this 13th day of March, A. D.l897. FRANK STEUNENBERG, [SEAL.] GEO. J. LEWIS, Secretary of State. Gove17tor. House joint memorial No. 13. Filed in the office of the secretary of state March 9, 1897. To the honorable the Senate and House of Representatives Mr. SHOUP presented a petition of the legislature of Idaho, in Congress assembled: Your m~morialists, the legislature of the State of Idaho, respectfully reP: praying for the enactment of legislation authorizing the appoint­ resent: ment of a Cabinet officer to be known as the secretary of mines That a military post having been established at the city of Spokane, State and mining; which was refened to the Committee on the Judi­ of Washington, Fort Sherman, at the city of Cwur d'Alene, Idaho, will in all probability be abandoned. ciary, and ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as follows: Your memorialists further represent: EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, Secretary's 0./fioo, State of Idaho. That the said Fort Sherman is admirably situated for a national soldiers' I, George J. Lewis secretary of the State of Idaho do hereby certify that home, its site being_ most healthful, as shown by the records of the Medical the annexed is a fuh, true, and complete transcript of senate concurrent Department of the United States Army; that there are now upon the grounds resolution No.6, which was filed in this office the 3d day of March, A. D. 1897, all necessary buildings for such purpose; that upon the military reservation and admitted to record. there is an abundance of agricultural land for the use of such an establish­ In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the great mentt and that an institution of this proposed character can be established seal of the State. with out little cost for building or land. Done at Boise City, the capital of Idaho, this 13th day of March, A. D. 1897. Your memorialists further represent: [SEAL.] GEO. J. LEWIS, Secretary of State. '!'hat the proposal to establish a home at Fort Sherman, after its abandon­ ment by the Government, has been indorsed by most of the posts of the Grand Army of the Republic of this State. Senate concurrent resolution No.6. By Donnelly. Your memorialists would therefore respectfully ask that a national sol· diers' home be established at Fort Sherman, city of Cwur d'Alene, State of DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Secretary's Offioo, Boise City, Idaho. Idaho, and your memorialists will ever pray. Whereas the Cabinet of the President of the United States of America is Passed the house March 1, 1897. now composed of a Secretary of State, a Secretary of the Treasury, a Secre· A. H. ALFORD, tary of the Interior, a Secretary of War, a Secretary of the Navy, a Secretary Speaker of the House. of Agriculture, a Postmaster-General, and an Attorney-General; and Passed the senate March 6, 1897. Whereas that it is our belief that the greatest and most permanent wealth­ GEO. F. MOORE, • producing industry of the United States should have a representative in the President of the Senate. Cabinet: Therefore, Approved MR!cb 8, 1897. Be itresolved lnj the senate of the State of Idaho (the house of representatives FRANK STEUNENBERG, concUrring herein), First, that our Senators and Representatives in Congress Governor. be instructed to prepare a bill at an early date embodying the desire expressed herein that a law be enacted by Congress creating a Cabinet officer to be Mr. NELSON presented a memorial of Typographical Union known as the secretary of mines and mining; No.6, of New York City, remonstrating against the passage of Second, that the secretary of state be, and is hereby Jnstructed to im­ the so-called anti-scalping railroad ticket bill; which was referred mediately forward a copy of this resolution to each of our .tWpresentatives in Congress. to the Committee on Interstate Commerce. ' Adopted by the senate February 12, 1897. He also presented a memorial of the Federated Trades Assem­ GEO. F. MOORE, bly of Duluth, Minn., remonstrating against the passage of the President of the Senate. Adopted by the house March 1; 1897. so-called Loud bill, relating to second-class mail matter~ which A. H. ALFORD, was referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. Speaker of the House. Mr. HEITFELD presented a petition of the legislature of Idaho, OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF THE SENATE, praying for the enactment of legislation giving the settler the Boise City, Idaho, Ma1·ch S, 1897. privilege of making free homesteads upon lands ceded to the I do hereby certify that the within senate concurrent resolution No. 6 United States by Indian tribes; which was. referred- tO the-Com.; originated in the senate of the legislature of the State of Idaho at its fourth mittee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed in the RECORD, session. SWAIN BEATY, as follows: _. . ' Secretary of the Senate. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, Secretat1J'S Office, Sta;te.of Idaho . .r I, George J. Lewis, secretary of the State of Idaho, do berei>j:certifytnat Mr. SHOUP presented a petition of the legislature of Idaho, the annexed is a full, true, and complete transcript of house-jomt memorial praying Congress to grant to that State all of the arid lands within No. 2, which was filed in this office the 2d day of Mareb, A. D. 1897, ·and ad­ the State which are nonmineral; which was referred to the Com­ mitted to record. · In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the- great mittee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed in the RECORD, seal of the titate. · - · , as follows: Done at Boise City, the capital of Idaho, this 13th -day-of Ma.roh,-A. D.l897. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, Secretary's Office, State of Idaho. [SEAL.] GEO. J. LEW-IS, Secretar y of State. : I, George J. Lewis, secretary of the State of Idaho, do hereby certify that the annexed is a full, true, and complete transcript of bouse joint memorial No. 7, which was filed in this office the 2d day of March, A. D.l897, and admit­ House joint memorial No. 2, asking Congress to give the lands. free-to settlers ted to record. on t:qe Indian reservations. · · · . · - : In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the great To the honm·able the Senate and House of Representatives seal of the State. of the United States 'fn Congress_as .sem.bled: Done at Boise City, the capital of Idaho, this 13th day of March, A. D. 1897. Your memorialists, the senate and bouse of representatives of the State· of GEO. J. LEWIS, Secreta1-y of State. Idaho, would respectfuUy request the passage ol' the bill now pending in the Congress of the United States giving the settlers the privilege of making free homesteads upon lands ceded to the United States by Indian tribes; ana House joint memorial No. 7, memorializing Congress to grant the arid lands your memorialists will ever pray. of the public domain to the State of Idaho. Passed the house February 1, 1897. Whereas there is in the State of Idaho a very large acreage of the public A. H. ALFORD, domain that is arid in its nature and wholly worthless without artificial irri­ Speake~· of the House. gation; and Passed the senate February 11,1897. Whereas all of the public domain that is susceptible of irrigation by indi­ GEO. F. MOORE, vidual enterprise has been reclaimed; and President of the Senate. Whereas the arid lands now unclaimed and unoccupied can not be reclaimed Approved March 2, 1897. by individual enterprise; and FRANK STEUNENBERG, Whereas to reclaim said lands will require a large expenditure of money GovernfJ1·. and if ever r eclaimed must be done by either the General Government or by the State: Now, therefore, Mr. HEITFELD presented a petition of the legislature of Idaho, We, the legislature of the State of Idaho, respectfully memorialize the Con­ praying for the enactment of legislation providing for the survey gress of the United States that they, by proper legislation, grant to the State of Idaho all of the arid lands within the State which are nonmineral, and of the boundary line between Montana and Idaho from the inter­ under such regulations as will enable the Stat9 government to receive pat­ national boundary line to the crest of the Bitter Root Mouutains; ents from the General Government upon compliance with such requirements which was referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and or­ as in the judgment of said Congress will both protect the General Govern­ ment and the interests of the State of Idaho. dered to be printed in the RECORD, as follows: _ This bouse joint memorial No. 7was received by the governor this 26th day EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, Secretary's Office, State of IdahQ . . of February,1897,at the hour of Jla.m., and is approved this 2d day of March. I, George J: Lewis, secretary of the State of Idaho, do her eby certify that 1897. the annexed IS a full, true, and complete transcript of house joint mom m:ial FRANK STEUNENBERG, in this office the 2nd day of March, A. D. 18J7, and . Governor. ~~fi:tNg~e~~:lled XXX-5 • 66 OONGRESSIONAL RECORD-.SEINATE. MARcH 19,

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the great 20th of January, 189'7, by a ma3orityof the duly elected and quali­ seal-of the Stat-e. Done at Boise City, the capital of Idaho, this 13th day of MaTch, A. D. 1897. fied members of the senate and house of representatives of the [sEAL.] GEO. J. LEWIS, Secretary of State. State of Delawar~ he was duly elected a United States Senator to fill the vacancy in the United States Senate<>ccasioned by the ex- House joint memorial No.1.4. 1Jiration .of the term of Anthony Higgins, and that he was denied To the honorable 'the Senate and HQUSe of Representati·ves the 'UStl&l and formal certificate of election to which he was enti­ · in Con{rres.s assembled: tled. lie further sets forth that Hon. R. R. KENNEY, now holding Your memorialists, the legislature of the State of Idaho, respectfully rep­ resent: a seatin the United States Senate, was not duly and legally elected That by law the thirty-ninth meridian from the British Columbia line to fill the vacancy and is not legally entitled to his seat; that a south to the crest of the Bitter Root Mountains has been established as a !llajority of ~e citiZcens who met and assumed to act as the legis­ pa.1-t of the boundary line between the States of Montana and Idaho; that in the territory through which said m9ridian runs there has recently been dis­ lature of said State and went through the form of electing Mr. covered -valuable mineral properties, which has caused a la.r.ge .influx of KENNEY were never elected, but usurped the office of members settlers and the opening of many mines; that said me:ri.ulim :has never been of the legislature. The petitioner further contests the right of said survey~d or located, marlred or deftned, thus causing great uncertainty as to the jm'isilict.i.on of the said States over the territory in question and the KENNEY to occupy a seat in the United States Senate and affirms property therein situated, as well as over the persons therein residing. that Mr1 KENNEY is not legally entitled thereto. In cousideration of the premises, your memorialists would respectfully The petition further states that the three ,counties in the State ask that your honorable bodies do make such Jll"OVisi.ons as is necessary to cause such meridian to be surveyed, located, and marked; and your memori­ of Delaware1 which constitute the entire territory, el-ected at the alists will ever -pray. last election seven members of the legislature from each of the · Passed the house of representatives February 25,1897. counties, a.n.d that a canvass of the ballots since the election shows .A.. H . .AL'FORD, Bpealcer of the House. that in two counties, the county of Kent and the-county of Sussex, Passed the senate February 26,1897. the Republican candidates, seven from each county, were elected, GEO. F. MOORE, or fourteen members of the lower house; and that, in substance, President of the Senate. the members elected, together with those holding over, constituted Approved Ma.Teh 2, 1897. FRANK STEUNENBERG, a majority of the legislature in both houses. Governor. The petitioner prays that the matter .may be investigated and Fil-ed in the office of the secretary of state Ma.rch 2, 1897. his right to a seat in the Senate passed upon by the Senate.

~fr. HEITFELDpresentedapetition of tb.elegislature of.Idaho1 I move that the -petition be printed in the RECORD, and that it praying that an appropriation of 80,()00 be made for the purpose be refened to the Committee on Privileges and Elections. of lowering the outlet of tbe Oamr d'Alene Lake, IdahG>, between Mr. GRAY. I object to its being printed in the RECORD. Let that lake and Post Falls, a distance of 8 miles, to prevent the peri­ it be printed as a document. odic overflow of that lake, io the great damage of settlers living Mr. BURROWS. I will ask that it be printed .as a document. adjacent thereto; which was !l.'efened to the Committee on Com­ Mr. GRAY. I have just come into the Chamber, and I heard merce, and ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as follows: the resume of the contents of the petition by the Senator from ExECUTIVE DEPARTMEXT, Secretary's Office, State of Idaho. Miclrigan. I wish to state that as a matter of fact there has been I, George J. Lewis, secretary of the State of Idaho, do hereby certify that no canvass, in the legal or official sense of that term, of the votes the annexed is a full, true. and complete transc1·ipt of senate ;joint memorial of those two counties since the eleetiDn. No.1, whiehwasfiled in thisofficetbe2ddayof March, A. D. 1897,andadmitted The VICE-PRESIDENT. Is there any objection made to the to record. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the great request of the Senator from Michigan, to have the memorial printed seal of the State. as a -docmment and t•eferred to the Committee on Privileges and Done at Boise City, the capital of Idaho, this 13th day of March, A. D. 1897. [SEAL.] GEO. J. LEWIS, Secretary of State. Elections? The Chair hears-none, and that will be the order. .AFFAIRS IN OREGON. [Senate joint memorial No.1.] A memorialiio the honorable the Senate and House of Repr-esentatives in Mr. CHANDLER. I present a .statement signed by the gov­ Congress assembled. ernor and secretary of state of Oregon, which I ask may be read. Yonr memorialist, the legislature of the State of Idaho, :represen.ts unto The Secretary read as follows: your honorable body as follows, to wit: . First. That Goour d'Alene Lake, a body of water 30 .miles long and from 1 EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, Salem, Oreg., March 12, 1897• to 3 miles wide, situated in Kootenai. County, in the northern part o-f the We, W. P. Lord, governor of the State of Oregon, and H. R. Kincaid, secre­ State of Ifutho, is fed by two large streams known as the Creur d'Alene and tary of state of said State of Oregon, do hereby certify that the nineteenth St. Joe rivers. · biennial-session of the legislative assembly of the State of Oregon, under the Second. That along said rivers there are conside.rable tracts of1and w11.i.ch constitution and laws of the State of Oregon, was to convene at the capital of are culth·ated by farmers residing in said Kootenai County, and that these said State on Januaryll, H!97; thst on said day the senate duly convened and lands are periodically s:!bjected to ,gl'eat damage by !rea-son <>f the overflows proeeeded to the organization thereof and the election of permanent officers; of said rivers. that on the sam~ day the members of the house of representatives met in Third. That the said overflows are caused by tlle water being backed up temporary orgaruzation .and attempted to effect a permanent organization said ri. vers from Lake Crnnr d'Alene, the said lake not having a sufficient out­ thereof; that no permanent organization of said house of representatives was let to allow the water to escape as rapidly as it enters during times of liigh ever effected, and that after the first day of the meeting of said house of repre­ water. sentativas, to wit, January 11, 1897, no quorum of the members thereof was Fourth. Tha.t the e o>erfl.ows could be prevented by lowering the outlet ever present, and no 'business of any character was ever transacted by said of said lake between said lake and Post Falls, a distance of 8 miles. house of crepresenta.ti.ves. Fifth. That if the said outlet was so lowered to the extent of 8 feet it would We further certify that IlD bill, resolution., or other legisln.tive act :requir­ wholly pre>ent the said o>erflow and the consequent damages therefrom. ing the concurrence of both bouses was e-ver passed or adopted by said legis­ Sixth. That the &'tid damages are computed to be $30,000 yearly. lature, and no busines of any 'kind tran£B.cted by said legislature. Seventh. That the lowering of S..'l.id outlet would :require the expenditure We furtheT certify that the senate of the State of Oregan, although duly of SSO,OOO. authorized, never recognized the pretended organization of the houtle of t'ep­ Therefore your memorialist ·prays that the sum of SSO,OOO be appropriated rcsentatives, called the Benson house, and said senate by its affirmative vote by your honorable body for the pu'l"poses herein set forth. deterJ?rined that the house of representatives had ne-ver been regularly Passed the senate February 13,1897. organiZed. GEO. F. MOORE, "We fnrthro: certify that neither the executi-ve of the State of Oregon nor President of the Senate. the .secretary of state ev84' recognized the organization of the house of r-ep­ Passed the house February 26, l897. resentatives; tllat no communication was ever received by the executive from A. H. ALFORD, either the senate or the house of representatives. Speaker of the House. We further certify that the members of both branches of the legislati>e Approved March 2, 1897. assembly dispersed and returned to their respective homes without having FRANK STEUNENBERG, accompli-shed any legi.F:la.tion or transacted any bnsi.nessof a legislative char­ Governor. acter, and that in our judgment no sf'ssion of the legislature of the State of Oregon has been held since the adjournment of the Eighteenth biennial ses­ Mr. ALLEN. I present the petition of Stephen W. Parker, sion in February, il895. We further certify that the governor of the State of Orego~ did not com­ attorney at law for the Old Settler Cherokee Indians, ;praying that municate bf message or otherwise with the legislature, or either branch the Secretary of the Interior be directed to pay to him his fees, etc.. thereof, whi.cll was to ccmvene on January 11, 1R97. I move that the petition be printed as a document, and that it be Witness our hands and the great seal of the State of Oregon affixed hereto this 12th day of March, 1897. referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. WM. P. LORD. Governor. The motion was agreed to. [SEAL.] H. R. KINCAID, Sec1·etanJ of State. Mr. ALLEN presented a petition of sundry lithographm·s of Nebraska, JJraying that protection against foreign competition be Mr. CHANDLER. I move that the certificate be referred to granted their work; which was referred to the Committee on the Committes on PriV'ileges and ElectionsA Finance. The motion was agreed to. MI·. WARREN presented a memorial o'f -the Business Men's REPORT OF A COMMITTEE. Club, of Sheridan, Wyo., remonstrating againsttherecentE:xecu­ Mr. ALLEN from the Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom tive order setting apart a certain tract of land in the State of Wyo­ 1 ming as a timber reserve; which. was referred to the Committee was referred the bill (S. 84) to establish the official survey of frac­ tianal townships 31 ana 32 north, of ranges 6,. 7, and 8 west, of on Fmest Reservations and !the Protection of Game. the sixth principal meridian, in the State of Nebraska, north m1d DELAWARE SE...~ATORI.AL CONTEST. · west of the Niobrara River, a.ndquietingthetitle of settlers there- Mr. BURROWS. I ;present :the petition of _John Edward Ad- on, a~d f.or other _purposes, reported it without amendment, and dicks, a citizen of the State of De1aware, setting forth that on the submitteii a report thereon. ~897. OONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 67

TARIFF STA.TEME.l.'fl'S. A bill (S. .'798) for the relief of Edward A. Foote, late of Com­ pany L, First Regiment-united States Artillery; Mr. MORRILL, from the Committee on Finane~. reported the A bill (S. 799) for the relief of~ichard S. Taylor: · )following resolution; which was refer:red to the Committee to A bill (S. 800) to remove the charge of desertion from the mili­ ~ Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate: tary record of William W. Kerbaugh; · Resolved That the Committee on Finance are hereby authorized-to ha.ve :printedfor'thenseofthecommitteeeomparativestatementsandotherpapers A bill (S. 801) to remove the charge of desertion from the mili­ :p1 connection with the examination of revenue questions, and they are also tary record of Frederick A. Noeller; 'authorized to incur such expenses ·for additional clerical assistance or other· A bill (S. 802) granting an ~onorable discharge to Hem-y H. 1'\Visa as they shall deem necessary in the prosecution of their work, the sm.ount of such expenses to be paid from the contingent fund of the Senate Staub, late second lieutenant in the Fifty-foUI·th Ohio Regiment; 'on vouchers to be approved by the chairman of the committee. A bill (S. 803) for the relief of Louis Bruns from the charge of Mr. GALLINGER subsequently reported, without amendment, desertion; . 'the above resolution from the Committee to Audit and Control A bill (S. 80-i) for therelief of PeterMariann from thech&rgeof ~he Contingent Expenses of the Senate; and it was considered by desertion; unanimous consent, and agreed to. A bill (S. 805) for the relief of the persons who sustained dam­ age by the explosion of an ammunition chest of Battery F, Second BILLS INTRODUCED. United States Artillery, July 16, 1894; Mr. LODGE introduced a bill (S. 770) for the construction of A bill (S. 806) for the relief of John C. Phillips; \fiSh-cultural and auxiliary stations on the Pacific and Atlantic A bill (S. 807) for the relief of Frank Denham; 'coasts; which was read twice by its title, and referred to the Com­ A bill (S. 808) to pay William A. Tenell, of Company C, Fif­ 'lnittee on Fisheries. tieth Ohio Volunteers, pay and bounty; 1\Ir. CULLOM introduced a bill (S. 771) to incorporate the Na­ A bill (S. 809) for the relief of Orin R. McDaniel; 'tional Florence Crittenton J\.fission; which waA read twice by its A bill (S. 810) to correct the military record of and grant an 'title and referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. honorable discharge to Isaac H. Fjtzmorris, he having servep in H~ also introduced a bill (S. 772) to amend sections 713 and 714 the Army of the United States three yem·s six months and six of the Revised Statutes, title Judiciary, chapter 12; which was days; 'read twice by its title, and referred to the Committee on the A bill (S. 811) for the relief of Thomas J. Spencer; and Judiciary. . A bill (S. 812) for the relief of James B. Boyd, late a priYate in He also introduced a bill (S. 773) to appoint Commodore Ed­ Company B,Seventy-seventh RegimentPennsylvania Volunteers, · ·ward E. Potter, United States Navy, now on the retired list, to and Battery H, Fourth Regiment United States Artmery. ,the rank and pay of rear-admiral retired; which was re~ twice Mr. CULLOM introduced the following bills; which were sev­ by its title, and referred to the Committee on Naval Affarrs. erally read twice by their titles, and referred to the Committee on He also introduced the following bills; which were severally Pensions: read twice by their titles, and referred to the Committee on Inter­ A bill (S. 813) to increase the pension. of Benjamin F. Douglas; state Commerce: A bill (S. 814) to increase the :pension of Isaiah Weston; A bill (S. 774) to amend an act entitled "An act to regulat~ A bill (S. 815) granting a pension to Andrew Steed; commerce;" and A bill (S. 816) to pension J·oseph F. Cison; A bill (S. 775) directing the Interstate Commerce Commission A bill (S. 817) to increase the pen ion of James ::M. Rifenberick; to prepare and publish a classification of freight articles and rules, A bill (S. 818) to increase the pension of Jason Booth: regulations, and conditions for freight transportation, to be known A bill (S. 819) to increase the pension of veterans of the l\1exican as the "National freight classification." war; Mr. CULLOM introduced the following bills; which were sev­ A bill (S. 820) granting a pension to 1\Iary Selbach, widow of erally read twice by then· titles, and referred to the Committee on John Selbach; Public Buildings and Grounds: A bill (S. 821) to increase the pension of Thomas J. Haughey; A bill (S. 776) to provide for the purchase of a site and the A bill (S. 822) to furnish artificial limbs to pensioners under the erection of a public building thereon at Pekin, in the State of law of June 27, 1890; Illinois; A bill (S. 823) granting an increased pension to JohnS. Dill, of A bill (S. 777) to provide for the purchase of a site ~nd the Captain Mayo's company, Black Hawk war; erection of a public building thereon at Jacksonville, in the A bill (S. 82-i) granting a pension to Matthias Reed; State of Illinois; A bill (S. 825) granting a pension to Mary Whetsel; A bill (S. 778) to provide for the purchase of a site and the A bill (S. 826) granting a pension to Peter J. Osterhaus, a briga­ ~rection of a public building thereon at Joliet, in the State of .dier-general in the Union Army in the late rebellion; Dlinois; and A bill (S. 827) granting an increase of pension to Joanna W. A bill (S. 779) for the erection of a po.blic building at the city of Turner; East St. Louis, Til. A bill (S. 828) to pension John L. Smith; Mr. CULLOM introduced the following bilLs; which were sev­ A bill (S. 829) granq.ng a pension to James R. Zearing; erally read twice by their titles, and referred to the Committee on A bill (S. 830) to increase the pension of William C. Gano; Olaims: A bill (S. 831) granting a pension to .John L. Kirk; A bill (S. 780) for the relief of Jacob A. Henry; A bill (S. 832) granting an increase of pension to William Emer- A bill (S. 781) for the relief of Goff A. Hall; son; . A bill (S. 782) for the relief of Andrew J. Whitaker, late special A bill (S. 833) in the matter of proof of death in pension cases ilisbursing agent of the Navy Department; under the old invalid law of 1862; A bill (S. 783) for the relief of J. F. Bailey & Co. and others; A bill (S. 83±) for relief of William Martin; A bill (S. 784) for the l'elief of Martha E. Flesschert; A bill (S. 835) granting a pension to George W. Campbell; A bill (S. 785) for the relief of Benjamin F. Fox; A bill (S. 836) granting a pension to Levi C. Mann; A bill (8. 786) for the relief of Bvt. Capt. James D. Vernay; A bill (S. 837) granting a pension to Charles Bauermaster; A bill (S. 787) for the relief of Joseph W. Parish; A bill (S. 838) granting a pension to John J. Logan; ~..-..A bill (S. 788) for the relief of the legal representatives of A bill (S. 839) granting a pension to Anderson Sherman; 1.11.iram Somerville; A bill (S. 840) granting a pension to Elizabeth A. Scrivener; A bill (S. 789) providing for the adjudication of certain claims A bill (S. 841) granting a pension to l\1ary Ann Hooper, mother by the Court Qf Claims; and · of Samuel Hooper, alia.s Johnson; · A bill (S. 790) for the relief of John Burns. A bill (S. 842) granting an increased pension to Washington ·T. Mr. CULLOM introduced the following bills; which were sev­ Otey; ~erally read twice by their titles, and l'eferred to the Committee A bill (S. 843) granting a pension to Heru·y L. Flint; and on Military Affairs: A bill (S. 84.4) to grant a pension to Eli D. Wallrer. A bill (S. 791) to construct a road from Springfield, Til., to the Jru:. WARREN introduced a bill (S. 845) providing that those national cemetery adjacent thereto; who have commuted homesteads may avail themselves of the pro­ A bill (S. 792) fixing the date of the restoration to mnk of Capt. visions of the homestead act; which was reaa twice by its title, Tenodor Ten Eyck; and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. A bill (S. 793) to remove the charge of desertion from Henry He also introduced a bill (S. 846) providing for the entry of ·Harmon· land for reservoir purposes; which was read twice by its title, A bill 'cs. 794)" to remove the charge of desertion from the mili­ and referred to the Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation of 'tary record ofT. C. Thomas; · Arid Lands. A bill (S. 795) for the relief of Josiah Booker; He also introduced the following bills; which were severally A bill (8. 796) authorizing the retirement of cettain officers of read twice by their titles, and referred to·the Committee on M.ines the Army; and Mining: A bill (S. 791) for the relief of the heirs of Charles B. Smith, A bill (S. 847) to open the Yellowstone Park Timber Rese1·va 1 decea.sed~ for the location of mining claims.; an.d 68 OONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. MARCH 19,

A bill (S. 848) to apply a portion of the proceeds 6f the public He also introduced a bill (S. 886) for the relief of applicants to lands to the endowment and support of mining schools in the sev­ purchase public lands under the timber and stone act; which was eral States and TelTitories, for the purpose of extending similar read twice by its title, and referred to the Committee on Publlo aid in the development of the mining industries of the nation as Lands. - already provided for the agricultural and mechanical arts. He also introduced a bill (S. 887) to increase the appropriation Mr. WARREN introduced the following bills; which were sev­ for the erection of a public building at St. Paul, Minn.; which erally read twice by their titles, and referred to the Committee on was read twice by its title, and referred to the Committee on Pub­ Military Affairs: lic Buildings and Grounds. A bill (S. 849) providing for the marking and monumenting of He also introduc~cl the following bills; which were severally the battlefield of Massacre Hill; read twice by their titles, and referred to the Committee on Perl- A bill (S. 850) for the relief of Isaac W. Blake; and ~ns: . A bill (S. 851) for the relief of Hattie A. Phillips. A bill (S. 888) to grant a pension to Charlotte 0. Van Cleve, 1\Ir. WARREN introduced the following bills; which were sev­ widow of Gen. Horatio P. Van CleYe; erally read twice by their titles, and referTed to the Committee on A bill (S. 889) granting a pension to Joseph Koehler; Pensions: A bill (S. 890) granting a pension to Sarah E. Boyd; · A bill (S. 852) granting a pension to all honoTably discharged A bill (S. 891) granting a pension to Adoniram C. HarperJ officeTs and enlisted men who served in the military and naval A bill (S. 892) granting a pension to Ann Connolly; seTVice of the United States ninety days or more; A bill (S. 893) granting a pension to Wilhelmina Hippler; A bill (S. 853) granting an increase of pension to George L. A bill (S. 894) granting a pension to William Brown; Durbin; A bnl (S. 895) granting a pension to David Hunter; A bill (S. 854) granting an increase of,pension to John F. Craw- A bill (S. 896) granting a pension to Mary J. Hill; ford; A bill (S. 897) granting a pension to Julia. D. Richardson; A bill (S. 855) granting an increase of pension to Arthur Mahar; A bill (S. 898) granting a pension to Joh:& Benjamin; A bill (S. 856) granting pension to Margaret Rowsell: A bill (S. 899) granting a pension of $50 a month to C. L. Alden; A bill (S. 857) granting a pension to Mrs. MariaN. Flint; A bill (S. 900) granting a pension to Neil McNeil; A bill (S. 858) granting a pension to Cornelia De Peyster Black; A bill (S. 901) granting an increase of pension to John Shannon1 A bill (S. 859) granting a pension to Josephine I. Ofiley; A bill (S. 902) for the relief of Jean Louis Legare, of the Do- A bill (S. 860) granting a pension to Mrs. Mary E. Morrison; minion of Canada; A bill (S. 861) granting an increase of pension to S. J. Brainard; A bill (S. 903) extending the benefits of the act of June 27,1890, and to certain persons; A bill (S. 862) granting a pension to Mary A. Benjamin. A biH (8. 904) granting a pension to Jerusha Sturgis, widow of Mr. DAVIS introduced a bill (S. 863) to amend section 2324 of Brig. Gen. Samuel D. Sturgis; the Revised Statutes of the United States, rela.ting to mining A bill (S. 905) granting a pension to Hans Johnson; claims; which was read twice by its title, and referred to the A bill (S. 906) g1·anting a pension to John Heinzi Committee on Mines and Mining. · A bill (S. 907) granting a pension to Martha A. McWhorter; an4 He also introduced the following bills; which w;ere severally A bill (S. 908) for the rehefof John Donnelly, dependent father read twice by their titles, and referred to the Committee on the of Frank Donnelly. Judiciary: Mr. DAVIS introduced a bill (S. 909) for the relief of Anna W A bill (S. 864) amending chapter 304 of the laws of 1876, enti­ Osborne; which was read twice by its title, and referred to thJ tled "An act to provide for the appointment of commissioners for Committee on Claims. taking affidavits, etc., for the courts of the United States," passed Mr. TURPIE introduced a bill (S. 910) for the ·payment of th~ August 15, 1876; claim of M. M. Defrees for the construction of a sewer adjacent A bill (S. 865) to amend chapter 132, United States Statutes, to the lands of the United States known as the "Arsenal grounds," second session Fifty-third Congress; and in the city of Indianapolis, Ind.; which was read twice by its title, A bill (S. 866) fixing salaries for the clerks of the United States and referred to the Committee on Claims. circuit and district courts for the district of Minnesota. He also introduced the following bills; which were severally Mr. DAVIS introduced the following bills; which were savor­ read twice by their titles, and referred to the Committee on ally read twice by their titles, and referred to the Committee on Pensions: Indian Affairs: A bill (S. 911) granting an increase of pension to A. S. Louder­ 'A bill (S. 867) to amend an act entitled "An act to provide for milk; the adjudication and payment of claims arising from Indian dep­ A bill (S. 912) to give a special rating to certain wounds received redations/' approved March 3, 1891; by soldiers and sailors of the late war of the rebellion and other A bill (S. 868) to amend an act entitled "An act to provide for wars not heretofore rated in former pension legislation; and the adjudication and payment of claims arising from Indian dep­ A bill (S. 913) granting a pension to Ransom Denny (with ao­ redations," approved March 8, 1891; companying papers). A bill (S. 869) for the relief of Rev. J. A. Gilfillan; and Mr. McMILLAN introduced the following bills; which were A bill (S. 870) for the relief of the estate of Ramsay Crooks. severally read twice by their titles, and referred to the Committee Mr. DAVIS introduced the following bills; which were sever- on the District of Columbia: ally read twice by their titles, and referred to the Committee on A bill (S. 914) to compel street railway companies in the Dis­ Military Affairs: trict of Columbia to remove abandoned tracks, and for other pur­ A bill (S. 871) for the relief of Jeremiah Sullivan from the poses; charge of desertion; A bill (S. 915) to incorporate the Washington Cooling Company A bill (S. 872) to correct the military record of Reese P. Peoples; and grant thereto the right to lay pipes for distribution of mate­ A bill (S. 873) to remove the charge of desertion against Edwin rials for refrigerating purposes; Higgins; A bill (S. 916) in relation to taxes and tax sales in the District A bill (S. 874) for the relief of Charles T. Trowbridge, George D. of Columbia; Walker, and John A. Trowbridge; A bill (S. 917) to provide for the maintenance of the Free Public A bill (S. 875) for the relief of Christopher Ellis; Library of the District of Columbia; A bill (S. 876) for the relief of William Stanley; A bill (S. 918) to authorize the completion of the Washington A bill (S. 877) for the relief of Richard W. Johnson; Aqueduct Tunnel, and for other purposes; • A bill (S. 878) to fix the rank, pay, and emoluments of the Com­ A bill (S. 919) to incorporate the East Washington Heights mander of the Army of the United States; Traction Railway Company of the District of Columbia; A bill (S. 879) for the relief of Capt. William Fletcher, United A bill (S. 920) to further protect the first day of the week as a. States Army; day of rest in the District of Columbia; A bill (S. 880) to correct the military record of Reese P. Peoples; A bill (S. 921) to regulate the use of the public parks and im­ A bill (S. 881) for the relief of Lieut. Herbert Cushman; proved reservations in the District of Columbia under the charge A bill (S. 882) to relieve Jacob Wolhart of the charge of deser­ ·of the Chief of Engineers of the United States Army; tion; and A bill (S. 922) to amend an act entitled "An act to prohibit the A bill (S. 883) to make Commodore William P. McCann, of the use of one-horse cars within the limits of the city of W ashington Navy, a rear-a4miral on the retired list. after the 1st day of January, 1893, and for other purposes," ap­ Mr. DAVIS introduced a bill (S. 884) for the relief of Mrs. Har­ proved July 29, 1892; riet D. Newson; which was read twice by its title, and referred to A bill (S. 923) to raise the age of protection for girls in the Dis- the Committee on Foreign Relations. trict of Columbia to 18 years; and · He also introduced a bill (S. 885) providing for the elecMon of a A bill (S. 924) to authorize the Washington and Glen Echo Delegate from the District of Alaska to the House of Representa­ !tailroad qom;pany to obtai~?- a right of way and construct tracks tives of the United States; which was read twice by its title, and mto the D1stnct of ·Columbm 600 feet. - referred to the Committee on Territories. Mr. MILLS introduced the following bills; which were severall7 1897. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 69

;read twice by their titles..t and referred to the Committee on Pub­ Merriman; which was read twice by its title, and referred to the lic Buildings and G1·ounas: Committee on Pensions. A bill (S. 925) to provide for the erection of a public building Mr. NELSON introduced a bill (S. 955) for the relief of Alice at San Angelo, Tex.; Walsh; which was read twice by its t itle, and referred to the Com­ A bill (S. 926) to provide for the erection of a public building mittee on Claims. at Beaumont, Tex.; and He also introduced a bill (S. 956) to amend an act eiltitkd "An A bill (S. 927) to provide for the erection of a public building act to authorize the construction of a steel bridge over the St. at Abilene, Tex. Louis River between the States of Wisconsin and Min!lcso!ia," Mr. ROACH introduced a bill (S. 928) to amend section 27 of approved April24, 189:1, as amended by an act approved August 4, chapter 543, United States Statutes at Large, and for other pur­ 1894, entitled "An act to amend an act to authorize the construe· poses; which was read twice by its title, and referred to the Com­ tion of a steel bridge over the St. Louis River between the States mittee on Indian Affairs. of Minnesota and Wisconsin;" which was read twice by its title, He also introduced the following bills; which were read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. by their titles, and referred to the Committee on the District of Mr. BURROWS introduced a bill (8. 957) to authorize tho Presi­ Columbia: dent to retire the instructor of swordsmanship at the U n...1;ed States A bill (S. 929) for the relief of the estate of William B. Todd, Naval Academy, at the age of 62 years~ on the pay of a lieutenant deceased; and of' the junior class in the Navy; which was r ead twice by its title, A bill (S. 930) for the relief of Esther A. Keyser. and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. Mr. BATE introduced a bill (S. 931) to construct a road to the He also introduced a bill (S. 958) for the r elief of the loga~ re:p­ national cemetery at Dover, Tenn.; which was read twice by its resentativesof John Roach, deceased; which was read twice i.Jyits title, and 1·eferred to the Committee on Military Affairs. title, and referred to the Committee on Claims. He also introduced the following bills; which were severally He also introduced a bill (S. 959) to increase the pension of Ca.pt. read twice by their titles, and referred to the Committee on Isaac D. Toll; which was read twice by its title, a.nd referred. to Claims: the Committee on Pensio11s. A bill (S. 932) for the relief of the legal representatives of P.M. He also introduced a bill (S. 960) to reclassify railway postal Craigmiles, deceased; and clerks and prescribe their salaries; which was read twice by its A bill (S. 933) for the relief of George T. Vance and Guy P. title, and referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post­ Vance, executors of the estate of \Villiam L. Vance, deceased, late Roads. of Memphis, Tenn. Mr. HANSBROUGH introduced a bill (S. 961) to ratify a.nd Mr. BATE introduced a bill (S. 934) granting an increase of confirm an agreement with the Turtle Mountain band of Chippewa pension to Napoleon B. Breedlove; which was read twice by its Indians in the State of North Dakota, and to make appropriation title, and referred to the Committee on Pensions. for carrying the same into effect; which was read twice by its title, He also (for Mr. IlA.RRIS of Tennessee) introduced the following and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. bills; which were severally read twice by their titles, and referred Mr. CHILTON introduced a bill (S. 962) granting a pansion to to the Committee on Claims: Riley W. Pierce; which was r ead twice by its title, and referred A bill (S. 935) for the relief of Payne, James & Co.; and to the Committee on Pensions. A bill (S. 936) for the relief of C. B. Bryan & Co. He also introduced a bill (S. 963) grantin()' a pension to Nathan Mr. WALTHALL introduced the following bills; which were Mitchell; which was read twice by its titl'e, and referred to t he severally read twice by their titles, and referred to the Committee Committee on Pensions. on Claims: He also introduced a bill (S. 964) granting to the Alabama tribe A bill (S. 937) for the relief of James Sims, of Marshall County, of Indians in the State of Texas 25,000 acres of land; which was Miss.; and read twice by its title, and referred to the Committee on Indian A bill (S. 938) for the relief of the owners of certain cotton Affairs. shipped from Natchez, Miss., in August, 1863, on the steamer Mr. McBRIDE introduced a bill (S. 965) to amend an act enti­ Gladiator. tled "An act to provide for the adjudication arid payment of Mr. McENERY introduced a bill (S. 939) for the relief of the claims arising from Indian depredations," approved March 3, legal representatives of Alfred Duplantier, deceased; which was 1891; which was read twice by its title, and, with the accompany­ read twice by its title, and referred to the Committee on Claims. ing paper, referred to the Committee on Indian Depredations. Mr. GALLINGER introduced the fol1owing bills; which were He also introduced a bill (S. 966) providing for the establish­ severally read twice by their titles, and referred to the Committee ment of a quarantine station at or near Astoria, Oreg.; which was on Pensions: read twice by its title, and, with the accompanying paper, referred A bill (S. 940) granting an increase of pension to Philip Metzger; to the Committee on Commerce. A bill (S. 941) granting a pension to Mary Stewart Lasselle; He also introduced a bill (S. 967) for the relief of M.S. Hellman; A bill (S. 942) granting a pension to Louise Van Atter; and which was read twice by its title, and, with the accompanying A bill (S. 943) granting a pension to Jane B. Johnston. paper, referred to the Committee on Claims. Mr. KYLE introduced a bill (S. 944) to establish a university Mr. BUTLER introduced a bill (S. 938) granting a pension to m_ the United States; which was read twice by its title, and re­ Mrs. Jennie A. Kerr; which was read twice by its title, and re­ ferred to the Committee to Establish the University of the United ferred to the Committee on Pensions. States. He also introduced the following bills; which were severally Mr. FRYE introduced a bill (S. 945) exempting American coast­ read twice by their titles, and referred to the Committee on Claims: wise sailing vessels piloted by their licensed masters or by a United A bill (S. 969) for the relief of Mrs. Jennie A. Kerr, of Concord, States pilot from the obligation to pay State pilots for services not N.C.; and · rendered; which was read twice by its title, and referred to the A bill (S. 970) for the relief of Susan 8. Rayner. Committee on Commerce. Mr. BUTLER introduced a bill (S. 971) to prevent discrimina­ He also introduced a bill (8. 946) providing for the collection of tion between various kinds of legal-tender money of the United fees for furnishing certificates of title to vessels; which was read States, and to maintain the equal debt-paying and purchasing twice by its title, and referred to the Committee on Commerce. power thereof, and for other purposes; which was read twice by Mr. COCKRELL introd1,1ced the following bills; which were its title, and referred to the Committee on Finance. severally read twice by their titles, and referred to the Committee He also introduced a bill (S. 972) to establish a postal-telegraph on Pensions: syst~m and to enlarge the postal facilities of the people of the A bill (ff. 947) granting an increase of pension. to James E. United States; which was read twice by its title, and 1·eferred to McNair; . the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. A bill (S. 948) granting a pension to Joseph M. Waddell; Mr. MORGAN introduced the following bills; which were sev· A bill (S. 949) granting a pension to Levi R. Long; and erally read twice by their titles, and referred to the Committe~ on A bill (S. 950) granting a pension to Ann K-ing, widow of Sam­ Claims: uel King, deceased. A bill (S. 973) for the relief of Mrs. Sarah A. Herndon; and Mr. COCKRELL introduced a bill (S. 951) to provide for the A bill (S. 974) for the relief of the personal representatives of private sale of public lands in Missouri; which was read twice by James Rhodes. deceased. its title, and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. Mr. PRITCHARD introduced a bill (S. 975) to regulate internal­ Mr. CHANDLER introduced a bill (S. 952) to amend the postal revenue assessments, and to modify the law so as to leave assess­ laws relating to first and second class mail matter; which was ments in certain cases to the court; which was read twice by its read twice by its title, and referred to the Committee on Post­ title, and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Offices and Post-Roads. Mr. DAVIS introduced a joint resolution (S. R. 11) authorizing He al~o introduced a bill (S. 953) for the relief of Lieut. Jerome the wearing of the distinctive badge adopted by the Sons of \r ct­ E. Morse, of the United States Navy; which was read twice by its erans, United States Army, upon all occasions of ceremony; which title, and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. . was read twice by its title, and referred to the Committee on MU· He also introduced a bill (8. 954) granting a pension to Emily C. · ita.ry Affairs. · - 70 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE.. MARcH 19;

He also introduced a joint resolution (S. R. 12) directing the Mr. GEAR. I will state that I offered that :t.ooesolution at: the I'Publio Printer to supply the Senate and House Libra_ries each request of the Committee on Pacific Railroads, of wltich I have ,with twenty additional copies of the CoNGRESSIONAL RECORD; the honor of being chairman. and I hope tha.t it '-vill pa s. which was read twice by its title, and referred to the Committee l\I-1;. CO'LLO.l\f. I hope the resolution wm be passed. 10n Printing. The VICE-PRESIDENT. The question is on the adoptiDn of He also introduced a joint resolution (S. R. 13) directing issue tbe resolution which has been read. of Sioux scrip in certain cases; which was read twice by its title, The resolution was agreed to._ land re~rred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. PROPOSED PACIFIC RAILROAJ.)S INVESTIGATION. Mr. BUTLER introduced a. joint resolution (S. R. 14) to amend 'the Constitution of the United States relating to direct taxes; Mr. PETTIGREW. There is a resolution on the table, coming which was read twice by its titlet and referred to the Committee over from yesterday. which I should like to have dispo ed of, 1on the Judiciary. The- VICE-PRESIDENT. The Chair lays before the Senate the resolution which was submitted yesterday by th& SenatoF from AMENDMENTS TO APPROPRIATION BILLS~ South Dakota [Mr.. PETTIGREW], which will be reao pn.id out 0f the. contingent fund of the Senate, upon vouch~1·s ap­ ing an increase of pension to James E. MeNair, and it was r efen-ed proved by the chairman of said committee. to the Committee on Pensions. I ask that the Committee on Pen­ Mr. CULLOM. Mr. Pre ident- sions be discharged from the further consideration of the bill, and 'Mr. PETTIGREW. I move that the resolution be referred to that it be indefinitely postponed. There is some description in it the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expen es of that is not con-ect. the Senate. The VICE-PRESIDENT. Is there objection? The Chair hears Mr. PLATT of Connecticut. That is right. none, and the committee will be discharged from the further con­ Mr. CULLOM. I have no objection. to that com~e. sideration of the bill, and it will be indefinitely postponed. The VICE-PRESIDENT. The Chair hears no objection, and ESTATE OF TURNER MERRITT. the resolution will be so referred. EXECUTIVE SESSIOX. Mr. McENERY submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Claims: · 1\fr. DAVIS. I move that the Senate proceed to the consider­ ation of executive business. Resolved, That the claim of the legal representative of Turner Merritt, late of the parish of East Baton Rouge, La., now pending in tht> Senate, together with The motion was agreed to; and the Senate proceeded to the all the accompanying papers, be, a.nd the same is hereby, r eferred to the Court consideration of executive business. After three hours and five of Olaims, in p,ursuance of the provision.'! of the act of March 3 1883, and an act entitled ' An act to provide for the bringing of suits against;1 the United minutes spent in executive session the doors were reopened. States," approved March 3, 1887 to find and report to the Senate the facts ADJOURNMENT TO MONDAY. bearing upon the merits of said claim, including the loyalty of the person who was owner of the property at the time it is alleged to have been taken, and On motion of Mr. CHANDLER, it was a.ll other facts contempl.a.ted by the provisionS of said acts. ne~t~e1·ed, That when the Senate adjourn to-da.y it be to meet on Monday AMENDMENTS OF THE RULES. Mr. CULLOM. I move that the Senate adjourn. :Mr. HOAR. I gave notice yesterday of two motions to amend The motion was agreed to; and (at 3 o'clock and 52 minutes the rules. The proposed amendments are in print and it is not p.m.). the ~e~ate adjourned until :Monday, March 22, 1897, at 12 pecessary to read them again. I desire now to make those mo­ o•clock mend1an. tions severally in pursuance of the rule, according to the printed form, and ask that the motions be referred to the Committee on Rules. NOMINATIONS. The VICE-PRESIDENT. The question is on the motion of the Executive norninations ?'eceived by the Senate March 19, 1897. Senator from Massachusetts, to refer to the Committee on Rules POSTMASTER. two amendments to the rules proposed by him. Charles U. Gordon, to be postmaster at Chicago, in the county The motion was agreed to. of Cook and State of Illinois, vice Washington Hesing, resigned. UNION P.A.CIFIC RAILROAD MORTGAGES. ASSISTANT ATTORNEY-GENERAL. The VICE-PRESIDENT. The Chair lays before the Senate the Willis Van Devanter, of Wyoming, to be Assistant Attorney­ resolution offered by the Senator from Iowa [Mr. GEAR], direct­ General, vice Isaac H. Lionberger, resigned. ing the Attorney-General to send to the Senate copies of the rec­ UNITED STATES ATTORNEY. ord of proceedings -in any court of the United States in a case or Albert W. Wishard, of Indiana, to be attorney of the United cases in which the United States is a party, etc. States for the district of Indiana, vice Frank B. Burke, whose term Mr. CULLOM. I ask that that resolution, which was offered expires 1\farch 21, 1897. yesterday by the Senator from Iowa, who now happens to be out of his place, be considered. It is a resolution calling for informa­ UNITED STATES MARSHAL. tion, which I think we ought to have, and I am sure he is anxious Samuel E. Kercheval, of Indiana, to be marshal of the United that it shall be adopted. States for the district of Indiana, vice William H. Hawkins, whose Mr. ALDRICH. I suggest that the resolution go over until .term will exp:U.-e 1\Iarch 21, 1897. to-morrow. I should like to see it in print. Mr. MORGAN. The resolution went over yesterday to be CONFIRMATIONS. printed. It is a resolution which meets the approval of the Com­ Executive nominations conji1·med bJJ the Senate March 19, 1897. mittee on Pacific Railroads, asking for the records of the courts 'showing the situation of the litigation in the United States courts AMBASSADORS. relative to the Union Pacific Railroad Company. John Hay, of the District of Columbia, to be ambassador extraor­ Mr. CULLOM. That is all, and it is information which I think dinary and plenipotentiary of the United States to Great Britain. the Senate ought to have. Horae~ Po.rte~, of New York, to be ambassador extraordinary Mr. FAULKNER. Let the resolution be read. and plempotentiary of the United States to France. The VICE-PRESIDENT. The Secretary will read the resolu­ SECRETARY OF E.ll.BASSY. tion. Henry White, of Rhode Island, to be secretary of the embassy The Secretary read the resolution submitted yesterday by Mr. of the United States to Great Britain. . . GEAR, as follows: APPOINTMENTS IN THE M.A.RlliE-HOSPITAL SERVICE. Resolved, That the Attorney-General is directed to send to the Sena.te copies of the record of proceedings in any court of the United States, in a case or Hill Hastings, of Kentucky, to be an assistant surgeon. cases in which the United States is a party, relating to the foreclosure of any Claude H. Lavinder, of Virginia, to be an assistant surgeon. t ~ortgage against the property of the Union Pacifio Railroad Company or its ranches, iri which cases the Attorney-General has entered an appearance for Taliaferro Clark, of the District of Columbia, to be an assistant he Government. surgeon. fl897. CONGRESSIONAL · RECORD-HOUSE. 71

MA.RSIIAL, to-night, so that it can be obtained to-morrow, or,at the latest, by Monday morning. \ Samuel E. Kercheva~ of Indiana, be marshal of the United to Mr. WALKER of Massachusetts. I will ask the gentleman ~States for the district of Indiana. from Maine [Mr. DINGLEYl how many copies of the comparative UNITED STATES ATTORNEY, statement are to be printed? !;. Albert W. Wishard, of Indiana, to be attorney of the United Mr. DINGLEY. The committee have the right to print 1,000 'l:)ta.tes for the district of Indiana. · • copies, and extra copies can be ordered by the House. . Mr. WALKER of Massachusetts. I think it would be better to POSTMASTER. have 5,000 copies, and I hope the gentleman will make that request. Charles U. Gordon~,..,~

Mr. BROMWELl{. With all the amendment~? be at liberty at any time to offer amendments to any part of the Mr. DINGLEY. With all the amendments. I now ask unan- bill. After discussion of the bill by paragraphs, which·wm con­ 1imous consent that the number of extra copies of the bill as re­ continue until Wednesday, the 31st day of March, at 3 o'clock reported, together with the comparative statement that may be p.m., the previous question is to be considered as ordered upon mcluded within the cost allowed under the rules and the law, be all pending amendments and upon the bill to its engrossment, printed for the use of the House. third reading, and final passage, and upon the motion to recon­ The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Tennessee will give his sider and. lay upon the table. Then, in addition to the opportuni­ attention. The gentleman from Maine asks unanimous Qonsent ties furnished for debate under this rule, there iE a provision that that the number of copies to be printed of the bill and of the com­ for twenty days after the freal passage of the bill members of the parative statement be to the extent allowed by the law. House shall have leave to print remarks upon it. Mr. McMILLIN. I think that much better than the other, Mr. LINNEY. Will the gentleman permit a question? which does not provide for the comparative statement. Mr. DALZELL. Certainly. The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the gen­ Mr. LINNEY. Is the privilege of offering amendments to be tleman from Maine? [Afterapause.] The Chair hears none, and confined to the members of the Committee on Ways anu Means? it is so ordered. Mr. DALZELL. Not at all. Any member of the House will ORDER OF BUSINESS. have a right to offer an amendment to any paragraph when it is read. Mr. DALZELL. Mr. Speaker, I am instructed by the Commit­ Now, Mr. Speaker, I submit that the passage of this resolution tee on Rules to make the following privileged report. After it is is both necessary and proper-! might say, more emphatically, read, I will ask for the previous question. absolutely necessary. We are met here to-day, confronting a great The Clerk read as follows: national exigency. In no singl~ year for the last three years have The Committee on Rules, to whom was referred House resolution No. 5, have had the same under consideration, and ask leave to report the follow­ the revenues of the United States Government been equal to the ing as a substitute therefor with the recommendation that it do pass: expenditures of the United States Government. In each and "Re$olved, That on and after Monday, March 22,1897, and until the final vote every one of those years there has been a deficit. In 189-4, at on the bill hereinafter mentioned shall have been taken, the House shall meet the end of the fiscal year, there was a deficit exceeding 869,000.000. on each legislative day atlO o'clock a. m.; that on each of said days immediately after the reading of the Journal the House shall resolve itself into Committee In 1895 there was a deficit exceeding $42,000,000. In 1896 there of the Whole House on the state of the Union for the consideration of the was a deficit exceeding $25,000,000; and the printed slip that comes bill (H. R. 379) to provide revenue for the Government and to encoura~e the in your mail this morning shows that from the 1st (Lty of last industries of the United States; that general debate shall continue on sa1d bill during each day until5 o'clockp. m. andateveningsessions, to which a recess July down to the present time, a period of about n ine months, sha.ll be taken, to be held from 8 o'c1 ock tillll o'clock p. m. until and includ­ there is a deficit of more than $4.6.000,000. In other words, for ing Thursday, the 25th day of March, unless sooner concluded; that from the three years this Government hru; been nmning behind da.y by conclusion of general debate until the 31st day of March there shall be debate upon the said bill by paragraphs, and during this time the bill shall be open to day, because of the inadequacy of the existing tariff law. The amendment as each paragraph is read but committee amendments to any resnlt is that we are behind to-day over $200,000,000, and. in addi­ part of the bill shall be in order at any trme;1 that not later than Wednesday, tion to that, we have borrowed for the ordinary expenses of the the 31st day of March, at 3 o'clock p.m., the said bill. with all amendmente that shall hav~ been recommended by the Committee of the Whole House Government exceeding $262,000.000. on the state of the Union, shall be reported to the House, and the previous So I submit to the House that we are here to-day fi:winp; a great question shall then be considered as ordered on said amendments and said national calamity, a condition of things that calls for relief, and bill to its engrossment, third reading, and final passage, and on a motion to reconsider and lay on the table. for immediate relief, at the hands of the representatives of the "General leave to print remarks on said bill is hereby granted, to continue American people. [Applause on the Republican side.] It is less for twenty days after the final vote of the House thereon." than two weeks since the last Congress adjourned. The Repre­ l.Ir: DALZELL. Mr. Speaker, I ask the previous question. sentatives-elect of the American people are here to-day in answer Mr. BAILEY. A parliamentary inquiry. In the event the to the summons of the President, exercising his corrotitutional previous question is ordered, I believe under the rule we are right to summon them in a case of national nece3sity. Let me allowed twenty minutes on a side? read you only a few words from the President's message by way The SPEAKER. Twenty minutes on a side. of emphasizing the statements that I have already made. The Mr. BAILEY. I would like to ask the gentleman from Penn­ President says: sylvania if he would not be willing to ask unanimous consent Regretting the necessity which has required me to call you togethei:, I fee] that that time may be extended to thirty minutes? that you_r. ass~mbl~g in extraordinary session is indispensable, because of the condition m which we find the revenues of the Government . It is con­ Mr. DALZELL. I think twenty minutes abundant time to dis- ceded that its current expenditures are greater than its receipts, and that cuss this resolution. It is an extremely short and simple one-­ such a condition has existed for now moro than three years. W1th unlhnited Mr. BAILEY. It is simple in its form of drasticness. means at our command, we are presenting the remarkable spectacle of in­ creasing our public d ebt by borrowing money to meet the ordir::a.ry outlays Mr. DALZELL (continuing). And easily understood. incident upon even an economical and prudent administration of the Goverzt­ The SPEAKER. The question is on ordering the previous ment. An examination of the subject discloses this fact in every detail, and ~~~- . leads inevitably to the conclusion that the condition of the revenue which The question was taken; and the Speaker announced that the allows it is unjustifiable and should be corrected. ayes seemed to have it. And then, with respect to the method of procedure, the Presi­ Mr. BAILEY. Division, Mr. Speaker! dent makes this suggestion: The House divided; and there were-aye~? 163, noes 130. CongreES should promptly correct the existing condition. So the previous question was ordered. * * * * * ,, * Mr. DALZELL. I will say to my friend from Texas, now that The necessity of the passage of a tariff law which shall provide ample rev­ the previous question is ordered, that I have no objection, so far enue need not be further urged. The imperative demand of the hour is the prompt enactment of such a measure, and to this object I earnestly recom­ as I am concerned, to an extension of the time, if he sees fit to ask mend that Congress shall make every endeavor. Before other business is the House for it. . transo.cted let us first provide sufficient revenue to faithfully' administer the Mr. HENDERSON. I hope that will be done. Government wit.hout the contracting of further debt or the continued dis­ Mr. DALZELL. I ask unanimous consent that the twenty turbance of our finances. minutes on a side be extended to thirty minutes on a side for the In the spirit which prompted that message, and appreciating discussion of this proposition. the necessity for immediate action, on the first day of this session The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Pennsylvania asks unani­ there was introduced into this House a tariff bill. I think it not mous consent that the time for debate be extended from forty improper for me to say in this connection that, from the 1st day minutes to one hour, one-half hour on either side. Is there objec­ of last December down to the present time, the Republican mem­ tion? [After a pause.] The Chair hears none. bers of the Ways and Means Committee have devoted their days The gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. DALZELL] is recognized and their nights to the preparation of that bill, so that we are to control one half of the hour, and the gentleman from Texas [Mr. ready to-day to have it considered by the House and to respond BAILEY] will be recognized for the other half. in the promptest and most expeditious way possible to the demands Mr. DALZELL. Mr. Speaker, I will repeat, in order that the of the President and the still louder demands of the country. House may understand the mattE.r fully, what the provisions of [Applause on the Republican side.] this rule are. It contemplates that on Monday morning next the Mr. WM. ALDEN SMITH. May I ask the gentleman from House shall assemble at 10 o'clock, and that on each succeeding Pennsylvania a question? day, until and including Thursday, the hour of meeting shall be Mr. DALZELL, Certainly. 10 o'clock. It contemplates that on each of those days a recess Mr. WM. ALDEN SMITH. I understand from the reading of shall be taken at 5 o'clock in the afternoon until 8 o'clock in the the resolution that a certain time is set apart for the consideration evening, and that there shall be a night session, beginning at 8 and of the bill by paragraphs and for amendments. .Lasting until 11 o'clock-all this time to be devoted to general Mr. DALZELL. Five days . debate. After the general debate, which will en"d on Thursday Mr. WM. ALDEN SMITH. And that during that time it shall evening at 11 o'clock, the bill will be read by paragraphs and will be the right of the Committee on Ways and Means to offer amend- be open to amendment as each paragraph IS read; there being a ments at any time and to any secti~? · necessary provision that the Commi~e on Ways and Means shall Mr. DALZELL. Certainly. ~ 1897. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 73j

Mr. W M. ALDEN SMITH. But it is not intended that the right Mr. DALZELL. Mr. Speaker, there are reasons, in addition to( to amend shall extend as a special privilege to the Committee on those I have already advanced, why this bill should be promptly Ways and Means? That committee is not to have the privilege of disposed of. If the figures which I have recited to the House are· amendment over other members? tTue, it is perfectly apparent tbat every day that the Government 1 Mr. DALZELL. Oh, yes; certainly. Under this ru1e the Com­ continues in operatio .1 under the existing tariff conditions there 1 mittee on Ways and Means will be entitled to offer amendments is a loss to the revenue of a fraction of a million dollars. But at any time and to any paragraph. there is another consideration in addition, and of a particularly I Mr. WM. ALDEN SMITH. But the idea of the ru1e, as I under­ pressing character. No man familiar with public affairs is jgno-1 stand, is to give-- rant of the fact that the passage of a tariff bill under the most I Mr. McMILLIN. I rise to a point of order. We are wholly favorable circumstances resu1ts always in anticipatory importa­ unable to hear the colloquy between the gentleman from Pennsyl- tions; so that the full effect of a tariff law in bringing revenue is 1vania and the gentleman from Michigan. not as a rule felt the first year. The SPEAKER. The House will be in order. But, sir, the circumstances that face us now are pem.1Ear in! Mr. WM. ALDEN SMITH. I desire to emphasize this particu­ character. One of the greatest revenue-producing articles in this l lar question: Whether or not the right is guaranteed under this bill is the article of wool. Wool is now upon the free list. It re­ ru1e to the members of this House to propose such amendments quires but little thought on the part of anyone to appreciate the I as they may desire during the time set apart for the consideration immense temptation that exists on the part of the wool manufac­ of the bill by paragraphs? turer. the wool dealers, and on the part of speculators to now import Mr. DALZELL. Undoubtedly. The rule provides that the and fill up the market with wool that a month hence, or two or 1 paragraphs as read shall· be open to amendment by everybody. three months hence, as the case may be, will come in under a duty. Mr. MARSH. Let me ask thi<~ question: Is there any assurance So that not only does the daily loss of revenue face us, but the that the paragraphs will all be read? additional temptation to increase importations of wool and sugar, 1 Mr. DALZELL. Tha t, I will say to my friend, depends entirely resulting in a loss to the revenues of the Government. These are upon the action of the House. I think, if our friends on the other considerations that should induce us to prompt action-as prompt I side of the House will debate this bill honestly, offering no amend­ as possible-on this revenue measure. ments merely for the purpose of delay, the whole bill will be read, Now, .1\lr. Speaker, I have noticed that our friends on th~ 1 every paragraph of it, and opportunity afforded for tht' offering other side are disposed to cite precedents. They will say that of amendments by every member. this is an unprecedented proceeding; that we are undertaking tol Mr. McMILLIN. Let me ask-- compel the House, by a rule, to take measures such as have Mr. MARSH. But if any paragraphs are not read, then no never heretofore been taken in all the legislative history of our amendments can be offered to those paragraphs except by the country with respect to tariff measures. I want to anticipate the committee? argument that will be made by my friend from Tennessee [Mr. l Mr. DALZELL. Certainly not. McMILLIN] and my friend from Texas [Mr. BAILEY] in thQ J\fr. McMILLIN. That is the vm·y point to which I wished.to speeches that they are about to make when I shall have yielded l1 call the attention of my friend from Pennsylvania. Does he the floor. I want to call the attention of the House to the condi• guarantee that we shall have the right to have this bill read tions existing in this body on the 13th day of A:ngust, 1894. The I through by sectiOns, so that it may be amended section by section? "Wilson bill," so called, had passed the House of Repn;sentatives, I Mr. DALZELL. Why, sir, the gentleman from Tennessee had gone to the Sep.ate, and had come back to. the House with, if knows that if any guaranty on that subject is necessary, it must my recollection is correct, 633 amendments appended to it. It come from that side of the House, not from this. went into conference. The conferees could not agree. The 1 Mr. McMILLIN. I do not know any such thing. Democratic House brought in a rule which took that tariff hili Mr. DALZELL. I will say to my friend-and I hope he will out of the hands of the conferees, with the 633 amendments, not j , not interrupt me during the progress of my speech; he will have one of which was ever rea.d in the House, about which the House his time hereafter-- knew nothing whatever, and in two hours pa-ssed that bill through ! Mr. McMILLIN. I beg the gentleman's pardon. I will make this body. my statement later. I supposed that the gentleman in dealing But that is not all. As a pa1·t and a parc-el of the same infamy, with so important a matter would not object to any question that they put wool on the free list by the introduction of a bill that 1 might elucidate the subject. had never gone to a committee, and which was debated for only · Mr. DALZELL. I will not. I will cheerfu1ly answer any fifteen minut-es on each side. Nor is that all. As a part and par­ ·question that my friend sees fit to propound. cel of that same infamy, they put coal on the free list by a bill Mr. McMILLlN. Thegentleman himself will concede thatmy that had never seen a committee, and whi· ·h had been debated in question is pointed and pertinent. This proposed rule provides, the House for only fifteen minutes on a side. By the same proc­ it is true, for the reading of the bill by sections or paragraphs; ess they put iron ore on the free list; they put barbed wira on but suppose, on the arrival of Wednesday, the 31st instant, the the free list, and so, when my friends on the other side shall assert 1 time :fixed by this rule for the final vote, we shall have passed over the" infamy" of this proceedino-, I beg them to examine the record ' only half the bill-suppose the House has had time to consider they have made themselves with reference to infamous proceed- · only one-half of the paragraphs or sections-then we must go ings. [Applause on the Republican side.l without the opportunity to amend those sections. But now, Mr. Speaker, I go a step further and state that this Mr. DALZELL. In the case which the gentleman puts, the rule is not only necessary, but that it is- a proper one. lt gives situation would be just the same as it was when this House was four days of ten hours each-equivalent to eight ordinary leo-isla­ cut off at a fixed time from making any further amendments to tive days-for general discussion of this measure. It gives ahnost · 1the Wilson bill-precisely the same. a week to its discussion by paragraphs. Mr. McMILLIN. Then there would be, under those circum­ Now, there are just two possible rea-sons for debate: One is in stanees, no chance to amend? order that we may understand the bHl, and the other is that we i Mr. DALZELL. There will be no chance to amend by any may declaim. I submit that ten days for general debate and five 1 . member, outside of the Committee on Ways and .Means, except as for debate by paragraphs are sufficient to instruct every intelligent to such paragraphs as are read. If gentlemen on the other side member of this House as to every provision contained in the bill. ' of the House will submit no amendments except those on which If time be not sufficient for declamation, then, I say, the country 1 they honestly desire to obtain the judgment of the House, my be­ does not want declamation, but it wants action. [ ApplaUBe on the 1 lief is that this bHl will be read from. the first paragraph to the Republic.an side.] Words are poor things to men whowantwm·k. ; last, and that opportunity will be given to offer amendments to All the oratory of the House will not raise a dollar of revenue, each of them. • will not open a single mill, kindle a single furnace fire, or set in I Mr. WILLIAM A. STONE. Will my colleague allow me a motion the spindle of a single loom. JApplause.] The press, the I question merely for information? As I understand, this rule pro­ public, halting, hesitating capital, a the hosts of unem;>loyed poses to give five days for the reading of the bill by paragraphs labor, join in demanding at our hands instant, immediate, and I and the offering of amendments. efficient ·action. [Applause.] And I want to say to you, my Mr. DALZELL. Certainly. friends on this side of the Chamber, thatwhilewemay, as amongst 1 Mr. WILLIAM A. STONE. Is not that an unusually long ourselves, differ as to minor matters, there is one subject upon time to be allowed for such purpose on bills of this character? which we must stand together, shoulder to shoulder, every man 1 Mr. DALZELL. Well, it is abundance of time for the consid­ in his place, and that is in agreeing upon the prompt, immediate, I1 eration of all amendments offered in good faith. and efficient passage of this tariff bill as it now comes from your Mr. WILLIAM A. STONE. As I understand, a restriction of committee. [Prolonged applause on the Republican side.] 1 this kind is entirely in accordance with precedent. I reserve the remainder of my time. Mr. DALZELL. I will come to that matter in a moment. J\fr. BAILEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield to my colleague from Ten- 1' Mr. WILLIAM A. STONE. Of course, if the other side of the nessee [Mr. McMILLINl such time as he may desire. House chooses to consume time by obstructive proceedings, it can Mr. McMILLIN. Mr. Speaker, I think in so great a tribunal as 1 ~~ . this, where we are engagedjn considering questions so important I 74 OONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. MARCH 19, as that now pending,-we at least owe it to- -each other and to our­ tunity to debate or amend by se-ctions. That is the fact; and not selves to be perfectly candid and to state facts exactly as they only is that the fact, but that is the intention, to throttle discus­ are, "extenuating naught, naught setting down in malice." sion and prevent amendment, because you dare not give ample op­ Why does not my distinguished friend from Pennsylvania tell portunity for this House to investigate this hotbed of trusts that you the faots&urrounding the passage of the Wilson bill? One listen­ are preparing he-re for the further robbery of the people. (Applause ing to him would suppose that the bill that put wool on the free on the Democratic side.] The- gentleman speaks of the straitened list, and other articles on the free list, that reduced the- duties on condition of the Treasury, and says that 8260,000,000 of bonds have coal, and put barbed iron wire on the free list, and made other been sold for the purpose of raising money for ordinary expenses. changes in the tariff duties, had at no time been conside-red delib­ Ah, when did that dawn on the distinguished gentleman? That erately by this body; that it was put through without being con­ was borrowed for a different purpose. If that is true, or whether sidered in Committee- of the Whole, and was never considered in it is true or not, there is in the Treasury to-day $212,000,000 of any committee or discussed, except in the fift.een minutes on each money in addition to the outstanding obligations of the Govern­ side in th~ House-. Would n'bt that be a fair construction of the ment. impressjon made by the gentleman in what he has said? Can any Mr. HANDY. Two hundred a-nd seventeen million dollars. intelligent gentleman come to any other conclusion from what he­ l\I:r. McMILLIN. I thank my friend for the correction. I have said? Why not be candid? Why not st~te the facts as they are? not looked at the figures for th1·ee days. My friend from Dela­ You can not gain any advantage by distorting them. This is an ware [Mr. HANDY] says 8217,000,000. That is $117,000,000 in age of intelligence, an age of manliness, an age- when men will excess of the amount that is required for the gold :reserve. Now, keep posted, whether you post them or not. [Applause on the that $117,000,000, even at the rate of deficiencies for the last two Demo-cratic side.] The telegraph, the telephone, the newspaper, years, would supply the deficiencies and run this GoveTnment for the thousand appliances of modem civilization, have fallen athwart two years longer, with the ordinary revenues under the Wilson the path of men, and all your djstortion can not change one fact bill. or blind even Qn~ fool. [Applause on the Democratic side.] Mr. WM. ALDEN SMITH. Mr. Speaker, I should like to ask :Mr. Speaker, what are the-facts? The Wilson bill was consid­ the gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. McMILLIN) a question. ered in the Committee on Ways and Means. When we had per­ 1\.Ir. McMILLIN. With pleasure; but be brief, for my time is fected it, gentlemen on the othe1· side asked an opportunity to con­ brief. sider it and to frame their minority report before the- bill was Mr. WM. ALDEN SMITH. Isitnotafact, sir, thattheamount ~eported to the House and before the report of the majority went of money now coming into the Treasury from customs duties is to the count:ry. It was granted. Every opportunity for full dis­ ve1·y largely increased by the importations now being made in cussion was given. view of the proposed legislation of the Republican party on the Mr. Speaker~ when you were a m_ember of the Ways and Means tariff question? Committee, and when we were in power, you clamored for that Mr. McMILLIN. The country knows that the first chance 1ight and we gave it. Then when you as Speaker appointed the you get at them, you are going to rob them. It is not unnatural, :present Chief Exe-cutive, McKinley, chau·man of the Committee therefore, that the owner of the premises should begin to bar the on Ways and Means, and he presided over that committee, we, door when he knows that the robber is approaching. [ App1au e who were in the minority, clamored for the same right. and your on the Democratic side.] appointe-e conceded it. But this committee was appointed last Sir, th~ gentleman from Maine fMr. DINGLEY] tells us this bill Monday. It met and submitted, in hot haste~ its bill on Tuesday. will increase the revenue~ by $112,'000,000. Then what is 0n hand Gentleme-n of the majority magnanimously said that they would must be hoarded or squandered. The first keeps it still from give us one day to consult toge-th~r and look through the bill of trade and would be folly~ the latter would be CI'iminal. some 16.2 pages, and then that a final vote mnst be taken the next No, sir; there is no ne-ed for this indecent baste. 'l'here was no day. The next day, when we got together, they made many and need of this bill at this session, and a few such days as this will very important changes in th~ bill themselves. Then they re­ convince the country that the election of this Congress was a mis­ ported it to the House, and now, without your ever seeing their take and a calamity. report, without the statistics, for which you will be called upon Mr. GROSVENOR. Will the gentleman allow me to ask him to pay t.L good round sum a little later on, being printed and laid a question? before you, without any opportunity for d"Sliberate preparation , Mr. MITCHELL. Will the gentleman allow me to ask him a upon the bill, without any man in this House, except the mem­ question? bers of the majority who framed the bill, knowing the- full height The SPEAKER. Does the gentleman from Tennessee yield to and depth and breadth of its many iniquities, you are called upon the gentleman from Ohio? to pass a rule that shall put it through the House before the 31st Mr. McMILLIN. My friend is so nonpartisan and so univer­ day of March. You rush it pellmell through-blindly and heed­ sally gentle- and patriotic in his manner, I must yield to him for a lessly through, immature and enormous. question, if it is a question. [Laughter.] Sir, what are the further facts about the Wilson bill? It was Mr. GROSVENOR. Purely a question. Does the gentleman reported on the 19th day of De-cember. Gentlemen had all the fear that there is a robbery now threatened greater than the rob­ time they wanted for general debate. They had all the time they bery which has been beggaring the laboring men of this country wanted for debate by sections. The Wilson bill was gone through during the past four years? [Loud applause on the Republican by section and paragraph, and every member of the majority and side.] every member of the minority give-n an opportunity for careful Mr. McMILLIN. Mr. Speaker, there has bee-n no effort on the consideration; and then it passed the House. Finally, when it part of the Democratic party at the robbery of the people by stat­ came back from the Senate, th~ Senate amendments were acted ute in the last two years, and the gentleman knows as well a I upon by a special rule; but the bill itself had careful consideration that his question as an insinuation is wholly false. (Loud applause ~nd most thoTough deliberation in the Committee of the Whole on the DemDcratic side.] House before it ever came- to that stage. Now, Mr. Speaker, having $117,000,000 of surplus in the Treas­ These are the facts. My friend from Pennsylvania [Mr. DAL­ ury over and above the gold reserve, why this hot haste? Why ZELL], with all his astutenesst can not warp them. He talks about bring up this bill before you have even prepared the statistics? the country not wanting declamation. Then why declaim?' My friend from Maine [Mr. DINGLEY] does not want th-e rates of MT. Speake-r, the gentleman from Michigan (1\Ir. WM. ALDEN this bill sh~wn. He does not want the people of the United States SmTH] ·and the gentleman from Illinois [Mr. MARsH] have pro­ to pass judgment upon it before it is voted upon, but proposes to pounded most pertinent questions in connection with this meas­ rush it th1·ough without ample debate, without ample opportunity m·e. Look at this rule. It care-fully reserves to the Committee for amendment, without ample consideration, and then put on Ways and Means the right to have then· amendments cpn­ through, as your next programme. $70,000,000 of appropriations in sidm·ed at any time. You may offer an amendment, and under the same way, and go fishing! Why all this rush? You can not this rule the committee that has had this matter in h~nd since the get away from here for months. Why not legislate sensibly? meeting of the last Congress-the very identical gentlemen who Mr. COX. Will my colleague yield to me for a que-stion? were upon the committee in the last Congress being npon it in Mr. McMILLIN. With pleasure. this, so far a.s the majority are concerned-reserve-in their hands Mr. COX. It is a mere question. Do I understand your ccn­ the right, unda· this rule, to set your amendment aside and have struction of the proposed rule is this: That when we read the bill theirs considered. by sections, the amendments offered by the committee have pre­ Now, .Mr. Speaker, they give four or five days under this rule cedence over amendments offered by a member oi the House? for general debate. They give about four da-ys for the conside:ra­ Mr. McMILLIN. That i'3 right. You may have your amend­ tion by sections of a bill which aggregates,. I believe, more than ment pending, and the committee can come in and supersede your 160 pages. Forty pages a day of taxes and tax levying you are to amendment, notwithstanding the rules of the House, and cut you consider, and if, at the end of the time fixed in this rule, yo1:1 are out. Furthermore, if the committee sees that a dangerous point ;not through with the consideration, as you surely will not be, it is has been struck, one that they do not want considered, they can wrenched from yo ill! keeping, the previous question being now prevent the consideration of it by interposing other amendments ordered upon it, and it is put upon \ts passage without an oppor- and absorbing the time. 1897. CONGRESSIONAL. RECORD-HOU8K 75

Now, Mr. Speaker, what is the UEe of all this haste? Why not were contributed to their- coffers by the trusts. and combines. go on in the ordinary way? Mr. Speaker, you are presiding over f Applause on the Democratic side. J Do your best, gentlemen! a House that at least ought to be deliberative, whether it is or not. We know it means your worst. (Applause-on the Democratic Why tie the hands of the House before we get into the considera­ side.] Do what you please with th1s tariff bill now; sadd ~ e these tion of this measure? Are you afraid to trust yourselves? If so, taxes upon the country. The day will come when an overbm~­ how dare the country trust you? The gentlemen first framed dened people will demand money with which to pay these taxes, their bill. Their own colleagues do not know even concerning it, and you who deny them this right will be turned out of power, and then, before there is any knowledge on the subject given the and the party that believes in low tax~ and an abundant m edium House, you call upon them to tis their own hands, tie the hands of of exchange will'give to the people of this country that prosperity members of this body, without due. consideration, and impose which they de erve. [Loud applause on the Democratic ~e.] Sll2,000,000 of additional taxes-taxes to protect trusts, taxes for Mr. BAILEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield t}lree minutes to the. gen- thepurposeofbreedingtrusts, taxes not for supporting the Govern­ tleman from Alabama [Mr. WHEELER]. . ,. ment, but taxes to prevent commerce from doiu.g its perfect work. 1\Ir. WHEELER of Alabama. Mr. Speaker, I rise only for the Against the bill we protest; against this method of its passage we purpose of making a reasonable request, with the utmo3t good protest; and in the name of the American people we ask you to faith, of the majority of the Committee on \Vays and Means. I stay your hands in this effort at their further robbery. [Loud ask that they consent to a very slight change in the rule now be· applause on the Democratic side.] ing considered by the House. I propose that we omit the first Mr. B.AJLEY. Will theSpeakerobligemebysayinghowmuch reading of the bill, or rather consider the bill read for the first time I have remaining? time, and that then a f!Uarnnty be given to u.s and to the people The SPEAKER. The gentleman has seventeen minutes remain­ that the bill shall be fully 1·ead by paragraphs for amendment ing. before the representatives of the people are called to vote upon it. Mr. BAILEY. Does the gentleman from Pennsylvania desh·e The people have a right to this privilege. Already the gr eat to yield to anybody else now? metropolitan papers of the country that advocated the election of Mr. DALZELL. No; I reserve my time, so as to conclude. President McKinley are, in tones of thunder, denouncing this Mr. BAILEY. May I inquire if the gentleman desh·es to con­ measure as unwi..::e, oppre..•:;sive, and one that ou ,~ht not to be en­ sume the whole of his remaining time himself or yield it to a sin­ acted into law. [Applause on the Democratic side.] gle individual? Mr. Speaker, if the assertions were made in good faith that this Mr. DALZELL. I have not determined that, I will say to the measure is necessary to give more revenue to the Gove1·nment, gentleman. every member of the Ways and Means Committee knows that a Mr. BAILEY. I think it but fair. The gentleman consumed bill of less than six lines c.;ould add sufficient for that pnrpose. fifteen minutes and we have consumed thirteen minutes. The morning paper informs us that the Senate Committee on Mr. DALZELL. How much time have I remaining, 1\Ir. Finance, upon a most casual examination of this bill, announces Speaker? it defective in every schedule, and they are already subjecting it The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Pennsylvania has nine to a. close scrutiny in order- to incorporate absolutely ne-.- es3ary minutes remaining. amendments when the bill reaches them for their cons: der at ion; Mr. DALZELL. I reserve those nine minutes for the purpose and, Mr. Speaker, the amendments which they will add will tear of concluding. this m easure into atoms, and I hope to Heaven they will do it. Mr. BAILEY. I perfectly recognize, J\!r. Speaker, that the gen­ [Laughter and applause on the Democratic side.l tleman has the right to reserve those nine minutes, if they are to Mr. WILLIAM A. STONE. May I ask the gentfemanaquestion? be consumed by one gentleman. I believe, however, the gentle­ Mr. WHEELER of Alabama. A short one. man would not insist that it was perfectly fair to reserve that . 1\Ir. WILLIAM A. STONE. I hope the gentleman will n ot fail, time for three speeches, or even two, in conclusion, and all I ask before he takes his seat, to tell us what these six line3 are that will is the gentleman's assurance that one gentleman will occupy that give us sufficient revenue. tinle. . 1\l.r. WHEELER of Alabama. One line might be to rsduce the Mr. DALZELL. I do not see why I should not yield it to half tax on whisky to a revenue basis. [Laughter.] a dozen, should I desire to do so. The gentleman has seventeen Mr. WILLIAM A. STONE. That is only one line. minutes in which to make his speech and I have nine left to con­ Mr. WHEELER of Alabama. With our increasing revenues clude. and the money now in the Treasury that might be enough. Mr. B.AJLEY. But I would like to know what disposition the [Laughter and applause.l gentleman desires to make of his time, so as to determine the ap­ Mr. WILLIA..t.\1 A. STONE. Then it is all a matte1· of whisky? portionment of my time. But it is a small matter. [Laughter.] :Mr. HENDERSON. It is yours to do what you please with. Mr. WHEELER of Alabama. We should also restru:e a duty Mr. BAILEY. I yield five minutes to the gentleman from Mis­ upon luxuries; and now I wish to call attention to the course of souri fMr. BLAND]. fLoud applause on the Democratic side.] the Republican party with r egard to legislation of that character. Mr. BLAND. Mr. Speaker, I scarcely see the necessity of pro­ The SPEAKER. The time of the. gentleman from Alabama has longing the time when this calamity of my friend from :Pennsyl­ expired. [Laughter.] vania is to fall npon the country. Why undertake to practice a Mr. BAILEY. 1\Ir. Speaker, it is worthy of remark that four fraud upon this House and upon the country, with the pi'etense of years ago we had a Presidential election which turned almost an opportunity for amendment and debate, w.hen every man who entirely upon the tariff question, and yettheCongress then c.hosen has served here understands that it is a fraud and a pretem;e and was convened in extram·dinary se sion to deal with the financial nothing else? The idea that a tariff bill, with all the schedules queation. Last year we had a Presidential election which turned of this bill, can. be properly considered in the time allotted tmder almost entirely upon the financial question; and now Congres3 is this rule is known by every gentleman here to be absurd. Every convened in extraordinary se3-Sion to deal-..vith the tariff question; intelligent man knows that you might just as well t ake this bill all of which j'ustifies me in saying that those in authority are not as it is and foroe it through the House right now, as you. propose always swift to enforce the decrees which the people render at to do later. The gentleman from Ohio [Mr. GROSVENOR] asked Presidential elections. the gentleman from Tennessee something about a'' fraud" that I desire to assure the gentleman from Pennsylvania [:Mr. D.AL­ had been perpetrated upon the laboring people of this country. ZELL} that there is no dispo.:;ition on this side of the House to un­ That question reminds me of a proceeding that took place in an duly protract the debate upon this bill. If we could h ope ulti­ extra session of a former Congress, when the gentleman from mately to defeat it, we would feel required by a sense of duty to Ohio and almost a solid phalanx on his side of the House joined employ all honorablG means to do so; but knowing that w e can with a fewmemberson thissidetocurtail the circulating medium not pre-.ent its passage, we believe that it will be better for the of this country, and by that act brought calamity upon the peo­ country and, in the end, it will be better for our party, that it shall ple, threw labor out of employment, and ruined the industries of pass without um·easonable delay. [Applause on the R epublican this country. [Applause.] Yet here you are to-day, gentlemen, side.] If it can produeethe good results which its authors pr oph­ proposing to perpetrate another fraud and to bring another ca­ esy it will, then the people ought to have the benefit of it as lamity upon the country, by saddling untold taxes on the shoulders speedily as p ossible: and if it can not produce those results, then of labor without providing the money with which to pay those the sooner it is tried and found wanting the sooner it will be re­ taxes. [Applause on the Democratic side.] pealed and the sooner the people will be relieved of its unjnst What labor demands is money with which to pay present taxa­ exactions. I warn you now that if this bill fails-as fail ib '..-rill­ tion-not that it be loaded with other taxes while deprived of a to bring the prosperity which the Republicans have promisau you proper medium of exchange. But gentlemen on the other side in will not live long enough to obtain a patient audience with the the last campaign contracted debts to monopolists, to trusts, and American people upon the absurd proposition that you ca.n make to combines, who poured millions into their coffers as a con·up­ them prosperous by increasing their taxes. [Applause on tho tion fund. · Labor was intimidated and outraged to a degree never Democratic side.] seen before in the history of this country, and now these gentle­ Looking at the question pur-ely as one of partisan advantage, I men are here in hot and eager haste to pay back the millions that have eve1·y confidence that the Democrat~c party v.>ill _profit by 76 OONGRESSION.l\.L .RECORD-HOUSE. MARCH 19,

the bill which you have determined to pass; because I am confi­ terests, in response to the general desire of the people of this dent that its enactment will not bring the relief which you have country, requires us to act, and to act without delay. [Applause promised to the people. It has not been forgotten that during the on the Republican side.] last campaign both sides asserted that a widespread distress pre­ Now, Mr. Speaker, there has been brought into this Hou e a biU vailed throughout the country. You attributed it to the tariff for the purpose of increasing the revenues, and for the purpose, m law of 1894, and declared that, given the power to replace that adjusting these duties, of assisting the stricken industries of th~ law :with one of your own devising, you would promptly remove country, in order that our people may have work, on whose occu­ all cause for complaint. We insisted that the distress was occa­ pation and whose demand for products the prosperity of the coun­ sioned by the continuous fall in the prices of pr6perty, which had try necessarily depends. The only question before the House is resulted from the constant appreciation in the value of money. whether we will delay, unnecessarily, in accomplishing the work This is neither the time nor the place to repeat the arguments of set for us, or proceed promptly in the public interest. [Applause that contest. It is sufficient here and now to know that a Repub­ on the Republican side.] lican President and a Republican majority in this House.. were The rule reported provides for five days of general debate and chosen, or at least the lawfully c.onstituted authorities declared four days for the consideration of the bill by pa.ragraphs. It is a that they were chosen; and we must assume that you persuaded shorter time, to be sure, than has been aUowed in some other the American people to believe that you could correct the ills, instances, but it should be remembered that there never was a many and great, under which they suffered. situation calling for such prompt action as exists to-day. Now, you must put your principles to a practical test. If you It has been suggested that the rule has been framed in an extraor­ were right, your task is an easy one; if you were wrong, it is an dinary way. Practically it is the same rule that was adopted by impossible one. As for my part, I was never more confident of gentlemen on the other side in 1894. . any event in the future than I am that your bill will disappoint Criticism has been also made that the Committee on \~r:1 ys and its promoters and the people. Our political opinions are all at Means bas the first right to offer amendments.· Every committee fault if you can make the people more prosperous by making their reporting a bill to the House, under its rules, has always had thai taxes higher-if you can make them more contented by privileg­ right, and this is no exception to it. The Committee 0 ::1 Ways ing incorporated greed to still further prey upon their wasted and Means in 1894 had precisely that right, and exercjsekins, Ma.ss. Belden, Evat'ts, Littauer, Sm1th,lll. have even the desert blossom like the rose if the country would Belford, Fenton, Lorimer, Sm.ith, S. W. follow these guides and prophets. The country is much wiser Belknap, Fischer, Loud, Snover, to-day than iii was four or five years ago, and the prophets on the Bennett, Fletcher, Loudenslager, Southard, Bingham, Foote, Lovering, Southwick, other side who promised so much in 1892 are at a discount. [Ap­ Bishop, Foss, Lybrand, Spalding, plause on the Republican side.] Booze, Fowler, N. J. .McCall, Sperry, Now, Mr. Speaker, the situation presented to us to-dayis what? Boutelle, Gardner, McCleary, Sprague, Broderick, Gibson, McDonald, Steele, Following the lead of my friends on the other side of the Bouse, Bromwell, Gillet, N. Y. McEwan, Stevens, MinJS. listening to their siren promises, and adopting their policy, for four Brosius, Gillett, Mass. Mcintire, Stewart, N.J. years the people of this country have found a constantly growing Brown, Graff, Mahon, Stewart, Wis. Brownlow, Griffin, Mann, Stone,C. W. deficiency in the revenues, which, since the 1st day of July, 1893, Bull, Grosvenor, Marsh, Stone, W. A. ha.s reached the enormous sum, closing this fiscal year, of upward Burton, Grout, Mercer, Strode, Nebr. of S200,000,000, or an average of about $50,000,000 per annum. Butler, Hager, Mesick, Stw·tevo.nt, Cannon, Hamilton, Miller, Sulloway, This sum has been borrowed for the use of the Treasury by the Ca:pron, Harmer, Mills, Tawney, sale of bonds in time of peace, and to-day the people of the coun­ Chickering, Hawley. Minor, Tayler, Ohio try are paying interest on the bonds that have been sold. Clark, Iowa Heatwole, Mitchell, Tongue, Clarke, N.H. H emenway, Moody, Updegraff, In this condition of our finances the President of the United Cochrane, N.Y. Henderson, Morris, Van Voorhil:l, States has convened Congress in extraordinary session·; and has Codding, Henry, Conn. Mudd, Wadsworth, called attention to the fact that we are constantly running behind Colson, Henry, Ind. Northway, Walker, Mass. Connell, Hepburn Otjen, Walker, Va. in the revenues; and has also pointed to the fact that the late Connolly, Hill ,. Overstreet, Wanger, Secretary of the Treasury has estimated that even for the next Cooke. Hit£, Packer, Pa. Warner, fiscal year, commencing on the 1st day of July next, under ex­ Cooper, Wis. Hopldns, Payne, Weaver, isting conditions this deficiency will continue at the rate of Corliss, Howard, Ala. Pearce, Mo. Weymouth, Cousins, Howe. Pearson, White,m. $45,000,000 a year. In this exigency Congress has been convened; Crumpacker, Howell, Perkins, Wbite,N. C. and we are here to-day to meet the humiliating position in which Curtis, Iowa Hull, Pitney, William~,.Pa. the National Treasury has been placed. A bill has been framed to Curtis, Kans. Hurley, Powers, Wilson, l.'l. Y. Dalzell. Jenkins, Prince, Wright, increase the revE:'nues of the country so as to meet our expendi­ Danford., Johnson, Ind. Pugh, Yost. tures; and in the exoectation of the passage of that bill gentle­ NAYS-132. men, whether for speculative purposes or otherwise, are proceeding Adamson, Botkin, Clayton, Elliott, to import large quantities of wool, on which a duty is to be placed, Allen, Bradley, Cochran, Mo. Ermentrout, and other articles now on the free list, or at a low rate of duty, on Bailey, Brantley, Cooney, Fitzpatrick, Baird, Brewer, Cooper, Tex. Fleming which a duty is to be placed by the passage of this bill, or on wqich Baker, ill. Broussard, Cox, Fowler, N. 0. duties are to be raised. In this exigency, running behind in our Ball, Brucker, Cranford, Fox, revenues to the extent of $50,000,000 annually, with anticipatory Bankhead, Brundidge, Cummings, Gaines, Barlow, Burke, Davey, Greene, importations that will deprive the Treasury and the eountry of Bartlett, Campbell, Davis, Griggs, one or pe:t.haps two millions of dollars a week in revenue, and turn Bell, Carmack, De Armond, Gunn, that sum into the hands of private individuals, we are called upon Benton. Castle, De Graffenreid, Handy, Berry, Catchings, DeVl'ies, Hay, to act and to act promptly. It seems to me, sir, that every consid­ Bland, Clardy, · Dinsmore, Henry, Mi&s. eration of duty, every consideration of regard for the public in- Bodine, Clark, Mo. Dockery, Henr;, Tex. 1897. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 77

Hinrichsen, McCormick, Plowman, Stokes, sidered under the rules governing general debate during the said day for not Holman, McCulloch, Rhea, Strait, exceeding forty minutes; that at the conclusion of such general debate the Howard, Ga. McDowell, Richardson, Strowd, N. 0. bill shall be read in extenso; that the previous question shall then bo consid­ Hunter, McLaurin, Ridgely, Sullivan, ered as ordered on the bill to its final passage; and that this order sha.ll con­ Jett, McMillin, Robb, Sutherland, tinue from day to day until all of the bills herein mentioned are disposed of." Jones, Wash. McRae, Robertson'l.La. Swanson, Kelley, Maddox, Robinson, md. Talbert, Mr. HENDERSON. Mr. Speaker, I ask for the previous ques- . Kitchin, Maguire, Sayers, Tate, tion. Knowles, Marshall, Settle, Taylor, Ala. Lamb, Maxwell, Shuford, Terry, Mr. HOLMAN. Mr. Speaker-­ Lanham, Meekison, Simpson, Kans. Todd, Mr. BAILEY. Mr. Speaker-- Latimer, Meyer~La. Sims, Underwood, Mr. McMILLIN. I will ask the gentleman if he will consent to Lentz, Miers, md. Skinner, Vandiver, the same order made a few minutes ago, that there may be thirty Lester, Moon, Slayden, Vehslage, Lewis, Ga. Ogden, Smith, Ky. Vincent, minutes on a side instead of twenty minutes? This involves four Little, o ,borne, Sparkman, Wheeler, Ala. large bills, and in view of the magnitude of the matters involved, Livingston. Otey, Stallings. Wheeler, Ky. we should like to have ten minutes' additional time on this side. Love, Peters, Stark, Williams, Miss. McClellan, Pierce, Tenn. Stephens, Tex. Zenor. Mr. HENDERSON. Mr. Speaker, after the previous question is ordered, I will submit that request. NOT VOTING-41. Mr. McMILLIN. That is satisfactory. Acheson, Fitzgerald, Mahany, Sherman, Babcock, Grow, l'liartin, Smith, Wm. Alden Mr. HOLMAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise to a question of order. Is Barrett, Hartman, Milliken Sulzer, not this proposition subject to division? Benner, Pa. Hicks, Newlands, Ward, The SPEAKER. That will have to be decided before we come Brenner, Ohio Hilborn, Norton, Wilber, Brewster, Hooker Odell, Wil"on, s. o. to a vote. The question is on ordering the previous question. Brumm, Jones, Va. Olmsted Young, Pa. The question being taken, on a division (demanded by Mr. Cowherd, Rleberg,_ Parker, N.J. Young, Va.. HoLMAN) there were-ayes 107, noes 95. Crump, Lewis, Wash. RU:ey, Epes, Low, Robbins, Accordingly the previous question was ordered. Faris, McAleer, Shafroth, Mr. McMILLIN. Mr. Speaker-- Mr. HOLMAN. Now, Mr. Speaker, as to the debate, I hope So the resolution was agreed to. that will be settled. The Clerk announced the following pairs: Mr. HENDERSON. I can not understand what the gentleman Until further notice: from Indiana [Mr. HOLMAN] says. As I said a minute ago, at Mr. HOOKER with Mr. BRADLEY. the request of the gentleman from Texas [Mr. BAILEY] and of For this day: the gentleman from Tennessee [Mr. McMILLIN], I now ask unani­ Mr. WILBER with Mr. YoUNG of Virginia. mous consent that ten minutes' additional time be given on each Mr. HICKS with Mr. FITZGERALD. side for the discussion of this rule. · Mr. Low with Mr. JoNES of Virginia. Mr. CANNON. Mr. Speaker, just a word. I shall not object, Mr. MILLIKEN with Mr. McALEER. but perhaps gentlemen will not insist on it when they notice Mr. ACHESON with Mr. NORTON. that this order is a continuing one, and we have already adopted Mr. SHERMAN with Mr. COWHERD. an order that commences on Monday next. Now, to execute this Mr. BABCOCK with Mr, BRENNER of Ohio. order will take to-day and to-morrow, and possibly a night session Mr. BREWSTER with Mr. RIXEY. to-njght. An extension of the time on this rule will take twenty Mr. BRUMM with Mr. EPES. minutes which would otherwise be occupied in the consideration Mr. CRUMP with Mr. BENNER of Pennsylvania. of these bills; but I shall not object, if gentlemen on the other side Mr. DOCKERY. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that desire it. my colleague, Mr. CowHERD, be excused on account of illness. Mr. McMILLIN. I think, in view of the magnitude of the mat­ There was no objection. ters involved and the method by which we are proceeding, this is The result of the vote was then announctd as above recorded. a proper concession of time. ' MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE. Mr. HENDERSON. Mr. Speaker, I see some indications of A message from the Senate, by Mr. PLATT, one of its clerks, an­ fighting in a dilatory way. If I believed that was going to govern nounced that the Senate had passed bill and joint resolution of the majority on the other side of the House, I should not submit the following titles; in which the concurrence of the House was this request. I was assured by the gentleman from Texas [Mr. requested: BAILEY] that that was not their purpose; but the gentleman A bill (S. 439) granting a pension to Mrs. Hannah Letcher from Ind~ana [Mr. HoLMAN], of course, had. his right .to do as .he Stevenson, widow of the late Brig. Gen. John D. Stevenson; and has done m this matter. Therefore, to act m perfect good faith Joint resolution (S. R. 7) regulating the distribution of public in the matter, I make my request. · documents. Mr. McMILLIN. I was the man who made the request. I did The message also announced that the Senate had passed with­ not do it after consultation with anybody. I do not propose to out amendment the following resolution: indicate to anybody what his course should be. Every man can ResolV

1- Mr. SAYERS. Mr.- ~eaker, if the gentleman will permit plained that. The idea undedying the [pTe ent proposition ~is rthat ~~-- the crystaJ:lized action of the last House ouwht to be a safe ·gujde r Mr. HENDERSON. I want ' fi.Tstto~make a -correction. Is"hou1d for ns in ·dealmg with these bills under existing conditions. No ~ve said.the "AgricultnraJ:b.nl," andnott'he "generaJdefioiency:" appropr.iation bill that is entirely acceptable to all the membecra Mr. SAYERS. That is the point to which I desirea to call your ever passes this House.or Tboth Houses of Cong1·ess. If we ;were ~Jtttention. to reconsider ifuese bills in detail, we might perhaps make ome :Mr. HENDERSON. The general deficiency bill :passed this changes, but if that were to 'berdone, the Committee on .A,ppropl'i­ pouse, was. amended in the Sen~te, and failed while in confe~- ations would have to be !fm:med, and it "Won;ld take weeks and

1ence, and d1d not go to the White House. The tplii'puse of rthiS possibly months to ,dispose of tthese approp1-ia'tian bills. We are ·rule is tnis: To first consider :the sundry civil ·bill, with forty called he:re in extraord~y session to ru:otide revenue for the 'II11nrrtes' debate, and vote 'Upon it; then to ia'ke ·up the general Government, and the th<:rught of those on the Republican side in 'deficiency bHl, devote forty minutes to general debate, and vote charge of the appropria.illon bills is to pass ifuem on as rapiilly as n,pon it. The same with the Ag:ricriltural 'bill, and the .same with possfble to the White Rouse ..and clear this body of all .baslne s 'the Indian bill. The three bil'ls -tb.at went 'to the White House but ·the .great work of the session-the work of pTOviding revenues and had the stamp of both Houses and the conference fust npon to carry on thi£ GoYeTnment. them have been introduced exactly as ·they went>to·-the President, Mr. CORLISS. May I ask lthe gen-tleman whether the general and are so embraced in the rnJ.e under discussion. The genflral deficiency bill is included in this resolution? ·deficiency bill1s in exact1y the oondition it was when it lafit the Mr. HENDERSON. Yes, sir. House, stripped of all the amendments of the Senate. The·propo- Mr. CORLTSS. Is it not true that the general defiaien~y 'bill sition is to pass these fom· bills through the House in the con- was not agreed upon by the two Houses? dition ihai 1 •have just ex:Plaine€1.. Mr. HENDERSON. The gentleman evidently was not present 1\ir. SAYERS. Will the gentleman ·a11ow me to make one re- when I discus ~e d that. mark with refet:encetothe generalaeficiencybill? l ·donotnnder- Mr. 'CORLISS. I was not. stand that the genera'l deficiency bill whic:h:has been introduced in Mr. HENDERSON. Thatis'Uilfortunate, because we are pre sed this House is the same as the last bill, ·stripped of the Senate for time, and I can not go into that question again. 'l'he general amendmen'ts. On the contrary, it includes such of the Senate deficiency bill is the bill as it passed the Honse 'With the Senate amendments as were agreed U..POn in conference. amendments added which w.e.Te agreed. upon in rthe conference, Mr. HENDERSON. · Th~t may he true. I w.ill ·ask the gentle- the bill being sh·ipped of all those amendments Wlhicb had not •ma;n from IDinois. been agreed to by the conference committee w.hen the .hour of 12 Mr. CANNON. That is cor-rect. it includes the items agreed o'clock on March 4 arrived. . to in confer-ence, and that conference re.por.ted as to the 'agree- Mr. CORLISS. Isit no.ttrue that certain war clanns•oontaJ.ned ments, and excludes the items that were disagreed to. in this bill were repudiated by the Houser Mr. HENDERSON. I am verF.glad toh~e had my attention Mr. HENDERSON. I donotknow runy:thin:g.aboutfue details 'CaTied to thalt ·correction. of the bill. I am not a member .of the Com-mittee on .A..ppropria- 1\lr. SAYERS. And further than that, it not on1.y excludes the tions. ~terns disagreed to, but it ta'kes out ,of the 'bill fue app1·opria-tion of If the gentleman is specially interested in .any matter in lthe bjll, .$1,300,000 for the paymeut·of the Southern Pacific Company. he probably knows all -a:beut it. Mr. CANNON. That was disagreed to. Mr. CORLISS. I am asking the gentleman for info:rnn.:'tticm . .1\fr. SAYERS. The ~amendment of the Senate was disag:reed to. Mr. HENDERSON. Well, I have told you ..all I know. 1 am Mr. CANNON. It is out.ofthe bill. not familiar with the (letails of the bill. Mr. RICHA"'RDSON. Will the gentleman yield to me for a M.r.DORLISS. isitnottruetl!l.ati.m this !billaxe ·Clahns anwnnt- moment? I want to ask the gentleman from illinois if the amend- ing to 00;000 that weTe rejeeted by a "Vote of tlris House and that ment which provided for the payment of the Bowman Act claims, ha•e never been considered by the Hou e since that -vote was which was put upon tbe deficienc;v m1l in 'the Senate, had been taken? acted 'upon by the conference committee before the adjou:rmment Mr. HENDERSON. There is nothing m thls bill but what of the iast session? was agreed upon in conference. Mr. CANNDN. Tt was dis~ooreed to. Mr. CORLISS. Bnt was tbat conference report nncepted by Mr. RICHARDSON. That is not in rfuis bill? the House? Mr. CANNON. That is not in this bill. 1\Ir. HENDERSON. 1\fr. Spea'ker, i can not take up further 'Mr. HENDERSON. l claim the floor. I can not yield unless time in this discussion. I now r eserve the r emainder of my time it is for an e:x:pla,nation of the rule. I am ex:plaining the conditian until we hear from gentlemen on the other side ·of the Honse. 'of those fourbiTis. I want to ·call :attention to the general defi- M·r. HOLMAN. MT. Spealrer., I suppose it is understood that ciency bill. the gentleman from Tennessee [Mr. M cl\ITLLIN] controls the time l\ir. HOLMAN. Will the gent3.eman yield for a single question? on this side. :noes the xule provide for any opportunity-to amend eitheT bill? Mr. SAYERS. Mr . .Speaker, I did not understand wbat the MT. HENDERSON. i do not hem· the gentleman's question. gentleman from Indiana said. Mr. HOLMAN. Does this rule furnish an oppo1'tnnityto move Mr. HOLMAN. I made the suggestion that the gentleman .an amendment to either 'Of these four ·bills? from Tennessee .[M.r. Ma.MILLIN] ·should control the time on this Mr. HENDERSON. Tt does not provide for ·an. amendment. side of the House unless the gentleman from Texas has some ':Now, the theory on which this rule is based is this.: It.ca;me fu·om desire in the matter. 'theCommitteeonAppropria.tionstotheDommitteeonRulesand Mr. SAYERS. Well, I do not think that is exactly right. represents tbe views of the majority of that eommitte.e.. There .are some of ns that know something a.bourt these bills, Mr. SAYER-8. I will state to my friend that no one passed on and-- tf;his matterexeept the genilleman from illinois. There isnoCom- Mr. 1\IcMILLIN. Mr. Spea'ker, so far as the kind .remaxk of "lllittee on .Appnop:riations in th1s Honse. my friend from Texas is concerned, being a member ,of the Com- Yr. HENDERSON4 I am s;pealcing, and the .gentleman knows mittee on Rules reporting the rule, I i:Jatand to have something to it-and I do not want a trifling interruption, even from my friend say in this matter, whethro: I 1m. ow anythin;g about it or n@t. jrom Texas.-but 1 am speaking of this: He helped to f:rame this Mr. SAYERS. My remark Glid not .referrtothe gentl-eman from bill. He was on tbe last Committee on Appropriations. Now, Tennessee .at all. the purpose is to dispose of these bills during to-day and to-mor- Mr. 1\IcMILLIN. M.r. Speaker, I .am glad the .gentleman from row, so that we may pass them in ihe manner and in the -condi- Texas did not l'efer to me. tion lin which the House had impressed itself on the general deft- Mr. 'SAYERS. So faT as rtibe gentleman from 'Tennessee lis con- ciency bill, and the conferenue ·committee of both Houses on the ce:rned, he ea:n take a1l the time :if he demes. other thi'ee bills, a-nd get them through the House this week and J\fu·. Mc:M:IULIN. l ·do n ot .seek to pre~ent the gentleman from out. of the way before Monday comes, with the rnle to take u,p the T.exas from having a chance to be heard on this rule. 1 •ta-riff. Mr~ Speaker, J: !hope thi'3 is not to come rout of my time of this Mr. !LACEY. 1\Iayi ask the gentleman a question? si-cle. Mr. HENDERSON. Ina moment. Letmecompletemystate- Mr. WllLLIAJ\.1 A . STONE . .Just ke.e]l) on~ gent3.emen. We ment. Then the appropriation bil1s will be in the hands of the Will give you all the time you want. ,[Laught er_j Senate, so that that body, if so ·disposed-and speaklng only for The SPEAKER. Tha gentJ.eman from Tennessee isxecognized. ·myself, 1 believe it is so dis;posed-c.an pass them, and they.can be ~ir. Mc::MJLLTN. [ sitnply WaBt to tkn0w whether, .as a mem- ·sent to the P:resident by the time the tariff rule shall have oper- ber of ;t;he co1111llittee l'epr_:rtiug iftris resolution, J am t 0 control the ated in the House, so that the tariff bill can be sent to the Senate time.cm this side., OT whe.tb_r my friend from Texas is to -control .and reeeive prompt consideration there. it. If he is entitled to it, :r sha1l not complain. Now, one word in regard to the policy of trea.t:ing these bills in Mr. SA'\TEES. I hav-e not sough_t to .controi the 'time. ltiy re­ 'this wa_y. They are the appropriation bills of the lao.1i Dongress . . ma.T\k: w.as simp:J.y made in ;pesponse to .a rema;r'k, to :a sugges.tiou, fGentlemen ·aill know how they failed. I have ah·eady briefly ·e.x:- made by ltib.e ,gBntleman if:rom [ndiana. 1897, OONGR-:ESSION AL REOORD-HOUSE. '79 .

Jtir. McMILLIN. I cheerfully accept the .gentleman's state­ tion, I prefer to speak-when one of these appropi"iation bills is ment. under consideration. I believe that then there will be twenty The SPEAKER. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from minutes' debate on each side. Tennessee [Mr. MdMILLIN], as he is a member of the Committee Mr. McMILLIN. The gentleman from Indiana [Mr . .HOLl\lAN] onRules. . has indicated a purpose to speak, and also the gentleman from Mr. Mc:M.ILLIN. _Mr. Speaker, we haveamm:eimportantmat­ Missouri [Mr. DE .Arol:OND]; but neither of these gentlemen, I ter before the House than any man's controversy. There never belie-ve, desires more than four or five minutes. was any such -proceeding proposed in this House m a wholesale Mr. SAYERS. Very well. way as i.s proposed now. Mr. McMILLIN. I yield five minutes to the gentleman from Mr. Speaker, yon (if I may speak personally) changed the rules Indiana fM.r. HoLMAN]. of this House for the purpose, as was claimed, of enabling the Mr. HOLMAN. Mr. Speaker, I wish gentlemen -to nuder­ House "to do business." Now it is proposed by this special rule stand that there was no occasion for any ill blood growing out of to set aside all the rules of -the Honse in order to have the House the fact that I suggested that the gentleman from Tennessee "do business." It is unfortunate if, after -so long and fierce a con­ [Mr. .McMILLL~] control the time of this side of the House. I did troversy, your contention has wholly failed of itB purpose.. What so fm· the reason that he had first obtained theJloor when this reso­ is·the proposition here? A new Congress has met. Fon~ rmpor­ lution was offered in the House, and, as I thought, was entitled to tant appro-priation bills failed in the last Congress. They mvolved that courtesy. an expenditure of -$72,000,000. There are 148 members of Congress Mr. Speaker, this is the most extraordinat·y measure that has in this body who were not in the last Congress, and who had ever been before the House. The first rule adopted by the House nothing to do with the consideration of those bills in that Con­ of Representatives at the opening of the First Cong1·ess-it may gress. It-is now proposed that those 148 members tie themselves, have been the Second, but I think it was the First-the very first shut their eyes, and, like young birds, take whatever is adminis- rule adopted by the House of Representatives of the United States tered to them, whether it is good or not. . (if I am correct in my recollection) was that every bill making a Under the general rules of debate these bills are to be consid­ charge upon th~ people should have its first consideration in ered. And what are the general rules of debate? One is that the Committee of the Whole. And Mr. Jefferson gives as a reason first man who gets the floor can occupy it for an hour. Thel'e­ for this that there might be ample and complete debate upon any fore the gentleman from Illinois.[Mr. CA.NNON], 1·isingto one bill measure imposing a charge upon the people, with free right of or to all four bills, will have it in his power to occupy the whole amendment. Yet in the opening years of the second century of time in debate, never yielding the floor to anyone else; and our Government-in spite of the fact that the men who framed whether he yields it or not, the House will have already cut off our Government were so anxious to preserve the rights of the from itself the right. to deliberately consider the measures. people-four great appropi"iation bills are brought in hare and .Mr. Speaker, the rules of the House provide for the appointment the proposition is made to pass them without submitting the pro­ of committees. Wl1y? In order that those committees may care­ visions of those bills to the judgment of 14.3 membeTs of this floor fully consider the weighty measures that come before the House, who have never read those provisions; for I think I can safely say -and make recommendations to Congress. Then a still further that those 143 gentlemen now here, who were not members of the bulwark was erected bywhich, when money bills came before the last House, have had no opportunity since they came here to House, the-whole House was resolved into a great and important examine these mea-sures. committee called the Committee of the Whole, to consider them These bill contain very extraordinary provisions. I venture to .section by section, with ample right to amend, with ample right say that u1.ui1 the whole they are the most extravagant bills that to debate. All that is cut off. Your first committee is dispensed ever passed any House of Rep1·esentatives, except one. And yet with: the first conrmittee's consideration of the mea-sure is dis­ yon are called upon to rush through the House vil'tuaJly without pensed with; the Committee of the Whole is dispensed with; and debate or right of amendment four bills involving an expenditure you are asked to abandon your right to amend and to discuss ad of 672,166,889.21. Yes, sir, the House is called upon to appropriate libitum. The right to consider these bills by sections is hurled to this vast -sum of money without consideTation and without dis­ the winds. No xight is reserved in the hands of any member of cussion in the face of the fact that we have ample time at our this Honse. Who knows what they contain? 1f meritorious, in­ disposal. But, Mr. Speaker, only one hundred and sixty minutes vestigation will only strengthen them. can possibly be employed undel' this rule either in suppo-rt ur l\Ir. Speaker, you have an important trust committed to your criticism of these bills. There is no opportunity offered for debate; keeping-that of retaining in the body of this Honse the ~reat no opportunity offered to amend. What madness, what folly, it power of the people. But that power is to be abandoned. ll this is to talk of debating either of these bills in forty minutes, and can be done-if, under the rule we adopted this morning, one hun­ without an oppo-rtunity to amend them. dred and twelve millions of taxes can beraised in nine days, and Why, Mr. Speaker, whither are we drifting? What has become seventy-two millions of money spent inless than nine hours-with of the traditions of our Government? Beginning with protesta­ no chance to amend, with no opportunity to debate, with the tions of the utmost anxiety for the safety and the welfare of the members of this House, the representatives of a great people, people, to protect them from improper burdens, here is a proposi­ abandoning their rights, what is the refuge of the common people? tion to take more than $72,000,000from their hard-earned earnings Esau is said to have sold his birthright and heritage for a mess of without care or consideration, 148 members of this House never pottage; but I . suggest to the members who may be willing to having even seen the bills-I think I am safe in making thatasser­ abandon their rights as Representatives in this way that they get tion-148 members of this body, nearly a quorum, never having not even a mess of pottage, and have not the poor, pitiful plea of examined any of tb ese bills that it is proposed to pass now without hunger to justify them in that abandonment. We pmtest against debate and without opportunity of amendment! it. '.rhis is not the right way to legislate. If anything could jus­ Mr. LANHAM. Let me ask the gentleman from Indiana if it tify the delay and deliberateness of the Senate, it would be just is not a fact that many of these items encountered serious opposi­ such hasty,inconsiderate, unparliamentary~ and impropermethod tion in the House? of legislation as is proposed .hro·e. Mr. HOLMAN. W.hy, of course; and one of these bills was .Mr. Speaker, there is ample time before us. You have already pending in conf&ence when Congress adjourned. It has never adopted a rule to force the tariff bill through the House the 31st finally passed the House at all. of thls month. While it is being considered in the Senate com­ Mr. Speaker, it is interesting to see our Republican friends in­ mittee we can send these bills to the Senate in the ordinary and dorsing this policy in the face of the a-ssertions they have been orderly way, and avoid just criticism. making to this cotmtry for the past few years-assurances of J:s it possible you are afraid of the House, afraid of yourselves, economy. What is the need far all of this haste? There is but afraid to trust the representatives of the people? Let u.s not one bill in this number that requires the slightest haste, and that abandon the prerogatives and customs of the House. is the general deficiency bill. The appropTiations embraced in the Mr. HOLMAN. To whom does the gentleman yield? other three bills are not required until the 1st day of next July. Mr. McMILLIN. To any gentleman who may wish to occupy There is ample time for their consideration. There is no occasion five minutes of the time remaining. for this hot haste. Where is your economy in public expendi­ .MT. HOLMAN. Mr. Speaker:-- tures? Where are the promises you have made to the people of Mr. 1\icM.ILLIN. If the gentleman from Indiana will suspend, retrenchment? I will yield to the gentleman from Texas [Mr. SaYERS] whatever Is it possible, in -the face of your pl'Omi-ses, that the Republican time he desires, if he desires any. side of this House intends to say to the country, "We deliber­ Mr. SAYERS. How much time can the gentleman yield? ately take up and pass, within a period of less than six houn1, four The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Tennessee ha-s twenty­ great appropriation bills which have never even been ovened by four minutes remaining. 148 members-nearly a quorum of the House-and involving over Ml.·. McMILLIN. How much time does the gentleman from $72,000,000 of expenditures?" Texas want? I repeat, where are their promises of economy? Where is your Mr. SAYERS. Iwillsaytothe gentleman from Tennessee that Jlrecedent even for this? There was, of course, fearful temptation if there are other .gentlemen who desire to speak on this resolu- at one period in our country's history. When the pillars of o-ur 80 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. MARcH 19,

great Republic were tottering to their fall, and our people, with and it went to the President for his signature. Now, that is the unexampled enthusiasm, were rushing forward to hold up the fact with reference to three of the bills. The general deficiency tottering fabric, a body of most patriotic and intelligent men- bill was considered in the Fifty-fourth Congress, passed th9 House and I speak no word of disparagement of their successors-one of and went to the Senate. A large number of amendments were the most patriotic and intelligent bodies of men that ever con- attached to the bill by the Senate. A committee of conference vened in this Hall, members during the whole period from July 4, was appointed by the Speaker, and that committee of conference 1861, until virtually the close of the war, when the public safety considered all of these matters. It agreed to some amendments often commanded extreme haste-no proposition was brought for- and disagreed to others. It brought in a report to this House, and ward in the most perilous hour so arbitrary as this; never was that report was adopted. Every amendment that the Honse con­ there any intimation of such a measure of arbitrary haste as this ferees agreed to was voted upon and adopted by the House, with­ proposed measure; no bill was passed during that war period out division, in the Fifty-fourth Congress. Every amendment without· due and ample consideration. And now, at a time of tacked on by the Senate and disagreed to by the committee of con­ profound peace, when ther~ is no haste, you are called upon, ference was disagreed to by the House. Democrats and Republicans alike, to give your sanction to this Now, the general deficiency bill which comes here for this Con­ extraordinary course of proceeding. Is this force measure an act gress to act upon is precisely the deficiency bill as it finally passed of legislation? the House without division or question. Now, where is the hard- But gentlemen say that this Congress was convened in extraor- ship, I submit? Why should we not pass these appropriation bills dinary session for a special purpose; that it was called for a special just as they passed the Fifty-fourth Congress, three of them aim­ object-to revise the tariff. It stands on the same footing as an ply failing to become laws because they were not signed by the extraordinary session called by the predecessor of the present occu- President? pant of the Presidential chair, when he promised the people a com- Mr. PEARSON. Will the gentleman allow me? Will we not plete remedy for all public evils then existing. I read with have abundant time after the 1st of April in which to consider anxiety the President's message. these bills? The SPEAKER. The time of the gentleman from Indiana has .M:r. NORTHWAY. I can not enter upon a discussion in five expired. minutes. I want to say to the new members here that it does not Mt·. HOLMAN. I would be very glad to have a minute longer. take from you any prerogative, because if these bills had become Mr. McMILLIN. I will yield a half minute to my friend. laws in the last Congress you wvuld have had nothing to do with 1\ir. HOLMAN. I say, Mr. Speaker, I have read the message of them. They have been considered by the Fifty-fourth Congress. the President, showing as it does the extraordinary growth in Now, why should we take weeks and months of time for the con­ public expenditures compared with the decline in the public rev- sideration of these bills, when there is not a new estimate to be enues of the Government, and regretted that it contained no submitted by any Department? There can be no new estimates urgent appeal to Congress in behalf of economy, some word until the regular session in December; and it is just a question urging attention to the fact of the extravagance of Congress, for whether these bills which failed by a technicality to become laws that extravagance has had a great deal to do with the fearful de- shall now become laws by the action of this Congress. It takes ficiency we are to meet. The thoughtful people are saying, gen- nothing from this Congress; it confers nothing upon the o1d. It is tlemen, that it is economy in Government expenditure, honesty in not a matter of disrespect to this Congress to pass these bills. It governmental appropriations, and not increased taxation that they is simply to hasten matters and to save time and to do precisely demand, and while the President of the United States points out what, if everything bad been properly done by the late President, the growth in the deficits of the Government, he does not urgently would have left nothing for this Congress to do. So, I submit, it suggest, as many of his illustrious predecessors have done, that seems to me, that it is not an improper thing, it is no hardship, it there is a loud demand on the part of the people for economy in is not a matter of disrespect to this Congress at all; but it is the public expenditures. simply doing that which, it seems to me, ought to be done. The SPEAKER. The time of the gentleman has expired. Mr. CANNON. Will the gentleman from Texas [Mr. SAYERS] Mr. McMILLIN. Will the gentleman from Illinois occupy a take his time now? portion of his time now? " 1t{r. SAYERS. I have not control of the time. Mr. CANNON. IyieldfiveminutestothegentlemanfromOhio The SPEAKER. Does the gentleman from Tennessee desire [Mr. NoRTHW.A.Y]. any more time? 'Mr. NORTHWAY. Mr. Speaker, I am very sorry that there Mr. DE ARMOND. Mr. Speaker- are not more members present to listen to the discussion of this T~ SPEAKER. The gentleman from Missouri. question. I apprehend that a cool and dispassionate consideration Mr. BAILEY. I know it was arranged that the gentleman from of the proposition will show nothing unnatural or improper in Missouri [Mr. DE ARMOND] should be recognized. The gentle­ what is sought to be done by this resolution. man from Tennessee [Mr. McMILLIN] does not happen to be here, Gentlemen on the other side object to the passage of appropria- and I ask the Chair to recognize the gentleman from :Missouri. tion bills in this way. If it were an original question to take up The SPEAKER. The Chair has recognized the gentleman from and pass these appropriation bills in the Congress where they MiSsouri [Mr. DE ARMOND.] should be considered, there would be objection. But we must Mr. BAILEY. · For five minutes. not forget that there are three bills, the sundry civil, the Indian, 1\Ir. DE ARMOND. Mr. Speaker, we are, very early in this and the Agricultural appropriation bills, which have been acted Congress, about to do, in a very short time, a great deal of very upon by a Congress here which had jurisdiction of them, and if important business. There has already been adopted a rule, they had been signed by the President this Congress would have under the operation of which the tariff bill will have passed this had no power. Why? Because the appropriations passed by that House by the last day of this month. Some time will probably inter­ Congress would have been the law, and we would have been com- vene between that date and the date of its passage by the Senate! pelled to yield to them. But we have a different condition here. There has been no indication or intimation so far as to the use The President failed to sign these bills. They come back, then, in to which the services of the members of this House shall be di­ their original shape. There is no new estimate of any of the rected during that time. As was pertinently asked by the gen­ Departments of the Government to be considered; there is no new tleman from North Carolina [Mr. PEARSON], and as was not proposition to be considered. That mere statement, that the3e answered by the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. NORTHWAY], through bills have passed one Congress where they originated, and which lack of time or a lack of material for an answer that would be Congress had the right to consider and pass them, having failed satisfactory, will there not be abundant time after the 1st of the President's signature and have come back, is of itself sufficient April, not for the hasty, pell-mell passage of these bills, but for to show that they need but little consideration at our hands. their due consideration, and for their orderly passage after con- There is no political question involved in these bills. It is said sideration? that this Congress ought not to submit to this, because it will take What is the spectacle which the majority of this House are away from you the prerogative that belongs to you. Had the invited to present to the country? Here are 344 pages of appro­ President performed his duty and signed the bills, this Congress priation bills, four of the thirteen great appropriation bills annu­ would not have considered three of them, at all events. So that ally passed, and the House is asked to dispose of them without the it is not a hardship to pass upon these bills, as the Fifty-fourth opportunity to change a line, without the possibility of doing any­ Congress passed them and sent them to the President.. Every item thing but to vote them up or down, blindly; and the gentleman had been considered by that Congress. All of the estimates-- from Ohio [Mr. NoRTHWAY] tells us that no hardship is involved 1\Ir. PEARSON. Will the gentleman allow me a question? in this procedure; that there is no disrespect to this House in the 1\Ir. NORTHWAY. Certainly. performance! It is matter of comparatively trifling concern, Mr. :Mr. PEARSON. Does the gentleman not remember that the Speaker, as to the disrespect to this House or as to the hardship sundry civil bill was not open to amendment? I upon this House. But there are to be passed, for the people of Mr. NORTH~YAY. I remember what the sundry civil bill was; this country to pay, larger appropriation bills than ever before, yes. I remember all about it; but nevertheless it passed. the without the slightest opportunity for their representatives upon House and went to the Senate, and there it was considered. It either side of the Chamber to consider them, without an oppor­ was sent to conference, and the conference report was adopted, 1 tunity to amend a solitary item in any one of them. 1897. CONGRESSIONAL -RECORD-HOUSE. 81

Mr. Speaker, there can be but one reason for this extraordinary are therefore interested in the expenditure of the public money. procedure. It is not want of time. Th~ one solitary reason is.that Our people wish us in this Congress to be economical. Our reve­ these bills are of such a character that, if they could be submitted nues do not justify extravagance. I sat near by and heard our in the ordinary, orderly, regular way to themembers of th:is House, new President deliver his inaugural address; I heard him com­ there is great fear on the part of those who have them m ch~rge mend economy, and I heard the roar of approval with which the that they would fail in their present form-would be reforme~ mto multitude greeted that utterance. Under present circumstances something less burdensome upon the country and less beneficial to how can we new members have the least knowledge of the wisdom, special interests regarded by them. of the justice, or of the economy of the provisions in these bills? In the closing days of the last Congress I had occasion to call But there is one thing that the new member does know. The the attention of the House to an item or two in the sundry civil new member knows that the Fifty-fourth Congress, which framed appropriation bill. I will again call the attention of the House to these bills that we are now called upon to vote for so hurriedly at least one item. This bill, containing 138 pages, carrying more and without the privilege of amendment, was, to say the least, than $53,000,000, was put through the last House under whip and generous, if not lavish, in its appropriations. We know at least spur, without opportunity to amend a ~~ne of it.. That ~as d

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one-quarter o.f a million dollars to each line. What is the pur­ House does not want to exclude those. They are in this bill in pose? I am told as a member of the minority, "You shall neither pursuance of law, passed a year ago, passed over the late President's have time nor opportunity to read and determine for yourself veto; and the great bulk of them are deserving items. Substan­ what purpose these $i3,000,000 are to be voted for." A neighbor tially, they are subject only to the criticism that the Treasury may near me says that we are to vote on the faith that the bill passed not be, and probably is not, in the condition now that it ought to the last House. For one, Mr. Speaker, as an humble member of be for so great an expenditure. But the expenditure is authorized the minority, entii·ely new here, with the suspicion of extrava­ by law, and it was to meet the law and the contracts that this gance that attaches to the sesE>'ion of Congress just closed, I can sundry civil appropriation bill was pa-ssed. not vote this money upon that faith. [Applause on the Democratic l\11". McMILLIN. Will the gentleman permit a question right side.] there? I believe that as a Representative of a Congressional district on Mr. CANNON. Yes, if it is brief. this floor, I have a right to cast my vote knowingly and on my con­ Mr. McMILLIN. It wHl be brjef and pertinent to the bill. science, and I will not give my vote to take $73,000,000 of the people's Did not the gentleman put through that bill in the clo3ing hours money on the dictation or the faith of some other gentleman or of the last session under a suspension of the rules and without tbe action of some other session of Congress. Therefore, when, allowing members a right to amend, on the ground that there was with full time at our disposal for the consideration of these meas­ no time then for the deliberate consideration of the bill? ures, we are asked to cut off debate and say that there shall be ltlr. CANNON. Two weekS before the last session closed-it less than three hom·s allowed for the consideration and voting has been done many times before at short sessions of Congress­ away of $73,000,000, I suspect there is some reason for this extraor­ this bill was pas ed by the House under a suspension of the rules. dinary haste. I shall be compelled, when voting upon the bill Two-thirds of the House passed it against the "kick" of the gen­ under a restriction of that kind, to vote against it, not knowing its tleman from Tennessee, as I believe a majority of this House will contents. f Applause.] adopt this order against his "kick." - Mr.l\1cM1LLIN. I yield the remainder of my time to the gen­ Mr. McMILLIN. One other question. tleman from Tennessee [Mr. Cox]. Mr. CANNON. I prefer not to yield. The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Tennessee [Mr. Mcl\f.rL.. Mr. McMILLIN. I ask the gentleman to yield on just one point LINl has two minutes remaining. - upon which, as I think, he has misled the House. Mr. COX. 1\!1". Speaker, I rise for the purpose of saying only a Mr. CANNON . Very well; ask the question quickly. word. I think that this incoming Congress is possessed of the Mr. McMILLIN. I will do so. The o-entleman has said that same rights as the Fifty-fourth Congress had; that we have a the appropriations in this sundry civil bill are to fulfill provisions right as members of this Congress to examine these bills and of existing law. Is there any existing law to authorize the con­ scrutinize the appropriations which they contain. The members struction of a soldiers' home at the gentleman's own town? of this Congress are entitled now to exercise the same rightwhich Mr. CANNON. Yes; there is existing law that authorizes the we exercised as members of the last Congress. If this proceeding care of disabled Union soldiers. [L aughter.l There is a report is to go on-if the Fifty-fourth Congress is to dictate the policy from the Board of Managers of the National Soldiers' Home that of the Fifty-fifth-it seems to me it would have been better that more qunrte1~s of this character ought to be provided. the Fifty-fifth Congress had not been called together and that the l\1r. McMILLIN rose. _ Fifty-fourth should have continued indefinitely to run the busi­ Mr. CANNON. I do not yield. ness of the Government. There is a report from the Committee on 1\Iilitary Affairs.of the Mr. CANNON. I yield three minutes to the gentleman from last Congress that this home ought to be built, anu ordered it built Pennsylvania [Mr. WILLIAM A. STONE]. at Danville. The late Congress so thought, and pa~ - ed the bill in :Mr. WILLIAM A. STONE. Mr. Speaker, the task imposed on that form. [Applause on the R epu blican side.] And I am going this House is simply to correct a mistake made by the late Presi­ to ask this one to pass it, the ~entleman from Tenne see and tbe dent, who failed to sign the sundry civil appropriation bill-a bill gentleman from Missouri ana. other "kickers" to the contrary which was carefully considered by both Houses; carefully con­ notwithstanding. [Laughter and applause on the Republican sidered in the first instance for more than three months by a sub­ side.] committee of the House; then considered for a long time by a Now, gentlemen, in conclusion, what have we before us? They committee of the Senate; then considered by the Senate itself, and say this is an "extraordinary" propo ition. Well, this is an ex­ finally considered for a week by a conference committee, and which traordinary session of Congress. [Laughter.] The late Admin­ was then allowed by the late President to fail because he did not istration was an extraordinary Administration. (Laughter and choose to sign it. In proposing to pass this bill now, in the shape applause on the Republican side.] It found the country at the agreed on by the two Houses in the last Congress, we are not high flood of prosperity and left it in the deep rut of damnation. attempting a high-handed piece of extravagance, but are simply [Renewed laughter and applause on the Republican Ride.] The undertaking to cure a mista.ke made by a President representing people disti·usted you last fall, and in November said that you the gentlemen on the other side. should right about face. [Applause.] These bills would not be changed if they were considered for Now, Mr. Speaker, with a new President, with a new Adminis­ three months more. The very items of this sundry civil bill which tration-- have been so strongly objected to were passed over the President's Mr. 8:!\-IITH of Arizona (interrupting). And new methods. veto by a large majority (as they would be again), members upon [Laughter and applause on the Democratic side.] both sides of the House voting for them. Mr. CANNON. Yes; with new methods, and new men to en­ Now, Mr. Speaker, I want to caution this side of the House. force them, who have the courage of their convictions. [Applause The last vote showed 107 in the affu·mative and 95 in the nega­ on the Republican side.] What this country needs, and what it tive-a narrow majority of only 12. Members on this side of the is going to have, is action along the whole line laid down. The Honse should remain here, because by remaining here this after­ people of this country want it, and they want it now, and they noon they will save themselves the trouble of remaining here for want it badly. fApplause on the Republican side.] And thank the next three months in the consideration of these appropriation God, the Republican party always when clothed with power has bills. These bills do not properly belong to this House. They had the courage of its convictions, and it will not fail at this time. were the creatm·es of the last House, which spent full time upon We have already made the order for consideration of the reve­ their consideTation. We are now forced to do the unpleasant nue bill. Gentlemen on the other side objected, and they scolded. duty of patching up the failm·es of the last Administration. I "\\·ish I had my "chestnut bell" to ring on them on these occa­ Therefore, Mr. Speaker, I appeal to members on this side of the sions. [Laughter and applause.] But the great sin, to them, was House to remain in their seats and vote for these bills and dispose then committed. of them. The bills will come back later on from the conference Now, what is the position? With these bills, well considered, committees; this is not the la t opportunity we shall have to act good bills, and with the exception of the river and harbor items, upon them. There will be time enough to consider them-plenty as I have said, having the approval in the late session of that intel­ of time. ligent and able gentleman from Texas, Governor SAYERS, who Mr. CANNON. Mr. Speaker, a word in conclusion, and then I does know about the sundry civil bill [applause], we believe that shall be ready for a vote. As the gentleman from Pennsylvania it is the duty of the hour, that it is a duty incumbent upon us, [Mr. WILLIAM A. SToNEl well says, these bills were fully consid­ without delay to pass these bills in that same shape. [ Applause.l ered at the late session of Congress. And I want to say another Pass them new, pass them promptly, and I trust the Senate will thing. As the sundry civil bill has received criticism at the hands pass them without the dotting of an "i" or the cTossing of a "t," of the gentleman from Missouri [Mr. DE ARMONDl, who does not and send them down to a President who will have the courage know anything about the bill, and never will know anything either to veto them or sign them. (Applause on the Republican _about it [laughter], I want to say (measuring my words) that side.] that bill, if you exclude the river and harboT and the sugar­ But, Mr. Speaker, suppose our friends on the other side should bounty items, is the best, the most economical sundry civil bill take command. In the first place, there is not enough of them. that has passed in twenty years. [LaughteT.] The people did not appreciate their fitness. [Laugh· I said'' exclude the river and harbor items." A majority of this ter.] They did not send enough of you here. They sent you back 1897. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 83

in the minority, and you are not responsible for the present legis­ Dolliver; Howe, Moody, Sperry, Dorr, Howell, Morris, Sprague, lation~ They could not safely trust you. We have come now to Dovener, Hull, Mudd, Steele, make the laws and assume the responsibility for our action. But Eddy; Hurley; Northway; Stevens, Minn. suppose you had your way, what would happen? No Speaker of Ellis; Jenkins, Otjen, Stewart, N. J~ Evans, Johnson, Ind. Overstreet, Stewart, Wis. a House just beginning, a new House, could place the committees Fenton, Johnson, N.Dak. Packer, Pa. Stone, C. W. short of some three to four weeks, and do it intelligently. Fischer, .Toy, Payne, Stone, W. 1L Now, the Indian Committee makes up the Indian appropria­ Fletcher, Kerr, Pearce, Mo. Strode, Nebr. Foote, Ketcham. Perkins, Sturtevant, tion bill; the Agricultural Comm1ttee makes up the Agricultural Foss, Kirkpatrick, Pitney, Sulloway, bill; the Appropriations Committee the. sundry civil and deficiency Fowler, N.J. Knox, Powers, Tawney, bills. No man in less than a month can place the House intelli­ Gardner, Lacey, Prince, .Tayler, Ohio gently upon these important committees, and then if our friends Gib on. Landis, Pugh, Tongue, Gillet,N. Y. Littauer, Quigg, Updeg1·aff, on the other side had their way, day in and day out, month in Gillett, Mass. Lorimer, nay, Van Voorhis, and month out, we would go along, debating all of these items, Gra.fi', Loud, Ree,es, Wads worth, until finally, in sume manner or other, we would get the bill Griffin. Lovering, Robertson, La. Walker, Mass.. Grosvenor, Lybrand, Roy c. Walker, Va. through the Honse- and go to the Senate, where they would talk Grout, McCleary, Russell, Wanger, and talk; there would be- a disagreement between the two Houses Hager, McDonald, !iauerhering, Warner, on added amendment-s, and final conferences between the two Hamilton. Mcintire, Shannon, Weaver, Hawley, :n-Iahon, Shattuc, Weymonth, Houses; and, measm-ing my wm·ds-, Mr. Speaker, no one of these Heatwole, Mann, Shelden, White, Ill. bills would be any better than it is now, and with a, good, fair Hemenway, Marsh, Sherm~ White, N. C. chance for all of them being much worse. [Applause an the Henderso~ Mercer, Smith, .llL Wilber, Republican side.] Henry, Conn. Mesick, Smith, S. W. Williams, Pa. Henry. Ind. 1.Ie~er, La. Smith, Wm. Alden Wilson, N. Y. Now, I am responsible for my actions. I ap11eal to the country, Hilborn, Mille1r, snover, 'Vright, and will take the consequences. I am ready to help write the Hill, Mills, SOuthard, Yost. tariff bill upon our laws, and to help pass these appropriation Hitt MinOl- Sou.thwick, bills that the late President ought to have signed promptly, and Hopkins, Mitchell, StJalding, we will be away from here before the dog days come. [Applause.] NAYS-117. .Adamson, De Armond, Lester, Sayers, And if our Democratic friends and our Populist friends want to Allen, De Graffenreid, Lems, Ga. Settle, stay through the dog days, let them stay by themse1veB and love Bailey, De Vries, Linney, Shuford, each other. [Laughter and applause on the Republican bide.] Baird, Dinsmore, Little, Simpson, Kans. Ba.ker, IlL Dockery, Livingston, Sims, I ask a vote. Ball, Elliott, Love, Skinner The SPEAKER. The question is on the adoption of the resolu­ Bankhead, Ermentrout, McClellan, Slayden: tion. Barlow, Fitzpatrick, McCo:onick, Smith, Ky. Boll, Flellling,_ McCulloch, Stallings, The question was taken; and on a division (demanded by Mr. Benton, Fowler, N.C. McDowell, Stark, McMILLIN) there were-ayes 154, noes 116. Bland, Fox, McMillin, Stephens, TeL Mr.l\1o1.ITLLIN. Let us have the yeas and nays. Bodine, Gaines, McRae, Stokes, Mr. HENDERSON. 1\Ir. Speaker, let me suggest to my friend Botkin, Griggs,.. Maddox:, Strait. Brantrey, Gunn, ~agnire, Strowd, N. a. that we gave them additional time for discussion with the under­ Brewei; Handy; Marshall, Sullivan, standing that they would not delay the pa83age of these bills. B.rnokeJ.·, Hay, Maxwell, Sutherland, Mr. McMILLIN. On the contrary, I tell you now that ! ·made Brundidge, Henry, Miss. Meekison, Talbert, Burke, Henry. Tex~ Miers, Ind. Tate, no such promise. We asked additionru time to djscuss this rule. Campbell, Him·ichsen, Moon, Taylor, Ala. Mr. HENDERSON. We gave you additional time with the Carmack~ Holman, Ogden, Terry, understanding-- Clardy, Howard, Ala. Osborne, Todd, Ola.rk, Mo. Howard, Ga. Otey, u-nderwood, Mr. Mc:J\.ITLLIN. T deny any understanding. Clayton, Hnnt;er; Pearson. Vincent, Mr. HENDERSON. All right; we will know how to treat you Cochran, Mo. Kelley, Pierce, Tenn. Wheeler, Aia.. the next time. Cooney, Kitchin, Plowman, Wheeler, Ky. Cooper, Te:r. Knowles~ Rhea, Williams, Misa.­ Mr. McMILLIN. When we· are brought to face a matter of Cox, Lamb, Richardson, Zenor. public concern so important as this, we do not feel at liberty to Cranford, Lanham, Ridgely, make unwarranted concessions. ClliDlllings; Latimer, Robb, Mr. HENDERSON. All right, if the gentleman insists, let us Davis, Lentz, Robinson, Ind. have the yeas and nays. I demand the yeas and nays myself. NOT VOllNG--62. Acheson, Cowherd, Kulp, Peters, Mr. MoMILLIN. And you shall have the yeas and nays. Babcock, Dayton, Lewis, Wash. Rixey, The. yeas and nays were ordered. Baker, Md. Epe , Loudenslager, Robbins, Mr. BAILEY. Mr. Speaker- Barrett, Faris, Low, Shafroth, Bartlett, Fitzgerald, McAleer, Simpkins, Mass. The SPEAKER. For what purpose does the gentleman rise?~ Benner, Pa. Greene, :r.IcCall, Sparkman, Mr. BAILEY. Mr. Speaker, I simply desired the priVllege of Berry, Grow, McEwan, Sulzer, saying to my fiiend from Iowa that_ he misunderstands if he sup­ Bradley, HArmer; McLaurin, Swanson, Brenner, Ohio Elirt:man, Mahany, Vandiver. poses that the agreement reached the passage of the resolutjon. Brosius, Hepblll'll, :Martin, Vehslage, It was only on ordering the previous question that such an agree­ Brumm, Hicks, Milliken, Ward, ment was made. Castle, Hooker, Newlands, Wilson, S. a; Mr. HENDERSON. I want to say to my friend from Ta'l:as Catchings, J ett, Norton, Yonng,Pa. Colson, Jones, Va. Odell, Youn.g,. Va. that when it is absolutelycertain, when the vote is taken, that the Connolly; Jones, Wash. Olmsted, resolution is to be carried, after twenty minutes' additional time Cooper, Wis. Kieberg, Parker, N.J. has been given to that side, good faith, it seems, does not warrant So the resolution was adopted. this further delay in demandintr the yeas and nays. What the The Clerk announced the following additional pairs: House needs and what we must have now is prompt a.ction. For this day: Mr. BAILEY. The gentleman must realize that we could not Mr. COLSON withl\f:r. SPARKMAN. bind ourselves to such a proposition as that under these circum­ Mr. SillPKINS of Massachusetts with Mr. BARTLETT. stances. [Cries of" Regular order!"] Mr. LOUDENSLAGER with Mr. BROUSSARD. Mr. CANNON. Mr. Speaker- Mr. KuLP with Mr. YoUNG of Virginia. Mr. BAILEY. Ths regular order was demanded. [Cries- of 1\Ir. BROSIDS with Mr. MCLAURIN. "Regular order!"] Mr. HAR::llER with Mr. COWHERD. The SPEAKER. The regular order is demanded. As many 1\Ir. BARTLETT (having previously voted). Mr. Speaker, I as favor the passage of the resolution will, when their names are am paired with the gentleman from Massachusetts, Mr. SIMPKINS, called, say " aye;" those opposed, "no." The CleTk will call the and therefore withdraw my vote. I voted in the negative, and roll. the gentleman from Massachusetts Mr. SIMPKINS, if present; The question was taken; and there were-yeas 174, nays 117, would have voted in the affirmative. not voting 62, as follows: The result of the vote was then announced as above recorded. YEAS-174. LEA. VE OF ABSENCE. Adam. Bennett, Burton~ Cousins, Alexander, Bingham. Butler, Crump, Mr. McMILLIN. Mr. Speaker! I ask leave of absence indefi­ Arnol~ Bishop, Cannon, Crumpacker, nitely, on account of sickness in my famlly. Barber, Booze Ca.~on, Curtis, Iowa, Barht\m1 Boutelle, Chickering, Curtis, Kan~. There was no objection. Barney, Brewster, Clark, Iowa Dalzell, SUNDRY CIVIL APPROPRIATION BILL. Barrows, Broderick, Clark~N. H. Danford, Bartholdt, B1·omwell, Cochrane, N: Y. Davenport, The SPEAKER. In accordance with the resolution, the first Beach, Broussard, Codding, Davey;I bill to be considered is-the bill (H. R. 16) 1naking appropriations Belden, Brown Connell, Davidson, Wis; Belford, Brow.clow, Cooke,. Da.visGD, Ky. for sundry civil expensea of the Government foT the fiscal year Belknap, Bull, Corliss~ Dingley, ending ~nne 30, 1898, and for other purposes. The Chair will 84 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. MARCH 19, recognize the gentleman from Illinois [1\.fr. CANNON] and the gen- Mr. SAYERS. The gentleman can answer that question as tleman from Texas rMr. SAYERS] to control the time. well as I; but if he can not answ ar it let him ask the Committee :Mr. CANNON. l should ba glad to have my friend from on Rules, and they will advjse him. [Laughter.] Public build­ Texas [Mr. SAYERS] take such time as he wishes. I do not want ings. Why, in this bill there are more than a dozen such items to talk now. which would go out on a point of order, embracing large sums of Mr. SAYERS. I shall want the time allowed on this side, money. Bounty on sugar. More than $1,040,000 which would twenty minutes. . not receive the approval of this House. Mr. CANNON. I do not think I shall use all my time. Mr. OGDEN. Will thegentlemanallowmetoaskbimaquestion? Mr. SAYERS. Then you will not yield to anyone else? Mr. SAYERS. Certainly. Mr. CANNON. Well, I should not like to say that, because, Mr. OGDEN. How do you know it would not receive the ap- although nobody has indicated any desire to use any time on this probation of this House? What authority have you for making side, still some one might do so, and I might want to yield. that statement, even from the Demooratic side? Mr. SAYERS. Mr. Speaker, there should be no partisan con- Mr. SAYERS. I have this authority, that when the $5,000,000 sideration or discussion of this m easure. It is an appropriation was appropriated ·in the closing hours of the Fifty-third Con­ bill on which we are called to pass, and gentlemen on both sides gress, :Mr. :::lpeaker, notwithstanding that it had the su pport of a of this Chamber ought to be alike interested in the passage of such gentleman prominent in this House and who bad been selected to appropriation bills only as are necessary to an economical and be Postmaster-General, it only carried the House by about four or efficient administration of the Government. five votes. I take it that the sentiment of the country has not This bill carries a sum total of more than $53,000,000. more than changed in this respect; and my judgment is that if left to a yea­ $50,000,000 of which has never been considm·ed by this House, and-nay vote, that item would not stay in this bill. Such, Mr. either at the present session or at the past session of the last Con- Speaker, is this bill. gress. Bear that in mind, if you please, that this bill, to the Now, gentlemen, are you going to vote for it? Every member extent of 650,000,000 and more, has never been considered by the that votes for this bill, not knowing its contents, is responsible for representatives. of the people, either in this House or at the last ib~ passage; and he can not plead that it was in the closing hours session of the last Congress. of a session, and that it was necessary to pass this bill in this Gentlemen who were members of the last Congress will re- manner in order to provjde means for the support of the Govern­ member that when this bill was called up for consideration, instead ment. But we have another body in this Congress; and I trust of being considered item by item, the rules were suspended and that that other body will give this bill the consideratio::1 which it only twenty minutes allowed on each side. No member was per- ought to receive. Fifty-three millions of dollars, and three more mitted to offer an amendment to the bill. The gentleman from bills following, aggregating a sum total of more than $72,000,000! Illinois [Mr. CANNON], and other gentlemen on that side of the There are 142 members in this House who were not members of Chamber, have found fault with the late President for not signing the last House, and who, therefore, have not had the opportunity this bill. The President did right. He should have had time for to even read this bill. the consideration of this bill, being required to affix his signature I will supplemPnt the statement by another that there are those to it in order that it might become a law. who were members of the last House of whom not one in ten has Now, when did the sundry civil bill pass this House? On the ever had an opportunity to read it. It comes here reported by 15th day of February. At the last session of the Forty-third Con- the gentleman from Illinois [Mr. CaNNON], not considered by the gress the sundry civil bill passed the House on the 25th day of Committee on Appropriations, for there is no such committee. It January, three weeks in advance of the bill which we are now is reported by himself; and gentlemen of the majority are urged considering. This bill reached the President but a few hours to vote for its passage upon the statement made by him that the before the final adjournment of the last Congress, as also did two bill is in everything correct. I am not going too far to say that other bills embraced in this order, while the general deficiency if the gentleman from illinois [Mr. CANNON] had the preparation bill did not reach him at all. Fifty-three million dollars, cover- of this bill and was responsible for it, carrying as it does more ing about 1,000 different items, and covering 138 pages of printed than $53,000,000, it would not carry over $43,000,000. The gentle­ matter! Such is the character of the bill on which you are called man from lllinois knows well how these items were discussed, to vote, and I say now, if this House had the opportunity to con- especially those aggregating $18,000,000 and more for the improve­ aider this measure item by item, there are more than $5,000,000. ment of the rivers and harbors: and it was with extreme reluc­ of it which would certainly go out of the bill. Let us briefly con- tance, I will do justice to the gentleman from Illinois to say, that aider some of the items. How many votes do gentlemen think the these were put upon this bill in the last Congress. single item for the payment of the sugar bounty, amounting to Now, one word about the river and harbor contracts, in order $1,080,000, would receive in this House? And yet they are called that the min~s of gentlemen may be disabused of the misinforma­ upon to vote for that item, as well as for other items which are tion which has been given them. There is no necessity, either not absolutely necessary for the support of the Government. from a legal or moral stanupoint, for making the appropriation Take the items for rivers and harbors, for instance, amounting for the rivers and harbors authol'ized in the last river and harbor to more than $19,000,000, some of them exceedingly objectionable. act. By the terms of that bill the contracts were subject to appro­ Yet we must vote for them also. The gentleman from Illinois priations to be made by Congress from time to time. And, fur­ [Mr. CANNONJ says that, because of the fact that these items were ther, no one of these contracts was to go into operation until the provided form the river and harbor bill which passed during the 1st day of July next. last Congress, this Congress should make appropriations to carry Mr. Speaker, I have said about all I care to say upon this sub­ on these works, whether worthy or unworthy. In this I differ ject. Gentlemen on the other side are as deeply interested in this from the gentleman from illinois. It is the duty of this Cong1·ess, matter as the minority; and I warn them. It is true they are here if the legislation of the. preceding Congress has been bad, to repeal to-day by more than fifty majority over all the others combined; it at once, and not to ratify it by appropriations. Besides, Mr. but let them remember that a majority almost as large in the Speaker, not one of the contracts which :were provided for in the Fifty-first Congress was overthrown by the people. In the Fifty­ river and harbor bill of the last Congress has yet gone into effect, third Congress the appropriations were nearly $60,000,000 less because the law distinctly provides that no contract under that than they were in the past Congress, including these four bills. bill should go into effect until the 1st day of July n ext. Mr. JOHNSON of Indiana. How did the appropriations of the Now, this Congress has the opportunity now and here to initiate Fifty-second Congress compare with the appropriations of the a reform in the matter of expenditures. It is within the power Fifty-first Congress? . of this House, if it will only do it, to prevent this improper ex- Mr. SAYERS. The appropriations of the Fifty-second Congress penditure of public money, and to say to the people of the United were less than the appropriations of the Fifty-fiTst Congress. States that Congress will face right about from the extravagance · Mr. JOHNSON of Indiana. I always understood the contrary. of the last Congress, and shape its appropriations so as to fall Mr. SAYERS. They were less; and when the Fifty-third Con­ within the current revenues of the Government. When this bill gress was assembled they fell some $38.000,000 more. was before the House at the last session of the last Congress, a plea I wish to say this for the information of the gentleman from was used that we had not sufficient time to consider the bill item Indiana, and I say it in all good faith, because he and I are alike by item. We have the time to-day. Under the order just adopted interested in an efficient and economical administration of this the tariff bill will have passed the House by the 1st day of April, Government. No man regretted more than I to see these contracts and from the 1st day of April until the 30th day of June, when authorized by the last Congress, because I believe that if these con­ these appropriation bills, except the general deficiency, will be- tracts had not been authorized, the appropriations of the last Con­ come operative, we will have time to consider and pass these bills. grass would have fallen below those of the Fifty-third Congress by Mr. PEARSON. Will the gentleman allow me to ask him a at least $25,000,000, and this Congress could have easily carried on questioni' the reform; and instead of spending half a billion dollars or more Mr. SAYERS. Certainly. - a year we would expend not exceeding $450,000,000 for the fiscal Mr. PEARSON. What could we possibly be doing between year ending June 30, 1899. · the 1st of April and the time when the Senate .passes the tariff Mr. JOHNSON of Indiana. The gentleman does not under- bill? What occupation will we have without committees? stand me as favoring extravagant appropriations, I hope. 1897. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 85:

Mr. SAYERS. The gentleman is going to vote for this resolu­ now the appropriations would be $5,000,000 less. Well, there are tion, is he not? many items in this bill that are subject to points of order, tech-' Mr. JOHNSON of Indiana. Does that imply that I am in favor nic.ally speaking. The appropriation for the Kentucky River is of extravagant appropriations? one of them. That was in the river and harbor bill, but there was Mr. SAYERS. To that extent his vote establishes the fact that a mistake in the provision, so that there could he no effective ap­ he is in favor of extravagant appropriations. propriations following existing law. The Senate amended this Mr. JOHNSON of Indiana. Will the gentleman give us any bill in that particular, and the House concurred in the Senate guaranty that by delay we can get a less extravagant bill? amendment. Then there are four dams on the Ohio River in re­ Mr. SAYERS. I believe so. I have such confidence in this gard to which the same may be said. The House concurred in House that I believe if the bill were subjected to its consideration, the Senate amendments. Those provisions would be subject to item by item, the bill would be at least from five to seven millions points of order. We could in that way get rid of them in the first less than it is to-day. instance. But I suppose the Senate would put them back, and Mr. JOHNSON of Indiana. The gentleman may speak with after the Senate had put them back a House of Representatives some authority for the House; but how about the Senate? in favor of internal improvements would concur in the Senate Mr. SAYERS. No appropriation bill can pass unless the House amendments. There is another provision, that for Oakland Har­ gives its consent. bor, California-a real harbor. That would be subject to a point Mr. JOHNSON of Indiana. We all know what that means. of order, there having been a mistake in the river and ha.rbor bill Mr. SAYERS. Now, :Mr. Speaker, there will follow aft-er this in regard to that item. In substance, Oakland Harbor and the bill a deficiency bill amounting to more than 58,000,000. Follow­ several improvements I havenamedareincluded in the legislation ing that will come the Indian bill, carrying more than $7,000,000, under which these other appropriations are made, but technically and next will come the Agricultural bill, with more than $3,000,000. not. These fotir bills, aggregating $72,000,000, which this House is to Now, the honorable gentleman from Delaware [Mr. HAl.'l"DYj pass on to-day and to-morrow without considering a single item-- made his first appearance here a few moments ago. What is his rHere the hammer fell.] opposition to this bill? We take care in this bill of the Delaware :Mr. CANNON. Mr. Speaker, the time is twenty minutes on a Breakwater. Does that grieve him? Does that cut him to the side, I believe? heart? We do not take care of Wilmington. While there was The SPEAKER. It is twenty minutes on a side. a provision for Wilmington in the river and harbor bill, the pro­ Mr. CANNON. If the House will give me its attention, I think vision was so defective in form and in substance that the Engineer I can get through in less than ten minutes with what J desire to Corps said that they could not spend the money if we appropri­ say about this bill. The bill does carry, in round numbers, ated it, and the Senate did not amend the bill in that particular. $53,000,000. Is that what is the matter with the new member from Delaware? Mr. KELLEY. Will the gentleman allow a question? [Laughter.l Oh, I sometimes, in the discussion of these matters, Mr. CANNON. Certainly. like to cut down through the muscle and get into the marrow, and Mr. KELLEY. Being a new member, I wish to ask the gentle­ see whether men are performing to the galleries or whether there . man to explain why it is that the majority does not choose to give is some real trouble. more time for the consideration of these bills? Now, the gentleman from Texas [Mr. S.A.YERS], whom I compli­ Mr. CANNON. Was my friend here during the discussion on ment as being a good legislator, as having been a good, careful the adoption of the special order that we are proceeding under? chairman of the Committee on Appropriations in Congresses past, Mr. KELLEY. I was here part of the time. when his party was in power-a gentleman who was a leadi.ng Mr. CANNON. If the gentleman did me the honor to listen to member of the minority in the late Congress-signed this con­ my remarks on the adoption of the special rule, he must have ference report; he blessed this bill, with the exception, substan­ heard my statement of the reasons for urgency; and now, Mr. tially, of the sugar bounty and some items for rivers and harbors Speaker, I want to give what time I do occupy to the consideration that he said ought not to be in the bill and which he thought were . of this bill. It does caiTy-- extravagant. Mr. KELLEY. I listened attentively to your remarks, but I Mr. SAYERS. The gentleman does not wish to mislead the failed to find any reason given therein why we should not have House? ample time for the consideration of these measures. Mr. CANNON. Oh, no. Mr. CANNON. Well, I never contracted to give my friend the Mr. SAYERS. Does the gentleman mean to say that I signed ability to discover or recognize a good reasorr. [Laughter.] the conference report in favor of concurring in the sugar bounty Mr. KELLEY. I thought so. . and in those river and harbor items? Mr. CANNON. Mr. Speaker, there are some items in this bill Mr. CANNON. Oh, no; the House concurred in those amend­ which, if I could have my way, I would leave out. ments. Mr. PEARSON. What are they? Mr. SAYERS. Verywell. Ido notwantthegentleman to con­ Mr. CANNON. One of them is a million dollars for sugar vey the impression that I gave my a-ssent to those items. bounty. Mr. CANNON. If my language conveyed any such impression, Mr. PEARSON. If that were left out, I should feel better. I take it back. I had no such intention. My friend knows that I Mr. CANNON. But what is the history of that million dollars would not willingly, for the thousandth part of a second, place­ for sugar bounty? That was put on the bill by a Senate amend­ him in a wrong light. ment. The history of it is this: Just about the time the Wilson Now, what is the fact? The river and harbor items, talk as you 1bill passed, the Louisiana Representatives, who were Democrats, please, are substantially in pursuance of the law which was en­ "kicked." [Laughter.] Previous to that time their constituents acted at the first session of the last Congress; and the appropria­ had been getting a sugar bounty, and the Wilson bill repealed tions here follow that existing law. That is all there is of it. I the bounty. That bill put a duty upon foreign sugars because said then, and I have said since, that while in favor of internal the Democrats wanted to take care of their Democratic constitu­ improvements, I believed we were going too fast-too fast purely 1ents. In the McKinley Act we gave free sugar and gave a bounty becam;e Uncle Sam's breeches and vest were not meeting under to promot-e the sugar industry at home. I opposed the bill which th~ late Democratic Administration. That is all. [Laughter.] gave $5,000,000 as a gratuity, while at the Aame time it had enacted That was my objection. But that matter is past and done. The the tariff on sugar contained in the Wilson bill, but the House law is enacted. Many contracts have been made; and we are now· was Democratic and the five-million appropriation passed. It making appropriations for the next fiscal year to begin on the 1st turned out that that $5,000,000 was not enough to cover the class day of next July. of claims that it was designed.to cover. It la-cked one million. But, says my friend, the President did right in not signing these Mr. PEARSON. But the extra million accrued after the Dem­ bills; there 'was no time. Let us see about that. Take the Agri-' ocratic party had passed the Wilson tariff bill. cultural appropriation bill. It went to the President on the 25th1 Mr. CANNON. It lacked a million of being enough, and now day of February. There were seven days that he set t hPut enor-' on the Senate side an appropriation of a million dollars is put into mous person of his square on that Agricultural bill riaughter]­ ,this bill, and that appropriation is on all fours with the five mil­ within three days of the constitutional limit. Spea"king of him lions previously appropriated. I objected to that item when it respectfully, I say it was his duty, aided as he was by his whole came back here as a Senate amendment, but this House, after dis­ Cabinet, to send that bill back with his approval or his veto. He cussion, voted it. I opposed it with what little power I could did neither. command, but I amounted to about as much as a small willow Oh, but, says my friend, these great bills went to him in the stalk in the presence of a cyclone. [Laughter.] And now, does last days of the session. So do these bills generally. Theso bills anybody suppose that if the matter were tried again there would were as prompt in the late session as they have been on the av~rage be any different conclusion? If the five millions for sugar bounty within the la-st quarter of a century. was right, then this extra million is right. The five millions was Gentlemen say that the President had no time to read these 1)ills. paid. The sugar men got their money. So much for that. What is his Cabinet for? What is every chief of bureau for? The gentleman says there are river and harbor items here that What is every chief of division for? When bills are introduced he does not like. There are river and harbor items here that I do here and pass the House and the Senate it is the business of the not like. He says that if this bill were considered in the Honse Executive to keep track of them. And there are in the city of 86 OONGRE.SSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. MAROH 19,

Washington many people-in the main, skilled people-whose Now, as. to the deficiency bill, the Housa passed such a bill, pure duty, whose expert duty, it is on demand to give the President and simple, and clean, under the rules of the House. The Senate full information. Why, sir, the late President could not have amended it by putting on proper items certified to that body examined one of these bills in five days, if he had been obliged to after we had passed it. Then it put on 90 pages of amendments, examine it all by himself and exhaust the merits of it. [Laugh­ part of them Bowman Act cases, part old claims that had danced ter.] In this remark, I am speaking respectfully. for two generations about Washington and been condemned time Now, if you gentlemen think that these river and harbor appro­ and time again by every accounting officer and every court having priations are too large, vote down this bill, but if you vote it down, jurisdiction, and the Senate wove them in all together in tills bill. recollect one thing: It means, if you make that vote effective, that They tried to have the necessities of the Government for tbe public you turn round and repeal the river and harbor bill passed twelve service carry through those 90 pages of amendments, and under months ago, where contracts have not been mad~ And I know such humble leadership as I was able to furnish, supplemented­ that you could not repeal one tithe of it. or rather I should say under the leadership of the gentleman Mr. SAYERS. Does the gentleman mean to say that if we fail from Texas, supplemented by myself and the gentleman from to make appropriations to carry out this contract work, it will Ohio rMr. NORTHWAY)-weresistedthose90 pages of amendments have the effect of repealing the law to which he refers? [laughter], and the House stood by us. .And if my friend from Mr. CANNON. Not at all. Tennessee wants to know further in reference to the Senate bill, Mr. SAYERS. I so unde1·stood the gentleman. . or the Senate amendments to which I have referred, o1· any ap­ Mr. CANNON. I said that, if you do not make these appropria­ propriation bill that I have the honor to be connected with, I give tions in purauant;e of law, because they are improvident or because notice that I will give him full infm·mation on that point when (the object being worthy) the appropriations go too far~ then the the proper time comes, and will resist improper amendments as necessary thing to do, in order to be consistent and effective, is to long as I have the power to do so. turn round and repeal the legislation of a year ago. That is what :Mr. RICHARDSON. But that is not what the gentleman said. I said. 1\Ir. SAYERS. Does the gentleman find fault with the Presi­ Now, 1\Ir. Speaker, I try to talk about these appropriation bills dent for not signing the Indian appropriation bill? from the standpoint of fact, and as a practical man. Mere fancy 1\Ir. CANNON. Yes. does not go when you come to matters of appropriation. You can Mr. SAYERS. Then permit me to venture the prediction that "vex the ear" and fill the RECORD. But, what you want is plain, the President of the United States will not sign it if it goes to him common-sense facts in this connection. ~fy friend from Texas in its present shape. I do not believe he would do so. [Mr: SAYERS] also spoke from the stan~point.of fa~"l; and. I ~ 1\Ir. CANNON. Well, I have grea~ confidence in my friend Willmg to take what he says about the bill on Its consideratiOn, m from 'fexas, but I would never shoot h1m for a prophet. [Laugh­ the conference reJ>Orts and elsewhere, and abide by it. ter and applause.] The President of the United States must per­ Now, Mr. Speaker, I do not want to take any more time. In form his duties for himself as he sees them. We perform ours conclusion, I only want to state to the House that there are four for ourselves. Along the line of that duty, I ask for the reading of these bills. This bill has got to be read as soon as I quit talk­ of this bill, giving notice to this side of the House that I am going inO'. It will take an hour or an hour and a half to read it, and to ask them to stay until we pass the sundry civil bill and the th~n the vote. Then this bill is to be followed by the deficiency deficiency bill. bill-forty minutes for debate on that-and that has got to be The SPEAKER. The Clerk will now read the bill. read; then after the debate of forty minutes, a vote, so that it will The Clerk began the reading of the bill. take from now until10 or 11 o·clock to pass the two bills. If we Mr. CANNON. I want to interrupt the reading just long sit right along and pass them, keeping our quorum here, then enough to state that there is a misunderstanding among the mem­ to-morrow we can pass thG other two billa; and it is necessary, bers of the House. Many gentlemen think that )Ve are to take a let me say, to finish this order to-day and to-morrow, so that on recess at 5 o'clock. If the House will be with me, we shall stay Monday we can take up the revenue bill under the special order here until this bill and the deficiency bill are disposed of. Other­ made before this was made. [Applause.] And I will ask the wise we can not get through to-night. House-this side of the House-as the House is new, to try the Mr. WILLIAM A. STONE. And take no recess. experiment of one night session and let us get this order executed; Mr. CANNON. And take no recess. let us get this driftwood that has come down to us from the last Mr. WILLIAJ\.1 A. STONE. It will save three months' time in Auministration, representing its shortcomings, out of the way. hot weather. [Laughter.] The Clerk proceeded with the reading of the bill. Mr. SAYERS. Does the gentleman call an expenditure of At 5 o'clock p. m., . 872,000,000 "driftwood?" Mr. ALLEN said: Mr. Speaker, a parliamentary inquiry. Mr. CANNON. The 872,000,000 is to carry on this Government, The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. PAYNE). The gentleman will and it ought to have passed in the last Congress. But as it did state it. not, we propose t? pass it now. It. furnishes the water to the Mr. ALLEN. We are operating under the rules of the Fifty­ machinery where It ought to be furmshed. fourth Congress. Are we not required, under those rules, to take l\lr. RICHARDSON. The gentleman from illinois undertakes a recess at 5 o'clock on Friday? to put the responsibility on the late Administra.tion for the failure The SPEAKER pro tempore. The special rule takes the place of the passage of these bills? of the general rule. .1\fr. CANNON. I do. Mr. ALLEN. There is nothing in this special rule repealing Mr. RICHARDSON. Does not the gentleman know that the that part of the general rule. deficiency bill did not even pass the conference committee? How The SPEAKER pro tempore. It suspends that rule in so far as can you hold that Administration responsible for the failure to it relates to the proceedings of this day. pas::; that bill, when it never passed the House and never reached The Clerk resumed and completed the reading of the bill. him? Will the gentleman answer that? How can he be respon­ The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under the order, the previous sible? question is considered as ordered on the bill to its final passage. Mr. CANNON. Mr. Speaker, whohas the time, the gentle:ruan The question is on the engrossment and third reading of the bill. or I? rLa.ughter.] The question being taken, on a division (demanded by Mr. The SPEAKER. The gentleman from illinois has the floor. HoLMAN) there were-ayes 120, noes 54. Mr. RICHARDSON. I ask the gentleman to yield to me for Accordingly, the bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a that inquiry. third time; and it was read the third time. 11r. CANNON. If the gentleman will content his soul in The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the passage patience, in good time I will answe1· ills inquiry. • of the bill. • Mr. RICHARDSON. Well, I hope the gentleman will do so. Mr. SAYERS. Mr. Speaker, I demand the yea.'i and nays on Mr. CANNON. Will the gentleman be seated? [Laughter.] the passage of the bill. 1\ir. RICHARDSON. I ask, How is it possible that the late The yeas and nays were ordered. Executive can be held re.sponsible for the failure of the general The question was taken; and there were-yeas 158, nays 74, not deficiency appropriation bill, which never passed either Hous&? voting 121; as follows: :Mr. CANNON. Now, the gentleman has asked his question, YEAS-158. and I will answer it. That bill is to immediately follow, in its Adams, Bishop, Chickering Davenport, conside1·ation, this one, and will be up fm· discussion after this-­ Alexander, Booze, Clarke, N.k Davey, Arnold, Boutelle, Cochrane, N. Y. Da.vidl onkWf& Mr. RICHARDSON. Oh, but-- Baker, Md. Broderick, Connell, Davison, y. 1\Ir. CANNON. "Oh, but" I decline to yield. [Laughter.] Barber, Bromwell, Connolly, .Dolliver, Barney, Broussard, Cooke, Dorr, Mr. SAYERS. Will the gentleman allow me a word? Bartholdt, Dovener, ~b. CANNON. In a minute I will. Beach, ~~~:clow, 8~E:!·.' '.rex. El.lis. Iu the second place, I will say to the gentleman from Tennessee Bull, CousinS, Evans, that the three bills, this one that I am talking of and two others, t~~~d. Butler, Crump, Fenton, Belknap, Cannon, CrnmJ?acker, Fischer. were laid before the President of the United States and did not Bennett, Capron, Dalzell, Fletcher, receive his signature. Berry, Catchings, Danford, Foote, 1897. OONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 87

;Foss, Kno~. Ogden, Sprague, Mr. COLSON with Mr. FITZP.A.TRICK. ;Fowler, N. J. Lacey, Otjen, Steele, Mr. WM. ALDEN S:mTH with Mr. DAVIS. Gaines, Landis, Overstreet, Stevens, Minn. Mr. CODDING with 1\Ir. BREWER. Gardner, Litta.uer, Pack~:~r, Pa. Stewart, N.J. Gibson, Lorimer, Payne, Stewart, Wis~ On this vote: Gillet, N.Y. Loud, Pearce, Mo. Stone, C. W. Mr. MAHoN with Mr. BANKHEAD. Gra.ff, Lovering, Perkins, Stone, W. A. Mr. WHITE with Mr. STR.A.IT. Greene, J:_.ybrand, Pitney, Strode, Nebr. Griffin, McCleary, Powers, Sturtevant, Mr. fuRRETT with Mr. T...U.BERT. Grosvenor, McCulloch, Prince, Sulloway, Mr. RICHARDSON (having p~vionsly voted). I am paired Gunn, McDonald, Pugh, Tawney, with the gentleman from New York, Mr. QuiGG. I voted by er, Mcintire, Ray, Tayler, Ohio ilton, l'.fa.bany, Reeves, Tongue, inadvertence. I desire to withdraw my vote. If the gentleman ley, Kirkpatrick, Robertson, La. Updegraff, from New York rMr. QUIGG] were pres_ ent, I should vote "no." lleatwole, Mann. Royse, Van Voorhis, Mr. BARTLETT. I am paired with the gentleman from Mas­ Hemenway, Marsh, Russell, Wadsworth., Henderson, Maxwell, Sauerhering, Wallrar, Mass. sachusetts, 1\Ir. SIMPKINS. If he were- present, I should vote ''no." enry, Conn. Mercer, Shattuc, Walker, Va. ..M:r. SIMPKINS of Massachusetts. I am present. I was paired enry, Ind. Mesick, Shelden, Wanger, with the gentleman from Georgia [Mr. BARTLETT]. I did not see !born, M~yer, La. Sherman. Warner, liron, Miller, Smith, ill. Weaver, the gentleman present, and so refrained from voting. I should Howe, Mills Smith, S. W. Weymouth, like, if possible, to be recorded in the affirmative, and the gentle­ :Rowell, Minoi·, Snover, White, N.C. man from Georgia [Mr. B.~RTLETT] would like to be 1·ecorded in liull, Mitchell, Southard, Williams, Pa. 'J enk'ins, Morris, Southwick, Wright. the negative. Johnson, N. Dak, Mudd, Spalding, The SPEAKER pro temp01·e. Was the gentleman present at Ketcham, Northway, ~pe1·ry, the time his name was called. and was he listening? NAYS-7-t. Mr. SIMPKINS of Massachusetts. I was present. I did not De Armond, Kitchin, Robb, vote because I thought I was paired. 1 heard my name and an­ .A.da~on, De Graffenreid, Lanham, Roblnso:p, Ind. swered "present." er, TIL De Vries, Latimer. Sayers, The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under the gentleman's state­ Dinsn10re,, Lewi ,Ga.. Settle, allton, D ockery, Little, Sims, ment, the Chair can not entertain his 1·equest. ud, Ermentrout, Love. Stallings, .Mr. BARTLETT. Then I desire it to appear that the- gentle­ ine, Fieming, McClellan, Stephens, Tex. man from Massac.hu etts lMr. SIMPKINS] and myself are paired. ~renner, Ohio Fowler, N.C. McCormick, Strowd, N.C. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The pah· was announced on the rucker, Fox, McRae, Sullivan, rundidge, Handy, Maddox, •rate, previous vote. urke, Hay, Maguire, Terry, Mr. BAILEY. 1\fr. Speaker, I have received a telegram from l Henry, Miss. Mar.'lhall, Todd, Campbell, the gentleman from Virginia~ Mr. YouNG, asking that he be Carmack, Henry. TeJC. M~elctson~ Underwood, Clardy, Hinrichsen, Miers, Ina. Vandiver, excused. I R.sk that he he excused on account of important Clark, Mo. Holman, Moon, Vincent, business. Cla:.vton, Howard, Ala. Pearson, Wheeler, Ky. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without objection, the gentle- Cocbra.n, Mo. Hunter, Pierce, Tenn. Zenor. Cooney, Jett, Plowman, man from Virginia will be excused. Cox, Kelley, Rhea, There was no objection. NOT VOTL~G-12L The result of the vote was then announced as above recorded. Acbe:oon, Davis, Lentz·, Shannon, On motion of 1\Ir. CANNON, a motion to reconsider the vote Allen. Dayton, Lester, Shuford, hy which the bill was passed was laid on the table. Babcock, Dingley, Lewis, Wash. Simp~ins, Mass. Baird, Eddy, Linney. Simpson, Kans. GENERAL DEFICIENCY BILL. Blmkhea.<4 Elliott, Livingston, Skinner, Barham, Epes, Loudenslager, Slayden. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the next Barlow, Fnri"!, Low, Sm1tb, Ky. Barrett, Fitzgerald, McAleer, Smith, Wm. Alden bill. Bar~·ows, Fitzpatrick, McCall, Sparkman, The Clerk read as follows: Ba,rtlett, Gillett, Mass. McDowell, Stark, .A bill (H. R. 13) makin.g ap:propriations to supply deficiencies in the appro­ Bell, Griggs, McEwan, Stokes, priations for the fiscal year ending June 3C, 1897, and for prior years, and for Benner, Pa. Grout, McLaurin, Strait, other purposes. Bingham, Grow, 1\fcl\Iillin, ~ulzer, Botkin, Harmer, Mabon, Sutherland, Mr. BAILEY. Before the Clerk begins, I want to ask to be Bra.dlt)y, Hartman, Martin, Swanson, Brantley, Hepburn, Milliken, Talbel't. excused, on account of some business connected with the com­ Brewe1-, Hicks, Moody, Taylor, Ala. mittee. Brewster, Hitt, Newlands, Vehsl~~. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without objection., the gentle­ Brosius, Hooker, Norton, Ward, · Brumm, Hopkins, Odell, Wheeler, Ala. man will be excusad. [After a pause.] The Chair hears no ob­ Burton, Howard, Ga. Olmsted, White, ill. jection. Under the order, forty minutes are allowed for debate, Castle, Hurley, Osborne, Wilber, twenty minutes in favor and twenty minutes opposed to the bill. Clark. Iowa. Johnson, Ind. Otey, Williams, Miss. Codding, Jones, Va.. Parker, N.J. Wilson, N. Y, The Chair will recognize the gentleman from illinois [Mr. CAN­ ColSQn, Jones, Wash. 1>Aters, Wilson, S.C. NON] in favor of Ut.e bill, and the gentleman from Texas [Mr. Cooper, Wis. Joy, Quigg, Yost, SAYERS] in opposition. Cowherd, Kerr, nichardson, Youn~, Pa. CANNON. I will just say word in reference the bill. Cranford, Kleberg, Ridgely, Young,Va. M.r. a to 'Cummings, Knowles, Rixey, This bill, Mr. Speaker, is the regular deficiency bill. It carries a ,Curtis, Iowa Kulp, Robbins, little over $8,000,000. It is a deficienc-y bill~ pure and simple; that Curt~s, Kans. Lamb, Shafroth, is to say, it is for the service of the Government for the remaining So the bill was passed. months of this fiscal year, which expires. on the 30th day of next Mr. KELLEY. Mr. Speaker, I wish to state that, not being June. In my judgment, it has not an item in it that is not neces­ able to be present during ~he entire considera~on of the bill, ~d sary for a. well-ordered and economical service of the Government. lhaving no other op~rtumty to read or have 1t read-- [Cries In addition to those items, the bill carries judgments of the Court of " Regular order! '] of Claims and audited accounts, and, altogether, makes up $8,000,- I The SPEAKER pro tempore. 'l'he gentleman's name will be­ 000 and a little over in amount. It does not carry any of the items ~alled, and he will have an opportunity to vote, if he desires. of claims or other items that were carried on the deficiency bill ! Mr. KELLEY. Not having had an opportunity to understand in the last Congress that were disagreed to in conference. Now, ithe bill, I vote "no." [Cries of "Regular order!"] with that statement, I think, so far as I am concerned, I am ready '-: The Clerk announced the following additional pairs~ for a vote, unless something is said that calls for something in Until further notice: l'eply. :Mr. WILSON of New Yorkwith Mr. Mol\IILLIN. Mr. SAYERS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Mr. HoP~S with Mr. WHEELER of Alabama. Missouri [Mr. DocKERY] such time as he may need. For this day: Mr. DOCKERY. 1\fr. Speaker! I ask the indulgence of the Mr. SNOVER With Mr. SPARKMAN. House for a very few moments, and will endeavor not to occupy Mr. ROBBINS with Mr. HOWARD of Georgia. the entire time allowed to this side of the House. 1\!r. Joy with Mr. LESTER. Mr. Speaker, a good deal has been said in the discussion to-day Mr. GARDNER with Mr. ELLIOTT. upon the question of inadequate 1·even.ues. Briefly I desire to in­ Mr. STEWART of New Jersey with Mr. OTEY. vite attention to a field of discussion which shall include within Mr. YOST with Mr. LAMB. its scope both revenues and appr?>prh\tions. Congress is now con­ Mr. QUIGG with Mr. RICHARDSON. vened for the thirteenth tj.me in extraordinary session. The rule Mr. GILLETT of Massachusetts with Mr. BRANTLEY. under which these four appropriation bills are being c('lnsidered Mr. BURTON with Mr. GRIGGS. and pressed to passage is without precedent in all our history. Mr. BINGHAM with Mr. CUMMINGS. 'l'he bills carry about $73,000,000; and all debate is limited to one Mr. DINGLEY with Mr. L~Tz. hour and forty minutes, with no right of amendment. 88 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. MARCH 19,

I desire especially to challenge the attention of Representatives until1840, when the Treasury was empty. The surplus vanished to that part of tlle President's message in which he refers to the because legislation had crippled revenues and thus inipoverished question of revenues. It sets out in great detail the current the Treasury. deficiencies of each of the three fiscal years preceding the current President Tyler convened Congress in extra session in June, fiscal year, which, added to the deficiency of the l ast eight months, 1841, and the deficiency was met by an increase of taxation for make the total current deficiency 8186,061,580.44. the reason that it had resulted mainlv from an excessive reduction The President also incident~ll:y alludes to the fact that during of taxation, and was not the result of extravagant appropriations. the Administration of Mr. HanJ.son bonds of the United States The second Treasury deficit made its appea1·ance under the Ad­ amounting to $'259,076,800 were purchasea. He does not make ministration of President Buchanan, and was attributable to the the direct statement that the deficiency is in any wise due to that passage of the tariff act of 1857, which unduly reduced the reve­ purchase; but a fair inference may be drawn that the President nues of the Government and was also consequent in some degree had that in mind. If so, a complete comparative fiscal exhibit upon adverse business conditions. should have included $338,074,850 of bonds purchased and re­ On the 1st of Jnly, 1860, the public debt, less cash in the Treas­ deemed during the first Administration of Mr. Cleveland. It ury, aggregated $61,140,497, and when ::M:r. Lincoln was inaugu­ appears, therefore, that, although the bond purchases by Mr. Cleve­ ratedin 1861 the actual deficit was a"bout $70,000,000. Let it be re­ land exceeded those of Mr. Harrison, there was an ample current membered that this deficit was not due to lavish appropl'iations. surplus during the four-year period from 1885 to 1889. So much Indeed the aggregate of the expenditures during the four years of for the bond purchases of the two Administrations. Mr. Buchanan's Administration were less than the expenditures Mr. Speaker, the President adve1·ts with much emphasis to the of the preceding four years under the Administration of President unfortunate condition of the National Treasury. It is admitted Pierce. The deficiency in this case having resulted mainly from that the current income is unequal to the task of meeting current too great a reduction of taxes, the situation was finally relieved liabilities, but it is also true that the borrowed surplus in the by increasing the tax rate. Treasury, amounting on yesterday to 8217 ,81>3,196. 61, supple­ In this connection, Mr. Speaker, and in support of the statement mented.by current revenues under the existing tariff, will be ample that these deficits occurrecl because-of an unwarranted reduction to meet the liabilities of the Government for the ensuing two years. of taxation, and from unsatisfactory business conditions, i will The Treasury surplus is the result of the sale of $262,315,400 of read excerpts from the remarks of Ron. James A. Garfield, made bonds, for which the Government received 8293,454,272.98. on this floor in 1874. He wa.s at that time chairman of the Com­ It is also proper to say that the Treasury surplus, amounting as mittee on Appropriations. In discussing the history of the first it does to more than two hundred and seventeen millions, would deficit, which occurred in 1840, Mr. Garfield said: be larger still but for the payment of 819,656,000 of bonds issued The deficit appeared, and it was unquestionably due to too great a re,duo in aid of the defaulting Pacific railroads. tion of taxation. Confronted with this fiscal situation, the President urges an Later on in the same debate, referring to the deficit which oc· increase of taxation. His recommendation meets a prompt and cmTed under the Administration of President Buchanan, he said: cordial respon~e on the part of the Committee on Ways and Means The deficit, then, did not arise from an increase of expenditw·es, but from by the report of the Dingley bill, which proposes an annual addition a decrease of revenues. to the bnrden of taxes estimated at more tha.n $100,000,000. A little further on, in answer to a question by the gentleman I regret, Mr. Speaker, that in the brief message sent by the from Indiana, Mr. Niblack, Mr. Garfield said: Presldent to Congress there is no suggestion of the necessity for a In view of this history, I am warranted in the declaration that our deficits reduction of Federal expenditures. I have examined the message in time of peace have resulted from legishtio::l that has crippled the reve­ with much care, and although it bristles with suggestions of in­ nues, and that such deti.eits have been overcome only by replacing taxation creased taxation there is nowhere even an intimation that expend­ too recklessly repealed. itures should be reduced; and yet, in the closing hours of the last Mr. Garfield's statement of the remedial measure adopted was Congress, the chairman of the Committee on Appropriations, my hardly necessary inasmuch as it follows in orderly and logical friend from Illinois LMr. CANNON], made this declaration: sequence. If the deficits were occasioned by an excessive reduc­ Mr. Speaker, the appropriations are, in my judgment, in excess of the tion of taxation, of course the only intelligent remedy was an legitimate demands of the public service; but this fact, while greatly to be increase of taxation to balance income and expenditure. Again, d eplored, is not in my opinion proporly chargeable to the action of either of Mr. Speaker, in the com·se of the same debate Mr. Garfield the great political pa.rtiea of the country. declared: That is to say, Mr. Speaker, the gentleman from Illinois, while In times of peace, when no sudden emergency has made great and imperi­ conceding that the appropriations are in excess of the legitimate ous demands upou the Treasury, a !}eficit can not occur except as the result demands of the public service, excuses himself and practically of unwise legislation or reckless and unwarranted administration. That legislation may consist in too great an increase of appropriations, or in too everybody else by declaring that neither of the great political par­ g-reat a reduction of taxation, or in both combined. ties is responsible. Now, sir, I am sure that our Populist friends are not responsible (laughter], so that I am at a loss to know Mr. Speaker, that was the opinion of the great leader of the just where to locate the responsibility unless I follow the lead of Republican party, Mr. Garfield-afterwards President of the the gentleman from Illinois and fix it upon the rules of the House, United States. If, therefore, deficiencies are due to too great a cut in our revenues because of a low tax ra~, the r emedy is an or leave the responsibility to be shared betW1!en the rules and the increased tax rate. If, however, deficits result from prodigal Executive Departments of the Government. I concur, in s ~ me measure, with the view of the gentleman from Illinois as to the appropriations, the way of escape is by a reduction of appropria­ tions. responsibility of the executive branch of the Government. I do But, Mr. Speaker, I must hurry on, as time is so limited. In not believe that the Executive Departments, in preparing their 1875 a Treasury deficiency was barely avoided, for which thanks estimates, have at all times exercised that close and exacting are due primarily, to the then able, conservative leadership of the scrutiny which should be exercised before submitting their esti- Republican party. Menaced by an approachng deficiency, the mates to Congress. . Republican party, with absolute control in both House and Sen­ But, Mr. Speaker, the President appeals to Congress for prompt ate, did not pile up appropriations, but followed Garfield when action, aud, as I have heretofore stated, urgEs more taxes as the he decla1·ed that •· retrenchment of expanses is the first duty" of remedy for the Treasury ailmen~. the Government. Following that declaration came t he recom­ HISTORY OF DEFICITS. mendation of Secretary Sherman in his aunual report for 1877, Let us review the history of past deficits and see whether it is as follows: thus practicable to secure information that will aid us to a just Assuming that Congress will not increase the aggregate national taxation and patriotic conclusion in respect to the proposed legislation at a tim~ when all inuustries are oppressed by the weight of local taxation touching revenues and appropriations. the Secretary r ecommends that the aggregate appropriations for the fiscai year ending June 30, 1 ~79 , exclusive of mterest and sinking fund, should not Mr. Speaker, during our entire history there have been, prior to exceed SHO,OOO,OOO. This will r equire the appropriations to bo reduced at the existing deficiency, but two Treasury deficits in time ot peace. least $11,000,000 below the estimates submitted above-a reduction that, in the There was, of course, a deficieney dul'ing t he civil war, and the opinion of the Secretary, can be made without crippling any branch of the current revenues were also inadequate during the war with Mex­ public service. ico; but I repeat the statement that only two deficits have vexed Both Mr. Garfield and Mr. Secretary Sherman urged Congress, the Treasury in time of peace. Both deficits were due in large in view of the stringent Treasmysituation then existing, to reduce measure to too great a reduction of the rates of taxation. They appropriations; and the Forty-tbirll Congress did r educe appro­ were not the result of reckless appropriations. The first deficit priations, under the leadership of Mr. Garfield. The Rep\1blican occurred in 1840, and was the result of the enactment of the com· party under its then leadership did what the Speaker of this House promise tariff of 1833 and business depression. Gentlemen will [Mr. REED] has tried to do-an effort in which he has found him­ remember that this tariff act contemplated a gradual r eduction self with but a limited number of followers on the Republican of tariff rates. It provided that each alternate year from 1833 to side of the Chamber. 1842 there should be a reduction of the duties on imports, so that The Republican party r educed, as I have stated, the appropria­ at the end of the period the uniform ad valorem rate should be 20 tions of the Forty-third Congress under those of the preceding Con­ per cent. ·The revenues steadily declined under this measure gress. Followingthatreduction came the memorable Forty-fourth

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Congress, in which this House, under the leadership of that great So, Mr. Speaker, the current Treasury deficit is due to that deci­ Pennsylvanian, Samuel J. Randall, secured a further reduction of sion, which is without precedent in our judicial history, to the about :S30,000,000. A deficiency was thus avoided. widespread business depression, and to profligate appropriations. [Applause on the Democratic side.] CAUSES OF EXISTING DEFICIENCY. rHere the hammer fell.] I come now to the consideration of the existing deficit. What Mr. CANNON. Mr. Speaker, I think I can say in from three has occasioned this deficiency? Let us examine official records. to five minutes all that I desire to say, and then I shall ask for They furnish an ample explanation. In submitting a comparative the reading of the bill under the rule. exhibit, I exclude only the income and expenditures on account of Gentlemen can declaim; gentlemen may indulge in glittering the postal service and payments on the principal of the public generalities, and it is all very nice. But the logic of facts has debt. The average annual income of the Government from 1870 much more potency. to 1874, inclusive, was $358,380,650.04. The average annual ex­ There has been an increase of expenditures since the l~gislation penditure during the same period was $291,365,566.07. From of 1890-91, but substantially all of that increase is to be found in 1875 to 1879, inclusive, the average annual income, because of the the increase of pensions growing out of the dependent pension bill. effects of the panic of 1873, dropped to $275,214,748. But, Mr. that was enacted in the Fifty-first Congress. Now, then, if we are Speaker, under Democratic leadership on this floor, the average to be condemned for that legislation, we will have to stand it. appropriations for the same period were reduced to $255,131,- But you can talk by the hour about extravagant a.ppropriat.ions, 081.68, so that a deficiency did not appear. With returning and piling up mountain high the expenditures of the Government, prosperity, the average annual income from 1880 to 1884, inclusive, and yet when you come, I say again, to inquire as to the items increased to S368,92t:;,321.14, while the average annual expendi­ which involve this increase, you will find that mainly the increas~ tures during this five-yenr period were but $259,174,333.36. of pensions to the soldiers of the late war and a little bit to the Now, Mr. Speaker, let us see what the record of subsequent soldiers of the Mexican war lies at the bottom of it. So much for Congresses has been in r espect to revenue and expenditure. The that; and as I have said, we will have to stand it as best we can. · average annual incoffie from 1887 to 1891, inclusive (being the five 1\Ir. RICHARDSON. Let me ask the gentleman if the increase fiscal years preceding the enactment of the McKinley law), was has not been largely due to the increase of river and harbor ap.:-· S386,682,568.2!. 'rhe average annual expenditures during the same propriations? . period wereonly$303,7g2,115.07. Theaverageannual income under Mr. CANNON. A very slightincreasefrom that source. Some· the McKinley law, from 189,2 to 1894,inclusive, was $3-16,19_3,144.09. what, of course. After the wasteful appropriations of the" billion-dollar Congress," But now, having made the general statement, bear with me whil~ the average annual expenditures of the Government leaped from I show the increase of the last two years, the Fifty-fourth Con.! $-303,792,115.07, as they were from 1887 to 1891, to $365,342,188.30 gress, including the bills we are providing for, over the Fifty.. during the fiscal years from 1892 to 1894. inclusive. third Congress. .And I crave the attention of the gentleman froni Mr. LACEY. Which" billion-dollar Congress?" Missouri whi!e I speak of it. It is proper that I should speak of it. Mr. DOCKERY. Tbe first" billion-dollar Congress." The Democratic party had full power in the Fifty-third Con· Mr. MAGUIRE. This is the second. gress-they had the President, the Senate, and the House. Their Mr. DOCKERY. No; the last Congress was the third. The appropriations for that Congress were. in round numbers, $989,- Fifty-second Congress, because of the legislation of the Fifty-first 000,000. No trouble about their legislating if they bad wante& Congress-first "billion-dollar Congress"-was also a ''billion­ to. They did not decrease the appropriations or curtail the ex.: dollar Congress." The last Congress was the third ''billion-dollar penditures to any substantial degree, but they did decrease the Congress." · revenue, not only by their legislation, but following swift in the The annual average income during the fiscal years 1895 and 1896, footsteps of their legislation came distress and suffering; and we tmder the Wilson law, was 5320,18~,137.94 . The average annual have it still with us. Now, I do not care about treading out any expenditures for the same period were 8354,187,372.18. old straw, and so much for that. Mr. Speaker, the average annual reduction of income dm'ing the Mr. DOCKERY. Will the gentleman permit me? five-year period from 1875 to 1879, inclusive, unColorado-to the Committee on its citizens-to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Public Building~ and Grounds. By :Air. WALKER of Virginia: A bill (H. R. 1116) for the re­ By Mr. JONES of Washington: A bill (H. R. 1087) to authorize lief of the acting (volunteer) officers of the UnitedStates Navyin 1the construction and operation of an electric railmad in the Y el­ the war of the rebellion-to the Committee on Naval Affairs. lowsto:~.e National Park-to the Committee on the Public Lands. By Mr. STURTEVANT: A bill (H. R. 1117) to provide for th.e By Mr. SKJ:N)IER: A bill (H. R. lOSS) to provide for the erec­ reinstatement, ·readjustment, settlement, and payment of dues to tion of a public building at Elizabeth City, N. C.-to the Com­ army officers in certain cases-to the Committoo on War Claims. 'mittee on Public Building and Grounds. Also, a bill (H. R. 1118) to pension every soldier and sailor who .Also, a bill (H. R. 10SY) to prohibit the further issuance of in­ served thirty days in the late war of the rebellion and who was terest-bearing bonds without the consent of Congress-to the honorably discharged-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 'Committee on Ways and :Means. By ~ir . VAN VOORHIS: A bill (H. R. 1119) to provide for the Also, a bill (H. H.. 1090} to repeal the civil-service laws-to the erectiDn of a public building in the city of Zane::)'ville, Ohio-to Committee on R2form in the Civil Service. the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. Also, a bill (H. R. 1091) to protect lumber-to the Committee By Mr. HILBORN: A bill (H. R. 1120) to authorize a retired on Ways and Means. list fo1· enlisted men and appointed petty officers of the United By Ur. BINGHAM: A bill {H. R. 1032) for the recognition of States Navy-to the Committee on Naval Affairs. the military service of the officers and enlisted men of certain By Mr. WHEELER of Alabama: A bill (H. R.1121) granting Statemilitary org·anizations-to the Committee on Military Affairs. to the Muscle Shoals Power Company the right to erect~ construct, Also (by request), a bill (H. R. 1093) to regulate the importation operate, and maintain dam or dams, inlet and outlet races or of gunpowde;r, nitroglycerin, and other explosive substances-to canals. and power station or stations in the ~enne.ssee River, at the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Muscle Shoals. in the State of Alabama-to the Committee on By Mr. RAY of New York: A bill (H. R. 1094) to pnwent the Rivers and Harbors. multiplication of suicides-to the Committee on the Judiciary. Also, a bill (H. R. 1122) to grant to the Bh·mingham, Sheffield Also, a bill (H. R. 1095) for further security of holders of mort­ and Tennessee River Railway Company a right of way over the gage bonds and of other creditors of corporations created by act public lands traversed by H-to the Committee on the Public of Congress-to the Committee on the Judiciary. Landa . By :Mr. CRU}1P: A bill (H. R. 1096) making an appropriation Also, a bill (H. R. 1123) authorizing the Court of Claims to adju­ ,fox a steam fog whistle at Ottawa Point, entrance to Tawas Bay, dicate certain claims ru.i.sjng under thB provisions of the act of Lake Huron-to thB Committee on Interstate and Foreign Com­ March 12, 1863, entitled "An act to provide for the collection of merce. abandoned property, and for the prevention of frauds in insurrec­ By Mr. LORIMER: A bill (H. R. 1097) authorizing the SeCl·e­ tionary districts within the United States ·~-to the Committee on taxy of the Navy to enter into a contract for the purchase of War Claims. -armo:r plate fm· use of the Governm~nt for a period of twenty By Mr. LOVERING: A bill (H. R. 1124) for the erection of a years, at not exceeding $240 per ton-to the Committee on Naval public building at Plymouth, Mass.-to the Committee on Publio .Aifairs. Buildings and Grounds. .. 92 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. MARon 19, , ------·------r------1 By Mr. EVANS: A bill (H. R. 1125) to provide for the erection the erection of a public building thereon at Woodland, in thf) ll of a monument to Abraham Lincoln-to the Committee on the State of California-to the Committee on Public Buildings and Library. . Grounds. By Mr. EDDY: A bill (H. R. 1126) providing for free homesteads Also, a bill (H. R. 1151) to authorize the purchase of the prop.. on the public lands for actual bona fide settlers and reserving the erty known as the Corcoran Art Gallery, in the city of Washing.. ' public lands for that purpose-to the Committee on the Public ton, D. C.-to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. Lands. Also, a bill (H. R. 1152) to provide for organizing a naval r~ By Mr. BROWNLOW: A bill (H. R. 1127) to create a new serve battalion in the District of Columbia-to the Committee on division in the eastern judicial district of the State of Tennessee- Naval Affairs. to the Committee on the Judiciary. · Also, a bill (H. R. 1153) to provide for the purchase of a site By Mr. RICHARDSON (by request): A bill (H. R. 1128) to ex­ and the erection of a public building thereon at Alameda, in the' tend the use3 of the mail service-to the Committee on the Post­ State of California-to the Committee on Public Buildings and1 Office and Post-Roads. Grounds. i By Mr. BROWNLOW:· A bill (H. R. 1129) empowering and Also, a bill (H. R. 1154) providing for the use by the United directing the Secretary of the Navy to furnish 1 piece of con­ States of devices covered by letters patent-to the Committee on 1 demned cannon and 24 cannon balls to the Grand Army of the Patents. 1 Republic post and the town of Elizabethton, Tenn.-to the Com­ By Mr. BULL: A bill (H. R. 1155) granting obsolete shot and ; mittee on Naval Affairs. shell to States wherein the Government has built batteries-to the By Mr. CLARDY: A bill (H. R. 1130) to secure open and unre­ Committee on Military Affairs. 1 stricted markets in foreign countries for American tobacco-to By Mr. SPARKMAN: A bill (H. R. 1156) to grant land to th& the Committee on Ways and Means. State of Florida for the use of the normal college for white pupils' By Mr. SPERRY: A bill (H. R. 1131) concerning delivery of at De Funiak Springs and for the use of the normal college at' letters in rural towns-to the Committee on the Post-Office and Tallahassee for colored pupils-to the C~mmittee on the Publi6 Post-Road.s. L~~ ) Also, a bill (H. R. 1132) for the erection of a public building at Also, a bill (H. R. 1157) making an appropriation for the pur.. Waterbury, Conn.-to the Committee on Public Buildings and pose of constructing a sidewalk in front of the public building at\ Grounds. Pensacola, Fla.-to the Committee on Publio Buildings and' Also, a bill (H. R. 1133) for the erection of a public building at Grounds. I Meriden, Conn.-to the Committee on Public Buildings and Also, a bill (H. R. 1158) to furnish the reports of the United! Grounds. States circuit courts of appeals to the various district and circuitj By Mr. BRUNDIDGE: A bill (H. R. 1134) to amend section courts, and circuit courts of appeals of the United States-to the 2455 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended by Committee on the Judiciary. l "An act to amend section 2455 of the Revised Statutes of the Also, a bill (H. R. 1159) to establish a fish-hatching and fish·, United States," approved February 26, 1895-to the Committee on culture station in the State of Florida-to the Committee on the the Public Lands. Merchant Marine and Fisheries. I By Mr. MILL.E~ (by request): A bill (H. R.1135)_ granting re­ Also, a bill (H. R. 1160) to donate certain condemned cannon to lief to West Vrrgtma State troops-to the Committee on War the city of Pensacola, Fla., for ornamental purposes-to the Com-1 Claims. mittee on Naval Affairs. I By Mr. BRODERICK: A bill (H. R. 1136) to raise the age of Also, a bill (H. R. 1161) to amend an act entitled "An act grant. protection for girls in the District of Columbia to 18 years-to the ing pensions to the survivors of the Indian wars of 1832 to 1842, Committee on the Judiciary. · · inclusive, known as the Black Hawk war, Creek war, Cherokee. By Mr. LITTLE: A bill (H. R. 1137) to prohibit the sale of distm·bances, and the Seminole war," approved July 27, 1892-td1 intoxicating liquors in the Capitol building, and for other pur­ the Committee on Pensions. / poses-to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. By Mr. WANGER: A bill (H. R. 1162) to fix the compensation Also, a bill (H. R. 1138) to provide a public building for the use of district superintendents of life-saving stations-to the Commit-~ of the post-office and other civil offices of the city of Pine Bluff, tee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. ' 1 ATk.-to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. Also, a bill (H. R. 1163) to fix the compensation of the crews ot1 Also, a bill (H. R. 1139) to provide for a building for the use of life-saving stations-to the Committee on Interstate and Foreigil1 the post-office, office of the superintendent of the Hot Springs Commerce. I Reservation, and other civil offices in the city of Hot Springs, Also, a bill (H. R.1164) amending section 2 of the pension act oft .A.rk.-to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. June 27, 1890-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. I Also, a bill (H. R. 1140) to provide for the free coinage of gold Also, a bill (H. R. 1165) amending section 3 of the pension act ofj and silver and the maintenance of the reserve fund, and for other June 27, 1890-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. purposes-to the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures. By Mr. RAY of New York: A bill (H. R.1166) authorizing and, · By Mr. CURTIS of Iowa: A bill (H. R. 1141) authorizing the directing the Secretary of the Navy to furnish to L. L. Egglestoli' Commissioners of the District of Columbia to accept the bequest Post, No. 184, Department of New York, Grand Army of the Re-~ of the late Peter Von Essen for the use of the public white schools public, of Deposit, N.Y., a condemned cannon-to the Committee1 of that portion of said District formerly known as Georgetown­ on Military Affairs. l to the Committee on the District of Columbia. By Mr. GAINES: A bill (H. R. 1167) to construct a road to the By Mr. HENDERSON: A bill (H. R. 1142) to reclassify railway national cemetery at Dover, Tenn.-to the Committee on Military1l postal clerks and prescribe their salaries-to the Committee on the Affairs. Post-Office and Post-Roads. By Mr. CUMMINGS: A bill (H. R. 1168) for the establishment· By M;r. HILBORN: A bill (H. R. 1143) to amend section 1004, of a light and fog-signal station near Homer, Kachemak Bay* I Revised Statutes of the United States-to the Committee on the Cook Inlet, Alaska-to the Committee on Interstate and. Foreign! Judiciary. Commerce. 1 Also, a bill (H. R. 1144) to punish the fraudulent use of inspec­ By Mr. OTJEN: A bill (H. R. 1169) providing for a naval, tion stamps or counterfeits t4ereof-to the Committee on the Judi­ training station on Lake Michigan, at the city of Milwaukee, in' ciary. the State of Wisconsin-to the Committee on Naval Affairs. , Also, a bill (H. R. 1145) to provide relief for such employees in By Mr. GILLETT of Massachusetts: A bill (H. R. 1110) to pro-­ United States navy-yards as may be disabled by accident while tect State antigambling laws from nullification through interstate' in the performance of their duty, and, in the event of fatal casu­ gambling by telegraph, telephone, or otherwise-to the Commit: alties, for the relief of their suffering dependents-to the Com- tee on the Judiciary. mittee on Naval Affairs. · By Mr. McRAE: A bill (H. R. 1171) to provide further perma­ Also, a bill (H. R. 1146) to amend the Articles for the Govern­ nent improvement of the Ouachita River-to the Committee on ment of the Navy-to the Committee on Naval Affairs. Rivers and Harbors. Also, a bill (H. R. 1147) for the constJ:uction of a wooden dry By Mr. LITTLE: A bill (H. R. 1581) for the better govern.ment dock at the United States navy-yard, Mare Island, California-to of Hot Springs Reservation, and for other purposes-to the Com·' the Committee on Naval Affairs. mittee on the Public Lands. ' Also, a bill (H. R. 1148) to provide for the erection and equip­ By Mr. TATE: A bill (H. R. 1582) to provide to whom contracts ment of a gun factory at Benicia, Cal., for finishing and assem­ for carrying mails shall be awarded-to the Committee on the Post­ bling ordnance for the Army and Navy-to the Committee on Office and Post-Roads. , Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 1583) to provide for the construction of a mac­ Also, a bill (H. R. 1149) to provide for the purchase of a site adamized roadway from the town of Fort Gibson, Ind. T., to the' and the erection of a public building thereon at Oakland, in the United States national cemetery near Fort Gibson-to the Coni''1 State of Californiar-to the Committee on Public Buildings and mittee on Military Affairs. Grounds. Also, a bill (H. R. 1534) to define the liability of receivers o~ managers of railroads or other property appointed by the Unitedi Also0 a bill (H. R.1150) to provide for the purchase of a siteand 1897. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 93 ~

States courts, to prescribe where and how they ~an be sued and By Mr. HEPBURN: A joint resolution (H. Res. 26) for the pre- ' served, etc.-to the Committee on the Judiciary. ' vention of the introduction and spread of contagious and infectious · Also, a bill (H. R. 1585) to repeal the act of March 3,1887, r!3gu­ diseases into the United States-to the Committee on Interatate lating the removal of cases from State courts-to the Committee and Foreign Commerce. on the Judiciary. By Mr. LOUDENSLAGER: A resolution (House Res. No. 15) Also, a bill (H. R. 1586) to amend section 3331 of the Revised providing that the House go into Committee of the Whole for con­ Statutes of the United States-to the Committee on the Judiciary. sideration of private-pension bills and bills removing political dis­ By Mr. YOST: A bill (H. R. 1587) to aid and encourage mili­ abilities and charges of desertion at 5 o'clock p. m. on each Fri­ tary training and instruction by donation of public land-to the day, and that the committee then take a recess until 8 o'clock Committee on the Public Lands. p.m. for the purpose of considering said bills-to the Committee By :Mr. COOPER of Texas: A bill (H. R. 1588) to authorize the on Rules. President to appoint five commissioners of claims-to the Commit­ By Mr. HILBORN: A resolution (House Res. No. 16) request· tee on ·war Claims. ing the Secretary of the Navy to furnish the House certain infor- · By Mr. BRUNDIDGE: A bill (H. R. 1589) in relation to con­ mation relating to promotions of meritorious warrant officers of tempts of court--to the Committee on the Judic~ary. the Navy-to the Committee on Naval Affairs. By Mr. LOUD: A bill (H. R. 1590) to provide for licenses to cer­ By Mr. BULL: A resolution (House Res. No. 17) to employ an tain officers of seagoing pa. ss~nger steam yesscls-to the Commit­ additional clerk in the file room of the House-to the Committee tee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries. on Accounts. Also, a bill (H. R. 1591) to increas3 the efficiency of the postal By :Mr. JONES of Washington: A memorial of the legislature service-to the Committee on the Post-Office ar:d Post-Roads. of the State of Washington, a'3king Congress to appropriate Also, a bill (H. R. 1392) to amend the postal laws relating to 5150,000 for the purpose of building a harbor and light-house at second-clas3 mail matter-to the Committee on the Post-Office and the mouth of Quillayute RivPr, in the State of Washington-to Post-Roads. · the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Uommerce. Also, a bill (H. R. 1593) to f:1cilitate the construction, working, and maintenance of telegmphic communication between the United States, the Hawaiian lslands, Japan, and Australasia, ancl PRIVATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS INTRODUCED. to promote commerce-to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Under clause 1 of Rule XXII, private bills and resolutions of Commerce. the foEowing titles were introduced and severally referred as Also, a bill (H. R. 1534) for e3tablishing a fog-signal vet:;sel at follows: San Francisco Bar, California-to the Committee on Inter8tate By :Mr. ADAMSON: A bill (H. R. 1172) granting a pension to and Foreign Commerce. Samuel Burns-to the Committee on Pensions. . Also, a bill (H. R. 15~5) to amend an act to permit the use of By .Mr. ALEXANDER: A bill (H. R. 1173) for the relief of the right of way through public lands for tramroads, canals, and Warren A. Woodson-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. reservoirs, and for other purposes-to the Committee on the Pub­ By Mr. BELL: A bill (H. R. ll74) granting an honorable dis­ lic Lands. charge to John Holderby-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 1596) to amend the postal laws relating to Also, a bill (H. R. 1175) for the relief of Patrick Morris-to the use of postal cards-to the Committee on the Post-Office and Po3t­ C0mmittee on Invalid Pensions. Roads. Also, a bill {H. R. 1176) for the relief of William E. Griffiths-, Also, a bill (H. R. 1597) to amend section 17, chapter 180, of the to the Comm.:ittee on :M.ilitary Affairs. · Revised Statutes of the United States, relating to postal laws-to Also, a bill (H. R. 1177) for the relief of John Warner-to the the Committee on tho Post-Office and Post-Ro3ds. Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. HEPBURN: A bill (H. R. 1598) to forbid the transmis­ Also, a bill (H. R. 1178) granting an increase of pension to sion by mail or interstate commerce of any picture or description Lloyd BeaU-to the Committee on Pensions. of any prize fight or any of its accessories-to the Committee on Also, a bill (H. R. 1179) for the relief of Barbary Brooks-to Interstate and li'oreign Commerce. the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. KITCHIN: A bill (H. R. 1599) providing for the erec­ Also, a bill (H. R. 1180) granting a pension to Reuben Balin­ tion of a public building in the city of Durham, N. C.-to the ger-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Committee on Pnblic Buildings and Grounds. Also, a bill (H. R. 1181) granting an increase of pension to By Mr. SHERMAN: A bill (H. R. 1629) to authorize the Secre· Carrie F. Bissell, of Pueblo, Colo.-to the Committee on Invalid tary of the Treasury to secure payment of certain bonds ancl Pensions. • stocks owned by the United States and held under authority of Also, a bill (H. R. 1182) granting an increase of pension to Mrs. the act of Congress of August 15, 1894, relating to the custody John Fay, of Pueblo, Colo.-to the Committee on Invalid Pen- · of the Indian trust fund-to the Committee on Indian Affairs. sions. · Also, a bill (H. R. 1630) to provide for the purchase of a site Also, a bill (H. R. 1183) granting a pension to T. R. Le Tel­ and the erection of a public building thereon at Littlefalls, in the lier-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. State of New York-to the Committee on Pnblic Buildings and Also, a bill (H. R. 1184) granting an honorable discharge to Grounds. Thomas B. Hanoum-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 1631) to provide for the pm·chase of a site Also, a bill (H. R. 1185) for the relief of D. H. Dickason-to the and the erection of a public building thereon at Rome, in the State Committee on Claims. of New York-to the Committee on Public Btrildings and Grounds. Also, a bill (H. R. 1186) for pension to Joseph N. Nash, late By Mr. WHEELER of Alabama: A bill (H. R. 1632) to reduce corporal Company A, Thirty-seventh Regiment Iowa Volunteer salaries so long as the gold standard is continued-to the Com­ Infantry-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. mittee on Appropriations. Also, a bill (H. R. 1187) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R.1633) to donatethepubliclandslocated within Alvin F. Kimball-to the Committee on Pensions. the State of Alabama to the State of Alabama for educational pur­ Also, a bill (H. R. 1188) for the relief of Thomas H. Breen-to poses-to the Committee on the Public Land~. the Committee on Indian Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 1634) making appropriation for improvement Also, a bill (H. R. 1189) for the relief of William Morehead, of of the Tennessee River-to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. Lake City, Colo.-to the Committee on 'Var Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 1635) for the relief of homesteaders-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 1190) granting a pension to Charles F. Holly, Committee on the Public Lands. of Pueblo, Colo., late captain of Company H, Second Regiment By Mr. LORIMER: A jo~nt resolution (H. Res. 22) relative to Colorado Volunteer Cavalry-to the Committee on Invalid Pen­ improvement of Chicago Rive~ from its mouth to the stock yards, sions. on its South Branch, and to Bel:nont avenue, on theNorth Branch­ Also, a bill (H. R. 1191) for the relief of George F. McReynolds, to the Committee on Rivers alld Harbors. late of Company B, Tenth Illinois Cavalry-to the Committee on By Mr. CUMMINGS: A joint resolution (H. Res. 23) to author­ Claims. ize the purchase of the pain'G~ ng by Victor Nehlig representing Also, a bill (H. R. 1192) granting a pension to Michael Devine, Pocahontas sa.ving the life of Capt. John Smith-to the Committee of La Junta, Colo., late of Company L, Second New York Artil­ on the Library. lery-to the Committee on In>alid Pensions. Also, a joint resolution (H. Res. 24) relative to the medal of Also, a bill (H. R. 1193) granting an honorable discharge to honor authorized by the acts of December 21, 1861, and July 16, Andrew J. Branson-to the Committee on Military Affairs. 1862-to the Committee on Naval Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 1194) for the relief of Sarah S. Baker, of By Mr. EVANS: A joint resolution (H. Res. 25) amending a joint Montrose, Colo. -to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. resolution continuing in force section 2 of the act approved June 3, Also, a bill (H. R. 1195) for the relief of George McCracken-to 1896, entitled "An act to repeal section 61 of 'An act to reduce the Committee on Invalid Pensions. taxation, to provide revenue for the Government, and for other Also, a bill (H. R. 1196) for the relief of P. B. Monell-to the purposes,-'" which became a law August 2S, 1894-to the Commit­ Committee on Military AffairS; tee on Ways and Means. Also, a bill (H. R. 1197) for the relief of Henry C. Smith, late of CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. MAROH 19,

Company B, Eleventh Regiment Indiana Volunteers-to the Com­ of William Irvin, New Canton, Tenn.-to the Committee on War mittee on Invalid Pensions. Claims. .Also, a bill (H. R. 1198) to provide for the ;reinstatement in the Also, a bill (H. R. 1234) granting a pension to certain East Ten­ Railway Mail Service of C. W. Merrick, of Pueblo, Colo.-to the nesseeans engaged in the secret service of the United States during Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. the war of the rebellion-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 1199) granting an honorable discharge to By Mr. CARMACK: A bill (H. R.1235) for the relief of William Harrison S. Crites-to the Committee on Military Affairs. A. Galloway, of Shelby County, Tenn.-to the Committee on War .Also, a bill (H. R. 1200) for the relief of Willbert Bowen, of Claims. Cripple Creek, Colo.-to the Committee on Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 1236) for the relief of A. M. Applewhite, ad­ Also, a bill (H. R. 1201) granting an honorable discharge to Rol­ ministrator of Andrew J. Newsom, deceased, late of Fayette Ian Prentice-to the Committee on Military Affairs. County, Tenn.-to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 1202) for the relief of Drury Shrewsbury-to Also, a bill (H. R. 1237) for the relief of Sarah S. McLemore, the Committee on Military Affairs. administ1·atrix John C. :McLemore, deceased, late of Shelby Also, a bill (H. R. 1203) for the relief of Joseph Clucas~to the County, Tenn.-to the Committee on War Claims. Committee on Claims. .Also, a bm (H. R. 1238) for the rfllief of Joseph Townsend, ad­ Also, a bill (H. R. 1204) for the relief of Gerald Russell-to the ministrator of Peter Townsend, deceased, late of Tipton County, Committee on War Claims. Tenn.-to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 1205) granting a pension to John J. Lockrey­ Also, a bill (H. R. 1239) for the relief of Ann Kannell, admin­ to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. istratrix John Kannell, deceased, late of Memphis, Tenn.-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 1206) granting an increase of pension to Committee on War Claims. Sophia W. Buxton, of Durango, Colo.-to the Committee on In­ Also, a bill (H. R. 1240) for the relief of .M:. V. Dalton, admin­ valid Pensions. istratrix of Carson R. Dalton, deceased, late of Shelby County., Also, a bill (H. R. 1207) granting a pension to Frank J. Hood, Tenn.-to the Committee on War Claims. of Georgetown, Colo., and late of Company D, Thirty-seventh Also, a bill (H. R. 1241) for the relief of H. R. Thomas, admin­ New Jersey Volunteer Infantry, and Company A, Two hundred istrator of B. R. Thomas, deceased, late of Shelby County, Tenn.­ and fourteenth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers-to the Com­ to the Committee on War Claims. mittee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 1242) for the relief of George W. Beasley, of Also, a bill (H. R. 1208) for the relief of J. H. Daniel, of Flor­ Fayette County, Tenn.-to the Committee on War Claims. ence, Colo.-to the Committee on Claims. Also, a bill (H. R.1243) for the relief of J. Harvey Mathes, ad­ Also, a bill (H. R. 1209) for the relief of G. W. Seaman, late ministrator of Benjamin Cash, deceased, late of Shelby County, postmaster at Red Mountain, Colo.-to the Committee on Claims. Tenn.-to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a'bill (H. R. 1210) for the relief of John H. Shaw, of Del Also, a bill (H. R. 1244) for the relief ofT. S. Galloway, admin­ Norte, Colo.-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. istrator of Darling Allen, deceased, late of Fayette County, Tenn.- . Also, a bill (H. R. 1211) for the relief of 0. E. Noland, of Man­ to the Committee on War Claims. cos, Colo.-to the Committee on Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 1245) for the relief ofT. S. Galloway, admin­ .Also, a bill (K R. 1212) granting an increase of pension to istrator of Thomas J. Waller, deceased, late of Fayette County, Henry Logan, of Buenavista, Colo.-to the Committee on Invalid Tenn.-to the Committee on War Claims. :Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 1246) for the relief of C. B. Bryan & Co.-to Also, a bill (H. R. 1213) granting an honorable discharge toW. the Committee on Claims. G. Neeley, of Canyon City, Colo.-to the Committee on Military Also, a bill (H. R. 1247} for the relief of Mary E. Bates, admin­ Affairs. istratrix of James K. Bates, deceased, late of Shelby County, Also, a bill (H. R. 1214) to pension James N. Livengood-to the Tenn.-to the Committee on War Claims. Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 1248) for the relief of C. M. Hunt, adminis­ Also a bill (H. R. 1215) to pension Stephen B. Yeoman-to the trator of John W. Htmt, deceased, late of Hardeman County, Committee on Invalid Pensions. Tenn.-to the Committee on War Claims. By Mr* BERRY (by request): A bill (H. R. 1216) for the relief Also, a bill (H. R. 1249) for the relief of M. A. Gober, admin­ of Stewart & Co. and A. P. H. Stewart, agent.-to the Committee istrator of Joseph T.Abernathy, deceased,lateof FayetteCounty, on Claims. Tenn.-to the Committee on War Claims. By Mr. BROMWELL: A bill (H. R. 1217) for the relief of Also: a bill (H. R. 1250) for the relief of ThDmas N. Doyle, ad­ Thomas G. Tiernon, late captain of Company H, Tenth Ohio ministrator of Newton Doyle, late of Fayette County, Tenn.-to Volunteer Infantry-to the Committee on Military Affairs. the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 1218) for the relief of John L. Jefferies, late Also~ a bill (H. R. 1251) for the relief of Lucy E. Dowdy, execu­ captain of Company K, One hundred and ~nth Regi_D?-ent Penn~yl­ trix of W. P. Dowdy, deceased, late of Fayette County, Tenn.­ vanja Volunteer Infantry-to the Committee on Military Affarrs. tothe Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 1219) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 1252) for the relief of Charles F. Beezley, ad. Fannie Kautz-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. ministrator of John C. Lanier, deceased, late of Shelby County, By Mr. BROWNLOW: A bill (H. R.1220) for the relief of Lewis Tenn.-to the Committee on War Claims. · F. Self-to the Committee on Claims. .Also, a bill (H. R. 1253) for the relief of B. J. Kimbrough, ad­ Also, a bill (H. R. 1221) for the relief of G. T. Larkin-to the ministrator of James Kimbrough, deceased, late of Shelby Committee on Claims. - County, Tenn-to the Committee on War Claims. AL<>o, a bill (H. R. 1222) to correct the muster roll of William By Mr. CATCHINGS: A bill (H. R. 1254) for the relief of the tB. Nelson in the First Tennessee Volunteer Infantry and in the legal representatives of Ann D. Halsey, deceased-to the Commit­ ·Fifth Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry-to the Committee on Mili­ tee on War Claims. tary Affairs. By Mr. COONEY: A bill (H. R. 1255) to pension Col. James Also, a bill (H. R. 1223) for the relief of R. R. Robinson-to the Lindsay-to the Committee on PeDSions. Committee on Claims. By Mr. CRUMP: A bill (H. R. 1256) to increase the pension of Also, a bill (H. R. 1224) for the relief of SolomonS. Crosswhite­ Capt. Isaac D. Toll-to the Committee on Pensions. to the Committee on Military Affairs. By Mr. CUMMINGS: A bill (H. R. 1257) granting a pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 1225) to a-mend the military record of certain Louisa Pasquet-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. enlisted men of the war of the rebellion, named therein, and for Also, a bill (H. R. 1258) for the relief of Mrs. Ellen O'Rorke­ other purposes-to the Committee on Military Affairs. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 1226) for the relief of Col. S. K. N. Patton­ Also, a bill (H. R. 1259) for the relief of Thomas K. Hughes­ to the Committee on War Claims. to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 1227) for the relief of Lincoln S. Jones, of Also, a bill (H. R. 1260) granting an honorable discharge to Tennessee-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Carl P. Larsen-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 1228) for the relief of Isaac Esterley, of Also, a bill (H. R. 1261) for the relief of Sn.muel Sentenne-to Cocke County, Tenn.-to the Committee on War Claims. the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 1229) for the relief of Mary E. Simerley...:._to Also, a bill (H. R. 1262) granting a pension to Annie M. Post­ the Committee on War Claims. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 1230) for the relief of Alexander Cawood, of Also, a bill (H. R. 126.3) for the relief of John Fox-to the Com­ Tennessee-to the Committee on War Claims. mittee on Naval Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 1231) for the relief of Mack Fulton, of Mor­ Also, a bill (H. R. 1264) for relief of Mary Oulahan, widow of ristown, Tenn.-to the Committee on War Claims. Richard Oulahan-to the Committee on 1\filitary Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 1232) for the relief of the heirs of William Also, a bill (H. R. 126;)) for the relief of Albert H. Gearing-to Wallace, of Tennessee-to the Committee on War Claims. the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 1233) for relief of Caty Jones, administratrix Also, a bill (H. R. 1266) to reimburEe the mayor, aldermen, and . .

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commonalty of the city of New York-for moneys expended for the captain in United States Army, retired-to the Committee on Mili­ United States in raising, equipping, supplying, and arming mili­ tary Affairs. tia and volllllteer forces, and in other ways to aid in suppressing By Mr. HARTMAN: A bill (H-R. 1303) to provide compensa­ the rebellion-to the Committee on War Claims. tion for a bridge and foT buildings and other improvements con­ Also, a bill (H. R. 1267) for relief of Geo-rge C. Ellison-to the structed by certain persons upon publio lands afterwards set apart Committee on Claims. and reserved as the Yellowstone National Park-tothe Committee By Mr. DAVIDSON of~i.Bconsin: A bill (H. R.12~8) tocorr~~t on Claims. the military record of Patnck Hanley-to the Comm"Ittee on Mili­ By Mr. HAY: A bill (H. R. 1304:) for the relief of the estate of tary Affairs. Henry M. Baker, deceased, late of Frederick County, Va.-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 1269) to grant an honorable discharge to Committee on War Claims. Clause Maxfield-to the Committee on :Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 1305) for the relief of the heirs of Sarah N. Also a bill (H. R. 1270) granting a pension to Cornelia A. Randolph, of Virginia-to the Committee on the Library. Thompson-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. HENDERSON: A bill (H. R. 1306) increasing the pen­ .Also, a bill (H. R. 1271) granting a pension to Clara A. Short­ sion of William Warner to $72 a month-to the Committee on to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Invalid Pensions By Mr. DE ARMONIY. A bill (H. R. 1272) for the relief of By Mr. HILBORN: A bill (H. R. 1307) to correct the naval Thomas Rosbrugh-to the Committee on the Public Lands. record of G. K. Knowlton, late of the United States Navy--to the Also a bill (H. R. 1273) for the relief of Freeman W. Peverly­ Committee on Naval Affairs. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 1308) granting a pension to Leota K. Gutier­ .Also, a bill (H. R. 1274:} for the relief of Christina Daniels-to rez-to the Committee on Pensions. the Committee on Invalid Pensions. · Als?.1 a biD. (H. R. 1309) referring the claim of HannahS. Crane Also, a bill (H. R.1275) for the relief of John D. Hudelson-to and otners to the Court of Claims-to the Committee on Claims. the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 1310) for the relief of the settlers on the Also, a bill (H. R. 1276) for the relief of James B. Martin-to Rancho Corte De Madera Del Presidio, Marin County, Cal.-to the the Committ~e on Invalid Pensions. Committee on the Public Lands. Also, a bill (H. R. 1277) for the relief of Daniel W. Snider-to i Also, a bill (H. R. 1311) granting a pension to George K. Knowl­ the Committee on Invalid Pensions. ton-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 1278) for the relief of Isaac N. Denham-to Also, a bill (H. R. 1312) to correct the military record of Con­ the Committee on Invalid Pensions. rad Hyne-to the Committee on Military Affairs. .Also, a bill (H. R. 1279) ~o grant a pensi~n to Mrs. B. C. Lowe­ Also, a bill (H. R. 13!3) granting a pension to Margaret J. to the Committee on Pensions. Hart--to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 1280) for the relief of S. E. Edwards-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 131:4:) relative to the Rancho Colus, in the Committee on Pe:DBions. State of California-to the Committee on Private Land Claims. By Mr. EDDY: A bill (H. R~ 1281) granting a pension to Julia Also, a bill (H. R. 1315) granting an increase pf pension to E. G. Lewis-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. William Boyer-to the Committee on Pensions. By Mr. ELLIS: A bill (H. R. 1282) for the 1·elief of M.S. Hell­ Also, a bill (H. R. 1316) granting a pension to Kate C. Me­ man-ta the Committee on Claims. Dougal-to the Committee on Naval Affairs. By Mr. EV.ANS~ A bill (H. R. 1283) to carry out the findings of Also~ a bill (H. R. 1317) to restore William McElroy, late a first . the Court of Cla:i!ms in the case of Thuma& W. Campbell, assignee lieutenant in the United States Army, to his former rank, and for of l\Iiles Kelly, against The United States-to the Committee on other purposes-to the Committee on Military Affairs. War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 1318) for the relief of the widow and minor Also, a bill (H. R. 1284) for the r&lief of W. J. Tapp & Co.~to children of John W. Geering, of Vallejo, Cal.-to the Committee the Committee on Claims. on Claims. .Also, a bill (H. R. 1285) for the relief of John Veeley-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 1319) for the relief of William R. Wheaton Committee on Claims. and Charles H. Chamberlain, of California-to the Committee on Also, a bill (H. R.1286) to carry out the findings of the Court of Claims. Claims in the case of the estate of William Thixton, deceased~to Also, a bill (H. R. 1320) to correct the military record,of Louis the Committee on War Claims. W. Mayer-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 1287) for the relief of Dr. John R. Hall, of Also, a bill (H. R. 1321) granting relief to Alexander W. Cha.m­ Lcmisville, Ky.-to the Committee on War Claims. bers-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 1288) for the relief of Samuel McKee-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 1322) granting a pension to Benjamin F. Committee on Claims. Howland-to the Committee on Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 1289) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 1323) to increase the pension of Mrs. Eliza-­ Thomas Crawford, of Louisville, Ky.-to the Committee on Pen­ beth D. Stevenson, widow of the late J.D. StevensonJ formerly a sions. colonel in the United States Army-to the Committee on Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 1290) for the relief of Capt. I. B. Webster, of Also, a bill (H. R. 1324) to correet the naval record of G. K. Lo-uisville, Ky.-to the Committee on War Claims. Knowlton, late of the United States Navy-to the Committee on Also, a bill (H. R. 1291) for the relief of G. Dwight Hamilton- Naval Affairs. to the Committee on War Claims. · Also, a bill (H. R. 1325) to correct the military record of Frank Also, a bill (H. R. 1292) granting an increase of pension to New­ D. Sweetser, late captain of Company E, Second (Berdan's) United ton H. Gaar, Louisville, Ky.-to the Committee on Pensions. States Sharpshooters, and to grant him an honorable discharge­ By Mr. FITZGERALD: A bill (H. R. 1293) for the amendment to the Committee on Military Affairs. of the record of Henry McAlevey, late an enlisted man in the By Mr. HOWARD of Georgia: A bill (H. R. 1326) for the relief United States Navy-to the Committee on Naval Affairs. of John A. Bates-to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 1294) for amendment- of the record of Felix By Mr. HOWE: A bill (H. R. 1327) for the relief of Thomas Sellim, late an enlisted man in the United States Navy-to the Sta~k-to the Committee on War Claims. Commitooe on Military Affaixs. By Mr. JETT: A bill (H. R. 1328) granting a pension to Amos Also, a bill (H. R. 1295) to increase the pension of Frederick G. Gustin, invalid son of Hugh A. Gustin, late corporal of Company Moore, late of Company I, One hundred and fifth Regiment New G, One hundred and thirtieth illinois Volunteer Infantry-to the York Volunteer Infantry-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 1296) for the amendment of the record of By Mr. JONES of Washington: A bill (H. R. 1329) for the relief James Johnson, late an enlisted man in the United States Navy­ of Myron E. Blllings-to the Committee on Claims. 'to the Committee on Military Affairs. By Mr. JOY (b-y request): A bill (H. R. 1330) for the relief of Also, a bill (H. R. 1297) to increase the pension of James F. William Wolfe-to the Committee on War Claims. 1\IcGunnigle, late of Company A, Ninth Regiment Massachusetts By Mr. KETCHAM: A bill (H. R. 1331) for the relief of Goff Volunteer Infantry-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. A. Hall-to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 1298) for the relief of the Globe Works, of By 1\fr. LACEY: A bill (H. R. 1332) granting a pension to Joseph Boston, Mass.-to the Committee on War Claims. K. Welt-to the Commit1 ee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. GAINES: A bill (H. R. 1299) for the relief of Payne, Also, a bill (H. R. 1333) authorizing a reappraisement of the James & Co.-to the Committee on War Claims. st~am transport boat Planter, captuTed by Robe1:t Smalls, and for Also, a bill (H. R. 1300) to confer jurisdiction on the Court of a distribution of proceeds thereof~to the Committee on War Claims in the case of The Book Agents of the Methodist Episcopal Claims. ,Church South against The United States-to the Committee on By Mr. LAMB: A bill (H. R. 1334:) granting a pension to Caro­ War Claims. line Willrinson-to the Committee on Pensions. t By Mr. HARMER: A bill (H. R. 1301) granting a pension to By Mr. LITTLE: A bHl (H. R. 1335) to pay heirs of John Rogers William P. Moran--to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. · and William Duval for legal se-rvices-to the Committee on Indian Also, a bill (H. R. 1302) for the relief of William N. Tisdall, Affairs. 96 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. YAReR 19,

Also, a bill (H. R. 1336) for the relief of Mrs. Mary L. Bryan, of widow of Matthew M. Trumbull-to the Committee on Invalid Grant County, Al'k.-to the Committee on War Claims. Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 1337) for the relief of the estate of William Also, a bill (H. R. 1374) to grant a pension to Elizabeth Sadler­ P. Burrough-to the Committee on Claims. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 1338) for the relief of the estate of John Kirk­ Also, a bill (H. R. 1375) for the relief of 0. C. Roberts-to the to the Committee on War Claims. Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 1339) to cal'ry out the findings of the Court Also, a bill (H. R. 1376) for the relief of John 0. Phillips-to of Claims in the case of the estate of Sterling .M. Turner, deceased­ the Committee on War Claims. to the Committee on War Claims. By Mr. LOUDENSLAGER: A bill (H. R. 1377) .for the relief Also, a bill (H. R. 1340) granting a pension to Cyrus D. John· of Joseph Curriden-to the Committee on War Claims. son-to the Committee on Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 1378) for the relief of the legal representa­ Also, a bill (H. R. 1341) for the relief of George H. Preddy-to tives of James R. Thompson, deceased-to the Committee on War the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 1342) for the relief of J. C. Thompson-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 1379) granting a pension to Ha:r:riet R. Mat­ Committee on Invalid Pensions. lack-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 1343) to grant an honorable discharge and Also, a bill (H. R. 1380) for the relief of Isaac N. Forrester-to remove the charge of ·desertion against John Kelly-to the Com­ the Committee on War Claims. mittee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 1381) granting an jncrease of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 1344) to grant an honorable discharge to and Elisha M. Luckett-to the Committee on Pensions. remove the charge of desertion against Thomas Hardin-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 1382) granting a pension to Anna B. Lloyd­ Committee on Military Affairs. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. ~

Helena,Ark. for destruction of its building~uring_thelate war by ~so, a bill (H. R. 1445) for the relief of Samuel Robbins-to the Federal Army-to1 the Committee on War Clauns. the Committee on Claims. Als9, a bill (H. R. 1408) for ~~ ~elief of the estate of William Also, a bill (H. R. 1446} to remove the cb.arge of desertion K. Sebastin, deceased, late of P ' 1 'ps County, Ark.-to the Com-­ against James E. Gray-tQ th~ Committee on Military Affairs. mittee on War Claims. Also1 a bill (H. R. i447) for the relief of Walter R. Gray-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 1409) fo:r the relief o~ TJJ_eophilus M. Hamil­ Comnnttee on Claims. ton, of Cros.'1 County, Ark.-to the 9ommittee on War p!aims. Also, a bill CEL R. i448) granting a. pension to John Dow-to the Also, a bill (H. lt. 1410) for the rehef of the e~tate of A. C. Ke!1", Committee on Invalid Pensions. deceased, late of Jackson County, Ark.-to the Committee on Alsot....a bill (ll. R.14A9) granting a pension to Ann S. Andrews­ War Claims. to the liOmmittee on 1nvhlid l?ensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 14J1) for the relief of. A.M. Scott adminis­ ..Also, a bill (Il. R. 1450) for the relief qf the heirs of William. trator of Sarah Slate, of Phillip~ Cqunty, Ark., as found.Aue bY.L\~& Pitcher and .A.kel Hayford l\lld Samuel Otis and George B. Fergu~· Cm,1Tt of Claims under the act of March S, 188~to the Commuwee son-to the Committee on War Claims. on War Claims. . Also, a bill (II. It 1451) gral}ting a pension to Susan W. New· Also, a bill (li. R. 1412) to place the name of Little Berry Sn1- ell-to the Committee on Invalid Pen~ons. livan on the pension roll-to the Committee on Pensions. Als9, a bill (H. R. 1492) for the relief of the owners of American Also, a bill (H. R. 1413) for ~h() relief of Dr. J.li. Se~ave~, ship Belle o[ Bath-to the Committee on Olaims. surgeon, UJ;~.ited St~tes Army-to the Comt:Q.ittee on War Claim.$. Also, a bill (H. R. 140S) for the relief of William S. Grant-to Also, a bill (H. R. 1414) for the relief of Thomas Y. Huddle~ the Com1pitte~ on War Clai.ms. ston-to the Committee on Pensions. Also, a b$ (H. R. 1454) to reiJtQVe the charge of desertion against Also, a bill (H.lt. 14!5) for the relief of M. B. Woodyard, Mr~. Char1e~ Apbott-to th.e Committee on Military A:ff.airs. Alice N. Ru~h, Mrs. Sue T. Smox, and Joseph N .. Woodya.rdl By ;Mr. PIERCE o£ :r"enn~ee: A. bU1 (li.li. 1455) tor the relie~ . heirs of Col. Humphrey M. Woodyard-to the Comrmttee on War of John A. ~oe, of G1bson C9unty, 'l'enh., as found, due by the Claims. Court of Ola4ns under the act of March S, 1883-to the Commit-· · Also, a bill (H. R. 1416) for the relief of Mrs. C. S. Davis and tee on War Claims. - Duren Lu.rry-to the dqmmittee on l?rivate Land Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 1456) for the relief of Mary lt. Rowlett, ad­ By Mr. McRAE: A bill (H. R. 1417) for the relief of Thomas m.infstratri;x: Caleb R. Clemenat dece~e4, l4te of Gibson County, 1 Mullen-tO the Committee on Military Affairs. 'tenn. 7 as fqund due by th~ ouri of Claims under the act of Also, a bill (H. R. 1418) for the relief of the estate of William M{l-JCli 3, 1883-totheCom.m.itteeon, WarCI!'ms. F. Martin, deceased-to the Committee on Claims. By Mr.llAY of New York: A bill (lt. . Ho anting an Also, a bill (H. R. 1419) for the relief of Robert Burton-to the j.ncrease of pensionCh.arlesW. W. Cole,_ia e of c¢n_~ny c, One' .Committee on Military~airs. hundred andfifty-fottrth :New York-to tne OomiD.ltte\"'on Invalid' Also, a bill (H. R. 1420) for the relief of William Crow-to the .Pension,s. .- Committee on War Claims. By Mr. ROBINSON of Indiana: A bill (H. R. 1456) granting a Also, a l;>ill (H. R. 1421) for the relief of Asa Townsend-to the pension to Joshua Parker-to the Corp.mJ.ttee on Invalid PensiOJl$. j Committee on Claims. . l3y Mr. E.USSELL: A QW (H. R~ 1459} granting an honorable' Also, a bill (H. R. 1422) for the relief of J. H. Langston-to the f\ey~(collected Also, a bill (H. R. 1471) gran,ting a pension to Lucy 1t!oore, by the United States-to the Comnnttee on War Clall!lS. widow of Amos Moore-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Alf?o, a bill (H. R. 1435) for the relief of F~y B. Randolph Also, a bill (R. R. 1472) grantin~ a pension to Dorcus F. :Mur~ · and Dora L. Stark-to the Committee on War Cl~:iws. phy, widow of Rufus D. K.. Murphy-to the Committee on Invalid By Mr. MILLER (by request): A bill ~H. R, 1436) reco~ Pensions. Company A of the Eleventh West Virgruia. Militia as Un.iied Sta~ Also, a bill (H. R. 1473) for the relief of the. heirs. of Samuel T. sold,}ers etc.-to the Conunittee on Military ~· Carrow, late of North Carolina, deceased-to the Committee on Also (by request), a bill (H. ~· 1437) reco~g Comp~ny B War Claims. of the Eleventh West Virginia Militia as United States soldiers­ By Mr. SMITH of Illinois: A bip. (H. R. 1474) to refer the claim to the Committee on Military AJ¥airs. of Joseph W. Parish to the Secretary of the Treasury for exami­ By 1\Ir.M.tLLIKEN': A bil,l (H. R. 1438) to remove the charge nation and pajment of any balance found aue-to the Committee of desertion against Louis B. Weymouth-to the Committee on on Claims. Milit-ary Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 1475) to restore a~d retire as a captain of Al1?o, a bill (H. R. 1439) granting a; pension to Herbert W. cavalry, Thomas J. Spencer, late captain, Tenth United States L each-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Cavalry-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H.R. 1440) to remove the char~eof desertion against Also, a bill (H. R. 1476) for the relief of the Continental Fire Daniel W. M;orto~-to the Committee on Military Affair'S. Insurance Company and others-to the Committee on Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 1441) granting a pension to Robert W. By ltb·. SAMUEL W. SMITH: A bill (H. R.1477) for the relief Groves-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. of Frank Martin-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R.1442) granting an in01·ease ofpension to John By Mr. SPARKMAN: A bill (H. R. 1478) for the relief of Joseph W. Channing-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Y. Porter, late captain and assistant surgeon, United States Also, a bill (H. R. 1443) granting a penmon to Olive Brown-to Army-to the Committee on Military Affairs. the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 1479) for the relief of the heirs of Manette Also, a bill (H. R. 1444) for t4e relief of the late owners of the M¥Sons~ deceased-to the Committee on War Claims. brig Abby Ellen-to the Committee ori. War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 1480) granting an honorable di.schar,ge to xx_:x-.7. 98 CONGRESSIONAL -REOORD-HOUSEo MARCH 19,

,James Brown, of Company A, First Florida Volunteers-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 1520} to amend the military record of J. R. Committee on :Military Affairs. Utley,late private of Company D, Third Arkansas Cavalry, United Also, a bill (H. R.1481) granting a pension to Jesse H. Tucker States Army-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Sarasota, Manatee County, Fla.-to the Committee on Invalid Also, a bill (H. R. 1521) to correct the record and muster of Pensions. Henry N. Posey in Company A, Fourth Arkansas Volunteer In­ Also, a bill (H. R. 1482) reinl.bursing T. F. McGourin, late post­ fantry, and to discharge him from Company I, Second Arkansas master at DeFuniak Springs, Fla.-to the Committee on Claims. Volunteer Infantry, etc.-to the Committee on Military Affairs. By Mr. SPERRY: A bill (H. R. 1483) granting a pension to By Mr. VAN VOORIDS: A bill (H. R. 1522) to remove the .JaneL. Buckingham-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. charge of desertion in the case of Oliver Armsey-to the Commit­ Also, a bill (H. R. 1484) for the relief of Helen Larned-to the tee on Militarv Affairs. Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 1523) to correct the military record of John By Mr. STURTEVANT: A bill (H. R. 1485) to increase the H. Finfrock-to the Committee on Military Affairs. pension of Caroline V. English-to the Committee on InvalidPen­ Also, a bill (H. R. 1524) to remove the charge of desertion from .sions. the na.val record of.James A . .McElroy-to the Committee on Also, a bill (H. R. 1486) granting an jncrease of pension to Isa­ Naval Affairs. bella H. Silvey, widow of Lieut. Col. William Silvey, deceased-to Also, a bill (H. R. 1525) for the relief of Theodore D. McCad­ the Committee on Invalid Pensions. don-to the Committee on Military Affairs. By Mr. TATE: A bill (H. R.1487) to pension Catharine Moon­ Also, a bill (H. R. 1526) to grant an honorable discharge to John to the Committee on Pensions. A. White-to the Com.mittee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 1488) to pension Walter R. W. Atkins-to Also, a bill (H. R. 1527) to remove the charge of desertion from the Committee on Invalid Pensions. the military record of John Porcella-to the Committee on Military Also, a bill (H. R. 1489) for the :~;elief of Stephen M. Honeycutt­ Affairs. · to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 1528) for the relief of the widow of Robert C. Also, a bill (H. R. 1490) for the relief of Margaret S. Fain-to Berry, deceasec;I-to the Committee on Claims. the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 1529) granting an increase of pension to Wil­ Also, a bill (H. R. 1491) to pension Hix Patterson-to the Com­ liam H. H. Nevitt-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. mittee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 1530) granting a pension to Charles F. Also, a bill (H. R. 1492) to pension Dorcus Elliott, widow of Hamme-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Jesse Elliott-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R.1531) granting a pension to Jane Linn-to tha Also, a bill (H. R. 1493) for the relief of Hiram A. Darnell-to Committee on Invalid Pensions. the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 1532) to remove the ~arge of desertion from Also, a bill (H. R. 1494) for the relief of Samuel Garner-to the the military record of Nicholas Swingle-to the Committee on Committee on War Claims. Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 1495) for the relief of Webster R. W. Atkins­ Also, a bill (H. R. 1533) to remove the charge of desertion from to the Committee on Military Affairs. the military record of Christopher Parish-to the Committee on Also, a bill (H. R. 1496) for the relief of Sanford A. Pinyan-to Military Affairs. the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R.1534) for the relief of Benjamin F. Fortney, of Also, a bill (H. R. 1497) for the relief of James B. Fowler-to Belpre, Washington County, Ohio-to the Committee on Military the Committee on Military Affairs. Affa.irs. Also, a bill (H. R. 1498) to amend the records of the War De­ Also, a bill (H. R. 1535) for the relief of Columbus F. Hayward partment in case of Curtis C. Hutcheson-to the Committee on and the executor of Charlotte G. Hayward-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Claims. Also,-a bill (H. R. 1499) for the relief of William N. Hammon- Also, a bill (H. R. 1536) to muster into the United States service tree-to the Committee on Military Affairs. · and grant an honorable discharge to Charles Edward Hawn-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 1500) to amend the records of the War Depart­ Committee on Military Affairs. ment in the case of Jesse Elliott-to the Committee on Military Also, a bill (H. R.1537) to remove the charge of desertion from Affairs. the military record of John Snyder-to the Committee on Military Also, a bill (H. R. 1501) for the relief of Martha Mitchell, widow Affairs. of Thomas W. Mitchell, deceased-to the Committee on Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 1538) for the relief of Nicholas Krier and Also, a bill (H. R. 1502) for the relief of John M. Johnson-to others-to the Committee on Military Affairs. the Committee on War Claims. Also, a pill (H. R. 1539) granting a pension to Mary J. Fouta­ Also, a bill (H. R. 1503) to pension Synthia Ann Mason, widow to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. of Austin Md.son-to the Committee on Pensions. By Mr. WANGER: A bill (H. R. 1540) granting an increase of Also, a bill (H. R. 1504) to pay Mrs. Mary J. Hix certain money­ pen.Sion to William H. Oliver-to the Committee on Invalid Pen­ to the Committee on Claims. sions. Also, a bill (H. R. 1505) for the relief of George R. Mullins-to Also, a bill (H. R. 1541) granting an increase of pension to the Committee on Claims. · George W. Reed-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 1506) to increase the pension of Bedney F. Also, a. bill (H. R. 1542) for relief of John Breen, lately post­ McDonald, of Rail County, Ga.-to the Committee on Pensions. master at Gladwyne, Pa.-to the Committee on Claims. Also, a bill (H. R.1507) to pension Jason C. Chastain-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 1543) for the relief of Helen W. Mauck-to Committee <;>n Pensions. the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 1508) to pensio:a .Mrs. Marzey Collins, widow also, a bill (H. R. 1544) ~·anting a pension to Helen V. Rorer- of Charles 0. Collins-to the Committee on Pensions. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. · Also. a bill (H. R. 1509) to pension Sanford A. Pinyan-to the Also, a bill (Ii. R. 1545) for the relief of Samuel T. Morris-to Committee on Pensions. the Committee on :Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 1510) for the relief of George W. Hansard­ Also} a bill (H. R. 1546) gt·anting a pension to Mrs. Annie Wit­ to the Committee on War Claims. tenmyer-¥> the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 1511) for the relief of Benjamin Davis-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 1547) granting a pension to Sarah E. Daub­ Committee on Invalid Pensions. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 1512) for the relief of Hix Patterson-to the By Mr. WEYl\IOUTH: A bill (H. R.1548)" granting an increase Committee on Military Affairs. of pension to John Stewart-to the Committee on Invalid Pen­ By Mr. TAWNEY: A bill (H. R. 1513) to increase the pension sions. of Capt. John H. Mullen-to the Committee on Pensions. By Mr. WHEELER of Alabama: A bill (H. R. 1549) for the By Mr. TAYLOR of Alabama: A bill (H. R. 1514) for the relief relief of John B. Hardman, of Alabama, as found due by the Court of the Selma and Meridian Railroad Company-to the Committee of Claims under the act of March 3, 1883-to the Committee on on Claims. War Claims. · By .Mr. TERRY: A bill (H. R. 1515) to correct the milit~ry Also, a bill (H. R. 1550) for the relief of Thomas J. Hargiss, of record of William B. Smith-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Jackson Conn ty, Ala., as found due by the Court of Claims under Also,· a bill (H. R. 1516) for the relief of Mrs. Sallie Brown, of the act of March 3, 1S83-to the Committee on War Claims. Johnson County, Ark.-to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 1551) for the relief of William C. Williams, Also, a bill (H. R. 1517) for the relief of the estate of Elias N. of Center Star, Lauderdale County, Ala.-to the Committee on Conway, decease.d-to the Committee on War Claims. War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 1518) for the relief of the estate of John A. Also, a bill (H. R. 1552) for the relief of Mollie Hurley, heir of McDaniel, of Pulaski County, Ark.-to the Committee on War William D. Hurley, deceased, late·of Lawrence County, Ala.-to Claims. , the Committee on War Claims. · Also, a bill (H. R. 1519) for the relief of the estate of Parkes&. ,Also, a bill (H. R. 1553) ~or the relief of the estate of Thomas Ward, of Yell County, A.rk.-to the Committee on Claims. W. White-to the Committee on War Claims. 1897. CONGR.ESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 99

Also, a bill (H. R. 1554) for the relief of William Moseley, jr., Also, a bill (H. R. 1608) for the relief of Lieut. Herman M. administrator of the estate of Mrs. Temperance Moseley~to the Lillie-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 1609) to remove the charge of desertion Also, a bill (H. R.1555) for the relief of the La Grange College, against James Norris-to the Committee on Military Affairs. of Colbert County, Ala.-to the Committee on War Claims .. Also, a bill (H. R. 1610) to increase the pension of Patrick Also, a bill (H. R. 1556) for the relief of Thomas W. White­ Culhan-to the Committee on Invalid P ensions. to the Committee on Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 1611) for the relief of Col. e. M. Lum-to the Also. a bill (H. R. 1557) to refer the claim against the United Committee on Invalid Pensions. States of the trustees of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, of Also, a bill (H. R. 1612) to refund to Jesse H. Farwell money Athens, Limestone County, Ala., to the Court of Claims-to the paid as import duty on the schooner Southampton-to the Com­ Committee on War Claims. - mittee on Claims. Also. a bill (H. R. 1558) to refer claim of Thomas M. Hobbs to By Mr. LOUD: A bill (H. R. 1613) for the relief of the Union the Court of Claims-to the Committee on War Claims. Iron Works, of San Francisco, Cal.-to the Committee on Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 1559) for the relief of Mrs. Mary S. Thomp­ Also, a bill (H. R. 1614:) for the relief of Ames & Detrick, of San son-to the Committee on Pensions. Francisco, in the State of California-to the Committee on Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 1560) forth~ relief of Williaii?- Cunningham, of Also, a bill (H. R. 1615) to pay the Union Iron Works, of San Courtland, Ala.-to the Committee on War Clarms. - Francisco, Cal., for extra work on the Monte'rey-to the Commit­ Also, a bill (H. R. 1561) for the relief of the trustees of the tee on Claims. Primitive Baptist Church, of Huntsville, Madison County, Ala.­ By Mr. CHARLES W. STONE: A bill (H. R. 1616) for the to the Committee on War Claims. relief of the heirs of A. Lawrence Foster-to the Committee on By Mr. WILSON of New York (by request): A bill (H. R.1562) War Claims. for the proper o:ffioial recognition of William F. Tiemann-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 1617) for the relief of George Rushburger­ Committee on Military .Affairs. to the Committee on Claims. Also (by request) , a ·bill (H. R. 1563) for the relief of William H. By Mr. WHEELER of Alabama: A bill (H. R. 1618) to refer Bell-to the Committee on Claims. claim of Thomas M. Hobbs to the Court of Claims-to the Com­ Also (by request), a bill (H. R. 1564) for the relief of Frank mittee on War Claims. Della Torre and Susan F. Della Torre, heirs of Peter Della Torre, · Also, a bill (H. R. 1619) to increase the pension of John W. deceased-to the Committee on Claims. Carter-to the Committee on Pensions. Also (by request), a bill (H. R. 1565) for the relief of Maj. Wil­ Also, a bill (H. R. 1620) to restore the name of Henry Graves liam M. Maynadier, a paymaster in the United States Army-to to the pension roll-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. the Committee on Mili1Qry Affairs. _ Also, a bill (H. R. 1621) to grant two townships of land for the Also, a bill (H. R. 15~) to amend an act entitled "An act in use of the Normal and Industrial School at Normal, Ala., and relation to the Japanese indemnity fund," approved February 22, the State Normal College at Florence, Ala.-to the Committee 1883-to the Committee on Claims. on the Public Lands. Also, a bill (H. R. 1567) to remove charge of desertion against By Mr. SHERMAN: A bill (H. R. 1622) for the relief of John the name of JohnS. Wood-to the Committee on Military Affairs. H. Fralick-to the Committee on Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 1568) for the relief of the legal representa­ Also, a bill (H. R. 1623) to increase the pension of Susan D. tives of John Roach, deceased-to the Committee on War Claims. Yates-to the Commit.tee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 1569) to r emove charge of desertion against Also, a bill (H. R. 1624) to increase the pension of Mrs. Nettie the name of JohnS. Wood-to the Committee on Military Affairs. B. Smith-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 1570) for the relief of Eliza Percival-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 1625) to pension Napoleon B. Marsh-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 1571) to remove the charge of dismissal Also, a bill (H. R.1626) for the,relief of the State of New York­ standing against William H. Harlin-to the Committee on Mili­ to the Committee on Claims. tary Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 1627) for the relief of Milo Loomis-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 1572) to remove the charge of desertion Committee on Military .A:ffairs. against the name of Michlwl Quirk-to the Committee on Military Also, a bill (H. R. 1628) for the relief of Benjamin Franklin Affairs. Handforth-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 1573) granting a pension to Julia Walke, widow of the late Rear-Admiral Henry Walke, at the rate of $100 PETITIONS, ETC. per month-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Under clause 1 of Rule XXII, the following petitions and papers Also, a bill (H. R. 1574) for the relief of the estate of Abel were laid on the Clerk's desk and referred as follows: Adams, deceased-to the Committee on Claims. By Mr. BULL: Preamble and resolution of the Grand Army of Also, a bill (H. R. 1575) for the relief of George M. Clapp, of the Republic, Department of Rhode Island, in favor of legislation the Washington Iron Works-to the Committee on War Claims. providing for military instruction in public schools-to the Com­ Also, a bill (H. R. 1576) to increase the pension of Mrs. Char­ mittee on Military Affairs. lotte B. Cozzens-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, petition of citizens of Portsmouth, R.I., protesting against Also, a bill (H. R. 1577) to amend the military record of the free distribution of seeds by the Government-to the Commit­ Clarence Y. Beecher-to the Committee on Military Affairs. tee on Agriculture. Bv Mr. BULL: A bill (H. R.1578) toprovideforpromotingCapt. By Mr. EVANS: Petition of Charles B. Seidel, of Louisville, Richard G. Shaw, First United States Artillery, now on the retired Ky., praying for relief-to the Committee on Military Affairs. list, to the rank of major-to the Committee on Military Affairs. By Mr. ERMENTROUT: Memorial of the legislative commit­ By Mr. HARMER: A bill (H. R. 1579) for the relief of Julius tee of the National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry; also A. Kaiser-to the Committee on Naval Affairs. memorial of the Reading Tin Plate Company, of Reading, Pa., By Mr. JOHNSON of North Dakota: A bill (H. R.1580) author­ relative to tariff on tin plate; also from United Diamond Work­ izing the restoration of the name of Thomas H. Carpenter, late ers' Union of New York, asking that a tariff of 15 per cent be captain, Seventeenth United States Infantry, to the rolls of the placed on manufactured diamonds and that unmanufactured Army, and providing that he be placed on the list of retired offi­ diamonds be placed on the free list in Schedule N (sundries); also cers-to the Committee on Military Affairs. memorial from the Harness Manufacturers' Protective Associa­ By Mr. BANKHEAD: A bill (H. R. 1600) for the relief of the tion of Philadelphia and vicinity, asking for protection from for­ Deposit Savings Association, of Mobile, Ala.-to the Committee eign manufacturers; also memorial from the Paint Club of Phil­ on Claims. adelphia, protesting against a proposed measui·e to remit the tax By Mr. CORLISS: A bill (H. R. 1601) for the relief of ·John on alcohol; also memorial on harness and saddlery; also memorial Millan-to the Committee on Military Affairs. on tobacco, from the Philadelphia Tobacco Board of Trade, pro­ Also. a bill (H. R. 1602) for the relief of Michael Lally-to the testing against the proposed tariff schedule on imported leaf to­ Committee on Military Affairs. bacco-to the Committee on Ways and Means. Also, a bill (H. R. 1603) to remove charge of desertion against By Mr. HULL: Petition of John McAndrews and 73 other citi­ Bernard W 01·tman-to the Committee on Military Affairs. zens of Iowa, asking for the passage of a service-pension bill; also Also, a bill (H. R. 1604) to remove charge of desertion against petition from R. T. Elson and 117 others, of the same State, mak­ -.Jacob H. Tourje-to the Committee on Military Affairs. ing the same request-to the Committee on Invalid P ensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 1605) for the relief of Charles Brewster, and By Mr. HARMER: Petition of John- Lindsay, formerly lands­ to place him upon the retired list of the Army-to the Committee man in the United States Navy, praying that the charge of deser­ on Military Affairs. tion may be removed fi·om the records in the Navy Department­ Also,a bill (H. R. 1606) to remove charge of desertion against to the Committee on Naval ~t\Jfairs. William H. N ember-to the Committee on Military Affairs. By Mr. JONES of Washington: Petition concerning forest re­ Also, a bill (H. R. 1607) to remove charge of desertion against serve in Whatcom County, State of Washington-to the Comnlittee Jacob 1\I. Hamburger-to the Committ ee on Military Affairs. on the Public Lands. 100 CONGRESSIONAL_RECORD-HOUSE. MARCH 20,

By Mr. LOVERING: Petition of citizens of North Middleboro, ·question. This employee, a very old and faithful one, is carried Mass., urging the Government to take decisive steps in regard to on the legislative bill for the ensuing fiscal year? the Armenian outrages-to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. · Mr. GROSVENOR. Yes. By Mr. MERCER: Petition of A. J. Ferguson and 29 other citi­ Mr. DOCKERY. My inquiry is whether he is not provided for zens of Nebraska, praying for the recognition of God in the Con­ in the legislative bill for the current fiscal vear? stitution of thE;l United States-to the Committee on the Judiciary. Mr. G~OSVENOR. He i~ provide~ for l.n the legislative bill, By Mr. MORR~: Petition of Rev. E. V. Campbell and 41 other and that 1s the reason why his salary IS not charged to the contin­ citizens of St. Cloud, Minn., praying for the recognition of God gent fund. The ot?.er employees, on the Democratic side, are in the Constitution of the U mted States-to the Committee on the charged to the contingent fund of the House. This has been the Judiciary. com·se for a great many years. By Mr. ROBINSON of Indiana: Memorial of the Cigar Makers' The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the present considers.· Union of Fort Wayne, Ind., against increase of tariff on unmanu­ tion of the resolution presented by the gentleman from Ohio? factured tobacco-to the Committee on Ways and Means. [After a pause.] The Chair hears no objection. By 1\fr. SNOVER: Petition of H. H. Austin and 136 other citi­ The question was taken; and the resolution was agreed to. zens of Bridgehamton Township, Sanilac County, Mich., asking Mr. RICHARDSON. Mr. Speaker, I now offer the following that there be embodied in the tariff bill now being formulated a resolution. tax on Canadian cattle; also petition of Peter McDonald and 320 The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Tennessee asks unani· other citizens of Brown City, Mich., and petition of Thomas J. mous consent for the present consideration of the following reso­ Philp and 93 others, of Badaxe, Huron County, Mich., making lution. the same request-to the Committee on Ways and Means. The Clerk read as follows: By Mr. VAN VOORHIS: Resolution of Hazlett Post, No. 81, Resolve_d, ~at during the Fifty-fifth 9ongress, anc'! until the organization Grand Army of the Republic, Department of Ohio, urging the of the Fifty-sixth Congress, Isaa{} R. Hill be author1zeq to act as n special passage of the -per diem service pension bill; also resolution of employee at a compensation at the rate of $1,500 per annum; that George J,. Browning and Felton B. Knight be authorized to act as special messengers Encampment No. 118, Union Veteran Legion, of Z-anesville, Ohio, of the House of Representatives at a compensation at the rate of 1,200 per making the same request-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. annum each; and that James F. English be authorized to act as a special _ By Mr. WANGER: Resolution of Washington G. Dengler Post, chief page of the House of Representatives at a compensation at the rate of ~per annum; ~hecomp~nsation.of said employees to be paid from thecon­ No. 622, Grand Army of the Republic, stationed at Perkasie, Pa., tingent fund until otherWise proVIded. These officers shall at all times be favoring the passage of a service-pension bill-to the Committee under the direction and control of the Speaker of the House, and they shall on Invalid Pensions. . be subject to removal for cause at any time by him. Also, resolution of Morrisville Council, No. 915, Junior Order The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the present considera­ United American Mechanics, denouncing the Spanish conduct of tion of the resolution? [After a pause.] ..l'he Chair hears none, war of General Weyler and favoring the independence of Cuba- The question was taken; and the resolutYon was agt·eed to. to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. - On motion of Mr. RICHARDSON, a motion to reconsider the By Mr. RUSSELL: Resolution of New Haven (Conn.) Chamber vote by which the resolution was agreed to was laid on the table. of Commerce, relative to financial legislation-to the Committee on Banking and Currency. DOCUMENTS. By Mr. CHARLES W. STONE: Protest of cigar manufacturers The SPE.AKER. The Chair desires to lay before the House a and members of Cigar Manufacturers' Union, No. 122, of Warren, resolution on the part of the Senate, if there be no objection. Will Pa., against an increase of tariff on unstemmed tobacco-to the the gentleman from Iowa, the former chairman of the Committee Committee on yvays and Means. on Printing, give his attention? Does the gentleman desire to bring up that resolution in regard to the distribution of docu­ ------ments? HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 1\Ir. PERKINS. I desire to call up the joint resolution passed by the Senate yesterday, and I ask unanimous consent for its pres­ SATURDAY, },farch 20, 1897. ent consideration. TheSPEAKER. TheChairis informed thatthisisamatterthat The House met at 12 o'clock m. Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. concerns members of the House, and therefore ventures to presen.t HENRY N. COUDEN. it. [After a pause.] The Chair finds that it has been sent to a The Journal of yesterday's proceedings was read and approved. committee. It can be called up later. SPECIAL EMPLOYEES. AGRICULTURAL APPROPRIATION BILL. Mr. GROSVENOR. Mr. Speaker, I present the following reso­ The SPEAKER. The question now is on the Agricultural ap­ lution for present action. propriation bill. The Clerk read as follows: The Clerk read the title qf the bill, as follows: Resolved, That John T. Chancey be continued in the position now held by him, as a special employee in the House, during the Fifty-fifth Congress, A bill (H. R. 14) making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture under the control and direction of the Speaker, subject to removal for cause for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1898. at any time by him. The SPEAKER. Twenty minutes for debate are allowed on The SPEAKER. The question is on agreeing to the resolution. each side. Mr. HOLMAN. Mr. Speaker, is that reported by the Commit­ Mr. WADSWORTH. Mr. Speaker, I do not wish to debate the tee on Accounts? bill at all, but I will make a very short statement with regard to The SPEAKER-. It is not. it for the benefit of new members. The Agricultural bill is the Mr. HOLMAN. I will begladtohaveitreportedagain. Idid smallest of the appropriation bills that are presented for the con· not catch the reading. sideration of Congress. Gentlemen who were in the Fifty-fourth Mr. GROSVENOR. If the gentleman will allow me, this ap­ Congress will bear me out in the statement that this bill was con­ pointment, made by the House, is the ordinary appointment of sidered very carefully not only in the Committee on Agriculture, Mr. G'hancey on the one side and certain othet· gentlemen on the but in the Committee of the Whole House, and was discussed by other side of the House. paragraphs under the five-minute rule. It went to the Senate and Mr. HOLMAN. That is true. The only difference is that the was there fully considered. There was a conference on the disa­ minority had some consideration for many years. greeing votes of the two Houses, and the conference agreed upon the Mr. GROSVENOR. The minority have had very liberal con­ bill and it was passed. This bill carries no extraordinary appro­ sideration. priation, with perhaps one exception, the appropriation for the Mr. HOLMAN. I know. free distribution of seeds. With that exception all the appropria­ Mr. RICHARDSON. I will state for the benefit of the gentle­ tions contained in the bill are practically for the support of the man from Indiana, if he will allow me, that the minority selected Agricultural Department upon well-established lines. The bill as four employees in caucus. I have the resolution, which I desire to passed by both Houses appropriates $3,182,902, which is $73,000 offer as soon as this is acted upon. less than the amount carried by the bill for the current fiscal year. The SPEAKER. The Chair thinks it is matter that requires This is all I think it necessary to say now, but I reserve the bal­ unanimous consent. ance of my time, and shall be glad to answer any questions that Mr. HOLMAN. I wish to inquire of the gentleman from Ohio gentlemen may desire to ask. for how many years this appointment has been made in the inter- Mr. WILLIAMS of Mississippi. Mr. Speaker- • est of the majority? · The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Mississippi is recognized Mr. GROSVENOR. I think about as long ago as when the for twenty minutes. gentleman n·om Indiana first came here, or beyond the memory of Mr. WILLIAMS of Mississippi I yield five minutes to the gen­ man. fLaughter.] tleman from Missouri [Mr. CLARK], reserving the balance of my Mr. IlOLMAN. Well, not beyond the memory of" the gentle­ time. man from Indiana." ~aughter.] Mr. CLARK of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, the longer a man lives Mr. DOCKERY. I desire to ask the gentleman from Ohio a the more he learns. First and last I have said a good many tmkind