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William B. Jones to be postmaster at Delawure, Delaware California; John M. Nelson, Wisconsin; Adam M. Byrd, Missis County, Ohio. sippi; William E. Tou Velie, Ohio; James A. Hamill, New William E. Moulton to be postmaster at Canal Fulton, ~tark Jersey. County, Ohio. Committee on Ele_ctions No. 3.-l\Iessrs. Michael El Driscoll, William H. Surles to be postmaster at East Liverpool, Colum New York; William E. Humphrey, Washington; Henry T. biana County, Ohio. Bannon, Ohio; John F. Boyd, Nebraska; Jay Ford Laning, Philip Zeigler to be postmaster at Strasburg, in the county Ohio; ---, ---; Claude Kitchin, North Carolina; Harry of Tuscarawas and State of Ohio. B. Wolf, Maryland; Charles C. Carlin, Virginia. OKLAHO:MA. Committee on lVays and Means.-Messrs. Sereno E. Payne, C. S. Gillette to be postmaster at Hobart, in the county of New York; John Dalzell, Pennsylvania; Samuel W. McCall, Kiowa ·and State of Oklahoma. Massachusetts; Ebenezer J. Hill, Connecticut; Henry S. Bontell, OREGO:Y. Illinois; James E. Watson, Indiana; James C. Needham, Cali Wallace W. Smead to be postmaster at Heppner, Morrow fornia; William A. Calderhead, Kansas; Joseph W. Fordney, County, Oreg. Michigan; Joseph H. Gaines, West Virginia; Robert W. Bonynge, Colorado; Nicholas Longworth, Ohio; Champ Clark, VE.RMOXT. Missouri; William Bourke Cockran, New York; Oscar · W. Martha W. Arnold to be postmaster at Bethel, Windsor Underwood, Alabama ; Daniel L. D. Granger, Rhode Island; County; Vt. James 1\I. Grig\s, Georgia; Edward W. Pou, North Carolina; VIRGINIA. Choice B. Randell, Texas. Thad T. Huffman to be postmaster at Keyser, Mineral County, Committee on the Judicimv.-Messrs. John J. Jenkins, Wis W.Va. consin; Richard Wayne Parker, New Jersey; De Alva S. Alex WISCO:YSIN. ander, New York; Charles E. Littlefield, Maine; Charles• Q. Edwin F. Ganz to be postmaster at Alma, Buffalo County, Tirrell, Massachusetts; John A. Sterling, Illinois; John H. Fos Wis. ter, Indiana; Henry T. Bannon, Ohio; Reuben 0. 1\Ioon, Penn Thomas McKinney to be postmaster at Berlin, Green · Lake sylvania; Gerrit J. Diekema, Michigan; George R. 1\Ialby, New County, Wis. York; Henry S. Caulfield, Missouri, David A. De Armond, Mis souri; Henry D. Clayton, Alabama; Robert L. Henry, 'texas; William G. Brantley, Georgia; Charles C. Reid, Arkansas; Ed ll~TERNATIONAL WIRELESS TELEGRAPH. win Y. Webb, North Carolina. The injunction of secrecy was remo•ed December 18, 1907, Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measwres.-Messrs. Wil from the message from the President of the United States, liam B. McKinley, Illinois; Ira W. Wood, New Jersey; William transmitting an international wireless telegraph convention, C. Lovering, 1\Iassachusetts; Joseph R. Knowland, California; with service regulations annexed thereto, a supplementary George A. Pearre, Maryland;· Charles A. Kennedy, Iowa; Joel agreement, and a final protocol, all signed at- Berlin on Noyem Cook, Pennsylvania; Samuel McMillan, New York; Joseph G. ber 3, 1906, by delegates of the United States and those of sev Beale, Pennsylmnia; Addison D. James, Kentucky; Peter A. eral other powers. Porter, New York; John W. Gaines, Tennessee; Thomas W. Hardwick, Georgia; Robert M. Wallace, Arkansas; Daniel J.' Riordan, New York; Charles F. Booher, Missouri; William A. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Ashbrook, Ohio; Charles C. Carlin, Virginia; Jonah K. Kalani- anaole, HawaiL · THURSDAY, December 19, 1907. Committee on Inte'rstate and Foreign Commerce.-Messrs. William P. Hepburn, Iowa; James S. Sherman, New York; • The House met at 12 o'clock m. Irving P. Wanger, Pennsylvania; James R. Mann, Illinois; Prayer· by the Chaplain, Rev. HENRY N. CoUDEN, D. D. William C. Lovering, Massachusetts; Frederick C. Stevens, The Journal of the proceedings of Monday, December 16, Minnesota; John J. Esch, Wisconsin; Francis W. Cushman, 1907,. was read and approved. 'Vashington; Charles E. Townsend, Michigan; James Kennedy, RESIGNATIONS FROM COMMITTEE. Ohio; Joseph R. Knowland, California; 'Villiam P. Hubbard, The SPEAKER. The Chair lays before the House the fol Wes Virginia; Robert C. Davey, Louisiana; William C; Adam lowing letter. son, Georgia; William H. Ryan, New York; William Richard The Clerk read as 'follows: son, Alabama; Charles L. Bartlett, Georgia; Gordon RusselJ, DECEMBER 18, 1907. Texas. lion. JOSEPH G. CANNON, Committee on Rive1·s and Harbors.-Messrs. Theodore E. House of Representa.tives. Burton, Ohio; Ernest F. Acheson, Pennsylvania; De Alva S . .Al DEAR Sm: I herewith tender my resignation as a member of the Committee on Banking and Currency. exander, New York; George P. Lawrence, Massachusetts; J.ames Very r_espectfully, J. R. KNOWLA..'W. H. Davidson, Wisconsin; James McLachlan, California; William The SPEAKER. Without objection the gentleman will be Lorimer, Illinois; Wesley L. Jones, Washington; J. Adam Bede, excused. The Chair hears no· objection. The Chair also lays Minnesota; Edgar C. Ellis, Missouri; Benjamin P. Birdsall, before the House the following letter, which the Clerk will Iowa; H. Olin Young, Michigan; Harry C. Woodyard, West report. Virginia,; Stephen 1\I. Sparkman, Florida; Joseph E. Ransdell, The Clerk read as follows : Louisiana; George F. Burgess, Texas; Benjamin G. Humphreys, Tlze Speaker: Mississippi; John A. Moon, Tennessee; George W. Taylor, Ala I hereby tender my resignation as member of the Committee on Bank bama; J. Edwin Ellerbe, South Carolina. ing and Currency. Committee on the Merchant .Marine and Fishe1ies.-Messrs. Very truly, yours, W. A. CA.LDERHEAD. William S. Greene, 1\Iassachusetts; Charles E. Littlefield, DECEMBER 19, 1907. 1\Iaine; William E. Humphrey, Washington; William W. Wil The SPEAKER. Without objection, the gentleman will be son, Illinois; Edmund H. Hinshaw, Nel:Jraska; E. Ste-vens excused. [After a pause.] The Chair hears none. Henry, Connecticut; William M. Calder, New York; Grant E. COMMITTEE .A.PPOIN'l'MENTS. 1\Iouser, Ohio; George W. Fairchild, New York; William W. The SPEAKER. The Chair lays before the House the follow Foulkrod, Pennsylvania; George C. Sturgiss, West Virginia; ing appointments to the Committee on Banking and Currency. Albert Douglas, Ohio; Thomas Spight, :Mississippi; Joseph A. The Clerk read as follows: Goulden, New York; Harry L. 1\Iaynard, Virginia; John T. Watkins, Louisiana; Frank Clark, Florida; William E. Cox, JAMES 1\ICKI~Y, of Illinois, and CYRUS DOREY, of New York. Indiana; Joshua W. Alexander, 1\Iissouri. STANDING AND SELECT COMMITTEES. Committee on Agriculture.-1\Iessrs. Charles F. Scott, Kan The SPEAKER. The Chair announces the appointment of sas; Gilbert N. Haugen, Iowa; Kittredge Haskin , \ ermont; the following committees: William Lorimer, Illinois; William W. Cocks, New York; Ralph The Clerk read as follows: D. Cole, Ohio; Ernest l\1. Pollard, Nebraska; Clarence C. Gil Contmittee on Elect·ions No. 1.-Messrs: James R. Mann, hams, Indian~; James C. McLaughlin, 1\Iichigan; Willis C. Illinois; Llewellyn Powers, Maine; Char·les L. Knapp, New Hawley, Oregon; George W. Cook, Colorado; ---, ---; York; Grant E. 1\.Iou er, . Ohio; George A. Pearre, Maryland; John Lamb, Virginia; Asbury F. Lever, South Carolina; Jack George C. Sturgiss, West Virginia; Ollie M. James, Kentucky; Beall, Texas; William W. Rucker, 1\Iissouri; Augustus 0. Stan Edward W. Saunders, Virginia; William Willett, jr., New York. ley, Kentucky; J. Thomas Heflin, Alabama ; WilHam H. An Committee on Elections No. 2.-Messrs. Marlin E. Olmsted, drews, New 1\Iexico. Pennsylyania; James M. Miller, Kansas;. Capell L. Weems, Committee on Fot·eign A[fairs.-Messrs. Robert G. Cousins, Ohio; James F. Burke, Pennsylvania; Duncan E. McKinlay. Iowa; Charles B. Landis, Indiana; · James Breck Perkins, New 1907. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 427
York; David J. Foster, Vermont; Adin B. Capron, Rhode Island; Charles L. Knapp, New York; Hiram R. Burton, Delaware; J. Sloat Fassett, New York; Edwin Denby, Michigan; William Benjamin P. Birdsall, Iowa; Beman G. Dawes, Ohio; John C. B. l\IcKinley, illinois; Allen F. Cooper, Pennsylvania; Frank 0. Chaney, Indiana; Nelson P. Wheeler, Pennsylvania; Daniel Lowden, Illinois; Edward L. Taylor, Ohio; Butler Ames, Massa R. Anthony, Kansas; .James 0. Patterson, South Carolina; chusetts: William l\1. Howard, Georgia; Henry D. Flood, Vir William Hughes, New Jersey; Rufus Hardy, Texas; James ginia; 'William B. Lamar, Florida; John N. Garner, Texas; T. McDermott, Illinois; John H. Uothermel, Pennsylvania. John A. Kelihet.·, Massachusetts; John Gill, jr., Maryland; Committee on Manttfacttt1·es.-l\fessrs. Henry Mc~forran, Francis B•Jrton Harrison, New York~ Michigan; Nathan W. Hale, Tennessee-; Pleasant T . .Chapman, Vomrnittee on Military Affairs.-Messrs. John A. T. Hull, Illinois; George A. Pearre, Maryland; Don C. Edwards, Ken Iowa; Richard Wayne Parker, New Jersey; Adin B. Capron, tucky; Andrew J. Barchfeld, Pennsylvania; William W. Foulk Rhode Island; George W. Prince, Illinois; Elias S. Holliday, rod, Pennsylvania; ---, ---; Charles H. Weisse, Wiscon Indiana; H. Olin Young, Michigan; Julius Kahn, California; sin; Joseph T. Johnson, South Carolina; William W. Kitchin, Beman G. Dawes, Ohio; James F. Burke, Pennsylvania; Thomas North Carolina; James T. McDermott, Illinois; James A. Ham W. Bradley, New York; Frederick C. Stevens, Minnesota; ill, New Jersey. Daniel R. Anthony, Kansas; William Sulzer, New York; James Oomm,ittee on Mines and Mining.-Messrs. George F. Huff, Hay, Virginia; James L. Slayden, Texas; Robert F. Broussard, Pennsylvania; Joseph Howell, Utah; W. F. Englebright, Cali Louisiana; Ariosto A. Wiley, Alabama; Isaac R. Sherwood, fornia; Joseph W. Fordney, Michigan; Burton L. French, Ohio; George W. Gordon, Tennessee; Thomas Cale, Alaska. Idaho; Joseph G. Beale, Pennsylvania; Albert Douglas, Ohio; Committee on Naval A[fai1·s.-Messrs. George Edmund Foss, Philo Hall, South Dakota; Charles N. Pray, Montana; Gordon Illinois; Henry C. Loudenslager, New Jersey; Thomas S. But Lee, Georgia; George A. Bartlett, Nevada; Martin D. Foster, ler, Pennsyl\ania; Sydney E. Mudd, Maryland; Ernest W. Illinois; Thomas D. Nicholls, PennSylvania; Daniel W. Hamil Roberts, Massachusetts; George Alvin Loud, l\Iichigan; Arthur ton, Iowa ; \Vinfield S. Ham~ond, Minnesota ; Thomas Oale, L. Bates, Pennsylvania; George L. Lilley, Connecticut; W. Alaska. Aubrey Thomas, Ohio; Albert F. Dawson, Iowa; J. Van Vechten Committee on Public Buildings ana G1·ounds.-Messrs. Rich Olcott, New York; W-illiam R. Ellis, Oregon; Adolph Meyer, ard Bartholdt, Missouri; Edwin C. Burleigh, l\Iaine; Benjamin Louisiana; William W. Kitchin, North Carolina; Lemuel P. Pad F. Howell, New Jersey; James P. Conner, Iowa; William A. gett, Tennessee; Alexander W. Gregg, Texas; Joshua F. C. Tal Rodenberg, Illinois; George W. Norris, Nebraska; John E. bott, Maryland; Robert Lamar, Missouri; Richmond P. Hobson, Andrus, New York; Daniel F. Lafean, Pennsylvania; J. Eu Alnbarna. gene Harding, Ohio; Frank M. Nye, Minnesota; William G. Cmnmittee on the Post-Office ancl Post-Roads.-~Iessrs. Jesse Brantley, Georgia; Charles R. Thomas, North Carolina; 1\Ior Overstreet, Indiana; John J. Gardner, New Jersey; Nehemiah ris Sheppard, Texas; Joseph T. Johnson, South Carolina; D. Sperry, Connecticut; Howard M. Snapp, Illinois; Herman P. Frank A. McLain, Mississippi; John L. Burnett, Alabama; Goebel, Ohio; Hal\or Steenerson, Minnesota ; -william H. Staf Ben F. Caldwell, Illinois. ford, Wisconsin; Achibald B. Darragh, Michigan; Victor Mur Com -mittee on Pacific Railroads.-1\Iessrs. Thomas S. Butler, dock, Kansas; John W. Dwight, New York; George F. Huff, PennsylYania; Michael E. Driscoll, New York; Moses P. Kin Pennsylvania; Warren A. Baggott, Colorado; John A. Moon, Imid, Nebraska; Sydney E. Mudd, Maryland; Albert F. Daw Tennessee; David E. Finley, South Carolina; James T. Lloyd, son, Iowa; John l\1. Nelson, Wisconsin; Beman G. Dawes, Missouri; John H. Small, North Carolina; Wilson S. Hill, Ohio; Edgar C. Ellis, Missouri; Sylvester C. Smith, California; Mississippi; Thomas M. Bell, Georgia; Marcus A. Smith, James L. Slayden, Texas; Henry T. Rainey, Illinois; William Arizona. B. Lamar, Florida; Gilbert 1\f. Hitchcock, Nebraska; George A. Committee on the P·ublic Lands.-Messrs. Frank ,V. Uondell, Bartlett, Nevada ; Elmer L. Fulton, Oklahom.l. Wyoming; Andrew J. Volstead, Minnesota; Philip Knopf, Com,mittee on Levees and Improvements of the M~sissippi Illinois; Burton L. French, Idaho; Sylvester C. Smith, Cali Rive1·.-Messrs. George W. Prince, Illinois; William A. Roden fornia; Asle J. Gronna, North Dakota; Bird S. lllcGuire, berg, Illinois; Allen F. Cooper, Pennsylvania; Harry l\1. Con Oklahoma; Herbert Parsons, New York; Charles N. Pray, drey, Missouri; William A. Reeder, Kansas; Charles A. Ken Montana; Paul Howland, Ohio; John l\I. Reynolds, Pennsyl nedy, Iowa; ---, ---; ---, ---; Robert F, Brons· vania; Philo Hall, South Dakota; John ·w. Gaines, Tennessee; sard, Louisiana; Robert B. Macon, Arkansas; John C. Floyd, Adam 1\f. Byrd, Mississippi; Joseph •.r. Robinson, Arkansas; Arkansas; James W. Murphy, Wisconsin; Madison R. Smith, Daniel W. Hamilton, Iowa; Scott Ferris, Oklahoma; WilHam Missouri. B. Craig, Alabama; Winfield S. Hammond, :Minnesota; Marcus Conunittee on Education.-Messrs. George N. Southwick, New A. Smith, Arizona. York; William E. Humphrey, Washington; Andrew J. Vol Commtittee on Ind·ian A[fairs.-Messrs. James S. Sherman, stead, Minnesota; Sylvester C. Smith, California; Joseph V. New York; Thomas F. l\1arshal1, North Dakota; Charles L. Graff, Illinois; Herman P. Goebel, Ohio; l\Ioses P. Kinkaid, Knapp, New York; Edmund H. Hinshaw, Nebraska; Amos L. Nebraska; George A. Loud, Michigan; Asbury F. Lever, South Allen, Maine; Philip P. Campbell, Kansas; Joseph Howell, Carolina; Finis J. Garrett, Tennessee; Timothy T. Ansberry, Utah; Bird S. McGuire, Oklahoma; Charles A. Lindbergh, Ohio; George K. ]'avrot, Louisiana; William E. Tou Velie, Minnesota; E. A. .1orse, Wisconsin; . William H. Parker, South Ohio. Dakota; Johh H. Stephens, Texas; Claude Kitchin, North Cormnittee on Labo1·.-1\fessrs. John J. Gardner, New Jer Carolina; Gilbert M. Hitchcock, Nebraska; Edward W. Saun sey; rhichard Bartholdt, Missouri; Edward B. Vreeland, New ders, Virginia; Charles D. Carter, Oklahoma; Ben CraYens, York; James P. Conner, Iowa; Herman P. Goebel, Ohio; Arkansas; Thomas Hackney, Missouri; William H. Andrews, Kittredge Haskins, Vermont; George W. Norris, Nebraska; New Mexico. E. H. 1\Iadison, Kansas; Henry T. Rainey, Illinois; William Committee on the Territm·ies.-1\Iessrs. Edward L. Hamilton, Hughes, New Jersey; Madison R. Smith, Missouri; Thomas Michigan ; Abraham L. Brick, Indiana; Adin B. Capron Rhode D. Nicholls, Pennsylvania; George W. Rauch, Indiana. Island; George N. Southwick, New York; Llewellyn Powers, Committee on .iJiilitia.-1\fessrs. HalYor Steenerson, Minne Maine; James McKinney, Illinois; Ralph D. Cole, Ohio; Ed sota; John A. T. Hull, Iowa; Butler Ames, Massachusetts; win W. Higgins, Connecticut; John l\1. Reyonlds, Pennsylvania; Charles E.- Fuller, Illinois; Edwin Denby, Michigan; Frank 0. William :a. Draper, New York; James T. Lloyd, Missouri; Lowden, Illinois; Clarence C. Gilhams, Indiana; Addison D. Ezekiel S. Candler, jr., Mississippi; William C. Houston, James, Kentucky; William H. Parker, South Dakota; Ariosto Tennessee; William P. Kimbaii, Kentucky; James S. Daven A. 'Viley, Alabama; John A. Keliher, Massachusetts; John port, Oklahoma; John T. Lenahan, PeunsylYania; William H. Gill, jr., ~aryland; John C. Floyd, Arkansas; \Yilliam A. Andrews, New l\Iexico; Marcus A. Smith, Arizona. Ashbrook, Ohio; George K. Fan·ot, Louisiana. Ocmmittee on I11sular A[fairs.-l\1essrs. Henry A. Cooper, Committee on Patcnts.-1\Iessrs. Frank D. Currier, New Wisconsin; Edgar D. Crumpacker, Indiana; Edward J1. Hamil Hampshire; Edward H. Hinshaw, Nebraska; Andrew J. Barch ton, Michigan; Marlin E. Olmsted, Pennsylvania; Charles E. feld, Pennsylvania; John C. Chaney, Indiana; Charles 1\Ic Fuller, Illinois; William H. Graham, Pennsylvania; Elbert H. Gavin, Illinois; E. Stevens Henry, Connecticut; Charles G. Hubbard, Iowa; Herbert Parsons, New York; Duncan E. Washburn, Massachusetts; Charles B. Law, New York; Ben McKinlay, California; Charles R. Davis, Minnesota; E. H. jamin K. Focht, Pennsylvania; William Sulzer, New York; Madison, Kansas; Charles G. Washburn, Massachusetts; Wil George S. Legare, South. Carolina; Le Gage_Pratt, New Jersey; liam A. Jones, Virginia; Robert N. Page,. North Carolina; William B. Wilson, Pennsylvania; Eugene \v. Leake, New Finis J. Garrett, Tennessee; Matt R. Denver, Ohio; Andrew J. Jersey. Peters, l\Iasachusetts; Charles V. Fornes, New York; Haney Committee on InvaUcl Pensions.-1\Iessrs. Cyrus A. Sullo Helm, Kentucky; Tulio Larrinaga, Porto Rico. way, N'ew Hampshire; Samuel· ,V. Smith, l\Iichigan; William C01mnittee on Railt~;ays and Oanals.-~essrs. James H. A. Calderhead, Kansas; Elias S. Holliday, Indiana; Thomas Davidson, Wisconsin; Ernest W. lloberts, Massachusetts; W. Bradley, New York; Charles E. Fuller, Illinois; Pleasant 428 CONGRESSION .A_L RECORD-HOUSE. . DECEl\IBER 19 '·
T. Chapman, Illinois; John C. Chaney, Indiana; Don C. Ed Carolina; Gilbert M. Hitchcock, Nebraska; George A. Bartlett, wards, Kentucky; John F. Boyd, Nebraska; George H. Lindsay, NeYada. · New York; Charles H. Weisse, Wisconsin; Lincoln Dixon, Committee on Immigration and Natltrali.~ation.-Messrs. Ben .· Indiana; 'Iimothy T. Ansberry, Ohio; George W. Kipp, Penn jamin F. Howell, New Jersey; Augustus .P. Gardner, Massachu sylrnnia; Uichard N. Hackett, North Carolina. setts; Burton L. Fren_ch, Idaho; Ira. W. Wood, New Jersey; Conunittee on Pensions.-Messrs. Henry C. Loudenslager, William S. Bennet, New York ; Everis A. Hayes, California ; New Jersey; William H. Draper, New York; Philip P. Camp J. Hampton Moore, Pennsylvania; Don C. Edwards, Kentucky; bell, Kansas; Butler Ames, 1\Ias&'lchusetts; Joseph B. Bennett, Gustav Klistermann, Wisconsin; John L. Burnett, Alabama; 1,\:entucky; Charles F. Barclay, Pennsylvania; Jay F. Lanning, John hl. 1\Ioore, Texas; John A. M. Adair, Indiana; Adolph J. Ohio; Nelson P. Wheeler, Pennsylvania; Charles A. Ke1medy, Sabath, Illinois; Joseph F. O'Connell, Massachusetts; John H. Iowa; William Richardson, Alabama; Frank A. McLain, Miss Rothermel, Pennsylvania. issippi; Wyatt Aiken, South Carolina; Robert B. Macon, Arkan Committee on Ventnation and Acoustics.-Messrs. :William sas; ~Iartin D. Foster, Illinois; Cordell Hull, Tennessee. H. Graham, Pennsylvania; William J. Cary, Wisconsin; Peter Committee on Claims.-Messrs. James 1\I. 1\Iiller, Kansas; A. Porter, New York; George H. Lindsay, New York; George Charles Q. Tirrell, Massachusetts; Joseph Howell, Utah; Wil W. Rauch, Indiana; Joshua W. Alexander, Missouri. liam H. Graham, Pennsylvania ; Grant E. Mouser, Ohio ; Committee on Ea:penditures in the .State Depa1·tment. George L. Lilley, Conngcticut; Charles B. Law, New York; l\fessrs. John W. Weeks, . Massachusetts-; Henry T. Bannon, Charles A. Lindbergh, hlinnesota; Willis 0. Hawley, Oregon; Ohio; William W. Cocks, New York; Charles R. Davis, Minne Henry M. Goldfogle, New York; Claude Kitchin, North Caro sota; Sam Bronson Cooper, Texas; Courtney W. Hamlin, 1\Iis· lina; Ezekiel S. Chandler, jr., Mississippi; Dorsey W. Shackle souri; John T. Lenahan, Pennsylvania. ford, l\Iissouri; James 0. Patterson, South Carolina; John Committee on Eipendit~tres il'b the Treasnrv Depa1·tment. A. l\1 • .Adair, Indiana; Elmer L. Fulton, Oklahoma. l\Ies rs. Philip Knopf, illinois; Ebenezer J. Hill, Connecticut; Committee on War Olaims.-1\!essrs. Kittredge Haskins, Ver Arthur L. Bates, Pennsylvania; Warren A. Haggott, Colorado; mont; Gilbert N. Haugen, Iowa; Elias S. Holliday, Indiana; John Lamb, Virginia; John l\1. Garner, Texas; George W. Kipp, George E. Waldo, New York; Benjamin K. Focht, Pennsyl Pennsylvania. vania; Jay F. Laning, Ohio; Elmer A. Morse, Wisconsin; Committee on Ea:pendit~tres in the TVar Department.-Messrs. ---, ---; ---, ---; Thetus W. Sims, Tennessee; George P. Lawrence, Massachusetts; J. Adam Bede, Minnesota; Thomas Spight, Mississippi; Henry D. Clayton, Alabama; Gor John 1\I. Reynolds, Pennsylvania; John E. Harding, Ohio; Jo don Lee, Georgia; S. Bronson Cooper, Texas; John C. Floyd, seph L. Rhinock, Kentucky; .J. Davis Brodhead, Pennsylmnia; Arkansas. James S. Davenport, Oklahoma. Committee on Private Land Claims.-Messrs. Thomas F. Committee on Ea:pendUures in the Navv Departmcnt.-1\lessrs. Marshall, North. Dakota; Francis W. Cushman, Washington; Henry S. Boutell, Illinois; Ernest F. Acheson, Pennsylvania; William S. Bennet, New York; Charles N. Brumm, Pennsyl John W. Langley, Kentucky; ---, ---; Lemuel P. Pad Yania; John F. Boyd, NebFUska; ---, ---; ---, gett, Tennessee; William C. Adamson, Georgia; Harry B. Wolf, ---; William A. Jones, Virginia; William R. Smith, Texas; Maryland. Robert l\1. Wallace, Arkansas; Charles H. Weisse, Wisconsin; Comrnittee on Elxpenditu1·es in the Post-Office Department.- Eugene W. Leake, New Jersey; Joseph J. Russell, Missouri; 1\fessrs. Irving P. Wanger, Pennsylvania; Martin B. 1\Iad Oonunittee on Enrolled, Bills.-Messrs. William W. Wilson, it be considered in the House as in the Committee of tile· Illinois; J. Hampton Moore, Pennsylvania; Daniel R. Anthony, Whole. Kansas; Nath3n W. Hale, Tennessee; Henry T. Rainey, Illi Mr. BARTLETT of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I desire. to know nois; Lincoln Dixon, Iudiana; William Willett, jr., New York. of the gentleman from Minnesota [Mr. TA.WNEY] if it is pos Oonunittee on Industria~ Arts and. Ea;positions.-Messrs. sible to have ten minutes of general debate. 1\Iy colleague from Augustus P. Gardner, Massachusetts; William A. Rodenberg, the First District of Georgia [Mr. EDWARDS] desires to make a illinois; Joseph Howcll3 Utah; James M. Miller, Kansas; few remarks to the committee if that much time for debate can Charles N. Brumm, Pennsylvania; Edwin W. Higgins, Con be given to hi.pl. necticut; Cyrus Durey, New York; John M. Nelson, Wis Mr. TAWNEY . .Mr. Speaker, in answer to the gentleman consin; Joel Cook, Pennsylvania; John W. Langley, Kentucky; from Georgia [1\Ir. BARTLETT] I would say it is entirely pos Harry L. Maynard, Virginia; George S. Legare, South Caro sible to have ten minutes, or any length of time that the House lina; Henry 1\I. Goldfogle, New York; Joseph L. Rhinock, may see fit, but under the circumstances I could not consent Kentucky; Courtney W. Hamlin, 1\Iissouri; Le Gage Pratt, to general debate on this proposition, lor the reason that I New Jerses. understand that the Senate will not after to-day transact any The SPEAKER. The Chair would state that he desired to business. appoint the gentleman from New York, Mr. LAw, on War Claims Mr. BARTLETT of Georgia.. The Senate has adjourned until at No. 4, and 1\Ir. WALDO upon Claims, the place he has hereto Saturday, Mr. Speaker, I understand. fore had; but in the clerical work of making up the lists the 1\Ir. TAWNEY. It is very necessary that this measure shall names were interchanged. The correction will now be made. be put through. The Chair thinks that is the only clerical error and desires to Mr. BARTLETT -of Georgia. They could not put it through call attention to the fact that he interrupted the Clerk while to-day. reading the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures, 1\Ir. TAWNEY. I tJD.derstand that the gentleman from thinking there was a mistake, but there was none, so that it Georgia [l\Ir. EDWARDS], colleague of· the gentleman who has will stand as arranged and as first reported. made the suggestion [:M:r. BARTLETT], desires to address the DISPOSITION OF USELESS EXECUTIVE PAPERS. House on a bill which he has introduced. It is not at all ger mane to the appropriation. The SPEAKER. The Chair lays before the House a letter Mr. MANN. Will the gentleman from 1\Iinnesota [Mr. from the Postmaster-General, transmitting a schedule of papers TAWNEY] yield? . and documents not needed in the transaction of business and 1\Ir. TA\VNEY. Certainly. having no permanent value or historical interest. In accordance with the law the Chair announces the follow 1\Ir. 1\IAI'I.'N. I simply want to say that I desire to call up ing appointment of members of the Joint Select Committee the privilege resolution in reference to the distribution of rooms for the Disposition of Useless Executive Papers: and the manner of the allotment of the same, and I hope there ARTHUR L. BATES, of Pennsylvania, and JOSHUA F. C. TALBOTT, will be no protracted debate '\"Vhich will send Members of the of Maryland. House away before that resolution is called up, because it certainly will be to the convE-nience of the Members to be able SALARIES OF OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES. to consider that resolution while they are here. The SPEAKER laid before the House joint resolution 58, Mr. BARTLETT of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, if the gentleman with Senate amendments. will permit me, my request was for no protracted debate that The Senate amendments were read, as follows : would send anybody away that I know of, as the gentleman In line 8 strike out "nineteenth " and insert "twenty-first." from Illinois suggests. Amend the title so as to read: " Joint resolution to pay the officers and employees of the Senate and House of Representatives their Mr. TAWNEY. If the gentleman from Georgia will permit respective salaries for the month of December, 1907, on the 21st day me, I will suggest this: That if he will ask unanimous consent of said month." thn.t his oolleague may address the House for ten minutes upon 1\Ir. TAWNEY. Mr. Speaker, I move that the House con this joint resolution or upon any subject he sees fit to talk cur in the Senate amendments. about, I think the House will grant that request, and that will The question was taken, and the amendments were agreed to. relieve me. l The resolution as amended was ordered to be engrossed and 1\Ir. BARTLETT of Georgia. Pending that request, Mr. read a third time, was read a third time, and passed. Speaker, for unanimous consent, I ask that my colleague [l\Ir. The SPEAKER. If there be no objection, the Chair will EDWARDS] from the First District of my State·be permitted to sign the j.oint resolution for the pay of officers and -employees address the House in general debate for ten minutes. which has just been agreed to and laid before the House, 'l'he SPEAKER. Is there objection? the Committee on Enrolled Bills not having had time to report Mr. GAINES of Tennessee. Mr. Speaker, reserving the right upon it. to object, I want to ask the gentleman if he will yield me a There was no objection. couple of minutes or a minute when we get into debate? ' COMMITTEE APPOINTMENT. Mr. TAo\ WNEY. I will yield to the gentleman a minute or two The SPEAKER announced the appointment of Mr. WALDO minutes. of New York to the Committee on War Claims. The SPEAKER. The Chair hears no objection. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Min :PURCHASE AND DISTRIBUTION OF SEEDS. nesota [Mr. TAWNEY]? [After a pause.] '£he Chair hears 1\Ir. TAWNEY. Mr. Speaker, by the direction of the Commit none. tee on Appropriations, I submit the following privileged report Mr. TAWNEY. Mr. Speaker, it is not necessary for me to and aSk unanimous consent that it be considered in the House occupy the time of the House in explaining the necessity for as in the Committee of the Whole. The SPEAKEll. From the Committee on Appropriations, the this deficiency appropriation. It is generally known to Mem gentleman from Minnesota [Mr. TAWNEY] reports the resolu bers of the House that on the Gth of last month the seed store tion (H. J. Res. G6), making appropriations to supply defi house used by the Agricultural Department for storing and ciency in the appropriations for the purchase and distribution making up packages of seed for distribution was destroyed by fire. .At that time there were about 8,000,000 packages of seed of yaluable seeds, and asks unanimous consent that it may be stored there and about 90 per cent of the bulk seed stored there. c.onsidered in the House as in the Committee of the Whole. In consequence of the fire these packets of .seed were destroyed The Clerk will report the joint resolution. and a large quantity of the bulk seed. The Department usually The Clerk read as follows : Resolved, etc., That to supply a deficiency oceasioned by the destruc purchases these seeds under contract. The time being so short, tion of the seed warehouse used by the Department of A~riculture in it was necessary f.or them to endeavor to get seeds from the the city of Washington November 6, 1907, in the appropnation '·Pur seed men, which they ha-ve succeeded in doing, and at the re chase and distribution of valuable seeds," including each and every ob ject authorized by law and specified in the appropriation of $238,000, quest of the Department these seed men haye shipped the seed except the provision for the purchase of foreign seed, under this title to the Agricultural Department in Washington, or a sufficient in the "Act making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture quantity of seed to make up the loss occasioned by the fire. The for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1008," approved March 4, 1907, the sum of 50,000, or so much thereof as may'" be necessary, is hereby Department, however, has not accepted these seed, and can not appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appro accept them until (J()ngress authorizes the purchase and appro priated. PI'iates the money to pay for them, and in order that the seed The SPEAKER. Is there objection? may be distributed in those States where it is necessary to dis Mr. BARTLETT of Georgia.. 1\Ir. Speaker, what is the prop tribute them at this time, the Department of .Agriculture must osition? secure this authorization and appropriation before the holiday The SPE..\.KER. The gentlemn.n from Minnesota [Ur. recess; and for that reason the Committee on Appropriations TAWNEY], from the Committee on Appropriations, reports the hu.ve reported this joint resolution at this time. joint reso~ution which has just been read, with the request that I now yield one minute to the gentleman from Tennessee. ·--·· ~ 430 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. D~CEMBER 19'- Mr. GAINES of Tennessee. Mr. Speaker, on yesterday I have been one or tWo other bills introduced along this same was in my office. at wo:rk all day, except the time taken up in line, the forms of which are a little broader than the one intro making a call to see the President on some official business duced by myself. It is not my purpose for a moment to quibble and the Secretary of the Navy. I picked up the Washington about the form. What we want, and what I sincerely hope Herald this morning, and find this: we can get, is an equitable distribution of this enormous sum JOHN .WESLEY GAINES leads charge on new House Appropriation of money, that it might, if possible, go back to the parties from Committee. · whom it was exacted, or to their heirs if it is impossible to After referring to a noise "that might have suggested pay it back to the parties themselves. Of course it will be im post-Thanksgiving football enthusiasm," etc., in or near the possible to pay it back to the parties in hundreds of cases, for committee room, the paper says : . many of the parties from whom it was collected are now dead. It was only the free-seed contingent, led by JOHN WESLEY GAINES, Before going further, I wish to cite the act under which executing a mass play on the Committee on Appropriations. this tax on cotton was collected. The levy and .collection of · I brand the writer of that as a liar and the statement as this tax was authorized by an act of Congress, July 1, 1862- false, absolutely, Mr. Speaker. [Applause.] more readily found in the Twelfth Statutes, page 465, pro 1\fr. EDWARDS of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, early in my life, viding for the levy and collection of a certaill amount on each while toiling upon a farm way down in Georgia, I purposed pound of raw cotton. In accordance with this act, which was I in my heart that if I ever was in a position where I could say the first on the subject, the enormous sum of $68,072,388.99 was or do anything in the interests of the farmers, the backbone collected. By reading this act it is clear that it was aimed at of our country, I would take advantage of the opportunity. the cotton producers of the cotton-growing States. If not aimed It is therefore with pleasure and pride that my voice is raised at the cotton growers, why was the tax not levied upon the to-day in this my first speech in Congress in behalf of that manufactured article, so that the burden of the tax would have great class of our most useful citizens and in the interest of been more evenly distributed upon all wearing articles produced my own State. out of the cotton raised in the United States? It is clear that On the first day of this session of Congress, the day that I was it was intended as a punitive measure instead of a measure to sworn in as a Representative, I introduced the following bill: raise revenue. By reference to the date of the act authorizing A bill (H. R. 575) for the distribution of. the cotton-tax fund. the levy of this tax, it will be remembered that at that time Be it enacted, etc., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, a_nd _he is hereby authorized and directed to pay out the money consti-. none of the cotton-growing States had representation in the tuting the cotton-tax fund, now held in the Treasury of the United Congress passing the act. It was, in truth, a taxation without States of America and known as the cotton-tax fund, the levy and representation. collection of which was held to be illegal by the Supreme Court · of the United States, to the several States from which the said illegal Raw cotton was found in some of the States that do not tax was levied and collected; each of said States to be paid back the grow or produce cotton, and the tax was of course levied upon sum that was so collected, with interest thereon at the rate of 3 per it. But don't you know that the tax on each pound of cotton cent, to be ca1culated from the time of the collection thereof ; the same to be used by the several. States to which said funds are to be was figured out, the farmer paying the tax, before the buyers paid as may be determined and provided by the legislatures of the bought the cotton? This enormous sum, then, was taxed out said several States sharing in this distribution. . of the farmers of the cotton-growing States in the South and This bill has been referred to the Committee on War Claims, Southwest. and ordered printed. I requested and obtained from the Treasury Department a I want it distinctly understood at the outset that I am not statement showing the amount collected under this tax on particular as to the form of the bill that the committee might cotton, showing the States that would share in this distribution report back to the House, since it has for its one general pur under my bill, and the years in which the collections were pose the distribution of this fund and in the right way. There made, and it is as follows: INTERNAL-REVENUE TAX RECEIPTS. [See act of July 1, 1862 (12 Stat., p. 465), and act of February 3, 1868 (15 Stat., p. 34).] Statement showing 1·eceipts from raw cotton during the fi<;cal yem·s encled Jtme SO- 1863. 1864.. 18!Jt. 1866. 1867. 1868. Total. Alabama .... ··-·-···· .. ··· ...... ··--·---··· ...... _...... : ...... $3,733,620.25 S3,0i9,868.01 $3,604,583.84 $10,388,072.10 Arizona . _...... -...... -- ...... -- ...... -.. _...... __ ...... _. _____ .... _. _. ______...... _..... ______.... _. ___ .... __ &~gr~a: :::::::::-:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :::::::::::: :::::::::::::: :::::::::::::: 2o3, ~1g:g~ 1, 641, ~: 5~ _... ?~·-~: ~:. 2, 555, !;m: ~ Colorado ...... -...... -...•...... -. -. ------.-- ..... _.. __ ...... _...... _.. _..... __ ...... _...... _.. __ __ _. Connecticut ...... _...... $17.72 Sll0.25 ...... 65.67 ...... 193.64 Dakota ...... _...... : ...... -----····--·· .. --·-·--····--· Delaware -----······--·-·· .. ··-·····--·-...... ; ...... ·-·--·-··--···- ...... District of Columbia ...... ····-·-----· ...... __ ·-·-----·· ·-- · Florida ...... _...... -...... 97,488.24 499,645.07 321,8ll.67 918,944.98 Georgia ...... -- ...... ···-·.-·· .... ---·------.... -...... -...... 3,554, 044.. 38 3, 283,276.36 5, 059, 274.. 24 11,897,094.98 Idaho __ .-...... --...... -.. -...... -.--... -.... --- .... -...... -- ..... - -.--.----...... -...... _ .. ___ . _____ . _..... ______.... __ . ___ .. _. _.. __ .. _. ______.... __ . ___ .. __ illinois ...... -...... -- .. ---- .... -... 53, 381. 71 35,515. 69 $65, 802. 79 ll3, 732. 66 76, 013, 72 34, 697. 65 379, 144. 42 Indiana .... -...... :... ,999.90 1,041.60 703.30 52,428.40 14,202.83 15,351.19 92,727.22 Iowa .. -. -...... -...... -.- ...... -- .... -.. . 27 ••.•••• - .... - •.••.••• - . - .. -- ..••••.. _.. ____ .. __ .•••.•••.. _. • 27 Kansas ...... -----·-··--· ... : ...... 151.34 102.64 32.17 ...... 286.15 Kentucky...... ·-·-·· ...... -----·-·------12,779.67 83,050.15 83,658.34 121,550.89 149,905.16 102,383.24 553,327.45 Louisiana ...... _...... -·-...... -...... -... 19,920.93 436,044.52 593,108. 0"2 4, 300,150.17 2, 9il, 708.19 1, 777,569.17 10,09 , 501.00 Maine ...... ------·-·· ...... --·---·------· ...... ---·----·-----· ...... Maryland ...... ----..... --- ...... -.. --.-...... 1, 867. 66 139. 91 1, 168. 65 4, 324. 03 4, 424. 48 39, 424. 79 51, 349. 52 :Massachusetts _...... -...... -...... -.--...... - 4, 412.79 6, 419. 24 127. 00 28, 175. 46 16, 576.85 10,967. 96 66, 679. 30 liHchlgan _... ___ .... _____ ...... _. __ ...... _. _... _...... : ..... ______.... -· ...... ____ .. _.. __ . ___ . .... _. __ . _.... _...... __ . __ . __ . ____ .. ___ .. ... _... ___ ... ___ . Minnesota ... _...... --.- _...... -...... _...... _ ...... __ . _.... _.... _.. _... _...... ____ . __ . ____ .. _ . _... _... __ .. ______. _ .. __ ... _. _.. __ Mississippi .... -...... -.-...... -...... -- ...... -.--...... --.-.---... -. 756, 629. 27 4, 464, 664. 40 3, 521, 702. 26 8, 74.2, 995. 93 Missouri ...... -.- ...... -... -..... -...... -.---.. 69,493.12 39,009.76 73,603.00 247,289.14 96,721.63 65,987.71 592,09 . 36 Montana_ ...... -...... --- ...... ---- .. -.- . --. _...... _...... _... _. _... _. _...... _...... __ . Nebraska ...... ·-··---·-.. ····-·---····--·"···--·- ~ ------.... _...... ··--·-·-·-·-··- ...... Nevada...... -...... ______...... ~:: · re~:~~-i:~.::: 500: oo" :::::::::::::: ::::::::::::::: . ·--·-3;i56:42· ::::::::::::::: ..... -3; 656:42 New :Mexico ...... :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: _...... -...... -.-... _... -.. _...... --.-.- ::::::::::::_. __ . _. ... _...... _. __ .. ____ .. ____ . ___ ..... ______. ____ . ___ ...... ___ ... __ .... ____ .. ___ ... _. ____ . _... _. New York._.--· ...... -...... ~ ...... 102,04.1.83 24,836.56 10,334.04 492,557.07 112,570.54 125,602.64 867,912.68 North Carolina ...... ------...... ·-·------· .... 211,658. 57 860,704.55 7,311. 75 1, 959,704.87 Ohio .. __ . _... _...... _...... -... __ . _...... 70,896.24 94,086.59 39,918.92 41,691.89 85, 34R no ll5, 190.48 447,127.12 Oregon ...... -...... ----· ...... -··. -·-·· ...... -...... _...... -. -· ..... -.-- .... . Pennsylvania_ ...... _...... __ ...... 5,060.89 57,895.38 --···· _--. .... 6,080. 62 146. 03 9, 352.14 78,535.06 Rhode Island __ .. _.. ___ .. _. _...... : ..... -. ____ ...... ____ . _. _ 2, 402. 27 . 01 22. 4.5 .• _.•. ______.. _. ______. ____ . ___ .. _. __ . 2, 4'!4. 73 south Carolina ...... --·---····-- ...... ··----·---···· 731-,939.67 1, 429,21.10 2,011,1\Y.J.39 4,172,<120.16 Tenne ee ...... :...... 488,325.80 877,901.09 2,148,-1.37.98 1,929,301.72 2,429,49-1.12 7,873,460.71 ~~;:~:: :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: -..... 36:75. -- ...... ii."oo ...... 48 _. 90 . 1, 395, g~f: ~I 2, 78o, ~~ : ~ 1, 326, ~~: ~~ o, 50i:~~: ~ Vermont ...... -·········-·...... 168,268.29 ...... ···-·-·------·· 168,268.29 Virginia ...... -·--·- ...... -----· .... ···-..:· 1, 425.83 26,435.64 _...... •...... 299,147.65 330,579.46 657,58 . 58 Washington ...... ______------·----·------·---···· ...... -··-----.. ·--·-···--·-··-·-··· ...... West Virginia ...... -·-----·-·---·---··--····- ...... Wisconsin ...... --·-----······----.. ··-······-·· .. ····-·-·-·--·····--·----·-··· ...... ·--·-·---···· .. ---·····--···--·········--··- Total ...... 351,311.48 1,268,412.56 1 1,772,983.48 1 18,409,654.90 ~,769,078.80 1 2:.!,500,947.77 168,072,388.99 1907. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE ... 431 This act was in operation until February 3,-1868, as appears through its legislatu;-e what shall be done with -the fund. In in the Fifteenth Statutes, page 34, when it was repealed by an my State I am sure it would be given back to those people from act of Congress, and which repealing act reads as follows: whom it was collected, if they are to be found, and if not, to "Tha.t all cotton grown in the United States after the year their heirs; and if there can be found neither the party from 18G7 hall be exempt from internal tax.," etc. This repealing whom it was collected nor their heirs, then to the Confederate act was not passed until protest after protest had been regis veterans or used for educational purposes. [Applause from tered against this lmjust discrimination. It was contended by minority.] the ablest lawyers in the country that the act authorizing the The amount levied upon and collected from citizens of Geor tax was not only an unfair measure, but was unconstitutional. gia is more than that of any other State. The amount that The Constitution provides in Article I, section 2, clause 3, that would go to Georgia under a dishibution of this kind would be "Representatives and direct taxes sb.!lll be apportioned among $11,897,094.98. I have introduced this bill believing that I can the several States." Section ~ clause 1 of Article I, provides in no better way serve my people than to aid in this movement that "The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, that would mean the return of $11,897,0M.98 to the pockets of imposts, mid excises, to pay the debts and provide for the com Georgia's citizens, which was wrongfully taken from them and mon defense and general welfare of the United States, but all which is being wrongfully withheld from them. [Applause duties, imposts, and excises shall be uniform throughout the from minority.] United States.'r Section 9, clause 4 of Article I of the Consti It will be an easy matter to find out from whom the tax was tution further provides: '"No capitation or other direct tax collected. That information can or ought to be gotten from shall be laid unless in proportion to the census or enumeration the Treasury Department; and it will be possible, I am sure, hereinbefore directed to be taken... Clause 5 of that same to return this money to the parties, or their heirs, from whom article and section says: "No tax or duty shall be laid on ar it was collected. ticles exported from any State." The fifth amendment to the It is now pretty generally conceded by all fair-minded men Constitution provides: " Nor shall private property be taken from every quarter of the country that this tax act was uncon for public use without just compensation." The tenth amend stitutional and unjust. It is generally conceded, I say, by fair ment to the Constitution provides that '" The powers not dele minded men from every quarter of the country that the legisla gated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited tion authorizing this tax was not only wrong in principle but by it to the States, are reserved to the States, respectively, or wrong in eA"1)ediency. [Applause.] to the people.'' Why cotton was selected out of the numerous other agri Remedy was asked through the courts against the enforce cultural products for this taxation has never been fully ex ment of this cotton tax, but at that time even our com·ts were plained, though it is generally believed that it was aimed at blinded by sectional hatred and could not be made to see the the Southern States and no doubt was thought to be a good clearness of the Constitution on this point, or if they were way in which to punish the Confederate veterans, who came made to see it certain it is they were not made to give an opin mainly from the cotton-growing States, and upon whose shoul ion that would correctly construe the Constitution and mete ders the weight -of this unjust taxation fell. out justice. It was not until years after that unfortunate war As I baye alread~ said, it is not iny purpose to inject into between the States that our Supreme Court rendered a decision this argument any sectionalism ur to say anythiug that will that means that the act of July 1, 1862 (12 Stats., 465), under awaken old memories or prolong sectional feeling growing out which these amounts were collected, was unconstitutional. It of tha.t unfortunate but inevitable war between the States. I means that if it means anything at all. It is possible that the am as loyal to my State and to the Southland as ·· any of the court did not have the cotton act in mind when this decision sons of that section. I am the son of a private Confederate was rendered. The case that I refer to is to be found in the soldier, who with his colleagues in arms fought for principles One hundred and fifty-eighth United States Reports, page 601. that they thought were right. [.Applause.] I am not now, nor Among other things this case holds : nen~r shall be, ashamed of my heritage. On the other hand, In distributing the power of taxation the Constitution retained to while I love the South and her noble heroes and patriotic sons, the United States the absolute power of direct taxation, but granted I have every respect for t:Qe heroes who wore the blue, and who to the Federal Government the power of ·the same taxation upon con dition that in its exercise such taxes should be apportioned among the also fought for principles that they thought were right. [He several States according to numbers, and this was done in order to newed applause.] The fate of war, and superior numbers, de protect the States, who were sul'l'endering to the Federal Government creed that the Union should be perpetuated. Let ns hope that so many sources of income, the power of direct taxation, which was their principal remaining resource. it will be perpetuated for all time. 'rhat war makes up the Taxes on real estate being indisputably direct taxes, taxes on the saddest chapter in our country's whole history from its founda rents or income of real estate are equally direct taxes. tion to the present time. We are all glad that it is in the past, Taxes on personal property or on the income of personal property are likewise direct taxes. and we are all glad that we are a reunited people forever. [.Ap plause.} Above all else we are glad that we are Americans In the light of tllese quotations from the Constitution itself, ana that we have the grandest country in all the world. [Re as to the meaning of which I can not see how there could have newed applause.] ever been any honest doubt, and in the light of this decision It is now forty-two years sinee tbe ·close of that unfortunate of the Supreme Court, it is clear that the acts authorizing this war between the States, and without any feeling save a Jove tax are unconstitutional and invalid. The horrible fact re for my cotmh·y and its whole people, as a native Georgian I mains, however, that our National Government has without have introduced this bill to right a wrong growing out of the authority of law exacted from a large number of her citizens passions of that dark hour in om· country's history. [.Ap money that it bas no right to. The fact also remains that plause.] The Government should refund the amount that was this money, despite the unconstitutionality of the act under arbitrarily collected from a single article of our agriculh1ral which it was coliected, is still withheld from the owners wealth and which is now conceded to have been an unconsti thereof. tutional use of power. Our nation was founded upon principles It was a Republican Congress that saw the injustice of of honesty and justice. We love to think of our Government this tax and passed an act on February 3, 1868, repealing as the embodiment of honesty and justice. [Applause.] But, the tax on cotton. I can not think there was much doubt in the Mr. Speaker, how are we to think of it in this light if it con minds of the members of that Congress as to the constitution tinues to hold this sum of money that it clearly has no right ality of the act. It is my opinion that thej just simply knew to? What are other people to think of us? This is all a part that it was unconstitutional and unjust, and hence re-pealed it. of our :r.·ecords and of our history. It would not only be the I can not think there is a man under the sound of my voice, no right thing to do, but a beautiful thing to do, for the Congress of matter what quarter of the counh'Y he is from, who is to-day the United St.."ltes to lay aside all memory of the war between the honestly of the opinion that the tax on cotton was constitu Statesr forget that imaginary Mason and Dixon's line, just re tional. It was a Republican Congress that imposed the tax, member that we are one people, of one country, with a general it was a Republican Congress that repealed it, now why not a purpose to do right, and refund by an act this sum of money to Republican Congress go a little further and make restitution its rightful and lawful owners. The people of the South, who are by disbursing this fund to those, or their heirs, who have been perhaps more largely interested in this fund than people from wronged by that tax? [Applause.] any other part of the country, are as loyal and patriotic to the It is not my purpose to open any memory of that unfortunate Government as those of any -other part of the country, those war. It is not my purpose to argue tins matter from a sec who wore the blue not even excepted. Then why shonld this tional standpoint. Such arguments are wrong. [Applause.] I money that was exacted as a punitive measure still be held by don't want it considered from a sectional standpoint. To evade the Government? [Applause.] that I have made the provisions of this bill such that the Gov Georgia's condition at the time of the collection of this tux. ernment can pay the amount collected from each State back to as now, was that of leadership in wealth and progress among the State from which it was collected a.nd. let that State say her Southern sisters-the elements which conspired to win for- 432 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. DECEMBER 19, her the proud title of the " Empire State of the South." But .Mr. T.A. WNEY. I yield to the gentleman from .Arkansas no matter what may have been her wealth then, or what it may [1\Ir. W .ALL.ACE] to make a request. be now, she is not for that reason to be debarred from the .Mr. W ALL.A.OE. Mr: Speaker, I ask unanimous consent tor equities which obtain in similar cases. She was wrongfully print remarks in the RECORD on the subjects of income and in taxed in the sum of $11,897,094.98, and my object is to obtain a heritance tax, good roads, and the tariff in relation to the return of that money to the State, to be refunded to its rightful farmer and home builder. owners. [Loud applause.] The SPEAKER. Is there objection? [After a pause.] The I shall digress for a few moments to present a few statistics Ohair hears none. showing the comparative condition of the State in the years Mr. T.A. WNEY. Mr. Speaker, I ask for the passage of the 1860 and 1900 and 1905-6. Her cotton production in 1860 was joint resolution. 701,840 bales, which had increased in 1906 to 1,670,448, being The joint resolution was ordered to be engrossed; and being excelled in the latter year in cotton production by the single engrossed, was accordingly read the third time and passed. State of Texas. In 1906 Georgia produced 12 _per cent of the On motion of ~r. TAWNEY a motion to reconsider the vote by entire cotton crop of the country. In the same year she pro which the joint resolution was passed was laid on the table. duced of sea-island cotton 13,888,700 pounds, or 57 per cent LOCATION OF GRANT MEMORIAL. of the entire crop. Her cotton-seed products had a value of $10,762,331. Her other productions in 1860 and her present Mr. McCALL. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent for productive power are best shown by the following parallel col the immediate consideration of the joint resolution which I · umns for 1860 and 1905 : send to the desk. The Clerk read as follows : Items. 1860. 1905. House joint resolution No. 77. Resolved, etc., That the operation of the provision of law authoriz ing the location of the Grant Memorial upon the unoccupied portion Acres of farm land: of the Botanical Garden be, and the same is hereby, suspended until 8, 062, 768 10,615,644 the 1st day of May, 1908. gn~o;~~eCi::: :·:::::::::::::::::::::::: ::::::::::: 18,587,732 15,776,413 1\Ir. SMITH of Iowa. I object. Total value ...... S157, 072, 803 $183, 370,120 Value of farming implementR ...... $6, 844, 887 S9,804, 010 Mr. McCALL. I will ask the gentleman to reserve his ob Value of live tock ...... sss, 372, 734 $35,200, 000 jection for a moment. Wheat produced ...... bushels .. 2, 544, 913 2, 106,556 115,532 109, 886 1\lr. SMITH of Iowa. I am willing to reserve the objection, 30, 776,283 47,25.3,164 retaining the right to make the objection. MfSYL~:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::~~:::: 1, 231,817 3,522,075 1\lr. McCALL. Mr. Speaker, I would like to say a word to Rice produced ...... pounds .. 52,507,632 a97,696 explain the purpose of the resolution. The provision of law referred to authorizes the location of the Grant memorial a Bushels. upon any unoccupied pm·tion of the Botanical Garden. Some PonuJ.ation ·of the State, 1860, 1,057,286; 1900, 2,216,331. time during the last autumn operations were begun to locate In 1900 the total wealth of Georgia was $936,000,450, divided the memorial upon what many believed to be an occupied as follows: portion · of the Botanical Garden, c.ontrary to the spirit of LiRevael stockpropertY------______: ______$187,299,89737,481,000 the act. · The place where it was proposed, and is now pro posed, to put the memorial is occupied by the main sewer Farm implements ------9, 804, 000 Manufactures ------'32, 830, 000 running from the Capitol; but more important than that, it Gold and zilver------~------37,515, 000 is occupied by some very beautiful historical trees. I think Railroads------124,000,000 as one of the prime objects of a botanical garden is to culti Street railways ------33, 838, 000 All other wealth------177, 653, 000 vate trees, that it might well be said there is an occupancy The cotton production of my district in 1860 and 1906 is as of that portion of the gardens. There is an unoccupied por follows: tion of the gardens where this monument can be placed. It may be that this construction of the law is not correct. I County. believe, however, that th~ matter should be inquired into by 1860. 11906. Congress. As a result of the protests made, operations were ------~------1 ---- suspended until the assembling of Congress, with the purpose ~~f~li·:: ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ~J~~~:: 1, ~~ 1g:g~~ of giving it an opportunity to act. But the committees had Burke ...... do .... 23,419 31,746 not been appointed in this House until to-day, and we are so soon to take a recess that practically we will have no oppor tunity to act until after the holidays. =~~rr~~=:~===~::::::~:::::::::::::~:::::: ::::::::::::::~~~=:~ 1. i~ 1~: ~i I believe that this iS a very important matter. I think that the unnecessary destruction of beautiful trees would be an act ~ilri~: :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ~:: ::::: ~ ::::::::: ::~~:: =~ .. 2; ~g~. 11, ~~ of vandalism, and I think the Committee on the Library ~~~~'a) f.:::::::::::::::::::::::::':::::::::::::::::::::::::::~~:::: 5, ~~ 1~: ~~g should have an opportunity carefully to consider the matter, Toombs ...... •...... do.... 6,449 and I promise that it will do so immediately after the holi Total...... 36,812,106,660 days and report to the House. I imagine that the gentlemen having this matter in charge will not proceed in view of what has been done and the inability of Congress to act on the sub Thus, despite the ravages of war, Georgia is found in line, ject and in the condition in which things are now; but in order like the rest of the Southern States, loyal and patriotic to the to make certain, I have introduced this resolution, and have flag, doing full and energetic duty as a proud State of the asked unanimous consent for its immediate consideration. American Union. In the matter of the cotton tax she and her Mr. SHERLEY. If the gentleman from Iowa [Mr. SurTH] sister States that felt the levy of the tax have been wronged, will withhold his .objection, I would like to make a statement. and it is but right that a great country like the United States Mr. SMITH of Iowa. If I can reserve it further, I will should proceed to do those thus wronged full and exact do so. justice. The SPElA.KER. Is there objection to the gentleman from I call this to your attention at this time so that if my bill Kentucky. having time to make a statement? is favorably reported back to the House by the committee to Mr. S HTH of Iowa. Reserving my right to object. which it has been referred you will fully understand my The SPEAKER. Certainly. position and my reasons for the introduction of the bill. I There was no objection. hope that the committee will act favorably upon my bill, or :Mr. SHERLEY. Mr. Speaker, this morning I introduced some other bill along the same line, and that it will be referred into the House a bill amending that portion of the appropriation back to the House for its consideration; and I hope that jus bill passed on the 30th of June, 1006, whicll authorizes the tice will no longer be blinded by sectional hatred, but that you erection of this monument to General Grant in the Botarucal will realize the wrong that has been inflicted upon yom· Garden. The amendment proposed is that in the erection of brothers, and that it will be your pleasure to give the bill the monument those historical or other trees planted in such yom· support, and thereby return to those from whom this grounds shall not be moYed or in any way disturbed. I simply tax was collected every cent of their money, with interest, want to add to the statement made by the gentleman from that the records and history of om· great common country Massachusetts [Mr. McCALL] as to the importance that this may be cleared up, and that it may be said without any reser matter be delayed until Qongress can have opportunity to ex vation or· exception that our Government is not only truly press its will. Certainly whatever may be said as to the orjo- good and great, but scrupulously honest and just to its citizens. inal authorization of the erection of this statue in the B~ [Prolonged applause.] tamcal Garden, no one w1ll deny that at that time It was never t • 1907. CONGRESSION.A.L RECORD-HOUSE. f133- contemplated that the condition that now confronts us would Mr. WILLIAMS. This resolution does not remove it; it occur. No one for a moment thought that in the erection of merely postpones action. the statue there would be a destruction of these famous trees. Mr. SMITH of Iowa. Until next May. It has been located And while nobody, certainly no one from my section of the on this ground by action of the Commission created by Con-· country, would want to · do anything in the slightest degree gress since the summer of 1903, and now, when the conh·act is to pre'lent the erection of a proper memorial to that great gen let and the excavation for the founQ.ation is being made, lt is eral of the civil war whom the South remembers as a generous proposed to postpone it, without a hearing before the com victor and as a most generous President to thn.t section of the mittee. I insist upon my objection. [Applause.] country, still we do believe that a proper recognition of his The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Iowa objects. memory can be had without the destruction of a great historic l\Ir. SMITH of Iowa. It has been suggested that I have not tree planted by a great Kentuckian, arul we hope that tlle made myself entirely clear. I wish to state that in my judg gentleman from Iowa [Mr. SMITH], in his desire to see progress ment if the committee takes up this resolution in reference to made with this memorial to General Grant, will not force a the Grant memorial and proceeds immediately to its disposition situation that will necessitate the destruction of the Crittenden before the 1st of February, that the Commission ought not i:o peace tree. · It has been suggested that that tree could be re proceed to .destroy any of these trees in the meantime. I do moved. To remove it, however, practicalJy meaus to kill it. not believe it wilJ, although I disclaim any authority to speak Its size and character ·render such removal simply a method of for the Commission in that respect. killing, and the resolution offered by the gentleman from Mas :MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE. sachusetts [1\lr. McCALL] simply stays the matter until Con gress can express its will in the premises. I trust that the A message from the Senate, by :Mr. PARKINSON, one of its gentleman will see proper to withdraw his objection. secretaries, announced that the Senate had passed with amend Mr. SMITH of Iowa. Mr. Speaker, I must insist upon my ments joint resolution of the following title, in which the con objection. It is not my desire to do any of the things these cmTence of the House of Representatives was requested: · gentlemen seem to believe we desire to do. I want this resolu Joint resolution (H. J. Res. 58) to pay the officers and em tion to go to the Committee on the Library, where it belongs. ployees of the Senate and House of Representatives their re 1\lr. WILLIAMS. Will the gentleman permit me to ask him spective salaries for the month of December, 1907, on the 1Dth a question? day of said ·month. Mr. SMITH of Iowa. Certainly; still insisting upon my The message also announced that the Senate had p:l~>-ed bill objection. and joint resolution of the following title , in which the con Mr. WILLIAl\IS. Has the gentleman any assurance or does currence of the House of Representatives was requested: the gentleman believe tllat if we fail to take any action at this Joint resolution (S. J. Res. 14) extending the time allowed time these people will not take advantage of the delay and the organized militia of the several States and Territories and remove or cut down the tree? the District of Columbia to conform to the provisions of section Mr. SMITH of Iowa. I do not believe they will if the delay 3 of the act approved January 21, 1903. is not unreasonable; but the contract has been let and dam An act (S. 1708) to establish a fish-cultural station in the ages are already accruing to the contractors. I do not think State of Illinois. - they are going to wait until next May. 'l'his Committee on the Tlle message also announced that the Senate had passed Library can act at once, and I ·think there will be no disposi without amendment the following resolution: R esolvecl by the House of R epresentatives (the Senate concurring), tion on tlleir part to cut off action. That when the two Houses adjourn on Saturday, December 21, they Mr. SHERLEY. Would the gentleman withdraw ·objection stand adjow-ned until 12 o'clock meridian, Monday, January 6, 1908. if an amendment were made to the resolution offered by the The m~ssage also announced that the Vice-President had gentleman from Massachusetts [Mr. McCALL] fixing the 1st of appointed Mr. MoNEY and l\!r. GALLINGER m~mbers of the select March as the date? committee on the part of the Senate, as provided for in the act Mr. S:~IITH of Iowa. I will not withdraw the objection of February 16, 18 9, entitled "An ·act to aut4orize and provide. under any circumstances. for the disposition of useless papers in the Executive Depart Mr. MANN. Does the gentleman from Iowa [l\Ir. SMITHl ments," for the disposition of useless papers in the Post-Office think that under the original act providing that this memorial Department. might be located on "unoccupied space" the Commissioners The message also announced that the Senate had passed Sen have the right to place it in a space which is occupied with ate concurrent resolution 5 relative to International Congress trees and shrubbery and to remove those trees to put the me on Tuberculosis, in which the concurrence of the House of Rep morial in? resentatives was requested. Mr. SMITH of Iowa. I will say to the gentleman that when the law provides for erecting a memorial 250 feet in length in SENATE BILL AND JOINT RESOLUTION REFERRED. the Botanic Gardens in " unoccupied space" n.nd there is no Under clause 2, Rule L~IV, Senate bill and joint resolution place where there is no tree or shrub for 250 feet in a straight of the following titles were taken from the Speaker's table and line, I thinlc that the law meant that trees and shrubs were referred to their appropriate committees, as indicated below: not occupants of space. An act ( S. 1708) to establish a fish-cultural station in the Mr. MANN. But the gentleman is mistaken. There are State of Illinois-to the Committee on the Merchant Marine and places in the Botanical Garden, and there were plenty of places Fi ·heries. in it at the time this bill became a law, that were 250 feet in Joint resolution (S. R. 14) extending the time allowed the length. organized militia of the several States ·and Territories and the Mr. SMITH of Iowa. Not east of Second street. District of Columbia to conform to the provisions of section Mr. WILIJIAMS. There are plenty of places without any 3 of the act approved January 21, 1903-to the Committee on · historic trees like this. the l\lilitia. Mr. McCALL. Will the gentleman yield? COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS. Mr. Sl\HTH of Iowa. Mr. Speaker, I shall not ask the time 1\Ir. PAYl\TE. Mr. Speaker, I offer the following resolution of the House to show why this memorial should go where the and ask unanimous consent for its immediate consideration. law now provides it shall be placed. I thilik I can show it The SPEAKER. The Clerk will report the resolution. ought to go just where it hns bPen lo<:ated by Mr. Secretary The Clerk read as follows: Root, by Mr. Secretary Taft, by the chairman of the Joint Com Resolved, That the -Committee on Ways and Means be authorized to mittee on the Library, l\lr. WETMORE, and by General Dodge, sit during the sessions of the House and during the recess of the the greatest survivor of the ci"ril war, and where the family of Congress. General Grant want it placed. I do n.ot want to take the time of The SPEAKER. Is there objection? [After a pause.] The the House at this time to do that. This resolution has been Chair hears none. reported by no committee. I want a hearing by the committee The resolution was agreed to. before this order to locate the memorial shall be vacated at the Mr. PAYNE. 1\Ir. Speaker, I also offer the following re.oolu- behest of a portion of the people of Washington who-some of tion. them, in my judgment-are seeking other ends than the protec The SPEAKER. The Clerk will report the resolution. tion of these trees. I want these trees protected and they shall The Clerk read as follows: be proticted if I have my way about it. But I am not in favor ResoZt,ecl, That the Committee on Ways and Means be authorized to of passing the resolution, without reference to a committee, re have such printing and binding done as may be required in the trans moving the memorial from the place where it has been located action of its business. in accordance with the will of the family of General Grant, and The SPEAKER. Is there objection 1 [After a pause.] The upon the judgment of everybody who has had anything to do Chair hears none. with its location under the act of Congress. The resolution was agreed to. XLII--28 ~34 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD---HOUSE. DEOEl\IBER 19 '· COMMITTEE ON MILITARY .AFF1\P:I:S. ·Mr. STAFFORD. I also offer the following resolution. Mr. HULL of Iowa. Mr. Speaker, I offer the following reso- The SPEAKER. The Clerk will report the resolution. lution and ask for its immediate adoption. The Clerk read as follows: The SPEAKER. The Clerk will report the resolution. Resolved, That the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, and aiiy subcommittee thereof, be allowed to sit during the sessions 'l"he Clerk read as follows: of the Sixtieth Congress. Resol~:ed, That the Committee on l\Iilitary Affairs be authorized to have such printing and binding done as may be required in the trans The SPEAKER. Without objection the resolution is con action of its business. sidered as agreed to. The SPE.illER. Is there objection? [After a pause.] 'The There was no objection. Chair hears none. COM ITTTEE ON AGRICULTURE. The _resolution was agreed to. Mr. SCOTT. Mr. Speaker~ I ask unanimous consent for the COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE AND FOREIGN COMMERCE. present consideration of the following resolution. 1\Ir. HEPBURN. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent for The SPEAKER. The Clerk will report the resolution. the immediate consideration of the following resolution. The Clerk reacy as follows: The SPEAKER. The Clerk will report the resolution. R eso lved, That authority be granted to print and bind, for use of the Committee on Agriculture, all documents deemed necessary in The Clerk read as follows': connection with subjects considered or to be eonsidered by said com Resolved, That the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce mittee during the Sixtieth Congress. - shall have authority to order such printing and binding done as it 'l'he [.After a may deem to be necessary connected with the transaction of the bu~i SPEAKER. Is there objection? pause.] The ness of the said committee during the sessions of the Sixtieth Congress. Chair hears none. The SPEAKER. Without objection, the resolution ·is con The· resolution was agreed to. sidered as agreed to. [After a pause.] The Chair hears no COMMITTEE ON INSULAR AFFAIRS. objection. Mr. COOPER of Wisconsin. 1\Ir. Speaker, I ask unanimous COMMITTEE ON THE TERRITORIES. consent for the present consideration of the following resolu 1\fr. H.AltULTON of Ukhlgan. Mr. .Speaker, I ask present tion. consideration of the following resolution. The SPEAKE-R. The Clerk will Teport the resolution. The SPEAKER. The Clerk will .report the resolution. The Clerk read as follows: The Clerk read as follows; Re&olved, That authority be granted to p-rint and bind, for use of the Committee on Insular Affairs, all documents deemed necessary in Resolved, That the Committee on the Territories be authorized t-o connection with subjects considered or to be considered by said Com have :r>rinted and bound such papers and documents for the use of mittee during the Sixtieth Congress. said committee ·as it may deem necessary in connection with subjects considered or to be considered by the said committee during the Six The .SPEAKER. Without objection the resolution will be tieth Congress. considered as agreed to. [After a pause.] · The Chair hears The SPEAKER. Is there objection? [After a pause.] The no objection. Chair hears none. COMMITTEE ON THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. T1le resolution was agreed to. Mr. Sl\IITH of Michigan. I ask unanimous consent for Ur. HAMILTON of Michigan. 1\-Ir. Speaker, I also offer the the present consideration of the following resolution. following resolution. The SPEAKER. The Clerk will report the resolution. · ·The SPEAKER. The Clerk will report the resolution. The Clerk read as follows: The Clerk read as follows : Resolved, That the Committee on the· District of -Columbia IJe -au-. Resolved, That the Committee -on the . '.rerritories, or such subcom thorized to have such printing and binding done :a.s may be required in - mittee as they may designate, shall have leave to sit during the ses the transaction .of its business. sions of the House duTing the _Sixtieth Congress and during the recess. The SPEAKER. Is there objection? [After a pause.] The Mr. MANN. Mr. ~peaker, reserving the righj to object, I Chair hears .none. would like to ask a question. That is, whether it is customary The resolution was agreed to. for this committee to have the privilege to sit during the re- cess? COMMITTEE APPOINTMENT. 1\ir. HAMILTON of Michigan~ Yes; that has been accorded The SPE.AKER announced the appointment of Mr. HIGGINS heretofore. of Oonnecticut to the Committee on War. Claims. The SPEAKER. Is there oojection? [After a pause.] The Mr. HAMILTON of 1\Hcbigan. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani- Chair bears no objection. · mous consent that the Delegate from Hawaii [ Ir. KAI..ANIANA- The resolution was agreed to. I -oLE] be added to the Committee on Territories. COMMITTEE ·ON INDIAN AFFAIRS, The SPEAKER. The gentleman from 1\fichi_gan !Mr. HAM- 1\fr. SHERMAN. Mr. Speaker, I offer the foUowing resolu- ILTON] asks unanimous consent that the Delegate from Haw.aii fMr. K.ALANIANAOLE] be appointed to the Committee on Ter- tio~he SPEAKER. The Clerk will report it. xitories. Is there objection? The Clerk read as follows: There was no objection. Resolved Tbat the Committee on Indian Affairs be :a11thorized. to I COMMITTEE ·The SPEAKER. The Clerk will report the resolution. The Clerk read as follows: The Clerk read as follows: Resolvecl, That the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds be Resolved, That the Committee on Naval Affairs be authorized to sit authorized to have such printing and binding done as may be necessary during the sessions of the House. ' for the transaction of its business. Mr. FOSS. Mr. Speaker, I desire also to submit the follow The SPEAKER. Without objection, the resolution will ·be ing resolution and ask unanimous consent for its present con- agreed to. sideration. · There was no objection. The SPEAKER. The Clerk will report the resolution. .ADJOURNMENT OVER. The Clerk read as follows : Mr. PAYNE. Mr. Speaker, I move that when the House Resolved, That the Committee on Naval Affairs be authorized to have adjourns to-day it adjourn to meet on Saturday next. such printing and binding done as may be required in the transaction of its business. The question was taken, and the motion was agreed to. The SPEAKER. Is there objection? CONGRESSION.A.L PUBLICATIONS. There was no objection. Mr. PAYNE. Mr. Speaker, on Monday the gentleman from 1.'he SPEAKER. The question is on agreeing to the resolu Indiana [Mr. LANDIS]. chairman of the Committee on Print tion. ing, called up Senate joint resolution No. 1 and asked for The question was taken, and the resolution was agreed to. its adoption. I objected, in order to examine it in the mean COMMI'ITEE ON RIVERS .AND HARBORS. time. Yesterday he came to me and I told him that I had no objection to his resolution. He said he wished to return to 1\fr. BURTON of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, I desire to offer the Indiana, and asked me to call it up. I therefore call up Senate resolution which I send to the Clerk's desk and ask unanimous joint resolution No. 1 and ask for unanimous consent for its im consent for its present consideration. mediate consideration. The SPEAKER. The Clerk will read the resolution. Mr. BARTLETT of Georgia. I object. The Clerk read as follows : The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Georgia objects. Resolved, That the Committee on Rivers and Harbors be authorized to have such printing and binding done as may be required in the trans Mr. MANN. I hope the gentleman from Georgia will not action of Its business during the Sixtieth Congress. make that objection. The SPEAKER. Is there objection? Mr. TAWNEY. If he does not make it, I will. There was no objection. .Mr. BARTLETT of Georgia. I have made it, and will make The SPEAKER. The question is on agreeing to the resolu the objection. tion. DISTRIBUTION OF HOUSE ROOMS. The question was taken, and the resolution was agreed to. Mr. MANN. Mr. Speaker, I call up House resolution 53 for TUBERCULOSIS CONGRESS. consideration. 1\fr. BARCHFELD. 1\ir. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent The Clerk read as follows: at this time to withdraw from the Speaker's desk concurrent House resolution No. 53. Resolved, That the following assignment of rooms, Indicated by red resolution No. 5. coloring and in part by temporary numbers on the plats accompanying The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Pennsylvania asks this resolution, be, and is hereby, made, and the rooms now occupierl unanimous consent to take from the Speaker's table Senate con by the committees named, except where intent is otherwise shown, shall current resolution No. 5 and consider the same at this time. be vacated by such committees as soon as the rooms newly assigned The Clerk will report the resolution. are ready for use, to wit : The Clerk read as follows : IN THE HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING. FIRST FLOOR. Concurrent resolution No. 5. Whereas an International Congress on Tuberculosis will meet in To the Committee on Alcoholic Liquor Traffic, room 102. Washington in September, 1908, the same being the Sixth International To the Committee on Disposition o! Useless Papers in the Executive Congress on Tuberculosis, and the first to be held in America ; and Departments, room 106. . Whereas seven of the nine Departments of the Federal Government To the Committee on Revision of the Laws, rooms 107 and 108. have petitioned Congress for the authority and means to participate To the Committee on Military Affairs, rooms lJ-.3, 114, 115, and 116. in this congress ; and To the Committee on Election of President, Vice-President, and Rep- Whereas the governors of twenty-eight States of the United States resentatives in Congress, room 117. have authorized the participation of their several States in this con To the committee stenographers, rooms 188, 189, 190, and 191. gress; and SECOND FLOOR. Whereas the Nationa) Association for the Study and Prevention of To the Committee on Rivers and Harbors, rooms 232, 233, 234, and Tuberculosis has provided the necessary means and created a special room at southeast corner. committee to secure the participation of voluntary and private interests To the Committee on the Territories, room 245 and large room ad in the coming International Congress on Tuberculosis; and • joining. Whereas preceding international congresses occurring in other coun anJo i~: Committee on the 1\Ierchant lUru:ine and Fisheries, rooms 278 tries in the past fifteen years have been held tmder governmental 2 auspices, and dele.gates from the United States have participated therein To the Committee on Militia, room 288. as guests of foreign governments: Therefore be it To the Committee on Expenditures in the Interior Department, room Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representati-r;es concurring), 291. That the Department of State be, and is hereby. authorized to invite the governments of other countries, through their ministries, to send THIRD FLOOR. representatives to the International Congress on Tuberculosis, to be To the Committee on Invalid Pensions, rooms 306, 307, 308, and 309. held in Washington, September 21 to October 12, 1908. To the Committee on Claims, room 337 and room at southeast corner. To the Committee on the Public Lands, room 348 and room adjoining l\Ir. PAYNE. 1\fr. Speaker, I object to that. It ought to go on the south. to a committee. It is too important a matter to take up now. · To the Committee on Elections No. 3, rooms -358 and 359. To the Committee on Patents, rooms 390 and 391. l\lr. COUSINS. Ur. Speaker, I think that we should let that As a general· committee room, to be used for special hearings, large go. A resolution o-1; that character ought not to be interrupted. room at northeast corner. Mr. PAYNE. l\lr. Speaker, this meeting is not until next FOURTH FLOOR~ September, and this resolution ought to go to a. committee and To the Committee on Banking and Currency, room 441 and room at southeast corner. be reported to the House. To the Committee on Agriculture, rooms 452 a¥ 453 and large room COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN .AFFAIRS. adjoining on the south. Mr. COUSINS. l\lr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent for IN THE CAPITOL DUILDIXG. To the Chief Clerk of the House, as additional quarters, the room the present consideration of the resolution which I send tO the heretofore occupied by the Committee on Militia. Clerk's desk. To the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture, 'l'he SPEAKER. The Clerk will report the resolution. the room heretofore occupied by the Committee on Revision of the Laws. The Clerk read as follows : 'I'o the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, as additional Resol-r;ed, That the Committee on Foreign Affairs be authorized to quar·ters, the room heretofore occupied by the Committee on the Public have printed and bound whatever papers and documents in connection Lands. with the subjects under considera-tion by the committee that may be To the official reporters of the House, room 6, now occupied by the deemed necessary to the transaction of its business ; also that the committee stenographers. committee be au.thorized to sit during the sessions of the House. To the Journal clerk of the House, room heretofore occupied by the The SPEAKER. Is there objection? Committee on Banking and Currency. For use as a part of the press gallery, the room heretofore occupied There was no objection. by the Committee on Claims. The SPEAKER. The question is on agreeing to the resolu ROOMS RESERVED. tion. The rooms indicated in red on the plats accompanying this resolu The question was taken, and the resolution was agreed to. tion are reserved from allotment herein provided for to individual Members, including the following rooms, to wit: COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS. FIRST FLOOR. 1\Ir. BARTHOLDT. Mr. Speaker, I offer the following reso Room 141, room at southeast corner, rooms 152 and 153, and room lution and ask for its present consideration. a1Uoining same on south. L136 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE. DECEJ\fBER 19' SECOND FLOOR. House, outside of the chairmen of committees. So that the Rooms 214, 215, 261, 262, room adjoinin"' 262 on the north, 277, last person who has the choice of a room under the plan we 280, 281, 282, 283, 284, 285, 286, 287, 289, 290, and 292. present will, in fact, have a choice of one out of five rooms. THIRD FLOOR. It Rooms 313, 314, 315, room at southwest corner, 364, 365, room ad- is interesting, p~ ssibly, in this connection, Mr. Speaker, joining 365 on the north. . to recall to the Hou~e the fact that a hundred years ago the FOURTH FLOOR. House of Representatives first occupied permanently the hall Rooms 468, 469, room adjoining 469 on the north. where now is Statuary Hall. It is fifty years ago on the .A.LLOTl\lE_ T OF I:KDIVIDUAL OFFICE ROOMS. 16th of this month, the day the committee presented this report, The rooms on the first, second, third, a'nd fourth floors of the House that the House first met in this Hall. This illustrates the Office Building not hereby assigned or reserved shall be subject to allot growth of the counh·y and of the House. ment to Members of the House, other than the Speaker and chairmen of committees, in the following manner: Now, under the proposition which we pre~ent, 1\lr. ·Speaker, On Thursday, the 9th day of January, 1908, immediately after the the drawing of the rooms is •ery much tbc sume as it i · for reading of the Journal, the names of the Members of the House enti the drawing of the seats. You will notice the large plats in tled to be allotted rooms shall be called by the Clerk in the order and front, a plat of each floor of the buil committee to the room which it now has, and I have no doubt and there will undoubtedly be a branch library provided there. i:hat would be agreeable to the Hous~ Unless it came to the J ust where these rooms will be located we can not say. point where we would endeayor to seize the gentleman's room, We propose to reserve these north front r ooms for two which I think will never occur-- reasons. The fi rst is that the north front will be less desirable Mr. HULL of Iowa. Well, my understanding, Mr. Speaker, is to enter into at this time, owing to the fact that it is the last that there has been no disposition on the part of the committee portion of the building to be completed ; and, second, these of which my friend is chair.man to arbitrarily deal with any rooms are longer rooms than the others. committee in any way and that that committee has exercised 1\Ir. TOWNSEND. What I was after, if the gentleman will good taste and judgment in trying to harmonize all wishes. permit me, if there are any left over that are more desirable I will say further to my friend from Illinois that personally rooms for office rooms in that building, how are the Members I haye been Yery much inclined to say that we had better go going to get those rooms? • over and submit to the inconvenience than to be as incon Mr. MANN. Well, of course, the committee having charge venienced as we are for want of room. But in looking the of this can at any time report, and these rooms might be matter oyer and talking it oyer with some of the older mem assigned to Members. bers of the committee, who haYe been here a long time, I felt Mr. TOWNSEND. That will be a matter that will hereafter that I could very properly say to the gentleman that the Com be submitted to the House if that emergency should arise. mittee on Military Affairs desire a room where it is con Mr. MANN. Of course any assignment of these rooms will venient, and in conyersations that I have had both with one be submitted to the House. We have no power to assign them of the distinguished members of the Committee on Military otherwise. · Affairs, who is on this special committee, and with the distin Mr. HULL of Iowa. One word more. I understand the guished chairman, that there will be no trouble about it if we gentleman to say that the adoption of this rule will not neces make up our minds in that way. sarily involve the change from the one room now occupied t o Mr. MAl\TN. I will say further to the gentleman-- the acceptance of the other in the new building. l\fr. HULL of Iowa. I wish to say just one word more on 1\Ir. MANN. We do not propose to force the gentleman over that proposition. Rather than to pass the resolution and let us there if the gentleman does not want to go. stay where we are, or let it be effective, if the committee so de 1\lr. HULL. of Iowa. Well, it is not a case of "the gentle sires, or pass another resolution, ~ ould it not be better just man," but of the committee. to drop out for the present? After further consideration, Mr. MANN. Well, I meant the committee. if they can effect the arrangement as the gentleman has out Mr. HULL of Iowa. What I want to ask the gentleman is, If lined to me and as hinted at in the House, it is sure to put in the House adopts this resolution, is not that an order of the another resolution that would move the committee. And I House that we must go over there? would not stand in the way of giving the Speaker of the House Mr. l\IANN. That you . must go to the rooms that a re al all of the room for the transaction of business that he needs. lotted; that is right. But the order of the House could be Why not leave this matter out now and pass this resolution changed. If our committee had known that gentlemen wanted without it? to retain the rooms they have, they would not have provided Mr. MA.l~N . The committee has not endeayored to compel otherwise. But my notion is that when the l\lembers go over any committee to go over to the new building. I am. of the there they will want your committee there. If the committee personal opinion, after having been over in the new building do not want to go over there, I will, as far as I can, give them as much as I have been-and I suppose I have b~en there an opportunity to keep this cubbyhole they now occupy. oftener than any other :Member of the House, owing to the l\lr. HULL of Iowa. Now, some gentlemen on the Military position which I occupy on this committee-that every com Committee want to hold the room that they now have and some mittee that does not go into the new building will greatly re others of the committee think that they do not. It is believed gret it-that is, if. it has the opportunity to go there. I haYe that by the adoption of this resolution the committee would no doubt in my own mind that the new building will be the have to go OYer there, and they feel that it would be betteJ; to place where the committees will want to be and where the have this whole matter left open, so that they may have an op Members will be. But we haYe not endeavored to force any portunity of seeing whether they want to go over there or not. committee to go over. We haYe assigned, for instance, in this I have no objection to its being passed at this time, with the report, four ro9ms to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and understanding that if the Committee on Military Affairs eb four rooms to the Committee on Military Affairs. The Com jects to going over ther~, they will be able to retain the room mittee on Invalid Pensions ha'Ye a little bit of a room down they haYe. _ here, where the Members are put together as close as sardines l\lr. ~IANN. If the gentleman insists, I would myself offer in a box. We have made no assignment of the room of the a motion to strike out the Committee on Military Affairs; but Committee on Military Affairs in this report, and if after fur I think it is better for the Committee on Military Affairs to ther consideration they prefer to stay in the room which they adont the suggestion which we have made. now occupy, I am satisfied that our committee will gladly Mr. SCO'l"T. I understood the gentleman to say, in reply t o make provision for that in the future, and if this is stricken the gentleman from Iowa, if this resolution is adopted, so far out now the rooms may not be there in this order hereafter. as committees assigned to quarters in the new building are Mr. TOWNSEND. Will the gentleman yield for a question? concerned, they will be required to vacate their qnarters in the 1\Ir. 1\IA~'N. Certainly. Capitol. 'l'lmt is, I understand, the meaning of the phrase Mr. TOWN SEND. The discussion thus far, as it seems to ·'except where intent is otherwise shown." The adoption of me, makes it possible that some of these rooms that haye been the resolution releases rooms now occupied by the committees assigned to committees will not be occupied by those commit named "except where intent is otherw1se shown." It seems tees, and as I understand it the whole front tier of rooms on to me that that phrase was intended to cover the case of com the second floor have been set apart and not assigned. Kow, mittees that might not want to go to the new office building, but I would like to ask the gentleman if he has considered what is · use this building, and would not be required to vacate their to be done with these rooms if they are not to be occupied by present quarters. the committees. Can they be reassigned to the Members of 1\Ir. MAJ\TN. On the contrary, the "intent" is that which ie this H ouse who prefer them to the offices which they may se shown in this report. lect; and if so, how are they going to get them? ·1\Ir. SCOTT. I am glad to have that fact brought out. Mr. 1\IAl\TN. That would remain within the control of the Mr. 1\IAl\"N. The committee has endeavored to work out a House and within the report of the committee. But Jet me plan by which the committees of the House can either have say to the gentleman that there are a number of committees more room in the new building or more room here ; but if they still down in the Terrace. all remain here, of course it is impossible to provide them with 1\Ir. TOWNSE~D . What are you going to do with the rooms additional room. If no other gentleman desires to occupy there? further time, I desire to offer some committee amendments. Mr. .1\fANN. Undoubtedly most of those will prefer to come The SPEAKER pro tempore (1\Ir. DALZELL). The gentleman out of the Terrace. The rooms there, or the most of them, are from Illinois submits the following amendment, which the not fit rooms for any committee to be in, owing to the fact that Clerk will report. ·they often become leaky and damp. They are not healthy The Clerk read as follows : rooms. ·Amend page 1 by striking out in lines 12 and 13 the following : " to the Committee on Disposition of Useless Papers in the :mxecutive 1\Ir. TOWNSEND. Just in connection with that question, let Departments, room 106." And by inserting on page 2, after Hne 10, me ask what is going to be done with the rooms over in the new the following: " to the Committee on Disposition of Useless Papers building if they are not occupied? in the Executive Departments, room 206." rage 2, lines 24, 25, and 26, strike out the words, " three hun l\fr. MANN. We wm endeaYor to work it out. For instance, dred and s.lx, three hund1·ed and seven, three hundred and eight, tlnd there will be a stationery room provided in the new building, three h undred and nine," and insert in lieu thereof the words "three 1907 .. . CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. hundred and three, three hundred and four, three hundred and five, tion of Horn Harbor, Virginia-to the Committee on Rivers and and three hundred and six." Pnge 3 lines 6 and 7., strike out the words " three hundred and Harbors and ordered to be printed. fifty-nine;, and insert in lieu thereof the words " three hundred and A letter from the president of the Board of Commissioners of fifty-seven." the District of Columbia, transmitting a draft of a bill relating Mr. 1\lAl~. This makes no substantial change at all. to distribution of ad\ertising matter in the District of Colum The amendments were considered and agreed to. bia-to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered Mr. 1\IANN. I now move to strike out, on page 2, lines 12 to be printed. and 13, the assignment to the Committee on Military Affairs. A letter frem the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a The Clerk read as follows: copy of a letter from the Acting Secretary of War submitting Strike out" the words "to the Committee on Military A.ffairs, rocms an estimate of appropriation for employees. at the Military 113, 114, 115, and :11()." Academy-to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to The amendment was agreed to. be printed. l\l"t'. MANN. I further move to amend, on page 4, at the A letter from the Secretary of State, renewing tfie request head of line 13, after the words " first floor," the words that certain officers of the Army and Navy be permitted to ac "rooms 113, 114, 115, and 116." cept decorations from foreign governments and suggesting a The· Clerk read as- follows·: declaration of the policy of Congress in regard to such mat On page 4, line 12, after the words " first floor," add the words ters-to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to· pe "rooms 113, 114, 1!5, and 116." printed. The amendment was agreed to. A letter from the president of the Board of Commissioners of 1\Ir. UNDERWOOD. l\Ir. Speaker, I want to ask the gen the District of Columbia, recommending legislation increasing tleman what disposition he is making of these rooms: eovered the number of District of Columbia cadets in the Military Acad by this amendment? emy-to the Committee:. on the District of Columbia and or Mr. MANN. They are reserved. dered to be printed. Mr. HINSHA.W. Mr. Speaker, I would like to ask the gen A letter from the chairman of the Board of Commissioners tleman fi·om illinois how many rooms will be available for of the District of Columbia, transmitting a draft of a bill relat occupancy immediately after January 9? . ing to assessment life insurance companies-to the Committee l\Ir. 1\IA.l~N. I may say to the House that, in my judgment, on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. and· it is our expectation, the building will be open for in A letter from the Acting Secretary of War, transmitting, with spection of l\Iembe.rs immediately after the reconvening of Con a letter from the Chief .of Engineers, revort of examination of gress, so that everyone will ha-ve an opportunity to see the Crystal River, Florida-to the Committee on Rivers and Har building in good shape. The rooms on the west side, the bors anll ordered to be printed. south side, and the east side are now fairly dry and would be A letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transrrijtting a perfectly suitable to be occupied to-day as offices; but the schedule ot claims allowed by the accounting officers 0f the rooms on the north side are not ready, and it is not possible to Department-to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered say whether they will be ready and dry enough to be perfectly to be printeu. habitable when the drawing takes place, but we expect that that A letter from the assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, will be the case, so that a.ll rooms will be in shape to be used transmitting a ·ust of Congressional eases dismissed· on motion immediately after the drawing, which takes place on Janu of defendants- May 13, 1907-to the Committee on ''V~r Claims ary 9. and ordered to· ·be printed. · We should have provided for a drawing during this month, A letter from the assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, but we were informed that if that was done and Members used transmittfug a list of Congressional cases dismissed on loy the rooms which were usable it wou.ld delay the contractor and alty-to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be gi\e an excuse for delay, so that the Members would be greatly printed. incommoded for a long time in the future. A letter from the assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, Mr. CHANEY. I would like to ask the gentleman how the transmitting a list of Congressional cases dismissed on claim rooms are furnished-whether they are all furnished alike? ants' motion_:_to the Committee on War Claims and erdered to Mr. l\1AI\'N. The rooms are aU furnished alike. They are be printed. furnished with two roll-top desks,. one being fixed for a type A letter from the assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, writer, and a table, a case, and several chairs, including a transmitting a list of Congressional cases dismissed on motion swivel chair for the Member. · of defend-ants-to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to l\Ir. COCKRAN. Is the typewriter included? be printed. Mr. :1\IANN. The typewriter is not included in the furniture. A letter from the assistant clerk of tlle Court of Claims, The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is- on agreeing transmitting a copy of the findings filed by the court in the case to the resolution as amended. of Mary J. Langley Norris, administrator of estate of Ignatius The question was taken, and the resolution as amended was J. Langley, against the United States-to the Committee on ngreed to. War Claims and ordered to be printed. • WITHDRAWAL OF PAPERS. A letter from the a ssistant clerk of the Court of Claims, trans Mr. CAPRON, by unanimous consent, was given leave to with mitting a copy of the findings filed by the court in the case of draw from the files of the House without leaving copies papers 'Villiam 1\L Moss, administrator of estate of John Smith, against in the case of G. W. and A. Cross, Fifty-ninth Congress, no the United States-to the Committee on 'Var Claims and ordered adverse report having been made thereon. to be printed. ADJOURNMENT. A letter from the assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, trans mitting a copy of the findings filed by the court in the case of Mr. PAYNE. Mr. Speaker, I move that the House do now Margaret l\I. Donnelly, widow of Edward W. Donnelly, against adjourn. the United States-to the Committee on War· Claims and ordered The. motion was agreed to. to be printed. Accordingly (at 2 o'clock and 21 minutes p. m.) the House, A letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, trans under its previous order, adjourned until Saturday, December mitting report of receipts and disbursements by the treasurer 21, at 12 o'clock noon. of Porto Rico-to the Committee on Insular Affairs and ordered to be printed. EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS. A letter from the Acting Secretary of War, transmitting, with Under clause 2 of Rule XXIV, the following executive com a letter from the Acting Chief of Engineers, report of prelimi munications were taken from the Speaker's table and referred nary examination of Pagan River, Virginia-to the Committee as follews : on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. A letter from the president of the Board of Commissioners of A letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, trans the District of Columbia, transmitting a draft of a bill relating mitting a copy of a letter from the Secretary of State, submit to the Metropolitan police-to the Committee on the District of ting an estimate of appropriation for buildings for consular Columbia and ordered to be printed. offices in China.., Korea, and Japan-to the Committee on For-. A letter from the president of the Board of Commissioners of eign Affairs and ordered to be printed. the District of Columbia, transmitting a draft of a proposed A letter from tne Acting Secretary of the Treasury, trans bill relating to· lands of infants or lunatics-to- the Committee mitting, with a copy of a letter from the assistant treasurer of on the District of Columbia and ordePed to be printed. the United States at New York, recommendations in relation to A letter from the Acting Secretary of War; transmitting, salaries in the- office in New York-to the Committee. on Appro with a letter from the 0hief of Engineers, repm·t of examina-· priattions and ord~red to be printed. 440 CONGRESS!ON AL RECORD-HOUSE. DECEMJ;lER 19' A letter from the Secretary of' the Navy, transmitting a re A bill (H. R. 4173) granting a pension to Harris Alvin Con port as to work on the battle ship Louisianar--to the Committee rad-Committee on Invalid Pensions discharged and referred to on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. ihe Committee on Pensions. A letter from the Se..cretary of the Interior, recommending a A bill (H. R. 4273) for the relief of Leonard Keeling-Gom reallotment of land to Edward N. Vandall, a Yankton Sioux mittee on Invalid Pensions discharged an~ referred to the Com Indian-to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be mittee on Military Affairs, .printed. A bill (H. R. 432 ) granting a pension to Edward J. Blaine A letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting with Committee on InYalid Pensions discharged and referred to the a favorable recommendation, a draft of proposed legislation for Committee on Pensions. the benefit of Utes who left their reservation duTing the winter A bill (H. R. 4503) for the relief of Julius A. Kaiser-Com of 1906-to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be mittee on Invalid Pensions discharged and referred to the printed. Committee on Naval Affairs. A letter from the Postmaster-General, transmitting a schedule A bill (H. R. 4644) granting a pension to John R. Costen · of papers and documents not needed in the transaction of busi Committee on Invalid Pensions discharged and referred to the ness and having no permanent value or historical interest-to Committee on Pensions. the Joint Select Committee on Disposition of Useless Papers A bill (H. R. 4955) granting a "pension to Charles J. Owens and ordered to be printed. . Committee on InYalid Pensions discharged and referred to the A letter from the assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, Committee on Pensions. tran.smittWg a copy of the findings filed by the comt in the case A bill (H. R. G555) granting a pension to Othello T. Atkin of James M. Hall against The United States-to the Committee son~Committee on InYalid Pensions discharged and referred on War Claims and ordered to be printed. to the Committee on Pensions. A letter from the assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, A bill (H. R. 563) authorizing the erection of a post-office • transmitting a copy of the findings filed by the court in the case building at Delaware, Ohio-Committee on the Post-Office and of estate of Edward W. Eggleston against The United States Post-Roads discharged and referred to the ·Committee on Pub to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. lic Buildings and Grounds. A letter from the assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, A bill (H. R. G92) granting a pension to John :Ward-Com transmitting a copy of the findings filed by the court in the case mittee on Pensions discharged and referred to the Committee of. E'rank Reed, administrator of estate of James S. Reed, on Invalid Pensions. "' against ·The United States-to the Committee on War Claims A bill (H. R. 697) granting a pension to Henry Spurgeon and ordered to l>e printed. Committee on Pensions discharged and referred to the Com- A letter from the assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, mittee on Invalid Pensions. · transmitting a copy of the conclusions of fact and law in the A bill (H. R. 861) for the relief of La Fayette & Bro. French spoliation cases relating to the brig Mary, Robert Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads discharged and Holmes, master-to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be referred to the Committee on Claims. printed. . A bill (H. R. 12'10) granting an increase of pension to Eliza A letter from the assistant. clerk of the Court of Claims, beth Miller-Committee on Pensions discharged and· referred to transmitting a copy of the conclusions of fact and law in the the Committee on Invalid Pensions. French spoliation ca~es relating to the schooner. Columbus, A bill (H. R. 1322) granting an increase of pension to Lewis Benjamin Mason, master-to the Committee on Clauns and or- 1\f. l\fedlin-Committee on Pensions discharged and referred to dered to be printed. · , . the Committee on Invalid Pensions. A. letter from the assistant clerk of the Court of Clarms, trans A bill (H. R. 1324) granting an increase of pension to Alexan mitting a copy of the conclusions of fact and law in the .French der R. Long-Committee on Pensions dicharged and referred to spoliation cases relating to the. brig Peggy, John Hou~ston, the Committee· on Invalid Pensions. master-to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be prmted. A bill (H. Rr. 1329) granting an increase of pension to A letter from the assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, trans Thomas C. Blevins-committee on Pensions discharged and mitting a copy of the conclusions of fact and la~ in the French referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. spoliation cases relating to the brig Fanny, John G~uld, mas A bill (H. R. 1877) granting an increase of pension to ter-to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be prmted. George W. Corby-Committee on Pensions discharged and re A letter trom the assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, trans· fered to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. mitting a copy of the conclusions of fact and law in the French A. bill (H. R. 2233) for the relief of Edward J. Krueger spoliation cases relating to the brig George, Jacob Greenleaf, Committee on Pensions discharged and referred to the Com maste1·-to the Committee on Claims and ordered to·be printed. mittee on Claims. Jr.. letter from the assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, trans A bill (H. R. 2324) granting a pension to Elcy R. Kelly-. mitting a copy of the conclusions of fact and law in the French Committee on Pensions discharged and referred to the Com spoliation cases relating to the schooner Unity, J. W. Latouche, mittee on Invalid Pen ions. master-to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. A bill (H. R. 3038) granting an increase of pension to Jerome B. Hendricks-Committee on Pensions discharged and referred CHANGE OF REFERENCE. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Under clause 2 of RUle XXII, committees were discharged A bill (H. R. 3190) granting an increase of pension to Wil from the consideration of bills of tlie following titles, which liam 1\Iartin-Committee on Perrsions discharged and referred were thereupon referred as follows: to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. A bill (H. R. 3015) granting an increase of pension to Lewis A bill (H. R. 3215) granting a pension to Oliver 1>. John M. Moses-Committee on Invalid Pensions discharged and re son-Committee on Pensions discharged and referred to the ferred to the Committee on Pensions. Committee on In·mlid Pensions. .A bill (H. R. 3046) granting a pension to Rachel 1\I. Mc A bill (H. R. 4075) for the relief of W. T. Morgan-com Neilly-Committee on Invalid Pensions discharged and referred mittee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads discharged and re to the Committee on Pensions. ferred to the Committee on Claims. A. bill (H. R. 3202) granting a pension to Lucy A. Tibbetts A bill (H. R. 41 5) granting a pension to Esther Cr:otne Committee on Invalid Pen.sions discharged and referred to the Committee on Pensions discharged and· referred to the Com Committee on Pensions. mittee on Invalid Pen ions. .A bi1l (H. n. 3507) granting a pension to .Allen A. Wesley A bill (II. R. 436 ) granting an increase of pension to Committee on In·mlid Pensions discharged and referred to the Lorenzo .W. Shedd-Committee on Pensions discharged and Committee on Pensions. referred to the Committee on Invalid Pen ions. A bill (H. R. 3508) granting an increase of pension to J. C. A bill (H. R. 44 9) granting an increase of pension to Dalclridge-Committee on Invalid Pensions discharged and Benjamin B. Brininger-Committee on Pensions discharged nne! referred to the Committee on Pensions. referred to the Committee on · Invalid Pen ions. .A bill (H. R. 3511) granting a pension to Charles .M. S. A bill (H. R. 44DO) granting an- increase of pension to Ronsholdt-Committee on Invalid Pensions discharged and re James H. Thompson-Committee on Pensions discharged and ferred to the Committee on Pensions. referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. .A bill (H. R. 3584) for the relief of the estate of Lewis Pat A bill (H. R. 4491) granting an increase of pension to John terson, deceased-Committee on Invalid Pensions discharged .Mahood-Committee on Pensions discharged and referred to and referred to the Committee on War Claims. the Committee on Invalid Pensions. . .A hill (H. R. 3610) granting a pension to James M. Fitch .A bill (H. R. 4402) granting an increase of ·pension to Coiili.!littee on lnyalid Pensions discharged and referred to the William H. Clark-Committee on Pensions dis~harged and Committee on Pensions. referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 1907. - .CONGRESSION-AL REGORD-HOUSE. - 4411 A bill (H. R. 4493) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 10455} to provide for the repairs and~ Alva Griswold-Committee on Pensions discharged and re improvements to the post-office and custom-bouse at Bath, ferred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 1\fe.-to the Committee on Public Builclings and Grounds. A bill (H. R. 4494) granting an increase of pension to John By Mr. LEVER: A bill (H. R~ l0-!56) for acquiring .na B. Laillet-Committee on Pensions discharged and referred tional forests in ·the southern Appalachian Mountains and to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. . ·white Mountains-:-to the Committee on Agriculture. A bill (II. R. 4495) granting an increase of pension to By Mr. CURRIER: A bill (H. R. 10457) for acquiring na Myron H. Perrigo-Committee on Pensions discharged and tional forests in the southern Appalachian Mountains and referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. White Mountains-to the Committee on Agriculture. A bill (H. R. 4496) granting an increase of pension to By Mr. GOULDEN: A bill (H. R. 10458) amending section Solomon C. Grimm-Committee on Pensions discharged and. 4463 of the Revised Statutes of the United States-to the Com referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. mittee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries. A bill (H. R. 4497) granting an increase of pension to By Mr. CLARK of Florida: A bill (H. R. 10459) to provide Alexander Depuy-Comrnittee on Pensions discharged and re for and levy an import duty on Egyptian and other long-staple ferred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. cotton imported into the United States from foreign counh·ies A bill (H. R. 4695) granting an increase of pension to Mary to the Committee on Ways and Means. E. Johnson-Committee on Pensions discharged and referred Also, a bill (H. R. 10460) to provide for sittings of the United to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. States circuit and district courts of the northern judicial dis A bill (H. R. 4730) granting a pension to Laura W. Brown trict of Florida at the city of Live Oak, in said district-to the Committee ou Pensions discharged and referred to the Commit Committee -on the Judiciary. _ tee on In·ralid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 10461) to provide for sittings of the United A bill (H. R. 5166) granting a pension to Charles May States circuit and district courts of the northern district of Committee on Pensions discharged and referred to the Com Florida at the city of Gainesville, in said district-to the mittee on Invalid Pensions. Committee on the Judiciary. · A bill (H. R. 5308) granting a pension to .John F. Sanger Also, a bill (H. R. 10462) to transfer certain counties now Committee on Pensions discharged and referred to the Com- in the southern judicial district of the State of Florida to the mittee on Invalid Pensions. · northern judicial district of said State,- and to provide for the A bill (H. R. 5326) for the relief of C. E. Moore-Committee disposition of pending causes, civil and criminal, originating in on the Post-Office .and Post-Roads discharged and referred to such counties-to the Committee on the Judiciary. the Committee on Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 10463) to establish a national military A bill (H. R. 5404) granting a pension to Lucy L. Norton park and Branch Soldiers' Home at the battlefield of Olustee, Committee on Pensions discharged and referred to the Com in the State of Florida-to the Committee on Military Affairs. mittee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 10464) providing for the use of $3,000,000 A bill (H. R. 5757) granting an increase of pension to Rob of the money that would otherwise become· a part of the recla ert Collins-Committee on Pensions discharged and referred mation ftmd, for the drainage of certain lands in the State of to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Florida, and for other purposes-to the Committee on Agricul A bill (H. R. .6811) granting a pension to Henry B. Ed ture. wards-Committee .on Pensions discharged and referred to the Also, a bill (H. R: 10465) establishing in the District of Co Committee on Invalid Pensions. lumbia a neurological- hospital for the care and treatment of A bill (H. R. 6969) granting a pension to Julia E. Johnson the indigent insane of the Dish·ict of Columbia, and for other Committee on Pensions discharged and referred to the Com purposes-to the Committee on the District of Columbia. mittee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 10466) to provide for the erection of a pub A bill (H. R. 7314) granting a pension to Sarah J. Boone lic building at the city of Palatka, in the State of Florida-to Committee on Pensions discharged and referred to the Com- the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. mittee on Invalid Pensions. - Also, a biU (H. R. 10467) to provide for the erection of a pub A bill (H. R. 7330) granting a pension to Alice Z. Dingman lic building at the city of Orlando, in the State of Florida-to Committee on Pensions discharged and referred to the Com the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. mittee on . Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 10468) to provide for the erection of a pub A bill (H. R. 7434) granting an increase of pension to Wil lic building at the city of Lake City, in the State of Florida liam H. Baugher-Committee on Pensions discharged and re to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. ferred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 10469) -to provide for the erection of a pub lic building at the city of De Land, in the State of Florida-to PUBLIC BILLS, RESOLUTIONS AND MEMORIALS. the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. By Mr. GORDON: A bill (H. ;a. 10470) authorizing a survey Under clause 3 of Rule XXII, bills, resolu-tions, and me of Hatchie River, and for other purposes-to the Committee on morials of the following titles were introduced and severally Rivers and Harbors. referred as follows : By l\fr. DAWSON: A bill (H. R. 10471) preventing the un By 1\Ir. SIMS: A bill (H. R. 10446) to provide for temporary lawful wearing of the badge or insignia of the Grand Army of .street railway connection with the Union Railroad · Station, the .Republic or other soldier organizations-to the Committee District of Columbia-to the Committee on the District of on l\Iilitary Affaii·s. Columbia. , By l\Ir. DIXON: A bill (H. R. 10472) to put wood-pulp By Mr. FULTON: A bill (H. R. 10447) to extend the time of printing paper and all materials used in the manufacture of payments under certain homestead entries in the State of Okla the same, and also linotype, typsetting, and composing machines homa-to the Committee on the Public Lands. on the free list-to the Committee on Ways and Means. Also, a bill (H. R. 10448) to provide ·for repayment of de Also, a bill (H. R. 10473) to amend section 1 of "An act to posits to bidders for Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Indian provide · revenues for the Government and to encourage the lands-to the Committee on Private Land Claims. industries of the United States "-to the Committee on Ways By Mr. S~HTH of California: -A bill (H. R. 10449) for the and l\Icans. · · - - protection of animals, birds, and fish in the forest reserves in By Mr. MACON: A bill (H. R. 10474) to prohibit the re California, and for other purposes-to the Committee on the ceipt, delivery, or transmission of interstat~ or foreign messages, Public Lands. or other information to be used in· connection with, and to pro Also, a bill (H. R.- 10450) providing tor the sale df grazing hibit interstate and · foreign transactions of every character and stone lands and milling timber, and for other purposes and description that in anywise depend upon margins as a part to the Committee on the Public Lands. thereof, and for other purposes-to the Committee on Interstate By l\fr. A.l~SBERRY: A bill (H. R. 10451) to place lumber and Foreign Commerce. on the free list-to the Committee on Ways and Means. By Mr. McGAVIN: A bill (H. R. 10475) to establish the title Also, a bill (H. R. 10452) to place coal on the free list-to of the United States to certain land adjacent to the Eastern the Committee on Ways and Means. Branch of the Potomac River, in the District of Columbia-to Also, a bill (H. R. 10453) for the distribution of the cotton the Committee on the District of Columbia. tax fund ~ollected in the State of Ohio-to the Committee on By Mr. LAMB: A bill (H. R. 10476) to repair the roadway ·_Ways and Means. to the Richmond National Cemetery-to the Committee on By Mr. LITTLEFIELD: A bill (H. R. 10454) to provide for Military Affairs. · the purchase of a site and. the erection of a building thereon By Mr. DE ARMOND: A bill (H. R. 10477) concerning na at Rumford Falls, in the State of Maine-to the Committee on tional-bank statements and prescribing the punishment for cer Public Buildings and Grounds. tain offenses-:-to the Committee on Banking and Currency. 442 .CONGRESSIONAL RE .CORD-HOUSE~ DECEMBER· 19, Also, a bill (H. R. 10478} to prevent bank officers and bank Also, a bill €H. R. 10499) to prohibit certain corporations directors from becoming or being bank debtors-to the Commit from contributing money to influence the result of elections or tee on Banking and. Currency~ to influence legislation-to the- Committee on Election of Presi Also, a bill (H. R. 10479) to decline and limit the juris dent, etc. diction of courts as to th"e q.uestion of the constitutionality and By; Mr. COX of llndiana: A bill (H. R. 10500} for the· relief vaHdity of· acts of the Congress and acts of State legisiatures of the nonenlisted officers and members of the crews of the to the Committee on the Judiciary. Mississippi Ram Fleet, Marine Brigade, or Mississippi Squad Also, a bill (H. R. 10480) to provide for securing rnterest ron-to the Committee on Military Affairs. upon deposits of public funds and to prevent tlleir use in Also a bill (H. ll. 1050!) to establish. in the Department of gambling operations,. and for other purposes-to the Committee .Agriculture a bureau to be known as- the Bureau of Public on Ways anct Means. Highways, and: to provid:e for national aid in the improvement Also, a bill (H. R. 10481) to provide for the manufacture and of the public roads-to the Committee on Agriculture. sale by the Go-vernment ot diphtheria antitoxin-to the Com By Mr. . SHERLEY. A bill ~H. R. 10502) to amend the pro mittee on Uilltary Affairs. vision of the act entitled "An. act m-aking appropria;tions for Also, a bill (H. R. 104 2) to prohibit and provide the punish sundry civil expenses- of the. Government for the fiscal year ment fo1~ the shipping and carrying in certain cases fu inter ending June· 30y 1!>07, and for other purposes,'' approved June state commerce of intoxicating liquors as constituting a special 30, 1!)(}6, making an apnropriation for continuing the work for class of commodities, and to forbid1 and prescribe the punish ment for the issuing of and the collecting or accepting of any the erection of the memorial to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant-to the tax or fee for any authorization or permit to sen any such Committee on the Library. liquor in any State or part of a State wherein such sale is By Mr. COOPER of Texas: A.. bill (H. R. 10503) to require prohibited by the Constitution or law of the State.. and for railway companies engaged in interstate commerce to· furnish cars to shipper&-to the- Committee on Interstate and Foreign other purposes-to the Committee on the Judiciary. Commerce. By ~Jr. C~-\.LE: A bill (H. R. 104 3) amending the Crim inal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure for Alaska-to By 1\Ir. LAFEAN: A bill (II. R. 10504) providing for a. spe the Committee on the Territories. cial parcels-post system in York and Adams counties, Pa.-to Also, a bill (ff. R. 10484) to provide additional judges for the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. the ilistrict of Alaska, and for other purposes-to the Commit- By Mr. OLCOTT: A bill (H. R. 10505) authorizing the Presi~ tee on the J"udiciary. . dent of the United States to appoint certain per ons in the By Mr. GILL: A bill (H. R. 10485) to provide for the re Regular Army and place them upon the retired list-to th~ tirement of certain letter carriers and. regulating the pay of Committee on Military Affairs. the same-to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. By Mr. McLACHLAN of Califo~rria : A bill (H. R. 10506) to By 1\Ir. CLAYTON: A bill (H: R. 10486) to limit the effects bridge. Coloradu River-to the Committee on Interstate and of the regulations of commerce between the several States and Foreign Commerce. with foreign countries in certain cases-to the Committee on By Mr. ·RaNDELL of Texas: A bill (H. U. 1 By M:r. McKINLAY of California: A bill (H. R. 10521) to By Mr. BURTON of Ohio: A bill (H. R. 10546) to place provide for small homesteads on the public domain-to the Com works of art on the free list by amending chapter 11 of the mittee on the Public Lands. I s of 1897, entitled "An act to provide revenue for the Gov By Mr. TOU YELLE: A bill (H. R. 10522) to place agricul ernmen and- t~courage the industries of the United tural implements upon the free list-to the Committee on Ways States "-to the ComiDtttee on Ways and Means. and Means. By 1\Ir. UNDERWOOD: A bill (H. R. 10547) for the better Also, a bill (H. R. 10523) to repeal the duty on printing protection of depositors and creditors of national banks-to the paper, wood pulp, and all materials used in the manufacture of Committee on Banking and Currency. printing paper-to the Committee on ·ways and Means. By Mr. HULL of Tennessee: A bill (H. R. 10548) to provide Also, a bill (H. R. 10524) for the erection of a memorial revenue for the Government by levying an income tax-to the structure at Fort Recovery, Ohio-to the Committee on the Committee on Ways and Means. Library. · By Mr. EI"LIS of Oregon: A bill (H. R. 10549) to divide By Mr. BOWERS: A bill (H. R. 10525) to establish an the State of Oregon into two judicial districts-to the Com agricultural experiment station in the Sixth Congressional Dis mittee on the Judiciary. trict of the State of Mississippi-to the Committee on Agricul By 1\Ir. RUSSELL of Missouri: A bill (H. R. 10550) to ture. declare the James River in Stone and Green comities, Mo., By Mr. CHANEY: A bill (H. R. 10526) to secure depositors unnavigable-to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Com and creditors of national banks against loss-to the Committee merce. on Banking and Currency. By Mr. STEEl~ERSON: A bill (H. R. 10551) appropriating By Mr. PARKER of South Dakota: A bill (H. R. 10527) to the receipts from the sale and disposal of public lands in authorize the sale and disposition of a portion of the surplus certain States to the construction of works for the drainage and unallotted lands in the Cheyenne River and Standing Rock or reclamation of swamp and overflowed lands belonging to the Indian reservations in the State of South Dakota, and making United St.. Sprin..,.s, in the State of Wyoming-to· the Committee on Public residence upon certain claims in certain States-to the Commit Buildings and Grounds. tee on the Public Lands. Also, a bill (II. R. 10567) providing for the erection of a By 1\Ir. FOSTER of Indiana: Joint resolution (II. J. Res. 74) public building at Lander, ·wyo.-to the Committee on Public to extend the provisions of the act of February 6, 1D07, relating Buildings and Grounds. to certain officers and men serving on any gunboat or war ves By Mr. HEPBURN: A bill (H. R. 10568) relating to immi sel of the United States-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. gration into the Territory of Hawaii-to the Committee on By Mr. EDWARDS of Georgia: Joint resolution (H. J. Res. Immigration and Naturalization. 75) proposing to amend the Constitution by repealing the fif By 1\Ir. OLCOTT: A bill (H. n. 10569) to repeal section teenth amendment-to the Committee on the Judiciary. 3186 of the ReTised Statutes-to the Committee on the Ju- Also, joint resolution (H. J. Res. 76) proposing an amend diciary. _ ment to the Constitution by providing that all of section 2 of By Mr. GRANGER: A bill (H. R. 10570) providing for the the fourteenth amendment except its first sentence shall be re appointment of a joint commission to report to Congress on a pealed-to the Committee on Election of President, etc. site for a dry dock and repairing station-to the Committee By 1\Ir. McCALL: Joint resolution (II. J. Res. 77) relative on NaTal Affairs. to the location of the Grant memorial-to the Committee on By Mr. EDWARDS of Georgia: A bill (H. R. 10571) to pro the Library. vide for extending the sea wall at Fort Screven, Tybee Island, By 1\Ir. HULL of Tennessee: Joint resolution (H. J. Res. 78) Georgia-to tbc Committee on Military Affairs. providing for the printing of 100,000 copies of the Special Re By Mr. GRAFF : A bill (H. R. 10572) for the relief of port on the Diseases of Cattle-to the Committee on Printing. gaugers, storekeeper-gaugers, and storekeepers-to the Com By Mr. BARCHFELD: Joint resolution (H. J. Res. 79) con mittee on Ways and Means. cerning .the international congress on tuberculosis to be held in By l\Ir. HOUSTON: A bill (H. R. 10573) to establish a na Washington in September and October, 1908-to the Committee tional military park at the battlefield of Stones River-to the on Foreign Affairs. Committee on Military Affairs. By Mr. HAMILTON of Iowa: Resolution (II. Res. 6!)) for By Mr. WATKINS: A bill (H. R. 10574) to revise and amend appointment of a committee to investigate the cause or causes an act to provide for the collection of captured and abandoned of the present panic, and so forth-to the Committee on Rules. property and the prevention of frauds in insurrectionary dis By Mr. GARRETT: Resolution (H. Res. 70) requesting cer tricts within the United States, and acts amendatory thereof tain information from the Secretary of Commerce and Labor to the Committee on War Claims. concerning the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company, and so Also, a bill (H. R. 10575) to provide for the construction of forth-to the Committee on the Judiciary. a public building at ShreTeport, La.-to the Committee on By Mr. BUTLER: Resolution (H. Res. 91) for the appoint Public Buildin,.,s and Grounds. ment of a clerk to the Committee on Pacific Railroads-to the By 1\Ir. SCO'l'T: A bill (H. R. 10576) to prohibit interference Committee on Accounts. with commerce among the States and Territories and with for Also, resolution (H. Res. 92) for the appoinhnent of a janitor eign nations, and to remove obstructions thereto--to the Com- to the Committee on Pacific Railroads-to the Committee on • mittee on Agriculture. Accounts. By 1\Ir. FERRIS: A bill (H. R. 10577) to extend the time By Mr. BATES: Resolution (H. Res. 93) for the appointment of payments on certain homestead entries in Oklahoma-to the of a janitor to the Committee on Distribution of Useless Papers Committee on the Public Lands. in the Executive Departments-to the Committee on Accounts. By Mr. GRANGER: A bill (H. R. 10578) for th~ relief of By Mr. MARSHALL: Resolution (II. Res. 94) for the ap the State of Rhode Island-to the Committee on War Claims. pointment of a clerk to the Committee on Private Land Claims-. . By Mr. WANGER: A bill (II. R. 10579) providing for the to the Committee on Accounts. retirement of noncommissioned officers, petty officers, and en By Mr. STEENERSON: Resolution (H. Res. 95) for the ap listed men of the Army, Navy, and 1\Iarine Corps of the United pointment of a janitor to the Committee on 1\filitia-to the States-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Committee on Accounts. Also, a bill (II. R. 105 0) to increase, equalize, and fix the By Mr. EDWARDS of Georgia: Resolution (H. Res. 96) to pay of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Revenue.:.cutter investigate the so-called "cotton-buying combination "-to the Service of the United States, and for other purposes-to the Committee on the Judiciary. Committee on Military Affairs. Also, resolution (H. Res. 97) to investigate the so-called By Mr. SCOTT: A bill (H. R. 10581) to bring about the "naval stores trust "~to the Committee on the Judiciary. gradual readjustment of rank throughout the several lines of By Mr. HULL of Iowa: Resolution (H. Res. 98) to pay a the artillery, cavalry, and infanh·y of the Regular Army-to the certain sum of money to the clerk to the Committee on Military Committee on Military Affairs. .., Affairs-to the Committee on Accounts. , By l\Ir. GILLESPIE: A bill (H. n. 10582) to amend section By Mr. HOBSON: Concurrent resolution (II. C. Res. 14) 551 of the Revised Statutes of the United States-to the Com for the promotion of international peace-to the Committee on mittee on the Judiciary. Foreign Affairs. By 1\lr. CLAYTON: A bill (H. n. 10583) to relive the right By 1\Ir. HILL of Connecticut: Concurrent resolution (H. C. of action under the captured and abandoned property acts, and Res. 15) concerning the collection of public dues-to the Com for other purposes-to the Committee on War Claims. mittee on Ways and Means. By Mr. HAMILTON of Iowa: Joint resolution (H. J. Res. 67) By Mr. COCKS of New York: Concurrent resolution (II. proposing an amendment to the Constitutiop_ in relation to the C. Res. 16) concerning the collection of public dues-to the term of service of the President of the United States, and so Committee on Ways and 1\Ieans. forth-to the Committee on the Judiciary. Dy l\lr. FRENCH: Memorial of the legislature of Idaho, re AI o, joint resolution (H. J. Ues. 68) proposing an amend- questing Congress to reimburse certain parties for losses sus ment to the Constitution providing for the election of Senators tained by them in the Nez Perce Indian war of 1877-to the \ of the United States-to the Committee on Election of Presi Committee on Claims. dent, etc. AlRo, memorial of the legislature of Idaho, requesting that By Mr. THOMAS of North Carolina: Joint resolution (H. the Government grant additional lands to the State of Idaho J. Res. 69) proTiding for the printing of the Federal Antih·ust for public purposes-to the Committee on the Public Lands. Decisions-to the Committee on Printing. . By Mr. FULTON: Joint resolution (II. J. Res. 70) pro posing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, PRIVATE BILLS Al\"'D RESOLUTIONS. providing for the election of Senators of the United States Under clause 1 of Rule XXII, private bills and resolutions to the Committee on Election of President, etc. of the following titles were introduced and severally referred Also, joint resolution {H. J. Res. 71) proposing an amend as follows: ment to the Constitution of the United States, authorizing the By Mr. ACHESON: A bill (H. n. 10584) granting an in levy of a tax on incomes and inheritances-to tile Committee crea e of pension to Samuel M. Dickson-to the Committee on on the Judiciary. In·mlid Pensions. By Mr. ACHESON: Joint r esolution (H. J. Res. 72) authoriz A1 o, a bill (H. R. 10585) granting an increase of pension to ing the rebuilding of dams and locks Nos. 1 and 4 in the Monon Jacob L. Roseberry-to the Committee on I nvalid Pensions. gahela Ri>er, Pennsylvania-to the Committee on lli>ers and Also, a bill (H. R. 10586) granting an increase of pension to Harbors. Henry F. Sager-to the Committee on InTalid Pensions. By 1\Ir. 1\IcKil\'LEY of Illinois: Joint resolution (H. J. Res. AI o, a bill (H. R. 10::>87) granting an increase of pension to 73) providing for the extension of time in which to establish DaYid Phillips-to the Committee on Invaliu Pens.ions. 1907. CO... ~GRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE. 445 .AIBo, a bill (H. ll. 10588) granting a. pension to Anna 1\I. Also,. a bill (H. R. 10625) granting an increase of pension to 1\losier-to the Committee on lnn.llid Pensions. George N. Picklesimer-to the Committee on InTalid Pensions. By 1\fr. ALEXA~DER of Missouri: A bill (B. R. 10589) Also, a bill (H. R. 10G26) granting an increase of pension to granting an increase of pension to Henry F~ Peery-to the Edward K. Gault-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Committee. on Invalid P ensions. . Also, a bill (H. R. 10627) granting an increa se of pension to By Mr. ALLEN: A bill (H. U. 10590) fo1· the relief of Noah L. Payne-to the Committee on Inmlid rensions. Thomas Kennet:ly, executor of the estate of Margaret Kennedy, Also, a bill (H. R. 10G2 ) granting an increase of pension t o deceased-to the Committee on War Claims. Allen W. Brewer-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By l\11~- AMES: A bill (H. R. :t-0501) ~ranting. a pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 10620) granting an increase of pension t o James Burke-to the Committee. o.n Invalid Pens10ns. M. E . 1\fcKellup--to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (.IL R. 10592) granting a pension to Martin Gard Also, a bill (H. R. 1063.0) granting an increase of pension to ner-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. John N. Hubbard-to the Committee on InYalid Pensidns. Also, a bill (H. n. 10593) granting an incr~ase of yension to Also, a bill (H. R. 10031) granting an increase of pension t o Zelotes L. Place- to the Committee on. In.>alid PensiOns. Luther 1\I. Ingraham-to the Committee on lnYalid Pensions. By 1\Ir. ANSBERRY ~ A bill (TI. R. 10504)) grantin~ an in Also, a bill (H. R. 10632) granting an increa se of pension to crease of pension to John A. Baughm.an-to the Com.rmttee on W. S. Hardin-to the Committee on Pensions. Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 10633) granting an increase of pension to By Mr. ASHBROOK: A bill (H. R. 105!:!5} grantin¥ an in Nathan Sparks-to the Committee on InYalid Pensions. crease of pension to Elijah Jennings-to the Com.rmttee on Also, a bill (H. R. ·10634.) granting an increase of pension t o James 1\feAllister-to the Committee on Inyalid Pensions. Invalid Pension ~ Also, a bill (H. n. 105D6) gr:mting an inc:rease o.f pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 10635) granting an increase of pension to A. B. Scutt-to- tile Committee on In>alid Pensions. James Swearingin-to the Committee on In>alid Pensions. Also~ a bill (H. R. 10636) granting an increase of pension to By Mr. BANNON: A bill (H. R. ~0597) grant~g a p~nsion Pleasant Timberlake-to the -Committee on Im-alid Pensions. to Zachariah 1\fay-to the ComiD.lttee o.n Invalid Penswns. w. Also~ a bill (H. R. 10037) granting an increase of pension t o .Also, a bill (H. R. 10598). granting a pension to Hannah Henry Newman-to thC' Committee on Invalid Pensions. 1\lcGuiJ::e--to the Committee on In>alid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 10599) granting pension to Barbara AIBo, a bill (H. R . 10038) gJ.-anting an increase o1 pension t o a Charles Gordan-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Tra o-o-to the Committee o.n Intalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H, R. 10639) granting an increase of pension to .Aiso, a bill (H. R. 10000) gr:rnting a :pension to Rebecca N. B:rido-e-to the Committee on Invalid Pen ions. Wilson Caner-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also,. a bill (H. R. 10640) granting an increa<::e of pension t o By,., Mr. BAllCHFELD: A bill (H. R. 10601) for .the relief of Charles L. Crane-to the Committee on Pensions. Louis R. Newlands--to the Committee on War Clauns.. Also~ a bill (H. R. 10641) granting an increase of pension By 1\Ir. BATES: A bill (H. R. 10602} granting an rncrease to J"oseph Renchen- to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. o-f pension to J. H. Traut- to the Committee on Invalid Pen Also, a. bill (H. R~ 10G42) granting an increase of pension sions. to .Matthew H.. Young-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. R. Also a bill (II. 10603) granting a pension to- John Also, a bill (H. R. 10643) granting an increase of pension O'Hag~n-to the Committee on Invalid PensionB. to Francis T. Kisick-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 10604) granting· a. pension to Thomas Also, a bill (H. R. 10644) granting an increase of pension l\Ioran-to the Committee on Pensions. to Andrew 3. Burton-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 10605) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 10645) granting an increase of pension James JUcMunn-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. to J ohn S. Copens--to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R . ~0606) for the. relief of RobertS. Dame Also, a bill (H. R . 10646) granting an increase of pension to the Committee on. Military .Affairs_ to Richard Douglas-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. . Also, a bill (H. R. 10607) for the relief· of Henry Mulnn Also, a bill (H. R. 10647) grunting a pension to Eliza Gains to the Committee on Military Affail·s. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R . 10008) for the relief of John Conley Also, a bill (H. R. 10648) granting a pension to Isaac C. to the Committee on Military Affairs. Conley-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. BE:A.LE of Pennsylvania : A. bill \H. R. 1~0~~ for Also, a bill (H. R . ·10649) granting a pension to Louis G. Mnr· the relief of John 1\fervine-to the Committee on Military ray-to. the Committee on Pensions. Affairs. · . Also, a bill (H. R. 10650} granting a pension to Charles B. Also, a bill (H. R . 10610) granting a pension to Hiram H. Wilson- to the Committee on Pensions. Lewis-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also,. a bill (H. R. 10651) granting a pension to William 1\I. By 1\Ir. BEALL of Texas: A bill (H. R . 10611) for the relief Clephane-to the Committee: on Invalid Pensions. of tile heirs of John w. Corpier-to tll.e Committee on War Also, a bill (H. R. 10652} granting a pension to George W. Claims. Cropper, jr.-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R . 10612} granting an increase of pensisn to Also, a bill (H. R . 10653) granting a pension t o Gabrail J. Alfred H . Johnston-to the Committee on Pensions. Endicott- to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill tH. R. 10613) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 10654} granting a pension t o Samuel Narsis Burns-to the Committee on Pensions. Endicott~to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 10614) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 10655) granting a pension t o Frank Sel Kate Alexander-to the Committee on Pensions. mar-to the Committee on Pensions. Also a bill (H. R. 10615) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 10656) granting a pension to Edward Marga~·et E. Hilton-to the Committee on Pensions. Johnson-to the Committee on Pensions. Also a bill (H. R. 10616) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R, 10657) granting a pension to Samuel A. 1\Iary h. Underwood-to the: Committee on Pensions. Ben-y- to the Committee on Pensioru;. By 1\fr. BEDE: A bill <_H. n. 106.17) gr~ting an incr~ase of Also, a bill (H. R . 10658) granting a pension to Elde.lia pension to Melvin 0 . Guptll-to the Comm1ttee on Inval1d Pen- Weaver- to the Committee on Pensions. sions. . Also, a bill (H. R . 10659) for the relief of James. T F . Also a bill (H. R. 10618} granting an increase o.i pension to Carney-to the Committee on War Claims. Samucl Burton-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also. a: bill (H. R. 10660) for the relief of Tra.lucia Holli Also a bill (H. R. 10619} granting an increase of pension to day-to the Committee on War Claims. Charle~ A. Pierce--to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a b-ill (H. R. 10661) for the relief of J. A.. Abbott-to Also a bill (H. R. 10620) granting an inerease of pension to the Committee on Claims. John E. Nordstrom-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By 1\fr. BONYNGE ~ A bill (H~ R. 10662) for the relief of Also ~ a bill (H. R. 10621) for the relief of George· B. Pete Jelovac--to the Committee on Claims. Hughes-to the Committee on Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 10663) granting an increase of pension to By 1\Ir. BENNET of New York: A bill (H. R. 10622) for John Murphy- to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. the relief of the heirs of George W ~ Soule-to the Committee on By 1\fr. BOOHER: A bill (H~ R. 10664) granting an increase Claims. of pension to Russian B 1\fQody- to the Committee on Invalid By 1\fr. BENNETT of Kentucky : A bill (H. R. ~0623) grant Pensions. ing an increase of pension to Fannie: M. Campbell- to the Com Also, a bill (H. R, 10665) granting an increase Qf pension to mittee on Invalid Pensions. Theodore D. Risser-to the Committee on In;alid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R . 10624} granting an increase of pension to By Mr. BOUTELL: A bill (H. R. 10G66) granting a pension Lucy A. Casey-to the Committee on Pensions. to J ohn R. SJ.ddmure-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 446 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. DECEMBER 19·, Also, a bill {H. R. 10667) granting a pension to Mary West Also, a bill (H. R. 10703) granting a pension to Elias A. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Workman-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. . By :Mr. BOWERS: A bill (H. R. 10G68) for the relief of the By_ !\~r. CAPRO~: A bill (H. R. 10704) granting a pension heirs of Wright 1\Iann, deceased-to the Committee on War to Wilham T. Collms-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Claims. Als.o, a bill {H. R. 10705) granting a pension to William H. Also, a bill (H. R. 10669) for the relief of Martha B. Moore Burdick-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 10706) granting a pension to GeorO'e Also, a bill (II. R. 10G70)" for the relief of June Poitevent, Bellamy-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 1:) administrator of the estate of William J. Poitevent, deceased . By Mr. CARLIN: A bill (H. R. 10707) for the relief of Gran to the Committee on Claims. ville J. Kelly-to the Committee on War Claims. By Mr. BOYD:' A bill (H. R. 10671) to authorize the Secre Also, a bill {H. R. 10708) for the relief of the legal repre tary of the Interior to issue patent in fee simple for certain sentatives of William Hough, deceased-to the Committee on lands of the Santee Reservation, in Nebraska, to the directors War Claims. . of school district No. 36, in Knox County, Nebr.-to the Com Also, a bill (H. ·R. 10709) for the relief of the estate of mittee on Indian Affairs. Martin Matthew, deceased-to the Committee on War Clnims. Also, a bill (H. R. 10672) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 10710) granting a pension to Francis R. Henry Kennedy-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. May-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. BURNETT: A bill (H. R. 10673) for the relief of the. Also, a bill (H. R. 10711) granting an increase of pension to estate of Sion Johnson, deceased-to the Committee on War -Thomas Harrison-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. , Claims. .Also, a bill (H; R. _10712) to carry into effect the findings of Also, a bill (H. R. 10674) for the relief of the estate of Allen the Court of Clarms m the matter of the claim of the trustees T. Estes, deceased-to the Committee on War Claims. of Ce~ar Run Baptist Church, of Culpeper County, Va.-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 10675) for the relief of the estate of Green Committee on War Claims. Guest, deceased-to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (~. R. _10713) to carry into effect the findings of Also, a bill (H. R. 10G76) for the relief of the estate of James the Court of Clarms m the matter of the claim of the trustees L. Romine, deceased-to the Committee on War Claims. of the Presbyterian Church of Marshall, Va.-to the Commit Also, a bill (H. R. 10677) for the relief of the estate of Wil tee on War Claims. liam Keith-to the Committee on War Claims. By Mr. CARTER: A bill (H. R. 10714) authorizing the Also, a bill {H. R. 10678) for the relief of the heirs of Secr:etary of the Inter~or to enroll Richard Haley and his W. F. Gaines, deceased-to the Committee on War Claims. fa~lly as Choctaw Indians-to the Committee on Indian Af- Also, a bill (H: R. 10679) for the relief of David W. Hol furrL · lis-to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill {H. R. 10715) for the relief of the estate of Ed . Also, a bill (H. R. 10680) for the relief of Aaron C. Dean mond Manes-to the Committee on War Claims. to the Committee on War Claims. By Mr. CAULFIELD: A bill (H. R. 10716) granting a.n in· Also, a bill (H. R. 10681) for the relief of J. B. Roberson, crease of pension to August Gehb-to the Committee on In· administJ:ator of the estate of J. P. Roberson, deceased-to the valid Pensions. Committee on War Claims. - Also, a bill (H. R. 10717) granting a pension to Edward Also, a bill (H. R. 10682) granting an increase of pension to Donnelly-to th~ Committee on Invalid Pensions. Samuel Shafer-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Al.so, a bill {H, R. 10718) granting a pension to Annie Fitz Also, a bill (H. R. 10683) granting a pension to John H. patrick-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Guffey-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill {H. R. 10719) granting . a pension to Joseph Also, a bill (H. R. 10684) granting a pension to James Moore-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 1 Bates-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. CHAPMAN: A bill {H. R. 10720) grantin<7 an in Also, a bill (H. R. 10685}granting a pension to Andrew 1\I. cre~se of :pension to J. V. , Galliher-to the Committe~ on In Gilbreath-to the Committee on Pensions. valid PensiOns. Also, a bill (H. R. 10G86) to remove the charge of desertion ~lso, a bill {H. R. 10~21) granting an increase of pension to from the military record of F. M. Bruce-to the Committee on Ell Lane-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Military Affairs. BY: Mr. C~R.K of l\lis~ouri: A bill {H. R. 10722) granting a pensi_on to Wilham H. Boulden-to the Committee on Invalid By Mr. BURTON of Delaware: A bill (H. R. 10687) granting PensiOns. an increase of pension to Tony Verrosso--to the Committee on i:n valid Pensions. - :U~o, a bill Also, a bill (H. R. 10738) for the relief of the estate of Rob By Mr. DE ARMOND: A bill (H. R. 10774) granting a pen ert Pruitt, deceased-to the Committee on War Claims. sion to D. W. Snider-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 10739) for the relief of the heirs of J. E. Also, a bill (H. R. 10775) granting an increase of pension to Prestridge, deceased-to the Committee on War Claims, Conrad Seim-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. CRAWFORD: A bill (H. .R. 10740) granting an in Also, a bill (H. R. 10776) for the relief of W. W. Wall-to crease of pension to Ellen 1\f. Golyean-to the Committee on the Committee on Claims. Pensions. By Mr. DENVER: A bill (H. R. 10777) to remove the charg-e Also, a bill (H. R. 10741) granting an increase of pension to of desertion from the record of Alexander D. Patton-to the Rachel A. Webster-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 10742) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 10778) granting an increase of J)€nsion to James Doyle-to the Committee on Invap.d Pensions. William H. Shively-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. •~so, a bill (H. R. 10743) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill- (H. R. 10779) granting an increase of pension to George Stillman-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Virgil D. Rosa-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 10744) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 10780) granting an incre.-'tse of pension to Malinda Wike--to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Ann C. Burck-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. .Also, a · bill (H. R. 10745) granting a pension to Martha .A.. Also, a bill (H. R. 10781) granting an increase of pension to Teague-to the Committee on Pensions. Ezra Davison-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 10746) granting a pension to l\1. C. John Also, a bill (H. R. 10782) granting an increag-e of pension to son-to the Committee on · Pensions. Silas Williams-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a -bill (H. R. 10747) for the relief of F. 1\f. Rhine Also, a bill (H. R. 10783) granting an increase of pension to heardt-to the Committee on Military Affairs. John L. McBeth-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. .Also, a bill (H. R. 10748) for the relief of G. B. Poteet, ad Also, a bill (H. R. 10784) granting an increase of pension to ministrator of the estate of .A.guilla Swann, deceased-to the W. A. Shappee-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 10785) granting a pension to Cornelia E. Also, a bill (H. R. 10749) for the relief of H. M. Dickson, Newsom-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. William T. Mason, and so forth-to the Committee on Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 10786) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 10750) to correct the military record of Odline Petard-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. H. R. Cook-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bBi (H. R. 10787) granting a pension to Sarah Mor Also, a bill (H. R. 10751) to carry into effect the findings of gan-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. the Court of Claims in the matter of the claim of· the estate of Also, a bill (H. R. 10788) granting a pension to Levi G. Fes Francis Allison, deceased-to the Committee on War Claims. senden-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. · .A.lso, a bill (H. R. 10752) to complete the military record of Also, a bill (H. R. 10789) granting a pension to Charles Adolphus Erwin Wells-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Kearns-to -the Committee on Invalid. Pensions. By Mr. CURRIER: A bill (H. R. 10753) granting an increase Also, a bill (H. R. 10790) to remove the charge of desertion of pension to Michael P. Donley-to the Committee on Invalid from the record of Nicholas Welter-to the Committee on Pensions. · Military Affairs. · Also, a bill (H. R. 10754) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 10791) for the relief of Lisette Miller-to James Britton-to the Commitee on Invalid Pensions. the Committee on War Claims. .Also, a bill (H. R. 10755) granting a pension to Bridget Also, a bill (H. R. 10792) for the relief of C. C. Sheai·er--- Hayes-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. to the· Committee on War Claims. -Also, a bill (H. R. 10756) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 10793) to refer to the Court of Claims the William S. Gibson-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. claim of John S. Armstrong for compensation for loss of Also, a bill (H. R. 10757) granting an increase of pension to wheat in 1862-to the Committee on War Claims. Mary B. Gaskill-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. DIEKEM.A.: A bill (H. R. 10794) granting an in Also, a bill (H. R. 10758) granting an increase of pension to crease of pension to Frank Deming-to the Committee on In Henry M. Washburn-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. valid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 10759) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 10795) granting an increase of pension to Walter E. Jacquith-to the Committee ori Invalid Pensions. William H. Allen-to the Committee on Invalid.Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 10760) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 10796) granting an increase of pension to Richmond Axtell-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. William Finn-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. DALZELL: A bill (H. R. 10761) granting an increase By Mr. GILL: .A. · bill (H. R. 10797) granting an increase ot of pension to George Berry-to the Committee on Invalid pension to Sophie Garies-to the_ Committee on Invalid Pen Pensions. sions. Also, a bill (H. R. 10762) granting an increase of pension to By Mr. DIEKEM:A: A bill (H. R. 10798) for the relief of Benjamin C. Cranston-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Chancy Boyce-to the Committee on Military Affairs. · Also, a bill (H. R. 10763) granting an increase of pension to By l\1r. DIXON: A bill (H. R. 10799) granting an increase William C. 1\filliken-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. of pension to Thomas W. Williamson-to the Committee on In By 1\Ir. DARRAGH: A bill (H. R. 10764) for the relief of valid Pensions. First Lieut. George Van Orden, United States Marine Corps Also, a bill (H. R. 10800) granting an increase of pension to to the Committee on Claims. Charles Gardner-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By :Mr. DAVEY of Louisiana: A bill (H. R. 10765) for the Also, a bill (H. R. 10801) granting an increase of pension to t•elief-of the heirs of Francis l\1. Fisk, deceased-to the Commit Nathaniel M. Gregg-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. tee on War Claims. .Also, a bill (H~ R. 10802) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 1076G) for the relief of the heirs of Jean Henry C. Smith-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Cheri Verneuil, deceased-to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 10803) granting an increase of pension to · Also, a bill (H. R. 10767) for the relief of W. G. Wheeler Louisa B. Conner-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. . to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H: R. 10804) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 10768) for the relief of the heirs of Patrick Louis Spicer-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. McCormack, deceased-to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 10805) granting an increase of pension to By 1\Ir. DAVIDSON: A bill (H. R. 10769) granting an in John C. 1\Ioncrief-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. crease of pension to Delia Dana-to the Committee on Invalid Also, a bill (H. R. 10806) granting an increase of pension to Pensions. James L. Prentice-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. D.A. VENPORT: A bill (H. R. 10770) granting an in Also, a bill (H. R. 10807) granting a pension to Lillie A. crease of pension to William 1\f. Simms-to the Committee on Baker-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Pensions. .Also, a bill (H. R. 10808) granting a pension to Abigail Also, a bill (H. R. 10771) to remo-ve the charge of desertion Campbell-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. against name of Richard R. Johnson-to the Committee on By Mr. DRISCOLL: A bill (H. R. 10809) granting a pen Military Affairs. sion to Isabella Herrick-to the Committee on Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 10772) to remove the charg-e of desertion Also, a bill (H. R. 10810) granting a pension to Lucy A. against the name of Charles 1\Ieister-to the Committee on Emerson-to the Committee on Pensions. Military Affairs. By 1\Ir. DOUGLAS: A bill (H. R. 10811) granting a pension Also, a bill (H. R. 10773) to remove the charge of desertion to Cyrus Schull-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. against the name of Leander Foster-to the Committee on Mili Also, a bill (H. R. 10812) granting an increase of pen~ion tQ tary Affairs. Thomas J. Gafford-to the Committee on Invalid Pensiolis. 448 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE._ DECEMBER 19, . Also, a bill (H. R. 10813) to correct the record of William By Mr. FITZGERALD: A bill (H. R. 10851) granting an in S. Laney-to the Committee on Military ·Affairs. - crease of pension to Alfred P. Slater-to the Committee on In By Mr. DUREY: A bill (H. R. 10814) granting an increase valid Pensions. of pension to Alexander Guyon-to the Committee on Invalid Also, a bill (II. R. 10852) granting an increase of pension to Pensions. . John McKenna-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. · Also, a bill (H. R. 10815) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 10853) granting a pension to James A. Lewis Larose-to th'e Committee on Invalid P ensions. Woodward-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. · By Mr. EDWARDS of Georgia: A bill (H. R. 10816) for.the By Mr. FLOOD: A bill (H. R. 10854) for the relief of the relief of Harry G. Walthour, heir of Simeon Walthour, de estate of Peter Sheets, deceased-to the Committee on War ceased-to the Committee on War Claims. Claims. · Also, a bill (H. R. 10817) for the relief of Daniel G. Heidt, By Mr. LLOYD: A bill (H. R. 10855) granting a pension to jr.-to the Committee on Claims. · I!,rances A. Payne-to the Committee on Invalid Pension·s. · Also, a bill (H. R. 10818) for the relief of the heirs of Wil ·By Mr. FORDNEY: A bill (H. R. 10856) granting an in liam A. Baggs, deceased-to the Committee on War Claims. crease of pension to Alexander S. Fair-to the Committee on Also, a bill (H. R. 10819) for the relief of the heirs of Joseph Invalid Pensions. V. Connerat, deceased-to the Committee on War Claims. By Mr. FORNES: A bill (H. R. 10857) granting an increase By Mr. EDWARDS of Kentucky: A bill (H. R. 10820) grant of pension to Caroline H. G. Dralle-to the Committee on In ing an honorable discharge to Charles Abbott-to the Commit valid Pensions. · tee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 10858) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 10821) granting an honorable discharge to Barbara Popp--to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Benjamin H. Pruett-to the Committee on Military Affairs. By Mr. GOULDEN: A bill (:E(. R. 10859) granting an in: Also, a bill (H. R. 10822) granting an honorable discharge to crease of pension to Smith H. Clarkson-to the Committee on John '.rhacker-to the Committee on Military Affairs. In valid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 10823) granting an honorable discharge to By Mr. FOSTER of Indiana: A bill (H. R. 10860) granting Lewis Bryant-to the Committee on Military Affairs. an increase of pension to Mary E. Bell-to the Committee on Also, a bill (H. R. 10824) granting an increase of pension tQ Invalid Pensions. Caswell Lovitt-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. · Also, a bill (H. R. 10861) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 10 25) granting an increase of pension to Nathan Bigham-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Jesse Wilder-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. l!'OSTER of Illinois: A bill (H. R. 10862) granting Also, a bill (H. R. 10826) granting an increase of pension to an increase of pension to David Blair-to the Committee on Nancy E. Potter-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 10827) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 10863) granting an increase of pension to Merida Wilson-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. James K. Roney-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 10828) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 10864) granting an increa e of pension Albert E. Brown-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. to John Gross-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. , Also, a bill (H. R. 10829) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill ·(H. R. 10865) granting an increase of pension Pitser Coop--to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. to Thomas Hingson-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. , Also, a bill (H. R. 10830) granting an increase of pension o Also, a bill (H. R. 10866) granting an increase of pension to Thomas Price-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. John B. Shafer-to the Committee on Invalid Pension. - Also, a bill (H. R. 10831) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 10867) granting an increase of pension to John w. Huff-to the Committee on Invalid Pensioru;. John ·A. Crozier-to the Committee on Invalid .Pension. Also, a bill (H. R. 10832) · granting an increase of. pension to Al.so, a bill (H.- R. 10868) granting a pension to Sarah John W. Thompson-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Groves-to the Committee on Invalid PenSions. Also, a bill (H. R. 10833) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 10869) granting an increase of pension to Martin R. Dutton-to the Committee on InYalid Pensions. William C. Tanner-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 10834) granting an increase of pension to ,AI o, a bill (H R. 10870) granting an. increase of pension to James Smith-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. David R. Adams-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 10835) granting a pension to William H. Also, a bill (H. R. 10871) granting an increase of pension to Lewis-to. the Committee on Pensions. W. H. Williamsan-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. · Also, a bill (H. R. 10836) granting a pension to Starlin Starr Also, a bill (H. R. 10872) granting an increase of pension to fill-to -the Committee on Invalid Pensions. . . L. T. Penwell-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 10837) granting a pension to Maggie Z. Also, a bill (H. R. 10873) granting a pension to Auguste Tarter-to the Committee on Pensions. Eisserman-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By 1\lr. ELLEH.BE: A bill (H. R. 10838) for the relief of Also, a bill (H. R. 10874) granting an increase of pension to heirs of Sarah Quick, deceased-to the Committee on War L. Jones-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 10875) granting an increase of pension to By l\Ir. ELLIS of Mi ouri: A bill (H. R. 10839) granting an James 1\I. Gullett-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. - increase of pension to Stephen B. Kirkpatrick-to the Commit Also, a bill (H. R. 10876) granting an increase of pension to tee on Invalid Pensions. John E. McNeill-to the Committee on I nvalid Pensio~s. Also, a bill (H. R. 10840) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 10877) granting an increase of pension to David Silversmith-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. James Cockrell-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. ELLIS of Oregon: A bill (H. R. 10841) granting an Also, a bill (H. R. 10878) granting a pension to F. M. increase of pension to William R. Ward-to the Committee on Perkins-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 10879) granting a pension to Stephen A. Also, a bill (H. R. 10842) granting a pension to E. P. Ed J-ohnson-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. wards-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 10880) granting a pension to E. 1\I. Shel lly Mr. ESCH: A bill (H. R. 10843) granting an increase of ley-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. pension to James M. Pixley-to the Committee on Invalid Pen Also, a bill (H. R. 10881) granting a pension to Eliza Leach sions. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 10844) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 10882) granting a pension to Harriet Joseph W. Potter-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Kitchen-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. FERRIS: A bill (H. R. 10845) granting an increase Also, a bill (H. R. 10883) granting a pension to J. H. Brim of pension to Edward E. Spencer-to the Committee on Invalid son-to the Committee on Pensions. Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 10884) to remove the charge of desertion A1 o, a bill (H. R. 10846) granting an increase of pension to from the military record of Jubal Grant and grant an honor James W. Westfall-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. able discharge-to the Committee on Military Affair . Also, a bill (H. R. 10847) granting a pension to Alban E. Also, a bill (H. R. 10885) to remove the charge of desertion Bentley-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. from the military record of Armstrong Hunter-to the Com Also, a bill (H. R. 10 48) granting an increase of pension to mittee on Military Affairs. Martha -A. Simms-to the Committee on Pensions. By Mr. FRENCH: A bill (H. R. 10886) granting an honor Also, a bill (H. R. 1084!:>) to remove the charge of desertion able discharge to Jonas 0. Johnson-to the Committee on Mili and correct the military record of Robert Curren-to the Com- tary Affairs. mittee on Military Affairs. · Also, a bill (H. R. 10887) to remove the charge of desertion Also, a bill (H. R. 10850) granting an honorable discharge to from the military record of William P. Edmonson-to the David F. Hood-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Committee on Military Affairs. 1907. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 449 Also, a bill (H. R. 10888) for the relief of Thomas Hanlon Clark B. Baker, alias Henry Reed-to the Committee on In to the Committee on War Claims. valid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 10889) granting a pension to William D. Also, a bill (H. R. 10929) granting an increase of pension to Pemberton-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Mary Greer Barber-to the Committee on Pensions. . Also, a bill (H. It. 10890) granting a pension to Susan E. Also, a bill (H. R. 10930) granting an increase of pension to Potter-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Rohert H. Barton-to the Committee on Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 10891) granting a pension to James W. Also, a bill (H. R. 10931) granting an increase of pension to Ralls-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Jacob Bartshe--to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 10892) granting a pension to Sarah J. Also, a bill (H. R. 10932) granting an incre.ase of pension to Ralph-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Mary C. Brown-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (II. R. 10R93) granting a pension to Mary S. Also, a bill (H. R. 10933) granting an increase of pension to · Stewart-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Benjamin F. Boots-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 10894) granting a pension to Joseph E. By Mr. FULTON: A bill (H. R. 10934) to remove the charge Harvey-to the Committ~e on Invalid Pensions. of desertion from the military record of Jacob Mull and to Also, a bill (H. R. 10 95) granting a pension to Samuel A.. grant him an honorable discharge-to the Committee on Mili Frear, alias James Ferry-to the Committee on Invalid tary Affairs. Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 10935) to remove the charge of desertion Also, a bill (H. R. 10896) granting a pension to Harrison S. from the military record of John Friedlan and to grant him Crites-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. an honorable discharge-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 10897) granting a pension to Melvin A. By Mr. GAINES of West Virginia: A bill (H. R. 10936) for Carey-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. the relief of Sarah Miller-to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 10898) granting an increase of pension to By Mr. GAINES of Tennessee: A bill (H. R. 10937) granting A. T. l\lcReynolds-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. a pension to J. R. Harwell-to the Committee on Invalid Pen Also, a bill (H. R. 10 99) granting an increase of pension to sions. John Miller-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. GARDNER of Massachusetts: A bill (H. R. 10938) Also, a bill (H. R. 10900) granting an increase of pension to granting an increase of pension to Samuel A. Burt-to the Com Allen D. Movrer-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. mittee on Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 10901) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 10939) granting a pension to Caroline F. James P. l\iowland-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Pettingell-to the Committee on Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 10902) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 10940) granting a pension to Harriette M. Jonathan C. Oyleor-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 1\fax.well-to the Committee on Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 10903) granting an increase of pension to By l\Ir. GARDNER of Michigan: A bill (H. R. 10941) grant Eunice E. Robinson-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. ing an incrense of pension to Elias McQuay-to the Committee Also, a bill (H. R. 10904) granting an increase of pension to on Invalid Pensions. James Smith-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 10942) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 10905) granting an increase of pension to l\Iark Brown-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. John C. Stalker-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By 1\Ir. GARRETT (by request) : •A bill (H. R. 10943) for Also, a· bill (H. R. 10906) granting an increase of pension to the relief of George Rushberger-to the Committee on Claims. Mrs. Lorendo E. Thayer-to the Committee on Invalid Pen By Mr. GILL: A bill (H. R. 10944) granting an increase of sions. pension to Adolph Kirchoff-to the Committee on Invalid Pen Also, a bill (H. R. 10907) granting an increase of pension to sions. George W. Tucker-to the Committee on Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 10945) for the relief of the widow of Also, a bill (H. R. 10908) granting an increase of pension to Joseph Culley-to the Committee on Claims. Justin H. Wixom-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. GILLESPIE: A bill (H. R. 10946) granting an in Also, a bill (H. R. 10909) granting an increase of pension to crease of pension to Mary A. Tannehill-to the Committee on Gillis J. MeBane-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Pensions. AJso, a bill (H. R. 10910) granting an increase of pension to By Mr. GILLETT: A bill (H. R. 10947) granting an increase William McClister-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. of pension to Charles A. Clark-to the Committee on Invalid AJso, a bill (H. R. 10911) granting an increase of pension to Pensions. George 0. 1\fateer-to the Committe on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 10948) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 10912) granting an increase of pension to Jeremiah F. Gamble-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Mary Lemon-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 10949) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 10913) granting an increase of pension to Leonard C. Hill-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Jacob B. Long-to the Committee on ·Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 10950) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 10914) granting an increase of pension to Austin L. Nichols-to the Committee on InYalid Pensions. John W. Langford-to the Committee on Im·alid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 10951) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 10915) granting an increase of pension to G. A. Hawley-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Oviett S. Hinsdale-to the Committee on In·mlid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 10952) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill" (H. R. 10916) granting an increase of pension to Franklin Snow-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Currency A. Gummere-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 10953) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 10!)17) granting an increase of pension to John E. Stone-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Mary J. Gerald-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 1.0954) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 10918) granting an increase of pension to Russell Arnold-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Dewitt C. Gardner-to the Committee on In·mlid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 10955) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 10919) granting an increase of pension to William H. Peirce--to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. James C. Fisher-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 10956) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 10920) granting an increase of pension to Samuel Brown-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Orrin B. Edgett-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. · Also, a bill (H. R. 10957) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 10921) granting an increase of pension to Delavan Richardson-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Gideon M. Combs-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 10958) granting a pension to Oscar J. Also, a bill (H. R. 10922) granting an increase of pension to Bigelow-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Levi Castle-to the Committee on Pensions. · Also, a bill (H. R. 10959) granting a pension to George F. Also, a bill (H. R. 10923) granting an increase of pensictn to Smith-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Edward G. Burnet-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. ~ Also, a bill (H. R. 10CJ60) granting a pension to Margaret E. Also, a bill (H. R. 10!)24) granting an increase of pension to Rice-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Peter S. Burke-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. AlSo, a bill (H. R. 10961) granting a pension to Benjamin F. Also, a bill (H. R. 10925) granting an increase of pension to Davenport-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Edward L. Burke-to the Comm"ittee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 10962) to nmend the military record of Also, a bill (H. R. 10926) granting an increase of pension to Henry N. Penfield-to the Committee on Military Affairs. . J"ames H. Atwood-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. GOLDFOGLE: A. bill (H. R. 10963) for the relief of Also, a bill (H. R. 10927) granting an increase of pension to George E. Hoffman-to the Committee on War Claims. Julius D. Austin-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 10964) grunting a pension to Patrick J. Also, a bill (H. R. 10928) granting an increas~ of pension to O'Brien-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. XLII--29 450 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. DECEMBER 19, By l\Ir. GOULDEN: A bill (H. R. 10965) for the relief of crease of pension to George Rudisil-to the Committee on In Winfield Scott Usher-to the Committee on Military Affairs. valid Pensions. By Mr. GRAFF: A bill (H. n. 10966) for the relief of Lars Also, a bill (H. R. 10999) granting an increase 6f pension to P. Peter on-to the Committee on Claims. Jerome B. Dann-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 10967) for the relief of D. l\I. Sprague and Also, a bill (H. R. 11000) granting an increase of pension to William Tilton-to the Committee on War Claims. Mortimer V. Hill-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. n. 10968) for the relief of Martha A. Davis By Mr. HOBSON: A bill (H. R. 11001) for the relief of Ran to the Committee on War Claims. som Day-to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 10969) for the relief of Benjamin S. Ford Also, a bill (H. R. 11002) for the relief of Mrs. Ann E. San to the Committee on War Claims. ders-to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 10970) for the relief of the estate of Charles Also, a bill (H. R. 11003) to carry into effect the findings of C. Clarke deceased-to the Committee on Claims. the Court of Claims in the matter of the claim of the estate of By Mr.'HAGGOTT: A bill (H. R. 10971) granting an increase William Cochrane, deceased-to the Committee on War Claims. of pension to Albert Brendel-to the Committee on Invalid Also, a bill (H. R. 11004) to carry into effect the findings of Pensions. the Court of Claims in the matter of the claim of the estate Also, a bill (H. R. 10972) granting an increase of pension to of Augustus N. Perkins, deceased-to the Committee on War James S. Hardy-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Claims. Also a bill (H. n. 10973) granting an increase of pension to By Mr. HOLLIDAY: A bill (H. R. 11005) grunting an in Georg~ W. Haney-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. crease of pension to John H. Girt-to the Committee on In By :Mr. HALE: A bill (H. R. 10974) to grant a discharge to valid Pensions. Benjamin F. Cheatham-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 11006) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 10075) for the relief o.f the ~or h~irs John.D. Tincher-to the Committee on ln>alid Pensions. of Elisha Darity-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 11007) granting an increase of pension to By Mr. HAMLIN: A bill (H. ~· 10976)' gra_nting a_ pension Elihu Wolf-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. to Charles W. Gist-to the Committee on Invalid Penswns. Also, a bill (H. R. 11008) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 10977) granting a pension to I. T. Robin James M. Jarred-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. son-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 11009) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 10978) granting an increase of pension to John 1\I. Swaim-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. James Dodson-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (II. R. 11010) granting an increase of pension to By Mr. HAl\fiLTON of Iowa: A bill (H. R. 10979) to rem?•e George W. Florey-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. the charge of desertion from the military re~ord of A~~z1ah Also, a bill (H. R. 11011) granting an increase of pension to Chamberlain, alias John Bro,TTI-to the Committee on Military Milton Kinder-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Affairs. . Also, a bill (H. R. 11012) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 10980) to remove the charge ·of d·~sertwn Willis W. Dawson-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. from the milita.ry record of John Farrell-to the Committee on Also, a bill (H. R. 11013) grunting an increase of pension to Military Affairs. William R. Warden-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. HAMILTON of• Michigan : A bill (H. R .. 109~1) to Also, a bill (H. R. 11014) granting an increase of pension to ·I carry into effect the findmgs of the Court of Clrums m. the James Fisher-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.. matter of the claim of Thomas E. Streeter-to the Committee Also, a bill (H. R. 11015) granting a pension to Joseph H. on War Claims. Glove1;-to the Committee on Pensions. By Mr. HASKINS: A bill (H. R. 10982) granting an increase Also, a bill (H. n. 11016) granting a pension to William S. of pension to Theresa 0. ~paulding-to the Com~ittee on Inva- Davis-to the Committee on Pensions. lid Pensions. . . By Mr. HUBBARD of Iowa: A bill (H. R. 11017) granting Also, a bill (H. R. 10983) granting an increase of pensiOn to an increase of pension to Charles A. Stevens-to the Committee Harriet M. Holton-to the Committee on Invulid Pensions. on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. HAUGEN: A bill (H. R. 10984) gran~ing an increa~e Also, a bill (H. R. 11018) granting an increase of pension to of pension to Edwin H. Kenyon-to. the Committee on Invalid Samuel Bellesfield-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Pensions. . . . By Mr. HUBBARD of West Virginia: A bill (H. R. 11019) By 1\lr. HAY: A bill (II. R. 10985) authorizin¥ Wilham .B. for the relief of the estate of James H. Hardesty, deceased Alwood to accept and wear the decoration of Offic1er du Mente to the Committee on War Claims. Agricole, conferred upon him by ~e Government of France By 1\Ir. HUGHES of West Virginia: A bill (H. R. 11020) to the Committee on Foreign Affmrs. granting a pension to Alexander Thacker-to the Committee on Also, a bill (H. R. 10986) for the relief of L. H. Lewis-to Invalid Pensions. the Comrni ttee on Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 10987) for the relief of A. A. Lewis-to Also, a bill (H. R. 11021) granting an increase of pension to James Akers-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. the Committee on Claims. By 1\Ir. HUGHES of New Jersey: A bill (H. R. 11022) grant By Mr. HAYES: A bill (H. R. 10988) granting an increa~e of pension to 1\lary l\1. Loudon-to the Committee on Invalid ing a pension to George Ihnath-to the Committee on Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 11023) granting a pension to Catharine Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 10989) granting a pension to Albert 1\I. Flynn-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 11024) granting a pension to Joseph L. Winebrener-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Herron-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. It. 10!>90) granting a pension to Hariet L. Also, a bill (H. R. 11025) granting a pension to Mary M. Burwell-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Howell-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 109Dl) By 1\lr. HELM: A bill (H. R. granting ::.U increase of Also a bill (H. R. 11026) to amend record and grant an pension to Phillip B. Thompson-to the Committee on Pen- honora'ble discharge to Joseph S. Oakley-to the Committee on sions. . . f .Also, a bill (H. R. 10992) to carry into effect the findmgs o Military Affairs. the Court of Claims in the matter of _the claim of the truste.es Also a bill (H. R. 11027) to remove the charge of desertion of the Christian Church of Nicholasville, Ky.-to the Commit now e~isting on the records of the War Department against tee on War Claims. Thomas Dawson-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 11028) to remove the charge of deser!ion Also, a bill (H. R. 10993) to carry into eff~ct the findings of the Court of Claims in the matter of the claim of the trustees now existing on the records of the War Department agamst of the First Presbyterian Church of Harrodsburg, Ky.-to the John 1\fcKeon-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Committee on War Claims. . B3' Mr. HULL of Tennessee: A bill (H. R. 11020) for the By Mr. HEPBURN: A bill (H. R. 10994) granting a pension relief of Charles G. Jones-to the Committee on \Var Claims. to "\Villiam H. Vance-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. · By Mr. HULL of Iowa: A bill (H. R. 11030) granting an in .Also a bill (H. R. 109D5) granting an increase of pension to crease of pension to Wyman J. Crow-to the Committee on In- Charle's H. Knapp--to the Committee on Invalid P~nsions. valid Pensions. · Also a bill (H. n. 10906) granting an increase of pension to By Mr. OLLIE M. JAl\lES: A bill (II. n. 11031) granting a James' M. Harrison-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. pension to George .W. Byrd-to the Committee on ln>alid By Mr. mGGINS: A bill (H. R. 10997) granting an increase Pensions. of pension to Mary E. :Wilson-to the Committee on Invalid Also a bill (H. R. 11032) granting a pension to James B. Pensions. Johnsdn-to the Committee on In>alid Pensions. . By 1\Ir. HINSHAW: ~ bill (H. R. 10998) granting an in- By Mr. JONES of Virginia: A bill '(II. R. 11033) granting a!l 19"07. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 4.51 increase of pension to Sherwood C. Bowe1~s-to the Committee By Mr. LOVERIN~ · : A bill (H. R. 11068) granting an in on Pensions. crease of pension to Jolm 0. Tuell-to the Committee on In By 1\fr. KEIFER: A bill (H. R. 11034) to remove the charge valid Pensions. of desertion from the military record of Oscar J. Paul, alias By Mr. McHENRY: A bill (H. R.11069) granting an increase Oliver J. Patten, and grant him an honorable discharge-to the of pension to Adam Seid-to the Committee on Invalid Pen Committee on Military Affairs. sions. By Mr. KENNEDY of Ohio: A bill (H. R. 11035) granting Also, a bill (H. R. 11070) granting an increase of pension to an increase of pension to W. E. Lowary-to the Committee on Samuel Gray-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 11071) granting a pension to Andrew J. Also, a bill (H. . R. 11036) granting an increase of ·pension to Hackley, alias Thomas Jefferson-to the Committee on Invalid John M. McKee--to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 11037) for the relief of John H. Rowlett Also, a bill (H. R. 11072) granting an increase of pension to to the Committee on Claims. William Harlan-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. KINKAID: A bill (H. R. 11038) for the relief of Also, a bill (H. R. 11073) granting a pension to Mary E. John Sedivy-to the Committee on Claims. - Kline--to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 11039) for the relief of Willard W. AU Also, a bill (H. R. 11074) granting a pension to Kate H. to the Committee on Claims. Lovett-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (ll. R. 11040) granting an increase of pension to By Mr. McKINLAY of California: A bill (H. R. 11075) to S. C. S. Cormare--to -the Committee on Invalid Pensions. reimburse certain fire insurance companies the amounts paid By Mr. KIPP: A bill (H. R. 11041) granting an increase of by them for property destroyed by fire in suppressing the pension to Alexander Keefe--to the Committee on Invalid Pen bubonic plague in the Territory of Hawaii in the years 1899 mid sions. 1900-to the Committee on Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 11042) granting an increase of pension to By 1\fr. McLACHLAN: A bill (H. R. 11076) granting an in Thomas W. Tiffany-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. crease of pension to Alfonso L. Stasy-to the Committee on Also, a bill (H. R. 11043) granting a pension to Elisha Invalid Pensions. Cole-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 11077) granting an increase of pension By Mr. KNAPP: A bill (H. R. 11044) granting a pension to to George W. Corey-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Clarissa Murray-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 11078) granting an increase of pension By Mr. KNOWLAND: A bill (H. R. 11045) for the relief o! to James J. Craig-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. F. ·w. Beardslee-to the Committee on Naval Affairs. AJs9, a bill (H. R. 11079) granting an increase of pension Also, a bill (H. R. 11046) for the relief of F. W. Beardslee to Samuel McFadden-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. to the Committee on Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 11080) granting an increase of pension to By Mr. KUSTERl\fANN: A bill (H. R. 11047) granting an Jose Maria Salazar-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. increase of pension to George B. Follett-to the Committee on Also, a bill {H. R. 11081) granting an increase of pension to Invalid Pensions. Bronson C. Keeler-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. LAFEAN: A bill (H. R. 11048) granting an increase Also, a bill (H. R. 11082) granting an increase of pension to of pension to Jacob H. Dewees-to the Committee on Invalid Thomas J. Sprinkle--to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. - Pensions. · Also, a bill (H. R. 11083) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 11049) to carry into effect the findings Abram H. Miller-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. of the Court of Claims in the matter of the claim of Milton S. A Also, a bill (H. R. 11107) granting a pension to Margaret Also. a bill (H. R. 11141) granting an increase of pension to Haye -to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Benjamin F . Smith-to .the Committee on Invalid Pension . Also, a bill (H. n.. 11103) for the relief of Carlos Man Also, a bill (H. R. 11142) granting an increase of pension to Jarez-to the Colllillittee on Claims. J acob Killinger-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 11100) for the relief of Daniel Conner By Mr. PADGETT: A bill (H. R . 11143) granting an in to the Committee on War Claims. crease of pension to Emma Wymer-to the Committee on . Also, a bill (H. R. 11110) to remove the charge of desertion Pensions. from the military record of Fred W. Stein-to the Committ~ Also, a bill (H. R. 11144) granting an increase of pension to on Military Affairs. William Holt- to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 11111) authorizing the appointment of Also, a bill (H. R . 11145) granting an increase of pension to Dr. Charles A. Sewell on the retired list-to the Committee on Sarah E. Nixon-to the Committee on Pensions. Military ..<\.ffairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 11146) to carry out the findings of the By Mr. McLAIN (by request) : A bill (H. . R. 11112) for the Court of Claims in the case of 1\Iary E . Haygood, heir of John relief of locators of military botmty land warrants and sur 1\f. Lawson, deceased-to the Committee on War Claims. veyor-general's certificates-to the Committee on the Public Also, a bill (H. R. 11147) for the relief of N . F. Cheairs~to ·Lands. the Committee on War Claims. By Mr. McKI:ID\TEY: A bill (H. R. 11ll3) granting a pen Also, a bill (H. R . 11148) for the relief of the estate of Wil sion to John M. Miller-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. liam Grigsby, deceased-to the Committee on War Claims. By Mr. 1\L~CON: A bill (H. R . 11114) granting an increase By Mr. PAGE (by request): A bill (H. R. 111M>) for the of pension to Michael McManus-to the Committee on Invalid relief of the estate of Joseph C. Hogan, deceased-to the Com Pensions. mittee on Claims. Also, a bill- (H. R. 11115) granting an increase of pension to Also (by request), a bill (H. R. 11150) for the relief of David B. Withrow-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Bryan Tyson-to the Committee on Claims. By Mr. 1\!ALBY: A bill (H. R. 11116) granting an increase By 1\Ir. PAYNE : A bill (H. R. 11151) granting an increase of pension to Alice B. Moore-to the Committee on Invalid of pension to Barbara Schaub-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Pensions. By Mr. MANN: A bill (H. R. 11117) granting an increase of Also, a bill (H. R. 11152) granting an increase of pension to pension to John Flanigan-to the Committee on Invalid Anne C. Clark-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Pensions. By Mr. PETERS: A bill (H. R . 11153) granting an increase Also, a bill (H. R. 11118} granting an increase of pension to of pension to Charles W. Clement-to the Committee on Invalid Rufus G. Lowe-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. · . Pensions. By Mr. MONDELL: A bill (H. R. 11119) for the relief of By Mr. POU (by request) : A bill (H. R. 11154) for the re Herman Glafcke-to the Committee on Claims. lief of the estate of Wiley Holt, deceased-to the Committee R. Also, a bill (H. 11120) granting an increase of pension to on War Claim~. John T. Hogg-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. PRATT: A bill (H. R. 11155) granting an increase of Also, a bill (H. R. 11121) granting an increase of pension to pension to Clayton E. Blackwell-to the Committee on Invalid Maria Johnson-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Pensions. By Mr. MOON of Tennessee: A bill (H. R. 11122) for the Also, a bill (H. R. 1115G) granting a pension to Hattie A. relief of the estate of H. B. Henegar, deceased-to the Com Losee--to the Committee -on Invalid Pensions. mittee on War Claims. By Mr. RAUCH: A bill (H. R. 11157) granting an increase of Also, a bill (H. n. 11123) for the relief of Sarah Crabtree pension to George Forst-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. and the est:lte of Eli Crabtree, deceased-to the Committee on Also, a bill (H. n. 11158) granting an increase of pension to War Clain:is. David C. Collins-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 11124) granting a pension to J. L. .Mc Also, a bill (H. R. 1115!:>) granting an increase of pension to Dowell, alias Leander Dickey-to the Committee on Pensions. William Lowry-to the Committee on Pensions. By Mr. MOUSER: A bill (H. R. 11125) to correct the mili Also, a bill (H. R . 11160) granting an increase of pension to tary record of James Burroes-to the Committee on Military James Chaplin-to the Committee on In-valid Pensions. .Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 111Gl) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 11126) granting an increa~ of p.ension to Harrison Pullman-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Ansano Benvenuti-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (II. R. 11162) granting an increase of pension to By 1\Ir. NORRIS: A bill (H. R. 11127) granting an increase William T. Williams-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. of 11ension to James S. Gillespie-to the Committee on Invalid Also, a bill (H. R. 11163) granting an increase of pension to Pensions. By Mr. NYE: A bill (H. R. 11128) for the relief of Eli Pet Peter Brechner-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. tijohn-to the Committee on Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 11164) granting an increase of pension to By ::\1r, OLCOTT: A bill (H. R. 11129) granting an increase Stephen L. Freel-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. of pension to Richard Esmond-to the Committee on Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 11165) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 11130) granting an increase of pension to David L. Bush-to the Committee on Jny-alid Pensions. Almiri Felix-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 11166) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 11131) granting a pension to Henry Dono Lewis Godschalk-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. van-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 11167) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 11132) granting an increase of pension to James F. Hamilton-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Bankson T. Morgan-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R . 11168) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 11133) for the relief of Henry A. V. Post John W . Keiss-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 11169) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 11134) for the relief of Patrick McCor Prestc:a E. Branham-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. mick-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also,· a bill (H. R. 11170) granting an increase of pension to Also, a biU (H. R. 11135) to correct the War Department Joseph Bremercamp--to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. records of Walley Brown, alias Mickett-to the Committee on - Also, a bill (H. R. 11171) granting an increase of pension to 1\lilitary Affairs. John Stewart-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 11136) for · the relief of . the owners of Also, a bill (H. R. 11172) granting an increase of pension to the steam lighter Climaa: and the cargo laden aboard thereof Alexander Little-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. to the Committee on Claims. Also, a bill (H. R . 11173) to correct the military record of By Mr. OLMSTED: A bill (H. R. 11137) authorizing the Adam K. Danes-to the Committee on Military Affairs. President to nominate Lieut. Samuel Lindsey Graham, now Also, a bill (H. R. 11174) to correct the military record-of on the retired list, to be a commander on the retired list of the Valentine Durkes-to the Committee on 1\Iilitary Affairs. Navy--to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 11175) to correct the military record of Also, a bill (H. R. 11138) for the relief of James E. Cann, William Shingler-to the Committee on Military Affairs. paymaster in the United States Navy--to the Committee on Also, a bill (H. R. 11176) granting a pension to Robert A. Claims. Talbott- to the Committee on Pensions. Also. a bill (H. R. 11139) granting a pension to George W. Also, a bill (H. R. 11177) granting a pension to Mrs. Alfred Brenise-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. H . Clawson-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a 1:-Ul (H. R. 11140) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 11178) granting a pension to Stephen Edward F Wiest-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Str~nge-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 1907. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 453 Also, a bill (H. R. 11179) to amend the records of the War ·By Mr. SPIGHT: A bill (H. R. 11216) for the relief of the Department as to .Paul L. Bahr-to the CQmmittee on :Military heirs of Wiley Franks, deceased-to the Committee on War Affairs. Claims. · By ~Ir. REEDER: A bill (H. R. 11180) granting an increase Also, a bill (H. R. 11217) granting an increase of pension to . of pension to Joseph H. Hadley-to the Committee on Invalid Emiline M. Strong-to the Committee on Pensions. Pensions. • Also, a bill (H. R. 11218) to carry into effect the findings of Also, a bill (II. R. 11181) granting an increase of pension to the Court of Claims in the matter of the claim of Preston James A. Nellist-to. the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Lodge, No. 47, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of Jonesville, Also, a bill (H. R. 11182) granting an increase of pension to Va.-to the Committee on War Claims. John Bear-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. STAFFORD: A bill (H. R. 11219) to refund certain By 1\Ir. RHINO OK: A bill (H. R. 11183) granting an increase taxes paid by the }.,red Miller Brewing Company, of Milwau of pension to George G. Hughes-to the Committee on Invalid kee, Wis.-to the Committee on Claims. Pensions. · . By Mr. STANLEY: A bill (H. R. 11220) for the relief of Also, a bill (H. R. 11184) granting a pension to Sarah E. heirs of Robert C. Jameson, deceased-to the Committee on Dean-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. w·ar Claims. · Also, a bill (H. R. 111 5) granting a pension to Robert A. Also, a bill (H. R. 11221) for the relief of the Ohio Valley Boyd-to the Committee on Inyalid Pensions. Banking and Trust Company, administrator of the estate of Also, a bill (H. R. 11186) granting a pension to. James W. Byrd Sands, deceased-to the Committee on War Claims. Mullins-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 11222) to carry into effect the findings of Also, a bill (IL R. 11187) granting a pension to Albert C. ·the Court of Claims in the matter of the claim of the estate of Skillman-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Kinchen Bell, deceased-to the Committee on War Claims. By Mr. RICHARDSON: A bill (H. R. 11188) granting a By Mr. STEENERSON: A bill (H. R. 11223) granting an in- pension to Mary Ann Thompson-to the Committee on Pensions. crease of pension to George F. Cowing-to the Committee on By Mr. ROTHERMEL: A bill (H. R. 11189) to pay bounty Invalid Pensions. to Lucinda Smith-to the Committee on War Claims. . Also, a bill (H. R. 11224) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 11100) for the relief of Lucinda Smith- Arne Anderson-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. to the Committee on ·war Claims. By Mr. STURGISS: A bill (H. R. 11225) for the relief of By Mr. RUCKER: A bill (H. R. 11191) granting a pension heirs of James Watson, deceased-to the Committee on War to Leonidas Cunningham-to the Committee on Invalid Pen- Claims. sions. Also, a bill (H. R. 11226) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 11192) granting an increase of pension to Laura H. Snider-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. John C. Schnelle-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 11227) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 11193) granting an increase of pension to William I. Protzman-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Frederick W. Odell-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 11228) granting a pension to Charles H. Also, a bill (H. R. 11194) granting an increase of pension to Keefer-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Lucy F. Raney-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bi1l (H. R. 11229) granting a pension to George w. By 1\Ir. RUSSELL of Missouri: A bill (H. R. 11195) granting ··Johnson-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. a pension to Ch..'l.l"les W. Rye-to the Committee on Invalid Also, a bill (H. R. 11230) granting a pension to Edgar Pensions. Travis-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 11196) granting a pension to John Also, a bill (H. R. 11231) to carry into effect the findings of Hodges-to the Committee on Pensions. the Court of Claims in the matter of the claim of Mary E. Also, a bill (H. R. 11197) granting a pension to Charles Buckey-to the Committee on War Claims. Vodre-to the Committee on Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 11232) to carry into effect the findings of Also, a bill (H. R. 11198) for the relief of William R. Owen- the Court of Claims in the matter of the claim of the estate of to the Committee on War Claims. James w. Myers, deceased-to the Committee on· War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 11199) granting an increase of pension to By Mr. TALBOTT: A bill (H. R. ) for the relief of the Samuel Spires-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. _ 11233 Also, a bill (H. R. 11200) granting an increase of pension to estate of William B. Todd, deceased-to the Committee on the District of Columbia. Charlottie A. Randolph-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. TAWNEY: A bill (H. R. 11234) granting an increase By 1\Ir. RYAN: A bill (H. R. 11201) granting an increase of of pension to David Savidg-to the Committee on Invalid Pen pension to Mary J. Boyle-to the Committee on Invalid Pen- sions. sions. Also,. a bill (H. R. 11202) granting an increase of pension By 1\Ir. TAYLOR of Ohio: A bill (H. R. 11235) granting an to Seymour H. Marshall-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. increase of pension to Alice K. F. Martin-to the Committee By Mr. SHEPPARD : A bill (H. R. ll203) for the relief of on Pensions. J. r. Clark-to the Committee on war Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 11236) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 11204) for the relief of Oliver P. Boyd- Edward B. McMillan-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. to the Committee on war Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 11237) granting an increase of pension to By Mr. SLAYDEN (by request) : A bill (H. R. 11205) Washington G. Marshall-to the Committee on Invalid Pen granting a pension to Mary Francis Smith-to the Committee sions. on Pensions. By Mr. THOMAS of Ohio: A bill (H. R. 11238) to reim- Also, a bill (H. R. 11206) granting a pension to F. M. Harri- burse Carl F. Kolbe-to the Committee on Claims. son-to the Committee on Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 11239)" to reimburse the heir of William By Mr. Si\IALL: A · bill (H. It. 11207) for the relief of the Miller for property taken in the civil war-to the Committee estate of W. F. Sanderson, deceased-to the (J()mmittee on War · on War Claims. Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 11240) to reimburse Arthur E. Crane Also, a bill (H. R. 11208} for the relief of T. H. B. Myers, for damages to safe and vault-to the Committee on Claims. surviving partner of John Myers & Son-to the Committee on Also, a bill (H. R. 11241) to remove the charge of desertion War Claims. against Walter Scott-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 11209) for the relief of the heirs of Alfred Also, a bill (H. R. 11242) granting a pension to Maria C. F. Garrett, deceased-to the Committee on War Claims. Waste-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. SMITH of Michigan: A bill (H. R. 11210) to correct Also, a bill (H. R. 11243) granting an increase of pension to the military record of Edwin Horton-to the Committee on Hester Crane-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Military Affairs. . By Mr. TOU VELLE: A bill (H. R. 11244) to remove the Also, a bill (H. R. 11211) granting an increase of pension to charge of desertion from the record of Frank Chronaberry- 1\Iontville Benjamin-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 11212) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 11245) to remove the charge of desertion Edgar Durfee-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. from the military record of Austin Johnson-to the Committee Also, a bill (H. R. 11213) granting an increase of pension to on Military Affairs. John Wilkinson-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 11246) granting a pension to Winniefred lly Mr. Sl\!l'l'H of California: A bill (H. R. 11214) granting Sullivan-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. an increase of pension to George W. Horder-to the Committee Also, a bill (H. R. 11247) granting a pension to Charles L. on Invalid Pensions. Berkheimer-to the Committee on . Pensions. By Mr. SPARKMA...~: A bill (H. R. 11215) for the relief of Also, a bill (H. R. 11248) granting a pension to Mary F. Richard F. Ensey-to the Committee on Claims. Hess-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 454 CONGRESSION .._t\.L RECORD.- HOUSE. DECE:M~BER 19' Also, a bill (H. R. 11249) granting a pension to William By Mr. WOOD : A bill (H. R. 11287) granting an increase of Runkel-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. pension to Jesse S. Camac-to the Committee on Invalid Pen Also, a bill (H. R. 11250) granting a pension to Louis P. sions. Sothoron-to the Committee on Inv.alid Pensions. · Also, a bill (H. R. 11288) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (B. R. 11251) granting an increase of pension to Alfred Booze-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Henry Collett-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bil! (H. R. 112 9) granting an increase of pension to By l\Ir. VREELAND : A bill (H. R. 11252) for the relief of Isaac ~ . Sutphin-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Frances A. Bliss-to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 11290) granting a pension to Patrick By. Mr. WALLACE: A bill (H. R. 11253) to carry into effect Howe-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. the findings of the Court of Claims in the matter of the claim Also, · a bill (H. R. 11291) to correct the military record of of the estate of Joseph Bean, deceased-to the Committee on Wilson Smith-to the Committee on Military Affairs. War Claims. By Mr. 'YOODYARD: A bill (H. R .. 11~D2) granting an in Also, a bill (H. R. 11254) for the relief of Nathaniel S. crease of pension to John H. Crippen-to the Committee on Word, deceased-to the Committee on War Claims. . Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 11255) for the relief of heirs of John Nutt, deceased-to the Committee on War Claims. PETITIONS, ETC. By Mr. WASHBURN: A bill (H. R. 11256) granting an in Under clause 1 of Rule XXII, the following petitions and crease of pension to Charles 0. Thomas-to the Committee. on papers were laid on the Clerk's desk and referred as follows : Invalid Pensions. By Mr. ACHESON : Papers to accompany bills for relief of By Mr. WATKINS: A bill (H. R. 11257) for the relief of Henry F. Sager, George Castor, and Henry Chase-to the Com- heirs of George Mitcheltree, deceased-to the Committee on mittee on Invalid Pensions. · War Claims. Also, paper to accompany bill for relief of David Phillips Also, a bill (H. R. 11258) fox: the relief of heirs of Chestan to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Metoyer, deceased-to the Committee on War Claims. By Mr. ADAIR: Petition of Post 0, T. P. A. of America, of Also, a bill (H. R. 11259) for the relief of heirs. of Francois Anderson, Ind., against parcels-post law-to the Committee on F. G. Metoyer, deceased-to the Committee on War Claims. the Post-Office and Post-Roads. Also, a bill (H. R. 11260) for the relief of heirs of Artemise By Mr. ALF..X..~DER of Missouri: Papers to accompany Metoyer, deceased-to the Committee on War Claims. bills for relief of John Ward, Charles S. Baker, and William Also, a bill (H. R. 11261) for the relief of heirs of Florentin Sheppard-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. .Con ant, deceased-to the Committee on War Claims. By Mr. AMES : Paper to accompany bill for relief of Martin Also, a bill (H. R. 11262) for the relief of heirs of Joseph and Gardner-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Antoinette Metoyer, deceased-to the Committee on War Claims. Also, paper to accompany bill for relief of Charles J. Owens Also, a bill (H. R. 11263) for the relief of heirs of Joseph E. to the Committee on Pensions. Dupre, deceased-to the Committee on War Claims. By Mr. ANSBERRY: Papers to accompany bills for relief of Also, a bill (H. R. 11264) for the relief of heirs of Clinton John A. Baughman and Lottie B. French-to the Committee on Berry, deceased-to the Committee on War Claims. Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 11265) for the relief of heirs of Jacob A. By l\fr. BATES : Paper to accompany bill for relief of Alvira Wolfson, deceased-to the Committee on War Claims. Knox (previously referred to Committee on Invalid Pensions) Also, a bill (H. R. 11266) for the relief of heirs of J. Valcour to the Committee on Pensions. 1\Ietoyer, deceased-to the Committee on War Claims. . Also, petition of Union Iron Works, Erie, Pa., and Phrenix Also, a bill (H. R. 11267) for the relief of heirs of Jacob Iron Works Company, Meadville, Pa., for uniform law for con Israel, deceased- to the Committee on War Claims. struction of boilers for Government work-to the Committee - A1 o;- a bill (H. R. 11268) for the relief of heirs of Francois on the Judiciary. Florival Metoyer, deceased-to the Committee on War Claims. Also, petition of A. D. Hotchkiss, McLane, Pa., for national Also, a"bill (H. R. 11269) for the relief of heirs of J . B. P. law on pure-bred animals-to the Committee on Agriculture. Rachal, deceased-to the Committee on War Claims. Also, petition of Chamber of Commerce of Erie, Pa., for Also, a bill (H. R. 11270) for the relief of the estate of E. A. parcels-post law-to the Committee on the Post-Office and Givens, sr., deceased-to the Committee on War Claims. Post-Roads. Also, a bill (H. R. 11271) for the relief of heirs of William Also, petition of Richmond Grange, Crawford County, Pa., Robinson and Mrs. Emily Bartell, deceased-to the Committee to amend oleomargarine law-to the Committee on Agriculture. on War Olaims. By Mr. BEALL of Texas: Paper to accompany bill for relief Also, a bill (H. R. 11272) for the relief of C. A. Sarpy-to the of Kate Alexander-to the Committee on Pensions. Committee on War Claims. Also, paper to accompany bill for relief of Mrs. Kate Alexan Also, a bill (H. R. 11273) for the relief of H. N. Sarpy-to der-to the Committee on Pensions. the Committee on War Claims. Also, paper to accompany bill for relief of Emeline l\1. By Mr. WEEKS: A bill (H. R . 11274) granting an increase Strong-to the Committee on Pensions. of pension to Charles E. Hall-to the Committee on Invalid Also, paper to accompany bill for relief of Narsis Burns-to Pensions. the Committee on Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 11275) granting an increase of pension to Also, a paper to accompany bill for relief of 1\f. A. Croy-to Laura N. Fowler-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. the Committee on War Claims. - Also, a bill (H. R. 11276) granting a pension to Louisa L .. By Mr. BELL of Georgia: Paper to accompany bill for relief Metcalf-to the Committee on Inva-lid Pensions. of Sarah l\1. Barbour-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 11277) to correct the military record of By Mr. BEDE: Papers to accompany bills for relief of Samuel Amasa Haynes-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Burton, Charles A. Pierce, J ohn E. Nordstrom, and Melvin 0 . Also, a bill (H. R. 11278) to pay Frederick W. Cotton amount Guptil-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. found du~ him by the Court of Claims-to the Committee on By Mr. BENNETT of Kentucky: Papers to accompany bills War Claims. · for relief of George N. Picklesinur and Isaac Cauley-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 11279) to refund legacy taxes illegally col- Committee on Invalid Pensions. lected-to the Committee on Claims. · Also, papers to accompany bills for relief of Louis G. Murray, By Mr. WHEELER: A bill (H. R. 11280) granting an in Charles L. Crane, and Lucy A. Casey-to the Committee on crease of pension to Amos Snyder-to the Committee on In- Pensions. valid Pensions. ' Also, paper to accompany bill for relief of Tralucia Holla Also, a bill (H. R. 11281) granting an increase of pension to day-to the Committee on War Claims. John E. Cunningham-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, petition of Ashland Daily Independent, against tariff Also, a bill (H. R. 11282) granting an i11crease of pension to on linotype machines-to the Committee on Ways and Means. · John W. McOormick-to .. the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, papers to accompany bills for relief of F . l\1. Purvis, By Mr. WILLIAMS: A bill (H. R. 112 3) for the relief of 1\files A. Hughes, Dennis Adkins, and Lewis Tacket-to the Henry L. Blake and others-to the Committee on Claims. Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 11284) for the relief of the estate of Also, papers to accompany bills for relief of Allen W. • Sydney Stevens-to the Committee on War Claims. Brewer, Edward K. Gault, James Reeder, James L. Goodman, By Mr. WILSON of Illinois : A bill (H. R . 11285) granting John N. Hubbard, Luther Ingraham, James McAllister, Gabrail an increase of pension to Charles Barron-to the Committee on J . Endicott, Samuel Endicott, Charles Gordon, Frank Selma1·, Invalid Pensions. William Carver, Jqhn S. Popens, Richard Douglas, James Also, a bill (H. R. 11286) granting a pension to J ohn H . Swearingin, and George W. Cropper-to the Committee on In Stephens-to- the CoiD.tPittee on Invalid Pensions. r-alid P ensions. 1907.- CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-'HOUSE. By :Ur. BONYNGE: Petition of Carpenters' District Council Also, papers to accompany bills for relief of M. R. Dutton of Denver, for establishment of a post-office savings bank-to and James Smith-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. the Committee· on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. Also, paper to accompany bill for relief of John W. Thomp By Mr. BO,VERS: Paper to accompany bill for relief of son-to the Committee on Invalid Pen.sions. e2tate of Wright Mann-to the Committee on War Claims. By Mr. ELLIS of Oregon : Petition of Benjamin F. Butler By Mr. BRADLEY: Petition of Wallkill Council, No. 92, Corps, No. 51, Woman's Relief. Corps, Portland, Oreg., for in Junior Order United American Mechanics, of Middletown, crease of widows' pensions--to the Committee on Invalid Pen N. Y., for restoration of motto on coins, "In God We Trust" sions. to the Committee on Banking and Currency. Also, petition of Linn County (Oreg.) Business Council, By Mr. BURNETT: Petition of mayor and aldermen of Patrons of Husbandry, for postal savings banks-to the Com Gadsden, Ala., and city <;:ouncil of Montgomery, Ala., for im mittee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. provement of the Coosa River-to the Committee on Rivers By Mr. ESCH: Papers to accompany bills for relief of Etta and Harbors. , A. Craft, James M. Pixley, and Joseph W. Potter-to the Com By Mr. CALDER: Petition of Edward V. Murtagh et al., for mittee on Invalid Pensions. increase of pay Df Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Revenue Also, petition of Science Club of University of Wisconsin, for Cutter Service-to the Committee on Naval Affairs. conservation of American forests-to the Committee on Agri Also, petition of Charles H. Li"rermore et al., of Brooklyn, culture. N. Y., for removal of tariff on art works, House bill 15268, By 1\fr. FERRIS: Memorial of residents of Pasture Reserve 1906-to the CDmmittee on Ways and Means. No. 3, in Stephens County, Okla., asking for the extension of Also, petition of William McKinley CDmmand, No. 62, United time ·for certain payments due upon land for one year from Spanish War Veterans, for the Dick-Capron pay bill (pre January 1, 1908-to the Committee on the Public Lands. viously referred to Committee on Invalid Pensions)-to the By Mr. FITZGERALD : Petition of Frederick Loeser & Co., Committee on Military Affairs. of Brooklyn, N. Y., against clause in copyright bill inimical to By Mr. CAMPBELL: Papers to accompany bills for relief composers of music-to the Committee on Patents. of Joshua 0. Marks (previously referred to CDmmittee on Also, papers to ·accompany bills for relief of Albert C. Lee . Inv-alid Pensions) and George R. Blackwood-to the CDmmittee and John McKenna-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. on Military Affairs. By Mr. FOSTER of Indiana: Petition of Lew Taylor Post, By Mr. OAPRO:N: Evidence in support of a bill granting an No. 243, Grand Army of the Republic, Alexandria, Ind., favor increase of pension to John J. Card-to the Committee on In ing the Adair pension bill-to the CDmmittee on Invalid Pen valid Pensions. sions. Also, evidence in the case of Abraham Vegeant-to the Com By Mr. FRENCH: Memorials of Pocatello CDuncil, No. 802, t\1ittee on Invalid Pensions. and Lewiston Cotmcil, No. 1024, Order o:t Knights of Columbus, By Mr. CLARK of Missouri: Petition of legal voters of the against the passage of a bill to amend the postal laws, known Ninth CDngressional District of Missouri, against parcels-post as House bill 1608-to the Committee on the Post-Office and law-to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. Post-Roads. By :Mr. COCKRAN: Paper to accompany bill for relief· of By Mr. FULTON: Paper to accompany bill for relief of Emil Christian-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Amos W. Polley-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. COOK of Pennsylvania: Petition of executive couilcil By Mr. GAINES of Tennessee: Paper to accompany bill for of Philadelphia Board of Trade, for appropriation to assist relief of J. R. Harwell-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition-to the Committee on Indus By Mr. GARDNER of 1\Iassachusetts: Petition of United trial Arts and Expositions. Spanish War Veterans, Hoskinson Camp, No. 31, Erie, Pa., for By 1\lr. COX of Indiana: Papers and photographs to accom increase of pay for officers and men of Army, Navy, Marine pany House bill 4173, for the relief of Harris Alvin Conrad Corps, and Revenue-Cutter Service-to the Committee on to the Committee on Pensions. Naval Affairs. By Mr. CRAIG: Papers to accompany bills for tellef of By Mr. GARNER: Paper to accompany bill for relief of George P. Plowman and Robert Pruitt-to the Committee on Mrs. M. E. Connelly-to the Committee on Pensions. War Claims. By Mr. GILL: Petition of Abner-Drury Brewfug Company, By Mr. CRAVENS : Paper to accompany bill for relief of against prohibition in the District of Columbia-to the CDm Henry Griffiths-to the CDmmittee on Invalid Pensions. mittee on the District of Columbia. Also, paper to accompany bill for relief of C. B. Wingfield Also, petition of the National Retail Hardware Association, to the Committee on Pensions. against the parcels-post law-to the Committee on the Post- By Mr. DALZELL: Paper to accompany House bill 8042, Office and Post-Roads. · relative to Brigadier-General Williams-to the Committee on Also, petition of Chamber of Commerce, for amendment of Military Affairs. na tiona! banking act-to the Committee on Banking and Also, papers to accompany bills for relief of Henry C. 1\lyer, Currency. . Benjamin C. Cranston, William C. Milliken, and George Berry By Mr. GILLESPIE: Petition of Farmers' Union of Duffau, to the CDmmittee on Invalid Pensions. Tex., _against gambling in futures-to the Committee on the By 1\Ir. DAVEY of Louisiana: Paper to accompany bill for Judiciary. relief of "r. G. Wheeler-to the Committee on War Claims. By Mr. GORDON: Paper to accompany bill for relief of By 1\Ir. DAWSO:N: Petition of J. Jackson Post, No. 255, Methodist Episcopal Church of Moscow (previously referred favoring the Dawson bill, to increase widows' pensions-to the to Committee on Invalid Pensions)-to the Committee on War CDmmittee on Inrnlid Pensions. Claims. By Mr. DENVER: Paper to accompany bill for relief of Wil By 1\fr. GOULDE.l~: Petitions of Military Order of Loyal liam 1\I. Clephane-to the CDmmittee on Invalid Pensions. Legion of New York City and Col. Ralph E. Prime, for House By Mr. DUNWELL: Petition of Model License League, for bill 220, for protection of the flag-to the Committee on the solution of liquor problem-to the Committee on Alcoholic Judiciary. · Liquor Traffic. , By Mr. GRAHAM: Petition of General Thomas A. Rowley Also, petition of Chamber of Commerce of New York, for Post, No. 405, of Natrona, Pa., favoring Lafean pension bill amendment of national banking act-to the Committee on to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Banking and Currency. By 1\fr. HALE: Petition of John Harrison, for reference of Also, petition of National Retail Hardware Association, war claim to the Court of Claims-to the Committee on War against parcels-post law-to the Committee on the Post-Office Claims. and Post-Roads. · Also, petition of Margaret E. Smith, for reference of wat• Also, petition of Manuel Klein, against clause in· copyright claim to the CDurt of Claims-to the Committee on War Claims. bill inimical to · musical composers-to the Committee on By Mr. HA.l\.ILIN: Petition of citizens of Lexington, Mo., for Patents. appropriation to improve the Mississippi River at that point By Mr. DUREY: Paper to accompany bill for relief of Alex to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. ander Guyon-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. , Also, papers to accompany bills for relief of Ira Gill, Richard By Mr. EDWARDS of Georgia : Paper to accompany bill for L. Drumweight, Simon S. Lucas, John B. Thompson, John Pot relief of heir of Simeon Walthour-to the Committee on War ter, Reuben S. Weldon, and Julia E. Johnson-to the Commit 0laims. _ tee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. EDWAUDS of Kentucky: Paper to· accompany bill By l\1r. HAMMOND: Petition of F. D. Wells and other citi for relief of James Smith-to the Committee on Invalid Pen zens of Nobles County, Minn., against the ·parcels-post bill-to sions. the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. "456 CONGRESSIONAL R-ECORD-· HOUSE. Also, protest of Lyon and Ormsby Labor Union, Local 261, By Mr. MANN: Papers to accompany House bill granting Western Federation of Miners, protesting against the Bartlett an increase of pension to Rufus G. Lowe-to the Committee on bill relating to suspending the annual assessment work on Invalid Pensions. mining claims for 1907-to.the Committee on Mines and Mining. Also papers to accompany House bill granting an increase of By Mr. HAYES: Petition of Federated Trades · Council of pension to John Flanigan-to the Committee on Invalid Pen Santa Clara, Cal., for extending public improvements, to be sions. paid for by issuing Treasury notes-to the Committee on the By l\fr. McKINNEY: Petition of McDonough Post, No. 103, Judiciary. Grand Army of the Republic, Macomb, Ill., for civil war volun Alao, memorial of legislature of California, for suspension teer officers' retii·ed ~ ist-to the Committee on Military Affairs. of assessment work on mining claims for 1907-to the Com By Mr. MALBY : Paper to accompany bill for relief of Alice mittee on lines and Mining. B. Moore--to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, paper to accompany bill for relief of Albert M. \Vine By Mr. NORRIS: Petition of citizens of' the Fifth Congres brener-to the Committee on Military Affairs. sional District of Nebraska, favoring the parcels-post law-to Also, memorial of Board of Trade of San Francisco, for a the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. central bank of issue-to the Committee on Banking and Cur By l\lr. OLCOTT: Petition of New York Board of Trade and rency. Transpoi·tation, favoring ship-subsidy legislation-to the Com Also, memorial of Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco, mittee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries. against parcels-post law-to the Committee on the Post-Office Also, paper to accompany bill for relief of Roswell l\1. Shurt and Post-Roads. leff-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Bv l\lr. HENRY of Connecticut : Petition of Isabella Council, Also, memorial of New York Commandery of the Loyal :Ko. ~ 15, Knights of Columbus, of Southington, Conn., · against Legion, against removal of Grant Memorial from Botanic Gar- certain changes in the postal laws-to the Committee on the dens-to the Committee on the Library. · Post-Office and Post-Roads. Also, petition of J. V. Hayden, for equitable compensation to By l\fr. HEPBURN: Petition of Iowa Grain Dealers' Asso Dr. Addison C. Fletcher for use of revenue stamp-to the Com ciation, against ruling of the board of food and drug in mittee on Ways and Means. spectors-to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Com By 1\Ir. P ADGE'.rT: Papers to accompany bills for relief of merce. heirs of Robert M. Nicholson, heirs of Jane E. Williams, and By· l\Ir. HINSHAW : Papers to accompany bills for relief of William D. Patton-to the ·Committee on War Claims. -Willett Shottenkirk and Cyrus 'Payne-to the Committee on Also, paper to accompany bill for relief of Nathaniel F. InYalid Pensions. Cheairs-to the Committee on War Claims. By Mr. HOBSON: Paper to accompany bill for relief of heirs Also, papers to accompany bills for relief of John Dolan, of William M. Crump-to the Committee on War Claims. Jonathan Mills, Joseph Williamson, Simpson A. Patter.son, w. By Mr. HOUSTON: Paper to accompany bill for relief of l\1. Witt, Anna Bunch, F. T. McLam·ine, Patrick Dannaher, and Sophia R. Harrison-to the Committee on Inva1id Pensions. B. H. Cody-to the Committee on War Claims. By Mr. HOWELL of Utah: Paper to accompany bill for Also, papers to accompany bills for relief of Sarah E. Nixon relief of Zylpha Raymond (preyiously referred to Committee on and Emma Wymer-to the Committee on Pensions. Invalid Pensions)-to the Committee on Pensions. . Also, paper to accompany bill for relief of William Holt-to By Mr. HOWELL of New Jersey: Paper to accompany bill the Committee on In-mlid Pensions. for relief of Richard B. Larkin-to the Committee on Invalid By Mr. PAYNE : Paper to accompany bill for relief of So Pensions. phie H. Patten and 'l\lenzo Wixson-to the Committee on In- By 1\fr. HUFF: Papers to accompany bills for relief of Dan valid Pensions. · iel Foust (previously referred to Committee on Invalid Pen By Mr. POU: Paper ·to accompany bill for relief of estate sions) and Jacob Gaffney_:_to the Committee on Military Af- of Wiley Holt-to the Committee on War Claims. fairs. _ By Mr. RICHARDSON : Paper to accompany bill for re By Mr. HULL of Tennessee: Papers to accompany bills for lief of James and Porter Henry (previously referred to Com relief of Adeline T. Odom, Isaac L. Walton, and John B. mittee on Invalid Pensions)-to the Committee on- War White--to the Committee on War Claims. Claims. By 1\Ir. JONES of Washington: Memorial of the legislature By Mr. RYAN: Paper to accompany bill for relief of l\Iich3el of the State of Washington; against making permanent the Mc.A.uliff-to the Committee on Military Affairs. temporary withdrawal of certain land in Okanogan and Ferry Also, paper to accompany bill for relief of Catherine Mc counties, Wash., and urging restoration to the public domain Cabe-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. to the Commitee on the Public Lands. By Mr. SCOTT: Petition of Jewel fost, No. 3, Grand Army Also, joint memorial of the legislature of the State of Wash of the Republic, Pleasanton, Kans., praying for passage of bill ington, for House bill 2400, equalizing pay of Army, Navy, and to pension Kansas Militia-to the Committee on Invalid Pen Marine Corps-to the Committee on Military Affairs. si-ons. Also, memorial of legislature of the State of Washington, for By Mr. SHEPPARD: Paper to accompany bill for relief of opening surplus lands of the l\Iaka Indian Reservation, in Sarah Ella Murdock-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Clal1am County-to the Committee on Indian Affairs. Also, paper to accompany bill for relief of Eliza J. Wall~er- Also, petition of citizens of Washington, against parcels-post to the Committee on Pensions. _ law-to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. By Mr. SIMS: Papers to accompany bills for relief of E. W. By Mr. KNAPP: Paper to accompany bill for relief of Lot Walker and W. H. Clark-to the Committee on W'nr Claims. Beeks (previously referred to Committee on Invalid Pen By Mr. SPERRY. Memorial of the Bridgeport Board of sions)-to the Committee on Pensions. '.rrade, of Bridgeport, Conn., favori.Q.g appropriations for the By l\Ir. KNOWLAND: Petition of Central Labor Council of improvement of rivers· and harbors-to the Committee on Alameda Com1ty, Cal., against violation of eight-hour law by Rivers and Harbors. the Public Printer-to the Committee on Printing. Also, memorials of the Appalachian Mountain Club, the By Mr. LEE: Paper to accompany bill for relief of Ophelia Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests, the J. Gordon-to the Committee on Pensions. American Civic Association, and the Massachusetts Forestry Also, paper to accompany bill for relief of William Mont Association, favoring the creation of the Appalachian Forest gomery (previously referred to Committee on Invalid Pen Reserve--to the Committee on Agriculture. sions) -to the Committee on Pensions. Also, memorials of 630 citizens of Connecticut, and 221 By 1\Ir. LIVINGSTON: Papers to accompany bills for relief former officers of volunteers, fayoring the passage of the bill of John Bridwell, James Oliver, Joel R. Pruett, Susan Fickett, to create a volunteer retired list-to the Committee on Military John T. Ackridge, Susannah Elliott, Benjamin F. Vea~ Arcada Affairs. Baker, Oliver Baker, Milton l\f. Bentley, Azariah Mims, Eze By Mr. SPIGHT: .Affidavits· to accompany House bill for kiel l\1. Carter, Richard Robson, He1,1ry G. Cole, and Stanford relief of estate of Wiley Franks, of Jones County, Ga.-to the Oliver-to the Committee on War Claims. . Committee on War Claims. . By Mr. LORIMER: Papers to accompany bills. for relief of By Mr. STERLING: A.tfidavit of C. T. Ovner to accompany Clarance J. Lawlers, Mary Parlin, Demas L. Coe, John Steph House bill 4698, affidavit of James 0. Neal to accompany House ens, John ·H. Osborn, John Kinnee, and Katherine Lyda-to the bill 4698, affidavit of Elizabeth Lasswell to accompany House Committee on Invalid Pensions. bill 4686, and affidavit of E va M. Webster to accompany House By Mr. LAW: Petition of United Spani~f>h War Veterans, bill 4686--to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. W:illiam McKinley Command, No~ 62, for the Dick-Capron pay Also, paper to accompany bill for relief of Sidney Coomer bill (previously referred to Committee on Invalid Pensio~s) (previously referred to Committee on Invalid Pensions)-to referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, the Committee on Military Affairs. • 1907. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 457 By Mr. TA'VNEY : Petition of citizens of Alden. Minn .• In the cause of the trustees of the Methodist Episcopal against parcels-post law-to the Committee on the Post-Office Church South, of Glenville, W. Va., v. United States; and Post-Roads. In the cause of the trustees of the Black Swamp Baptist By Mr. THOMAS of Ohio: Paper to accompany bill for relief Church, of Robertville, S. C., v. United States; and of :W. B. Miller-to the Committee on War Claims. In the cause of J\frs. Delphine A. Taylor, Mrs. Amy A. Taylor, By 1\Ir. WASHBURN: Paper to accompany bill for relief of and Maria C. Quays, administratrix of Philip D. Quays, de Charles 0. Thomas-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. ceased, v. United States. Also, paper to accompany bill for relief of John A.. •.raft The foregoing findings were, with the accompanying papers, (previously referred to Committee on Invalid Pensions)-to referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. the Committee on War Claims. MESSAGE FROM THE ·HOUSE. Also, petition of Army and Navy Union, Worcester, Mass., for increase of pay of Army, ·Navy, Marine Corps, and Revenue A message from the House of Representatives, by Mr. W. J. Cutter Service-to the Committee on Naval Affairs. BROWNING, its chief clerk, announced that the House had By 1\Ir. WATKINS : Papers to accompany bills for relief agreed to the amendment of the Senate to the joint resolution of estate of E. A. Givens and estate of Clinton Berry-to the (II. J. Res. 58) to pay the officers and employees of the Senate Committee on War Claims. and Bouse of Representatives their respective salaries for the By _Mr. WILLIAMS : Paper to accompany bill for relief of month of December, 1907, on the 19th day of said month. 'l'he mes~age also announced ·that the House had passed a Sidney Stevens-to the Committee on War Claims. joiut resolution (H. J. Res. 66) making appropriation to supply Also, paper to accompany bill for relief of Henry L. Blake, for himself and heirs of 1\Irs. Mary S. Blake-to the Committee a deficiency in the appropriation for the purchase and distri· on Claims. bution of valuable seeds, in which it requested the concurrence Also, petition of John 1\I. 1\Iott, for coinage of silver on in of the Senate. dividual account-to the Committee on Banking and Currency. ENROLLED JOINT RESOLUTION SIGNED. The message further anno1.mced that the Speaker of the House bad signed the enrolled joint resolution (H. J. Res. 58) SENATE. to pay the officers and employees of the Senate and House of Representatives their respective salaries for the month of De SATURDAY, December ~1, 1907. cember, 1907. on the 19th day of said month, and it was there- Prayer by Rev. ULYSSES G. B. PIERCE, of the city of Washing upon signed by the Vice-President. · ton. PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS. The Secretary proceeded to read the Journal of the proceed The VICE-PRESIDENT presented a petition of the West ings of Wednesday last, when, on request of Mr. FULTON, and End Business Men's Association, of St. Louis, 1\Io., praying by unanimous consent, the further reading was dispensed with. that an appropriation be made for the creation and mainte The VICE-PRESIDENT. The Journal stands approved. nance of a transcontinental canal waterway commission, which LIST OF CONGRESSIONAL CASES. was referred to the Committee· on Commerce. The VICE-PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a communica He also presented a -petition of the Trans-Mississippi Com tion from the assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, transmit mercial Congress, praying for the enactment of legislation to ting, pursuant to the order of the court of December 13, 1907, recognize the Arkansas River as a commercial highway, which a list of Congressional cases discontinued on claimants' motion. was referred to the Committee on Commerce. which discontinuance is certified upon motion of defendants, Mr. CULLO~I presented a petition of the Illinois 1\Ianufac which, with the accompanying paper. was referred to the Com hlrers' Association, praying that an appropriatiop be made for mittee on Claims and ordered to be printed. the erection of a new post-office building at Chicago, Ill., which He also laid before the Senate a communication from the was referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting, pursuant Ground& _ to the order of the court of December 13, 1907, a list of Congres Mr. LONG presented a memorial of sundry citizens of Osa sional cases dismissed on motion of the defendants on the watomie, Kans., and a memorial of the Commercial Club, of dates set opposite their respective names, which, with the ac Gray County, Kans., remonstrating against the passage of the companying paper, was referred to the Committee on Claims so-~alled "parcels-post bill," which were referred to the Com and ordered to be printed. mittee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. He also laid before the Senate a communication from the He also presented a paper to accompany the bill (S. 614) assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting, pursuant granting an increase of pension to Edward C. Ellet, which was to the order of the court of December 14, 1907, a list of Con referred to the Committee on Pensions. gressional cases dismissed on motion of the defendants May He also presented a petition of the Commercial Club, of To 13, 1907, for nonprosecution, which, with the accompanying peka, Kans., praying for the enactment of legislation providing papers, was referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered for the improvement of· the merchant marine, which was re to be printed. ferred to the Committee on Commerce. FRENCH SPOLIATION CLAIM. Mr. DOLLIVER presented a memorial of sundry citizens of the Sixth Congressional District of the State of Iowa, remon· The VICE-PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a communi strating against the passage of the so-called "parcels-post bill,.. cation from the assistant clerk of the Court of Claims. trans which was referred ·to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post mitting the findings of fact and conclusions of law filed under Roads. the act of January 20, 1885, in the French spoliation claims He also presented a petition of the West End Improvement set out in the annexed findings by the court relating to the Club, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, praying for the enactment of leg vessel sloop Fom, Nathaniel Dennis, master, which, with the islation providing for the Federal inspection of grain in the accompanying paper. was referred to the Committee on Claims interstate trade~ - which was referred to the Committee on Agri and ordered to be printed. culture and Forestry. FINDINGS OF THE COURT OF CLAIMS. He also presented a petition of sundry citizens of Independ· The VICE-PRESIDENT laid before the Senate communica ence, Iowa, and a petition of the Iowa Federation of Women's tions from tile as~istant clerk of the Court of Claims, trans Clubs, praying for the enactment of legislation to abolish child mitting certified copies of the findings of fact filed by the court labor, which were referred to the Committee on Education and in the following causes : Labor. In the cause of the estate of Jacob Kern, deceased, v. United He also presented a petition of suridry citizens of the United States; States, praying for the enactment of legislation to increase the - In the cause of .Annie B. Berry, administratrix of Richard pensions of persons who are almost totally deaf, which was Berry, deceased, v. United States; referred to the Committee on Pensions. In the cause of Matilda Legg, sole surviving heir of James He also presented petitions of Capt. Alexander Dowd Post, Legg, deceased, v. United States; No. 375; of W. A. Morse Post, No. 190; and of Ellsworth Post, In the cause of George A. Nowland, administrator of James No. 30, all of the Grand Army of the Republic, Department of B. Beavers, deceaseu, v. United States; Iowa, praying for the enactment of legislation providing a -In the canse of William H. Brown v. United States; maximum pension of $20 per month to the survivors of the In the cause of Theodore R. Timby _v. United States; _ civil war who have attained the age of 65 years, which were In the cause of The Village of G~·!lysvllle, Catoosa County, referred to the Committee on Pensions. Ga., v. United States; He also presented a petition of Ellsworth Post, No. 30, Grand