FIFTIETH CONGRESS MARCH 4, 1887, TO MARCH 3, 1889

FIRST SESSION—December 5, 1887, to October 20, 1888 SECOND SESSION—December 3, 1888, to March 3, 1889

VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 1 PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE OF THE SENATE—JOHN J. INGALLS, of Kansas SECRETARY OF THE SENATE—ANSON G. MCCOOK, of New York SERGEANT AT ARMS OF THE SENATE—WILLIAM P. CANADAY, of North Carolina

SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES—JOHN G. CARLISLE, 2 of Kentucky CLERK OF THE HOUSE—JOHN B. CLARK, JR., 3 of Missouri SERGEANT AT ARMS OF THE HOUSE—JOHN P. LEEDOM, of Ohio DOORKEEPER OF THE HOUSE—A. B. HURD, of Mississippi POSTMASTER OF THE HOUSE—LYCURGUS DALTON

ALABAMA George Hearst, San Francisco DELAWARE SENATORS REPRESENTATIVES SENATORS John T. Morgan, Selma T. L. Thompson, Santa Rosa Eli Saulsbury, Dover James L. Pugh, Eufaula Marion Biggs, Gridley George Gray, New Castle REPRESENTATIVES Joseph McKenna, Suisun REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE James T. Jones, Demopolis W. W. Morrow, San Francisco John B. Penington, Dover Hilary A. Herbert, Montgomery Charles N. Felton, San Francisco William C. Oates, Abbeville William Vandever, 5 San Buenaventura FLORIDA Alexander C. Davidson, 4 Uniontown James E. Cobb, Tuskegee SENATORS John H. Bankhead, Fayette COLORADO Wilkinson Call, Jacksonville William H. Forney, Jacksonville SENATORS Samuel Pasco, 6 Monticello Joseph Wheeler, Wheeler Thomas M. Bowen, Del Norte REPRESENTATIVES Henry M. Teller, Central City ARKANSAS Robert H. M. Davidson, Quincy Charles Dougherty, Port Orange SENATORS REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE James K. Jones, Washington George G. Symes, Denver GEORGIA James H. Berry, Bentonville SENATORS REPRESENTATIVES CONNECTICUT Joseph E. Brown, Atlanta Poindexter Dunn, Forest City SENATORS Alfred H. Colquitt, Atlanta C. R. Breckinridge, Pine Bluff Orville H. Platt, Meriden REPRESENTATIVES Thomas C. McRae, Prescott Joseph R. Hawley, Hartford John H. Rogers, Fort Smith Thomas M. Norwood, Savannah Samuel W. Peel, Bentonville REPRESENTATIVES Henry G. Turner, Quitman Robert J. Vance, New Britain Charles F. Crisp, Americus CALIFORNIA Carlos French, Seymour Thomas W. Grimes, Columbus SENATORS Charles A. Russell, Killingly John D. Stewart, Griffin Leland Stanford, San Francisco Miles T. Granger, Canaan James H. Blount, Macon

1 Vice President Thomas A. Hendricks died in preceding 6 Elected May 19, 1887, and took his seat December President pro tempore Ingalls held that it should not be Congress; Vice Presidency remained vacant until March 5, 1887; Jesse J. Finley was appointed by the governor done, as the appointment ‘‘was in anticipation of a va- 4, 1889. on February 28, 1887, to fill the vacancy existing after cancy, and not to fill a vacancy that existed, as con- 2 Reelected December 5, 1887. March 4, 1887, until the next meeting of the legislature, templated by article 3 of the Constitution’’; subsequently 3 Reelected December 5, 1887. but never qualified. Upon the request of the financial clerk the Senate adopted a resolution to pay Mr. Finley for 4 Election unsuccessfully contested by John V. McDuffie. of the Senate for an opinion as to his authority to pay services rendered from March 4 to May 19, 1887. 5 Election unsuccessfully contested by Joseph D. Lynch. Mr. Finley the salary due him as a Senator-designate,

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Judson C. Clements, Rome Daniel Kerr, Grundy Center Seth L. Milliken, Belfast Henry H. Carlton, Athens J. B. Weaver, Bloomfield Charles A. Boutelle, Bangor Allen D. Candler, Gainesville Edwin H. Conger, Des Moines George T. Barnes, Augusta A. R. Anderson, Sidney MARYLAND Joseph Lyman, Council Bluffs SENATORS ILLINOIS Adoniram J. Holmes, Boone Arthur Pue Gorman, Laurel SENATORS Isaac S. Struble, Le Mars Ephraim K. Wilson, Snow Hill Shelby M. Cullom, Springfield KANSAS REPRESENTATIVES Charles B. Farwell, Chicago Charles H. Gibson, Easton SENATORS REPRESENTATIVES Frank T. Shaw, Westminster Ransom W. Dunham, Chicago John J. Ingalls, Atchison Harry Welles Rusk, Baltimore Frank Lawler, Chicago Preston B. Plumb, Emporia Isidor Rayner, Baltimore William E. Mason, Chicago REPRESENTATIVES Barnes Compton, Laurel George E. Adams, Chicago Edmund N. Morrill, Hiawatha Louis E. McComas, Hagerstown A. J. Hopkins, Aurora Edward H. Funston, Iola Robert R. Hitt, Mount Morris Bishop W. Perkins, Oswego MASSACHUSETTS Thomas J. Henderson, Princeton Thomas Ryan, Topeka SENATORS Ralph Plumb, Streator John A. Anderson, Manhattan Henry L. Dawes, Pittsfield Lewis E. Payson, Pontiac Erastus J. Turner, Hoxie George F. Hoar, Worcester Philip S. Post, 7 Galesburg Samuel R. Peters, Newton William H. Gest, Rock Island REPRESENTATIVES George A. Anderson, Quincy KENTUCKY Robert T. Davis, Fall River John D. Long, Hingham William M. Springer, Springfield SENATORS Jonathan H. Rowell, Bloomington Leopold Morse, Boston James B. Beck, Lexington Patrick A. Collins, Boston Joseph G. Cannon, Danville Joseph C. S. Blackburn, Versailles Silas Z. Landes, Mount Carmel Edward D. Hayden, Woburn Edward Lane, Hillsboro REPRESENTATIVES Henry Cabot Lodge, Nahant Jehu Baker, Belleville William J. Stone, Kuttawa William Cogswell, Salem Richard W. Townshend, Shawneetown Polk Laffoon, Madisonville Charles H. Allen, Lowell John R. Thomas, Metropolis W. Godfrey Hunter, Burksville Edward Burnett, Southboro A. B. Montgomery, Elizabethtown John E. Russell, Leicester INDIANA Asher G. Caruth, Louisville William Whiting, Holyoke 11 SENATORS John G. Carlisle, Covington Francis W. Rockwell, Pittsfield William C. P. Breckinridge, Lexington Daniel W. Voorhees, Terre Haute James B. McCreary, Richmond MICHIGAN David Turpie, Indianapolis George M. Thomas, Vanceburg SENATORS REPRESENTATIVES W. P. Taulbee, Saylersville Thomas W. Palmer, Detroit Alvin P. Hovey, 8 Mount Vernon H. F. Finley, Williamsburg Francis B. Stockbridge, Kalamazoo Francis B. Posey, 9 Poseyville John H. O’Neall, Washington LOUISIANA REPRESENTATIVES J. Logan Chipman, Detroit Jonas G. Howard, Jeffersonville SENATORS William S. Holman, Aurora Edward P. Allen, Ypsilanti Randall L. Gibson, New Orleans Courtland C. Matson, Greencastle James O’Donnell, Jackson James B. Eustis, New Orleans Thomas M. Browne, Winchester Julius C. Burrows, Kalamazoo William D. Bynum, Indianapolis REPRESENTATIVES Melbourne H. Ford, Grand Rapids James T. Johnston, Rockville Theodore S. Wilkinson, Plaquemines Mark S. Brewer, Pontiac Joseph B. Cheadle, Frankfort Parish Justin R. Whiting, St. Clair William D. Owen, Logansport Matthew D. Lagan, New Orleans Timothy E. Tarsney, East Saginaw George W. Steele, Marion Edward J. Gay, Plaquemine Byron M. Cutcheon, Manistee James B. White, 10 Fort Wayne Newton C. Blanchard, Shreveport Spencer O. Fisher, West Bay City Benjamin F. Shively, South Bend Cherubusco Newton, Bastrop Seth C. Moffatt, 14 Traverse City Edward W. Robertson, 12 Baton Rouge Henry W. Seymour, 15 Sault Ste. Marie IOWA S. M. Robertson, 13 Baton Rouge SENATORS MINNESOTA William B. Allison, Dubuque MAINE SENATORS James F. Wilson, Fairfield SENATORS Dwight M. Sabin, Stillwater REPRESENTATIVES Eugene Hale, Ellsworth Cushman K. Davis, St. Paul John H. Gear, Burlington William P. Frye, Lewiston REPRESENTATIVES Walter I. Hayes, Clinton REPRESENTATIVES Thomas Wilson, Winona David B. Henderson, Dubuque Thomas B. Reed, Portland John Lind, New Ulm William E. Fuller, West Union Nelson Dingley, Jr., Lewiston John L. MacDonald, Shakopee

7 Election unsuccessfully contested by Nicholas E. Wor- 10 Election unsuccessfully contested by Robert Lowry. 14 Died December 22, 1887. thington. 11 Election unsuccessfully contested by George H. Thobe. 15 Elected to fill vacancy caused by death of Seth C. 8 Resigned January 17, 1889. 12 Died August 2, 1887, before Congress assembled. Moffatt, and took his seat March 3, 1888. 9 Elected to fill vacancy caused by resignation of Alvin 13 Elected to fill vacancy caused by death of Edward P. Hovey, and took his seat February 6, 1889. W. Robertson, and took his seat December 5, 1887. 222 Biographical Directory

MINNESOTA—Continued Person C. Cheney, Manchester Zebulon B. Vance, Charlotte William E. Chandler, 19 Concord REPRESENTATIVES—Continued REPRESENTATIVES REPRESENTATIVES Louis C. Latham, Greenville Edmund Rice, St. Paul L. F. McKinney, Manchester F. M. Simmons, New Bern Knute Nelson, Alexandria Jacob H. Gallinger, Concord C. W. McClammy, Scotts Hill MISSISSIPPI John Nichols, Raleigh NEW JERSEY John M. Brower, Mount Airy SENATORS SENATORS Alfred Rowland, Lumberton James Z. George, Jackson John R. McPherson, Jersey City John S. Henderson, Salisbury Edward C. Walthall, Grenada Rufus Blodgett, Long Branch William H. H. Cowles, Wilkesboro REPRESENTATIVES REPRESENTATIVES Thomas D. Johnston, Asheville John M. Allen, Tupelo George Hires, Salem James B. Morgan, Hernando James Buchanan, Trenton OHIO T. C. Catchings, Vicksburg John Kean, Jr., Elizabeth SENATORS James N. Pidcock, Whitehouse Station F. G. Barry, West Point John Sherman, Mansfield Chapman L. Anderson, Kosciusko William Walter Phelps, Englewood Herman Lehlbach, Newark Henry B. Payne, Cleveland Thomas R. Stockdale, Summit William McAdoo, Jersey City REPRESENTATIVES Charles E. Hooker, Jackson Benjamin Butterworth, Cincinnati NEW YORK MISSOURI Charles E. Brown, Cincinnati SENATORS E. S. Williams, Troy SENATORS William M. Evarts, New York City S. S. Yoder, Lima Francis M. Cockrell, Warrensburg Frank Hiscock, Syracuse George E. Seney, Tiffin George G. Vest, Kansas City REPRESENTATIVES M. M. Boothman, Bryan REPRESENTATIVES Perry Belmont, 20 Babylon James E. Campbell, Hamilton William H. Hatch, Hannibal Felix Campbell, Brooklyn Robert P. Kennedy, Bellefontaine Charles H. Mansur, Chillicothe Stephen V. White, Brooklyn William C. Cooper, Mount Vernon Alexander M. Dockery, Gallatin Peter P. Mahoney, Brooklyn Jacob Romeis, Toledo James N. Burnes, 16 St. Joseph Archibald M. Bliss, Brooklyn Albert C. Thompson, Portsmouth Charles F. Booher, 17 St. Joseph Amos J. Cummings, New York City Jacob J. Pugsley, Hillsboro William Warner, Kansas City Lloyd S. Bryce, New York City Joseph H. Outhwaite, Columbus John T. Heard, Sedalia Timothy J. Campbell, New York City Charles P. Wickham, Norwalk John E. Hutton, Mexico Samuel S. Cox, New York City Charles H. Grosvenor, Athens John J. O’Neill, St. Louis Francis B. Spinola, New York City Beriah Wilkins, Uhrichsville Truman A. Merriman, New York City John M. Glover, 18 St. Louis Joseph D. Taylor, Cambridge W. Bourke Cockran, New York City Martin L. Clardy, Farmington William McKinley, Jr., Canton Ashbel P. Fitch, New York City Richard P. Bland, Lebanon William G. Stahlnecker, Yonkers Ezra B. Taylor, Warren William J. Stone, Nevada Henry Bacon, Goshen George W. Crouse, Akron William H. Wade, Springfield John H. Ketcham, Dover Plains Martin A. Foran, Cleveland James P. Walker, Dexter Stephen T. Hopkins, Catskill Edward W. Greenman, Troy OREGON NEBRASKA Nicholas T. Kane, 21 Albany SENATORS SENATORS Charles Tracey, 22 Albany Joseph N. Dolph, Portland Charles F. Manderson, Omaha George West, Ballston Spa John H. Mitchell, Portland Algernon S. Paddock, Beatrice John H. Moffitt, Chateaugay Lake Abraham X. Parker, Potsdam REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE REPRESENTATIVES James S. Sherman, Utica Binger Hermann, Roseburg John A. McShane, Omaha David Wilber, Oneonta James Laird, Hastings James J. Belden, 23 Syracuse PENNSYLVANIA George W. E. Dorsey, Fremont Milton De Lano, Canastota SENATORS Newton W. Nutting, Oswego NEVADA J. Donald Cameron, Harrisburg Thomas S. Flood, Elmira Matthew S. Quay, Beaver SENATORS Ira Davenport, Bath REPRESENTATIVES John P. Jones, Gold Hill Charles S. Baker, Rochester William M. Stewart, Carson City John G. Sawyer, Albion Henry H. Bingham, Philadelphia John M. Farquhar, Buffalo Charles O’Neill, Philadelphia REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE John B. Weber, Buffalo Samuel J. Randall, Philadelphia William Woodburn, Virginia City William G. Laidlaw, Ellicottville William D. Kelley, Philadelphia Alfred C. Harmer, Philadelphia NEW HAMPSHIRE NORTH CAROLINA Smedley Darlington, West Chester SENATORS SENATORS Robert M. Yardley, Doylestown Henry W. Blair, Manchester Matt W. Ransom, Weldon Daniel Ermentrout, Reading

16 Died January 23, 1889, before the commencement of 19 Elected to fill vacancy caused by death of Austin F. 21 Died September 14, 1887, before Congress assembled. the Fifty-first Congress, to which he had been reelected. Pike in preceding Congress, and took his seat December 22 Elected to fill vacancy caused by death of Nicholas 17 Elected to fill vacancy caused by death of James N. 5, 1887. T. Kane, and took his seat December 5, 1887. Burnes, and took his seat February 25, 1889. 20 Resigned December 1, 1888, having been appointed 23 Elected to fill vacancy caused by resignation of Rep- 18 Election unsuccessfully contested by Nathan Frank. minister to Spain, and seat vacant for remainder of the resentative-elect Frank Hiscock in preceding Congress, Congress. and took his seat December 5, 1887. FIFTIETH CONGRESS 223

John A. Hiestand, Lancaster Washington C. Whitthorne, Columbia Charles P. Snyder, Charleston William H. Sowden, Allentown Benjamin A. Enloe, Jackson Charles E. Hogg, Point Pleasant Charles R. Buckalew, Bloomsburg Presley T. Glass, Ripley John Lynch, Wilkes-Barre James Phelan, Memphis WISCONSIN Charles N. Brumm, Minersville SENATORS Franklin Bound, Milton TEXAS Philetus Sawyer, Oshkosh Frank C. Bunnell, Tunkhannock SENATORS John C. Spooner, Hudson Henry C. McCormick, Williamsport Richard Coke, Waco REPRESENTATIVES Edward Scull, Somerset John H. Reagan, Palestine Louis E. Atkinson, Mifflintown Lucien B. Caswell, Fort Atkinson REPRESENTATIVES Levi Maish, York Richard Guenther, Oshkosh John Patton, Curwensville Charles Stewart, Houston Robert M. La Follette, Madison 25 Welty McCullogh, Greensburg William H. Martin, Athens Henry Smith, Milwaukee John Dalzell, Pittsburgh C. B. Kilgore, Wills Point Thomas R. Hudd, Green Bay Thomas M. Bayne, Allegheny D. B. Culberson, Jefferson Charles B. Clark, Neenah Oscar L. Jackson, New Castle Silas Hare, Sherman Ormsby B. Thomas, Prairie du Chien James T. Maffett, Clarion Jo Abbott, Hillsboro N. P. Haugen, 27 River Falls Norman Hall, Sharon W. H. Crain, Cuero Isaac Stephenson, Marinette William L. Scott, Erie L. W. Moore, Lagrange At Large–Edwin S. Osborne, Wilkes- R. Q. Mills, Corsicana TERRITORY OF ARIZONA Barre J. D. Sayers, Bastrop S. W. T. Lanham, Weatherford DELEGATE RHODE ISLAND Marcus A. Smith, Tombstone SENATORS VERMONT SENATORS TERRITORY OF DAKOTA Nelson W. Aldrich, Providence DELEGATE Jonathan Chace, Providence George F. Edmunds, Burlington Oscar S. Gifford, Canton REPRESENTATIVES Justin S. Morrill, Strafford REPRESENTATIVES Henry J. Spooner, Providence TERRITORY OF IDAHO Warren O. Arnold, Gloucester John W. Stewart, Middlebury William W. Grout, Barton DELEGATE SOUTH CAROLINA Fred T. Dubois, Blackfoot SENATORS VIRGINIA Matthew C. Butler, Edgefield SENATORS TERRITORY OF MONTANA Wade Hampton, Charleston Harrison H. Riddleberger, Woodstock DELEGATE REPRESENTATIVES John W. Daniel, Lynchburg Joseph K. Toole, Helena Samuel Dibble, Orangeburg REPRESENTATIVES George D. Tillman, Clarks Hill T. H. B. Browne, Accomac TERRITORY OF NEW James S. Cothran, Abbeville George E. Bowden, Norfolk MEXICO William H. Perry, Greenville George D. Wise, Richmond DELEGATE John J. Hemphill, Chester William E. Gaines, Burkeville Antonio Joseph, Ojo Caliente George W. Dargan, Darlington John R. Brown, Martinsville William Elliott, 24 Beaufort Samuel I. Hopkins, Lynchburg TERRITORY OF UTAH Charles T. O’Ferrall, Harrisonburg TENNESSEE W. H. F. Lee, Burkes Station DELEGATE John T. Caine, Salt Lake City SENATORS H. Bowen, Tazewell Jacob Yost, Staunton Isham G. Harris, Memphis TERRITORY OF William B. Bate, Nashville WEST VIRGINIA WASHINGTON REPRESENTATIVES SENATORS DELEGATE Roderick R. Butler, Mountain City L. C. Houk, Knoxville John E. Kenna, Charleston Charles S. Voorhees, Colfax 26 John R. Neal, Rhea Springs Charles J. Faulkner, Martinsburg Benton McMillin, Carthage REPRESENTATIVES TERRITORY OF WYOMING James D. Richardson, Murfreesboro Nathan Goff, Jr., Clarksburg DELEGATE Joseph E. Washington, Cedar Hill William L. Wilson, Charles Town Joseph M. Carey, Cheyenne

24 Election unsuccessfully contested by Robert Smalls. dinary session for eight specific purposes, the election of 12th, declaring Mr. Faulkner duly elected and entitled 25 Elected to fill vacancy caused by resignation of Rep- Senator not being named as one of them; the legislature to the seat; appeared, qualified, and took his seat the resentative-elect John H. Reagan in preceding Congress, proceeded to choose a Senator, and Charles J. Faulkner same day. and took his seat December 5, 1887. was elected; credentials of both Mr. Lucas and Mr. Faulk- 27 Elected on January 18, 1887, to fill vacancy caused 26 The Legislature of West Virginia had met and ad- ner were presented on December 5, 1887, and Mr. Faulk- by death of Representative-elect William T. Price in pre- journed without electing a Senator for the term beginning ner appeared to be sworn, but objection was made and ceding Congress, but on account of illness did not take March 4, 1887; on March 5, 1887, the governor appointed he was not permitted to qualify; December 14, 1887, the his seat until January 4, 1888. Daniel B. Lucas to fill such vacancy; on the same day Senate adopted a report from the Committee on Privileges he issued a proclamation calling the legislature in extraor- and Elections, to whom all papers were referred on the