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ment of international difficulties by arbitration, to the Committee on He also presented a memorial of bankers, merchants, and business :Foreign Affairs. men of the city of New York protesting against the passage of tho A.lao, the petition of H. J. Clark an~ 214 other citize~ o! Pola~d, twenty-ninth section of the tariff and tax bill, which imposes a tax Mahoning County, Ohio, for the appomtment of a commission of In of n of 1 per cent. on all saJ.es of stocks, bonds, gold and silver bul quiry into the alcoholic liquor traffic, to the Committee on the Judi lion, coin, and other securities; which was referred to the Committee ciary. on Finance. ., He also presented a memorial of citizens of Rochester, Monroe County, New York, protesting against the passage of a law permit ting growers of leaf-tobacco to sell $100 worth of their crop at retail IN SENATE. to consumers without license or tax; which was referred to the Com mittee on Finance. SATURDAY, June 13, 1874. WITHDRAWAL OF PAPERS. The Senate met at twelve o'clook m. On motion of }.Ir. CONKLING, it wa..s Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. BYRox SUNDERLAND, D. D. Ordered, That Emily Agnel ha.>e leave to withdraw her petition and papers The J omnal of yesterday's proceedings was read. from the files of the Senate. The PRESIDENT pro tttntpqre. There is one omission in the Journal INSil"E CONVICTS. which will be corrected. The last motion made was by the Senator Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN. I am directed by the Committee on the from Rhode Island [Mr. SPRAGUE] to postpone the considera.tion of Judiciary, to whom was referred the, bill (H. R. No. 3415) to provide for the post-office appropriation bill and proceed to the c?nsidemtion of the care and. custody of persons convicted in the courts of the United bills reported by the Military -Committee. That motion was agreed States who have or may become insane while imprisoned, to report it to. The Secretary understood it to be only .an asking of. unanimous back with amendments, and I ask that it may be passed now. It will consent which never goes on the record, but 1t wa-s a motion made by take but a moment. the Sen~tor from Rhoue Island, and carried. This correction will be By unanimous consent the bill was considered as in Committee of made. the Whole. HOUSE BILLS REFERRED. The first section provides that upon the application of the Attorney Tho bill (H. R. No. 3673) making an additional appropriation to General the Secretary of the Interior shall transfer to the insane asy enable the Secretary of \Var to carry out the provisions of the act of lum in the District of Columbia all persons who ha-ve been or shall .April 23, 1874, entitled "An act to provide f?r .th~ r~li~f of persons be convicted of any offense in any court of the United States, and im suffering from the overflow of the Lower MlBSisstppl R1ver, and for prisoned in any State prison or penitentiary of any Sta.te or Territory, other purposes," was read twice by its title, and, on motion of Mr. and who, durin~ the term of their imprisonment, have or shall become WEST, referred to the Committee on Appropriations. and be insane, m case sa.tisfactory arrangements for their care and custody shall not be made by the Attorney-General under other pro PACIFIC RAILROAD CO:\fi>A.l\"'ES. visions of the act. Mr. WRIGHT. I ask, subject to the disposition of morning busi Section 2 provides that in all cases where any person convicted in ness, that the Senate proceed to the consideration of the bill (H_. R. a court of the United States shall, while imprisone(l under such con No. 3282) providing for the collection of moneys due the Umted viction in any State prison or penitentiary, become and be insane, States from the Pacific Railroad Companies, reported from the Com the Attorney-General shall have power in his discretion to contract mittee on the Judiciary. with any State insane or l'nnatic asylum within the State in which The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Iowa asks that, such convict is imprisoned for his care and custody while remaining subject to the transaction of morning business, there shall be an so ,insane; and in all cases where such convicts shall have heretofore understanding that the Senate proceed to the consideration of the been, or shall hereafter be, tranl:!ferred to a State asylum for insane bill indicated by him. convicts in accordance with the 11.ws of such State, the Attorney Mr. SARGENT. Is that-the House bill! General is directed to compensate the asylum or the proper author \ 1\Ir. WRIGHT. The House bill. ities controlling it for the care and custody of such insane -convicts, ~ Mr. SARGENT. Without amendment! until their removal or discharge, in such amounts as he shall deem .1\Ir. WRIGHT. It is amended by the committee. jllilt and reasonable. Mr. SARGENT. I do not object. I think it ought to pass. By the thiru section whene\er such insane convict shall be restored Mr. 'VRIGHT. It is in reference to the 5 per cent. to sanity, after he or she shall have been transferred under the pro The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair hears no objection. visions of the act, he or she shall be returned to the prison or peni Mr. TIPTON. I understood there was an objection on the other tentiary from which the transfer was made, provided the term of side, or I was ready to object. imprisonment shall not have expired. The questions of sanity in all The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Does the Senator from Nebraska cases arising ll'llder the act are to be determined in accordance with object.! the rules and regulations of existing laws, State or national, on that Mr. TIPTON. I do. subject, applicable to the prison, penitentiary, or asylum where such Mr. EDMUNDS. Then we give notice that when resolutions are convict shall be confined. through we shall move to take up the bill. · The first amendment reported by the Committee on the Judiciary was to strike out in section 1, commencing in line 10, the words " in TERRITORIAL LAWS. case satisfactory arrangements for their care and custody shall not Tho PRESIDENT 'ro tentpore presented two copies of the general be made by said Attorney-General under other provisions of this act." laws, private acts, jomt resolutions, and memorials passed at the tenth The amendment was agreed to. session of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Colorado; The next amendment was in section 2, line 4, after the word "in which were referred to the Committee on Territories. sane," to insert: PETITIOXS AND ME)!ORIALS. .A.nd there shall not be accommodation for such insane person at the insane a.sy lum of the District of Columbia, or if for other reasons the A ttomey-General is of Mr. WASHBURN presented a petition of a large number of promi opinion that such insane person should be placed at a State insane asylum rather nent citizetl.s of New Bedforcl, Ma-ssachusetts, asking that an arrange than at said District asylum, then. ment may be made for the improvement of the harbor at that place, and the maintenance of a fog-signal at the en trance of Buzzard's Bay ; The amendment wa..s agreed to. which was ordered to lie on the table, the river and harbor bill·having The next amendment was to add at the end of section 2 the follow been reported by the.Committee on Commerce. ing words: But no contract shall be made or compensation paid for the care of such insane :Mr. FRELINGHUYSENpresented !l>memoria.lof bankers, manufac persons beyond their respective terms of imprisonment. turers, and rmporters, citizens of Newark, New Jersey, protesting ag~inst a tax on sales of stocks, co:n, bonds, and other securities; The amendment was agreed to. which was referred to the Committee on Finance. The bill was reported to the Senate as amended, and the amend ~Ir. WRIGHT presented the petition of Louis Sterne, of Boston, ments were concurred in. Ma sachusetts, asking compensation for his losses and services in con The amendments were ordered to be engrossed and the bill to be nection with the collection of the internal revenue and the legislation read a third time. in relation thereto; which was referred to the Committee on Claims. 'fhe bill was read the third time, and pa..ssed. Mr. MERRI1\10N presented a memorial of citizens of Durham, CHANGE OF NAME AND LOCATION OF A BA..l.~K. Orange County, North Carolina, prot-esting against the passage of a law permitting growers of leaf-tobacco to sell $100 worth of their crop 1\!r. SCOTT. I am instructed by the Committee on Finance, to at retail to consumers without license or~tax; which was referred to whom was referred the bill (8. No. 930) to authorize the Farmers' the Committee on Finance. National Bank of Greensburgh, Pennsylvania, to change its location .1\Ir. CONKLING presented a memorial from banks, bankers, and and name, to report the same back without amendment and recom other business men of the city of Syracuse, New Yoxk, protesting mend its passago. It is a very brief bill, and I ask for its present against the passage of the twenty-ninth section of the tariff and tax consideration. bill which imposes a tax on all sa.les of stocks, bonds, gold and silver . By unanimous consent, the bill was considered as in Committee of bullion, coin, and other securities; which was rcfeued to the Commit tho Whole. tee on Finance. Whenever the stockholders of the Farmers' Naflional Bank of Greens- 4936 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. JUNE 13, burgh, in the county of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, at a meeting (S. No. 46) for the.coustruction of a custom-house and bonded ware called for th.o'l.t purpose, shall, by a unanimous vote, determine to re house at Portland, Oregon, report.ed it with an amendment. move the bank to the city of Pittsburgh, in the county of Allegheny, He also, from the same committee, to whom was referred tho bill tho president and the cashier are to execute a C'.,ertificate, under the (S. No. 912) to annex: certain land to reservation No.2 occupied by the corporate seal of the bank, specifying such determination, and canse Department of Agriculture, reported it without amendment. the same to be recorded in the office of the Comptroller of the Cur .Mr. MORTON. I am instructed by the Committee on Privileges rency, an
Ocean and to secure to the Government the use of the same for post:1l, panies to pay their interest, this is a very good way to do it. If, on military and other purposes," approved July 1, 1862; and in case either the contrary, he wants to legislate abont thisimportantaudindcpeml of those' railroad companies shall neglect or refuse to pay ~he same ent sullject, I suggest to him to let his bill stand on its own feet, within a reasonable time after demand therefor made upon Its treas take it up on its own merits, and not attempt to put it on another en urer, the Secretary of the Treasury i_s to. certify that fact to t.h~ Attor tirely foreign to it and to which jn no sense, however vague, it can ney-General, who shall thereupo~1 mst1tute the ~1ec~ssary smts and be germane. proceedinO's to collect the sam(\ m t.ho proper mrcmt courts of the Mr. ALLISON. If the Senator will listen to me one moment I will United St~tcs, and prosecute the same, with all convenient dispatch, explain -it. On tho 3d of March, 1873-- • to a final {1etermination. Mr. INGALLS. I desire to inquire whether the reading of the The Committee on the J ndiciaryreported the bill with amendments. amendment baa been finished. The first amendment was in line 4, after the words "1·equire pay The PRESIDENT p1·o tempore. It has not been. ment of," to strike out the following words: Mr. CONKLING. A good deal of it has been read. 1\fr. ALLISON. I can explain it in a moment. The Pacific Railroad Companies of all snmsof money due the United States for the 5 per cent. of tho net earnings pr_ovided by section 6 o~ th~ net entitle~ "AI! The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The rest of the amendment had bet act to aid in-the construction of a. railroad anll telegraphlino from the Missoun t.er be read before the discussion proceeds. River to the Pacific Ocean, and to secure to the Government the use of the sa.mefor The Chief Clerk continued the readin~, as follows: postal military, and other purposes," approved July 1, 1862, Provided, That if said decision is that said bridge should not be operated as a And in lieu thereof to insert: continuous part of 5aitl Union Pacific Railroad, the At,torney-General shall IcmoYo saitl cause, by properprooess, to the Supreme Court of.tho United States, and if tho Railroad companies, their successors and as!!igns, or the successors or assigns of decision should bo that said bridge should be operated as a part of said road, tho any or either of said companies, of allsnms of money due the United States for tho Union Pacific Railroad ma.y remove the same, by proper process, to said Supreme 5 per cent. of the net earnings provided for bv the net entitled "An act to aid in tho Court; and, to the end that a speedy determ.i.nation may be hatl thereon, tho saitl construction of a. railroad and telegraph line ·from tho Missouri Uiver to thePacific circuit and Supreme Courts may advance said cause on their calendars respectively. Oet~an and to secure to tho Government the use of the same for postal, military, and other purposes," approved July1, 1862, or by any other act or acts in relation to the Mr. ALLISON. I only desire to occupy a moment's time. On tho companies therein named, or any other such company or companies. 3d of March, 1873, Congress passed an act requiring the Union Pacific Tho amendment was agreed to. Railway Company to operate their road as required by law, the law The next amendment was in line 23, to strike out the words "a requiring them to operate it as a continuous line. A proceeding in rea onable time" and in ert "sixty days." 1nandamu~ was begun in the circuit court for tho ninth judicial cir The amendment was agreed to. cuit requiring them to do this. This railway company- go into that The next amendment was in line 27, after the word "collect," to court and object to the jurisdiction. The Attorney-General declines in ert the words" and otherwise obtaiu reliress in respect of." to interfere with reference to this subject-matter; and the only ob The amendment was agreed to. ject of this additional section is to require the Attorney-General to Mr. WRIGHT. Those are all the amendments reported by the com institute proceedings in the United States court in order to test the mittee. I suggest as a mere verbal amendment that the word "the" validity of the Jaw requiring the Union Pacific Railway to operate on rrht to be inserted before t.he words ''railroad companies," in line 11. its road a.s a continuous line. While it has a different purpose from "f'he PRESIDENT pro tentpore. That amendment will be made if that proposed in this bill, it is a purpose that aflects every portion of there be no objection. this country as much as the proposition involved in this bill affects Mr. WRIGHT. In line 13, after t.he word ''due" I move to insert the people of this country. It decides nothing if pothing has been decided heretofore. It turns this question over to the courts of tho the words" or to become due," so as to read" of all sums of money United States, requiring them compel the Union Pacific Railroad due or to become due the United States." to The amendment was agreed to. Company to operate its line as a continuous line; and that is all it Mr. ALLISON. I offer the following amendment as an additional does. It does not affect the question of terminus; it does not propose to affect the question of terminus; it only proposes to compel the section: company to operate the line which they have built, and to the build That the said Union Pacific Uailroad Company be, and is hereby, required to oper ing of which the United States have contributed a large proportion, ate its whole line, including its brid~e and approaches across the M1ssonri Uiver, without transfer at sa.id bndge, as one connected continuous line of railway; and as t~ continuous line. It is certainly important that this should be if it shall fail after sixty days after the passa"e of this act to operate its roa.cl as done, and I see no reason why it should not be decided here and now. ltereby required, it shall be tho duty of the At't.Orney-Gcnoral of the United States Mr. TIPTON. Tho Union Pacific Railroad has never for one mo to institute and prosecute proceeclin5;s by mandamus in the circuit court for the ninth judicial circuit of the United States to compel a. compliance with the require ment, or ~one single instance, refused to operate its line from the ments of this section ami the act to which it is amendatory 011 the part of the sahl initial point first established to its t.erminns at Ogden, in connection Union PacificP..ailroadCompany. Antl the said courtmayobtainjurisuictioninsaid with the Central Pacific; but there has been a dispute between two case by service on any agent of tho defendant found in the district or circuit in rival towns, one at the terminus of the Union Pacific and the other which said suit may be brought, and such service shall be by tho court held to be good and sufficient: Prooided, That if said decision is that said bridge should not on the shores of the State of Iowa. The State of Iowa two years be operated as a continuous part of said Union Pacific Railroatl, the Attorney ago by legislation positively prohibited any one of her railroads Grneral shall remove sa.id cause by proper process t{) the Supreme Court of the terminating at t.he Missouri River from daring to cross the lllissouri United States, and if the decision shoultl be that said bridge should be operated as River on the bridge established there and make a connection with a part of saitl road, the Union Pacific Railroad- the Union Pacific. · 1\Ir. CONKLING. I yenture to int.errupt the reading of this amend Mr. EDMUNDS. May I appeal to the Senater from Nebraaka to mont to inquire of my friend from Iowa whether his purpose is to Jet us first test the question preliminarily whether the Sena.te will defeat the pending bill by moving this new one as part of it f consider this question in connection with our bill f Mr. ALLISON. I do not quite understand the Senator. Mr. TIPTON. I am willing to yieia the floor that that point may Mr. CONKLING. I inquire whether the Senator's purpose is to be tested. defeat the pending bill requiring the I'aihoads to pay their interest, .Mr. EDMUNDS. If the Senate decide to do that, then of course by moving this bill in reference to another subject upon it f the Senator must be heard and so must everybody E"lse. Therefore I Mr. ALLISON. No, sir; the very reverse of that is my purpose. hope we may have t.he question put as to whether this amendment Mr. CONKJ.JING. I beg to say to the Senator, he may rely upon it is to be adopted. We cannot put it in any other way, because I can that this other bill, the foundation of this amendment, will not be not move td lay it on the table unless the Senator from Iowa will adopted to-day if he proposes to introduce a discussion of the ques allow me to do so. If he will consent to a motion to lay it on the iK1>ble tion of the terminus of the Pad:fi.c Railroad, whether it shall be in with a view merely to see whether the Senate will consider the two his State or in the State of the Senator near him, [Mr. TIPTON.] questions together, I will make tha.t motion. Will the Senator assent Mr. ALLISON. If the Senate will allow me one moment, I propose to that without carrying the bill with it, to test the sense of the Sen to introduce no such discussion. This does not affect the question of ate as to whether they will receive his amendment for consideration Y terminus in any sense, and is not intended to do so. .Mr. ALLISON. It is quito easy to test the sense of the Senate on Mr. CONKLING. What baa it to do with this other bill f Why the amendment by voting for it or against it. not offer it as a separate bill and not mix it up with this interest Mr. EDMUNDS. But the difficulty about that is that it might be question f carried or rejected when it ought to be debated. However, I can risk Mr. ALLISON. It is as important as the question of interest, and it if the Senator from Nebraska will allow the Chair to put the ques is perfectly germane to the bill before the Senate. sion on the adoption of the amendment, so that we may know whether Mr. CONKLING. I do not deny, if the Sena.t.or will pardon me, Senators are willing to ride this bill with that which is a separate that it is as important, and if he will affirm that it is a htmdred-fold matter or not. more important, I shall not deny that. My suggestion is that the one .Mr. CONKLING. I suggest to the Senator from Vermont that per subject has nothing to do with the other. The Judiciary Committee haps be had better in the tirst instance address his appeal to the ~en has carefully prepared a bill requiring the rail way companies to ren ator from Iowa. der to theGovernmeutthe interest which they owe, 5 per cont. There Mr. EDMUNDS. I did. upon my friend from Iowa proceeds to move a bill which we never Mr. CONKLING. The Senator from Iowa used to be a reasonable heard of in the Judiciary Committee, which be says is equally impor man. He was the last time I knew anything about him, and I pro tant or more so, which relates to a wholly different matter, which is sumo he is still. I submit to him, that he is doing a most unreasona an in(lcpcmlent subject that the committee have never examined, and ble thing iu asking the Senate to consider this long, unprinted, inde which I am told by another Senator is a bill which has once been pendent proposition of his, totally foreign to the bill before us, or postponed this se&Sion. Now, if the Senator wants to hang -a mill else to lose and fail to pa.ss a simple measure requiring all railway stone arOtmd the neck pf t.bis little bill requiring the railroad com- companies wha-tever, covered by the bi11, to pay to the Government 5 4938 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. per cent. interest which is due and to become due. I think my friend the Judiciary Co~ittee is simply to require the proper steps to be from Iowa, if he will consider one moment, wm agree with me that taken to have these railroa :Mr. SARGENT. It will not cost anything to furnish them, because The motion wa-s agreed to ; and the bill ( S. No. 455) for the relief of they are ready for transmission. I want to see the document. The William M. Kimball was considered as in Committee of the Whole. question of printing is not involved. The Secretary of War is directed by the bill to cause to be paid lli. EDMUNDS. Does the Senator call for the original maps 7 to William M. Kimball the full pay and emoluments of a lieutenant Mr. SARGENT. I call for the copies which are now ready for trans and regimental quartermaster of the Eleventh Minnesota Vohmteers, mission. from the lOth of October, 1862, to the 8th of May, 1863. Mr. EDMUNDS. I understand, then, that the maps have been The bill was reported to ·,he Senate without amendment, ordered copied in some way. to be engrosseu for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. Mr. SARGENT. I understand they are ready for transmission. JOHN SHELTON. lli. EDMUNDS. If it is right to go to the expense of h:J.ving these lli. LOGAN. I move that the Senate proceed to the consideration maps litho!rraphed from the original drawings, it is-- of.Senate bill No. 436. Mr. SAR~EN1'. That is a question to be determined subsequently The amendment was agreed to; and the bill (S. No. 436) for the by the Senate when it determines whether to print them or not. relief of Lieutenant John Shelton was considered as in Committee Mr. EDMUNDS. But how are we to get the maps tmless they are of the Whole. It directs the Paymaster-General to pay to John Shel already copied Y ton, ]ate first lieutenant Company E, Second North Carolina Mounted Mr. SARGENT. My information is that they are now ready to be Infantry, the full pay and allowance of a first lieutenant of infantry, transmitted to the Senate. from the 1st of September, 1863, to the 16th of August, 1865, less the Mr. EDMUNDS. I did not hear that remark of the Senator before. pay he received as a private of the company. The resolution was agreed· to. · The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered PAINTER'S REPORT ON M~TALLURGY. to be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. Mr. SARGENT. I offer the following resolution: JOHN DOLD • .Resolved, That the Secretary of State be directed to communicate to the Senat~ Mr. LOGA.N. I move that the Senate proceed to the considnation the report of Howard Painter, commissioner to the Vienna exposition, upon metal lurgy. of House bill No. 764. The motion was agreed to; and the bill (H. R. No. 764) for the Mr. EDMUNDS. There are a good many other reports. I think relief of John Dold was considered as in Committee of the Who]e. that resolution had better lie over so as to have them called for at The bill pro:poses to direct the Secretary of tho Treasury to pay once. to John Dold $1,525.83 in lieu of check No. A, 75:31 on the Unitecl Mr. SARGENT. I will state that the information in this report States depositary, dated the 26th of February, 1872, payable to the upon metallurgy is of extreme value to us on the Pacific coast. order of John Dold, and signed by A. J. McGonigle, acting quarter Mr. EDMUNDS. I do not doubt th:tt. master Uniteu States Army; which check, it is claimed, has be.en lost, Mr. SARGE:NT. And the report has been made to the Secretary of and was never received by Dold; but before the payment John Dolrl State and is ready to be sent in, and after it comes in we can refer it is to execute a bond of indemnity to the Uniteu States, with sufficient to the Committee on Printing to decide whether it shall be printed sureties, against the claim of the payee in the draft. or not. If the Senator has objection to any expense being incurred The Committee on Military Affairs reported the bill with an amep.d on account of it we can arrest it at that time. ment, which ~s to add the following words to it: Mr. EDMUNDS. That is not the point at all. If we call for any Or the claim of any person in possession of or claiming the same, and also to fully of these reports we ought to call for all of them, because the reports indemnify the United States against all loss and damage in the premises. on the other subjects of industry, agriculture, &c., are interesting to my constituents. I think ,the resolution, therefore, ought to c:tll for The amendment was agreed to. . all the reports, in order that we may get them all. The bill was reported to the Senate a-s amended, and the amendment Mr. SARGENT. On that consideration I will consent that it lie was concurred in. over. It was ordered that the amendment be engrossed and the bill read The PRESIDENT pro tentpore. The resolution will be laid over. the third time. The bill was read the third time, and passed. ALVIS 8:\fiTH. WILLIAM H. PILKENTON. 1\Ir. LOGAN. I call for the first oill on the Calendar reported from the Committee on Military Affairs. 1\Ir. LOGAN. I move that the Senate proceed to the consideration The bill (S. No. 345) for the relief of Alvis Smith was considered as of House bill No. 1587. in Committee of the Whole. It directs the Secretary of War to pay The motion was n,greed tO ; and the biil (H. R. No. 15...~) for the to Alvis Smith, late of Company L, Second Arkansas Cavalry, a sum relief of William H. Pilkenton, late a second lieutenant in Company equal to the pay and emoluments of a second lieutenant of cava~ry, G, Fifth Regiment Indiana Cavalry Volunteers, was considered as in from the lOth of October, 1863, to the 8th of March, 1864, deductmg Committee of the Whole. • whatever pay he may have received for that period. The Secretary of War is directed by the bill to place the name of Th~ bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered William H. Pilkenton on the rolls as second lieutenant in Company to be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. G, Fifth Regiment Indiana Cavalry Volunteers, as of the date of June 30, 1864; and the proper accounting and pay officers are directed to AMEm>MENTS TO BILLS. allow and pay him the pay and emoluments of a second lieutenant :Mr. PRATT submitted. an amendment intended to be proposed to from that date until the date of his discharge, deducting any sum or the bill (H. R. No. 3600) making appropriations for sundry civil sums he may have received on account of military service during that expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875; period. which was referred to the Committee on Appropriations. The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered Mr. MORRILL, of Vermont, from the Committee on Public Build to a third reading, read the third time, and paBSed. ings and Grounds, submitted amendments to be proposed to the bill (H. R. No. 3600) making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of ALEXANDER BURTCH. the Government for the fiscal year ending J nne 30, 1875; which Mr. LOGAN. I now move to take np Honse bill No. 1313. were referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be The motion was agreed to j and the Senate, as in Committee of the printed. Whole, proceeded to consider the bill (H. R. No. 1313) for the relief of Mr. SPRAGUE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed Alexander Burtch. to the bill (H. R. No. 3572) to amend existing customs and internal The Committee on Military Affairs reported the bill with amend revenue laws, and for other purposes; which was referred to the Com ments, in lines t:3, 9, and 10 to strike out the words "and the said mittee on Finance. Alexander Burtch shall be allowed and paid the amount remaining He also submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to the due and accrued up to the time of his absence aforesaid,l.' and to in bill (H. R. No~ 2539) to admit free of dnty merchandise sunk for two sert the words "and that he may be honorably dischargerl.;" nlso in years and afterward recovered; which was ordered to be printed. ... line 12 to insert the words" pay or" before ''bounty," and after the word "bounty" to strike out the words "subsequently granted by WILLIAl~ BOWLIN. the United States." :Mr. LOGAN. I move that the Senate proceed to the consideration Mr. ALLISON. I trust the chairman of the Committee on Military of Senate bill No. 344. Affairs will withdraw those amendments. The amount of money due The motion was agreed to; and the bill (S. No. 344) for the relief to Burtch is very small; I think less than sixty dollars. He served of William Bowlin was considered as in the Committee of the Whole. during the entire war, and did not leave his regiment until some four It proposes to direct the Secretary of War to pay to William Bowlin, months after the 9th of April, 1865. late of Company I, second Arkansas Cavalry, a sum equal to the pay Mr. LOGAN. Let the bill be amended so as to strike out "pay and and emoluments of a captain of cavalry from the lOth of October, 1863, bounty," and give him pay up to the time of his ]eave of absence. to the 8th of March, 1864, deducting whatever pay he may have re Mr. ALLISON. Then you had better reject the first amendment ceived for that period. and agree to the second. The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to Mr. LOGAN. Let the bill be read as it stands. be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. The Chief Clerk read as follows: WILLIAM M. KIMBALL. Be it e-nacted, &c., That the Adjutant-General of the .Army is hereby authorized Mr. LOGAN. 1 move that the Senate proceE1d to the consideration and directed to change the record of (lesertion against Alexander Burtch, late vet eran soldier of Company H, First Indiana Heavy Artillery, formerly Twenty-first of Senate bill No. 4f,5. Indiana. Infantry Vulunteers, ana substitute therefor "absent front September 25. 4940 CONGRESS! ON .AL RECORD. JUNE 13, 1865." .And the sahl Alexander Burtch shall be allowed and paid tho amount re The motion was agreed to; and the bill (H. R. No. 269 ) for there mainin and direct.the Secretary of War to reserve from sale ten thousaml The motion was aO'reed0 to; and the bill (H. R. No. 1219) for there JiP-f of Charles W. llerry, late private of the Thirty~si.s:th Regiment suits of old and disnsed Army uniform clothing, now in the Quarter "\Visconsin Volunteers, was considered as in Committee of the Whole. master's Department of the Army, and to transfer the same to t.hp It directs tho Adjut.ant-General of the A1·rny to remove the charge of National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soltliers. desertion from the name of Charles W. Berry, la.te pri,·ate CoiQpany Mr. WEST. I see that this bill c:J.lls for a distribution of ten thou E, Thirty-sixth Regiment of Wisconsin Volnnteers, in view of his sand snits of clothing, and if that clothing is not on hanll, or is of ~ wonnds while in the service; antl that he shall be allowed and paid character that is not in use, then the Secretary of War is to provi~~ the back-pay, bounty, and additional bounty Uil(ler the act of Jul.~ other clothing for the purpose. I should like to ask the c4airman of 23, 18G6, due him in the same manuer and to the same extent as If the Committee on .Military Affairs how many patients there fiT~ ~c the charge of desm:tion had never been made and his application ceiving the bounty of the United States in this National .flome for therefor had been filed before the 30th of January, 1873. Disabled Veteran Solcliers f The bill was reported to the Senate witltout amendment, ordered .Mr. LOGAN. I cannot give the number. If the bill !!'I likely to to a third reading, read the third time, ant! passed. lead to di~cussion let it lie over for the present, until we c~Il (4spo o of other bills to which there i!il no objection. 1\lAJOn ABSALOM llAIRD. The PRESIDING OPFICER, (Mr. Co~KLING in the chair.) The Mr. LOGAN. I now move to take up House bill No. 2131. bill will be laid asiue for the present. The motion was agreed to; and the Senate, as in Commit.tee of the Whole, proceeded to consitler the bill (H. R. No. 2131) to authorize a ROBERT F. WINSLOW. 11romotion in the Inspector-General's Department of the Army of the Mr. LOGAN. I now move that the Senate proceed to the considera United States. tion of House bill No. 22-~3. The preamble recites a vacancyoflientenant~colonel in the Inspector The motion was agreed to; and the bill (H. R. No. 2223) for the relief General's Department of the Army originated on the 13th of J nne, 1867, of Robert F. Winslow wa:~ considered as in Committee of the 'Vhole. to which Major Absalom Baird was entitle 1\Ir. PRATT. I wish to inquire from the Senatorfrom illinois what Martha Va\lghn and Mrs. Louisa Jackman, for services performed in this bill takes off the reservation. conveyingv:lJ.uable information to Union officers was not at one time Mr. LOGAN. A very small portion according to the evidence be before the Committee on Claims f fore us. Mr. SCOTT. There were several claims of this character before Mr. FERRY, of Michigan. It is less than two acres-1.26 acres. the Committee on Claims during the last Congress, during which time It is simply for school purposes, and is confined to that; I think there the Senator from Indiana and myself were !loth members of the com can be no objection to it. · mittee, although I was not at that time its chairman. I cannot recall • The bill was ordererl to be engrossed for a third reading, read the these names; but if the Senator from Illinois will consent to let the third time, and passed. bill pass over for a moment I will send for a list of claims reported by our committee in the Forty-second Congress. • SUFFERERS BY THE WRECK OF THE TORRENT, . l\Ir. LOGAN. I suggest that the report be read, and it may recall Mr. LOGAN. I move to proceed to the consideration of Senate bill the facts to the Senator's mind if it is the same case. No. 704. Mr. SCOTT. Let t.he report be read. . The motion was agreed to; and·the bill (S. No. 704) for the relief The Secretary read .the following report submitted by Mr. LOGAN of the officers and men of the United Sta,tes Army who were sufferers on the 6th of May: by the wreck of the bark Torrent was considere Mr. SCOTT. I am always very averse to seem even to oppose a States to keep and perform the contract or contmcts as to time ancl claim which has been inve tiga.ted by a committee and. reported, and maimer of payment, under which certain horse cquipments and in I only rise to suggest to tho Senn.tor from Illinois that cases of' thiR fantry accou termcnts were manufactured, between the months of Sep character do deserve very serious consideration from tho danger of t,em ber, 1832, and July, 1864, for the Government, is by the bill refeiTetl t]fe precedent that will be set. The principal motive for granting to the Comii of Claims, with authority to investigate the same, and to thi~ compensatioiJ. is not that these ladies have suffered. iu their own ascertain, determine, and adjudge the amount equitably due tho firm, property and that compensation is to be made for that loss, but prin if any, for.such loss and damafTe. cip~lly b~cause of their patriotic feelings leacling them to encounter The bill was reported to the Senate, ordered to a third reading, read • inconyenience ~nd run some personal hazard in communicating this the third time, and passed. information, Let mo call the Senator's attention to the fact that there ha.ve been H. P. rnGRAM AND J. K. ASKINS. • numerous cases befo1·e the Committee on Claims of volunteer nurses Mr. LOGAN. I move to proceed to tho consideration of Honse bill No. who wei).t into the Army from patriotic motive 1 rendered very great 2788. and very valuable services in tho hospital and m traveling with the The motion was agreed to; and the bill (H. R. No. 2788) for there camps to take care of the wonnded soldiers, and the committee have lief of Henry P. Ingram and John K. Askins, was considered as in never felt justified in setting tho precedent that where services were Committee of the Whole. It provides for paying to H. P. Ingram, rendered from moti ,·es of that character we would undertake to captain Sixty-second Regiment illinois Volunteers, and to John K. compensate them in money. I do not now remember the number of Askins, second lieutenant Sixty-second Regiment Illinois Volunteers, cases, !Jut tho Senator from Indiana. will bear me witness that quite a the salaries of their respective offices from the 15th of January, 1862, number of cases of that character have been considered; and if I to the lOth of April, 1802. am not mistaken we have before this Congress-it may not be in the The bill was reported to the Senate, ordered to a third reading, read Senate-a very large claim made by a lady, not simply for patriotic the third time, and passed. services in that direction, but for having actually communicato(l the intelligence which leu to the formation of the plan of the campaign JAl\IES 1\1. ROBERTSON. which re ulted in General Sherman's march to the sea; so that if we 1\Ir. LOGAN. I move to proceed to the consideration of the Houso are to go into the question of compensating patriotic motives and bill No. 2697. patriotic services of this character, it .should be fully considered The motion was agreed to; and the bill (H. R. No. 2697) to create an before we embark on it. a9-clitional major of artillery, and to promote Captain James :M. Rob I do not object to this bill, as I say, for I always feel that commit ertson, was considered. as in Committee of the Whole. tees who have examined these cases and reported upon them are The bill proposes to adu an additional major to the Second Regiment entitle The bill proposes to invest general courts-martial hereafter with a on a charge of absence without leave, when, in trUth, he was sick jurisdiction concurrent with thatofthe courts of the State or Territory and on furlough. in which the crime is committed of the crimes of murder, manslaughter, The Committee on Military Affairs reported the bill with an amend mayhem, rape, arson, robbery, burglary, larceny, and assault and ment, to strike out the words" when, in truth, he was sick and on fur- battery, as well as of attempt to commit, and assault and battery lough." . with intent to commit any of those crimes, when they are committed The amendment waa agreed to. by persons in the military service of the United States or subject to The bill was reported to the Senate as amended, and the amend- the Articles of War; but the punishments for such offenses are not to ment was concurred in. exceed those authorized by the laws of the SU;tte or Territory in The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third readin.g, read the which the crime was committed. third time, and passed. The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered WILLIAM B. MORGAN. to be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and. passed. '-Mr. LOGAN. I move that the Senate proceed to the conSideration Mr. W ADLEI?H snbse9.uently said: ~he Senate ~short t1m~ ~ince of the bill (H. R. No. 546.) passed Senate Bill No .. 801m regar~ to cnmes committed by militar~ The motion was agreed to; and the bill (H. R. No. 546) for there persons. By some m1stake the bill was reported favorably when It lief of William B. Morgan waa considered as in Committee of the should have been reported adversely. The-committee was against its Whole. passage lJ!lanimonsly. I move that the vote by which it was passed The bill proposes to authorize the payment of fifty dollars to Wil- be reconsidered. . . liam B. Morgan, late sergeant Company D, One hundred and forty- The _PRE~ID~NT p1·o tempor~. If there .be no obJection the vote ninth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, as additional bounty under by which thiS bill was pa ed will be reconsul.ered. . . the act of Congress approved July 28, 1866, provided he has not Mr. WADLEIGH. I now move that the -bill be rndefinitely post- already received bounty under the act. poned. . · The bill wa.s reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to The motion was agreed to. a third reading, read the third time, and passed. FORT REYNOLDS MILITARY RESERVATION. UJOR J. W. NICHOLS. , Mr. LOGAN. I move that the Senate proceed to the consideration Mr. LOGAN. I move that the Senate proceed to the consideration of House bill No. 1931. of Senate bill No. 769. The motion was agreed to; and the bill (H. R. No. 1931) to author- The motion was agreed to; and the bill (S. No. 769) for the relief of ize the sale of the military reservation of Fort Reynolds, in Colorado Major J. w. Nichols, paymaster United States Army, was considered Territory, and the Government buildings thereon, was considered as as in Committee of the Whole. It directs the payment to Major J. in Committee of the Whole. W. Nichols, paymaster United States Army, of 4;500, erroneously The SecretMy of War is authorized and empowered by the bill to charged to and paid by him in the settlement of his accounts. transfer to the custody and control of the Secretary of the Interior, The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered for disposition for cash, according to the existing la.ws of the United to be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and pa sed. States relating to the public lands, after appraisement, to the hio-hest bidder, aud at not le s than tho appraised value, nor at le s than$1.25 UNSERVICEABLE ORDNANCE STORES. per acre, the United States military reservation of Fort Reynolds, in Mr. LOGAN. I move that the Senate proceed to the consideration Colorado Territory, containing about twenty-three 'square miles as of House bill No. ~7. set apart and declared by the President, on J nne 22, 1868, including The motion was agreed to ; and the bill (H. R. No. 3257) authorizing all the buildings heretofore erected by the United States, and now the Secretary of War to sell unserviceable ordnance stores, and for being thereon, (there ervation and buildings being no longer needed other purposes, was considered as in Commi«ee of the Whole. for military purpo ·es;) aud the Secretary of the Interior is to cause The bill directs the Secretary of War to cause to be sold, in such tbe land to be offered ~ tracts of not more than eighty a.cres each, manner and at such times and places and in such quantities as shall and sold sepa,rately at public outcry, to the highest bidtler, after giv- m~st conduce to the interest of the United States, all obsolete and ing not less than three montllS' public notice of the time and place of unserviceable fixed ammunition and leaden balls and the surplus of sale in not less than three public newspapers printed and published pig-lead in excess of two thousand tons now stored in the various in the Territory. / arsenals of the United States, and to cause the net proceeds of such ale The bill was repoPte!l to the Senate without amendment, ordered after paying all costs and expenses of breaking up and preparing the to a third reading, read the third time, and passed. ammunition for sale and all the necessary expenses of such sale, in clud ing the cost of transportation to the place of sale, to be covered into SHERIDAN O. BREMMER. the Treasury of the United States with full accounts of the expenses.. Mr. LOGAN. I move that the Senate proceed to the consideration The bill was reported from the Committee on Military Affairs with of House bill No. 2412. · an amendment, in line 8, to strike out the word "fixefl" before the The motion was agreed to; and the bill (H. R. No. 2412) for the re word" ammunition." lief of Sheridan 0. Bremmer, late a private of Company E, Eighteenth The amendment was agreed to. Regiment Wisconsin Infantry, was considered a~ in Cominittee of the The bill was reported to the Senate aa amended. and the amend Whole. ment was concurred in. The bill proposes to direct the Adjutant-General to remove the It was ordered that the amendment be engrossed and the bill be read charge of desertion against Sheridan 0. Bremmer, late a private in a third time. · Company E, Eighteenth Regiment Wisconsin Infantry Volunteers, The bill was read the third time, and passed. and grant him an honorable discharge; and the proper a{lcounting EXTENSION OF TIME FOR FILING BOUNTY CLAIMS. officer is authorized to audit and pay all claims for bounty and allow ances which he would have been entitled to had no charge of deser Mr. LOGAN. I move that the Senate proceed to the consideration tion been made against him; but no pay or allowances are to be of House bill No. 3303. granted to him for the time he was actually absent from his regiment The motion was agreed to; and the bill (H. R. No. 3303) to extend by virtue of a supposed discharge. the time of filing claims for adrlitional bounty under the act of July The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered 28, 1866, was considered a~ in Committee of· the Whole. By the provisions of the bill the time for filing claims for additional to a third reading, read the ~hird time, and paBSed. bounty under the act of July 28, 1866, and which expired by limita wn.LIAM J. M 1INTYRE. tion on the 30th day of January, 1874, is revived and extended until Mr. LOGAN. I move that the Sena"OO proceed to the consideration the 30th of January, 1875; and all claims for such bounties filed in of House bill No. 311. the proper Department after the 30th of January, 1874, and before the The motion was agreed to; and the bill (H. R. No. 311) fortherelief passage of this act, are to be deemed to have been filed in due time, of William J. Mcintyre was considered as in Committee of the Whole. and are to be considered and decided without refiling. It directs the Secretary of the Treasury to pay to William J. Mcintyre, The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered late a lieutenant in the Eleventh Illinois Infantry Volunteers, the sum to a. third reading, read the third ~e, and passed. of $199.20, the same being the difference between the pay of a second DANIEL H. KELLY. lieutenant of infantry and a hospital steward, from the 7th of August, Mr. LOGAN. I move that the Senate proceed to the consideration 1864, to the 30th of October, 1864. . of Senate bill No. 841. The bill waa reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered The motion was agreed to; and the bill (S. No. 841) to place the to a third reading, read the third time, and paased. name of Daniel H. Kelly upon the muster-roll of Company F, Second ALEXANDER MINOR. Tennessee Infantry, was read the second time, and considered as in Committee of the Whole. It directs the Secretary of War to place Mr. .LOGAN. I move that the Senate proceed to the consideration the name of Daniel H. Kelly, deceased, upon the muster-roll of Com of Senate bill No. 671. pany F, Second Tennessee Infantry Voltrn teers, to date December 1, 1g61. The motion was agreed to ; and the bill ( S. No. 671) for the relief of The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, orclered Alexander Minor, of West Virginia, was considered a in Committee to be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. of the Whole. It directs the Secretary of the Treasury to pay to Alexander Minor, late a private in Company B, of the Twelfth Regi DISCHARGE OF OFFICERS OF TENTH COLORED ARTILLERY. ment of West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, United States Army, $234, Mr. LOGAN. I move that the Senate pro'beed to the consideration being the amount. of bounty and pay improperly withheld from him of House bill No. 1051. 1874. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. 4947 The motion was agreed to; and the bill (H. R. No. 3431) authorizing The motion was agreed to; and the Senate as in Committee of the the Secretary of War to relinquish and turn over to the Interior De Whole proceeded to consider the bill (H. R. No. 1031,) for the honor partment parts of certain reservations in the Territory of Arizona no able discharge from their several positions in the Army of Captain longer required for military purposes, wa-s considered as in Commit J. Horace McGuire, First Lieutenant Henry R. Gardner, Second Lieu tee of the Whole. tenant William D. McGuire, and Second Lieutenant William C. Reddy, The bill authorizes the Secretary of War to relinquish and turn all late of theTenthRegimentUnited StatesColoredArtillery, (heavy,) over to the Department of the Interior, for restoration to·the public and directing their honorable muster-out of the service of the United domain, such parts of what are known a-s the Fort Yuma, Fort States as of the date of their dismissal. Wllipple, and Camp Date Creek reservations, in the Territory of Ari The preamble to the bill recites tllat Captain J. Horace McGuire, zona, as may, in the opinion of the Secretary of War, be no longer re Tenth Regiment United States Colored .Axtillery, (heavy,) was, on the quired for military purpo es; but the Secretary of the Interior is to 8th of September, 1866, dismissed the service of the Unit-ed States by expose the same at public offering for sale to the highest bidder in virtue of General Order No.4, headquarters Department of the Gulf, the legal ,subdivision not greater than one quarter-section when the September 8, 1866, pursuant to the sentence of a general court-martial; same can be made, and not below th~ minimum price provided by that First Lieutenant Henry R. Gardner, Second Lieutenant ·william law; and .any land left unsold at such offering is to be held thereafter D. 'McGuire, and Second Lieutenant William C. Reddy, of the same for disposal as other public lands. Notice of such public sale is to regiment, were, on the 13th of Septemuer, 1866, severally dismissed be publishedfor sixty days in two newspapers each, one published in the service of the United States .. by virtue of General Order No.5, the capital of the Territory, and the other circulating nearest the headquarters Department of the Gulf, September 13, 1866, pursuant place of sale. to the sentence of a general court-martial, which several general The Committee on Military Affairs reported the bill with an amend orders and sentences were approved by General Court-martial Order ment, to add the following proviso : No. 210, War Department, Adjutant-General's Office, November 16_, Provided further, That bona fide settlers, upon any part of said lands prior to the l tl66 ; and that the several sentences, although within t-he letter of declaration of the reservation-lines, shall have a right to acqwre title to the lands the law and Articles of War, and founded upon proceedings regularly so occupied by them at said time., not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres each, conducted, were, nevertheless, manifestly disproportionate to the under the land laws of the Unitea States. offense cllarged, and therefore unjust, and have worked great and The amendment was agreed to. unnecessary injury to the reputations of the officers named. The bill The bill was reported to the Senate as amended, and the amendment therefore directs the Secretary of War to cause these officers to be was concurred in. honorably discharged from the several positions from which they It was ordered that the amendment be engrossed, and the bill be were dismissed. read a third time. The bill was report.ed to the Senate without amendment, ordered to The bill was read the third time, and passed. Its titl@ wa-s amended a third reading, read the third time, and passed. so as to read: "A bill authorizing the Secretary of War to relinquish SELDEN CONNOR. and turn over to the Interior Department parts of certain reserva tions in the Territory of Arizona ag may be no longer required for Mr. LOGAN. I move that the Senate proceed to the consideration military purposes." of House bill No. 2704. - ALFRED FRY. The motion was agreed to; and the bill (H. R. No. 2704) for the re lief of Selden Connor, was considered as in Committee of the Whole. Mr. LOGAN. I move that the Senate proceed to the consideration The bill directs the Secretary of the Treasury to pay to Selden Con of House bill No. 1108. nor, late lieutenant-colonel of the Seventh Regiment of Maine Vol The motion was agreed to; and the bill (H. R. No. 1108) for the unt-eer Infanti--y, 200, or so much thereof as be shall prove to the relief of .Alfred Fry, was considered as in Committee of the Whole. satisfaction of the proper accounting offi·cers of the Treasury Depart It proposes to direct the Secretary of the Treasury to pay to Alfred ment that the horse was worth, for a horse shot and killed in 1863, by Fry, late captain in the Seventy-third Regiment of Indiana Volun order of the colonel of the :regiment while Connor was absent from teers, the pay and emoluments of a captain of infantry from the 30th his regiment on detached duty. of August, 1863, the date of his commission, to the 17th of May, 1865, The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to the do.te that he was mustered as captain, as .if he had been mnstered a third reading, read the third time, and passed. a.s captain on the date of his commission, first deducting whatever sum may have been paid him as lieutenant during the period for SETTLEMENT OF .ARMY AND NAVY ACCOUNTS. which pay is hereby allowed as captain. Mr. LOGAN. I move that the Senate proceed to the consideration The bill was reported to the Senate without amendmep.t, ordered to of House bill No. 1828. · a third reading, read the third time, and passed. The motion was agreed to; and the bill (H. R. No. 1828) to furlher ISAAC RISEDEN. continue the act to authorize the settlement of the ·accounts of offi Mr. LOGAN. I ove that the Senate proceed to the consideration cers of the Army and Navy was considered as in Committee of the of House bill No. 300'2. Whole. The act to authorize the settlement of the accounts of officers The motion was agreed to; and the bill (H. R. No. 3002) for there of the Army and Navy, approved June 23, 1870, and continued by the lief of Isaac Riseden, late a first lieutenant of the Eleventh Tennessee act approved June 7, 1872, is further continued by this bill for one Cavalry, was considered as in Committee of the Whole. The Pay year from June 23, 1!:374, and no longer. master-General of the Army is directed by the bill to pay Isaac Rise The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered den, late an acting lieutenant of Company E, Eleventh Tennessee to a third reading, read the third time, and passed. Cavalry, the pay and allowances of a first lieutenant of cavalry, from GEORGE A. BACON. the 15th of August, 1863, to the lOth of March, 1865, after deducting Mr. LOGAN. I move that the S~nate proceed to the consideration therefrom any sum which he may have received for his services during of House bill No. 3003. ~ - that time. The motion was agreed to; and the bill (H. R. No. 3003) for the re The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered lief ?f George A. Bacon was considered as in Committee of the Whole. to a third reading, read the third time, and passed. It directs the Secretary of War to pay George A. Bacon, late lieu ROBERT SUTHERLAND. tenant-colonel of the Fifteenth Illinois Cavalry, a sum equal to the Mr. LOGAN. I move that the Senate proceed to the consideration pay and emoluments of a lieutenant-colonel of cavalry from the 31st of Honse bill No. 958. . of December, 1862, to the 3d of ApTil, 1863, deducting whatever pay The motion wa-s agreed to; and the bill (H. R. No. 958) for the he may have received for that period. relief of Robert Sutherland was considered as in Committee of the The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment ordered Whole. It directs the Paymaster-General of· the Army to pay to to a third reading, read the third time, and passed. ' Robert Sutherland, late second lieuteuant Fourth Arkansas Cavah--y JOHN FLETCHER. Volunteers, the full pay and emoluments of a second lieutenant of cavalry from the 30th of June to the 14th of September, 1865. Mr. LOGAN. I move that the Senate proceed to the consideration of Senate bill No. 792. · . The bill was reported to the Senate V(ithout amendment, ordered to a third reading, read the third time, and passed. , The motion was agreed to; and the bill (S. No. 792) for the relief of John Fl~tcher, surviving partner of Fletcher & ' Powell was JAMES B. THOMPSON. considered as in Committee of the Whole. It authorizes the Secre Mr. LOGAN. I move that the Senate proceed to the consideration tary of the Treasury to pay to John Fletcher, surviving partner of of Senate bill No. 600. Fletcher ~ Powell, ·1,399.35 for overdeductions by the Government The motion was agreed to; and the bill (S. No. 600) for the relief of t.he Umted Stat~s for transportation of milit~y supplies from of Captain James B. Thompson was considered a.s in Committee of Fort Leavenworth, rn the State of Kansas, to Fort Laramie Wyo- the Whole. miJ:tg Te~ritory, in the year 1867. ' The preamble recites that James B. Thompson, late of Company · The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered G, First Pennsylvania Rifles, was captured while in the line of his duty, to be engrossed for a third reading,.read the third time, and pa.ssed. May 30, 1864, at the battle of Bethesda Church, Virginia; that on the 6th of June, 1864, he was commissioned first lieutenant in Com l\fiLITARY RESERVATIONS Di ARIZONA. pany F, One hundred and ninetieth Pennsylvania Volunteers, and Mr. LOGAN. I move that the Senate proceed to the consideration on the 19th of September, 1864, another commission was issued to him of Honse bill No. 3431. a.s captain in the same company and regiment, he being at the issu- • 4948 CONGRFJSSIONAL RECORD~ JUNE 13, ing of both commissions absent as a prisoner of war in the hands of. The Cqmmittee on Military Affairs reported the bill with an amend the enemy; that he endured the horrors and privations of Anderson villA ment, so as to make the proyjso read as follows : for a period of nearlv seven months, escaping twice and bein~ once run Provided, That the mode and purpose of occupation· shall first be submitted to down and recaptured by bounds, but at the third attemp_t, emdiug his and approved by the Secretary of War; and the value of the right of way herein granted, as fixed by a board of Army officers as the Sl:lcretary of War may detail to pursuers and reaching the Un_ion lines ~t Atlanta, Georg1a, ~er trav make such valuation, shall be paid into the Treasury before occupation in pursu. eling for one whole month entirely by mght; and that his failure to be ance of this act. mustered was tbroucrb no fault or neglect of his own, but solely by reason of his detention as a prisoner of war. The bill The amendment wag agreed to. u~avoidable The bill was reported to the Senate as amended, and the amend- therefore directs the proper accOlmtiug officers of the Treasury to pay ment was concurred in. · James B. Thompson the pay and emoluments of a first lieutenant of The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, read the infantry in active service from June 6, 1864, to Se~t.emb~r 19, 186~; •, third time, and passed. and to yay him the pay and emoluments of a captam of infantry. m active service from September 19, 1864, to .March 1, 1865, from which THOMAS SIMMS. date his muster as an officer commences. Mr. LOGAN. I move that the Senate proceed to the consideration The bill was reported to the Senate without a,mendment, ordered of House bill No. 2892. to be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. The motion was agreed to; and the bill (H. R. No. 2892) for there lief of Thomas Simms. late a lieutenant in the Seventy-sixth Regi JONATHA....~ D. HALE. ment New York Volunteers, was considered as in Corumittee of the Mr. LOGAN. I move that the Senate proceed to the consideration Whole. It directs the Secretary of 'Var to cause to be paid to Thoma-s of House bill No. 3183. Simms, late sec<;>nd lieutenant Company G, Seventy-sixth Regiment The motion was agreed to ; and the bill (H. R. No. 3183) for the New Y01·k Volunteer Infantry, the sum of $590, being the .[Jay and relief of Jonathan D. Hale, was considered as in Committee of the emoluments of a second lieutenant for the pe1iod of six months, be Whole. l t directs the proper accounting officer of the Treasury to tween the 25th of December, 1 62, and the 1 t of May, 1862. pay to Jonathan D. Hale :3,425 in full for services rendered in the The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered late war as recruiting officer, scout, and guide for the United States to a third reading, read the third time, and pa sed. Army, and for two bor es lost in t he Army. PAYMENT FOR PROPERTY LOST IN THE ULITARY SERVICE. The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered .Mr. LOGAN. I move that the Senate proceed to the consideration to a. third reading, read the third time, and passed. of House bill No. 34:l8. FORT GRATIOT RESERVATION. The motion wag agreed to; and the bill (H. R. No. 3428) to amend Mr. LOGAN. I now ask the Senate to t ake up House bill No. 3335. an act entitled "An act to provide ~or the payment of horses and The PRESIDENT pro tmnpore. The Chair is informed that t here are other property lost or destroyed in the military service of the United tJeveral billswhichhave been reportedsincetheCalendarwa printed States," approved March 3, 1849, was considered as in Committee of and which the Cl erk has in their order. the Whole. Mr. LOGAN. I am j u t calling attention to them. I move that the The bill provides that the first section of the act of March 3 1849 Senate proceed to the considerat-ion of House bill No. 3335. providing for the payment for horses and equipments lost by o'mcer~ The motion was agreed to; and the bill (H. R. No. 3335) anthorizing or enlisted men in the military service shall not be construed to deny the Secretary of \Var to gra.nt a right of way across a corner of the payment to such officers o~ unlisted ~e:r;t for hox:ses which may have Fort Gratiot military reservation to the city railroad company, Port been pur~based by them lll States m msurrectwn ; and payment in Huron, Michigan; was considered as in Committee of the Whole. any case 1S not to be refused where the loss resulted from any exi The bill authorizes the Secretary of War, in his discretion} to grant gency or necessity of the military service, unless it was cau ed by the a permit to the Port Huron City street railroad to lay and use a fault or negligence of such officers or enlisted men. cul'Ved track over the northwest corner of the Fort Gratiot military Mr. CLAYTON. I move to insert as an additional section the fol re ervation in a curve having a radius of fifty-four feet and encroach lowing: ing upon the reservation about :fifteen feet from the angle. That no claims under said section or this amendment thereto shall be considered unless presentoo prior to theist day of .January, 1876. The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to a third reading, read the third time, and passed. The amendment was .agreed to. The bill was reported to the Sen.;:t.te ;ts amended, and the amend- D. R. HAGGARD. ment was concurred in. · · · Mr. LOGAN. I now move that the Sena;te proceed to the consider It was ordered that the amendment be engrossed and the bill read ation of House bill No. 2939. a third time. The motion was agreed to; and the bill (H. R. No. 2939)- to com The bill was read the third time, and passed. pensate D. R. Ha~gard for six months' services as colonel of the Fifth JULIUS GRIESENBECK. Kentucky Unitea States Cavalry Volunteers, was considered as in Mr. LOGAN. l move that the Senate proceed to the consideratioP Committee of the Whole. ofHonse bill No. 3431. . The preamble recites that D. R. Haggard, of Burksville, Cumber Mr. INGALLS. That bill has been passed. land County, Kentucky, was, on the 1st of October, 1861, commis Mr. WINDOM. If we have got so nearly tlll'ough as to pass a bill sioned a colonel of the Fifth Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, United the second time, I ask to take up the resolution reported by myself States Army, in the war of the late rebellion; that he was shortly on t.be 13th day of May with reference to transportation. , thereafter transferred to cavalry service, and was immediately there The PRESIDENT pro tmnpore. There are only two more military a,fter put into and did engage in the active service of his country, bills. and did continne in active servic~ to the close of the war; that he .Mr. WINDOM. I waive my motiQn, then, for the present. was not mustered in the service of the Army tmtil after six months Mr. LOGAN. I move that the Se.nate proceed to the consideration from the date of his commission and engagement in active service; of House bill No. 2087. and that he has never received any pay or compensation for his six ~he motio~ was _agreed to; and the bill (H. R. No. 2087) for the months' service prior to his muster-in. The bill therefore directs the rehef of Julius Gnesenbeck, of Waco, Texa-s, was considered as in Seeretary of the Treasucy to pay to D. R. Haggard the snm of 1,4~2, Committee of the Whole. which shall be in full for all sums due him for his services and all per The_bill p;roposes to instruct the Secretary of the Treasury to pay quisites. to Julins Gne enbeck, of Waco, Texag, the sum of 212.50, which is The bill was reponed to the Senate without amendment, ordered to be in full for his claim for supplies furnished by him for a detach to a third reading, read the 'third time, and passed. ment of the United States Cavalry, under command of Sercreant Von RIGHT OF WAY THROUGH PITTSBURGH A.RSENAL GROUNDS. Urick, in the seryice of the United States, at Waco, Texas, in the year 1868. Mr. LOGAN. I move that the Senate proceed to the consideration T~e bill ":'as reported to ~he S~nate without amendment, ordered to of Senate bill No. 854. a third reading, read the thrrd tnne, and passed. · The motion was agreed to;. and the bill (S. No. 854) extending the right of way heretofore granted to the Alleghany Valley Railroad REUBEN M. PRATI'. Company through the arsenal grounds at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Mr. LOGAN. I am directed by the ommittee on Military Affah'S was considered a-s in Committee of the Whole. to whom was referred the bill (S. No. 794) to legalize the muster of The bill proposes to authorize the Alleghany Valley Railroad Com Reuben M. Pratt a-s second lieutenant, to report it back with a,n pany to extend its tmcks over and occupy the ground between the amendment, and to ask for its present consideration. present track and the Alleghany River where the track, under the act By unanimous consent, the bill was considered as in Committee of a-pproved February 14, 1853, was laid t brough the grounds of the the Whole It directs the Secretary of the War to place the namo United States at and near the Alleghany arsenal, in the county of of Reuben M. Pratt on the rolls of Company K, Sixth Regiment Pellll Alleghany, in the State of Pennsylvania; but the mode and purpose sylvania Reserve Corps Infantry,·as a second lieutenant, and recog of occupation is first to be submitted to and approved by the Secre nizes his muster into service as such heretofore made to date from the tary of War; and the value of the right of way herein granted, as 1st day of August, 1 62. fixed by him or such officer as he may detail to make such valuation, The Committee on Military Affairs reported the bill with an {lomend- is to be paid into the Treasury before occupation in pursuance of this ment to add the following proviso: · act. Provided, That the provisions of this act shall not be t-aken or construed as grant- 1874. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. 4949 ing: any claim against the United States except the right of pension to the minor siou; that views are so irreconcilably opposed, and human language children of said R euben M. Pratt. . is so entirely inadequate, as we have seen by this last report, to express The amendmEmt was agreed to. what either si.de wishes to have done, I think the sooner we make a . The bill was reported to the Senate as amended, and the amend clean cut of this business and stop it, t,he better it will be. Then we ment was concurred in. shall find the people of the Uni.ted States just where the law leaves The bill W!tS ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, read the them now, with a certain amount of currency, with a certain ·amouu t third time, and passed. of pledged public faith in platforms and in statutes to come to.specie payments at the earliest practicable time, and the people will know CANNON FOR SOLDIERS' MONUMENT AT MASSq.LON. also that takin~ the two Houses together it does not seem to be Mr. LOGAN. I am also directed by the Committee on .l\iilitarv :thought that th1s is the earliest practicable time, and outside of that Affairs, to whom wasreferred the bill (S. No. 924) granting condemned the law is a well now as it can be, except that people in the West cannon to the city of Massillon Ohio, for monrunental purposes, to think they have not their share of circulation which they ought to report it back favorably; and I ask for its present consideration. have for the purpose of setting up banks.- The people of the East By unanimous consent, the Senate, as in Committee of the Whole, by their Representatives have unanimously said to the people of the proceeded to consider the bill. It authorizes the Secretary of War to West "Take your share; take it presently; if there is any difficulty deliver, if it can be done without detriment to the Government, three in the existing law take a fresh one; only take it and let us have condemned cannon to the city of Massillon, Ohio, for the purpo e of done with any cause of complaint, just or unjust, any insufficiency, real erecting a bronze statue on a soldiers' monument in that city. or supposed, in respect to the amount of circulation that you are to The bill was reported to the Senate wit hout amendment, ordered to have, and go your way in peace and let us all help together to get be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. on." All that has been said. Now, when we know what the views of the House of Representa .~· R. STRAUS • tives are as far as we can calculai,e a differential calculus, and when Mr. LOGAN. I am also directed by the Committee on Military we know what our own views are as far as each one can understand Affairs, to whom wa referred the bill (H. R. No. 801) for the relief his own views for himself, (which I believe is about as far as we l;tavc of L. R. Strauss, of Macon City, Missouri, to report it back favorably, gone,) why not leave it just where it stands' Everybody sees t hat and I ask to have it acted upon at this time. there is no fruit fit for the honest people of · t·his country to eat to The PRESIDENT pro tempm·e. The Chair noticin~, that the chair grow from this tree. Where is the use, then, of craping and pruning man of the Committee on Finance is in the Senate will lay before the and shaking the branches any more . Let us pa s to-morrow, if you Senate the action of the House of Representatives on House bill No. 0 will, the bill which gives to the people of the West who wish to set 1572. up banks their share of the existing circulation, because when I voted THE CURRENCY-FREE BANKING. for it the other day I voted for it in earnest and good-will and cheer The Senate proceeded to consider the messa~e of the House of Rep fulness; and the failure of their effort to get what they may think is resentatives announcing that the House ha<1 non-concurred in the desirable in this way will not in the least degree absolve me at this report of the committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the se ·sion-I do not pronounce for any further~ because we want to two Houses on the bill (H. R. No. 1572) to amend the several acts pro know at some time whether it is to be asked or not-from the duty of viding a nl\>tional currency and to establish free banking, and for saying, jn t a cheerfully again, "Take your full share of all banking other purp6ses, and asked a further conference on the disagreeing facilities now out." If that strips the State of Vermont of three vote of the two Houses on the bill. fourths of her banking facilities, it will not strip her of any currency Mr. WRIGHT. I move that the Senate further insist on its amend that belongs to her people, for whatever is owing to them I suppo e ments, and agree to the further conference asked by the House of will be paid, and whatever money they have I suppose they will be Representative . entitled to keep; but so far a8 concerns its banking·corporations, in Mr. EDMUNDS. I do not think anything is to be gained by any one of which the little that I possess in this worH is embraced in the further efforts at thlB sort of contrivance; ami therefore in some way form of stock, I say for that and every other one of those institutions or other I wish to test the sen e of the Senate as to going on with this and for the people of Vermont, ''Take it; take it with a good will, not scheme of namhy-pambyism with the Honse of Representative over grudgingly. You feel that you are entitled to it. I waive any dis something where the more we confer the fmiher off we seem to be in' cussion as to whether you are or not; only take it." To go further respect to coming to an agreement. I move to refer the subject to than that now seems to be perfectly impossible. Perhaps it is wit Ohio and the Senator from Pennsylvania voted with us. Those who with the House of Representatives, and the Committee on Finance it were willing to have a conference to consider the question without seems to me can tell us nothing about that. A conference committee standing by firmly where we were already and refusing to confer it seems to me can. · upon it, voted the other way, and they had the majority. .Mr. EDMUNDS. You speak of the difference between us and the Mr. SCOTT. I had for the moment misapprehended the position in House. Can you tell us what it is t speaking of the Senate bill. I was referring to the Senate bill as re Mr. HOWE. My honorable friend from Vermont asks me if I can ported from the Committee on Finance ; and remembering that the tell what the difference is between the Senate and the House on this Senate bill was so amended that I voted against it, then I voted question. No, sir. against insisting upon those amendments. I could not do otherwise :Mr. EDMUNDS. "That is what no fellow can find out." for the purpose of getting a committee of conference. It was impos Mr. HOWE. No, sir; I do not concede that it is one of Dun dreary's sible that I should do so. problems. I am inclined to think a committee of conference might Mr. EDMUNDS. The Senator stood then· in exactly the position find out, and that is one of the rea ons why I favor another com where I stand now if I am forced to come to a note now; but I want mittee of conference. I am satisfied it is one of those thing which tbe Finance Committee to consider it. If I am to vote now I shall the Committee on Finance on the part of the Senate cannot find out. vote against having a conference with the House of Representatives, Therefore I do not see any propriety in consulting that committe~ a.s I did before in respect to the attitude that we stood upon. any further. Mr~ SCOTT. I have not been questioning the right of lihe Senator I did not rise particularly to say either of the things which I have to Yo t e either way, nor his consistency in voting either way. said. I rose more particularly for another purpose. In a hesitating Mr. EDMUNDS. No, uut the Senator ha-s stated that we were bound and stumbling sort of way yesterday I voted for the report of the to vote for this conference a we always had, and so on, and so said late committee of conference on this bill. I acknowledged when I the Senator from Ohio, and I was simply sho·wing to the Senator that cast that vote, or I should have acknowledged if I had been que - in that r6Spect he was mistaken; that a few take the step that he and I, I hope together, wish to take, to go, as il\steo.tl of gettiurr "·no,ODO,OOO; but when you conceue to them the Senator from Pennsylvania so felicitously sta,tes, toward the rising $110,JOO,OOO) that .:.they got wi.Jen they were entitled to less than sun-that is, the sun of honesty, of morning, of fresh air, and all that; $40,000,0001 anu :von take $43,000,000 from the '110,000,000, it still but as the Senator from Ma sachusetts had so earnestly stated, if as leaves them $o4,000,000 ; and now to give to the States West and we cannot do any better, we could grow to specie payment., which South what they arc entitled to on that ba is, would take over it respljcts that subject we stood still, as to law-making at least, it $80,000,000. The S"nator from Vermont says, "Pass the bill giving would be better than •growing the other way. Then I said upon a,u theill $25,000,000 or · 43,000,000, aud say nothing more about it; do entirely iliffereut subject, referriug to the complnint h the West that not aRk wiletber they are entitled to it." That was very kind and they bad uot lmnkiug facilities,. and the ba~ circulation which it wa magn::mif!tous! , upposed woultl bring banking facilities, the East that were supposed Ir. CO.~: KLING. May I inquire of the Senator from Indiana how to have 1t smplns carne with open hantls ancl warm hearts and said, much he told ns about a yeaJ.' ago and again :1 year before t.hat, was ''Take your share," not a.· connected with the question of payin fT the necessary to supply the nctunl want. of the deficient States f debt, but as connected with healing a real or supposed grievance on l\Ir. !ORTON. Yes, sir. I think it was something over $40,000,000 an entirely difl'erent branch of the subject. upon the original basis. .Mr. HOWE. I am glad to hear that explanation, beca,use it gives l\fr. CO.~. KLING. The Senator will find, I am very confident, that me an opportunity to say one more thing. · when a bill was pas ed making the n.ddition that it might go to the .JI,fr. ED.:\iUNDS. It i8 wortil sometiling for that, at any rate. deficient States, he told us that that was not only more than enough, 1r. HOWE. If I am not mistaken in the sentiment of the We ·t, but my impres ion is he said in substance that it was double there if I am uot mistaken in the sentiment of the South, I deem myself quired amount. authorizcu to suy that neither the We t nor the Sou th feels more l\Ir. MORTON. I do not remember what I said; but the figures sensibly the inequality of thi:s ill ·tribution of banking circulation, will show for them elves. The New England States, according to the feels more intently the wrong done in that respect, than the wrong ori::,rinal proportion, were entitled to less than $40,000,000. They got done tho national creditor that you do not meet your obligation to $110,000,000. Other States in the East received an excess of nearly him. And therefore it is, I claim to-cln.y for the second time-yester $11,000,000. It required and will uow require over $-13;000,000, fully day was the first time-a little precedon~e over my honorable friend that I should think, to give to the States West and South their pro from Vermont on t he matter of meeting these obligations. Yesterday portion, a.s uming that the other States have only got theirs. But I voted for the first proposition which propo ed to pay a part of the when tile New England States start out with $34,000,000, then to national debt. equalize upon that !Jasi you have got to give over s ··o,OOO,OOO. That Mr. ED~1UNDS. What proposition was that Y is a different basis entirely. Mr. HOWE. The proposition which proposed to get rid of $82,000,000 But, Ir. President, whatever redistribution you may make on that of your non-intere t-bearing, repudiate Johnston, Lewis, Patterson, Pease, Ransom, Stevenson, Stewart, Stockton, and powerful, intelligent, wealthy organization arrayed against them aa Thurman-22. a race and as a class. That is my judgment. When this state of So the Senate refused to anjourn. things shall have passed away, then they will be more independent CHEA.P TRANSPORTATION. than they now are. I ask for a national civil-rights bill full and complete, not only be-' Mr. WINDOM. I now move that the Senate proceed to the consid cause it is an act of simple justice, but because it will be instrumental eration of the resolution reported :(rom the Select Committee on Trans in placing the colored people in a more independent position; becau e porta,tion. it will, in my judgment, be calculated to bring about a friendly feel The motion was agreed to ; and the Senate resumed the considera ing between the two races in all sections of the country, and will tion of the resolution submitted by Mr. WINDOl\1 from the Select place the colored people in a position where their identification with Committee on Transportation Routes to the Sea-board, instructing any party will be a matter of choice and not of necessity. And the Committee on Appropriations to report amendments to the river while I reiterate the opinion that the great majority of the colored and harbor bill making appropriations for completing the surveys and people will remain true to the republican party S9 long as that party estimates for each of the improvements recommended by the select maintains its present friendly attitude towards them, yet I know and committee upon the four routes indicated in their report. believe that all true republicans are ready, willing, and anxious Mr. CONKLING. I move that the Senate do now adjourn. to place the colored people in a position where they can be more in The motion was agreed to ; and. (at five o'clock and seven minutes dependent in the mamtgement, government, and control of theii loclll p. m.) the Senate adjourned. ' affairs. I will, sir, if the opportunity shall ever present itself, give my views at length upon the important question of civil rights and civil government at the South. DEMPSEY & O'TOOLE. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. On motion of Mr. WHEELER, by nn~nimous consent, the Commit tee on Appropriations were discharged from the further consideration SATURDAY, June 13, 1874. of the bill (H. R. No. 2945) for the relief of the late firm of Dempsey The House met at eleven o'clock a. m. Prayer by the Chaplain, & O'Toole, and the accompanying papers, and the same were referred R~v.J.G.BUTLER, D.D. to the Committee on Claims. The Journal of yesterday was read and approved. JOHN M. M 1PIKE. PERSONAL EXPLA.NA.TION. Mr. KENDALL. I move to suspend the rules to take up and pass Mr. LYNCH. I ask unanimous consent to make a personal explana the bill (S. No. 563) for the relief of John M. McPike. tion, not to occupy over five minutes. Mr. GARFIELD. Mr. Speaker, is there not a conference Teport to No objection was made. be presented at twelve o'clock to-day Y Mr. GARFIELD. After that I shall ask the House to go into Com The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Tennessee [Mr. MA.YN.ARD] mittee of the Whole on the state of the Union on the sundry civil gave notice to that eflect last. evening. appropriation bill. Mr. GARFIELD. ' I desire the House to go into the Committee of Mr. LYNCH. Mr. Speaker~ I only ask the attention of the House the Whole a,s soon a,s poss].ble on the sundry civil appropriation bill, for a few minutes while I maKe an explanation on a matter which is that we may finish it to-day. But at twelve o'clock I will move that somewhat personal to myself. It is not often that I deem it necessary the committ~e rise, as I do not Vlrish to antagonize a conference to call public attention to anything that I may see in a newspaper; report. but an editorial in a recent number of the New York Tribune has The SPEAKER. The question is on the motion of the gentleman been brought to my notice which I think is of sufficient importance from Nevada, [Mr. KENDALL:] to suspend the rules and pa s the bill to justif-y an expbuation. ffau the speech alluded to in this editorial (S. No. 563) for tbe relief of John M. McPike. 1)een delivered iu the House where it could ha.ve been reported, or if The bill was read. It directs t.he Secretary of the Treasury to pay I were satisfieu that th0 writer o.f tile editorial intended a willful $19,473.50 to John M. McPike in full settlement for beef aud supplies misrepre entation, I would not h:1Ve deemeu this course necessary. furnished to troops by Jordan & McPike in quelling the Indian dis But it is due to my able and distinguished colleague on the other side turbance::! in the Territory of Utah, now the State of Nevada, in lSuO. of the House [Mr. LA..l\1A.R] as well a to myself that I make this expla Mr. KENDALL. I ask to occupy a single minute in .explaining nation, because tho e who may have heard his veryeloquentspeechon this bill. It is a Senate bill. It has been twice considered by a Monday last and who may have,reatl this editorial will agree with me Senate committee. In the last Congre s it failed for want of time. in the opinion that it did him injustice as well a myself. Bnt, sir, he At the present session it has been reported unanimously by the Sen of course is sufficiently competent to take care of himself. I a k the ate Committee on Claims ; has been passed by the Senate; and has Clerk to reatl the p:uagraph which I have marked in an editorial of been considered by the House committee. I suppose I am author the New York Tribune of Jtme 10. · ized to state that it has been unanimously recommended by that The Clerk read a follows: committee for passage. The reason I present the bill is that I have Mr. LYNCH spoke of the civil·rights bill, and he was of course not well plea-sed been requested to do so by a member of that committee. I hope the at the manner in which t}.le House hacl treated it; but he assured the caucus of the bill will pass. strict partjr fidelity of the colored. people. There was to be no reconcmation be 1\fr. LAWRENCE. I wish to make a single inquiry. Why cannot tween them and their old masters. They would not believe that slavery was beyond this claim under the existing law be allowed by the Quartermaste1Js revival. They would nut trust a southern white man with their liberties. They cared comparatively little for honesty in office-this at least was the general drift Department f of his address; thoy could pardon fraud, corruption, licentiousness, anything mean Ir. KENDALL. I will only say that it has not taken that course; or ilisgracP.ful, to an orthotlox republican politician; and they would sooner vote and if the bill does not pass the House now the claimant, who has al fur a tllief like Moses than an upright gentleman lik.e luuiA.R. These are the con ready waited now fourteen years for the payment of this money, may clusions logically to be drawn from the remarks of Mr. LTI\CH, as we collate them from the reports of the Yarions papers; and it will be een that they are equimlent have to wait fonrteen years longer. t-o a notice. to the party ~hat it may nominate any rascal they please, and the southern The question being taken on seconding the motion to suspend the negroes will swallow bim.. · rules, it was seconded. Mr. LYNCH. Now, sir, I have not quite such a poor opinion of my The motion was then agreed to, (two-thirds voting in favor thereof,) colleague a that seems to infer. But the idea I intended to convey and the bill was passed. upon that occasion and the substance of what I said was simply this : ORDER OF BUSINESS. that whatever may be the nature of the rE\ports that have been cir Mr. ELLIS H. ROBERTS obtained the floor. culated about some of the Southern States, and whatever may be Mr. TREMAIN. On behalf of the Committee on the Judiciary, and true of the governments of other States, I know that such unfavora in pursuance of previous notice, I move to suspend the rules and pass ble report-s are not true of thE\ State of Mississippi, the State which the bill relating to southern elections. I have the honor in part to represent on this floor. The idea I in The SPEAKER. 1 'l'he Chair does not feel justified in recognizing tended to convey was this, and I want to impress it upon my friends the gentleman from New York [Mr. TRE IA.IN] for business of that on the other side of the House, because I regard some of them as my kind, which would inevitably detain the House, till the public busi friends personally if not politically, that for the evils complained of ness is disposed of. in some of the Southern States they themselves are responsible and not the colored people. Sir, it is in consequence of the continued MOIETIES. uncompromising, repulsive attitude of the democratic party toward Mr. ELLIS H. ROBERTS. I desiie to ask the Honse to consider at the colored people that they are nece sarily compelled on many occa this time the Senate amendments to.the bill (H. R. No. 3171) to amend sions to vote for men whom they would otherwis~ vote a ') 4956 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. JUNE 13, Mr. GARFIELD. If this bill will not take long I will not waste the The SPEAKER. The Committee on Ways and 1\Ieans recommene! time of the House in a contest. • non-concurrence in the amendment. Mr. BUTLER, of Massachusetts. I hope there will be some oppor- The question being taken on concurring, there were-ayes '%1, noes tunity for debate on this bill. · not counted. Mr. ELLIS H. ROBERTS. At this period of the session I cannot be So the amendment was non-concurred in. lieve the House desires further de bate on the bill. I a k the House The ninth, eleventh~ fourteenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth,. to act on the amendments without debat,e. twenty-first, twenty-tttth, twenty-seventh, twenty-ninth, thirty-sec Mr. BUTLER, of Ma sachusetts. Does not that require a suspension ond, thirty-third, thirty-seventh, and thirty-ninth amendments, re of the rules ? lating only to changes in the numbering of the sections, were non The SPEAKER. To cut off debate it will be necessary to suspend concuned in. the rules. The tenth amendment: Mr. ELLIS H. ROBERTS. I move to suspend the rulel;l so that the Strike out "furnishing information " and insert in lien thereof "claiming as in· Senate· amendments to the moiety bill may be disposed of seriatim, former ; " so it will read : That no payment shall be made to any per on claiming as informer in any case without debate. wherein judicial proceedings shall have been instituted, unless his claim to com The motion to suspend the rules being seconded, was agreed to, two pensation shall ha>e been established, &c. thirds voting in favor thereof. The committee recommended non-concuiTence. Mr. ELLIS H. ROBERTS. :rf I may be allowed two or three Mr. RANDALL. I ask for a vote on that amendment. words-- The House divided; and there were-ayes 27, noes 73. Mr. BUTLER, of Massacl;m etta. No, sir; aft.er you have cu~ off So (no further count being demamled) the amendment was non-con- debate we object, of course, to your being allowed to dis~uss the bill. curred in. The first amendment was read, as follows : The twelfth amendment: Strike out in the first section of the bill the words: "section 7 of the act entitled 'An act to punish frauds upon the revenue, to provide for the more certain and In section 11 insert the words "or any other" before the word "act." speedy collection of claims in favor of the United States, and for other purposes,' The committee recommended concurrence. approved M.arch 3, 1863." . The amendment was concurred in. Tbe SPEAKER. The Committee on Ways and Means recommend The thirteenth amendment: . non-concUITence in this amendment. Strike out the word "perpetual." The amendment was non-concurred in. The committee recommended concurrence with an amendment, as The second amendment was rean, as follows : follows: In the second section insert after the word "forfeitures " t1J e words "under the Before the word "~" in line 17, -page 6, of the bill ~sert the words "at any time;" customs-revenue laws." · so it will read "shall nave at anytrme a right of action1 against such officer or other The SPEAKER. The Committee on Ways and Means recommend person," &o. non-concUITence in this amendment. The amendment was agreed to; and the Senate amendment, as The amendment was non-concurred in. amended, was concurred in. The third amendment was rea.d, as follows : The fifteenth amendment: Before the word ''fines," in line 7 of section 2, ~sert the word "such." Strike out the words "interested in a part or share of any fine, penalty, or for feiture incurred under the customs-revenue laws of the United States," and insert The SPEAKER. The Committee on Ways and Means recommend in lieu thereof "claiming compensation under any provision of this act;" so it will non-concurrence in this amendment. read: The amendment was non-concurred in. That no officer, or other person entitled to or claiming compensation und r any provision of this act shall be thereby disqualified from becommg a. witness in any ·The fou:rth amendment was read, as follows: a-ction, suit, &c. In section 3, after the word "otherwise," in line 5, insert the following: And for the purpose of making such compensation for the next fiscal year, the The committee recommended concurrence. sum of 100,000 is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not The amendment was concuned in. otherwise appropriated. The sixteenth and seventeenth amendments: The SPEAKER. The Committee on Ways and Means recommend Strike out the words" Provided, That in every such ca e, whenever the officer or person entitled to any share in the fine, penatw, or forfeiture shall appear as a concurrence in this amendment. witness," and insert" and in every such case;' and after the word'· may" insert The amendment was concurred in. the words " appear and ; " so it will read : The fifth and sixth amendments were to insert "that" at the be And in every such case the defendant or defendants may appear and testify and ginning of section 4, and ·also to insert the word "duties" before the be examined and cross-examined in like maDl}er. words "costs and charges;" so as to make the first clause of the sec The committee recommended concurrence. tion read as follows: The amendments were concurred in. That whenever any officer of the customs or other person shall detect and seize The tweuty-second. amendment: goods, wares, or merchandise in ' the act of being smuggled, or which have been In section 21 strike out "severally forfeit and pay a. fine of not more than $5,000 smuggled, he shall be entitle~ to such compensation tlierefor as the Secretary of for each offense, to be recovered by a joint or several actions in any district or the Treasury shall award, not exceeding in amount one-half. of the netj.roceeds, circuit court of the United States," and in lieu thereof insert the words "for each if any, resul:ting from such seizure, after deducting all duties, costa, an ·charges offen e be fined in any sum not exceeding $5,000 nor less than fifty dollars, or be im- connected therewith. prisoned for any time not exceeding two years, or both." ·• The SPEAKER. The Committee on Ways and Means recommend The committee recommended non-concurrence. concurrence in these amendments. Tha amendment was non-concurred in. The amendments were concurred in. The twenty-third amendment: The seventh amendment was read, as follows: Strike out the words " as aforesaid." Strike out after "cnstom-house,"in line13 of section4, the words "or.snbmitting The committee recommended concurrence. them to the officers of the revenue for examination;" so that the first clause of the The amendment W&S COncurred: in. proviso will read as follows : The twenty-fourth amendment: Provided, That for the purposes of this act smuggling shall be construed to mean the a-ct, with-intent to defraud, of bringing into the Unit-ed States. or, with like · 'In section_21 strike out "liable to forfeiture, which forfeiture shall apply only to intent, attempting to bring into the United States; dutiable article, without passing the particular item of merchandise to which such fraud or alleged fraud relates" the same, or the package containing the same, through the custom-house. and in lieu thereof insert "forfeited; which forfeiture shall only apply to the whole of the merchandise in the case or package containing the particular article or arti The SPEAKER. The Committee on Ways and Means recommend cles of merchandise to which such fraud or alle~ed fraud relates; and anything con non-concurrence in this amendment. tained in any act 1Vhich provides for the forfeiture or confiscation of an entire in voice in consequence of any item or items contained in the same being undervalued, The amendment was non-concurred in. be, and the same is hereby, repealed. The eighth amendment was read, as follows: The committee recommended non-concurrence. Insert the following as a new section: SEc. 5. That in all suits and proceedings other than criminal arising under any of The amendment was non-concurred in. the revenue laws of the United States, the attorney representing the Government, The twenty-sixth amendment: whenever, in his belief, any busine s book, invoice, or paper, belongin , 1874~ CO!~GRESSIONAL RECORD. 4957 PllStoms laws, forthwith to make complaint thereof to the collector of the district, named, there shall be paid, from and after the 1st day of J nly, 1874, an annual sal whose duty it shall be promptly to report the same to the district attorney of the ary, as follows: district in which su9h frauds shall be committed." To the collector of the district of New York, 12,000. To the collectors of the clistricts of Boston and Charles town, Massachusetts; and The committee recommended concurrence. San Francisco, California, each $8,000. The amendment was concurred in. To the naval officer for the district of New York, ,000. Th~ thirty fir t amendment: . To the naval officers of the districts of Bo ton and Charlestown, Massachusetts; Strike out the following section: . and San Francisco, California, each $5,000. SEC.lO. Thatinallactions,snits, and proceedings in any conrtofthe United States, To the surveyor of the port of New York. $8,000. now pending or hereafter commenced or prosecuted to enforce or declare the for To the surveyors of the ports of Boston, Massachusetts; and San Francisco, Cali feiture of any goods, wares, or merchanclise, or to recover tile value thereof, or any fornia, -each $5,000. other sum alleged to be forfeited by reason of any \iolation of the provisions of To the appraiser and other officers and employes in his department in the port of the customs-revenue l_aws, or any of such provisions, in which action, suit, or pro New York, as follows: ceeding an issue or issues of fact shall be joined, it shall be the duty of the court, on To the appraiser, $8,000. To the assistant appraisers, each $4,000. the trial thereof, to submit to t-he jury, as adi~tinctand eparate propo ition, whether the alleged acts were done with an actual intention to defraud the United States, and -To the examiners, each not to exceed $3,000. to re9.un·e upon such proposition a special finiling by such Jury; or, if such is ues To the clerks who may be designateu chief clerks, each not to exceed $2,500. be tl'led by the court without a jury, it shall be the duty of the court to pass upon To clerks, vedfiers, and samplers, each not t~ exceed 2;600. To mes~engers each $900. and decide such proposition as a distinct and separate finding of fact; and in such, To openers and packers, each three dollars per diem. cases, unless intent to defraud shall be so found, no fine, penalty, or forfeiture shall The collector at New York shall detail a store-keeper and such number of clerks be imposed. and other employes as may, by the Secretary of the Treasury, be deemed neces The committee recommended non-concurrence. sary to perform the duty of receiving packages uesignated for examination at the The amendment waa non-concurred in. public stores, and of delivering the same, after examination, therefrom ; and that all supplies shall be furnished by the collector on monthly estimat.es submitted by Thirty-fifth amendment: the appraiser to the Secretary of the Treasury, and approved by him, and all repairs Strike out the following section: and alterations needed in the public store and appraiser's department at said port SEc. 17. That it shall not be lawful for any officer of customs, special agent, or of New York shall be made in like manner on therecommendatioRoftheappraiser. district a.ttorney w compromise or settle any claim of the United States arising There shall be paid to the subordinate officers of the district of New York: under the customs laws. or relieve from any fine, penalty, or fmfeiture; and any To the as i taut collector, ~.ooo per annum. office-r or person who shall so compromise or settle any such claim, or attempt to To the deputy collectors, each ,000 per annum. make such compromise or settlement, or re!ieve or attempt to relieve from such To the chief clerk of each division under a deputy collector, i2,500 per annum. fine, penalty, or forfeiture, shall be guilty of a felony, and, on co11viction thereof, To the entry and liquidating clerks in the office of the collector of cUBtoms, ea(Jh shall suffer imprisonment not exceeding ten years and be fined not exceeding not to exceed &'2,500 per annwn ; and the annual compensation of other collectors, 10,000: Provided, lwwever, That the Secretary of the Trea ury, in accordance with surveyor , and other officers and employes collllected with the customs service not general regulations, to be prescribed by him, not in conilict with ex:i:;ting laws nor named her@in, and not herein otherwi e provided for, shall continue as fixed by with the provisions of this act, may remit a.1y fines, penalties, or forfeitures, upon existing law. sufficient proof that there was no 'ntention of fraud or willful neglect upon the part of such person or persons a.6ainst whom such fines, penalties, or forfeitures shall The committee recommended concurrence with the following amend have accrued, or on the part of his or their agent or agents. ment: Strike out all of the section after the words ''to the surveyor of the port of New The committee recommended concurrence in the. thirty-fifth amend York, $8,000." ment of the Senate, with an amendment as follows: Insert in lieu of the section stricken out the following: Mr. O'NEILL. I move the following amendment: SEc. -. That it shall not be lawful for anv officer or officers of the United States That the salaries and compensation of all the officers of customs of the ports of to compromise or abate any claim of the Uiiited States arising under the customs Philadelphia and Baltimore shall be increased so as to be the same amount a.s the laws for any fine, penalty, or forfeiture incurred by a violation thereof; and any customs officers of the port of Boston as proposed by this bill. officer or person who shall o compromise or abate any such claim, {)r attempt to make such compromise or abatement, or in any manner relieve or attempt to relieve The House divided; and there were-ayes 78, noes 28. from such fine, penalty, or forfeiture, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and, on So l\fr. O'NEILL's amendment was agreed to . . conviction thereof, sha.ll suffer imprisonment not exceeding ten years, and be fined The amendment of the Committee on Ways and Means,aE! amended, not exceeding $10,000: Provided, however, That the Secretary of the Treasury, in accordance with general regulations, to be prescribed by him, not in conilict with was concurred in. existin""laws nor with the provisions of this act, may remit any fines, penalties, or l\fr. BECK. I move now that the amendment of the Senate be non forfeitures, upon sufficient proof tlia.t there was no fraudulent intention or willful concuiTerl in. neglect upon the part of such person or persons against whom such fines, penal The SPEAKER. The question will be on concurrence. ties, or forfeitures shall have accrued, or on the part of his or their agent or agents. The House divided; and there were-ayes 52, noes 51; no quorum voting. · The amendmeut was ~greed to; and the Senate amendment, as amended, was concuned in. Mr. ELLIS H. ROBERTS demanded tellers. Thirth-si.x.th amendment : Tellers were ordered; and Mr. ELLIS H. ROBERTS and Mr. BECK were appointed. Strike out the following section: - SEc. U!. That whenever any !.I>PPlication shall be made to the Secretary of the The House again iliVidecl; and the tellers reported-ayes 78, noes 80. Treasur.v for the mitiga,ion or remis:;ion of any fine, penalty, or forfeiture, or the So the amendment was non-concurred in. refund of any duties, m case the amount involved is not le s than $11000, the appli Forty-fifth amendment: · cant shall notify the clistl·ict attorney and the collector of customs or the district in Insert the following as an additional section: which the duties, fine, penalty, or forfeiture accrued; and it shall be the duty of That the Secretary of the Treasury shall, from time to time, make such re""u such collector and district attorney to furnish to t-he Secretary of the Treasury all lations as he may deem necessary for the conduct and management of the bon8ed practicable information necessary to enable him to p::otect the interests of the United warehouses general-order stores, and other depositories of the imported mercltan States. dise througnout1 the United States; all regulations or orders issued by collectors of The committee recommended non-concurrence. customs in regard thereto shall be subject to revision, alteration, or revocation b:v The amendment was non-concurred in. him; and no warehouse shall be bonded and no general-order st{)re establit>heu without his authority and approval. And it shall be the duty o.f the Secret..'U·y of Thirty-eighth amendment: the Treasury, in grantin~ permits to establish general-order warehouses, to· re Insert " after the expiration of three years from the time of entry;" so it will read : quire such wa1·ehouse or warehouses to be located contiguous, or as near a may be, That whenever any goods, wares, and merchandise shall have been entered and to the landing-places of steamers and vessels from foreign ports; and that no offi passed free of duty, and whenever duties upon any imported goods, wares, and mer cer of the customs shall have any personal ownership of or interest in any bonded chandise shall have been liquidated and paid, and such goods, wares, and merchan warehouse or general-order store. • dise shall have been delivered to tbe owner, importer, a2;ent, or consignee, such on try and passage free of duty and such settlement of tiut1es shall, after the expi The committee recommend non-concurrence. ration of three years from the time of entry, in the absence of fraud and in the ab The amendment was non-concurred in. sence of protest by the owner, importer, agent, or consignee, be final and conclu Forty-sixth amendment : sive upon all parties: Insert tho following as a new section : The committee recommended concurrence with an amendment, as That public cartage of merchandise in the cust~cly of the Government shall be follows: subject to the regu.illtions and approval of the Secretary of the Treasury. Strike out the word "three" and insert in lieu thereof the word "two." Mr. RANDALL. I move to amend by striking out "subject to the The amendment was agreed to; and the Senate amendment, as regulations and approval" and inserting in lieu thereof the words amended, was concurred in. "let, with not less than ten days' notice of such letting, to the lowest The fortieth, forty-first, forty-second, and forty-third amendments: responsible bidder, giving sufficient security, and shall be subject to Strike oufl .. maintained" and insert "instituted;" strike out "two" and insert the regulation and approval ;" so it will read : "three;" strike out "any legal disability of the person or his" and insert "the;" That public cartage of merchandise in the cUBtody of the Government shall be and insert ''of the person subJect to such penalty or forfeiture;" so it will read: let, with not less than ten days' notice of such letting, to the lowest responsible bid SEC. 3,9, Tha~ no snit or 11-ction to recover any pecuniary penalty or forfeiture of der, giving sufficient security, and shall be subject to the regulations and approval property accrumg under the customs-revenue laws of tho United States shall be of the Secretary of the Treasury. mstituted unless such suit or action shall be commenced within three/ears after the tim a when such penalty orforfeiture shall have accrued: Provide , That. the The amendment was agreed to. time of the absence from the United States of the person subject to such penalty The Senate amendment, as amended, was concurred in. or forfeiture, or of any conce.alment or absence of the property, shall not be reck Forty-seventh amendment: oned within this period of limitation. Insert the following. as a new section : The committee recommended concurrence. That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this oot nre The amendments were concurred in. hereby repealed; that nothing herein contained shall affect existing rights, or pre Forty-fourth amendment: vent a distribution, in like manner as if this act had not been passed, in all cases wher:,&rosecution has been actually commenced previous to May 1, 1874, or in any Insert the following new section : . rs7s4~ ect suits or ootions commenced for forfeitures incuned previous to May 1. SEc. 20. That in lieu of the sala1ies, moieties, and perquisites of whatever name or nature, and c mmissions on disbutsements, now paid to and received by collect. c;rrl)!. naval oflic~rs, survey.ors, and other officers and employes connected with the The committee recommended non-concurrence. cnstoms s~J;Yjce in the s~veral c<_>llections district& of th~ United States hereinafter Jtfr. CONGER demanded a division. 4958 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. JUNE 13 The House di·vided; and there were- aye 4, noes not counted. ting the redemption of its circulating notes elsewhere than at its own counter, except as provided for in this section, is hereby repealed. So the amendment was non-concurred in. SEC. 5. '.rhat any association organized under this act, or a.ny of the ants of which Mr. ELLIS H. ROBERTS moved to reconsider the votes by which this is an amendment, desiring to withdraw its circulating notes, in whole or in the amenUm.ents of the Senate were concurred in; and also moved to part, may, upon the deposit of lawful money with the Treasurer of the United lay the motion to reconsider on the table. States in sums not less than $9,000, take up t.he bonds which said association bas on deposit with the Treasurer for the security of such circulating notes; which bonds The latter motion was agreed to. shall be a signed to the bank in the manner specified in the nineteenth section of Mr. ELLIS H. ROBERTS also moved for a committee of confer the national-bank act; and the outstanding notes of said association, t() an amount ence on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses. eqnal to the legal-tender notes deposited, ;hall be redeemed at the Treasury of the The motion was agreed to. United Stat~ , and destroyed as now provided by law: Provided, That the amount The SPEAKER appointed a-s managers of said conference on the part of the bonds on deposit for circulation shall not be reduced below $50,000. SEC. 6. That the ~mptroller of the Currency shall, under uch rules and regula of the Honse Mr. ELLIS H. ROBERTS, Mr. SHELDON, and Mr. WOOD. tions as the Secretary of the 'l'reasury ma:y prescrilJe, cause the charter numbers of the a ociation to be printed upon all national-bank notes which may be hereafter BIGLER, YOUNG & CO. is ued by him. Mr. SPEER. I ask.unanimous consent to move that the Commit SEa. 7. That the entire amount of United States notes outstandin"' and in circu tee on Claims be discharged from the further consideration of the bill lation at a.ny one time shall not exceed the snm of 382,000,000, whic'h shall be re tire Will my co11eagne please explain the meaning of that clause of the dissents from the report, the gentleman fTom Pennsylvania, [Mr. conference report 1 Is it meant that these notes shall constitute a part CLYl\iER,] has expressed a de ire to address the House. . of the sinking fund, and that they shall bear interest in the same way Mr. CLfliER. For a verv short time. that the sinking fund now bears in terestt And is it contemplated that ~.I:r. LAWRENCE. I desire to ask the gentleman from Tennessee in the appropriations or estimates for the sinking fund that interest a question. Does he believe that it will be practicable for us tore to the amount of the eighty-two millions shall be computed and added sume payments in specie on the 1st of January, 1878, and if so, where to that account? will the specie come from ~ Mr. MAYNARD. If my colleague will look at the form of the bill Mr. M.A. YNARD. It will be practicable to redeem our bonds, if not as it came from the Senate, be will find in reference to the retiring of in specie, at least to redeem them as contemplated here, by the issu the legal-tender notes this provision: ance of one cla s of the bonds of 1870. And for that purpose he is authorized to issue and sell a.t public sale, after ten Mr. LAWRENCE. And 'of what advantage will that be to the days' notice of the time and place of sale, a sufficient amount of the bonds of the public at large f It will put a non-interest-bearing debt on interest. United States of the character and description prescribed in this act for United :Mr . .MAYNARD. The advantage will be this, that it will allow States notes to be then retired and canceled. the holders of legal-tender notes who ·may happen to have notes for The Committee on Banking and Currency, instead of that, recom which they have no immediate use to convert them into interest mended this provision : bearing bonds at a comparatively low rate of interest, and then au .A.nd the United States notes so retired shall be canceled and carried to the ac thorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to issue those very notes for the oount of the sinking fund provided for by the second clause of section 5 of the act purpose of calling in outstanding bonds due bearing a higher rate of approved on the 25tn of February, 1862, entitled ".A.n act to authorize the issue of United States notes, and for the redemption and funding thereof, and £or funding interest. . If this proposed bill becomes a law, the effect will be in a very the floating debt of the United States," and shall constitute a. portion of said sink few years to refund the entire public debt at a lower rate of interest, ing fund. and that without any aCJditional expense. These two provisions are incorporated into the conference report Mr. LAWRENCE. Is there not danger that it will be followed by in this manner: That if the requirements of the sinking fund, the re a rapid con tra I entered on the discharge of my duties guidecl by a simple and were required to do by the recent pronunciamiento from the White axiomatic financial faith, which is that money is the standard of House, but they have not failed to take a step in that direction in value-that under theConstitution, undertheteachingsof the fathers, obedience to the last and most emphatic manifestation of executive under Jefferson, Jackson, Clay, Webster, and Benton, there is but one will! standard-gold and silver; that with us as a nation, and with all What the people demanded was that the laws should be so framed other nations of the earth, Christian and heathen, these two metals and the resources of the country so husbanded that the greenback are the only standard or measure of value, and that they arEJ the cunency should be made equal to gold, and the holder of them should only things which can be called money, save by misnomer or cheat. be thereby placed upon a footing with the speculating bondholders, I also know that for the purposes of convenience and of trade we the men who sold· their gold at enormous rates in the hour of our ' havA .a medium of exchange called currency, and that its most usual country's direst nee~ invested the proceeds in Hs securities, and called form was a slip of paper called a bank note, although it may have it "lending to the uovernment!" and -not content with this specu others_,,such as checks, promis ory notes, bills of exchange, drafts, latiop., required Congresssubsequentlytochange the contract, thereby &c., au, howevef, evidences of credit which is based on value, that enhancing the value of the bonds, while the laborer was called on to is gold or silver which are its standard or measure. pay the additional taxation necessary for the purpose, while he in llis Thes.e things I thought I knew, certainly I believe them, and there- squalor and impotency must rest content with the ever-pre ent curse fore, sir, it is not surprising that believing them to-day I have been of an irredeemable paper currency which increases nearly twice the unable to agree with the majority of the committee in their conclu- cost of everything .he eat , drinks, and wears, making him, and his sio-ns. children after him, thepack-horseand slaves of a system conceived in It will not be pretended by any one that these conclusions, as ex- necessity and continued in fraud. pressed in the bill under consideration, are those which would have But, sir, it is painfully evident that the majority in tbi Congress been proposed and adopted by the majority of this House when we will do nothing in the true interests of labor or of the people gener first met i,n. December last, or which are now demanded by the wants ally. They stubbornly -refuse to provide to pay the greenback in an'd exigencies of the-times. For weary months we have talked and gold, but propose to retire and substitute a national-bank currency for talked, and shown most effectually-" how not to do it" and now that we eighty-two million of them, anfl to fund and redeem the remaining are about "to do it," and it is done, I venture -to predict that every three hundred millions by the issue of gold interest-bearing bonds, for man whQ has had part or lot in it will be heartily a harned of his the interest on which the people must be taxed, thus continuing a work before another year is past. It is a transparent effort to escape ' practice which under republican rule has prevailed for year , for the condemnation and to bridge over the coming elections. Never, sir, benefit and enrichment of capital, to the prejudice and impoverish in the history of any nation has a great party, enthroned-in every ment of labor, and to secure the final and perpetual ascendancy of department of the government, with the Executive and more than 1 the moneyed aristocracy. When the greenback is exterminated, as it two-thirds in both branches of the Legislature, stood so utterly pQw- must and will ultimately be by this bill if it becomes a law, then the erless- and helpless before a whole people, who had a right to demand universal and absolute domination of the national banks will begin. wise and· beneficent legislation! They indeed asked for bread, and They will, by it, have the exclusive franchise to furnish this entire yoq propoee in sco~~ and utter disregard, to offer tb.em a stone. country for all time with all its currency, and o:q. every bond pledged What doos this bill mean! First and chiefly, indeed I had almost to secure it the interest must be paid to them in gold raised by tax said only, to fasten on the nation a banking system, whose benefits ation from the people. areexclusivelyfortherichandthefew,bywhichabsolutel~·andforever Sir, taxa.. tion is the "shibboleth" of the party in power, it is the the industry, the labor, the enterprise of the whole land is to be "Alpha and Omega" of their creed. By it the national-bank system mortgaged to the mo~ey-lending interest of the nation. The banking is upheld and supported; by it labor is burdened and oppressed; by interest is to be enlarged, extended and forever perpetuated; it is to it extravagance and w~te are maintained in every department of be erected into a great league or guild, sustained and defended by the Government ; by the means of it presidential and other salaries all the powers of the Federal Government, covering every State, in:- are increased and tbe products of industry and labor are decreased; festing every locality; its power permeating every transa-ction of and by it the ruling dynasty defies the will and mocks at the neces business and controlling every election, State and national, and to be- sities of the people. come a hundred-fold more dangerous to the rights and liberties of the In 1860 the expenses of the Government, exclusive of interest on people than was ever the Bank of the United States in its days of the public debt and pensions, were 58,956,952.39. In 1874 the ex greatest power. Jackson made himself immortal by destroying the penses of the Government, exclusive of interest on the public debt and Iatter. There will be even greater glory for him who may free the pensions, were 1G7,440,297.38. Yet this bill proposes still greaiertax land of the foxmer. ation for the benefit of a class who of all others are least entitled to It is not to be denied that the existing national banking system is legislative favor or protection, and it is to be pa sed by a party whose purely an outgrowth of the necessities of the times throu..,.h which we chief rallying-cry is" protection to labor." Well may labor every have lately pMS~d; that it was an expedient temporary in its"natura, where, in the shop, the field., the mine, exclaim, "Save me from my to be changed when the nation resumed its normal condition; but by friends!" . this bill it is designed to make it general and perpetual, and in order I assert, sir, that it was within the power of the majority in t.his to wipe out every trace of that which marked it as temporary, it is Congress to have conferred lasting fame upon themselves and endur called the "national-bank a-ct." ing benefits upon labor, to have lighted the fires in every furnace and The law authorizing the issue of a p..ational Government currency, forge, to have started the wheels of ·industry in every shop and mill, including the legal-tender clan e, though of doubtful expediency and to have fostered and promoted the building of thousands of miles of still more doubtful constitutionality, was accepted and submitted to, iron highway, and to have caused every sea to be w"Qitened with the by reason of _the necessities of the hour which gave it birth; but it sa,ils of our ships, bearing our productions to other la,nds, had they had its benefits, the people became reconciled to it, the court of last heeded the just demands of the people. But to them the opportu resort determined its constitutionality, and by custom, sanctioned by nity has been lost, and they must give way to those who will be equal law, it has become the basis of the whole business of the country. to the emergency. .And, sir, ever since the cra-sh in September, in the midst of the de- A wise, honest, statesman-like policy would have done it; but in its mand for some measure of relief from the distress ancl stagnation. stead a mo t oppre si.ve and destructive one is to be adopted. Had which everywhere prevail, who has ever heard from any quarter com- the means been taken to bring' the Government currency or green plaint about this currency' back to~ gold standa:rd by some gra.dual, sure, but not opp~ess~ve pro - It is true that the people have asked that such measures should be cess, which could easily have been done, and had the banking mtere t adopted by us as wonld provide for its redemption in specie, in order and its a~gressivo power been restrained instead of enlarged, some that it might have actual, real, permanent value j but instead of that of their VIolated pledges would have been redeemed, and the grate my colleagues of the conference committee, in the plenitude of their ful thanks of the laboring and business men of the country would wisdom,andisayitnotdisrespectfully,altJloughco.rp.plainingly,design have been justly theirs. I, sir, am unwilling to share t.he blame at by this bill to retire and destroy it, although it costs the Government taching to their incompetency and dereliction of duty by signing the or the tax-payers not a farthing to keep it afloat, in order that room report of the conference, nor will I fasten further bondage, disgrace, may be made for the increased and increasingcirculationofthenational and misery upon the country by voting for it. banks, which costs. the tax-payers 6 per cent. on all the bonds depos- Mr. MAYNARD. I have a word or two to say. ited to secure it. Even now this amounts to twenty-four millions Mr. KELLOGG. A.llowmetoaskthegentlemanfromPennsylvania a year, and when all the greenbacks are retired and funded, this [Mr. CLYMER] a question. amount will be increased twofold if their place is to be supplied by Mr. MAYNARD. Very well; I will let the gentleman ask a ques- national-bank currency. What the limit of this process of fraud and tion. robbery may be I am not now prepared -to say, but unquestionably Mr. KELLOGG. I wish to ask the gentleman from Pennsylvania under this bill it may go on until the whole existing indebtedness of who has just taken his ~eat, and who I understa,nd is in favor of gold the Government becomes the basis of this system of dishonesty and and silver and against national-bank notes and also in favor of green ultimate lllin· I do not claim that thi_s will be done; I only assert its backs, how he is going to redeem greenbacks in gold and silver unle s possibility under this bill. The self-interest, the cupidity of tlte the national-bank note circulation is increased a_,nd the·presen t volume moneyed interest, may restrain and regulate it, it may become" a law of greenbacks is diminished f . unto itself;" for surely other than this there is no limit, no restraint. Mr. CLYMER. . Give me the power and time and I will do it. My colleagues were not, however, quite subservient enough to execu- Mr. KELLOGG. That is the only question I wanted to ask: He tive dictation tp destroy the Government currency or greenba-cks at a does not answer-- blow, and thus impose additional taxes to be paid in gold, as they Mr. MAYNARD. Before calling the previous question I wish to 1874 CO~GRESSION.AL RECORD. 496l say that my associate on the committee of conference, [Mr.. CLYMER,] Mr. NEGLEY. Respecting the views of my constituents, l vote has given quite a satisfactory reason why he should not sign the re "ay." Personally I am opposed to several provisions of this report. l>ort. But, from the names attached to the report, I am sat~fied that The result of the vote was announced as above stated. it is not to be a party question, using the word "party" With refer Mr. CLYMER. I move to reconsider the vote just taken; and also .ence to the two great political parties of the country: T~ere a~e move that the motion to reconsider be laid on the table. . ' names of gentlemen attached to this report who are as dec1ded m Mr. MAYNARD. On that motion I ask for the yeas and nays. their democracy as any member of the committee ~a~ b~ as a I'epub Several MEMBERS, [to Mr. CLYMER.] Withdraw the motion. lican. Therefore1 having got out of the area of politics-- The SPEAKER. The Chair will state the effect of this motion. Mr. COX. I wiSh to ask a question. If adopted, it would merely prevent the vote just taken from being Mr. MAYNARD. I cannot yield. reconsidered. It would not prevent action of the House with a view M1·. COX. Does this bill contract or expand the currencyf to a new conference. It would merely declare with emphasis that Mr. MAYNARD. I was about to remark that I regret the absence this particular vote shall not be taken over again. _ of the name of the gentleman from Pennsylvania from this report, Mr. HALE, of Maine. In what way can a new conference be ob because it might seem to give a sectional chara-cter to this question of tained-by what motion t currency, and make the division upon the question of sectional lines, The SPEAKER. By a mere motion in the words the gentleman which I should very much regret. But I am very sure the vote of the has just used. The gentleman from Massachusetts [Mr. D~WES] ha-s House will obliterate any such line, if any one thinks .it exists. I indicated his purpose to make such a motion. now call the previous question. . Mr. CLY.l\IER. I insist on my motion to reconsider and lay on the The previous question was .seconded upon a division-ayes 116, table. . noes 31-and the main question was then OI'dered. . The SPEAKER. Pending that motion the gentleman from Massa The question was upon agreeing to the report of the committee of chusetts [Mr. DAWES] moves that the House ask a further conference conference. with the Senate on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses. This Mr. COX and Mr. SPEER called for the yeas and nays. motion takes precedence of the motion of the gentleman from Pennsyl-, 'l'he yeas and nays were ordered. vania, [Mr. CLYMER.] Any motion tending to bring the two Houses The SPEAKER. Two or three gentlemen· have asked the Chair together has precedence over a motion that merely relates to the one privately to state the effect of this vote. The question is, Will the body. House agree to the report of the committee of conference f An affirm The question being taken on the motion of Mr. DAWEs, there were- ative vote on that question passes the bill as reported from the com ayes 101, noes 39. mittee of conference. :Mr. POTTER. I call for the yeas and nays. Mr. BUTLER, of Ma8sachnsetts. Bnt a negative vote does not The yeas and nays were·ordered. necessarily defeat the bill. Mr. BUTLER, of Massachusetts. Will a new conference give us a The SPEAKER. .A. negative vote leaves the report of the committee new committee Y of conference not agreed. to. What subsequent proceedings may be The SPEAKER. 'rhe adoption of the motion in the present form had of course the Chair knows nothing about. would b~ construed by the Chair as an instruction by the House· for Mr. COX. There can be a new committee of conference. the appointment of a new committee. The SPEAKER. If the two Houses order it. The question was taken; and there were-yeas 197, nays 48, not The question was taken; and there were-yeas 108, nays 146, not voting 44 ; as follows : voting 3G ; as follo'!s : YEAS-Messrs. Albert, Albright, Arthur, Ashe, Atkins, Averill, Banning, JJar YEAS-Messrs. Albright, Averill, Barber, Barrere, Begole, Biery, Bradley, Brom ber, Barnum, Barrera, Beck, Begole, Bell, Biery, Bland, Blount, Bowen, Bradley, berg, Bundy Burchard, Burrows, Roderick R. Butler, Cam, Cannon, Cessna, Amos Bright, Brown, Buckner, Burchard, Burleigh, Burrows, Benjamin F. Butler, Rod Clark, jr., ciementAJ, Clinton L. Cobb, Stephen A. CobbhConger, Cotton; Crounse, erick R.Butler, Caldwell, Cannon,Cason,Cessna,Amos Clark,jr., John B. Clark,jr., Crutchfield, Curtis, Darra.Il, Dobbins, Dunnell, Farwe , Fort., Foster, Garfield, Clymer, Clinton L. Cobb, Stephen A. Cobb, Coburn, Comingo, Co~er, Cook, Cor Hagans, Harrison~Jobn B. Hawley, Hays, John W. Hazelton, Hodges, Howe, win, Cotton, Creamer, Crittenden, Crossland, Crounse, Crutchfield, uurtis, Danford, Hunter, Hurlbut, Hynes, KMson, Lamport, Lansing, Lewis, Lofland, Loughridge, Davis Dawes Dobbins, Donnan, Dunnell, Durham, Eames, Field, F011, Foster, Lowe, Lynch Marlin, Maynard, McCrary, Alexander S. MoDill,James W.~oDill, Garfieid, Gid~gs, Glover, Gooch, Gunckel, Hagans, Eugene Hale, Hancock, Ben McKee, McNulta, Merriam, Monroe, Morey, Myers, Negley, Orr, J;>ookard, Packer, jamin W. Harris, Henry R. Harris, John T. Harris, Harrison, Hatcher, Hathorn, rarsons, Pelham, Phillips, James H. Platt~ jr., Pratt, Purman, Rainey, Ransier, Havens, J ohnB. Hawley, Hays, John W. Hazelton, Hendee, Hereford, E. Rockwood Rapier, Ray, Rice, Richmond, James W. Robinson, Ross, Rusk, Sawyer, Scofield, .Hoar, George F. Hoar, Hodges, Howe,Hmiter, Hunton, Hyde, Hynes, Jewett, Kas Isaac W. Scudder, Sbeat.s, Sherwood, Lazarns D. Shoemaker, A. Herr Smith, George son, Kelley, Kellogg, Knapp, Lamar, Lamport, Lansing, Lawrence, Leach, Lewis, L. 8mitb J. Ambler Smith, John Q. Smith, Snyder, Sprague, Stowell, Strait Straw Loughridge, Lowe, Lynch, Ma~eii,Marshall, Martin, Maynard, McCrary, Alex bridge, charles R. ThomM, Thornburgh, Todd, Waldron, Jasper D. Ward, Marcus ander S. McDill, James W. Mc.ui McJunkin, McKee, McNulta, Merriam, Mil L. Ward, Whiteley, George Willar LUIITATION OF DEBATE. engraving and lithographing for this work shall be executed under Mr. GARFIELD. I move that when the House shall a.gain resolve the Secretary of War without advertisement. That is what the law itself into the Committee of the Whole on the sundry civil appropriar was before in the act of 1867 authorizing the publication of this his tion bill all debate on the pending paragraph be limiteU. to ten min tory of t.he war. This is a very valuable document and a ·great deal utes. Qf it has been already stereotyped. The country has obtained much The motion was agreed to. information from these medical and surgical reports. The e medical and surgical reports have beerr confined to :five thousanil copies. If DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, you confine the number to :five thousand which you propose to dis Mr. POLAND. I desire to submit a report from the Judiciary Com tribute, and they are sent to certain societies, schools, and individuals, mittee upon the relations of the General Government and the Dis very few will be left for the country at large. There are now being trict of Columbia. The report was submitted some time ago, was published the third, fourth, :fifth, and sixth volumes. ordered to be printed, and recommitted. I have now the unauimous This aduitional publication wonld seem to be necessary for that authority of the committee (who have given careful attention to the Pll!POse. I therefore ask that my amen£1ment may be read and in subject) to submit this report. · corporated with the amendment of the gentleman from Illinois, [Mr. The. SPEAKER. The report will be laid on the table. FORT.] SURVEY OF OUACHITA RIVER. The Clerk read as follows : • Add to the amendment these words: The SPEAKER, by unanimous consent, laid before the House a To be used in tho preparation of illustrations for a new edition of five thousand letter from the chief clerk of the War Department in relation to the copies of the entire work: Provided, That the necessary engraving and lithograph· survey of the Ouachita River from Camdel!-, Arkansas, to Trinity, ing for this publication may be executed under the direction of the Secretary of Louisiana; which was referred to the Commlt.tee on Commerce, and War. without advertisement. ordered to be printed. Mr. GARFIELD. I desire to call the attention of the Committee LEWIS BEHR. . of the ,Whole for a moment to the effect of the amendment. We have On motion of Mr. KILLINGER, by unanimous consent, leave was appropriated already, more than a year ago, a sufficient sum to com granted for the withdrawal from the files of the House of the papers plete the publication of. this very importhnt work-the 1\fedical and in the case of Lewis Behr, no adverse 1·eport having beeJ:l made on them. Surgical History of the War. Two volumes are already out, anll we E. MASON. have provided in this clause of the bill to reappropriate what would otherwise be covered into the Treasury in order to complete the pub On motion of Mr. POLAND, by unanimous consent, leave w~s grant lication durin~ the coming year. It will take a year longer to com ed for the withdrawal from the files of the House of the papers in the plete the publication, and there has been money enough appropriated case of E. Mason, now before the Committee on Claims, no adverse for that purpose. report having been made. , And now the gentleman proposes to make an appropriation Of ISAAC L. JACKSON. $60,000 .to republish the volumes that have already been publish<'d, On motion of Mr. McDILL, of Iowa, by unanimous consent, leave and to make that appropriation now. I suggest that it is unwise to was granted for the withdrawal from the :files o~ the House of. the do this away in advance of tho completion of the work. Let ns wait papers in the case of Isaac L. Jackson, now referred to the Committee until the whole set of volumes is ready, which will be by the end of on Claims, no adve.rse report having been made on them. next year; and then if gentlemen wish to appropriate a snrri for the regublication of the old volumes along with the new, it can be J. & R. H. PORTER. done, so that the work may go out in sets. But if you now make On motion of Mr. HARRIS, of Virginia, by unanimous consent, leave this appropriation and immediately republish the two volumes alreauy· was granted for the withdrawal from the files of the House of the pa out, you-will have a gap of nearly a year ·between them, and people pers in the case of J. & .R. H. Porter, no adverse report having been will not get them in sets. It wonld be almost like tossi.og u.way the made on them. value of a work of this kind to have it issued in that way. I hope LEAVE TO PRINT. these amendments will not be agreed to, and.next year when we are Mr. MARSHALL, Mr. PHILLIPS and Mr. BRIGHT were, by unani told that the whole work is ready for publication we can arrange for mous consent, granted leave to print in the RECORD, as part of the publishing all the volumes together. . dflbates, remarks on the currency q~estion. (See Appendix.) Mr. SPBER. I desire to ofl'er an amendment to the amendment of my collea.gue. MISCELLANEOUS APPROPRIATION: BILL. The CHAIRMAN. That wonld be an amendment in the third Mr. GARFIELD. I now move that the House resolve itself into degree. No further amendment is in order. the Committee of the Whole on the sundry civil appropriation bill. Mr. SPEER. I wish my colleague to accept these words: The motion was agreed to. T<> be rlistributed as heretofore. . The House accordingly resolved itself into the Committee of the By not providing for the manner of distribution he destroys the Whole on the state of the Union, (Mr. DAWES in tlie chair,) and pro virtue of his amendment. Unless this provision is made the Surgeon ceeded to consider the bill (H. R. No. 3600) making appropriations for General will distribute tho work. ~ sundry civil expenses of the Government for the :fiscal year ending Mr. ALBRIGHT. ·I accept the words suggested by my colleague June 30,1875, and for other purposes. and incorporate them with my amendment. I now withdraw my The CHAIRMAN. Debate on the pending paragraph has been amendment as modified, "that my colleague [Mr. STRAWBRIDGE] may limited by the House to ten minutes. renew it. Mr. SPEER. What is the pending motion f - :Mr. STRAWBRIDGE. I renew the amendment of my collea-gue. The CHAIRMAN. Strike out line 953 to the word "war," on the There has never yet been published by the Government any book next line, and insert "for completing and publishing for distribution that compares in value with this wor~, the Medical and Surgical the Medical and Surgical History of the War," $64.,000. History of the War. The five thousand copies which have been Mr. FORT. I desire to so modify my amendment as to leave the printed only reached a very few members of the medical profession. bill as it is, and to introduce an additional ~~agraph.. On inquiry There were more than ten thousand surgeons who served during the at the Surgeon-General's office, I understand $60,000 is quite enough war, most of whom have contributed in some measure to the value for this pmpose. of this work, all of whom demand, and I thlnk aro just-ly entitled to, The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from lllinois withdraws his copies of it. I think that no more graceful compliment could be paid amendment. to men who have given such valuable services during t.he war tb,an. Mr. FORT. Yes, sir. I offer now the followin~ to come in after to furnish them with copies of the work. line 956. 1th-." DONNAN. This is a valuable work, I concede, but I think we The Clerk read as follows : cannot attempt to supply the entire medica-l profession with it. For continuing the publication of the Medical and Surgical History of the War, I• Mr. STRA\VBRlDGE. I have not yielrled the floor. $60,000. • Mr. DONNAN. I beg the gentleman's pardon; I thought he had Mr. SPEER. But the gentleman does not provide in his amend done so. · ment for the distribution of this Medical and Surgical Histo.ry of the .Mr. STRAWBRIDGE. I do not propose that the Government shall War. furnish to every physician throughout the country a copy of the work, · Mr. ALBRIGHT. Mr. Chairman, I wish to say that I inquired at but I do think that it should furnish copies to those wbo have con the Surgeon-General's office this morning in reference to the state tributed articles to it, and to those surgeons who have given faithful ments made on the floor yesterday in r~gard to the publication of the and valuable services in the Army and whose labors have served to fur Medical-and· Surgical History of the War. I :find that if the unex nish the material for the work. pended balances on hand are now reappropriated it will enable the Mr. BRO:hffiERG. Before the gentleman t~kes his seat I desire to Surgeon-General to go on with the rem~ining volumes and he will be ask him a question. Is it not true that this ·amendment is necessary able to complete them. · · for this reason, that the present members of Congress received the I desire to supplement the amendment of the gentleman from Illi third and fourth volumes, orwhatevervolumes f!:_re now in print, and nois, [Mr. FORT.] I have no doubt the time is coming when addi that without this amendment they will be without the first and second Y tional copies of the volumes already printed will be muc:fi needed Mr. SPEER. Certainly. . aud desired by the public. It will take from two to two and a half Mr. BROM~ERG. Is this not necessary in order to give thorn the years to have the plates prepared for the publication of those vol privilege of completing the set Y umes. Therefore I provide in my amendment that all the necessary Mr. STRAWBRIDGE. Yes, sir. .$ ...... 1874. CONGRESSIONAL. RECORD. 4963 The CHA.IRM.AN. The time limited for debate on this question Mr. PARKER, of Missouri. I offer the following aJI!endment: has expired. No further debate on it is in order. · At the end ofline 973 add the following: Mr. l!'ORT. I accept the a.mendment of the gentleman from Penn- Provided, That the time- for filing clafms for horses lost prior to J :muary 1, 1872, sylvania [Mr. ALBRIGHT] as modified. · be, and the same is hereby,. exrended to and including the 30th day of Juno, 1875. .Mr. KASSON. I wish to make an inquiry, not in the nature of ])Jr. GARFIELD. I make the point of order that that changes debate~: whether the proposition involves the right of> persons to buy existing legislation. - . after the sets are completed. The CHAIRMAN. The Chair sustains the point of order. The CHAIRMAN. The Chair is not advised. Mr. PARKER, of Missouri. I hope the gentleman from Ohio will Mr. KASSON. I should like to be informed on that subject. not press the point of order. This is a very necessary amendment to The CHAIRMAN. That would be in the nature of debate. this clause of the bill. Mr. SPEER rose. . Mr. GARFIELD. I do not withdraw the point of o_rder. Mr. FORT. I hope the conpnittee will hear the gentleman from Mr. PARKER, of Missouri. It is a limitation on the payment of Pennsylvania [Mr. SPEER] for a moment. this mone:v. · The CHAIRMAN. No further debate is in order. The CHAIRMAN. The Chair has ruled that the amendment is not 1\fr. SPEER. I have been on the floor half a dozen times to say a in order. few words on this question, but I seem never to be in order on an Mr. THORNBURG. I offer the following amendment : appropriation bill. • At the end of line 973 add the following: The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Illinois [Mr. FORT] accepts For experimenting with new inventions in small-arms and the mitrailleuse, by the amendment of the gentleman from Pennsylvania, [Mr.ALBRIGHT.l the Ordnance Department, under the direction of the Secretary of War, $10,000. The whole amendment will now be read, as modified. The Clerk read as follows: I suppose there will be no objection to this amendment. The question being taken on the amendment, it was not agreed to. For continuing the publication of the Medical and Surgical History of the War, to be distrilmred as heretofore, $60,000; to be used in the preparation of illustrations The Clerk read a,g followa: for the new edition of five thousand copies of the entire work: Provided, That the For the Smithsonian grounds, $10,000. necessary engraving and lithographing for these publications may be executed under the direction Of the Secretary of War without advertisement. 1\fr. S;MITH, of Ohio. I move to amend by striking out "$10,000" and inserting "$5,000." Mr. FORT. Allow me to say this, that over $200,000' have already Mr. HALE, of :Maine. I wish to state here, not only in reference been appropriated and expended for collecting this information; and to this particular appropriation, but in reference to all those which now I think we should have it in a complete form. follow in relation to the public reservations and ~rounds. about Wash The question being taken on agreeing to the amendment, there ington, what course the Committee on Appropnations has pursued. were-ayes 87, noes 59. In the first place we have endeavored to keep the appropriations down So the amendment was agreed to. to the figures that have been given for some years past, not desiring The Clerk read as follows: to make any increase. In the next place we have cut down from the To provide for the payment under existing laws for horses and other property estimates over 60 per cent., so that the a'm.ount given in the bill is but ost or destroyed in the inilitary servjoe of the Unired States, $50,000. about a third of what was asked for. · Mr. ME&RIAM. I offer the following amendment: Now to come more into detail, the committee has put most or a large For the next fiscal year the assistant treasurer in New York may so adjust the portion of these appropriations for Government squares and reserva. salaries of employes in the sub-treasury in New York as will enable him to retain tions on to these reservations and public squares that lie most largely t.be services of experts: Provided, That the aggregare appropriation for such sal in open view, and more especially those tracts that lie between the aries shall not thereby be increased. foot of the Capitol grounds and the upper end of the city opposite the Mr. WILLARD, of Vermont. I raise the point of order that that new State Department; and for this reason: that those grounds are amendment is new legislation. · from year to year more and more exposed to public view, and are 1\fr. MERRIAM. I will explain to the gentleman from Vermont more and more frequented. Roads and drives are opened and are the object of this amendment. _ being opened throu~h them. Undoubtedly in the end and at· no very Mr. G. -F. HOAR. Is the point of order waived f distant day, t'Jld With no great expense, all of these grounds will :Mr. WILLARD, of Vermont. I do not waive the point of order, be thrown into one broad park or mall, so that there will be an easy but am willing that the gentleman from New York should explain; and pleasant drive from one part of the city to the other through Mr. MERRIAM. The assistant treasurer in New York ha-s two or these grounds. They have presented for some time an unsightly ap three experts enga&"ed in counting gold, one of whom is able to de pearance. They have been an eyesore to gentlemen either driving tect fraud better tnan any one else has ever been able to do in this or walking in that direction, as I think I $all be sustained iu saying. country. He has been offered more by brokers than he is receiving The committee have put a considerable sum on to those tracts of in the sub-treasury. The assistant trea.surer last year, in order to land. It is the design not to interfere with the use to which they are retain his services, took money out of his own pocket and paid this now put. The day has come when fences or inclosures are no longer man in order 'to keep him there. Now, he is willing to reduce the needed about the governmental grounds. There is nothing running salaries of some of the other clerks in order to provide properly for wild or loose about the city that can interfere with them, and the this branch of the service. He does not ask a single dollar more of fences all around are being taken down, so that there is nothing to appropriation than has hitherto been appropriated. I think gentle prevent free access, ingress and egress, to these grounds. men will admit that any officer intrusted with the care and custody Mr. S~llTH, of· Ohio. I desire to ask the gentleman from Maine a of over ·100,000,000 of public moneys ought be trusted to arrange the question. salaries of two or three clerks, where he secures thereby the retention Mr. HALE, of Maine. I will answer any question. of efficient clerks without cost to the Government. Mr. SMITH, of Ohio. I want to know if these improvements are The CHA.IR.MA.N. Does the gentleman from Vermont insist on to be made with a view to that future arrangement t his point of order Y. • · Mr. HALE, of Maine. The improvements are to be made with a . Mr. WILLARD, of Vermont. I do. view tO' that future arrangement. I am suffering from a severe cold, The CHAIRMAN. The Chair is of opinion that if there is anything and I shall be glad if gentlemen will put questions in relation to this in the law which renders it impossible to do what is proposed here, portion of the bill, which unluckily was given to me to examine, as the amendment certainly changes the law, and is therefore out of briefly as they can. order. . l!fr. DUNNELL. I would like to ask the gentleman from Maine Mr. BRADLEY. I offer the following a.mend.I:Dent : if he can tell what was done with the·money appropriated last year for the Smithsonian grounds t . At the end of1line 973 insert the following: For a resurvey of the Au Sable River, Michigan, and establishing dock lines, not · Mr. HALE, of Maine. I will say that I have a list showing the exceeding $1,000, to be paid for from the unexpended balance of appropriation appropriations that were made and the disposition of them for all heretofore made for the improvement of said river. these tracts last year. · Mr. GARFIELD. i have no objection to that. Mr. DUNNELL. I refer to these Smithsonian grounds. :Mr. CONGER. It makes no new appropriation. Mr. HALE, of Maine. I have got the items here. 'l'he amendment was agreed to. · · Mr. DUNNELL. I will say that I was in the Smithsonian grounds Mr. STARKWEATHER. I offer the following amendment: the other day; and I made a search for some evidence of the expendi ture of any .money during the last year. The only thing that I dis At the end of line 420 add the following: covered was that some portion of the fence has been torn do:wn. Five For this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to defray the expenses of surveying the lands of the Cherokee Indians of North Cru:olina., under the direc hundred dollars or a thousand dollars would have done for aRy private tion of the Secretary of the Interior, $15,000. individual twice the amount of work that was done on these grounds. The amendment was agreed to. We have got into a rut.of giving just so much every year, either twenty, fifteen, ten, or five thousand dollars, as the case may be, and we Mr. VANCE. I offer the following as a proviso to be added to the amendment just adopted: stay in that old rut, giving that amount every year, no matter how much work has been done, or how little. Ten thousand dollars would PrO'Vid.ed, That none but citizens of the country in the sections where the lands lie shall be employed to do the work of surveying. pay for all the work that has ever been done on these grounds, and we .have given $10,000 a year for five years. They are slovenly to Mr. STARKWEATHER. I object to that. this day, and yet we appropriated 10,000 last year for their improve• The amendment of Mr. VANCE was not agreed to. ment. Can anybody tell where that money went f - . . 4964 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. / ' Mr. SMITH, of Ohio. I move to amend the amendment by striking gentleman from .Missouri is acquainted with it, and if he says it is of out the last word. I do not know of any way in which money is bronze his amendment ought to prevail. I supposeu jt was a marble more apt to be squandered than in the improvement of grounds. I statue. am told that there are about forty acres of these Smithsonian grounds, .Mr. STANARD. It is a bronze one. and we are in the habit of appropriating $10,000 a year for their The amendment wa,g agreed to. · improvement. Out in Ohio we make a great many miles of turnpike The Clerk read as follows : road for $10,000. Year after year you are giving $10,000 to improve For continuing improvement of Judiciary Square; purchase of seats, trees and forty acres of ground. It does seem to me to be very extravagant, evergreens, and Ior fountain, $10,000; and the Jail buililing situated on saiclsqnare and I hope the amount will be cut down t9 $5,000. shall be sold as soon as practicable, and the money obtained. therefor shall be placed Mr. GARFIELD. I rise to oppose the amendment to the amend in the Treasury to the credit of the fund for the lDlprovement of said square. ment. I desire to say, Mr. Chairman, in addition to what my col Mr. WILLARD, of Vermont. I would ask the chairman of the C I - ".: .. ;o ...... >- 1874. -· CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. -4965 Mr. FORT. I withdra.w my formal amendment and move to strike Mr. PLATT, of Virginia. I will occupy but a very few momeuts out the pa.ragraph embraced in lines 1064 and 1065, "for continuing in calling at.tention to the necessity of this measure. This powder macadamizing of conduit road $5,000." I understand that $16,000 was magazine is at the entrance of Norfolk Harbor, a.nd the city of Nor a.ppropriated last year to keep this road in r~pair. Now, it seems to folk has ~rown up to and around it. It is separated from the Atlantic me that $16,000 ought to keep any road in repn.ir in this District for Iron-workS by only a brick wall; and sparks from the chimneys of . two years. This is not a very long road. _ those works are continually :flyi.ng over this magazine, which contains . Mr. WILLARD, of Vermont. The appropriation last year was for an 'enormous deposit of powder. Three times within the last two years ·completing the macadamizing of this road, $16,000; this appropria the lawn in front of the magazine has taken fire from the sparks of pass tion is to continue the macadamizing of it. ing steamers. Successive Secretaries of the Navy in every annual re Mr. }'ORT. If it was completed last year it certainly cannot want port for the last ten years have recommended the immediate removal of any repairs on it this year. I move to strike out the paragraph. the magazine from its present position. Last year the Committee ou .Mr. G. F. HOAR. I want to move to strike out that portion relat Appropriations, after giving the matter careful consideration, inserted ing to the roadway over Griffith Park bridge :tnd over Cabin John this item which I now move as an amendment ; but in the House it brtdge. . was struck out on a. point of order made by·a ·member then repre Mr. GARFIELD. I object to going back. senting an lllinois district, it being held that the appropriation was Mr. HALE, of Maine. We have paased that paragraph. not authorized by existing law. To prevent anythin~ of that kind The CHAIRMAN. The paragraph· under consideration .is the one this year, a bill was introduced by me early in the sessiOn, which has in relation to macadamizing of conduit roa-d. since passed both Houses and become a law, authorizing the Secretary Mr. G. F. HOAR. The gentleman from Illinois [Mr. FoRT] made of the Navy to remove this magazine; but of course he cannot do it a. motion in reg__ard to the paragraph embraced in lines 1054 to 1033 . . without an appropriation. The people of Norfolk have petitioned Mr. GARFIELD. 0, no. _ time and again for its removal. Every man, woman, and child in Mr. G. F. HOAR. He made a motion in regard to that paragraph, that city goes to bed every night with fear and trembling lest before and a discussion arose in regard to it. . Then he withdrew his amend morning an explosion may occur. I hope the amendment will be ment and instantly moved another in regard to the next paragraph. adopted without opposition. Almost immediately upon seeing that his last motion relat-ed to the Mr. FORT. Will it cost $50,000 to remove this magazinef n~xt paragraph I called the attention of the Chair to the amend Mr. GARFIELD. The Committee on Appropriations had two ment I desired to submit in regard to the paragraph relating to the propositions before them with reference to this navy-yard at Norfolk. Washington aqueduct. One was to construct iron-plating shops; the other was the removal The CHAIRMAN. The Chair will entbrtain· the motion upon the of this magazine. As we felt compelled to do something for that statement of the gentleman. · yard, we consulte-d the engineer of the Bureau of Yards and Docks, The paragraph referred to by Mr. G. F. HoAR was as follows: who thought that the erection of plating-shops was more important Washington ~queduct: For engineering, ~aintonance , and general repairs, $15,000; than the removal of the magazine. Therefore we have inserted in for building a wooden fence around Government land at tho Great Falls, $1,500; the bill an appropriation of $50,000 for iron-plating shops. I do not for building dwelling and office at Great Falls, 1,500; for paving tho roatlway over think that we should make both appropria.tions·in this bill. Griflith Park bridgr, and over Cabin John bridge with asphalt pavement, 5,800; for Mr. ARCHER. I move pro forma to amend the amendment by furnishing and setting four magneto-dial instruments in connection with the tele graph line from Great Falls to Georgetown, 1,100. striking out the last word. As the gentleman from Virginia [Mr. PLATT] has remarked, this powder-magazine is now within the lim Mr. G. F. HOAR. I move to amend the paragraph by striking out its of the city of Norfolk, being separated· by only a single street the wordH "for paving the roadwa)' over Griffith Park bridge and from large machine-shops in that city, the sparks from which, as he over Cabin John bridge with asphalt pavement, $5,800t I desire to has truly said, pass over and into the grounds almost daily. Large call the attention of the Committee of the Whole for a moment to steamships of the Liverpool line pass within one hundred yards of this matter. This Cabin John bridge is situated on a rough country this magazine, within which, at times, there are two thousand tons I'Oad running along for six or eight miles in the direction of this of powder. The magazine itself is in a dilapidated condition. If an aqueduct; it is one of the rudest roads in this District.· Of course it explosion should ta.ke place there, scarcely a house in that. city would is important t·hn.t the aqueduct should be carefully maintained and escape damage. Within four miles of that location the Government securely guarded. But it seems to me a very unnecessary expendi OWBB Crany Island; which can be improved at a very moderate cost, ture to build an asphalt pavement over that. bridge at a cost of $5,000. and a magazine erected there for the storage of this powder, where The gentleman from Ohio says that such a pavement is necessary to there will be no danger from sparks from machine-shops or passing prevent the disintegration of the aqueduct by the elements working steamers. I think the amendment of the gentleman from Virginia down. But the aqueduct is exposed in the. same way everywhere [.Mr. PLATT] is a wise one, and one which tends to the security of else in its course. This appropriation seems to me to be merely for human life. I withdraw my pro fonna amendm~nt. the ornament.ation of that bridge. I submit that unless some better Mr. BECK. I renew the amendment to strike out the last word~ explanation be given the appropriation should not be made. I have some knowledge in reference to this magazine, having exam-. The question being taken on the amendment of Mr. G. F. HoAR, it ined it at one time in company with the gentleman from Maryland, was not a.greerl to, there being-ayes 26, noes not counted. [l\h·. ARcHER.] I wish only to say that this magazine, standing The question then recurring on the amendment of Mr. FORT, it was where it now does, with the city of Norfolk grown almost up to it, not agreed to. and large ma-chine-shops in the immediate vicinity, is a standing The Clerk rea-d as follows: menace to the people of that city. Such a magazine would not be For the navy-yard at Pens:\COI.'\, Florida: For commencing the rebuilding of the allowed in any village of one thousand inhabitants anywhere. Crany repairing-dock, $250,000. Island and other places within two or three miles could be selected Mr. WILLARD, of Vermont. For the purpose of enabling me to for the location of this ma!tazine, where it would be absolutely safe. make an inquiry I move to strike out this paragraph. I would like Mr. PARKER, of New .Hampshire. Will it take $50,000 to re- to know how entensive this work is expected to be and how much it m~eilf . will cost! Mr. BECK. I do not know what it will take, whether it will take fifty Mr. HALE, of Maine. Several hundred thousand dollars. The pur or one hundred thousand dollars. It stands upon valuable property• . pose of the appropriation is to rebuild the old dock tha.t was destroyed While there may be some difference of opinion as to where it ought to during the war. be removed to, there can be but one opinion; itsremovaloughttotake 1\fr. WILLARD, of Vermont. I withdraw my amendment. place at once from its present location. In referencetowhatthe cost The Clerk read as follows : will be and where it ought to be removed, are things I do not know For tho navy. yard at Norfolk, Virginia: For iron-plating shops, ~.ooo. about. I do not know there is a gentleman in this House who would live in that part of the city of Norfolk with that powder-magazine Mr. .PLATT, of Virginia. I move to amend by inserting after the within hal£ a mile of him. No man's house is safe. paragraph just read, the following: · . Mr. PARSONS. If the gentleman from Kentucky will yield to me For tho removal of tho powder-magazine from Norfolk, Virginia, to be expended I will refer-to the letter which comes to us from the Navy Depart under tho direction of tho Secretary of tho Navy, $50,000. ment, where it is said ''in compliance with your request the Bureau's I send to the Clerk and ask him to read a letter on this subject est.imate for the removal is $50;000." That is the estimate of the from the chief of the Bureau of Ordnance. I ask the attention of Navy Department, and this is certainly a. proper appropriation to be the committee to the letter. · made. The Clerk read as follows: Mr. BECK_. I do not know how that is. I only wish to say the BUREAU OF ORDNANCE, NAVY DEPARTME~iT, powder-~agazine.as now located renders insecure millions of property Washington Oity, June 5, 1874. in the city of Norfolk. lf any explosion should take place-! do not Sm: In compliance with your reqnost I have tho honor to state that the Bureau's know that it ever will-I hope it never will, but if it does take place estimate for the removal of the naval magazine at Fort Norfolk, Virginia, is $50 000. it will endanger the lives of 'theusa.nds of people. . It ought not to be . Permit ~o to avl!'il mys~lf of this opportunity to again urge upon you the n~es sit.y, pressm~ and unmediato, for tho removal of this ma.,.azine surrounded as it is there, wherever else it may be. It ought to be removed so persons very nearly, oy manufactories, and exposed on the wate~-front todan.,.er :fu>mpass- living in their own homes may live. without .a, standing menace from. ing steam vessels. "' · this powder-magazine. I have tho honor to be your obedient servant, WILLIAM N. JEFFERS, MESSAGE FROM THE SENA'1'E. Ron. JAMES .A. GARFmLD, · . hiefof Bureau. Tl:te committee informal1y rose, and a message was received from Chairman Oilmmittee on Appropriation_li_House . ~.f.Ep:.esentatives• . the Senate,by .Mr. SYMPSON, one of its clerks, notifyjng the House ' . - • 4966 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. JUNE 13, that that body had adopted the report of the committee ?f conference Mr. PARKER, of New Hampshire. Say $25,000. on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses, on the. bill (H. R. No. :Mr. COX. I will make the amount larger, and say $10,000 instead 3~65) amending the charter of the Freedman's Savmgs and Trust of $5,000. . · · Company, and for other purposes. Gentlemen who know anything about these magazines know that . It further announced that the Senate had passed bills o·f the House there is smp.e care to be taken in moving the powder. In Greenwich of the following titles, with amendments in which the concurrence of they move powder in copper wheelbarrows, because it is not safe to the House was requested: use iron. But an appropriation of $50,000 for the purpose is utterly An act (H. R. No. 1774) for the relief of Matthias Whitehead; absurd. I suppose it is intended to erect a new building with the ' · An act (H. R. No. 328'2) providing for t.he collection of moneys due money. I do not want to appropriate money for that purpose. the United States from the Pacific Railroad Companies; Mr. GARFillLD. Does the gentleman think that the light-house An act (H. R. No. 764) for the relief of John Dold; and at :Mathias Point is likely to ignite this powder-magazine f An act (H. R. No. 3415) to provide for the care and custody of per- Mr. COX. The gentleman from Ohio has a way of sneering at every- sons convicted in the courts of the United States who have or may body. Why does he not treat gentlemen as his equals Y He should at become-insane while in prison. least take somebody of his own size. It further announced that the Senate had pa.ssed, without amend- Mr. PLATT, of Virginia. I do not wish to prolong thiR debate; ment, joint resolution and bills of the following titles: · · but ~entlemen have stated on this floor that there is no powder stored Joint resolution (H. R. No. 53) authorizing the issue of clothing in this magazine. · to certain enlisted men of the Army; Mr. FORT. I make the point of order that the gentleman has .An act (H. R. No. 2699) for the relief of Robert Tillson & Co., of spoken several tiines already,' Quincy, Illinois; The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman has not spoken before on the An act (H. R. No. 4;31) for the relief of Kerry Sullivan, of Com- amendment offored by the gentleman from New York to the amend- pany G, Fourteenth Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers i- · · ment. . An act (H. R. No. 2092) f~r the relief of John W: Devine, l~te assist- Mf. MAYNARD. :Will the gentleman. fr?m Virginia yield to me a ant surgeon Eleventh Regiment Tennessee Cavalry; moment for a question Y It has been rntimated by the gentlemen An act (H. R. No. 2788) for the relief of Henry P.lngram and John around me that there is no powder stored in this magazine. K. Askins; - Mr. PLATT, of Virginia. That is the point I ~h to speak to. It An act (H. R. No. 622) for the relief of John W. Newman, late an has been stated on this floor by gentlemen who know nothing about acting first lieutenant of Company B, Ninth Tennessee Volunteer this subject, and who make a misstatement, that there is no powder Cavalry; · kept at this magazine, and that it is only a ruse on my pa~:t to rret an An act (H. R. No. 2698) for the relief of Jl>seph C. Breckinridge, for other appropria,tioil. for the locality I represent. I will state that services in the Army of the Unit.ed States; this is one of the most important powder-magazines in t.his country. An act (H. R. No. 2416) to authorize the Secretary of War to ascer- ~ere are stored over two thousand tons of powder there; and every . tain the amount of expenses incurred by the States of Oregon and ship, almost, that went down to the Gulf during the late unpleasant California in the suppression of Indian hostilities in the years 1872 ness, or expected unpleasantness, with Spain was supplied with pow- and 18i3; der from that magazine. An act (H.. R. No. 1768) for the relief of Ephraim P. Showalter; This appropria.tion of 50,000 has been declared necessary by every An act (:I;£. R. No.1587) for the relief of William H. Pilkenton, late Secretary of the Navy during the last ten years-not only for the a second lieutenant in Company G, Fifth. Regiment Indiana Cavalry purpos~ of re;n,o~g this po~der-magazine, but of c?nstructing in that Volunteers; Immediate v10nnty, where It will be located at an Important point of An act (H. R. No. 1313) for the relief of Alexander Burtch; the Atlantic coa8t, tbe most convenient for fitting out our naval ves- An act (H. R. No. 1219) for the relief of Charles W. Berry, late pri- sels. I ask in behalf of the citizens of Norfolk that provision be made vate of the Thirty-sixth Regiment of Wisconsin Volun~eers; for t~e removal of this magazine from its present most dangerous An act (H. R. No. 2223) for the relief of Robert F. Wrnslow; and locahty. An act (H. R. No. 1773) for the relief of Samuel E. Rankin. Mr. CONGER. I rise to oppose the amendment. MISCELLANEOUS APPROP.RIATION BILL. The CHAIRMAN. It has already been opposed. . The Committee of tlie Whole resumed its session. Mr. CONGER. Was it opposed by the gentleman from Virgnia, [:Mr. PLATT Y] The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Kentucky [Mr. BECK] has . The 9H.Al::RM.AN. The gentleman from Virginia spoke in opposi- •b~ ~to~ Mr. BECK. I yield what remains of my time to .the gentleman The question being taken on the amendment to the amendment, from Indiana, [1tlr. NIBLACK.] . th 15 t ted Mr. NIBLACK. The removal of this magazine is onlv a question ere were-ayes ' noes no conn · · J So the amendment was not agreed to. of time, but a.s to what should be the cost of removing it 1 know noth- 1tlr. COX. I now move to strike out "$50,000" and to insert" 15,000." ing. _ I consider, however, that common prudence and every considera- I think that amendment will carry. ~ tion which should govern a people as well as a government in a mat- Th ti b · t k th dm er of this sort absolutely require this to be done before a !!reat e ques on emg a Ten on e amen ent to the amendment, it t .... was not agreed to. while, and the only question is whether we shall do it now or not. I Mr. PARKER, of New Hampshire. I move to amend by striking think myself we should do it immediately. That is therecommenda- out" $50,000" and inserting" $25,000." · . tion of the Navy Department. - Th ti b · tak th dm t f Mr p Mr. MAYNARD. I desire to say a single word on this question. eques on erng en on eamen en o · ARKER, of New What are the facts in this case f There is now iiJ. the neighborhood Hampshire,. to the amendment, there were-ayos 25, noes 49; no of Norfolk a large powder-magazine in the immediate neighborhood q~r~m votrng. d d d th rul ~ of -a lar~e population, and standing· near the water, ships passing it e ers were or ere un er e e; and r. PLAIT, of Virginia, and Mr. PARKER, of New Hampshire, were appointed. day an night. The explosion of the magazine would inevitab1 Y The committee again divided; and the tellers re.Ported-ayes 46, . ~~~~!: ~~;~s! ~:a~~~ ~~E::Yt~~~:~~J~r:.s. It ought not to no~s ~~4. d t t th dm t . · We know from past sad experience in different portions of the conn- 0 e amen men ° e amen en was not agreed to. hr h 1tlr. RICE. I move to amend the amendment by striking out try that these ma~azines are liable to explode, sometimes t ou~ "$50,000" and inserting "$40,000." I believe that is a sufficient c·arelessness, sometimes by the effect of electricity. · My colleague Sit- amount. · ting near me will recollect an occurrence of that kind in the city Mr. PLATT, of Virginia. To save time I agree to that amendment. of Nashville some years a~o, which inflicted immense damage. There Mr. COX I b r 't uld t t $ It · f was a magazine in the neighborhood of the city, supposed to be amply · · e leve I' wo no cos 5' 000 · IS a per ect hum- . ' bug if yon will look into it. · protected, so that the people felt quite safe. It exploded from a flash The question being taken on Mr. RICE's amendment to the amend- of lirrhtning in a summer shower, causing a great deal of suffering t 't d t d 9 . t t Th al 0 f th~ ~. t 11 t' f men ' I was agree o. . an mJury o proper Y· e remov 1llO vas co ec wn ° pow- The question being taken on the amendment of Mr. PLA'IT, of Vir- dar ought certainly to be ma.de. · · d d · t d t A. MEMBER. How much is stored there T gnna, as amen e ' I was agree . o. Mr. MAYNARD. I understand that there is a large quantity stored. The Clerk read as follows: That is my information. .If an explosion of this magazine were to For the navy-yard at Mare Island, California: For continuation of begun work, take place it would be a lasting disgrace to our civilization that we $250,000. · should allow such an element of danger to exist in the immediate Mr. LUTTRELL. I offer the following ·amendment, t,o come in at vicinity of a large population. the close of that clause: 1\Ir. O'BRIEN. I move to amend 'the amendment by inseTting the Provided, That no Chinese or coolyla.bor shall besoemployedastod.iaplacewhite foD:owing words: . labor. - Anil to provide for the construction of a magazine at a more suitable place near :Mr. GARFillLD. I make the point of order that that amendment Norfolk. · - changes existJng law. Mr. PLATT, of Virginia. I accept that, and make it a part of my Mr. LUTTRELL. I hope the amendment will be adopted. amendment. Mr. HALE; of Maine. It is new legislation. ~Ir. COX. I move to amend by striking out "$50,000" ·anclinserting Mr. LUTTRELL. I beg to differ with the gentleman; it is not \, 5,000." new logiBlation. 1874. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. '4967 Mr. COX. It is a limitation on the appropriation. that when he wants to interrupt me, he must get up out of his seat, Mr. LUTTRELL. It is merely a limitation on the appropriation. and be my equaL I am taller than he is when he sits down. I am in receipt of a telegraphic dispatch from Mare Island navy-yard Mr. PARKER, of New Hampshire. Or when he gets up. stating that white men are displaced to make room for Chinese. Mr. COX. Or when he gets up, in a moral sense. I am not-an ad- Mr. GARI!'IELD. !make the point of order. vocate of any particular kind of labor. I would like to see all kinds The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman will state it. of men employed, black, red, yellow, and black. Bntfrom myobser- Mr. HALE, of Maine. It is that it is new legislation. vations at Mare Island, three years ago, of the particular tactics of The CHAIRMAN. The Chair is of opinion that it is within the the republican politicians out there, I think some reform is needed. power ~f the House to limit any appropriation that it may make. When I was out there three years ago, I saw a ticket used at an elec- . Mr. MAYNARD. But we had passeu this paragraph. tion, and it was a curiosity. The ticketw~saboutthatlong, [holding The CHAIRMAN. The gen~leman from California rose before the his hands some _two feet apart,] and about half an in9h wide. The next paragraph was read. . names upon it were printed in such small letters that you could not 1\ir. G. }'. HOAR. The Chair will permit me to call his attention read them without a microscope. I carried that ticket in my pocket to the fact that this is not a mere limitation on the expenditure. It · book until I went to the Baltimore convention· to vote for Greeley, and does not say that the money s~all not be employed in a certain way; somebody stole it from me. bnt it prescribes generally how work going on under a p :·evious law Mr. ~EMA~. After you voted for Greeley, did you not feel shall be continued. In that 1·espect it is new legislation. smaller than the letters on that ticket f The CHAIRMAN. The Chair understands the purport of the Mr. COX. I found afterward that the man who took my pocket- amendment to be that the money appropriated for the Mare Island book did not belong to the Greeley party, but to the party of my .navy-yard shall be expended in a certain way. honorable friend who had the honor of defeating me in New York as Mr. G. F. HOAR. The Chair will pardon me. Suppose that an Congressman at large. · appropr~ation of $500,000 should be offered for the Boston post-office Mr. NEGLEY. The gentleman is occupying my seat. I object to and you should say that those $500,000 should only be expended for his taking a seat here for the State of Pen.nSylvania. a particular kind of labor, that would be in order; but if you should Mr. COX. It is not often that so much sense is spoken in this place provicle an appropriation of $500,000 to continue the work now going as I hope to speak in about one minute. I will avail myself of the on, and provide that only a particular kind of labor should henceforth courtesy of my honorable. friend who has just been rel!ominated at be ·employed on the post-office, it would be new legislation, and that Pittsburgh, and who I hope will he defeated. · is the purport of the gentleman's amendment. I want to ca.U the attention of gentlemen to the condition of things The CHAIRMAN. The Chair agrees with the gentleman from in C:i.lifornia.. You, Mr. Chairman, [Mr. DAWES,] and I were there Massachusetts in that statement. The Chair does not understand three years ago. You know that everybody in that State of both that to be t.he purport of the amendment. pa.rties was opposed to crowding out the white labor of that Sta.te. 'l'he amendment was again read. The Chairman shakes his head. The:re is nothing in it, gentlemen- The CHAIRMAN. The Chair does not understand the purport of I mean in the expression of dissent. the proviso to be to limit anything but this appropriation. Mr. PLATT, of Virginia. I move to amend the amendment by strik- Mr. CONGER. I suggest that this work is done by contract. ing out the last word, for the purpose of calling the attention of gen- Mr. LUTTRELL. I want to say one word, and then the gentleman tlemen of this committee to this fact : that this matter of selection of can talk nntil he is tired. laborers is under the control of the contractors who are doing the Mr. CONGER. I am speaking on the point of order. work at the Mare Island navy-yard. There are no gentlemen in this The CHAIRMAN. The Chair has overruled the point of order. House who are more tenacious than my frie,nd from California, [Mr. The Chair is of opinion that the purport of the amendment is tolimit LU'ITRELL,] and his a sociates politically, of having all the Govern the expenditme of this appropriation. ment work contracted for to the lowest bidder. This is the way this Mr. LUTTRELL. Now, sir, you have sustained me in my proposi- work is being-done; advertisements were published, specifications tion by your ruling, and all I have to say is that on Mare Island we were made, and contracts given to the lowest bidder. These laborers have a ll'lmber-- · are employed by the contra.ctors, and the Government of the United Mr. CONGER rose. States .has no control whatever over them. If the gentleman from The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from California will.suspend. Californi~ wants to have the men he refers to employed let him apply Mr. CONGER. I desired to raise another point of order, but it re- to the contractors who have control of the matter, and induce them, quires so much trouble to get a point of order heard that I will not if he can, to turn away these "heathen Chinee," and employ the white insist on it. · laborers he desu·es to have employed! ' The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman withdraws the point of order. Mr. RAINEY. I hope the· amendment of the gentleman from Cali- Mr. LUTTRELL. Therearehundredsofwhite men in Mare Island fornia [Mr. LUTTRELL] will not be adopted. It is a species of legis navy-yard who are anxious to be employed, me11 who have served the lation that I have never beforeseenintroducedhere since! ha.ve been country on land and on sea; but I learn from a dispatch I have re- a member of this House. · cetved that tho e men have been displa.ced and cooly and Chinese We have by our legislation invited foreigners to our shores, invited laborers have been employed in their stead. Hence I ask the adoption them to come here and make their homes. We have said to them of this a.mendment, and I ask to have the dispatch read. It is from that they should enjoy here a.ll the blessings of civiliza.tion that are · . two of the most prominent citizens of Mar~ lsla.nd. enjoyed. by any of our people. They come here and are willing to . The Clerk read as follows: work and assist in the development of this country. Chinamen are vALLEJO, CALIFORNIA, June, 1874. contributing their la.bor to the development of California. If they Hon. J. K. LUTTRELL, M. C., Washington: are willing to work cheaper than white men a.re willing to work, I Contractor Murphy employs Chinese on dry-dock, in navy-yard. White men ca.n do not see why we should say, by an amendment to this bill, tha.t be ha,d. Much feeling here. See Department. they should not be employed and pa.id out of the money appropriated LINTHCOMB & EDGECOMB. by the Government. Mr. NIBLACK. They employ white men before election and then The gentleman endeavored to make a political point, so far as the turn them ont to make way for Chinamen. employment of Chinese laborers is concerned. If I understand the Mr. LUTTRELL. Yes, sir; but I propose that they shall not em true condition of the Chinese in California, they are not allowed to ploy coolies or Cliinese at all. I want no man employed in that navy vote there; they are not voters in that State. If they are employed yard because he votes according to my way of thinking-or aga.inst there, it is because perhaps that they are better adapted to the work me. I want men who have served their country on lantl and sea em than are white men, or perhaps they. can be e~ployed more cheaply ployed to the exclusion of Chinamen; and I ask gentlemen on the than white men are willing to do the work for. other side of the House to sustain me in this. Mr. FORT. They are not citizens. ;Mr. :MAYNARD. As I understa.nd it, these persons are employed Mr. RAINEY. Very well; that is no rea.son why they should not by contractors. · be employed. Gentlemen on ·the other side have said that republi Mr. LUTrRELL. Yes, sir. cans out there were willing to employ t.hese Chinese la.borers, and :Mr. MAYNARD. We have no control over contractors. the intima.tion has been made that there was some political motive in Mr. LUTTRELL. Ve~y well; that is for the House to decide. it; some politica.l trick in it. I say that there is no political trick in 1\ir. COX. I do not know that there is much use for anybody in it at all. They are not voters. If th~ men w:ho employ them a.re the minority of this House to say anything upon this miscellaneous republicans they do not employ them because they expect to control appropriation bill. Everything seems to have been cut and dried, their vot-es, which is very likely to be the case where white men exer-. even to the matter of champagning members and bringing them in cising the elective franchise are employed. here to vote for the most extraordinary· appropriations on almost I say that the Chinaman, the Indian, the ne~o, and the white ma.n every subject. I beg, however, to remind gentlemen of this House of should all occupy an equal footing under this Government; should o11e thing : that is, that they are to-day misrepresentatives of the be accorcled equal right to make their livelihood and establish tlteir people of the United States. If a vote were to be taken to-day, judg manhood. I hope we shall not adopt here to-day any class legisla ing uy the recent elections, the people of the United States would tion such as is proposed in the amendment of the gentlema.n from make this House thoroughly democratic, or something more independ California. I trust that we shaH not undertake to say tha.t wo will not ent than the majority of the Rouse is now: per1nit Chinamen to be employed under approprig.tions ma.de by the Mr. GARFIELD, (in his seat.) Yon are not a democrat, then. Government ; for when we .have proscribed this class of people, uot . Mr. COX. - I would say to my friend from Ohio [Mr. GARFIELD] many day~ will elapse before we shall have a proposition presented · . 4968 ·CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. JUNE 13, that ne!!roes shall not be employed under appropriations made by The Clerk read as follows : the Go..:'ernmeut. Representing in part, if I may so say, the China After the word " dollars" in line 1093, insert the following : "For the salary of a. man at least by complexion; representing in.part the neg~o; repre commissioner of forestry for one year, $2,500." senting in part. ~he white m~, I a~ ·in favor of equal rights for Mr. SPEER. I make the point of order on that amendment. every class of CltLZens upon th~s co!ltinen~. I renew J?Y solemn };!TO The CHAIRMAN. What is the gentleman's point of order f test a(J'ainst any such class legiBlation as IS proposed m the pending Mr. SPEER. That it creates a new office, and makes an appropri amen~ent. - · ation not warranted by law. ,, Mr. PLATT, of Virginia. I withdraw the amendmenttothe amend The CHAIRMAN. The Chair sustains the gentleman's point of ment. · order, and rules the amendment out. The question recurring on the amendment of Mr. LUTIRELL, it was Mr. FORT. Mr. Chairman, I move the following amendment to not agreed to. · come in af+.er line 1093 : Mr. HALE, of Maine. I move to amend by inserting after line 1084 For publishing the reports of the Commissioner of Agriculture for the years the following : . 1872 and 1873, to be distributed as heretofore, eso,ooo. Provided That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to' make, out of any money at his disposal available for the purpose, &uffi I hope no member of this House will object to this amendment. It cient and appropriate compensation and a.cknowledgment to the owners, officers, will publish about two hundred thousand copies of this valuable re and sailors of the British whaling and sealing steamers that contributed to the res cue of the survivors of the Polaris for such rescue and any loss sustained by reason port, as I am informed. thereof, and for their humane and hospitable recep?on, ent-ertainment, and trans Mr. GARFIELD. That must, under the law, go to the Com¢ttee portation until they were all finally and Safely landed m Newfoundland and Scotland. on Printing. Mr. PLATT, of Virginia. I have no objection to making compen Mr. ELLis H. ROBERTS. I make the point of order that the sation to these men; but I object to having the money taken from amendment ch~&s existing law, and is, therefore, not in order. that appropriated for repairs at the navy-yards. ·The CHAffi . There is a law that any proposition for printing Mr. ·HALE, of Maine. This does not come out of that fund. more than five hundred copies of a.ny work must go to the Joint Com The amendment was agreed to. mittee on Printing. The Clerk read as follows : Mr. FORT. But my amendment does not state any number of Improvement of grounds, Department of Agriculture: For labor, $8,000; for re· volumes. It simply appropriates a certain sum to be expended in pairing concrete roads and walks, ~; for _too!s, wagons, la~-ruowers, ?llorts, a.nd publishing this report. general repairs of the same, $600; forliDprovmg new grounds gamed by filling canal, Mr. ELLIS H. ROBERTS. The amendment also provides for dis draining, surfacing; sodding, an.d for two ca.rt-norses, $7,000; in :ill, $16,100. , tributing these Agricultural Reports as heretofore. That also is a Mr. G. F. HOAR. I move to amend by inserting after the para change of the law. graph jnst read the following: The CHAIRMAN. The Chair does not understand that to be in For the museum, to be expended under the direction of Profe8sor Glover, 1,500. violation of the law. They are to be distributed as they have been heretofore. I believe there will be no objection to this amendment. It proposes Mr. FORT. My amendment does not provide for printing any par a little additional appropriation for the very interestiug ·and curions ticular number beyond, and will not authorize the book to be sent · museum, in the Agricultural Department, of insects injurions to vege free in the mail. We will have to pay thirty-three cents postage on tation. Two years ago the House, after full discussion, appropriated each volume as we do now. My amendment does not affect the postal 3,000 for the establishment of this museum, and the approprllition law. was voted almost unanimously. The expenditure was made with con The CHAIRMAN. Then it is in order. scientious economy by ProfesSor Glover; and a very considerable por Mr. ELLIS H. ROBERTS. The ..amendment can be construed to tion of the $3,000 was covered back into the Treasury. He now wants re-enact the franking privilege ·and distribute these Agricultural Re this small additional sum of $1,500. ports as they have been heretofore, free through the mails. The amendment was agreed to. . The CHAIRMAN. The Chair does not think the amendment pro Mr. G. F. HOAR. I move further to amend by inserting the fol vides for distributing the Agricultural Reports free t.hrough the mails, lowing: and holds the gentleman's amendment to be in order. For the purchase of Duby's cryptogamic herbarium, as much as may be necess:uy, Mr. ELLIS H. ROBERTS. It ought to be changed in its phrase not exceeding $1,000. ology, for the provision for distributing them as heretofore may be con Mr. MAYNARD. This amendment I believe is liable to a point of strued into a re-enactment of the franking privilege. order. It provides for a matter which is not contemplated by any Mr. FORT. I am willing to add such a proviso to it, that it shall existing law. I will, however, reserve the point of order till the gen hot be construed to be entitled to distribution through the mails tleman from Massachnsetts [Mr. G. F. HOAR] has been heard upon free. I am willing to pay the postage. his amendment. The CHAIRMAN. The Chair rules the amendment to be in order. Mr. G. F. HOAR. This appropriation is fur an expenditure in con Mr. FORT. I hope it will be adopted. In my judgment we cannot nection with the museum at the Agricultural Department. expend this amount of money to any better advantage; and I believe Mr. MAYNARD. I do not understand that these amendments come that it will return a la1·ger profit to the general prosperity of the from the Committee on Agriculture. country than if applied in any other manner. Agricultme lies at the Mr. G. F. HOAR. This amendment is recommended by officers of foundation of the prosperity of the whole country. Anything that the Agricultural Department-Professor Glover and others-in let will promote it will benefit every portion of the Republic. Mr. Cha.ir ters which I have here. The study of the wonders of the crypto man, a gentleman over on the other side of the House asks me gamic plants, as they are called-plants that multiply without any ·whether I am a granger. It matters not to me what he calls me. I visible flower-has become very important in the application of sci desire to represent the people of my district, most of whom are agri ence to agriculture. The potato-rot, the plum-disease, the yellows, culturists, and every one of whom is interested in, ancl dependent and several other diseases affecting our fruit trees and important upon, the prosperity of agriculture. They are for the most part tillers agricultural productions, are understood to be caused by little fungi of the soil. They contribute to .the wealth of ·the country and to which can only be detected bythe microscope, and the means of sup the support of the Government. They pay their portion of the vast pressing and destroying which are known to only a very few scien- appropriations we make, not a single dollar of which is expended in tific men in the world. · their midst. And for them and in their name I here on this floor de In order to prosecute this study it becomes necessary to ha.ve these mand that a small sum of money shall be appropriated where it will collections of specimens. There are three or four of such collections give them some information appropriate to their calling and do them in the world. One of the very best is owned by a man named Duby some good. And am I asking muchY The people that each member at Constantinople. There is none whatever in this country. In order here represents will share in this benefit the same as the people I rep that the observations and researches at the Agricultural Department resent. may be prosecuted according to the demand made by letters and ap Mr. GARFIELD. The amendment ought not to be so drawn as to plications from farmers, fruit-growers, and others in all parts of the leave it-possible to the construction, if it should, be adopted, that it country, it is desirable to have a complete collection of fungi for ex is a re-enactment of the franking privilege. • amination and comparison. The mushroom is a very important arti Mr. FORT. I have already agreeu to the proviso that these Agricul cle of food in many European countries, being not a mere luxury, but tural Reports are not by this amendment to go through the mails free. in many places absolute food for the peasant. It is to some extent Now, Mr. Chairman, I wish to say that large amounts of money are coming into use in the same. way in this country. We have a very expended a,nnually in keeping up the Agricult,ural Department. For large number of esculent mnshrooms; but they cannot be distin my part I am not able to see any use in continuing that expenditure guished with certainty from poisonous plants resembling them except unless the valuable information thns collected at large expense is dis by some comparisons of the kind here contemplated. tributed among the .people-among those who need the information; This is a little matter. If it were necessary to detain the House among those engaged in agricultural pursuits. I do not come here as further, I would have the letter rea-d. the especiai champion of any class, but as a representative of agri..: Mr. MAYNARD. I subn:tit to the superior agricultll!al knowledge cnlturists I demand that their interest shall not be overlooked, and of my friend from Mas achusetts, aQ.d ·therefore withdraw my amend- must be considered here. It is well known the information gathered ment. . , by the Agricultural Department is not only valuable to those who Mr. HOAR'S amenament\vas agreed to. cultivate the soil as farmers, but is also sought for a,nd considered Mr. DUNNELL. I move the folloWing aihehdment, and I hope no valuable by ~eutlemen who cultivate their gardens only, and thus one will mise the point of order. lt is an important matter. this report will reach almost all classes. · _,. , .· . ' . 1874 . . CONGRESSIONAL RECO.RD. 4969 And further, Mr. Chairman, whatever will benefit the agricultural Mr. GARFIELD. This does not provide for the printing of m1y portion of this country, it occurs to mo, is of benefit t.o all the coun extra copies, and if it did it would be ont of order. It does not make try. For my part I can see no objection to disseminating the know l provision for any. general dist1ibution of this report. It wHl .st.ill edge which has been gleaned ancl gathered for that purpose. If it is reqnire the joint action of both Houses to have extra copies printed. proper to ha.ve a report mn.de by the Commissioner of Agricnlture, made That can only be done by actlon upon the reports of the Committ&e and printed as haa been done, it is certainly best to distribute t.hatre on Printing. port among the people. It does but little if any good tothe~oricultuml Mr. FORT. ·We are always beaten before that committee. I want ipterest of the county to make this report to the President or to Con an open vote here on this floor. · . gress if it is not thereafter communicated to the people. If any dis The question b~ing taken on Mr. FoRT's amendment, there were- covery haa been made, if anything to the advantage of agriculture ayes 75, noes not conuted. has been found by this Department, it should be taught to those who So the amendment was agreed t{). till the soil. The President or the Cabinet or members of Congress The Clerk read as follows: will not be likely to study these lessons as much as they should do per Court.house and post-office at Omaha, Nebraska: For completion of building, . haps, but the people will learn these lessons to allvantage. $45,500; aml for furniture, $20,000. There is no report of any Department of the Government to my Mr. LAMPORT. I oft'er the following amendment. knowledge which is so much sought after as that report of the Com After line 1142 insert these words: missioner of Agriculture. Ten applications are made for _it where Court.holl8e and post-Mfice at Canandaigua, New York: For protection ' and one is made for any other, and we are overwhelmed with letters ask preservation of the United States court-house and post-office lot in the villa,~re of ingfor it. We-are importuned for it constantly, all(l onr people seem to Canandaigua, New York, the sum of $2,000, to be appliecl to payment of one-half of cost of fi.agging sidewalks around said lot, and one-half the expense of erecting a accept no explanation as to our inability to supply them. 'Ve answer fence, to be expended under the direction of the trustees of said village. them that it has not been published for distribution, and they will reply by saying that. it ought to be ~nd must be published. It seems Mr. GARFIELD. I suggest to the gentleman that this is not the impossible to satisfy them that it is impossible to furnish this report place for his amendment. We appropria.te $200,000 for all that class to them. of repairs on works, and it is not necessary to make a specia-l appro The gentleman on the other side says that half of them cannot read. priat-ion for this. Further on in this Lill we Il}ake a general appro- Sir, if be.intends this HS a slur, I hurl it ba walks; but we never got the pay the Government owed us for the lot Mr. RANDALL. I would inquire whether that is the usual appro- and the building. priation for those pmposes. · .Mr. TYNER. The gentleman is speaking in my time. I want to Mr. GARFIELD. . · Th,at is the ordinary langua-ge. put in one further suggestion, and then. I am done. This matter was The Clerk read as fqllows: before the Committee on Public BJ?lldings and Grounds of the last For continuation of construction of tbe builclin"' for the State, War, ancl Navy Congress, and it was distinctly understood there that the payment of Departments, $700,000. .. the sum appropriated by that Congress would relea-se tho Government 1\ir. COBURN. I move to amend that para~aph by striking out of the United State-s from all obligations in keeping up repairs or "$700,000 " and inserting in lieu thereof the following : anythiiig else connected with the court-house. . Five hundred thousand dollars: Provided. That no part of this sum shall be ap Mr. LAMPORT. But not connected JVitlt the lot. . plied to the further construction of sn.icl builllin,!! except for that portion to be used Mr. TYNER. That was the understanding at the time, and the for the State Department and to protect the work already create do not think the n,ppropriation to which he calls my attention, and of the Secretary of State. I venture to say on my responsibility that with which I have had nothing to do, is asked for, because while every dollar expended upon that building cau be accounted for and the \Var Department occupies Winder's building they are unwilling _proper vouchers exhibited for every cent. to have any other building constmcted on this vacant lot adjoining Mr. COBURN. I rise to oppos.e the amendment to the amendment. . \ it, and the only way to prevent that was for the United States to Mr. BECK. Will the gentleman from Indiana allow me to ask the purchase it. The Secretary of War therefore asked that it might be gentleman from Virginia one question more purchased. With the utmost diligence with which this work can be Mr. COBURN. I cannot now, for I·have not time. This debate bas pressed it would be impossible to complete it within the next four drifteO. away from the real point at issue, which is simply w bether or or five years, even with the money appropriated by this bill, which not we will this year go on expemling a large sum of money on this is a very small amount for so important a building. We do not know building, or whether we will postpone the expenditure for one year when it will be completed if Congress now stops making appropria or for two years if necessary. We have already expended a large sum tions for it. of money on the building, a.nd it is now so far completed that we can Mr. BECK. I move to amend the amendment by striking out the very well stop work upon it; there will be no trouble at all about last word. The reason I rise is tha.t I want to know from the gentle that. The buildings occupied now by the War and Nn.vy Depart man from Virginia [1\Ir. PLATT] if he is prepared now to tell us how ments, as I said before, are goo(l buildings. The gentleman from much this State Department building has cost up to this time' Connecticut [Mr. KELLOGG] asked me whether or not there were other I am informed by intelligent and well-informed subordinate officers buildings used by the War Department that were not so good. Some in the Treasury. Department that a year or more ago the late Secre of them are not. But there is one building used by the War Depart,. tary of the Trea. nry issued an order requiring the vouchers of 1\Ir. ment, in which the most important records are now kept, called the Mullett, Supervising Architect of the Treasury, to· be paid withont Winder building, which is perhaps more secure against fire than the submitting them either to the Auditors or the Comptrollers of the War Department building itself. So far they have got along with Tre..'tSury, whose duty under the law is to examine and pass up.on all these buildings very well. We went through the. pressure of the wa,r, accounts. The Secretary issued that order against their protest, n.nd and have gone on until now with these buildings. In view of the for twelve months any payment which Mr. Mullett has seen fit to order stringency of the times it seems to me to be the part of good sense to has been made without the consent either of the Auditors or Comp stop further work on this building for the present. Let us wait until trollers. there is a ~eater surplus in the Treasury ; let us wait until there is 1\Ir. RANDALL. .And the First Comptroller protested a~ainst it. a greater ctemand or necessity for this building than at present. Mr. BECK. The First Comptroller did protest against 1t, as I am Mr. SPEER. I move to amend the amendment by adding the fol advised, but his protest was overruled. I understand that one o.f the lowing: first orders whtch the present Secretary has made was to rescind this And the Secretary of the Treasury shall report to Congress the items for which order of his predecessor. Now, I want to know what guarantee we this sum shall be expended. - have had during the la.<~t twelve months of the honest payment or Mr. BECK. I do not believe it to be the fa.ct, a.s has been stated, faithful d,isbursement of any money for the public buildings of the that this mouey is expended under the direct,ion of the Secretary, of United States under the order of the Secretary of the Treasury re State; but if so, bow can the Secretary of the Treasm-y account for quiring the money to be paid without the supervision ancl audi~ of the expenditure f the Auditors or Comptrollers' I think that Congress ought to proVide Mr. SPEER. 1\Ir. Chairman, the expense of erecting this buila against such orders being issued by any officer as this Issued by the ing for the Department of State is perfectly enormous-entirely be late Secretary of the Treasury, defining and setting aside of the yond what it was thought it would be at the time its construction jurisdiction and responsibility prescribed by law of the accounti'ng was begun, and entirely beyond what such a building should cost officers of the Treasury. I think that all these pa.st accounts should under any republican government. How can we justify expending be inquired into aml strictly scrutinized before aoy f_urther payments for a building for the State and w· ar Departments $10,000,000, a sum are authorized to contractors or appropriations made for these works. greater than it cost to carry on the two first Administrations of this Mr. KELLOGG. Is the gentleman satisfied with the present head Governmentf of the Treasury Department f In adQ.ition to that, Mr. Chairman, the statement is made publicly Mr. BECK. I a,m. At last, I think, you have a man of efficiency, throughout the countl-y-whether truly or not I do not say-that the · ability, will, and courage at the head of that Department; one who stone of which this bttildingis being constructed is taken from a quarry will put down all-these things. T!J.e other man I think was person owned by a ring-a political ring, members of which belong to this ally honest, but that is a.U ,that can be said for him, judging by his House-. I desire to ask the chairman of the Committ,ee on Public administration of the Treasury Department. Buildings and Grounds [Mr. PLATT, of Virginia,] where the stone Mr. PLATT, of Virginia. Gentlemen will observe that all the ap for the.State Department building is obtained, who owns the quarry, propriations made in this bill are to be paid out ·under the direction who is the president of the company f Give us the names of tile and supervision of the officer in whom the gentleman from Kentucky members. It would relieve this House, and it might relieve Congress [Mr. BECK] expresses his confidence, and who e confidence in him I from a public scandal. I make no specific charges; I do not repeat think is well placed. I do not know anything about the order of the names t-hat have been published; but for the. information of the Secretary of the Treasury to which the gentleman refers. I would Honse and in justice to the character of members, I call upon the like to ask hi..m. if that statement was made to him officially from the chairman of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds to state Treasury Department. · who compose this company and who owns these quarries. That Mr .. BECK. The question I asked the gentleman was if there is arty should be stated in justice to us all. account of the money heretofore expended for the construction of this Mr. GARFIELD obtained the floor. buildincr. · · Mr. PLATT, of Virginia. I will answer the question of the gen :Mr. PLATT, of Virginia. I do not know anything more n.bout 'it tleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. SPEER] if I may be allowed to do 5o. than the gentleman himself. I suppose the proper officers who paid Mr. GARFIELD. Some three year8 ago the Committee on Appro the money out have the vouchers, and can show them. H they can priations, after a. full consideration of the whole matter, under the not I will go a.s far as the gentleman from Kentucky [:Mr. BECK] to lead of the gentleman from Ma-ssachusetts, [Mr. DAWES,] provifled hold them to a strict accountability. for erecting a public building to accommodate the- W-ar, State, and · Mr. BECK. Is it not true that for the year past under the order of Navy Departments: the Secretary of tho Treasury t};le Comptrollers and Auditors have 1\Ir. SPEER. I believe I had some time 1eft, ~nd I yielded it to been deprived of all supervision over the accounts of this Supervising the gentleman from Virginia to answer my question. Architect' Mr. GARFIELD. I was not aware of that. Mr. RANDALL. Against lawt The CH~M.AN. The gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. SPEER] Mr. BECK. Yes; against l~w. hlld one minute remaining. . Mr. PLATT, of Virginia. I cannot answer that question. But I 1\Ir. PLATT, of Virginia. I cannot undertake to answer in one say in regard to the expenditures made for the Stat-e, War, and Navy minute a question that it took four minutes to ask. Department building, the Secretary of the Treasury bas h:td nothing Several MEMBERS. We will give you all the time you want. to do with it. · Not one doll:ir of the expenditure has been -made 1\-Ir. PLATT, of Virginia. I understood the gentleman from Penn under his supervision or order. Every O.ollar of it has been expended ' sylvania to ask where the granite comes from that is put into this under the direction of the Secretary of State. The Secretary of State building, who owns the quarries, who is the president of the company has the entire control of it; ha.s h:td control over every dollar of the owning them, and various questions of that kind. I understand the expenditure from the commencement of the b_uiiding.' That I state insinuation intended to be conveyed in the gentleman's W@rds ; and so upon my own knowledge. far as I possess the information I will give it to him. When I have done Mr. BECK. Was there any law authorizing the order of the Secre"' this I shall ask the indulgence of the committee to add a few words, tary of the Treasury depriving the Comptrollers and Auditors of their as my remarks must assume something in the character of a personal right to supervise and revise the accounts of Mr. Mullett? H so, what explanation. . · lawY • - The quarry from which is obtained the stone forming the super Mr. PLATT, of Vircri.l)ia. I have said to the gentleman that I know structure of the State Department building is situated about two nothing about the or~er to which be refers; I never beard of it until miles from Richmond, Virginia. The quarry from which is obtn.ined he referred to it here. The Secretary of the Treasury aml the Treas the stone- entering ir\to the basement of the building is in the State ury Department have nothing whatever to do with tho expenditure of 1\Iaine; the exact location I do not know. The contractor for the of money a11propriated for the construction of this new State Depart stone used· in the· b38ement of the building is I believe the Bodwell ment uuililiug. It has been expended under tho (lirocL.iou aud control Granite Company, of 1\L.'t.ino. The contractor. for the stone used in· 4972 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. JUNE 13, the superstructure is Mr. Alfred Ordway, of Richmond. Both con to discuss this, but it must be app:uent to everybody that 112,000 is tracts have been given ont under competition; and each contractor entirely too much to furnish that Department. was respectively the lowest bidder. ~Ir. GAUFIELD. The. gentleman will remember the building. is So far as I know the quarry from .which the stone for the super now a mere shell, and this is to provide gas-fixtures and everything structure is being taken (and I would like to call the attention of in that way, carpets, furniture, plumbing, and everything of that members to the exceeding beauty of that stone-the Richmond granite) kind, in order to fit it for use. . is owned entirely by the following parties: Mr. Ordway, a Baltimore . Mr. RANDALL. Show me the items which yon have stated~ gentleman named, I think, Andrews, and a Mr. Green, whose father l\lr. GARFIELD. I have a letter from the Secretary of State, and owned the quarry for forty years. So far as I know, no other man also a letter from the Supervising Architect. · owns a cent's worth of interest in that quarry, or is in any shape Mr. RANDALL. Let them be read. or manner connected with -it. This is all the information I possess l\Ir. GARFIELD. I will a~k the Clerk to read what I will send in re~ard to the ownership of those quarries. up. I will add before the letter is read that we inquired-whether It 1s proper for me to add in behalf of myself, as connected with the furniture in the builaing now occupied by the State Department this question, a few words of explanation. I do this in view of the could not be used in some mea~uro for furnishing the new State De manner and tone oi the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. SPEER] partment, and we fonnd they had been using the old, almost worn and in view of the fact that two years ago, in the closin MISCELLA.L~OUS APPROPRIATION BILL. soN,] down to and including the words" covered into the Treasury." Mr. SCOFIE~D. I rise to a point of order. The gentleman from The Committee of the Whole resumed its session and the consid Massachusetts [Mr. BUTLER] had the rules suspended so as to author eration of the miscellaneollS appropriation bill. ize him to propose a specific amendment: That amendment he ha.s · The Clerk read as follows : now withdrawn and proposes an entirely different one. That a.ll balances in the Treasury remaining unexpended on the 1st day of July, · The CHAIRl\fA.N. The motion of the gentleman from Massachu 1874, of appropriations heretofore ma.d~ f?r briililings and sites of buil~gs named setts to suspend the rules did not embrace any particular form of in this act, and all balances t>f a.ppropr1at10ns heretofore made, andsu.ffimentforthe amendmP.nt. completion of buildings nnder the Supervising Architect of the Treasury n?t named· in this act, during the next fiscal year, be, and they are hereby, made available for Mr. SCOFIELD. Let the Clerk read the authority under which the the fiscal year enai.n.g June 30, 1875. . gentleman makes his motion. The Clerk read as follows: Mr. WILLARD, of Vermont. I make the point of order that that That when the House is in Committee of the Whole on th~ snndry civil expense provision ch.an~es existing law, because under the'e:xising law these bill it shall be in order for the Committee of the Whole to consider and pass upon balances would be covered into the Treasur_y. an amendment in relation to the preference in Government £"mploym.ent of soldiers Mr. GA.Rl:!.,IELD. ·This nierely renders available the balances re and sailors and their dependent relativea; and also in relation to diminishing and maining unexpended at the end of the year. It is the same as appro stopping the expenses of caiTying on examinations by boards of commissioners and priating monev ; it is not a change of existing law. others traveling aronnd the country at public charge, and the detailin~r of clerks of the Departments to sit in j ud~ent upon their fellow-clerks, and to exercise thereby Mr. WILLA'RD, of Vermont. The language is "that all balances the appointing power which 18 by the Constitution vested in the beads of the sev of appropriations heretofore made, &c., be, and they are hereby, made eral Ex;eo~tive Departments, who ought to be men of sufficient discretion to appoint available." their own clerks without being tied up byrnlea and regulations impo ed upon thorn The CHAIRMAN. The Chair overrules the point of order. by a bo¥d COIJ?:~osed in whole or in part of those very clerks themselvea. Mr. BUTLER, of Massachusetts. I offer the following amendment 1\Ir. KE~LOGG. I make the point of order that the proposition to come in after the clause just read as a separate section: adopted yest~rday and which has just been read does not provide for SEc. 2. That all unexpended balances of money heretofore ap:{lropria.ted to carry anything .in reaard to the repeal of the law. . out the provisions of section 9 of the act entitleti "An act making appropriations Mr. BUTLER, of Massachusetts. It it provides for "stopping ex for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the ·Government," passed penses." .March 3; 1871, and to support the civil-service commission, so called, remaining at ]tfu KE~QGG. But the proposition had no provision whatever in the close of the present fiscal year, are hereby ordered to be covered into the Treasury. I • regard to the repeal of any law. Mr. BUTLER, of Massachusetts. I suggest to the gentleman that Mr. KELLOGG. I make the point of order-on that amendment unless we :r~p.eaHhe law somebody may go on underit and bring in a. that it c~a.tf:' existing la.w. . deficiency appropriation, which I do not wan~. The C 1\fA.N. The Chair understands the rules to have been 1\Ir. KELLOGG. I withdraw my call for a division of the amend suspended so as to make this amendment in order. The Chair over- ment of the gentleman from Iowa. rules the point of order. · Mr. STORM. I renew the call for a division: . MI·. KASSON. I wish to offer a substitute for the amendment just The CHAIRMAN. The Chair -is of opinion 'that a propositio.n ''in read. ·1 believe debate on this subject has been closed. relation to diminishing and stoppin?, expenses of carrying on exami Mr. GARFIELD. All debate was closed on the-general subject of nations by bo3Ids of commissioners ' would cover an amendment re civil-service reform. pealing the very law which authorizes such expenditures. Mr. KASSON. I ask the Clerk to read the substitute which I send Mr. STAR.K,WEATHE~. I make this point of order: the gentle to the desk. man from Massachusetts moved a suspension of the rules so that this The Clerk read as follows : amendment mJght be in order when the "sundry civil expense bill" SEc. 2. That section 9 of the act entitled ".A.n act making appropria.tio~ for the should be under consideration. We have no such bill. legislative, executive, and judicial expense of the Government for the year end The CHA.Il.\MAN. The Chair overrules the point of order. in."' June 30, 1872," approved ~fn.rch 3, 1871, a.uthoriz.ing tile President to employ Mr. STARKWEATHER. The proposition P.oes not even define the sufta.ble persons t.o conduct certain inquiries and to prescribe their duties in respect year. It may be this year or next year. to appointments in the civil service, be, an!l the same is hereby, rep~aled, and the nnexpenlled balance of any appropriation heretofore made for carrying the same The CHA.IE~UN. The ge11,tleman from Massachusetts [Mr. BuT in~ effect shall be coverellmto the Treaslll'y. And it sh:ill be the duty of the officer LER] moved an amendme:Qt, and to that amendment th_e gentleman ' . . 1874. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. 4975 Mr. KELLOGG. I move to strike out all of the first part of the amendment ending with the words "covered into the Treasury." The CHAIR f.AN. The question is on the .amendment of the gen tleman from Connecticut [Mr ..KELLOGG] to the amendment of the gentleman from Massachusetts, ll\fr. BUTLER.] Mr. STARKWEATHER. I desire to offer an amendment. Where it is provided that the appointments shall be made as equitably as possiule from the candidates presentin~ themselvet:" from the different States, I propose to ·strike out t.he word "States" and to· insert the words "congressional districts." • · Th~ CHAI.l\MAN. The questio.n will be :first on the amendrilent of the gentleman from Connecticut; [Mr. KELLOGG.] Mr. SCOFIELD. What is that amendment f The CHAIRMAN. The amendment offered by the gentleman from Connecticut [Mr. KELLOGG] is to strike out from the amendment. proposed by the gentleman from Massachusetts [Mr. BUTLER] cer tain words. Mr. HOSKINS. I respectfully ask the Chair to state distinctly to the House what is to be voted upon. Gentlemen around me do not )lllderstand what it is. The CHAIRMAN. The Chair has been for some time tryinu to do that very thing; and if gentlemen will take their seats he will make one more eftort t.o do so. • The Clerk will read so much of the amendment of the gentleman from Massachusetts [:Mr. BUTLER] as the gentleman from Connecticut [Mr. KELLOGG] proposes to strike out. The Clerk read as follows: Strike out these words: That section 9 of tho act entitled "An act making appropriations for the lerula tive, executive, and ,judicial expe-nses of the Government for the year ending '.f une 30, 1872," approved March 3, 1871, authorizing the President w employ suitable persons to conduct certain inquiries and to prescribe their duties, and in respect to appointments in the civil service, be, and the same is hereby, repealed, and the un expended balance of any appropriation heretofore made for carrying the same into effect spall be covered into the Tre.asury.. - The question being taken on Mr. KELLOGG's amendment; it was not agreed to. Mr. HOSKINS. I now move to strike out the balance of the amend ment. · · Mr. GARFIELD. Let the words be read which the gentleman from New York moves to strike out. The CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will read the words which it is pro- posed to strike out. · The Clerk read as follows: And it shall be the duty of the officer at the bead of eooh of the Executive Departments at Washington to prescribe and publish rules for ascertaining the qualifications of applicants for appointments at his disposal, or made under his authority, to make such appointments only from candidates who have the qualifica tions of honesty, efficiency, and fidelity, and not as rewards for mere party zeal, giving preference.only to those who have. the a;fditional qualification of an hon orable record in the military or naval service of the United States. And it shaU be his further du,ty to make snch appointments as equitably as possible from quali fie(l candidates -presenting themselves from the SElveral States and with reference to their population, and upon the removal of any appointee the reason for such removal shall be stated on the records of the Department whei·e the senice waa rendered. . Mr. BUTLER, of Massachusetts. Is it now in order to move to substitute somethi'ng for that last part of the amendment T • The CHAIRMi\N. The gentleman from New York [Mr. HosKINs] moves to strike out certain words; the gentleman from Massachusetts proposes to strike out and insert. . Mr. STARKWEATHER. I claim ihe right to perfect that portion DIVISION OF QUESTIONS. of the amendment before it ia stricken out. I move to strike out the · "Any member may call for the divi.'lion of a question, before or after the main word " State ". and insert the words " congressional districts." question is ordered, which shall be divided if it comprehend propositions in sub Mr. FORT. I think the word" Territories" should be added. stance so distinct tha~,' one being taken away, a substantive proposition shall re The CHAIRMAN. The amendment of the gentleman from Connec main for the decision of the House. A motion to strike out and insert shall be ticut [Mr. ST.A.RKWEATHER] will be read. deemed indivisible," (Rule 46.) :But it has been decided on appeals that on motions to commit with instruptions, or on_the different branches of instructions, (Journa.ls, The Clerk read as follows : 1, 17, page 507 ; 1, 31, pages 139:>-'97 ~ 1, 32, page 611,) on a Senate amendment, Strike out the word 11 States" and insert the words 11 congressional districts;" so (Journals, 2, 32, page 401,) on an amenument reported as a single amendment from it will read : a Committee of the Whole, (Journals 1, 28, page 1061; 1, 29, pages 366, 642; 1, 30 And it will be his further duty to make such appointments as equitably as possi page 1059; 2, 37, page PO, &c.,) on a series of resolutions propoMed to be inserted· ble from qualified candidates presenting themselves frolll the several congressional m lien of other matter, (Congressional Globe, 1, 31, page 1301,) a division of the districts and with reference to their population, &c.- question cannot }1e h~d: The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Ma-ssachusetts [Mr. BuT Mr. G. F. HOA~ The principle, if you will allow me to suggest, LER] proposes to strike out and insert. The gentleman from Connec is this: suppose a series of resolutions is offered as an amendment to ticut [Mr. STARKWEATHER] moves to amend the portion proposed to another sertes. That is not .a divisible q nestion. The single ques be st1icken out. The question will be :first on the motion of the gen tion i~, shall this second series be inserted for the :first f If inserted tleman from Connecticut. as an amendment then the question comes before the House when a Mr. BURCHARD. I desire to ·make a parliamentary inquiry. Has division will be in order. . the amendment of the gentleman from·Massacb.usetts [Mr. BUTLER] Mr. BUTLER, of Massachusetts~ I desire to cut this knot, and I been voted on and adopted f I understood that the gentleman from will accept the wJtol~ a-s a substitute, and will then move to strike Massachusetts accepted the proposition of the gentleman from Iowa, out 'the portion indicated. - [Mr. KAssoN,] and that th&t was submitted to the committee .and "Mr. :S:OSKINS. · ~ understand the rule to be when a substitute is adopted. . offered it must be ~cted on as a whole, and cannot be divided. I do Mr. BUTLER, of Massachusetts. 0, no. - not understand it precludes the amendment -of the substitute. The Mr. COX. I move that the committee do now rise. It is evident substitute, I understand, is amendable, but not divisible. that we cannot get through the Choctaw business to-night. Mr. COX. I move the committee rise. The question being taken on Mr. STARKWEATHER'S aniendment, it Mr. GARFIELI). I hope we-will sit here until after five o'clock. wa-s agreed to. Mr. COX. We cannot get through with this to-night. Mr. BUTLER, of-Massachusetts. I ask that the words which I The committee refused to rise. . propose to insert be read. :Mr. BUTLER, of M:i.ssa-chusetts. I now caU for a division of the :Mr. GARFIELD. I make the point of order that the amendment' question. of the gentleman from Massachusetts· [Mr. BUTLER] is an amend- 4976 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. JUNE 13, ment in the third degree. We have not yet adopted the substitute of honesty, efficiency, and fidelity, and not aa rewards for mere party zeal giving of the gentleman from Iowa, [Mr. .KAs ON.] That is now pendinO", :preference only to those who have the additional qualification of an honorabl~ record m the military or naval service of the United States. And it shall be his further The CHAIRMAN. The substitute of the gentleman from Io~a duty to. make su~h appointments as equitably as possible from qualified candidates [Mr. ·KAssoN] has been made the original amendment by being ac pre se~tmg them~elves from the several congressiOnal districts antl wiLh reference cepted by the gentleman from Massachusetts, (Mr. BUTLER,] and is to therr population, and upon the removal of any appointee, the rea on for such now pending as an original motion. removal shall be stated on the records of the Department where the service waa Mr. GARFIELD. It is an originalamendmentpendingto thebilH rendered. The CHAIRMAN. The Chair so understands it. . Mr. BlJ!LER1 of Massachusetts. I rise to a parliamentary ques Mr. GARFIELD. How can an amendment to an amendment have tion. Is 1t parliamentary to presume by a motion in this House that an amendmenfoffered to it in the third degreef the beads of Departments will not do their duty in appointinrr men The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Massachusetts adopted for honesty and efficiency f What is the use of passing a law forthat Y that as his own amendment. The CHAIRMAN. The Chair is not advised upon that point. Mr. G.A.RFIELD. But the committee has not adopted it. Mr. SMITH, of Ohio. I ask that the motion of the gentleman from The CHAIRMAN . . It is now pending, and the Chair understands Massachusetts [Mr. BUTLER] may be divided, so that we shall take a that it is capable of being amended if the majority of the committee vote first on striking out and afterward on inserting. so decide, and the question is whether they will so decide. Mr. KEI... LOGG. I submit that the motion is not divisible. Mr. KELLOGG. I rise to make a parliament.ary inquiry, and it is The CHAIRMAN. The question will first be put on striking out. whether the gentleman from Massachusetts can make fish of hiR Mr. KELLOGG. I make the point of order that the motion is not amendment one instant and flesh of it the next; if he bas any right divisible. to change the amendment which he has accepted before it is voted MI'. KASSON. The rules declare that it is not divisible. on T · The CHAIRMAN. The Chair overrules the point of order. Mr. MAYNARD. Would it be in order to move that the committee Mr. COX. I rise to a point of order. By the Constitution the ap now rise, before the shades of evening prevail f pointing power is fixed irrevocably in the President, and there can be no res_tric~ion upon it .bY Congress or in any way; I 11sk that the l'riESSAGE FROM THE SENATE. Constitution of the Umted States may be read on that point. The committee rose informally, and the Speaker .having resumed Mr. KASSON. I object; that is in the nature of argument, and I the chair, a message from the Senate, by Mr. SYMPSON, one of their object to debating this question in that way. • . . clerks, announced that the Senate further insisted on its amendments Mr. COX. I ask that the Constitution be read ()n that point. disagreed to by the House to the bill (H. R. No. 1572) to amend the The CHAIRMAN. The Chair stands corrected; the motion to strike several acts providing a. national currency, and to establish free out and insert is not divisible. banking, and for other purposes, agreed to the further conference Mr. COX. I insist upon having the Constitution read. asked by the House on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses thereon, Mr. GARFIELD. That is in the nature of debate. and had appointed Mr. WRIGHT, Mr. FERRY of Michigan, and .Mr. The CHAIRMAN. The question is upon the motion to strike out STEVE~SON confereeR on the part of the Senate. • and insert. . · The message further announced that the Senate had passed a bill Mr. COX. I do not. propose to vote on this question until my point (S. No. 600) for the relief of Captain James B. Thompson, in which of order is respected by the Chair. he was directed to ask the concurrence of the Honse. The question was taken on the motion to strike out and insert; and MISCELL~O .US APPROPRIATION BILL. upon a division there were-ayes 75, noes not counted. The Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union resumed its. Before the result By Mr. O'NEILL: The petition of the }.,airmount Park Association · Mr. PRATT presented papers in relation to the application of o.f Philadelphia, for twenty condemned cannon for an equestrian Daniel G. Gallion, late of Company .A, One hundred and thirtieth st.atue of the late :Major-General George G. Meade, to the Committee Indiana Volunteers, for an allowance of pension; which was referred on Military Affairs. to the Committee on Pensions. - By Mr. RICHMOND: The petition of citizens of the twentieth con Mr. CONKLING presented a memorial of George S. Coe, president of gressional district of Pennsylvania, for the passage of the bill to aid the American Exchange Bank; Robert Lenox Kennedi,~E!esident of in the construction of the Continental Freight Railway, to the Com the National Bank of Commerce; and :fifty-five other b and trust mittee on Railways and Canals. companies of New . York City; and a memorial of merchants, im By Mr. WOODWORTH: The petition of W. G. Moore and 87 others, port.ers, bankers, and business men of Troy, New York, protesting of Youngstown, Ohio, for the passage of the bill to aid in the con a~ainst the passage of the twenty-ninth section of the tariff and tax struction of the Continental Freight Railway, to the Committee on bill, which imposes a tax of ~of l per cent. on all sales of stocks, Railways and Canals. bonds, gold and silver bullion, coin, and other securities ; which were referred to the Committee on Finance. Mr. CRAGIN presented the petition of Horace Clough, late of Com pany D, Sixth New Hampshire Volunteers, praying to be allowed a pension; which was referred to the Committee on Pensions. - IN SENATE. Mr. PATTERSON presented the petition of Mrs. Mary .M. Kearney; -widow of Surgeon John A. Kearney, United States Navy, who died MONDAY, June 15, 1874. in 1847, praying for an increase of pension; which was referred to the The Senate met at twelve o'clock m. Committee on Pensions. Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. BYRON SUNDERLAND, D. D. . Mr. JOHNSTON presented a memorial of merchants, importers, On motion of Mr. CARPENTER, (Mr. ANTHONY in the chair,) and by bankers, and others, citizens of Richmond, Virginia, remonstrating unanimous consent, the reading of the Journal of the proceedings of against the pa,ssage of the twenty-ninth section of the tariff bill, Saturday last was dispensed with. which imposes a tax on all sales of stocks, bonds, coins, and other secnritie,s; which was referred to the Committee on Finance. PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS. ORDER OF BUSINESS. Mr. HAMILTON, of Maryland, presented a memorial of :Messrs. Hodges Bros., Alexander Brown, Hugh Jenkins & Co., William Mr. BUCKINGHAM. I desire to say that the Committee on Indian Fisher & Sons, and other bankers, manufacturers, and importers, of Affairs have not been able to bring the bills reported by them to the Baltimore, Maryland, protesting against a tax on sales of stocks, coin, consideration of the Senate, and there are some twenty of them on the bonds, and other securities ; which was referred to the Committee on Calendar, many of which are of great importance. I therefore ask Finance. the Senate to give me two hours on Wednesday next, after th~ con Mr. BUCKINGHAM. I present the petition of the Rev. Dr. Samp clusion of the morning business, for the consideration of those bills, son, late President of Colnm bian College, James L. Howard, President provided an appropriation bill is not then before the Senate. of the Ameri.can Baptist Publication Company, Henry G. Weston, The PRESIDING OFFICER, (Mr. ANTHoNY in the chair.) The President of the American Missionary Baptist Union, Rev. E. H. Gray, Senator from Connecticut asks unanimous consent that two hours be ex-chaplain of the Senate, and many other distinguished persons late given to the consideration of bills reported from the Committee on in attendance at the Baptist anniversary held in W aahington, a,sking Indian Affairs on Wednesday next at tl!e close of the morning hour. Congress to aid the American Printing House for the Blind and the Mr. SHERMAN. I do not think we ought at this moment when American University for the Blind. I move its reference to the Com the Senate is so thin to make an order of that sort. I hope the Sena mittee on the District of Columbia. tor will wait until the morning business is over. The motion was agreed to. · · Mr. BUCKINGHAM. I am not particular as to that, but I hope the Mr. SHERMAN presented the petition of A. B. Battelle and George Senate will grant the Committee on Indian Affairs this indulgence. D. Evans, praying compensation for the hides and tallow of sixteen Mr. RAMSEY. While t,his matter is before the Senate I desire to hundred beeves furnished the United States Army in West Virginia say that the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads have not had in 1862under a contract with the Commissa1-y Dep~ment and which a day nor an hour this session, and I gave notice some day last week it is claimed were reserved to -Qlem therein; which was referred to that I would to-morrow after the morning hour ask the Senaie to give the Committee on Claims. ., . me ·Some time to consider some very important and very necessary He also presented a memorial of importers, dealers, and workers of bills reported by that committee.. I give notice that I shall renew tin-plate, protesting against a cha11ge of the duty on tin-plate; which that request to-morrow morning·after the morning hour. was referred to the Committee on Finance. Mr. PRATT. I wish to give notice that after the business of the Mr. SHERMAN. I am requested to present resolutions in the na morning hour is through I shall ask the indulgence of the Senate to ture of a petition, from the Chamber of Commerce of the State of take up the Honse bill No. 2190 to amend the act entitled "An act New York, the substance of which is more briefly expressed in one granting pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of the war of 1812 of the resolu~ions than I could hope to do it. They respectfully and the widows of deceased soldiers," approved February 14, 1871, and petition: · to restore to the_pension-rolls those per8ons whose names were stricken That the honorable Senate and Honse of Representatives of the United States are therefrom in consequence of disloyalty. The bill has been pending earnestly re9.nested to direct the holding of sessions during the comin~ recess of in the Senate for a long time, and it ought to be considered. their respective Finance and Ways and Means Committees for the reVIsion of the Mr. SHERMAN. I object to that. revenue laws, in order that while the amonnt of -,:evenne now collected shall not be Mr. CONKLING. He only gives notice of his intention to move to diminished, the collection of the same Dl3Y be simplified by a change from ad valo· 'l'em to specific duties wherever practicable, and by such alterations in the cla.ssifi take it up. · · · cation of merchandise as may be fonnd desirable. :Mr. SHERMAN. Of ~ourse I do not object to that. They also inform us that a special committee of five has been in REPORT RECO~ITTED. structed to wait upon Congress to promote the passage of such a On.motion of Mr. MORRILL, of Maine, it was proposition. I move the reference of these resolutions to the Com- Ordered, That the report of the Committ-ee on Naval .Affairs on the memorial of mittee on Finance. . C. K. Curtis and others, graduates of the Na.val.A.cademy, praying for a re·a,rrange. The motion was agreed to. ment of their names on the offioial list of the Navy, so that they may take rnnk Mr. SCOTT presented a memorial of merchants, bankers, and busi and precedence as determined by the date of their graduation, be recommitted to ness men of Hollidaysburgh, Pennsylvania, and a memorial of mer the Committee on Naval .Affairs. ' chants and bankers, &c., of Altoona, Pennsylvania, protesting ag::£inst , GENEVA AWARD. the passage of the twenty-ninth section of the tariff and tax bill which Mr. EDMUNDS. I am instructed by the Committee on the Judi· imposes a tax on all sales of stocks, bonds, gold and silver bullion, ciaiy, to whom were referred the amendments of the Honse of Repre coin, and other securities; which were referred to the Committee on sentatives to the bill (S. No. 7) for the creation of a court for the Finance. adjudication and disposition of certain IQOneys received into the Treas· .Mr. ALCORN presented a memorial of the board of levee commis ury under an aw~d made by the tribunal of arbitration constituted sioners for the counties of Bolivar, Washington, and Issaquena, Mis by virtue of the :first article of the treaty concluded at Washington the sissippi, praying the Government of the United States to take charge 8th of May, A. D. 1871, between the United States of America and the of and construct the levees. of the Mississippi River; which was re Queen of Great Britain, to report that we recommend that the Senate ferred to the Select Committee on the Levees of the Mississippi River. disagree to the amendments of the House of Representatives and ask He also presented· a memorial from the Louisiana enbrineers, a.sking a conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Honse, the conferees aid in the construction of the levees of the Mississippi River; which on the part of the Senate to be appointed by the Chair. That is the ·was referred to the Select Committee on the Levees of the Missis general opinion of the committee, and I suppose there will be no objec sippi River. tion to its being so ordered now. Mr. SPENCER presented the petition of Frank E. Sawyer, of Claxk The PRESIDING OFFICER. If there be no objection that order County, Alabruna, praying military protection until he can dispose -of will· be made. his property and remove from said county; which was referred to The PRESIDENT pro tempore subsequently appointed Messrs. FRE the Committee on Military Affairs. LINGHUYSEN, WRIGHT, and THURMAN as the conferees on-the pltrt of He•also presented a petition of cifuens of Alabama, pr.aying for the Senate, 1\Ir. EDMUNDS stating that he did not wish to be on the the establishment of certain post-routes in that State; which was re committee as he was obliged to leave the city this avenin~ to be ~"Q .. ferred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. . . sent two or three days. 312