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0Fll'ICE OF THE SECRETARY OF THE COlii!IO:YWEALTII By Mr. BUNNELL: Of citizens of Litchfield, Bradford County, Penn­ 1 HarrisbU1·g, December 20, A.. D. 1831. sylvania. Pe~·nsylva nia, ss: _ By Mr. DINGLEY: Of D. A. Lawrence and others, and of 1r1icliuel I do hereby certify that the foregoing and annexed is o. full, true, anci correct Hickey and others, of Maine. copy of the original concurrent resolution of the General Assembly, approved By Mr. ENLOE: OfW. P. Holton and 32 others, of Jester, Chester the 22d day of April, A. D. 1887, as the same remains on file in this; office. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the County, Tennessee. se.::retary's office to be affi.xed the day and year above written. By 1\Ir. ERMENTROUT: Of citizensofBerksCounty, Pennsylvania. (sEAL.] CHARLES W. STONE, By Mr. GLASS: Of citizeng of Abernathy, of McBride, and of Dur­ Secretary ojthe Commonw~alth. hamville, Tenn. By Mr. GOFF: Of Michael Shepard and others, of Wileyville; of J. The PRESIDENT pro tempore presented resolutions adopted by the R. 'Vindom ·and others, of Short Creek; of P. A. Poundstail and others, American Bar Association, favoring the celebration of the Con titutiona.l of Troy; of Elliot Stump and others, of Stumptown; of G. M. Warner Centennial; which were referred to the Select Committee on the Cen­ and others, of Aberdeen; of Henry Estep and others, of St. Joseph; of tennial of the Constitution and the Discovery of America. N. Beck and others, of Pepper; of George F. Perry and others, of Olive; Mr. MITCHELL. I present senate joint resolution No. 5 of the Leg­ of W. F. McKelvey; of Morris H. White and others, of Pond Gap; of L. islative Assembly of the State of Oregon, favoring legislation prohibit­ F. Hildebrand and others, of Adamsville; ol M. L. Weekly and others, of ing aliens from occupying Uni!Rd States lands for herding and grazing J o epb's Mills; of M. Bailey: and others, of Leading Creek, and of At­ purposes. Such a bill has already become a law, but let the memorial well Summers, of Lonetree, W. Va. be referred to the Committee on Public Lands. By Mr. GRIMES: Of James M. Cook and others, of Chattalioochee The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The memorial will be referred to the County, Georgia. Committee on Public Lands. By Mr. GROUT: Of Alfred Watkins and 38 others, of South Read­ Ur. UlTCHELL presented joint resolution No. 6 of the Legfslative ing, Vt. Assembly of the State of Oregon, favoring the adoption of a constitu­ By Mr. HIESTAND: Of citizens of Bainbridge, Lancaster County, tional amendment providing for the election of United States Senators Pennsylvania. . by a direct vote of the people; which was referred to the Committee on By Mr. HOUK: Of Gumfork; of Well Springs; of Big Creek Gap; Privileges and Elections. of Louisville; of White Pine; of Piney, and of Troutman, Tenn. He also presented bouse joint resolution No. 7 of the Legislative By Mr. LEE: Of citizens of Fauquier County; of Loudoun County, Assembly of the State of Oregon, favoring an appropriation for the sur­ and of Prince William County, Virginia. vey and improvement of Tillamook Bay and bar; which was referred By Mr. .McCLAMMY: Of A. R. Ellis and others, of Gilbert, Moore to the Committee on Commerqe. County, and ofS. B. Taylor and others, Ward's Mills, N. C. He also presented a house joint memorial of the L gislative Assem­ By 1\!r. McCULLOGH: Of citizens of Swartz, Greene County, Penn­ bly of the State of Oregon, favoring the payment of tlie expenses of the sylvania. volunteer forces of Oregon and W asbington Territory in the Indian war By Mr. McKINLEY: Of citizens of Achor, Columbiana County, of 1855-' 56, as allowed by the commission consisting of General Hufus ~~ . Ingalls, A. J. Smith, and Hon. L. F. Grover; also that the survivors By Mr. McRAE: Twenty-three petitions of sundry citizens of the of Indian wars be pensioned in the same manner as the survivors of the Third district of Arkansas. Mexican war; which was referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. By Mr. NEAL: Of R. R. Ramsey and others, of Cassville, White He also presented senate joint memorial No. 10 of the Fourteenth County; and of Alexander Coppinger and others, of Tarlton, Grundy Legislativ~ Assem\lly of the State of Oregon, favoring an appropriat.ion County, Tennessee. of the sum of $2,500 for the construction of a wagon-way from Cape By Mr. NICHOLS: Of citizens of Alamance County; of Nash County; Foulweather, in Benton County, Oregon, to Coos Bay, in Coos County, of Chatham County, and of D. H. 'Albright and others, of the Fou.rth Oregon, through the United States reservation known as Cape Perpetua; district, North Carolina. which was referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. By Mr. PETEi-c : Of S.C. Carter and others, of Ainsworth, Kans. He also presented house joint memorial No. 2 of the Fourteenth By Mr. ROGERS: Of citizens of Ivesville, Pulaski County, Arkan- Legislative Assembly of the State of Oregon, favoring an appropriation s~ . of $13,845.84 to pay claimants the amounts allowed them by Philo By Jtir. ROMEIS: Of W. M. Hewitt and 20 others, of Peachton, Callender, commissioner of war claims, growing out of the Indian war Ottawa County, Ohio. in Oregon Territory; which was referred to 'the Committee on Military By 1\Ir. SCULL: Of citizens of Salemville, Bedford County, Penn­ Affairs. sylvania.. He also presented senate joint resolution No. 18 of the fourteenth By Mr. STONE, ofKentucky: OfJ. F. Stone and others, ofKentucky. biennial session of the Legislative Assembly of Oregon, favoring the ll.Y Mr. WHEELER: Of Goodloe Pride and 23 others, of Barton, and reimbursement of settlers on even sections of land within the grant to of H. H. Bridgers and 17 others, of Dry Cove, Ala. the Oregon Central Railroad Company, which grant bas now been for­ By Mr. WHITTHORNE: OfR. G. Petway and others, of•Hickman feited, for the excess paid by such settlers for their lands ·by rea<>on of County, Tennessee. the price fixed in the grant; which was referred to the Committee on lly l\lr. WISE: Of citizens of Fifer, Goochland County, Virginia. Public Lands. • lly ~ir. YODER: Of citizens of Neptune, Mercer County, and of He also presented house joint memorial No. 3 of the Legislative Landeck, Ohio. . Assembly of the State of Oregon, at its regular session, favoring legis­ lly Mr. YO T: Of citizens of Flannagan's Mills; of Moreley; of Hun­ lation providing that the Umpqua River between Gardiner and the ter's Lodge; of Deerfield; of Bees ville; of Gilliamsville; of Strait Cr~k, mouth of that river be properly buoyed; which was referred to the and of Vanderpool, Va. Committee on Commerce. He also presented joint memorial No. 3 of the Legislative Assembly of the State of Oregon, praying Congress as follows: First. That all unearned lands heretofore granted to railroad cor­ SENATE. porations, and especially to the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, be THURSDAY, December 22, 1887. declared forfeited. Second. That especially. the lands of said company coterminous with Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. J. G. BUTLER, D. D. and adjacent to the proposed Columbia River bri:illch of said road, The Journal of yesterday's proceedings was read and approved. namely, between Wallula, Wash., and Portland, Oregon, be declared PETmONS AND 1\!El\IORIALS. forfeited without delay. The PRESIDENT pro tempore presented resolutions adopted by the Third. That th:J forfeiture .Of said last-mentioned portion of said Legislature of Pennsylvania; which, on motion of Mr. BLAIR, were grant be not made conditional upon the forfeiture of other portions be­ ordered to lie on the table, and be printed in the RECORD, as follows: tween Bismarck, Dak., and Wallula, Wash., but that in case Congress IN THE SENATE, .Aprill3, 1887. can not agree upon the forfeiture of all unearned lands west of Bismarck, Resolved (if the house concur), That our Senators in Congress 'be instructed, th.ey shall nevertheless declare forfeited said lands coterminous with and the Representatives be requested, to support, at the next session, the Bl!u and adjacent to said proposed line between Wallula, Wash., and Port­ bill for national aid to common schools, to the end that a.ll sections of the Union may secure educational facilities. land, Oregon. Re.~olved, That tb.e secretary of the Commonwealth is hereby directed to send Fourth. That in case speedy forfeiture of said lands is not possible, copies of the above resolution to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of such legislation will be had as will require the locatbn and public an­ the Hou e, at Washington, when Congress convenes in December next. Extract from the journal of the senate. nouncement to settlers of a definite boundary line of said grant, so THOS. B. COCHRAN, that lands beyond legal and proper bounds can no longer be kept from Chief Clerk of the Senate. entry and sale in consequence of the present undefined claims of said lN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, ..4.prill4, ..4. . D. 1887. company. The foregoing resolution concurred in. The memorial was referred to the Committee on Public Lands. SAM'L A. LOSCH, Ohiej Clerk of th6 House of Representatives. Mr. MITCHELL presentedsena.tejointmemorial No. 5of the Legis­ Approved the 22d day of April, A. D. 1887. lative Assembly of the State of Oregon, fuvoring an appropriation for J AMES A. 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or near the town of Elkton, in Douglas County,· oregon; which was Morris; which was read twice by its title, and referred to the Com- referred to the Committee on Commerce. mittee on Claims. · He also presented senate joint memorial No. 1 of the Fourteenth He also introduced a bill tS. 1078) for the relief of Florida Kennerly, Legislative Assembly of the State of Oregon, favoring a modification of which was read twice by its title, and referred to the Committee on the treaty between the United St,ates and the Chinese Empire, so as to Claims. - stop and prohibit the importation or immigration of Chinese and other He also introduced a bill (S. 1079) niaking an appropriation for the Asiatic laborers altogether, and to adopt such lawful means as are nec­ purpose of paying Indian depredation claims which have been audited essary to rid the country of those already here; which was referred to and approved by the Secretary of the Interior and reported to Con~1·ess; the Committee on Foreign Relations. which was rea~ twice by its title. He also presented senate joint memorial No. 2 of the Legislative As­ Mr. DOLPH. 1\Ir. President-, I ask the indulgence of the Senate for sembly of the State of Oregon, favoring the adoption of some gpeedy a moment in regard to this bill. legislation declaring such lands as have not been earned by railroad I introduced a similar bill during the last Congress, together with companies in accordance with the conditions imposed by Congress another bill authorizing claimants for Indian depredations to sue the withdrawn from such grants, and that the same be speedily thrown United States in the Court of Claims, and a number of bills for the pri­ open for settlement by the people; which was referred to the Commit­ vate relief of parties for damages on account of Indian depredations. tee on Public Lands. The Committee on Indian Affairs, I believe, reported upon none of them. Mr. SPOONER. I present, by request, a petition on behalf of the There are tour thousand :five hundred of these claims. The amount citizens' representative committee of one hundred, of the District of involved is, I think, F~omething like fourteen or :filteen million dollars. Columbia, praying for the passage of a bill to create a board of educa­ 1\!any of these claims are claims for depredations that occurred during tion for the DistrictofColumbia. I move that the petition be referred the period when the law rovided that upon a proper presentation of to the. Committee on the District of Columbia. such a claim and its allowance by the Secretar.v of the Interior, it - The motion wa:; agreed to. should be paid out of annuities owing to the Indian tribes which com­ Mr. SPOONER presented a communication from J. Crutchett, of the mitted the depredation, and if there were no such annuities, then out District of Columbia, on the subject of saving half the cost for fuel, of the Treasury of the United States. There is, therefore, a le)l:al ob­ light, and power in the Capitol and buildings of the Government by ligation on the part of the Government to pay many of the~e claims, the use of his improvements: which was referred to the Committee on which are ·OVer thirty years of age. All the other claims which have Public Buildings and Grounds. been reported upon and are covered by this bill, are claims whieh have Mr. CALL presented the petition of J. A. Voyles and other postmas­ been examined by the Secretary of the Interior under the provisions of ters of the fourth class in the State of Florida, praying for the passage existing laws-laws which provide that claimants may present their of a law increasil,lgthe compensation offourth-class postmasters; which claims to the Secretary of the Interior with their proof, anu that they was referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. shall be audited. Tl1ey have been notified from time to time that the .Mr. BLAIR presented the petition of the State Temperance Union Secretary of the Interior has audited and allowed their claims forcer­ of New Hampshire, officially signed, praying for an amendment to the tain amounts. . They do not understand why when their claims are Constitution of the United States to prohibit the manufacture, im­ audited am allowed they are not to be paid; and I undertake to say portation, exportation, and transportation of intoxicating beverages; itj.s a burning shame that for thirty years the Congress of the United which was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor. States has declined to take action upon these claims. Mr. CULLOM presented resolutions adopted by the board of super­ I am informed that for the fir t time in the House of Representatives visors of Clay County, illinois, urging the enactmtJUt of legislation for th2re will be a committee especially charged with the examination ot the relief of purchasers of swamp lands in the State of Illinois; which Indian depredation claims, and I do hope that justice will be done to were referred to the Committee on Public Lands. these claimants now by the Committee on Indian Affairs of the Senate, He also presented a petition of 115 ex-soldiers and citizens of Dallas and that some report will be made. It would be better to report that City, Ill., and vicinity, praying that Francis Marion Walker, who is the laws which now provide for the presentation of the claims should now entirely disabled as a. result of his military service, be placed upon be repealed and no false hopes held out to the claimants, and they be the pension-roll; which was referred to the Committee on Pensions. not put to the expense of presenting their claims and proving them and employing counsel to present them with the expectation that the Gov­ ENROLLED BILLS SIGNED. ernment would make an appropriation tor their payment, rather than A message from the House of Representatives, by .Mr. CLARK, its to continue to delay from day to day to take action upon them. If we Clerk, announced that the Speaker of the House had signed the enrolled are not going to pay them, let Congress say so, and if we are going to joint resolution (H. Res. 2) authorizing and directing the payment of pay them, let the proper committee grapple with 1.he matter and make the salaries of the officers and employes of Congress for the month of some disposition of it. December, 1887; and it was thereupon signed by the President pro The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The bill wm be referred to the Com­ tempore. mittee on Indian Affairs. REPORTS OF COMMITTEES. Mr. V90RHEESintroduced a bill(S. 1080) to extend the laws of the Mr. EUSTIS, from the Committee on Epidemic Diseases, to whom United· States over certain unorganized teuitory south of the State of was referred the bill (S. 642) to authorize the removal of the quarantine Kansas; which was read twice by its title, and referred to the· Commit­ st.atjon from Ship Island, Mississjppi, reported it without amendment. tee on Public Lands. Mr. JONES, of Arkansas, introduced a bill (S. 1081) for the erection BILLS INTRODUCED. of a public building at Helena, Ark.; which was read twice by its title, Mr. MORRILL introduced a bill (S.1069) for the relief ofL. A. Noyes; and referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. which was read twice by its title, and, with the accompanying papers, He also introduced a bill (S. 1082) for the relief of J. R. B. A!oore; referred to the Committee on Commerce. which was read twice by its title, and referred to the Committee on Mr. QUAY introduced a bill (S.1070) granting a pension to l\1rs. Mary Public Lands. R. Armstrong; which was read twice by its title, and referred to the 1\Ir. P A.SCO introduced a. bill (S. 1083) for the erection of a public Committee on Pensions. building at Tallahassee, Fla.; which was read twice by its title, andre­ Mr. COKE introduced a bill (S. 1071) for the relief of A. B. Norton; ferred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. which was read twice by its title, and referred to the Committee on 1\fr. BLAIR introduced a bill (S. 1084.) for the relief of the American Claims. Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, Rev. Worcester Willey, Mr. SPOONER (by request) introduced a bill (S.1072) to incorporate and Esther Smith; which was read twice by its title, and, with the ac­ the Capital Rapid Transit Street Railway Company of the District of companying papers, referred to the Committee on Claims. Columbia; which was read twice by its title, and referred to the Com­ Mr. MITCHELL introduced a bill (S. 10 5) to relieve Jacob Kintz, mittee on the District of Columbia. alias John Walters, from the charge of desertion; which was read twice He also (by request) introduced a bill (S. 1073) to cre ll te a board of by its title, and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. education for the District of Columbia and to prescribe its pow~rs and He also introduced a bill (S. 1086) granting a pension to Jacob Kintz, duties; which was read twice by its title, and referred to the Committee alias John Walters; which was read twice by its title, and referred to on the District of Columbia. the Committee on Pensions. Mr. PALMER {by request) introduced a bill (S. 1074) for the reliet He also introduced a bill (S. 1087) for the relief of D. S. Holton, of of J. W. McMillan; which was read twice by its title, and, with the ac­ Oregon; which was read twice by its title, and referred to the Com­ companying papers, referred to the Committee on Pensions. mittee on Claims. He also introduced a bill (S. 1075) for the relief of Elvira A. Scott; He a.lso introduced a bill (S. 1088) for the relief of Charles W. Den­ which waa read twice by its title, and, with the aecompanying papers, ton, of Oregon; which was read twice by its title, and referred to the referred to the Committee on Pensions. Committee on Claims. • 1\I.r. CALL (by request) introduced a bill (S. 1076) granting a pen­ Mr. McPHERSON introduced a bill (S. 1089) for the relief of Hen­ sion to the widow of John Leary; which was read twice by its title, rietta M. Sands, widow of the late Rear-Admiral Benjamin F. Sands, and, with the accompanying papers, referred to the Committee on Pen- United St..1tes Navy; which was read twice by its title, and referred to sions. · the Committee on Claims. Mr. DOLPH introduced a bill (S. 1077) for the relief of Mrs. Clam Mr. BOWEN introduced a bill (S. 1090) for the relief of George Max- 1~87. CONGRESSIONAl, RECORD-SENATE. 165

welL F. C. Bulkley, and H. L. Newman; which was read twice by its is an institution of transcendent importance to the state on account title, and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. of its relations to society and to posterity. Whether we affirm or Mr. GORMAN introduced a bill (S. 1091) to establish a light-ship deny that marriage has been divinely ordained to secure the perpet­ off the entrance to Chesapeake Bay; which was read twice by its title, uation of the race and the happiness and prosperity of mankind, it and referred to the Committee on Commerce. must be conceded that it is the natural relation between the sexes, and He also introduced a bill (S. 1092) for the relief of St. Vincent's is necessary to the formation and preservation of the family, which is Orphan Asylum, in the District ofColumbia; which was read twice by the foundation of organized society and the promoter of good order and its title, and referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. civilization. The state, therefore, has an undoubted right, and it is its Mr. MITCHELL introduced a bill (S. 1093) providing for the con­ duty, to prescribe the qualifications of the parties to the marrbge con­ st.ruction of, and making an appropriation for, a military wagon-road tract, the manner in which it must be solemnized to render it legal, between Cape Foulweather, in Benton County, and Coos Bay, in Coos the proof required for its authentication, the d'isahilities which render County, Oregon; which was read twice by its title, and-referred to the individuals incompetent to marry, the causes for which the marriage Committee on Military Affairs. contract may be annulled or dissolved, and to provide by law in what He also introduced a bill (S. 1094) making an appropriation for the courts the proceedings for the annulment or dissolution of the contract survey and improvement of Tillamook Bay and bar, in the State of may be instituted, the rule'S of procedure and of evidence in such pro­ Oregon; which was read twice by its title, and referred to the Commit­ ceedings, the manner of authenticating the decree of the court, and the tee on Commerce. effect of a dissolution of the contract upon the personal status and prop­ Mr. TELLER introduced a bill (S. 1095) to provide for the compul­ erty rights of the parties and their children. The true theory of mar­ sory education of Indian children; which was rea-d twice by its title, riage is that it is not only a contract between the man and the woman, and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. but is also a contract between them and the state, by which they nuder­ Mr. SAWYER introduced a bill (S. 1096) granting a pension to James take to perform tho duties growing out of the marital relation to the Lucas; which was read twice by its title, and referred to the Commit- st..1.te, and upon this theory the contract can only be lawfully entered into tee on Pensions. · or annulled with the consent of the state. WITHDRAWAL OF PAPERS. While it is not desirable that criminal and pauper classes and those On motion of Mr. CHANDLER, it was afflicted with disease or deformity liable to be transmitted to their pos­ terity should be encouraged to marry, otherwise the largest possible Ordered, That H. S. Cummings, attorney for the estate of David Huestis, de­ ceased, hrwe leave to withdraw from the files of the Senate the papers in the freedom of matrimony should be a.Uowed hy the la.ws, and the marriage claim of the said Huestis, there having been no adverse report thereon. of those competent to contract should be encouraged by the Govern­ ment. The diss{llution of the marriage contract is a matter which con­ PACIFIC COAST NAVAL STATION. cerns the Government more than it does the parties. The state has a Mr. MITCHELL. On the 12th of this month I introduced a joint paramount interest in the continuance of the Htmily, because society so resolution (S. R. 8) providing for the appointment of a commission to greatly suffers when the family relation is disrupted, the home de­ select a site for a naval station on the Pacific coast, which lies upon the stroyed, and the security lost which the family affords for the support, table. I give notice that on the 4th of January, at the conclusion of ed ncation, and training of the offspring of the marriage for usefu mem­ the morning business, I shall ask that the joint resolution be taken up bers ofthe community. Free- nd-easydivorce is destructive of moral­ for the purpose of enabling me to submit some remarks upon it before ity and good government, injurious alike to the best interests of society, its reference to the appropriate committee. debasing to the estimate which society places upon the marital relation, MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE. and degrading to woman. As the state is most interested in the pres­ ervation of the family relation, it follows that the laws of a state should The PRESIDENT pro tempore. If there is no further morning busi­ limit the causes of divorce to such as render the continuance of this re­ ness-- lation a greater evil than its dissolution, and, to prevent collusion, Mr. DOLPH. I do not rise to morning business, but to make a. mo­ should require that the state in all cases be made a party to a proceeding tion as soon as that is completed. for a divorce, and should make provision for suitable and suffiment The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The orderofmorningfbusiness, then, service of process upon the opposite party, and, in case of default, for a is closed. defense by the state. Mr. DOLPH. I now move to take up Senate joint resolution No.2. At present in many of the States there are fewer safeguards against The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Oregon moves that collusive divorces than there are against fraudulent judgments in ordi­ the Senate proceed to the consideration of a joint resolution the title nary adions at law. But it is not my purpose to discuss the evils of of which will be stated. easy divorce. 'l'he matter to which I especially desire to direct the The CHIEF CLERK. A joint resolution (S. R. 2) proposing an amend­ attention of the Senate is the evils which grow out of the widely dif­ ment to the Constitution of the United States empowering Congress to fering laws of the several States concerning the grounds for divorce and legislate upon the suhjects of marriage and divorce, and prohibiting the force and effect of a decree dissolving the marriage contract. The bigamy and polygamy. grounds for divorce under the laws of the several States are as diverse Mr. BLAIR. I desire to inquire whether if the joint resolution is as the opinions concerning the nature of the institution of marriage. taken up it would displace the unfinished business. In some States the laws are as lax and: divorce is as free and easy as the The PRESIDENT pro temp01·e. The Chair announces that under the most earnest advocates of the proposition that marriage is a simple con­ rule the unfinished business every day will come up at 2 o'clock. tract between the parties, which should be dissoluble at their pleasure, Mr. BLAIR. Suppose the Senate adjourns earlier than that hour, could wish-incompatibility of temper alone heing sufficient in the dis­ the unfinished business would not be displaced? cretion of the court in some of the States to authorize a divorce; anil The PRESIDENT JYI'O tempore. It would not be displaced. The ques­ in others the grounds range from the most trivial causes up-the scale tion is on the motion of the Senator from Oregon, to proceed to the through failure to provide for the support of the wife, desertion, cruel consideration of the joint resolution named by him. and inhuman treatment, drunkenness, and conviction of a felony, to The motion was agreed to; and the Senate, as in Committee of the the scriptural ground of adultery. · Whole, proceeded to consider the joint resolution. Quite as great diversity exists in the laws of the States as to the pre­ Mr. DOLPH. Let the joint resolution be read. vious residence required on the part of the plaintiff and the character The PRESIDENT pro tempore. It will be read at length. of service required upon the defendant; and as a con.c;equence to the The Chief Clerk read as followe: States where divorce is free and easy flock the parties who wish to evade Resolved by the Senate and House of Rep1·csenlativcs of the United States of America the more stringent laws of other States, and the result is an ever-in­ in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the fol­ lowing article be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States as an amend­ creasing harvest of divorces, held to be valid in the State in which they ment to the Constitution of the United States, which, when ratified by three­ are granted, but which would be declared fraudulent and void in the fourths of the said Legislatures, shall be valid as a part of said Constitution, courts of other States, and remarriages in the States in which the fraud­ namely: ARTICLE-. ulent divorces have been obtained held to be legal there, but which Congress shall have power to legislate upon the subjects of marriage and di­ would be declared bigamous and punished as a felony elsewhere. But vorce by general Jaws applicable alike to all the States and Territories, and this is far from the most serious result growing out of such a system. neither bigamy nor polygamy shall exist or be permitted within the United The personal status oftwo women and the property rights ofthe two fami­ States or any place subject to their jurisdiction- lies are affected by the divorce. The first wife is still the· lawful wife, Mr. DOLPH. Mr. President, the object of the proposed amendment entitled to dower in the real estate of her husband, in the State in which to the Federal Constitution, just read, is to transfer the power now ex­ the :first marriage was entered into, and probably in every other State ercised by the several States to legislate upon the subjects ofmarriage except the one in which the fraudulent divorce was granted. The second and divorce to the Federal Government, in order to secure uniformity in wife is entitled ~ dower under the laws of the State in which the sec­ all the States as to the grounds for divorce and as to the effect of a ond marriage took place, and the children by the second marriage by decree dLc;solving the marriage contract. the laws of that State are legitimate, but elsewhere they are illegiti­ I do not propose at this time to discuss at any considerable· length mate and their mother not enti tied to dower. There are other diverse the nature of the relation of marriage. The most enlightened portions provisions in the laws of the several States which continually create of mankind agree that, however assumed, the marital relation is some­ confusion and make the conflicts of jurisdiction which arise under them thing more than a mere copartnership between the parties, that it irreconcilable. '

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I n some States, upon a dissolution of marriage, the guilty party the sanctioq of a direct revelation from God for the practice of polygamy. is forbidden to marry again; in other States the parties are forbidden to I believe, in common with the great majority of the p-eople of the United marry for a given period. Where real propertx owned by the parties is State , that Mormonism is a gigantic, powerful, and well-org::wized situated in several States, the power of a court in granting a divorce is fraudulent conspiracy being imposed upon the ignorant and supersti­ I fre quently found to be inadequate to a proper and final adjustment Qf tious; thatitwas ''conceived in sin and broogbtforthininiquity." the property rights of the parties. The mere suggestion of these evils­ But the truth or falsity of the :Mormon claim for their religion is im­ and I shall at this timeattemptnothingmore-will convince all that a. material to this discussio:u. However false, however harmful it is to uniformity of the grounds for divorce and of the effect of the decree those who embrace it, so long a-s its practice.<1 are not in conflict with dissolving the relation, should exist in all the States. This is impossi­ the laws of the land, its influence must be combated, if at all, by other ble so long as marriage and divorce are the subjects of State jurisdiction. means than legislation by Congress. Religious freedom is gua.mn tied, The only effectual remedy for the existing undesirable state of affairs so far as the Government of the United States is concerned, by the Fed­ i<> to transfer the power to legislate upon this subject to the Federal eral Constitution. Go\ernment, so tha.t throughout the States and in the Territories, and This freedom, however, is a freedom of religious belief and the prac­ , everywhere where the jurisdiction of the United States extends, there tice of religious rites and ceremonies which do not violate the Jaws may be uniformity in the legislation concerning it. which have been enacted in pursuance of powers vested in the General If it be objected that the adoption of this amendment would tend to Government. Tl;le laws deal with practices and not with beliefs. the centralization of power in the National Government, I answer that Criminal practices can not be Rhielded behind this provision of the Con­ ronny of the powers already posses ed by the Federal Government are stitution. That polygamy is a crime which Congress may prohibit in le important than that under consideration, and that the propriety or the Territories is not open to question. The Supreme Court of the necessity of their exercise by the General Government can not be main­ United States, the tribunal provided by the Conslitution as the final tained by stronger arguments than can be u.dduced in favor of conferring arbiter bet,·yecn the States ancl the people of the States and Territories upon it the power in question. The number of subjects concerning and the United States of questions of Federal power, has so decided, which the power oflegislation is conferred upon Congress is not as im­ and there never was any ground for a different construction of the Con­ portant as the character of the subjects. stitution. Nor do I propose to discuss the general character of the Mor­ The exerci e of the power of legislation upon the subjects of marriage mon people. That they have many good qualities; that they are in­ and divorce by the General Government would involve no considerable dustrious, economical, temper-ate, and honest, as a rule, seems to be expense, no additional officers or :tribunals, and if the jurisdiction to established. That the common people are deYout and thoroughly hon­ grant divorces were left with the State cotrrts, as I think it might be, est in their religious belief seems probable. I have heard these thinfl"S ' wou1d involve no additional labor for the United States courts. urged on this floor apparently us an argument against Jegislation by The evils complained of might be effectually remedied by the United Congress for the prevention of their tmlawful practices. But all that States exercising only the power of prescribing the causes for which can be alleged in their favor is no excuse for erime. Temperance, in­ divorces should be granted, the ru1es of proced.ure and of evidence, and dustry, and honesty can not condone for bigamy, and all their good the effect of the decree. qualities can not excuse them for hostility to the General Government The exercise of many of the powers already conferred on the General and defia.nce of the laws of the land. GoYernment requires a vast army of employes and large expenditures; The power to legislate concerning marriage and divorce in the States and other powers which are advocated !"or it, such as control of the tele­ bas not been conferred by the Constitution upon Congress, and there­ graph and of the milroads, would necessitate an indefinite increase ot fore the States have the_exclusive power to legislate concerning them. officers, agents, and employes, and the annual expenditure of vast addi­ As soon as a St.'lte is admitted into the Union it has exclusive control tional sums. of these subjects. It may enact penal laws against bigam,- and polyg­ None ofthe cogent reasons which might be urged against the exer­ amy, or by statute legalize them. It may pass no ln.w upon the sub­ cise by the General Government of powers involving such large ex­ ject and permit the practice of them, and however distasteful and of­ penditures and such vast patronage exist in the case of the power in fensive such practices may be to the people of e\'cry other State in the question. Its transfer from the States to the United States would not Union, there is no power, aside from the people of the State, which can disturb the equilibrium between them, but the ch"nge would be most interfere. When a State is once admitted into the Union, no matter salutary and beneficial to all the people of all theStatesand Territories. how the admission is secured, Congress can not reconsider its action and The Constitution was not supposed by its fr:amers to be a perfect in­ the State must retain its power of self-government and its place in the strument, and provision was wisely made for its amendment as time Union. Neither do I. believe it is competent for Congress to restrict and experience should dictate and the growth of the country and the the power of self-government possessed by the States by legislative en­ expansion of government should require. Amendments may be pro­ actment either in the act of admission or otherwise. I will not stop poSed by Congress, but their adoption rests alone with the States, three­ now to discuss this question. Should it be serionsly proposed to admit fourths of which must concur. Utah upon the ground that the proposed constitution requir~ the con­ I need not enlarge upon the importance of this measure in a national sent of Congress to an amendment of the provision against bigamy and point of view. The family is the foundation of human go:vernments, polygamy it will be time enough to consider the question. At pr ent the institution upon which the character, stability, and prosperity of a there appear to be other serious and valid objections to the conferring nation more than upon any other depend. In fact it is the founda­ of statehood upon Utah. tion upon which all the other beneficent institutions are built. Let I deem it proper to say that this proposed amendment is not offered that be corrupted, and free schools, a free and enlightened press, wise by me for the purpose of preparing the way for the admission of Utah legislation, and the power of armies and navies can neither repair the into the Union. While polygamy is s:1nctioned by the Iormon Church evil nor save the nation sooner or later from absolute and irretrievable and that church controls the Territory I shall not be willino- to see the Tuin. Upon the influence of the family circle and the proper training United States shorn of any of the power it now po · esscs over the sub­ of the children depend the destinies of the Republic. ject of polygamy in the Territory. In view of the fact that the Fed­ But this proposed amendment is designed to reach another and greater eral Government was for many years successfully defied in tuh, its evil than those of easy divorces and conflict'3 of State laws. For more courts compelled to adjourn, its ln.ws set at defiance, and its appointees than forty years there has flourished in the United States a religious driven from the Territory by the Mormon Church, and that to-day the sect which has practiced polygamy under the claim that it was sanc­ great obstacle to the enforcement of the laws of the United States in tioned by divine revelation. Isolated at first from the more populous Utah is the opposition of that church, whc'tt could be expected after portions of the Union, the purposes and practices of its organization but her admission into the Union even if the power to legislate upon the imperfectly understood by the people of the United States, and the at­ subjec:tofpolygamyin the State were conferred upon Congress ? With tention of the country for the time being engrossed in other and absorb­ the M:ormon Church with its perfect political and secret organizution, ing questions, the :Mormon Church has been allowed until recently potential in every department of the State government, the United to violate the laws of the land, to defy the power of the Government States courts would again be utterly powerless to enforce any law de­ with impunity, so that polygamy has grown to alarming propor­ nounced by the church and held by the people to be in violation of the tions, is firmly established in the Territory of Utah, and has sent its higher law of revelation. roots into the surrounding Territories to poison the social life or other Neither am I infavoroftheadmission of Utah as a State of the Union inchoate States and to threaten them with the ultimate domination with the constitution presented to Congress for its acceptance. And I of the political power in its interests. The power of Congress to will not favor her admission u:J.tiJ there is more satisfactory evidence legiRlate for the Territories is plena.ry, and if we could be assured tbat than exists to-day that the Mormon Church has abandoned plural mar­ with the mutations of parties and the supposed party necessities for po­ riages and the Mormon peoplehaveabaudoned the practice of polygamy, litical aetion which arise from time to time, and which for the time be­ and in good f:uth as law-a.biding citizens are ready to aid in enforciu(l" ing often control legislation, even where great moral and social ques­ the laws upon that subject, nor until there is better evidence that there tions are involved, the Territories would not be admitted into the Union is a republican government in Utah and that the government of the until polygamy is effectua.lly destroyed beyond the hope of resurrection proposed State would be republican in fact. This can never be until under the power and influence of the l\formon Church, the existence of the political power of the formon Church is surrendered or overthrown polygamy iu the Territories would not be a reason for the adoption of and the church officials acknowledge the supremacy of the laws and such an amendment. yield obedience to the same. I believe that the best method of accom· It is not my purpose to discuss the claim of the 1\Iormon Church to plishing t~ would be the creation of a legislative commission, ap· i - , 1887 . . CONGRESSIONAL REOORD-=-SENA'l'E. 167

pointed bythe President and confumed by the Senate, which would ernor of Missouri tells the story of their political course in that State. be in accord with Congress and the executive department of the Gov­ He says: ernment, and would enact such Territorial laws as would secure pres­ These people had violated the laws of the land by open and fl.vowed resist­ ent obedience to the laws of the United States and eventual emanci­ ance t{) them; they had undertaken, without the aid of the civil authority, to pation of the people from the political dominion of the Mormon Church. redress their real or fancied grievances; they had instituted among themse1 ves If the United States, with plena.ry power to legislate upon the subject a government of their own, independent of and in opposition to the government of the State; they had, at an inclement season of the year, driven the inhabit­ for that Territory, with its own courts and officers, and with the ma­ nuts of an entire county from their homes, ravaged their crops, and destroyed chinery for selecting jurors, wa~ unable, oii account of the power and their dwellings. Under these circumstances it bec.'tme the imperious duty of hostility of the Mormon hierarchy, fOT over thirty years, to suppress po­ the executive oo interfere and exercise the powers with which he was invested to protect the lives and property of our citizens, t{) resoore order and tranquillity lygamy, and in spite of the laws and the courts it increased until there to the country, and maint:l.in the supremacy of the laws. were 12,000 persons out of a total adult Mormon population of 50,000 in the Territory who were living in the practice of it, and if, even now, Driven from Missouri, they settled in illinois, from which, onaccount under the operation of the Edmunds act, it is but partially suppressed, of their gross immoralities, their unscrupulous interference wiLh polit­ wbaL could be expected if Utah should be admitted as a State? Even ical affairs, their claim of supremacy for the Mormon hierarchy, and de­ if H be admitted that the proposed constitution could not be amended fiance of the State laws, they were driven as they had been from Mis­ without the consent of Congress, no one at all familiar with the past souri. Filled with the dream of empire, taught by experience that history of the Mormon Church would expect to see a single Mormon Mormonism could not flourish surrounded by a moral and Christian punished for the crime of polygamy or unlawful cohabitation so long community and by the side of republican institutions, Brigham Young as the Mormon Church was dominant in the State. After the admission sought, after the death of Joe Smith, to transplant the Mormon hie­ of Utah as a State, iWith the constitution which the Mormon Church has rarchy to foreign soil, and in the wilderness, remote from civilization, tendered, the doctrine of plural marriages might be preached and po­ and apparently free from interruption, to lay the foundation of an in­ lygamy might be practiced in Utah, and Congress would be as powerless dependent government. to prevent it as if it were in England or France. The constitution it­ But by the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo the territo1·y which they self is no evidence that the people of Utah are willing to abandon po­ had settled was transferred to the United States and the .M:ormon set­ lygamy. It only indicates that they prefer the provision of the proposed tlement was again liable to be brought into contact with republican State constitution, with its enforcement left to themselves, to the law of institutions and in subjection to the laws of the United States, which Congress prohibiting polygamy and unlawful cohabitation and J:Ilaking would interfere with the despotic power of Young to govern the Mormon the offense a felony, with the power of the United States to enforce the people under the claim of divine guidance by direct revelation. The law through its own courts by its own officers. scheme for relief from this threatened danger was the same which has Nor does the manner in which the proposed constitution was pre-. been J.dopted in the present emergency, that of statehood. Without pared and adopted commend itself to me. The constitutional conven­ the formality of an election, a legislature was assembled by "foung, a tion was not called in pursuance of any law authorizing it or prescrib­ constitution was adopted for the proposed State of Deseret, which was to ing the time of holding it, the number or qualification of delegates, or embrace a territory about 700 miles from north to south and about 'the the manner of choosing them. The call was made by the chairman and same distance from east to west. State officers were elected and a secret..1.ry of the People's party (Mormon), without previous authority memorial praying for the admission of the State sent to Congress. The from any p::uty convention or political. organization. It appeared the officers of the proposed State were the officers of the l\Iormon Church, 16th of June, 1887, and called upon the people to assemble on the 25th the government was the government of the Mormon hierarchy. Con­ - of the same month in mass convention for the purpose of appointing gress, instead of admitting Deseret as a State, on the 9th of September, delegates to a convention, to be held on the 30th of the same month, to 1850, organized the Territory of Utah, with a much smaller territory; provide a constitution; and, accord!:ng to the report of the minority of but both,before and after the organization of the Territory the legisla­ the Utah commissioners, remained in se ion ''over a week'' and framed ture of Deseret proceeded to legislate not only in all respects as if the and submitted a constitution to be voted upon August 1, 1887. This State had already been admitt~d to the Union, but as if it owned the was the mo:,'"ii remarkable feat of the kind of which I have any knowl- soil. It granted the water of the streams to Brigham Young and his . edge, unless it be the adoption of the proposed constitution of the State associates; it partitioned out the timber upon the public lands among of Deseret. Not only was this convention called without authority, the Mormon favorites; it provided officers for the survey of the public and the delegates chosen in a manner which -precluded the possibility domain, and passed laws providing for the recording of conveyances. of obtaining a fair expression of the will of the majority of the people Brigham Young was appointed governor of the new Territory, but the of the Territory, but the period which elapsed between the date of the Territorial government during his term of office was nothing more or call and the time fixed for choosing delegates, the period between the less than achurchorganization. As the State ofDeseret it coined money, time for choosing delegates and the time for holding the convention, and in many respects acted as an independent government. the duration of the convention, and the period between the time of the The purpose of the Mormon Church to place the TerritOl'ial govern­ adoption of the proposed constitution by the convention and the day ment under the dominion of the Mormon hierarchy was then, as it is fixed for its submission to the people were all so short as to preclude still, manifest. Pretending to the gift of healing by the laying on of the idea of proper consideration either of the proposition to hold a con­ hands, they endeavored to prevent the practice of the medical profession vention, of the choice of delegates, or of the provisions of the proposed in the Territory.. In order that justice might be administered by Mor­ constitution. mon Church officials through the medium of revelation, they virtually The non-Mormon population acted wisely in standing aloof from the abolished the legal profession by a series of hostile enactments. A car­ movement, wbich seems to have been suddenly conceived by the Mor­ dinal doctrine of the church was that the kingdom of God on earth, by mon leaders and executed by the :Mormon organization with no regard which was meant the Mormon hierarchy, was the only legitimate govern­ to the forms usually observed in such cases in representative goyern­ ment on earth, and that the government must be administered and j ns­ meuts. It has been contended by some that a Territory ought not to tice dmpensed by revelation through the priesthood. Accordingly the· be admitted to the Union until a constitution had been adopted in ac­ Territorial officers appointed by the President were not permitted to per­ cordance with an enabling act of Congress, but there are precedents for form their functions, the judges were forced to return fro~ the Territory, the admission of a Territory with a constitution which has been du1y and they reported that they found ''the Mormon Church overshadowing adopted in pursuance of an act of the Territory authorizing a conven­ and controlling the opinions, the a

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Young as governor, to protect the Federal officers in Utah, and to compel The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Does the Senator desire to have it obedience to the laws. Alfred Cummings was appointed governor, read? _ Jude:e Eekels, of Indiana, chief-justice, and Col. Sidney Johnston, with :Mr. DOLPH. No, sir; it can appear in the RECORD. a force of 2,500 m en, sent to protect them. Brigham Young issued a The extract from the report of the Utah Commission to the Secretary proclamation as go\·ernor of Utah, denouncing the army as a mob, for­ of the Interior, for the year 1887, is as follows: bidding it to enter Utah, and calling upon the people of the Territory THE MOVE FOR STATEHOOD. to rise and repel its advance. The present year ba been marked by proceedinge to form a consLitution on The army reached Utah in September, and on October 5 and 6 the which to demand admission to the Union of States; t.be fourth attempt fo r that purpose in the history of the Territory. Mormons attacked and destroyecl several of the supply trains and cap­ Before the election, on June 16, 1887, a call appf'ared signed by the cbairm'\n tured 800 oxen. Without supplies, overtaken hy winter snows and and secretary of the People's party (Mormon), calling upon the people of U tab, opposed by the hostile Mormons, Colonel Johnston was compelled tore­ irrespective of party, creed, or cla~s, to assemble in mass conventions in their respective counties, on June 25, 1887, at 12 m., for the purpose of appointing turn, and camped for the winter on Black Fork, near Fort Bridger. I ll · delegates to a convention to be held at Salt Lake City o.1 t.he 30th day of J une, the spring of 1858 President Buchanan sent a special messenger, Mr. 1887, to frame a constitution preparatory to an application to Congress for ad­ Thomas L. Kane, by way of California, to Utah, with letters to Brig­ mission to statehood, The non-Mormons were distrustful of the m.ove and unitedly declined to join ham Young, and toward the end of May two commissioners, Governor the convention, or to recognize it. They gave as reasons for declining that in Powell, of Kentucky, and Major McCulloch,.of Texas, arrived at Salt view of the past history of Uta.h it was a. proper case for Congress, in accordance L ake City with a proclamation offering pardon to the Mormons, which with the general rule, to say when the time fur such a move had arrived, and by anenablingactgive it authority when, how,and by whom the convention should was accepted and the troops allowed to enter Salt Lake City, with the be called, and how conducted; that they diu not understand this suddeu, and t<> unrierstanding that they should be immediately withqrawn. them unannounced call; that the entire proceeding was carried out by the dom­ The foregoing is but a hasty and imperfect sketch of the history of in!l-nt party, and delegates chosen wit-hout regard to forms of elect-ion or dis­ qualification of voters, without previous discus3ion and from wholly unauthor­ tb.e disloya lty of the Mormon Church to the Government of the United ized sources; and above all, they did not think the attitude of the great majority States up to the time when the Territory was occupied by United States of the people of Utah towards the ln.ws and authority of tho Idaho terms; that the question of w hetber under the constitution the provisions against in their dealingR with the Mormons have acted without cause and in polygamy will be enforced by the officials of the proposed State is a question that must be left to the future, and that time alone will show that every com· a spirit of wanton p ersecution against a harmless and law-abiding peo­ munity proposing to come into the Union as a State must be given a fair oppor­ ple. Ifthere were not abundant evidence to the contrary, I should be tunity to prove whether or not they will carry out the provisions of their charter; slow to believe that so many communities, in succession, of people who that they have never been accused of insincerity by any one who knows what they have endured rather than make promises they did not intend to keep; have been so thoroughly imbued with the spirit of toleration ~nd fair­ that. the religion of the people should not be dragged into the consideration of ness as the American people, have been guilty of persecution. We measures which are purely political; that in answer t<> the assertion that, as may do well to consider the estimate placed upon the Mormon ·organi­ a State, they will continue to build up their church, they claim the Mormon people have the constitutional right to use every means not inconsistent with zation by those who know it best, and who unite in pronouncing it a the laws of the land to secure converts to their religious faith, unrestrained gross usurpation. To permit the Mormon Church now; still adhering by any constitutional or legal provision; that Congress has not the right to in­ to the doctrine of plural man'iages, still claiming for it the authority terpose, as a condition precedent to the admission of the proposed State, that any church shall cease preaching its doctrines or endeavoring to make prose­ of divine revelation, Rtill arrayed against the enforcement of the st:-tt­ lytes; that admitting there is no grant of power under which Congre s may utes of the United States for the suppression of polygamy, but feeling sanction an amendment to a State constitution, should Congress refuse to act, the force of the laws as administered by honest and capable officers-to the Constitution can not be amended in respect of the offenses named; that the proposed constitution does not presume to say that the President or Congress permit the Mormon Church now, in its extremity, when polygamy ap­ shall exercise the powers granted them, but leaves the matter to their discre­ pears to be doomed to suppression in the near future, to escape from tion; that a Territory, a.sa matter of right, is em.itled f. the.U n!on the power and authority of the Federal Government by becoming a of States whenever it possesses the necessary population and has a constitutiOn in harmony with republican institutions; that acting through the only el~ss ot State under a constitution which provides an inadequate penalty for citizens who enjoy the privilege of the elective franchise, the monogamous Mor­ the punishment of the crime of polygamy, and which wo~ld never be en­ mons, they have met the wishes of the nation by a constitution which provides forc-ed by the State w bile under the dom illation of the Mormon Church, for the punishment of those offenses which have excited the hostility of the na­ tion, and having done so, they now ask to be allowed to hereafte1· control tbe af­ would be for Congress to basely abandon the whole contest and to per­ fair3 of the Territory, as the Constitution of the United States intended they mit this foul blot upon the civilization ofthe age to grow and spread should; that the opposition to the admission of Utah as a State comes from a unchecked. class who have beeu the bitter and consi~>tent enemies of the Mormon people, and who are inspired by the hope of bringing the people, while in a Tenitorial So transparent are the purposes of the l\formon Church and the Mor­ condition, within their power. mon l?eople in regard to polygamy, not only as indicated by the entire The above we believe to be a fair summary of the reasons which the l\for· history of the church, but by the provision on the subject in the pro­ mons urge in favor of statehood for Utah. The action of t.be convention and the result of its labors did not tend to allay posed constitution; so hopeless, in view of the attitude of Congress to­ but rather to increase the apprehensions and opposition of the non-Mormons. wards the practices of the Mormon Church, appears to be. the move for They make many.objections to the admission of Utah as a State at prese':lt• and statehood that it is difficult to conceive of the object of its promoters onanimousl y declined to vote npon the subject or in any way recogmze the move. The following is a summary of some of their objections: ex~ept upon the theory charged in the puhlic press of the country, that That the action taken is without authority from the proper source and not the application of Utah and the refusal of Congress to admit h er is to entitled to any recognition, and is accompanied by many and strong evidences be made the excuse for t!he rofosal to admit the Territories of Dakota of evasion and bad faith in p rofe sing an abandenment of polygamy and the accompanying soc)fl:l evils, wit~ the intent to acquire statehoo~, and without and Washington. It is to be hoped that no attempt will be made to · any intent to restr11m and puniSh such offenses, but merely to mtrench them prevent the deliberate consideration by Congress of the question of the behind statehood; that the histori<'al attitude of the great body of the people admis ion of each of the Territories mentioned, and that it will not be towards the Jaws on this subject bad not changed down to the eve of calling the convention, and that until then the 1\Iormons, their press and pulpits, had sought to purchase the admission of Dakota and Wa hington by surren­ not ceased to declare the laws of Congress unconstitutional and their enforce­ ' dering Utah to the domination of the Mormon Church, or to keep them ment persecution; that though the preS3 and pulpits suddenly b~came ~ilent, in the condition of Territories because Congress is not \villing to secure with indications iu a lew places of a muzzled silence, tbere was still no s1gn or intimation of any change of sentiment in words o: acts, an? the ho~tiliLy to the their admission at such a price. -I h ave too much confidence in the enforcement of existing la\YS and Federal. authol'lty wa~ still as active and g~n­ good sense of the people of Dakota and Washington to believe that they eral as before· that scarcelY any l\Iormon m good standmg would even promtse would desire admission at such a sacrifice, and in that of the Americ:m .. to obey the la~s in the future to·escape punishment after conviction in court; that they were unable to understand how the great body of the people could people to belie•e such an excuse would be of any value. undergo an over-night conversion on the subjectofthese offens.cs when the day l\1r. President, as confirming what I have said as to the attitude of before their consciences were so strong that nothing could mduce them to the Mormon hierarchy towards the laws of the United States and the promise obedience to the laws; that the Deseret Ev e n i~ News. their leading and uncompromising organ, bad, after the frl\ming of the propos• d con'lliLution, effect of the admission of Utah as a State, I will submit as part of my and before the election, printed an editorial leaving the question to the ':oters remarks a portion of the last report of the Utah Commission, which I with the mos~ judicial fairne~s. but ending with the advice to be" as w:se as have indicated by the marks on the copy I send to the. desk. serpents and harmless as doves; " that in view of their past history t.he first 1887~ CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SEN.A'l'E. lti9 eviclence of a bona fide Intent to obey and execute laws making these offenses tion within three years after the commission of the offense; nor shall the power puni~hable should be a cessation of hostility w present laws a.ud the announce­ of pardon extend thereto until such pardon shall be approved by the President ment ot" obed.ence to them; that notwithstanding the great unanimity in the of the United States." · con ,·entiou and in the subsequent vote of the people, no member of the conven­ The crime of polygamy is to be a JU,isdemeanor (in every other Ststte it is a tion or voter bas, in the constitution or elsewhere, declared he. considered or be­ felony), and is punishable by a fine of not more than $1,000 and by imprison· lieved either oft he offenses named is or should be a misdemeanor or punishable, ment for a term of not more than three yeSJ.l'S; whereas, under the Federal law, but the provision in the constitution is introduced by the remarkable wher ea~. the fine is fixed at a sum not. exceeding $500 and imprisonment for a term not for the reason that somebody, perhaps some wicked persons at Washington, exceeding five years. Under the Federallnw polygamists are denied the right deem those crimes incompatible with a republi!!an form of government, they to vote and hold office, but under this proposed constitution persons who have are made misdemeanors and plmisha.ble; tbat it is not easy to conce i~ e why committed, or who shall hereafter commi ~ , the crime ofpolygamy, and all such the incompatibility should be limitect_to a republican form of government, as continue to live in that crime, will be invested with the full rights of citizen­ or why it should not extend to eve1·y form of civilizl!d government, unless ship. Under the Fetleral law unlawful cohabitation is punished by a fine not full force is given to the dogma taught by the dominant sect, that the only exceeding $300 and by imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months; true and rightful government is a theocracy in which the powers of government under the proposed State this oft'ense, which perpetuates the evils of polygamy are derived from God and delegated to ministers, who govern by divine rigbt; aga.ins~ society and posterity, is to go unpunished. that no constitutional provision can execute itself, but requires prosecutors, The Legislature of the proposed State is shorn of its power to raise the grade iurors and judges, all of whom under statehood would be Mormons, and if a of the crime to that of felony, or to annex any disqualification on conviction, whole people can be suddenly converted one way in one night, they might be while it is left free to promote polygamy by providing througa inheritances susceptible to a reconversion equally sudden, and all the prosecuting powers and by means of wills for the maintenance of polygamous households, and to become hostile to the law; that the rules of evidence and the laws of marriage deny the legal wife t.he right of dower or other rights, a.s heretofore. under statehood are proper subjects of Sta.te legislation, and while marriage '!'he provisions for amendments to the proposed constitution only by the con­ without witnesses may be good, a rule of evidence tha.t it requires one or more sent of Congress, and for pardon of convicted polygamists only by approval of witnesses to the direct fact of marriage to commit polygamy would leave the the P residen~, are incongruous and futile and need not be considered. It is constitutional pro~ision worthless, and should the courts adopt the rule still ex­ sufficient to say they are open to the criticism that if a community can not be isting in some States, that on a. charge of bigamy cohabitation and the repute of trusted to amend a constitution it can hardly be said to be fit to be trusted wit;h marriage are insufficient to prove the marriage, no new law or rule of evidence the powers of a State under any form of constitution, and if it can not be trusted would be needed; that it is historical there are many polygamists in Utah, and to deal with those who have violated its laws it should not have the control of as such marriages are concealed the number is unknown,and so far as the Con­ the administration of the laws. stitution is concerned, all these could live openly with their numerous families lf Utah should be admitted into the Union as a State, the following result as soon as the Federal laws ceased. and point to their relations as the reward of would follow. namely: There would be an immediate cessation of all further those who had lived up to the privileges of their religion; that there is no grant prosecutions for polygamy and uulawfulcohabitation under laws of Congress. of power in the Constitution authorizing Congress to sanction or refuse an No prosecutions for polygamy would ever take place in the State until the rul­ amendment to the constitution of a sovereign State; that the people of a State ing powers in the State chose to do what they now arraign the Government for­ can not deprive themselves of the power to amend a constitution the creation " persecute" for a crime which is" an essential part of their religion." This of their will, nor can they legislate to bind those that come after them; that the claim has been set forth in a formal way which has made it a solemn declara­ Mormons have hitherto justified their opposition to the Federal laws under tion of the whole Mormon population of Utah. At a general conference held plea of conscience in respect to religious matte1·s, but they have apparently made at Logan, April6, 1885, a resolution was adopted and a committee appointed to their consciences a ma1·ketable commodity and statehood the e.xchangeable draught a protest and address to the President and people of the United States. value, if they offer in good faith to suppress these offenses, unless their religious Such address was adopted at a mass meeting, held May 2. 1885, at which Hon. views have suddenly changed, of which there is no evidence or pretense; that the John T. Caine, Delegate from the Territo1·y, presided, and was deputed as the claim that this constituti.on emanates from and is the work of non-polygamous agent to present the same. In that document is formally proclaimed: Mormons is no argument in its favor; that good citizenship does not involve only "As to our religious faith, it is based uponevjdencewhich to our minds is con­ the question who in fact practices polygamy, but, also, who believes in it as a clusive; convictions not to be destroyed by legislative enactments or judicial de­ moral and religious right, supe1·ior to all human laws, and hence will be in­ ciEions. Force may enslave the body, butitcan not convince the mind. To yield .tl.uencerl in his conduct by such belief; that the non-polygamists have always at the demand of the legislature or judge the rights of conscience would prove b~en a large majority, but have in every way upheld the polygamists, have been us recreant to every duty we owe to God and man. Among the principles of equally active and bitter in their opposition to the laws, and without their aid our religi on is that of immediate revelation from God; one of the doctrines so and support the polygamists could not so long have defied the laws; that there re\·ea.led is celestial or plural marriage. for which ostensibly we are stigmatized has been no evidence of any struggle or contest between the polygamists and and hated. '!'his is a v·ital part of our rellgion, the decision of courts to the con­ monogamists, but all have acted with the greatest possible harmony and vied trary notwithstanding-." with each other in attaining the wisdom of serpents and harmlessness of doves; It is a circumstance worthy of mention that ltir. Caine, who bore so prominent that the church leaders, who control in such matters, have never manifested in o. part in the adoption and promulgation of the address from which the above any manner their intention to cease to enforce the practice of polygamy by their extract was made, was also the president of the conve~tion which adopted the people, but that their silence indicates that the converse of the proposition is proposed State constitution. true, that the Mormon Church has never abandoned its purpose of ultimately Under the proposed constitution no disqualification would follow the com· becoming a controllin~ political power, and adopts this method of promoting mission of these crimes; the right of voting would be fully accorded to the rul­ it; and further, that if the non-polygamists have reached this conclusion, that ing class now disfranchised. No prosecution would ever take place for contin­ the law in respect to these offenses is superior, and that it is the first duty of uing that crime by living in unlawful cohabitation and multiplying its frmts to I citizens to obey the law of Congress prescribing rules of conduct, it is an easy the degradation of posterity. The right of dower created by Congress would be matter for them to announce it and give some evidence of their good faith. swept a way; the Utah policy has eve1· been to deny that r ight to the legal wife, In accordance with these views the non-Mormons abstained from voting on and make her rights depend upon the testamentary disposition of her husband. the subject at t.he polls, desiring not to recognize the mo.vement in any manner '!'he rights of the minority population would be left to the mercy of a majority whatever. who rega1·d them as intruders and who have always used political power in a T.he monogamous Mormons cast 13,195 votes in favor of the constitution, 500 clannish spirit. In illustration of their spirit in such matters a statement ot -votes being cast against it. their course in the election of officers for the Deseret University and Territorial The action of the Mormon people in adopting a constitution which forbids Insane Asylum will suffice. The university was incorporated when the Ter­ polygamy and bigamy, in view of their past history, is an anomaly which de­ ritory was first organized, and although some fifteen officers, chancellor and mands some explanation. In all its Territorial history, Utah, under the control regents, are elected biennially to manage this educational institution, which ofthe domil' a.nt sect, which is in reality a political organization, with aims and receives support from the 'l'erritoria.l treasury, no~one representative of the methods which are political,has stood arrayed in opposition to laws of Cong1·ess minority has ever been elected. For the insane asymm, built by an appropria­ on these subjects, and still maintains united efforts to nulify them. tion from the Territorial treasury, a certain number of directors are elected To arrive at a fair conclusion of the opinion~ and purposes of the Mormon peo­ biennially, but the minority have never been accorded a reprtsentative. a privi­ ple with respect to polygamy,it is proper that the views and expressions of their lege and a right which is recognized in every .other Territory or St.1te. Further, press and pulpits should be considered. in Salt Lake City. where the minority have a majority in two of the five organ­ - The Deseret News. in its issue of Oct{)ber 6, 1880, said: ized precincts, they a.1·e denied any representation in the city councils by rea­ "But we claim the right under the Constitution of our country to receive just as son of an election law which requires all the city officers to be elected on a. com­ many divine communications as the Ahnighty choosesto bestow, and to follow mon ticket. these revelations without molestation or hinderance. At the same time it is our The Mormon people can not be rolled hypocr ;t~ . They boldly proclaim their intention ~o abide by the laws of our country. When we refer to the laws of the relig ious belief to all the world. Until that belief sha.U be changed, if they be land, we wish to be understood that we make one exception; that is, the law true to their creed, polygamy, with its kindred evils, will be fostered by every framed and pushed through Congress for the express purpose of preventing us means in their power. '!'he leaders of the church will probably do in the future from obeying a revel.'ltion from God, which we have followed in faith and prac­ what they have done in the past. They do not recognize the authority of the ticed for many years." Government to call upon them for any support in its contest with polygamy, but Tbe claim thus made has been reiterated by the first presidency of the church they do recognize the didne command to encoqrage polygamy. The attitude, from time to time. In their address of July 24, 1885, they said: purpose, and determination ofthechurch in this respect has been fully developed. "We can not, however, at the behest of men, lay aside those great principles In the case of W. ,V. Taylor, son of John Taylor, who died a few years ago, it which God has communicated to us, nor violat-e those sacred and eternal cove­ was acknowlenged after his death that he was a polygamist, and yet he held a nants which we have entered into for time and eternity." responsible office under the city government of Salt Lake City up to the time of Nothing has transpired to lead us to believe that the views thus expressed by his death. Another case was that of Joseph H. Dean. He was elected and served their church organ and most prominent leaders are not entertained by the Mor­ as a m ember of the city council of Salt Lake. While in office it was learned t-hat mon people to-day. he was and had been a polygamist for over th1·ee yeat·s. The leaders of the The call for the assembling of mass meet.ings to appoint delegates to meet in church had full knowledge of the fact that t.hese men w ere disqualified from convention and frame a constitution was evidently the result of a very sudden holding office under the Federal law, yet they acquiesced in their unla.wful oc­ inspiration, so much so that the Deseret News editorially said: "It would oc­ cupancy of public offices. We have learned ofsimila.r casesin the more remote casion some surprise." There bad been no previous discussion in the p ress, counties. '!'be non-polygamist !.formons we1·e also a. ware that the IDf\D referred nor among the people, in relation to such a movement, which was conceived to were polygamists, and their course has been in harmony with that of theil: and c..'\rried through in the utmost haste. leaders, as it will probably always be. During the period il1 w nich the Govern­ Within fourteen days after the call was promulgated delegates appointed to ment has been actively engaged in prosecuting offenders they have unitedly frame the constitution had met in convention. refused to extend any aid, but have denounced the prosecutions as persecu­ The election of delegates to constitutional convention by means of mass tion. meetings does not commend itself to persons who have been accustomed to see For these reasons the Commiss ion has been led to fear that the provision in the impo1·tant duty of framing a constitution for a sovereign State approached the proposed constitution making polygamy a misdemeanor was not adopted with

posed of homogeneous AmtJrican population in accord with the laws and insti­ di trict, to De called the Akron land district, the land ofl'ice for which shall be tutions of tho country. located at Akron, in the State of Colorado. 'l'he presentation of the proposed application for statehood will demand the consideration of the question by Congress, whether the course of the dominant The amendments were agreed to. nu\ioril.y in Utah, in the use of delegatetl powers in a Territorial condition, has / 'l'he bill was reported to the Senate as amended, and tho amendments been such as to induce Congress to withdraw certain of these powers until the were concurred in. perpetuated evil should be corrected (which bas not been done). 1f Utah, as a Territory, bas refused to recognize the force and validity of na­ The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a. third reading, read the tional laws and decisions of the Supreme Court, can it be reasonably expected third time, and passed. · as a State it will do so? Can it be reasonably expected that crimes and evils AB.IU.M C. 1\IYERS. which the Government has failed to suppress with its supervision over a. Terri-. tor;al government will be suppressei in a State ruled by the majority which :M:r. PUGH. I ask leave to cUJl~p Order of Business No. 11, being now maintains and propagates these cnmes and e'l;ils as "an essential part of 6. . their religion?" Senate joint resolution No. his submitted if it would be wise to continue a Territ.orial government in Tbe PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Alabama moves wbich the Nationn.l Government could continue to deal directly with those evils that the Senate proceed to t·he consideration of the joint resolution in­ until they should be eradicated, even if it should be necessary, as suggested in dicated by him. former reports of 18 4-'5, to take all political power from those who have not sufficient allegiance to recognize the validity of national laws and the decisions The motion was agreed to; and the Senate, as in Committee of the of courts, and that no harmony in the Union could be maintained with a State Whole, proceeded to consider the joint resolution (S. R. 6) for the re­ ruled by a creed which claims all governments but its own to be illegal, and claims a "separate political destiny and ultimate temporal dominion, and by di- moval of all disabilities imposed by the fourteenth amendment to the vino rightc." · Constitution of the United States upon Abram C. :Myers. The Commission is of the opinion tba.t Utah should not be admitted to the The jointresolution was reported from the Committee on the .Judiciary Union until such time as the Mormon people shall manifest by their future acts 4, that they have abandoned polygamy in good faith, and not then until an amend­ with amendments, in line before the word "di&'l.bilities," to insert ment shall have been made to the Constitution of the United States prohibiting "political;" in line 6, after the name" Abram C. Uyers," to strike out the practice of polygamy. ''tor having previously taken an oll.th, as au officer of the United States We append to this report resolutions adopted by the Prebsyterian !Uld Metho­ dist Churches of Utah. in the military service thereof, as brevet lieutenant-colonel in the Army of the United States, to support the Constitution of the United States, The PRESIDENT pro tempore. What disposition shall be made of and afterwards resigned as such officer and engaged in rebellion against the joint resolution? the-same by enlisting in the military service of the Confederate States;'' :Mr. DOLPH. Some Senators have suggested to me that they desire in line 12, after the word "be," to insert "and the same are hereby;" to be heard on the general subject. Theresolutionmaylieon the table in the same line, before the word "removed," to strike out the word for the present. _ ''forever;'' andaftertheword ''removed,'' to strikeout ''the said Myel'S The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The resolution will lie on the table. having previously filed his written request of Congress for the removal Mr. CULLOM. I desire to say simply, that in the early part of tbe of such disability;" so a-s to make the joint resolution read: session I introduced a joint resolution providing for an amendment to Rero ved l;y the Senate and Hou&e of Representatives, etc., That all the political the Constitution, having for its object the same purpose that is proposed disabilities impo ed by the third eotion of the fourteenth article of the Consti­ tution of the United States upon Abram C. Myers be, and the snme are hereby, by the joint resolution about which the Senator from Oregon has been removed. speaking, and I may "t.o'l.ke occasion, if his joint resolution lies on the The amendments were agreed to. table, to make some remarks on the general subject myself after Con­ The joint resolution was reported to the Senate as amended, and the gress again convenes. I agree with the Senator that some such amend­ amendments were concurred in. ment ought to be adopted. The joint resolution was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, ADDITIONAL LAND OFFICES IN COLORADO. read the third time, and passed (two-thirds of the Senators present vot­ ing in the affirmative). :Ur. BOWEN. I desire to call up Order of Business No. 7, being On motion of M.r. HARRIS, the title was amended so as to read: ''A. Senate bill 106, which was reported from the Committee on Public joint resolution for the removal of all political disabilities imposed by Lauds. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Colorado moves the :fourteenth amendment totheConstitutionofthe United States upon that the Senate proceed to the considerationof the bill (S. 106) toes­ Abram C. Myers." tablish two additional land offices in the State of Colorado. PRESENTATION OF GAVEL AND CASKET. 'Ihe motion was agreed to; and the Senate, as in Committee of the Mr. ALLISON. I move that the Senate proceed to the consideration Whole, pToceeded to consider the bill. of executive business. An amendment was reported by the Committee on Public Lancls, at Mr. BUTLER. Will the Senator withhold that for one moment? the end of section 3 to add: Mr. ALLISON. I will. . And said land districts shall be subjected, as other land districts are, under Mr. BUTLER. I have just been intrusted with a very beautiful the laws, to be changed or consolidated with any other district or districts, and piece of workmanship, by a Mexican war veteran, which I ask to pre­ the land offices may be cllll:nged to any other location by order of the President. sent to the Senate, with the accompanying letter from Alexander M. The amendment was agreed to. Kenaday, secretary of the National Association of Veterans of the Mex­ Mr. BOWEN. There are several amendments which I have indi­ ican War. cated on the print I have sent to the desk, which I ask may be acted The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The letter will be read, if the1·e be upon. no objection. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The proposed amendments will be The Secretary read as follows: repr. ted. THE VEDETTE. 'l ile CHIEF CLErur. In section 1, line 9, after the word ''first,'' it W ASHIKGTON, D. 0., Decem.'Jer 22, 1887. DEAR Sm: An old veteran of the Mexican war, who served in the Thh·d is proposed to strike out" corrected" and insert ''correction;" in line United States Artillery, now a pensioner and a citizen of Charleston, S. C., has 10, after the word ''first,'' to strike out ''corrected'' and insert ''cor­ sent to me as a Christmas offering a gavel and casket, his own handiwork, rection;" so as to make the section read: wrought in exquisite proportions out of three hundred and fifty separate pieces of wood, tastefully inlaid, the different colors blending harmoniously, and Tb.t all that portion of the State of Colorado bounded and desCI•ibed as fol­ forming a most elegant and artistic specimen of workmanship, that would be low~: Commencing at tho northeast corner of the State of Colorado; thence considered an ornament, even on tbe desk of the Vice-President of the United west along the north boundary line of said State to a point at the intersection States. The name of the old soldier is Charles Ufferhusto. of . lid line with the west llne of range fifty-nine west; thence south along said l\Iy old friend also sent me a palmetto cane, which I can utilize in my declin­ we!> tline ofsaJd range to its inter ection with the first correction line north in said ing years and treasure as a memento of the occasion; but it occurred to Ule this State of Colorado; thence east along said first correction line north to the east­ morning that the gavel might be a timely and an acceptable present to the hon­ ern boundary line of S.'l.id State of Colorado; thence north along the eastern orable Senate of the United States, as a slight tribute of respect to that honor­ boua dary line of said State to the place of beginning, be, and is hereby, consti­ able body from a humble but very grateful pensionerundertbeactofCongress tute•l a. new 1::\.nd district, to be called the Sterling land district, the land office for approved January 29, 1887-one of the very few survivors residing in the Pal­ whi •h district shall be located at Sterling, in the State of Colorado. metto State. lf you see proper, Mr. Senator, to present it·, I will feel that I have most ap­ The amendments were agreed to. propriately disposed of my old comrade's gift, and make his heart len.p with Tl1e CHIEF CLERK. In section 2, line 3, after the word "first," it JOY by so advising him. · I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant, is proposed to strike out the word "corrected" and insert "correc­ ALEXANDER M. KENADAY. tion;" in line 5, before the word "line," to strike out '• corrected" Secreta?iJ of the National Association of Veterans of the Mea;ican War. and insert "correction;" after the word "second," at the end of line Hon. M. C. BUTLER, 7, to strike out "corrected" and insert "correction;" and in line 9, United States Senate. after the word "second," to strike out the word "corrected" and in­ Mr. BUTLER. I assume that the presiding officer would have no sert "correction;" so as to make the section read: authority, without some instruction from the Senate, to accept this SFc. 2. That all that portion of the State of Colorado bounded and described beautiful present. I therefore move that the letter, with the ~a vel, be as fiJll ows: Beginning at the point where the first correction line north in the referred to the Committee on Rules. said State inter ects the eastern boundary line thereof; thence west along said The PRESIDENT p1·o tempore. That order will be made if there be / correction line north to its intersection with the seventh guide meridian west in said State; thence south along said seventh guide meridian to the point of its no objection. inter ection with the second correction line south in said State; thence east THE CIVILIZED INDIAN TRIBES. along said second correction line to the point of its intersection with the east,. ern boundary line of said State; thence north along said eastern boundary line The PRESIDENT pro tempor·e. The Chair announces the appoint­ of said State to the pla-ce of beginning, be, and is hereby, constituted a new land ment of Messrs. BUTLER, MoRGAN, DAWES, CA:r.IERON, and TELLER 1887. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 171 as the committee authorized by the Senate under the resolution sub­ John 0. Frink, t~ be postmaster at Taylor, in the county of William­ mitted bjr the Senator from South Carolina [Mr. BUTLER], which was son and State of Texas. adopted yesterday. Samuel A. Fishburn, to be postmaster at Mexia, in the county of EXECUTIVE SESSION. Limestone and State of Texas. The PRESIDENT pro te-mpore. The first bill on the Cale.ndar will Charles U. Adams, to b~ postmaster at Colorado, in the county of be stated. Mitchell and State of Texas. \ Mr. ALLISON. I move that the Senate proceed to the considera­ Henry H. Russell, to be postmaster at Warrensburgh, in the county tion of executive business. of Johnson and State of .Missouri. The PRE IDENT pro tempore. Before submitting that motion the Cilicia E. Milligan, to be postmaster at East Las Vegas, in the county Chair lays before the Senate the unfinished business, being the bill (S. of San Miguel and Territory of New Mexico. 371) to aid in the establishment and temporary support of common Charl tte A. Whitaker, t

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Executive nominations confirmed by the Senate Dece1nber 22, 1887. for'' d·eficiency in the postal revenues 1885 and prior years;" which was refened to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be POSTMASTERS. printed. J. Howard Taylor, to be postmaster at Columbia, in the county of MESSAGE FROM THE SEN ATE. Brown and Territory of Dakota. . A message from the Senate, by l'.fr. McCooK, its Secretary, announced . ' Halvor C. Rasmussen, to be postmaster at Devil' sLake, .in the county the passage of a bill (S. 261) to amend the law concerning the Commis­ .of Ramsey and Territory of Dakota. sioner of Fish and Fisheries; in which concurrence was requesterl. Benjamin F. Ochsner, to be postmaster at Kimball, in the county of It further announced the passage, without amendment, ofthejoint res­ Brule and Territory of Dakota. · olution (H. Res. 2) authorizing and directing the p:-~yment of the sala­ Ambrose W. Mullen, to be postmaster at DeSmet, in the county of ries of the officers and employes of Congress for the month of December, Kingsbury and Territory of Dakota. 1887; and of the concurrent resolution of the House providing for the William G. Judd, to be postmaster at Fargo, in the county of Cass lioliday recess. ' and Territory of Dakota. - ENROLLMENT OF JOINT RESOLUTION. Charles W. Hastings, to be postmaster at Brookings, in the county of The SPEAKER. The Clerk bas caused to be enrolled and examined Brookings and Territory of Dakota. the joint resolution, No. 2, which provides for payment of a month's Alexander Green, to be postmaster at Miller, in the county of Hand salary to officers of Congress. If there be no objection, the Chair will and Territory of Dakota. lay it before the House, and sign it. _ Ezra W. Foucht, to be postmaster at Redfield, in the county of Spink There was no objection. and Territory of Dakota. The title of the joint resolution was read, as follows: Daniel Flynn, to be postmaster at Mandan, in the county of Morton Joint resolution (H. Res. 2) authorizing and dire<;ting the payment of the sala­ and Territory of Dakota. ries of the officers and employes of Congress for the montl1 of December, 1887. John B. Bertrand, jr., to be postmaster at Canton, in the county of The joint resolution was thereupon signed by the Speaker. Lincoln and Territory of Dakota. PAY OF DISCHARGEp HOUSE EMPLOYES. Alexander D. Ross, to be postmaster at Litchfield, in the county of Mr. ADAMS. I offer the resolution which I sencl to the desk. Meeker and State of Minnesota. The Clerk read as follows: George D. Babcock, to be postmaster at Mexico, in the county of Os­ Resolved, That all officers and employes of the House who were employed on wego and State of New York. the 5th day of December, 1837, who have ceased, or shall, prior to the·lst day of Lee H. Way, to be postmaster at Luverne, in the counby of Rock and January,l888,cease to be so employed, shall be paid by the Clerk, out of thecou­ State of Minnesota. .; tingentfund of the House, a sum equal to one month's pay attheratet.hey were seyerally receiving on the 5th day of Decembel·,1887. Godfrey Vivian, to be postmaster at .Alexandria, in the county of Douglas and State of Minnesota. Mr. ADAMS. That is identical with a resolution which we passed a Dor K. Stacy, to be postmaster at Albert Lea, in the county of Free­ few days ago by a large majority of the House, except that that was a born and State of Minnesota. joint resolution and this is a House resolution, and that appropriated J!'rank E. Newell, to be postmaster at Morris, in the county of Ste- money out of the Trea.sJiry, and this provides payment out of the con­ vens and State of Minnesota. ' tingent fund. It appears to be the opinion in the other branch of the . Nels M. Mossberg, to be postmaster at Wilmar, in the county of Kan- Legislature that these payments, though proper, should be made by diyohi and State of Minnesota. - each House out of its own contingent fund; and I am informed that the Otto Kaupp, to be postmaster at Blue Earth City, in the county of discharged clerks in the other branch were paid yesterday. As the Faribault and State of Minnesota. Honse accepted the principle by a large majority that these_payments ChristianJohnson, to bepostmaster atAustin, in the county ofMower shon lcl be made, I hope there will be no objection to the adoption of this and State of Minnesota. resolution. - John H:Dorsey, to be postmaster at Glencoe, in the county of McLeod i\lr. ROGERS. I should like to hear the resolution reported again. and State of Minnesota. Ur. ADA.M:S. Before the Clerk again reads the resolution I will re­ William F. White, to be postmaster at Barry, in the county of Pike peat that it is identically the same with the resolution passed a few and State of illinois. days ago, except that this is a simple Honse resolution instead of a Harry W. Roberts, to be postmaster at Chester, in the county of Ran­ joint resolution, and that this provides for a payment out of the con­ dolph and State of Illinois. tingeut fund of the House instead of a payment out of the Treasury. . John McNamee, to be postmaster at Bement, in the county of Piatt Mr. TOWNSHEND. My colleague, I suppose, wishes it to be under- and State of Iillnois. stood that this is simply a substl"tnte for the other resolution. James Keagy, to be postmaster at Cambridge, in the county of Henry Mr. ADAMS. Yes, sir. and State of Illinois. . - The resolution wa-s again read. Mr. OUTHWAITE. I would like to have the resolution amended so that it shall not apply to such employes as were put upon the roll since the 1st day of December. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. .Mr. BLAND. I think the whole thing is an abuse-thoroughly so; and I move to lay the resolution on the table. THURSDAY, December 22, 1887. Mr. ADAMS. I believe I have the floor. Mr. RANDALL. Let the . resolut~on go to the Committee on .Ac­ The House met ~t 12 o'clock m. Prayer by the ~haplain, Rev. W. counts. H. MILBURN, D. D. Mr. BLAND. I have no objection to that. The Journal of yesterday's proceedings was read and approved. The SPEAKER. . The gentleman from Ill~ois [Mr. ADAus] stiJl DEFICIENCIES FOR 1887. holds the floor. The SPEAKER laid before the House a letter from the Secretary of Mr. ADAMS. I do not desire to detain the House except to say that the Treasury, trausmitting revised estimates of deficiencies of appro­ the whole question was before the House the other day, and the reso­ priations for the :fiscal year ended June 30, 1887; which was referred lution passed by a large majority. These employes have to come on at to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. the beginning of a session of Congress. . It is for our convenience that • DEFICIENCY ESTIMATES FOR 1888. they should be here. Of course some of them may be discharged dur­ ing the month. They can not tell until they get here whether they 'l'he SPEAKER also laid before the House a letter from the Secretary are to be discharged or not. It is not .for their benefit solely tbat they of the Treasury, transmitting estimates of deficiencies in appropriations come, but it is !or our own benefit that they should be here promptly required to meet urgent demands of the Government for the fiscal year on the first day of the session. I think this payment should always be 1888; which was reierred to the Committee on Appropriations, and or­ confined to those who are discharged during the month. But I believe dered to be_printed. it is eminently fair that such parties should receive the usual month's UNPAID POST-OFFICE CLAIMS. pay. The SPEAKER also laid before the House a letter from the Secretary Mr. BROWNE, 'of Indiana. Will the gentleman from lllinois yield of the Treasury transmitting, certain claims reported to the Forty-ninth to me for a moment? Congress, and not appropriated for, which have been re-examined and Mr. ADAMS. Yes, sir. allowed by the Auditor of the Treasury for the Post-Office Department; Mr. BROWNE, of Indiana. We have uniformly passed this resolu­ which was referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to tion, or one equivalent to it; but it seems to me that there is great force be printed. in the suggestion made by a gentleman on the other side. It may lead COMPENSATION OF POSTMASTERS, ETC. to a great abuse if we allow the Doorkeeper, the Clerk, or others, by The SPEAKER also laid before the House a letter from the Secretary our making this provision for one month's pay, to pick up some persons of the Treasury, transmitting schedules allowed by the Auditor of the about the city, put them on the pay-roll, have them serve but a few Treasury for the Post-Office Department for compensation of post­ days-perhaps persons living in the city of Washington or near by-­ masters, readjusted under the act of March 3, 1883, and miscellaneous and then that some such resolution as this should put in their pocket.<~ claims on account of the postal service payable from the appropriations so much money for which they have rendered no consideration. .. 1887. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-_HOUSE. -

It seems to me, therefore, in order that this money may go just where ought to be put an end to. If we want to do what is just and right by it should, the resolution should be so modified as to exclude those who those persons whose cases commend themselves to the c~n sideration of have been appointed since the 1st day of December. The old employes the House, let us appoint a committee of five members, if you please, and that were here during the past Congress ought to come back, and even let the claimants present themselves before that committee. Let it in­ those who have resided in the city should come to their places. As vestigate the merit.~ of_their claims, and report a bill embracing all the gentleman from Illinois has remarked, they do not know they are meritorious cases and excluiling those which are not meritorious. I will -· to be discharged till the lightning strikes them. I hope the payment vote for a resolution of that character; but never again while I stand may be continued as to that class of employes, but that the others be ex·· on this :floor will I, by any sortofpersuasion, by any sort of charitable - eluded. consideration, by any sort of dictation, or by any sort of precedent, be Mr. ADAMS. As I have said, the only logical foundation for a res­ induced to vote for a. resolution of this character, which is, as I have olution ofthis kind is that the em'ployes of the old House have reason said, wholly baseless so far as principle is concerned. There ought to be to come back, and it is our interest that they should. The suggestlon some remedy for these cases adopted npou some decent principle that made by the gentleman from Qhio [Mr. OuTHWAITE], whom I do not honest minds can recognize, and we ought not to undertake to vote now see in his seat, seems to me to be reasonable. It is the same sug­ out of the Treasury in this way the money of the people that is put gestion as has just been made by the gentleman from Indiana. If he there by taxation, and by oppressive taxation at that. - will reduce it to form, I shall have no objection to its being incorpo­ Mr. HENDERSON, of Iowa. Can the gentleman from Illinois [:M:r. rated in my resolution. ADAMS] inform us how many persons are embraced in this resoln. Mr. BROWNE, of Indiana. It can be put in form !>Y this proviso: tion? - .M:r. ADA1tiS. I can not. I know nothing about it. The House Provided, This shall not be held to extend to othe~than those that were on the passed substantially the same resolution the other day, and 1 was asked rop. previous to the 1st of December. to present this one instead, because the other was found to be unavail- Mr. ADAMS. Say'' previous to the meeting of Congress." I accept able. the modification. Mr. HE:NDERSON, of Iowa. Do you know how much money is in- The SPEAKER. The Clerk will modify theresolutionassuggested. volved in the resolution·? Mr. HERBERT. I suppose this modification of the proposition to Mr. ADAMS. I do not. pay employes this extra month's salary is made for t-he purpose of meet- Mr. HENDERSON, of Iowa. Can you tell us whether these parties ing a. Senate objection. A sudden spasm of economy, it appears, has have been on -the rolls during the vacation? · seized upon the gentlemen occupying the other end of this Capitol. Mr. ADAMS. I know that they were employes of the last House. Senators have voted themselves each a clerk. They insist upon pay- Mr. HENDERSON, of Iowa. Have they been drawing money from ing and do pay all their employes about 25 per cent. more for the same the Treasury during the summer? kind of service than we pay here; yet, with all that record, I learn Mr. ADAMS. That I can not say. we have been harshly criticised at that end of the Capitol for passing Mr. OUTHWAITE. If the gentleman will permit me I will answer this proposition, which we sent over to them in the form of a joint reso- that question by saying that .several of them have been put upon the lntion. The gentleman from illinois [Mr. ADAMS] now proposes that rolls within t.he past month. _ the same resolution in substance shall be passed as a House resoln- Mr. HENDERSON, of Iowa. How many such cases are there? tion, so that the payment of these employes shall be made out of the Mr. OUTHWAITE. I do not know. There are Heveral. I believe contingent fund of the House. I shall vote against the proposition no.w, there are also several meritorious cases. as I voted against it before; but it seems to me, sir, that even gentle- Mr. HENDERSON, of Iowa. M:r. Speaker, I think it is unfortunate men who voted for it as we passed it ought to vote against it now if the that we can not get information on thissubjectbeforeweare called upon purpose of the change of form be to accommodate ourselves to the de- to vote on the resolution. - sires oUhe Senate. Mr. ADAMS. Mr. Speaker, when the resolution came up the other Let the Senate ta.ke upon itself the responsibility of defeating the day I had intended to speak upon it, and to propose a remedy for the proposition if it desires to do so, and let the country institute a com pari- evil to which the gentleman from Arkansas [1\:lr. RoGERS] has alluded, son between the economies of the Setlate and the House. This House, and the existence of which I admit. My remedy would be the organi­ though it has done things that I can not approve, has never yet vent- zation of each House of Representatives on the 4th day of March next ured upon snch extravagances in the matter of its expenses f01: em- following the election of its members. If that were done, the officers ployes as the Senate is practicing every day. · of the Honse would be elected and all these subordinates appointed at Mr. BLAND. Mr. Speaker, 'for the purpose of moving that this the beginning of the_ Congressional term, so that no one would have resolution be referred to the Committee on Accounts, I withdraw the occasion to come here in December unless he knew that he was to be motion to lay it on the table. There may be some justice in paying a employed for the entire session. That plan has· other advantages to portion of the employes covered by this resolution; there may be some which I do not choose now to refer. At the present time all that we merit in the resolution; that. can be ascertained by the Committe-e on can do is either to apply this ru1e which has been applied year after Accounts. But to pass the resolution in its present form would cer- year, or else adjourn this afternoon without making any provision for tainly be an abuse. I am satisfied, Mr. Speaker, that if any member the pay of those employes who go home not to return. I had sup­ of this Honse, in his private capacity, were called upon to pay employes posed that the main question was considered the other day. I have no in this way, he would scrutinize the bills very closely as to the justice information except that Ruch a resolution was adopted, and that for rea­ of them and the amount of service rendered, and we are here repre- sonswhich I have given:theformofit should be changed. senting our constituents and acting for them-at least we ought to rep- I move the previous question. , resent t.hem and act for them-as we would for ourselves in our ow-n M.r. BLAND. Is it in order to move reference of this subject? private business. Resolutions of this kind have grown to be an abuse The SPEAKER. A call for the previous question does not under the in tQis Honse, and I move that this one be referred to the Committee rules preclude a motion to refer. Does the gentleman make such a on Accounts. motion? Mr. ADAMS. I believe I have the :floor, Mr. Speaker. Mr. BLAND. I move the reference of this question to the Committee The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Illinois [Mr. ADAMS] has on Accounts when appointed, so that they may pass upon the subject. not yielded the :floor. The SPEAKER. Pending the demand for the previous question Mr. ROGERS. I ask the gentleman to yield to me for three min- upon the resolution and amendment, the gen tleman from Missouri ntes. [Mr. BLAND] moves to refer the resolution and amendment to the ~1r. ADAMS. I yield to the gentleman from Arkansa'3 for three Committee on Accounts, when appointed. minutes. Mr. TOWNSHEND. The gentleman from MissoLui [M:r. BLAND] :Mr. ROGERS. !Ir. Speaker, that the principle involved in this res- will allow me to say that his motion, if adopted, would defeat the ob­ olution is erroneous there can not be the slightest question. It may ject for which this appropriation is sou~ht. be, lli. Speaker, that there are cases in which the House might prop- Jl,:lr. BLAND. Not at all. The Committee on Accounts C..'tn report erly make an allowance for the traveling expenses ofemployes who have favorably on any meritorious case, and t he person can be paid, no mat­ been discharged; but to say that a gentleman who lives at Alexandria t er whether he be here or at home. or a gentleman who lives at Georgetown shall have an allowance equiv- Jl.fr. TOWNSHEND. But the employe may need this money to go alent to that made to tfihe gentleman who lives at San Francisco, is an , home with. abuse which ought not to be tolerated for a moment. There can not be The question being taken on the motion of Mr. BLAND, there were- any question about that. This resolution proposes to give a month's ayes 65, noes 66. extra pay to Tom, Dick, and Harry, upon the false assumption that Mr. BLAND. I call for tellers. it is necessary in order to reimburse them for traveling in coming l1 ere Tellers were ordered; and Mr. BLAND a;:Id Mr. ADAMS were ap- and returning home, and it propo es to give to each one a full month's pointed. pay whether he lives in Washington, orin Georgetown, orin Richmond, The.House a~ain divided; and the tellers reported-ayes 74, noes 89. or in St. Louis, or in South Carolina, or in Florida, or in California. Mr. BLAND: I call for the yeas and nays. Obviously, there is no justice in that. There is no principle in it that The yeas and nays were ordered, there being~ayes 29, noes 91 (more any honest mind can recognize, anditonght to be stopped. This abuse than one-fifth voting in the affirmative). .·.

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The question was taken; and it was decided in the affirmative-yeas Mr. LAGAN with Mr. ALLEN, of Massachusetts. 90, nays 89, not voting 144; as follows~ :Mr. COLLINS with Mr. LONG. YEAS-·!10. Mr. DAVIDSON, of Al.'tbama, with Mr. FUNSTON. Mr. GREENMAN with Mr. GEST. Abbott, Ford, La Follette, Randall, Anderson, A, R, Forney, Laidlaw,. Rayner, Mr. DUNN with Mr. STEELE. Baker, Jehu · French. Landes, Rogers, Mr. SPINOLA with Mr. SPOONER. Barnes, Fuller, Lanham, Russell, :f. E. Mr. McSHANE with Mr. BELDEN. Barry, Gear, Latham, Ryan, Bland, Glass, Lyman, Sayers, Mr. O'NEALL, of Indiana, with M"r • .ARNOLD. Bl"cwer, Grimes, Lynch, Sherman, Mr. W ABNER with Mr. DOCKERY. Browne, T. M. Hall, Maish, Sowden, :hlr. .JONES with Mr. COOPER. Brumm, Hare, :Mansur, Stockdale Bryce, Hayden, :Martin, Stone, W.J.,Ky. Mr. BURNETT with Mr. KEA.N. Bunnell, Hemphill, 1\fcRae, Stone, W.J.,Mo. Mr. CARUTH with Mr. THOMAS, of Kentucky. Cannon, Henderson, D. B. Mills Struble, Mr. WILSON, of Minnesota, with Mr. NELSON. Catchings, Herbert, Morgan. Thompson, A. C. Clardy, Hermann, Neal, Tracey, Mr. CLEMENTS with Mr. BUTTERWORTH. Cogswell, Hitt Newton, Walker, Mr. SCOTT with Mr. FLooD. , Cowles, Hol~an, O'Donnell, Weber, Mr. RusK with Mr. WHITING, of Massachusetts. Cox, Holmes, Outhwaite, Wheeler, Crain, Hovey, Peel, Whiting, :r. R. Mr. McCORMICK with Mr. ANDERSON, of Kansas. Crouse, Hutton, Penington, Williams, Mr. MONTGOMERY with Mr. THOMAS, of Wisconsin. Cutcheon, Johnston, :r. T. Perkins, Wilson, W.L. Mr. PIDCOCK with Mr. BOUTELLE. Davis. Johnston,T.D. Perry, Yost. Elliott, Kennedy, Phelan, Mr. FELIX CAMPBELL with Mr. MORRILL. Fisher, Kilgore, Pugsley, J'tfr. BELMONT with Mr. PARKER. NAYS-89. ?tfr. CoBB with Mr. JACKSON. Mr. GLOVER with Mr. BATI.TE. • Ad:tms, Conger, Mason, Stewart, Charles Anderson,C.L. Cummings, Matson, Symes, Mr. HOPKINS, of Virginia, with Mr. HOPKINS, of lllinois. Anderson, G. A. Darlington, McCullogh, Taulbee, Mr. BLOUNT with Mr. PETERs. Atkinson, · Dibble, McKinley, Taylor, E. B. Mr. CAMPBELL, of Ohio, with Mr. KERB. Bacon, Enloe, Merriman, Thomas,J. R. '\ Baker, C.S. Farquhar, Milliken, Thompson, T.L. 'Mr. McADoo with Mr. McCoYAS. Bankhead, Fitch, Moffitt, Townshend, Mr. TuRNER, of Georgia, with 1\fr. STEPHENSON. . Bliss, Foran, O'Ferrall, Turner, E. J. Mr. DAVIDSON, of Florida, with Mr. O'NEILL, ofPennsylvania.. Boothman, Gibson, Osborne, Vance, Bound, Henderson, J. S. Owen, Vandever, Mr. 1t1cKINNEY with 1\!r. GALLINGER. Bowden, Hiestand, Plumb, Washington, Mr. OATES with Mr. GROUT, from December 20,1887, until January Breclrinridge, C. R. Hogg, Post, Weaver, 5, 1888. . B:reckinridge, WCP Hooker, Richardson, Wl1ite, J. B. Browne, T. H. B. Hopkins, S. T. Robertson, WWte,S.V. J'tlr. BuRNES with ?tfr. WADE, until after the holiday recess. Brown, C. E. Howard, Romeis, Whitthorne, Mr. STEWART, ofTexas, with Mr. HUNTER, until after the holiday Buchanan. Hudd, Sawyer, Wickham, recess. Buckalew, Ketcham, Scull. Wilkins, Burrows, Lane, Seney, Wilkinson. Mr. LAFFOON with Mr. FINLEY, until after the holiday recess. Butler, Lee, SWvely, Wise, .Mr. McCLAMMY with Mr. DUNHAM, until after the holiday recess. Bynum, Lehlbach, Simmqns, Yardley. Mr. BREWER said: 1\iy colleague, Mr. ALLEN, of Michigan, is con- Campbell, T. J. Lind, Snyder, Cheadle, Macdonald, Springer, fined to his room by illness. Chipman, 1\Iahoney, Stablnecker, The vote was then announced as above recorded; and the resolution NOT VOTING-144. was accordingly referred to the Committee on Accounts, wken ap­ pointed. Allen, C. H. Dargan, Houk, Parker, PRIVATE BILLS. Allen, E. P. Davenport, Hunter, Patton, Allen,J. M. Davidson. R.H.l\1. Jackson, Payson, The SPEAKER. The Chair calls the attention of the House to a Andersou.J.A. Da.vidson.A.C. Jones, Peters, Arnold, DeLano, Kea.n. Phelps, matter of practice under the rule adopted yesterday. Quite a large :Bayne, Dingley, · Kelley, Pidcock, number of private bills have been deposited in the petition-box at a Belden, Dockery, Kerr, Reed, time when the House was not in session, and when no officer was here Belmont;, Dm ey. Laffoon, Rice, Biggs, Dougherty, Lagan, Rockwell, to take charge of them and protect them. The Chair snggests, inns­ Bingham, Dunham, Laird, Rowell, much as the introduction of biJls is a legislative proceeding, it...should Blanchard, Dunn, Lawler, Rowland, be done while the House is in session and the officers of the House are , Blount, Ermentrout, Lodge, Rns ell, C. A. Boutelle, Felton, Long, Rusk, present to take charge of them. Bowen, Finley, Maff"ett, Scott, In addition, members have deposited private bills in the petition-box: Brower, Flood, McAdoo, Sbaw, without indorsing their names upon them, and in such cases the Clerk Brown, J. R. Funst<>n. McCla.mmy, Smith, Burnes, Gaines, McComas, Spinola, is unable to enter them in the Journal,or furnish a transcript of them Burnett, Gallinger, McCormick, Spooner, for printing in the RECORD. Butterworth, Gay, McCreary, Steele, Mr. RANDALL.. In reference to bills which have been filed in tbe Campbell, Felix Gest, McKenna, Stephenson, Cnmpbell,J.E. Glover, McKinney, Stewart,J.D. box when the House was not in session, I suggest where those bills are Candler, • Goff, McMil1in, Stewart,J. W. pr.operly indorsed they should be considered as having been presented Carlton, Granger, McShane, Tarsuey, in con1ormity to the rule, as otherwise they may be lo t. Carnth, Greenman, 1\iontgomery, Taylor,J.D. Caswell, Grosvenor, 1\loore, Thomas, G.l\I. The SPEAKER. Some such practice should be adopted, because Clark, Grout, .1\lorrill, Thomas, 0. B. when the House is not in session the Hall of the House is open anu the Clements, Guenther, Morrow, Tillman, petition-box is accessible to persons who pass through the Hall, and bills Cobb, Harmer, Morse, Turner, H. G. Cockran, Hatch, Nelson, Wade, 1 are liable to be lost before reaching the hands of the C1erk at all. What Comns, Haugen, Nichols, Warner, is the suggestion made by the gentleman from Pennsylvania? Compton, ~yes, Norwood, West, Mr. RANDALL. That, by unanimous consent, the bills which havo oper, Heard, Nutting, Whiting, William Cothran, Henderson, T. :r. Oates, Wilber, been already filed in the petition-box and properly indorsed be consid­ Crisp, Bires, O'Neall, J. H. 'Vilson, Thomas ered as having been properly presented under the 1·ule. Culberson, Hopkins.A.:r. O'Neill,Charles Woodburn, The SPEAKER. The Chair ha directed the Clerk to journalize Dalzell, Hopkins,S.J. O'Neill,J.J. Yoder. those bills as having been properly filed. So the resolution and pending amendment were ordered to be referred Mr. RANDALL. Then as the Journal will show that, I am content. to the Committee on Accounts, when appointed. RIVERS AND HARBORS. During the roll-c::tll the following announcements were made: Mr. LAFFOON. I am paired with my colleague, Judge FINLEY. :Mr. HERMANN. I understood yesterday, Mr. Speaker, the report If h~ were present, I should vote in the affirmative. from the Committee on Rules was onJy a. partial one, and I now rise for Mr. HIH.ES. I am paired with the gentleman from Missouri [Mr. the purpose of a.s1.-ing whether it is in order to submit a resolution at HATCH]. If he were present, I should vote ''no.'' this time, providing ior an amendment of the rules? Mr. PETERS. I am paired with the gentleman from Georgia. [Mr. The SPEAKER. It is for reference only. BLOUNT]. If he were here, I should vote "no." Mr. HERMANN. Then in the interest of the entire Pacillc coast I Mr. McADOO. I am paired with thegentlemanfromMaryland [Mr. ask to submit the resolution which I send to the Clerk's desk to be McCOMAS]. If lie were present, I should vote in the affirmative. read. Mr. GROUT. I am paired with the gentleman from Alabama [Mr. The Clerk read· as follows: OATES]. Wberea.s the Pacific States a.nd Territories west of the Rocky Mountains embrace about one-fourth of the total area of the entire oation, not including Pairs were announced from the Clerk's desk as follows: Alaska, with a rapidly-increasing population, marvelous resources. a rich foreign Until further notice: and domestic commerce, many important. rivers and harbors connecting there­ Mr, .HATCH with Mr. HIRES. mote interior with the ocean, which, with reasonable governmental aid, w.ust 1887. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 175

soon produce great and lasting Advantages to the whole nation, encourage co~­ Also, a bill (H. R. 646) for the relief of Charles Willey-to the Com- petition, and reduce the present excessive charges of transportation, so detri­ mental to the progress of that far-distu.nt portion of our Union; and mittee on War Claims. . · Whereas of the fifteen members of the Committee on Rivers and Harbors but Ahlo, a bill (H. R. 647) for the relief of"Gottlob Groezinger-to the one mt>mber is usually appointed to the great Pacilic West, this being greatly Committee on Claims. inadequate in view of the waterway needs: Therefore, Resolved, That Rule X of the rules of the Forty-ninth Congress be so amended Also, a bill (H. R. 648) for the-relief of Charles L. Scudder-to the as to read: "On Rivers and Harbors, to consist of seventeen members." Committee on Claims. The resolution was referred to the Committee on Rnles. Also, a bill (H. R. 649) for the relief of A. C. Bradford-to the Com- - DEATH OF HON. SETH C. :MOFFATT. mittee on· Claims. By Mr. PEEL: A bill (H. R. 650) for the relief of Andrew B. Davis­ Mr. BURROWS. Mr. Speaker, it becomes my painful duty, on be­ to the Committee on War Claims. half of the l\lichigan delegation, to annoti.nce to this Honse the death By Mr. MORROW: A bill (H. R. 651) for the relief of George A. of our esteemed colleague, Ron. SETH C. MOFFATT, who died in this Norton-to t.he Committee on Claims. city this morning, at half past 7 o'clock. By Mr. PEEL: A bill (H. R. 652) for the relief of Mrs. Mary U. In his death the delegation feels a personal bereavement. Those who Payne-to the Committee on War Claims. bad the pleasure of his acquaintance, I am sure, feel the loss of a genial Also, a bill (H. R. 653) granting a pension to Jesse G. Featherstone­ and true-hearted friend. The State has lost a wise and able counselor. to the Committee on Invalid Pen ions. This is not the time for eulogy. On some more fitting occasion we Also, a bill (H. R. 654) for the relief of Cyren~s Beers o: his pe1·so~n.l shall ask the Honse to join us in a fnrther tribute to his memory. For representative and also the personal representative of Vail and Robm­ the present I offer the resolutions I send to the desk. son~to the Seiect Committee on Indian Depredation Claims. The Clerk read as follows: By Ur. l\f. A. SMITH: A bill (H. R. 655) for the reliefofP. C. Davis­ Resolved, That the House has heard with sincere regret the announcement of to the Select Committee on Indian Depredation Claims. the death of Hon. SETH C. l'IIOFFATT, late a Representative from the State of 1\Iicbigan. Also, a bill (H. R. 656) for the relief of John E. Clark-to the Com­ R esolved by the House of Rep1·esentatives (the Senate c·.ncurring), That a. S';lect mittee on Claims. joint committee, consisting of seven members of the House and three memi:>ers By Mr. McKENNA: A bill (H. R. 657) for the relief of Lieut. CoL of the Senate, be appointed to take order for superintending the funeral a nd to esoort the remains of the deceased to their pla.ce of burial; and the neces~ary Charles G. Bartlett-to the Committee on Claims. expens,.s r1. . Lending the execution of this order be paid out of the contingentfund Also, a bill (H. R. 658) for the relief of A. P. Jackson and others-to. of the How;e. Resolved, That the Sergeant-at-Arms of the House be authorized and directed to the Committee on the Public Lands. take such steps as may be necessary for properly carrying out the provisions of Also, a bill (H. R. 659) for the relief of George B. Cosby-to the Com- these resolutions. mittee on Claims. . .&solved, That the Clerk communicate the foregoing resolutions to the Senate. Also, a bill (H. R. 6GO) for the relief of the owners,. officers, and crew of Reso~ved, That as a further mark of respect to the memory of the deceased the Honse do now adiourn. the British bark Chance-to the Committee on Claims. The SPEAKER. Before submitting the I'esdl.ntions the Chair de­ Also, a bill (H. R. 661) for the relief of William R. Wheaton and sires to state that if the resolution be adopted the committee, with the Charles H. Chamberlain, of California-to the Committee on Claims. consent of the Honse, will be selected after the adjournment, and the By l\Ir. SYMES: A bill (H. R. 6G2) for the relief of Vinton G. Holli­ Chair will cause the names to be entered upon the J onrnal of its pro­ day-to the Committee on War Claims. ceedings. Also, a bill (H. R. 663) for the relief of the ~Iexic.·\n Na~ional Con­ There was no objection, and it was so ordered. struction Company, of Colorado-to the Commtttee on Cla1ms. The following committee was appointed by the Speaker: Mr. CUTCH­ Also, a bill (H. R. 664) for the relief of George Baggs-to the Com­ EON, of Michigan; Mr. BREWER, of Michigan; Mr. WADE, of:Missonri; mittee on Claims. ·Mr. FISHER, of Michigan; Mr. FORD, of Michigan; ~lr. LYMAN, ot Also, a bill (H. R. 665) for the relief of Henry F. Arnold-to the Com­ Iowa, and Jllir. SHIVELY, of Indiana. mittee on Invalid Pensions. The resolutions of 1\lr. BuRROWS were then unanimously agreed to; Also, a bill (H. R. 666) for the relief of W. P. Alexander-to the Com· and accordiugly (at 1 o'clock and 12 minutes p.m.) the House ad­ mittee on Invalid Pensions. journed until Wednesday, January 4, 1888. Also, a bill (H. R. 667) for the reHef of Zenas Bigelow-to the Com-. mittee on Invalid Pensions. PRIVATE BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS INTRODUCED AND RE­ Also, a bill (H. R. 668) for the relief of William Collins-to the Com­ FERRED. mittee on Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 669) for the relief of E. W. Chapman, assignee of Under the rule private bills and joint resolutions of the following Rodman Chapman-to t'b.e Committee on Claims. titles were introduced and referred as indicated below: Also, a bill (H. R. 670) for the relief of Nicholas White-to the Com­ By Mr. WHEELER: A bill (H. R. 632) for the relief of Evalin mittee on War CTaims. 1\Ietz-to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 671) for the relief of the heirs of JohnS. Fillmore, Also, a bill (H. R. 633) forthe reliefofWbitnul R. Newsom-tothe deceased-to the Committee on Private Land Claims. Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 672) for the relief of Addie Hoyt-to the Commit­ Also, a bill (H. R. 634) for i(he relief of Je8W Cargyle-to the Com­ tee on War Claims. mittee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 673) for the relief of A. G. Boone-to the Commit­ Also, a bill (H. R. 635) for the relief ofi. P. Russell-to the Commit­ tee on Claims. tee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R 674) for the relief of William M. Keightley-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 636) for the relief of the estate of William H. Committee on Claims. Jones, deceased-to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill {H. R. 675) for the relief of Royal M. Hubbard-to the By Mr. FELTON: A bill (H. R. 637) forthe reliefofBrig. Gen. George Committee on Claims. P. lhrie, late colonel and additional aid-de-camp of United States Vol­ Also, a bill (H. R. 676) for the relief of Erastus S. J oslyn-to the Com­ unteers-to the Committee on Claims. mittee on Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 638) foi· the removal of the charge of desertion Also, a bill (H. R. 677).granting an increase of pension to Patrick from the record of Frank Aston-to the Committee on Military Af­ Larkin-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. fairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 678) to increase the pension of Daniel Clark-to By Mr. :MORROW: A bill (H. R. 639) authorizing Commander J. the Committee on Invalid Pensions. W. Philip, United States Navy, to accept a silver pitcherfromtheGov­ Also, a bill (H. R. 679) granting an increase of pension to Mrs. Mari::l. ernment of the United States of Colombia-to the Committee on Naval L. Caraher-to the Committ-ee on Invalid Pensions. Affairs. ' Also, a bill (H. R. 680) granting a pension to Henry H. Stntsman­ Also, a bill (H. R. 640) to restore Chaplain C. :M. Blake, United Stn.tes to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Army, to rank and pay-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 681 ) granting a pension to Lorenzo D. Coombs-to­ Also, a bill (H. k. 641) authorizing the Secretary of War to revoke the Committee on Invalid Pensions. the orderdismissingFirstLient. D. C. Smith, One hundred and :fifth New Also, a bill (H: R. 682) granting a pension to Isaac Da.visson-to the York Volunteers, and grant him an honorab~e discharge-to the Com­ Committee on Invalid Pensions. mittee on Military Affairs. .Also, a bill (H. R. 683) granting a pension to Carrie Powell-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 642) to authorize the distribution of certain moie­ Committee on Invalid Pensions. ties to the late officers of customs of the port of San Francisco-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 684) granting a pension to Frederick W. Becker­ Committee on Claims. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 643) for the relief of Andrew J. Barnes-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 685) granting an increase of pension to Alexander Committee on Claims. Shaw-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. .Also, a bill (H. R. 644) for the relief of George C. Parkinson-to the Also a bill (H. R. 686) to remove the charge of desertion against Committee on Claims. Chari~ Roden-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 645) for the relief of CharleS W. Raymond and .Also, a bill (H. R. 687) to remove the. c_harge of ~esertion against Albert H. Payson-to the Committee on Claims. George W. Peck-to the Committee on Military Affail'S. 176• CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-· HO.USE. DECEMBER 22,

- By Mr. GIFFORD: A bill (H. R. 688) for the reliefofHenryYoung­ Also, a bill (H. R. 731) to remove the charge of desertion from the to the Committee on· Indian Affairs. record of John A. Jack-to the Committee on Military Affairs. ALso, a bill (H. R. 689) for the relief of A. G. Shaw-to the Commit­ Also, a bill (H. R. 732) for the relief of Fannie Pemberton, formerly tee on Indian Affairs. Fannie Gb.ss-to the Committee on Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 690) for the relief of Bryan Tyson-to the Com­ Also, a bill (H. R. 733) for the relief of the heirs of Solomon Blue­ mittee on Claims. to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 691) for the relief of Jacob Mathis-to the Com­ Also, a bill (H. R. 734) for the relief of Samuel M. Nalley--to the mittee on War Claims. Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 692) for the relief of George Auld-to the Com- Also, a bill (H. R. 735) for the relief of John 1,J. Eddy, Elizabeth K. mittee on Claims. - Carroll, Alice B. Eddy, and Frank M. Eddy-to the Committee on War Also, a bill (H. R. 693) for the relief of Richard Redmond-to the Claims. 'Committee on War Claims. By Mr. POST: A bill (H. R. 736) for the relief of Caroline T. Cockle­ Also, a bill (H. R. 694) for the relief of John F. Malo-to the Com­ to the Committee on Claims. mittee on Indian Affairs. Also,·a bill (H. R. 737) granting a pension to Joseph Pe·ve-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 695) for the relief of Henry Grebe-to the Com­ Committee on Invalid Pensions. . mittee on War Claims. By Mr. SPRINGER: A bill (H. R..738) for the relief ofL. S. Ensel­ Also, a bill (H. R. 696) for the relief of Maria Black-to the Com- to the Committee on Claims. mittee on War Claims. , Also, a bill (H. R. 739) for the relief of Lorenzo Durha-m-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 697) granting a pension to the infant children of Committee on War Claims. • Michael A. Moran-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 740) for the relief of Benjamin F. Fox-to the AJ8o, a hill (H. R. 698) granting a pension to John McDonald-to the Committee on War Claims. Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 741) granting an increase of pension to Daniel Also, a bill (H. R. 699) granting a pension to Joseph B. Walters-to Clary-to the Committee on Pensions. the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 742) for the relief of John F. Cadwallader-to Alw, a bill (H. R. 700} ·granting a pension to Tuffie Snow-to the the Committee on Claims. ' Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 743) for the relief of Jacob Lucas-to the Com- Also, a bill (H. R. 701) granting a pension to Sandford_Langworthy­ mittee on Claims. . to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 744) for the relief of Gallatin, Bureau, and other Also, a bill (H. R. 702) granting a pension to Sterne H. Fowler-to counties in the State of illinois-to the Committee on Cla.ims.- the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 745) to correct and complete the record of Col. B. Also, a bill (H. R. 703) granting a pension to Alfred C. Lee-to the H. Grierson, United States Army-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. '746) for the relief of Boynton Leach-to the Com­ Also, a bill (H. R. 704) granting a pension to Timothy D. Porter-to mittee on Naval Affairs. the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 747) granting a pension to Samuel Hays-to the Also, a bill l H. R. 705) granting a pension to John D. James-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 748) _granting a pension to Edwn.rd W. Wyatt- Also, a bill (H. R. 706) granting a pension to David Teed-to the to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. · Committee ori Invalid Pensions. Alsp, a bill (H. R. 749) for the relief of Smith & Savage-to the Select Also, a bill (H. R. 707) granting a pension to Frank M. Budd-to the Committee on Indian Depredation Claims. Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 750) for the relief of William Gray-to the Com­ Also, a bill (H. R. 708) granting a pension to John R. Petrie-to the mittee on Claims. Committee on Invalid Pensions. · By Mr. LANE: A bill (H. R. 751) granting a pension to Henry t}. Also, a bill (H. R. 709) granting an increase of pension to James Conrad-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. M. Brown-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 752) granting n. pension to Richard D. McKinney­ By Mr. LANDES: A bill (H. R. 710) granting a pension toSaxahJ. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Armstrong-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. · By Mr. HOWARD: A. bill ~H. R. 753) for the relief of George L.

/ By Mr. TOWNSHEND: A bill (H. R. 711) for thereliefofWilliani Key-to the Committee on War Claims. Powers-to the Committee on Military Affairs. By Mr. HOLMAN: A bill (H. R. 754) to increase the pension of Mrs. AI o, a bill (H. R. 712) granting a penSion to the minor children of Eliza B. Anderson-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Jonathan E. Lee-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. J. T. JOHNSTON: A. bill (H. R. 755) to appropriate $127.50 Also, a bill (H. R. 713) granting relief to Wesley· Phillips-to the to reimburse the Indian Committee of Western Yearly Meeting of Committee on Invalid Pensions. Friends in Indiana fo'r money expended by them in the purchase of Also, a bill (H. R. 714) granting a pension to Marquis D. Davis-to Government lands in North Carolina for an Indian training school-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. the Committee on Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 715) increasing the pension of Dwyer Tracy-to Also, a bill (H. R. 756) granting a pension to Ennice Bishop-to the to the Committee on Pensions. Committee on Invalid Pensions. · Also, a bill (H. R. 716) for the relief of William Collinsworth-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 757) for the relief of James K. Kennedy-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. _ Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 717) granting an increase of pension to Daniel M. Also, a bill (H. 'R. 758) to increase the pension of William Goshen­ Maulding-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 718) granting a pension to Sally Powell-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 759) to increase the pension of Thomas Bally- Committee on Invalid Pensions. to the Committee on Pensions. . · Also, a bill (H. R. 719) granting a pension to John D. Denning-to Also, a bill (H. R. 760) granting a pellii,ion to Elmond A. Decker- the Committee on Invalid Pensions. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. · Also, a bill (H. R. 720) granting a pension to James Trimble-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 761) for the relief of Henson D. Pittman-to the Committee an Invalid Pensions. Committee on Military Affairs. _ Also, a bill (H. ·R. 721) granting a pension to Catharine Waters-to Also, a bill (H. R. 762) forthereliefofWilliamCrouse-totheCom- the Committee on Invalid Pensions. mittee on Military Affairs. · Also, a bill (H. R. 722) for the relief of Marquis D. Davis-to the By Mr. PERKINS: A bill (H. R. 763) for the relief of Mrs. Elizabeth Corumittee on Im·::1lid Pensions. S. Munn-to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 723) for the relief of William Greer-to the Com­ Also, a bill (H~ R. 764) granting a pension to Mrs. .M:ary Pittman-to mittee on Pen ions. the Committee on Invalid Pensions. ; Also, a bill ( II. R. 724) forthereliefofJJOuisa. McLain-to the Com- Also, a bill (H. R. 765) granting a pension to Annie May Pifer-to the mittee on lnmlid Pensions. · Committee on Invalid Pensions. Al ·o, a bill (H. R. 725) for the relief of Edmund D. Taylor-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 766) for the relief of H. L. Newman-to the Select Committee on Cla.i ms. Committee on Indian Depredation Claims. Also, a hill (H. R. 726) for the relief of minor children of Jonathan Also, a bill (H. R. 767) forthereliefofGeorge Maxwell-to the Select E. Lee- to t he Committee on Pensions. Committee on Indian Depredation Claims. A l·o, a bill (H. H. 727) for the relief of William P. Fowler-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 768) for the relief of' A. L. Dickerman and others­ Co mm ittee on Military Affairs. to the Select Committee on Indian Depredation Clain1s. -. A l::;o, a bi I I (H. R 728) for the relief of William Morris-to the Com­ Also, a bill (H. R. 769) for the relief of Mrs. Rebecca Adams-to the mittee on Miiitary Affairs. Select Committee on Indian Depredation Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 729) for the relief of George M. Sanders-to tbe · Also, a bill (H. R. 770) gran_ting a. pension to R. W. Herod-to tbe Committee on Military Affairs. Committee on Invalid Pensions. AI Eo, a bill (H. R: 730) for the relief of David H. Utley-to the Com­ Also, a bill (H. R. 771) granting a pension to A. B. Van Cleve-to the mittee on Military Affairs. Committee on Inva1id Pensions. · 1887. CONGRESSIONA'L RECORD-- HOUSEo 171

Also, a bill (H. R. 772) granting an increaSe of pension to Mrs. Sarah Also, a bill (H. R. 812) granting a pension to Maria B. Hatch-to the :McAdams-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 773) granting a pension to John W. Pearson-to Also, a bill (H. R. 813) granting a pension to Mrs. Lovina J. Reeves­ the Committee on Invalid Pensions. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. .Also, a bill tH. R. 774). granting a pension to John McCollister-to Also, a bill (H. R! 814) granting a pension to Irs. Laura F. Pressey­ the Committee on Invalid Pensions. to the Committee on Invalid Pensi.ons. Also, a bill (H. R. 775) granting an increase of pension to John D. Also, a bill (H. R. 815) granting an increase of pension to S!l.l'ah F. Jones-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Bridges-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 776) for the relief of Chadsey Brothers-to the Select Also, a bill (H. R. 816) granting a pension to Charlotte -Broad-to Committee on Indian Depredation Claims. - the Committee.on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 777) to compensate Mrs. Sarah L. Larimer for im­ By 1\Ir. BOUTELLE: A bill (H. R. 817) granting a pension to Mary portant services rendered the military authorities in 1864 at Deer Creek Foster-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Station, Wyoming, and for loss of property taken by Sionx Indians-t<> Also, a bill (H. R. 818) granting a pension to Sarah E. Pribble-to the Select Committee on Indian Depredation Claims. the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 778) granting a pension t<> S. K. Coulter-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 819) for the constmction of briages across the Committee on Invalid Pensions. SL. John and St. Francis Rivers-to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 779) granting a pension to LaFayette Carpenter­ Also, a bill (H. R. 820) for the relief of the owners and officers of ' to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. the brig Olive Frances and others on board said brig-to the Commit­ Also, a bill (H. R. 780) granting a pension to James H. Darling-to tee on Claims. the Committee on Invalid Petl3ions. Also, a bill (H. R. 821) for the relief of the sureties of Freeman H. Also, a bill (H. R. 781) granting a pension to Martha J. McDowell­ Morse, lalie consul-general at London, England-to the Committee on to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Claims. .Also, a bill (H. R. 782) granting a pension to Marble H. Baird-to Also, a bill (H. R. 822) granting a pension to Miles S. ~cribner-to j the Committee on Invalid Pensions. _ the Committee on Invalid Pensions. ; Also, a bill (H. R. 783) granting a pension to Mrs. Nancy E. Spencer­ Also, a bill (H. R.. 823) granting a pension to Hannah C. De Witt­ to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. : By Mr. PETERS: A bill (H. R. 784) pensioning John J. Lockrey­ Also, a bill (H. R. 824) granting a pension to Isaiah G. Mayo--to to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. COGSWELL: A bill (H. R. 785) granting a pension to Martin By l\Ir. MORGAN: A bill (H. R. 825) for the relief of Richard H. L. Stover-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Parham, administrator of George Gorman, deceased-to the Committee Also, a bill (H. R. 786) for the relief of the estate of Thomas Niles, on War Claims. deceased-to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 826) for the relief of Mrs. E. G. Tomlinson, ex­ : ~ By Mr. MILLIKEN: A bill (H. R. 787) for the relief of the heirs of ecutrix ofW. E. Tomlinson, deceased-to the Committee on War Claims. William Pitcher, and Axel Hayford, and Samuel Otis, and George B. Also, a bill (H. R. 827) for the relief of Robert S. McDonald-to the : i Fergusson-to the Committee on War Claims. . Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 788) for the relief of Charles H. Wording and .Also, a bill (H. R. 828) for the relief of William D. Wilson-to the : othtrs, owners of brig Xenophon-to the Committee on War Claims. Committee on War Claims. ( Also, a bill (H. R. 789) for the relief of William E. Caswell-to' the Also, a bill (H. R. 82D) for the relief of RobertS. McDonald-to the Committee on War Claims. Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 790) granting veteran bounty to James Murry-to Also. a bill (H. R. 830) for the relief of Richard H. Parham, ad­ . ; the Committee on War Claims. ministrator of George Gorman, dece..'\Sed-to the Committee on War : Also, a bill (H. R. 791) for the relief of Mrs. Evelyn H. Pratt-to the Claims. Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 831) for the relief of James C. Newman, adminis­ I Also, a bill (H. R. 792) to grant to the Great Falls Electric and-Power trator-to the Committee on War Claims. . Companytheprivilegeofntilizing certain waters of the Potomac River­ Also, a bill (H. R. 832) for tbereliefofl\Iary A. McCain-to the Com­ to the Committee on the District of Columbia. mittee on War Claims. : Also, a bill (H. R. 793) for the relief of William Collins-to the Com­ By Mr. HOOKER: 4bill (H. R. 833) forthereliefofR. T. Cheek­

mittee on Claims. to the Committee on War Claims. l AlH<>, a bill (H. R. 794) for the relief of Wilton F. Ward-to the Com­ By Mr. CATCHINGS: A bill (H. R. 834) forthereliefofthe heirs of mittee on Claims. John H. Newman, deceased-to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 795) for the. relief of Ansyl Potter-to the Com­ Also, a bill (H. R. 835) for the relief of Mrs. A. A. Brabston-to the mittee on Claims. C<>mmittee on War Claims. · Also, a bill (H. R. 796) for the relief of Sturgis, Lombard & Co.-to By Ur. BARRY: A bill (H. R. 836) for the relief of the estate of B. . r the Committee on Claims. H. Sheppard, deceased-to the Committee on War Claims. · Also, a bill (H. R. 797) for the relief of J. H. Merrill-to the Com­ By 1\Ir. CANNON: A bill (H. R. 837) to remove the charge of deser­ mittee on Claims. tion from the record of Wade H. Newman-to the Committee on .Mil­ Also, a bill (H. R. 798) for the relief of John W. Kane-to the Com­ itary Affairs. mittee on Claims. Also, a bill (H.· R. 838) for the relief of Elmer Decker-to the Com­ Also, a bill (H. R. 799) to donate condemned cast-iron cannon to the mittee on Invalid Pensions. Soldiers' Monument Association of Waterville, :Me.-to the Committee By Mr. RANDALL: A bill (H. R. 839) for the relief of J. F. Bailey _, on 1\lilitary Affairs. & Co. and others-to the Committee on Claims. .Also, a bill (H. R. 800) to donate condemned cast-iron cannon to the Also, a bill (H. R. 840) for the relief of the sufferers by the explosion Soldiers' Monument Assodation of Monroe, Me.-to the Committee on at the United States Arsenal at Frankford, Philadelphia, Pa.-to the Mi1 i tary Affairs. Committee on Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 801) to donate condemned cast-iron cannon to Also, a·bill (H. R. 841) granting a pension to :Morgan Gordon-to -! Thomas H. Marshall Post, No. 41, of the Grand Army of the Republic, the Committee on Invalid Pensions. of Belfast, :Me.-to the Committee on Military Affairs. · Also, a bill (H. R. 842) for the relief of Thomas G. Corbin-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 802) for the relief of Charles H. Warren-to the Committee on Naval Affairs. Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 843) granting a pension to Axel W. Anderson­ . l Also, a bill (H. R. 803) for the relief of J e.fferson Savage-to the Com­ to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. mittee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 844) referring the claim of Arthur W. Paynter, Also, a bill (H. R. 804) touching the appointment of a lieutenant­ for damages to the schooner Peter D. Lambert and cargo, to the Court colonel of cavalry-to the Committee on Military Affairs. of Claims-to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 805) for the relief of Emery S. Wardwell-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 845) granting a pension to Harriet C. Adams-to Committee on Military Affairs. the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 806) for the relief of Mary Morford-to the Com­ Also, a bill (H. R. 846) for relief of Teresa Charles-to the Commit­ mittee on Invalid Pensions. tee on Invalid Pensions. A lEo, a bill (H. R. 807) for the relief of Horatio R. Maryman-to the AlsQ, a bill (H. R. 847) for relief of Luke Reilly-to the Committee Committee on Invalid Pensions. on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 808) granting a pension to Edwin Bragg-to t!Je Also, a bill (H. R. 848) for relief of James C. Booth-to the Commit- Committee on Invalid Pensions. tee on Claims. • Also, a bill (H. R. 809) granting a pension to Ephraim Reynolds-to .Also, a bill (H. R. 849) referring the claim of Madeira & Cabada to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. the Court of Claims-to the Committee on Claims. - AlRo, a bill (H. R. 810) granting a pension to Charles Douglas-to Also, a bill (H. R. 850) granting a pension to Frances Dingley Ran­ the Committee on Invalid Pensions. . dall-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. A1"o, a bill (H. R. 811) granting a pension to Fernando G. Pratt-to Also, a bill (H. R. 851) for the relief of James Kane-to the Commit­ the Committee on Invalid Pensions. tee on Mill tary Affairs. XIX-12 . I

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Also, a bill (H. R. 852) granting a pension to Mary Mortimer Semmes-­ Al o, a bill (II. R. 94) for the relief of James MOS3-to the Com­ to the Committee on Pensions. mittee on Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 853) for the 1·elief of the legal representatives of By ~Ir. TIUCHANAN: A bill (H. R. 9.3) to increase the pension of Peter Lyle, deceased-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Wilbur E . Coggswell-to the Committee on Invalid Pen ion-. . Also, a bill (H. R. 854) granting a pension to John W. Davidson-to Al ~o, a bill (H. R. 96) for the relief of J o~u H . .... IcClnskey- to the the Committee on Invalid Pensions . Committee on Military Affairs. .Also a bill (H. R. 855) for the relief of the heirs of Jacob Cramer­ Also, a bill (H. R. 897) for the relief of Wilbur F. Cogswell-to the to the Committee on Pensions. Committee on Naval Affairs. By Mr. FISHER: A bill (H. R. 85G) granti.Dg a pension to Nathaniel Also, a bill (H. R. 898) granting a pen ~ion to Jam~ De Camp-to the 1\.I. Berry-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Committee on Invalid Pension . Al o, a bill (H. R. 857) granting a pension to Teady Costello-to the Also, a bill (H. H.. 99) granting an incr&.l.Se of pension to Benjamin Committee on Invalid Pensions. T. Phillips-to the Committee on Invalid Pension . Also, a bill (H. R. 85 ) to remove charge of desertion from George l~Lo1 a bill (H. R. !JOO) granting a pension to William Yan Brunt­ Paquette-to the Committee on Military Affairs. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 85!J) to remove charge of desertion from James Also, a bill (H. R. VOl) granting a pension to Urs. Fannie Carman­ Wilson-to the Committee on Military Affairs. to the Committee on Pensions. By Ur. HEARD: A bill (H. R. 860) for the relief of Alfred Head­ · Also, a bill (II. R. 902) granting a pension to Julia .A. Golston-to to the Committee on Claims. the Committee on Invalicl Pen ions. Also, a bill (H. R. 61) for the relief of Joseph Diehl-to the Com­ .Also, a l>ill (II. R. 903) granting a pension to Barzillai P . Irons-to mittee on War Claims. the Committee on Invalid Pen ion . Also, a hill (H. R. 862) granting a pension to S. B. Miles- to the .Also, a bill (H. R. 904) granting a pension to Elizabeth Cheesman­ Committee on Invalid Pensions. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a blli (H. R. 863) granting a pension to Malinda Vest-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 905) granting a pen ion to l\fary 111. Thomp on­ Committee on Invalid Pensions. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 864) granting a pension to William F. Cowden­ Also, a bill (H. R. 906) granting a pension to George Obergfell-to t o the Committee on Invalid Pen ions. the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 865) for the relief of the estate of Green Luttrell, Al. o, a bill (H. R. 907) granting a pension to Uargaret A. Perrine-to deceased- to the Committee on War Claims. the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 866) for the relief of W. G. Wear-to the Com- Also, a bill (H. R. 90 ) granting a pension to Sarah A. Gamble-to mittee on War Claims. . the Committee on Invalid Pen ions. ALso, a bill (H. R 867) for the relief of J . S. Naftziger-to the Com­ Also, a bill (H. R. 909) granting a pension to l\fary Ann Dougherty­ mittee on War Claims. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, n. bill (H. R. 868) for the relief of Jehu Robinson-to the Com­ Also, a bill (H. R. 910) to authorize the Comrui ioner of Patents to mittee on War Claims. extend the letters patent heretofore granted to William E. Brooke-to Hy :Mr. CUTCHEON: A bill (H. R. 869) granting a. pension to Fran­ the Committee on Patents. cis Deming-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. ~.\lso, a bill (H. R. 911) restoring to the pension-rolll\Iartin V. liar­ Also, a bill (H. R. 70) granting a. pension to Isaac Kimball-to the grove-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Committee on Invalid Pension . Also, a bill (H. R. !Jl2) granting a pension to William Dermody-to Also, a. bill (H. R. 871) granting a pension to John Henning-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 913) for the relief of James Jones-to the Com· Also, a bill (H. R. 872) granting a pension to Calvin H. French-to mittee on Military Affairs. the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R 914) referring the claim of William Dolton to Also, a bill (H. R. 873) to authorize the payment of extra compen­ the Court of Claims-to the Committee on Claims. sation to Robert J . Mitchell-to the Committee on Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 915) granting a pension to John 0. Matthis-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 874) for the relief of John A. Thompson-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Committee on Claims. By Mr. LEHLBACH: A bill (H. R. 916) for the relief of John Dnn­ Also, a bill (H. R. 875) for the relief of William B. Rowe-to the ker-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Committee ou War Claims. Al~o, a bill (H. R. 917) for the relief of Juliannn.:Muller-to the Com­ Also, a bill (H. R. 876) for the relief of Cornelius M . Hadley-to the mittee on Invalid Pensions. Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 918) for the relief of the cstn.tes of Albert H . Also, a bill (H. R. 877) for the relief of Edwin 1\1. Watrous-to the Brown and William 1\i. Brown-to the Committee on Claims. Committee on Military Affairs. · Also, a bill (H. R. 919) for the relief of the estate of Albert H. Also, a bill (H. R. 878) for the relief of J . D. :M:axted and Robert J. Brown-to the Committee on Claims. · B. Newcombe-to the Committee on Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 920) granting an increase of pension to George W. By Mr. FORD: A bill (H. R. 879) granting a pension to Royal J . Pancoast-to the Committee on Invalid Pen ~ ions . Hiar-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 921) for the relief of Catharine Reilley-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 880) granting· a pension to Mary Everingham Committee on Invalid Pensions. Brown-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 922) for the relief of Philip Dntsch-to the Com­ Also, a bill (H. R. 881) granting a pension to Hiram R. Ellis- to the . mit tee on Invalid Pensions. Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 923) for the relief of Augusta Beyse-to the Com­ Also, a bill (H. R. 882) to correct the muster of and for the relief of mittee on Invalid Pen ions . G. W. Davenport-to the Committee on Military Affairs. .Also, a bill (H. R. 924) for the relief of Susan C. .1\Iandeville-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 883) for the relief of L. B. Townsend, Louis A. Committee on Invalid Pensions. Lovell, W. C. Page, Alonzo Sessions, Hampton Rich, Harvey Harter, Also, a bill (H. R. 925) for the relief of Matthew ,Y. Berryman-to Benjamin Harter, and Peter Hackett-to the Committee on Claims. the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 884) for the relief of Marcus H . McCoy-to the .Also, a bill (H. R.. 926) for the 1·elief of Catharine· Donahue-to the Committee on Claims. Committ-ee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R 885) to amend chapter 253 of the Revised Statutes Also, a bill (H. R. 927) for the relief of Friedericke Raff-to the Com­ of the United States, passed June 15,1878, granting a. pension to John mittee on Invalid Pensions. Langland-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 928) for the relief of Herman Krauss-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 886) for the relief of Felix 1\fcKetterick-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Committee on Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 929) for the relief of August Oppel-to the Com­ By l\Ir. SHERMAN: A bill (H. R. 887) to remove the charge of de­ mittee on Invalid Pensions. sertion from the military record of John J . Schmidt-to the Committee Also, a bill (H. R. 930) for the relief of Marin. Otto-to the Committee on .l\1ili tary Affairs. on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 888) granting a pension to John Magher-to the By Ir. TRACEY: A bill (II. R. 931) to reimbur"e William Stanton Committee on Pensions. ancl John B. Doyle for money expended in removing sand, earth, and Also, a bill (H. R. 889) granting a pension to Ishmael Jones- to the reefs in the Hudson River, New York- to the Committee on Claim . Committee on Pensions. By Mr. KETCHAU: A bill (H. R. 932) for the relief of the Uer­ Also, a bill (H. R. 890) granting a pension to Edmund Richardson­ chants' National Bank, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y.-to the Committee on to the Committee on Pensions. Banking and Currency. . Also, a. bill (H. R. 891) granting a pension to Eliza Ann Shaver-to Also, a bill. {H. R. 933) to open and set aside an order of the Court of the Committee on Pensions. Claims canceling a portion of a judgment agn.iust the United Sto.tes, Also, a bill (H. R. 892} granting a pension to Hugh Hughes- to the remitted, through mi take as to the facts in regard to the same, by Committee on Pensions. . claim:mt t o the United States, and to refer t.he matter to the Court of "Also, a bill (H. R. 893) granting a pension to Julia Stokes- to the Claims for such further action as said court shall :find to be just and Committee on Pensio.ps . equitable- to .the Committee on Claims.

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By Mr. LAIDLAW: A bill (H. R. 934) to pb.y A. Brooks Fletcher Also, a bill (H. R. 976) grnnting a pension to Mary 1\I. Schock-to for letter-boxes furnished the post-office at Jamestown, N. Y.-to the the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Committee on Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 977J for the relief of D. W. Hill-to the Commit- · Also, a bill (H. R. 935) to grant an honorable discharge to George W. tee on Invalid Pensions. Barr from the Army-to the Committee on Military .Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 978) granting a pension to .Mrs. Philip Kame- to By Mr. BRYCE: A bill (H. R. 93G) granting a pension to John the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Doyle-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 979) for the relief of the heirs of William Nessie­ By Mr. S. V. WWTE: A bill (H. R. 937) forthereliefofthe estate to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. of P . Z. Tucker-to the Committee on Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 980) to remove charges of desertion against the Also, a bill (H. R. 938) granting a pension to Harriet Fawpelle-to the record of George W. Hand-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 981) granting an increase of pension to Thomas Dy Mr. HIRES: A bill (H. R. 93~mcreasethepension ofJoshua D. Shaw-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Bickley-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 982) granting a pension to William \Yillson-to Also, a bill {H. R. 940) to remove the charge of desertion from the the Committee on Invalid Pensions. record of Aquilla JI.Iahan-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 983) for ihe relief of· William T. Crump-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 941) for the relief of George M. Ward-to the Committee on Claims. Committee on Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 984) for the relief of W. C. Hutcbeson-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 942) granting a pension to Belford E . Davis-to Committee on Wa,r Claims. the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (:!{. R. 985) granting a pension to Mrs. Caroline F. S peigel­ Also, a bill (H. R. 943) for the relief of Amy Stanton-b) the Com­ to the Commiftee on Invalid Pensions. mittee on Invalid Pensiom. Also, a bill (H. R. !)86) to grant a pension to Sarah S. Fogle-to the Also, a bill {H. R. 944) for the relief of James Millenger-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 987) for the relief of Joseph Craig-to the Com · ·. Also, a bill {H. R. 945) granting a pension to Mary Kelley-to the mittee on Invalid Pensions. Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a. bill (H. R. 9 8Lfor the relief of J ose}!h R. Wbite- to the By Mr. J. H. MOFFITT: A bill (H. R. 946) granting a pension to Committee on War Claims. Mary Coates-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 989) to remove the charge of desertion against AJso, a bill (H. R. 947) granting a pension to Eli.Zn. P. Brydon-to the record of David Harrington- to the Committee on Military Affairs. the Committee on Invn.lid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 990) granting a pen!'>ion to James Yant- to the Also, a. bill (H. R. 948) for the relief of William H. Tabbarrah-to Committee on Invalid Pensions. the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill {H. R. 991) granting a pension to Jacob Long-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 949) removing charge of desertion now standing Committee on Invalid Pensions. against J ohn Heron-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 992) granting a pension to Isabella Hoclgson-to Also, a bill (H. R. 950) for the relief of Michael Longevin-to tho the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 993) granting arrears of pension to 1\Irs. C1arissa Also, a bill (H. R. 951) for the relief of William Jackson-to the Munson, widow of Elias Y. Munson, for his services of ninety days in Committee on Invalid Pensions. the war of 1812-to the Committee on Pensions. Also,· a bill (H. R. 952) for the relief of Harriet P. B11.ke-to the By M:r. E. B. TAYLOR: A bill (H. R. 9!J4) granting a pension to Committee on Invalid Pensions. John Kalbfieisch-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 953) for the relief of WilJiam Johnson- to the Also, a bill (H. n. 995) granting a pension to l\Iartlw, J . Spencer-to Committee on Invalid Pensions. the Committee on Inmlid Pen ions. By Mr. OUTHWAITE: A bill {H. R. 954) to relieve John U . Hart­ Also, a bill {H. R. 996) for the relief of the heirs of John Byrne,<>- to man from the charge of desertion-to the Committee on Military Affairs. the Committee on Claim-s. . Also, a bill (H. R. 955) granting a pension to Mary ll. Sweet-to the Also, a bill (H. R 997) for the relief of Collins Morse and Henry C. Committee on Invalid Pensions. Gray-to the Committee on Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 956) for the relief of the heirs of Christopher Cott­ Also, a biil (H. R. 99 ) for the relief of the administrator of the es­ to the Committee on Military Affairs. tate of John W. Dear, deceased-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 957) forthereliefofWilliamFletcher-totheCom­ Also, a bill (H. R. 999) to remove the charge of rlesertion against mittee on Military Affairs. Nathan Bngbee-to the Committee on Military Affairs. ., 13y 1\Ir. BOOTHMAN: A bill (H. R. 958) to relieve Lester W. Pres­ Also, a bill (H. R.. 1000) for the relief of George E . W. Sharretts- to ton irom the charge of desertion-to the Committee on Military Afffairs. the Committee on Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 959) to relieve Joseph Moore fro~ the charge of ,Also, a bill (H. R. 1001) granting a pen ion to Marion Brown-to the desertion- to the Committee on Military .Affairs. Committee on Inmlid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 9GO) to pension George C. Gilmore- to the Com­ Also, a bill (II. R. 1002) granting a pension to William H. Chapman­ mittee on Invalid Pensions. to the Committee on Invalid Pen! ions. Also, a. bill (H. R. 961) granting pensions to William Knight, Jacob Also, a bill (H. R.1003) to remoYethc charge of desertion against Ed­ Parrott, William Reddick, and John Whollam- to the Committee on ward Whitehouse, alias Edward \Villia.ms-to the Committee on Uili- Invalid Pensions. tary Affairs. · Also, a bill (H. R. 962) granting a pension to Robert Lisle-to the By Mr. SCULL: A bill (H. R 1004) for the relief of Andrew Shoen­ Committee on Invalid Pensions. · felt-to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 9G3) to restore the nam~ of Alexander MCConkey By U r. ATKI :rso.:.": A bill (H. R. 1003) to remove the charge of to the pension-rolls-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. desertion from George Smith-to the Committee on dilitavy Affuir . Also, a bill (H. R. 964) granting a pension to James Turner-to the Also, a. bill (H. H. 100G) for the relief of Levi N eitz-to the Commit­ ·' Committee on Pensions. tee on Military Afrairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 905) granting a pension to George E. Wells- to Also~ a bill (H. R. 1007) for the relief of Eamucl A. S:mderson- to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 9G6) to relieve George K . Smith from the· charge - Also, a bill (H. R. 1008) gra.nting a pension to Benjamin Seesholtz­ of desertion-to the Committee on :Military .Affairs to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill.(H. R. 967) to relieve J ohn W . Davis of the charge of By Mr. HARMER: A bill (H. R.1009) granting a pension to Albert desertion-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Berger-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. PUGSLEY: A bill (H. R. 968) granting a pension to H . S. · Also, a bill (H. H. 1010} granting a pension to Hugh Rogers-to the Sayre-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Committee on Invalid Pensions. By 1\fr. McKINLEY: A bill (H. R. 969) granting a pension to Israel Also, a bill (H. R. 1011) granting a pension to Elijah Freemnn-to Bebout-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 970) to remove the charge of desertion against Also, a bill (H. R. 1012) granting ::11 pension to Uargaret Newberry­ Levi Beer-to the Committee on Military .Affairs. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 971) granting a pension to· irs. Viola Cox-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 1013) gnmtin6 a pensiqn to Mary Ann Schirgc­ Committee on Invalid Pensions. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 972) for the relief of Myron Packard-to the Com­ AI o, a bill (H. R 1014) granting a pension to Edward R. Young­ mittee on Invalid Pensions. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 973} to remove the charge of desert'on against the Also, a bill (l::f. R. 1015) grouting a pension to Sophia Rogers-to the record of George Fetterman- to the Comniittee on Military Affairs. Committee on Invalid Pension. , Also~ a bill (H. R. 974) granting a pension to Jacob Wolf-to the Also a bill (H. R. 1016) granting a pension to Elizabeth J. Kant-­ Committee on Invalid Pensions. ' to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 975) granting a pension to Thad. Coffin- to the Also, a bill (H. R. 1017) granting a pension l:,o Elizabeth Johnson-· Committee on Invalid Pensions. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. '

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Also, a bilt(H. R. 1018) for the relief of Julius A. Kaiser-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 1060) for the relief of N. H. Whitlow-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions Committee on War Claims. Alsb, a bill (H. R. 1019) granting an increase of pension to John W. Also, a bill (H. R. 1061) for the relief of Stephen Carter-to the Weber-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Committee On War Claims. By .Mr: RICHARDSON: A bill (H. R. 1020) to incorporate the Dis­ Also, a bill (H. R. 1062) for the relief of S. W. Edwards-to the trict of Columbia Suburban Rail way Company-to the Committee on Committee on War Claims. the District of Columbia. Also, a bill {H. R. 1063) for the relief of I. F. Huddleston-to the By .Mr. ENLOE: A bill (H. R. 1021) for the relief of the legal Committee on War Claims. • representatives of David Bell, deceased-to the Committee on War Also, a bill (H. R. 1064) for the relief of the First Methodist Church Claims. in the city of Jackson, Tenn.-to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 1022) for the relief qf W. G Frie-to the Commit- By Mr. GLASS: A bill (H. R. 1065j for the relief of V. B. Valen­ tee on War Claims. · tine-to the Committee on Ways and 1\Ieans. Also, a bill (H. R. 1023) for the relief of the legal represen.tatives of Also, a bill (H. R. 1066) granting a pension to Simeon House-to the F. L. Sidebottom, deceased-to the Committee on War Qlaims. Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 1024) for the relief of the heirs of C. P. Spence­ Also, a bill (H. R. 1 067) to amend the war record of Alfred H. Thomas, to the Committee on War Claims. deceased-to the Committee on War Claims. · Also, a bill (H. R. 1025) for the relief of J. F. Hurt-to the Com- Also, a bill (H. R. 1068) for the relief of the officers and soldiers of the mittee on War Claims. . Seventh RegimentTennessee Infantry-to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 1026) for the relief of Jesse A. B.r;awn, deceased, Also, a bill (II. R. 1069) granting a pension to Robert 1\icClean-to or of R. P. Cole, assignee-to the Committee on War craims. the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 1027) for the relief of the estate of David Cole­ Also, a bill (H. R. 1070) for the relief of J. A. Wilson-to the Com­ man, deceased-to the Committee on War Claims. mittee on Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 1028) for the relief of Hiram Johnson and others­ Also, a bill (H. R. 1071) granting a pension to John Hancock-to the to the Committee on War Claims. Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 1029) for the relief of J. S. Flake, guardian of Also, a bill (H. R. 1072) granting a pension to Agnes J. Whicker­ Samuel Howard-to the Committee on War Claims. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 1030) for the relief of Isaiah Sweat-to the Com­ By Mr. NEA:L: A bill (H. R.1073) for the relief of the Roman Cath­ mittee on War Claims. olic Church of St. Peter and St. Paul at Chattanooga, Tenn.-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 103i) for the relief of James B. Guthrie-to the Committee on War Claims. Committee on Claims. AI o, a bill (H. R. 1074) granting a pension to Linnreus W. Risley­ Also, a bill (H. R. 1032) for the relief of P. E. Parker-to the Com­ to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. mittee on Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 1075) for the relief of John lies-to the Commit­ Also, a bill (H. R. 1033) to pay the legal representatives of Micajah tee on Military Aftairs. Joyner, a pensioner-to the Committee on Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 1076) authorizing the construction of a bridge Also, a bill (H. R. 1034) for the relief ofthe estate of John A. Tyson­ across the Tennessee River at Chattanooga., Tenn.-to the Committee to the Committee on War Claims. on CommeTce. Also, abill (H. R. 1035) for the relief of Howard T. Bunch-to the Also, a bill (H. R.1077)forthereliefofJamesMcGhee-totheCom­ Committee on War Claims. mittee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 1036) for the relief of the estate of J. H. Will­ Also, a bill (H. R. 1078) granting a pension to Sarah J. Shirley-to iams, deceased-to the Committee on War Claims. the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 1037j for the relief of the esta.te of Isra-el Barker, Also, a bill (H. R. 1079) for the relief of John B. McGhee, admin­ deceased-to the Committee on War Claims. istrator, e~c., of Ann E. McGhee-, deceased-to the Committee on War Also, a bill(H. . R.1038) for the relief of D. J. Franklin, ofl\IcNairy Claims. County, Tennessee-to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 1080) for the relief of Thomas B. McElwee-to Also, a bill {H. R. 1039) for the reliefof Benjamin A. Hayes-to the the Committee on Claims. Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 1081) for the relief of S. H. Fox-to the Commit­ Also, a bill (H. R. 1040) for the relief of the legal representatives of tee on War Claims. John R. Alston, deceased-to the Committee 9n War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 1082) for the relief of Luther 1\f. Blackman-to Also, a bill (H. R. 1041) for the relief of L. T. Williamson-to the the CommUtee on War Claims. Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 1083) for the relief of the legal representatives of Also, a bill (H. R. 1042) for the relief of the heirs-at-law of Eaton William Clift, deceased-to the Committee on War Claims. Bond, deceased-to the Committee on War Claims. • Also, a bill (H. R. 1084) for the relief of John W. Curtis-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 1043} to reimburse W. J. Barnes for revenue ille­ Committee on Military Affairs. gally assessed and collected-to the Committee on Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 1085) granting a pension to Thomas Rains-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 1044) for the relief of the estate of Moses Diffee­ Committee on Invalid Pensions. to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 1086) granting a pension to William T. Green­ Also, a bill (H. R. 1045) for the relief of the estate of B. B. Bunch­ to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. to the Committee on War Claims. By Mr. HOGG: A bill (H. R. 1087) granting a pension to James · Also, a bill (H. R. 1046) for the relief of A. E. Cooper-to the Com­ Loyd-to th.e Committee on Invalid Pensions. mittee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 1088) for the relief of Henry B. 1\Ionks-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 1047) for thereliefofR.M. Hawley-totheCom­ Committee on War Claims. mittee on War Claims . . Also, a bill (H. R. 1089) to remove the charge of desertion and grant Also, a bill (H. R. 1048) for the relief of the estate of J. G. Randolph, an honorable discharge toiJames McCaffrey-to the Committee on Mil- deceased-to the Committee on War Claims. itary Affairs. . · Also, a bill (H. R. 1049) for the relief' of Mrs. M. A. Crittenden-to Also, a bill (H. R. 1090) to place on the pension-roll the name of the Committee on War Claims. William Patchell-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 1050) for the relief of Charles M. Kennerly-to Also, a bill (H. R. 1091) for the relief of G. W. Watson-to the Com­ the Committe-e on War Claims. mittee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill \H. R. 1051) for the relief of R. N. Payne-to the Com­ Also, a bill (H. R. 1092) granting a pension to Jacob E. Israel-to mittee on War Claims. the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 1052fforthereliefoftheestateofJamesP. Hast­ Also, a bill (H. R. 1093) for the relief of Daniel Roush-to the Com­ ings, deceaSed-to the Committee on War Claims. mittee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 1053) for the relief of V. B. Walker-to the Com­ •!lso, a bill (H. R. 1094) for the relief of William Large-to the Com­ mittee on War Claims. mittee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 1054) for the relief of R. R. Aycock-to the Com­ Also, a bill (H. R. 1095) granting a pension to Thomas H. Marshall­ mittee on War Claims. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. · Also, a bill (H. R. 1055) for the relief of Elijah W. Penick-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 1096) for the relief of D. D. Holbert-to the Com­ Committee on War Claims. mittee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 1056) for the relief of Samuel C. Lancaster-to -Also, a bill (H. R. 1097) granting a pen....Q].on to Mrs. Maria Hill-to the Committee on War Claims. the Committee on Invalid Pensions. . Also, a bill (H. R. 1057) for the relief of R. H. Crider-to the Com­ Also, a bill (H. R. 1098) to remove the charge of desertion from George . mittee on War Claims. B. Warner-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 1058) for the relief of the estate of J. C. Smith, Also, a bill (H. R. 1099) grl}nting a pension to William A. Walton­ deceased-to the Committee on War Claims. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. .Also, a bill (H. R. 1059) for the relief of A. W. Jones-to the Com- .Also, a b~ll (H. R. 1100) for the relief of .Absalom Westfall-to the mittee on W~r Claims. · Committee on War Claims. .-

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Also, a bill (H. R. 1101) to.re~ove the charge of desertion from James Also, a bill (H. R. 1143) granting a pension to Elizabeth McKay­ Evans-to the Committee on Military Affairs. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R.l102) to increase the pension of John M. Weaks­ Also, a bill (H. R. 1144) granting a pension to William J. Clark-to to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 1103) for the relief of Susan M. Covanovan, sur­ AlSo, a bill (H. R. 1145) granting a pension to William Church-to viving heir, etc.-to the Committee on Inyalid Pensions. the Committee on Invalid Pensions. • ' Also, a bill (H. R. 1104) for the relief of J. P. McCardell-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 1146) to increase the pension of Albert G. S. Committee on Claims. - Ball-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 1105) for the relief of G. W. McCullough-t-o the Also, a bill (H. R. 1147) granting a pension to Daniel White-to the Committee on .Military Affairs. Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 1106) for the relief of George W. Dillon-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 1148) to restore to the pension-roll M. A. Ayers­ Committee on Military Affairs. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 1107) to correct the recoras of the War Depart­ Also, a bill (H. R.·l149) to increase the pension of Daniel J. Mor­ ment as to the date of death of First Lieut. Caleb Smith-to the Com­ gareige-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. mittee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R 1150) granting a pension to Mrs. America T. Also, a bill (H. R. 1108) for the relief of Samuel J. Brooks-to the Sprouse-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Commi'ttee on War Claims. - By Mr. HUDD: A bill (H. R. 1151) for the relief of the legal repre­ Also, a bill (H. R. 1109) for the relief of John Flesher-t-o the Com­ sentatives of A. F. Saint Sure Lindefelt-to the Committee on Mil­ mittee on War Claims. itary Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 1110) for the relief of John R. Harshbarger-to 'Also, a bill (H . .R. 1152) for the relief of the legal representatives of the Committee on War Claims. · Eliza M. Ferris-to the Committee on Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 1111) for the relief of John Waldron-to the Com­ Also, a bill (H. R. 1153) for the relief of Jasper Hanson-to the mittee on War Claims. Committee on Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 1112) for the relief of E. C. Hopkins-to the Com­ Also, a bill (H. R. 1154) granting a pension to Peter Mayer-to the mittee on War Claims. Committee on Invalid Pensions. • Also, a bill (H. R. 1113) for the relief of William H. Morris-to the By ~:fr. HARE: A bill (H. R. 1155) for the relief of John Donald­ Committee on War Claims. son-to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. Also, a bill (H. R. 1114) for the relief of David Harshbarger-to the By Mr. McMILLIN: A bill (H. R. 1156) for the xelief of Miles F. Committee on War Claims. West-to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill {H. R. 1115) for the relief of :M:rs. Adelaide Bowen-to By Mr. PHELAN. A bill (H. R. 1157) forthereliefofSamuel Tate the Committee on War Claims. -to the Committee on Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 1116) for the relief of Mrs. Mary Wheeler-to the By Mr. FELTON. A bill (H. R. 1158) for the relief of Louis Jacob­ Committee on War Claims. · son-to the Committee on Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 1117) for the relief of Simon Stump-to the Com­ Also, a bill (H. R. 1159) for the 1:elief of Jonathan D. Stevenson-to mittee on War Claims. the Committee on Claims. Also, a bilf(H. R. 1118) for the relief of JepthaSmith-to the Com:­ By Mr. HEARD: A bill (H. R. 1160) for the relief of James D. Card mittee on War Claims. -to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 1119) for the relief of David Durer-to the Com­ Also, a bill (H. R. 1161) for the relief of Alexander R. Byrum-to mittee on War Claims. the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 1120) for the relief of Calvin Douglass-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 1162) for the relief of John L. Holloway-to the Committee on War Claims. Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R.1121) granting a pension to Sarah 0. Drummond­ Also, a bill (H. R. 1163) for the relief' of Samuel V. Sands-to the to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 1122) granting a pension to Barbara Lanfried-to Also, a bill (H. R. 1164) for the relief of Isaa.c A. Davis-to the Com­ the Committee on Invalid Pensions. mittee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 1123) to place on the pension-roll the name ot Also, a bill (H. R. 1165) for the relief of John Hedgpeth-to the Richard J. Stone-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. - Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 1124) to increase the pension of James H. Gra­ AlsO, a bill (H. R. 1166) granting a pension to John Ridderman-to ham-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. the Committee on Invalid.Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 1125) granting a pension to F. T. Hughes:_tothe Also, a bill (H. R. 1167) for the relief of J. D. Ash-to the Commit­ Committee on Invalid Pensions. tee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 1126) granting a pension to Mrs. E. J. Epling­ Also, a bill (H. R. 1168) for the relief of William Crudgenton-to to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. the Committee on Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 1127) granting a pension to Isaac Fortner-to the . Also, a bill (H. R. 1169) granting a pension to Hoy Cooper-to t:Jote Committee on Invalid Pensions. Committee on Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R 1128) granting a pension to Elijah C. Snodgrass­ Also, a bill (H. R. 1170) for the relief of Alvin A . Ayers-to the to the Coilllllittee on Invalid Pensions. Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 1129) granting a pension to Susie E. Clark, widow, and Frank D. Clark, Harry L. Clark, Eddie R. Clark, Annie B. Clark, PETITIONS, ETC. and Uaud M. Clark, infant heirs of the late Roland Clark-to the Com­ -· mittee on Invalid Pensions. The following petitions and papers were laid on the Clerk's des~ Also, a bill (H. R. 1130) granting a pension-to William H. Jordan­ under the rule, and referred as follows: to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By l\fr. J. M. ALLEN (by request): Petition of L. A. Fort, of Oktib­ Also, a bill (H. R. 1131) granting a pension to Alexander Thacker­ beba County, Mississippi, for reference of his claim to the Court of to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Claims-to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 1132) for the relief of George J. Cuny-to the By Mr. BANKHEAD: Memorial of Typographical Union No.4, of Committee on Invalid Pensions. Birmingham, Ala., for repeal of certa.in legislation-to the Committee Also, a bill (H. R. 1133) granting a pension to Daniel M. Miller-to on Printing. the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. BOUND: Petition of citizens of Lebanon, Pa., for the passage Also, a bill (H. R.1134) granting a pension to John D. Runnels-to of a law requiring all goods made by contract labor to be plainly mar~ed the Committee on Invalid Pensions. "convict labor "-to the Committee on Labor. Also, a bill (H. R. 1135) to increase the pension of J. S. Hall-to the By Mr. BOWDEN: ,Petition of Rev. G. D. Armstrong and others, of Committee on Invalid Pensions. R. E. DeJarnett and others, and of John H. Cannon and others, against · ..bJso, a bill (H. R. 1136) granting a pension to Syntha Doli.glas-to needless work in work and interstate commerce-to the Committee on the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Labor. Also, a bill (H. R. 1137) granting a pension to William H. Cyrus­ By Mr. BUTLER: Petition of ])avid S. Noe, of heirs of James C. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Bowers, and of Samuel J. Moore, of Hamblen County; of administra­ Also, a bill (H. R. 1138) granting a pension to John Harris :Marple­ tor of WilliamS. Barkly, of Washington County, and of Samuel Pat- - to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. terson, of Granger County, Tennessee, for reference of their claims to Also, a bill (H. R. 1139) granting a pension to J. A. Petty-to the the Court of Claims-to the Committee on War Cla.ims, Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. COGSWELL: Papers in the case of 'I'bomas Niles, of Massa­ • I Also, a bill (H. R. 1140) granting a pension to Jacob E. Israel-to chusetts-to the Committee on War Claims. the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. CONGER: Petition of and resolution of the Iowa State Im­ Also, a bill (H. R. 1141) granting a pension to John Pully--to the proved Stock Breeders' Association, urging the suppression of pleuro­ Committee on Invalid Pensions. pneumonia and for the free importation of breeding animals-to th~ Also, a bill (H. R. 1142) granting a pension to David Lattin-to the Committee on Agriculture. _ Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. DAVJS: Petition of Joseph B. Macy and 54 others, citizens

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.of Nantucket, in favor of an appropriation for the repair of the sub­ United States 'Army;·... for an act to authorize t~e President to place him marine telegraph cable between Nantucket and the mainland-to the on the retired-list with the grade of major, for over forty yem-s' active Committee on Appropriations. service-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, petition of Marcellus Eldridge and 486 others, citizens of the By Ir. RICHARDSO~: Petition of heirs of R. Hannah, deceased, of United States! mariners and .Others interested in shipping, etc., in favor Franklin County, Tenne o;;ee, for reference of their claim to the Court of an approp_riation for survey of Stage Harbor, Cape Cod, 1\Iassachu­ of Claims-to the Committee on War Claims. setts-to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. Byl\Ir. ROBERTSON: PetitionofLucyJ. Boyle, of Bayou Sara, La., By 1\Ir. DAVIS: Petition of Robert Bennett and 193 others, citizens for reference of her claim to the Court of Claims-to the Committee on of Bristol County, Massachuset~ in favor of granting a pension to War Claims. Joshua H. Wilkies-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. lly l\Ir. SENEY: Memorial of J . D. Ste•enson, respecting survey ot By Mr. ENLOE: Petition of Stephen Carter, and of heirs of Lytle the Bay of Suisun-to the Committee 0n Rive1-s and Harbors. Newton, of Madison County, and of heirs of Wilburn H. Gra\es, of .Also, memorial of Joseph Wharton and others, respecting proposed Carroll County, Tennessee, for reference of t.heir claims to the Court of arbitration with Great Britain-to the Committee on Foreign Atrairs. Claims1 to the Committee on War Claims. By Mr. W. :U. SMITH: Resolution of board of supervisors of Pima By Ur. FELTO:N: Petition of the Ch. mber of Commerce, of San County, Arizona, for relief-to the Committee on the Territories. Francisco, for an appi"opri..'ttiou for certain fog-signals on the Pacific By Mr. SPRINGER: 1\Iemorial of the letter-carriers of Springfield, coast-to the Committee on Appropriations. TIL, for additional compensation-to the Committee on the Post-Office By 1\Ir. FORNEY: Petition of J. P. and J. S. Timberlake; of John and Post-Roads. H . Vaught, administrator of Maria Barriere; of W. J. Tally, udminis- · By Mr. STAHLNECKER: Petition of citizens of California, Oregon, trator of John B. Tally; and of John H. V~mght, adiJ)inistrator of Jere­ and Washington Territory, that the tariff on lumber remain unchanged miah Atnold, of J acksou County; of Eliza H. Tinp;e, widow of Charles -to the Committee on Ways and Means. A. Tinge, of Lauderdale County; and of Nancy C. Caner; of Claborn By 1\Ir. STOCKDALE: Petition of S. Duncan 1\Ial'shall and George C. Waters; of W. B. Starling; of Catherine A. Scroggins; of Matilda M . Miller, ·executors of Lewis R. Marshall, for relief- to the Commit­ Underwood; of Hartwell Vaughn, j r.; of Susan Wilson (widow); of tee on War Claims. Josiah L. Belato; of Harriet Burbin; of Isaac Baring; of Elizabeth By Mr. STONE, of Kentucky: Petition of Jonathan Williams, or Booker; of Rebecca Riggers (widow:); of Barnett G. McA.bee; of James Grant County, and of R. 'V- Wake, of Lyon County, Kentucky, for ref­ A. Callan; of Sarah C. IcConnel; of William B. Owens; of heirs of Caro­ erence of their war claims to the Court of Claims- to the Committee on line Pollard, and of Elizabeth Russell, of Cherokee County, Alabama, War Claims. for reference of their claims to the Court of Claims-to the Committee By 1\Ir. TOWNSHEND: Petition of many citizens of 1-.farion and on \Var Claims. Clinton Co~nt.ies, Illinois, for restoration to pension-rollsofJohnPren­ Ry l'lir. GIFFORD: PetitiQnofJohn H. McLaughlin, guardian minor dergast, late of Company E, Ninth Regiment Illinois Volunteers-to children of \lichael A. l\foran, for a pension-to the Committee on In­ the Committee on Invalid Pensions. , valid Pensions. Also, petition of Col. 'E. D. Taylor, for relief-to the Committee on By Mr. HALL: Petition of citizens of Pennsylvania against the ad­ Claims. mission of Utah with polygamy-to the Committee on the Territories. Also, papers relating to the bill for the relief of William Powers-to By Mr. HA.RE: Petition of William L. Kirk, late of Lawrence County, the Committee on M~ilitary Affairs. of Grayson County, 'lexas, for reference of his claim to the Court of By 1\ir. WHEELER: Petition of George Handy; of John L. Holland, Claims-to the Committee on War Claims. · heir of Joseph R. Holland, and of heirs of Vincent Armistead, of Lau­ By Mr. HARMER: Memoria,l in favor of the enforcement of laws re­ dera.le County, and of R. C. Brooks, of Cherokee County, Alabama, lating to the importation of pauper labor under contract-to the Com­ for reference of their claims to the Court of Claims-to the Committee mittee on Labor. on War Claims.

Also1 petitions of Sophia llogerf>, of Elizabeth J. Kant, and of Michael By 1\Ir. WHITTHORNE: Papers in the claims of Hardy Summer­ Hayes, for a pension-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. line; of Adaline J. JJaw; of heirs of MargaretE. Smith; of E. B. Ioore, !Also, petition of John H . Weber for increase of pension-to the Com­ executor of Parham l\Ioore; of Margaret Ray and James Summers; of mittee on Invalid Pensions. Edward M. Taliaferro, guardian of Richard Taliaferro; of Hezekiah By Mr. J. S. HENDERSON: Petition of Thomas H . Brinegax, of Ellenburg; of administrator of C. C. Adams; of James A. Jefferson; of North Carolina, for reference of his claim to the Court of Claims-to James P. Johnston; of Winfred H. Bailey; of James Lord; of Andrew the Committee on War Claims. J. Cheney; of George W. :Marlar; of George H . Gilreath; of Daniel Peel; By Mr. HOOKER: Petition of Milt the Committee on War Claims. , By Mr. GRHIES: Of J. F. Lovejoy and others, of Grantville, Ga. By Mr. NEWTON: A billfortheimprovementofthe Ouachita River By Mr. GROUT: Of George E. Goodall and 64 others, of East St. in Louisiana and Arkansas, appropriating $150,000 therefor-to the Johnsbury, Vt. Committee on Rivers and Harbors. .-By Mr. HALL: Of citizens of Lutton, Mercer County; of Tamarac, By Mr. OUTHWAITE: l\Iemorial of William Fletcher, captain, Crawford County, and of Allandale, Butler County, Pennsylvania. { 1887. OONGRESSIO:&AL RECORD-SENATE. 183 ' By Mr. HAR.l\IER: Of citizens of Sandiford City, Pa., and of Uial, tract, No. 14.G; which, with the accompanying p:lpm·s, was referred to Union County, Ohio. the Committee on Private Land Claims, and ordered to be printed. By Mr. HOOKER: Of citizens of Brown's Mills; of Nevada; of Cay­ uga; of Thomasville, and of S. L. Walton and others, of Mississippi. THE WA HINGTON 1\IO~L'J.IENT. By Mr. HOWARD: Of 38 citizens of the Third district oi Indiana. The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before tl1e Senate the annual report By Mr. J. T. JOHNSTON: Of A. C. Wakefield and others, of Fern­ of the Joint Commission for the completion of the Washington ~Ionu­ dale; ofW. P.Stoutandothers, ofHolbndsburgh, andofW. F. Riche­ ment; which was ordered to lie on the table and be printed. son and others, of Hollandsburgh, Ind. By Mr. LATHAM: Of citizens of Hertford County; of Currituck PETITIOXS AND l\IEl\IORIALS. County; of Gates County; of Pamlico County (2), and of Beaufort The PRESIDENT pro tempore presented resolutions adopted by the County, North Carolina. Board of Trade of Scranton, Pa., favoring the projected world's expo i­ By ~Ir. LYNCH: Of citizens of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. tion in honor of the four hundredth anni>ersary of the discovery of By Mr. ~fcCLA.UMY: Of citizens of Godwin's, N. C. America l>y Columbus; which were referred to the Select Committee By Mr. :McKINLEY:-Of60citizens ofGa>ers, Columbiana. County, on the Centennial of the Constitution and the Discoverv of America. Obio. He also presented a memorial of citizens of the Unit-ed States, remon­ · By Ml·. McCULLOGH: Of citizens of Elliottsville; of Holbrook, strating against the proposed admission of Utah Territory as a State . Greene County; and of Boquet, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. into the Union; which was referred to the Committee ou Territories. By Mr. NEWTON: Of citizens of Eden, La. Jl,lr. FRYE presented a petition in behalf of 20,000 Good Templars of By Mr. O'FERRALL: Of citizens of Frederick County (6); of Shen­ the Stat-e of l\Iaine, praying for the appointment of an imrmrtial national andoah County (3); of Rockingham County (5); of Page County ( 4); of commission of inquiry in regard to the alcoholic liquor traffic; which Albemarle County (2); ofWarren County; ofMadisonCounty, and of was referred to the Committee on Educ:ltion and Labor. Bath County, Virginia. l\fr. FRYE. 1 present a letter in the nature of a petition, asking for By Mr. OUTHWAITE: Of E . W. Pegg and 65 others, of Franklin legislation, from E . C. Allen & Co., a. publishing house of Augusta, Me., County, Ohio. who are doing an exceedingly extensive business. They asl· that frac­ By Mr. PEEL: Of citizens of Newton County (3); of Washington tional currency may be issued, and they present tbe astounding fact­ County; of Boone County, and of W. C. Wright and others; of Zach. astounding to me-that in their business alone they frequently receive McKinney and others, and of J. A. Baker and others, of Arkansas. a thousand dollars' worth of postage sta.mps in a single day as payment By Mr. POST: Of citizens of Oak Mound, Ill. for fractions of a dollar, and that frequently in a week tbey receive five By Mr. RANDALL: Of J. C. Wagner and others, of Reward, Pa. thousand dollars' worth of these stamps to pay sums each of which is By Mr. REED: Of H. H . Sturgis and others, of Bonny Eagle, Me; less than one dollar. I ask that the letter may be tre:1ted as a petition By Mr. RICHARDSON: Of James Wallace and 74 others, of.Ma,rshall from them, and referred to the Committee on Finance. County, Tennes ee. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. If there be no objection, the paper By Ur. ROGERS: Of J. M. King and others, and of G. A. Yawkey will be received and referred to the Committee on Finance. and others, of Pulaski County; of J. N. Malone and others, of Whit­ M:r. McPHERSON presented the petition of George Brown, of New tington; of J. W. Poteat and others; ofT. P . Green and others, and of Egypt, N. J., late a private in Company E, Fortieth Regiment New H. C. Stennett and others, of Arkansas. Jersey Infantry Volunteers, praying to be allowed an increase of pen­ By Mr. ROUEIS: Of Ira Dunham and 43 others, of Elin, Sandusky sion; which was referred to the Committee on Pensions. County, Ohio. He also presented a petition of Union ex-prisoners of war, residing By Mr. SCULL: OfcitizensofBedford County and of Cambria County, in New Jersey, praying for the passage of a bill for the relief of the Pennsylvania. . Union ex-prisoners of war; which was Teferred to the Committee on By Mr. STONE, of Kentucky: Of citizens of New Concord, Ky. Pensions. By Mr. E. B. TAYLOR: Of citizens of Shulersville, of Vienna, of l\Ir. DAWES presented the petition of Henry Baker a.nd other citi­ Settle Mount, and of West l\fentor, Ohio. zens of Harwich, Mass., praying for the removal of the limitation of By l\Ir. A. C. THO.:\IPSO~: Of citizens of Lawrence County, and of the pension-arrears act; which was referred to tbe Committee on Pen­ Pond Run, Scioto County, Ohio. sions. By Mr. WHEELER: Of J. E. Davis and 20 others; of J. G. Brown 1\Ir. HARRIS presented the petLtion of William B. Stokes, of Ten­ and 26 others; of T. F. Simpson and others, and of John A. CofTh and nessee, praying to be relie>ed from liability as surety upon an official others, of Alabama. bond; which was referred to the Committee on Claims. B.v Mr. WISE; Of citizens of Johnson's Springs, Goochland County, l\fr. HALE presented the petition of Charles A. Rolfe and others, of Virginia. Maine, and the petition of citizens of Baring, Me., and vicinity, pray­ By Mr. YOST: Of citizens of Augusta County; of Reedy Spring, ing for the building of a. bridge across the St. Croix River at Baring, of Lyndhurst, and of Roseville, Cumberland County, Virginia. Me.; which were referred to the Committee on Commerce. He also presented resoln tions adopted by the American Fishery Union, remonstrating against the" appo!ntmen t of any commission to define the rights of fishermen, and against the adoption of any new treaty that SENATE. shall dictate nationallcgisl::ttion or destroy the small amount of protec­ tion they now have, and favoring the maintenance of their rights under WEDNESDAY, Jcm~tary 4, 1888. existing treaties and legislation; which were referred to the Committee Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. J. G. BUTLER, D. D. en Foreign Relations. JoHN P. JONES, a Senator from the State of Nevada, appeared in his He also presented the petition of Benton, Holmes & Co., :md other seat to-day. citizens of California, engaged iu the manufacture of lumber, praying The Journal of the proceeding of Thursday, December 22, 1887, was that the present tariff on lumber may remain unchanged; which was read and approved. referred to the Committee on Finance. 'Mr. VOORHE.ES presented the petition of Benton, Holmes & Co. EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS. and others, of the State of California, praying that the present tariff on The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a communica­ lumber may remain unchanged; which was referred to the Committee tion from the Secretary of"War, communicating, in response to a resolu­ on Finance. tion of December 15, 1887, information concerning the necessity or util­ lie also presented the petition of Joseph Lewis, of Pike County, In­ ity of improving the navigation of Lake Champlain at Adams Landing; diana, praying for restoration to the invalid-pension roll; which was which, with the accompanying papers, was referred to the Committee referred to the Committee on Pensio~. on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. CULLOU presented a resolution adopted by the illinois State He also laid before the Sepate a communication from the Secretary Grange at its annual meeting, held at Springfield, TIL, in December, of War, transmitting, in response to a resolution of December 20, 1887, 1887, indorsing the interstate-commerce act and opposing the repeal a copy of all records in the War Department relating to Captain Hall's of any of its provisions until they have been put squa.rely to the test companyofOre

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