2338 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. APRIL 10, avenues in which to exert himself in order to prosper individually farmers of every other section. The leading products of ea.ch State are and benefit mankind, then we should have the manliness to say so, known to us all at present, but the tendency to abanrlon one branch an<.l not continue this Department in such a sickly condiltion that it of agriculture and gradually adopt another by some States is -of (?reat cannot work efficiently. interest to all. The agriculturists are the most prosperous of our We need apple-trees for the Northwest that will stand our cold win people to-da.y, their efforts crea.te most of our exports, and briug ters. Six years ago the Department imported a collection, number back money to pay the interest on our public debt; many of our iug two hundre
1\Ir. CONKLING. I present resolutions of the Chamber of Com- A. S. Miles, colored citizens of Cumberland Connty, Kentucky, school . merce of the State of New York, expressing the views of that body trustees, praying the passage of a law vesting in them and their suc touching the postal law~. They commend the rates as they formerly cessors in office the title to certain property in said county and Stat-e, existed, and say that believing them to have been of great value to to be used for school purposes ; which was referred to the Committee the public, unless it can be plainly shown that some items which on Education and Labor. were carried under the former schedule have proved unduly bur :Mr. COOPER presented a memorial of citizens of Memphis, Ten densome to the mails, the former rates should be restored. And fur nessee, remonstrat.ing against the passage of the House bill establish ther, they insist that in the adjustment of rates, a (}istinction should ing an additional Federal court at Jackson, Ten~essee; which was be made between merchandise and merchandise samples, the former referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. being usually of large size and bulk, limited only to four pounds, Mr. SHERMAN presented the petition of .workingmen of Lawrence and the latter being usually quito small, and generally coming under County, Ohio, and a petition of workingmen of Jackson County, the limit of twelve ounces. As a bill on this subject has been re Ohio, praying that the ta-riff laws may be left undisturbed for the ported, and is before the Senate, I move that-these resolutions lie on present; which were referred to the Committee on Finance. the table. Mr. \VA.LLA.CE presented a memorial of 23 business men of Pitts The motion was agreed to. burgh, Pennsylvania; a memorial from 523 workingmen in the county :1\!r. CONKLING. I present also 2,525 memorials signed by pen of Philadelphia; a memorial of 152 business men of Philadelphia; sioners, largely widows, and to some extent others, remonstrating and a memorial of 22 business men of Pittsburgh, remonstrating against the proposed abolition of local pension agencies and the mu a~ainst any changes in the existing tariff laws at the present time; (I tation projected in the mode of p.aying pensions. I believe these peti which were referred to the Committee on Finance. tions, on the suggestion of a Senator, went to the select committee of He also presented a memorial of 10 importers of quinine bark, and which the honorable Senator from Massachusetts [Mr. BOUTWELL 1 is a memorial of 113 wholesale tlealers in sulphate of quinine, remon chairman, a committee touching changes in the Departments. If I strating against placing sulphate and other salts of quinine upon the am rigbt in that, I move that these.memorials take that reference. free list; which were referred to the Committee on Finance. The motion was agreed to. .Mr. GORDON presented a memorial of Thomas E. Collier, and Mr. CONKLING presented the memorial of Messrs. Appleton & Co., others, of Barton County, Georgia, praying that the present tariff be Sheldon & Co., and other lea tion of Annie E. Paige, praying compensation for cotton destroyed By unanimous consent, the Senate, as in Committee of the Whole by fire while in possession of the Government of the United States, proceeded to consider the bill. It appropriates the sum of --' submitted ari adverse 1·eport thereon; which was agreed to, and or- thousand dollars, or ~o mu~h t~ere?f as may be nece~ a,ry,, to defray dered to be printed. . · the expenses of the rnvestigatwn mto the ·late electwns 111 Missis He also, from the same committee, to whom was referred tbe peti sippi, authorized by a resolution of the Senate adopted March 31 tion of sufferers from the raid in July, 1864, upon W a.shington, pray 1876. ' ing for an appropriation to pay their claims, which have been audited The amendment of the Committee on Appropriations was to fill the · by a board of officers approved by General Augur, submitted an ad bJ an k in line 3 with the wortl '' ten ;" so as to read: verse report thereon; which was agreed to, and ordered to be printed. Tha:t the sum of 10.~00, or so· mnch thereof as may be necessa.ry, be, and the Mr. COCKRELL, from t~e Committee on Military Affairs, to whom same lS hereby, appropna.ted, &c. was referred the bill (H. R. No. 361) to reduce the area of the mili The ameii.dment was agreed to. tary reservation of Fort Laramie, Wyoming Territory, reported it Tbe bill was reported to the Senate as amended, and the amend- without amendment, and submitted a report thereon; which was or ment was concurred in. · I dered to be printed. I The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third readinu,0 read the ' Jie also, from the same committee, to whom was referred the bill third time, ·and passed.- \ (S. No. 532) to authorize the restoration of Nathan D. A. Sawyer to BILLS I:NTRODUCED. the rank of captain and assistant quarterma-ster in the Army, sub mitted an adverse report thereon; which was ordered to be printed, Mr. CONKLING. At the instance of a constituent, the' pariy in and the bill was postponed indefinitely. terested, I ask leave to introduce a bill which is accompanied by \ He also, :fi;om the Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the papers, to be referred to the Committee on Claims. petition of Hans C. Peterson, of New Ulm, Brown County, :Minne By unanimous consent, leave was granted to introduce a bill (S. sota, praying compensa~ion for property destroyed in August, 1862, No. 710) for the relief of Obadiah B. Latham and Oliver S. Latham by the Sioux Indians, submitted a report thereon, accompanied by a of Seneca Falls, New York; which was read twice by its title anu' bill (S. No. 709) for the relief of Ham~ C. Peterson. · with the accompanying papers, referred to the Corru:nittee on Claims~ The bill was read and passed to the second reading, and the report Mr. BOUTWELL (by request) asked, and by unanimous consent was ordered to be printed. obtainerl, leave to introduce a bill (S. No. 71l)for the relief the sure Mr. HITCHCOCK, from the Committee on Territories, to whom waB ties of Samuel Chisholm, late postmaster at Newton, Massachusetts· referred the bill (S. No. 606) to establish the Territory of Pembina and which was read twice by its title, referred to the Committee on Claims' to provide a t~mporary government therefor, reported it without and ordered to be printed. ' amendment. Mr. KER.l~AN. By the request of a party residing here, task leave :Mr. LOGAN. I am instructed by the Committee on Military Affairs, to introduce a bill to go to the Committee on Claims. I do not know to whom was referred the bill (H. R. No. 1692) to amend an act ap anything about the claim. proved May 8, 1874, in regard to leave of absence of Army officers, to By unanimo~s consen_t, ~eave was granted to intr~duce a bill (S. No. report it without amendment. I would like, as it will take but a mo 712) for .the rel~ef of W 1lham ~uther~ord! of Washington, District of ment, that the bill shoulcl be considered at the present time. Columbia; which was read twwe by Its title, referred to the Commit The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The bill will be read for imforma tee on Claims, and ordered to be printed. tion, subject to objection. Mr. KEY (by request) asked, and by unanimous consent obtained The Chief Clerk read the bill. leave to introduce a bill (S. No. 713)to establish a municipal court~ Mr. LOGAN. TheSenatorfrom Vermont [Mr. EDMUNDS] has made the District of Columbia; which was read twice by its title, referred a suggestion which I think is a very proper one, and that is to provide to the Committee on t.he District of Columbia, and ordered to be that in case of emergency the Secretary of War may use his own dis printed. · cretion in granting leaves of absence. I do not object to that at alL Mr. PADDOCK asked, and by unanimous consent obtained, leave I move to insert : to introduce a bill (S. No. 714) to aid in the construction of a military Subject to the power of the Secretary of War, in his discretion, to refuse such ·bridge across the North Platte River; which was rea-d twice by its application. . title, and, with the accompanying maps and papers, referred to the The object of the bill is to provide for cases where the troops are Committee on Commerce. at such a. great distance that thirty days do not give them time to get Mr. ENGLISH nsked, and by unanimous consent obtainetl, leave to home and return again. introduce a bill (S. No. 715) for the relief of Samuel H. Canfield, po t Mr. SHERMAN. I will ask the Senator from Illinois to let the bill master a~ Seymom, Connecticut; which was read twice by its title lie on the table until to-morrow. I should like to look at it. referre " - the administering of oaths in the Senate was read the second time, A bill (H. R. No. 2466) gmnting a pension to Butler Fitch, late cap- and considered as in Committee of the 'Vhole. It empowers the tain Eight h Independent Battery, New York; • presiding officer, for the time being, of the Senate of the United A bill (H. R. No. 2585) granting a pension to John Haley, late pri States to administer all oaths and affirmations that are or may be vate in Company C, One hundred and thirtieth Regiment Illinois require(l by the Constitution, or by law, to be taken by any Senator, Volunteers; · officer oi the Senate, witness, or other person, in respect of any A bill (H. R. No. 2586) granting a pension to John L. Bartley; matter within the jurisdiction of the Senate. It also empowers the A bill (H. R. No. 258'i) granting a pension to Melvina Ingle; Secretary of the Senate and the Chief Clerk thereof, respectively, to A bill (H. R. No. 2693) for the relief of Joseph Anderson, of Nash administer any o thor affirmation required by law, or by the rules ville, Tennessee· or orders of the S nate, to be taken by any officer of the Senate, and A bill (H. R. Ro. 2694) for the relief of W. W. Van Antwerp, late to any witness produced before it. major in the Fourth Michigan Cavalry; The bill was I'eported to the Senate without amendment, ordered A bill (H. R. No. 2252) to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to to be engrossed for a third reading, read tho. third time, and passed. change the name of the steamboat Hiram Wood; . A bill (H. R. No. 2337) declaratory of the sense of section 4504 of the MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE. I Revised Statutes relative to the shipment of crews of the vessels of A message from the House of Representatives, by 1\Ir. G. M. ADAMS, the United States; . it.s Clerk, announced that the llouse had passed the following bills A bill (H. R. No. 2824) to change the name of the steamboat Para and joint resolution; in which the concurrence of the Senate was gon, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and J requested: A joint resolution (H. R. No. 97) to return to the Treasury certain A bill (H. R. No. 40) to re-imburse B. F. \Vest & Co., of Martin's unexpended balances. · Ferry, Ohio, for internal-revenue stamps stolen from Cambridge, Ohio, The message further announced that the House had passed the fol post-office ; . . lowing bills: A bill (H. R. No. 197.) granting a pension to Julia A. Schutt, widow A bill (S. No.192) for the relief of Caroline M. Purviance and Francis of Martin Schutt, a deceased soldier; ·wyeth; .A bill (H. R.·No. 262) for the relief of the lega\ representatives of A bill (S. No. 309) for the relief of William L. Nance; .John W. Gall, deceased, late.of Company A, One hundred and thir A bill (S. No. 326) for the relief of the widow of L. H. Rousseau, de tieth Regiment Illinois V9lnnteers; ceased, late brigadier-geneml and brevet major-general of the United A bill (.H. R. No. 590) for the relief o·f Mrs. Susan E.-Rhea, widow of States Army ; and Dr. J. Burrows Gardiner; · A bill ( S. No. 431) granting a pension to Elizabeth B. Thomas, widow A bill (H, R. No. 620) for the relief of Redick UcKee; of General Lorenzo Thoma{!, late of the United States Army. A bill (H. ~. · No. 648) for the relief of Andrew J. Barrett ; '!'he message also announced that the House had agreed to the amend A bill (H. R. No. 915) for the relief of F. M. Blount; of Chicago, ments of the Senate to the bill (H. R. No. 1118) granting a pension to Illinois; Mrs. Jane Dulaney, and the bill (H. R. No. 2G55) to amend sectioQ.1044 A.. bill (H. R. No. 1071) for the relief of Lieutenant James B. Sin- of the Revised Statutes. ~lair United States Army; - A bill (H. R. No. 1176) granting a pension to Francia Curran, Thir- ENROLLED BILLS SIGNED. teenth Indiana Cavalry; The message further announced that the Speaker of the Honse had A bill (H. R. No. 117 ) granting a pension to John Gropper; signed the following enrolled bills; and they were thereupon signed A, bill (H. R. No. 1204) granting a pension to .Henry H. Wharff, of by the President p1'0 tent]Jore: · f Company C, EiO'hteenth Regiment of Ohio Volunteers; A bill (H. R. No. 111) granting a pension to David J. Garrett; ; A bill (H. R. ~o. 12H:!) making appropriations for the payment of A bill (H. R. No. 247) for the relief of Jamesl\I. Coffinberry, of Cleve- clai.njs reported to Congress under section 2 of the act approved J nne land, Ohio; . 16,.187 4, by the Secretary of the Treasury r A bill (H. R. No. 610) granting a pension to Seth W. Homeatea.d; A bill (H. R. No. 1235) granting a pension to Rose Miller, widow of A bill (H. R.No.1988) for the relief of Hermann Kreismaun, United Reason F. Miller, deceasedJ late a private in Company E, One hun- States consul-general at Berlin; drecl and twenty-third Illinois Infantry; A bill (H. R. No: 1118) granting a pensio)l to Mrs. Jane Dulaney ; A ~ill (H. R. No. 1402) for the relief of Henry E. Wilkinson, late A bill (H. R. No. 2304) granting a pension to Philip J. Shaw.; first lieutenant of Company I, Ninety-ninth Regiment Pennsylvania A bill (H. R. No. 2655) to amend section 1044 of the Revised Stat- Volunt.eers; utea relating to limitations in criminal cases; and A bill {H. R. No. 1944) granting a pension to Niram _W. Pratt; A bill (S. No. 172) fixing the salary of the ·President of the United A biU (H. R. No. 1939) granting a pension to Sarah Emmons; States. A bill (H. R. No. 354) to give an American register to the steamboat FRACTIONAL CURRENCY-SILVER COINAGE. Isabel i Mr. SHERMAN. I move that the Senate proceed to the considera- A bill (H. R. No. 511) to change the name of a steamboat; tion of the bill (H. R. No. 2450) to provide for a deficiency in the A bill (H. R. No. 702) for changing the name of the steam-propeller Printing and Engraving Bureau of the Treasury Department, and for Senator Mike Norton to America; the issue of silver coin of the United States in place of fractional A bill (H. R. No. 1915) to change the name of the steamboat Rob- currency. · ert Bassi The motion was agreed to; and the Senate, as in Committee of the A bill (H. R. No. 2123) making an appropriation for a light on the ·whole, proceeded to consider the bilL tower of the crib at the lake end of the tunnel of the water-works of The first section appropriates $163,000 to provide for engraving, tho city of Chicago; printing, and other expenses of making and issuing United States ~ bill,(H. R. No. 2079) granting a.pension ~o Henry H. Kaiser, late notes. pnvate :U Company H, Etghth Regtment Umted States Veteran Vol- The second section directs the Secretary of the Treasury to issue untee'!'S, . . . . silver coins of the United States, of the denomination of ten, twenty, A btll (H. R. No. 2198) ~antmg a pensiOn to Mrs. Martha R. Robm- twenty-five, and fifty cents, of stamiard value, in redemption of au son, o~ Portsmouth,o?hiO' . . . • equal amount of fractional currency, whether the same be now in the A bill(~. R. No. "'~1) to mcrease th~ pensiOn of ~frs. Hannah \V. Treasury awaiting redemption, or whether it may be presented for Sumn~r, Widow of l\fa~or-General E_dwm V. Sumner • redemption; and authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury, under A bill (H. R. No. 2'2t:!7) for the re~tef of Pet.ers and Reed, naval con- regulations of the Treasury Department, to provide for such redemp- tract~ra at the ~orfolk navy-y:=trd m the_year 1860; . . tion and issue, by substitution, at the regular sub-treasuries and pub- A b~l (H. R. No. 2300) grant!ng a peJ?.SIOn to Margaret C. Bell'. lie depositories of the United States, until the whole amount of frac- ~ bill (H. R. No. 2382) grantmgthe_nghtof war.to t~e Hot Sprmgs tional currency outatamling shall be redeemed. f Rai!toad ?ompany over the Hot Spnngs reservatiOn, m the State of Section 3 makes silver coins of the denomination of $1 a legal Ark~sas' r: • • tender at their nominal value for any amount not exceedinO' $50 in A ~ill (H. R. No. 24<>?) to release any title of the l!m~~ States to a anyone payment, andsilvercoinsof less denominations a legai tender ce~am tract of land m Br~on C?unty, West Vrrgtma., t.o Sarah at their nominal value for any amount not exceeding 25 iri any one Wtlso? ; r: • payment. . A_bill (H. R. ~o. 2458) f~r the relief _of t~e Bartholomew County The bill was reported from the Committee on Finance with amend- Agnc~ltnral Society of the State of ~diana, . . ments. The first amendment was in section 2, line 6, to strike·(l)at the ~bill (H. R. No. ~159) for ~~e relief of Theodore F. Miller, late word" whether" and insert "whenever." pnva~ Company G; ·Thtrd Regtme~t Iowa Cavalry Vo.Junteers; The ame.ndment was agreed to. • ~ htll (H. R. No. 24GO) for the relief of Charles C. Hill, of Urbana, The next amendment was to amend section 3 so as to make- it read OhiO; · - as follows · ' A bill (H. R. No. 2461) for the relief of certain officers of the Third · U · t 1 St t A till h a.- d b fi F H mil N SEC. 3. That there shall be coined at the mints•of the United .States ~silver dol~ m e( a ea r ery w o suuere Y re at ort a ton, ew lar of the weight of four hundred and twelve and ei'ght-ienths grains troy,.of stand· York Harbor, on the 3d of March, 1875; ard silver, the emblems, devices, and inscriptions of which shall confOrm to those A bill (H. R. No. 2467) granting a pension to Sarah J. King; prescribed by law for the gold and silver cofus· of the United States, with such A bill (H. R. No. 2463} granting a pension to Adam Smouse; modifications thereof a.s may be necessary to•render the said dollar readily distilr· A bill (H. R. No. 2464' granting a pension to Diana Breysacker,· guishable from tbl:l trade-dollar; and in the·coinage and delivery thet:eof, the same ' de~iations from standard weight and fineness·shall be allowed as are-prescribed by A bill (H. R. No. 2465) granting a pension to Emily Schwartz; law for the trade-dollar; ancl thesaiddollarhereinauthorized sha.llbe·alegaHendt>r 2342 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-,SENATE. APRIL 10, at its nominal value for any amount not exceeding 20 in any one payment ·ex umes ·about it. I will dismiss it so far as the theory of the question cept for customs- 1876. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. In all cotmtries where the double valuation prevails the relative proportion of value lished as the unit of value shortly after the adoption of the Coustitn between gold and ail ver stands at one to fifteen and one-half, and the markl't value tion was left of the same weight and fineness in 1853 that it was of silver in countiies where it is not a standarll give on the average the same re sult. In t.he United States alone the rate taken was one part of gold to sixteen of originally established t The old Spanish milled dolla.r, in other wordS, silver, (l5.98837,) the proportion resulting £rom the eagle at two hundred .and fifty was the unit of value originally; and was it not left so f ei.!!ht a.nd the silver dolliir at four hundred and twelve and one-half grams. Tlie Mr. SHERMAN. I shall answer my friend from Texas with great dol.lar therefore contained Jt (3.29) per cent. more silver than it ought to have con tained according to its nommal value. No wonder, then, that the dollar waR rap pleasure. The silver dollar of the United States has never been idly exported, and that no one found inducement to brin~ silver to the mints for changed in intrinsic value; the change has been in the gold dollar. Minage. .And let it be understood that the 'Supply of gold had little or nothing to nut as Senators see that this is a technical question and I have to be do with this. Long before the discovery of ~old in California, ever since 1837, bas precise iu facts, I ask that they will not cross-examine me until I get the effect of this premium on the United States silver dollar made itself manifest. through. Then I will answer-all questions. In exchange for it the forei~er need not have supplied gold; other commodities served the purpose of realizmg elsewhere the larg~ profit which the United States The effect of the law of 1853 was practically to demonetize the gave to the exporter of her silver coin. Much that has been doubtful, peculiar, and silver rlollar to provide a subsidiary coin for circulation, and to give unsatisfactory in the history of the United States currency between 1837 and 1850 employment to about $48,000,000 of silver for the cha.nge of· t.be owes its origin to this astounding mistake on the part of the Government. which mnat, as every one can seo, have given rise to general disorganization of the cur country. So the laws of the United States as to om· coins continuecl rency and to disappointment in the capacity of the country to retain metallic cur until February, 1873, when Congress passed an act to revise and con rency. I go further, and say that it was the cause why .America. was obliged to solidate all the statutes in regard to coinage. This act is embodie(l make so large a use of paper money, with all its evils of unequal interests, extrava in the Re~sed Statutes. The changes made by this act are very gant habits, and expenditure. slight. No chan!?e is made in the gold coin; it is still twenty-five and It is remarkable that by the a,doption of the first standard of 1792 eight-tenths grams of standard gold to the dollar. The subsidiary gold at once fled the country and silver filled the channels of busi silver coins were to weigh twenty-five grams to the dollar. That ness, and that by the attempt to correct this error our laws overlea peel raised the value of the silver coins from three hundred and eighty the market and true relative value of these metals and established four ~rains tq twenty-five grams or three hundred and eighty-five . the rate of silver too low, and this drove silver out of the country and and eighty one-hundredths grains, so that it very slightly raised the gold became the universal currency. This necessary result was deep amonnt of silver in the subsidiary coins in order to harmoruze with ened and strengthened by the fact that in 1S50 by the discovery of the French coins ; so that now $1 of our subsidiary money is precisely gold mines in California gold came pouring into us m such floods that of the same weight a.nd fineness as five francs of the French coin, an . CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE. APRIL 10, bullion t.be opportunity to convert his' bullion, which is worth 7 per hand when we get to specie payments. Our subsidiary silver coin cent. less than par, into par and make it a legal tender to the extent will go all over Canada. It is worth a 1ittle more than the Canadian of· $5. It is perfectly manifest to every man who will examine thiB money, and I have no doubt it will fill the channels of business in matter that we have got to do one of two things: either take away Canada. from the trade-dollar its legal-tender quality or take awn,y the right This brings me to the statement of the silver coinage of France of the bolder of bullion to make the trade-dollar. \Ve must do one or Belgi~m, S~itzerland, a~d Italy, composing 72,000,00~ of among th~ the other. , most mtelligent people m the world. Tbmr money 1s ba ed mainly The simplest thing to do is to repeal the section authorizing the on the French st,andard of 1792, and it is regulated by the conventiou issne of tlto trade-dpllar. But then come these gentlemen from Cal- of December 23, 1865, which I have here before me. It is, probably, iforuia alHl Nevaua and say, "We have built up a trade on this; it is the most important monetary convention now in force in the world. a convenient form of exporting our bullion; we do not ask you to I will cite some of the provisions of it. The weight is· five grams per pay the expense, however. \Ve pay that ourselves .., Why should you franc, so that they have a simple metrical unit of weight. For fl ve step in now and destroy that which we have bttilt up ¥" And there francs it is twenty-five grams, and that is precisely the weight of our is no answer to it. Therefore I think it it; well to keep the tmde- two half dollars or fonr quarters. The fineness is nine-tenths, pre doUar as it stands, to enable the people of this country to convert cisely like our own coin. Tho limit of amount is fixed at six francs, . their sllver bullion h1to the best form for commercial purposes, but or $1.20 per inhabitant. In Great Britain they have no enforced to take nway from it its legal-tender quality, and then no silver coin limit, because it being entirely in the bands of the government tho can be issued except by the United State~; and the profit anantages conferreu by that convention; so that it is open to all the of the shilling is eighty-seven and one-fourth grains. Four shillings world. It was not more successful only for the ~easons that I have are equal to three hundred and forty-nine grains of standard silver. given. In this convention the legal relation between gold and silver The alloy of standard silver there is eighteen two h1mdred and tw~nty- is fixed at fifteen .and one-half to one. seconds or seventy-five one-thousandths. Their silver coin is finer Now I come to what is called the German law; and I think there than ours, but it is not so valuable, our alloy being one-tenth, but is a great deal of misapprehension not only in the newspapers and contajuing more grains to the dollar. The value of the English sil- among the intelligent people, but among t.he mass of our people, in ver sbilliu(J' in our money is twenty-one cents and four mills. The regard to the recent action of Germany. I have the German statute v.:.lue of tbe gold shilling is twenty-four and thirty-three one-hun- here, which I have taken the pains to have translated, not being able drcdtbs cents, or twenty shillings passes for a sovereign worth $4.866. to read it in the original vernacular. The difference IJetwee• the English shilling and our quarter dollar is In Germany formerly silver was alone.the standard of value. They in favor of onrs. Our coin is more valuable than theirs. Onr silver had but little gold. I remember very well in 1867, in traveling in coin has always been more valuable than theirs since 1816. And yet, Germany, that we relied entirely upon the English sovereign and the notwithstanding that (}-reat Britain has thus debased its coinage, four French twenty-franc piece to pay expenses in Prussia because the Gar shillings to sixty-six, they keep in circulation of this token ·coin- man coinage wa.s abominable, composed of pfennigs and a confusing age· in a country of 32,000,000 people from eleven to fifteen million variety of coin. There were many states or nations in Germany; they pounds sterling on an average, over $60,000,000. Though every- could not unitize; they could not agree. They had the silver thaler, body knows it is intrinsically worth 6 or 7 per cent. less than gold, which was the standard of value, but there was no gold in Germany yet from the fact that tbey carefully limit the amount and regulate that I saw except the French napoleon and the English pound ster its issue it is maintained in circulation, and is the coin by which ling. But when Germany became a great power as the result of the nearly all the labor of England is pa,id. It is a legal tender to the recent war, the German Reichsrath, on the 4th of December, 1871, pro extent of forty shillings and no more. Nor is it necessary, in order to vided for gol • 1876. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 2345 - pre sion now is that Germany has adopted the single gold standard who buys or sells anything. I suppose there is no act of any par· and demonetized its silver. On the contrary, the change in Germany liament that has had so wide-reaching effects as this act of the Ger is simply from the single silver standard to the double standard of gold man· Parliament. The amount of coin in the world is estimated by and silver. I have the translation furnished me by an employe of the Mr. Seyd and other technical writ-ers at 3,200,000,000 silver and library-and I suppose it is correct-of the statute of the Reichsrath: $3,500,000,000 in gold. That does not include plate, jewelry, or silver Article 2 provides that in aduition to the ~old coins created by act in the form of merchandise, but that in the form of coin. So the of December 4, 18il, there shall be coined also silver coins. effect of the act of Germany, aided no doubt somewhat by the large Article 3 provides for ,Pieces of 5 marks, 2 marks, 1 mark; of 50 supply qf silver by our mines, ha~ been to reduce the pUl'chasing pfcnnigs, and of 20 pfenmgs; nickel and copper. power of the whole of this enormous sum of thirty-two hundred The coina(J'e shall be regulated by t.he following decisions: millions of silver fully 10 per cent. The fall of the silver trade-dol- One pound of fine silver shall be coined into 20 pieces of 5 marks, larin this country has been from 103 to 91. This efl:'ect extended itself 50 pieces of 2 marks, 100 pieces of 1 mark, 200 pieces of 50 pfennigs, to what is called the Latin league, who feared that German silver and 500 pieces of 20 pfennigs. woulrl be rushed into Italy, France, and the nations of the league for The alloy consists of 900 parts of silver and 100 parts of copper, 90 coinage purposes, and they interfered at once and stopped the coin- I marks weighing one pound. • age of silver. It also created an impreesion in India; so that, for The proees of coinage shall be decided by the Bnndesrath. The the first time for two hundred years, the current flow of silver into f deviation from the standard shall not exceed in single coins .003 in China and India was arrested but for a short time. It is one of the fineness, and not more than .001 in weight, with the exception of the remarkable currents of trade in the history of mankind that with 20-pfennig coins; the normal weight, howeve.r, must be preserved in the amount of silver that bas been coined out of the mines of the l the bulk. world the great body of it :flows in an unceasing and continuous ) Article 4 provides t.hat the total amount of silver shall, until fUl'- .stream into these oriental nations; and only for three or four months ther orders, not exceed 10 marks per· head of the population. a feeling of alarm was created in India and China lest that which This is the important provi ion of this law by which a larger silver they cherish ~ the measure of all their values should become value coinage is authorized in Germany than is found anywhere else in less to them. It created ~partial panic, but that panic has passed, Europe, because while 6 francs is the limit in France, while our limit ·and now the stream goes on; silver :flows into Inclia and China and has practically been only a bout $1.25, having only issued $48,000,000 all the Asiatic nations as heretofore. of this coin, and while ·in England the amotmt has been limited to That was not the worst of it. It at once begot a struggle for the about $2 per inbauitant, in Germany tho amount of silver provided for possession of gold between all the great nations of the world, because by this law is 10 marks per inhabitant, or 2.38, making for 40,000,000 everybody could see that if you demonetized $3~200,000,000 of silver i of people at least $100,000,000 of silver coin; and, as I will show, they coin and made $3,500,000,000 of gold coin the sole standard of all the ) hav-e already issued nearly two-thirds of that amount. · transactions of the world, commencing with the great nations of ;' .Mr. MAXEY. Have they limited their silver as legal tender f Europe, then extending to the smaller until it reach the Asiatic coun- :Mr. SHERMAN. I wiJl read that : tries, it would enormously add to the value or gold, and therefore it After every new issue of coins an equal quantity of the old circulating silver was that the Bank of France, the Bank of England, and the Imperial coins shall bo drawn in, l1eginniug with the coin under the thh·ty.thaler foot stand- Bank of Germany at once commenced grasping for ~old in whatever ard. The. Yl! lue to l>o dotormined in the way explained in artic1e 14, section 2. form. Therefore what we have observed recently 18 not so much a ART. 7. 1' 1io coinage and redemption is done at government expense. f ll f ·1 't · · f 1·1 th · •t bl ~ t f f f d AnT. 9. NoLody is obliged to receive more than 20 marks in sil>er o~ more thnn a o Sl vera~ I 13 a nse o go u, e IDeVI a e euec o a ear o e- lr 1 mark in copper. monetizing the whole mass of this silver; and now the Bank of France The Ilei<-hs and the Landes cassa (government banks) shall receive silver to any has in its vaults the enormous amount of $300,000,000 of gold in coin ' amount as le~al tender. and bullion; England ha~ in the Bank of England $170,000,000, and That is, all the government banks are bound to take silver as legal the Imperial Bank of Germany has $125,000,000. So, in these three tender for all transactions. · depositories there is over $600,000,000 of gold, or nearly one .fifth o.f the TheBundesrath will . • 2346 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. APRIL 10, nations as a token-coinage to a very large extent, aa I have already Ninth. More silver can be maintain~d at par than we have now of shown. It will soon be used to the extent of forty or fifty million fractional currency. · . dollars in the United States of America. We now have nearly $20,- Tenth. The redemption of a part of our currency would advance its 000,000 to pay out, and can coin it at the rate of .2,000,000 a month; purchasing power, while the silver in circulation will counteract the so that we shall ourselves, in the execution of our law and of this contraction of the currency. law among others, use a large amount of silver, probably not lesS' Whenever we have heretofore proposed any measure that looks to than sixty or seventy million dollars. The absolute necessity of the redemption of our United States notes-and I cannot but regard smaller coins will always maintain more or less of silver and make it our failure to provide for them now, twelve years after the war, as a absolutely neces.~ary. The utter ruin that would come to mankind, disgrace to American civilization-when we seek to anva.nce United especially to the poorer nations, by the entire demonetization of sil- St.ates notes, it is said that we contract the currency and affect prices ver cannot be estimated by us. Take one-half of the solid money of. and a derangement of values. Here we can pay out solid money, the world out of existence; take the sole standard of more than two- good money, money of the Revolution, money unchanged in v;alue thirds of the human race, reduce it to a base met.al, and the effect up- from the time of the Revolution to this hour, for the redemption of .. on the commerce of the world would be incalculable. It cannot be our United States notes without loss, without contraction; and surely done; it will not be done. The1e is no danger of it. These two we cannot refttse to do it. If we pay ont the silver it enters into cir metals, gold and silver, have traveled side by side from the beginning of culation and it takes the place of United Stat-es notes; and why should \ time; the records of human history do not go back beyond it. They we refuse to the holder of the United States notes the right to demancl have varied, sometimes one and sometimes the other higher; but that of us which is now no more valuable than the note itself f It is they have gone on, gold the money of. the rich, silver the money of sometimes said that nobody wants t.he silver dollar. Try the people the poor, the one to measure acquired wealth, the other to measure and see if they do not want it. If they do not want it, then no harm \ the daily necessities of life; and, sir, no act of parliament, although is done. 1 would not make any man take it. I would not make any \ ( it may disturb for a moment the relation of these two metals to each man who -holds a greenback note payable i~ gold take the dolla.r in other, nothing but an act of God, can destroy the use of both these silver, because I would tell him beforehand the greenback some time metals among the nations of mankind. I will add some statistics probably in the future will be much more valuable than the dollar from Dr. Soetbeer, published in Germany, of the proportionate values he gets; but that is no reason why we should not give him the dol- of gold and silver at different dates and epochs: lar if he wants it, and there can be no reason why we should not. Some interesting notes have been published lately in Germany by Dr. Soetbeer Now, :M:r. President, that brings me, and very briefly, to the provis- on the variations in the proportionate values of gold and ~ilve; at different dates ions of this bill. It will be perceived that the Committee on Finance and epochs. In ancient times the relative value of gold to silver was ab6ut one to took the Honse bill as far as possible without alteration. With def~r thirteen and one-third, and toward the end of the old Roman Empire of the West ence to the House we made no change in the first and second sections, it rose to about one to fourteen and one-half. In the Middle Ages and down to the fifteenth century the standard was about sixteen of silver to one of gold; but after and if the House had not put in the third section, I for one would not the discovery of America the value of gold fell rapidly, until the proportion stood have desired -to change the bill as it was sent to us at all. But at ten and one-half to eleven of silver to one of gold, which relation was maintained they presented to us this difficult question of the double and single with but little fluctuation during the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth standard, and we were forced to consider it. I have no doubt, per century. After that date gold began to rise again in v:ilue, and by the end of the seventeenth century the proportion had booome one to fifteen. The standard of haps-I betray no secret when I say that the Committee on Finance comparative value fluctuated backward and forward at about that figure during would have been glad to have laid this question aside and considered it the eighteenth centurv, and at the close silver was about fifteen and one-half. more fu]]y ,· but it was presented to us in the bill, and therefore we Up to 1850 ail ver had never fallen so low as sixteen, while from 1850 to 1852, owing chietly to French coinal!e operations and the absorption of silver for the double had to deal with it, I may say forcibly, against our will. As it was standard in that country, the price of that metal tended to advance slightly. It before us, we could not get rid of it in. any other way, and we cannot was never higher than fifteen, but still it was considerably less than fifteen and now unless the Senat~ should see proper to strike out the third sec- one-half. After 1859 ·the course of the price of silver tended downward by almost t• d · k t "th th H b · h uld 1. bl imperceptible steps; but it was not until1873 that the price began to ue decidedly lOll an ns a con roversy Wl ' e ouse, w lC wo proua Y low; it then fell to sixteen a01leight one-hundredths in relation to gold, and by the produce longer delay. Therefore we undertook to amend the third end of 1875 had touched in London sixteen and eighty one-hundi-edths, or fifty- section so as to avoid the objections to it. · seven and eleven-sixteenths pence in London. The first provision I wish to call the attention of the Senate to is Perhaps I am wearying the Senate by these details; but it seems that our amendments make no enlargement of the legal-tender qual to be necessary in the condition of the information on the subject that ity of subsidiary coin. We have left the subsidiary coin precisely I should state them. There are certain general conclusions which I where it was under the old law, unchanged, and it is clear that it draw from a reference to these statutes in various countries which I should be unchanged. To make the subsidiary coin a legal tender will bl'iefly state. fo~ $25 would utterly destroy our customs revenue, would raise the First. It is impossible in the nature of things to fix the precise value question of the payment of the interest on the public debt in the sub- of silver and gold. We have tried it three times and failed. sidiary coin, would evidently impair the public credit, and would Second. Whenever either coin is worth more in the market than be wrong in every sense of the word. Besides that, it would be a the rate fixed by the law, it flees from the country. That we have departnrefromtheexamplegiventousbyotherintelligentna.tionsthat twice proved. That is the admitted eeonomic law. It is the Gresham have acted upon every one of these questions. law-a law of currency named from the name of its discoverer. He The House of Representatives proposed a legal tender of $25. We wrote a book to show that always the poorer currency would drive left it where itwas,at$5, and! have here a letter from the Secretaryof out of circulation a superior currency; and his book gave name t.o the Treasury showing in the most conclusive manner the evil results the theory that is called the law of Gresham. It is the universal law that would flow from the enlargement of the legal tender of subsid of political economy: that, whenever two metals or two moneys are iary coins and its effect on the revenue. I will not have it read, but in circulation, the least valuable will. drive out the most valuable; may hand it to the reporter to be embodied in my remarks,.so that the latter will be exported. Senators may have the benefit of reading it if they desire. The third proposition is that the example of several great European As to how much of it can be kept at par, I have already stated that, nations as well as of the United States proves that to prevent the de- in my judgment, from fifty to sixty or seventy millions can be kept at preciation of silver the tendency of modern nations is to issue it as par. a token coinage somewhat less in intrinsic value than gold, and main- But the vital question presented by the amendments of the com tain its value by issuing it only as·needed, at parwith the prevailing mittee is the restoration of the silver (\ollar. Why restore the silver currency, and to make it a. limited legal tender. I may say that has dollar when it is now so depreciated by the events that I have named f been acted upon by every great.Christian nation. Russia and Aus- Well, sir, the answer is that we have a large amount, some 400,000,000 tria have not yet gold coinage at all, but still they have their values of United States notes, which now are a legal tender for all purposes, ba.sed•upon gold. and the time bas arrived when we can redeem all these United States Fourth. That the demonetizing of silver tends to add to the value notes with the old dollar of the United States. We do not create a of gold, and that though its relative value ebbs and flows it is more do11ar; we simply provide for the issuing of the dollar. The law was, st-able compared to gold than any other metal, grain, or production. as I have shown you, up to 1873, that this old dollar could be tendered Its limit of variation for a century is between fifteen to seventeen for for the payment of all debts; but it was sir!tply not coined because one in gold. the silver dollar was worth more than the gold dollar. Does that Fifth. That both coins are indispensable, one for small and the prevent us from coinin~fit f Not in the least. I will read you a short other for large transactions. · . extra~t from Seyd on tne very subject I am now speaking of, the iin- Sixth. That the causes of its decline are temporary. It is still used portance of the American dollar in the commerce of the world; and by a great majority of mankind as the standard of value. Its use in as he expresses it much better than I can, I think Senators will be France and the United States will on resumption more than count-er- better pleased to bear his s~atement: act its decline in Germany. What, indeed, could America. risk in adopting silver againasacoadjotortogolrl 7 Seventh. The general monetizin~ of silver now, when it is unnatu- What, conRidering the actual stat-e of the qnestlon in the world, namely, that the rally depreciated, would be to inVIte to our country, in exchange for majority of the nations adhere to the double or the silver valo;~.t- ion, does she not .1 ll th il f E d 1 t · nld l lose now in endeavoring to follow the footsteps of England~ Would America do go ld Or bOnus, a • 6 S ver 0 UIOpe, an at as It WO eave US wrong in following the examnle of France, which maintains the five-francs silver with a. depreciated currency. · piece't Germany is obliged·to adopt the double valuation; is the example a. perni- Eighth. The decline of silver enables us now to exchange silver cious one 7 · f th ld t d d f fr ti 1 1 · th b I think not; I think that America, by deciding in favor of the nonble valuation, com 0 e 0 8 an ar or ac on a currency, eavmg e exc ange would not only save the world at. large from an abyss, and prevent the accomplish· optional with the holder, until we have the. courage, as we now have ment of a stupid general crime, whose aut-hors humanity would some day learn to the ability, to redeem it in gold. curse, but that she would advance her own material interests more than may be 1876. CONGRESSIONAL REO·ORD-SENATE. 2347 supposed possible, and that she may percllance take the lead in the intelligent and every existing debt could have been paid in dollars of that standard. pru!lent organization of firm monetary systems. . . Does it injure any man to restore it now and limit its legal-tender The state of the whole question in the Unit.ed States favors the re-mtroduchon of the silver dollar. It has not been abolished by law, consequently no legal enact quality to 20' ment for its re-establishment and legal-tcndt in regard tothatverypoint f Theinjusticeof his amendment strikes me ·now involved from the unforese.en .effect of her own measures would to be apparent a,gainst those persons who have sent silver bullion to make her eager to enter into a general monetary union or the exten the mints, and have been able to get no coin from the mints but the sion of the Paris conference so as to make everywhere fifteen and a • trade-dollars, and who have those trade-dollars on their hands now, half · ounces of silver equal to one of gold among all the nations of coined at a time when the trade-dollar was a legal tender to a certain the world; to limit silver coinage to the token coinage or small change amount; and now, while they have that money in their possession, of the people, and make gold the standard of value, but silver the you take away from them its value as a lega.l tender. standard of labor and all minor accounts. By a convention between Mr. SHERMAN. I have answered that as I went along. The trade- the leading nations, ipcluding Great Britain, France, Germany,Russia, dollar was only intended as a commercial dollar, as a convenient mode and the United States, which must find the gold and silver to carry of putting silver bullion for the benefit of depositors. this arrangement into effect, you would have a monetary unit, and · Mr. WHYTE. Still it was a legal tender to a certain extent. you would then be free from the oscillations that we have met in our :h!r. SHERMAN. I know ; but we can change that. It is no harm whole history, of gold disappearing and silver disappearing by turns, to change that; and it is entirely within our power to change it. It destroying the value of contmcts and deranging :ill our monetary does not do them any harm. ·These trade-dollars are worth more in affairs. \ China than they are in the United States to-day; so that as a matter Sir, I do not hope to accomplish these things now; but I see in this I of course the holders will have the benefit of the China market. bill an opportunity tO accomplish some good; and I believe that true '> Mr. HOWE. They are worth more than the legal-tender dollar statesmanship consists in doing the good you can, without seeking I here. th~ unattainable, and therefore doing no good at all. Here we have \ Mr. SHERMAN. Certainly; and everybody will take the trade- an opportunity to monetize a portion of our silver product; tore- ' dollar for another silver dollar. deem a portion of our United States notes; to come back to~d Mr. WHYTE. But you cannot sell it on this coast. specie payments-all in the right direction. And the fact that this Mr. SHERMAN. I guarantee that I will find plenty of people in bill does not accomplish all I desire is no reason why I should delay the city of Baltimore who will agree to take all the trade-dollars, and it, oppose it, or antagonize it. give silver dollars for them. Mr. MORTON. Mr. President, I desire to submit a few remarks Mr. WHYTE. I can show you some of them in Baltimore now. rather in the nature of inquiries th~ discussion of this subject, for Mr. SHERMAN. I will get some one over there to do it. There is I have not had time to examine it. · no weight in that point. The trade-dollar is worth 3 or 4 per cent. I shall be glad to see silver introduced into the circulation of this more than the silver dollar. country largely, and I shall be glad to see the proper silver coin made Mr. President, some objection might have been made to this bill if a legal tender for a much larger sum than is authorized by this bill; we bad authorized the Secretary of the Treasury to issue bonds to buy but there are several questions which I should like to have the Sen the bullion to make these dollars, Lut we did not. On the contrary, ator from Ohio, who has been paying much attention to this subject, we simply carry into effect t.be spirit of the law of 1862, which au- answer. I sent this morning to an officer of the Treasury who is in thorized the sinking fund to be nsed in payment of any portion of the formed on the subject to obtain certain statements of values which public debt, and to the extent that the sinking fund can be used to I think it important that the Senate should consider in undertaking buy bullion and coin silver dollars with which to redeem fractional to decide this question. currency and redeem United States notes-to that extent the sink- In the first place, what is the value of the present silver coin; the ing fund may be used. That is a wise provision at all events, be- old coinage and that which is now lying in the Treasury that has cause now our bonds are so exceptionally high that under the sink- just come from our mints, which is still authorized and which is to ing-fund law the Secretary has got, in buying bonds, to pay 18 per go on after this bill shall have become a law; the coinage of half cent. premium, when there is a debt existing against the United States dollars, quarters, twenty-cent pieces, and ten-cent pieces f Taking which must some time be paid in coin, which he will be at liberty un- the gold dollar as the standard of value, this mass of silver coin is der this bill tO buy in silver and extinguish and put it out of exist- to-day worth eighty-four and five-eighths cents on the dollar, a small ence, and add to the sinking fund. · fraction over eighty-four and a half cents. Now, Mr. President, I am afraid I have wearied the Senate, but I 1\Ir. SHERMAN. The subsidiary coin f have gone through this matter simply as a business matter. The ex- Mr. MORTON-.' The subsidiary coin; and its currency value to- cbaDge of silver coin for silver bullion is a profit to the Government day in greenbacks is ninety-five and eight-tenths cents. The new of the United States. On the issuing of silver dollars the profit is silver dollar proposed to be issued by this bill the Senator from Ohio· several percent.; on the issuing of subsidiary coin it ls 6 per cent. more; says is the revolutionary dollar. I do not know that there is any and this profit more than pays all the expenses of the mints, saves all merit to be given to it on t-hat account; for when it was made the the expense of printing your fractional currency. The actual profit -dollar gold and silver bore a different relation to each other from under this law will carry into the Treasury a surplus over and above what they do now. Then that dollar was intended to lie the equiva. all the expenses of the mints. lent of gold, so that the gold dollar and the silver dollar should be There ar~ but two things more that are needed to make this bill, interchangeable. This dollar was established first upon that bypoth in my judgment, a complete financial measure. They are, first, to esis. The dollar provided for in the third section of this bill may, authorize any holder of greenbacks to convert them at his will and therefore, be considered a new one; and its value is as follows: It pleasure into a bond of the United States. Would to God that we contains according to this bill four hundred and twelve and eight had the courage now, without regard to party, to do this and give to tenths grains of standardsilver,orthreehundred and·seventy-one and every holder of these notes of ours the right at his will to convert :fift.y-two one hundredths of pure silver; and that dollar when it is them into a 4 per cent. bond running forty years! No considerable issued will be worth, according to the gold dollar, ninety and seven amount would be converted, in the present state of the market, into tenths cents. It will be nine cents and three mills under the gold par bonds now. Some would be. Those persons desiring a perfectly safe as soon as it comes into the world. It is depreciated coin to begin and long investment might convert their notes into 4 per cent. bonds with. in small sums; but as credit rises, and it is rising every day, these 4 Mr. BOGY. It is supposed that this depreciation will disappear per cent. bonds will advance to par in gold . . vVhat I would desire when it is made a legal tender. Not being so now is the reason it is next is to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to convert our 6 below the value of gold. . per cent. bonds into 4t per cent. thirty-year bonds. A bill has passed Mr. MORTON. Making this new dollar (which we will say to be the Senate for that purpose, but yet sleeps in the House. Then au- gin with is ten cents under par) a legal tender for $20 may add some thorize the holder of the notes to convert them at his will and pleas- thing to its value, but very little. Your legal-tender notes are a legal . ure into a 4 per cent. forty-year bond and t,here stop, and you will tender for all amounts, and they are all the money you now have to reach specie payments without a ripple on the current. These two pay ~our debts with, and yet to-day they are 12 per cent. under par; bonds would approach each other in value; your notes would grad u- and this new dollar that is to start out with a permanent depreciation ally be retired; silver would take their place-its natural place in of nine cents and three mills cannot be brought to par, nor will it the currency of the country. We are producing the silver, and our have more than one or two cents added to it, in my judgment, by own products would be converted into our currency. Then our notes making it a lesal tender for the small sum of $20. The currency value would gradually rise to par in gold. Then the circle of the rebellion, of this new aollar in greenbacks would be $1.027 to begin with. or the revolution, as our southern friends may call it-I prefer to call These values are based on the present price of silver, fifty-three and it by the old-fashioned name-would be-finished-- one-half pence per ounce standard, and the premium of gold 13!, as lli. DAVIS. Would you withdraw the greenba.cks f it was ]ast week. With silver at fifty-three and one-half pence ster- ~r. SHERMAN. AiJ soon as greenbacks were at par with gold I ling or $1.172 per ounce fine, a full-valued silver-coin dollar would would keep them afloat; but that is not in this bill. I merely alluded have to contain four hundred and fifty-four and fifty-nine one-hun to it in passing. dredths grains of standard silver or four hundre!f and nine and thir- Tbere is another object that could be desired, and I think if the teen one-hundredths grains of pure silver. This dollar will contain United States would now lead off in it it would undoubtedly be ac- three hundred and seventy-one and fifty-two one-hundredths grains complished; that is to establish by international convention a unit of pure silver, and to make it equal to gold it would have to contain of money of accounts, both of gold and silver. Advances have al- four hundred and nine and thirteen one-hundredths grains of pure ready been made to this Government by Great Britain, and a propo- silver. sition is now pending looking to that end; and there is no doubt what- I will call the attention of the Senator from Ohio, aud I want him ever that Germany would be glad to enter into the same intematioual to inform me-perhaps everybody else understands it-what is to he relation that was proposed in 1867, and which she then defeated and the benefit of this coin. We shall then have four different standards rej~oted. The difficulties and embarrassme.nts in which Germany is of value in circulation: First, we shall have the subsidiary coin, some 1876. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 2349 twenty millions of which are now in the Treasury, worth eighty-four and maketbom the equivalent of gold coin, so that they may circulate and five-eights cents to-uay; we shall then have the greenbacks, which together and be interchangeable t.he one for the other. Then you can are to-day worth eighty-eight cents; the fractional cnrre.ncy, being make it a legal tenderfor a large amount. I understand the Senator to convertible into greenbacks, is worth the same sum, and is worth four say to-:day that the depreciation of silver is not the result of the increased cents more to-day than this sn bsidiary coin which we are now making, quantity, but of the action in Germany, the demonetization of silver; half dollars and quarters; and then we shall have this new coin, wortb and he thinks that bas gone as far a~ it will go; and therefore the ninety and seven-tenths cents. That is the 1hird currency we shall depreciation of silver bas ce~tsed, and. the prospect is that silver will have in point of value; and then, fourth, we shall have the gold coin, increase in value instead of declining in value from this time. · If we worth one bumired cents. Here we have four different currencies can make a silver coinage that is t.he equivalent of gold coin or very differing in value, ranging from eighty-four to one hundred cents on near it, that will circn1ate alongside of the gold coin, you can make the dollar. that a legal tender for a much larger sum than $20. There was one Mr. President, what is to be the va.hte of thi~ coin, or rather what question that I want~d to ask the Senator as he went along, and I will is to be the use of it; what is the office it is to perform f The fourth ask him nGw, if he will answer it. What is the difference between t.he section of this bill authorizes the Secretary of the 'I'reasury to ex value of the silver coin of Germany and the gold coin; take five tha change it for an equal amount of United States notes, greenbacks. lers in silver and some gold coin representing the same sum, and I want I ' The coin will start out worth ninety and seven-tenths cents, while to know what is the actual difference in the bullion value of the two " the greenbacks \o-day :ue worth eighty-eight cents. If there were coinst $10,000,000 of this coin in the Treasury to-morrow to be converted into Mr. SHERMAN. I thought my friend was here all the time .I spoke, greenbacks there would be a great rush for it, because the holders of and so would have saved me the necessity of answering these ques greenbacks would thereby realize two cen~s and seven mills by con tions; but I can answer every one of them seriatim., and, reversing verting their greenbacks into the coin, and then they would take the the order in which he puts them, I will answer the last first. coin to the melting-pot, get bullion, and sell it as bullion. But when He asks me what is the standard value of the German coins. I the greenback gets above ninety-one cents, gets three mills above the stated two or three t.imes in the course of my remarks that it was value of this dollar which starts out at ninety cents and seven mills, fifteen an(l a half to one. That is now the legal fixed value of Ger there is no longer any conversion. No man will convert a greenback man silver coin. Fifteen and a half ounces of silver coin are issued worth ninety-one cents into a currency worth ninety cents and seven as the equivalent of one ounce of gold coin. That is the German re mills; and if the greenback gradualJy appreciates, goes up to ninety lation. Ours, however, was sixteen ounces of silver coin to one of two cents, ninety-three cent~, ninety-four ct\nts, as we hop.e it will do gold coin, and our silver coin is worth more than the German coin; ) and expect it will do under the law we have passed, who will convert and yet t.heirs is at par in gold. his greenbacks into this coin T So far as the use of this coin is con Now I will answer the next question. The Senator talks about cerned, after the greenbacks are worth ninety-one cents there wonlu the value of the subsidiary coin as eighty-four cents. Well, it is be no use of it for the pnrpose of conversion. What is the next use worth eighty-four cents for bullion no doubt; but as money it is to be made of this coin by the Secretary .of the Treasury T worth a good deal more. To the extent of 5 it is worth gold. The And be is authorized to exchange stich silver coin at ita nominal value for silver sub::.idiary coin is received for customs to the extent of $5. It is worth bullion at the market value, to be ascertained and announced from time tQ time by greenbacks always any way. If it is not, try the people and see the Director of the M.int, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury. whether they will take it for greenbacks or not. Tho Senator's idea The Secretary is autborizeu to exchange these new coins, worth is a confounding of the value of silver as bullion and its value as ninetycent.s and seven mills, for silver bullion at its market valne and at money. Let us try it on pa;per. What is the value of tho paper in a the nominal value of the coin. What is the nominal-value of the coin T dollar bill f About one-tenth of one mHL As bullion it is worth one One hundred cents. What is its actual value f Ninety cents. vVhat tenth of a mill; but as money it is worth eighty-nine cents, my friend 'is the market value of bullion 1 It is so much in gold. Now the idea says. Silver is worth as much as money as paper money; cert.ainly that the Secretary of the Treasury can buy one dollar's worth of sil it cannot be worth less. The silver dollar we provide in this bill is ver bullion in gold at the market value (for that is the way bullion worth 2 per cent. more than pape.r:. money is to-day, as my friend is mea~ured) for the nominal value of a coin that is worth only ninety says. Therefore, in any way you take it, the silver money is worth cents and seven mi1ls, is a thing I cannot understand. I hope my more than paper. As bullion our silver is worth eighty-four cents friend can explain this. I want to state that again. This bill author on the dollar, and our paper is worth one-tenth of one mill; while as izes the Secretary of the Treasury to exchanO'e these coins at their money they would naturally be in the same relation to each other. nominal value-that is, their face value-for sllver bullion at the mar In regard to the other question, the Secretary of the Treasury is ket price. Who will do it 1 Will a man sell a gold dollar's worth of authorized to issue these silver coins. As a matter of course, that is bullion for a silver dollar worth only ninety cents T I cannot nnder the exercise of discretionary power. He would issue them probably; st.and it. and the notes would advance up to par with the silver coin. He 1£ we come to specie payments, as I hope we shall, here is a coin would not probably pay them ou ·~ until they were at par. When they · that is permanently depreciated. We talk about having a uniform were, he would pay them out to the extent that he bad the silver on currency. It is not subsidiary coin; it is not change. This dolla.r band, to the extent that he could redeem the notes, and every note cannot be change, unless you abolish one-dollar bills. If we have that he redeemed would adcl to the value of the remaining notes nothing less tha,n a two-dollar bill, then a silver dollar would be in without diminishing the value of the silver. the nature of change; but as long as you have one-dollar bills, either But the Senator says, Why not make the silver dollar of the full bank-notes or greenba{Jks, a silver dollar is not change. · value of the gold coin! The answer is that if we do t.hat to-d~~y, to To begin with, here is a difference of six cents in these two kinds morrow it may change; tl10 silver may go down or go up, and in of coin. I call the attention of the Sr.nate to that. We now have either event it would be demonetized. The only way you can keep silver coin worth eighty-four and fi ve-eigbtbs cents on the dollar. It two coins in circalation together is by making one tributary to the is proposed now to make a new coin worth ninety and seven-tenths other by limiting the amount, by limiting the legal-tender quality. cents. There will be a difference of six cents and a little over one In this way you keep the two both in circulation, and although their mill between these two coins to start with. Will these silver coins bullion value may change, their money value never changes. In En be interchangeable T Certainly not. The man who has these silver gland the shilling, worth only twent.y-two cents, goes every day for dollars worth ninety cents and seven mills will not exchange them golu and is exchanged for gold. The silver is worth as bullion twenty for silver coins worth eighty-four and five-eighths cents, unless it is two cents in the shilling, but it is worth twenty-four and three a matter of sheer necessity. Then these silver coins will not be inter tenths cents for money. My fri~ certainly ought to perceive the changeable. The man who bas subsidiary silver and wants silver difference. Now the paper is not worth anything as bullion except dollars cannot exchange them either. Why T Because he proposes the lamp-black and rags, but it is worth whatever the law fixes on it to give that which is worth eighty-four and one-half cents even for a-s money. that which is worth ninety and seven-tenths cents. The man who But my friend cannot see bow the Director of the Mint can pur holds the silver coin worth ninety an(l seven-tenths cents will not be chase bullion under this law. He does it now under the same law; able to see it in _that light. You have two silver coins of different that is, he has bought this bullion at su much an ounce. A man value and not interchangeable any more than gold and greenbacks comes and says, "I have got one hundred ounces of bullion; what are interchangeable. Why can yon not exchange a greenback for will you give me for it Y" The Director of the Mint says, "The price gold coin event Because one is worth more than the other; and to-day is $1.03 in gold per ounce; but if you will take currency I will when you have these two silver coins of different value they are not give you one hundreu and fourteen cents for it." Then the man says, interchangeable, and you have confusion thrice confounded. The ''I will take it in golu; J prefer to sell it in gold;" or, "I will take merchant in New York will have to regulate his stock in this way: it in cuiTency;" ~he two having a fixed value day by day; and he "I will sell my goods for so much in subsidiary coin worth eighty sells an onnce of s1lver for one hundred and fourteen cents in cur four and one-half cents; I will sell my goods for so much in green backs rency. 'Vhat does the Director of the Mint do with that ounce T He wortheight.y-eight; I will sell my goods for so much in silver.coin worth does not pay that ounce out at the same rate he gets it for. On the ninety and seven-tenths cents, anu I will sell them for another price contrary, he coius that ounce of silver into $1.28 in money, pays it iu g:old worth one hundred cents on the dollar." Instead of having a out in money, givin day by the different Senators who have spoken to show the magni tender. I have no doubt of it. If the~e legal propositions are true, tude of the question, and the question is more important to us than to let us not try to avoid the discussion; let us meet them. If they are any other people of the world, and more important at this time, when not tro.e, let them be proved not to be true. This subject was dis we consider our large amount of paper issue, our large amount of cussed at the very beginning of the Government. At the time the bonded debt, the condition that we are in of non-resumption, the Mint was created in 1792 the subject was discussed by the ablest attempt that we are making to resume at an early day, the fact that financial mind of that day, Mr. Hamilton, and, for reasons given in t.here is in this country but a limited amount of gol4 to redeem a that remarkably a.ble report of his, silver and gold were looked upon very large amount of paper money, th~:~ fact that the balance of trade as the two royal precious metals for us to use in this country. is largely against us every year, and the further fact that we have to Mr. President, I do not know exactly how to go at the subject. I provide in coin every year an amount upward of $100,000,000 to pay am not in favor of voting on this bill to-day. I will therefore move, the debt which we owe, the debt which is owing by the Federal Gov if it is a proper motion, tha.t the subject be postponed until Thursday ernment, by the State governments, by t.he city governments, by indi week. viduals, and by railroad companies. All these combined make this 1\!r. SHERMAN. I wish to state to the Senate what I know of qnestion, as was well said by the Senator from Ohio at the outset of ficially, that the passage of the first and second sections of thit'l bill his speech, the most important in the range of political science. immediately is very important; that the country at large is getting Again, we see it assumes i.he form of a constitutional question, and scarce of change. As a matter of course, under the law as it now a very nice question. Has the Congress of the United States the stands, the Treasury cannot issue fractional currency, because they power to say what shall and what shall not be alegal tender in exe have no appropriation to print it; nor have they issued the silver coin, cution of contracts between the citizens of each State 1 That is a que8· and there is no appropriation to print United States notes. So there tion which is worthy of discussion. The Constitution says that "no is a necessity for passing the first an·d second sections of this bill. I State shall make anything b11t gold and silver coin a tender in pay therefore venture to suggest whether we cannot, by un·animous con ) ment of debts." That being so, clearly each State has the power to sent, pass the first and second sections of the bill, leaving out the make'' gold and silver," not" gold or silver," a legal tender. That third section, promising that the Committee on Finance will consider '; being so, can the Congress restrain that T I say the subject is worthy the matter and report to the Senate on that subject, so that it may I of discussion. I hold that it is not impossible to make silver as a be considered. currency equal to gold. I hold that it is equal to gold to-day in all Mr. BOGY. I have never yet seen the necessity of the first section countries where the double standard is recognized. While it may be of this bill; becausl\, if I understand the subject at all, the Secretary true and is true tba.t gold intrinsically is more valuable than silver, of the Treasury is now authorized to issue silver coin in lieu of frac nevertheless, if you establish the rat.io between the two for all pur tional currency. poses for which money is used in trade ru1d in commerce, one will be l\Ir. SHER~1AN. The first section of the bill appropriates money as good as t11e other. to enable him to make and issue United States notes. They have no The Senator from Ohio alluded a while ago to the fact that the money now; the whole Printing Bureau is stopped. As for the silver public credit is of so delicate a nature that the mere whisperin~ in coin, I snppose-- this body that we had the most clistant idea of paying ourobligatwns Mr. BOGY. I have·never seen the policy of that bill. They have in silver·wonld affect the public credit. That may be so; neverthe $15,000,000 now; why not issue that to redeem the fractional cur less it is always well to face the dangers t.hat ma.y exist, nat.ionally rency Y I do not see the utility of that section. and individually, and not to skulk. Now the fact is that all our Mr. MORRILL, of Vermont. There are nearly one hundred national obligations, without one single exception, up to the year 1~73 are not banks without notes who want them. payable in gold; they are payable in "coin." It is a further fact that Mr. BOGY. But we must understand each other. The pass~ge of the duties are not required to be collected in gold, although that has this law is not going to put any money into the Treasury. You IJave been said not once but a thousand times. The duties are to be paid in fifteen millions there now ; no more, no less; be is authorized to pay "coin/' It is a further fact, which cannot be successfully disputecl, t.hat out. that at the time the law was passed coin in this country was corn Mr. SHERMAN. I have been unfortunate in making myself un posed of two well-known metaL<;, gold and silver, and therefore the derstood. I ~:~ay there is an immediate necessity for the passage of dnties could be paid as well in one metal as in the other, aM well in the first and second sections of t.be bill; and I am endeavoring to silver as in gold. .Since 187:3 we have ma 2352 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE. APRIL 10, Mr. SHERl\lAN. I withdraw the amendments of the committee 1\lr. EDMUNDS. I should have a little doubt about that. which include the proposed fourth section and move that the third Mr. :MORTON. My understanding is t hat the bonus purchased go section be stricken out. That would leave it as an independent prop into the sinking ftmcl to draw their interest, and they are not extin . osition. As a matter of course, t}le Committee on Finance can report guished iri the sinking fund; they are created and live, and if this upon the subject hereafter and the efiect would be to leave the first bond did not draw interest it would not require a note. and second sections stand intact. Mr. ED.MUNDS. That is precisely the question I was putting to The PRESIDING OFFICER. Does the Senator from Missouri in my friend fr<~m Ohio; and his saying it will be a part of the sinking sist on his motion to postpone f fund without saying interest shall be included upon it in some way Mr. BOGY. I do not. I am glad of the proposition of the Senator was what raised. the doubt in my mind. from Ohio. Mr. SHERMAN. As I am not prepared to a.nswer the question The PRESIDING OFFICER. The motion to postpone is with positively, I will accept with pleasure any amendment the Senator drawn. from Vermont may offer. Mr. KERNAN. If we strike out the third section of the House bill Mr. EDMUNDS. I am not prepared to offer any. I am merely ask- the bill will then still be amended ,by the Senate. ing for information, and making the suggestion. . - Mr. SHERMAN. My motion M1 to strike out all after the second Mr. SHERMAN. I think these words will c6ver the point: section. As a matter of course the amendments of the committee are Interest to be computed thereon the same as in the case of bonds redeemed. not acted on and they fall with the third section of the bill. Mr. EDMUNDS. I think that would answer. I The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on the motion of Mr. Fl\ELINGHUYSEN. What kind of bonds f \ the Senator from Ohio to strike out all after the second section of the Mr. EDMUNDS. Call them the lowest kind; it is a gain of that ! bill. . ' interest. · The motion was areed to. Mr. BOUTWELL. It is all computed at 6 per cent. i I · Mr. SHERMAN. wish it distinctly understood, not only for my- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The amendment of the Senator from l self but others, that the vote which has just been taken to stlike out Ohio will be reported. ( does not imply that we are opposed to that part which hUB been The CHIEF CLERK. At the end of section 2, line 12, it is proposed l stricken out. Some Senators seem to think that in voting to strike to insert: out this section they were voting against the amendments. I made And all fraotioyl currency redeemed under this act shall be held to be part of the motion sjmply to expedite the business of the Senate; to have the sruking fund provided for by existing law, the interest to be computed thereon the action of the Senate on the first and second sections. as in the case of bonds. Mr. MORRILL, of Maine. I move to insert at the end of the first Mr. EDMUNDS. "As in the case of bonds redeemed under "the section of the bill the words : sinking-ftmd acts." And the further sum of $48,000 to provide for engraving and printing national Mr. SHERMAN. My impression is that they count tfie interest on bank notes, to be disbursed under the direction of t.he Sooretary of the Trea.sury. the whole sinking fund. · An appropriation of $100,000 was made for this specific object for Mr. EDMUNDS. It may be; but to save all question I think it the current year, but it bas run short, and this is to supply a neces better to state it. sary deficiency. In further support of the amendment I will send to the Mr. SHERMAN. Very well. Chair, ana ask tha,t it may be read, a communication from the Comp The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Clerk will reporli the amendment troller of the Currency. as modified. The Chief Clerk read as follows: The Chief Clerk read as· follows: TREASURY DRPARTUENT, And all fractional currency redeemed undm- this act shall be held to be pal't of OFFICE OF COUPTROLLRR OF THE CURRENCY, tM sinking fund provided for by exist~g law, tho interest to be computed thereon Wtuhi-ngwn, April 6, 1876. a.s in the case of bonds redeemed under tne sinking-fund acts. Sm: I have the honor to suggest an amendment to House bill No. 2450, now .Pend Mr. SHERMAN. Instead of "sinking-fund acts" say "the acts re ing in the Finance Committee of the Senate, so as to provide for an appropriation lating to t,he sinking fund." There are two, the act of 1862 and the of ~8,000 for the purpose of engraving and printing national-bank notes. The an nual appropriation for engraving and printing national-bank notes being exhausted, act of 1871. this Office is now unable to furmshto the banks new note3 in ]?lace of the worn and Mr. BOUTWELL. As I recollect the redemption act, as it is called, mutilated notes which are returned to us canceled from the Office of the Treasurer. of ltl75, authority was given to the Secretary of the Treasury to issue In other cases it ha.s been impossible to furnish tonewbankscirculatingnotesupon bonds, the proceeds of which wer~ to be applied to the purchase of the bonds which they have deposited with the Treasw·er as security therefor, caus ing !!Teat inconvenience to these institutions aml embarra.'!sment to this Office. bullion for the subsidiary coin, and those coins are now to be used The backs of the national-bank notes are printed by the bank-note companies under this act for the redemption of the fractional currency. The and the faces by the Bureau of En17aving aml Printing. Tlie coat-of-arms of each question I had in mind was whether this, ta-ken in connection wit h State is printed upon the backs of the notes issued to the banks therein, and the that a-ct, will not so operate that the sinking fund will be credited ba{)ks of each denomination are different, so that a. great variety of backs is re quired, and it is necessary that t.he Bureau of Engraving and Printing shall have with the proceeds of the bonds issued by the Government, when the on hand a supply of eacll kind in order to furnish suitable notes for the banks in theory of the sinking fund is that it is to be created by the applica all the States. More than one hundred and ninety banks are now entirely out of tion of current revenues to the payment of a portion of the public circulating notes, and the Printing Bureau is unable to fill the orders of the banks debt. I apprehend that the two acts, considered together, will work until an appropriation shall be ma.Ue to pay the expenses of printing such notes. In this connection it is proper to st.ate that section 5li3 of the Revised Statutes that result; that is, we create a debt to redeem the ontstandin·g frac provides that the expenses of this Office shall be paid out of the proceeds of the tional currency, and the amount of that debt is made a part of the taxes or duties assessed and collected on the circulation of the national banks. sinking fund precisely as though the bullion for the subsidiary coin The amount of such taxes from the organization of the system to July 1, 1875, was had been purchased from the current revenues bf the Government. $30,836, 937, while the total expenses of this Office, includmg the printing and pre- paration of the notes, has been but $3,689,617. · That ought not to happen, it seems to me. I fear it will. . The appropriation asked for will be sufficient to supply this Office with circulat Mr. SHERMAN. As I understand it, this operation is a very sim ing notes for the remainder of the present fi.scal year. ple one. Instead of selling bonds, as the Secretary may do under · I have the honor to be, very respectfully, JNO. JAY KNOX, the existing law, he may use a portion of the sinking fund, if neces Comptroller. sary, to redeem this fractional currency and just charge it to the sink Ron. JOIL'1 ·SbRM.A.l'i, ing fund. It is money that would otherwise be used to purchase Ohairman .Finance Committee, United States &nate. bonds in the redemption of fractional notes. - The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on the amendment .Mr. BOUTWELL. Really what ought to happen is this: So much offered by the Senator from Maine, [Mr. MORRILL.] of the fractional currency as is redeemed by the use of subsidiary - The amenclmt3nt was agreed to. · coin, the bullion for which wa-s purchased out of moneys derived from Mr. SHERMAN. I will now move to add at the end of the second current revenues, should be carried to the sinking fund; but frac section of the bill the la-st words of the,fourth section as reported by tional currency redeemed with coin, the b.ullion for which was pur the committee, tp which, I suppose, there will be no objection: chased by the issue of bonds, should not be carried to t.he sinking fund. I fear that the amendment does not make that distinction. And the fractional currency redeemed under this act shall be held to be a part of 1\!r. SHERMAN. It seems to me that to the extent the sinking the sinking fund provided for by existing la.w. fund is used for the purpose of paying these fractional notes the frac Mr. EDMUNDS. I would like the Senator to explain that. What tional notes should be placed to the credit of the sinking fund. That is to be done with this after you make it a part of the sinking fund¥ is the way I understand it. If the Senator can express it in any other Mr. SHERMAN. The Senator is awa.re that, when fractional cur language I would be glad to have him do so. rency and United States notes are retired, it will relieve the Secre Mr. BOUTWELL. I am not prepared to do it. tary from the n~cessity of buying bonds to the 'extent that he receives Mr. SHERMAN. I think it is clea,r enough now that this sinking and cancels fractional currency and United States notes for the sub- fund is used to supply these fractional notes. As a matter of course sidiary coin he issues. . tbe sinking fund shoulu be credit.ed wit.h the amount so purchased. Mr. EDMUNDS. Yes; so much I can see; but you are making it a Mr. BOUTWELL. But there is no sinking fnncl applicable. That part of the sinking fund, which implies a fund which in some way is is to say, the sinking fund is m·eated by the use of current revenues invested and draws interest. in the purchase of bonds and the payment of interest on the capital Mr. SHERMAN. Interest will be counted on this just as much as of the sinking fund. There is no money in the sinking fund. The on the other. It will be counted on the whole sinking fun(l. sinking fund is merely an account. Mr. ED~1UNDS. If the Senator is quite sure about that, I have no Mr. SHERMAN. They all mean the same thing. As I understand objection to the amendment. it, the actual accretion of the sinking fund is 1 per cent. of a certain 1\Ir. SHERMAN. There is no doubt of it. amount with accumulated interest. That is a fund in the Treasury ' 1876. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 235:3 in gold, in coin, and it would be, and it may necessarily be, used in ORDER OF BUSINESS. • the absence of this law in the purchase of bonds, but it may also be Mr. GORDON. If there is nothing before the Senate, I move to take used according to this provision in the retirement of fractional cm up Senate bill No.177. rency. That would diminish the fractional currency. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Tlie morning hom having expired, Mr. BOUTWELL. "' That should be done. the Senate resumes.the consideration of the unfinished business, which Mr. SHERMAN. That is what I want. is the bill (S. No. 650) fixing the rate of postage on third-class mail Mr. BOUTWELL. Very well. matter, and for other purposes. • . Mr. SHERMAN. So that the Secretary need not necessarily sell Mr. HAMLIN. I desire to say to the Senate that I am informed that new bonds, but may use this fund to buy fractional currency. the present occupant of the chair [Mr. INGALLS] desires to address the Mr. BOUTWELL. If that 1 per cent. is derived from current rev Senate on that question and would not like to do so at this late hour. enues and not from the sale of bonds for the purchase of bullion and I therefore ask to let the bill remain precisely as it is, the unfinished the manufacture of subsidiary coin, that is all right. business, and then the Senator from Georgia can call up his bill,· so Mr. SHERMAN. As I understand, they go together into the Treas that the postal bill will come up to-morrow morning in its regular order. ury in the way of customs duties. I think there is no trouble about it. The PRESIDING OFFICER. If there is no objection, Senate bill Mr. EATON. A.s the sinking fund strikes me, I think this appro No. 650,-the unfinished business, will remain until to-morrow morn priation of the currency exceedingly improper. Is -it not the best ing, and be then resumed as the unfinished business of to-day. thing we can do when we redeem this fractional cun·ency to cre Mr. GORDON. I move to take up Senate bill No. 177, to authorize mate itf the Secretary of War to adjm~t and settle claims of the .State of Mr. SHERMAN. When we redeem the fractional currency we do Georgia against the Government, ou account of· the Western. and At ( cremate it. If we redeem a bond we cremate it, destroy it. lantic Railroad. I will state for the information of the Clerk that I Mr. EATON. Verywell; thendonotputitintoanysinkingfund; the committee report a substitute for the original bill. ) destroy it, and let us have no question on the matter hereafter. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Will the Renate proceed to the con ) The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on the amendment sideration of this bill! of the Senator from Ohio, [Mr. SHERMAN.] Mr. WRIGHT. Let the bill be reported in full before the question The amendment was agreed to. . is put. The bill was reported ·to the Senate as amended, and the amend The PRESIDING OFFICER. It will be reported in full, subject ments were concurred in. to .objection. It was ordered that the amendments be engrossed, and the bill be The Chief Clerk read the bill. read a third time. Mr. GORDON. I ask that the report of the committee, which ex The bill was read the third time, and passed. plains the whole .bill, be read. PRESIDENTIAL APPROVALS. The PRESIDING OFFICER. If there is no objection the report A. message from_the President of the United States, by Mr. U. S. will be read. GRANT, jr., his Secretary, announc_ed that the President had this day The Chief Clerk read the report submitted by Mr. GoRDON on April approve.d and signed the act (S. No. 682) to sn.'3pend tho salo of the ·3, from the Committee on Military Affairs. · · jail on Judiciary Square, and for other purposes; and the joint reso Mr. EDMUNDS.· I wish to suggest to my honorable friend from lution (S. R. No.12) declaring the 14th day of April, 1876, a holiday. Georgia that the question of the legal controversies between the Government and the railroads-there have been a good many of them THOMAS N. POULLAIN, SR. at previous sessions of Congress-have been referred to the Commit Mr. BAY A.RD. · I desire to move a reconsideration of the vote by tee on the Judiciary, and only, I think, two sessions ago we passed which on Wednesday last the Senate agreed to the adverse report an act reported by the Judiciary Committee under a good many lim submitted by the Committee on Claims on the petition of Thoma-s N. itatitms that this bill does not contain, apparently, but which ap Poullain, sr., of Georgia, praying to be indemnified for the loss of pe~red to meet the general approval of the Senate, and even of the cotton seized by the United States authorities in 1863 and 1864. I gentlemen who were interested in the railways, providing for a par only desire to have the motion entered. ticular method of inquiry and of adjustment and of settlement. I see The PRESIDING OFFICER. The motion will be entered. that this bill does not contain many of those limitations, and what I PRINTING OF A MErtiORIAL. rose for was -to ask the Senator from Georgia, in order to have a tmi formity of consideration upon the subject, whether he would have Mr. SARGENT. I entered a motion this morning to reconsider an any objection to this IJlatter being referred to the same committee, order made for printing a certain petition with the names. I wish to in order that it might undergo consideration there as the other mat call up thn.t motion and dispose of it. I moved to reconsider the vote ters had done. by which the Senate orderetl the printing of the names in the petition Mr. GORDON. I would sta.te for the information of the Senator of certain citizens of California, settlers upon certain railroad lands. from Vermont, the chai.qna.n of the Judiciary Committee, that this The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from California moves bill is very simple in its provisions, and that the Committee on Mili to reconsider the vote by which the Senate orde.r:ed the printing of tary Affairs, to whom it was referred, went very fully into all the names attached to a certain petition. The question is on the motiou facts. I want to state further, that one member of the committee, of the Senator from ·California. the Senator from Rhode Island, [Mr. BURNSIDE,] had had no incon 'fbe motion was agreed to. siderable labor to perform heretofore in looking after the very roads 1\Ir. SARGENT subsequently said: A.n order was made to reconsider to get at a basis of the settlement su:ch a.s is here sought ; and that a motion to print certain names and it was reconsidered, but I believe in referring it to the Military Committee it was thought by the Sen no final action was taken upon it. I ask unanimous consent that the ator who introduced the bill that it would be more likely to find fu).l . petition be printed without the names. investigation there than anywhere else, bj3cause of the fact that there The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection T The Chair hears wa-s a member of that committee who had already been cognizant, by none, and that order will be ma-de. rea-son of his former connection with these roads~ of the very details MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE. which were incorporated in this bill. I can hardly see, unless there A. message from the House of Representatives, by Mr. G. M. ADA.r.rs, is some legal question in the wn.y, any reason for referring it to the its Clerk, announced that the House had passeu a bill (H. R. No. Committee on the Judiciary. I would prefer, therefore, unless the 3022) makin~ appropriations for the comtruction, repair, preservation, Senator is very anxious that it should go there, that the bill take its and completiOn of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for regular course in the Senate. other pmposes; in whlcb it requested the concurrence of the Senate. Mr. EDMUNDS. I am not very anxious by any means that any thing should go to the Judiciary Committee, because it has rather au ENROLLED BILLS SIGNED. overplus of work without working out of hours; but my anxiety is The message also announced that the Speaker of the House bad to have a uniformity of rule adopted in respect of re-adjusting rail signed the following enrolled bills ; and they were thereupon signecl road accounts with tho United States, and that oue railway shall by the President pro tempm·e: · not re-open settlements and accounts upon one set of principles and A. bill (S. No. 169) giving the consent of the United States to the under one set of limitations, and another railway upon an entirely ·- county of Dubuque, in the State of Iowa, to copstruct county build different one. This bill ma.y perhaps contain great d~al better pro ings in Washington Square, in the city of Dubuque, and for other pur- visions ; I am not prepared, of course, to express any opinion upon po~es; and . that; but I see that it does not contain the provisions and limitations A. bill (S. No. 235) providing forthe sale of part of the custom-house which the Judiciary Committee and the Senate wero unanimously of lot in Rockland, Maine. the opinion it was desirable that bills of this character, if they were DISTRICT CERTIFICATES OF INDEBTEDNESS. to pass at all, should contain. Mr. MORRILL, of Maine, submitted the following resolution; which TP.at is my reason for making these inquiries ancl these observations. was considered, by unanimous consent, and agreed to : I am sure the Senator willuot suppose for a moment that I have any criticism at all to pronounce upon the action of the Committee on Resolved, ~at the commissioners of the District of Columbia be directed to communicate to the Senate the amount of certificates of indebtedness commonly Military Affairs. It may be perfectly correct in its essence, but it is called ''greenbacks," issued by virtue of the acts of the Assembly of the District not the course of legislation which in analogous instances coming of Columbia and of Congress; also, the amount of assessments made in pursuance from the J udiciary.Committee, in all previous instances that I remem of said a{lf.s to secure the payment of said certificates of indebtedness; tfie amount of said assessments collected, and the amount outstanding unpaid, if any, and the ber, certainly all the ast ones, bas been adopted; and that leads me reasons why the same have not oeen collected; and whether any further legisla to suppose that it would be wise in the general int,erest of legislation, tion in the premises is necessary. in the protection of the Government, and in the administration of IV-148 . 2354 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. APRIL 10, justice, to have certainly a uniformity, t.o the extent of a clear anal The following bills from the House of Representative were sev ogy at any rate, between the law that we applied to one railroad in eral1y read twice by their titles, and referred to the Committee on Tennessee and to· another in Georgia. Pensions: The last bill that we passed upon the subject embraced, I think, at A bill (H. R. No. 197) granting a pension to Julia A. Schutt, widow least half a dozen different railways, and it underwent a great deal of of Martin Schutt, a deceased soldier; consideration in the committee to which I refer; and we thought it nec A bill (H. R. No. 1176) granting a pension to Francis Curran, Thir- essary, I b~li.eve with entire unanimity, that several provisions in tieth Indiana Cavalry; respect of· limitations and securities in re-opening old accounts and A bill (H. R. No. 2300) granting a pension to Margaret C. Bell; settlements, should be incorporated to guard against events which, A bill (H. R. No. 1939) granting a pension to Sarah Emmons; . if we believe the public newspapers, have, in respect of some railways, A bill (H. ·R. No. 1944) granting a pension to Niram W. Pratt; transpired in a way that they ought not to have transpired; but of A bill (H. R. No. 2079) granting a pension to Henry H. Kaiser, late course I know nothing about that. That is my reason for making private in Company H, Eighth Regiment United States Veteran Vol this suggestion, which I had hoped would meet with the approval of unteers; my distinguished friend from Georgia. • A bill (H. R. No. 2198) granting a pension to Mrs. Martha R. Rob 'Mr. GORDON. There are one or two members of the Committee on inson, of Portsmouth, Ohio; · Military Affairs who have gone into the investigation of this bill who • A bill (H. R. No. 2271) to increase the pension Of Mrs. Hannah W. are not now present in their seats ; and if it 1s the pleasure of the Sumner, widow of Major-General Edwin V. Sumner; Senate, I would prefer that this bill lie over until to-morrow, and I A bill (H. R. No. 2463) granting a peiU!ion to Adam Smouse· will call it up again. A bill (H. R. No. 2464) granting a pension to Diana Breysacker ; The PRESIDING OFFICER. The bill will lie over. At the request A bill (H. R. No. 2465) granting a pension to Emily Schwartz; of the President pro tempore, the Chair will lay before the Senate some A bill (H. R. No. 2466) granting a pension to Butler Fitch, late cap House bills for reference. tlllin Eighth Independent Battery, New York; A bill (H. R. No. 2585) granting a pension to John Haley, late pri-. HOUSE BILLS REFERRED. vate in Company C, One hundred and thirtieth Regiment lllinois Vol The following bills from the House of Representatives were sever unteers; ally read twice by their titles, and referred to the Committee on Com A bill (H. R. No. 2467) granting a pension to· Sarah J. King-; merce: A bill (H. R. No. 2586) granting a pension to John L. Bartley; A bill (H. R. No. 3022) making appropriations for the construction, A bill (H. R. No. 2587) granting a pension to Melvina Ingle; repair, preservation, and completion of certain public works on rivers A bill (H. R. No. 1178) granting a pension to John Gropper; arid harbors, and for other purposes; . A bill (H. R. No. 1204) granting a pension to Henry· H. Wharff, of A bill (H. R. No. 2123) making an appropriation for a light on the Company C, Eighteenth Regiment of Ohio Volunteers; and tower of the crib at the lake end of the tunnel of the water-works A bill (H. R. No. 1235) grant.ing a pension to Ro e Miller, widow of of the city of Chicago; Reason F. Miller, deceased, late a private in Company E, One hun A bill (H. R. No. 2252) to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury dred and twenty-third Illinois Infant,ry. ·to change the name of the steamboat Hiram Wood; The bill (H. R. No. 2382) granting the right of way to the Hot A bill (H. R. No. 28'24) to change the name of the steamboat Para- Springs Railroad Company over the Hot Springs reservation, in the gon, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; · State of Arkansas, was read twice by its title, and referred to the A bill (H. R. No. 354) to give an American register to the steamboat Committee on Public Lands. Isabel; The bill (H. . R. No. 620) for the relief of Redick McKee wat~ read A bill (H. R. No. 511) to change the name of a steamboat; twice by its title, and refened to the Committee on Indian Affairs. A bill (H. R. No. 702) for changing the name of the steam-propeller The bill (H. R. No. 2456) to release any title of the United States to Senator Mike Norton to America; and a certain tract of land in Braxton County, West Virginia, to Sarah A bill (H.R. No. 1915)to change the nnmeof the steamboat Robert Wilson was read twice by its title, and referred to the Committee on Bass. the Judiciary. The following bills from the House of Representatives were sev The joint resolution (H. R. No. 97) to return to the Treasury certain erally read twice by their titles, and referred to the Committee on unexpended balances was read twice by its title, and referred to the Claims: Committee on Finance. · A bill (H. R. No. 2693) for the relief of Joseph Anderson, of Nash JOHN M:. ENGLISH. ville, Tennessee ; Mr. HAMLIN. I move tlillt the Senate proceed to the consideration A bill (H. R. No. 40) to re-imburse B. F. WeHt & Co., of Martin's of executive business. Ferry, Ohio, for internal-revenue stamps stolen from Cambridge, Ohio, Mr. MERRIMON. I ask the honorable Senator from Maine to yield post-office; to me a moment, to call up Serlate bill No. 708 for the relief of John A bill (H. R. No. 648) for the relief of Andrew J. Barrett; M. English, of North Carolinv.. A bill (H. R. No. 915) for the relief of F. M. Blount, of Chica.go, lll - The PRESIDING OFFICER. Does the Senator from Maine yield nois; and for that purpose t A bill (H. R. No. 1218) making appropriations for the payment ( f Mr. HAMLIN. I withdraw the motion. claims reported to Congress under section 2 of the act approved June Mr. MERRIMON. It will not detain the Senate ten minutes. I 16, 1874, by the Secretary of the Treasury. will Mk the Senator from Iowa, [Mr. WRIGHT,] the charirman of the The following bills from tho House of Representatives were sever Committee on Claims, to make some explanation of the bill. I think ally 1·ead twice by th~ir titles, and referred to the Committee on Mil- there will be no objection to it. itary Affairs : . The PRESIDING OFFICER. 'l'he Senator from North Carolina A bill (H. R. No. 262) for-the relief of the legal representatives of moves that the Senate proceed t.o the consideration of the bill which John W. Gall, deceased, late of Company A, One hundred and thir he has named. tieth Illinois Volunteers; The motion was agreed to; and the bill ( S. No. 708) for the relief of A bill (H. R. No.1071) for the relief of Lieutenant James B. Sinclair, John M. English, of North Carolina, was rea 1876. OUNGR.ESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 2355 pay it now; and the Secretary of the Interior has no power to issue Mr. MORRILL, of Vermont. The matter is 1eft. e:1tirely in charge a duplicate as the law now stands. of the Sergeant-at-Arms. The expense so fa~ as anything now is in The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered volved will be a mere trifle. It is merely to perfect the inscriptions. to be engrossed for a +-bird reading, read the third time, and passed. For instance, there is a cenotaph there to Henry Clay and another to THE CONGRESSIONAL CE IETERY. John C. Calhoun with the inscription imperfect, only partly put on; and it is so in relation to several others. In some cases there is a Mr. MORRILL, of Vermont. I ask unanimous consent to take up foundation of stone that requires a little adjustment and some of Senate bill No. 679. . them require painting to prevent their destruction by the weather. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Does the Senator from Maine insist I think that there is no new monument required, and there is ample on his motion for an executive session T ground that is already allotted and set apart for the use of Congress Mr. HAMLIN. No, sir. to last for the next half century. By unanimou. consent, the bill (S. No. 679) relat~g to interme~ts Mr. MORRILL, of Maine. My understanding is that a large num-: in the Congresswnal Cemetery was read the second time, and conS1d ber of these cenotaphs or monuments are to Senators aud members ered as ill Committee of the Whole. It provides that hereafter when who were not buried there, and that the practice has been hereto ever any deceased Senator or member of the House of Representa fore to provide these monuments in all instances where a member of tives shall be actually interred in the Congressional Cemetery, so Congress died while in office. I should hope that system would not called, it shall be the duty of the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate, in be continued. It would cover a ~eat deal of ground in the end. the case of a Senator, and of the Sergeant-at.-Arms of the Jlouse of Mr. MORRILL, of Vermont. If the Senator from Maine will notice Representatives, in the case of a member of the House, to have the the provisionS of the bill he will see that it provides for nothing more usual monument erected, with suitable inscriptions, and the cost pf than those who may be actua.lly buried there. the same· shall be a charge upon and .paid out either from the con Mr. MORRILL, of Maine. Has it any relation to the monuments tingent funds of the Senate or of the House of Rep~ese.nt~tives, .to that are already there f whichever the deceased may have belonged, and any eXJstmg onns Mr. MORRILL, of Vermont. Nothing, except to perfect ~he in sions of monuments or inscriptions are authorized to be supplied in scriptions. like manner. Mr. SARGENT. I 8ee there is a. provision for erecting monuments Mr. MORRILL, of Vermont. This cemetery originally belonged to upon those who are already buried there. I would like to inquire if the members of Christ church. In 1807 they obtained a subscription the committee know bow many of those monuments are to be erected 7 for 200, with which they bought sqnare 1115. At a meeting of the Mr. MORRILL, of Vermont. So far as I can a-scertain there is but vestrymen March 30, 1812, it was deeded to Washington Parish, now one, the Senator from Virginia., who died in,1864, and there iaa.mon the name of Christ church, and it was designated as the Washington ument there ready to be placed over him. Parish Burial Grounds. It was subdivided into thirty-four ranges, The bill was reported to the Senate as amended, and the amend each range containing one hundred and fifty-two sites, April 6, 1816. ments were ~oncurred in. The vestry voted then to assign a hundred Sites of the burial ground The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third· reading, read the in the most eligible situation as a reservation for the interment of third time, and pa-ssed. members of Congress, the said sites to l1e so located as to be as near each other as possible. Since that time it has generally been called PAPERS WITHDRAWN. the Congressional Cemetery. In compliance with a memorial of the On motion of Mr. MERRIMON, it was vestry, Congress appropriatetl 2,000 to enable the parish to inclose Ordered, That Nancy E . .Ammons have leave to withdraw her papers from the the cemetery with a brick wall. At the same time the parish added files of the Senate. • three hundred sites, making a total of four hundred sites, to the On motion of Mr. RANSOM, it was use of Congress. April 25, in the words of the petition, Congress Ordered, That the heirs of Colonel Francis Taylor and the heirs of Dr. Charles granted two additional squares, 1116 and 1117, which were taken and Taylor have leave to withdraw their petition and papers from the ftlea of the offered and disposed of in 1850. A few yeaTs later another addition Senate. :was made, embracing squares 1104 and 1105, and made available for EXECUTIVE SESSION. interments in 1855. A further addition was found convenient. and in Mr. DORSEY. I move that the Senate proceed·to the consideration 1 67 square 1123 was added to those previously taken. Further exi of executive business. gencies in 1870 caused square 1106 to be uddetl to build up the city of The motion was agreed to; and the Senate proceeded to the con the dead. sideration of executive business. After thirty-seven minutes spent This cemetery has been used for the burial of Senators and Repre in executive session the doors were re-opened, and (at four o'clock and sentatives in Congress, and cenotaphs have been erected, whether the fifty-two minutes p.m.) the Se~ate adjourned. parties deceased were burie~ there or not. Since the introduction of railroads the remains of most of the deceased Senators and members of the House have been taken to their homes. There are several of those who are interrt::d there with monuments having inscriptions un finished. The monuments there are made of soft sandstone, and are HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. rapidly decaying. Some of them are out of order, but it seemed to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds that it was an un MOND.A.Y, April 10, 1876. necessary expenditure of money to put up cenotaphs there for parties The House· met at twelve o'clock m. Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. who were not absolutely buried there. They therefore report this bill I. L. TOWNSEND. - providing for monuments to such as shall actually be bnriecl in the The Journals of Friday and Saturday last were read and approved. cemetery, and also for completing the inscriptions of such as may be there without inscriptions or with imperfect inscriptions. There is CONTESTED-ELECTION CASE-LEE VS. RAINEY. one Senator, the late Senator from Virginia, [Mr. Bowden,] who has ·The SPEAKER, by unanimous consent, laid before the House pa no monument erecte~ on his gra-ve. He died here in 1864 of the pers in the contested-election case of Lee vs. Rainey; which were re small-pox, and there is a spare monument there that could be used ferred to the Committee of Elections, without printin~. for the purpose. It has seemed also proper that we should have some law on this GEORGE W. GREENE. subject. I have not been able to find anything in the statutes as to Mr. BEEBE, by unanimous consent, submitted the following reso who shall have charge of burials in this cemetery. By the bill it is lution; which was read, considered, and agreed to: proposed to leave the subject in charge, where the. case involves a Resolved, That the claim of Hon. G. W. Greene for re-imbursement for expenses deceased Senator, of the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate, and where incurred in defense of his right to a seat in the Forty-first Congress be, and the a member of the House, of the Sergeant-at-Arms of the House. I will same is hereby, referred to tlie Committee of Elections, with instructions to exam- also move as an amendment to the bill that these monuments when ine and report to this House what is dne him thereon. . . ' put up shall be made of granite, so that they need not require to be LAW IN RELATION TO WILLS AND PROBATE IN THE DISTRICT. painted, and will be more durable. I move to strike out all after the word "have" in line 8 to the word "erected" in line 9, and to insert Mr. CRAPO, by unanimous consent, from ·the Committee for the as follows: District of Columbia, reported, as a substitute for House bill No. 1357, a bill (H. R. No. 3046) to amend the laws with resp~ct to wills, A monument erected of granite in the form of the cenotaphs heretofore pro vided. to regulat-e the transaction of probate business in the supreme court of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes; which was read The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question i!J on the amendment of the Senator from Vermont. a first and second time, recommitted to the Committee for the Dis The a.mendment was agreed to. trict of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. MORRILL, of Vermont. I also move to add at the end of the ORDER OF BUSINESS. bill the following : The SPEAKER. The morning hour begins at twenty-five minutes And all laws upon the subject of monuments in the Congressional cemetery are pa~t twelve o'clock; and, this being Monday, the first business in hereby repealed. order is the call of the States and Territories, beginning with the State The amendment was agreed to. of Maine, for the introduction of bills and jointresolutionsfor referen_ce Mr. MORRILL, of Maine. I will inquire of the Senator if there is to their appropriate committees, oot to be brought back on motions any limitation as to the expense to be incnned for these monuments Y to reconsider. Under this call memorials and resolutions of State and 'l'hey are to be made of granite, and at what expense T territorial Legislatures may be presented for reference and printing. 235.6 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-ROUSE. APRIL 10, Mr. DUNNELL. I hope the House will consent that the call shall WASHINGTON .ABATIOIR AND RENDERING COMPANY. be continued until all the States and Territories have been called. Mr. MEADE (by request) introduced a bill (H. R. No. 3062) to pro The SPEAKER.. If there be no objection, ~he call will be continued vide for the care and inspection of all animalB to be slaughtered for without reference to the morning hour until all the States and Ter food purposes in the District of Colmp.bia and td incorporate theWash ritories have been cal led. The Chair hears no objection. ington Stock-yard, Abattoir, and Rendering Company; which was J. A. KENNEDY. read a first and second time, referred to the Committee forthe District Mr. BLAIR introduced a bill (H. R. No. 3047) for the relief of J. A. of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Kennedy, of Washington, District of Columbia; .which was rea-d a SECTION 3433 OF REVISED STATUTES. first and second time, referred to the Committee for the District of Mr. MEADE (by request) also introduced a uill (H. R. No. 3063) to Columbia, and ordered to be printed. amend section 3433 of the Revised Statutes of the United States; D. H. MORRISON. which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee of · Mr. BLAIR also introduced a, bill (H. R. No. 3048) for the relief of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. D. H. Morriso.n, of Washington, District of Columbia; which was read STAMP TAX ON PROPRIETARY MEDICINES. ar first and second time, referred to the Committee for the District of Mr. MEADE (by request) also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 3064) to Columbia, and ordered to be :{>rinted: repeal the stamp tax on proprietary medici:les and other proprietary ' THOMAS LEWIS. articles; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Com Mr. BLAIR also ·introcluced a. bill (H. R. No. 3049) for the relief of mittee <'f Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Thomas Lewis, of Washington, District of Columbia; which was read TITLE 33 O.F REVISED STATUTES. ajirst and second time, referred to the Committee for the District of -Mr. MEADE (by request) also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 3065) ex Columbia, and ordered to be printed. planatory of ~itle 33 of the Revised Statutes of the United States; CATHARINE M. BATES AND OTHERS. which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee of Mr. BLAIR also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 3050) for the relief of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Catharine :M. Bates and others, of Washington,.District of Columbia; BRITISH SHIP DON ENRIQUE. which was read a :first. and second time, referred to the Committee for Mr. BLISS introduced a bill (H. R. No. 3066) to give an American the District of Columbia, and·ordered to be printed. register to the British ship Don Enrique; which was rea-d a :first and G. G. CORNWALL & SONS. second time, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered. to Mr. BLAIR also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 3051) for the relief of be printed. G. G. Cornwall & Sons, of Washington, District of Columbia; which ALEXANDER ANDERSON. was read a :first and second time, referred to the Committee for the Mr. MAcDOUGALL introduced a bill (H. R. No. 3067) for the relief District of ColumpiaJ and ordered to be printed. of Alexander Anderson, late first lieutenant Fourteenth New York . JOHN QUTI..TER. Volunteer Infantry; which was read a :first and second time, referred Mr. BLAIR also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 3052) for the relief of to the Committee on Milit~ ,Affairs, and ordered to be printed. John Quilter, of Washington, District of Columbia; which was read RESUMPTION OF SPECIE PAYMENTS. a :fhst and sec~ild time, referred to the Committee for the District of Mr. MACKEY, of Pennsylvania, introduced a bill O:I. R. No. 3068) Columuia, an NA.NNIE HALL. . SILAS TAGGERT. Mr. LYNCH introduced a bill (H. R. No. 3077) re~eiTing to the Court Mr. HARTZELL introduced a bill (H. R. No. 3090) granting increase of Cl:J.ims the claim of Nannie Hall, formerly widow of la.te Lieuten- of pension to Silas 1'aggm~, Randolph County, Illinois; which was ant Denman~ of the United States Army, for cotton seized and the read a first anti second time, referred to the Committee on Invalid proceeds paid into the United States Treasury; which wa.s read a. Pensions, and ordered to be printed. first and second time, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, CAPTAIN M. ·L. COURTNEY. and ordered to be printed. . Mr. WHITING ruliroduced a bill (H. R. No. 3091) for the relief of A.l\1ALIE H. SMITH. · Captain M. L. Courtney, Twenty-fifth United States Infantry, for loss Mr. ELLIS introduced a bill (H. R. No. 3078) for the relief of sustained by :f.! re at Fort Stockton, Texas, on the night of November Amalie H. Smith, of Louisiana; which was read a first· and second 17, 1872; which was read a first and second time, reierred to the Com time, referred to the Committee on War Claims, and ordered to be mittee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. printed. . JOHANNA DOUJIERTY. NEW ORLEANS MINT. Mr. EGBERT, by unanimous consent, introduced a bill (H. R. No. l\1r. MOREY presented a joint resolution of the Legislature of tho 3092) granting a pension to Johanna Douherty; which was read a. State of Louisiana, regarding the United States mint in the city of first a.nd second time, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, New Orleans; which was referred to the Committee on Appropria- and ordered to be printed. tlons, and ordered to be printed. LEGAL REPRESENTATIVES OF ZACHARIAH B. WASHBURN, DECEASED. OSAGE INDIANS. Mr. CANNO~, of Illinois, introduced a bill (H. R. No.3093) for the .Mr. FOSTER introduced a bill (H. R. No. 3079) to authorize the exe relief of th~ legal representatives of Zachariah B. Washburn, de cution of a resolution of the National Council of the Osage Indians; ceased; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Com which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on mittee on Private Land Claims, and ordered to be printed. Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. CALVIN B. HINKLEY. GEORGE W. GILDOU. Mr. REA (by rec1uest) introduced a .bill (H. R. No. 3094) for the Mr. NEAL introduced a bill (H. R. No. 3080) granting a pension to relief of Calvin B. Hinkley, late captain of the United States Maine George W. Gildon; which wa.s read a first and second time, referred Volunteers an(l F irst Maine Heavy Artillery; which was read a :fi.Tst to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. ·and second time, referred to the Comwitte·e on Military· Affairs, and JOHN P. HALL. ordered to be pri.J1tod. Mr. BOONE introduced a bill (H. R. No. 3081) for the relief of the· G OYER!.~ FOR DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. sureties of John P. H:1ll, late collector of internal revenue in the- Mr. BUCKNER introduced a joint resolution (H. R. No. 100) pro district of Kentucky; which was read a :first and second time, re viding for a joint committee to frame a permanent form of govern ferred to the Committee of Ways and Means, a.nd ordered to be printed. ment for the District of Columbia, and for other purposes; which RICHARD T. JACOB, JR. was read a firtJ t an,l second time, referred to the Committee for the Mr. BLACKBURN introduced a bill (H. R. No. 3082) for the relief District 9f Columbia, and ordered to be printed. of RichardT. Jacob, jr., lieutenant Sixth United States Infantry; AGE ' TS A~D ATTORNEYS, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Mr. HATCHER introduced a bill (H. R. No. 3095) in relation to M~tary Affairs, and ordered to be printed. agents and attorneys of the District of Columbia; which was read a C. M. WILCOX. first and second time, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, Mr. YOUNG introduced a bill (H. R. No. 3083) to remove the polit and ordered to be printed. ical disabilities of C. M. Wilcox, of Maryland; which was read a first KINSEY B. CECIL. and second time, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and Mr. FRANKLIN introduced a bill (H. R. No. 3096) to confirm title ordered to be printed. to certain lands in Platte County, Missouri, and aut horizing patents CHRISTIAN CHURCH, UNION CITY, TENNESSEE. to be issued therefor to Kinsey B. Cecil; which was read a first and Mr. CALDWELL, of Tennessee, introduced a bill (H. R. No.3084) second time, referred to the Committ ee on Public Lands, and ordered to indemnify trustees of Christian church, at Union City, Tennessee, to be printed. for the appropriation of their chmch building to Government pur JOHN LANGLAND. poses by United States forces in the month of March, 1864·; which Mr. W. B. WILLIAMS int1·oduced a bill (H. R. No. 3097) granting was read a first and second time, refen·ed to the Committee on War a pension to John Langland; which was read a first and second time, Claims, and ordered to be printed. referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be JOSEPH LIPPMAN. printed. • E. J. GURLEY. . Mr. McFARLAND introduced a bill. (H. R. No. 3085) authorizing the southern claims commission to grant a rehearing in the claim of Mr. MILLS introduced a bill (H. R. No. 3098) for the relief of E. J. Joseph Lippman; which was read a first and second time, referred Gmley, of McLennan County, Texas; which was read a first andsec to the Co1Illlli,ttee on War Claims, and ordered to be printed. ond time, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printetl. FRANK H. NICHOLS. SECTION 778 OF REVISED STATUTES. Mr. Mcl!..,ARLAND introduced a bill (H. R. No. 3086) authorizing Mr. AINSWORTH iutrodnced a bill (H. R. No. 3099) to amend sec the southern claims commission to grant a rehearing in the case of tion 778 of the Revised Statutes; which was rea-d a first and second Frank H. Nichols; which was read a first and second time, referred time, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, an.d ordered to be to the Committee on War Claims, and ordered to be printed. printed. MARY ~OGERS. E. G. PE1-."'ROSE. 1\lr. McFARLAND also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 3087) granting a Mr. WILSON, of Iowa., introduced a bill (H. R. No. 3100) for the • pension to Mary Rogers, mother of John Rogers, deceased, Company relief of· E. G. Penrose, of Tama City, Iowa; which was read a fh1;t D, Fourth Tennesseo Infantry Volunteers; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee of Ways aml Means, aud and second time referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. · ordered to be prmted.1 · · ELECTIONS IN UTAH. S. R. SIMPSON & SON. . Mr. LUTTRELL (by request) introduced a bill (H. R. No: 3101) to Mr. RIDDLE introduced a bill (H. R. No. 3088) to enable S. ~ regulate elections and the elective franchise in the Territory of Utah; Simpson & Son, of Gallatin, Tennessee, to navigate the Cumberland which was reat!l. a first , nd second time, referred to the Committee on River with a small steamboat, without the usual examination, the the Territories, and ordered to bo printed. same to be used in private trade only; which was reau a first and LANDS IN CALIFOIL.~. second time, referred to the C >IDIBittee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. WIGGINTON presented a concurrent resolution of the Legisla .JI.ffiS. G. A. DENNIS. ture of the State of California relative to certain lands in that State; which was referred to the Committee on Public Landa, and ordered to Mr .. HAYMOND introduced a bill (H. R. No. 3089) granting a pensi n be printed. to Mrs. G. A. Dennis, widow of Abraham Dennis, captain of Company SECTION 1624 l'tEVISED STATUTES. D, Second Regiment Indiana Volunteers in the war with Mexico; 1 which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Mr. WIGGI:t\TTON aJ.so int roduced a bill (H. R. No. 3Hr2) to amend Invalid Pen;'ions, and ordered to be printed. article 53 of section 1624 of the Revised Statutes; which was read a :first and second time, referred tothe Committee on NavalAffairs,and • SPECIAL-TAX STAMPS. ordered to be printed. · Mr. MORRISON introduced a joint resolution (H. R. No. 99) con Mr. WIGGINTON ah!o introduced a bHl (H. R. No. 3103) to repeal cerning special-tax stamps; which. was read a first and second time. article 37 of section 1624 of the Revised St atutes; which was read referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be a :first and second time, referred 1;o the Committee on Naval Affairs, printed. and ordereq. to be :printed, • • 2358 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. APRI;L 10, IMMIGRATION ACT OF l\IARCH 3, 1875. ALABAMA CLAIMS. Mr. PIPER introduced a joint resolution (H. R. No. 101) instruct Mr. MEADE, by unanimous consent, iutroduced a hill (H. R. No. 3116) ing the Secretary of the Treasury to enforce the immigration act of providing for the payment of judgments of the court of commission March 3, 1875; which was read a first a.nd second time, referred to ers of Alabama claims; which was read a first and second time, re the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. ferred to the Committee on the Judiciary, :md ordered to be printed. HASTINGS AND DAKOTA RAILROAD, MINNESOTA. WILLIAM PINN. Mr. STRAIT introduced a bill (H. R. No. 3104) extending the time Mr. RIQE, by unanimous consent, introduced a bill (H. R. No. 3117) for the completion of the Hastings and Da,kota Railroad, in the State granting a pension to William Pion, late a private in Company C, of Minnesota; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Third Ohio Volunteers; which was read a first and second time, re Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. ferred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. STEAl\f-PLOW MACHINERY. R. W. REESE: Mr. KING introduced a bill '(H. R. No. 3105) to authorize the im Mr. TURNEY, by unanimous consent, introduced a bill (H. R. No. portation of steam-plow machinery free of duty for a period of two 3118) restoring the name of R. W. Reese to the pension-rolls; which years ; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Com was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Invalid mittee of Ways and Mea~s, and ordered to be printed. Pensions, and ordered to be printed.· LANDS RESERVED FOR SALT SPRINGS, MINNESOTA. DANIEL ARMBRUST. Mr. KING also· introduced a bill (H. R. No. 3106) to relinquish to Mr. TURNEY also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 3119) restoring the the State of Minnesota the lands reserved for salt springs therein; name of Daniel Armbrust to the pension-rolls; which was read a first which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on and second time, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. ordered to be printed. . RAILROAD LAND GRANTS. WILLIAM RUTHERFORD. Mr. GOODIN introduced a bill (H. R. No. 3107) to provide for the Mr. BALLOU, by unanimous consent, introduced a bill (H. R. No. restoration to market of all public lands conditionally granted in aid 3120) for the relief of William Rntherford, of Washington, District of the construction of railways when the conditions of the grants of Columbia; which was read a first and second time, referred to the have not been complied with; which was read a first and second Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. time, referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be ELIJAH ROUND. printed. Mr. HOLMAN, by unanimous consent, introduced a bill (H. R. No. TERMS OF COURTS AT LINCOLN, .NEBRASKA.. . 3121) for the relief of Elijah Round; which was readafirstand second Mr. CROUNSE introduced a · bill (H. R. No. 3108) providing for "time, referred to the Committee on War Claims, and ordered to he . holding terms of the circuit and district courts at Lincoln, Nebraska; printed . which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on DENNIS MARTIN .il.'D WILLIAM T. MERRILL. the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. HOLMAN also, by unanimous consent, introduced a bill (H. R. HENRY GREBE. No. 3122) for the relief of Dennis Martin and William T.l\Ierrill; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Mr. CROUNSE also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 3109) for the relief Wa-,: Claims, and ordered to be printed. of Henry Grebe, of Omaha, Nebraska; which wa-s read a first and second time, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be FLUCTUATION IN VALUE OF UNITED STATES NOTES. printed. Mr. GARFIELD, by unanimous consent, introduced a bill (H. R. THOMAS BLAIR. No. 3123) to prevent the fluctuation in value of United States notes Mr. ELKINS introduced a bill (H. R. No. 3110) for the relief of and to make them redeemable in gold coin at the option of the hold Thomas Blair; which was read a first and second time, referred to the ers; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Commit Committee on War Claims, and ordered to he printed. tee of Ways and Me.~ns, and ordered to be printed. • ELISHA D. VAN KUREN. ABRAM G. HOYT. Mr. BEEBE, by unanimous consent, introduced a bill (H. R. No. Mr. ELKINS also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 3111) for the relief of 3124) for the relief of Elisha D. Van Kuren, late a private in Company Abram G. Hoyt; which was read a first and second time, referred to H, One hundred and twenty-fourth New York Volunteers; which the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printE>d. was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on War PRIVATE LAND CLAii\I IN NEW 1\IEXICO. Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. JACOBS introduced a bill (H. R. No. 3112) to confirm a private The SPEAKER. The call of States and Territories is now com land claim in the Territory of New Mexico; which was read a first plete. • nd second time, referred to the Committee on Private ·Land Claims, SIGNAL SERVICE . and ordered to be printed. Mr. HOSKINS, by unanimous consent, presented resolutions of the New York Produce Exchange and the New York Cotton Exchange in CITIZENS OF TRDUDAD, LAB ANIMAS COUNTY, COLORADO. relation to the weather bureau of the Signal Service ; which were Mr. PATTERSON introduced a bill (H. R. No. 3113) for the relief referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed of citizens of Trinidad, Las Animas County, Colorado; which was in the RECORD. read a first and second time, referred to the Commi~e on Public Lands, The resolutions are as follows: and ordered to be printed. NEW YORK COTI'ON EXCHANGE. I WILLIAM G.EJ.'\!MILL. The following preamble and resolutions were unanimously adopted by the board of managers of tlie New York Cotton Exchan~e at a meeting held April3, 1876: Mr. KIDDER introdnced a bill (H. R. No. 3114) for the relief of Whereas the interests of commerce and agncnlture in the United States demand William Gemmill; which was read a first and second time, referred to the fullest consideration from the Q-Qvernment as forming the true basis of the country's wealth and greatness; and whereas the growth and exportation o£ cotton the Committee on .Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. has contributed largely to the development of the resources of the Southern States and to the commercial prosperity of the North; and whereas everyone who is ~n :MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE. . gaged in the production or exportation of cotton has recognized the great impor 11. message from the Senate, by Mr. SYMPSON, one of their clerks, in tance and advanta(l:es of the reliable and timely meteorofogica.l information and formed the House that the Senate had passed bills of the following weather news fnrmshed by the weather bureau of the United Stateg Signal Serv ice, aml by means of which shipments are almost en tirely regulated, large losses titles; in which he wn.s directed to ask the concurrence of the House: prevented, and the trade surrounded with a. !!a.feguaru which r nders it steady and An act (S. No. 701) to provide for administering oaths in the Sen profitable : Therefore, · ate; and · Resolred, That we, the hoard of managers of the Cotton Exchange of New York, An act (S. No. 706) making an appropriation to defray the expenses recognizing the present value and effiCie:lCy of the weather bureau of the Signal • ServiCe to our trade, do most heartily recommend thiR pn blic service to the fa.vora. of the committee appointed by the Senate to investigate the recent ble and sp6(.lial consideration of Congres&, and that Rn.ch stej>S be taken and such election in Mississippi. appropriations be made as will enable the service to be raisefl to the highe tstand The message further announced that the Senate had rejected the ard of efficiency for the benefit of cummerce aml agriculture. hill (H. R. No. 700) to incorporate the Mutual Protective Fire Insur Resolved, That Congress is hereby urged an requested to take favorable action on the bill now pending in the !louse of .Representatives making a. permanent or ance Company of the District of Columbia. g,:nization of the weather bureau, as reconunenued by the Chief Signal Officer of the Army. . ORDER OF BUSINESS. Resolved, That copies of these resolutions be forward~d to each Senator and].Uem The SPEAKER. The call of the States and Territories for bills, ber of Congress from New York State. . &c., having been concluded, the Chair will now receive requests from HENRY HENTZ, President. members who were absent when their States were called who desire EDWD. LEVEP..ICH, to introduce bills. SecTetarv. CONTRACTS FOR LIGHT-HOUSES. NEW YORK PRODUCE E 'CHANGE, • Mr. B~KS, by unanimous consent, introduced a bill (H. R.No. 3115) . New York Oity, New York, April4, 1876. in relation to contracts for light-houses. which was read a first and ~tameetingoft.~e boa.rdofmanagersof~e NewYork~uuce Exchan~e, held . . ' Ithis day, the followmg preamble and resolutions were unammously a.doptea : second tilDe, referred t<> the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to Whereas this exchange, recognizin(J' the great bem,tit it has already derived be printed. • from the Signllol Service, 1ih() daily re:port& fqrnisheq 'bearing a very important part 1876. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 2359 in the commercial transactions of t-he day, and being impressed with the impor The SPEAKER. If thePe be no objection, the views of the minority tance and utility of the system and the future advantages which agriculture and if the various departments of commercial industry may derive from its labors ; and of the Commit tee of Elections, presented within a rea-sonable time, whereas a general and increasing confidence in the utility of the weather bureau will be printed with the majority report. is manifested by all classt>s because of the practical an rience may be retained: Therefore, to report back Honse bill No. 3022, making appropriations for the Resolved, That to this end CongreBB is hereby earnestly requested to mak0 such appropriations as shall be in its judgment necessary; and that we recommend and construction, repair, preservation, and completion of certain public urge the passage of the bill now pending in the House of P..epresentatives making works of rivers and harbors, and for other purposes, and to move that the weather bureau a. fixed organization, as recommended by the Chief Signal Offi the rules be suspended and the bill now passed. cer of the Army. The Clerk began the reading of the bill; but before concluding, Re8olved, That a copy of these resolutions be forwarded to ~h member of Con· gross from New York State. . Mr. HAMILTON, of New Jersey, s~id: Has not the morning hour On behalf of the board : expired f · B. W. FLOYD, President. The SPEAKER. It has, some time since. E. W. MASCORD, Secretary. Attest: Mr. HAMILTON, of New Jersey. Thenlcallfortheregularorder. S.H. GRANT, The SPEAKER. This is the regular order. . Supmntendent. Mr. HAMILTON, of New Jersey. Then I call forthespecial order. PORTSMOUTH, omo. The SPEAKER. This is Monday, and after the mornin~ hour it is Mr. VANCE, of Ohio. I have here the memorial of the Board of in order to move a suspension of the rules ; and that motion is now Trade, the city council, and others, of Pommouth, Ohio, praying that pending. that place be declared a port of delivery. It is brief, and I ask that Mr. HAMILTON, of New Jersey. Is not the bill subject to a point it be printed. in the •REcoRD and referred to the Committee on Com of order that it contains an appropriation, and therefore must receive m~rce. The memorial is signed by the president of the board of trade, its first consideration as in Committee of the Whole. the president of the city council, and the importers and manufact The SPEAKER. No points of order can be made against a. bill urers generally of Portsmouth. when the motion is to suspend the rules and pass the bill. There was no objection, and it was so ordered. Mr. HOLMAN. I rise to a question of order. The memorial is as follows: The SPEAKER. The gentleman will state it. To the lwnorable the Senate and House of .Representatives in Oongress assembled: Mr. HOLMAN. . I understand that on Thursday last-the bill in rela Your memorialists, the.Doa.rd of Trade, city council, importers, manufacturers, and tion to the Hawaiian treaty was made a special order after the expi wholesale merchants of the ci~ of Portsmouth, Ohio, respectfully pray your hon ration of the morning hour. I submit that a motion to suspend the OJ-able bodies to establish this City aa a port of delivery for foreign goods imported rules on Monday Brown, B~rlei gh, Cox, Darrall, Duglas, Ely, Farwell, Hale, Hardenbergh, Ben· HAWA.IIAN TREATY. j am in W. Harns, John T. Harris, HalTison, Hartridge. AbramS. Hewitt, Hopkins, IIunton, .Jenks, Frank .Jones, Ketchum, Knott, Frallidin Landers, Lapham, Leav· Mr. WOOD, of New York. I move that the House resolve itself cnworth, Lynd,e, Edmund W. M. M'lckey, McDill, McMahon, Metcalfe Morey, into Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union to resumo the Morrison, Norton, Quell, l'acker, Phelp , Purman, Rainey, .James B. ReiDy, Rob consideration of the bill (H. R. No. 612) in relation to the Hawaiian erts, Miles Ross, Schumaker, Sheaklc.y, Slemons, Smalls, A. Herr Smith, William E . w ith, Sparks, Stone, Stowell, Sw:mn, Martin I. Townsend Charles C. B. j;reaty. • Walker, Alexander S. Wallu,ce, .John W. Wallace. Walls, Ward., G. Wiley Wells~ The motion was agreed to. Whitehou e, Whitthorne, Wigginton, James D. Williams, Benjamin Wilson, ana The House oocordingly resolved itself into Committee of the Whole Alan Wood, jr.-68. on the state of the Union, (Mr. SAYLER in the chair,) andre umed the So (two-thirds voting in favor thereof) the rules were suspended consideration of the bill (H. R. No. 612) to carry into effect a conven and the bill pa~sed. tion between the United States anti His Majesty the King of the Ha During the roll-call the following announcements were made : waiian Islands, signed on the 30th day of January, 1875. Mr. :r-.~w. I desire to state that my colleague, Mr. LANDERs, of The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from ~~assachusetts [Mr. BANKs] . Indiana, is absent on account of sickness. . is entitled to the floor . Mr. JAMES B. REILLY. I am paired with my colleague, Mr. ALAN Mr. DANKS addressed the committee in favor of the bill. Before WooD, who is ab ent by leave of the Hou e. I do not know how he he had concluded, (his time having been twice extended,) would vote on this question if present, and therefore I prefer not to Mr. WOOD, of New York, said: As the hour for the recess is near at vote. hand, the gentleman from Massachusetts [Mr. BANKs] yields to me Mr. BOONE. My colleague, Mr. BRoWN, of Kentucky, is absent by to move that the committee rise, in order that the House may extend leave of the House on :wcount of sickness. the session. Mr. WALKER, of Virginia. My colleague, Judge HARRIS, has re The inotion of Mr. WooD, of Now York, that the committee rise tired. to his room on account of illness. was agreed to. Mr. TEESE. Two of my colleagues, Mr. HARDENBERGH a.nd Mr. The committee accordingly rose; and Mr. SPRINGER haviug taken Ross, of New Jersey, are absent on account of a death in Mr. Ross's the chair as Speaker pro tentpore, Mr. SAYLER reported that the Com fam.ily. They would each vote "ay," if present. mittee of the Whole on the state of the nion had had under consid Mr. CADELL. My colleagues, Mr. DOUGLAS and Mr. HUNTON, are eration the bill (H. R. No. 612) to carry into effect a convention be absent by leave of the House. If they were here, I. think they would tween the United States of America an(l His Majesty the King of the vote" ay." Hawaiian Islands, signed on the 3Uth day of January, 1 75,. and had :Mr. CANDLER. I desire to state that my colleague, Mr. BLOUNT, come to no resolution thereon. is absent on account of sickness of himself. If present, he would vote Mr. RANDALL. I move that t.he evening ses ion of to-day be dis "ay." pensed with, upon the understanding thap thls bill is to be disposed Mr. SMITH, of Permsylvania. On, this question I am paired with of t.o-night and that Thursday e'fening be substituted for to-night Mr. WELLS, of Mississippi. If he were here, he would vote" ay" and in the re~olution which I offered to-day in regard to evening se sions. I should vote "no." Mr. WOOD, of New York. Do I understand that we now proceed Mr. HARTZELL. My colleague, Mr. SPARKS, is absent by leave to finish. the bill before we adjourn 7 of the Hous'e. Mr. KELLEY. If it is to be voted on to-night we may be obliged The result of the vote was announced as above stated. to have a call of the House. · ORDER OF BUSINESS. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Penn ylvania [Mr. RANDALL] asks a modification of the order previom:;ly made to Mr. WOOD, of New York, obtained the floor, and said: I have day, so as to dispense with the recess to-uay and substitute a ses sought t.he floor for the purpose of moving that the House resolve sion on T~un~day night of this week for the se sion to-night, in or itself ·into the Committee of the Whole to resume the consideration der to en1l.b1e the Honse to proceed a,t this time with the consideration of the bill to carry into effect the Hawaiian treaty; but, before mak of the bill to carry into effect the Hawaiian treaty. If there be no ing that motion, I will yield to several· gentlemen, first to the gen objection, it will be.so ordered. tleman from Pennsylvania, [Mr. RAl~ALL.] There was no objection, and it was ordered accordingly. EVENING SESSIONS. ENROLLED BILLS SIGNED. Mr. RANDALL submitted the following re olution; which was During the remarks of Mr. BANKS, ·read, considered, and agreed to : The SPEAKER took the chair and said: The Chair desires tore Resolved, That the rules be suspended o aa to enable the House to take a recess quest unanimous consent that the committee now rise, in order that daily for three days of the present week, to wit, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednes day, at ha. l,f pa t four o'clock p. m. until half past seven o'clock p. m., for the pur the Committee on Enrolled Bills may report and the Speaker ign pose of conSldering th!3legislative, executive, and jud~cial appropriation bill. two bills, one of which; '!'elating to limitations in criminal cases, the public interest requires may become a law at the earliest possible CONVENTION WITH VENEZUELA. moment. . Mr. LORD, by unanimous consent, submitted the following resolu There was no objection. tion; whlch was read, considered and adopted: Mr. HARRIS, of Georgia, from the Committee on Enrolled Bills Resolved, That the Pre ident of the United States, if not inc,ompatible with the reportetl that they_had examined and found truly enrolled bills of th~ public intor · t, be requested to infonn thi8 House as to what meaanres have been following titles; when the Speaker signed the same: adopted to enforoo the provisions of the following bill: • An act {H. R. No. llUl) granting a pension to Mrs. Jane Dulaney; An act to enforce the stipnla.tions of the convention with Venezuela of April25, and 1866, and the payment of adjudicated claims. An act (H. R. No. 2655) to amend section 1044 of the Revised Stat IJe it enacted by the Senate and Rouse of Representatives of the United States of utes rei, ting to limitations in criminal cases. · A.m.ericain Conoress assembled, That the adjudication of claims by the convention with Venezuela of April 25, 1866, pursuant to the terms of the said convention, is SUBSIDIARY SILVER COIN. . hert~by racognizecl as final and conclusive, and to be held as valid and subsisting again t the republic of Venezuela. A message from the Senate, by Mr. SYMPSON, one of their c1erks, an Approved F ebruary 25, 1873. nounced that the Senate had passed, with amendments, in which the concurrence of the House was requested, a bill (H. R. No. Z450) to pro RIGHT OF PETITION BY ARMY OFFICERS, ETC. vide for a deficiency in the Printing and Engraving Bureau of the l\Ir. SEELYE, by unanimous consent, submitted t he following reso Trea ury Department and for the issue of silver coin of the United lut.ion; which wat~ rcafl, considered, and a-dopted : States in place of fractional currency. · Wherea."> in the testimony taken before the Committee on Expenditures in the Mr. RANDALL. I ask unanimous consent that the bill just re War Department it appPars that an order was iSsued from the -war Department ceived from the Senate, with amendments, bo taken from the Speak tlat;·cl March 15, 1873, which directed, first, that no officer, activo or retired, hall, ' er's table, and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. 1li1: ·ctly, or indirectly, without being called upon by proper a1tthority, solicit, sug. ge ·t, or recommend action lJy members of Congress for or ag aim~t mi1itary aft'airs; There being no objection, it .was so oruered. second, all petitions to Con;,;ress by officers relative to sul>jects of a military char HAW .AllAN TREATY. actor will be forwarde(l t hrou~h the General of the Army and Secretary of War for their action and transtnitta.1 : Therefore, Mr. WOQD, of New York. I now move that the House again re Resolved, That the Co!Il.mittee on the .Judiciary be, and hereby are, directed to solve itself into Committee of the Whole, to resume the considera inqniro and report to this House at any time, by bill or otherwise, if any additional tion of the bill to carry into effect the Hawaiian t.eaty. legislation is necessary to define the relation of the .A.rmr to Congress, and to secme t? officers of the Army and sol~ers the rights of potition which belong to every The motion was agre ~d to ; and the House accordingly resolved 01tizen. it.:;elf into Committee of the Whole, ('l\fr. SAYLER in t.he chair,) and E. 0 11\L C0!\"1>0~. resumed the consideration of the bill (H. R No. 612) to carry into Mr. CANNON, of Illinois, moved a suspen ~ion of the rules and the e1fect a convention between the'" United Staoos of America and His adoption of the following resolution; which (two-thirds voting in Majesty the King of the Hawaiian Islands, signed on the 30th day of favor thereof) was agreed to: J :muary, 1875. Whereas it is alleged that E. O'M. Condon, a naturalized citizen of the United [Mr. BANKS resumed and concluded his romarks, which are with- ~ tates, is helU in imprisonment by the British government for a political offense: held for revision. [His speech in full will appear in the Appendix.) Therefore, · Mr. TUCKER obtained the floor. Be it resolved, Tbat the Committee on Foreign Affairs he directed to inquire into Mr. MORRISON. I move that the committee rise. the cause of the imprisonment of said E. O'M. Condon by the British government and report to this Honse by bill or otherwise snch steps, if any, which should b~ The motion was agreed to;· taken bv the F~deral Government in behalf of said E. O'M. Condon to secure his The committee accordingly rose a,nd 'Mr. SPRINGER having taken release from imprisonment and return to his adopted conntry. the chair as Speaker pro tempore, Mr. SAYLER reported that the ..... 1876. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 2361 Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union had had under compensation for cotton seized, sold, and the p1·oceeds paid into the consideration the bill (H. R. No. 61~) to carryi!lto e~ect a conv~ntion ·United States Treasury, to the Committee on the Judiciary. between the United States of America and His Ma~esty the King of By Mr. LYNDE : Resolutions of the Chamber of Commerce of Mil the Hawaiian Islands, signed on the 30th day of January, 1875, and waukee, protesting against bridging Detroit River, to the Committee had come to no resolution thereon. on Commerce. Mr. KELLEY. I move that the House adjomn. , By Mr. MAGOON: The petition of 332 citizens of Iowa, and of La The motion was agreed to; and accordingly (at five o clock and Fayette and Gr_a,nt Counties, Wisconsin, that the present duty on flax fifteen minutes p. m.) the House adjourned. seed and linseed oil be not reduced, to the Committee of Ways and Means. By Mr. MOREY: Papers relating to the pdvateland claims in Louis PETITIONS, ETC. iana of James Howell, Alphonso Miltenberger, James B. Elam and wife, Louisiana Jockey Club, ~fechanics and A~ricultural. Fair Asso The · following memorials, petitions, and other papers were pre ciation, and John W. Arrowsm1th, to the Comm1ttee on Pnvate Land sented at the Clerk's desk under the rule, and referred as stated :. Claims. , By Mr. ADAMS: The·petition of John F. G. Lyons, for a pens10n, By Mr. NEW: The petition of William T. Pate and Silas Q. Howe, to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. that the Court of Claims have jurisdiction to hear and det.ermine Also the petition of Stetson & Hawkins, Isaac White & Son, E. H. their claim for taxes twice paid, to the Committee on the Judiciaq. Bendef and other envelope manufacturers, printers, stationers, an? By Mr. PIERCE: Remonstrance of the marine underwriters of others for such legislation as will relieve them from unjust competi Boston, a#Jainst the passage of tbe bill reported by the majority of tion by the Government, to the Committee on the Post-Office and the JudiCiary Committee, relating to the Geneva award, to the Com Post-Roads. mittee on the Judiciary. By Mr. CATE: The petition of Moses Ladd and John L. Williru;ns, By Mr. PIPER: The petition of banks and bankers of San Fran Menomonee half-breed Indians, for relief, to the Committee on Indian cisco, California, for the abolition oi. the tax on deposits and capital A:.ffairs. now imposed upon State, national, and savings banks and private By Mr. COCHRANE: The petition of Eleanor N. T. Meeds, f?r t~e bankers, to the Committee of Ways and Means. payment of a claim for services rendered by her husband, BenJamin By Mr. REAGAN: The petition of citizens of Jefferson, Hardin, N. Meeds, deceased, to the Committee of Claims. . Tyler Jasper, Newton, and Orange Counties, Texa , for the improve· Also the memorial of citizens of Allegheny County, Pennsylvama, ment 'of the bars of the Sabine and Neches River , and Blue Buck that the present tariff laws may remain undisturbed, to the Commit Bar in Sabine Bay, to the Committee on Commerce. · tee of Ways and Means., By Mr. RIDDLE: A paper relating to a post-route from Lebanon, By Mr. CRAPO : The petition o~ !sra~l Crocker and o~hers, of Oster via. Rome, to Carthage, Tennessee, to the Committee on tbe Post-Office . ville, Massachusetts, for the abolition of compulsory pilotage, to the and Post-Roads. Committee on Commerce. By Mr. SAVAGE: Memorial ofT. Worthington, that the Secretary By Mr. EDEN: The petition of D. P. Smith and othe~, ~or the es of the Treasury be required to answer certain questions, and charg tablishment of .a post-route from Jewett to Newton, lllinms, and for ing that false and contradictory reports concerning a claim of his have the establishment of post-offices on said route at Grove Corners and been made from the Third Auditor's Office, to the Committee on 'ihe State Point, to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. Judiciary. . By Mr. EGBERT: The petition of citizens of Pennsylvania, for By Mr. SPRINGER: The petition of W. A. H. Allen, passed assist modification of the po tal laws authorizing the manufacture and sale ant engineer, United States Navy, in relation to his pay for sea service, 9f envelopes and postal cards below cost, to the same committee. to the Committee on Naval Affairs. By Mr. FREEMAN : Remonstrance of the marine underwiters of Also, the petition of Elisha E. Rice, late United States consul at Philadelphia, against the passage of House bill No. 2685J to the Com Hakodadi; in Japan, in relation to his claim against the government mittee on the' Judiciary. of Japan, to the Committee·on Foreign Affairs. . By Mr. FRYE : The petition of David DeHaven, for compensation By Mr. VANCE, of Ohio: Memorial of Ralph Lute and others, that for the loss of the stoamer Alonzo Child, captured by the confederate the further enlargement of the national-banking system be prohibited, forces at Memphis, Tennessee, recapture~ by the Fe~eral forces a~d &c., to the Committee on Banking and Currency. sold as a prize; and also for compensation for services rendered m By 1\fr. WALKER, of Virginia: Memorial of printers, stationers, ·conveyin'g the bodies of deceased }..,ederal soldiers from Selma, Ala and others, of Richmond, Virginia, that they be relieved from inju bama, to Montgomery, Alabama, to the Committee on Naval Affairs. rious competition in their busmess by the Post-Office Department, to By MI·. HENDERSON: Six petitions of E. A. Richmond, Charles the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. WeinrichJ J. B. Horr, H. Davison, Adam Fielder, J. Ernst, and 18 By 1\fr. WARD : The petition of F. K. Real, A. W. Burdick, and 39 others, for the repeal of the resumption a.ct, to the Committee on others, interested in commerce, that compul ory pilotage upon ves · Banking and Currency. sels enrolled and engaged in the coasting trade be abolished, to the By Mr. HILL: The petition of T. A. Burke & Co., booksellers and Committee on Commerce. stationers, for such legislation as will relieve them from unjust com By .Mr. WALSH: The petition of Samuel Emmert, for compensa petition by the Government, t~ the Committee on the Post-Office and tion for cattle taken in July, 1863, by the 1Jnited States Army, to the Post-Roads. Committee on War Claims. By Mr. HURLBUT: The petition of Mary J. Eddy, for. compensa By Mr. WELLS, of Missouri: Resolutions of the Cotton Exchange . tion for the use arid destruction of her property by Uruted States of Saint Louis, recognizing the Signal Service as an important branch forces, to the Committee on Military A:.ffa.irs. of the Government service, to the Committee on Appropriations. By Mr. JENKS: Remonstrance of citizens of Pennsylvania, against By Mr. WHITING: The petition of publishers, stationers, and a revision of the tariff, to the Committee of Ways and Means. printers, of Peoria, lllinois, for the discontinuance of printing address Also, the petition of business men of Kittanning, Pennsylvania, for cards on envelopes, postal cards, a.nd newsuaper wrappers by tho the regulation of commerce and the prohibition of discriminations Government, to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. by common carriers, to the Committee on Commerce. · By Mr. WOODWORTH: The petition of W. H. Schmick and 108 By Mr. JONES, of Kentucky: Memorial of tobacco man~fa.cturers other citizens, of Canfield, Ohio, for the repeal of the act of January of Cincinnati, Ohio, and Covington, Kentucky, for. a reductiOn of the 14, 1875, known as the act for the resumption of specie payments, to tax on tobacco to sixteen cents, to the same committee. the Committee of Ways and Means. , By Mr. JOYCE: Papers relating to th claim of David Ogden, An By Mr. YOUNG: The petition of William McK. Hall, for the re drew Foster, and other ship-owners for re-imbursement of certain opening of the examin3,tion of a claim disallowed by the southern moneys illegally exacted as "permit mo y"in the port of New York, claims commission, to the Committee on War Claims. to the Committee of Claims. By Mr. KIMBALL: Memorial of the Legislature of Wisconsin, ask ing for the completion of the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers improvement, io the Committee on Commerce. . By :Mr. KING: .Memorial of envelope manufacturers, printe~, sta tioners, and lithographers of Saint Paul, Minnesota, that the pnce of IN SENATE. stamped envelopes and postal cards be so increased as to cover a por TUESDAY, Aprilll, 1876. tion of the loss now sustained bythePost-Office·Department in print ing and distributing the sam~, to the Committee on the Post-Office Prayer by the Chaplain, R8v. BYRON SuNDERJ,AND, D. D. and Post-Roads. . The Journal of yesterday's proceedings was rea-d and approved. By :Mr. LAPHAM: Resolutions of the New York Cotton Exchange, favoring the making of the weather bureau a fixed organization, to EXECUTIVE COMMUI\J:CATIONS. the Committee on Commerce. The PRESIDENT pro ientpore laid before the Senate a letter from Also, resolutions of the NewYorkProduceExchan~e, of similar im the Secretary of War, transmitting, for the information of the C~m port, to the same committee. mittee on Military Affairs, a report of Major Thomas M. Vincent, .Assist .Also, memorial of toba-cco manufacturers of Cincinnati, Ohio, and ant Adjutant-General, on Senate b~ No. 6.17, to P.rovideforthe pa~ent Covington, Kentucky, for the reduction of the tax upon tobacco, to of bounties, &c., to colored soldiers and sailors and their heiiS ; the Committee of Ways and Means. which was referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered By Mr. LYNCH: Papers relating to the claim of Nannie Hall, for to be printed. •